skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sucks to be a black person in such a society, though. For no reason other than their skin color they are lumped in with a group of people lower average prosperity and then are denied access to resources and systems because of this grouping. Especially when these disparities are themselves caused by a history of deliberate oppression. How convenient that we get to continue to perpetuate inequalities that were themselves caused by the group in the majority. The grouping itself is a problem and produces false or misleading ideas about individuals.

Men are far more likely to commit violent crimes than women. Should employers and landlords be able to blanket deny access to men?
Pretty sick of this, really. I know it's meant to stop idiots from doing work that could endanger them and others, but I've serviced my own boilers, installed my own sockets for years and even laid out the electrical for a whole house.

Now some dickwad comes and tells me "man, that is illegal". k
Probably because:

- The U2 uses old parts that aren't wildly/cheaply available anymore.

- The Global Hawk doesn't have a person in it. So they can send them into more dangerous situations without worrying. Which means they likely want a cheaper robot version. (Though, before RnD costs which skyrocketed, the price appeared to be only about 10mil cheaper.)

- New sensor modules have a different footprint that the shell can be designed around than a plane designed in the 70's. Also, more computer aided design into the entire thing.

- More fuel economy means more air time. (Additionally no fatigued pilot means more air time.) I know you said "remove the pilot" but the point is the entire thing can be designed for more air time, and more efficient fuel use.

Of course, often the most obvious answer is simply: Money. Tax payer dollars are "Free", and there's political power to be had in rewarding "your" defense contractor the ability to make brand new, amazing, super, bells-and-whistle aircraft. (::cough::F-35::cough::) And there's no ego boost for simply upgrading existing planes. (::cough::A-10::cough::)

Since every new program seems to be full of cost overruns I really wonder if they intentionally do that. They low-ball it, pocket the surplus "costs" as long as they can until congress gets pissed and then magically "fix" the product with a "modest" cash-influx bill from congress to finally finish it off. Because it's politically dangerous to be a congressperson that voted for this failed product that then has to be repealed. So they could, in essence, "fail" at making their product up until the point where it's just under "repeal time" and pocket all that cash.

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Here's a quote on Wikipedia that lines up partially with my comment about costs to fly:

"Secretary stated: "The Global Hawk is essential to national security; there are no alternatives to Global Hawk which provide acceptable capability at less cost; Global Hawk costs $220M less per year than the U-2 to operate on a comparable mission; the U-2 cannot simultaneously carry the same sensors as the Global Hawk; and if funding must be reduced, Global Hawk has a higher priority over other programs."[21]"
For sure! Doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to give them a helping hand though. I know I fell victim to the exact same problem when I was learning front-end dev. I'm sure everyone in that space has had a "why on earth have I been using this for the past 6 months?" moment for one library or another. I just feel like we should be taking more preventative measures against that.
What I was trying to say was that I believe competition will come as it won't be required to run expensive wire everywhere. Wireless, long distance wifi, satellites, balloons, etc. could bring competition to areas that traditionally haven't had it. That may or may not affect price, but it could affect internet filtering and throttling.
good, no one wants to live near trash!
If the reporting is faithful (big if) then Yusupov is demonstrating neurotic, paranoid and controlling tendencies. Maybe that's just his personality; if focused correctly I imagine those traits could benefit a startup's growth. Another plausible explanation: his regret over what happened to Vine after selling it to Twitter has led to obsessively avoiding any chance of making similar "mistakes".
The U-2 was developed in 18 months with COTS goods and requires a finesse to fly that I think would be tough to replicate with computers.

And Russian SAMs can easily take out a U-2, so I'm not sure what the author is trying to say there, to be honest with you.
> it will also allow ISP's to control and block content if someone pays them to do so.

Content is controlled and blocked by advertisers in the application layer already. E.g. youtube
If people keep following the logical end of this, then facebook and google's entire business model is going to implode on itself.

All of online marketing is basically segmenting populations by various group traits. It says nothing about the individual, but as a marketer you think in those broad categories that maybe, just maybe different ages, races, locations might respond differently to ads.
Getting a lawyer and suing the owner is not a reasonable thing to ask of people living in apartments.
Why do you think chess.com is a relic? It seems to be doing better than ever.

You might be right that ICC is more serious but chess.com has been making great strides in providing nifty web and online apps.

chess.com sponsors online and regular OTB tourneys like the recent Isle of Man super Swiss, not sure what ICC does.

I feel that ICC is the one that is a relic from 1990s.

In all fairness I had not played on ICC in 10 years ever since they tried to blackmail me in ordering a membership lest my 10 years of tens of thousands of stored games on them would vanish. (I started on ICC when Sleator split/took the code from original ICS in mid 1990s).

I just checked ICC online presence and played a few games as a guest, there was 1 GM and one IM online.

Even lichess has more titled players than that.

My bias is that chess.com offered me a full membership as a lowly FM while ICC didn't offer anything but blackmail.

Again, I could be wrong, but the impression to me is that ICC is still sleeping on its laurels from late 1990s.

Another note is that all the other chess sites (lichess, chess.com, playchess) have a notably more international feel.
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Wow I guess I gotta stop eating bananas now :(
Easy beautiful software architecture diagrams
This could trigger a new line of wearables, one with a Faraday Cage sewn right in. Right pocket is open, left pocket is a cage ;)
> What is your life like to where you think not having a cell is impractical.

In the 90s it was inconvenient to be out and about if you were expecting a call. You might be able to check your messages though, by dialing your answering machine from a payphone.

Payphones barely exist anymore, so it would be even more inconvenient. If you need to be reachable at all (nowadays by email/sms), a cell phone is nearly a requirement. If you do not need to be reachable, you still put yourself at a significant disadvantage by not carrying one.

What is your life like where you would not be inconvenienced by not having a cell phone?
I already in v57 had to set privacy.firstparty.isolate.restrict_opener_access to false in about:config because every site is wanting me to login all the time... (At least I assume that was the reason.) I did toggle privacy.firstparty.isolate to true, though.
I know a lady who runs a hospital pharmacy. She was telling me that one of her employees has narcolepsy, and about the accomodations they made. It wasn't even that much - supervisors asking the employee if they needed to get up and walk around, and not being surprised if the worker was asleep at their desk.

It's also, if I understand correctly, kind of legally required that they make "reasonable" accomodations. This sounded pretty reasonable to me - they didn't even have to buy any equipment.
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I like crows a lot and I respect them for their canny nature. I don't know how well I would like having a hundred of them constantly within close earshot.
> But with the FCC now chaired by Republican Ajit Pai, the commission suggested in its annual broadband inquiry last month that Americans might not need a fast home Internet connection. Instead, mobile Internet via a smartphone, with speeds of just 10Mbps downstream and 1Mbps upstream, might be all people need, the FCC now suggests.

but given a new definition of "broadband", competition will increase significantly. Now you can not only choose between Comcast and DSL, but AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile/Sprint. See? Lots of competition!

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/ajit-...
To be fair, it would be fairly unusual for a blue collar worker to be a regular member of a website focused on tech and venture capitalism. I'm sure the primary demographics of this site lean rich and urban.
I think where it crosses the line is where we've explicitly made things illegal (such as housing discrimination) due to past bad behavior.

I don't think targeting based on race is wrong, per se. BET shouldn't be forced to advertise to white people, a Christian dating site should be allowed to target Christians, etc. But housing is another category altogether and ad targeting based on protected categories should be disallowed. It sounds like Facebook realizes this and called this a "technical error."
Bitcoin has proven to be an effective ledger in regards to uptime, consistency and not getting hacked. The transaction fees are becoming higher but it's probably still cheaper than administering your own database that's potentially worth billions of dollars. Bitcoin is worth billions of dollars so I'd rather trust it to maintain my records than some municipalities IT guy.
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Actually, you can't by gender, under obamacare.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/17/obamacare-women_n_...
Wouldn't its profits be coming from the fees it charges me, and not from the investments themselves?

Do normal mutual funds pay capital gains taxes as the things they invest other people's money in are changed?
In security we work on addressing vulnerabilities, reducing the attack surface, prevention and so on. We don't wait for evidence that a vulnerability is being exploited.

This is especially true for cryptography where a cryptosystem used today has to resist theoretical attackers that can use hardware that will exists in decades from now.
US telecoms regulator unveils sweeping plans to dismantle net neutrality
I'll find out soon enough!
I'm really confused because it seems most people haven't used these tools.

In reality, people respond better to people that look like them in ads. People talk about this all the time when talking about "representation."

Say you have a housing and want to target "families" -

It's probably smart to create the following ad groups:

* White families

* Black families

* Hispanic families

* Mixed families

* And however many more depending on ad group size.

Then you'd create a specific ad using images that reflect those families. That's pretty standard online ad management + part of the reason why so much spend has shifted online - it can be a lot more precise.

Sure, you could get one image and blanket target everyone, but I would bet your ROI gets beat by the above strategy.
Razer Blades? Not sure about refresh rate, but they have amazing keyboards and displays from what I hear
> It’s not the placement that’s the value that’s being sold

Yes, it is ad placement that is the actual thing being sold. Advertisers hope to get something else out of it (usually sales), but what is actually sold is placement.

> So they definitely use your data to sell your attention, which is the currency you’re paying with.

No, they are selling the placement. The placement is valuable because, in aggregate, there is an expectation that a certain share of the people to whom it is shown will give some attention to it, but the advertiser generally pays by impression, not by seconds viewed × share of viewers attention devoted to the ad during that time.

But, in any case, either selling placement or attention is different than selling the user, which is a flatly inaccurate description used solely because of its emotional charge.
Why should it be a handout?

Phillips got paid nicely for those devices, they should just as well support them. Here is the job for the regulator. And a lesson to the future about the risks of privatization – never let a company have a carrot without the regulator having an effective whip.
Not being purposely obtuse, just confused (or unimaginative). How?
As programmer in his mid 20s, NN was the first political issue I developed a position on when I was a child. The fight for the open Internet has been going on for a long time and I really reciprocate that feeling of helplessness in the face of these patently corrupt regulators. Im calling reps and filling comments with the FCC and telling everyone I know about this, but I still feel like these people are gonna shove it down our throats. This whole process is so anti-democratic it's depressing.
Agreed. I would also recommend this conference talk on the subject by Nickolas Means, it was very well done: https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLBzScQzZ83I81fnpqX2AkYD5c5...
You stopped reading the entire article because they dropped an "of"?
I think an important distinction would be the rate of investment in customer facing bandwidth vs the rate of investment into Tier 1 facing bandwidth. If they are spending more at the customer edge so they can sellmore ~100mbps plans to consumers, without the same rate of spending on the connections to T1 providers something is amiss. However if they are matching investment and continually adding bandwitdth to providers then I have no basis.
I just dont think they are. I think they are allowing the oversubscription rate to bloom while the avg per user usage continues to grow. And have heard it first hand from one of the biggest Tier 1 telcos about the pain they go through when trying to upgrade bandwidth to Comcast.

As a provider on the net I dont have many options to ensure you quality access to my content. I can't route around Comcast if theyre your last hop. I can pay Comcast for the privilege to send you content but I only get around 50 million subscribers and at 10x the price of a Tier 1. The Tier 1 will get me access to the entire internet.

Also with all transit pricing, the more you buy the cheaper it is. So the bigger players have an unfair advantage in economy of scale when dealing with the likes of Comcast.
Because it would be designed by engineers using computers and would eventually become so over-engineered that it would be a money sink and never fly in any real missions.
How is web side javascript being sandboxed from extensions? Extensions can inject javascript into web pages. (Assuming it works like Chrome, then sure the code runs in a separate isolated world by default, but you can inject code to run in the web page's own context by appending a script element to the page.)
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So you're talking about businessmen, not workers. Businessmen are doing well across the board. It doesn't much matter what they did before they were businessmen.
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> Do you think that's a new thing?

No, but the extreme automation and beginning of human-like skills across all domains of knowledge are a new thing.

With automation of the essentials plus a bit more, we can finally start free ourselves from a lifetime of work. The wealthy already have, and choose what they wish to do. I only want that.

> As if not being a productive member of society leading to poverty is this evil new capitalistic creation?

No. That threat's always been there. But there wasn't a good answer how to fix it. Communism (ala USSR) certainly didn't work. They just changed the owner from a capitalist to a uncaring state. But one thing Marx failed to grasp was that computerization and automation was the way out of both old systems. That way, there's no compulsed labor.

> It's amazing to me that you choose to work for someone for an agreed upon salary, providing stability and security to you, and then have an issue with the concept of work ethic because if you don't work for them or someone else you will be poor.

Because it's not so egalitarian like you put it. You should full realize that there's a tremendous amount of asymmetry - They have the money, the legal, the govt clout. What do you have? Your labor. That's it. And you, the individual are expendable. I mean, who cares about where you sleep, what you eat, and basic necessities of life? I guess sleeping under a bridge is illegal for both the poor as it is the rich.

Unions served as a balance to that implicit, ever present threat. But they've been demonized long enough in this country, that US union membership is what, 15%? And in the tech sector, unions are non-existent. I certainly would want one myself.
And that new devices would break in new ways. Good thing about old devices, is that we gathered enough knowledge to know how to fix them.

Considering the amount of iron lunges still in use, it would probably be more cost effective to keep fixing the ones already in use, until all the current patients die.
I normally have about a 3-4 hour window in which I can be extremely productive when coding. The rest of the day it's extremely difficult for me to get anything substantial done.
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Micromanagement in code reviews
How does a middle finger get transmitted? Had ascii art handy?
Where is the same uproar that happened in 2013 and stopped this B.S.?

Is it because net neutrality is now a good thing for the big tech encumbents? I mean this stifles innovation aka the little guys who’d they have to buy or compete with. Though overall it stifles innovation period!

Stupid Trump.. the worst..a baby ..an egomaniac ..an embarrassment.. I could go on and on...
Here's a map of the major players carving up territory like cartels; https://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/04/01/16998/us-internet...

Notice how almost none of the service areas intersect? Internet competitiveness in the US is measured by census zones, and they know that. So they carve up territory block by block, allowing them to be engage in "competition" without competing. (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/isps-dont-want-t...)

And here's one of the many, many court cases and lobbying efforts they've engaged in to keep rivals from getting a toe hold in their territory; https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/1/8530403/chattanooga-comcas...
I thought I was the only one with an issue with Firefox57. Got a Macbook Pro 16 GB, 3.1 Ghz Core i7, MacOSX Sierra (10.12.6). The CPU goes wild during a search on Google Maps and also on certain pages of forbes.com. On forbes I've disabled the Ublock origin coz they politely asked me to.

At one point the whole browser crashed. So right now got Chrome and FF open and am switching depending on the site. Might just end up back in Chrome if this isn't resolved.
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> proof of ownership (but not THE ownership itself)

The two could be if not the same then at least intertwined even for tangible assets. One could imagine a safety deposit box for example, with an electronic lock that would open not with a combination but a signature from the key that currently controls it on the blockchain.

That would be a nifty hack (and also a good plot for a movie where the hero manages to transfer ownership just in time for the bad guys to reach it).
I expressed myself poorly. Please accept my apologies.

I did not mean everyone who writes JS is a bad programmer. That's not only a dogmatic statement but demonstrably false.

However, people who shouldn't be programmers have to land somewhere and right now its JS.-- just like VB was back in the day.

It's clear to me at least, that JS has been stretched beyond its abstraction level. It's ripe for replacement, its just that attempts to replace it have been closed solutions, so JS continues.
CRA (Canadian's IRS equivalent) says bartering creates a taxable event, be it Bitcoin or turnips. Whenever you do the trade, you're supposed to calculate the value of what you're offering in Canadian Dollars. So buying in Bitcoin is not very different than buying in US Dollars.
I can't offer you 120Hz, but the ThinkPad P51 with 4K screen has excellent colour gamut and accuracy and the best laptop keyboard in the business (with the possible exception of the old-style ThinkPad keyboard currently available only in the limited-edition "ThinkPad 25"). Battery life is pretty good.

Downsides: relatively bulky, pricey, no touchscreen or stylus input. (Upside of that: matt rather than glossy screen, which I think is difficult to combine with a touchscreen.)
Thomas?
I did mention a pay ethic and you even quoted it - "...basic common sense when it comes to employee compensation and morale." I also indicated that if the OP didn't feel they were being fairly compensated they should have a discussion about it and if the outcome is not appropriate that they should leave, presumably because there is either a mismatch of opinion regarding OP's skill set and what it is worth, or that employer is part of the ones that don't have common sense. Employees leaving is one of the natural checks on the power balance between employees and employers in the free market. And in the industry that most here on HN work for, it is easier than most to find a job elsewhere as the tech industry is in high demand for skilled employees.

It's not mind-blowing when you consider that productivity is heavily linked to technological advances. Let's take a historical example - the barcode scanner. Prior to its creation, cashiers had to know the price of all items or check the price tags that were manually stickered onto every item by someone else in the store. Then someone came along and made it possible to have UPC's printed right onto the original packaging and then scanned instantaneously at the register, with essentially no errors ever. That both reduced the skill required by the cashiers as well as boosting (drastically) productivity. Yet no additional effort, creativity, or skill was required on the part of the cashier. If a tool comes along that makes my job easier and/or more accurate my employer will pay for it, but I'd be really surprised if they suddenly gave me a pay boost because of it.

The other half of this is that welfare programs subsidize the lower income workers. WalMart would not be able to pay <$10 an hour if welfare did not exist. If people didn't have the government as a backstop, you can guarantee they would stand up and demand a higher wage so that they could meet their basic needs.
Interesting. Allen is still my favourite.
Willow Garage is defunct. They closed doors in early 2014. This point is not really made on their website.

What's more troubling to me is I've been hearing about ROS 2.0 since 2014, and no progress (at least outwardly) has been made.
Not sure why you are downvoted. I thought exactly the same thing after looking at the commit.

As a software developer, the habit committing smaller changes has saved me a lot of time. Even more so, a clean distinction between refactorings (e.g. moving or renaming things) and functional changes (e.g. adding or fixing things) is vital to any large code base.

As the saying goes: "for each desired change, make the change easy (warning: this may be hard), then make the easy change" (Kent Beck)
Pick up an LTSB release and remove the desktop (custom shell).

It looks a lot like Arch / Debian with first class hardware support.
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I'll take a frame of latency and Wayland's not-completely-insane model over X any day.