skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is IMO a much better framework to think about grit:
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/08/19/the-calculus-of-grit/

Some excerpts:

'''
Grit has external connotations of extreme toughness, a high apparent threshold for pain, and an ability to keep picking yourself up after getting knocked down. From the outside, grit looks like the bloody-minded exercise of extreme will power. It looks like a super-power.

I used to believe this understanding of grit as a superhuman trait. I used to think I didn’t possess it. Yet people seem to think I exhibit it in some departments. Like reading and writing. They are aghast at the amount of reading I do. They wonder how I can keep churning out thousands of words, week after week, year after year, with no guarantee that any particular piece of writing will be well-received.

They think I must possess superhuman willpower because they make a very simple projection error: they think it is hard for me because it would be hard for them. Well of course things are going to take superhuman willpower if you go after them with the wrong strengths.

...

If it isn’t crystal clear, I am advocating the view that if you find that what you are doing is ridiculously hard for you, it is the wrong thing for you to be doing. I maintain that you should not have to work significantly harder or faster to succeed today than you had to 50 years ago. A little harder perhaps. Mainly, you just have to drop external frames of reference and trust your internal navigation on a landscape of your own strengths. It may look like superhuman grit to an outsider, but if it feels like that inside to you, you’re doing something wrong.

...

Exhortation is pointless. Humans don’t suddenly become super-human just because the environment suddenly seems to demand superhuman behavior for survival. Those who attempt this kill themselves just as surely as those dumb kids who watch a superman movie and jump off buildings hoping to fly.

It is the landscape of your own strengths that matters. And you can set your own, completely human pace through it.

The only truly new behavior you need is increased introspection. And yes, this will advantage some people over others. To avoid running faster and faster until you die of exhaustion, you need to develop an increasingly refined understanding of this landscape as you progress. You twist and turn as you walk (not run) primarily to find the path of least resistance on the landscape of your strengths.

'''
Take a quick look at Google Maps and you'll see I-15 is a very short distance away. It's not like they decided to go full San Francisco and run major six-lane highway routes at surface level. The people using this sort of route are probably all locals. All of the through traffic is already on the freeway.

Freeways divide neighborhoods; we can't plop them down everywhere, and definitely not in this situation. It takes a massive amount of room to move vehicles at a rapid rate, and it discourages pedestrian-friendly, dense land use (then again, it looks like they already made that decision with a bunch of single-family house subdivisions). Notice nearby that the stuff you can access from I-15 is a bunch of big roads, malls, car dealerships, and an Air Force base. Nobody really likes living next to it, either: there's measurably worse air pollution and much higher noise.

Plus, as we see in any majorly dense area, the freeways turn into buffers for inadequate local traffic capacity as they very quickly turn into parking lots. Low volume exits onto slow surface streets with tons of intersections jams everything up.
The number of people saying they feel as though women's equality is not the same as there being equality for women. Let's use a few examples:

A majority of people don't approve of Trump, but he is however still the President.

I have a very strong suspicion most people in the U.S. would say racism ought to not exist, but we know for a fact that it does.

One of the more telling flaws in using the simple metric of a survey of opinions is that the U.S appears to be one of the leaders in gender equality according to the linked article. However U.S. legislation clearly shows this to be less true when compared to other countries, particularly Western Europe. Again, we can look at rape statistics to see how untrue this is.

The 1 in 5 statistic I referenced came from a CDC survey. there are differing statistics, but none of them paint a very pretty picture.
OP doesn't say it was part of the official 2007 budget, being a black program and all, and given how complicated US government & military budgeting is, I don't know what any dates involved really mean anyway. OP merely says it was started in 2007.
A. References for a claim a self-driving car could navigate that much more efficiently. As far as I know, current self-driving cars drive more conservatively than humans.

B. Such a claim would require all current cars off the road. How well do you think anyone could manage that? In any car-using nation, including Asia, there's a huge investment in current cars and ending that would be harder than simply introducing self-driving carts.

C. Even 2-3x the capacity can be used up quickly if people are willing to waste it and self-driving cars have much less incentive for not sitting in rush hour traffic than regular cars - which already spend a lot of time in rush hour traffic.
It delivers what it promises -- an unbelievably small Windows PC -- but there are four annoying things about it.

First, the fan runs when it's charging. Every other device on Earth can charge silently when turned off.

Second, the keyboard is not just small but also oddly arranged. Maybe some people can adjust to it, but for me, dear lord do I despise the letter Q when I'm using it.

Third, there's something odd in the I/O that makes USB drives incredibly slow. The first thing I did was make a Windows 10 recovery drive on it (because I wanted to wipe it and run Linux). I kid you not, the operation took about 24 straight hours to complete. I haven't bothered profiling the system so I don't know where the bottleneck is. But it was a USB3 name-brand USB drive that I know is fast.

Fourth, they claim Ubuntu runs on it, but they took the typical Shenzhen approach of putting a modified binary on Mega -- in this case an Ubuntu ISO -- rather than upstreaming their changes or publishing source code. No way in hell am I installing a binary download like that as my OS. Maybe they are in the process of upstreaming and a future pristine Ubuntu distro will run on it. Meanwhile I'm stuck with Windows 10 (and no, I'm not happy with that, either -- I have no way of knowing it's not rooted, either).
For me, the logical next stop would be to pause and think very long and very hard about why the subject isn't treated as legitimate by mainstream science.
“The Pentagon quietly ran a $22 million program to study unidentified flying objects from 2008 to 2012 at the behest of former Senator Harry Reid, the New York Times reported on Saturday, after considering numerous accounts of unexplained phenomena that could involve advanced technology developed by foreign governments or even aliens dropping in to spy on our crapsack world. For years, this program had federal contractors scurrying around trying to identify unexplained phenomena like Mulder and Scully instead of developing new and innovative ways to kill people.

The unclassified but secretive Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was funded $22 million from 2008 to 2011, with the vast majority of the funding going to Bigelow Airspace. That’s a company conveniently owned by one of Reid’s friends and donors, Robert Bigelow”
Or, say you are a major donor to your senate majority leader friend. What more logical step than the senate majority leader getting millions of taxpayer dollars funneled to your company to investigate puzzling phenomena. With your income increased, you're more able to keep donating to the friend in the senate.
I'm not sure why it seems strange to you. The desire for wealth is certainly not uniquely American. Money is the means by which most people in the world get what they want. What do you think motivates millions of people around the world to go to work every day? We all want money, and we all like to learn about more efficient ways to obtain it. You can pretend you're above that if you want, but if you've worked for any amount of wealth in your life then you're just lying to yourself. Maybe you haven't. Most of us have.
Interestingly, it actually wasn't intended as an expose of food/meat-packing. It was intended to show the failings of capitalism and the virtues of socialism. But Sinclair's descriptions of the Chicago food industry made more of an impact than his political commentary.
I lived in the TL in SF for 2 years. A studio in a new construction building for $1795/mo with a rooftop (with bbq area and small gym!). My walk to work downtown was 15 minutes.

It's actually very funny how the (perceived) worst/cheapest area in SF is right in the center of the city with easy transportation everywhere.

Of course, after 2 years I felt mentally exhausted from walking around so many mentally ill homeless and seeing garbage everywhere, but it was a calculus I made at the time and looking back the pros of a short commute, cheap rent for sf, and being centrally located with short walk to lots of transit at civic center muni/bart outweighed the cons.
I am having trouble with all the disembodied concepts in your question. The very notion of classifying hate speech differently from "regular" speech, is predicated on the idea that some speech does, in fact, cause harm.

If J.S. Mill were here right now, he might concede that it is hard to find philosophical justification to treat the crime of yelling "FIRE" in a crowded movie theater differently than the crime of yelling "FIRE" in a crowded movie theater with the intent of killing people of a specific ethnic background...

No writer in the 19th century could have conceived of what "speech" would mean 150 years later in the context of instant worldwide communication. But Mill would not have trouble classifying the expression of certain opinions in certain contexts as causing harm. There is no major logical twist required to "infringe" on liberty in the case of hate speech, and remain consistent with Mill's writings.
If the relations between free individuals is unmediated, they can interact in any way they choose. So if a group agrees to pool their resources and impose their collective will on others, then you just lost your anarchy. To eliminate "coercive forces", you'd need to ensure that no group or individual can acquire leverage over another.
Thanks for this. I seemed to recall reading the exact same thing a few months ago, but the persons commute was from Stockton... and here it is. Modularized journalism!
> Try getting shot, especially multiple times, wearing a bullet proof vest and you’ll understand completely why my opinion isn’t out of line.

What is it like, for those of us who don't have guns and bulletproof vests on hands to experiment? Does it knock the breath out of you? Would it bring you to the ground?
It's definitely getting long in the tooth, but I believe a few places still stock them. Mouser & Digikey both have a handful in stock.

Mouser: https://www.mouser.com/search/refine.aspx?Ntk=P_MarCom&Ntt=1...

Digikey: https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/t/texas-instrum...
Decriminalizing is silly without also giving access to legally buy the product.

Regulated legalization gets rid of the criminals.
Maybe if you made your points on here without seeming offensively snarky in your every sentence, you might have more success. "Don't be snarky."
Living in the USA you're almost 5 times more likely to be murdered than if you lived in Australia. [1]

It seems very logical to me to reduce your chances of murder by 5x just by moving country.

USA: 4.88/100,00 population

Australia: 0.98/100,000 population

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
Financial sector is 40% of US GDP one would imagine wiping out 20-30% of everyone's retirement accounts would not go over too well with voters.
The analysis is kinder to the rapists than the data.

They state that they believe that this ruins the woman's marital prospects forever, but that didn't stop them from doing it.

Even within their belief system, they are acting monstrously.

Interviewing them is a great idea, but the researchers should be open to the idea that the main problem is the boring, standard idea that violent criminals have little empathy for their victims, and little impulse control.
Am I the only one who doesn't see this plugin installed?
But so does the ability to communicate. Grown a billion fold and the first amendment still stands.
no bank would stay afloat
HTTP GET is one of the most formalized, optimized and tested standards in the world. Replacing that with “an informal RPC signature” would be a nightmare for developers : misunderstood semantics, little to no interoperability, poor performance, poor scalability, and on.

If you think there is no problem replacing hyperlinks with RPCs, be my guest, do so on all your forthcoming projects, and see if it works. It sounds like a bad idea to me but we are both just random people on the internet.
When I was living in Oakland, I had a European friend stay over while he was interviewing with tech companies. Around 3am, 2 guys coming out of a club and arguing about drugs or something shot at each other, resulting in one of them dying literally on my front step, and the other being apprehended by the police a few blocks away. This was in downtown Oakland btw, not in one of the risky neighborhoods. We had come back from a smoke break shortly before.

My friend, pretty traumatized, did not accept any job offers.

This is obviously a personal anecdote, and a pretty extreme one, but just to show you that these things do have an impact.
This is the problem:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/23/health/longer-commutes-health-...
Interestingly, Amazon might have a secondary payoff here: they actually get some good ground truth (honest review data) since these reviews - at least the positive ones - aren't tainted by the same incentives.
Over time, music has become easier to jam without higher organization. (Classical -> Jazz -> Ambient Soundscapes) Over time, machine learning has been climbing up the higher-organization staircase. (image statistics -> convolution with kernels -> CNNs). And then?
> Lack of any significant gun control is one of the biggest motivations for me to consider moving out of the states

This is beyond paranoid. Go look up the leading causes of death in the USA, then realize that unless you live in the ghetto (unlikely) that your chances of dying by a bullet should be the least of your worries.

Go live in a pro gun-control state like NY or CA if this is really keeping you up at night. If you already live in one of those states, seek professional help.
A faster train would help but everyone is upset about building the boondoggle.
Evo-psych arguments are always weak, but this one would work slightly better if it were focused on violence rather than property. It isn't as if Homo sapiens evolved in an environment of flatscreen televisions and automobiles. A Neolithic tribe "owned" a couple of arrowheads and a big flat rock for cracking nuts. If they lost those they'd presumably just get some more.

More to the point, we didn't evolve in an environment that included police. Police were invented in the 19th century (for largely questionable purposes such as racism and anti-unionism). For hundreds of millennia before that, we survived without them. It's true that there existed various forces of "authority" over that period, but these were concerned about people taking the authority's shit. A cursory familiarity with history and archaeology convinces one that "coercive and alienating forces" rarely prioritize the interests of the general public.
I think the top review of this book summarizes it all pretty well:

With George W. Bush, Justice deteriorated under Secretary Alberto Gonzalez, who was forced to resign, and the SEC deteriorated under Christopher Cox, whose intent appeared to be to simply let it collapse from inactivity. Budgets were slashed and staffs reduced at the same time as demand for action increased. This is standard procedure for discrediting an institution. The stories of confusion, conflict, lack of direction, leadership or policy are all detailed here. The frustration of the prosecutors is palpable. In the current administration, you can see it real-time at Education, State, and the EPA for example.

The answer to the question is that everything changed. Prosecutors today are actually afraid to file suit, fearing they might lose and have black marks on their CVs. (James Comey famously called them chickenshits.) They have little or even no trial experience any more. Everything is a negotiated fine (never paid by the perpetrators). They have been battered by the collapse of Arthur Andersen, which put a lot of employees on the street, and has given us ridiculous arguments over “too big to fail” and markets that “self-regulate”. They no longer work for the “public good”. They work to get better jobs in big law firms. They want to take their faultless experience in government to make themselves millions from the other side. The revolving door makes this one huge club. This is so far removed from their predecessors as to be unrecognizable. And Eisinger makes this shockingly clear as he proceeds from decade to decade.

Considering people like Preet Bharara are now out, I'd say deterioration is only further accelerating.
The World Trade Center is over a train stop. A typical Wall Street commute is two five minute walks at either end of a train ride.
Xbox Live Gold is $60 a year and still has ads.
And there's valley fever...
A mold that causes pneumonia, which is at least treatable now if you catch it early enough.

http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/news/2017/07/26/valle...

And Gold Base...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2168482/Snipers-razo...
This gets to the heart of the matter: what is the core functionality?

For some saving bookmarks isn't effective while a solution like Pocket fits them better. Hello was an experiment to see if making video communication more accessible would connect people. Consider the saying about how no one uses every part of Microsoft Word, yet everyone uses a different ~10%.

Anyway, I think it's great that Mozilla experiment and try pushing the web forward. If only they were more transparent and consistently made these things opt in.
It has happened to me three times in less than a year. Thankfully, I have been recording nearly all of my conversations for quite some time.

In EVERY instance, I was treated like a piece of garbage until I managed to produce my recordings from storage. I have become increasingly paranoid about being around people because of this.
Right.

What relevance does Chrome for Enterprise/Education having this clause when neither Chrome for normal people nor Chromium have this clause?

I do mostly trust Google, if they're legally bound to not do the things that I don't want them to do.

The sanctions for privacy law violations being essentially nonexistent makes it often hard to, because those sanctions are then usually just yet another bullet point in their cost calculations, but contractual violations have much higher sanctions, so I don't see a particular problem there.
"Blockchain-based", "Untraceable, Unlinkable, Fungible. All Features of CryptoNote Plus Confidential Fee Amounts"

`New ICO “Graft Network” apparently oblivious to 2nd definition of “graft”`

Or maybe not
> Headphone types can be better / worse for certain listening habits

No they can't. Loudspeakers (of all kinds) can either faithfully convert electrical signals into the vibrations they represent, or they can't. Equalizer presets can be better / worse for certain listening habits. There is no reason, when even a $5 MP3 player has EQ presets, that headphones shouldn't be aiming for a flat frequency-response curve.

Now, admittedly, there might be some preference axis between being able to faithfully replicate high amplitude signals, vs. having low impedance and therefore being kinder to the batteries of portable devices (and/or not requiring an extra in-line portable headphone amp.) But other than that one distinction, headphones can really only be "better" or "worse" at doing their one job.
So no millionaires live in Manhattan?
I'm honestly still baffled by how the concept of "freedom" got conflated with gun ownership in the US.

Personally I prefer the freedom of not having to be worried about being shot by any disgruntled imbecile who takes advantage of his "right" to a gun.

I would really appreciate an explanation of this. Right now it seams like just a fantastic marketing/brainwashing strategy by the NRA but I would love to hear a well explained argument for this.
Chuckled at the credit card with GRAFT on it. It's a typical ICO site: bootstrap, social buttons, popup to join Telegram channel. Well executed trolling?
If you are pointing to my comment I was not trolling at all. McCarthyism had some of the same properties when it comes to suppressing free speech, but the current environment is also very different in that it is done outside the court system by a mob with no due process. That is more worrisome to me.

If you disagree I would like to hear an argument for how it is different. How do you think the way opinions are suppressed does not violate basic rights of free speech and due process? How do you think calling for someones firing for having an opinion with no due process is a rule of law?
Sleeping is harder but you still need the sleep.
Yet we also need variety in our engines. Otherwise it's IE6 all over again. Diversity makes us stronger.
The comic version of this is pretty great, too: https://twitter.com/sketchshark/status/941096945308770304
I'd tend to agree. I mean, if I was locked in a cage first, I'd likely be more willing to agree to something, anything, that gets me out of that cage.

Whether that is good, bad or indifferent is a whole different matter, but I think it is safe to say that it is a thing.
No, I didn't get it installed either because I've been far more strict about trying to turn off any and all reporting, analytic and telemetry options in any software I run, so at some point I turned off the option that would have let that thing get installed. I'm guessing you did the same.
>No one has any reasonable expectation of being at risk of being shot/stabbed.

Isn't assault the quintessential thing that we have police around to deal with? If we didn't have any reasonable expectation of it then we'd be paying for a lot less law enforcement.