skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Charity implies voluntarily providing support, leaving it to the benevolence (or lack thereof) of each individual. In the end, it teaches people that being uncharitable is OK and an acceptable trait, just like being charitable.

Your use of "teaches" here implies that violence/imprisonment or the threat thereof teaches (if no mandatory charity teaches people that being uncharitable is okay, I assume you mean mandatory charity through taxation teaches people to be charitable?). That certainly isn't a given; how do you know whether people have been taught to be charitable by the threat of violence/imprisonment vs they're only paying taxes to avoid being imprisoned? If you beat a child for swearing, has the child learned that swearing is bad, or or has the child just learned to avoid swearing in front of the parent to avoid beating? I'd argue that one thing it definitely teaches is that violence is an acceptable means of making others do what you want, and to me a person who believes this is far more terrible than a person who's just too cheapskate to give charitably. Millions more people have been killed in the past century by people using violence to compel others and people supporting such ideas (e.g. Stalin, Mao, Hitler and their armies, even the politicians who forced people into the army via the draft) than have been killed from neglect (the 20th century war & genocide death toll far outstrips the death toll from starvation).

>Then, since everybody will be using their own money to pay the "help the disabled" tax, it's a good deed to mandate by law that everybody has to fork out.

Is a good deed a good deed if done unwillingly?

>That would be irrelevant if the desired outcome is to effectively help the disabled, rather than to test honesty of people's charity.

If people are free to donate as they choose and none chose to support the disabled, wouldn't that in fact show that society doesn't really care about helping the disabled anyway? In which case what's the justification for a law forcing something that few in society want? Conversely, given so many people do seem to care about the welfare of the disabled, why wouldn't they express this through charity?
Stanford USA MBA Fellowship
Your job as a software developer is to solve problems with code - not to take the thing someone else designed and make it go. That line of thinking just doesn't work.

Designing and building software are now the same thing. And that is only going to become increasingly true. Designing solutions in the context of modern systems inherently requires intimate knowledge of those systems and the capabilities of the technology being used to solve the problems. The "design/spec/build/test" pipeline is dying.

You can recognise that that's a good thing and get on board or you can be left behind.
I have little sympathy. The author decided to pick an "edgy" title to get clicks and it clearly backfired.

If you posted "Motherhood Isn’t Sacrifice, It’s Selfishness" as a comment here it would get flagged to death too. Putting it as a title of an OP-Ed doesn't change that even if the author will slowly break down why that ISN'T true (or more complex/nuanced).

If the author wants to generate legitimate discussion, they should talk to their editor about dropping the faux-controversial titles. Particularly as it sets the tone for the discussion is such a negative way.
New bee
I'm new here. Trying understand how this site can impact my life and be helpful. So far I'm just seeing just random news.
Ironic title. This has nothing to do with science and is probably not a PBS NOVA production.
A share of coins in exchange for be posing as a cofounder of their world-changing cryptocurrency, including my photos and a couple articles here and there. Told them to GTFO.
I have liked this quote for a long time, and try to live by it, but am unable to find the source: “The first time you recognise what you are willing to give your life in return for, these tawdry little baubles of a distracted world – the suburban house, the children with perfect teeth – self loathing has to be the inevitable consequence.”
Our human instincts can't deal with how many people there are in the world. A doctor can only treat one person at a time; even one who was saving a life every time they operated - let's say twice a day - would probably be saving less person-hours than someone who can make Google's results 1% faster. Our instincts recoil at the idea that that's more important (mine included), but our instincts were formed in a time when we lived in tribes of at most a few hundred.
Funny, everyone I know who is doing well never went to an Ivy League school. The most wealthy (net worth probably $100M) never went to college. I'd say wealth is built from grit, education, and frugality, not pedigree.

If anything, all the online, open courseware has shown me that the Ivy Leauge coursework is no different than that of most state universities. My kids will have a choice of two in-state schools. If they can get into an Ivy League, that's fine, but they must fund the difference.
It sounds line an opinion piece not backed by any discussion. Essentially a blog post that anybody could have written. Why have off-topic blog posts on HN?
The author has a slightly funny use of the word engineering. If you look at its use in a conventional field like making cars then the science bit is the basic physics and chemistry of how gasses expand etc, the engineering is designing the machinery so the brakes work, the engine produces enough power and doesn't break and the like and then human issues like whether the workers go on strike or the end users are idiots and crash are not engineering.

Similarly I'd say in software the engineering bit is making reliable systems that are fault tolerant and secure and so on and then the people bits like the user interface are something like design and psychology, not engineering.
in Germany it is permitted to cold call B2B (§ 7 (2) Nr.2 UWG) but not cold-email (§ 7 (3) UWG).
But most contributions to society are about labour saving - if we don't think that kind of life is valuable then surely those contributions aren't really valuable either.
Why don't we like arguments from authority?
A good TLS 1.1 server implementation implementing all the fixes should be "fine". While a good TLS 1.0 client implementation should prevent the BEAST from working.

Note that all of these could run without problems if both side support the encrypt-then-MAC extension (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7366).

It's a lot of "if" though, hence why we prefer TLS 1.2 which has no problems (so far). But usually when nothing do, it is still better to have something than nothing.

If you want to know more about BEAST: https://www.cryptologie.net/article/413/beast-an-explanation...
The Average American Debt Profile
play birdmmo.com
For any individual, there is a limited time to study material. Any time that is allocated to study, for example, statistics, is time not spent on studying, as an example, a new computer language paradigm.

I am also surprised how some computer engineers take mathematics/statistics lightly. Even so, I understand that there is a pragmatic path in trying to do one field well (computer engineering), versus spreading effort across more fields. If knowing mean and variance suffices for work, then knowing it is good enough.
I met every character from GoT at a little known startup called Yubl
A few years ago I used to take the "seats" (you actually stand up) on the higher floor of the opera (Paris) and at the intermission I went in the orchestra and took a free seat I spotted during the first part.

I thought the median age wasn't as high as I expected it to be. And the median age was also slightly higher in the higher cheaper rows. (that's only anecdotal observation)
Jupiter Storm of the High North
I find it a bit odd, I think a better version is the elites have returned to how the elites used to always be, not how the celebrity elites are.

Explained, the tech industry created a lot of wealth that was had by people not used to having large amounts of money and they did what people usually do in that case; see lottery winners. Celebrity wealth is like the Hollywood stars type, flashy cars, clothes, and gadgets, that are all appearance oriented.

The long term wealthy or those having grown up in it always favored enriching activities, from sports to trips to the arts. You can see it in the philanthropic actions which are of completely different sort than those who demonstrate their wealth celebrity styles whose philanthropic tend to be similar; demonstrative and self congratulatory.
No. What I am saying is that I don't fully understand the logic that dictates that while both articles I pointed to discuss women's autonomy and the right to decide how use their reproductive organs, only one issue relating to that is worth talking about in great detail and that is the one that discusses the legislating of vaginas in the vein of other topics like income inequality, homelessness, etc.
Antwerp turned out the most pointless city in the Belgium so it's not like they're finding any use for that prime property by this example.

You now have to go to the zoo in Antwerp because otherwise there's no longer anything to see.

IMO, lines of shops selling brightly coloured and vastly overpriced pieces of cloth is even more miserable use for prime property than sex.
Welcome to Hacker News. Please take a minute to read the following:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmakon_(philosophy)

> "the ambivalent quality of pharmakon is more than purely a matter of ‘wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong route of administration, wrong patient’. Drugs, as is the case with anti-retroviral therapy, have the capacity to be beneficial and detrimental to the same person at the same time."
Sounds similar to Dave Ramsey.
yeah although technically that quote implies that the children (with in this case are modified by the description with perfect teeth) are tawdry little baubles. Which probably inspires a loathing not prefaced with self.
You can copy and maybe extend your texts from HN and Reddit and post them to your blog.
Awesome! I've been considering adding alternative formats. Is there any way we can automate the conversion?
Sure. Engineering is an applied science. So, these cannot be equal.
Why is income inequality bad anyway?
Why not take the money and hard redirect them to charity?
XML didn't exist when Stallman wrote that. (guile did)
They spend a lot of time on something useless :)
OSHA provides more protection to a wide range of jobs than you might think. FDA does a lot to prevent the spread of food born illnesses.

So, IMO there is nothing unusual about Prostitution regulations protecting both workers and customers, it's just striking because it demonstrates the value of regulation that's normally invisible.

PS: Track on the job deaths around the world and US workers are protected from a lot of harm even with relatively poor enforcement.
It's in the Github repo, but MIT license.

I'll put a link to that in the site when I get a chance.
policy & regulation within capitalism determine whether corporations can be commoditised by customers (a lot of market competition) or labour can be commoditised by corporations (monopolies & job scarcity, collusion)
There are some successful state-owned corporations, but it's definitely an exception to the rule.
There's a whole lotta stuff posted to HN, most of it doesn't get discussed even if it's interesting.

It's not a male conspiracy to carefully disregard and disrespect certain topics/posts.
These are complicated terms. Harvard's CS was part of their Applied Math department. There are Applied Maths of scheduling programmatic Engineering outcomes for sure. Fred Brooks taught us all that.

I studied Russell, Godel, Tarski and Quine and then compiler and runtime logic (as a Philosophy major). Back then CS was mostly a realm of 3-Page proofs on alpha renaming or newfangled Skip List speed/space utility.

As an old VAX/Sun or 512K/DOS C programmer working in DC for decades around lots of TC, datacenter and transaction processing folks, an SE MUST have basic speed/space, set theoretic, programming by contract, data integrity and MTBF abstractions in their heads while they plan and develop. Both accuracy and performance against test and measure just matter for the business cases 24/7.

Content software developers patching together framework components on 2 day schedules for consumer Web bloatware rarely understand something like data integrity needs of billing system logic embedding in redundant switches failing over on rough schedules. Typing commands is not even Software Engineering.

Software Engineering is not an individual identity phenomenon. SE is how groups show responsibility for stakeholder outcomes unrelated to paychecks. First rule of SE is everyone on the team passes the bus test. Nobody is essential. Unless we seek luck, we can't improve what we don't measure. Learning how and what to measure takes real training and group method application. So many out there never know what they are missing.

Business competition minus lucky windfalls is largely based on COST ACCOUNTING. Successful operations will discover heat dissipation costs challenges. Basic CS speed/space, contract covenant assertions, data integrity and MTBF logic in Software Engineers translates very easily into understanding business innovation problems.
Huh, I’ve always known a sealouse to be the aquatic equivalent to a woodlouse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligia_oceanica . Looks like I was wrong, or at least I learned a local name.
I think that's the actual reason for doing well, ie addressing problems. (Lack of) honesty is just one of those.
You would be shocked at what some people will pay for. I've seen Facebook groups that cost $80/month to join and are filled with thousands of people.
A Beginner’s Guide to Optimizing Pandas Code for Speed
Google Diversity Memo
Generally speaking, income inequality leads to social instability. In the limit, that means violent revolution.
Elm has automatic semantic versioning based on the type system:

https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-package/blob/master/README.m...
Mark Blyth (prof. of political economy at Brown) has advice for anyone with this attitude: "The Hamptons is not a defensible position"[1]. What are you going to do when a large fraction of the population starts getting hungry and they decide taking what they need from you (and everyone else with wealth/resources)? Do you really think that the police will simply arrest them? What about when someone starts shooting and the protests turn into a mob burning down the city and the streets becoming a war zone?

Contrary to what other comments have suggested, welfare isn't about being a nice civilized society that doesn't leave people behind. Welfare is a bribe. It's a tribute ("danegeld"[2]) we pay to the poor so they don't burn down the city or murder anyone between them and food/shelter. Arresting that class of people would be more expensive as it still pays for their food and shelter.

Do you really want to give up the cheapest and safest option for defending yourself against the bottom ~quarter of the population? Recent events at Ferguson and Baltimor are warning. Ignoring them is not recommended if you value maintaining your current standard of living.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzl4B3mrKQE

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danegeld

[3] Exact amount and the scope of what is mean by "national defense" is off topic.
The 11 best blogging and publishing platforms on the Internet today
I think it works quite well, I just hadn't seen the feature before. I disagree with you a bit, though, in that many seemed pretty regular, and weren't really oddities, in my opinion.
Correct; tmpfs only uses as much memory as as is used by the files it contains.
Look no farther than some South Asian societies. Countries with no madness around prostitution are better off socially.

It is not an accident that Thailand is a Buddhist country - people are tolerant to whatever is not harming others living beings.

Too much pressure on sexual issues is a sign of primitive authoritarian societies (who are cooksure that they know better what is right and what is wrong than biology and evolution).
Ensemble Integration with PKB Service
To Get to Harvard, Go to Haiti
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. --Warren Bennis

Bu imagine an alternative world without factories. The maker movement is still ahead of us. Imagine there exists an open-hape-wiki with 3d-models of every part of every thing we ever built (actually these models exist already but are not open source).

The shop & tools are would be a 3d-printer plus remote controlled robot arms (so that a person from Ukraine can deliver service to you).
The author didn't review the service, he basically assumed many things about the inner workings and didn't give the company a chance to clarify.

Consumer Review doesn't have to disclose the fact that they will review a car when they buy it from a dealership, but they probably should ask GM to comment when they say "it seems to us, without having driven one or heard from anyone who has driven one, that GM are making their cars so they explode on impact".
For me, it's about how certain you are about what's going on. If you've flown with an airline and have seen their economy class cabin, then you're okay to write about it without talking to anyone. You presumably didn't fly with this startup, though (unless I missed it in the post), so I'm wondering what their side of the story is.

It's probably "err, yes, you might get the death penalty", but I don't know that, because nobody from the company was reached for comment.
If you are making concrete plans to commit a crime, it is often punished with the same sentence as if you had committed the crime. In Canada and the UK, for example, conspiracy to murder can be punished with life imprisonment.
Bitcoin Mining for Dummies
>The top 10% of income earners pay 90% of the taxes?

Nope. According to several sources[1][2], the top 10% earn ~40% of total income and pay ~70% of total taxes, while the top 25% earn ~70% and pay ~90%.

[1]https://www.mercatus.org/publication/tax-burden-among-varyin...

[2]https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-...
What about local politics? Surely that's dominated by women? What about the politics of a social club, a trade union, or similar groups? Are they all dominated by women? (Answer: No).

I'm not sure how you can merge the two theories that "Women are just better at people skills" and "Women aren't better than the best". The whole thesis is claiming that women are as naturally superior at people skills as men are naturally good at tech/STEM. Google is supposed to hire the best, and it's >50% men, so why isn't something that "hires the best" (in politics) still <20% women (e.g. US Congress).
Thanks random person, I just cashed out my 401k and bought this. Hope it works out!
Pure CSS game: https://codepen.io/elad2412/pen/hBaqo

Rule110 (After setting first row requires alternation of tab/space to run): https://codepen.io/elrumordelaluz/pen/wqLyH?editors=010

stackoverflow discussion: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2497146/is-css-turing-co...
That's a great idea. I do some of the tasks myself, and others I've been working with a freelancer on. If some can be automated, I'd consider paying a service instead.

It would be easy to test that idea manually until you had some traction too. Feel free to use the list if it helps and if you build it I'll definitely add it to the checklist!
It wasn't ignored, it was flagged.
They are the ones perpetrating the actual violence by their own hands. I would have thought that obvious.
Ask HN: How to get good feedback for academic code?
As part of my academic research I am writing some python code. Although I try to follow good coding practices I don't get any feedback on my code from my supervisors, as they are domain experts (civil engineering) but not experienced in software engineering.

How do others in simmilar situations get feedback for the code they write?
One thing is certain. Google continues to overwhelmingly pay more male employees than female.

If Google were half-and-half, then the words of their corporate apologists would carry weight. As it stands, it seems they are trying to frighten anyone who might speak further.
In Case You Missed It, This Is Who Just Saved Jaime Lannister's Life
The way I do it is by having a planning time for the project before I start working on the checklist. During the planning time I'll remove or prioritize things that I think will be most impactful based on the customers.
Early Guile releases shipped with something called "ctax", but I can't find any example of what it looked like.
Recent acceleration of human adaptive evolution
>2.) Why should people have to film their act of having sex and then publish it (porn is legal in the US...)

Filming sex doesn't suddenly make it legal. It's the permit required which makes it legal.
When nearly all of the states have pretty extreme anti-sex worker views, the experiments don't happen. It's, honestly, embarrassing how long it's taking for the US to get sane policy regarding sex work. The US is perhaps too homogeneous to provide good experimental data.

But, it's great when experiments do happen. And, I guess we're reaching a tipping point on drug policy, at least with regard to the most popular (still mostly) illegal drug.
In this case, they mean "accessible" as in screen readers and assisted usage.
Anyone know how much water is 1cm sea rise? Mars needs water and Musk is interested in footing the bill, even if a mass driver is probably more apt to the issue than rockets.
To me it seems that it's not about the upvotes per se but about the flagging and the perception that prostitution is an appropriate topic for HN but motherhood isn't.
I'll admit, I haven't personally tried every one of these tactics. I'm not sure how to include opinions on what works and doesn't, plus I like the idea of the list being more comprehensive rather than opinionated.
how profoundly and easily replaceable

It is no great virtue to think that when you have wealth, but try living like that when you are poor and all of your meagre possessions were hard-earned.

Minimalism is an ostentatious luxury.
Ok thanks, I didn't recall the exact stats, other than it is quite skewed.
How  to Generate Maximum B2B Leads
Reminds me strongly of the hacking as shown in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Robot_%28TV_series%29
Well the very comment you replied to has been detached for being "off topic".
> Also the far-left shared some fake stories (but not totally implausible scenario) under which legalization of prostitution could mean that unemployed women could be forced by unemployment office to accept prostitution jobs or lose their unemployment benefits. They used the outcry to justify that prostitution is not a job like every other one.

It would be just as outrageous if an unemployed actress had to chose between shooting a pornographic movie or lose her unemployment benefits. I don't see anyone using that argument to outlaw pornography.
Because women actually don't see that to be a weakness in men.
I initially tried that on WolframAlpha but it doesn't understand Mathematica syntax. But one can enter it on https://lab.wolframcloud.com after creating an account.
Legalizing prostitution increases human trafficking:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X12...

The correct approach is to decriminalize providing, and crack down hard on buyers.
So, to recap, GTK doesn't work at all for accessibility, wxWidgets has issues with text entry, and Qt works, but only with NVDA, and not with text entry fields and JAWS.

Now, Qt is an open project, so the question is: are there just no users interested in this who could implement it themselves? Most other functionality in toolkits was implemented like this.
My eyes hurt because of the changing colors!