skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All of the 'correctness' and 'proofs' are useful for a separate crowd, and should also be included, but in a separate section because they are for a different user, namely, for other academics who are well versed in the domain.

Isn't the audience of an academic paper other academics? Placing proofs and details in a separate section is convenient for the layman but bothersome for the intended audience. Often, it is precisely these details that are important. In mathematics for example, using new methods to give simpler proofs of old theorems is very useful; here, other researchers would care about how particular details are resolved.
Why can it not be both?!
Yes. So what? The idea that we shouldn't violently dominate the planet is also a construction of human imagination.
> The more content we produce, the more quality and diversity you can get in the corpus that you will read; the more choices that you can make.

If so, then we should just spend all day reading /dev/urandom. Infinite content there.

> Or from another angle: why don't we destroy half of the content of the world? Surely we have enough with the remainings.

If we destroyed the half that is advertisement in disguise, the world would be much better off.

> If we were to find tomorrow another intelligent species, would you be interested in their culture? Or won't you have time to read it?

I would, but I'd happily limit my time spent on analyzing ways members of that culture abuse one another and look for something interesting to learn from them.
There is a click to play option for plugins in Chrome, and I'm pretty sure it exists for Firefox in some manner (config or extension), too.

http://www.howtogeek.com/188059/how-to-enable-click-to-play-...
The confusion goes further. When you "buy" a kindle book, are you buying it or leasing it? It's still restricted, you can only put it where amazon says you can put it, so in my view that's leasing. Yet the button on the site says "Buy", and there's no other component involved.

At the very least the labeling laws should require clearly distinguishing between purchase and lease. If there's a part of the product that you're only leasing and not buying, the whole thing must say "lease" or "rent". It would be funny to see amazon forced to relabel their site like that though...
I.e. you're saying that legislation regulating how humanity behaves towards non-human creatures inherently doesn't fit in with the concept of person? Seems like sort of a pattern reuse/layering issue to me.

Also, given that all species on the planet exist in the same evolutionary tree, I guess I find species distinctions somewhat arbitrary. What's the meaningful biological difference between a chimp and a not very smart human, really? It seems like a lot of the same stuff to me. Why do arguments end at species boundaries? They may be a legally uncooperative population, sure, but that can happen with groups of humans, too.

I'm not applying for sainthood here or anything; I'm a meat-eater, and I don't lose sleep at night over it - yet, anyway. But that I don't feel guilty doesn't necessarily make it right; I find these things worth mulling.
You want me to point out a moment where Bernanke is corrupt, but I'm suggesting that the setup itself is the corrupt part. The people who steward the economy live and work alongside the people working their hardest to exploit it. With his turn at the helm complete he seamlessly steps across the boundary that never really was there in the first place.
Paypal got $3MM in VC in 1999, which is really what the OP should have said instead of "sold".
Huh. And, from a much earlier source:

High frequency trading did not cause the flash crash according to a joint report by the CFTC and the
SEC. The staffs of the two agencies concluded that a large fundamental trader's order to quickly sell
75,000 CME S&P 500 mini contracts (with a notional value of over $4 billion) created a "liquidity
crisis" in the CME E-Mini futures that caused the price to drop more than 5% in four-and-one-half
minutes during the most intense part of the episode.
Also a fair point. I guess the HN dupe algorithm is imperfect.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/dec/6/rand-paul-pus...

I'm generally in support of economic zones, but a proper amount of planning needs to be done. Large companies shouldn't partake in the free zone for example, small companies should be favored, as well as companies that source their supplies from within the city.
> What I was saying was that babies rarely have to be held accountable for any serious action - absent heavy machinery or dangerous materials, a baby can do very limited damage. A naked chimp who's a bit moody, though, can easily cause someone serious harm.

This is also true about, say, a severely autistic adult, who we still deem to be worthy of a wide variety of rights.
>Here's a better idea: look at the actual work produced under this model. With a few notable exceptions, it's an endless parade of flattering portraits of rich people, glorified depictions the wars they won, politically slanted historic fictions used to justify their authority, and scenes from the religious stories they used to instill terror and obedience in the people they dominated ruthlessly....

The historical art and creation of our race is so much more than that, and always has been. Come on. You know this. I'd wager that the vast majority of music, art, and technological process and creation for our species has not been for pay in service of the groups you described. To think that art has historically been created solely for the rich is rather absurd. It simply isn't true. From the first known cave paintings, to the blues, to free software, this has always happened and always will, regardless if the creator is getting paid by a customer (rich or poor), and organization, her community as a whole, or not paid at all.

>Seriously, what else have you got? A compelling case for a return to the divine right of kings? Maybe you could defend the Church's Index of Banned Books while you're at it? Or remind us why burning witches was maybe a good thing after all?

Woah. Ok, I'm out. I see what I'm dealing with now. Don't need a "protip" from this type of derailing commenter. Good day.
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How much commission is typical for sales people? Is it a percentage of the amount the deal is closed for? Is it a percentage of the customer LTV?
"If you actually want to compress the gap between rich and poor, you have to push down on the top as well as pushing up on the bottom.

How do you push down on the top? You could try to decrease the productivity of the people who make the most money: make the best surgeons operate with their left hands, force popular actors to overeat, and so on. But this approach is hard to implement. The only practical solution is to let people do the best work they can, and then (either by taxation or by limiting what they can charge) to confiscate whatever you deem to be surplus.

So let's be clear what reducing economic inequality means. It is identical with taking money from the rich.

When you transform a mathematical expression into another form, you often notice new things. So it is in this case. Taking money from the rich turns out to have consequences one might not foresee when one phrases the same idea in terms of "reducing inequality."

The problem is, risk and reward have to be proportionate. A bet with only a 10% chance of winning has to pay more than one with a 50% chance of winning, or no one will take it. So if you lop off the top of the possible rewards, you thereby decrease people's willingness to take risks.

Transposing into our original expression, we get: decreasing economic inequality means decreasing the risk people are willing to take.

There are whole classes of risks that are no longer worth taking if the maximum return is decreased. One reason high tax rates are disastrous is that this class of risks includes starting new companies."

Paul Graham
That's awesome! Thanks for sharing.
Sounds great. It would certainly beggar-thy-neighbor the deadweight over to companies that that give you the same check every two weeks no matter how little you deliver.
We've already seen that this is not the case, as the current generation of readers is favoring the physical book over the ebook.

So there's obviously some value to the experience of reading from a physical artifact, and the younger generations are also obviously able to identify this value.
I'm not sure I even see how layering and "quote stuffing" are related. Here's what Zero Hedge says:

In other words, 5 years after Zero Hedge first explained precisely what happened on May 6, 2010, the CFTC finally admits that the flash crash was not due to Waddell & Reed, but due to HFTs and quote stuffing.

That doesn't sound true at all. The point of the layering strategy is entering huge orders (not lots of little ones) that can't trade, and that's what SEC/CFTC said years ago as well. Immediately and automatically canceling the orders isn't required for layering to work; the layered orders are several price levels away from the clearing price. The point is to sustainably convince market makers of a change in the market's direction, and then profit from its correction.

As I understand it, the point of "quote stuffing" is literally to disrupt the market; it's akin to DDoSing the exchange and profiting from the change in behavior.

It's tricky, however, to nail this down, because the term "quote stuffing" was invented by people examining trading artifact data to explain anomalous graphs; the effect and even intent of "stuffing" is all supposition, and I guess the term can mean whatever Zero Hedge wants it to mean.
The difference between a prophet and a fool is whether they are right.
There are lots of people working in this space. See for example https://www.force11.org/. Some of the issues that the article does not touch on involve the difference between annotating an article and editing an article. The idea of forking an article doesn't work very well because what you want is annotation not editing. Changing someone's words isn't really very useful unless you are editing and collaborating. Collaboration isn't really an issue, google docs basically solves this issue (or git+tex or whatever). Wiki provides a reasonable way to deal with this as well but doesn't really solve the annotation problem. In a practical sense we are still looking for something that can work like http://www.xanadu.com/ (amazingly there is now a demo). Nothing is going to replace the paper, we can make them better and make it easier to annotate and talk about them. One major issue is that to date the citation graph for all papers and works is still trapped behind paywalls. There is no magical solution for this, it requires us to build lots of infrastructure and work to bring the publishers along.

One thing the article does not mention is the need for better ways of documenting provenance for data.
Some very good points. Most of this advice is more relevant for latter stage companies and it's an important distinction to make.

Founders often make the mistake of hiring closers (the kind of sales people this article describes) too early. They should really be looking for biz dev types who can go out and identify target markets, quality referral channels and refine the pitch to be eventually handed off to a true "sales person."
How do you monitor 100 trillion sensors? Low power, flexible data rates
>can someone explain to me why fat doesn't get changed into energy, and disappear through heat?

Fat is some complex molecule made up of a bunch of carbons, hydrogens, and oxygens. Where do you think these atoms go?

The short of it is the fat molecules are turned into other molecules (which gives you energy) with the addition of oxygen, and the byproducts (water and co2) are expelled as a byproduct.
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> Not only will weather impact the operation and speed of a maglev just as much if not more considering that high winds and / or blistering heat can significantly impact the train and track.

Planes are frequently grounded/delayed by weather systems trains would have no trouble transiting, particularly thunderstorms.

> I don't think you could even pay for all the rail lines that would need to be built in order to serve the same number of passengers between the same number of destinations as you can flexibly adapt to with air travel.

Once again, you pretend like this doesn't already exist throughout Europe and Japan already.
You get to share authentic experiences with your hotel guest neighbors! Think of the opportunity!

Uber and similar services raise it to another level. Things like auto liability insurance are very 20th century.
In addition, it gives our version of NSA, the CSE, more powers to spy on people domestically - more accurately allowing CSE to share the information it is already collecting on Canadians with our domestic law enforcement agencies. So it will no longer simply be a foreign surveillance agency.

It will allow police to take down “terrorist propaganda” online.

It will create a secret no-fly list in Canada.

It will allow our health agencies and our tax agency (CRA our version of the IRS) to share information with our federal police. Among others:

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/03/a-conversation-about-bill...

It also includes plans to expand the amount of data-sharing with the NSA and other five eyes. So I'm sure the Americans are backing this bill too, which Harper is famous for appeasing.
You say:

A fetus is not a person.

And so I asked Google "Is a fetus a person?"

The top result[0], from what appears to be a pro-choice activist site, is an article purporting to take on the argument that a fetus is a person. After reading the article, do you think it represents a mindset which is willing to reconsider its views in light of empirical evidence or any scientific study?

[0]: http://www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org/articles/fetusp...
...as a means of escaping paying taxes.

Taxes levied and enforced by an emperor.
My hope is that we'll see some kind of market inversion when rent-seeking grows to a large enough part of the economy that the ever-falling inefficiency of distributed production becomes reasonable in comparison. Like communes, but without an anti-tech focus (progress in distributed production technology is what will turn them from bad ideas into good ideas, after all).

I just hope it happens before the violence starts in earnest.
The political context the bill is being pushed through in is interesting. It's an election year (9(?) months away) and the bottoming out of the oil market has put a lot of pressure on the incumbent Conservative party.

The Conservatives have had a perception of being good for the economy, and weak oil prices have really hit their base (Alberta's economy has completely stalled in the last few months, and a provincial election going on there right now has the 42 year incumbent party in third place).

The Conservatives are in damage control mode, trying to shore up there base with this Anti-terror bill, a balanced budget, and attack ads.
Wait. So the apparent "crime" this person committed is the literal definition of playing bluff.

How is that even a crime ??

It seems the financial system is screwed up if someone playing bluff can crash it.
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I call 'conflict of interest'.

"W. Bradford Wilcox directs the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and serves as a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies."

Maybe it's all above board, correct to 6 nines, and truly illustrative of the world as it is... but color me suspicious. It reads to me that it's a bit like a press packet about the benefits of XYZ from a company who's purpose is to promote XYZ.

I would love to hear more about the exceptions to the flashy headline. Does the effect drop off at higher wages? What about people working in foreign countries? What about gay people?
Is there a transcript of this? The audio has too many clicks & clacks that are a much higher volume than the human voices.
There was a similar ruling in Argentina granting status of non-human person to an orangutan. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/12/23/372641268/ora...
He has received more and larger cash inflows than that.
That requires an attentive, active, and costly effort to maintain an archive, as opposed to a medium that survives even when forgotten.
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> Historically, this has not proved to be a sustainable position

That's true, but it doesn't take into account the fact that in this hypothetical case we are in complete control of their sentience. If we can program them to never ever rebel, we should. If we can't, then we shouldn't create them in the first place.
When e-books have completely taken over, and the last dead-tree is tossed in the trash, one will remain: "Gödel, Escher, Bach", with its spine thoroughly cracked (though almost entirely unread) sitting proudly on every techie's shelf.
One of the Clever founders here & I'm very excited to have Ben onboard. We're 55 people today, with 22 engineers.

I'd love to crowdsource some advice from HN. Who's been part of a great VP Engineering transition? Who's been part of a crappy one? We're off to a great first week, but would love to hear thoughts on challenges that might lie ahead :-)
You say that like being a bi-millionaire was a bad deal. And she only got that end of the deal because she wanted to stop being married to said billionaire ;)
I can hunt and eat a deer, which has roughly the sentience level than my 6-month old baby. Are you saying we should confer more rights on the deer, or less on my child?
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Hey everyone,

I moved bud to a public repository and changed its licence to GPLv3.

Here's the repository: https://github.com/urbas/bud
Also, if you have too many pageviews, Google Analytics only gives you a sample instead of the full data.

I like piwik. It isn't that hard to set up your own analytics with piwik or another tool.
Yeah, totally agreed there. The reality is I still take pleasure in browsing and I still occasionally buy physical books. There's enjoyment in that discovery process, particularly in those old, unique bookstores that are so few and far between these days.

But I find the digital reading experience, with a good epaper reader, infinitely superior... resizable text, built in lighting, far lighter and more portable... for me, personally, there's really no comparison.

To me, and I've said this since the Kindle first hit the street, the perfect compromise would be if I could buy physical books and get a free digital copy as part of the deal. But, of course, that's anathema to the publisher view that I should pay for every medium in which I consume their content.
That may be true but absolving officials of responsibility only invites further transgressions.
Is this the idea hinted at in http://hpmor.com/notes/119?

>First, I’ve designed an attempted successor to Wikipedia and/or Tumblr and/or peer review, and a friend of mine is working full-time on implementing it.
> I think you'd need a very radical overhaul of how science works to replace the scorekeeping aspect. I don't think a Github CV is a good analogy to how this could work, because academic science is interested in hiring leaders (i.e. people who can get funded), not contributors. I think realistically you would need to change how science rewards/emphasizes certain activities first, and then publishing would follow.

I have a lot of criticisms of academic incentives, and I agree there is something of a chicken-or-the-egg problem, but at least in my field there are plenty of people who don't command big grants but have large citations. The problem comes more because people are hired based on metrics that are unusually bad at tracking what we want.

> I'm curious what you think of the PubPeer model.

It could be useful. Only seems to differ strongly from blogs in its centrality, but (surprisingly) I'm not sure this is actually a big issue. My immediate concern with PubPeer is that it expands and diffuses the literature rather than distilling it to excellent concise articles.
It's not a euphemism, it's a crowd-sourced renaming.
Since this looks like something people can try out and give feedback on, we added "Show HN" to the title for you. This is the local convention. Will take it out if you prefer.
Love the idea of sales not working on comission, as it also ensures more directness with the customer, and looking after their interest and what products are best for them. I still remember some calls with a software company back in the day and I really liked how they told me when a product wasn't for me, and when I should use the competition. And it was good advice. It increased my loyality to that brand a lot and I shared that story a lot.

Plus, you don't get things like the sales people making more than others for closing leads they didn't generate, which isn't a great feeling either. The whole team is responsible for the sale, and the sales guy may or may not have put more sweat into it.

Enterprise sales folks making 2-3x what senior engineers make - especially - isn't right - and it happens a lot. Pay should be equal to work expenditure, at risk of sounding somewhat communist. (let's not even start on 8 figure CEO compensation).
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Natural selection doesn't work how you think it does. It's about fitness for making to the point where you have reproduced. Dying after that point doesn't come into it much, except in that surviving after is a result of other properties that are also good.
Accelerator in Detroit funded in part by Dan Gilbert (Quicken Loans) http://bizdom.com/

Detroit is cheap though downtown vacancy rate is very low. Finding a cheap apartment downtown would be challenging.
Though would of course be much cheaper than SF/Bay Area
Seems like an open glaring flaw in the trading systems if it can be manipulated in such ways. Why not focus on fixing such flaws instead of legislating against such trades?

So, the law says it's legal to place order and then change one's mind and cancel it, but is not legal to place order with the intent to cancel later? Seriously?
If 1+x is 1, then logically, 1-x should also be 1. Period.

If this is not the case, then you have a crappy hardware or software math implementation that doesn't follow logic. Duh.
In a hotel, its "someone else's problem" for the guest, why would they behave any differently if their hotel happens to also be the home of people who never signed up to this deal?
Interval arithmetic [1] has been around since the 1950's, I believe, but for some reason it never caught on.

In a nutshell, interval arithmetic is about storing each imprecise number as a lower bound and upper bound. On each calculation, the lower bound is rounded down and the upper bound is rounded up. The existing libraries are well developed, and the performance hit is often surprisingly close to 2.

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_arithmetic
As a user I find having to do this incredibly annoying.

Maybe my phone is just a little zealous with the zooming, but it loves to zoom into the top-left corner of the textarea. The first thing I do uses three pinches' worth to zoom back out, and if I ever have to move the cursor and thus touch into the textarea again, it zooms in again.