skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This IS a zero sum game, though. There are only x number of spots at each school.

I agree that the wording of 'at the expense of' is a bit misleading, but I don't think it is categorically incorrect. The idea of fairness can, by certain definitions, even encompass pareto-superiour situation, if the improvements are not distributed fairly.

I gave this example in another comment:

Lets say I have a cookie, and there are 10 kids in front of me who like cookies. If I give any kid a cookie for any reason, it doesn't HARM the kids who don't get a cookie; they are no better or worse off than if the cookie never existed. However, suppose I decide to give the cookie to the tallest kid - even though none of the other kids are harmed, this is still not a 'fair' situation.

You can do no harm and still be unfair. Whether that is bad or not is subjective, but it is still unfair (in the sense that every kid has an equal chance at the cookie).

Of course, whether being absolutely fair is worth foregoing pareto-superiour improvements is a moral argument, and there is no objectivly correct answer to that.
Initial Hammer2 filesystem implementation
Microsoft ended the MCSE (replacing it with MCITP) and then brought it back without the "engineer" title in 2012.
At least in Android 7 you can explicitly allow this for a specific app. This question can even be triggered by the app itself (e.g. Conversations and Signal ask you to do this if they can't use GCM). This is hopefully still possible.

> It's the turning of an era for Android, and my interests have moved elsewhere (from an app platform perspective, embedded Android is still vialble since everything you ship runs as a system app with no restrictions).

Google making it more and more difficult to avoid gapps is nothing new.
Ok, I think we are having the exact same discussion in two threads. I will stop responding to this thread since I answered your objection in the other one :D
I'm fairly sure anyone who has actually had a proper look at the new emojis much prefers the old ones. And I'm not talking just about the blobs (which were only a small fraction of the emojis), but rather the overall style with the gradient and border, and the drawing for the animal emojis too.
I feel similarly, although Asimov/Bradbury/Clark never really did it for me as compared to Aldiss/Ballard/? (I'm drawing a blank for the C's; perhaps we move on to Dick?).

Many of the suggestions down-thread don't really do it for me, either. There's something about that 70s-era stuff. I can't help but feel that the original wave had more original non-genre influences and feel fresher. There was also a more reasonable approach to page count and padding (although I suppose Aldiss eventually wrote Helliconia) and mercifully few "look, this is a story that ping-pongs between 18 different viewpoints" structures.

As a side note, I also could go my whole life without having to read increasingly edgy stuff where it's revealed that the real purpose of science fiction is to dream up gross new torture scenes, etc.
I've always wondered why this isn't a first class language feature. You could make something like JOOQ or LINQ that just hooks the compiler itself at build time to extend the language arbitrarily. And no worries about outdated versions, you hooks could also polyfill newer syntax and features if you can hook at parse time.

This would result in a whole new breed of abominations but perhaps something decent would come of it
Yes, there is no correlation between the ability to fight and one of the possible outcomes of the fight
In a cooperative multi-threaded model you can only have data-races at function-call boundaries. For example: `x+=1` can never data-race.
After backlash, San Jose reduces number of ‘tiny homes’ sites for homeless
> The platforms’ sudden action in response to an outpouring of public grief and rage resembles, at first glance, a moral awakening and suggests a mounting sense of responsibility to the body politic.

Resembles is the key word here. Many of the sites knew this stuff was going on and didn't mind at all. Unfortunately I think this is all reactionary and they're not going to keep these policies up. They only care they're getting bad press, not because they ACTUALLY care about the issue.

For example it's nice that Twitter removed a bunch of problematic accounts, but there are TONS more. Reddit still has plenty of very problem subreddits. I'm sure there are still problematic Facebook pages.

Will they clean those up as people stop watching? Or did they 'do somethinrg' so now they're good?
Carriers are a red herring. The world at large couldn't care less about how the customers of AT&T can supposedly only install AT&T-approved firmware. Most people can, but they're not seeing any updates.

Google needs to fix their upgrade story. Even if the North American customers continued to run old vulnerable versions forever, updating everyone else's systems would be a tremendous improvement. (It would also make it difficult for the US carriers to continue those particular business shenanigans.)
I don't think so. GCP's bill is usually about 50% of AWS's bill for same application, if you run it full hour (from my personal experiences and from several others as well: https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/18/google-cloud-is-50-cheaper-...). GCP has lot more cost saving features like seamless scalability, custom shapes, sustained discounts and so on. If you workloads span less than hour, GCP can offer more then 50% savings.
It's probably a problem they aren't in a hurry to solve because there's no reason to solve it. Any decently-funded small business can afford to use proper web hosting (Er, I love Digital Ocean. But they aren't really "web hosting").

Google (and basically every other reputable email host _and_ every "independent" email host) are blocking mail from services that host cheap compute power. A lot of Azure and GCP email traffic would likely be blocked, not just Digital Ocean.

If you want to start an email service, use something that isn't a known platform for spammers.
> This is culturally alien to me; the students receiving the benefit are not harming other students.

I think there was some similar reasoning in a Florida school vouchers case. (Which might've more recently been overturned?) Opponents of the vouchers program argued that the Florida constitution required education to be "uniform":

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/15/us/school-vouchers-are-rul...
Thank you. Realistically, what's the likelihood that any single user who uses gmail is going to get shut down? Literally one in millions.
"This was also a moment these hate groups were anticipating; getting banned in an opaque, unilateral fashion was always the way out and, to some degree, it suits them."

I think this is the viewpoint all coverage needs to employ. That these groups are already trying to frame themselves as victims and media needs to preempt this by framing their cries for what they are, a quick slip and fall scam.

*Edited for clarity
I am talking specifically of incentives. Capitalism incentivizes creation of economic value and ideally societal good by rewarding it with money. This particular incentive structure does not reward things like charity because there is no money to be made. People do it for reasons outside of money, which is great but limited to a few since its not really incentivized by the system as a whole. So i would not say charity is part of the free market.. it is orthogonal to the market.

As for the central planning argument that a single planner cannot effectively organize all of society, I agree. But central planners (such as government) already do have some influence in the structure of the economic system, which behaviors are rewarded vs. not.

Don't you think there might be other ways of setting up the world that incentivize behaviors differently? Whatever way has worked so far might not be the best going forward when the problems we are solving at society scale change.
I thought they lost that trademark because of their involvement with the Nazis during World War II?

Am I thinking of some other drug?
Huh. Usually a price cut precedes a new generation of hardware - but the press release seems to go out of its way to dispel that notion.

Personally I would love to see a new iteration of the hardware... The comfort level of the Vive leaves something to be desired IMO, and could do well with cribbing the ergonomics of PSVR.
Well, the moral obligations are simple: if you can bring someone back you probably should. And if you can't the fall back position is that you carefully mark where you left the body behind so it can be retrieved at a later date and that you make it your priority to notify the next-of-kin and the authorities truthfully about what happened.

And if you're within radioing/cell phone distance of help that you ask for that help.

If you're 3 hours away from the shore and you're most likely purposefully that far out just because you want to dump the body of someone you killed in deep water then of course none of the above applies to you.
A hobby can mean still serious bussiness if you find the right buyer (Think in minecraft for example).

Casually China has the strongest and biggest (ever-expanding) aquaculture sector in the entire planet. Militar technology is totally out of reach for they, too big, and uncloneable, but I bet that a lot of chinese (or norwegian) seafarming companies could find good uses for a toy like this.
You found Berlin boring, but Switzerland not boring? By what criteria?
The irony of using the example of a statistics professor to prove a systemic conspiracy with a sample size of 1 is not lost on me.
The irony of this article is deep. It is literally making a "First they came for the neo-nazis, and I said nothing" argument. As a coworker of mine just said, "We might be standing on a slope here, but it isn't really slippery."
I just cannot see the difference between banning those 'far right' groups while allowing 'far left' which are basically the same. The red flag, pictures of Mao, Stalin are as hateful to me as Hitler and Nazi imagery, especially given the 10x body count that revolutionary communism resulted in.
New social media platform will “fuel news events as they happen”
I have the opposite experience, without clear tasks and goals nothing gets done because people spend too much time bickering about what should be done. When something goes wrong, there's bickering an finger pointing internally instead of a call to arms and testing out solutions quickly, together.

My manager has also required that literally everything I do gets seen and approved by him before being entered into a sprint (I do UX a sprint ahead of development) and also before it gets pushed live at the end of a sprint.

His review queue is so long that it can take over a week to even get something looked at. This generally can put me 2-3 sprints behind the development team... which is awful because I really like our team and they feel like UX just slows the entire process down (I'm getting the work done, it's just the review process slowing it down).

I'm now dealing with two ends: pushing the VP-level to restructure teams to gain autonomy and the ability set their own goals (with input from the business, of course).

But on the other hand my manager thinks I'm trying to undermine his authority (technically I am, but he's completely unable to relinquish absolute control).

As I type this out I realize I should just look for a new job... but I do actually like the business, which is a bit of a bummer.
They're using Pi Zero's in this post, which draw much less than others, between 0.4W and 1.0W, probably safe to assume 0.7W as an average load [1]

And at $5 each, if we're talking hardware costs for setting up a "toy" cluster for, say, self-learning or student labs, that's hard to beat. I suppose you could do better using VMs for a virtual cluster, but that adds other complications unrelated to the clustering task. But I agree there doesn't otherwise seem to be much practical purpose here, and the overhead of running an OS on each Pi really cuts into performance compared to a single chip w/ multicores instead.

[1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/raspberry-p...
> where do people find quotes like this? Just reading a ton of books?

No lie, I've gotten more than one good book recommendation (including "Tao of Programming") from '/usr/games/fortune'. Also, if you find a book fascinating or highly informative, skim the bibliography for more like it.
What if that app is say and open source messenger app that doesn't use GCM/FCM. For that to work you need to maintain a connection with a remote service. You don't need the UI hogging memory the whole time but you definitely want messages to come in immediately. IMO the system should offer a way to completely kill and app but "killing the UI" should not stop critical services utilized by the app.

Okay so maybe you could argue that if you never "swipe kill" the app it should be allowed to have background services executing much like e.g. Slack on macOS. But you can't even do that. Having your ui in the recent tasks list does not exempt you from background restriction.
This endless stream of articles, posts on HN, counter demonstrations, is giving to a tiny minority of a few thousand extremists a media coverage they could only dream of. Kind of like terrorism, the more you make a big deal out of a terrorist attack, the more you encourage the next one.

But newspapers and TV news aren't in the business of rational moderation.
It (and other of their property, intellectual and otherwise) was seized by some allied governments during WWI (not WWII), but in the US that just got it sold to a domestic company. Who then lost the aspirin trademark to genericization.
I tried Vue because someone said the Chinese like it since they can use it without npm (great firewall & such), but everyone including Evan You stresses webpack and npm!

I've been successfully rolling it as an SPA without node/npm/webpack so far, but I'm wondering when the other boot is about to drop.
Except for the vast (and I mean _vast_) majority of users, this is never an issue.

You've got a chance of being struck by a meteor whenever you leave your house (and also while being in it). Do you solve that problem by staying inside? No. You go outside and take those odds. The chance that you'll be mistakenly shut down by a mistake is minuscule. Google has proven in the past to be a reliable way to do things like whistleblowing and hosting questionable content. The fact that one or even a dozen users get banned doesn't invalidate Google's history of keeping a _vast_, _overwhelming_ majority of even their free users safe.
To be fair, Samsung phones do sometimes get software features years before the Google and Apple phones (e.g. split screen multitasking).
I double-take every time I see some fiction where some supposedly real person uses a capital letter for "dumpster", because seriously nobody does that, but apparently there is actually a Dumpster brand and the company that owns it is notoriously litigious.
I keep wondering how this meshes with the common carrier rules/designation. Does it put Facebook, Twitter, et al at more or less risk as a result? How does this fit with the pro-net neutrality positions that these companies have staked out?

"Put simply, common carriers are private companies that sell their services to everyone on the same terms, rather than companies that make more individualized decisions about who to serve and what to charge. [snip] Congress created laws to make sure that phone companies provided basic phone service to all customers on a non-discriminatory basis and at reasonable prices, and created the FCC to regulate them."

Ref: https://www.ncta.com/platform/public-policy/why-its-a-good-t...
I can bet, if YC had the stats for race/ethnicity amount who applied, we would be shocked of the amount of blacks or Latinos who were never accepted. Especially from the early days.

Count me and a few other Hispanics who never have been accepted. The only time its cared about is after the fact and just for show purposes like this.

On a side Note: Yc doesn't understand people like me will never have the resume they are looking for, but have the talent and drive. I could game the application process to get accepted. Because we know what you accept and its not just a race issue.
Every fifth security vulnerability in Android should cause the radio to spam reconnect attempts or similarly onorous behavior.

I imagine carrier responses would look a lot different then.
> Game Theory, is based on the premise that all individuals are selfish

Wrong. Selfish strategies aren't sustainable. Why should I continue with anything else you said? Your basic premise leads me to believe you don't have a rudimentary grasp on game theory, economics, psychology or sociology.

> If you take the position that society exists first

Yeah don't do that. Reason from first principle first and work your way up. Not the other way around.

https://xkcd.com/435/
Off Topic: it's frustrating that these companies spend quite a lot of time and money learning about the complexities of their infrastructure but when you're interviewing at such companies, you're expected to have answers for everything and a complete strategy for the cloud.

/rant
Why aren't they based in NYC or London then?

https://www.quora.com/How-are-hedge-funds-structured-so-that...

https://panamapapers.icij.org/

http://www.alternet.org/story/150904/7_ways_hedge_funds_lie%...
> Except the links you posted don't dispute Damore's arguments at all.

Which argument? That there could possibly be innate psychological differences between the sexes etc. (which is not Damore's point, but a distraction), or that this has anything to do with the problem we're trying to solve with diversity programs? The consensus is absolutely that there is a sexism problem. Damore pays lip service to the "existence" of sexism, yet seems to mistakenly believe that the research he cites means that diversity programs must be changed, just like in my chemical plant analogy.

> I've read plenty on the subject thanks

You clearly have not read even the basics. There is no condescension here. I am not smarter than you, nor more moral. I just spent a considerable time learning about this, and it is obvious that you don't even understand what sexism is (Neither does Damore, BTW), and it's become clear that you're not even interested enough to bother reading the most introductory material. You say, "there are no fossils," and I say, "here are the fossils," yet you refuse to look. How can I hope to convince you? The reason this doesn't bother me is that I believe that the problem of sexism is so obvious once you care to look and so well studied, that the only people who still resist it are those who insist on not learning what it is. Learning what it is would not make you a leftist, as facts do not prescribe values, and you'd still be free to contend that the situation does not merit intervention in the form of diversity programs, but at least it would make true discussion possible as it would make your arguments relevant.
Because I was dumb enough to try React when enough people said "Oh, this changes everything!"

Whatever React gave, npm and Babel took right back.
No, Apple updates include the full operating system update. The only time features are disabled is when they require hardware that doesn't exist (e.g. you have no finger print reader so you can't use your finger print reader) or they are too intensive for the phones CPU/GPU. That's it. Apple's propensity for hardware accelerators may make this seem like it's crippling (Eg: there is a voice recognition hardware accelerator on Apple CPUs, IIRC) and people may not know why, but Apple does not use crippling software as a strategy to force upgrades-- as you seem to be implying.
You can use the !gm bang for Google Maps directions
What ecosystem becomes mature after just 10 years? A hard drive 10 years after the first one was invented in 1956 looked like this[0]. Is that mature? Phones are mature compared to 10 years ago, but whatever they evolve to in the next 10 will dwarf them.

[0]: http://images.computerhistory.org/storageengine/1966_Ferrite...
Why not three? Five might be too long.
Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio
> People and companies have no imperative to provide the same freedom on platforms they control.

That's what I keep hearing, and yet a company in Denver was forced by law to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple against his religious morals. Why does that not apply to internet companies?
Because it would seem that if, for whatever reason, I was mistakenly accused and convicted of something, I would basically have no way of continuing my life.

Also, I refuse to support a local (bleh, state, whatever) government with taxes just so they can ignore my vote. I'd rather live in a state where my vote goes to someone who supports my gripes. And yes, I recognize that that sucks, and that if more people moved to places where they could change things with their vote, things would actually get changed. But I'm one person, and me moving wouldn't solve anything.
Sort of. It requires you to know in advance that a search is possible/likely, and doesn’t do any more than using the wrong finger repeatedly in previous versions.

It is a little easier to kick off, but it is hidden inside an ‘emergency’ mode - click the power button 5 times.
When did you last see a rally of people with posters of Stalin marching through the street? What's the left-wing equivalent of the hundreds of armed militias in the US?
Sadly, chargen is still alive on the open internet. It's not really a security hazard, but it does have a huge DDoS amplification factor, so it's not a good idea to run it on public IPs (and if you firewall it, do the world a favor and firewall the incoming requests, don't try to 'fix' it by firewalling the outgoing responses)
this inspires me to grab some takeout, https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout
The interest from HN isn't about the Nazis, but the changing attitudes in the tech industry towards censorship and ideological homogeneity. It would be just as interesting and alarming if it was the other way and communists were getting banned and fired.
> A hobby can mean still serious bussiness if you find the right buyer (Think in minecraft for example).

Building a submarine is not that kind of a hobby.

> Casually China has the strongest and biggest (ever-expanding) aquaculture sector in the entire planet.

Yes, so they don't have much to learn from your average hobbyist sub builder.

> Militar technology is totally out of reach for they, too big, and uncloneable, but I bet that a lot of companies with fresh money to burn could find good uses for a toy like this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_093_submarine

How is that for a toy? That's a nuclear powered sub the Chinese have a bunch of them, this one displaces 7000 tonnes submerged compared to the 40 tons of the Nautilus, has a crush depth orders of magnitude deeper than the Nautilus and carries a bunch of cruise missiles.

Do you honestly believe the Chinese could learn even a single useful thing from Madsen's toy?

The only people with a direct interest in running private submarines are the drug cartels and some salvage companies, and neither of those would lead to Madsen killing a journalist.
Perhaps it does, but my point was it does not need to.
The only thing that needs to be ensured is that calls to the object are not issued before the result is returned and assigned - for all code that occurs between the call to get the object and the first actual access of the object, it does not matter.
Surely your irony detector must have went off writing this statement. One of the core message of these groups is that the media is biasing their coverage against them in an attempt to sway public opinion and your suggestion is to prove their point?
Buying with Bitcoin Can Crumble Cookie of Anonymity: Princeton University
In the UK last year, I bought a Samsung android tablet for the kid (my first Android device). It was running 4 and I ass7med Samsung would have an upgrade available. Ha! No chance.