skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bucky Fuller calculated that we would be able to "make the World work / for 100% of Humanity / In the shortest possible time / Through spontaneous cooperation / Without ecological offense / Or the disadvantage of anyone." by some time in the 1970's...
Your measure of polarization is talking about distance on a political spectrum. This is perhaps the correct way, since it's literally polar.

The vernacular "polarization" here would be better thought of as a measure not of conceptual distance, but of the intensity with which that distance is perceived.

The left and right are both very centrist (with some wacky outlier issues), but they perceive the other side as being very wrong, which allows for polarization regardless of actual political distance.
I'm not sure what you mean. I browse on HN a lot and post fairly frequently. I was surprised to see our project as the topic of the first comment on this article. It's not like I was seeking it out to pounce on a PR attempt.

Feel free to start your own project and compete; that would be great. We have a number of competitors and we're all driving the ecosystem forward.

"Your stated goal is to never turn a profit, ever."

I don't know where you got that idea. The company I work for, OB1, does certainly intend to make a profit at some point.

"You've also foregone any ICO attempt, which is free money. Why? Because you can't"

We could probably raise a lot of money an ICO, but we'd prefer not to. We even wrote about the reasons why: https://blog.openbazaar.org/why-openbazaar-token-doesnt-exis...

"because if people start using your project with your new Tor support, you'll be a co-conspirator in a drug distribution network."

No more so than Bram Cohen is a conspirator in a piracy network. And this kind of potential limitation in getting funding is exactly why ICOs exist.

"But you don't just come out and say this. You're not straightforward. It's fake idealism, and that quality more than any other is what motivates me to compete."

I don't understand what you think I'm not being straightforward about, but feel free to compete. I don't understand why you would want to given that you clearly think the idea is not very good for good luck.
> When they are older I plan to teach them useful complimentary skills. Graphics design. Testing. Copywriting. Marketing. Sales. :-)

That's not what most people mean when they say "growing a company."
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If this keeps water and oil bound together, how can this not affect taste and especially smell? The whole point of taste and especially smell is being triggered by specific molecules upon dissociation.
The Dalai Lama and a Three-Way Between Tibet, China and India
An argument against would be that something like a killer drone with face recognition could take out terrorist leaders with less collateral damage than the usual bombs / missiles.
If one develops a Lisp application, it is common to develop the application while it is running. This is enabled by a compiler available at runtime.
Sometimes the mods will revoke those things if you talk to them about it. Still bloody annoying that they use adversarial stealth tactics on people who are arguing in good faith, but there you go.

In any case, I remember the Muzzmatch thread, and taking any excuse to preach at people is no more appealing in atheists than it is in theists.
I have a Nexus 6P, and have to disagree on the hardware. I had to replace my battery to not have shutdown problems at about 25%. Also I also regularly see the need for 4gb or 6gb of memory instead of just 3gb.
If you replace "spent time on the Xbox" with

* "took care of your aging grandmother"

* "worked on your new business that caters to the community"

* "contributed to open-source software"

* or "volunteered for a community outreach program"

how does it change your opinion? What can a job guarantee do to support the above socially beneficial activities that basic income doesn't do better?
> code staging

I'm trying to look up what this means. Do you have a link?
Might as well face it, you're addicted to bash

EDIT: My Unicode musical notes at the start and end of the line didn't make it. :(
There's got to be something else going on there.

280 frames/sec is about 3.5 ms/frame. Signals don't even leave the retina that fast, let alone propagate to brain areas linked to perception and action.

Perhaps the higher frame rate makes the motion smoother, which allows the pilot to estimate and extrapolate an objects' motion more accurately, or something like that.
Yes, I saw the John Oliver episode with this. He gave him a watch too. Tibet happens to be the second most oppressed and conflicted region in the world, after Syria.
As a huge fan of Scala, Ceylon is one of the other languages I'm keeping an eye on and hope succeeds. It is much more ambitious and forward thinking than Kotlin, and subsequently see it having a much longer future than Kotlin.
ok, sure, I revise my answer to don't shadow any header.
Also, which two spooks are you talking about? Brian did work for Booz Allen, but he's the only one that has worked for the federal government as far as I know. If there's a mole afoot please let me know who.
That's incorrect - in general the miners are opposed to SegWit, but they accepted a compromise of agreeing to SegWit if they could increase the block size to 2 MB (from 1 MB currently). SegWit will be activated within 24 hours, but Bitcoin Core (the main developers of current Bitcoin code) have already said they are not going to support an increase to 2 MB blocks. They also claim they never agreed to it in the first place.

As a result, it's very likely to see another hard fork to 2 MB in November, so there will be 3 chains with a shared transaction history, and most like all will claim to be the real Bitcoin -- personally I don't think debating which one is the "real" one is worthwhile, just use the one you want, but eventually it's likely that one chain will get the majority of hashing power and have a much higher price per token than all the others.
I'm not sure what point this is meant to counter.
How do you "incite hatred"? Inciting violence I can understand, but I'm curious what you meant by your statement. I feel hatred can be instilled, but not sure how it can be incited.
We've updated the headline from “Bitcoin's hashpower dropped 20% as miners migrate to Bitcoin Cash”.
Yep. As it becomes more profitable more people mine, the difficulty goes up, profitability goes down, people stop mining, difficulty goes down, and so on.
Nice username ;)
Population density? I'd love to see a chart of these social indicators plotted against population density.
This is likely to become the ultimate "time capsule," for a human to recover in the not-too-distant future, when a few light-weeks of travel is commonplace.
(I have an undergrad degree in Psychology.) Psychology has the means to be a proper science, but historically a significant amount of hasn't been. The examples you present tend to come from neuroscience, which in turn tends to be a much more empirically based field.

- http://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-f...

- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/psychology-s-cred...

- https://digest.bps.org.uk/2017/05/25/was-the-crisis-in-socia...
In fact I'm a seasoned pizza cook but pasta is still a pending subject of mine.
For emacs and ocaml, caml-types.el is simple but very helpful. (It reads the type information generated by the ocaml compiler's -annot option.)

http://caml.inria.fr/svn/ocaml/trunk/emacs/caml-types.el
> sverige:

> In other words, is it a disease, or is it a moral

> condition? If it's a moral condition, then let's not call

> AA's solution "christian," because it is not. If it is a

> disease, then let's treat it like one rather than using

> the twelve steps

I think that in AA alcoholism itself is considered a disease, with at least two components: an allergy of the body; and an obsession of the mind. The disease of alcoholism is considered to have far-reaching effects which are best dealt with by two things: staying sober and working the 12 steps and thereby having a spiritual experience.

I'd say it's analogous to someone who's had a heart attack. The immediate crisis needs to be addressed at an emergency room. Then there are lifestyle and diet changes that need to happen, too. The heart attack might have been the initial problem that precipitated the crisis, but the lifestyle issues are the real cause.

AA is a big organization, and there are certainly different interpretations, but I think it's fair to say that alcohol is certainly seen as the problem, but the underlying cause of the problem is seen to be the lack of a spiritual lifestyle. Hence the two-pronged approach. Very often Christianity is used because it's what's familiar. But I'd hardly call AA a Christian organization.
More nifty portable Make facts:

- For portable recursive make(1) calls, use $(MAKE). This has the added advantage of BSD systems which can electively install GNU Make as gmake being able to pass in the path to gmake to run GNU Makefiles [1]

- BSD's don't include GNU Make in base system. BSD's port and build system uses Make extensively, and has a different dialect [2]

- In addition to that, you will likely choose to invoke system commands in your Makefile. These also have the same GNU-specific features that won't work on BSD's. So keep your commands like find, ls, etc. POSIX-compliant [3]

- Part of the reasons tools like CMake exist is to abstract not only library/header paths and compiler extensions, but also the fact POSIX shell scripting and Makefile's are quite limited.

- Not only is there a necessity to use POSIX commands and POSIX compatible Make language, but the shell scripting must also not use Bash-isms and such, since there's no guarantee the system will have Bash.

- POSIX Makefiles have no conditionals as of 2017. Here's a ticket from the issue tracker suggesting it in 2013: http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=805.

- You can do nifty tricks with portable Makefile's to get around limitations. For instance, major dialects can still use commands to grab piped information and put it into a variable. For instance, you may not have double globs across all systems, but you can use POSIX find(1) to store them in a variable:

FILES= find . -type f -not -path '*/\.*' | grep -i '.*[.]go$$' 2> /dev/null

Then access the variable:

if command -v entr > /dev/null; then ${WATCH_FILES} | entr -c $(MAKE) test; else $(MAKE) test entr_warn; fi

I cover this in detail in my book The Tao of tmux, available for free to read online. [4]

- MacOS comes with Bash, and if I remember correctly, GNU Make comes with the developer CLI tools as make.

- For file watching across platforms (including with respect for kqueue), I use entr(1) [5]. This can plop right into a Makefile. I use it to automatically rerun testsuites and rebuild docs/projeocts. For instance https://github.com/cihai/cihai/blob/cebc197/Makefile#L16 (feel free to copy/paste, it's permissively licensed).

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/MAKE-Vari...

[2] https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=make&apropos=0&sek...

[3] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/fi...

[4] https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux/read#tips-and-tricks

[5] http://entrproject.org
Instead, the creators of the 2nd layer solutions will collect fees.
Ethically a human should do it to another human.
They might not know and might have to guess, or do both. This makes it harder for them, but it's hard to quantify how much harder, so it's reasonable to assume the worst case, i.e. that they do know the procedure with which you generated the password.
A better analogy would be the founders of TPB. They went to jail for getting money from pirated content (ads). What do you think will happen to you when you try to extract any money at all from a network that people are using for darknet purposes? And you're adding Tor support and testing Tails for them.

Except wait, you're insulated from these ill effects because your founders are former spooks. You have ties to protect you.

I wonder why anyone would want to create a Tor equivalent for a marketplace for physical goods? Especially the government?

It's interesting how you're deflecting at the end -- I do think this is a terrible idea, and has the potential to unlock the gates of hell onto the world in the form of addicts having an endless supply of their addiction at the push of a button. But if you're determined to build your business on the backs of these people, then I am determined to beat you. If this technology is inevitable, then I think it's best not to let you come out on top. We'll see if anyone agrees.
> The ISA is not important. The economics of open hardware is, and that's a much harder problem.

Maybe. The fact that Moore's Law finally broke may paradoxically help that.

When you can simply get 2x the (cost, performance, features) simply by doing nothing, there is no incentive to optimize anything.

Now that you can't simply "do nothing", people will start looking at alternatives.
It's sad the article starts with the use of the Ada Lovelace trope, she is not widely considered to be the first computer programmer, or maybe on a pop culture way, not in a scholarly way.
From https://hackage.haskell.org/package/free-4.12.4/docs/Control... :

"A Comonad v is a cofree Comonad for f if every comonad homomorphism from another comonad w to v is equivalent to a natural transformation from w to f.

A cofree functor is right adjoint to a forgetful functor.

Cofree is a functor from the category of functors to the category of comonads that is right adjoint to the forgetful functor from the category of comonads to the category of functors that forgets how to extract and duplicate, leaving you with only a Functor."

So I take it you believe that a degree in category theory is the bare minimum for people to expect to be able to understand other people's code? The layman interpretation of "Avoid success at all costs" comes to mind.
In fact I'm a seasoned pizza

I completely misunderstood your comment. I might need to go get food soon.
There really should be no financial benefit to marriage. It becomes a coercive force that encourages people to marry and stay married, even though they may not want to.
I would argue that the big US squabble in the 1960s was civil rights.

Still not resolved (for example a couple of states have just recently been found to be in violation of the Voting Rights Act).
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> but it would not be in the interests of the Thai elite

Why not?
Suggestions: Todoist
Allow users to toggle whether comments are displayed in the project view so they may scan all tasks and comments at once. Also, allow line breaks in tasks.

I keep track of life with a notebook and a computer. When I am away from the computer, I write my ideas and thoughts in the notebook, as they come to me, in as much detail as I feel like setting down. When I am in the flow, it feels like I am spilling my creativity onto paper. Later, in a dedicated block of time, I review the notes and move the worthy ones to Todoist. In this processing stage, I also edit, rewrite, categorize, assign due-dates, and otherwise organize my lists.

The problem arises when I am at my computer. At my computer, I want to cut out the middleman -- my notebook -- and spill my thoughts directly into Todoist and process them later. At spill time, my notes are often quite convoluted, and they certainly aren’t distilled or edited. Editing while I write breaks the flow of my creativity.

Tasks themselves don’t allow line breaks, and so content flows into the comments. Often, the information in the comments is more informative than what’s in that initial title.

But when it comes time for processing, it is tediously difficult to access the valuable information in the comments because I have to click into each task before I can see the comments.

The root cause of my problem is that tasks do not allow line breaks or other simple formatting, and so I can’t write down information in the task itself. Given that limitation, I need to be able to view my comments from the project view. I recommend making both changes, they would dramatically improve my productivity.
where, except for Windows, is requiring GNU Make a problem?
https://forum.wilmott.com
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Both the founders live within a 20min drive of Langley. This is easily verified.

I know one of them probably hasn't worked directly for a government agency, but that is quite a coincidence for both people to be located literally next to one.
But there's no way in POSIX make itself to assign a value to FILES dynamically - you have to assign the FILES environment var or supply via command line args. POSIX make will expand ${FILES} by the replacement value in commands (and prerequisites but not targets). It then merely happens to be interpreted as part of the command it's placed into.
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Can you show the specific code that was leaking memory?
> Meanwhile, for those who have been around long enough to have a sense for the 'barometric' changes he's talking about -- the shift in the basic, underlying "we're-all-in-this-together" ethos has been not just noticeable, but profound. Probably a lot more work needs to be done to find a solid statistical basis behind this observation (if this is at all possible).

I need to see some very solid evidence before I change my assumption, which is that people have always felt this as they get older, because we romanticize our memories of youth and we are uncomfortable with the societal changes that younger generations inevitably introduce.
Well, that does make the common stuff excellent. And I would guess that the amount of people that have a weird must-have feature (that isn't just a result of misunderstanding the software) is pretty low.
The point about color images is interesting. Although they might not be able to deduce the exact wavelengths in which the image is encoded, they would very likely be able to understand that the colored image layers are connected, as the layers correlate highly in their spatial structure. In the same manner that we use artificial coloring to better understand astronomical images, the color information on the disk provides more information when viewing the images, which could make the images more interesting for their study.

For the spoken language, there is likely not enough information to decode its meaning. But its inclusion together with images of us might lead them to understand how we communicate by voice. The sounds of animals and humans may be similar to other lifeforms discovered. Music as well may be something which is common to many forms of intelligent life. It would probably not be possible to understand much of the contents, but observers might be able to relate to the emotions in the music (even though they may not map directly to ours). In any case, with art much of the value lies in the interpretation. As long as content is presented which they would care to judge as art, they may see value in it.
Cofree in general I use all the time, especially in compilers. The Generic and Binary Cofree instances were lifted straight out of a decompiler I'm supposed to be working on. The most common reason is to get Traversable and Plated instances:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens-4.15.4/docs/Control...

For the blockchain stuff specifically, I suppose I didn't really use them too heavily in this article. So you could argue they aren't currently doing a whole lot of good.

I'm not actually certain if people prefer seeing the heavier types that I default to in real code(to avoid refactoring later), vs. types that are as simple as needed but might need to change as the program evolves. The first choice lets people who already know Haskell learn something from it, while the second makes beginners less confused.
Sounds like some form of load testing could help you pinpoint issues. Loader.io has a free tier.
>What polarization is there in Washington? Or outside the beltway? What are the two poles?

The polarization is between those who prefer authoritarian leadership, and those who don't. The poles are defined primarily by personality.
If you watch/read/listen to pundits you'll see lots of polarization. Or go to Facebook and look at the comments on articles. Liberals are evil. Conservatives are dumb. You'll see all sorts of such comments.

Conservative media portrayed Obama as an extreme leftist when he was, in terms of policies, more in line with Eisenhower and Reagan. Look at the label of RINOs for Congressmen who vote the wrong way on a particular issue.

In the U.S. there is a lot of political polarization.
Have you thought about using a profiler?
I should also have been more careful to more clearly distinguish spurious correlations from correlations where both things are related to a third factor (which I think is probably often the case in John Robbins's graphs and somewhat plausibly here).
Yay, another front end framework! /s
>C++ started this with "auto"

D also has this.

https://dlang.org/spec/declaration.html#AutoDeclaration
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> even if it's currently more profitable to mine Bitcoin Cash than Bitcoin

It seems that is the case if you consider only the block reward, but not if you also consider the transaction fees: http://fork.lol/reward/blocks

The BTC chain has more transactions per block than the BCH chain, and the per-transaction fee is also higher.
I don't know what you think I'm trying to deflect from but if you spell it out for me I'm more than happy to be candid.

"A better analogy would be the founders of TPB. They went to jail for getting money from pirated content (ads). What do you think will happen to you when you try to extract any money at all from a network that people are using for darknet purposes?"

TPB is a search engine for pirated content. OB1 search, duosear.ch, and mubiz.com (the main 3 OB search engines) do not show illicit content. If anybody happens across some please notify us immediately.

"Except wait, you're insulated from these ill effects because your founders are former spooks. You have ties to protect you."

Brian used to work for Booz Allen. That's it. I don't know which others you're referring to. I highly doubt Brian has government protection.

"Especially the government?"

The government has no involvement in OpenBazaar but even if they did, so does Tor. What do you think the Tor project is trying to hide?!

"But if you're determined to build your business on the backs of these people, then I am determined to beat you."

If you truly believe it's such a horrible project (the scariest you've ever heard of you said), then trying to out compete us seems extremely hypocritical.
The proposed link between civic participation ("cooperation") and both inequality and political polarization is a strange one to me, since civic participation seems like it would be a local phenomenon, and both inequality and political polarization mostly show up as regional differences rather than differences within communities.

Sure, the political space between Allegany County, NY (low income and trump voting) and Westchester County, NY (high income and clinton voting) is huge. But if you go to an elk lodge in Allegany or a (i dunno) running club in Westchester, you're going to find that everybody there has basically the same politics and basically the same income.

Something else is going on here.
There is an obvious reason: implementing a whole new plugin format is harder than just implementing a graphics backend for VST2. LV2 or LADPSA is only useful on Linux IIRC and that's not necessarily a huge audio market.