skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>No, it's not. You aren't accounting for choice at all.

Only in the sense that I consider individual choice to be "marginalized out" here. People's choices have only a limited causal influence on outcomes, after all, but it is instructive to look at how much causal power choices have, versus circumstances. Trying to maximize the causal power of choices and minimize that of circumstances is a worthy goal.

It still requires looking at the outcome distribution quantitatively, and admitting that both factors have causal power.
How do you persist sessions between reboots?
Statistically speaking, the apple only ever falls so far from the tree. Imagine if we had Face-book in the since the 1920s. Imagine if DHS could use FB info to figure out who's parents gave them alcohol as infants when they wouldn't STFU or hit them when they swore. I bed they'd start showing up at schools and randomly questioning kids the way young people crossing the border get searched "randomly"

You might not have anything to hide now but you might in the future and even if you don't that doesn't mean you won't be harassed because you "might" have something to hide.

Immigrants from japan/germany/italy in the US during WW2. Those people all had nothing to hide on Dec 6th.
the bind -n command allow to bind keys without the prefix.
For example, I use the following to resize panes without using the prefix :

bind -n M-h resize-pane -L 5
bind -n M-j resize-pane -D 5
bind -n M-k resize-pane -U 5
bind -n M-l resize-pane -R 5
Slim becomes painful when using Ruby function calls (i.e. Rails helpers). Sometimes these functions have long list of parameters and wrapping to next line sometimes becomes not so convenient. Moving, copying and pasting indented blocks is also quite painful and it's much harder to see nested structure than in, for example, Python code. Also it has complicated syntax for attributes and text content, especially text content. I have to look up its docs again and again. It reminds me of yaml which has the same problems (but much worse, yaml's documentation has size of a book).

However I'm not a fan of ERB or Django/Jinja template markups either. Indentation-based syntax has its advantages, it works well for Python and ML-like languages. Just Slim can be improved further.
> we have been happy to rely on economic models that work with comfortingly quantitative facts on GDP, income per capita [...] If we go beyond averages and GDP per capita and look at the distributional impact of our economic decisions for instance, the picture is devastating. Up to 40 percent of people [...] have not seen their situation improve in the last decades [...] lower income groups accumulate disadvantages

> The NAEC agenda is ambitious, calling for a new growth narrative that recognises the complexity of human behaviour and institutions, and calls on sociology, psychology, biology, history, and other disciplines to [...] build better models to inform economic decisions

So the issue is growing inequality, and the solution is to muddy the waters with unproven models (potentially mixing dozens of disciplines)? The OECD collected data on growing inequality all along [1], but apparently they chose to recommend policies based on GDP averages instead.

There's nothing "post-truth" and "emotional, not rational" about people who "have not seen their situation improve in the last decades" and "accumulate disadvantages". What's disconcerting is throwing out the whole concept of rationality instead of admitting they should have recommended policies based on different data (which they had).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient#Gini_coeffici...
Anchor babies don't let parents stay in the US. The government will happily deport the foreign parents and the US child to stay with the parents. The anchor baby can eventually bring their parents over, but its a 21 year wait.

https://www.uscis.gov/family/family-us-citizens/parents/brin...
I deleted my Facebook account in 2010 after appearing in the Times regarding technology addiction. It was my most time consuming social media application at the time. For the article, they had me install an application tracker to see how much time I spent in focus on a particular app. I was alarmed at how often I checked Facebook chat.

Today, after much investigation, I've come to a hypothesis that technology's purpose is to gently erode the concept of "self" as it grows in power and scope. We drive this growth, but at the same time more than a few of us worry about how the growth is affecting our "right" or "natural state" of privacy to be who we want to be without blame or for someone speaking (in aggregate) to what our actions may hold in the future. It seems obvious privacy is a good thing, because as long as privacy exists someone can't take your information and do things in private with it as they see fit. The more tech they have, the more they can do with your data and the more they can "invade" your privacy.

Facebook's accumulation of information is concerning, not so much from the standpoint of the addiction that causes us to contribute to the quantity of data, but from the standpoint of collective thinking that arises from it.

I don't want to be part of a collection or be told to think with the collection. I want to be me and think about things that are important to myself. I want to do that without anyone else telling me how to think about it or speaking for what I know at a later date without knowing me.
There are positrons passing through the room you are in right now...
If only there were some way to avoid Facebook's nightmarish hellscape of intimate monetization. Hmmm, I can't think of any, guess that's it let's just throw in the towel boys.
Ask HN: How did you get first 10 paying subscribers for your service?
Question for everyone who has launched products or online services.
That is weird, though climatestate.com is "out of stock" (and it's $100k).

Also fishy: they have another very large YouTube channel[1], which is still up and running. Seems like it would have been worth mentioning? It's referenced in their shop page for site sponsorship[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/ClimateProgressWorld

[2] http://climatestate.com/product/climate-hawk/
The big problem I always have with tmux is that is messes up all of the colors in my Vim.
what happened with the Ramen compositor?
It's scary because the system learned something about you automatically from an innocuous photo and told others about it, all without a human in the loop. Ads are pretty harmless, but you can imagine what might happen in a surveillance system or if a more malicious actor was behind the system.
What you describe is being rude and bad-mannered. Being rude to a woman is not automatically being sexist.
Just a little more on this subject:

Good luck proving you're not one of the targeted groups to someone in power who's not interested in your proof.
Dishes are really a bad analogy, yes: http://www.treehugger.com/kitchen-design/built-in-dishwasher...
The kind of managers who use lines of code as a performance metric are the kinds of managers I avoid like the plague. It usually indicates that they don't understand what I am working on and are likely to reward code firefighters more than code surgeons.
Isn't this haml without templating?
> Walled garden AR will win out over any open-source equivalent, as the money involved will monopolize the industry with patented technology.

why? FOSS seems to be doing fairly well across the Internet at the moment.
Physical fitness is certainly important but I doubt for chess it's on the level that's not achievable for women. Unless you are talking about chess boxing which is an interesting sport.
Interesting, thanks for the info about the greens. Had not heard of Tong Ho. Just googled it and it seems the scientific name has changed, also the article has some pros and cons of it.

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

The wheat grass symptoms you had might be due to it having vitamin E - just guessing here.
> The internet was supposed to be decentralized but we ended up with individual companies taking huge monopolies

I think that's perhaps one of the most fascinating lessons of the last 1-1.5 decades. As far as anyone can tell, there was nothing to stop the initially near-fully decentralized web from flourishing --- just as there was nothing to stop increasing centralization from taking hold. No "bigly" tax incentives / subsidies for big IT conglomerates to build up and solidify strongholds etc. Just "let's see how things settle over time", and this is how. (UNLESS we're still in some kind of early railroad-like macro (not micro ala 99-01) "bubble" which inflates slowly largely unnoticed over more than a decade.) At least this whole development has been a boon to FOSS as a slight silver-lining (despite all the transient rubbish that also floats to the top intermittently --- same as ever though).

Anyway, if this centralization evolved near-organically, surely any more decentralized future will also have to evolve mostly-organically? Likely through multiple painful series of "clouds raining down" or some such..
Right, but usually the licensing around libraries/templates is quite clear? At least it should be.

Here's specifically what they're claiming copyright over:

"DDC’s counsel answered that DDC is focused on expressive content that is not in the actual design of the component, such as the font or the colors used, the shape of a comment box, or the placement of certain components around the design which appear in the design file, but which are not the design itself."

Which seems very weak. Clearly they really would want to go after the Chinese sub-contractor but know this is too hard.

Only way round this I can see is new legislation that means you can be held responsible for copyright violations of sub-contractor if you can reasonably expected to know they are violating copyright.

Going after copyright on the output files is daft and dangerous.
Just briefly looked at this. This is python? Have your looked at SciPy?
I agree that living standards have been raised, but if massive inequality and a corrupt political order has been created in tandem, this is something like the pursuit of short term profits over continued viability. If nothing else, the failure to take action on climate change under this ideology should demonstrate this. If the system is unable to meaningfully address existential threats, any other guarantees it makes about the future ring false.

And less abstractly, this of course ignores the emergent downward trends in American lifespans, wages, and job security.
They probably will be made by Kuka...
So you're saying If I retweet you or embed your tweet on some other website, I would have to ask you first?

Cause a lot of websites do that and they never ask any permissions. That would turn the Internet into a permission hellhole. Unless your data is not accessible it would be replicated.
Both "The Left" and "The Right" establishment have been in solid agreement on the economy for the past several decades - an ever-faster treadmill driven by inflationary monetary policy. With technological progress prices should be dropping at an unprecedented rate, but yet our leaders deliberately reverse the progress. "Full employment", with its implication of never being able to save to gain economic bargaining power, is their explicit policy. The plebs aren't seeing gains from globalization because anything they manage to save just gets channeled upwards through increased economic rent!

Left and right are fundamentally just different ways of analyzing a situation, and they're generally both valid. But mass media has polarized us into believing they represent diametrically opposed tribes, when the actual divide is distributed liberty versus centralizing oligarchy.

The oligarchy holds its power by keeping the masses fighting each another over bikeshed politics, and this last election was no exception. The real disruption of this system is not going to come from more false prophets flying blue or red flags (sorry Trump supporters, you bought into the same simulated disruption that Obama won with), but from bottom-up organization of individuals coordinating through p2p communications infrastructure (left thinking) and asserting their rights for themselves (right thinking).
Looking for a job as Web Design/Developer
Seems similar to HTML generation libs in Lisp, except with indentation instead of parenthesis.
In Trump’s Washington, Nothing Feels Stable
> What is the proposed recourse? Ban Facebook from analyzing data that users give it?

I think the answer's obvious -- replace Facebook with an entity, hypothetical at present, that's controlled by its users, not a corporate board of directors whose loyalty is to themselves and to stockholders, people for whom subscribers are a product being offered up for sale.

I'm obviously speaking hypothetically -- there's essentially zero chance for such a thing, given the modern Internet and the current political environment.

> If I can legally take a photo, should I not have the right to have a company analyze that photo on my behalf?

The unasked question is whether the analysis is carried out on your behalf.
Jawbone looks to drop consumer wearables for clinical services
Ready Player One.

Though the recent second time was as an audio book on a long car trip.
This is easily fixed by setting the appropriate terminal color settings in your bashrc. A quick google search will provide the answer.
It's not strictly gendered - women are free to enter any tournament and hold any title. There are a number of women-only tournaments and titles, purely to improve the visibility of women in the game. Without women-only tournaments, you'd see very few women at major events.

Only one woman has ever qualified for the world championships (Judit Polgar in 2005). Hou Yifan is the best female player in the world, but she's ranked 105th overall. The second highest ranked female player is 303rd.

Gendered tournaments aren't ideal, but the alternative is worse. Most countries do a dismal job of promoting female participation in chess, with China being a notable exception. Western women just aren't being encouraged to take up the game and aren't made to feel welcome when they try.
>The intrinsic problem with this approach is that it "drags others down", reducing the purpose of working harder or unfairly affects those more naturally capable.

I don't think that there's anything natural about how much money your parents have. If we go back into history, the only "naturally capable" advantage some people had was a natural capacity to stick a sword through peasants and take their grain. "Natural" advantages came from violence, not from intrinsic individual greatness.

Actual individual greatness, like that of Einstein (for instance), is often just thrown into the general lot of human advancement.

>Assuming you mean "citizenship in the community" to be "I live in state X, that means I have a better chance of access to X State University", over a generation, this would just mean that for higher achieving state X, students from state Y would be locked out of better opportunities based on geographic residency.

Yes, that is a problem. However, the capacity limits you mention don't disappear when we just say, "Open University of California to the whole planet". The only real solution is to build up more top-quality universities in Missouri and Alabama.

Now, I know that trying to multiply one fish into thousands of fish and feed the masses can sound miraculous, but the amazing thing about education and technology is that they enhance productivity. Once you've committed to making Missouri and Alabama more productive, the process helps itself along, so it's actually nowhere near miraculous.

>Would you be willing to give up a percentage of your salary to someone else in your department that earns less, even if he/she doesn't work as hard or isn't as skilled? If yes, why aren't you doing that now?

Actually, the last place I worked, everyone earned the same salary. We functioned pretty well.

>Why are others more entitled to the results of my labor after I'm dead versus when I'm alive?

Because you can't enjoy things when you're dead, and we've seen in history that inheritance leads to aristocracy, social instability, and mass destruction.

>This suggestion makes my brain feel fuzzy. If the thought is that it's a natural process for the above-average to create advantages for themselves and their own, isn't this asking for more laws to compel them to act against their own interests?

Is it in your interest to defect in a one-shot prisoner's dilemma? Was it in the interest of Marie Antoinette to say, "Let them eat cake"? Your long-term rational interest can differ from short-term selfishness.
Yes, you are.
That's my wife's position, and IMHO it's a wrong one. It's the same argument about letting them store your search history: everything about you ends up in a database that someone can look up whenever s/he wants. Where you shop, where you eat, where you go on holiday, all about your family and friends, what you like, your health... it's a treasure trove for all sort of nefarious activities that could target you, from ID theft to fraud, framing, entrapment, you name it. But of course it will never happen to you, right?
Sorry, but using such terms as "Populism, the backlash against globalization" is exactly what I call "deliberate misrepresentation of the facts and realities".
Agree that it should be clear. Reality unfortunately in my experience is a lot less so.
I think they likely just look at the sub-contracting costs and see that the Chinese contractors are massively cheaper then don't ask too many questions.

It's pretty much business as usual to pirate CAD software in China so they probably knew what was happening though.
If somebody says "It's more likely..." then this person is expressing an opinion and not a fact.

I find that such opinions are valuable in addition to other opinions as far as they remain plausible in cases where all we have are other opinions.
Because he also looks terrible on the photo and he immediately received ads for MacDonalds jobs within minutes of posting this picture. His insurance also resigned his health policy after a system recognized him as a drunkard.
I will never disagree with advancing software, because at the end of the day if we don't, someone else will. But I do disagree with companies taking advantage of the laws. There is no privacy law at the moment that bans Facebook from seeing you in someone else's picture and locating where you were, and targeting ads at you based on that information. But it is common decency to have some respect, and discard that information. This is where the capitalist mindset takes over and makes companies think this behavior is ok.
> Hate to be one of those guys, but a really simple integration test would have caught this

100% agree. Senior people shouldn't suddenly become junior people just because they change tools. (or rather they shouldn't stay junior for more than, say, a couple weeks)
Realizing that the sentence «big brother is watching you» accurately describes the world de live in ils kind of scary…

It's something to rationaly know it, it's totally different to experience it in real life !
Exactly! Thats what people don't get!

You can even now charge more because the quality better now!

The future will be like: better sell ten iPhones for 10.000 than 100 for 1000.

Why?

Less support,less headache,less struggle to organise the production etc.
Plenty of quality sites existed before advertisement flooded the internet. Plenty can exist without advertisements now as well.
America is on its way to a dictatorship
Try aliasing tmux to 'TERM=screen-256color tmux -2', I made my vim colors work.
Just in case, excerpt from my vimrc :

set background=dark
set t_Co=16
let g:solarized_termcolors=16
colorscheme solarized
how does gaffer compare to BMD Fusion? Thanks!

BTW it would be really great if the webmaster of gafferhq.org considered to add some contrast to the parts of the website that should be read by visitors.

(aka http://contrastrebellion.com/ )
Is the DC ruling class still crying about their loss?
The problem isn't a system in which Jews or Muslims or Armenians are targeted for discrimination. The problem is a system with the power and legal authority to target any group whatsoever.
It is not a fixable thing.

You don't fix thousands of years of human evolution overnight. Or one generation.

It will take several thousand years to fix that.
Sounds like a good opportunity to build some performance-tuning muscle :)

Whether using RN or java, you'll want to know how to debug memory/performance issues on Android - they're mostly unavoidable on mobile devices!

(And maybe you can file some issues against React Native, too, which would be great and help the platform)
Solar Eruptions Now Simulated and Studied by the EEGGL
I agree with the jitbit that we should consider the impacts of the growing global facial recognition system, but I find the focus on Facebook puzzling.

Facebook is one of the companies that seems like the best keepers of this data. They are committed to keeping their data private - because that's how they make money. They make much more though building accurate profiles and selling ads to demographics than giving away the goose.

A state actor can demand access to Facebook's database - just like they can demand access to anyone else's.

I think Facebook is a fairly mundane company using a terrifying new technology in distinctly benign ways. They've given us a glimpse of the power of the tech while not obviously abusing it. On balance, I'm pretty happy about that.
There are thousands of CAD packages out there and most are proprietary because they do proprietary stuff for a niche market.

All the open source CAD packages are general purpose cad (i.e. Basically "drawing") software.

I make a package with 100 man years of dev time that might have a total global market of 2000 users. It's not exactly something that would reach critical mass on github.

Even if we based our software on one of the open source packages we'd still be a huge chunk of proprietary software written as an extension.

CAD isn't just drawing lines.
Inline caching in MRI
Since you mention fighting words, I refer you to Ken White at Popehat: https://www.popehat.com/?s=fighting+words

I'm not actually familiar with the content of Milo's speeches, but I don't need to be to determine that they are not fighting words. Unless he says, "that guy in the green jacket looks like a fag, beat him up", it's probably protected speech, and your only legal recourse in the US is to say "hey, you shouldn't listen to this hate-filled jerk". Or, perhaps, "I'm not going to associate with you if you forward one more of his blog posts."

Now, I'm not going say that you have an inconsistent viewpoint. The attitude of "everyone who disagrees with me should be silenced by force" has been quite popular throughout history. It's even effective from time to time.

But your views would be illegal to implement in the US (as would Milo's views, as I understand them).

In addition, unless you have knowledge of threats of legal action from M.Y., nothing he is doing can have "chilling effects". I suggest you look it up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect and pay attention to the part about "law or threat of legal action".

In summary, the standard of free speech in the US is that you cannot use force to silence someone for the content of their speech unless it rises to the level of actual threats against specific people or an immediate incitement to riot right then and there.
I don't think the OP was bashing capitalism in general. He was commenting on the specific policy of neoliberal capitalism which means little to no regulation, free trade, and fiscal austerity.

Agree with you on the unemployment cliff. I think about it a lot. Currently I think if we don't fix our educational system we're have no chance of making it through without severe upheaval