skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think you're moving the goal post a bit. In the post I was responding to, you were specifically calling out hate speech.

Sure. But in your response, you expressed the following:

> In my opinion, free speech is lost the instant you start eroding it with heinous laws that limit it.

That's much stronger than a disagreement about hate speech.

> That said, I'm not precisely sure your example is quite as clear cut in terms of free speech as there are other laws which deal with matters of public safety, premeditation and the sorts, and calling for someone's murder could easily fit into categories outside free speech, depending largely on the circumstances.

I'm no lawyer, but if you don't yourself act on it or participate in planning murder, it sounds like very shaky grounds to send someone to jail.
Agreed. I'm so glad the people who do record helmet-cam videos of it, and post them for me to watch instead.
Everyone is this thread is conveniently ignoring that the data is initially presented as a bar graph. The pie chart is secondary for a very narrow purpose, and it's far from terrible in this application.
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Yes, though NPR's reporting is less than clear on this. The Nature article referenced was submitted in early November.
You can try https://aircall.io. Should meet your need. Still in private beta (free by the way). 2 YC startups of current batch are trying it right now :-)
Every "genre" and gametype you could ever think of has already been done to some extent by someone in the last few decades so to discredit him because it's not a "new genre" is silly.

Also, it doesn't really matter if he did something already done or not. What matters is that he did it in a way that was seen as better by a significant amount of people.
There is a huge issue with racism in the US but you're wrong to think it's a US problem or that it's worse in the US on average. Spend a few months in Europe, especially the east and south, and you'll quickly change your mind. Also, checkout Japan and China. Those places are in their own way at least as racist as the US is today.

Racism is a universal human problem. Humans naturally divide things into different groups and are almost "programmed" to make snap statistically unsound judgements based on a few data points which may or may not be correct. Humans are also "programmed" to want to eat sugar till they drop. These are issues where we can use our higher minds and education to alleviate if not solve.
Or -413 F for us silly Americans.
Standing on the shoulders of giants is many times a means of saying that something that "DOES work" was derived from something that didn't work, or perhaps that it was derived from the difficult yet iterative steps of others.

Look at the Large Hadron Collider. Do you suppose they scrub from their data stores all tests that fail to produce a "working" result? Are you suggesting that trying and failing produces irrelevant knowledge?
The most obvious difference between the mentioned markets is consumables versus one-time-ever purchases.

With consumables (which includes things like cereal), you decide which brand to purchase, and you use or consume it. Then, the next time you need it, you must decide again which to buy and have virtually no downside to purchasing a different brand (no lock-in from the previous purchase).

With one-time-ever purchases (which I think includes subscriptions or recurring purchases where there is a barrier to switching, including games where you have saved progress through levels and rack up points or a high-score), you decide once and then stick with it. I think that's where competition can easily pivot from healthy for a business to merciless.

Then there are things like airline seats which are technically commodities, but not entirely. With airline seats, there are barriers to information (such as being able to use e.g. Kayak to compare prices, but having Spirit excluded from Kayak within the US means you must know to also check Spirit's site), and there are MVP and rewards programs and airline miles, etc, and there is also quality and ammenities, and the fact that you never know how much a ticket with luggage and a snack is going to cost until you go through the entire checkout process (and who has time to do that for all options). So, airline seats seem like they should be commodities, but they really aren't.
A big problem with Bayesian statistics (as I see it) it that it not always possible to have any sense of what the prior probability is.

Say you are looking for genes that might influence the rate of occurrence a particular disease. There might be genes that influence this rate, or there might not, it could be entirely environmental, or it could be entirely genetic, or something in between. In any case, you go genome-wide studies, and find that certain gene variants occur more often in your diseased population than in your control population. You apply frequentist statistics, using some corrections for multiple hypothesis testing, and get some kind of "significant" result. This gets published in Nature (you lucky thing!).

Are your conclusions correct? Do the genes you identified really modify the course of the disease you studied? Bayesian statistics won't give you the answer.

The only way to get the answer is to do experimental science, i.e. deliberately modify the gene(s) in question and show that your modifications change the occurrence or course of the disease.

Unfortunately, that is not always feasible, for either technical or ethical reasons, so we have to fall back on the poor cousin of experimental science that is population statistics.
This is a tangent to your point, but if I remember correctly you are an attorney so I replied to you thinking you may no more about this, but even if it is racist, I doubt it is illegal.

The fair housing act definitely doesn't protect short term renters staying in someone's home.

"The Fair Housing Act applies to landlords renting or leasing space in their primary residence only if the residence contains living quarters occupied or intended to be occupied by three or more other families living independently of each other, such as an owner-occupied rooming house."
OK, that's real news, then.
"21 things white people can't do in Germany: Be the nation's leader while having a tootbrush mustache"

... can't do any more.
I see now - interesting. Big shift from 2010 to now. Thanks!

http://www.slideshare.net/rklophaus/riak-search-erlang-facto...

http://basho.com/ricon-west-videos-riak-search-2-0/
I'm sure I would, were I not a sprightly twentysomething. Which is why I'm a bit surprised at the phenomenon described in the article, as I haven't noticed it. I'm unsure whether it's being overblown in importance for the sake of a story, or whether it's something that has been going completely over my head. Maybe it's more of a thing among modern teens who are growing up with smartphones in their pockets?
I heard of a cool tech called the dollar so I figured, what the heck, I'll give it a try.

Turns out they try to make you spend it by continually inflating the supply of them out there with no end. In order to keep your head above water, you have to put in a "bank".

Fine, it compensates you for the loss of purchasing power, so no biggie, right? Wrong. They actually lend out the dollars that are supposed to be in your account so when you come to get your dollars out, they might not even be there!

Now, they claim to have this handled, but it's kind of a hacky solution: supposedly what happens is that they'll go to a head honcho and get a temporary loan to be able to pay you, but they only give this privilege those that can get the political connections.

They also have have this system where you money is "insured" so that even if they can't get a loan "your dollars are safe, you'll still be able to get them out!" Kludgy, but it should work, right? Well, it turns out the insurance fund couldn't actually handle everyone pulling their money back out!

So, yeah, kind of hip, but I don't think it can catch on as a serious model, especially once auditors and whatnot get involved.
These tiny sentences (in your version, and in Hemingway's stories) remind me of little children's books (and the alt-comedy storyline from the Martian steampunk shoot-'em-up Jamestown). IMO they appear a little condescending themselves.
Actually, Clef was already developed and launched before SQRL was even announced. SQRL does, however, have many benefits over Clef, though the typical user interaction is similar.
Apple failed to develop a stable GC for Objective-C, there were lots of issues when linking with libraries that did not make use of it.

Plus the underlying C part, didn't allow for more than a plain conservative GC.

ARC works by generating the retain/release calls the developers would write anyway with NeXTStep/Cocoa framework.

So while it is a good solution for Objective-C, it isn't because it thrumps GC, but rather due to Apple's failure with a stable GC.
That said, temperature works differently in hard vacuum - with no air to conduct/convect the heat away, isolated objects don't actually get "cold" the way they would in a pool of liquid nitrogen or something. Notice you don't hear about the ISS freezing at night.
The more interesting comparison might be between perception and reality within the U.S.

I would speculate that upper middle class people (who tend to have louder voices) have more egalitarian views than whatever median.
lessee:
refinedgeek, 10/8/2013: "However NIF has announced today that, for the first time ever for any fusion experiment, their reaction released more energy than what was pumped into it;" where there's a link to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24429621

which says (10/7/2013) "The BBC understands that during an experiment in late September, the amount of energy released through the fusion reaction exceeded the amount of energy being absorbed by the fuel - the first time this had been achieved at any fusion facility in the world."

meanwhile NPR on 2/12/2014 says: "Omar Hurricane, a researcher at, says that for the first time, they've produced significant amounts of fusion by zapping a target with their laser. "We've gotten more energy out of the fusion fuel than we put into the fusion fuel," he says."

We've always been at war with Eastasia.
Just curious if you actually read any of the stories included and if you found any of them surprising or notable.
Yeah, looking at it now it seems iOS < 5.

What do you think about no gradients and no transparency? Something flat-ish?
So what? Asians and whites are discriminated by government agencies, universities and large corporations. Last time HR manager screamed at me because I insisted my race is 'slavic' not 'white'.
All research into nuclear energy can be used for nuclear weapons. A nuclear reactor is just a well-cooled bomb that isn't supposed to explode violently (so to speak).
The Perception of Conflict: What Fred Wilson Doesn’t See
A response to today's AVC post from the entrepreneur in question.

Tl:dr: Fred is right. There is a conflict between my company and Etsy. The conflict is, however, moot.
Was the place run by Uncle Ruckus?
We posted it as a proposal in the Village Pump, but it was only after the original proposal failed to hit consensus. I'm actually both an open internet advocate and a regular Wikipedia editor, but I try to be careful (and was perhaps too cautious) about not seeming like I was parachuting in to a discussion underway. Next time, more WP:BOLD.
Backticks, really? Don't ever use backticks if you have"#{}" in the string.

It should at least be doing something like this: http://porkrind.org/missives/calling-applescript-from-ruby/
Ian McNaught-Davis
This is newsworthy despite "They didn't get more fusion power out than they put in with the laser"?

After decades of work they are orders of magnitude away from break-even. Makes me wonder if the goal is actually break-even and/or power generation. Not really; but it's a revealing question.

I'm no great fan of the budgets these huge projects pull down; I think the bang-for-the-buck is greater elsewhere. But modelling nuclear weapons is an even greater waste of time. It's all kind of a sad epigraph about national science and technology initiatives.

Assuming the modest proposition that fusion energy is possible, why not make fusion energy a 'man on the moon' kind of national goal? It's hardly in doubt that we need a large source of clean energy. Is it a failure of imagination? Is it a failure of the political system - Can't get Bubba to vote for no fusion thing. Is the status quo energy system resistant to change? Whatever, the NIF thing just makes me depressed.
It was always my understanding that achieving nuclear fusion wasn't the problem. You can do that with a tabletop device like a Farnsworth Fusor.
The hard part is getting more energy out of it than you put in.
How jQuery is a burden beyond the extra 32kb gziped file that the browser have to load? Please don't try the " i am cool because i hate jQuery" mantra. Cheers
It seems to me that the anti-SLAPP laws apply in spirit here (of restricting overbearing litigation.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publi...
The Maggie Sort Algorithm
Without harsh assessments, a massive project will eventually dedicate some of its resources into self-perpetuation, that is justifying its existence rather than producing results.
+1 for LastPass. Saves a bunch of time. They're pretty damn persistent about doing security the right way -- they don't have the key to open your data.
There are financial consequences for getting this one wrong.

Research shows that if a neighborhood is "becoming more black" or "becoming more white", that has implications for property valuation. (Yes, this comes from racism, in case you were wondering.)

Who wants to be the guinea pig to wager the value of his house on diversity? (... and it's fine if you do, just be aware that it has implications)
True, but gameplay was never really the issue in terms of trademarking "Candy" (and "Saga" or whatever else). The interesting thing is that, in order to defend a trademark, you have to prove that there is potential for confusion. Here we have someone who supposedly had a confusingly-similar trademark before Candy Crush showing actual user confusion (i.e. no need to argue potential if you can show it's already happening).
Science isn't limited to the abstract. There can be much science in application of theory (e.g. Tesla's career).

Science requires experiments, no?
Also not compatible across ruby versions, being based on Marshal.
> "x + 1 = 6" I didn't have to subtract 1 from each side, I just thought about it logically and knew the answer.

I don't see the difference. In my mind, thinking about it logically is recognizing that one side has an excess and removing it from the other side. That's subtracting.

To you is it like looking at 5 * 4 and knowing it's 20 rather than thinking about 2 * 5 is 10 and two of those is 20?

I was the kind of rule-following kid who went through the algebra steps because you were supposed to rather than out of necessity. (Or so I like to think: I'm not good at math in my head because I always wrote it out or maybe I relied on paper since I couldn't do it in my head.) I recall rebelling against memorizing multiplication tables in grade ~4 because I thought my time was better spent leaning new stuff (or maybe understanding how to multiply faster -- wouldn't that be ironic!).

It's always interesting to hear how someone else's brain works. Thank you.
You are exaggerating to some point and I am happy to provide some facts and scientific theory.
I will address only one part of your argument. You argue that segregation in Detroit means people are more racist and only government regulation keeps them in check.

However, Thomas Schelling, an authoritative economist with published papers in peer-reviewed journals coined a model of segregation, that was named after him.

Shelling segregation model showed that a preference that one's neighbors be of the same color, or even a preference for a mixture "up to some limit", could lead to total segregation, thus arguing that motives, malicious or not, were indistinguishable as to explaining the phenomenon of complete local separation of distinct groups.

That means that segregation may occur even with communities that consist mostly of non-racist individuals or individual with very low level of racism.

Racism is a big problem, but emotional, visceral approach to it doesn't help anyone.

Btw, I learned about this model in Coursera Model Thinking mooc. Highly recommended, very interesting for anyone who is interested in deeper knowledge about the world.
Validating a business idea inexpensively and fast?
Right, because blacks are the ones responsible for how they're portrayed in the media.
Your comment on brand is probably close to the truth

thinking this way:
in the mind of the consumer tasty-ohs are not cheerios, though they are a replacement, but a seat on Southwest is the same thing as a seat on Delta. some people care, most don't. Airlines have not been able to successfully differentiate their products, so they operate in a commodity market, same as petrol or supermarkets.
I wasn't trying to offend. In my experience, the kids who didn't read enough tended to think proper spelling, capitalization and punctuation weren't important, even in the days before texting and IMs. As they grew up and began to use the English language in a less superficial fashion, they started to see the importance of writing properly.

I've seen multiple friends go through this phase, at different points in their lives. One (a disabled guy who doesn't work -- he's a great friend though, I hate calling him out), still refuses to spell, capitalize, or punctuate. Everything he writes is just an unformatted list of misspelled words. Not coincidentally, this is the only friend who doesn't read for work or pleasure. All he reads is facebook statuses and the weather channel.

Maybe I'm being uncharitable, but in my experience, people start out thinking punctuation and spelling are matters of formality, eschewing it as the concern of old folks and authority figures, but eventually come to realize it is about readability. But maybe there's a social signalling that I'm unfamiliar with:

this note is short and readability isnt a concern as much as signalling im not a stuffy outsider

While this note (and the rest of this post) is something I want you to consider, and therefore the utmost importance is legibility, readability and clarity.
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Right, Lenin or Stalin made everyone equal really fast, what's wrong with you Obama?
Uber certainly does this - it provides my photo to the driver, and provides me a photo of an African or Arab guy.
Is this accurate to elastic search since it is build on Lucene?

https://lucene.apache.org/core/

"index size roughly 20-30% the size of text indexed"

That seems excessive for an index.
> led NIF's critics to label the facility an enormous waste of taxpayer dollars

> government shifted NIF away from its fusion goals to focus on its other mission: simulating the conditions inside nuclear weapons

I think right there lies the problem with our world. People take up more issue with a multi-billion dollar research facility for science than one for military applications. If we spent a small fraction of the world's military spending on these big, as Google likes to put it, moonshot projects we could probably solve some really fundamental world problems (i.e. energy, climate change) in the near future vs. waiting many, many decades (if not centuries).
Not one that I know of.

Charlie isn't the typical blogger though, and I prefer his paywall style over the ad-based models that other sites have done. When Charlie wrote a few honest (but blasting) reports on various companies a while back... the ad-companies held his revenue hostage. They didn't like him writing the way he did. As such, he stopped doing ad-hosted content and was forced into the paywall model.

Now to be fair, Charlie is a bit rambunctious and exaggerates some claims, but his fact-gathering tends to be months or years ahead of others (Do a double-take at the date of this article: http://semiaccurate.com/2012/03/02/sony-playstation-4-will-b.... I personally can verify the date on that article, as I read the article when it came out and didn't believe it.) . His writing style is abrasive though, and ad companies didn't want much to do with him.

He gets things wrong sometimes, because he's really trying to predict the future. But since he gets things right more than 50% of the time, I'm pretty confident in his claims. Overall, he does good work. It is unlikely that other sites will have his information for another few months at least.
Just deleted Candy Crush myself and low reviewed them. This is ridiculous.
I'm using the extremist position as illustrative rather than prescriptive, because my personal conviction is that hate speech legislation can ultimately be more harmful toward public dialog, particularly if it is abused. That's not to say hate speech isn't without its consequences. I suspect you understood that given the remainder of your comment.

What ultimately bothers me most is the knee-jerk "ban all hate speech" approach as a solution for deeper societal problems that aren't simply going to be fixed by censoring words, which is what started this thread.

Interestingly, the Wikipedia link you shared addresses points I didn't have in mind when I posted my comment (namely obscenities, child porn, etc. that have all be attempted in some form or other to be protected under "free speech"). Specifically, I had in mind the written or spoken word rather than necessarily depictions or offense (but then that leads us to the debate of what is "art" and whether or not specific artwork could be construed as free speech or otherwise--it's a broad topic).

The curious thing with regards to obscenity is that cultural restrictions on it have loosened over time. Larry Flint's success before SCOTUS in Hustler Magazine v. Falwell [1] comes to mind as an example. This is why "free speech" is a contentious issue, because it seems that no one can generally agree on what should or shouldn't be protected and what should or shouldn't be censored by the government or by governmental agencies.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_Magazine_v._Falwell
Beats the heck out of time-based algorithms that generate a code on a fob. Obviously not usable everywhere, but definitely a solid option.
>You need a higher bar than 'learned something' if that something is a negative.

Why?
Right, because if media portrayed Asians as living in slums, not working and dealing drugs, the public would just buy it in a second.
When you get the content after sending 'hn', you can click on the title of each article, which will let you send out another mail with title 'read' to read the article.
You go tell Feynman the Manhattan project wasn't about science.
JSON, while a fantastic lightweight data format, is insufficient for storing even moderately complex objects. It can not properly differentiate between tuples and lists, it can only accept strings for object keys, and it only stores unicode strings.

You also have to write custom (de)serializers if you want to store datetime objects (my personal pet peeve), any of the special python containers... basically any time you want anything other than an object, array, string or number.

Unless I'm dealing with untrusted data sources, or need to interoperate with other languages, I will keep using Pickle.
What's a interesting about the article is what it doesn't describe: namely, the nature and details of the conflicts which led to the abort of the mission. I expect the writer is being polite, and considers this an open letter to both sides of the conflict(s).

That said, with all the buildup, it feels a wee bit unsatisfying to not know what went wrong. Perhaps the writer doesn't quite know for sure, since everyone (themself included) is biased.