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Woah. I had no idea about Apple's chief of diversity; she was an African American woman who even agreed with a need for gender and race diversity, but merely added ideological diversity. Apple firing her and backpedaling on a need for ideological diversity is really disappointing to me, and this will seriously affect my decision on buying a HomePod next year / future Apple devices.

It surprises me that Sam didn't include instances like that in his essay; maybe he wanted to avoid specifics so his argument couldn't be attacked on an individual case level, but nonetheless.

Side note: Are there any other alternatives that take privacy as seriously as Apple?
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Did anyone really think that public outcry or "blacking out" the web would sway this administration?

We have to get Congress to pass that law:

https://www.wired.com/story/after-fcc-vote-net-neutrality-fi...
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He did run on "drain the swamp" which meant getting rid of people that do things like this. The problem is that people believed him.
Why will a bubble explosion bankrupt an exchange platform? The platform doesn't need to own any bitcoins and can be unaffected by price swings. The platform likely earns bitcoins through fees, but is free to trade them at any time. In principal all the bitcoins in the care of the exchange can be owned (or owed) to the traders.
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Of course. My statement was predicated on the need for active network requests to obtain information. If the bot had passively listened to network traffic from LI, then I would argue for sameness with passively looking through a window.
I believe this evidence is consistent with my point that a robust (and perhaps growing!) network of campus conservatism exists.

Specifically, this evidence could be explained by an increasing rate of conservatism on campuses. The rate of disinvitation could be the same, it's just that there's a greater number of conservative speaker invitations going out from a greater number of conservative students. And right leaning speakers are disproportionately invited by right-leaning student organizations.
Your comment is a Harbinger of days soon to come. Ah my nation, how I weep for thee.
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I don't see how else to read this:

> He was running a website that revolved around violating millions of copyrights. Why shouldn't he go to jail?
That's a great point and worth clarifying. I agree that neither side is super appropriate to bring up at work. I'm referring more so to circumstances like your friend who is a Trump supporter.

It also gets murkier nowadays because companies are expected to take stances on social issues, and with certain ones are criticized when they don't.
Thanks. Yes that would be my guess also. They are aggressively marketing their platform here on HN, and even in some of the HN based newsletters.
It is time to make the Internet a utility. Unfortunately, it wont happen until we get Democrats back into the Senate and House.
I would love this with M.2 (or U.2) SSDs and modern CPUs/Chipsets. Don't even need Xeons. Really would rather not have Xeons and their associated cost, if I'm being frank.
Is Sam saying that there's more free speech available to Chinese citizens within China than there is to American citizens within the US, in general? Or, is he saying that, within the expat-heavy Beijing startup community (a constituency the PRC government really doesn't want to alienate), people are freer to discuss certain controversial ideas about the future of technology than they are in San Francisco?

I think it's pretty obviously the latter....
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Non-voters / people on the “there’s no difference” train also deserve a moment of reflection about whether their reality is true.
The one thing that gives me hope is the fact that e.g. Washington state is planning on defending it on the state level https://www.geekwire.com/2017/washington-state-leaders-annou...
Finally, something good came from the Obama administration. Appointing Pai to the FCC was probably their greatest accomplishment.
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Slower clients can likely just be subsidized by faster clients since I imagine the return would be higher and more consistent than traditional ads. It's already been done on a few sites, so you could look into what they did, but I forget where.

I feel like the potential for abuse would still be a better tradeoff than the current situation of ads that try to download malware or redirect you to phishing sites.
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For organization, I use BibDesk (http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net). I used Papers when it first came out, but for reasons relating to business practices I now forget I went back to BibDesk.
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well, stem cells are special in that they form tree replication structures to avoid problems like the Hayflick limit, so if the ones high up in the tree got repaired, you should have new stem cells born that inherit the fix for decades. At least, that's my understanding of the theory; that's no guarantee it works that way in reality.
This is great!

There's so much hype about machine learning but so few people seem to appreciate the fundamental importance of linear algebra (especially in ML).

This fast.ai course is also great:
http://www.fast.ai/2017/07/17/num-lin-alg/
It wouldn't, but then what would stop the administration after that from repealing the protections again?

Are going to have to take up this fight every four years?
Most people don't fit into either party's value system. I hardly think boiling it down to R vs D is going to help anyone, we need to inform our populous.
"Drain the swamp" means different things to different people.
> A train or bus from the Bay Area to Nebraska will run around $100. That’s around the same amount as Bay Area rent costs for just the time spent on the train/bus during the trip.

Congratulations, you're now broke, homeless, jobless, with weak creditworthiness, no connections to local private and public support in Nebraska, needing to somehow acquire food, shelter, and some mechanism of paying for it.
Correct, a place where innovative companies like Netflix were blocked and throttled by ISPs due to conflicts with their legacy business models.

I don't know how anyone could honestly say that taking away an important consumer protection is going to help innovation, outside of innovative new billing practices by ISPs.
I'm not sure twitter is the cause, more the primary avenue. People can be dangerously groupthink-y and overreacting in person or on social media, and our culture certainly seems to be moving more in the direction of instant reactions and emotional self-satisfaction over engaging in nuanced debates.
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The criticism quoted wasn't about ethical problems in genetic engineering research. It was about life extension as a goal.

I can imagine a debate about that, but I can't see how it is appropriate to create a toxic environment for life extension advocates.

Apparently these researchers / advocates found the environment so toxic they were motivated to move. Perhaps they were over-reacting but it seems likely something is wrong.

And "move fast / break things" applied to human biology research is entirely an insertion of the commenter, not remotely an implication of Altman's piece.
right, obviously it doesn't matter that they went through and voted for something nobody really liked. how ignorant can you be?
Though, it's on par with credit cards.
The argument is interesting but flawed. He points to a problem he sees, an increasingly high focus on being politically correct. And I agree it is a problem.

But he doesn't ask himself why. He doesn't try to understand why PC is so important right now, to the point to risk missing out on important and revolutionary ideas. And that made me think: where the best idea come from? Not from being free to be jerks but from questioning the status quo in constructive ways.

Why there's so much focus on Political Correctness right now? One possible answer is because the status quo has provided a windfall for White Educated Middle-Class Males with good connections at the expense of people further away from this description. Example? Are you a woman? You have to cope with molestation from entitled men. etc etc...

I'm crazy thinking that if we solve these problems we could then start again being open to crazy shit ideas, criticize each other ideas and keep things moving.

Or yes, we could be expats in China, where for now this problem hasn't emerged yet. But it sounds to me like just swiping the dirt under the rug. Is it innovative? Just asking...
I'm not a lawyer, I'm just repeating what I heard on the "Today I Found Out" YouTube Channel.
Well, is twitter actually the problem, though? Twitter's biases are a problem, but that's a separate issue. Twitter can't be expected to prevent all forms of propaganda from its users, and even if they could the problem is not just twitter specifically, it's all social media. While the parent made a pithy comment using Twitter as an example, in reality instigators rely on an array of platforms to spread the message and whip up the proverbial mob.

And more importantly, people with decision-making power have shown a remarkable tendency to submit to the will of these capricious and volatile online mobs.
If you feel that you can no longer participate in HN at all because you advanced this opinion about Sam, then you might have a point. Sam's post was written in the context of people being fired from corporate jobs or feeling forced to move out of San Francisco.
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I don't agree with his UBI idea, but I think the debates on HN have been really great, with both sides giving a lot of food for thought.
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Friendly reminder that economists surveyed are far more likely to be for paid prioritization than against

http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/net-neutrality-ii
NY AG Schneiderman had a good response to this in the earlier AMA (which I've pasted below).

"As a preliminary matter, it’s important to recognize that net neutrality principles and protections in different forms have actually been around since 2005 and even earlier. So the flourishing of the internet and everything relying on it during that time occurred under the protections. A few years ago, however, the courts struck down one form of net neutrality protections (those that had relied on Title I of the Communications Act), so then in 2015 the FCC put net neutrality protections back in place under Title II instead (they also expanded the earlier protections, e.g., to include protections against abuses related to interconnection, which had not been the subject of net neutrality protections before 2015). Now, in 2017, the FCC under Chairman Ajit Pai is proposing to repeal net neutrality protections altogether (and the courts’ earlier decisions effectively foreclose a return to net neutrality protections under Title I). So that would be entirely new territory for the internet.

Why do we think that’s bad? Well, as I explained in my own public comment in the current proceeding (https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/10717583023587/FINAL%20RIF%20Co...), we’ve seen how companies behave in the absence of net neutrality protections, specifically in the area of interconnection before it was regulated in 2015, and their unregulated conduct harmed consumers. In essence, they made a deliberate business decision to let the quality of internet access degrade, knowing that it hurt consumers, to try to squeeze revenue out of edge providers like Netflix and backbone providers like Cogent and Level 3. Plus, we know that many consumers have few ISPs to choose from, so competition isn’t as effective a check as in other markets. So I believe strong net neutrality regulations are needed to avoid harms to consumers."

The AMA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15853374
This has been asked a few times but never fully answered, can someone explain why this vote in particular is a problem? I understand net neutrality and I am all for it, but there was considerable public doubt before reclassification that this was the proper way to go about it. It also doesn't seem like the internet regulatory state of pre-2015 was a disaster. Would we better off focusing our efforts on increasing competition among ISPs? The major problem in all the pre-2015 net neutrality issues was that people often did not have any other ISP to use if their current ISP introduced a policy that was anti-consumer.
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I'm far more positive-minded about cryptocurrency than the average HN'er, and I have been since 2011.

And I think this is a terrible idea. If you don't have a sense of what ideas you personally believe matter in the field, this is a terrible time to put money into it. I've got money in coins I believe in long term, but that long term may be years. It's certainly not months.
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You're missing my point.

My point is that no story points need to exist. If you want to average the amount of work done over a period of time then just count bugs and stories completed. The Central Limit theorem applies equally well to stories over the long term, so just collect data. Automatic.

We add story points, presumably because we don't want to wait to gather enough data on stories, but the neutral position is to not use them because they incur a cost (meetings, training to get consistency right, etc). So why have them? I have not seen a convincing argument.
The amount this video is cutting out is making me feel how Net Neutrality will feel.
Same thing with Obama Care and any other wide reaching law. If this happens enough just the lack of stability will make people and companies leave.
This is a bullshit thing I always hear from pro-FB people. I tried doing that and the result was that my feed is incredibly sparse because it turns out that the most annoying people are the ones that post often, and regular people rarely post. So now, every time I log in, 85% of the content is something I've seen more than 3 times already. Your choice is either crappy content, or redundant content.
"I would advice Mr. Sam Altman to not write such an insulting article. He should take it down immediately. Many of us reading it live in San Francisco."
> I think that life extension is dangerous and wrong and therefore people dedicating their lives to it today are unethical people.

> I haven't shut down any argument by saying this

You're being naive if you think that saying this doesn't end any hope of a reasonable discussion.
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The other advantage is more opportunity to parallize the work. So with new silicon architectre like the Google TPUs. This part is an important element to the equation.
does this mean anything yet? i mean with all the lawsuits that will be incoming. can cable companies start their bullshit?
I don't care too much for politics, but this one hurts. :(
Computer malware was not a concern many years ago, do you also tell people to not take precautions against them?
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A slightly botched up, pennypinching one but still, you are right. (I bought one too.)
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I believe he is mostly talking about day to day could conversations among friends, acquaintances, and coworkers. I lived in Beijing for 9 years and I can tell you those types of conversations are absolutely more free in China. It's common to tell someone they are fat or ask them how much money they make without people taking offense. You can discuss various social topics and take a less popular opinion without being ostracized.
This whole discussion is missing one point. Why are FCC members supposed to represent some parties, instead of being independent experts? It's the root of the problem. Instead of objectively addressing the issue, FCC is dominated by dumb partisan politics.
I've lived in cities on both sides of the political coin and can comfortably say that this is consistent for both liberal-dominant and conservative-dominant cities. I think part of the problem is that a lot of the issues you mention are seen as moral rather than ideological because peoples' values become so deeply rooted once they've spent enough time in like-minded communities (and perhaps some of the issues were really a question of morality to begin with). Beyond that, there's a heightened degree of generalization of "the other" when you're in a homogeneous community - if you support anything that aligns with an opposing political party, people will tend to project other values onto you that are generally associated with that party, regardless of whether or not you've expressed them.
This is proof positive that the current FCC commission has ignored the will of the voters on this issue.

Support for Net Neutrality was overwhelming and bi-partisan, yet Ajit Pai just plowed forward without consideration for what the citizens demanded.

This is government at its worst.
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What do you mean by "browser support"? What functionality do you expect to go away that would prevent you from viewing an old HTML file in a modern browser?
Sam, your point is incredibly valid, and you'll be able to lead the charge if you reframe some of your concepts and let go of paragraphs like this.

"To get the really good ideas, we need to tolerate really bad and wacky ideas too. In addition to the work Newton is best known for, he also studied alchemy (the British authorities banned work on this because they feared the devaluation of gold) and considered himself to be someone specially chosen by the almighty for the task of decoding Biblical scripture."

Like I tell my son, "anytime your minds says something is 'weird or wacky', what it is really telling you is that you should seek understanding'.

[Updated] To be clear, what I mean is that you confessed your limits of acceptable thought by declaring alchemy and decoding of the Bible as being bad and wacky. If a genius like Newton was willing to believe these were worthy of his attention, and the British authorities were worried enough to ban it, maybe it's time to challenge the scripting you have that won't let YOU go there.
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Honestly - in my experience, they are not. I didn't know anything about SF before I moved there. No one around me in the South ever talked about it. Now that I go back home and I mention I lived in SF I may hear people say something along the lines of "wow they are really liberal out there aren't they?". Nothing along the lines of the vitriol I hear in the Bay Area.
century of poverty, slavery, and hundred million deaths

I am genuinely curious about where you get the figure of 100 million deaths from. I also believe that all the societes that had slaves were capitalist ones.

But we can both agree that communism leads to poverty although the poorest countries in the world are failed states rather than communist:
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-poorest-countries-in...
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This has made me feel pretty damn powerless, as pretty much every site/person of significance has stated their opposition to such a repeal, and yet they went through it anyway. Just a gut feeling that our democracy isn't working properly when such a loud and clear, great majority of the population messaging is completely ignored.
> he has identified more than 1,000 new species of ant, including some whose adults feed exclusively on the blood of their own young

Interesting... I'll refrain from making any inane political observations though.
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That's not what is being talked about here. The topic is about social ostracization based on opinions you hold, rather than the ability to challenge authority over public broadcast mediums.
Streaming services like Netflix didn't even exist, as streaming services, until sometime around 2007. And prior to that the vast majority of people would not have had the hardware/connection to be able to stream effectively in any case. Movies had already long since been in decline. Similarly, the time line is also another bit of evidence that piracy is also not the problem.
Now, to wait for the EFF and friends to sue.

From what I've read, it seems like they've got some pretty good arguments against the FCC, so hopefully something good will come of that.
I work with vegans who think the fact that I use and consume animal products is immoral. They regularly make smug or passive-aggressive comments. And frankly I don't give a shit, and it doesn't stop us from working together.
Washington state is fighting it:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/washington-gov-jay...

Washington state will act under our own authority and under our own laws and under our own jurisdiction to protect the very important measure of net neutrality for all Washington citizens,” he said. “We are not powerless.
That's exactly what you do. Maybe we could use some employee protection laws to protect employees exercising their right to free speech. E.g., protection from being fired when they are not acting as official representatives of their employers, or talking privately, or using personal social media accounts. Don't we already have similar anti-discrimination laws?
> I meant test in the sense of "do whatever you did to check correctness" in the first place.

Sure. I already responded to this:

>> But you're missing the fact that testing is in no way even remotely guaranteed to catch every error.
2015 wasn't too bad.