skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have nothing to add to this except that the kids I know love to watch the same movies over and over again to the point of speaking the lines with the movies. I don't get it but I'm not the target audience.
Vandalism: "action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property."

Destruction, eh?
FireTV and AppleTV already do this some degree. On FireTV when you search for a movie/show it will give you options where to play it based on which apps you have installed (netflix, hulu, or via amazon/prime)
When I was going through Wikipedia I have discovered that there is so many different prime types - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_numbers#Lists_...

So I have decided to put all this info on single place - https://prime-numbers.info - but there is lot of them so I am at C now. :)
Everyone makes friends a lot easier while in school thats for sure. It's an environment that's very conducive toward doing so. However 20 years ago the primary way people were connecting with one another wasn't through an app or website.
If you are actually in the UK, you have some amazing benefits that US-based folks don't get in the form of healthcare. I know, yes, technically, you're paying for it in taxes, but it's there for you all the time, regardless of your employment status or ability to pay for an insurance policy.
I guess this needs a bigger answer.

A well-designed tool should minimise the amount of states the program can be in. Asynchronous programming is already horrifically bad, it generates combinatorial explosions of intermediary states. Adding imperative, mutative programming and an event-driven API only exacerbates the problem, increasing the amount of possible state sequences even further. I don't think xtream provides a good API.
I find the chronological history of hckrnews.com adds context to why many things get flagged. For example, immediately after the bloomberg article was posted about Google firing the memo author, were several other articles with the same content (from arstechnica and nymag) which were immediately flagged. Any time an inflammatory subject gets beat to death, the same process happens.

So in that respect, I often agree with the submissions that get flagged (including this one), but I do think news.ycombinator.com could do a better job of collecting and displaying these flagged submissions. For example, duplicate submissions could be made children of the submission that was allowed to stay.
Yes. Once I see all the big shots sitting elbow by elbow at a long table the whole day I will revise my opinion about open offices.
I, for one, don't like the idea of readers having the ability to narrow what they read here. Part of what I value about HN is that it forces me to see what the community values. It's why I dislike Facebook's and Google's news feeds so much. I can control what I see there, either directly with settings or indirectly by liking topics.

I would rather not be trapped in an echo chamber, even if it is one of my own making (especially if it is one of my own making).

Note, "dead" comments are usually dead for reasons that have nothing to do with the same controversies. Turning off "dead" comments is, at least to me, a very different thing than turning off political submissions.
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There was a discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10107448) 2 years ago. Most of the comments were negative. Has anything changed?
You sound like the other thousands of posts I've read over the past 8 years. You're either correct or missing out on something massive.
$780/m lease is payment for 6 years pays for 60k car. More realistic lease payment is $200-$250/m.

Average insurance in US is ~$100/m
Thanks to the Disney Vault, you can't even buy most of the movies if you want to. I wouldn't expect that to change much.
There's also Rewe and Coop (Sky, Plaza, etc) in Schleswig-Holstein, which have merged now, but offer different amounts of credit card acceptance.

And members of both have reservations against MasterCard and VISA, due to what happened with Rossmann a few years ago (Rossmann sold cuban cigars, as punishment MasterCard, VISA and PayPal seized Rossmanns funds and suspended all payments), but as EC was also bought by MasterCard and merged with the Maestro brand, currently there's no option but to continue on.

Personally, as member of both the REWE eG and coop eG, I'd support a move away from CC to any national or EU based payment system as soon as possible.
Seeing this 2010-era (per the referenced doc) vulnerability silently mitigated triggers my spidey sense re: a pending Shadowbrokers leak...
Remember when á la carte tv was the dream?
Seriously? I think you're looking for "Show HN"
I have always bowed to the wishes of PG and the mods when it comes to calling out articles as too "hot"

This is a funky one, though. The issue itself is about how politics affects what we can say and not say online. In that way, it's a "meta" issue.

I can still understand the flagging and death, but damn. Google, Apple, and Facebook are huge monsters that control hundreds of billions of dollars in cash and virtually everything a huge chunk of the world's population sees and does. This is a tech story. It's a politics story. It's a story about business. It's all of that.

This is the first time I've felt the tech community actively sticking their head in the sand. For ten or twenty years, we've created the internet and all the things people use today. When asked about morals, ethics, and politics, we've just said something like "We make the tools. We're not responsible for their use"

And here we are in a security and surveillance state that we've created. We're refusing to even talk about Google's desired monoculture because we're unable to maintain civil discourse.

I get it. But fuck me. Something's really wrong here. I can't help but feel that the tech community at large -- and HN in particular -- is no longer working towards the betterment of mankind.

Something is terribly broken. And we had a big part in breaking it.
That's 12 blu-rays a year. Do your kids really watch THAT much Disney? You could buy every new Disney movie each year and have extra slots to fill out the backlog for that price, plus de-facto ownership of the data.
I don't know about everybody here, but i am listening to so much new things to me on this archive that i'll definitely donate to the archive team today, congratulations for this fantastic job!
I think Kodi has a decent shot at getting there - there is now a fledgling Netflix plugin. A big step towards providing content to the major streaming services (and local content) through a customisable UI.
Whoa thanks!
Competitive with whom? Many countries in Europe at least have the same strong regulations on the same professions (pharmacies, notaries, taxis, etc.). Get out of your liberal dreamed land and check the reality.
> Like gambling, nicotine, alcohol or heroin, Facebook and Google — most importantly through its YouTube subsidiary — produce short-term happiness with serious negative consequences in the long term

How could the system incentivize companies like Facebook and Google to use prosocial utility functions in their recommendation engines?

e.g. a video recommendation engine that on default settings suggests videos it thinks will cause the viewer to feel satisfied and change activities if it thinks it will improve their overall wellbeing to stop watching videos now.
The hole I see in this idea is that we could have all of the benefits of Youbute, without "YouTube". All of the benefits of these services can exist without the predatory privacy invasive behaviour.
Actually that's not what the author of the memo advocated.

He did not say Foo was overrated, he said he supports Foo, but he questions the effectiveness of the current company methodology in increasing Foo. He thinks there are other root causes for why Foo is not as high as they want, and he proposed other ways to increase Foo.

He was doing a good job by all means, but then people categorized his point of view as anti-Foo when he was simply against the current ways of increasing Foo.
It can be regulated against, more transparency can be enforced. Despite the enormous lobbying from Facebook and Google in the EU, I could imagine it happening there within five or ten years for example.

There's a real tendency on HN to get all Ayn Rand and forget we live in a society. In relative terms, this is a very new business model. Companies will push for more power, and they get it unless people push back. As people close to the problem, we need to see ourselves as responsible for influencing the discussion about type of society we end up with.
I think group recognition works excellently. Especially in terms of ensuring folks who didn't choose the ugly tasks recognize that they won't have to do them now thanks to John / Jane.
The less popular ICE vehicles are the less of an environmental problem they are and the less will there is to ban them.
I agree with you, but I think you are purposefully conflating their long-documented drive towards obtaining nuclear weapons (of which I am talking about) and... well, everything else that's been horrible about the regieme (which I am not talking about: starvation, kidnapping, torture, etc).

So I think you are accidentally trying to strawman my small historical point into something bigger and more sinister than I intended.
Simpler than the iterative is hard to argue -- it's closer to a strict mathematical definition but the iterative version can also be setup very simply too.

To say one is more powerful is really false. I think recursion is great, and for some situations it should be the go to method, but anything you can write iteratively you can write recursively and vice-versa.
I find it disturbing that the author still links to the censored Gizmodo version. He should know better and use the original, either the PDF or https://diversitymemo.com/.
See mob programming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob_programming
The root cause is corporate influence in politics. How is that not obvious?
Those merges sometimes happen but they're a moderator intervention and so have a pretty high cost associated with t them.

The biggest gripe I have with the flagging is the paternalistic aspect.
What Trinity, the First Nuclear Test, Looked Like (2015)
They both do. Ownership without sale increases prices because the same amount of dollars are chasing fewer opportunities.
Disney already artificially creates scarcity with the physical supply of their movies; I doubt they would provide the entire catalog online when I can neither buy some physically nor watch it on Disney Movies Anywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Vault
I agree, I've been using mono in semi-production for the best part of a decade for ASP.NET and it's been a complete nightmare every time.

It's also a shame that VS for Mac is so half baked for web projects despite MSFTs backing. This issue I have been search for an answer for a while is so obvious I don't understand how they didn't catch it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43967326/visual-studio-m...
When it first came out, it "just worked". The simplicity of the folder=key was great. If you have the long key passphrase, you are in.

Then they implemented a whole bunch of features that I thought were clunky, emailing the passphrase, QR codes I think, the ability to require approval to access shares, sub-permissions, etc.

2 years ago or so they released a version that was not backward compatible, so everyone had to upgrade or not, and if only some peers had upgraded, things got out of "sync" heh.

Finally, we got my team all on resilio sync and we all had 100% CPU pegs on certain shared folders.

I gave up on it.

When it was really simply and it synced it was great
> organisations themselves have become extremely political

This is not true if only for the fact that organizations have always engaged in politics. In one of the worst cases, the United Fruit Company lobbied the US President to overthrow the elected government of Guatemala. In one of the most benign cases, Subaru sponsored gay pride events and publicly supported LGBT groups in the 1990s.

Besides that, everything else you've said is useless hyperbole. Get your history together before you go spouting nonsense.
Ok, just at a glance:

1. No separators -- you see everyone, everyone sees you. All the time.

2. No separators between neighboring desks, thus every flinch your colleague next to you makes distracts you.

3. No shelves and drawers. Where do you put all your papers, books?

4. At least based on the pictures, reflections of light, coming from every single angle.

5. The tables are way too small. There is just no space for multiple monitors to be put at a reasonable distance, which fucks up the eyes really fast.
Also, at the cell level, large animals should have a better self-protecting mechanism against cancer, because more cells means a higher probability of cell-divisions going awry.
How was the memo pathetic or juvenile? He sourced all of his claims and himself has a Ph.D in Biology. What gender stereotypes did he perpetuate? In fact he specifically called against stereotypes.

It sounds like you didn't read the memo at all and only bought in coverage by fake news sites like Gizmodo.

Yes, the term Fake News actually applies here.
Thanks for the link, lot's good stuff there!

* https://archive.org/details/78_dance-a-little-tanz-a-bissel_...

* https://archive.org/details/HotAYidAVaybele_201706
A lot more here: https://archive.org/details/78rpm
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This isn't much different from FICO...
How is this "a la carte"? I don't care about channels; I'd be willing to pay a couple bucks to watch some specific movie or TV show, but "you have to sign up for a monthly subscription to some corporation's arbitrary bundle of media offerings in order to get access to the one or two things you actually want to see" is pretty much the opposite of "a la carte TV".
If all major studios pull their content from Netflix, then it will not have the large library size anymore.

Also Disney is currently in a strong position for this right now. They released ~10 movies in 2016 and had the 4 highest grossing films of 2016. This, of course, assumes that Marvel and Lucasfilm properties are put on the Disney streaming service (I would expect that Touchstone label will not be included in this, as it's always been distinctly branded).

Either way, $10 per month is a bit steep up until the point that they stop selling discs; right now it's not much more than $10 per month to buy every single new release on bluray, and it's less than $10 per month to buy them on dvd, if you shop around.

The thing that scares me is that this puts them in a position where they could stop selling media altogether, and it's no longer possible to pay a flat fee to watch a movie any time you want. At that point the only competition with the streaming service would be piracy.
Yes, as it is a dupe which adds no new info, per HN policy.
If you don't spend 95% of your time on a freeway, you'll never get close to the top MPG. This is how people like to compare their cars to hybrids: their car's highway MPG to a hybrid car's combined. Problem is, the hybrid probably doubles the their MPG in the city. But, if you're a long-range commuter, I guess that doesn't matter much.
> Why not just use C instead of mJS?

Perhaps mjs has a repl? Don't really know, but that would be the only real advantage imo.
Every article I've read about this building in the past has gone to great pains to point out the artistry, elegance and taste that was applied in building it.

I now find it highly amusing that at Apple, form over function won out yet again.
This is basically a no-true-Scotsman -- "devout" has no objective definition, and there are unquestionably people who identify as Muslim who are married to non-Muslims.
I pre-ordered it a while back; I love the Parallelism chapter. Cleared up a lot of things for me as to the concurrency model of Nim.
Except the network can't compare with non-members, so it can't even assess whether it itself is part of the problem, and whether the social network committing suicide would be the best intervention of all. That's just unthinkable. It's like trying to make a TV show that makes people happy, instead of encouraging them to turn off their TV which is likely to have drastically better results. You can write a script about turning off the TV, you can have a show about people who hate their TV and are heroes, but you cannot not make an episode, the network has no slot for that.

When I see Zuckerberg's fake, forced smile, I see a person trapped under there somewhere crying for help. I don't even mean this in a snarky way, I don't hate the guy, and I'm interested in the "Bill Gates transformation of being less insecure". But still, anyone near that and oblivious to it should read and listen when it comes to mental health, not talk and certainly not write algorithms that "intervene". If FB was able to want to help with it on any meaningful level, it would either disband or change drastically, and not have "be middleman for everything" as goal number one like so many do.

> idealists and drivers instead of those pushing back

You say this like there is a train, and it either moves or doesn't. Instead it's a multi-dimensional space with a million things that can all change position and shape and color. Technology isn't the question, but who is using it, why and for what.
> Would be helpful to know WHICH Code of Conduct he is supposed to have violated.

The one Pichai cited,

>> It is contrary to our basic values and our Code of Conduct, which expects "each Googler to do their utmost to create a workplace culture that is free of harassment, intimidation, bias and unlawful discrimination."

> I did not notice any inferior/superior claims.

He said women have a harder time leading. That's a pretty big claim. None of his sources back it up, so it's just his opinion. At best, that makes him a legal risk for Google if he were involved in any hiring or promotional processes.
When Silicon Valley Took Over the 'New Republic'
The author of the memo is basically saying the same thing that got Larry Summers axed as president of Harvard.

Harvard University President Lawrence Summers [was fired] for
mentioning at a January 14 academic conference the entirely reasonable
theory that innate male-female differences might possibly help explain
why so many mathematics, engineering, and hard-science faculties
remain so heavily male.

Isn't the idea with free speech that you allow people to say things that you disagree with?

Or as someone else has already phrased it nicely:

"After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness
to stand and let people say things with which we disagree,
and which do weary us considerably."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/02/why-fem...
I guess I'm thinking mostly about the talk Rob Pike gave called "public static void" [1], where he probably describes pretty well what "lightness" means to him, or at least what it meant to him 7 years ago. It seems largely about verbosity.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kj5ApnhPAE
No, i can ensure you the title is same as what i submitted
Lets give one example of an interpretation.

Small preference can cause major effects. For example, if you have a group where everyone are voting on food choice and preference to eat taco get 99.9999...% the preference rating of pizza, how much taco will be eaten if you go 10 rounds? 0% Taco. the infinitive small preference will cause each round to have pizza with higher preference than taco, regardless of how close the actually preference of taco vs pizza.

If different groups of people rate jobs with different preference, then even a infinitive small preference can cause segregation. That preference is not a judgment of the groups ability to perform the job.

Not that I think that is the cause of gender segregation. Personally I view incentives and self-doubt to be much more realistic causes, but that theory (which has pretty decent observational data to support it) are currently not very popular on either side of the political spectrum.
Shorting has got to be the dumbest way to invest. With a normal investment there is a ceiling to how much you can lose (the amount you invested) but there is no ceiling to how much you can gain.

The complete opposite is true for shorting, not a bet I would make on any certainty level.
>First, how do you distinguish how much of those results are innate from how much are the result of how we socialize girls?

There have been a number of experiments trying to remove all cultural influences from kids and see what toys they prefer. Despite their best efforts, boys still prefer trucks and girls prefer dolls. Why should we expect the differences in interests to disappear with age?

Second, where do you get the statistic that 40% of math majors are women? Just a quick Google search and I found this: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/11/math-wom...

>In mathematics, just 15 percent of tenure-track positions are held by women, one of the lowest percentages among the sciences, along with computer science (18 percent), and engineering (14 percent)

They are even worse than computer science. This is about exactly what I would expect. (The article of course blames sexism. Since they can't consider any other explanation. But they don't present any evidence to support that.)

Even if the differences aren't perfectly predictive of real world outcomes, so what? I'm not claiming they are. All I'm saying is we shouldn't expect the distribution of interest to be a perfect 50:50 split between men and women. If the personality differences between men and women are as significant as these studies show, it would be very surprising if every profession had a perfect gender ratio.

Computer programming in particular is extremely interest driven. Programmers like programming and do it in their free time. Most of them taught themselves to do it before they studied it formally. As opposed to your other examples like accounting. How many people do accounting in their free time just for fun?
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Yea, I tend to be rather literal :)
> This is the first time I've felt the tech community actively sticking their head in the sand.

This happens all the time. Techies being 'apolitical' is a huge problem, and of course those very same techies then turn around and scream blue murder when laws are made that hurt their interests or when their tech is used to further some political goal they do not agree with.
The comments about library etiquette are on to something.

But I think it also helps that most of the other people in the library are probably strangers, and if a couple of them are talking it's probably about something quite different from what you're working on.

"Team" conversations that might possibly be relevant to your stuff are the worst distractions.
Long term, it'll be the DRM free copies that are preserved for future generations to enjoy the historical context of.
To put it into perspective, the tezos ICO recently raised a little more than $200,000,000 worth of BTC and ETH.

Here's their twitter: https://twitter.com/tez0s?lang=en

Here's their subreddit: https://reddit.com/r/tezos

Here's their website: https://tezos.com

It doesn't look like they have really updated anybody on what they're doing with $200,000,000 since their ICO closed.
I've had problems with Niven — his scope is grand and majestic, but I've often found his narrative a little bit clunky and paint by numbers, if that makes any sense?

I've jotted down your other suggestions for further reading, thanks!
'LawBreakers' Markets on Being Different, and Difficult
This is a lost opportunity for Apple as AppleTV could have been a cross platform integrator with the ability to manage all the diverse content portfolio. Jobs would have aimed for that.