skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hence, they are not doing evil while thinking "Ha ha ha, I'm so evil", but genuinely believe they are doing good.

This is still just as naive, in my opinion. There are plenty of people who knowingly trample others to advance their own selfish goals, who know that it's unfair, and who sincerely don't care.
> inevitably superstar posters get upvoted reflexively

It would be interesting to see if hiding usernames for 24 hours has any effect on voting.
On a sidenote i just started to read "The Swerve" which is about how epicurs thoughts (by Lucretius "On the nature of things") were rediscovered at the beginning of the renaissance, until now a great read (and Pullitzer price winner last year, apparently)!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swerve:_How_the_World_Beca...
" Public spending as a proportion of GDP in these countries is still higher than this newspaper would like, or indeed than will be"

This is mostly because of low density of people living in nordic countries.
You can do this via hnsearch. pg's most popular comments: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=pg&...
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Yes, but the point is they do not do evil knowingly, in the sense of comprehending how the nature of their soul came about and determining this is the best course of action under reflection over the space of all possible minds; the evolutionary process endowed them with a cognitive structure that primes them to think that way, and we should mourn the deterministic necessity of them spending time living in that mind and body, but we should never condemn them or call them evil.
woah, just read about this book in 50 Self-Help Classics book...
looks promising (its about accepting the world as it is and accept people how they are, now how you want them to be)
Also, by this logic, neither gravity nor string theory are scientific. You can't weigh them! Or define their location!
I agree that my statement was muddied. Thanks for your thoughts.
Well you are looking at 24-48 kwh per day of use and the article says that the machine purifies ~250 gallons in that time. So approximately 10gph at 1-2kw.
>- Shy away from religion. Find the truth by yourself

Keep an open mind. While reading the Stoics take the trouble to read Augustine's Confessions or dip into Aquinus' Summa Theologica. Breeze through the Quran. Spend some time with the Book of Mormon. Drop into a synagog and get to know the worshipers there. Don't dismiss ideas out of hand. Contemplate them, and let your curiosity lead you where you need to be.
> If other states were to join, islamic states, such as Turkey, and it were to work, this would be an even more amazing historical event.

Can you define 'Islamic state'? Turkey is a secular democratic republic. Admittedly one run by religious nutjobs with delusions of grandeur at the moment, but it is technically a secular republic, not an islamic state, and does not identify as such.

Also, for Turkey to join the EU, the EU would have to provide an incentive that at the moment does not exist. Turkey has good tariffs and trade agreements with many EU states and having it's own currency.
I'm a bit surprised that deviantart has chosen to call the position a "devops" engineer on the "devops" team when what you're really looking for is a system engineer on your ops team. Does that concern any of the "devops" engineers that the management doesn't understand what devops is?
Sounds like the police got lucky at customs. Apparently, "buy local" is a must when it comes to drugs.
Do you want to see pseudoscience stem cell"therapies" sold on late night infomercials as a panacea?"

This already happens in Koreatown.

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2010/11/beyond_boba_tea_koreat...
"who am i, and why am I here ? "
Hmm, I never heard of that guy. I was there from 75-79.

Doing the homework was how I learned the material. Things came too thick and fast during lecture to learn it, it was all I could do to keep up taking notes.

I discovered that if I knew how to solve all the homework problems front to back, I'd do ok on the exams. I also rarely could do the homework without some help from other students, who were always happy to coach me through my difficulties. Having a "troll" session with your friends to work through the homework was commonplace, followed by a "wretch" session with the TA for the stuff none of us could figure out :-)
Agreed. Many lessons there from a timeless wise man. 1,850 years later actually.
I'm neither.
I agree - it's not that they are doing good, just that they believe it. It's because of this that you can't just trust your own opinions on what's true and good. Without some kind of external moral compass, you're left with moral relativism.
BBC Radio 4 has a programme called "In Our Time". Many episodes of this programme will be of interest to HN readers.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl)

Epicurianism is going to be broadcast soon. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qf083)

Here's a list of the philosophy programmes: (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/in-our-time/archive/phi...)

And here's the episode for Stoicism: (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9fs)
First, I do not accept what "The Pirate Bay" has to say about its own violations of intellectual property laws.

Second, should a mafia Don get away with murder because 80% (or even 99%) of his actions are not criminal?
Yes, I would read Seneca first or I highly recommend "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy". Then reading Epictetus and Aurelius. Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson can also be added to the reading list in my view.
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Why is that feature taking so long?
There appears to be a lot of interest in the SR and not a lot of actual success in cracking down. One guy is a tiny drop in the bucket of that site.
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What we need is an x86 emulator that JIT compiles the x86 code to ARM.
Exactly my thoughts. The quote from the manager of crime operations made me laugh:

> "Criminals are attempting to exploit the international mail system through online networks, but the recent arrest demonstrates that we are one step ahead of them."

Yes, you intercepted one transaction. Congratulations.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography
You're right. In 1996 my home directory was stored on an Andrew File System folder that allowed me to securely authenticate from untrusted networks using Kerberos, and then access my files remotely, from multiple machines, and it used local cache used to keep things speedy.

It was incredibly strange that these sorts of capabilities weren't meaningfully commercialized, even though they were ridiculously useful.
Thank you! Another way to contribute: tweet #notbuyingit at sexist companies advertising during the Super Bowl.

http://www.missrepresentation.org/media/nbi/notbuyingit-list...
Yes, it is a flawed language to have a declaration and the definition are all in one place together. What other language does this aside from Ruby, Python, Perl, JavaScript, Java, C#, Smalltalk, VisualBasic, PHP, Haskell, Lua...
I'd be interested to hear why you've created a separate "devops" position in addition to the linux engineer. Do you actually have a separate team you call "devops"? If so, how does this relate to the concepts of DevOps other than in name?
Fun fact: The core of AutoSyringe and his dialysis pumps was delivering super precise dosages of medication. DEKA applied that same technology to the new Freestyle Coke machine (delivering super precise amounts of soda concentrate), in return for Coca Cola helping them distribute the Slingshot.
> It's important that someone control the medical procedures and control that the effectively work.

It's valuable to have a impartial observer who can quantify the characteristics of a new drug or technique in a valid and useful way, and if an unbiased organization were to produce histograms of likely consequences of using each drug/procedure, and supply them to patients as an input into their decision-making, I'm certain that it would be universally lauded.

But that's just supplying the data. Determining whether something is "safe" or "effective" isn't just about quantifying data; it's fundamentally a value judgment. Whether a drug is "safe" depends on how much risk the patient is willing to bear. Whether it's "effective" depends on what results the patient finds satisfactory. These are deeply intimate and personal judgments that are rightly the patient's to make.

The problem with the FDA is that it doesn't actually supply the data in a way accessible to patients at all; instead it usurps their inherent right to make their own value judgments regarding their health, and simply allows or denies everyone access to the drug/procedure according to its own criteria.

> A similar case, with less emotional charge, is the need of regulation of airplanes.

Well, no, this isn't similar at all. It's far, far easier to generalize the risk/reward tradeoffs of flying in an airplane: people want to arrive at their intended destination on time, without being killed or injured in the process. A plane trip lasts a few hours, and has essentially no lasting consequences for a passenger once he disembarks; unlike medicine, flying on a plane doesn't have vast consequences for the quality and quantity of one's subsequent life.

Plane trips, like hard drives, are both commodity goods for which the intended results and acceptable risks can be assumed in advance. Medicine is not.
But the thought is that the specific application will determine which trade-offs are acceptable and/or applicable. So... I'm still not sure how you are disagreeing.

Now, you can list out the various tradeoffs easily enough. And some algorithms are superior to others, I would imagine. However, which to use and the impact it will have on an application depend more on the application than the datastructure.

Or, am I completely off my rocker?
To be fair, Sublime itself doesn't do any downloading of remote package code. If you install the (admittedly very popular) plugin to do so, well, hard to blame the core editor for that.
2010 figures are a bit out of date given the deficits the US has been running (the US has risen over 100%). I think the Economist actually has noticed the banking sector (consider this invited column from 2010:http://www.economist.com/economics/by-invitation/guest-contr...). By and large, the shift in US politics to the right has the Economist looking like a left-of-Democrat newspaper these days. The idea that Obama is a "socialist" is, to anyone versed in a tiny bit of history or political science, laughable.
It seems like this is what the FDA is designed to do.

Cost of FDA: someone might miss out on a beneficial treatment because it has not been reviewed by the FDA (and may never be, given the cost of FDA approval).

Benefit of FDA: prevents charlatans from fleecing medically-ignorant people (which is pretty much everyone) of their life savings just before they die, which might be better spent on proven treatments or left as inheritance.

At some point, we decided that the benefits were worth the costs.

Unfortunately, the benefits tend to be obvious and the costs tend to be more hidden. That usually results in overdoing it (in this case, perhaps overburdening the development and use of new treatments).
Pause for a moment and consider that one can purchase narcotics from an anonymised network using virtual money. There's no need to read speculative science fiction these days, you can just read the news.
Apparently SR forums gained almost 5000 new users last month.

http://imgur.com/a/asNew

The numbers from the store are unknown, and also I'm pretty sure it is very difficult to get a realistic volume from the sales.
> Counterfactuals are hard, but I wonder if anyone has studied whether or not the FDA is actually a net saver of lives.

When did utilitarianism become an acceptable justification for usurping the right of individuals to make their own risk-reward tradeoffs?
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Agreed, at times, when reading M.A. you will think you are reading the Discourses of Epictetus. Like literally.
Sure, but they have to be alive to appreciate anything. You can make the argument: providing public safety, armed police, clean safe water and medicine, Romans saved far more lives than they ever hurt.
This quote has been floating around for a while (I first came across it in the early 90s if memory serves). According to [1] Marcus Aurelius never wrote it, but I still think it's a great little quote:

“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”

[1] http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6999/did-marcus-...
My wife is Chinese; I'm Mediterranean. We do this every day as we always did before we met each other - it was an interesting meeting point of both our cultures.
Excellent suggestion: religious textbooks are great sources of inspiration.

However, they are dangerous, in the fact that while 90% of the content is great, the remaining 10% may damage one's personal progression. These 10% require adequate preparation to be seen as what they are - pitfalls, which is why I suggested to "shy away" from them, at least initially.

It is far too easy to get "stuck" in religion and take the whole 100% as perfectly valid thoughts. Swallowing up the full doctrine "fills" the cup of the mind, which is no longer open to further knowledge.

The only "safe" reading might be the Dharma, because of it self-criticizing nature and the suggestion to dismiss the teachings if they conflict with reality and experience
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In a completely unrelated way I have found that a walk is a great way to work technical/business issues through. So rather than sitting in a office with a co-founder trying to talk through problems I have found we have more success doing it whilst walking...
You might be interested in these studies. The second link is to a discussion of Andy Grove's editorial in Science calling for the FDA to only certify safety (rather than safety + efficacy + comparative effectiveness). But it's the third that gets at your question:

http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv27n2/v27n2-8.pdf

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/10/and...

http://fdareview.org/harm.shtml

The delay and large reduction in the total number of new
drugs has had terrible consequences. It is difficult to
estimate how many lives the post-1962 FDA controls have
cost, but the number is likely to be substantial;
Gieringer (1985) estimates the loss of life from delay
alone to be in the hundreds of thousands (not to mention
millions of patients who endured unnecessary morbidity). ...

If the U.S. system resulted in appreciably safer drugs, we
would expect to see far fewer postmarket safety
withdrawals in the United States than in other countries.
Bakke et al. (1995) compared safety withdrawals in the
United States with those in Great Britain and Spain, each
of which approved more drugs than the United States during
the same time period. Yet, approximately 3 percent of all
drug approvals were withdrawn for safety reasons in the
United States, approximately 3 percent in Spain, and
approximately 4 percent in Great Britain. There is no
evidence that the U.S. drug lag brings greater safety.

Ultimately this boils down to a classification problem. There will be type I and type II errors associated with any kind of centralized approval process. And when studied in its totality, there is quite a bit of evidence that the type II errors are predominating: good drugs being slowed or denied.

The only way to prove this definitively is a side-by-side experiment with a new jurisdiction in which patients and entrepreneurs alike are free to choose and the FDA has no power.
Those drugs still have to be shipped via a real postal system. Speculative scifi suggests that I will have a machine in my house that will produce drugs on the fly, with chemical reactions that are controlled by software.
Cycle to work, if at all possible.

For me it's an hour each way, but apart from the obvious health benefit it also serves as some sort of day markers. In the morning it's really good way to get you up to speed (increase heart rate, get some extra oxygen in), and in the evening it's perfect to finish and leave all the "work stuff" behind.

Added bonus - money saved on public transport, and no gym subscription required.
Some other stats that could be interesting:

Show how many people / what percentage have 500 karma (which presumably is what it takes to downvote.)

Show how much karma a person would currently need to be at the 25th, 50th, 66th, 75th, 90th, 95th, and 99th percentiles (or whatever percentiles make sense).
So he was caught importing drugs, told the police he ordered them from the Silk Road and therefor the police are cracking down on the Silk Road.
His point is that the movie plots show what people would like to believe.
Yea, what the patent system essentially does is play musical chairs with information, but even worse.....the seat holders are incentivized to knock down all surrounding chairs.
So the drugs are 3d-printed? Maybe in pill form?
People who come to a better environment from a worse one often do get "true religion", and I am sure that happened to a lot of Ruby devs.

You cite PHP. I would also cite Java devs whose first dynamic language was Ruby, and then went overboard.

Either way, enthusiasm combined with lack of perspective leads to annoyance for people who have that perspective, who realize that you're still missing some basic lessons. (Monkeypatching anyone?)
What is the probability that someone developed/will soon develop good enough quantum computers for breaking RSA, ECC in secrecy?
Right, but the whole point of Costco is "currated" content: they get good deals on huge quantities, because they make sure not to carry every type of product. Variety isn't necessarily a good thing, and if Costco implemented free two-day shipping (for an additional fee), as well as an improved UI, they probably could become the biggest online "everyday" retailer (i.e. for things like cereal, toilet paper, etc.). Though I think it might be more likely that Fresh Direct, or a similar company, could get a stronger toehold on that market than Costco or Amazon.
Set aside Apple altogether. Let's just consider Amazon.

Where is Amazon going to suddenly start making money to justify its market cap? Suddenly increase prices and thus profit margins? Their competitors will eat them alive. Grow their business? Who isn't shopping online with Amazon already? It's just nutty. Their entire business plan is selling razor blade handles at a loss so they can sell you razors at a wafer thin margin.

Amazon is the last part of the 1990s bubble that keeps going simply because it's run very efficiently.

Oh and if the states ever get the balls to tax Amazon based on its affiliate network it has no margin to operate at all.
Having read substantially past there, I would say "Don't bother." It is very much what Krugman would call "Very Serious Person"-speak.
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For other readers, the issue seems to be how to calculate inflation.
Although I kind of agree with you that iterators for vectors aren't really very necessary, for std::list, std::map, etc. I think they're quite a sensible way of sequentially accessing the data - you'd pretty much have to re-implement them if they didn't exist. In the case of maps, I don't actually think the container implementation is specified enough to allow you to get away with any less abstraction - it technically doesn't have to be a BST, although I guess you could argue that the containers should have mapped to precisely defined data structures in the first place.

C++11's type inference does make STL iterators a lot less ugly, by the way. Also (referring to the initial post), there's no reason you have to use for rather than while when using iterators (while(v != c.end()) ...).
So we have windows apps on android, and android apps running on windows 8?
All but 3 of the aztec's books were burnt by the Spanish after they conquered Mexico.
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Don't forget Agrarian Justice.. really short, really insightful.
> I think it's a reasonably cheap and fast method to increase security somewhat. It doesn't really mean they don't know how to secure a site otherwise.

I really don't think this is a good argument. First of all, it's laughably easy (5 minutes work) to adapt, and sites need to be customized for phishing anyway. Second of all, phishing is the only thing it slows down, and there are many better ways they could ACTUALLY increase security (e.g. actually training people to look for SSL with a trusted certificate). For instance, why on earth don't they have a chrome/firefox/ie/whatever plugin that detects phishing sites? It would not be that hard to look for sites that look similar to Bank of America (for instance) that aren't at the url they're supposed to be at.

Hell, I would even be ok with a (heavily vetted and open sourced) plugin that made sure you never typed in your bank password anywhere but with SSL sites signed by that bank's certificate.
-Contemplation of Death: Contemplate your own death regularly, the deaths of loved ones and even the demise of the universe itself.

Mission Accomplished.
They believe Amazon has a greater chance of being in the same or stronger position in 12 - 24 months relative to their competitors...

This article is generally good, but this bit is wrong. The markets believe Amazon will be in a stronger position in 12-24 months. Relative to competitors is mostly irrelevant - if Amazon is the last man standing, but has shrunk 50%, you still lost 50%. Similarly, if amazon grows 100% but it's competitor grows 200%, you still doubled your money.

(The only place where "relative to competitors" matters is if you have some reason to throw a fixed amount of money into a sector, but you are free to pick the best of the sector.)
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius has often been recommended to me as the source of the earliest pro-homeschooling quotation found in Western literature:

"From my grandfather's father, [I learned] to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent."

http://learninfreedom.org/notable_quotes.html

That does reveal a cultural difference between East and West, as the oldest Chinese quotation to speak to the issue of family education of children (a much older quotation from Mencius) specifically claims that education of children by their own families is a bad idea, because injecting the teacher relationship into the family wrecks family relationships. I respectfully disagree with Mencius, having homeschooled my half-Eastern, half-Western children while living both in Taiwan and in the United States. It's interesting that Marcus Aurelius was already concerned about "public schools" at a time when "public schools" just meant "schools outside one's home" rather than "schools funded by taxes and operated by state employees."
I know there are lots of stuff I don`t know.

What bothers me very much is that there are seemly noone ever to look at my code and say what I could have done better, or tell me what I should be knowing.

In fact I asked as birthday gift to my grandmother to import the special edition of Bjarne book because I concluded that the only way to improve my C++ pratically now is just work my ass off trying to learn the whole damn thing, because noone will teach me.

And not wanting to be too much pedantic, but std != STL