skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oracle and free in same sentence is laughable to say the least, everything they touch turns into money grabing venture, and even if free now there is no guarantee it will be free tomorrow.
lol

a) yes, it is sold, sorry. refer to the other responding comment for a concise explanation.

b) irrelevant to my objection and muddying the waters of the issue. was there consent? no, not genuine consent. end of story, data was stolen.
>> mandates whether citizens should receive health care or die, regardless of whether they have the money to pay for it in a foreign country.

No, this is incorrect.

Alfie Evans was going to die. There was no treatment available for him. No-one, not even foreign doctors, were offering treatment other than end of life care.

Alfie is a human, and has human rights, and the paramountcy principle used in English courts mean that his rights are more important to the courts than the parents' rights. Everything has to be done in his best interest, and it wasn't in his best interest to take him abroad to die.

The parents had excellent top tier legal advice provided for free. They went through seven legal firms because they weren't being told what they wanted. They eventually got sucked into the Christian Legal Center - an organisation whose advice was so piss-poor they face regulation.

https://nearlylegal.co.uk/2018/04/on-the-naughty-step-the-qu...

Here's a useful blog post about what actually happened: http://www.transparencyproject.org.uk/alfie-evans-best-inter...

(This is written by a mix of people, some of them represent children and families against the state.)

Note that an important difference between the US and UK law is that in the UK the doctors propose a plan, and if the parents disagree the doctors need to go to court to get permission. This is reversed in the US. The doctors propose a plan, and if the parents disagree it is they who need to go to court to stop the doctors.
"attitude of major publishers towards game development"

So very, very true. I just gave notice at my video game developer, and it made me sad to do so. The company is great, it really is! Fantastic people, etc.

But the publisher (in Southern CA naturally) is destroying it by pushing, and pushing, and pushing, and completely disregarding any semblance of proper planning. And no, they don't give two shits about the game itself - just selling more lootboxes.

I remember saying "I have a hard stop at 5:30 because my kid's day care closes at 6:00" and they thought it was just HILARIOUS to laugh about "can't their mom do that? LOL HAHAHA?"

What a bunch of braying jackasses.
I suggest reading Mann and Ornstein on the intellectual foundations behind modern US conservativism. They are both historians of politics and 20 years ago were considered supremely centrist and above the fray. What they say about (American) conservatism is sobering.

Another good source is Josh Greene’s book on Bannon. That book describes how Bannon used GOP billionaire money (Mercer) to intentionally try to radicalize young tech-savvy men for the conservative cause. Bannon realized (and Prager around the same time) that with some propaganda he could persuade young mostly-white men to vote for the pro-billionaire agenda of the Republicans.

I won’t say more here to avoid getting into politics on HN. But check out those sources for more info.

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On the the square root phenomenon, I wonder whether this arises due to the experience required to be very productive at creative work. Factory workers have little ability to be twice as productive as their peers. But the best salespeople and programmers can easily be many times as productive as at the entry-level. There’s a nonlinear function of experience and skills.

I bet one could build some automata/stat mech type models of this. (And it’s not even clear you need to care about interactions). See if nonlinearities in productivity as a function of experience (and as importantly, luck- and maybe talent) hold in soft fields and creative fields.
Yeah that's what I meant and what OP was (ignorantly) on about. Could've summed it up with: "The reason these APIs exist is it is cheaper than allowing (or blocking) scraping. They earn money from it in long term."

MMOC worked before Blizzard used APIs. They'd have to readapt. Wowhead, WowDB, Warcraftlogs, Raider.io, and Raidbots are other examples. Some of these existed before API existed as well.
This is not a course per se, but there are a lot of good, cutting edge videos by major players in the field here:
https://cbmm.mit.edu/videos
For someone who's never really the studied their works, do you have any recommendations on what to read?
Despite this sounding like some kind of demagogic propaganda, I kinda was with you until

> Lack of empathy for workers and the masses is the true cancer of democracy.

...what? This is such a incredible weird statement - like, dictators are more empathetic for the workers? You kinda propose socialism (while sounding like nobody should touch it with a ten foot pole) but not in a democratic manner? Might I point towards the EU, where the problem we're talking about is non-existent and also it's a democracy with socialist elements...?
#1 Java's poor startup time used to be a problem.

Even back in the day, the correct answer was Sun's HotJava, running applets within a native Java runtime, which was killed in the crib to appease NetScape.

You've heard the cliche about how sufficiently complicated 'C' programs recreate LISP, only poorly?

20 years recreating WORM applets. 20 years recreating grid computing and software agents (now pimped as 'serverless').

Imagine the world today if Sun had had some saavy championing their own tech.

#2 Canvas. The inevitable omega point will be tunneling X-Windows thru the HTTP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript (WASM) obfuscation & error injection gauntlet.
Oh, sorry I was unclear. In the app you have a link to aswinmohan.me which is a namecheap/parkingcrew landing page.
It’s Catalan
Very, very related - "Don't do for money what others do for love"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16792942
Cost of living is a lot lower. 25-30 days holiday a year + 10 bank holidays. Far less grindy hours (obviously varies from place to place).

The big money gigs are in London are in contracting, where people can make 500-1k a day for 3-6-12 month contracts. The market for that is far higher.
Yup. Sanitizing arbitrary expressions is even harder than sanitizing sql expressions. After years of seeing how regex based sql injection prevention doesn't work we shouldn't apply the same things here.
It is interesting to compare this interpretation of Aristotle on happiness with the transhumanist take on happiness, pleasure, and suffering known as the Hedonistic Imperative. When doing so, Aristotle starts to look a lot closer to stoicism, in sense of acceptance of the human condition as it is, planning a strategy within established limits that cannot be changed. The spectrum of philosophy expands, with most of the ancients sitting quite close to one another in a much larger state space than they had access to.
We're not taking about some vague concept.
For some of us it is part of the constitution. It's the RIGHT to privacy. Your attempts at downplaying it are the main vehicle of the advertisement industry and it's a disgrace at least. This ideology has educated those "people" to ignore that by hiding the means and downplaying the relevance. This law tries to at least regain some of the awareness that has been lost in the last decades and this is why the industry is crying so much.
Transients and anybody who would like to be outside in the square, including residents who live near the square, but it's not like it's "their" square. It isn't a Costco parking lot in Fort Worth, it's a square in Barcelona. The whole point of it is to be an outdoor public space where people can congregate and enjoy themselves.
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I found this article very fascinating. I'm sad to admit that I know very little about the large number thinkers from that time though. If anyone could point me in the direction of some literature that would introduce me to all this, that would be greatly appreciated!
"Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention of experiments, but with the critical discussion of myths, and of magical techniques and practices. The scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition in having two layers. Like the latter, it passes on its theories; but it also passes on a critical attitude towards them. The theories are passed on, not as dogmas, but rather with the challenge to discuss them and improve upon them."
Karl Popper, 'Conjectures and Refutations'
The blockbuster leads tend to be very attractive, but in general there are plenty of famous actors who aren’t.
As a software developer with a vote to cast, I give zero f*cks about tourists compared to sleep quality
How a Hacker Proved Cops Used a Secret Government Phone Tracker to Find Him
I live on a noisy New York street. Replacing seating with potted plants appears, to me as well, a sloppy response to the problem. (Re-scheduling trash collection, on the other hand, was brilliant.)

Modern technology allows for acoustically isolating virtually any kind of housing. (Provided the windows are shut.) Acoustic retrofitting is expensive, but so is losing the tax revenue from a vibrant public space. A better solution would have involved reducing noise levels inside residents’ homes without smothering the plaza.

(Reminds me of a poster I saw at a club, once. Paraphrasing, “Al sees apartment. Al sees club. Al rents apartment. Al spends all his free time making noise complaints. Don’t be Al.”)
> The whole point of it is to be an outdoor public space where people can congregate and enjoy themselves.

People can! Following the law and how it relates to noise pollution. Rights are a balance.

Disclaimer: US citizen who has spent more than a few weeks in Barcelona, and has seen how people abuse the commons firsthand
>So you believe that local culture consist of a lot of people getting drunk and shouting?

Yes. Not exclusively so, but yes. Events where drinking and shouting happen (and/or is simply the point) are a large part of culture. It might not be my cup of tea but... http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/016/845/e9d...
I use it in my mobile browser, mainly to try to force myself to visit other places, too. HN seems to have virtually no protection against large-scale astroturfing, and is big enough to be a target of it, so while I am skeptical of most things I read on here, I try to also just not expose myself too much to it.

And that also just because being skeptical of every piece of unsourced information isn't too great when having personal conversations. You don't have to believe every single rumor, but making people prove everything they tell you, that's just not very sociable.
> once we lose that kind of memory, there's little to prevent us from going fullcicle and doing everything again...

We have a few things they didn't have back in the 1800s: easy access to paper and other means of recording. We have, for example, Patton writing a letter to his wife regretting his role in WWII. We have the red cross's thorough paperwork on their examination of the German work camps.

1st person accounts of events will endure. It won't prevent things from going full circle, though.
I’ve been a game developer for decades. Companies that are categorically in the game industry tend to be full of shitheads and oversized egos. I have mostly solved the problem by working in game organizations within BigCos.
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About this:

"This new paper found that among kids whose mothers had a college degree, those who waited for a second marshmallow did no better in the long run—in terms of standardized test scores and mothers’ reports of their children’s behavior—than those who dug right in."

Since "standardized test scores" tends to measure IQ, it seems this can be re-phrased as "those who did well on the will-power test did not necessarily do well on the IQ test, and vice versa."

In other words, raw will-power is not correlated with raw IQ. Which I think I already knew? I've certainly known some athletes who were probably not as smart as me, but who definitely had more will-power than me.
Facebook and Google want to maximize profit, sure.

However the companies that are placing ads through ad networks care about their individual reputations.

Spending your ad dollars through a network that respects user privacy can be considered an additional form of virtue signaling.
https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/america...
I keep reading ‘patients’, why would I need any patients? I’m not a doctor, strange article.
All I was trying to say was that neither Aristotle nor other historical philosophers knew about the role of chemicals in the feeeling of happiness.
The pools with few votes are probably not a good article for this site. [Unless you choose a good on-topic flamewar like the best font to write code].

If one of your pools get's a lot of votes, you can try to write a blog post about it, like okcupid. In particular for this question, how does this change with the country? [Are you tracking countries? Does the page explain that to the users?]

Write an interesting post about some problem you solver for your service (not a lame post, an interesting one). Some ideas: Which tech stack are you using? How do you handle traffic spikes? Did you got your first DDS? How do you combat double vote / spam / sockpuppets / trolls?
Burt Dorman, a researcher, has been trying for the past 30 years to get funding for a killed-virus HIV vaccine (i.e. infect folks with denatured HIV and see if they can get further infected by real HIV). Only recently is this approach being tried by others.

This reminds me of how certain anti-aging researchers have been struggling to get funding for their own "brute-force" approaches.
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did you read the rest?

all they did was stratify on income and the effect went away.
I'm always gonna be fascinated by any analyses like this - but can I just say how incredible tired I am of everything containing "music" combined with "this generation".

Everyone, everyone in the industrialised world and well beyond can purchase a device smaller than their palm and listen to literal billions of songs. Noone is stopping you from only listening to "Tibet monk techno punk instrumental remixes" for the rest of your life - without buying anything you don't already have. So can this mother of all substanceless debates please just die...?
I wish they included Haskell in the concurrency bugs section, given how popular Software Transactional Memory – which eliminates many concurrency bugs – is there.
I would imagine a kid would think they would be full after the first slice and not care about the second.

It would be better for the test to have the child rank edible items they like. Then a few weeks later run the test.

But as a new father, I've learned that eating training will vary widely between families. Some families do not provide sweets as treats at all. Some will always provide it after every meal so the kids do not feel it is a reward or scarce resource. You can read up on the Satter method for details.
The NSA didn't make IPSEC super complex; the NSA didn't design IPSEC. The IETF did a perfectly serviceable job making IPSEC inscrutable, difficult to analyze, and complicated to implement all on its own. Accomplishing stuff like that is one of the IETF's great talents.
But with the latest news that MS is looking at buying GitHub demonstrates nothing has changed at MS.

Instead of helping and pushing the industry forward like Google does instead we have them hurting the industry. They buy GitHub and we will have a mess as FB, Google and the others that contribute to the greater good of the industry will have to go else where and we have a fragmentation mess. Google gave us map/reduce and K8s and so many incredible papers and a big one is VP8 and VP9 stopping the mpegla from trying to extort ridiculous license fees.

Or finding all the big security vulnerabilities like Shellshock, meltdown, Cloudbleed, Heartbleed Spectre and so many more and sharing and helping the entire industry.

I swear MS just does not want us to have nice things.
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I can't speak about Buddha or Confucius.

Greek legacy was build in ~100-150 years, which is more like a flash in human history than an era. I'm talking about 5th century BC specifically. Walking to the streets of the Athenian city state you could come across:

- philosophers: Socrates, Isocrates, Protagoras, Parmenides
- historians: Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon
- authors: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes
- scientists(?): Democritus (the atom guy), Phidias (greatest sculptor in Ancient Greece), Hippocrates (father of modern Medicine)
- politicians: Pericles and Demosthenes
- military minds: Miltiades, Themistocles

I think the fact that democracy was established the century before, had a lot to do with this concentration of minds.

That said, of course, slavery was a thing, women were more like objects and only a few had voting rights.
Here is some info: https://flutter.io/faq/#how-big-is-the-flutter-engine
They speak a lot of Catalan there so perhaps it's colored by that?
It's an efficient way to protect yourself from the regulation. You don't need to prevent Europeans from using your site, you just need to be able to say reasonably that you don't intend to operate in the EU.
Do you know of any libraries that do this?

When I tried it here GCC complained about `ms2 = ms2_buf__` being an assignment between incompatible pointer types. That sounds like an easy way to get into trouble and undefined behavior.
Those things become far less important as your thinking becomes more attractive for others to read. Also plenty of people don't do their own editing.
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Agreed. If I understood correctly, the recent experiment possibly indicated that socio-economical factors can influence more the future "success" of a subject than other variables, e.g. delayed gratification.

The original experiment, by only containing children of the same socio-economical background isolated these variables, and achieved an orthogonal conclusion.
Free as in https://www.gnu.org/

Basically open-source.
Creating a Conference Poster with High-Resolution Network Figures [pdf]
See, every time I try to enjoy ancient philosophy, I get going and then bump into a comment like this.

>Nobody would call a man ideally happy if he has not got a particle of courage nor of temperance nor of decency nor of good sense, but is afraid of the flies that flutter by him, cannot refrain from any of the most outrageous actions in order to gratify a desire to eat or to drink, and ruins his dearest friends for the sake of a penny…

If Aristotle means that the general lack of these qualities leads to unhappiness than he just needed to have some more profligate friends. I've known cowards, adicts and individuals with terrible practical instincts who were all happy people. If he specifically means the total lack of one of these traits well then no s---. Of course those individuals have a harder time being happy. They're lacking a significant tool the rest of us pack around in tool box for dealing with day to day life. And there's a decent chance they're suffering a debilitating neuroses. In the first case it's naive. In the second it's inane. Obviously Aristotle wasn't an idiot but I find the same flaw among nearly all ancient Greek philosophers. He was retroactively fitting a moral reasoning to his own secular but restrained moral instincts. There's a way of living that felt right to him and he reasoned himself into thinking it was "best". I may be more sympathetic to the Stoics and the Epicureans but I get the same vibe when I read their works.
MS buying GitHub will be one of the worse things to happen to the industry in a long time. But should end all discussion that MS has changed.

FB, Google and the other big tech companies that contribute so much will have to go elsewhere and we will have a fragmentation mess.

I swear MS just does not want us to have nice things.
Marshmallow willpower is still correlated with future success, but only because it is correlated with wealth. This means that there's isn't a causal link between eating marshmallow willpower and success. which is a different result, as the previous result included that as a possibility.
What is the Thrust/Energy ratio?

Let's suppose that I only have time to read on article. Which one is the best technical article?
GatsbyJS with Netlify has auto deploy with git. I have not had an easier way to combine all the things I need for web as React is just bad ass, GatsbyJS has no webpack setup, Netlify combines hosting and deployment together and in a team if you need and it has cloud functions. I'm sorry if this sounds like a commercial for Netlify as I have no connection but I really like how it snaps together so easily.
Yes, and I’m wondering whether the current qubits are too fragile. Like whether there’s a way to construct a qubit out of a more naturally rebalancing system - somewhat analogous to an acid base buffer.
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> this controlling would remove most of the signal

That's the whole point of controlling. If all of your signal can be explained by a correllation, then you aren't measuring what you think you are.

If "willpower" (waiting for second marshmallow) was important, it would be important regardless of whether your parents are rich or not. This means that among poor kids, those with willpower would be more successful, and among rich kids, those with willpower would be more successful.

The results of the follow up study show us that this is not the case. The important factor is your parents income, not your "willpower".
Really? I never had trouble with dosbox.
tl;dr: by a few metrics (musical valence, producers of the top-rated songs), hit songs are becoming less diverse.
Google is not in China because the China government tried to hack Gmail accounts so they left as the right thing to do.

But I think you know this?
I did crossfit 2-3 times per week for 1.5 years around 7 years ago at a gym where there was a lot of focus on technique, so it's been a while, but I didn't start from scratch with regards to technique.

That being said, I'm sure I have bugs in some of the exercises, I try to work them out via. videos and focusing on technique before I put more weight on the bar.

All the gyms I've been to here in Denmark have lifting platforms, squat racks, etc. so that hasn't been a problem for me.
>>There are reasons people use frameworks. Security is one of them - I _love_ assessing apps which are written in plain PHP because they're almost always a trainwreck.

It’s totally OK for a prototype to be a trainwreck because its purpose is to give you the ability to launch it in front of potential users, show them a few features and get their feedback.
You might be interested in this talk [1] from Dart Conf that highlights code sharing between Flutter and Angular Dart. The general take-away is that code sharing is possible, it requires however a strict separation of UI related and business logic code.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PLHln7wHgPE