skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was relevant to the statement I was replying to: "I see more and more echoes of the worldview and tactics that ultimately killed just shy of a hundred million people or so last century, and yes, it scares me." You've labeled yourself a communist in the past, if that's not strictly accurate I stand corrected.

My personal background is well known. I'm here logged in with my real name, I'm not hiding it. I don't know how Gawker's opinion of me is exactly relevant to whether or not you're a communist but that's fine.

If there's nothing wrong with being a communist why are you acting like I've slandered you by bring your background into this? It doesn't add up.
I did 110 hour weeks at a market research startup in Chicago. Every week for about 8 months.

I'm not convinced that I wasn't insane there for a while. I am pretty sure that I've never drunk that much in my life.

On the bright side, the 45 hours a week I do now seems like a damn vacation.

Perspective is important.
"Judaism is much more concerned with actions than thought"

This is at best an out of context understanding and at worst a complete distortion of the Jewish faith.

"Service of the heart" is the core obligation of Judaism. Every single morning and evening Jews say the Shma which states the primary commandment of Judaism is to "Love G-d with all your heart, all your soul(personality), and all your resources..."

Maimonides has his twelve tenants of faith, which are all about belief and not at all about action.

Love and Faith are about connecting with and understanding G-d.

All the actions and commandments are tools for reaching spiritual connection and understand G-d with more clarity.

It is almost entirely a spiritual based faith...

The quote you reference, which for the life of me, I cannot recall as being accurate...certainly only means that behavior can influence belief.

We can form habits by behaving a certain way and we can come to believe certain things that are consistent with our behavior...The idea that Judaism is more concerned with action over thought is patently FALSE!

That being said, you can make the argument that some Jews today are more concerned with aesthetics than with true belief...but that is a shortcoming in their faith, and hardly a representation of what Judaism or the Torah teaches.

All that being said, a well rounded, Torah observant Jew, regardless of their denomination will have a healthy balance of faith, moral compass, and action that leads to living an optimal, healthy, happy, meaningful life to the fullest.
I've always liked autometically generated avatars in theory. But in practice they never seem that useful because there's nothing recognizable in the image for me to subconsciously recognize.

Secret had an interesting take on this. They had a limited set of simple icons, like boats or rockets, and then dynamically colored them. They were easy enough to recognize so patterns became more apparent.
Untangling the Web [pdf]
pg: "Yes, investors with preferred stock usually get their money back first. Sometimes they get a multiple, but that's considered overreaching nowadays and the more promising startups never have to agree to that. I suppose that is implicitly a target valuation in a sense. But no one views it as a target, because it only matters if things go badly."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6896833
It wasn't the code itself that I learned from. I have more been enriched and stimulated by reading the blog posts, documentation, hacker news threads, and mailing list. A couple of the more interesting ideas are:

* He created Nock, which in a way is bytecode language, like compiled java bytecode or the .NET CIL. But his idea was that this bytecode should be the simplest possible thing, far, far simpler than the CLR. In fact, it should be versioned in Kelvin versioning, starting at 5,000 and counting down, until it is finally perfected and will never need to change. Going forward, all consumer apps will always compile down to this bytecode. All new hardware platforms can build interpreters for this bytecode. I think that is a pretty novel and neat approach. If it caught on, it would ensure that any program we wrote now could be run for the next thousand years.

* His view is that to beat spam, you simply need to have a finite number of cryptographically secured identities. This number can be large. But if it is finite, that means accounts will not be costless, which means the market over time will be able to solve the problems of trust and filtering out spam in a way far superior to how it works today.

It's hard to do the ideas justice by trying to repeat them myself. In reading through the material it was just lots of little things, where I said to myself, "Ah, that is a neat solution to that problem, I wonder if he'll be able to make it work."
Church is a much less popular/common way to meet people than it used to be: https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/chart7.png?w=...
I guess you are not open to more information about economics then. You may be surprised on how smug and condescending your own comments appear :)
I evaluated this, and wrote some code in it, but ended up choosing nuclear-js as my react framework. Has many of the same concepts, but within the flux paradigm, and has the awesome concept of getters. Getters are a combination of several keypaths into the immutable app state, plus an optional transform function.

Also, nuclear seems quite stable at this point, and the GitHub issues are about pretty practical stuff, while omniscient has had very recent breaking API changes and many of the issues are discussions about functional purity etc. Just my two cents on why I chose one over the other.
The OP asked for a link to "the most objectionable content by Curtis Yarvin". The article I linked was the only specific Moldbug post I saw those on Twitter objecting to.

OP didn't ask for third party articles complaining about Curtis Yarvin, so your comment appears disingenuous.
Maybe if you're talking about GNOME/Unity/KDE or whatever. But really, if you just use a window manager + whatever apps you want, it's tough to beat Linux if you know what you're doing. Is it a pain that you can't do stuff like watch Netflix or edit Word docs/Excel spreadsheets? Yeah, but that's not really Linux' fault, and a Free Software argument is kind of OT.
This is very edgy. I picture some guy doing this spoken-word style in a smoke-filled Internet cafe.
I've seen what you described too. It's crazy. The wrapper I mentioned was about making code sharing easier. Never taking into account that Django already provided a fairly clean interface to work with. These guys were wrapping Django ORM query code with funciones that took an infinite amount of parameters through Python's kwargs parameter. Nuts.
Hi pedalpete, thank you so much for the feedback! Yeah, finding the next A16Z was just for fun. And I agree with you that looking into unicorns would be a great idea.
Sure, if you remove all resistance it won't stop, that's Newton's First Law. But usually "perpetual motion" means you'd be able to harness the motion somehow, which is still not the case.
>Getting dis-invited from a tech conference is not losing the right to say anything. The state is not punishing Yarvin for his speech. Giving a talk at a private tech conferences is not a right protected by anyone.

I don't have a strong opinion on this, but a lot of people confuse Free Speech, the ideal, with Free Speech, the legal right. A lot of people get upset when people are fired or ostracized for their political positions. Even when it doesn't involve the government and isn't protected. E.g. a lot of people were fired or ostracized for being communists in the 50s.

The rest of your comment is just "other people's problem's are worse than yours, so you don't have any right to complain".
If you like scifi, go read his System Shock fanfiction novel. It's great.
Scrum Agile Cross Functional Team Is an RPG Party
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil https://github.com/marcbarbosa/metrorio
Published 8 years ago?
Booting out Moldbug makes sense as long as we boot out any avowed communists or Marxists as well. Those philosophies led directly to the deaths of tens of millions in the past century, so any reasonable person should find them highly offensive.
The optimistic locking I mentioned is what we use when RCU is inappropriate (due to multiple pointers).

But just to get the definitions straight: what you call RCU is a copy-on-write combined with a GC algorithm. What would you call a copy-on-write (with no synchronization on the reader's end whatsoever) that uses a general-purpose GC?

Also, I don't understand how hazard pointer GC can be more efficient than a general-purpose GC, given that modern GCs work based on the same principle, only much more refined (e.g. HotSpot creates a stack map containing the location of each reference in every thread's stack instead of a hazard pointer list). Of course compacting collectors (usually young-generation) don't do any reclamation work at all, instead they only work to copy the live objects, so it all comes down to the question what do you have more, live objects or dead objects? But in any case, simple hazard pointer mechanisms seem like a crude, rather old, non-compacting GC technique. I don't see how they can beat a good general-purpose GC.
> Perhaps somebody could start an "atheist church", but the concept is unpalatable to me.

Sounds like the Unitarian Universalists to me.
You are wrong. At that time the whole universities had, if they were rich, a couple of mainframes for the whole institution, if they were poorer, one or none.

All the students wich are entitled to access to the mainframe worked typically on a single mainframe which was also used for the university accounting etc.

Mainframes were, using the more modern words, the big servers with the capital S, effectively.

Hobbyist keyboard alone (without the TV) had the price of nearly 1000 US dollars equivalent today in 1975

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Typewriter

The cheapest self containing computer that year had a minimal cost of 30,000 of today's US dollars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5100

The "operating system" of it were Basic and APL, and it had the storage of 200 KB.

Now compare all this to the "server" which started this discussion. The claim was that when Gates started he didn't need "servers."
So Far Away – Avenged Sevenfold
This looks really cool. reactjs seemed too much like a giant buy in change. Also the entire flux thing still confuses newbies to this day. The question for me is native. Do we see riot js native?
> Maybe we work on very different kinds of problems, or maybe it's just because we're different people.

In the interest in figuring out which, what problems do you work with and what are your principles/beliefs/guiding principles in software? :P
> Modeling, gaming, watching dumb videos on the internet, enjoying Netflix?

You can do every single one of those under with GNU/Linux too.
Blender, steam, emulators, firefox/flash/chromium+chromium-widevine (or simply install chrome) have long been available under Linux.

Unlike Windows, "apps" come without malware from the official repos.
are you trolling?

1) if you switching from ruby to php because there is no remote jobs.. well, there are plenty of them

2) you didn't touched php for 8 years, so why go php?

3) they are locked to windows and you can't install linux, well, don't go there

4) you can't even bring hardware! wtf! don't go there x2
ArtMatic Voyager has amazing procedurally generated cities and landscapes: http://uisoftware.com/Voyager/index18.html It's based on a powerful texture engine to generate colors and height maps and the model is ray traced...
I would be more than happy to hear more information, if only you would provide some. I have no idea who Benjamin Tucker was and how he is relevant.

Even though I claim to speak with authority because of my PhD, I don't consider that condescending or smug, and a person is free to judge that my education is worthless if they like. But throwing out names of very obscure people in place of an actual argument is objectively smug and rude.
Show HN: Critters with neural net brains coevolve to survive killer planks in JS
I shouldn't post as urbit. Quite a few other people, few of whom agree with me on anything, have worked on the project.

The word "racist" and its conjugations does not appear in the English language until the 1920s - see Peter Frost's cultural history [0]. If you asked Shakespeare if he was a "racist," he would not know what you meant.

"Racist" is essentially a term of abuse which no group or party has ever applied to itself. Like most such epithets, it has two meanings - a clear objective one, describing a person who fails to believe in the anthropological theories of human equality which became first popular, then universal in the mid-20th century; and a caricature of the vices, personal or political, typically engaged in by such a foul unbeliever.

I actually like the answer given by Steve Klabnik above [1]. To call Steve a communist is a serious personal insult, and you can get banned for it [2]. However, Steve reserves the right to call himself a communist, or not, as he likes. This is actually kind of cool...

[0] - http://www.unz.com/pfrost/age-of-reason/
[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9676630
[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9676861
It was the other way around for me. Early childhood to high-school social rejection (via peer-bullying and such) naturally led me to focus on "things" and ideas thereby being creative with them.

However, being creative with "things" as opposed to people does lead to further social rejection thus reinforcing the formed identity. I guess this is how the nerd/geek identity is formed and maintained?
I've had to deal with this exact same problem of unrelated UIs sharing UI layout & control flow logic, messily packaged deep in 8 layers of inheritance... A nightmare. It was a GWT + GXT codebase. The worst is that I did partake into creating the mess in the first place.

Now when it comes to UIs I favor decoupling at the expense of a little code duplication. Because two otherwise unrelated menus happen to share the same layout/structure/flow at a given time, doesn't mean this structure needs to be abstracted away: the code is likely to diverge later anyway as the unrelated views evolve.

Abstracting away composable patterns for GUIs is hard. Especially for me given that I mostly write backend code...
Yep. Using it with Deis in production though I don't use Docker Registry images. Baidu is probably one of the largest production user.
Moldbug did in other places explicitly denounce hereditary, chattel slavery and called it evil.

His actual view seems to be that it should be legal for a person to sign a permanent, life-long employment contract, mediated and regulated for abuse by the state, where the person gets a guaranteed wage in return for having to provide labor. The idea is that for the lower end of the bell curve, this is a lot more humane than subjecting someone to the capriciousness of the capitalist system, where a person can be fired at will. Note that some on the left have made the same argument. There was a leftist critique of the end of serfdom in Eastern Europe, by which they accused the end of serfdom of being a greedy power-play by the feudal lords, who wished to renege on their obligations to provide for the serfs. Does this view make Moldbug evil?
I don't know if it's because you're especially naive or I'm especially cynical, but that comment is absurd to me. If only power and responsibility were a guarantee against someone being that stupid, we would live in a much better world!
Enaml: A declarative UI library with a Cassowary layout system for Python
Apple's Tim Cook talks diversity, women, 'the future of our company'
Show HN: Motd.sh – dynamic message of the day ~/.motd generator for Mac/Linux
Sorry, but no. urbit, from the Latin urbs == city, is actually a good bit older than UR.

The initials are somehow very compelling - another couple of great literary UR blogs are the Unz Review (unz.com) and Uncouth Reflections (uncouthreflections.com).

I will admit that urbit has very few users, as technically we're really not launched at all. We were thinking Strange Loop might be a good place for this, but I guess not.
Gambling with other people's money, sounds rather similar to the carnival ride the entire planet went through in 2008.
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This article deals with a romanticised and populist interpretation of creativity. Linking creativity and rejection is likely comforting to many isolated and rejected creatives. And while the Van Gogh archetype is a familiar one, it's important to understand that Van Gogh is the exception not the rule. Within the fine arts there are few similar examples. Picasso and Matisse were popular, social and anything but rejected or isolated (even in the beginning). Since 1945 hardly a single contemporary artist has achieved significant fame after death, with the vast majority of great contemporary artists actively engaged in dialogue with others.
Interesting ideas, but Betteridge wins again. No hard data is provided, so anecdotes can be answered with anecdotes and the whole thing's a wash.

From everything I've read about creativity, one of the keys seems to be thinking about things differently than one normally thinks about them. This can mean intense states of depression, mania, loneliness or relationship. Any state of mind that's different and extreme can shift perspective enough to cause some people to be exceptionally creative, at least for a time.

It's herding cats, though. There are no proven techniques that will make someone more creative, only strategies that will work some times for some people. The best way to be more creative is to constantly try to create new things. Social rejection isn't a prerequisite for that.
React's virtual DOM (and other virtual DOM implementations) aren't just "adding another layer of that same approach," because the browser's DOM doesn't give you any way of diffing against a previous DOM state then performing the minimal operations needed to realize the new state.
I have one question, are the buildings generated randomly or is there any algorithm that generates which building goes where. The generation is like the urban version of "No man's Sky".
The new Nitrous Pro (https://pro.nitrous.io) has a docker template you can use if you don't feel like installing boot2docker locally.

There's also a bunch of advanced docker options you can check out:

http://docs.nitrous.io/v1.0/docs/advanced-container-manageme...

Would be a good compliment to the docker jumpstart manual.
Hospitals won either way. It was the insurance companies that won.
No.

Those that try to "fit in" might not be the right people to produce revolutionary ideas.

And those who don't already fit in have the least to lose by inviting rejection by being off-the-norm.

Add those two together, you have an intersection of those folks who don't fit in today and have nothing to lose by chasing their dream, choosing to chase their dreams instead of potential social acceptability.

Orthogonal and rational choices, even if those that always did this wasn't being rational.
Wow, I never knew who was behind F'd Company site. Brings back memories. That site saved me lot of anguish and money from dot.bomb explosion in stock market. I wonder if the data from F'd Company is still accessible somewhere. That dataset might be valuable for text analysis to determine negative sentiment about a company and business.
> I'm not sure the author actually understands what libertarianism is.

I'm almost convinced that nobody understands what libertarianism is, including libertarians.

Almost invariably if libertarian X explains libertarianism to me, and after thinking about it I come up with some objections or questions and X is not available, so I find some other libertarian, Y, and bring up my questions, I find that Y is a different kind of libertarian and his flavor of libertarianism doesn't include the features I objected to.

Just look at the sidebar of /r/libertarian on Reddit. It contains a "Types of Libertarianism" section which contains links to sub-reddits for various libertarian types. It has agorism, anarcho-capitalism, christian-ancaps, geolibertarianism, libertarian left, mutualism, market anarchism, minarchy, objectivism, and voluntarism. (I realize this is not necessarily fully accurate...objectivists do not consider themselves libertarians).

I'm pretty sure that on almost every issue I've found some type of libertarianism that fits very well with my views (much better than the Republican or Democrat party platforms do), but is way off of my views on several other issues I find important.

I think this happens because I think libertarians (at least many flavors) construct their rules backwards from the way I think they should be constructed. They take an axiomatic approach, coming up with some general principles that they feel are self-evidently correct. Then they deduce the rules of society that follow from those axioms.

A good example of this is Rothbard. His "The Ethics of Liberty" is a wonderful examination of the consequences of a small number of general principles. He follows those principles wherever they lead, and gets to some points where he admits the outcomes can be terrible. For example, parents not legally required to care for their children--they cannot actively kill them, but if parents decide they don't want their newborn baby they can just ignore it until it dies. He thinks that this would not happen too often, because instead of letting the baby die, the parents could sell it on the free market to someone who wants to raise a child. (Children are a theoretical pain in the ass for many flavors of libertarianism, not just Rothbard libertarianism).

I take terrible outcomes as a sign that we didn't get the axioms right. We should be starting with the kind of society we want to have, and then pick our axioms to be a minimal set of general principles that generate that kind of society, rather than picking the axioms and then accepting whatever society arises from them.
Online is drinking everything else's milkshake! What a graph!

It's easy to see why it appeals so well -- every candidate you examine is looking for a predictable thing, which assuming you're doing your search properly, is roughly the same as what you're looking for. There's still a significant risk that any given match won't care for you or vice versa, but it eliminates an entire layer of annoyance -- that is, that the person you're approaching is not looking for a relationship, or not looking for the kind that you are.
The likelihood of getting a proper BRT system when a city sets out to build one seems a lot lower than the probability of getting working light rail. Granted, both are low.

In NYC, we have "dedicated lanes" for some of our buses. But there are no spikes in the ground and when someone parks in one, the bus doesn't actually smash the car out of the way. So we're back to the mercy of traffic.
Vipassana is an absolutely wonderful experience. A 'brain washing' where it can rid your mind of all the crud that has accumulated from our culture and society. It puts you in touch with your body in a way that nothing my life ever has. I'd be happy to answer some questions if anybody has any.
Something impressive must have happened, as the symphony projects I've worked on recently have been able to support far more load than what you're describing on ec2 micro instances.
> More accurately the courts award custody to the parent that did not change in religiosity.

Why?
It can be argued that shared memory should be explicit-when-needed rather than everywhere-by-default though.
To 'defend it to the death' will require more than just sitting behind a keyboard posting on the hacker news forums.
No. At best maybe indirectly - having a lot of time on your hands and being very bored is often the key to creativity, and being socially rejected will give you that.

But I wouldn't start using this article a way to convince yourself it's OK to be antisocial because you're an undiscovered genius.