skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that the same well-armed and powerful U.S. Military that has repeatedly had its ass handed to it by small groups of fighters with little more than small arms and IEDs in the Middle East? Is that the all-powerful, unbeatable military force you're speaking of?

Your argument sounds quite a lot like what was being said around the time the US wanted independence from England. What? We're going to fight them? With their army, and their artillery, and their guns, and their funding, and their navy, and all that?

This argument has nothing at all to do with working with or against the system as it currently exists. The argument is about what happens when a system is so completely broken that it is shamelessly murdering a lot of people.

Even the staunchest advocates for guns in the US go out and vote. They participate in the system. It's not a binary choice. You can choose to participate now and hedge your bets for later. Those things are not mutually exclusive.

If you think guerilla warfare doesn't work against superior forces, you haven't paid much attention to, well, anything.
FWIW, a TLD zone file does not contain every registered domain name, just those with DNS records. There is typically a good amount of domain names registered but without records, for reasons such as reserved names, malicious content takedowns, etc.
Say crappy things about a brand online and I promise it won`t go in the marketing engine. What positive things are you saying publicly about a brand with hashtags that you also are trying to protect from being reused?

Honestly though, I don't really advocate the way corporations do these things but I'm also in support of using my brain before posting content given the current circumstances.
Great article. If anyone hasn't read comfortable with uncertainty you Pema Chodron, it's also a great perspective on the matter. Don't need to be a Buddhist to appreciate the core idea.
> "Should we succeed at controlled, sustained, net-positive fusion, we would qualify it as a new face at the table. I might characterize it as the most expensive way to create electricity ever devised (and electricity is not the hard nut to crack)."

It's not even been developed, yet the author is convinced it will be 'the most expensive way to create electricity ever devised'.

The article is riddled with statements like that, that twist history to serve the author's narrative. In the list of developments unfamiliar to the person from the 19th century we have the toaster and the blender, listed as if these would be modern marvels. In comparison, the push into space over the last 65 years is downplayed, as if the fact we aren't all taking space holidays is some indication that the field has been stagnant. Whilst it's a shame there haven't been any manned missions to moons and planets since the 70s, there's been a ton of development in the field... satellites, telescopes, space probes, space stations, etc...

I'd also suggest that a lot of the developments in technology over the past 65 years have been too small to see. Semiconductor manufacturing, bio sciences, etc... Does it really matter if developments aren't immediately obvious to the eye?
David Simon described the problem very clearly:

That may be the ultimate tragedy of capitalism in our time, that it
has achieved its dominance without regard to a social compact, without
being connected to any other metric for human progress. [...]

Capitalism stomped the hell out of Marxism [...] but the great irony of it
is that the only thing that actually works is not ideological, it is impure,
has elements of both arguments and never actually achieves any kind of
partisan or philosophical perfection. It's pragmatic, it includes the best
aspects of socialistic thought and of free-market capitalism and it works
because we don't let it work entirely. [...]

Labour doesn't get to win all its arguments, capital doesn't get to.
But it's in the tension, it's in the actual fight between the two, that
capitalism actually becomes functional, that it becomes something that every
stratum in society has a stake in, that they all share.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/08/david-simon-cap...

(the original talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNttT7hDKsk )
You seem to be ignoring the current wave of automation, and focusing on the one that started with the industrial revolution. Automation used to provide muscle, and thus replace manufacturing. Nowadays it starts to provide brains, which makes it replace services. As it continues, where will the human labour go?

The number of jobs was highly correlated to the size of population so far, but we already see the rise of bullshit jobs, that serve each other in closed loops, providing no real benefit except of wasting resources to give some people something to do. It's not as obvious as ordering people one day to dig up a hole and the next day to fill it up again, but e.g. a lifecycle of a leaflet - from commissioning, designing and printing it, to delivery, giving it to people and having it end up in a thrash can, seems really similar.
It seems to me that the progress we are making is in technologies of great generality, computers, AI, and genetics. Once these reach an inflection point, the world will get impossibly weirder than it ever has.

Genetically informed iterated embryo selection looks like it could lead to children with higher IQs than any human that has ever lived. Regardless of the ethics, someone somewhere is going to do this. A world where the average kindergartener is learning chromodynamics? Talk about a historical discontinuity.

If we get human level artificial intelligence, this again is a historical discontinuity.

If we get whole brain emulation, things will get very weird very quickly.

We're just now getting good VR. False realities that seem real and immersive. This seems like a much bigger jump than that from radio to television.

Maybe we are in a period of stagnation - I'm unsure if this time travel thought experiment is a good means of measuring progress. However, it seems to me the world is about to get much weirder this century.
Let's say an earthquake just occurred in a town named "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula". Emergency personnel can try to lug this big name around, people can try to input into map apps or they can check out the three word address for the town and pass that around much more easily. The example I've given is an exaggeration (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_place_names) but this use is obviated when a person is traveling in a foreign country with unusual names for streets, stores, etc. I think this is the most interesting everyday use for the technology.
I agree the first and third of your paragraphs. The second I'm ignoring.

I think in the future you could be well-advised to consider what point you are trying to make. In this case, your (quite sensible) point about censorship of social platforms was overshadowed by a (unnecessary in that context) point about the actions of other powers.

You should note that's the only thing that's being discussed, and (as usual) no conclusion is going to be reached.

If you are happy with that, fine. But I think your other point was much more worthy of attention.
Hah! It did have when I submitted it, I didn't realise that was one of the silent edits HN does.

Too late, never mind. Thanks for spotting it.
Yes, inter-country inequality has been coming down despite in-country inequality going up. The rich have been getting richer and the poorest have been getting richer while the middle class have stood still.
Indeed. Also Ghostly had removed the iffy scrolling for me. I had to turn it off to check it out in all its glory.
> Private ownership of this capital - which is what capitalism is all about - is then absolutely the problem

It's only a problem if you can't/won't tax. If you can tax owners of the capital and give away that money to other people (bureaucrats, army, unemployed, everybody) everything still works just fine. Everybody still has money to buy stuff and this keeps the game that capital owners play between themselves live.

The only way we can screw this up is to weaken the governments and strengthen the corporations to the point that governments won't be able to tax. So probably private armies are bad idea, also neglecting people so that they pummel their own governments.

So it's ok if billionaires own all the robots, that make stuff, sell stuff to poor (everybody who's not a billionaire), as long as government can tax billionaires 98% tax and bomb them if they don't pay up.
Being professional means valuing conflict avoidance over issues of zero importance.

The nickname of a tool doesn't matter, so minimizing potential conflicts makes sense.
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> There. Fixed that for you.

Please don't.
Wikipedia is missing something.
I, too, have ADHD and use cannabis, although I've always tried to avoid cannabis use in the contexts where ADHD can be an impairment like school and work. So I'm curious, in what specific ways do you find cannabis helps you? What is your approach to treating ADHD symptoms with cannabis?
> Technological progress mostly relies on discoveries made in physics.

I couldn't disagree more. Take the Haber process as a counterexample from chemistry, or vaccinations as a counterexample from medicine.
can you speak more to your findings that this paper is scientific?

i find it frustratingly unscientific in regards to what i consider scientific investigation
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Yes, the pace of fundamental inventions has slowed down, but that has nothing to do with progress.

I think the author confuses two ideas: progress and technological inventions. Progress is not defined by the appearance of new "fundamental" inventions. A lot of it comes from how we use technology. Sure the Internet was just a bigger network, but by being a world-wide network instead of a LAN, it has enabled many things previously not possible. The author's take on technological inventions is very narrow. He's only looking for new "fundamental" inventions.

And new inventions have nothing to do with progress. You know what I call progress?

"Economic growth over the last 200 years completely transformed our world, and poverty fell continuously over the last two centuries." -- http://ourworldindata.org/data/growth-and-distribution-of-pr...

That's the only real, measurable progress. Everything else he lists as "fundamental" inventions are simply a means to an end. They are not progress itself. Finding the cure for smallpox isn't progress. Progress is curing smallpox. Nuclear fusion isn't progress. Progress is getting it developed enough for it to become a real energy source and getting people to use it. Even the author acknowledges this, but he's way too confused on inventions vs. progress.

Finally, he adds a section on social progress. It's hard to argue that at all. Yes, we're more open to differences ... in the West. But obviously, the author has completely forgotten about such nation-states as Russia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Afghanistan, China ... yeah, I really don't need to keep going. Global social progress is indeed a myth, but I do think certain parts of the world are making some progress. Finally, he also ends up equating decline of 'social progress' with lack of progress which is ridiculous because social progress is only local and just because something reverts back to the way it used to be doesn't mean progress wasn't made for a time (although this is a rather popular, yet extremely wrong idea in the US).
The only solution working in this environment is to leave it as soon as possible. I'd rather be homeless than work in such an environment.

What the MBA folk fail to understand is the driving the last gram of productivity out of employees is a loosing game as the curve is gentle on one side and falls off like a cliff on the other (I've been trying to find the mathematical name for such a curve, if anyone knows the formal mathematical name, please speak up). A lot of things in the world have curves similar to this. You need to stay reasonably down the curve on the gently sloped side to have a stable system.
Totally agree and agree with renaming. Would wish certain other groups could agree with your ideas as well.

"Those who have reason will have to use it..."
I suspect that differentiation would make more sense if they replaced "human biology" with "pre-med".

I graduated from UVA In '99 and the biggest majors by far were psychology, sociology, history and economics, possibly in that order, but definitely each having ~500 graduates (out of a class of perhaps 2800-3000). I think the entire engineering school only graduated about 300-400 people each year (at that time).

The current enrollment seems to match Stanford's stats, interestingly: http://www.seas.virginia.edu/about/facts/
We can keep dividing and refining labels, but at some point one has to ask - isn't it better to consider problems on case-by-case basis and trying to find the right answer instead of subscribing to an entire philosophy wholesale?
the Nazis lost 300 soldiers

So, you are saying that this statement "the Germans suffered over a thousand casualties in the first week of fighting alone" is false?
This has been said about a billion times before, in many different periods, in many different ways. Breakthroughs often come only after long incubation periods, which to me should be counted as part of the breakthrough, just an unseen part. We are about to see incubation give way to a Cambrian explosion of innovations. I just hope we survive this evolutionary trial.
> “I received a series of 'bro' jokes in response to my posting about this new feature.”

But this is not the part why people are pissed. If this would be the only reason then everybody would be fine, but before your quote the guy wrote:

> "bro" has a gender problem, even though the dual meaning is unintentional. It comes of misogynistic [...]

And this reasoning is just tumblerlina-SRS-gamergate-outrage-bullshit. People are not pissed because of the change of the extension but by the ridiculous reason given in the bug report.

They should have just stated that ".bro" might result in acceptance problems in large corporate culture and everybody would have understood this. But stating that .bro has a gender problem is just crazy.
I think it's an important question of whether or not lasting monopolies are possible without political intervention.
The article makes it seem like there's a lot of news, when in fact most of what we can learn from the article about drugs in the Third Reich has already been published in the 2002 title "Nazis On Speed. Drogen im Dritten Reich." -- two volumes with a wealth of information, of which she makes zero mentions in the article.

I distantly remember attending a book reading and discussion about above book in 2003 with Werner Pieper, Friedrich Kittler and others providing a good overview, a lot of serious points and some fun facts.

For instance, at some point, in Paris under German occupation, Pervitin pills were a legitimate currency in Paris brothels.

It can also be shown that there was an unusually high amount of animal studies performed all over the country, testing the effects of Pervitin on all kinds of species and sub-species, that don't seem to make much sense academically, but did provide steady Pervitin supplies for the research team.
Most of these schemes put front and center the idea that you're working at home and getting paid to do simple tasks. They aren't putting up the actual requirements of the work or why you're doing it, which is what a serious employment offer would be concerned with.
Slightly OT: One small detail that surprised me was that since the daughter of the kidnapper had not enough money to pay for the funeral she had to keep the ashes in her trailer.

Is there no such thing as a legal obligation to bury the dead in the US?
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I am a product manager in the financial sector and generally I agree with this list. What I want to add is "A good PM knows how to balance competing requests from stakeholders and know when to say no". You can't please everybody.
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> the total balanace was positive on THEIR side, not hers

It was positive on both of their sides. They made money from the fruits of her labor, and she made money from the money that they gave her in exchange.

Employment is positive sum. Just because one party benefits from a transaction, doesn't mean someone else lost out.
A big enough monopoly looks surprisingly like a nation state. I don't think you can really disconnect those two worlds.
It seems he's pulling that number out of thin air: perhaps he's conflating it with the general Warsaw uprising. The German figures are about 20 killed, and about 100 injured. Marek Edelman (a leader of the uprising) had an optimistic estimate of about 300 casualties. So the likely figure is likely somewhere between.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10364591
I have worked with several project managers who cite this article and claim to live by this ideal. However in practice they do everything but what is mentioned of a good product manager in the article. I don't know if I am biased or if the product managers, like most humans it would seem, fail to see themselves in a bad light (and thus correct themselves and set anew on a better path).

I also think that this is a subjective article, which, while it tries to list down the differences between good and bad traits of a product manager, fails to strongly separate the bad traits from the good ones by using vague management speak, and in general ends up making product managers feel goody goody about just being product managers.
While I usually am peeved by this type of thing I think it's probably wise to avoid setting off stupid people if you can.

That said, the commenters stereotyping of "bro"s as misogynist is offensive in and of itself. I know MANY bro's who treat women with respect. Stereotyping any group of people is hurtful and wrong.
Essentially you're making an argument from original sin.
Also n=2 for base 2 :-) (think that's it though)
Medicine is not technology. Materials are, but in the end chemistry is just a subsidiary of physics.
Stack Overflow HQ is in NYC, one of the most diverse population centres in the USA and the world.

In my daily work at Pivotal Labs, also in NYC, I am embedded in a TDD, pair-all-the-time team. But I also frequently interact with the fully distributed Spring development team via internal Slack channels.

I don't think one approach strictly dominates the other in general. It's contextual. For example: I have ADHD. I have discovered that I actively dislike working alone. Pairing is a godsend for me.

Sure, remote pairing is possible. We have one Pivot with around ten thousand hours of remote pairing experience, and others with hundreds to thousands of hours of remote pairing experience. For most cases it is not as good as a single team in a single location and most of our remote pivots spend time in our offices.
Special interests are less of a problem in capitalism than in any other -ism. (Communism, mercantilism, feudalism, socialism, fascism)

Tyranny and oppression are arguably worse in communism than any other -ism. (yes, arguably, even worse than feudalism!)
Iain Banks makes a compelling argument that the answer is a "yes, but with...curious complications", through his exploration of the issues brought up in his fictional universe of The Culture [1], in his series of novels [2] set in that universe. Note that he explores the margins of his universe; for the 99.999999% of the denizens of his universe, "Fully Automated Luxury Communism" totally works swell for their entire lifespans (hundreds of years).

There are some key technical linchpins that make that universe possible, and commensurately unlikely for us in yours and my lifetimes.

1. Near-free, externality-free, near-Kardashev Type II-scale energy ("The Grid" in his universe).
2. Strong AI, replete with emotions and benevolent AI sapients (even though they eclipse human intelligence by far).
3. FTL, anti-gravity, matter manipulation (molecular level at inter-stellar distances) physics we simply can't even begin to prod at.
4. Nanotech.

But that is one heck of a nice universe to strive for and toss the pebbles of our lives into moving towards however infinitesimal, nicht wahr?

[1] http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm
[2] http://smile.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_11?url=search-ali...
I liked your reply so much I had to do more than just upvote. :) Policies get a bad rap because there are so many bad policies, and so many incompetent leaders who hold them sacred. That doesn't mean policies shouldn't exist.

I've only ever worked at ginormous companies and the most effective ones are the ones that are transparent about what kinds of policies, processes and guidelines should exist and why, and regularly review them for accuracy and sanity. In some cases, external regulation forces this (Sarbanes-Oxley, FDA CFR 11, DoD ITAR/EAR, etc), and that's a good thing as long as the company's policy/process owner is doing their job properly.
One recommendation would be to title each section based on number so that it doesn't default to alphabetical order, which presents things out of the order in which you would want employees to read them. For example, the Onboarding Documents section currently looks like this:

Direct Reports.md
Internal Transparency.md
Objectives and Key Results.md
One on Ones.md
Product Manifesto.md
Welcome to Clef.md

It should look like this, organized in the order you want people to read it (this is my best guess, another order might be better):

00 Welcome to Clef.md
01 Product Manifesto.md
02 Objectives and Key Results.md
03 Internal Transparency.md
04 Direct Reports.md
05 One on Ones.md
This seems like a wikipedia problem that shouldn't be that hard to fix, not a Firefox problem.
I wish there were a factor to indicate age as well.
That simply doesn't happen in America. Cannabis is de facto legal throughout the USA. I repeat: marijuana is in practice legal in America, and all these people talking about drug charges ruining lives don't know what they're talking about.

The only way you get serious charges or any jail time at all for marijuana in America is when you've been arrested for serious crimes, but a District Attorney goes with "possession" for the plea deal. It's just easier that way.
Removed. Sorry. I should have known better.
I think basic income would do a lot to resolve this tension. People can work towards their own interests with a flat tax on their income and capital gains. Those tax dollars are redirected to an electronic deposit given to everyone for the same amount every day. Lets say $35. You could vote to allocate the usage of those dollars. Like 30% has to go to housing. Then everyone is free to use additional income however they like. It's a sustained capitalistic representation of basic human interests. I suspect it'd do a lot for the economy too. Both by increasing demand (poor people actually buy things) and decreasing fear.
Medium's API
This is built on App Engine using Go. The data is tagged and searchable. If you clicked on the tag '3dTouch', for example, you will get all articles tagged as such, and any titles that also include that word.

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html?age=10000&q=3dTouch

You can set an age limit on articles too. Maybe you want to see what 'functional' programming articles were written in the past 90 days:

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html?age=90&q=functional

Finally, if you want to see all articles from a given blog, you can search the the url:

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html?age=10000&q=flexmon...