skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article argues that conservative views are correlated with fear/concern over physical safety, and that increasing the feeling of physical safety moves conservative views toward more liberal views.

If true, it makes me wonder whether the balance of conservative and liberal populations confers survival value to the whole population. Surely there are times when there is more or less risk to our physical safety. Perhaps the liberals tend to be more blind to it when risk is more probable; and perhaps the conservatives overestimate it when it is less probable. Might we need the presence of both views to keep us safe when we're at risk and to loosen the reins for exploration when we're in less danger?
I have the 2017 MBP 15" and had my laptop crash several times (htop bug). My fingerprints have never been deleted. Have you verified that it is indeed a security measure? If it is not a security measure, it might be something worth taking the it in to get more scrutiny. Best of luck with the laptop.
I think knowing python is just a small part. So yes, it would help, just not enough for it to matter (unless you know up front that you want to do these things).
I read an article once about how creativity and flow are stronger after heartbreak. Kinda reminds me of that
Ruby on Rails is a great bet for those who need to kickstart fast. When Ruby/Rails becomes a performance bottleneck you're probably already making tens of millions and have dozens of people to diversify your tech stack.

Core team takes care of many things like webpack, ActiveStorage, etc for you, many thanks to folks. I've been doing Ruby on Rails since 0.19 as far as I remember and it's been great ever since.

Not that hyped anymore but who cares about hype when you get your shit done. Also as you grow, you appreciate talent availability when it comes to Ruby/Rails.
A republican was someone who was the victim of a crime. A domocrate was someone falsely accused of a crime.
Could it be a difference in why the risk is there? If you choose to start a business, you choose to take on those risks and I’d imagine people feel like they’re relatively safe (business will succeed, I can always get a job if it fails, I have savings...)

With a risk of a terrorist attack, you don’t choose to be in that situation and may feel like you’re not in control and can’t do anything to feel safe.
It seems like you've read of a trend, and are just guessing.

It would be more productive to investigate the source of sites that cause this behaviour than asking random strangers whether a number of random (unidentified) websites are mining. We can't guess, we don't know. Nobody knows how widespread this is - but I suspect not very widespread at all.
Node with which framework? By itself it's not comparable to Rails.
Of course, nobody expects engineers and scientists to have the same skills.
I agree with all of this (caveat, downplay the "interviewing" angle a bit), and let me add some more things I found helpful in my recent cofounder search:

- the most important thing for an early stage startup is that they can validate. That means building incomplete and imperfect prototypes quickly and repeatedly. "Getting the architecture right", "clean code", etc, are usually the wrong skills for a super-early-stage startup, and your CTO shouldn't prioritize them.

- more important is that you get on well with the cofounder. You're going to be working together for a long time. Make sure your personalities mesh, that you can spend a large amount of time together, and that you can discuss/argue constructively.

- Having the same values and goals for the company are paramount. When finding a cofounder recently, I wrote a questionnaire with 40 open-ended "values" questions for cofounders to answer (and then I sent them my answers). It was very apparent when I met someone with values overlap and when I didn't.

Ended up with a great cofounder, have been working together for 6 months now: http://ellenandpaulsnewstartup.com
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/
You might like Minsky’s “The Emotion Machine.” Emotion is, as you say, essentially a higher order function of the nervous system—-some complex way of amplifying and dampening certain systems in order to adapt to circumstances. We understand emotion less clearly than we understand multilayer perceptrons/neural networks/basic learning and reasoning.

But even dogs seem to have emotions, don’t they? My dog gets excited if I offer him a treat, and sad if I don’t give it to him.
I believe it came from this talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSRoEeqYtJA

And I think this is what Greg's referring to:

http://bitcoinfibre.org/
Source? Can’t find anything online that indicates they are partnering with political activists to block websites.
I'm not Rubyist, but when I see an article about RoR it's one of these:

"I just started using Ruby and omg it's out-of-box everything, rapid development, monkeypatching makes everything super easy, it's like second Jesus coming."

and the second category is this:

"I am working with RoR for years, maintaining/migrating anything is super painful, because everyone is monkeypatching everything, so you cant safely touch anything."

Choose wisely.
It's important to note that the original paper (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/ejsp.2315/fu... - sadly behind a paywall, though it may or may not be available on scihub) specifically caveats the finding as only related to social progressivism, not economic:

> As predicted, making Republican participants feel physically safe
increased their liberalism on social issues, but their stance on economic
issues was unaffected. Contrary to predictions, however, Democrat
participants’ attitudes (both social and economic) were unaffected by the
prime. This is presumably because Democrats (and liberals) are chronically
lower on threat perceptions than Republicans (and conservatives). This
pattern of results mirrors that found in prior work, which has shown that
experimentally inducing threat does not affect conservatives’ responses, but
causes “liberals to think like conservatives” (Nail et al., 2009).

Still an important result and (IMO) something worth researching further (EDIT: especially given questionable replicability of the researcher's previous work, as posted by other commenters in this thread), but less impactful.
What you're asking, in typical futures terminology(1), is how the futures market can function if futures positions and spot/physical positions are not cross-margined. This is actually typical in commodities futures. The same issues apply to crude oil and corn futures (physical settlement) and live hog futures (financial settlement). So how does the market function? If you're in the business of cash and carry arbitrage, either you have a lot of money, or you borrow it. At scale these types of strategies require a lot of capital to purchase the spot side, so a relationship with a lender is important even without the margin. The lender knows about both sides of the trade, so you can generally get good terms. And your margin balance pays interest, so the extra borrowing to cover the margin doesn't cost you that much.

It is a real cost of doing business though, which is why margins are generally so low/allowed leverage is so high in futures world compared to securities. Should be interesting to see how they margin the bitcoin futures, because bitcoins are an order of magnitude more volatile than most other products.

(1) The money you post to a futures clearing firm to guarantee against default is called either margin or a performance bond. Same concept as collateral, but the word collateral is usually only used in the context of guaranteeing payment of a debt.
This entire study is based on the completely false and contrived idea that politics is binary. There is not some sort of line with "liberal" and "conservative" ends that people fall along. Its a false paradigm created and perpetuated by those with vested interests and/or those who have been conditioned to believe this is the case.

For example, take the most important of all issues - war. If you are against war, is that a liberal or a conservative position? Most American "liberals" hail Obama as the the great liberal champion. From Afghanistan (where his first act in office was to triple the number of troops) to Libya (where he launched countless bombings and missiles and toppled the central government) to a massive increase in robotic drone assassination globally, he was a big proponent of war. Is being against war a conservative position? A brief look at our last "conservative" president (not counting our current president who seemingly has no coherent ideology) George Bush destroyed Iraq with his illegal invasion, invaded Afghanistan and massively expanded our global military footprint.

The same question can be asked about a wide variety of the most important issues. Are you a liberal or a conservative if you oppose the police-state (constructed by "conservative" Bush and massively expanded by "liberal" Obama). If you are against central banking and a centrally controlled economy, does that make you a liberal or a conservative (the same group of supply-side economists have been running the FED, the SEC, and every other lever of the economy since the 90s, throughout all administrations - including currently with "liberal" Gary Cohen running things for Trump).

The simple truth is that there is no ideological definition, because the terms "liberal" and "conservative" have virtually no meaning in modern society, and simply morph into matching whatever positions are currently held by Democrats and Republicans. Pretending that ideology can be pegged along this binary Democrat/Republican paradigm is very useful if you are a Democrat or a Republican, but not useful at all if you seek to understand the human pysche.
The problem is that these formal proof systems are often marketed as tools to write "bug free code". You will see statements along the lines of "this code is proven to be bug-free", etc. They over-sell and under-deliver.

When you also consider that performing these proofs takes a very significant amount of time, you end up with something with very limited applicability for the vast majority of software development scenarios.

That's all I'm saying. Please don't argue against a strawman.
> in your haste to be hostile and patronising I think you entirely missed the point.

No, you are missing the point.

People pushing an agenda use the word "poverty" as an emotional appeal, because it makes people think of starving kids in Africa covered with flies, etc. It wouldn't have nearly the impact if it was made clear that someone in "poverty" can have a house, a car, and plenty to eat.

> money is a rhetorical device which describes power.

The word "rhetoric" does not mean what you apparently think it means.
Why would you need to migrate to Python later? I can understand needing to migrate to something more performant/easy to scale, but Python doesn't have any advantage on Ruby in that department.
For some reason “60 out of every 1,000” sounds a lot worse than “6 out of 100”
Same here, but I guess getting out of gmail and calendar will be tricky.
If you already know Rails, yes.

If you are thinking about learning Rails now, probably not.

Yes Rails is great for MVPs, but then so are a lot of other things, like Meteor.
Do you claim that investment funds that sell these deceptive instruments will generally be condemned by libertarians? In a libertarian regime how would this be prevented?

If libertarians generally advocated for much broader liability for e.g. selling opaque financial instruments I’d be impressed. But I haven’t seen that.
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This is a real worry. We're one bad decision by Kim Jong-un or Donald Trump from a small nuclear war. The SF bay area is a likely target. North Korea can probably hit the west coast of the US, but not the east coast.
SF and LA are the only worthwhile targets on the west coast; attacking Portland or Seattle or Anchorage seems unlikely for North Korea.

LA has some missile defenses at Vandenberg AFB, but northern California doesn't.
Interesting experiment, though part of me wonders how different countries and their general political leanings are affected by this. Why are both American political parties more right leaning than their European counterparts? Would such an experiment have different results based on where/what culture it was being held in?

And what about the fact politics has multiple dimensions to it? What makes someone more libertarian or authoritarian?
Still one of the best, if not best, choices for building a CRUD web app. I don't see this changing any time soon.
Are there mathematical proofs that are incapable of being expressed in Coq? Isn't there a limit to kind of ideas a computer could verify? Curious about the boundaries of this language.
> Fantastic precedent.

That engineers will be thrown in jail while CEOs will walk away scot-free?

Yeah. Fantastic.
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People can also cope with switching from different setups if trained well enough in both, which should not be too surprising. Eg: shortcuts in vim vs native editor shortcuts, scroll direction, one key swap.. It’s even possible for full blown keyboard layouts. I type using QWERTY and Colemak both on a regular basis, although I’ve not tested how long I can go without a layout to retain it, but forgetting is harder than relearning in that case.
Right. This is after he cooperated with authorities. It's the ones who didn't cooperate who should be going to jail.
Plenty of great email, contacts and calendar services out there, you just need to pay for them. I went with FastMail and it’s been absolutely painless.
I cannot say that I disagree with what anything you wrote. I really don’t know how things are going to play out, it will be interesting to watch. Futures can create a disconnect between fundamentals and prices because they provide a way to get exposure to an asset that was not available before. But in the case of bitcoins it is already possible to buy them and there is no fundamental value to diverge from anyway... The demand for bitcoins is clearly high before futures are available and maybe having a new way to get the exposure will in fact relieve the pressure on prices (the notional long exposure can go up without pushing prices up as long as there are enough shorts). I don’t know and I don’t really care: I have no dog in the race, I’m just watching it for fun.
>So the fact that many comments were faked is irrelevant anyway.

First, what the FCC "explicitly said" and what they did is not necessarily the same. They are humans, and they could just as well be affected by opinion comments and their general tangent.

Second, other (common) people read them, and developed a perception of general consensus and what others thing based of them. If those people read fake comments, that's of concern in itself.

Third, the entity that did such a thing should be exposed, especially if its tied to some corporate player. What other foul means have they used, if they stooped to this?
in addition to the closet racists, the last election seems to be outing the closet fascists.
I was going to make the same comment about the tautology in pure survival, although I do acknowledge your parent comment’s point that there could be a more accurate predictive metric. We don’t want to deny that there is an element of “irrationality” at play, just because there is a winner.
Other way round would have had equally interesting outcomes. Wonder why they choose this particular direction.
I mean two of the top 3 petitions are calling for Trump to release his tax returns (1.1 million) and put his assets in a blind trust (356,031).

Whether or not the site is being manipulated I can guarantee no one from the White House is clamoring to respond.
I don’t do machine learning or data science, so I’m assuming here, but I would imagine whatever you end up doing would be en entirely different service than your web stack and could be whatever language you wanted.
Any recommendations for a Google Drive replacement?
>Sure, but we have (ideally/optimistically) a representative democracy, and not a direct government-by-the-people.

You say it as if it's a good thing.

Representative "democracy" is seldom representative, and is a watered down version of actual democracy.
I agree with gbrown. Pai’s statements are so untruthful and nonsensical that I can’t figure out why he thinks it could help even after reading many comments by him. His most clear argument is that it will somehow increase investments into ISP infrastructure (citing, I think, what happened in Portugal) while he simultaneously says we have no way to know what effects repealing it will have until we try it. Meanwhile a million people have shared the images of the bucketed plans from Portugal charging $9.99 extra for social networking and things like that.

The man is totally full of BS.

As for your comment that he was an Obama appointee, he was actually selected by Mitch McConnell but I know it’s a common trope to blame everything on Obama.

“Though an Obama appointee, Pai does not share Obama’s progressive views and is by no means someone Obama would have chosen to lead the commission. Rather, there’s a tradition of letting the minority party pick two commissioners, since the majority can only legally hold three seats; in nominating Pai — at the recommendation of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican — Obama was sticking to that tradition.”
The rally behind Bush after 9/11 was apolitical.
Thank you for pointing out the issues behind “priming”. The cult of believers that’s grown up around Daniel Kahneman and others (including many in the Positive Psychology) field is distressing. To Kahneman’s credit, even he recognized issues within the field back a couple of years in an online post.

Some issues that come to mind in this field are 1). Scientists who want to be famous, do TED talks, and get that sweet sweet consulting money instead of humbly contributing to the field and 2). The ethical issues all of this has when these findings are applied to things like Facebook, various apps, etc.

Also to take a page from the gender movement, what’s with the binaryness of liberal and conservative? Those were handy labels at one point, but they’ve utterly failed to catch up to the world we’re in. A lot of liberals are now arguing for a more aggressive foreign policy, while conservatives are starting to back unions (conservatives and unions tends to unite every 60 years or so around the issue of immigration). These labels are old and useless.
Chrome is IE6 all over again.
Interesting idea, but bear in mind stocks and other investment vehicles also have highest historical prices.

We could consider that the inflation that was supposed to happen with QE ended up just inflating assets prices. But that would still be an overall good thing, because asset prices are not what harm the greatest body of people, nor affect their wages like regular inflation does. People will not be thrown into poverty because apple has historic highs.

In terms of housing, we should look at rental prices more than housing prices. Is that going up as fast as house values? I dont think so.
I followed Inigo Quilez's article on terrain marching:

http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/terrainmarching/terrainma...

Be sure to browse his other articles:

http://iquilezles.org/www/index.htm

and his awesome video tutorials (which tend to be more about the math than the code):

https://www.youtube.com/user/mari1234mari

Enjoy!
There's many physical examples of systems like this as well.

Take e.g. a redundant interlock system that disallows opening a chassis unless the power is off and you've inserted a special key. Useless on a juice press #cough#juiceroo#cough#, but very important on a 20 W UV laser.

Or a six-point safety harness. I'm not going to put them in my daily driver, but I wouldn't get into a racecar without them.
I assume OP is talking about this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42065644

Edit: Misread, thought OP was talking about Google not Mozilla.
I am thoroughly enjoying the fact that your comment is at the bottom of the page.
> The solution to the rich hording everything is taxation and redistribution.

How did that work out in countries with almost 100% tax and full distribution policies?
You should let AirBnb and GitHub know.
Right, but convincing explanations can also be invented for things that aren't true. The true power is in the formalism, which allows you to use your untamable and untrustworthy intution to discover facts.
Yes, this is a very accepted theory. A country with only Liberals would cease to exist because they would be invaded or be unwilling to enforce any sort of borders or law. Even if no external threats exist, it will eventually succumb to the tyranny of minorities.

A country with only Conservatives would die of stagnation, forever condemned to follow tradition and existing dogma. New ideas would be quickly squelched and the country would succumb to the tyranny of majority.

The interesting thing about the United States is that you get to see almost both ends in different states. In some places, police departments are essentially unwilling to enforce the law lest they be called racist/sexist/ableist/anti-immigrant/anti-Muslim/anti-poor. In other states, an individual can not only openly carry a firearm but also stand their ground. Cross another state border and misgendering someone could constitute a hate crime. Another border over, a KKK or Neo-Nazi rally is not only occurring, but actively allowed under the idea that free speech triumphs over hate speech.

It is a fascinating place and time, and I wish I could be around in 200 years to see how the experiment evolves.
The article is misleading in more ways than ignoring what the BG/Qs
run and the contentious claim that Linux is "the right match",
whatever "supercomputing" means. The term is devalued in this
context. Nearly the list is not HPC systems in the sense that they
could usefully run quantum chemistry at scale; dismiss the Ethernet
ones.

The HPL number is acknowledged as bad, even by the standard of single
performance numbers. It basically reflects the number and width of
the vector units and use of a good BLAS. https://hpgmg.org/ seems a
better choice if you must have a single HPC benchmark number. (HPCG,
touted to replace HPL, depends on how you re-write it, which you must
to avoid essentially STREAM results.)

It's also worth pointing out that much of the capacity there isn't
even on an OS kernel, but is off-loaded, and I wonder what multiple
entries for "service provider x" actually are as "systems".
their use of "but" would suggest OP is definitely talking about Mozilla
I have been using Microsoft OneDrive without issue for the past couple of months. The new Files On Demand feature works well. Of course this is only really helpful to Windows users which is a shame.
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No.

Long time rails developer, but if you can green-light a project I'd highly recommend node all the way. I've found it much easier to comprehend a pure javascript stack (or even better an all-Typescript stack) due to substantially less cognitive overhead, find other people to work with (very important as your project scales), and the fact I can deploy node with a serverless implementation on Azure, GCP, and AWS makes it a home run when it comes to security and devops costs (and the need for devops in general).

While rails has a bunch of great features, those features (rightfully) have been copied elsewhere, e.g. Active Record, which has a fantastic javascript implementation - TypeORM.

Finally, when it comes to interface development, nothing in rails will get you as far as React these days, especially as the web moves mobile, and into AR/VR, which IMO present the next challenges of interface development. And like rails, nearly every question related to React/Node is answered on Stack Overflow or has a well-documented library to solve that use case.