skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I posted this on another article- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11850870
-but it went unanswered, I'm hoping maybe this time someone will see this. It was in regards to google being brought a CA by advertisers who'd felt cheated (and rightly so if I understand correctly).

"Serious question- Would this(a class action suit for screwing customers) have been possible if Google had put in their contract that all parties waive their right to a class action? Many companies do this now- Microsoft's xbox live, for example not only forces you to forfeit any class action lawsuits, but at the time I stopped using their services, I believe they also required meditation with a mediator to be chosen by Microsoft. I sold my xbox 360 and never looked back.

edit- I also remember specifically Microsoft releasing a TOU update just days after, if not the day of, the ruling allowing companies to do this came down."
What are those buckets of money?

Also, IEXs delay is less than the delay between existing exchanges because of speed of light limits, so massively seems inappropriate.
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Previous discussion on HN - not sure why it got killed as a dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11926084
That's not a refutation of the article, unless you think that 50s-style "integrity, work ethic, and a knack for getting along" hiring practices inherently preclude women/non-whites/non-straight/non-Christian people. Your comment reads like you're just trying to score cheap diversity points against the standards of 60 years ago instead of engaging with the point of the article.
I completely agree there is a lot of garbage in a lot of video content, but if you can take advantage of the audio visual capacity you can get a lot. An example, Just watching a master craftsman do something can reveal a lot of tiny differences in technique that add up to a lot, but may not be written down explicitly.
to call this an assembler is to not give it credit where it's due - this is not an assembler, it's much more than that.

it's a set of functions for bash that when sourced make the assembly a valid bash script which then runs and assembles itself. this is genius.
I guess maybe I'm too old to understand (38) but to me, reading some text is simply way faster than watching someone read that text in a video... but they are saying the exact opposite.

This is completely baffling to me.
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It would be nice, but I don't see it happening any time soon.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterubel/2014/12/15/is-homo-eco...

Peter Ubel writes: "The researchers paint a powerful picture of Homo economicus: “We see a person who is intelligent, driven to excel and to dominate other people, and capable of impulse control and of working toward long-term goals. In other words, Homo economicus is the prototypical member of the social and economic elite.”

And the social and economic elite think our society is a meritocracy, and that they deserve their wealth and place in society, and through their control of the media, have convinced most other people that this is true.
Just today we had a "children illustrated guide to kubernetes" receiving lots of upvotes(243), and some comments saying it's a much better way to learn stuff.

So i'd say text isn't the ideal, it's just a matter of economics that we are surrounded by text all the time, and maybe facebook can shift that.

On a sidenote, i'm curious why aren't there aggregators for well illustrated content ?
"That seems hard to believe and maybe it is a fluke"

Pun intended?
Do you work someplace that won't pay for Photoshop or even SublimeText (et al)?
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Right! I'm sorry, but $9k/mo in revenue with 45 sales people and $100k in expenses??

Definitely not in a bubble. I run my own bootstrapped company that does $5k/mo recurring and my expenses are sub $750 a month.
"Do what I say, not what you think I mean. No takebacks, because crypto. Oh, shit, wait, actually, do what you think I mean. No, really."
Interesting! I do the same with video lectures from Coursera. For example, Odersky's lectures may be interesting, but boy is he a slow speaker. I simply cannot stand his -- and to be fair, most -- lectures unless I play them at 2X speed.

And still, I'd rather read the PDF slides.

Video isn't a particularly good way of conveying formal information. Text with graphics is way better.
> you cannot buy or sell stock on someone else's behalf unless you check with all major US stock exchanges first to verify that you are getting your client the best price

It's not just trading on behalf of a client. Even if you're trading directly for yourself, you're still legally obligated not to "trade-through" a displayed price. The idea is to protect the person who placed the displayed order, not yourself or your client.

> IEX intentionally, massively delays answering back unless you pay them buckets of money

You can't pay them to avoid the delay. They delay all outgoing direct-to-trader information and all incoming orders or cancels.

The difference between what IEX does and just placing your stock exchange 38 miles from everyone else's (350us at light speed in fiber) is that while they delay incoming orders and outgoing data, IEX itself listens to data coming in from other exchanges with no delay, and uses that 350us look into the future to re-price orders before anyone else can interact with them.
I disagree with the original premise that video is superior also, but Facebook is very calculated in their endeavors. They could be:

- feature-chasing Periscope/Vine/Snapchat/Meerkat/Twitch/Youtube

- enticed by pre-roll ads

- planning future Oculus integration, live VR streaming, etc.
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Still, use a pattern to find the last slash or backslash. Should be pretty quick.
Exactly. DAO should have tested the shit out of their "contracts" before starting accepting people's money. Now DAO and Ethereum as result won't have any trust.
I'm having difficulty reconciling this claim with how I see American society judging the worth of political candidates. (Also in the journalistic outlets American society values the most.)
The core take away here is that unless you are one of the top 3 employees in a start-up, or even moderately successful business, you are trivially expendable. No matter if you put in hours of overtime, poured your hart and soul into your job, all of that is null and void on the whim of the owners. Of course they will have a rational justification why you lost your job. Unless you control your destiny you will forever be subject to the destiny of others.

Take all of this into consideration when next interviewing and negotiate for the best possible deal, knowing that no amount of possible "future" prospects is a solid as hard cash in the bank now, be as predatory and hard nosed as you can possibly be. You are working for Me(Inc) and its dependants, you are morally obliged to extract every last drop of value you can from your current employment relationship, because, as you can see from this example, the converse is a given.
I agree, and I had money invested in The DAO. Admittedly not a lot of money, but still enough to miss. I'd rather never see that money again than have the ethereum network compromise its principles to revert the theft. I'll happily invest in the next version of The DAO, and other DAOs - once they have gone through extensive code review, of course.
I grew up in a poor, working class, crime-ridden neighborhood of Brooklyn in the 1970s, and I remember being smart as a kid was a reason to harass, and sometimes beat on somebody who was seen as too smart in class. This wasn't happening in the wealthier, more educated neighborhoods in NYC (I had friends there afterwards). Although, all parents wanted their kids to exceed in both areas.

I think there was also some anger and negative fallout against college, since a lot of working class folks went to Vietnam, and saw college-educated protesters as disrespectful, and actually not so smart.
How do you plan to entice the next round of investors with "there's a _good chance_ that if your investment is swindled away, you might get it back?"
You might be surprised (when talking about the U.S equities exchanges at least): http://anova-tech.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/market-data.... The LoS distances in NY are on the order of 5-30mi and the lowest latency links are over microwave and laser.
How enforceable would be a classic contract that says in very fine print:
"you can put money in this account, but you are aware that this is a public account, anyone opening the account using the Recur Door can come and walk out with your money. You understand the risks that someone might do this one day"

(where the Recur Door is defined as the mechanism that guy used for this hack. Also,here instead of fine print it would be replaced by a line "you fully understand this algorithm + source code" clause)

Would it be treated the same way we would treat a honest Ponzi scheme contract ? "You can get return on investment as long as someone else invests money after you. If you happen to be the last, you're out of luck". Would such a contract be legal?
None of the insights they talk about are particularly noteworthy or trade secrets.

The trade secret is in what's not mentioned: what's wrong with paper menus?
Yes, it might prevent class action, but if that many people have truly been harmed, the company will have a massive number of arbitration suits to handle which could be more expensive. So they still can't just go around and piss off large numbers of customers.

Half the things I've gotten pitiful $5 checks for were not at all in my interests and one, namely the Microsoft class-actions, I was tried but failed to figure out how to object to because of how badly the lawyers in this state sold the class out in what they settled for.

So I'm not convinced that many of the class actions were actually in the interests of the class members to begin with. I'd honestly prefer to bring my own cases to court than have some self-appointed class representative sell me out.
This work reminds me of when he surrounded the islands in Biscayne Bay (Miami, FL) with pink fabric. I recall it being controversial at the time due to environmental and wildlife concerns.

http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/projects/surrounded-islan...

http://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/05/arts/design/05chri.html
In Argentina we read Borges in school. I remember reading "The house of Asterion" when I was 12 years old. Really happy to read about him in HN :-)
Back in Sweden, Chip-and-PIN was so efficient - you can insert your card, enter your pin, and get an authorization all meanwhile the cashier is ringing up your goods. Then when the total is done, you just hit "OK" on the final amount and in seconds you're done.

In pretty much every other country I've visited, you have to do the whole process serially after the total is done, which is quite slow.
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If they don't want to work on a restaurant service, that's fine. But I'm not sure their learnings are spot-on. Looks to me like the raised a lot of money which wouldn't be a problem unless they started over-spending (which they did; 17 people & 3 countries???).

For an offering like that, get out of SF and find a "small" city like Des Moines or Tallahassee that has 1,000 restaurants but not a million Silicon Valley sales bros calling them every 5 minutes. Prove the business with a lean team before opening up the purse strings.
This hardly seems to be the case if you follow politics and talk to people about it.
I wonder how the stats and facts in this article would compare to other developed countries. I know it's not a comparison article, but more of a call to action for America, written by Americans, but I would still be interested in the comparison. Especially, since they mention a couple of world-wide examples in the Darwin Awards and reddit.
Is it out of fashion to still want Facebook to die.
I mentioned 7 crimes above that could be charged (again only if the funds get released).

>and then search the Internet for "model jury instructions [that-crime]", and come back with the one that would invalidate this contract?

Have a look at this Yale Law Review article: Validity of Contracts Which Violate Regulatory Statutes.[1]

Say I raise investment under contract with all my investors, and I included a little provision no one reads that says I can appropriate all or part of the investment. Wouldn't you know it I absconded with their investment. My investors sue me and I file an affirmative defense of No Breach of Contract and introduce the Contract which expressly states I can appropriate my investors money as I see fit. That contract will not be enforced, are we in agreement?

If you and I enter and contract where I will buy a drugs and I pay you and you don't deliver, if I sue you to enforce the contract you agree the court won't make you give me the illegal gun right? But will the court make you give me back the money? That is not a yes or no but a maybe depending on the facts do you agree?

>that's kind of the point of the article: that the DAO was constructed in such a way to make problems like this unrecoverable.

That is the point... funds are unrecoverable all the time in real world in contract/criminal cases, but that does not absolve anyone of liability. Moreover, you can not contract away negligence or for criminal acts.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/792459?seq=1#page_scan_tab_cont...
Agreed, watching someone do something with his/her hands is (almost always) better than reading about it. But consider another scenario: a video of someone showing you how they type some code while talking about it. This sort of videos are unbearable to me, and I don't understand how some people can enjoy them. I'd rather read the code in text form, at my own pace.
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> unless you think that 50s-style "integrity, work ethic, and a knack for getting along" hiring practices inherently preclude women/non-whites/non-straight/non-Christian people.

You don't?
> the new more intelligence-based economy.

Was intelligence not valued before?
This is an interesting comment, and I'm sure it's an answer to some question on the thread, but not to mine.
The Chicago Stock Exchange is 15 milliseconds away from all the others. There isn't much trading volume there, though [1].

[1] http://batstrading.com/market_summary/
> economic output

possibly, but more likely "economic winnings"
The intelligence premium is definitely higher.
That isn't what DRM is. Proprietary APIs are a completely separate issue.

You can have open source DRM (for example hardware enforced schemes).
autoimmune diseases and immunodeficiency are two pretty different things. also the infections you listed here pretty much could be prevented or with specific treatments available. MS & celiac disease don't.
If you already know Python and you need to explore some aspect of data science then Python based tools are very practical. Once you confirm your initial hypothesis, then you will probably use R for the production versions of your analysis.

Python is becoming the Swiss Army Knife of computing, lots of great tools that work with it, but for heavy duty use you will choose the most appropriate tool. The SWK might have a saw like blade, but you'd probably reach for the Black and Decker when wanting to cut some lumber. It is certainly going to be quicker and result in less sweating.
Any linkes, video, etc?
Politics, religion, and their close correlate, global warming, are subject to opinion sans facts. Hence, the average discourse re: those three tend to the degenerate case.
In-game money (ISK) can buy influence in the social dynamics of EVE. There's also a prisoner's dilemma aspect where someone else might independently discover the same attack and use/disclose it before you get a chance to.
The very intelligent traditional men are the ones under attack in America. The stupid are not directly under attack. The stupid are under attack indirectly, because the true leaders of society are under attack. The evidence of this can be seen in all of the crumbling cities in America. Even Noam Chomsky, a renowned liberal, admits that America is in a decline.

Understanding the reason can start with understanding that the very very intelligent men have been shouldered out of the Ivy League schools. Men have higher quantitative reasoning ability than women. The truly magical men that should be in control of our society are being shouldered out by very intelligent women.

>In 2005, the distinguished economist Lawrence Summers was forced to resign as President of Harvard University after expressing the view, at a seminar on diversity in the academic workplace, that in some fields the innate cognitive differences between the sexes might make the search for a perfect 50:50 gender balance impossible.

Mr. Summers taking damage here is an instance of the de-evolution effect of feminism that we all experience everyday.
There will never be a balance in the genders until genius men are stepped on and damaged until their phenotypes have been genocided/they no longer exist. And even in that case, if the very genius men are being stepped on, then genius women are also going to be disappearing, as the same genius men are generally their fathers.
I experienced the same for being smart in the "wrong neighborhood" in Albuquerque, NM (1990s).
Having played a bit with J, and also used Haskell extensively, I'd say they aren't that close.

Probably the closest contemporary language to J is Python+Numpy+Pandas. I've gone about 1/3 of the way through Notation as a Tool of Thought (http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm ) and translated most of it to idiomatic numpy. E.g. their first example is:

+/l5

(read this as generate an array 1,2,3,4,5, then apply + as a reducer to it.)

In numpy this is:

add.reduce(arange(1,6))

It may just be familiarity, but I do find the Python to be far more readable. (Hardly surprising since brevity is the core value of k/j/Q, but readability is the core value of python.)
>Only exploring stuff related to your interests can trap people within a detached state with respect to reality.

This is true. And it is exacerbated by confirmation bias.
It's a very strange statement indeed to claim that there's nothing built-in for it. We built it around / within our capabilities. It works so well precisely because we built it for ourselves, for what we are capable of.

It's almost like they're pretending it spontaneously came from nature (or always existed absent of humans and we discovered it) and we weren't evolved for it but somehow adapted to it. You could insert eg a bicycle into the same premise: we ride them absurdly well given there's nothing built into the brain for specifically riding a bicycle (except there is: balance, grasping acceleration, etc. - we designed them for our use just as we did text).
Greek speakers like me will have done a double-take on that title. "Christos" is Greek for "Christ".
Video is a great way to convey formal information - when that info needs the moving visuals aspect to be clearly presented.

Videos of people just speaking text is terrible and the wrong tool for the job.
There's also this extension [1] by Ilya Grigorik that focuses on just speed controls if you want a leaner plugin.

1. https://github.com/igrigorik/videospeed
It's hard to apply cultural analysis like this uniformly. I also feel that there is a general trend towards anti-intellectualism in America. I think both things can be true: that 'we' value excellence academically (because it confers greater and greater economic benefit) and yet are less open to ideas that are outside our worldview.

On the other hand, the article suggests that the more intelligent are more likely to be oblivious of their own biases and flaws (and where is that more likely than in politics), so on its own terms is not necessarily contradictory :)
I was only about 10 when the gates went up in Central Park.
I haven't thought about them in a long while, but they really were entrancing. Glad to see Christo is still working on such a massive scale.

Another great piece of NYC public art from around that time was the waterfalls [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Waterfalls
I don't have any problems with a society that is a meritocracy. This article is nonsense. If anyone wonders why so many people don't like political correctness just point them to this article.
u will be surprised how often large outbreak of parasites infections there are in "developed world's" public water supply: Sweden [1], US [2]. CDC even has a web page set up for Drinking Water-associated Disease Surveillance.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3966397/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Water_supply&sect...
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Peter Thiel .. funding an appeal of this would be a better use of your $$$.
I first discovered Borges in high school. We read "The Book of Sand" from a textbook. I've been wrapped up in the mysticism of the scenarios of his writing ever since. Years later, I visited his home city, Buenos Aires, and felt a bit of the magic he had written about.
Is the idea that people would lose faith in how practical smart contracts are, or why would this affect Ethereum at large?
also ironic: it's my highest scored comment ever.
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Happiness is a state of mind and also a side-effect of a higher meaning and purpose. It's also absolutely subjective.

Optimizing for happiness is not a worthwhile or even possible endeavor. Instead focus on providing purpose and meaning and everything else will follow by the people who are best fit for it.
Yeah, they do plan to delay everyone equally now. However in the original proposal if you used IEX's router, you weren't delayed.
No, it confuses material success with human worth.

And this is not a new human behaviour, it's just exacerbated by increasing inequality, and made more obvious when the rules of success change, favouring different social groups.

American society's infatuation with gungho capitalism certainly plays a part (thanks, Edward Bernaise), but I'm convinced it's a hard wired behaviour, like our preference for attractive people. Associating ourselves with both attractive and the powerful provide an evolutionary advantage.
It doesn't seem like Kottke's style to plagarize, but it also seems extremely likely he read Graydon's post before writing this one. Even the phrases like "always bet on text" are the same.
I don't understand why current contracts don't suffice for that scenario. If the user disputes payment for services already rendered, you can sue them as things are now, and you'll win. It doesn't usually happen just because the cost is too high, but I don't see that this would change for "don't apply reasonableness, just read the letter of the agreement" contracts.

Or just ask people to pay you in cash.
I expect to see this downvoted into oblivion, but you're not wrong. Men have a wider distribution of intelligence than women, so you end up with more male retards and more male geniuses. The bell curve is real.
This is why I don't put my hands into small, tight spaces of unknown contents (or at least my right, if completely unavoidable).

I imagine most people don't really think of such things. Even a minor injury (e.g. tendonitis) can wreak havoc on one's day to day life.
"space takes time" is pretty good. Understood they could miss the date, but that's what Elon said they're targeting. If the first re-use is October 2017, I'll still be impressed as I'll bet the timeframes compress over time.