skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder what the reasoning was behind giving people a supplied point. I guess they wanted to know the shape people guessed, rather than the levels people guessed? Or set people's expectations, so that they don't have wild expectations about the percentage of the population that attends college?

Exactly. They essentially fix the "m" in the y = k*x + m equation, and let people guess only k. That is, you factor out a lot of the guesswork about how many actually attend higher education and let the question focus on how it varies with income. When you ask people for a guess it's much easier to average a scalar value than a tuple. Clever, if you ask me.
Of course - if governments could raise funds by donations they would not tax. I hate taxes, but I hate the absence of taxes more :)
If they were paid based on lowering recidivism rates, for-profit prisons could potentially work very well.
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They call themselves "clojurians" if I recall it right.
I would feel uncomfortable to use the quotest to define something, like:

fact 'defn arity func'

I think it would cause problems to have a good syntax hihlighting in the text editor.
Absolutely right. Most of what passes for "brain science" in the popular media is neuro-bollocks. This doesn't stop quacks and scammers from trying to make a quick buck out of books, bullshit EEG devices and other businesses based on exploiting public ignorance.
So is anyone going to recreate the ebay of yesteryear?
Resources for creating a typeface
If you know any other good ones, please share here in comments, i will add.
> You just need to find a destination for your donation.

The effective altruism counterpoint is that the same £400 is just about the amount necessary to save a life from malaria or schistosomiasis. Usually a child. The last number I saw was that ~$800 to one of GiveWell's top charities can be expected to save a life.

The "how to make global donations" problem is hard, but it's important, and we're fortunate that great work and research has been done. Let's use it to put our charitable donations to their best use!
Stuff like this blows my mind.

I am still not entirely clear on how they are able to extract the key (does the victim computer need to process the provided encrypted payload? So if the victim never does that, they can't steal the key?), but it's still a fascinating read.
"UK court". Reading "European court" made me think it was a ruling by an EU level court. That would have a different fallout.
That's really fascinating and interesting and educating.

Now every other http server implementation should need to explain every byte it is larger and every ms it is slower it terms of "why?" and "what for?" and "who gains from this?" ;)

I don't know, for longer already I don't buy this tales about "it needs to be this large because..." ... mostly legacy, abstractions and ease of code maintenance etc.
This took us all into the world in which the very smallest app on the phone reacting to a click with a "beep" takes how much memory? And the software development craft accepts unbelievable inefficiencies. Memory, Cpu manufactures for long time added to this fires by essentially mis-nurturing devs by optimizing in the background and by creating an environment of limitless virtual resources. I like how "battery-life" enforces, brings back some old ideas on efficiency and software craftsmanship.

Humanity starts to deal with limits of its planet, its own limits and maybe this kind of thinking will bring back some level of limits into the virtual realms as well? I think we would gain from it.
Reminds me of the old Tempest project. Some say they could read the information going through a monitor cable for over a kilometer away already in the fifties.

http://cryptome.org/nsa-tempest.htm
I find it ironic that you call for free-market principles (competition between unions) to be the mechanism by which union-power is kept in check.
Multiply the reward a user gets with

1 /( n_upvotes_user / (n_upvotes_all_users/ n_user))

Or use a more elaborate function than mean, maybe median.
I can tell you that there is currently a lack of blood in Sweden, so I am pretty sure your blood will be used.

Hell, today someone threw in a hand grenade in an apartment complex.
No worries, there will always be a need of blood. :I
I got the starting and end points reasonably close, but I too drew an S line since I did not think that reality could be so linear.

Something so linear just makes me question whether there is some trickery going on. You learn early on that data is never so easily fitted.
>>Is there any time in history in which no one in the world suffered from hunger?

Causes of mass hunger have changed. Population growth and increased life expectancy have been the problems. Add to this the mess created by our fellow humans by deforestation. Famines far more devastating and serious happen to day, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives.

Visit countries like India, countries in Africa and you can see for yourself what is happening there. To continue our way of life we are forced to under take big irrigations projects.

But the point in the article is no effect is without a cause, and there are interdependent causes. And sometimes effects work like a chain reaction. Like for example- bees going extinct, you could say its just one species. But the collateral damage from their extinction can wreak havoc on so many other things in an ecosystem.
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Yep. Especially since Kanye West released New Slaves 2 years ago:

See they'll confuse us with some bullshit
Like the New World Order
Meanwhile the DEA
Teamed up with the CCA
They tryna lock niggas up
They tryna make new slaves
See that's that privately owned prison
Get your piece today
They prolly all in the Hamptons
Bragging 'bout what they made

The ACLU signed up on Genius to annotate this and sparked lots of conversations. I also see it regularly mentioned every time something such as Ferguson happens.
Medicare is one of the largest health schemes in the world in an industry known for massive amounts of paperwork. It's a humongous data set.
of course some people in HN believe it doesn't belong to here. Most of them endorses Dylann Roof behavior. Let them face it.
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Multiply the reward by

(1 / (flags_post / (flags_all_posts / n_posts))) * (1 / (downvotes_post / (downvotes_all_posts / n_posts)))
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Nobody is denying you having a family. Or are you saying that having just 2 children is not having a family?

Where I come from? I come from a country where gypsies have 6,7,8,9, more children, sucking welfare checks from the government. They occupy their spare time with laying around, marking retired, defenseless people for robberies and extortion, sending their children to developed countries to pickpocket. They view their children as a resource to exploit in one way or another. And before you make an attempt to defend them, saying that they are in an unfortunate position, I have to inform you that they are very much content with their position and do not want to change it at all. They like their lives the way they are. They think of it like culture. It certainly is one, whether it is worthy of preserving is a wholly other discussion.

So, please, come off your high horse and be a realist about the situation. I have yet to see evidence of humans, en masse, self-determine on impairment in the name of bigger picture.
what does this page do to my scrolling :) ?
Can you give me an example of the kinds of politics that one of these "soft right wing" people would have? Because if you think that most of HN's readership is "soft right wing," I think you're either wrong, or your definition of right/left is different than mine.
My version of literate-programming may have a bit too much possibility of that magic. I agree it can be dangerous and is something that takes good discipline, like any programming technique. But at least there is something to fall back on in terms of the narrative.

On the flip side of the tangled form, I do appreciate the "flattening" of potential functions. Imagine code that uses a lot of functions, scattered about. It can be hard to follow all that, rather a bit like the GOTO of old (better, to be sure, but still hard to follow). With literate programming one can get the conceptual separation of writing in different blocks, but then they get put back together and the flattened version can be read quite easily, one would hope. So I agree that a locally readable tangled form is very important.

I'd be curious to see your example's code, if you are willing to share it.
In the US, the entity that collects the blood can have a lot of requirements to notify the donor about and report infectious disease, so they are required to maintain records about the donors. They also generally happen to be the entity that distributes the blood.

I would guess that the implementation has the hospital passing a list of numbers read from barcodes to the blood center and then the center either sending the messages or passing phone numbers to the county council mentioned in the article.

I think I agree with your reaction though.
It tends to make the download link the wrapper software, which installs the malware and downloads the actual software. This lets them supply e.g. unmodified Firefox binaries but still malware you.
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Note: this is effectively a followup (with improved techniques) to http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/handsoff/, which has also been in the (tech) news.
Yet the project itself indicates it works in safari... :/
Nginx-http-stub-requests
Simplicity! I love it.
I work for a company that uses paid Github, and it's the BEST THING EVER. We will be happy to keep throwing money at Github well into the future. We just outgrew the "platinum" plan ($200/mo), but they have plans all the way up to "aluminium" (with an I) (just over $1000/mo).

They don't suck and we're enormously happy. As the sysadmin whose job it would otherwise be to manage Gitorious or Gitlab locally, I am delighted to be able to outsource this task.

So yeah, I'm extrapolating from anecdote but for the moment I think their prospects of continued payment for services are pretty good.
I'm from Brazil. What you are describing is the "brazilian way" (jeitinho brasileiro), which indeed happens. Much of people are against eletronic voting machines, but the problem is that we dont have good politicians that represent us to make opposition. And some part of population even know what is happening with the country.
How is this different than Yodlee?
> Causes of mass hunger have changed. Population growth and increased life expectancy have been the problems.

Are those really the problems? That population growth and life expectancy has also helped result in increased crop yields through more workers and better technology. Since there is no global food shortage, I don't think those are the problems.

> Add to this the mess created by our fellow humans by deforestation.

In some places, forests are thicker than they were centuries ago. Some fellow humans are putting a lot of effort into reforestation. Sounds like a political/social/economic problem, not a "humans causing a mess" problem (the difference being that the latter sounds like it blames all humans, while not all humans are like that).

> Visit countries like India, countries in Africa and you can see for yourself what is happening there. To continue our way of life we are forced to under take big irrigations projects.

This is really a fascinating issue, why some parts of the world have developed and produce a surplus, while others have not and do not. Is the problem overpopulation in these places, or is the problem that they have not developed technologically and socially at the same rate they have increased in population?

> But the point in the article is no effect is without a cause, and there are interdependent causes.

I guess that's one point in the article. But when you consider the author's past, I think a strong point--implied, at least--is that we are killing the planet and need to reduce the population. And that's what I disagree with.
Wouldn't this be far less effective on a busy computer (e.g. one loading webpages) or one using a multi-core processor?
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TBH I do agree that this is possible; I just think we have a long way to go as a civilization just in terms of basic human empathy and decency in addition to the technical challenges. And the technical challenges pale in the face of the sociological ones. I think that a lot of the oppression that happens in the world isn't driven by scarcity but by bigotry and prejudice.
The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.
A couple of years ago they started using a malware wrapper, that installed adware then did the real download. Projects got very upset and they swore they wouldn't do this again, then offered profitsharing (which some projects took them up on, e.g. Filezilla).

Then, two years after promising they would never do this again, they started doing it again.
I have seen several websites often cited by a small group of people, which are very meticulously crafted in both the development and communication aspects. They provide excellent rhetoric on issues such as basic income, GMO, planet preserving initiatives and other such things of importance. Since the sites are not monetized at all, it greatly piqued my interest how such high level operations can exist and I ventured to follow the money. Now, such investigations are very difficult and time consuming to conduct and even then, very inconclusive, but you can imagine how surprised I was when two of the sites were sponsored primarily an NGO loosely connected with VTB Group. Do you know that bank, alphapapa?
> "How your job affects other people's lives"

You mean, how a software developer might be helping companies be more efficient, meaning they can now lay off people with lower income jobs because their services are no longer required?

I like this idea for blood donations though!
Why is this ironic? I am a not anti-free markets. If a solution exists for a problem that can be solved by the market then I am of the opinion that the market should solve it.
If AGW is true and sea levels rise significantly a lot of people who currently live in densely populated coastal areas will have their property and economic opportunities destroyed by no fault of their own.

For example, Wikipedia says that Bangladesh has 156 million people as of 2013, and that "most parts of Bangladesh are less than 12 m (39.4 ft) above sea level, and it is estimated that about 10% of the land would be flooded if the sea level were to rise by 1 m (3.28 ft)".

Do you think millions of people will be able to migrate elsewhere, a large share of them even to other countries, without causing a lot of social conflicts?

Just imagine all of those people want to immigrate to your country. What is the government going to do about that?
If someone bills Medicare for something for me, do I not get a record of that, indicating the transaction?

I'd expect to have received something saying that "provider X was paid for you to have equipment Y (or counseling session Z). If this does not seem accurate, please call 1-800-McGruff". I'd think that would alert people about fraud far more quickly, no?
Yeah, definitely a judgment call.

It sounds like a really interesting idea for a computer game: you're the president of the world, and an asteroid may or may not be going to hit the planet in so many years. Can you bring the planet's resources to bear in time to prevent it? Can you develop the technology and send the mission without bankrupting society and causing mass unrest? Can you delay that preparation and develop better technology to figure out if the asteroid will really hit?

Or do you play the villain, letting the asteroid hit, but building fallout shelters to survive with your friends while everyone else perishes? Can you do that without the populace catching on? Can you get it done in time? Can you outlast the "asteroid winter"?
This is great. It seems that the comment counts are off though: go to [0] and look at the top story. It shows 18 comments but [1] only has 15.

[0]: http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2006-10-9

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1
This is not a definition; it's a string with the description of what is being tested. Analogous to this code:

it("contains spec with an expectation", function() {
expect(true).toBe(true);
});
Look harder, Europe is not a zoo.
I'm from India, and the ill effects of over population are blatantly obvious to us in every day life. Trust me its not just food production, with scale every single thing that is needed to bring the food to your mouth has to increase. This includes fuel/energy spent or any other resource to make this happen, that in turn drives up emissions and so on... In fact everything that is needed to sustain that population has to increase at the same scale.

Its really not a simple situation the parameters involved might even be exponential in size.

>>is that we are killing the planet and need to reduce the population. And that's what I disagree with.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible for it. India indeed experiences a phase where we realize how unmanageable things can get when population increases.
Interesting - how much did you actually pay for it, i.e. what's the markup? I would assume you didn't buy it for 60% loan balance.

Also, 12%? Did you buy that with 100% cash/equity, or a combination of equity and debt?
> Ultimately though, something is worth whatever you can sell it for. If you can sell your marketing buzzword lingo and "mutually beneficial enterprise deals" for $100 million, maybe it really is worth that much if it's adding value to someone somewhere.

Theoretically you're right. But I think that the way big corporations are structured and run, the people who make the decisions are so far removed from reality, that the values are incredibly distorted. It costs some exec $0 out of his own wallet to spend $100 million out of his corporation's budget. But, like you said, he can then use the built-in buzzwords to further his own corporate career as he pivots to his next job. And since it doesn't promise much, and since its impact isn't really measurable anyway, the risk to his own career is minimal.

But as far as providing actual value to shareholders or customers--that seems a far cry from what it is sold for.
Generally it is not a good idea. But sometimes one has to admit having fucked up, put a marker on an old branch to let people know it's fucked and clean things up. Especially when the alternative is "break half of git's tools by injecting revert + revert-revert".

If i am understanding you right you seem to consider the act of rebasing itself to be "a massive pain in the arse".

In a culture where rebasing of feature branches is considered mandatory anyhow, rebasing a feature branch sideways onto a new unbroken master branch is nothing out of the ordinary and quick and easy.
All those services are surrounded by huge bureaucratic machines. As is any private company who wishes to make business.
clojurelings
It was not undemocratic. Your parliament was democratically elected. It had a mandate to do things like ratifying new European treaties.

The problem was holding the referendum in the first place. Direct democracy does not work because it's a recipe for paralysis.
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regarding your point 1, let's see what happens if $100 isn't a red herring. Let's call this assumption H+ (a real herring? I don't know. Anyway, it's H+. The entirety of the comment below is from the perspective of H+, i.e. that it is not a red herring, but a meaningful actual seed amount that made a difference.)

If it's not a red herring, then it is far more impressive to turn $50 into $400M than to turn $100 into $400M, as that is a factor of 8million versus a factor of 4 million only. It's twice as good. But turning $1.50 into $400M is even more impressive, as (by H+) in this case this is a factor of 266 million, i.e. 33 times better than a factor of just 8 million. Likewise, if he had turned $1,000 into $400M it would have been only a factor of 400,000 and if he had turned $10,000 into $400M it would have been an even less impressive factor of 40,000. And if he started with $100K, a decent but by no means excessive seed, the factor would have been only 4,000. (There are higher seeds, not mentioned here.)

So we have data points for factor returns ranging from 8 million to 4,000, and (by H+) his data point actually legitimately falls at exactly 4,000,000x return attained.

Now what is impressive is that if there EXIST data points at seed multiples of 4,000,000x return, they should be investable data points around that value, with a capped upside. It should be possible to angel somebody else's business for values ranging from $1.50 (aggregate total fully subscribed seed round) to $9,000 (i.e. 90x as high as the seed round we are discussing from the article). That is quite remarkable, if true. H+ has remarkable consequences.
Right. But what gets me is, these big corps already have armies of employees who already get paid to do this stuff.

If I went to a millionaire's house and offered to mow his big lawn for $500, he might prefer to pay me that than mow it himself. But when he already has a gardener...?

Maybe I'm way off-base, but it seems messed-up to me.
Saw a submission for this 2 days ago...
Borges identified himself more as a librarian than writer. He was Director of the national library for a long time, until politicians removed him. His one line CV said librarian.
Seems like you can buy a used iPhone 4 for this amount, why buying a Nokia then?
Same idea, but a bit more mature: https://github.com/lantiga/ki

Edit: Actually, it's completely different... I was too fast to judge upon reading: a new language built with mori+sweetjs for easier javascript interop

But it might still be of interest to people here
> Here's how Sourcepoint works: It will let a publisher decide how to present a message to a web visitor that has an ad blocker installed.

Well, ok; that's a no brainer. I would've been interested in how it actually works.
How do you get them to sit there for 30-45 minutes while totally confused?

And can't you give some vague idea of what your...fantastic idea was?
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