skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If there are no people in them, I could very easily see a judge deciding the corporation itself has no rights

I might quibble with "very easily", but I don't argue your core point. I can, however, ALSO see a judge ruling that any corporation that employs humans retains rights in the name of the interests of those humans. Not a guarantee, possibly even a stretch, but believable (And CU did NOT say "the humans of a corp are not limited in their free speech outside of the corp, therefore the actions of the corp can be limited without similarly restricting the rights of those humans", so I'll stick by my 'corps have legal entity status beyond their humans' suspicions, particularly given how long corps have had legal status in multiple countries before CU was even a concept.

Regardless of right/wrong, if a reasonable case can be made either way, then there's a good reason to not have full confidence that self-owning corporations would be tossed out of court, which was my point.
I find the rat park experiment intriguing, but have there been any further studies or attempts to replicate the results?
>I never want to hear about you committing any crime you can't retire on

This is pretty interesting "advice", but curious how on that would have impacted my younger self
Racket can use either. They are syntactically equivalent, but there are some community norms around when to use each. Racket’s included editor DrRacket takes the [ and ] keys and figures out which to use using those conventions, inserting either [ or ( as appropriate
This is the same fundamental flaw that dooms Paul Graham's startup essays to near irrelevance for 99% of people. He was seemingly oblivious to how much financially security and Ivy League pedigree assisted him at every turn of his startup founding and investing career.

The lesson to learn is that good advice applies to your situation and bad advice does not.
Can you point to 1 time a GM vehicle was substantially enhanced through a software update?

If so, your point has merit.

If not, you are hiding behind hypotheticals in a very dishonest way.

I have NEVER heard of GM upgrading existing vehicles with significant new functionality through a FREE software update.

If that is the truth, that they have never done it, never announced it, and yet you come here and suggest that they are in fact doing something that they are not, that is supremely dishonest.

I researched GM for half an hour to find evidence that you are not being dishonest. That you are not hiding behind some really bad hypothetical.

But I found nothing to exonerate your position from the realm of "fantastical hypothetical rendered dishonestly", so I hope you can respond and help me.
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Keybase has a pretty great solution for this. They allow you to upload files sent to anyone based on a popular public account name, so freehunter@hackernews for example. Then once that user makes a keybase account, they can access any files attached to accounts they link to their keybase.

https://keybase.io/docs/kbfs has more info
> There's not enough information in data to learn from nothing

Given that AlphaZero just happened, we now know that isn't true, no?
I don't really mind the parens, but the whole attitude feels indicative of a problem. Like - it's 2018 and people are still using 'cdr' and 'cons' as terminology and happily expecting other people to learn those words and not even feeling bad about it.

If the person justifying Lisp doesn't mind that the word 'cons' is terrible, why should I trust their aesthetic sense about anything? If I have to have "miserable notations" to get "coding nirvana", and coding nirvana is so great, why not fix the notations? do you just think everyone should have to struggle because you did?

I guess it feels like trying to determine which of these statements are true:
(1) "Lisp is coding nirvana"
(2) "Lisp is weird regressive nostalgia for a simpler era where nothing was typed and everyone used Emacs and memorized arcane terminology and shared macros on Usenet", and there are way too many signs that it's a lot of (2).

[edited to be less abrasive]
I really want to see an analysis of how they went from obscurity (no pun intended) to ubiquitous a few months ago. The site's been around for years, but it seems to have taken over my news feeds on multiple platforms overnight. I don't mind too much, but I'm sure there's something interesting going on there.
It's not so much that you learn something, it's that the lightbulb moment is so massive and sudden that you think "I finally understand everything!". Then the process repeats itself in 4-5 years. I thought I had it all figured at around the age of 16-17, then when I was 22 I looked back and realized I was still very young and stupid at 16.
Sounds like the type of advice that some of the more brash tech CEOs (e.g. Travis K.) would have taken to heart.
I've considered applying with https://dndemail.com - do not disturb for your inbox. I have developing traction and a growing user base.
Ask Apple.
While true, this is not officially supported as part of the RnRS standard I believe. They set these characters aside as reserved for future use.
Get up earlier. Find a job more close by. Plan, plan, plan your days
> Because of personhood, a corporation has _liability_, beyond just the usual chicanery.

I wasn't denying that a self-owned corporation could be held liable, I was arguing that we can't count on a judge tossing out the concept of a self-owned corporation. (It's possible, maybe even probable, though I doubt it, but not basically guaranteed).
Let's just hope you didn't misspell any of them :)
But the default does not protect users. Putting the onus on users to protect themselves is the problem.
A car is not a car without the human, with the keys to the car, sitting in the driver's seat, in a state ready and capable to operate the vehicle, and in possession of valid paperwork in good-standing, proving that they are legally entitled to operate the vehicle.
A car is not a car without the human, with the keys to the car, sitting in the driver's seat, in a state ready and capable to operate the vehicle.
A car is not a car without the human, with the keys to the car, sitting in the driver's seat.
A car is not a car without a human sitting in the driver's seat.
A car is not a car without a human to drive it.
A car is not a car without a human inside it.
A car is not a car without an animal inside it.
A car is not a car without an object inside it.
A car is not a car without an engine inside it.
A car is not a car without something inside it.
A car is not a car without anything inside it.

Doesn't hold up. The car remains a car, so long as it is actually a car.

If you really want to challenge views about being a human, consider that each of us all have been single celled animals for at least a couple of seconds, if not minutes or hours, of our lives. It didn't stay that way, but it's an incontrovertible fact for every last one of us, and indeed also for lots of other organisms.

Plenty of passengers ride the bus, but the bus is not redefined by this.
Where I was wrong on housing
The title should be: “Against guilty pleasures: Adorno on the crimes of pop culture and inequality.

Wouldn’t call it clickbait considering the other aspect is covered. Great observations on the effects capitalism on culture, particularly on freedom and work.
Nice! Fellow old-timer here! I still have my original TRS-80 CoCo as well. A few years ago I wanted to extract my first programs and realized I could convert my tapes to .wav files and load them into an emulator on my Mac. This is the post I wrote about it (complete with source code): http://rb.io/blog/letter-defender-my-big-program-from-30-yea...
Well, it's also false. Specifically, if it were true, we would see all sorts of genetic correlations where one good trait systematically boosts a bad trait. This is almost never true, and it is especially not true of intelligence: in almost every single case, the genetic correlation with intelligence and a good trait is positive, and negative with a bad trait. Autism (and myopia) are the only exceptions out of scores of calculated genetic correlations with intelligence in humans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_correlation#Human_corr... (This is one reason I've been so skeptical of it: why would it be such an outlier?) This rather pervasive pattern is one reason that the 'systemic integrity' interpretation of intelligence seems to be increasingly popular. Even if you bought the idea that the autism (symptoms measured in healthy people in OP) really are bad, the effect of selection on intelligence would be to reduce all sorts of diseases and problems and only slightly increase a rare disorder (and glasses).
The problem with AdWords is that everyone wants to pick the low-hanging fruit
You're only sending part of the hash here, the potential evil password-checking service wouldn't know who's sending the request or where this password is used. All he'd know is the originating IP address. I don't know a way to link a particular IP to an online service username, which would be major news.

Presumably in that case 1Password is sending the requests from their own servers, so the whole range of 1 million prefixes would be quickly explored, giving no information at all to the password-checking service.
Do you really need a technical background or some sort of college training to find the File > Save As > PDF option?
Five Dangerous Lessons to Learn from Steve Jobs (2011)
If drug dealers on Tor are smart enough to use GPG to encrypt communications and files, then it does sort of surprise me that these multi-millionaire mafia-type elitist with connections to Russian cybercriminal oligarchs, can't get basic security right.
More cops in schools won't make schools safer; it will likely inflict harm
Been using ripgrep for a while now, I love it. One other Rust tool people might find useful is fd (https://github.com/sharkdp/fd) which is similar to find.
I have to concur with parent in some circumstances. I was looking up what are some weird regulations. I didn't find much, perhaps I was not using the right terms. But this one strikes me: License to Close a Business [1].

When it comes to protecting consumers, for example, regulations are generally not bad. Some regulations have been removed because some people want "efficiency" - and again, we have to pick the circumstance. Too much regulations (getting permits from 10 different agencies is slow) can drive up the cost (more application fees, higher construction cost due to delay), but too little or too lax can do harm. We all face this at work as software engineers...

[1]: https://wislawjournal.com/2010/11/03/regulations-show-courts...
The classic Veblen good:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
I’ve been making myself get up around 6am to take 1 or 2 classes at the gym. After work, I go for an hour for yoga or just watch something on my iPad Pro while walking on an inclined treadmill.

I think the key is to sleep early and get up early. Also, watching shows at the gym instead of at home helps.
I shortened the title a bit to make it fit in the allowed space.
I think it had a big (and net positive) impact on me, but anecdote is not data - If you think the advice would have been bad for you, I'd love to hear how - not because I think it's impossible or that you'd be wrong, but because I have no idea what is probable without more people weighing in.
Maybe it doesn't cause poverty so much as it allows you to see poverty, so it's natural to assume that cities must have created it.
The “HORSE the Band” Smart Contract Is Live on the Ethereum Blockchain
Easy answer, the narrative embedded into our worldview (and in the worldview of many if not most decision makers) is that without work and the kind of structure it brings, people cannot be functional members of society. It plays itself out both externally and internally.
I was a bit disappointed with the content of the article.

On the style, the generalization "Only assholes get patents" turned me off quickly.

But on the content itself, there wasn't much in there that related to the title of the article "Defending your app from copies and clones": the author talks about copyrights, and trademarks (not patents, because apparently it's only for assholes), but explains how little use it is: am I supposed to be encouraged or discouraged to follow those paths?

Then the rest seems to be an exercise in despair, convincing you that there's nothing you can do anyways and you're screwed.

I ended the read a bit perplexed, as I wasn't able to squeeze any substantific marrow.
I wonder if these new discoveries about the microbiome can explain why on disciplines like Zen meditation (Zazen), one has to focus her mind on a point at the gut level.

Could these techniques somehow be aware of the gut-mind connection?

https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/the-g...
I take 1.5 hour training twice a week. With prep, commute etc. It was 8 hours total per week. After a few months I slept noticeably better and got up one hour earlier. So essentially broke even on time available per week, but feel a lot better.
For shell scripting?

For all (new) DSLs?

For assembly languages?

Functions as first order entities are nice, but plenty of new code gets written in languages without, eg C, because it's up to the job. Just because a feature is nice and useful for some high level algorithms and languages, does not make it indispensable for all tasks.

I've spent most of my professional life managing without just fine for practical purposes. Unless you'd like to admit special cases such as Java's single method inner classes for example.

The 30kloc of C++ (11) we now have running an energy-saving radiator valve (TRV) does have some lambdas, because they're handy, but I'm not sure that any of them are multi-line to be really specific in rebutting the claim...
"Only assholes get patents."

Marco rubs me the wrong way. Blanket statements like this are not meaningful.

What the post is saying is: there is nothing you can do. At the end of the day it doesn't matter who does it first, it matters who does it best. Do it best and you'll win.

Very clickbaity title. This could have been a tweet (and it was: https://twitter.com/sandofsky/status/966721199052013568)
wait, so suppose regulation costs financial firms too much, you'd rather have no recourse to getting reimbursed as an individual?
well, i don't know the context of buffett's quote, what he meant, but i can say with confidence that in the US, even the most upstanding citizen breaks several laws per day.

speed limits, imperfect stops, improper turns from a stop, unsafe lane change, following too closely, breaking too fast...

The problem with a lot of these is the definitions contain imprecise terms subject to an officers whims of interpretation.

And that's just driving. Many laws are just ridiculous and you don't even know they exist to avoid breaking them.

Google "never talk to cops" for an interesting video from a law prof and a cop.
Good common sense stuff, but I had to laugh though when I saw the authors hidden comment explaining how he got out of his funk that day: "made my bed (I usually don’t), meditated with Alto’s Odyssey for 10 minutes, did the dishes, went through all my mail & paid my bills (a task I’d been putting off and dreading), did three other little tasks I’d been putting off, and took a long hot shower"

His bad day sounds like one of my best days.
I always find it hard to trust free. Even with T&Cs/ToS/Privacy, if I'm not paying for it, I feel that its all lies. Combine that with a site that looks like that, and I'm assuming my PDF will have a virus attached to it.
This ties heavily with 'right to repair' as a lot of the software/protocol blocks are infact "access controls for copyrighted works".

It's often impossible to reverse engineer and document a protocol or replace a proprietary tool without breaking DRM first.
You can also right click a pdf > Open with > Word.
Reinforcement Learning: Exploration vs Exploitation with epsilon-decreasing strategy.

I am wondering if we are indeed some kind of optimization algorithm ran for somebody else to validate some model they need in their "real" universe.
I suffered a life threatening infection in December. I have since started taking health seriously. I am nearly 39 and I can run a 28 minute 4 mile and a 12:30 2 mile even though I have asthma.
Haha.. I don't buy into it either. Something is fishy about the story, or maybe this is a secret plea deal with a behind the scenes type negotiation process to trick other conspirators into providing more evidence.
What types of difference in quality do you see? I'm not a chocolate connoisseur but it is interesting. I do pay premiums for coffee and cigars though. :)
I'd like to see square brackets replace the backtick.

I only have a cursory familiarity with lisps but I constantly find that too easy to miss.
This reminds me of when the game 2048 came out, and became hugely popular. It was mostly a clone of the game “Threes”, released a few months prior, which while popular was less so because it was iOS only whereas 2048 could be played freely in the browser.

Here’s the developer’s statement at the time:

http://asherv.com/threes/threemails/

The press and public opinion was mostly on the side of the Threes developer, perhaps because they were already fairly well respected in the indie game dev community; see for instance

https://www.wired.com/2014/05/threes-game-design

I mostly agree with Marco’s advice; but if you have your peers’ trust and approval, calling out your copycats seems like it might work in your favor (by bringing attention to your product for people who only know the copy). Or rather, let your hardcore fans call out the copy cats for you, and be brutally candid in your reaction - the devlog format of the Threes developers’ response was perfect for that.
Right, yes, so it doesn't matter how much they steal from customers.

Got it.
That's super messed up if it's true...Usually when you pay for a yearly plan and stop paying, that "plan" continues till it expires at which point the service will stop working for you. That's not even hard to really implement - maybe a few weeks or a month of work considering Dropbox hires pretty talented engineers and solve much more complicated problems.
I'm not advocating for e-voting because they don't seem to offer (yet) the same good qualities as regular voting.

But you need to take into account people transportation and opportunity cost (if I lose 1 hour going to vote, this time could have been directed at working, thus it cost me ten or twenty the price you just spoke about).
Silicon Valley Billionaire Wants You Off His Stretch of the California Coastline
Using File -> Save As -> PDF requires several skills

Window management in Windows GUI:

1. Usage of File Menu and/or Ribbon Menu

2. Knowledge of Word's PDF integration

File System knowledge:

1. What a "file" is

2. What "file formats" are

3. What a PDF is

4. That a word document can be saved or printed as a PDF

Etc etc etc

I work with non-technical folks all the time and printing/saving as PDF comes up often.

Usually in most cases I can install a PDF printer and let them "print to PDF" and they can understand it, but before they know the process, they look at me like I'm speaking Latin when I try to describe what files are, what PDFs are, what conversion is, what the file menu is used for, etc.
The closer comparison is with the Raspberry Pi Compute Modules. Notably the 3 and 3 Lite, with eMMC and without respectively, $30 and $25. No wireless though.
I remember there was also a big effort to reassemble the shredded files by the German Stasi after the fall of the wall, both algorithmically and manually. Not sure if those efforts are ongoing, but it could be another avenue to explore if you are interested.
I haven't even thought of "fresh chocolate" before reading these comments. What is it about fresh chocolate that's better?
You don't just need station keeping. Every launch takes energy away from the orbit of the launch platform. Consecutive launches basically deorbit the launch platform. To maintain the orbit, the solar sails must generate an equal amount of orbital energy as the launch platform imparts upon vehicles launched. In other words, you could just launch stuff with its own solar sail to the same effect.

This happens on the moon, too, but the moon is basically a limitless supply of orbital energy.
I mean, if instead of smoking pot with friends you decided to rob a bank, that sounds like a bad outcome in line with the advice...
The only thing I remember being significantly cheaper for personal storage is actually Office365, which is $50-100/year (depending on how you are at looking for discounts) for either 1TB or 5TB (as 5x1TB).

Edit: summary cropped from a recent discussion where someone said "[Ewww Microsoft]"

Dropbox: $99/year for 1TB - or $199/year if I want "Smart Sync" which is the same basic thing as [OneDrive's] Files On Demand.

Google Drive: $99/year for 1TB, unclear if it supports the same kind of online-only files.

Box.com, but I could only get 100GB of storage for $10/month; for more I'd need to have 3+ accounts on their Business plan at $15/month/account.

Sugarsync, 250GB for $10/month or 500GB for $19/month.

SpiderOak ONE, known for security & encryption, $9/month for 400GB or $12/month for 2TB.

OwnCloud, free except for buying a NAS or setting up and powering an always-on home server to run it (or paying for online storage and a hosted VM), along with my time dinking around with it and troubleshooting.

Something based on some kind of S3 clients. See above about my time setting it up, dinking around with it and troubleshooting. Also, using the Cloudberrylab backup software calculator, storing and accessing 600GB in S3 would cost at least $13-14/month.
QBasic and QuickBasic are related, but not the same. QuickBasic was compiled to an EXE. QBasic was only interpreted. I never used QBasic, but I used QuickBasic extensively and remember when v.4.5 came out. I still have my QuickBasic manual, which I just can't allow myself to throw out.
Cheaper, mostly-automated long haul trucking should lead to an overall increase in its usage, meaning there will be more long haul trucks to unload than currently, which will then require even more medium sized trucks (multiple per load) to transfer to. This is a simplified version of the prevailing current theory as I understand it, and it seems fairly solid to me.

There's no denying that full Level 5 across the board would lead to very large disruption, but it's a little too early to call how it will play out yet.
Is this just a data collection app? Do you monetize the data because it asks for so damn much.
A recent but now deleted comment asked for a more layman's explanation of this paper. Would someone mind providing a summary or pointing to another reference that does so?
Careful, logical, thoughtful, and a bit creative are all good.

Thinking oneself to be a genius is generally a handicap from observing hires and peers who have! Dunning–Kruger ahoy...
Also if you're so protective and perfectionist you're not going to actually go through with anything, especially something as risky as fraud. And honestly, when you need something to just work and work right now, you're willing to cut quite some slack with your procedures, which are not designed for emergencies.
Agreed. This idea is essentially that you entitle yourself to all of someone's future time because you paid them for time they already invested.

They already give you future time in the form of bug fixes. To ask for more is blind entitlement and quite silly, yet absolutely rampant.

It's kind of like how we say everyone should work in the food industry for a while because it sobers you up to reality. Maybe the same should be said for trying to sell software or run a website that has actual users.

Those are two additional ways to see how poorly some people will regard you no matter what you do, just like working in the food industry or retail.