skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You did not even bother to ask Katz herself and instead relied on a news wire!

Uh. Because the press relies on news wires all the time? While standard practice, I am not claiming that news wires are infallible. Mistakes can happen. But the difference between traditional journalists and Facebook bloggers is that traditional journalists are held to a standard in factual reporting. You might notice that the first Rappler article you linked to [1] is subheaded by an update which conveys a message different to the headline:

(6th UPDATE) The Philippine National Police says the 'isolated' incident is not a terrorist act but Defense Chief Lorenzana tells Rappler, "We're not ruling out that this is ISIS."

In contrast, bloggers (like RJ Nieto in the Senate hearing regarding fake news) would often just hide behind the excuse "I am entitled to my opinion". Sure, no one contests that you are entitled to your own opinion. But never peddle your opinion as fact.

> Previous administration promised Freedom of Information (FOI) but only Pres. Duterte implemented it.

I don't think this wins points for Duterte. The FOI came relatively late into the last administration's term. The previous administration basically did the bulk of the legislative footwork necessary to pass a bill. Almost all that's left for Duterte to do is to sign the bill.

Had the FOI been raised a few legislative seasons earlier, it might as well be Aquino who signed it into implementation. Carry over projects are common when administrations transition.

> Here's the FOI online portal (Browse over 2662 requests and 217 government agencies).

I think a better measure of FOI's efficacy are the actual statistics. [2] The graph isn't completely clear but it would seem that, as of this writing, there are 797 denied requests (278 labeled as "Denied requests" and 519 merely labeled "Denied"). Compared to 820 successful requests, that means it is roughly 50-50 on whether your FOI request will be granted. So much for "freedom" there.

Granted, some of the denied requests were unfulfilled allegedly since the office from which the data was requested did not have said data. While a believable response, I find it frustrating that our government could not cross-check with other agencies when reasonable. But that is as much freedom as you can get from bureaucracy, I guess.

[1] https://www.rappler.com/nation/171702-isis-resorts-world-man...
[2] https://www.foi.gov.ph/statistics?type=outcomes
Think that depends on the area. I imagine they're not in most big US cities at least.
> free market - an economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses

No. A free market is when people freely exchange goods and services. The prices are determined by free negotiation. Force and fraud are proscribed.

Note that this does not require perfect information. But defrauding someone is not allowed.

> if you are a free market entrepreneur then the absolute last thing you want is fairness to your competition or fairness to your consumer.

The most successful companies, and most successful salesmen, are the ones that please their customers, because repeat business is necessary for long term success.

> It isn't a free market requirement.

Again, the free market does not allow defrauding customers.
True, but there's some merit to being consistent with the naming used by the toolchain (which appears in things like cross compiler binary names) and the name printed by the linux kernel in 'uname -a')...
It hasn't - they don't intend to update it either. For now, the newer Macbook and Macbook Pro 13" (without touchbar) are intended to be the 'newer' Macbook Airs.

To ask 'are any of their products even new anymore' is a bit odd though.
The next step after DAGs is CRDTs.

They have a research page on this: https://github.com/ipfs/research-CRDT

One of them is us (https://github.com/amark/gun), David reached out the other week, now we're trying to find time to discuss with Juan how to best integrate.
The first amendment only applies to government restrictions on speech.
The traditional WWW has shown its weaknesses with websites that exist at the boundaries of legality like Sci-Hub and the Pirate Bay, or that probe the edges of free speech like Stormfront or forums that support Islamic terrorism.

Fact is unless you're a Tier 1 ISP yourself, you're going to be beholden to an ISP to host your content. Your domain name will be beholden to a registrar. Your TLS certificate will be beholden to a certificate authority. You're going to be subject to every one of these organizations' terms of service, and history has shown with the examples above that they will exercise that authority to pull the plug on you if it suits them (especially if they're facing a mob of public opinion or the state puts a gun to their head).
I agree, China doesn’t meet the criteria imo. It’s totalitarian, nationalist and it does not provide socialized medicine - it has more in common with the US than with the other examples, I believe. Over the years they’ve been moving to privatize many industries - not all though.

Interestingly the Western leaning Taiwan usually portrayed as the capitalist counterpart does provide socialized medicine, having quite recently de-privatized the system with great results.
Maybe if you have sufficient internet access. Although many people, even in the US, struggle with that. And that assumes that the market is efficient enough to make those connections in the first place. Not everyone in some random internet-deprived town has the connections to find work that pays six figures, no matter how good they are.
> They stand for the implicit agreement that we are all created equal.

This narcissistic fantasy has passed it's prime.

The endgame of any truly free market, is the sale of the market. A market that is not for sale, is not a truly free market.

This is the antithesis of 'we are all created equal'.
How many small businesses like restaurants and churches - the target market for these types of apps have the infrastructure to do push notifications?

As far as offline use, from what I've seen of apps like these still require internet access since they are just web views anyway or are displaying video hosted on YouTube or podcasts - in the case of churches.

But even then if you want to listen to the podcast offline, I've had to tell them how to subscribe to the RSS feed using a podcast player.
10 eth
So what's stopping this from happening now? The existence of other firms where employees own 0% shouldn't negatively impact worker-owned cooperatives, right? If anything, coops should be at an advantage because no one is sucking out all their value!

So why don't we see more of that?
There's no guarantee that the normal distribution is a good model in the tails though. A former lecturer of mine would often assert that nothing is normal in the tails.
In what sense does DNA have a half-life? It can't be radioactivity so is it seems to be just about molecular disintegration? Which is weird because why should a stable structure have a half-life?
If you read the wikipedia article, you'd realize that aiding and abetting only holds sway when you have knowledge of the crime.

If you're not involved and don't know anything, how are you aiding anything? Just the statement "I saw a guy running" could land you in court.
I was hoping to read about the inventor of the Dewar flask. :)
I think they meant to say 'consider' before invariant
> To build the HTML, PDF, epub and mobi versions of the book with one command, run ./build-book.sh

Is it built as a one page anywhere already? Seems weird not to include this by default.
Well bitcoin fluctuates like crazy for one. It shouldn't cost me more than a dollar to make a transaction. Some exchanges charge upwards of $4/transaction now.

The vision was, you can have transactions of any value with very minimal fees. like less than 10 cents. People would have micro transactions for all sorts of things.

But what it has now become is a place to store your money. 10X growth in one year. And you can't trust your exchange to still be there when everyone tries to convert that 10X back to cash if the price were to take a dip.

I would love to see online marketplaces taking a flat fee in cents because they can bypass dumb credit card percentage based fees and can still be profitable because they are doing it at scale processing thousands of transactions a second on a digital currency
I checked their profile and it's from the university that their town (found on github) is best known for, my guess would be that they have personal experience with the thesis leading them to recommend it.
During the 2016 floods in the Baton Rouge area, I was part of this effort. Flooding disasters are fog of war. Victims are psychologically paralyzed with disbelief and loss, and there are others who prey on them. It's part of our Southern culture to help one another and get things done. If the CN helps protect the vulnerable while evacuating and saving lives, so be it. You can't sit around and wait for help that never arrives.
Humans like safety, humans like success, steve jobs seemed to have save success, so the fallacy goes, that by being a behavioral copy cat, i can become a save success.

If you are afraid and think by behavior copy pasting you will solve this problem, instead of going the hard way, of analyzing risks and doing the actual blood, sweat and tears involved with risky moves - you are already set up to fail.
Bonus Points on spectacular failure, if you also do the very same moves in a niche that already has a huge company set up in it.
Counting Feet: On Running and Poetic Meter
Oh, it's a URL battle now. Sure, I'll take it.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/05/06/two-plots/
This has often been abused by these companies to attack open source software that allows benchmarking (because what kind of open source license would ban that?). The company can perform a "benchmark" of their product and the open source product. They'll then release the results as a whitepaper. Even if they perform the benchmark correctly, they can always choose which results to actually publish.

But since the proprietary software has a "no benchmarking" clause, open source projects cannot respond to the whitepaper by performing their own benchmarking. They would need the permission of the proprietary vendor!

For example, here is an IBM blog post comparing the performance of IBM MQ and Apache ActiveMQ (https://webspherecompetition.wordpress.com/2015/03/12/ibm-mq...). I've tried to find a copy of the IBM MQ EULA to link, but cannot find one anywhere. But last time I reviewed it (several years ago) I believe it also had a "no benchmark" clause.
Citation? Please point to a factually incorrect sorry - not opinion piece you disagree with - corroborating your claim. Greenwald posts concrete examples of stories that had to be retracted in the past week alone. Please present a single example of a story retracted by either of those two outlets.
Take two steps back, calm down and command themselves and the situation.

Moment you start yelling you've lost control of yourself. For a police officer with a weapon drawn that's a dangerous and career ending situation.

Most of these cases would be trivially solved by police taking two steps back hiding in safety behind a corner while the situation calms down.

Or here is a new idea: take a risk, after police here is to protect others, NOT themselves.
Holy cow, that sounds so Sheldon Cooper it's physically cringe-inducing.
yeah this reminds me of the 90s when netscape wanted to "be" the web, and 2017 where facebook wants to "be" the internet

this whole winner takes all mentality is taking the world in a really scary direction
After the Snowden disclosures -- never mind the whole Room 641A business ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A ) -- I think the only safe assumption is bad faith on the part of both government and industry.

In fact, that's the whole problem with extrajudicial domestic spying. In defiance of the principles of both justice and logic, the innocent are presumed guilty, and the burden of proof is shifted to the skeptics.
Never heard of it. I suspect their claim is either bogus or their coin is a database.
It's not that simple. You can be super smart and (by that reason) choose to retire from society, or worst. The unabomber had a high IQ, for example.
High IQ PLUS hard work (Conscientiousness, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH9-xsuPiUk) is what can make a big difference in the world.
Intel:

A status of may be Vulnerable is usually seen when either of the following drivers aren't installed:

Intel® Management Engine Interface (Intel® MEI) driver

Intel® Trusted Execution Engine Interface (Intel® TXEI) driver

If adding closed-source Intel drivers is a "fix" for a vulnerablity,
that sounds like a way to get a Trojan onto your system.

Who audits Intel?
1) The vast majority of working people do not have much (if any) vacation time, nor the job security/financial security to take it.

2) Even if they do, they may have young children, which would prevent them from taking trips of this sort. Not just practically (where to leave the kids?) but also, many parents are reluctant to go to far flung places and participate in relatively risky activities that would increase the likelihood of their child(ren) being left with a disabled parent or worse, without a parent.

3) Requires a big chunk of disposable income, also less common than one would surmise.

4) Many people are simply not interested in adventure travel, preferring, well, normal travel (sightseeing, local cuisine and culture, etc).

There is certainly a market for adventure travel companies (why "startup"?) and they do exist. However, to be mainstream, the product would need to be useful and accessible to the masses, which for the above reasons it is unlikely to be.
The introduction of the first citation explains it a little bit:

> DNA has limited chemical stability and decays without the enzymatic repair mechanisms of living cells [18]. Following cell death, nucleases start to cleave the DNA into fragments [19] and during decomposition, the DNA is digested by micro-organisms [18,20]. In determining long-term DNA decay, it is believed that hydrolysis of amino groups accelerates the loss of purine residues (depurination), resulting in strand cleavage [21,22]. This random DNA fragmentation generates a characteristic negative exponential correlation between DNA fragment length and number of molecules (figure 1a) [23,24,26,27].
I've sort of assumed that warp-drives == time-travel and are thus the same level of improbability. Is there a consistent universe where we have warp-drives and are NOT able to time-travel?
Why don’t all cars look like Ferraris?
While I agree on your overall point that you should be using your mind for something productive rather than showing off, I have to note that getting degrees has nothing (edit: very little) to do with IQ.

IQ might help you understand a subject better, but being focused, studying, planning, and having the motivation is what gets you degrees.
Because miners on the other side of the world don’t hear about the latest block until much later than other miners? Miners who hear about it first get a head start mining the next block. If the delay is significant, you get a single mining cartel.

Mining a block is suppose to be a lottery, not a race.
Courtney Love does the math on record label profits (2000)
New methodology unlocked: Software Feudalism
> It relies on the DNS and HTTP protocols.

DNS is fundamentally centralized.
Yeah, I've started to persecute the offenders individually by telling them privately how disruptive their @here messages are.

It's weird though, because sometimes I want to announce things to everyone, e.g., to bring to everyone's attention something that I've done, but I have to follow my own do-not-spam everyone rule.

I guess comms is hard no matter what tools you use. O(n^2) hard, for a team of n people.
He's an interesting person! Check his github ...
Alright but all of the complexity, and all of the content served, is in the data store, and now what is IPFS even accomplishing?
As in download dependencies automatically for you?
"Were these banks private enterprises?"

Sort of; at that time it the boundaries were less clearly defined between what was governmental and what was private. The basic economic structure was for a large temple to store the various goods people produced, and to give the goods out to people as necessary. For example, a farmer would deposit grain, and the grain would be redistributed throughout the city-state; the farmer would receive other things from the temple, like clothes and tools. The record-keeping served two purposes: to keep track of what was available for distribution, and to keep track of who was contributing what. This was the "palace economy:"

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

The bible makes reference to such a system in the story of Joseph (which is ancient enough that palace economies still existed when the story was first written), who was the administrator of such a system in Egypt:

http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0141.htm#47

"I assume people voluntarily deposited commodities in exchange for a common medium of exchange."

Not originally and not universally. It was more like a system of 100% taxation in some of the early palace economies, where everyone deposited everything they produced with the temple, and then received things as they were needed. You were basically not allowed to live in the city without contributing something (he who does not work shall not eat), though a person could always work for the temple itself e.g. as a sacred prostitute. Of course the specific laws and economic organization varied from city to city, and plenty of people lived far outside the cities and had their own ways to manage goods; the specific details varied with different places and periods of time.

What you received for your deposit was often just an update to the temple's ledgers clearing a debt you owed the temple (i.e. indicating you paid your taxes; often referred to as "offerings" in the biblical legal code) and possibly offset future taxes. If you were unable to make good on that obligation, your land could be seized and you could become a slave until the king declared a general amnesty (not uncommon in the ancient world; the biblical legal code requires slaves to be given amnesty after 7 years of service, and a similar amnesty provision is in the code of Hammurabi). The story of Joseph also indicates that this exact scenario had played out under Joseph's administration in Egypt: the farmers were forced to turn their lands over to the government during a famine (I am not suggesting that the bible is historical; rather, in ancient Israel at the time that story was written, people were familiar with the situation).

As the economies became better developed and the scale increased, money (i.e. a single unit of account that serves as a common medium of exchange) and markets (i.e. trade between inhabitants of the same city) began to replace the temple economy system, at which point private banking enterprises became more clearly defined. For example:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murashu_family
>>British or Canadian IQ test

Google Raven Progressive Matrices, there are accurate IQ tests are not associated with any culture
All devices/services have their own "identity" that belongs to the house (basically the house has its own email address). When we move we simply need to hand over that identity to the new home owner.
Thanks! I even clicked on the link and read every sentence that had "half" in it but didn't see anything... didn't expect it to be somewhere else in the introduction haha.
Although I'm very partial to Fitzgerald for the Odyssey and to Lattimore for the Iliad, I'm really looking forward to Wilson's translation.
You can certainly have fractional reserve banking in a Bitcoin financial system, just as we did under the gold standard. Banks would give you an incentive to deposit BTC with them (could be interest rates or lower transactions fees) and then lend out some percent of those deposits. Voila, FRB and money supply growth.
Set animal
These are my (anxious) people.
Units of time are specifically chosen to have 5, 2, and 3 as factors. It doesn't look so pretty when you compare with universal fundamentals:

> 1.000692286 milliseconds – time taken for light to travel 300 km in a vacuum
There's a correlation between SAT and GRE and IQ, you can even convert (with a +- error) see https://www.braingle.com/mind/iq/convert.php
Haven't heard much on neural lace.
Haskell can be very readable and elegant, but what I do find frustrating is when research papers show sample Haskell, but it's not quite Haskell. They just can't seem to resist the urge to replace various operators and types with their own non-alphanumeric symbols, thus making what should be reading simple code into some kind of hieroglyphic translation exercise..
Pardon my double post, but it’s worth mentioning that the Star Trek: Discovery people chose to name a character after real-life mycologist Paul Stamets. Naming the character after the person they got a bunch of ideas from is an unusual step for a TV series, and I have to wonder if part of their decision to do so is in the service of spreading not only his ideas but the results of his research, which shows that fungi are a branch of life that ought to be studied much more closely than the scientific community has done in the past. The more people we have looking at them the better!
The most interesting part to me is that there are feathers trapped inside the amber:

> The amber, which weighs 6.5 grams, contains bone fragments and feathers, adding to mounting fossil evidence that many dinosaurs sported primitive plumage...
there was science before empiricism. aristotle wasn't very much in touch in reality, but i think he believed he did science
^ Exactly. The answer should almost always be spin up more cpu's.
I’m not sure that in the scenario you’re suggesting (Facebook copying your app) you would have any legal ground to stand on to sue them regardless of whether the app was made with React Native or not. This is based on the fact that Snapchat also didn’t sue Facebook for copying their app/features, even though they would presumably have the financial resources to do so, which, I believe, is not the case for most of us here.

I just started http://madewithreactnative.com where I’m interviewing developers and teams who have made apps with React Native and none of them, so far, have mentioned anything about the license, so personally I think you should go for it (obviously biased opinion, since I am quite fond of React Native).

And even if you are not going to use React Native in any of your own projects I still think learning it could be beneficial as you could leverage that knowledge to make apps for other people, in which case you personally wouldn’t have to worry about any legal issues.
Honestly, if Patreon would just invoice me like everyone else does and let me do an ACH/electronic check payment to get current, they could skip the CC payment fees all together. ACH isnt free, but my understanding is that it's a lot cheaper than processing credit cards.
There's some discussion of this in the Gratipay buy reports related to their issues, and apparently taking payments for goods and services is somewhat exempt from classification as a money services business.
[5, 4, 3, 2, 1].map(n => Math.pow(n, n)).reduce((a, b) => a * b) === 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24

true
An experiment is just collecting data and analyzing it. Sure, you try to control for variables, but in some cases that's best done through statistical methods. The concept of an experiment as something you have to do, ie "pour two substances together into a beaker and see what happens," is just a way to collect data. Space probes have experiments for example, even though they're doing nothing but collecting data. The important part is whether your hypothesis explains the data from your experiment.