skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that everything that enables depression is almost always otherwise an objective good. Internet access enables depression. Having shelter that won't be taken away from you for lack of monthly payment enables depression. A family willing to take care of you enables depression. Remote work enables depression. Etc.

Depression, in this way, is kind of a weird bogeyman of an argument: its prevalence would be increased by anything that makes life easier. And so, naturally, the solution is reactionary: eliminate depression by eliminating progress! (This is the same sentiment behind the phrase "idle hands are the Devil's workshop"—made clearer with the knowledge that Christianity considers sloth–or in other translations, sadness—a sin.)
You're right. I'll get that fixed up. What iOS device and browser are you using?

By the way, that is a problem in the implementation of the site, not Wing :)
You are simply and flatly factually wrong about this, sorry. I encourage you to check out the textbook definition of the Fed as well as technocracy. You can also Google 'differences b/w a technocracy and democracy.' The Fed is widely accepted by every piece of academic literature Ive ever come across to be a technocracy, and that is the word we use to describe it. Also, the EU can and should be thought of at least being largely technocratic as well.
There's a few things that stood out to me that you didn't address:

The noted documents that Levandowski "exported to a personal device" happened 22 and 15 days prior to his quitting without notice.

The titles of documents have no bearing on how how damaging they are. This was an assertion of what happened to those documents and when, not what their contents were and how important they were. That should come later. The names themselves should not factor for or against at this point, so it's just as bad to assume they imply innocence as that they imply guilt.

I'm not sure why you are impugning the expert's testimony, I haven't seen anything to imply they were lax in their investigations or were incorrect in their assertions. They testified as to facts they were able to ascertain as to movement of internal private documents, and only as far as they could confirm, which is exactly what they should do. How damaging those documents are and how related they are to the case at hand is for the lawyers to argue.

This is not the entirety of Google case, this is the testimony from one expert witness. How these details interact with other testimony and facts to form a narrative is the important part. A witness could testify "I know nothing" and that doesn't necessarily mean there's no case, just that the witness in question doesn't have much to add. Making an assertion that there is no case because a single witness wasn't as persuasive as you thought they should be is odd.
It looks like it is believed to be effective at crossing the blood-brain-barrier. Is that equivalent to acting just in the brain? No idea, but it seems unlikely.
You can also get something like this:

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Simpson-Strong-Tie-Workbench-or-S...

Comes with brackets and screws for all the joints. You just buy the wood and make the cuts. I got some thick MDF for the top and shelf instead of plywood, which is something I definitely recommend if you're going to use it as a desk-type surface instead of a working surface.
It's a lot more likely that your insurance company will come down on your rock climbing, horse riding, vodka drinking, etc. than that government will do so. Rationing will happen by bankruptcy and/or death.
(1) When most of your existing operations are already in CA, moving to a different state isn't exactly trivial. And if the primary reason you're moving is to enforce a non-compete, I bet it'd make recruitment of the better engineers more difficult.

(2) Even if Google did their engineering in another state, let's say the engineer in question then moves to CA. There's a good chance that CA law would still apply.
Considering everyone knew this was coming and had time to prepare, can you point out how many blue states had legislation for single payer health systems ready to go?

Either democrats don't seem to want it or they just want a nice wedge issue without actually doing anything.
The "supply" of medical care does seem quite tight to me, but increasing spending doesn't necessarily lead to rationing, it depends on whether there is existing underutilized supply and how difficult it is to increase the supply.

Like for existing drugs that are profitable but expensive to produce. Our industrial capacity is such that producing those drugs doesn't really impose any medical opportunity cost.
It is a political goal. It maybe shouldn't be a divisive, partisan political goal for the reasons you describe, but in fact it is that, too.
It's exactly this type of thinking that lead to the decline of Route 128 in the post-war years and the rise of Silicon Valley. If Google were to do this, they'd be cutting off their nose to spite their face. They could not enforce such a contract with existing employees and all new employees would look at such a provision and join an employer who doesn't do this.

The truth is that Google lost this market (or never really had it to begin with). At best they will end up like Microsoft, simply extracting rent via their patent licensing program.

For more information about Route 128 vs Silicon Valley, I cannot recommend the book Regional Advantage by AnnaLee Saxenian enough. It's a bit dated and academic, but it's fascinating if you want to understand why the tech industry in and around Boston lost to Silicon Valley despite having a huge head start.
I think you're right. I am dual nationality US/UK so sometimes I tend to cross my metaphors. Perhaps a better, British example would be the word "motor" instead of "auto". Used in words like "motorway", but I've never heard anyone actually use it to mean "car" outside of 80s cockney rap.

(Which is apparently a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'Ullo_John!_Gotta_New_Motor%3F)
One thing I appreciated about Obamacare is how its structure flowed pretty logically from the value, or moral axiom, that people should not be able to go bankrupt from health care costs alone.

That's also the kind of value that people can disagree on, though. For as much as we might believe that it's unfair for someone to do all the right things and then still end up with the wrong illness and go bankrupt, for others that is the natural order of things.

Although it's worth pointing out that it was still possible (pre-ACA) to go bankrupt from health care costs even if you had done well at amassing capital.

Altogether I think that's why so many people see this as deeply distorted and unfair, the sort of thing that government should smooth out.
You are not in a position to talk about people on high horses after posting that. There is quite a lot of research from the behavioral economics field (tl;dr: most people are somewhat irrational) that undercuts the EMH.

Also, there's a lot of straw man argumentation in your post. Consumers can and do make sacrifices of utility in line with their values, even if such behavior is a standard deviation or two outside the norm. And while your argument for market making is sound, do you really need to make that trade within milliseconds, or would you be equally happy as long as it closed within a couple of minutes? You seem oblivious to the possibility that your stock might be falling due to a liquidity event caused by a race condition, for example, although in cases such as the 'flash crash' such trades are usually unwound afterwards, presumably at considerable expense.
Seif Protocol Version 0 [pdf]
My brother sent me a link to this crowdfunding campaign. It's intriguing that I might be able to invest in something like this at such an early stage. As far as the science goes, it feels like it could be a solid investment, and if they can fine tune the process, surely there could be other uses for thin sheets of silicon outside of just solar panels (vapor barriers? semiconductors?).

As for the financial side of things, I'm pretty clueless. Surely it's somewhat risky, but I don't really understand what those risks are. What do you think?
Related discussion 2 months ago:

Ask HN: Developers with kids, how do you skill up? | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13816627
I mean it tastes better but that's not peer reviewable, the major issue currently is that the microbiom of a cow's digestive track really can't handle corn that well and as a result methane output of the live stock skyrockets contributing more drastically to anthropomorphic climate change.
tl;dr;

1. Prioritize, prioritize, prioritize,

2. You'll never have enough time.

3. Timeshift and batch up tasks

4. Trade money for time.

Father of 2 kids (3 and 6mo) here. RUTHLESS prioritization has been critical in helping me reach my goals. Having the two kiddos has taught me to be absolutely ruthless and efficient with my time. Prioritization is the key and saying no is something you need to get used to. I'm a people-pleaser at heart so this has been a difficult transition but, after accepting that I can't say yes to everyone and everything, I've been able to make more progress towards my goals.

There aren't enough hours in the day to do all that you want. Period. You need to take a hard look at every single activity you do and decide whether it's worth spending time on. If something isn't in the Top 3 of your priorities for the day, drop it and don't even consider it. Trying to do everything ends up wasting time because you end up having to half-ass everything. Time is precious.

Timeshift and batch tasks. Pre-plan what you can so that you can be present for whatever it is you are doing. Meal plan your week in advance so you don't waste time deciding what to cook. Decide on what you're going to wear for the week in advance to speed up your morning routine. Have your kids do the same (mine actually likes it).

Learn to delegate to trade money for time, at least temporarily, if you have the resources. Hire a gardener, hire a house cleaner, hire a VA, outsource any tasks that can be outsourced. Deliver food if necessary. If I said you could buy an extra hour a day for $20, would you? I certainly would (and do).

Side note: HUGE props to the single parents out there. Don't think I could handle two w/o my (awesome!) SO.
What niches do you consider unexploited or lacking in competition?
Compatible is a better word for what I meant. Thanks
liquidity is necessaryy because people need to be able to buy things. not having liquidity is like having empty grocery stores. doesnt sound like a big deal but oh so painful if it ever happens. people in this thread lump market makers and high frequency traders together which is not really correct, but market makers are hired by exchanges to make sure markets stay liquid. market makers guarantee that they will always be in the market for at least "x amount of security", typically 100 lots. that means that at any given point in time, you can at least 100 lots, which covers any kind of smalltime investor who doesn't have access to professional execution traders. this is important because you need to be able to get out of potentially deadly trades.

this is not just for stocks. the potential loss of a stock is the price of the stock. that is finite. some options, even ordinary options, can generate potentially infinite losses and stock exchanges want for everyone to be able to move their stuff.

as far as you are concerned about "signals", there is something called the order book. as a normal trader you dont see this, but the stock exchange lists every position in the market and you can pay to see that. there is literally no difference between no market makers in the market and market makers having their spread quoted on top of the available market, in terms of signals. market makers just make sure that you get a good, if not fair, price for the stuff you want to move.

illiquid markets are extremely painful, especially for those companies that exist in them, because their value can be extremely misrepresented. to make an example, assume you are tesla, but you are traded on an exchange that only publishes spot once a year, in january. in august, you need to raise money at fair value and youve grown 3x since january, but nobody can give you fair price because you are quoted at januaries value.

liquidity is a good thing for every market participant.

you need to drink 5 liters of water over a period of 30 minutes to kill you potentially. thats not going to happen by accident and you will be in ridiculous amounts of pain long before you hit the lethal dose.
No, they would execute their options/sell their stock and then get laid off.
Another feather in the cap for a dedicated 2FA solution such as Google Authenticator etc. that doesn't use SMS?

Though having replaced two phones since using that solution - it can be a pain to have to re-set it up with each provider every time. I can see that if someone is prone to losing their phone, it will become a major issue.

I think the problem is that all the companies whom I use 2FA for have totally different methodologies for re-setting it up on a new device. Whilst some have an automated way of verifying my identity and resetting the new device almost instantly, I have had a couple that needed talking to a human support rep (inconvenient, but understandable) and one company that needed another employee in the company to do a full 2FA verification themselves, and then talk to a company support rep on my behalf to verify my request to reset my 2FA settings! (WTF).

Thus, each time I replace my phone, I find myself actually culling the number of services where I use 2FA purely because it was too much of a pain to go through the reset process, and it was actually easier to drop 2FA with them altogether (or in one case actually drop the service altogether).
I mean, before we get too incredulous, it's the same philosophy as e.g. Rails: hardware is cheap, programmers are expensive.
This refrain of "traders do nothing useful"

That was not how I read the comment at all. Maybe slow down and reconsider it in the context of a specific discussion about this specific approach to HFT, rather than assuming the GP is dismissing the whole underlying principle of market making.
Mobile is especially important for page load.
I'm "rich" (I make way over 250k) and even I feel this is completely wrong and unjust. I pay hundreds of thousands in taxes each year and am still thankful and grateful just to be in this country because I understand historically what it took to get us here. These people are truly heartless and self-interested in the most un-American of ways. I'm no Democrat by any measure but my party, the Libertarians, need to stand for more, stand in numbers, and replace the Republicans once and for all as the new face of conservatism in the 21th century.

What these people are doing to our underclasses and disenfranchised groups is wrong.
The "Reading Mode" on the Adobe's Acrobat app for Android does a pretty good job of reflowing most of the PDFs I've thrown at it.
Found myself in the exact same situation (have a WileyFox, updated and ended up with the awful true caller app as the default dialler + found I couldn't use the default google dialler), I've since been using: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.contapps.a... but it does have adverts, I'd welcome any other suggestions (aside from re-flash).

Only today I was joking about how absurd it is that I was struggling with such a fundamental feature.
Most likely fat tails. A normal distribution is probably not a valid assumption
That's quite the loaded question. If you're framing it as simply thus giveth, thus taketh then sure in a vacuum just taking healthcare away from people is evil (assuming a certain moral framework).

But that's now what is happening here. There are some who believe that the government should stay out of healthcare (not me) and that prices will be lower, and care will be of higher quality. For them, repealing this act will move toward that outcome, which they believe to be good. There's certainly a philosophical argument to be made here.

On the other hand, people such as myself believe that a nation should just provide healthcare for all citizens because we can afford to, and if managed properly (questionable at best considering the US government) could be cheaper and result in better care and will help make the United States more fair.

So yes, I think it's quite hyperbolic to call the repeal of the ACA evil, and it's disingenuous to say that the repeal is simply "taking away health insurance from 24m people" as if that action is happening in a vacuum.
Yeah, the analysis in this article is not really answering the question of WHY they are profitable every day; in reality, it is just explaining the law of large numbers.

The whole thing rests on the premise that the company makes a profit on 51% of the trades, a loss on 24%, and break even on 25%. It is easy to show from those assumptions that you will never have a losing day if you make enough trades.

The REAL interesting question is "How do they make money on 51% of the trades they make, and are those results sustainable?"
No. I tried to install cmake and it wanted to install over 1000 files on my computer. I'm not prepared to install that level of super-bloat just to build a program
Uh yeah I looked at a 6-7 of the "meal replacements" you linked randomly, they all have way too much protein.

> Soylent has 20g of protein per serving, and most of the products listed above are also in that 15-30g of protein range and share most of the same micronutrients, so functionally they're about equivalent.

The point is that they have 15-30 g of protein per 120-150 kcal serving as opposed to 20g per 400 kcal serving for soylent.

The macro ratios are not comparable at all. Point me to a single meal replacement that has comparable macros. If it's actually cheaper I will gladly cancel my soylent order and buy that instead.
I did do trivial tests. The Electrino "Hello World" launches faster and consumes about 70% less memory than the Electron one.

For complex apps, I imagine the picture can be very different. The use case I see for the Electrino approach is small apps that are constantly loaded. Big productivity-style apps are better served by Electron.
So the issue about how oblique they make their marketing message? If they rebrand and use lots of innuendo, then it's OK?
GP specifically said "a bit of random latency". Don't change the terms of his argument to make it easier for you to refute, that's dishonest.
Password reuse and credential stuffing
Imagine an idiot-savant. He can tell you with complete accuracy the answer to complex mathematical problems, but has no understanding of how he arrives at the result. Now imagine a hyper intelligent alien who is like the savant. It can construct interstellar vessels, but has no self-awareness of how it came up with the designs. Though, it is clear that they do work. The alien can observe a human and know exactly how to best injure him or her, but it cannot understand how it came to know human anatomy, or even why the attacks work. For example, if it performed a Vulcan neck pinch, and you asked it how it figured out how to do that then it might tell you that "it just felt like the right thing to do." It has no conscious notion of the human mind or neurology.

The alien in Blindsight also apparently does not care to understand such things, and may lack the capacity for this kind of thought. It runs entirely on instinct, but these instincts bake in extremely complex behaviors that are beyond human capabilities.

I'm also reminded of two other aliens from other Sci Fi series: 1) the Orkz from Warhammer 40k. Dumb as a rock, but can build devastatingly effective vehicles and weapons from salvage and garbage. God knows how. They certainly have no idea. 2) The Motie engineers from "The Mote in God's Eye." They can instinctually build and improve on machines but cannot understand, or come close to explaining, How they did it.
I think you misinterpreted the point. As I read it, "car" and "phone" are the terms Americans (and others) use, and that the British sometimes used "auto" and "mobile" but that usage is dying out (which doesn't conflict with you not having heard it).

As an American, "car" and "phone" are definitely the norm. The only time I've ever heard "mobile" is as a prefix to phone, so "mobile phone". It's sometimes used on forms to distinguish between home, work and mobile numbers (like I just did).
TIL (or at least confirmed) that the letter 'W' was indeed written as a literal double-U.
They make money NOW either direction; this doesn't mean they will always make money. If a competitor suddenly starts being faster, they are going to start losing money no matter which direction the market goes.
What we really need is the cargo of C++
Then everything is a political goal, and there's no point on you classifying anything as a political goal as to measure its value.

"Too high price for a political goal" and "everything is a political goal" are not compatible.

So, tell me, what's your point really?
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14233542
Why not use qmake, chaps?

It's rather simple and cross-platform, and YOU (who was going to answer, it needs Qt) is wrong, btw :)

But yeah, yeah, everyone and their dog intends to continue torturing himself and their users with CMake spgahetti and bugs, of course.

Real life, no time to avoid mistakes!
If the leakage rate is constant and your calculations say that it's impossible for the software to crash before the missile (heh), everything is fine. A missile has a maximum range because fuel is finite, so you can be sure it doesn't stay in the air longer than $t_max.

Software doesn't have to be perfect and, for a matter of fact, it never is. It just has to perform it's purpose within the constraints it was designed for.
> On balance, if someone is infected with spyware they're probably better off infected with secure spyware.

That's a pretty amazing sentence. It illustrates just how messy this whole situation is.
A lot. I don't remember a exact study on popcon top 100, but just going main top 5, let see.

top 1: Gnu sed. License: GPL.

top 2 (if you ignore libs): base-passwd. GPL

top 3: GNU core utilities: Mostly if not exclusively GPL.

top 4: debianutils: SMAIL GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

top 5: dpkg: GPL (got bsd parts is distributed as a whole under gpl).

http://popcon.debian.org/main/by_inst if you want to dig through it. A lot of the top is part of base install. Further down we got things like wget, which surprise surprise, is gpl. Could always try to make a debian machine without udev, which is GPL. Honestly, making a debian installation, using debian main archives, without any copyleft'ed software would be a nice project just to see if anything resembling a function operative system would remain. One would have to start by using BSD kernel (which is supported), and go from there to try mimic a bsd operative system.
Now where did I put that whistle? I thought it was right next to my red box?
I'm not so sure — alternatives at a comparable price are already on the market. I could make it myself and save more but it's not worth the tradeoff of time and inconvenience to save $1–2.

Personally my price sensitivity for it is pretty low. At $2–3 per meal, it's cheaper than any other meals besides breakfast throughout the week.
Thanks! I think we're on to something with the bite sized learning - so I'm excited to see where it goes.
> the more intelligent agent should win.

Not necessarily. An intelligent agent could lose to an agent that can simply see the future.
Why exactly is HackerOne drawing a distinction with this software producer?

The truth is: because a H1 rep went on Risky Business and did not deliver a very good performance.

Patrick, who is absolutely okay with H1 having FiveEye clients like the US DoD, has a very serious problem with them also servicing an obscure spyware application provider. Because, I suppose, being murder-droned by a panopticon hegemony is much better than getting yelled at by an angry spouse?