skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The 14th Amendment portion of Citizens United is not the part of the case that has relevancy to this discussion

The Citizens United decision rests on Corporate Personhood. Corporate Personhood was established in a case testing the limits of the 14th amendment.
10's of millions of dollars and the CEO of the most powerful chip manufacturer in the world and they couldn't find a photo that didn't make him look like he was trying to slowly release a fart without anyone noticing.
That's 100% true, I'm not saying we have to create a new drug, but define what is the best treatments available, as well as take that into account when the treatments are being made. Especially as there become more black people if there is a treatment just for that minority it may be a quite profitable route for them.

Further down in the comments somewhere I posted another comment where it's as simple as certain chemo's cause toxicity levels in Asians where they don't in white Americans. So simply lowering the dosage would fix the problem but because that wasn't involved in the original research it wasn't known for quite sometime and Asian populations suffered.

When I say "focus on minorities for research" working any solution is fine, simple or not.
The radio is built into most chips, even on feature phones. They are generally blocked, or have been until recently, mainly because of politics--using an FM receiver means you might use less bandwidth, which means less revenue for carriers. I have a couple of feature phones built for the Russian market that have FM enabled. I think most non-US phones actually have working FM receivers, but I am not certain of that.
If they pay for more access than is required, why wasn't that in the documents Snowden dumped? Instead, we saw the normal court rulings requiring companies to comply with data access requests.
I imagine, if it does aoply, WalMart is just doing a pay-in-lieu, which is often cheaper.
..who first said that, Ted Bundy?
He has touched the editorial side. Bezos personally ordered the Washington Post to cover as many stories as possible on Trump and the Post dedicated 20 full time editors to him at his direction. I don't think Bezos has told reporters to change the words write, but he's definitely directed what reporters should write about.

By dedicating so many resources to Trump and the gossip surrounding him, it leaves less resources to cover other, actually important issues. It's made a huge change in the direction of the paper. There's much more about Trump now and less on other important topics. I'm surprised you didn't notice it.
It is obvious Google is doing it for their own benefit as well. The faster your page loads, the faster they can crawl.
Relax, by now everybody knows ICOs are like direct emails from african royal family member; it will go from pennies worth raised money to abandoning idea in no time - you'll just learn few technical things about blockchain/cryptocurrency in general, which is useful and people will get discounts on your product/service at the end. It's a bullshit extravaganza to be watched with popcorn and smile on your face, it'll fade away. If your company is solid it's unlikely it'll end up in total fuckup - cancellation of idea - yes, but investors will pay back to the angry mob one way or another to secure the money put into the shop.
Why the "hated" recruiters. Only once in the past 20 years have I even thought about getting a job without a recruiter. I applied for 17 jobs through recruiters in my last job search and I knew the technology stack and the salary they were willing to pay before ever starting the process. Out of the 17, only one wasn't interested in starting the process, I got three offers within a month and none of the other 12 rejected me, I took myself out of the running when I found a company I liked.

At no point was I just twiddling my thumbs waiting to hear back. The recruiters always knew where I was in the process. One day, I had 6 phone screens with different companies. Another day, I had a morning interview and an evening interview.

I'm not trying to brag about myself, when you have a recruiter it's just so much easier finding jobs you are qualified for. They've also worked with the company before so they can prep you a little more for the interview.

Also, you hardly ever walk into an interview knowing whether the salary you are expecting is in line with what they are willing to pay without a recruiter.
I admit that the concept of retrieval miners makes no sense to me since it seems like they would have to be the same as the storage miners. It is worrying that the whitepaper says "we must assume that there is always one honest Retrieval Miner"; you can't assume honesty without incentives.

In general, I don't take the Filecoin whitepaper too literally. There are a lot of aspects of it that will probably have to be changed. I think the Filecoin ICO (which I didn't participate in BTW) is more of a vote of confidence on the team, not any specific protocol.
Our current mental model (which is a bit more complicated than what is endorsed) is built upon evidence. The genetic mutation leading to CF was discovered, and the treatment (based on investigating this, rather than trying compounds at random) has extended lives.

Before clinical trials, doctors gave advice based on anecdotes (i.e. "experience"). As a whole we seemed to do no better than random chance, but we made sure to take credit for patients who naturally recovered.

Your experiences are important and 100% relevant to yourself, and nobody can ever devalue that. And it's also true that our understanding of the human body is extremely limited. But it's not clear to me that the magnitude of your personal suffering leads to generalized knowledge or a better mental model.
“Corporate personhood" is the whole point of the corporate form, and predates the US.
Not so strict in this case!
Benefits and Drawbacks of Remote Work
To kill crab my dad uses something like this. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Dewit-Junior-Spade-T-Handle-31-3...

He flips them over and cuts them right down the middle hitting both nerve receptors almost immediately. I find it to be fairly humane, and boiling live crab never sat right with us. I doubt this method will be changed in favor of poking them to death nor do I really think poking them is much (if any) more humane.

I imagine this could be used on lobster too but we don't catch lobster, so I don't know.
Why not just do this without the overhead of mining and maintaining a blockchain? Surely there's a more efficient way of maintaining a public distributed file system.
Lobsters can live a very long time if not killed. Very long.
I could write a whole other article on this as well. The pregnant women part actually fits extremely well in this context even more so, they aren't neglected, they are specifically left out because researchers don't want to have to explain their outliers. I'm a proponent of that, but the sponsors have to front the costs to make it happen, without a government mandate that gets very tricky.
When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind
None of your points in any way justifies suggesting one is living in a bubble if they choose to limit their exposure to large groups as a form of germ control. I don't live in a bubble. I do avoid large crowds, among other things.

I see zero reason to suggest that trying to keep small kids home and out if public daycare somehow us weird, aberrant, helicopter parenting. Small kids being at home with family was the norm for most of human history.

Tossing in stats in how bad life was for peasants isn't genuinely a rebuttal. It is, at best, smoke and mirrors to deflect the point.
Wow thank you for sharing! One of my resolutions for the year 2018 is to build something with TensorFlow.
I don't understand. What does it mean to file 'confidentially' if now the entire general public knows about it?
Welcome to millennial-speak: emojis and gifs speak “louder” than words and phrases

(I don’t agree/disagree with it’s usage. I just think of these as another form of expression)
These types of questions are tough, though I can imagine it may be one of a variety of reasons:

- There are already plenty of discussions on HN regarding bias and banning on Twitter, which tend to repeatedly cover the same ground, much of which is flame-covered, and some HN members may not want to see as many submissions like this

- Project Veritas (James O'Keefe) is known to be a unreputable source, with numerous judgements against them going back years, and members may not want to use this as a starting point of discussion for an already highly contentious discussion.

† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O'Keefe

- It's a highly charged political topic and, as you note, is covered by several news outlets. One of the guidelines for HN states "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Ideological or political battle or talking points. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." This story is hitting at least two of those.

It's hard to know why people flag or downvote or upvote or submit, but there's some speculation. One can disagree with some of the reasons I'm putting forth (my mind-reading skills aren't what they used to be), or think it should be discussed anyway: you can contact the mods via the Contact link in the footer and let them know. They've been known to unflag submissions in the past if they think it's appropriate for HN.

Nit: Only members are shadowbanned. Submissions (and comments) can be flagged or killed.
Yeah, and for developers of sandboxed code (i.e. JS/WASM in webpages) precise timing should be available in a special Developer Mode.
Yes, and as I already pointed out, the root comment states:

>>>>>> Personally, I'm concerned that the individual factors of this case (i.e. Gawker being Gawker) will overshadow the principle at stake, which feels a lot more important than a gossip site.

We are discussing principles and problems that are larger than just these two cases. That's the entire thesis of the comment that started this thread.
They only highlight the problem (underestimation of skill), and its interaction with current skill level. But that doesn't mean a person's sense of their skill level couldn't be corrected. This is exactly what one-on-one expert feedback is for.

I like the paper, because it's a good reminder to seek out tutors / mentors early when learning something, and to take them seriously when they say you have a lot to learn.
This reminds me of that javascript technique where you load a page as soon as you detect a mouseover on the link.

http://instantclick.io/ (try their documentation page for a demo of link-clicking)
> we'd have to consider giving them up.

Just this week there's been a round of articles on the scientific consensus that fish feel pain. Read https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/fish-feel-pain..., for example, and see if the final third of the article leaves you comfortable about eating fish. I've always thought the "catch and release" practice (and the accompanying justification that fish don't feel pain, so that it's harmless sportsmanlike fun) to be bewilderingly shallow thinking - but despite that fish is a much more significant part of my diet than avian or mammal meat. I'm also deeply hypocritical about mammal meat eating; every time I go to an Indian restaurant (but never otherwise) for example, I'll order lamb, just because it's tastier than saag or tofu. As another example, I don't eat pork, with the notable exception of cured meats, which are also too damned tasty. I probably could go wholesale vegan, especially with some of the better fake-meat protein sources, and yet perhaps I don't want to enough, and/or I enjoy eating meat a few times a month too much to do so. That's hardly a well justified moral position to take, and yet I suspect it's not uncommon.

[Also, the dividing line between animals and plants - while of course clearly defined - may be softer than we've assumed. (https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-01-09/new-research-plant-in...). In 25 years will we talking about eating lab grown food only instead of farmed plants?]

I suspect our moral systems are still reeling from 1000+ years of Christianity completely dominating our societal thinking - even if your parents weren't religious, or theirs, their inherited "firmware" (societal norms picked up in early years of learning) probably has a lot of irrationally derived foundations. Our attempts at scientific derived moral systems haven't had particularly great results so far, but perhaps we'll get there in time.
Apple’s Indirect Presence Fades from CES
This is just an ugly side of humanity that has always been there, but is magnified by the combination of anonymity, disenfranchisement, and ever more addicting Skinner-box style entertainment.

We are a tribal species; in the past this type of behavior would be socialized out of you or else you would be a recluse. You didn't have the opportunity to sit in your own filth and project your self-loathing onto anyone across the Internet.

As a species we're just not emotionally equipped to deal with the current reality.
The premise here is that lobsters feel pain, and the article doesn't really jump through many hoops to prove that. A creature moving away from something that might kill it (as with the crabs and shock) isn't really evidence for pain.

If we don't know for sure whether crustaceons feel pain, how can we know if different methods of killing them are reducing the pain? The article suggests "stunning the crustacean by chilling it..in an ice slurry". How do we know that this is not unbearable pain and agony for them?

If lobsters do feel pain, throwing them into a pot of boiling water probably activates the pain. But offering alternatives that cause "less" pain when we don't even know if/how much pain is caused by any method could be making the situation even worse.
I mean, the intent is nice, but writing unenforceable laws is rarely a great idea. I dunno if the law is specific to commercial kitches or not, but it should be - probably even then only the food processing plants that they mention. It's pointless to legislate this sort of thing at the individual level that you can never ever reasonably enforce.
Buried Ice Water Discovered on Mars
Same here. Until now, I assumed I'd somehow screwed up my registration on Android.
This novel was amazing. I really enjoyed it.
> deep entrenched conditioned cognitive dissonance

What do you mean by this? Are you talking about Pavlovian conditioning? Also, just to make sure that we are on the same page, my understanding is that _cognitive dissonance_ refers to a discomfort felt when holding views that contradict each other.
Totally different type of pressure. You're assuming timeline pressure and social pressure is the same thing. It is not.

If I'm applying for a senior developer/architect position, I should be able to think of a high level solution on the spot. When I was looking for a job a year or so ago, I thought I was interviewing for a regular developer position. I didn't realize I was interviewing for a lead position and they were looking for someone to create a development department from scratch. The first thing my now manager asked me was what steps I would take in the next 3-6 months to create the department.
Because in that situation you're just paying with their own money for employees for their work. Usually, in a normal company, you will have a board of directors or ombudsman or somebody with some kind of incentive to prevent massive overpaying that essentially becomes a gift(unless, of course, we're talking about the CEO, then pay away until the cows come home) - I don't know, does FileCoin or the parent company have that kind of set up?
James dolan
Do lobsters have a distributed nervous system?
It's probably related to this phenomenon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery

I think it's also less statistically unlikely than you think. Thousands of security issues are discovered every year, it makes sense that some small number will be discovered in parallel. It looks like a big coincidence because you are focusing on the one parallel discovery, but if you consider it in the broad landscape of all discoveries then it's just statistically expected that there would be at least one parallel discovery.
That's a cop-out. This isn't genetic, this isn't universal, this is a cultural trend.
Curious how the healthcare industry will try to monetize fasting i.e. this free, unlimited thing that anyone can do that has proven time and time again to not only increase lifespan but increase the number of healthy years in the last years of life.
> make people file lawsuits within 3 months of injury (lower the statute of limitations)

My issue with this is, 3 months from actual harm, or realization of harm? There just seem to be a lot of cases where harm does not show themselves immediately, but may take a few years to appear.
There are always things that are shared even between distinct cores: RAM, buses, disk I/O, network I/O, LAN, the Internet, etc.
> And maybe it's just me, but I always found broadcast to be pretty reliable (or at least consistently unreliable in ways I could predict) - online broadcasts have a tendency to fail/buffer/etc. at totally random intervals.

Do you live anywhere that gets regular tropical storms? Broadcast towers are lightning magnets and they regularly go out, usually not for long but I've seen them be down overnight more than once. They also used to degrade a fair bit in electrical storms in the pre digital TV age. It wasn't that long ago that a neighbor mowing the lawn meant that the TV signal would be awful/out.

What we need is for our internet and power systems to be more distributed.
Yup. From the article:

> ... This is because crustaceans have decentralised nervous systems, meaning that unlike fish, they can't be rendered unconscious with a single blow to the head.
The claims in that patent seem to be fairly easy to work around.
It's beautiful, fun and quite daring. I would generally opt for the 'straightforward and professional looking' solution, but that might be because I'm boring and generally unimaginative.

Kinda sad realizing that you prefer this, but would chose boring just because it's somehow more safe.
Grotesque just means 'sans-serif'. https://creativemarket.com/blog/grotesque-fonts
Tinfoil hat: Because we didn’t need it any more, or because the other side figured it out, so either way we needed to make sure it got disclosed and fixed.

No tinfoil hat: Because the series of research to date connected enough dots it crossed a threshold and lightbulbs went off all over.
I'm guessing that the point was, not that it would be beneficial for the individual who gets killed, but that it would save future generations from existence.
>Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office has made the point that inmates still have access to prison libraries, but some say it’s not enough.

Sickening that the state is gouging people (and families) least able to afford it or contest the action. Not surprising it comes from the most corrupt governor (Cuomo) in the most corrupt state (New York) in the country. This is a governor who literally disbanded his own commission to investigate corruption when it started investigating his own corruption

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/23/nyregion/governor-andrew-...

Nobody should have any doubt that Cuomo and/or his political allies are getting lucrative kickbacks from the small group of for-profit corporations that stand to benefit from this despicable act.
But the lobster is food. It provides calories and nutrients to the human organism when digested. Lobsters don't un-become food because plants exist.
When we were hunter-gatherers, we had to exercise simply to harvest enough calories to meet our daily needs and our diet was limited to what was in season and available in our immediate range.

Today we have more leisure time than ever before in human history (well ... maybe not the HN crowd) but we're spending that time in increasingly sedentary hobbies/interests.

As a physician, does the idea that manufacturing and robotics will completely eliminate our need to work scare you at all? If the trend continues, will we truly be the space-faring humans in Wall-E - tied to our mechanical chairs and handicapped by our girth while life-spans decrease due to obesity-related diseases?
The second sentence in the linked article is this: "The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issued the warrant, the official said, after investigators determined that Mr. Page was no longer part of the Trump campaign, which began distancing itself from him in early August."
Humans were a tasty meal for predators for most of our history. I guess that makes us food too?
Just to be clear, you're saying that the strike of the option grants (or the 409a) in 2014 was roughly based on a 10b valuation? That does seem to screw over anyone with such options, since it's unlikely they'll see appreciable gain on those. Is this sort of conversion from existing option grants to RSUs common? I know most startups convert to RSUs for new grants eventually, but was unaware that some also apply it retroactively. It's a nice show of good faith to convert them to some # of RSUs on Dropbox's part.
poloniex.com
https://gizmodo.com/lobsters-were-once-only-fed-to-poor-peop...
All of my patients know my name. It’s on a badge, with a picture ID and all. This includes drug seekers, people looking for a suit, a handout, and just a general smattering of crazy folks. Yet they don’t manage to find my fb, my Twitter, my LinkedIn.

Part of this is that devs plug deeply into social media, personally and professionally, and have few (or no) firewalls between the two.

Unless you -have- to be the public face of a product, your professional media interactions shouldn’t be accessible to the masses. Your private definitely shouldn’t be. They need to be heavily firewalled. If I can trivially message the lead dev of my favorite game, he’s done something wrong. If I can reach him on a private account he can’t just burn or ignore, he’s done a lot wrong.

The internet hosts the majority of people on earth: it’s a very, very long tail of crazy, poorly socialized, immature, etc. There is no changing that if you are accessible to seven billion people, some tiny percent of that will amount to an overwhelming amount of shit.

The answer is jealously guarding your privacy and communications channels, which isn’t something I’ve seen in these discussions.

Im not trying to victim blame here. I just don’t see as fruitful lamenting something that boils down to “dealing with the public en masse sucks.” It does, and it will:
The Network Uber Drivers Built
If that's the only reason thats a reasonably small niche - WinXP only most likely.

I mean China & India have more of those machines but... it's still a niche.
Totally agree, "bucketing" is certainly hard, but to define every possible bucket would have me writing an entire book. This piece is meant to get the discussion started and open peoples eyes to the existing problem and consciously start to work on solutions. My African ancestry is all sub-saharan African (at least according to my 23andMe) so I'm quite familiar with those statistics you're providing.
In our pursuit of a fully-employed society (maximizing the size of the labor pool for optimum capital efficiency), we've neglected to factor in the time + effort + wealth it takes to maintain the traditional family structure.

When you don't have access to that wealth* and society takes an active role in eroding its explicit social safety net (welfare), the implicit communal safety net (redlining, divestment), and individual liberties (mass incarceration, the crack vs cocaine sentencing disparities), you can see what results. What you're falsely ascribing to sexual liberation I'm ascribing to the real, tangible effects of capitalism and a society that values black life less.

* http://www.post-gazette.com/business/businessnews/2010/03/09...
Yes. If there are people who are getting hired over him. It's not about what's fair.