skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Copper pots have interesting properties. For a long time I had read (and scoffed) that eggs should be whipped in a copper pot for best results. But it turns out that when you do that, striking the side of the pot liberates electrons that bond with the albumin and make the protein stiffer.

As for the comment about silver: it does have some antimicrobial properties. I'm amazed the effect is noticeable at the macro level of eating utensils.
you eat pizza, li'l brother. just don't play with my toys, or do anything you like but i don't. sooner or later, i may decide to come by and kick you butt for fun, just don't run. remember, i'm always watching.
I can't imagine a more depressing future than one where the streets are filled with two-stroke terminators running errands for rich people!
> From my understanding the problem was that Germany was growing very strong and threatening Britain's domination.

That is an argument often made, but the evidence for it is basically speculation based on pure balance of power theory.

There is just one very big problem with that theory. Why would Britain not have the same issue with the US? The US was tracking and even outpacing Germany in growth and population, but Britain was willing to compromise with the US based on reasonable disagreements. Because the US did not overreach, Britain was content with losing influence.

The US for example promised not to annex Cuba and signaled that they did not have much interest in further expedition in the east. The also agree on how to deal with South America.

Germany on the other hand was different. They essentially tried and did everything to piss everybody off. Britain was in some cases actually prepared to agree with Germany, but Germany behaved so stupidly that they drove them in French hands.

Then Germany continued to behave like idiots so that eventually the arch enemies Russia and Britain agree to an alliance even when they had outstanding issues in Persia and other places.

Even then, once German soldiers were literally walking threw and destroying Belgium Britain only joined the war on a thin margin in parliament.

I really don't see how Britain can be made responsible for any of it. Britain loudly called for peace talks until right before WW1 and Germany/Austria refused any kind of talks.

> Saying a bunch of students started WW1 is quite absurd.

The caused a geopolitical event who's fallout caused the war. Of course they did not put on German uniforms and walked over the Belgium border.

> I did find some material pointing fingers at King Edward though, might want to take a look [2]

Seems to me that amounts to about a conspiracy theory. There is this Anglo-saxon elites conspiricy theory going around. Everything that happens was somehow planned and put in place by the British so they could profit form it.

I have read multiple very modern books that in detailed researched these diplomatic relationships and not a single modern historian seems to endorse this theory.

> An interesting book about the topic is The Great Illusion By Norman Angell [1]

He had some good points. His problem was to misunderstand the political economy of the countries. In the autocratic empires the people who have the power to declare and make war are not the same people who mostly profited from the markets.

The German and Austrian high officials were part of a separate culture where they actually look down on many business men and the newly rich, all they car about was power and honor. Looking at the Austrians makes this point quite clear, these people were not living in the same world that Angell was outlining.

Many German capitalist understood the problem and were against war, but they did not have the required influence.

Edit:

If you want to read one book on the subject I would recommend "The War that Ended Peace" by the highly respected historian Margaret Macmillan.
Those with 20 years of experience have "a bunch of studies and statistics" too. They are better equipped to interpret the data.
I was thinking a symlink would be even easier.
"fearmongering at a scale unseen before" is reasonable response when the argument uses words like "dystopian".
AlphaGo retires from competitive Go after defeating world number one 3-0
> which centralised biometric DB doesn't have risks. Social Security Number in the US is pretty similar.

There are no biometrics associated with Social Security. It's just an ID number.
The problem here is that historically, bug reporting was linked to tech support because only enterprise customers were expected to report bugs, and those customers were paying for those bugs to be resolved (hotfixes, for instance).

Nowadays, Microsoft is asking for bug reports from everyone, but has not fully created a support structure to make that feasible at scale. They seem to be iterating over the problem though, and maybe eventually they'll get it right.
AlphaGo is better than humans at seeing patterns and making inferences based on simulations of possibilities, within a limited and perfect information domain. Several professional Go players have described AlphaGo's play as 'creative' and 'beautiful'.

What if technology similar to AlphaGo can be generalized to domains with imperfect information (Libratus from CMU recently beat top Poker players. DeepStack which is NN-based achieved a similar feat.) and to other domains (DeepMind is working on Starcraft.)? What are our remaining competitive advantages against machines?

What are future geniuses supposed to be like or to do (assuming your presupposition)?
Hm, so I wrote Python for a decade before Scala (and I still write TypeScript & JS) and I'm deeply sympathetic to the 'passing around a callable' way of looking at things. That said, I find Scala's syntax more consistent.

I would regularly run into that 'wart' in Python, where changing something between a property and a method would completely change the downstream behaviour (property -> method makes downstream 'calls' eta-expand and method -> property makes downstream calls error, or call the eta-expanded function if the property happens to return a function, both of which are terrible IMO).

I guess more than caring either way about number-of-argument-lists, I just disagree (as does a sibling commenter) with automatic eta-expansion, because I think that 'people may forget to call `someFn _`' is unconvincing.

If you currently try to pass `someFn` bare, to something expecting a function, you get a very clear error (and in some cases you can actually do this and it's automatically handled, like in `.map(someFn)`).

On the other hand, I would find it deeply objectionable if the compiler started magically switching the type of an expression of mine based on the upstream's number of parens. If they change `def foo()` to `def foo` I don't expect the type of my `val x = foo` to change from `() => Int` to `Int` or vice versa.
A birth certificate isn't required in the US for every single transaction you make.
I don't really buy the "what if the upstream author changes their signatures and downstream code behaves differently". Upstream signatures change all the time, and downstream has to deal with it. That's not unique to the act of adding parentheses to a function.

What if the upstream author makes their functions return `Option`s? Should we auto-unbox `Option`s with `.get` so downstream users won't need to change their code?

Of course not, and if you submitted a PR with an implicit conversion that did that, you'd probably get yelled at. So why are we happy auto "unboxing" `() => T` functions using exactly the same logic?
https://rethinkaadhaar.in/myths/

Posting these for everyone's benefit.
One of the main problems with Scala is that it has a clusterfuck of niche use features, which even experienced developers have problem using.

Scala core library is littered with :: +: and other nonsensical operators. Things like implicit may have few good use cases, but are mostly abused and make code hard to read. Blindly following immutability in even local function variables and stack makes code slow and unreadable.
KIK introduces Kin cryptocurrency
We had Nehru Firoz Khan dynasty, their relatives, their friends, at premier positions of adminstration, politics, law enforcement for 60 years.

They lacked the motive to actually establish strong and performance oriented institutions, hence corruption became a daily routine in India.

Slowly, some(not all) things are progressing.

Using Aadhar to directly transfer the money to exact recipient has rattled those who had enjoyed or felt entitled to waste the subsidiaries or sell the subsidiaries items in outer market + then ask the government for extra subsidiaries again and again and again.
Website is broken.
Like others I do not feel as if I understand the question and feel as if the question could have been phrased better by a better writer.

Do I think writing is important? Yes. I automatically disqualify a job candidate if their writing is poor.

Do I think writing skills have gone down? Yes. However this did not happen recently. I noticed it in 1997-1998 as my younger brother's generation starting to spend more time using instant messaging on the computer than they were doing their homework.

Do my views represent society at large? I am afraid they do not. I am continually flabbergasted by the comments that I see on YouTube and on news websites. In my opinion either schools are failing us or society is. Either way it has become clear that people are rewarded in the communities they deem important by being confrontational and derogatory without formulating and conveying a proper argument.
Anyone wanna theorize why? Seeing some of the comments here about silver and gold tells me it might have something to with the high conductivity of these metals.

As electrons flow through them, the germs are dying.
The illogic in these arguments is astounding. Maybe I can simplify it for you with a few analogies.

>All people criticising Aadhar for being insecure frankly don't have a real solution in place.

Criticising something doesn't necessitate me to providing a solution. It's like saying all movie critics should be good actors.

>Being an Indian citizen I know and have experienced benefit owing to Aadhar. I get subsidies from the government, one uniform identity that I can use to get important things.

Sure aadhar might have some benefits for you. But the critique is raising many points which make it incredibly dangerous and harmful in the long run. It's like using steroids to gain muscle faster, which is very harmful in the long term.

>Coming to the security part, which centralised biometric DB doesn't have risks.

Yes and those systems do get criticised so it can be improved. Also, aadhar claims to be open source, open API, run by volunteers, none of which it is. It sells your data to private services. Were you going to address that point at all?

>Mozilla being such a nice organisation with so many good initiatives. Why don't it come forward and dedicate some of its resources in helping out the Indian Government?

Indian government has a lot of resources too. It's not exactly poor. It could do a good job if it wanted to. That's not what this criticism is about.

>Wouldn't that be better than just criticising without knowing any ground reality of how things operate in India?

How do you know the author doesn't know the ground reality of things in India?

Look, criticism of a system or policy serves to ignite debate on how best we can make improvements and move forward. Rather than being snarky and getting all defensive and making silly illogical arguments, how about you contribute to the discussion by addressing the points raised in the article?
Have you read PG's How to Disagree essay? It's really good.
http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
I am in the wait and watch camp. So far aadhar has shown promise and benefits. I am also in the "make it compulsory for income tax" group. For privacy, they will get their act together I hope (plug leakages if any). If they don't, it would be foolish for them to think that we won't come after them. I have faith in the current generation. The activation energy maybe high but boy do they protest when they do :)
Give me a list of 1000 Indian names and I can guess their religion with nearly 95% accuracy.

All the points you say sound like you're 'prepared' or 'rehearsed' to say things like this.

When the next Gujarat riots happen, trust me just a list of people and their addresses would be sufficient enough to figure out where all the Muslims live.
Really. So anyone can physically break into an archiving unit, steal someone's BC, change some details and use it get benefits/fraud? And the victim wouldn't even get a hint? Sounds very dangerous!

I have my details saved in a centralised database, which notifies me via an SMS anytime my credentials are used.

I acknowledge the BM issue elsewhere in this thread. But please realise that unless you live in a cave your BM are already public. I can take you out for a coffee and steal your finger prints.

The point is that for KYC/payments BM are much more secure than the alternative you would use - signatures/xerox which are even easier to steal since you just need a pen and a paper.
My water is delivered in copper tubes... It can't be that bad, can it?
'icantdrive55 the thread is about water supply lines, not boilers or HVAC evaporator coils. I've dealt with a number of plumbers over the last several years, and not one wanted to use anything but PEX for supply lines. Actually a different preference would be a strike against any plumber I'd consider hiring for new work. Also you appear to be hellbanned.
You are wrong.

Easy!= Exact.

I asked a simple question, do you know how to identify a religion by Aadhar number?
> Don't spread fake news like the communists.

> mostly anti current government (it spreads fake news most of the times)

Do you consider views from sources that disagree with your own as 'fake news' ? A lot of what you've posted here sounds a lot like the hyper partisan BJP trolls that seem to pop up wherever there's any criticism of the Modi government.

You should try to do better on HN, because I would prefer not to see that particular virulent strain of the internet in relatively sane places.
Thanks for the info. Yes, I've read about leaded petrol and its effects on the brain, more so in children. I even read somewhere a while ago (maybe on HN) that crime had come down somewhat over some decades (in the US?), which was partly attributed (in the article I read) to reduced use of leaded petrol (gasoline).

Interesting about the silver study, and agree about quacks.
Hi there,
I'm project manager of Revolution Pi and would like top inform you that you could see the RevPi branded as "industrial Pi" oat the PILZ booth at Hannover Fair. This is just one of our big customers. Many leading companies have already started to port their solutions on out RevPi, e.g. TeamViewer or GTI Control (HMI solutions). There is no doubt that this project has hit the nerve of those generation of engineers who have waited so long to get rid of propriety solutions of "big S"...
That's why we called it "Revolution"...
It's not particularly hard to find people serving 5+ years in US prisons who one could gamble are no more or less a threat to society that the average person.

Having said that, I could make you the same offer, except I choose for you a as-of-now non-offending police officer, corrections officer, doctor, fireman, military service man or other upstanding citizen, for whom who will take life-long responsibility. If they commit a crime your penalty will match theirs.

If that doesn't sound super appealing, it might have something to do with playing Russian roulette, rather than an argument against rehabilitation.
..and complained when he didn't receive any answers from the government in power and now that his Government is in power, not only is it also refusing to answer questions but is also targeting the people who ask similar questions.[1]

[1] Google for CIS and Aadhaar leaks
No one is surprised that people in tropical climates like spicy foods, or that people near the Mediterranean like olive oil while people further north like butter. People's tastes adapt to what they have. That's a great thing about us. Now, we're a society with very cheap computing power. It's no surprise that we grow to like the foods such a society makes.
Generally I agree, but ...

> Social Security Number in the US pre-dates the internet and any concerns people had about privacy.

People in the US were concerned about privacy long before the Internet. The 4th Amendment to the US Constitution dates back to the 18th century, for example.

In fact, I'd say people are much less concerned about privacy in the Internet era; they put everything online and happily give private info to corporations and government.
Oh, that's the tool-artist relationship. That lots of successful work comes from highly constrained settings.

Doing a design? You have 1/10th the time or 1/20th the time as you'd like. Any other radical constraint.

Yea, feedback.
How exactly is a biometric ID going to prevent them demanding bribes?
You're assuming the delivery driver can be kept busy throughout the entire shift. I doubt there's many places where a driver could do a single pickup and then be kept busy for 6-8 hours straight.
Contrary is also true. How fear mongering and condescending attitude towards others can make you delusional to not see the facts in plain sight.
Mozilla headlines doesn't do its stance justice
This sometimes makes the news when the third conviction is relatively minor, like shoplifting

FWIW this has changed. Ever since prop 36, the third strike needs to be a serious violent crime.
Practice regularly and non-trivially for a long period of time. Figure on years. (Joe Haldeman recommends writing 1,000 words a day for ten years).

Find an honest editor, someone who will give you objective feedback and correct your mistakes.

I wrote a bunch and thought I was pretty good at technical documentation, and hey, I've got this blog I maintain [well, less now]. Then a real editor got hold of an effort of mine and it came back to me with many, many corrections. And you know, it was a LOT better; I couldn't argue with any of it.

And I know that Strunk and White is out of style, but I still recommend it.
"An eye for an eye" doesn't work in practice because the punishment is not harsh enough to deter the crime in the first place, at least in terms of petty crimes. If the punishment for stealing $50 from someone is that I have to pay $50, I'm gonna be stealing all day long if I believe I have a better than 50% chance of not getting caught.

For more serious crimes, like DUI, the punishments are not severe enough. You don't lose your license until you have multiple DUIs. Even then, you will likely continue driving illegally while intoxicated until you t-bone another car and kill the family inside. Then the court/jury will "struggle" to determine if you deserve the death penalty.
Extensive discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14429351
Lessons I Learned from the Dotcom Bubble for the Coming Cryptocurrency Bubble
Oh you mean "damages"? Yes we have that too.
Police forces can be deadly, too; and the alternative to them usually isn't (it's mostly "just" fraud, armed robbery, rape and slave trafficking.) But we prefer to risk authorizing some people to carry deadly weapons around—even knowing it can and does turn out badly sometimes—in order to reduce the prevalence of the things we get from lawlessness.

Aadhar isn't risk-free, but if the majority of the country want it (i.e. if, being informed of the possible consequences, they aren't rioting or impeaching the guy extending it), I feel like that's their choice to make, just like the choice of having police would be.

Also: One of the things about our modern, globalized world, is that any state that's not a military superpower in its own right can't really get away with bootstrapping toward totalitarian autocracy for very long before some concerned state that is a military superpower steps in with a foreign-aided coup. I'm not asserting that that is always a good thing for the world—but, sort of like the "re-insurance" companies backing financial institutions, this arrangement allows smaller states to do "risky" things like using a panopticon to destroy corruption, with a bit of a safety net.
If you want to get ahead, write persuasively. Cialdini's book "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" is good for technique.
Actually at the lowest level there's this whole quantum business that says exactly otherwise.
I can't give you the source I got it from, as it is something I have read multiple times over the years from different sources. A quick search turns up a lot of articles on the subject, with the claim that centaur teams are better.[0]

I cannot follow you on the unintuitive part. If you have a chess program playing against itself, as long as it isn't capable of playing a perfect game every time, the program being supervised by a human should better, as the human will have a non-zero chance of spotting a mistake (or a better move) with enough plays. With low of the risk of mistakes from the weaker human, as she can confer with the judgement of the program. If the risk of human error is lower than the chance of human insight, the centaur team should have the edge on the lone computer.

After checking up on the subject again, it seems like the effect is no longer strong enough to topple the best chess computers though.[1]

[0]https://www.bloomreach.com/en/resources/blogs/2014/12/centau... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-cassidy/centaur-chess-sho... http://www.glassbeans.com/blog/why-centaurs-will-dominate-th...

[1]https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/15772/how-do-the-b...
>For rasam, it's tin, not lead.

Could be, I was going by what I've heard from elders. They could have been wrong.
Getting a US Visa is voluntary.
Getting an Aadhaar in India is being made compulsory
Mongoose and async and ES2015 arrow notation create a cocktail
>two feminist groups and several former students filed a federal complaint accusing the University of Mary Washington...of failing to protect the female plaintiffs from cyber harassment...

I am confused as to why anyone thinks its the University's duty to protect their students from "cyber harassment." I mean, I am aware of Title IX and all, I am just shocked at the amount of control, influence, and involvement into their students' lives universities are expected to have.

If a student is driving to class and hits a bird (causing them gross emotional trauma) did the university fail to protect them from rouge avians?
I played at the local go club this afternoon. Nobody has a problem with AlphaGo and the mystique of the game. Everybody knew go was about to be conquered, even the younger pros. We didn't expect it to happen so quickly but IMHO the sooner the better: we're going to have great tools to analyze games and maybe get better at the game. We're playing against people anyway and it's a great game.
Anyone here who would be able to provide even a bit of offhand experience with issues like these or a pointer to _where_ the problem exists would be highly appreciated!
It's popular in Sweden as well.
Is the Indian government now also doing astroturfing? Does anyone know about any serious research or reporting on it? Chinese and Russian operations are well-known and reported, but I haven't heard of Indian ones.

Seeing the same, generally weak talking points, angrily defending the Indian government, advocating nationalistic points of view, and repeated over and over - it all reminds me of threads critical of China and Russia.
thank you, Daniel.
Can you read at all?

Did you read through the link I had send you? It's not that hard.

I will ask a simple question, can you detect the caste or religion of a person by knowing their Aadhar number?