skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, if you're able to leave or cut your usage, they extend no influence whatsoever.

My friends often upload pictures of me, tagged with GPS coordinates and user; And even though most have stopped tagging me (as I have asked), Facebook often does offer them to tag me, which means that Facebook has enough pictures of me to identify me in random pictures (even though I never uploaded a single one myself).

Google collects information from users themselves, and have some info from people mailing them (if you are not on google yourself, it's likely more than half your emails are still coming or going to a google server).

But Facebook has co-opted your friends and family to spy on you, all day every day. Very much big brother.
This lacks context:

It's what other generations have done

Other generations had much higher real wages, and much less risk. During the 1930s and 1940s there was a huge movement of desperate farmers to California. But wages in California were good, and California went 50 years without a recession -- from the 1930s to the 1980s was one long continuous boom.

Going back further, consider the events described in Little House On The Prairie. Laura Ingalls Wilder's family faced ruin after locusts ate all the food that the family was growing. So her father went away for awhile and found work where he was paid $1 a day. And that was enough money to completely reboot their lives. Not only could he keep his whole family fed on that, he also had spare money to buy seed and thus plant a crop the next year.

High real wages are the reason why millions of people, including all 4 of my grand-parents, left Europe to come to the USA.

Male wages have been in decline since 1973. Family income increased till 1999 only because more women started to work. Family income has been in decline since 1999.

Movement and migration can not be be justified rationally in a world where wages are stagnant or falling.
It is indeed misleading to say that $80b in value was created, because Uber and Twilio were not Techstars companies.

"The market cap on Techstars website is $7.5B, whereas YC’s portfolio was valued at $30B in 2014" [1]

A more interesting days point (that ignores outliers) is the number of startups that raised a Series A round; and using that metric, you can rightfully claim Techstars to be #1 [2]

[1] https://blog.routific.com/which-startup-accelerator-is-right...

[2] https://mattermark.com/500-startups-accelerator-company/
The main advantage seems to be no travel the morning of and no need for a hotel for previous night.

However, I usually do 6-7am flights and get there before 9am, 10am to office after BART from SFO. Flights back go as late as 9pm.

In the end, southwest will set you back less than $120 if you book in advance.

I also much prefer my own bed, as opposed to hotels or buses, but that's a personal preference.
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This is such a stupid argument. He was what, 20 years old? And FB was a tiny nothing at that point. And let's face it, he probably wasn't wrong to think that users were dumb to upload private data to some random POS website.

I'm sure you never said anything at 20 on IM with a friend that could be used in isolation more than a decade later to show that you're an evil person, right?
What's the actual fatality rate in buses per million miles travelled? It might be not quite as good as planes and trains, but I'm pretty sure it's far better than cars.
Google should not have given an outspoken engineer the sack
Yes, if were not for Laravel's Collections I wouldn't touch it. The biggest barrier for me with PHP is the idiomatic PSR-driven abuse of blank lines, a la Kernigen and Ritchie, coupled with code hidden in doc-comments. You're lucky to find more than 5 lines of code visible on a screen when surrounded by this code style monstrosity.
Agreed. When you get into the part of the efficiency scale where aero dominates, it becomes an exponential cost increase for speed. 60mph and 68mph are night and day in a school bus.
>It would be good if there was some website that would aggregate and preserve these predictions along with the names of people who have made them, and then compared them against what actually happened years or decades down the road.

Not the best source, but from time to time this or that news site makes something like that, one I have bookmarked, JFYI:

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2010/12/30/botched-environmental...
Github can take down your single text file.

Nobody can take down your signed blockchain message that was published on bitcoin, unless they physically find you, and force you to sign a revoked list.
The OP kind of moves toward the conclusion, but doesn't really reach it. Etiquette and an open mind are necessary but not sufficient conditions to convincing someone.

Far more effective is realizing that the arguments that may convince you (in the case of the manifesto, perhaps, appeals to natural justice / rights), may not be the arguments that work for someone else.

In the equal marriage debate in Ireland for example (a pretty conservative country, most would agree), campaigners tried for years to talk about 'social justice' but there was a portion of the population (largely older people) who were just not convinced.

What that population needed to hear was a) a message from someone that was like them, and b) an argument couched in terms of the impact that the marriage vote would have on their grandchildren.

That was far more effective and the country ended up voting for equal marriage. The result of the referendum was also much more legitimate - it wasn't a case of one social class / group pushing through a desired outcome. It genuinely came from the whole country, even though different groups voted for different reasons.

Likewise, if someone believes that all affirmative action schemes are inherently wrong-headed, no amount of argument that "the outcome of affirmative action can be good in the long run" is going to sway them. Second guessing their motives and saying "you're just trying to protect your own interest" is a good way of ensuring they never listen to you again.

It takes guts to admit that not only is your argument potentially not convincing to someone, but that you also may be the wrong person to be making it. In this vein, you can, as a result, also spend a long time with someone and still end up talking past them if you're not careful.
I wonder if we can sort of trick ourselves into more reasoned discussions. For example: before a debate have the participants (maybe the audience too) say something to the effect of "I am willing to change my position on this topic."
Still against the law. So is lying in beds in a bus. This keeps coming up sometimes with tour busses.
The fact that this is being down voted is such a shame. It's a good addition to the discussion and it shouldn't be down voted just because one does not agree with it politically.

"People have every right to set general standards for how they want business to be conducted and promulgate those standards by law."

I think that this in particular is a very important insight with regards to the accountability of multinational corporations. In this case government acts as a way of stipulating conditions of common decency.
Do we really want to measure drivers by smoothness only, ignoring other factors like safety?

When a difficult situation on the road arises, the drivers may be less likely to hit breaks, knowing they are being constantly watched.

A better option would be to allow passengers to rate the drivers easily, Uber style. Such system would count in more factors, and (I guess) would be less likely to optimise for just one factor.
Not to pick on you because this seems to be a popular opinion but I would just like to point out the insanity of your what you just wrote.

"as long as they don't abuse copyright"

Would we delete videos of the liberation of concentration camps if there was Nickelback music playing in the background? This just demonstrates how successful media companies have been in distorting the true purpose of copyright laws: to promote science, art, and culture for the public's benefit. It does not exist for fairness or personal gain. Copyright laws should be changed to better reflect this. Nobody should be able to silence any information that has a public benefit.
Heavy cross pollination between mathematics and programming. More so in some disciplines than others. All around sad loss for humanity.
"That's a lot less satisfying when half your screen area is taken up with a software keyboard"

You could carry an external, mini-keyboard for your phone and use that. It's annoying, but, as you note, screen-keyboards are annoying as well.
"Too many Gmail horror stories."

share one pls?
50 years ago in Japan they invented fast trains to cover such distances. We didn’t adopt them in California because Americans prefer cars.

Fast forward 40 years and it’s not so easy to get the right of way to build straight track. Now 10 years in we’re hoping to invent an even faster method of transportation so we can take a longer route.
Aptible is hiring a web security evangelist
+100 to StartUp. Fantastic show, even the episodes that aren't as good are fantastic.
OeBB needs to pay to the individual companies that own the track. In Austria that is OeBB Infra which is an independent company. In Germany to dB Netz etc.
"real trainers" is a marketing concept, and their knowledge is far from scientifically valid.
Found notmuch when I closed my gmail acct years ago, love it. I use a wrapper[1] that integrates it with alot[2] and an optional custom MDA[3].

[1] https://github.com/jakeogh/gpgmda-client

[2] https://github.com/pazz/alot

[3] https://github.com/jakeogh/gpgmda
Do you think Paul Graham is right promoting this article about the Google Memo?
Do you think Paul Graham is right promoting this Quillette article about the Google Memo in his tweet on august 9:

https://archive.is/VlNfl#selection-65.7-82.2

"Quillette got ddosed for publishing an article about the Google memo. Here's the article they tried to censor:"

The Google Memo: Four Scientists Respond
Show HN: Postfix Calculator written in Ruby
You may be right - I think about what I'd need to do to switch careers now, at 36, and it's a lot harder than when I was 19. Luckily I have a bit of a cushion, which was built up over those years as a computer programmer, so I wouldn't go homeless or anything while retraining. Many other people are not so lucky.

I wonder what sort of education would be necessary to bring that opportunity to everyone, though. I was lucky first of all in that my high school really stressed learning to think for yourself and make your own choices, and second that I got an education in basic economics (supply & demand, compound interest, savings, and prices) from my dad at an early age. Most people don't get that. Maybe personal finance and a basic introduction to how the economy functions should be a required course in public education, though it's probably not in the interests of the people who set the curriculum to have a population that can think for themselves and look out for their own interests.
Nah, they should have. It's not like the economist is out here caping for Colin Kapernick this way.

Can we stop it with these articles now.
What I've learned after a lot of pain is that you can't convince anyone of anything. I've poured years of my life into shitty organizations to try to "fix" them and gotten nowhere.

The people that disagree with you will find ways to slowly peel back all your achievements. In a badly run organization the problem isn't the outdated machines and processes or the shitty products. Those are symptoms of shitty people and management.

If you want to fix an organization the surest way is to fire everyone in management. If you can't do that the best thing you can do for yourself is leave immediately.
While I agree with the sentiment, it does nothing to account for all the other drivers on the road. I don't really see how this is fair to the bus driver.
For the size of website Rails is optimised for nothing matches Rails IF you're considering all dimensions rather than just performance. That's because Rails capitalises on the unique design of the Ruby language. Ruby manages to blend OO, procedural and functional, taking the best features of Perl, Smalltalk and Lisp. The result is perfect for creating the kind of DSLs Rails is built on. Clojure and Elixir come close but they're strictly functional languages. Scala claims to excel in blending OO and functional but the result is a mess which has fragmented the Scala community whereas the Ruby community speaks with one voice.
Inspired by IT support scams this one went well:
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I stopped using the integrated debugging from an IDE because of the problems you described. Segger Ozone is doing a good job if you like a graphic interface.

(BTW nice to see you here again. I think we met at some point playing with a laser cutter next to your old office in Riga).
So they should cut their prices and lose even more money? The basic problem is that outside of the Northeast Corridor--which is very popular, profitable, and getting new infrastructure investment--there are very few city pairs in the US that have the right combination of density and distance. Effectively the Northeast Corridor makes all the money that Amtrak then loses in the rest of the country.

This is a few years old but summarizes Amtrak profit (or lack thereof) by route: http://reasonrail.blogspot.com/2014/11/amtrak-routes-by-2014...
I also recently finished The Three Body Problem, we could get there in 500 years with the minor caveat that we are not killed in a dark forest strike sometime before then.
Being polite seems like a good idea until you realize that people having arguing against gender stereotypes, politely, for several decades at the least. But even after all that, people find it far easier to believe that men are more inclined to work with things. (One has to wonder then why women don't form the majority in leadership positions, given that being a leader is all about working with people and not things).

Historically, the biggest social changes happened by force. Like the civil rights movement. The threat of civil disobedience forced the government to enact laws. Sometimes you have to drag people, kicking and screaming, into social change. Waiting until you persuade everyone is futile.
Yes please to no animation at all as an option. It's incredibly distracting.
iOS 10 quietly deprecated a crucial API for VoIP and communication apps
Yes, don't share it from those, but you can upload to both
There were literally hundreds of outlandish predictions and most people only remember a few, and the one from the 70s has no names tied to it. For all we know those same people might still be getting grants and making insane predictions, some of which could have multi trillion dollar policy consequences .

On the flip side the proposed aggregator would also help to identify the scientists who are mostly right about things, even if their predictions might stray from the prevalent political dogma of the time.

That said, you're right that accountability is a hard problem. Case in point is Al Gore, a dude who was about as right in his predictions as a random number generator, yet continues to be considered as some sort of preeminent authority on the topic of global warming.
Modern JavaScript is full of syntax sugar but lacks operator overloading which would be really useful for custom data structures. This surprising me.
Germany is the other extreme though. Not sure if that is healthier.
One of the missing points: convenience. Taking a bus "feels" like less of a hassle. Nobody likes having to deal with authorities (check-in people, the TSA). Taking a bus means you have more control over the terms of your trip.

While raw time-to-destination is important, people are also looking for emotional expenditure savings too.
I don't live in America :P
Does it make sense to ignore outliers here? The VC model makes most of it returns on the top few performers.
If everyone started living like the parent suggests then it would just increase the power disparity between the wealthy and everyone else. Only those wealthy enough to afford a home and be insulated from the need to follow employment opportunities would have any say in even local politics anymore
Convincing people takes time -- and actions speak louder than words. If you think being "polite" is not working, it is probably because people are merely talking and not doing. If you are doing and polite, it seems to actually make inroads.

/2cents
Google message to Jordan Peterson was not "Stop making sense, we have an agenda to pass" ?
I wonder how many people who write about big brother and 1984, have actually read the book.

Because I live a life without facebook.

In 1984 there was no opt-out - full violent dominant controll, all the time. Also over the thoughts.

We are maybe beeing spied on a lot, by many different organizations - but I am not going to torture/brainwashed camp, because I THINK xxx is bad. I can also say it.

So continue to criticize bad things, but maybe with a little bit less alarmism/hystery ... thanks.
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I read the whole thing and didn't notice the penguin until I read your comment.
I'm guessing that the shortest routes from LA<–>SF will have more traffic so there's more stop-and-go which diminishes restful sleeping.
Could be one of the few lines of source code survived, as an small office fire in 2001 caused troubles.

Basically the predecessor of The Sims was SimTown (also by Maxis). It was a smaller scale SimCity meets The Sims gameplay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimTown

Later SimsVille was meant to evolve the gameplay in the same direction again, though it go canceled (source code lost due office fire). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimsVille

Almost all the [Maxis] games development data was lost during a small office server room fire [in 2001], that resulted in most of the game being developed again from scratch, according to this source: https://www.unseen64.net/tag/maxis/
Except in this case we're talking about SF/LA, which is only an hour-long flight.

I do this flight every other month or so and it's a breeze. You leave work a bit early on Friday, get to the airport in about an hour, board the plane, they serve you a drink, and the captain tells you to fasten your seatbelt because we're descending.

It's 1 hour to the airport, 45 minutes through security, 1 hour in the air, and another 45 min to my friend's house. So 3.5 hours, but round it up to 4 hours door to door. Sure, summer months have weather delays like low ceilings at SFO, but otherwise it's one of the smoother journeys one can have.

I guess if you party in SF on Friday, and sleep and sober up on a midnight bus, and go HAM all weekend in LA, then recharge on the return leg for Monday. However, I'm too old for that and would much rather sleep in a proper bed.
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Someone else can figure out the math, but I'm pretty sure the energy from all of the nukes that have been detonated, especially if you only count the open-air ones, is minuscule compared to what the sun gives off. That would mask any possible detection. I wouldn't be surprised if just the solar radiation that the earth reflects is enough to mask the nuclear blasts, unless you're viewing them from right inside the solar system.
> It's job is to remove barriers to make workflows more efficient, typically to the detriment of people, as they generally are that barrier.

Another way of putting this is that tech is organised solely to meet the needs of the Capital class and no-one else.
I personally am interested in big scale, or big performance. Most companies don't let me do either and it's hard to break into the ones that do.
Yes because cameras do not cover all parts of every road.
What's the difference between running out of a UBI stipend, and running out of a paycheck too early? Either way, that addict is in trouble. At least UBI won't put them on the street when their addiction renders them useless for work.

IMO, long cycles in pay (weeks or a month) are suboptimal. If the money streamed in continuously, slowly, then it would only "run out" for a matter of minutes, although it would still take a while for a useful amount of it to re-accumulate.
But what if one side has decided that even talking about a certain topic is denial of their humanity and right to exist? Which arguments can one use when even intention to talk about the topic is going to make them physically attack you? Moreover such a physical attack has been socially approved. It's okay to punch a Nazi. And you're free to define Nazi whichever way you want. Quite convenient.
We also have three rocky planets in the habitable zone. That's not sufficient to actually make them habitable.
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I don't do any anti-social media. Period. I wish more people would follow suit but they really seem addicted to it.

Will either FaceAche or Gobble still exist in ten years time anyway? Will any of us?
Thanks for this link! Never knew someone gave this "style" a name. (And an apt one to boot)
the poetics of successful sophistry is a potential research topic in its own right, so sure
This time I really don't understand why you've been downvoted. Now it feels like some powerful users know something I don't, but they won't tell
Do you have some evidence that grants go to the scientists who make the most outlandish predictions?

That sounds like claiming physics is rotten because cold fusion turned out to be unverifiable. "Those frauds, just trying to get grants to build their phony particle accelerators that don't actually do anything. Who ever saw a boson?"
> Google is one of several thousand employers that are both hiring and pay reasonably well.

I lived in Dallas for almost fifteen years. The vast majority of those companies ignored me even when I applied. Many of those same companies are now starting to beat my door down because I changed my location to New York. This industry seems to have a serious problem with geographic myopia.

Just from your list, Facebook ignored me until I moved to New York, Intel ignored me, nVidia ignored me, IBM ignored me, Microsoft basically ignored me. The only companies that approached me or responded to my applications were Google and Amazon, and only Amazon has been persistent.
I tried to find the answer and it seems the problem is much more complex than I thought. Rather than bullshit about it I'll just say I have no idea :)
Can you guys believe these numbers? Every day, people are throwing around these incomprehensibly large valuations like it's normal. It's feeling more and more like the early days of the 2000s.
> In addition, "the 1%" is not an exclusive club; most people (currently) have a pretty good chance of entering the 1% at some point in their life, most in the 1% have a very good chance of exiting it.

You can't be serious. Social mobility (to the extent it ever existed) is way down over the past 40 years, and there's no sign of that trend reversing.
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As information, I had given up on your comment persuading me of anything before the first comma. It's really that easy.
I blame both. Even without any copyright violation GitHub takes the DMCA request.
Yep, and neither ÖBB Infra nor DB Netz are known for cheap rates... actually, at least for DB Netz, you can do the calculations on your own computer using the ratio calculator (http://fahrweg.dbnetze.com/fahrweg-de/kunden/leistungen/tras...).

Hamburg-Munich alone the track fees end up with 5k €, plus electricity usage, usage of shunting vehicles, usage of train stations, trash/sewage disposal... it adds up.
One of my early jobs had me bouncing around the country. Every time I moved I had to start all over from scratch. Where's the grocery store? Where do I meet people? Is the church or the bowling ally the place to be on Friday night around here?

It got old. I love exploring new places, but I want to know my way around where I live. Travel is different from endless relocation.