skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or another way to look at it, you spent and additional $563/mo on transportation costs. It's an interesting optimization...how much further in could you have moved to get the same housing for the ~$2000/mo you spent for housing + transportation? (my guess is not enough to make the transportation costs drop to near $0)
No I didn't, that's just a straw man.
It's just difficult for our gender, see all the entitlements we have and recognize ourself on our gender past.
I expected the downvote, kind of prove how unpopular feminism is around here.
Really? I can transfer $20K with one click, $0 cost if im fine waiting for one of 6 daily Elixir sessions, ~$2 if I want Elixir express.

https://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/news-insights/insight...
or stab-proof clothing

Bullets I can sort of see the reasoning for, but that sounds like a slippery slope towards outlawing even things that might be required in some types of work environment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_protective_equipment
Traffic engineers didn't decide to put two different school across from one another. Perhaps they could have built the elementary school and high school on the same side of the street? Like say, in the giant empty field right there next to the school (pictured in the article).

Traffic engineers didn't decide to put the school on a busy arterial State-Designated Highway. Syracuse Utah has just 6 main arterial roads, and over 50+ small slow neighborhood streets. 90% of the roads in this town are already slow side streets safe for children (the exact ones StrongTowns advocates for), why did they build the schools exclusively on the 5% of roads designated to handle actual traffic needs?

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Ironically, we have a safer way to build streets like this. It's called a freeway, and it's great because it keeps nearly 100% grade-separation between people driving and people walking, while still handling massive transit requirements at high speeds. But we can't have those in cities, because StrongTowns hates them. They are too safe, promote affordable housing too much, and let people get to too many places too quickly.

StrongTowns gets the luxury of claiming every street should be impossible to drive on, and can prattle on about how cheap it is to destroy a street (it costs nothing!). Because StrongTowns does not do any actual engineering or design, they are simply a political campaign against cars.

Real traffic engineers have to actually handle transportation needs of real citizens everyday. Real traffic engineers don't get the luxury of just wishing away peoples lives, or jobs, or homes. So while I'm sure this will be an unpopular opinion, I don't see anything wrong with traffic engineers work here.

I see a school system that decided building two schools on opposite sides of a "State Highway 108" was a great idea, and is now suffering terrible consequences because of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_State_Route_108
Not to get too philosophical, but the problem with anarchism is rooted in our evolution and in natural selection itself.

Our strength and security comes from our ability to assemble and organize.

Then there's also some game theory involved with the state of the world right now. If we all agree to dismantle our organizational apparatus and military infrastructure then the last group to do so would be at quite an advantage to take over. Not too unlike the nuclear situation.
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I fully support Mozilla for doing this. Developing a browser is expensive and money doesn’t grow on trees. Cheers Mozilla
"Shouldn't we consider it a giant, massive red flag that you need a corporation backing you to maintain one of the most critical pieces of web software?"

Yes.

Interestingly Mozilla Foundation is not asking for donations.

Mozilla Corporation is selling traffic to ad-supported search engines, and profiting handsomely.

Instead they are asking for user cooperation in their experiments.

Why not create a different breed of browser that does not expose users to advertising. Profit motive?

Let users support it with donations.

This should be the mission.
>But I was adamant about my kids having a better life than me."

The motivator for many a seemingly crazy, very large sacrifices. I hope things work out well for her children!
I agree with you, that is responsibility of the parents. Anyway, that doesn't change the fact that youtube has trash content targeted to small kids
I've just replied to you with JS disabled. I also created this account with no JS (this was a year ago). Upvoting also works without JS.

In my experience, of all the websites that don't work without JS, only a minority actually need it. Most of the time it's silly things like articles and blog posts that just show a blank screen without JS, or drop-down menus that rely on JS even though there are perfectly fine non-JS ways to do it, etc.
I will have to check that out! I suspect that these neighborhoods have a level of density that, if proposed in a typical American suburb, would spark cries of "Manhattanization."
And we tried anarchy plenty. Power, unfortunately, abhors a vacuum.
I still get accused of victim blaming. I get other ugly attacks. My gender does not 100% give me a free pass to say whatever I want on the subject.

I would like to think that years of study and introspective contemplation have helped me craft an evenhanded and well thought out position on certain subjects.

My observation is that most people, regardless of which "side" they are on, somewhat ham-handedly speak to only the concerns of their side. This very often comes across as dismissive of the concerns of the other side, even when that isn't intended.

So, if someone wants to speak to difficult subjects, I think good advice is to consider how things impact all parties, not just their own side, and work at considering details like context and how that makes your message look. If you barge into a discussion of rape and all you say is (or sounds like) "what about da menz!", well, yeah, that will go badly.
how can gasoline go bad?
> it is illegal to possess bulletproof or stab-proof clothing without a permit. (!)

I can see the bulletproof part - don't want criminals to be wearing it and thus forcing police to have high power rifles around to take them down, which also might mean those kind of weapons would get in the hands of criminals as well through the black market and such.

What's the logic with stab-proof clothing then? Does police in Canada carry knives and is forced to use them to stop criminals.
> Traffic is also a byproduct of increased population, jobs consolidating into a few large cities

There are plenty of large cities in the world where most people have reasonable (e.g. <30m each way on transit) commutes.

The problem with the US is that the infrastructure and regional/urban planning is largely designed to only support low-density development, with unscalable and extremely space-inefficient car transportation for every trip, so when population goes up beyond the capacity of key bottleneck roads everyone is screwed.

If you instead build subways, BRT, pedestrian friendly streets, and both office space and medium-density housing near transit corridors, then scaling is much easier by just adding more frequent trains/buses.
I set mine (2008 vintage) up with the newest OS they would run and the newest version of Chrome, locked down an account and let my kids at them (3 & 5 yrs old at the time). They go to PBS Kids, ABC Mouse, and some sites the school gives us.

My oldest's math skills have really flourished on Dreambox, and my youngest is essentially teaching herself to read faster than I can on ABC Mouse. Plus the crappy wireless has taught my oldest daughter to diagnose wifi problems :).

They love taking pictures of themselves with the webcam, and I don't have to worry about them messing it up. It's on a little table in the living room where I can easily supervise, and they love "working" while I do work on my laptop.
Exactly. "Screw this hellhole I'll litter if I want to it can't make this dump any worse" applies to non-victimless crimes too.
The poverty thing could well be sampling bias, I'm sure rich folks have a much easier time avoiding convictions.
We had an argument on IRC about whether it was possible that this was written by a char-RNN or a word-RNN and concluded it wasn't, because it maintains world state too well, never misspells things, an some things should not ever appear because they don't appear in the books' text (like nowhere inside the novels do they ever refer to the titles, of course, so how would a NN learn the naming scheme 'Harry Potter and the X of Y'?). Not to mention the narrative arc! The predictive keyboard explained all this, plus the crowdsourcing & editing it all into order. It's probably better to think of it as a kind of souped-up Mad Libs than augmentation or AI.
Don't argue with us. Argue with satoshi. https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg09...
No, Keybase uses these social network proofs to verify the ownership of the public key so you can encrypt messages to it, like what a "web of trust" would do in traditional public key directories.

Since they need public proofs, email will not be supported, for example. Also, they're very slow[1] in adding more providers, or perhaps they don't want more providers.

But yes, I think the database Keybase is building can be used for a login system somehow.

[1]: https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/518
No. It is actually pretty easy. Just fork chromium, strip out the spyware, and add your own layer of features on top.

There are a lot of companies doing this now and Mozilla would be far more successful if they followed this model instead of trying to copy chrome's user experience on top of their inferior browser engine.
On the contrary, libertarianism regards the law as force organized for the common defense and nothing more. [1] The protection of our negative rights is the one essential function of government in the libertarian view.

I've always been curious: how does anarchism reconcile your right not to be harmed with the supposed right of other individuals to do anything they please, including harm you? Do we even have a right not to be harmed? If we do, how is justice served -- can we serve it ourselves, or should it be delegated somehow? Or are these questions "out of scope" and justice is handled on a case-by-case basis that's not prescribed by anarchism?

[1] http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html
Thank you for the missing context.

Would you (or someone else in the know) please clarify what additional user data (if any) the default-enabled bootstrap add-on caused to be collected when the extensions.pug.lookingglass preference was disabled? I did some searching, but it's unclear to me whether SHIELD studies automatically cause any additional data to be collected and to whom that might go. I think the support site[1] could do a lot better addressing that topic. For example, it mentions (but does not link to) the default data collection policy.

Does the fact that this study didn't pop an opt-in UI definitively mean that whatever additional user data might be collected was all within Mozilla's privacy policy? The support site says that opt-in step, "will happen when a particular study needs to collect data that is not covered by default data collection policy." Does this apply when the study is just a bootstrap, and the actual extension is pref-enabled?

Lastly, I appreciate that you've being candid in sharing your personal feelings about the inappropriateness of pushing this extension. I'd like Mozilla to go one step further and comment on whether an extension of this nature is even appropriate to consider for a SHIELD study. Based on my reading of the feature's design and history (starting at the wiki[2] and branching out from there), as well as the aforementioned user-facing documentation, I believe SHIELD is intended for user research into features/ideas intended to be shipped to all Firefox users. I didn't find definitive guidelines on what constitutes an appropriate study for this program (if aren't publicly available, that's something Mozilla might want to address in the wake of this controversy), but I would disqualify Looking Glass in at least four different ways:

* Fleeting - whatever appeal it has to its target audience has a short shelf-life
* Frivolous - it has no utility and doesn't substantially improve any aspect of the user experience
* Hyper-targeted - it's only for Mr Robot fans
* Advertising-related - this adds an extra level of privacy concern for users

User research is a delicate matter requiring a lot of care to balance collection with privacy. To enroll (or stay enrolled) in these programs, users must be confident that they aren't trading too much privacy and are getting tangible benefits in return. Looking Glass fails the privacy confidence test for being advertising. It fails the tangible benefit test for being fleeting, frivolous, and hyper-targeted.

SHIELD isn't some convenient way to push features. It's a user research tool. Studies ought to have the gravity that the term implies. Mozilla hasn't just failed to respect user's concern over their privacy, it has also undercut its own user research efforts.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/shield
[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Shield
[3] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/lookingglass
I guess this what republicans meant when they said they were job creators
"Anything that requires JavaScript" might be a better criteria. Hn gracefully falls back without JavaScript enabled because it's not necessary, just some added convenience.
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My secret weapon for headphones is to buy pro audio/studio headphones. Their market just won't let them get away with gimmicks.

If you want closed back (recommended for office listening - keeps noise in an out) get AKG k550/k553 (negligibly different editions of the same thing)

If you want open back (scary accurate but bleeds sound like crazy) get a pair of Grados, the lower end ones like the 65 will do fine. I say this with love, but those headphones ruined some records for me. You can tell where they cut vocal takes on major label records because the noise floor drops. Crazy stuff.
The CMO was previously at BitTorrent which is fairly user hostile.
I'd like to see something that acts like a stronger version of corn starch and water. Normally flexible, but stiffens up when moved at high speed.
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That's the joke. Hemet is about as awful a place as any ever was. I say this with all authority as it's my hometown.

It has an intractable gang, homeless and drug problem. The crime rate is twice that of Compton.
thanks a lot for the video
I've used hetzner, works great and a tiny fraction of the cost. But you have to manage nodes yourself and bandwidth isn't great.
Some context for some things Stove says in his essay: He'd just retired because he'd had enough of the craziness at Sydney Uni as Marxist/feminist/post-modernists tried to take over the arts/philosophy departments, which literally split the philosophy department into 2 departments for some years. See James Franklin's The Sydney Philosophy Disturbances[0] and Stove's funny/depressing A Farewell to Arts: Marxism, Semiotics and Feminism (1986) [1] featuring some examples of the kind of prose the new style of philosopher was producing. It starts with the memorable paragraph "THE FACULTY OF Arts at the University of Sydney is a disaster-area, and not of the merely passive kind, like a bombed building, or an area that has been flooded. It is the active kind, like a badly-leaking nuclear reactor, or an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle."

He also wrote a book, Popper and After: Four Modern Irrationalists[2], (i.e. Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend) reprinted as Anything Goes: Origins of the Cult of Scientific Irrationalism, about what he saw as perhaps a similar 20th C crazy free-for-all trend in philosophy of science.

[0] http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/sydq.html

[1] http://gerryonolan.com/public_html/stove/arts.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popper_and_After
Did you honestly expect that just because the stakes are people’s lives, that somehow the result wouldn’t be ugly? Welcome to Earth, or rather, to the rest of Earth which has never been so monumentally sheltered. To speak by way of analogy, it’s not unlike the harm done in the tech world, to people, to economies, to the environment, in the name of progress and “growing pains” of new tech.
You haven't even established the timeline here. In any case, it doesn't matter, someone decided to put a crosswalk across a four-lane 40 mph road. There is no world where this is acceptable design backed by evidence.

And in any case, if the tradeoff you are suggesting is dead kids versus "impossible to drive on, war on cars" I'm sure where an engineers opinion will fall. But traffic engineers aren't all that.
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After 6-12 months, gasoline starts transforming into a gummy plastic-like substance. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline#Stability. There are additives that extend the shelf life of gasoline (fuel stabilizers) but that only extends the shelf life to about 24 months at the maximum.

Diesel fuel also has a shelf life as well.
>Chasing down misidentified flying objects and hoaxes will not. The idea that numerous spaceships, each with more potential kinetic energy than mankind has created in its entire history, are just flying around our atmosphere without leaving massive and easily recordable emissions is ludicrous.

Identifying, understanding and explaining/eliminating exceptions is how science progresses. I know it causes discomfort to see something that defies expectations right in front of you. That does not mean we do not examine it. We should.
where did yo get that idea?
That is a really hot take. Anarchism developed as a response to industrialization and the transformation of society caused by the adoption of capitalist modes of production.
Or it's a giant graft program.
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It might interest you that most Linux development is, in fact, done by corporations, and not by broke-ass developers funded by donations.
> Shouldn't the actual meat of what a person says hold greater weight than the group(s) that a person identifies with?

Is this rhetorical? Since identity politics became a thing.

[edit] It's literally in the name. Downvoters really have no debating skills. It's pretty pathetic really. I'm glad people like that are going out of fashion and we'll soon be returning to an age of logic, reason, and open debate.
It's not boring if the majority of people think these bad things are good.
A list of Madhumita Pandey's publications can be found at https://theconversation.com/profiles/madhumita-pandey-276284
> At the scale of society I see Marxism as just as important.

what'd I just read? I think it was something like "100 million people died in the 20th century" because Marxism [1]

> How to make a political program out of anarchism?

nah bruh... the article is explicit:

> We are anti-political because we are interested in the self-organization of the power of individuals. This tension towards self-organization is completely orthogonal to democracy in any of its various forms.

[1] http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/11/20/nicolae-one-hun...
In that case how would hate speech qualify as a valid exception to liberty according to Mill?
Well...they filed reports.
You go to your local PD and you can find someone pointing at file cabinets full of all kind of reports. You will also find someone there ranting about how he is not getting enough funding to do his job well.
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The war on drugs is an EPIC faulted by any measure. It’s almost criminal in itself. Addiction is a health issue NOT a brutal police force issue.

End the war on drugs. Stop tearing families apart for non violent offenders and victimless crimes.

Dissolve the DEA. Return the money to the tax payers. Lower taxes.

Stop the savagery. Portugal and now Norway. Hopefully the sane nations continue to grow.
I believe the suggestion was that the keyboard offered up multiple options and a human chose from the available options.
That is an invalid comparison. There is a world of difference between panic and anger.
Aren't concatenative languages like Forth and Factor essentially what you're looking for?
>Given that the WaPo article says that many of them had only a third or fourth grade education, this strikes me as possibly just making fun of people with disabilities.

When the topic is rape, you always go into these comments expecting some kind of reflexive criticism or minimisation but this is honestly one of the most bizarre manifestations of that yet.
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Do any companies offer you some kind of incentive to write reviews or rate all the products you bought? I would have thought some variation of this would be a good way to drown out fake reviews. Maybe this is too expensive to do well.
>I'm also slightly sympathetic to the idea that these user studies / telemetry can be used to improve FF. By abusing the feature, they encourage people to disable it, which harms Firefox if you take the position that the data gained by telemetry is useful. I certainly no longer have it turned on.

Count me in here... I was opposed to this feature and commented about making it Opt-in when it was introduced, however I did leave it enabled on a few of my systems believing it would only be used to improve the technology of the browser.

It is now (or will be soon) disabled on every system I manage...

Good Job Mozilla...
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When you're defending malicious attacks on people's characters, for the crime of having the wrong thoughtful opinion, on the basis that "life is rough", you've hit rock bottom.

That's not even a defense of the behavior, just an acknowledgement that people do bad things. You could say the same thing about any bad behavior, up to and including mass murder. Welcome to Earth, where people do such things!
Japan also has excellent public transportation, and is much less restrictive than Singapore. In major metro areas, its rail systems even make a profit.

It has sprawl but it's far less auto-oriented than the US.

Some major factors are:
-expressways are almost all tolled
-carbuyers are required to demonstrate that they own/rent a parking space, rather than policy than mandates every new housing unit and business have enough parking that demand is more than sated even at zero cost
-zoning that allows sufficiently-dense land use such that most residences are within a short walk of a rail station— this station usually has groceries and other necessities nearby, as well as schools within walking distance
The efficiency and power of modern weaponry far surpasses what the Founding Fathers could dream of, it's hard to fault them for not foreseeing the advancements in weapon tech long after their deaths.

I agree with you on looking outside of the US, though.
Again?

People paste that quote everywhere, as if Churchill or whoever said that was some sage with infinite wisdom.