skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Artists literally have to beg publicly for money, to resort to what amounts to a medieval patronage scheme, just to survive at all, all because the audience has simply decided en masse that the value of all creative work is effectively zero.

What is the alternative for 'begging'? That's a loaded term for what could be considered 'advertising' or 'self-promotion' instead. Do you suppose artists are entitled to cash that falls out of the sky proportional to the effort they put it? Where, then, would be the accountability that what they do is actually valuable to someone? Would you rather art be funded through a government grant system, where people are "begging" and dissembling and using political connections to get their money?

Don't confuse value with price. The price is zero because the supply is incredibly high. Partly because the tools have been democratized; it's easy to pick up a guitar and start playing, or a digital camera and start snapping pictures.
What you quoted above gives credence that another quote attributed to Einstein actually is his. I can even recognise the tone in the segment about Aristotle and his views about slavery.

The quote in question? "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein

Even if it was misattributed, it's still one hell of a motto to live by.
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I think you need to take a look at crime statistics again. They're income-based, not race-based. In the United States, poor often also means minority, but it's not race that makes inner cities violent. It's destitution, and the desperation it causes.
that makes it worse, because you'll increase the supply and drive the price down.
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Journalist here, survivor of several 'digital first' revolutions and now, officially, a 'content director' and glad to have a very good job. A couple of things:

1. A really good newsroom is really tight. Very few print-trained journalists are in it for the money, so the cause and comradeship are everything. A quick way to ruin a newsroom is to implement sweeping changes that have nothing to do with good storytelling (and also mean a lot of extra work). I've been through several of these reorganizations. In the worst, management delivers a master plan heavy on digital/social goals but then provides no tools or training. Essentially, somebody went to yet another publishing conference, heard the latest on why everyone's losing money, or what sort of digital results you need to hit the multiples the current VC owners want to flip their share ... Oh hell, this is too frustrating to relive.

Gist: By and large, print journos don't do digital. A good story is a good story, but the tools/skills are essentially different. It's like telling someone skilled with an epee she's going to have start breaking boards. Ordering an accomplished story teller to deliver a list and a quiz each week and promote them heavily across multiple social platforms, for example, is a mistake. You want clickbait, get a pro. You want video, get a pro--not GoPros and iMovie tips for the writers.

2. Of course, owners are absolutely expected to do what they think is best for a property. And outside of TNR alums and friends of recent staff, the reaction of journalists has been largely to shrug: Nothing new here, other than the duly noted wrongheadedness of trying to make TNR something it's never been. (There's also probably some jealously: TNR was a good gig.)

But this is what we all fear:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/12/charles-johns...

And this:
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/12/01/if-you-cant-parody...
The term is "address". There are no accounts in the Bitcoin network.
Many a sincere person will answer: "Our attitude towards Negroes is the result of unfavorable experiences which we have had by living side by side with Negroes in this country. They are not our equals in intelligence, sense of responsibility, reliability."

I am firmly convinced that whoever believes this suffers from a fatal misconception.

Although it has clear political implications, the last part of the quote-within-a-quote ("They are not our equals…") is a scientific hypothesis. Does it strike you that people who take the opposite view of Einstein's—or who even consider its possibility—are treated as merely mistaken? As suffering from a misconception? No—they are treated with opprobrium, condemned with epithets (racist, fascist, etc.), and purged from civil society.

No reasonable person denies that the ancestors of slaves were mistreated, but as an explanation for group differences this is not mutually exclusive with cultural or biological factors that may have nothing to do with past oppression. Unfortunately, this subject is not treated as a scientific matter—it has become a political fight. Einstein appears to be "ahead of his time" not because of the triumph of his scientific arguments but because his political allies have been consistently advancing.
This has been going on in one form of another throughout history. But if you want to sway opinion on the internet, it's not that easy. There are a lot of voices and noise in the mix, compared to how it was a mere 20 years ago.

This is certainly important, but in the context of history, how people consume information is on a much better track, in my opinion things are actually getting better if you look at the big picture.
You don't need to detect a machine, astroturfing now is mostly a manual process.

Recognizing the same topics repeated is enough, even if it happens over time. The longer the time between posts, the less effective the campaign. The less cohesive the topic, the less effective the campaign. This already exists somewhat, machine or human is almost irrelevant.
>It's a fact that rich black students on average have a lower IQ and do worse on tests than the poorest of white students.

Citation needed
There's a fascinating example in computational studies that partly explains this: if you have people of different groups moving around randomly on a lattice, even a very slight preference (51%/49%) for being next to people in the same group as oneself ends up leading to a self-segregated pattern.

EDIT: see e.g http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/Segregation
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"There are no external controls at that point."

Well... there appear to be no external controls at this point, either...
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"There is pleasure to be found in even the most mundane tasks by taking the opportunity to do it the best, most efficient, most beautiful way possible."

I feel like this could've been the subtitle to Richard Feynman's life.
Here's the truth that you young programmers aren't going to like. Einstein was a closet socialist/communist who was hugely overrated as a physicist by the media precisely for his left-leaning politics. "Civil rights" is a nation-splitting tactic that was deeply funded and driven by COMINTERN from the beginning from NAACP to the Scottsboro trials and all the way up to the "protests" in 2014. You folks have been taught your entire lives by a school system similarly deliberately subverted by leftists (see GAMAY for a well-written example) with teachers and professors with viewpoints that average more leftwing than 90% of the country.

The sentiment I'm expressing has been dismissed by your "authorities" as propaganda, lies, redbaiting, etc for decades. But, when _hard_ evidence proving these things has come to light, whether the Pumpkin Papers or Venona or redacted files on Michael King Jr, folks just shrug and pretend that's in the past, doesn't matter, or was laudable. Which is it? Is it a LIE that folks like Einstein were crypto-Reds or is it a TRUTH that doesn't matter because you want the revolution?

More importantly, when, exactly, are you "millennials" going to think for yourselves, rather than turning "hacker news" into the bastard love child of Pravda and Slashdot?
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this is the part of Einstein's legacy that I wish more people knew about
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Always say NO, big no!
Not really true, at least if physics/chemistry intuition can be trusted. Absent a segregating force (e.g. dipole attraction, what causes oil to separate from water), one expects two fluids to eventually become well mixed.

Conversely, if you mix two fluids which have a segregating force, you don't expect them to stay mixed. Intrinsic properties of the fluids drive the level of segregation - anything else is just temporary.

But maybe I'm just a physicist overreaching beyond my field. Why do you believe initial condition is important?

[edit: simulations posted elsewhere in the thread agree with this: http://ncase.me/polygons/ ]
Absoutely. I've published a small game experiment for iOS and didn't expect many purchases after bumping the price up to 99 cents, but the drop-off at even that price point is remarkable. If Apple ever sent me a check I didn't notice it. Acquaintances would say "wow, cool!" and then not decide to spend a dollar and try it out. It seems that an enormous amount of self-promotion would be required to make better results likely.

The market clearly does not favor this kind of product, but the amazing thing is how often I still hear about friends wanting to get into selling software or games to consumers. I always tell them to consider getting into the enterprise market instead, which is comparatively boring but has a reasonable chance of providing non-trivial income. Say what you will about corporations, but they actually pay for software.

My advice to anyone with similar options is to sell software to businesses and maybe hardware to consumers. This effectively rules out most entertainment products. Some people are not discouraged by that, but those people will almost certainly be working day jobs for the foreseeable future anyway. I'm lucky to have enough free time and money where continuing work on these projects is possible without compromising on quality of life, but the odds are they will never be a primary source of income and I'm OK with that.
When filming Planet of the Apes, the apes and humans didn't mingle over lunch, and the apes, orangutans, and chimpanzees all self segregated as well.

http://www.futilitycloset.com/2013/12/13/skin-deep-2/
I don't think Einstein was being that nice, he was essentially saying that intelligence and education were not guarantees against bigotry and bias.

Aristotle proposed in Book 1 of Politics that certain human beings were natural slaves, as different from the free citizens of Athens as human beings were from beasts. He argued that barbarians deserved enslavement because they lacked souls.

Back in 1550, Aristotle was marshalled in an important debate on race: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valladolid_debate

While much of the debate was around the notion that Spain had the right to conquer the Americas, a major part of Bartolomé de las Casas' debate with Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda centred on the rights of Native Americans. Both men were humanist theologians and well versed in classical works, so Aristotle's idea of Natural Slavery was central to their cases.

De las Casas argued that native Americans were worthy of the same rights as European Christians because they were rational human beings with souls, not natural slaves. Years later, De las Casas expanded this idea to a universal statement that no human being regardless of race deserved slavery.

Sepúlveda took Aristotle on face value and argued that Native Americans were natural slaves and as such didn't deserve to be treated as rational human beings, he made the odious argument that enslaving them was a paternal response which improved their lives.

It's important to note that the debate on the shared humanity of the races and their human rights is an argument that is at least half a millennium old.
If LetsEncrypt comes pre-installed with cPanel and when creating the domain name it's https by default, then as long as shared hosting providers update the cPanel then all small sites will be updated to be ssl by default. But then we'd have the problem with people continuing to use 'http://' in <a> tags.
I don't know about you, but I'm inclined to think that there are some pretty big socio-economic issues at play here.
Next thing for mad computer science to do: take a simulated C. Elegans, give it the toolkit of Stuxnet and Regin, set it loose to chew data. First real internet worm?
If the point is the story, what purpose does the model/simulation serve? In this case, the best that the model does is prove that the story is internally consistent. It doesn't prove that the story has any relationship to reality, because there are hundreds of other stories about segregation that you could tell, each with their own model.
It was a bit of a surprise to wake up and see myself on HN! I'm the presenter in the video - I can answer any questions you might have here.
Thanks. I think, this spec is to long for me now to read.

I am wondering, what the advantage of a zero register is? I thought about supporting direct operations, but adding zero does not make to much sense, same with minus, multiply, division .... OR/AND/XOR does also make not much sense. Storing data into this register also does not make to much sense ... or as garbage tray??? ;) (the hardware implemented garbage tray was once the April fool joke in an IT magazine).
Another an example of how, the fact that a person can contribute to the design and construction nuclear bombs does not automatically make him qualified to condemn the rest of the society to produce what he and his brethren deem desirable.

Hayek explained the problems with socialism in the 30s and 40s. His contemporaries laughed at him; he won the Nobel prize in 1974.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/lau...

As Mises pointed out, these self-appointed enlightened people "... forget that a dictator, too, may act differently from their wishes, and that there is no assurance that he will really try for the `best,' and, even if he should seek it, that he should find the way to the `best.'" http://blog.qtau.com/2009/12/food-for-thought-mises-on-socia...

If those don't make sense to you, I recommend "Moscow on the Hudson," "Demolition Man," and "Logan's Run."
I've long suspected that the efficiency of the private sector is greatly exaggerated. In the minds of the public, the huge percentage of businesses that fail, often from strategic missteps or inefficiency, don't seem to get factored in. It seems to be about comparing the Fortune 10 vs. all of government.
That, and one of the biggest facilitators of remittance, a significant source of income for some of the poorest people on the planet.

That may not be very relevant in SV, but they affect a lot of lives positively.

At the same time, they charge exorbitant fees, and remittance fees are stuck at around 10%. I'm looking forward to the day they're as redundant as an expensive long-distance phone call is made redundant, which is possible when you have native digital money like we have digital mail or telephony. Bitcoin to me is the most compelling proposal for this to this date.
Show that I'm wrong, downvoting coward.
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Really great work by Evan. The problems with SC UI he outlines are real, the solutions are mostly of high quality. Hopefully someone @ SC will notice, but given how hard it is to work with graphic/UI designers, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd come up with something completely different, just for the sake of in-housism.
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I think the Aristotle point is a very bad one. People captured in war are flat out inferior to people who won the war or battle. They lost and were enslaved after all. It immediately makes the person arguing for equality have to start falling back on, well, they are really equal in ability it is just they had poor circumstances or luck, trust me even though they lost they are equal!

If we had everyone in the country run a race and the fastest were forced to move to the west coast and the slowest forced to move to the east coast and we waited a generation, people would start saying west coast people are fast in general. And they wouldn't be incorrect. So I don't see anything wrong with Aristotle saying the group of people who end up slaves are inferior, they provably are because they've been tested and selected for failure.

Saying Greeks are superior to Iranians or some other general pronouncement about ethnicity and attributes may not be correct, the DNA of the human race is mostly the same between ethnicities anyway, but saying Greeks are superior to the group of people they defeated in battle and enslaved in person is a tautology.
I'd guess fear. Fear makes you dangerous and unpredictable. Greed makes you dangerous and predictable (sorta).
I doubt there is much written on this. It is a very new area (other that the traditional logic fallacies which still work as well as they always have) and if there is serious research being done it is probably proprietary - it's more valuable to use it secretly. Your work is some the best I've seen on online conversation manipulation. Keep up the good work.
How can you tell it's memory?

As far as I can tell, the RSS memory usage of the process has never gone above 15mb.
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I am not an expert on these matters, but I would imagine that the process for legally obtaining data from foreign countries is both more difficult and more public (a National Security Letter would have no teeth in Germany). Additionally, Germany has a better reputation (perhaps unearned?) for privacy rights, especially as the greatest pillar of the liberal EU, and because when the NSA bugged Merkel's cell phone they soured the intelligence relationship considerably.
Fundamentally, the problem is that the buyer doesn't have enough information.
If I see

person X, javascript, country A, $5
person Y, javascript, country B, $15

all I see is that person X is $10 cheaper. I want to know if person X does better work than person Y, and I can't tell that from this.

People will tend to use country as a proxy for quality, or perhaps assess purchasing power or something. Can you imagine a situation where people have to say "Russian programmers are better/worse than chinese programmers?" Its absurd as a criterion but it is driven by fact that that is one of the main pieces of information we get.
Especially if it's not even true. I'm fine with repeating a debate, as long as it's not a silly one. But the core developers of bitcoin as the developers at businesses built ontop of bitcoin, as a number of independent academics simply don't agree that it can't scale.

But yeah it's getting a little old. It's like someone posts a thread about some new solar invention, and the top comment is 'but the elephant in the room is that there is no global warming and it takes more energy to build a solar panel than it can ever generate' and we all sigh. This is a little less wrong than that, but the notion that bitcoin can't scale is simply false too, and and the topic itself is a lot more complex than 'it can' or 'it can't'.
oh noo the racists will be called racist, such material oppression
I'm not remotely defending his thesis (and my life choices contradict his claims pretty well) but you are simply wrong about the crime stats. To choose one category of crime, blacks make up about half of of murderers. However, there are twice as many poor whites as there are poor blacks.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/c...

http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/poverty-rate-by-raceeth...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...

Further, international comparisons suggest you are wrong about American-style "destitution" causing crime. I know many professionals (I live in India) who are far more "destitute" than any poor American (at least in terms of goods and services they can afford). Strangely they don't turn to crime at anywhere near the rates Americans (of any race) do.
I don't think one side losing in a war means anything at all about the individuals who participated. An army could have the best soldiers and lose due to the general (not to mention resources among other things including being on an off-day, or just mistakes).. I don't think what you're suggesting is anything but sophism. The same kind Aristotle was using.

That said, I do think Aristotle was insightful enough to realize this. Just a guess, but many times when people say stupid things there were social pressures to make these declarations in support of the existing society.

What you said, could easily be used in attempt to say American slavery was justified. Most people realize taking advantage of people is in no way a demonstration of superiority.

Have you ever made a mistake? Do you crush every mortal that crosses your path? I don't think so.
I am not sure why this is being downvoted...
People are asking above "What, however, can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice?". One prong of this prejudice is the structure of our justice system, and participating in these marches can help that.
Not having secrets - MITM isn't necessarily conducted by malicious attackers, but that doesn't mean it's bad. Consider for example a company that wants to identify usage behavior and buys traffic data from an ISP.

Really? Do you think we're all sheeple that are happy to have every facet of our lives tracked? You don't think that someone has a database of every taboo thing you considered buying or seen online, every contrarian political article you've read, etc? You don't think that they're sitting on this cache until they find a way to sell it to anyone that will buy it or score you some way in a Big Data metric? I know people in that industry. They tell me the public isn't ready the handle how much information is for sale about them.

Viewpoints like these feed the sheeple with naivety that they themselves are good people, so the corporations, government agencies and hackers that spy and exploit the gaping chinks in the armor of the Web would certainly have no reason to exploit such good citizens.
Respectfully, what makes you say I'm not qualified?
Some background on the Orleans computing model:

https://orleans.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Getting%20Starte...

Feels like a distributed Actor system. Anyone worked with it?
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on "seeks love" and "values hedonism", there was almost no commenter above .5.

For "challenges authority" all visible commenters were above .95.
Socrates' dialogues were documented/written by Plato, not Aristotle. While there was certainly a conception of universal potential in ancient Greek philosophy, I think there was also the comfortable assumption that enslaved peoples were inferior insofar as they had allowed themselves to be enslaved in the first place. You could draw a parallel with the relatively limited role of women in Greek society. I think it's this sort of confirmation bias Einstein was taking aim at.
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That looks like the paper I was thinking of. Thanks for including te link.
Yes, but then everybody can participate instead of the tiny elite select few that achieve a living wage.