skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've thought the same. They probably have some very interesting problems to solve due to their size though.
I, too, have dual citizenship. This is something that would never happen in the US.

https://news.vice.com/article/a-canadian-comedian-was-ordere...

Basically, a comedian made a comment in reference to a kid who'd sought donations because he was dying. His quip was:

"But five years later, he wasn't dead, he's not dying," he quipped on stage. "The little bastard, he's just not dying."

For that, the courts are making him pay some $42,000.

That would not happen in the United States. You may, or may not, agree with the court's findings - but it's a difference between the two countries and their liberties to express themselves.
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> In these scenarios a voice inside my head wants to ask 'well, you are the manager, aren't managers supposed to know these things?'

That's a double edged sword. What would you think of a manager saying: you're on this task, it's going to take you 2 days? It's not better in my experience.
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Considering that they're just as likely to fire you as they are to promote you, I would say it's perfectly ethical to not tell them.
Existential crisis and mental break down are not remotely the same thing. And noting that he seems to simply feel he somehow doesn't deserve this or feels guilty and his article is also not really well backed is a valid criticism. This piece looks to me like someone venting emotionally about their guilt at feeling they don't really deserve more than others. This is not really a good argument for creating basic income. Many people feel guilty for being born into wealth and privilege. That guilt is not some kind of objective evidence that basic income will solve the problems we currently face where we generally expect automation to eliminate certain jobs.

It's fine for people to think basic income will be a good solution to the situation before us. I don't happen to agree with that position. But personal guilt and appealing to some just world fallacy is not a substantive argument for why we should try to make this happen.
> block google.com in Canada

Is there precedent for ordering ISPs to block a domain like this in Canada? I note that we've always been able to access sites like pirate bay.
I've done two AMAs on Reddit, there is some interesting stuff after you get through the top voted jokes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4dmwry/we_are_the_por... and
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1un3wn/we_are_the_por...
>Poor, underfed, and uneducated is the default position for human beings. We were born into this world, as a species, with nothing.

Have you had a look at 19th century philosopher Peter Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread? Here's an excerpt:

>For thousands of years millions of men have laboured to clear the forests, to drain the marshes, and to open up highways by land and water. Every rood of soil we cultivate in Europe has been watered by the sweat of several races of men. Every acre has its story of enforced labour, of intolerable toil, of the people’s sufferings. Every mile of railway, every yard of tunnel, has received its share of human blood.

...

>The shafts of the mine still bear on their rocky walls the marks made by the pick of the workman who toiled to excavate them. The space between each prop in the underground galleries might be marked as a miner’s grave; and who can tell what each of these graves has cost, in tears, in privations, in unspeakable wretchedness to the family who depended on the scanty wage of the worker cut off in his prime by fire-damp, rock-fall, or flood?

>In virtue of this monstrous system, the son of the worker, on entering life, finds no field which he may till, no machine which he may tend, no mine in which he may dig, without accepting to leave a great part of what he will produce to a master. He must sell his labour for a scant and uncertain wage. His father and his grandfather have toiled to drain this field, to build this mill, to perfect this machine. They gave to the work the full measure of their strength, and what more could they give? But their heir comes into the world poorer than the lowest savage. If he obtains leave to till the fields, it is on condition of surrendering a quarter of the produce to his master, and another quarter to the government and the middlemen. And this tax, levied upon him by the State, the capitalist, the lord of the manor, and the middleman, is always increasing; it rarely leaves him the power to improve his system of culture. If he turns to industry, he is allowed to work — though not always even that — only on condition that he yield a half or two-thirds of the product to him whom the land recognizes as the owner of the machine.

I'd really recommend a read, I used to think as you did, that we are born poor. In reality, we are born with the riches of the world around us, yet ungraspable.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-c...
It seems a bit of a stretch to call these toys 'interactive'. Interactive means responding to input; in these examples, the punters' sexjars are passive broadcast receivers, not input devices. They aren't feeding back to the performer. Or to each other - P2P [1] communication would be an interesting application here.

[1] perv-to-perv
I agree this is annoying. But, you're likely to pick up most all of it within 6 months ($25), and learning vim keys will pay back so, so, much more.

For those considering this, just install vim bindings for whatever editor you use. Leave it in insert mode. Bit by bit, you'll start using the commands you learn from Vim Adventures. I rarely use Vim itself, but use its commands in browsers and IDEs.

A year later, you will look at normal text editing people with frustration. It's like watching someone that doesn't know how to use a PC slowly mouse around - that's how much a difference vim makes.
> While there is a market for those txns the reality is that most adopters, and they recognize themselves as early ones, today, buy bitcoin as an inflation hedge.

That's my point - bitcoin is most useful for those who wish to engage in illicit activity (this accounts for at least 10% of bitcoin's market size if not more [1][2][3]) and for those who have ideological reasons to support it.

Those who have ideological reasons to fear inflation and support bitcoin are primarily libertarians, who think of inflation as Satan incarnate and view it as worse than murder and only slightly better than outright theft. But that's hardly a consensus view. Beyond those two groups, bitcoin has no real use.

I'm not saying bitcoin is worthless, I'm saying that there's a natural peak to its valuation based on its limited use cases (see above). Maybe bitcoin will make significant inroads in developing countries, and maybe then those $100 billion+ valuations will become reality, but I doubt it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)#Sales
[2] http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/15/technology/ransomware-cyber-...
[3] https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/47942/what-perce...
[4] http://www.ofnumbers.com/2015/04/22/the-flow-of-funds-on-the...
Sorry, I'm not convinced. :) The video talks about editing footage to add or remove details using cgi. The images are a better example, but those are all comparing cg vs heavily retouched images.
> If you've ever thought "I'm done for the day, but I'm going to hang out a little longer to leave at a more respectable time," then you're feeling (and doing) the same kind of thing.

Not quite. First, this guy went out of his way to lie and insert extra bugs in his code to make it appear like manual labor. Second, this guy is doing it all the time, whereas normally people might only do this on occasion. You can argue about whether the latter is right or wrong, but there's quite a clear line between the two, making the former far more indefensible.
I think that's called security by obsolescence. Not sure how well that actually works. Root kits don't just disappear and FreeBSD 4.1 isn't as obscure as, say, VMS. But as long as there are no remote vulnerabilities it's probably no worse than a typical Linux install, in the sense that both would be trivially rootable once you get your foot in the door.
> It seems the greater question is, "What is the employer paying for?"

This agreement is typically unspoken upon initial employment, leaving many employees at a position to take a loss during the production of assets outside of the initial workload.

The most an employee can wish for in this position is merit.
No, it's not a matter of "they're unethical, so I can be too"; I don't see why keeping a secret is necessarily unethical in the first place. Are trade secrets unethical?
Don't worry, they'll continue advertising underwear, online learning, apps, and speakers.
Bitcoin is different than other cryptos in a fundamental way. It is inherently conservative. They resist almost any change that isn't an efficiency improvement.

The reality is that, for now, and for the foreseeable future, people are not interested in using bitcoin for over the counter purchases. I know this from personal experience as a former service provider of that specific service. It might never have a use-case that way. People say they want those things, but then don't spend their bitcoin. This is backed up but realty too : there are plenty of other cryptos with the same architecture with 10x the throughput and negligible txn fees (i.e. litecoin) and they aren't used for that. Maybe they will. Maybe they won't. Can't say. I know enough not to want to change something that works for what it is used for though.
Rougelikes might teach you hjkl but that's hardly a major source of vim's powers - it's not even scratching the surface. Doing text motions and macros is where it really, really, shines.
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See, for example, this: http://www.epi.org/publication/the-high-road-seattle-labor-m...
You should totally expense a Launch. The Onyx was /such/ a horrible piece of hardware, I can't believe they're still selling it. :)
Bitcoin is a 42B market. Thats a third the market cap of... McDonalds.

In a global economy of some 64 trillion, 42 billion (plus the gold and other precious metals, and many other "lack of faith" stores of wealth) is not even a drop in the bucket.

And even at that, you don't have to have no faith in established currencies to also use bitcoin. I personally don't think the banking system in power now will fail any time soon, but I also can recognize how valuable a cryptocurrency would be to replace it.
Multistakeholder Approach to the Stewardship of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies [pdf]
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93710?hl=en

> You can prevent a page from appearing in Google Search by including a noindex meta tag in the page's HTML code. When Googlebot next crawls that page, Googlebot will see the noindex meta tag and will drop that page entirely from Google Search results, regardless of whether other sites link to it.

> Important! For the noindex meta tag to be effective, the page must not be blocked by a robots.txt file. If the page is blocked by a robots.txt file, the crawler will never see the noindex tag, and the page can still appear in search results, for example if other pages link to it.
Well I downvote racists and sexists on HN all the time. But I think people with good intentions should be free to discuss.
We also have lesson from the 1920s to draw from and the breaking up of monopolies. Social security has social in the name, and nobody wants that social program to die off without something better replacing it (except for some crude wealthy folks). This isn't an install/uninstall thing. More of an alloy of waxing/waining ideas.
> a way of investigating possible unconscious bias

There's other ways to address that too. I've used https://textio.com/ in the past for job ads and it's really interesting to see examples of how seemingly minor word choices can land depending on the reader. It'd be a relatively simple task to run documentation, RFCs and Github comments of core team members through such a service and automatically generate a report (which wouldn't have to be released publicly, but could be sent to authors to aid in using more inclusive language going forward).

The thing that's really difficult to do is to be inclusive in a way that doesn't feel exclusive towards people who aren't in the target demographics. Using these types of automated tools doesn't have that downside. Has anything like this been suggested/done by the people working on Rust?
Only 3 men have ever lived past their 115th birthday in recorded history.

It certainly feels like there's some sort of a hard biological cap. Otherwise you'd think there'd at least be the occasional outlier due to statistical chance. Mortality increases extremely quickly from age 90 to 110.
Makes sense - but I should note that this syntax is from at least Mar 2016[1], so I'm guessing people haven't been clamoring for editor support if it's not available.

[1]https://web.archive.org/web/20160316083925/https://docs.rack...
(disclaimer, I work on fly)

This is really just meant to be decent content, not a sales pitch. We obviously want to grow our business so we write about stuff that's close to what we do. Most people are really uninformed about site performance (still), you'd be shocked how many people don't even know about the 10 year old studies.

Also note, Amazon's -1% per 100ms of latency holds up for the ecommerce companies I've worked with. It's not a small number for any company, and we're actually really cheap for companies with a high value per user (like ecommerce! or saas!). You probably wouldn't serve billions of page views through fly with very cheap ads, though.

That said, I pretty much agree with you. We'll only succeed if we can keep proving that we're valuable. It's part of why we give enough traffic away for free that you can legitimately test us out. I don't particularly want people using us if they don't get any value out of it.
Huh? If your vim add-on in Chrome is better than in Firefox, you're using the wrong add-on.

Try Vimperator in Firefox.

Meanwhile, `d` can't even close the New Tab page in any Chrome vim add-on. It's a bit pathetic. Vimium is the crappy Chrome plugin that was ported to Firefox.
Your beef is with the interface and the content, not the toy. The toy is totally interactive (it's just a BLE device after all), though using it in an interactive way is wading into a patent minefield (just google "teledildonics patent" or "268 patent"). However Kiiroo is one of the licensors of the patent, so we'll probably see more from them.
"The approach we're taking here is basically the opposite of what you're advocating; I am not aware of any open source projects that email people asking them to contribute."

I'm not saying it common or anything haha. I'm just offering sending messages to people about a project that fits their expertise as a way to boost number of people that know about it and might contribute. This is with assumption that whatever qualified minorities candidates aren't seeing the opportunity or nobody has nudged them to act on it. If for other reasons, this might have no effect.

Of course, one must balance against overdoing it or we get posts about "Rust zealots" blasting messages at everyone. Very selective based on talent with personalized messages with no commitment required. I've gotten a few people interested in experimenting with approaches to automated testing and coding in SPARK Ada just sending occasional emails or messages. Although, most come to me after I post in different places with different types of people/projects that might find them useful. Also, I speculate maybe on web forum side looking for forums with higher percentage of minority programmers or just experimenters/makers where you do your normal thing sharing interesting posts about Rust or its ecosystem.

Just some extra brainstorming. I agree there's no silver bullet. It will require lots of experimentation, measurement, listening, and time above all.
> And since these systems are open rather than proprietary, we’ll see applications bigger than Facebook.

I think this vastly overestimates how much the vast majority of people care about this
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The judge later regretted the choice and said so publicly. He'd reverse that choice in a later ruling and join the minority opinion. There's a good Wikipedia article on this.
> And at the end of the day, the company thinks they are paying the guy to do one thing, which they believe takes a significant chunk of time, but that's not the case. If he wasn't remote, and had to come into the office every day, his deception would probably be quickly found out, so in essence he's abusing his remote-work arrangement.

Good litmus test to know if there is abuse is to reverse the role. Is it wrong for a company to charge market rate if they can produce order of magnitude cheaper than their competitors ?

Sure the employee-employer relationship is not the same as B2B and we don't know exactly the contract he signed, ... but if you, like me, are down that line of though you have already implicitly admitted that although it is clear the company is right but somehow it feels wrong for the employee ? Well in that case, the employee is right not to say anything. And to align with your advice, like the company above, use the opportunity to use the time to the most profitable fashion.
What's the difference between fly.io and any other CDN? Can it serve dynamic encrypted data from the backend to the edge faster?
Physically secured storage. Either a safe deposit box or a fire safe in your home.
I much prefer a lot of information where you don't have to scroll - its far easier to keep one's place with more landmarks.
The decision did discuss that hypothetical, though the linked article doesn't. The court said that if Google presented evidence that complying with a specific Canadian order might violate the law of a specific other country, the Canadian court would take that into account, and that might well be a good reason for modifying the order. But since in this case there wasn't any such evidence presented, they felt the hypothetical in itself wasn't sufficient reason to modify the order.

edit: More extensive discussion in this comment and its follow-ups: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14657979
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So the fact that some slaves were treated well by their owners somehow makes it OK for one human being to actually own another?

Because what you just wrote sounds an awful like a defence of slavery.

What's awful about slavery is not the treatment of the slave. It's the fact that they are slaves in the first place.
> Let's not lose sight of other potential dangers just because we're focused on one that's getting a lot of attention in the moment.

Sure, the Cosby trial might be an example of another danger. He was found not guilty despite claims that were ultimately found by a jury of his peers to be baseless or questionable.

But this really isn't about the spectrum of abuse of allegations, but rather the danger in how someone may legally try to suppress publicly available information because of a particular court deeming it in the public interest to.
>Ethereum - Cool tech, but all the innovative parts of it are highly unproven.

I think it's quite proven. Turing complete contracts work according to their code. This has already allowed hundreds of automated token sales to take place, and anyone to copy paste some code to make their own token (with most using the ERC20 standard).

Alpha versions of several Dapps like Augur have been created and there is the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) which was programmed to do several innovative things:

* automatically release names for registration on a staggered schedule

* use hidden bids that are all revealed during a reveal phase

* require the winning bidder to deposit the winning amount of ETH in the ENS contract for as long as they want to maintain control over the name, thus attaching a rental cost for squatting on a valuable name like exchange.eth, which means the rent charged is proportional to the economic rent extracted by rent-seekers.

* allow peer to peer trade of names

All of these ENS features have been working for months. And this is simply a contract built on Ethereum.

And there are people working on contracts to lend out the ETH held for reserving ENS names, showing there are no limits to what can be done, subject only to the cost of the computing resources of the EVM.

Just as another quick illustration of the openness of Ethereum to innovation, here's a project that automatically created 10,000 unique digital collectibles, each a graphical depiction of a cryptopunk character, put them on the Ethereum blockchain, and then let anyone that wanted to, claim them for free.

All 10,000 were claimed and there has already been 25.0317 ETH ($7,762.83 USD) worth of cryptopunks purchased from those holding them, and there are currently 91.2646 ETH ($28,302.97 USD) in bids for cryptopunks for sake:

http://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks
Context and motivation. Being able to provide an experience for your descendents motivates you to act. Without that ability, there is no reason to do anything.
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- the industry connections that your college has matters as much or more than the curriculum.

- live while you're young. All of the talk about saving while you're young and let compounding work for you is mathematically true, but you'll probably make enough more later on so it won't matter. Once you have kids, mortgage, and responsibilities you'll regret not spending your youth having fun.

- on the other hand live below your means. Don't obligate yourself to high fixed costs - like an expensive car, house, apartment. Have enough disposable income to gain experiences.

I enjoyed my younger, single years and now that I'm older and settled, I don't go through life questioning what would have happened if I took more risks.
There is plenty of free speech in Canada. It draws the line at hate speech differently then the United States does, but the concept is not foreign to the US either. See - the checkered history of 'fighting words'.
I'll give it a try to see how it works. I know i tried a service like that I think back in my freshman year, It was rentacoder which turned into vworker. I landed a couple lucrative jobs, but the time spent begging for individual jobs was much higher and I'd lose out to people who would charge 50% minimum wage and get the work even with a good record. Eventually my best friend and I were somehow linked as the same person (He lives in California and we never logged in from the same place) and we were discontinued.
what's the R word you mention? (serious question)
Link? Uh, for science.
They were annoyed at you because you exploited an information asymmetry between the two of you (which is how long the job would actually take).
Sigh... Thinking up a different situation (or even an exception) doesn't make a general statement "not true". We aren't arguing mathematical theses here.

It is true that Intuit inserted some explicit delays to give the impression that their software is "working" really hard to deliver value. But, TurboTax is still very snappy in response to user action. That response is often an intentionally long, slow animation carefully designed to help you keep calm through a stressful process. But, the response came quickly.

Personally, I have measured direct correlations between our apps' latency&stutters vs revenue trends. This effect has been well publicized by Google and others. Users don't consciously give much of a shit. But, their behavior in end is significantly affected regardless.
I think huge resources wins more often than not. Even more so in our corruption-enabled environment today.

Rule of law or better ideas? Meet billions of dollars. We all know who wins ... justice delayed long enough is justice denied.