skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Marc was ill informed just like many in west. A lot of people think that India was economically better off under an oppressive colonial rule.

Facts:
- India's rate of growth under Britain was 1% and basically stagnant.
- India's rate of growth under Socialist policies was 3% (Racists people often refer to his a Hindu rate of growth implying Hinduism is responsible for the poverty though the term was not coined initially for that purpose)
- India's rate of growth post half hearted economic liberalization has been around 6% or more.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11076338
I never oncee compared them:)

I said that the large spread between the dollar and Yen benefits hedge funds. And I also said that low interest rates makes it harder for the average person to save.

I stand by both those comments. I don't think you need to be rude or to try and twist my words, just to try and refute a point no one was making;)
Next time I'm turned down for something, I should write a blog post complaining about how I've been "banned."

What next, "banned from acting" when the author auditions for a commercial but the producers pick someone else?
> unless evidence states otherwise

There is evidence in the form of the existence of transgender people. Some societies (as noted above) have been aware of the lack of an intrinsic link between apparent reproductive sex at birth and mental/social gender for quite a while, and analogous behavior is observed in some animals.

Just as you can't conversion therapy someone out of being transgender, David Reimer is evidence that you can't conversion therapy someone into being transgender.

Just because someone is born male, and raised as a boy, doesn't mean they'll agree once they can decide for themselves. They probably will, >99% of the time, but not always.
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You are definitely on the right track since it is otherwise very difficult for specific brands (selling big ticket items) to target a this highly specific yet large audience. We're currently monetizing along this dimension and plan to further optimize this approach.
Again: the people we're discussing in this story, as opposed to the one you've synthesized, appear to be very happy to be collecting this award on Slack's behalf.

When you're put in any situation in which you're somehow singled out because of your background, you should, if you feel it warranted, quit and then write the story up. Then we can discuss your concern in a context where it actually makes sense. I was not being sarcastic: if that ever happens to you, I feel like most people on this site will be very sympathetic to your problem.

There is an old message board term for the practice of synthesizing a concern and imputing it to someone else for the purpose of argumentation. It isn't a positive term.
Or equally plausibly, they are investors worried about the long-term strength of the company since they are in the same market as several other very strong companies who look to the long term.

That's less convenient for the narrative of hatred for Wall Street, of course, but it does seem within the bounds of reason.
Steven Yeun of Walking Dead talked about having to reject roles that specifically stereotyped Asians. Imagine doing that as an Asian man who traditionally finds it hard to find roles in the first place. Or look at the dearth of the lead roles for Asian men. Read this article from Aziz Ansari: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/arts/television/aziz-ansar...

And given the disparity in online dating stats and interracial marriage stats, you'd be hard pressed to tell me that stereotypes have zero bearing on the effect on Asian men (and Black women).

For ceilings, there are numerous studies and articles outlining how Asians may enter companies as employees but don't advance nearly as high as other ethnicities, being absent from some of the highest levels of the company. Consider the number of tech workers who are Asian and then compare it to the number of Asians who end up moving up to executive levels. Is it proportional? Not at all. Of course, critics will just say it's because of Asians not having the right skills. Strange. Couldn't we say the same about the lack of Blacks/Hispanics/women in tech? Look also into studies comparing the number of Asian lawyers compared to Asian judges. It's also not proportional.

Of course, we can also look at stats that show Asians often have to perform higher than other ethnicities to garner entrances into colleges. How is that not a penalty to their race?

The argument of Asians don't suffer as much as Blacks therefore don't have it bad is trite and non-constructive. Black and Hispanic vote counts much more in the political narrative than Asians. Even in my local city which has close to 40% Asians, our representation in the city council only has about 5-10% Asians council members. If you say something racist against a black person, like Donald Sterling or Paula Deen, you could lose a LOT. Yet if you say something racist against an Asian person on TV, you're barely forced to make a mea culpa.
Happy to MZ coming forward to apologize and clarify, I would have imagined he would have stayed out of it.

Those ill informed comments from Marc who is otherwise libertarian were disparaging.
Are people who use free basics required to create a Facebook account or can they simply just use Wikipedia and other apps/websites?
Whether or not there are darker reasons for Andreessen's statement, it really confuses me why people in such prominent positions don't stop and spend some time considering how comments like his might be interpreted. Zuckerberg's response is not surprising in any way and also conspicuously lacks any direct comments about Free Basics.
can i use it?
Yes, if I worked at Ford or at IBM or some other firm with past antisemitic connections I would feel even more patronized.

I'm a person, not a prop to be used by a corporation to score social points.
The price reflects the future prospects of Twitter, and a poorly-monetised Twitter with a shrinking user base is worth less than a poorly-monetised Twitter with a booming user base.

Put another way, they used to be hosting a huge party and just had to work out how to turn that into cash. Now people are starting to leave the party, making cash less of a concern at that point.
I'm comparing this to a similar situation I was in recently trying to advise a group to focus on one problem, not all the possibilities.

That is the simple statement, as you said '[how does this feature address] the problem we're trying to solve'?

Sometimes adding too many features turns the 'product into a mess', but I would argue that is not always the case. It sounds to me like you have very little confidence in the co-founder to make the right decisions. That may be well justified, it may not be. Sorry I can't help any further.
Does anyone else find these "Sorry for badmouthing x, I'm a huge fan of x" apologies offensively artificial? Is there any reason to effuse about the people you insulted beyond trying to look like you care about them? Both Zuck and pmarca went on about how amazing India is, and both of them came across as bullshitting.
Yep, you can find local dev groups and get a similar experience. Plus it's more fun to hear about what other people are working on instead of only hearing about stuff from co-workers that I also work on.

I just joined a local group and they do lunch meetups, happy hours, etc.
I disagree. But we'll see if they do it in a week. :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11070923
Congratulations!! I'm about to have a baby girl too (she is due on March 6).

I've been really stressed out about this, so I set out to have as many conversations with other dads as I could. The best thing that I heard was that you just need to accept it as part of their maturing process. You won't get it because you aren't meant to get it.

Then, I remind myself that when I was into AD&D, my Mom thought that I was worshipping Satan...:)
The only multireddit I ever use is the top 100 nsfw subs one...
Accept you "won't get it" early on.
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the sentiment i've gathered from people who use twitter professionally, namely journalists and the like, is that an algorithmic timeline would completely destroy the value proposition for them. twitter is such a nice little social media app that i find it disturbing to see it bullied by wall street. such is the fate of a publicly traded company. if it were a private company that could focus on being profitable without growing extravagantly and taking over the world like Facebook or Google, it could focus on providing its unique value to its most important users.

i think of all the social media platforms i use, twitter is the one that most tremendously contributes to society. twitter, far more than facebook in my opinion, democratizes the dissemination of ideas and information.
I agree that this sound like self-promoting, but calling that bit of the book "obviously unacceptable"?
I know there are theoretical alternatives to Twitter, but until the appropriate userbase is out there then they're not truly viable alternatives. I know that's a Catch-22, or a paradox, or whatever you want to call it, but that's the sad reality for those of us that would like to leave the platform. So, in lieu of leaving, here are the features I feel like would help Twitter retain me as a user:

1. Bring back custom apps! Twitter is a service, and I want control over how I access that service. This would also take such a huge burden off of Twitter: don't care about the super bowl? Use an app that lets you filter hashtags, piece of cake! So many features can be implemented on top of a service, with no extra effort from Twitter. I get that this could conceivably enable filtering timeline ads, but seriously they can just pull API keys for apps that do that, it's a non-issue.

2. Let me subscribe to ideas, not just people. If I do care about the super bowl, maybe let me turn on push notifications for tweets about it from people within my network for whom I otherwise do not have push notifications enabled.

3. Make chronological timelines a setting. Not an option, not a tab, a semi-permanently enabled setting. It's the most annoying thing about Facebook right now, having to explicitly re-enable chronological timelines every week or so when Facebook has "forgotten". As it stands, even that much is an improvement over Twitter's proposed always-on non-chronological timeline.

4. Don't nanny me unless I ask you to. There have been reports that Twitter has blocked notifications for @replied tweets because Twitter suspected the tweet would be offensive. I get that harassment is an issue and that Twitter was trying to be proactive, but make it an option. The user in this case was failing to be notified of tweets they wanted to see, and had no way to disable the "feature".

5. Inconsistency foments distrust. If you want that blue check mark to mean something then you'd best lay out a solid and strict process for them. I've seen at least one person have theirs removed over unsubstantiated claims, yet more egregious offenders have kept theirs throughout. I've seen others go through the process for acquire their blue checks and they always seem to have different requirements. Some reported having to change their profile name to their real name, others said they had to put their actual photo on their profile.
Perhaps because they think lack of growth is a precursor to implosion.

Investors also always think about the immediate obvious future. Twitter may have many monetization opportunities, but without implementing or demonstrating any, you have know way of knowing where they are going or if they'll succeed as an investor.
Hopefully one day dumb humans learn from their mistake of blaming "greed" and various other nebulous exogenous factors instead of focusing on robustness of institutions.
Look at nature. Sometimes the male is dominant, sometimes the female is dominant (or whatever feature you want to focus on). We are different. There is nothing wrong with that.
These young people are addicted to their phones and snapchat.

Later on in life, when they 'grow out' of snapchat, they will replace the addiction with something else - some other app, but also food, drugs or sex.

Whatever thing they will find interesting, they will pursue it with the same pattern that they learn with these apps / games.

This future generation will have to find a way to live with all this addictive technology and survive in the real world.

Might well be that Snapchat (and others) will be looked at as we're now looking at cigarettes.
I know a guy who works at an airline company. He's porting all the C++ and assembly code to 64 bit architecture. He genuinely did not know C++ was a seperate language from C.

To be fair, he shamelessly bragged about getting the job through nepotism.
Has some corporation made you feel like you were being used as a "prop" to "score social points"?

All the evidence in this story points to the conclusion that these particular people do not feel so used.
Can you ELI5 the significance of the "money stock" in the graph you linked to?
There is loads of data that suggests an economic collapse around the corner. Right now there are so many indicators of economic health that are reporting poor results, that it's worth taking seriously the prospect of a looming economic collapse.
A lot of the startups that are ridiculously overvalued don't really seem to produce tangible items ("lets monetise our bullshit social media app!"). At least renewable resource startups seem like they'd be a more solid investment than serving up ads in creative ways.
It's a huge benefit. Currently pregnant and working in web development: working from home and part time are absolutely crucial to keeping me in the work force. Don't get me wrong I love my job and wouldn't want to give it up but there's no way I could breastfeed, raise a child and work full time in an office environment for the next year. Babies eat once every 2-3 hours! It's just not feasible. Then after a year off, skills would slide since things move so quickly in this industry and I'd be far behind where I was.

Working from home with the option for part time is the bees knees. I can keep up my skills and do motherly things as well, and just take a pay cut (from the hours) for a year .
Our realtime features seem to overlap based on a quick look on their website, except we get distribution for free from the Erlang VM so you can deploy Phoenix on a cluster and you don't an intermediate redis instance or similar for pubsub/IPC across nodes.
In a perfect country where there was wasn't 100 years of slavery, if women had the right to vote from the start, equal pay, etc. sure, you would scratch your head at showcasing minorities.

But now our country has "original sin". Countering the damage that has been done by the generational, institutional holding back of minorities takes great effort.

There are far too many people who think there are no women who code, now add minorities to the mix.

So yes, right now we have to highlight such achievements.

Someday it won't be necessary.
I'd love to see what you have worked on. :)
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10.8 and forward have serious problems.

But old versions are totally unsupported in terms of security fixes. So if your computer is being used to access the Internet in general, you really need to be on 10.9 or newer. And it won't be long before Apple stops pushing security fixes to 10.9.

There's no LTS equivalent of OS X. There probably should be, but it's a consumer OS so Apple has no real incentive to do that.
My grandmother is from Prague. I didn't actually "decide" to move here. My mother offered me a house that she was to inherit in return for comming to take care of an eldery aunt. It was a deal that I couldn't refuse...
I feel even older. Here I thought people used snapchat just for sending naked photos. The headline for this article made me cringe.
So what they're saying is that there are people uploading 60GB data of faces of the same person every month? How does snapchat not have the best face recognition algorithm by now? Even facebook doesn't have so many samples.
> So every time I tell it "I hate this", it thinks I actually dislike the people and tweets, which is actually the opposite.

On the official android client, you can dismiss the second popup without clicking on "I like this" or "I hate this" by clicking anywhere on the screen. I'm not going to train your stupid robot for your stupid feature.
Isn't this effectively what Aaron Swartz got in trouble for?
Is there a fundamental problem with mesh? Why couldn't that work in combination with something like maidsafe?

Just thinking out loud here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11076192
Well constantly repeating some unproven theories, pushing them everywhere and harassing everyone who disagrees looks kinda like an agenda
Tried messing around with it, but bundler dies every time :/
> There is the fact that criminals are less able to commit further crimes while in prison.

This presupposes we catch the criminals. This doesn't really match up with reality—it's actually quite difficult to get any conviction from some murder cases, for instance. In a limited sense, what happens to the individual doesn't matter nearly as much as laws affect crime rates.
The way you do valuations is using DCF analysis. They do some projection until a final year at which point they treat is as perpetuity with some growth rate. Here is the basic formula PV = FCF/(r-g). Where r is discount rate and g is growth rate. As you can see g is huge in the way companies are valued. For example for d=10% and FCF value of $10 million a growth rate of 1% would value the company at 111 million whearas a growth rate of 9% would value it at $1 billion. Almost 10x as much. That is why growth is so important to finance people.
Open source hw maybe the ejection seat from black boxes (tinfoil and real concerns) and proprietary facism, could solve much in the same way marginalized Unices. The issues are funding, talent wrangling and practical desktop lithography (FPGA is a stepping-stone).
Seems like they (and a lot of SV) need to figure out ways to monetize other than ads.
A couple of these tools have sprung up:

JSON: https://mholt.github.io/json-to-go/

CURL: https://mholt.github.io/curl-to-go/

SQL: https://github.com/knq/xo

The JSON tool especially has saved me a lot of time.
Lean is less about money and more about mindset
A while ago I saw a paper in the SIAM Review - just one and a half pages of maths, followed by

"Remark 2. The theorem proved here gives a completely new general method. It generalizes all known results for balancing chemical equations cited chronologically in references [1]–[125]."
http://www.siam.org/journals/problems/downloadfiles/71-025s....

Reference 125 is to this paper.
Genuine question: Did Zuckerberg badmouth India? If so, I missed it. I thought he was just trying to distance himself from Andreessen's tweet. If so, I don't see how this is an instance of a ""Sorry for badmouthing x, I'm a huge fan of x" apology.
The name was donated by the company that bought Hyperledger last year, and one of the codebases being donated also descends from the original Hyperledger codebase.
It's an investment. India is an emerging market, and those folks' purchasing power can only increase. It is truly a great strategy, because his company will be the one collecting data on what they like and what they don't before they're even able to buy stuff. That is a sure way to beat your competition.
You need to re-read what you said. You will never have a counterfactual proving that India was not able to embark on an industrial revolution, because the British seized the country and stymied all growth that was not beneficial to them.

By then going on to say if not the British then someone else would have done it give the reader the impression that you believe it was justified because of that. If that's not what you meant to say (and it is not just me who has pointed that out), then you need to be more precise in your use of language.

And FYI the industrial revolution in textiles kicked into high gear in England in 1822, a good 50 years or so after India was under effective company rule. And textiles was an industry where India had a comparative advantage before company rule. Wonder where Britain got all that raw material to make textiles from?

From wikipedia:
During the period, 1780–1860, India changed from being an exporter of processed goods for which it received payment in bullion, to being an exporter of raw materials and a buyer of manufactured goods.[20] More specifically, in the 1750s, mostly fine cotton and silk was exported from India to markets in Europe, Asia, and Africa; by the second quarter of the 19th century, raw materials, which chiefly consisted of raw cotton, opium, and indigo, accounted for most of India's exports.[21]

Starting in the 1830s, British textiles began to appear in—and soon to inundate—the Indian markets, with the value of the textile imports growing from £5.2 million 1850 to £18.4 million in 1896.
The best way to live is to be prepared for continued success and prosperity in our society, yet also know what to do in case of utter collapse, or of anything in between.

Hence my coding job and investments on one hand, and living on a self-sustainable homestead on the other. If I never need to use my homestead, and just end up giving my children a piece of land worth enough to retire on... that sounds just fine.
That's nice. It doesn't work well enough to be useful yet, but has promise. If this can be made to work, it will be a feature in video chat apps.
> You can just get an unlimited tarif and be done with it.

Um, if you're in the U.S. probably not. Most have some kind of limits even on 'unlimited' such as your connection goes to ISDN speed.

Even my cable modem has a 350GB a month cap which I occasionally exceed.
I think understand your perspective. I just disagree with your contention that this story should be taken at face value or understood in a narrow context. I see this story as part of a more broad discussion about identity politics so I think what I wrote is within the purview of that discussion.
Thank you for the thoughtful and thorough feedback! We will definitely start tweaking and testing the items you called out.
Agreed. Rather than dragging users kicking and screaming into an algorithmic timeline, why not play up the strengths of features they already built? Especially since lists allow you to target a user more directly - you can analyze the accounts in the list and get a rough estimate of what the category is - and could generate more revenue for them.

Twitter would be really really cool if you could have your lists and then swipe through them like you do with the "Moments" feature (which is awful)
Or at least put your money where your mouth is, and sell shorts.
Google to scrub web search results more widely to soothe EU objections
A little program to automagically send files
You're kidding? Nothing like
VSCO is definitely a phenomenon amongst teenagers, regardless of the product placement possibilities in the article. I'd actually have rather seen an article on that, because I find it fascinating that a service without any of the Skinner-box gratification buttons ("like" "retweet" "share" "comment") has taken off in such a big way.
Thanks for the update. Decent plan. An alternative would be to code it in SPARK Ada for speed and correctness. Has side benefit that each component done that way won't be touched by halfassed developers because they lack the will to learn it. Not quick n dirty enough for them. ;)
Flash ads were a good way to target desktop office day time users for some conversion needs. Anyway had to go ..