skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More simplified summary of the debate :

PG: "Startups create economic inequality. But it looks like they drive the economy and create value. I'll defend Startups so let's say that economic inequality is not a core problem"

Crowd 1:
- "OMG ECONOMIC INEQUALITY IS BAD !"
- "OMG you defend concentration of power in rich people !"
- "OMG your pinterest wall is more important that educating you children, that's what you call value ?!"
- "OMG !"

Crowd 2:
- "Startups don't create that much economic inequality anyway"
- "They don't actually drive the economy either"
- "We're not sure they create value"
- "Everyone know economic inequality is fine, we should adress poverty"

Elon Musk:
- When do we go to Mars guys ??!!!!????
I don't think anonymity is achievable if the paper's to be any good. Papers build on previous work, and are reviewed by people working in a relevant field. In most fields, most of the time, you have a good idea who wrote a given paper based on what they're doing, whom they cite, and what software/methods they use.
Or if she really wanted to be charitable distribute her shares to the rank and file employees before the sale via an EBT (assuming the USA has such a thing)
Country A has 5% "official" unemployment. But 20% of the population has simply given up seeking employment, lives at home with their parents, and plays video games all day. Another 30% of the population is employed part-time and barely covers their bills, even though they would like full-time work.

Country B has 5% "official" unemployment. Everyone who would like to work is either employed or seeking employment. And everyone who is employed is employed to their desired level.

You argue that A and B are equatable for the purposes of this discussion, because the 5% "official" unemployment is calculated the same way. I argue that they are not, because things excluded from that calculation have a very real impact on the economic stability of the population.
Very interesting article, but why whine about Facebook while posting the article on Medium? (via https://jeena.net/notes/555)
280 also just terminates to city streets as well...it is quite a disaster in urban planning all around.

Pretty sure a while back there was an extension project that just got canned - don't remember the reason, but if you look at the satellite view it looks like both 280 and 101 were interrupted in the middle of construction.
Most people agree that inequality is not a bad thing in itself. But we have two problems with inequality right now:

1. The sheer amplitude of it.

Having people whose net worth is equal to the GDP of a small country poses interesting questions (separate topic). This is caused by the winner-takes-it-all nature of globalized economy. Example: Ads featuring Gisele Bundchen sell to potentially billions of women all over the world, and she gets a cut. A generous one, because the market is global, not local as it was 30 years ago.

2. The fairness.

Again, nobody has a problem with Steve Jobs making a lot money, because he produced. But there are people out there who got rich, just because of connections, etc. Al Gore has sat on (among many others) Apple's board of directors. Which part of iPad did he design?

Even if you ARE qualified, there almost always is the luck factor. There are many other genetically blessed young women who look at least as good as Gisele Bundchen, but who, for whatever reason, never became the "it" girls. The are not starving (though they look like they do), but they are not raking in millions either. The same applies to more serious industries as well.
If this happens, Twitter will cease to be Twitter.

In keeping with the bird analogy, messages will be that annoying parakeet in the pet store rather than spring time finches.
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I think they should increase their character limit linearly with time. Kinda like Gmail storage back in the day. Twitter wouldn't be twitter without short messages. Or maybe allow users to skip the limit once a day.
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That's really disingenuous. The greater Boston area is 4.5M people [1]. For comparison, it's like saying New York City is only 1.6M (the population of Manhattan [2]) when the population of New York city is 8.5M total.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Boston

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan
When you donate shares, you offset your tax by the amount you donated pre-tax. The charity pays the capital gains tax, once they sell the shares. You receive a write-off equal to the market value of your shares when you donated it.

So, in this case, it seems like a pretty significant tax-dodge -- on the order of $30MM.
"Today, with a normal PTO accrual system, I find myself very aware that a day of vacation costs me $500 in lost paid out PTO."

If you have a cap on how much you can accrue, which is pretty typical [1], that's not true. Once you hit the cap, you'd still lose the days; thus, they are a sunk cost.

The only days that cost you are any days that would be paid out at the end of your employment, and even that really only matters if you're going to roll from one job into another in less than the number of days you were paid out at the end, otherwise it's still just a rearrangement of a constant number of paid days and unpaid days.

Good news: You probably don't need to conceive of paid vacation days as being "changed" against you.

Not wasting your limited PTO remains a concern, of course, but as with so many other things "unlimited" isn't truly on the table either, so....

[1]: I hear tell of rumors that accrued vacation time is somehow taxed at year's end in the US, but I've never quite heard someone lay out the accounting and tax details. If you know them I'd be interested to hear it.
> Meadian doesn't make sense when talking about inequality. You need either mean, range or quantiles.

Uh... what? The median is the 2-quantile.
This, and Ron's original version, and most of the "my response to Paul Graham's essay" esssays I've seen aren't actually responses to Paul Graham's essay.

Here's what I see happened: pg said, "Income inequality is a consequence of freedom and technology. If you want to reduce income inequality, be careful you don't wind up just making everyone less free and more poor."

And then a lot of people said: "Paul, you asshole! Rich people can buy political power!" which is totally unrelated, and pg agrees is a bad thing...
We already have that - it is called tumblr. Also the social media outragists will have slightly harder time pulling things out of context - think about all the other media which income comes from producing outrage over tweets ...
I don't see any reason to suspect that the Guardian is spamming HN. Most of those submitters submit all kinds of things.

People just submit a ton of stories. Most don't make the front page, including most from the Guardian.
I thought that the vast majority of healthcare providers are amenable to payment plans and other forms of assistance.
I'm not that huge advocate of LW. I used to frequent the site, I read the Sequences and generally liked what I saw.

RE parts you quoted. Of course they look bad, because they've been ripped out from context.

Race:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/kk/why_are_individual_iq_differences...

This is an article asking, to quote: "But why is it that the rest of the world seems to think that individual genetic differences are okay, whereas racial genetic differences in intelligence are not?". Yudkowsky seems to argue that making big controversies around whether there are, or are not, differences between "races" is missing the point; it's just one of many variables and we should focus on fixing intelligence disparities for everyone.

Society:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/ub/competent_elites/

This blogpost is marked as controversial from the get-go. It covers a quite interesting theory IMO - that the very common meme, which says that elites are stupid and evil, is in fact wrong. Eliezer argues towards a more socially uncomfortable opinion - that elites are, in fact, smarter and better at organizing things. Given that this is a belief most people are heavily biased against, it actually may be the "thing you can't say", per PG's essay at http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html.

Story:

Geez. This is a sci-fi story. Moreover, it's explicitly designed to fuck with reader's moral intuitions. That's its entire point. Personally, I find it fun and insightful, but it is heavy. You can read the whole work here:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/y4/three_worlds_collide_08/

--

And to be clear. I'm not idolizing Eliezer. He's just a man who thought a lot about some stuff, and wanted to share it. He sometimes gets it wrong (and, as opposed to many, has at least the courage to admit he was wrong). But I absolutely hate this kind of bullshit pseudocriticism when it's directed against anyone - be it my friend or enemy, be it someone I admire or despise of. Eliezer is not beyond criticism, but we can do better than that.
I thought that was a use-case for the crowd-sourced opinion service Thumb.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/opinionaided#/entity

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/26/thumb-social-polling-app-me...
Regardless of past propaganda, anyone can go straight to former USSR countries now, to learn what happened there, as millions of regular folks and scholars have. And of course there is the undisputed fact that the USSR failed as a nation, despite its earlier successes.
So this is the next more computationally intense evolution of "Hot or Not"?
Fascinating news. In the meantime before Facebook M launches I'll be just using GoButler.
The problem is that it will not work for higher kinded types as that's not supported in Elm. You can not define a functor, a monad, ...
IANAL, but if you assume law matches cryptographic reality: there's such a thing as the NULL cipher, which most SSL stacks don't support (at least by default) because it's a big footgun. It will let you have traffic that's authenticated but not encrypted.
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These sorts of quotes can reveal a lot about the source that quoted them, if you track them back to their original source and check for reasonableness there. I think you'll find that each of these quotes had its meaning or connotation dramatically altered by the removal of context.
FWIW Twitter was always considered a "micro-blogging" platform. Perhaps that's what you meant.

http://www.extremetech.com/internet/79260-four-microblogging...
This is exactly right. Funding a DAF is great and all, but it is also a tool of influence. The headline is "gives it all to charity" which sounds great but remember that there are many groups that are 503(c) organizations which you might not consider actual charities. And they often have other "influencers" on their boards. So you want to deal with X you find some charity in common with X and you offer to have your DAF provide a generous donation. Externally a donation to a charity is recorded, internally someone has a new "friend." And the weird thing is that the person you are influencing feels good about the fact that they feel they helped get more support for some charitable cause they champion.
Well that made me feel good. I'm way older than they suggested.
Related: I noticed recently that basic history navigation is broken on facebook. Not just for the newsfeed. Anyone else who noticed this as well?
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Thanks for the reply--

I have about 6 years of experience. I'm a senior team lead at a bay area startup.

I'm really looking for what areas to 'focus' on.

1. I don't think SO career profile is worth maintaining. You're right, the job selection/application process is nice and simple.
2. Resume/cover letters are still very important and need to be maintained/tailored to each job.
3. LinkedIn seems like a good networking/reference tool so should probably be maintained.
4. Dice.com? Doesn't seem worth maintaining to me.

It seems to me directly applying for positions with a nice resume/cover letter are still #1. A decent LinkedIn seems to help showcase recommendations/network, but isn't super important.

As for tech, I feel I am comfortable with anything from C/C++ to Ruby/Python/Go to JavaScript. I have experience on mobile, desktop and web development. I'm open to all opportunities but hoping for mobile/desktop or backend work.

I only have 6-ish years of professional experience but I've written code from a young age and have a number of open source projects as well as contributions to major projects like Vim, Homebrew, etc.
Not sure... what part of it interests you? Teamwork? Innovation? Decision making?

I was putting together a "best read of 2015" type post but never finished it. There were a couple on my list that I think are related and maybe you'd find interesting.

This one from HN a few weeks back, http://justinkan.com/three-stories

Higher level company organization stuff I thought these two books gave at times contradictory and at times very complimentary thoughts on what made teams work. In reality, neither were exactly about making teams work though :)

Playing to Win http://www.amazon.com/Playing-Win-Strategy-Really-Works/dp/1... is on creating strategies

Reinventing organizations http://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Organizations-Frederic-Lal... is about holacracy but talks a lot to people's motivations in a company.

Hopefully I have a couple more interesting things to say on andrewxhill.com too, so keep an eye on it!
And what did the people who've actually done the work get?
> The 140 character limit is long past its purpose

What was its purpose and why is it long past it?
Twitter's limit is too low, but it does have a certain appeal, and I'm following a lot of smart people that express a lot in 140 chars. Would be happy if this limit was raised to 250 chars.

But raising to 10,000 chars would probably kill Twitter for me.
What she's doing with the proceeds is really irrelevant.
On advice of counsel, or on the intuition that the US government's laws about crypto cannot possibly be that dumb? Because yes, the laws are in fact that dumb.
The difference would be that the trans-bay tube sat on the floor of the bay, this would need to be under the floor (at least when it crosses the tube). Probably still the most cost-effective solution...
How would one decide who gets tenure, promotion and raises if all papers are anonymous? Once universal basic income is implemented, maybe. Meanwhile, no.
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Cubes get a lot of hate, but I honestly prefer them over an open office. Maybe even better than a solitary office: in my experience, having my own office just felt isolating.

I've worked in a cube. I've had my own office. I've shared an office with one other person in a variety of desk arrangements. I currently share a large office with three other people (might as well be an open plan).

I'd probably rank the cube second, with sharing an office with one other person as the best (with desks arranged so both our backs are to the wall).

Open offices are terrible, terrible things. Next time I interview, I'm going to make sure to ask what their office arrangements are, so I can avoid that situation.
Thats right - its not a thing where you can just get into having never touched a PC. People who aren't into technology as a rule generally don't do well as programmers, but at the same time the idea of people spending 20 extra hours PROGRAMMING (not just reading,etc) outside of work I've found leaves very little for life. Granted, I'm still working to get into some non-work-related hobbies that might involve programming, but finding the time with family obligations is just plain difficult. I spend a TON of my idle time reading though.
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Have it always says yes and then throw up an ad for FitBit. We're going to be rich.
> "I realize this is tongue-in-cheek, but never forget: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation "

"Vladimir Bukovsky points out that the middle ground between the Big Lie of Soviet propaganda and the truth is a lie, and one should not be looking for a middle ground between disinformation and information.[2] According to him, people from the Western pluralistic civilization are more prone to this fallacy because they are used to resolving problems by making compromises and accepting alternative interpretations, unlike Russians who are looking for the absolute truth."

Seeking absolute truth is a fool's errand. To use a physical analogy, truth is not a single point, it's a range. If you seek absolute truth you'll blind yourself to the range of possibilities.
It's better than open office. Adapting to noisy environment can be challenging. I have circumaural headphones for cases when I need more concentration.
This is the kind of project that makes much more sense to be paid for by taxes than tolls. The primary goal wasn't to make commutes faster, it was to improve the city and boost the economy on a significant scale. Tolls are a regressive tax, they tax the working and middle class who have to commute, and the shipping companies who just pass on the expense to retailers and consumers (I'm not sure what the distribution of industrial/commercial shipping volume is, but I imagine that food and other consumables account for the majority).

When it's paid for by taxes, you have the corporations who can now hire people from outside the city more easily, the tourism industries, and other entities that are actually reaping the most from the project paying for a proportionally larger amount than your average driver. Not only is that more fair, that the only way such a project could ever get funded.
The entire premise is based on quota!
You donate your $100M of highly over inflated stock. You know that by the time you could really sell the stock (i.e. various restrictions in the grant terms), you'd get nothing close to $100M. Let's say you expect it to drop to $20M in 24mo.

You just locked in the 'donation' tax write off amount at the peak value of the stock ($100M), but it can sit in your DAF for 2 years until you finally sell it for $20M (an give it to an actual charity). Going forward, you've got $100M your can deduct from your future taxes/income, that was only really worth $20M. You have effectively captured the value of the over inflated stock in the form of not paying any more taxes for a long time going forward.

This is how the rich get out of paying taxes. ;)
Meh, I doubt it would bring me back. 90% of my friends are on FB and the lack of a limit (or one I've ever hit) is quite nice. I'm able to write out full sentences with much less ambiguity or "text-speak" and while FB isn't my favourite company ever I'm going to go where my friends are at the end of the day. I don't write pages and pages or even multiple paragraphs most of the time but 1-2 sentences is normally not enough to express a full thought and because of that Twitter just doesn't work for me.
It's purpose was to make tweets fit into SMS.

It's past its purpose because noone uses Twitter via SMS and people routinely circumvent it with text in images and multi-part tweets anyway.
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Presumably nobody outside Facebook knows that either though?
And that is not what I want looking at the website to make you feel!

However, underline for all link text makes a distracting mess. Hmm.
> The article is simply saying that Bayesian methods are not a silver bullet

But it's not really saying it in passing; the headline is taken from that paragraph. At that point it almost feels like a takedown of a strawman Bayesian.
It's what fits in an SMS.
Yes! This is exactly what I've been thinking for a while as well; I've been sort of badly approximating it by saving up money and taking a while off between jobs.
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Less use of the service by users would mean less advertising seen by their customers. So, the parent's idea would not make business sense.
It's more of a philosophical statement than an actual implementation. Mainly that frequentist analysis begins with the prior "I dunno, could be anything..."

See also: The calculus answer.
Your article got me thinking about colored coins and different was to signal prices versus storing value and things that shouldn't be for sale. It seems that for price signaling to work best each person should get the same allotment per day. and some other currency for time storage and resource allocation. not sure how a system like this would work but kind interesting. already examples of it. voting can't be purchased. food stamps can't be traded etc. maybe instead one system there should many. or they could be partially intermingled. for instance a meal token could trump a general token because everyone only gets 3 meal tokens and you can have many general tokens.
I think modern office layouts try to get the benefit of "sharing an office with one other person" with huddle rooms. Of course, the problem there comes when you inevitably have to relinquish the huddle room :-)
You can't protect yourself in 100% - it would require developing more powerful reasoning tools in an infinite regression. But what you can do is to use introspection, and triple-check your reasoning when it seems to defy common sense or leads you to weird (awful) conclusions.

That's why LW is so big on biases and heuristics by the way - you can treat them as a list of warning signs; if your reasoning seems to match some of them, it's time to take a closer look.

(A thing a lot of people missed since knowing logical fallacies started to become a mainstream thing - you should use the list to check your own reasoning, not your opponent's.)
You have them owned by a trust and you replace trustees when they die.
Masters is a premium products, high margin business competing against Bunnings which is the opposite - a totally different beast to their lower margin, high volume supermarkets. One could see Masters was doomed from the beginning.
I think tomp is saying that most everyone agrees that society should have some inequality. It could be as little as "the employee of the month gets a dollar raise!", but most people would agree that a perfectly equal society is very hard to ensure and likely not desirable.
I disagree with your assessment of Dying light. It's a beautiful game on xbox one, I enjoyed it at full price. I'll get back to it when I feel like it but the mood and scenery are fantastic and quite memorable. I'd give it a 7.5 - 8, and I can see somebody rating it a 9.5 depending on their taste.
Too overcomplicated, but I do agree with your grandchild post suggestion of charging money for more chars!
> What was its purpose and why is it long past it?

To allow people to use Twitter over SMS. SMS are 160 characters, so a 140 character tweet leaves room for a 20 character header to allow for metadata and actions.

You can still use Twitter this way, which is why (as of relatively recently) you couldn't post a tweet that began with the word "Get", even from the web interface.
Presumably, post-140 Twitter will be pretty much the same as classical 140 twitter, but instead of 3/4 of all twerps ending with links to properties outside of Twitter, a huge chunk of those will link to more content inside of Twitter.

The only major change in post-140 Twitter would be the death of the Andreessen-style twerpstorm.
I cut and paste the quote directly.
From what i understand they wont remove 140 tweets but will introduce their own variation of "posts".

Every media distribution site atm seems to try to also own the content.

Twitter's value isnt that you have to write short messages but that others can scan dozens of ideas/tweets of multiple people in a very short time. They wont take that away. Most likely you will even have to attach a 1400 tweet to the post.