skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I'm using a generic universal "you", not the poster in particular.)

It's probably a confluence of two things: first, you don't know what you want. Second, YT isn't very good at recommending things to you.

You don't know what you want because your environment has encouraged you to be fed by marketing departments. Trailers, commercials, entertainment-review magazines and websites all push specific programming at you, programming that has developed over the last century to be commercially successful. YT doesn't (primarily) store TV and movies and documentaries that are commercially viable; for that you want Netflix and Hulu and such. Youtube stores the amateur, the impromptu, the unrehearsed and the low-budget. You haven't been taught to like that any more than you have been taught to enjoy gamelan orchestras and Tuvan throat-singing.

And curating that giant mess is a hard problem, and it's a people-problem, so it shouldn't be any wonder that YT does a bad job of it. Netflix only does a mediocre job with recommendations, and they have a much smaller number of results to return. It's not hard to find a Youtube video that fewer than a hundred people have ever seen. What sort of statistical recommendation will you get from that?
Why look just at Stanford students? At best they have a lot of potential, but no track record. If you going to pay well and provide a great environment than you should be able to hire almost anyone you want who has any interest in working in a start-up. Bring the talent together and let them build.
I'm not an expert here actually; do you know what could be considered a more reliable program? I find addictions very interesting, especially given the discovery of the FOSB protein.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-...
It will likely take efforts on many fronts to resolve SoCal's water issues. Charging for agricultural water use, enforcing drip-irrigation, improving reclamation/recycling, etc.

What are your objections to desalination?
This is the perfect post for a more in depth argumentation. Otherwise there is not much discussion value here, only disturbance.
Mats, chief designer of Ruby, likes Elixir too
You need to be older. I'm 48 and I thought it was hilarious because I could spot everything.
That data is on house prices, not on cost of housing; do you have any long-term data on cost of housing?
I agree. By that logic, the directors of the country's top liquor producers should get the death penalty.
> you make ignorant accusations with no basis in fact

The link you provided to refute my fact, is itself a fact that disproves your point and proves mine.

> The problem you have is a combination of ignorance and arrogance that you rely on to justify the assumptions and bias you have.

That sounds a lot more like you. I only really wanted to discuss my opinion on the use of a biased platform for election reporting, not whether libertarians are conservatives or the rules of /r/politics.

> You still ignored the underlying point that you are looking for evidence to convince you that your bias is true while selectively omitting facts.

Not so. I think you did a pretty good job providing the facts that proved my point. Thanks.

> So I'm assuming you are basing it on stuff like this [...]

Yes, that article is somewhat consistent with my point. Ron Paul stated himself (can't find the quote) that the Republican party was not reflective of libertarian values, but was merely the most expedient vector toward affecting US politics.

> If that is the case you are stating you are a social conservative.

Nope. Ignorance on your part. See my last comment[1].

> "A lack of facts to support my opinion" is evidence you don't have an opinion based on reality

Yikes. You wouldn't make it very far as a theoretical physicist. To be clear, you are either misunderstanding me (should I also mischaracterize it as a reading comprehension issue?) or maliciously mischaracterizing me. The complete quote is:

> It's not my intent to prove anything however, so lack of facts to support doesn't disprove my opinion either.

What I meant was, I am not presently intending to prove my point, and so am not presently providing facts to support it. As you can see from various other comments, I have no difficulty providing them, though to be fair, you provided the better fact to prove my point.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9627633
Language study is tough in high school. A better case can be made for teaching languages as early as possible (pre-K, K-6). My nephew's Catholic school is teaching him Spanish[1] in pre-K and will continue until 8th grade. I took Dakota (not to be confused with Lakota) in high school. I couldn't really speak it then or now[2], but it did stick with me[3], but I see the children who learned it in K-6 did much better.

1) My parents and I recently took my 5 year old nephew with us on vacation to DC. He tends to sing at that age. We were in an elevator and he started in on a song and a couple from Spain started asking me questions about it. I really could only say he was being taught Spanish at his school.

2) I just cannot do a guttural with my voice. It sounds like I'm coughing. I have such a low voice anyway that it sounds wrong all the way around. At least I learned from a male instructor, that's a bit important as the sexes speak differently in Dakota. My old boss, a female, learned to speak from her uncles and her aunts thought she "spoke like a man".

3) I still do server names in Dakota. wanca is my #1 server.
0. Torturing civilians - including torturing some to DEATH, aka murder - in a futile attempt to emotionally lash out at people who may have been involved in 9/11

... even though it was well know torture does not produce useful intelligence

... and having ratified (in 1994) the Convention Against torture which includes a duty to prosecute or extradite

... and 18 U.S. Code § 2340A being amended by the "PATRIOT Act" - before the torture occured - to include clause (c) which allows charges and all punishments (except death) to include anyone who conspires to comit torture

-> not even an attempt to prosecute

/* is there a clearer, more obvious way to demonstrate how the US no longer cares about the "rule of law"? perhaps, but I can't think of anything that would top what the CIA has already done /

/* before anybody replies with idiotic claims that somehow it is ok to torture foreigners with claims relating to jurisdictional boundaries, I suggest actually read 18 U.S. Code § 2340A (b) */
If something is nice Google either kills it or makes it not nice.
> Note that I have no particular objection whatsoever to having the government end welfare/unemployment/etc, and simply provide low wage employment for anyone who wants it building public works of various sorts. But my reasons for supporting this are simply because I favor creating disincentives for idleness, not because I think only the government can engage in productive investment.

I think we argued about this before. Why do you hate people who choose to spend time as they wish instead of being coerced into unwanted employment? The only thing massive unwanted public infrastructure projects are good for is ruining the environment. Public works policy in Japan is a great example of top quality bridges to nowhere and concrete ditches that no one cares about that also happen to do nothing "for the economy": http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/09/business/international/a-b...

Why not invest the money into things that actually produce results: education and fundamental research? Let's figure out how to get robots to meet our material needs so we can spend more time not working.
OK, but what exactly does this achieve? Bad to worse touch sensitivity on my sleeves? Why? I wish they could have come up with at least one genuine show-stopper application to get people excited about this tech. Reading through this thread the only semi-reasonable application is surreptitious counting of cards.. and even that is useless as cleanly pointed out by the most upvoted comment-on-comment by downandout.
I'm so amazed with the new wave of projects Google are working on. Definetively, the sensation I had about Apple as a innovation company has changed once I seen these new projects. This is innovation, this is a nice approach to future and not iphone and iwatch iterations.
The difference is, of course, that tobacco isn't illegal.
Curtis Green is a real person, who really worked for Ross, who really was afraid Ross would have him killed, and who in fact Ross did try to have killed. See the very beginning of Joshuah Bearman's "The Rise and Fall of Silk Road" in Wired.
Most radio stations use all sorts of sound processing anyway though (including ridiculous dynamic range compression) to make the station sound "better".
Last I heard federal parole isn't a thing.
I would say that theory would only stand if you lived in Russia, were politically connected, never left Russian territories, and never allowed any sales to CIS/Russian territories. Note the part about being politically connected because the Russian militsia (or w/e they are called these days) will simply be tipped off by the FBI to your whereabouts and go shake you down for hefty taxes. Even if two countries officially don't have any extradition or other MLAT type treaties doesn't mean there isn't low level negotiation between law enforcement, or straight up bribes by the FBI to have local PD shut you down. Maybe you could move to Crimea or Donetsk Republic and get NAF to be your personal bodyguards.

I think it's pretty much impossible to run that kind of a global darkmarket otherwise. Even if you were the world's most experienced sysadmin and could lock down your server(s) (and NSA/FBI httpd/nginx/apache 0day doesn't apply) you still have to worry about Bitcoin laundering and many other issues, you'd have to run around like Jason Bourne everyday and nobody can sustain that discipline without making mistakes. You only have to make one mistake and you're joining Ross at ADX Florence (where he's likely going, nobody convicted of the "Kingpin" charge ends up anywhere else besides supermax prisons)
Really fascinating questions.

> Think about how difficult it would be for a self-driving car to estimate this.

For sure you're right in the near term. But assuming we achieve super-intelligent AI that we manage to corral into a benevolent relationship with us, perhaps difficulty wouldn't be an issue at that point.

> Even more importantly, how would two self-driving cars cooperate in the event of an inevitable accident? Would we allow them to directly talk to each other, or are they only allowed to interpret each others' trajectories?

Yeah, this is getting good. Assuming we have those super-intelligent machines, those cars should be able to share pretty much all relevant data before a collision. So how could the car determine the greater good option? Is one life equal to another? What if one is rich and one is poor? What if one is the president? How could they even collaborate if they don't share the same basis for valuing human life? Could car companies realistically have diversity in those algorithms, or wouldn't that just lead to lawsuits against cars that were overly aggressive or passive? Nobody wants an unsafe car, so would car companies have to compete in their creation of aggressive algorithms? Or would it be a factor of cost... that you need to pay more for a car that guards its occupants more strongly... leading to more and more aggressive cars as they compete for the crown? Honestly, this line of thinking leads me to think we'll eventually need these values to be dictated and homogenized... requiring a strong central government, and aggressive detection and punishment of aberration. Or else a mad max style zero sum game.

Forgive the digression into fantasyland, I just found the ideas and questions here to be inspiringly interesting.
None of those products are, to my knowledge, open source.

Vault might very well implement the ASSD specification. However, to use ASSD the OS needs to be able to send ASSD-specific low-level SD commands to the card. It would require patching the OS, and depending on the phone it might not work anyway.

Assuming Google sticks to the open source promise that will drive developer adoption. Using the standard memory interface and normal file system operations to do crypto makes it potentially compatible with just about anything. It's also easy to interface with. Everything is a file! :)
I think that what yummyfajita is trying to get at is the idea that as societies the US, UK etc spend up to their limits rather than saving.

The problem is that this doesn't really generalise into individuals being able to opt out of the spending.

If everyone refused to pay 50% of their income on rent then rents would fall (unlike, say, food production, the homes won't just cease to exist).

But an individual can't affect that change. If they want to work in a city, they rent in that city.

There are a few oddball solutions that can work in unique cases. Living with parents works if they are willing and your hometown has a decent employment market. Living in a car might work in some places. House sharing might work if you can find reasonable housemates and you are well paid (if you have no hope of ever saving much, then it's pointless to inflict a crap life upon yourself for a future that will never come).

The idea that people spend loads on crap just doesn't add up to me though. When rent, energy, taxes and minimum food (e.g. 20pw rice and beans diet) add up to most of your income, does it really matter what you do with the small amount left over?

edit: Oh; and the capital advantage on moving doesn't exist. Most people have zero net worth.
> I'm sure there was some law breaking going on but good luck identifying who what and when.

Not meaning to go off on a political tangent, but it seems to me like there was a conscious effort not to ask such questions in an official capacity.

Imagine an alternate universe where we had Watergate-style hearings when Pelosi/Reid took over in 2007, or when the Obama administration started in 2009. In some circles, some people wanted that, and I think rightly or wrongly politicians decided it was not worth it. Easy to forget now, but it was certainly in political discourse 6 to 9 years ago.
Lots of dead comments here..

http://i.imgur.com/3xomH6n.png
It is not that hard to identify the great people to hire if you are hiring people with a proven track record. I agree it is hard to identify which people with potential will be a success (ie the new graduates), but if you widen your search you should be able to identify those people who have actually built something great.
A neuroscience researcher (& personal friend) who works with high functioning autistic patients has said before that the best advantage in playing cards is to watch the other players for tells. These autistic patients are sometimes taught to watch for facial expressions as its not natural for them. This particular neuroscientist is very good at blackjack, but its not enjoyable for him.

The real advantage that advantage these high functioning autistic players have is that they usually don't show any emotion while playing blackjack. Also, These players are usually smart enough to know that "counting cards is stupid" and hate being compared to Rain Man.
There's no wage too low that _someone_ won't take it. The only limits we have are minimum wage and public assistance. Without those, if employers offered $0.10/hr, people would be still lined for blocks to take the job when the alternative is nothing.

Longer-term payoff is meaningless when you can't meet your short-term goal of eating.
Great. Centralism and monopoly in any form makes me uneasy. This is another point for freedom...
Crowdfunding for events – let's hack this
www.gatheric.com

Just launched our beta, check it out.
Guess what determines school curricula in most cases? The opinions of the parents who care enough to go to school board meetings, serve on the board or complain to officials.
Paywalled.

Anyone have a non-paywalled source that doesn't involve circumventing said paywall? I would prefer to take my page views elsewhere.
No thanks. Been programming for 25 years, and still loving every minute. I've never felt underqualified for something I really wanted to work on.. and that's because my job is my hobby as well.

Then there are all the people I have met and worked with that have confided to me that they felt like they wasted their time going to school, or they are saddled with insane amounts of student loan debt.

Until the educational system gets some serious reform, it's just another scam like credit cards and subprime loans as far as I'm concerned.
It doesn't feel real, because I know its fake. My brain isn't fooled into believing that I exist in this different world. I fulling know I'm looking at a video game, in fact I found the raster lines reminiscent of classic arcade games.

I had fun, but what the article in this thread is talking about is a 'holodeck' feeling. The uncanny valley is where the space between where your brain registers the image as imaginary and is ok with it (3d cartoons) and where it rejects the image as if its offended at being lied to (polar express).

The rift is very much in the former, my brain knew it was a game.
Well, it helps if you are sentenced for things you are convicted of then.

Because, even by the "Hang them by the neck until they are dead" gung-ho standards, you generally have to be convicted of something before being punished for it.
Actually it is true. No charge for murder. ArsTechnicha and wired agree.
No, film is not in unique need of blockbusterism (2012)
Sure, humans renegotiate the law all the time. Sometimes peacefully sometimes at the point of the sword. But those are still rights as defined by humans not handed down by God/Nature.

There wasn't revolution because the people were aesthetically displeased at the fact that their natural rights were being violated. There was revolution because the people wanted something and they were willing to fight for it.

If income inequality keeps going the way it's going, one day we'll see the people revolt against the rich demanding a natural right to housing, medical care, education and who knows what else. You'll, of course, note that particular definition of natural rights far exceeds the Jeffersonian one. It'll be just as an illogical concept then as it is now. It's a nice rhetorical flourish though, and rhetoric goes a long way when you're asking people to risk their lives.
HSBC were deep into it

http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/10/news/companies/hsbc-money-la...
Are you implying drugs don't hurt anyone?

Even the most ardent proponent of full legalization usually acknowledges that many drugs are very harmful--they just believe the people should be free to do things even if they are harmful to themselves.

I generally support decriminalization or even legalization, but I would be reluctant to allow internet sales. I'd require sales to be through licensed dealers and in person, so that an addict cannot completely cut themselves off from human contact. Internet sales make drugs too easy.
You can find a nice guide as to what is and is not entrapment here: http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=633

There are a lot of misconceptions about what is or is not entrapment. A lot of things like lying about not being a cop when under cover, putting out a bait car, or just watching you commit a crime without warning you it was a crime are not entrapment and the reason why is explained in the guide.

It's only entrapment when they do something to overcome some resistance you put up to committing the crime. So unless you can show that they somehow changed your mind, the entrapment defense won't work.

Sure, the thief wouldn't have stolen the bait car if they knew it was a bait car, but the question is whether they would have stolen any car.
Me too, the question mark in my post is real. Although regulatory capture is a problem, it's rather easy to use that as justification for the idea that any regulation is simply a boondoggle and exists for no other reason than to hinder the economy.
> but to trust processes on the same system with the plain text

I don't know if that is necessary from what the details are showing.

It looks like there are two dummy files that act are used to stream data between the two OSes meaning the phone does not necessarily have unlimited access.
Yes. Telehash.
http://telehash.org/

From the same developers who designed and built XMPP.
Just because someone didn't die doesn't mean that ordering a hit is okay. From the chat logs I've read, DPR ordered a hit on one of the SR employees (Green, I believe) who had gotten arrested. When DPR found out, he thought Green would talk, so he asked another SR employee, Force (who was an FBI member and was actually participating in Green's arrest), to kill Green. Force agreed and pretended to kill him and faked photos with Green. DPR thought he had killed someone. Does that make it not a crime because Green didn't actually die?

Anyway, that's not even what this case was really about.
In case you aren't just being argumentative, using bandwidth as the metric of choice when discussing lightbox-style page elements is sub-optimal. Or when discussing business models of websites that use those page elements.

A better metric is some sort of pageviews / site visitors / uniques / etc.
When I get these, I use postmaster@domain.of.page. It seems if we can generally agree on which one we all pick (or some small number of choices), we might have a chance of making a dent when the postmaster starts getting effectively self-spammed.
This isn't just about the effects of addictive drugs. I think most people agree they can be devastating to people and families. The trouble is that you seem to be suggesting that US drug policy in any way helps people and families affected by addictive drugs. I can't look at the war on drugs and see any remotely feasible interpretation where it's helping people affected by addictive drugs.
Well, no shit. All the rational people agree with you, and everyone who disagrees is irrational. Didn't see that coming.
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True, but enough people here have had it implanted in the back of their minds to make it true, so no difference really.
I think that is also silly. If finding yourself on To Catch a Predator is soliciting a minor, then by that logic the showrunners are purposefully endangering a minor.
Thanks for words of reassurance :).

I always considered FOMO to be a fear of missing out parties or Facebook status updates, both of which I fortunately don't have [i.e. fears, not parties and updates]. I never thought about looking at my emotions related to projects from this angle.
One thing that should be kept in mind is that not all drugs are the same thing. The "drugs are bad" or "drugs are good" discourse breaks down fast, simply because they are gross generalisations.

For example: nicotine is much more addictive (has to do with the speed with which tolerance for a substance is increased) than, say, THC. Which is yet again different from LSD. There are a whole host of factors, and a spectrum of "how dangerous $DRUG is".

(disclosure: it's my pet peeve when people make lump statements about "all drugs")
An interesting addition, thank you!

After considering your comment, I still think my original point stands. Instead of thinking about the product being sold, think of it like qualifying a lead based on their receptiveness to your advertising.

It would need to be tested whether that would be more highly correlated with conversions / profits, but I'd probably consider someone who is receptive to my advertising as a higher priority lead than someone who is interested primarily in my content.
Well then it's just natural selection. Unless his son managed to reproduce already... Then it's just a horrible cycle of pain and blame.
You still have to prove it beyond reasonable doubt, no matter how difficult you think it is.
The horror is the history.

Forgetting that the history is horrible is where the actually dangerous anti-vaccine lunatics came from, for instance.

The article, of course, ignores this.