skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And how exactly do they determine that?

You want me to explain the entire body of common law? What is the point of this line of questioning? Are you trying to demonstrate that everything is subjective, and thus that justice doesn't exist in any objective sense, meaning it's okay for you to use violence against peaceful people to force them to act charitably?

>What happens when people disagree about ownership?

The same thing that happens now when people disagree with a legal ruling. What are you expecting me to offer as an alternative? Utopia? Perfect justice?

>So it's okay to ignore property rights if enforcing them would cause harm?

When did I say it's okay to ignore property rights? I said it's okay to not physically resist the legal ruling, given it will lead to civil strife, without providing the desired security of private property (given government is nearly impossible to resist by force).

>And what will this achieve? What mechanism is there for government to recognise and rectify its mistake?

I'm not talking about rectifying mistakes in specific rulings. I'm talking about rectifying mistakes in larger policy.

I'm talking about persuading society to abandon principles that legitimize robbing people of their essential human rights, like their private property and privacy rights, in the name of helping the poor, or achieving some other social objective.

I believe that most people share a common understanding of what legitimate property rights are, and share a belief that forcing someone to surrender their private property rights is wrong, and I believe that is is only the layers of ideological indoctrination that people are subjected to, and the obfuscating complexity of modern societies, that leads them to support government policy that endorses violating people's rights.

Consequently I believe explaining the injustice of said policies will lead to people dropping their support for the policies, and adopting positions that are in my opinion more just.

>As opposed to two wolves agreeing that they own the grass, and enforcing that until the sheep dies

This is not about a plot of land, that was there from before man's ascent. This is about two people engaging in a private trade, and a third party claiming ownership over a share of the movable property traded, on account of some contrived ideology that attempts to rationalize theft.
I've presented my argument why I don't think it's possible for a continuous ontology to be simpler than a discrete ontology, but if you think that's incorrect, then let's hear it.
Thanks, @arikfr for the project.

We started using redash about 2 years back. We use it for ad-hoc SQL to Redshift and MySQL and most of our business level KPI dashboards are there. One thing I would want to do is add some metabase like segmentation there(preferably that works with joins), so that marketing/sales people can also actively query from it.
their point is that it's a false choice. perhaps those resources are better spent developing energy technology that does not require that we accept a certain amount of "unavoidable" environmental damage. it is avoidable, but perhaps a completely free market does not encode that effectively
perhaps, but it will most certainly boost the prices of the products that are disproportionately consumed by those who suddenly have more money.

overall inflation will be determined by how the plan is funded.
I believe the "$2-$3" was intended to be the difference between the with-ads subscription ($8), and the without-ads subscription ($12).
Trello Goes Off the Hook: Work Everywhere with Mobile Offline
Absolutely garbage article. The main point is Amazon's marketing strategy, which is the same as everyone elses'. Also, the Echo is terrible compared to the others.
There is a large number of TV shows and movies that is not available on any streaming service. There is also a large number that's available, but only from a very specific content provider. For example last I checked, Seinfeld was only available on I think TBS's website, with an awful Flash-based player and really intrusive commercials. Oh, and what was available was something like a set of 5 rotating episodes, not the whole thing. Another example is Conan the Destroyer (been on an Arnold kick lately) which as far as I saw could only be purchased on BluRay or DVD.

I am not saying the content providers owe anyone a streaming option. But grandparent is right about path of least resistance.
Another promising theory is that dark matter isn't even necessary, we only assume its present due to its gravitation effect, and that can be explained by other phenomenon.

Gravity decreases in proportion to distance squared between objects, but its not observed beyond a certain distance. To compensate, that space was assumed to be filled with dark matter. This theory suggests that gravity switches from a inverse-square law to a different set of rules after a certain distance.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20161129-verlinde-gravity-dar...
A pipeline is 4.5 times safer.

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/research/safety-transportati...
Once installed, pipelines can be -- and are -- used to transport any fluid; they're not limited to oil and natural gas. They can also be used for other purposes: the Williams Companies ran fiber-optic cable through decommissioned pipelines in the 1990s, drastically improving coast-to-coast network connectivity.

Also, remember the article from yesterday about how utilities are building solar plants to insulate themselves from swings in the price of oil and natural gas. The current round of pipeline building and the current round of solar-building are complementary; both are about moving away from coal.

Wind has arrived, solar is arriving, and geothermal and pumped hydro are probably next. The future of the world's energy supply looks pretty bright, and it looks likely that the Saudis were right back in the 1970s when they predicted that the oil age wouldn't end when we ran out of oil, just as how the stone age didn't end when we ran out of stones.
Ask HN: Ethics of Quitting Soon After Starting B/c Another Offer Came In
Basically: Two offers, one is not final with a large, sought-after company. It is pending and I think they will opt to give me the job officially and extend an offer within weeks. Offer is not guaranteed though, and I need a job financially ASAP.

Second offer is official/final, but it is definitely my second choice. Much, much smaller company, lower pay, less name recognition. They want to know if I accept this week.

So dilemma: If I reject second offer, I potentially would have no job whatsoever. If I accept, maybe the better offer solidifies and I would want to leave the smaller company. However, I deeply do not want to put the smaller company in a bad position by onboarding me/giving me work/etc. and then I leave. They are semi-aware of the situation.

Is it unethical/bad to accept the second offer knowing that I may only work there a month if the first offer becomes official? If so, is there any way to mitigate this short of not taking the second offer at all and potentially risking my financial future?
Sometimes you feel a regret. "I know!" you say, "I'll fix things with regretular expressions." Now you have two regrets.
Do you have any independent evidence suggesting that protesters were paid? Citing the North Dakota government page is kind of like citing Sean Spicer on inauguration crowd sizes.
Trucks are the worst in every way, by a lot.

Comparing rail to pipelines, with the same amount of oil moved the same distance, trains cost 2x more and use more energy. Most years trains spill less per oil moved than pipelines, which is their one win.

Unfortunately, when trains have accidents, they tend to be both in towns and have fire. 45 people died in a single Canadain oil train accident in 2013.

Pipelines have great record in terms of human safety.
I'll piggyback on you and highly recommend the "crash course astronomy" series on YouTube. It's 50 or so ~10 minute videos that does a broad overview of all of astronomy up to the current moment, starting back when the older civilizations first studied the stars just by looking up with their naked eyes.

It is fast paced and packs a lot of information into each episode, so I do end up rewinding sometimes. And being a passive video, I think retention won't be as high. However, the short videos are very approachable and bite sized. It's very well done and the host is quite entertaining. The past year, my interest in space and physics has increased a bunch. It feels like learning the deeper history and context in which all of humanity is embedded.
The Amazon hardware is much better though.
Thanks for the link. Just found this one from NASA as well: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-scientist-sug...

So, it seems like it's still an open possibility, and even better, it might be resolvable one way or the other in the near future -- at least for the primordial black hole hypothesis.
What huge story? KFYR has had it on daily for months. Just look at the organizers here and what groups pay them. I don't get why you think this would be huge?
I like to look through the lens of quantum field theory instead of 'particles'.

Dark matter may be some field or interaction of existing fields that we don't understand yet.
The debate is social. This is going through tribal lands because the tribes are poor and legally limited. They can't defend themselves. If you tried to run a pipeline under the water supply for 10,000 rich white people, it'd die before the first inch of pipe was laid. The very land it's going under is just a tiny fragment of low-value land left to the tribes, after multiple gunpoint-driven treaties left a tiny "reservation".

Power. It's about power. And power is tied to race. It's morally disgusting, and a lot of this talk is just misdirection, avoiding the real, valid source of anger and rebellion.
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Half Life 2 was really good for telling the story while keeping the player in the action. Even during scenes where characters were just talking to you, you could play with the scenery and move around and pick things up. There'd be several people talking in a room and the game would expect you to turn around to face the person who is talking, then turn back around to see the other person respond.

It was a natural step from HL1 as players became more comfortable navigating 3D game worlds. I'm wondering if they're waiting for that moment in VR before choosing to make another story-heavy game like that.
Given that (paid) journalists covering the event have been charged as protesters, implying that at least law enforcement lumps the journalists in with the protesters -- there is no doubt a way to support the claim that "at least one 'protester' is paid".

The suggestion that a significant number of the 10s of thousands are being paid is just propaganda though and deserves to be challenged.
Your theory seems to be based on pop-science understanding of concepts like entanglement. A physicist listening to you would just smile and nod their head. There is no need for particles to pass through a single point for entanglement to be a thing. Both the standard model and quantum theory tell us that such an event isn't possible. And as far as I understand, you don't have matter until 10^-12s, well after cosmic inflation.

Quantum entanglement is not a force, does not cause particles to do things, and cannot be used to build a quantum internet. It merely refers to the fact that although quantum states cannot be known till measured, even distantly separated particles will satisfy quantum relations (opposite spin for two particles, etc). They satisfy them in such a way that they either somehow communicated, knew all along, or other possible strange options discussed in multiverse theory. Bell's inequalities prove that they did not know all along.

Dark matter can't be ordinary matter in a second universe because it doesn't interact with itself. It'd have to be dark matter in another universe. Which would be indistinguishable from dark matter in this universe.

Nothing in physics seeks to do anything. The idea that matter would get together and plan to form black holes so that it can transition into some other state is just silly.

You are trying to solve problems that don't exist, with physics that don't exist. Please, read up on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_exclusion_principle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_universe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell's_theorem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter
Yes, there is a bigger factor. Western economies are stronger than India's. The average pay is higher and the standard of living is higher (this also means that the cost of living is higher but that gets compensated by the fact that the conversion rates from eg USD to INR are so high that even a little money makes a huge amount of difference).

When I did Google Summer of Code in my freshman year in college I got paid $5500 for three months' work, which when converted to INR was more than my father was making in a whole year working fulltime.

Rs 1 million (ballpark figure) is considered to be a good salary for an average software engineer in India. By PPP conversion this is only equivalent to $57k, which is less than half of what some freshers make in the Bay Area or NYC.
Today I learned Slack has a "relevant" option for search terms. Maybe I should try it again - I had stopped using search entirely because of the results being fairly irrelevant.
It's a clickbait, mostly focusing on how Amazon made Alexa mainstream. Alexa sucks big time when it comes to answering questions, Google apparently with it's huge information performs way better.

But, Amazon really changed the game by launching "Echo dot", a $40 entry level AI/home automation worked in favor for them and now millions use Alexa.
Waiting generally has a very low environmental impact. Higher energy costs and a slower economy are not necessarily bad. Unbridled growth is not the only option.
You're making the same mistake as the people you're chastizing. You're filtering this historical events through your own filter to create a good guy and bad guy. It's more complicated then that.

I encourage you to dive into the details of Mossadegh's overthrow. Did the US and British encourage the coup? Sure. Was there significant opposition to his rule among Iranians? Definitely. I argue he would have been disposed regardless of US or British involvement.
It would add to the verisimilitude of wearing VR goggles if your in-scene avatar were wearing some clunky HUD goggles.

The 3D scene can be rendered as usual, and any "must see" information can be rendered onto an obstructing-but-transparent 2D surface attached to your avatar's nose.
The 1st article states that protestors should go home because an environmental review was going to be done. Now its not going to be done per executive order by trump.
Why do we need Virtual Private Network (VPN) device?
I think that Metal / WebGPU is just at the right abstraction level for a modern 3D API. It's like a successor to D3D11 (which is a mighty fine 3D-API). Vulkan and D3D12 are really not a lot of fun to work with. I'd rather maintain an thin API wrapper on top of 3 different 3D-APIs at the complexity level of D3D11 or Metal, instead of having to maintain a single wrapper for D3D12 or Vulkan (and you need to support multiple 3D APIs anyway, since none of them exists on all relevant platforms). But that is strictly IMHO, I guess there's also people who enjoy working in D3D12 or Vulkan ;)
Maybe you could do cryptography more quickly, but for general-purpose computing, and even most specialized tasks, memory latency and bandwidth are critical. For instance, look at the use of GDDR5 and HDM together with GPUs.

Most of the market is for things that are generalizable; maybe you could make some kind of hyper-DSP for millimeter wave base stations or something like that, but you have to spread out the development cost across a low number of units.
As a developer, I'm perfectly okay with using a magic black box.

As long as we can reasonably understand the I/O (and that use of the software can pass a security review), I don't see a problem with this.
What about the cypherpunks?
Awesome to see PICO-8 on the front page! Nice article!
I am always fascinated by people like you. I assume you are apart of the tech industry. I would have never became apart of this industry if I thought the way you did. I got into this industry because things move faster than the low. Things are too slow. I don't give a fuck about laws if things move too slow.
As someone who had the opportunity to shoot a few of these last year [0], I wholeheartedly agree. There's so much left wanting out of the experience beyond the gimmick of the wraparound video. And, I'm not sure that films/docs translate 1:1 into VR. As you mentioned, interactive content (and thus new technology enabling this content) seems like a much better bet. You're already starting to see it with frameworks like ForgeJS from GoPro. I'd love to see the ability to export this type of content from the various engines (like Unity) into YouTube/Facebook. The only reason I still feel it's still more than a valid venue for content is the reach and access they've enabled for regular, mobile users as opposed to Oculus/Vive/etc.

[0] http://robertobrambila.com/projects/gatesnotes-360vr
> Isn't the solution to H1B abuse to just let people work anywhere they want after being granted the visa?

The solution to H1B abuse is to abolish the visa category entirely.

The solution to "there is insufficient domestic supply of high-skill labor, and making more foreign workers available for domestic work of this kind would, with appropriate controls, produce a public benefit", if that is really the case, is to design a system with appropriate controls that does that, which probably won't look much like the H-1B program. It'll start with an analysis of the real nature and extent of the shortage, and the nature of the opportunity for public benefit.
Yeah, next time don't study.

I am convinced that Google interviews are rigged. I got on the phone with an "interviewer" and he sounded like someone strangled his pet in front of him.

I knew I wouldn't get past then because he didn't really seem at all interested in interviewing me.

I wasn't like Homebrew Qualified but I definitely wasn't Fizzbuzz Unqualified.
Environmental review that should have happened.
http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/standing-rock-sioux-d... from the 3rd.
> why would a developer prefer to write Self-Hosted!Instagram instead of just Instagram?

Because urbit is designed to make that an easy thing to do. Say you've got a webserver, and you want to put a picture of your kid on it, but you only want the server to serve that picture to your Mom. On unix, that's really complicated, you need to do a lot of things to make that happen - not just implement a web app that includes authentication and give your Mom a new login and password to memorize, but also configure the web server properly and make sure your server is locked down and stuff like that.

On Urbit, that would be really easy, the equivalent of "mkdir mom; chmod +r mom; mv pic.png mom", because it abstracts away things like cryptographically verifying identities in the same way that unix abstracts away sending a file to a printer.
Excited reports of ‘habitable planets’ need to come back down to Earth
What morals and ethics are you referring to exactly? I don't really know you and you assume we have the same beliefs.
We open-sourced all of our docs where I work. As previously noted, it's no substitute for a lawyer if something serious is really on the line, but it's probably a good place to get started. If you're not selling B2B you probably don't need to get mired down on the specifics of legality or need to have a framework to negotiate terms and policies. The biggest thing you'll want to do is set limitations on liability for usage. You'll save money giving a lawyer 80% of T&C to tune vs. having a lawyer start from a boiler plate T&C. Especially if you need to manage any vertical-specific nuances that a biz lawyer may not be specifically attuned to.

Legal: https://github.com/catalyzeio/legal
Policies/Compliance: https://github.com/catalyzeio/policies
I believe you are thinking of dark energy. The evidence for dark matter is typically things like galaxy rotation curves.
That's true... I think we need to be more congizant of this - if I fix this one thing now, is it going to significantly improve ROI over if I do it tomorrow when I'm well rested?
That is a long term target: definitely you can get transistors to switch that fast. 200GHz would not be a short-term target, but would it happen in 20 years? maybe.
It also has to do with the fact that local communities had a significant population in comparison to the native american m tribes who lived in the area.
Modern pipelines have sensors that are monitored continuously and leaks can be detected incredibly quick.

The recent leak in ND was a little worse than normal because it was during a rough blizzard which made it rather difficult to respond quickly.
Or if we just slow down a bit.
Goofy politicized edited headline and link redirection through G to BBC? Try again, 'socialentp.

[EDIT:] Here is the original headline: "Dakota Access Pipeline to win US Army permit for completion"
Your comment sounds wise, but with all those acronyms and technical terms I can't be sure :-)
Obsession with ending poverty is where development is going wrong
Yes, it does. Most popular bit-torrent p2p streaming solution now is Acestream. You can check it yourself.

http://arenavision.in/
http://torrent-tv.ru/channels.php

However, I doubt that 'fully loaded' Kodi boxes uses it, most likely it use simple m3u streams harvested from internets.
> Just look at the organizers here and what groups pay them

That is the information I am asking for. A Google search for "soros site:www.kfyrtv.com" returns nothing.

The reason I ask is that "George Soros is funding protests" has become something of a meme in right-wing circles to dismiss anything from the Women's March, the airport protests to Standing Rock as being little more than some kind of left-wing conspiracy. To date, I have not seen any evidence backing up those assertions. It is entirely possible I have missed it, though, so I'd like to be filled in.
I would recommend TeXstudio [1].

It supports code completion and an assistant for constructing formulas. Although it doesn't support real time rendering (the editor gives real time result while you're working on your works), TeXstudio gives the result after you compile it. The nice part is that you can see instant preview between source code and the result (pdf).

[1]: http://texstudio.org/
If I copy all your emails and financial records have I harmed you?

Are you only harmed if I remove your access to those records?
please checkout the web link that has a video of the app as well.
Wordpress vulnerability leads to defacement of hundreds of thousands of sites
> Go doesn't go beyond Java level safety

Go doesn't reach Java level safety because of a lack of generics.