skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think about how that conversation would go. They're driven by concerns that kids will look at porn – and remember that if they don't try to stop that, the local Fox News applicate will be running a loop 24x7 saying they're trying to force godly children to watch it – or that someone will breach a staff member's computer and steal PII, compromise the security cameras, etc.

Against that, making life hard for Chrome engineers’ aggressive upgrade campaign is pretty hard sell. “Buy a better box” perhaps but I don't see a viable argument for “don't monitor”.
> By comparison it takes ~8km/s to get from Earth LEO to Moon LEO

No, from Earth LEO some 3.1 km/s will get you to TLO, and then some ~1 km/s will take you to Moon low orbit, so total about 4(+) km/s. 8 km/s is an approximate budget for a round-trip between low orbits.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing but that seems fundamentally opposed to the way a LLC works.
My theory of bell curves. Academia accepts a much wider distribution so that it can get some few at the far right. Business hates the variation as it wreaks havoc on building your brand/growth etc and wants the average just to the right of profitable.
If it is not considered amazingly stupid, or at least ignorant to not understand that the magic talking bear has a computer in it, and that if the computer wants the wifi password it probably uses the internet, and that if the entire purpose of the device is to make recordings available to you over the internet... then I despair.

I think you vastly overestimate the degree to which non-technical consumers understand computers, wifi, the internet, email, web sites, apps on their phone, and the differences and boundaries between any of those.
I know very little about China, but the report mentions in passing that racism is pervasive in Russia where I was born, whereas Western societies have done a remarkable job addressing racism.

It is not obvious to me that the American approach of racial quotas in high education (which incidentally penalizes Asians very heavily today, perhaps more than any other group) is particularly different from the Soviet approach of racial quotas in high education (which to some degree penalized ethnic Russians by reserving spots for people from the other "republics", and heavily penalized students from "overrepresented" minorities, quite similarly to penalizing whites somewhat and Asians more heavily in today's US.) It doesn't seem different from Israel's affirmative action where Arabs get preferential treatment at the expense of Jews, either. Perhaps it seems reasonable to some to blame Chinese for not having racial quotas which supposedly "address" racism, but especially since Asian Americans get heavily penalized in the scheme, it's hard to respond to an argument from a Chinese person that the scheme doesn't address racism but institutionalizes it.

Nor is it obvious to me whether the average Westerner of any particular group is more or less racist than a citizen of Russia, including both ethnic Russians and those who are not. It's fairly obvious that the Westerner might be more reserved in expressing racist views, fearing repercussions, although at other times the Westerner will actually be very loudly racist if it is currently in vogue to be racist against this particular race (right now anti-white sentiment is celebrated, which, whatever its reasons, will surely produce terrible results; the broader point is that it's not obvious that being racist against one race at one time is fundamentally different than being racist against another at another time, and even if we agree that it's done for very different reasons, it does not follow that it will produce very different results.)

I'm not saying that Russian attitudes toward race are the same as Western attitudes, just that the report's claims about the Russian society and the Western societies which I kinda sorta know things about (though it's hard to summarize millions of people very precisely or to inform oneself about them fully in the first place) make me suspicious with respect to its main topics, Chinese attitudes to race. It would be interesting (though not necessarily representative of the entire Chinese population) to hear Chinese people weigh in on this.
If the NFL can call themselves a nonprofit then anyone else should be able to do the same.
assuming both the startup and the "big company" you compare it to are great in their respective categories, I find it to be a wash. My career was split pretty 50/50 between startups and big companies (about half dozen of each as my sample size), I found them to be similar in term of learning. You just learn different things.

At a startup you're more likely to do everything and wear all the hats, see things from the beginning and build stuff from scratch. That also means you don't get to see as much of how tech debt can be efficiently paid off, how to maintain large systems, or can't have the hindsight 20/20 of all the solutions to problems startups face.

My early careers was mostly startups, and I felt I had learnt a ton. Then joined bigger highly successful tech companies, and realized there were much better ways to do everything I had seen (solutions that would have worked at the startup scale in many cases)
I agree about the willing to admit you don't know something. I've found it's something a lot of people have a hard time doing.

I wrote down some thoughts about this recently:
http://zalberico.com/essay/2017/02/21/asking-questions.html
> What these "enterprise environments" want is to leech off the Internet's knowledge while keeping a firm chokehold on the privacy of their own employees

Because one size really does fit all, and all environments have the same needs?
The VPN does introduce a lot of complication, what if we had publicly routable IP addresses from any network in the world and then just used default deny policies on our firewalls to secure networks and encrypted protocols to secure data?

Someone should really get to work on developing such a technology stack. /s

Sarcasm aside, I completely agree with you and as soon as someone offers iPhone/Siri level functionality in a simple package I think people will eat it up. I know the whole "personal cloud" thing is not new but as people realize the implications of putting all their data in the hands of complete strangers I think the market for such a device will take off.
The Board doesn't have a choice, under CIPA[0], content filtering is a requirement for the FCC's E-Rate program[1] in which the government pays some of the cost of the school's internet connection.

[0]https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/childrens-internet-prot...

[1]https://www.fcc.gov/general/universal-service-program-school...
New Uber Software Head Departs as Past Harassment Claim Surfaces
Probably driven by the fact you don't need a subscription to YouTube to watch.
Good to see you here, Dhruv! :)
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As a statistician once told me: "the odds of running into a grizzly bear are miniscule, but if you're the one who runs into it, they're 100%." So it's important to remember that when evaluating odds and probability. Many things are unlikely to occur, but they do occur to some. I realize this is only tangential to your question, but wanted to put it out there.
> These types of posts are worrying to me. Why could this post not have been crafted by someone at Lyft? Or one of Uber's many other detractors? Given the PR nightmare that Uber is in why not pile on while the public seems primed for that type of information and stretch out the negative news cycle?

This is a good point, but I thought what historically happens is that there are women who are too afraid to speak up? That's why I personally believe the story.. hopefully more people will speak up and so it won't matter that one of them isn't real.
Interesting how often the perceived racial equality of the USA comes up as an advantage over China in terms of their perception in the developing world - I wonder if the policies of the Trump administration are in the process of tipping that balance the other way.
Summary: Someone at world bank has a "mental exercise" based on a supposition that subtracts an assumption from the estimate of another group of researchers based on several abstractions applied to a number of estimates.

I used to wonder how I got so lucky -- to live in an era where we no longer bleed people for ailments. Nowadays, I sometimes wonder if we'd be better off having physicians bleed people with leeches instead of having bankers and economists bleed the world with finance.
This dosent really seem to solve anything, everyone now ignores the enumerated GREASE values as they are reserved upfront, and will continue to cause failures with other extended values. yay?
This seems like an absurd attempt at trying to lay the blame for recent reports on someone who was hired a month ago?
I can't wait till they bring back one of those! Amazing on so many levels.
My apologies. Which guideline do you feel that I have strayed from?
That is interesting, I also couldn't find a way to search or a complete list. There's a sampling here: https://21.co/
Here's Hitchens (who wrote the piece you linked) quoting Orwell (yes, that Orwell) on Waugh:

In 1895, when Oscar Wilde was jailed, it must have needed very considerable moral courage to defend homosexuality. Today it would need no courage at all: today the equivalent action would be, perhaps, to defend antisemitism. But this example that I have chosen immediately reminds one of something else—namely, that one cannot judge the value of an opinion simply by the amount of courage that is required in holding it..... Waugh is about as good a novelist as one can be (i.e. as novelists go today) while holding untenable opinions.

Then Hitchens himself:

I have already mentioned that the gross pedophilia of "Decline and Fall" is so artfully suggested that an adolescent might read it unawares.

and

But toying with his innocents, and showing how cleverly and suddenly their creator could bring them low, was for Waugh part of a serious mandate. He wanted to bring the Book of Job to life for those who had never read, or who feared, it.

(If you haven't read the biblical book of Job then the eviliness of this may miss you)

During his wartime service—which, it must be said, was often conspicuous for its gallantry—he almost had to be protected from assassination at the hands of the soldiers under his command.

While it is well known that Waugh was a fascist sympathizer Hitchens makes it pretty clear that this persisted throughout WW2:

Guy Crouchback [in one of Waugh's books] regards the Yugoslav partisans as mere cyphers for Stalin, sympathizes with the local Fascists, and admires the discipline of the German occupiers. We know from many published memoirs that Waugh himself was eventually removed from this theater of operations for precisely that sort of insubordination.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/05/the-per...
From a resource perspective nerve cells don't really consume all that much of the body's resources. More than fat cells but less than active muscle tissue. It's really cancer that's the major risk.
Well companies are content to just stay private, or go public but hand over 80-90% of the voting power to founders anyway.

It's a pretty ridiculous situation.
Nit: observed values converge on expected values over many trials. If you asked me which strategy I'd like to play 100,000 times, I'd take the 50% chance. Just once, I'll take the $49.
I followed your link on the Navier-Stokes equations. Nice.

They mentioned C. Fefferman: I'd forgotten that he wrote the problem description for the Navier-Stokes equations for Clay. Fefferman is one of the most respected mathematicians going.
Also surprising to many westerners is the extent to which Chine encourages and provides the opportunity for folks to volunteer for a eugenics programs: https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23838
Collecting taxes and using them to pay doctors for services isn't slavery, unless you're of the opinion that taxation is equivalent to slavery.
Ah ok, went back and read the article. Similar sentiment.
That is an understatement. That is a full build of my 3D engine - http://i.imgur.com/3ApRyuQ.png (C not C++ but the linked article is also about a C codebase) on my current computer (4770K i7) under Borland C++ 5.0. Partial builds (modify a file and run) are instant, which is basically why i'm using it for a lot of my C code (the code also compiles in other compilers, like OpenWatcom, GCC, Clang, Visual Studio, Digital Mars C and Pelles C, but i mainly test with GCC, OW and VS, the rest i only test with occasionally).

The compiler is part of the IDE, not some external process that needs to start from a blank state for each file, needing to read the same files over and over (which is what every other "IDE" does these days, similarly with the debugger which is usually running gdb at the background and some IDEs do not even bother to perform the builds themselves and instead using cmake or whatever - honestly it is as if people forgot what the "I" stands for) and it keeps compiled objects and libraries in memory and even uses the source code directly from the open windows's text buffers instead of having to save the file and load it from disk (although it does write the object and executable files to disk, it just doesn't do the unnecessary roundtrip for compiling the source).
Disagree or not, but it very obviously worked for them.
To quote a lawyer friend, "Break only one law at a time. If you have a dead body in your trunk, be sure to use your turn signals."

The pragmatic reason for this is that the penalties and probability of getting caught for a given crime are often inversely correlated. So if you commit a small crime and a large crime simultaneously, you're likely to get caught for the small crime and then they'll notice the large crime too.

Uber set out to break a set of laws that arguably needed breaking: those that protect incumbent taxi services against competition. Calling their taxi service a limo service to avoid anti-competitive regulations is a small crime. But instead of learning the "one crime at a time" rule, they seem to have learned "Hey, we can get away with crimes!"
I think it absolutely will fail. I'm in the know about much but I was a contractor there at 685. Even from my perspective everything I'm reading sounds 100% true.

One thing no one talks about is the company absolutely does not scale. People talk about drivers being contractors but no one ever talks Ubers actual contactors base. Operationally the company is run by contactors. I've seen people say the have 11,000 employees but really closer 14k thats compared a 40k+ contract base. God if that held it might be closer to 50k by now. Yea you read that right. No joke I'm told they were growing by 1k contractors per week and I believe that.

Not one single operational process is defined or automated. For a company that pretends to be bleading edge the sure get a lot of crap manually. I once heard a group of data scientist sitting out on one of there many couch lounges talking about automation and new customer service call center opening in South America one said out "oh well fuck it we can always leverage more human capital till we figure it out.

Think about it. Their rapid growth was only fueled by a army of contractors. Every time they expand they need 1000s of cars, driverops people, new driver onboarding, insurance claims.

They don't care about these people, most perms treat contractors like theyre disposal. And to the company they are they want to automate it all but seems like there's no single vision to do that and no plan to get there. And they way everything changes or gets thrown out for something else on a whim I don't think they'll ever get there.

Also I want to throw out that harassment happens a lot to contracts and if you see anyone complane watch how fast their contract gets pulled and new meat for harassment is swapped in.
I don't know if there truly is an actual consensus in the scientific community, but it is true that an aggregate warming of the earth as a whole will cause some hot spots to become cooler, and some cool spots to warm, some deserts to recover, and some wet regions to loose their rainfall. "Change" is a good word.
It's more like an incentive I offer the person who doubts the story ever happened to prove me wrong. Thereby the truth is learned, regardless of whatever a priori probability I actually have. I'm just playing the player-2 role in the game "who wants to make a bet?"
I meant I wasn't in the know cause I was a contractor and they tried to keep us in the dark but my freaking eyes and ears worked
Ah, partial pedantry. All of Merriam-Webster, the OED, and the Chicago Manual of Style specify that all of BC, AD, CE, and BCE are written in capitals without punctuation (M-W does list both small caps and punctuation as variants -- the OED only lists small caps).
Totally agreed they have the right to monitor your network traffic, but I still think in most cases employees should try to push back on this.

At least from my view, it's not so much that I don't want my company to know what I'm doing, as that I don't trust their software to securely MITM all of my traffic. This thread doesn't fill me with confidence about the competency of these corporate MITM proxies. And the recent Cloudflare news doesn't help either -- they're effectively the world's largest MITM proxy, and even they couldn't avoid leaking a huge amount of "secure" traffic.

There are surely sectors where it's necessary for a company to MITM all traffic, but I think most companies will do better security-wise by not messing with TLS. It's just too hard to get right.
I LOVE POCKET! I'm only very happy to hear that it's Mozilla who has bought them. Warm feelings of security and privacy.
> Likewise, I never even realized Discord had a non-browser implementation.

Can't give an answer on slack, as it's not something I use (and I wouldn't use any of the three services if I had a choice, but you don't get to make choices for entire communities as an individual and chat apps are about communities..), but I can say something about discord.

Custom keybindings, ability to do things like push to talk while you're in game, general integration with your OS desktop features (systemtray, native OS notifications), GUI that can overlay over your full-screen window ( like this: https://youtu.be/aVQyk_GX7aE?t=98 ) and probably other features I haven't paid attention to.

> I never even realized that WhatsApp had a non-mobile implementation.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/10/11653606/whatsapp-mac-wind...

Released in May, 2016.. and the webapp launched in 2015.

> Which ones?

Are you seriously asking that of terminal emulators that are supposed to be drop-in replacement for iTerm or Gnome Terminal and whatever else? how do you think your bash scripts can operate without breaking on your local data in a webapp without added native calls? I feel like I'm getting trolled here.

> Er, the whole point of Mozilla is to champion standards-based web tech. They're rewriting their UI using CSS/HTML/JS because this is feasible today, whereas it wasn't in 2005. So I ask again, why would Mozilla want to retain XUL instead of making web technologies more powerful?

So a great deal of selective quoting up till here while acting sassy and not paying attention to what was quoted to support the point yet still asking the question?

Why would they retain a competitive edge when other platforms like electron are attracting all the developers to enhance their application with native access goodness, why indeed.

I'll quote it again.

> Whether you need to migrate an existing web application to the desktop [...] or want to integrate your own cool features into the browser, XUL warrants serious consideration.

Is what Electron and Chrome actually do for people now, successfully, in droves and was an aspiration they had before. As for what is feasible now that wasn't before.. electron is not going away any time soon and webapps haven't replaced native. Even more so on mobile platforms, as 90% websites are begging you to install the app with full screen popups.
Ive thought the same thing. This is pure speculation on my part, but I wonder if they...how do you say this nicely...I wonder if they are holding on to what they were? In their approach I mean. Like they think they are still fighting with Google? So they make decisions trying to get back to that "leader position" rather than really focusing on who and what they are...which is an awesome, creative, international open-source community with great ideas...that can out maneuver any large corporation because they are smaller and faster. And cooler. Then again, maybe this rebranding is evidence of exactly that realization.
Read Thomas Sowell here:

---In 16th and 17th century Spain — its "golden age" — the windfall gain was gold and silver looted by the ton from Spanish colonies in the Western Hemisphere. This enabled Spain to survive without having to develop the skills, the sciences or the work ethic of other countries in Western Europe.

Spain could buy what it wanted from other nations with all the gold and silver taken from its colonies. As a Spaniard of that era proudly put it, "Everyone serves Spain and Spain serves no one."

What this meant in practical terms was that other countries developed the skills, the knowledge, the self-discipline and other forms of human capital that Spain did not have to develop, since it could receive the tangible products of this human capital from other countries.

But once the windfall gains from its colonies were gone, Spain became, and remained, one of the poorest countries in Western Europe. Worse, the disdainful attitudes toward productive work that developed during the centuries of Spain's "golden age" became a negative legacy to future generations, in both Spain itself and in its overseas offshoot societies in Latin America.

In Saudi Arabia today, the great windfall gain is its vast petroleum reserve. This has spawned both a fabulously wealthy ruling elite and a heavily subsidized general population in which many have become disdainful of work. The net result has been a work force in which foreigners literally outnumber Saudis.

Some welfare states' windfall gains have enabled a large segment of their own citizens to live in subsidized idleness while many jobs stigmatized as "menial" are taken over by foreigners. Often these initially poor foreigners rise up the economic scale, while the subsidized domestic poor fail to rise.

Do we really want more of that?
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[1] https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/06/16/is-persona...
Perhaps it should be mentioned where power and rules came from in other economic systems.

Blood lines (either real, or "Roman-style" (meaning voluntary adoption)), outright whim or military power (either individual, or organized), or otherwise advancement within a rigid hierarchy.

None of those seem to me even remotely preferable over a system where making money means advancement.
That sucks... Yes I wasn't thinking about the frail aged. I'm assuming she was on the sidewalk. What a horrible person to cause an elderly person to fall.

Of course, a car would have done much more damage to her in the same situation, and there are many more instances of real injuries from cars to cyclists than cyclists to pedestrians.

Did the cyclist actually make contact with her or just pass too close?

I'm not condoning the cyclist's actions in any way, just asking.
Just the other day, someone crashed a drone through the window of a high-rise apartment in NYC:

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/02/27/Police-probe-drone-th...

According to the article, the pilot was ignoring the rule that says the only place in NYC that you're allowed to fly recreational drones is in a few designated parks. The cops have the drone and are looking for its owner.