skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not really sure what your point is. Color certainly can exist outside of people seeing it; we can have machines detect it. We also understand how our eyes detect it mechanically (and understand how it can fail, like when people are color blind). We understand that our eyes connect with our nervous system and brain and create signals when we encounter red, and that signal leads to neuronal activity.

You claim that there's some other invisible force at work when this happens, but what evidence is there to back that up? It seems like the mechanical description does a pretty accurate job of describing what's happening. Neuroscientists who have studied this don't seem to be running into any issues. Not only is there no evidence for qualia, but the idea of qualia doesn't seem to even solve any particular problem.
How does one exception change anything?
>that one's position/class/socio-economic-factors are the determining factors in their values and beliefs.

Have you actually read Marx? Nowhere does he make this claim, nor inspire this thought. I don't know where you're getting this from. Marx does not deny the indidual's individuality. Here's a little quote, which is a criticism from Marx of the very view you are accusing him of:

>The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of changed circumstances and changed upbringing, forgets that it is men who change circumstances and that the educator must himself be educated. Hence this doctrine is bound to divide society into two parts, one of which is superior to society. The coincidence of the changing of circumstances and of human activity or self-change [Selbstveränderung] can be conceived and rationally understood only as revolutionary practice.

(From Theses on Feuerbach)

Please don't accuse us Marxists of the fallacies you can't back up. Besides, even if Marx was accused of economic determinism, it doesn't mean that the critics are right. In fact, here's yet another statement from one of the founders of Marxism (Marx's close friend Friedrich Engels):

"Marx and I are ourselves partly to blame for the fact that the younger people sometimes lay more stress on the economic side than is due to it. We had to emphasise the main principle vis-à-vis our adversaries, who denied it, and we had not always the time, the place or the opportunity to give their due to the other elements involved in the interaction. But when it came to presenting a section of history, that is, to making a practical application, it was a different matter and there no error was permissible."
It may be because I'm a lousy philosopher, but I haven't discovered the problem with interpreting that phrase like a simpleton: it is certain that "something seems to be happening."

This seems to be the only claim I can make that doesn't assume anything. Of course, for that to really be true, I shouldn't even try to formulate it in language (or thought) but then it's hard to communicate.

I suppose the problem is that, without precision, it's impossible to know if we're talking about the same thing, and so we can't make progress. And yet the rest of his argument seems to make sense to me.
I mean I certainly haven't done any sort of side by side testing, I just generally assume the various Debian releases (stable, testing, sid) are--at any given moment--not quite in-sync with whatever Ubuntu is doing with it's releases, and so assume problems are more likely when downloading shit off the Humble Store or whatever.

I'm sure they're usually close enough that I'm not going to dispute anecdata though.
Eh, as someone who works in scala day-to-day, and has studied actual category theory, I think the emphasis on category theory itself is silly. And in fact, most of the time, more category theory and more monads will make your code worse (e.g. MonadTransformers are D: )

Future, which is really a souped up promise abstraction, is the main star, and for-comprehensions are nice syntactic sugar. Being a "Monad" doesn't help you do anything with it though. And Future technically doesn't even truly obey the Monad laws, because of exceptions.

It's useful that a couple of container classes in scala use implement this trait:

trait ChainableContainer[A] {
def map(fn: A => B): ChainableContainer[B]
def flatten(nested: ChainableContainer[ChainableContainer[A]]):ChainableContainer
}

But beyond making it a little easier to guess what's going on, the underlying math isn't useful in actual programming.
But labor productivity growth doesn't cause any wage gains anymore, hasn't for decades upon decades.

Probably worth asking if you assert that American corporate taxes are the highest in the world: sometimes there are just major, major reality-based differences in the discourse and it's useless talking any further. I know I can't believe some of your axioms here, unfortunately.
So, having spent some time trying to track it down, the best I found was [0], which wasn't nearly as strong as I suggested: "In an experiment, people read a realistic persuasive message that was relevant to them. Results showed that anecdotal evidence does not benefit from the inclusion of statistical evidence or from its intrinsic quality."

I originally heard about this from Kevin Drum [1], but I was unable to track down the actual study he alludes to.

That said, he does link to an interview [2] with... an anecdote about the use of data: "We have an experiment of helping a starving child. A certain percentage of people help [by donating money to the kid]. Then we have another condition with a different group, same child, same situation, except we put the numbers of the statistics of starvation next to her picture, and the donations dropped in half."

[0] http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0163853X.2017.13...

[1] http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/08/facts-or-anecd...

[2] https://www.vox.com/explainers/2017/7/19/15925506/psychic-nu...
> But the beauty of computers is that we can match content up to precisely the users that care about it.

In theory. I often wonder about pathologically impossible-to-query statistics like "who is snoring the loudest right now?" "show me a global map of everyone waking up right now (and a graph tracking how many people are waking up per second); and provide a second-to-second pinpoint of the person who feels the most refreshed." "what is the single most relevant set of webpages for this highly obscure, domain-specific query?" etc.

Heh, it sometimes takes me actual effort to calm myself down about the fact that, beyond a certain threshold, we literally cannot collect enough entropy (data) to direct a database to the most relevant results - and that we similarly won't connect users to the data they're most interested in, beyond that point.

I do totally get what you mean though.
> Let's not forget Grey Davis' being a politician didn't help California against rolling brownouts and massive deficits in the 2000s.

The correct spelling is Gray Davis [1].

The rolling brownouts were caused by Enron [2] who was enabled by legislation (AB 1890) that his predecessor Pete Wilson signed in 1996 [3]. People went to jail for that. [4]

There were no massive deficits under Davis. When the tech bubble burst in 2001, there was a revenue decline but that's about it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Davis

[2] https://www.ferc.gov/industries/electric/indus-act/wec/enron...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal
I've gone cold turkey on caffeine a couple of times (takes me about a week of headaches, I'm not an especially heavy user), mainly because I was making hot drinks to avoid work out of boredom, so switched to ginger teas and such like.

Anyway, there doesn't appear to be consensus on whether coffee/tea drinking in moderate amounts is good or bad, but I've seen more suggestions that it's beneficial than otherwise. Any input to that?
Alcohol and benzodiazepines are the only ones, IIRC. In 2014, Xanax killed more people than fentanyl, morphine, and meth (https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-12-20/heroin-cocai...)
Week 1: Legally change my name to Samy.

Week 2: Begin development of Xanga integration, initially making
it possible for a MySpace page to join a Xanga blogring.

Week 3: Publish an import tool that allows users to display their
archived Formspring questions and answers.

Week 4: Ensure that the service is reliably accessible over both
HTTP and Gopher. Encourage users to visit
gophers://gopher.myspace.com if their client supports SSL.

Week 5: Begin cross-platform app development for Symbian OS and
the Apple Newton.
So, how would you encode this in a string:

To end a string, use the » character.

?
There will always be some outliers when speaking of human affairs.

I mentioned mainstream movies above and it's similar: the majority loves them and flocks to them. But still some would legitimately rather watch a Tarkovsky or some really obscure creators.

To quote myself above: "Humans want to believe that they are not so simple, but _usually_ they are" (emphasis mine). In other words, you can find one Hanauer. Heck, you could find 10 Hanauers. But I doubt you can find 10,000 or even 100. Most of the SV bosses beliefs are determined by their wealth/role/position.

Heck, even old Marx (to whom they idea that people's class/position etc determines their values/beliefs was attributed above [1]) very well knew that. His friend Engels was a wealthy industrialist heir, but very much a communist. And Kropotkin was a prince from a wealthy family -- but ended an anarchist. The overwhelming majority of industrialists and princes however never made those jumps to the other side.

[1] And he indeed wrote it and popularized it, but it was not uniquely his.
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I have my doubts that Bernie would have won the primaries even if he was the one being helped. He ended up losing by 3.7e6 votes.
One big thing that I've started noticing, is that "migration" is incredibly easy for rich people. That may lead to their "global" mindset, and wanting it for everybody else.

There are countries out there (including America) where you can get long-term stay papers or citizenship by simply investing into the country. You're essentially "buying" your way in. Most of the necessary amounts are probably "peanuts" for the celebrities and tech-leaders we have today.
> Zuckberg would beat Trump in the democratic primaries, no question about that.

So, where is this all coming from -- that Zuckerberg wants to run for president? I'll bet my house and every last penny I own, he does not want to be president, he will never run for president.

Oh, and he would never win. He's an insanely smart dude, but he hasn't got the charisma to win presidency.

(I do think that a lot of people on HN should run for some higher office in gov't, particularly tptacek and rayiner).
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You are misunderstanding. The computer only helps everyone it works for. It doesn't hurt the people it doesn't work for.

The worst case is that you get handled by people because the computer didn't work, which is the same as if there were no computers.

We might not be optimized for human intervention into these processes, but that's because at the scale we operate at (hundreds of millions of users) it is physically impossible to provide human to human service for everyone.
How to Conserve Your Precious Attention Span
What are these strict categories good for? The real image is much more complex.
If you feel like you can do a better job of winning an election against a Clinton and the entirety of mainstream media, you should run in 2020. Against Trump, naturally, so we confirm the hypothesis.
Not much I can add, except to say I completely agree, and that this is incredibly well written.
Yes there are a huge variety of wallets like this, hardware and software. Storing your coins on one is best practice, don't rely on an exchange.
Martin Shkreli has bail revoked, heads to jail
You probably should use public key authentication and ssh-agent.
You assume that they care about Caddy and that the 9 lines of how to get LE for nginx is something they think it's hard to do for anyone that can't follow these instructions: https://gist.github.com/cecilemuller/a26737699a7e70a7093d4dc... or use: https://github.com/certbot/certbot
Yea, I'm all for overthinking things, but as a solution to fizzbuzz, this article is silly. You don't need any complicated control flow or logic, or functional primitives, for an extensible, readable fizzbuzz.
Yeah the Map monoid instance is very unfortunate :( When I came from Scala I really missed the one in scalaz (which is as you describe)

reducers has a UnionWith newtype which gives you the better Map monoid. But I think it uses a lazy unionWith, which will cause your Map to leak space when used in a foldMap over many elements :(
FWIW, you can die from alcohol withdrawal well before your liver is shot. Also, you don't need to have been drinking for decades; you can get yourself in that pickle in months, not years.
>You have faith in God not purely because he's god, but because he's proved himself to be god.

Convincing yourself that God exists, even believing that God exists, in no way proves that God exists.
I agree with rothbardrand@ here, I recently moved from AWS. Amazon is very top-down where developers are heavily managed by their immediate managers (and thats why they need so many MBAs). Our team of 15 engineers had 4 managers, who would push engineers to the edge to meet deadlines. From what I observed, this leads to very high turnover rate, and teams with lot of junior engineers who are asked to assume roles of previous project leads. New hires are brainwashed about increase ownership and responsbility. But after some years, they all realize the game and move over to different company.
Pull down to refresh. Granted to Twitter.

Slide to unlock. Granted to Apple, then invalidated.

Rounded rectangles. Granted to Apple. (Freeway signs had this for decades.)

Jiggle mode to move or delete apps. Granted to Apple.

These are just a few of the crazy software UI patents that were granted.

Can anyone think of any more?
Diversity and the Hiring Myth
Maybe. I'm just saying cryptocurrency won't give us deflationary constraints, since we can always create new currencies if we want to. If it turns out we do fine just sticking with a few main ones, that's ok too.
H.264 is a video codec.

If you mean AAC or MP3, which are usually used in the audio track along side H.264 in an MP4 or MP2-TS container, nobody outside of low power/embedded bothers to decode the audio codec in hardware, it's just not worth it.
The dystopian aspect is ceding to computers rather than humans the fundamental decision making in our lives. Just because it hasn't gone full Brazil doesn't mean we're not hurtling towards it.
Wow. They really are out to get him.
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> He's an insanely smart dude

That's why I agree with you that he wouldn't run for president.
Opiate withdrawal is generally not life threatening either.
So is the other playbook, where effectively every excuse always boils down to "we need more money" or "we're underfunded".
> HN that has any JavaScript

It's really only pages that use JS to create a user experience that's worse than not having it at all.
Actually Wesley is the only one who doesn't get addicted and [spoilers follow]

they try to force it upon him but Data saves the day at the end.
Or generate code without using annotation processor
Plus if you're an entrepreneur who's NOT a tycoon you might feel very differently. I've kept a business alive these past ten years in spite of anything the market threw at me, and I had to notice the sharp correlation between my own well-being, and the Fed metric for the labor share.

Globalization hurt my business just as much as it helped. Yes, overseas sales, but my domestic sales just kept getting eroded as people live on less and less money, and it got to a point where I just got onto a Patreon model because my competitors in my industry were becoming too evil: I had to get disruptive in a big way because my industry sector was in a downward spiral of dishonesty, broken promises, DRM, and increasingly ruthless business behavior.

I expect major turmoil in that market within a few years, but I jumped off the train before it went into the ravine ;)

I think these days people who understand economics lean socialist, and I see unironic embracing of even more radical doctrines. Capitalism is following an easily observable trajectory as human worker productivity gains escalate year over year, and that trajectory is not 'upward'.
I bet they were also selling for CAD$2 if you go to the right place.
I agree with what you said about liberalism, but I think you're off the mark with regards to left-libertarianism. It's a disparate label, but I can't imagine any of these schools of thought showcasing "the desire for a robust and efficient free market" the parent comment calls for.

Liberal markets + social safety net sounds like garden variety Nordic model democracy to me. The term "left-libertarian" is usually ascribed to groups like Catalonian anarchists or Zapatistas.
For now. The others didn't, until they did.
Maybe tech companies know that they profit from redistribution, perhaps moreso than other companies? Tech products tend to be relatively expensive, but production is generally unlimited, because a significant proportion of the price reflects the fixed costs of development, which means that a larger market usually comes with profits. This is somewhat unlike e.g. agriculture or construction, where production quantities are more difficult to increase.
There are no consumers anymore. Everybody's a micro-producer, and there's no market for any of it.
More competition is also how we got Trump on the republican side because the number of candidates lowered the bar for receiving a plurality of the votes. Trump never would have beaten someone like Cruz, Rubio, or even Jeb in a primary straight up.
Didn't Caddy got like $50.000 from Mozilla to work on the open source version?

Is Mozilla OK with this? Maybe Mozilla should give money on free software projects that plan on remaining free instead next time...

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/06/22/mozilla-awards-3850...
In all fairness, the prior President was a one-term Senator, who pretty much started running for President just 18 months into that one term.

The actual merits of Trump or Obama notwithstanding, it's been three election cycles now since without traditional career politician in the White House. I'm not sure I can fault tech billionaires for thinking that this might be a real emerging trend, rather than just a pair of consecutive flukes.
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Another couple of generations - no more Intel chips in Apple computers.
Great work. Thanks a ton for climbing onto the hackernews thread!

When I look at chart in the article (I haven't read the paper) I get really curious about how 'support for regulation' might break down by issue. A lot of the regulation that the Trump administration is rolling back are environment rules that are strongly net positive for our economy once you account for health care externalities. While many of the regulations that hurt the economy the most (e.g. restrictions on urban housing construction.) are unchallenged.

http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/chang-tai.hsieh/research/gro...

How do you think the results would change if you broke "regulation" down by type e.g. environment/labor/business? I suspect there'd be a significant break between tech elite and the republican donor class on environmental/global warming issues. I also think there's a significant break between the tech elite and some democrats on zoning reform. Though I haven't conducted formal surveys :)

I think this is particularly interesting as it's the one issue were the tech elite didn't look like 'normal democrats' in your graphs - perhaps that outcome is more nuanced then the graphic shows.
I'm not sure of the exact specifics, but they have dropped the minor version numbering in favor of, I guess, build number.

You'll find that you can no longer rely on a static repo for (say) 7.3 to stay static and instead 7 will be symlinked to latest.
Yes, in fact the problem here is that Rogers barely considered spec input from outside (and others at Google have continued this behavior). A committee's design would've resulted in a better outcome in this case.
Newer versions of setuptools have builtin support for more fields in setup.cfg: http://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setuptools.html#c...

That along with setuptools-scm and pip-tools have for me solved most of the issues that pbr addresses.
Right alongside all the other aspects of individual sovereignty that society has chosen to abrogate.
> we all saw what happened to Bernie in the democratic primaries

I don't know what you saw, but I saw Clinton winning 55% of the vote.
If there were 0 people who recovered from opiate addiction without being hooked on a maintenance drug for the rest of their lives then it'd have more credence. If you give an alcoholic xanax for the rest of their life because it affects the same area of the brain but they aren't drunk anymore, are they recovered?

Not to mention, that seems like a pretty horrible and bleak outlook to make people believe they can't make a full recovery without being medicated for the rest of their life.

Again, I've known many people who have taken these drugs and a large number of them relapse bad. In fact, from what I hear the withdrawl from suboxone is 10x worse than from heroin.
would be nice to track my trade history so i can see when i'm up or down on an particular coin
He's a very smart guy, according to a lot of people, and he's also nice. He made an app that was reasonably successful, sold it. When in YC, pg recognized his genius... and over time decided he's the guy who should run YC.
In my opinion you can't simply discard the debate as comparing apples to oranges... There are many similarities. It's a drug addiction at the end of the day.
Two observations:

1) The "edge cases" typically change slowly over time. If you are an edge case, it's not your turn this year and someone else's turn next year. Your circumstances define you, and are potentially reinforced by your "edge case" status. It's your turn every year, and your entire life becomes a living hell.

2) It takes only a small proportion of edge cases to get a lot of disenfranchised people. For example, 1% of people being edge cases would draw in over 3 million people in the US alone.
They may be referring to a bit more than that. Most inmate supplies, from clothing to blankets to mattresses to hygiene supplies, comes from one company called Bob Barker - no affiliation with the TV personality. There are just a few companies that supply canteen/commissary services. Construction is done by just a few companies.

Things like that may be what they are referring to.
Also, I believe the only way to deliver that content to a wide variety of browsers at the time was Flash. In fact Adobe/Macromedia may have only added the video functionality in the prior 5 years or so, so before that I think you couldn't even do it without making people install a plugin.

Remember this was well before Chrome came out, and Firefox was still nascent. So a lot of people were using IE.

I think Flash was already starting to fall out of fashion by then, but they realized there was a valuable technology deployed in it (video codecs).
Awesome, thank you for the detailed explanation!
Is that the case? Or is it that men leave a field when the pay begins to drop? Distinguishing between cause and effect is very important in these matters. I don't see anything here to suggest the authors have established the cause and effect relationship.
Sure, but being granted $50.000 from Mozilla under the claim of supporting an open source project can sustain you for at least 2 years.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/06/22/mozilla-awards-3850...

Mozilla should have given the money to another project.