skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest, I mean everything relating to the conscious control of reproduction. Both on an individual level and a social level.

Individual: Abortion, genetic modification of fetuses, aborting sick fetuses, etc

Social: Overpopulation. The fact that the poor and stupid significantly outbreed the intelligent leading to all kinds of downward spirals. The welfare system that encourages it's beneficiaries to breed as much as possible - and even to induce disorder into their children to maximize revenue. For instance moms on welfare who have produced several kids with fetal alcohol syndrome, not even to bring up issues like nutritional deficiency.

There are welfare moms who literally have bred 10 children with induced mental handicaps - and they are financially rewarded by society the more they do this.

On a wider but less extreme level, there are psychologically dysfunctional parents who breed at a higher rate than the psychologically sound.

I've spoken with many social workers and teachers and others on the front line of this issue and there is a silent but taboo agreement - the use of force in controlling breeding is essential to the future of humanity.

There is also the wider point that the stupid and poor propagate themselves while the intelligent and wealthy prefer not to. This comes down to economic incentives.

Society would benefit from eugenics programs that specifically encourage successful people to breed and discourage unsuccessful people. Right now the incentives are literally opposite of this.

Anyway this is a big topic with many many facets. But speaking to domain experts and reading widely on the topic, it is very clear that some form of what has classically been described as eugenics is necessary for the success of society.

(I'm kissing my karma goodbye right now.)
Thanks for the link.

FYI
http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-important-misconcepti...
If the license clearly states you cannot modify the work, then you cannot modify the work. It doesn't matter how many times you contact the guy with no response, the license was there since the beginning.

And you're only pointing out one side of the story. The chain of reaction was (mostly paraphrased)

1. ignore license and author's express wishes
2. "please stop and have some class"
3. "Don't be upset at me, I thought I was doing what you wanted"
4. "Thanks for taking it down, here's why I feel this way"
5. "No, really, I did you a favor and you should thank me"
6. "Guys like you are the reason I stopped doing Ruby."
7. "I speak for everyone, "good fucking riddance.""
8. "Exactly. You guys are all about love, and then you scream obscenities at me. Half-finished crap doesn't help me. I went out of my way to help people make a similar book [not sure about the timing, but he has], and you went and did things the opposite way"
9. Everybody else piles in

Now, I may have taken too many editorial liberties, but that's how I saw the conversation.

TL;DR - if you ask permission to violate someone's license and don't get an answer, that does not mean "Yes"
The Breville gets horrible reviews on amazon.co.uk: http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B000OLG5UE/ref=dp_to...

Not reasuring re. justbuythisone.com
Link for the airbnb lunch: http://www.skyara.com/lunch-with-airbnb-cto-co-founder/san-f...

I'll offer one: http://www.skyara.com/lunch-with-a-skyara-founder/san-franci...
I don't think Martin was trying to ask for permission. It seems to me that he assumed it would be okay to do this, and wanted to let Zed know that his work was appreciated.
Yeah, I stopped using DM for most things, and any time I do DM I make a mental note that it will probably be public.
Very well said. I should print this and put it on my wall.
Although science can help us know the facts before we make our decision, how we should treat dolphins is not a scientific question but an ethical and moral one.
I've always been a little uneasy with the idea that we should assign rights (or personhood, or whatever) to animals in a graded way in proportion to their intelligence. It implies that humans should be deprived of those same rights when their intelligence doesn't meet some similar threshold.
It's like you're reading my mind. Or stalking me. Or maybe both.
Probably by "cutting" the input path and trying to mimic it ?

The mathematical model for a spiking neuron is reasonably well understood, as far as I know: http://izhikevich.org/human_brain_simulation/Blue_Brain.htm

I did take the code he mentions and play with it. Is behaviour is fascinating. I hope to be still alive when we have enough computing power for simulating a single brain, and to be able to directly cross-connect it to mine.
This wasn't plagiarism. At no point did Martin attempt to pass this off as his own work. This was an homage, very much in the spirit of open source - the only problem was that the book is not open source.
SSD will help make it faster, but the OS will also be that much faster so it won't seem faster by comparison, only in an absolute sense.
Apple's example Mac app prices land around $15-20
This pre-supposes we would recognize another species' art when we saw it.
I think using JavaScript to parse CSS is a great solution to this. Even as a developer I find theming with CSS easier than Objective-C-style code.
It's been started: https://github.com/pufuwozu/node-webgl

And there's also a similar project, much further along, to put all of OpenGL in V8:

https://github.com/philogb/v8-gl
I do use Thunderbird, and it's working OK I guess. I just really like the UI of web Gmail. I'm not so sure if I like the idea of forwarding all of my mail places.
Do you use email to organize group meetups?
How do you organize a meetup with a group of people? Send out an evite/anyvite? Via email? Via facebook?
Ask HN: Anyone Trying the New MySQL Branch Projects?
Has anyone tried these new MySQL branch projects in their own projects? Things like Drizzle and XtraDB? My concern is that the pace of evolution with MySQL will slow under Oracle, and that 2-3 down the lines, we'll be turning to these offshoot projects for a solid (free) solution.
Except the code will be open so if Canonical doesn't make it configurable, other people can, and if they do it right without introducing unneeded complexity, their patches might just make it upstream (Ubuntu).

This is assuming of course that people who like to fiddle with their display will stay with Ubuntu.

Not many people like to do that anyway. But if there are people who want that kind of control, it's not impossible.
xe is awesome.. been using them for 10 years now
Two things:

1) It was not plagiarizing, it was copyright infringement, and they are both not mutually inclusive and are completely different. Martin didn't appropriate the content or idea of the book and called it his own, he publish the start of an attempt of a 'book hack' stating the original author and intent.

2) Do you equate fart noises with a person making a mistake in the name of providing something useful to the community? The dude made a mistake, a mistake that in no way reflects on his amount of class, but does reflect on his drive to provide something useful to the Open Source community. Sure he should be corrected, as he did make a mistake, but he should not be degraded in any way as has been done in this case.

PD: Who has more class, the person who farts in a restaurant, or the person that calls him on it publicly without knowing the reasons for him doing it and does so with intent to degrade such person?
that's really clever, using DNS as a first-level filter and only going out to whois if that comes up blank.

Great product. Hope you make a tonne of cash! :)
I watched the excellent documentary "The Cove" a few weeks ago, and I highly recommend watching it. Though the film did fill me with dread and outrage (as intended), ironically, the portrayal of the brutal slaughter of dolphins by Japanese fishermen convinced me that dolphins are not nearly as smart as many people would like to convince us of.

Here's why: Imagine there were one particular mountain valley tucked away in some corner of the world, and while human beings could range all over the vastness of this earth unharmed, if they ventured into that valley they would be killed. In that valley there was a race of essentially invincible beings that would herd any wayward human beings into a side canyon and spear them to death.

How would the human race react to that? Let's assume that mounting a military attack and killing the invincible beings weren't possible. Well, first of all, we'd put up signs and fences and maybe even sentries to warn people not to go into that valley. We'd tell our children about the danger, and pass the knowledge of the invincible murderous monsters on, generation to generation. If people did go in there and got killed we'd cover the event in detail on TV, as a warning to others (like Shark Week). Even really stupid people would know not to go into the "valley of the stabby monsters."

Well, if Dolphins are so smart, and they have such good communication and advanced social structure, then why haven't the many dolphins that have personally witnessed the slaughter at "The Cove" and escaped (the movie shows dolphins escaping) managed to warn other dolphins not to go there?

Honestly, if dolphins were anywhere near as smart as humans and were anywhere near as ruthless, they not only would have prevented the slaughter, but would have mounted a commando raid wherein expert jumping dolphins would have trained to jump out of the water, knock the fishermen out of their little boats, then beaten and dragged them down into the cove until they were drowned. And I'm being serious about this. Human beings wouldn't put up with that shit.

Other observed dolphin behavior, such as dolphins killing each other and attacking sharks to defend swimming humans does prove that they have the wherewithal to act in both self-preservation, and in the defense of others, even to violence. But they still get speared in the cove. That tells me they're not that smart.
Right. Then you have to decide what category you're interested in. Starts being research again...
Cool, glad you like it. We're definitely adding search and tagging in the near future. We want tagging to be a first order tool for navigation just as descending the hierarchy is now.
I suppose the bar for Microsoft will now be that they didn't impose the harshest legal remedy against you, and since they didn't they're a charitable company? Unlikely, people are praising them for not fining them $30k per copy of Windows/Office made illegally.
For me, it's any content I may find interesting. I don't care what format it's presented in. You're making a technical distinction, I'm making a content-based one.
When I read this, I could not stop thinking about Harry Potter & The Methods of Rationality, and how HP calls out Dumbledore out for "pretending to be wise".

See http://lesswrong.com/lw/yp/pretending_to_be_wise/ for an explanation -- the post above is a clever take on that. Instead of refusing to pass judgement, it's giving advice that, as the people who did think of it as wise said, "is bullshit if you take it at face value" -- it's meant to serve as a counter-balance to the exact opposites of those, which are obviously also good advice, often given.

By saying a thing, and implying you also believe its opposite, you can never be wrong.

I don't really affiliate myself with the rationalist movement, but I think they have developed a number of useful tools to learn to call people out on trying to bullshit you.
One thing to be careful of is the liability protection of the pass-through entity, and this will be different for each state. While on paper, corporations provide limited liability, there is a lot of prior cases that show that the corporate veil can be pierced by many means (i.e. charging orders). Depending on the state of incorporation, an LLC may be the better way to go.

YMMV, but another great tip I got from my accountant was to set my fiscal year to end in July. It's right between the April 15th deadline and the October 15 extension deadline, when business tends to be lighter for most accountants.
"no need to use Emacs" Not being able to use Emacs is a feature?
So, essentially, "Look at that skirt! She was asking for it!"

Horrible actions don't become less horrible just because you can come up with a facile excuse for them. $1.5M does not seem like a reasonable penalty, even if she isn't very likable and clearly was not in the right.
Signs that (business/life coaches) just want your money
Yeah I know how it works.

MIDI is just one of those things that you're glad happened and it works but you really wish everyone at once would just switch over to OSC as soon as possible.

"This should alleviate that by removing the bridge, the need for OSC and the ability to directly send MIDI over USB to the DAW."

But no it won't, the TouchOSC and OSCulator guys choose to use OSC and the only way they're going to send MIDI directly is if they build it into the app which they just do now utilizing WIFI.
Interesting, but tons of competition in this space... Google "domain name generators"
Lack of collective memory does diminish an intelligence rating.

Humans didn't have recorded history for tens of thousands of years (maybe a million depending what science you follow, frontal lobes and all that) and were doomed to repeat the same mistakes (heck we still do the same massive mistakes with lots of recorded history).
Isn't a threshold defined by one line? I guess you are arguing that implementing a threshold later evolves into a continuous gradient. I disagree.
No offense, but this comment is awfully condescending considering the interesting question it's in response to.

I think Alan's claim of the motive of the original question is unfounded.

*edit: reworded for clarity
Can you elaborate on that background process? Is that something built into rsync?
Google Maps Easter Egg: Japan - China
1.Go to Google maps. 2. Get Directions. 3. Japan = start location. 4. China = end location. 5. Go to direction#43. 6. Laugh
Science is all about how things work, not how we should act.

The researchers argue that their work shows it is morally unacceptable...

See, this is what we get when we confuse science and activism. Should a "researcher" have any more weight with the public about what they consider "morally acceptable"?

I think there is some meat to this story: we need a more nuanced scale of what is morally acceptable or not that includes various forms of intelligence (without the same logic being used to treat disabled people poorly) I can't emphasize enough how important these issues are. Dolphins are obviously highly intelligent creatures. But such a discussion needs to happen from a neutral and reasonable standpoint. Asking folks who are deeply in love with their subject to tell us what's morally acceptable or not is whacked.

Doctors shouldn't treat themselves, lawyers shouldn't have themselves as clients, accountants shouldn't audit their own books, programmers shouldn't peer-review their own code -- and scientists shouldn't advocate on the topics they are deeply attached to. This is just common sense.

EDIT: Just to be clear, there are at least three problems with scientists-as-activist.

1) The public gets to make the decision on these issues. This means that any communication from scientists has to have as its goal informing the public, not persuading it. In an article like this, it is not clear to the public where the discussion of science ends and where the discussion of advocacy begins. This confusion, aside from being unethical in any profession, is a poor use of the public's resources.

2) The end result of such advocacy has a direct impact on the scientist's lives, creating a moral hazard. This is like when your chiropractor tells you that you have a bad back -- and need many more chiropractor visits. Maybe true, maybe not, but when a professional judgment can also be self-serving it creates mixed incentives and doubt, which is bad for any group of professionals

3) Morality is not science: you cannot add one and one and get "moral" or "immoral". When a conclusion like this is put forth by a scientist, it glosses over all sorts of other questions which other professionals are interested in, like when life begins, or what constitutes sentience. To make a statement about morality is -- at the very least -- to jump into areas for which you are not trained. As a professional, once again, it's your job to make it clear which things you speak about are part of your work and part of your opinions. The most important thing a scientist can say is "I don't know"

That's not even getting into the entire issue of just being too close to something to make a good call. Or -- if you think such behavior is okay -- the use of scientists as pawns to have proxy battles over other larger political causes.

These are not new standards. Other professions have been living inside of them for years. Ask your accounting consulting firm whether it's moral for you to invest in Indonesia and you'll get a very careful reply which will boil down to "I am not the person to ask that question of"
Glad I ran across this. I was about to dive into pylons this weekend for a small project/learning experience. Had waited all this time for them to stabilize on 1.0 and get some of their documentation updated. Now I'd have to ask why would I bother?
If anyone wants to help out, feel free to fork my node-webgl project. It'd be really good to update the WebGL arrays to the new specification.

The v8-gl project is fairly different. I'm trying to emulate the whole WebGL API rather than just provide OpenGL bindings.
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Emotional capacity is another axis that matters a lot.

But we do deprive people of rights if they are really lacking, mentally. We put crazies in madhouses (are bad at doing so accurately). We deny minors most rights of self-determination (more than strictly based on intelligence, but the idea’s the same).

Heck, to sign your will, you have to represent that your noggin isn’t fried.

Edit (response to pyre): I never said we treat unintelligent people the same way we do animals. Psychologically we don’t even like to disrespect dead people (intelligence: 0). I’m just saying that intelligence does affect the rights we afford other humans.
Interested parties can also look into "Memory as a Programming Concept in C and C++".
Had a similar idea a while back, but mine was for the best, cheapest product in a category. Nearly every category has that gem where you'll save a lot of money without sacrificing too much on performance. Was going to call it something like BestCheap. Thoughts?
It pre-supposes that 'art' (something that we argue about the definition of as humans) is a measure of intelligence.
Simulated annealing is also intended to avoid getting stuck in local maxima.
It sounds like you are mixing it up with some sort of greedy search.

Also, it sounds as if you think they are optimising Mario's position in the level (when you talk about the level having dead ends). I haven't checked, but I several doubt thats the case. I would bet they are optimising a control scheme for mario, and that local maxima in the search space are locally good sets of control parameters, rather than anything to do with the topology of the level.
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Dolphins don't have hands to write with. Nor did we invent a communication system by which dolphins and humans can communicate ideas.
Seems reasonable to me. For the silent auctions I've attended, barbers contribute haircuts, masseuses contribute massages, dentists contribute teeth whitening. PG's profession is advising startups, so that's what he put up for bid.

If you won the teeth whitening but wanted to engage the dentist in a conversation about sports or society or the state of the dental profession, he'd probably go for it, but it's not odd that he offered his expertise to the fundraiser.
So, if you are deemed unfit to make decisions for yourself, can we send you to the slaughterhouse to end up in a shrink-wrapped package at a supermarket?

Taking away your ability to sign a will is a lot different than the way we treat animals/non-humans.
App Engine Magic looks cool, I hadn't seen that before, but trying it right now. I am most interested if AOT helps reduce loading request times.
Just adding $0.02 of my own about your site. I went there really quick but took a while to figure out what you were selling. I'd simplify the design and add a headline somewhere about what the site does. It's just too busy.
This is solely my opinion, and I could be (and would love to be proven) completely wrong, but as I understand it we as a race are the most incredible predators on the planet. There is no animal on this earth that could survive a full onslaught by a group of humans. We win, put simply.

Now for dolphins to turn around and say so long and thanks for all the fish is a great thing. I like dolphins. There are people here who think eugenics is a good thing. What will dolphins do for them?

Sadly, the eugenics side will probably live. As long as what we produce is on the scale of Dr Julian Bashir I only have a minor problem. If we're producing Khan Noonien Singh then I have a major problem.

Going back to the problem, I believe that dolphins are great creatures but not on the same terms as us. I'm sorry if you view it differently. I think Dolphins are great in their own right, therefore don't need our help to become intelligent but should have a supporter definately.
I've written a little web script that has no security, no protection, and an obscure URL. Then I send that URL to all the people I'm interested in getting together.

They click buttons on it to suggest what dates and times they can and can't make. The system gradually settles on one that works for the majority, and that's it.

If you don't want something secure and general, if it can be largely ad hoc and mostly bug-free, it's easy.
Taking the device away from games may be the best thing for it. It could have great applications for medical research and physiotherapy.

On the gaming application side, it's just a glorified Eye Toy. If you've played it, you know how foolish you feel playing it.
Gunderson is a fine law firm but probably one of the most expensive ones around. I doubt they will do anything for you if you do not give them 5K at least.

If you want to save money, you should hack the system and use a start-up lawyer as well. By start up lawyer, I do not mean one that specializes in start-ups but one that is a startup him/her self. I.e. one that has his/her own practice.*

You have to understand that those top law firms have a strict up or out policy so they routinely get rid of most of their associates. Basically, if you cannot make partner, you are usually out eventually. And almost no-one makes partner. So there are many capable lawyers with top training that leave these firms every year. If you are a bit savvy you can get a lawyer that is the same caliber as the usual top law firm lawyer but will charge you less and might even do better work because he/she is not working 16 hour days.

*After I wrote this I realized that a law practice would not qualify as a start up under the pg definition because it is not scalable, but you get my point.
AliceML adds distributed programming, constraint programming, lazy evaluation, plus more.

http://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/alice/
Pylons is still a great framework, and will be for the foreseeable future (a few years?).

Just because it matured and reached its end-of-enhancements life, doesn't mean it's not useful. It will take a while for Pyramid to mature to this level.
Yeah, I just got my company to go with Pylons 1.0. Wondering if I made a good choice.
If you count the number of people killed by wars in Europe or North America in the 20th century, Latin America is the place to be. Latin America has numerous social problems but the number of conflicts (and their magnitude) between countries has been traditionally very small.