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I hope we were agreeing, we seem to share some viewpoints and I definitely do not think sugarcoating, which has its own connotations, is a best practice.

It all sounds like imprecise tight rope walking but I think there are basic tests. People can be skeptical talking to you, but when they leave is the word bullshit still active in their mind? For me that means the message was not delivered well.

It all has real consequences too. When any group of people face adversity, there’s no magic to make it all better. But final result can be objectively better or worse based solely on quality of communication, or even just basic respect for people.
I think the fake groom was in the context of societal pressure to get married, or for a gay couple to marry opposite sex partners. Having a fake groom fulfills these obligations without actually having to live with the stand-in.
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Its far more than this, the original inhabitants of .io were forcibly removed from these islands by the UK in the 60s. The whole situation with a UK company running this TLD is just the icing on the cake.

gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-k-is-making-web-domain-profits-from-a-shady-cold-war-land-deal/
One could've argued that making seafaring voyages in the 1600s requires putting your differences aside. But instead we had a bunch of barbarians going around extinguishing and enslaving the world =P
It's a question of abstraction, at the start of the article she notes that she's run teams of up to 400 people. At that size there are layer-on-layer of people whose job it is manage divisions/groups/teams of people. The person at higher levels of some pyramid has to think very carefully about dropping down into the detail and consequently side-lining some levels of their management chain.
Definitely get vibes of the fringe leftist ideals of anti-capitalism and anti-freedom of speech.
"Anyone who has ever given an iPad to a small kid knows the kind of thing children find on YouTube before they're able to type: Toy unboxing and nursery rhyme videos, official and pirated cartoons featuring popular characters like Peppa Pig. It's up to parents, of course, if they are okay with their child getting engrossed in these (we took the iPad away from our four-year-old daughter because we noticed consuming the content made her reluctant to learn to read and irritable when the tablet wasn't within reach). But the stuff Bridle found was arguably worse than what I'd seen before my wife and I made the decision."

Something Neal Stephenson remarked in Diamond Age: this kind of tech is not a substitute for parenting.
> Note that some of these newer TLDs can be more expensive (up to $60/year).

A .com WILL also be expensive, because all the good names and most of the crap ones are either used for other companies or, and that's worse, for squatters who hope to extract five-digits prices.
Gitlab is so featureful it's insane to me that it doesn't get more press, so I figured I'd create some. I don't work for Gitlab or anything but I certainly love the tool they work on, and the attitudes they take towards lots of things.

Here's a quick list of features that make me think you should be using Gitlab at your org:

1. Fully self-hostable, actually F/OSS

2. Gitlab registry included for free

3. Private repos free

4. CI runners usable for free, integrated easily into your project

5. Auto deploy (https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/topics/autodevops/index.html), where they're moving in the future is awesome as well, the whole of Auto DevOps (https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/topics/autodevops/index.html)

6. Issue boards (Gitlab had this first)

7. Wiki included

8. Repo metrics

9. Cycle Analytics (https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/cycle_analytics.html)

Some of these things might also be in Github now, but I don't think they all are just yet.

Here are the most common complaints about Gitlab:

1. Slowness (this is normally because people use Gitlab.com and judge based on that. It's absolutely a fact that Gitlab.com is not as fast as Github.com)

2. Badly designed UI/navigation (they've just gone through a push to fix these things, and I love the new interface)

3. Doing too much (can't argue with this of course, but I don't particularly care that something does a lot of things until it starts doing things I care about really badly)
The population of the British Indian Ocean Territory were all deported, to clear the island of Diego Garcia for a large US airbase. It's one of the grubbiest recent bits of British imperial manoevering.
Serious question: does it have still have a significant civilian population? Wikipedia makes it kinda read like anyone who was living there was depopulated to make room for military bases and contractors who are working on military bases.
That's a different field entirely. Just because some American hospitals have trouble organising medical ethics reviews, does not mean that European or even American CompSci researchers will run into the same problems. Indeed, Daniel is (I think) positive perhaps based on good interactions with the ethics committee here (my wife is certainly happy with the ethics reviews she's had).

Even in that SSC discussion linked, many SSC commenters agree that their own ethics system was far easier, even in medicine.
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>Don't you realize that the institution that's being examined isn't necessarily on your side?

CIA or Wikileaks? CIA absolutely not, Wikileaks probably yes.

>Without oversight, how could they possibly be kept on the good side?

CIA is the foreign intelligence agency of a particularly murderous country, they can’t possibly be kept on the good side.

Wikileaks seems to have oversight built in that they need to be trustworthy enough for people to leak to them.

>Having gone so long without oversight, how far have they strayed?

CIA has a long history of doing terrible things, I doubt they’ve strayed too far from that.

>What would happen if a cleared individual decided to take an action without asking anybody or telling anybody?

What would happen if the sun came up in the morning? Things would probably be the same they were yesterday.
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I have heard that CBD is extremely great as a natural anti inflammatory however the strains that get recommended are so absurdly expensive. On the order of 30ml for 150$ for charlottes web for example. Is it actually worth it? How long does that 30ml bottle last for 150$?
We're hardly above colonizing. Just look at all of the wars America has fought over the last 50 years.
This is a very neat concept. One problem I see is that having privacy pass installed instantly lowers your privacy, as it marks you as one of a small set of users with that extension. Combine that with IP address, and you could potentially trace a user across the web. I wonder if there's any potential for tor to support the extension by default, which would prevent users from being punished for installing the extension manually.
overcast also supports audio file uploads landing in an "uploads" playlist; if the OP wants a super low-friction way to seed the parents' listening, that could be one way. just grab the mp3 versions of a few episodes and drop them in there, don't have to mess with getting them to subscribe to things.

an annoying misfeature I have noticed with a lot of podcasts is that the feed URL only includes the latest N (usually 100) episodes, and if you want to listen from the beginning you have to do so "by hand" by visiting each episode's web page and either downloading the episode or listening in the browser. For one podcast with a predictable URL format for episodes, I pieced together an .xml file by hand that referred to all the episodes. It was super janky but I was able to pretend that it was the actual podcast's URL just fine.
Why can't it be an emergent phenomenon? "You" are just a huge collection of independent organisms, a large subset of which share the same genetic material. But given the degree to which your various symbiotes and parasites (in your gut, in the biofilms in your sinuses, etc) excrete hormones, and the huge quantities of neurotransmitters emitted and received wholly inside your gut, it seems a Victorian concept like "seat of organizational sentience" is rather obsolete.

As for sentience itself...it's pretty clear (even from timing data alone) that we end up confabulating most of what we consider perception of reality, so perhaps consciousness and sentience are just convenient mechanisms to characterize the order of events?
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You're right, thank you for the clarification and I apologize for misleading. This study did not look at addiction.

However, the study noted a few things that lead me to believe that this long-term opioid use is not intentional by prescribers. The study excluded patients with cancer, which is a common reason to be prescribed long term opioids. Additionally, they note that most of the patients were not provided long-acting opioids at the start, suggesting that the prescribers did not intend to start these patients on long-term opioid therapy.

At the very least, the data is suggestive of an increase in dependence in patients prescribed a 10-day or greater supply of opioids, as we know that when patients are on opioids for too long, you must slowly discontinue lest you initiate withdrawal.
For anyone recommending .com one of the simple factors that it isn't often a good choice is people sitting on domain names for profit or other reasons.

So either you have to think up a completely ridiculous name for your new service/product/company, pay stupid amounts or use something other than .com
> the difficulties were largely political, not technical

Not all of the difficulties were political. Quoting from the article: "... Along the way, it was reported that 20% of the users of Limux were not happy or satisfied with it; other reports had the number at 40%. ..."
Yes, Youtube is a bazaar. But why is _Youtube Kids_ a bazaar? Its whole appeal is that it is (at first impression) a place for curated content, such that it's kid-friendly. But it doesn't work (eg https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/04/business/media/youtube-ki...) because google is trying to create a curated content zone by algorithm.
Tuvalu makes "several million dollars a year" from .tv domains [1], and their total GDP is only ~$35M, so at least in Tuvalu's case it's in the range of 10% of their GDP.

[1]: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-16340072
> exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with

The hubris! Napster wasn't his idea or tech, Facebook wasn't his idea or tech. This man is the most undeservedly rewarded person in tech history. The commentary that we're dissecting here is tepid and late.
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Domain names are amazingly sticky. You'll likely start seeing increased news of companies using their closed TLDs, but don't expect too many existing sites moving over.
That’s because you’re not a nice person to be with, and they’re friends with you only out of pity.
Is there any reliable body of evidence about what happens to children if they watch content that their parents find unnerving? Do they become sociopaths? Drug addicts? Neurotics? Criminals? Is there any real need for controlling what a child can see and what he can not?
You buy stake in _future_ dividends. For companies that don't have any dividend currently you just have to compensate for the time delay when calculating the value.

If everyone would race to sell Google stocks for no reason, the price would quickly drop to a level where it would make huge sense to start buying. Imaging having a dividend to price ratio of 1000%. Even with no dividend, buying stocks (preferably with voting rights) in a company at a price to profit ratio of 1000% would be a great deal as it'd be a small thing to start paying dividends with those profit levels.

This does not mean that there aren't overvalued stocks and physical assets which does not make sense to buy at the current price. Bubbles has occurred before...
>Yes, but at one point we need to ask why people don't want linux

The long tail of software and that the alternatives are good enough. I happen to be a Linux guy, but when I bought my computer, it came with Windows. If I use it to browse the web, play games or type word documents, why should I switch?

Back in the win95/98/3.1 days, Linux's main advantage was stability. How many old-timers spent hours working on a Doc or WordPerfect file, to lose it all because of a GPF? Linux was such a breath of fresh air back then.

Honestly, the "year of the Linux desktop" ended when XP came out.
Social climate is really the most reliable way to temper the effect of social media. If the mainstream media wasn't paid for years to repeat the words "Facebook" and "Twitter", it's possible our present would be significantly different. People should not feel as if they must be on some company's advertising platform in order to maintain friendships with people. It's pretty sick that a lot of people feel this way.

Messages about the damaging effects of social media need to be promoted in society, just as we hammered home the cancer-causing effects of tobacco. In fact, it would be great if there was a counter-advertising campaign against social networks that told people how they worsen depression, how many hours/days/years you're wasting on Facebook, and that you can put down your phone and actually do things with your friends. If Facebook has any real value, it can fight negative press. But they won't because they have very little value; just with big tobacco, they'd spend a bunch of money on misinformation and slander, which would come out and make them look worse than when they started.
Because it acknowledges their trauma as real and it acknowledges that they caused it.

(talking about sociopaths, not Sean Parker)
Author here: the post is based on my direct experience with .io. It is not very clear to me how Afilias is involved in the operational side of things, AFAIK they might have just acquired the existing .io infrastructure and kept it as it is (and same goes for the way more reliable .org TLD)
Why not just heavily tax marijuana? That seems like a more reasonable and targeted way to raise money from this change.
Well, rich people may buy higher quality, but they don't buy proportionate to what average and lower classes spend. The rich invest in tax shelters and other vehicles to make more money.

So it ends up that tax hurts the poor a hell of a lot worse than the rich. And the fact that 7% of someone who is "poor" is a hell of a hit on the low wage they already get (and taxed on).

35% on labor tax, but only 18% on investments. I'm pretty sure Warren Buffet came out on that talking point a while back.
Sorry but I strongly disagree with the "it's the parents job" argument.

Today on HN there was an interesting discussion on addictive apps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15662004

In essence you have parents vs the best funded organizations in the world, packed with PhDs working full time to grab all our attention, children being the most susceptible. The only advantage parents is physical proximity. Disadvantages include lack of time, knowledge, awareness etc. I'm not betting on parents winning
TL;DR - company follows trend of misusing top-level domain of the British Indian Ocean Territories, finds it unreliable and not-so-great, starts the wheels in motion to switch away from it.

Addendum: Mind you I applaud their coming forward to report this. Hopefully people get the message. It's not the first time fashion got the better of a large number of people.
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You're going too hard on the HN marketing. This is your third post in 21 days about apify, slow it down.
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You seem to be extrapolating from an extremely small sample, and one that mostly makes fun of things that would exist (eventually) in any such process. It's not really a useful rebuttal, and you probably should not draw strong conclusions from it.
Sorry, but the title is click bait. Can people just write "Our IO domain Resolution Failed, A Lesson Learned"?

In the "What Really Went Wrong" section, the author wrote:

> it does not take a lot of research to find out that the .io TLD team made several mistakes

and went on to cite two incidents, which are not exclusive to .IO domain. So let's not blame ".io domain team" and only happen to .IO domain, try to convince me (at least the way I read it based on the title) that using .io domain is a bad idea. I should stop using .com then.

For me, I was looking for a "so we are going to switch away from .io domain in the next year or so" at the end of the post, because .io is not good according to the author. The plan instead is just add a backup domain, so it looks like the author is eating his/her own words, even though the critical stuff are going to run over .com. So let's just switch everything over, what's the big deal for your user-facing website not over .com? Do people really think a big deal now about .io vs .com when you have established a business?

Anyway, I do appreciate when a postmortem is available because I can learn something new, but I do hope we write postmortem with an objective tone. So no, if there is a downvote button on HN for the submission, I would downvote.
I don’t understand why this is being downvoted.
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> Life isn't fair. We're all born into different means and of course more money allows for more optionality. The "poor kids" have to work harder to save up their money to get their chance, but that's completely possible

That's making the mistake of equating the way things are with the way they should be.

While there's a lot of variations in opportunity from ability that should be respected, I don't think "being born well off" deserves the same kind of respect.
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This is such a fine gray line that its impossible to conclusively categorize something as evil vs good.

For example: If I decide I want to exercise more, maybe I would appreciate an app which helps me become addicted to exercise. That might be good for me.

However, what if the app pushes me to exercise too much, and I begin to experience health problems associated with destroying muscles? Or, what if the app is formed on bad exercise science and it suggests routines that are bad for me? Now suddenly the addictions created by the app are working against me; the app isn't being irresponsible by helping me exercise, but it is being irresponsible by modifying my behavior and decision making processes to favor using it.

Similarly, is Instagram "good" for you? Probably not. But, per your comment: "there's nothing wrong with giving humans the tools they want". People might want to be addicted to Instagram; that doesn't mean it is good for them and that Instagram should deliver. People want to be addicted to nicotine and alcohol, so we put regulations around it.
Any hint of a timeline for .app availability?

https://www.registry.google/about/domains.html
Children are not stupid. They know.
> Her mother is a lazy, dishonest bitch who bought a fake father rather than finding a real one for her daughter. Japan is full of single men so it's not like that option wasn't available to her.

I think that's harsh and short sighted. Why is marrying a single man better for her daughter? How is that more "real"? It's certainly not true in all cases. If her mother remarried to an abusive alcoholic do you seriously think that's better than hiring what's essentially a professional father?
The assumption in all articles of this variety is that media consumers are either incapable of or not motivated to evaluate the veracity of content placed in front of them. This, rather than the ethics of 'media company X' seems to be the issue worth considering.
Bank fraud frequently requires the crook to supply an account number to transfer the funds to. This is not a problem if the only activity on the account is:

1. Opened with a fake identity

2. Stolen funds received

3. Stolen funds transferred to a bank with (intentionally) poor record keeping, potentially bouncing around a few more times.

Wire transfers seem to be a big hole at the moment.
In a million years they will probably think he invented beer.
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The real question is: "Can an algorithm identify child-friendly content?" The answer is currently unknown. Families are basically the "beta testers" of the algorithms in question, but the downsides of that approach, like exposing kids to really disturbing content, are horrifying.
If only someone would stop him!

Not holding my breath though. Years from now, he and Thiel will probably be chilling in their dr. evil compounds in new zealand while the rest of us are fighting it out over scraps in apocalypto-shanty-town USA.
> "At some point, we will open source and release this synthetically generated data for others to train and validate their own systems and research on."

Glad to hear this.
What really goes into a wire transfer in order make it happen securely? And is it as secure as a Bitcoin transfer? See also: Xiphias' comment about Proof of Military Power.
AI needs to be better than the average human driver to drastically reduce accidents and deaths. We agree on the horn though, it should know when to honk at things.
The micro appealed to me but the typical projects showcased on the home do not look like micro to me, as others have already pointed out. How do you assess the real level of complexity of a project in order to determine its price ? Is it all on the customer side ? Nothing mean, I am just curious tbh.
A lot of these people would be wrong.

What are these well-known essays about, judging from the title alone? If they were linked on HN, would you like the titles changed?

As we may think

A modest proposal

Unto this last

Total eclipse

The emperor's old clothes

The cathedral and the bazaar
Drifting off-topic, but have you tried sumatriptan ("Imitrex")? It seems to have a near-total effectiveness on my ~monthly migraines. Neither acetaminophen nor NSAIDs ever did anything for my migraines.

I agree that directly addressing underlying causes like stress, noise, sleep, and diet are better than a pill.
What will distinguish your book over all of the other C++ books around? What is it you want people to learn from your book?
Filter bubbles have always been an issue. This is not a new problem. Traditional media has the exact same problem.
I would be with Rand Paul but his proposals would mainly reduce taxes for the wealth without making much of a difference for the average guy.
Maybe they can fix the roads with the money they charge ? Also, by adding a cost to go on they would limit traffic.
Scalability. Transactions are usually pretty small compared to annual incomes so the people doing this are doing it a lot, and you will be under some scrutiny after the 75th fraud on your account this year.

This is only an issue because of tracked non-anonymous accounts. The key for money laundering in high profit / service retail businesses is using dirty anonymous cash. Often the customers literally do not exist, imaginary entries are made at the register and cash is stuffed in.

The last suggestion is easily worked around, merely trade device IDs along with account IDs. In fact the easiest way to steal money would be simply to clone your device outright complete with saved passwords etc. Joe certainly doesn't control his own device, not the firmware, OS, or apps, not to mention MITM attacks.
Why do they use mechanical turk to train printed text? You could easily build a tool that transforms ASCII into something that looks like photographed printed text, with different levels of quality (using e.g. erosion and dilation, different fonts, etc.)
I'd say it's extremely taboo to mention anything negative or even the possibility that alcohol is one of the most abused and disruptive drugs in our society.
Data mining for VR content generation?