skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, there is no way he didn't know this was illegal. At the very least, the people on his board told him, where it had to have come up multiple times ("How are you controlling cash flow??").
> Government can regulate what content can and cannot be shown (e.g. "The right to be forgotten")

Sure, and "hate speech" laws and illegal materials.

But they cannot regulate you, for instance, into showing something that you are not showing.

Suppose I run a search engine and some politician is against my organization. I can drop most positive entries related to that politician from my index, keeping mostly the ones that point to negative material.
He was the start of America's decline
If you want to operate your business in a market you have to play by the rules set there. Nobody can and wants to force Google to operate their search in the EU, as you noted correctly. But if they wish to do so, there are laws they need to follow. If they operate a quasi-monopoly those laws are stricter than they would be for you and me.

There is certain type of content that you would agree that Google shouldn't be allowed to put on their website. It's just that in the EU there are some more restrictions.
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This is the vibe I got as well.

"Let's all celebrate the the worker bee who dropped their life's obligations and went to China one afternoon!"

No. Rash decisions are typically stupid decisions, and forcing one of your employees to go to China is a stupid decision. Frankly, it's also stupid to abide by that kind of stupidity-- abiding by stupidity is dangerous.
yes probably, but how often are you taking your family sedan for a lap around the Nürburgring?
My favorite gem from that link is this quote (Linus signs a post where he apologizes for flaming Tanenbaum)

'Linus "my first, and hopefully last flamefest" Torvalds'

Oh how hopeful we are when young ;)
L.A. is famous for being a place where people only live temporarily, so it's likely that both the people who fall into homelessness and the people on public assistance don't stay long and get replaced with a new group of people who fall into the same situation.
I worked for a stretch at a startup where I was asked to "believe". The company's core values were made into wall artwork and recited aloud at staff meetings. It was all eerily similar to my Catholic upbringing. Including the guilt. "Oh, you want to leave work at 5? Yeah, that's fine. I just thought you really believed."

You have to be a little insane to start a company, I totally get that. But you're truly doing yourself a disservice if you're attempting to amass a legion of followers.

A good developer might not give two shits about your carefully crafted mission statement, but she'll do some kick ass work. Isn't that good enough any more? Why is "startup culture" so obsessed with maintaining the appearance of success rather than focusing on creating something amazing?
This is some customer service right here, well done.
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Frontend lead (basically a js engineer tbh) for a moderately large site, and I put in 4 hours of proper serious work, 2 of less focused work where I refactor, tweak stylesheets, try to smooth things out, and then the rest of the day is spent swanning around, smoking and chatting shit with the guys in design, marketing, qa and ask the parts of the business we don't generally talk to enough.

The later part of my day is often the most productive - fag break meetings have initiated most of the best work we've produced by having an informal chat before something becomes a thing.

Working hard is genuinely admirable, I did startups and put in some serious deathmarch shifts, but I honestly believe that if you're delivering what you signed up to do, and using any leftover time productively, you're making a positive net contribution and probably becoming a better developer as a result. It's a win-win and you won't burn out.

Write beautiful, elegant code, deliver everything you've promised you will, the rest of the time just enjoy doing something you love.
Reminds me of this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
You're going to get a whole lot of noise in your signal from readers who get sick of waiting for/looking at the ads and leave early.
Cool. But there's like a billion others.
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"Government can regulate what content can and cannot be shown"

Depends on the government.
In the US, commercial speech (IE speech for the purposes of engaging in commerce or advertising) is a weird issue.
Content-based regulations of commercial speech have to satisfy intermediate scrutiny (instead of strict scrutiny that noncommercial speech would have to satisfy).

Intermediate scrutiny is an odd test, but suffice to say, the government is not going to win in a lot of cases.

Essentially, at least in the US, the government's authority to restrict commercial speech has significant limits, particularly when it comes to content-based regulations.
Right. Quickly making incorrect decisions probably isn't so good.
Requiring a picture seems like a little much, but having the option of some sort of video chat for 911 calls (maybe like Facetime with a cellular audio call fallback) seems like it could provide a number of benefits, both in eliminating false alarms, and giving first responders more situational information that would help them respond appropriately.

Taking it a step further (in the tech can solve anything world), it might be interesting if emergency responders could send some sort of push notification to people inside a certain geofenced area and ask them to provide a live video feed of the situation as well.
I see what you did there :)

I dig Gray Code too, and here are some pretty pictures http://datagenetics.com/blog/november32014/index.html
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You're right that the Maybe and Either types are very similar to checked exceptions. And, from that perspective, you're absolutely right that it contaminates the rest of the code around above it, similar to a checked exception. However, I would subjectively argue that Maybe is the less clumsy alternative. For the lazy programmer, the easy way to handle exceptions is to ignore them and let upstream deal with it. Even for checked exceptions, ignoring the problem is just a throws statement away. My subjective argument, though, is that monads are just slightly awkward enough to handle that you're encouraged to deal with the problem, instead of just ignoring it. I'd much rather handle whatever condition occurred than constantly deal with liftM and >>=, so I make sure to handle my "execeptions" as soon as I have enough information, just to make my own life easier. Your mileage may vary.
Different google than the one i worked in, it took managers many quarters or even years to make big decisions. they needed tons of data and trends - by nature they are reactive to a fault. yet they run around talking about quick decisions making and being agile.. strange world it was.
You won't be around long calling out shit. 'That kind of negativity doesn't fit with our culture.'

True believers are not what any company needs, but it's all they want.
> Suppose 10% of companies won't hire you because of irrational reasons. What does that do to your market value? Under the simplest economic model, it does nothing.

Under simple economic models, given fixed supply, small changes in demand can have large impacts on prices.
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they can, and they did, for example, for the browser ballot in windows.
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I think his point is one that seems obvious, but isn't always. First, you should believe in your product, then your job is to get others to do so. Treating people badly, not paying them, lying, etc. are all terrible and we should not ever praise those parts, but that doesn't mean his overall point is wrong at all. There are a few things going on there:

1) If you as the creator don't believe in it, you're probably going to have more trouble convincing others that it's worth using, unless you have some kind of interesting personality quirk.

2) The value of something - and it may be very valuable - might not immediately be obvious. AirBnB, for example, sounded insane to many people before it caught on. The founders had to believe in it, and they had to convince others to do so.

3) For things which are purely subjective (and I know some do find this distasteful, for sometimes good reasons), convincing others of its value is the entire point. Think about things like fashion, music styles, toys / novelties of various kinds - even certain kinds of technologies which only shuffle the deck in terms of functionality / UX may need to have users convinced. The effects of this one can be net positive (something starts out looking like a fad, turns into incredibly useful thing [Twitter]), net negative (unhealthy fad diets), or neutral (Webkinz? Furbies?), but even if you hate these things, you can't wish them away or deny they exist.
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Some could argue the decline was started by Nixon or even Johnson. Basically, we were living on borrowed time and the misfortune of post-war Europe. It was inevitable the free ride would end. It's only now that the pain is more fierce since the productivity gains all have been squandered for short term gains on Wall Street. Frankly, it's a miracle any of the 1%ers ever make a buck with the short sighted mentalities that many of them have.
If Google purports to be a search engine and then gives preference to search results that benefit them, it's ethically similar to an fiduciary adviser recommending things that make him rich without regard for your well being. Google is not in a fiduciary relationship to you, but a similar ethical situation arises because fair competition (which laws protect in most countries - e.g., including anti-trust laws here in the US) is hard to be had when one company is tricking its customers (by making their ads look similar to search results) into thinking they're getting more for less (e.g., getting free search when in actuality they're being led to potentially less desirable products for Google's monetary gain).

If Google instead purported to be a "find products we like to recommend" engine, this situation wouldn't arise. I suspect less people would use their service in this case, and that should illustrated the point: if the value of your service decreases when you tell the truth, then you're, by definition, gaining an a business advantage by being dishonest.
You read the account here? Hiding problems and pretending all is well is very much the strategy according to the article. Medical staff and government officials appear to be trying to hide the victims. It wasn't some sort of unverifiable anti-nuclear rant.
Edit: where is 3% coming from? My quick look is giving much higher rates. http://m.ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/30/1/125.long
> Jennifer Friedenbach, the executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness, a nonprofit in the city, said a lack of reasonably priced housing was the biggest problem.

Ms. Friedenbach, you make yourself and your ideological camp appear naive and out of touch. No doubt, there are a handful of gainfully employed, productive and law-abiding citizens of SF who are homeless solely or primarily because they cannot afford an apartment. I am sure that the time they are forced to spend living in shelters, sitting on the BMR housing waiting lists, and looking for better opportunities in other cities with more affordable housing is painful, degrading, and infuriating. That sucks.

As for the other 6600+ of SF's 6700 homeless population, it's not going to make any difference whether housing is $10,000 a month or $100. These are people with no marketable skills (not even the ability to show up), no desire to work, major addictions (usually following multiple treatment interventions), severe mental illnesses, a preference for the street lifestyle, or some combination of those. Most live in SF not because they were born there or because they have jobs or family there but because there is no freezing weather and the City is accommodating, like spending a large fraction of the $330m SFFD budget sending trained firefighters to pick up the same few hundred people twice a day every single day of the year. All the free housing in the world isn't going to get them off the streets.

Bitching about the cost of housing in SF is fashionable. But I would really expect someone who works directly on the problems of homelessness and with homeless people to know better. The cost of housing is at most a very minor contribution to the problem. When you can show me that most of the people in the City who are homeless have jobs and are reasonably healthy, it'll be time to pin the blame on the housing market. Until then, get serious about addressing the real problems, or just accept that you're never going to and stop pretending.
Not sure how the Porsche was the winner in every way? Going from point A->B (work commute), is your foot hard on the pedal every day? Can you even have your foot all the way down (traffic)? Tesla wins by far in terms of energy-efficiency, luxury, capacity, and just overall being more useful than the Porsche (and still being fun to drive). The only minus is the price tag. But Porsches aren't cheap either. But yeah I understand, any true racing enthusiast would probably choose a Porsche over a Tesla.
That's so cool. When I was a kid, I had a panel with a ton of switches. I've been thinking about the way to cycle through all of the possible switch combinations (I already knew combinatorics and binary), and I invented Gray codes in the process :)

I never thought it could be useful for anything but my amusement.
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Keywords in URLs are useful for automated searching (eg "@ keyword" in Firefox's 'awesomebar'). Human readable URLs seem like pretty good things for usability to me, perhaps he has them but has these terse ones for archival purposes?

Nonetheless it's an interesting question - hundreds??
You should transcend all notions of 'copy' in the first place. All licensing has to do with some form of restriction on the reproduction, even if the terms are very liberal, like Creative Commons. A friend once told me the best way to get people to read your book is to leave copies of it lying around in public places, with no mention of licensing, or other restrictions on who else should read it. Information wants to be free (or expensive depending on whether you build in business logic).
That is exactly it. After reading the story, I have been thinking about this and how easy it is to create weighted-buckets of different companies, give it a cool name and launch.

Cripto-currency ETF would be awesome .. when a few of these bitcoin companies start to trade publicaly.
Google has a search engine monopoly (at least in Europe), this gives them the obligation not to abuse this. If they're using their monopoly to promote other services (such as when directly show Maps in the results, without offering other providers of maps the same option) or if they're scraping content without linking back (such as with Yelp), they're abusing this monopoly.
What if you haven't been paying attention and discover your batteries are running low when you're on the highway and the next exit is in 20 miles? What are the chances you'll be able to find somewhere to charge before your car stops?

Also, just like how you charge your Tesla every night, I think most gas-powered car owners keep an eye on their fuel and will fill up the night before if they don't have time to stop in the morning. That's really a non-issue as well.

Yes, owners of gas-powered cars will need to make impromptu, unscheduled stops to fill up, but EV owners have to constantly be planning in advance to know that they'll be able to hit the next charging point, because if they don't make it their car is going to be making the rest of the journey on the back of a flatbed truck.
Seems plausible on the surface, but not supported by research. The average elite female athlete is only as strong as an average male. Quote: The results of female national elite athletes even indicate that the strength level attainable by extremely high training will rarely surpass the 50th percentile of untrained or not specifically trained men.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17186303
Their actual cheese store is a thing of beauty, too. You are not allowed to buy any cheese without tasting: they shove little bites at you as you ask questions.

Americans don't love cheese enough. There should be one of these on every corner, like Arizmendi, but with more cheese!
I love the cheese board, and not just for the pizza. When I was in grad school at Berkeley, I knew I could go there and get really good advice about what kinds of cheeses I should get for whatever dinner I was having or hosting. Everyone there is super-passionate about their work, and they took plenty of time to explain and educate about their cheeses.

I don't know if it is a coincidence that these people were employee-owners of the coop, or if it was a natural outcome of the way the cheese board is structured. I'd believe it was the latter; as the article mentioned, without an owning corporate board there's not a big urge to expand like crazy and extract maximum profits. The goal is for all the employee-owners to make a living wage doing cool stuff.

Granted, it makes me a socialist or whatever, but I'd love to work in a system like that- a small worker-owned cooperative doing software. Of course, the problem with some markets is that you probably need lots of starting capital, and hence the VC system.
I didn't mean that Google has the right to put, say, child porn on their website.

> If they operate a quasi-monopoly those laws are stricter than they would be for you and me.

To have stricter laws, there should be an actual monopoly. Google have no monopoly, only a "mental monopoly", so called mind-share. When people want to search for something, the first word that pops into their head is "Google".

A monopoly is something else, like not being able to buy a product or service except form a particular vendor, even if you want alternatives.

Also, a monopoly uses its power to prevent entry into the market: vendors who want access to the users who would like alternative vendors are hindered from starting up.

You're not paying anything for Google searches, and there are alternatives.

Google connected a farm of machines to the network, which provide a free service and don't prevent anyone from doing the same. How can that be a monopoly?
He has a point.

blind faith vs. logical rational ... being in the in the first business of selling to people(or employees) that work off of blind faith has always been way more profitable in at least power, and sometimes even money.
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I actually grew up (ages 4 - 17) near (<36miles) Chernobyl and my family still works on CHNPP. I now work at on of the top tech companies in Silicon Valley. I would even question a <3% leukaemia bump for people who were not involved in cleanup efforts directly.
Presumably, Apple will remove that option at some point. It's normal deprecation.

Not that I agree they should offer that option, because of course there is no such thing as "gracefully degrading" security.
> I'm not a fan of some of the MMA culture that bleeds over into BJJ.

Nah, it's the attitude from BJJ that ended up in MMA culture
It's not a good enough measurement - it's a ridiculously poor measurement. You're trying to measure how fast an adblocker is by measuring how long it takes... to load the ads.

How is that in any way helpful? If anything, the proper, comparable load time for the adblocked version is infinite - they never complete loading the ads.

If you're going to run this comparison, you need to at least compare the same set of resources being loaded - after all, if you're willing to omit ads entirely, you clearly don't care how long it takes for them to load.

We don't need a perfect measurement, but this measurement is extremely biased. DOMContentLoaded would be better, but still far from good - you want to measure the load time of the resources the adblocker would not have blocked.
This commenter's tone is flippant but he brings up a really good question! Why do 9 mil people get benefits in a city of 10 million? I spent a few minutes googling "la population churn" until I realized that sociologists use the more polite term "turnover".

Between 1985 and 1990, the mean migration turnover rate was 35%.[1] And if you look at the map, LA county is shaded the color of 41-65% turnover. Let's guess 50%.

So if we guess 50% turnover per 5 years still applies between 2002 and 2010, then it's reasonable that 15million - 20million people have lived in LA county during that time period. Given that 49% of the US population get government benefits [2], this checks out. Especially since LA county has a higher poverty rate than the rest of the country. [3]

[1] Migration Turnover Rates in United States Counties [2006] http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=13...

[2] Census: 49% of Americans Get Gov’t Benefits; 82M in Households on Medicaid http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/census-49-...

[3] L.A. County leads California in poverty rate, new analysis shows http://articles.latimes.com/2013/sep/30/local/la-me-poverty-...
What a load of bullshit. Not only is it expensive compared to local prepaid data SIMs, they flat out lie in their marketing.

Unlimited turn out not to be unlimited, but limited to 10 GB per month.

Coverage map show Russia, but small print says does not cover Russia.

DIAF
That's interesting, but it's very far from making a pure function (ie, one that can't have side effects).
Bah! This is an attempted advertisement for Ansible, more than it is article attempting to be informative.

> for developers and sysadmins

Sounds pretty clear to me. If you don't know what that is, then it's not for you.

Thing is, last time I checked Docker is Linux, Linux, Linux, and nothing else. They don't really make any mention of that. Probably deliberately so, because they want to keep their reputation clear of any constraints.

I think the same goes for Ansible, but correct me if I'm wrong.

But everybody is in the game of making broad mindless generalizations, especially when it comes to "cloud" services, because everyone's trying to get you to pay money for something you'll never be able to put your hands on, or stand in the same room with.

But seriously, all of these things are mostly about servers in warehouse-like datacenters a thousand miles away, and no one will ever dare say that, because it kills the glamour. So whatever.
To elaborate on this, here's (as accurately as I can remember it) what a librarian I know in Vancouver said recently: "Hardly anyone comes in wanting books any more, and the people who do already know how to find them. But nobody knows how to find government services, so when I'm not reading to kids I usually have a phone book open helping someone figure out which government office provides the services they need."
I think it's undeniable that a substantial portion of the interest in XMonad came about because it's written in Haskell, but that's very different from saying that all of the interest in it comes from a concerted propaganda campaign on the part of the Haskell community.
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