skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure of the reason but I think some people are more capable of empathy than others and I think people confuse empathy and sympathy.

A lot of the people I meet who are less concerned with these problems do so across the board - unless it directly affects them or they've personally lived through those exact same issues they cannot (or will not?) empathize. It takes direct personal experience to change their minds. I think people who won't/cant empathize have a more simplistic view of the world as well - if you are poor you are lazy, everyone starts relatively similarly and what happens to you is mostly (if not all) related to the effort you've put in because maybe that has been their personal experience. I've been lucky enough to relate to this because I haven't had anything directly holding me back (that I am aware of), so my success or lack of success is more directly attributable to my choices and work ethic than people in worse situations than me but that doesn't prevent me from seeing how circumstances dictate choices and opportunities.

I also think that there is as psychological aspect to this in that a lack of empathy also allows people who are not poor or homeless to feel as though they achieved it. Even if they are lower-middle class average people, they've achieved more than someone who is truly poor or homeless but this is just from personal observation, I think you have the same types of "self-made-person" feelings at every level of the socioeconomic ladder.
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Women can't be engineers? Male engineers can't be concerned about looks?
Only in massive sizes, and only for planes (vs rotorcraft): https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/26/solar-im... (something autonomous could of course be smaller, but still)
This was the only spot where I said anything about specific competitors: It seems they will be fighting off competition (car companies, Waymo, etc) that didn't have to spend money on lobbying

The bigger thing, though, is that you keep implying that I said Lyft was somehow in a better spot. Now you're noting I never mentioned Lyft.

Nothing I'm saying is affected one way or other by Lyft. Pointing out that they have the same problem doesn't change the rationale.
That is sometimes also called "enlightened hedonism" in opposition to "naive hedonism"
It's not even an issue of trusting Amazon. Or, just trusting their motives. You also have to trust their security on an ongoing basis, as your device could theoretically be compromised at any time.
> Bookmark managers should happen in the browser, not in the command line.

Really? Why? I would much rather my browsers were clients of a bookmarks server/api, and what happens/seen in one browser is exactly the same in all.

I use different email clients, and thank $GOD that they all consume IMAP instead of email storage "happening in the client."
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They "lend" you money to buy assets they hold, up to 2x. There's essentially zero risk for them. They don't lend you money you can cash out to your account.

You buy $1000 of stock with your cash. They say cool your account can now "borrow" $1000 from us to buy more stock. If your stocks start crashing, they margin call and get their money back. The assets are always in their account, no risk to them.

The only real risk is probably fraud. Sign up with stolen account A, cash out to mule account B. This happens a ton and for small amounts no one is gonna follow up on it, so it's up to Robinhood to detect and prevent this ahead of time.
Turns out optimal mate-seeking strategies for men and women are different.

Who would have thought.

Not sure why this is supposed to be taboo to say, when it has a body of scientific evidence behind it.
I've written this on HN before but Fidelity(1) and Schwab(2) have similar low cost index fund offerings to Vanguard as well so don't think you are stuck with Vanguard. Both Fidelity and Schwab also offer the best checking account you can possibly get (no fees, minimums, plus ATM reimbursement) for free as well. Additionally, Fidelity has a great 2% cash back credit card. Even if you don't use Fidelity or Schwab's brokerage accounts it's a no brainer to sign up for a checking account with one of them.

Vanguard, however, is owned by it's investors if that's important to you.

Last I checked you can also trade some Vanguard ETFs on Robinhood as well. I just checked, you can buy VOO, among others, on Robinhood as well as iShares ETFs, which are also low cost index funds.

Basically, if you want low cost index funds you have a lot of options, including Robinhood

(1)https://www.fidelity.com/mutual-funds/investing-ideas/index-...

(2)https://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/nn/m/indexfunds.html
Well, not completely opaque -- it uses your wifi network, so you can watch its traffic to see if it's sending streaming video back home without your permission. The stream should be encrypted, so you may not know exactly what it is sending back home, but you simple traffic analysis will tell you if it's sending video.

Having it being completely sealed without the ability of the end-user to install software is a security win for most people. Then it's much less likely that a user will install Malware on the device, and it's not likely that Amazon is going to hack their own devices to make them into spy cams. Not allowing user installed software greatly reduces the attack surface of the device.
> Wouldn't want to enable people to make their own decisions with their money, would we

I think you're missing what the criticism here is.

Let's say you, right now, have $10,000. I say "Hey, lend me that money so I can play the stock market with it." Would you give me the money? You know literally nothing about me. You don't know if I've ever traded a stock before. You don't know if I can ever pay you back. There's a higher than normal probability that I will never pay you that money back.

Robinhood is taking on a lot of risk and using that as proof that they're a profitable company.
How would that deal with pictures?
Both things you mention are interrelated. People want to feel like they are doing something tangible and we waste time and money on recycling even when it doesn't work. Stop recycling and calling blue apron to complain about waste. Instead spend that time calling your congress person to start a carbon tax or to stop farm subsidies. Doing something that feels like it helps is worse than doing nothing. At least when you do nothing, you know it.
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The thing is, either way, someone is getting harmed. If these devices are left to run unpatched, they'll take part in attacks against whoever, and someone somewhere suffers. Possibly a lot of someones, Mirai wasn't exactly a joke.
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"Partisan propaganda" isnt the largest issue, even if you find support of it. Fact-checkers just cant scale to the meet the production of news per day. Not possible. Not even with 10 trusted Snopes-like organizations. Snopes produced 830 stories in 2016 under their "News" topic. Thats 2 stories a day. CNN produced over 35,000 stories last year... then there is NYT, HuffPo, WaPo, Fox, MSNBC, Hill.........
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I think that this will sell like hotcakes this Christmas for teens. Bravo!
When did you buy this condo? Surely not recently.
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I get your point, but has the "general consumer" actually demonstrated that they will trade privacy for convenience with regard to Amazon Echo (and competitors)? This stuff is still very early days. I don't know anyone that has an Echo, even among my tech literate friends. I think it is yet to be seen if this type of technology really gets universal adoption.
I came here to write pretty much exactly this.
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The Wikipedia [0] page for ECC RAM states that Cassini-Huygens spacecraft had a fairly static count of 280 errors/day.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_memory
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Impressively, it's even picking up some block-level data. Notice the hotspot near Court Square in Long Island City:
that's a Citibank tower.
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I think it makes more sense to compare it with Lucene (which both ElasticSearch and Solr are based on) or, say, Xapian.

Based on a PDF http://grupoweb.upf.es/WRG/mir2ed/pdf/slides_appendixA.pdf page 14 (linked from http://stackoverflow.com/q/5028314/116546), I think the differences are MG4J has constant RAM usage (as opposed to Lucene's linear one), but is somewhat more CPU intensive.

Haven't used either directly.
SIR, I appreaciate your contrarian attitude.

I think this model is so tempting because it has become easy to persuade investors of value with user numbers (by itself a truly meaningless metric).

People are better at gaming a system than building useful new products. If the institutions say, give me a large user base and we will give you money, the next day you will have a line a mile long with startups with HUGE user bases, because that is what they were told to do to be successful. Easiest way to do that, as you say, giving away for free what used to cost money.

Between destroying the natural world and being total sociopaths hell bent on obtaining money/power at all costs, this species is fucking sick.
> Running mainframes isn't cheap.

Price for performance for certain workloads, as I understand, it can be.

> Not being able to improve these systems / innovate with them can cost the business a lot of time/money.

The banks use other technology for peripheral systems that interact with the core functions all the time (look at the drivers behind AMQP, sometime.) The core functions, OTOH, are about impelmenting requirements that haven't changed in centuries; until there is a desire to implement a fundamental new way of doing things (like blockchain, which financial institutions are exploring and probably aren't using COBOL on mainframes for their experiments) theres nothing to innovate on.
It takes a special kind of entitlement to put internet-connected devices on the market that basically have no security.
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^ This.

I worked at a big corporation. The legal department was not a morality watch dog. Accounting would have a cow and decide x needed to be changed, legal would try to come up with justification for how we can defend this in a court of law if sued.
I'm not sure what your complaint is about computed properties. You should either store the computed data in the reducer, compute it on the fly in render, or use componentWillReceiveProps and/or setState. Your problem isn't needing to make React behave like Vue, you need to let React behave like React.

The second point I was trying to make is you don't have to do it that way in React. React is a perfectly functional framework without Redux or the "container" model. That style became popular because you're enforcing that the majority of your components are dumb [1] which is a pretty useful thing for a large project. But again, these aren't problems with React and if it's giving you this much heartburn it's worth bringing up with your team because it sounds like something's going wrong.

1. https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/smart-and-dumb-components-7c...
> so your naiive "how people spend their money has no consequences" attitude

Who said it has no consequences? People make bad decisions with money their all the time. In fact, many of the working class get their fix in real casinos, where there's no real chance of winning, even if you know what you're doing. But the parent argument is going in the direction of "people shouldn't have the freedom to use this type of product." Instead of allowing normal people (some of whom know what they are doing) to freely engage in leveraged -- or just free -- trading, would you rather people with small portfolios get their already modest earning potential chewed away by large trading fees that make short term investing impractical? The difference is that I don't think we should be protecting people from themselves.
It might not be connected to the internet in an IoT way, but it makes a lot of sense to connect a device to a wi-fi network if you need to wirelessly transmit any form of data.
Margin loans are lower risk than you may think, as they're secured by highly liquid assets that are held in custody at the broker that's lending the money. That's not to say the broker can't take a loss, but it's not as risky for the broker as you might think.
I think his story is funnier on this one, and he drops some foreshadowing hints here as to why Trump won, even before Obama's second electoral win: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqUG2_cmZ6I
There's a few things missing in this comparison, most notably the bike manufacturer isn't claiming the bike is already secure ("auto-locking" bikes) or making additional security challenging (bikes that locks are very hard to install on) or generally profiting from an environment of misinformation about bike theft and bike safety.

Additionally theft of property has a personal gain for you.

I'm not sure I ethically support the hacker's actions, but I don't think the bike example has the market/awareness effects that make it at all defensible.
Facebook and google are doing that fine by themselves.
I live near a couple of rural small-town speed traps. Yes, I have learned to set my cruise control to 45mph at the sign that is a ridiculous distance from town on otherwise normal highway to avoid tickets. The problem is, not everyone is a local, so you have people driving 45 and people trying to drive 60+ on a two lane highway with all the tailgating and reckless driving that entails. The speed trap isn't making anyone safer, it's just making those police departments richer.
I'm sorry to hear that. Have you talked with anyone? Have you explored jumping to a different industry?

Anxiety attacks are awful. I hope you can find something better.
As someone who grew up poor and currently has a very small social network (parents passed away, very small extended family in this country, few friends, etc), I worry about this all the time. Who will help me if the shit hits the fan? I have a good job, decent money, and all manner of insurance but its still something that haunts me.

One of the things we see when we examine successful people, especially those in startups, is that they're kids who often have mommy and daddy to fall back on. This allows them to take chances, or take months off school to try some project, or spend days and nights networking, or pulling strings on connections their family provides, or a slew of other inherited advantages. Those without this kind of privilege just go to work and try not to make waves because the risk of failure is too scary to consider like losing your home or being blackballed in your career. Its a whole other world when you know very few people have your back and there's no family wealth to cushion your falls. When I deal with people with this high levels of privilege I find it very hard to relate to them. Its like talking to a space alien with endless wealth. My own experience don't remotely match up.

Poverty is several steps below the situation I grew up in. I can't imagine the hopelessness here. Kudos to those who are actively doing something about it.
Oh please. Your "editor" was probably like: "gr8 b8 m8."
I am not sure this is a good analogy. Stealing a bike only effects one person. an IoT device that brings down the internet in a DDOS attack impacts everyone.
"Always invest what you cant afford to lose" is a very common investing advice given to beginners. You don't need and an Economics PhD to understand this concept
I thought of that too.
Compare the US population density map [1] with the white collar crime map, zoomed out. On the national scale, they match moderately well.

There are interesting hotspots. Etsy HQ in Brooklyn is one.

[1] https://www2.census.gov/geo/img/maps-data/maps/density80.gif
> lowly folding chair

> 27 cherry wood pieces

Yeah, okay.
As pointed out in the notes the Angry Birds entry is a bit of a non sequitur since that's more like measuring how fast a given new TV show's viewership increased after TVs were already extremely common, and it's not exactly a world-changing technology like most of the other things on the list. It's not comparable to the other things, and was probably included for effect rather than its belonging on the list by shared criteria with the other items.

I expect the others would look far less dramatic as a percentage—I'd guess the 12-year cell phone number and the 38-year radio number especially would move far closer together if percentages rather than an absolute count were used. TV/cell phone might well reverse, since they're already so close. The table sets off some serious "lying with numbers" warning bells.
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How comfortable they are with using PGP has no impact on which community members choose to use it.
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Thanks. I was probably too concise, but only had a couple of minutes.
Yes. And pretty much every product and service I use on a day to day basis was created by a company that was once small and may have received outside investment even if only friends and family. And just about every product and service has some technology component or innovation that differentiates itself.

But now you're just arguing that companies build the products we use and companies start small which, while overwhelmingly true, is hardly a statement about the output of technology startups specifically.
And this right here is the reason that banks can't just sit on their ticking timebombs.

Another commenter says there's no incentive for managers or execs to stick their necks out, but £56m is quite an incentive.
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Really? Because that sounds like stupid, stupid advice and searching for that advice[1] yields results for the opposite.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=always+invest+what+you+can%27t+aff...
> Robinhood is taking on a lot of risk and using that as proof that they're a profitable company.

Margin positions are typically liquidated when they go negative. At worst, the customer owes Robinhood some leftover slippage after their margin gets called. And typically, margins are called before your account goes negative.
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>"Always invest what you cant afford to lose"

Is this a typo?
As a small investor, borrowing money to invest is almost invariably a terrible, terrible idea, because any return you make on the investment will likely be cancelled out by the interest paid to borrow the money.

I just looked up margin interest rates, for loans of 10 000 or less (which is what we are likely talking about with robin hood) the interest rate is Base Rate + 1.25% which is 8.50% interest. I don't know many stocks you can buy even in the best of circumstances that will get you a guaranteed return of more than 8.5%. Moral of the story - robin hoods retail investors should not engage in margin trading.
I think that comparison is a little weak. Most startups fail but some still succeed, and those working for the startups that are failing can look at the success stories and aspire to that, and it's not completely unreasonable for them to do so.

Meanwhile there's no coal mining company that's booming while others flounder. The whole industry is shrinking. It'd be more like if cell phones were becoming obsolete in favor of cranial implants or something, but you were still working on a social app for Android.
> Electronic stability control has been mandated by the NHTSA since 2012 (they required at least 55% of 2009 models sold to be equipped with it, 75% of 2010 models, and 95% of 2011 models)

I should have looked that up before stating the opposite. My mistake.

> Also in 2007 about half of all new cars sold were equipped with it.

I've read that the average vehicle age is about 10 years. That means that only now are we getting to the point where the vast majority of vehicles would be equipped with electronic stability control. Looking at the FARS page I cited earlier, the decline in fatality rate is pretty clear, but how prevalent ESP was and how much it changed in that time period is not as clear (at least I don't have the data for it).
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Exactly. They have the right to liquidate to protect themselves at any time and if it doesn't cover your margin, your still on the hook for the rest.
The french press is just the ultimate coffee making device. It's simple, it gives you a lot of control (via the amount, the grind, the water temperature and soak time) and it makes glorious, glorious coffee.

Expresso machines are complex and bulky, and they generally aren't worth it unless you can spend $600+ (and that plus goes WAY up). Nespresso isn't bad at all (we have one here at work), but even better is a Lavazza machine, which takes cartridges like the Nespresso, but the resulting espresso is an order of magnitude better, in my opinion.
Absolutely. The infrastructure is very fickle, but also enormous on the scale of countries.

Since we're talking about hypotheticals, I could say these things are also true:

1. There are counter-drones deployed and patrolling air space above the towers.

2. There are hundreds of independent power lines with 2N redundancy, so cutting 5-10 high voltage lines would do nothing.

3. The undersea cable points are protected by state agents and have good security for amateurs to compromise.

4. Europe will have 24-48 hours worth of storage even if ALL the lines are cut from the Solar Generation plants.

5. Europe will have backup power generation capacity in the form of locally stored and operated fossil fuel plants.

____

In other words, there's absolutely no evidence that the future hypothetical solar installation is going to be more vulnerable than the infrastructure that already exists today, and surprisingly Europe doesn't plunge into darkness every week.
That name sound very familiar, as does the feature set. Managing Gigabytes[1], or "mg" was the output of a University of Melbourne and RMIT research in the 1990s. It went on to be commercialized as SIM and later TeraText[2] and has largely disappeared into the government intelligence indexing and consulting-heavy systems space (where it is now presumably being trounced by Palantir).

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Gigabytes-Compressing-Indexi... - Note review from Peter Norvig!

[2] http://www.teratext.com/
In the cases where the golden parachutes are absurdly large, I don't really see how they're really incentivized to take risks either. Perform or don't perform, the difference is the CEO's yacht size, or how many mansions they own around the globe?
> if everyone would see it as an investment.

From a rational perspective a baby born today might never, ever pay back any investment of this sort. His or her potential employment opportunities may very well be eaten up by automation. If fact, this is most likely the case 20-30 years from now as AI and robotics continue to advance in some/many industries.

Instead, we should be seeing all humans as worthwhile creatures and the state as a method for us to live compassionate lives. Policies like guaranteed incomes are the saner solution here because they don't depend on seeing people as investments, often investments they can't pay off.

Not to mention the sick, disabled, elderly, etc who can never ever pay off these hypothetical investments.
seems dystopian