skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider the question in a different context. Suppose I go to a poor village in India and I give each school age kid the equivalent of 10 USD in INR (rupees) but I give one kid the equivalent of 500 USD. Let's suppose the kid who gets more isn't chosen at random. Suppose that I have some criteria for who deserves to get more but that I don't consider who deserves it the most. Everyone got something but one person got significantly more. Is that a bad outcome? Will the kids who got 10 USD feel satisfied knowing that most of the others got the same amount? Will the kid who got 500 USD start to tell the others that they would have gotten 500 USD too if only they had done XYZ?

I think this question is really just asking if inequality is bad. It seems to me that inequality is an inherent part of nature in general and the human condition in particular. "Would you really want equality, or are you ok with inequality at some level?" Another way to say equal is homogeneous. To rephrase it, "Would you want everyone to be the same, or do you value diversity instead?"

I would propose a different question. If some cause (technology in this case) has the effect of helping everyone but helps some substantially more, is this situation sustainable? Then consider, will everyone's fortunes continue to improve forever? Will some equilibrium in the inequality be established? Will the inequality eventually reach an extreme such that the situation will be worse for certain people or society as a whole?

I don't propose answers to these questions. However, I think we can look through history to find examples of how similar scenarios played out in the past.
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Looking at the activity on Bitstamp right now, I don't think selling a few thousand BTC even affects the price noticably. Someone just sold almost 30,000 BTC for within half a percent of the previous trade - which is basically just the bid/ask spread these days.
Tethered cord is a recognised cause of scoliosis and we check for it on all MR scans of this region. I'm not aware of it causing some of the other things you list in your post. Where are you based? If you are able to see a reputable neurosurgeon in any first world city locally I would be tempted to just take their advice.
I'd like to see corporation tax replaced with a Border Adjustment Tax [1]. The tax would be paid on the result of USA Revenue - USA Costs. If you were to move intellectual property offshore and licence it from that subsidiary then that would not be a USA Cost and therefore would not be deductible. If you brought it back onshore then it would only be deductible if there was a cost. If you moved into another company within the US, then it would be a cost but that company would then need to pay tax on that revenue minus the minimal costs that it would incur to store IP.

1. http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/border-adjustment-tax.as...
What's appalling is how they're not switching to libressl yet.
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Code is the formal specification.

There are two separate problems here - one is that you might not be able to clearly explain what you actually want. The other is that you might simply fuck up when writing the formal spec (code). Formal verification is meant to assist you in the latter - when you know what you want, but can make mistakes writing it down, or not realize your description is self-contradictory in some aspects.
> The hypothesis is that men are more likely to be on the autism side of dead center, even for people who are still in the neurotypical region. A higher percentage of men being diagnosed with autism is evidence of the hypothesis being true.

No it isn't
> I am no longer excited about new frameworks, etc

To me it is a sign that someone is finally becoming a senior (sane) developer.
Every person I've know who has been involved in government contracting has basically said it's a giant scam, and a giveway to certain corporate interests.

Basically we all know the government is not as efficient as the private sector at performing lots of tasks. It turns out the government is especially bad at contracting out large government services.
No, but languages like Haskell, Ocaml, F#, Idris, Purescript, Elm etc are definitely, when talking about correctness.
This is just annoying.
> "All available evidence strongly suggests that Charles Murray is in fact a racist"?

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/07/why-is-charles-murray...

> A far more illuminating piece of evidence about the Murray racial worldview is found in his little-read 2003 book Human Accomplishment, the text that substantiates point 2 on the above List Of Racist Charles Murray Beliefs: Black cultural achievements are almost negligible.

> Human Accomplishment shows that Murray has a long obsession with racial difference, and with using statistics to prove the lesser intellectual gifts of black people.

> How, in a book that is literally about people’s greater and lesser reasoning capacities, and that literally claims black people are less endowed with such capacities, can you harken back to Jefferson, leaving his racial views unmentioned, and then act shocked when people think you’re a racist? How can you not be a racist? How is there any way?

etc. etc.
This is fantastic, really fun to use and would make a cool portfolio website.
Any type of software development services and business where the end result is some form of data (and you can send it as a spreadsheet) - i think this covers almost anything. On short thought - the only big exception I could find are 2-sided marketplaces.
I'm not sure I agree. A significant play in the startup playbook is:

1. Double Revenue in X period.

2. Add 50% to costs in same X period.

3. Raise enough money that the money in the bank is greater than the losses while (Revenue X 2) < (Costs X 1.5).

No matter the starting point, as long as the runway is long enough, Revenue X 2 will eventually eclipse Costs X 1.5. Heck, even if it slows, as long as the Revenue X is greater than the Costs X, revenue will eventually exceed costs.

The "leaked" financials bare out that this play, and I think Uber is a lot closer to breakeven than people seem to think, as long as than can 2X revenue. That's simply selling investors on maths, and doesn't require a lot of distortion .
Not sure where in America is paying $300 per hour for software developers.
Then they could have added it as the language with the more traditional algebraic syntax.
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I've seen it like that before because it gives hiring managers scope to create different types of job. They might have to hunt for talent at a certain price/responsibility point, but having extra steps on the scale downward allows them to open up a position at a lower price point if needs must. If that rung didn't exist, it's be a much harder ask to get a JD approved in a large co.

Also, a number of places need a few spine points below someone's normal band for probationary periods (I once started a role at a lower salary and they bumped me up to my real one on probation pass), or other reasons.

Most of it comes down to internal processes for job creation and sign off.
I use ssleuth that gives me a bit more details and a rating:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ssleuth/
On Choosing What to Do Next
Yet another case of Bootleggers and Baptists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists
It would seem odd if the marketing checklist had "Create product", wouldn't it? :)
Perhaps one day Australia will be safe for human habitation.
Can a living creature be as big as a galaxy?
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The severely disabled, we should provide zero social supports for them and their families so?

It's nobody's fault that they're garbage people. Luck of the lottery.
It's legal in Germany too.

My girlfriend grew up in a red light district.

She said it was mostly okay, the nights were a bit rough, because the clients would often argue loudly with the girls right before her window.

But the "madame" of a brothel around the corner would always look after the children going to school in the morning so they wouldn't be bothered.
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This is a very long, very technical article. I really won't understand much of it as it is now. And that's a pity because this is a question that needs to be understood and debated.

I think that unless there is a digestible version of the arguments along with the general counter arguments, it's not a very useful read. And comments are just going to be undocumented reaction to the title...
Perhaps the mods are asleep and somebody is trying to post ponies?
Like it or not, only the founder cares about the company. So the founders attitude should be forced to change and not change the founder itself. If Uber brings Meg Whitman then she will do the same what she did to HP. Split in to multiple pieces (HPE, e.t.c) and then sell em all, because only the founder cares.
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solution to this issue is not using substitute company which will break laws instead of you, but voting for representatives who will change laws the way you want

apparently you are in minority if it's not happening and it doesn't justify breaking the law
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> every situation is novel

this is the point i m contesting - that most situations aren't as novel as the stakeholders think it is. The failure happens because the assumption that it's novel is there!
>> A good software engineer recognizes the problem at hand,

>> and recalls the algorithm to pick when presented with the

>> problem.

In my experience people able to pick the right algo straight away is extremely rare.
I would think the same if I didn't experience the opposite. To be honest, I would start with an email / linkedin mostly, but even cold cold calls work. I remember doing exclusively cold cold calls for one side project (airbucks.io) - and I got an awkward early ending to the call maybe 1 out of 5 times. Which doesn't faze you much when you've just had a blast for 30 minutes with a potential customer.
It was mentioned in one of their tech talks/slides, I don't remember exactly which one.
When I graduated in 1986 a third of my class were women. Something has driven them away from programming.
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That's sound advice, but as you said it's easier said than done. Every time I read about BTC, I get sick to my stomach thinking of what could have been. It's very tempting to view money as a possible solution to all of life's problems, particularly for those of us who don't have very fulfilling lives to begin with.
I never understood this: it's your body so you have the right to an abortion, but...

Someone does it for free, someone for a promise to marry, someone for marriage, someone hoping it leads to something, rent paid etc etc. Who are to decide what "currency" is legal and what isn't for "her body"?
>Now I'm sure there are "reasons" why their policies are as they are and maybe it'd take Spotify themselves to lodge an abuse report here, but this sucks.

So Troy complains about Blogger not quickly removing credentials dump on demand. What about other public sources of data for HIBP? Pastebin, file hostings, etc.? Should they remove such data after first report, not bothering to investigate anything (including whether credentials listed are real or fake)? That way the whole HIBP project database may get stale soon. :)
in the valley as an "rockstar" iOS developer.
I guess if it's something that's genuinely interesting, it's the same kind of flattering as if a crew/group of students with a camera accosts you on the street to ask your opinion on something. I'm happy to provide feedback if it comes with no requirement to pay.
off topic: This is why states rights is so important. Each state acts as an incubator for ideas. Its 50 experiments running all at once.
I was. I didn't learn to program until I was 28, despite being interested in maths, engineering and technical topics my entire life.

I started because I needed a statistical model that SPSS didn't provide, and quickly realised that coding is one of the most fun things in the world.
I doubt they have 8 hour a day booked though :)
judging from the responses it seems like addition of /s might be necessary.
Interesting.

:)
At current exchange rates, $20 will provide 39 days worth of food to someone in the UK (assuming the only thing they care about it calories and not vitamins, as this is the Tesco Value Digestive Biscuits Diet — I have no idea if homeless people would eat like that).
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Back in a year when I made http://www.lovecalculator.com I thought it will earn a thousand bucks but it is not what should I do?
No, it would only need to be primitive recursive [0] because you can bound its runtime. There's actually a lot you can do without Turing completeness.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_recursive_function#C...
I suppose there is also a psychological component to it. If your neighbor is making 10x the amount of money and doing 1/10 the amount of work, then that's a real problem there. So even in relatively rich countries where everybody has enough food and medical care, inequality can be a problem.
Given how restrictive the bloodlines of thoroughbreds have become I have thought for sometime now if it is possible to breed a faster horse via some intelligent outbreeding. Genomics has now given us the tools to do this efficiently.

If there are any billionaire race horse owners out there that would like to own the fastest racehorse ever to live I am happy to help out :)
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And I also did not say "as long as there are hormons, learn to live with rape and violence". Everything should be consensual.
I'm Boaz from [Team Sabotage]. Our group handled these leaks so I want to address a few points about what we do.

Team Sabotage was started in 2015 as an evolution of the Memegen Consensus group.

Since then we have successfully leaked the existence of Memegen itself, the Yes At Google mailing list and, more recently, the Anti-diversity manifesto and the official company memo about it.

Our reasons to do so are powerful ones: We want everyone to be aware of what Google is really like on the inside: an extension of a college dorm that encourages childish and unprofessional behavior as part of the company's culture.

If you think Google execs have a faulty moral compass, you can't imagine how bad it is among many of it's employees.

To all the Googlers who started tweeting about this before it was public: What the hell where you thinking? I'm talking to you, Jaana Dogan, who threatened to leave Google if HR didn't fire the person who wrote the manifesto. Well, what are you waiting for?

Feel free to downvote this into oblivion and ban this account. At this point Team Sabotage has in excess of 500 members across all of Google's product areas and there's nothing you can do to stop us.
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Not very long... Assert, frame/iframe and EVAL support are next on the list. Plus fixing any bugs that might show up.

For bug reports and feature requests you can email us (team AT a9t9.com) or simply open a github ticket: https://github.com/A9T9/Kantu-for-Chrome/issues
> report to the police if he suspects the prostitute is being coerced

but what would incentivize said john to report it? I don't think the john is going to make a difference in this case.
> One can signal status be consuming less rather than more.

Is anyone seeing this happening?
For software that is cross platform and accessible, forget about Qt
Yes, the way I was looking at strong/weak references was that strong references could only be held as a value in local/global/class variables, including in lists and dictionaries.

And converting a strong reference to a string would give you a weak reference. So you wouldn't be able to, say, convert a list that included a strong reference to a string, then convert the string back to list, and have exactly the same list that you started with because the strong reference in the original list would be a weak reference in the resulting list.

Strings can represent list and dictionary data structures, and combinations of, but I'm not sure that strings represent all Tcl data structures in the same way. I'm thinking of Tcloo and Tcl arrays - I don't use those and know little about them.
Sure, but on average, everything is doing well since the last economic crises. There are dot-com tech stocks that never recovered. I'll only buy funds or dividend paying stocks, though mostly everything is in a 401k (which rode out the crashes quite well).
It puts a load on you server when bots go wild on your site which in turn affects the experience of legitimate human users of the site.
Totally agree! People's willingness to tell you about their thoughts is the N.1 way to get a call started.

Now imagine that group of students opened the conversation with: "I saw you raise your hand in C101 this morning, and thought your question was very interesting. What made you think of that?"
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One could hope that human trafficking would decrease in areas where prostitution is legal. the amount of underage prostitution in the US is higher than many realize; some don't even know it is an issue.

by bringing the trade into the public and properly regulated the next goal is to eliminate any shame from using such services. I would expect not using brothels would make that easier but both means needs to be available.
Do you guys think that the majority of sex workers really enjoy their work or prefer it? Do you think that this is the career they prefer? Do you think it may have some affect on their psychological well-being?

I believe prostitution is an indication of a lack economic and social well-being both in the case of buyers and sellers.

Within about one or two decades maximum there will be revolutionary advances in robotics including things like much better weight-to power ratio artificial muscles and increased bio-mimicry. This will lead to truly life-like sex robots. Along the same lines, the majority of "ordinary" jobs that humans can currently do without high-bandwidth connections to computers or control over them will be replaced with sophisticated AIs and robots or automation. The perspective on sex work and general objectification of women will shift more towards one side then.
Buy and hold has already been the best strategy with bitcoin.
I don't think it makes much of a difference whether it's IT or any other segment of economy that generates the most increase in inequality. Creating and/or maintaining some level of equality is always an uphill battle on ever changing ground and there are enough “capitalism hackers” who know how to leverage “the system”, the market, influence, etc to make that battle harder.
I just did a project on this, but for Bitcoin instead of stocks where I examined news, Reddit, forum (Bitcointalk.org) and IRC sentiment using some simple ML algos. The goal was to determine whether this data has any predictive causality.

I scraped the above sources over a full year (2015) and then had the data annotated on positive, negative and neutral sentiment.

The problem with labeling sentiment data is that there might not be a single 'true' label due to varying interpretations and ambiguity. So at best you'll get to 80-85% accuracy there. The less formal (News > Reddit/Forum > IRC), the lower your accuracy due to lack of context.

I Then matched the annotated sentiment to market data and did some causality analysis. What I found is that interestingly, you can't just say positive news = price/volume goes up. It is way more fine grained than that. For example negative Reddit sentiment leads price movements, but price movements lead positive sentiment. For news its the reverse.

All in all I didn't incorporate this into any trading strategies, but found it interesting to see the differences between online sentiment channels.
Move house. I know, I know "It's not that easy I'd have to search for a place etc" but what if you were evicted tomorrow? What course of action would you take if you had to?

Do that.
The null cipher in SSH is not pointless.

When I talk to my virtual machines over the loopback device, I have to encrypt and then decrypt the traffic. That is pointless. I wish my SSH supported the null cipher.
The authors of the paper identify a trend of "growth that began in the 1970's", and say that correlates with the emergence of IT firms being able to erect barriers to competition. It might be coincidence, but the late 1970s is also when:

1. The US Copyright Act of 1976 extended copyright from a fixed term of 28 years (with opt-in 28 year extension) to the life of the author plus 70 years.

2. The Patent Cooperation Treaty became active in 1978, making it much easier to obtain patents in multiple countries.

It would seem that IP was strengthened (both as a method of avoiding tax and suppressing competition) in the late 1970s. The deregulation of the banking industry which happened in the early 1980s seems like it would have helped also.
Because it is a new kind of scam and it is in overhyped industry.
Nice idea thanks! One suggestion maybe add some sort of priority marking/ time spent for each one, as I would say some are definitely higher priority than others
Is this headline the first exception to Betteridge's law of headlines?
That statement should apply perhaps to companies, not people.
First of all, are Murray's claims true? That's the important question. That article gets some things right, but it seems to imply that Murray is racist even if his beliefs are true.

Second, if you're going to use that article's definition of racism (the belief that there are statistical differences in IQ between races) then most researchers on cognition are racist. If you survey experts anonymously, the majority will say that there is an IQ gap and that genes are a significant contributor.[1]

Critics keep smuggling in the assumption that intelligence is proportional to moral worth. Murray explicitly denies this, and claims that all humans should be given equal moral worth (and equal moral agency).

1. http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/2013-survey-o...
Also, I recall some study(sorry, don't have source) looking at how a helmet interacts with the road during a fall, vs how the scalp does. It found that the helmet grips and causes more rotation of the head and neck, whereas the scalp slips (and has several levels of slippage). This suggests that helmets might cause more neck injuries as well as internal brain injuries due to the sudden momentum shift when the skull starts rotating but the brain lags behind.

This is complicated stuff, and simple messages, anecdotes or one-dimension studies don't help work out the best solutions.
What strikes me about this as someone working outside all this, is how ridiculously profitable advertising is!. Its kind of weird that it is so much more profitable to show people pictures of things they could spend their money on, than actually taking their money.