skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Accepting blame for Soviet occupation of Baltic states or Poland.
Accepting repercussions for Holodomor.
Unifying Mobile Onboarding Experiences at Uber
taxes are fair when everyone gets taxed the same rate. that is logically fair, not emotionally fair. I prefer the former so do most people with half a brain.
I wonder how much of this is an outgrowth of the current university campus climate where opinions that don't fit into the predominant liberal worldview can't be voiced. I don't mean this as a criticism of liberals or liberalism specifically here, since I realize many conservatives would do the same about issues they care about if they had the power and numbers to.
"The internet is the greatest free market innovation in history." - Ajit Pai

Someone needs a history lesson. I'm sorry, America, some of the talking points of the commissioners in support of repeal are maddening.

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At this time last year the CRTC made broadband internet access a basic service in Canada: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/crtc-internet-essential-serv...

edited a word for accuracy. Also:

>> 'Until now, local landline telephone service was the only service deemed "basic" or essential by the CRTC, although Blais has previously called internet service "vital" and essential to life and success.' (referring to CRTC chairman Jean-Pierre Blais)
I have personally argued this point: the copyright industry's business model is based on making deals with centralized distribution services. They have no concept of peer-to-peer in their world, only of producer-consumer relationships. That is why when faced with something like BitTorrent they panic and start suing individuals, hoping to scare people away from new technologies. Copyright companies often try to divide people by geographic region, something that the Internet has made fundamentally difficult for them (see e.g. VPNs as a way to evade region-locked streaming services; or people downloading pirated copies before the official release in their country).

So Hollywood would love a non-neutrality network. It would give them greater power to block BitTorrent, VPN services, etc. They might complain about the fees being charged for priority access, but they would rather deal with that problem than with the impact a neutral network has on their business.
One possible justification is that this genital configurations prevents forcible rape, as the wiki article points out. This allows females to have more control over the genetic traits of their offspring.
If anyone were to have those, it would be google.
RaiBlocks has PoS consensus so node operators are incentivized. It also has PoW as a spam prevention mechanism (transactions are not completely free (few seconds on commodity CPU), and you can also "cache" PoW). I think it makes sense, unlike IOTA for example.
My name is Ivan and I want to make the best photo editor
Ever heard of other crypto?
Maybe in China Sam
had less opportunity talking with people outside his bubble. If the purpose of the visit was to meet and see entrepreneurs then of course he’ll not run into people opposing these ideas. Especially when he doesn’t speak the native languages. Here in the Bay Area most people outside of tech are familiar with it and constantly interacting with “the techies” so it’s harder to exist undisturbed in your bubble.
Silicon valley arrogance?

If you don't like it, rightly criticize it (with the caveat that it's your opinion or state facts) and don't use it. I don't understand the silicon valley bashing; if you are so smart why don't you build something better?
Since moving to a single 34 inch ultrawide monitor, my biggest complaint is the window management. Two displays make this easy: fullscreen each one (Windows has shortcuts for this builtin). But with one monitor I have to manage the windows myself (I've tried 3rd party apps, they never seem to work nicely).

Did you not have this problem?
Fun aside: breaking and entering is referred to as such in English Common Law because criminals used to bust through the wattle and daub walls to break in, thus housebreaking, or breaking and entering. [1]

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=77y2AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA229&lpg=...
Humans have large heads and walk upright. These are great for many things, but not giving birth.
I love Macs and I love desktop computers (I'm old). I have a maxed-out 2013-era iMac. I'll piss away money on the stupidest things, but this is just insane. I can't possibly wrap my head around spending that much money for an all-in-one computer in 2017. It's like Apple wants to pretend it's still 2012.
That site is saying 0.3 USD. I wouldn't call that pennies.
> We need to accept that some of these ideas are inherently dangerous.

We created atom bombs. Some say AI can destroy humanity (perhaps Sam himself) but here we are, I don’t think you can stop science.. it’s what makes us human.
Funny how that article completely talks about it from the large corporation point of view, and not of that of the consumer. Yes, if I could, as a consumer afford to peer directly again exchange and backhaul to my house, I wouldn't care either! Then he mentions competition at the end...as if most US consumers have more than one choice for broadband.
It's closer to going into the store that had sent you a C&D, then browsing the racks to create a price list.
A great place to look is the ETH Gas Station:

https://ethgasstation.info/

It tells the lowest gas price you can use to be reasonably sure your transaction will go through, and how long it's likely to take. Using that gas price it also gives a dollar cost of a simple transfer, which at the moment is higher than I expected at 20 cents for a 20-minute wait, or 33 cents for a 3-minute wait.

For cryptokitties you'll have a higher gas cost; I don't really know how high but I think I've seen people complain about spending six bucks for cryptokitty transaction at a 60 gwei gas price.
I misread the above post as prices for 2/4TB SSDs instead of 1/2 TB SSDs. My bad.

The real difference between Apple and DIY is $300. On their configuration page, Apple's prices are +$800 to go to the 2TB SSD, and +$2800 to go to the 4TB SSD. That's a $2000 price jump to add 2TB. If I did it myself I could add 2TB for $1700. That means that Apple gets all the profit that a retailer would, plus $300.

A $300 premium is still a little gougey from Apple considering it takes them all of five seconds to slap the extra SSD in on the assembly line.
I think the difference is if you consider the /idea/ inherently dangerous, or the potential /outcome/ dangerous.

Yes, it's subtle, but the current shift in the US is towards ideas being dangrous
Thanks for mentioning this, what you describe isn't "danger" in the bay area, it is just unnecessary opinions.
and they would have got away with it if it wasn't for those meddling hackers
Another use of a modified virus is to deliver an antibody to VEGF, the factor that causes macular degeneration (blindness). Prof. Elizabeth Rakoczy has been recently awarded the 2017 CSL Florey medal for this work.
http://www.aips.net.au/news-events/the-florey-medal/2017-pro... The video has a cartoon showing the modified virus being inserted in the retina. I think 40 patients have been successfully treated in a initial 3 year clinical trial. I found these links to abstracts of her recent publications, https://www.socrates.uwa.edu.au/Staff/StaffProfile.aspx?Pers..., but I cannot find an open source research document. Some of her team members: http://www.scienceinpublic.com.au/floreymedal/2017-csl-flore...
I really wish we'd "simplify" the HTML spec. The "pave the cow paths" approach to allow non-closed tags and mix of various syntaxes has lead to an explosion of complexity. That has regressed into terrible performance and memory hungry parsers.
As I said, that was definitely a devil's advocate position, and on this I very much agree with you in principle but not on approach. The approach I would rather see is to devolve power the federal government has managed to aggregate back down to the states, and hopefully even more local levels.

I've commented on this before; I'll just link those instead of repeating myself:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11966167#11969956

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12530363#12532344
Well said! Sam posted a great defense of what I view as the second leg of "freedom of speech". There's the legal sense of the term – which is limited to government suppression of speech – and then there's the idea of what private society allows of its own volition.
Having an ethical outlook is a great idea. And it's good to criticise ideas you think are unethical.

The point of the post is that just because a person presents an unethical idea doesn't make that person universally unethical. The point is to separate the ideas from the person presenting them, so that people can feel free to present novel ideas without fearing damage to their reputation if the ideas are unpopular.
I hold a diverse portfolio. In my experience when the price of bitcoin falls, the alts fall too. Additionally, if I'd held bitcoin only I'd have greater dollar value today. If my alts were protecting me I'd be happy to sacrifice the greater growth I could have seen but honestly I am not so sure that I am protected at all.

I believe in the usefulness of the blockchain and related technologies though, and I am certain that adoption among businesses of said technology will only keep rising.

I don't know if the crypto currencies have a future though. And even if they do I don't know if they will ever be priced as highly again as they are now. I hope they do, but if my portfolio fell to $0 tomorrow I'd be bummed out but it wouldn't be critical.
This presumes that must votes were cast with net neutrality in mind.

It's difficult to argue that any aspect of Trump's agenda received a popular mandate, as he lost the popular vote by millions, but it seems an especially big stretch to claim he has a mandate to gut net neutrality protections when it wasn't a centerpiece of his campaign. (I don't recall him mentioning it a single time.)
It contains

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

I am pretty sure none of the standard libraries/ tools that respect robots.txt would continue after being fed that file.

>throwing away information

This is entirely irrelevant. If they receive data from someone they have no obligation to discard it because of the current status of robots.txt. The question would be if they should continue to actively scrape that website.

It seems like they've done that for gov sites, but nobody particularly cares about enforcing gov robots.txt. It would've been interesting if the government sued them, although if they cared they probably would've just told them to stop.
At the meta level this is a symptom of the fact that the polarization of our culture is extremely deep. We are polarized on epistemology, metaphysics, and what it means to be human, with the left favoring various forms of scientific or empirical epistemology and a mutable model of human nature and the right favoring revelatory or traditionalist epistemology and an immutable model of human nature.

The latter is true of the secular right as well. Just substitute "evolution" and "history" for God and mystical revelation. The secular right believes that human inborn characteristics are immutable and culture is a product of evolutionary processes that cannot or should not be rationally understood or modified. All the Neo-racists and HBD types are basically evolutionary-historical conservatives or reactionaries who see inequality as a revealed result of a process that is beyond human understanding.

It's getting to the point that it is not even possible for the two sides to communicate because they do not agree on language, logic, or basic rules of discourse. The left and the right are cognitively inhabiting different universes.

Humans subjectively experience extreme cognitive dissonance as actual discomfort. I think this explains the intolerance. People are emotionally reacting to the level of cognitive dissonance this divide generates as if ideas from the opposing side are physical attacks. I agree that the right is no different. Go into one of their bubbles and voice liberal ideas and you'll get the same reaction Milo gets on a Berkeley college campus.
If this is a true story, you would have taken the 20 seconds to look at the post and click that you want to see either less post or see no post from the person. But it is also possible you just wanted to complain about people complaining about Trump.
Yes, I used breadwallet to sell some bitcoins, accidentally set the transaction fee at (what I'd later find out to be) ~10 satoshis/byte.

Now I have ~$2300 locked up in the mempool, and no end in sight for these high transaction fees. Can't figure out a way to raise the fee.

https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#4d
California has been ridiculous for as long as I can remember.

Come to New York, we have 20 million or so people who don't give a fuck about you and what you do all day as long as you don't clog up the subway stairs. It's quite lovely.
It's obviously a bubble, just stop and think about it for a moment. P2P payments over the internet clearly have some utility, but the quantity of bitcoins owned has no relationship to its utility, thus, the incredible rise in price can be attributed almost entirely to speculation. The masses don't care about P2P payments (at least not as far as that concept might relate to cryptocurrency), they are engaged in a FOMO reaction to constant hype and the false narrative that bitcoin is going to be the future of money. It's not as if all these new bitcoin buyers are going to engage in some kind of novel economic activity or wealth creation, they are just going to hodl till they're ready to cash out. Certainly, it is clear that bitcoin's rise in price does not track with any sort of uptick in commercial activity by the masses... really, every sign points to a bubble.
The point is that it's not everywhere, it's very much specific to the Bay area. The claim is that the Bay was a lot more open to controversial ideas in the past, and it's closing down as of today to only leave room for local ideological orthodoxy. Many of those ideas aren't controversial in most other parts of the world.

The point, I'm assuming, is that Sam doesn't want to pack up his stuff and leave, he wants the Bay to become more open.
Temporary injunction, not final decision.
In general, that makes sense. However, achieving big things requires working with people, ergo their opinions do matter in that regard...
I think you're exactly right. His argument is completely self-defeating: it's a perfect example of shutting down criticism on the basis of tone. He's just dismissing critique out of hand (because it's "politically correct") without actually engaging with its substance.
Some high-end estimates of the Spanish Flu death toll are that it killed around 300 million people, which dwarfs the death toll of WW1 (49 million) and WW2 (73 million) combined.

We'd likely live in a very different world had it been prevented or curtailed, though it's hard to know what specifically would be different, as even the existence or non-existence of a single person could be pivotal in history.
https://medium.com/@ConsenSys/a-101-noob-intro-to-programmin...
Lexical Song Recommendation (NLP Web App)
on mac/windows you can buy divvy. that app is just awesome for window management.
The job market doesn't necessarily behave the same as commodity markets: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/keynes
Yep. Screw the Democratic party for throwing America (and democracy under the bus).
Which monad laws fail miserably in Haskell with non-termination, and for which monads?
Nobody can possibly be as free to speak their mind as a wealthy American investor in a developing country. I suspect the lack of freedom the author is feeling is the fact that in San Francisco his disapproval doesn't represent an existential threat for the people around him.
No.

The idea is good, the sentiment is bad. These people aren't getting into Bitcoin because they believe in the mission, they just see pretty graphs and lots of money.

I think this should be a pretty good sign to start hedging.
Medium Article Post:
https://medium.com/@shahamfarooq/lexical-song-recommendation...
Right. I'm saying that, if you care about "monopoly power in consumer home entertainment," you'd almost certainly have to rank edge network consolidation over movie studio consolidation. Judging by the number of animated logos before any current movie starts, there seem to be millions of these studios!
Netflix is the poster child not because of monopoly issues but because there's a public, known record of Comcast slowing down Netflix before the Title II regulation came into being, it's the most prominent and widely concerning proof that non-neutral stuff does (and will) happen.
Yes, but for any disease there are a number of known gene polymorphisms that predispose you to the disease. These genes may interact with the rest of your genome in incredibly complex ways, but I bet all it would take to cure a disease in most cases would be to target the one or two most prevalent polymorphisms.
They do the same if you don't enable push notifications in Messenger. Every time you open the app, "Won't you just let us send push notifications?" open a chat, "ENABLE PUSH NOTIFICATIONS NOW!" open another chat "You haven't enabled push notifications yet" ...
The point is it's not everywhere he goes, just everywhere he goes in the Bay Area.
Dang you and your dad are both legends!
I keep hearing that from people saying things like...

"I think black people are genetically inferior."
...followed by...
"Why can't we have a free exchange of ideas?"

What if the ideas are unethical? There is a lot of that going around these days.

Life extension is one that comes up quite a bit, because the question doesn't seem to involve life extension for all, but life extension for a few who can afford it. Or, if it is being presented as a public good, the owner of the tech gets to become a new robber baron.

Maybe we need to decide if being ultra-wealthy is moral when people are in need and there is a system in place that generates people in need.

Downvotes away!
The human is expected to use it to not scrape sites that prohibit it.
It's impossible to only question those ideas you personally really need to question, while ignoring other ideas you hear that seem wrong. You either develop a habit of questioning or not. Habits need to be simple, you can't have a habit of showering every day, except when the date is a prime number.
Yup, and now we're getting into an even worse situation. We're going from bundled cable packages to numerous walled garden streaming platforms that, were one to subscribe to them all to get most of the content they'd get from cable, it would surpass whatever the monthly cable bill was by a large amount.
We are very effective at breeding, especially with the help of science and technology. The inefficiency of birth, if true, hardly matters.
Complex indeed, it's a multidimensional balancing act.

Both technology and ethics can progress and regress across a huge range of concepts. Too much unexamined progress (of either tech or ethics) in one area can lead to terrible outcomes.

Being able to debate and have these conversations is essential to finding the balance.

I'm reading this as complaint about opinions condemning discussion of certain concepts, which is fair. But to ignore that other concepts face the same type of condemnation in China is... amazing.
> ...I think you'd need a court order telling someone not to talk to you, and you'd have to take action to prevent them as well, blocking their number and tell them to stop before that would be granted.

Like, for example, sending a C&D letter?

This whole hubbub is over them sending a C&D, they just made the mistake of trying to use the CFAA as a means to enforce it -- which, honestly, hiQ is fighting the good fight trying to stop.
I also live in Colorado and I've really noticed active preventive measures after the Hayman Fire. I'm not sure why the private lands are so unmitigated. Do you have any thoughts.

Also ... "public."
You can't undo net neutrality without putting in place some serious and real competition though, otherwise it's not going to work. Most people have only 1 or maybe 2 broadband providers available.
The barrier to entry for an upstart is less than you might expect.

According to multiple lines of argument, the value of a network for users scales like O(n log(n)) where n is the number of users. The log(n) factor is sufficiently small that a new and better platform can get traction if the user experience on the most popular one degrades enough.

Now this has actually been happening, but Facebook has learned from what happened to Friendster and then MySpace and has been buying up potential competitors such as Instagram and Whatsapp. However it is just a question of time until a successful competitor doesn't sell..then manages to take Facebook's crown from it.

This probably won't happen within 5 years. I'd give it even odds in 10. But I wouldn't bet on Facebook remaining king for 20.

See http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/metcalfe.pdf for some of the lines of evidence leading to that scaling conclusion.
You mean, you're not allowed to distributed non-transformed copies of the photo?
Because of the minimal amount of LinkedIn resources utilized and this not apply to all robots/extreme couponers, wouldn't this be more like a competitor checking your weekly ads posted on your front window?

Walking into a store is a clear violation of private space. Is looking at their window?

So, if you had to have an account to view any linked in information, and you got a c&d and your account banned, and you sign up for a new account, I think it would be like entering a store you've been banned from. But we're talking about information available from a public space: on your window or without an account.

I also take issue with the CFAA being used here. I'm sure there are other laws more applicable to keeping someone from talking with you.

To recap: I don't think LinkedIn is wrong to ask them to stop, I just don't think they're using the appropriate means of forcing them to.
This isn't specific to Sam, you're doing exactly what he is complaining about. Stop criticising the person and try to criticise the post instead.
literally put their money on the line

It's not their money. It's your pension. They get paid regardless.
Stripe give you a `funding` property on a card source [0], which at least in the UK distinguishes between debit, credit and prepaid cards somewhat reliably.

0: https://stripe.com/docs/api/python#card_object-funding

I assume this is not exclusive to Stripe.
Tech liberals created this dictatorship, so enjoy sleeping in a bed of your own making Sam
> Not sure if their plan is to license other content or just rely on their own. If it's the latter I don't think it will be much of a Netflix competitor

All of the Netflix original Marvel shows alone may be a reason they can "win" just by taking all their balls and going home to a streaming service they control. They've already admitted that all of their current contracts with Netflix have been set to expire in 2019 precisely for this launch (and presumably a part of why this still unnamed service has such an explicit but two year away launch date).

That's just Marvel's relationship with Netflix. Factor in all of Star Wars, the Miramax back catalog, the Buena Vista back catalog, Pixar, ABC, and of course the Disney brand itself. (…and potentially now the entire film and TV catalog of 21st Century Fox is on the table to be controlled by Disney going forward.)
Elections matter, I guess. The view that "they're all the same" is even more maddening these days. 'crankylinuxuser' is essentially correct.
I would say the ThinkPad 25 is much more of a love letter to developers.
>with the left favoring various forms of scientific or empirical epistemology

What is scientific or empirical about safe spaces and identity politics?
The art of silence: why every development team needs a sheriff