skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moral relativism is incompatible with judgements that other's moral judgements are wrong. You can judge someone else's views as wrong while still tolerating them.

One other things:

> "You don't need to believe that your system is "correct" in some sort of universal way. You merely need to believe that your system will be best for your personal interests."

Relativism is not egoism.
Always fun to count containers to estimate economic activity. Or cranes/building changes. Would be a fun student project which would take a picture of the Port of Los Angeles or the Port of Oakland and return a number of estimated containers. Then run that over a year with once a week sampling across random days of the week.
I agree. I've used haxe, and it's REALLY nice being able to cross-compile from one codebase, but there were several times it was more difficult than expected to get things to work. At this point I'd rather use C++ and just compile on different machines or in VMs. Or, since I'm looking at haxe from a gamedev perspective, I'd rather use Unity since it targets every platform haxe does, and has better docs (HaxeFlixel and HaxePunk are great, but apart from basic tutorials you're sailing without a compass or rudder - but this was about a year ago).
I'm not certain this paper I'm referencing is the same one referenced in this thread's article, but the doctor was a collaborator on this:

44 healthy controls, 10 subjects with a CUD history, 28 schizophrenia subjects with no history of substance use disorders, and 15 schizophrenia subjects with a CUD history

http://schizophreniabulletin.oxfordjournals.org/content/40/2...

I'm no scientist, but it seems a little presumptuous to me to say I've come to a general conclusion about anything when all I have to investigate are 25 people. To quote the above "10 subjects with a CUD (Cannabis Use Disorder) history,... and 15 schizophrenia subjects with a CUD history".
Try La Barbecue, smaller queues and now rated higher than Franklins
Currently | https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/currently/ojhmphdk...

Minimal new tab showing the date, time, and weather info. I'm always opening new tabs - this way I keep a little better track of time and am much more likely to know what it's like outside.
John Gruber: Apple Invented USB Type C
> "My only claim extends as far as I can act or influence others to act to serve my own needs and wants."

That egoism, not moral relativism.

I took it that the author was making the following point about our society: we teach them in school that things like "cheating is wrong" is mere opinion, and yet similar judgments like "tax-evasion is wrong" aren't treated as mere opinions when they grow up.
Algorithm That Tells the Boss Who Might Quit
I'll readily admit that I'm not a STEM expert. And, honestly, I think I was conflating the STEM in this article with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanning_tunneling_microscope).

So, yeah, my comment is not entirely accurate about the electron densities of the atoms. If you feel it is too misguided, I'll remove it.

This is what happens when you ask a theoretical chemist to explain an experiment. ;)
We do argue that all the time, we just call killing something other than murder if we don't want to impose a negative judgement on it.

You don't have to be a moral relativist to see that the foundations of moral facts are often built on sand.

The author blustered about how awful his strawman was, played semantic games on his son, and proved nothing at all.
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Would be interesting if there was also some way to also get moderated comments in the analysis. I was surprised to see 2xc nowhere near 'top' for toxicity, but the mod team moderates a _ton_ of terrible comments on a daily basis. Seeing a comparison of all the default subreddits vs like the next x biggest non-defaults would be interesting too, wonder if that influx of new users changes anything..
I would love for the city to reflect our water problems in town lake, lake travis is being sacrificed. They won't go for that though, not with all the downtown development.
The new york times article wasn't very clear about how people are using them. So I'll spell it out: adults are using these wet wipes instead of toilet paper. That's why so many are entering sewage systems.
Ya'll come to KC for real BBQ.
I agree that in terms of practical impact, Turing has had limited impact. And, probably he had political connections related to the war effort. But I don't feel that he is overrated. He was a first class theoretician. Some non-trivial results that I know of are,

1. A version of the central limit theorem [1]

2. A fixed-point combinator in his proof of equivalence of lambda calculus and computable functions, in his paper. Any one who has tried to derive the Y-combinator (appropriate for this website) knows how tricky it is to get one. Turing seemed to have done this all this in an appendix. [2]

3. LU decomposition. [3]

4. I don't understand his work on morphogenesis, but it seems to be his most cited paper. [4]

I largely agree with the list of pioneers that you have pointed out, without berating Turing.

[1] http://ebooks.cambridge.org/chapter.jsf?bid=CBO9780511614293...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator#Other_fi...

[3] https://micromath.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/alan-turing-and-l...

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_Basis_of_Morphogen...
Easy, just don't pair program. It was never a good idea to begin with.
Moral relativism is incompatible with judgements that other's moral judgements are wrong.

How so, as long as you accept that those meta-judgements are still subjective?
egoism sounds about right. i wonder are they mutually exclusive. reading wikipedia, i'd disagree with normative moral relativism and agree with meta-ethical/descriptive moral relativism. just because i'm an egoist doesn't mean i think everyone else is.

> and yet similar judgments like "tax-evasion is wrong" aren't treated as mere opinions when they grow up.

I don't see anything like that written in the article, where did you take that from?
> "I agree that people don't actually think like that, but that doesn't prove that moral facts exists, just that many people think they do."

I think this is all the author wants to prove. We, as a society, seem to be of two minds about this. He's not trying to prove that moral facts exist.
We (Aptira) start a screen (as in GNU screen) session on a VM we both log into and use skype for audio. This also allows us to quickly swap who is driving and copy/paste in/out of the shared screen session, which is less fluid when using video based screen sharing.

This wouldn't work for folks who work in an IDE though, since it's terminal based.
there are api endpoints, just not documented, right?

check devtools when logged into simple.
Your comment isn't really addressing mine from the context in which it was given. My comment was in reply to someone implying criticism of the piece stems from its reading level being above that of a 12 or 13 year old, which isn't the case.

I'm simply proposing that the criticism is founded on actual flaws with the piece, rather than it being too complex to be understood by its detractors.
What is your ACH pricing, you don't display it on your website.
The algorithm seems to run on the following factors per the article:

"job tenure, geography, performance reviews, employee surveys, communication patterns and even personality tests to identify flight risks".

I wonder if employees can try to game the algorithm by artificially ranking high on their score for leaving - with the sole purpose being to get a pay raise.
This is why I like cascading [1]. It has a higher level API on Hadoop. It also works in local mode with little change. I've actually used out to do transformation work from local files (csv), join them into structured documents and dump them into ArangoDB. I liked it so much I wrote a third party library to work ArangoDB in Hadoop[2].

1 cascading.org/
2 https://github.com/deusdat/guacaphant
Balanced did it by default.
I've been disappointed by the Rudy's in CO Springs every time I visit. The brisket's good, but it seems like they changed the experience to suit a different expectation of barbecue than I was used to getting in Austin. It's hard to describe my issues. Maybe it was as simple as seeing cobbler available?
May be, but I think you're reading a more interesting article than it's actually there :)
Of course I'm not nitpicking on every usage of the word, but I think it's everyone should at some point think about what knowing and reality actually is. It doesn't matter most of the time, but there are moments in history when someone wants to tell you that 2+2=5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_%2B_2_%3D_5
I've just had a look at your config script and this would save me a lot of time when I need to spin up throwaway VPNs.

Is there any chance you could make a version wrapped in stunnel to help with countries which are able to detect OpenVPN traffic, such as China?
....of course they are.
I haven't used it as a remote whiteboard yet, but I've got a Wacom "Intuos Pen". It's about $80 and it has served as a scrap-piece-of-paper replacement over and over. For sketching out architecture diagrams, web page "mock ups", etc, I have completely fallen in love with it.

https://store.wacom.com/us/en/product/CTL480/
being wrong is ok! try not to hate it! try not to let the fear of it guide you in any way!
Before I got the tablet I mentioned in the sibling comment, I used a stylus with an iPad for a while. It was pretty decent, but whatever software I was using had pretty mediocre palm detection (it'd freak out a bit if I rested my hand on the screen while drawing). I'd also definitely recommend getting a more expensive stylus... the cheap ones I tried generally didn't work well at all.
I appreciate the feedback and will upvote this.

I understand that I really need to learn to program by picking "any" language.

I get paid a good six figure salary right now and I am not in programming. I would like to "lessen" the transition time to become a developer by paying a tutor and getting a couple hundred hours into learning and then quit my job and make the jump.
Reddit discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9200635 aka http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/2yxvs3/youtube_now_s...
Funny how I find this link just as I'm listening to Tangerine Dream's Green Desert album after a couple decades.
Java Dev on Win7

Intellij Pro,
Cygwin with Emacs,
Git command line, sometimes SourceTree (though Intellij Git is almost as feature complete).

Tortoise on projects still using Subversion.

Firefox with Firebug, LiveHttpHeaders, and WebDeveloper though more and more Chrome Dev tools.

Usually the standard DB tool depending on database (PGAdmin for Postgres, SqlDeveloper for Oracle, etc.), though Intellij's DB tools are getting 'good enough'.

I'd pay good money for a well developed Emacs keyboard binding for Intellij (similar to Emacs++ for Eclipse)!
There might be a little overlap there with elderly drivers looking for cars that have more assistive features. (In other words, newer and more computerized.)
WePay doesn't do ACH debits AFAIK.
Right. Well, given your comment and niels_olson's, I feel I have misspoken about this STEM experiment. Not that was I said about quantum mechanics was wrong, just that its relevance to the measurement in this experiment is misguided.

As niels_olson points out, the primary interaction here is between the electron beam and the atomic nuclei.
> I don't see what's so difficult to accept in this, frankly.

Because you're stopping once you reach the conclusion you like and not seeing where it leads.

Debating about morality is a pre-requisite for, for example, coming to agreement on a community standard on a moral question of behaviour. And if it's futile to debate about morality, then of course it's futile to try to define a community standard on a moral question of behaviour.

Without consensus on standards of behaviour, communities and societies fall apart. People value communities and societies. Therefore people value being able to debate about morality.
Good marketing is part of a quality product.

A key stage is hearing about a product at all - it is completely useless if you never hear about it.

See my blog post "How to use time-travelling anthropologist pollsters to tell good from evil marketing": http://www.flourish.org/2013/04/how-to-use-time-travelling-a...
NYT put their writing skills to work on wet wipe awareness

demon snowballs
industry representatives chafe
scraping the bottom clean
I'm curious why the #2 concern is that the installation takes 20 GB. I bet most users don't have enough files and programs to fill up even a small 256 GB hard drive.

For some power users this might matter, but as far as I can tell most baseline laptops you can get with Windows offer more than enough storage.
Sorry, line four of the hypothetical function should be counts.find_or_insert(line, 0) += 1. Would have edited, but HN won't let you edit after the procrastination settings kick in (but curiously, does let you reply).
This analysis ignores completely ignores another analysis posted in the referenced "most toxic communities" AskReddit thread (http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2v39v2/what_popul...) which charts the positivity and negativity of submissions to the top 100 subreddits, which had similar conclusions: http://i.imgur.com/8MGbiBO.png

I'm a bit upset about it. :P
What does it mean for something to be 'a higher form of truth'? More valuable, according to some appropriate standard? More useful, according to some appropriate standard?
Thank you for your input again! May I ask if you run Aerospike on an in-house cluster to reduce latency, or run on AWS?
Here at Plaid (https://plaid.com/docs), we're trying to build this for all the major banks.
Flat videos are so 2014... http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/13/8203173/youtube-now-suppor...
The ProdiJuifs/The ProdiJews – Shabat People
To the point of automation, my credo is to automate all hairy stuff because you spend your focus and frustration budget on that otherwise. The rule of thumb is more like "if you can't make this your daily priority but need to do it repeatedly take a day and make it a nobrainer"
Thanks for your time!

About point 4, I'm assuming you built in idempotency into your message replay system. Is your unit of idempotency, say, 1 hour or some other unit of time, or is every single message have idempotent results? Because the latter would be pretty amazing :)
>If I could downvote the whole concept of this industry, I would.

So, are you the one that downvoted most of the comments in this thread?

>"income properties" and "real estate investment" are horrible things when it comes to residential real estate

Don't confuse flipping houses with actual real estate investment. There are 45m renters in the US, all living in "income properties." Why is this horrible?
> but you're also replacing the engine in flight!

Could you elaborate that, using a mainstream example, please?

> Also the specs on the parts are kind of spotty. ...

Are you referring to the moving parts of the Internet itself?

> There are layers upon layers of abstraction, and no one knows all of it. No one even knows most of it. In fact, most people don't care about any of it other than a cubic centimeter of their own few layers.

This is an invented problem. Scaling a one-off to work for the masses does not require `layers upon layers of abstraction'. Most of those layers are poor engineering backed by a lot money that is thrown at hardware and code maintenance.

One of the realisations that I had over years of `fixing crises', was that increasing numbers of `start up' programmers produce write-only code. Testing and debugging them is painful and expensive, even in the medium-term. Such code bases demonstrate a clear lack of basic engineering discipline. Nonetheless, such programmers are hailed as heroes, because they managed to cobble up a nice-looking mess in a week or two. Then, enormous amounts of effort are poured into making the mess work tolerably. It also consumes phenomenal time.

`Moon landing' projects cannot countdown and blast-off with a great `UX', and then start figuring out how an inertial navigation system should work, over the next week-end.

So, yes that page that `takes so long to load' is indeed `a miracle in proportions that are indescribable'. Only, in a mostly pathetic way!
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Interesting comment. I don't care where it leads, it's a personal thing.

I don't feel the need to hold a position that applies to everyone. Taking it to something I understand better, like coding standards. I could care less what people decide the rules are, they seem completely arbitrary to me. I'm happy to go with what's gone before, and if people want to fight about new ones I'll leave them to it.
> looks for devices over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth

There must be lot of devices which are not connected to these two. So, this makes their system not completely accurate.

They could have used other options like -
1. Sensors on the floor
2. Sensors on the tables where we put our stuff
3. How busy is x-ray scanner belt?
4. How fast people are getting through scanner door.
I love that kind of gameplay. That's what draws me to many J-RPGs.

Didn't do X? Can't get Y, no matter how bad you want it.

Most especially so when the game warns you in obscure ways. Plays which reward the player for being investigatory.

Example : A placed readable book on the shelf warns player not to do X if they want Y far before the decision comes about. Or the player has a bad premonition or dream about it. Foreboding which has obvious intent once that player has passed the threshold of no return.

It was stated earlier in the thread, but I think there is real value to setting an atmosphere in a game which rewards the player for being cautious, but curious. For example, the pie you're talking about had no real obvious use until the mob which requires it, right? Unless inventory space becomes an issue, a cautious player would likely hold on to that pie until faced with a challenge where they've tried other avenues. The type of player which tries every item in their inventory to succeed definitely isn't the target for this mechanics.

Reminds me of the colored potion system in nethack.
I like Wi-Fi Matic (https://sites.google.com/site/wifimaticapp/). It uses the phone network cell identifiers instead of GPS (so it works even where you can't get a GPS fix), and auto-learns the cell identifiers which can be seen in the range of your wifi networks. And its source code is available (I originally found it on f-droid).
There might be a confusion between a prescriptive and a descriptive stance of moral relativism.

You can be a moral relativist and take a pragmatic position that traditions or societal consensus are worth having without disappearing in a puff of logic.
Founders vs. Co-Founders
“All we need is another good idea,” or so the statement goes, but it is that single good idea that launches the new venture, an idea hatched mostly alone.
Having been faced previously with the dilemma of listing the Founders of a new biotechnology firm, I can only say, here we go again.
The challenge is to convince investors that the Founder team had the collective neuron flash, and the team came together thereafter to cultivate the good idea. But that seldom happens.
Ideas by themselves have little or no value, but ideas shared and cultivated become the technology platform, the products that address global markets, and the rewards thereof.
Was it all done by one with an idea, or by the developed group? That shall remain forever as X, the entrepreneurial unknown.
By definition, a Founder is one who establishes something (American Heritage Dictionary), but is that true? Was it the Founder who had the valuable idea, or was it the Founder who formed the Company?
Is the Founder the person who is creative and innovative, with a strong basis of character and determination, who possess insight beyond the norm, who creates something from nothing, and is able to recruit others to do the rest of the work, or is true Foundership a trait that will rest always and forever with the idea that sparked the light?
There is only one Founder at the core of an idea, and everyone else thereafter is recruited to be with the Founder to execute on that idea, and to provide the skills that are needed to make it work.
Where does Foundership leave off and Co-Foundership begin?
Did the Founder have the idea or establish the Company?
I guess the other thing is instability of the requirements. Something like grep or uniq are almost perfect because the use case is stable.
Rare is a difficult term to nail down. I was taken aback by the statement that he had only seen two cases over 23 years.

To think of how not-rare it is, think of all the heterosexual child abuse that goes on within families. Child abuse is not considered rare. But how many of those abuses might result in pregnancies? Any doctor who deals regularly with young people, specifically young girls who might be pregnant, sees this regularly if they care to look. The pregnant teenager whose boyfriend "isn't around anymore" is a non-rare situation. Some subset of those are pregnant by their fathers/brothers. The problem is that asking, or performing tests that might identify the true father, may do more harm than good. So doctors don't push the matter. That doesn't mean they do not suspect what's going on.

What do you say to a girl pregnant by her brother? Termination is not a great option, the kid may well be healthy. Reporting the abuse, breaking up the household, isn't going to help either. From the doctor's perspective there isn't much they can do.
It is "adjusted for age, gender, race, and educational attainment."

84% where white.

59% of Americans identify as middle class, upper-middle or upperclass. So saying that the study used mostly upper- and middle-class doesn't really tell us anything.
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Tip: I recently looked up the man page for "which" and found out about the -a flag which will list all instances of the executable found (instead of just the first one). Incredibly useful when you have multiple installations of the same software and it's causing problems. e.g.:

$ which -a ruby
/Users/olalonde/.rbenv/shims/ruby
/usr/local/bin/ruby
/usr/bin/ruby
Texas is also recovering from a 10 year drought and was growing rice up until last year. It's just crazy.
Done. https://github.com/solidsnack/GraphpostgresQL/commit/5f228f3...
I mean it's a statement with a lower "margin of error". More testable.
I believe, but correct me, in Pi, there is no repeating pattern known to exist yet. So you can encode information in Pi. No? I heard this from watching Person of Interest...
> Assuming that (s)he is "privileged" is just yet another prejudice, not a fact upon which to base your opinion.

???

Men are more privileged than women, that is fact.
As a former customer of WePay, I'd like to warn everyone considering using WePay that their compliance department will shut you down multiple times, decline to specify why, then freeze all funds within your account. WePay is completely out of touch with their customers, and I would recommend Stripe over WePay any day.
It heavily depends on what you want to achieve. If the game can be created within existing engines, and you are sure about this, you should use them. For example, if it's just a FPS.

If your game requires some special features (for example, creating minecraft withing unity/unreal isn't a good idea), requires performance unattainable by existing engines (you can optimize code just for your cases).

This is a classic build vs buy choice.
The problem here is that you expect history to indicate future performance. You expect each country to act morally instead of what's in their best (monetary) interest. How are wars fought these days? Sanctions, it has happened in recent history. Now what is a nation to do when a sanction against them on food imports? One thing is for sure, it'll help solve a population problem.