skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't really define Free Will as something different and then claim it exists. Free Will has an agreed upon definition.

Free Will is the capacity to have done differently given the same situation.

Free Will is completely absent in a enormous number of circumstances. Are you free to stop understanding English? Are you free to not be persuaded by a logical argument you comprehend? When presented with a donut while on a diet are you free to determine your level of will power to resist?

Free will conditioned on chaos theory is just jargon and ventures into "not even wrong" territory. If free will is sensitive to initial conditions then actors evolving in time are not free to choose their trajectories.

If your happiness is conditioned on incorrect beliefs about your essential nature and capacities then you should reconcile your beliefs with reality, not argue that the understanding of essential nature is incomplete or wrong.
I mean sure, but I don't know why you'd want to.
Thanks for labelling me on a subject you have no understanding.

"Roussef and co worse than capitalist-style corruption"? They are not worse, they are the state of the art in that. Who do you think most of the corruption money went to for 13 years? Now, what you call "capitalist-style corruption" I call "cronyism", which is something that could be avoided by design if we didn't have a big government who is able to select "national champion" companies, as put by the article, who are leveraged with taxpayer money and pay back with bribery.
The first two, sure. Snort, at least, remains under active maintenance, and while I'm not in network security myself any more, those I know who still are have had good things to say about it.
Sorry, I'm a bit curious: you got fired from Google just because you refused to go to the US? That seems a bit harsh.
I was at a talk by Janna Levin, astrophysicist and author of a book Black Hole Blues that describes LIGO. (E.g., https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/18/books/review-black-hole-b...)

She gave a neat analogy between GWs, as sensed by LIGO, and an electric guitar. In the sense that a distant pluck on the string is transmitted as a wave down the string to the pickup, which senses a little wiggle in the string and amplifies it. I thought it was a poetic analogy that gives a second meaning to the word "instrument" in this context.
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One issue here is that health care can get really complicated really fast. Which makes it quite a bit more difficult for many consumers to make an informed decision.

Because health care is complicated, in an idea world, there would be a layer to distill all of the complicated scientific information into simpler, scientifically sound recommendations. In theory, this is what your doctor should do. In practice, this system is currently broken in the United States. It is easy to demonstrate cases of over-treatment in the current medical system. (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/11/overkill-atul-g...).

If the consumer was paying for everything with full price visibility, would this change? I'm not sure. The problem here is a large amount of people would have no idea whether the prescription / test the doctor is requesting is worthwhile or bunk.

In fact, I think some of the over-treatment today is by "by patient request". One reason given for why doctors write antibiotic prescriptions for viral infections (which as we should know is scientifically useless and may in fact be harmful due to the potential of allergic reactions) is to make patients feel better by making it seem like something is being done. (http://ideas.time.com/2012/04/16/why-doctors-uselessly-presc...). The same probably goes for even more expensive cases (MRIs for most back pain cases, for instance).

Think of what we see in the "alternative medicine" market. There may be a few hidden undiscovered gems in that field, but in the majority of cases people pay sometimes a ton of money for what ends up being a rather expensive placebo effect at best (or harmful snake oil at worst). All of this both because medical science is difficult to understand (where glossy marketing is easy to understand), and also because in many cases medical science has unsatisfactory answers for people desperate to be healed.

I'm not saying that knowledgeable bureaucrats are completely correct (ideally the doctor and patient are making the informed decisions together, not the bureaucrats) but I can't see not having some layer that aims to eliminate the current perverse incentives in the system.
I think this is GREAT news, because it implies the following.

a. - Intel and AMD losing their pseudo-monoply on PC/laptop chips, perhaps enabling bringing some prices down.

b. - Mainstream PCs abandoning the old x86 (+IA64, AMD64) instruction set for a more modern instruction set which (i guess) enables more modern, more power-efficient architectures.

but much more exciting than the above is that...

c. - The jump to a more power-efficient CPU will enable me to have a nice desktop PC with, say, 128 cores, and with no extravagant cooling system or ridiculously high power consumption (I need to pay the power bills, anything that will be on for at least 8 hours a day will be watched for power consumption.). I know that there are already ways to take advantage of GPUs, but they are for specific operations. A desktop PC with a huge lot of cores will bring more generalized performance improvement.

And TRUE hardcore multitasking...

d. - This will push all vendors and Open Source projects to improve on their compiler support for that architecture.
Hmm...you mention x86 assembly. For some reason, we seem to be able to implement ("emulate") all these different languages in x86 assembly.
nice book. do you know if this person plans on finishing part 3?
Hum, depends upon your definition of what's a module. from cpan.org front page:

The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) currently has 186,953 Perl modules in 35,278 distributions, written by 13,095 authors, mirrored on 248 servers.
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> What of all the people whose lifespan is cut early by disease?

Actual insurance and government welfare programs are for things you can't otherwise save for. Let's not burn straw men, here.

> If you're looking for bloat and overspending, why not slash the defense budget instead?

That's fine, too. But paying for the healthcare of an entire country is far more expensive than even U.S. defense spending. And cutting defense spending doesn't address the structural problems of having party A pay party B to pay party C to produce good health in party D.

> The accusation was that there were "death panels" that would decide whether it's "worth it" to put all that money into that one dying patient, or whether it's better spent elsewhere.

I want the patient to be able to decide (for instance) that another year on the lam from the reaper isn't worth the high price tag. That only really works if the savings goes to what they want: family, charity, community, etc. and not back into the general fund of a government or corporation.
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Do you pronounce those differently? Where'd you grow up? In all the English dialects I'm familiar with, those are pronounced the same.

Regardless, it's the "j sound" of "James" (as well as of both "edging" and "aging" for those of you who pronounce them the same) and not the "j sound" of "Jaques" (or the "z" sound of "azure").

(For those familiar with IPA, /be.'dʒiɲ/ not /be.'ʒiɲ/)
I wonder if they had thought of that?

>Planting trees or preserving existing forests is likely to also be a critical way to absorb CO2. “The best example of carbon dioxide removal technology that we know how to do now is grow more forest and to protect the carbon content of soils,” says Field.

also:

>“One CO2 collector has the same footprint as a tree,” says Wurzbacher. “It takes 50 tons of CO2 out of the air every year. A corresponding tree would take 50 kilograms of the air every year. It’s a factor of a thousand. So in order to achieve the same, you would need 1,000 times less area than you would require for plants growing.”
Another story about Gmail's beginnings: http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-07-16-n55.html
The partial intent of WASM is to write things orders of magnitude larger than jQuery. Whether or not it will ever be practical to ship e.g. a complete Photoshop clone in a browser remains to be seen, but if that's your goal then you do have to start worrying about things like parse time.
434,000 people ride Bart everyday in the Bay Area. But 270,000 cars still cross the Bay bridge every day and another 112,000 cross the golden gate. And obviously there's everyone driving up/down the peninsula.

I generally agree though, but to think that SF in particular is anti-car isn't exactly true. Much better than the rest of the country, but not as public transit friendly as it could/should be.
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match some_int {
// Why not Some(& s) => ... ???
Some(ref s) => println!("{}",s),
None => unreachable!()
}

To me his proposed syntax looks like the exact contrary use case: pattern-match on something that's a reference.

EDIT: And that's actually the case.

https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=017740fbff2c5923dec3cc514bd...

In that case it works because `w` is copy. For non-copy types, it prevents moving out of the borrow (as expected).

https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=241728575a382c54c324b0201c5...
An inspiring collection of photos, but I'd bet it attracts little interest outside a few select, irrelevant circles. One of the most heartbreaking thing about the massacre is not just that the mass murderers who ordered it were never held responsible but that today it barely even tarnishes their reputations, while the memory of their victims has been thoroughly suppressed.
Agreed - who cares, other than the odd nut like the author. The wings are spread out further and show more of the wing. It looks nicer.
> but why is chrome so much more popular than firefox these days amongst non-technical users?

Google aggressively pushed Chrome on web users.

Banner messages claiming the users browser was out of date (it wasn't, they just weren't using Chrome), or that this website works better on Chrome.

Redesigning their web services to be coincidentally worse on Firefox.

The numerous and excessive ways it was bundled with various other application installers. Most users don't customise and application install, they just stick with the defaults and the result was, they ended up with Chrome as the default browser.
Consumers like buffets. They also don't want to pay a lot of money. You're already seeing add-on channels for Amazon. I'll grumble but generally I prefer a la carte unless the buffet doesn't carry a significant premium over the a la carte price. There are very few shows that are must see for me and I'll buy those individually.
How does prefetching affect things like the not-yet-viewed website's stats? Since it is a Google browser and Google Analytics is so dominate, is it to Google's advantage to do this for reasons other than convenience to the user? (Inflated stats for the prefetched website even though the user never viewed it?)
At least in movies I can hear the difference but I think it goes unnoticed by most people because nobody pays attention to something like that. Unless I consciously pay attention, I don't notice it either, maybe just watching to many Holywood movies, maybe there is a difference between movies and reality.
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I agree having a company trying to produce revenue is arguably more valuable, but keep in mind cryptocurrency isn't _just_ a string of numbers -- what you're buying into is a massive network of machines verifying your transactions and protecting the system from things like double-spends. Sure, Bitcoin has scaling issues, but there is still an insane amount of computing power backing it, and that isn't changing. I'm not 100% sure I see as much value in Ethereum, for sure -- since throwing that much computing power at verifying programs is more dubious to me, as is the switch to proof of stake.
Aha! I was making the assumption earlier as the link would lead you to the GitHub page.

Keep it up, definitely will check it from time to time.
That makes me think of an Android "laptop" Toshiba made that had this silly bright notification light.

Back before Google had a little civil war between Android and ChromeOS...
I wonder if it admitting it opens them up to legal action by those who were discriminated against.
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Polling can be incredibly hard. If you ask the wrong type of questions you introduce a bias. If you ask the wrong types of people you have sampling error.

All of these things could have occurred, but something definitely was wrong with the polling data. Nate Silver just like NYT gave Hillary a 90% chance at the start of the day, and this was all based on using the polling data as inputs to their models.
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Yeas, what about it? Oh right, it might stop working after Firefox 57: https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/issues/1224 . There are people working on it but that isn't true for many other extensions that are no longer under active development.
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Netflix streaming, in my opinion, has degraded significantly in terms of programming choices.

A few years ago when we got the service you could find tons of fantastic movies and tv shows to watch. Today I've switched away in frustration after spending 30+ minutes browsing and searching for something to watch. The menu is mostly filled with crappy 1 to 3 star content. You can't even find good movies from the 80's and 90's. Sure, maybe a few here and there but, for the most part the experience is an exercise in futility.

My kids are watching a Spanish kid's show to improve their language understanding. They are 60 episodes into a 260 episode show. When they are done I think I might cancel Netflix and move on.

Here's the criteria: When I find myself browsing regular TV listings to record good movies to watch and endure having to commercial-skip every two minutes to watch them. What that happens. And you actually end-up with a bunch of really good contemporary movies recorded. That's the moment when you realize Netflix, today, has a bad product. And that's already happened multiple times.
Well there is still hope. Buzzfeed is doing some good journalism now. To me it seems like the sensationalism is a necessary evil to make the big bucks but maybe the long, detailed articles are also necessary for reputational reasons. It pushes more responsibility for filtering out crap onto the reader but if it allows good journalism to survive then I'm okay with it.

See good Guardian articles here: https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/the-long-read
> 'We're big enough to get the deals we want,' he said during Recode's Code Conference on Wednesday.

Translation: we're among the giants you've been warned about. We got ours, good luck.

ISPs have a deathly fear of becoming considered dumb pipes.
I've been using the free version for the past several weeks and have been enjoying it. I am an avid Keep user, and StandardNotes has all but replaced that.

I find it refreshing writing in markdown for minimal formatting, and the interface gets out of your way to let you write.

I'd give it a try if you're wondering!
It'd be nice to have some sample outputs in the Readme.
If they sell the CO2, what's the point?
"less and less chances of striking it rich."

Never said we weren't generally better off. But none of us have a shot at being oil barons, logging millionaires, retail moguls, etc.

Striking it rich now generally means achieving a higher level of knowledge and education first, then you can try to make your mark.

The previous generation hordes vast sums of wealth from endeavors that required less up front preparation and less capital (which was often provided rather no strings attached by the government, a tap which is being shut off (look at IBM's history of being gifted government funded inventions, among others)).
And better clarity---I've seen anonymous callback hell in .js, no thanks.
RAM limit is still too low for big RDBMSes. I guess this is host machine limitsd.
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