skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original article is from 2009. There's a current interview with the author, Mark Slouka, at "To the Best of Our Knowledge" (audio):

https://www.ttbook.org/interview/what-happens-when-math-and-...
> which kind are you talking about

Sorry, that was vague. I meant the way it is most often used: wealth redistribution towards equality.

> It is frequently heard in politics, usually referring to perceived redistributions from those who have more to those who have less.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redistribution_of_income_and_w...
Bleah.

Chloë Grace Moretz ("Hit Girl") would make a great YT. She's convincing as a snarky tough girl.

The Raft would be quite do-able. After all, there was Waterworld. (I met the guy who did the Softimage water shader for that. It worked out much better for him when he did the water shader for Titanic.) Worn-out ships are easily available. Chase scenes in open water are easier than ones near land, and you can add all the background ships in CGI.

There are ways to get the cost down. Watch this trailer for the Blade Runner remake.[1] Nothing expensive there, except old Harrison Ford. A smoke and fog world brings the costs down.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T2b0mp2hco
Corporations have twisted community politics to make such things very difficult. In my community, a municipal fiber optic network was built throughout the area but lobbying and politics made it nearly impossible to finish, so there are very few homes connected.
Hello, I'm ....

It started for me when I first saw a calculator.
Well yeah it is for inventory purposes.
On the good side, the hash rate will eventually adjust to mining by hand.

On the bad side, people quickly run out of pen and paper, and the ham radio network desperately wants a hard fork to support side chains.
Why are we considering universities in terms of the earning potential of their graduates? University is not job training. If anthropology students are being encouraged to continue in academia, it's because that's the purpose of that institution. From a "fair" point of view, the industries trying to hire engineers should fund education. Since that is unrealistic, the ultimate solution would seem to be making higher education free, like the rest of the civilized world. What you probably shouldn't do is admit that it doesn't make sense to try to compare the economic value of knowing Milton vs Maxwell, and then suggest doing so anyway.
> Second, vengence is primarily about hurting the other guy, not helping yourself.

What kind of romantic world do you live in where you think crime is motivated more by "vengence" than economics? You've been watching too many gangster movies or something where you think it's all about vendettas and less about fighting over highly profitable criminal enterprises like drugs. Have you heard of the war on drugs? This Jante reading of urban violence is preposterous.
It's a semi-taboo subject that has little chance of being discussed rationally in most places. There's a small chance you might be able to get away with it here without someone with an agenda showing up to derail it, either on purpose or with extreme and unfounded views, just like every other part of the internet.
Part 3 – Numbers in JavaScript
I am not trolling, I am asking seriously, but who the hell cares about a couple of extra seconds of page rendering? As long as the page looks and works correctly in the end. But the features that Firefox drops in favor of doing browser equivalent of street racing with Chrome are not being replaced with anything. So far, I am pretty sure I am dropping Firefox once release 57 hits. If it is going to become a Chrome clone, I might as well use Chrome.
It usually means asocial. This same problem shows up with atheist and antitheist.

Also, even used correctly antisocial doesn't necessarily imply violent. It can but ultimately "antisocial behavior" and "violent behavior" are distinct categories.
Hmm? I think we're just talking past each other. I didn't mean to imply it was about morals -- it seems inherently amoral.

His motive is clearly money. He wants to get rich. That's a fine motive and he's not killing anyone or defrauding anybody (yet).

Why is it only ok to tap into a market when the legal system says it's ok? He's not even a drug dealer; drug dealers really do ruin lives.

Your argument here appears to boil down to "If you think it's sane to climb Mt. Everest, I suggest you rethink your actions. You'll probably die."

Except it's more along the lines of climbing a mountain no one has ever climbed before. Yes, you certainly have a point. He'll probably get caught and probably go to prison. But... So? It's his life to risk.

In the meantime, you've got to respect the raw determination. We'll see if he delivers. If not, then it's just a bunch of hot air. But he's onto something. The legal system is going to have to adapt to something it has never had to deal with before outside of cartels: the ability to operate a full business completely anonymously.

Even if he fails, someone else will come along and do the same thing. You want ten million dollars? Heck yeah you do. Tap into that feeling and amplify it by 100x, and that's the drive that pushes people to do this kind of thing.

Really though, as long as he's not hurting anybody I don't understand why we have a right to trash on him. He hasn't stolen anyone's money yet, and he's trying to build something new. I'd like to interview him, to be honest.

(I agree you weren't really trashing on him, just pointing out how crazy his plan is. That's true, but he's not a run-of-the-mill lunatic, which is sort of what your comments imply.)
Part 4 – Strings and ES6 Template Strings
What laws exist against a 5ghz ubiquity mesh network? I know that such laws can be challenging. Here, there was a proposed law to charge money for the use of that wireless band. The law was very unpopular however, and was not passed. But I can understand that happening.
In some shops in my area you can ask for a digital invoice via sms / email
not until Broadcom provides a toolchain and writes a P4 backend.
Why? Simple preferences is close to Firefox or other software.

Advanced preferences are complex, so it's like about:config
I'd assume that this is a closely guarded secret. A company wouldn't want to encourage targeted ransomware attacks by admitting that (1) their security is bad enough that they were hit by ransomware in the past and (2) they're willing to pay ransom.

Why do you want to know?
You learn about this when you grow up in Sweden.

Wise people will tell you to disregard it as it won't get you anywhere.

Wise listeners will take that advice to heart but also refrain from mentioning their progress too much as that might put sticks in the wheels when moving through society.

The end result is perhaps something resembling humbleness. Which, if it comes from the heart, is a beautiful quality to have and strive for. But when its imposed on you by society gets a slightly more ominous tint.
Ok, I'll give you s/those old hats/that old hat/. I use case expressions in my Lisp code all the time. Those are switches and they're pretty good.
> But, as another practical example: "sum" in Python works for numbers, but I've seen folks assume that it works for anything that you can use + on, and so try and use strings with it.

I don't know python very well, but aren't string special cased? It does work with lists.

sum([[1,2,3],[4,5,6]], [])
How about Comcast put a straight up 10% equity cost for their 'start-up bundle' to use their 'non-substandard' channel? Would you be ok with that?
> jante's 'be humble' is actually coded rationalization for violence

It can be, yes.

Religions can inspire peace or war, depending on how strongly their followers need others to agree.
The content of the article makes it abundantly clear the author isn't talking about "understand thing," but rather specifically "understand Haskell." These aren't identical.
Speech advocating violence and hate isn't illegal, but no one is required to provide a platform for it, either. That isn't part of net neutrality, and never will be. Net neutrality is about carrying data regardless of origin/destination. That's it. No one is ever required to be the origin or destination of any particular traffic by the rules of net neutrality. If you don't want to host a particular customer, for any reason, no rights of theirs are being violated if you say "I'm sorry, you're going to have to find another host."

As for ISPs, there have been a bunch of high profile cases of them violating net neutrality that seem to be constantly ignored by people who choose to attack it.

Time Warner cable intentionally degraded traffic to servers owned by Riot Games until they caved in and paid off the ISP in order to get back to average traffic quality. A quote from the NYAG filing [1]:

> Data from Riot Games confirmed that from at least September 2013, when Riot Games started to maintain this data, through August 2015, when Riot Games agreed to pay Spectrum-TWC for access, Spectrum-TWC subscribers did not enjoy a “good network experience.”

And let's not forget the multiple times Netflix has been shaken down by ISPs. Comcast [2] and Verizon [3] were trivial to find writeups for.

They may call those "peering" agreements, but the data is pretty solid. In both cases, the problem was the ISP refusing to allow Netflix to upgrade interchange capacity, despite having plenty of bandwidth available on both sides of the interchange. Netflix only got to improve the situation by paying the ISP for access to their customers. This is a very clear violation of net neutrality.

These are a set of events that actually happened. They aren't vague warnings about worse cases, they're violations that already have been observed. I do not believe the practice will magically never happen if it becomes legal again.

[1] https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/summons_and_complaint....
[2] https://www.theverge.com/2014/3/24/5541916/netflix-deal-with...
[3] http://time.com/80192/netflix-verizon-paid-peering-agreement...
Oops, yes, my bad.
I don't think the first link really provides any real insight into the problem. First of all, the study isn't experimental. There could easily be many confounding variables here, such as depression causing more body satisfaction issues. Another issue could be that overweight people with low body satisfaction are less satisfied because they have been warned more about it (chicken-and-egg); for example, if a child had a binge eating disorder to begin with, their parents/doctors/friends would intervene more to try to stop them from gaining so much weight. The study also doesn't clearly define how the survey worked, and the study referenced for the survey didn't explain much either [1]. It doesn't seem like there's any measure of whether low body satisfaction means weight is too high/weight is too low (I think there's some nuance to this, for example someone desiring larger breasts may want to gain weight even if they see themselves as fat, and there's a big difference here based on culture). Finally, keep in mind the jump back to weight gain with "Very high body satisfaction". These are separated into 4 groups (apparently by quartile, although clearly every group is a different size just by looking at the chart), but this information could reveal a sharp spike as you get to the top 1% or something. Also, look at the difference in size between the 4 groups, the first is 4x larger than the last, which seems really strange.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3140795/#R27
Huh, I thought that Dove campaign was effective... seems like it was:

http://adage.com/article/news/ten-years-dove-s-real-beauty-a...
That's number of queries. The interesting thing is that the numbers of search results seem to be reversed.
They are not checked in Haskell, but they are definitely relied on by existing code.
None of my cards are imprintable; they are pretty much flat text printed plus chip. My chipped debit cards are outright something like inkjet-printed or something, no embossing, completely flat.
mightybyte didn't state the associativity law in his original definition. As for the left and right identity laws, he did state them, and I did intend my instance to satisfy them (otherwise I wouldn't have special-cased 25, of course), but I messed up. I've fixed my post since.
This is ridiculous. Obviously if you want to test whether a raccoon understands the concept of displacing water with rocks you can't just have one experimental setup. You have to present the raccoon with very different cases where it could apply this concept and see if it has generalized or whether it has to learn each case on its own. (And you may find that there is no bright line; in some relatively similar experimental setups the raccoon may immediately start piling rocks into something and in more different ones requiring more ingenuity it might not. And the same thing goes for human understanding: there is no sharp line between grasping a concept at all and being able to cleverly use it.)
I don't see that at all. To me it was clearly about how using a language that is designed to be correct rather than useful/ simple places more responsibility on the coder to think about the entirety of their problem before digging in.
Not much, but I’d say it is more maintainable as well (you can change priority/get rid of the top one without affecting the following lines)
From the link, near the top:

> (It may take a little bit of time before you can search for Paint.NET on the Windows Store. I’m told that things take up to 24 hours to “propagate.”)
Nope. He didn’t say racism. He said slavery. I’m quite familiar with these slippery slope style arguments.
Paul - that may be true for free services. I'd be happy to pay a per TB storage fee per month but it shouldn't be limited in some way. (transfer limits, storage limits etc)
"One of us is the inventor of the personal computer"

I didn't realize Woz invented the Kenbak-1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenbak-1 ;)
Uber Obligated to Seat Two Directors, Can They Vote on Governance Issues?
I have one of the Luftwaffe ones. If you're hanging upside down in a tree, it's great to have a knife that you can open with one hand.
Not just vague, but wildly and needlessly politically charged. Capitalism is a system that redistributes wealth away from equality by definition, and it highly encourages and favors individualism, by definition. Suggesting that the Law of Jante would judge social programs that aim for the common good to be individualistic seems misguided and blind to the economic realities of the growing inequality we actually have.
Looks like iOS does MAC address randomization during Wi-Fi probing since iOS 8.
As someone who’s been there, these tricks and tips make things worse, not better. Most depression advice is pretty terrible, this thread included.
I think foreigners tend to profoundly misunderstand what the law of Jante is about. It is not guidelines for how to behave in Scandinavia. It is a caricature we use ourselves to fight negative aspects of our culture. IMHO it is the negative aspects of things which are actually positive in Scandinavia. Humbleness, solidarity, consensus seeking, honesty are good Scandinavian virtuous. But there is always a flip side of the coin.

It is like in America, having faith in yourself and be proud of yourself are virtuous things, but there is also a flip side to it which is negative. That is bragging, being self centered and selfish. Taking sole credit for success of which you were only a participant.

Janteloven is not something to be celebrated but a rethotical tool to use against fellow Scandinavians when they are acting too negative towards an individual trying to do something great and new.
You can let people pay by signing a note with their name, contact info, "IOU X amount", and their thumbprint. That's a binding contract. Once systems are back up, you mail or email them a copy along with a bill. The ones who don't pay up, you nag a few times, then send the note to a debt collector.
SNES mini teardown confirms recycled NES mini tech
> One person forms a union and tries to bully their employer into giving them better conditions

Oh come one
I meant it in the objective sense of information theoretic complexity. I’m not sure what other measurements would be objective in comparison.
I wonder if it had anything to do with the fact that after Harvey, Houston got a lot of national TV coverage showing its residents spontaneously organizing to help each other out. In particular, churches and synagogues and mosques and temples collected, sorted, and delivered huge quantities of emergency supplies; they also sent out probably thousands of volunteer work crews to help the displaced to clean out their houses, rip out waterlogged drywall, etc. And I imagine some people remembered what those same Houston organizations and local governments had done after Katrina to help take care of New Orleans's evacuees. (Houstonian here.)

EDIT: Spontaneously-organized mutual assistance certainly isn't just a Houston or Texas or U.S. phenomenon; I just remembered a story about Muslims in a small Indian fishing village who organized to help their Hindu neighbors after the 2004 tsunami [0].

[0] http://www.questioningchristian.com/2005/01/indian_muslims_.... — the comments include comments from people saying they were from that fishing village.
How is that level of pervasive ignorance tolerated or accepted in the us?
Apparently there is a joke amongst securities lawyers about the Howey test.

Even if there was a lawyer at Howey's orange tree advising Howey on securities regulation, Howey might have asked "okay where do I go to register to trade the interests in my orange tree" and the lawyer would say "well you can't, because you are selling fucking oranges"
Sure. That doesn’t mean it achieves those goals very well.
of course, it’s not clear that there’s an actual, rational reason to believe this will have any positive effect, so it’s probably option c) must be seen to try something

if they could eludicate the mechanism that has this impact, they would likely also have evidence that violent video games cause male violence, or that bowser kidnapping princess peach causes sexism.

my guess is the operative pressure arises from peer groups, and this initiative is pissing in the wind
Regarding sports there is nothing stopping anyone from starting an entirely profit driven club, like most gyms for example, as far as I know. I think it's mostly a matter of tradition. And the financial support you get for that type of broadly run organisation, not just sport. But that too speaks to the egalitarian traditions.
PayPal also collects money in the name of charitable organizations not affiliated with PayPal who didn't ask PayPal to do so.

If they don't check with PayPal to discover this the money is given to a different organization.
Nah, I've heard similar about both Mellanox and Solarflare sales people. Are you running the Chesio cards in production then? Any feedback there? Can you recommend them?
Just for reference, the laws are stated in full in haskell's docs, https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.10.0.0/docs/Data-....
every weekend? that's self medicating.
More like "Be humble or we will exclude you from society".
We can agree to disagree. I see no evidence to support your generalization in the article.

It's also a contentious assertion besides, since the implication is that people who don't use "correct rather than useful/simple" language don't "think about the entirety of their problem before digging in."
It's quite standard political hogwash saying how net neutrality is disincentivising investment. What is really curbing investment is the monopoly of the few network providers. There are a lot of net-neutral countries in the world with significantly better infrastructure than the US.

Yes, in this case what is good for public also aligns with what is good for GOOG and FB. So what? It's like saying you're not convinced about children getting good education because it aligns with 'big money'.
Why type "git" and walk away? Seems like an ultra edge case that deserves whatever ill comes from it.
A fun hybrid example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones

Ownership of the stones was maintained by oral history rather than by possession.
This comment breaks the HN guidelines badly by bringing extraneous flamebait into a substantive and interesting thread, turning it into a political flamewar. That may not be arson but it is criminal negligence. Please don't do it in HN threads.

It's up to each of us to prevent this, just like we don't light cigarettes at gas stations or let campfires smolder in dry forests. That's not hard. I feel like Smokey the Bear.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

May I suggest ten close readings of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15374168 (once for each comment currently in this off-topic subthread) as a good example of what we do want: substantive, grounded in experience, civil, teaching something new.

Edit: I want to add something about the mechanism at work here. Not to pick on you, but as an illustration for everyone.

If we look at the path taken by this subthread, what can we say about it? It gets consistently more generic. That is, it starts with something specific (a self-observation of Scandinavian culture), swaps that out for something much more generic (small towns: good or bad?), goes to more generic and inflammatory things (gang violence) and then to informational heat death ("Religions can inspire peace or war").

So we can sum up how to avoid the unwanted this way: Don't go generic. Note that that's not the same thing as "don't go off-topic". Going off topic can be fine if the direction is interesting. The trouble with the generic is that's predictable and seductive, producing not only the uninteresting but a lot of it.

(I might come back and add more here. If there's one point I wish I could effectively communicate to the HN community this thing about not going generic is it, because it makes the difference between interesting and lame discussion.)
What is the point of the redirects? If the user wants to use the https version he would directly go to that (either manually or by using something like httpseverywhere). Why force to user to use a specific one?
I was deliberately “acting stupid” to criticize an insufficiently precise definition.

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> That is usually a terrible idea.

Not at all. Think about the structure of a proof of negation. You make a “silly” assumption and “play along” until you reach a contradiction.
> worst-of-both-worlds hybrid of subsistence tribalism and wage-earning capitalism

The bottom end of capitalism often looks quite like subsistence tribalism.

> many people simply report being unable to afford the expenses of a temporary relocation away from one's regular job for a disaster that's forecasted to perhaps occur 3-5 days out

Well, yes. You can be sure that everyone outside the disaster zone will be along to restore capitalism before they restore electricity. The disaster is temporary but the economic structure remains. It's not even clear that being homeless in NYC on your own is better than being homeless in the ruins of your community. It may be better to turn up to your non-functional workplace and keep your job than evacuate and lose it.

http://www.naplesnews.com/story/weather/hurricanes/2017/09/0...

(I think well-off people underestimate how much ordinary capitalism looks like imminent disaster to people at the sharp end - it's no use if the stores are open and the hospitals working if you can't afford food or healthcare.)