skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, there will always be people who don't make the connection. Just like there are people who scale approval of their children based on accomplishments in sports, academics, or whatever.

I'm pretty sure that's a minority though. I'm involved in an organization where I interact with lots of ASD families and anecdotally at least there are not many regrets.

The best way I know to explain it is this: http://www.our-kids.org/Archives/Holland.html
You should checkout http://saasemailmarketing.net/ - It's nicely hyper focused on SAAS+Email which I found nice as there's so much out there that's consumer focused and frustratingly hard to apply my own projects.
And Trump bragged about donating to the Clintons in exchange for favor. Not sure what Trump thinks that makes him, above the fray? Smarter than everyone else? Not the way I'd characterize it.
I believe the usual argument is that the person already is a person, not that they could become one.
You know that you're over the line when you've shocked and horrified Kissinger.
> I would take it further, and recommend dropping all expectations, but I suppose at that point we arrive at zen or taoism.

Yeah that's the natural extension of it, but I'm not quite at that stage yet :-) I think with Zen, Taoism, etc. it's far better to reach the same insights and realisations - have more "A-ha!" moments - than try to push yourself into things before you want to do them and understand why. Most of those traditions are just roadmaps to the territory (definitely useful, but maps all the same), but I digress.

> (Were we friends years ago on MBS?)

I doubt it. MBS isn't ringing any bells...
An illustrated transcript of a talk presented at the First Biennial
Conference on Induc
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Peter Watts, Ph.D.
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Evoconsumables

http://rifters.com/blindsight/vampires.htm

http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/VampireDomestication.pdf
The line is only moral, at best.

You should perform AB testing and measure what's optimal for revenues.

If spamming the user with popups and emails makes them click and buy more, adding more of it is making the site more user friendly.
What do most readers already know?
They say it follows the UNIX philosophy, but that's clearly not right; delaying is a job for sleep(1). xwd is the true UNIX philosophy abiding screenshot tool :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xwd
I've never been able to only eat one persimmon, alas.
You can't touch such historic buildings, that house is 100 years old! We have to preserve the character of our city! I've lived here 3 years and really treasure it.

Let's just continue the wholesale replacement of the people and culture that gave rise to it in the first place.
Having spent a week in Cabo I agree with you, but having spent the entire rest of the year in Seattle I need all the Vitamin D I can get.
, but we can already do that I think?

Like, I think taking some hormones can make one's skin produce more melanin .

Idk if one has to keep taking it or not to keep it up, but from the pictures it looked fairly thorough.
It's utterly ridiculous that engineering and efficiency
decisions are so deeply affected by whether or not the
largest search engine will properly index your content.

There being more sites that can only be crawled and indexed well if you run js is probably good for Google relative to competitors. Anything that makes crawling the web harder increases the barrier to entry, making it harder for sites like DuckDuckGo to serve search results from their own crawl.

(Disclosure: I work for Google, on unrelated stuff.)
Enforceability of clickwrap is a long-disputed topic. But I think it's fair to say that anyone who intentionally disrespects the wishes of the volunteers who are providing them with the best source of free geodata in the world is a first-rate idiot.
Not all increases in health care costs are bad. When we learn how to treat new diseases or conditions, that's good, even if it costs money.
Some of us do drink black coffee with no side treats.

I would also say that it is easy to mistake strong flavors for 'tastes like crap'. A good cup of coffee is a 100% pleasant experience, there's no putting up with it tasting like crap or anything like that.
What does travel have to do with this? Seems awful expensive (for your wallet and the environment) and unrelated to health.
"more contemporary presidents-elect"?
Elizabeth Warren is probably the top of the list. I also remember various questionable vote counting during the caucuses, but I'm basing this on what Bernie supporters were saying at the time, so you might be right about it being inaccurate. I wasn't personally paying much attention yet, as I'd already assumed Clinton had the nomination in the bag.

I am thinking of that incident and there's a lot going on in that one. You can see Bernie supporters getting blamed here, though:

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/sanders-supporters-divided-trump-...
And the usa buys oil from them and yet they have a cuban embargo. It's a conspiracy I tell you. I think things are a bit more complicated then your smear campaign. Go and join your brothers at breitbart.
For what it's worth, up until now I'd never heard of them; the entire phenomenon seems to have passed me by.

Now I know. Thanks, internet.
HTTP should have made SCTP a lot more popular. SCTP is a natural fit for reliably transporting static files, which is what HTTP was originally designed for. So many of the HTTP2/SPDY/etc. features are there to make up for the fact that TCP doesn't have a length "field" since it's stream-oriented.

Obviously, there are exceptions and you can have both streams and known-length content served over HTTP, but I still think streams over SCTP would have been a better choice than datagrams over TCP.

Edit: Also firewalls that filter out anything but TCP (or TCP + UDP, or TCP + UDP + ICMP) can die a fiery death. The fact that basically any new protocol has to tunnel over UDP instead of properly over IP is heresy and bullshit.
> "As quantum mechanics demonstrates, observing changes the thing being observed"

Every single Vipassana practitioner I have met said something of this kind. I know this comes from one of Goenka's recording. But the analogy is bad, wrong, not even wrong, it does not mean anything. As rewarding and beneficial as meditation is to some, please leave quantum mechanics out of it.
Two immediately easy things to do are to never drink calories and never drink artificial sweeteners: black coffee, plain tea, water. The rest is mainly just keeping track of what I put in my mouth.
Stop that. You'll frighten the children!

I agree that the world unfortunately does work that way. On the other hand, I do believe in the basic goodness of people. [For every bad cop there are probably a 1000 really good ones.] The "trick" to happiness is to surround yourself with nice people and maintain a "good world" bubble around yourself.
They had already been doing it for a while by 2014. For example, I saw them doing it on my site in January 2012: https://www.jefftk.com/p/googlebot-running-javascript

(Disclosure: I work for Google, on unrelated stuff, though I didn't at the time I wrote that blog post.)
I don't think it's possible to edit autism out until it's actually understood on a mechanical level. It's likely that's what's now called 'autism' in reality are several completely different things with vaguely similar symptoms.

Once it's understood, I don't think it's going to disappear: positive forms of it (ie. milder Asperger's) are going to become a niche option for parents, along with high iq edits of course. The 'little Einstein' option on a menu.
Interesting that he thinks the people who invented the canaanite alphabet were illiterate. There was at least one alphabet invented in the modern era by an illiterate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary

(Although that someone who invents an alphabet can be considered to be illiterate is interesting)

I also wonder how many of the people who adapted the Chinese hanzi to their local languages were actually literate in Chinese.
Greater Fool's Predictions for 2017
Browsix: Bridging the Gap Between Unix and the Browser
BEEP: The Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol
Ask HN: Learning Lisp?
Hi HN,

I see almost constant references to Lisp and how expressive it is here in the community. As a software engineer, I expect that learning Lisp thoroughly, starting from fundamental principles, all the way through advanced concepts, will improve my technical skills and apply to many problems. Since the community seems to be so enamored with Lisp, I thought this would be the best place to ask:

What are the best resources for learning Lisp? Particularly, basic principles, advanced concepts, and maybe a bit of historical context as well.

Books, online or otherwise, or any blogs or articles, YouTube lectures or talks -- anything that really concisely and clearly explains things.
Maybe you could ask a more specific question? Since this question is so general, I fear I will more or less repeat myself and we will find ourselves in the same situation.
Five Year Mission
The Saudi Arabian government is one of the closest allies of the United States, and has been for nearly 50 years.

A US presidential candidate who was the wife of a former President, an influential Senator and Secretary of State would be expected to have a significant relationship with the Saudis.

That's not to say that HRC didn't ride or cross the ethical line. But that is much different than what Trump is implied to be doing.
You do know that we know Reagan held off the hostage release, right?

Other than that, it seems contextually unlikely that Bush Sr., Bill Clinton, Obama have been up to much. The USS cole is a small possibility; but Bush ran on a policy on a policy of less war / entangling alliances.
This is a better link since it's only for 2016, instead of the past year:

https://hn.algolia.com/?%20%7B%20%7B%20%20settings.style%20=...
Ah, thanks for the clarification!
windows 7 that is, 64bit
Isn't it a foregone conclusion that he will now that he's been elected?
People modify old binary-only console game ROMs all the time, usually with useful and reliable results.
It was forked because they wanted a different management model that included more people.

https://blog.gitea.io/2016/12/welcome-to-gitea/
Crystal is a static language with Ruby-like syntax, not a dynamic language.

Nim, likewise, is static.
In static analysis of forces you can in fact have an irreversible couch/sofa event (as in Dirk Gently's ). It is usually is described as jamming or wedging of the peg in hole problem (see here http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/16741-s07/www/ol... ) and arises when the implied forces can oppose any force to move the object. In this model you can stick a peg in at the wrong angle and it will jam and never come out.

I ran into this when I tried to explain the sofa stuck in the staircase mystery in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. She (a Ph.D. in robotics specializing in dynamics and physics) pointed out an idealized rigid system could jam in this way without any additional exotic explanation (beyond the exoticness of idealized rigid physics).
I wish more stores would offer music in FLAC. That's the reason I prefer to buy music on Bandcamp.
It's definitely something Watchmen movie Nixon would say.
> Does Google execute JavaScript?

Yes.

There are sites that can't be loaded without javascript that are indexed fine by Google. The only explanation is that they run some javascript.
The One Idea That Just Does Not Go Away
A single gene could be responsible for more than one trait? This is genetics 101.
It wouldn't surprise me. As a result of seeing some pretty horrible animal torture on YouTube, I was convinced for a few months that summary executions was the only appropriate way to deal with people capable of that behaviour. I was convinced that if you can harm a defenseless animal, you were sub-human and not worth our time to try and fix.

Amazing what anger can bring you to.
2016 United States of Technology Map
The No Free Lunch theorem.

Technically put, "any two optimization algorithms are equivalent when their performance is averaged across all possible problems"

More intuitively paraphrased, "if an algorithm performs well on a certain class of problems then it necessarily pays for that with degraded performance on the set of all remaining problems.".

I forget if either or any of these are actually proven, or if they're the "folkloric" intuitions from more technical papers.

More boldly overstated, there's no such thing as a general optimisation, all optimisations are relative to a subset of possible inputs.

In extremis, there's exists a situation where Bogosort is preferable to Quicksort.
If we replace degenerate alleles with the most-common version of that allele, isn't that pretty safe? It would have been tested on billions of people naturally.
And outside Google, you could look for Google employees on linkedin who may be in position to have the answer and ask nicely ;)
Didn't Nixon attempt to portray himself as crazy and willing to hit the button as part of a "mad man strategy?"
Wasn't aware of it.

In any case, my view is a bit different, I see Go as a mix of an AOT version of Limbo mixed with bits of Oberon-2.
http://cliki.net/Getting+Started

http://cliki.net/Online+Tutorial
It's doing very well indeed if you compare it to any other system tried for producing food. It is still experiencing price declines (unlike health care). For example, steak was a luxury when I was a kid. Now, it's cheap as dirt at $6.99 a pound.

I'll take its imperfections any day over the gaping holes and incredible costs in the not-so-free-market health care system.
End of daily injection for diabetes on horizon via 'smart' insulin capsule
It doesn't take more time to eat less, but for exercise it is simply a question of priority. Yes you will have to find some part of your day where you do something you value less, then take the time to exercise instead of doing that.
Somewhere and someday, there is an AI which is reading this and deciding to let humanity live because we apparently can have some inkling of real beauty :)
The Music of the Future by Sir Roger Scruton
Except that some people pay to have their expensive leather sofa disassembled and reassembled to be able to Move.
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
Potentially, someone might have expressed interest by following or liking you. The problem is that the only way of reaching those people is by paying Facebook. The cost increases as your list grows.

When you send an email newsletter, even if your customers don't read it or respond, you're getting your brand name and offer in front of them. The costs barely change as your list grows from 100 to 10 million. That's the real advantage of email compared to just about every other form of marketing.

Compare the costs and sales of pushing an ad to 10 million people who liked you versus 10 million people who bought from you or subscribed to your newsletter. The latter will nearly always give much better value for money.
Yeah, I think I'm probably thinking much more heavily of the heavily-data-driven, dynamic web application use case since that's the kind of thing I've been working on for 5+ years now. I imagine that the vast majority of the internet content actually consists of much more long-form prose that doesn't benefit quite so much from a deferred-rendering approach since it varies little if any from user to user. In fact, that would probably be an overall systemic loss since now the same work is being done many times to render the same content, when it could be done once and cached for all.

And I don't expect Google or anyone to be able to support every edge case, either. I really would just like some sort of better solution that involves a global minimum of effort to achieve the same thing -- indexing what the user actually sees (non-private info, at least), and helping users discover sites that will give them a great experience and not just sites that give indexers a great experience.
Functional inheritance in Android
Did you feel you had less energy, even in the beginning of this diet?
Yep, same here. I always find it disappointing when I can't buy an album with a download in a lossless format.
But always be sure that it was not built in the room first.
Ugh... why would they put music behind the entire podcast? It's unlistenable. Too bad.
No, what you're saying is that "hey look at me! I'm joining in and parroting the modern destructive and discursive forces and saying that nature in her infinite wisdom made my skin pale, but pale skin is bad, bad, bad, oh the noble savage, oh to not be so pale, oh and race doesn't exist, but hey let's disparage whites, and promote inflated and romantic notions of all other races. "

Oh, and also in this ridiculousness I was quickly caught up in a logical fallacy, but no, no "that's not what I'm saying."

crude adaptation

Who are to you to say what adaption is and isn't crude?

It is reasonable to think that there the significant drawbacks associated with that hacked-together solution

Uh yeah, highly doubtful

https://i.redd.it/iwhuv6wyklgx.png

And once again, how is pale skin a "hack-together solution" in some way all the other countless biological adaptations aren't?
It's great to see an update to this project!

I'm really hoping more updates come, particularly at the bitstream level. Michael Niedermayer (from FFmpeg fame) has said he would like to work on improving FLAC's compression rate[1]. Unfortunately that work wouldn't make it into CELLAR (but that's probably a good thing; broadening CELLAR's charter would probably just delay things). I'm hoping Michael gets time/encouragement to follow through with his interest (heck, even if it's a whole new codec it'd be really neat to see what improvements he could make!).

[1]: https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cellar/current/msg0071...
Did Pepsi have to sell a Harrier jet to someone who claimed it in a promotion?
Yes, but you wouldn't think that strategy would extend to his own secretary of state.
Nobody should be using Strunk and White as a style guide after primary school. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with passive voice, or adverbs, or any of the other things that he mentions here.

http://www.chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar/...

He doesn't even correctly identify what weasel words are. ("Some people say", "It is believed", etc). I'm not sure why 'very close match' is any more opinionated than 'close match' is. It's not as if the latter is precisely defined.
I'm not sure that a minor business indirection like that really makes a material difference to what we're discussing.

They're still providing a service to their employees as part of their business operations. People are talking about this like having cans of drinks is some kind of human right that they're entitled to. I'm arguing that it's a business decision and totally up to the employer. There aren't any laws, or I'm arguing any moral imperatives, that means they have to offer you any particular drinks.
See Draft for markdown based editing w/the 'writing improver' - www.draftin.com
Let's reframe that: His phone dropped on the new year, when everyone is sending a happy new year message to everyone they know.

No link with leap second till proven.
>Imagine if vocalization was a disease result - a multi host disease that trys to attract predators by creating constant loud vocalization of thought.

Then defeating predators you can no longer hide from by being quiet becomes an evolutionary advantage. Martial arts anime makes sense now.
Not if the people with the degenerate version also have another mutation that interacts. If you only fix one, you run into a third kind of bug.
> I had used peace to beat the thugs around the head.

Oh no, you did not. You used the full power and latent savagery of a crowd. It might have turned out very differently (but made a better story to tell much later on).

And the girlfriend is not a peace seeker. She did not help defuse the situation at all.
Ask HN: What do you use for your helpdesk?
I’m sort of amazed how expensive almost all Helpdesk software is. It’s pretty simple stuff, and I would hazard a guess that most customers use a pretty limited set of features.

I know there are a bazillion competitors out there, but do people think there is space in the market for a decent, simple helpdesk product that tried something different with the pricing model? Maybe based per # of tickets as opposed to # of agents. Something like that? Or just something that charged $5 per agent but gave you all the features at that price point?

Thanks!
The real problem with overconfidence is that it's annoying, so you should solve that problem through better communication rather than messing around with how your brain perceives risk.
I wonder if you'd feel the same way if I hoped someone would sustain a DDoS against their API endpoints due to their egregious violations of laws around the world; because I'd be fine with that.

Or is it only okay when Uber is disrupting the law and labor rights?
Yeah, MKULTRA too. Heinous times for American exceptionalism.
Many of your points are valid. However pointing to an "election" with no real choice while occupied by a foreign power undermines your position significantly.
I think this is provably false, probably, since you can compose a pathological case where you have a no-op that adds an O(n) (or more) step to the runtime and an optimization step that purely removes that no-op.

There's optimizations which are tradeoffs against reducing the valid input space (or optimization for the common input cases), and then there's optimizations that eliminate unnecessary operations or combine things cleverly without degrading the worst-case scenario.
(Hey guys, if you disagree, then argue and reason scientifically, don't censor and "flag")

1. IQ / g factor

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)

Steven Pinker: Irony: Replicability crisis in psych DOESN'T apply to IQ: huge n's, replicable results. But people hate the message.

https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/645301814955388930

Race, Evolution and Intelligence | Linda Gottfredson and Stefan Molyneux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZPsXYo7gpc

2. Race

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The reality and existence of race, which people inherently know, but which cultural forces attempt to beat out of them. White people seem to take the brunt of the beatings.

You see race "doesn't exist," but so much is "too white!" so we must diminish the prevalence of the white race(which doesn't exist btw) in the systems and institutions that they created.

Race doesn't exist, but white people who essentially invented the modern world, who's influence is inescapable in every corner of the globe, yes those white people/Europeans, yes they "have no culture."

Race doesn't exist, but the BBC will discriminate on race in hiring.
Race doesn't exist, but go La Raza! go BLM!

http://www.unz.com/runz/does-race-exist-do-hills-exist/

http://www.unz.com/gnxp/topic/race/
Recently I tasted a wild orange. The seller at a health shop warned that it would be rather bitter. That was a severe understatement. Eating it was initially OK, but the bitter aftertaste was extremely strong and stayed dispute mouse washing. And I have not perceived any trace of sweetness.

So indeed nothing stays natural after a touch of civilization.
Any way this can be construed as not treason?
> Even a whole apple often feels like a little too much sweet for me.

I had to switch to Granny Smith and similar. If you don't mind the acidity, they are a real treat :)
My pick (I know the article just said "science" and didn't leave the question open): Noether's Theorem which implies symmetries and conservation laws come in matched pairs in physics. From this you can derive conservation of momentum isn't just some empirical relation we have historically observed, but critically linked to symmetry of translation. Once you learn this you have a lot less sympathy for reaction-less drive con-artists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60__fqFjLMw