skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with everything you said. Not sure exactly where to place someone like him in these categories.

I still doubt he was an actual molester, but I will say that support of nambla is a bit odd. That said I always give the benefit of the doubt until accusers come forward. Like I feel Milo was mostly just trolling.

Course I'm a little naive too. I initially thought subway Jared couldn't be a molester because he just looked too much like a molester.
I think where we probably agree is that the patent system (which is of course what grants the monopoly pricing power) needs reformation.

I think where we disagree is that I don't think I (or anyone else) knows how much resources society should spend on drug treatments. I strongly believe that the best way to determine how much money society should spend on drug treatments is just to let all the individuals decide how much they should spend on drug treatments (or insurance which covers drug treatments). (This is not saying, however, that you can't have transfer programs which transfer wealth from rich->poor)

In the end, the failures of central planned economies are the same as the failures of central planned sectors, including healthcare.
> the border agent asks "are you hiding any information from us?"

Answer yes, always, because: I have client data I'm most certainly hiding from you on my computer because they'd in general be worried if it i didn't, also I have passcodes to friends mail servers I manager for them I'm hiding from you, also I'm hiding from you all the emails I've sent to my parents, I'm also hiding from you all the pics of my gonads I sent to my lover. So yes, I'm hiding information from you. What country is this anyway? <asks the person arriving to the US from Germany>
Following that reasoning, that probably means China's economy situation would be much worse.
I have a rare disease. One of the drugs developed in recent years to treat it costs about $300k/year and only works for about 5 percent of patients with the condition. I have made dietary and lifestyle changes to get better for a pittance compared to what conventional treatment costs. I get called a loon.

But here is what I think about these high priced drugs:

Joe was a successful lawyer, but as he got older he was increasingly hampered by incredible headaches. When his career and love life started to suffer, he sought medical help. After being referred from one specialist to another, he finally came across an old country doctor who solved the problem.

"The good news is I can cure your headaches... the bad news is that it will require castration." You have a very rare condition which causes your testicles to press up against the base of your spine and the pressure creates one hell of a headache. The only way to relieve the pressure is to remove the testicles."

Joe was shocked and depressed. He woundered if he had anything to live for. He couldn't concentrate long enough to answer, but decided he had no choice but to go under the knife. When he left the hospital he was without a headache for the first time in 20 years, but he felt like he was missing an important part of himself.

As he walked down the street, he realized that he felt like a different person. He could make a new beginning and live a new life. He saw a men's clothing store and thought, "that's what I need .. a new suit."

He entered the shop and told the salesman, "I'd like a new suit." The elderly tailor eyed him briefly and said, "Let's see... size 42 long." Joe laughed, "That's right, how did you know?" "Been in business 60 years!" Joe tried on the suit. It fit perfectly. As Joe admired himself in the mirror, the salesman asked, "how about a new shirt?" Joe thought for a moment and then said "sure..." The salesman eyed Joe and said "let's see...34 sleeves and...16 and a half neck." Joe was suprised, "that's right, how did you know?" "Been in the business 60 years" Joe tried one the shirt, and it fit perfectly. As Joe adjusted the collar in the mirror, the salesman asked "how about some new shoes?" Joe was on a roll and said "sure!"

The salesman eyed Joe's feet and said "Let's see... 10-1/2...E." Joe said astonished, "that's right, how did you know?" "Been in business 60 years!" Joe tried on the shoes and they fit perfectly. Joe walked comfortably around the shop and the salesman asked "how about some new underwear?" Joe thought for a second and said, "sure!" The salesman stepped back, eyed Joe's waist and said "Let's see... size 36."

Joe laughed, "Ah ha! I got you I've worn a size 34 since I was 18 years old." "The salesman shook his head, "you can't wear a size 34, it will press your testicles up against the base of your spine and give you one hell of a headache."

http://jokes4us.com/dirtyjokes/castrationjoke.html
Good luck designing a GPU without violating NVIDIAs or AMD patents.
Heck AMD technically owns the patent for an in memory framebuffer ;)
You can not drive.
You first rebase against the master locally and push the merged feature branch after resolving all the conflicts yourself. Afterwards, you go to the master and merge it against the updated feature branch. The 2nd merge should not result in any conflicts.
There is a lot more to it than that. A lot.

"tortured children for spray painting graffiti"
(which resulted in the sudden sprouting somehow of heavily armed and trained jihadists, many of whom were foreign).

You don't have to be much of a cynic to see the deep influences of foreign powers in this conflict. It's so deep that media takes (such as the view you present) don't do much to cover it up.
Great satire. The way you delicately ignore the evidence of temperature increases (e.g. the hockey stick graph) while saying you are not aware of any significant temperature increases is quite artful.
>"As someone who reads a lot of scientific papers, I can't think of a single one whose correctness is actually dependent on the correctness of the results of a paper it cites"

What field are you reading where each paper is independent of all the others? As the most obvious example, in biomed pretty much every paper says something like "as done previously[ref x, y]" in the methods section. It is an extremely annoying, but very common, practice (usually refs x and y contain somewhat different methods descriptions and/or also contain the "as done previously" phrase). There are many other ways the papers depend on each other too ("we used these cells because they don't express this protein[ref z]", etc)
Argentina is NOT the USA. The size, the resources, the people, the culture, and more importantly of all the regulations regarding businesses. Huge difference.
I think the desire for a closed web is driven much more by the need for a days wages than some overblown sense of superiority to others.

If you disagree, why not spend a day talking to one of those engineers? I'm one. My friends are others. We're mostly nice people, with hardly a sense of superiority at all!
If you didn't understand what he meant by the distinction between community and product, you should have asked to clarify, instead of just assuming (completely incorrectly) what he meant and arguing based on your own interpretation.

Building up a community and building a product are completely different things. You can have the perfect product yet never get any community. You can get a great community without even a product.
What's the german word for the mixed feeling of incredulity, disgust, awe and respect that I'm getting right now?
Angry Over Zillow’s Home Prices? A Prize Is Offered for Improving Them
How Your Data Is Stored, Or, the Laws of the Imaginary Greeks
This would end up being counterproductive as the small minority of papers removed this way for a good reason would not make up for a vast number of scholars being alienated and distracted from their work due to the intrusive investigations. Even without that loss of productivity it's still unclear whether allocating resources to this monitoring would be cost-effective.
> Deficits are mostly attributable to military spending.

Post-WWII federal deficits are mostly attributable to declining total effective income tax rates.
I cannot believe no one had pointed out the matching Robocop scene yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mqDjcGgE5I
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> "Climate change is caused by humans releasing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere which trap heat."

Hmm.... Well... as positive the motivations behind that sign may be, that sentence is empirically untrue.

The climate has always been changing and has never not been changing. And it has been both warmer and colder without humans.

To be a scientifically valid statement it would have to say, "SOME degree of CURRENT climate change is PROBABLY caused by humans."

Equating all "climate change" with AGW undermines the validity of the argument and scientists really shouldn't do it.
because... seriously:

> the border agent asks "are you hiding any information from us?"

Answer yes, always, because: I have client data I'm most certainly hiding from you on my computer because they'd in general be worried if it i didn't, also I have passcodes to friends mail servers I manager for them I'm hiding from you, also I'm hiding from you all the emails I've sent to my parents, I'm also hiding from you all the pics of my gonads I sent to my lover. So yes, I'm hiding information from you. What country is this anyway? <asks the person arriving to the US from Germany>
> You really don't want to cater to the easily offendable, imo.

This attitude rings with the dismissive tone of the unapologetically privileged who — rebelling against the slightest whiff of shame — are quick to marginalize any and every voice with whom empathizing would require their stingily hoarded emotional labor and energy. Ironically, communities populated by such misers enthusiastically take umbrage with the peculiar struggles of their own, insular milieu.

Twinkle, twinkle, little snowflake.
What if I tell you another reason and you ask "what if you don't care about reason X" ?

So maybe instead of asking other people, it's time for you to figure out yourself why millions of people blog.
UK furious at US media disclosing terrorist attack
People don't buy cars based on price. If they did everyone would be driving a base model sub compact for $12K new off the lot.

Electric cars have a number of advantages that will cause them to dominate in the future once battery capacity improves. However which specific EV a person buys will be an emotional decision. Most people will want to take the risk on a new technology with whomever is perceived to be the leader in the field.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)
GI bill pays for a lot of education
Probably as an optional feature?
It's highly debatable over whether lower profits will significantly reduce the incentive to invest, especially considering profits are already high (about 20%). A small drop won't make a significant difference for the lucrativeness of the industry. Perhaps the best way to go about doing this is by reducing patent lengths, rather than some other policy that is easy to circumvent/bend like taxes or price ceilings.

It's also worth noting that a large proportion of the basic research that goes into making these drugs is funded by the federal government or other research foundations, which receive little, if any of the benefits when commercialized. For instance, Alexion's drug is based to some extent on research conducted at Yale by its former CEO, not to mention the whole host of foundational research that preceded it.
Im gunna give guixsd a go (i run Ubuntu now). I do almost everything in emacs, and I have all my configs/elsip (and plenty of scripts and other stuff) in a big git repo. Setting up a new box is as simple as installing emacs and checking out my repo. I look forward to rolling package installs and init scripts etc into my repo (its init system is scheme based, no systemd).

Funny thing about guixsd, intel wifi chips wont work out of the box. Even if you provide the firmware, the kernel wont load blobs. Im sure you could install a new kernel... But it just feels dishonest. I bought a $10 usb atheros card.
I had seen several sources that affirmed that Google used Mercurial, but I'm not sure to what extend, so I will retract it :-)
"It's really very simple: Assad is and always was a brutal asshole. At some point, hatred of him turned violent, and everything escalated."

Nothing is simple in that area of the world.

There are a lot of forces at play. One of which is upset Syrian citizens. Another of which are interested foreign powers.
It seems like smart people have been predicting that China's growth is unsustainable on a regular basis for at least 15 years... it's tough for an average HNer like myself to take the time to tell which "expert" is just blowing smoke and which expert truly has a handle on the salient facts- Guess all I can really do is simply wait and see who ends up being right...
You shouldn't favor one over the other.

If it really was the case that high risk startups were being systemically under valued such that an investment into YCombinator companies lead to greater returns than other investments, other market participants would have likely already exploited/corrected it.

This is often called the no arbitrage principle.

If someone invests into large companies it might indicate they hold the opinion that it swung too far in the opposite direction and the market is now overvaluing small companies relative to the large.

In this case SoftBank is specifically investing in Nvidia instead of a segment at large indicating they likely hold a very specific opinion. It probably wouldn't be correct to use this to say anything on their opinion to the value of something like YCombinator.
Apple is starting it's own GPU production. They immediately were sued by their former suppliers Imagination Technology over intellectual property rights. The gall of them. Nevermind that Apple has yet to produce anything, Imagination is suing them on the premise that it is impossible for Apple to build a GPU without infringing their rights, somehow.

Apple may win in the end, it's capital vs capital. A small startup trying to steal away that Apple contract from Imagination with a innovative incredible product though; They'd be properly crushed into dust for even dreaming about it.
The answer you gave (a valid answer) is well known and understood (vanity).

I'm curious why developers blog other than vanity.
As a small company with limited budget who is looking to have its application tested, how can we differentiate between good firms and firms that will just run a scanner and charge you $5000?

Also, is it a good idea to hire a freelancer to pen-test your application?
Yeah, it's more like people have been waiting for decades for a day of reckoning for Japan in the sense that the country is still very productive in many senses but has yet to escape its extremely long-term recession. Japan has been punished enough.

It's quite tragic.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Ph...
> Wouldn't it be better to have students learn on hardware itself?

You can probably iterate more rapidly on the emulator; it's not like this and real hardware are mutually exclusive, just as using, say, an Android emulator in development and also real devices aren't mutually exclusive, but things people do together.

“Wouldn't X be better?” is only meaningful if the options are mutually exclusive.
Survivorship bias! :P

Typical story:

"Took magic mushroom, realized futility of my life's direction.

Took life savings, bought 1600 bitcoins at $250/BTC.

Invested all BTC in more magic mushrooms.

Next step...contemplating writing an 'Ask HN' for advice, but unsure where I left my house."
HTTPS would increase user privacy by not leaking application details though.
There is a tendency to believe that the normal dynamics of markets should be suspended when the product is "really important." Of course, that's backward. When the product is really important, the worst thing you can do is turn it into a low-profit economic ghetto by reducing incentives to invest.

You contradict yourself here.

The normal dynamics of markets have been suspended in order to ensure that "really important" products make it to market. That occurs through government-granted monopolies on drugs along with subsidies and grants on research. And that is what props up the market and provides the "incentive to invest" you insist is needed.

So you can argue for "normal dynamics" -- which would be a more free market with no government-granted monopolies, subsidies or research grants -- or you can argue to preserve "incentive to invest". But you can't have your cake and eat it, too, and the fact that you don't seem to consider how much we already do to meddle with the market in order to make sure "important" products are available is slightly worrying.
@averagewall, check out openknowledgemaps.org

Also, citeseerx and crossref are your friends.

Pubmed central similarly has the ability to return much of this citation data programatically (for certain scientific subdomains)

If you're passionate about prototyping such a service, let me know and we can get you an invite to the Archive Labs slack (we're a non-profit, volunteer-run community which incubates open access and public good projects). Literate, reproducible research and knowledge + citation graphs are two of our emphases.

Good luck
Schädengurken
Author has some interesting things to say but appears to be an apologist for anti intellectual rednecks whom are somehow some unappreciated source of cultural wisdom.

He believes trump supporters/and brexit fans are voting in their own interests as opposed to being duped to serve others, describs intellectual persuits as not proper jobs and further states

"people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons."
I just keep a traditional garage door opener in the inside breast pocket of my vest and jacket. Easy to close the garage when I pull out, easy to open it as I'm coming down the driveway. Harley-Davidson has an opener I could get and install directly into the bike (with a pushbutton on the "dash") but it's more than I'm willing to pay since my current solution works well enough.
> > whose correctness is actually
> > dependent on the correctness of the
> > results of *a* paper it cites

> where each paper is independent of
> *all* the others

These are not describing the same thing
Most changes don't touch hundreds/thousands of files. If you were to split the repo into many (as Windows used to be) then you'd still have the problem of huge projects having MANY conflicts, but worse: now you need to do your merge/rebase for each such repo.

In any case, rebasing is better than merging. (Rebasing is a series of merges, naturally, but still.)
> In certain cases I've also overridden the "ignore that for now" in favor of at least some minimal fix because part of my job is to give you what you don't know you need to ask for, not just exactly what you ask for.

This is a two-edged sword, though. I agree it's best practice from a technical point of view, but enabling wilful ignorance on the part of someone above you in the chain will eventually lead to a showdown when you really do need a week to fix it and it really is critical, and they tell you not to, and they'll stick to their guns because (as far as they know) they've been right every time.
I find #2 to be very interesting, I can also see how the action of writing can help reinforce other skills/knowledge. Therefore blogging could be a form of self education or improvement.

#1/#3 seem quite specific but I can see how some people may write with those in mind.
P.S. One way you might describe this project is "an axiomatic Euclid's Elements for all scholarly knowledge".

You might also like metacademy.org (one of my favourite projects -- it's a package manager for knowledge built on DAGs)
If it's really, really not true then why do you write

>will never be able to practice enough to do well on a well-conducted interview

Or in other words a true scotsman interview.

It sounds like you can't bring yourself to write "on an average interview at Google" because you wish they wouldn't pick common interview problems - but they do.

Based on what you just wrote, I'd certainly work through books of "interview questions". Because your phrasing just proved it works, even though ideologically that is not what candidates "should" do.
It's interesting, but IMO it solves the wrong layer of the problem.

At it's core, it's a system that creates ambiguity about how much plaintext was transmitted given an encrypted transmission, along with multiple layers of keys for revealing successively more information. Which is a nice feature - it answers some cases of "you have to tell us what you said or you go to prison". But that's the last couple bits of evidence for the decide-to-send-you-to-prison algorithm, and ideally your solution works sooner than that.

What I'd really like is plausible deniability for the fact that communication occurred whatsoever. Deniable metadata, in other words. If Alice decides to send Bob a smiley face at 2 am, it'd be nice if Alice's online behavior looked exactly the same as if she did not make that decision.
How does a civilian population suddenly get a bunch of training and weapons all of the sudden?
Why are (or were) so many of the "upset civilians" of foreign origin?

Cmmon, no need to yell "tinfoil hat Zionist Clinton Soros conspiracy theorist"! in an attempt to discredit. That doesn't help the "story".

It's plainly obvious there are a number of interested parties who are participating by proxy. Or openly even. There is nothing conspiratorial about that. It's pretty obvious.
The mechanics of birds are really amazing. This reminds me of a video I saw of a shoebill hunting. The ability to move its body while keeping its head absolutely locked in place is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrMDIIo8yU4

I wish we had some of the bigger birds around still so we could see them fly. Imagine a 110kg Argentavis above your head. It makes me wonder whether engineers will be able to create something to allow individuals to "fly" like one.
SD was based on a very old Perforce as well.
What makes you think Softbank has the expertise and vision to attract and grow good startup founders? How do you know that the level of capital they have can be efficiently put to work by them in that sector?
This seems the opposite direction in the cake baking decisions that have come up of late.
Are you saying that you use Git instead of Mercurial these days?

Not necessarily implied by you; just checking.
I think they are, unless you are selectively citing (irrelevant) papers to avoid depending on any...
I'm reminded of Andrew S Tanenbaum's FAQ: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/home/faq.html

Why do you work at a university?
When I was in college, I worked at IBM one summer to earn
money. One day I wore a shirt that wasn't the right shade of
white. My coworkers informed me of my transgression and made
suggestions for improving matters. In great detail. That's
when I figured out that maybe the industrial experience was
not for me.
>Address space randomization is not "protection". It's a form of security by obscurity.

This is somewhat akin to saying "Randomly generated passwords are not 'protection'. They are a form of security by obscurity."

If things are random enough that an attacker is significantly hampered in most cases, that's one measure of security, no?