skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If only people could wrap their heads around this, there'd be a chance for things to improve.

The way things are, though, most people still believe the American government can do no wrong and every other nation is out to get us. It's so disappointing.
apparently you've never heard of people guessing passwords...
I don't know how it works in the US, but in the UK foreign students pay much higher fees than domestic students and are a significant source of revenue for universities. There may be pressure on academic staff not to jeopardise this arrangement by calling attention to cheating.

There are significant problems with cheating in UK universities too, particularly (but not only) with international students [1].

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/4...
So cyclists started raising money for roads in the 1900s from private individuals ("Pope [...] and other special interest groups"), private companies ("asphalt manufacturers") and 16 years later when it was too late, the government passed some bill to give themselves credit for funding the roads by saying they would match state contributions.

And now everyone thinks if it weren't for the government we couldn't have roads.
EC2 cluster + Tutum.
China won't let you into the Tibetan Autonomous Region except as part of an official tour party from within China. You can go around further to the north (I went that way by rail a few years ago), but most people on such a road trip would like to see India (and probably also Nepal), and to then have to go back all the way to possibly cross the border in disputed Kashmir or realistically to Uzbekistan is a bit of a detour to say the least.

(Central Asia is fascinating and I do recommend the trip through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan at some point).
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What, preference utilitarianism? Afaik, that does get discussed, especially in the Fun Theory sequence iirc. If you want some more discussion on torture vs. dust specks, I think nostalgebraist on tumblr had a discussion of it with slatestarscratchpad (again, iirc).
If you take seriously the idea of an infohazard, you have a problem, because the idea that information can be hazardous is itself hazardous information (at a minimum, it's a prompt for us sloppy thinkers to start imagining what sort of information might be hazardous).

Something as innocuous as "Think safe thoughts!" enjoys a similar property.
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And the key to that quote is:

"...we're missing a business model where infrastructure people can get [...] a revenue model that somehow corresponds to the value they're bringing."

It's a problem now and always has been, from the days when C++ suddenly got popular and C++ library vendors suddenly discovered they had to pay for real customer support and everyone realized per-use license fees were ridiculous.
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It's nice to know that people who fixate on making money not by building useful or beautiful things but by gaming the system are having a hard time too. I've seen enough obnoxious Acai Berry spam to know there must be money there. I'm thankful that the money was short-lived.
For loads of other public domain scores/recordings, see the Petrucci music library at http://www.imslp.org. As a music academic/teacher, IMSLP is invaluable for me. There are also CC-licensed recordings, though I don't use them much myself.

Much of what they have there are 19th-century editions, which are now of course in the public domain. You might think that 150+ year-old editions aren't super-valuable, but many of them are from the Breitkopf & Härtel collected works editions. These editions are some of the most important works of 19th-century music scholarship, and were collected, edited, and subscribed to by important figures. Robert Schumann's works, for example, were all edited by Clara Schumann (an important composer in her own right), and Johannes Brahms is listed among the subscribers to the Bach complete works edition (among many others).
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OT, but when I read the name I was like "hah, that sounds like Mascherano, which I guess would make sense because he's a great defense."

Was not disappointed when I saw the pic in the readme :)
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It will be very expensive. The Everglades is not easy territory to go hunting for pythons, and as you read, they lie in wait, which makes them hard to find.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-01-10/killing-py... points out that it takes about 92 hours to hunt down snake.

In that month-long Python Challenge, which drew "1,600 people from over 30 states in the hope of cash prizes" only 68 pythons were killed. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2280518/Hunters-kill...
May I suggest two small changes?

1. Make English the default language, unless you detect the visitor's IP to come from a French-speaking country. Or viceversa. Point is: if you are aiming for a global website, showing me the language I don't speak is not the best way to go.

2. Replace the flag of the UAE for either the British flag or the one from the US. I mean, the UAE's official language is Arabic, so it doesn't tell me "English version" at a glance.
This made me more excited about Elixir than anything else I've read about the language thus far.

The talk of "empathy" as a core value also reminded me of the focus of Ernie Miller's "Humane Development". http://erniemiller.org/2014/12/17/humane-development/
A hard choice between something that is more correct and something that is more recognizable to a person who (like myself) doesn't know latin very well ;).
I absolutely don't disagree on your point regarding innovation. A number of people accused Windows 7 of taking UI ideas from KDE, which ultimately greatly improved their OS's usability. Still, a delicate balance needs to be found among innovation, enterprise requirements, and personal/community wants. Thankfully, at least covering the third group, with Linux there are often solutions to these experiments (though they might still end up being rather involved, such as creating your own solutions or moving on to a different window manager entirely). Yet if one doesn't like the Windows 8 UI approach, for example, the only real recourse would be to downgrade and hope things change for the better in the next release.
> In fact, the business I started 4 years ago, which is still profitable today, came from an idea I saw in Wickedfire. Only, all of the people in the forum that tried it got banned because they wanted to do it the scammy way..and I built it like a real business and gave people real value (and still do).

What was that original idea?
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First off, insulin is HARD TO MAKE. Its synthesized rDNA, this isn't the same as making pills out of powder from china and selling it at a 40% discount with plenty of margin still. This has to be grown and made in a lab with a very high precision.

Second off a bottle of insulin is like 25 bucks..... Boo freaking hoo. Most people cant wrap their head around how insane that is. You are buying f*ing DNA.. that someone made.. that's saving your life.. for 25 bucks.
Actually I'd suggest the Vitamin industry is the easier/better of the two, you don't actually have to prove the vitamins work in order to sell them.
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I think he does, although he doesn't say so explicitly in the original post. http://lesswrong.com/lw/kn/torture_vs_dust_specks/

At any rate, I choose torture, and I think that's the majority view at the LW meetups I attend, and I think we mostly take it for granted that Eliezer chooses torture.
The author, Dan Koeppel, runs a cool event called Big Parade (http://bigparadela.tumblr.com).

He chooses a walking route through an area with historical significance, and gets a group of people to walk it. The main one is downtown LA to Griffith observatory, which gets several hundred people, but he has done other one-offs. From the description:

"The Big Parade is a two-day walk in Los Angeles. It includes about 80 public stairways over 35 miles, from downtown to the Griffith Observatory. The walk runs on a timetable, and is designed as a series of attached loops, so that people can come and go as they please - join us for a mile, an hour, or an epic."
Or, to bring the examples back to something more people are likely familiar with here, Oracle (the DB), SAP,....
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>Some people innovate because it's their desire, that's irrelevant to the economic argument that patents encourage research departments.

It's highly relevant. If the patent system is being given credit for innovation taking place that would have taken place anyway, maybe it should be dismantled or at least heavily scaled back.
Ugh, that template sucks. Fixed.
Ask HN: What's the purpose of the upvote
I was just reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9237063 and it seems that there's some disagreement about the proper usage of the upvote feature.

If it's used to indicate a well thought out and structured point, then how do people convey agreement with that point?

If it's used to convey agreement, then how do we make sure that things that don't contribute to the conversation?
Broken != unprofitable.
I want you to know that this post reminded me of a blog I had set up several years ago and placed some affiliate ads on. The site has been down for years, but I figured I'd log in to the affiliate dashboard to see if any users who signed up through my affiliate links ever spent a significant amount of money.

Turns out, there's a $740 pending balance sitting in there that just came in in the past few months. Sweet! I probably would have forgotten I ever set up an affiliate account if I hadn't read this, so thanks for writing.
Taking a subset of statistical average income is not the proper way to define the "Middle Class." It's better defined by what you can achieve with a specific income. Can you afford higher education both for you and your offspring? Can you afford to own your home? Can you afford reasonable and convenient means of transportation for your area (multiple family cars in rural areas, but maybe one or even none in urban ones)? Can you afford occasional leisure activities? Can you afford to have a savings and retirement account? Do medical expenses not worry you?

Meeting most or all of these requirements is what sets people into the middle class. I agree with the article that this number is different as you need to take into account local cost of living, but a lot of these requirements are not tied to local costs. I also think this probably puts this number at a higher point than many people think. I have many friends that think, "Oh, I make $20/hr. I'm middle class now!" And I don't agree. You're still going to struggle with bills at that level of income. Middle class is about being above that struggle most of the time. There's a freedom that comes with not having a loan for your education, vehicles, emergency spending (credit cards), etc. And a middle class family should have that freedom.

I don't know that I can see $250k being middle class still, but I do think in the SF Bay area, a family making $150k is quite reasonably still middle class. The upper bound of the middle class is I think harder to define than the lower bound. Once you always have the option of not working for long stretches of time (more than several months) that might be a good indicator of upper class.

I think throughout the last 40 years or so we've gradually become so accustomed to the diminishing size of the middle class. We don't realize what it used to mean. We forget that a time existed where a family with a good budget could live on one income and still afford a house, two cars, college funds for the kids, vacations, and savings.
It's not FUD, but I don't want to expose myself to criminal liability by PoCing the issue (it would require hacking the server and trojaning the shell script).
Yeah, building web apps this way is a fad. I predict everyone will go back to full page reloads and server-rendered content.

/s
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I use recent Intel CPUs at work but ARM/MIPS/PPC for non-work. The point of the article wasn't to say "do this, it's better!" it's "hey, turns out this easy thing people were doing may be making things slower; maybe you should double-check first."
XSLT is conceptually sound indeed, a transformation of tree structures. But the requirements and real-world usage cases thrown at it are often terribly suited for it.

Real applications just don't fall neatly into tree transformations. I inherited a financial reporting web app using XSLT as the rendering mechanism. Requirements included things like running totals (state!), suppressing leading values when repeated between rows (also state), alternating row colors, external dependencies such as numeric formatting based on user's locale settings. A stateless tree transformation doesn't express that elegantly, so you end up with fantastically complicated and ugly XPath hacks. A running total would come from something like "sum all my parent's children with an index less than mine". Then that breaks when something comes up to introduce a need for another layer beneath that parent.

XSLT is purely functional. <xsl:if>template</xsl:if> isn't even control logic, it is functional evaluation, the same as Lisp's (if x template nil). <xsl:for-each> also isn't an imperative loop (it's map) even though it looks imperative and most enterprise programmers trained on imperative languages think it is and use it as such. So it's no surprise that XSLT in the wild ends up as a messy ball of mud.

Most templating languages have this problem, including PHP/HTML. The messy nature of real requirements isn't unique to XSLT. But XSLT manifests it most dramatically since it lacks a stateful and imperative framework to fall back on.
... turns out the #1 feedback was "that blog template sucks."

yes, it does. So I just flipped back to "simple" for now. Ugh.
The drawing of Simba honestly looked nicer to me but there is really no confusion that they copied a lot. And imitation and flattery excuse might have worked until you sue to stop the original show from begin shown ... then you are no longer even a thief but a robber beating up the owner.

I got the legal thing from the article so not sure if its accurate or not. And also if you don't let other do the same with your work then your own excuse don't hold anyway.
> "Below the surface of the machine, the program moves. Without effort, it expands and contracts. In great harmony, electrons scatter and regroup. The forms on the monitor are but ripples on the water. The essence stays invisibly below."

Man, I hate reading stuff like this in technical books.
TL;DR - yes.
HTML was adopted BECAUSE it was that way. bastardizing it BECAUSE it is so wildly adopted is retarded.

you really don't detect any sarcasm at all? are you a moron or an idiot? which is it?
Google apparently still leaks the initial opened and time data.
Add a separate +1/thumbs-up button next to the arrow. It doesn't really need to do anything more than show that people are in agreement (better even if it can do it without showing numbers).
Nice ! ... an app idea in that somewhere... :)
The Musopen project also has a public domain recording and sheet music for this, and many other works.

https://musopen.org/music/1254/johann-sebastian-bach/the-wel...
> "It's the engineers' job to resist with good reasoning.
It's the visionary's job to convince them that we people only think the impossible things are impossible."

While I don't disagree with you, context matters greatly here. This is the same logic of every middle managing pawn or upper management narcissist who self-styles him or herself the "visionary" you describe. Someone like Musk has the technical aptitude and experience to accurately assess what is technologically possible or impossible and estimate how much it will cost and how long it will take. He has also surrounded himself with highly talented technical people who, from what I can tell, he listens to.

Unless someone has previously envisioned and brought to fruition some visionary product or service, we should remember that the most likely explanation for their insistence that the seemingly impossible is possible is some combination of their ignorance, incompetence, and narcissistic delusion.
I have the firm belief that, being continually exposed to sketchy spam 10 years ago, made me extremely averse to advertising, clickbaits and affiliation. Today, I can't imagine the web without an adblocker, and I'm certainly avoiding giving money to a service when I'm prompted to by an ad.

So, I may be wrong, but if the minority of "EnlargeYourMaleParts.com" hadn't polluted my visual field 10 years ago, it would be a lot easier for advertisers to have my contribution today.
Interesting! I'll look it up.

That was then, though. Now, when skilled labor is of greater importance and unskilled labor of comparatively little value, I submit that things may well be very different.
Of course for PHP, you can also just use the curl bindings ;)
South Africa represent! Be cool to meet up if you're in Cape Town some time :)
People tend to ignore that for a logical trail to work every stated and unstated assumption needs to be 100% true or it's pointless. Roko's Basilisk is great example where even the slightest weakness in any part of the argument makes the whole idea pointless. (And there are a lot of unstated assumptions.)

EX: What's the maximum computational power of the universe?
I think the issue here is that both sides are talking past each other.

Middle class used to mean 2 separate things.

1) You made a certain income.

and

2) you were able to support a particular life style on that salary( detached house, 2 cars, vacations, able to put your kids through school), or what every your definition of middle class was.

The problem is that with inflation on some of these things, notably houses and university, someone who is middle class by definition 1 ins't middle class by definition 2.

Here is the original piece that the article is commenting on:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/29/upshot/why-obamas-proposal...

For what its worth I tend to agree with the original article.

With Montessori (private school) for 2 kids, a nice house in a good neighborhood in a big city, and the fact that I reinvest all my money back into my company it certainly feels like I'm living a middle class lifestyle.

I also completely agree that you can't use just salary as your measure of middle class. It looses meaning when comparing small town to a city like NY.
He does. He says so explicitly in the comments.

> I'll go ahead and reveal my answer now: Robin Hanson was correct, I do think that TORTURE is the obvious option, and I think the main instinct behind SPECKS is scope insensitivity.
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I agree.

There are at least six intractable problems, I can see.

* Defining the thing you're looking for (in your example you say 'what at the time would be thought "dead"' - that opens up the whole problem of excluding the middle, are the options only resurrection vs non-resurrection?)

* Calculating any particular probability without a direct frequentist correlate (the probability that the bible would mention a genuine resurrection, in your example).

* Choosing a frequentist correlate when they are available (the reference class problem).

* Determining the prior.

* Determining which posterior probabilities to include (to be accurate you have to include all relevant probabilities, but that's impossible in practice, there could be an almost infinite number of contributing factors, so the choice of what to include begs the question).

* For probabilities after the first, removing the correlation with previous probabilities (BT assumes that the influence of previous information is excluding from new information, because of the conditional probability, in practice this is almost possible to do).

Then there's the problem that, for small inputs, the error in BT is very large. If your calculations ever drop to low probabilities (unless you can put tight bounds on the error of everything you've done), you effectively lose all information in the calculation.
>difficult to have enough data to point to a conclusion so unambiguously as to be obvious

You are right, but that also cuts both ways, which is why we rely on consensus. And the consensus of the international scientific community (not just the FDA or any such organization by itself) is that artificial sweeteners are safe.

You are also right that CoI is not always a black-and-white issue, but that doesn't mean suspicions should be withheld from regulatory bodies and the publishing journal(s). Writing an OpEd on a personal webpage is not the most effective means to expose CoI, and, more importantly, such articles do not immediately overrule all consensus.

If you really believe that the majority of studies involving the safety of artificial sweeteners are wrong, the best course of action is to demonstrate it empirically by duplicating the experiments and coming up with different data.

Put together a reasonable paper, and other researchers will take note of it-- even if you believe the conspiracy theory that all major journals are puppets of the food industry. Ultimately, the data will trump the politics.
Well see who is claiming now Mr.

You are asserting that the comments posted by the people there are absurd? You Sir!

I cannot argue with stupid people. Goodbye.
Add two newlines and that is a perfectly valid HTTP/0.9 request.
The what of teaching is the curriculum. Zed Shaw's skill is in developing curricula. That comes from a careful attention to the how, not the what. Hence the multiple curricula. His interview on Hanselminutes is a great place to start: http://hanselminutes.com/407/learning-code-the-hard-way-with...

I'm not suggesting Zed Shaw as the end all and be all. Kathy Sierra's approach is an alternative (though requiring more effort to implement): http://www.objectsbydesign.com/books/KathySierra.html

In the end, the focus shouldn't be on teaching what you know, but the relevant part of what you will know after rigorous preparation. The big question isn't about whether the students will all work on a standardized project or one of their own choosing. The big question is what specific knowledge, skill and ability that project must reflect.
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It wouldn't be so bad if Disney weren't so heavy handed in protecting their intellectual property nor so keen to lobby for the constant extension of copyright law.

But the real kicker is that Disney made their fortune from leeching stories from the public domain: The Little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty, Jungle Book, etc.

Which I guess answers the question about whether you can have your cake and eat it. In Disney's case, you can.
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IMSLP is great, and these new releases will be hosted there too. In fact, you can find the 2012 Open Goldberg Variations (similar to this project) on IMSLP.

What IMSLP doesn't have a lot of is new, studio recordings, with the highest standard of playing and recording engineering. That's what the Open Well-Tempered Clavier provides!
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Well if the vanilla is itself ugly and polarizing, perhaps it's best that a distro take the initiative to make it better. As long as KDE retains its flexibility to make the desktop how you like it, why not try to make it better by default?

Disclosure: I've tried KDE several times, and have never stayed with it more than a few days, due to its wacky ratios of window and icon sizing, and bubbly appearance.
My opinion - this recording is better.