skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying he has no reason to find fault in either the DOB's initial decision about his new crane, or in Crain's coverage of the issue.

Just that it's kind of weird (in my view) that so many people seem to be happy to conclude that we somehow "know" that it was union arm-twisting which (at least temporarily) sealed his fate. Despite the complete lack of primary (or even secondary) evidence for such a connection.
Relevant Gladwell criticism: http://www.martinottaway.com/blog/rik-van-hemmen/forensic-en...
Sounds like Coursera or Udacity!
I'm not sure what you are trying to contribute here or what you took from my comment.
Ask questions, or do experiments (which is just a way of asking questions without involving other humans). Usually when a problem is confusing, it is because something important about it is not known. So, get more information.
About the security content of iOS 10.3
Pushing for diversity and making sure people from poor homes have access to learn difficult topics are mutually exclusive. Your quote on figuring out "why these groups aren't likely to go into tech" needs to be applied to people who are underrepresented in the tech field. Example : Why are women underrepresented in tech? Is it because they are feeling unwelcome here? Are we as a society unconsciously typecasting women and men into different job profile? What if a man wants to be nurse? I think pushing for diversity in this respect is required.
Do you find you're able to discern what the team is like? I have to be honest for me at least, that I grew to like my team a whole lot. Granted it says more about me, but I feel like it's kind of difficult to get a reading on the people.
I have little sympathy for those who decide they need to impose unjustified rule, taxation, force and protection private property against the workers. There's a third side to the chasm, if such a thing could exist.
If this data becomes available privately, it is inevitably only a matter of time before it all comes out publicly.
While people are directing their attention here:

Last year I looked into Common Lisp for a while, but got turned off when I found that there's no distinction between the empty list and boolean false (or nil, in CL-speak).

I found this kinda weird and vaguely off-putting. I don't want to write code to handle the diffence between, say, an empty array and false or null in deserialized JSON data.

Can anyone comment on whether this comes up as an actual issue in practice?
Sugar is a major problem as right now it gets pumped in almost every food. It is addictive and people are more likely to re-buy those products.

If you think you are avoiding sugar in your diet by avoiding the usual culprit (processed juices, soda, desserts), think again.
Now sugar is being injected into everything, processed meat, soups, etc...

I just bought some Jerkey at Trader's Joe. Each serving contains 10-11 grams of protein and, 5 or 6 grams of sugar. That's one teaspoon and a half of sugar! A packet, ( a normal snack), has 3-4 servings, and you end up with 5+ teaspoons of sugar that if you didn't look at the nutritional labels you wouldn't know. Normally jerkey shouldn't have any, (or maybe one gram and best).

This is just one example, but the pumping of sugar is becoming so pervasive that it is almost impossible to avoid.
Seriously, what is wrong with the US?
I don't know if Facebook is dying, but what I can assure is that every day I'm getting more and more tired of it. They are connecting everything to everything (Whatsapp is dying for mee too due to this). I prefered the time when it was simply about sharing content with friends.
Ping Identity is hiring a UI developer
My PostGIS Playground
> they also have explicitly banned certain sexual acts like spanking [0].

Not just that, but they've banned the sale of a whole variety of porn that would be considered pretty tame in the US.

For example, it's pretty much illegal to sell porn filmed outdoors in the UK. You can do it, technically, but you have to prove that there is literally no chance that any minor could possibly have been within eyeshot of the scene at the time it was filmed, and the burden of proof for this is so high that it's impossible to satisfy. (Which was the intended goal of the act).

This ban applies both to physical media as well as online streaming sites, as noted in the article.
You probably could be given charity and live on a compound provided as humanitarian assistance by the automator oligarchs.

"Managing the human problem"
Biggest reason health insurance. I have some other reasons preventing me right now. But I'd like to get back to it or consulting.

I stayed in one general location for about three years. Working 3 to 6 month contracts. Get to know a few firms you're generally good. They'll come calling. Regarding pay, health insurance was the biggest cost. Saving smartly I was able to take one to two months off a year and focus on my own thing. Contracting generally paid well. Then there were the 100+ hour work weeks with time and a half. Essentially do it smartly it's not bad.
I can design a wireless router as a side project. I've built my own furniture for fun. I don't think I have the resources to start a car manufacturing line...

When the barrier to entry is high, there's no reason to lower prices.
I always find the virality aspects of software/website very interesting.

Looking at your website, there's nothing that suggest anything out of he ordinary.

Yet, you've reached a lot of audience through sheer luck.

What year did the share happen and how long did it take?
Discord isn't about to replace TS/Mumble for your WoW raiding or large organized clans, but it spread like wildfire among my friends who play League of Legends or Dota 2, and other games with medium-small groups of players.

The fact that you don't need to install or configure any client (or even have an account) to bring someone in is the biggest single thing.

People come for the easy invites and stay for the (slightly better than) good enough chat, voice, and community features.
Nothing beats a little LinkedIn profile polishing when it comes to passive salary renegotiation.
I sell a Unity plugin that lets people navigate mobile VR using walking-in-place: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/60450

Not a huge money maker (>300 copies sold) but I also filed a patent on it in 2015, so hopefully a larger VR company will see our locomotion technique as an essential step (no pun) to bring VR to the masses, since it reduces cybersickness.
But still the police care enough to arrest someone who imports, views or even privately enjoys drawn pornography that appears to show fictional characters who may be under the age of 18.
Sales through the macOS App Store.
I don't see how having "some proprietary code that they would like to keep proprietary" is "completely and totally unrelated to" "not want[ing] to have to owe [someone/anyone] source code to internal systems"?
This hinges on a common fallacy that insists there are a fixed number of jobs.

If it wasn't possible to expand opportunities for employment, we would have run out of jobs as a country of 5.3 million people in 1800.

As we automate, new labor emerges. Trade has taken a huge cut of the US textiles industry. But in the early 1800s, a textiles industry on the scale of what we have would have been inconceivable. Many families were making clothes from sheep to stockings, or grew a quarter acre of flax to begin the hard strenuous work of breaking it down and turning it into a scratchy fabric. They had a couple outfits and called it good.

http://www.connerprairie.org/education-research/indiana-hist...

If you told those people about a society where even a median income would let you buy a variety of shirts with different patterns and levels of comfort, then just throw them out or give them away each season if they fade a bit, they would have just stared back at you slackjawed.

As far back as the BLS has data, the employment-population ratio has stayed within a narrow band around 60%. That strongly suggests there are feedback mechanisms that create new opportunities even when underlying sectors and conditions drastically change.

The future of labor will probably surprise us just as much as the farmers in the 1800s. We'll have people do things that we can't even imagine how it would be efficient or profitable to hire out. On the order of unlikeliness of hiring someone to brush your teeth, or sing your theme song when you walk into rooms.

EDIT: Added BLS point, we have no historical evidence of labor/population ratios shifting in the way people argue is imminent. It climbed sharply in '83 and dropped like a rock in '07. Those were not due to either automation or trade. It's hard to link to BLS, but basically go here, then expand back to 1947:

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12300000
There are things that are pretty unlikely to offend, things that are very likely to offend a lot of people, and things that are very likely to offend a few people (this kind of humor is often called "punching down" when the few are a low-power group and "punching up" when it's a high-power group).

Nobody is calling for zero offense; that's a slippery-slope argument that doesn't really apply to the situation. And nobody has silenced PewDiePie; he's completely free to continue to publish his content on YouTube (with proper community flagging, within the guidelines of the YouTube community, and even if he were no longer free to do so, he wouldn't be "silenced;" he'd just have to move his content to .mp4s hosted out of his own pocket).

What has happened is YouTube and Disney have both exercised their option to no longer pay the guy for being offensive, which they are perfectly within their rights to do.

In terms of the more general "Just wondering aloud" question: The old Streisand Effect is still in play, but the Internet is now a mature enough platform that it has "these sites" and "those sites." You can find all manner of things completely unacceptable to YouTube's community standards linked off of 4chan. Keeping them off of YouTube does probably make them a little harder for most web users to find (since YouTube's search, indexing, and relational systems are so convenient). That's likely working as intended.
I think his point was the market cap.
Unfortunately this is a deep political problem I don't feel like treating in a HN comment box :)

I'd simply say that I think that we need to reorganize our world at a simpler scale, build smaller communities, sharing more local resources (like backyards and chickens and potato plots), step back on globalisation, reduce our consumption and environmental footprint, reduce division of labour, share work more, ...
Depends largely on whether the person doing the job is doing so with full agency. The more coercive the employee/employer relationship is, the more we have to examine it for abuse. As with so many things there's a continuum, with clear cases where it's moral and clear cases where it's not, and lots of gray area in-between. The challenge is making rules that do a decent job of creating a dividing line.
ahh, the gems one finds in old source code: /games/trek/trek.h:

#define ever (;;)
Pornography produced in the UK cannot include any of the following:

Spanking

Caning

Aggressive whipping

Penetration by any object "associated with violence"

Physical or verbal abuse (regardless of if consensual)

Urolagnia (known as "water sports")

Role-playing as non-adults

Physical restraint

Humiliation

Female ejaculation

Strangulation

Facesitting

Fisting
Donate to the EFF as much as you can. The reason the AARP, NRA and other lobbies are so successful is the amount of money and votes behind them. Dollars speak louder than anything. Donate to the EFF until it hurts and earmark the donations.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Atmospheric Nuclear Tests
There are far greater costs to not cutting emissions now. 15-40% of CO2 remains in the atmosphere for upwards of 1000 years: https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-residence-time.htm
You also have regulatory arbitrage, which is getting better, but is still massive.
An Open Letter to Snap: We can save you $80M on your cloud bills
Because the people who implement the technology aren't those who can admire the "quality". If it's been 6 hours at work and I have 30 minutes to pick a tech to start evaluating, I'm picking the one with better documentation/easier curve. Most people aren't a Facebook and don't need the best greatest thing in the world, just something to fix the current problem. You can kick the can down the road.
This is the car version iphone, with people queuing up at the store days before the product is seen. I would believe they would stop production exactly at 400K cars, the current waiting list and start a new Model 4 waiting list. They have an air of exclusivity now with their current models. People still gawk at the sight of a Tesla. They would want to maintain that awe factor with Model 3 as well.
This joke is getting old.
Mathematics has this funny habit of throwing around "it is easy to say that ...", or in this case, calling a proof that eluded mathematicians for decades "simple."
That's really interesting. Seems like the answer is they need a lot more third party shops - the problems that McNeill describes sound like the kind of thing that happens when there isn't enough competition. If I'm a model 3 customer, I don't really care about your service record in Palo Alto. What can you do for me in Skokie?

Very interested to see how all this plays out. The success or failure of the Model 3 could decide whether Tesla is the next Ford or the next Delorean.
Child labor is probably better solved by paying kids for good grades in school. The ones getting an education would be less likely to divert effort to jobs that might take away from study time, even after they turn 18, while the ones who aren't getting an education anyway could at least gain some work experience and bring value to their families. This would also greatly reduce classroom disruption by "students" who are not actually learning.

For example: $1000/year for a D, $2000/year for a C, $4000/year for a B, $8000/year for an A. (probably better to use national test score percentile though)
IMO the "Getting Started" section presents way too many choices. Perhaps instead just link to Portacle (or some other lisp quickstart) with a mention that there are other options?
I moved to a ketogenic diet on January 9th of this year. I weighed 318 pounds. As of this morning I weigh 282 pounds. That's 36 pounds lost - 11.3% of my body mass - in 77 days, and I have not yet changed my nearly non-existent exercise habits.

My goal is to get 80% of my calories from fat, no more than 20% from protein, and to consume a maximum of 20g of carbs per day. I intend for this to be my diet going forward; this is not something I am doing temporarily to lose weight.

I've done a good deal of research on this topic, and my conclusion is that the human body is not equipped to deal with the massive amounts of simple carbohydrates that it gets in today's world.
An internet access device would require a "filter to block out obscene material, child pornography, images used for sexual cyber harassment, or sites used for human trafficking."

These criteria are not decidable by humans.
I think that's a fair point, but I'd say it's more like wanting to use the tools in your pocket knife instead of getting an actual screw driver or set of pliers. No, it's not as good as the real thing, but you can save time by using the slightly inferior version that's already at hand.
Many years later the self-checkout machines at Home Depot still have employees supervising them so not everyone is replaced. There are also still regular checkout lines. Possibly without automation the post office would lose business to FedEx. Maybe lower costs would increase business and add more jobs somewhere else in the pipeline.

This isn't a zero sum game.
> There’s an apparent double standard, right? Comedians tell AIDS jokes, Holocaust jokes, 9/11 jokes and much more. When a popular YouTuber does it, it’s suddenly being reported by the media (and, cough, other YouTubers). Didn’t George Carlin once say no topic is off limits?

> There really is a joke there somewhere at Fiverr’s expense, and I think that’s what he was going for.

> The parts are there, loosely, if you cock your head and squint a bit. There’s an air of exploitation (on Fiverr’s part, but also often claimed to be on PewDiePie’s part) but it was a rush job. Seinfeld, in contrast, maps out goofy jokes about Pop Tarts down to the syllable.

I read and understood what slowbeef wrote. Delivery is the unmentioned point of discussion -- landing the delivery. It's the difference in whether a joke is funny or not. But changing delivery keeps the raw essence of the joke the same.

And I don't think it's fair to call it "holding someone accountable", if the same raw essence of a joke told with better delivery is suddenly OK. It's the same accountable action. If you're really interested in "holding someone accountable", shouldn't the same raw essence of a joke be wrong no matter how it's delivered?

I don't disagree that delivery is extremely important to landing a joke and it being funny. I do disagree that holding people accountable for bad delivery of a joke is somehow a moral impetus. That good joke was just as morally bad as the bad joke.

In other words, you could have taken a lot of George Carlin's material and run it through the ultra-politically-correct filter and come out deaf from the blaring alarms. But he's somehow above moral reproach because he's good at it? I don't buy it.

I think all this really goes back to the idea: Only the fool can criticize the king. Anyone else, and it was grounds for treason. I would have hoped we moved beyond that model.
And this will probably answer your next question:
https://culurciello.github.io/tech/2016/06/04/nets.html
> passive salary renegotiation

Is that what we call it now? I always called it "emoragequitting". Basically when stress + work > current_paycheck and you decide to shop around.
In the last 15 or so years that awareness has increased of that issue, the defaults for stack and heap allocations are to mark pages as non-executable. It is therefore harder than it used to be to execute data - you need to jump through some hoops.

Not to mention if you could not execute data, your programs would not load.
This is an insightful comment. It is easy to forget not just how different Facebook of 2017 is from 2007 but the cycles they've gone through.

Facebook measures and adapts to user engagement. When something spurs a loss of engagement eventually it disappears. In the social space, other tech companies struggle just getting a few new things shipped and then bail when they don't look like they are working out.

It is in Facebook's best interest to see Snapchat fail. The next big thing that comes around, it will be a lot easier for Facebook to buy early on.

On another note, if Instagram, Messenger, Whatsapp, and Facebook all start looking like the same app, it gives Facebook a particularly powerful platform. Everything could end up being rolled up in to a single app in the future -- or a new device.
I think this has a bit to do with the song-and-dance ritualization of the hiring process. Employers and employees can both get caught up in saying things they think the other side wants to hear, and when one side presents a question that the other side receives as signalling--you may say "We expect you to work as long as necessary to meet deadlines, even if that's until 10pm or later" and they may hear the stock "Are you a hard worker"--they do what they always have done: signal back the appropriate response.

I think it's appropriate to be very explicit. Call out the issue. Tell them you aren't signalling. Tell them you really mean what you say, and that if they're going to get burned out from that, then your shop isn't the place for them.

I think based on your responses you have the right attitude.
Sam Altman in London: Startup School, AI and Future Tech
Congress says YES.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/28/congress_approves_s...
Mozilla is removing what made Firefox interesting
While the engineer in me abhors the lack of process in their releases, I like the idea of their almost genetic distribution on a, like, LSD tripping level.
> it was much easier to get a carpenter to build a table/furniture at a relatively affordable price

What do you call an affordable price in relation to mean, or median, purchasing power?

A quick web search finds a lot of one off dining tables in the USD700 to USD3k range in the US. Made to measure dining tables in the UK can be had for less than GBP800.

Median household income in the UK 2014 was about GBP24k gross, roughly GBP20k net (https://www.google.no/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd...).

So a GBP800 table would be about two weeks of after tax income. Was it really so much less 200 hundred years ago?

Perhaps someone can find the data for 200 years ago and do a more sophisticated analysis.
Do you find that you have to put more effort into cooking / eating with the new diet?
It comes up in practice but is easilly avoided with the mapping of:

null -> :null [] -> #() and false -> nil

Mapping arrays to lists instead of arrays seems wrong to me, but is what most json libraries do by default. Fortunately most of them allow you to change that.
Now that you mention it, I'd like to take some time off to hit the gym and get into shape instead of having kids. Improving individuals improves society, and if everyone had this benefit, there might be less obesity.
There's some neat stuff in the Reason syntax, apart from the make-it-less-weird-for-those-coming-from-JS/Java/C#/etc., for instance: JSX[0] and named curried functions[1]. Both are fitting in really nice when doing FE dev't like with `react-reason`[2].

If you are interested in this, I recommend some talks. First one by Cheng Lou, a main contributor of Reason and FB employee on React Conf 2017[3]. And a talk by Sean Grove[4] on Reason in general.

With the power of FB behind this new techonolgy (they have currently written 25% of messenger.com in Reason), this might well become very big. A general purpose strongly typed functional prog lang, that has a vast ecosystem, now an approachable syntax, and compiles to both native and JS. Sounds good nuh?

[0]: https://facebook.github.io/reason/#diving-deeper-jsx

[1]: https://facebook.github.io/reason/#diving-deeper-curried-fun...

[2]: https://github.com/chenglou/reason-react-example/blob/master...

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0T5OSSzxms

[4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LCmLQ1-YqQ&t=517s
Ok, so now that it's clear that robots are taking over the low-skill jobs. Can we talk about inequality in the US?
I'd have to review it but i found Common Lisp Recipes to be excellent at explaining well... everything. Useful inspiration may be found there.
Medicare for all would cost 2.5 - 3 trillion a year. Current tax collection collects about 1.5 trillion. If you tax millionaires at 100% you'd see maybe another trillion. Cut defense by 100% and you'd save 600 billion. With the high taxes required in order to implement your ideas I don't think businesses would grow and its possible a great many would fail.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13503107