skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a much better response but it could use more citations and quite a bit less sanctimony.

The big issue to me is how Google has already let ideology creep into what should be impartial.

The first one I noticed is when they removed guns from online shopping search results.

More recently there has been talk of doctoring search results to remove controversial content:

https://www.mintpressnews.com/youtube-censor-controversial-c...

Google is a private company, so they don't have to respect anyone's freedom of speech legally. But we do need to consider the implications of this when they are one of the largest conduits of information out there and they are using that position to ideologically alter what we can and can't see on their platforms. They never would have been able to get away with this kind of censorship earlier when there was more competition in this space and now that they're the 800lb gorilla it is just another case of 'absolute power corrupts absolutely'.

If Google refuses to be a platform that allows the free exchange of ideas then we need an apolitical platform who will.
It's interesting to think about what global public media might look like. Does Wikipedia offer a decent model?

The trick is balancing public-service operations with the ability to make quick decisions and maintain a user-centered design. Many open source projects go off the rails by adding too many layers of bureaucracy, and it's important that something like this is able to react quickly and compete with non-public versions. (How the BBC competes with ITV in the UK is analogous: the quality and finger on the cultural pulse is at least as good.)

I think the time is right for someone to try this. The question is, who, and where does the initial funding come from?

(Maybe it can come from Ev?)
I've had the pet theory that we ought to give teenagers and young adults uncomfortable jobs to do so they develop some empathy for other sorts of human beings and learn something.

For instance yesterday I was cleaning a house, the urine had crystallized in two toilet bowls to about an inch thick and I removed it with acid and a knife. The other rooms only admitted visible light to about half their size because thick cobwebs black from tobacco smoke draped everywhere. Everywhere, bottles of vokda and whiskey.

I thought to myself: if a schoolchild worked this one day, they'd potentially learn some things. Like how some people can turn into shut-ins and how that's a bad thing. How smoking and drinking can help a person develop a mental sickness to this extent. Fairly sure they'd never forget it. Also: hey! Practical skills too.
Brilliantly said.
That's very cool if true. Usually it's very difficult to get funding as a Master's student because prof's want the full PhD commitment.
> It seems to me that some sort of property rights must apply.

The Daily Stormer certainly has a property interest in the name, however, they presumably contractually agreed to both regitrars policies (and, through them, the ICANN Transfer Policy) when signing up for service, and the present result is the consequence of each register imposing consequences for ToS breaches and Google additionally exercising the provisions of the ICANN policy addressing repeated, closely timed transfer requests.

It's theoretically possible the Google and/or GoDaddy actions were contractually improper, in which case remedies are available at law, but the existence of a property right does not prevent out from impairing your own ability to make use of that property by a combination of poorly-chosen voluntary actions including contracts touching on the property.
Week 32 in Information Security, 2017
Not to sound cheeky but it sounds like you want to pay for timeshare on a mainframe.

(and I agree, it'd actually be nice if cloud providers framed cost based on processes count not vCPUs. Heroku kind of does that with their concept of "dynos")
No, I get this request quite a bit from people that sincerely miss web rings. I'm not sure how much of it is anachronistic nostalgia and how much of it is a true desire to bring it back. To give an example of this, I've gotten more than a few requests to add the Gopher protocol to Neocities.
We've already asked you to please stop using this site for political and ideological battle, and we ban accounts that won't.
Don't forget that Zuck has also pledged 99% of his wealth.
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"Uber Saw Tesla as a Huge Competitor

While Uber followed Google’s cars closely, it was Tesla and Elon Musk that the duo discussed most frequently.

9/14/2016 Levandowski: Tesla crash in January … implies Elon is lying about millions of miles without incident. We should have LDP on Tesla just to catch all the crashes that are going on.

9/22/2016: We’ve got to start calling Elon on his shit. I'm not on social media but let's start "faketesla" and start give physics lessons about stupid shit Elon says like [saying his cars don’t need lidar]"

Does anyone know what they're referencing here? I don't take Elon as a person to lie, his character seems too strong for that - he understands public perception and seems to deeply cares about it.
Which of their property rights does Google loose by agreeing to a transfer of the domain earlier than they have to? (Nor do we explicitly know if they actually have stopped a transfer or not)
To truly analyze this you need to breakdown things by:

* foreign vs local PhD candidates

* STEM vs non-STEM categories
Apparently he has never met a stay-at-home Mom and he clearly doesn't have kids.
> prohibited from misrepresenting how it monitors internal access to consumers’ personal information;

I don't understand why one would need an agreement between Uber and the FTC explicitly mentioning this. Is it not illegal if a company misrepresents its compliance to the regulator?

> required to implement a comprehensive privacy program …
> required to obtain within 180 days, and every two years after that for the next 20 years, independent, third-party audits certifying that it has a privacy program in place that meets or exceeds the requirements of the FTC order

This is worth noting, it clearly alludes to a need for "privacy champion" (or "privacy engineer/compliance officer/deputy CIO") for any business that deals with sensitive (to regulatory compliance) personal information. It's not enough to write a token "/about/privacy.html" and relegate any and all of the system requirements that arise due to regulatory compliance.

I hope other startups take note of this, and plan to allocate resources to this in their roadmap. I don't care when exactly you plan to do it - make sure it's there in your TODO list of things before the regulator comes knocking on your doors.

Also, I was unable to find any number or estimate of cost of compliance mentioned in the settlement. I would really prefer when a government agency agrees to settle with a business they make it public how much the business was fined as well as the future cost of compliance. This information would hopefully make it clear to future businesses to take privacy issues seriously.
My overall argument wasn't that Boston is so special (albeit clearly it is as this article shows at the top). Its that the high congestion cities are far more compact and there are more things to do in less mileage (ignoring nature activities like hiking).

I'm annoyed that I said "parts of California" at all and probably should have said Texas (I clearly got downvoted for mentioning Cali didn't have things to do).
I think you misread the parent comment. :)
No snark: I didnt realize that Google even banned apps from the Google Play Store. Is the ban on adblockers effective? I associate Android use with a free-for-all in terms of apps.
We worked very hard to make that happen.

For my third course, I may create online drown proofing.
The basic issue here is we're presented with this memo and told that he wrote all this stuff in order to... do what, exactly? If not this, then what point was he trying to make, or what position was he trying to argue for? Was he just citing a bunch of things for no particular reason whatsoever? And felt that this "memo about nothing" was of such Seinfeldian importance that the entire company needed to read it?

Or we can ask ourselves: what conditions would have to hold for someone to think all this was relevant and important to write about? And the answer is that if we want to be charitable and assume there's logical coherence to what he was thinking, the conditions that need to hold are something along the lines of "he thinks women are, for hard-coded unalterable biological reasons, less fit than men to work in tech jobs at Google".
These guys:
https://economics.mit.edu/files/12763

This quote:
"Using this approach, we estimate large and robust negative effects of robots
on employment and wages across commuting zones. We bolster this evidence by showing
that the commuting zones most exposed to robots in the post-1990 era do not exhibit any
differential trends before 1990. The impact of robots is distinct from the impact of imports
from China and Mexico, the decline of routine jobs, offshoring, other types of IT capital, and
the total capital stock (in fact, exposure to robots is only weakly correlated with these other
variables). According to our estimates, one more robot per thousand workers reduces the
employment to population ratio by about 0.18-0.34 percentage points and wages by 0.25-0.5
percent."
The Formula Behind 1.8M Views of a Viral LinkedIn Post
> The same is not true for certificates which (in my subjective experience from securing tens of clusters) always cause issues.

Yeah, getting a new client certificate issued for a system account is like trying to squeeze blood out of stone.
This article was posted on HN a while back suggesting exactly that: https://hackernoon.com/leaner-alternatives-to-server-side-re...

It's just as ridiculous as it sounds.
Well in this case someone acknowledged differences and was fired for it.
Justice Dept. Demands Data on Visitors to Anti-Trump Website, Sparking Fight
You're right, but if you're trying to win an argument, I would stick to on-the-job examples. You need to preemptively shut down any possibility of affirmative action explanations. If you talk about PhDs, I guarantee someone will claim that schools intentionally lower standards for women to inflate their diversity numbers.
I'm guessing most of the people here have not been to a local public library in a long time. They have basically become daytime homeless shelters. That is the reason they are no longer attractive for philanthropists.
Media reports and GoDaddy's blog say that GoDaddy told Daily Stormer to find a new registrar within 24 hours, and facilitated a transfer to that new registrar, which was Google. That doesn't appear to match what you're saying.
Ancient Egyptians considered dung beetles sacred, and believed that they were responsible for rejuvenating the sun during the night. Egyptians also had a keen spiritual and scientific interest in astronomy.

Now it's revealed that dung beetles can perceive the galaxy. Coincidence? I think not.

Obviously dung beetles are descended from a race of astronavigators who taught the Egyptians everything. They are the ancient astronauts. [Cue theremin music]
That's why I put an (s) on cancer to signify that I did understand the challenge.
You were not the only one. Larry should have relied: "You’ve reached your article limit".

Why does Hacker news allow paywalled articles!?
It also makes sense from a liquidity perspective. Amazon has 21bn~ cash on hand which could easily pay for the Whole Foods transaction. Even though Amazon has proven that they can turn on the FCF fountain when they want to, it still makes sense to hold onto cash.
C'mon man - take that argument to youtube. He's done plenty of press - maybe some you don't like - but also some very mainstream ones -

WSJ - https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-i-was-fired-by-google-15024...

Reason - http://reason.com/archives/2017/08/14/an-interview-with-jame...

Bloomberg - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-10/fired-goo...

He explicitly says he doesn't endorse "alt-right" ideology - http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/15/technology/culture/james-dam...

The guy is a introverted programmer, not a media strategist.

Debate his memo on the merits + stop doing the name-calling - it actually has the opposite desired outcome. If he's really wrong, take apart his piece line-by-line and show how. If it's so clear-cut and he's obviously racist, it shouldn't be too hard.

BTW, for reference purposes, here's the full memo - http://diversitymemo.com/ - make sure you reference this one and not the Gizmodo one that took out the various citations.
I read these were also a thing in the Soviet Union:

http://russiapedia.rt.com/of-russian-origin/kipyatilnik/

http://kk.org/streetuse/soviet-improvised-household-ar/
I really like the rolling versioning approach. Makes a lot of sense.
Experienced eclipse watcher here.

For the partial eclipse, I recommend a pinhole projector instead of eclipse glasses, especially for children but for adults too. It is 100% safe, because you never look directly at the sun.

For the total eclipse during totality, the only way to view it is with no eye protection at all. You won't see a thing with eclipse glasses or a pinhole projector. And binoculars are highly recommended for a magnificent view of the solar corona.

You do have to make sure to stop watching as soon as the "diamond ring" or "Baily's beads" appear. Totality is over then.

I posted more details here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15006190
> Why did we fire you?

> You’ve driven the point home with your “Goolag” T-shirt and new twitter handle, @Fired4Truth.

> You're wrong.

> I shouldn’t have had to write this: I’m busy and a little effort on your part would have made it unnecessary

> Your chain of reasoning had so many missing links that it hardly mattered what you based your argument on.

> We try to hire people who are willing to follow where the facts lead, whatever their preconceptions. In your case we clearly got it wrong.

This is how political bloggers write. It's not how executives write.

Bloggers fan the flames for readership. Executives face legal and PR risks.
They aren't the ones being deprived of their property and, probably, income. Even renters have rights.
Well, a pinhole camera can be verified safe by simple inspection, which is an advantage it has over all the putative eclipse glasses.... Although it's certainly less visceral.

Given the people saying that totality is safe to view without glasses, and that totality is the real show (alas, I'm not going to catch this one, though I'm hoping to catch the next one... I don't quite live in that one's path, but it's a close thing), I think I'd find myself inclined to go pinhole camera + naked eye at totality with care to look away before the sun returns.
Depends where you live. Most of the suburban and rural library I have been to are what you would expect with zero bums. My local ones are quasi co-working spaces with tons of telecommuters and even a coffee shop inside.
There's, IMO, a good reason for not having the restriction you assumed: it discourages serial abuse (whether or not the DS is a valid example, in terms of actual ToS violations, Being a separate issue), assuming that there are likewise appropriate ICANN and/or civil law constraints on abusive termination by regitrars.
The same reason why Go is used to write many applications where Rust is not.

- Fast compilation

- Multi platform

- Great tooling

- Good std lib

- Easy learning curve

- Fast enough for most scenarios

- Good concurrency model
Wouldn't a faker just steal the name of a manufacturer on the list?
I'm not a lawyer, but intuitively it seems like the more control they exercise over their products the weaker the claim that they're just a middleman becomes. Wouldn't a record of being directly involved in quality control significantly damage their case in the event that a lawsuit does occur?
Is this your homework Larry?
He did reference a paper to back up his point.
Ah perhaps. I'm a contractor and I don't have paid holidays so no need to worry about that lol :P My notice period is usually 1-2 weeks.
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You missed the 90's I see.

The guy is a ruthless, greedy arsehole.
The fundamental problem of Big Data is that the low hanging fruit has already been picked. Geezers (in a non gender specific sense) with 30 years in industry X have already either intuited it, or it has been uncovered by traditional KDD techniques. What do Big Data, Machine Learning or Data Science have to offer there? The remaining fruit may be very high indeed, and not economically pickable anyway...
Yes, but it becomes significantly more expensive. It might work but it is a huge difference in cost tradeoffs.
Neat!

There seems to be some slight bugs with the input being not read correctly but this is kind of cool.
Archiving information is only one function of libraries. They are community spaces, social equalizers, educational institutions, and temporary shelter, among other things.
Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War?
There is still value in WiFi and a quiet place to work, especially if you're not wealthy and you don't have an office set up in your home, or don't have good quality internet, or home internet at all.
Yes, I'd like to see an explanation for or against compiling from source by someone who knows what's going on.
True. However, all car-ramming terrorists in Europe have been Muslim, with ties to extremist Imams.

The point I'm trying to make is if people stood up for their moral fiber across the board, there'd be a lot more people quitting their jobs. Which leaves me to ask the original author - what do you expect to gain from this other than feeling morally superior to his CEO and co-workers, and signalling that to... who?
Because libraries are underfunded, as is most public infrastructure. Libraries bring a lot of beneficial resources to a community, but they're the first things to be cut
Perhaps the libraries in your community share this property, but they certainly don't in mine. What communities are you referencing in this comment?

Mine have extensive multimedia selections available for access, music rooms with instruments for practice, 3d printers for prototyping, and a wealth of research staff who will help you find specific information that you need. All of the ones in my local area are well attended by the public, at least when I've gone.
Are you planning to provide your service as an API to other companies that want to wrap a product around your work?
Mindboggling huh?

Imagine how deep the hands go or who is on Uber side that the result of FTC settlement is statement tht forbids Uber from... breaking the law. Amazing! Me and you would be heading to jail for the claims they did. Not uber.

It also somehow reminds me of 911 commision. It eventually got so sidetracked that the result of the findings were that pretty much two planes hit towers and then they collapsed. End of investigation.
Reading their exchanges its more interesting than just finding stuff about the court case. Specifically how these insiders think about their competitors. Such as how they think that Elon is the biggest competitor and how they wanted to partner with Google.
You raise some worthy questions, particularly, Is there no room for population expansion in Africa? with which I would be happy to engage, but without knowing that we are operating on the same baseline level of reality, I'm hesitant to do so.

Why would people start leaving Africa, and why would it be a problem if they did?

Are you completely unaware of events that have been transpiring in Europe the past couple years?
> What happens when you have a closed web with an admistration that is sympathetic with them?

They will fantasize with each other about gassing Jews, cucks, and libtards, I guess?

As long as they understand that the society does not approve of their deranged ideology, I'm OK. Better than making them feel they're legitimized: that's how you end up with a car slamming into crowd.
> and on the whole was fair and measured

I think you're giving too much credit. From the article:

> Your memo was a great example of what’s called “motivated reasoning”—seeking out only the information that supports what you already believe.

...when one accuses someone of "motivated reasoning", they beg the question of whether they have "motivated reasoning" problems. That question wasn't addressed.

> It was derogatory to women in our industry and elsewhere.

Not all women even agree on this point. It's not hard to find a female-authored piece that is sympathetic to Damore. If the memo was derogatory, I would think we couldn't find any.

I could keep going.

If Page should write or sponsor a rebuttal, it needs to be much more impartial and even handed than this piece. From start to finish.
I wrote a library that will assist anyone wanting to do something similar for versioning using Django Rest Framework: https://github.com/mrhwick/django-rest-framework-version-tra...
I came from a school with a large Hard of Hearing population... I've really come to appreciate captioning on all videos. Mainly I just don't like listening to people say things very much, most videos have super annoying soundtracks and effects or other distortion, and really reading is just as effective.

Have captions on your video for everyone, not just the deaf people in your audience (unless you just really love the sound of your own voice so much that you want to force other people to suffer through it).
I would suggest reading the "suggestions" section at the end:

"My larger point is that we have an intolerance for ideas and evidence that don’t fit a certain ideology.
​
I’m also not saying that we should restrict people to certain gender roles; I’m advocating for quite the opposite: treat people as individuals, not as just another
member of their group (tribalism)"
not well.
Well alright:

http://www.cupecitas.com.ar

It hasn't been updated yet though!
Elon has publicly claimed that he will be able to provide an L5 autonomous car without using lidar in the next few years. AL, another expert in the field, believes that claim is so ridiculous that he must be willingly lying, not just overconfident.
Think about it for a second. He didn't really give the money away he gave it to a charity he controls. That gift reduced the amount of taxes flowing to the public/government vs if he cashed in the stocks himself personally.

You and I are paying more on a percentage basis to the government.
+1. Discussing the differences bewween population differences, and then failing to discuss the magnitude of these differences (which to my understanding are small and inconsistently detected) makes large swathes of the infamous memo's argument invalid.