skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the sjw-religion, why is "homemaker" considered inferior to "computer programmer"?

It's not a religious position to observe the existence of economic and social disparities.
> American cars are so inefficient.

They don't have to be -- the Chevy Volt (Vauxhall Ampere) is one of the most efficient cars on the planet, and is designed and manufactured in America (including the battery).

Many Americans just prefer inefficient cars, and vote with their wallets. For some, it's a badge of honour to have a car that's really huge (SUV moms) or loud and spitting out smoke (Muscle Cars / Pickup Trucks), as a cultural identity statement.
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> a lot of her money was made in the widely publicized inside trading case

She avoided about $45,000 of losses by selling ImClone stock early. Martha Stewart's net worth is over $600 million.

The fact that it was such an inconsequential amount for her really made an impression on me at the time.
It better not be Forscript.
>Academic institutions didn't spring up out of charity //

Are you sure? Didn't the library of Alexandria invite academics and give them bed-and-board to stay and study? (It may have been one of the other early libraries??) With the aim to expand human knowledge. Yes wealth will always have a relationship with knowledge/wisdom but that doesn't mean supporting academia has to have other than altruistic basises.

Weren't a lot of early academic institutions monastic, seeing accrual of knowledge as a service to the world by leading to greater understanding of the creator? (Which you kinda intimate.) Isn't that "charity"?
I would like to point out this is due to confusion by almost all peoples who haven't formally studied the economics of regulation.

There are in fact, two types of regulation: "Safety and Soundness" and "economic."

Economic regulation is almost always a bad thing and results in gross market inefficiencies like barriers to entry, cronyism, and destroys any hope of a functioning capitalist system. Think trucking regulations in the 70s and before...

Safety and soundness is almost always a great thing as it helps ensure we are able to have a healthy and functioning society. Seat belts is a great example of this...

Where most people, and I agree, it's generally libertarians and republicans go wrong on the is conflating the two types of regulation or not being able to see which kind of regulation it is clearly. Granted it's not always easy to know which...

A prime example of people getting it wrong is with banking regulation. Banking regulations, for example a lot of people thought Glass–Steagall was economic regulation and it was not-- it was in fact a safety and soundness regulation that made unbelievably great sense. It's destruction cost the world greatly because it allowed unsafe markets to be created, corrupted, and later destroyed as a result.

Energy and environmental regulation is another one where it's strictly safety and soundness regulation but people complain about the cost. Then they start calling it "economic regulation" because there's a cost associated with it. Well there is a cost associated with everything including not protecting the earth and its inhabitants. I without hesitation say the cost of a de-regulated environment will be dramatically higher than the cost of implementing and progressing with the regulations. Unless of course one would prefer extinction.

Yes some business and markets may go under because of safety and soundness regulation but this is because they were not correctly accounting for the true cost of business. If they had been, it would have NEVER been profitable.

Edit: I'm very, very left but it's solely a result of my economics education. I started life right, then moved to a pseudo libertarian outlook, and finally abandoned all of that to move to the far left. Because it's what makes the most scientific sense-- and economics is in fact a science.
The Toyota Land Cruiser is not like the others, it's popular with militant groups. And has been in production since 1951.
The thing is that no matter how good NLP becomes, natural language is inherently fuzzy, just like humans are inherently fuzzy. Human languages do not provide the precision that a computer must have. It is possible that the computer can learn to guess correctly in some percentage of cases, perhaps even a very high percentage of cases, but it can never be more than a guess because that information is simply not expressed in conversational English (and I'm monolingual, but I assume it is pretty much the same in other human languages).

Perhaps we are moving to a day when all programming will occur verbally, and each programmer will be paired with an Echo which he verbally instructs as it writes a program. But we will still need a person who is assigned with converting natural language to machine language, including reading in the contexts and assumptions necessary to make assumptions that are almost always correct.

That's the part that I don't see how computers are ever going to be able to beat humans on. You can't squeeze blood from a stone, and if the data isn't there and isn't in any of the spied-on data collected by all the listening bugs all over the house and all the location bugs carried in a person's car and pocket and all the network bugs on the person's computer and ISP, and so forth, the computer won't have the data necessary to furnish the desired response.

Conversational language will not have the necessary precision without special effort being dedicated to expressing ideas in a logical, mathematically-valid way. The people who expend that special effort are called "programmers".

IMO the only hope of a programmerless future is one where the language has meshed to the point that every conversational statement is a valid program after the NLP's macros have been expanded or whatever, and the computers understand this with a 0% error rate. A world where a master programmer reprogrammed human language to be computer-native. I don't see us getting there.
I believe your parents' income is a FAFSA question if you are under 22 or thereabouts.
I can totally see how that would be true. You build muscle memory and positive associations around the operation of the machine. But you've gotta see too how it's akin to turning a rotary phone dial.
100% agreed, it can hand a few hundred thousand hits a day. Obviously not okay for HN scale - but it's what my personal site and a bunch of side projects use.
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I agree, I knew how to "use" unix/linux many years ago, essentially knowing how to run things on a command line, but it's only in the last few years I've begun to really learn how to use it. For the last couple of years I've been focusing on doing more shell scripting and learning more of the unix tools available and I wish I'd invested the time a decade earlier because it's paid off more than anything else.

It goes from simple things like being able to copy/view production logs in seconds (instead of fumbling through the file system) to writing DSL's in awk.

I'd go as far as to say we'd be better off teaching kids how to write shell scripts than any of the current programming classes or the "mail merge with word" classes that they get taught today.
It would be great if you'd clarify that you are generalizing about mainstream libertarianism thought in the US.

US libertarians are a special breed that hacked up classical libertarianism to fit within the framework laid down by the US Constitution.

Basically they are believers in the US Constitution first and libertarians second.

Not a rigid definition but neither is the parent post
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The US has a comparable train to your Berlin-Freiburg route.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acela_Express

Unsurprisingly, it goes through a high population density region.

Even a route like this one wouldn't service all that many people and isn't even halfway across the country:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=osrm_car&rout...

(It does a decent job of passing metro areas; Pittsburg, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Des Moines)
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>Did I break even?

Well down-vote me to make it up.
Right, but most academic institutions would hire lab technicians to do those jobs.

Actually, you probably wouldn't even trust a PhD student or junior postdoc to setup lab equipment...
This is but one of many questions, and if history of science is any indication, the answer will be found soon enough.
That's unnecessarily complex. Just ask for the old password when doing an expiration reset. Validate the old one then compare that against the proposed new one.
UNIX's ‘.’ predates Microsoft BASIC. (Possibly inherited from Multics, but I don't know.)
Any recommendations for write-ups on how delimited continuations are implemented?
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That sounds like a "motte and bailey" argument to me. It's common sense that "the good and bad consequences of regulations should be understood." That's a position that's trivially easy to defend. Libertarians usually argue for a great deal more than that: civil liberties, non-interventionism, laissez-faire capitalism and the abolition of the welfare state. But these things are not obvious simply from understanding the consequences of regulation; the arguments for them have to stand on their own.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Motte_and_bailey
A consideration when reading this article: the author Julia Carrie Wong was also the author of the Guardian article that posited the low number of females followed by the Twitter accounts of Elon and other tech CEOs like Tim Cook were indicative of their and their company's attitude towards employing females and female perspectives in general [1].

The Tesla CEO reacted to the report defensively, accusing the publication of engaging in “phoney PC police axe-grinding”. But his choices do provide a certain amount of insight into what he, as an individual, finds interesting, and perhaps it isn’t surprising that a leader in an industry notoriously averse to hiring women also appears to be uninterested in the views of women as expressed on Twitter.

[...]

So Elon, Tim, Bill, Brian, Eric, et al: here is a list of a few women in or around the tech industry you might want to try following on Twitter. They are not all CEOs, but they are all interesting tweeters who can help make your timeline look a little more like the world outside your companies.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/04/twitter-w...?
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IIRC I made this change at the suggestion of someone at YC (maybe dang, but it might have been before he took over HN) so I think it's very likely that this is the route they would prefer you to use. But if in doubt, send them an email; dang is very responsive.
Apparently I was part of a test where input sanitization was turned off. Reported and fixed before they could push it live.

Very "monkey on a typewriter". I was not even looking for security bugs, but studying usage of maia.css.

http://aster.or.jp/conference/icst2017/program/jmicco-keynot...
Generally as a businesswoman and a brand more than a housekeeper obviously.

I agree I was mistaken though about the case.

Here's a more interesting example...
http://millionairemommynextdoor.com/about-me/
Exceptional for a reason though. And it's not a pure one, life never is.
Would this include anything that would fall under California's Prop 65 warning labels? Because if so, that'd cut out a LOT of things you'd never worry about...

[1]http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-pro-con2-2009nov02-story...
Probably high. Those dealing with horses are kicked in the head not infrequently.
Marie Curie's husband died after being run over by a carriage.
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I think you're absolutely right, but what's hilarious to me is that they have private pricing for many of their services. For the traffic we're already doing, we just asked and they knocked our cloudfront bill down nearly 75%. We didn't have to change our usage at all. Granted, we serve a lot of traffic.
I once sat on a plane next to someone who was an expert in glass. It ruined every action movie for him, because the glass always shattered all wrong. And sometimes they would cut holes in glass that you couldn't do that with.

I'd try to suspend the disbelief :-)
Yes, two modes: line and visual. The stuff between certain visual commands and ESC isn't a mode, it's a command argument.
Works like nibbler?
Why on Earth do people not run ad-blockers on Facebook and Instagram? I never see ads on either of those sites.
Got it at last.
I just tested this in Firefox 53 and Chromium 58: https://ogrecave.github.io/ogre/wasm/

Space to jump, WADS to move, Q to draw and put away swords.
Turbos do not make anything more fuel efficient, they simply allow you to have the fuel efficiency of a small engine off boost, and match the power of a larger engine while on boost. It's still a tradeoff however, there's always some lag and delay to throttle response, extra piping and cooling hardware, and more backpressure in the exhaust means it loses efficiency compared to a naturally aspirated variant of the same engine.
> I also dislike being a manager but I am more capable manager than all managers I've been under (maybe I am just unlucky but I don't think so).

In my case, I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't be better than the ones I've been under (maybe I would be better than one or two, but not the majority). I'm also more likely to get fired as a manager, due to a tendency to say what I think.

If you're a better manager than the managers you've been under, you may be of more value to your company as a manager (even if you hate it). I may be selling myself short, but my value as a manager could be less than zero...
Animals that copy other animals tend to be the smarter ones.
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> AWS has tried several times

They have tried once, and it's called AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
Just as patriotic and humanitarian rhetoric is used to justify certain polices that are far from patriotic or humanitarian, libertarian rhetoric is also sometimes used to justify lax regulation, crony capitalism, etc.
My theory is that providing an education for free of charge to the students has a significantly better payoff for the economy as a whole as well as the individual students vs loading individual students with the burden.
Here ya go then: http://teslapedia.org/model-s/tesla-driver/total-cost-of-own...

No, I didn't break even because I came from a '03 beater that I'd been driving for the last 15 years. The thing is, if no one buys EVs there won't be sustained demand. I don't mind spending a bit more on my end to make sure the industry moves forward(I believe they call that voting with your money).
I was thinking more of ed, for some reason I thought folders were a later invention, 70's or early 80's, but they were first used in 1958: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_(computing)
My favorite bug bounty report so far read, in its entirety, "try it ASAP".
Why is it not an interesting product? What is an interesting product in your opinion? Good to hear your thoughts.
First, the Libertarian Party is not "all libertarians".

Second, environmental regulation falls out of property rights, since pollution spreads onto people's property. If you pollute a stream, the stream carries the pollution to someone else's property and damages it.
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> able to go against the grain of mainstream economics and find valuable insights.

Like what?
Small nit: The cooling system still requires service, however it's only every 50k miles and runs about $800.

That said last time I broke down my per-mile costs new tires at $1k every 40k was my highest cost by far.
I am very interested in the reason for this pricing, if you wouldn't mind enlightening me? I never understood why they are so expensive.
Yup, hydro is awesome for cheap renewable electricity.
Scala has parallel collections that allow for this, looks exactly the same syntax too.
> This thing is going to go the way of the hula hoop.

Still being sold in every big-box retailer 60 years after it was invented?
Nerdwriter made a video about it recently :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSXxAlcbMK4
Well, VC have already the word "capitalists" in their name. They don't care for anything but the ROI. While a company has to care about its customers too.
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I highly doubt it. Firstly, the description only mentions Kindle and Audible (which I missed on first reading), and Goodreads is self-reported so Amazon would have no way to know if the book was actually read, or more importantly when it was read, since it acts as a bookcase. I know a few of people who have backfilled books they read on Goodreads, for example.
The Big Bang is not the equivalent of "God did it". It's not a cop-out, it's a description of what our current understanding says happened. And yes, there's a lot we still don't know, and a lot we can never know. And that's ok! We don't just pretend that we have an explanation for everything (which is what "God did it" is), we say what we do know and what we don't, and then we try to reduce the amount we don't know.

You're declaring the Big Bang to be impossible due to what appears to be a simple semantic trick. But I don't believe you're even remotely qualified to determine whether the Big Bang is impossible or not, and the fact that it's widely accepted as a good explanation should be a big clue that maybe it's not so impossible.

> If I find "I get wet standing outside when it rains" I don't need to find a contradictory reason why I'm getting wetted by rain unless the original theory fails.

"God did it" is not a theory. It is the absence of a theory. It's what you say because you don't know the actual reason. For example, a thousand years ago, "God did it" was probably a well-accepted explanation for why it rains. But today we have a very detailed understanding of the physics involved and can explain rain without any supernatural explanation. You can't say that somehow in the last 1000 years, God stopped managing rain and physics started handling it instead. No, it was physics all along.

A big problem with "God did it" is it literally stops all progress. If you say "I don't know", you can go looking for the answer. If you have an actual hypothesis, you can test it, try to determine if it's true or not, and make progress towards finding the truth. But once you say "God did it" there's no where left to go, and you have no hope of ever finding out the real reason.
Afraid not. While I've technically got global reach, I focus on London, and a particular niche in London.
The current version of the Puppet documentation all appears to be for the enterprise product. Our team just evaluated the three and easily found Puppet to have the worst documentation for starting out with the free edition.
That, i suppose, was meant to be a joke. see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs and just replace mysql with pg.
That the wealth of a more educated society compounds, likely in super-additive fashion. Basically, the idea is that a society full of educated people is wealthier as a whole and thus in your own interest. In the short term, it is easier to be well off if people around you are well off than if not (e.g. is way easier to be an entrepreneur or to find a well paying job if you are surrounded by other educated people). In the long term, your society gets richer and, since countries that have public education also have things like public healthcare and social security, a richer country is also very directly in your benefit when you are nearing retirement.

Note that the U.S. already buys this argument when it comes to primary and secondary education. It only seems to mostly ignore it when it comes to the university or trade school level.

The U.S. gets by without public higher education, but that might be in significant part for two reasons: accumulated private wealth in a large middle class that got rich from globalization with one of the few intact industrial bases in the post-war environment (now dwindling), immigration of educated workers from all over the world (brain drain from other countries).

Also, note that many countries with public higher education see it as a system where each individual "pays it forward" for the education of the next generation, at a moment in their lives where they have significant more economic safety than they would in their late teens. Simply put: "I'll pay for the education of the next generation, because the previous generation paid for mine". This is something which the U.S. does within families anyways, but some other countries do collectively, resulting, again, in compounded gains from a more educated society and cheaper education costs due to collective bargaining. Things like fancy dorms and millionaire school administrators are hard to justify when they are paid out of the paystub of your average nurse and construction worker...

Don't get me wrong, I did my undergrad in a (developing) country with public higher education and my graduate studies in the U.S. (on school support). There are definitely benefits to the U.S. system if you have the money or are in the top percentile for talent/luck. But overall, for the majority, the lack of a strong free public education option is a huge disadvantage, it seems to me, even after six years here, that this is one of those things where the U.S. does well despite of it, rather than because of it. Like private healthcare and lack of public transportation.
The Libertarian Party in the US does not represent the values of all (or maybe even most) libertarians. At its core, it just means not restricting people wherever possible, it doesn't necessarily mean having as little government as possible. Not all libertarians equate "freedom" with "low taxes" and "starving the government". You'll find that libertarians are a very varied group in terms of their beliefs.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism :

"Some libertarians advocate laissez-faire capitalism and strong private property rights,[7] such as in land, infrastructure, and natural resources. Others, notably libertarian socialists,[8] seek to abolish capitalism and private ownership of the means of production in favor of their common or cooperative ownership and management, viewing private property as a barrier to freedom and liberty.[9][10][11][12]"
At last - an invention that is truly revolutionary.
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