skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I said in my post, I'm not comparing him in the sense that "Thiel is Stalin". I'm saying that you can compare anyone to Stalin on a grand spectrum. I invoked him because he's someone that, broadly speaking, people accept is a "monster". He's the conclusive, non-debatable end of the monster spectrum, if you will.

I'm not suggesting in any way that his actions are on the same level as Stalin's, but where is the "monster line" drawn? I don't see how you could ever answer that question without factoring in someone's own political opinions. So I don't know how you could do a politically neutral examination of Thiel's supposed monstrousness.
I imagine NASA became a lot more risk averse after actually losing astronauts in the Challenger and Columbia disasters.
I've rated thousands of movies and shows on Netflix, not just what I streamed or received from Netflix on disc but anything I've seen anywhere that I can recall and came across on their site. Having rated something is also a reminder that I've seen it. I didn't want to lose all that so I downloaded the pages [0]. I'll figure out how to scrape them and put them in a better format some other time.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/netflix/comments/5zzc4g/batch_downl...
1994: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_Population_Survey#1994...
Please don't use free VPNs. Good VPNs that don't keep logs are not expensive, usually a few bucks a month.
That is the correct analysis in my view. There was, in fact, an explicit policy decision in the 1970s to realign the Democratic party with the professional class. The party now stands for doctors and lawyers and tax analysts, and the like, well-heeled professionals of all stripes. Basically the 5%. Their ideology is now firmly neo-liberalism, meaning free market liberalism welded to shallow, cynical identity politics, exemplified by Cory Booker and his slimy collaboration with the nutcase Betsy DeVos. Hell, it's looking more and more likely a corporate stalking horse like Booker will end up being the 2020 presidential candidate. Iron law of institutions. It's so depressing.
Actually, I can think of individual cases where "voters" could mean one of each of the following depending on context:

- People who voted in the last election

- People who have voted previously in an election

- People who are capable of voting (citizens of voting age not otherwise constrained from voting).

It's probably usually obvious which one is meant in a conversation, but there are also likely cases where it can be somewhat ambiguous.
That's a really interesting idea, and a possibility. It's definitely something I've thought about a lot.

Quite a few communities have reached out about doing study groups, and I'm excited to hear their feedback.
Our top marginal rate is 39.4%, not 38. And that's only Federal income tax. Add in 3.8% Medicare and top marginal rates at the state / city level approaching 15% for some locations and top marginal income tax rate on earned income approaches 60% for some (wealthy) individuals. Not to mention sales tax, property tax, capital gains, etc.

Whether that's too high or too low is a separate discussion. But saying we're at 38% just isn't true.
Google, or go talk to successful CEOs. You will be surprised how many come from hard backgrounds, difficult early lives, and financial hardship.
Do you think obesity is not significantly increased by overmedication?
No, it more accurate to say that the "Left and Right - A Journal of Libertarian Thought" was an attempt by libertarians to highlight the fact that the one dimensional left/right line is obviously a very incomplete model of political thought. As your link quotes from the opening editorial:

"Our title, Left and Right, reflects our concerns in several ways. It reveals our editorial concern with the ideological; and it also highlights our conviction that the present-day categories of left and right have become misleading and obsolete, and that the doctrine of liberty contains elements corresponding with both contemporary left and right. This means in no sense that we are middle-of-the-roaders, eclectically trying to combine, or step between, both poles; but rather that a consistent view of liberty includes concepts that have also become part of the rhetoric or program of right and of left. Hence a creative approach to liberty must transcend the confines of contemporary political shibboleths."

Those who talk about "US-style right-wing libertarianism" should realize that this is a too simplistic label as Rothbard tried to say decades ago. For example:

• not only has the libertarian party always supported gay marriage but the first presidential candidate was an openly gay man

• libertarians are opposed to the war on drugs

• libertarians opposed the Viet Nam war

• libertarians generally favor regulated legalized prostitution

etc etc etc

Whatever "right wing" is supposed to mean, I doubt it means these positions.
That's for Going to the Sun road. They don't usually punch a hole through it until May or June, either.
I agree. I even want a couple more increments between 2,3, and 4. There are a lot of movies I see that I think are better or worse than a 3 rating but don't justify a 2 or a 4. I feel there's a lot of room for nuance around the middle area.
I agree that performance is a pretty integral part of the experience. But I think the way it's being brought up in this thread is a bit disingenuous. Most people that are doing so seem to be glossing over the fact that the stutter is

1) rare

2) mostly resolved by the day 1 patch that Nintendo released
Yes. A chess AI defeating Kasparov also always comes up as an example of Moore's law, but creating an AI capable of using bruteforce to examine all plausible moves dozens of plies deep into tree of potential games is not the same as creating one capable of making more strategic assessments of a board needed to win games such as go or Texas hold'em.

Kurzweil has done great work mapping out when AI is likely to reach each of these milestones and so far has been far more successful in his public predictions than anyone else.
I think it's hard. With YC, the ongoing benefit from the founders' end is really the network. I think a franchise type model would really dilute that, and you'd end up with the "real" YC and everything else.

To provide an example, consider law schools and the ABA versus medical schools and the AAMC:

There are many ABA-accredited law schools, from which a degree will allow you to sit for the bar exam in a given state. The "real" law schools (let's say the Top 14 for now, with full disclosure that I attended a much shittier law school) provide a very similar education to everyone else even down through Tier 4. The network gets you hired into the big firms with greater ease from HLS and the rest of the Top 14. Everyone else has the same law license (provided they pass the bar), but the opportunities are markedly different for most. And before any fellow Tier 3/4'ers want to flame me for this, come on, you 100% know it's true. I think I've done pretty well, but I also stopped practicing law to do it.

Now, an AAMC-accredited education, on the other hand, provides a lot more parity out of the gate when it comes to opportunity. Med school slots roughly match up with the number of residency slots in a given year, and more or less everyone matches. Not everyone gets to do Ortho/Plastic, but that has more to do with how well you did in med school, versus which med school you attended. The school itself still factors for some specialties, but not nearly to the degree that it would in law. You can be a pretty average med student and still walk out with a residency, license and reasonably good income.

YC is more like #2.
He's made supremely misogynist statements. He helped elect Trump. He put a publisher out of business by bankrolling lawsuits against them. He literally wants to use he blood of younger people to live longer. Go read about him some more if you're curious. He's not your friend.
Hypothesizing about someone's state of mind is not projecting. Projecting is when you believe other people think/feel in the same way that you do. Since he was criticizing this belief, it is clear that it is not his own. Therefore, not projecting.
>Now what will blockchains change?

Blockchain applications can differ from Bitcoin. I think you are aiming your comment more at Bitcoin--or rather not even that but decentralized currencies in general. In that case, a possible change hoped for by many is the removal of central places of trust that can fail. For example, Satoshi Nakamoto
used the text, "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" for the Genesis Block—it was because of a concern for placing trust in something central like the banks.
A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms
> how about bringing back manufacturing jobs for a start?

This isn't going to happen, at least not anytime soon, though there are attempts to try[0]. America doesn't have the infrastructure to bring back manufacturing things like the iPhone[1].

> how about deregulation so employers can hire more people?

Deregulation of what exactly? What's the regulation that's prohibiting "hiring more people"?

> how about lowering taxes?

On who/what? Citizens? Corporations? What's fair? How do you increase military spending, then, if you lower taxes and are already slashing other budgets? [2]

> how about enforcing legal immigration so that working class people stand a chance of getting a job?

Can you provide examples of un-enforcement? As I understand it, most illegal immigration comes from people who immigrate legally on a green card that expires and just don't leave.[3]

[0] https://www.macrumors.com/2016/11/17/made-in-america-iphones...

[1] http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20120123/apples-jobs-to-ob... (There are better sources out there)

[2] http://www.npr.org/2017/03/16/520305293/trump-to-unveil-hard...

[3] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/02/03/homeland-sec...
I've always understood it to be, simultaneously, jokingly the former and seriously the latter.
Mere conduits have no memory —they wouldn't keep logs, let alone sell them to third parties.

If the ISP wants to "simply be a conduit", I can only applaud, as long as they follow the rules of common carriers they just implied by saying so: no snooping, no filtering, no selective throttling, no looking at TCP packets to look for a "25" (SMTP requests) and block them…

If they do that, they don't have to follow any privacy rule: they already respect mine.
Spotify reordered my lists. It frustrates me just less than the chore of fixing them would, which is a special class of irritation.
OK, I'm done debating this with you.

You seem to have an unfalisfiable belief that our mediocre health outcomes are due to problems in our general culture. In other words, all of the good outcomes are due to us having the highest quality healthcare, and all of the bad outcomes are due to culture.

I disagree. I believe that a) our healthcare system is part of our general culture and b) deficiencies in our healthcare system contribute to our health outcomes.

I don't think we'll bridge that gap in the HN comment section. Have a great weekend. Cheers.
If we wanted to be bombarded with petulant broken record temper tantrums in the comment section, we'd go to reddit. Please delete all of your comments before the window of opportunity closes.
Since elections in our current environment are turnout-based, in terms of gauging popular support, "eligible voter population" is probably the right metric. By that metric, Trump got just over a quarter of the vote --- and, by any metric, less than Clinton.

Since some fraction of eligible non-voters wouldn't have voted no matter who the candidate was, the truth of the matter is obviously somewhere in between a quarter and a half. But there's no sense in which "half the vote" isn't misleading.
I was actually about to make a comment to this effect. They took a legitimate disaster and handled it perfectly; as the old saying goes: "No publicity is bad publicity." They've taken the time over the past few weeks to constantly release relevant blog posts, which is good for two reasons: 1.) they reassure customers that they're taking steps to prevent the problem in the future, and 2.) they're capitalizing off natural curiosity to boost brand awareness. (Although maybe a bit too much, according the minor grumbling in this comment section. ;) )

I've been a bit wishy-washy on GitLab for awhile, but honestly, I'm thinking I might give them a shot sometime soon.
It's not even a fear: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/our-miserable-21... (and https://www.bostonfed.org/-/media/Documents/economic/conf/gr...) The overwhelming majority of prime-age men on welfare spend most of their time on consuming multimedia, doped up on pain medication like Oxycontin. As beautiful as I personally find the ideal of letting people be free from economic concern beyond their basics (if they want more they can get a job) and free to pursue inexpensive but time-consuming creative passions and work on bettering themselves (it's my own dream I aim to achieve by becoming effectively retired in my early 30s), it's not a realistic outcome for most and can't be used as the basis of argument for why the working class should thus support people whose first complaint against work is simply lack of desire.
You've mischaracterized it as a strawman of "message board nerds", but it's actually a respectable philosophical distinction between purely executable semantics and ambient authority.

Executable semantics are more scalable, being a core innovation that allowed the Internet to flourish - eg a router doesn't care about the intent of a packet, but only its destination address. (ISPs are doing their best to undermine the e2e principle, attempting to infer intent to extract more value than can be gotten from commodity service, but I digress).

If we want to follow the implications of executable semantics, then an epileptic should have software which prevents harmful signals from being shown on their screen. This seems onerous, except for the ultimate alternative being a single world jurisdiction to enable post-facto prosecution of cross-border "intent", and destruction of Internet anonymity to effect this.

A signal filter also seems to be a more practical device than say a content filter to block scams for a cognitively-impaired older person, which is the accepted state of affairs even for intranational snail mail (eg Publishers' Clearinghouse).

(note: I've said nothing condoning the actual act of attempting to give a person a seizure, but only how we should analyze the systems that have given rise to this capability. The simplistic reaction of focusing blame on the (essentially stochastic) perpetrator is helping to push us down the path of unsustainable centralization)
Interesting. I pretty much only rate 1s and 5s, hoping that this will influence what content is recommended to me.
I agree.

I understand paying remote workers less than someone on site since there may be productivity gains that come from that. However, remote is remote. Once someone is a remote employee it should make no difference if they're in Manhattan or Milwaukee.
Fedict midleware is no longer supported. What now?
As you may know, FEDICT middleware is no longer going to be supported next month. We have developed an alternative application that allows your services to continue to read electronic identification cards. It's a cross-platform, cross-browser and transparent secure element, which allows you to have a non-Java applet solution to read electronic cards, such as the Belgium eID, Mobi or bank cards, regardless of the reader it's being used. It has a very short time-to-market and a seamless integration with other applications.
Test it for free at https://goo.gl/ll13tB
Integration documentation at https://goo.gl/oOb4wC and https://goo.gl/19sS6L
Of course you shouldn't use a free VPN for anything sensitive, but to obscure your browsing data (like what you search for or what media you consume) it's completely fine.
Why is everyone discussing the grammar and no one questioning why laws have such silly exceptions? Why should there be an exception for the packaging of perishable goods? It is not like the goods cannot be packaged if the workers are paid extra for working over-time. And it is not like a well planned logistics chain should necessarilly be forced to have workers working overtime. So really, this exception is just a gift to a specific industry.
If I recall, quite a few astronauts were killed on the way to the moon.
If someone in establishment media wrote with such contempt for any aggrieved minority in the US, for instance the millions of black Americians that destroy themselves, their families and their communities with drugs, alcohol and aggressive anti-intellectualism, they'd be drummed out of the elite bubble as 'racist.' But you can shit on white trash if you want; the Internet will cite your hate for years when you single out those people.

How brave.
Implementing the game is a good proof of the documentation ;-)

I'm obviously biased in favor of efforts like this. Part of the reason is that I'm going through another DOS game with a disassembler and trying to understand, document, and reimplement the game engine (it's going glacially; I'm no reverse-engineering expert, and I don't have much experience in assembly). To me, it's a fun subject for a hobby. And I don't like that a game that would run on a 25MHz 386 natively won't run at full speed in Dosbox in a computer built 10 years after the game's release (or on my various ARM machines, a modded game console, etc). Something feels "wrong" about that. I have the same feeling about the game being unmodifiable. I've seen how much came out from the open-sourcing of various id engines, and it would be great to see modifications, enhancements, and remixes of the other classics, too.
Not necessarily. I strongly suspect (but can't prove) that they sell their rating data back to the studios.
interesting thing to say, but did you plan for it to mean something in this context? :)
What is Entropy? scientists answer the question. A must read
I am not sure this is even response-worthy, but why not. All I said was that if his "monster" label was based solely upon Thiel's support of Donald Trump, then that is a ridiculous statement because he is then calling all supporters of Donald Trump monsters. That is hardly a straw man argument. Perhaps you should look up Euclid's Common Notions. Specifically this one: "Things which equal the same thing also equal one another."
I think it would be a very hard problem. Take a look at some pictures of cars in traffic-- the seatbelt is extremely hard to see. If it were doable, it would probably take more optics engineers than ML scientists; glare and lack of contrast look like the biggest problems.
Exactly one: water/ice
The Dutch internet market is not really comparable to the US market. We do not have data limits for cable/dsl/fiber and I've never had issues downloading torrents at full speed, even before the net neutrality law.
>The article mentions "Welcome to the NHK"[1], which is an unusually bitter anime.

Say what you will, but I found it to be excellent.
You're missing the point - what's taught isn't just of monetary value. Schooling lots of foreigners in The American Way surely has a non zero value.
And how does a period of 10 years of successfully plodding along in "any" profession, perhaps writing code for an ad platform that enables $people to sell some $shit to $other_people, that are in the habit of buying things they don't need, make a person great?

Doing work does not make a person great. It makes a person fed, clothed and housed, if the pay is decent. But that's about it.
No, it's really not. Free VPNs aren't free for the sake of it; as the old adage goes "if you're not the customer you're the product".
Monitoring MongoDB performance metrics (WiredTiger)
It sounds like you took the wrong job. I was surrounded by curious tinkerers in school, and I'm very happy to say that at my first two jobs I have been surrounded by curious tinkerers.
yes, look at the wealth attrition rate. most wealth is lost by the third generation because of lack of responsibility and entitlement.
Refactor code while no one else is working on that module, and ask everyone to pull/update once you are done so they start their changes post-refactoring.
But you can't be present lawfully after unlawful entry, that is the point.
Are any of housing, hygeine products, food, clothing , transportation or internet expensive, or is it just healthcare costs that are out of control?
Millennials Might Break America's Internet
When I had my first IT job in ~1991 I caused millions of pounds worth of loss to my employer, a well known retailer in the UK, due to a bug I made.

My boss covered my arse. I love that man, and i've never made a serious mistake since, as it's made me risk averse.

Gitlab did the right thing here by owning the situation and making it public.
I'm not quite sure I follow...You're saying the govt should break up monopolies more (I agree), but without the govt we'd have fewer monopolies?

So far as I know, pure free-market capitalism always tends towards monopolies or oligarchies absent some level of intervention. It is simply too hard to be a well-informed consumer, and we consumers prioritize our short term convenience over societies (or even just our own) long term benefit.
> I dare say that a Infocom's Zork is a better game than many of today's triple-A FPS shooters or whatnot! Graphics aren't everything;

Interesting point of view, certainly. But the majority of game purchasers do care about graphics. Great graphics suggest (often incorrectly, I'll admit!) great production quality, and in the minds of many this is a 1:1 mapping to the monetary value of a product.

So selling a game that's accessible via a URL is a bit of a barrier on the commercial front. I guess itch.io works here.

On the technical/noncommercial side, for more high fidelity games I'd argue guaranteeing a stable framerate (and not having the rest of the browser chug while the game's running) and being able to use multi-threading would be a great help.

Once WebAssembly gets threading support, I'd expect to start seeing more intensive games. Web workers are... okay, but hardly convenient. I genuinely believe multi-threading support is more important than a better graphics API. (Typical engines cross-compiled from C++ then basically only have to deal with targetting mobile-quality graphics with a few edges knocked off & workarounds.)

As for Zork: You don't need WebGL for Zork. (Indeed, embedding text in a WebGL scene (as opposed to overlaying it) is very hard work.)

So WebGL is a suitable technology when you need interactive 3D that can't be prerendered, but you don't need impressive 3D; you're happy with results from a decade ago with worse performance. It's not a bad prospect for me as a prospective indie developer, but the tooling is noticeably more difficult than in native solutions.

And the WebGL API is much harder to use than glBegin(), glVertex3f()..., glEnd() from the bad old days... but that's just the influence of OpenGL ES.

Suggested path: write something in C against bgfx ( https://bkaradzic.github.io/bgfx/examples.html#metaballs ), then pray to kripken. And if Emscripten doesn't work just put some binaries on itch.io. Even the subset of gamers interested in indie games expect to download binaries.

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Edit: You say you wish you had the talent to work in this field. If you're a fan of IF, you certainly have the technical talent to do that :) And writing is fun, but extremely time-consuming. Good grief it's time-consuming.

If you can deal with some mildly heinous gameplay, consider buying & playing Sunless Sea. The writing is transcendental, and the universe is brilliant.