skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Austrian economists like to point out that human wants and needs are effectively infinite (mostly due to the "wants" part), so there is fundamentally no reason that our economy should cease functioning just because the "needs" portion becomes increasingly automated and efficient.

The problem is getting people to pay for the "wants" part. I'm worried that the internet has accustomed people to treating creative content as a free resource by nature of being on the internet. It's the most efficient distribution mechanism for a lot of creative works, but the economics of an ad-filled internet experience with the user as product is very disturbing on a grand scale.

The whole dream of economic progress since the Enlightenment was that our needs would become increasingly solved so that we could focus on what we really enjoy as human beings. To quote John Adams:

> "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain."

But we live in a world with an ever expanding supply of people and a rapidly diminishing set of "necessary" jobs. If we want to avoid the end game of that situation (revolution) we need to find ways to get the economics of the unnecessary-but-still-valuable to work.
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Exactly, and companies are compelled by law to pay the taxes, as compared to companies providing these services out of good corporate citizenship.
I dunno, there's a few contenders. Scribd was pretty bad. RapGenius was pretty bad in terms of the people.

Edit: Oh, and Quora, even if that wasn't much more than YC lending its name.
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https://news.ycombinator.com

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin

... other sub- and multireddits

https://news.google.de
> Both make heavy use of optionals for failable functions ….

Haskell doesn't do so enough, though (I don't know Rust and so won't comment), so that we still need manually to choose to use the safe library (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/safe).
Never mind, this must be it:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/13/amazons_new_ec2_comp...
Without a doubt extreme unemployment and poverty contributes to radical and criminal behavior. But saying that patriarch dominance and lack of democratic tradition leads to terrorism...where is this coming from? So by your logic, democratic countries are free of terrorism and non-democratic countries are riddled with it. Of course we can shoot all kinds of holes in that notion through counter-example. And blaming terrorism on patriarchy? Most societies in history, even traditional European society, were patriarchal. To say they cause terrorism (with zero elaboration) just waters down your otherwise insightful comment by exposing your strong Western liberal/feminist bias.
and perhaps he/she also lives in a dwelling with some kind of heating, where the indoor relative humidity will be around 10% if you live in a cold climate.
There was another article that suggested they were manufactured specifically to amazon's standards for things like cooling and power stability. Instead of having to run in a wide range of environments, they can be designed to run in just the narrow range of Amazon's environment.
I don't get how anyone does it, personally. Never getting more than ~2.5 hours of sleep at a whack, because you have to get up to feed or pump every 3 hours? After three or four days of that I'd be approaching the dangerously-negligent-of-responsibilities-and-poor-decision-making state I hit when I go too long without proper sleep, and would be a liability to all around me.

I guess (some?) women have some sort of temporary hormonal advantage that lets them pull it off. My wife couldn't, and I don't blame her.

I'd guess it's far easier in states with more humane leave policies than the US, where fathers and mothers both can take several months of paid leave. Without both parents home it's damn tough, and approaches impossible if you already have one or more older ones to take care of (so, few or no day naps for the mother).
The year of the silly idea?
You must've realized by now that American foreign policy (& ergo media biases) is distinctly Saudi-centered.

The current debacle with ISIS is likely the result of covert Saudi-CIA funding of "secular" rebels before things went bad (ala Afghanistan):
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/isi...

That's not to say I like Abbas, of course, but criticism in the US is always the classic manichean "good" vs "evil", which ends up doing more harm than good.

The other case, being Iran -whose Muslims are far less radical than those in Saudi- is made to appear as some raving mad state (their Govt. is awful no doubt).

Until the propaganda machine changes its mind, you'll keep seeing the violent philosophy of Wahabism spread like a cancer; and being politically correct doesn't particularly help.
Could you elaborate on what "better" would mean here?
Clinical medicine is a better analogy than technical rollouts. But you're right, modern development economics argues that social fixes (policies) should be empirically driven using evidence-based randomized control trials.

Esther Duflo has pushing this approach at the MIT Poverty Action Lab. The main insight is to reject grand generalizations and broad theorizing. Sitting in an armchair pondering how to "fix capitalism" is unlikely to lead to useful lines of thought. Society is too complex a system, cause & effect relationships can be highly localized and context-dependent; formulaic thinking just leads one down ideological rabbit holes.
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This isn't a 'fail'. Being repulsed by Charlie Hebdo's offensive depictions of religious icons does not imply being in favour of the assassination of its editorial staff. You can stand squarely against both, without contradiction.
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Give any religion enough uneducated, miserable, humiliated young people and you will get the same result. The world, unfortunately, is not in short supply of such. Even buddhists can become rabid.
Impossible to have so many investments and not have a few bad apples. Still surprised PG did not distance himself further from installmonetizer, otoh props for standing by his investment and doing damage control for them at the expense of the YC cachet.
For some getting to the point of actual conversation might be a difficult thing; fixing someone's computer serves as a good social object.
We seem to agree together :).

It may be or may be not easy to rebuild everything with the same VS version, especially open source packages. Many maintainers do not care about VS at all (e.g. xz/liblzma - use mingw, VS is not C99 anyway... but mingw links agains msvcrt.dll, which is a no-no) or have some crazy build system, that is supposed to work cross-platform, but really works only on Linux and maybe OSX (I'm looking at you, py2cairo). Some of them do care and building is a piece of cake (curl). Or they are somewhere in the middle, where will make their own build system, that defies all your expectations and does it's own things ignoring your vcvars (Boost).

When we get out of the C/C++ realm, it gets easier everywhere, whether C# or Python.
>That costs a lot less to comply with.

You think it does, but you couldn't be further from the truth. The very concept of trigger warnings are costly: Anytime you want to voice an opinion, you're forced to enumerate all the possible ways every reader might be offended or triggered or upset by what you're saying. It's an unscalable solipsistic self-centered notion that implies people are not in control of their own feelings and emotions and how things affect them (I say this as someone who has dealt with mild PTSD). Trigger warnings on banal content trivialize the whole thing, and encourage people not to help themselves.

Getting triggered sucks and is painful and throws everything off balance and is just a horrible thing to experience. But only a fool feels those things and blames the stimulus that brought up the associations. The last time I felt those feelings, I realized that I needed to get help or I was always going to be a broken, unhappy, scared person.

The problem as I see it comes from the fact that a bunch of teenagers on tumblr co-opted trigger warnings from legitimate uses (like on PTSD and abuse forums) and started applying them to idiotic things like fat shaming and otherkin.
You're right and I agree that he was a Christian terrorist in that sense. I was mostly commenting the use of "certainly".
Careful. These "Little Children" are showing us more and more how violent and ruthless they can be.

They defaced a webpage. I don't consider that to be very violent. In a fistfight, I'll take a club with a nail in it over the awesome power of defacing a webpage every time.

I do not belittle them for a poor grasp of English (which, actually, is not very poor). I belittle them because they defaced a webpage, and with a very childish message. It says little more than "I was here".
If "shareholders of big corporations" aren't going to see the monetary benefits, then why would they even pursue the research?

Put another way: if the financial beneficiary of increased efficiency is NOT they who invested, why would those investors make the investment?
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"it will affect people from all classes in the same way"

No. Given a roughly capitalist system as we have today, the vast majority of the economic benefits of AI is captured by "capital"[1]. People from a sufficiently rich and powerful background will not suffer like those who do not have any capital to speak of. Only those without capital need a basic income.

[1] Which is a problematic term, hence the quotation marks.
Who still installs those standalones?
Some are. Any bottles with a recycling number 2 (HDPE) or 4 (LDPE) are made of polyethylene. Edit: or 1 (PETE).
I see your point, but a counter example: I have a Galaxy Note 4 (a large phone, large battery) that I only charge every 2 or 3 days. I like not having to charge my phone as often, and a slight increase in weight is worth it. Also, in a pinch during travel having much longer battery life is great.
The law allows people to install whatever they want on their own computers. Note that even the nasty browser hijacks notified the user of their existence and provided an opt-out checkbox.

This is bad for non-savvy users, because they can get fooled into installing stuff they don't want.

But on balance I think it is good. It's extremely difficult to create legal limits on personal behavior that affect only bad activity. There are always unintended consequences, and occasionally it becomes a wedge for political control of personal decisions.

Imagine if the federal government had the power to make it illegal for you to install certain software on your own machine. And then some companies convinced the regulators that BitTorrent and Tor should be on the "not allowed" list because they can be used for piracy and crime.
I was suggesting GPS wouldn't work with most rooms having ceilings. Wifi positioning I would imagine is highly inaccurate, which leaves the gyroscope.

Judging by some screenshots and appstore comments I assume its only roughly accurate, and requires you to move your phone slowly between walls in straight lines (not via your pocket or around furniture for example).

I think I would have immediately dismissed an idea like this because I would have perceived the end result to be inaccurate and inadequate. Yet it's a popular app, so I guess I have learnt something.
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Back in the dumb phone days, driving through New Jersey, of all places, used to kill my battery. If you're not familiar, NJ is the most densely populated state in the US, but the northwest part of the state is mostly wooded, fairly mountainous, and sparsely populated.

I'd be driving from Pennsylvania the NYC suburbs, but northwest Jersey at the time had spotty service and a lot of analog networks. It was a real battery killer.
Yes but a religious deconversion having been possible for you, does not necessarily imply that it is something everyone can do. Or even that they would want to do, which amounts to the same thing.
Who is talking about forbidding anything? That's a total non sequitur.
Using the number given in the Pinegrow thread today: It is economically infeasible to pay your payment processor 5 percent instead of 3? It's annoying, sure, but infeasible?
Seriously jacquesm? I'm truly shocked at this coming from you. I have a lot of respect you & love reading your stuff, but really?

"Christianity experienced enlightenment and Islam did not"?

Surely you're not so ignorant as to dismiss the thousand years where the Islamic world was the abode of knowledge, science and civilization while Europe was in the dark ages.

Yes, shit sucks for them now. But to say they never experienced enlightenment (btw, the effects of the Islamic world on the "enlightenment" is well known). Part of the problem is that we're not over our colonial instincts. Just look down on the other cultures, we're obviously the best. Our country, our people, our skin color, right?

I've read about outwardly atheist and vocal scientists and philosophers from the 1100's in the Islamic world. And he was pretty revered (although today they wouldn't be able to walk down the streets of most Muslim countries with their head intact).

Many of our principles are borrowed from Islamic civilization that preceded us. It's the equivalent of dismissing Egyptians and saying their problem is that they never achieved civilization like us.

I still can't express how shocked I am at the shallowness of your comment. I really hope it is because you're upset.

EDIT: btilly was kind enough to point out where I misinterpreted what jacquesm was stating. I took his comment as a slight, whereas it was far better thought out observation.
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Of course. In fact I'm not even sure we should put limits on mocking. My point was that the comment I was replying to simply wants us raise the bar of offensiveness. From what I can tell the point of something like Charlie Hebdo isn't necessarily to offend (that's a side effect). It's to shock and make people think about what they believe in. It's to show how something is silly. To imply that it exists simply to mock others is, in my opinion, offensive to the people who died creating it. I think the new cover shows that there is much more to this work than simply mocking something they don't agree with - I don't think the commenter I was replying to got that.
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The usual explanation is

2D : pixels :: 3D : voxels

but you might find this more intuitive:

typical 3D : vector graphics :: voxels : bitmaps

In other words, typical 3D is made of polygons whose vertices are specified to arbitrary precision, whereas voxel-based 3D content is a big three-dimensional array of discrete values. The voxel data can be coarse (like Minecraft) or quite smooth (like an MRI scan), but the distinguishing feature is that the data is discrete.
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How about The Other Half Keyboard for Jolla smartphone? (Which incidentally is the continuation of the N900/N9 from Nokia)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2028347278/tohkbd-the-o...
"Companies that were over-zealous were definitely thought less of while companies that played a more aloof game were chased."

Do you think mediocre companies tend to be over-zealous, or are you implying that appearing socially proofed is an important signal?

In the "hot girl at the bar" analogy, playing games is +EV, but I would expect the big league players are too smart for that, am I wrong?
Of couse games do not care about UI toolkits, but the excuse against linux was always Gnome-KDE or Gtk-Qt-Motif-Athena-whatever, even through games do not care about these things (see also your grandparent post).

In Linux, there is glx[1]+OpenGL and SDL. The problem (quality of OpenGL implementations) is not unique to Linux.

[1] - yes, soon to be EGL.
I couldn't agree more! Socialism and equality are among THE most dis-empowering and evil ideas to come out of humanity. Unfortunately, these ideas have taken over reason so completely that they are now universally hailed as virtues.
Agreed, charging every night is fine as long as I don't have to worry about whether the backup battery is charged when I'm at the airport.
Which basically boiled down to him trying to argue that people must want malware because they clicked through a deviously worded dialog box.

From building spam filters to funding a spam company. Building things people want? Ha!

I guess it's worth noting other YC partners in that thread also defending malware, for example Garry Tan: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5093746

It seems like the culture of spam and malware is deeply embedded in YC these days.
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I love the functionality of portableapps.com! The web design does need some work though... :/

It's really way too visually cluttered. Somehow my brain has been trained to think "be careful" when I see clutter like this on a web page.
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That list is worth looking at in light of recent events. Not only because of how many are ordered killed, but because of how many are ordered killed because of poetry mocking Muhammed.

Any muslim who kills a satirist who mocked islam has pretty good grounds to be saying that their actions are in line with what Mohammed would have done!
Thanks :)

Most of 16000 emails on the list are trial version signups. To activate the trial user needs to enter the email address and a simple activation code that we send to that address.

A lot of times trial users like your app but will forget to buy it because they don't need it immediately. About once or two times per month we send out news about product updates and occassional special offers ($10 off for Christmas, for example). That brings a lot of users back to the product.

Another thing that drowe early sales was giving lifetime free updates to early adpoters. So people bought PG even though they didn't need it yet or important features were missing. We did this for the first three months.

Wish you lots of success with your launch!
Your way of quoting the parent here in reverse is highly confusing, it is as if you are now contradicting yourself.
You think pop is homogenous, try Country:

http://kbia.org/post/you-know-exactly-what-these-6-country-s...
in my opinion it borders a form of racism of low expectations.

Agreed, but sadly those expectations are met often enough, and dramatically enough (as in the cases you mentioned) that many people are not willing to take the risk.
Thanks for the article. It is very illuminating.

I hear a lot of buzz on TDD. But I think TDD is not the end. There are complexities in application which is sometimes hard to comprehend before a module is put in place. In those cases DDT (development driven testing) might actually make sense.
I disagree with this procedure.

1) Rebooting the computer can spread the infection. You should try to clean it with 0 reboots. Ignore safemode. Kill adwcleaner with taskmanager.

2)ComboxFix is unnecessary. Malwarebytes/ESET work most of the time, and if not there are about 3 other scans to use.

Anyone who wants to buy a new laptop for speed purposes should be talked into trying an SSD first. A cheap laptop comes with a mechanical hard drive and doesnt alleviate disk io bottlenecks.
Um, yes distance being calculated by a smarter calculation than Pearsons or Euclidean, a variation of RV or something that closely mimicks the way our minds compare for similarity. No bag of words or naive Bayes. True probability.
"I don’t obsess over competitors. In practice that means that I don’t do any in-depth testing of their apps or services. I feel that would just obscure my vision for the product. Comparing yourself to others too much leads to losing the confidence and appreciation of your own unique identity."

100% agree. Measuring one thing has little to do with building it. Under building mode, there is only one path you could go. Under measuring mode, we only want to know the distance from the target to the place reached. In other words, building is a somewhat one-dimension activity while measuring is more often a multi-dimension activity.
Could you provide a citation for Microsoft sitting on it for three weeks?
True, we have seen this issue with fraudulent domain names, where they can pose a security issue.

To me it seems normalisation at least reduces the attack surface, while not solving the issue completely. I am not qualified to judge whether or not the complexity increase is worth it. But what are the downsides - what is so bad about NFC?
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I'd love to help too! From a Design & product perspective.

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>Now the violent ones are winning.

Not so much in Europe. In the middle east the extremists have been winning though. The guys doing the Hedbo killings were largely inspired by Al-Qaeda in Yemen. Salman Rushdie was arguing that the goings on are not really about the west but power struggles in the Islamic world, somewhat plausibly I think. I dare say the west may have played a significant role in destabilising the middle east with the various wars we've sponsored there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvgdPAEu8vA&feature=youtu.be...
I'd like it if you get the chance.
>Do you condemn over-the-top caricatures of our Prophet? I do.

I don't. I like the ones of Jesus a little more though.
> This is happening faster than people think, especially religious people as they can't see out of their bubble.

I'm no psychologist but I think it might be pretty hard to break yourself out of a religion that makes you perform a ritual 5 times a day where you take yourself to a self-hypnotic state and repeat affirmations.

Islam seems to be the only remaining major religion were you can convince people to override their sense of self-preservation. That's some crazy powerful vudu there.
Coming full circle, the photographer in the OP has reviewed your acquaintance's gyro mount:

http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/2009/09/03/5d-mkii-gadget-atm...
Perhaps you missed the word "non-proportional" (=disproportionate)
Unpopular opinion time:

I've had a Mac Mini for 3 years, and I still haven't found any Apple-made desktop software I would call "decent". I've had only iPhones since the 3G came out, too, so I'm not just an anti-fanboy.
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I just tested one on my phone in Chrome. It crashed the tab. I figured it just ran out of memory or something so I tried it on my Tablet (which doesn't seem to handle memory the same way because it only has slightly more ram than the phone but doesn't constantly unload apps, which the phone will do) again in Chrome, and it ran but I couldn't do anything since it requires a keyboard.
Well, since graphics hardware only understands polygons, voxel engines usually construct a mesh of polygons representing the visible surface of the voxel data, then send that to the GPU to be rendered. Is that what you're asking?
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I didn't quote someone saying he was repulsed; I quoted someone saying it wasn't free speech. The two are very different statements. And I didn't say he's in favor of the assassination, either - just that he failed to distance himself from them.