skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. It's unfair to judge people on their genetics or more generally on how they were born.

It might surprise us if someone identifies as something that seems "at odds" with how they were born, but if they honestly identify that way, I see no reason not to tolerate and accept them. It's a matter of basic decency.
Where in the world is Falcor? We keep hearing about it, we saw the presentation, but this is all we've got and it's nothing: https://github.com/michaelbpaulson/Falcor
Again sounds interesting and (not necessarily in a negative way) kinda puts me in the mind of a process server/courier could be useful I'll keep it in mind
And because of the nature of 1030g, it couldn't go to court without measurable damages, because CFAA civil claims can only pursue economic damages. So, in a real sense, the implication of using the CFAA in this case is the opposite of what Techdirt manipulatively implies that it is. CFAA limited the scope of this case and reduced the stakes.

edited: this said "for 3taps" before, but I'm not sure that's accurate.
Similar to mine, but we both actually failed. Real numbers are accepted and we did not test that.
The big problem is that that promotion really needs to be aimed at a highly specific community: operating system and network equipment vendors.

The original article was written 6 years ago and wasn't a novel position at the time. It's hard to say anything's changed since then because app developers are still blocked waiting on mainstream middle-box support and I don't see that really happening without some sort of pressure on the vendors.
Hi, I wrote this blog post.

We were trying to keep our API surface area small with one way to load data into components, but you're right -- we should probably /also/ add a ES6 base class as a second option, and let the people choose which they prefer.

A lot of React developers still prefer mixins -- react-router recently switched from mixins to ES6 classes and then changed their mind "until ES6 classes have better answers to replace what mixins do (like decorators).": https://github.com/rackt/react-router/blob/master/UPGRADE_GU...
I was being sarcastic. I don't wish it on anyone, as it is not a healthy reaction to normal situations. I'd reserve the 'right' time for that reaction to things on the order of "I'm going skydiving and it's time to jump."

What Klein probably means to describe is a brief bit of fleeting trepidation that can be waved off with a few seconds of thought, but that wouldn't show off his political bonafids.
You don't think they have hobbies and interests?
Hey Thomas, big fan of your comments generally, but you're mischaracterizing what we did. We never issued another server request to them again after the C&D, let alone changed IP addresses to evade a ban afterwards. This is uncontested, and we weren't included in the CFAA claims. We were fighting for the right to summarize listings and link to them, not for the right to access their servers when they don't want us to, nor to include the full text of the postings on our site.
Where did the grandparent commenter say anything about "mak[ing] everyone but the retired look for work or be in education etc."? Their comment seems to describe basic income just fine to me.
The main problems I see with the guaranteed job idea are that it presupposes a judgment about what types of work are inherently valuable (and does so at the cost of exploring the unknown) and it sounds a lot like a life of forced servitude for which the only rational was the original income inequality.
I started scripting when I was 14 to increase the number of scraps and testimonials in my Orkut scrapbook.

Creating phishing pages so that I can brag about hacking my friend's account was the other motive.

I think that MIT's scratch is a very good platform for children to learn about programming.
Merkel admitted in 2011 Greek debt unsustainable
He didn't discover the idea at all, chlorine was already used to disinfect water. What he did was pump a full city's water supply with it, in secrecy, without any wide-scale trials.
Well, you _do_ say: "This software is not currently available under any license." I know that's not what you _mean_, but it's what you _say_. My personal and uninformed option is that you should probably change this to something along the lines of: "This software may be studied but not modified, and copies not be redistributed", which is more explicit.

I am not, personally, a fan of the GPL (it makes things too complicated) and tend to release all my software as MIT or BSD-2 because I like the simplicity. But Apache-2 is a perfectly decent license. Nobody will complain about that.

Ah, here's a good bullet-point comparison: http://choosealicense.com/licenses/
It reminds me of Zombo.com. I love these sort of nonsensical websites.
Yes and yes. It wouldn't activate the "check" button with complex numbers.
This nice solution is minimal, well scripted and very UNIXy. However, one tradeoff is that filenames for the stored password are plain. Running the tree command on the directory where encrypted files are stored would give us something like,

$ tree .password-store
irc
├── efnet
└── freenode
This looks pretty cool! I'll check it out this weekend. And cheers for the NixOS container!
Awesome, thanks for checking it out and for the feedback! This kind of stuff is great.

I think the process server / courier is an interesting analogy. We're definitely not trying to replace lawyers here, but we do want to separate out the admin work and make the whole process more efficient.
Why would poverty related health problems disappear unless the basic income is significantly higher than the current unemployment or disability benefits as you're saying those are being replaced.

A basic income doesn't remove the potential for poverty.
If you live in Greece
Python has had octal literals like this for years, so it is misleading to say that it is "moving to" it.
According to Thomas Sowell, this assumption is at the heart of the difference between liberals and conservatives.

Liberals assume "everyone is motivated, wants to improve their lives and do well in their jobs or in society" given the right system.

Conservatives basically assume the opposite.

I'll let him explain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KHdhrNhh88&feature=youtu.be...
So does anyone know of a good list of "worst practices" when coding in C? Basically usage that results in undefined behavior which can come back to bite you when run on another architecture?

For example, doing a strcpy(dest, dest + 1) will work in most cases, but if done on 64-bit Linux with a CPU that has sse4 optimizations, you will get random corruption on certain string lengths. (The C standard says that the behavior in this case is undefined). I'd like to see a list of items such as this to watch out for when auditing code.
Should Companies Remain Politically Neutral on Social Media?
> what you're more rigorously calling an eigenstate of a measurement operator, I'm calling an observable state.

Yes, but "observable" here is relative to the measurement you are making. If you make a different measurement (i.e., realize a different operator), then the set of "observable states" by your definition is different, because the set of eigenstates of the operator is different.

> The greater point being addressed is that MWI is no more deterministic than Copenhagen.

But this isn't true. The MWI is completely deterministic, because wave function collapse never occurs, and wave function collapse is the source of all the indeterminism in the Copenhagen interpretation.

> Some hermitian operator?

Yes.

> if looking at the coin is the only operator at our disposal in the simple example, then its eigenstates are the ones we care about.

If all you're interested in is that particular experiment, yes. But here we're discussing claims that must apply to all possible experiments and all possible measurements, not just the particular one in the example you chose. So we have to consider all possible operators and all possible sets of eigenstates, not just the ones in your example.
As I chat with one of the founders, If I had to describe the service I would write something like:

"kwak.io: a discussion-based (channels), real-time (chat) platform (server)"

which forme it sounds like: server + chat + channels === 'IRC'

Nowdays we have plenty of modern alternatives to good-old IRC: Slack, Gitter, Hipchat. So I asked where does kwak.io fits in?

For me it's a fun but unclear experiment. According to their manifesto (https://medium.com/@kwak.io/kwak-s-manifesto-14c69104e70) I get the "IRC communication style" part, but I'm not totally clear how will they achieve the "mixed with modern social features" part.
Well maybe. I actually had some more problems with it since unboxing (didn't mention them because they seem random while the described ones somehow already make an impression of being systematic). Gonna check the machine with the service center.
At last, the startup web site which gives no information.

"The best way to jump right in is to go through signup". Wrong answer.

Do you have a legal opinion that you are not engaged in the unauthorized practice of law? LegalZoom had a lot of trouble with that.[1] Even after some wins in court, they operate only in 41 US states, and have lawyers and paralegals on staff.

Badly drafted contracts can cause big trouble later. You need to go to a lot of effort to convince customers you know what you're doing.

[1] http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/latest_legal_vict...
Free education via internet + age/experience + potential for income at a level significantly about basic income.

I don't think comparing how a 15 year old treated mandatory education and how a 25 might treat the opportunity to educate themselves to better their lives is very fair.

I'd assume the maximum working hours in those countries are above 0. When you have to take an hour long bus each way from an exhausting minimum wage job there's not a lot of time to make significant progress in education.
Ok, it is younger than I thought, it was added in 2008 so more conservative veteran UNIX admins might not have heard of it:

Util-linux-ng 2.14 Release Notes (09-Jun-2008)
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Release highlights
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mount(8) supports new "nofail" mount option.

Then it wasn't documented for 2 years, the commit that adds it to the fstab.5 man page is from 2010:

https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/abe3d704b6aeb6...

Interestingly, it pre-dates the similar FreeBSD parameter by 3 years:

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=22283...

Add a special mount option "failok" to indicate that the administrator wants
the system to proceed to boot without bailing out into single user mode,
even when the file system can not be successfully mounted.

Oh and people are of course invited to down-vote me again, I've got karma to burn, and the evidence that systemd is doing things in exactly the same way as FreeBSD clearly needs to be suppressed if we want to maintain our regular rituals of pointless outrage on this site.
I'm talking about the sentence I specifically quoted in my OP, which states that all individuals are born with approximately equal potential for intelligence. I don't believe that to be the case. I believe genetics provide varying levels of potential across the human population. Admittedly, this is based largely on my experience as a highly intelligent individual from a family that displays far above average intelligence in general, which is why I am seeking out science that speaks to this. I don't like relying on my own anecdotes.

My reading from links gathered in this conversation seems to back my intuitive position thus far, but I'm always willing to re-examine my ideas based on evidence, so if you have something to throw at me, please do!
Review of Bitfountain iOS immersive with Swift
I'd be very interested in anything else you have to say on the topic. As, I assume, would most of the rest of HN. What games did you work on after? Was it something specific to MMOs or UO in particular?
The question is whether the copyright holder expected to retain copyright of photographs of the said buildings. To me, it's a very unreasonable expectation since the photographs are not only of artistic value, but of practical use when you need to identify a landmark.

What if I write a description of the building? Would it be considered a copyright violation?
Fairly heavy, but a very rich framework for admin templates.
To me its aesthetic repugnance outweighs the benefit of the added precision
Witnessed the total lack of motivation of people to do anything for themselves. It was the result of the policy at the time. When the policy changed, the behavior also changed. BMI provides no incentives for people to do the right thing, which is to work hard to better themselves. Quite the opposite. By removing any requirements, it enables unmotivated people to just sit on their ass. Nor does it discourage antisocial behavior. Just giving people free money doesn't do that in itself. All it does is set up an expectation of free money.

I believe the best way to spend the money is to help people who work hard to improve themselves, regardless of their income level. The money is given according to the impact of the money. So people with low income would benefit proportionally more because the before and after difference is larger percentage wise.

Edit: The thing that should redistributed is not wealth, but opportunity.
"Elon's insistence" has also created a $35b company. I think anyone would happily delay a car launch to both improve the car and increase the company's long term value.
Because right now, people are forced to work in order to survive. Meaning they have to take the shitty jobs for shitty pay because that's what they can get. If you remove the forced to work part, then they can be more selective.
Can you elaborate on the experience?
I assume the burn out comes from the time constraint.
What would be the antithesis to the burnout you experienced working on an MMO?
if they did not expect to financially benefit from working around the law.

How so? The guy had an important position in the (private) company that supplied the water and was being sued for not cleaning it up. It's not exactly a direct incentive, but it's there.

That's not to mention the fame that comes from being the first person to clean up a city's water supply.
What is the single most effective metric for a SaaS business?
GP was referring to Sun's solid SPARC hardware, never mind that DTrace didn't exist then.
Thanks for clearing that up. We actually didn't include descriptions, though, just the title as part of the link back to the original.
Isnt it a bit risky building app using twitter api ?
For me, Source Tree is very unusable and doesn't make any sense. Maybe I'm approaching it wrong?

It feels like there wasn't much thought about user stories and ux: every git operation was given a button or menu item. Sort of the MS Word phenomenon. Their screenshot on its home page is overwhelming, just like the design of their apps: a hundred items all vying for your attention.

In contrast, GitHub's app for Mac is immediately useful: it makes the 80/20 of git work easy.
This is the first time I've read about it, but I too was impressed by the leadership. I also must say that I'm pleased with the outcome of this election.
Will Meteor work with React Native? I'd guess so, since React Native implements XHR and other non-DOm APIs one might expect to find in a browser.
I'm talking about elected officials.
> 'high level' means less than 'low level'

dammit

but ofcourse, the different levels of understanding are vitally important when working on code- in my experience heinlein's original definition is still preserved behind the scenes, but for practical use it seems to be used to describe the process of approaching that level of grok, with the superlative 'fully grok' I think generally being used to describe something like 'a fully ample level of understanding', which is still rarely reached for complex systems
I believe the event ended so they marked the stream as private.
Sorry, I was working from the link Techdirt provided to back up the "tortured" application of CFAA. I really wasn't trying to characterize exactly what your team was doing. But I was also imprecise and I sometimes forget that the principals of these stories are on HN, too. I apologize.
There are at least two California's, the liberal one we all see and live in on the coast and the more agricultural and conservative interior which we don't hear about so much.
Except your vision causes people to be forced into shitty jobs where they're abused by management, because they're forced to do so to survive. Under your vision, there is absolutely no incentive for a shitty, low end employer to really improve, because there are more people that need a job than jobs available.
Coding in C.
Dutch universities start their Elsevier boycott plan
I once made a CRC64 implementation, and single core performance was at 1150 MBytes/s on Java 8. So, yeah.
Agreed; this guy was dangerous, he just got lucky.
Hi, I would like to encourage you to contribute when you have something to add. You are part of the HN community.
A further nitpick: pretty much any index of this sort (particularly QoL) also has to be corrected for demographic trends -- the US absorbs around 20% of the world's total immigrant population [0], and the majority come from much poorer countries (#33 Mexico, not-even-ranked China, India, Philippines, Vietnam, El Salvador, etc. [1]) Those are countries with much worse economies, health care outcomes, education systems, etc. -- all of which have significant effects on both "median" and "average" numbers for measures of the US as a whole.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_immigrant...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_Stat...
I suppose they should be commended for the effort, but the other issue is that the experimental group is unlikely to represent what things would be like under a truly universal basic income. Incentives throughout the economy will shift and cause reactions none of us can predict, except in very broad strokes. For example, €1000/mo for a tiny experimental group will probably not have the same buying power as the same amount given to millions.
Sorry to reply to myself, but I got a reply from Louis Lucero II at the Times:

Thanks for your email. I'm confident that most readers will understand that the line was tongue in cheek, however. The idea that a co-founder of Y Combinator could be persuaded to part with seed funding simply by dint of the solicitor's wearing a hooded sweatshirt is, of course, preposterous. At any rate, there is nothing to "correct," so to speak, as Mr. Graham did in fact say those words.

Not surprisingly I disagree with his assertion, but apparently he won't change the article or issue a correction.

Things like this explain why public figures have to be canny when dealing with the press: the desire to willfully misinterpret is strong, and, even when pointed out, often isn't corrected.
GitHub for Mac is awesome; I depend on it for my work along with gitsh for certain tasks.

But when installing it on a fresh machine the other day, I couldn't find a link to it from the GitHub site (as a longged in user). I needed to go back out to Google to get the URL. Made me wonder if it's going to be dropped or unsupported.
Hey John, thanks for your comments. Really appreciate you taking a look and I hear your points. Your question is probably rhetorical, but we're certainly not trying to give legal advice here (and we've been careful to build this in a way that it's clearly an admin tool and not a replacement for legal advice). As far as the "jump right in goes" - just trying to fit in to the spirit of a Show HN and have people play around with something we've built.
When the Internet starts making you feel bad, turn it off and go for a 3-5 hour long walk. Don't forget your water bottle.
So, small-gauge railways with more tech, no bulky humans and in tunnels?
The punchline is also rather stark:

116 [...] The place was now closely invested, and there was treachery among the citizens themselves. So the Melians were induced to surrender at discretion. The Athenians thereupon put to death all who were of military age, and made slaves of the women and children. They then colonised the island, sending thither 500 settlers of their own.

Incidentally, that island later hosted one of the most famous statues in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_de_Milo

"And so it goes", as another writer more recently put it.
> It's trivially easy to fool the user into finding a wrong rule.

While that's true, the real thing being tested is the user's readiness to prove themselves wrong.
>Everybody acknowledges that some individuals are born smarter than others.

Nina Jablonski explicitly said the opposite, which is the genesis of this thread.
This focus on "container OSes" is baffling to me. Just use one of the well maintained, general purpose distros such as Debian with a minimal set of software. We don't need specialized distros for this.
Transactions are really fancy too.
Yes, the Model X is a big question mark for now. I think September may finally be it, because it's getting very close and there's no sign that it's going to slip.

Model X will tell us whether Tesla can pull it off again, or whether the Model S was just a fluke. I think/hope they can, but it's probably fair to say that the company is riding on it at the moment.
>The government and by extension politicians.

You need a government that extends to the people who are being governed.
Microsoft Research Open Sources WorldWide Telescope
In this particular case, I just don't see a copy of the Eiffel Tower's lighting arrangement appearing in exact form anywhere else...
Whether my insurance will fight me on some treatment, or if it covers the rights things.

I don't think universal healthcare addresses those issues. I'm from Canada and people fight with the gov't all the time over the coverage of medical care and drugs.

Sure, if you have a really common condition you might get everything you need, but if you have a rare condition, you're often stuck trying to fight it out for coverage.
I "got lucky" in the sense that my experiences have primed me to recognize that particular kind of question. If the article had actually modified the question framing at all, rather than just copying the existing one, it maybe wouldn't have worked that way.

It's the same reaction I have to the Monte Hall problem: I don't have to think or be clever to get the right answer. So naturally you couldn't effectively teach me anything by simply posing the question, and any information you collect by doing so won't accurately reflect what I learn or how well I think. You'd just be testing topical familiarity.
> we should probably /also/ add a ES6 base class as a second option, and let the people choose which they prefer.

Please provide a higher-order component or ES7 decorator (assuming ES7 will be supported?), would rather not use inheritance.
Trying to determine the cause of racial differences in IQ is extremely complicated, since we cannot simply assign a person Black genes and a White environment while growing up (since having black skin in itself will mean a person's environment while growing up is different).

I'd be very interested in seeing a specific study, but to my knowledge there is no compelling evidence for either nature or nurture when it comes to racial IQ differences.

There have been a lot of studies with varying results. But the narratives that "people went looking for differences because of their racial biases, but then their studies were debunked" is not accurate. The fact that people believe this narrative is due to politics. For example, Steven J Gould "debunked" craniometry in "The Mismeasure of Man". But his debunking was criticized by peer reviewed work that upheld the original craniometry work[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mismeasure_of_Man#Craniome...
Nah, that'd be the Washington Examiner website.
So many downvoted comment, looks like nobody wants to accept the reality...