skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they were peasants who were paying tax as labour

When you put it like that, it sounds an awful lot like slavery.
Look at HTTP. How many implementations correctly and interoperably handle line folding? Comments in headers? Different line endings? Stick to a small subset and you're fine. Actually use the spec as written and it is hopeless. These crazy semi-freeform text protocols are a curse. They do not make implementation easier. They trick people into thinking they made it easier.
Just treat these companies as media companies with editorial discretion instead of as utilities.

Really, the moment you start to take advertising, you're responsible for content. Professional advertisers have specific rules about content they can associate with. I've worked with them and they're strict about that, for example, they can't show a beautiful fashion spread next to a bloody image in a magazine. That's just basic advertising and branding.

And once you have editorial discretion, you can do whatever you want with content, and no one can complain. Your policy can be made simpler. "Don't piss off Bob" can be a perfectly valid editorial policy, instead of whatever complication Facebook has to go through in determining policy.

I also think this would encourage the creation of more competing social media outlets, which is probably why the dominant ones like to think of themselves as utilities.
If you don't mind my asking, what is that process?

I too had an Amazon next-day (Amazon Logistics) delivery erroneously marked as delivered (last Saturday). When I contacted Amazon customer support, they requested that I file a police report over the missing package. And then even when I did, they refused to do anything.

What's the magic word I have to say to get them to care?
Good protocols don't cure bad ethics.

Mind: I would like to see decentralisation and better encryption protections, generally, but those by themselves won't solve the problem (you still need to address ethics, rights, and power imbalances), and still leave certain of present attacks in place.

David Gerard, author of Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain, makes the exceedingly good point in an FT interview, that Bitcoin and Blockchain themselves are attempts to tech around the trust problem, and that this raises challenges because trust itself buys you an immense amount of efficiency.

https://www.ft.com/content/61cdc5c8-370e-11e7-bce4-9023f8c0f...

I'm starting to come to the view that information technology itself directly attacks* interpersonal trust, at the macro scale. I may not be articulating the argument well at this point, though I've tried:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6jqakv/communi...
There are literally nazis promoting themselves on twitter without censorship, so I disagree with your claim.
That's a pretty ridiculous conversation. No wonder the Twitter guy was confused. Neither Wikileaks nor RT are intelligence agencies. The Intelligence Committee pretending they are doesn't change that.
He/she was not fired for fucking up the trump's account. It was his/her last day in twitter.
Really bad press for twitter.
Yep. I did both my primary flight training and instrument rating in a G1000-equipped aircraft so it’s like learning a powerful IDE - just start with the basics and keep adding on.
Adversarial examples are no longer adversarial in any meaningful sense, when humans are fooled by them too. We don't need to surmount BV tradeoff, we need to make sure that ML models make the same tradeoffs as humans.
Phrased differently: operating system Microsoft Windows allows silent installation of Root Certificate during installation of unrelated USB driver installation, despite featuring a micro-kernel design.
This resonated really well with me. I know people ask you to try and do the opposite (which I guess won't hurt from time to time), but I also think it's really awarding to do exploration this way. I think it may apply better to arts and culture than it does to science and history.

Not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for, but I'm really happy with Taste.io for browsing personal movie recommendations. I think you should give it a try.
Any idea why low-background steel[1] is that valuable given the fact that it is only 0.005 mSv/yr above natural levels at 1.26? [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_radiation
I understand, I just wanted to show that there are lots of implications and it’s not that easy to solve.
And we can accept skin grafts from sus scrofa (but many people don't believe Gene McCarthys theory that we're descendant from pig / monkey hybrids)
Whistleblower drops for example. In case of Facebook the point is that some countries forbid access to Facebook and those can easily just use Tor now.
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You ever met one? Had a conversation? Assessed it’s working memory, capacity for abstract thoughts and manly layered thinking?

There is a lot we don’t know. The fact that Neanderthal buries their dead with some sort of symbolism, cared for elders, and lived in (small!) groups doesn’t really give us firm answers to these questions.
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Provavelmente, mesmo aqueles que têm um tamanho muito bom querem ter mais. É um instinto pessoal na minha opinião que os homens têm a razão de sentir que são inadequados quando eles têm uma ferramenta menor. Até agora, os homens ainda são percebidos para assumir mais responsabilidade e ficarem difíceis. A maioria dos homens tem uma certa atitude de deixar de lado as emoções e concentrar-se mais em seus pensamentos. Embora às vezes, eles pensem demais, e muitas vezes esse processo de pensamento resulta em sentimentos de dúvidas ou preocupações sobre sua masculinidade, especialmente quando eles chegam a um ponto em sua vida quando sentem que precisam provar alguma coisa.

http://www.supplementscart.com/maxpotent/
> most states are aren’t “right-to-work” meaning you can quit at a moment’s notice, but it’s common courtesy to give 2 weeks notice

The term "right to work" has nothing to do with employment status. It's political branding for laws that forbid mandatory union membership. It's a pretty effective union busting tool and has contributed to the decline of organized labor as a political force.

I think you're confusing it with "at will" employment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law
I know the FOSS FreeSWITCH VoIP b2bua has a TON of "hacks" to "Be liberal in what you accept" which is a mess of things to support, to clean up after the commercial entities that don't follow SIP specs.

e.g. SONUS information: https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/RTP+Iss...
I'm sympathetic because the wealth inequality Silicon Valley is extremely vast, and these people are on the losing end of the inequity. But truthfully, about half of the people in the article made bad decisions in simply moving to the Bay Area in the last few years, even though it's one of the most expensive areas in the world.

That said, if you are determined to live here when you don't make a lot of money, living living in an RV makes a lot more sense than paying ridiculous rent. Their rent is almost nil, and they get to save money based on a higher wage than they would get in other areas of the country.
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[QUESTION] What is this girl's name?
Is that really true? From what I've seen from paleoanthropology, the lumpers versus splitters war still rages fiercely - see Homo neanderthalensis or H. sapiens neanderthalensis.
A lot of people can't touch-type. I can't, not really, I need to glance at the keyboard once in a while. My typing speed is comparable to touch-typists', which is why I never felt the need to learn to properly touch-type. The need of seeing the keyboard is problematic in very few situations in practice, and with a back-lit keyboard it's never a problem... as long as seeing my keyboard is possible at all, which was not the case in VR.

I could invest a lot of time to unlearn my current way of typing and learn proper touch-typing technique, but that's a lot of work and doing it just to be able to type in VR feels like a waste of time. With this tech I'd be able to work in VR without changing my way of typing. To me, this makes using VR for work practical for the first time. It's actually huge, and if it works well it's, to me and others in similar situation, potentially life-changing tech.
Do this attacks still work if you don’t control input image bit-by-bit, but rather feed it via digital camera? While using any digits camera for input in the real world there will be some blurrines and distortion. Is it possible to construct such a noise that 1) will survive camera input 2) will be undetectable with human eyes 3) will fool a ML algorithm?

I do believe you are not able to control input image bit-by-bit in many real-world scenarios.
Seems like he didn't bother to specify exactly what he found so objectionable. Given that, it's impossible to evaluate his claim that executives were "confused" because "nobody ever asked them the questions". Maybe nobody ever asked them because the questions he was asking were stupid or ridiculous?

After all, it may sound dismissive, but I'm reminded of a quote by Patrick Stuart. "That's the biggest danger, you see: believing that you really are more important than everyone else. We're not, you know. We're just actors". Maybe if Kumail spent his life building things instead of pretending to be someone who builds things, he'd have a different perspective on technology and ethics.
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This is the sort of thing that can change that. Any holiday pay or extras that may have been owed to this employee might disappear, they could also have been fired immediately if twitter wanted to send a message and acted fast enough.
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It makes evolutionary selection be due to internal social/tribal pressures rather than a predator-prey interspecies relationship.
This of course ignores truly ancient levels...

"a measurement of the fossil record using a new instrument has confirmed a portion of the model. Atmospheric CO2 level 1.4 billion years ago was at least ten to 200 times greater than today"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/09/030918092804.h...
We exist. It's not a thriving lifestyle.
Goddammit, I wanted to go to sleep early tonight.
Tim Cook said it was due to China.
Another interesting profile is that of the Google engineer living in the parking lot:

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employee-lives-in-truc...
any idea why my comment below is flagged?
> What violation of TOS?

It is against Yahoo's TOS to scrape the data there. So yes its darn entitled to even expect a heads up.
Roughly 10 years ago I build an Excel stock screener using this API. The data quality was always terrible.
Is there a document similar to this for blog headlines?

I just started to write a blog and have struggled coming up with good headlines. Most tend to follow the content in the blog. So if I am talking about x, y and z - the title is "x, y and z" which seems really dry.
<every hour the Mongolian Bitcoin mine operates, it's responsible for (at least) the CO2 equivalent of over 203,000 car kilometers travelled.>
But #2 historically does not give better returns. Since the information is already public it has already been included in the price of the stock. The vast majority of investors are not smarter than Wall Street.

As someone who has done some gambling in the stock market using this kind of thinking it has not been a good strategy compared to just buying and holding index funds. Sometimes I get lucky and sometimes I get unlucky buying individual stocks but my most best returns have been buying broad index funds and holding them.
So now we can debate whether they (Nazis, or whoever) should be allowed to use a platform, allowing themselves to be identified and dealt with by the law.

In that regard there is no global consensus. And arguments for and against can be quite compelling.

We know that attempting to suppress ideas can have unintended consequences.
Company homepage loads 197 MB of data in 2.6 minutes
Proof (in case you don't believe me): https://i.imgur.com/OMAVA6t.png - I never interacted with the page; simply opened the link and scrolled down a little. I didn't play any video, audio, or anything.

BTW, the total download is still increasing. Imagine being on a metered connection or mobile data and inadvertently clicking on the link.
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What's the lock key? That seems like something you need to either explicitly turn on or press.
The junky RVs seem extremely out of place lined up together on El Camino. I've always assumed they only get away with this because they're on the Stanford side of the border between Stanford and the City of Palo Alto. Palo Alto NIMBYs would have run them out long ago.
Evidence that humans are fooled by adversarial examples? Optical illusions and other perception issues don't count, as explained by many others in this set of threads.
He's not going around destroying looms to protect jobs. He's not even complaining about the tech per se - just about the lack of any ethical consideration in some areas of the industry.

The problem is not unique to SV or to tech world. This is just the good old phenomenon of "not caring about ethics makes you better at making money". The market does not care either, it just promotes people and companies who are good at making money. Complaining is one form of creating back pressure, of making it more difficult for unethical actors to make money. We desperately need more of that back pressure.
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thats what i suggested originally, essentially
Either you can say that consuming addictive substances isn't a choice, or you can tax people for their choices. I don't see how you could have both.
Related posts from the past:

What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL
http://woz.posthaven.com/what-orms-have-taught-me-just-learn...

ORM Is an Offensive Anti-Pattern
http://www.yegor256.com/2014/12/01/orm-offensive-anti-patter...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15614966
At least they mention that emojis exist in unicode to make compatibility with text encoded on japanese phones.

I suppose the reason why Apple followed Softbank reference images and not KDDI or DoCoMo (last one would probably have been the closest to an authority on the matter, yet not mentioned) is because iPhones were originally released only on Softbank in Japan, and emoji were a originally a japan-only feature on the iPhone.

Why would they follow KDDIs reference images when emoji was a feature for Softbank costumers?
Okay, $100
It's weird that you have to click on a link that contains the same webpage and all of the actual information on High Grossing Ads. Here it is:

http://blog.capitalandgrowth.org/wp-content/33-Highly-Effect...
There's a thread about this on Yahoo!s own forums:

https://forums.yahoo.net/t5/Yahoo-Finance-help/http-download...

I am incredibly amused by the person who refers to himself as a customer of this. If you want to be treated like a customer, find someone who will charge you money in exchange for the service provided.
SF Bay area (Nine-county) is 25 times the size of Singapore and 11 times that of London. Its population at 7.7 million is only 1.4 times as large as Singapore's (5.6 million) and less than London's (8.8 million). Its GDP at $721 billion is 2.4 times that of Singapore's ($297 billion) and 1.3 times London's ($542 billion).

Solutions should be possible if rational negotiations could be carried out and affected parties could be compensated adequately. I understand that older residents wish to retain their lifestyle and community character. Could any amount of money and other concessions from new developments compensate them for the potential change that will come quite gradually in any case? Could the new developments be constructed in an area that wouldn't have a direct impact on their daily lives?

More practical concerns like increased traffic jam and effect on property value should be addressable with the tens of billions of economic benefits that could be realized from new, denser developments. Finding a way to equitably distribute these benefits would be a huge headache but since the net results are likely positive, the solution should be possible with the right organization and efforts.
To be fair, "5% rounds, rounds to 0" is still strictly more than 0, which was what the other person proposed.
True enough, but the details are different. And surely SO will have different internal departments and processes for managing each.
Interesting that Politico publishes this by Donna Brazile the week that the Mueller Manafort and Papadopolous news breaks. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc?
Django has the best deprecation policy of any framework I've seen. Breaking changes are always documented and given fair advance for changes.

In many years of working with Django I have not really seen a significant breaking change in the admin unless you override private methods.
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You should check out DockerSlim [0] then :-) It'll generate a seccomp profile for you and it uses ptrace too.

[0] http://dockersl.im
now we can properly have ides and desktops in VR.

but i'd would rather use a wider range of motion (at some point, if someone makes that) to input to stay active.
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I think you could approximate this for movies using a social graph - I had a hobby project when I got back into programming a few years ago which attempted to generate recommendations based on the director's and actors' "creator" social graphs. It worked surprisingly well for such a hack.
I'm generally in favor of unions as private associations (i.e. without government-enshrined powers, or the ability to mandate participation) ... BUT I think we have to accept that there's a Principal-Agent problem with unions that is inherent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...

The Union is just another hierarchy. That's partly what makes it effective in negotiating with management and capital. It gains its power initially by persuading workers that it represents their interests, but it is easily corrupted over time by people who benefit from institutional positions within the union -- just like every other hierarchy.
Newsflash: you didn’t enjoy the process of archery?
There are literally nazis promoting themselves on twitter without censorship

There's all kinds of genocide being promoted on Twitter, and the so-called Nazis are literally the only ones being censored. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander says I. Either Twitter - a for profit entity - is a common carrier or they impose editorial standards, they can't be allowed to get away with playing both sides as it suits them. And by "suits them" I mean, sells the most ads.
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I’m quite surprised to hear one must give their employer notice. Doesn’t Poland or the EU have laws against forced labor? In the US, for example, all employment by private corporations is “at will.”

Anyone can quit at a moments notice, for any or no reason at all. For the sake of one’s colleagues and reputation it is widely considered good practice to give no less than 2 weeks notice, though this is merely custom.
Or, humans have always had to focus on their own self-preservation and only recently have we had the luxury to care for the past at the expense of the present.
I frequently come across tweets by neo-nazis promoting their hateful ideas. We can't let this go on in the name of free speech.
How do you know this to be the case?
That wasn't particularly early. I learned to drive in a used (but perfectly functioning, of course) '91 Lexus LS400. It was the make or break car for the new Lexus marque, and they put serious effort into the experience.

It has excellent thermostat-controlled AC and heat, and it was very easily controllable using dedicated buttons without looking away from the road at all.
I wish modern cars (cough, Tesla) would put a tenth the care into UX.
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This isn't a meaningful observation or anything, but you used both "emojis" and "emoji" as the plural of "emoji". My brain tripped over that for some reason.
If you've never heard of Joseph Campbell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1qd0KGOv9Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbeWTOubqSo
I'll throw my $10 on that too. Hell, make it $11.
You got a nice story out there. Random, bla bla bla...

How instead you come up with real numbers? Like you pick a stock or say an index like the Nasdaq and analyse if its movements are truly random or not?

Also you are aware that true random might mean perfect distribution? You don't know whether the tick is up or down but you know you'll have a distribution that is 50/50 up or down. So you can market make based on it (buy and sell on the same time).

There are more to trading than day trading: Collecting premium on futures or options, arbitrage, collecting interest on bonds, etc...
To add: at the time that original story was posted I left this comment[0] explaining what I believe he was seeing

He was asked to ping tor-security or file an issue and never did, afaik - nor was it ever really seriously discussed

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14281434
No no. The routine is a space for unstructured improvement. Nor is there such a thing as repetition in learning. Every attempt at gaining skill is at least slightly different and is made under at least slightly different conditions. Progress being the slow accumulation of mastery over many details. If it feels dull then either a plateau has been reached or the ambition itself is an unworthy one and should be abandoned in favour of something else.
That's interesting. I thought the Bitcoin folks were all about anonymity.
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> Or people will say "won't others look at me funny if I do pushups in the office?" Who cares?

Not your main point but many people care what things while understanding that they shouldn't and saying "but you shouldn't!" won't change that, so it's a completely useless sentence which just serves to hand wave a valid problem of your strategy.
Extrapolate.
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I'm with you, but I feel you still have a crush on startup ecosystem. I used to have it too, ~5 years ago. What I've learned since then is, the kind of idealistic forward-looking people you seek do not form the majority of startups.

Technology makes shitloads of money now. This attracted all kinds of people - the regular ones just looking to live their lives in comfort; the greedy assholes looking to become rich by scamming (er, advertising to) others or profiting off offloading externalities on the society. There are more of them than idealists. For each "actually help the world" startup, you have 10 "get $$$ through screwing the society" ones, and 50 "build things people will buy" ones.

Also, I feel most idealists have realized by now that startups are not necessarily a good vehicle for change, because by their nature, you trade control for money. Which means that even if you have good intentions and a great long-term idea, your investors may not share it, they need their shorter-term profits, and they just gave you money for control, so you'd better do what they want.

All in all, do seek out people who want to actually help everyone, instead of forever living in the world of tribalism and petty soap-operish nonproblems. But do not thing startups are where they gather - startups are just another flavour of mundane business world, no matter what the copy on their webistes says.
I just had a look at your projects, and pass-rotate looks really interesting!
Not entirely certain this routine would qualify for "Not in education."
I'm not sure I understand you... But the parent's comment is quite interesting, how could the system end up with a correct left/right understanding or our world, instead of a mirror world? Without experiencing the outside world, it seems impossible!