skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
isn't inequality bred by our insistent concept of pecking order throughout our organizations, which results in the people at the top of the stack hoarding more than sharing...

simply just because they can, maybe this hoarding is fueled by the unease and insecurity they they too feel. especially when someones livelihood is totally tied to their job(healthcare, education, housing). in that kind of environment can you blame anyone in an advantageous position to want to hoard so that they feel secure against the winds of change. secure for their family more than anything. imagine someone with a big family who loses their job and has to feed all of them, has to be responsible for all their health-care, housing and education.

some societies have created an environment where if you lose your job your life is totally wrecked, seeing as most americans don't have a nest egg to fallback on since saving is not really part of consumerist culture.

knowing all this, can you blame the 1% for wanting to feel secure? just like everyone else. they have exaggerated the need to hoard and their bags of loot provide long term comforts not basic needs.
Pronouns/anaphora:

if (x.y.z == 3)
delete it
I would guess a very large number of pensioners who own their homes.
Obviously real world plans cannot be perfectly executed.

But the act of planning itself, provides the long term perspective badly missing from the western point of view.

That is my point.
I would say it’s really a dislike based on percieved freedom. Are you really anymore free in a capitalist system if the majority of the population can only afford the cheapest {insert item} at Wal-Mart? The pending existential crisis of capitalism in the US is what good is choice if only a select few hold the ability to exercise it?

Edit: spelling
I bought my Nokia 635 for $50 off Ebay and still use it. I've hated all Android phones I've used before, so dont want to switch unless I can no longer handle it, and I dont want to pay premium for Apple. The WP OS is pretty awesome, and the phone is rock solid. I use an old Nexus 4 which I never liked for Chromecast purposes, a standalone GPS, and WP for everything else. It works just fine.
I use Google Fi as my mobile carrier. It is blocked from virtually everything even though it is a legitimate Sprint+T-Mobile sim.
Yours is not so funny...
FWIW, 88 metascore on Metacritic [1] is solid, high. Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev! Can't wait.

[1] http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-death-of-stalin
There is a parallel with art. Beginning artists when drawing a still-life are encouraged to see the forms and the shapes and the relations between them, not the words that describe the objects. Instead of drawing 3 pencils on a table top, they are encouraged to see and draw 3 diagonal lines on a trapezoid. Otherwise their drawing will lack a wholeness or "meaning".
If it's so well understood why is everyone including those in power acting is helpless? Even the rich warn about the problems. I don't think things like "money", "capitalism" etc are well understood at all. It may not even be possible because those are very fuzzy terms that describe vastly different things depending on what aspects you are looking at and they consist of >90% context. IMO any discussion waving around any of those words can be safely ignored or engaged in only because one is extremely bored and wants entertainment.
It's the difference between a regulated pro-consumer free market, and a lobbyist controlled market presenting a duopoly as a free market.

It's one of the negative consequences of mainstream media / political free market rhetoric considering regulation harmful.
Is there really, though? If I can't do X, then I can't do X: whether that's from an oppressive government or my own lack of wealth as the result of a rigged economic system is a distinction without a difference.
You have it wrong. China is a dictatorship that its billionaires are trying to escape, less they get struck down by Xi jingping’s anti corruption drive
What force do investors use to demand it? How do they force a non-compliant company to grow? Esp for companies that are already profitable and don't need investment money.
Linking biology to specific concepts in computer architecture or worse, with OS design, is indeed a stretched analogy but biology is rich with computation. I'll try to be short.

A cell must sense and respond to its environment. One aspect of this is regulation of gene activity by interactions of for example, transcription factors. When interaction types can be well enough approximated as either of inhibition or activation, you can model them with boolean networks and when levels matter, some have found moderate success with recurrent neural networks under a restriction on what NN nodes represent, to ease interpretability.

That is not the same thing as saying your genome unrolls neural networks. What it is actually saying is that the complexity of the best performing neural network indicates the richness of the underlying computation, and the predictive accuracy of the model captures the functional equivalence of the respective computations (in the cell and in the neural network). The learned model is the instance and neural networks are the class, it is a mistake to place emphasis on neural network, they are merely a way of packaging the computational model of interest.

A cursory review here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001048251...

If you have time for videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA9D727AGHI , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX-GrO2qXQM

More relevant to this article is the study of cancer within the framework of evolutionary game theory, as done here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2768082/

There is a precise correspondence between that formulation and one done in terms of online sequential prediction or the so called experts algorithm. All of these are models and still quite limited at that but biology is complex and the future lies in the development and leveraging of these rich connections.
The only weird thing about Braintree is that they do a hard pull credit check on whoever is signing up their company for the service, which is non-sensical.
There's a subreddit for what you're looking for:

https://reddit.com/r/changemyview

Lots of interesting debate happens there.
Not saying this because Im a huge fan of china.
Just a fan of thinking long-term.
The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user
I don't see that as a counterargument, more of a strawman. Eugenics is based on the gene pool not on relative levels of wealth (as I understand it).

Honestly, if you live in desperate poverty, why would you want to bring a child into the world knowing the amount of suffering that its is likely to live through? Yet the poorest people seem to be the most likely to have the most children.

Maybe another way of phrasing the headline would be:

"The poor are reproducing far faster than the rich"

It doesn't sound as shocking then.
> Low-altitude flyovers were legal pretty much everywhere in Germany until 1990;

I was at Hahn [0] from 83-85. We had a German partner airbase (Pferdsfeld [1]) and they would occasionally act as aggressors (fake Soviets) in our exercises. So we got used to the sound of F4's passing at low altitude over the base, in addition to our own higher-pitched sounding F-16s with their near-constant takeoffs and touch-and-goes.

I recall one time a German Tornado pilot did a loop around our 100m tall microwave tower. The observer we had on top of it (for the exercise) was able to look down at the pilot. Any US pilot would have been called on the carpet for this stunt, but the all the Germans drove fast and flew fast.

The photo at site [0] of the airman guarding the fenceline brought back bad memories of doing the same. Hahn had the worst weather in USAFE because we were on top of a mountain range (icicles would grow sideways off the chain-link fences due to the wind), and being out there for 12+ hours in the winter was really unpleasant. The trick was to get one of the WW-II era metal helmets larger than you needed so you'd have room for a couple of knit caps underneath.

[0] http://www.mil-airfields.de/germany/hahn-air-base.html

[1] http://www.forgottenairfields.com/germany/rhineland-palatina...
It couldn't possibly not matter, because wealth is not only standard of living, but also power. At the highest level, the wealthy are not simply comfortable. They have the power to shape and organize aspects of the economy, supply chain, and the laws. That has to matter in some way beyond having one's material needs met or not.
Javascript does have an extendable transpiler (Babel) that allows everyone to make changes, and you can make proposals to the TC39 commitee, too.
Safeway Refreshe. For 19 years.
I was definitely not kidding. 10+ years of c# experience, and 5+ years of android, and you can see the difference between the two.

Hyper-V and so on, i certainly do not remember as I had them anyway, but talking about purely the dev env and ease of platform to me tells it all.

Android has not been written from "application dev" pov. With all these contexts, application contexts, leaky abstractions all over, it certainly is not a robust platform.
I left a tablet in a seat-back pocket earlier this year.

I phoned the airline, they had found it, I was able to positively ID it (work asset-tag/barcode + a few notable dents/scrapes etc) and was generally relieved. Due to logistics they had to forward it on to London Heathrow for me since I was not passing through Helsinki airport where they had it. ~40 euros to get my work tablet back - bit steep but ok, sure, I'll pick it up when I get back to Heathrow.

But then they lost it somewhere between Helsinki Airport and London Heathrow! Trying to get through to anyone has been an absolute nightmare - no one knows anything, airlines have no idea where the lost property goes, the lost property offices (there are several different & unrelated lost property offices at Heathrow!) have no idea what is coming from where or from who or from what airlines. Its chaos and everyone just shrugs their shoulders - the Helsinki people just said "we sent it to Heathrow - its there somewhere" (I guess they've never been to one of the largest airports in the world with 5 terminals). One of the lost property offices in heathrow wont even let you contact them - how the hell is a lost property office that you cant contact supposed to work?! Its really infuriating.

It sickens me to think of my work tablet that was lost, then found, then paid to be sent back home, then lost again, then ending up for sale somewhere like this just because of pure disorganisation, incompetence, and slopey-shouldered "not my problem pal" attitudes.

I really dont believe any comments from airlines et al saying they try "really hard" to re-unite lost items based on my experience.

I wonder how much of that stuff in that store should have reached its owner but was lost again due to screw-ups or people just not giving a crap.

Sigh.

</still-have-a-chip-on-my-shoulder-about-this>
I might do, though I find the discussion generally of a higher quality here than on reddit.
How can vim make you a better developer
I think Molyneux's problem is an excellent example of why Kantian thinking (as he is apologetically understood in the 21st century) is so important, even today.

If you follow a modern Kantian line, one of the most important functions of the brain is to provide a common spatial and temporal framework in which it is possible to represent things (a basis for representation). The brain then does the immensely awful work of creating objects in that spatial and temporal basis out of the mess that it gets from optical, auditory, haptic, olfactory systems, as well as information it gets from very strong beliefs we have about the world (think Piaget - object permanence, objects can't be co-located, folk-physics, etc.) We situate a self in that world, and we populate our surroundings with family members, cardboard tubes, music, clouds, walls - every mundane thing. We even build systems of knowledge using symbols in that world, which is rather remarkable (our folk-physics is not the physics we use for engineering, obviously).

Consider the problem of remote-piloting a drone. We are capable of shifting our frame of reference from our eyeballs to our droneballs and back again pretty quickly. Your brain is a complex thing - think of how quickly you are able to translate musculo-skelatal movements of your fingers into the correct inputs for the drone. Or say you're wearing headphones and getting auditory input from the drone: how does your brain realize that the sound of someone saying your name (muffled through the headphones) is coming from your friend standing next to you? There is a sort of representational richness in solving these problems that is easy to overlook.

I think we've all had the jarring experience of being woken from a dream by a human voice, or a sound in our home, that had one meaning in the dream and another upon waking. Same auditory input, very different processing, but all part of an attempt to project a world that makes sense of your inputs.

Experience is a function of our brain working constantly to unify sensation to create an accurate simulation of what is going on around ourselves. The brain does so in a basis language, and its easy to have the mistaken belief that the basis language of space and time is something that "is just there". It is "just there," in the sense that our simulation works pretty darn well for creating a coherent world that we can navigate, but the brain doesn't get it for free - it assumes that basis.

I happen to think that the common basis for locating things in space and time is a large part of what makes language possible (how can all agree that "there's a cat on the mat" (or not)), but that's just a silly personal hunch and not a well-considered position.

It was a very common mistake in academia ten years ago to think that humans learn the structure of the world from data. We do, but we require a very strong grammar of representation in order to even begin having what we call experiences that it is possible to organize, or learn from (parallel to language learning).
What advantages does your syntax offer over the ICU standard? http://userguide.icu-project.org/formatparse/messages
Definitely interesting article. Notes about an author he'd read seemed prescient:

>Pausewang wrote one more dystopian novel in which the Nazis had come back to power, and that in some way made explicit what these books had been about all along. Never again were young Germans to close their eyes before some change in the macroclimate. Pausewang was turning the children of the 1980s into little Geiger counters ready to register the faintest contaminants.

Turns out the inoculation is well-needed as the Nazis return in the guise of the Alt-Right, across the EU and US (and promoted by Russian bot armies).
This $30k number is frequently cited and seems to always lead back to http://www.globalrichlist.com

It's ~$30k after tax (net income). So the actual salary number is going to be higher.

It's also misleading because most rich people are rich because of wealth, not income. You need ~$770k in assets to be in the global 1%.
What are your thoughts about macOS? I noticed it isn't listed in neither "you are the product" and "alternatives".
I am super interested in reading Enlightenment Now - I will do so especially after your comment. I'll have to do this because I so vehemently disagree with your summary or assessment of the situation. Specifically,

> The basic position - and I think the data supports this - is that it really doesn't matter what the top 1% are doing so long as the bottom half are seeing improved living conditions.

This is whataboutism and justifying means to ends and it makes no sense to me. How could this be? Many of the top 1% in our world are murderers and killers and so greedy they are set out to hurt the poor as much as possible. This matters. It does matter who they are. Their character matters. Their actions matter. Their words matter. Due in part to their wealth, the world listens to them for better or worse, and they hold a responsibility that the current 1% batch (and perhaps none in history, I don't know) are not holding up.

Yes, overall the poor are seeing vastly improved living conditions. This does not mean that it should not be better. It is offensive to a population to tell them that they have it better than before and to basically not worry about it or complain that the inequality is so intense, because their parents or even ancestors had it worse.

No, the attitude should be that it is still really bad for a lot of people, and that state of affairs should be unacceptable. That much human suffering is unnecessary. It should not be happening in a world of surplus like today's.

The top 1% matter immensely - who they are, what they do, how they act.
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From what I see labour has become less valuable now than previously, and capital (land, resources, robots, AI, etc.) has become more valuable and therefore more highly rewarded. Whereas previously you needed thousands of workers to produce something, now you can create enormous wealth with much fewer. Craigslist at one point was making hundreds of millions of dollars with just 19 employees (they had the record for revenue per employee at one point). What's a specific example of the rigged'ness?
There is no way for a communist government to be non-authoritarian communism can’t work in any other way.

Planned economy and lack of personal liberties cannot coexist in what we would call a democracy unless your definition of democracy is a slightly less violent conflict resolution method.

Overall democracy works because it respects the wishes of the individual essentially it gives everyone the right to express their wants communism has no room for any form of individualism.
Part of the problem with this is assuming that the person regained their site, they would not initially be able to make sense of the information. Seeing happens as much in the brain as in the eyes. I love how they spoke and wrote back then. It's comprehensible, but it makes clear how differently they spoke back then.
But isn't free market's main goal basically the accumulation of wealth and the tokens of the economic system it's being applied to ? edit: disregard that, the aim of free market is to provide an environment where all players play with same rules Regardless of the actual products or services it delivers. Although I am a proponent of some aspects of the free market I don't agree the goals should emerge from it.
I use R for this.
If (a == 3) || (b == 4) delete it

Which one?
What is instinctive behavior in biology
> Crashplan: I have the keys :)

Do you really? They offer a web interface with access to your data. Do you enter the encryption keys when you access the web interface, or do you enter a username and password which then provides access to the encryption keys?

In that situation, who really has the keys?
This is the approach that Kotlin takes (albeit with boxed primitive types). Float, Integer, Long - all are subtypes of Number.
I didn't say "no one cares". Originally I wrote "We really don't care about your opinions of Apple or Facebook or Google". That is true, in the sense that if you flipped the high bit on all your opinions to turn them into the opposite opinions, we'd have the same moderation response.

But I've learned it's better not to word things that way. I can't easily stop myself from typing the first version of a comment more strongly than I know is helpful, so my solution is to sand off the sharp edges by editing, which I do a lot of.
It matters, and it might be ok if the wealthy were being nice about it. Unfortunately a very active subset seems to be bringing back feudalism. In the 20s-70s rich people were conveniently afraid of communist revolution and thus inclined to distributed gains. Without another credible threat of global revolution I don’t know how this gets fixed. Of course, communism did have downsides for the people who actually lived under it.
It's ironic how the term for non privacy respecting services is "You are the product", but the same is true for half the alternatives. Are you somehow not the product for DuckDuckGo? Are they operating as some sort of non-profit or charging a fee to use them?

Also, the last update for iridum (one of your browser recommendations) was over 5 months ago. That's dangerously out of date for something as exposed as a web browser.

> - Windows - [Microsoft shares Windows 10 telemetry data with third parties](https://betanews.com/2016/11/24/microsoft-shares-windows-10-...).

In the citation:

>Update: Microsoft says that the deal with FireEye doesn't involve the sharing of telemetry data.

Maybe fully check through your sources next time?
I added it now to Alternatives. Because of Apple privacy stance (https://www.apple.com/lae/privacy/).
I like programming languages much more than natural ones, therefore what usually makes me happy, is to see a language-for-humans to resemble a programming language, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban.

But thank you so much for the links! I learned quite a lot from them and now I at least know that the reason I feel German is more similar to Russian, than English, is the thing called "analytic vs. inflected" languages.
You can't make that statement independent of a pre-existing conception of what freedom is, and as such, independent of whether you have the value-set of a socialist/communist or not. So it's effectively circular as a philosophical claim. If one conceives of liberty as something positive for which one needs the conditions of its realisation - i.e. where it is not just the absence of someone physically impeding you such that you cannot live a meaningful life, but requires the substantive means by which to achieve such a life - then there is no freedom without socialism. Similarly, if you believe in economic democracy, there is no freedom with socialism. And so on.

'Full communism dictates almost every part of your life'.

No it doesn't.
Or lawyers made the decision as part of their “document retention” policy, and no one spent much time thinking about the repercussions.
The hate for Molyneux is not just due to him over promising. It is due to him continually lying to his supporters and taking their money to build and launch a F2P mobile game that still receives updates even though they haven't bothered to even post an update their steam community in 3 years.

He is still misleadingly selling Godus under "Early Access" on Steam even though he clearly has no plans to continue development and there hasn't been an update in over 3 years.
That's a good argument, and to many it's an argument for wealth redistribution. I prefer to look at it instead as an argument for limiting the powers of government in order to limit its susceptibility to corruption.
My first computer love, too. Then Commodore 128, then Amiga 500. Then it all goes downhill as I started experimenting with overclocking PCs...
The poor person has more choices because money was forced from a rich person to them (please keep in mind that I am not against this, it is likely the better system). But these are extremely different kinds of freedom. If you have an example of how the poor person was forced to be poor it would be important here.
Can one not input an own API token?
Written by Jewish mystics, translated into Latin by Roman scholars, further translated by Scottish Protestants. What could possibly go wrong?

The part that always weirds me out is right at the start, when God/Elohim/whatever says let us create them in our image, male and female he created them, which makes very little sense with a singular God.
Moon Environments and Looping world problems
Nope, people dislike communism because every time it has been tried, a significant portion of the population ends up dead or in slave labor camps.

Sorry, but I'll take the freedom to buy endless crap, have an virtually unlimited food supply, and have the freedom to criticize the government without ending up in the Gulag.