skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While you might believe the OP, my comment is that the argument the OP used to justify the argument is incomplete. That is, applying the same reasoning to topics where the problem really does exist, and where the laws were (eventually) changed, shows us that a 5 year time frame is not enough time.

Your statement now seems to be is that no problem actually exists. This is a different argument.

I think the modern trend to put mandatory arbitration clauses into consumer contracts, and to prohibit class-action lawsuits, is a horrid perversion of justice. The government should have strong consumer protection laws and enforcement in place. Failing that, people should be able to sue. And because most people don't have much money compared to companies, they should be able to have a class-action lawsuit, with no statutory limits on possible fines or judgement. Mandatory arbitration is a big fat thumb on the scales of justice, in favor of large companies.

But so far there hasn't been much in the way of problems with mandatory arbitration clauses. There are some, and they make it to the press, but given the current Congress and Administration's view on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, we'll have those clauses for some years still.

While in the EU, Japan, and other countries, such clauses are either illegal, or are much less tightly binding as in the US.

I see privacy as the same way. At some point there will be laws which place tighter controls over what a company can do with personal data. It will likely take a massive negative event. (Eg, an anonymous public torrent of all of the URLs accessed by Comcast users, indexed by account owner name and IP address. Or just the visit history of the people that the President appoints or nominates for high positions.)

For an example of a "loud minority" which changed the law for stronger privacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act . This still applies to sites like Hulu, by the way.

Apple, unlike Facebook and Google, isn't an ad company. They've done a pretty good job taking over the world.
> Someone explained it properly

That's a hypothesis, a very good hypothesis, but the Reddit thread and Hacker News offer many other reasonable-sounding hypotheses. I can't tell you the number of times I've tracked down a bug or other type of malfunction where I was 100% sure of the cause since my hypothesis made so much sense, but it turned out to be wrong. It was something else.
A Chinese company is developing facial recognition for organic chickens
Now I'm looking forward to the first website that decides it needs to restart Chrome between page changes for me...
> This is a literal ad hominem fallacy.

This is rather a problem with the author who is benefiting from the ad-driven Internet while preaching for something else. It's like a weapons reseller advocating for peace.
Goodbye, net neutrality–Ajit Pai’s FCC votes to allow blocking and throttling
My buddy's dad was an EE and built tiny devices made to create this exact situation. Easily hidable, they emitted a loud beep sound at a varying interval (~40-120 seconds). He called them Annoyers and would leave them behind pictures frames, in plants, etc. after parties.
That's an implementation detail, and shouldn't be relied upon. If you want an ordered dictionary, you should use collections.OrderedDict.
Builds (zip) here:
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Source here:
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I'm curious how you can reconcile your second and third bullet points. If tax hikes on the rich are an unavoidable part of the solution, one party just rammed through a huge tax cut for the rich and the other party did everything they could to stop it. It can be argued that the Democrats don't really care about fixing income inequality and that they like to use it as a talking point more so than they like to actually make progress, but to pretend that the Republicans are anything less than a roadblock to fixing this issue seems disingenuous if you believe what you said in the third bullet point.
I had Google Fiber installed in my apartment a year ago. I was walking through the parking garage and I caught one of the techs doing alignment splicing. I asked him where the nearest Google Fiber Hut was and he said about the quarter mile away near a Taco Bell. I remarked that's pretty good, but he said well it's even further than that because it's not line of sight. He pulled out a tool that could measure the total length of installed fiber via refection... It was over 20,000 feet. And that was just to go from the garage to fiber hut 1/4 mi away. I don't know how the topology of Google's network works, but I thought that was crazy.

Granted leo satellites are 1200mi away but it's worth remembering that.
Very little technically this year although I will of course keep up to date on the latest developments.

My focus will be on the business side, how to get better at sales and marketing.
Got a kick out of this gem from the reddit comments:

> My S2000 car alarm would be set off whenever I microwaved blueberries. Some experimentation revealed it was anything with excess water. Buying a new microwave solved the issue but I don't like thinking about how poorly shielded the old microwave was. I tried moving the for further from the kitchen or keeping the keys far away to no avail.
How can anyone discount so called 'conspiracies theories' so quickly when accounts of such atrocities are now mainstream knowledge? I am not saying one should suspend critical thinking and logic to accept anything they are told, but clearly there are some instances where history has proven such conspiracies have taken place and harmed many innocent lives.
You wrote the very problem.

You don't agree with the thinking therefore the author is wrong and her experience and opinion isn't worth considering. This is the very antithesis of acceptance, inclusiveness, and diversity.

I think her message is very simple and powerful. Just be interested in what she is working on based on the merits or her work. I think that's an excellent model to strive for, and really, it's sad anyone has to even say it.
I often see people arguing against the idea of sexless-ness based on the idea that its been tried and failed, but I honestly the only time I truly seen evidence of this is in movies making fun of the 70th's. It seems that when the feminist movement moved away from equality feminism it cultural had to disavow the concept of sexless-ness.

The idea of sexless-ness, which can also be describe as women/men as equal and undifferentiated from that of men/women, seems to me as the way to reach optimal freedom and agency in life. Gender roles and associated expectations affect incentives and disincentives, neither which is optimal if we want to reach the point where every individual can seek their own passions. I only hope that the ideas behind equality feminism can once again raise to be dominant within the progressive culture.
They don't. But the post has chosen arbitrary "bands" to squeeze more counties in, rather than infinitely thin lines.

I must have missed the bit where he explained why a band of 700m or whatever was optimal
I hope anyone (including you and the author) talking about India is aware that it is a country of 1.3 billion people.

So you can find a Germany+Austria+Italy equivalent number of poor people in desolate conditions, but there also a UK+France+Spain+Nordic-countries equivalent number of people who are doing much better and have access to many resources.

So one's view of India totally depends on which European country equivalent you interfaced with, unless they have travelled to every region/state in India and lived there for a few months/years, without having a political/religious/NGO entity planning their itinerary.

In support of the author, I agree with what she says. Those women who do make it to engineering / tech / high-skilled professions tend to do so without having experienced the pink-elephant phenomena. In fact, I can totally empathize with what the author is saying in her post.

PS: I just made up the list of countries and equivalents, but I hope my analogy helps in understanding how vast India is, in terms of population, the demography, including the languages spoken, scripts written, religions / cultures followed by people.
Quoting the guidelines:

>When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Your statements about "absurdity" and "arrogance" are unwarranted. And you're now also putting words in my mouth. I won't be responding further.
I could list off how he treats his purposeful ignorance and anti-intellectualism as a virtue, how he pushed a strange cult-like "persuation" pseudoscience that also celebrates a kind of selfish creepiness as a virtue, his endorsement of Trump, his purposefully disengenious gas lighting of his critics, and arguably most impotant, his advocating for climate denial-

But I don't think we can reconcile our viewpoints in the comments here, and I think you missed my entire point. My point was it is very difficult to tell right from wrong when those wrongs are widely accepted by society. A majority of Germans in the 1930s either believed in Nazism or believed it was just an "opposing idea". An even larger majority of Americans in the 60s disapproved of MLK, and either believed in racist laws or believed that they were just "opposing ideas".

My point is that once again, you are now in a position where a minority of people believe that some ideas are truly evil and not worthy of any merit. You are sympathetic towards these ideas, or unsympathetic to their opponents (just as many who disapproved of Jim Crow laws but thought MLK was too radical)- so I hope you can at least realize that statistically speaking, you're in a position where it has traditionally been very difficult for people to determine right from wrong.
Probably (among other likely reasons) a reference to Betteridge's law of headlines.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
True, but if you need both key ordering and performance, dict is the better option.
Wars, sickness and starvation have been great equalizers.

The last ones were decades ago and there is no sign of it coming back any time soon. We're living in unprecedented times.
There may be reasons unrelated to investment risk.

For example, the risk of losing an earned income stream because my (assumed honest) employer (fires me, goes bankrupt, etc.) seems much higher than the risk of losing an unearned income stream based on my investment in bonds backed by the US government.
I completely agree that the Phoenix lights were weird. I don't know what they were, I don't think they were birds, but I also don't think they were a big black alien triangle.

Neverthless, the military does sometimes test classified aircraft in view of civilians. And they have been known to use or even encourage UFO sightings as misinformation to cover up their activity.

Fiction has to make sense, but reality doesn't always have to make sense.
When will people learn that industrial control systems can't ever be safely connected to the internet.
It is not an "argument by outlier", though. She describes a culture where her experience is normal. This culture results in both male and female engineers. Her critique is about a culture that feels compelled to pretense instead of compelled to change.
It's not just monopolistic regulations. Outside of dense urban areas there is not much room for competition among ISPs. At some point it is never going to be profitable to compete; and in some places it will never be profitable to even build the infrastructure in the first place. The only reason DSL is widely available is that phone companies were forced to build the copper network even in unprofitable places, so adding DSL service was not too hard for them.

If we really want a market-based approach we need infrastructure sharing rules. Prior to 2003 we had lots of competition in the DSL market; after the sharing rules were eliminated competition vanished almost overnight and we wound up with the monopoly situation we face today. Infrastructure sharing requirements have worked very well in France, where fiber optic service is more widely available and costs consumers less.
Won’t this eventually happen in the United States too? What’s stopping it other than a later start.

There’s more entrepreneurial spirit perhaps but the sons and daughters of wealth creators will still inherit.
All three of those things sound pretty plausible to me. ISIS is known to use bitcoin, and I doubt they're the only one, and the single biggest use case for bitcoin up until this year was to buy illegal drugs. Using bitcoin for illegal and nefarious purposes would surely be one of the most obvious things to do.
"delight" viewers?

Hah, good one.
And don't forget that after ~13 years of 4% interest you'd have the full 500 million.

So long as you have a good financial advisor you're estate will go up in value over time.
If you don’t want to support the horribly discriminatory national Boy Scouts organization, check out https://www.bpsa-us.org Baden-Powell Service Association which is a far more inclusive organization without all the religious overtones.
There's a version of these called the Annoyatron that you buy online. Know how I know this? Because one of them was left behind a cabinet in a rental house we moved into and we couldn't find what was making that damn noise for three months!
There's no question that machines have faster reaction times, but the other part of the equation is predicting how much a vehicle should slow down in any given situation in order to reduce braking time. The parent was talking about looking at a fairly complicated scene and making a decision about reducing their speed so that they could stop more quickly if it becomes necessary. We all know that there's a big difference between driving by a child playing aimlessly and somebody walking predictably on a sidewalk. It's much more difficult for an automated system to make these sort of predictions than it is for them to react quickly to emergency situations. My guess is that automated driving systems will have to err on the side of caution and that this will result in seemingly (to the passenger) unnecessary slow-downs. I don't personally think that this is a huge problem, but it's fair to say that reaction time is only one one of several significant factors in avoiding accidents.
In this example, you're absolutely right, and if all they had was my name and my listening history, that wouldn't be so bad. But some of the ads do reference specific individuals. Spotify in particular have made it clear that
1.) listening behavior profiles may be "anonymized" in the sense that they have had the names sanitized from them, but there is a myriad of other potentially identifiable data, such as location, that has not been sanitized, and
2.) they are willing and able to comb through this data to find anomalies.
Www.oracle.com is down
http://www.oracle.com/

I get the following message :

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It's not either-or, quaternions do not replace matrices. Matrices are (almost) always used, regardless of the use of quaternions (also regardless of use of any other types of transforms including geometric algebra). Quats are typically used for interpolating orientations. Once you have an interpolated orientation, you still have to turn it into a matrix to interact with other transforms, and to send to the GPU. The vast majority (if not all) game engines, libaries, and GPU/console hardware operate on matrices at the lower levels.
Depends on laws and customs.

Primogeniture concentrates inherited wealth in firstborn (usually male) offspring. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primogeniture
Why Truck Fleet Buyers Are Keen on the Tesla Semi (Calculations) – CleanTechnica
Russians thank U.S. president on CIA tip terrorists used Telegram
I explained above what they are saying. They want two things: prevent strong net neutrality protections and prevent it practically permanently. For that they are now pushing for a fake law about it. Their logic is, that repealing a garbage law is usually much harder, than for FCC simply passing some new regulation. Look at how long DMCA-1201 persists, despite it being an obvious garbage.
My fire alarm goes off once every few months at 3 AM.

From what I heard this is not uncommon.
I'm also working on startyourownisp.com. I've got a ways to go in it but maybe someone will find it useful!
Is this article suggesting that the tip was connected with Telegram?
Wonder if the flagging system can be enhanced by having the flagger provide a reason. Maybe having to explain would reduce the incidence of drive-by flagging.
Japanese, because it's difficult and fun. Tech wise I learn enough at work.
There are infinitely many infinitely thin lines that fit in that band and cover the countries.
It's working for me.
"Doing security properly for these devices is not very expensive compared to scale they are being sold."

Not sure that's true. I did a 18 month stint with a tiny (6 person) hardware startup - most of my time was spent ensuring our devices could auto-update their embedded Linux securely without bricking or losing any of the custom hardware specific capabilities. It's not an easy trick to pull off (big thanks to the ARCH Linux team for all their work that I built on), and there's ongoing cost involved to ensure newly discovered vulnerabilities have a process to be evaluated, patched, tested, and deployed to the fleet of devices.
FYI car makers are starting to collect data from connected cars using their ultrasonic sensors for collision avoidance, among other sensors. You can indeed use them to map surroundings fairly accurately.
Reminds me of this story where a car was 'allergic' to vanilla ice cream: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13347852
Why would one boast about less diversity? Did you mean "highest ratio"?
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I live near Montréal and I never heard about it except from US sources. It's weird that it doesn't seem to be a big deal. Also I'm never sure if the sources are accurate or if it's from some conspiracy nuts.
Interesting. I'm clearly getting this message from oracle, so it's not a problem on my end. Perhaps a routing problem? It has been giving me this message for an hour.
Absolutely agree. India is a huge place. I may not have been strong enough in my caveats: this was a delegation with a specific purpose and fixed meetings; we visited two regions only; the use of the word "local"; and obviously none of us on the delegation are even from there, so what do we know, really? I just wanted to point out that I've heard stories from Indian women that are different than this one.

As a woman I can also empathize with the author and would of course prefer to have my work valued on its merits. I just don't think that's contradictory to having a robust diversity effort.
You can now download Google Chrome beta and start muting autoplay videos
I'm in the process of learning Elixir and the observation I'm about to make may be completely off-base. With that said...

Seems like the section on "When to use processes" is selling processes short a bit. Certain kinds of state management would seem to call for processes to either manage or even hold state... but processes (as I understand them) are also key in designing for reliability. So I would think I may well want to organize my code relative to processes as I'm also figuring out the supervision trees and various failure scenarios. And yes, concurrency issues as well. If I'm wrong on this, I'd be happy to be set straight.

Anyway, yes, the section I speak of does get to some of the other parts of what I mention, but the emphasis on state management seems to distort and unbalance the view of what you might want as a process.

[edited a touch for clarity]
It's not just web apps; TCP itself behaves badly under high-latency conditions. If you have no other choice but to use high-latency links, you are better off with a protocol like QUIC that includes forward error correction. If you need to send a lot of data over a high-latency link you need to start looking at less common approaches; for example, this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_code

When the link is unreliable -- as it is in most wireless systems -- TCP also tends to behave suboptimally as it assumes lost packets are due to congestion. Again, if you need to deal with unreliable links, forward error correction is your friend.
Why you can’t cash out part 1: Bitcoin’s “price” is largely fictional
I've owned a number of Subarus and let me tell you, even the non-performance models have a way of shaking things inside the house that you wouldn't believe until you experience it. My STI was capable of being loud, but oddly enough it was my wife's Outback (nearly silent if you stood next to it) that would shake pictures on the walls and make them start tapping.
Being able to induce disassociation and splitting within trained subjects are what I primarily associate with MK Ultra.
Seems like if you click on an already marked square it still counts as a turn, so if you double click you get this behavior.
How generous!

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-p...

It's lunacy that autoplay is still forced.

Does anyone else but me have a terrible feeling that the Internet is turning into network television? Now, stuff comes to YOU while previously you had to go to stuff.

There's a forced engagement.
This comment made me laugh:

> Maybe you neighbor is setting off his alarm on purpose just to mess with you haha!
Just bought my mom one. Timely article!
I doubt it; my guess is that people would just make up reasons and flag much the same as they do now. The way that upvoting and flagging work seems to be rooted in human nature somehow. What's interesting is how different the two mechanisms are.
That’s a rather incongruous jumble of ideas and, as usual, Bitcoin doesn’t actually solve any of the mentioned problems. If you’re concerned about asset forfeiture laws, vote better to change them – your Bitcoin will be seized and liquidated like everything else, and if you think you can hide a wallet ask how that’ll work out better than burying money or storing it offshore.
Having a production elixir application shipping in the new year I think I'll take the holidays to learn docker/kubernetes and gigalixir to see which may work better.
Is there some non-ad-driven web ecosystem that I somehow missed? Just because the web currently depends on ads to pay for things does not mean that it is an OK situation or that we should tolerate every intrusion by advertisers.
Oh, and also:

"The setting to have autoplay content automatically muted is in Chrome 64’s permissions bar. Unfortunately, this isn’t a one-and-done setting — it has to be done for every website you want it applied to — but it will mute sound for any content that is navigated to under the parent domain."