skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incrementally, via Lessig's plan. The thing about campaign finance is that it can actually be reformed piecemeal and by external efforts simply be putting enough money in the right place and the right time. Well, not that simply, but close enough.

The current people in Congress were elected under the current system and thus must be at least slightly wary of a different system. Despite this, there is some support in Congress for these sorts of reform. Perhaps those who support it do so because they think it is the right thing to do, perhaps merely because they think they can do well under the new system.

But you don't have to change the campaign finance rules to start with. By concentrating money in a few places on a single issue, i.e. using the current system, you can elect or help elect members favorable to the new system. If that works, you kick it up a notch and try to get more elected. At some point it's either going to peter out or it's going to have some sort of permanent success.

This is not to imply that it's a walk in the park, but there is a road to success here. Trying to effect significant change on other issues which run counter to big money seems to me to be less realistic, but that's just my opinion.
I think this may be the perfect time to kick start my own country. It can be used to incubate and test ideas and policies. Perfect timing.
To this I would add: do work that pleases you, not work that leads to something you think will please you.

I was first introduced to this from one of the Indic texts - perhaps one of the Vedas - where people are told to do work and not worry about it's reward.

This is a good way to protect yourself from the folly that the parent poster describes.
When I first learned about HTML, one of its touted features was the ability for people with different disabilities to use custom browsers that interpret the tags differently. For instance, text to speech.

Today, it's my perception that web design has gone graphical, to the point where it would seem vastly more difficult to make sense of typical web pages using adaptive technologies.

And as I approach old age, I find myself struggling with web pages, for instance having to use the "find" feature to find simple things on pages such as the login button.
It's not a limit, it's supplemental. You can still put your own money into whatever you want. (I'm just talking about the voucher idea here).
Morse code instructional video from the US Army: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li8Hiwbc664
I think it suggests that a big part of success is luck. He was lucky that man didn't really know how to use the knife or intend to kill him with it.

Anyway forget the mugging analogy because it is a stretch and distracts from useful information.

First, people aren't so much smarter than others than they think. People who persevere are more likely to be "lucky", since they keep trying until they are "lucky".

Another huge aspect of this is self-identity. If you think you are supposed to be a consulting VP, then you can be. Most people don't think that.

Another huge aspect of success is advantage. This can be in the form of a social network or just having a slightly well-off uncle to give a loan at an important time. Or it can just be physical health.

When it comes down to it, circumstances play a larger role than I think most people in our current structure want to believe. This is not a machine that rewards merit.

There is also a strange focus on the individual in this mindset.

But I go back to the belief that innate intelligence differences between humans are generally not nearly as great as we think they are. I also think that often circumstantial difficulties can be overcome, if there is enough perseverance. So I think one of the most important factors may be identity. In other words, who do you think you are?
Almost certainly the WOS is looking for PyPI's Python 3 trove classifier

Programming Language :: Python :: 3

which was added [0] as part of the initial Py3k port discussed in #667.

So what this means is as of July 2,

import boto

won't blow up on Python 3, even though it's not yet API-compatible with Python 2.

[0]: https://github.com/boto/boto/commit/1ac79d0c984bfd83f26e7c3a...
Apple Poaches Another Luxury Executive As iWatch Nears.
I wonder if the IRC logs from the Iraq War (round 2) will ever be declassified and released. IRC is used pretty extensively by the military for communications (generally just called "mIRC", since people associate it so strongly with the official military client), and there were a bunch of different channels on different networks to discuss operations in realtime.

http://publicintelligence.net/tactical-chat/
>where people are told to do work and not worry about it's reward.

Not sure if it is in the vedas or not but it is in Gita. Any way yeah I think it is a good principle to follow in life. Happiness should come from the act of doing work which is in our control not from it's reward which we can not control.
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Mea culpa. Seems Python 3 support is there for some modules but on the way for others. The wos isn't right.

Dang you might want to take this off the front page.
I'm amazed you managed to misread a comment that was only two sentences long. The title of the article is--in case you missed that, too--"Could The Ebola Outbreak Spread To Europe Or The U.S.?" The previous comment did not address that question and instead answered a completely different question.

What doesn't add to the conversation is obnoxious pedantry like your comment.
“Except for some naïve users who go looking for a good time…which, by the way, is not how it plays out,”

Shrooms and LSD is not a party drug. I repeat. not a party drug.
I'm less concerned about campaign finance reform in general as communications tools get better; producing a great viral video is something a person with "no money" can do and contribute to a campaign, whereas running $10mm of TV ads requires...$10mm.
Good points on all. Thanks for taking the time to engage, at any rate.

You're right: I'm too sanguine on the possibilities of what "wholesale, violent revolution" could look like.

I felt after bashing Lessig, it would only be fair to offer my thoughts on the matter. But I probably should have sat it on overnight and given more thought to the last third. C'est la vie.

If I could re-calibrate my "suggestions," I would disavow the violence while still emphasizing that reformers put themselves at a disadvantage when they try to play this incremental, inside game on the elite's turf.

But, I guess we'll see. I'd love to be proven wrong on this.
The homepage does a better job of explaining it—minus the syntax-shock to those accustomed to CSS—with examples like this: http://cl.ly/image/3U02110W2w22

http://gridstylesheets.org/
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Also, they are receiving matching funding for the 5 million and the original 1 million raised, for a total of $12 million.
now we just have to figure out what a dream is
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Being poor completely sucks. Watching your cat die from cancer that you can't afford to treat sucks.

The point of getting rich is so that your life doesn't suck. Not to compare yourself to others.

Getting rich is necessarily hard, otherwise everyone would be on the road to becoming rich. People are unlikely to get rich by doing work which satisfies. But if they make it, then at least life won't suck anymore.
Hey, the original title is still on my blog, still counts!
Depends on much. I have had an excellent time partying on LSD.

Shrooms, however, no. Some of my friends, but not me. Too intense. Maybe a matter of dosage.
I agree with Carl Sagan on this one. It is more likely that you will attribute any awe or grandeur to something else than a religious construct. This is also why when surveyed a 'religious or spiritual event' is used rather loosely.
This kind of comparison requires scientific rigor and unfortunately, may not result in the desired answer for a given viewpoint. It's much easier to go on incomplete numbers mixed with emotion. I don't blame the people advocating for more women: tech salaries are fairly high and it's better for them that they work in tech than something like garbage collection.

Software is an industry of truth. I have seen my share of deadweight (male only) and nothing kills a fledgling company faster. Hire competent people who you get along with. Fire people who don't produce. Don't hire someone just because of their gender. It's unfair to all and is actually sexist...
> creating a super-optimized tight loop of a program in C++, C or (better) assembly might be much easier to do than in higher level JITted languages

Sometimes, the situation is exactly opposite, though:

http://pzemtsov.github.io/2014/05/15/how-to-make-C-as-fast-a...
dang - looks like the Python WOS is not correct and boto is not yet green, please remove from front page.
<Lipstick> I dont think bagdahd is on the net =]

<BOY> No arab countrys on the net..
Overriding, Modifying and Decorating FactoryGirl's Attributes
When you say 100x slowdowns with ARC, are you talking about Swift or Objective-C? If the latter, do you have a concrete example of that happening? My experience has been that ARC is typically negligible, worst case a relatively small factor, and can be quite a bit faster due to things like autorelease elision if you hit the right situation.

As for "very slow defaults that you must trust the compiler to make fast again", that applies to just about every language that wants to be fast at all. C compilers generate awful code when the optimizer is turned off.
Yep. Liberal helpings of "if you don't like it don't p(l)ay it" should be applied here. No body is forcing anybody to p(l)ay. There will be a few very vocal people complain about the model, and then there will the be balance sheet. Which speaks louder?

To change the dominant business model, you need to come up with a new model that generates more profit. That is exactly what has happened here.

A thing is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. I'm less concerned about expensive IAP than I am about the people who pay for them. But then I think: So what? People will pay too much for all sorts of things. Who am I to judge.
The Israeli soldier may not have been taking as much of a risk as you think. I'm sure he was well trained in assessing the competence of an adversary.
Archived SomethingAwful thread from 9/11/2001:

http://www.truegamer.net/SA_911/911%20SATHREAD/

http://www.truegamer.net/SA_911/911%20SATHREAD/wtc01.html

> WATCH BUSH START A FUCKING WAR
Funny thing: some C and C++ programmers who swear they could never work with the parenthesized expressions of Lisp somehow have no trouble churning out complicated GNU makefiles with cruft like $(filter-out $(patsubst %,%/d,$(foo foo bar, xyzzy) ...) ad nauseum. Note how the parenthesis is outside the function name. It must be the dollar sign somehow softens it, plus the comma separators that are required after the second argument.
http://learn.hightail.com/t5/Ideas/iTV-Watch-Argentina-vs-Be...
The most recent bills that I saw Lessig speaking in favor of provided candidates with public funding that was equivalent to what they could get from the PACs and gave voters vouchers that they could give to the candidate of their choice who agreed to the public funding.

It's compatible with the idea that super PACs are legal, but provides a more voter-friendly alternative source of funding.
I'd like to see IRC logs from other countries at the same time.

As well as a map of all of the invasions and "liberations" with a timeline, and a list of official "reasons" for those military actions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oil...

Hmm. I wonder what the IRC logs of the Venezuelan "liberation" will look like? Actually for Venezuelan's sake hopefully the economic warfare already going on, along with the encroachment coming from the direction of Brazil during World Cup, will be enough to "integrate" them into the system (i.e. "liberate" them of control over their resources) without requiring overt military action.
This is surprisingly interesting. I just picked a random log and found this:

<Swan/+report> test to see if infoserver is echoing
messages to group +war. well all this info is probably old.
The iraqis caused an oil spill 8-10 miles long and a
couple miles wide. It's 12 times the size of that caused
by the exxon valdeez. It's not known if wells are actively
pumping into the gulf right now, or if they just dumped
stored reserves. If they're pumping at max capacity, it'll
get bigger by a factor every 3 days. in other words it
will be 13 times the size of the exxon valdeez in 3 days,
14 in 6, 15 in 9. (I realize I said that wrong). That's a
worst case. It's not possible to overstate how concerned
Bush seemed by this. I think he aged a few years last
night. the spill is not military significant, but
ecologically its a nightmare of course. There is some
concern about water problems, the oil might threaten
desalination plants. Yesterday the weather was much better
over iraq, so they set a record for the # of sorties in a
single day. 2700 I think. they launched 2 missiles at
saudi arabia today, and 7 at israel. (scuds). One hit in
israel, lightly wounding a bunch of people, killing 1. 1
person died in saudi. Patriots knocked out a whole bunch
of them. I just heard from Cheneys mouth that Bush has
something planned to deal with the oil spill. --mcneil
lehrer
From the thread:

> Now this is weird, since last week was the first showing of that X-files spin-off "The Lone Gunmen" in Austalia. The plot of the first one was that some government group was going to fly a plane into the World Trade Centre. Life imitates art?

Eee... WHAT? I always read that WTC was the kind of event that no one ever imagined it could possibly happen until after the incident.
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People play a game that is not enjoyable, and then pay extra to skip the unenjoyable parts and basically win the game, henceforth skipping the enjoyable parts of the game along with it!

It's confusing because you've set up a false dichotomy. People pay money to avoid the unenjoyable parts of the game. They don't pay money to skip the fun bits - just because they pay money for assistance doesn't mean that the end credits start rolling.

It's disgusting. A money grab, pure and simple.

There's a lot of competition in games these days, and freemium is proving to be one of the tenable models. What's the difference between paying upfront and paying as you go along, anyway? As long as they game creator isn't misleading like EA was, I mean.
> As well as a map of all of the invasions and "liberations" with a timeline, and a list of official "reasons" for those military actions.

I like that idea. It could be really interesting and educating to play with an interactive map showing that. There are things like that appearing from time to time (like the article about Syria and Iraq from yesterday[0]); I hope that concept trend will catch on and we'll see more and more old and modern history knowledge expressed in interactive, explorable forms.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7985305
My response lacks rigor, but, the linked studies may give some insight into your first point. As to the second, third, and fourth... really, as much as I'd like to say I'm all for supporting women, it's midnight and I have some stuff to do before bed tonight. You sound like you're interested in the topic though, maybe you have a few hours and are interested in furthering equality? (No snark, real analysis like what you're doing is hard to come by)

from the NSF study:
Female CS grads in 2012: 8,730
Male CS grads in 2012: 39,230

from the ACS study:
Women's respresentation ... remains significantly underrepresented in engineering and computer occupations ... which make up more than 80 percent of all STEM employment.
I don't doubt their measurements, but as is so common with these sorts of studies their conclusions are completely interpretive according to their own whims.

The George Washington story matches the subsequent experience of the child. The child is asked if they did the bad thing, just exactly as George Washington was asked in the story. A very young child will be able to make the connection between what is happening and the story they just heard because the exact same thing is going down.

The other stories are more abstract. They are not stories of someone doing a bad thing and then being asked if they did the bad thing.

It's a more reasonable conclusion, in my opinion, that what we are seeing is an effect of how close the story is to the experience, without having to rely on abstraction skills a very young child does not possess. And not whether the outcome was good or bad.

In general the study design is poor and more people should have seen that. There are numerous differences between these stories, hundreds of differences, not just outcome. And one of the stories being much closer to what they are testing is obviously relevant and confounding.

A better study design would be able to explore this. For example, tell the children one of the following stories:

1. George Washington does a bad thing and is asked if he did it. When he says yes, he is rewarded.

2. George Washington does a bad thing and is asked if he did it. When he says yes, he is punished.

3. George Washington does a bad thing. He is not asked if he did it, but is rewarded by fate.

4. George Washington does a bad thing. He is not asked if he did it, but is punished by fate.

5. George Washington does a good thing and is asked if he did it. When he says yes, he is rewarded.

6. George Washington does a good thing and is asked if he did it. When he says yes, he is punished.

7. George Washington does a good thing. He is not asked if he did it, but is rewarded by fate.

8. George Washington does a good thing. He is not asked if he did it, but is punished by fate.
Nope. For another example, see Debt of Honor by Tom Clancy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_of_Honor
Being poor does suck. However, being rich does not prevent your life from sucking. All the money in the world won't prevent you or a loved one from passing due to an untreatable illness. All the money in the world won't buy you friends or genuine respect. It can't buy you love (though it can buy you sex).

Furthermore, you don't need to be rich to avoid the hardship of being poor, you just have to make a sufficient amount to afford quality housing, food, health insurance, and minor luxuries.
This message seems to be way too long for IRC.

edit: I really don't get why people are downvoting this, the message appears to have at least 1298 characters.
Pro tip: increment the number in the second URL to see other pages of the discussion thread.
Clearly they meant the general public thought it was outside the realm of things that would actually happen, as opposed to realistic seeming (yet safely 'impossible') things of fiction.

For example Tom Clancy's Debt of Honour wraps up with a Japanese airliner flying into the Capitol Building killing off the majority of the US Government.
That is already the case. When you look at the NDK, you can only have access to game related API (audio, graphics and sensors) almost everything else involves JNI.
What you write does not define you
Sorry, how is this a "Show HN"?
I think it would be good to have a map and timeline like that going back to the 10th century. Because I think that people _really_ could use some perspective.
issue is less the ip address then it is the need for special MX dns records, which most of those services don't let you set up
Both Kirk and Janeway were much less by-the-book. They had no compunction against violating the prime directive, making unscrupulous alliances, seducing young ensigns, or reading the Constitution to a planet of Nazis (or something like that) if they felt it furthered their (usually noble if misguided) goals.
I think the "appification of the web", where information is increasingly presented in a custom UI that is supposed to resemble a desktop application, is largely to blame for that, along with the tendency to emphasise form over function (although this is not restricted to the web, it seems to happen whenever people whose only job is to design, and not also create content as well, is present) since there's a general perception that the more "designed" (with graphical elements that are not necessarily useful, distracting animations, multicoloured things whose only purpose is to be attention-getting, etc.) a webpage the better it is. The effect is to emphasise presentation over content, which doesn't please those who are more interested in the latter and certainly isn't any better for accessibility. The overuse of and reliance on Javascript doesn't help matters either. In fact I'd say the web has become less accessible now as compared to e.g. 20 years ago.
How do I contact you? Nothing in your profile. Is this Kari or Richard? PM me. My info is in my profile. Cheers!
One of the things a good University program does is take someone to past the limits of their natural intelligence. Running into the wall is one of the rites of passage of figuring out how to work. For me it was electromagnetic field theory, that crap kicked my butt! But getting through the class on additional study and work was pretty important for me.
"So, in theory, it would be possible with a few hacks to get the bulb to run MS Windows 95..."

"few"
It's funny because my dad's idea of success is owning a company and making a lot of money.

I have different goals. I'd rather earn 80 a year and work 9-to-5 than slave away at work.
There's something in that but I think we're a long way off from money not being effective.
It's something the submitter (along with others) made, and other people can play with it—in this case, because it's interactive. So I'd say it meets the definition at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

We don't want to be too strict about this because creative work can take many forms. Mostly we just want to exclude vaporware.
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No, I believed that it was outside the realm of imagination, that the concept of flying a passenger plane into a building as a form of suicide attack never entered the collective mind of the society. I stand corrected though, thank you and shepardrtc for the Tom Clancy reference. I guess one gets to learn something new every day ;).
aka the tortoise and the hare (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tortoise_and_the_Hare), or, for a more topical treatment determination beats intelligence (http://www.paulgraham.com/determination.html, http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html)

It's universal.

e.g. I'm not supersmart, but maybe halfway between supersmart and average - enough to have glimpses; to know what I'm missing; that my reach exceeds my grasp. I breezed though school, undergrad, honours, masters. The game was how little work I could do. But at PhD level I wanted to do world-class work, and so glimpsed ideas I couldn't effortlessly "just grasp". I kept trying to "just grasp" them in different ways...

Now, finally, I'm attempting to build up my skills, one higher-level at a time. It's ughhh because it makes me feel really stupid... but that's just because I am. At least, relative to the task. I'm making progress. So I've got that going for me, which is nice.

The common wisdom is that less intelligent people hit this barrier earlier, and (if they want to) learn the skills to overcome it when younger. They are net better off.
> In a wiser society, prospective partners would put each other through detailed psychological questionnaires and send themselves off to be assessed at length by teams of psychologists.

My wife and I did premarital counseling. I highly recommend it. We learned a lot about ourselves, each other, and us as a couple.

(We did it with our pastor and a couple we respected. But I recommend it regardless of religious ideology.)