skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The criminalization of pot is fundamentally about institutional racism.

Women are consistently less supportive of legalization than men (e.g. http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/08/more-men-than-women-suppor...). I've never heard claims suggesting that women are more racist than men, but this is consistent with women being more receptive to "for the children" arguments.
So it's the right to bear arms in the US Constitution, but that does not stop us from wondering whether it is archaic and whether it should be changed.

Or is there a difference?
You "backed" someone who has a large amount of karma on HN and you expected this to result in some significant positive effect on your life? And you think if you were male, this would have been the case? You also feel people on HN are partly responsible for your financial problems? O_O

I am sorry that you are homeless, I think nobody deserves that and that the government should fix this problem but I think you have an unrealistic view of how the world works and an unhealthy relationship with this web site.
But what of the philosophy of mathematics!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mathematics

All intellectual roads lead to philosophy.

Joking aside, I think we also run into problems with defining mathematics because its application and the thing itself are not really separable. One can have the philosophy of something, e.g. philosophy of mathematics, because philosophy as a method or type of intellectual excursion is not a single thing--you can go about philosophizing in many different ways, even if your topic is the same (e.g. logical positivist handling of philosophy of language vs. the ordinary language philosophers)--in the case of mathematics it is a field of study but it is more fixed as a method or tool of thought--there are several ways to go about philosophizing no matter what branch of philosophy you tackle, whereas with mathematics, while there are different branches of study, there is really only one mathematics--i.,e. there's only one way to go about mathematicizing correctly for a given problem, whereas there's not really a 'correct' way to philosophize about a given problem.

I would define mathematics as a particular mechanism of human thought/a particular way we understand the world (the human mechanism of quantification and manipulation of said quantities)

Of course mathematical realists will disagree with me.
The team I work on had similar needs†, so we built a tool, atop the Python library fabric, to sync a project to (multiple) remote machines, build it, and execute it with configurable command line arguments.

http://github.com/Oblong/obi

†: the specific use-case was for development of multi-machine GUI applications that run in configurations like "display walls" or "immersion rooms". for every developer to have their own "display wall" or "immersion room" would cost lots of $$$, so many of the design decisions were based around the needs of a team of N developers that "shares" these systems.
I wonder if the public opinion (in SV) can be turned enough against Khosla for this. To the point it'll hurt his businesses. Much like it was (deservedly) turned against Uber for their behavior.
Nope, just stating the fact that he specifically knew he was using it for shock and attention.
File is an abstraction that provide a consistent semantics on what operations can be performed on a piece of arbitrary data/resource that the operating system can expose. Nothing prevents you from creating another layer of abstraction that work with your various objects.

I would love to see your proposal on a unified semantics of all these possible "strongly typed values" that the OS can expose.
Monero is the answer to this problem
Look at anywhere around London or Paris, for example; plenty of routes are crush loaded at rush hour. Heck, Tokyo is famous for some lines having people to push people further into each car.
> The thing I don't understand is why police don't simply cut the lock every time Khosla locks the damned thing. It's gone to court, he lost (as he should have), and now he continues to blatantly violate the law.

I'm happy to pay for someone to get bolt cutters and put them somewhere nearby for the public to use when needed.

"Break glass in case of affluenza"
You mean trespassing into private property without a warrant?
This neglects positive externalities, doesn't it? The NY Metro is economically vital but can't recoup its operating expenses from ticket sales, so it relies on taxes (and, unfortunately, a lot of debt). Nobody would say the MTA is exactly a model of a functioning subway system but there's no principle that says a subway can't be funded with taxes and tickets in combination.
>Khosla is a multi billionaire. He could afford to pay a fine of $10,000 a day for the rest of his life.

I believe that for a fine to be fair, it must be based on a percentage basis of disposable income[0].

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland...
Trump, a billionaire who continues to make the wealthy wealthier and fuck over the poor. Anyone would've been a better choice, but hey, American propaganda is amazing (I'm serious, it's amazing, I'm glad most European countries don't have the same know how or have an extremely skeptical population).
It's funny to see people here trying to protect something "because the Constitution" when the right to bear arms in the US Cobstitution is "archaic and should be changed."
Why not acquire the land between the beach and public access using eminent domain?
Even Italy and Spain have trains faster than 200mph..
Hyperloop has a much smaller capacity compared to them, so I can't see how it can be an improvement.
They did not in fact admit they "lost" trillions. It's a fair criticism of their mediocre accounting, however they did not lose trillions of dollars, nor are trillions of dollars unaccounted for. That part isn't even actually being disputed by that ignorant CNN article. Trillions of dollars have not been properly audited, which is not the same as that entire sum simply being magically missing.

That article is rehashing the same bogus premise that has been thrown around for decades. Here's how it works:

https://www.metabunk.org/debunked-8-5-trillion-missing-from-...

https://davidlandy.net/no-the-pentagon-didnt-lose-8-5-trilli...

Basically: within $N trillion in spending, there is a combination of non-audits and accounting irregularities, so therefore CNN throws up a click-bait article claiming the entire amount of spending is unaccounted for.

Pretty idiotic when you consider the sums being claimed vs the known expenditures in question. The premise is: every dollar that wasn't audited was stolen; logically, even if one were to assume theft (etc) happened, it's likely to be a dramatically smaller sum of the whole.
I don't think that's your true reason for supporting a ban on private beaches. Until the courts struck it down, California's constitution also banned same-sex marriage. I don't think that 5 years ago, you would have argued against gay marriage because of what was in the state constitution.

If what is lawful differs from what is most conducive to human flourishing, it is the law that should be changed.
Shouldn't it? Why would anyone who isn't a farmer actually want to live there?
>> isomorphic argument

>> Public beaches are a good thing, but it's wasteful to ban ownership of all 840 miles of California coastline. Some people want private beaches, even if the law doesn't allow for it. They'll lock gates, block roads, and otherwise shirk the law to get what they want. The state then must then expend significant resources discovering and sanctioning these people.

>> A better solution would be for the state to tax private beaches. That would collect significant revenue from people like Khosla while still allowing only a small fraction of the coast to be privately-owned.

A better solution would be to change the law so the fine for blocking access is computed relative to net worth, and to allow for collection of all court costs related to enforcement and collection.

That way the state could fine Khosla $3,000,000 a day for breaking the law, plus make him pay the bill for the legal actions required to collect the money. Failure to pay the money would result in foreclosure of his property.

People like Khosla need to be reminded that they are just like the rest of us.
Let's be realistic. We call that getting lucky. We have enough real victims, let's not try to manufacture new ones.
"We suggest that one aspect of this adaptation is to encompass metadata within a file abstraction"

I thought File Streams would be the ideal place for metadata, except as I read elsewhere, the metadata isn't transfered when you export to the cloud. And didn't Microsoft try and fail at such with WinFS. I guess it's easier to write papers than actually build the thing. No doubt whoever does actually succeed in writing one will have to pay Microsoft a patent license.
You are great! My karma goes down, please!
Serializability Checking for MongoDB Clients [pdf]
By welfare state you mean states with extreme income inequality? Because Europe does pretty well on welfare, because it taxes the rich more. And it has protectionism too, which helps.
Everybody who is in the periphery of hacker (in the traditional meaning as in "Hacker News" and "hacker space", not in the meaning used in media) probably knows the hacker ethic that was originally formulated by Steven Levy:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic
No. The word "Correlation" as used in the article to discuss correlations in the data generated by two remote detectors has a very specific technical meaning. It's not simply one of the words in the trope "correlation does not imply causation."

Correlation as used here and put simply means that when the signal coming out of one the detectors increases, the signal coming out of the other detector (which is physically separated from the first detector by a very large distance) also increases, and when the signal coming out of the first detector decreases the signal coming out of the second detector also decreases.

The existence of that mathematical correlation between those two signals coming out of those two remote detectors absolutely implies there is a causation to the correlation (yes, mathematical correlation can imply a causation, even while it alone is not able to indicate what that causation is).

The question at hand is not whether there is a correlation or whether there is a causation. The question is what is the causation for the correlation and whether that causation is a gravity wave or something else.

The odds are extremely good that that causation is a gravity wave, but it's a big enough experiment and a big enough result that it's worth looking very closely at the analyses that argue in favor of it being a gravity wave (and those that argue against it).
Public transport projects have to undergo cost benefit analyses first in Germany. They only get subsidized when the result is positive. This is rarely a problem.
It's important to realise that the yearly price rises are almost all a result of subsidy dropping, and as peoplewindow says, many fares are already set by the government. Notably, the total premiums paid by the train operating companies (TOCs) now exceeds the amount of total subsidy, so for the first time since nationalisation, the railways are making an operational profit.

From memory, something like 4% of fare revenue ends up as profit going to the TOCs at the end of the year; for many, this isn't enough to buy a single extra train, yet alone anything bigger. The profits these private companies are taking aren't huge in terms of the costs of operating a railway!

That said...

> I don't think the UK position is wrong. It just means people who choose to use the railways instead of driving or moving pay more of the costs. Seems fair.

Surely that same argument should apply to driving? i.e., those using for the roads should pay more of the costs instead of it all coming out of general taxation?
Some friends of mine who won the Design and Propulsion prizes at the Hyperloop competition ( http://hyperloopupv.com/ ) from Spain are talking with some mid-eastern countries to make it a reality. European engineers building the Hyperloop in Asia. It might not be so far fetched as it seems.
Is that the argument you are actually making in this case, or are you just throwing out hypotheticals to be argumentative?
Statistics on sexism
Exactly. Static types ( I've used flow not typescript, but similar ) and good unit tests allow ridiculously easy and merciless refactoring of enormous swaths of code in an extremely short period of time with incredibly high confidence.

Integration tests ( not to be confused with functional tests / i.e.: selenium ) that test multiple classes in concert via input / expected output give the most bang for the buck, because you know your code works as a whole.
I had a somewhat similar experience. No PhD but I had always hated math as a kid learning nothing but, as you say, rote computations in school.

By chance I stumbled on Frege's philosophy of mathematics/investigations into the foundations of mathematics in college and suddenly math was actually really interesting. I find proofs, set theory, algebras, and other mathematical domains closely related to logic way more fun than rote computations. I recall thinking I could have really fell in love with math and maybe even excelled at it if my schooling had ever given me so much as a hint that this stuff was also part of mathematics and it wasn't mere repetition of the same old computations, and that all those formulas build on each other and actually have very interesting justifications.
Strange, both google.com and google.de show a info box with my IP for the query "my ip" for me (from Germany). Does not work with "meine IP" but that is more to type anyways.
What do applets have to do with anything?

I wish that applets had never been invented, too. But only because of market confusion. So many people who don't know anything about Java mix up applets (which haven't been relevant in almost 20 years) with Swing or JavaFX desktop apps, think that security vulnerabilities found in the browser plugin mean that standalone Java apps are "insecure" in general, etc.
Well, how does your community owned and operated business work? Oh right, it doesn't.

It would work if everyone was equally educated and motivated, but for most human purposes, a hierarchical command structure always works better.

The most important part is the ones with power giving more attention and care to the ones without - so everyone can be happy with their lives.
I can see the warning on the menu...
>> If what is lawful differs from what is most conducive to human flourishing, it is the law that should be changed.

If we're talking about laws being conducive to human flourishing, then the law is perfect as is, and in fact, should have even more teeth to make it easier to enforce.

The current law is designed for the exact purpose of human flourishing. Specifically, the flourishing of ALL the citizens of California and visitors thereto.

The law, as is, prioritizes the flourishing of millions of people over the flourishing of a very few extremely wealthy individuals.

This is a textbook example of a good law.
As a counter argument I think the focus on "Spying" is misguided, what is truly needed is transparency in justice system. However the idea of significantly reducing power of DA's and the crazy plea-bargain system is hated equally by both sides.

Frankly in United States in 2017 you do not need warrantless spying/wiretapping/TLS-interception (These are just fancy ways to catch imagination/attention from public/HN commenters) to destroy someone. Just get a friendly DA to prosecute on some made charges, and watch lives get ruined as the defendant weighs plea bargain vs. costly/uncertain litigation.

E.g. look at police killing black people, questionable evidence used by FBI, civil forfeitures, sexual assault allegations prosecuted by fake Title IX courts and finally Aaron Swartz (murdered thanks to DA in progressive/liberal state of MA) [1] .

The problem with US is a deeply vengeful justice system with constituents who laugh at prospect of prisoners getting raped. But lets pretend its the NSA (who likely only cares about Terrorism/Foreign threats) and not your local DA high on power trip to look hard on crime so that he/she can find donors for next election.

[1] https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/01/16/attorney-husban...
Is the question here not that Public Access if guaranteed constitutionally, but whether a single citizen should bear the cost of the public having to go through his property to access the beach?

I can't tell what the Constitution says about which path the public must use to access a beach.

Is it the case that the State or municipalities failed to secure or purchase property to build a path, and now want a single citizen to pay for this path?
Germany has 200km/h and up roads in some places, so this is hardly a convincing counterargument to simply improving the interstate system.
A map can have details left out of it, while a territory cannot.
The actual income of many extremely wealthy people is pretty small to non-existant compared to their net worth (not even counting assets they may have squirreled away in secret accounts, under their family member's names, or other creative accounting tricks).
The rights to to beach access can also be traced to the Code of Justinian in the 6th century:

1. By the law of nature these things are common to mankind, the air, running water, the sea, and consequently the shores of the sea. No one, therefore, is forbidden to approach the seashore, provided that he respects habitationes, monuments, and buildings which are not, like the sea, subject only to the law of nations.

2. All rivers and ports are public; hence the right of fishing in a port, or in rivers, is common to all men.

3. The seashore extends as far as the greatest winter flood runs up.

4. The public use of the banks of a river is part of the law of nations, just as is that of the river itself. All persons, therefore, are as much at liberty to bring their vessels to the bank, to fasten ropes to the trees growing there, and to place any part of their cargo there, as to navigate the river itself But the banks of a river are the property of those whose land they adjoin; and consequently the trees growing on them are also the property of the same persons.

5. The public use of the seashore, too, is part of the law of nations, as is that of the sea itself; and, therefore, any person is at liberty to place on it a cottage, to which he may retreat, or to dry his nets there, and haul them from the sea; for the shores may be said to be the property of no man, but are subject to the same law as the sea itself, and the sand or ground beneath it.

TLDR: Really old Roman dude said watery stuff is public.
It is amazing how people "just don't get it". Laws can (and ocassionaly) should be changed. They should not be violated. The discussion here is about a person constantly violating the law, court order and just getting away with it.
yeah, especially because "[they] built the API in a few hours".

having hosers abuse your free geoip service listed off the first hit from google is nice but the data being provided can't just be "hacked together" :P.
Is there no scope to prosecute someone who illegally locks up public land under false imprisonment laws, i.e. I am being falsely imprisoned in the part of the world which doesn't include the locked up bit?
If any other citizen fails to pay fines, they get bench warrants for their arrest. They should issue bench warrants for these numbskulls.
This is a really good point. It's the only argument I've heard against a strong social safety net that makes sense, and I really don't know a good counter. If you have government-provided health care, government-provided university, etc. then you are very likely to _have_ to restrict immigration since there will be people from places that do not offer those things who wish to avail of it. After all, you'd be foolish not to. If every sick American without health insurance could just pop over to Canada to get treated for free it would bankrupt Canada.

I am a supporter of single payer health care and vastly reduced tuition (or the elimination of the university's role in modern society, but that's another conversation), but I also like the idea of freedom to travel and open borders, and I've never found a way to square the two. I used to burn with envy when I read that such and such writer or artist moved to Paris from the US like it was no problem at all - how was it possible 100 years ago but not now? France offered fewer protections then, and had less to lose from letting people in.
Where would one even begin to design an ethics course for programmers, though?

Our reach is pretty wide and on graduation, one person might go to work for an open source company, requiring one set of ethics, and another might go to work for a government agency, requiring a completely different set.

How do you design a curriculum that satisfies both sets of needs, unless you just want to get totally political?
That is discussed in TFA.
> It's important to note that because PassMark's market share data is based on benchmark submissions it counts actual systems in use, rather than systems sold.

So AMD's market share would be overstated? I don't think a lot of machines get PassMark run on them, most would be enthusiasts or review sites benchmarking them. Ryzen has recently gotten a lot of attention. Compare that to the relative snoozefest that is/was Kaby Lake.

Dell, HP etc. machines sold for home/business use would outnumber enthusiast builds ... ten-to-one?

Steam's Hardware Survey [1] would be one to keep an eye on, although it hasn't been updated for June and would probably favour Intel because of Steam's audience: gaming benchmarks show Ryzen is competitive but in terms of highest performance for gaming Intel has the upper hand.

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
While it's heartening to see a vigorous reaction to the utter contempt for the law demonstrated by Khosla and his ilk, it's also understandably discouraging to see the ease with which people with virtually unlimited resources can abuse and exploit the public. That's why it's important to remember that civil disobedience is perfectly justified to combat this kind of criminality; e.g. sit-ins occupation of the land in question, a 'March to the Sea' through the disputed access-ways, and/or direct action against the gates, locks, and signs.
China has some freight going on HSR nowadays, though they are mostly on slower lines (i.e., 200-250km/h, so 125-155mph IIRC) that were opened on new routes.

But yes, weight is a big deal: the LGV in France, for example, have a maximum axle loading of 17 tons. Much of the US freight network is over 35 tons, from memory.