skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question is not who is being suppressed, but who is doing the suppressing.

If US govt. wanted to get at a Nazi / alt-right account in the same way, it would have been just as much of a problem.
"They let you do it" is not sexual assault. If I let people do sexual things to me, they aren't sexually assaulting me.
It is a GET request without any extra data. It is not opt-in.
So what you're saying is that the Streisand Effect is not a myth, it's just a rare occurence.
No. Because there is a world of difference between speech and harassment.

Not to mention, Twitter is a business. Their business depends on having users. If too many of their users leave the platform because they are constantly being assaulted by white supremacist drivel or being harassed by other users, then they're in trouble (kinda like they are now)
There needn't be any cultural value in the content of the speech - who claimed otherwise?
If a government employee publicly takes positions in opposition of their job duties, it's legitimate for the government to look to see if they are properly doing their job.

Everyone, gov. employees included, have first amendment rights. However they do not have the right to have their own agenda in their role as a government worker. That flies in the face of the core principle of the constitutional election of legislative and executive officers.

(If you want an example of twitter being inconsistent, just compare the suspension of Glenn Reynolds - instapundit - for tweeting "Run. Them. Down." in response to rioters on I277 and the lack of action on the multiple and explicit death threats the are tweeted regularly.)
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> By consistently exhibiting a few simple behaviors, one can at least look like a kind and decent person. Maybe someday we all actually will be.

The best thing about this is that we will! Mindset follows behavior.

P.S. Am I doing it right? I'm actually terrible at this. But I wish I weren't.
Lets also keep in mind that hypocracy is irrelivant to the merits of a position, or a point being made.

If a smoker tells you smoking is bad, is he wrong?

One of the oldest tricks when somebody does something you dont like is to point out what an awful hypocrite they are, even when its only tangetial, or unrelated entirely.
That's not a oversight - it's their way of signaling to you that you're not "hot" enough for HotJar. And how insignificant you are as a human being, generally. By making you sit around and wait, wondering what the hell is going on.

It's just how they roll.
Looking so forward to the Vega release, gonna be a really good year for a GPU upgrade.
The 1080Ti release already flooded the market with cheap 980ti/1080, if AMD can bring the pain then more of these things will hit the used market, making them even cheaper.
When I talked to my brother (a civil engineer who's doing his fair share of driving to remote working locations all across Germany and beyond) about the prospect of autonomous cars, he said that he wouldn't want to have one of these as a company car, for the same reason he wouldn't want to go by train: Under German law, when you're driving the car yourself, it counts as work time. When you're being driven by the car (or when you're going by train), it counts as free time. So if the location was 5 hours away, he would lose 10 paid work hours if the car was driving him instead of the other way around.
How would I, a passenger, even know what Uber's rake is? It's not shown anywhere.
I'm also missing a lot of context here, but I was looking at the leter and she says she's especially sorry she slandered John Sullivan and Ruben Rodriguez.

Wondering exactly how she slandered those two people in particular, I tried googling her name and those two and got some archived mailinglist (and later checked an archived version of her own denounciation of the FSF on the libreboot.org page). She seems to have wanted to see those two people fired. But also another one - Stephen Mahood (who she names "the bully" on the archived page https://web.archive.org/web/20170114100921/https://libreboot... ) . On an archived mail she seems to call both Stephen and Ruben the bullies. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreboot/2016-09/msg0005...

Given that her heaviest accusations are leveled (also) against Stephen, and that she feels she especially needs to apologise to the other two guys but NOT to Stephen, should we conclude that she still believes at least that guy was guilty of bullying the unnamend transgendered employee of the FSF?
We're trying to move away from PGP to a per-device key model (keys never leave the client devices): https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-new-key-model
I see. What were they?
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I don't have one, and I guess that's still somehow unsolved problem. But there are some works on creativity and AI. This is definitely an interesting space to observe.
Is the application of style transfer that google talked about? [0] Or is this something else?

[0] https://research.googleblog.com/2016/10/supercharging-style-...
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Maybe because 'opposite' is not an accurate statement, when the issue isn't a simple dichotomy.

In fact, one reason people might make these caveats is an attempt to ward off those people who seem to think every issue is an absolute dichotomy, and respond on the basis of that fallacy. I can't say that it is a very effective tactic.
> Anything that doesn't work or isn't 99.99% stable is a red flag for me. So I do hope that the Ubuntu team puts more focus on making things up to date, rock solid, and super stable rather than go chase after new features. Just like a building, you need a stable foundation before building upwards.

I agree. I was surprised that the "More QA, testing, stability, general polish" wasn't higher on the list.
Name a prominent left wing celebrity who did the same thing as Milo.
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There's an incredibly important difference between a corporation exercising its power to control speech on its platform and the US Federal Government exercising powers not granted to it by the laws of the United States to control speech in general.
Yes. Twitter silencing a user on their own isn't the same as Twitter silencing a user due to a government order.
is the price that the customer paid fixed? And the price the driver is paid variable (distance/time), if so I see no problem with this, as uber is taking a risk of detour/traffic etc. if Uber is not taking any risk then it's BS.
You are not wrong but the question isn't whether a platform is allowed to have a pov and an agenda rather it is should we trust our time, our lives, our stories to such centralized platforms.

Further should be trust people like twitter to keep our secrets when we could trust software platforms where nobody holds the key to giving our identities to a man in a suit that will do his best to ruin us.
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I think, ClickHouse (open-source distributed column-oriented DBMS) should fit better for your needs.
Fixed. Thanks for letting me know.
It does cover all speech; racial and ethnic epithets are still covered, just not in a very specific context. Which never applies in Twitter.
I agree with the Radware researcher. This seemed to be a preventative measure against devices that would not get fixed, as Schneier's articles have been suggesting.

And in my head I see the equivalent of XKCD's Devotion to Duty comic: https://xkcd.com/705/ - Maybe someone is taking it upon themselves to solve the perceived problem, for better or for worse (potentially far worse).
So that comment asserts: 1. When using Uber you lock in the price upfront. 2. People like to be certain about prices. 3. Uber is capitalist and likes to keep money. 4. Uber has profitability issues.

All of those look true to me. What part do you think isn't true?
While it's difficult to move everyone over to another social media account, it's easier than moving everyone over to another government. So yeah, it's quite different.
In my dystopian nightmare, the employees rank each other to determine who's below average.
Imagine this: Joe, your best performer, has a bad year. He ran into personal issues (divorce, death in the family, illness, etc). Joe was on a steady streak, then his performance cratered for a while. It's nothing permanent. Do you fire him?

Ballmer's organization would. I've seen it.

In Ballmer's organization, groups deliberately used head count to hire low-performers, who would then be put on the chopping block in review cycles. The horse-trading games in review meetings were brutal. People wrote self-reviews, but they didn't mean anything because it was all decided ahead of time. It was all a big kabuki dance pretending that the company could measure people accurately, even across widely separated groups (an SDE II in the Xbox group was not the same as an SDE II in Windows, believe me).

Oh, and God help you if you get into one of these situations: Say you're a seasoned veteran, a senior engineer, and your boss got out of school three years ago and has no idea how to defend you in stack ranking. Or your manager is an over-the-hill engineer who doesn't want to manage but was forced into it, and doesn't even buy you equipment, much less give a crap about you in a stressful meeting he doesn't want to attend in the first place. Or you're reporting to a political climber, who will throw you under the bus just to be a "yes man" to someone else in political power.

One year I was a "ten percenter" and in peril of losing my job. Two years later I was getting promotions and on the partner track. Go figure. We can't pretend that reviews are even remotely accurate given this scale of noise.

I think that deciding pay scale / ranking and deciding who should be let go should be a different set of criteria, and probably a different review cycle. Not totally unlinked, but not utterly congruent, either. This would also handle the "high paid asshole" who is productive, but totally toxic and doing damage far in excess of his pay.
If you assume the false accusation was true, ignoring it would not be professional and it would be impossible to keep it to your own time. The mistake was the public and hasty reaction, not politics.
You implicitly assume such a measure is theoretically possible. Perhaps it is, but just asserting this as fact is not enough to make your argument valid.

I believe that product development is creative, collaborative work and that there is no theoretical or practical way to design any sort of universal scale to rate individual contributions into it. Each team and problem combination is different. If I'm right with my belief your argument falls down.

Not only that, but if I am right then what comes into play is team and collaboration dynamics, which rely on trust and safety far more than on individual brilliance. If so, any attempt to "get rid of the bottom half" will simply destroy collaboration and guarantee a dysfunctional product team.
You'd be better off just using the latest release. Add some contact info to your HN profile.
It's hard to define the term, but I think at the most basic level, "hipster" specifically refers to anyone who enjoys being alternative. "Goes to starbucks, loves Apple products and cannot live without Wifi" are common qualities of people who want to be hipsters but only because they think it's cool (and don't actually embrace an alternative lifestyle).
You have over-simplified the problem, apparently assuming that people will just do their jobs and not engage in a kind of guerrilla warfare intended to keep their jobs.

Example: I once worked with a guy who knew he was an underperformer - he was also a manager, reporting directly to the CEO.

He ensured his job for many years by sabotaging all of those around him, and then whispering sweet nothings into the CEO's ear about how he couldn't achieve the targets set because everybody else around him was incompetent. For example, he would sell something big as cheap as he could, so we would lose money on staffing while building the (not software) project, and in the last few days before it was to be delivered, he would come in with a major structural change that he knew about for weeks in advance, and it meant double-shifts with no extra pay for the workers. When the CEO came down on the business for not making a profit, he made sure that he was first in line, and complained about how we just weren't doing the job right, weren't working hard enough, all the usual kind of crap.

He got caught because he once placed a few orders online, from a street address that didn't exist. It happened to be just a couple of doors from his house, so he would be pretty much the only person who would reasonably be expected to know about this. Nothing happened to him at all, and I was held responsible for not filling those orders, causing them to be cancelled. (I have absolutely no idea how this happened and nobody could explain it to me except for the CEO, who refused to on grounds that if I used my brains I could understand it.)

The manager eventually resigned, incompetence widely known, and his replacement found his unlocked filing cabinet that contained a complete run-down on everyone, and what he could blame on them to get them fired if his position became untenable.
Amazing Article!
OK thanks, that helps. It sounds potentially interesting but in its early stages.
You did not answer my question, but I guess it does not matter with the new strategy. Looks like embrace-extend-extinguish to me – has it always been a goal of Keybase to replace PGP with something keybase-specific or did something change?
No, think I saw it on here first..but it's a pretty powerful phrase.
Yah. I've got a 50% chance of having Huntington's. When my parent was first diagnosed with it, me + all siblings were immediately going to get screened. Half of us actually booked to get the test done. But we later cancelled our screenings, and we're all now rather we didn't know.

As I understand, genetic counselling in the case of HD is people telling you over and over again not to get tested. One of the constraints on fertility treatment if you're at risk is that you can't have any procedure that removes the potential baby's right to choose whether or not to be screened.

But in summary:

I've decided (having thought I definitely wanted to know) not to get tested. I'm glad there wasn't a button on 23andMe I could just click to find out. It's a complicated decision, should require some thought, and has life-changing consequences. While I'm strongly pro-choice, I also don't think 7-11 should be selling abortifacient drugs -- just because technology can make some decisions easy to execute on, doesn't mean they should be as easy as clicking a button.
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To be fair, how hard can it be to port your app from one init system to the other ?

And for that matter, did anyone make a systemd-to-sysv converter ? Because that should surely be possible, systemd service files being declarative.

If such a converter did exist, then suddenly, the systemd "service files" could become an actual standard, since they'd be (somewhat) compatible accross sysv and systemd. And maybe we could work from there and support other init systems...
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In an environment where law, custom, or technical challenges makes it difficult to silence dissent you can speak out against popular injustice as well as voice unpopular racist opinions.
The question in my mind is whether uber is taking any risk in that arbitrage, if uber is essentially selling me "the rider" a swap (floating for fixed) it doesn't seem unreasonable they should be compensated for taking that risk
> Google makes a ton of money off the fact that people dispose cell phones ever two years

I've never seen any indication the google makes a PENNY off of someone disposing of their cell phones.
Twitter are far from angels. However:

1. There's a huge difference between shutting down an account and compromising identity.

2. Having Twitter ban you is a COMPLETELY different scale than having the Feds coming after you because you mocked the President.

What Twitter did to Milo may have been shitty, but it wouldn't particularly invoke fear. What the Feds are doing here is terrifying.
For values of "didn't like what he was saying" equal to: flagrantly and repeatedly violated their terms of service and broke the law by using twitter to organize targeted harassment of individuals.
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Ha ha ha.

Half the problem is that drivers are being paid based on exactly such a device.

And your second paragraph is just a series of non-sequiturs. You're stretching too hard to make the cute analogy. Measuring doesn't imply that all vehicles need it. Nor does that in turn imply the need for a licensing system.
I suspect like the current Model S, it'll look much better with a license plate attached to it.
Thanks, wasn't aware of that one. After a cursory look,
it sounds like a better Cassandra?
That seems like perfect being the enemy of better. The realistic options aren't "stick with current model of closed drivers locked to specific version of open kernel" and "force hardware manufacturers to produce open drivers". That second one isn't going to happen. The best you'll get is an open shim and a closed blob.
I'm sorry, but I see no moral courage in defending racists harassing someone. Quite the opposite, in fact.
As I understand it, "fighting words" is _very_ context-dependent and narrow in modern jurisprudence.

See https://www.popehat.com/2015/05/19/how-to-spot-and-critique-... and search for "Trope seven".

In particular, application of "fighting words" pretty much requires that the speaker and listener were in close physical proximity, such that a fight could actually occur. Not really relevant to twitter, for the most part.
Trump has countless vocal detractors. Trying to silence a solitary one seems pointless, though I wouldn't entirely put that past this administration.

Am I misreading Streisand effect? Trying to prevent a fact from becoming well known causes it to become well known. The general message "Trump does bad things" is not a secret.
I wasn't planning on really diving on this. However, two scenarios easily come to mind. Either selling a product to another company, or getting acquired. In either case, it would be nice to not have to merge two identity management systems just because corporate structure changed.
My Nexus 6 on Google Fi is on 7.1.1, January 2017, and happily tells me it is up to date.
If they're only "letting you do it" because they know that they have no choice, and that even if they were to say something or speak out, they'd not get justice, but instead be negatively affected themselves, that is very much sexual assault.
Well, you are logically consistent. The caveat is that society, invested with the power to regulate behaviors, chooses to regulate certain types of behavior deemed "discriminatory" towards "protected classes".

This is generally because there is some historical precedent showing that if you don't have such laws, some groups of people will treat other groups of people as less-than-human. Additionally, society believes that it is in the general best interest if such treatment is minimized.

You may disagree with what counts as discriminatory or which classes should be protected, but I hope this at least makes some general sense.
I see your point and understand why what Uber is doing feels kind of icky.

I don't see it as fraud, because I don't think Uber's up-front pricing is them saying "this is the best deal for you, the customer", but rather an offer to the customer to buy a product at that price. They don't have any fiduciary duty to give the customer the "best rate."

This feels like the trend now of people realizing that bank tellers aren't actually fiduciaries and getting upset when they—i.e. customers—are sold financial products that might not be necessary or in their best interest. Matt Levine has a section on this[0] (skip to the section on "cross-selling") and why people are upset.

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-13/spoofing-...
I think this is silly because... being taken on a specific route isn't what the rider is agreeing to pay for.

It's a free country, and you think whatever you want. But in this case your expectations would be greatly at odds with: (1) what most customers would expect, and (2) what relevant statutes would most likely have to say about the matter, as well.
Good lord, I am surprised they haven't disabled realdonaldtrump over the course of this election and presidency. Not to ruin the attention or users it draws, but just because they can.
I saw one of these here in Portland yesterday driving home. Didn't realize it was a Model 3, just thought I was seeing some body-mod for the Model S.
No, we're talking about the Twitter that shut down his account for repeatedly breaking the ToS.
Ask HN: How can I monetize ____rooms.com?
So I have ____rooms.com. Where ____ is a popular & expensive tourist location. I think it's only going to get bigger in the future and I want to make some money off that.

But I don't really know what to do with it. My first instinct is to start some type of localized Airbnb but that's a scary prospect. The amount of work that would be required for a chance of profits.

I was hoping to get some better ideas from you folks. :)
Request for refinement. Oligarchy is just rule by a few, perhaps you mean rule by the wealthy, plutocracy, which seems to be more compatible with your argument.

But then the GOP do have constituents, via a continued enhancement of the Southern strategy, to get people to vote against their economic interests. Of course there simply aren't enough plutocrats to win elections, so they have to rile up some masses with various promises, rhetoric, and occasionally throwing them red meat.
My understanding is that because all the required patches and drivers have been pushed upstream, you can use a vanilla iso directly from Ubuntu and it will "just work".
On the one hand we live in a big brother dystopian society where government is plugged into the internet backbone, has backdoors into all software and hardware, and knows everything being said by anyone, and on the other, they can't find a Twitter account's email, whine to Apple about a locked iPhone, online banking by regular people on virus machines (PC's) never gets hacked, and we only get celeb nudie drops once a decade - are we really losing the security war that bad?
I disagree. I think it's more disturbing how normalized it is to frame hate-speech and harassment as simply criticism.
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I'm surprised no one yet has compared Ithkuil to Babel-17:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel-17

In the story, it's described as a language which forces clear thought, while secretly also forcing a change of beliefs.
I'd much rather that kind of thing be available as clicking a button personally. Getting information that could help you make big decisions is very useful.
What your selling does matter, and a good salesman can't sell anything forever. A decent product to sell goes a long way, and in sales theres no magic word to get the sale. Merely persistence, kindness, and quality of product are what make sales.

If the product is crap, even the best salesman is hosed.
I took it as parody. But the huge "Read next" thingie at the bottom that linked to an actual article made me think again. I'm not sure anymore.
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No, id say the goverment directly attacking people who criticise them is a more disturbing development.
It still seems bad to me. Lets suppose your hiring process is fantastic, and there is an unlimited pool of high quality candidates. Every time you fire a below-10% person, you hire someone who is better than everyone else on the team. In that situation, you've designed a company where EVERY employee has been with the company for less than 10 years.