skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The statement is designed to be (deniably) deceitful. Taken literally, it basically says "blow up the whole online commercial surveillance industry, and everyone who relies on it for most of their revenue." That happens to include Mozilla, formerly a subsidiary of Google, now one of Yahoo, so I doubt they mean that.
You might not need a WebSocket (2014)
A mixed market means some markets are free, some unfree - right?
"casualties" includes injuries
They suck less than what this page does. I couldn't tell you if all pages that do scrolling themselves are annoying, because I probably wouldn't notice a good example, but I can tell you that many of the pages that do do because they do something to scrolling that's not as intended. If your custom scrolling feels noticeably different or breaks a feature, it's broken. And honestly, I doubt many developers are able to build a reliable, cross-browser, non-broken implementation.
By that logic, physics is merely an ersatz subsidiary of mathematics, therefore technological progress mostly relies on discoveries made in mathematics.

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/435/
Hiring is a strategic lever, especially early on.

I work for Pivotal Labs. For engineering hiring we do onsite pairing interviews that last a day, divided across two teams. Whenever possible, which is most of the time, on a real task on a real project.

The disruption is worth it, because engineers get to pick their peers.
Search Engine Market Share:

Google 67%
Yahoo 10%
Bing: 10%
Baidu: 8%
AOL: 1%
Other: 2%

Just because 67% of consumers are choosing Google search despite a myriad of other options, doesn't make it a monopoly nor does it mean they don't have competition. Google is constantly being pushed by its competitors to improve and maintain its marketshare.

Google is also competing with every type of advertising on the planet.
I see Russians everywhere on the Internet speaking their mind freely and hosting political Youtube channels. The government has nowhere near the grip on information it had during the USSR.

Additionally Russians can access all Western media whenever they like and they do so often, especially the urbanized population. (where the majority of them create pro-Putin comments defending the actions of the Russian government)

That pro-Putin votes will evaporate is just your personal opinion and hope, but it isn't based on anything real. After the Yeltsin years it will take many decades for liberalism to recover in Russia.
It does seem rather dubious to talk about "resources diverted" as a sufficient metric for success in this context, but I think that this story is also not a particularly strong rebuttal to the NRA claim. From the article it appears that the rebels were initially armed with a very small number of poor quality low power weapons. We're not talking about the NRA utopia of widespread ownership of accurate semiautomatic rifles here.
I think it probably resembles the workplace about as much as anything about being a student resembles the workplace, which is to say, not much at all. But the original post was about not wanting to do a coding boot camp because of the personal interaction. And how he doesn't want to pay someone to teach him "something he already knows" to get a job. But a job is about a lot more than just technical proficiency, and it sounds like something is being... if not taught, at least tested for in these contexts that is also needed to succeed at working life for most people.
Do you have data? Because there is enough wind potential alone in the US to satisfy the US power requirements 10x over.

http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/05/f22/Enabling%20Wi...

> You're very wrong here. China in particular is investing heavily in nuclear going forward, including thorium. There are a number of companies here in the US, such as Flibe Energy and Thorcon that are working hard on next-gen nuclear solutions.

While China continues to build a handful of nuclear plants, their wind generation capacity is already far ahead of what they're producing from nuclear:

http://www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2015/highlights5...

> On a level playing field, wind in particular can't compete.

Wind is already cheaper than nuclear without subsidies in the USA and the UK. It also kills less birds and bats than buildings, cell towers, and cats.

http://www.ewea.org/blog/2013/03/us-wind-energy-is-now-more-...

http://cleantechnica.com/2015/03/04/wind-solar-substantially...

You mention next-gen nuclear tech will come in at 5 cents/kwh. Utility solar is already below 4 cents/kwh:

http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/cheapest-solar-e...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-07/buffett-sc...
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> I was born in 1985, ostensibly, but I've never heard of this and don't even know where that Grenada is

I was born in 1993 and I know plenty about the communist-backed coup and subsequent invasion of Grenada. I wouldn't use being born in chronological proximity to an event as a measure of it's geopolitical importance. That said, I've never heard that the US invasion of Grenada was so important in the wider Cold War as to call it "a massive shock". In reality, the collapse of the good ol' USSR is a confluence of events, political, economic, and social that lead to the breakup of world's only other super power. Look at that, the world isn't all black and white and can fit into an online article!

Unrelated, but I think schools should do more to teach kids about history in relation to current major events and issues around the globe. I most adoringly recall my "Current Events" course which was entirely based around teaching the last 150 or so years of major events and the underlying history that lead to those events. At the very least, folks would be a bit better served by learning why Iraq and Afghanistan are the clusterfucks they are as opposed to the Lewis & Clark expedition. I guess what I'm getting at is the US history education pretty much starts on the East coast and ends on the West with not much outside those boundaries.
100x Yes!

I had a similar argument recently. It was all fun and games talking about the problems with traditional education and the loss of creative thinking until I pointed out that the only reason we can have this debate is because we went to good schools, got good grades and got good jobs.

As someone who grew up poor and extremely grateful to get out of the ghetto, I'm consistently surprised that I'm surrounded by unhappy well-off peers who have similar struggles and offer similar advice (quit job/school, follow your heart, travel, go to Burning Man, etc). These are lamentations and luxuries of the leisure class. Money doesn't buy happiness, but everything still costs money. When you satisfy 90% of what most people define as needed to keep them happy and comfortable, that last 10% takes over your world. In a post scarcity society, we are all trapped at the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs and happiness seems harder and harder to achieve. Instead of being happy with what we have, we keep moving the bar.

Don't get me wrong, the author's problems are real and valid, and there is something wrong with our society when kids start committing suicide over GPAs, but a large part of me fears for our future. Maybe Star Trek really is a dystopia…
> Save your outrage for when the solution actually has a downside of any significance.

In cases like this, much of the outrage stems not from dissatisfaction with any particular solution, but from people being offended that the concern was taken seriously at all.
Environmentalists are not wedded to a low-energy ideal, they're wedded to a non-polluting one. Speaking for myself, I'd be happy with, say, a P-B aneutronic fusion system and would vastly prefer this over solar or wind. But we don't have this right now, and solar or wind are the least polluting alternatives, and considerably cheaper to develop than nuclear options.
I think the reason he or others may perceive a slow down in innovation happens because innovation is more incremental, but is released far more quickly, thus making up for small increments.

A good example is the Windows or Mac OS, which took 2-7 years to be released; now it's happening on a yearly basis, and we're finding that too slow. So maybe in some unintuitive sense, we perceive a slow down due to it speeding up in innovation.*

*this of course doesn't apply to everything, and some ideas do takes years to develop a working prototype.
>Another solution would be to minimise state intervention (because "free market"), and thus let providers build their own last miles —and lease them if they want to. The result? A local monopoly at worst, and an oligopoly at best.

Is there actually any evidence of this? Here in the US, we often have on cable company providing cable internet, plus another company offering DSL (high speed land phone line) internet, several offering cell mobile internet (4G & HSPA+), plus satellite internet (not great, but it's there).
> It's very much a thing.

The author states his definition as "the Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics says that when you observe or interact with a problem in any way, you can be blamed for it." No one subscribes to that ethics, hence it's not a thing (anywhere outside's the author's distorted view of others, that is).

OTOH, saying that the level of your responsibility for another individual may correlate with the benefit they give you (e.g. you make a profit) seems like a reasonable thing. It seems quite reasonable to believe that our responsibility towards the other may increase if 1/ we somehow contributed to their misfortune, 2/ if we somehow benefit from it, or 3/ if we benefit from them in any way at all. Each of these may of course increase the responsibility by different amounts.

Points 2 and 3 seem like a natural conclusion of the ideal of fairness and reciprocity. Your contribution to the good of others should be commensurate with their contribution to yours.

> Coldtea explicitly said he's not responsible for the pregnant woman "because I'm not making money off of her", implying that if he were to observe/interact with her he would be responsible.

No, that's what you explicitly said when you tried hard to not understand other people's arguments. coldtea said no such thing. coldtea said that they wouldn't pay for the woman's maternity leave, not that their responsibility towards her is nil. coldtea's level of responsibility simply does not reach the point of owing her maternity leave.
My $.02 is that being successful with remote workers is a management problem. If you're a good manager and you hire well, you'll have few problems.

This coming from a guy who worked from home for most of the past ten years, remotely managing a group of 100+ who were located in ten different time zones (including, but not limited to the US, Scotland, Hungary, India, Singapore, China, Mexico and Brazil).

Constant, clear communications and a stated set of mid- and long-term coals is absolutely critical. Get the team aligned, organize your product development, and ensure a consistent, timely feedback loop and you'll be ok. Also, make sure you get all the key players physically together at least 2-4 times per year.
Having a system that produces the same visual output in 100 years is nice, but to achieve that it is sufficient to maintain the old TeX installation in usable form. We have release versions for this. Why does he think his software should be approaching some state of immutability is incomprehensible to me. Evolution of civilization will bring new requirements, perhaps better way to deal with colors, better vector image notation, better font handling, better web/HTML integration, ...
How'd that work out for the Branch Davidians or Ruby Ridge?
So rejecting/wanting to harm people that are not of "your race" is only racism if your race forms the "majority establishment"?

A black person in the US denigrating chinese people isn't racist, a white person doing the same is?

And reversed in an area politically dominated by black people?
Mother Theresa said “Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”

I'll have the temerity to add something to her advice. Help that person anonymously if you can; it's not about you, it's about her or him. The only reason to break anonymity is if it will help to set a positive example of generosity for others. Breaking anonymity will always burn up your social capital by opening you up to public criticism of this "Copenhagen" variety.

The Gates Foundation is a prominent example. They sometimes take heat for the work they choose to do. Nevertheless, they serve as a fine example of willingness to help.

You want to do some good and you're busy? Tell your bank to send a monthly payment to a local feeding program. Be a reliable source of support for them, and trust them to do the right thing. And don't brag about it.
I'm not quite convinced by the article, but I was thinking something economically-related as I was reading it. The economic system is now capitalist, with the main objective being the search for profits, and it seems that it's become really hard nowadays to get a research grant if it does not have a clear money-making application beyond it. As a result you have a lot of projects that will build on existing science or technology, but relatively few that can afford to take the risk to explore the unknown domain of fundamental research.
I'm not a compression expert at all, but I've read about ANS a few times lately, and I wonder whether an ANS variant of Brotli might be an even better choice.
I haven't reread the article recently, but I don't think it's talking about the relative merits of (1) vs (2). There's also (3), "these people are starving and I'm not going to do anything about that."

Copenhagen says (3) is better than (2). The author thinks (2) is better than (3).
My peers in high school were overachievers who seemed to have everything figured out. I had no idea what I was doing and often had close to failing grades, despite scoring high on standardized tests (2390 SAT + 800 SAT II Math).

I got rejected from almost every college I applied to and ended up dropping out after a year when I actually did go. I worked two jobs and took community college classes for a year before returning to university.

I'm definitely more focused and mature now. I think people shouldn't feel the need to conform to the "normal" path of going off to college right away. There's really no single correct way to go through life. I needed time to figure things out for myself instead of adhering to a system I wasn't comfortable in.
According to the author it's better to die on your feet and take out some Nazis than die as a slave helping the Nazis. Also, according to the author, the Nazis might have thought twice about Poland if there were uprisings in more than just Warsaw.

Sometimes these uprisings do actually save the people involved. It wouldn't have saved the Jews, but it did save about half of the Tutsis.

Closer to home, it's also worth reading the book "We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement". tl;dr; violent terrorists were regularly attacking black Americans, American Indians and insufficiently loyal white people, and armed resistance put a big dent in it. (Note that law enforcement generally sided with the terrorists.)

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hayes_Pond
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This oft told story is pretty clearly by now a myth:

https://mises.org/library/myth-natural-monopoly

Any day now, Google will knock on my door to install Google Fiber in my house. Funny how for 10 years I had the same Time Warner Cable modem, and they recently sent me a new much faster one. Funny how, AT&T trucks are suddenly appearing around my 'hood to upgrade their plant so they can offer higher speeds.

As a result my service will be better, faster and cheaper. This is not supposed to be possible.
As a burn victim the name of mozilla's browser is highly insensitive.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

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And they have nowhere near the resources of a lawyer and law firm you could retain if you have the funds available to you.

Having a public defender represent you when they have hundreds of other cases concurrently is useless.
I have student loans to pay off, both for a graphic design degree and a programming degree, so probably negative until I die.
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There's no smart way of answering that will help you if you're famous. People are going to cut and edit the quote in any way imaginable in order to have your name associated with the message they want to print.
It's not a bad piece of history writing. It's just going to bring out the gun-control debaters.

The Warsaw Jews did pretty well, considering they had less arms and ammunition on hand than you'd find in a rural US WalMart. Victory was not an option - a year later, the considerably larger, better-equipped Warsaw Uprising failed as bloodily, when Soviet forces nearly on the outskirts of the city failed to raise a finger in support.
I agree. The intentionally prevocational logo (a Menorah) has put me off CLISP[0], I would guess many others too.

[0] See the explanation at http://www.clisp.org/impnotes/faq.html#faq-menorah-why which starts off with "it's not political" and then provides multiple links to pro-Israeli websites.
Every time I ever got high on weed I felt lingering effects for about three days. I've never experienced this with anything else. It always seemed to me that people who smoke weed a couple times a week or more often might be slightly under the influence almost continuously and not even realize it.
>>Wherever communism exists, tyranny and oppression exists.

Like politicans, you seem to be confusing communism with totalitariansim. True communism, with the people making the rules has yet to be tried. Instead we have seen totalitarian regiems labaeling themselves as communism.
"We find that the academic performance of students who are no longer legally permitted to buy cannabis increases substantially."

Pfft.

For my own case, when I smoke cannabis, my brain becomes hyperactive. I want to resolve all of my codesmell at once. I want to finish all of my code at once. My writing becomes "electric". My writing becomes transcendental and on fire — why do I become electric, yet all of these students become unmotivated globs? Tell me why this is the case before you moralize and vilify such a beautiful plant!

So maybe it's me. Or maybe the lot of you just don't know how to smoke and ritualize the practice. Maybe you all have a flawed philosophy to begin with, or worse, you don't have a philosophy about what you're smoking — to begin with.

As Kafka notes:

The unfitness of the object may cause one to overlook the unfitness of the means.
— Franz Kafka
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My positive takeaway from this is that "graph theory" which I see as a single lump of knowledge (that I don't have), is actually still developing and being used by practitioners - the paper several times in the summary mentions "rapidly growing fields etc). To me that signals the use of this is changing, and being a dumb ass who knows nothing is not so bad
To this I say: what's wrong with the e-cigarette? Why NOT have your cake and eat it, too, if you actually can? There is no virtue in meaningless asceticism.
Generally some version of spinster, future crazy cat lady, etc;
A first step is to have an idea of baseline consumption
rates for the particular group of individuals who were affected by the policy. To obtain rough
estimates of these rates, we carried out an anonymous survey among currently enrolled
students at Maastricht University. To make the question about cannabis consumption less
Although these are different students to the ones on which we have performance data that we use in the rest of
the analysis, their baseline consumption rates are relevant for two reasons. First, their demographic
salient, we embedded it in a more general questionnaire on risky behavior. In total, 192
students answered the survey, which is over 97 percent of the students present in the lectures
where it was distributed. The survey question we focused on asks students if they “have ever
smoked cannabis or hashish” and if so, when: “ever”, “in the last 12 months”, “in the last 30
days” or “in the last 7 days”.

all ridicule of the data used aside.. they fail completely to address dose

give a kid 2400mg of ibprofen and see how well children function on 'numerical skills'
I don't really subscribe to any of the aforementioned, but the GP did make a statement which I felt needed to be qualified.

Otherwise, I agree.
So then your actual objection is that Uber is charging money at all. After all there are many people who can't afford the non-surge rates which is also unfair, right?
That would seem like a reasonable point until you look at he track record of profesional ecconomists.
> It's not even been developed, yet the author is convinced it will be 'the most expensive way to create electricity ever devised'.

Sounds to me like the author is right in a sense. A lot of money has been going into fusion for many, many years now. If you look at the bottom line you're going to need to be generating a LOT of electricity from fusion before you're ever going to break even.

I'm not saying that this is the right way of looking at it, financial gains aren't everything, after all. But fusion IS very expensive electricity.
There's something of a snowball effect here, especially in the manufacturing sector (and coincidentally, the most productive mfg companies have been diversifying into services (logistics, warranty mgmt, co-engineering, etc) because it's so much more profitable -- often in the 15-20% gross margin rather than 4-6%), but additionally, just having the working capital and financial leverage that large corporations have helps ensure their continued growth and success. The big have gotten so big that even the small guys wouldn't succeed without somehow also giving money to the big guys. For example, if I'm in Shenzhen and I start a widget factory, it would be hard for me to avoid the influence of Foxconn, for better or for worse. ... Just like further up the food chain, Apple's iPod/iPhone/iPad successes padded the coffers of Foxconn, Jabil, Samsung, TSMC, and others. The "no one was ever fired for choosing IBM" maxim holds true manufacturing, too. :-/
Doesn't mean they still aren't a huge problem. Hawkins' concern still stands.
> Take voting in North Caucasus, for example, where official turnover is 99% but tens of percents say in polls that they never go to elections.

You know Chechens are the most fervent Russian nationalists today? They experienced the joys of living under an extremist Islamic caliphate for a few years between the first and the second Chechen war. Today they'll vote for any strongman that will ensure stability and security in the region. And that my friend is currently Putin.

> But. Putin stole elections to Duma. Those were totally baked

Yes sure. When Western opinion research reaches the conclusion that 85-90% of Russians support Putins policies it obviously makes a lot of sense to "steal" elections.

> This is widely documented.

Where? In the CIA fact sheet?

> Do you think this will be forgotten? Do you think this will never shoot back?

Please spare us all of this childish rhetoric.
Well, it's certainly true that if the Jews had tanks and nuclear weapons, things might have been different. But you have to understand that this NRA claim is in the context of a twin claim (also dubious in nature): that the Nazis had practiced gun control. So the general claim assumes that the Jews would have access to those weapons that they'd noramlly have had access to in the absence of the Nazi regime. Which is low power weapons.