skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ok, first, i appreciate your more fleshed out argument here.

> The problem is that while it is easy to cook up such what-if thought experiments, it is not easy to quantify the result into a mathematical model of moral social utility.

that said... you seem to be implying that we should do things only if we can make decisions using a well understood objective model with easily measurable inputs and outputs. but if that model leads us to a world that i'd characterize as a moral travesty ("all the wealth gets concentrated in the 1% and the remaining 99% becomes literal slaves"), i'll take my chances with the thing that's hard to quantify that might get us a better outcome. and maybe that'll lead to even worse suffering. but seems worth a shot.

EDIT: as a deeply logical person who greatly values the scientific method, i understand the desire to come up with a model of morality that has strong mathematical foundations, which can have its tenets checked against empirical evidence to provide us with something closer to a mechanically produced answer to a moral question. but i don't think we're there yet. and i think to some degree, it's fundamentally impossible, but i think we could get closer, and i think beyond some core moral tenets, it is best to optimize in a utilitarian way. but before we start the optimizing, i want to prevent things like slavery, or even de facto indentured servitude. i wish i could provide you with something like a mathematical proof of why indentured servitude is bad, but i'm going to keep operating on the premise that it's bad, despite the fact that i can't prove it in a mathematically rigorous way.
Vienna had this problem decades ago when the city donated a lot of gratis bikes without any registration / GPS whatsoever. Just take the bike and leave it anywhere.
They replaced the system with a station based one with registration, and a small fee after 1 hour usage. This works well.
It's silly to think there is a single thing that caused the recession. It's a nice narrative to have a singular reason and lets you tell a story. But there's a million reasons it happened.
The problems with large blocks are not disk space.
I wouldn't describe lending club and prosper as junk loans.

I have money invested there because I feel it's a better social use than gambling on the stock market. I see good solid 5% returns. Most of the loans are repaid quickly.
China has moved the largest number of people out of poverty ever, in absolute numbers, in a couple decades. Despite all the articles about "ghost cities", the average income went up by 500% every 10 years.
AGI will come from one or two people working by themselves, outside of academia, no more than 100k line of codes.
One of the major benefits of being in a fraternity in my university was that the fraternities and sororities all had every homework and test most of the teachers at the school had ever released. I tests on the hardest math teacher in the school going back 36 years. I got asked a question on his final that he asked on his first and didn't ask in-between.

If he had spent more time teaching instead of coming up with insanely hard test questions we wouldn't have had that huge of a back file on him.

We used them for study sessions.

I can only imagine they are all online now.
Our Marvelous Native Tongue by Robert Claiborne. This book tells the history of the English language, from its Indo-European roots to the Anglo-Saxon period to Shakespeare until the modern language it is today. It's the book that initially got me interested in language and linguistics, and now 10 years later I'm doing a master's in Computational Linguistics / NLP.
No, because actual measured happiness shows strongly decreasing marginal utility of money.
"Liulishuo raises approximately $100M in Series C funding to extend its lead in building smart AI English teachers"

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/liulishuo-raises-app...
can't tell if incompetence or malicious.

everyone knows dashcam, even on 1080p, simple can't be used fir license plates! humans can't read most of them. specially after youtube compression! this is such a known fact that the more serious youtube reviews show a warning about all that before dashcam reviews.
I just sent an email to jobs and got this: This auto reply email is to let you know that, if you have submitted your resume to jobs@chimp.net, your application will not be reviewed.

How can I connect directly?
"When our research team at the New America Institute criticized Google's monopoly practices..."

I might be wrong, but this doesn't sound like research to me...
> my square tabs

Square tabs have been back for a while now. The Compact Light and Compact Dark themes are included in Firefox by default. Set the theme in Add-ons Manager -> Appearance.

I use Compact Light.
Edit: reread nber paper

So the argument seems to be that high credit score individuals with more than one first mortgage (flippers) rose from 20% to 35% in 02-07, and that rise accounts entirely for the excess defaults in 07.

It also accounts for the rise in "east" delinquency - people who aren't living in a home are more willing to walk away from it.

It's kind of convincing, but I don't think it lets mortgage fraud from lenders off the hook (i.e. Lax enforcement of scoring and approval etc)

Basic message is don't give commercial investments the same rights or protections as domestic mortgages - but if you are going to adjust mortgage rules the best ones to focus on are again, fraud by lenders.

And of course, reductions in securitisation of opaque assets and the misalignment of incentives of lenders and ... oh we have done this to death. We have not learnt anything.
you can use the search for 'photos of pilgrim couples'
Comparing Floating Point Numbers in C/C++
Yea, I think the petrodollar was invented not long after we got off the gold standard.
The usual technique is to set the pthread sigmask and then spawn the thread, to avoid the obvious race. But it's risky to assume that `std::thread` won't manipulate the sigmask by itself.
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After Contact by SEC, Protostarr Token Shuts Down Post-ICO
- The Lean Startup, by Eric Rives

- The Long Tail, by Chris Anderson

- The Blue Ocean Strategy, by W. Chan Kim

- On the shortness of life, by Seneca

- 1984, by George Orwell
I had windows phone for the longest time. At the expense of apps, it had great a battery life, great camera, and was always fast.

I switched to the flagship 2014 Moto X in October 2014. I got the material design update (iirc lollipop) in march 2015 and by then it was slow. The battery life was terrible. The camera was worse than the old windows phone despite the superior resolution.

Having a less than one year old unusable flagship sucksss. I got the iPhone 6s at launch and was blown away by the battery life, and the speed. I'm no Apple fanboy (as my post history proves), but iPhone is hard to beat. I'm thinking of getting an iPhone 8, not because there's anything wrong with my phone now, but because I want a shiny new toy. (and now I'm starting to rethink if its a wise decision...)

I've been burned by android and I just don't feel like I can trust the device to still work in a year. Kind of like the worst of Windows devices in the mid 2000s.
Memory management in LWJGL 3 (2016)
Ask HN: Personal Journal to manage time and ideas
In todays world of a plethora of note taking apps syncing with the cloud and available across multiple devices, we have all long moved away from having just a journal and a pen to organise our life. Do any of you maintain journals and take some moments to disconnect? Do you feel productive using a journal and what kind of stuff do you put in there? Seeking inpiration to journalling my daily tasks and goals.
I have repeatedly had people on the US right explain to me that the 2008 mortgage crisis was due to government-mandated loans to poor people.

As an example, here's some 2008 discussion of this thesis: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2008/10/subp...

Here's a 2016 discussion of similar themes: http://ritholtz.com/2016/06/no-cra-not-cause-financial-crisi...

That never matched my understanding, but it was practically an article of faith for them.
That seems really interesting from reading the abstract - I wonder if its possible that by training non-verbality it could become easier to think on the various levels without confusing them?
> someone probably didn't have time to implement secure link, just decided to make the bucket open.

That sounds more likely. AWS permissions are tricky, but not so tricky that it's easy to leave a bucket wide open like that. In my experience, they're much more likely to lock out someone who should be able to access them than to allow someone who shouldn't. Just bad practice to give up and allow anyone in.
Holy smuckers. Thanks for that link. I hope this mark everything secret mentality is not to get around FOIA...
You can grab a copy of Firefox 57 Nightly in portable form so it won't affect any local stuff from PortableApps.com here: https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox-portable-nigh...

It's a great way to test out the features in a lower risk fashion. You can do the same with Beta, Dev, and ESR channels as well.
I'm still using a galaxy S6 without any complaints. It never had stellar battery life and still doesn't but I haven't found that to be a problem. Samsung gave a free wireless charger when I bought it and I have that on my desk which makes charging very easy.

I love how the new phones look but can't justify replacing a perfectly working phone.
Rudeness and inconsiderateness are everywhere, but as anyone who has lived in China for a long period of time can tell you, it is endemic in China. I'm not aware of any place where the problem is generally thought to be as bad.

Why, I don't know. The one-two punches of the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution come to mind. As to why China was affected more than other places that suffered similar trauma, maybe it's because China is big enough that it can serve as its own world. Most Chinese people can choose to have no dealings with foreigners if they want, unlike somewhere like, say, Cambodia.

The bikes certainly aren't causing some wave of inconsiderateness. It's just a more visible way for the extreme inconsiderateness of the general mentality in China to be expressed.
Flood insurance was purchased by fewer than 2 in 10 Houston homeowners. Lax zoning encouraged building in high-risk areas and then living without expensive insurance, hoping for the best.
Capitalism was present in that area, but it was not a requirement for growth. The actual improvements in that era was from the industrial revolution. The development of the steam engine, machine tools, and manufacturing innovations like interchangeable parts. With that start, the amount of exploitable energy per-capita skyrocketed. Science, technology, and our standard of living have have been riding that wave ever since.
That's a nice theory about OSS but it seldom works in practice. It can take a very long time for even experienced and skilled government contractors to learn enough about a code base to fix major defects. And even then there's no guarantee that the project maintainers will accept that patch into the mainline, so if they don't that puts you into configuration management hell. Governments need a "single neck to choke" along with some reliable assurances of support levels and time to resolution.
> Now, Firefox supports no more than what Chromium supports

That isn't the case. See the FAQ: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/FAQ
> If we “do nothing” (\tau =0), inequality increases indefinitely.

No. This is "if we do nothing different". Reducing interest rates are a policy. But QE and lowering interest rates should have been predicted to have had this effect. Central bank interest rate reduction lowers the cost of debt for citizens who can afford low interest loans. that's mostly financial sector orgs and individuals, who are, for example, using debt-based instruments for leveraged investment. Even a mortgage is accessible mostly to people already on the upper half of the wealth scale - the poor in SF, for example, are not benefitting from interest rate reductions.

The effect of increasing the M(2+) money supply by encouraging increasing outstanding loans by making them cheaper ALSO has the effect of making the cost of living more expensive for the lowest part of society, and also forces the middle class to engage in speculative investment as a dominant part of their retirement strategy, which is a subsidy for big business. We should flippantly call this phenomenon "trickle up wealth redistribution".

If we increase interest rates, in the short term a lot of people in the lower half of the economy are going to get poorer. Many of them will declare bankruptcy (which is a good thing!), but in the long term it will break the cycle of indebtedness to the rich, if we take efforts to make sure debt risk is always assumed by the lender.
There is quite a popular magazine called 'Digit' here in India , which I have been following since around 2004 and it kind of made me the geek I am today and even choose the profession of software dev.
In Hindi too, Samsara means universe
Because then, it may be found to be a security under the Howey test on the federal level, as opposed to just the ridiculously overbroad Risk Capital test used in Western states.
Love his content!
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Yeah, I havent seen any anecdotal evidence of the contrary, and I have seen multiple cases in my own family of kids not being raised on breast milk and they all fared well later in life.
In order to stop grapes from growing, you have to destroy them. Cause -> effect.
Well, I've used S3 on many projects since it pretty much came out. TBH, security is not much harder that in any &nix based systems.

Default settings are usually NO public read, and it actually takes more work to make stuff publicly readable on S3 than to just leave it as private.

I am thinking the biggest stuff up with this vendor is that they made the entire bucket or bucket key available publicly, which is a pretty dumb, and deliberate thing.

If you wanted people to access resumes on an individual basis via a known web link, then just make the documents individually publicly readable, but don't make the entire bucket readable by default.

Better still, use Amazon's 'one time' or time based permissions to make sensitive files only available to a certain person or for a limited time.

Re: UI - Amazons new S3 console is spades better than their old one - plenty of auditing and analytics tools there too which can prevent silly mistakes like this.
>Do people really associate subprime loans with poor people?

Racist actually blame poor black people for the housing crash.
I think replacing a not broken phone, at least to a flagship, is rarely a rational decision. People buying a flagship are buying a new toy and they want this toy to entertain them, give emotional satisfaction and show a little bit of "tomorrow". That's (in my opinion) is what the high price tag for. Essential tried to enter a high price territory from the first shot and just failed to impress.
Otherwise, I bought a Nexus 5X for my mom last year and I think that was a pretty rational choice. It's cheap, performant and still supported by google. Absolutely no need to replace until she breaks it.
https://codereview.stackexchange.com/
May I suggest that most non-sociopaths would like to see their society maximize the minimum of what people have, rather than minimize the maximum?

It goes by many names

Unconditional Basic Income

Negative Income Tax

Social safety nets

Single Payer systems

Or various Welfare schemes
> because they get tricked into thinking it's dark and they act like it

This is a really bad example :DDD

I don't think that is totally true for human eye. You can test it by putting a LED spotlight in front of you at night, and have someone else check your pupil before and after you turn on the LED (And remember test it in different distances).

Camera works differently, they have multiple ways (Metering Modes) to test the brightness of a scene. So how it work will depends on the selected Metering Mode.

And camera can collect more light by letting light keep entering the light sensor for longer time. Plus, bigger lens can also collect more light, some people may even mount their camera on a telescope, thus more light entering. So maybe this is the physical reason why so many gears got destroyed?
I understand that the subject of Philosophy by itself should be neutral (as it is dealing with abstract categories). However it inhibits me greatly from delving deeper into it (beyond some very shallow grasp) when considering that its main use is to talk to power (either by bowing to it or by opposing it).

Even the philosophy of language is used to justify the rule of our species over the animal kingdom. The word of Marx taken as gospel was used to oppress and murder a lot of people, the use of Nietzsche taken as gospel was used to justify the murder of Jews and others, the practical application of the whole subject is soaked in blood up to a point where I am asking myself: has any good ever come out of it?
The one time permission links are quite simple to implement, with libraries for practically every language. So there's really no excuse.
I know you're sarcastic, but I'll try to answer anyway :)

> How can we best contribute to the total removal and scrapping of WebExtensions in favor of a more robust XUL development environment?

I don't know if that would be possible. We're moving a lot of XUL around these days and we'll be moving even more, hopefully to HTML soon.

You'd have to gain trust in the community as a reliable person willing to maintain and keep relentlessly updating your addons APIs as the UI of Firefox moves underneath it.

> How can we contribute to Firefox not becoming another meaningless Chrome clone like Opera or Vivaldi?

I assume by "another clone" you refer to the fact that we're switching to WebExtensions which is a system shared with other browsers.
In that case, pick any of the bugs here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215059 and help us extend the API surface to support more features :)

> Because that's what I think would be the best success of Firefox, long-term.

I agree! We already support more APIs in WebExtensions than any other engine as far as I know. And we only started.
What do you mean with "more robust"?

You are talking about the actual Firefox Profiles and not about Container Tabs, right? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

You can also get to an alternative, somewhat more Chrome-like profile manager by typing "about:profiles" into the URL-bar.
Did they really write this article without mentioning cryptocurrency mining? o_O
What makes the GDP "better" than any other "objective" measurement then? Why not take number of citizens multiplied with how many corners their furniture has in total?

There is no easy metric for societal goodness, likely not even a complicated "objective" one. Capitalism is like a blind man demanding a painting make a sound for it to exist. Since it can only measure numbers, it doesn't even attempt to answer the question of societal goodness or any other interesting ones. That is beyond its scope, and that's that's why you shouldn't mix up things like "GDP" and "progress of society".

You might say capitalism is a combustion engine, without anything additional it just eats energy and spins. The idea was, or rather is now claimed to have been, that since consumers are informed and aren't going to buy things that harm them, we'll end up with progress. Instead too many too powerful corporations are playing their clients like a piano and subvert governments, often enough in concert, and produce plenty of harm (and, to be fair, also good) that doesn't even get to enter the equation, because it's not a number or a contract etc.
Help us! Write patches to dependencies of this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215059
This is an odd way of framing it (the NBER article isn't quite so slanted).

If you were leveraged in 2008 you were more likely have (on paper) a high credit score (with assets far in excess of liabilities). But you were also going to get hammered, and be more likely to hit a cashflow wall. If you had a job, one house, and one loan, you probably weathered the storm.

It's a little odd to frame that as "poor" vs. "investors," though. The anecdote that always struck me from Lewis's Big Short was that toward the end, lenders were pushing recent immigrants to start no-money-down rental empires, because recent immigrants haven't been here long enough to have credit hiccups -- so they start with high credit scores, even at modest incomes. And for every high credit score loan, the CDOs could launder multiple C-grade loans into a AAA security.

The systemic problem was bad securitization math, which led to unsustainable returns in housing investments. A significant element of that was enticing average Joes to over-leverage themselves like "investors."

(The idea that Community Reinvestment Act lending was anything as systemic as the rating errors is totally bogus, as far as I can tell).
If you download nightly from nightly.mozilla.org, we'll keep offering you delta binary updates twice per day! :)
That is why I said I wanted them separate from "the rest of the presentation logic" and not "the presentation logic."
Little drunk so bear with me :)

Rich Hickey: Clojure concurrency[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDAfZK8m5_8&t=2024s]

Keynote - Rust: confident, productive systems programming by Aaron Turon [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6dNx9pY7p8]

RustConf 2016 - A Modern Editor Built in Rust by Raph Levien
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKtQgFBRUvQ]

Microservices at Netflix Scale: Principles, Tradeoffs & Lessons Learned[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57UK46qfBLY]

What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber to 1000 Services[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb-m2fasdDY]

Dynamic Code Optimization and the NVIDIA Denver Processor [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEuXA0_9feM] * if you can get anything on Apple's Ax series that's even better
i worked at a mortgage company during that period and internally we used the term "no doc loan" - no documentation (re: proof of income) was required. Felt very odd.
A universally applicable phenomenon where lack of ownership leads to uncivil behavior got caught in China due to its sheer scale of sharing economy and NYT says "Great material for China bashing. Make sure we get a good title to reflect how bad China is."
There was an article fairly recently on HN about how bike sharing is failing in San Francisco because it's so hilly. All the bikes would start at the top of hills and end up at the bottom and there was no system in place to relocate them back to the top.
FYI: Henry George was opposed to income taxes.

http://savingcommunities.org/docs/george.henry/incometax.htm...
S3 is awesome. You can find all sorts of interesting stuff by adding site:s3.amazonaws.com to a google search. You'd seriously be amazed (or not) at the stuff people leave in open S3 buckets.