skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China is the colonial power; that's all the authority required.

Note that China did the same to the Han majority as well, for example in the destruction of the Hutongs in the major cities such Beijing this century, not to mention the destruction of the temples 70 years ago during the communist revolution.

When I read this context-free article all I could think of was Henry VIII's destruction and confiscation of the monasteries. Now it's just a historical aspect of a larger movement.

This feels tragic to me, but honestly it's hard to tell if it even is or not from that one article.
Great post. Soon Blockstack, http://blockstack.org will allow developers to build apps without setting up a server and having to worry about things like authentication and storage.
I partially agree with you. I've been there at last year. It is far from cites, about 10 hours driving to the nearest airport. When I got there, there were more than 20k people lived in the small valley, without TV/clean water/electricity. Most houses are made from wood. If there is a fire, I can't imagine how many people would die.

However, the gov do not give them another place to live and study. It is not a city or town, it is a college. Most people are studying at there. The highest degree is Kanbo. People need 15-20 years to get this.
No. My point was/is:

1. Stronger vs Weaker is a common pattern in such conflicts.
2. Tibet vs China :: Palestine/Arab states vs Israel differ in almost every other feature.
3. There's places in the world that better mimic the Tibetan situation.
4. Hence the analogy isn't very good.

I did not make any moral judgments.
> People aren't increasingly idolizing stupidity or loving the rich, or Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders wouldn't have done as well as they did (both used anti-elite messaging).

O_o

Trump's constant refrain is "I'm so good at business. I have so much money". And Occupy Wall Street and the anti-1%'ers have changed what fundamental aspects of US society, exactly? Sanders is something less mainstream, but he was always trailing the 'business-as-usual' candidate.

Also, speaking from an outsider's perspective, it seems to me that the US was less religious just before the 9/11 attacks than it is now.
Doctors Without Borders doesn't take money from EU anymore
I know, right? Sometimes when I am sitting through an econ talk it is very hard not to say, "But your assumption one is wrong."
Avoiding Optional and nil in Swift string interpolation
I once built a package to allow redistribution of C/Flex/Go-scripts with just-in-time compilation (https://github.com/radiospiel/jit) but mine does not allow to mix the to-be-compiled language into the bash script itself; so count me impressed :)
It'd be a lot simpler to rent a VPS and setup your own mail server.
The managerial destruction of academic freedom
When writing a comment about the blockchain, it's always useful to mentally replace it with the words "distributed database", and see if still makes sense.

"If the goal is to avoid high-frequency trading, why not use a distributed database"? Maybe because that would have absolutely zero impact whatsoever on high-frequency trading?

(Also, the goal isn't really to avoid high-frequency trading, and it's quite likely IEX will create more opportunities for high-frequency trading, not fewer, but that's another matter.)
Google Toolbar, Chrome and Android: all of these were created with the goal to increase the number of searches. If Android wouldn't have been created, Apple could ask as much revenue sharing from Google as they want and slowly destroy Google in the process.
> Google is mostly an advertisement company heavily relying on their search business.

You're right that google is an advertisement company (87% of their revenue comes from their ad network), but I don't think that's entirely from search alone. Google's 3rd party adsense program is absolutely massive. This includes things like youtube ads, as well as ads on other 3rd party websites. Pick a random website with ads, 9 times out of 10, it will be an adsense (google) affiliated website.
How many terror acts do tibetian supporters commit on an average month in China?
The premise is erroneous and it creates a difficult debate.

> American society increasingly mistakes intelligence for human worth

I think that we are just in the same place that we have always been.

There were this intelligence tests in the 1900s that is what, still nowadays, commonly people mistakes as innate intelligence. "Yerkes intelligence exams (alpha, beta and individual) were culturally biased, taken under markedly different conditions and tended to reflect years in the U.S. and familiarity with dominant culture, rather than innate intelligence" http://www.understandingrace.org/history/science/race_intel....

Even innate intelligence is more complex than a number as there are different components to account for.

So when the article reads "American society increasingly mistakes intelligence for human worth" it should read "Americans increasingly immature when judging others".

I blame this phenomenon at the lack of education quality. Memorizing and doing mental calculus is far from what a good education should give you. Critical thinking, capacity to self-learning, appreciation of universal human values should be the main part of that education.

And as it says America I don't think that it is restricted to any country. Education could be a lot better everywhere. But shrinking education budgets all around the world, because "crisis", are jeopardizing our future.
http://decentsecurity.com/?
Kickstarter Pays a Dividend
Coincidentally, I submitted this interview an hour ago.

"An interview with Professor Richard Thaler, godfather of behavioural economics"

http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/06/id-have-said-lets-not-do-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11927635
What are these differences?
It's also just a standard sitcom, one that just happens to have the trappings of higher education in its scenery. Same jokes, same cadences, same formula as so many others. Curiously, I find Raising Hope, a sitcom about a dumb-as-rocks family, to be far more intelligently written.
Indeed this is the elephant in the room with the more ardent libertarian niche; the community as a whole has beliefs of many shapes and shades. Once the mob, for lack of a better term, decides to move it is very difficult to steer. And the mob is a mighty powerful force that has a tendency to sweep all before it, rational or otherwise.

People are not just rational beings, neither is the community. The 51% is dead, long live the 51%.
Encryption, AI, and the Myth of Incompatibility: Privacy + AI != Oil and Water
Nuclear Powered Aircraft
Why should I trade you a goat if I can just take it?
My Experience Busking in San Francisco
Sometimes I click on those purchased keywords by mistake. Then get presented with the inevitable "could not connect to server" message because they use tracking servers which are blocked at the router level.

Main problem with advertising in general is more and more people are learning it's best use is as a signal of what not to buy.

Facebook on the other hand. At least can pretend it's something a friend is recommending. Although that is transparent enough to be even worse.
If there are ever more compelling use cases for smart contracts this will create a market for smart contract validation or development.

Interactive theorem proving is already at the level that verifying something like the DAO (a few hundred lines of code!) isn't too complicated. By the time smart contracts become relevant we'll probably have all the tools in place to make this an industry instead of a research project.
> The idea is to protect the person who placed the displayed order, not yourself or your client.

I'm pretty sure that's wrong. I've never heard NMS/rule 611/etc described in those terms, and logically, it makes no sense. The point of the rule is to try and stop people eg, buying at price X when the NBBO is < X, full stop.
Many call this "buying exclusivity" - but thus far, every developer that has taken advantage of this has admitted that they were farther away from release than appeared to the public, were running low on cash, and/or needed the assistance that Oculus could provide.

source?
> In house counsel salaries are way less than those at a top law firm

Just to expand: in house counsel gets a salary and doesn't have to do the business-building that a partner at a law firm has to.

Also for tech companies, in house counsel can get stock options. In the 2000 boom this caused mass defections of gold-digging lawyers from traditional law firms, which screwed them up too (boo hoo).

Not that very many startups need any in house lawyers!
An Open Letter (The DAO Attacker)
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/77514/what-is-gnu-in...

Quoting from the link above:

ADDENDUM: While not strictly relevant to the question, note that man pages are still considered the standard documentation system on free Unix-like systems like those running atop the Linux kernel and also the various BSD flavors. For example, the Debian package templates encourage the addition of a man page for any commands, and also lintian checks for a man page. Texinfo is still not widely used outside the GNU project.

Which I can confirm and concur with. Long story short, I would forget GNU info, because it is an invention not suitable to the task at hand, which is efficient and fast lookup of information in a reference manual.
"Plenty of people can deal with text better than they can spoken language"
That's a joke right ?
> "nice ... Pentagon ... interesting contributions"

Reminds me of the study:

> People with more agreeable, conscientious personalities are more likely to make harmful choices. [1]

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-green-mind/201406/a...
> Marin

> $22 egg sandwich

I can hear the world's smallest violin playing for the wealthy snobs of Marin County.
People spend a ton of time on Facebook.
> Don't you think AI will have a big influence in the future of medicine?

People have been hoping so since the 70s and haven't made any progress. Having worked in both fields I realize that 1. Medicine as a discipline is still poorly understood so isn't really amenable to that many automated tasks and 2. Medicine, as a social phenomenon is structured such that automation won't itself reduce costs.
I really dislike this train of thought and where it leads. Sure, everyone hates ads and would do without them if possible. But people forget; ads subsidize most "free" content. It has been this way for 60+ years, probably more. You know when your grandmother tuned in to watch Howdy Doody? It was always "brought to you by: Palmolive Dish Soap and Ovaltine!". Their ads during commercial breaks paid for that show. Back then there were no dvd sales, no streaming online contracts, advertisers paying for airtime to air entertainment programs was a fairly straightforward affair. Or did you think broadcasting companies created that content, then aired it for free out of altruism?

I do believe this is a big part of why they call us millennials the entitled generation. We literally expect everything for free. From our game of thrones TV shows to our favorite blogs, podcasts and websites. They all exist to entertain us and fuck them for wanting to make a dollar off their hard work. How dare they...
In EU businesses have to advertise the whole price of everything they sell: including things like tax and service.

I am always surprised that in the US, with all its consumer protection laws, businesses get to advertise prices that are misleading. You have to pay the minimum service fee, or you'll get into a loud argument. You have to pay tax too of course, but it's added to the bill separately, which makes it inpractical too: buy a coffee for USD4, and you have to pay an impractical amount like 4.36. I always suspect this is a ploy by businesses to protest these taxes.
Deaf people are an obvious example. As are people dealing with content not in their native language. Accents can also be an issue.

And then there are many people who would simply prefer to read something over heating it. Is that really so hard to understand?
Parallel Map in Elixir
Good thing I didn't elect a Chinese government in the US.
The supply/demand inflation phenomenon described in the article (and also referred to as having happened in Dentistry) is a good warning for coding bootcamps.

In fact bootcamps seem to already been in full bubble even though they're only a few years old. You see so many hiring their own grads or using faux graduate-employment metrics, which unfortunately the 3rd and 4th tier law schools are doing too.
Just passing the bar won't get you hired at a white shoe firm though; yes there are Loyola grads who actually, you know, practice law, but most likely at 'barely scraping by' rates.
Etherium/TheDAO hack simplified
This is a shame. Tipping is a pernicious practice in the US. But he seemed to have good data.
I can read faster than most people talk. With text I can go back and re-read the bits I'm having trouble understanding and skim over the stuff I already know. With text the is never a problem with hard to understand accents or people who mumble or speak softly. In fact, thinking about it, text is almost always better to deal with than spoken language.
Do your human rights diminish if you fight back in the "wrong" way?
TEACH Your CHILDREN TO Love AND CHERISH DIFFERENCES-----PRESIDENT OBAMA
They also neglect intent. When I search for something, I want it, at that moment. When I see an ad on my facebook page, it's trying to guess what I want at that moment, but I'm actually doing something else and the ad is simply trying to distract me and convince me I need something at that moment.
That's what I mean: how will they monetize it? They'll probably introduce business / bot accounts that they can monetize, but the encryption makes all sorts of monetization schemes hard - which is what I like about it.
http://www.fairtrials.net/
> McKenzie surveyed 40 servers working for moderately priced sit-down restaurants. He asked what hourly wage they would need to voluntarily forgo their current minimum wage and all tips. The rate they wanted ranged from $18 to $50 an hour, according to the study

Ouch. Living somewhere where tipping is already not the norm, that seems...wildly unrealistic? I wonder what the average was.
It's part of why I think that Americans complain so much about tax - their sales tax is both very visible and very annoying, due to the weird numbers that prices end up at.
Why it would be?

I sometimes have trouble conversing in crowded places if there's lot of other people having their conversations loudly. Not much trouble, though, but listening to the only one thread of discussion requires bit extra mental effort.

Then there are people who don't speak clearly, and you have to ask them to repeat what they said...

And all this in my native language. I find dealing with written forms of any foreign language I know much easier than the spoken language. (Both "understand" and "produce by myself".)
Humans are wired to seek validation.

Consumption of media that expresses resonant emotions is to a degree validating.

However expressing and understanding myself and seeing myself emotionally and intellectually understood by peers is validation on another deeper level. The composition and writing of text has been shown to excite other areas of the brain than simple speech (there is a whole school on writing therapy).

There is always going to be a need for an immediate way to consuming and reacting. That market is served by twitter and snap-chat. Then there is the need for longer, carefully considered deeper thought. Thought where emotions have been deliberately moderated to provide breathing space for facts.

Video may provide more bits per second and via the eyes is more directly wired to our decision system. But the emotional space is already take by twitter and snapchat. The deliberation space is taken by text. It is not clear to me video will grow beyond a extended snapchat.
Right now it is, but as they built the rocket, they are able to repair it and save money for sure. From what Elon said, landing was the tougher part. He was much more sure about being able to relaunch some of the stage 1s (except 1) than about being able to land (which took a lot of effort)
rtruin's argument is an intuitive assumption that the same causal factors for other like companies are also present in Facebook, which sets the frame for discussion -- what factors lead to the diminishment of other networks, and why is Facebook resilient against those factors?

You may be identifying that young people set trends and thus the growth rate of different social networks, and you may be arguing that Facebook is resilient because they can buy out companies. But so can Microsoft, Google, Apple, MySpace, or Yahoo. That power is not unique.

One might also say that young people who join some social network like the peculiarities of that network, and so it behooves the parent company to keep that acquisition fairly independent in brand and experience. That means the existing strength of your platform might be a non-factor to the future success of WhatsApp or Instagram.
To their credit, it's incredibly hard to come up with something that shows up as 20% when the whole pie is 100 billion. That just emphasize how successful their search ads not how undiversified they are.

would it make you happy if their search business was originally 20 billion? That would make things more diversified.
On the Sales tax issue, the business does not have advertise the price including the tax because the business is not being charged the tax which if my understanding it correct differs from how the EU operate. The individual buying the coffee is being charged the tax by the government, the Business is acting as a pseudo government collection agent, forced to do so by law. In most states te business is infact paid a nominal fee to collect this tax on behalf of the government in most location it is very very minor but it is there

As to the not including Tip in the price, well that is because you the consumer set how much you tip, there is not possible way to include it. Outside of "large parties" I will not partake in business that charge a mandatory tip. I am likely one of the few people that actually tip based on the service I get, and I have walked away with out leaving a tip.
> Apple can not update their EULA for Apple pay, and avoid being held negligent if they messed up and all their customers money was stolen from their accounts. Otherwise every single EULA would make all software companies legally untouchable - which they aren't.

This is very different, Apple are responsible not because they are providing you the software but because they are providing a service and that service involves transmission of funds and that scopes them to a completely different set of obligations. If I provide you with an open-source bitcoin-wallet under an MIT license and do not make claims of security or guarantees of any kind and you lose bitcoins due to security issues in said software - it's your own problem. That is in the former and later-case there is a clearly identifiable party which is providing the service, or in the later-case self-service.

With Ethereum it's much more of a gray-area, one could argue slock.it is only providing source-code and your choice to use it in a particular way (interacting with other users, the DAO) is done entirely at your own risk; though I'm not sure that interpretation would stand, since there definitely is a degree of centralized marketing by particular participants - and obviously non-compliance with SEC rules etc.
In a fair few of Borges' works, imaginary books play some important role. I was intrigued especially by his reviews of imaginary books. Borges himself has said this on the matter:

"It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books, setting out in five hundred pages an idea that can be perfectly related orally in five minutes. The better way to go about it is to pretend that those books already exist, and offer a summary, a commentary on them." [1]

Since I couldn't help but agree with this sentiment, I have gone and searched for other authors who did similarly. The book that stands out is Stanisław Lem's A Perfect Vacuum, which is actually a collection of reviews of imaginary books. Lem was primarily a Sci-Fi author, but many of these have a philosophical undertone. My favorites are Die Kultur als Fehler and Non Serviam.

[1] Introduction to The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)
Amazon is preparing to launch streaming music service – sources
>>Americans complain so much about tax

American complain soo much about tax because Americans inherently understand that when a person or group involuntary takes money from you that is called theft.
I think it's pretty charitable since he's taking a massive paycut. The maximum GS payscale is 160k which is nowhere near his current compensation.
What you need to remember about 3d projection is that it can defeat network latency, in some case bringing intercontinental one-directional latency under 40ms. It can also decrease rendering latency relative to audio and video over IP. Between these benefits, the VR telepresent conversation feels more real, more present. Oh, wait. /s

(40ms one-way latency on London-NewYork or LA-Beijing requires beating the speed of light, unless I screwed up my math).

Another thing that makes realistic VR unsuitable for telepresence (though perhaps not a problem for "3d holographic projection") is that an HMD makes it much harder for the system to find out what facial expression you have, and so there's actually less information to transmit to your remote correspondent.
> Not that very many startups need any in house lawyers!

This is not meant as a flaming comment as I do not know enough about it but in the US it seems you do? I have read and heard a lot of silly lawsuit cases against startups over there which killed the startup because of (feared) legal costs. I have been through a bunch of legal cases in the Netherlands and here no party wins usually in business cases. Even if you win you do not really win money so most cases just settle for a few bucks or win for the same few bucks at more legal cost. You get nominal expense back if you win aka if you pay E300 per hr for your lawyer then if could be you get E70/hr back. I do not know the exact numbers but it's basically mostly a loss for all which is why it happens very little and no one is really afraid of it.
No, but that's really not the same thing at all. It's common to refer to people in the context of their gender (Mr., Ms., etc) but you just don't do that with race.

Really, the fact that this is even being focused on as sexism is crazy. In much of the world women are actually being brutally oppressed, and I would assume that the overwhelming majority of people involved in complaining about minor events like this have not and probably never will do anything to address that. So do they really care, or are they just virtue signaling?
Yep. Facebook has just as many visitors as Google and makes much less.

Sure they know what age I am, that I'm college educated, live in NY, like anime and startups. But would they know I'm suffering from hemorrhoids and need help? That I'm considering an abortion and need a clinic recommendation? I sure as heck ain't broadcasting that in my timeline.
Original study: http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/sic_01158395/document