skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does fighting the speeding ticket, or taking Amazon to small claims court, going to change any behavior? The police are not inconvenienced that much if you challenge a ticket - they can just not contest and let you win. No pain to them, and they can keep writing tickets that are easily challenged. Same with Amazon - they can just agree to immediately give you your money back when you file a claim in court; no real cost to them that will make them change their behavior.

No matter what, you are the only one who suffers.
So twitter is nothing but marketing and PR ? Why am I not surprised ?
If you are carrying nothing. If you need to carry anything larger than a laptop bag / backpack then a bike becomes highly impractical very, very quickly.
Everyone you know at what age? Teenagers continue to use the two products for very distinct uses. Snapchat still has a ton of features (groupchats, geofences, geofilters (+ custom user-made ones), etc.) and is probably the #1 messaging app at most high schools. Instagram stories haven't caught on nearly as much (some people use them, but very differently from Snapchat stories - 1 high quality selfie/arts-y pic that fits the normal Instagram style every day vs. an actual "story" of their day). Asking why someone wouldn't use both is like asking why someone would use both Twitter and Facebook when Facebook can do everything Twitter can.
Looks like its also being hosted on Twitch.tv in addition to Youtube:

https://www.twitch.tv/dota2ti
Your understanding of the market doesn't consider that there are big players who overshadow everyone else. Yes, everybody prepares for the expiration of an option, but very few players can do anything to influence prices. Only a handful of institutions can successfully trade around these expiries, which is what the commenter above is mentioning.
However you want to define the terms, what people objected to was his claim that Google should pursue "ideological diversity" at the expense of ethnic and gender diversity. Frankly I think it is the term "ideological diversity" that sounds more like an Orwellian neologism, and it's really telling that defenses tend to focus on claims like "he actually wants more diversity" which obscure what is actually being proposed.
Why do otherwise intelligent people (I'm assuming) continue with this garbage heuristic?

https://www.quora.com/What-successful-tech-startups-have-bee...
When will the match happen or did it already happen? I did not find any vods.
I'm not sure a crash will look as expected. People currently holding the crypto-assets aren't in any rush to liquidate to pennies on the dollars they spent, and there can and has been a long delay before the rallying drums get new money and excitement pumped into it to make the "$100" cost something someone is willing to pay. They buy, the value goes up some, perhaps they sell some to realize they can make a return - it wets their appetite, and they pump more money into it - whether $1000 or $100mm. It's very dangerous
for society because it could actually work
$7 one way?! I guess Chicago's spoiled me at $2.25.
5 reasons why Kotlin is great
Twitch is the official streaming partner for 7 years.
I usually leave around 6 pm and my average freeway velocity is 77 MPH (don't go faster because I want to avoid tickets). If I leave at 5 pm, I'll have to drive around 45 MPH for a couple miles, then back to 77 for the remaining 20 miles of my commute.

This is Phoenix, which continues to build out it's freeway system and continues to falsify the "fundamental law of traffic congestion".
> welcoming and safe environment

Words are not going to hurt anyone, actions will. Students (and all people) should absolutely be protected from harmful actions but we cannot stop discourse just because it sounds offensive to someone, no matter the subject.
People regularly send ~20 snaps in a minute. I highly doubt anyone uses Instagram to post/send something that often.
I'm sure they got some kind of official API since this seems to be a partnership between openAI and Valve.

Blizzard's Starcraft did the same thing for their recently announced AI project where Starcraft 2 got an API for the AI developers to work with:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/09/blizzard-and-deepmind-turn...
That's a funny thought, but the company making the complaint could probably prove that the ad blocker was interfering with their ads even without looking at the source code.

Moreover, the DMCA covers unauthorised access to copyrighted content, and the ad blocker cannot claim ownership of the ROT13'ed domain name, just as the domain name itself is not copyrightable.

In theory the ad blocker could use a more complicated scheme to obfuscate their source code, but I'm not sure whether they could combine a "do not de-obfuscate this code" rule with an open source / Free Software license.
Context is important. Maybe he can give his take on Hacker News and no one will care. But he can't say whatever he likes at work. Every company has some legal obligations. No sex discrimination is one of them.

Even if you think his take is not sex discrimination, that is a big topic in Silicon Valley right now. So to write something like this right now just says "hey everybody, I'm in my own world. I have no social intelligence, and I don't pay attention to what's going on out there."
Christ, what an asshole!
OK, I'll bite.

The whole argument is weak simply based on his relative dismissal of societal factors because, he argues, there's proven biological differences. So, he just concludes that "meh, we shouldn't try to change the status quo, because that'd be discrimination."

He built the straw-man ("politics based discrimination"), he gave it a name ("left-wing ideals") and then proceeds to beat it. The problem is the straw-man has little merit: there's no known quantifier of how much 'lack of interest' in the field is caused by societal factors, and how much might be caused by biological factors. Without that, isn't it a bit premature to conclude that it is discrimination against men to have outreach programs for females?

The point that bothers me the most about this memo is that Damore is intelligent enough to know exactly what kind of reaction he would elicit. I'm not buying for a minute his claim that he just wanted "a healthy discussion." You don't put everything in terms of "left and right" and then say "and the left is repressive and authoritarian, and what's more, wants to discriminate against people like me" and then get to pretend you are not biased.
Proof? Amazon terms of service for vendors is a hood place to start.
It's not really a matter of what you want, it's the legal prededent that will be set when someone exploits a bug in a smart contract that is obviously not part of the authors intent. Or a smart contract that was entered into by manipulation, coercion, or violence. Or a smart contract that violates some financial regulation or requires performing illegal activity.

The court will intervene and that will be the end of the idea that the code is the final authority.
> 6. paypal immediately closes dispute saying we are not able to resolve on your behalf since it shows shipment is already delivered.

Doesn't PayPal's buyer protection usually go further than that? I've had items arrived damaged and successfully appealed to PayPal.
Hopefully this publicity on HN and elsewhere will encourage Amazon to refund him and deal with the seller.
It's my understanding that the hormone-releasing implants for the women are birth control - remove it and you can get pregnant again in a month or two. I see this is an arm implant, not an IUD as a couple of friends have used (and subsequently removed and had a beautiful healthy daughter), so I may be incorrect.

But yes, the vasectomy offered to the men is far more permanent than "birth control".
This is amazing. I thought I was efficient at using my browser, but I clearly have ground to cover. Thank you!
The no-kidding roughest parts of thunderstorms can cause airframe structural failure[0]. The captain and first officer were almost certainly attempting to bring levity to a stressful situation, not recklessly endangering the lives of everyone on board and jeopardizing their livelihood, pensions, and certificates.

[0]: http://airfactsjournal.com/2017/07/thunderstorms-airplanes-p...
Yeah, the HN narrative comes from the perspective of people who either don't use the app or have only used it lightly (both of which probably mean they aren't in SNAP's target audience). Showing a venn diagram of features with most of them on Instagram's side might convince a HN-er to use Instagram, but regular users don't seem to care in my experience.
ACLU to Coal Baron: “You Can't Sue People for Being Mean to You, Bob.”
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Dota_Bot_Scripting

> Bot scripting in Dota is done via lua scripting. This is done at the server level, so there's no need to do things like examine screen pixels or simulate mouse clicks; instead scripts can query the game state and issue orders directly to units. Scripts have full access to all the entity locations, cooldowns, mana values, etc that a player on that team would expect to. The API is restricted such that scripts can't cheat -- units in FoW can't be queried, commands can't be issued to units the script doesn't control, etc.
OK it's happening right now, I saw machine the host's announcement
> Google is accused of a "left wing bias" by many defenders of the manifesto and the writer himself. And yet, they don't want to turn over information that they're fairly hiring, firing and paying wages fairly?

Then Google should cough up the data. But they won't, because they're hiding malfeasance.
First Week of Launching Vue.js (2014)
> My words were "scams are hard to detect" and I stand by them.

Look at the address. Is it the same? No. SCAM DETECTED.
A trick to visualizing higher dimensions
I just did a survey, showing people the kanji. The said tempura but not the way a native English speaker would say, which is more like "Tem pura".
This is everything that's wrong about Silicon Valley: we perpetuate the false virtue of overnight success, a flash of brilliance and youthful vision when, in reality, it comes down to years of slogging along, many nights of crying dry tears and adapting to the changing environment continuously.

It's sad because every operator I know knows this yet succumbs to the myth-making "hack" because that's how you tell a "good story" that attracts much needed attention among media and the investment community. Traction, hockey stick curve, growth and all that jazz.

And to be fair, it's not entirely VCs's fault either. They have to deliver on their investment promises within a certain timeline. What's really terrible is that there's not enough discussion about this in the VC-backed entrepreneurship community to accept that this is the "game" that everyone has to play.
Even better: become a pilot!

https://www.aopa.org/training-and-safety/learn-to-fly/how-do...
> If a site can't make me pay, and doesn't want it's content to be viewed unless I pay, simply don't send me the content.

I'm fully on your side here, but to play devil's advocate, I think it's fair to consider an analogy like "if a restaurant doesn't want its food to be consumed unless I pay, simply don't serve me the food."

You ask a server (of the web or the hospitality variety) to serve you the usual. The server gives it to you and reminds you that the deal hasn't been fully executed yet: you're to next [ask the cashier by the door to ring you up || ask the ad server to serve you an ad], and then [pay when asked || render the ad amongst the rest of the content]. Sure, you could forego talking to the [cashier || ad server] instead.

Again, I don't like that one bit, but I think it's the kind of "reasonableness" that holds up in court. IANAL.
Because Vimeo is such a corporate money-focused alternative to the artsy YouTube?
Since when does the anti-circumvention section of the DMCA have anything to do with the notice-and-takedown section of the DMCA?
From the paper:

At Google, we’re regularly told that implicit (unconscious) and explicit biases are holding women
back in tech and leadership. Of course, men and women experience bias, tech, and the
workplace differently and we should be cognizant of this, but it’s far from the whole story.
On average, men and women biologically differ in many ways. These differences aren’t just
socially constructed because:
● They’re universal across human cultures
● They often have clear biological causes and links to prenatal testosterone
● Biological males that were castrated at birth and raised as females often still identify
and act like males
● The underlying traits are highly heritable
● They’re exactly what we would predict from an evolutionary psychology perspective
Note, I’m not saying that all men differ from all women in the following ways or that these
differences are “just.” I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men
and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why
we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.

I agree that he doesn't use the term "biologically suited" anywhere. I would instead say that he suggested: "men and women have biological differences, and those differences partially explain why where are fewer women in tech". Do you agree with that?
That's the point though. Instagram is fundamentally about following, Snapchat is fundamentally about talking to friends. Both let you escape that bubble obviously, but the two remain distinct. If you were using Snapchat mainly as a way to follow people, it's quite clear why you'd switch to Instagram. If you've been using it to communicate with friends, it's a whole lot harder to switch. Snapchat fills the gap of Facebook Messenger - primarily for talking to friends, but also features stories. I don't see anyone telling people to switch from Messenger to Instagram.
My favorite are days of the week, which came to Japan via China and Rome.
If you aren't mentioning your idea or that you are working on something, what is the subject of the call? I think I'm not understanding how a cold call like this would work.
What makes you think it's "not a material difference" and how would you know?
Well, it almost is. That is what happens when you go for the cheapest options.
They also have also inadvertently confirmed that their Linux testing efforts are lacking. Which just blows my mind TBH, because they're also in the server market, dominated completely by Linux.
It's one thing to talk about biological differences and how they may help shape behavior. It's another to use them as justification to eliminate programs designed to facilitate a more inclusive and diverse culture as was the case in the infamous manifesto.
This is my experience too. Since I can't trust Amazon entirely, I don't start there anymore.

If I have to do careful homework on the seller for any Amazon purchase anyway, it's just as easy to find a more niche e-commerce site, or use a dedicated marketplace like eBay or Craigslist.

I still use Amazon's dedicated product sites like Zappos or Diapers.com. I feel much confident I'm going to get what I ordered there than on Amazon.com.
I'm not seeing any differences between the two.
That god damn heat.
Why use github ? Just move to another service or host your own repo. Be outside US hence outside DMCA reach. problem solved.
I found this article very insightful.

However, let me make one important addition. The author says that the person who is not a jerk is a sweetheart. However, following Aristotle's theory of the golden mean, let me point out there is also a third type, namely someone who discounts their own perspective and always thinks the other person is right, and so goes around feeling guilty and inferior.
What is with the smart contract propaganda.

Let's put everything in a legal perspective using the DAO as the example...was what occurred there a "hack" or just a proper function of the contract which all parties agreed?

let's assume, all things being equal, the DAO smart contract wasn't a smart contract on the block chain but a regular contract, which included a provision allowing any single party to unilaterally take all the investment funds of the other parties to the contract...is that enforceable? No.

In fact with the SEC report on the DAO, we know the contract was likely an illegal offering of a security. Therefore, the entire contract is void and unenforceable and every party is entitled to their investment back, nothing changes because it was a smart contract on a block chain rather than a written contract.
Amazon solves for these types of problems in other markets (India) through Cash on Delivery.
ebay favors the buyer. I have over two hundred purchases on that site from simply every day stuff to antiques. I have had three bad purchases all of which were refunded, two were refunded by ebay the other by the seller.

In the case of the seller refund they state on their pages to please contact them first because honest sellers value their ratings.

now if you are a seller ebay can be trouble and you really need to filter out selling expensive items to low rated buyers and nothing expensive to new accounts.
So is keh.com.
I assumed this was just another insincere and snide comment but then I saw your name. I really don't think it has anything to do with Trump. For starters without any local Washington context giving data for 4, 7 and 10pm makes no sense if the subtext is mass evacuation. More importantly everyone loves talking about traffic in this area, congress is gone so it's a slow news month and the largest infrastructure project in the history of the area was announced yesterday, the Frederick Douglas bridge.
That makes sense. My next question would be:

> He says that if 10% of men and 8% of women are suitable for tech

Why would a higher % of men be more suitable for tech? In the paper he suggests it is partly due to biological differences. Do you agree with that?
> That type of behavior can only be bad for open source software.

Using github is bad for FLOSS.
you'll bite?! you are the one being asked to back up your assertions.

You think you don't need to? It's your reasoning people would be incredulous to swallow..
I'm not so much commenting about the likelihood of nuclear war, so much as about the empirically obvious fact that discussions of nuclear war are very much in the zeitgeist, most especially in the Washington Post.
Cultures come and go, but sexism seems to stay the same. It could be biological. I suspect that it's mainly a game theoretical implication of the biology of human sexual reproduction. It's all about whether men want to know which kids are theirs, or not. And if they do, what systems get set up to make that possible. So there are two attractors aka stable states. One is what's typical historically: Men dominate women, manage access of other men to them, and so on. The other is where men don't care about knowing paternity. So women don't need to be controlled so much. Maybe some form of polyandry. Or maybe just less emphasis on family vs larger social group.
Ask HN: Who can moderate comments downward, and why do they do so?
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I was interested in the same idea but based on leaving London. This led me down a rabbit hole which turned up the phrase 'time space convergence map', which is an interesting way to cartographically project this feature:

(see image half way down on the right) http://geographylaunchpad.weebly.com/the-friction-of-distanc...
More than half of these are not properly catalogued. Note to self: donate to archive.org
> I like your style- maybe hard initially but if we could just stop using pages with intrusive ads,

Why stop at intrusive ads ? Just block everything that features commercial ads.

Though the real issue is not ads per se but the tracking that tags along.
Compare "Assholes, a theory", which is a serious book.[1] It could be subtitled "Why Sociopaths Get Ahead".

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Assholes-Theory-Aaron-James/dp/080417...
This is why they do that
https://youtu.be/jup-5Xu1OOU
There's both. Tourists tend not to go there but so called 'family restaurants' offer a wide range of affordable Japanese or Western or both. Some of then are quite good, especially their value proposition.
I very much doubt it - those things weren't cheap and probably would have been repurposed, if possible.
How often do you travel around town where you need to carry more than a backpack would hold, but less than what you can jam in a small car? For me, I could probably use a bike about 90% of the time. I don't always, but it's mostly because I'm lazy.
I just set the menu key (right side next to the windows and ctrl key) to pop up a new instance. Then I can type whatever command I need!
There was no meeting of minds so contract is void
Takes up way more screen space to show content I don't usually need/want to see. Cool that it's an option, though.
Shitake instead of Shiitake also bothered me. Just use spellcheck?
> they're against OIS instead

OIS stands for overnight indexed swap [1]. Like the fed funds rate [2], it's only quoted for one tenor: overnight.

In the United States we're somewhat spoiled with having a deep, reliable, market-based yield curve calculated every business day: the Treasury yield curve [3]. But if you want to approximate the cost of a bank borrowing for a given term on the wholesale unsecured market, Libor is still the default reference.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_funds_rate

[3] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/i...
Making you pay to turn your screen off is not "allowing" it in the normal sense. It's valid for someone to see your comment as wrong. And since it's easy to figure out why, you should not get upset over lack of explanation.
"Third, I’ve called the jerk ‘he’, for reasons you might guess. But then it seems too gendered to call the sweetheart ‘she’, so I’ve made the sweetheart a ‘he’ too."

Absolutely hilarious. I guess one point he's making is that men have a problem with noncompliance, but seems to have forgotten the upside entirely
I got burned in a different way. I have the mark 1 version of the Canon 400mm DO lens. The mark 2 came out, to rave reviews, I wanted one, got a little toasted one night and said "screw it, I'm gonna get one". It's $6700 lens.

I clicked around and found one cheaper, it was $6500 so I got that one.

Imagine my joy (jk) when I open it up and found that Amazon/Adorama thought it was OK to sell me the mark 1 version of lens for $200 less than the much better mark 2. That's nuts, the mark 1 lens was selling used for about $4000 before the mark 2 came out, when the mark 2 came out, the used value of the mark 1 dropped to about $2000.

So it's pretty lame of Amazon/Adorama to put the old lens up there for $200 less when it should have been $3000-$4000 less. And pretty stupid of me to not notice the version.

I had to threaten Adorama with a media campaign before they took the lens back. Left a sour taste in my mouth and I buy all my stuff from B&H now.