skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
perhaps true of "big L" libertarianism, but this is not entirely a fair representation of the broader political philosophy. most libertarians i have talked to will certainly acknowledge that market failures happen even in unregulated markets.

as i understand it, the core motivation for libertarianism is that power is real and impossible to "distribute" evenly. relatively more powerful people will always be able to divert state resources to serve their own ends. the only way to limit this effect is to limit the power of the state itself.

so the argument is not so much that free markets are beautiful, perfect things; rather, the free market is usually preferable to the regulated markets that powerful actors will allow to occur.
There's really no way to optimize public transit in such remote areas. A lot of farmers will have a few hundred acres in one section and another 800 a few miles away, they're constantly traveling around to where their crops are.

Also, they can't fit their gear in a backpack like most office workers. There's really only one option when your payload varies from hundreds or thousands of lbs to a few lbs, and that's living reasonably near your land, not to mention the variety of equipment that requires driving.
Are you saying that the people who were fighting for civil rights actually deserved to lose because they were willing to... fight to get them?
Who decides what is extreme? Abolitionists were extreme yo!
> “Our concern,” [the NSF] explained, “is that [this] paper appears to promote pseudoscientific ideas that are detrimental to the advancement of women in science, and at odds with the values of the NSF.”

I think this is a rational position to take. In particular I would argue that whether or not this paper is one of them, I can conceive of some papers that the NSF should distance itself from quite rationally.

Suppose someone had written a paper showing that, say, scientific reaearch itself was harmful, that the more research was done, the more we angered the gods, or something, and so we should limit our research. The authors have actual evidence to this effect (increasing natural disasters in countries with nationwide science programs, etc.) and apart from the intuitively-bizarre hypothesis, nothing is obviously nonsensical with their methods. Still, almost all scientists think the hypothesis is far-fetched enough that this evidence isn't nearly strong enough to even put the hypothesis into play. Also the hypothesis happens to align with a political plank of the Yellow Party, one of the major political parties that believes in not angering the gods and reducing NSF funding.

I think the NSF would be justified in quashing this paper early instead of letting it play out in the marketplace of ideas, because of the risks to the marketplace of ideas itself if the paper is put to the debate it otherwise deserves and becomes popular on Yellow-leaning non-scientific media.

At that point we are just trying to figure out where the line is. Science, in the sense of the project of humanity to do research about the world, does have values of its own; it is not inherently unscientific for the NSF to ever object to a paper that is at odds with its values.
when there is no more room in hell, the dead shall walk the earth
I lived one year in Sweden (in Lund, near Malmö). Easily one of the two nicest places I ever lived in. People are warm and welcoming. And in my experience at least, you can delve into arguments about society and politics like anywhere else, or even better because it doesn't end up with people mad at each other for having a different worldview like in the USA or in France (again, my experience).

I find strange this assumption I sometimes read here that having a sense of collective means losing your individuality.
We have a couple recent examples. If you think that the freedom of speech on the internet is important and foundational, then FOSTA appears to be us trading a deeper issue for a shallower one. Leaving aside the fact that it's not even likely to fix the problem it's trying to solve.

A similar example: the recent court cases by state AGs to ban certain types of CAD files from being published.
> Klein confirmed to The Verge that he was "fired for violating our social media policy."

Sad to see these two folks make their exit. As we saw from Barry Hawkins[1], quiet advocacy and going through channels doesn't always work when the problems come from the top. It seems like Riot will not change easily.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17853073
Greyhound buses are nasty enough, and they expect someone to sleep in a Greyhound bus bed? Think of the lice and bedbugs.

Let me go ask my wife if she would take a Greyhound sleeper bus. See if I get smacked.
Blockchain Technology / Bitcoin Adoption S-Curve Long Term
Reference statements the solution is simply to write out the statement and sign it physically, keep the original, and provide copies.

I think technologies like deep fake may affect things like CCTV evidence, especially if it's veracity is thrown into doubt. I can see courts, where I live, having a hard time with this as currently CCTV evidence is treated as a truthful and objective account of people's actions beyond reproach.
"The article is not fit for publication in a mathematical journal, it is cosplaying as math."

It's not up to you to decide, but up to the reviewers and editors of the journal where it was sent for publication. And according to what we know, it was accepted.

I downvoted you, for this reason.
> This project began by pulling the original “Helvetica” font from my system files, and making a copy of it. From there I opened it in FontForge, which is a brilliant open source font editor.

Pretty sure the license won’t allow you to do any modification to the font installed on your system.
So what does Travelodge do with all those books? I've stayed at various UK Travelodges many times and never seen a book. Surely they could just leave the books in the rooms. 70k books is enough for every one of there rooms to have several books.
Weather channel. Powers iOS built-in weather, and fetching actual weather data = sending exact user location every hour.

I have no idea why Apple allows this (the whole point of making Apple maps was to stop google tracking iOS users and here a service is getting everything).

(And Android - try to find an android phone where a default always on weather widget isn't preloaded on homescreen.)
Er, wouldn’t fixing the road be the overengineering? One solution requires a single company to build a single bus to solve a specific problem. The other requires every municipality in the country to “fix the road” (unclear what that even means?) to solve for a specific problem affecting one specific use case.
In non-GDPR countries you are the product no matter if you pay or not. For example, Mastercard sells your data to Google although you pay for it.
No Brainer. (2015)
This recent list of books left behind at hotels seems to correlate with a list of best-selling books available at around the same time?

Who'd have thought?
Speaking as someone who is an immigrant, there are just as many families who are on their own.

Culture aspect is real but it's highly localized, even to immigrants, meaning you don't get help from "your people" just because you share the same origin.
It's just not the same without the run-down boom town aesthetic. Big town stores might have things from the '60s/'70s/'80s/'90s, but not things that have been there since the '60s/'70s/'80s/'90s.
Fascinating take on the cultural nuances. Thanks for sharing!
Physics facts not always taught in school
Oh yes, they do seem to be confused! espeed, if you happen to read this, the brachistochrone is the fastest path for something accelerated by a constant force (e.g. gravity near the surface of the earth).
yes but you have to have the personality for teaching
It's not just politically extreme content it does this for. You watch one video about how NASA supposedly faked the moon landings and suddenly it's trying to get you to watch all kinds of wacko conspiracy stuff.
In the "Simple Counter Example", it seems odd to me that both increment and decrement keys have the same "INCREMENT" parameter (ie Finite.Transition("INCREMENT" <- this).

I'd have expected "DECREMENT" for the decrement key... is that a bug or just me not understanding how it works?
This was among the first digital watch games identified and played in my young peer group.

Variations:

Shortest start, stop time. 0.07 to 0.12 were the non, "got lucky on a glitch" times possible on an ordinary SEIKO or CASIO watch back then. Done by double tapping the button on a desktop.

Hit exactly X seconds.

Using "lap" function, which froze a running display for viewing while timer continue to run in background, hit exact seconds, X times in a row, Y misses allowed. Highest number wins. This was one of the more fun ones. Practice made for higher scores and a zen like state. Anyone could play, unlike short time which showed us some people were just faster than others period. No fun. Anyway, on that one, we usually did "three strikes and you are out!" Anyone hitting the first second, or two, dead on had a clear advantage.

Variation on that was just hit an exact second, wait as long as you want between attempts. That is a different game. Both fun, and interesting to middle schoolers with no cell phones or Internet.

Digression:

So, having mastered timer fun, we used the timers to time various things.

One ended up being, of all things, thumb tack spinning. Turns out, the nice, stainless steel, thumb tacks featuring a smooth, non plated, metallic top were excellent candidates.

The game was simple, spin the tack, and stop the timer when the tack no longer moves. At first, this was seconds. Honestly, people got tens of seconds, approaching a minute, depending. I remember being surprised at that!

Using rough surfaces, people would hone the point of the tack, and look for tacks formed in such a way as to be very well balanced. The machines do not always place the shaft well. But, in a group of tacks, there are always a few near dead center. Those are the candidate tacks.

To spin them, we held them low, near a smooth surface, such as glass, or a polished table or desktop. The polished tile floors were great places to do this, of course the morning after cleaning.

A finger snap type motion, along with a gentle lift up would send the tack spinning rapidly to land on the surface. The lower one could get the release, and the faster the spin, the longer the time. Better tacks made for much longer times.

When a tack was well balanced and given a fast spin, it would often just stand there, as if balanced right on the tip, motionless.

Funny the things people will remember. Your fun little game brought those back. Thanks!
>running on Empty as far as finance goes.

Only if. How about trillions in debt instead.
She mentions the C approach, C++ approach and Java approach. But I think she should have added the C# approach: taking all the advantages of the Java approach, without the slowness of casting.
I worked for a hotel company once and I can't speak for books but phone chargers were kept in boxes in the housekeeper's office; lots of 'em.
Ethereum 2.0 and the Future of Scalable Blockchain
This MIT Tech Rev article relates to that point (1). Basically outlines a near ideal vocational education system (Siemans) and the challenge.

This is actually the ideal time for all companies to a.) automate more, b.) increase wages, c.) explore extensible employment models (e.g. uber, air bnb, mechanical turk, etc.). Corporations will do a and c on their own, but b is stubbornly inhibited by misguided corporate philosophy of "work to maximize the value of a share" vice "work to maximize value of the product offering".

1. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611423/rebuilding-germany...
No. That's when the vulnerability was discovered.
The cryptojacking attacks on routers began a month ago. Qihoo is just reporting on an ongoing campaign. But I didn't see anything different from the Trustwave report, except that attackers misconfigured some routers to send traffic into a blackhole for some reason.
Would I trust it? No. However, I'm also not going to dismiss it out of hand just because of where it comes from or who is funding it. That is anti-intellectual tribalism.

All researchers have bias, some much more severe than others. The existence of bias does not invalidate their research. Rather, the manifestation of it does, and that is determined by critically analyzing it and exposing where it has warped the research.
To skip security and rides to airports!
> A single website whose maps are used by hundreds of apps and websites with millions of users[0][1]

FTFY

[0] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/They_are_using_OpenStree...

[1]https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM-based_servic...
Alternatively, take a tiny fraction of what we spend on 'defense' and send it to the highway trust fund. The federal government has a problem with prioritization, not with lack of funds.
> First remember that 'primeness' is not really a property of a number, it's the absence of the property of being composite.

What do you mean by this? What do you believe a "property" is?

> Do papers try to make things seem difficult, exciting and mysterious on purpose?

Yes, being surprising/exciting is a criterion for being published.
News Diet
> Does USPS think they have a monopoly on the concept of delivering mail?

Under the name "The Postal Service" and within US borders? Yes, they do think that, and their trademark would agree with them.
It doesn't have anything to do with implementation details, even though the weird set of rules from the article implies that.

Dump those rules for a much simpler insight:

When comparing interfaces, type and value must match to compare equal.

So, (nil, nil) compares NE to (*myFancyErrorType, nil) for the same reason that (float64, 0) and (uint16, 0) do.

It isn't all that complicated. I don't see a real and non-insane alternative to it. Do you?
Worse. I've filed bugs with Apple, and then upon discussing them on Apple public lists, get accused of violating my NDA. As if reporting the bug makes the bug subject to secrecy. IANAL but if that's really true, then yeah, why bother filing bugs?
I'd love to own one someday. I've been playing a of UVI/Arturia modelling/sampled stuff and there are fairly decent Mellotron instruments in there.
Reality is under no obligation to care about your feelings, yes. But that does not imply:

1. that humans are not obligated to care about each other's feelings, either. If you are pursuing a course of research that is purely hurtful and has no perceived positive impact, nobody is making you pursue it. (I don't think this paper is in this category, to be clear.)

2. that an idea is more likely to be true simply because it hurts people's feelings. The hypothesis of this paper is simply a hypothesis. It's got some evidence, but it's subject as all ideas are to future argument. "What if it's true, let's not flinch away" is a fine sentiment; "It's true, deal with it" is not.
If you don't like the choices your landlord offers you can move somewhere else.
Facebook Auth is an easy step for web moderators to take, and is helpful from a marketing/analytics perspective as well.

I wonder if requiring a third-party “real person” auth like Facebook wouldn’t be so detrimental (in the contrxt of this discussion) if your user account could be publicly anonymous. For example, the site owners know who you are, but the comments section just sees whatever name/avatar you’ve chosen for that particular site.

A gated community, but you don’t have to wear a name tag once you’re in? I suspect those are already in use, if anyone has examples feel free to share.
Not OP, but someone else on HN about 8 months ago [1] suggested Valencia. As they said, it is lovely, inexpensive, and beautiful (we bought a flat there as a vacation home).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15975815
> What you said that's really interesting to me is that the high tax rate is paid in full by your company and not counted in your salary. Is that true all over Europe, like France for instance? I am always amazed by the really low salaries but if every bit of it is what you actually keep, it's not so bad. I didn't know it worked that way.

It is most certainly not how it works in the UK! However for balance I should say that the employer does pay some tax and pension costs on top of your salary (employers NI and auto-enrollment pension). Whatever the advertised cost, you will be deducted tax and National Insurance by your employer.
Ask HN: HIPAA Compliance?
I recently took the helm on a startup project that deals with PHI. I'm researching alot trying to understand everything I need to do for compliance. Do you have any books, articles, training courses, consultants, services, etc that you recommend for understanding and implenting HIPAA compliance?
The notion ghat “the government” is ‘bad’ at spurring innovation in high-risk scenarios is both common and flawed. It was NASA that sent men to the moon and, more pertinently, it was ARPA that shouldered the risks upon which the predecessor of the Internet (and packet-routing networks generally) was built, as well as (to a lesser degree) the microprocessor. I’m not quite sure why this is such a persistent impression, parroted by folks who, if they thought it through properly themselves, would reach the opposite (correct) conclusion.
Maybe take a larger view of it. Instead of just looking at Intel, look at the companies buying intel chips, are they getting more output with the same dollar input?
Fine, then don’t upgrade. I don’t know why you’re making a big deal out of something you’re not going to do anyway. As long as you are aware of the risks of using old and less-secure hardware and protocols, and you’re fine with that, you shouldn’t care what new thingy comes out. Just be careful you don’t turn into “I don’t even OWN a TV!” guy.
Love Medeski. Have not heard Club D'Elf. Really dig the Martin/Medeski/Wood trio though. Also, Scofield's work with that trio is amazing.
No it's not. Webpass is in SF which Google bought. It's only available in complexes that have a contract with Webpass.
Ripgrep is faster (2016)
i mean, if a person misunderstands the goals of any project, they are likely to see its outcome as a failure. that doesn't really say anything about the project, though.
one team say one thing and the other read it as something else

To be fair, this happens to me with lawyers, wherever they are from. It has been a recurring theme of my interactions with them! Also, I will concede that I have never done business in Sweden. Just that from my own experience, there are bad apples and variable quality in businesses, wherever they are from :)

The article is pretty clear though, Sweden seems to be hitting above its weight.
As it is, though, there are only two competing theories on why there are fewer women in science than men - the first is that men dominate both ends of the bell curve, and the second is that men are just horrible people who can’t be nice to others. Are you a fan of the second? Or do you have a third explanation? The first seems like the _least_ controversial possibility.
Are you guys aware that major corporations i.e. T-Mobile and Sprint are selling app usage data to hedge funds? Forget the popular apps recording this, major telecommunications companies are selling it.
Check out the literature. It isn't cafeteria talk.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/nature-of-human-intelli... however your third point is well taken.
The list of loaded subjects seems to get longer and longer.
Chief Accounting Officer != CFO
Why is Scientific American on Sci-Hub? It's a popular science magazine, not a science journal.
Animated 8bit game art by Mark Ferrari
You think there are no real people who only care about rape when it’s interracial? That is what straw man means. You think I described a man who doesn’t exist?
Nab a HTTPS cert for a stranger's website: Step 1, shatter those DNS queries
It becomes much less horrible when you consistently train the algorithm with the "I'm not interested" button. You can even choose if you're not interested because you already saw the video, dislike the theme, or dislike the channel. My YouTube home page is pretty good now, after doing this about 20 times. Any time I watch something vaguely conservative and start getting "SJW CUCK OWNED!!!" everywhere, one button press is usually enough to instantly revert back.

The problem is probably 1% or less of users ever click it.
After sitting for 7K years in a pot milk residue can hardly expected to be fresh though.

How do they know the fermentation was deliberate?

(not that fermentation wouldn't have been discovered anyway a few days after the first person put milk in a vessel).
Clojure and electric bikes
I think a better analogy would be something backend. Front ends may have gotten slow but that has been exacerbated by intel sitting on 4 core consumer chips for a decade now. However, AMD finally came along and shook that up with threadripper and now you can get 8 times the number of cores from AMD, or 50% more from intel. I think we still have quite a ways to go on the consumer side.
It's just typo, but (yes it's confusing) it work the same.

Let me explain: the name of Transition like 'INCREMENT' or 'DECREMENT' in this example have same "endpoint" -
Counter itself. So in case like this there is no difference
what Transition use, payload do all job (count + 1 or count - 1). So it's only important for debug (like action name in Redux).
That sounds like the same basic idea as the usual misapplication of Popper's Paradox of Tolerance.

It's not supposed to be that you ban ideas that might be harmful, it that you ban pushing ideas by means other than rational argument.
Good to know. In the US, your employer pays half of the social security, that's around 7% of your income, plus some medicare taxes that are a lot less.
Personality can't be taught?
This is summed up in Wittgenstein's Tractatus as: "If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."
I've had people smell next to me in business class.

Money can't buy class.
Eh, you're incorrectly doing a temporal shift here....

The older group were workers. They earned income. They invested it, and now are attempting to maintain control of their investments with the last power they have, voting.

Those same young people that have jobs now, that put it in retirement, will be the old people investing in the future.
No mention of whether this knowledge can be exploited to factor integers? You know where I’m going with this...
You don’t have to do it over and over for each job you apply for?

It also takes some onus off the hiring team to ascertain the technical abilities of prospective hires. “Just get me a guild member!” Now you can interview on other qualities...
It is hard to see how many children could possibly succeed:

> Most of all, Gunner worried about her students, most of whom lived in four low-income apartment complexes, which saw a lot of transiency. Thirty-seven percent of the school’s students arrived or left midyear. The day before, a family showed up looking to enroll and was so poor that both the adults and children were barefoot and hoping for a free school lunch as much as classroom seats. When a school-board member asked Gunner at a district event early in the year what she needed as a new principal, Gunner immediately said a washer and dryer, so she could wash the clothes that many students wore day after day. Many students had experienced trauma — the violent death of a loved one or homelessness or physical, sexual or verbal abuse — and arrived in the mornings in emotional distress, easily dissolving into tears or erupting in fury. Over long weekends, students sometimes went untended or had little to eat, which made returning to school both welcome and difficult. Yet the school had only one full-time social worker and a counselor for more than 450 children.