skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They generally tried it (80's) before moving on to the other stuff. I tried it, but I got very sunlight sensitive (blisters) and they moved on.
People do care about privacy, but they don't understand how they can improve it or how their actions impact it. Then they are endlessly marketed to and told that a networked dildo is going to make their lives better, and hey, everyone else is doing it!

People have been very steadily cooked from a low heat, and they're just starting to realize that it's getting hot in there. Unfortunately, like the frog, it brings them no closer to understanding the cause, their contribution, or any obvious solutions.

...And frankly when so many people here use FB, I find it hard to judge them.
"For women of color, the cumulative effect of these slights is compounded by a striking lack of racial diversity—and all that attends it. "

Silicon Valley has plenty of racial diversity. Something approaching half of the workforce is east- or south Asian. And even the whites are a pretty diverse bunch, with many immigrants from Europe, whether eastern or western. But I guess that just isn't the kind of diversity the US left loves to bitch about.

In my view, people who want to worry about fairness in hiring in this industry should spend most of their time worrying about the women. That's a large group, and the shortfall in hiring is very clear; we are hiring about a third of the women we would be hiring at parity. And since it's a large group, anything done to move the needle there will have a big effect: double the hiring of women, and you've changed 15% of the workforce, double the hiring of blacks, and you've changed 2% or so.

And if there's any time left over after dealing with the women, it might be worth taking a hard look at our socioeconomic inclusiveness. The prestigious colleges we love to recruit from cater disproportionately to the children of the well-to-do. I doubt we do enough to look for talent in the community colleges and state schools, which is where the children of the poor disproportionately end up.
Will this mean that we can get rid of type erasure when running native code?
> I would think that physical (i.e., chemical) addictions are different; your body requires that chemical. Alcoholism is a disease, AFAIK.

The interesting thing is I believe I can make a convincing argument that "life" is a disease that can be overcome - for example, a highly trained monk can meditate himself to death, ignoring the body's desire for food or water. When it comes to us, "require" can, with training, be nullified. We can even, apparently, out-think our most basic pain responses (see: the burning monk).
>"What I don't get is why they don't just raise the minimum pay for H1-B visas."

That was a key part of Trump's proposed bill. IRRC, the proposal is to increase the minimum from $60k to $130k. Interestingly $60k in 1989 was worth what $117k is in 2017. In other words, given current inflation rates, it's very likely that the new minimum will be the 2020 or 2021 equivalent of the original minimum.

That would suck for low-end outsourcing body shops, be good for the giant SV tech companies and probably remain about equally sucky for young start-ups as it is now.
This isn't just for all sign-in actions.. it's for all API requests, and in some designs passthrough requests on behalf of a user to another server/service. It isn't just used for UI requests. It can also be used from Server to Server/Service requests... across data centers. You can do signed tokens/authentications without introducing many potential points of failure.
Past the end of lifecycle, I think. It's quite difficult to find WiiUs as well, at least from an actual store.
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I'm the author of Hello Web App (http://hellowebapp.com) and I'm currently in the middle of writing Hello Web Design (http://hellowebdesignbook.com), which I just finished a Kickstarter campaign for last month.

Non-fiction books, self-published (I do the design for them as well).
Agreed. I suppose you have to simply consider the context to help determine which it is. If it follows a load of other dissembling nonsense, then it's probably the former.
That is the area of expertise by the creators, but that puts it on the rest of us Julia fans to promote Julia as a general purpose language and talk about how we use it. I am not a scientist but I find Julia very useful for all sorts of practical stuff. E.g. people seldom talk about how great Julia is for writing shell scripts.
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> I'm trying to interpret this charitably

I couldn't easily think of a non-public-safety, non-shared resource regulation that exists. (because most of those things aren't regulated). If you can think of a better example, I'm fine with using that.

> local monopoly

Local monopolies are because local governments restrict who can trench or otherwise install in an area. I believe there are local/state/federal restrictions requiring universal access. If it weren't for these monopolies you'd at least have two crappy cable companies in a region vs. one, and there would be competition. (In my market, sometimes apartment complexes and others do monopoly agreements with one or the other of the local carriers -- Wave vs. Centurylink vs. Frontier (dying) vs. Comcast -- which is an issue too, but much more open to commercial pressure.)

There are some national policies which restrict the total number of providers in the US market, but mostly it is restrictions at the local level which keep individual locations from having multiple of those providers. There are some inherent natural monopoly aspects here -- trenching has costs, etc. -- but a lot of it is a consequence of government policies.

(I want there to be open access to high speed, inexpensive Internet (with as uniform speeds across sites as possible) in as many places as possible; my disagreement with extreme NN policies is that they both violate private property rights AND are not likely to produce the desired result.)
yes, exactly. i feel like sometimes people take these instructions far to lightly. "be yourself" can be understood to mean, "you should pursue life in such a way that it aligns with your core values and your core identity". It doesn't mean you shouldn't work to improve yourself. Exercising constraint, using tact, being deft and/or subtle in how you respond to people can be very much in line with "who you are". If you are is "loving, respectful" then you can be careful about how you respond to people so that they are felt loved and respected.
Another vote for prioritizing a name change. Why create continual confusion and awkwardness for the thousands of people who will want to use your product alongside Sketch the design app? (That's me saying this is an awesomely useful project, BTW.)

I'm just imagining describing the Sketch/Sketch workflow to a non-technical manager... ;)

How about calling it "Expo Studio" or "Expo Easel", which have similar connotations?
It's "working as intended" that the material is out there, just a little harder to find and just as disability-incompliant?
Availability is an issue - I can't get the game.

Nintendo needs to improve this - I wanted the Wii back in 2006/2007 and finally gave up trying to get one retail, and never bought the console.

I'm not a serious gamer, I game casually when I do, but that's a lost sale.
With create-react-app, it takes less than a few seconds, if you're fine with their defaults. If you need to mess with the webpack config it will take a bit longer but once you do it the first time its not a big deal. Putting everything together from scratch would take awhile, but that's the tradeoff of having a really flexible modular system.
In high school a good friend of mine was coming to realize that he was never going to be a great speaker. He found that he was able to explain things to me; that I was interested enough in the content and in him, than I didn't mind the delivery. Then in turn, I'd explain his points to the rest of our friends and give him credit for it.

So they started to listen to him, more and more, they were willing to do what I had and just... pay attention. They accepted that maybe the guy who knew so much, might not be the guy who was best at expressing all of what they knew (without being given more a chance than normal).

The thing is... that was high school, and a small group of friends. In theory science and tech journalism should be doing for you and Snowden and others, what I was able to do for my buddy. Unfortunately if I had been modern science/tech journalism, I would have given our friends a half-assed explanation, plugged my own views, and taken credit for all of it.
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Framing it as purely a question of trust in government and pointing out an example of our interests not being represented is not the entire surface of the argument. The government's stated purpose is inherently good (though they do not necessarily act in a manner consistently with that stated purpose). We have a limited degree of control over how we are governed, and we have ways to express dissatisfaction. None of that holds true for a corporation. Their stated purpose is to create value for shareholders, the voting power that stock gives you is a fraction of the power of your vote as a citizen, and in the case of a monopoly over an important good or service, you have ZERO ways to express dissatisfaction.

Knowing what we know of anti-competitive practices and the tragedy of the commons, doesn't that at least give you pause about whether corporations should be the one to keep the internet open?
good luck :) it's an interesting challenge for sure!
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The vast majority of article titles beginning with "why I..." (and variation) is clickbait. I still don't get why the HN community still falls for this every day.
Yeah because being the SOAP of humanity is so last year.
It's super easy to download a video off of Youtube with jdownloader 2.0 . Works in Linux and MacOSX (probably windows too, I have no experience with it)

You select the youtube url, copy it, download, done.

http://jdownloader.org/jdownloader2
The equipment that would be modifying the traffic would be in privately-owned exchanges or the ISP's datacenters. None of it would happen on the fiber crossing over (or running under) state owned land.
> What possible motivation could have moved those employees to file on behalf of their university? Malicious intent (they didn't want the free material competing with their courses)? Lack of gratitude (the material is free, but that's not enough)? Zealotry (everything, even free content, must meet their ADA compliance standards)? Simple lack of thinking through potential consequences? Lack of Net citizenship/spirit? Anyone have any insight into the real story behind their protest?

It's all in the DoJ letter. https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-08...

It's a bit worrying that you have such strong opinions when you haven't read the DoJ letter yet.

> Stacy Nowak, a member of NAD, is a professor and PhD student at Gallaudet University
and she is deaf. Ms. Nowak would like to avail herself of what she believes is the increasingly frequent use of video and audio-based scholarship. Ms. Nowak teaches communication courses at Galludet, including Introduction to Communication and Nonverbal Communication. She would like to use numerous online resources related to communication in her classes, including the UC BerkeleyX course, “Journalism for Social Change,” but cannot because they are inaccessible. If UC Berkeley’s online content were accessible, she would take courses and utilize the online content in her lectures.

Berkeley is a public institution, offering educational services, under the ADA.

Berkeley has a legal duty to make accessible this content, unless it would be unduly financially burdensome, or unless it would change the nature of what they do.

Berkeley has some policies around accessibility. They were not following those policies.

Berkeley were not just discriminating against people with hearing impairment, but also people with visual impairment and people with manual disability.

Berkeley chose to remove all the video rather than i) make it accessible during creation or ii) pay to make it accessible after creation.

Don't forget the law is 27 years old. Most of these videos are 10 - 5 years old.
They're notorious for spiking demand by creating limited availability. They do it with their amiibo launches all the time. It's kinda sad really. They claim more classics are on the way though after the switch is stocked regularly.
Ask about his management style.

Ask how he handles people under him that he has a personality clash with. (If in doubt, make it clear that you aren't intending for that person to be you.)

Ask him about mentoring people younger/less experienced than himself.
I wonder whether future Zelda games will be more like this title, or more like its predecessors. I have had great experiences with both, and Ocarina of Time now contends with Breath of the Wild as my favorite game. Even I don't know what I would prefer.
I agree that it's poorly defined, but I would argue that a shortage at the market price implies that buyers would buy more at the market price if more of it was available.

We're pretty comfortable talking about shortages in consumer markets when we would buy things at the stated price, but can't because it is sold out (eg Pixel phone shortages), so I'm not sure why we can't say a similar thing about labour.
I mean, I do also buy the, 'change is hard, and if Cost(Change) >= Cost(Not change) + delta(x months) then it's not worth it`
How do I claim the lawsuit amount?
I am referring to the statements and policies voted on and implemented by FCC regulators. Asking about non-politicians on the face of it seems pointless, my entire comment is about policy. And that is necessarily about the politics. The affiliation of plebians doesn't matter, what matters is the ideology of those with the power to enact the policy.

Ajit Pai opposes any sort of regulation that prescribes or proscribes specific activity under Title II, and Republicans in Congress likewise prefer ISP regulation under the far weaker rules in Title I, rather than Title II. And he opposes subsidies favored by the Connect America Fund in reducing the disparity in broadband performance between urban and rural areas, and also the Lifeline program which makes it more affordable. Last year Lifeline was expanded, and Pai becomes chairman and blocks it as one off his first acts. These are night and day differences. It's fairly binary.

It's forcing free market ponies on what is a deeply monopolistic and anti-competitive market. Anytime there's meaningful competition you see conglomeration or market exit. It's absolutely a philosophy of "if you can't afford access or performance, the free market says go F yourself, and we aren't going to regulate an alternative outcome to that".
I wrote a dead-simple version of this (that uses polling and doesn't give you filters for files) in python and called it `jonsnow` and threw it on pypi. I understand this is an insanely useful utility, but it's interesting that everyone seems to spin their own :)
this is quite silly. the cia/nsa are about attacking and investigating foreign nationals(obviously followed in the breach sometimes- see SNOWDEN) ..the fbi is required to follow american law in regards to due process. we do not extend those rights to foreign actors. I am for increased oversight of our national security apparatus but rolling in international facing organizations into domestic ones is a terrible idea.

as for having these organizations even during peacetime...Si vis pacem, para bellum. If we want these capabilities to some degree, we must keep them running. You can't launch spy satellites into orbit the day after an attack on american soil...
I hear you! I'm in the same boat, I shouldn't point fingers. I'll do what I can.
Has this author not heard of create-react-app? It gets the stack things out of the way.
> The videos were removed because of a lawsuit relating to the lack of captions, making them inaccessible to the deaf.

It wasn't a lawsuit. It wasn't just people with hearing impairment (although they were the complainants) - the content was inaccessible to people with visual impairment and manual disability too.
Well, I often go camping by myself. I need the phone on so that others can contact me if they have an emergency.
I think you've something bigger here than you realize. :-) If you would indeed:

1) introduce some opportunity for others to write stylesheets;

2) support custom domains,

then I would expect something like this to really take off.

I see many advantages: Not all kind of Wordpress plugins that have to be checked or maintained. Not explaining what can be adjusted, what not. Having a very simple user interface for people (Google docs) that just works. I foresee also some disadvantages, especially about customization: from SEO, to footers, contact page, etc.
I think the point of the article was that his goal is to develop his product before he runs out of money. Maybe if his business is a success he can then pursue your suggested goal of improving his abstract thinking and gaining flexibility.
Not particular to the genre, but I think this is one of the characteristics that had made games like NetHack and Dwarf Fortress so engaging to some. The right combination of mechanics and systems, alongside interesting or surprising placement to create scenarios that the brain interprets as a narrative.
Why is it loaded? It's the choice to have an abortion.

It's like claiming 'pro-gun' is a loaded word when the supporters want people to have the choice to own a gun.
Reading texts in their original languages is just better than reading translations. You get jokes and turns of phrase that just don't work outside the original language. Whether this is "worth it" is up to the learner, of course.
No, both day and month are ≤ 12. Yet it seems to be OK.
I found the wording in your second sentence a bit confusing but I think that simply goes back to the fair/open aspects: let Comcast put VOD servers in every neighborhood in the country, but require them to allow Netflix, Google, etc. to purchase rack-space at cost so they have the option of parity.
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Analysis is easier because you already have a running agent that you can
remotely query about deployed software. With regular OS you need to provide
such an agent.

I don't know why it's easier to mitigate risks, though. Maybe just because
it's easier to run the analysis.
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> No one (besides us engineers) knows or cares what Facebook is running on. Same with many other productions (not only software) out there (when was the last time we cared exactly how an Oreo cookie was made?).

Except for the people that complain about performance?
Good point, maybe its the sound processing areas. A greater question is whether areas of the brain atrophy at all due to less stimuli coming through a specific organ.

All evidence I've seen point to brain plasticity; that areas used for specific things get re-mapped to other similar functions. For example, Deaf individuals experience a strong inner voice that activates similar centers in the brain as actual voices.
It's still standard for dead languages (cf. Wheelock's Latin, any Biblical Hebrew text, Koine Greek, Classical Greek, Aramaic, etc.). Modern languages have tended to shift into a focus on conversational use rather than scholarly reading. There're fairly obvious reasons for this.
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>"Be Yourself" does not mean be your bad sides. Nor does it mean be static and never evolve. It means evolving while still respecting the person that you are. This includes shedding bad habits.

Sounds like an empty platitude then, if it takes a whole other sentence to explain it.
Being yourself doesn't mean not lieing.
Wow, a lot in there. Exciting!
Higher wages definitely influence graduating STEM students who are choosing between SV and finance. They also cause bootcamps to pop up all over the country and bring people from other industries into tech. In general the market will follow the money.

It is a good point that the market can't achieve the impossible. C++ bootcamps probably wouldn't spring up in your hypothetical ancient Rome and offering millions of dollars today for employees with skillsets that modern humans can't achieve wouldn't work either.

The question is whether you or not the current bar of a "qualified candidate" is impossible. I would say no. Given the right financial incentives, the candidates will exist.
> So why didn't that happen prior to now?

That's a good question, and it's hard to say. Empirically we can see that it is starting to happen, e.g. with t-mobile not charging users when they consume video and audio data from certain sites.

My guess is that the reason it didn't happen historically is because content was worth almost zero. E.g. Flickr was bought by Yahoo for almost nothing, and if I remember correctly YouTube was on track to go bankrupt until Google bought them to set the legal precedent they wanted.

It's only in the last couple years that the costs of producing and distributing content have now also basically fallen to zero, so it's now possible to make a lot of money in the content business even if any individual item is still worth very little. There have obviously been companies who have made a lot of money on content previously, but mostly only when there was either some quirky situation affecting the price of display ads (e.g. Yahoo) or else when there was some quirky situation affecting the valuation of the company itself (e.g. YouTube).
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As a graphic designer turned developer, yes - there's an enormous amount of demand for designer/developer hybrid.
Or that "culture" approves (or at least does not disapprove) of such activity.
From this context, I guess one can surmise why his 'real' choices are between Angular, Ember, and ko (which, despite being knowledgeable and positive about Angular, I'd pick if I wanted to iterate fast), but still...not especially meaningful.
To answer philosophically about it, because your question seems to me to ask for broad strokes, if you're using a resource acknowledged to have aspects of a "public good" to a quantitatively greater degree than other users, you should pay more for it. The footnote in the original article even admits as much. That's not to say I oppose net-neutrality, but to use your words, don't "vehemently, vehemently" oppose a non-neutral system.
Yes -- if they are a regulated monopoly, that is the best way to allow some bits to be "premium". I think CDNs would likely also put servers in those places, so smaller sites would have the ability to use them as well.

Competition > Regulated Monopoly > Unregulated Monopoly. (A duopoly which decides not to compete isn't really competition.)
Comcast is one of the most hated companies ever but they only keep getting bigger.

"Bureaucrats" are ultimately responsive to the politicians which are ultimately responsive to us, as we see with Trump now getting the power to reshape Obama's FCC policies. I'll tell you this, if they really go through with giving the web over to the ISPs for them to ruin with nickel and dime schemes voters will eventually force your new favorite bureaucrats to back down.