skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that intelligence is sentience. The more aware you are of your own condition the more capable you are of suffering. A jellyfish does not suffer the same as a human, at least not in the way we'd typically measure suffering.
As another Faraday employee, I'll add that we didn't start right away with deployment. Instead, we used docker to provide a consistent way to test our apps. Once all of our apps were properly dockerized to run tests, we were able to move to deploying the app with a simple docker-machine + docker-compose setup. After that, it was a relatively easy move to ECS. docker-compose can probably handle 80% of your development needs, but the tool we wrote allowed us to quickly switch our apps from a canonical "image mode" to "source mode" while developing. It also provided a way to run acceptance tests locally with our entire app cluster running locally. A little more info: https://dkastner.github.io/2015/07/25/accidental-continuous-...
Why didn't you use the closing of the article "MICROSOFT KILLS OFF INDEPENDENT SOFTWARE VENDORS BY FOISTING ITS PRODUCTS ON USERS THAT ARE IN NO WAY BETTER" then, which happens to be bigger and bolder than the quote you chose and represents the tone of the article a lot better?

Instead, you replaced it with the most positive line you could find until users complained.

You do this time and time again and it smells like bullshit.
Its in this thread somewhere.
OK, I conclude with the other posters in this thread. You're being deliberately obtuse. Please come back when you're interested in having a good-faith discussion. plonk.
Being rich doesn't automatically make you part of the establishment. Leaders of the establishment are often rich as a result of their connections, but the two things are not synonymous.
It's definitely everyone except you. Thank goodness you're so enlightened!
> However, the more important issue with your proposal is an IP holder might not want to declare $0, despite no current revenue, because your proposal would then tie that $0 valuation to potential damages in the instance of an infringement case.

For that year (alone), and I proposed you set it when you pay your taxes - that is, at the end of the year, in retrospect. In this case, there is never a reason for you to file anything other than $0 unless someone else is making money of it (if you are, then you're already being taxed on it).

> Why do you think we would all benefit from Disney losing IP protections? Most of the time its a innovation argument, but is their really any innovation being stifled by the Mouse?

It's supposed to be the other way around. We have granted Disney limited monopoly in return for wide availability. "Steamboat Willy" was released with the understanding that it will become public domain within 50 years. The question is, why on earth did we retroactively give another 100 years of that monopoly for free?

And even if it wasn't retroactive - the current 100+ years doesn't seem reasonable to me at all.

> Why, at some arbitrary point in time, should my company lose IP protections to the cartoon Mouse and all completed works with the Mouse?

The only reason they currently have these protections is that they bought them from Congress.

Why do you, as an employer, stop paying your employees a couple of months after you fire them / they quit? IP is not the same as work-for-hire, but it doesn't deserve the eternal protection it currently has. I am not aware of anyone who did NOT publish in 1930 because "I only get 50 years of copyright protection".

And ... you are arguing a strawman. I did not argue that IP should be abolished. Just introduce an economic cost to the unlimited monopoly, which is currently free.
facebook is a tool that can be used or misused. Create a list and add forty high quality sources. If you try, with a little effort to sift signal from noise, facebook can be a valuable part of a healthy news diet.
You just want to be spoon fed the "truth" without having to think about it.
"We werent personal friends with them, so it wont affect our lives in any way"

Life is about the search for value, and most often you find that in other people, their ideas, and their lives. Singers and other artists selectively create a public representation of their value-judgments, and people who find those values resonate in them come to love those artists in a very personal way.
For all its quirks (and there were LOADS) I do still miss it. Any recommendations of something thats quick to prototype games with?
The behavior poses an unnecessary burden on users' storage devices, particularly solid state drives, which come with a finite amount of write capacity.

It's somewhat ironic that since SSDs are completely silent and so much faster at these sorts of writes, it's far easier for huge amounts of unneeded accesses to go unnoticed. The lack of disk activity lights on a lot of newer computers doesn't help matters either.

With spinning-platter drives and HDD lights, constant accesses would be very noticeable, both audibly and visually, and perhaps even more people would press for a fix sooner.
> I find it more peculiar that people will treat a dog or other subhuman creature better then they will homeless person.

Maybe a tad off topic, but as a older millennial growing up in "dog" culture, thank you for saying this. The times I have seen my fellows, heck even my places of employment, bend over backwards to help the "Humane" society (ironic name, isn't it?), or hold puppy adoption events, or donate supplies to local shelters is astounding. Certainly commendable, but I wish the same enthusiasm was met for our fellow human beings as well. I wish we held "Adopt a child" events as much as we held "adopt a stray or rescue" events. I like those ads I hear sometimes about "You don't have to be perfect to be a foster parent" My wife and I are considering it. Maybe if it was more visible it would help push us over the cliff, and many others as well.
How did voting for trump solve that when he's a coastal new yorker that bragged about buying political and is actively stuffing his cabinet with industry lobbyists?

Trump's call may have been about Washington corruption, but that doesn't mean anything is actually going to change.
I will give you that they were wrong in Wisconsin in a pretty spectacular way.
>due-diligence is being done in terms of research, fact checking and verification of sources

I think part of the problem is that this is a fallacy. They give the impression that fact-checking and due diligence has been done when it actually hasn't. It's an appeal to authority, with CNN telling you they're the most trusted news source and showing you reporters on the ground and breaking news stories.

Sure' indépendant news sources are unreliable, but so are mainstream news sources. The burden of research has always been on your shoulders, you just didn't realize it until now. Fox News, MSNBC, the NYT are relying on the fact that you don't fact-check them, that you don't do independent research. They're banking on you believing that they're trustworthy news sources in and of themselves.

And it's just not true. It may never have been true.
I recommend this recent podcast episode about the controversial topic of animal testing http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/animal-testing.ht...
We have seen many such interfaces in recent years, but as I understand these techniques they all suffer the same problem. The body eventually coats the electrodes in a non-conductive layer, essentially scar tissue, and the whole thing grinds to a halt in a matter of weeks. Until that practical limitation is surmounted, it seems very wrong to treat animals in such a manner. Watching the paralyzed monkey (also the rat) struggle in obvious agony as the commentators cheered was not fun. This was not the sort of thing I had expected to see on a program clearly aimed at a general audience. This was the very dark side of animal testing.

I saw this story on a canadian news show a couple days ago, a show that regularly does spots on human exploration of Mars. The stories are similar. The headline feel-good story is about the shiny new mars habitat or spacesuit someone is testing, but they haven;t figured out how to actually get it to mars. The result is the false impression that the dreamed future, colonizing Mars and curing paralysis, is closer than is true.
I hope I never get to use this information.
Socialism. Rich should pay for everything. Entrepreneurs are homogenous and replaceable. Someone is always going to create Apple Computer. Etc.

Money out of politics is good - but the Dems will never let it happen.
Depending on his / her statistics knowledge, Gelman could easily take 40 - 100+ hours to really understand.
I wanted an example of a simple genetic algorithm in swift, couldn't find it so I wrote it from something I found in python. 0% special, but thought i'd share. Take it or leave it, dude.
I agree entirely with McArdle on this. At this point, I would be extremely reassured by an administration that is "wrong within normal parameters".

That's not what we're likely to get. We've gotten the following trial balloons for appointments:

* John Bolton or Newt Gingrich for State

* Larry Kudlow or Steven Mnuchin for Treasury

* Joe Arpaio for DHS

* Steve Bannon for Chief Of Staff

* Chris Christie or Rudy Giuliani for AG

I do not believe we should cheerlead the spectacular failure of a Trump administration. While I'd rather see Trump serve 4 years than 8, if massive infrastructure spending restores jobs to Ohio and Wisconsin and cements the Rust Belt vote for Trump in '20, so be it. I'm not a Republican, and I think much of Republican ideology is wrongheaded, but I also know the country needs to flip back and forth between the two parties, almost by design, and some of what the GOP does that sticks will be good, and the bad can be corrected.

But what we're looking at now is wrong beyond normal parameters. The suggested appointments I just listed are comically unqualified. One of those State appointments is ideologically opposed to the concept of diplomacy. Their DHS suggestion is (or was) about to be indicted for launching politically motivated bogus prosecutions against local politicians! The people of Maricopa County just tossed him out on his ass. One of those AG trial balloons would have, as a first order of business, the task of excusing himself from an upcoming felony prosecution. The other has made a name for himself in 2016 by loudly proclaiming his intent to lock up Trump's political opposition.

There is every reason to believe that a candidate famous for bragging about his vindictiveness and ability to retain a grudge, working with a party whose best and brightest almost uniformly refused to support him, will run a disastrous, counterproductive, dangerous administration.

I completely agree with McArdle. If Trump appoints Jaime Dimon to Treasury, I will be grateful and relieved. Not because I think the apotheosis of the Wall Street Elite belongs at the head of Treasury, but because at least it's a sign we're getting a normal GOP administration. I am not hopeful.
Great post. I'd like to know from fellow HNs: how does Windows Defender compares with other anti-virus?
What snowwrestler says: Trump says an American Judge, whose job it is to be impartial and judge things, can't do his job because he's Mexican-American. That's messed up.

Sure, we can understand if the Judge has some personal feelings, but we also understand that he's going to set them aside and be impartial in his judgement because he's been made a JUDGE! We presume that the folks who gave him that authority did so because they thought and felt that he would be good at it. (And not "despite being a Mexican"!!)

Trump's B.S. undermines the whole concept of impartial Justice. It drives a wedge into the fundamental values of our government. And it's pretty racist against Mexicans and Mexican-Americans. It was a hell of a thing to say when he was just the joke candidate, and it's all the more dismaying now that he's the Joke President.
Just recently there was a report in a national newspaper of a patient going from officially "Brain dead" to recovering and going on to live fairly normally. I will try find the link to this.

EDIT: Not the specific link I was thinking about, but here are 2 of many others:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2134346/Steven-Tho...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3081882/It-hand-God-...
20 Billion
No, x -> y does not imply y -> x
50 comments and nobody pointed out that the honeypot sites would attack visitors regardless of their citizenship.

Given that 95% of people in the world are not from US, how many visitors were police officers from other countries, conducting their own investigation?
Al Gore contesting the Florida count with a 537 margin for victory is different than "if i don't win, it means its rigged"
Ask HN: Hands hurts from coding too long?
This is the first time this has happened, but I was coding on my 13" MBP for 5 hours straight last night, and this morning my hands are really tight and sore. I've never had carpal tunnel so I'm a little paranoid that that's what's going on. Any shared experiences is appreciated.
But why is them being offended is your problem?
This website has some fashions designed to fool facial recognition: https://cvdazzle.com
Nginx on Autopilot: easy scaling and automatic SSL
> Walk a mile in their shoes and maybe you'll understand why some people get offended at things you don't get offended at.

I've walked quite a few miles in various circumstances. I married an immigrant who is dark skinned and Muslim. I'm Christian (albeit nominally). I myself grew up in a culture that's a bit different than WASP culture.

> Is there anything that causes you to react with anger, sadness, fear, or any other such emotion?

Not really, certainly nothing people say. I worked as a waiter for all my university years in fine dining - took plenty of abuse. Mostly from rich white people (keeping in mind I'm also white).

I see people as people, not as categories. Treating people differently than 'normal' is offensive, treating someone with kid gloves is offensive.

As far as words go, the only words that are offensive are those meant to offend. And well wishes aren't meant to offend.
Zuckerberg denies Facebook News Feed bubble impacted the election
Out of print copyrighted books which are not published as ebooks should be a very good analogue to empty homes. Tax them at 1% of the average money they make they sell books' IPs to another publisher.
'Westworld' Is Probably Running on Two Different Timelines
Using the source to figure out whether something is accurate/correct has its own issues unfortunately. These include:

1. Editors/writers/management changes, since quite a few media publications have gone from being fairly reliable to biased as all hell based purely on who's taken over there. Or in some (rarer cases), the opposite has happened.

So you'd have to make sure older less biased pieces weren't being punished for the actions of the publication in the present.

2. A lot of sources are correct about some things but not about others. It's very possible to have a publication that's terrible at writing about politics in an accurate and unbiased way, but fantastic at writing about technology or sports. So ideally your system would have to detect the subject of the article as well as the publication.

However, I guess you could at least add known 'satire' and fake information sites to a 'non credible' list. Like the ones listed here:

http://www.snopes.com/2016/01/14/fake-news-sites/
Interesting, but a whole lor shorter than what I expected to be honest.
"We are called racist, but no one is racist. We are called xenophobic, but all we are asking for is that the laws are upheld."

I can't comment for the States as I live in Europe... but 99% of the big vocal trump supporters at this side of the ocean are racist and xenophobic like there is no tomorrow. In this country the only political trump supporters are the ones that has historic ties with the nazi's. That the most vocal European Trump supporters at political sides are in most case from extreme right political parties is also very telling.

So yeah it could be that you aren't racist or xenophobic but his message also really speaks to racist all over the world and that is fact.
WIPO Develops Cutting-Edge Translation Tool for Patent Documents
I apologize for the tone of my previous comment. It was unnecessarily harsh and confrontational. I have serious doubts about Trump's and Thiel's underlying motives but I shouldn't have insulted you like that. Sorry.
I understand your point, but I do not think the resource would become so valuable if only one company controlled this resource.

> Although Standard had 90 percent of American refining capacity in 1880, by 1911 that had shrunk to between 60 and 65 percent, due to the expansion in capacity by competitors [1]

Standard Oil did become hugely rich and powerful. It did reach massive marketshare as a result of cutting prices, but I wouldn't call it a natural monopoly. I see a monopoly as having no competitors.

[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil#cite_note-47)
Haha.

Its such a waste of energy. There are real problems and its such a diversion. I think its social justice bikeshedding. Its easy and they think they are making a difference.
Yep, you don't need a head — browsers will handle that just fine, and the spec generally allows for it. For an example of some HTML that leans quite heavily on the ability to omit tags, see here: http://www.colorglare.com/2014/11/24/stateless-html.html

And you should get into Clojure(Script). It's a joyful language.
There Is No Secret Sauce
How would you differentiate between your definition of identity politics, and recognizing the very real, factual discrepancy between how society treats white males and most of the rest of the population. Do you believe in white privilege, or do you consider it just another example of identity politics?

In other words, if I say 'The law enforcement and legal systems of the United States treat African Americans very differently than white Americans, and this needs to be changed.' - is that recognizing a problem that needs attention, or am I engaging in irrelevant, invalid 'identity politics'?
> the work-life balance of ...

BOTH employees are screwed to save a dime.
I have no problem with offering the numpad as an option for users who do a lot of numerical entry. I just don't want the damn thing forced on me.
When I interviewed Shigeru Miyamoto, he stressed his emphasis on gameplay, to provide the environments for the player to be creative. He added that story, background, etc. came afterwards to justify the gameplay.

"Inside the Mind of “Mario” Creator Shigeru Miyamoto"
http://rickyreports.com/archives/miyamotoshigeru/
They surveyed existing car owners. After the news stories?
I suspect that practically no one has been offended in the U.S. from being told "merry christmas". I suspect that the vast majority of the offense on this issue stems from a certain group of Christians not liking being told "Happy Holidays". There has, to my knowledge, never been a significant number of people who complained about "Merry Christmas". There has been a significant number of people who don't like being told "Happy Holidays".

So while, I'm not offended at being told "Happy Holidays" I don't say to the Christians who don't like it, "Why are you such a wimp"? I understand where they are coming from even though I disagree with the reasons why they are offended. It's OK to recognize that someone is in a tizzy over something that I consider meaningless.
If you see the glasses that they show in the paper the glasses actually looks better in my opinion.
And how many people were not visiting these sites to obtain child porn?

Quite recently, I ended up on an image board [whose name suggested to me it's got to do with topics such as freedom of speech] I hadn't heard of before, with sections whose short names meant nothing to me. So out of curiosity, I opened the first one.

Well, that board is no more.
> where I hold a patent over a small component of that machine, how would you determine the value of my patent?

I want YOU to value that patent (and the tax just make sure it is not arbitrarily high). When you sue for damages, you must have that estimate. I just want to force that to happen in a way that discourages over estimation.

> How would that solve the issue of patents being used as a offensive weapon? Under your proposal if a patent troll has thousands of patents and has made zero revenue on them, they would pay zero tax. On the other hand if they made money, they will happily pay the tax.

Court cases take years to start (and resolve). The patent troll's leverage is "if you don't license, I'll sue". If they have to pay $10,000 for every $1M patent, they will not be able to afford their current business model - they will not be able to sue for more than they paid taxes for. (The lawsuit is likely - and perhaps should legally be required - to be filed only after tax is paid).
> Let's be frank do you honestly think campus police at this university are compiling lists of leftist people to give to their "fascist" friends?

No, you misunderstood me. The police simply pass on the details of the accuser to the accused's legal defense and in most cases the accused himself. Of course, fascists share data obtained by this route (and the lefties obviously do the same). It's a doxx-war.
I really enjoyed Advi Grimm's "Ruby Tapas" videos because many of his examples did not involve web development at all.
> Theoretically, would a general citizen be exempt from the ban if he manufactured his own CD-ROMs, and his own CPUs in-state?

I would be seriously impressed if you could manufacture your own computer capable of accessing the Internet and displaying an image from a single US state. Semiconductor manufacturing, networking software, electronics manufacturing, and so on are thoroughly global industries.

But even if you could, in the end, they're using this clause from the constitution:

> To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.

to give them jurisdiction in cases of Internet child pornography.

The entity determining whether or not this jurisdiction is valid is not like a computer program that will look at a homebrew computer, check where all the parts came from, look at the text of the law, and say "Whoops, nothing in this case crossed state lines, we don't have jurisdiction, you're free to go."

I see this attitude on HN way too often.

Instead, remember that it's a bunch of humans who considered the problem of child pornography, chose to fight it, and only then looked for a source of jurisdiction. That source does not actually need to be valid (not that I actually dispute that the FBI should have jurisdiction when US citizens commit crimes using the Internet), but it's important to realize that it only needs to be strong enough to stand up to the political will to oppose it. And there are no prosecutors with a will or the political power to oppose the FBI for going after sexual predators.

This state of affairs probably results in some overreach. But even considering the potential problems with this approach taken to the extreme, I find it extremely hard to align myself against the FBI. What if the FBI operated honeypot sites with zero-day exploits inserted for them by Microsoft, Apple, and Google, hacking modems and demanding ISPs snoop on their users, opposing HTTPS rollout, and generally causing great harm to law-abiding users of the internet? But these actions protected kids? How much harm would it take to shift my allegiance into opposing the FBI? Scary stuff.
Re-victimization is the (IMO fairly reasonable) ideology that the government uses to criminalize CP. Therefore it's hypocritical for the FBI to operate by a different standard. If re-victimization is valid, the FBI is as bad as any CP distributor. If it's not valid, the FBI has no business serving up malware like this.