skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big mainstream political topics might be getting more intertwined, but don't think for a moment that means we weren't already heavily politicized. It's been that way for at least as long as I've been paying attention. So many overlapping opinions can feel less political when the people that would disagree aren't paying attention (or dissent isn't noticeable).

We've spent the last decades proving that there is no soul and no ethics to be found here. Just sleazy after the fact rationalization. Morally bankruptcy extends all the way into the design of software. We abuse the unearned trust of users that have no option but to come to us for tools. And devour our own when they stray too far from the fashionable perspectives.

The end of net neutrality makes us face the possibility of someone doing to us what we did to the nobodies: forcing ourselves into the middle of their day-to-day business and instead of just facilitating what they want to do, finding every single way to extract money from that privileged position.

Like the man who worries about the possibility of his country becoming a police state to distract himself from the fact it already is, we debate topics as if our little slice of the world hasn't already been hollowed out. Even if we don't like that Eich was run out of town, the fact it happened feeds the lie we tell ourselves: that we have the ability spot actual wrongdoing and act meaningfully to stop it.

The system didn't need anything more out of Eich, so he can be disappeared over $1k to Prop 8. Eric Schmidt and Mark Zuckerberg have overseen the destruction of privacy as a human value, but they're fine and nobody cares all that much about losing it. The system needed privacy to go.

In 50, 100, 200+ years, when people look back at our time now, who do you think will be seen as more malicous? Eich or Zuck? How long until golden boys of tech turn out like Christopher Columbus? A reductionist and simplistic fairy tale about his amazing contribution to our history has eventually swung. Now all you see are people that continue to "bust myths" about this monster, long after everyone has stopped believing them.
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If you enjoyed that - take the time and get the book compilation of all BH's annual letters to shareholders - starting 1960s to present. Some of the most valuable reading I have done in years - strongly recommend.
iCloud Keychain works pretty well for me, with Roland Moers' OTP Auth (http://www.cooperrs.de/otpauth.html) for 2FA.
Warren Buffet is not health freak. He enjoys life and according to his own words is "one quarter Coca-Cola"

>"If I eat 2700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola. I drink at least five 12-ounce servings. I do it everyday."

Really funny:

>Asked to explain the high-sugar, high-salt diet that has somehow enabled him to remain seemingly healthy, Buffett replies: "I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old." The octogenarian adds, "It's the safest course I can take."

http://fortune.com/2015/02/25/warren-buffett-diet-coke/
I wasn't suggesting you were saying "let's hire idiots just because they're women", I was pointing out a hypothetical scenario in which meritocracy plays second fiddle. There's no need to get defensive.

I agree with your suggestion that encouraging women and minorities to apply, and ensuring that one's company culture is inclusive, is a good start. However, this doesn't really help with the core issue, which is that the number of women and minorities getting into the field in the first place is disproportionately low to their demographic representation. I'm not well-positioned to suggest why that is, being a white man myself, but until the underlying issues are solved, decrying meritocracy as promoting white men over other candidates is not a valid criticism.

Merit is for each company to decide for itself. I'm sure there are many companies, Uber included, that consider themselves a meritocracy but the way they measure individual merit just leads to toxic culture. Fowler made mention of a number of bad actors who were not fired because they were high-performers in the company's eyes - and this is a valid concern for companies that aim to be purely numbers-based in their evaluations. Personally, I'd say that there has to be a baseline of decency for an employee to be valuable at all, and that how someone interacts with others should be considered as a metric for their individual merit. Quantifying that, however, is a whole 'nother question.
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Also, keep in mind that the minimum monthly salary for the (230,000) Indonesian maids in Malaysia is 900 MYR (about 200 USD). (And from my experience in HK that's also the median and mean salary...)

So, they were basically offering half a month's salary. Imagine what you would get anyone to do for, say, 1000 USD cash.

http://news.asiaone.com/news/malaysia/indonesia-raises-minim...
that's your opinion, if they shut them down it means they are not totally useful, that there are better alternatives, and they provide migration guides I guess
Eh, I just signed up and am trying to add other domains and the DNS verification is failing, even though the fields have been there for days. Also, trying to verify DKIM unverifies the entire domain, so that seems pretty buggy.

Everything else has been working great, though.
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I was hoping this had something to do with job processing, haha.
The top comment on this story right now is someone saying they don't want to use new Google products anymore because they too frequently get shut down. I think Reader really lost them a lot of trust and they continue to reinforce that reputation.

That being said, I cannot help but wonder how what Google is doing is different than any startup working on a product. The differences might be that Google never tries to substantially change, improve or even market a product once it has been released. They throw it at the wall and that's it. If it sticks they keep it and it might get some love, but if it doesn't the entire thing gets axed.
Another difference is that sometimes products seem to get cancelled for larger strategic reasons that the consumer doesn't care about. G+ seems to have lead to some of those.

All this can cause the user to feel like they might care more about a service than Google does. I think that's really the crux of the matter here. People don't want to commit in Google services anymore because Googled themselves doesn't seem all that committed. Startups are usually super committed to their product.

Edit: what makes this worse is that many services they've shut down could have easily supported a small to medium sized startup, especially a self funded one. It might not make sense at Google scale to run something like that, but it seriously damages consumer trust.
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Your comment consisted largely of talking about and linking to your kickstarter. There was no way in which that was necessary to share your understanding or views about the topic.
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> It's also important to remember that "postmodernism" is at this point about 130 years old.

You're thinking of Modernism. Postmodernism is more like 60 years old, depending on how you draw the line, and it's still an ongoing and developing set of philosophies.
> Is iOS really that much better than an updated stock Android?

No, but updated stock android phones are not really a thing, are they ?
The only source of the story seems to be Blind's founder.
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But I nevertheless would argue that this

(item for item in iterable if predicate(item))

is vastly superior idiom and the principles behind dynamically-typed languages, which makes this idiom possible, are sound.

filter(P, []) -> [];
filter(P, [H|T]) -> filter(P(H), H, P, T).

filter(true, H, P, T) -> [H|filter(P, T)];
filter(false, H, P, T) -> filter(P, T).

Look, ma, no IFs
By extrapolation writes are IO bound you don't need crazy expensive things to get to the needed number of IOPS Intel 750 is 230,000 random writes @ $320 per PCI-E SSD. 9 drive
config is over 2,000,000 IOPS for less than 3K.
That is interesting. Goes against what I read, "what do you want to be remembered for? Longevity." which given what you just quoted must have just been a joke.
A lot of this seems funny to me.

Immediately after the attack, before the Malaysians had even publicly named the victim, South Korean media was already reporting his identity, the cause of death (poisoning) and that it was carried out by two females. Going further, and without any evidence, they establish and spread the story that they were agents of North Korea.

Malaysian authorities do not release the CCTV footage, but Japanese media somehow comes into possession of it and broadcasts it, while a Japanese journalist claims Kim Jong Nam was recently warned about criticising North Korea.

The people who carried out the attack were Vietnamese and Indonesian, not North Korean, and one of them claims she met with someone who looked Japanese or Korean. This could mean North or South Korean.

The Malaysians say VX killed the victim, yet nobody else was affected.

The last time North Korea was accused (by South Korea) of attempting to kill Kim Jong Nam, it was no more convoluted than trying to hire a taxi driver to run him over.

Yet now they're using "binary concoction" VX (ah, now we're back to discussing WMDs again), involving multiple assassins, and choosing the absolute worst location possible, a public space crawling with witnesses and armed security guards and covered by CCTV?
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What is the point of this? I mean "alt-git" and "gitster"?
Tympanus is the first thing that comes to mind.
Link preload sounds like nothing new. Why should I care?
Note the positive ton towards immigration. I too found this part interesting.
It's just divide and conquer by the 1%.

This kind of story manufactures consent for privatizing social security and extracting fees.

In this thread "Theodores" and "bamboozled" are reacting as author and obvious man of the people, Bruce Cannon-Gibney intended.
In 1991, Israel evacuated 14325 Ethiopian Jews in 36 hours using 35 aircraft, with up to 1122 passengers on a plane [1]. It's such an impressive feat, those must have been some of the best pilots, to be able to fly such an overcrowded plane (even though they stripped the seats from the planes it was probably still overloaded)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Solomon
The word "cold" on that comment only emphasizes your biases.
But why on earth would they delete it? Just leave it read-only.
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I think my metric is fine. The link you just quoted says "Including human capital such as skills, the United Nations estimated the total wealth of the United States in 2008 to be $118 trillion" - up to you if it's higher or lower 8 years later. His estimation is still low.

Anyway value is not usually priced in terms of wealth, though - but on the future.
Incredible. Are they really trying to pin it on Google? Yes, clearing cache would probably remove some part of the information from public sources. But you can never clear all cache world-wide. Nor can you rely that the part that was removed was really removed before being copied elsewhere.

The way I see it, time given by GZero was sufficient to close the loophole, it was not meant to give them chance to clear caches world-wide. They have a PR disaster on their hands, but blaming Google won't help with it.
Yeah, the sticky point I've always found in the man is just a higher evolved animal position is the arbitrariness of cooperation. That is to say, any expectation one human has of another seems arbitrary to me without a base set of rules set forth by a higher authority.

The writings of C.S. Lewis crystallized a lot of this in my mind.
I liked HBO's documentary on him, "Becoming Warren Buffett", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70nGRBvqFNw
Three quarters of a ton isn't all that significant a weight bump or CG change for an aircraft that size - the latter could as easily happen just from people moving normally around the cabin, maybe queuing at a lav, and the former might fractionally increase Vr but otherwise wouldn't make any difference.

Filling the aisles with people would be a more significant concern, but as another commenter noted, it's a calculated risk - better a long takeoff and rollout than leaving probably one or two hundred people to the tender mercies of the revolutionary and explicitly anti-Western new regime.

In either case, severe turbulence is a much more critical problem. If it happens, some people are certainly going to be badly, maybe lethally, injured.
They're just hacking rigid and outdated laws about transportation. Pakistan International is the Uber of the skies!
Don't need to fall from the sky to cause damage. Bad turbulence can break bones, doubly so if you're stranded in the aisle with nothing to hold you down. Airplanes have seatbelts for a reason.
At this point we can mostly disregard what they claim did or did not happen, considering that they also claimed that all leaked memory had been purged from search engine caches.
Clickable: https://artplusmarketing.com/create-so-much-they-cant-ignore...
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>1. It's tempting to read this as Nietzche disproving the naturalist fallacy, but if you read this carefully, that's not what Nietzche says. On the contrary, Nietzche is using the naturalist fallacy to claim stoics are wrong because stoicism isn't natural. This completely misses the fact that "natural" does not imply "right" and "unnatural" does not imply "wrong".

For Nietzche it does. And one could argue (well Nietzche sure did, elsewhere) that it's also universally true.

Besides even without that, his showing that what's natural could be seen in another different way is enough to deprive the stoics of their claim to naturalness. It is not naturalness the preach, he points, it's "how nature should be according to stoics".

But the even more important insight is this: "And granted that your imperative, "living according to Nature," means actually the same as "living according to life"--how could you do DIFFERENTLY? Why should you make a principle out of what you yourselves are, and must be?"
I like seeing more awareness of this! It's always depressing to hear people say that they don't care or that it's not a big deal.

There are various third party applications that will allow you to use Exchange protocols without the OS integration: they'll let the Exchange server admins wipe the application's container/data rather than the entire phone. I think it's a much fairer implementation.
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Use a different email address?
In some defence of the quote: http://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/01/michael-gove-was-accident...
>"If I eat 2700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola. I drink at least five 12-ounce servings. I do it everyday."

What do you expect? ;) "Warren Buffett, who through Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) (BRK.B) owns about 9.3% of Coca-Cola's (KO) outstanding shares"
I'm in the UK. Over the last decade I've spoken to hundreds of recruiters that are looking for developers. I've never felt that any have technical knowledge. None would know what Github is, or care. They have a list of keywords and use them to search LinkedIn for candidates. If Github was one of those keywords then they'd care about it, but not enough to learn what it is.
> Same old Google crap ignoring or failing to understand the customer

You are the product, not a customer.
Yes, we took land from indigenous peoples, and enslaved Africans. And yes we did awful things.

But isn't it obvious that neither of these things created the wealth we have today? To my thinking, our current wealth derives from technological innovation, process engineering, psychological insight, most of which would not have been possible without welcoming people from other lands, and being willing to work with those who are different than we are.
Typical response from someone looking at things not from the database side.
Someone who mainly works with the database will cringe at the thought of just throwing whatever data into the database.
Consistency, integrity and all that jazz.

Different areas of programming give importance to different things.
In addition to the zero knowledge proof points discussed below, one could (if they had the mean) to not publish the tx but include it in a block that they work on privately. It's not fool proof (once you announce the block, you've only given yourself one block worth of proof of work lead and an attacker could copy your proof and include it in a competing chain)

ZKCP is a much more robust solution.
I'd personally change `if type(x) == list` to `if isinstance(x, (list, tuple, set))` to catch all common iterables and their subclasses.
As long as they keep Project Zero around...
"U.S. household and non-profit organization net worth rose from $44.2 trillion in Q1 2000 to a pre-recession peak of $67.7 trillion in Q3 2007. It then fell $13.1 trillion to $54.6 trillion in Q1 2009 due to the subprime mortgage crisis. It then recovered, rising consistently to $86.8 trillion by Q4 2015"
For this I use a text file in Dropbox. It's on all my devices.
LSD 'microdosing' is trending in Silicon Valley
and YouTube.
Which is quite stupid PR wise. They're relying on a few major household names to be able to do guinea pig product testing, otherwise their brand would evaporate.

Including their audience in the process would bring back the feeling of early google making one's life easier.
They decided to cache the internet, as soon as they decide to copy it to their servers, it's their problem, imho.
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> [...] Mr. Levandowski searched for [...]

Did he actually "search" on "his company-issued laptop" using company network or did he google it from his own machines at home?

Anthony is likely a very smart person, so if allegations are true, I would think the latter is more likely.

How does Alphabet know what he searched for? /G
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My personal view of using Wealthsimple is a stepping stone, I've realise that I've throw away money to the banks with higher then needed MERs and Wealthsimple provide a easy way of transferring my money in and saving money now. When my portfolio is larger and I'm seeing a higher cost with them VS doing it myself I'll look into buying ETFs myself.

The lowest bank mutual fund in Canada that I've seen in from Tangerine at ~1% MER, are there ones lower?
All that is, from their point of view, outweighed by the considerable advantage of not getting caught themselves. They can always try again.
It isn't the most important thing thing no. Keep in mind though, that the pax count doesn't drive just body weight, there's luggage as well. And I don't know that the count was off by just 7 or 8 pax.
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Here's my take, for what it's worth. From the article:

> The sense of doom and delight that is programmed into the human body? It can be overridden by the mind. The eternal war between subconscious desires and the demands of civilization? It can be won.

Nietzsche is saying this is ridiculous because those things are natural, and we are part of nature.

> [You] imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without purpose or consideration, without pity or justice, at once fruitful and barren and uncertain... Is not living valuing, preferring, being unjust, being limited? to be different?
Ironically, we used Airtable + Zapier as our core backend when we launched Nugget... It worked great!
Yeah it's a bit more complex than that... The disk "IOPS" number on the box doesn't translate 1:1 or even linearly to number of committed durable transactions per second. You should try this with postgres and see how it goes.
The oculus settlement I remember was for half a billion http://www.polygon.com/2017/2/1/14474198/oculus-lawsuit-verd...
> the [antebellum] American south was probably the most advanced agriculture civilization ever

I don't follow. Certainly the current farming system in the American mid-west is orders of magnitude more productive. But even if we're focussed on pre-industrial history, are you sure that the ancient South American agri-economies weren't better? And for productive land use, what about Japan and south-east Asia, where every square inch ran like clockwork.
In my opinion this criticism is a bit of a straw man, but in fairness to Nietzsche, it is not a result of his misinterpretation but rather poor communication on the part of the stoics.

The state of mind that the stoics advocate is one of acceptance and non-attachment to outcomes. Stoicism and Buddhism are really quite similar in this regard.

This pattern repeats itself endlessly in philosophy. In fact, I would argue that variations in the definition of "is" are responsible for more philosophical writing than the actual questions posed.
I'm the same way, no reason to trust that any of their new products will stick around. I only use their most common products: Calendar, Mail, Maps, and Search. I don't want to have to invest in migrating platforms every year or two.
I agree but how is it any worse than a start-up trying the idea and then dying in a similar fashion?
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Google books found the citation from the book mentioned in the other thread.
https://books.google.com/books?id=gugwlufvShoC&pg=PA25&lpg=P...
Not true. An argument was clearly made.
ButtButt

https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt
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I'd like to see a citation for that. Everything that I've read up to an undergraduate level implied that their farming methods were less than ideal, even by the standards of the day, and that in many ways prime land had been exhausted.
Well, you're missing that in Faunas case the writes are durably stored on N machines. I.e. their system provides fault tolerance in case a machine fails. You can't really do the same thing with postgres (without trading off full ACID compliance).
Beyond Good and Evil is probably his most important work, but Thus Spoke Zarathustra is more readable.
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You don't know it was applied in a binary fashion. Applying it that way and expecting the chemical reaction to proceed correctly and with enough yield on someone's face while applied with two different wipes sounds like a very poor plan. You may only need 10 mg absorbed to kill someone but 10 mg is still a sizeable amount of something.
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