skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Instead, you use the budget that the huge amount of taxes leaves for education and let students study for free (or close to free).

Really, the headline makes me cringe, the idea that some people consider this a good idea makes me cry and the domain name ("marginalrevolution") is a joke in this setup.

What a sad idea..

Edit: The state/the country already HAS equity (Ignoring the bullshit and that I think that this link only made HN because of this trigger word). It's called 'taxes'. If you flip burgers, the state gets little money. If you work for Google, FB, Apple, MS (yeah, all not in Oregon. But stay with me) the state makes quite a nice sum, every year, for ~40 years that you're supposed to work (k, feel free to reduce that number).

I haven't seen so many bullshit alarms related to a HN story going off for for quite some time. I would love to sit down and talk to someone that seriously considers this 'cool' and 'a nice idea' and try to understand how that is even possible.
I don't know if any respected analytic philosophers take moral relativism seriously (...)

Well, many contemporary metaethicists argue that forms of moral relativism undergird / best justify non-cognivitism [1,2], for one. Also Gilbert Harman [3] and David Wong [4] have proposed that forms of moral relativism are associated with naturalism (!), and their work overall is an excellent reference I strongly recommend you check out.

[1] http://stanford.library.usyd.edu.au/entries/moral-relativism...

[2] http://stanford.library.usyd.edu.au/entries/moral-cognitivis...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Harman

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wong_(philosopher)
And cripples and elderly.
I don't follow. Just because the featured startups are little-known doesn't necessarily correlate with ProductHunt's popularity. Perhaps PH has some secret sauce for finding startups no one knows about but are high quality, which would be great investment opportunities.
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Vancouver is a good case study in how foreigners can drive up property prices.
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you would also need highly directional antenna to make sure only one base station can hear your signal
The only compulsion here is eventual payment, and in fact this seems to preserve more individual autonomy than debt.

The other alternative would be to tax other Oregonians more... for the benefit of students who might not stay in Oregon. If an opt-in levy on the direct beneficiary strikes you as 'indentured servitude', a compulsory tax on third parties would be what? Outright slavery?
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I understand the science of impact. We can take a winter day and make it feel like summer by burning the forest down next to us. I also understand both the models and the limits of our understanding of them. We can take the current model of the climate and change the CO2 levels in it and sometimes reflect what we actually see when those CO2 levels change. We take the anomalies and we try to update the model. Ok so far so good. The models don't tell us why the planet was warm and then it was in an ice age, they don't tell us why it stopped being in an ice age in the first place, they don't tell us anything how our actions (or inaction) could cause the climate to change in a way that we wish it to change.

We can speculate on those things, we can track down times in the geologic record where Yellowstone erupted and put dust high up in the atmosphere, we can look at iridium layers in the rocks and try to understand when large asteroids hit the planet and wrought havoc. And perhaps the biggest thing that is missing from the model is how the planet 'resets' itself. We have had warm periods and cold periods and fluxed in between them, but the model doesn't tell us how, the data tells us this happened, but the current model applied to ice cores from a million years ago gives a different answer than the data seems to indicate was true.

What all of that adds up to is that "its complicated" and we're inside a system for which we don't have a deep understanding of the variables and we have a scientific infrastructure which is actively discouraging the asking of certain questions or testing various hypothesis which are politically uncomfortable. That makes me think we aren't doing as much as we can to understand the actual system, and our lack of understanding leads to an inability to predict what it will do, or how it will respond to what we do or don't do. We are no more free to ask heretical questions about how climate works than Galileo was free to investigate whether or not the Earth was the center of the universe.

As we cannot summon the will to do the research we need to do in order to accurately answer the question of how the system works, I do not believe we will reach a point where we might understand what would be needed to move that system to a pre-determined point from some other known point.
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I tried submitting this bot I made yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7924323) but didn't realize it was the middle of the night in the US. Trying again in the hopes that it will catch some more attention.
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> But...

International rules that enforce a reduction in national rules (deregulation) which will empower multi-nationals is not the contradiction you appear to think it is.

> These multi-nationals are purely a product of regulaiton (in this case, more specifically, regulatory capture).

Well they're purely a product of regulation only in the broadest sense: without regulations (rules and laws) you wouldn't have international trade, and so there would be no multi-nationals (or civilized societies).

Your more specific case ('regulatory capture') is an example of weakened regulation through infiltration / corruption so your statement appears to read: Multinationals are a purely a product of regulation (more specifically, weakened regulation).

> Without regulation, there would be thousands of healthy medium-size banks in the US, as there apparently used to be.

What do you mean by 'Without regulation'? If taken literally it would be impossible to define what a 'bank' is, so I assume your definition of 'Without regulation' involves regulations - which makes for a very confusing definition.

You imply there is an optimal outcome (thousands of medium-sized banks) being suppressed through regulation. What regulations force all banks to move quickly to a few larger banks? Usually these sorts of market regulations are about stopping that practice: for instance in Australia there is a 'four pillars policy' which stops mergers of the four largest banks. Without this regulation there would be less competition.

> Overall, to characterize this as "deregulation" is completely sloppy thinking. We are never going to get a better situation when people think sloppily like this. To do so is, in practice, a moral crime. It supports maintaining the status quo through confusion.

Characterising deregulation as deregulation is sloppy thinking? Let's back up: there is an international agreement which aims to enforce further deregulation of nation states... and characterising this as deregulation is sloppy thinking?
Every tyranny is predicated on saving civilization.

Also, every idea that actually helps civilisation is incubated in a tiny minority (perhaps in just one mind). Since that minority is engaged in creative work, it is almost certainly an out-group. Adopting the morality of the ruling class and building connections with it are the surest way to power. But these are a full-time job.

I think the idea of quantifying morality might be improved by basing it not on cooperation but simply upon communication, e.g. how well do you know the opinions of those you disagree with? Note that this is almost the opposite approach of the path to power.
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Thanks, and I am definitely trying with the designing. It's reealllyy hard!
This quote created you?!?
I'm opposed to participating in making financial institutions that are already "too big to fail" yet bigger.

I'd rather the merchant get the percentage. Particularly with smaller merchants who are forced to pay larger percentages on charges.

I also don't like all the games that card issuers make us play. "Rewards" -- with qualifications. "Cash back" -- with qualifications. "Miles" -- don't even get me started.

For my part, I no longer wish to participate -- any more than I find absolutely necessary -- in furthering this system and its entrenched leaders. So, putting my money where my mouth is...
I think you misunderstood me. Put simply, ProductHunt's popularity means that once a startup hits ProductHunt, it's no longer "little known."

There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but the OP's suggestion that ProductHunt is a great sourcing tool for VCs looking for "little known" startups is flawed. If you're a VC compelled to find promising startups before every investor in the Valley knows about them, you now need to find startups before they are ProductHunted.
"people who pile on guns for such situations, usually aren't the smartest apples in the orchard, so to speak"

And you know this how?

Are all these people openly expressing contempt of me and mine, of preparing oneself for bad things and bad times, demonstrating that they are smart?

I also wonder how you divined "pile on" from this discussion. You can infer from it that I and my father each own at least one gun, but beyond that?
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Excellent overview. I love these.

One feature I may have missed is reconciliation. That is, some way to review my manually entered transactions with statements provided by my bank.
> A problem with "deregulation" is that unless all regulations are being removed it's hard to tell what the new state of regulation will be.

Yes it appears to be a fatal problem, considering an area with no regulations whatsoever is simply called 'lawless'.
Try to find a team-lead first, who will take care about architecture, will help you with interviewing candidats. You should be sure in skills of the team lead, so it will take some time to find 100% matching person. If you have tech guy/girl already in team who really thinks he/she can be team lead (and maybe even have experience), start hiring developers with she/him.

Post a job - maybe somebody is looking for a job and you can't see him/her. And try to find them also - maybe they are working so hard that even don't have a time break for job searching.
Forgiveness also has great psychological benefits for those who practice it. In some cases people whose lives have been focused for years on some great wrong that was done to them, have only been able to reach their own personal goals after forgiving the offending party.

Of course vengeance can have psychological benefits too.
Author here. ConvNetJS is a project I maintain on a side for fun. A part of my motivation was that I wanted to make these algorithms and techniques more approachable, and easier to understand, play with and apply. One issue right now is that I think I plunged into development and wrote a whole bunch of code and visualizations without fully supporting it with the necessary tutorials for a complete beginner. I'm hoping to change that over the next few weeks. Sometimes it's a little hard to juggle this with research, and all the things I'm actually supposed to be doing.

I'd be happy to answer questions or get feedback on the project!
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Would love to see a call-me-maybe article on FoundationDB...
Face of cars. Seriously
(My preference is two separate comments. Better threads, better ordered.)
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Did they open it up from Beta yet?
I find it interesting she was archiving on her local hard drive in 2011. Especially given the stories of things people found on hard drives bought at scrap auctions. A better question might be "is it better now?" or not, I'm guessing not.
> A system that keeps some, but not all, of its nodes able to read and write during a partition is not available in the CAP sense but is still available in the sense that clients can talk to the nodes that are still connected.

Sure, as long as the clients can reach the nodes that are "still connected." But clients can get partitioned from server nodes too. For example if there was a complete fiber cut across the Atlantic, both clients and servers in the US would be partitioned from clients and servers in Europe. Whichever side has the majority of replicas (say the US) gets to keep operating. You can try to say that the service is still "available", but that doesn't help the clients in Europe.

If the client is partitioned from the majority of replicas, it's game over. At that point, the system has to give up either consistency or availability from the perspective of that client.

And of course, if the majority of replicas suddenly goes down completely because of power failure or something like that, then the system truly is unavailable no matter where you put a client. There is no way for the surviving nodes to know that the dead nodes aren't actually alive and still accepting writes.

> New distributed, consistent systems like Google Spanner concretely demonstrate the falsity of a trade-off between strong consistency and high availability.

I am pretty sure that even Spanner becomes unavailable if a majority of replicas go down (or the client is partitioned from them).
Is there an API exposed? BTW, I'm loving this app! Thanks!
Powering up a multi-megawatt 2.4 GHz jammer will get you arrested. You are not allowed to transmit in the 2.4GHz band over a few watts (and even then) without a license and the rules are very specific for what you can send (in Australia for example you're not allowed to encrypt that traffic).

And frankly, all the panicky idiots who keep salivating at the prospect of wrecking things makes me glad the rules for radio transmissions are the way they are. Heads off a heck of a lot of problems.
The MIT Lisp Machine source tree contains Times Roman and Helvetica fonts dating from 1977.
Neat. Although it seems, after a download, that it is also a budgeting tool. It greets me with "how much do you want to spend each month" and have balances for accounts.

While I can definitely see why people want this, I don't. I just want to track my expenses.

I will play around with it some more though, it looks like a fresh take on the app types.

Is it yours?
I remember hitting my first summer job company's content firewall which thought this was a porn site because of the URL lol
IMHO this should be product rule #1 - BE THE USER, if you can't then do everything you can to be as close as possible.

When I started in tech people would say "Hey I need a database" and I'd say "Nope, teach me how to do the job you need done as if I you were going to hire me". Then a couple of days later I'd say "You need a _____ system and yea we'll use a database to save some of the data".

Basically if you don't live the product you don't really understand the users and you spend all your time wasted guessing what they need and want.

I applaud you for "highly targeted to me". This is the first and best step towards a product that you really understand and one that others "like you" will find useful.
I just mentioned this to someone in an email. I am not from the US, so the bank providing an API is very foreign to me.

Anyone else from Sweden here? Do we have something like this that I do not know of?

But the gist of it, unless I am misunderstanding something, is that I cannot implement it (bank integration).
This was written by somebody with something to sell, and it sounds like it. I was hoping he would explain the misreading of the CAP theorem, but it ends by promising that future databases will be more powerful. Eventually, I guess?
Compound literals in C are awesome like it's 1999:

Assuming you have this:

struct point {
float x, y, z;
};
void do_something_with_point(struct point *p);

You can do this:

do_something_with_point(&(struct point){.x = 1.5, .y = 1.5, .z = 3.5});
The list of places one "autopays" (recurring payments) is a new one, to me. Although not all of my payments are monthly or on a regular schedule.

I had to replace a card (at my initiation) a few years ago. The card was overnighted, but I still had to change a number of registrations using it.

For $5 or $10 somewhere, I sometimes decide the risk of such a hassle isn't worth it. As various vendors have had demonstrated what I always, based upon personal experience, wondered about: Poor security. As that has grown in reporting in the last couple of years, I've continued to tighten up on where I'll use a card.

Some further years back, there was a burgeoning problem with "carbons" in the old mechanical swipe mechanisms. Many places didn't dispose of them properly, leading to dumpster diving -- or their setting aside by a malicious employee. If you thought the place felt "dodgey", you paid in cash.

Plus ca change...

And as I also mentioned, I feel not just a lack of desire to hand that percentage over to some big issuer / payment processor combine, but an outright obligation not to. "Big finance" is already "out of control", and I think we have an obligation not to feed it and so empower it further. Not the entrenched players who have so recently and persistently demonstrated their own corrupt and malicious nature.

P.S. While I'm at it, I'll also mention that I don't want to participate further in data mining that I find is increasingly antagonistic to the card holder's best interests. Buy the wrong stuff, go to the wrong places, etc., and the next thing you know, e.g. your insurance rates may increase. You might even have employment problems. Who knows? Data mining is still in its "Wild West" phase.

So far -- so far as I know -- serial numbers on $5's and $10's are not being tracked. (I'm unsure about $20's. $50's and $100's, probably soon if not already.)
Anonymous functions are a way of de-obfuscating code that is heavy in callbacks. Instead of having the logic flow indirectly to some external method that might be far away, the logic can live within one function body.
So why have the emails in question not surfaced in paper form yet? If the whole scandal and potential lawsuits are riding on missing emails, which should have been printed and archived from day one, where the hell are they?
I am not even sure how or what that would be used or even done. Like "open in .." stuff? Or could you give me some example or use cases? I like the sound of an API!
The meaning has certainly been diluted over time.
You are conflating two different and commonly-used meanings of the word "regulation."

In (fairly) common parlance, "regulation" means governmental rules that violate individual sovereignty. For examples, laws like Sarbanes-Oxley. These are laws under which the government initiates force against market participants to try to force a desired outcome.

Proper laws merely protect individual sovereignty. For example, you can't use force against someone, whether physically or through possessing something that violates a contract with them (which is fraud). Only the government can use force, and only in retaliation to protect sovereignty.

The ethical basis for this distinction is that it is in everyone'e self-interest to be protected from the initiaion of force in general, while it is against everyone's self-interest to be vulnerable to the initiaition of force, in general. Thus, regulatory laws are wrong.

P.S. If Australia only have four banks, instead of forty or four hundred, it is because of regulation (in my sense of the word).
The article made me think of the importance of function currying. When you take one variable at a time you are forced to think about an ordering of the variables and what you do at each step. See Pajer's talk at FlatMap, http://vimeo.com/96639840
Without secrecy concerning the details during negotiation, it would be very very hard to make trade agreements. Negotiation involves a lot of give and take. If that was all public, then as soon as our negotiators conceded on, say, some term that was going to help our automobile industry in order to gain some term that will help our garment industry, there would be a huge outcry from the automobile industry, and soon the negotiators would come under intense pressure to get that pro-automobile industry term back.

Secrecy, at least concerning the details, during negotiation gives the negotiators a better opportunity to work out a deal that best serves the interests of the country as a whole.

Note that I'm only talking about secrecy during negotiation. The result of the negotiations should be made public well before Congress votes on it, to give the country time to decide on whether to accept or not.
> its not really possible for drone pilots

On the contrary, it sounds much EASIER for drone-pilots to make that mistake, because no matter how the drone is oriented they (the pilots) perceive themselves as right-side up.

Unlike direct pilots, you don't even need a heavy G-force situation, you simply roll 180 degrees.
Wouldn't it be better just to prepare to flee the US quickly (rather than preparing for staying and trying to survive the mayhem)?
Let's be honest though, saying "potentially sourced" is really saying nothing at all. </grumpy grandpa>
> It's called 'taxes'.

The problem with "taxes" as the solution is if the grad leaves the state, they wouldn't get the money. "Taxes" is not a solution.

The only way "taxes" would work if this was a national plan since the number of people that leave the country is small enough to be safely accounted for.
"In that respect I bet counter-drone technology will become interesting."

How about a net? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pioneer_RPV_recovered...
The program being opt-in is probably why.

If you don't want "in" you can go to a different college.
> Without regulation, there would be thousands of healthy medium-size banks in the US, as there apparently used to be.

Because technological advancements and economic pressures are completely blameless?

Make global communications networks disappear, and you'll get millions of small banks, with no changes in regulation at all...
If it is buffer like transparency, the VC can still read through and provide feedback at their leisure. No commute or anything. ;)

At least to me, lowering the effort results in more/better participation.
I believe in this instance they're only secret while under negotiation, when congress votes on it, it will be open.
>> New distributed, consistent systems like Google Spanner concretely demonstrate the falsity of a trade-off between strong consistency and high availability.

>I am pretty sure that even Spanner becomes unavailable if a majority of replicas go down (or the client is partitioned from them).

It only claims high availability, not perfect availability.

Any server can, for instance, be vaporized by a nuclear attack. In that case, it won't be available. The software can't help.
I think that's still not the point. A popular website's trade secret is not necessarily its source code. You can copy facebook's code from soup to nuts but you are not going to be nearly as successful.

On the other hand, imagine someone found out a way to cure cancer. If he just releases his formula, then there's a very good chance that he will not make any money off of it at all. Without patent protection, he will probably hoard the discovery for years while building a company of his own to sell the drug. Finally, the drugs will be available, and yet the public will still have no knowledge of how to develop the drug, improve it even further, or apply it to other diseases.

I'm not personally a big fan of patents. I'm merely addressing your comments, which I see to be somewhat irrelevant.