skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But when you think about it, is it truly a pinnacle of humanity if good things (treating people) are achieved by doing bad things (stealing from people by threatening them with jail time and confiscation if they refuse to pay taxes)?

Yes. Yes, obviously that's pretty much the definition of a healthy, mutually-supportive society, at least if you don't resort to stupid rhetorical tricks to try to paint clawing, desperate selfishness as a virtue.

And yes, before you ask, I would be delighted to shoulder a dramatically increased tax burden if I knew it meant that people I care about (and complete strangers) who are physically and mentally ill would no longer have to live and die at the whim of a suspicious and unforgiving bureaucracy. If the government could guarantee me that, I would be fucking ecstatic. I would be singing as I signed the IRS check. So forgive me if I don't find "fuck you, got mine" to be an emotionally compelling argument.
>"These ancient creatures also get cancer, therefore there is no cure for cancer". What nonsense.

Yeah, because a scientific study can summarized from a couple of lines from a NPR article (and even those strawman-quoted in your comment).

>This only points out that cancer has been around for a long while - which I don't think is a contentious issue anyway - not that cancer can't be eradicated

At a basic level, this points out that cancer can emerge even with the very barest forms of life/DNA -- so it's something more inherent than something we acquired after several degress of evolution.
Well let's hope the VC firm left sacrificial wallet.dats on the drives. When we see the *coins move, we'll know the drives were successfully decrypted.
(Unlikely, but would be neat)
I really need an extension that hides any post or article that uses the terms neoliberal or neoliberalism.
Property rights is not a state invention. It's a concept. It wasn't invented by a bureaucrat. What state does is it provides a service of enforcing those rights for the taxes I pay. However, I cannot choose another service provider because state holds a monopoly in this regard. Even if I somehow manage to hire expensive private protection, I still have to pay the state for the service I no longer use. Therefore, they are forcing me to pay. It's extortion at best.
Yes, except if they were rehashed "let the market do it" suggestions that never work.
Video games are (or can be) art as well as business.

And artists in any medium, if they want to support themselves through their art, are a business too.

Some (stereotypical, not video game) artists do make art like it's a business, focusing on what will make them the most money. Sometimes it's good art too.

But most good art isn't driven mainly by what "monetizes well".
rationing of drinking water?! i do hope you're joking (always hard to tell on here) - that would come waaaay down any list of water conservation measures.
AFAIK vitamin A is poisonous in larger doses. In Finland they were worried at time that people might be getting to much of vitamin A.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervitaminosis_A
We used the existing image requests as a baseline. So the numbers we are reporting are specifically for the images that are being served in established formats (e.g. PNG and JPEG) measured against their equivalent requested WebP and JPEG XR variants. We then measured the percentiles of savings for these images. 98% of images in our test customer base saw a 18-74% improvement in compression per image, with an average of 41% savings per image. The data itself is a deduplicated set of hundreds of millions of image requests across several test customers. The one piece of data we should also report is the aggregate total savings per customer across all of their image requests. I will look into calculating that data point.

- Chris
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DODOcase and VR
As mentioned in the presentation, DODOcase released a VR app store app on the Play store [1], along with a forum [2]. I find how they are riding the Google Cardboard buzz impressive.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dodocase.v...

[2] https://dodocase.zendesk.com/forums/21778340-Virtual-Reality...
I'm sort of annoyed that their little embedded quiz didn't accept my answer "Jean-Michel Basquiat" and instead wanted "Jean Michel Basquiat".
Yeah, 4x10 sounds awful -- in fact, working 10 hour days in general sounds awful. I doubt that advocates of a shorter work week have "work the same number of hours, but in a different configuration."

The problem is that even without enough work to go around, people in the U.S. believe that we should be working at minimum 40 hours a week. I think it's going to be really difficult to get people to change that. I can imagine a lot of people staying late or working at home on the weekends to "catch up" with a shortened week.

Maybe it would be easier to start a "9-3" campaign than a "Monday-Thursday" campaign.
>The difference is in quality of the heist, not the nature of it: both slaves and taxpayers are robbed off the fruits of the labor.

If you consider the government as an enemy entity, like a slave-owner yes.

If you consider the government as people you put into place as representatives, according to how the majority compromised to be governmed, to handle common affairs (and that can do a good or a bad job at it), then no.

If people thought taxes are that bad considering what they need to have in return, they'd vote somebody who promises to abolish them then.
This is the exact point of the above, so I'm not sure why it was downvoted.
Perhaps this could benefit from ArangoDB's (1) architecture -- using memory mapped files in append mode and writing to file asynchronously with a new revision number for each write. Or conversely, ArangoDB could benefit from a simple API like this one.

(1) https://www.arangodb.org
tracker1,

I hear you on this and to add another justification for the need for openness, let me give you another example. With ElasticSearch there are some amazing tools that are available. A few that come to mind are Kibana and LogStash. Given that we have our own API layer on top of ElasticSearch, we are not able to support these tools even though we are using ElasticSearch at our core. This is most unfortunate.

There are many reasons why we put an API layer on top of Azure Search. One key reason is that for our particular customers, we found that there were things we could do in our API that could simplify the interaction with Search. In fact, we have a system called Scoring Profiles that allow you to easily (I hope) set weights on important fields and attributes to quickly tune the results of your search based on what is important to you. No coding required. Another reason we don't just expose ElasticSearch is that ElasticSearch allows you to run random code. This is generally not a great idea in a PaaS service and can often lead to issues. There are a number of other reason that I'll skip for now.

We still need to do some thinking in this area. I hope we can get Azure Search to a point that we can enable tools such as Kibana and LogStash to work with our service without compromising the goals of what we are trying to build. Not only would this allow us to really open up the types of things people can do with the service, but I suspect it would really help reduce concern around vendor lock in. We'll see if we can get there...

Liam
I believe cancer is incurable based on intuition alone. Same way my childhood self knew cigarettes were unhealthy; before ever hearing the research (putting smoke in your body just doesn't make sense). Cancer just seems to be a side effect of evolution, or perhaps a catalyst of evolution. I have basically no scientific proof of course, that's just what I think.

That said, there is obviously ways to prevent and treat but that's a different topic.
But what if I don't want any representative? Where does that vote go? If I believed your first statement to be true, does it then follow then I'm free to not pay taxes and IRS wouldn't try to confiscate my property and jail me for not doing so?
If only they labeled them "standing stone I, II and IV"
I believe the idea is that the "wrongness" of stealing is based on some moral principle, not on whether or not people and the legal system consider it wrong. Many people who believe firmly in property rights believe them to be moral rights, not rights in the sense of legislatively granted rights (rights created by the collective).

It's hence not necessarily moral dissonance. It's quite possible for someone to believe that property rights are 'natural rights', ergo stealing is wrong, but not believe people have any rights to things they didn't acquire by work or exchange, hence not view 'dispossession' as wrong.
Coming from Australia, where we've recently come off a 10-year drought, rationing drinking water is far from the next thing. Before you ration drinking water, you ban or ration washing cars, watering lawns, and laundry.

Lawns in particular guzzle a lot of water - watering lawns would have to be fully prohibited before anyone sensible started rationing drinking water, as the latter is a public health issue, and lawns are merely pretty. Having restaurants limit water is pure theatre, as bradleyjg has already mentioned.
I don't follow your first or third paragraphs, but I feel like the second is most germane to the question of "is taxation moral," so I'll focus on that.

Here's my question to propose, instead of following the reduction to absurdity of voting to shoot people, but sticking with the majority/minority question you raise. If the majority of people in any unit of democratic government (city, state, province, whatever) truly believes that that said government should not collect* taxes, how do those taxes exist? One of the more recent examples I can think of is in Arlington, TX, where taxes were raised to contribute towards a new football stadium[0]. There's research on the books suggesting that such moves don't pay off financially for cities in the long run, as well as disputes about campaign funding[1], but somehow I imagine a truly moral issue like shooting people in the head would be a harder election to swing than one about a question of utility—pay some money, get a stadium, and all the non-financial benefits many people get from that.

*which I will also note is a quite different stance from 'will jump to pay them without any grumbling, reminders, or future coercion'

[0] http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=1914997
[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-05/in-stadium-building...
I've been using Best Buy's API for 4 years now. My first API key was registered on 1/31/11 at 2:24 pm. It is crazy it has been this long. This is the site I built using the API: http://boominaudio.com

The BBY API is awesome. I've especially liked the stores API. I've grabbed the location of the user, and then mapped out products that are in stock near them and use the Google Maps API to show people products on a map relative to their location. The data that is pulled from the API, is then stored in Memcached for like 6 hours. I actually store the product data in MySQL, but certain things are pulled dynamically on the fly, like the product reviews data.
Cannot upvote this enough. If the creator of this is listening, for Cthulhu's sake require some input from the user before blaring out sound at them. Was interested, but closed as soon as a tab started making loud noises without me asking it to.
Again, that's not an argument. I can say "governments never work" and 90% of the time I would be factually correct.
I was a student of this MIDS program for one semester after attending Hack Reactor in the spring. I took three classes this summer, which is the closest thing they have to full-time. I can say without hesitation that it would be an enormous financial mistake for most people to join the program.

Just a quick overview of some of the problems they have:

- Poorly considered curriculum. Our data visualization class involved no d3js or training with data viz tools. Students were told to teach themselves the tools in their spare time while studying data viz theory (Edward Tufte, etc.) in class.

- Cost. There's absolutely no way to justify the $60k price tag, especially with no in-state tuition option.

- Choice of instructors. They're trying to increase the size of the program too quickly, while throwing in new instructors with zero teaching experience. These instructors also have part-time or full-time jobs outside of MIDS, so I didn't even get my grades back for assignments from the first month by two weeks before finals. It would often take a minimum of 2-4 weeks to get grades back.

I've officially withdrawn from MIDS, and I'm attending Zipfian this fall. I strongly recommend considering any and all alternatives to MIDS before even applying.
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> near-infrared

So, still red then?
>And yes, before you ask, I would be delighted to shoulder a dramatically increased tax burden if I knew it meant that people I care about (and complete strangers) who are physically and mentally ill would no longer have to live and die at the whim of a suspicious and unforgiving bureaucracy.

Do you give much money to charity? If we assume many people are like you, and desire to help those who are sick, why aren't voluntary charities sufficient; why does the government have to take money from anyone regardless of whether or not they want to give it?
It's a fair complaint. I'm not sure when we're getting everything to HTTPS, but I know it's on the roadmap. Including the API key as a parameter goes back to the early days of our API - quite a few years ago. The problem now is that we have enough apps with enough traffic that we can't just move it to the header without causing a bit of disruption. But that too is on our roadmap. Both issues are important.
Troll. Did you make the 'bigbangtheory1' account too?

Congrats on getting something out. I had a similar idea that's now too far in the backlog, so hopefully you'll find use from it. It'd be awesome if I could set a mobile chatroom around myself with some choice of radius. While sitting in class I could spin up a room for classmates, and ask questions/chat/pre-poll iClicker answers/etc. Maybe add some pseudo-anonymity. The thought that you don't know who you are talking to, even when they're right next to you, is pretty exciting. Maybe anon-chat roulette with people in the radius? The extrapolations get weird.
Unfortunately, even if this works, it will likely have less and less application over time. California has very little fresh water reaching the ocean, and as population increases, and drought increases, we're sending less fresh water to the ocean.

And, over time, it takes more & more energy to make water fresh/clean in the first place, and to move fresh water around.

So, any power generation scheme that requires using fresh water is not on a good trajectory. It's good science experimentation though, & may spark other more useful ideas.
You shouldnt. You should use this: https://github.com/sergeyksv/tingodb so that when you realize that you do need mongodb after all, you can just drop it in.
here is another flat file db that ive been eyeing:
https://github.com/sergeyksv/tingodb

upward compatible with mongodb.

Ive also used nedb, which is ok but tends to delete the datastore when it runs out of disk space :P
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As an Australian living in Japan I found it really spoke to me.
Some optimisations to get it to web-scale on TempleOS were obviously necessary.
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It's really funny how everyone is completely ignoring the profound effects this will have on California's wildlife and native flora.
Keep watching. I got a bunch of songs in Spanish being played by people in Latin America, and a couple in Swedish.

EDIT: That said, there's something magical about knowing that people in Majorca and San Pedro de Alcantrata were listening to Boston "together."
Is there such thing as a modern high-reliability SD card, resistant to power cuts and tough environmental conditions? It seems like there would be a market for that in embedded industrial or military devices.
I'm not quite sure I would consider Best Buy an underdog...
>Of course we do! Compare the crime rates (or worthy index of your choice) between countries that actively try to provide these things to everyone versus those that don't.

If you view it in terms of the negative economic effects of wealth transfer from productive citizens to those who don't work, invest or study, it doesn't matter if the "parasites" are stealing money directly or if the government is taking it for them. The end result is still a transfer of wealth from people who might use it to produce more wealth to people who'll only consume it.
No. "near-infrared" isn't a red color shade, in fact it's not normally visible at all. Near-infrared is what your media remote uses to control your TV and audio system. You really cannot see it.
i think all the stuff mike bostocks does is absolutely legendary- to the (probably few) people who haven't seen his website, check out http://bost.ocks.org/mike/
> For science, the existence of the correlation isn't enough to argue for a predictive relationship. For science, someone would have to design a test in which the drawing was proven to anticipate later developments, rather than accompany them passively

You're confusing a "predictive" relationship with a "causative" relationship. A correlation and a predictive relationship are the same thing.
Or from a good public library.
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Best Buy is the leader in the retail market for consumer electronics.
Ask HN: Service to keep track of all 3rd party library updates for web app
We end up using a myriad of software libraries for developing a web app. What's a good way to keep track of new releases, important updates, security advisories, and alerts on specific topics? Even though most projects are hosted on Github, it would be great to keep a tab on blogs, places that host code snippets/gists, repositories like pypi, and ofcourse bitbucket.

My best guess is IFTTT, please share your tool of choice.
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"Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society." - Oliver Wendell Holmes.
"there are still companies sourcing bottled water from the state"

If that is true, then this says the price that the bottler is paying for California sourced water is far too low.
The article doesn't mention whether the stolen machines' hard drives were encrypted or not, though I guess we can assume they weren't based on the level of concern being raised =/
I think your question is a very smart one. Indeed, if most opposed taxation, wouldn't they simply vote against it?

The problem is, it's kind of a vicious cycle. Because state cannot exist without taxation, it is in its best interest to never bring up this question: that is, it may be okay to occasionally reduce one particular tax, but overall, the idea that taxation is extortion would simply never be raised. Therefore, much like in medieval times, people are raised to believe that they cannot survive without state (god) and that society would descend into violent anarchy without a state (people would lose their moral compass without faith in god).

Another problem is how state redefines things when it comes to taxing people. Taxes are always tied to good activities you perform, not bad activities states perform. That is, if people had to fill tax reports in which they saw "$200 for killing a bunch of kids in Iraq" instead of "$200 for selling your car" they might change their minds.

So, to sum it up: threat of force + propaganda from the young age (done in schools on that very same taxpayers money) = vicious cycle that is hard to break.
> A correlation and a predictive relationship are the same thing.

Not at all. Do puddles predict rain, or accompany it? A prediction is specific, and distinct from a simple correlation. A prediction assumes the existence of a cause-effect relation between the measured property and something predicted in the future, even if (as in this case) the mechanism connecting them isn't known.

Prediction implies cause and effect. Exposure to a virus predicts infection in some of those exposed -- it's more than a simple correlation.

Inebriation predicts traffic accidents. Sexual activity predicts pregnancy and STDs. And so forth. These aren't simple correlations.

> You're confusing a "predictive" relationship with a "causative" relationship.

No, I'm asserting that that is what it means, as do all who use the word "prediction" in this context.
Yes it is, it turns a problem of solving a set of equations into a minimization problem. An algorithm to find the best fit to some data can also be used to find an exact fit if it exists, and is likely to have good numerical stability.
Cancer is not one disease. It's one symptom of multiple genetic regulatory failure modes.
There have been hospitals that have cut resident hours to more reasonable schedules. They measured the number of errors, hoping to see a drop. Unfortunately, the number of errors stayed the same.

The problem is that shorter hours increases the number of patient handoffs between doctors. Most residents cap at 12 patients. So, as you're trying to get out the door to go home, eat some food and sleep, you have to brief the incoming doctor on 10-12 hours of care for 12 patients. Either you have to go fast and skip some stuff, or you'll be there forever.
Nope. You're describing implementation-defined behavior. The compiler is free to assume undefined behavior never happens, and optimize it away if it does. This can be a big problem, whether or not you are trying to write portable code.

This series (among many other places on the internet) does a good job explaining the problems http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...
That bootstrapping is pretty sweet, was that something you guys came up with or did you borrow it from somewhere?

(I'm referring to the stuff in https://github.com/cattleio/stampede/tree/master/stampede-wr...)

> On a scale of 1 to 10, we're at 11 in terms of hacks in this file.

Dont be ashamed, it's awesome!
Crashed almost immediately upon startup and map display. I'll try on other devices if it keeps doing this on this one.

The concept seems pretty cool. I like it. It has the potential to do a lot of useful and fun things.

I really hope the dark side doesn't rear up too quickly. If not watched carefully, it could become a cesspool of hate, crime, defacement, intimidation...
I'm in Australia, and the link took me to https://www.spotify.com/au/arts/serendipity/. Not sure what difference it makes, but if it's redirecting based on region, it might be best to leave it as is.
What percent of doctors do you think have do deal with hour long life-or-death surgeries? .5%? 5%?
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>Yeah, because a scientific study can summarized from a couple of lines from a NPR article (and even those strawman-quoted in your comment).

If you couldn't tell, I don't think the article is well-written and is probably an incomplete summary of the research being done. However, I think the statement I made there is an accurate summary of what the article - if not the research - is trying to claim. I.e. it is not a strawman.
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Ah, yes! I know the company you're talking about. They come up regularly in neighborhood recommendations, although with the caveat that they're more expensive than most.

I think routine tree removal and trimming around here is kind of cutthroat -- which I've used to my advantage when getting bids. But, on the other hand, who would trust the lowest bidder to take care of your Prized Live Oak That Is The Centerpiece Of Your Old Palo Alto Backyard?