skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plus if you ever need to warm up your hands on your old laptop, this is another very good example from the same author:

http://alteredqualia.com/xg/examples/animation_physics_vehic...
Jeff Hannan on Using Neural Networks to Train the AI for Colin McRae Rally 2
'folli never claimed it was Dawkins’ idea ;-)

”what Dawkins did was just giving it the catchy name”

Well, he also wrote an accessible book on the subject. And that book is littered with references to other literature on the subject.
Right, I think I saw this one pulled elsewhere. It's still not clear to me that the author holds that view, or that he's just putting forth a weak analysis. Considering the response, I thought there would be something explicitly aggressive.
> In some cases, that's probably true - Terry Davis very likely being one of those cases.

It's less because Terry couldn't make a useful contribution and more that he not really interested. He's had jobs in the past where he was no more or less ill. From what I've read of his life history, he walked away rather than got fired.
It's not just that the particles have to be zero size. There also have to be infinitely many. Otherwise, you could just count before and after and apply conservation of mass. (This also applies in mathematics: any finite set has its size preserved by euclidean motions, unless you put points on top of each other.) Needless to say, gathering an infinite number of electrons or protons will cause black hole-themed "reality breakdown" problems long before you get there.
"Natives did not make good slaves, and so Africans were imported." That alone is so innocuous as to appear in elementary school textbooks. Is this really what the whole row is about?
Maybe it's because the company DNA attracts less entrepreneurial minded employees in the first place than for example Google. I think that people working for Apple:

- like to have a strong leader in front of them (or at least used to when Jobs was around).

- are engineers comfortable to be less at the center of product development than at other big tech companies.

Whereas an entrepreneurial-minded person is famously rather reluctant to subordination. Exceptions confirm the rule.
There may be some chance that json_* functions become a standard, but have different call parameters.

This design allows MySQL to implement both without the backwards compatibility concern.
I don't think Curits Yarvin is going to be put to death for his rather far right political beliefs. That you'd compare him to Servetus is...well, rather ridiculous TBH.
I learned this knot as the GRB - "Guide's Rappel Brake" and also as an autoblock. There are several entries each year in "Accidents in North American Mountaineering" that describe failure to properly use a mechanical belay device. I recall no accidents as the result of a faulty autoblock knot. This knot is aligned with the KISS principle from software engineering. It is remarkably simple and effective.

Interesting to read this story of its origin.
I'm not going to refer you to Wikipedia. Instead, I'll take the top hit off of google scholar, given the search term for "Sapir Whorf"[1]. The conclusion is in the abstract:

"""
These findings suggest that the mastery of the English subjunctive is probably quite tangential to counterfactual reasoning in Chinese. In short, the present research yielded no support for the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
"""

Every serious study of S-W, results in the same: no evidence.

Now, there is -minute- evidence that languages that have very short number words allows students to master the memorization of number sequences easier---the students literally have less information (in terms of phonemes) to memorize. This sort of thing is actually pretty prevalent; but it is not really what most people are thinking of when they discuss S-W.

Also, the Himba "study" about green is pretty much debunked. If you get a high-quality monitor, with good ambient lighting, go ahead and ask some colleagues to find the differently-colored green square. They'll do so, just fine, and quite quickly!

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/00100277839...
This is factually not true, and since you claim to have read my complaints, this comment appears disingenuous.

More specifically, I linked http://www.thebaffler.com/blog/mouthbreathing-machiavellis/ and http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/ as a brief introduction if you don't want to wade through the torrent of Dark Enlightenment shenanigans.
A First Class Degree from Oxbridge – So What?
MS Linux Love: Publishing an ASP.NET 5 App to Docker on Linux with Visual Studio
Well, lets tease this apart.

Hardware startups are still being funded. Software startups are still being funded. Life science startups are still being funded. And it's a lot of the same old line VCs who are doing these deals. I'm thinking $15M-$20M first round, with companies need significant funding but get quite large.

Then there are a ton of small companies, many of which are really small businesses (just look at the list of companies at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9666013), that are getting small amounts of funding ("spray and pray" funds). Are their funders really "VCs" in the classic sense when the amount they invest is =< $100K and they can't participate in future rounds? Although they get a most of the press for "startups" and "VCs", and they are the volume in absolute sense, most of these seem designed to run for a little while and then be aquihired away. So no need to build most of the infrastructure for a sustainable business. In that role, the "VCs" are really more like agents getting a commission on the aquihire.

It's the latter that aren't particularly picky. The traditional VCs seem mostly to still look for the same things.
Yeah, maybe we should make this more clear.

Sign your name here if you're fine with providing a platform for racists: [] and enter it into the public record.
Watch out for some announcements around this topic at DockerCon in a couple of weeks, we are close to Flocker 1.0 :)
In addition to that, people like to be optimistic. Many college graduates (even from not-very-prestigious ones) end up in careers that pay much more than plumbing, or at least have less middle class stigma attached.
Also the idea that people in CS should be doing it because they love it, not just for the money. I wonder how many people on HN really want more developers who aren't really interested in it.
It would seem from this blog post, he joined the advisory board, but was not a founder: https://al3x.net/2015/03/03/jacobin.html
Skateboarding the streets of China
Good point, this will bar more complicated mechanisms. But a ring spinning forever around a dimple (in vaccuum of course) should work. Constant pressure so no flexing.
> Why is writing about certain political ideas OK, but
> writing about certain other political ideas not OK?

Calling socialism and racism the same thing, just a "certain political view", is about as intellectually honest as calling speeding and murder the same thing, just a "certain sort of crime".
> For example, suppose a bunch of gamergate types were to
> complain about Brianna Wu giving a purely technical talk
> about pathfinding and AI. Would all the folks who are so
> quick to defend Strangeloop also defend it in this case?
>
> Somehow I doubt it.

Of course you should doubt it -- gamergate troglodytes are in the clear moral wrong. There are such things as moral decisions, and people, organizations, and societies are free, indeed obliged, to make them.

Absolute and unfettered free speech isn't a moral imperative. Speech can be curtailed, in some circumstances, when it has moral justification.
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Here's one minute of methodology to throw at this question.

Search LinkedIn for title keyword "founder", past company Apple. I get 7668 hits.

Same search for Google, 7277 hits. For Yahoo, 4268.
I think i've seen such tools for windows. But maybe there isn't enough demand for linux.
Sure, but those labels are very useful for throwing your opponents under the bus.
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The double life of Hasidic atheists
As a third hand for your rappel, a toothed ascender seems like a bad idea. Petzl makes another device called the Shunt which is more suitable to third hand use. Although in the case of icy ropes, maybe teeth are a hard requirement.
So, from that quote, he seems to be:

a) Describing a master-slave structure with the implication that it is a biologically programmed one.

b) That some are born for more dominant roles, some for more submissive ones, and then others who are in between or neither.

c) That the aforementioned characteristics are genetic.

Not particularly savory, but also a pretty standard evopsych position. In fact, I'd say that the only truly controversial part is the argument that these structures are innate and predetermined. That such master-slave structures permeate society is readily observable.
It sounds like Patrick is doing what most developer/business owners do (me included), which is consult until your product or service based business succeeds.

I tried it twice and twice I nearly burnt out. Luckily, after the second time, my business was making me a good living already, so I never looked back.

The problem is that consulting will take a lot more time out of your life than even a regular job. His clients sound professional and fairly large, but the majority of your clients will be small and mid-sized companies. They will try to nickle-and-dime you for everything because they want to save money.

You only have so much mental energy and I found that I didn't have much left over to work on the business. On top of this, you then needed to worry about chasing down customers for payment, which adds to the stress.

I also worked for a consulting company (they grew like what is described here). It was very difficult for them to find reliable consultants. We went through so many different people, I was the only one that was still there after a year, when I finally left.

It's a brutally difficult business and will sidetrack you to the point where your other business may not ever succeed.
That's a dev box not a server Mr. holier-than-though smartass.
I've worked at Apple and none of what you said rings true for me.

Apple doesn't prevent you working on side projects, open source etc. It's just that you are working so many hours under tight deadlines that you want to spend time with friends/family during a spare time.

And Apple absolutely allows challenging management and product vision. In fact I was involved far more in product design that I expected to be. Every team is different but it is a relatively flat structure.
The NREL have done this calculation, it comes out with a total figure of about 0.6% of the US landmass, 50 times less than the land allocated to growing crops. Although that figure includes Alaska, it gives a pretty good idea, and the state by state percentage areas to generate their share of US national electricity demand are also given:

http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy08osti/42463.pdf
I've found it much more friendly as a third hand. I haven't done extensive testing, but I have found it feeds more freely and is much easier to release or mind, while still being happy to bite when you want it to.

A prusik is still my go-to for most other friction knot applications.
I left literally last week. I looked for other positions internally, and I did get the sense that there were lots of "startup opportunities" within Google. Cardboard is an example of new-ish team, in the process of ramping up.

I wonder why we saw things differently? I stayed away from the big central codebase (you know the one), instead working in Android and Chrome. Maybe the bottom-up culture is more vibrant on the periphery?
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Discussion from 3 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9563204
DC is definitionally composed of people carrying opinions across the spectrum. Being vocally opposed to those things you list is actually a job requirement for some places. DC's stereotype is a bit unnuanced.
Has anyone produced evidence of racism? Most of his detractors on Twitter have been beyond hysterical yet I doubt most of them have read anything he's written, and I've yet to see any examples.

What is wrong with people that the presence of Curtis Yarvin makes them feel unsafe?

EDIT: This seems to be the one example that is being bandied about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9676625 . Replies to that post point out that the case is extremely flimsy. Give me a break. This guy is a rightwinger (outside of his industry) and somebody didn't like it. What an embarrassment. They're proving the right's points.
I'm sort of baffled by this: why would anyone care if he's giving a tech talk? It reminds me of the Brendan Eich situation. I disagree with his political views, but also.. who gives a shit? It's immaterial to the job.

I used to read moldbug and I thought he was really incisive for a while, but his blog kept getting more and more, uh, esoteric. (basically unreadable -- it got hard to figure out what point he was even trying to make) All the same though, I don't really care about moldbug's political affiliations in a tech talk, I'd rather just hear what he has to say.

(Also: how many attendees would even really know who he was or care enough to protest it?)
Wonder if these replaced the bootleg DVD vendors.
While the overhead of SOA is pretty well documented and understood, I feel like this is the crux of it: "Adopting a microservice architecture does not automatically buy you anti-fragility."

Not only do you have new, hard problems -- but you didn't just innately get a solution to your previous problems. I've seen this in practice, and it is pain, all around. There's immense organizational overhead to having your core product distributed across 4x as many projects/repos/components as you have developers. And if you haven't actually solved all the fragility and failover problems, you are very fucked.
This is not a "standard evopsych position". Evolutionary psychology seems to get conflated with a lot of unsavory bullshit just because the latter uses appeals to the former. Most people I know who do evolutionary psychology are extremely careful to point out all the ways they differ from (usually) sexists because they're so damn tired of people conflating one with the other.
Doesn't /proc/config.gz expose the config? Why do you need an app for that?
I wonder how Ada would fare today if the basic syntax was modernized. I mean, This_Hurts_My_Pinky_Finger!!
> He becomes a billionaire.

This has never been true of Al Gore. You're confused about a lot of things but this is the oddest, as it's the easiest to verify.
How we got scammed out of $100,000 in Shanghai
I'd never heard of him either. Now we have.

If the goal of banning him from the conference was to suppress his ideas, his opponents remind me of George Bush standing beneath a "Mission Accomplished" banner.
Surprised security wasn't mentioned as a reason to decouple services (IMO security is a top reason to split out a service).

Otherwise I tend to agree with the author.
> It makes approximately the right predictions, but it's completely wrong as a statement of how things actually are.

You're assuming that we know "how things actually are". If we know that, how do we know it? If your answer is "because we have a theory that makes correct predictions", how do you know our best current theory gets everything correct? It has to be literally "everything" in order to justify your statement that we know "how things actually are"; anything less than perfection from our current theories does not justify your claim.

It should be obvious that we do not know that our current theories are perfectly correct. All we really know is that they get more predictions correct than our previous theories. But that still leaves room for our best current theories to make incorrect predictions--we just don't know which ones they are (yet). And if they make any incorrect predictions, then there could be some other theory that makes more correct predictions, but models "how things actually are" very differently from our current theories. After all, that has already happened, when we came up with our best current theories. If it happened once, it can happen again. And if it happens again, then all your claims about "how things actually are" are, by your own definition, wrong.
>>How are we to determine whether a theory is true if it cannot be validated experimentally?

A theory without experimental falsifiability is not a theory, but a hypothesis. I understand that Physicists might be frustrated by the lack of ability to validate all the math they've been doing, but if that's the way it is then they are not special and certainly not in a unique position in human history.

I'm sure a lot of great thinkers in the past felt the same way about the atom, etc. You don't get to opt out of science/knowledge just because you don't like that current human technology can't validate any of your ideas.

Edit:
Martin Rees has addressed this very topic. It might be that humanity never gets to discover everything about the Universe:
http://edge.org/response-detail/25519
True, but meaningless. Any OS that has the concept of a root or admin user with total control has monarchy hard-coded into it too.
> Interestingly, Buffet did not call for a raising of the capital gains tax -- the form of income from which Buffet derives his wealth.

Um, why do you say that? Every statement I've seen from him very clearly says taxes on capital gains need to increase (at least for those earning large capital gains).

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/opinion/buffett-a-minimum-...
Indeed.

CRUD apps (which I'll argue are the vast majority of applications) are easier to write, easier to understand, and easier to make have the behavior users expect when there's only one datastore and you never have to deal with eventual consistency or distributed or half-applied migrations.

As an anecdote, at a previous employer, we provided user accounts and OAuth for connecting these accounts to our API. We made separate user and OAuth services, with separate databases.

What resulted was an unnecessary amount of complexity in coordinating user deactivation, listing OAuth tokens for users, delegation, and doing all that while authenticating requests between microservices. Our API could not safely expose a method to deactivate a user and all of their OAuth tokens in a single DELETE. A single instance that handled both would have been easier to build and wasted less time up front dealing with complexity that we didn't need or make good use of for our scale at the time.

To solve this, we eventually merged all the data back into a single database, so we could expose sane invariants at the API level without needing to build an eventually-consistent message queue.
It's genuinely good coffee; they carefully maintain their brand (in order to sell blue bottle, you have to pass tests; you can't sell it ground; their trainers will show you how to make good pour-over); good marketing and salesmanship; they showcase interesting ways of making coffee and the different flavors you get from them (pour-over, chemex, siphon; kyoto iced).
I have a real problem with your telling me what people of colour like and don’t like. Last time I checked, you don’t speak for me either.

And the entire premise of your world-view is broken. When you frame these white liberals as “speaking for” people of colour or speaking for women, or speaking for LGBT people, you are presuming that racism, sexism, and homophobia are strictly issues for people of colour, women, and LGBT people.

And therefore, if someone who isn’t one of these people speaks out against it, they must be some kind of paternal mansplaining social justice warrior.

In reality, some such people exist, but so do people who are egalitarian, and feel that racism, sexism, and homophobia are simply wrong. They aren’t speaking for anyone but themselves, and that is why you get some people pointing that out. But just because they don’t speak for me, for example, doesn’t invalidate that they speak truth to power.

As long as they don’t claim to speak for me, thats fine. Unlike you, who tried to suggest what people of colour think without qualifying your statement by admitting that you want to present some cherry-picked examples that suit your cause.

Painting people who speak out as a “PC Hatemob” really speaks to the fact that you relish taking an extremist position.

So given that you are way out in batshit-crazy tinfoil-hat land, what’s in it for me to talk to you? I doubt that anyone reading our respective words is going to be swayed from whatever position they already held. People who agree with you will mindlessly upvote you for saying what Fox News has been saying for years.

Nothing you have said really provokes any kind of “hmmm...” from me. It’s like talking to a well-written Markov Chain that was trained on a corpus of GamerGate tweets.
"A far better comparison might be to the fate of Brendan Eich, who did not publicly espouse views about same-sex marriage on or off the job."

Yes, and what happened to him was also wrong.
Thank you for your feedback.

My intent to post/share bitly link was mainly to get email so we can send you the test version of app via test flight or crashlytics.It certainly wasn't to track. I apologize if it came across that way.

In regards to the "cashless" transaction, handful of mechanics that we reached out to early on were supportive of the idea. Mostly the independent shops. We have seen some reluctance from franchise shops though.

We have not reached out to the small auto shops yet, but will certainly reach out to them in next day or two.

Thanks once again.
That's one way to read it, I guess. The more straightforward way to read it would be to just use the normal accepted meanings of words, under which the quote straightforwardly argues that Africans are genetically adapted for slavery, and that arguments to the contrary constitute "political correctness".

I feel like the only "reaching" I had to do to take that meaning from the quote was c/p'ing it out of my browser window to correct for the weird spacing HN put on it.
No, it's because he said it was due to genetic differences between population groups. This makes him a "true" racist in that he believe there are different races, or sub-species, of homo sapiens (sapiens). There is a scientific consensus that this is not the case, because races only exist if population groups are completely isolated, which humans never have been.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism
Just FYI, from the Washington Post article on the estate tax, "The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimates that only 120 farms and small business, where at least half the assets are in farm or business assets, had to pay the estate tax in 2013."
I thought banks already tried loaning money to people who couldn't pay it back. It produced the recent housing bubble and crash.
> Where do I even begin.

I was thinking of beginning with the fact that they're in the gambling business, myself, and that humanity as a whole would be better without a bunch of people systematically studying how to subvert the human brain by abusing deficiencies in its risk-reward computation mechanisms to extract as much money as possible from what might otherwise be the productive economy... wholly ruining a variety of lives in the process (and encouraging others to reject long-term thinking, self-control, and related virtues which frequently help a human being to prosper.)

But sure. I guess their inadequate gambling services around Celtics basketball must annoy some people too.

At least they're not the state lottery. :b
"Do we really need this kind of culture war nonsense?"

Perhaps you should ask Strangeloop that. They're the ones who threw the first punch when they decided to boot people based on their political views.
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It's more the long hours / weekend work for months on end that causes problems.

The secrecy is never an issue.