skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until recently I was using a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E530 for sysadmin work. It was ridiculously cheap for a ThinkPad, everything worked under Arch Linux and best of all it had a numpad, which I needed. It was mostly sitting on a desk and not moving around much, so the weight and size weren't a big deal.

I just took a look and the newer model E540 can be ordered with a full HD screen (15") which weren't available on the older ones.
Using HTML5 audio in Chromium too. No overlapping.
Did you read the article? The point is you're making it worse by tweeting and making other public statements. You may win in court of public opinion, but you're making it easier for your opponent to beat you in actual court.
I agree with the spirit of this but there's also "Do I want to be right or do I want to win?" It's great to rally the public to your cause but if it reduces your odds of winning the case, it's probably not worth it.
It's created by one of the lulzsec guys
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probably /g/
No. It was bought last August. First-generation.
Htsthbjig's point is that if the money doesn't mean much to you anyway, you're more likely to be punishing because you're not losing much. But if it means a lot to you, why punish a stranger when you're getting a significant amount of free money.

To properly compare the cultural differences in the test, it would have to be done with the same level of purchasing power. That's not really stated one way or the other in the article. $100 goes a lot further in a developing country than a developed country, so if they were using the same dollar amount (I doubt they were), then it isn't a directly comparable study.

For example: Make it $10. The stranger gives me a 1:9 split in their favour. Fuck 'em, I'm not going to lose any sleep over a dollar, and it's not worth my time to even collect the dollar. Now make it $10k. Hey, I could actually do something nice with $1k, even if the other person is being 'unfair'. The relative purchasing power of the money in the test is significant within cultures, let alone across cultures.
>more than 96 percent of the subjects tested in psychological studies from 2003 to 2007 were Westerners—with nearly 70 percent from the United States alone.

And I didnt see any data from what happens when they did the "money game" with Europeans, Asians, Africans, even developed South Americans.
You have a couple options, as I see it (there could be more):

Find someone who's had to deal with something similar to find out who they used and their experience.

Contact a state or local bar association. In Wisconsin our state bar has a lawyer referral program. They're not necessarily the best in their field, but they're a good start, and a limited consult might be free or of little cost.
The answer mostly appears in the setup:

>The Machiguenga had traditionally been horticulturalists who lived in single-family, thatch-roofed houses in small hamlets composed of clusters of extended families.

Their living situation is one where they are all essentially family. There would be big social impacts on costing your family money, because of some perceived issue with an unequal split.

They are likely all going to spend 'together' anyway. They are probably bewildered why this weird foreigner doesn't grasp this basic fact, and is forcing them to go through some bizarre ceremony to get the money.
> While that may help you in the courtroom, the court of public opinion doesn't wait for a verdict. It confuses silence with guilt.

No, it confuses silence with confirmation of its prejudice. If the court of public opinion does not think you're guilty your silence will support that, if the court of public opinion thinks you're guilty your silence will support that.
Acquittals are less likely to make front pages than acquittals.

Circular statement error. Parser 'sploded. Go to sleep? [Y/n]
> I wish I had EFF's clout behind my work too.

Man, I'm sure that must be really frustrating. It looks like your tool takes a different strategy than EFF's and there will be room for both -- I hope you keep it up.

As a general perspective (not just directed at you, gorhill), it's worth bearing in mind that the EFF has earned their clout by working hard and getting results since 1990 -- almost a quarter of a century. You can think of them like a startup founder who has a lot of money and connections to launch new companies, because she's been building winning companies for decades and built up those resources. For her, backing a new project means betting some of that capital. For you, starting on your own without that kind of track record means you'll have to hustle longer and harder to find success.

This analogy is particularly helpful if you (again, not just gorhill) actually do want the EFF or a similar organization to back your project. That startup founder is going to be constantly getting pitches from people who want her time or attention or just money. The ones she'll want to help will be the ones she knows and trusts because they've helped her out before.

That makes projects like this Badger thing a great opportunity to get involved with an organization -- they're asking for your help. It's a chance to prove you have the coding skills/social skills/enthusiasm/values/reliability/whatever that make you a good fit. Then when you're starting your own project, they'll be relatively likely to put some of their reputational capital behind it.
You're right that they're incorrect to say RPS can't be understood in terms of the Nash Equilibration concept. Possibly they mistook RPS's lack of a Pure Equilibrium to mean NE is inapplicable. Instead, it has a Mixed Nash Equilibrium.

The advice in the article - bias towards previous opponent win is just an under-specification of how to play a no regret strategy (alter your distribution to match opponent play, which is more or less what your example describes). If you've already installed a random number generator in your brain then playing optimally (in the sense that it will exploit weakness and shift to random as necessary) can be very easily done via a no-regret algorithm such as randomized weighted majority.

This class of algorithm is proven to converge on the NE for zero-sum games while being much quicker than linear programming (this actually has practical consequences for poker bots - see counterfactual regret).
I am unable to connect with Chrome and can only connect in IE if I override the security warning.
For the layperson, sure. But the article is saying that researchers in the field are astonished.

And even the layperson should be able to tell that moral reasoning isn't genetic.
Let's discuss the implications for our field, technology.

It appears to me that it's calling out the particular pitfalls of the Silicon Valley mindset being rubber stamped on the rest of the world in terms of design and engineering. But this isn't that new - it's been commented upon before at length (e.g. logical optimistic young engineer's view of the society via building a social network).

But it's probably wider than this. I think it's actually speaking out how we collect samples, data. We expect that 10000 people in one area to think the same as 10000 people in another area, even if they are in the same administrative country and the same geodeomographic characteristics. What matters for some behaviour is culture. Games and experiments could be looked at culturally rather than just geographically.

What should we take home for this? I think probably two things, that we are different from the rest of the world, and that the world has variation within it. To take this into account could be a new form of responsiveness.
Well, DNT was supposed to be the alternative.

You can inspect the cookie. Yahoo's is literally "optout=1"
Installed it, looks very powerful, and that's probably part of the issue. A lot of options to change and no real idea what they are.

Also, it caused some of my pages to stop working which I know aren't doing anything odd (internal helpdesk software).
Using JSONP for cross domain requests
I'm pretty sure having the stock priced lower than the strike price for the options would pretty effectively "make" people hold onto their stock.

Related: I'll sell you this dollar for $2.50. ;)
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>The funny thing is that the REAL question that these people don't want to face is "Are these differences more than just cultural? Are they genetic?"

Only if you consider American to describe a particular set of genetics does this question even make sense.

edit: Western and American are not descriptions of genes. Unless Westerners or Americans cluster in their responses to a test based on how closely related they are, this "question that these people don't want to face" is code rather than honest question.
An interesting counterpoint to this is Julie Ann Horvath, who leveraged Twitter to expose a toxic culture at Github (1) and eventually forced the CEO and his wife to leave the company (2), and has kept Github and certain employees on the defensive (3).

She may have to deal with legal repercussions because of her actions on Twitter, but I can't help but think that nothing would have changed had she kept silent or quietly hired an employment lawyer after being forced out.

1. http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/19/5526574/github-sexism-scan...

2. http://recode.net/2014/04/21/julie-ann-horvath-on-github-inv...

3. http://www.dailydot.com/business/julie-ann-horvath-names-git...
Microsoft Internet Explorer security fix released, includes Windows XP users
Russian programmers testing blackhat marketing automation tools.
These indigenous people probably split earnings among one another afterwards... this test among a small isolated group with compared with random Americans could not possibly work
I thought it was a good live-coding demo. The code you typed was interesting and non-excessive. (But I like math and clojurescript.)
As I write this, the HN title is "Why Americans Are the Weirdest People in the World"... it's not justified because this article is more that Americans are the "weirdest", why is still very speculative at this point. Considering we just came to grip with it, in academic terms, and still have only the fuzziest pictures as to the details, "why" is a bit premature.

I also find it intriguing that even as we finally identify that cultures may in fact be profoundly different and not merely superficially different, which calls the entire liberal idea of fundamental American evil into question by cutting away the most foundational assumptions it is based on, the author still can't resist leaping to the assumption that Americans are somehow wrong. It's most clear in this bit: Is my thinking so strange that I have little hope of understanding people from other cultures? Can I mold my own psyche or the psyches of my children to be less WEIRD and more able to think like the rest of the world? If I did, would I be happier?

I'll accept the last question as at least a bit of humility, but, well, before one goes socially engineering one's own child, shouldn't we first explore this matter more deeply and ask whether it's even a good idea? And the idea casually underlies several other bits of prose, too. It will take long to purge this poisonous idea from academia, but perhaps now we can finally start.

This is deeply revolutionary stuff if academia actually comes to accept this (to the point that I would not be surprised this becomes one of those "the old guard must die before this can be accepted" sorts of things), and even as the article sort of brushes on this topic, I don't think it really captures just how foundational the assumptions this destroys are. It's not merely a sort of accepted doctrine of modern academic liberalism, the fundamental lack of diversity in human cognition is one of the most foundational foundations, sunk so deep that you can't even notice it unless you go looking.

One of the worries I think would come up is the fear that this might turn into a new judgment of which cultures are "better", but this article does, thankfully, already get into the right of thinking about that question, which is, better for what? Dropping a comfortable western person into a primitive, tribal environment and watching their maladaptive behaviors has long been a topic for movies, for instance (even if it is usually followed up by Mighty Whitey storyline [1]... follow that link if the phrasing concerns you, the racist overtones of that phrase are quite deliberate and derogatory of what it is describing). Cultures are different for reasons, and "better" requires context... but, correspondingly, so therefore does "worse".

[1]: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MightyWhitey
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Very interesting. Would possibly improve the performance of some programs, as iterating over an array of value types will actually be sequential memory access, whereas iterating over an array of objects involves skipping everywhere over memory.
The answer to what? The first 1/4 of the article?

The thrust of the article is not "this one tribe is an anomaly in how we think and judge", but rather "it turns out that the biggest anomaly is the people in the USA". Up until now the model formed from looking at 'Westerners' has been assumed to be 'the norm' or even how we are physically wired, and unchangeable. Any observed deviations from the model are anomalies and interesting. The novelty here is that actually, things may be the other way around.
Some humans or centipedes might find this offensive.
For me the problem is:

* paragraphs 1-5 describe an experiment which makes makes no sense because it appears to ignore purchasing power parity (PPP)

* paragraphs 6-12+ completely ignore the rather obvious PPP objection and go off on a tangent about the lone genius rebelling against authority blah blah blah - a style of writing which makes me increasingly more irritated and skeptical that the author is going to say anything convincing or interesting because he couldn't foresee and address my (and apparently others') immediate objections, which makes me wonder if this was even proofread

I stopped reading at that point because it felt like a waste of my lunch time. Perhaps I'm missing something obvious? I may read further this evening to see if the other 1000s of words have more substance.
> On Firefox (version 29 on Linux), the labels for the upper and lower sets of players are both overlapping on the upper videos, and the lower videos have no labels.

Seems like an issue with jquery and certain platforms. I do not know how to debug it, unfortunately.

> Thanks for building this and showing it off!

No problem. Just share with friends and family. :)
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Ah so it's just general cautionary advice. I'd be interested to see if this comes up in court.
Please drop the stereotype of the social sciences. And yes, there's been plenty of studies on genetics in the social sciences.

I always find the hostility some HN members have towards the social sciences to be rather weird. Half of what HN is here for is firmly in the bailiwick of the social sciences. A/B testing? Better marketing? Understanding your employees better? Taking care of yourself so you don't burn out? All of this stuff is the much-maligned social sciences.

Some people have this stereotype that all psychologists are touchy-feely hippies, and they're really not.
I think you mean the opposite advice of the natural reading of your text.

I read your advice as "Only use HTTP keep-alive if you have a high bounce rate", when I presume you mean the opposite.

1. Unless P, then Q.
2. P is "have a high bounce rate"
3. Q is "do not use keep alives"

I think you meant:

1. If P, then Q.
2. P and Q same as above.
By making public statements, you're talking straight to the prosecutor/opposing attorney. As the warning says: Anything you say may be used against you in court.
The linked article's title is "Value Types for Java". If you want to add some context to the article, as you presumably do by posting it with the title "Initial proposal for Java value types made public", can you do that by posting a comment? For example, your title makes me wonder:

* Has the proposal progressed beyond this 'initial' version?

* What were the circumstances that led to it not being public originally?

* What circumstances have led to it having been made public now?
Does seem to go counter to a long standing culture of "let the VM decide" that has dominated in the JVM landscape for a while.

I will be curious to see how this affects code targeting android and friends.
Georgia, eastern Europe. I don't think you have an office here, but following western/central European work hours is not an issue from here.

EDIT: Actually there is a Reuters (news agency) office here, in Tbilisi:

http://www.yell.ge/company.php?lan=eng&id=107320

Would that work?
Yeah I had to roll out my own player for performance purposes. I have no idea, but since this is stream I think it just counts as a play?

> Feature request: It would be nice if I could log in with my SoundCloud account and have the option to like tracks from your site.

Probably won't happen since that would need a backend, and I want this to be a client side only app. FWIW I link to SC track so people can like, share, download, buy the track.
Finances and stock prices aside, I can't imagine what would replace it. At least for me.
Using gotos, it would look something like this:

state1:
/* do some stuff */
if (/* something or other */)
goto state2;
else
goto state3;
state2:
/* do some stuff */
goto state1;
state3:
...

The labels represent states, and the gotos represent transitions.

You're right that this isn't particularly good for implementing virtual machines, but for more "fixed" types of state machines this can be a pretty clear way of representing them in code. Mike Pall wrote a good overview of various virtual machine techniques here: http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-02/msg00742.html (while he knocks the performance of the switch-based approach, I'd like to note that it's the most portable).

> When you remove something essential from a programming language, you are forced to reinvent it; actually, more complex version(s) of it.

That's a good way of phrasing it. It almost sounds like a lemma to Greenspun's Tenth Rule :)
It's not an easy test when looking at the packet. If you're relying on people to label their packets appropriately, they will lie if doing so gets them what they want.
The point is that if they make a spurious allegation in a lawsuit, your lawyer should defend you as much as possible. That's the whole point of a lawyer.
Only 14 years after it introduced with version 1.0 of C#. Java moves really slowly these days. Java lost a lot of credibility in the 3D visualization market in part because it is crazy inefficient to do 3D without value types. C# did very well there with the XNA tool did in part because it had value types and Java didn't.

I wouldn't have moved from Java to C# for desktop apps back in 2001 if Java had stated they would have adopted value types quickly, but they didn't.

History has moved on though and Java isn't really used for desktop apps at all now so this is a moot point. (And C# is on its last legs as well as a desktop development tool, except in large organizations...)

Downvoted to -1 for stating a fact. That has never happened before. Edit again, seems I've been upvoted again. Rollercoaster ride today.
Thanks. I just checked the website of my local bar association, and they have a search form with about a dozen specialities. That doesn't narrow it down a lot, but it's a start.
About this - possibly not.

About other things that people, particularly celebs, are taken to court for - absolutely.
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Heh, I suppose you're right :)
>Replace the user clicking a button with an automated process and it's easy to see that the CSS+HTML is what is doing the actual processing.

In which case the complete system including the "automated process" is Turing complete, but the CSS itself is not.

>Alternatively, putting a button on a computer that must be pressed to have the CPU execute an instruction and move on to the next doesn't mean that programs on this computer aren't Turing complete.

"Programs" can't be Turing complete, it's a property of computation systems. And putting the button on the computer would indeed mean it wasn't Turing complete (unless you consider the human pushing the button part of the system).
When you're on the offensive things change considerably.
I agree, intranet addresses mostly work. For those that don't work, there are workarounds, like specifying the protocol or adding /. Personally, I'm happy with the current omnibox behavior.

Getting back to the earlier question, is the omnibox a URL field or a search field? Well, it's a combination of the two. But it's sort of like a UX version of the ship of Theseus.. if you slowly remove all the behaviors of a URL field and replace them with those of a search field, at what point does it become something different? When does it become a search field with URL behaviors instead of a URL field with search behaviors?

If you look at the screenshot in the linked article, the field says "Search Google or type URL" instead of showing the URL. I think that's the watershed moment. Given all the behavioral changes already, subjectively I'd say that's not a URL bar any more. Even if the omnibox behavior is exactly the same as now, it's no longer showing the URL.

I hope it doesn't make its way into the release version of chrome.
What‽ Steve Jobs called all his projects "revolutionary", "amazing", and other hyperbolic adjectives. Remember his speech to Sculley? "Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Or do you want to come with me and change the world?" He believed that what he did was changing the world.
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Maybe it's a bug. FTA:

This is an alpha release; we've been using it internally and don't think it's too buggy. But we're looking for intrepid users to try it out and let us know before we encourage millions of people to install it. If you find bugs, you can file them on github against either the Firefox or Chrome repos as appropriate.

https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox/issues

https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/issues
We've bought several over the last five years or so. The cases have always been perfectly adequate -- not single-billet aluminum, but you're not paying MacBook prices, either.

They ship with Ubuntu and are generally comfortable with Debian.