skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Mostly scan content and really read if something strikes me as interesting
2. I dig deeper and sometimes read other articles or look through wiki pages if the article is something technical which I absolutely want to understand
3. I have a list of sites that have content that I care about, look through it and know what I want to read seriously. Later in the day I read those articles I would say for about 2 hours
I don't ignore any actual numbers they are just not an argument for anything.

Before anyone had a chance. Now only those who can afford have a chance.

Thats the primary difference.
Everything was better in the past even the future. That said I used services like MySpace or LastFM more than I use Facebook(which I don't use) or Spotify(which don't use), so I somehow understand where he is coming from, but not where he is heading, one single platform for everthing?More diversity? I don't quite get it
Ordinary taxation is already a major source of funding for road maintenance and of course the massive externalities.

Fuel tax in most states is a flat rate that hence isn't automatically adjusted with inflation, and it's political suicide to increase it (just love that cheap gas, but tax those EV fuckers, they are not paying road tax!). It's pretty much a laughably low amount by now.
> Also, when a woman becomes pregnant Markhor will fire her so as not to "exploit" her, thereby making it necessary for her to work unreasonable hours for lower pay in a more unsafe workplace.

Is it a question of "exploitation" or is it a question of it being dangerous to their health? If it is actually dangerous for them, then it would be reasonable, IMHO, to treat this the same as when one of your employee is sick.
The pecking order of quality:

text books/journal articles > books >> online articles.

I'll try to at least read 1 book per week, but on a good week I can get in up to 3. If the books are technical (i.e., programming) on a good week I can get 1 book read. If the books are mathematical (i.e., an algorithms textbook) I'm lucky if I can get 30-50 pages processed.

Audiobooks are the holy grail of passive consumption of content. They are so, so underrated.

IMO, the primary point of online articles is to get your finger on the pulse of what other people are up to. Other than that, they are similar to informational twinkies. Obviously there are exceptions: a Paul Graham article is certainly not an informational twinkie! But, by and large, reading something that somebody spent a year on (i.e., a book) tends to be a much better use of your time than reading something somebody spent 1-5 days on (i.e., an article).

Books go deep. Articles go broad. And textbooks are like "here is a broad summary of what the human race knows about a particular subject, at least up to about a decade or so ago."
Ivy League student material. Oh, how people flailed when they had to wrap their heads around pointers. These were brilliant people, most of them far smarter than I was, but getting into the nitty-gritty details of things seemed to break their brains.
Here Are the Documents WeWork Used to Convince Investors It’s Worth Billions
Interestingly, author thinks these points may not be relevant today. What has changed?

Warning: This document was written 15 years ago and is probably not relevant for today’s product managers. I present it here merely as an example of a useful training document.

http://a16z.com/2012/06/15/good-product-managerbad-product-m...
I don't know what dedicated servers has to do with it?

I do not disagree on your point that it might be a combination of intention and incompetence, although I think most of them really do not want to see downtime and negative press at release date, when they sell the most. So next to intention and incompetence there is also a strong incentive for them to prevent this from happening.

But the orignal point I was making is that scaling up all of a sudden for an enormous amount of people/traffic is intrinsically very hard, so its easy for them to underestimate the effort needed, and pay deeply for that on launch date (and we too as gamers).
I wonder then what the effect of cannabis is on the motivation/drive of someone with ADHD. Does the ADHD subject have a very weak frontostriatal circuit to begin with so that low dopamine levels only make something weak weaker (and therefore not having as profound outward effect as making a strong frontostriatal circuit weak).

Or do the low dopamine levels and impaired circuit compound each other, resulting in a larger-than-normal decline in motiviation.
Microsoft creates quietest place on earth
What does social engineering have to do with this? What about Facebook/Twitter then - considering how much information people willing share?

Social eng. is more of an issue in dealing with people and public information, not private analytics.
I agree people should have the right to determine their own destiny. Earth, however, isn't a free planet. Show me a country with sovereignty and I'll show you the Bilderberg, World Bank, IMF, CFR and the UN. How can any individual truly be free to choose their own destiny when society is constructed on man made conventions such capitalism. I contend that freedom doesn't exist at the state level therefore cannot extend to the individual.
What about CCTLDs?
Central bank cavalry can no longer save the world
I have an idea. To use a charger, you have to scan a QR code with your phone. It makes you part of the charging community. It wouldn't be too hard to start to calculate an etiquette rating through a mix of user reviews and behavior modeling. If you're consistently an ass about charging, it won't be long before public chargers won't accept you.
Cool project.
Oh but there is, and has been for a long time now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash
This looks like the work of a bit of a control freak. It seems odd to codify so many things in so much detail. It seems they are a pretty small and young company (the handbook has multiple references to being less than 10 employees, their Twitter account joined in 2012), so why do they feel the need to specify how many weeks of vacation you should have taken in the year leading up to the sabbatical you earn in your fifth year of employment?

Some of these things seem ripe for deviating from before they even see their first legitimate use:

"It makes Clef look great when our employees speak at industry conferences" -- so employees are allowed to go four times a year, spending $1000 each time, subject to approval, oh, and this is a "benefit"? Anyway, it's nice -- but does this mean that if there's a conference somewhere, everybody agrees it's a great opportunity, but it's my fifth, and it will cost $1100, then we just shrug and don't go? No, I thought not, so why have the rule at all? What, exactly, is the problem they are solving by writing this stuff down?

I get it at a larger company, where you need to align expectations across a larger body of employees, but when you're <10 employees, you can literally just raise your voice in the room and say "Any reason we shouldn't send Joe to FooCon to speak about the FizzBuzz? It's a bit pricey, probably $1100, but it's it worth it right?" -- that's a much more transparent decision than anything written in a handbook.
So I'm a similar situation except I'm hopelessly introverted. The idea of a bootcamp seems good to my parents, but to me it's just another word for school. At this point it would be easier to get a computer science degree than to do a bootcamp because doing work in groups is the first thing I check for on a syllabus before I drop a class.

It sure looks good though, pay $15,000 for a 97% chance at getting a job. I just don't want to pay someone to teach me something I already know just to get a job. That's why I dropped out of college.
> (email is in my profile)

The "Email" field in your profile is private, others can't see it. You need to put your email in the "About" field for it to be publicly visible.
Adrenaline, Noradrenaline, Dopamine, Serotonine, Cortisol, GABA and many more...

Just google "lab test" for these.
The charging cables do lock on many electric cars: some models unlock when charging is done, others only when the doors are unlocked.
This particular post-mortem by Stripe makes me trust them less as it's a fairly simple mistake that shouldn't have been made.

Plenty of companies also communicate the status and that something is happening but don't fully expound on all the internal details. Not sure why it's such a big difference if they did. It feels like fake PR trust to me.
It's worth noting that the article is heavily editorialising. That 'one man facing the country alone' with respect to his 1972 troubles? 1972 is a notable year for civil rights in Australia - Whitlam was elected, and he brought in the Racial Discrimination Act, set up the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, and initiated legislation to support indigenous land rights. Abolished the WAP, opened up foreign trade, and recognised China. Did a ton of other stuff around equal rights and welfare[1]. Whitlam was a great statesman, but he didn't do it alone - Australia had a civil rights movement just like everwhere else did in the '60s; equal rights were rising everywhere and colonial empires were crumbling. The idea that Norman was a lone voice is simple myth.

It's also weird to see Australia called an apartheid regime. For all the terrible things done to the indigenous here, things weren't arranged as in South Africa. The US treated it's indigenous in a similar manner to Australia (though not quite as bad), and had legal segregation in the South (cue photo of water fountains), but we wouldn't characterise the US as an apartheid regime. Apartheid was a political system limiting people of colour in order to maintain power in the hands of minority whites - both Australia and the US had significant white majorities, with whites in easy control of the political machine.

Finally, the article is also wrong to call Norman the biggest hero on the podium. Norman should be lauded for his actions, but he was still doing 'support' - the main act was done by Smith and Carlos. Had they not acted, there would be no notable photo.

[1] http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/gough-...
Weather also does a lot of damage.
So, you haven't actually heard it from the doctors? Because (especially in the UK) any prescribing doctor talking about chemical imbalance for ADHD in children is incompetent.

> Here in the UK the diagnosing psychiatrist is also the one that the child must return to twice a year for a checkup at 500 pounds per visit.

This is false. All treatment is available for free on the NHS. Once they have a diagnosis children don't have to see the same psychiatrist - or any psychiatrist.

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg72/chapter/1-Guidance#dia...

> 1.3.1.1 A diagnosis of ADHD should only be made by a specialist psychiatrist, paediatrician or other appropriately qualified healthcare professional with training and expertise in the diagnosis of ADHD, on the basis of:

[...]

> 1.5.3.2 Drug treatment should only be initiated by an appropriately qualified healthcare professional with expertise in ADHD and should be based on a comprehensive assessment and diagnosis. Continued prescribing and monitoring of drug therapy may be performed by general practitioners, under shared care arrangements[7].
>Also, when a woman becomes pregnant Markhor will fire her so as not to "exploit" her, thereby making it necessary for her to work unreasonable hours for lower pay in a more unsafe workplace.

How about they give her maternity leave and such? Like they would do for their non-shoe-making executives...
The technology used to record images from these early landings is quite interesting as well. It's pretty exotic if all you're used to are modern CCD sensors.

More on Viking Lander Camera System:

http://pdsimage.wr.usgs.gov/cdroms/Viking_Lander/vl_0001/doc...

Details about Soviet space cameras:

http://mentallandscape.com/V_Cameras.htm
Even if it is dangerous to their health, is it more dangerous than the alternate options? According to the founders of Markhor, it's safer.
>If you know of someone making it, could you link to them?

Anybody talking about equality from a socialist standpoint, would implicitly accept this kind of argument, even if they haven't thought this idea of random distribution explicitly.
If you don't like my scrollbars you don't need to visit my site.
Consider joining an army. By that, you're offered food, lodging, and training. You're also severely limited in what you can do, where to go, somewhat you can talk about. On top of that, you must unconditionally obey orders, even if the orders are clearly putting you in a danger of death.

Should this be banned, too?
Chance plays no role here. It is a red-herring you invented and you can't see past it.

Let me simplify it for you with a realistic example: Without surge pricing, nobody gets to drive, because the weather is so poor. With surge pricing some daring drivers will take some passengers. Strict improvement, because some people got to drive. without: p == 0 with: p > 0

What is the primary difference here? People drove. It surge pricing moral in this case? Yes, because the number of drivers on the road increased compared to non-surge pricing.
The purpose of instruction based testing is usually to avoid regression bugs and to make sure requirements are fulfilled. Randomly poking around is also good, this is why you have manually based instruction testing instead of just automating everything, while performing the instructions you usually notice weird things on the side. Neither alternative can replace the other fully.
Suppose there’s political and societal pressure to do X, and a person (for their own reasons, which may be ethical or political) instead does an alternative thing Y, all also perfectly legal and ethical. Then suppose that this person gets in unreasonable amounts of trouble by the political and societal pressure. To then say, in effect, “But they could have done X instead, why do they have to be so difficult?” is blaming the victim.
Why don't you pay for her maternity leave and such? Near as I can tell, you, me and Markhor are all in the same moral boat - none of us are paying for this hypothetical woman to sit at home enjoying pregnancy.

You and I have simply never touched or interacted with her, so according to the Copenhagen theory of ethics we get a moral pass.
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We could also just use general tax revenue. You don't have to have a different tax for every expense.
> Salient example is a Tesla model S, which have a curb weight of 2.1 metric tons in standard configuration [1], while comparable gasoline-powered sedan weights in at approximately 1.5 metric tons [2]. That means that applying formula above, "average", electric car causes 3.6 times more road wear than "average" CO2-belching one, just due to being 40% heavier while having same number of axles.

The comparison doesn't hold, the Model S is a full-sized sedan, the 3-series is a compact. The Model S is somewhere between the 5-Series and the 7-Series, closer to the 7-Series than the 5.

Either way, both EV and ICE car road wear is completely dwarfed by trucks.
"This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years."

"...the greatest villainy of the century"

"Peace for Our Time"
I think things like drugs and alcohol are worse for growing brains. From a NYC teacher (One reference point)

"I’ve taught high school for 25 years and I hate what marijuana does to my students. It goes beyond missing homework assignments. My students become less curious when they start smoking pot. I’ve seen it time and time again. People say pot makes you more creative, but from what I’ve seen, it narrows my students’ minds until they only reference the world in relation to the drug. They’ll say things like: “I went to the beach and got so high,” or “I went to a concert and got so high.” They start choosing their friends based on the drug. I hate when people say that it’s just experimenting. Because from what I’ve seen, it’s when my students stop experimenting.”
'
http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/129574836736/i-hate-pot-...
So why don't you actually make the explicit argument why random allocation of 100 cabs is better than market allocation of 150? Start by stating your first principles.
Star Citizen: Condition Red?
Bye then!
>Not that working at something you want is automatically bad, far from it, but it's not the only way to enjoy life. One day I hope we can see that being a slacker can be a noble profession.

I have some documentation you should read: http://www.subgenius.com/pam1/pamphlet.html
Yes, and the core idea of the article is what has been used for ages to justify such "taking advantage" by pointing a the marginal improvements.

Besides the ethical "taking advantage" thing (treating people in need differently that people not in need), which one might agree or disagree it exists, a core problem is that keeping those people in need is exactly what keeps this machine going.

So businesses offering below minimum wage wages to people (e.g. if it's not regulated in their state), would point how these people are better off with those wages than nothing, and that they chose to accept the work because of that.

But the same businesses, the politicians they lobby, and the way the vote and affect the market with their influence, also try to ensure that nothing is changed (legaly, infrastructure etc) to deplete their pool of desperate people. E.g. by advocating against minimum wage and other labor protections.
I started to look at this one week ago, wish it provide some restful api for this useful database
Right. Just like how surge investing is strictly better for startups.
>Consider joining an army. By that, you're offered food, lodging, and training. You're also severely limited in what you can do, where to go, somewhat you can talk about. On top of that, you must unconditionally obey orders, even if the orders are clearly putting you in a danger of death.
Should this be banned, too?

It should obviously be.

In fact the army has a long-ass history of setting up recruiting offices and exploting the most poor and desperate with false promises and BS to go do the fighting.

From Alabama and Mississipi down to Los Angeles, those recruiting offices are choke full of blacks, latinos and "white trash" sent to die (and kill) while privileged white folks enjoy their "patriotism".
yep. This is why (even as I am a bicycle commuter) I find it hilarious when people talk about bicycle commuters not causing potholes. Typically, bicycle commuters aren't displacing heavy trucks.
Unionization is difficult in much of the United States, particularly since businesses have successfully spread the image of union workers as lazy sponges to lower voter support. Businesses whose workers are unionizing run PR campaigns claiming all sorts of scary downsides and threaten to or actually do close stores if a union actually wins the vote. Since many of the most exploitative conditions happen where workers are low-status and have great reasons to fear unemployment or reduced hours, this is a powerful message unless the local economy is booming.

The Atlantic had a piece about how Walmart handles this:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/how-walm...

If you remember the news in August about the NLRB allowing franchise workers to unionize with a parent company rather than each franchisee, this is why that was a big deal: currently, if the workers in Podunk unionize and the local franchisee decides to close the business instead of negotiating, it's a minor write-off for the parent company. After that ruling, e.g. McDonald's would have to take the heat for any retaliatory action.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/28/business/labor-board-says-...
1) Equality FTW.

2) Providing privileged access to transporation to people with more wealth gives them an unfair advantage over other citizens.

3) Random allocation of 100 cabs is better than market allocation of 150.

Actually, come to think of it, the same is what happens with things like university placements in a lot of Western European countries. The richer don't buy their way in -- they are distrubuted randomnly among those with the qualifications.
Yes. The biggest, most helpful systemic change would be for all forensics labs to be under the control of the city/states medical rather than the police force.

Some city's do it this way, and it makes a big difference. Otherwise forensics budgets are always competing with "more policemen". Guess what, policemen win almost every time.
They took 50-90% (depending on the source) of their total losses fighting the Soviets.
Hey I'm sorry to change focus here, but your peers are going to have a much more effective learning session if they're "doing" rather than "watching". I know it takes longer to fix their problem that way, but theyll appreciate the motions when they have to go through them themselves.

I can understand what you mean though. I've certainly had to take over a couple of times with fresh juniors and interns, but their setup was usually very under-customized, and those times were pretty rare. People who had complex setups were usually smart enough to figure out directions on their own, and really just wanted some documentation or an example to guide their way.
>Why don't you pay for her maternity leave and such?

Because I'm not making money off of her.

>Near as I can tell, you, me and Markhor are all in the same moral boat - none of us are paying for this hypothetical woman to sit at home enjoying pregnancy.

Only, one of us has used the $x an hour work of that woman up to that point, to make $xxx products that they sell.
In the years preceding the collapse of the USSR, circa 1987, 98% of the population supported the Communist Party. When there is no freedom of speech votes aren't predictive or indicative of anything at all other than the amount of propaganda.

There is no freedom of speech in Russia today, in fact it's been deteriorating year by year. So no, the pro-Putin votes you have today will evaporate in a (historical) instant just like they did then, in the 1980s.
An expectation of 45-50 hours work is illegal in most of the developed world. This company is legally free to require that, and prospective employees are free to work somewhere else, that treats their staff like normal human beings.
What they did was for themselves but what he did was selfless. Thats a true mark of a hero and that's why he is the biggest hero on the podium.
People downvote you for being direct, but you show you exactly know what the article is about, and coldtea should read the article again.

My perspective: Markhor should follow whatever ethics appeals to their donators, as to maximize their revenue. If that indirectly causes women to be exploited, that's a shame and we should all write terrible articles about it, but until the general consensus changes that's just what they have to do.

edit: a bit too aggressive
That's the proverbial 25 hours a day, times 7. But then again, you'd be surprised how people sometimes have to work two jobs at the same time.
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It's not like "group work" doesn't exist once you get to the working world.