skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your argument doesn't hold up as long as there are compeditors. When you start needing government or regulator approval and it comes qith strings attached, things change.
That's one goal of proving a theorem. It's still useful to know the answer ahead of time if you're going to prove it. And some stuff is useful to know anyway. Proving P = NP would be super important to know, even if no one actually understood why. In fact, there's countless theorems that depend on results which have not been proven yet. People may have been doing important work that relies on the Riemann Hypothesis because they incorrectly believed it was true and that time might have been wasted. Additionally, once you find a proof through exhaustive search, it's entirely possible that human beings can go in there and simplify it to a level that can be understood by people. And maybe multiple results might paint a picture that shows us a direction to go in that we wouldn't have guessed beforehand.
> the "Evidence from india" part is important.

Why? The theory is independent of racial or national origin:

Economic theory predicts that civil servants often shirk
responsibility or take bribes because it is difficult for
central governments and citizens to monitor and subsequently
punish these bad behaviors ( e.g., Banerjee 1997, Shleifer and
Vishny 1993, Di Tella and Schargrodsky 2004, and Olken and
Pande 2012) . This implies that variation in the ability to
monitor or incentivize civil servants may drive the observed
differences in corruption across countries, across agencies
within a country, or even across the types of tasks for which
public servants are responsible. However, not all civil
servants engage in the same level of corrupt behavior, even in
the same position or role. Besley (2005) and Prendergast (
2007) posit that this may be potentially due to different
government workers having different preferences over engaging
in corruption. As such, it follows that the types of
individuals that select into government may help explain
variation in corruption levels.
Not everyone has the time or interest. I'd rather go out than cook a meal.
You can call this success. I don't. Success is writing great code or educating people. Not provoking bullshit responses.

So like, i wrote an article about learning to code. It was wrong. I was using outdated research.

But none of my critique of it was about that. I had to discover that later. My crituque was that it was stupid, or unfair, or anti-blue-collar, or whatever. I got 0 value, 0 education, 0 fun, and only regret out o the experience. And it was strictly my diligence on the subject that lead to a correction.

What exactly did I get other than harassment for this process? Maybe you feel differently, but honestly? I don't care how folks feel. Either we have a constructive dialogue, or we don't. I don't want non-constructive dialogues. I can find no consolation in the later kind.

You might look at my content history on HN and say, "But you argue with people a lot." I do, because I feel obligated to do so. I do not like it or enjoy it. It is something I have promised to do; not something I want to.
Depending on which poll you believe, a significant portion of Muslims support a whole bunch of unequal policies. Should we accept that? Or is that different?
I don't think it would collapse but we might see a terrible junta dictatorship there in a near future
> These vessels were breached and steam, hydrogen and other gases, together with radioactive material, were released into the reactor buildings and eventually to the environment.

Exactly what I described in less alarming words. Steam, hydrogen, other gases, and "radioactive material" (Iodine and Cesium in the steam) are not the same thing or anywhere near as dangerous as actual melted fuel and corium escaping containment. Conflating this with the idea of molten core materials breaching containment is extremely irresponsible.

I'm not entirely sure about the radioactive water situation, and it sucks to hear that it may be worse than I thought. Do you have a source confirming the extent of contaminated water that ended up in the ground or ocean? It's really hard to find anything unambiguous here, tons of stories about "leaks" but many of those reports are actually about leaks into the reactor buildings. As far as I can tell a very large number (trillions?) of becquerels went into the Pacific Ocean right around the time of the tsunami, and since then no water outside the reactor complex has been measured with radiation levels outside regulatory limits (although they've been pumping groundwater collecting in the basements into big tank farms, like you said). It does look like the large volume of water pumped into the ocean initially (to make room for contaminated core water in the spent fuel pools, like I said) may have accumulated in bottom-feeding fish near the site. And it looks like there may be water from the site leaking into the ocean at some rate (although not enough to make any ocean water unsafe to drink). Other than that all I can find is an enormous volume of noise and fearmongering.
In a series of calls with the top tier of support at Paypal, no one was able to even answer which API was the best to use. I was told not to use SOAP (or NVP), because they're ancient, not to use REST because it wasn't ready yet, and that the Braintree API around PayPal would never support the features we were trying to implement.

The project just ended up getting scrapped.
Yes, it has. The UK basically had to agree to pay a substantially above-market price for power for the life of the plant to make it viable: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/23/spending-wat... (and it's not clear that it's viable even then). As I recall, some US states have had to subsidise their existing nuclear power plants just to keep them running thanks to falling electricity generation costs. This is only going to get worse as renewables drive down the cost of electricity further.
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You have provided no counterargument to what I have said. Again, everything uses other peoples laber and many of those people are much poorer then any maid you can hire in a first world country.

So clearly you don't boycott all products that include labor from poor people, as you are typing this on some sort of computer I presume.

So again. Explain to me what the MORAL difference is between using somebodies labors by buying products, or coming to your house.
Why don't you google or follow the link I already gave?
When the owners don't control the vote, you have situations like Facebook or Google. It may not be necessarily bad, but the idea of those who have control being the owners is an indication of why it can be bad.
I've tried it. It's good.

At $16 a pound I'd much rather get some high quality meat or fish. If it comes down in price to something reasonable I might add it to our rotation.
If anything the fact that things are working as intended(so far) proves that such a change is not nearly as dangerous as BCC developers make it out to be.

If you don't trust the code powering BCH then you can simply ignore all your coins on BCH and pretend they don't exist, you're in the exact same situation as you were yesterday.

The fear mongering of 'all hard forks are dangerous' is just that, fear mongering, and has no basis in actual reality.
From your first link:

> UPDATE: Peterson reported that he regained access to his Google and YouTube accounts shortly after the publication of this piece, but the company still has not provided the professor with specific reasoning for his ban.

There is no indication that this is related to any gender pronoun usage
Anyone know how much a lag CentOS is normally behind Red Hat releases?
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What does "faster" mean? honest question. I've been using Firefox since its early days and never jumped on the Chrome bandwagon simply because I didn't see the need to do so. When Firefox felt slow, it usually was the whole operating system that's slow and neither Chrome or any other browser could solve that. Nowadays, all the machines I use are powerful enough to not feel any such slowness and I just don't understand what is this "speed" people keep attributing to Chrome and what is so "slow" in Firefox (regardless of that fact they're working on speeding it up).

In addition, Chrome recently crashed on me multiple times while using Google Spreadsheet which is supposed to work better with Chrome than other browsers.
Reading the data summary:

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/Q3FY17DataSummary.pdf

It is a massive drop (~20%) quarter to quarter for all regions except US which is just 4%.

Is this an indicator of general downturn, the (former) strong dollar or is it just Apple?
Yes, and radiation can be serious. But nature knows how to deal with high levels of radiation (see Chernobyl's flourishing ecosystem) after a period of time, same with any other disaster. You as a human could go into some moderately radioactive areas since the civilian limits are set so extremely low below the non-stochastic effects, and maybe not have much more of an elevated cancer risk than if you went to the hospital and got an MRI or PET scan (which is unregulated in terms of legal dosage limits).

Just because radiation causes different constraints on cleanup than oil on a large ocean or arsenic in the water table or issues in a space rocket means it is morally worse? That's the part I fail to understand, so long as the engineering continues to behave ethically behind all the systems in their design and construction and retrofit.
> Those groups have very specific agendas.

I'm not sure what that means; doesn't every group have an agenda? I think the implication is that these groups' agendas are no better than any other groups' agendas. I think that's clearly wrong; we can't take politically correct relativism and openness to a logical extreme - we must make distinctions between good and bad (though carefully reasoned ones). Though I agree we should be careful, and no group or agenda is perfect, the agendas of hate groups are not just as good as the ADL's, for example.

> They shouldn't be allowed to block articles which disagree with their agenda.

Is that the standard used by Google?
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I agree with the fearmongering bit, but ignoring BCH is a little more difficult. BCH just caused a pretty decent dip in the price of BTC, and will likely make it drop further.

Unless it crashes and burns, in which case faith in Core will be even stronger.
Yeah that would be super cool. But what about the timed commenting + discovery features of SoundCloud?
Specialisation and time management might make it sensible for me to hire programmers, even if I can program myself.
Exactly what I thought. You can't name one. Coincidentally, Maven central requires GPG signatures.
Doh, way ahead of me then. Though it seems there are more steps needed, e.g. adding support to the ‘bytes’ crate.
It seems like maybe it was his time to move on. With Panasonic now making the batteries (GIG Factory) and most likely doing all the R&D going forward, his departure doesn't surprise me.
Fry's Electronics sells a lot of Blu models as well.
6) says that coins with smaller mining pools are more susceptible to double spending attacks correct?
What do you big toes look like? Do they line up with the Extensor Hallucis Longus Tendon, the major ridge the runs along the interior of the top of your foot, or do they curve inward?
The same question could be asked of people who live in larger-than-needed houses in cold climates, drive larger-than-needed cars, take multiple flights a year for vacation, have not installed roof solar systems yet or (and this is particularly taboo) have large families, e.g. 5+ children, far beyond the replacement rate.

I'd like to pose a serious question to you as well: how do you justify singling out meat eaters over any one of the categories I list above?

You'd have much better luck asking people to cut their consumption of meat by 50% instead of trying to guilt trip them into becoming complete vegetarians.

I'm not making a judgment call here. The listed groups are not in any way worse than one another, but they all have something in common - potential to reduce their impact on the environment. I think it's quite silly to single out meat-eaters as the ones who have to justify their behavior, aside from the fact that the article at hand mentions the meat industry.
Ask HN: Examples of founders doing whatever it takes to fund their startups?
As most of us know, starting a company is a lot more difficult than the tabloids make it out to be. On top of that, getting proper funding is next to impossible. Airbnb founders created political themed boxed of cereal during the McCain-Obama election in order to keep the lights on [1].

What other examples like this are there?

[1.] https://www.wired.com/2017/02/airbnbs-surprising-path-to-y-combinator/
I see people sharing WIP mixes here also:
https://clyp.it/
Fantastic, that's exactly what I wanted, thank you. It doesn't seem to like my remote node, but I'll figure it out.
Researchers discover way to turn Amazon Echos into covert listening devices
>"Companies with multiple share class structures tend to have corporate governance structures that treat different shareholder classes unequally with respect to voting rights and other governance issues," the index provider said in a statement.

Good. Reminds me of the thing with Zenefits where they basically screwed the (loose cannon, fired) CEO out of his shares by offering heavily discounted new shares to everyone but him.[1] I know, not quite the same thing here, but a good measure to hold the line against dilution trickery that might get that far.

Edit: According to this recode piece[2], the shares on the stock market (class A) have no voting rights, B have 12%, and the C class have 88% and are held by the founders. Yeah, I'm surprised the exchanges tolerated such weak offerings to begin with, let alone the indexes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12013321

[2] https://www.recode.net/2017/2/21/14670314/snap-ipo-stock-vot...
Well, the private organization thing is really the issue in a nutshell: Google is not a public space, no matter how large it is. What drives them is revenue, not free speech.

Google is a company backed by advertising. Youtube has faced very noticeable controversy from advertisers (including a "boycott" -- https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/24/15053990/google-youtube-a...) over "hate speech" and other offensive content.

In my opinion, this update is a direct response to that issue (the paragraph on "de-monetizing" content that is found unacceptable, but still within content guidelines, suggests to me as much). This is all about placating advertisers, who didn't want an advertisement for Brand XYZ appearing to ISIS recruitment videos and the like. I can't really think of a way to get around this -- to do so, you are basically asking Google to force brands to pay for content they find objectionable. (Which they won't do, in the end.)
Sutton's law
That makes sense but I'd really like to read about it before I let it violate my browser with Javascript.
Most people I know that don't live near their parents use video chat to talk to them.

My parents are luddites, so I still ring their landline.
Ask HN: Puzzle games for children without fluffy graphics
I'm in search for games my 4 and 7 year old can play that are satisfying, intellectually stimulant and that make them happy. Not the crappy that appears in any search for "games for kids" (I mean stupid games with lots of colors and sound and bouncing pictures of cats).

I've had some small success with some 2 or 3 games from https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/, plus https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.stollenmayer.philipp.Pop_1_1_Android, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.agc.physicsline, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alexgwyn.slider and http://asherv.com/threes/, but that's all.

The experience was not great in any of those games, since they are made for adults, they're somewhat simple to grasp, but then out of nothing they start to add gotchas that I can perceive easily, but not the children (I'm thinking more about the Android games here).
I'd never heard of that until now. Extremely interesting.
just as an elaboration, i was already an expert in another language. my primary skill is robust code and architecture, something that is completely missed by what i consider trivia questions.

although, i can understand if you have very specific needs for a language and need help asap. but i can also wager that people are missing out on some strong talent if they take too short term of a view. that is particularly applicable to potential employees from other fields. i was a mathematician turned software engineer and brought skills that no interview touched on. i just got initially lucky out of graduate school because of some connections.

and yea, i would consider c++ to be one of the most complex languages around, which is why i don't touch it. haha.
"akin" isn't really much use. To read what visitors to Tesla's laboratory saw it was much like something imagined for a book on magic where a magician conjures a ball of light to illuminate the room and follow around the magician.

It's fun to think about because many many people saw him do it and yet no one has figured out how he did it, and not for lack of trying. Its like the "Fermat's Theorem" of physics phenomena as far as I'm concerned.

Now that I've got a couple of software defined radios (SDRs) that can generate microwaves on demand with an arbitrary modulation, I expect there might be some fun experiments to do here.
Yes, and I took at look at them. Some of the studies (especially the blood cookies or whatever ones) actually mentioned that heme iron actually helped anemic children. Many of the others could not come to a conclusion.
There is a system for you: Emacs.
As another anecdote, a lot of people I know prefer to call than text. It's a good way to get an immediate response and plan things quickly, rather than trying to play scheduling tennis over text.
I imagine that the ideal puzzle for children would be a abstract game with easy controls and a linear learning curve, if that makes any sense.
I suspect that there are more games for iOS and Android than Windows at this point, so I assume the OP is referring just to desktop games. Is there a reference that shows total game sales by platform? I wasn't able to find one in a casual search.
Would love to see a better source.

- Nutritionfacts.org is non-profit
- Their conclusions are based on studies.
- They're not trying to sell supplements or food products.

Do they omit certain studies that contradict their overall conclusions? Sure. That doesn't mean anything to me.
And equally, that wasn't my point -- I am not suggesting toy guns are responsible for many deaths (though there are stories of people using fake guns and being shot by the police 'in good faith').

It's the normalising of 'playing with guns' by handing over toy guns to children that I suspect is something a healthier society could happily eschew without losing much in the way of civil liberties.

In Australia accurate replicas are illegal IIRC - toy weapons are necessarily brightly coloured, to reduce the risk of being mistaken as a real weapon.
Tim Cook Says Apple Is 'Very Focused on Autonomous Systems'
It can work out great:

I got a full time job as a BA after a few years downtime from selling my business, but within days I hated my new role and after 3 months tried to quit but my boss was so happy with my input into the business that he said 'tell me how I can keep you' so I asked for a new role that didn't exist at the time in the company and became a 3 days per week scrum master for a few years. I used the spare time to parent (divorcee with 2 kids that I co-parent e.g. I have them for a week every other week). Once my kids got a little older, I decided to build my own house and recently quit to finish the house full time. All decisions I don't regret but I was in a great position to take them. Tips:
Being in a job seems the best way to negotiate especially if you have a proven track record and integrity / trustworthiness
I am able to self manage my time and clocked almost exactly 3 days per week.
I worked from home (negotiated) and that helped tremendously
I negotiated a day rate so if I did more time per month I got paid including up to full time in any month if it suited.
Some numbers: my original salary was 67k€ and I earned around 40k€ per year part time.
I think spending the time doing what you actually want and like is like the most amazing gift and pleasure and worth the salary loss and more. I could never go back to full time, every hour belonging to someone else and not being around for my kids and being able to squeeze in naps or guilty pleasures on tough days. I've come to appreciate the small things like the tedium of the school run and evening routine more because I'm actually able to enjoy it as I'm not so disconnected. I'm involved with every aspect of my kids life when I have them and I've found new interests and hobbies I'd never have time for before through building my own house including woodwork and architecture etc.
Can't recommend it enough if it suits your life's expectations e.g. You can afford it and you don't live like a king ;)
Mozilla should focus on building the browser instead of building app that competes with other developers. They need to start listening to the developers community and stop being arrogant and ignorant. You build the foundation, and developers build the app.