skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Internet connection, a "human right?" That's merely an empty slogan. The notion of positive liberties breaks down under the slightest scrutiny.

What you're really saying is that somebody has a positive obligation to provide every human on earth a particular product, presumably at a price that each can "afford." This claim presents several unsolvable problems.

First, there's no objective way to determine what this price might be for each person.

Second, if we could establish a price for each individual person to get "full internet," you must admit that any person might prefer Zuck's "partial internet" at, some lower price. If this person's preference runs counter to my sensibilities, that's my problem to get over.

Third, on whom does this obligation fall? Are you personally the one obligated to provide every human this product? If not you personally then whom? Zuck? Santa Clause?

Fourth, on what basis shall we draw the list of products that I will demand be affordably provided me? And who shall draw the list and ratify it? Self appointed SJWs fresh out of POLI-SCI 101 no doubt, except professor never assigned Locke or Hobbes.

Internet access seems rather high up the hierarchy of needs especially in countries where starvation remains known. What shall they demand next, Ferraris? Reductio ad absurdum.
(1) Equality of what?

(2) What does "unfair" mean?

(3) Random allocation of N cabs is better than market allocation of M > N. How do find an (N,M) for which the statement is false? Is a market allocation of 100 cabs worse than a random allocation of 0 cabs?

Actually making the moral argument is harder than just spouting applause points like "equality FTW".
people in dire situations do not make rational decisions (hell, people not in dire situations don't either, which is why this[1] exists).

[1]:http://www.nickkolenda.com/psychological-pricing-strategies/
Stephen Hawking says we should be more frightened of capitalism than robots
Requiring a 50 hour week would be illegal in most of the developed world. Not at this company though. What a dismal state of affairs.
Yep I'm a layman when it comes to this stuff but everything I've read pretty much says that a ubeam that functioned correctly would be effectively a short range ultrasound weapon.
It is a moot point. Having seen (but not driven) model S, I can't say it looks big enough to warrant comparison to a 7-series, and even then latter is 1800kg [0], so Model S is still 17% heavier or causing 1.85 times road wear.

Point about trucks stands of course, as you've pointed in the other comment. 3-4 orders of magnitude more road wear - that's crazy! I wonder how does that translates to truck road taxes.

[0] http://www.bmw.com/com/en/newvehicles/7series/sedan/2015/sho...
You've been able to style the scrollbar with CSS for years now. JS lets you control the positioning of the scrollbar. There's no excuse for recreating it.
I would argue that the vast majority of behaviours described here are precisely the desired behaviour.

In fact, I think the ones he picks reflect tremendously on his skill as a programmer.

Take for instance his apparent insistence that int(2 * '3') should produce 6. Cool. Magic "special" behaviour for the multiply operator if the string happens to contain a number.

The same goes for his desire for the string "False" to be falsey. Wonderful magic special behaviour dependent on the (possibly unknown) content of a string means I've got to go round checking my strings for magic values.
Yep the entire Arab-Israeli conflict with all of it's wars cost less lives (on both sides) during the past 70 years than one year of the Syrian civil war.
When it comes to loss of lives the Arab-Israeli including the conflict with the Palestinians is pretty much a non-issue compared to other conflicts that happen all the time in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict...

The problem like always is media focus and over-reporting, I've met actual people that believed that Israel killed millions of Arabs, I've have gotten figures that were higher than 10M from some people and they even quoted "sources".

Same goes for the war on terror people said that the US killed more people than the German in WW2 and some of them actually believed it.

And this is a big issue it's hard to discuss a conflict that people think costing millions of lives where in actuality only about 24,000 people (both sides) died in since 1948, and once you've settled in your own little world of millions of deaths it's hard to take in numbers that are less than a football game.
One relatively new thought in the manifesto is the explicit disagreement with the old assertion that the finite resources of our planet cannot sustain continued economic growth.

The fundamental reason why economic growth can continue at a fixed or even shrinking environmental footprint is that economic growth and environmental footprint measure different things. The former measures the creation of economic value while the latter measures the use of land and raw materials necessary to create that value.

More and more economic value of what we consume derives not from land and raw materials but from human inputs like design, creativity, engineering and services. This means that a smaller amount of raw materials is necessary to produce one dollar of GDP than it used to.

At the same time, more and more of the raw materials are reused via down-, re- or even up-cycling. In theory, a very sophisticated economy of a demographically stable society could thrive and grow entirely on a closed cycle of raw materials and fixed amount of land. Even if we don't get there we could still reduce our impact below environment's capacity for self-renewal.

I think we must urgently stop the increase and soon begin shrinking our environmental footprint. The realization that there is no fundamental contradiction between continued economic growth (and all its perks including poverty reduction, scientific progress and continued human development) and the protection of our planet should highlight that this ambition is achievable.
> When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. - Arthur C Clarke.

However when all the scientists say you are wrong and your device requires violating the most fundamental theory in Physics then its a different case.
Thanks for it breaking down.

They are both worse. Also, given the amount of candidates, it's amusing how we become bipolar with notions of good/evil. I prefer objectivity:

Vote for the cleaner voting record; that means some voting record and no PATRIOT Act, FREEDOM Act, etc.
Given the understanding that the environment is unavoidably inked to humanity it seems a little doubtful that we can just decouple so absolutely. This is a common attitude in rural and urban planning where the world is neatly divided up into zones of urban, agriculture, industry, etc. Making room for nature in that kind of world is very difficult as it will always lead to a loss from another interests that are already in conflict with one another. It is particularly problematic in places like Sub-Saharan agriculture where people, nature, and agriculture are in such close proximity and these conflicts are a more of a social issue.

I think it is better to have more fuzzy edges and make ecology an intrinsic part of development that people will want to defends. For example a new development should surrounded by a buffer of woodland/wetlands/grassland that will be valued by residents.
You are missing the point. First group everyone had a chance, second group only those who can afford it has one. So someone IS worse of because of surge pricing exactly because now they have no chance. It doesent help anything that of those who can afford it there are more cars. Thats what it means to make an ethical argument. Cherry picking your control group isnt.
Yeah. I was going to say, that's what happens when you give data to people not trained to understand it, but then again - some of them do understand it perfectly. They just don't care about people under them. They can keep literally torturing workers until they break, because there's always more to replace those who were fired.
Thank you for being the only sane person in this thread.
Building a Sustainable Business Is More Than Profit
Some reasons:

A. You need money to pay someone.

B. That's what taxes are for.

C. Why pay this woman and not another one? One can't pay every pregnant woman one hears about.
Because I'm not making money off of her.

Ok, you are pretty explicitly appealing to the Copenhagen theory of ethics. Good to have that out in the open.

Since I'm more utilitarian and I don't take Copenhagen as my moral axiom, we'll obviously disagree. Now we understand why.
> Finally, the article is also wrong to call Norman the biggest hero on the podium.

Completely agree with this. It seems to recenter the conversation away from the (black) folks who were taking the initiative to praise the (white) person acting in solidarity.
That's because 41% of male nurses are nurse anaesthetists, a profession that makes nearly 4 times the salary of a registered nurse.

There is a gender gap even within specific nursing professions but it's not nearly as extreme as that.
It is the un[self]educated proletariat who gave the plutocrats their power.
This was a fun Saturday afternoon project to do actually. I spawned a single c4.8xlarge (10 Gbit) instance in US-EAST-1 (next to where the Common Crawl Public Data Set lives in S3) and downloaded 10TB spread over 33k files in +/- 30 simultaneous 'curl | ungzip | grep whatever-the-common-crawl-url-prefix-was' pipelines and got a solid 5Gbit transfer speed.

The bottleneck was userland CPU, so probably the gzip processes. Took about 5 hours. Cutting of the path and piping through sort and uniq took another hour or so.

The only costs were the price/hour of running the EC2 instance. Network costs were 0 as you're only transferring data to your instance.
Welfare in the US (ssi in his case, since he has a disability) is a pathetically small amount, and a headache to get.
1) Equality of access to whatever society / the world offers.

2) Unfair in this example means that something beneficial is given to some citizens over others just because they have more money -- as opposed to alternatives like: because they've benefited their society more, because they have equal rights as any other, or because of an actual merit.

3) "Is a market allocation of 100 cabs worse than a random allocation of 0 cabs?"

Yes, because the latter case doesn't promote inequality, further privileging those that already have money.

This "market allocation of 100 cabs" doesn't help at all anybody without the necessary cutoff amount. So essentially your question is: is it better to have a service cattering to just the top 100 richer people of a city, or to not have it at all.

If it was something inconsequential, like manicure, that would may be OK.

Something like cab service OTOH puts poor oeople in a further disadvantage. E.g. going to a job interview, one of the rich cab riders can get faster and more relaxed than the poor public transport/walking guy.

Also not having access to a cab might even give a motive to those 100 with more money and power to fix public transport to be better.
> Internet connection, a "human right?" That's merely an empty slogan.

> And who shall draw the list and ratify it? Self appointed SJWs fresh out of POLI-SCI 101 no doubt.

It's from the UN.

http://www.wired.com/2011/06/internet-a-human-right/

> While blocking and filtering measures deny users access to specific content on the Internet, states have also taken measures to cut off access to the Internet entirely. The Special Rapporteur considers cutting off users from internet access, regardless of the justification provided, including on the grounds of violating intellectual property rights law, to be disproportionate and thus a violation of article 19, paragraph 3, of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

> The Special Rapporteur calls upon all states to ensure that Internet access is maintained at all times, including during times of political unrest. In particular, the Special Rapporteur urges States to repeal or amend existing intellectual copyright laws which permit users to be disconnected from Internet access, and to refrain from adopting such laws.

It's also written into some constitutions or case law. See eg Costa Rica, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, and Spain.
Did i mention party?

Finance reform will solve nothing. You can't stop a billionaire from investing in himself.
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Fully agree. All I'll add is with the tech industry "keeping people in need" happens at a scale and speed that has never happened before.

Hyper efficient scaling does one thing extremely well - inequality.
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At least the writers confess they are moved by "deep love and emotional connection to the natural world". And from there I guess it's not too difficult to build up a dream that morally allows you to keep your current over-consuming habits which are trashing the planet, while claiming that you LOVE nature and at the same time not pissing off anyone by avoiding all politics to get in the mix.

The ecological problem is a bit more complex that blind trust in technology and efficiency progress. Blind faiths, simplifications and master plans have added little (from ecomodernism to primitivism). The problems of democracy, discrimination and redistribution of wealth have a lot to say, but that's too tough for a cute little manifesto.

They speak of technology "applied with wisdom", "with proper management". So I take that, until now, we have just mismanaged technology and applied it in dullest ways. Or I guess they have a secret plan on how to manage technology correctly from now on. Or perhaps they will come to realize that technology has and will always have a good and bad side, and that most of its consequences (good and bad) are often unforeseeable, and as such, hard to steer. Let's not even think of WHO actually controls technology.

What's more, the "decoupling" of human well-being from human impact is a myth. The impact has just been transferred to third world countries where sure none of these ecomodernists live or probably ever visited. Lol when they take "New England" and "France" forests as examples. Any plans to bring up the 80% of undeveloped countries to the pace of the 20% with nice growing forests? None.

This is the typical manifesto which is absolutely nothing new, sounds super nice, but changes nothing, provides nothing, and feels about right in the hands of the rich and ruling elites because it absolutely avoids to question any status-quo whatsoever.
I'm sure you're factually accurate in your statements but I just want to comment on the structure of your argument (and I don't at all mean this in a snarky or negative light).

Racism is about more than being race-conscious. I think we all recognize that. I can say 'Obama is black' and 'John Boehner is white' and 'How many Asian senators are there?' None of these questions subjugates anyone.

For systemic oppression (and Racism), there has to be a group in power and a set of institutions created by those in power to subjugate others.

Back to the point: speakers often speak about Racism (which, as above, requires the power to create oppressive institutions) in the same way they speak about what you described as 'opposition to the majority establishment and a black counter-culture that opposed race equality and integration.' This probably happens because the nuanced description you gave doesn't roll of the tongue.

My ultimate point: it's not clear to me that an ethnic group that is not part of the 'majority establishment' can be 'Racist'.
In this instance, they did not get permission first. From the article:

"...posted it to their website with other UGC content. It was only much later that Crocs sought explicit permission..."

And that's unacceptable. The TOS of these sites with embeddable content have content creators licensing their creations for embedding, provide attribution when embedded correctly, and generally attempt to be fair in the arrangement. Explicitly taking content from any place online simply because it was publicly accessible and dropping it into your site without the proper embedding code is not acceptable. It doesn't matter that there's a mention of a hashtag that the company's marketing department encouraged the creator to use.
You overlooked the 'noble' part. If you shared a link to The Idler then I'd understand.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idler_(1993)
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Charitably, 'signor_bosco was just making a statement of fact.
J is in fact a much more recent invention than many of us would suppose[0]. It is worth adding, however, that it would not have saved G, except in English; our pronunciation of J, while close to the French and a couple others (with an added /d/ at the front), is quite unique among languages that were written in the Roman alphabet at the time.

In any case, English suffers quite a few more more overloaded consonants that C and G. Most occurrences of /z/ (a frequent sound in English) are marked with an S (codes), and a great many /t/ sounds are written D (typed).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J#History
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> considering all the exceptions that exist for every other set of physical laws, thermodynamics has exactly zero exceptions

Actually, conservation of energy doesn't hold on cosmological scales, at least with the usually accepted meaning of conservation of energy. [0]

That's not relevant to the author's argument, but I think it's dangerous to perpetuate the idea that thermodynamics is somehow an inviolate theory that doesn't break down under certain conditions just like every other physical theory.

[0]: http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/02/22/energy-i...
If you are interested in testing Brotli on the web the CloudFlare test server for HTTP/2 and IPv6 also does Brotli compression.

https://http2.cloudflare.com/

And the NGINX module that does it has been open sourced: https://github.com/cloudflare/ngx_brotli_module
There are probably plenty of dead planets out there where the Prime Directive wouldn't apply. Or at least, plenty of dead asteroids that we can turn into orbital colonies.
Yesterday's discussion of the Huffington Post reporting the same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10361314
just out of curiosity, what are you (and the other commenters) planning to use this for?

I myself was trying to download all X509 server certificates on the Internet I could find to:

- gain some insight into the dealings of CAs

- see if private keys were reused across multiple sites

- check the average expiry date of certificates etc.
I believe that the most common term is legbeard[1], although its usage is quite rare.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=legbeard
I actually subscribe to this "Copenhagen interpretation". If you profit by making lopsided deals with people who have no other options, you still have an ethical obligation to offer more fair deals. The definition of fairness shouldn't be left up to the market, that would be a case of the is-ought fallacy (assuming that the output of some external process is ethical by definition).
Fast Data in the Era of Big Data
People upset by the "bro" word. Peak Mozilla.
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I've long believed (since early 90's, when I first learned about DNA tests and molecular biology) there are a collection of phenomena that make the common assumptions in DNA forensic testing much less firm than ... well, the users of those products assume.
Most written languages are not engineered and created as an orthography by a definitive, singular entity but usually organically grown over time with a great deal of authors. Some people joke that Arabic scholars are thought to have created a great Standard Arabic written language because every Arabic dialect speaker is convinced their dialect is the closest to the standard. But Cherokee's written language was created by a single person (Sequoyah) but unfortunately far too late in their history to help save the collapse of the civilization through the benefits of written, standardized communication.

Koreans learn a lot about their written language throughout school much in the same way people in America learn about American history legends, and given it's one of the crowning achievements of their culture, Koreans not knowing about its history would be like Americans never learning about the Industrial Revolution in their courses or Democracy. I suppose the difference is that most Koreans know enough about 한글 that they can explain its inception while most Americans hardly know the differences between the executive and legislative branches.
We should be scared of God and sin.
>"although you continuously have to reassure people that it's not a scam :-("

It's unfortunate, but that is the nature of the broad term "work from home", especially on the internet. I think tech-savvy individuals have, in parallel, been constantly telling individuals that such keywords are usually scams.
"There is an ongoing surge. Rides are randomly attributed during the duration of the surge. Unfortunately, your number was not selected this time. Please find an alternative mean of transportation."

There is nothing unavoidable about that.
And how convenient that worldwide TPP, TTIP, CETA and ASEAN are on fast track to outlaw Robot Taxes. A lot of countries would otherwise probably try to save their then imploding pension and welfare systems with Robot Taxes.
As somebody involved in communities with a large amount of people who can't work for one reason or another... being on significant welfare for being literally unable to work, or only being able to work a part-time job, is incredibly stressful.

The issue is, conservative Government parties point to people taking welfare without meeting the requirements for it as a significant issue that costs countries large amounts of money. To solve this problem, Governments set up welfare departments to be all but adversarial, with near-constant - and, worse, unpredictable - changes in requirements forcing a lot of mental effort to be taken just to keep proving and re-proving that you can't work, and welfare agencies taking the default stance that any individual taking welfare is likely to be fraudulent.

The result is that keeping up with the welfare system is often as stressful as a full-time job in itself, if not moreso as you're very aware that society and your Government both think of you as someone who they'd really prefer just died.

Of course, as those most affected by the discrimination against those on welfare are generally the people with the smallest voices - unemployed or low-wage workers, those with disability, and often further minorities - it's not going to change in a long time.
Inequality will kill us before the robots do
Because this woman is working for you, in the same way that you don't fire an employee who dared to get sick. If your business model means that you can't afford to treat your employees decently, maybe you need a new business model.
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It absolutely differs in quality. Not as in "degree of excellence" (second definition), but as in character or inherent features (first definition).

The early American colonists sought out grade A because it was a more suitable cooking substitute for cane sugar, which for a time was difficult to get. Grade B is more mapley in flavor and might be preferred today for its use on pancakes.
Something they explicitly mention is nuclear power, which has a far smaller footprint on the environment than fossil fuels, but is often passed over by environmentalists wedded to a low-energy ideal.
How is Hawking all of a sudden an expert in Economy? Wasn't he a physicist?