skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically, I viewed libertarians exactly the way you do many years ago. I would have long grueling debates on the internet with American libertarians. They may as well have been speaking to a wall, because I discounted them and their views the same way you're doing now.

>The state does get a special exemption from definitions. That's the point of having the definition of 'just' come from the state. This is basic stuff.

No it gets no exemption. The state does not define justice. We categorize many state actions as unjust.
It's okay. Statists are used to double speak, apparently. It;s incredible the amount of dissonance a statist has to endure in order to justify the morality of their beliefs. And then you have the HNers using downvote buttons as a symbol of disagreement. This is just a terrible forum for political discourse.
Quel niveau d'ignorance?

Il y a aucune haine, il y a seulement des faits

Maybe that's why a lot of immigrants (or even the natives that speak English) leave Quebec as soon as they can.
This. There are very very few ways to deal with fungal infections, the most common pathway is one that is targeted by the azoles agents. Yet analogs of azoles are routinely used not to kill fungus infections but to merely control them on plants. They are used wholesale for this purpose. So guess what, there is huge resistance popping up in fungal infections that infect human beings against azole agents. Add this problem to global warming and you have a huge looming problem not just with bacteria, but fungus and molds as well. And all the new drugs in the past two decades have targeted the same pathway. So we're sort of lost on how to deal with fungus going forward.
Same. I am no graphic wizard, i dont want to relearn. I am happy it still looks more or less than i when i learned it years ago, and pretty much similar to the last PS version i've used.
> Is there any language that separates the concept of a string and a user-facing string?

Not quite, but Nim has a concept of a tainted string, which comes from outside your (web) application and has to be escaped or explicitly casted into a regular string (the Python web framework Django has something similar). You could use the same mechanism of "distinct types" to create a user facing string vs an internal string if you want. I used this in a little Unicode related experiment to create a number-of-bytes and number-of-chars type, and made my strings take these as index, so I would never confuse them. Pretty neat language feature I thought.
What, you just expect me to put words in your mouth? I don't even know how a conversation in my own head is going to go.

I really expected more of HNers.
and that linux is headless.
Computers are far better now in solving complex tasks widely considered as requiring intelligence like video captioning and speech recognition, automatic driving and playing complex games. The change is due to hardware engineering that enabled enormous computing and data acquision/storage power compared to 1990s and a possibility to conduct machine intelligence experiments at unprecedented scale and speed which lead to better algorithms.

If, instead, you want to know when or if AI will match human intelligence or become self-consciuos - sadly no one knows that. We may be "advancing" in totally wrong direction.
Whenever some shit happens I sometimes look at my grandparents who, now in their eighties, look back at the shit that happened in their past.

They look so happy together.

There's definitely romance in having endured it all together.
What do you mean by "bottom up" in this context? They mention having a lot of researchers (grunts) and now a brand new startup accelerator.

> There just isn't enough quality people to do this in Canada.

Do you really believe that would be the cause?
Cost will rise, their marketing budgets will balloon as costs to acquire customers spirals out of control. Then as a two horse race they will realise that if they merge their marketing budgets can be slashed and then they become the monster they dreamed of killing.
Why can't a name simply be a string of length X? All this work of checking for "correct" names is so pointless.
I had a little bit about that in med school. Interestingly the largest phage therapy center was (is?) in Georgia. This method was often used for resistant skin infections with e.g. Staphylococcus aureus, so the application was generally topical.

There were also attempts at intravenous administration of phages, but I am not sure about safety concerns there (rapid lysis of bacteria resulting in a toxic shock, excessive antiviral response of the immune system and purification of phages all come to mind).
Smartphones have pretty good handwriting IMEs, but if you want to bypass Pinyin, Cangjie is also an interesting system - you can (could) even create new characters with it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangjie_input_method#Early_Can...
Much more than a few years these days. So there should be at least a 3 to 5 year offset between comparing money in to money out.
There's a Cirque du Soleil show with more adult content: https://www.cirquedusoleil.com/zumanity
Storing command line flags as environment variables
If you knew anything about our government and how it works and why it was designed the way it was, it would be trivial. If you don't, why do you think you know better without doing your research?
Or maybe just help funding Gimp as its the only software i actually use. Next to many other people i know.
I tried opening sites with AMP, and some of them didn't even load. 1000/300 AC 5ghz wifi. What is page speed when sites don't load? My guess is even on 2G that's not an added bonus..
I felt the same way a decade earlier. While it's not quite on par with the disgust I feel about something like bull-fighting, cock-fighting, dog-racing, horse racing, etc. I've always been uncomfortable with animals being forced to perform in a context like the circus (or Seaworld).

I think (hope) the leading edge of human ethics is moving toward no longer treating animals as resources to be exploited, at least not merely for entertainment. Most people still look the other way when it comes to animal agriculture, or are even enthusiastic about it, but I think even that's likely to shift with time, as well.
I wouldn't call it a beta test. These launches provide crucial income for the company.
Girls and Software (2014)
Lightworks? It even works slightly better on Linux than everywhere else it seems. Its the editor in which Pulp fiction for example was made, and IMO its (in opposite to the others i've tried) easy to learn but also able to do advanced stuff.
Hmm, I believe consentp is only valid if rights we're specifically transferred from consenti. Otherwise, couldn't I just come up with consentx where you consent to everything that I say? If need be, I could have a few people sign this so we're really a majority in your town...

Where is the reason that consentp is not just "other people taking away the rights of someone"?
Ruby has separate strings and symbols. While you can express the same data in both forms, the syntax biases symbols toward simplicity.
I believe that "kids these days are good with technology" is a phrase uttered by older people who are actually seeing the kids' willingness to experiment without fear, and assume that it must mean proficiency.

Not quite the same thing in the end, though.
I see no connection of that religious book and these particular Arab beliefs based on the myths from around the 7th century with the article about the BlackRock Inc.

I guess you're attracted by the part "can be good, evil, or neutrally benevolent" but it's too little for my taste, the rest is more problematic to be related. And can't most things "be good, evil, or neutrally benevolent" anyway?
Would you say the password "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" has high entropy?

People have gotten their Bitcoin wallets owned with 60-character passphrases, because they used phrases that appeared in a Web crawl. Number of characters is not the important thing.
servers are where the code runs. desktop is a different place. people can remote. all they need is putty. i dont are if the devs run their locally or not. it has to run on dev/staging/live servers. no?
devs can use any os they like. matters not one bit.
Well, and the tech industry loves to locate in "hip" high-density areas, when they know that nearby housing and traffic are problematic. And who can argue -- it's good for their business to be in "hip" areas... it attracts talent.

At some point, as prices skyrocket, it will slowly make sense to locate a business in less congested areas: Livermore, Tracey, Gilroy, or Merced.
This is really a issue as ruby dev. Its hard to motivate yourself picking up anything that is not as cute. Glad more and more cute/elegant languages are coming out every day.
Cooking the books isn't working harder.
You know what, the whole grenade metaphor? I don't need it. It's just a damn web site. People _do_ sometimes use it to communicate in critical situations... but none of us working there are ever in any risk of bodily harm because someone pushed a bad config.

Given that people are dealing with actual wars, I can lose it. It's easy to lose sight of such things when you're sheltered from them.

Updated.
Another trick is to use "!!" which is the last command launched, especially useful if you forgot a "sudo" in front of your command, just write

sudo !!

In the same way, "!*" is all the arguments of your previous command, and "!$" only the last one.
Do you live in Berlin? Am also looking for like minded people. Munich seems to have more to be honest, and has a new ML incubator.
Even if the cost of housing dropped 30%, do you think our bus drivers could afford a house/townhouse?

And do you think we can build enough housing to cause, say, a 10% drop, or a 30% drop? (Not saying we shouldn't try... just that it'll have a minor effect.)
Ironically, I am a statist too. I believe a state has a rightful place in society, in managing the commons, and expending its revenue on public goods. What I don't believe a state has a right to do is violate human rights, in imprisoning people for engaging in some voluntary action or interaction by and between consenting adults, or for refusing to hand over a share of the currency they receive in private trade.
> Are you are arguing that staying in a geographical area constitutes consent for whatever the state in control of it does?

No I'm saying that without the government you wouldn't be making this comment on the internet, in English, or even have had a roof over your head.
Also, when you use a lot of scripts that only work with bash (there are more than you'd expect, despite zsh saying it is bash compatible) then you have the choice of either rewriting these scripts or using bash. Most ppl will choose not to rewrite.
ConsentP is sort of a proxy for collective ConsentI, because it's not feasible to build a society where we check everyone's ConsentI. As it happens, the system we implement says "ConsentP is officially derived when the constitution says it is, and the majority is allowed to change that if their ConsentI changes / they think it's a good idea."

Fortunately, the majority also has a vested interest in the system being functional, so they don't necessarily change the constitution every time it rubs them the wrong way (and it's hard to change it, also, so it takes a lot of momentum and time for it to actually happen, giving everyone plenty of time to reconsider). In this case, it would be not in most peoples' interest to abolish taxation, because the country would immediately collapse.

I was only talking about the two terms to make it clear that the argument against that specific phrase was missing the point of the phrase entirely - inventing new words to clear up overloaded ones can be quite useful.
Just FYI why i lold at this beeing a fitting example:

File.read("in.txt").split("\n").sort.map(&:trim).uniq

No need for X temporary variables and N lines of code in ruby.

Also notice the better readability as everything happens from left to right?
Just redefine what it means to finish, and voila, you're productive.
But that's capitalism in practise.
FWIW Canada beats US out of the water on this one.

You can immediately become Canadian permanent resident by merely LOANING the province of Quebec $800K for five years. At current interest rates your actual monetary loss would be ~$80K.

You don't even need any qualifications. You don't even need to live in Quebec afterwards, you're free to move anywhere.

Oh and you can become Canadian citizen after three years of living in Canada, although because Canada does not reliably track people at its borders you can just fake passport stamps and other stuff. Recent revelations showed that people have been doing that at massive scale.
Sometimes I hide things in my posts that I hope someone will find amusing or interesting. Some are obvious. Others? Not so much.
mpv is fantastic. I recently decided to abandon MPlayerX when I found out about their incredibly dishonest malware bundling tactics[1] but was surprised at how few good media players there are for macOS, until I read about mpv.

mpv took a little bit of getting used to since it doesn't offer a lot of useful stuff out of the box (automatically queuing files, subtitle downloads, etc) but since you can write quite powerful scripts for it that didn't remain a problem for long.

[1] https://blog.malwarebytes.com/puppum/2016/09/pup-friday-mpla...
I see this happen around me all the time.
Yeah, I don't need it to make my point.
Sunglasses Guide for Men
As someone in late 30's, I look at this thread and shake my head. Folks, you can't apply your own stereotypes to everyone's situation. What's a "healthy" relationship to some is completely unsustainable for others. What's "romance" to some is neglect to others. People's needs differ, and not only you don't have to conform to stereotypical norms in your private life, you simply can't do it: it'd require too much willpower.

So, TL;DR: don't tell me what's "healthy" and "normal". And coincidentally, I greet my cat first when I get home, and my wife doesn't mind.
While sunglasses certainly protect your eyes, they are also a way to add personal style to your outfit. They will protect you but they also can make you look like a first class jerk.
What would you do, besides nothing? Maybe his gesture isn't much, but its not nothing. Nothing is nothing.
This should be shouted out regulary to anyone using any type of command line until everybody uses it. I cringe everytime I see someone spelling out cd /mega/long/path/to/a/place/i/visit/multiple/times/every/single/day. Ok some of them already know about tab completion, but it just hurts to see that knowing all that's really needed is j d or z d or so.
Hence why building suburban sprawl is unsustainable, and is actually a major economic problem for the Bay Area & most of the US. Eventually you end up like Detroit, since suburban sprawl is very expensive to maintain.

Urban areas need to densify rapidly if we hope to avoid financial catastrophe in the US, and many areas need to be returned to agricultural use instead of suburban sprawl, as with sprawl we have essentially covered our most fertile land in low density, high maintenance housing & support infrastructure.
http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason-...
>It is subject to different rules.

A person acting under the auspices of a state has no right to violate human rights. A state is merely a human construct. No human construct grants a person a right to violate human rights.
Puisque tu insiste...

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Self-delusions of grandeur of Quebeckers are funny.

What does this article have to do with "Quebeckers"? If you had frequented any of the mentioned universities you would know they are full of foreign students, especially so in the graduate programs. 150 hackers != the whole province.

Too bad they can't attract talent and can't use the ones
they attracted there

You are self-contradicting. Google just opened an AI lab there[0], and it wants to turn Montreal into a "super-cluster of AI knowledge"[1]. Nobody is affirming that Montreal is the only place where AI research is going on. They're merely pointing out that recent investments and research base are putting it in a very good position worldwide. Is that false?

Montreal is a great city but gets dragged down by the
French Quebec BS

What does "French Quebec" have to do with this story? Did you flip out because you saw some accented characters?

You hate French speaking Québécois, for your own personal reasons. Keep it to yourself. It has no place here (an anywhere, really). I'm glad that your brand of instinctive Quebec hate is not very popular amongst the general population.

Ignorance crasse.

[0]: https://www.wired.com/2016/11/google-opens-montreal-ai-lab-s...
[1]: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-institute-le...
[2]: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/microsoft-...
Randomness in Linux
It was freemium. A free account with follow and storage limits and a premium at $36/year.
That's quite impressive. If you go by sheer numer in a city, Pittsburgh could have more because of Carnegie Mellon, affiliated institutes, Uber research center, and startups stemming from them.

The number of AI researchers in the Bay area might be even larger. Many researchers associated with large companies publish papers at a rate comparable to academics. Boston, Redmond, and Beijing are some other contenders.

Edit: Researchers in large company and institutions are not 'independent' so not included in their quote above. So yes, technically the article could be right, but it should not matter much whether the researchers work as part of an institution as long as their work is publicly published.
For what it's worth, Google is one of the places which is less likely to swallow your work whole. At least it isn't Apple.
If you actually used any of their devices you'll quickly see that "done nothing remotely innovative" is an utter lie.
In the realist interpretation, even without people, you wind up in entangled states after measurement of a spin (where by "measurement" I mean: allow a giant classical system to interact with a spin and tilt a pointer on some gauge to / wind up with some register holding + or -). It's perfectly possible to formulate the realist ideas without any consciousness or insistence that the measurements register in a brain or observer.
While in theory it sounded good, the cookie warning law was so ridiculously useless, since most websites by default use cookies to manage your user session state, you were forced to implement it on everything, but not to do anything that would actually contribute to increased privacy for your users: by the time they clicked OK on that stupid cookie bar, they already had 15 tracking cookies installed and 0 ways to prevent that. It kind of seemed counter-productive to the whole thing.
> Many foreigners now demand the use of Pinyin because it uses the Latin alphabet and it's more comfortable for them. A lot of places will still expect you to learn Bopomofo

As far as I know, the rule of thumb is that exchange students are taught using Pinyin, and full-time students use Bopomofo. Teaching materials usually have both, anyway, so I don't think it's a big deal.

> I've also yet to meet a Taiwanese person who uses anything other than Bopomofo for input on their phones and computers.

I've seen older people use the handwriting IME on iOS. You can tell when you see stray simplified characters or other variants that can't be produced with Bopomofo :)
Well, that's fine, and it's totally cool if we have different moral frameworks that we make our moral judgments based on.

But if you walk into a room and make a statement about the just-ness of something, it's implied and assumed that you're talking about "in our state", not "according to the government system I wish we were using".

It really irks me when people have the opinion "I think a better government system would be X" but conceal it with playing-dumb arguments like "y is wrong!", where y is a thing allowed in our current government Y but not in X. Like, if you want anarchism, don't say "taxation is theft", say "anarchism is good because taxation is theft in anarchism". Taxation isn't theft right here, right now.

And if taxation is theft in your moral framework, fine, whatever, we can't really unify our positions unless you convince me that your moral framework is better than mine. But even still! start with "my moral framework is good", not "this thing we disagree on, I'm going to make blanket un-qualified statements about it and pretend they're obvious and universally agreed upon".
With tpope's fugitive.vim this is just :Gstatus and :Gcommit
Landing the rocket is the first step in figuring out reuse. Its irrelevant that it probably did not involve some scientific breakthrough - in fact it makes it all the more sadder that no-one bothered to do it before. Same situation with Tesla. No breakthroughs there either. Now imagine all the things we can do right now but aren't because no-one is interested in funding it.
What are you talking about? I consent to things for my children all the time. My son had elective surgery at ~18 months imposed on him without his consent, that would have been potentially criminal to do to an adult.

I genuinely don't understand what you mean by this point.
I'll bite, which ride sharing program isn't running on investment capital and is actually supporting itself?

They all look like Ponzi schemes at the moment.
KDE releases Kirigami UI 2.0
The physics stack exchange has basically two populations: people learning physics and asking introductory questions, and experts gathering to discuss detailed questions. It's really an example of a great egalitarian online community.
Though on the other hand, hair on fire is just as likely to have happened in a warzone. How will you run away from all the analogies which make random strangers on the internet queasy?

Perhaps somebody doesn't like hcf opcodes because they remind them of when their house burned down. Is the concept of running into a blaze owned solely by firefighters? Do soldiers own the concept of battle?
I submitted this article because I was especially intrigued by the high-profile ex-Google ML Researcher hire (and then departure.) Anyone know what exactly the BlackRock ML group was doing? Was it supposed to be a competitor to Renaissance Technologies (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-21/how-renai...)? Was this an NLP-driven fund gone haywire?

I'm particularly interested as I was recruited for this group multiple times, so a bit relieved I didn't pursue it. I wonder if there are any lessons (about what to avoid) to be learned here about the way the group was structured...or if it was simple randomness gone wrong.
If you have some free time ( ;) ) I would be very interested in seeing a proper ranking. Maybe they're limiting themselves to "Deep Learning AI" when they say Montreal has one of the biggest concentrations of researchers in the world.
So we have

1) "his work isn't influenced by bonuses"

2) "the danger of bonuses is that they influence risky behavior"

I see two statements - but I don't see a contradiction.

Which is it?

They are independent of one another?
I was an earlier user and still active to this day and it's sad but not unexpected to see them go. Their approach towards social networking business model was still a valuable experiment.
"Anyone who says that they understand Quantum Mechanics does not understand Quantum Mechanics" - Richard feynmann (might be paraphrased)
The author is mistaken, of course.

But what I find fascinating is this:
"Some versions of man page random(4) states usage limitations while some other versions effectively does not."

For years we've been lamenting the misleading man pages, and now when they have been fixed, people dismiss the correct ones because scary sounding is better, I guess.