skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not ashamed of calling out an embarrassing but true problem with China, nor have I said that the US is perfect; in fact overall I feel that the US is probably on a steady decline if things don't change but that's another subject that most people on HN are more familiar with, so I'm not as inclined to comment on that.

I am not saying world changing innovation is impossible in China. I am saying that it's much harder to achieve compared to other places given the current conditions. Given China's size and access to capital, if the bad conditions that I describe were to improve there would be a 1000 more DJI level companies.

> If the only innovation is some stupid IOT microwave made (with heart emoji) in Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley has long existed before the 90's. Its tech culture is almost as old as the PRC itself if not older. This is the level of world changing innovation that I'm talking about that I feel currently eludes China: http://www.swinnovation.co.uk/2011/05/southwest-celebrates-5...

The only place China has a huge advantage in is with biotech, since Western culture as a whole has a lot reservations with its advancement in certain taboo areas.
I use them very rarely. Pocket has become my preferred source for storing, managing and sharing my links now.
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I had, increase of dose didn't make a difference.
fascinating. To me, this linguistic analysis is much more interesting than the data dumps.
It can only go unnoticed if you do not check your DNS and your certs via monitoring. You should absolutely do this, even if it is just to be sure you didn't mess something up by accident.

If a government acting malevolent on a top level domain is detected, alarm bells should ring. Avoid, avoid, avoid. There are enough other TLDs available, with other governments and different threat levels.
Self-driving cars might be the worst example. We need to hold firm on the precautionary principle in regards to them.
I've done a lot of meditation work over the years. I started with simple stillness and visualization exercises, and progressed to moving meditations. Eventually I started doing sophisticated chakra work and could manipulate emotion at will. I find it very easy to call up a state of profound mental calm if I ever want one, one came to me as I was reading the piece, like putting on an old glove.

I can see how it's easy for someone who spent much of their lives dealing with chatter could fetishize calm once they've gotten a taste of it, but like being pervasively, effusively happy / calm / cheerful all the time, (another thing I've done) it eventually gets old.

Chatter is how the mind works. Staying completely in the present all the time means you're just not exercising the part of your brain that learns. I can turn it off if I want to. But I don't. I liken it to being a dog.

Dogs, and other animals, are excessively present. They don't have intellectual thoughts because they are biologically incapable of them. They're incapable of even having awareness that intellectualism even exists.

Being aphasic is basically erasing a part of you that makes you human. Worse, you don't even have the awareness that you lost it. With our travails and struggles comes our humanity, whitewashing over our mental chatter or our emotions relegates you to a baser existence. You're "happier," but you haven't really evolved to be better in any way.
Alacritous state actors more nimble at trolling than 4chan? You decide, I don't care. My problem is that US, Chinese, Russian and Macedonian sponsorships by state actors are equally unproved - if you read into "Trolls from Olgino" reports carefully. US's sponsorship is objectively less probable: English being lingua franca hampers American wannabe "hybrid trolls" [0].

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/05/fillin...
I wish someone would port Python to BEAM. I'm actually surprised there isn't a project out there, except some really old stale project called beam.py I found on github, which hasn't been worked on since 2010.
Answered more in depth in response to sibling comment, but fuck those places! Politely decline their request (they have no right to that info), or if you're comfortable doing so, continue the lie by forging your paystub or whatever ridiculous form of proof they ask for. This is a ridiculous request and should be treated as such.
When I was taking it, it only worked first couple of days then I had to increase the dose to feel anything. Then I had a very strange effect of being tired but unable to sleep at all, as if I was sleeping awake if that makes sense. After taking 600mg to see if this fights fatigue I was not able to sleep for a couple of days.
I still have not found how to tackle the fatigue. Doctors are helpless, tried almost every medication available.
One of the reasons radicals have amassed so much power in the middle east is because they were the only ones willing to stand up to the west as the more reasonable people realized they couldn't do anything.

A bit of craziness can create very unexpected results, with a destabalization wave having many orders of effects. The strong become weak, the weak strong, the poor rich, the stupid "smart".

So much of the status quo relies on people willing to play games. The stability of a game is its degree of belief. That is, it is sustained by cooperative delusion.

Another example is that salaries are maintained by collective willing agreement on what is fair. A union, if it amasses enough believers can disrupt this game.

Every game you tear down brings you closer to reality and raw possibility. Often it is necessary because of the limited attention for games. Of course, touching reality for the self is insanely hard, nevermind established institutions. Single individuals however can amass a following, seedingargwr waves of energy tha re-evaluate the status quo, swapping what is profane and sacred.

This wave of energy is what gives us temporary clarity on reality. Like earthquakes destroying a city, reminding us that the universe doesn't particularly care about our games.

One of the biggest games that is currently unravelling is the West as a beacon of innovation and morality. The response to 9/11 was exactly what terrorists wanted. And things like brexit and trump don't particularly help. From a GDP perspectice, each citizen in the US is worth many times a citizen from China or India, but this is only the result of a long historical game that impoverished these former world powers.

The natural order of things is that each human provides the same value, the reason this doesnt happen is due to resource flown restriction along lines of military strength.
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This is method acting. We all do it. It's the major self-help strategy. And it's very useful in developing personas for compartmentalization.
>How not to create traffic jams: Don’t let people park for free

This title is horrible because it uses a double negation. Here's one without it:

>How to create traffic jams: Let people park for free

Doesn't that read much less confusing?
The question is about whether the child will develop symptoms later in life, as the defective DNA was not 100% removed.

If he does not die by age 3, it is an improvement. Duh.
The Stunning Early Infographics and Maps of the 1800s
This is only tangentially related, but can you determine what was the highest percentage of the U.S. that was enslaved at a given point? My best approximation is the slave pop. topped out at 10% ~1861, which sounds like a lot less than "the majority."
I recommend against ASN.1 as well. However, Galois Inc did a high-assurance implementation of a good chunk of it:

http://www.ieee-stc.org/proceedings/2006/pdfs/AA1414.pdf
remember that 1000s of paid russians were used to interrupt our election on sites like reddit. wouldn't be surprised if a few leaked to this site. especially with green accounts.
Yes, the child is better with the procedure than without. The "questions" that "remain" are basically people who don't have to live with dire genetic defects being perfectionistic asshats. This frequently screws people over who do have serious genetic disorders or even non-genetic but life-threatening conditions.

It is not uncommon for a new drug to fail to get through FDA approval because of concerns over side effects under conditions where the people being denied the drug are going "AAAUGH!!! Let me live long enough to have to worry about your silly side effects!!!!!"

They have yet to work out really good rubrics for this stuff.
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SSLKEYLOGFILE is the one that a few implementations use.
On one of Joe Rogans Podcasts, Neil Degrasse Tyson had said that there is a very good chance we will trap ourselves on Earth before we can become a true space faring civilization.

Sad when you think about it.
Systems and incentives within them help explain this. Society at large doesn't incentivize the type 1 errors you described. Ben Horowitz created a 2x2 to describe this.[1][2]

[1] http://imgur.com/wmsy3hV
[2] http://a16z.com/2011/08/07/the-fine-line-between-fear-and-co...
I think it's the systemic approach that's the problem.
If my guess that they use their POCSAG system is right, they have four transmitter sites licensed to 350 watts each. This is beyond inexpensive equipment, but not beyond what you can buy from a ham radio shop and then 'unlock', for example. But of course it's a paging system, so the goal is strong one-way coverage to small devices in buildings and such. The sirens are all outdoors and probably all have generous fixed antennas installed, so you wouldn't need nearly as much power to get a message to them.

I assumed that the hackers injected their command via radio, which I still think is likely based on getting the FCC involved, but with POCSAG involved there's definitely another possibility. A lot of pager systems might have a fairly exposed way to send in messages - a phone number you can call, an email address, perhaps a poorly secured web interface. The hackers might have figured out what pager numbers the sirens respond to by listening in and then sent their message via "legitimate" means like an email-to-pager gateway.
If you are college educated divorce rates plummets. Same for marrying later in life. +the 50% stat is quite weighted by people with multiple divorces. The average HN reader probably has an 80% shot at lifelong marriage.
CBOR is MessagePack. At least cbor-ruby started with the MessagePack sources. There's nothing at all complicated about MessagePack, there are a few types, they all have small prefixes, end of format. The story is that Carsten took MessagePack, wrote a standard and added some things he wanted, and called it something else. I personally think this is pretty bad faith, but I admit I haven't been involved in the community or discussions, so it's possible there are some things I don't know.

Disclaimer: I wrote and maintain a MessagePack library.
We have it loaded on a Dgraph instance. In case you want to play around with it at https://play.dgraph.io
Very cool. Thanks for the data points.
> Amazing that every sentence you wrote is objectively wrong.

As I mentioned in my original post, most people, like yourself, will reject these very non-intuitive conclusions, probably indefinitely.

Regardless, I'll point out that many of your counter-arguments to the parent comment are wrong (not saying I agree with all of his description, either).

> A self driving car could navigate the world without being conscious at all.

How do you define conscious? 'Feeling' just like you do? I think many modern AI's could be said to experience a different, simple form of consciousness as they process inputs. Granted, it's not useful unless you have an AI that is also more generally self-aware and communicates with us. But regardless, your hyperbolic example equated driving a car on streets with "living in the world," which you were replying to (which is an objectively ridiculous comparison).

> We don't even know what goes on inside one neuron, let alone the billions of networks.

Considering what NN-based deep learning has accomplished with relatively small numbers of simulated neurons with relatively simple models, I think it's safe to say that a single neuron is not as complex and mysterious as you may think.

> No, this is just a function of part of the brain, which we can be aware of through consciousness.

This is your idea of an objective truth? This is your opinion, which, someday, we may be able to prove is objectively wrong.
Since nobody has mentioned it yet, my first introduction to that = this; was JavaScript: The Good Parts,
Unearthing the Excellence in JavaScript by Douglas Crockford

Well worth a read for understanding the differences and relative powers of a prototypical language and how to get it to behave almost like a classical one. I think the one big thing it missed was immediately envoked function expressions.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/mobile/9780596517748.do
I'm just here for the pictures.
I was looking at this too, surprised it was not fixed on the HN side yet considering how often submission titles get updated here.
sounds like a regressive tax that keeps poor people from visiting public places.
> how much easier is D than Rust

https://z0ltan.wordpress.com/2017/02/21/goodbye-rust-and-hel...

D gets tricky for resource management and avoiding GC.

> how much safer is D than C++.

Bounds checking and default initialization alone fix most memory errors you may have in C++.
Yes - if you want to use this inside a callback within your function.
They're just fine in the singular. I thought this too for a while, but was kindly corrected, so I'm paying it forward :)
How to avoid the culture of male programmers – JAXenter
The US Border Patrol is trying to build face-reading drones – The Verge
I took Modafinil 200mg for a few weeks, definitely felt a boost but couldn't stand the headaches. Also Modafinil made me more sharp during the day but my work hours got too short, my brain was dead after 8 hrs of intense work. Then I went to a psychiatrist and got diagnosed with ADD. Now I take methylphenidate/ritalin 10mg, I split the tablet in two and take one starting my day and one after lunch. It's magic. I can now work for 10+ hrs a day and sometimes easily push for 14 hrs. It's really impressive.
You can absolutely use better keys than RSA 1024 for DNSSEC, see

http://dnsviz.net/d/sys4.de/dnssec/

It will take a while until everyone has upgraded, but so far no fast attack on RSA 1024 has been reported...

Even elliptic curve algorithm based keys are possible now (and recommended because of their small size, which is good for one packet UDP answers, which is not possible with RSA 2048)

See ALG13 etc:

https://www.iana.org/assignments/dns-sec-alg-numbers/dns-sec...
What's the difference between Cayley and Neo4J?
British native here. Do you not watch much TV or many movies?
Non-conformism fuels innovation, in that conformity prevents it.

"Best practices" and "state-of-the-art" are usually appallingly bad, but conformity is the norm https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments
"Actually it's probably a false flag to make Russia look bad." - throwaway71958, created 8 days ago

2017 in a nutshell right there.
Don’t expect the White House to back new privacy rules anytime soon – Recode
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I'm not sure how you come to that conclusion, let alone your confidence in it.

A corporation allows for both pooled and limited risk.

This permits a civilization to take on large projects such as building a railroad or a refinery - activities that were both expensive and financially risky.

The only other alternative is the State, but then that involves taxes and keeping the populace happy, which tends to impede progress. Things like the Coliseum get built instead of railroads.

Individuals have high tendency not to do it because once people have attained a certain amount of wealth, they are more interested in protecting against losses than taking on expensive risky projects. Daniel Kahneman wan a Nobel prize for work related to this kind of decision making (http://www.apa.org/monitor/dec02/nobel.aspx).
Here is an explanation, it's the top when when I googled "easy explanation of functional programming."

https://maryrosecook.com/blog/post/a-practical-introduction-...

Please read it. Do you know functional programming now? Do you get it? Do you get the point of it? Did you "grok" the whole reason that the functional paradigm exists?

In my opinion that article fails to meet the test. In its very first paragraph it calls out some negative approaches that assume too much or are too hard; in the second paragraph it does the same thing.

>The assertion that no one is able to explain functional programming is rather extreme and doesn't pass the sniff test.

It's certainly easy to falsify my claim. You can do so with a single link.

So if anyone is able to explain functional program in a way that makes it clear and easy, and really lets people grok its purpose and approach, where is that explanation? Where are the benefits that people reap by reading it?

The fact is, the resources I have reviewed fail that metric. The people who teach it aren't actually able to explain it easily and well. You suggest that "perhaps [I] mean to say that it is very difficult to explain" -- maybe so, but that is still a reason why it is not true that if someone understands something, then they can also explain it. Here we have a clear example where this is not the case. There are also many more examples in the arts and sciences. Not everything can be explained. That doesn't mean nobody knows it. Therefore, the "if you know it -> you can explain it" claim is false. QED.
Hoping more and more people start to show their support for services such as this one by joining and bringing friends. They are running circles around Signal lately.
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Ask HN: How much do you make?
How much do you make in SF/Seattle/NYC/Vancouver? What is your household income?

Edit: Deleted a lot of personal information and also changed theme of the question.
HN is by now a well known forum, and exerting influence over its participants would be valuable for many parties; including but not necessarily limited to state actors. Hence, it's fair to assume that there are comments made in bad faith - particularly in highly visible political threads like this one.

Identifying specific malicious actors (and their origin) is tricky from a reader's POV, so the best I can personally do is not let ridiculous statements go unanswered. Ignorance is more common than malice, but I'm sure there's a bit of both in here today.
It's usually pretty easy to tell the difference if you're a human and not a computer program.

If I say "smsm42's mom is fat", or "smsm42 is an idiot" that's trash talking.

If I say "smsm42 defrauded the US government by awarding his mother-in-law a pension for watching his kids", or "smsm42 passed a law that give Muslims free health insurance because their religion prevents them from paying for it", or "smsm42 wasn't born in the country he says he was born in and I have proof that his birth certificate is fake"--that's fake news.
Lobbying is a abomination, and the argumentation for it not sound at all.

If you want a additional voice for the economic class within a democracy, assign them a fixed percentage of power (25 % percent of the seats in parliament e.g.), and let them vote every day in secret within that percentage with the taxes paid to the whole state .
Suddenly, lobbyism does not look that necessary at all, does it? One can design systems that channel corrosive elements into a productive whole.
Can anyone give concrete examples of datasets that are better suited for a graph database and why?
>We don't even have a proper explanation of how neurons themselves work; there are some processes we have no idea how they are possible (vast amount of ions passing through membranes) as well as some local protein computations that go against perceptron simplification operating on simple analog electricity.

I think neuron function pretty well characterized. What about ions passing through membranes do we not understand?

The exact details of all neuron types and protein interactions are definitely not known but basic function is understood.
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> I feel like I am paid poor man's salary despite being knowledgeable.

Trying living on 25k in Los Angeles.
I think the best solution is for employees to drive the unique parts of their routes (home to suburban transit stations with parking structures), and then ride fast, frequent, reasonably comfortable train service for the "trunk" part of the route.

Use cars where they're the best option. Use public transit where it's the best option. Take 5 minutes to transfer in between.
Why? Shouldn't the bar be "better" instead of "perfect"? If we can drop car deaths by a large percentage by allowing self driving cars that kill a lot, but not as much as humans, shouldn't we?
You can copy&paste config for freedesktop.org (and other popular git repos) from here:

https://github.com/jwilk/https-everygit/blob/master/gitconfi...
Cellphones don't have the sort of negative externalities that cars do, and there are no statutes that actively make externalities worse, either.
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws (The first of his three laws, the third of which is the magic-tech one)
NONE of you guys read poetry? This is a bend on "America", by Ginsberg. All coding and no poetry makes Jack a dull boy. Read it.
just because these things can conceive consciousness does not make them consciousness.

unless you can tell me exactly why and when in these processes consciousness arises, were not having the same conversation.
I hope she is OK now. I was horrified to see that certain people on IRC were egging her on, when this all started.
So if the child lives to age 53, but after age three it is a life full of agony and tremendous burden to society that's an improvement in your book?
How much do you make in SF/Seattle/NYC/Vancouver? What is your household income?

I will suggest you delete everything but the above. You will get better answers. Otherwise, you can probably expect a lot of snark and not much real information.
I don't own a TV. :) I do watch some movies now and again though, especially when flying long haul but I never had one that mentioned those. Off the top of my head I can only think of 24 as a candidate but I never watched that.
Flow is quite good, but over half of our React codebase is components connected to Redux or Redux Form and unfortunately there are no Flow types for the versions that we use, so type inference is very weak at some points.

Besides, Flow has a very ambitious target of delivering types for APIs which were not written with types in mind at all. I thought I'd be able to recreate some of the Elm's type safety with Flow, but that's just not possible and I doubt it'll ever be. But then again, these two projects have very different objectives.