skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I don't speak for Google and don't have any real context into why this occurred. Speaking as myself, a private citizen.

I work in Spam & Abuse and it's possible that this is the result of some clustering algorithm that was trying to take down sharders / phone buying rings. It's very possible that the SWEs responsible didn't consider this possibility (that legitimate customers would be used to shard purchases) and I'm pretty sure if the affected customers appeal they'll be reinstated, maybe with a warning. I certainly wouldn't characterize this as intentionally punishing the individuals who purchased phones on Google's part -- notice that only users who directly sent their phones to the reseller's address were taken down. Smells like automation to me.

The "deleting all their data if the appeal doesn't go through" thing is actually because of privacy policy and Google can't keep your data around for longer than 90 days give or take after your account is suspended. Again it seems heavy-handed but is more a perfect storm of big-company policy decisions with good intentions overall. Know that if you ask Google to remove your account, you'll actually get everything wiped! (That's a good thing imho!)

It really is unfortunate that FPs (or "mostly-FP"s) in Google's systems impact people so badly. FWIW for most Google services if you abuse them you usually get a service level suspension rather than your entire account suspended, probably for this exact reason.
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If the UN declared your product a Human Right, seems possible.
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Is it the same thing to be permissive and to be neutral?
Well, the other liberal arts departments don't portend to not be liberal arts departments. Economics sells itself as rigorous and predictive. And "multinational capture" has occurred in myriad actual scientific fields, for similar reasons (using the prestige of rigorous, academic work to convince governments to do things).

There's also the matter of the "rational actor" theory of human behavior, the a priori assumption of classical economics. It describes a being which is basically non-existent among flesh and blood humans. But corporations can form themselves in the image of this mythical economically rational being. And so, if classical economics does objectively describes the world, corporations are the uber-mensches of such a world and poised to dominate it in perpetuity - a clear incentive to capture and control the field, lest dissident economists succeed in espousing a revision of their core assumptions.
Only if you take the literal interpretation of the words, rather than the connotation and context that I explained in my comment.
> That means that, in between those two end-points, there has to be a curve of some shape showing the total revenue collected, with a peak (or peaks) somewhere on it where revenue is maximized. The discussion is about where this peak is, and how the curve is shaped. To say "does lowering income taxes increase revenue" is an incomplete question: lower from what rate?

That's the point. Assuming the Laffer curve theory is correct, the question should be "what is the optimal tax rate?" That would mean that economists should propagate for the tax rate to be increased in some countries because it is too low and decreased in others. That's not what economists have been doing (if I'm wrong can you show me an economist favoring increasing taxes using the Laffer curve theory?) and instead they have only asked "how much lower should the tax rate be?"

Now the theory might be discredited, but I'm sure economists will come up with a new one to justify lowering taxes. :)

> Etc, etc. Teasing out these huge numbers of other factors is the challenge of economic study, and why so many seemingly "simple questions" are unanswered: because they're not actually simple.

But the questions aren't going unanswered. Politicians ask and economists do answer questions about tax rates, unemployment rates, interest rates, wage growth...

In climatology, at least the basic principles have been tested in laboratories; higher concentration of CO2 in air -> less reflected sunlight -> higher temperature. The Laffer curve theory was never tested in a laboratory, yet it was for decades trotted out as the truth by economists.
If you want this to be a good Slack competitor, please make a native mac client which doesn't perpetually take 15% of my CPU the way Slack does - i'd convince our team to switch on that basis alone (all else being equal).
Typically, but SpaceX has made rather a habit of ignoring expensive space-grade components in favour of consumer-grade ones they test themselves for a fraction of the cost. I guess we'll see.
I haven't considered it because you haven't made a convincing case for me to do so.

That Wikipedia has fewer volunteer editors does not in itself indicate a decline in quality. Maybe all the people that left were shitty editors.

That you disagree with the way they handle enforcement of the rules you broke is not evidence of a deficient system, only that you don't like it.

I have my own misgivings about wikipedia, but the post linked here doesn't mention any of them.
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Were the literal 1930s Nazis comparable to ISIS propagandists? If not, then why not? What about modern Neo-Nazis, are they really better? Why?
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Let me preface by stating that these are vague, short statements that we are trying to use to extrapolate to some fairly large assertions, and we all come into them with a bias and interpret them based on those biases.

That said, the way I interpreted the CEO statement was that it is symbolic of the depth of penetration of immigrants in the tech labor pool. If that large a percentage of CEOs are immigrants, imagine the numbers from the top to the bottom of the org charts. None of these CEO jobs are going to people straight out of college, they are working their way through the industry.

I've been in this industry for 20 years, at all levels. I haven't seen too many entry level positions that Americans can't be easily trained for, yet there is a nonstop push to massively increase annual H1B limits. At some point, someone has to ask why we can't fill that need with the people we have.

No doubt immigrants would still likely be over-represented at the higher echelons because a person willing to move across the world likely has more drive to get there, but it still seems like we should feel a civic duty to use what we can from home before increasing the numbers coming in.
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Politics remains the mindkiller no matter how intelligent you are.

In particular an effort of your sort is appealing to the prefrontal cortex.

However politics is not higher math. It lives in the lizard brain. It's strongly connected to our survival instincts which is why it is both dangerous and important i.e. all this exists for a reason. I don't know if you could interfere with that without resorting to brainwashing.

Remember Douglas Adams's Total Perspective Vortex?

The Net is speeding up people's 'transitions'. It used to be the case that a person gradually changed their political perspective, but now with the Net this has gone into overdrive.

It is now common to meet people who have genuinely undergone several political perspective changes. It is slow but real.

I suggest somehow speeding that process up yet further would do a lot of good. I don't think you can 'teach' people, but you can get them to argue with each other, and then get them to examine how their thinking is evolving over time.

Looking at your past comments/posts on the Net gives you some humility, many of us would be strangers to our younger selves now.

Appealing to self interest (you used to think X too) could improve empathy. It would at least result in people appreciating complexity and prevent them writing each other off altogether.
Yeah, simulated annealing as to the order to place objects in is probably optimal for non-trivial values of n. Also, determinism can often be important and stochastic doesn't have to mean non-deterministic - seed the RNG.
Any password that you give out will be stolen; that's why "let's have a special secondary password" doesn't solve much. There are now passwordless ways to authenticate, authorize, prove identity, make payments, etc. so that's what we should be suggesting.
BTW, I really like the concept of Candy Japan. But twice a month and $29 is too much. Hopefully they can get monthly or bi-monthly subscription soon.
This is the most asinine, childish conversation I've ever participated in, but here's what 50 seconds of effort got me:

https://twitter.com/LK4Csjsharks20/status/795128062941675520

https://twitter.com/Sundance_44/status/794595588822155264

https://twitter.com/gr1zzly/status/794184499491782657

https://twitter.com/WYLTK13/status/798922065399070720

https://twitter.com/Wolf_Gang_Tears/status/79871237999133081...

https://twitter.com/TonyTehTowel/status/797860571882389504

I won't replying in this thread again. Whatever point you're trying to make, you're doing a poor job of it.
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Ah yes, you're correct. The lawyers were at his grandfather's home, but not directly hired by him:

> His grandfather asked if he would sign a one-page confidentiality agreement to give Theranos peace of mind. According to Tyler Shultz, when he said yes, his grandfather revealed that two lawyers were waiting upstairs with the agreement...Tyler Shultz says his grandfather protested to the lawyers that this wasn’t what he and Ms. Holmes had agreed to earlier, but that Mr. Brille kept pressing the younger Mr. Shultz to admit he had spoken to the Journal.

Still, the grandfather was working in concert with Ms. Holmes, and I imagine at the time, it would've been difficult for Tyler to give his grandfather the benefit of the doubt, assuming that Tyler was not expecting lawyers to jump out at his grandfather's command.

I actually missed the paragraph where it's mentioned that his parents "pleaded with him to agree to whatever Theranos wanted" and told him that they might sell their house to deal with the legal costs. Add that to the checklist of things I'm not sure I could do if I were in his shoes.

(That his parents only responded to the WSJ reporter via a prepared statement suggests that there's still tension.)
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this looks really cool.
This same procedure is used in the United States with startup darlings like Coinbase. No debit card or one-time-password required, please give your real bank account password.

https://support.coinbase.com/customer/en/portal/articles/194...
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Let's look at it another way. Ban all hate groups, or don't ban any of them. However, don't pick and choose.

I don't agree with Neo Nazis. I hold Neo Nazis with the same contempt that I hold feminists. Why not apply the policy for all hate groups?

For example, in Australia we refuse to acknowledge the approximately 25% of violence and abuse by females within the household. The worst case statistic is NSW ("Twice as many female victims (19,488) as male victims (9,261) in New South Wales."). Not one of these victims is given a voice!
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject/...

Also check
http://www.oneinthree.com.au/

You will see that men who are victims of domestic violence are turned away from support groups. This doesn't surprise me as there is an aggressive campaign to ignore male victims from media, government and community support groups.

I conducted a Google search from 2015 to determine that 100% of references in the Australian media stated that domestic violence was a "male only" behaviour and the only victims represented were female. I checked over 2000 references! In other words, 2000 of 2000 references represented one gender with relation to violence.

If you listen to Cassie Jaye (the feminist who created the documentary The Red Pill), she says that feminists in media refuse to acknowledge male victims because it will take money away from female victims. In other words, if you are a boy or a man who is beaten or abused, feminists insist males get no representation or support. It's almost a complete media kibosh throughout the western world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itSTzV29bS0

So, why is Twitter not banning prominent feminists?
or, why isn't Twitter banning all media outlets who support such hateful messages that insist that some victims of violence should be ignored? This is a fundamental breach of human rights! You can't get much worse!

Check media references for an absence of any of the following,
80% of suicide victims are male
25% of domestic violence is by a female
90% of incarceration is male

You will also notice that Cassie Jaye said she was suppressed by feminists. Cassie also said that she was advised by feminists not to represent any issues that impact men. This would explain the media suppression across all western countries.

If you're going to ban a hate group, why not include feminism. It's certainly one of the biggest and most active groups today and actively violates human rights. I've given plenty of pointers in this single post alone to build evidence.

There is almost universal silence from the overwhelming majority of feminists on this topic. It's a sad indictement of the overwhelming majority of the feminist movement. Check media, documentaries from 2016, support groups, even discussion forums. The message is consistent and it consistently breaches human rights.

So, should Twitter ban hate groups? If you really must silence hate groups, then ban them all. And like you, I dislike spending so much of my time fighting hate groups like feminism because there is no impartiality on the topic. How extreme do you need to get before people will speak up?
I agree with your broader point that suppression of viewpoints in the marketplace of ideas is a bad idea, but I strongly disagree with the idea that Twitter is inconsistent for treating compositionally identical sentences differently.

For example, if you substitute "Swedish" or "German" or something more specific than "European," you get something that doesn't set off alarm bells, just as with "African" (or "Eritrean" or "Egyptian" - although you might set off alarm bells with "Hutu" or "Tutsi.") Why?

I would wager at reasonable odds that a randomly selected American organization promoting the "heritage, identity, and future of people of European descent" will actually have an agenda dedicated to marginalizing or removing "undesirable" elements of the population (they will have an explicitly racist agenda, and support - if not directly participate in - hateful, illegal behavior).

I would take the opposite side of that bet for the corresponding group with "African" or "Irish" substituted in.

Words and symbols need to be understood against the cultural backdrop in which they appear. It means a very different thing to fly a giant national flag in the United States vs. in Germany (during anything other than a soccer match). The composition of a sentence is not sufficient to derive its significance, or its level of moral acceptability.

And of course, it's perfectly conceivable to have a non-racist group in America with the description you provided. It almost certainly has happened. It's just not what actually happens in the real world most of the time, for "lots of reasons."

It's uncomfortable to get down in the muck and deal with ambiguity and complexity. Evaluating whether or not a statement or group or personality is racist and worthy of approbation is generally really difficult. That doesn't mean it's impossible, especially at the extremes, and especially if you're willing to tolerate a false-positive rate.
Replying just to post the text of that speech you linked (since the audio is kind of bad), which I also stumbled on the other day in trying to figure this guy out.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/this-is-how-steve-banno...
Not to minimize that person's loss, but 60% of Americans have less than $1,000 in savings, and I don't assume that the people I observed only went once to the casino. Minimum wage earners tend to have nothing left over by the end of the month. My point was only that it's not the dollar magnitude of the loss that matters, it's the ability of the gambler to sustain the loss whatever the dollar amount.
thanks for clarifying, I thought the same thing right away as well: smells exactly like automation. I could never see Google suspending an entire account for one person selling one phone.
It's pretty clear that you are confused about what Wikipedia is (not your personal cloud server) vs what you think it ought to be (your personal cloud server). Getting angry about your clearly-against-the-rules behavior being stopped and using that as a reason to go on a rant about Wikipedia dying of incivility is ridiculous.

Wikipedia may or may not have a problematic culture. You were still obviously in the wrong and no one owes you their time to go into a gentle negotiation about it.
Indeed. Turn the spotlight of publicity onto what people, be they good or bad, have to say. Turn a platform into a "safe space" and pretty soon any kind of criticism will be interpreted as harassment. This will deny users a powerful means of making progress. So ultimately it becomes an unsafe space.
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Using kotlin you get a much nicer language right now without any need of Google to switch off its Java API

I doubt it will be officially acknowledged by Google, but hey they never acknowledge third party good things, and the official Android developers docs still tech us to do networking with HttpUrlConnection and threading with asynctask, we moved on to okhttp and retrofit and rxjava anyway
I didn't decide where it is, I'm just saying it's definitely there.
So yeah, we are getting different results. Just looking at your top 3, I don't even see those posters in the list. I'm not blocked by them or anything, since your links work for me when logged in.

Filter bubble shenanigans?

There is no need whatsoever for these theatrics over a simple disagreement, for crying out loud. If I had my druthers, the owners of every single tweet linked in this thread, yours as well, would be banned from Twitter, if not brought up on harassment charges.

You will note that I said Twitter has no issues with those with leftist political leanings telling others to kill themselves. That statement is still true, but misleading in the light of what you linked here. Twitter apparently has no issue with anyone telling others to kill themselves.

And people wonder why their stock price is falling off a cliff...
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I believe automating a whole account suspension is not a good idea at all.
I've thought the same thing, but the people interested in using such an extension would get their news from places other than Facebook.

Self-selection bias greatly reduces the efficacy of such an extension.
Not long friend. Our campuses reflect a growing antipathy toward free speech.[1] Whatever starts there usually ends up in the courts.

I've become convinced that the American left is now totally post liberal, in the sense that they consider classical liberalism -- à la John Stuart Mill -- highly offensive.

1.) https://www.thefire.org/spotlight-on-speech-codes-2016/
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12966673
Speaking for what someone thinks or feels is NOT an opinion. It's untrustworthiness!
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Sounds like you're talking about the paradox of tolerance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Twitter has to choose between upholding the ideal of tolerance (4Chan is a good example of this) and trying to create a community of tolerance by running off the intolerant crowd.

I don't think there's a happy medium in this case because the alt-right seem to really like disrupting conversations that are inconvenient to them (instead of just tuning them out) and Twitter's short-form messages make that extremely easy because the conversations are so disjointed and often misinterpreted to begin with.
> I'm a person currently struggling to find that line as well

Im a big fan of sportsbetting but can see how it can get out of control pretty quickly. I was betting on sports which I wouldn't even usually watch. My mate sent me a link to "gamblr.io" which we all use as group now. Keeps everyone accountable for total spend etc.
That's why it's "alt-right" - because the politics of the alt-right stem from a different source than the far-right theocratic conservatism.

The alt-right are younger neo-reactionaries who are tired of political correctness, tired of the media narrative.
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Right-wing competitors to Twitter are already on line. See
"https://gab.ai/"

“We need a conservative Facebook, a conservative Google, a conservative Twitter” - Steve Malzberg
Of all the new features, ref return leaves me scratching my head. I agree ref and out should go away. Adding more support for ref will only increase its usage when it should be deprecated.
> The metric that matters, active user growth, has been declining since 2007.

How do you expect it to continue growing? There aren't enough people to continue active user growth. It's like your expecting it to be a pyramid scheme that makes money as long as you sign up more people than exist on the planet.
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Dennis Carlton is as crooked as they come. Smart for sure, selfish of course. He has a legion of poorly paid graduate students publishing his junk science and manipulating data from flawed studies to say whatever it is he likes.

And at the end of the day, what makes you smart does not mean you're intelligent. Just because you can master a discipline to achieve your goal of extreme wealth accumulation is unimpressive. I feel that some day when money does not matter, rich people who actually created very little value (and may have even been a net negative) will be looked on as one of the great evils of society.