skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the flip side, there is some probability that your child may save 1 or more lives.

On the flip flip side, there is some chance your child may take 1 or more lives.

Arguing about the selfishness of procreation is silly. It is your biological purpose. Whether you choose to run with that or not is down to you. It is not selfish if you choose whatever way.

As a parent, my children come first. I would die for them. You make that choice when you have children. That is NOT selfish.
I wish he invested in studying the microbiome. It is a relatively new field and requires computational powers. From the article, if I understand correctly, they study autism only in the context of the DNA. But it is now known that the disorders in the gut microbiome is related to autism.
In terms of computing power, though, well, the new MBPs are using, generally, the same class of components as the old ones. And Intel doesn’t really make a mobile class above that. They could have increased the battery life by keeping the the same size, but not really made them much faster (except by going for desktop chips, but even very bulky laptops that do that have abysmal battery life).

They could potentially have gone for more RAM with a bigger battery, but they’d still suffer on standby power usage by abandoning LP-DDR; non-LP uses someth8ng like five times more power in standby. They could also have gone for a heftier GPU in the big ones, I suppose, but how many people are buying them for the GPU?

Personally I’m quite glad they slimmed them down a bit; made a 13” an easier replacement for an old Air. Though, I have a 2017 15” in work, replacing a 2013 15”, and I’m less convinced of the benefits of the size reduction there.
Volts work that way. Earn crypto for doing healthy habits. Use it to unlock new apps and courses for behavior change.

It becomes a lot easier when you realize money isn't real, it's a constraint. Like oxygen, it only matters when you don't have it --- once you do, it becomes irrelevant -- a story that allows you to represent incentives to do positive deeds.

https://pavlok.com/volts
Internet protocols are changing
Best thing anyone interested in this to read is Rethinking Camelot by Noam Chomsky. Full text is online.[1]

Without giving too much away, it's not about the assassination. It's about JFK's actual record, which calls into question the whole enterprise of liberal hero-worship and destroys the basis upon which most CIA conspiracy theories are premised. There is no motive for the CIA to assassinate JFK. Vietnam was his war, he was a fanatical supporter of terrorism, and brought us closer to nuclear war than any other president.

[1] https://zcomm.org/wp-content/uploads/zbooks/htdocs/chomsky/r...
Image classification with Keras and deep learning
No matter what claims were made in the past, it is crystal clear that Optane 900P is a killer device for ZIL style access pattern. This has been verified by numerous sources, independent or sponsored. As explained in the article, the expected life span of 900p is also amazing making it suitable for enterprise use, that is another huge bonus.

What Intel offered here is a $300 device doubling your ZFS throughput performance and making the latency 10x smaller. As of writing, there is no competitor offering anything similar in that space.

Optane is still new, there are of course rooms for further improvements, I'd look at that in a very positive way - more exciting products are coming.
Had a quick look, but don't like that they appear to hide their pricing. I will not sign up just to find out their pricing or "learn more".
Believe it or not, they are flooding Southeast Asia, too.
As a counterpoint, Turbolinks has been an unmitigated success for a huge app that I work on. 80% of the performance and responsiveness of an SPA with about 5% of the work. Granted, the app is very vanilla-Rails. I can see Turbolinks getting in the way if you have a bunch of other "complicated" Javascript, but if your app is mostly standard Rails views plus some jQuery, Turbolinks is an amazing hack.
That ignores the role of actual social networks and social proof in the construction of consensus reality. "Our" AI says it's real, and "your" AI says it's fake, and one can debate the margins - just as one debated whether it was metaphysically true that Clinton didn't have "sexual relations" with Lewinsky, or that Bush "lied" about Iraq.
Reading this article is harder than learning how to use git the way it's intended to be used.
Most countries have securities laws, not just the US.

Are you sure your country doesn't?
The point of UBI is to give you money for unfortunate life circumstances like a loss of job, or other unfortunate life events where you would need some money to get by.

UBI is not a replacement for a job. And unless you wish to survive on extremely minimal living standards, UBI alone won't be of much help to you.
I think it's worth pointing out that for #4, it's more like "cutting edge once we can wrangle an Apple experience around it". They didn't adopt NFC, quick charging, water proofing, and so on for a while after their competitors, albeit somewhat haphazardly, added those cutting edge features.
I have the 15” MBP Touchbar and think it’s the best keyboard I’ve ever had on a laptop. (And I’ve used a lot of laptops.)
Is today's Subversion fast enough? My first impression of Mercurial moving from Subversion was that it's much faster compared to Subversion (I know, Subversion over HTTP at that time was nothing more than WebDAV :-); I'd migrated all my repositories at the day 1. I later noticed that it noticably slows down with larger repositories and that became a good reason to try Git out (only to be displeased with its interface, though), but even Mercurial was "fast" enough to displace Subversion for me.
The PSU link you posted:

> Page Not Found

Yea, as someone who is admitted to their CS program but unable to find online courses to actually continue, this web message really hits home.
That's a very interesting way to distinguish the two, and the first time I am seeing it presented this way. Did you come up with this? Are there references?
I like your approach but in this example, kids really should have less homework. It galls me that a 10 year old is expected to spend 8 hours confined to a school building, and then spend a signficant chunk of after-hours on homework. Unless this is supposed to be preparation for an adulthood where you're never truly off the clock.
If the new CEO can uphold the vision that gives the founder time to do other things. Things he loves, work and think out of the box.
Chances are that we overestimate the completeness of information coming from our own eyes, except for obvious extreme cases. People, actions and events may and do look not what they really are.

I mean, with the fall of eye-trust we will barely lose something important; it's only perception bias.
For intermediate level learning, I've always used the one-more-search rule of thumb:

When you think you've got it, do one more Google search to verify your way of thinking. It will often start leading you down a rabbit hole that will make you realize you don't have it, thus causing another one-more-search.

After https://xkcd.com/214/ you are so much further along than if you didn't do just one-more-search.
>>New developments open up all the time.

Not at the same commute time and price. Home prices won't be that high, if there was fast, cheap and better public transport to far off places. That again takes a lot of tax money to build and maintain.
When Spotify takes the next step of their "incredible journey", I want to have more than memories of the great music I found. So I buy music on Bandcamp. And make backups.
I hadn't thought of it in those terms, but I definitely agree. I also like that I don't have to decide up front that I'm going to write my whole app using it and can add it in later on where it makes sense. I don't know what to call that, but it's nice.

I wouldn't try to write a video game or anything like that with it, but for most of what I do it gives me what I want with very little complexity.
Honestly I find Mercurial to be a good alternative. It's a lot more intuitive than Git, but with the same basic benefits (local, complete history, more portable, etc)
WiiU felt like a bundle of compromise and business pressure.

Switch feels like a lesson learned.
Thank you! Standard Ebooks is a great project. I personally download and read books from there and also used it for a lot of testing in LibreRead.
A simple Google search I did just now on the effect of pornography gave me this :

http://psych.utoronto.ca/users/tafarodi/psy427/articles/Owen...

Conclusion for the lazy :

Increased access to the Internet by adolescents has created unprecedented opportunities for sexual education, learning, and growth. Conversely,the risk of harm that is evident in the literature has led researchers to investigate adolescent exposure to online pornography in an effort to elucidate these relationships. Collectively, these studies suggest that youth who consume pornography may develop unrealistic sexual values and beliefs. Among the findings, higher levels of permissive sexual attitudes, sexual preoccupation, and earlier sexual experimentation have been correlated with more frequent consumption of pornography. Researchers have had difficulty replicating these results, however, and as a result the aggregate literature has failed to indicate conclusive results. Nevertheless, consistent findings have emerged linking adolescent use of pornography that depicts violence with increased degrees of sexually aggressive behavior. The literature does indicate some correlation between adolescents’ use of pornography and self-concept. Girls report feeling physically inferior to the women they view in pornographic material, while boys fear they may not be as virile or able to perform as the men in these media. Adolescents also report that their use of pornography decreased as their self-confidence and social development increase. Additionally, research suggests that adolescents who use pornography, especially that found on the Internet, have lower degrees of social integration, increases in conduct problems, higher levels of delinquent behavior, higher incidence of depressive symptoms, and decreased emotional bonding with caregivers.
And presumably there were a lot more costs than employees. Servers and office space for one.
absolutely false.

founding CEOs have different powers than appointed ones.
please stop trolling, the author purchased the disk immediate after the release. multiple disks were purchased from newegg, it is recorded publicly here:

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/intel-opta...

I quote -

"Just ordered another. Sold by newegg. Limit 1 now."

the write endurance is much better than NAND products in the market. try to compare with Inte's previous generation or the current generation from SAMSUNG.

Get a real life and learn how to grow up, stop spreading completely false info. Internet is not built for you to troll.
>...And I don't think government does everything inefficiently, at least in our country (cz).

I think smaller government is often more responsive. The Czech Republic is closer in population to some of the US states.

>...So what do libertarians represent really? Quick search for "libertarian manifesto" shows https://mises.org/library/new-liberty-libertarian-manifesto which talks about abolishing nation state and such.

I think Rothbard is probably promoting anarcho-capitalism there. Many libertarians would probably consider themselves closer to classic liberals. For example, here is a quote from a professor at NYU:

"...I consider myself both a libertarian and a classical liberal. … So there are important differences among liberals and libertarians but I view these are differences along a spectrum. Some are principled (“Never, ever, initiate the use of force”) and some are empirical (“Many public goods can be provided privately”) and some are hard to classify (“The NSA should not collect masses of meta data”). Some people will want to take these differences and harden them into different political philosophies with different names and so forth. But I suggest that libertarians and classical liberals have too much in common for any divorce."

https://thinkmarkets.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/libertarianism...

More practical ideas can be found in the works of groups like the Reason Foundation. As I mentioned in a different reply, at reason.org and you can probably find hundreds of pages of commentary, practical solutions, reviews, etc. The top story on the site looks like it is on the details of the current state of the air traffic control system. You can read the digital version of their magazine for free and in fact every issue they have ever published for close to 40 years. Another group is the The Institute for Justice (ij.org). IJ is a libertarian non-profit law firm that in their words:

>...Since 1991, IJ has come to the aid of individuals who want to do the simple things every American has the right to do—including own property, start and grow a business, speak freely about commerce or politics, and provide their children with a good education—but can’t because they find the government in their way.

IJ have brought 5 cases to the US Supreme Court, winning four. The case they lost was the Kelo case but there was a big enough outrage on that decision, that a number of states put in protections to their eminent domain laws.
I've committed to telling the truth, even when it's difficult or unpleasant. I no longer have to keep track of what I had said or what I should say and I know nothing's going to come back and bite me later.

It means at times I deal with the unpleasantness but I'd rather that than fearing whether it will come out later. This book by Sam Harris was a large influence https://www.samharris.org/lying.

This wasn't an easy change to make, because we all know it can be really easy to lie and move past an issue at times, but the trust that builds over time when people know you will be truthful is incredible and freeing for both parties.

One of the other benefits that stemmed from this is I no longer feel as though I'm robbing people of the information they need to make a conscious decision.
Cement that absorbs greenhouse gases instead of emitting them
None of that is specific to product management as opposed to management in general.
The general sentiment of this article is in things like:

> A commit message is already too annoying for many users!

So because your ass is just lazy another guy a few months down the road has to suffer (in this case decipher what it is you wanted to do with your changes)?

Put some damn effort in, we have enough crapware already, we don't need to add more just because you were 'annoyed by having to document changes'.

The thing with git (the way I see it more and more while working with it) is that it barely cares if it makes sense to the 'lay user', it instead cares about wrapping the most fundamental operations on text files. And that's a good thing in my book. I would not like seeing all this ruined just because it was 'zomg too confusing, not useful for most users'.
Odd :-/ It was pretty transparent at the time. I believe there is a trial period. From memory, they hit the front page of HN, and the founders offered a lifetime membership for anyone linked to them from there for $30 or some such. Extremely good value for money, it turned out. Unfortunately, that means I don't actually know what current other plans cost...
It wasn't limited to local access. This tweet should have got much more coverage at the time (note that ARD is Apple Remote Desktop):

https://twitter.com/unsynchronized/status/935656609140711426

"macos 10.13 bug isn't limited to root in all circumstances; via ARD, you can log in as any existing user (e.g. _applepay) and share the screen of the logged-in user. also _uucp is allowed to log in"
Learning Smalltalk is not a waste of time
Quite the opposite[0].

"Free Basics" was the name of the program, and it only allowed access to Facebook and whatever sites whichever sites Facebook (in all its infinite wisdom) decided were appropriate for the users to visit. The program was eventually found to be in violation of India's neutrality rules and was shut down.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Basics#Net_neutrality_cri...
Mozilla, One of the best resources to learn web things.
The adage that companies decline right after they build a massive headquarters is once again going to prove true.
Git is over complicated for most people’s use cases, but I wouldn’t give up the fast branching and the rebasing features.
Is there any way I can help with some translation? I would use it for people who don't speak English at all.
This was "ages" ago, pre 1.0 so ~2 years ago. TBH, I can't recall which model we used. We ran it in production for several months on a proprietary training dataset of 30k emails, re-training it once a week.

I regret not following through more on that project, but hey, you've only got so much political capital to burn when people ask you "and how does it make us money?"
The only reason I am urged to use git is for it's remote branch deletion (that mercurial frowns upon) and Gitlab (posh UI) that lacks with any mercurial hosting solution.

If hg supports to strip a remote repo, it would be just fantastic!

hg evolve is awesome and topics are fantastic, but a `hg strip <remote-url>` would remove the need for any of these and help me keep my simple histedit, strip, push loop intact!
Windows 10 is good. Try it.
What a sad ending.
Do you have some links for that and/or could you elaborate? Sounds like a fascinating connection.
This is the (literal) textbook definition of a security:

any note, stock, treasury stock, security future, bond, debenture,
evidence of indebtedness, certificate of interest or participation in
any profit-sharing agreement, collateral-trust certificate,
preorganization certificate or subscription, transferable share,
investment contract, voting-trust certificate, certificate of deposit
for a security, fractional undivided interest in oil, gas, or other
mineral rights, any put, call, straddle, option, or privilege on any
security (including a certificate of deposit) or on any group or index
of securities (including any interest therein or based on the value
thereof), or any put, call, straddle, option, or privilege entered into
on a national securities exchange relating to foreign currency, or, in
general, any interest or instrument commonly known as a “security,” or
any certificate of interest or participation in, temporary or interim
certificate for, receipt for, guarantee of, or warrant or right to
subscribe to or purchase, any of the foregoing. [1]

It's a somewhat circular definition, but my reading is that basically, anything whatsoever that gives you an ownership interest or claim on the future profits of an enterprise can be construed as a security. You can track who owns the shares of the enterprise via entries in a central ledger (the current method for most stock companies), use paper bearer certificates (traditional way), use a distributed ledger, hand out carved pieces of pottery, whatever. If it functions even remotely like a security, it's probably a security.

EDIT: The Supreme Court's "Howey Test" [2], which came out of a 1946 case over complex real-estate leaseback deals, is in some respects a simpler method to determine whether something may be a investment contract, which is a security:

1. It is an investment of money
2. There is an expectation of profits from the investment
3. The investment of money is in a common enterprise
4. Any profit comes from the efforts of a promoter or third party

The Howey Test is reliable in the sense that anything satisfying those four points is extremely likely to be an investment contract and thus a security, but I believe there are probably securities that fail one or more aspects of the test but are still regulated, due to the broad statutory definition of "security" under the 1934 and 1940 Acts.

[1] That's from the Investment Company Act of 1940, which seems to be definitional; there are some other definitions used elsewhere in the UCC and other Federal laws (largely from 1934), but they seem to be similar, and quite a few places punt to this definition. (Quoted in http://apps.americanbar.org/buslaw/newsletter/0014/materials... which is an annoyingly "locked" PDF that you will need to de-DRM; this is left as an exercise to the reader.)

[2] http://consumer.findlaw.com/securities-law/what-is-the-howey...
I actually like the feel of the butterfly keyboard. I just don't like that it doesn't work very well.
The question that concerns me more than Terminator- and Matrix-like scenarios is why we allow "the social media outrage machine" to exist in the first place. It is nothing more than a bunch of mostly uneducated opinions that create erratic views around the world of their M-sized subscriber sets.

Maybe this new tech will force people to bet their credibility on what they say and spread.
The thing with git (the way I see it more and more while working with it) is that it barely cares if it makes sense to the 'lay user', it instead cares about wrapping the most fundamental operations on text files. And that's a good thing in my book. I would not like seeing all this ruined just because it was 'zomg too confusing, not useful for most users'.

As the author intimates, most of the problems with git are problems of UI - the UI is simply not very good, it's confusing, inconsistent and too intimately tied with the implementation. This can and should be fixed.

This is a really interesting article, even if you don't agree with it, and the author has a deep understanding of version control systems (works on hg). There's no need to be dismissive of it.
That's a really strong statement. RFC structured this way because they needed people to contribute whereas SEC and Congress don't want people involvement.
When a previous article on RenTec/Jim Simons was posted, I saw a comment thread about how Renaissance couldn't possibly be making such consistent money from Machine learning and quantitative analysis, but instead the reason they are so secretive and consistent is that they have insider info they have to hide. Do others agree with that theory? It makes more sense to me, due to a conviction on efficient market hypothesis.
I'm pretty disappointed with Apple Park, which is going to add 14,000 new commuters in a community (Cupertino) that loves Apple's property tax revenue but has refused to build any new housing and regularly sends residents to San Jose to oppose new projects near their city border. That's going to increase competition for apartments in my town, which actually tries to build housing, and increase my rent.

Rent has nearly doubled on the Peninsula in the last seven years and Apple appears to have little interest in helping the least fortunate avoid displacement, or to mitigate the displacement its own employees will cause.
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Trying to re-solve the User-Agent issue, I think it would be much better if browsers claimed which standards they conform to, with an accompanying version.

EG: www/HTML<=5.1 www/XHTML<=1.1 www/CSS<=3.0 ISO/ECMAScript<=8

The string would be split on the field separator (any non-printing space?). All exact matches for specifications would be compared and the result ANDed. This way a range could be created by having a minimum supported version as well.
I like this insight. It means they doubled down on the idea; and won.
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