skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [A]ll actions are actually predefined by your own experience.

Your past actions and deterministic plumbings of material body constrain the future possibilities but they do not remove the possibility of further choice, in the general case.

Rumi's father -- both father and son were Muslim mystics -- tells an amusing tale of how the question of predeterminism and free-will was settled in their day in his spiritual diary:

In Khwarazm the great majority [are] Mu'tazilis. No one there ever
claims to have had a 'vision of God'. The people think of themselves
as freely acting makers of their own lives. If they meet up with
Jabriya, one who believes everything is predestined, they cuff him
about the head and say "It's God's plan that I do this."

Khwarazm is tough on the predestined people. Their houses are plundered
and as they walk about in poverty they are clubbed and beaten. Mu'tazilis,
on the other hand, enjoy the wealth they seize from the Jabriyas, these
lazy ones who never initiate anything. "That is God's business" they say.

Theirs, evidently, is to suffer in both worlds.

As for the faculty of 'Choice' in the Human being, he wrote:

"By the One who sets the Earth with rivers pouring through in mist
below mountains, and two oceans with a strip of land in between" (27.61),
we move the elements into various shapes without their consent, but
Human beings, unlike water and trees, have a choice. They are given dignity,
discernment, and the evolutionary wisdom that can move from death to new
life, again to die and be restored on another level of Existence.

You have many choices about the ways you live and work and change and survive.
Say you fall into an ocean. You may give up and sink, or you may try to
swim to the shore.

Salvation is your decision.
Sorry, don't agree. It is bad for negotiation and getting a favourable outcome for yourself. Unless you actually want everyone in a society to make close to the same amount of money (which is how they roll in Norway, and if you dare make more, they'll basically just tax it away), which I don't think is great, I'd much rather not have anything be public.

In fact, I would never want to live in a country like that.

The people that want to figure out how much others are making can figure it out. From a negotiating position, you're much better off not having your salary be public, than the other way around.

Also, you want to have some inequality in western society (not crazy amounts -- basic needs of everyone should be met), because it motivates people to achieve things. If there's no reasonable reward waiting for you at the end, why even bother?

Norway has high income taxes, high capital gains taxes, wealth taxes, crazy taxes on (luxury) cars, high VAT, high taxes on alcohol, etc. Where's the reward? The warm fuzzy feeling you get from working hard? Hell, where's the fun? I don't see how one could ever be an entrepreneur there. Even if you win, you eventually lose (wealth tax), unless you move away.
For those times when you click a link to a paywalled article, http://unpaywall.org is a pretty handy Firefox extension that will redirect to a (legal) unpaywalled alternative site, if it exists.
is this a trick or is geolocation on iPhones better than the 5m typically quoted.
Why not switch to Firefox Beta to get those improvements immediately? With the removal of the aurora channel, Mozilla is trying to get more people on the beta train, that now is the only stabilization phase between Nightly and Release.
As a die-hard Nightly user I usually install the Beta (x64) version for other users and, depending on the add-on compatibility, enable e10s or some other features (e.g. TCP Fast Open) that may already be in A/B testing. Right now it makes an amazing difference in user satisfaction.
No, but you'll want to be at a desk or a chair with a keyboard mount.

Typing is always going to be more efficient for precision data input until we get to the third or fourth generation of direct brain interface... and nobody wants to be a beta tester for that.
1. Yes
2. By your criteria
3. Their job is to inform the public, not to make things up

I don't even like the man, yet I am compelled to defend him against what I see as a greater injustice.
I hate the fact that if I voice anything skeptical of this policy someone will call me a terrorist sympathizer. I'm of the conviction that the idea of blowing yourself up is bad enough that we don't really need to censor it. Furthermore I've noticed that the public largely stops thinking the moment "terrorists" or "ISIS" is mentioned. We now live in a state where we can't move ~5000 USD without informing the government because "anti-terrorism money laundering laws". We can't mail certain food products into the US because "bio terrorism act of 2003". Our FBI wants to back door encryption because "ISIS". Notice a pattern yet?

Will it stop with ISIS? Once the precedent is set how long will it be before other search results are manipulated for political reason?

And its not like there's any side of the political spectrum I can vote for. Both Hillary and Trump wanted to censor extremism on Twitter. Both wanted to expand the no-fly list into a no-buy-guns list (constitutional implications be damned). Left, right, center and abroad the civil libertarian is under siege.
I'm going to guess the square law? This monitor has about 75 times the screen area of a typical phone.
Yes, that's exactly what I'm suggesting. VMs can be named, saved and loaded straightforwardly.
You claim demand to live in the Bay Area exceeds housing technology carrying capacity. Do you have any evidence for this?

No city on Earth is full. (Indeed, estimates of human population growth show planetary population stabilizing at less than one tenth our global carrying capacity, so this is not surprising.) It would be extraordinary for the Bay Area to be the first, and so calls for extraordinary evidence.
Nine times out of ten, the obvious answer to problems like this would be 'don't make the device require/use the internet'. I mean, why not have a smart fish tank that runs on a local network? There' zero reason to have something like this depend on external servers or what not.

Why does the 'Internet of Things' use internet access for everything rather than just letting people manage it locally?
That alone makes LN a bad idea.
I'd much rather see one with higher resolution. The DPI is quite low with today's standard.
what's interesting is that Google has been doing this for some time! For the longest time I was curious what would happen if you did a specific but obviously wrong search such as "how do I poison someone and get away with it" or "how do I join ISIS without being caught" or something. Well as you can imagine for obvious reasons I did not do those searches! (To spell it out, I did not want them in my search history, and also they show pretty clear criminal intent, and also we have clandestine agencies who presumably watch for such things perhaps with Google's cooperation, etc.)

Well some time ago I had the brilliant idea that I could test an "obviously wrong" search to see what kinds of results it would give.

So I'm male, and I decided to search "How do I trick a man into thinking he's the father" or something (as though I'm pregnant) which is pretty clearly wrong but which I'm obviously immune to the idea of intent for. (To spell it out, because males obviously don't get pregnant.)

I expected search results like forum discussions, a Yahoo Answer question phrased with that exact word, etc. You know, same as if you Google any other specific question like that.

Well that's not what I got at all. Despite my very specific question phrased something like the above, ALL of the top ten links were to pages about "paternity fraud" - which I didn't even know was a thing. (I just thought it was just a shitty thing to do, and anyway could always be played off as a genuine mistake.)

So I instantly learned that what I was Googling was fraud, and closed the page without clicking any of the links to learn more. But my reaction was: well played, Google!!

If I had actually started out with that thought, it's likely I would have abandoned it after that search.

To be clear, Google did NOT answer my question directly (even though no doubt there are tons of pages that would have answered it exactly as asked), instead teaching me why it's wrong.

I was very impressed. I can only imagine the same would be done for some of the worse types of queries someone can do.

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Note: just to make this gender-neutral: if I were a woman then to do my experiment I could have Googled something like "how long can I trick her into having sex with me if I got a vasectomy and she is trying to get pregnant" or something, which obviously cannot be a genuine question by a woman.
Of course not, because when white people engage in terrorism, they are "deeply disturbed individuals with unmet psychiatric needs" and the public/media sympathize with them.
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what a world
Hiding any thing from the tops and news and making it underground makes it unpopular and orders of magnitude less spread. Imagine what would happen to spinner if youtube redirected it to something different.

Real actions are already underground, extremism only uses public places to recruit masses to get better selection and financial support. Which is good to cut off.

I bet you're living in first-world country saying that you we should just go and rationally talk to extremists.
Well. I've made a little extension that lists unread links. For linkrot, yes that's an issue I plan to solve, and what I will do is I'll either find or write a program that saves my bookmarks as websaves.
So which one was it?
Nicer progressive display is possible in JPEG already:

https://imageoptim.com/progressiveblurdemo.html

it's only a limitation of libjpeg that smoothing of early progressive scans is weak and incomplete, and thus looks very blocky. I wish browsers improved implementation of this.

Partially loaded DCT coefficients correspond quite well to maximum possible image resolution, so it is known how much cross-block smoothing needs to be applied to get nearly-optimal smooth preview. There's even an implementation of that idea:

http://johncostella.webs.com/unblock/
ICOs on the Rise: A Major Investor Buys New Cryptocurrency to End Email Spam
Macro has a pretty bad reputation, but economists often point to successes of the field as a counterpoint. Noah Smith points to four areas: Matching theory, discrete choice theory, gravity trade models, and auction theory [0].

Does anyone know about these topics? Are they really as successful as their proponents claim?

[0]http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/is-economics-sc...
I have an UltraSharp and it's fucking rubbish. Half of the screen has a yellow tint, and it has dark corners. Obviously support says it's "within spec".
PSA - don't get tempted by UltraSharp reviews and recommendations, like I did. Just pick an Eizo instead.

UltraSharps are widely recommended for coding with glorious reviews and endorsements. Got one and no matter how I adjusted it, it was still too... eye-piercing, if you will, for longer coding sessions. Got mild headaches, tired eyes and general feeling of discomfort when working on hem even for shorter periods. Then switched to FlexScan and it's a completely different ballgame - softer, more gentle feel, incomparably more comfortable. The best monitor I've had a pleasure of staring at in my 20 years of programming.

However the interesting part here is that both monitors use the same panel (!), so the panel itself is only part of the recipe, which is something that many reciews tend to either downplay or not mention at all.
> in the Soviet Union, the state had been very authoritarian while the workplace was relatively democratic

Probably if we're talking engineering bureaus in late 1980-es. But even then the setting is quite Dilbert-esque. At best, the democracy was like you can go to hair salon at working time, but not like you can affect any management decisions or working process in any way.

It can be in part explained by the fact that there was no relationship between how productive or hard-working the bureau or individual is and how good payment is. In fact, at the salary was most of time constant for any given profession, the situation didn't incentivise hard working, so it's not a surprise if there was little production pressure at workplace. Which leads to one of reasons of failure of the USSR.
Last time I tried such giant screen, I ended up extremely frustrated with the screen splitter feature, I prefer triple monitors for this reason.

Had there been significant progress in this field the last few years?
Additionally opening a bookmark fold as tabs does not support lazy loading so it will bog down your computer when you open all the bookmarks.
I'm not moving the problem, I'm stating that the problem (as it seems you're stating it) is unsolvable, you simply cannot have a closed crypto system where looking at the source is sufficient to ensure that it's secure.

You need an external source of entropy to generate the key material required for any cryptography. It can't be in your code because any code is fundamentally incapable of doing that. If your source of entropy is compromised, then none of cryptographic systems are safe, not symmetric, not asymmetric, not one-time pads, not anything else.

Yes, you can't trust an url or an IP address - but you should be able to trust your hardware, and that commonly offers some decent sources of entropy. You can also trust yourself - e.g. user-action derived entropy. If you don't trust your hardware, tough luck, get trusted hardware. If your key material isn't generated properly, then your crypto will not be secure.

It doesn't mean that the method is flawed or insecure. All methods are the same in this regard, it simply means that security requires not only secure code, but also other precautions - e.g. secure generation of keys, secure management/storage of keys, secure platform on which to run your code, etc, etc. If you have a secure algorithm, proper implementation, best practices everywhere else, then your system will still be insecure if you fail e.g. to store your keys securely and someone gets them.
What can I do in Haskell that I can't do in Clojure, because of Clojure's dynamic typing?

If you want to add static typing, you're looking for a contract library. Some are runtime, some use the macro system to get compile-time checking. (In fact, core.typed looks almost exactly like Haskell type definitions.)

If you miss Haskell's pattern matching, you can find it at core.match.

You want monads instead of variadic functions? Nothing easier.

Laziness is a lambda away.

Clojure, and so many similar dynamic languages have the power to give you the safety of static typing, if and when you want it. But they don't require it of you.

In some cases this can be bad, when you don't think through your data structures enough.

In other cases, it can be good because you don't need to think as much as you put things together, and can go back and expand later.

I think every language has a time and a place, for the right purpose.
On the contrary, opening tabs reduce the cognitive load for me. Instead of having to use some of my limited mental space to keep in mind that there's some interesting link I'd like to go when I have finished reading the current page, I just open it now and will go back to later. Same as writing something down in a todo list.

I also close tabs as soon as I'm done with them which is why I only have 150-200 tabs open. Each categorized by activity, so when I switch one activity to the other I save time and cognitive load by having them right as I left them instead of having to find what URLs to reopen and actually open them. This way I only have 5-30 tabs open in front of me while the other are offscreen in other groups.
I agree. 60hz is fine but having tried +100hz CRT monitors back in 199X I am still waiting for them to be mainstream. Perhaps Apple will take the iPad's "ProMotion" 120hz to the mainstream crowd in a not-too-expensive display package.
Most of those buildings are pretty far away from the camera, so it doesn't seem like it would need to be that accurate.
I tend to agree with you. Universities/Colleges that receive public money also should be able to copyright or patent findings. If public money funds it, it should be public domain.
How much of the price Cut I should be expecting If I am planning for vms with total capacity 1000 cores.
Web Browser: conkeror

Email Client: emacs

Terminal: urxvt

IDE: emacs

File manager: emacs

Basic Text Editor: emacs

IRC/Messaging Client: emacs

PDF Reader: emacs + epdftools

Office Suite: n/a

Calendar: emacs

Video Player: n/a

Music Player: emacs

Photo Viewer: feh

Screen recording: n/a
Brooklyn Trial to Reveal Inner Workings of ‘Botnet’ Hackers
Title shoud be `Dotsies - dot based read optimized font (2012)`.
Sadly, outside of macOS, the support for high PPI display is dodgy at best. On Linux, it is becoming better, but still a lot more to improve. On Windows, it's a real shitshow. Windows 10, for the most part, is OK (still a lot of inconsistencies and lack of polish when scale > 100%), but application support is just terrible, be it blur, tiny scale, inconsistent elements (some small, some large) or plain crashing. Really, any vendor that makes such display is taking a risk that people will complain and a sizeable portion of the customers that purchase such a display will not understand the technical difficulties.
there's tab groups and tab groups helper but this will be dropped by firefox in november so ...
Yeah, 60Hz looks like a slideshow after using 144Hz for a while.

It does get rapidly better after 60, though. I think I can stop telling a difference at around 80. So there is some hope that we can have 4k@better-than-60 in the near future.
Voice, eye tacking, and gesturing don’t offer possibilities?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0QNiZfSsPc0

http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/using_voice_to_code.html

And yes, if you’re clicking away in a room of programmers, it won’t work for you, but with a Hololens I’ll find a quiet location.
Could anybody please elaborate, in which way the mishandling happened? The author seems to claim it happened because of cloud management personell, but from linked articles it seems swedish agency staff has published wrong datasets. So this exact leak is not up to how cloud was handled, but how the data (regardless of where stored) was handled by authorized personell, no?
Oh great, the rules have changed. Guess I should just uninstall the piece of software that came with the TV.

As for "over the top" - http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one?wt.mc_id=... clearly states a device could be pretty much any electronic device at this stage, not just TVs - So how does this work? How is it proven you don't actually benefit from a TV programs? Not having a TV doesn't seem to be enough in the eyes of the law. I don't necessarily want my details attached to a private company I have no business with, as I understand it they are just outsourced enforcement and there is no legal obligation to provide them with any of my details (the letters aren't even addressed to "me" as a person, but simply the "occupier"). I'd rather keep getting the letters than give them information they have no right to.

It's all ambiguous and nonsensical to me. If there is anything I actually enjoyed in my southern European origins is that governmental funded extortion was at least direct.
I rather we invest in PPI rather than refresh rate. Not that the two are mutually exclusive, but as I look at my use cases, most of the time the screen is static, so a higher refresh rate would be wasted, whereas higher PPI screens improve readability and legibility (when they work on Windows).
I don't have any sources either, but I'm sure that there will be different reactions to such redirects, depending on the individual.

The hardened core will probably feel justified in their beliefs by the attempt to combat them and radicalize even quicker.

But more casual group members might actually change their mind if they are confronted with outside opinions, especially if they hadn't considered them before.

So whether this kind of propaganda is effective or not essentially depends on the makeup of the targeted group. I guess you could try measuring the effect by tracking engagement of the redirected. If they are truly radicalized, they are likely to leave; but if they are more open-minded, they might stay a little longer.
Have you tried without a profile and with another profile ?

I regularly search Google with questions I think another persona would ask (parents or project manager recently).
It's hard to tell what "redirect to playlists" means - will the relevant videos be completely censored, or are they adding a playlist of opposing views to the same results? The latter seems like a nice compromise.
You haven’t tried any futuristic solution, so how would you know that you’re not going to like it?
On Linux, it just depends on your desktop environment.

If you use KDE or any other Qt based one, HiDPI works perfectly at any scale, even in heterogenous environments – a landscape 4K 144ppi and a portrait 70ppi monitor right next to each other will work fine, and when moving applications they automatically rescale. On X11 and Wayland. The scale is set via the environmental variable

QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=DisplayPort-2=1.61;HDMI-A-0=1.08;

It’s GNOME and GTK which have almost no HiDPI support at all – they only support 96 and 192dpi (only integer scaling), and just added a feature for all other resolutions to just scale the windows down with blur. GTK2 still supported proper HiDPI, but with GTK3 they decided to abandon that and instead build apps that rely on pixels always being the same size. Considering how young GTK3 is this decision may sound a bit short-sighted, but the GNOME devs always refer to macOS as an example where this worked (while ignoring Android and Windows 10, which use fractional scaling, and ignoring the fact that with Gnome’s solution a game such as Minecraft on a 4K 144dpi screen is rendered at 6K and then half the resolution gets thrown away during the downscaling, because there is no option to avoid this)

The result is obviously completely broken.
I studied economics and philosophy in college. Did a bit of economics research for a senior thesis.

I was encouraged to study economics as a more "practical counterbalance" to philosophy. The funny thing is, I've found philosophy, in how it helped me improve the rigor of my thought, to be much more useful and practical than anything I learned in economics.

Economics needs to rely more on computation and data than on abstract mathematical models if it ever hopes to have real predictive power.
IIRC the United Kingdom has no national ID cards, but generally if your country has one they are an acceptable way for EU citizens to travel within the Union (and they were even when the EU was the EEC).

Getting your ID in Italy is about one Euro (printing photos is more expensive than that) and it's valid for ten years. All that's required for an Italian is a means of being identified by an officer; the national ID card is just a convenient one. A driving license is enough of you prefer.
Oh I skimmed it to the stats. It was showing a competitor monitor's stats. Still the same principle.
Seconded - I've been using Emacs exclusively since 2009, and still find something worthwhile every time I dip into Mastering Emacs.
I believe they meant "autonomous" rather than "anonymous."
"- TV's are generally low framerate, as much as they'd like to claim 240FPS, it's mostly all 30FPS, with software interpolation to increase the frames."

That makes absolutely no sense. If the panel is incapable of 240 refreshes per second, how does software interpolation "increase the frames"? You are confusing content and panel.