skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All you say is true, as I understand it, but there are two problems:

First, social scientists are overwhelmingly liberal. Normally, I don't have a problem with an appeal to "academic circles" as I'm in them. But this is a legitimate reason, I think, for conservatives to be skeptical of the motivations and reasoning here in such a politically-fraught topic.

Secondly, redefining words with existing meanings is a bad idea that only leads to confusion. A crude analogy: imagine I redefine the word "moron" to mean "an uninformed consumer of news". Then, I go around calling people "moron", and am surprised when they are offended, and are not placated when I tell them the word's new meaning. They might wonder: might I not have chosen that particular word to make uninformed consumers of news appear worse than they really are?

I think it is disingenuous to blame the public for "misinterpreting" what is meant by "racism" in this context, even though all you say about its academic meaning is true.
I wonder if The Intercept will qualify as "fake news" in the near future for exposing things like this.
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Is Asana losing users? I had no idea they were having retention issues...
> It seems like it would be better just to let the community decide.

That's what's happening. Users flagged this story, moderators haven't touched it. My comment just says why I think the user flags were correct.

Edit: btw, on HN the term "flag" and the "[flagged]" marker always indicate community action: users clicking on links that say 'flag'. Moderators do other things, some of which are visible and some not, but we didn't do anything here. We never use the word 'flag' to describe a moderator action (we might say 'penalize' or 'downweight' instead). On HN you can think of 'flag' as a semi-technical term with a precise definition.
>"Lowest I've seen is 3% plus base rate. If you typed "poland mortgage rates" into Google, you might be seeing the same infobox as I am, which references a US-based credit union. Taking Millenium Bank as an example, the calculator on their site offers 3.6% - base not included - for 25 years on a house value of 1,000,000zł with a loan of 700,000zł. That seems gigantic to me, and over 25 years it's just painful."

Sitting with a 10.x% mortgage right now in sunny South Africa. It's all about perspective. Then again, we're on-par to paying the thing off within a few years, but plenty of people carry their mortgage around for up to 30 years, or more with re-financing.
Rapid prototyping isn’t helpful. Or is it?
The address killfile sounds awesome.
certainly not 200mph, but he i'm betting he breaks the speed limit. should we ban cars that go above 65mph?

on second thought, never mind, i probably know your answer.

"ban everything dangerous until there's no possible way anyone can get hurt" is not what freedom is.
> but harder to maintain

I'd have to dispute that--ATF change intervals are about the same as clutch change intervals (disregarding the "lifetime ATF" crap that manufacturers peddle) but cost far less, and otherwise automatic transmissions today last the lifetime of the car.
the only time a bike helmet is actually worth wearing is when mountain-biking and then you need to wear a full motorbike-style helmet because most injuries are to the mouth not the head
This is why Apple and Google will eventually become horrible evil companies. I won't do anything to piss off Google or Apple because my life is stored in their ecosystems. This, they can get away with being shittier than AT&T.

The financial loss I would sustain if Google locked me out would be substantial. The emotional loss if Apple locked me out would also be substantial. My entire personal life is basically in iCloud in some form or another.

My situation might be a little extreme because I travel constantly and stay in touch with my family digitally but my tight coupling with a digital ecosystem will become the norm.
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It's not about wear and tear. Brakes heat up when they're used, and descending an entire mountain on the brakes is likely to overheat them to the point where you have no braking power left at all. Not a good situation to be in on a steep slope. Using engine braking to keep your speed under control prevents this.
Thank You, Sal
Hopefully the lesson learned is that they should not "trust" any organization, ever. Trust should be a concept reserved for children and Santa.
Wright received $762,000 in funding from Google for at least four academic papers, all of which supported Google’s position that it did not violate antitrust laws.

He might as well be a Google employee.
The "cold starting" issue isn't as significant as it might seem. Most acceleration tests on ICE vehicles are started with the brakes down and the throttle up. It is very hard on the vehicle and doesn't match what you would likely do in the real world, but it does mean power is available right from the start.
I think if it's annoying, you're not driving in traffic the right way. Sure, it's annoying for aggressive stop-and-go driving, but if you maintain a consistent speed with the traffic in front of you (see traffic shockwaves [0]), a manual transmission is better than an automatic.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suugn-p5C1M
In their mind perhaps the users who hadn't purchased a Pro license were not pro users.
Automatic transmissions are way more reliable, with the computer shifting gears at perfect timing each time. None of my automatic transmission cars (1st hand, sold after 4-8 years) ever need to have its gear box repaired. Manual transmission, on the other hand, more than 1 thing would break for sure after 4 years (right after the warranty expires of course) for sure. Gearbox, clutch cables, ...

Cars with auto transmission costs and extra thousand but you get it back when you sell the car, plus you won't rack up expensive repairs and towing.
It looks like the Focus adblocker they launched last year [1] has been updated to a full browser.

1) https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/12/08/announcin...
That "nanny state nonsense" witnessed road deaths fall from 25 per 100K in 1930 to 10 per 100K since 2010. We've halved road deaths per every 100K of population! I'll take my nanny state nonsense where people are still alive, over the libertarian wet dream where they're dead.

I really think it boils down to that some people value their own personal enjoyment over other people's safety. The sad truth is that you could absolutely enjoy vehicles like that but without endangering safety, by going to a race track. There's literally race days even for road-legal vehicles.
>NT was called "New Technology" literally because it was a new technology. It was based on the NT kernel (which is used now) as opposed to the 9x/MS-DOS kernels used in 1.0-Me.

Thanks; I was aware of that when I wrote my comment that you replied to. I was around in tech when NT was released, so I had read the expansion of the acronym then in the media. In fact I had read the book Inside Windows NT (the one by Helen Custer, a good one) some time after it came out. Remember it talking about Dave Cutler as the main NT architect, his DEC VMS background, etc. And it had a fair amount of interesting content about NT internals. Also remember trying this Linux C utility that I wrote, selpg (which I posted about in this other recent HN thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12960242), on Win NT, because I had read that it had a POSIX subsystem (then and for a while). And it worked on it, including the POSIX popen() call (though not to an lp command, since NT didn't have a UNIX-like lp subsystem). My point in mentioning marketing was that even if Windows NT really was new technology (and it was), giving the name "New Technology" was somewhat unusual (after all, any non-trivial product upgrade is usually new tech, unless only cosmetic) , and so I thought it might have been the marketing folks's decision. And we know that marketing people do sometimes push product names for marketing reasons, that tech people might not always agree with. That's all there was to it.

>Also, NT came before 95. Specifically, as Windows NT 3.1.

I did clearly say above:

"(might have got some of the order wrong there)."
One of the things HN always harps on is automation of work and effort that humans do as to free us up time to work on stuff that we really want to do ( creative efforts, time with family etc).

But if in the process of automating everything in life we remove the simple joys that many get out of things like driving then we are moving in the wrong direction.

If I didn't have to do the dishes or grocery shop I would probably fill that time driving my various cars because they give me great joy rowing through the gears and connecting with the machinery of the car. We should be hesitant trying to make life too efficient and removing the things people enjoy doing.
People used to have jobs walking behind horses in fields, while the horses pulled ploughs and so forth. Pretty stultifying, dawn to dusk staring at horse's ass. A generation from now, manual driving will be viewed as maddeningly dull makework for human drones. Hours of staring at roads with instant death the punishment for dozing off? Wouldn't do it if you paid me.

I'd have said, hopefully the world gets basic income and then a full leisure society sorted out. But honestly, not feeling optimistic right now. The Trumpoids and Brexiteers voted to get their makework back. They won't get it, the economics will make sure of that. But they probably will get unemployed.
It would be cool if it was true in our industry. People digging canals know that to do that well, there are those-and-those types of tools useful depending on the constraints of a particular canal design and environment.

In our industry? Your bioinformatic analysis can probably be done well with shell and AWK (however idiotic those tools are, but that's a topic for another day[0]), and this solution will be more efficient and can be even scaled up. But no, most people will pick the "Big Data" solutions requiring a person full-time for just configuring it and managing the machine clusters it used, all because it's trendy these days. There's this saying that "if it fits on a consumer-grade hard drive, it's not big data", and it's absolutely true.

What we need is more focus on efficiency across the board, and that means things like how much it will cost (in money and time) to develop / update / maintain the solution, taking into account the actual problem that's being solved, and not some imaginary version of it.

--

Also, a food for thought: over the past 15 years, computers got a million times faster. The software we use maxes-out the hardware, and it offers still essentially the same set of features we had 15 years ago, or 30 years ago. Where did that million-fold power increase go? It definitely didn't go into valuable work we can do with our computers[1].

--

[0] - coming back to probably the single biggest fail introduced by UNIX culture - doing everything in unstructured text. Every tool you use thus has to contain a half-assed parser for the input data, and produces output in a random, undocumented and often inconsistent format; a lot of shell scripting is just adding additional parsers to glue those tools together. Sad thing is, people know how to deal with structured data long before UNIX, but it became forgotten, save for the PowerShell team and the web folks who try to backport JSON into UNIX-land.

[1] - except in scientific computing, video games and maybe CAD tools.
Nice to see the courts doing the right thing here... While I feel that most Police Officers are mostly good, and that a lot of the anti-police rhetoric exceeds reasonable; I do believe it's become a systemic issue wrt Police organizations exceeding their positions and violating the rights of the people they are meant to serve.
Single network that works anywhere in the world? Why not?

It will be a very disruptive business if he can pull it off
And who's going to pay for the infrastructure + thousands of engineers working at Twitter ? this isn't realistic.
This happened to a friend of mine driving through the rocky mountains in Canada; brake system overheated and he had no breaking ability until it cooled down.
Unfortunately if you use Noto fonts with Go Rob Pike and Nigel Tao will hunt you down, show up to your house and kill you and your entire family, so you have to factor that in to your choice.
How Arrival’s Designers Crafted a Mesmerizing Alien Alphabet (spoilers)
technically yes, but good luck selling this to the public. politicians need to be voted in every 4 years, you know
I don't know the author but I'm sensing you do and that's causing some bias. My read of it was that the "racist" label is being applied too quickly, too liberally and too often. The question of whether Trump is racist matters less than the issues that arise when a label like that becomes a weapon.
i don't think there's any reason to engage with you because you're just willfully ignoring the implication of the text i responded to. see ya.
I agree, on Thai airways, the food is excellent. Singapore airlines too, I've had incredible meals (not just for airline food).
Manuals would probably shift driving away from the ignorant/nice/slow style of bad driving found in the southern US towards the attentive/aggressive style of bad driving found on the east coast. Definitely not more courteous, but probably more efficient and safer.
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He wasn't suicidal, he just called the suicide hotline by accident.

I'm not too surprised that the suicide hotline had trouble handling someone who wasn't suicidal. I called one once, trying to figure out how to help a mentally ill person who had been e-mailing me. They weren't exactly the appropriate place to call, but this person was in another country and they were the first people I could think of to at least point me in the right direction. They did help, but they also kept asking me questions like, "does this make you suicidal?" Strange experience, although it did work out fine in the end for me.
Being locked out of my Gmail account is something I have worried about in the past. I have moved all essential email traffic to a domain I control. I do worry about my wife and her photos though. She uses Apple photos primarily but syncs them to Google Photos.

Is there an open-source cloud photo-management solution like Nextcloud or something?
I didn't necessarily think you/OP were trying to influence (I did mention that the OP might just be sharing an opinion).

I was just interested in kicking off a more on-topic discussion about 'influence' and how one might do that, and less about the specific politics.

Not that it matters much as the post has been flagged now anyway.
I Agree with most of your statement. But helmets are important. Broken bones heal. Serious head injuries do not.
Wearing a helmet significantly reduces the risk of head, face, or neck injury. Cycling infrastructure is also a concern but you're painting a false dichotomy and dangerously implying there's no benefit to wearing a helmet.
Make an API call to Google? ][1] https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/timezone/st...

An API call is going to be easier to implement than learning a new library.

[1]: Alternatives here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16086962/how-to-get-a-ti...
How does it feel to get Google as a competitor?
> My entire personal life is basically in iCloud in some form or another.

True enough, only for me it's just not stored only in iCloud, (something that is cumbersome to accomplish with Google services). If I get locked out of my iCloud account, everything (that matters) is right there locally on my Mac.
so why was he calling the Veteran's crisis line?
That was my first thought (and what I think the path would be for getting this browser experience on Android). It's basically Firefox for Android, private browsing mode with tracking protection enabled, but it doesn't seem to be possible to set private browsing as the default. Thus any link from other applications will automatically open in a tracking friendly context first.
That's interesting.

Did you find the point important/did it have an effect on your pre-existing opinion?
Your rude and dismissive tone aside, you are incorrect.

The difference is not significant. Reporting the news /is/ what the news becomes. A slant like the kind I'm discussing is exactly a lie: taking a story, and instead of telling it, saying what you want.

And I'm also talking about explicit lies: the Oliver hit piece on third parties contains some, and if you want to look for explicit lies from MSM they are easy to come by. For example consider the Nevada Democratic primary "chair-throwing" incident, reported as such by every pundit and agency in the media although objective fact is that no chairs were ever thrown. The reports of the incident devoid of context are actually even worse here than misstating the actual fact (why were people angry? crickets), but the lie is still there. Retractions were offered days later in fine print by ombudsmen and ignored by journalists (at the same organizations) presenting the actual story.
Another vote from me for Markus Winand's guides (first two). They are the first place I point people who have the basics down. There are great and amazingly simple discussions about the tradeoffs and design decisions that need to be considered when designing and optimizing a schema, with practical advice and information.
Not really. The article makes it pretty clear that giving a platform to spread these ideas has enabled the ideas to spread. In this case, permissive policy is what made the undesirable views stronger.

In the long term, ~20 years, it probably doesn't matter what Twitter does today. It's a way for them to connect, now, with their primary demographics by making something of a political stance.
Cortana can now create and manage lists, integrates with Wunderlist
A helmet is no substitute for good cycling. If you cycle correctly, you should never come off your bike or collide with anything. Whenever I read anyone say "that helmet saved my life" I immediately think "you probably did something wrong". The way cyclists with helmets ride, it's no wonder they need them.
The founder and most of the development community has moved to NextCloud. ownCloud is mostly the old corporate people maintaining status quo, from what I understand.
I'm confused as to how Fastboot does not help?
Completely false, any time you're on a bike will benefit from a helmet's injury risk reduction, specifically to the frontal lobe. Especially if you're sharing the road with motor vehicles.
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"Somebody else has had this problem."

(I'm gearing up to build a big distributed "fabric" and reading the SaltStack docs; it's a weird feeling of mixed happiness and disappointment as I discover all the problems they've already solved for me.)
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Because he couldn't sleep, and it's implied he was having trouble with his PTSD.

Is it too much to ask to read the article?
Am on satellite internet. When it works, it's kinda okay. 25mbps down are possible and sometimes achieved. On a Friday evening though, the shared medium hits hard. Last week an 'aptitude update' took an entire business day.

So, yeah, I'm gonna assume people who're by every definition smarter than me aren't going to try this kind of 'meh' technology for their own Google Fiber like plans. Ground based RF networks make a lot more sense imho.
I once saw an advert for a job in British Intelligence that was offering £45k PA. Comparative jobs in financial services were paying £75-£120k.

Base salaries, doesn't include bonuses, benefits, etc.
Veterans Crisis Line is a suicide prevention hotline setup by the VA for Vets. So yeah he called the wrong suicide prevention line but he still intended to call suicide prevention.
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What (TF) are you talking about??!!
There are several commercial solutions for G Suite backups including SpinBackup and Backupify.

https://spinbackup.com/products/google-apps-backup/
http://www.datto.com/backupify/google-apps-backup
The general consumer really needs to start caring about this kind of stuff and start demanding more secure devices. They should refuse to upgrade their phones to the next model until devices are reasonably secure. Problem is that the average person cares far too much about convenience and having that sleek, next-gen gadget. Which is why this problem persists.

Personally, I purchased a BlackBerry Priv (which runs Android) and couldn't be happier. Phone is/was very cheap compared with the other flagship devices and it runs really fast. Came factory unlocked direct from BlackBerry and has zero bloatware on it. I get frequent O/S updates for security patches as well, which is far more than I can say about my previous phone (Galaxy S3 from AT&T).

Despite most people's apathy, or even hatred, of BlackBerry, they have always done security very well. The Priv is no exception - secure boot, hardware keystore, modified Linux kernel, FDE enabled by default, work/personal account separation, external SD card protection, their DTEK software, etc. Some of their security features are included as part of the base Android OS, yes, but their security model as a whole from start to finish is far ahead of all competitors.
Really helps to read the article.

>On the night of February 2, 2010, suffering from sleep deprivation, he inadvertently phoned the National Suicide Hotline when dialing a number he thought to be a Veterans Crisis Line.
Not surprised, if you spend any time in traffic, manual transmissions get to be a pain after a while. Having said that, I learned to drive a manual and my first car was manual, in fact it was really bare bones. (no AC, power steering, power brakes etc...)
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dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12973264
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Privacy is important to me, so I use Firefox.

I don't think I'll ever be able to really trust Google or Microsoft not to spy on me, as they're rarely resisted the temptation before.
I am saying only what I said, if you doubt you can read it again above.

The numbers you are referring to[1] do not mention lives saved but rather head injuries by transportation modes. They say nothing about seriousness of the injury. And I am pretty sure that when biking downhill at 70km/h chances are that a head injury will be more serious than the one i'd get by falling on the sidewalk while walking. I actually hate using a helmet while biking, and often go out without one when I am biking at a leisurely pace. But when I go out to train or to get to places fast, I prefer wearing the helmet.

[1] http://www.howiechong.com/journal/2014/2/bike-helmets
Yep, agreed. Universal basic income is one solution that keeps coming back as a silver bullet. Not sure what the downsides are yet, but I'm pretty certain that there's still going to be haves and have nots: just a few rich that own all the automation and resources vs the rest of us just surviving on basic income.

Maybe we'll all be ok immersed in VR adventures as long as we're fed and clothed...
First time I saw someone with negative karma.
How many of the horses have jobs today though? :) But sure I agree. That doesen't change that for some people their job is all they have. If you take that away they have no realistic future unless it's some post scarcity society.
Its the principle of the thing.

If my employee says I get $2000 per paycheck. I should get $2000 per paycheck. Not $2000 - $15 processing fee - $12 HR fee - $1 stamp fee - $7 tax filing fee...