skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Although I agree, I think it's worth asking "why not?" to introspect our own position.

Well, sure, nothing wrong with asking the question, though the direct answer is pretty trivial: Because justification is by definition about reducing one claim to another (set of) claim(s), while "my moral code says I should kill witches" is simply a synonym for "I think I should kill witches", and as such just structurally is not a justification at all (as opposed to a bad or insufficient justification) when the question is "Why do you think you should kill witches?" because it just rephrases the same claim in different words.

> But at a level above law, what is the authority that determines that killing people is absolutely wrong and not just personally repugnant to the majority of the world's population?

That question doesn't really make sense to me. What does "absolute wrong" even mean? That seems like an undefined term to me. And why would this standard of an "absolute wrong" be something that we would have any use for?

> In other places and times laws might say, for instance, that to combat overpopulation we need to euthanize those under a certain threshold of contribution.

So?!

> To fight this, we either need to come to terms with the idea that morals and laws are just a matter of personal taste, in which case there's nothing really justifying our own position either and we're just fighting for our personal preference

That's both false and kindof self-contradictory.

A major part of justification is exactly about convincing other people, or you could say "fighting for our personal preference". In that regard, exactly that which convinces other people is the justification.

Another component of justification is about self-consistency and consistency with knowledge about the external world: Independently from trying to convince other people, you can try and find ways to falsify your moral claims, either by trying to find contradicting evidence in the external world, or by trying to identify internal inconsistencies within your moral framework. If you don't find any inconsistencies, that is a tentative justification for yourself.

> or we need some higher authority beyond ourselves/consensus/law that justifies our "don't kill people" position and condemns their "euthanize the parasites" position.

How would that solve anything? You just have pushed back the problem of justification to the question of why this particular authority should be the one to use as the standard, haven't you? I don't see how that would possibly be an alternative?!

> There can be no definition of moral truth within the system of morality. We need some external system to define moral truth.

That seems like a category mistake to me?! Why is moral truth something that needs to be defined, let alone defined within itself, rather than just something that needs to be discovered, and formulated as tentative conclusions subject to revision, as all empirical discovery is?
> This country worships success. That's the reason Trump won.

While the former is true, that's not why Trump won.

> Zuckerberg is not only ridiculously successful but touches everyone's life everyday and people may feel an intimacy that doesn't exist.

That same intimacy throws off a significant percentage of the population.

> Without being judgmental just looking at the dynamics he is going to win.

My analysis is that he doesn't have a chance. Assuming he runs as a Democrat, I think it'd be difficult to win the nomination and if he does, he'd get crushed in the general against Trump.
It's not the public's responsibility to ensure that companies don't over-extend themselves. When they do, they go out of business; this is how the market should work, in my opinion.
Parents, children, CDS/CDNSKEY records, and dnssec-cds
"Let's fix a massive problem, caused by the lack of accountability that comes with bureaucracy, by adding even more bureaucracy!"
It is a tough problem because of the overhead in crossing borders; tougher still because you are a small company and that overhead is divided by few workers.

I would think financial integration in the EU should lead to it being easier to provide a service that works in the EU; the "passporting" regulation means that a bank anywhere in the EU can provide services anywhere else and that simplifies life so much.
Not to mention the OPM hack
> Didn't they move to Google Code to GitHub, which is the live repo, Gerrit being used for code review only? If so, the dependency is already there. If not, why is it on GitHub at all?

No.

Github is a mirror, the canonical git repository is at https://go.googlesource.com/go.
Paul Graham claimed in 2004 that the winning candidate each presidential election is actually the candidate with the charisma.

http://www.paulgraham.com/charisma.html

Since then, Obama beat McCain and Romney and Trump beat Clinton.

While it's hard on the ears to hear that Trump is charismatic, the reality is that his social intelligence is off the charts. That's why Scott Adams predicted early that he would win (as did I and I won some money betting on it even while I voted against him).

I don't see president-level charisma in Zuckerberg, although I'm not sure because i haven't watched him that much. I know at least one person who is really fascinated by him so maybe it's worth a second look.
First incident: Reservation at great place in Key West. Flew into Miami, drove to Key West, arrive late at night, no reservation. Never heard of us. Scramble find a room. Later, struggle to get our refund.

Resolve to never again use hotels.com

Second incident: Find Kalaloch Lodge resort online. Call them directly. Nice chit chat about peninsula, rain forests, etc. Drove to resort. Arrive, no reservation.

Turns out hotels.com and their affiliates buy up domain names, do SEO, and pretend to be the owner / operator of independent resorts.

aka cybersquatting. I call it fraud, theft, malfeasance.

The owners we spoke to said it happens all the time, they're super frustrated, don't know how to fight back.

Best as I can tell, Freedom Markets™ (caveat emptor) has become increasingly the norm. For everything. It's exhausting.
Can you please elaborate on the deep learning part. What kind of network dis you use?
Post modernism
I think we agree here on the importance of the Mac.

I don't know how real the difference between Jobs and Cook is regarding the product line. They worked together for a long time and what you're saying seems like the romantic apple media. True to a degree probably though.
I for one would welcome the scenario that someone who is smart, ambitious and genuinely concerned about poverty becomes president of the USA. He embodies the things I aspire to - entrepreneurial drive, smarts and philanthropy.
Indeed. Were this statement made in the USA, there wouldn’t even be this attempt to rationalize it. Torches and pitchforks would be at the ready almost immediately.
How a child in a million tiny gel balls got these adults arrested
> I hate this argument because you would just not count if Brexit had been rejected as you wish it had been.

That's absolutely not true. I never said that Brexit shouldn't happen based on that majority. I was simply pointing out that a bare majority in this case _has_ provided arbitrary power. Reading anything further into my comment is disingenuous.
Google and HTC Announce US$1.1 Billion Cooperation Agreement
How does upterm generate auto completion meta data for command line options and commands (Describing what they do)?
Why do you believe this to be the case?
More precisely: Oxygen deprivation, low air pressure, and low humidity can alter your mood.
In my opinion, honesty and artistic integrity comes down to article/video delivering the promised value/entertainment.

The purpose of a headline is to get more people to click so that they receive the value you've created. If your headline is a little less compelling - fewer people will receive the value, the world will be a little worse off. So if you believe in your ideas, and care about expressing them - you do whatever it takes to convey them successfully. Utilitarian ethics.

You know you are competing with a huge amount of clickbaity entertainment, so if the things you create are high quality, it makes sense to do things that won't predictably cause you to lose.

I understand your point of view and why you'd find this distasteful, and, personally, I don't use as much clickbait as I probably should. But my opinion on this stuff has shifted over time, so I just want to express it.
Your processes made me think about a email based interface instead of a bash script, this may allows to easily interact with the database bot without knowing bash or python.
thanks. that makes sense.

#include <stdio.h>
void foo (int n) {
struct S { int x[n]; int y; };

printf("offset: %ld\n", __builtin_offsetof(struct S, y));
}

int main() {
foo(2);
foo(16);
}

offset: 8
offset: 64
So do what Apple has done, except for the first part about which only programmers care?
(2007) Indians predated Newton 'discovery' by 250 years
I suppose that is true. Then they won't have to be bothered by being asked to consider what the systems they are developing are used for. They won't have to rationalize that the many thousands of children who are killed as collateral damage when the systems they designed are used to attack terrorists in far away lands are a justifiable cost of maintaining the American way of life.
I think he has seen how easy it was for the Russians to influence the election and figured out the methodology of the influence. Then after looking at the amount of data he has, hes probably figured out he cant lose.
so you don't mind having review comments disappear if somebody updates the PR, and it doesn't bother you not being able to say in a comment "this needs fixing" in a way that you can mark it fixed later on (and without marking as fixed the PR can't be merged)?

Github reviews are fine for a one-and-done merge, but for a back & forth review I really wish it had the above...
How to Build Your Digital Presence as a Software Developer
Republicans seem quite content with Trump billing the secret service to stay in his own hotels while protecting him, so I think that's your answer.
Can't wait for 2020 election. I suspect it will be even worse circus than 2016. Get ready for some ridiculous candidates!
You are intentionally misinterpreting what I said, or maybe you do not know that some bands can be used by commercial devices. That doesn't mean you can do whatever you wish on any bandwidth you want.

But even in something as common as WiFi you still have regulations, like channel 14, which as far as I know only works in Japan by default. Other common restriction is transmitting power.
Confirmed by HTC

https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=15303272
I never consented to have my information in their database, and I have no power to get it out of their database. They have roundly and repeatedly demonstrated that they are not fit to hold and be trusted with maintaining the SSNs and other personal information of the entire country's worth of credit holders.

Is there even a license that the Equifax company needs to have, in order to do this type of work, that can be revoked? It needs to be revoked! But I'm afraid they don't need any license, they just woke up like this.

The right to covertly surveil and maintain dossiers on 50%+ of the citizens of this country should not be default-allow. Strongly disagree. People in power holding that kind of opinion, is exactly how we got here.
6 months, here's why:
They random forested height data, everyone random forests these days. It's quick and dirty and yields good accuracy. Not only that, everyone seems to support a built in Random Forest training model, programs from pandas/numpy/scikit to R has it built in. Height data seems the easiest to go by, to short and it has a kink that may cause cracking in the future as the metal oxidizes. What were their 3 models? Who knows? But their idea of combining 3 models, that 3 different teams have made is standard in all DataScience competitions. This is called ensembling. ArToolkit for Unreal Engine, someone else made that and they probably just connected a bunch of blocks together with Unreal's script engine. Honestly, 6 months max and you can do this in a day yourself.
> This country worships success. That's the reason Trump won.

If I had a dime for every reason given for Trump's win, I could dive into a pool of them like Scrooge McDuck.

I think it's certainly a factor which made Trump seem credible as long as you didn't scrutinize his self-made mythology too hard, but it's not primarily why Trump won. If it were that simple, Mitt Romney would have won as well.
I can imagine many people take this seriously. Many people take different religious doctrines seriously and believe they are 100% truth. Every religion can't be right. Who is to say who is right and who is wrong.

The earlier episodes of this show were easier to handled then the latest. It seems they are running out of content and are stretching very far.
PHP memory_limit – a *per-script* setting
Block of Catalonia's referendum is a violation of our rights – Catalan President
Hairline?
Just to add to the discussion: Subject would be Perceiver, and Object would be Perceived. Are they actually capable of being separated?
So, what exactly was updated?
Credit Reporting Systems Around the Globe (published in 2000) [pdf]
> Fortunately it's a great time for radical career shifts, especially if you always wanted to be an artist.

Can you elaborate? Genuinely curious.
Because they're not going to be able to pay back the damage they did. If they screw over a hundred million people and then go bankrupt, those hundred million people are stuck with the bill.
{lambda talk} in rosetta.org
The biggest mind bleep for me is falling asleep while taxiing and waking up while landing.
Arguably, the relatively low wealth per capita is partially because they've been one of the few western European countries to mostly avoid a major property bubble in the last while.
Indirectly, you have this power through elections.

Lack of interest (in the US) in local elections is a bit of a pet peeve of mine. Local government has a much larger impact on a person's day-to-day life. Spending on education is largely at the county/city level (while the state and federal governments provide funding, localities can increase the amount and has some discretion in allocation). Development, local roads, police & fire, healthcare - all by and large controlled locally.

But, I do agree, at the federal level, it often feels like we have very little control over taxation and spending.
All of this adds up to something less secure and less practical than just using Monero
Yes, this benefits Apple customers. I'm pleased.

But it also attacks the revenue of the other 3 horsemen (Google, Facebook, Amazon). Which also pleases me.

If I was Apple, I'd mess with advertising, just because.
If Atom is any benchmark, plugins will be created, abandoned, forked, abandoned and then the API will churn breaking everything every so often because "change is cool." It's the same segment of programmers with 0-6 months of experience whom can't be bothered to delve deeper into computer science, professsional software engineering or static compilation. Instead, just waste everyone's RAM and processor cycles with inefficient interpreted scripts and also bounce from shiny tech to new shiny tech.
Wrt Turkey we have many different cultures coexisting (even though we pretend otherwise) and teh answer depends on which one you pick. But for the more poor it has an indirect effect, where the general ignorance of common working class recent emigrant men provoke lots of tension in families, economical and not. But blanket statements in this regard wrt Turkey is like talking of Greece, Italy, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia as a single cultural entity.
Libel? That’s laughable, given that the only thing I pointed to was Yarvin’s very clear intellectual ties to the dark enlightenment school of thought, further reinforced by his connections to people like Thiel and Bannon. I am not going to go spelunking for quotes just to win some karma on the internet. I have better things to do with my time. Obviously.
Better to say "credit bureaus". Your local credit union is a "credit company" but nobody would say its evil (just insecure).
That is by far the biggest red flag for his political aspirations. I cannot even fathom the conflicts of interest, the potential to misuse/abuse Facebooks front page rankings, and the massive data and insight he would have access to.
Seems like the real Mark Zuckerberg comes out at the end of that article.
Like pretty much everybody, I can't stand electron. But there's an interesting angle here, which is integrating the thing running in the terminal emulator (the shell) with the terminal itself. What I'd be most interested to see though would be a terminal pushing curses support forward, since I use a lot of curses-based applications.
> I can't see how defining 'substantive' images could ever work.

See Superhuman. They're using tracking pixels with no related images or links.
Watch any video of him presenting, Mark has the charisma of a potted plant. This guy doesn't stand a chance of winning ANY election without increasing his social skills at least tenfold.
FTA: "Furthermore, we decided that we would require a setup that actually worked. Given that we did not have any AR hardware available (eg AR glasses such as a Microsoft Hololens), we quickly built one ourselves using a production helmet and a webcam."

Medium images sometimes take a while to load, but if you wait you can see their "webcam on a hard-hat helmet" setup for the demonstration to the judges. The overlaid AR + video feed then shows up on a monitor.
"toxic" is not a bad word. It's a perfectly appropriate word to describe many things, including "toxic employees". Toxic means poisonous. It is quite possible for a person to be poisonous to a community (family, relationships, friendships, workplaces). They bring the group down, they disrupt the relationships between people ("poisoning" them). Often by their words: pointing out issues and exaggerating their significance, constant harping on specific topics and inability to move on. Sometimes by their actions: inability to meet expectations, inability to keep promises or obligations.

The term may get abused by some people who just want to call anything they dislike toxic, but we shouldn't throw out a perfectly good word (and associated phrases) just because you think "toxic" is toxic.
They did not have VR glasses, so they simulated them using a helmet-mounted webcam and a monitor. The AR weld risk profile (my words) is overlaid on the captured video images. See the article's video with caption 'Screen-capture of the AR experience...'
Which industry is not morally corupt then? I can see maybe single companies in given industries not behaving like total assholes, but on the whole I think all industries are rotten.
Exactly. Coinbase is a web service, not a 'true' wallet.
availability of cheap hardware and wife software selection

If only that was true... ;)
Calling yourself a conservative is meaningless.

The US has shifted away from being a republic to being more of an oligarchy over the last 30 years. So if you are a supporter of oligarchs stand up and be counted.

If you are a fiscal conservative you should be pissed that the republicans put the country farther in debt than the democrats do.

If you are a social conservative, what the fuck is wrong with you? If you want to live like the Amish, go for it. But you dont see the Amish trying to impose their way of life on others do you?

So yes, people who's ideas feel repressive or too far out there either learn to monitor their own extreme ideas or they are shunned. That's how a civil society works.
We plan use a Telegam interface for many things (status checks, new invoices etc). Its easier and faster than E-Mail and available everywhere!
This is a great reply, and I felt myself being persuaded by it. Then I thought about it. Your criticism of his writings appears to boil down to "He's not taking a stance." Is that an accurate summary?

If so, then it's impossible to be ok with excluding him.
I'm divided over the whole ICO thing. On one hand, I don't think that Bitcoin, et al are ever going to replace fiat currency. But shares of stock are a perfect analog to what he's trying to do; and I think the SEC will see right through it.

On the other hand, blockchain tech is very useful for distributed asset tracking; specifically corporate bonds and equity. It makes an incredible amount of sense for things like stock certificates and even shareholder voting. Having a tokenized, open ledger that is able to be analyzed by anyone is nothing but good for shareholders. I think that as long as shareholders are aware that they are buying equity in a company, cryptocurrency should be a viable way to do so.

What I do not think, however, is that these corporate cryptocurrencies should be exempt from all existing laws governing equity finance. It should be 1 share = 1 coin and leave it at that. The market can determine the value of the shares, and the company can create new ones whenever it wants (since it would control the "mining" pool).
Equifax Links to Fake Equifax Page [pymnts.com]
I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of a difference between " a blockchain " (the technology) and "Let people who see others making money hands over fist on a blockchain participate. I have this thing" (the fraud).
Zuckerberg wants to fully combine his wealth and access to information about us into a presidency and then what? If you say the wrong thing about him on Facebook the IRS suddenly audits you? Criticism of Zuckerberg flags you in government databases as well?

Trump owns a chain of hotels and sells ties and hats, but doesn't operate what could largely be seen as the most expansive and intimate database about every American ever made.
I think a word2vec guided brute force approach to the riddles would be the winning combination.
What would it give you that, say, Citymapper doesn't?
> There's a whole spectrum of intersex possibilities and ambiguous genitalia.

There's an excellent chart here - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyond-xx-and-xy-...
Evil is as evil does.
Question for anyone who is knowledgeable about California elections: If Mark wanted to run for governor 2018, when would he have to take an observable action? (i.e. register as a candidate or similar.) At what point would we know for sure? And would winning Governor block a presidential run in 2020? And would losing it would indicate a candidate too weak to win POTUS 2020?

I think a key factor has to be whether Trump will survive through 2020. If Trump is weak in 2020 that is the best time to run, because if a Democrat beats Trump is 2020 and it isn't Mark, he'd have to wait until 2028, and he'd be running for re-election after 8 years of a Dem executive. It will partly depend on the who is the challenger in 2020 was well. I wonder if there is a chance Hillary takes another shot?
Then you could have a contract server(s) that has legal contracts that are:

1. indexable

2. forkable

3. parameterized - signing party 1, 2, witness, state/province, jurisdiction, allowable arbitration, etc.

4. digitally signed.
I've been a system administrator at several large and small companies, including a major cloud host. HN is the only place I've ever heard the Intel ME discussed in my professional career. I would actually like to have access to some of those features to help manage workstations.
When you say it like that you can naturally follow with "creating bigger value for the company increases your leverage", which seems to be trivially true.

You might question rate of leverage increase between your value / other factors, but ranting about "decoupling" seems simply wrong.
My personal experience is the opposite. I have found Racket to be much more approachable and easier to follow than Python.