skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think these sorts of things can still find solutions under BI. By eliminating wage slavery, only those that are compensated proportionally to the risks will take on the work.

If manufacturers cannot afford that level of compensation, or cannot afford to automate the risky kinds of labor, then they cannot function, and that's a good thing, because if they can only do so now because they are allowed to externalize the costs to society of their health hazards, then they don't provide a net utility to society.
Wait, I'm confused. There are genetically different subpopulations (e.g., Asian Americans, African Americans) which have large disparities in "power" [1].

Remember, I asked you how the world would be different if theories you disagree with were true, not the same. If a theory correctly predicts the world, that's evidence in favor of it.

[1] You've claimed in the past that various racial groups - i.e. genetically similar groups - have different levels of power. I'm just taking your claims as given without actually having a coherent definition of "power" - it's more or less moot to this question.
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Ask HN: How to prepare for M&A meeting?
I've just been informed after waiting for months, that "LargeCorp, Inc." will be sending their M&A team to my door very soon. I've never been through this before, it's exactly what I've been working for, but I have no idea what to expect. What is this process like? Is this essentially one gigantic salary negotiation? Are they going to arm wrestle? I really could use some advice on how to prepare.
I think what mason had in mind, which I agree is a major pain point, is when a central table "owns" records in other tables, e.g. a `book` might have several rows in `pages`. I want to say "give me edition 3" and get not just the book at that point but all its pages too. Tracking changes to the book is not so hard, but reconstructing it with all its child records is a pain.
We've known for a long time that NK is fucking terrible. The evidence just keeps piling up. Here's something from Oct 2013.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/10...
Don't conflate academic publishing with research. It's a facet of research, and there are those working on 'disrupting' it in some form or another (academia.edu, Mendeley (now owned by Elsevier...), Authoria, etc.). Academia, in some sense of the word, is facing MOOCs.

Research itself is a process that is basically self-disrupting, although maybe not in the original Clayton Christensen sense of a newer, shittier, cheaper product moving up-market and displacing the incumbents. Typically, it's the newer, more expensive, better product displacing the older ones and then moving down-market.
When I was first learning, I googled everything.

When I grew comfortable, I took pride in my ability to look up the reference docs myself and figure out the correct solution.

When I grew comfortable with that, I googled everything because it was a lot faster.
My biggest fear is that they have been working on germ warfare - something like the smallpox the Soviet Union produced with a 90% kill rate that our vaccines don't work on [1].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_smallpox_incident
> They have an "Amusement Tax" (Orwell couldn't have named this better himself)

There's nothing Orwellian going on here.
It's not my worldview. It's the world.

http://bankunderground.co.uk/2015/06/30/banks-are-not-interm...

http://www.amazon.com/Progress-Poverty-Henry-George-ebook/dp...

http://www.amazon.com/Soft-Currency-Economics-II-Monetary/dp...

I'm sure others can post more.

Reality is the dreamworld as far as I can see. It's a total disaster that people don't understand they are seeing all productivity gains now (and forever more) captured by land prices.
This is a great sum-up of a point I often find myself making a lot when explaining GraphQL. GraphQL is only capable of doing exactly what the server-side developer lets it. Order-by is a really great example. We can sort by only the things that make sense to sort by, and often at Facebook we're sorting by heuristics like "sort my friends by how likely I am to send them a message" when loading the friends in a typeahead for chat, and this idea of "message send likelihood" is not exposed as a field.
I think both ideas have merit. Which works best in practice would depend on the degree-of-shit (that's the scientific term) on your network. I fear special interest groups will, if they want, always outnumber legit researchers. If your network becomes large enough to attract the interest of these groups you might end up with "attacks" on climate research and other 'controversial' issues. Verified users could prevent this.

OTOH, I do not like excluding users, but I think public read-access and write-access trough accredited universities and research groups would be a fair balance. (Note, I also think if there is a charge associated with this process we should charge relative to the users country. Subsidizing access for developing countries by charging more in developed countries. To reduce exclusions.)
I like this style of use: "[I know how the function is defined,] But I don't grok that -- I don't have any intuition for the type signature or the desired result." (from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13317242/what-are-paramor...). Using the word to make a distinction between formally understanding something and having a deeper intuition for it.
No, it doesn't make me feel stupid... it makes me feel undisciplined and lazy.
"If I were the NIH, I would make it illegal for grant recipients to publish anywhere that does not support open access”

Don’t they do that? https://publicaccess.nih.gov:

"To advance science and improve human health, NIH makes the peer-reviewed articles it funds publicly available on PubMed Central. The NIH public access policy requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to PubMed Central immediately upon acceptance for publication"
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Hopefully this will be enough motive for rest of the world to stop a real modern day holocaust. There's no oil in North Korea but how's about lifting 30 million people out of hell?
I read the name as "Manpile" and immediately wondered if was a service dealing with h1bs. But then I thought it might a spoof of "Malepile", a dating site.
>Ulbricht was indeed indicted for conspiring to hire a murder, in the case in which he was convicted

There is no need for you to repeat that statement again without showing me where in the indictment document Ulbricht is actually indicted with a crime entitled "murder-for-hire". I don't see it. I've given you a link to a copy of the indictment for USA v. Ulbricht, Case No. 1:14-cr-00068-KBF, New York Southern District Court

http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/download.html?id=126792875&...

Is that the one to which you keep referring?

And I've asked you to point out where in the document the indictment for "murder-for-hire"; I certainly could've missed it and I wouldn't mind clearing it up.
Taskrabbit offers this service in my area (Los Angeles):
https://www.taskrabbit.com/m/shopping-delivery/pick-up-deliv...
>I think using the word private is a bit misleading.

For the purposes of this discussion, unless one of your neighbors is pumping chlorine into the ground I think its fine. Also private vs public here refers to the ownership of the water infrastructure.
If you're storing time series data as events, then it's essentially a log and a relational database would seem to be better suited a secondary structure for batch analysis. I found this article useful for understanding logs and the possibilities for their use:

https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...
Sorry, I thought filling in the email field provided a way to contact me. Apparently not.

Anyway, please feel free to email me at jhenry@<company name>.com! Looking forward to talking with you.
Hi Jeremy, I'm interested in the data scientist position and just sent you a message on Quora.
When I was working for OpenERP, I thought it was surely possible for a user of one database to access other databases (when OpenERP run in multi-tenant mode, which was the case of the official OpenERP SaaS offer) by poking around the connection pool. And indeed in less than an hour I found a way to connect to any database. The fact that you can quickly find bugs when you have an idea of what you can look for is quite scary.
They're definitely short-sighted, but I think that's just the most optimistic outlook, I think the short-sightedness is hiding much deeper incompetence in management. Their computer systems are universally terrible, they have no clue how to build something like a UI for a car. This is not something that MBA-type management can buy their way out of, because they have no competence, and no way to evaluate the contractors that may be able to build something real, and in fact they are likely to be taken in by poor contractors that are great at sales and terrible at engineering. The management also has no clue how to build/empower an internal team that could do the same, as far as I can tell.
Neural networks would certainly benefit from the additional dimension, no more confusing furniture with animals[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9749660
This loopy gesture-based keyboard won some of the typing speed contests back in the PalmOS days:
https://mrl.nyu.edu/projects/quikwriting/
> Pre-loaded with industry standard templates.

What industry? The legal industry? Transportation? Software? I agree with the feedback others are giving. The product interests me but there isn't nearly enough information for me to sign up, let alone trust you with any part of a legal document.
I wonder if you had enough electrodes or some BCI monitoring your thoughts before during and after a Google search and then that was used to train a deep learning system (probably specific to you) then you could get the answer before you start typing into Google, basically automatically.
Can Airware be the operating system to connect the world's drones?
Dude I agree with what you're saying, and I don't think anything in the article is suggesting that you just graduate from law school, stick your name on a ballot and join some 1 in 40 lottery. The question is: if you do what you're suggesting and take one of these routes into Congress, what are your odds of doing so successfully?
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As I posted elsewhere, there is little doubt and plenty of evidence of the NK regime's atrocities against its own citizens (and other nations' citizens too, sometimes).

EDIT: Interestingly, there are several posts using the same arguments to create doubt about this and all NK defectors (something I also posted elsewhere; sorry).

EDIT2: This follows the pattern of the professional/governmental astroturf campaign pretty closely (though, because the astroturfers' goal is to look like everyone else, I could of course be wrong). Certainly you can imagine the value of creating doubt about all NK defectors. Generally the pros build reputation by making posts on topics unrelated to their goal, and then, when it's time to take action, try to make arguments that go as far as they can while sounding reasonable. Here's a great story on a Russian operation:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html
> he didn't actually explain, why he chose AGPLv3.

He did.

> "Because I think it is the right license for this project".

That's the introduction sentence of that section. He then goes into more detail. Did you skip the last 3 paragraphs?

---------------

Mailpile is a project about freedom. It is not a popularity contest or a startup, it's not "industry infrastructure", nor does it aim to be. Mailpile is a political project which aims to improve the privacy and digital independence of individuals everywhere.

The Apache License is a wonderful thing, an open, generous, pragmatic, apolitical license. The AGPLv3 on the other hand, is a political and ethical line in the sand.

And so is Mailpile.

---------------
Don't forget there are also a lot of ultra-wealthy folks who have a vested interest in the status quo. The Koch brothers and their fellow carbon moguls really don't want people moving over to electric cars (or any other green tech for that matter), and they'll do anything they can to discourage people from adopting them.

If I had the right circumstances to make it feasible, I wouldn't hesitate getting a Model S.
I'm probably about to date myself, but here goes. When I started programming, there was no Google. There wasn't a search engine yet. There were BBS's (which were slow), books (which were expensive), and magazines (which were infrequent). More junior programmers often ask, "Did you look things up? How did you search for things without Google? It must have been so hard!"

Well, from my perspective, it was! It was a horrible pain! Sometimes you'd spend way too much time debugging a simple error or looking up in some magazine that you are sure you read somewhere a statement that you are pretty sure would help you out in this particular scenario. Oh, it was tedious.

On the up side, at the time I didn't use nearly as many complex technologies as I use today. Quite literally today I have written in Java, a bit of Ruby, a bit of Perl, and some bash. If we expand out to this week we can add in HTML, CSS, Javascript, and SQL. Back when I started I used Basic for long stints, or C for long stints, and that was it!

Google (or in my case DuckDuckGo), StackOverflow, and the like are AMAZING. I am grateful every time I get to use one of them to help me quickly solve a problem and move on to the exciting part, which for me is making working software.
In that space, we also chose the same AGPLv3 for our PEPS project.

I blogged about open sourcing the project and the license choice here: http://hbbio.tumblr.com/post/66287893522/open-sourcing-peps-...
and HN discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6690603

Several points and comments naturally also apply for Mailpile.
Which ones? The ones who want to build services on the tool without contributing back to it?

Perhaps the author feels like they are no-value users.
Hello,

Serious question here. If being gay is not a choice but a preference you have at birth why do we need pride and parades? I mean it's not like you did anything or chose to be that way, you just kind of are.

As a person who supports equality, no matter race, sex, religion, etc. this has always perplexed me.
Almost 20 years in and I still use stackoverflow (via google) most days.

There are just so many weird things that take too much digging through other people's src to figure out while you're busy trying to solve another issue.

Something as simple as (last week) - why is my unicode printing ok in the terminal but not when running from upstart? You debug to that level and then you want to know the right way of configuring things. I normally read a bit more than I need to so I'm better armed for other scenarios.
Why would that happen? I admit I'm not really an expert here but as I understand it, users have no obligation at all with this license.
They are attempting to solve similar problems: describing data needs on a client in a way that integrates well with how the data is used, and fulfilling those requirements efficiently.

Falcor uses some different primitives to accomplish the task, focusing on connecting together Observables, whereas GraphQL queries are written in a small query language.

Falcor is a super interesting project and we've gotten to swap notes a couple times.
Some of the AMA can be found on Archive
https://web.archive.org/web/20150701154352/https://www.reddi...
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Docker dropping support for RHEL/CentOS6.x
While there were sporadic slave ships making the crossing after 1860, the trade was already illegal in all destinations. This meant that unlike for the period during which the slave trade was legal, we have no surviving records of them.
I don't seem to be able to submit my answer or follow the link to see the answer for "just tell me the answer" is this supposed to be a trick or is my browser just not capable of properly following those links? Using Chromebook.
Me too, but I have decided to never cease to learn, so I am stuck in step (1) :D.
What If You Trained Google's Chatbot on Mein Kampf?
Cool, appreciate this feedback. The point of doing a Show HN was to make the product better and more clear, and this is helpful for getting that info. We'll work on it.

Is there anything else that interests you about the product that you'd want to know more about?
Chris Cleveland here, Chairman of the Chicago Republican Party. This tax is an job-killing, counter-productive, astoundingly bad move.

We are actively working against it. I work out of 1871, a Chicago incubator, and I'm surrounded by several hundred companies that are all going to have to implement this tax in their software if they want to sell locally.

We're going to kill this thing.

UPDATE:

Sign the petition here: https://www.change.org/p/chicago-city-council-repeal-the-chi...
Did you link to the right thing? That smallpox outbreak didn't have a 90% kill rate and vaccination did work against it. All three of the deaths were amongst the unvaccinated (with 7 others who were vaccinated surviving).

I'm sure the USSR and US did create super bio weapons during the cold war. The claim isn't strange to me, the link is however.
It's surprising how many comments are casting doubt on the story and on the stories of all NK defectors, and all using the same arguments. It's 3 of the 10 top level comments as of now.

EDIT: Rather than repeating myself, there's more in my post here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9821740
Because of oppression/trials/tribulations.
Porche had no chance of nearly being the fastest growing car, 52% (Tesla) vs 55% (Elantra). Of course it's always up to what the financial reporter thinks is important, but I'd bet that Tesla's slightly-late release of their quarterly number vs. reliable monthly updates from existing companies played a role.
I find it amazing that such an article can be written without spending a single word about the craziness of open access.

Let's repeat the core concept, in the words of the article:

the university or the financier of the research pays to get published

In my own words: the author of the research is the customer of the journal.

It used to be that the reader was the customer, which paid the journal that provided him with the service of having the article reviewed and doing its best to make sure the research was solid.
Now the emperor is naked, and it's finally official what's the purpose of academic journals: let people have their grants renewed.
Hah! Nice catch.
At the time his transactions may have been difficult to trace, but now we have tools like Wallet Explorer, which make his wrongdoing pretty clear: https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/08363b86122e340c

(That's the 770 BTC payment references in this article: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-a-two-timing-dea-agent-...)
"With all due respect, I think you're really confusing two arguments here; that of wealth distribution and the concept of basic income."

With all due respect, you are only thinking about basic income at step 1. I laid out what will happen at step 10..which is essentially a wealth distribution system.

"You could set up a basic income system tomorrow in your country of choice and set the level of basic income and tax levels so that everyone, at least in the beginning, was receiving the same amount of cash they were before."

Where do you think the money comes from to support a basic income? Who do you think pays for it?

"One advantage of the idea is that the poor would be more likely to find work because the marginal reward is so much better"

How so? Many poor people will be content with not finding work and just living on basic income. Minimum wage will also need to be well above what they are getting from the government, further contributing to inflation.

"leading to more wealth overall and sharing out the tax burden more. At least in theory."

You are only looking at it from one very small part of it.
That's a good point - does craigslist have a robots.txt to prevent Google from crawling it? If not, isn't Google guilty of the very same thing, by aggregating the information via search results?
We're definitely not a law firm and we're not giving legal advice. Will put some more info on this up soon - we want to make this better.
SCTP is in Sun/Oracle Java SE 7. Examples show the multi stream aspect. Can't speak for multi-homing. Of course Java is only popular on one end of potential connections.
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The one thing I agree with the Tea Party conservatives about is the basic notion of 'taxed enough already.' Not so much the amount of tax (and most of their analyses are wildly inaccurate or outright untruthful), but the variety of taxes. There are just too damn many different taxes, exemptions, and layers.

I think this is a consequence of too much democracy. The notion that you'd have one federal government and a bunch of states serving as 'laboratories of democracy' is a neat one and it does provide a means for change to 'bubble up' from the local level in a way that might take far longer otherwise - the legal evolution of same-sex marriage is a case in point. But the US has some 3200 administrative areas when you add up all the cities and counties and so on, all of which have some sort of governing body and many of which have several (eg school districts). It's hard for voters to really evaluate all candidates for the many electoral offices and all ballot propositions, never mind keeping on top of the lobbying that goes on within city and county administrations. The more lobbying there is, the more complex tax codes get, the more administrative disputes there are, and so on.

I don't agree with conservatives about the notion that government is out to take over our lives, insofar as government just attempts to be as responsive to the variegated demands upon it as possible. Government in the abstract does not want to extract wealth from people any more than capitalism in the abstract wants to make some people poor; those downsides are just an inevitable side effect of how these institutions operate as currently constituted. The more complex the apttern of governance, the more expensive and unresposive ti becomes at an individual level.
To counter oppression. It's not so much "pride" in the sense of an achievement, but in the sense of not feeling shame for who you are, and publicly asserting that. It's also valuable from a visibility standpoint.
I usually force myself to use the documentation of a Language/Framework/Library/etc. with a tool like Dash[1], because I don't always have Internet Access.

I try to restrict myself to use google only for troubleshooting.

[1] https://kapeli.com/dash
Eliminating assumptions baby.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-9VLVkm8R4
Also, so many of the ships landed in the Caribbean because the death rate of the slaves on many of the Caribbean plantations were high enough that the populations could not replace losses through natural growth, requiring constant new shipments.

Sadly, the plantations were profitable enough that constantly bringing in new slaves to die in hellish conditions was just a cost of doing business.
Attempt the impossible, often.