skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's bad when it's enforced privately too. 'AO' is the rating for games equivalent to 'NC-17' for movies. You'd think they're be treated similarly, but no console manufacturer will license AO games for their platform, nor will most stores carry them. This has created a de facto ban. There are literally only 27 games that have ever been rated AO [1], because the only real choice a developer has is to censor the game enough to release at a lower rating.

Sure, movies do censor themselves for financial reasons too, but they may later release an uncut edition. For games, even that is simply impossible.

[1] http://www.esrb.org/ratings/search.aspx
Give it time. I've gone through several growth and downsizing periods. Each time the people change and, therefore, the culture.

Afterwards, everyone is kinda feeling out everyone else, both professionally and personally.

The culture usually comes back, in my experience, but with different twists and personalities.

Worst-case scenario, the job starts to feel like one, the joy gets less and less, and you end up looking for another one (of really any size) that had a culture that fits your personality.

You're taking a healthy approach to this already, so let it play out before you back out.

Good luck!
"World outrage" isn't a constant.

The internet means information travels faster than ever before, but also inadvertently causes "interesting things" to outpace "the truth".

Properties like Upworthy/Buzzfeed/ect. exacerbate this. Von D is right not to capitulate.
I bet their outrage is actually from things like:

- Being told the term "you guys" is a micro-aggression that disenfranchises marginalized peoples.

- Being scolded for using the term "man hours."

- Being around people who think that a red hand at a crosswalk is emblematic of systemic racism.

- Working with people who look down at spending Thanksgiving with family, and instead rant about how you're celebrating the murder of the native peoples.

... and any other similar non-issue that psychos left and right today are touting as the biggest issues facing people today.
US is similar - slow passengers (elderly, kids, etc), first class, business/priority, then the rest.
No comments? Was hoping for some discussion since xcode sucks more with every release.
There have been many valid criticisms of microcredit, but this article is not one of them, chiefly because it falls victim to a few logical fallacies and faulty assertions.

This piece assumes that the poor people using microcredit are doing so to help acquire goods for trade (or another similar), and since their customer base will gain no new wealth, the goods will go unused. Much of the investments that microcredit loans are used for are things like metal roofs (which are far superior to and less maintenance intensive than thatched roofs), and simple tools which improve productivity, thus allowing them to engage in trade or other activites which help to improve their lifestyle. We should remember that just because someone is a poor farmer now does not mean they have to continue being just a farmer with low output; they could get a second job, improve their farm's output, or go out to sell their goods to another village if they had the time and resources; we should not dedicate all aid resources to keeping subsistence farmers tethered to the same farms with the same tools, but slightly improving their plight.

The article also seems to assume that the bad motives (mainly greed) of some microcredit lenders will lead to bad results, and that lending money to poor people is somehow immoral (possibly due to something like the Copenhagen interpretation of ethics), and that this immorality makes the loan bad.

One fact I found very notable and surprising, though not mentioned in this article, is that a great deal of microcredit is actually used as a savings commitment device (as many people have negative effective interest rates for various reasons), so it allows the borrower to make larger capital expenditures than they would otherwise have been able to, because they had issues preventing them from saving up.
To some extent that's right, but it's also riddled with unsourced assertions and pseudoscience. It's not really a good source.

The point you make is a more complex one than you seem to be implying. What does it mean for something to be "natural"? Is pasteurisation natural? What about homogenisation? Packaging?
We are mostly referring to the desktop OSes based on the OP but...

try Settings (app) / Notifications / App Store / Allow Notification

I rarely give any app notification privileges.
Animals eat things you won't and turn them into things you will eat.
Dasani is tap water that has been purified with reverse osmosis and then remineralised.
Good article, but the name underage red must have been named just to provoke a response.

Also, if you get offended by "underage red", maybe your mind is dirty is a bit weird defense. What is the name meant to imply?

And finally, if we should be outraged by anything isn't underage red better than war on christmas?
I'm always suspicious when news articles embed tweets as "evidence". The one case that sticks out for me was Tim Hunt losing his job because of his joke at a conference. I wonder if UCL also fell for media manufactured outrage in the decision to hastily get rid of him, or whether there really were tens of thousands of twitter keyboard warriors venting their offence all over the situation.

Either way, for my own sanity I now have to avoid twitter and any article that even remotely looks like it might be about someone being offended about something.
These are the cold, hard numbers on which @incepted based his comments:

Mozilla gets the bulk of its revenue from search deals.[1] For 9 years, from 2005 to 2014, Google paid Mozilla to set Firefox's default search provider to be google.com. In those 9 years, the Firefox browser share rose to peak of ~30% in 2010 and then fell consistently due to competition from Chrome.[2]

In 2014, when Google's contract with Mozilla came up for renewal, Firefox browser market share was just 12.4%.[3] Google probably decided that continuing to pay Mozilla the same amount of money for much less traffic wasn't worth it, so they didn't renew.

Mozilla then locked Yahoo! into a five-year contract.[4] One year into the Yahoo deal, Firefox's browser market share is now 9.8%.[3] If the long term declining trend continues, four years later the market share would be even smaller. That's when Yahoo!'s contract ends.

That's also when the question will arise: if Google paid $300 million a year for search traffic from 12.4% browser share in 2014 who will pay how much for far less search traffic in 2019?

[1] Nov 25, 2015: Mozilla’s 2014 annual report: Revenue up 4.9% to $329M, 90% came from Google and Yahoo http://venturebeat.com/2015/11/25/mozillas-2014-annual-repor...

[2] Wikipedia: Usage share of web browsers > Historical usage share > StatCounter (July 2008 to present) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#St...

[3] Oct 21, 2015: Firefox will fight back against intrusive advertisers http://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-will-fight-back-against-int...

[4] Nov 19, 2014: Yahoo and Mozilla Form Strategic Partnership
https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2014/11/yahoo-and-mozilla-for...
Apple may want to expand 7 to include "Apps with an under 18 age rating may not include advertising for alcohol" (and probably gambling too).
I guess if kids learn Java, and still love programming after that, they've got what it takes to be programmers in the real world.

But, I don't think I'd set out to punish kids for wanting to learn programming by making them use something that has so much tedious boilerplate and verbosity. Then again, you can actually make real things with Java; everything from games (Minecraft) to the web (sort of) to apps (most Android apps) to OS programming (Android, itself) is reasonably do-able. So, the empowerment level is high. It just seems like something more immediate would be preferable, at least for the first class (to parallel the use of BASIC in my day; maybe Python would be a good choice, since it can be used for real projects, too).
The early days of electronic computing involved desperate attempts like this to build a fast temporary storage device. Things were in better shape on the arithmetic and control side - tubes worked, although it took some time to get component reliability up to an acceptable level. ENIAC, Colossus, and the IBM 603 Multiplier all had very limited memory, under 100 numbers.

This was a huge problem for anything that needed even a little storage. Western Union built Plan 55-A, a message switching system for telegrams, sort of like Sendmail. The buffering was all paper tape punches feeding paper tape readers. This was slow, expensive, and required large buildings full of paper tape gear and a huge staff. This was used from 1948 to 1976. The whole network of US paper tape gear switching centers was then replaced by one mainframe computer.

Today, we think nothing of software that needs a few gigabytes to display a text message.
Similar tool for Rust: https://github.com/Ticki/dybuk
It seems like you are missing the point. Von D didn't "not capitulate". Von D took part in the free advertisement campaign!

P.S. So too, are we.
Fibre is more than roughage, it helps nurture the microbiome.
An interesting type of (approximately) zero sugar drink is mixing bitters with {,cabonated} water. In particular, a dash or two of Peychaud's Bitters in soda water is almost like a floral (gentian) "kool aid"-style drink without the excessive sweetness.
So it appears that media manufacture outrage for cheap clicks, therefore outrage is not a real problem.

I don't follow this line of reasoning. Let's say the same media often create a fake sexism/ism scandal out of something innocent or unrelated. Can we conclude that sexism/ism is not a problem anymore?

Aren't safe-spaces real? Is this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QqgNcktbSA staged? I don't remember things like that from my university years.
I'd say that's an argument for open platforms, not against ratings. I'd bet there are about seventeen million PC games that would be rated AO if they bothered to get rated at all.
True, but there's always some dumbass with a "carry-on" that they've expanded (so it no longer qualifies). Or, they don't know which direction to place the bag. Or, they jam their suitcase, plus their briefcase and jacket in the overhead, taking space that should "belong" to somebody else.

I'm far from a frequent flyer, but the number of passengers incapable of not screwing up the boarding process is amazing.
Is this a U.S. thing? Is it the same in the U.K.?
I think I've seen one or two other instances, but I couldn't tell you what they were. In any case, it's not holding Apple to different standards, merely holding them to the same standards as the rest. That they pretty much all fail doesn't mean this is somehow unjust.

Thanks for the note about my blog!
Yeah sounds like this is about a new law that is more specific and provides harsher penalties.
Exactly the same kind of machine! :D
looks like a great idea but doesn't it significantly slow down your network? I think I would rather install an ad-blocker on a tomato/dd-wrt/open-wrt router...
Internet piracy is illegal and yet people are rarely apprehended for it. Obviously swatting is a much more serious crime, but it faces the same or greater enforcement issues.
A correction in startup valuations would be good news for the technology sector
If I ever buy shop bought tomato pasta sauces, there is a flavour in most that repulses me. It's something I can't recreate with home cooking. So this post does make me think that it could be something like a flavour pack. I always thought it was a preservative.
I'll just remark that for water, I do want to drink a pure chemical, possibly with a little bit of minerals in, if it can't be helped.
You mean "Ubuntu 15.10", I guess? I'm really tired of having to add dozens of PPAs in order to have a sane up-to-date Ubuntu environment. I can understand core packages, which are mostly on the server side to be conservative, but packages like 7zip and others should be updated more frequently.
I'm baffled that you would think Twitter had the ability to be anything else. The site basically mandates that you compress all your messages into trivialize-able sound bites.
I was thinking earlier today that I felt like I was now understanding why my parents made me believe in Santa Claus. It's because you need to learn only on that you can't trust people like that. Maybe they should make a law or something that 1 out of every 100 news must be fake, so that people would be more compelled to check out facts.

Also journalism = marketing now. Headlines, scoops, shocking videos...
LA City Council proposal would send letters to car owners in prostitution areas
I totally agree with the point of them not being your target customers
"Microdebt" clearly does not solve poverty. This idea has always had its critics. It is distasteful at best to be a money lender to the poorest strata of humanity. Common wisdom tells us as much.

But it is also common wisdom that to "teach a man/woman to fish" is better than to just "give a fish." As an entrepreneur I do believe in the unique ability of entrepreneurship to allow people to raise themselves above and out of their present circumstances.

Perhaps "microequity" financing can succeed where "microdebt" financing has failed? Or maybe "micro-crowdsourcing?" How about a Kickstarter for African basket weavers? Would you pay $5+shipping for a hand made African/Asian/Etc cultural craftwork? Would you pay $50 if you saw the craftperson's story/picture/pitch video/poor family? Crowdsourcing has the benefit of solving serious supply chain and financing failure risks for entrepreneurs, it's basically pre-ordering and building product on the customer's expense. Perhaps the solution is a combination of microdebt, microequity and microcrowdsource?

I don't mean to disparage anyone, but perhaps we could all benefit from some young grads with Silicon Valley startup fever focusing technology and innovation on the poorer parts of the world instead of focusing on delivery-based services in rich "lifestyle bubble" cities.
I have no problem with ratings themselves, only with ratings enforcement.

Open platforms would solve part of the problem, and I love the PC, but unfortunately closed platforms simply are a huge part of the industry today and for the foreseeable future.
When I was in graduate school, I had a minor nervous breakdown. Not related to school, more about thinking too much about life, death, career, money, and I had a weird pain in my head--that I thought must be a tumor. I always went to the worst senerio?

In those horrid months, I had one dream repeatedly, and it was so American.

The dream was I was a chess piece on a large chess board. I think I was a pawn? In the dream, George was yelling at me so vociferously, the air from his lungs was blowing me off the chess board. I would try to grab on to the other chess pieces, but the gail force was so strong, I would just slide on the board. I knew if I was pushed off the board, I would just fall,and fall. When I got to the absolute edge, I would wake up--sometimes--covered in sweat.

I have worn a suit, and tie one time since that period on my life. It was my sisters wedding, I couldn't wait to get the tie off. It felt like a noose.

Not fun times, but I can look back and find some amusement in my pain. If anyone reading this is going through bad times, I can guarantee it will get better with time.

In reality, George Zimmerman looks like a decent guy to work for. I felt bad when they let him go as the spokesperson.
Change is usually unsettling. It would be probably be worse if suddenly the company removed that many positions when having them was the normal.

That said, there are certain sizes at which organizational structure needs to undergo quantum change. Thresholds I've heard are ~10 [two pizzas], ~30, ~200. This means that some of the change when an organizational structure hits one of these is more or less permanent. That doesn't make it bad. Just permanent.

Good luck.
Link IRC to a well designed web UI and allow DCC. Done. (Mibbit was a step in the right direction, but no DCC and it got fucked over by spammers so many networks have outright banned it)
> Maybe they should make a law or something that 1 out of every 100 news must be fake

In the world I live in, the proportion is far higher. Especially if you are talking about the mainstream media. Hell, easily one of 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers is fake.
Why is this a thing? I don't understand this world anymore.
Exactly. I think it would fall under "making a false report" or something, in most states. In California, that's a misdemeanor that gets you up to 6 months in jail.

Edit: California has a specific anti-swatting law that's still a misdemeanor and can get you up to a year in jail and $1000 fine if nobody gets hurt, or a felony with up to a $10000 fine and up to 3 years in jail.
>John McDonnell's sarcastic crack about Mao in Parliament (which the media basically manufactured into a fake story, all the while implying that McDonnell is a crypto-communist, while he is nothing of the sort).

Is anyone saying he's a crypto-communist? All I've seen is that it's yet another example of Corbyn's shadow cabinet being fantastically terrible at politics. It's not feeding the "Labour are outright marxists" narrative, it's feeding the "Corbyn is incompetent and sooner or later the house of cards will fall" narrative.
Code Schools – Apps or Sites for Learning to Code
Why are they still using sourceforge?
I find that only helps if you know anyone who uses gpg.
The home vs shop bought items rings true. I can make a bean burger without much effort. And I have a good idea what went into it. But if I buy one, I'm not sure how old the ingredients are, how long they have been stored and what other processes those foods have been through.

I have gotten it into my head that these are pretty much low-nutrition non-foods, and as such, I only eat them on the rare occasion.
The BBFC is famous for such rules as "ilooli" and the Mull of Kyntire test. They are worthy of ridicule.

http://www.biggerpictureresearch.net/2012/11/bbfc-at-100.htm...
Now, how are they going to enforce it will be interesting to see. Our current telephony system looks pretty much like the first days of the internet. Most telcos will happily say "Ah, you're a service provider and send us a call from 011111111111, we'll route it right away!". Add a voip channel or two with a redirection set up and you're unlikely to ever get caught.
Technology is empowering teenage stupidity. Some kids go through a bad mix of negative emotions and a naive understanding of danger. In time these issues can become resolved and the teenager becomes a responsible person. This phase though has become more dangerous with the things technology lets kids do.

In my opinion as long as teenagers are a thing this is an inescapable trait of human life. Unless you are law enforcement, try to stay out of their way and not be a target.
Business insider average titles: this is huge, this is big, this could be a big problem, this is insane, this is awesome, this is awful..
BI is technically...utter garbage...And kind of worrying
And we say viva Las Vegas instead to 'cheer the river banks', also.

Is because there is not an exact equivalent to the name 'chapulin' in english, and is a distinctive name, so is useful to keep the word.
We can still support companies that are more open than the minimum required by law. I think it will be a long time before it's mainstream, but it may be enough to keep a niche market going.
You can change the associations in the program settings but you have to be in administrator mode, otherwise they don't stick.
http://www.7-zip.org/faq.html
ha! that is the only sane explanation that does not assume everyone is a moron: the lawyers are entrapping him!
Well, my wife works for Martinelli's - and it definitely doesn't take 2+ apples to make a cup of apple juice. (I'm not saying that apple juice should be your first choice.) They also carefully monitor "brix", which is the amount of sugar in their juice. They have acceptable targets for that as well as other measures (including John Martinelli tasting the product almost daily.)

Personally, I use my Vitamix to make my own "apple juice smoothy" and routinely ferment fruit for the probiotics. But I'm skeptical about the "juice is bad" meme.
I still don't see the point. This could (and can) all be done without any additional/special markup or even JS. Also, kind of ironic (with regards to performance) that they mention upcoming support of major tracking scripts and ad networks.

edit: previous discussion (of AMP itself) at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10358597
No, I was there. That didn't happen. I think you are falling for what the medium article described.
You are much more likely to be killed by mundane things than terrorism (2013)
So you're saying that Twitter might give Mozilla money to develop a social network? Twitter already has a social network and no money.
No religious flamewars on HN, please.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10631529 and marked it off-topic.
> There have been many valid criticisms of microcredit, but this article is not one of them...

I agree.

> It assumes that the poor people using microcredit are doing so to help acquire goods for trade...

I don't think it does. I find it hard to figure out what his actual argument is (beyond cheap innuendo about ideologies), but he seems to not assume that, e.g., "Yunus believed that the poor, and especially women, could establish an informal microenterprise and then sell basic goods and services to other poor people in the community."

If I understand his argument correctly (including the way he mis-invokes Say's law), he seems to be saying that lending to people to start new enterprises is not a worthwhile activity because the new small enterprises compete with existing small enterprises, in this competition some enterprises go bankrupt (because he says demand for the produced goods is fixed, what?!), thus new enterprises enabled by this lending just displace other enterprises, producing no net benefit to society.

But isn't that just straight wrong? His argument doesn't even seem specific to micro-lending, it reads like an argument against lending and/or entrepreneurship in general.

He also invokes "profitability" as a bad thing, which is weird since why else would anyone commit capital to this. On the other hand, non-profitability and charity, he says, is also bad — No need for solidarity movements and active resistance to exploitation and unfair conditions imposed on developing countries — just send a donation to Kiva and the poor can take care of themselves!

I know there are questions about how effective microfinance is in practice (cursory search gave me http://www.nber.org/papers/w18950), but this just seems like a bad argument. Innuendo about "neoliberalism" doesn't help the article either.