skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an example, asians whether immigrant or American-born typically have the best credit, highest graduation rates, pursue higher education, and have the highest paying / stable jobs of any culture.

It might point to the same conclusion, but I'd need to see a result that is controlled for parental education and wealth, and also be shown that being "asian" in the US equates with a culture.

Anecdata: In my locale, the "asian" kids do have a different education system: Most of them live in the neighborhoods, and attend elementary schools, that generally have the highest level of educated and affluent parents. Many of those "asian" kids are adopted.
Reminds me of the nice chrome extension that allowed playing youtube music in the background. Streamus IIRC; and youtube was very nasty toward the guy. Anyway farewell ytmp3
This is not a good look on the engineers.

Business is fundamentally uncertain, and decomposing failure into avoidable and unavoidable factors is very very hard. This is even harder in industries dominated by network externalities like computer platforms.

On the other hand: if engineering wasn't serving the stated business purpose (things that customers want, at least as far as business can see) but doing semi-academic research on the company dime... well, it's an indirect misappropriation of funds, however cool the results turned out.

Analogy: Sugarcube Industries is in the business of farm built infrastructure and its flagship product is a barn that can comfortably house N horses cutting down on injuries, promoting weight gain by proper thermal environment. I don't know much about horses, bear with me.

Engineering is asked to design such a horse barn. Maybe it's fundamentally impossible to fix heat flows in such and such weather or idiotic in general to try and improve horse health by those means. Maybe business even understood market research wrong, and what people wanted was barns with hooks where farmstaff can hang horse ponchos that will be manually deployed in times of need.

It's a bad look on engineering if instead of delivering the best horse barn on the market, they come up with a three-storey optimized IVF-incubator-horse feeding operation.

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Unix (a decades-long project whose capital costs are inestimable when considering all the failed companies and free labor) nearly lost to Windows NT because the latter had hooks where sysadmins could hang those needed ponchos.
Is this a case of that act needing to be updated to be more relevant to modern technology?
There's some dope advice at the end: "I recommend you use predictions to become reliable. Whenever you make commitments, ask yourself am I at least 80% confident I'll follow through here? When I'm not, I renegotiate immediately: Actually I expect I can have that for you in 3 weeks, 1 was optimistic. Actually I can't commit to do that at all because I'm super focused on x and y right now. The earlier you reset expectations the better. It's pretty easy to get other people to clarify their commitments in the same way." Overall solid.
The big consumers do scale down at times. When the price of electricity is high enough they send all their workers home with pay. However this is hard for them to do: the workers don't like it (they worry they might be told to not come back next time). Management has contracts to deliver that they cannot back down on, and this is in conflict with "just in time management".
You can grab a PDF with more details from the European Court of Human Rights here:

https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng-press?i=003-5825428-7419362

And judgement: https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{"itemid":["001-177082"]}
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General parser combinators in Racket
There are also browser extensions, like "Download YouTube Videos as MP4" that simply displays mp3 link embedded in YTs web page. No third party servers, no external programs, you use Chrome to download mp3 straight from YT server.

Then of course ToS/Eula is toilet paper in EU.

And its 100% legal to download whatever I like (audio/video, not software) in my country thanks to CD tax RIA fought so hard for.
> Incredibly, a primary such idea was censorship itself: those groups who partially defined themselves as absolutely opposed to banning socially intolerable ideas, are now the very same groups calling for vindictive suppression of socially intolerable ideas.

What's incredible about that? One tends to find that people advance the arguments which serve their turn, and arguments of value in obtaining power tend rarely to be also of value in retaining it. Complaining that there's something hypocritical in this may satisfy in some fashion I don't really understand, but it doesn't strike me as being an especially effective or worthwhile fashion in which to spend one's time.

(And is there really any hypocrisy here? I don't see it - as far as I can tell, the groups of which you speak defined themselves not as opposed to banning socially intolerable ideas period, but rather as opposed to banning those socially intolerable ideas to which they happened to adhere. Anglin's ideas, if we dignify them by that name, don't seem to fall within that range, and so I have a difficult time understanding how I'm meant to take this issue as one of failure to live up to one's claimed principles.)
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ASCAP sued Verizon, claiming that ringtones are equivalent to public performances. They lost.

http://ipjournal.law.wfu.edu/2009/12/are-cellphone-ringtones...
This was particularly interesting:

>Google shared a fun statistic at I/O 2017: The company expects one-third of Android devices shipped in 2017 to cost under $100.

Even more so considering that the US is the 2nd largest market for phones of that price point.

> While the long term goal is to tackle the 5 billion users without internet access, immediately this helps the US market too. Google says the US will be the second most popular market for these sub-$100 phones.
I used to be in a similar situation until I decided to rectify it all at once: Not only I never (almost) lie, but I tell the blatant truth. This dropped the number of my friends to a few. (or three at best count?).

Guess what? I no longer have to care about it because I played it the other way: I don't have to adjust my way of life for you, so only friends that can adjust to your way of life sticks around.
It definitely could. I heard that reddit is very hard to self-host though and that development always wasn't very open. Maybe raddit is better in those regards ;)
> where they literally lost one of my domains on an inward transfer.

Could you give a summary how this happened?
I agree in the sense that they weren't rushing to the internet in terms of early adoption. The rush was reactionary, by embracing YouTube (eventually), but I do think the nuance of the web still escaped their grasp. Maybe they finally realized it was easier/unavoidable to broadcast and litigate than it was to control distribution in fine-grained fashion.

In any case, (incoming analogy) the church is better off with the printing press and allowing the bible to be translated from Latin. Its distribution and reach has expanded greatly. And it can still burn heretics.
This is a red herring and one that sets off alarms in NIMBY heads, but most American cities are a long way from needing more high rises. What they need are vast tracts of 5 and 6 story apartment buildings. Like Paris. Or Brooklyn. San Francisco is only 44 sq/mi and like half of it is dominated by detached single-family dwellings. That's absurd.

San Francisco doesn't need to become Manhattan. It could jump light years ahead if it tried to be more like Queens.
What about autonomous nuclear weapons?
Note the ‘worldwide’ here - otherwise you have capital leaving the country which decides to tax it.
For another view: http://dtrace.org/blogs/wesolows/2014/12/29/golang-is-trash/

I'm partly with the dtrace guy, but it is nice to see somebody not propagating that gcc inline asm shite... so I'm prepared to forgive it a certain amount.
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> but can we even have a blockchain-based tech that doesn't burn enormous amounts of electricity just to operate?

Look into Proof of Stake (PoS) - people are looking into more efficient blockchains (although there's some controversy over whether it will work)
We teach mathematics backwards and in the wrong order and we push students through things they have not mastered.

"A Mathematician’s Lament"
by
Paul Lockhart

https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....

BOOK published in 2009 https://www.amazon.com/Mathematicians-Lament-School-Fascinat...
The guy is a pathological liar, there is not one proposal I've seen that would, "restrict the rights of gay people" or "ban all Muslims."
And how do even "higher classes" achieve privacy while taking advantage of what modern technology has to offer? I can't even imagine the level of op sec one would need to be truly anonymous on the internet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_...

(Incidentally, since apparently I need to say this, I'll note that Reddit and Twitter users "gort" are not me.)
Those threads and /r/TheRedPill are disturbing. They feel insulted that women are choosing other partners over them, as if a stable income is all that is necessary to be entitled to the girl of your choice.

When their socially inept advances are rebuffed, blame is cast on the media and on a feminist cabal agenda to emasculate men. Instead of trying to connect on a human level or looking in the mirror at what might need improving, society becomes the problem.
I've gotten non-disparagement clauses removed from a company with a legal team. If you're going to work for a company and they aren't willing to negotiate when things are the best between you two, you're likely not going to enjoy working there.
To reboot WebSQL?

IIRC Mozilla's main gripe with it was the fact that there was only one implementation, and no standard beyond "Whatever Sqlite3 does".
This case is confused. The title and some of the editorial say "email" but the messages were sent via Yahoo Messenger, which isn't email.

> The company had presented him with printouts of his private messages to his brother and fiancée on Yahoo Messenger as evidence of his breach of a company ban on such personal use.

I know the distinction is a fine one, but it is still a difference.

They didn't need to produce a message, just having a non-business contact would have sufficed.
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Discover make, realize what a bunch of dumb hipsters everyone is who created build systems after it, try to use it, see how deficient it is for the problems you're trying to solve, realize why those dumb hipsters made all the stuff they made, repeat. If Chesterton's Gate were a build system.
If you're going to go to work on a ponzi scheme, don't be surprised when you end up working with entirely unscrupulous people.
Not sure if you saw the blog post I referenced that was trending here last week. These types of optimizations often turn out to be underwhelming.
One of the biggest issue is to make a distinction of what is a legit ICO vs a pyramid scam/pure fraud.

Without a reliable source of truth, anyone can make a splashy website, add a bunch of advisors, create a catchy "kickstarter" selling point and raise millions.

The issue with regulators is that they may enforce the same kind of scrunity applied to big financial firms to legit ICO and that can stiffle startup to raise money.

My fear is that pushes the whole ICO game for only people who have the existing expertise in working around the regulatory rules; then only big players or people with big resources can play the ICO game.
I am reminded of "nuclear fusion is always 30 years away."
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I think it's really the time to bring out the classic - "What Colour are your bits?"[0].

This, IMO, should be a required reading for anyone participating in the discussion on copyright. The crux of the issue is that law does not operate in the same reality computers (or, for that matter, physical reality) do. Unlike bits, it recognizes the cause-and-effect history of things, so e.g. one file can be illegal while other is perfectly fine, even if those files are bit-for-bit identical.

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[0] - http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23.
It was on Yahoo Messenger.
In my experience if you develop a "data science pipeline" forcing the data scientist to build

- reproducible

- validated

- back-tested

- easy to deploy

models, they are going to hate it. It just kills the fun and/or makes obvious if they made a mistake.
That was an explanation, not a reaction.
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I was a Solaris admin at the time of the acquisition and some of the Sun folks I was in contact with were glad that it was at least not IBM that had bought them out because IBM had always been their primary 'enemy.'
With current regulation they get punished for taking business deposits. Deposits from retail clients are "sticky", so can be realiably used for loans. Business deposits fluctuate so that the bank has to keep a large share as cash at negative interest rates.
"to remove all barriers in the way of science" they say...
I'd really hope wind has a bus factor of more than one though.
Please, please keep spreading FUD about ICO's and cryptocurrencies. Drive the price down for a few days so I can buy more.
I thought so too, but eclipses in real life are always transient phenomena.
In some European countries the union does this kind of negotiating in a sector/framework agreement, which can make pushing back against those kinds of blanket terms more effective, at least to the extent of reducing how broad the rights waivers are.
>weakened the associated opprobrium, because people think of being "-ist" as a less bad offense since so many more people seem to be doing it these days.

This applies to all rules that govern what we consider normal behavior.

When (basically) everyone is ignoring the insanely low posted speed limit the result is (basically) everyone driving the speed they feel appropriate for the conditions.

When everyone knows a few gay people nobody sees the point to criminalizing being gay.

A lot of people were STFUing because they were afraid of not being PC. Now that people are seeing people say even more extreme things than they wanted to say without being seriously punished they're saying those things too. Something good will probably come of all this but change is never easy or fun. It's unlikely that we'll return to a culture that accepts outright racism. Hopefully we won't continue to perpetuate a culture in which any attempt at having a frank discussion involving a touchy subject is not chilled by a fear of being name called as a BoogymanOfTheDay (e.g. racist, communist, etc).
You make a good point but I think its not accurate to conflate race with culture, although the two do seem intertwined. I tend to believe that, if a white kid (say) was brought up by Asian parents, he/she would probably have the same qualities as an asian kid.

So its not racist to say that Asian culture values different things than the mainstream American culture, which is perhaps why Asian Americans tend to be more educated and gainfully employed.
Think about it more like a substitute ingredient which provides a vital service in a recipe, such binding (like egg). You need something for that purpose to complete the recipe, so it's eggs or some replacement.

There's lots of legacy software targeting win32 out there.
Do you have some legal references to this? Curious. The site also has the legal right to refuse to serve you content, of course.
I've heard of the term, but from what I understand, no actual working implementation of that concept currently exists, right?
> I'm mildly skeptical about what they're making

I gave up hope on them after Wired did a piece on them and reported almost nothing. I think if they had something to show, they would have shown it. Today I don't think they have anything except a bunch of receipts for R&D expenditures.

> if someone told me Apple had spent $1.5bn and 6 years on a top secret project I'd be hugely excited about what it might look like

Me too. The difference is Apple has shown that they can build and ship things.
If I lived more than 20 minutes from work I'd be actively working on a plan to shorten that time.
I'd hope future me runs up the score in basketball. I don't really enjoy zero sum games unless I am winning. Maybe our society is fucked up, but a lot of people get immense pleasure over dominating others. Best to let your child know that's the world you are walking in.
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How can the "set non-null column to null" MySQL not be fixed?

There is a warning, and possibly a new stricter mode that avoids it - but shouldn't this be a critical bug fix in all modes?
The distinction is understood, but should it be necessary for employers to explicitly express that the use of company resources may be monitored?

Then again, I get the impression that I was brought up in a very different way from most people since I regularly have to explain seemingly minor details to coworkers. To explain how these seemingly petty policies are there to avoid problems that may rarely pop-up on small scales, yet are tangible costs/risks when a business has hundreds or thousands of employees.
Where are you getting that the GP post is advocating a lack of regulation? I read it as the market should stop punishing transient fluctuations in earnings and share prices and expecting continuous growth, while, in turn, we could have companies that actually respect privacy. I'm not sure it's a great argument, but it's a nice sentiment, at least.
Obviously there isn't a list where you'd want to be poor , but I'd definetly rather be poor living in Sweden than poor living in Russia.
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Hm, no. Long story short:

In order for a company to be allowed to monitor, they would need to pass some kind of audit, they would need to prove that they don’t store, for example, sensitive personal data, etc.
I'm not sure why we'd expect politics not to be highly contentious and divisive. It's life-or-death stuff. Do you force a teenager carry an unwanted pregnancy to term, or allow her doctor to kill an organism that is, at least genetically, human? Do we let unfettered immigration undermine the welfare state, or break apart families who are just trying to have a better life? What kind of legacy will we leave our children? It's bizarre to thing these sorts of questions wouldn't lead to fist fights.

I myself tend to get along with people with a wide range of political views. But I've always assumed it's because I'm a bit of a sociopath. I don't care enough to put other peoples' struggles above my personal relationships.
"...would have probably worked for Neanderthals"

Speculation in other words, not science; imagination, not facts; which is fine unless it's being framed as truth.
> Home mortgage interest deduction serves to put the financing of private home ownership on the same footing as financing of commercial house ownership (wherein the interest on loans for income-seeking activities is deductible).

Sounds fair. Can I also reduce my income by furnishing my building (home) with equipment (e.g. furniture and appliances) in the same way that commerce can? Would that make sense?

> Eliminating the MID without eliminating the deductibility of commercial loans' interest makes commercial purchasing of real estate cheaper than private purchasing. IOW, eliminating the MID is a big handout to commercial landlords and serves to keep even more people renting rather than owning their housing.

There's only so much housing stock. If more are renting, there's more business in renting, but that mostly affects the mid to upper classes. Do we really want to subsidize urban sprawl? Maybe we do. Maybe we should. Should we do it forever? I... don't like it.

Maybe all subsidies should have a phase-out/sunsetting period to avoid economic shocks while reducing the plethora of loop-holes and market distortions that they create.
I'm not a Go fan, but I'm not ready to dismiss it as "trash" -- I mean, it works! And plenty of people like it.

But I can't quite figure out whether this Go assembly stuff is a real feature that makes sense and is well-designed, or if it's just a quirk of the implementation, stemming from its background in Plan 9.

The assembly section in the Go docs literally says "go read the Plan 9 docs first". That's kind of weird.
TigerSwan Question
How did they scan for the S3 bucket structure on the TigerSwan data breach? brute force?
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Reward card providers put cookie-matching code on their sites. If you log into to "check your points" or whatever, they send your reward ID to DMPs which you may already have cookies for, and those cookies in turn tie back to your web browsing history.

Credit card companies also do this, though I believe in the EU and even US there are stronger regulations around what exactly they can send (vs. rewards cards).
Big Brother running along unabated.
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I'd guess it would end pretty quickly if they just stated everything you do through or on company property will be monitored as the company owns that work. While the company will often not be too concerned about the occasional personal use of their property, they aren't obligated to allow it. It gets murkier when they require access to your personal device, which I am firmly against.
It's not possible to say that precisely; the closest thing I could find is this: https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Missing_ReactOS_Functionality .
Lol are the chemicals for getting rid of their smells?

(Did you learn chemistry in a German environment, btw?)
http://lobste.rs is also about software development but without the business/marketing part
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