skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Culpability is a happy illusion outside of a social context

I'm sure that's what you believe, but that doesn't make it true.

> do you seriously think that there is an objective culpability for arbitrary concepts when people won't even interpret the arbitrary concepts the same way?

The whole point of objectivity is that interpretation has no bearing on truth (or culpability in this case).

> in this case, science shows us free will doesn't map neatly into our known universe

Science shows no such thing. Assuming determinism of choice shoes only that philosophies of free will that claim free choice is incompatible with determinism are incompatible with evidence. Of course, we don't actually know that we are deterministic (evidence is not conclusive), and it does not in any way rule out free will that is compatible with determinism, which is the type most philosophers profess.

This is an all too common mistake that scientists make: thinking that their definition of free will is obviously the one everyone is using.
It is indeed a pain in the ass. Personally I worked off of boilerplates (uploaded my own as well, though haven't updated it in 7 months https://github.com/JeremyBernier/redux-react-isomorphic-mini...). Luckily once it's set up, you don't have to update it - unless of course you want the latest and greatest.
Pretending that this gap doesn't exist is partly why we got what we got in this past election.
Well then you have a clear chance of being a genius, since according to other threads those who think they're a genius aren't!
I code straight ES6 with no extra libraries and no compilation step, loaded straight into a modern browser. I don't have to care about older ones. Nobody's paying for this, and therefore nobody's paying me enough to deal with the tooling people complain about. The web is a pretty nice platform now, when you can approach it this way.
I'm not surprised. There are one or two particular foreign-crazed states in India where people often spend ~$50k on people to smuggle them across into Western Europe/US. They come apparently as refugees "fleeing religious persecution", but I fear this is often a mere ruse.

The routes they takes are often batshit crazy - the usual Afghanisthan-Egypt/Turkey-Europe route or the Guyana-Mexico-Texas/Cali route (this all the way from India!).
Please see rambling reply to another poster.
It's simply insane to propose such a bill ... they may as well as people to sell body parts to cover healthcare costs ... it's simply not acceptable!
India wastes enough food to end hunger in that country. What's your point ?
That is simply not what happen. He was never warned off MIT campus. The case was never one of trespassing with MIT - otherwise he'd have been slapped on the wrist with a local case.

Rather he was arrested by a federal secret service agent for CFAA violations that were based on extremely tenuous arguments that at the least most legal commentators concede was an egregious case of over-prosecution.

I'd love to hear your list of deserving award winners who are somehow notable dissidents without breaking something as lowly as a trespass law.
Fair. But the drive is about 15 minutes directly there. With Bart, drive + train + walk, it would be 45 minutes. It's really about total time.
It's right there in his profile (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chollida1):

> Former compiler writer, currently head of algorithmic trading for a hedge fund, still write code for 80% of my day.
I'm no expert, but I'd like to think that there is no free money. Unless you are hiring a professional with proper track record who will be actively investing (lots of fees involved), you are taking large risks; anything above what banks/government bonds are willing to give for inflation (+ small opportunity cost) - is mostly gambling.

I think, many people think stock market does nothing for poor, because:

5% of 1,000 = 50

5% of 1,000,000,000 = 50,000,000

No amount of compounding will help the poor and any loss will be much much worse.

I like the investing accrediting idea and wish it applied to stock market as well, but I guess some people might not like reducing of their choices (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accredited_investor)
"Also you really don't know what you are talking about. If you bought nearly anything after Nov 21st 2008 and held, you'd be way in the green since then."

Apparently it's likely you who 'doesn't know what he is talking about' given that you displayed as much to us in your rebuttal. ---> Stating that 'the market is up' since a historical low is more than meaningless. You should know that if you're offering advice on stocks via a blog.

I believe that a retail trader can 'make money' on ETrade about as much as the average joe (or even intelligent joe) can beat Deep Blue at chess - which is not.

This is not some deep insight, it's fairly well known.
And all the the pretty money you earn as a software engineer in SF is sufficient only for a kommunalka: http://venturebeat.com/2017/03/10/tech-workers-live-40-to-a-...

We had one in town when I was a student. The thing had a name. It was called Schweinebunker.
So your problem is with the animal abuse and not the heroin addiction? Heroin isn't helping, but for all you know she treats the dog that way when she's sober.

Definitely keep complaining to animal control about the dog, and report illegal activity, but other than that it sounds like you should mind your own business.
Oh, I have seen several psychiatrists and psychologists and counselors over the years. They're generally pleasant but useless people, though a couple of them provided perspectives and comments that were useful at the time.

The biggest help has been that I no longer value social acceptance so highly. It's terrible, I know. Feel free to call me an obnoxious asshole if it helps you. Several have and I've survived.
I voted for Alexandra Elbakyan.

Her blog - https://engineuring.wordpress.com/
Her email - mindwrapper@gmail.com
When I look around at approaches for reducing poverty in CA, almost everything I see is proposals for additional government subsidy programs. What I don't see is proposals for increasing the supply of the things that make COL so high in the first place.

How do you make things like housing, health care, and education more abundant, cheaper, more competitive in CA?

No one seems to know.
Thank you for posting this; I'm not a public figure, but quickly rising through the ranks of a Fortune 500 corporation -- maybe through skill, or maybe manipulation, I've honestly lost track at this point. I wouldn't consider myself "genius", but definitely above average, and people that "know" me tell me I'm too smart for my own good. I've slowly come to realize that I am what would be considered sociopathic, I find it incredibly difficult to feel empathy, and to form deep relationships (especially intimate ones), most of it is due to logic, that I time and time again I ask myself "why should I care?" and most of the time I can't answer that question. In that sense it is a handicap, sometimes I have periods of crushing loneliness but then quite quickly I can rationalize it into a strength, that I am not bound by human needs and can leverage that to grasp total control, to make money, etc. You do learn to fake a lot of it, you have to, but I find myself slipping sometimes in public by dropping some line and catching some strange looks, thankfully people chalk it up to my "eccentricity." That made my childhood a bit difficult, because at that age you don't even know what is supposed to be normal, but quickly you realize that you're supposed to feel happy in these situations, but in other you need to appear somber. The sheer idea that I needed to "think" about how to act in certain situations, and eventually realizing that others don't do that was certainly difficult, not in the sense of remorse or anything but rather realizing that you are a total outsider look in. I find that slowly revealing who you are can work sometimes, up to a point, before people start to get scared.

It's also interesting to see some people to think that I'm judging them or remotely care about their existence, when in reality I simply don't care about them at all; I think I told my parents that once, which was met by a strange reactions (guess I won't say it again).

To me it seems all perfectly rational and normal; Why would you care about other people? Why not live for yourself? Why not take advantage of other to further your interests? Life has to meaning, so any meaning you assign is just as equally valid. As I continue to interact with people that have no ambition, that are afraid to do something because it might hurt other people the more I fall into the idea that most people are cattle to be taken advantage of by the likes of GP, Trump, Bankers, and others;

And yeah in the end you do realize that you are broken and ugly, that you will never be like the others. If I had any regrets I'd say its not being able to enjoy love as others do, especially when I was younger. But I simply can't see the reason why I would want to do that, there is very little utility, and I feel like it would only slow me down (although having a partner that shares my world view would be nice -- a la Mr Robot's Evil Corp CTO -- but finding that person is difficult since that would require us both disclosing our true personalities).
He did go hunting for U-boats in the English Channel with a shotgun and a dinghy in WWII.

I guess that may or may not have been particularly abnormal in Britain at the time, though.
People don't want to walk circuitous routes along really busy streets. And 15 minutes when its 90 out isn't fun either.
Actually, $2/day is actually completely manageable in rural India. I mean you won't be eating fancy stuff, but you'd be nowhere as miserable as being alone/homeless in the US.
It's possibly the middle class Mexican citizens who have the resources to make the journey across the border in the first place.
Since the 1980's the US has gone on massive borrowing.

When the US borrows, it prints TBills. TBills are what backs the dollar. Very crudely - more TBills = more liquidity.

Also, things like 'quantitative easing' have flushed markets full of liquidity, lifting stocks up - relative to all other forms of capital. Or in other words, it shifts value from other places, into the pockets of those who have most of their wealth in equities etc..

This is the tip of the iceberg.

'Very wealthy people' are usually very smart and hard-working, and about 1/2 of them 'made their own fortunes'. That's all well and good - but the system in America hugely favours capital.
Um, Poe's law?
Thanks for the thoughts.
I'm aware that most hedge funds are considered excellent if they average 6% annual return.

However did you look at my table for QQQ returns from the last 11 years? Only two years did not average more than 6%. If you bought QQQ on 1/5/2007 and held until now you'd be up a whopping 205% over 11 years. That's also not including the awesome QQQ dividend yield, or even more compounded with a DRIP (dividend re-investment).
Canadian Parliament approves bill barring forced genetic testing for insurance
Thanks for starting this conversation.

I come from a different starting point, with similar results though.

I'm very emotion driven most of the time, getting out of my way to understand how people feel or think, empathizing with their angst. However I soon learned that many of these characteristics are seen by many as 'weak', and this was impairing my ability to get social advantages.

At the same time, the process of hearing and trying to understand leverages your advantage, as you may grasp the hidden desires of people. If the other person is not engaged in the same profound way, of understanding the dialogue, you end up in a position of power.

I identified very much with the expressions 'robot' and 'playing a character 24 hours a day' because that's how I learned to be more comfortable.

It's really hard to break this chain, that keeps reinforced by the narratives you create yourself, of how you should be seen or perceived, and used as a rationalization (just or not) of happenings on your environment (e.g. as a self-fulfilling prophecy).
> You can use History PushState [0] and CustomEvents [1] to handle routing.

Can you please expand on this?
Starting salary for a beginner SWE in 1995 was $55K, 1999 was $75K, now it's $120K. It sounds good, but it turns out to be only 5% per year, every year. Still beats inflation by quite a lot.
From the outside, this whole thing appears completely SNAFU.

It's right up there with gender/religion/race discrimination, but, everybody is discussing is calmly.
> absorb

You are very good at using language. The reality is that government doesn't 'absorb' anything. Other people, some of whom can't afford to, pay for it.
Yes, I agree. I do not spend all my Saturday evenings in this state. In fact, it's quite rare, and 99% of the time, I am very content and reasonably focused on accomplishing good things for my family, friends, and society at large.

P.S. I am very sorry to hear that you lost your brother. That must be painful.
There is nothing mystical about it. It is possible for something to be genetically predetermined without being heritable in any meaningful way because the underlying genetic patterns are unstable. Going back to my windstorm example, windstorms don't last long because the energy inherent in the storm basically rips it apart.

You keep glossing over that fact for some reason.
Definitely saw similar things discussed in an East Asia -> SE Asia context and I had conflicting feelings about it as well.
Twitter never sounded like a great idea to me. Years went by and I finally made an effort in the last few months to get on it so I could follow political tweets. I found that it sucked in all the ways I thought it would suck. When you find a good tweet, you get to enjoy reading it for a few seconds, but it leaves you empty and searching for another one.

I think there's a general feeling that Twitter has not much growth potential and it's slowly becoming obsolete.

If it's filling up with bots, that strikes me as a sign of decay.
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The problem with the way poverty is measured in the US is it measures relative income. Being poor relative to other people sucks, but consider the following. You can be poor in the US, and have:

- Clean running water
- Electricity
- Heat
- Phone, now plus internet access
- Paved roads
- Access to basic health care (for now, thanks Obama!)

Disclosure: I went through bankruptcy and foreclosure, so I know exactly how much not having money sucks in this country, but I would take being broke in the US over being broke almost anywhere else, with one important caveat, if you have a long term physical or mental disability and do not have family to support you, then you are truly fucked (but that would be true anywhere outside of northern Europe or Canada as well).
I am working on a website monitoring service. I know there are already established players in this field. But I want to build something and launch it.
I'm glad to have found this comment. Most people today die today without even approaching a problem like Newton, Einstein and many others did who were obsessed with 1 single problem for years and decades.
Well the OS's do manage memory differently and would expain the high OSX memory usage.

OSX soaks up most of your ram at all times and will put programs in the background into a sleep state. When they are woken up everything is transitioned smoothly like it was already running as it's state is in ram. The OS will also free up ram if it's needed by a newly launched program. Hence when judging the available memory on OSX you look at "Memory Pressure" and not available ram.
We don't need a socialist wealth transfer system, we just need better rules.

Increasing cap gains would be a start.

Getting rid of Q/E would be another.

Making individuals liable for things they do while at companies that break the law would be another.

Hardcore jail times for white collar crime yet another.

An SEC with actual teeth.

Basic - but strong - consumer protections and easier ability to do class-action suits.

No bailing out wealthy people's stupidity with massive government intervention.

There are tons of things that can be done without even hinting at redistribution.
Iron law of prohibition
My bad/fault, I didn't look. I wasn't trying to be rude or condescending, just curious his background.
Name of your service?
Something that should be verified is whether the subject isn't capable of empathy and emotions or assume it as a way to cope with the pain implied by their existence.
Oh those liberals are coming for your guns!!! While these Repfucks silently fuck you from behind.
> who knew the great battle over privacy would be lost before it even started, because people want their toaster to go online?

I really despise this sentiment, it's quite defeatist and comes across as the "resistance is futile" talking point from the "privacy is dead" camp

What we need is some kind of spousal privilege [1] or secrecy of correspondence [2] for the internet age, ie, for IoT things. Surreptitious recordings from phones, messaging apps, "amazon echo"s, xbone cameras, etc, should be impermissible in court (or some variation on this theme). We struck a balance in the past, we can do it again.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spousal_privilege
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy_of_correspondence
Will their income move with them?
I dunno; we have access to all kinds of fascinating and exciting technologies today. You could get going with CRISPR for 5 large, if you do your research and buy secondhand equipment. We have 50F capacitors today in a package that would only fit a few mF in the past. You can order a few square inches of custom-designed PCB for about $1.00 these days, including shipping.

I guess that CRISPR requires extensive research and planning to target genes, pick out restriction enzymes, make gRNA, etc etc, but that's all freely available through public resources like the NCBI. When it comes to taking advantage of a global supply chain and centuries of incredible innovation, we are really standing on the shoulders of giants. And how long will it be before someone takes advantage of that low barrier of entry? History says: "not long."
Wow! I wonder how long it will be before genetic tests become as pedestrian as finger prints.
It's comparable, I guess?

$30k for a family of 4 is $20 per person per day. That's 8 times more than $2.50, but the cost of living in CA is (probably?) approximately 8x the cost of living of Africa, rural India, China, etc (where these 3 billion people live.)
This, my friend, is the well-worn path to the rabbit hole.
> "causing serious disruptions"

So disruptive to MIT that they didn't even notice it until JSTOR emailed.
> The biggest help has been that I no longer value social acceptance so highly.

Sure you do- hence your performance, hence your need to reply to me.

I suspect you expected a reply in the vein of mine.

EDIT: i reply => a reply
Honestly reading a bit more into the proposition I would be inclined to agree. I was also a bit reactionary in my comment, the title made it seem like Elon had said unsolicited that he would solve the problems in 100 days or it's free. It looks like the exchange was more nuanced than that, my fault for not properly reading before commenting.

In regards to my comment about artificial market policies, I was referring to the way AEMO comissions electricity to be put into the grid and how private companies can refuse the request at first (but not if AEMO pay excess to force the extra generation).

That was how we had our most recent outage, AEMO requested extra energy but the private companies did not fullfil the request as it was not cost effective.
What would be the nature of those things, given that we find no correlation at all with things in this universe?

I could believe we just aren't measuring with enough precision (and perhaps, it's impossible to do so). But that's still deterministic and inside our universe.
I don't reckon you can with the current technology, and I don't think it's a worthy investment.
"Also you really don't know what you are talking about."

Savings account (and other) rates are not low like they are because of chance or happenstance or a computer bug ... they are that low for a reason.

People are terrified. Smart, big money is terrified. Policymakers (at least thoughtful, informed ones) are terrified.

Nobody has any idea how all of this turns out. The 8 year melt-up in stocks is the result of hot, hot money dancing in and out of the market, desperately trying to eke out a return - all the while knowing that there will be a terrible, desperate scramble for seats when the music stops.

In your model of the markets that you are sketching out for us ... who is the sucker ? Who is it ? Not quite sure ?

The sucker is you.
Oh my my. Makes me want to leave everything and move to Alabama. Does it?
While we all wish there was a standard few polished tools that did everything we needed and had good documentation and testing tools, I think the reality is that what we want to do and are capable of doing using javascript is evolving so fast that the perceived chaos is inevitable. So you have to choose, what are you trying to do and why?

I think if you are a professional, you should specialize. Make a choice and stick with whatever you choose, at least for a little while. You don't need to know everything. Maybe you don't need to know the front end at all. The whole "full stack engineer" idea is nice, but I'd rather have someone who specialized in the front end working on my site than someone who has tacked it on to a bevy of other skills and is just trying to hang on. If you are a professional web developer, then learn the tools you need, keep everything as updated as possible, and try to learn one other thing that is up and coming. Don't wait to let the updates and releases pile up before you upgrade, stay on top of it, read the blogs, update your code. But don't worry about knowing all the frameworks. If you are going to be working in React for a few years, it'll be worth the struggle with the current project you're working on. You don't need to know Angular, React, and Ember, just pick one. Learn another one when your job requires it, or mess around with it on the side.

If you are a professional web developer and have not kept up, and need to know the new hotness, I recommend Ember. They are always absorbing the best features of other frameworks (they now render the DOM like React does), have developed a pretty good update process that helps you transition, and have middling good documentation. They try to keep things simple. It seems a lot less fragmented than React.

If you need to build websites, but it isn't your only job, you don't need to know a javascript framework. JS frameworks are awesome and I love them, but for 90% of stuff you are almost just as good without them and for the other 10% you still don't need them. Learn Ruby on Rails. It's been around forever, has great documentation, has everything you need from start to finish, and if you want to dip your toes in a JS framework, you can put that on top of your Rails project no problem.

If you don't need to know this stuff for work and are just trying to keep up with the field, just keep in mind that everything you learn will be obsolete in 3 years. Hopefully you are enjoying the process, because you'll do it again soon.
Stupid post extraordinaire. Respect

"You can trade $6.95 on ETRADE". Yes. Right. By the way, the fuel cost the same per gallon for a Lamborghini than for a used Toyota. Why not buy a Lamborghini then?
It's still way too complicated to make a simple non-static website, but we've made things a lot simpler at our company with Elm.