skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“While taking a piss in the men's room, I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone. No...one...would...care. In fact some, if they noticed my absence, might feel an odd, indefinable sense of relief. This is true: the world is better off with some people gone. Our lives are NOT all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not NEED to be here.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
Unlike most of the corporations in America, at least Google is transparent about its decisions.
Dota2 has fixed this by removing the penalty for leaving once another player has abandoned. It's a simple fix and I'm surprised LoL hasn't done it.
"ruin" is completely vague, and you had no idea what it meant until you found out what it ended up meaning.

Funny would be googling fetish porn, not funny would be banning you from international travel.
Like in C you can cast the pointer to an integer and back. Rust allows such hacks if you mark them with a "hold my beer" keyword:

let the_bits:usize = unsafe { std::mem::transmute(pointer) };

You can also use `std::mem::forget(*pointer)` to avoid fighting with Rust about who manages the memory.
Thank you for clarifying. The argumentation still stands though.
I honestly can't fathom why this question has been downvoted. It's a reasonable question, and one I share.

It's a large and complicated document; there's plenty of room for bad ideas, and plenty of room for good. The real question is, "Would we rather have nothing?" Because the existing ecosystem of loosely-affiliated nation-by-nation policies is a sh-tshow.
I think one reason that suburbia exists in America in its present form is that local politics is corrupt everywhere. The two-party system degenerates into a one-party system in any city where local public opinion is strongly left (most coastal cities) or right (Deep South) of the American body politic. There are some advantages to two-party systems, but the consensus opinion among political scientists is that one-party democracy is a lie. The result is balkanization, as dissatisfaction with local politics causes large municipalities to decline as wealthy individuals move to smaller municipalities with more responsive governments. You can watch this happen in real-time if you pay attention to discussions on NextDoor or participate in local politics in most other ways.

For an example I'm familiar with, let's look at San Jose. It starts with this unelected guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._P._Hamann

"They say San José is going to become another Los Angeles. Believe me, I'm going to do everything in my power to make that come true."

This led to a huge backlash in 1962 and the eventual election of anti-development mayor Norman Y. Mineta. As people fled San Jose, revenues declined; in 1983, the San Jose School District went bankrupt.

If you go to any city in the country -- San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Miami, New York, Austin, whatever -- you'll hear constant complaints about corruption and a lack of effective political participation. It's everywhere, and it's been getting steadily worse since the Southern Strategy created the modern two-party miasma.
I was wondering a bit about this, myself. Also, the costs on some of the more extreme ends of the luxury markets are higher for pretty much everything. My parents own an Audi convertible sports toy. They had to have the clutch[0] replaced last year at a cost of almost $5,000. Oil changes run $100. Audi was high on the list, yes, but other luxury brands weren't that have similarly expensive repair/maintenance costs.

[0] For Americans, where Manual Transmission is much like the Big Foot. You hear about it, but nobody's actually seen it, this is a part of a Manual Transmission car that wears out over time and is guaranteed to require repair.
Fiction and nonfiction seems like a very natural way to categorize works. Is anyone really going to argue that scientific papers are works of fiction? Would any reasonable court hold that up? All laws have to deal with the natural fuzziness of concept space. But if libraries can manage it successfully, surely the copyright office can.
I think that SSL is just for surge.sh subdomains. I didn't see anything about lets-encrypt SSL on custom domains.
If you find the right niche, it could be done. Look at some of the MicroConf videos.
Just because someone claimed Google manipulated search suggestions doesn't mean they actually did it. The video itself even acknowledged the lack of concrete proofs.
>Government policies didn't create suburbs

It is exactly the opposite. American suburbs were created by goverment policies (specifically, by certain tax breaks for development industry and by tax breaks for home owners, not to mention housing subsidies)
The fun (additional) electronics on EVs are pretty standard stuff. Charger, inverter (do all EVs use AC induction motors? I think so), battery charge controller. They can be made very reliable and, at least for the popular EVs, they are indeed. I'd be worried about driving an EV created by some unknown chinese brand though.
I've heard this line a lot, but what alternative do you have? GM is utter shit and Japanese cars traditionally rust to pieces there.

Not everyone can afford a Mercedes.
Probably referring to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFxFRqNmXKg
Was on HN but flagged. Google replies:
"Google Autocomplete does not favor any candidate or cause. Claims to the contrary simply misunderstand how Autocomplete works. Our Autocomplete algorithm will not show a predicted query that is offensive or disparaging when displayed in conjunction with a person’s name. More generally, our autocomplete predictions are produced based on a number of factors including the popularity of search terms."

Seems like "criminal" and "indictment" are filtered out, which happens to benefit Hillary but seems to apply to other people. I tried a indicted people and it didn't autocomplete.
As far as I understand it Google thought it was too much trouble to comply with the 'remove my house from streetview' requests that came in and were found to be legal and so they killed streetview in protest. I guess they figured that the rest of the Germans would make a fuss if they pulled out but that didn't happen.

https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/1fzygw/why_is_there...

Privacy is an excellent reason why things like streetview should be opt-in rather than opt-out but even opt-out was too much work for Google.
If that was the spirit of the agreement, then I would expect to see some clauses forbidding geo-blocking, or offering different "app-store" based on your country of residence, etc.. Otherwise it is terribly one-sided.

It is not fair to consider internet being global and borderless when it is in corps advantage, but segmented and controlled when it comes to consumers rights. Right?
Can you give an example of 2? Where have they invested in teaching systems programming 101? Is there a specific blog? Thanks.
I couldn't get CloudFlare's SSL to work with GitHub Pages when I tried it because of some DNS issues. Do you have that working?
Or generically "The death of a local is almost always given considerably more local media coverage than the regular atrocities taking place in foreign countries."

Of course proximity matters. With absolutely no judgement on the victims, I'd rather have updated news about a serial killer in my neighborhood as opposed to one in Germany.
Why do you assume the next president won't do a backflip and support it once they're in? Politicians break promises, and break opinions a whole lot more.
"if he sticks to his campaign promises"

Hahahahahahaha.
Ok I am in them, and it doesn't suck that much. Sometimes I wish there were more fields though, and other times I'm glad to have a grocery store nearby.
And it appears that some of those "downvotes" (called "reports" in game) are automatically cross-checked by the game. For instance, reports of "feeding" (that is, deliberately dying to give the enemy team an advantage) might be discounted or ignored if the hero being reported hasn't died repeatedly.
no thank you facebook.
Probably.

Google participated in a propaganda campaign to encourage "regime change" in Syria[0], so I wouldn't put it past them to do the same in the US. They have a longstanding and close relationship with the State Department. They know which side their bread is buttered on.

[0]http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...
Has there ever been a trade agreement that was not drafted in secret? I mean that's pretty much the point in these things, lots of horse trading behind closed doors.
I couldn't listen to that video for long, it wasn't quite bearable. Stopped after 2 minutes.

Can you explain it from your point of view? These first 2 minutes repeated 'strong United States' about five times already or so. Is that what you consider 'geopolitical reasons'?
Supposedly all those places are owned by Tesla.
At 100K miles, there's a pretty good argument that the alternator is maintenance as well. (If it died very early, maybe not, but it's a rotating part with brushes; it's eventually going to need maintenance on any car.)
Maintenance items do not (or should not IMO) count as reliability items since they are similar expected expenses on all cars. Timing belt would be the only one I would look at because there can be significant differences in the mileage intervals. VW famously has (or had) a fairly short interval, like 30K miles, and very low tolerance for going over that. Other vehicles can go 100K miles before any engine maintenance beyond fluid changes.
It is ridiculously amazing they can go to such an extent to literally say that it is their job to "penetrate other people's networks", and it feels so "good". (Actual quotes of the spokesperson)

Some parts from the text reads like a prank article from The Onion. They openly say that they are invading (sorry, "penetrating") the privacy of everyone in the world, and still manage to get away with it. How? Misuse and abuse of the concept of "terror".

It is high time for American public to realize that this "terror" rhetoric is just an abusive device to legitimatize the violation of very fundamental human rights. The NSA can just do whatever they want, because it is "terrors that made them do it", right?

Violating the privacy rights of potentially everyone in the world? No problem, just drop "terrors", "terrorists" here and there, then everyone will shut up and not care.

We do not need to be political scientists or experts in discourse analysis to spot the difference: just subtract the b.s. about "terror" and see the actual picture.
Suburbia represents a few trillion dollars worth of malinvestment, IMHO. You can even trace the spread of suburbs back to the subsidies and incentives that created them. The tax deduction on mortgages, along with Fannie Mae et al, were explicitly designed to increase home ownership. Extraneous housing will get built in that environment, and the only question is where. Undeveloped areas have a much easier time giving concessions to developers, so that's where they're going to build.

Overall, the fix is some combination of a land-value tax, anti-NIMBY ordinances, subsidy removal, and infrastructure downgrades. Explanations for each:

Land-value tax: the unimproved value of land is approximately equal to the value created by building infrastructure and creating valuable economic areas. This aligns incentives better than existing tax structures, and has various other benefits that economists really like.

Anti-NIMBY: the overall effect of NIMBY policies is two-fold - it makes undeveloped areas relatively more attractive, and it enriches current residents of an area at the expense of society as a whole.

Subsidy removal: often, when silly things are happening, it's because there's a subsidy or tax reason that boils down to "we are willing to pay you to do silly things". It's just as true for building suburbs as it is for removing windows from vans, shipping them from Germany to the US, and then re-installing those windows.

Infrastructure downgrades: a certain intensity of land use makes only so much infrastructure make sense. If there's not enough people benefiting from a road to pay for asphalt, it needs to be gravel. Sucks for the people there, but it's even less fair for everyone else to pay for their asphalt privileges.
Precisely. Case in point: Google's various attempts at tax avoidance in Europe. I respect them for trying it, I'm sure every other established corporation is doing the same thing, or trying to at least.
MOBAs like LoL and Dota2 do bring out the worst in many people, but in a few they bring out the best - the people who go harder when faced with adversity, who offer gentle, constructive advice and assistance to teammates who are doing badly, and keep their spirits up throughout the worst of defeats.

These are exactly the traits I want in coworkers.

The opposite - blaming everyone but yourself when your team is losing, raging at people who make honest mistakes, playing selfishly, and so on, are the traits I don't want.

Edit: this is all very problematic of course, but if I noticed that someone my company was thinking about hiring was one of my Dota2 friends, I'd put in a good word based on their in game behavior.
> However, as a patient I appreciate knowing that my personal health data is not being sent around the world to other jurisdictions that may not have the same privacy and data protection laws that we do here.

Having your bits stored on Canadian soil doesn't magically make them secure. The emphasis should be on security, not physical location.
My comment above is being downvoted crazily and wanted to tell that I'm quite surprised and disappointed to see so many people think that the petty reason mentioned above is the actual one to ban Google street view. SMH.
The article contains conflicting reports, one official says Streetview is banned, another says it isn't, but should really have concentrated more on the bigger problem: the Geospatial Information Regulation Bill. That's so vaguely worded it bans any geotagged photographs going on line without a 3 month license application process and fees. It has the potential to stop all online mapping efforts in India.

More details here http://savethemap.in/
I agree with this as an American as well. Obviously worries about the NSA getting your data are moot if the data was American to begin with, but there are a lot of other concerns, too. I wouldn't feel comfortable with my medical data being stored just anywhere, and I think it's entirely reasonable that the U.S. government should be able to put some restrictions on where it's stored.

It may be possible to come up with a list of reasonably similar and friendly countries where such restrictions are dropped, because they agree to similar protections, and form a kind of common data-storage zone. For example, I am probably okay with reputable Canadian or German companies being contracted to store sensitive data. We could have a treaty formalizing what that zone is and what common protections will be applied. But the TPP is not by any reasonable stretch of the imagination that zone. The TPP includes countries where being homosexual is a serious crime, for example. Is it really wise for the U.S. government to agree to be bound by treaty not to take measures to keep its citizens' medical data, student records, employment records, etc. out of those countries' hands?
Intel and ME, and why we should get rid of ME
Awesome. That's great to hear. If you have suggestions on improvements I'm always open to feedback, so feel free to shout on the issues page.
I don't believe the free market is the solution to everything, but in this case the market already solve this. As suburbs age and become crowded people move further out, or back into the urban core. If a particular local government jurisdiction doesn't have enough revenue to maintain or expand roads, schools, water and sewer service, it will try to annex more land, or change its zoning and offer incentives stimulate higher-revenue uses than residential. If the concern is about agricultural or forest land being taken for development, perhaps our economic system doesn't sufficiently reward those land uses (yet).
Right! This is the exactly way to think about it.
Engines are pretty much "figured out" by now. It's hard to get terribly complex there (exception: Audi. Seriously, fuck Audi).

It's all about performance relative to peak load! A power supply, like the one in your computer, performs much better over a longer life when it never crosses 80% peak load than one that is constantly above 80%.
Why? Anecdotally I know several people who got hired at Facebook without having an active Facebook account.
Not really, there's a big difference between state enforced rules about where data can be and client requested rules.
What would it cost Apple to make iPhones in the U.S.?
"What kind of engine it has" is very much secondary to build quality. An 80s Lada and Volkswagon both had the same internals, yet one had to be repaired before it rolled off the production line.

The design of the car places an upper boundary on reliability. Whether or not you hit that upper boundary is up to your manufacturing line.

As a Prius owner, I am also amused by the oft-repeated Tesla claim of 'All electric! Simpler system! Fewer repairs!' - given the many production defects they seem to have.
Point 3 is weak without a quote of the variance or other such notions of spread.
Also you get extra votes for reporting players who lots of people are also reporting for the same shit.
You have to go back to the early 1990s, back before patent trolling was really a big concern. The writing was on the wall but nobody was reading. Today I think the "land mine" metaphor is an almost perfect way to describe patents, but I certainly didn't think that way back then, and neither did most people. Filing patents was just something you did if you worked for a Real Company, and a nice feather in your cap as a junior-level engineer.

That's the part I may not have stated clearly enough. This isn't exactly something that happened last week.
Could not agree more. I find it pretty rich to say "There’s a lot of racism in the UK." based off interactions with a country's border force. Am I allowed to make the same observations about the general US populace based on the way the Mexican border is operated? I had a lot of sympathy for Rachel's ordeal but this paragraph really left a bad taste.

As an immigrant to the UK (and now citizen), the single-mindedness in which "The Rules" are applied have been extremely frustrating. But at no point have I thought that it wasn't fair. I've had a visa application rejected and lost £350 in the process. I didn't follow the rules to the letter and I literally paid for it. Since then I've always followed the guidelines and not had an issue since.

> The very basis of the article -- a middle class professional white woman from the US was deported because she broke the rules, despite her "looks like us" appearance -- is evidence to the contrary.

The fact that she can't see the irony just reeks of privilege.
But closeness (in relation, geographically, or even in time) to those affected affect how you feel about their deaths. It's because their death probably affects your life more.

It'd be absurd for one to lament the death of every national equally, or for you to mourn the loss of those from Boston Massacre to Boston Marathon bombing equally.
Wouldn't surprise me if there's at least one. Always outliers.
> To the contrary, 90% is about right. The government should only be bringing lawsuits if it has a good faith belief it can establish the facts beyond a reasonable doubt. BRD is about 90-95% probability.

There is a huge fallacy underlying your numbers. 90% is about right if the number of false convictions is acceptably low. 90% is a terrible number if it should contain a large number of false convictions.

The 'establishing of facts beyond reasonable doubt' only happens for cases that actually go to court, in the light of the above mentioned asymmetry in resources you're going to end up with a lot of cases that will never make it that far. Some will claim this is efficiency but I don't really feel comfortable with an 'efficient' process that places large numbers of people in lock-up. The chances of getting it wrong are fairly high in a system that aims for a certain percentage of convictions, after all there are two solutions to getting that percentage, the first is to ensure that only the 'good' cases make it through the system, the other is to railroad the bad ones through as well and make sure that a conviction is secured anyway.

In fact, one could argue the only way to look at it is in a precision/recall manner, how many cases that were known to be solid turned out to be false positives and how many cases that were dropped were the false negatives (cases that should have been won but were not, for instance because the defendant was wealthy enough that they could afford a large defense).

This is of course all only relevant if you actually care about justice rather than about convicting as large a number of people possible once they enter the judicial system, and I'm not at all sure that that is the goal of the systems in place in the various countries. Too many people depend for their livelihood on large numbers of people getting convicted.
I would be okay with minutia or details like these, making it a highly complex trade agreement. What i can never swallow is the secrecy. If it really is a good trade deal, why not make it transparent? They should be publishing it online, searchable and indexable with consice summaries for every section. This deal will literally affect billions of people, the people have a right to know.
The charter of the NSA is international signals intelligence. It is exactly their job to penetrate/eavesdrop on other people's networks.

Every other first world country has a similar agency/bureau. Perhaps not as capable.
Ariel Atom and K1 Attack might be in that category as well ;-)
The Bill of Rights is really short and simple, but there have been millions of pages of legal precedent discussing and defining it ever since it was enacted. If you made TPP a concise document with 5-10 specific objectives they would all be litigated for decades to decide on the very same special cases that are detailed in the 2,000 page agreement.