skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Justice, Equality for all, everything is a vague concept.

So then you understand there is plenty of room for bias to create disagreement, which can have real world consequences, as I've been saying?

>The issue is that you think no one else believes in Equality, or something.

It's the "or something" bit, which I've explained very clearly, repeatedly, but which you won't address because it annihilates your argument.

>And all we gotta do...

Ya, all we gotta do. Easy as 1 2 3. Just tell mean white people not to call blacks the 'N' word and poof! Everyone will agree on the precise definition of equality.

>Racial Quotas being suggested...

You understand that a whole lot of people disagree with you about whether that promotes equality, right? All we gotta do is get them to agree with you, right? Just give the finger to people who engage in racial voting suppression, and bam! The exact definition of equality will get slammed into everyone's mind so hard they won't be able to disagree. As long as there are a few cases which you think no one could disagree with, even though people have disagreed with them rather strenuously in the past, the precise, universally agreed upon definition must be right around the corner, right?

>but society comes to a general, sane conclusion.

You understand society came to the conclusion 200 years ago that equality didn't even apply to other races, right? They believed in equality, they just meant something a little different by it than you do.

>I don't expect everyone's definition of "equality" to perfectly match.

So then you understand there's room for reasonable disagreement among reasonable people, and that their human biases will generally result in them preferring the answer which is better for their own race?

>For the most part, I just don't want people to advocate the advance THEIR race at the detriment of other races.

No one cares what you want. You not wanting it doesn't mean it's not going to happen. People are going to be biased toward their own race, consciously or not, and that's going to have real world consequences. Your hopes and feelings don't change reality.
One control per screen

It's actually quite easy
I agree once more with everything you have said!

Sadly I am still worried about the "details of implementation", because they will need to occur within our lifetime, and are influenced by very very rich people who hold all the keys.

Do you think ISPs will become public utilities in the next 20 years? 40?

If so, how? It seems to me that corporations, their politicians, and their supporters have a pretty tight grip on everything.

I am not hopeful that any massive or meaningful changes will occur. The Washington Consensus seems to ensure corporate dominance will continue, to our detriment.
I've never heard of this license before. Has it been vetted the OSI or the FSF?

Also what specifically is bad about the Apache 2 license?
This reminds me of a story posted here not long ago

"To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider the Janitors at Two Top Companies, Then and Now"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/upshot/to-understand-risi...

HN Comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15161445
Bernie almost ran a good grass roots campaign in 2016. (Funded by $27 donations). But of course Big-Bucks Clinton controlled the DNC and cheated that race.

Trump actually spent less than his competitors and managed to win both the primary and the election. It wasn't a budget campaign, but he did seem to get good bang for his spent dollars.
wait why is it wrong to think that the KKK has cool/weird titles for their ranks? iirc they originally coined those bizarre rank titles because they were bizarre

this is a non article
typescript wants to be in your project from day one

flow can be added to an existing project

i feel that almost everyone underestimates how important this is
Can you share what game camera you used? I am not familiar with that term
Not sure I understand your logic. Are you saying that these tactics aren't "dirty" because as human beings we are very susceptible to them? One would argue they are unethical precisely because of this. Or do you mean it's ok because everyone else does it?
Pattern diffusion would be a much better option. These compromise the integrity of the design way too much. I appreciate the idea, but do not believe the stats and feel like it is an attempt to get work more than it is to save resources. Also print is less common nowadays and I expected this to be something that talked about digital application of logos.
Channing, thanks for sharing this. I hope it’s an inspiration for some other entrepreneurs out there!
What fabulous country is this? I have never experienced the easy sidewalks you describe except in particular parts of some major cities.
WhatsApp and the UK are battling over the future of encryption
At the risk of sounding flippant, isn't that just another way of saying he wants to relax his standards?
Open Liberty Now Open Source – Foundation of WebSphere
Yea, but they can charge any amount of money for it. The market is so small, that they can charge arbitrary profit for the best headset in the market.

They also make all the peripheral and headset prerequisties and components, so when people compete on new peripherals or headsets, they still win.
I read three or four of the Casca series as a teenager. I remember them fondly, but I'm not sure they would age well. Maybe someday I'll look for one in ebook form.
what if my object has first class functions as all of its members? i am then bad and good?
It took me a long time to understand what you were talking about, the first few results on that Google search did not have any dates at all.
I sure don't want immutable linked lists everywhere
And what follows to that assertion?
Citizen: Now Operating in San Francisco
Lots of really great cloud infrastructure being released as open source. Good to see these projects with docs and all the stuff that makes them easy to work with.
This sounds like a bit from a 90s shock comic, but coming from a guy who has a lot of scrutiny for his views, and pack of people looking to dislike him more, it's no surprise this bombed on twitter. Probably best to keep such thoughts off off social media but I don't think reservation is one of Mr Damore's strong points.
Capping student loans would definitely be a positive first step in the process. A study conducted by the federal reserve bank of NY found that:

"We find apass-through effect on tuition of changes in subsidized loan maximums of about 60cents onthe dollar, and smaller but positive effects for unsubsidized federal loans. The subsidized loaneffect is most pronounced for more expensive degrees, those offered by private institutions, andfor two-year or vocational programs"

http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/staff_reports/sr733.pdf
Recaptcha is not only frustratingly slow, it's also free image classification for google. Frustrating that every time I sign up for something, I have to do 15 seconds worth of work for a company that doesn't pay me, or at least provide open access to the resulting data.
The Unprecedented Reach of China’s Surveillance State
Perhaps Samsung believes if Google manufactured its own phones, Samsung's smartphone might as well be finished in a couple of years anyway - Google could gain some market share then eventually discontinue updating Android for other manufacturers. Then Samsung would truly be on its own.
Funny you use china as an example. China's greatest success have come in the areas with greatest economic freedom, where the government is least involved. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen_Special_Economic_Zone and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen is a bit more informative

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prefecture-level_citie...

Socialism only really works when government butts out, and lets industry self organise, and China is the glowing example.

> There is no correlation whatsoever between lax oversight of markets and robust economic growth, as most people tend to believe.

This is a complete firfy, and is arguing with a complete lack of understanding of what socialism is. "Socialism: a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole."

In other words, we all decide together how to run things. Markets let people decide what they do themselves, e.g. self organising. The evidence self organisation works is vast and comprehensive. The evidence that no one group is smart enough to run an economy is vast as well, and success in managing an economy always rely on a significant portion being free markets.
> So perhaps "your own" in the sense that another entity isn't accessing it.

Do they have a spam filter? If yes, how do they filter emails without accessing it?
Processing inputs is not the whole of economic calculation. Me and you may value things differently – that's the problem. In other words, utility is unobservable a priori, as are my economic preferences.
Yeah so instead of killing a process that is hanging your entire system you just hard reboot?

Yes, it was a mistake, but only in the context of more stability or another solution to bad user experiences (which is the origin of all Ctrl Alt Delete sequences)
That was the most depressing comment I've ever seen here.
How do you know that HTC has been losing their good engineers?

Otherwise, I had long thought that this move by Google would be to bolster their manufacturing capabilities, less so a move to acqui-hire amazing engineers.
This sounds more like a political problem then an economic one. I won't suggest I have any idea how to alleviate the tension between market-forces and the government, and all the profiteers and rent-seekers in between.

But those problems are small compared to widespread food, medicine and energy shortages.
Power per operation is certainly decreasing, not as rapidly as in the old days though. However, it is completely not clear how much compute power is necessary for sufficient level of cognition that would allow L4 autonomy. Experimental cars (such as Waymo or Uber) have literally a data center in their trunk that takes up many Kilowatts of power. Whether Tesla can do it in at most a few hundred watts without LIDAR is _highly_ questionable.
For what it's worth, Broadcom's market share in attractive heavy-firmware wifi adapters is pretty high. They could just be an exploit magnet.
We all rent the land on which we live. Try not paying your property taxes. In most states.
neither one of those is misleading or harmful if true.
Nice try, bot.
serious question: what is the most impressive tech that has come out of HTC R&D in recent years? (for phones)
Is every buffer overflow important enough to need detailed discussion and commentary?
I first learned Haskell so I could understand some of the papers I wanted to read that used Haskell for examples. Even when doing so, I realised that I would eventually have to learn ML, but haven't gotten around to doing it. I think it's a bit like literary researchers who have to learn ancient Greek or ancient Chinese to get to the bottom of things.

It's funny that when I grew up I was always praised for being clever, so I never once doubted it. However, when I chose to learn Japanese and moved to Japan, suddenly many people assumed I was stupid -- because I could never quite understand what was going on. It's been an interesting experience. Which is it? Am I clever or stupid?

Eventually I've come to the point: clever or stupid makes no difference. The only important things to ask are, "Do I understand" and "What do I need to do to understand". It's also made me realise that relying on my supposed cleverness has actually been a source of problems in my life that I had not thought about before (because I'm clever and clever is good, right?)
Having lived in London for a while now, I find myself preferring the tube lines overlaid on a physical map, so that you can reason better about how to get where you want to go (obviously supplemented heavily by Citymapper and Google maps).

I guess that when your abstraction is at the level of start station and end station, that is where the value of the tube map is.
Briscoes (a homeware shop in New Zealand http://www.briscoes.co.nz/), does this. Just looking at their website today, everything in store is 30-60% off sticker price.

Seems great, until you realise that literally almost every day, they have a similar sale. There's always massive discounts for something in store. I have literally never paid full price, or anything close to it.
Because what we really need is a situation where people self-censor when their views don't overlap with what's acceptable in the mainstream. That would be great, and nothing bad can come of it!
AlphaGo Movie
We used to use that, but unfortunately it's very buggy - we had many, many cases where a user would open a file with Kami, but the per-app permission would not be assigned by Google so it'd fail to open. For a while I had it so that we'd request the full drive access permission only if we hit that error, but in most cases it just meant we'd end up asking for permissions multiple times.

Probably the best option I can suggest if you don't want the permission is to use the open from local file button and choose a file from your synced drive folder or from the virtual drive folder on Chromebooks. You will lose the auto-saving to drive though.
Where Is Pizza Most Expensive (and Cheapest) in America?
If Your Password Hygiene Sucks, This Password Manager Will Tell on You
Don't care. This is so big, I'm happy to be alerted a little early.
Booking.com takes an 18% commission. Only a severely incompetent business would refuse to give you a lower price in exchange for them not having to pay that 18%.

All the big franchises (Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Hyatt, Choice, Wyndham) will give you a cheaper “member” price at their direct website. Being a member is free, it’s just like airline miles and you even earn points.
Brusselards
What if the manpulation was easily avoidable?

The last time this website came up on HN (same issue), I conducted an experiment. The annoyances and manipulation described by the blogger sounded like it relied on Javascript and graphics. I wanted to see how far I could get without using a graphical browser.

I was able to

1. search hotels,

2. return a list of properties in CSV/JSON/TXT,

3. return prices and

4. book.

It required only a shell script of 107 lines, 308 characters, 2934 bytes. This could be further reduced.

I used only a command line http client, sed and tmux send-key (optional). Further optional: Fully customized HTTP headers, including randomized User-Agent if desired.

I had to store a session cookie for getting price or booking but no cookies were required for searching.

I used no Javascript.

I was able to eliminate all the annoyances and manipulation cited by the blogger.

Conclusion: At least for booking.com all these annoyances can easily be avoided by choosing the right browser.

(I did occasionally see the "Only ___ rooms left" message as this is returned in plain text. I did not however see the number change over repeated searches for the same hotel. In any event, I just deleted that line in the output, assuming it is untruthful.)
DDG is just icing on cakes, a convenient UI to search the web/search engines. Now trend is shifting towards chatbot, is DDG still relevant?
I take issue with your claim that OCaml is more complicated than Haskell. It has a much simpler core language (roughly Hindley-Milner + ADTs + GADTs + modules) whereas Haskell has Hindley-Milner, ADTs, GADTs, backpack, type families, type classes (plus several mutually inconsistent extensions related to them), new types, "roles", and more.
> “Maybe I will be less famous but I accept that,” he said, adding that he would continue to cook excellent local produce “without wondering whether my creations will appeal to Michelin’s inspectors”.

It sounds to me like he wants to be more adventurous.
A lot of people are discussing this purchase as a way to bolstering Google's hardware R&D prowess, which I sort of don't understand: what are some of the most impressive phone innovations that came from HTC in the past 5 years?
Why not? It's worked so far >_>
It won't - one reason why I think NFC-enabled cards will be around for a long time even people only carry one as a backup for their phone.

Though theoretically your phone could have a RF-powered NFC chip in it that took over when the phone is off...
Perhaps it's still running on the old platform?
Every company needs to balance this. If there is no investment now, there is no future.
Pizza delivery chains are largely operated as franchises, from what I remember. Buying Papa John's would get you the existing relationships with franchisees and the right to use the trademark. It wouldn't get you direct access to drivers - their paychecks are paid by entities like Rain City Pizza LLC.
These companies with widely available low level firmware should really switch to Rust.
> To be clear, Citizen does not allow users to interfere with active crime scenes or disrupt law enforcement. Both are clearly forbidden in our Terms of Service, and we’ve been encouraged by the responsible engagement of our New York user base.

Yeah, okay.
It might be subtle and is similar to what others have said, but if you find the founders running out of steam, losing passion, for the startup, that can be a sign.
2004 should probably be in the title.
Google Apps are important in some markets, but far less so in other markets.

Samsung might lose a percentage of the SV customerbase, but everyone who’s not relying on Google accounts wouldn’t really notice.
I'm afraid this won't be enough.

If it doesn't hurt the shareholders' and creditors' bottom line, corporate behavior is unlikely to change.

You need an event like the government banning Intel ME from their agencies, or the shareholders' bank accounts getting hacked due to this bug. I'm not suggesting that anybody do that - that's illegal - I'm just cynical about wealthy people in those positions.
How about ancient egypt (http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/economy/)? A planned economy that lasted far longer than capitalism has existed.
Someone Made a Fake Equifax Site. Then Equifax Linked to It
Probably a whole lot, this guy is probably somewhere near the top of the pareto distribution in a given team. I doubt his abilities are limited to GP CPUs.
"Be aware, however, that inlining duplicates the function body at each call site, so heavy use of the ‘inline’ keyword can cause your code to grow out of control."

I didn't quite understand this part. If the code is being inlined on compilation does it matter? I'm assuming the comment meant the output jar file?
Announcing Teams for Clubhouse
the parallels between this and the social credit system in china are interesting. their system is accompanied by new and powerful surveillance technology that uses facial recognition to pick out criminals from crowded settings. it is interesting to see two totally different societies come to similar ends through implementations that they find acceptable.

a tool like this will probably end up with a much higher rate of criminals and victims having their faces and other information posted and viewed online, like on reddit.
https://www.amazon.com/Stealth-Cam-No-Glo-Camera-STC-G42NG/d...
Can't you put those cams on a poe and your sec machine would have two nics, one to the poe, one to your house network? Dont route btwn nics.
Apple is a large enough buyer that they could probably get Intel to supply CPUs with the feature disabled. They likely don't have to go as far as changing the CPU architecture entirely.
The only delivery company worse than Amazon's own delivery is OnTrac.
I am thinking about the current debt based economy which is based on growth and stock prices, and Google and the tracking ad bubble is a good example of the problems. Brendan Eich talked about it: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/870483249587519489 Google was VC funded so had to exit using IPO (in this case).
The problem with Scala is that it is so expressive and powerful that it is really easy to write unreadable code, especially when delving into the heavy functional side. Scala is the C++ of the JVM.

There will be programmers that want to use every feature all the time, and while this happens with every language, the most featureful ones suffer the most from this.
How do you deal with conflicting versions?
China's economy was rapidly privatised, starting with the privatisation of collective farms and legalisation of entrepreneurship in 1978:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2005-08-21/online-ex...

Much of the economic growth happened in special economic zones that were free of much of the state economic control present in the rest of China.

Also, tight control can be consistent with market freedom when it is targeted at controlling violent crime, kidnapping and extortion. This is one area where China has outperformed other developing countries.
If anything, booking.com feels like one of the worst whenever I use it. I vastly prefer tripadvisor, for example, even though their iOS app is a horrible unusable battery drain.
It's more like a teacher saying that they don't want standardized testing because they want to stop teaching to the test; the chef wants to stop optimizing his cooking for Michelin reviewers. Standards are multidimensional.
On the subject of fake reviews, I've recently started using Fakespot [0] with Amazon and Yelp. Sometimes making a decision for which goods to buy can be tricky, so it's really helpful to filter out a few shady options. Although, honestly, I don't think it makes much difference in most cases.

Are there any trusted review services for travel locations? Something like Consumer Report, but for travel. Although I don't know where their quality levels stand nowadays, I know my parents used to swear by em 10 to 20 years ago.

[0] https://www.fakespot.com
A bit off topic. What I really want in map software (specifically for finding my way): know that I know my way around certain areas. The beginning of my commute no matter where I go is full of turns every minute or two. It makes listening to audio books impossible because interrupted with "in 100 feet..." Constant.

Just day "go to $MAJORPOINT" then start giving me step by step directions.
Because they implement the software manifesto build fast, ship often, fail quick to hardware. That's my opinion.
I mentioned China in another comment and I think you're correct.
Yeah, the permissions system in Google Drive is quite limited - the only to get things to work reliably is to request permissions for everything which is obviously not ideal.
I do that here in New Zealand for driving. It doesn't really mean much to say that a town is 200 km away.

That 200 km could take anywhere from 2 hours to 3.5 hours to drive to, depending on the road and terrain. The distance isn't actually very relevant.

The tourist guides here specifically mention this, that don't plan your travel by distance, because 100 km in one place is not 100 km in another. In the old road maps, they'd have a travel time matrix, rather than distance (like this [0] except with times)

[0] https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/liftweightpushcode/10f05e...
You do realize that the subject matter of the article this thread is about involves free speech, right?

Spanish authorities asked the registry to block domain names that were being used to spread information about an upcoming referendum for independence.

I can understand why the opposition would be pretty pissed off about that infringement on their free speech rights.
Have they previously had an app transition like 32-bit / 64-bit, where some users cannot upgrade?
Maybe, but the wifi isnt on. That couldnt be hidden.