skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I think if some form of slavery could be proven to lead to better outcomes for all involved, it would be a good thing. I just don't think such a system is possible.

What's a good outcome is subjective. For the slave, it cannot be better to be enslaved. For someone else, it may be very well be. That is why rights are important. Like I said, your moral framework is essentially sociopathic in its willingness to violate others rights. You're even willing to enslave others given the right circumstances.

>Actually, what I see is that in societies with lower taxes, inequality increases slowly over time leading to inefficiency, poverty and crime.

The US doesn't have lower taxes though. The countries that have the lowest taxes while still protecting private property rights have seen massive gains in wages and life expectancy over the last 60 years: Hong Kong and Singapore.

The countries that have increasingly adopted social democracy have seen wage growth stagnate.

Look at the US for example. The US has tried massively increasing social welfare spending since 1972:

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/what-is-...

Annual spending growth on various components of social welfare spending (1972 - 2011):

>Pensions and retirement: 4.4%

>Healthcare: 5.7%

>Welfare: 4.1%

Annual economic growth over the time frame:

>2.7%

The only thing it has to show for giving people more "free money" to spend is a higher trade deficit, stagnant wage growth, and, I would argue, an explosion in the amount of single parenthood:

http://pinetreewatchdog.org/500-rise-in-single-parenthood-fu...

The story has largely been the same in Europe, with the scale of forcible income redistribution growing, concurrent with increasing stagnation of wage growth.

>Why not just say "slavery is bad because it denies individual freedom"?

Because if the person is selling themselves into slavery, you have to ask how that is a denial of individual freedom. That is what I've attempted to answer.

>That seems far more like a position based in liberty. Whereas trying to base everything in property rights just feels like an exercise in oversimplification.

You cannot have a definition of liberty unless you define what people have a right to (their person and property).
Despite being in quite stressful situations at the moment (consulting with tight deadlines and unclear deliverables), I actually feel quite at ease. Team is great, client and location are great and my weekends are protected.
This is very worrying as it's starting to look like the same BS that Harper tried to push in Canada. Which was just bad policy and the kind of thing that can keep scientists away from doing valuable research for years.
I think most, when referring to "climate change denier" mean to say "anthropogenic climate change denier". Most people who are "climate change denier"s in the above sense do actually believe in climate change in general just not the fact that we have influenced it.
Also http://www.esp32.com/viewtopic.php?t=497
Well, Apple's ability to stifle the progress of the browser market, demonstrates that their position is mobile market (which is causing the above) is dominant enough. Not sure how you quantify that influence from perspective of the law though, but practically their current influence is very damaging for the whole Web.
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Campaign trails are also designed with the electoral vote in mind. Saying Hillary would have won if the election was based on popular vote, is not necessarily true.
That is the fault of the United States health insurance industry blocking attempts at universal single-payer healthcare and turning Medicare into a privatization scam. Blaming the AMA for that is completely misguided.
The description here applies to both.
I think Amazon was able to sustain growth, being innovative and keep the current customers. They were able to predict the future, customer needs and at the same time not to screw old customers.
I'm pretty sure that a single tweet from the most powerful (alleged) watersports enthusiast in the USA would be sufficient to resolve FetLife's troubles.
> what's the population limit, really, for a well functioning democracy?

I think that's the wrong question but it leads us to the corrective answer.

The founders provided us with a Bill of Rights, a constitution, separation of powers, and democratic processes for 2 of the 3 branches.

Of these, the first two scale to as large a number as you wish. We need to start insisting on a robust interpretation of our civil rights. That was always the intended protection mechanism.

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Is this supposed to be a joke? Or maybe related to some weird coding environment?

Long variable names may take more characters, but there is no way they increase bugs.

Indenting(!) doesn't even take many more characters if you use tabs...
I'm just curious, what are the absolute best articles/papers that prove the following:

1) Climate change (meaning the planet is warming).

2) Climate change is man made and causing the planet to warm.
The electoral college is not the problem. If we remove that, than states that lose representation they were promised when they joined should have the right to secede.
This is a silly argument. Trump and Clinton competed for the electoral college, not the popular vote. Which means that Trump spent a lot of time campaigning for one electoral vote in Maine and almost none in courting millions of people in California and New York. It's impossible to say what the outcome would have been if the popular vote would have mattered, because both campaigns would be run totally differently.
I bet you would get wayyyy faster and higher promotions by leaving the company rather than staying.

The world is full of people waiting, hopefully, for their 10% yearly raise, repeated over many years. They'll only realize after 5 years that they could have done the same progression by changing company after 2 years.

>>> If I had to hazard a guess I think this is probably because a more junior engineer working their ass off can show quick and obvious improvements to the quality of your work and time management skills, which start off as near excrement and iterate to "ok" over time.

Lemme tell you how it usually goes. The people at your company around you probably:

1) wont notice your improvements (determining good is hard and they ll forever remember you as the junior who just joined)

2) have zero management support (depends on politics

3) have the organization turned against you (typical raise blocked at X% per year top and only once a year).

If one wants to get his progression noticed, one should go interview at other places and tell his achievements in front of interviewers who wants to listen to just that ;)

An early stage career is handled by moving early and often, to the next opportunities: https://thehftguy.com/2017/01/23/career-advice-and-salary-ne...
If the staff of any government agency is increased by 1000, will results improve? How about by 10,000 or 100,000? Does it take 1 Million? Is there anything wrong with cutting what isn't helping or is redundant and applying those funds where they are needed more?
I keep getting ads for plates of shrimp.
Why are you working at a startup if you don't have equity? You should definitely leave.
I'm not following your first point, the denominations that were demonetized and exchanged for new issue were the black currency no?

Can you clarify?
Unfortunately, the popular vote doesn't matter.

Clinton lost Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Michigan, the entire damn south (aside from New Mexico), etc. etc.

If Clinton had slightly better showing with manufacturing-based southerners or the energy sector, she would have won.
Trust me, I'm pretty mad that Trump won. However, your post seems to be a tangent from the point I was making in the grandparent post.
And for some reason you don't think some programmers are building ML models to classify all diseases known to man kind?
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Also worth a read (it makes you try to grasp how enormous is Graham's number): http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html
Look, if you stray from initial point and keep moving goal posts, don't expect me to be kind. You first wrote this:

Basic human rights are something that we agree shouldn't be taken away, from anyone, even from prisoners.

That seems like a clear (and wrong) point. Free speech, freedom to move and so on are human rights and everybody understand that. One prisoner has none of these.

So first you make an obliquous attack on private property, you don't say it's not a human right, but you create a distintion between "basic" and "advanced" human rights and proceed to define a rule that separates ones from the others.

But that rule doesn't work. We suspend basic human rights to prisoners because, well, they're prisoners and there are good reasons to do it.

Now you say that the point is backwards because casuality is the other way around. But it makes no difference. Please explain what it is said difference if you disagree. But then, you would have no point at all, it's just your opinion on what should be.

Also you blatantly misrepresent what I said:

You seem to be suggesting a positive correlation between private property and freedom

That's taking a clear point (that without private property there is no freedom) and introducing a scale of "more private property" vs "less private property", that's also misleading, because all the countries that you mention have well protected private property.

So you're consistently trying to dilute others' points, making distracting distinctions and then ignoring the original points. I hadn't complained, but it's not a nice way to discuss, FYI.
> These jobs are not coming back, period.

Yeah, but that's not a winning message to the Coal Miners. Trump's fake promises won them over.
Discussion of tiny houses and pod apartments has become popular (not so much the things themselves) because they offer this tantalizing hope that reducing living space size will decrease rent/mortgage proportionately.

It doesn't for all sort of reasons.

Basic functional blocks like bathrooms and kitchens can only be made so small. And once one graduates from college, shared spaces seem a lot less attractive.
Adding to Andy's point here -- if you consider the services that back GCE in terms of the features offered by our virtual networks, virtual storage devices, etc. they necessarily have tight dependencies on "How Google is Built" to hit the performance targets we aim for.

I, personally, am optimistic that we'll be able to do it for the core at some point. Something not mentioned in the original article is that architecturally our VMM allows us to easily change the set of available functionality (virtual devices, backing implementations of those, etc.). So, for example, the fuzzing Andy described as depending on our custom VMM isn't even linked into the VMM run in GCE, nor are custom devices we keep around for testing and development. I'd very much like it if we could layer the VMM in such a way that we could release a useful core that forms the basis of the VMM we consume internally. Today, though, the layering just isn't quite there (among other technical and business reasons, as Andy says), and there are Googley specifics in places that would make even the VMM core (minus devices, etc.) unviable outside of Google.
If you ever meet one of these people, their thesis is usually that that "liberals" think climate change is real, therefore climate change must be false.
Show me a photo of water side cities or homes that have changed at all in the past 100 years. Google can show you dozens whose waterlines have not changed at all.
Don't link to bad comics then. http://www.gocomics.com/joelpett/2009/12/13/

Delete it from your post if you're unwilling to defend it.
Everyone should be taught according to their ability. It doesn't make sense to mix people who learn at different rates into all the same lectures and the same overall grade system. Why make children spend 8 (boring) years in elementary school if some of them could have learned the same material in 2-6 years? Why hold children back from achieving their potential just because they have a higher potential? Gifted schools is one solution but there are many other possibilities as well:

- more tracked classes

- let people advance based on what they learn instead of based on their age

- individualized technology-based instruction instead of large lectures
That's not even an accurate representation of what is publicly claimed; Google runs a VRP specifically because it acknowledges that software sometimes has bugs and it's committed to fixing them. Google also employs quite a few of the security researchers that contribute to identifying and fixing security issues both within and beyond Google.
This is a bad thing how? Serious question. The US would be a much happier and healthier place if it were more like the EU.
sci-hub.cc is your friend.
Canadians evidently are smarter than Americans. And Canadians don't have the gun culture which causes most normally intelligent people to vote for politicians they wouldn't invite into their house as long as they keep any gun restriction legislation out of US laws.
This isn't just Trump's work, though. He can do "whatever he likes" because both houses and the senate are all red. If he changes his mind halfway through and becomes a liberal, watch him become somebody who cannot do whatever he likes.

This just makes it worse because I've seen so many people defending Trump, or adopting a "what's the worst that could happen?" attitude because they are used to a president who, for 7 years, 10 months and 2 weeks didn't have an ounce of power in congress.
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/26589529219124838...

Edit:

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/40897761692683059...

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/41854213789949132...
Where is this? In Seattle the cost of construction is around $250-300 per sqft assuming mid-range quality of materials and a flat(-ish) site. You'd need to spend between $200-$500k to buy a lot in Seattle. So a reasonable 2,000 sqft house is going to be anywhere from 70-50% of the cost.
Well I'm disagreeing that it's similar to how other, more competent, administrations have done things in the past. Whether it's how things are done in the corporate world or not is kind of irrelevant as government plays by different rules. I also think it's a bad idea on its face since it leads to overreaction in the media and won't have its intended effect since it only encourages unattributed leaks rather than normal communication where the people running the government at least know who is saying things.
Man made climate change, AKA, the extreme levels of change in temperature, atmospheric composition and acidity levels in the oceans we are experiencing right now.

I think splitting hairs over the term is unnecessary. I'm sure there are people who believe earth's climate has always been the same but they are probably very few. The most popular position among climate change deniers, as far as I know, is that this changes are part of the natural cycle and humans have little or no impact.
Coal and the environment had nothing to do with Trump's win.
Hahahahaha wtf? When does the zombie apocalypse happen?
Did the Times change the title? It now reads EPA Science Under Scrutiny by Trump Political Staff
> I understand that Trump was voted in by coal miners.

Yes, tens and tens of millions of Americans work in coal mines. No.
You're right. Its a legitimate problem and there should be schemes / policy to address that but going backwards is not the solution.

We rather give coal-miners theirs old jobs back rather than protect the future generations.
The electoral college no longer provides the intended benefit to those states anyways -- it just makes swing states more important.
Firefox failed to innovate and alienate developers. Refusing to implement File System API is a perfect example.
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It also seems to be confused as to the difference between the Indian and the Libyan flag.

"Live from Tripoli." [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_-lzI8I0_0
While there is some proprietary glue, all changes to the Wine code are (as they have to be) open source.
Climate change is about changing temperatures. Not necessarily about changing water-lines.

We've got over 150 years of solid temperature measurements. We can reach into historical measurements of varying accuracy as well (such as that Japanese ritual where they measured an ice bridge for the past 600 years for religious reasons).

The average temperature of the world has rose by approximately 1.5 degrees Celsius since the 1850s. Do you agree or disagree with this fact?

http://imgur.com/p46gi7L
I'm not sure I want Google to tell me what's fake and what's not fake.

This also means they're transitioning from being a neutral part to being curators.
¢ doesn't quite do it, though...
Interview with Freeman Dyson, Reluctant Global Warming Skeptic
This is very concerning. Something similar happened in Canada with the previous PM, Stephen Harper, whose government suppressed research which would -- directly or indirectly -- oppose their platform.
Oh god, I missed the passage about the 400 t-tests. Your professor is the guy on the cover of this book:

https://www.statisticsdonewrong.com/

If your comment was a book, I'd lovingly put it on the shelf next to Reinhart's masterpiece ("revised and expanded ... with three times as many statistical errors and examples!"). Unlike Shakespeare, it appears nonfiction is well within the capabilities of the Interwebs (asterisk).

(asterisk) For many years, it was believed that millions of monkeys hitting millions of keyboards would eventually recreate the works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this to be false.
It's also worth noting the first past the post system encourages duopolistic government (Almost China and NK's monopolistic government ;) ) People vote against their sincere choice by voting for one of the two most popular candidates instead.

Some other systems:
http://www.aec.gov.au/Voting/How_to_Vote/Voting_HOR.htm
http://www.elections.org.nz/voting-system/mmp-voting-system
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Indeed. The electoral college overriding the popular vote was a bigger issue at hand.
> It's worth noting that 3 million more people voted for Hillary.

She has, in many respects, just as many problems as Trump. If the US used the popular vote, we would just be screwed in a different manner.

This is not a "patchable" problem with some implementation detail. It's a fundamental problem with trying to force hundreds of millions of people with dozens of vastly different cultures to live under the same overburdened legal and regulatory system.
This. Trump optimized to win the election, and Hillary ignored a bunch of states she thought she'd easily win (some of which she didn't).
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The United States isn't a democracy. It's a Republic. A lot of the apparent jingoism was first WWII propaganda, then cold War propaganda. Prior to that, Americans simply considered the rest of the world to be mostly irredeemably corrupt.

I don't know if we can determine Trump's actual opinion on climate change. He's opportunistically jumping on a bandwagon.
So this is like selling autographs?

Seriously, an idea - actually modestly FUND someone who sends one of these emails. Then do this exercise again in the future, the response will be at least 2x!
The population limit for democracy is about 500 people. That's why we have a republic.
like saying drivers with licenses have a monopoly on driving

...if drivers got to set the test standard and pass rate.
Why? They would get the chance to participate in any amendment to abolish the electoral college.
But how is it any more fair to let three large metro areas override the preferences of most of the rest of the country?
" If the software is available to everyone white hats are much more likely to find bugs and help fix them. They might actually have skin in the game alongside you."

The state of most FOSS security says otherwise. A better assumption is virtually nobody will review the code for security unless you get lucky. If they do, they won't review much of it. Additionally, unless its design is rigorous, the new features will often add vulnerabilities faster than casual reviewers will spot and fix them. This situation is best for the malware authors.

"White hats won't bother with proprietary software at all"

You mean there's never been a DEFCON or Black Hat conference on vulnerabilities found in proprietary systems + responsible disclosure following? I swore I saw a few.

Regardless, proprietary software should be designed with good QA plus pentesting contracts. Those relying on white hats to dig through their slop are focusing on extra profit instead of security. ;) White hats will also definitely improve proprietary software for small or no payment if they can build a name finding flaws in it. Some even do it on their own for same reason. This effect goes up if the proprietary software is known for good quality where finding a bug is more bragworthy.

"You're just reciting the same tired old rhetoric that security through obscurity is a valid defense mechanism. It's just not."

You're misstating my points to create a strawman easier to knock down. I said attacking unknowns takes more effort than attacking knowns. I also said, if monitoring is employed, the odd behavior that comes with exploration increases odds alarms will be set off. These are both provably true. That means obfuscation provably can benefit security. Whether it will varies on case-by-case basis per obfuscation, protected system, and use case.

Feel free to look at my obfuscated options in recent reply to SEJeff to tell me how you'd smash them more easily than a regular box running Linux and OpenSSL whose source & configs are openly published to allegedly benefit their security.
I want to second that.

I'm a Mozilla employee and I was very deeply involved in Firefox OS work.

On the engineering level, Telefonica was very helpful and working with them was actually a good experience. (can't say the same about all partners :().

Hindsight 20/20 is a powerful bias and it's easy now to talk about why FxOS wasn't meant to be.

All I can say, is that we tried our best and designed a pretty usable device in the end - just week ago I launched my Z3 with latest nightly of Firefox OS 3.0 (from April 2016) and damn, it's actually pretty nice and super smooth, and I'm speaking as a user of the Pixel.

I deeply believe that there's room for an open source operating system and that web stack is a good platform to base it on.
The legacy of Firefox OS in form of tons of spec work and engine improvements (Firefox memory usage!) makes it much easier to do this now and I hope someone will.
You'd be surprised the amount of people who very seriously say "Global warming isn't real! There's snow outside!".

This is why there's been a push towards the "climate change" wording in the first place.
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Arguments for a plebiscite - a full-democracy - were pretty much shot down in the Federalist Papers and haven't been entertained seriously since.
The electoral college is antiquated and premised on an idea that didn't pan out. Specifically that people would have a primary allegiance to their state and not the federation. This was true since World War I at the latest, and Reconstruction at the earliest.

Quite frankly it's asinine that my town has more population and less representation than 6 states.