skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Historically, speech isn't censored to protect people, it is done to protect institutions or governments.

The slippery slope we are careening down is getting pretty troubling.
For small business purposes, you're mostly in 1-2 apps all the time anyway, which look the same on Android and iOS.

We ran payments at our main front counter on a Samsung tablet and it was never an issue with our employees or customers. However, we had to retire it when Samsung stopped updating the OS and our payments vendor no longer supported our old version of Android. We now have an iPad there.
Adding to this - there seems to be a lack of observable damage from nuclear accidents apart from self-imposed evacuations.

Literally no-one died at Fukushima. It is the only energy disaster I know of where no-one ended up dead.

This is strong circumstantial evidence that we are being too safe, because we implicitly accept a few deaths when things go wrong in, eg, coal (pollution & extraction deaths), solar ( mainly in installations not in operating), hydro (big-time risks).

Going from 1 death to 0 deaths on this scale is a huge marginal cost. It almost certainly outweights the benefits.

EDIT: We haven't had a solar disaster yet, but coal & hydro disasters happen and can be very bad indeed.
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Probably not as dystopian as the pornography industry is going to get with AR, VR, dolls, etc.

There can be good utility for ads without being dystopian. Like furniture sets you want buy to preview in your new empty apartment - not items you are totally uninterested in buying. I'm sure there will be countless ideas to get ads on AR pretty soon that will be unaggressive and jive well psychologically
If you truly wanted to dig through my comment history, you would find numerous posts criticizing Uber and AirBnb for basically establishing businesses on ignoring the law. However there is still a difference between feigning ignorance of the law and turning your middle finger up at it like Kim Dotcom did.
There's a minor regex error in the one-liner: not escaping the dot, which matches any character. Fortunately that won't cause any false negatives, and will only incorrectly match weird things like fabric9js

Fixed:

npm ls | grep -E "babelcli|crossenv|cross-env\.js|d3\.js|fabric-js|ffmepg|gruntcli|http-proxy\.js|jquery.js|mariadb|mongose|mssql\.js|mssql-node|mysqljs|nodecaffe|nodefabric|node-fabric|nodeffmpeg|nodemailer-js|nodemailer\.js|nodemssql|node-opencv|node-opensl|node-openssl|noderequest|nodesass|nodesqlite|node-sqlite|node-tkinter|opencv\.js|openssl\.js|proxy\.js|shadowsock|smb|sqlite\.js|sqliter|sqlserver|tkinter"
I think this assumes that the value of the voting rights is constant. In OP's example, the stock buyback only happens for voting shares, which should cause the market to update its estimate of the value of voting rights.
Ads. Mostly for Microsoft stuff that I don't and will never want. That alone is fairly bad. Even after spending a bunch of time fixing the OS there were still a few. Privacy concerns (ditto).

The updates are a real problem, just all around. Final straw was when one added Outlook back to my start menu.

For all this I got an OS that, actual objectionable things aside, is less pleasant to use than Win7. I'm out. First time I haven't had Windows on something since 3.1.

[edit] by "added to my start menu" I meant "pinned to my task bar"
And money for all three.
How are you distinguishing between entry level and recent grads ?
I couldn't find a single, comprehensive article... these have additional detail:

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/feb/15/local/me-gambler15

https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/former-frys-electronics-e...

http://www.mercurynews.com/2011/10/18/frys-electronics-to-om...
> splits and civil wars cause customer confusion and are harmful for bitcoin adoption

I agree with this point, and I see Coinbase's comm as trust-building with their (perhaps nonvocal majority?) customers.

The future of this technology cannot work if you must understand the jargon and consequences of a fork (and whatever else can happen), and then form an opinion of your exchanges as a mainstream adopter based upon how they deal with these intricacies. Most people just want something easy to use. Coinbase has allowed that happy path to continue, and I trust them as a result of the manner in which they handled this event.

(Now, for people in-the-know, things are different. But I'd bet that Coinbase's target audience is not blockchain hackers.)
According to what definition? 2% of BTC mining power is still more than most other coins.
>The agency's existence is politically feasible because people see it as protecting them from terrorists and foreign governments.

I don't think the US public really cares about the privacy of foreigners against US intelligence agencies. Further, it's not just some marginal benefit. If piracy became user friendly (think Netflix or better) and easy to do with impunity, it would be a massive threat to the entire American creative industry. No one is under the fantasy that we can root out piracy altogether.
> You could take a basic algebra problem as an example: 2x + 100 = 500. To solve this with brute force, we simply check every possible value of x until one works. We know, however, that it is far more efficient to rearrange the given equation using algebraic rules and in just two computations we get an answer.

I gave some thoughts about this lately, and it occurred to me that it's a problem that is similar to how computers play chess. I'd like to know if I'm right.

The equation 2x + 100 = 500 is an algebraic identity and with algebraic rules there is a finite number of ways to transform it. For instance, x + x + 100 = 500, 3x - x = 400, x + 200 = 600 - x, and so on. Each of these new equations can once again be transformed in a finite number of ways. So basically the initial equation is the root node of a tree that represents all the ways the equation can be transformed.

So it's a similar problem than for chess, or many other board games, where you start from a position and you must explore a tree of possibilities to find the leaves (checkmates, for instance). For an equation the leaves are nodes of the form x = numeric value.

Does that mean success in solving board games can have applications in computational math?
Try disabling HTTPS Everywhere, if you have it. It made everything many seconds slower for me.
You know there's unions all over Europe, some countries essentially require it by default.

Unions can get fired by their employees, in fact it's something that has happened. Their pressure is very direct, they have far more invested in the company working than management more often than not. If a CEO loses their company but has drawn a few mil from it in savings, they have a relatively easier path to rebuilding themselves than employees who have far less wealth.

>To the extent that employees have collective bargaining power, they can just use it. Get a group together, write a letter to Elon, and threaten to quit.

You've literally just described a union. The reason they're compulsory in union companies is they threaten ruining production if non-union members get used, as a way of giving themselves more bargaining power. The reason you're required to pay dues is the union is required BY LAW to pay for your legal defense and benefits whether you want to be a member or not, so it seems kind of mean to not pay for that.
It's hard for people to get their head around this but you are exactly right. A company has value tied into their market value and accumulated assets even if they pledge to never pay dividends. Berkshire Hathaway is a notable example here. Stock trading is a way to make this value liquid before any actual dissolution event.
That's the difficult part. :P maybe current comments could be stored in json files and loaded with the song. New comments could update the json on IPFS:

https://flyingzumwalt.github.io/ipfs-tutorials/curriculum/fi...

It's possible but far from efficient. Those are the pain points where decentralisation doesn't really cut it.
Thanks for indicating lyon, that looks very nice. I mentioned Pathfinder because path rendering on GPU is important on mobile devices (battery and heat concerns).
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Hey, he stole my app!
I am extremely eager to see lab grown meat more so than I am eager to see better meat substitutes become mainstream.

However, being a meat eater, since the news of this product came out however many months and years it was, I have been wanting to try it. Which is more than I can say for other meat substitutes.
Sequential change doesn't tell you the real story because sales are seasonal/coincide with new hardware releases, so it's best to look at quarterly YoY comparisons.

Look at the quarterly iPhone sales figures (5th chart) to see what I mean: https://sixcolors.com/post/2017/08/apples-q3-fy17-financial-...
You don't own Bitcoin if you don't control the keys. If you read the Coinbase ToS,

> Coinbase securely stores all Digital Currency private keys in our control in a combination of online and offline storage.

And if you read the whole thing,

> supported Digital Currency

is mentioned multiple times.

[1] https://www.coinbase.com/legal/user_agreement?locale=en-US#1....
Unclosable popup on mobile devices.
Self-hosting has zero value without discovery.

Discovery happens through unique marketing (v. v. hard) or when fans and artists collect into scenes.

So for most artists, putting up a custom server to distribute their creative work is a waste of time unless they're involved in a network of people who cross-promote their output, online and by word of mouth.

This usually works best informally when it's motivated by genuine enthusiasm and not pushy marketing narcissism and aggression.

SoundCloud failed to understand this, and apparently became a scene of sorts, in a limited way, for some genres only, by accident.

It could have assured its future by doing a lot more to build and support scenes arounds artists and genres.

Instead it became a nerd's idea of the ideal music hosting platform - too much file-led design, not enough social intelligence.
I don't believe being against hate is a "leftist" worldview; it's a widely accepted and healthy one. In a way, you agree:

> their politics are the ones supported by "The System" and that they are perhaps not the rebels they thought they were?

Certainly there is a very well-established and long history, and continuing practice, of prejudice in government against (almost any group besides white Christian males, as a shorthand for a long list). There is also now a countervailing force, protecting the freedoms and asserting the interests of the oppressed groups. The existence of both forces can't seriously be questioned.

But going back to my first sentence: Really, that's the fundamental debate going on in this HN thread and in many others: Some assert, implicitly, that the hate groups are just another point of view, and that they are inherently no better or worse than other POVs. Others, including Google, disagree.

Sometimes that argument is made using extreme relativism or political correctness: All POVs have the same merit and deserve equal treatment; it's politically incorrect to discriminate at all. While that's an interesting and valuable philosophical discussion - how do we distinguish perfectly between good and bad - we can and must still distinguish between them. We don't have to wait for the perfect philosophical solution.

But we can approach the question with reason: First, I believe that many (not all) arguing that the hate groups should be heard simply support the hate groups - it has nothing to do with public interest or freedom of speech; probably that's true on the other side too. Second, a more reasoned argument: Why should we tolerate groups who don't tolerate others? It breaks a fudamental social contract of free societies: If you want me to respect you, you must respect me.
The very first version of bitcoin had payment channels in the code. That's what sequence numbers are for. That's why there are sighash flags and weird rules for blanking sequence numbers. That's why the first version of bitcoin had transaction replacement.

It just happens to also be the case that the design Satoshi had for payment channels at that time was horribly broken and left nodes open to DoS attacks. So it was removed by other developers and slowly over time safe versions of the features were added again in the form of BIP68 (sequence number transaction replacement) and BIP141 (segwit).
Once upon a time, the fundamental value of a stock was the present value of the entire future dividend stream. Given the two forms of dissolution, acquisition (Yay!) or bankruptcy (Boo!), I'm not sure this is an improvement.
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It is up to a government to protect its own citizens. There is a reason why Kit Dotcom is fighting the government of New Zealand currently and not the US government.

I think it is unrealistic to expect the US government to willingly give up one of their citizens to China or Russia over an issue of free speech anytime soon. And frankly I think it would be irrational for the average citizen to fear they would be involved in such an exchange.
The Nawaz drama is more complicated than this, isn't it? It's not Nawaz's overt positions SPLC is objecting to so much as his actions, which appear to profit from anti-Muslim sentiment.
Not really. Mostly because feedback by its nature is personal and doesn't scale.

There are tools to send out surveys which somewhat-anonymize feedback by methods like "at least three people must answer". It's not really helpful for anything that requires full sentences, though - you'll be able to tell fairly quickly from speech patterns who says what.

The things you can do as an org:

* Encourage a blame-free culture.[1]

* Mandate it on a regular basis (and make sure the mandate is followed), with a goal of going to "continuous" feedback.

* Give people lightweight tools to collect quick feedback

* Provide pseudo-anonymization in those tools to remove the barrier to reply

Hey, look - it's like CI, just for people :)
"Since joining Uber in early June, Uber SVP of Leadership & Strategy Frances Frei has conducted sessions with 9,000 employees, 3,000 of which are managers, around goals and feedback."

3/~12k [1] employees are managers? That sounds really management-heavy, or did I misinterpret that?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber_(company)
Why go public in the first place if you don't want active investors? I find it highly unlikely investors wanting to get involved in a company's success would be a bad thing more often than not.
>Do they omit certain studies that contradict their overall conclusions? Sure. That doesn't mean anything to me.

Cherry-picking doesn't mean anything to you?
And no links to studies?
Of course, acting with moral authority extends the lifespan of leaders, because such leaders get more support than the nakedly self-interested. And thus tying your hands today does in fact put off the day when you're weak.
In Europe, the 'no hate speech' idea has very quickly expanded the concept of hate speech to include any rightwing opinion around certain topics (mostly religion and immigration related).

This is an outright lie. There are an astonishing plurality of mainstream, right-wing views about religion and immigration in every European country.
I'm so glad we have patents to help further innovation.
Apple is lead by the logistics expert of the old Apple and the CFO. Let's put it this way : they are less likely than before to produce new products.
It's been working as intended for, what, a few hours? If every flaw was guaranteed to show up in that time then five days would be more than enough - just run a few hours of testing before launch, done. The scary flaws are the ones that take weeks or months to show up, or that don't appear at all until someone starts actively exploiting them.
There is a phenomenon in Norway that might be related to this that I find very interesting. The research here is called Project Hessdalen. See http://www.hessdalen.org/index_e.shtml
Unfortunately, the phenomenon has been victim of a lot of ridicule, linking it to the ufo fringe. Potentially, however, understanding this could be a key to unknown sources of energy. I mean this in a scientific way.
To be fair hacktask was their username, so they're being consistent.
Thats true but ultimately the people on SoundCloud and Youtube are a different crowd as well, Soundcloud allows annotations and is more specifically built for music, youtube doesnt have the same features
> Pet peeve: white is itself a color experience. It's not colorless.

The way that I thought about color before being educated in the properties of light was to think of white as colorless. It's the thing that's easiest to add color to in a subtractive color model (e.g. using crayons paints as a child). It doesn't represent my science-based understanding, but I wouldn't be surprised to observe someone looking at something white and saying "Huh, it needs some color".
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I work in a well known company in a team full of top class engineers. While I am happy to learn and improve, I also find myself constantly getting "left behind". The company rewards initiative takers, so I frequently find myself getting work that is either too simple or something nobody wants to do. I have tried to bring this up with my team lead. He seems to not worry about this too much as long as work is getting done, he isn't particular on who is building the expertise. Although I hate bringing up the gender angle to this - I am wondering if that is a factor here. I do not ask questions without first digging deep, I do my due diligence. I believe I am sincere in my efforts and eager to learn. How can I work around this problem? Without complaining to X or Y, what can I do at my level to get better and be considered for significant work tasks.
> Kids should see all of those in school, to immunize them against such messages.

You'd have to go about that very carefully not to accidentally re-inforce a message that has already been planted and ending up making things worse rather than better.
Didn't know about this! Really cool
And nobody but the most tinfoily of us is going to do that. So short of a web of trust or delegation, you get nothing more than a checksum.
I think it is true (in the USA) but rather meaningless. I don't think we want commercial entities producing plutonium unsupervised by the military.