skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Space Merchants, co-written by Frederik Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth. Mind you, I was barely a teenager at the time I read it. But:

-It led me down the path to the realization that advertising in almost all of its current forms is unequivocally evil and has no credible moral justification in our current society. I have been running adblocking software on all of my devices (and that of my family's) and feel mildly disgusted every time I see an ad in the street or on the rare occasions I watch television.

-It opened my eyes on the fact that corporations having more power than governments is a huge deal, especially at times where government is often equivocated to 'lazy bureaucrats' and opposed to private companies' supposed 'efficiency' (but for whom?).

-It made me realize that environmentalists are not just some rambling, soft-natured and out-of-touch hippies but simply ringing the bell about how we are going to be royally screwed if we don't radically change our current consumption habits.

But the most shocking thing about that book is that it was written in 1952. There was no targeted advertising and tracking, no concerns about global warming, no oil peak. Critics at the time said it was witty and light-hearted, but far too much of a caricature to be taken seriously. Reading the thing more than 60 years later gives the whole experience a sour pang of irony.
The number of people that would buy a phone just for the camera is a small market and the phone market aside from the iPhone is a low margin commodity market. Samsung makes a lot of money from the phone market - but not from selling phones. They make most of thier money as a component supplier.

Sony's camera division makes money from selling camera parts to other companies - including Apple.
I went to the first meeting and felt they did a pretty good job responding to concerns. There were some protesters outside before the event, expressing concerns about affordable housing, but by the end of the meeting, after a bit of back-and-forth in the Q&A, it looked like even they felt they were being taken seriously.
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I've listened to this book over a dozen times on Audible (also available on audio CD). I love the added energy given to the reading by listening at about 1.4x speed.
Shops near borders often take the neighboring country's currency because it is convenient for travelers. If bitcoin was accepted more places, then those same travelers wouldn't have to worry about currency conversion. Sounds useful to me.
I used to use Atlas quite a bit, which effectively benchmarks your CPU and memory configuration at installation time to empirically determine where to switch from 'small n' algorithms to asymptomatically optimal algorithms, like Strassen.

Of course, if you only some resources into optimizing the cubic time version, Strassen will look slow by comparison. Better we take a serious look at both and empirically figure out where the trade off point is...
Fwiw I've looked into these sorts of tools in the past for a work project and none of them work very well. Converting HTML to PDF is a solved problem but the other way around never comes out clean.

If your document structure is p simple it might be fine but I wouldn't bother for anything else.
Eragon. I think it was the second book, where Eragon is training with the Elf in the Elf kingdom.

That part _changed_ me. Ironically I've now forgotten the exact life lesson.
I started with "at this point in time". At this point in time, it is easy for a person not suspected of crime (or otherwise being on the wrong side of the government) to move their british pounds from their London account to e.g. one in New York or Switzerland, convert them to USD or CHF either before or after the transfer, and generally hedge against government by betting on other things.

At this point in time, the same is certainly not true for the people of Iran or Venezuela, where there are capital controls, and the only way to get a different currency is on the black market. Effectively, compared to the west, everyone there is "on the wrong side of the government".

> There’s zero reason in principle that it is any harder or easier for an oppressive government to prevent capital outflows to bitcoin than to British bank accounts.

In principle that's true, but that just makes bitcoin's raison d'etre more evident. At this point in time it does not seem to be needed, but it may become needed with less than a day's notice. This has happened to the people of Cyprus (a "western" European country). Even the US confiscated gold in the 1930's.

History does not repeat, but it rhymes. Bitcoin is a hedge; it's far from perfect, it has a lot of drawbacks, but at this point in time , it is more useful than gold for people who might have to flee.
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.

Read it first when I was 16, at the recommendation of my literature teacher in high school. For the past... - darn, this was long ago! - ...more than 20 years, I've read it at least once a year, and intend to do that for as long as I can read.

That book changed me, like nothing else since.
Yes, sort of like saying you for car insurance at the cost of a better car. The cpu overhead for lz4 is low low low.
A oneliner that doesn't even form a complete sentence isn't looking at anything, much less in perspective.
Good points.

This video, while a nice visualization and introduction to the topic, obviously had to simply things a bit. In addition to the aforementioned "two consuls per year" bit, the video usually only listed one of them.

For example, in 216 BC the Roman leader is listed as "Terentius Varro", or Gaius Terentius Varro, who served as consul with Lucius Aemilius Paullus. During this year, the Romans (under command of the two consuls, as they were usually designated as commander-in-chiefs as well) suffered possibly their worst defeat ever at the Battle of Cannae against Hannibal. During this defeat, Rome lost perhaps 20% of its military-age male population. Both consuls apparently died in the battle as well.

Presumably Varro is listed as the leader this year, because most of the blame for the defeat at Cannae was attributed to him. However, this may have been due to Paullus having a more influential family who was able to defend his legacy.

If you're interested more about this, I highly recommend this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvGqp2gpo3s

The related channel is also great:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv_vLHiWVBh_FR9vbeuiY-A
But people aren't telling me to invest in btc companies. They are telling me to invest in btc. That is fundamentally different.
By that rule we’d have to arrest all US officials, for constantly interfering in Europe.

Stuff like https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/ka26b/paypal_bl... (a german company, in germany, selling cuban cigars, to a german, got as result threats from their payment processors (US companies)).

Or cases like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Worldwide_Interban...

The US has constantly stolen money from EU citizen doing business in the EU for violating US laws.

And then there’s the Kim Dotcom case. Also similar story, US enforcing US law in New Zealand and Germany.

The US deserves some of its own medicine.
When you choose your opinions so that they conform to popular politics, you're at risk of getting contorted into contradictions just to keep having the "right" beliefs. This research says stress causes genetic differences in subsequent generations. So if it's the cause of modern black poverty and violence, it would mean black people are genetically susceptible to being poor and violent. If you consider poverty and violence as inferior qualities, then it says black people are genetically inferior to white people, which is so incompatible with popular culture that you'll be be ostracized for even mentioning the idea!
You deleted your previous question while I was composing...

>1. Why did Krishna guide Arjun to kill Kaurawa?

After Pandavas completed their 13 years of exile imposed by Kauravas and demanded for half of the kingdom which was rightfully theirs, Duryodhana adamantly refused. Lord Krishna wanted to avoid war so he went to negotiate with Kauravas on behalf of Pandavas and he asked for just 5 villages instead of half the kingdom, Duryodhana famously replied "Without war, I will not yield even the amount of land on a pinhead",so war was inevitable.

> 2. Why did Krishna believe that Duryodhan does not deserve power?

Had Duryodhana acceded to Lord Krishna's demand of mere 5 villages instead of half kingdom, Duryodhana and inturn Kauravas would have lived but Duryodhana was envious of Pandavas and that led to his downfall.

Initially, Arjuna is reluctant to take up arms against his own cousins but Lord Krishna advocated that doing nothing is also doing something i.e. tolerating injustice is also a sin as a warrior. Arjuna was thus convinced of his duty as warrior and was victorious in this holy war/ dharma yudha.

Hence,it was Duryodhana's own undoing and in this "holy war", i.e. "dharma yuddha", the Kauravas perished.

P.S: In India, the word "dharma" is mistranslated as "religion" but its true meaning is duty. One of the key precepts of Bhagvata-Gita is to perform your duties without expectation of fruit of your labour i.e. nishkama karma yoga.

Feel free to query further. Peace.
You guys really dont understand this law. Or how it is going to be enforced.

EU will regulate what businesses doing business in the EU can do.

All other talk is just noise.
Legality matters for two reasons: one is simply that the huge predictions about market valuations and transformative social effects require more volume than people buying drugs online.

The other reason it matters is that if something is primarily used for illegal activities that'll really hold back the whole system: most businesses aren't going to offer a payment option which makes them look shady, people are going to hesitate to use have the software installed, running an exchange will be even riskier, etc.

For Bitcoin in particular, there's also the practical risk that doing something illegal in a public ledger with non-repudiation guarantees is not generally a good call.
VERY INTERESTING READ, THANK YOU FOR POSTING IT.
The primeval tribalism of American politics
The CEO, unless they are also the founder, is just an employee too. They are not a risk-taker or an innovator, they are just a manager. Everyone forgets that. Maybe they could be paid 10x as much as an entry-level employer but 100 or 500 or 1000x is insane
Okay, so continue that thought to why would that business do that — is it faster, cheaper, etc.? How many transactions are there where the cost of currency conversion is greater than the cost of the Bitcoin transaction fees and conversion into the currency the receiver needs to make most purchases?
It's a matter of needing to have enough respect to submit to the rigours of the scientific method (come what may) if it wants to be classified as a science. That's about it.
The Art of Loving by Erich Fromme

A description of how love (romantic love, brotherly love, love for God, love for oneself) has to be actively practiced much like any other discipline and what the consequences are for individuals living in a society that by and large does not hold this belief. As a younger person who often gets frustrated with how easy it is to get caught up in his own narcissism and materialism, this book helped me better understand myself and what my core drives are moreso than anything else I’ve encountered to date. Only like 120 pages to boot.
Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse

Truly a mind-expanding book, which can help remove a lot of contraints on ones’ thinking.
There is also a beautiful soviet film based on the book.
Kim by Rudyard Kipling.

Despite Kipling's jingoism in other works, Kim spoke to me in school. It opened me to a world of adventure and fearlessness that I didn't know was possible. I really haven't been the same since I read that book.
Hm I actually have a custom search in chrome that uses Google for hn. It's essentially %s%20site:news.ycombinator.com

I love algolia for record searching (lists of items) but find Googles indexing superior for general queries.
Definitely in my top ten list, too. Like Machiavelli, but its D&D alignment would be Neutral Good.
While I do not recommend use of Chrome (Google's interests do not synchronize with your interests) you can install this to dull the threat of cookies:

Cookie AutoDelete: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookie-autodelete/...

There is also a Firefox version: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode... and at least Mozilla's interests may slightly align more with your own than google's interests. So you might consider switching to Firefox as well.
https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Article 12
BEWARE. This app is severely insecure. Nothing against the creators but they clearly don't have much familiarity with web security. I can list things that are obviously wrong with it that they haven't spotted, but even if they fix those, they still are not qualified to store sensitive data, and you should not put sensitive data into this app.

Now, most obviously: go to https://headfocus.herokuapp.com/activities and go ahead and view every activity that is active, by any user of the site. It appears you can also delete or edit them without authentication, though I didn't try.

Again, to the creators of the site: It's a cool idea, I have nothing against you, but you're clearly not qualified to work with other people's data, and I recommend that you stop at once.
Mind-Body-Health.net: What causes burnout and chronic fatigue syndrome?
Airstore: The cloud storage for your physical items
Thanks for mentioning. I saw your comment and started reading. I think it's going to be a long night tonight for me.
I'm originally from Toronto and I find this concept absolutely horrific.

First - to give some self-serving private enterprise such leeway in our communities - can you imagine 'McDonalds' creating an entire neighbourhood to server their interests of fast food? "Hey, everything is centered around food deliver machines, delivering healthy, happy food quickly!"

Second - Google has shown that they are remarkably out of touch with social reality of communities. Even their product attempts in social - Google+ for example, it's like they fail to understand really what they are doing, and focus everything around an algorithm.

Even when governments get into major urban planning they 'screw it up' - the suburbs of Toronto have 'wide streets' and 'plenty of green' and 'highways' but they have absolutely no culture or community. TO suburbs are designed for box stores, starbuckses, Olive Gardens and car sales lots.

Communities are built around people and culture, the notion that they want to build something 'from the internet up' is laughable and scary.

And to wit - we don't even know what that specifically means. They've just committed to doing something 'Googly'.

This kind of futurism/utopianism has been tried so often, have a look at any of the old school world expos. When all is said and done, we generally prefer to opt to live in classical old-timey communities like mid-sized European cities (and from other places with history), where technology is added to solve specific problems, not the other way around.
The difference is with analogue everything is a full custom, with digital it's only the trailblazers. Also linear devices require an order of magnitude more control and characterization than digital even when full custom.
This seems to be the easiest interpreter to get up and running.

https://github.com/quinkennedy/Homespring

`node homespring.js filename.hsg`
I made the similarity the other day between to crypto-commodities (i refuse to call it coin or currency) and beanie babies...

It stuck pretty hard with me. The truth about bitcoin is like beaniebabies they have no value, and despite concensus other wise could at any time be ruined by the decisions of a dozen people or so. Anyone that still believes the “it’s decentralized!!” just because the database is - nonsense has a dose of reality coming.

Do I wish I would have gotten in at $5, yea, would I have sold at $20 not $20,000 almost certainly. But it’s over, it’s a fools game now.
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
"Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War" by Robert Coram was the first biography I really enjoyed. John Boyd's dedication to his ideals is inspiring. The retrospective that comes from seeing an inspiring life, with all its trade-offs and inevitable end, was life changing.
BASIC at 50
This assumes it was the bomb-planting that led to concessions for the suffragists.

No, it doesn't.

It (correctly) notes that the bomb-planting didn't doom the movement. What it doesn't do is give credit to the bombings for advancing the movement (rayiner's short comment is mute on that aspect).
Good for Xbox and PlayStation which are screaming deals right now.
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Seconded.

Obviously to anyone knowing me well enough I'm biased but I think parts could be of interest to some people here, esp. the proverbs.

Personally I got a lot from it and I'd say it has helped me to stay alive, make friends, work smarter and generally don't waste my life.

(Also maybe interesting is how different it might seem to how it is usually portrayed.)
How many times before did your mom ask you about it?

Precedent isn’t here.

But, if you are willing to say what happened in the yesterday will happen tomorrow, I assume you’ve taken a HELOC put on your house and invested in bitcoin - rift?
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While true, then most jobs need to pay enough to afford to own the crappiest home within a reasonable commute of your office. The majority of jobs in 2018 do not meet this threshold.

Most people don’t want to spend their lives “hustling” and selling things. They do, however, want healthcare, a home, and the ability to retire.

So?
You seemed to have missed the point. There’s nothing to stop an oppressive government from preventing its people from buying bitcoin the same as they prevent them from buying pounds and wiring them to British banks.

The dark hints about how any government may become oppressive is a red herring. The issue isn’t that bitcoin isn’t needed because my government isn’t currently oppressive, it’s that bitcoin’s utility in the face of an oppressive government is wildly exaggerated.

You are attributing magic powers to bitcoins that they do not have. Black markets are not invulnerable to government crackdowns because they are digital. On the contrary, digital networks are in many ways easier to control centrally than distributed underground physical networks.
Could be worse - there are people who crush the pills and snort them...
> toilet that flushes itself automatically ... tiny camera

Why would you use as camera as the sensor for simple presence detection? An IR LED+photoresistor is much cheaper.

> No one ever worries about the privacy implications of this

Yes, I certainly would be suspicious of both the camera and the attached microprocessor needed to "decide if it's light or dark" from "image data". Anybody that chooses to pay for that kind of massive over-engineering instead of using a cheap IR emitter+detector is trying to do more than just flush the toilet.

> Is Google going to record thousands of hours of sidewalk microphone recordings and store them somewhere?

Why not? It's a trivial[1] amount of data after you apply a simple noise gate and a low bandwidth codec.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16346416
A different resolution to slavery in the US almost certainly would have involved the ongoing deaths of slaves. So just less violence.

(even one that somehow rapidly ended slavery without slave owners waging war)
I’ve seen THREE cities in my state (cheap hydro power) invest money and land into “tech jobs” around cypto-commodities...

Which is a roundabout way of saying my state is giving away money to people intentionally wasting power for personal gain under the false impression this is good for the economy.
If I could talk, I'd confirm that:

This guy's a wanker.

That's my data point for you.
SDL is more than enough for something simple like this. You don't need to mess with OpenGL.
The UDHR is "not legally binding" [1]. It was analogous to a House Resolution, i.e. setting out general principles upon which actual law would be negotiated. "International law" most properly refers to ratified treaties, which have the force of law in their applicable jurisdictions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human...
Hmm, that's interesting, I was convinced it's based on citizenship.
Jews have been persecuted for a thousand years [1]! They whole reason for the Jewish diaspora was they kept getting kicked out of countries wherever they settled. Even where they were temporarily tolerated, they were still often discriminated against. Antisemitism wasn't just a Nazi thing, it was global and lasted far longer than slavery.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Germany
Gruts by Ivor Cutler.

Milk, Sulphate, and Albie Starvation by Martin Millar.

I was introduced to Martin Millar by a very close friend who stole very many books. She was good at it, and she stole hundreds of books.

In turn I introduced her to Ivor Cutler. We'd sit in her room drinking tea, eating pikelets and jam, listening to Ivor Cutler.
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Agreed. A close second for me is Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem. It helped me understand the Bible and put the things I was reading into categories. It's a thick book, but very readable. If you want something a bit smaller, there are two thinner books that are a summary of the original:

* Introduction to systematic theology (the discipline, not the book): https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/whats-systematic-...

* Introductory book: Christian Beliefs

* Mid-Level: Bible Doctrine

* In Depth: Systematic Theology
Quiet by Susan Cain: realizing that i am normal, that my need to be alone is something that many other also feel. Realizing that its ok to be like this made me really emotional, sitting there on the train to work, almost crying of relief.. Yep, changes my life for the better, made me feel more secure about my self.
I did. That fist job barely covered food but it taught me how to behave, how to listen and how to work with others. The opportunities and connections it offered put me on the path that took me where I am today. I would’ve done it for free.
> HTML/CSS is the very best possible declarative syntax for building interfaces ever devised really.

Well... I wouldn't go that far, but over the years we've all managed to work around the warts of HTML/CSS and can put up with it.
Wikipedia refers to this paper from 2016.

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3014983
Just to give a little context for this submission, this a project that is based out of Columbia University (where I used to be a postdoc - I wasn't involved with it but knew some people who were). It can be thought of as a type of experimental history, in the sense that it involves actually reconstructing the techniques described in an early modern French "book of secrets." Things like learning how to create early modern perfumes, medicinal drugs, pigments, and alchemical preparations.

What I linked to is the English translation of the book itself. The main project website has some more information about the alchemy lab aspect: http://www.makingandknowing.org

Edit: as a random aside, I love the entry for "Training a dog":

"You need to keep your dog attached; when it does what you command, to win its love, give it a piece of cheese which was held under the armpit. This cheese would be a bad drug if the master, or the apprentice, is red—haired."

https://cu-mkp.github.io/GR8975-edition/texts/p131r_4/