skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are really interesting points.
I'm not an expert but I'm not sure the last point is as simple.

- The US does use subversion to ferment political instability, more or less using the same channels it did to overthrow nationalist governments around the world like Chile, Guatemala, Iran etc. The CIA trained the previous Tibetan regimes' aristocrats in Colorado and paradropped them back in China for a failed guerrilla rebellion Bay of Pigs style.
- The CIA/NED actively throws millions at insurrections in China such as in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Tibet etc. They're not hiding it in their website either.
- The US may be less worried about China to start with since US military bases and its geopolitical allies surrounds China in every which possible (or relevant) way. China more or less does maritime trading at US's discretion.
- Arguably, Nixon/US didn't exactly care about China more or less the same way the US didn't care about South Vietnamese market economy. Nixon personally just wanted to score a leverage on USSR. [https://books.google.com/books/about/Nixon_in_China.html?id=...]
- US imperialism in China in the 19th century was fairly standard
The way things are trending is in the opposite direction of free speech. The loss of net neutrality, bills to control the media (anti-"fake news" bills), and tightening control by all the main social media outlets seem to indicate that any content that directly challenges authority will not be surfaced to anyone but a tiny audience.
I already use Spectacle but have never heard of Contexts. Looks really handy. Thanks for the tip!
My blog is currently on Medium. It's I think the third host I've used? Maybe fourth?

For Medium I use a custom domain so I still own the URL. And all links to my content are to a URL I own. When I inevitably move to a new service those links will continue to be valid.

I'd like to move off Medium to something pure custom. The inability to embed certain types of rich content is super, super frusrating. Want to embed a gif that doesn't suck? Or a Unity demo? Or an javascript demo? Too bad! You can't!

But it gives me 95% of what I want for free so I won't complain too much.
The problem with your line of reasoning is the rapes don't occur across the county at a proportional rate. The vast majority of those rape kits come from Detroit, you should learn a little history
> I think I'd probably allow importation of the exact drug, by the exact manufacturer.

Well, right. It's pretty impossible to justify not allowing importation of the drug for any safety-related reasons if it is literally the same product from the same manufacturer.
> Just because a transaction wasn't made at gunpoint, doesn't mean it wasn't coerced, or that one party wasn't duped into it through scam/advertising.

Of course coercion doesn't have to be at gunpoint. That doesn't mean "coercion" is not a reasonably well-defined term. Similarly, giving someone false information to induce them to buy something you're selling isn't a free market, it's fraud.

That said, I agree that the definition of "voluntary" has to be made with care. I said basically the same thing in the second paragraph of the post you responded to.
Ottawa pushes VCs to fix startup gender gap as condition of $400M funding
Well I see bitcoin talks by instagram models saying they are bitcoin gurus now too.

I'm inclined to think bitcoin is a bubble, but cryptotech is the future.
Multiprocessing Conway's Game of Life in Erlang
I always do `git add --patch`, it's very precise and I can edit lines before staging them. I really don't see why someone would work without it (or a GUI).
Careful tho:
'Kurtosis' doesn't equal 'Kurtosis', to the point where different R packages have functions named "Kurtosis" that implement different things. Here's an example I stumbled upon today:

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2005-December/083875.h...

"pkg:moments uses the ratio of 4th sample moment to square of second sample moment, while pkg:fBasics uses the variance instead of the second moment and subtracts 3 (for reasons to do with the Normal distribution)."

"The "correct" number for kurtosis depends on your purpose. The number for "kurtosis" that subtracts 3 estimates a "cumulant", which is the standard fourth moment correction weight in an Edgeworth expansion approximation to a distribution. Neither of the numbers described ... compute the "4th sample k statistic", which is "the unique unbiased estimator" for that number (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/k-Statistic.html)."
I have them, and they're OK, but Bluetooth buds are a dime a dozen so it's really hard to see why they are worth $159. They're slightly smaller than my Anker buds, and they have a charging case, but in day to day use there's realistically no difference for me. My Anker's were $27 on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071GNH9MT).
The problem is not IP but your FDA. I could send it to you for much lower price but it's not allowed.

Free market works truly great when there is a free market, but considering the fact that medicine in general can never be a one unless we all take a risk of snake oil and arsenic sellers, it's crazy to think people don't get pushed over. It's some sort of crazy utopia of Americans, where the ideology is more important than outcome. Capitalism is good because majority of the time it works the best. Not with medicine.
> in a scriptless world, your HN up/down vote can't be done without a full page load

In a perfect world, HN wouldn't need any web thing at all, NNTP is better fit for it. With all the features of decent newsreader of your taste.
The Internet that serves consumers does.
> The main disadvantage is that the perf impact tends to be much more severe.

That is an annoyance but not an issue. A 3x performance degradation, or even a 10x one, can be very annoying. But that performance degradation is uneven means profiling is unreliable, and that's a problem I've had semi-frequently with tracing profilers: the function call counts are reliable, but the timings/percentages aren't always, and you may see a hotspot under profiler, optimise it to the hilt, run without profiling and… nothing changed. Because the hotspot was mostly a profiler artefact.
It tends to be hard to prosecute; regardless of what the results from the kits are many of them won’t go forward. So, if the prosecutor is solely concerned with numbers of convictions, as some are, then they may very well treat this as low priority and concentrate on crimes where conviction is easier.

This isn’t the way it should be, of course, but it’s what can happen given bad incentives.
Someone has already done that:

https://www.research.ibm.com/ibm-q/resources/quantum-volume....
I wish companies would grow some character and tell those they don't want on their platform "Hey we don't like you, get the fuck out". Instead they always resort to incredibly weaselly lawyer-speak statements like "Our trust and safety initiative has concluded that these users have violated our content and user behavior acceptability inclusiveness policies on several occasions". Arbitrary enforcement of rules always sounds like bullshit no matter how you phrase it. Why not just say what you mean?
The point the author made was very clearly "titles are important" for anyone who understands hyperbole and reads him honestly. I can't believe any well-intentioned reader would believe that he spends literally 80% of his time crafting titles.
Was your statement the thing is Volvo's experiments haven't been going as well as others based on any knowledge whatsoever? I'm just trying to understand what you are basing that on and how well-founded it is.
Thank you for paying my salary ;)
That's true for some rap but not all rap. There's also a subset of rap that to me shows some of the strongest promotion of equality and peace.
http://victimsofcrime.org/our-programs/dna-resource-center/u...
If you don't like how a corporations handles speech you don't need to use their services. The social media corporations are not being controlled at this point by the government and these issues of free speech are being implemented not because of the will of the government but because they are wanted by the consumers (even if it doesn't seem that way here). Consumers should be able to use the services they want and they want services without these types of speech
Probably, as you are violating one of Twitter's partner organizations on the Trust and Safety Council, the ADL, whose mission is to eliminate anti-semitism.

You can view Twitter's safety partners here to learn which groups have advisory over what counts as 'hate speech' : https://about.twitter.com/en_us/safety/safety-partners.html
Interestingly, if you read the full policies, the "Violent Extremist Groups" (https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/violent-group...) has a specific exemption for Government and Military but the "Violent Threats and Glorification of Violence" policy (https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/violent-threa...) is a bit different.

The Glorification of Violence policy says that acts of war, military attacks, state sanctioned executions, and natural disasters are not covered ... UNLESS ... "protected categories have been the primary targets or victims."

The funny thing is that I can't find their definition of "protected category" anywhere, which takes the Orwellian irony of the whole thing to the next level.
But monetary policy is also injecting money into the economy. Both fiscal and monetary do this, but differ in two ways: the nature of the money injected and the way the injection is performed.

Monetary policy increases the money supply itself through the exchange of money for treasury bonds and relies on banks to distribute this "new" money, while fiscal policy redistributes money that already exists (previously collected through taxes) and gives it to active businesses through government purchases rather than to bond holding institutions.
>It's because insurance costs 10X for sick people (because they also draw 10X in insurance)

Is that before or after the sticker price that hospitals give insurance companies?

I'm not sure anyone can get accurate prices, so I'm immediately distrustful of your 10x number.
Which definition of violence?
In addition to better staging and committing, I love my git GUI for allowing me to easily see and work with every past commit.

Right click on any commit and I can create a new branch there, copy the SHA, do a mixed reset to that location, rebase on it, etc. SO much easier to visualize the actual tree of commits you're working with.

I'm sure some people do do all that from the command line. But every CLI coworker of mine has really only known the basics of branching and committing. The GUI unlocks the repo and all of its branches and commits as something you can play with and explore.
Pro tip: -p

Interactive staging, eg git add -p or git checkout -p

You’ll be asked, for each change, if you want to stage it. This helps tremendously in preventing commits with stray marks, console logs, etc. Try it!
I thought the phrase "Titles are 80% of the work" did not match the exposition in TFA. Consider these three interpretations:

1. "Titles are 80% of the work" describes how much effort he puts into the title, and how much he suggests.

2. "Titles are 80% of the value" describes how much value readers personally get from your work, regardless of whether they share it or not.

3. "Titles are 80% of the signal that determines whether a blog post is shared on social media" describes how much they drive sharing, and suggests that a good title is worthy of a non-trivial amount of thought.

I personally feel he was trying to say #3, and definitely not trying to say #2. But he literally wrote #1, and somebody might be deluded into reasoning as follows:

If you ought to spend 80% of your time on the title, and if it's responsible for 80% of the sharing, and all you care about is sharing, then it follows naturally that you want to put 80% of your time into it (#1), and that since you only put 20% of your time into the content, and since it only contributes 20% to whether you get ephemerally famous, it needn't provide more than 20% value to the reader (#2).

But despite that, I feel he was trying to say #3 only.
This person has been blogging for 10 years. How long has Medium been around? How long will they continue to blog? How long will Medium continue to be around?

My blog is quiescent right now (I discovered I'm an essayist rather than a "blogger"), but it goes back to 2000, albeit quite messily from the first platform conversion I did. No platform has been around that long. Goodness knows the platform where it started is long gone and forgotten by almost everyone.
I mean, isn't this obvious if you're fetching a file representing your inbox?
In drug discovery, my field, we do a lot of quantum mechanics calculations, which are formally exponential-scaling. Using a lot of approximations, we reduce this to a polynomial, at the cost of accuracy. But a quantum computer could do the original exponential problem with polynomial scaling (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2596249). Quantum superiority for this problem would require a few hundred qubits, make drug screening a lot more accurate, and make obsolete an enormous body of theory devoted to classical approximations of this problem.
> If you want good advice, follow Jeff Atwood's post on the subject

Ironically, the title of that post is the very click-baity "How To Achieve Ultimate Blog Success In One Easy Step".

More to the point, that post was written so long ago that it nearly pre-dates Twitter and Facebook. It preceded the shuttering of Google Reader by six years. Jeff has great writing advice for sure, but the way that content travels online has changed drastically.

Does that excuse writing click bait titles? No. But the author wasn't advocating doing that.
Normal cash is also much easier to use, doesn't rely on any software needing to be installed (or a computer/network access in general) and offers a decent amount of deniable plausability too.

Why the obsession with replacing everything with technology when sometimes the old system works fine?
I'm pretty sure that's not slow progress.
So, sprinkle some crypto crap on a company and create "value" out of thin air...
Maybe the Thunderbird guys could use it because the search remains the worst part of using Thunderbird after all these years.
I dunno, I think Soylent has shown there's a niche market of people who just want nutrition.
I picture you hitting reply, leaning back in your computer chair thinking, "that oughta open their eyes."
> why not use cash?

As as been repeatedly demonstrated to you, holding cash is unsafe, because it can be seized by the government without you ever having committed a crime.

> what does adding a cryptocurrency give you?

As has been repeatedly demonstrated to you, you have protection from it being seized through the insidious civil asset forfeiture procedure.
This paper explores the possibilities for such a mission. It’s not that far fetched technically. But realistically, I don’t think it would happen, even if the object looked more interesting than it currently does.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03155
And you can always reply by clicking on the comment timestamp. Only the obvious reply link is hidden.
See also, “AI”, “social”.
> the US healthcare system is too much free market.

It most certainly is not. The US health care system is basically a hodgepodge of somewhat free markets and draconian government regulation, which combines the worst features of both. It is nothing like what an actual free market in health care would produce.

To name just one important difference: in the US health care system, people purchasing health care services have no idea what they actually cost (because most of the cost is borne by their health insurance), and therefore have no idea whether those services are worth their cost. Yes, if you need a lifesaving operation you basically don't care what it costs; but most health care is not lifesaving operations but routine services like annual physical exams, immunizations, visits for simple ailments like a cold or flu, etc. Since people using these services don't see their actual cost, they don't know if they're getting proper value received for the cost. That means the most important mechanism of a free market, the ability of consumers to choose the best value for their money, can't work.
Everyone with money left well before 1990, the vast majority of white flight took place in the 60s, 70s, and 80s

Edit sp332, lol yes 2/3 of the white population remaining in 1990 left after that, the problem with your line of thinking is 86% of the white population had already fled by 1990. 2/3 of 14% is not much...
this is my favorite pencil sharpener because it has so many other uses and the blade is easy to change: https://www.amazon.com/Stanley-10-499-Change-Retractable-Uti...
SmartGit is really nice.

It's also free for hobby / open source

but worth buying for commerical work, but it is pricey, and I think getting the lifelong updates is the way to go.
Wow, that second example is very telling. For whatever it's worth, before we started work on DTrace (ca. 2001), we prioritized a project to add not just symbol information but also debugging information to production kernels. This project -- the Compact C Type Format (CTF)[1][2] -- has proved essential many times over in the years since (and is a major reason why we can consider kernel debugging a part of the core system functionality). It is clear that a project like CTF is unlikely to even be understood let alone prioritized by those displaying such a dismissive attitude towards debugging.

[1] http://illumos.org/man/4/ctf

[2] http://www.smnd.sk/lovasko/paper.pdf
Yes, the key is control of the domain. I didn't remember that Medium also supports this.
you are talking about taxes after exchanging cryptocurrency for a fiat currency, cryptocurrencies doesn't have taxes (well transactions cost kinda work like a community tax but in the real world there are also transactions costs and taxes), exchanging from crytpocurrency to fiat has.

What stops you from exchanging your crytpocurrency to a fiat currency that doesn't impose taxes?
> you should learn a little history

Be polite.
My "line of reasoning" is a simple statement of fact since there's quibbling about demographic percentages. I made no claims about where or who, any claims about rape. Maybe you should learn not to make assumptions.
Wouldn't a user mining for themselves use a desktop program miner? Coinhive has the overhead of running in a browser and takes 30% of the haul.
Reminds me of Terry Bisson's "They're made out of meat" http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
This is all BS. Twitter has to prove they will enforce their policies, which means banning Trump. Twitter doesn’t have the guts to do that. Yellow-bellies
The transaction ledger is just a permanent record of who owns each Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency.

Other assets values are not independent of their respective transaction ledgers. For example, the transaction ledger for real estate is the deed to the property, filed with the appropriate local authorities. If the paperwork is never completed, you're in for a helluva time when you try to sell or upgrade the property, and could easily find that you don't actually own the property you think you do.

The transaction ledger for a stock is the cap table of the company, and then once it gets to be publicly traded, the stock certificate (very often kept electronically for you by your brokerage). If the company goes under and gets liquidated, all of those stocks are worthless.

The transaction ledger for a currency is the government that backs it. When the government falls, so does the currency. Try paying for things with Continental or Confederate dollars, or Reichsmarks, or Rhodesian dollars. In the U.S, we haven't experienced a government collapse since 1865, so there's nobody with living memory of what it's like to have all your assets become worthless and your property forcibly seized from you.

But in much of the rest of the world, these are common occurrences. I suspect a lot of the demand for Bitcoin is coming from geographic locales where there are people alive who know just how unreliable other forms of asset ownership are. The blockchain is significantly more secure than many governments around the world.
It's the second time rape is evoqued in two days, so i'll add my personnal anecdote. Both my parents were social workers, my mother as a psychologist, my dad as youth camp director (Not a summer youth camp, more like a permanent youth camp that help children (6-15) with difficulties manage their homework, organize football/basketball tournament after school...)). This line of work made them befriend a huge variety of people, especially a prison counselor and a judge specialized in minor protection.

Well, the discussions when they came home were "fun". One of those discussion was about a young man who raped a young girl. The judge said something like "it's the first time i felt guilt and compassion from a rapist". It was disturbing, so i asked her to tell me a little more than this, and she told me that at most, rapists regrets being caught, regret "not being able to control themselves" but she can never feel sentiment over the victim except jealousy. The prison counselor and my mother agreed, and my mother even said that the boy might be either a really good faker, either an extreme case.
Later i learned that the boy had a schizophrenic episode and was send to a mental hospital rather than prison (as he should).

I have nothing to conclude this, but i do think personnally than most rapist should be on watch after a prosecution, and should be really costly. I don't think they can reform, and the only way second crime to be safe from them is to take them out of the society (aka long prison time).
Unnecessary condescending tone regardless of information delivery attempted if I had to hazard a guess.

> The problem with your line of reasoning is the rapes don't occur across the county at a proportional rate. The vast majority of those rape kits come from Detroit

@AdjustYourWrld: Educate us! Citations please! We are all here to learn and indulge our curiosity.
If the reason he's using a horribly unfriendly and difficult to debug API is because it's cross-platform and the more developer-friendly replacement is Linux only, then the fact that the API is so hostile certainly isn't proof - as bcantrill was claiming - that Linux is somehow going out of its way to be hostile to developers compared to competing OSes.
I like how the article starts off with:

"I make bad life choices, now listen to be for advice on...."
Atleast, unlike on Twitter, you have a choice about this.

If you don't like the rules of the red team (Mastodon) you can check out the blue team (GNU Social) or start your own team (or join the Japanese team)
Likely because it's not civil, in particular "you should learn a little history".
its not my pattern. its just the way markets work. of course it applies to apple as well as any other asset class. its just a matter of your time horizon and time frames. in any stock or asset there is time to be bullish, there is time to be bearish and there is time when no position is a position as well.