skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nature is unfair.

A naturalistic fallacy[1] if I ever saw one. Nature is grossly unfair. It is also extremely cruel. Of course, it's neither of those things because these are anthropic traits – nature just is. Modeling your behavior on "nature" is senseless. Maybe we should all behave like electrons, absorb or emit energy occasionally, and move about more or less randomly[2].

> Stop the egalitarian bullshit.

Whether you subscribe to humanistic politics or not, calling it "bullshit" is ridiculous. We are not trying to change or defy nature, or even romanticize it (like I said, nature is). The question everyone is trying to propose answers to is how should human beings behave – as individuals and as a society. The answers have no intrinsic truth to them. They are a result of each one's peculiar sentiment.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy

[2]: Actually, there is a hypothesis that all electrons are exactly the same - in fact, they are the same electron - so, according to that we actually share our electrons with everyone and everything else; maybe nature is egalitarian after all.
Not only wealth is transferred from generation to generation. Jewellery, old family houses, paintings and lots of other possibly expensive stuff. For many people, it's not about money. It's memories and other non-financial stuff. That 200 years old watch from your grand-grand-grand-father? Whoopsie, it's expensive these days! If you try to take away that, people won't be happy.

If you try to loopholes to allow that kind of transfer, people will use that to transfer wealth to their children. Even if you don't add them, there're many ways to work around that. For example, parents may sell stuff to their children for many times less than market value. You can't deny people rights to sell stuff for whatever they want, do you?

There's no law that can't be worked around. Some people want laws to hide real world from themselves. Other people accept reality.
I'm not sure I understand. "Few among us recognize the need to prioritize the study of the human brain", a great deal of the state of the art machine learning results are based on deep learning, which are algorithms that are "neurologically inspired" as you would put it. You seem to have a problem with big data and statistical methods, but one of the main deep learning algorithms, RBMs, are statistical methods.

Also, could you expand on what a "balanced, holistic approach" to machine learning is?
Honest question. Do people actually use PATCH and for what?
Well, I guess what I meant was that the path should be measured by understanding of the subject, not by high-level skills.
Or, at least if the skills were to be measured, they should be low-level, like - the ability to search information on the web, the ability to ask a question on a relevant forum, an ability to manage the filesystem, and so on.

As for the 8-year old understanding the theory behind how things work... I learned how body/animals operate on the biology class at the age of 10; and the basics of physics as well.
I have great respect for Bill Keller, but Greenwald makes the much stronger case here. Keller suggests that news that is trivial, shallow, sensational, redundant tends to be the same as news that is ideological and polemical - I'm surprised that Greenwald did not list the many outlets that have produced seminal journalism in the past century (e.g., Orwell at Tribune, the neo-conservatives at Commentary. Hitchens at The Nation), which seem to undermine the usefulness of the correlation that Keller claims.

One passage (from Greenwald, which Keller does not argue with), sticks out: The climate of fear that has been deliberately cultivated means that, as The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer put it, the newsgathering process has come to a “standstill.” Many Times national security reporters, such as Scott Shane, have been issuing similar warnings: that sources are now afraid to use the traditional means of working with reporters because of the Obama administration’s aggression. Ubiquitous surveillance obviously compounds this problem greatly, since the collection of all metadata makes it almost impossible for a source and journalist to communicate without the government’s knowledge.
There is a project underway to try and declare countervailing duties on VFX work done overseas. But you have to have a US based firm to request them from the Dept of Commerce and whichever VFX company does that will probably never get another studio contract again.

Movies these days are just bits, most of the time any work done overseas is just transferred back to LA over the internet. The same with software, any company can hire programmers overseas and just import the source code (git clone) and how is any govt supposed to tax that?

http://vfxsoldier.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/legal-recommendat...
Inflation does not hurt land values only cash and cash equivalents like debt and fixed income annuity's.
Madoffs mistake was to rip off other rich people.

How much time will the gentlemen convicted of OVER A TRILLION DOLLARS OF LIBOR MANIPULATION get? Nothing - the only people really suffering there were mortgagees and small to mid size banks.

The banks involved will pay maybe a billion dollars in fines, borne of course by both shareholders (including your 401K) and customers. Meanwhile, the banks profited far more than that, and the individuals involved simply got moved to another office.

I met one of the VPs for Lehman Bros, responsible in all but law for what happened in 2008. He has a very nice job working for a major Asia Pacific bank, and earns a hell of a lot more than you or I ever will.
About the counterargument, yes, it does raise a good point (in fact, one that I skimmed through). Specially about changes and breaking. For instance, in the following document, what is to change in the href attribute?

GET /fooes
...
"foo": {
"id": "the-mighty-foo",
"href": "/fooes/the-mighty-foo",
...
},
...

Surely, not much. Either /fooes/ changes to /foos/, in that case, the call to /fooes is broken anyway, or the id has changed, and needs to be handled with an HTTP 301 anyway. So no, there's not much to gain.

But then again, I was just saying that the href attribute might make sense in some cases, with not much extra effort. Nobody is asking the clients to consume the href attribute, it just makes understanding the whole API easier.

As of images, what would make more sense, to add an endpoint /images/10/view or directly use an href attribute pointing to http://s.foo.bar/1337.png ?

My point is, in some cases it makes sense, just use it when it does. Just as one should not be encrypting URLs just because Mark Seemann feels it is within the holy grail of the Level 3 API as defined by Leonard Richarson [1], we should not be avoiding to make our APIs navigable.

[1]: Don't get me wrong. What they say might make sense in non-trivial APIs, as always, REST is not an specification.
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Come on, who bumped this shit? Or was it several of you, in collusion?
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That's only viable if you also force salaries up dramatically for low earners, or what you are doing is requiring people to starve.
It'd be useful to get some hard numbers on how many jobs in the other industries are dependent on finance. And, conversely, how many jobs in finance are sustained by the other industries, rather than simply being part of the edifice of international capital. FWIW, my estimate would be that less than half of tech jobs in London are in finance, but without hard numbers, we're just making things up, really.

I'm not sure about trickle-down effects. These highly-paid finance people are not competing for the two-bedroom flats in Seven Sisters that i and other more ordinary middle-class people are after, are they? They're looking rather further upmarket. So, their demand drives a high prices of nice flats in Greenwich or townhouses in Chelsea or whatever. If that demand goes away, prices of those will fall. Then, some people who are currently looking at flats in Seven Sisters may switch to looking at these cheaper houses in Chelsea (choosing a barely affordable place somewhere nice, rather than a cheap place somewhere not so nice). That will reduce demand in Seven Sisters, and should let prices fall. But the degree of fall isn't related to the prices that the finance people were paying in Chelsea, it's just a function of the number of people who shift their attention out of Seven Sisters. I would expect the effect on prices in Seven Sisters to be muted. As opposed to, say, a collapse in the publishing industry, or the government getting serious about moving the civil service to the frozen Northern wastes, which would directly reduce demand in the middle of the market.

The point about international investors doesn't make any sense to me. People don't invest in the London property market because this is where the financial industry is, they invest because it's a safe investment with a good return. The only connection to the financial industry is indirectly, via demand. And since my belief is that a substantial decline in the financial industry would not reduce demand very much, i also believe that such a decline would not cause a flight of investors.
It's not that big of a deal. It's an LGPL-licensed codebase which incorporated BSD-licensed modules (there's nothing wrong with that). Since LGPL places some requirements on being intermingled with incompatibly-licensed software, the author made sure to point out which parts were under the more permissive BSD license so people could re-use those parts and not be subject to LGPL by using his project as a whole.

In a nutshell, if you use an LGPL codebase, make sure either: (1) your code is LGPL or under a compatible license or (2) that you only use the code on an API level and dynamically link to it.

Btw, LGPL is a license accepted by many enormous communities, such as Qt.

If you want to fork this project, easiest route is to just re-apply the LGPL license and fork after the point where notice of BSD parts was added, because it's a violation of BSD to not mention their license.

IANAL
Thats a good idea. Will do that soon. Thanks for the suggestion
The Spatial Finder, showing which files and folders are open. sighs wistfully
CrunchBang Linux: fast bootup, small memory footprint, Debian- based
Ah, yes, it is confusing for Google Docs files
Yes, that's it. If I recall there were multiple pieces in that issue about various aspects, but this was the primary one.
The disturbing fetishization of machine learning
No, I'm saying individuals would invest in lieu of social security. Those low earners are already losing part of their income to social security.

There would obviously have to be a transitionary period where the government makes up the shortfall, in order to honor the commitments made to retirees. It would be painful, but only a small addition to the 87 Trillion in current liabilities of the U.S. government.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732335320...
> and increase inequality.
Because quantitative easing is totally pro-equality?
A local artists' materials shop would offer a range of sketchbook styles (perforated, non-perforated, bright white, cream, and various sizes and weights of paper) and probably be glad of your business if you are the type who buys a whole carton of books at once!

My old University still sells lab books with hard covers and alternate grid and lines. The grid is in green and there is a choice of 1mm/10mm or 2mm/10mm/20mm on the grid (UK). Because all the science undergrads use them the supply can be depended on.

The engineering department in the University where I took my first degree always insisted on us making sketches with a machine pencil and no ruler on plain paper, especially during lectures. Their argument was that you needed to learn to express your ideas in visual form quickly. I wasn't very good at it but stuck with it and tend to prefer plain paper now.

I trust we all back up our better pages with a phone camera or scanner?
A 30% margin of error would seem to make calorie counting practically useless.
You can find my email on my profile. Please feel free to shoot an email and I will try to introduce you to some nice startup folks in both places.

By the way, you just missed the Product Conclave by Nasscom. This event started today and will go on till Wednesday and would have been an awesome opportunity for you to network with startup minded folks in India.
I think C will continue to be basis unless a new system come out with some other language/platform (like Go) and this new system is proven to be more reliable and faster than C-based platforms. On the other hand, there are also politics of this choice, i.e. there are standards, industry groups, etc. all based on C. These are should be replicated on this new language/platform. Tl;Dr; All have to be start over again what we have since UNIX.
The FBI's Bitcoin address
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RustyRussell :)
But "the government" is people. Society said, "let people take care of people", and government is the answer to how to do that. The government is "full of corruption and waste" because people are.

We constantly try to find ways to organize society (and government as a crucial part of society) in ways that minimize corruption and waste, or mitigate their effects.

> That is something that no government could ever accomplish.

What you're suggesting is simply a new form of government. It might be great; it could perhaps work. But it's certainly not something to suggest offhand. Our current form(s) of government is a result of centuries (and millennia) of gradual, and sometimes revolutionary, progress. I wouldn't just throw it out the window. But hey, if you want to start a revolution, by all means – go for it. It's been a while since we've had a good revolution in the West. And if you're American, then it would be doubly great because we haven't seen any political revolutions in America since its founding (though if you're American you probably won't, because Americans like complaining about their government and alienating themselves from it, but they tend to do very little to improve it; at the end of the day, they're just too docile).
I don't think that's the case.
It appears to be LGPL + BSD.
That should be fine for pretty much any use.

"Postmodern" has it from the linked twitter thread: "they [are] probably confusing LGPL with GPL/AGPL, or are afraid of getting Stallman cooties."
His argument makes sense in the current world of very stupid clients (as in, fragile to changes) and non-standard formats.

Current clients are like those factory robots that can only do a fixed series of movements, it's not really worth it to add ARTags and computer vision to the system if the arm joints can't do any other movement any way.

But on the other hand, if we don't add those tags (or in the API world, use HATEOAS and standard data formats) now, how are those smarter robots ever going to be made?
Sure this is useful unless one have "not invented here" syndrome.
Left out of Google Fiber-Kansas Engineer builds his own
OH Great, another Project closed due to stupid and insane License argument and restriction.
I don't really know much about gold, but that chart is a little questionable: from 1934 to ~1975 private ownership or trade of gold was restricted by law in the US.
The problem is that the "Hacker News effect" is a noun, derived from the slashdot effect, and here that noun has been verbed.
The problem is, the only people who ever read these are other programmer who already know this.

Need to find places where we can post it to NON-programmers
How is that context relevant? Wasn't the intention behind the context to discredit the author?
Absolutely, I have notebooks going back 30 years in this room, data on disks not so much!

I scan to share and to tag and as insurance for complete loss of the 'daily book' I carry round.
"Can you actually point to a period of time when things were better?"

Yesterday.

And yesterday, the answer would have been, yesterday. And so on.

Literally, day by day it gets worse. So, the day before was clearly a time when things were better.
> The technology from your iPhone wouldn't have been possible without Apple's big R&D department.

It's interesting that you point to Apple. Compared to companies with a more old-fashioned approach to R&D (Xerox, Bell Labs, IBM, Microsoft), Apple spends relatively little on R&D, and does practically nothing of genuine scientific value. I would hold up Apple as an example of the profitable "focus research on specific products, buy research expertise rather than cultivate it in the firm, forget science" approach to R&D.
Thanks! Will shoot you an email after I grab some lunch. Would be great to make the most of this trip and network with startup folks in Mumbai and/or Bangalore.

Shame, sounds like a great event. Perhaps there are others over the next 3 weeks. I'll Google around.
It sometimes happens to me on my way home. I let my mind wander and briefly come back to a problem, often seeing it from an angle I haven't considered during the day.
Why not:

> POST /search
> #query data
< 201 CREATED
< Location: /search/2324242
> GET /search/2324242
< 200 OK
> GET /search/2324242?page=2
< 200 OK

(hopefully the representation would be an implementation of a standard paged format, like RFC 5005, but I'm not holding my breath)
Hey Kevin, thanks for replying, that's quite rare. Given the circumstances, please accept my apollogies for doubting you. You evidently put some effort into getting the truth to the surface and I thank you for this.

With this in mind, I wish you success with getting everything right and/or keep on doing great things.
Cursive Clojure 0.1.04 now has a user guide
Sure. The other HNer appears to claim that's not _all_ it is, you appear to have claimed that's all it is.
Does anyone know the reason for closing this project? Wayne Meissner appears to have just protected his tweets https://twitter.com/wmeissner
> ... and whichever VFX company does that will probably never get another studio contract again.

The whole point of an union* is to give the participants the option to fight against such problems they couldn't solve alone, because "together we are strong" - "so, you don't give me an contract, because I did use my rights? Congratulations, you are now part of the unions black list, i.e. no more work from our industry for your studio. Good luck making your films without VFX."

> The same with software, any company can hire programmers overseas and just import the source code (git clone) and how is any govt supposed to tax that?

How do we manage to check copyright violations? Yeah, badly, I know. But that is just a variant of this problem, so it is solvable, but not easy. For movies, it is easy: Force the companies to declare exactly where which part of a movie was produced and tax accordingly.

* Note: I have no idea if an union would really be a good idea. The unions I know of are .. less than perfect. This is all just "in theory it would be ..."
Good clip from Yes Minister :)

As far as I can see, in the UK we have a wide spectrum of "editorial outlook" in newspapers

I think we should move on from 'editorial outlook' based on allegiance to domestic political parties, and support a new sort of journalism which does not have allegiance to any one party or political state, does not have a predefined outlook, but instead feels free to attempt to publish the truth, however uncomfortable that may be for whatever party is in power. Opinion backed by strong reporting and facts should not be separated from news (because in reality even supposedly neutral or impartial reporting has strong biases and is often not based on verified fact but on relaying government statements), and it should not be based on which country your news org covers, what the government of that country wants to hear, or indeed what the people of that country wants to hear.

Re TV news, I don't accept it is any less constrained by issues of ownership and nationality than newspapers. The ban on Sinn Féin reporting in the 80s, the breathless coverage of the Falklands war and then the Iraq wars, the lack of coverage of the GCHQ scandal, the backing of one political party by Sky News, the embedding of journalists like Rebekah Brooks with politicians in their social life, all point to news services which are far too closely connected to the governments they cover in the UK. In the case of the BBC, they are regularly threatened with cuts in funding by whatever government is in power, and they simply can't afford to criticise the government in a sustained way. They have not for example reported significantly on the GCHQ stories, except to repeat government statements and reporting in other news outlets. I suspect a truly international news organisation would have no such qualms and would have covered it extensively.
rdiff-backup uses reverse diffs for its incremental backups, not hard links. This has the nice advantage of when large files change, the backup size changes only by the diff, not a whole new version of the file.
Indeed The Raven is a very good album. Who am I? (Tripitena's Song) from the album is an extremely beautiful & touching song about life & death which strikes a poignant note right now.
Google+ has more than a billion users
I just put it on facebook. Now awaiting a torrent of abuse :-)
Thats fine and I understand the advantages to open source.

But if you're in the business of selling software (especially to end users and not b2b) like many people here claim to be, that isn't a valid concern or argument against a business model.
In the UK, there is the widely-derided "Research Assessment Exercise": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Assessment_Exercise#Cr...

There is also the criterion of "impact factor", for papers and publications. It's very similar to a "Karma" system as used by HN, Reddit, etc., and it has many of the same problems. Imagine a system where you have to choose between doing research that might be vital but probably won't, versus something safe and predictable that ensures that you get paid next year.

The problem is not so much science as the management and funding of science, which have been infected by the same managerialism that causes so many problems in big government and corporate projects.
The secret to success: Trust in yourself, nobody else is going to trust in you.
I imagine if it takes off, AusPost will implement pay-by-bitcoin in their own service

As someone with occasional interactions with AusPost's software group: That'll take a few decades - they'd be better off buying you.
it is probably the saturday crowd.
Here in the Netherlands XS4ALL provides me with a AVM Fritzbox 7390 on my fiber connection (100/100 $75), quite a nice piece of kit ($311,- retail if I look it up today)
Would this also work for non-Apple phones? The article seems to be very specific about only mentioning iThings. Is there something about them the others don't have that is required for this?