skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have never seen an organization subscribe to any set of values other than "do what will make the most profit". The only goal is to increase profit. This works out pretty well, because it pits my desire for profit versus yours, and encourages socially beneficial policies, because too-greedy profit seeking destroys further chances of profit. We do not have shared goals, we have the opposing goal of maximising profit in a largely zero-sum game. However, due to how the system is set up, we can collaborate and increase both our profits more than what we can do each on our own.

I don't see how anything else can be a working system. Everything else can be gamed by semantic manoeuvring from the side of the profit-seekers. The only way to make sure a given set of values are followed is to make them the most profitable course of action, ensuring via evolutionary mechanisms that only the ones abiding those values survive.
It is possible, and works well, but this option is buried in the browser menu. Until you are able to include the "save to home" option in the UI, it is hobbled compared to native.
yes I would download all the knowledge I could into offline storage and only connect for updates.
And luckily Java is now also trying to fix modules. Maybe, someday, those concepts will arrive over in C++ land, too.
I also use thexyz and it is a secure and reliable service. They have been offering private email email hosting for around 10 years so doubt they will be packing up shop anytime soon.
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I used to work as a developer in a logistics firm.

For a short while it was going through some financial difficulties. It was no secret among the staff, many of whom were jumping ship. Those that weren't (myself included) were making plans to do the same.

Despite this the MD insisted on keeping the recruitment process going and carrying through with the graduate recruitment scheme. His reasoning was that he couldn't claim that his company was growing if it wasn't hiring. It was deception plain and simple, but for this particular MD morals were merely something he had once heard about.

Come the hour they did have to withdraw firm offers for both experienced hires and five graduates. It was particularly nasty for the graduates as they went through a ridiculously extensive recruitment process - including spending a weekend away at a woodland activity centre where they were forced to do team building exercises and climb a mountain in the dark.

Long story short, they kept the recruitment process going to make it look like the company was doing better than it was.

It was brutal, but the MD didn't care. He was probably more worried about where his next Merc was coming from.
Career of the Future: Robot Psychologist
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13929411
This "shadow" socialized system fills me with anger simply because we can't seem to deal with it in a mature and constructive way.

As long as Americans can't stomach the idea of turning away people who cannot pay for emergency care to die we have socialized medicine. I don't understand why we can't, as a society, have a "grown up" conversation about this fact.
What to do if there are too many artists in the field?
If your threat model includes nation states, then no.
I don't disagree with you, but I don't really understand how this relates to the parent comment?

It's certainly true that good management is a complex skillset, and if managers underestimate programmer's skills then the reverse is also likely. It's true that in some contexts non-technical managers can manage technical teams (and in some contexts they certainly can't). But... none of that makes this article good or useful. It doesn't negate the parent comment at all. This article is bad, and it's aimed at non-technical managers who aren't functional.

I suspect your outstanding manager didn't use "what are the memory constraints?" like a magic spell of management, because despite the article's sweeping generalizations ("most common... any system"), there are a lot of contexts where that's literal gibberish.

I'm willing to bet she didn't keep a list of words to interpret as "I'm a useless hack". That's basically what this article advocates. Like... "Generic version" translates to "I don't understand the problem"? Really? Last time I said that, it was "I'm making a generic version of our branded UI so the new clients can put their logo in it". That's not even a technical answer, but it still goes on the 'red flag checklist'.

I could keep that list going. And the obvious reply is "these are just tips, don't overuse them where they don't apply!" But then what was the point? Knowing when to ask these questions is the entire task of management, and this article is aimed at people who can't do that.
most "issues"(https://jira.atlassian.com/projects/HCPUB/issues/?filter=all...) appear to actually be enhancement improvements - however, many seem specific to organizational whims --- smells like plugin developer fodder to me (there are some exceptions of course) - ./2cents
What project is that? I am very curious.
I agree with you in that this is another problem but I think the two are highly related.

Consider:

1. If you don't have insurance, how do you know where to go?

2. If your insurance company wants to reward you for picking lower priced options, how do you comply?

3. If the government wants to lower systematic costs, how do they give you incentives?

Without basic pricing information, all the benefits of a free market are absent, and so are the benefits of any incentive system.
> international human rights law

Is this law? Or guidance? For example, the universal declaration of human rights (UDHR) is not legally binding [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human...
This is a thought that's been floating around in my head for too long and probably doesn't exactly fit here but oh well.

Isn't language a bit of a proxy for what we are actually trying to communicate? As in the statement "Yesterday, I saw a yellow bus" the are millions of shades of yellow, different bus styles, and of course different times of day and different scenery in which you could have seen that bus.

Is it possible to convey that picture of the yellow bus (wherever and whenever you happened to see it) through a level of communication below typical "language." Is it possible to reconstruct thoughts that have not been put into explicit words? Additionally, if we were able to do this and do it in both ways (sending/receiving) would a Chinese speaker and English speaker be able to communicate without learning a new spoken language?
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Superman!

Superman is an alien.
Yet when you try and tell people that it was Ronald Reagan who effectively socialized medicine in the United States they get really angry.
I think the main problem with that, coming from someone who has been programming on the web since around 2001, is that many of the attempts to 'fix' the web as an 'application platform' seem to come in very Enterprise Java costumes.

Hundreds of files of abstraction and encapsulation, layers of indirection, tonnes of new nomenclature... and all without any obvious reason other than "that's what works for desktop applications" I think?

Angular 1.x is the example I'm most familiar with (primarily because it was JS and 'easy' for the first 1000 lines), where most of StackOverflow was occupied with the "factory vs service vs provider" question.
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That is a great point.

One I had buried in my subconscious. I wonder what my options are.
Awesome project in an awkward language. There I sed it.
I have run into several occasions when I need to urgently sign into my NameCheap account only to discover that the SMS 2 factor auth is not working. (I hit the button to send the code and nothing comes through)

Very convenient!
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Are there any examples of (good) non-market-produced information? The only such example I can think of is state-owned media, and I can't think of any situation where that has been or would be a good thing.
would it be better to just buy hold and use Bitcoin?

mining adds slightly to the decentralized nature but I am curious about comparing buy and hold vs mine.
They shouldn't take proactive measures to prevent you from opening the device (i.e. gluing it shut), and should in fact take proactive measures not to (i.e. using phillips head screws). There are lots of little things they can do to make it easier without compromising on the design.

Despite that, I don't think requiring specialized tools is a problem so long as they are (1) generally available and (2) reasonably priced.
Why you should, actually, rewrite it in Rust
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My experience is the opposite. The uninsured receive absurd bills because the hospital doesn't actually expect them to pay. The sell the debt to collections and get a big tax writeoff with little relation to reality.
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According to its Amazon listing, the Antminer S9 consumes 1247 watts at the wall. Assuming he ran it 24/7, over a year he would consume about 11,000 kWh, or about $1,300 at the average U.S. electricity price of $0.12/kWh. Without knowing how much he was paying for power of course we can't know exactly how much he spent, but this certainly doesn't seem like a slam-dunk win, compared to just buying Bitcoins outright.

And indeed, it couldn't possibly. The EMH almost guarantees that hobby mining can't be profitable once the coin is popular enough.
What annoys me most about using SMS for 2FA is that it's useless if you ever travel to another country and don't have global roaming enabled.
I don't think that's a good example. For one thing, eToys had been in business for several years before IPO. For another, toys are a surprisingly difficult logistics problem for retailers (a friend told me stories about the bear of a time Amazon had with them). But most damning to the narrative Taibbi wants to sell, Goldman got in trouble with eToys --- for underpricing it.

The founder of eToys went on to start Gamefly, and then took over as President of Gap Direct.

This isn't to say that eToys is a solid company by the standards we set for modern tech companies. But it's not a watermelon thrown out of a window, either.
And here's why...

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
Yes, it's wonderful. But personally I'd recommend getting the paper version.
This company, while impressive, was not built in a basement. It merely started in a basement, which is way different.

That's like saying "Apple - A $700B firm built in a garage"

I'd like to know what the actual largest single-founder business is that's being run out of a basement
Detroit’s startup scene is exploding
Religion does make a grand promise of immortality.
How is that a problem? About 130 medical schools graduate on average 100 MDs every year, that is 13,000. Available residency spots are near 29,000. so, the rest of the spots are filled by FMGs, foreign medical graduates.
Completely unrelated to 2FA... but what kind of fire-resistant lock box did you get? I'm looking into something like this for the same reason.
Would it then become important for that business to give these minds that would not make them feel trapped and caged?

Sounds like a more reasonable basis for the genesis of the Matrix than what was portrayed in the movie. :-)
No, it doesn't make any sense.

For example, if the prospect of the euro as an alternative reserve currency is so threatening, such that the USA would engage in a hugely expensive war to stop Iraq selling oil in euros, then why didn't the US take other, far less controversial actions to block the euro's development in the first place?

The single currency was a well-known plan for decades in western Europe, where the US enjoyed massive political and economic leverage during the cold war. If the entirety of the US' foreign policy is designed to defend the petrodollar, then why tolerate the development of an alternative global currency at all?

And yet, they didn't just tolerate it, they encouraged it. For example, here is a quote from an interview with Romano Prodi, former president of the European Commission, in 2002, about the US attitude to the euro[1]:

"But I tell you, in that moment, U.S., they could have destroyed the euro if they wanted, and they never did. They always helped it. And I'm very grateful for that because I think that the American Treasury understood that the euro is useful for all the world to have a strong currency. I think that in this moment, in these two years of crisis, without the euro, you know, Asian crisis, Argentina, September 11th, we could have a lot of-- of turbulence that we avoided because of the euro."

[1] https://charlierose.com/episodes/27900

Far from explaining US foreign policy, looking at everything through the lens of the petrodollar makes it totally inexplicable.
I think it is unfair to attack the grsecurity guys like this. They've been providing their patches free of charge for years only to have their work abused.

I mean, this whole situation seems a lot like the one described in the following articles, and afaik RedHat is still not facing any lawsuits:
https://lwn.net/Articles/432012/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/04/red_hat_twarts_oracl...

Now RedHat has the benefit that they claim they're "upstream first", but afaik ASLR originated with the grsecurity guys, so there is grsecurity stuff in the vanilla kernel. Is ASLR snake oil?

I don't see how the situation is different between how grsecurity did things and RedHat. Between going out of business and working on the boundary of the GPL, they chose to stay in business.

More importantly, how would you deal with publishing under the GPL and making money off of it? This whole discussion reminds me of this article:
http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2010/01/i-love-the-gpl-e...

The way things are going, the best direction to take if you want to produce GPL code is to have another job unrelated to programming to earn enough to code in your free time. It's really sad if you think of the megacorps that are making
billions off of FOSS.

I'll end up with a quote by Steve Jobs:
By the way, what have you done that’s so great? Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?
http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2010/05/the-future-of-ap...
How shitty do the employees get during the consultation period?
Namecheap does have 2fa... https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...

Do you mean because they only support SMS based 2fa?

Considering they have a drop down menu it's possible they just have not had time to develop the other options?
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From the article:

"Pollyannaish plant physiologists will point out that the cereal-crop math applies only to those regions already at peak growing temperature, and they are right — theoretically, a warmer climate will make it easier to grow corn in Greenland. But as the pathbreaking work by Rosamond Naylor and David Battisti has shown, the tropics are already too hot to efficiently grow grain, and those places where grain is produced today are already at optimal growing temperature — which means even a small warming will push them down the slope of declining productivity. And you can’t easily move croplands north a few hundred miles, because yields in places like remote Canada and Russia are limited by the quality of soil there; it takes many centuries for the planet to produce optimally fertile dirt."
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Is anyone tracking the electric costs for mining? I would love to see the stats on that. What about using something like solar to power this? Then you would have your upfront costs for the solar panels, but not have recurring electric costs?
I never asked for branded or fancy UI. I want consistency, and I expect the platform to drive design decisions, not the feature that happens to be packaged as an app. I'm sure most rational people would agree.

Design hubris is one of the world's most important problem.
Why not just have proper socialized medicine, such as in Canada?

Instead of this perverse system of "shadow" socialized medicine, fraud, and over-billing, why not just make it come out of everyone's taxes? That way everyone pays a very modest amount in tax and no one has to be financially ruined by flukes of nature.

Also kills a huge amount of overhead in the billing departments, collection agencies, insurance companies, etc.
I find really weird that it doesn't talk about Focault and Deleuze.
Freshbooks commit the same sin:

> Wow your clients with professional looking invoices that take only seconds to create. The best part? You’ll get paid faster, too.

I don't really understand how they figure that.
The Guardian is owned by a charitable foundation.
We could do the same thing with Git though, so clearly source control scheme is not strongly correlated with actual success of the project -- which makes sense.
> who [cares if] arms sales are lawful

People who care about the rule of law [1]. Once upon a time, we lived in a world where random people decided what is and isn't moral. It wasn't fun. So we decided to codify conventions in laws [2]. If your fellow countrymen disagree that the law should be changed, that's your problem, not the ruling.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta
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I would like to point out that this type of legislation, the planned economy, society, regulation, etc, type of legislation is precisely at the center of the difference between the contemporary "left" and "right" in the western world, to be general.

Instead of trying to create a system that creates an basic and simple incentive structure that results in the desired outcomes, this type of authoritarian and hubristic attitude that outcomes can simply be decreed and determined is inherently and fundamentally destined to result in nothing less than failure.

For example, if we simply required manufacturers to certify parameters for durability and require full refunds within that period for manufacturer defects, the incentive would be to create as durable and long lasting of a product as possible.

If we wanted to then push the envelope even further, we could set special lower tax rates for the leader of a segment or product group, e.g., the longest lasting smartphone or TV, etc. So that the incentive to create a longer lasting product is again enforced. We could also then lower taxes for products based on their recycle-ability, i.e., penalize junk Chinese crap while rewarding well engineered and designed products. If you want to do even more, provide something like a 50% reward for reporting of intentional engineered obsolescence and set penalties for products and services that do not last longer than 10% longer than the average for a segment or category. Again, more incentives.

Incentives, i.e., systems for persuasion to effect desired outcomes are how humans work; not socialist authoritarianism. I thought we had learned that doesn't work, but I guess this is a new generation that has no sense for the past or history or learning from fundamental mistakes. It's the "we want it, and we want it now" generation, not the let's tweak the parameters and code to produce a desired outcome. I'm always somewhat befuddled that the tech community in particular simply cannot seem to see the correlations between coding and governance, then again, we are all surrounded by horrific, hacky, thoughtless, bruit force, bloated code.
It's curious that the publishers' trade group lobbying Congress to allow them to form a cartel made their argument in a Wall Street Journal editorial.

"How Antitrust Undermines Press Freedom" https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-antitrust-undermines-press-...

Since the WSJ is paywalled the public can't even read their argument.

What's the rationale here? Does paywalling their argument get more subscribers for the WSJ? Or does it intentionally limit visibility to elites likely to have a subscription while keeping the public in the dark?
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In NT4.
Why is a world war, swiftly reducing populations and industrial output, is never considered among the solutions?

While horrifying, it is still better than total extinction.
A more interesting question is, what if you wake up one day as one of 10 copies of yourself?

Would you today be worried about preserving the life of all 10 clones (with memories)?

We are all afraid to die - but what if tomorrow there were clones with the memories you have today?

The question basically is posed here

http://existentialcomics.com/comic/1
>I recently avoided purchasing an item from Yakima

Luckily, there's a lot of other options there, depending on exactly what product you're looking at. Thule is a very big competitor here, plus there's lots of other smaller name-brands too.

But I agree, someone should compile a list of religious-owned companies to avoid, and a list of atheist/agnostic owned companies to choose instead.

However, I do have to ask what your beef with Marriott is. I looked through their Wikipedia page and couldn't find anything about them being religious, except for a mention that they include a copy of the Book of Mormon along with the Bible in each room, but that could be just a PR thing (pretty much every hotel in the US has a Bible in each room after all, and they aren't all religious, they're just catering to America's population). The company itself is publicly traded, unlike privately-held Hobby Lobby.

The ones that irritate me are ChicFilA and In-and-Out Burger, as they're both overtly Christian.

This BTW shows why it's a good idea to, in general, avoid buying from American companies and instead buy from Japanese or western European ones. Japanese ones are probably easily the safest bets, since Japan has an extremely non-religious society, and the Abrahamic religions in particular have almost no representation there. And Japanese companies aren't in bed with Middle Eastern ones.
Why is it so big?
Another big one is that it's harder to block ads in an app.
I just bought https://www.nostarch.com/Rust and https://www.nostarch.com/seriouscrypto Both are early-release, but look good from the sample chapters provided.
If everyone has similar memories to conceal, problem solved. Who's ready to sign up for Total Recall style memory implants?
I don't think goals or intents matter. Apple's goal might be to prevent the Ancient God Mulk'nar from returning to our dimension to begin the second stage of The Reckoning, and commenters might point out "Mulk'nar hasn't showed up yet, so this must be working"; but if either Apple or the commenters seriously think that having a closed device is what is preventing Mulk'nar from returning, they are clearly deceiving themselves as in practice the device has been de facto open (by ludicrous means that should not be required) for many years. The argument here is essentially "you are asking Apple to give up the only thing preventing Mulk'nar from returning" and I am showing how that makes no sense given the reality of history. People are saying the iPhone is very secure. The iPhone is, factually, a device which for many years was one of the more open platforms for people to tinker with their own device, due to the jailbreak scene. So the idea that allowing even all people, much less just security researchers, to tinker with their own device somehow would undo the security of the system doesn't make sense.
This is an updated submission with the corrected link.
"Why not" is a terrible reason to add complexity to anything.
Jeez, I didn't say I believed the guy. Tough crowd here.
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