skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
according to the original article it wasn't even people telling Sam he's an idiot/asshole. He was just in Beijing being fawned over and thought it would be nice if he was in SF too.
Still disagree vehemently. One "brilliant jerk" who isn't shy about saying that "gays shouldn't be allowed to marry" or "Jews kill and eat babies" or "all muslims are terrorists and we shouldn't allow them in the country" in an environment that is tolerant to his views can make an environment hostile for 50 non-jerks whom you'll never have a chance to discover are brilliant.

If you try to tell me I have an obligation for the sake of "progress" to tolerate people who condone or advocate either violence or the denial of rights towards myself or people I care about, I will laugh in your face and ask you (politely, the first time) to get out of my place of work.
I'm arguing that mileage effects are much bigger unless you regularly flip cars when, say, a lease expires.

AAA publishes car ownership cost numbers. But the big challenge of quantifying this in general is that the relatively fixed component is a lot more for someone who gets a new leased vehicle every three years vs. someone who owns a car for 10-15 years and 150K miles.

http://newsroom.aaa.com/tag/driving-cost-per-mile/
And the counterargument to the original post on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15936614
Good luck in the jungle. I suggest to download the Primitive Technology channel first from YouTube.
How would you go about tracing the steps? Are there some large database of OEM factories where you can contact them in English (assuming China).

I too would love to know exactly where and who made it, how many middle-men have stepped in with their own markup to finally Amazon.

Because it's clear that Amazon doesn't give two shit about who and what gets sold, they just care about volume. Fixing reviews is not part of that strategy.
Forks seem to be the best option right now.

Fork of Firefox: https://www.waterfoxproject.org

Fork of Chrome: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
This is why I subscribe to an independent review and consumer advice service / magazine. Money, even in small amounts, seems to distort reviews. Before I trust a review I want to know where the money that paid for it came from.
How is Monero viewed right now in the cryptocurrency community? Is it just another asset class or can it actually function as a currency? I have been disillusioned by all the offerings out there but I'm intrigued by Monero.
It would have been easy to root out the rot; let the bad banks fail, and let the good banks stay afloat. “Lend without limit, to solvent firms, against good collateral, at 'high rates' - Bagehot's rule. Geithner and company argued that doing so would destroy the system. If it turned out that all the banks were bad, maybe it would serve the citizens best to have a new system.
On my `about:addons` page under `Extensions` I see an entry for `Looking Glass`. It has no icon. If you click it, it expands to read:

Looking Glass

By
PUG Experience Group (list of names) <a contact email>

MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT THAN YOURS.

Looking Glass is a collaboration between Mozilla and the makers of Mr. Robot to provide a shared world experience. Are you a fan of Mr. Robot? If so, join the hunt for answers!

Participating in this shared world experience requires explicit user opt in. If you are not actively participating in the ARG (Augmented Reality Game) no modifications will be made to Firefox.

https://support.mozilla.org/kb/lookingglass

---

I do think they should have added an icon and NOT used the extensions as a delivery channel but I also don't think it screams malware. There is a contact email and a link to a page explaining the extension.
We are survival machines for genes who evolved brains in order to predict which moves will improve the probability of the survival of our genes. The survival machines who evolve the better predictive models fastest are the ones who win. The best way that I know how to evolve my predictive model quickly is to argue with those who hold views that are different than my own. In the majority of these cases, both parties benefit by improving their predictive models.
I’m not sure why, but hacker news seems to filter out a lot of unpopular opinions.
This slows the rate by which we evolve our predictive models.
This slows the rate of innovation.
IMHO this leaves us all poorer both individually and collectively.
Been using Emacs since '89 and did not know this was a thing. Thanks!
Why does support for voting rights, civil liberties, human rights, government transparency, media fact-checking, public education, international cooperation and cultural exchange, campaign finance reform, etc. now constitute one man’s capitalized “Vision”? In general those are fundamental western values supported by broad majorities of the American public since long before Soros.

Hollywood is somewhat unique in that (a) it is located in a region with center-left politics relative to the USA, and (b) it has a concentration of rich celebrities who come from an arty background rather than a business background, and therefore have different values and priorities, and use their personal public stature to promote those. That doesn’t mean that it is politically monolithic, or that local businesses and other institutions are particularly “progressive”.
I thought he used Mint.
For me, it's not necessarily just that I pushed too far too fast. It's that I realized that if I do push far, that I need a good amount of recovery time to deal with it. That is, I'm OK with dealing with one big stressful event, but it's the "death by a thousand cuts" that I just can't handle, cases where I have lots of little stressors or interruptions.

And that's OK. There are plenty of ways I can be happy by not putting myself in situations where I need to deal with tons of these little stressors. Just probably took me longer than it should have to know what I'm good at, and how I like to be challenged.
No, it's a great product. Everyone complains that bookmarking is broken then here's an alternative, then some naysayers find a hole in it too. Some folks are impossible to please.
I get confused reading this because I keep finding it difficult to reconcile the reasoning and logic between attitude, demeanor, and intellect.
A survey of those in refugee camps in Bangladesh and then extrapolating those survey results to cover the whole population isn't actually proof of anything. They literally did a survey of survivors, they don't have any bodies.

So questioning a lack of proof is tasteless, but it's ok to start a conflict or drum up widespread outrage because something might be true?

The only reason I question things is because the Rohingya have literally been waging an insurrection for this entire generation's lives, they have ample motive to lie.

Also, the MSF survey sample size was 2 thousand people, and they didn't verify any reports, just assumed they were true.
I still strongly disagree with what you are saying. First, if you were not their manager, then little of this should change. (Just don't slap bums at all.) Secondly, your suggestion places the problem at "men and women are alone in a room" and not at "some people are choosing to commit sexual assault or harassment". Everyone is completely and totally capable of being in a room with a fellow human and choosing to not assault them. I hate this in part because it makes the guilty party less accountable, as if anyone would have done that in their place. No, no, no!! The problems here aren't that they were alone in a room with a woman, it's that they chose to do terrible things. (And many of these occasions cited were not when alone.) Is this a thing a decent human needs to "avoid" like you stated? No! You don't have to avoid going to the bank because you might be tempted to rob it, you just don't rob the bank.

Your post sounds exactly like the "you can't even talk to women any more" that you claim to not like - you are literally saying that men need chaperones ("If you find there is only two of you left, then go home.").
Perhaps Stallman and the FSF are right?

We can fork Firefox, but I agree with many other commenters that a fork isn't sufficient.

It is the underlying concept I am trying to shine a light on: software should serve the user. When Mozilla becomes user-hostile, we can establish new guards for our future security. But if we, the software writers, become user-hostile, then there will be no one left.
Well, it depends on the content of those values. I'm opposed to eliminationist ideologies for example.
Quoting Anil Dash's tweet:

"Maybe not today, but sometime we’re gonna have that conversation about Christian supremacy in this country, too."

https://twitter.com/anildash/status/928800919810117632

Kind of reminds me of a drunk in the neighborhood where I grew up who always wanted to have "that conversation" about Jewish control of the banking system.

Anil Dash is the CEO of Fog Creek Software, BTW.
> I have worked once on a project migrating from REST to Protocol Buffers

What does that mean? REST is a style while protobufs are a serialisation format: a REST architecture can use JSON, protobufs, Thrift, whatever.
Eh, what's dehumanising about remembering the power structure in a typical work environment?

For instance- it's very good sense to remember that the people who are under your management are employed to do as you say and don't just freely decide to grant you their time and attention. When the social context is of communication between work colleagues, you are very likely to make a mistake if you interpret it in the same way as communication between friends.

Consider for instance the situation where The Boss Made a Joke. A sensible boss will recognise that people aren't necessarily laughing at their jokes because they consider them funny- but because it is polite to laugh at colleagues' jokes, and you are expected to be polite to your boss. So a manager who keeps on cracking jokes, thinking that everyone finds them so funny, is not acting sensibly and is making a social mistake. A boss who keeps the jokes to a minimum required to keep morale high, is actually keeping morale high.

At the end of the day, what everyone must realise, managers and reports alike, is that your colleagues are not your friends. To the extent that you don't make the decision who to work with (because someone else hires them, or they hire you) you are also not choosing to socialise with them. You are obliged to socialise with them in the context of work.

Btw, I recognise that the OP is actually totally treating his (?) employees as friends- but there you have it. I think that's inappropriate and can only lead to tears.
But you realise, that the web today is a bit more than static HTML and that it doesn't upgrade step by step with arbitrary standards, but rather all the time?
Friction (2013)
You chose easy examples. What about the harder ones?
May I suggest dillo where possible, and icecat everywhere else?
I wonder if Amazon isn't particulary interested in solving the problem(which happens mostly in lower end products, higher end use strong brands), since such a solution could be copied by their big competitiors, but instead they think about how to create private labels at scale ? a private label for every product category ?

Because if sucsessful, it would be a huge competitive advantage. And they do already have 34 private labels in varied areas, but i think they are still in the learning phase.
If it helps, Uber is under several investigations for the sins of the past. To some extent, users voting with their dollars has also hurt Uber. Which brings to my last point that the most damaging aspect about all of this is that there is no reason for Uber to have acted like this. In the end we have built a service that’s helped countless people and the paranoia that Travis exhibited was completely misguided imo
> In an era of low interest rates, the capital cost of a car is not huge.

In the limit of a high utilization rate (i.e., the increased fraction of the time the car is driving, which is probably 5-10), the capital costs are roughly given by the interest rate compounded over the lifetime of the car. Even at just 2% interest, this means a 21% savings if you would otherwise buy a new car every decade.

> I think people are also over-focusing on monetary costs;

I definitely wasn't suggesting capital costs will be the most important effects, I was just pointing out that an effective 20% discount on car purchase price is non-negligible.
Yeah, it's quite an omission. Why is SolarCity doing fewer installs? It's a mystery. Don't ask - we have no idea! They just aren't.
Except there's a huge difference between being punished by the government for your opinions and being judged by your peers and coworkers for your opinions.

If I were a huge proponent of NAMBLA I'd recognize that being a public advocate of such would negatively effect my social status as well as potentially attract negative attention to any brand I associate myself with. That doesn't mean I'm being silenced or censored.
One of the examples is trying to find offense in anything - literally from milk and pumpkin spice lattes to national anthem and math and logic as a basis of science. It's ok to think whether our actions could hurt anybody and adjust accordingly, but when it turns into obsessive offense mining and paranoid banning of anything that could that could be construed as offensive to anybody (usually only by the same people who do the banning, not even by the people that they purport to protect) - for some people it is just too much. It's a difference between reasonable hygiene and OCD when a person washes the hands for 4 hours. The first is great, the second is a debilitating disease. Many people feel the American culture has crossed the boundary into the disease and keeps marching on.
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Oh, cool - it sounds like the passphrase is mandatory to encrypt your synced data, it doesn't happen by default, but that's still a good start. TIL.

(I still like having the option to run my own sync server though.)
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Eliminate corporate income taxes, and make the change revenue neutral by raising taxes on individual corporate investors and high-income employees. The money eventually flows to them anyway. By eliminating corporate income tax we could cut out all the waste and non-productive tax avoidance financial engineering. We wouldn't need corporate tax accountants at all. This would boost growth rates and economic efficiency.
I'll have to investigate your framework a bit, but I admire the work you've put into it. However, regarding the hamburger menu, it opens only an empty white area on my Android running Chrome.
$6B in global crypto ICO investments, visualized
they issued another $100 million in the last day.
Who decides what voices should be silent?
You obviously have some in mind, how about suggesting them?
If your publicly held view is "a big chunk of people don't deserve the same rights as others", and your job requires working with lots of different people, then I'd argue you're probably not a good choice for the job.

A big part of any CEO's job is to be a public representative, and such a representative should not air controversial public views that have nothing to do with his job.

What he believes in private, and shares with his friends and family is his own business. What appears in news stories is not his own private business, and needs to be managed.
Those a good points. These sort of experiments seem to be them trying to find a revenue model that works. The way they are handling it sends a signal of desperation. Which should be the question here. Why does Mozilla need to do this? Why dowe the tech community praise open source in one hand and abandon it on the other?
You’d think if using commute time productively was a big draw, everybody would be riding the bus already, right? I think that the folks who work in occupations amenable to telecommuting and who could be actually productive during a long enough commute probably already are. Self driving cars might add value for the folks whose schedule doesn’t work for park’n ride but otherwise fit the above params.
> LGBT rights do not negatively affect straight people

Opinion. Up for discussion.
Ask HN: How do I stop thinking about revenge?
Throwaway for obvious reasons

In HS, I had my first gf, and she was smart and attractive. She dumped me, and while I've cut off her from social media and texting, she still is stuck in my head after three years. She found a new partner who is the ceo of a startup within the first weeks of going to uni, she is featured in local papers and blogs, and she got an internship at a big tech co. right after her first year.

I felt like a loser. So I went into uni thinking I’d improve my wardrobe, hit the gym, get back my revenge on her by finding a new partner and future wife, getting laid a lot, meeting smart wannabe entrepreneurs like me, find a cofound, and just generraly work hard and play hard. It was going to be great.

Yet none of that really happened. I flunked a class (mechE pathway) and had very few dates, both in person and from dating apps. The startup scene at this uni is full of apps and social media stuff that doesn’t really improve the world, not to mention full of more students from the business school.

So what now? I’ve seen numerous therapists, none of which really helped. I know I’m only 21, and I “have my whole life ahead of me” but she is still there in the back of my head. It’s been years now. It’s starting to impact my research in the lab.

While HN is tech-oriented, I feel I will get more educated responses here than say reddit or another random forum.
It’s there, see ClosureScript: https://stateofjs.com/2017/flavors/results
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What are some counter-arguments to this opinion?
Sam's argument seems to be that one of our major social problems is that we socially disallow controversial ideas, which makes him feel uncomfortable expressing himself and stifles social progress. Therefore, we should start allowing controversial ideas.

The parent comment asserts that Sam's premise is wrong: ideas aren't being rejected for their controversy, but rather for their harmfulness. Saying that "it’s possible we have to allow people to say disparaging things about gay people" (see his previous post) implicitly draws a false equivalence between civil rights advocacy and bigotry as fair-game "controversial" ideas.
Agree; I went to a smart cities event where one of the leaders who helped make it happen admitted essentially "we had no goal going into the project except to install a bunch of sensors and see what happened" with no goals at the beginning. Seems like an expected result, sadly.
That's not the point. The point is that freedom of speech should exist absolutely regardless. Weakening freedom of speech to attack regressive ideas still weakens freedom of speech.
I bet there is a positive correlation between being intelligent and being open minded.
Political correctness is used to persecute and bully people. I'm surprised that many don't see it.
Advocacy =/= Violence. This is one of the worst ideas of our century, that the words themselves cause injury akin to bodily harm.

There should be a power struggle at the implementation level of ideas. This is where violence may or may not actually occur. But the advocacy level is below that. Certain ideas may make you uncomfortable, you may fear they will be implemented, but they are still only words.

The point of the article still stands: If you rigidly restrict what is okay and what is not okay to say, you risk actually valid countercultural views ever making it to the implementation level.
>How much of this is happening in the US already, but without our knowledge

Probably a lot. My cousin (Nth generation rich white dude) took a class (at an ivy league school) on the more technical side of terrorism where the professor outright told them that the research they would need to do to get a good grade they would result in them getting a lot more "random" searches at airports and the like. He said other students confirmed that statement (I don't think he had had occasion to travel via air between taking the class and our conversation).
But to be more accurate, we have to account for when the weaker eu countries were all hurting (pigs). I think Ireland's economy crashed in 2008 and so they have made a great recovery. I guess 2005 is adequately before that :-) I was thinking you were comparing nadir and peak or something.
The joy of never, ever having to type a parenthesis must be experienced to be appreciated.
He is claiming becoming more right wing makes somebody less likely to understand statistics.

Personally I think leftists, rightists and centrists are terrible at grokking stats because the human brain can't handle multifaceted realities very well.

It is possible for instance that all political positions are correct, even the apparently contradictory ones because they are part of the Elephant (the one with the blind men).
I think there's a subtle parse here that's being missed. There's an important difference between being a jerk and having a reasonably articulated controversial opinion that you would like to discuss dispassionately and intellectually.

Just to take Altman's example, a jerk might say "I hate those dirty homosexuals, they're ruining marriage for us good heterosexuals Christians". A reasonably articulated opinion might be "What are the social consequences of prevalent homosexuality? Is it possible that some of them are negative? Why is it that the pre-modern civilizations that were hyper-tolerant of homosexuality died out (greece, rome) and were replaced by comparatively intolerant ones?"

IMO the former is not ok. That is venom, and it is unhelpful and should absolutely get you cast out of your job. But the latter is an intellectually expressed idea, an idea that is up for debate and the answer to which may be interesting/consequential. In a society that values technological progress, the latter form must always be acceptable. All ideas must always be open for discussion in that manner. That does not mean that we should tolerate venom, discrimination, or harassment, however.
I have an incurable medical condition. I am not trying to trick myself into accomplishing some goal. Instead, I spend a lot of time trying to motivate myself to do the unpleasant things that work because not doing them leads to worse things.

For me, the value of the interview with the Special Forces guy was to help me stop feeling like a victim being picked on by life and singled out for torture. Getting well is very hard. It is supposed to be impossible. But other people doing hard things also find it torturous.

That plus the awareness of what conventional treatment leads to has gotten me through 5.7 years of homelessness, being crapped on incessantly on the internet by classist assholes who also think I am a lunatic fabricating my story, developing an online income with damn little help because of said classist assholes being unwilling to help me figure it out, etc.

I got off the street in September. I am applying for my dream job and made it past the first cut. Friday, I submitted the essay they want for the next step. I have enough money to get through the weekend. I am failing to do freelance writing and I slept 12 hours last night, so I am facing the possibility of eating at the local soup kitchen come Monday, a thing I have not done in 2.5 years and don't want to ever do again.

My week has been a huge headfuck and I am grumpy and aggravated, but staying the course and doing what makes sense because it makes sense, nevermind the swirl of emotions and headfuckery that life continues to throw at me.

So, if you look at the two paths ahead of you and one is "Put my blinders on and just focus on this next hill" and the other is "Go to hell, go straight to hell, do not pass Go, do not collect $200" it gets vastly easier to think "This hike will suck, but then I get a break and a snack and will feel okay for an hour and maybe the pouring rain will stop and the next leg of the journey will suck less."