skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'll grant you that, but you have to admit: The more laws you draft limiting the definition of what construes free speech, the more you're eroding it. Hate speech laws are an example of such.

To be sure, they have to be finely drafted.

> Well, I'm glad that we're reaching common ground (that actually excites me--please don't take my arguments against your points negatively!).

Ah. I'm afraid this is solely a consequence of a lack of clarity on my part. I did not mean "shaky" as in "it would be morally dubious to convict a person", I meant "shaky" as in "it would legally difficult to convict a person". I absolutely think that publicly calling for somebody's murder should be punished, especially if it is part of a sustained campaign, or targets a large group (hence my bringing the Rwanda example earlier - I was thinking about Radio Mille Collines in particular [1]). Please note that in this example, there is nothing vague about the threats.

> In particular, abuse of tactics like that is at least partially to blame for the US jail population being so high.

I'm afraid my expertise is once lacking, but my understanding was that the most common motive for enjoying such comforts as provided by the US taxpayer is a conviction for drug possession.

> please don't take my arguments against your points negatively!

While we disagree, I have been known to enjoy a good discussion, especially if thought-provoking points are raised. Even if we should not reach an agreement, agreeing to disagree is not necessarily a bad conclusion, as long as each party has made a reasonable effort to understand the other's point of view.

A thought recently crossed my mind. We are able to hold a pleasantly well-mannered exchange of view, in part due to the limitation on freedom of speech enforced both by moderation and downvoting. I'd argue that these limits make Hacker News a much more pleasant forum than, say, Youtube.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Mille_Collines
Thank you brasetvik! I literally decided to use Elasticsearch in this way this morning for a project but had that "this seems like a great solution given my requirements but what if I'm missing some unknown unknown" feeling. Since I'm starting implementation on this today I appreciate your timing.
My point was that in most cases of medical research statistics alone will not get you the answer to the question of cause-and-effect.
The reason that comic is funny is because there is a known mechanism that we would expect to cause that effect: teaching.
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From "Los Alamos from Below" by Feynman:

"What was happening, of course, was that all the boys had decided to work on this and to stop their research in science. All science stopped during the war except the little bit that was done at Los Alamos. And that was not much science; it was mostly engineering."
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Did you completely ignore the comment you were replying to?
Suppose China were to send another Rover up in the next 5 years, and it found this one. In theory, could this one be repaired? Or will the "electronics self-destruct" be thorough by then?
This. ObjC devs have always been self-selected to not care about static typing, especially in collections.
Sometimes I feel the same way.
Other times I feel stupid 'not to get it'

I did sit down to make a comparison to their readme.
https://github.com/seivan/SHRACComparison

Still not getting it.
Speaking of irony...

Doesn't Blink posit that a person's extensive experience in an area can lead them to a quick, gut reaction that is, in fact, correct, even before they are able to verify it?

It seems that Andrew's friend probably has had a fair amount of experience with being mistreated due to his skin color. His reaction to being denied a room 3 out of 3 times was perhaps hyperbolic, but certainly applicable to his experience with the service. (Andrew noted his friend's interactions with the driver, so it wasn't all his friend's imagination).

You could use the ideas noted in Blink to look at this scenario from a variety of perspectives, not just confirmation bias.
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I suspect Elon Musk will win that one and as a result America :)

SpaceX is doing quite well thusfar.
Execution talk for the Mill CPU (incl. Q&A after slides)
I wonder how ujson (pure-C) compares? https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ujson
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I'm not a civil rights attorney and this is not legal advice, yada yada. You're referring to the exemption in 42 U.S.C. § 3603(b)(2), which says: "Nothing in section 804 of this title (other than subsection (c)) shall apply to . . . rooms or units in dwellings containing living quarters occupied or intended to be occupied by no more than four families living independently of each other, if the owner actually maintains and occupies one of such living quarters as his residence."

I.e. it doesn't apply to my parents renting out their basement apartment. However, many properties on AirBnB do not meet the requirements for this exception because the other does not make the property his residence. Under 42 U.S.C. § 3603(b)(1), a single family house is not excluded from the act (after December 31, 1969), if the rental is achieved through the "use in any manner of the sales or rental facilities or the sales or rental services of any real estate broker, agent, or salesman, or of such facilities or services of any person in the business of selling or renting dwellings . . . ." I don't know if AirBnB falls within that (broad) language (see subsection (c)), but if it does, it would be illegal to discriminate in the renting of a house you own for the purpose of renting it out on AirBnB (which is becoming more common).

In any case, my point is that when you are discriminated against by a hotel, at least you have legal recourse. As you point out, unless an AirBnB host has a property he owns for the purpose of renting out, you don't even have that.
Disclaimer: Not an American.

Name me one country that wasn't founded on war and violence.

The situation with African Americans is still flawed and stratified, but has undeniably improved very significantly. Primarily in that they have equal opportunities on a federal level, although obviously social class and environment still play a big role in feasibility.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean here. There are sentiments against Hispanic immigrants, but the USA also has a very large and legitimate issue with illegal immigration. You can't blame everything on racism.

Incarceration rates are horrible for the entire country, no matter what way you put it. Blacks do have the highest rates, but whites aren't that far behind. It's not just a racial issue. I'd actually say that race is a fairly low concern here, rather the main one should be that the US penal system is fundamentally broken and frequently gamed by private prison corporations.

As for underrepresentation, equal opportunity should not be confused with equal representation. There are obstacles, but lower numbers alone should not be used to make such a conclusion.
I should have done this. But I didn't have this experience to prove a point. Truthfully, I was mostly embarrassed that my suggestion wasn't working and immediately kicked into "find my friend an alternate place" mode. This entire post is not proof and completely anecdotal. I'm the first to admit that. But I hope this audience of entrepreneurs will think about issues like this.
Because the only progress can be made on paper(??)

I ask you, how do you know what are they doing at NIF is different, from the for theory important work at LHC?
At the end of the post he says that only Python can parse Pickle. This is not really true. You can write a Pickle parsing library in any language (maybe some special use would not be possible).

For instance I have implemented enough of it[0] to use in a drop-in replacement for Graphite[1].

[0]: https://github.com/noteed/python-pickle
[1]: http://graphite.wikidot.com/
Both of them are conflating anonymity with its consequences. This really needs to stop, because it's preventing us from actually understanding the mechanisms in play.

moot understands that identity is "prismatic", but he misses one of the consequences of this, which is that one of the fundamental components of identity is how we are related to by others. Who we share as is a function of who we are seen as. Anonymity strips away this latter part to provide a blank slate. That's what makes the experience "raw".

Because the filters on your speech are derived from who you care about hearing you speak. If my mother is in the room, I'm not going to talk about the crime in my neighborhood, because it would worry her unnecessarily. But that's also something I'd be willing to discuss publicly under my real name with a home address attached. It's not a function of "am I anonymous"; it's a function of expected consequences.

Talking about anonymity and ephemerality obfuscates the issue. It's a simplified model easily understood by a software hacker, making it so that FOAF networks don't need to be included into solutions. One of the simplest ways to understand Google+'s early advantage over Facebook was that, if you were about to comment on a post to a limited group, you were explicitly told you who could see what you were about to say. It wasn't enough, but it was an order of magnitude better. (Yes, for the record, the real name thing was dumb.)

When we post on HN, we have certain expectations of our audience, and we often feel betrayed and indignant when commenters fail to meet them.

Anonymity and ephemerality aren't wrong. They're reasonable defaults for many situations. They're also good ways to sidestep harder questions, like how to accurately parse a name or portray an identity, when you do want to do that.

(P.S. This comment turned out as a really shitty piece of writing. Sorry for the scattered incoherency.)
meh ...

"those that can get the political connections" ... if you have the capital and do the paperwork and follow the regs, you can start a bank and get access to the discount window.

"insurance fund couldn't handle yada yada yada" ... the FDIC is implicitly backed by the full faith and credit of the US government. As long as the Treasury exists and has the ability to tax and borrow, your deposit is money good up to FDIC limits.

if you're going to invent new money, makes sense to understand the existing money, and try not to invent something worse.
I kept waiting for him to get on the apps and try to book the same places himself, and when it didn't happen I was kind of disappointed. It's like you say, if he got approved then there was definitely some racism at play. If not, then it was just bad timing. But since he didn't try it, we can only speculate.
Just want to toss in, I think military applications are much easier for the layman to conceptualize. You hear science research and your gut doesn't send any strong signals.
This should be a plugin that replaces the standard spelling/grammar checker in word processing software.
I expect the latter, they aren't known to give up big dreams so easily. Consider for instance that India and Russia have had numerous failed launches for various rockets and / or space probes and both countries continue to try again and eventually succeed. Why would China not try again? I pray they do. Chinese or American or Russian or Indian, I want to see a minimal human habitat on the moon in my lifetime. Our species deserves that much, for all the work done so far.
Link for the curious: http://blog.trifork.com/2013/10/24/how-to-avoid-the-split-br...
Going to the gym 3/4 times a week for an hour or two is a luxury I just don't have anymore.

For those that have the room, the best solution is a home gym setup. I wake-up at 5:30 AM and am doing my workout by 5:45 AM or 6:00 AM. I don't have anything fancy - just a set of weights with a couple of bars, a Nautilus dumbbell set (where you can change the weights on each dumbbell via a dial) and dinky bench. I will likely add a rowing machine to this for cardio.

It's still a challenge getting the habit in place but there is really no friction anymore. No time is wasted driving back and forth to a gym. No issues about finding the time. Doing 45 minutes, three times a week is great.

Being a night person, waking up at 5:30 AM is still a habit that I am solidifying but the main reason for doing it this way is that I can do this for the rest of my life. I am hoping within 6 months this routine becomes ingrained as brushing my teeth in the morning.
Love it, very nicely done. The only issue I have is with the animation (movie the popup from the previous position to the current one). It looks nice but it's off-putting. A fade-in/out would work fine.
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A bit uncharitable. As a minority myself I do think Americans are a lot less racist than almost anyone else, by virtue of the fact that they're aware it exists.

Call it white guilt if you must (though it's really a misnomer), but the fact that Americans are aware of their own racism makes the situation much, much more tolerable than in other places.

Sure, covert racism is still a problem (a big one at that), but at least there is awareness and a substantial degree of introspection. Both of these are absent in more racially homogenous countries, where not only is racism overt, but there is so little public consciousness of it that extreme racism is accepted as a matter of course.

In the US the words "oh good, you're not dating a black girl" will be outright rejected as racist, or at least give people pause and cause discomfort. I've personally experienced the exact same statement tossed around in another country as if it was the most natural thing to say in the world.
You could speak of that from the start :)
Here's the paper.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...

They would like to charge you $32 to look at it, nature-ally.

The fusion yield is (?) 14 kilojoules (inferring this from physicist Mark Herrman's "5 million billion fusions" [WaPo], at 18 MeV per fusion), which is a moderate improvement over the 8 kilojoule achivement from last fall:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6459289

[WaPo] http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/fusion...

The "1%" energy efficiency figure [a] is misleading: 14 kJ is about 1% of 1.5 MJ of ultraviolet light hitting the fuel capsule. But creating that UV pulse consumed 3 MJ of infrared light, which in turn took 400 MJ from the flash bulbs driving the IR laser. So the system efficiency is more like 0.003% (and throwing in hypothetical turbines to generate electricity, 0.001%).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility#NIF...

[a] I'm referring to this: "while more energy came from fusion than went into the hydrogen fuel, only about 1 percent of the laser's energy ever reached the fuel."

(update: from yosyp's link, the fusion figures were 14.4 kJ, and 17.3 kJ, on two different runs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7227950
Bug report: If I mark the text in the textbox and drag and drop it in the box, the dragged text is displayed on top of the text already there. It looks very bad.
Periods are not optional in readable English. Period. The rest, spelling, capitalization, are all there for the same reason -- readability.

Seeing an unpunctuated piece of writing doesn't make me think "Gee, good thing they're not mad at me", it makes me think "Gee, they didn't care enough to make this readable". Which, for some circumstances, is probably fine. I apologize for the "uneducated" remark. You just write differently (albeit only in certain informal contexts apparently) than any literate person I know.

The rest of the punctuation-emotion the short article described predates the internet and texting, like using question marks if you're unsure (I turn left here?), or exclamation points for emphasis (Yes!!). What I'm disputing is the "don't bother using a period if you're not angry" phenomenon. It's not my experience that literate adults do this. You and the article disagree. Fair enough. Learn something new everyday.
Sorry I was looking at cat videos.
They still can. All of their competitors are constantly researching new languages but we never hear a peep of any of that from Apple. Presumably the design-driven culture prevents big projects like a new language from ever getting anywhere.
I think the headline is a bit misleading.

Racist would mean that hosts don't want to rent their apartment to people of other races (ie whites only wanting to rent to other whites). Here it seems that hosts are making a judgement call about the renter and using race as a parameter. They appear to have no problem renting to Asians or Indians, just have an issue with one particular ethnicity.

Wouldn't a more accurate headline be - 'Airbnb hosts don't want to rent to black customers' (even if it's highly anecdotal)?
Why not go for warm water cooling then (like SuperMUC[1] for example)?

Should get you the same benefits as submerging it in oil without most of the drawbacks.

[1] http://www.lrz.de/services/compute/supermuc/systemdescriptio...
Yes, there is racism in America. No, I have largely not been on the receiving end of it.

But I can see that African Americans often have a tough time here.

I can also see the plight of Koreans in Japan, and Muslims in much of India, and Turks in Germany, and Kurds in Iraq, even though I am not part of any of those groups, either. Racism is everywhere. All of it is disgusting, some of it is horrifying, and much of it is significantly worse than what we see in the U.S.
Exactly, in IM newline is a substitute for the full stop.
I'd like to have a few more satellites that have the impact of a hubble. That cost ~$4b inflation adjusted.
Show, don't tell, with GIFs
Indeed. It's a bit hard to swallow when the phaser front page doesn't work properly on my mobile.
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I don't know if clef does this, but for SQRL (similar, but uses QR codes, is open source, and doesn't rely on a 3rd party), it relies on the fact that the website URL will be embedded in the QR code (along with a signature) and that the app will show that URL to the user for them to confirm.

This isn't strictly stronger than standard password MITM (phishing), because unattentive uesrs could still just click through without checking the URL or the https status. IMO it is still an improvement because it makes that step explicit, and gives us a chance to put some nicer UI and programmatic checks around it (warning about weird unicode tricks, high similarity to previously used domain names, ...).

Also, both Clef and SQRL use public-private key authentication, so if a bad guy does successfully MITM someone, they only get one session to do bad stuff as opposed to knowing the password and being able to re-authenticate wherever. Obviously this is pretty poor security (it only takes one login to empty someone's bank account...) but for some applications it might be significant - notably for websites require you to re-authenticate to take destructive action.
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Perhaps, or perhaps the scientist would try to replicate the results themselves first (as the person in the article did).

But even if they published them with the verbiage you mentioned, that would be a better world because reporters would be less likely to turn it into a story with a headline like "Scientists say ...". The prevalence of articles like this erode trust in science, and fill the public's head with misconceptions.
How isn't this a type of immune response?
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I absolutely can. Not. Wait for this to happen.
How much design should a developer know?
Racial discrimination is when someone is discriminated on the basis of their race. It doesn't matter how friendly the perpetrator is to people of other races.
It should be easy to grow the sample size. Do you know any black people, and have they used AirBnB or Uber?
You don't have to be equally racist against all ethnicities to be called racist.
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American were crazy since 1920!, well, since forever
I was able to create an account, but I was not able to upload any pictures. I just got a blank page.
To your points:

- yep. It is unfortunate. Always stick to the default folder structure (subfolders for modules) to prevent any weird interactions among engines and between engines and the main app.

- Prevent this by not allowing this. You would not have different dependencies within one Rails app and you can't have it with a component-based architecture.

- Routing between engines should be much less frequent than routing within. A perfect case for preventing unnecessary dependencies by creating "engine routing intrefaces"
I think we are, for all practical purposes, using our real names (in particular, there are a number of recognizable "power users", which I think is where most of the harm of nonymity comes from); I don't think a switch to our birth names would make much difference. I think under a fully-anonymous HN the best discussions would be better but the average discussion would be worse (as it is on 4chan). I would favour increased anonymity.
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Possibly. But once you acquired it you can't go back. ;)
It all fits into my evil plan! You see, I plan to use this "laser" to turn the moon into a weapon. With this "death star", all the governments of the world will be powerless against me! If they try to stop me, I'll use the "death star" to create "nuclear fusion"! [holds right pinky to the corner of his mouth]
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Most of Android is written in Java, so no, that's not going to happen in our lifetimes. All we can hope is that ART is good enough that Dalvik goes away and we can start building stable languages on top of ART (as opposed to with Dalvik which only has immature / experimental languages not-named-Java.
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The 'Clockwise/Spiral Rule', How to read C declarations.
Except that's a bandaid over existing solutions. It's hard to imagine in 50 years we'll still require people to remember both a user identifier plus a password.

It's a tough problem. Human memories are fallible, yet it's with you always. Passwords can be given to others, which can be convenient in many situations (something bio recognition can't do). Bio markers like fingerprints are left everywhere as CCC has demonstrated, or the markers themselves can change such as with Macular degeneration in eyes. Phones can be stolen or run out of battery, physical key cards lost, and centralized systems like RSA's SecurID hacked.

In a lot of ways the banks have it done best, with combining a replaceable physical object (loanable) with a short PIN (sharable and more memorable), and then throwing fraud detection on top of it. It's the last piece that's the best and also the least available for others to do easily.

The problem would be better addressed by having a turn-key solution that any company can easily plug into their code to detect fraud attempts on short passwords. Big hole waiting for a startup to fill...