skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I'm not really arguing that.

I'm mainly just arguing against the comparison to racial discrimination/eradication.

I agree with your point that replacing the people so that some different things will be voted for is harmful and undemocratic, at least if done by the government.

But the problem would be in corruption, basically, not genocide, as the one I responded to claimed, and I think that is an important distinction to make.

Bad arguments for things one agrees with should be refuted as well as for ones one disagrees with.

Although, a limitation on my agreement: many potential actions by a state could influence the population in an area in a way that might change how the area votes. I think it would be generally not a good idea to forbid all such actions, because that would only make it such that the impact of how it is set up does not change, it would not make it so that it does not have an effect. That's not to say that there shouldn't be protection against changes that would cause a harmful change in voting population, just that not everything that incidentally would have a change to voting population would be inherently bad.

In the end, I think, it should be the choice of the population as to whether the govt takes some action which could impact the composition of the population, provided that there is no other reason which it is either obligatory or impermissible to take the action in question.

If the population freely chooses an action which will impact the way they make future choices, it seems to me kind of like a person , for example, drinking alcohol, or taking a mind altering substance, whether it is a medicine or a harmful substance.

Unless the action is forbidden (such as, for example, an actual genocide) or obligatory (not sure of what an example would be here.) , the population would choose whether to take an action which would change itself.

Edit:

Something I thought of just after sending that:

Consider woman suffrage. That was a decision which influenced the collection of people who constituted the voting population. I think it was a good decision.
On this note, does anyone know of specific channels that are likely to disappear because their creators are either dead or unwilling to accept the new terms? I will archive all of them. You can also email me.

Edit: found http://youtube.wikia.com/wiki/Deceased_YouTubers
This seems so odd to me. It's like working the odds to stay as VC-funded as possible and basically avoid growing up - and most of them must understand that profitability simply doesn't exist in their model (before they pivot to being another advertising billboard).

The first step is admitting you have a problem, and as long as people keep giving you money, there's no need to admit anything.

Heck. As long as people keep giving you money, is there really a need to make money in another way?
> The last thing we want to do is import even more low-skilled labor who will soon be made redundant.

This is the lump-of-labor fallacy. More immigrants means greater demand for labor (and other goods and services), not just greater supply and results in net job creation and wage increases for native workers. Automation isn't likely to change that, because the demand for labor is not fixed.
Very nice! Redux is really great and simple but visual aids like these can help understand the data flow to someone not used to it the idea.
I gotta say, that seems pretty ridiculous. Has that ever been done before?
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uh... Google+ always let developers in... you're an idiot.

https://developers.google.com/+/web/api/rest/
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I wonder at this as well, if twitter's has a lot of waste and a lot of revenue, there is a straightforward way to make money.
> 100x less memory and was much more performant

Technically you're not prevented from doing so - you would just have to keep it to yourself (/family/friends/etc). Non-technical people rarely care about these things.

> backstabbing developers

I don't disagree. Would be interesting if there are any stats on who/what made Twitter popular, got any?

> And why is that a problem?

It's a problem for Twitter when you're trying to run a top-brand. Clients who don't keep up-to-date actually make Twitter look bad to the public. It also makes it harder for Twitter to innovate, move quickly (and probably get usage stats), without coordinating with external developers.
Apple actually does (in some aspects) force developers to keep their apps up to date. I develop iOS apps and this actually consumes way more time than I wish it did.

Your concerns are valid from a third-party concern but from Twitter's first-party concern they are distractions.
I've been wondering when the day would come that youtube simply interleaves ad content into the videos and bypasses adblock. Perhaps they haven't done it in the past to avoid user backlash. Now they can simply say "upgrade to red to get back to an ad free experience".
Yep. Apple have released many apps after similar ones had success on the AppStore.

They have much much harsher ToS (and enforce them) than the discussed Twitter ones.
Thanks for writing this out. It's food for thought.

I will say that every bet is a safe bet when it's not your money.
Some sort of timing attack?
It also might be possible for google to detect them and shut them down since they use their services to route all the proxied requests to, but that would probably be difficult.
I think she does.

To me she seemed like a generic, conservative CEO that gets hired to pull the waggon out of the mud.

She made Yahoo a boring place to work and kicked out a bunch of people.

Same happens at many companies, if they don't work as the shareholders expect and they don't want to try new things because of the risk involved.
The surplus value created by these machines results in a net cost (and thus price) reduction for pears, which consumers (among whom the displaced count themselves) benefit from. Technology drives down production costs, which results in cheaper goods and eventually substitution of inferior goods with superior goods, which is why even the underclass can afford things today which would have once been the strict domain of the upper classes.
How profitable is the Surface for Microsoft?

Does Microsoft consider it a loss-leader reference design?

If it's been profitable, why hasn't anyone else in the PC space copied it?
If we could just get a VC-backend housing startup, SF would be utopia, until the music stops.
Also facebook killed their CUD rights on events in the api. The only thing you can do with events is read them.
You know that irradiation doesn't cause foodstuffs to themselves become radioactive, right?
I've found PAWS to be indispensable for investigating twitter and other apis in a visual way. It allows you to parse out and in the parameters you are setting and seeing. Saved me a lot of headache trying to break out the nested JSON mess. Not sure I can post a link here but it is Paws 2 in the app store.
Easy money is not necessarily all that it seems: It drives salaries up and creates an arms race for scarce talent that is crippling to many startups. It also creates a hype/hockeystick contest which is also largely unhelpful.
The flip side of that coin is that some companies, under pressure to "grow up", become misguided—destroying their core product and user base in the process.

I would argue some business models aren't necessarily suited to generating significant or otherwise self-sustaining levels of revenue. However, that doesn't preclude these businesses from being incredibly valuable to larger, more established corporations with sizable cash reserves.

Of course, publicly admitting you're building for an exit is tantamount to suicide in the present climate, so it's no wonder the current situation is what it is.
It's hit or miss. A lot of the bad managers (and the world's full of 'em) just make sure most of their employees are on H1 visas so they can't plausibly quit. That way they don't have to do anything for the employees, and they don't have to worry about attrition.

Not coincidentally, when things aren't as silly-boomy as they are now, being a citizen looks a lot more like being on an H1, and manager behavior often adjusts to match. Fair warning.
Why Teaching Girls to Code Is Not the (Only) Answer
I think the "plain text representation" parent is referring to is the PostScript that defines the page. If the equations are rendered in PS, or are inline images, they might survive the roundtrip conversion?
I recommend Lenovo X1 carbon 3rd gen. At 2.8 pounds, it is lighter than the Macbook Air but with a bigger 14 inch screen. I run Ubuntu on it and am pretty happy with it.
Wikileaks Is a Front for Russian Intelligence
Edit - looks like Twitter now finally supports direct video upload via the web client! Glad to see they finally addressed this.

Good point :)

I'd pay $10/month, easily, or even more - which is probably far more than I'm worth to Twitter as an ad viewer. Lets look at it from an ad perspective. I spent $50 in one day in a test run ad on Twitter that got me a couple hundred engagements (expanded views mostly) and a couple thousand impressions. On the other hand, one of my normal tweets (if it is any good) gets around 5x that reach, with a more targeted audience. So there is definitely some value in day-to-day usage that I am willing to pay for. I pay $10 a month to Twitch just to get rid of the ads, and I don't use twitch nearly as heavily, nor does it have as high a value to me.

For the ability to easily upload high quality videos to Twitter alone (with auto expand and auto play, minus sound of course), I'd easily pay the $10/month I pay to Vimeo right now.

I should add, Twitter isn't just about me spreading my word out, I get a ton of value as a consumer as well. The majority of projects I am interested in, I have learned about via Twitter. I have made more real-life friends (as in, people I have met in person) through Twitter, as compared to Facebook. I have helped other people succeed on Twitter by retweeting their campaigns. Etc... :)
Hadn't heard about John Dee before, seems like a pretty cool dude like Alberti was. I've been wondering if your current society prevents "polymaths"/Renaissance men like him to exist. I know there probably are some, and that in Tudor times most people stayed in the same line of work forever (peasants), but it's an interesting question.

Either way, it's interesting to see how geniuses used to think, read, and learn.
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Good luck. It all depends on how enabled your manager is to make a difference. I've had good managers who listen, but I've never had a manager who was actually enabled to make a difference.
Airbnb Apologizes for Tone-Deaf Hotel Tax Ads, Will Take Them Down
As someone interested in Clojure, it's cool to see stuff like this build with it. Luckily I haven't needed to purchase expensive books since freshman year. Everything I've been required to I either rent on Amazon for $30 or find online.
In the case of languages, it's political. China wants people to think of themselves as Chinese, not as Hakka or Taiwanese or whatever. Part of that is getting people to speak Mandarin as their first language.

Hakka could probably be documented and preserved pretty well for academics to study in the future. If people were only interested in technical questions like how languages developed over time or what languages had what features, that would work pretty well. But it's the politics that people are interested in here.

BTW, it's not immediately clear that having a lot of little groups with a strong identity separate from the national identity is good. If you look at places like Afghanistan or Iraq (or really most of the middle east), people only identify with "their" kind of people. When it comes to an election, they just vote for the candidate that has their race or particular brand of religion. Language, race, and religion tend to divide people as well as unite them. But I don't really know much about the Hakka or how they fit into China, so it's hard to have a reasonable opinion on how good or bad an idea "keeping Hakka alive" is.
At this point, anyone "joining the call" are simply attempting to hop onto the right side of history. This problem is so egregious that taking any other position is simply absurd.

Or just f-ing evil. [0]

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0UjpmT5noto

Edit: what, did I piss off some people that like imprisoning an unbelievably disproportionate percentage of citizens, especially minorities, for crimes as mundane as an unpaid parking ticket? Well, you do you, I guess...
And do it in one minute max.
Local government.
My take:

Kidnapping and torturing people -- and fancying that you can use bizarre linguistic constructions to either prevent the world from finding out grittiest, literally pornographic details of what you've been up to; or to reduce your own culpability in said crimes -- should preclude you from serving as director of the CIA.

And secondarily, using a public-sector email service (independent of its authentication scheme, or the quality of its implementation) to conduct government business should further disqualify you, as well.
Reddit? srsly?
Check out this talk: https://help.statuspage.io/knowledge_base/topics/postmortems
23andMe falls under Federal regulations - FDA. Uber and AirBnB operate in largely local/state regulated markets. It's harder to move fast and break things with a Federal regulator.
To me this seems a great illustration of why a lot of people in SF want to put restrictions on AirBnB even though they know Prop F won't "solve" the housing crisis. I'm curious how it looks to "No on F" supporters.
The non-cool BI tools work alright with multiple sources and integrating them into a common OLAP model that takes care of automating the relevant backend queries. This is a valid approach if you do not want to move all your data into a DW before reporting on consolidated views, but the there is no magic bullet in terms of which model is optimal. I am talking about Oracle BI, SAP BO, Cognos BI.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10428726 and marked it off-topic.
Not reporting on something because of a threat hardly qualifies someone as a "front". That's like saying newspapers that don't publish Muhammad cartoons for fear of retaliation are fronts for the Islamic State.
It's not that hard to understand. It's a framing issue. You could pull off the most complicated, Oceans 11 heist in history, and the prosecutor will dumb it down to you being, in the end, a "common thief."

These people are common thieves on an epic scale. They steal money, yes, but stability, security, futures, homes, and so on. But defense attorneys take the opportunity to make things seem complicated.

Just dumb it down for them.
> Payday lenders do not charge refinancing/rollover fees, as with mortgages, and the interest doesn’t compound (unless of course she takes out a new loan to pay interest on the first loan)

Yes, they absolutely do charge refinancing and rollover fees. They don't call them that, of course, so they can skirt state consumer protection regulations, but that's what they are. And oh yes, they get their users to take out new loans to pay off the interests on the first loans. That's actually their entire business model. You know what proportion of payday lender's business comes from this exact thing? 76%! (http://www.responsiblelending.org/payday-lending/research-an...)

Their business model is wholly and fundamentally based on the inability of non-creditworthy people to keep their obligations. If their customers paid back everything on time, they would go out of business instantly. That is what I call unethical. At best.
Selling kits isn't how they make their money. So, selling the tests at a loss shouldn't be surprising.
Lol, HN literally came out with the "avoid excessive negativity" rule later that day, but I admit HN is an often-bad habit I keep getting sucked into.

And as far as Grasswire goes, we're doing 500k uniques per month at this point, so even getting on the front page of HN wouldn't really move the needle for us. I mention it occasionally when I think it's relevant, but that's a tiny minority of my HN use.
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Can we realistically expect a competent, officially supported REPL for Nim over time? I would be immediately sold if this otherwise very promising looking language could remove this obstacle.
>Really, for Google it's a loose loose situation

Is it though? Are you sure its not a lose lose situation?
Like it or not, this is part of the game that's played in Silicon Valley. It's a high-stakes game to be sure and a lot of companies (perhaps most) are not going to make it.

But I suspect many wouldn't have made it if they tried to build a profitable business anyway because they're operating services that probably can't be run profitably (or very profitably).
"Small pieces loosely joined" is anathema to VC.
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What I was putting forward was the bare minimum rules for what I'd still call swimming while allowing the most technology to keep it from just being who can make the best human sized torpedo and to see just how far we could push human performance.

Regular competition needs rules for sure, seeing the extremes is really interesting to me too though.
What is worse, is if you do actually start to make any money, they will destroy you and take your idea.
The Myth of “Reverse Racism” (2014)
Look, I'm a hard-core descriptive linguistics kind of guy, but it doesn't preclude language mistakes, even common ones. "Loose" might someday become an accepted alternate spelling for "lose", but it isn't yet.
I had encountered this in the lower div general education courses at my university. The most egregious one was the professor who required us to get the current edition of the textbook (since he would be assigning problems out of the new book, which was just a shuffled version of the previous version) that he wrote himself. Fitting that it was an economics course.

Once I got into the CS courses, most if not all of my professors just provided PDFs of either their own material or some open source textbook they were contributing to.
>In order to be eligible in most (all?) jurisdictions one must simply register to vote.

I've seen states at least claim that being registered to vote is not necessary to be called for jury duty. It gets a bit hand-wavy after that but supposedly they also draw from, at least, driver licenses as well.
RUB researchers compile Milky Way photo with 46 billion pixels
In new markets, I have seen Uber guaranteeing "if you work this much of these hours, you will make at least $X or we will make up the difference."
> "...where they read several dozen emails, some of them that Brennan had forwarded from his government work address and that contained attachments..."

Sorry, but this doesn't sound like "personal email address for non-work reasons"...
I don't know if you're serious.
Reading this now in a roughly 2:1 split on my Thinkpad t420s (16:9, 1600px:900px). On the right, i have a terminal window, with no margins, and no window decorations. On the left Firefox with HN open, which because of the "forced" margins set by stylesheets, end up being a squarish "page", with a regularish (portrait) text block in the middle...

-FF---------Term--
mmm mm |mmmmmm
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So while some people probably prefer a 1:1 split, I usually end up with a 2:1 or maybe even closer to 3:1.
Gambling with OPM is the best. Heads I get rich as fuck, tails you lose.
Microsoft is still as profitable as ever and they have a ton of money and patents. There is still no real competition on the desktop. Linux is used by a tiny number of hardcore enthusiasts. Apple was financially propped up by Microsoft in the early 2000s to maintain the illusion of competition, but their market share is under 15%. The next generation of hardware is going to take away the option of even using Linux... Microsoft has locked down the bootloaders on ARM devices, although they continue to allow Linux to be installed on Intel devices (for now, at least.)

Microsoft may not dominate the areas of cloud computing or smartphones, but those are separate industries from the desktop. And Microsoft continues to pour money into those industries by investing in Azure and Windows RT. They may yet come to dominate those industries if Amazon or Google make a mistake.

Microsoft has also added mandatory spyware (essentially) to their new Windows 10. Some of it can be disabled, but other parts can't. They are also pushing their Windows Store thing. It's still possible to install desktop software without paying Microsoft, but for how much longer?

HN has a real blind spot when it comes to how harmful Microsoft was and continues to be.
Option 7a, Google launch a patreon-equivalent system for youtube authors to use, and bootstraps a patronage economy.
I tried this once. Conversation was like this: ME: "Hi I'm not doing so well, perhaps I could take a break?" BOSS: "Yeah, you're fired."
Well, you certainly know more about Mozilla's iOS plans than I do :) but I thought Ted was just working on the patches on his own time, not in any official capacity.
Nice but the diff's fail contrast levels for accessibility.
I have trouble with contrast and I can barely read the diffs and certainly wouldn't use it for any serious amount of time.
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I know :(

I'm great with then than, it's its, even effect affect. But Loose vs Lose I constantly get wrong. Something about a single/double o changing the s to a z sound just isn't working for me.

They should have spelled it looze instead :(

Edit: Decided to check the etymology to see who came up with that spelling. Apparently lose is related to lost and loss, maybe that will help me remember. I hope so.
A long time ago I had a job a consultant, preparing an internal report on a police force's LiDAR calibration department. Can't say that I share your confidence.

--- Edit for clarity.
I think that would be very useful for a lot of older tech types, like myself, who never bothered with a Bachelor's degree in the first place. I'm in the East Bay and there are a number of master-level programs that seem very interesting, but the idea of doing a 4-year undergrad degree at this point makes me want to stab my eyes out - I'm pushing 40, have kids, and doing fine in my career.