skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the principle you and the other poster were arguing for, was to minimize conflict. In the case of "bro" the conflict arises from a feminist critique of the word's usage in the context of a male dominated industry. In the case of the menorah, the conflict arises from the political controversy of the state of Israel, and its relationship to the Jewish community[0]. I don't have a problem with pro-Feminist websites or anti-Feminist websites, I just think it's professional to avoid stirring up debate with terms or symbols that would likely offend people with a particular viewpoint.

Perhaps you think the feminist viewpoint in this case is objectively correct and therefore deserves more consideration. In that case I would counter that the pro-Palestinian viewpoint is objectively correct. But my original argument was neutral on this issue.

[0] A relationship usually asserted to exist by the supporters of Israel, as is the case here.
How many people actually prefer the "tell me why you called?" phone menus over "press 1 for billing" phone menus?
I don't buy the argument that automation breaks capitalism. The predominant cost of almost everything is labor. As things become automated, costs go down. Food costs less, housing construction costs less, local production costs less so demand for fuel is reduced, mining and recycling cost less so raw materials cost less, etc.

The reduction in the amount of work available is proportional to the reduction in the cost of everything, so the wages from fewer hours of working buy more stuff. Everything is fine until we literally get to zero, which may not even be possible, and if it is then we're living in Star Trek fantasy land where everything is free and anyone can just press a button to get whatever they want.

The only real trouble is unemployment as a result of demand for labor not matching the skillset of the labor pool, but solving that is hardly rocket science. Large grants for education (and food and housing for students). Send everybody back to school until they're qualified to do the jobs that still exist.
What about simplifying the range of options and making them more predictable based on common knowledge?
There are plenty of organizations that push for women representation in a variety of jobs. Check the organization Blue Collar Women in USA.

In China just recently in 2014, women led a massive Sanitation Worker strike. http://www.labornotes.org/2014/10/women-lead-sanitation-stri...

And also in the news in 2014 a female is head of NYC's Sanitation department.
http://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/kathryn-garcia-named-ne...
This might be the first time a HN comment made my jaw drop. Thank you for finding this supportive material!
I personally would frame this as "the console" and it's the place where one can input text in the interface, and it may well be a secondary, external channel apart from the main or primary GUI.

All that has been done before. It should be done more.
> Read up on e.g. lives of miners in the United States

We all know the about the suffering of industrial workers. What's less well known is the far greater suffering of the pre industrial revolution peasant. What's also less well knows is that the advances in conditions and prosperity that bring us to today were will under way before, and had very little to do with, progressive state interventions.
Here's a quick interpretation of Python's method:

Any assignment operator (compound or not) follows the same namespace rules. Scope lookups are consistent within a scope, regardless of order. Any "namespaced" lookup (`x[y]` and `foo.bar`) will act inside that namespace.

Non-namespaced identifiers will always assign into the nearest enclosing scope (a scope is always a named function) by default, since clobbering outer scopes - particularly globals - is dangerous. You can opt in to clobbering with `global` and `nonlocal`. If you don't ever assign to a name in the current scope, lookups will be lexical (since a local lookup cannot succeed).

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Hopefully most of these value judgements should be relatively obvious.
Wrong.

The whole point is that even without ready access to guns, the Jews were able to fight of a powerful army. The idea here is to extrapolate how things would have went had they been armed to start with:

" There was little “gun culture” among European Jews of the 1930s, so few Jews had the equipment for “reloading” — the home manufacture of ammunition"

"...home manufacture of ammunition is legal everywhere in the United States."

"The Germans suffered over a thousand casualties in the first week of fighting alone. The Germans had to spend more time subduing the Warsaw Ghetto than they did conquering the entire nations of Poland or France."

etc etc
It seems fair, the project was based around "an HTML5 version of Starcraft", and it was using direct assets from the game.

If they changed the in-game assets and said "an HTML5 RTS, similar to Starcraft" I don't think Blizzard would have raised any alarms.
When I first used Cortana as part of Windows 10 I was quite disappointed when I found out it lacked quick commands like this. Sure it has some understanding of what is written such as "remind me to call Jim at 2pm" but it is very limited.

I was hoping I would be able to things like the following -

* backup Fizz Buzz project (and have it intelligently backup the Fizz Buss Visual Studio project to a default location)

* open Fizz Buzz issue 131 (and have it open a browser to the github issue tracker to the correct issue #)

* email the Fizz Buzz project plan to Jim (you can *kind of* do this but it hardly ever works as you would want)

* open Fizz Buzz todo.txt when I next login

* copy the Fizz Buzz project plan to my Dropbox projects folder

You know things that I will otherwise need to open the command prompt for or do some mundane UI task. Sure some of these things will require applications have such support but from what I can tell Cortana offers no real way to do this other than integrating with the Windows search service.

Considering most (all?) of these things could be done with PowerShell cmdlets it is annoying there is no way to script Cortana via PowerShell in such a way.

Maybe one day.
Jon Stewart is glib. That's his act, but at the core it's just current received wisdom. It's the easiest position a person could possibly take.

I'd like to see him play the same scene on an issue that almost nobody feels comfortable about. Say the decision to use atomic weapons to end the Pacific war.

First he could call a Japanese orphaned child and ask if it seemed right and proper at the time to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to avoid more Allied casualties in the alternate invasion scenarios.

Then, playing the counterfactual, he could call an American mother who lost her son in the invasion of Japan, for which hundreds of thousands of casualties were projected on each side, and ask if it seemed right and proper to waste her son's life when an alternative existed that would have precluded the invasion.

Stewart's approach is a garden variety example of studying the past only in order to look down on the past's inhabitants.
I agree that lots of lies will probably die out without causing direct harm, though honestly, IMO it's akin to most bullets shot in battle missing their targets. But people today have a habit of spraying lies on full-auto, and some of them (you don't know which ones) actually do hit something and start recursively propagating. Maybe if people had a much stronger reaction to being lied to, we could reduce the occurences of lying to only those cases where it doesn't matter in the long run.

I mean, look at the current state of science. At this point I think it's safe to assume that most (like 90%+ most) of recent soft science results is bullshit, and probably most of medical research is wrong too. And it all starts with some scientists fudging results, and then other believing them and building on wrong research. Pretty scary thing - it seems like we have so much, but in fact we have very little reliable results, and it's getting harder to tell the right from the wrong apart.
I don't think that the author understands just how computers have changed everything.

>The big differences are cell phones (which they will understand to be a sort of telephone, albeit with no cord and capable of sending telegram-like communications, but still figuring that it works via radio waves rather than magic), computers (which they will see as interactive televisions),

sure, someone from the '50s would see games systems as interactive televisions and probably not be too shocked; games systems aren't a world-changing thing (vs. tv) - the same is true if you use cellphones as, you know, mobile telephones.

Think about the information we all have in our pockets now.

Like how to fix things... if you don't repair your own stuff... you should try it one weekend, just for fun. I've used youtube to figure out everything from how to assemble a crazy-complex sony vaio to replacing a bad fan in a fridge, to replacing shocks on my motorcycle.

and the textual information that is available to you is also absolutely huge. We're all carting around a really bad interface to a library that is more vast than the library of congress... in our pockets.

What I think is interesting here is the huge availability of what would have been out of print books in the '50s... books who's copyright has expired; those are available at the snap of the fingers. Even more modern stuff is also available, of course, it's just not as available as the out of copyright stuff.

Actually, I think this is the interesting thing going forward... who can access information, and at what cost. But I think there is sufficient focus on that.
Wait...politics is part of the economy so we can pay politicians to be part of the economy? Seems tautological.
Is Economics Research Replicable? Sixty Published Papers Say “Usually Not” [pdf]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

The canonical introduction to why "better technology makes more better jobs for horses^Whumans" doesn't make sense.
I thought that was the stupidest part of the article until I saw this:

"But consider that the amount of funding poured into medical research has skyrocketed in my lifetime, so that the progress per dollar spent surely is going down."

Complaining that research is becoming more expensive in _dollar terms_ is stacking the deck against pretty much any society that has _economic growth_ (read: every society).
Against the Singularity
This article is a hypothesis looking for evidence. And ignoring evidence blatantly when it doesn't fit his hypothesis. And I'm not even sure what his hypothesis is apart from the statement that we're not inventing electricity a second time.
Multi-line chat in BBS's in the 1980s used slash-commands such as these in chat apps...I'm sure I'm not the only one here old enough to remember those.

Sigh...like so many other things, what is old is new again.

Forcing people used to touch interaction with their phones to grok command line UX seems more like wishful thinking then the Next Thing.
Linux, the Bleeding Edge Sucks
The MEL language is a huge part of MAYA, and it's the guts that do lots of the work. Part of the magic of MAYA is the killer GUI for making models, etc...

The real heavy lifting comes from the tight integration between MEL and that GUI, which permits all sorts of things to be made and then quickly manipulated using the SAME MAYA GUI.
I'm sure that people at Lyros, AltaVista and Excite were saying the same whilst building their heavy UIs before Google came along.

The problem is on-boarding - once the user learns to ask for computer a question then the text (or voice) interface has the potential to be on a completely different level than a graphical interface.

Just imagine - instead of searching through a dozen menus for an option you just ask.

Hell, that's how most people work with Microsoft Office now - fumble around trying to find out where they've hidden the option. Fail. Open Google and type "how to change signatures in Outlook 20XX".

Slack solve that brilliantly - their on-boarding is well designed - the way it gradually introduces features and reinforces concepts is excellent. It reminds me of modern videogames in design.
Yes they did, but again it's not the same situation exactly there were plenty of Jews that escaped the concentration camps, and later the death camps in Poland and joined the resistance but the majority of them couldn't.

I made it quite clear that arming a population might not have a clear impact on the amount of deaths, but it will have a clear impact on the way they died.

The Polish people didn't "had" to fight, at least not for survival this isn't an attempt to make their fight any less heroic or meaningful but they fought for freedom and ideals rather than not being branded as cattle and led to their deaths.

If more Jews could revolt the final solution might not have happened, not in the way it did anyhow, the Germans could only execute it because they have had very little internal and external resistance in doing so. If there was a much bigger Jewish resistance and there would be revolts in every work camp, ghetto and concentration camp the Germans could possible have had to give up on their plans, the cold and calculated truth of the Holocaust is that the Germans found them selves with too many Jews on their hands where exploiting them began to cost more than what they got in return.

Heck they had to ask the Catholic church to annul the marriages between "pure" Germans and German Jews in mass because that presented them with a real problem of having to disclose and produce death certificates for dead German Jews to their former husbands and wives so they could remarry.

So yes a strong and armed Jewish resistance might have played a big role in the outcome of the Holocaust they didn't had to drive an invading army out, they didn't fight for the freedom of a country or the ideals of the nation they fought for their own survival and making the final solution too costly to execute as well as directly sabotaging it (which is something that the allied forces refuse to do in the form of not bombing train lines and even the incinerators of the death camps) could've resulted in a very different outcome.

And Poland eventually won it's freedom, they did inflict heavy losses on German troops, and eventually they did convince the USSR to leave as well, but as i said it's a completely different conflict.
I'm not encouraging teenage drug use. I'm pointing out how intellectually, emotionally and economically harmful modern high school is for young people.

Before and during alcohol prohibition, demonizing alcohol was the only way that society had to talk about the problem of domestic violence, because society could not address the problem directly. So alcohol was made the scapegoat.

I believe that we currently use drug use in teens as a similar scapegoat, because we can't talk about the reasons teenagers are in distress.

In my opinion the way we do modern education in its current form is harmful to young people. If it wasn't we wouldn't see such high rates of anxiety, depression and ADHD.
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This guy is a perpetual Chicken Little. He's been featured on /r/economics multiple times. His argument is two-pronged: he plays up the inventions of yesteryear, and plays down the inventions of today.

Even the invention of the television was gradual. It was developed via "refinements" of the facsimilie. Ignorance of history is a bad argument. Ditto antibiotics: first arsenic, then atoxyl, then arsphenamine, then sulfanilamide, finally penicillin. The car was nothing but a road-adapted train. The airplane was preceded by ground-towed heavier-than-air craft. And NASA's budget was massive relative to the Wrights'. The telephone came from the telegraph, and the steam engine might have been invented in Alexandria when Jesus was around (assuming He existed).
What about semantic UIs a la spotlight? I always found those convenient because they allow me to dump what's in memory rather than seeking out the elements that correspond to what I have in memory.
Because politics currently is a part of economy, period. You can't disconnect the two as long as officials participate in the economy themselves, because any such participation is a bridge between the two "worlds".
people shift between services like github and bitbucket and alternatives all the time. Perhaps not often on an individual basis, but at any one time many people are deciding where to put their stuff.

Almost anything that gets the name of a particular service bumped up to the top of someone's consciousness for a little while will shift some of those decisions toward that service.

This is why even the world's most popular brands (Apple, Coke, etc) never stop spending money on marketing / PR :)
The whole post is just a thinly masked ad...
A much more interesting discussion of this topic http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/info/commandline.html
I would argue that designers (and probably most twitch users) are still quite a bit closer to power users than the average user.
"he raised the bar substantially by using passion and personal conviction to inspire his audience."

I think the last 15 years of politicians using 'passion and personal conviction to inspire' war in the Middle East have gotten me a bit burned out on that technique, to the point where speeches in that style make me distrust the speaker.

"For me it lacked structure and focus and was delivered in such a monotone way that you wouldn’t be blamed for reaching for your phone. "

Maybe speeches are better read than heard, as otherwise irrelevant details of presentation style seem to become important.
It's not exclusive to slack, for example: twitch chat there are a bunch of text commands that people love to use.

People who use Twitch a lot love to use them. People who don't use Twitch much don't bother. This backs up the argument that power users like macros.

When people use emojis and other such things they usually use a text macro.

True, but that might be because PC keyboards don't have emoji. There's no other option. People certainly don't use a macro on mobile; they use a an emoji keyboard because that's what they prefer.

If you've noticed with programs like photoshop and illustrator, it's recommended for novices to learn all of the keyboard shortcuts.

There's an assumption when you're learning something with the end goal of understanding that application that you're on the first steps to becoming an expert (aka power user). If someone is only learning how to achieve a single end result they don't start with the shortcuts. For example, someone who just wants to learn how to resize and crop images in Photoshop just learns the two or three features they're going to use and then they stop.

I don't know very many people outside of the software industry who are happy with a command line interface, and even fewer who're happy with macros on a command line.

Also, if Partyline is the future, then I don't like it. The two examples in the article are inconsistent;

/partyline create Signup endpoint is 500'ing label:bug

vs

/partyline create:task Write about the future of text-based interfaces

Why is the first one using a "create" verb with a "bug" label and the second using a "create:task" verb? Why not "create:bug" in the first one, or "label:task" in the second?
>He says: [...] We say: [...]

But you're just rewording it with synonyms in hopes of avoiding the application of the Copenhagen Interpretation to your/coldtea's post.

"interaction" == "profit"

... because the blog author was already talking about "interaction" in terms of monetary benefits.

"blame" == "increased responsibility"

... because the author already wrote "At the very least, you are to blame for not doing more." and "doing more" is what increased responsibility is.

Whether we use other synonyms such as "profit", "economic gains", "saving time", "outsourcing tedious work", etc, it doesn't matter.

Likewise, using synonyms such as "blame", "responsibility", "burden", "cross to bear", "moral debt", etc, doesn't change the interpretation.
I used to do data entry and transcription for $12/hour (not adjusted for 15+ years of inflation) and was able to reach about $4-5/hour on Mechanical Turk when I tried it. As I was out of practice, I think $7/hour would be feasible with time. But one thing people forget is that the federal minimum wage is actually closer to $8/hour when you include the doubling of FICA taxes on self-employment income.

Still, the ability to login and earn even $5/hour at arbitrary times of the day may be desirable for a segment of the population that's perhaps a bit asocial and chooses an RV lifestyle.
> "There is no virtue in meaningless asceticism."

Quite right.

As a side note, that's not the case with e-cigarettes, the health risks are largely unknown and there appears to be a fair amount of variation in the chemical composition of the different brands. Here's a level-headed article about some of the early studies into e-cigarette health risks:

http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/electronic-cigarettes-hel...
I agree - having done Python programming in Maya. The scripting allows you to really super-charge your work.

But What I meant is When I started working with Maya initially - I was already put off by the extremely complex GUI. Trying to program ? I do not think many programmers appreciative the deep learning curve needed - and the average modeler is not adequately equiped.
For what though? For image editing, file managing, audio play back, web browsing, text formatting?
Preventing market participants from overtly bidding with money doesn't make the competition for access magically go away. Resources are going to be allocated, and it's sure not going to happen "randomly".

For services such as taxis or health care, the currency merely shifts to personal clout and time.

Money buys both of those things anyway.
I brought up the Polish because many of them did have to fight for survival, and many died.

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

Approximately six million Polish citizens perished during World War II: about one fifth of the pre-war population. Most were civilian victims of the war crimes and crimes against humanity during the occupation by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

Half of those were Jews. The other half were other Poles.

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

"The Polish people didn't "had" to fight, at least not for survival"
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Whether or not there was a progressive reduction of suffering, it doesn't in any way support the statement that real-world market is based entirely on voluntary trade. We still have to eat; in the past this coerced us to deal with nature, today it coerces most of the world population to deal with market economy.
I don't think those that can afford to buy a house in the Bay Area are considered the general public.
It's not that important. His point is that (neo nazis|white supremacists|whatever) are not racist as they are not part of the social majority. That's twisted.
Matt Bruenig (who I generally recommend to anybody interested in questions of economic justice because his writing introduces laypeople to brilliant and refreshing points) has a series on Uber surge pricing where, among other things, he makes that precise argument.

He's the kind of guy who even includes (hints of) a sample calculation showing how the random distribution of a smaller number of taxis can lead to an objectively better outcome - it all depends on what your assumptions about people's utility functions are and what your objective function is.

He also argues why it is in many people's self-interest to argue against surge pricing (a point which is, admittedly, much more obvious: many people prefer a low chance of getting an affordable taxi over a zero chance of getting a taxi they cannot afford).

Here's a link to the last post in the series: http://mattbruenig.com/2014/12/28/uber-surge-prices-part-iii...
Sweden to to start housing new asylum seekers in tents,