skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite the contrary. While the scarcity of diamonds is enforced by a small cabal of diamond hoarders, the scarcity of labor is enforced by unchangeable biological demands that are universal across the human family.

Biology will always place a limitation on the amount of labor that one can expend, and psychology, which is an only slightly more pliable abstraction on top of biology, limits it further. Humans are biologically programmed, as part of the survival instinct, to preserve as much energy as possible. They will only expend hard effort when they are convinced that it will provide them with tangible and necessary benefits (where necessary means that the brain sends rewards in response to the anticipated benefit).

Inasmuch as wealth refers to the ability to command labor, either directly (like hiring an employee) or indirectly (like paying for the work product of another organization's employees), there are real limits that can't be circumvented.

As automation and technology enable us to a) prevent or seriously impede natural corrosive processes that destroy our work product and b) generate more useful goods and services with increasingly-less dependence on human effort, I agree that "wealth", for the value of wealth that means access to conveniences and luxuries, will become more generally available as we continue to improve.
Exactly. Emphasis on a variety of advocacy groups.

The scope of this is so diverse no organization, union or otherwise could advocate for all this to the satisfaction of its constituents.

"Counterbalance corporate interests"

What is that? There's really only one unifying corporate interest, and that is to profit, which is generally speaking a Good Idea.
I'm not sure why you're being down voted, but I generally agree. And I'm not passing judgement either - there is nothing wrong inherently wrong with drinking or chastity - but it is an undeniable part of our culture.
It's a bit unfair to only list the health benefits of beer and the downsides of other beverages.

Alcohol is also a carcinogen and even if you stop drinking the effects still lingers for at least 15 years: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/a...
If he's not allowed to say that he thinks she let herself down, then you're not allowed to say you think he's coming off as tone deaf, right? I think that because there's an issue of gender here, we are scrutinizing every word far too much.

I agree with him. One thing I learned when growing up playing sports is that you always do your best when playing. Throwing a fit or protesting by giving up only lets yourself down. Finish the game, and then go protest.
Tensorflow is also managed by the most influential tech company in the world.
> I haven't been able to find a free source for the actual ruling

The case is Tetris Holding v. Xio Interactive, 863 F.Supp.2d 394 (D.N.J. 2012).

The text of the ruling is available a few places, for example on Google Scholar:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=180648822600252...

Keep in mind though that it's a district court ruling and has pretty limited value in predicting other outcomes.
[whatever - i'll go somewhere else]
Just go play some wargames and CTFs. Attacking systems intended by their developers to be attacked is perfectly acceptable. Attacking other people systems just because you think it is accepted by society without at least getting warrant from a judge is not.
I think his point is that both risks are tiny for most people. As an "average" American, I have basically 0 fear of being murdered or being in a terrorist attack. The average commenter here is probably significantly more at risk of dying in a car accident.

One thing to note about terrorist attacks, is they follow a power law. The vast majority of terrorist attacks are complete failures that cause barely any casualties. But the most successful ones kill thousands. It's quite possible an unusually successful terrorist attack could kill tens of millions, which would vastly overwhelm homicide statistics. E.g. if a terrorist organization obtained weapons of mass destruction. Fortunately that has lowish probability, but perhaps not low enough to make the risk greater than homicide.

Say there is a 1% chance every decade of a terrorist attack that kills 15 million people, the annual expected death toll is about 15,000, which is greater than the annual homicide deaths.
Milo's stratospheric rise in popularity hasn't helped.

But for coverage of say Gamergate, it was the only news organization I'd seen to actually investigate and show the other side, rather than just utterly misunderstanding it and labeling it as "gamers are misogynistic racist hate-peddling trolls" and "gamers are dead".

I find Bannon repugnant, and I disagree with a lot of what their journalists and commentators say, but they have a different perspective that's important to hear.

Edit: In case anyone hasn't actually seen what gamers were actually pissed at, it was the corruption in the gaming journalism industry. The Wikipedia article is horseshit, as was most of the mainstream press coverage. Start at http://deepfreeze.it/article.php?a=monster and see for yourself.
The major titles, tournaments, and ratings aren't gendered and haven't been for a long time. That said, it is still the case that today's active male players tend to be overwhelmingly better than active female players at chess, so separate tournaments and titles were specifically created just for women. No women are restricted from the "main" tournaments or the "main" titles, though. It is entirely possible for a woman to dethrone Magnus Carlsen as World Chess Champion -- it's just never happened before.

As for why this discrepancy exists, that's really a very different question, and it's one that I don't know the answer to. There are potentially many factors at play. It could be as innocent as there are many more male players than female, so the odds are much higher for super-high-skill players to emerge in the male population than the female population.
Twitter Censoring Trump Supporters
> doesn't contradict the commenters statement.

Yes, it does. The executive order "singles people out" based on their religion.

It doesn't matter what the motive is (and I think your take on the motive is naive, but that's beside the point).
What if you don't like exercise and like to eat?

A lifetime of forcing oneself to do something unappealing and then topping it off with denial of things one likes doesn't sound like a overall good trade, even if you live longer.
Maybe "finished and supported" is the definition of production ready in Microsoft-land, but I'd say "stable, well-tested and batteries-included" is a lot more important.

.NET Core has none of that going.
I am a man, nothing human is alien to me.
I always assume when some vandal/vigilante takes down a service is that they're just interfering with an investigation to actually catch these criminals instead of scattering them to new unknown services. Reminds me when Assad, early in the Syrian war was using an insecure private email server to dictate all actions of the military and police, which some idiots discovered so decided to spam it with threats and he shut it down. Meanwhile the opposition (before they became foreign terrorists) had also broken into the server and were able to counter the military and police actions against them until they lost this golden intelligence source from the idiotic actions of vigilantes purporting to be on their side.
He's allowed to say whatever he wants, and I'm allowed to feel how I do about it, and discuss those feelings on this site.
Utilitarianism for engineers (2013)
I'm just giving a quantitative way to think about the issue. If we said, "Anyone has the opportunity to win the lottery, and the actual outcome isn't relevant", everyone would acknowledge that we're talking about a probability problem. If we mean what we say about equal opportunity, then we're essentially talking about cutting the probabilistic link between one's background and one's distribution over outcomes. Ways to do this include:

* Admitting students to university based on merely adequate grades and their citizenship in the community, rather than based on a "meritocratic" competition that actually just conditions outcomes on starting-points.

* Supporting trade unions and other institutions that regularize wages/salaries/incomes.

* Taxing inheritance heavily.

* Enforcing anti-trust law.

The point is to ensure that random events like which family you're born into can't strongly affect the course of your life. I'd love to hear other, less "bog standard" ways to compress the distribution over outcomes, thus equalizing opportunity.

However, note that we're talking about cutting a link. By default, opportunities are only available to people with past actual successes. By default, outcomes build upon outcomes and compound exponentially. We're looking to defy that natural process, cut a natural link, and thus regularize certain statistical structures.
Pattern recognition was great. William Gibson can make some very compelling characters.
Find a business that could use one of your projects to solve one of its main problems. Then get a meeting with somebody there who has the authority to hire you (this can be done simply by email, but it helps if you have some common connection with them), go to them and show them what you have made, explain how it and you will help their business, then ask for a job.

Do this a bunch of times and you should be hired somewhere.
Build and host a web app that uses some real-time public-facing data (train positions, bus positions, satellite positions, cab fares, etc) and renders that information in a helpful way.

That's how I got a job as a very junior developer.
Nice post. As a team lead, I would like to put an emphasis on communication. Communication is crucial and I believe it is a good idea to let employees know what is expected of them, setting goals, etc. but I figured out it was even a better idea to spend lots of time and energy to give the big picture to the team and to be totally transparent about the project from all angles. Not the often heard "it's the software team, we don't need to communicate that to them" which I sincerely believe is a misconception.
The simple fact is yes, for whatever reasons, women are physically disadvantaged at chess. Regardless of how shocking that is. (Cue "differ t oppprtunities", "different emphasis" etc. which I am very much willing to listen to cited arguments for).
I'm not generalizing, the proof is right in this thread, the top comments are all focusing on the specific numbers and completely missing the point. And that is a specific criticism.
In particular, many thanks to the moderators. With popular discussion forums, a high signal-to-noise ratio doesn't just happen by itself.
These are valid points, and important to call out this kind of language given the history of sexism.

Side note: One of my biggest frustrations on HN is seeing a comment downvoted without any counterargument given, as with this one. Would any downvoters care to voice their opinions?
In my experience, I've found it easy to make figures with Wolfram Mathematica (the python analogue would be matplotlib) and with Tikz (http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/all/)

If you want to check out what might be possible within the Mathematica system, you could try out https://www.wolframalpha.com/

Further, hand-drawing on a tablet using a stylus is highly underrated.
pj I always detect a degree of "disdain" for C in your comments. Back in the 80s everything was system programming if you wanted performant software. C replaced Pascal during the 80s because it was a better language - simple as. Today I code almost entirely in C and rarely need to use Assembly. C started to be used beyond Unix during the 80s (AmigaOS was written in C except for third party IO library written in BCPL) because it is a small and very concise language; Pascal had just too much abstraction - for example how it dealt with bitwise operations. This meant C compilers could do better jobs in terms of optimisation. This is reflected in C replacing Pascal in PC game programming in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Also a lot of Amiga games were also written in C (Cinemaware games) and Megadrive games too (Sonic Spinball, Ecco etc.). In short C is just the best HLL out there when it comes to programming systems with meager resources. As for Rust - like Go - its supporters will eventually throw in the towel. C is king of system programming.
When I read your excerpt, I immediately wondered if he is British. Turns out he is, and I believe this language is pretty common in their culture, at least traditionally. I do not know whether women in he U.K. are bothered by such comments esp if the man is much older than them, as is the case here.

As for commenting on letting herself down, well he is a TV commentator. You hear this sort of being said by TV commentators in basically every sport.
Want to minimise your home’s carbon footprint? Go for solar, forget the battery
1. I assume you are located in the USA.

2. I assume your side projects will probably not generate a lot of money. Most side projects fail. (That's a feature, not a bug).

3. Don't spend money until you absolutely must. Money is energy stored in rectangular pieces of paper. Save your energy.

4. Don't spray your attention all over creation. Focus on one thing -- your side project. Unless your side project is named "ClerkyKiller" :-) do not focus on company formation.

5. You have nooooo idea how much extra work and annoyance you will endure as soon as you touch the legal and tax paperwork system. Stay as far away from it as you can, for as long as you can.

I am a lawyer and I approve this message. :-)
Not one of the things you mention is easy to accomplish at the scale it kills tens of thousands.

The sheer volume and complexity of distribution of explosives or gas needed, or the rarity and oversight of biological agents necessary renders those attacks anything but simple.

You're talking dozens of people coordinating against hardened and watched targets with either a substantial planning period or access to high volumes of controlled substances.

Nothing at all about a few pissed off or crazy people or easy.
Isn't everything PR?
That's a bummer. I've enjoyed Lewis' books and was planning on reading this one as well.
One thing I'd mention is - regardless of your inclinations (sounds like you're more of a backend developer) - put together something that is easy to showcase. Something "live" running on aws/heroku/digital ocean/github pages even - no matter how trivial (well maybe a static "hello world" might be too trivial :) ) - would go a long way towards convincing your potential employer that you have the tech chops.

Also, just being realistic, it's WAY easier to get your foot in the door doing frontend stuff. Doesn't mean you have to drop everything and become a UI person, but if you have some kind of an API sitting on aws, having a UI to drive it vs. driving it purely with curl/postman/etc shouldn't take much effort but will be a good bang for the buck no doubt.
Do you know any good overviews of Mendelian randomization?
I buy at some (local) German stores so these are probably out of the question for you. But I think any serious tea dealer (they know which region their teas are from, what cultivar they are etc...) will do. However, r/tea (reddit's tea community) has a list of their favorite vendors. Maybe you find something good there.[0] I think Ocha is rather popular over there.

As far as the tea is concerned, tea starting at roughly 12 (€|$) / 100g (maybe a little cheaper if you're lucky) tends to have this effect. Furthermore, the effect also depends on finding the right steeping time, water temperature and tea-leaves/water ratio for each individual tea. Moreover, I suspect different teas work for different people. If you're "seriously" into Sencha it's advisable to get a Kyusu which is a traditional Japanese teapot that helps bringing out the best flavor.

Incidentally, I find tolerance builds, unfortunately, rather quickly when I drink Sencha very frequently. So at times it seems like a good idea to skip it for a few days.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/tea/wiki/vendors/page_01
I like this link better:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4083571/

The short definitions from your link seem to say that interventional studies are ones with interventions, and observational studies don't have interventions except when they do. This is pretty confusing.
Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome

I consider this timeless humour, because it gets me to laugh out loud in public. People get startled by this. Also, I read episodes from the book to my 7 year old, who loves it. Occasionally, I need to explain a very dry joke, but some I leave for him to discover later.
"We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.

But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us."

— Neil Postman (Author of Amusing Ourselves to Death)
There's some good discussion in this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/5rm88g/hou_yifan_res....

As someone who does statistics for a living and used to play tournament chess, a few of my disorganized opinions/thoughts:

* There's no conclusive evidence that her pairings were tampered with, and the pairings are in line with what seeds someone would be given by a computer. The probability of her playing that many women is very low, but the whole point of randomness is rare events happen (as humans we're very good at detecting patterns in randomness). Her accusations are plausible but not a given.

* I think her goal to break down the barriers of gendered chess is great. The chess world needs more women, and if there were more they would be completely competitive with men. She's fighting a good fight.

* One of the reasons I stopped playing chess is the egos. This one was relatively mild, but purposefully losing games is wrong, even if done in protest. Once you sit down at the chessboard and shake the other person's hand, you're agreeing to a good game. Throwing a game against a woman because you're grumpy she's a woman is not a good thing.

* But, her activist tactic worked, here we are talking about it.
> The system discourages everyone from the public to law enforcement from doing anything productive about child sexual abuse.

Using "synthetic images" (lolicon?) to lure "child abusers" (even before you have evidence of them doing crime) and conducting vigilante justice is surely going to be productive if you don't weight in false positives.

Do you think the means of current drug war in Philippines is justified by its goals? Want to extend this practice to CP?
In the one example we have of it, a Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway at rush hour killed 12 people and seriously injured 50 more.

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

Guns and bombs are actually far more effective. Skimming the list of terrorist attacks in 2016, the most deadly seem to be bombs and teams of gunmen (mostly in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, and Nigeria).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamist_terrorist_att...
Part of the critique in the article was form factor mass and bulk (compute was the other part). The standard for the critique was rooted more in how laptops are marketed than in human physiology.
You're only proving my point by nitpicking further. Pedantry isn't a virtue, especially in assuming I'm so stupid as to anthropomorphize a piece of metal or trying to utilize a political maneuver. Focus on the article instead of nitpicking.
Because typing errors and infinite timeout is really hard..
Another LPFM Hit by F*** Donald Trump Barix Hijacking
C is portable, bash scripts are not.
The last time I submitted this someone made a political comment and the post was then flagged.

The interesting thing is:

There are all these low power FM stations that use Barix STL devices without a password as internet roboDJs and are getting hijacked but of course the news reports it as hacking, the management get the police involved, and not only don’t they set a password but the stations don’t even have an engineer on premises.

So please, no politics, I want to read comments from people knowledgeable about FM business in US and Canada and not have this be summarily flagged.

some news articles, but there are way more:

http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/34391134/hacker-blasts-anti...

http://wspa.com/2017/01/31/upstate-radio-station-hacked-broa...

http://www.wyff4.com/article/upstate-radio-station-hacked-an...

The stations are deleting public posts about this whenever law enforcement is mentioned, here is a screengrab:

http://imgur.com/aVtZOff
I wonder if they had said "please just kill me" would it have been reported.
The Prince by Machiavelli
There's a lot of possible trajectories, and one doesn't have use a ballistic one. Once out of the atmosphere you could leave low thrust on for the entire journey, alleviating concerns over both weighlessness and the need for excessively high speeds.
Without those modifications does she wind up playing against fewer women?
People value different things.