skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The risk with a powerful government that can do this is it can be bought."

A government can be bought?, your implicit assumption is that a government powerful enough will serve the interest of others and this is bad.

The problem for me is that a government powerful enough will serve their OWN interest, the personal interest of the people in power, and this is bad.

Part of my family comes from a former communist country.

In theory, it was "the government of the people", in practice it was the biggest concentration of power ever in so few hands, the politburo. And the people there had nothing to do with those that generated wealth.

In theory those in the politburo were not rich, in practice they could do or get whatever they wanted. Money was not needed for that.

Only one political party, only one company for the entire nation.

This meant you could be the best worker in the world, if someone high enough wants you to sweep streets, you seep streets or starve.

Not only that, if your brother mother or your sister does something the party does no like(like not getting in bed with someone up), you will pay for it too.

People in change of the police(Beria) will rape hundreds of young women and we will only know decades after with zero consequences to those that took part on it.

When taxes become too high, over 50% of what you earn, you become a slave of government. The problem is that for people like Piketty taxes are never high enough.

Mr Thomas Piketty is French. What we see in countries like France is that 60% of the economy is public. They become more and more communist-central planned.

Money is wasted in those societies in terrible malinvestments(like the Great Leap Forward or Qualitative easings), and they never have enough as they are the most incompetent people around until society collapse.

If you can buy the government, then you are lucky, it means the power is not monopolized in only one place.
Thanks for the plug!
I'd definitely recommend the both of you discuss your plans on #docker-dev / freenode. I'm excited to participate in the conversation, it sounds really cool.
Looking forward to the event and really curious about rumors of Macbook Air retina in particular (I know it is an iPad launch event though).
It's not surprising at all. Eugenics on a large scale is also know as population control and it elicits negative visceral reactions for good reasons. Large undertakings usually require some kind of central control and the history of such control is not positive at all.

Now if the choice comes down to something between two individuals because technology makes it possible to make certain choices that's a different matter but even then you are treading in dangerous territory. Who gets access to the technology? How do you verify that the technology is safe? Is there a beta test period? Who gets to be a beta tester? Anyway the list is long and the technology is nowhere near where it needs to be for even these kinds of choices to be made between two individuals let alone at the population level.

I find the idea in general just intuitively unappealing. Humanity can't breed itself out of the problems it is in. Being smart is simply not enough. Anything worthwhile requires hard work. So are you going to breed for hard work as well now? I don't see these scientists looking for those genes though.
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I got lost in this site for a while, in a good way. I highly recommend clicking through to some of the other articles on the site.
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As in Dungeons and Dragons, perhaps a distinction exists between man's wisdom and intelligence. If so, a novel genius might profitably be tempered by a common-sense practicality.
I read "the tangled web" (web security) on my last long flight. Recommended; search for "hilarious" to find the most painful bits.
Q: What's the difference between an American and a European?

A: A European thinks that 100km is a pretty big distance. An American thinks that 100 years are a pretty long time.
You can find some more info about the project here: http://lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact-fusion.html

Short video presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlYClniDFkM
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The chicken analogy doesn't sit right with me because there are far more generations of chickens over a given period of time; and additionally the trait that you want to select for in a chicken is clear. You want the biggest chicken in the least amount of time.

Intelligence is only one trait out of many that you would like to select for. Attractiveness, strength, health, etc. all matter just as much. Balancing competing concerns is harder than just making a fat chicken.
In Belgian traffic, 100km takes 100 years to drive, so they're both right :p
In some cases that's actually hard to do. Rare and out-of-print DVDs can sell for hundreds, or even thousands of dollars. For the well-heeled collector, that's not a huge setback. For your average film buff, that's a tall order. Thus, Netflix's DVD service has been convenient for that segment.
> Paying someone to do worthless work (lavishing luxury on someone) does not help society much.

Tell that to the people feeding their families by working at the resort, or in the vineyard, or the tannery.

There is a demand for luxury goods, and there always will be. A tax in the consumption of those goods cuts into the wages of the non-wealthy involved in their production.
Absolutely, and also considering that the window is once a week (I believe), this should have happened ASAP.
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An estate of 5 million puts you well into the upper echelons of society.

I have little sympathy for those who the estate tax hits
A fascinating insight into the fearlessness (recklessness?) of the human test subjects of yore.

Source: http://whatif.xkcd.com/116/
I completely agree here. This is a far better way of expressing what I was trying to get at :)
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Who gives a damn about an 100% effective system?

Perfect is the enemy of "good enough", or in this case significantly better.

Worse, it's pretty clear that too many cases in the US will use up various finite resources, from those 23 beds really able to handle this well, to healthcare workers outside of them willing to work on Ebola patients, unless future outbreaks turn out a lot better, to PPE supplies. Not to mention the extreme expense of dealing with each patient added to already financially strained hospitals, who's ability to provide services once an Ebola patient shows up gets degraded (is the Dallas hospital ER back in operation?)

There's going to be leakers. The idea is to minimize them, and the human and economic costs they impose on us.
One practical approach is to have a high income tax on large incomes with a tax break for income which is invested rather than spent. There is something a little like that in the UK where you can offset 50% of your investment in startup against your income tax bill. I'm not sure how economically efficient that will prove - a lot of the startups go belly up. You'd probably want the income tax a bit higher than the present 40-45% to keep Piketty happy.
Yeah, now there is the potential for one buggy app creating bad data to "infect" all your other apps via HealthKit. Like if it doubles up your runs, now your activity calories are wrong in your diet tracker. Yay.
You seem to be considering only the U.S. government. The Scandinavian countries have done quite well in combating poverty. While the U.S. government has not eradicated poverty it was government programs that ensured that people were fed at decent levels in the U.S. and it was government programs that ensured the eradication, for the most part, of a host of a number of diseases that used to be endemic amongst poor people.

The problem with reliance on hyperlocal philanthropies means that location A may be populated by selfish jerks who given nothing to the least of their brethren while location B does.
Interesting read,

I hate when I see that like the post says about this Attorney... he has no idea about computers yet he is trying to fight something in computers. I get that in real life all the time people that have no knowledge of computing and the internet want to change it... cause they are trying to show other people that they do.
And Szilárd was not a top-class physicist (and engineer)?
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For example.. `Dim x, y as Long` results in only `y` being long. Internal functions like `InputBox` or string functions like `Left`,` Right`, `Trim`, `Mid`, and so on return variant not string. So you have to do a little extra there.
Because it would have been an invitation to debate with facts that are hard to disagree with.

His solutions on the other hand are easily pulled apart and so that is what many discussions end up focusing on. This is unfortunate.
Interesting, I did not know about this. I guess some of it can be chalked up to cultural differences, then. Does this also mean that the Chinese started far earlier than others in doing real urban planning?
I'm coming for the GSoC reunion to SJ as well. Hopefully I can go to some offices on this thread!
+1 from me :)
> From a purely practical perspective, being a developer who exclusively works on closed-source code in 2014 is a bad career decision.

You mean 99% of developers? There are very few companies who let you work on open source as part of your day job, and if a company only wants to hire devs who work on open source in their free time then I don't want to work for that company.
And maybe the rest of the world knows something we don't - like where laissez-faire capitalism actually leads.

Hey look, I can toss around unsupported political assertions too!
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The logo is so cute. Did you notice the mouse has blue eyes and pink ears ?
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Both battery claims come with interesting footnote:

Mixed use battery life claims are approximate and based on an average user profile developed and tested by Motorola that includes both usage and standby [1]

It means that there is a chance that your phone will be alive for 6 hours after just 15 minutes of charging (Battery must be substantially depleted [1]), if your usage/standby pattern is same as Motorola's.

[1] http://www.google.com/nexus/6/
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Oh no, don't get me wrong. I didn't mean that you app is "nothing" - I only mean that there isn't anything standing out here. I think something that might help the pitch is to make it more personal. Show how I can quickly share photos from the beach with my family. Don't forget the App Store now supports preview videos as well, that might help.
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I gave a talk on the subject last year at PyData NYC: http://vimeo.com/79511496

Hopefully I can give an updated one covering the upcoming 1.0 release at this year's.

Also, SciKit-Learn Laboratory (SKLL) was recently featured in the new O'Reilly book, Data Science at the Command Line, by Jeroen Janssens.
My grandmother's uncle left an estate over five million.

She then burned through the entirety of her share paying for her stay in a nursing home when she couldn't speak or wipe her own ass, so the taxpayers didn't have to.

Everything's not as simple as you think.
This is why a tax on capital is both easier and less regressive. It avoids subjective value judgments on what's "good" or "bad" consumption.
> how people who are professional psychologists do not deal with their own issues

My dad was owned a car mechanic's shop. One of the truisms in that industry is that mechanics often have cars in the worst shape, because they're so busy taking care of other people's cars that they just don't have the motivation or time to deal with the problems of their own car. Perhaps a similar phenomenon?
I can't seem to find it but Jeff Dean did a talk a long while back about How Google's search works, how they predict. I wish I could see it again. He talks about "shard" servers.

Anyone remember this?
> What you do see though, in the same Fortune 400 list is that 6 of the top 10 people on that list didn't build their companies (in the sense that Bill Gates did), they inherited them.

But 10 out of the top ten did not have billionaires for grandparents. The Kochs and Waltons are second-generation billionaires. They're not the product of hundreds of years of steadily accumulating wealth. So there's a flaw in the thesis that wealth continues to grow. There's a significant amount of churn in the ranks of the superwealthy.
For Jermoluk's part, he says he does not recall the incident. ''Am I guilty of getting drunk a few times?'' he asks. ''Sure. Probably inappropriately at times? Yeah. Did I party hard? Sure.'' But he also adds: ''Was I leading a wild life? No. I was working too hard, man.'' Even Jermoluk's critics say this never impaired his job performance, but such overindulgence by the company's No.2 rattled some employees' confidence. ''People aren't used to seeing the president get drunk,'' says a former executive.

It's funny to think this was pretty common during the first dot com boom and bust years. I had an executive at Best Buy tell me a few years back about how the bust changed a lot of attitudes with how executives should act in front of the company employees.
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Personally I like that the password manager is independent from the browser. If you switch browsers it's handy to be able to take your passwords with you.
The flip side is overheads, which have almost disappeared. Including hand-written overheads, with lots of different colors, shaky font, and text that turns to the side when the author runs out of space. I saw once a presenter give an entire one hour talk with a single overhead, where all of the equations were crammed together.

I'm old enough that I used drawing tools on a NeXT to compose each overhead, and print it out onto transparencies for presentation.

So the bar may have gone down with respect to slides, but it's gone if you consider that current "slides" have replaced overheads.
Sure. The question remains how many of those systems and solutions are relevant to designing a fusion reactor. I think it's easy to overestimate the relevance from a helicopter point of view.

For instance, the same argument applies to a wafer stepper or 'dreadnought class' surface mining equipment. Yet it seems unlikely they are able to commercially compete on both of those extremely different specialized kinds of machines. And I wonder if a fusion reactor would be any different.
Enjoyment, primarily.
I have a lot of respect for Bill Gates because of his philanthropic efforts. However, I am very skeptical of the consumption tax argument. To me that sounds like a sales tax and sales tax is regressive. i.e. Tax on French baguette hits the poor more than the rich, since as a group they consume way more baguette.

Even if it is just a special sales tax that targets the rich only, discouraging spending by people with money can hardly be a good thing; that's how recession happen and the rich will continue to capture a bigger share of the total wealth. For an economy to flourish we need the wealth to flow from individual to individual. If all the water on earth is stuck in the ocean we'd have serious problem. Same with wealth.
The key was used to name expanded placeholders. The intent was to get "placeholder_1", "placeholder_2" ... "placeholder_N" in the query for the number of elements in the argument array.

However, arrays can have non numerical keys. This results in "placeholder_KEY", "placeholder_KEY2".

If Key is a SQL query fragment, that ends up verbatim in the placeholders section.

Suppose you pass $_GET['foo'] as a query argument. An attacker can (simplified) supply ?foo[EXPLOIT] and poof, $_GET['foo'] is an array with 'EXPLOIT' among the keys that suddenly gets into the query verbatim.
I guess you'd have to combine the consumption tax with a large estate tax or similar to address capital accumulation.
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What I don't understand is how a botnet could negatively affect Microsoft other than showing the world through news articles how it infected vulnerable Microsoft software?

Is the bad press basically the reason and justification?
I think that to many people, the phenomena behind IQ is a suspected general mental ability. It may also be fitting to describe this as a general or arbitrary analogical or mapping ability. I think this definition also captures what people think of when they say "artificial", or non-organic intelligence.

When you say that IQ is just "a specific subset of symbolic puzzles", I believe you are criticizing IQ as ungeneralizable, or as having external validity issues.

I think the reason why IQ has remained as a widespread construct is because it is actually so useful in predicting performance across an array of situations, such as general job performance, of which IQ or g is often a top-tier or unmatched predictor, better than years of relevant work experience. And whenever someone accuses IQ of being inadequate, and they come out with their More Complete test, it turns out that their measurements and predictions are insufficiently distinctive from IQ, which even further supports the idea of a "general" mental ability.
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One of the protections there is that if you delete an app from your phone, you've got the option to also delete all of it's data from HealthKit. Still agree it's a pain though when it does happen.
How can a guy be "former Benevolent Dictator For Life"? Is he dead?
One the one hand, I would be deeply stunned if an IQ of 1000 was available just by flipping all the genetic switches to "on". The result of doing such a thing that I would actually expect would be to create a non-viable embryo.

On the other hand, it is undeniable that genetic fiddling will someday be able to raise intelligence, and even if all it could do was reliably produce people of the 150-170 range, it could still radically change the world. And that's merely hypothesizing the reliable production of an effect that already exists and therefore can not be impossible. One can imagine that an IQ 1000 may be simply impossible on anything recognizably like the neural substrate we run on. We don't have enough information to know that right now. But we know we can get 150-170.
There is no such thing as a double tax as you put it. All money is double, triple, quadrupled so on and so forth taxed. The principle for fairness behind taxation is that whenever you get money (or wealth) there is a tax. Regardless of where is comes from. There are exceptions and loopholes to this principle.

If I work very hard and earn $100,000 in a year I get taxed. If someone else dies and I inherit $100,000 (in the U.S.) there is no tax. In case 1 a person works for it and pays tax and in case 2 there is no tax. Consider another case. Suppose I walk down the street and find $100,000. I have to pay tax on it. (At least I'm supposed to pay tax on it.) Estate taxes are too little in this country.

A family can perpetuate a shared set of values over hundreds of years without leaving $x million to the children.
No, it just makes subjective value judgements on what is "good" and "bad" capital. Oversized primary residence? Subsidized. Equivalent amount of money in a retirement account? Subsidized. Equivalent amount of money in a stock? Not subsidized.
but HK was supposed to fuse data so I would suppose it would remove double entries. I think they should wait a few months before releasing it.
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Gates is a bad example, but many come up with such examples.

The difference between what he owns now and than is not as huge as the difference between somebody whose parents could afford Harvard and somebody who is raised in Harlem, because he has not the same starting condition.

There is a saying: The first million (billion, 100k, ...) is the most difficult one.
The link in the post to the fork is dead, which leads me to believe maybe they reversed their decision to fork it.

The nodeforward site discusses improving documentation, build and test tools: http://nodeforward.org/
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I've got two 20% projects: one for Saturday, and one for Sunday.

-- Googler saying.
>You pose a great question though: would philanthropy exist in a well-designed system?

I'm convinced that it is only the good faith of enough actors that allows any system to function at all. Every tax or subsidy fixes one problem while creating another. Not to say we shouldn't have them---externalities should be addressed---but that a system "perfectly designed for outcomes humans like" is equivalent to creating strong AI that happens to run on a market economy.
Or you could just tax capital without judging it. That's also possible.
ironical from a multiple times convicted monopolist
Gates had a very silver spoon too.
It's just an expression, he stepped down: http://blog.nodejs.org/2014/01/15/the-next-phase-of-node-js/
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If you code normally, I'd say take advantage of the change in context to focus your brain on something completely different. Like designing a conlang or reading the most reviewed Capote works or heck, just finding a couple of people you can talk to if the plane isn't crowded. An overseas flight will have interesting people with interesting stories.
isaacs passed on the reins to tjfontaine to focus on NPM instead: http://blog.nodejs.org/2014/01/15/the-next-phase-of-node-js/

One thing I don't understand is why isaacs didn't pass on the reins to a committee in the first place if that's what he wanted? Politics in the background? (I don't keep up with the Node community.)
> No one is saying (and the article certainly isn't) that you can just jump straight into a job after a few weeks studying an online course

That's not what you're saying. It is, however, the fantasy that you and those like you are selling.

A lot of us find this deeply troubling.