skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, a disclosure: I hate Facebook, I think Free Basics is evil, and I think Marc Andreesen says a lot of stupid shit.

That being said, this whole uproar is just more proof that social media is totally, utterly broken. Let me explain.

While I think Marc is on the board of an evil company and that his thought process on this matter is incredibly ignorant, I really appreciate the fact that he shares his point of view. I don't just appreciate it, I respect it. Maybe he's got a point. Maybe he doesn't. I won't know unless I hear what he's got to say, and then spend some time thinking it through. This is what intelligent, thinking people do. Before they turned into kettle pots of blind activism, this is what people went to college to learn to do. This is what makes living in a free-speech democracy so great -- people say totally crazy shit, some people agree, some people don't, it's all good.

Maybe the education system broke down or something, but people are no longer capable of dealing with viewpoints that differ from their own. They immediately label the person with whom they disagree, shame them (look at all of those screen grabs! Oh my!), and broadcast their displeasure to the world. We live in a world where people are supposedly taught to embrace those with different views -- that you and your best friend and your daughter's husband and your next door neighbor might not actually have the same exact views, but you can still be friends and get along just fine -- but this sort of tempered nuance attracts zero attention in a click-like-share world. Tolerance gains no attention in the world of social media; "disgust," "outrage," and other such intolerant reactions attract a crowd of views.

People should be thanking Marc Andreesen, the Facebook board member, for being so utterly candid about his thought process. Those in disagreement should cite facts to educate him. I'm sure he has his own facts that form his opinions (and surely, he does). Maybe his opinions won't change, and maybe those of the dissenters won't either. You know what, that's okay! That's LIFE. Life isn't about being right, it's about being alive. You can think Marc is a total moron on the India topic and still be his friend. We don't all have to agree on everything. It's WEIRD if we did -- there's nothing real about it. As I like to say, "a friend with whom you've never disagreed is a potential enemy you never knew you had."

Social media justice isn't justice, it's a modern-day mockery of the freedom of thought we fought so hard to attain. This shit is broken, folks. I don't know why Marc bothers with it, but I guess he is one of those people who thinks social media is the future of human discourse. I'm not. And that's okay.
Yes, there's a lot of bias against gaming, which to me isn't right. However, I find that playing video games feels either too dry or too much like work these days. I spent a significant amount of money building a gaming PC just to get back into the gaming life but I never play the damn thing because the games I have are either too boring or too hard to play in short bursts. I've pretty much burned out on gaming ... lool. What was initially a recreational hobby became too serious and time consuming and it sucked all the joy out of it. So moral of the story is, try to balance your life a bit more.
Of course, that document was written by another VC who likes to run his mouth on Twitter. So there's a legitimate discussion to be had about whether that document is poisoning the well of criticism.

Marc Andreessen is an extraordinarily influential person in tech, and that influence is based on his reputation. If a nobody like me tweeted something dumb, everyone would just ignore me. Nobody ignores Andreessen, though. Maybe it would be better for the world if his Twitter feed and mine were treated similarly, but that's not how the world works, and we have to respond to the world as it is.

Furthermore, part of his continuing influence, 20 years after Netscape, is the continuing impression that he is a clear thinker about issues facing the tech world. (See, elsewhere in this thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11072721 .) There are two valid discussions at play here. The first is whether Free Basics is a good idea; the second is whether Andreessen is in fact the insightful thinker he appears to be. (The specific subdiscussion about whether rejecting Free Basics is a form of anti-colonialism, incidentally, is only valid if we take it as a given that Andreessen's ideas are worth listening to in the first place.) For the second one, a record of him just not being a good or well-informed thinker is in fact refuting the central point of that argument.
This reminds me of those educational/cultural interactive cdroms that were a thing in the 90s/early 2000s and that my local library had a for a 1-week rent. Most of them were kinda fun (for a kid) even though I wished in those times they had a copy of Diablo 1 instead! Anyway, it just seems to me that technology has lost the drive to produce this kind of content which was more prevalent before.
> He simply could have chosen to not apply the sentence.

Not if he wants to uphold the law. As soon as you replace the law with personal whim, you could end up anywhere, including the guillotine. There is a way within the law to challenge it; but that way is not to just refuse to apply it if you don't like what it says.
Isn't this how HFT works?
Every serious economic paper I've read on the subject suggests that decline in Indian GDP during the colonial years was due to the bottom dropping out of several commodities markets. You seem to be insinuating something else was at work. Do you have anything you could cite?
Hey HN, I made this after working from a coffee shop when I happened to notice my battery was already at 50% – after just an hour. Turns out one of the browser tabs I had open was using 100% CPU. It'd been going on for awhile so the fan was spinning like crazy but I couldn't hear it over the noise in the shop.

So what the app does is it lets you know when a program starts draining your battery so you can close it and save battery power. Specifically, it triggers a notification when any process uses x% CPU or consumes y gigabytes of memory for z seconds (you choose the x, y, and z values).

This is the first piece of software I've written that isn't a web app and the first release I've felt comfortable sharing widely. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Do Mr. Andreessen realize what colonialism was like in India?

Following two incidents are enough to educate what a gift british colonoalism was for India:

1. Firing on Poor people
http://www.sikh-history.com/sikhhist/events/jbagh.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre

2. Artificial Famine took Millions of Lives:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943
> sluggish Indian economy once they freed themselves of colonial rule

If you understand the affects of colonialism of 200 years - economic and other exploitation - sluggish is pretty much the best case you can expect after freedom. Comparing to other colonies India has done fairly well for having being nearly destroyed and rebuilt.
It might not be news to you.

Do you have any links to Mandelbrot's work in this field?
Does this also show tweets i've already seen in my list, or does this only serve to show me tweets twice when i go to the main view?

Edit: Either i'm blind, or that setting isn't available everywhere yet.
> We've already seen that people who use this new feature tend to Retweet and Tweet more, creating more live commentary and conversations, which is great for everyone.

If that's true don't expect it to be hidden behind a setting for long.
I really hate this argument, the change in GDP share is because the West industrialised and the East didn't, before that it was mostly a matter of population, per capita GDP didn't matter so much.

Not to say I have any idea what would have happened without colonialism, but thinking that India would have retained their share of world GDP is naive.
> There's no reason to believe the universe is infinite nor that stars are evenly distributed throughout its volume.

There is if you believe General Relativity is correct as applied to the universe as a whole. And if you don't, you have no model at all with which to make any predictions about what we should observe, so there's no reason to believe anything.
There's a case to be made about the good things colonialism brought for countries. Not a great one and you'll get shouted down however.

But this fracas really distracts from the more important issue - "net neutrality" (Colonialism is dead after all, at least early 20th century style..) The Indian government seems quite appropriate in their concerns. This whole 'denying poor people free stuff' is very likely seen as a subterfuge. Maybe 'owning' parts of the net is the new colonialism.
Is that the annoying "While you were away" feature that I have been closing several times a day in the past weeks? I would like to disable it forever but there is no such option.
I'm a US citizen living in Sweden. I still vote in the US, as if I were a resident from where I used to be. In fact, I have a ballot for two municipal offices on my desk right now. (This is the second ballot I've gotten this year. The first was for a school bond. The US has a lot of elections.)

In reference to briandear's comment "It is illegal to register to vote in a state in which you aren't resident", that simply isn't correct.

However, I don't know what happens with Americans who were born overseas and are citizens because their parents were citizens, but who have never been resident in the US. Ahh, https://www.fvap.gov/citizen-voter/reside gives details.
Hm, I'm curious to see more about this. I was a young child when I last visited my family in India, many years ago, but I don't remember a particular need to filter water. And if I google 'india reverse osmosis', the second result (the first is a sales site) is a Times of India article about how it's a scam:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Reverse-osmosi...
Google Reverses Its Decision to Ban Ad Blocking Apps from the Google Play Store
I don't see what's wrong with this, specifically. It's his account, he can block whoever he wants.

People take this stuff way too personally. I've blocked a few people simply because I don't like their stuff in my feed. One of them bugged me for months afterwards to unblock him, even though it's completely inconsequential and I don't say much interesting anyway.

IMO this is a flaw with twitter. Blocks are two-way: I don't see their stuff, and they don't see my stuff. But whenever I'm blocking someone, it's just because I don't want to see their stuff. There's no reason to tie those together.

In any case, how a person manages their own Twitter account is their business. If they use it to say something ridiculous then by all means attack it, but going after them merely for blocking people is ridiculous.
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> India’s decision to block a free Internet service from Facebook Inc.

How does Bloomberg lead with this "fact"? Facebook's offering is not Internet service, but a whitelisted pipe. Does Bloomberg normally willingly eat up and repeat corporate propaganda?
1) Just because everyone is cheating doesn't mean there isn't a competition. The competition is for clean, high-mileage, high-performing vehicles and it very much is a competition.

2) I'm not sure why you decided to rename it a Bosch/Audi scandal as it is a Volkswagen/Bosch/Audi/Porsche scandal. Volkswagen is simply the combination of most highly distributed manufacturer and highest name recognition in that set.

3) Everyone cheats is not an excuse for cheating. It just means better testing and regulation enforcement is required.

4) I do agree that the paper has it backwards. Dishonesty leads to Competition "Winning" rather than the other way around.
> Does your girlfriend have access to services as a US citizen? Such as embassies, entrance to the US without a visa, or evacuation in case of war? Who should pay for those services if your girlfriend doesn't want to

My wife has those! guess what we don't pay a dime because we are citizens of... the rest of the world.
Developed parts of India made up about 10% in 1947. Today Urban india is almost 35% and the population is 4 times larger. So effectively an increase of 14 times in number of people that are urbanized. Highly doubt the British system would scale to current population and density levels.

We just saw reports of Flint, Michigan and multiple cities having excessive lead and contamination in water supply etc. I wouldn't use that to suggest British need to come back and take over the US.
Nothing he said was racist.
How Airbnb Hid the Facts in New York City
The Truth About Empire - and Western Colonialism!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGERS905pPk
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"The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that between 1990 and 1996 road rage contributed to 218 deaths and 12,610 injuries. The study analyzed 10,037 police reports and newspaper stories about traffic accidents that led to violence. What's more, AAA found that road rage incidents increased nearly 7 percent each year within that six-year period."

in http://www.apa.org/monitor/jun05/anger.aspx
When the going gets tough, the tough get going
Thank you; I hate when the answer to a clickbait title is buried deep in an article.
Personally I think it's similar to children. Below a certain age/maturity level they only know that they've done something wrong because they can read our emotional reaction...but they have no real idea why it's wrong. That understanding comes later for children but never happens w/ dogs.
I believe While you were away has been around for a long long time. This new thing does sound very similar though.
Perhaps the persons making the flashy images and the persons writing the documentation are not the same.
This headline is simply incorrect and unfair to Andreessen. Yes, it was a stupid tweet, but it does not mean that Andreessen is "pro-colonialism."

I think the anti-communism of the McCarthy era was idiotic and contrary to American values. Does that make me pro-communism? Only if you're a Republican.
> To check it out now, just go into the timeline section of your settings and choose 'Show me the best Tweets first'.

Am I the only one who can't find timeline section in settings?

http://i.imgur.com/kKedYcn.png
I use vcsh and my, I even wrote a blog post about it:
https://srijanshetty.in/technical/vcsh-mr-dotfiles-nirvana/
> However, jQuery is largely considered very cumbersome by more experienced devs, owing to being slow in performance and to being a large file include that slows page load times, and a lot of people try to avoid it for that reason.

I whole heartedly disagree. Experienced devs consider jQuery a tool and know when to use smaller frameworks like vanillaJS or something heavier such as React/Aurelia. Also, in terms of web libraries/frameworks, 100kb is not that big.
Upset about this issue and want to make a positive difference rather than debating technicalities or simply waiting for the other shoe to drop?

It may be no surprise that FATCA and FBAR present several consitutitional issues. Chief among them are the following:

-As the IRS can unilaterally sign unauthorized pseudo-treaties with foreign governments, the Senate’s role in ratifying treaties is bypassed

-Fourth amendment: Private financial data is collected indiscriminately

-Eighth Amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment, as well as excessive fines, may be leveraged when compliance is not perfect, and without Rule of Law provisions to ensure any protection for the accused.
(My recapitulation of points in [1] )

Thankfully, several large scale legal challenges on exactly these grounds are now underway- by Sen Rand Paul and 6 other expats [2] , and perhaps even more promisingly, by super lawyer Jim Bopp (who took down Mc-Cain Feingold [3]).

You can also donate a small amount to support the latter case: https://fatcalegalaction.com/contribute/
Thanks for reading, lets not give up hope, and remain fired up to the correctness of this cause because, in the words of Bopp - “The U.S. Constitution protects every citizen’s liberty and freedom, while FATCA undermines both,”

We deserve better!

Signed,
An American living in Paris

[1] http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/18253...

[2] http://www.taxanalysts.com/www/features.nsf/Features/9D07FB4...

[3] http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/5/superlawyer-j...
I found the tweet harmless. It was what happened after that which was interesting: https://twitter.com/nixxin/status/697289669671841793
Tell me about it...

I took my sister's dog to my brother-in-law's dad's funeral. The poor mutt does not speak English, has not seen a priest before, has never been to a funeral before, yet the dog was behaving most unusually, not at all able to hold it together, shaking.

This was a small family gathering - it was not as if the dog was scared of some huge crowd - plus it was delightfully sunny without the slightest breeze. There were no other reasons I could see for what was going on inside the walnut-sized brain of this dog other than the events going on around her. Most strange.
I'd like to add my 2 pence to the notion of gaming to relax.

For someone who isn't a regular gamer, it isn't a relaxing thing to do. It's frustrating to have to master new controls, and every new game mechanic requires some kind of mental gymnastics, not to mention the hand-eye co-ordination to master.

For people who have, or do play games with some regularity, it is a great way to relax. New control schemes have a very shallow learning curve, and it's rare that a regular gamer encounters an entirely new game mechanic.

For example, my father in law was playing a COD game after not having played video games for many, many years, and was stuck at a certain point. After watching him sit through a brief cut scene, and then furiously mash the buttons on the controller, I intuitively realized what he was doing wrong. He was trying to "play the game" as he normally did, but didn't notice the little button icon at the bottom of the screen to signify a quick time event, and had never seen one before either. As a result, he was hitting the wrong button, only to watch the cut scene finish with his character dieing (he admitted to having sat through this 20+ times).

I myself, will often play games for a few hours after my wife has gone to bed, and on more than one occassion, I've complained about not having the energy to do anything prodcutive after the evening meal, and she likes to say something to the tune of "but you play video games for hours?". For her, playing video games is a tense, mind racing activity that requires lots of thought and manual dexterity. For me, it's little more than an interactive story with the occassional challenge (and they're usually bested after a second attempt, even at harder skill levels) and allows me to tune out for a bit before bed.
I've always thought that between clicks and SEO, this is why the URLs of articles sometimes can vary so widely from the title.
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> When you look at the subject of aggression there is no more important factor than gender. Something like 90 percent of the people in prison for violent crimes are men. Men have different brains than women, which comes from our different roles during evolution, when the brain was formed. Men had a role of being aggressive, which makes no sense for a woman because a woman was not endowed with the physical strength of a man, who probably outweighs her. But although 90 percent of those in jail are men, 90 percent of people who have been awarded medals by the Carnegie Institute for heroism are also men.

What is wrong with this guy? Doesn't he know that gender is a social construct?
OK, how exactly are we supposed to do this here?

The original statement may have different interpretations, but none of them result in mapping "anti-colonialism" to "socialism." There's just no way to get from A to B actually looking at what was said.

Then he comes along and says he meant something completely different. No relation to the original statement. Apparently a moment of total brain confusion.

Do we take him at his word? I suppose we could, but then we're basically giving everybody a free pass to retroactively alter any statement they've made in any way if they don't like the reaction.

For what it's worth, I don't dislike Mr. Andreessen and have only a vague idea of who he even is (something to do with Netscape, right?).
Why are Indian gurus selling noodles?
There is demo video of the parents organisations product.

https://vimeo.com/143728632

There are times I see stuff done in the browser that makes me feel inadequate, this is one of those times.

That interface is incredible.
Thank you for showing me the moral equivalent of tormenting mice and eating bread. I feel enlightened.
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Mughals:
"The psychological interpretations emphasize depravity in high places, excessive luxury, and increasingly narrow views that left the rulers unprepared for an external challenge." [ theory from Wikipedia entry on Mughals. Follow their citations. ]

People were glad to get rid of them and their wars which crippled India.

Britain kicked them out and (mostly) unified India.
House bill would kill state, local bills that aim to weaken smartphone crypto
As a policy position, I don't think it is.

However, if you look at a lot of the rhetoric that has been used it is heavily influenced by anti-colonialism. (Don't let this Western company come in and colonize our Internet.) I suspect the debate would have been quite different if it were ex. Flipkart offering Free Basics.
But every scientific experiment should withstand scrutiny, regardless of how malicious or creative in its criticism it may be. We currently do not have any machine that can measure "qualia" in animals let alone a formal way of quantifying and making sense out of it.
Sorry, it's based off tofu dreg construction, which is a chinese slang term meaning substandard, rushed construction. Used either as 豆腐渣工程 or just 豆腐工程. I've heard it explained as old tofu being mixed into concrete to push up volume, that it refers to buildings being built as sturdy as blocks of tofu, or spilled concrete that wasn't removed looking like tofu dregs.

I've taken to using 豆腐编程 (doufubiancheng) to refer to the sturdier variant of chinese software engineering, which suffers from similar quality issues as chinese construction.
Guide to Bad Data
> What's the premium of having a US passport? Canadian, UK, Scandinavian, Dutch, HK, Japanese, really whatever developed nations passport seems to be a better deal.

Exactly! I would be so happy to have a EU passport, that way I would have free travel/work access to the whole Euro zone and easier access to the UK.
Any link on how Magic the Gathering is Turing complete? The only thing I could find is how to represent a Turing machine with Magic cards.
So should the earth heat up over time as more light reaches us or does the expansion of the universe negate that?
It's entertaining that apparently one of our signifiers of independent personhood is "Can drive a car."

This issue is only confusing to the extent this isn't considered.

>an algorithm is just another car part

Exactly. And the designer is on the hook for negligence in the usual way - but not for malicious, tragic, and/or unforseeable circumstances that may lead to death or injury.

Finding the boundary between those will keep a lot of lawyers very busy. But I don't think we need to start assigning personhood and agency to a steering system just yet.