skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What an insanely bad deal: I pay my life, and I get a thing which somewhat increases the quality of my life, contingent on me having ambitions that are big enough to require a death-sized motivational tool.

Why would you ever choose "dying" over "not dying"? If you live to be a million years old you have a million years to achieve all your dreams, albeit you don't have as much motivation to achieve them in the first 80 years of your life. If you only live 80 years, then you have a lot of motivation to achieve all your dreams in that timespan but (a) your ambitions might not be achievable in 80 years (b) whatever satisfaction you get from achieving your dreams runs out once you die anyway and worst of all (c) you lose 999920 years of life.

It stands to reason that whoever chooses "die at 80" over "die at 1e6" or even "never die" just doesn't value living very much.
As I wrote above, I agree with you on the requirements for replacement theory. My point is that a new theory of a phenomenon does not need to replace and reproduce all the results of the old theory to be considered worthwile, competing, acceptable.
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Most of the automated call centers tell you the conversation may or will be recorded prior to getting a human. I would assume this would be de facto consent for you to record the conversation, yes?

Not that there's much reason to not just state it outright, but I'm curious whether I have to give notice that I'm recording a conversation if notice of recording has already been given to me.
And that's the important issue, after all. We need to make sure that people who enjoy sexist language feel welcome in the technology industry and on forums like this, because otherwise we would so rarely get to hear their perspective.
> which, as the article showed by its actual usage, tend to be seen as synonymous

In the sciences, language often takes on an entirely different meaning than in popular lexicon. This is one of the reasons I cringe every time I hear someone state, 'It is just a theory'.

> "Verify" and "re-analyze" seem like a more natural fit.

At least in my field (computational science), verification already has a very specific meaning. Overloading terms is avoided, although that also happens.

In terms of successful communication between scientists, it is far more important for everyone to agree on the meaning of a term than what particular word is used itself. But perhaps this is also accounts for difficulties communicating important results to non-specialists...
The Guardian isn't a tabloid in either the physical sense or the metaphorical (it's a Berliner).

Similarly, the Times is definitely a tabloid in the physical sense.

Both newspapers are reasonably far from tabloid in their content.
Yeah but your way of thinking isn't good for getting karma on HN. Pretty much any HN thread on a big company doing something good is dominated by cynics who cannot fathom the possibility of people out there wanting to make money and benefit the world at the same time.
Twitter is another instance where a company destroys the one thing (service, product) they do well by attempting to do all other things at the same time. They end up creating a diluted, mediocre thing that everyone just dislikes equally. Horizontal expansion at the cost of vertical depth.

> They see their favorite band straining to become U2. And they hate U2.

This is a perfect analogy.

I used to really like Twitter. But every change they do to the mobile app (or to the service in general) is just polluting the experience of what was once a pretty well controlled stream.

I can't find the group of people I like to follow (developers) anywhere else, so I haven't given up on the service yet. The content is mostly still there. But the friction, and the amount of noise, is increasing drastically.
China has a punishing inheritance tax, really? China has no inheritance tax

Sorry; proposed inheritance tax.

http://www.ibtimes.com/chinas-proposed-inheritance-tax-meets...

My point stands; Canadian interest rates could double and Vancouver house prices wouldn't budge; some Canadians would have their homes foreclosed on, but there's so much money in the market from China that homes here would still be unaffordable to people working in Canada and paying Canadian taxes.

This just isn't a 'bubble'.

China has no inheritance tax, it also lacks a property tax or even a capital gains tax. Libertarians would love it here if it weren't for the police state...

Nice! This sounds like a pretty good way to game the system; earn all your money in a tax-less free-wheeling libertarian wonderland, cash out, then bring your millions to a place with no wealth tax! The new place will have lots of social services and lots of burdensome income taxes for the locals to pay for them, but you made your money and you don't have income to tax! Win!

I should figure out how to get in on this.
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Yes, you do always need humans to enforce/interpret the laws. Don't be absurd.

The alternative is kind of like that scene in Robocop, except ED-209 is a judge instead of a robot, it sentences you to death rather than killing you directly (the bailiff obeys unquestioningly), and instead of frantically trying to shut the machine down, everybody in the room agrees that you were indeed carrying the gun, and almost certainly still are.

You ask for a retrial and it takes 1/50th of a second to spit out exactly the same response. The rationale for the verdict is a procedurally generated AST running to 5200 pages, which is incoherent not only to you but also to lawyers and programmers alike. (You are given a copy of it on a USB stick, but no computer to read it with.)

A country where laws are applied with absolutely no nuance, context, consideration, empathy or judgement is a petrifying hellscape. A pretty good Black Mirror episode, in fact.

E: this is all ignoring how awful human beings are at software development.
That's definitely something we can think about, but the first challenge of MJML is definitely to help developers create beautiful layouts easily
I want to ask you, do you think that there are wider class divides in Seattle than in Vancouver? I hear all the time about BLM marches, May Day riots, anti-gentrification/anti-Amazon vandalism, no-whites-allowed yoga, SPD brutality, etc. in Seattle. Whereas in Vancouver, our local Occupy Vancouver movement dissipated quickly. Someone once told me that in Seattle (and SF), there are a lot of desperate people because class is divided in a way that I (as a Canadian) am not used to.
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What about HL7? When I last worked with an EHR system (2? years ago), implementing HL7-based interop with other providers was all the rage so that they could eliminate fax machines when transferring patient records.
There is a good technical reason for the present state of medicine for age-related disease, which is that it overwhelmingly addresses proximate causes rather than root causes. Near all treatments attempt to mess with the complex disease state in a late stage of its progression, or in some way compensate for loss of function by adjusting other processes into a higher state of activity. It is expensive, error-prone, and the gains are tiny. The underlying root causes continue to run forward unaddressed.

The research community has only just started the transition into treating root causes, which is to say the aging process itself, the accumulating forms of cell and tissue damage that are fundamental, not caused by anything other than the normal operation of metabolism. There are initiatives, some of which have reached the stage of clinical translation, but they are only a tiny fraction of the overall expenditure at present.

This will change over the next decade or two as the first results for fundamental damage repair (e.g. senescent cell clearance) become compelling enough and widely known enough to shift the entire field in the right direction.
Bram Cohen, creator of BitTorrent, knows a thing or two about how to successfully engineer a decentralised, peer to peer protocol.

Bram wrote about the manufacturing of this ‘fake crisis’ back in June of last year [1]. He wrote a subsequent post after Mike Hearn's big ragequit in January [2]. And he's written another short post just today [3]. I'd suggest reading these if you want to get some balance to this highly one-sided and simplistic article by Cade Metz in Wired.

[1] https://medium.com/@bramcohen/bitcoin-s-ironic-crisis-32226a...

[2] https://medium.com/@bramcohen/whiny-ragequitting-cab164b1e88...

[3] https://medium.com/@bramcohen/double-billing-is-not-healthy-...
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> scientists don't want to "waste" their time reproducing other peoples results

Completely agree, and it is actually even worse than you imply: if you think it is hard to get scientists to reproduce others work, imagine trying to pitch NSF/DOE, etc. to fund the study!
information was scarce indeed, till this day i still feel a little sorry i was not born 10 years later. Since when i learned (gw-)basic from the 3 books our public library had to offer i was full of enthusiasm, but after that my development practically stalled due to lack of information. Until the internet came around, but that was 10 years later and i was already in my early 20s :|
Given that 91% of homes are now valued at > 1 million, I think you're quite wrong on this point.

Mansions do throw off the average, no doubt, but there's no denying that the typical house price for a typical Vancouverite is now north of a million dollars:

http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2016/01/vancouver-homes-valued-1-...
I think the conclusions drawn in this post are outdated.

The german real estate market was undervalued for a very long time. In the last 10 years there has been a very rapid (100%+) rent increase in the cities and a massive property rush from foreign investors in the in major cities (especially Berlin). Another factor to consider: seeing that 1.5million+ "refugees" came to Germany in 2015 alone, these increases will become even sharper over the next few years.
Is the distinction really as black-and-white as you suggest?

One example: Flatiron (Google Ventures' biggest health tech investment, if I'm not mistaken) is often described as 'Google for cancer data.' In fact, their mission is "organizing the world's real-world oncology data."
What kind of features would we use? Which prior projects will help predict how long it takes a team of 3 developers (one of them senior with a history of underestimating time, two junior with little track history) to produce a novel photo sharing app where the requirements might or might not change every day?

The problem I see is that there isn't enough data, and the problem space (the number of possible projects and teams) is too large to draw meaningfully on past data.

Unless we're looking to predict specific CRUD apps where the requirements are known up front and a team cranks these out consistently.

Humans have already been flying fighter jets, driving cars, and doing work in factories, so we know it's a learnable skill. We have not yet learned how to estimate arbitrary software production.
Devils advocate: What is so dramatic about refusing someone? If it is unwanted, can one not merely be distinct about the denial?

If someone is wasting your time, then they're wasting your time. Then walk away. But if they are not wasting your time, then it turns out they are feeling a sexual way where you are not, then what is there to say about this? That is it, it's over. So, is it really a plague like this article suggests, or a font of opportunities that actually aren't afforded to men, but exist for a woman to or NOT TO take advantage of?

Is it impossible to conceive of any advances as a complement, or are they patently lacking all merit what-so-ever and are completely despicable?
can you elaborate? what were the things that you really like that they took out? What have they added that you dislike?
TL;DR (due to clickbait title): for those of you who have metallic potassium in a glass bottle and you want to urinate into it (HN population: ~0), don't.
OMG this is stressing me out so much. I coped with the dating game by dating men and becoming allergic to women's unreasonable expectations [1]. I was reasonably cute ("9.5/10" according to girls at uni), liked sports and programmer job, but I'm ending up unsatisfied in life. Part of it is not encountering enough girls, the other part is not knowing what to do to meet more, third part was succeeding to improve things but then being dumped abroad while still in culture shock in a not-nice-at-all break-up. Part 4 is, not recovering from that break-up, trust issues with girls, and we're 10 years later, still a wreak, while virtually quite rich from my stock options, and startup founder.

I used to go out of my way to be generous, give back to the society and be nice to people. I don't know why, I secretely hoped to get support in case of a major event. But no-one counted/counts that break-up as relevant, and the social fabric wasn't here to hug me when I needed it. Now I vote for individualism and I'm in life for money. I'm voting so far-right, I feel like Hitler.

Life isn't nice for losers, and I've lost the game. Starting as a programmer doesn't help. In 2006 when it was a mostly-male environment. Through 2012 when only women were promoted around me. Didn't help.

Has anyone here been so low? Given up so much of their values because of insatisfaction? but succeeded to improve his character later in life? Needless to say, I don't like who I am now.

[1] To be clear, I still believe in equality and I'm the (only) one trying to bring Lego and science to my goddaughter.
The Daily Mail is your source? You'll need to find something considerably more credible than the nonsense from that rag.
That is quite old. Anyways, taxes are not a problem in China yet.

Anyways we've seen is before with the Japanese in the 80s, and it eventually all crashed down, leaving the Vancouver/Seattle/California real estate markets in a rut for more than a decade! I'm guessing when the Chinese economy comes back down to earth, the exact same thing is going to happen again.
10K steps is about 8KM for an average person if you walk 8KM a day it will have a very positive effect on your health unless you are really in shape already.
To be fair I agree with you on most of those points, however, Vancouver seems to think it's world class when really its quite provincial.
1 year ago I'd have said "YES", now for absurdly cynical reasons my health has plummeted and I wish medicine was many orders of magnitude better since most treatments are heavy, invasive and according to my views stuck in an obsolete era of medical thinking.
Its official, I can't read. I swear it has to do something with that typeface they used, it just doesn't want to render well and my brain won't just come out and admit to this fact, so I keep trying to read it as if there is nothing wrong.

Why do web developers do this?
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Just got to this in my queue. It's fantastic. Thank you for posting this.

@exolymph if you are ever interested in discussing these ideas I would be happy to chat. You can find me from my profile.
Correct, its not a subsidy under your definition. But it is a relative advantage compared to other products (in layman's terms this is very close to the meaning of subsidy) .

Considering i have a pool of $50 to spend, I can buy more internet access now (or will begin to buy internet access) to the extent that the marginal dollars give the greatest utility over other products (which are taxed). Ex: imagine a internet plan is taxed such that it is $50 under the old taxed regime and $45 under the new taxed regime. Under the old regime, internet access purchases had to compete against other choices that cost $50. Under the new regime internet access will compete against $45 choices. Anyone currently not spending $50 on internet because other $50 dollar choices are better may shift away under the new regime because the $45 internet is a better choice than the still normally priced $50 choice.

As well, to the extent that the government spends tax money on anything ISP related, that expenditure is now a greater net subsidy than prior cases where some amount of tax offsets the subsidy (eg, $50 subsidy - $5 tax ==> $45 net subsidy in the old regime becomes $50 subsidy - $0tax ==> $50 net subsidy in the new regime)
That is a heck of a short turn-around time (about one month) to upgrade the entire LTS install base. 12.04 is on LTS through late 2017 and 14.04 is on LTS through late 2019. I think it's reasonable to expect servers running those operating systems to stay in the wild through those time frames. I may be in the minority but I skipped 12.04 completely and upgraded my 10.04 servers to 14.04 just as 10.04 was going off LTS. This could get ugly!
Thanks for the mention! Appreciate it. :) The bulk of our business (2/3rds of subscribers) is non-Pro. We come off as fairly professional (and we love our Pros!), but I think that's mostly because we have a huge emphasis on presentation. Our philosophy is, if you care about photos enough to pay for somewhere great to keep them safe and show them off with the people you care about, you're in the club. We'd love to have you.
Yup. You used to actually click on and read peoples' profiles, and they'd post directly on your wall. 2006 is also about when they added photos.
Amen...
Gertty is the greatest greatness ever. Doing code reviews on a plane and syncing up when back online is so cool. Thank you for your work on this.
tl;dr

- Learn to code.
- Meet people with real skills.
- Have fun.
- Take responsibility.
- Be ready to hit the ground running.
- Be your own career counselor.
- It’s okay to ignore your parents.
- Be careful with student debt.
I don't have video service, data only.
Private links, like Google Drive has, is probably an upcoming feature.
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I can take or leave the people's court story. I mostly found it interesting for this para:

"The situation also reveals a Catch-22 created by San Francisco’s new laws regulating short-term rentals. Entire-home rentals are limited to 90 days a year and must be occupied by a permanent resident. Huang switched to rentals of 30 days or more since those are legal. That’s a decision that other local landlords have also made. But by requiring longer stays, landlords run the risk of the temporary visitors gaining permanent renters’ rights."

New businesses lead to new regulation. New regulations lead to unintended consequences. Unintended consequences lead businesses to look for new disruptive solutions...

Does that cycle repeat or is that overly simplistic?
> corner cases will be buggy

This is where you are wrong. It is much easier catch and fix bugs in cloud software.
In 2006, on Facebook, you'd create a profile and list what residence you lived in and what sections of what classes you took. Literally everything on your profile was basically a select query that let you see who else lived there, and who else was in that section. It was awesome. But it also had the potential to have a much larger creep factor, and obviously didn't scale because not everybody was in college.
I was Hulk Smash level angry when they pulled the plug on Reader. So much so I just went into every Google system and closed out my use. The only things I haven't been able to abandon are Gmail and Picasa. This helps me trim out one more service.
My meta argument is that we will all fare better in the policy debate to come if we are honest and careful about the opposing side's arguments. Our arguments should be honed to beat their best arguments, seen in their best possible light.

I'm not making half-statements about backdoors. There is no daylight that I can perceive between "backdoor" and "weakened encryption". When I say "universal default unbreakable crypto", that is exactly what I mean.
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What else do you think technology is for?
"real skills": not sure what you mean by this. Later you say "useful" and "different", is that the intended reading of "real", or is it advice to ignore the poseurs?

"make friendships with really smart people. So get out of the dorm room or the library and be social."

In my experience, those "really smart people" didn't get that way by the abundant time spent not studying, so isn't more likely that you will find the smart people studying? just a thought.
A tax like that would put pressure on corporations to package their products in easily reusable forms, with less packaging, or run their own recycle programs for expensive short-lifespan products like iPhones . This would largely offset the costs on consumer.

A significant amount of packaging could be reduced without much consequence on consumption. Especially for food. Grocery stores could use in-store branding/ads in place of flashy box designs. Plus as ecommerce/drones come to dominate, the need for flashy packaging won't be as important as website marketing.

Those risks IMO would be limited to a transitional period while companies evolve their industrial design. The bigger problem is that it requires a big behavioral change for both producers and consumer... it's difficult to make humans change the behaviour they known their whole lives. Consumers will have to make an additional purchasing investment (analyzing the disposal costs and companies would have to invest in industrial design and rethink retail marketing.
Oh, and I should mention we've had unlimited storage for a reasonable yearly fee for nearly 14 years.
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"Defy political corrextness"
They effectively destroyed Facebook when they got rid of all of the college class info -- all of the curated content that had to be done on a school-by-school basis. When they got rid of groups (before later re-adding them). The newsfeed.

There was a time somewhere in 2006-2007 where Facebook was an utter shell of its former self, looked weird, and wasn't particularly useful.

And the amazing thing was, they were right. They did what they needed to do to pivot from what it was (a college information source) into a global social network superpower. It sort of reminds me of the Steve Jobs quote where if you don't cannibalize your own products, someone else will.
I'm guessing Evernote with a fun UI
And all the photos still have the stock stuff on them... this is more likely to be a weird phishing operation or a honeypot than an actual product
I think tptacek's views were already made pretty clear earlier in the thread and his meta point is something quite like

http://lesswrong.com/lw/gz/policy_debates_should_not_appear_...

It's fair to argue that he overstates the benefit of surveillance to law enforcement or that it wouldn't be bad if law enforcement got harder or more expensive in various ways or that it's unfortunate that law enforcement ever came to rely on electronic surveillance in the first place, but I think he made very clear that he did not support limits on encryption, which makes it kind of unfair to challenge him on that aspect. He has been saying that he wishes fellow opponents of crypto restrictions would be more sympathetic to the view that easy availability of crypto has some disadvantages to society, so maybe it would be more helpful to engage on that point. :-)
I think the comment is pretty astute -- this is a big challenge.

Even if Canada, where the state is effectively the sole insurer and determines treatments and pricing for everyone (arguably more centralized than in the UK), the actors in the healthcare system are still wary of connecting to each other.

I learned about this recently from someone I know who is working in "health informatics" at a hospital. Their systems don't share any data with other hospitals, the ministry (the insurer and regulator), etc. There's an initiative to have hospitals in just a single major urban area connected, and despite it being a few years in only a few hospitals are actually participating.