skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People are often quick to make the easy critique of something based on irrelevant surface characteristics.

It's not even surface characteristics, it's just the ability to make a comment, to be a participant rather than an observer.

People need their own identities validated, and that is hard to do in a social world of opinions and ideas that is constantly shifting - you can look up information that validates your thoughts and chances are, you can just as easily find information that invalidates those thoughts, and this is eternal and unchanging.

The characteristics of truth seeking on the internet is chaos. There is so much under the surface stuff that goes into fueling ideas and shaping them. If a funny meme can explode in popularity over the internet, why can't an opinion that has no foundation in the facts, but instead it just 'clicks' correctly with a set of minds? It is nonsensical, but yet, it makes sense.

I don't know if it is genuinely easier to criticize something than it is to make a positive or neutral comment. I am interested in whether it is possible to have intelligent and polite discussion last for longer than what seems to be seconds at a time, in public, anonymous forums.

I do know that I have been thinking about developing an intellect that is okay with being confused for extended periods of time, just because it's something that I haven't tried to do in all my years of internet communication and various other kinds of education. I don't know what would happen to the shape of technology, of coding, of ideas, of analysis, if many people at once, gave themselves the chance to breathe, instead of having to constantly digest (or verify against their own) a selected path in a realm of chaotic, loosely connected, incomparable, inconstrastable, unsortable, etc, ideas. I just feel like this constant reaction to preference makes us feel like we are in control, when it's more that our individual control begins to control us.

The shape of reasoning for technology in the contemporary age looks more like that which is irrational and disorderly.

/shrug
My honor is all i care about. I want respect, i see insults in every lower task i have to fullfill.
So they are not done, and society crumbles away.

Most insulting of all, is that any ideology can be put to test. One can make a colony, a island, a rapture and see how far it goes. Not far, by far.

The biggest insult though is that the web is annonym. There is no gender. There is no colour. There is no countrys. There is only mind. Thus, if one puts his mind and dedication into the web, one is equal.
I ve seen to many excellent black speakers at conferences. The Wall has holes, and one can step through them.
Of course there is racism. And its beeing fought by now. With cameras everywhere- beneath every gun, on every drone. This will not stand, this will end.

One is free to change what one can change, or to sit and sulk about the things one can not. Years of social paintjobs have archieved nothing.
In Norway everyone's income is public. I'd be curious to hear from any Norwegians how this works out in practice.
Muslim immigration is converting Europe from a white majority to African / Arab majority.

>>Where did you get such a 'distorted' fact from?
Deutsche Welle

>>Germany has one of the largest populations of Muslim immigrants in Western Europe, with a Muslim community of over 3 million. That trend is expected to continue, leading some demographic trend-watchers to warn that the country is well on the way to becoming a Muslim state by 2050, Deutsche Welle reported.
How Seattle’s economic boom is destroying the city
Oh, I'm not saying qualia doesn't exist. Our experiences are definitely an actual phenomenon. And we can't currently explain exactly how it works and we should try to find out what produces the experience of qualia.

What we shouldn't do, is say humans have qualia and jump to the conclusion that machines can't have qualia, and can't be "aware" in the same sense a human can be. I apologize if that wasn't your intended argument.
Perl is another counterexample (it was partly born from dissatisfaction with the Unix philosophy).
This research points to a serious flaw with startup methodologies like Lean that validate the product with a self-selected group of customers.
The license is the biggest bullshit ever. This does not have anything to do with free software anymore. I would not use this piece of software.
Buy Trap Beats
Very interesting concept. One thing I noticed after developing several genetic algorithms on my own is that they tend to give a good creative hint at what the solution to the problem should be, which the human mind can then interpret and produce what the genetic algorithm was "trying" to approach. I wonder if the same could be true with biological evolution, that there are better ways of storing genetic information than DNA and all that, but that DNA is a good guideline to what should be done.
I find the opposite is generally the case. I've maintained many projects which were highly specific and therefore ridged to enhancing.

I try to reuse some style to only find it doesn't work when placed somewhere else in the HTML.

Having too generic styles is also a problem though. E.g. styling a label element on the assumption it's in a form can be frustrating.

It's all about the right balance and styling specifcally what you mean, not the specific structure of the HTML.
I have a question: why do we even want a general artificial intelligence? Isn't human thought good enough? I can only think of one reason to make such a thing: to enslave it and use it to control other humans.
Has anyone tried this with Nvidia GeForce Experience and a Shield TV? I might try this instead of upgrading my aging desktop.
IIRC, E.T. (from the movie) had DNA with six nucleotides.
I find the location modifier interesting. Obviously, the living costs in major cities are being factored in here, but if two employees provide the same amount of value to the company, it seems odd to pay someone more just because they choose to live in a big city. It seems like that might also cause some resentment between the two employees.

Does the company get some additional value from having their employees live in a big city? Is there some other factor I'm missing?
Ask HN: Need advise on introducing a basic income
I know this sounds a little far fetched but I would really like to introduce a basic income in germany. I would like that every citizen get about 1000€ per month, no questions asked. Since there is about 80M people in germany it would need 80B € per month to finance that. I would very much like to solve this problem with technology and dodge politics. Any Ideas?
Who needs google: http://www.transparentnevada.com/salaries/search/

There has been plenty of pressure applied to state government to provide this information under freedom of information laws. When a local paper initially collected this information and made it available there was public backlash against both the paper, and the way certain people were compensated (mostly firefighters, police officers but also some school teachers and university employees). After a while most people forgot about it but the push continued and now we have things like the above linked site where you can find the total compensation of every employee of the state of Nevada.
Pluto is a lot brighter than the stars at that distance, so they are underexposed (to the point of invisibility). If you look at pictures when New Horizons was farther away and Pluto therefor a lot dimmer, you'll see plenty of stars.
Why should I reveal something about myself without a quid pro quo?

If I'm going to give information away I want some information in exchange. How about next to all price tags for products in any store, put the cost of the product next to the price? Would you be for that? How would you think everybody would react when they realized all shirts cost 39 cents, all pants cost 45 cents, all shoes cost 76 cents, even though all along we've all been paying $30, $50, $100?

It's an honest question, I also don't know the answer, but my point is the way people interpret information (as mobs) is outside of any one individual's control, and maybe people don't want to give that control up?
The only gambling occurring is the gambling that this is a trust-worthy implementation of multi-player poker.
I keep hoping for a Cassini-like mission to Uranus and/or Neptune, but so far, no luck.
Bernie Sanders Has a Secret
Digital Nomad for a Year
If small fish get eaten at all. The vast, vast majority don't. They just die.

So to rephrase what you're saying: fish that get eaten are eaten by other fish. Not quite as interesting.
I think we're on the same page here. Usually qualia are brought out as a proof that there is some kind of ineffable quality that can't be replicated by machines, but can only be experienced first-hand by truly conscious beings. I see now that that was not your argument, and you're interested in an answer to what produces the feeling of qualia.
I suppose "easy" is a relative term. Thanks for all you do; none of these problems are trivial.
Ah, yes. Generally you're right: on 2nd order functions ((nat -> nat) -> nat) TMs and LC differ where TM's have strictly more functionality. But then it flips again at 3rd order (((nat -> nat) -> nat) -> nat) and so on and so forth.

Additionally, you can always just Gödel encode a program, pass it in, get all of this functionality. That might be considered cheating (simulating a TM, although you could just as well simulate LC in both models). This is not actually any different from what the UTM is doing... it's just possible to ignore the difference between interpretation and normal operation because it's all just tape.
Mind if I go a little off-topic here? This paradox reminds me of some other conclusion I've had, which is the fact that energy requirements of many physical processes are completely counterintuitive. For instance, it probably takes more energy to light a light bulb for a day, than it takes a small processor to run a set of calculations equivalent to a lifetime's worth of arithmetic done by every human being alive today.
On-demand and spot prices are two different things. Keep looking at the pricing page and you will see. Spot prices fluctuate constantly and your instance is auto-killed when the spot prices rises above the maximum price you are willing to pay.
Show me your immutable flux stores
> Analogy: I fire a gun straight into the air. The bullet eventually comes down and kills someone. Is a defense that "I thought it was safe" valid?

This is more like firing directly into a group of people, but believing the gun is a harmless reproduction (or perhaps a paintball marker) when it actually a real weapon loaded with live ammo.

And, yes, in that case it would be valid, at least to the extent that the crime you would be guilty of, if any, with that belief would be substantial less than the one you would be guilty of if you believed it was a live weapon and committed the same act.
I'm basically on the same boat as you (except that I am learning because I enjoy it), and with one other difference, I had no previous experience except for tinkering with things I didn't understand and didn't lead to any meaningful insights.

To get a good feel on how to write simple scripts in python, you can take the class on coursera: Programming for Everybody (Python). If you don't care about the grade, there is a class currently going. The people in the forums for that class are fantastic. There is another class starting on october 5.
https://www.coursera.org/course/pythonlearn

A good follow up course which will get more in depth is Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python over at edx. This class is a bit more demanding than the previous one that I mentioned. https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-computer-science-mit...

The first time around I dropped out, it was too much for me. So I took a few other classes, including Introduction to Algebra at edx to give my brain some exercise.
https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-algebra-schoolyourse...

If, you are interested in learning for the love of it, I would recommend Systematic Program Design (which is divided in three parts - the first part just finished last week but the materials will remain open for people to catch up) https://www.edx.org/course/systematic-program-design-part-1-...

This class will teach a design process that can be applied to any programming language, using a simple programming language to help teach the design process.
The book can be found at: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/index.html

There are a few other classes over at udacity that I'm planning on taking but can't recommend them yet as I haven't seen them.

Lastly, a few months ago a friend asked me about programming, so I wrote a quick and dirty blog post that has a little bit more information. Keep in mind that I'm a beginner as well - so take it with a grain of salt.
http://teichopsia.svbtle.com/how-to-get-started-in-programmi...

Note: There is a paragraph about a class called Intro to computer Science over at udacity. The class mentioned in this post at edx is a better class.
Well, you could also write .sidebar > .title to be more specific than simply all .title elements in .sidebar, but the point is to not tie your CSS quite so closely to the HTML hierarchy I suppose.
It would have been nice if the author would have at least acknowledged that in reality they are nucleobases and not tiny, tiny letters curled up in our cell nuclei. Sure, 6-amino-5-nitro-2(1H)-pyridone and 2-amino-imidazo[1,2-a]-1,3,5-triazin-4(8H)one doesn't say much to us laymen, but just saying letters and not mentioning once what they stand for is really poor reporting.
Sounds about right. For example, Oregon 2b averages around $0.18/hour. Different AZs are drastically different. Some of them hover around the demand price while others are rock bottom.
Lotus v0.4.1 – A Complete Web Framework for Ruby
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on shutting down a startup
I think that the entire "AppStore is broken" section is pretty well put into perspective by the Puppygames blog ( http://www.puppygames.net/blog/?p=1677 ). It's not that the platform owners are doing anything right...it's that they've built walled gardens and effectively tricked devs into going there.
Germany has a population of 80m people.

Your figure claims a Muslim population of 3m. Even if we assume all of those people are black it's still dwarfed by the 77million other people.
So these guys come along, casually expand a well-established code and test it under precisely one small condition. And when this one test gives them some nice data, they say: "Hey, our stuff is better than everything all of nature has ever done!"

A very intellectually stimulating endeavour no doubt, but I expect some more tests before I would call this good science. Claiming that "the new additions appear to improve the alphabet" is simply extrapolation to the nth degree. [1]

Oh and by the way, when the article claims that

> "the three-biopolymer system may have drawbacks, since information flows only one way, from DNA to RNA to proteins"

that is not correct either. For more information, read up on epigenetics.

[1] Note that this quote comes from the article, not the original paper. The original paper is not quite as cocky (at least not in the abstract, but I don't have full access).
From the initial post:

Many of my flux stores manage collections and I find myself repeating a lot of boilerplate code for finding / updating / removing objects. In an effort to avoid pulling in something like ampersand-collection, I was hoping to use immutable.js to cut down on some of the duplication but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around immutability. It actually feels wrong to be using immutable data within the stores since a store's primary job is to mutate data. I must be doing something wrong.

Anyone have some complex stores backed by immutable data structures they could share?
Thank you. I got hooked and needed a way out

setInterval( function(){ gamePage.resPool.maxAll() }, 1000 )
Their prices are the same though.
How Ads Follow You from Phone to Desktop to Tablet
According to that site, I can't get less than 44ms with Amazon where I live...

This site has a much larger number of providers:

http://cloudharmony.com/speedtest-latency-for-compute-limit-...

But of course most of them don't offer GPU servers.
If there were something like this, a book, startup, or nonprofit would have totally replaced the need for therapy.

What you're looking for is therapy. It takes a long time. There are little things you can do, but generally motivation and happiness are deeply rooted in things like your personality, income level, and a myriad of external factors that can't just be "hacked".

You can, however, do the following, which are known to be done by happy people (causal relationship is not necessarily established):

1. Exercise daily

2. Eat food in moderation, and mostly healthy food

3. Maintain close relationships with friends and family (loneliness is very bad for your health)

4. Write down 5 things you're thankful for every day

5. Meditate, practice mindfulness, or otherwise clear and focus your mind for a non-trivial amount of time every day

6. Similar to #5: take time to be bored
I've found that these cases are non-issues when you use something like BEM. The downside is that the HTML then becomes horrible to look at:

<div class='sidebar'>
<div class='sidebar__post'>
<h2 class='sidebar__post__title'>
Please kill me
</h2>
</div>
</div>

So… you have to chose between unmaintainable CSS or weird HTML.

I think that, in the end, something like this is the only sane outcome: https://medium.com/seek-ui-engineering/the-end-of-global-css...
If you want to get a lot of power, especially for gaming, you can forget DO.

Let’s take your average (okay, this is really beefy, but I couldn't find something lower at most dedicated hosters) gaming system: 8 Cores (16 Threads), 32GB RAM, 2TB HDD.
At Digital Ocean, you pay approx. 320$/month for 12 Cores, 32GB RAM, and 320GB SSD

Let’s take your average small hoster, in this case Hetzner, as comparison:
You pay 55$/month (plus 55$ setup) for 8 cores (16 Threads), 32GB RAM and 2TB HDD.

I’m just showing this as example: Using Cloud hosters for stuff that is running 24/7 is not cost effective, especially if you always need the same performance – use a dedicated server instead, hosters that specialize on that can provide far better offers.
I have read somewhere that conspiracy theories are the pattern matching algorithms in our brains running wild, seening connections where there aren't any. The thing is, our brains are really good at detecting patterns. So good, that sometimes, in fact, we will see patterns where there aren't any. And that's where paranoia and conspiracies and conspiracy theories come in.
https://github.com/wesleycho
This sounds like open SMTP relays all over again, and then came automated open relay testing and blacklisting.

Is there a project like that for BGP?
Thanks.

They would have been doing better
for their business if they
had made that point clear.

Again, my gripe is, better writing
is needed. Why? The writing now
too often results in absurdly high
costs for absurdly poor reasons.
The costs to me have me torqued.

We're just talking about bad writing.
> Now he tries to figure out how an iPhone works. He constructs theories based on what he knows. The theories are all shown, over hundreds of years, to be wrong. Therefore, he is told, iPhones don't exist because when he constructs theories about them, they are wrong.
But he directly observes the existence of the iPhone because he holds it in his hand. He knows they exist. He doesn't need a scientific theory to prove that they exist.

Yes, that's the point. He has "experimental evidence" (aka something observable) right there in his hand. Understanding of how it works is immaterial for the question of existence (if you're not a constructivist :) So then we use that as analogy to look back at the question at hand:

> From the direct observation of your experience of yellowness, which I think you must agree is something more than merely classifying the wavelength as being in a certain range, I would think you would know that qualia exist. That is enough evidence.

Enough evidence of what? Certainly evidence of internal thoughts and feelings. I don't see how you can demonstrate anything beyond that, with or without an understand of how that "thing" might work.
There's an 18th century proverb about this:

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."

So this is hardly anything new. It's been the status quo for as long as people have been learning. That's partly why people like learning: because it makes them feel powerful and privileged.
I believe Moravec's paradox is a consequence of the fact that we do not consciously recognise the effort our brains/bodies do in sensorimotor computation. When we add up numbers consciously in our head, using arithmetic, it takes us quite some effort, but in the meanwhile our visual cortex is doing similar operations (unconsciously) millions of times more efficiently.

It's as if the conscious arithmetic runs on some kind of stack of virtualization layers, using millions of neurons to build a mental image of the concept of "the number five", whereas a handful of neurons would suffice to do the actual arithmetic.

I often wonder if those rare people who can do calculations in their head faster than calculators, may have - unconsciously - found a way to unlock the native hardware of their brain, bypassing all of the symbol abstractions required by us muggles. A bit like GPGPU vs CPU for certain algorithms - only orders of magnitude more pronounced.
You're missing six more years. Don't worry about it. Mature programmers don't appear overnight, and immature programmers aren't worth their salt.
If not underlining post titles is so important, than the CSS rule should make that explicit:

.post .title {
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: none;
}

Leaving text-decoration out of the rule is basically saying: "I defer to my ancestor rules for advice on styling this, and I accept their decision."
How to Use Twitter to Find Your Product/Market Fit
Sure - I know a guy who retired from trading in mid 40s and is now a math teacher because he likes that. But if our society relied on people working because they chose to (as opposed to needed to) we probably wouldn't have one.

That's one thought experiment I conduct - imagine we find out that a comet is going to approach Earth in 6 months. My main problem is us having to deal with 6 months of chaos (since nobody will be working) rather than instant annihilation.
https://www.gamefly.com/ recently launched on Amazon's Fire TV android box.
More information about who in the US has and hasn't merged those two sounds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_Englis...

It's the cot-caught merger.
That's a good point. We should probably not trust this "lab tinkering" because it's so new - nature already figured everything out already. I'll go back to hunting and gathering now...
I assume in their case they were investing in the infrastructure as well, which would be a significant cost; if one just resold this service on top of Amazon for cost +x% they wouldn't have that kind of capital exposure, not to mention no marketing / advertising if it's kept as a small side project.

The thing that I would worry more about when running a service like this would be liability for what users of your service do / say.