skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a counter-point: People can hold beliefs because they have certain consequences. Simple example: "all people are created equal". This is a belief that is (probably) frequently held because it has assumed beneficial consequences for society.

So if people choose to believe in something because that has certain consequences - then a belief can be political.

EDIT: To expand on this a little... It seems to me that you divorce a belief itself from its consequences. As there are a lot of beliefs that have immediate and direct political and social consequences, i think that this separation is questionable.

If you have a belief, you probably will act on that belief. Having a belief and _not_ acting on it _at all_ seems rather useless and abstract to me. I'm not saying that this doesn't happen, but in general, if some person has a belief, he (or she) will act on that belief.

So, to be blunt: for some beliefs, having them is a political act.
And all other chipmakers? Unlike Meltdown Spectre applies to pretty much all modern processors.
> Why bother with…

Because they might have no choice. The million (billion?) dollar question is: are they full of bull? That’s what this is all about.

He’s saying: they want to go higher than 15%, but they can’t. Not ‘they choose not to.’ They would have if they could. And they can’t go 0% and full VR because that would be admitting defeat, and the end of the gravy train.
There are many reasons not to ever use Airbnb, this is just one of them.
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It's not about being a cheapskate, it's about taking the path of least resistance. Why would you pay for something you can get """for free""" and faster?

I pay for the services I want because it's more convenient for me (I pay more than €60/month for online news alone, and self-host most of the services I use, which also cost me money). But yes, I use some ad-backed services with an adblocker, and if they went away I would just replace them with truly free services which are just slightly less convenient.
Brilliant article, to be fair. One small piece of internet history.
I live near the Angel and drive past it occasionally. It's a really great piece of sculpture, especially up close.
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> People can hold beliefs because they have certain consequences.

Nearly all beliefs are of this type. I believe the Earth orbits the Sun because it's helps me predict the seasons.
Nowadays, you don't need to hide them anymore. Everyone is recording everything and uploading it to everyone.

I wonder how many videos I have appeared in as a background character of someone's Facebook video. All that data is waiting to be processed one day so the schedule of my whole life is pieced together statistically from the mountains of raw data accumulated over the decades by companies.
If you read closely, you will notice that due to the enormous amount of power that Gmail has, they cannot refuse to serve emails with AMP content in the end.
That is absolutely a good point. I should have shown my working a bit more.

static is boring, because every email can still have a custom endpoint.

proxyable is more interesting.

You say "cacheable" - I don't see that in the AMP project notes:

https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/13457

@ras9929 yes amp-list allows you to generate dynamic content populated from a json endpoint. The demo shown today did exactly what you are suggesting. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Eo4gAoDBA&feature=youtu.be

The only reason to host images remotely rather than including them as cid: links inside a multipart/related is size and encoding overhead. Likewise, a new dynamic multimedia format could be entirely self-contained within the email if you wanted to design it that way.

Instead what we have is something which is very tightly coupled to short-lived online services. It's a really poor archival format, but it has just enough sweet bits that people will want to use it for things that it shouldn't be used for. It's really short-term design.
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Music industry size is 47.5 billion a year and streaming services cost 10$ a month [0]. The movie and TV industry size is 287 billion a year [1]. Paying the same subscription price proportional to the industry size would be 60$ a month. Netflix + hulu plus + amazon prime come in under 30$ a month which leaves you with 30$ to rent the movies/shows that are not covered in those plans.

It sounds like you just don't like how much it costs to support high quality television/movies. Granted, one 60$ a month service that offered everything would be more convenient.

[0]: https://www.statista.com/topics/1639/music/

[1]: https://www.statista.com/topics/964/film/
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> Search, sharing, organizing into collections

All these features does gmail already have for years. And yes, people also use gmail for file storage. AMP is a stupid idea, but it doesn't mean they do it instead of other features. The other features are there already.
Those billions are focused on the company interests, not yours.
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How can something like this even happen? Don't they have hallway usability testing prior to a release?
I don't think we necessarily require intent to consider something as art.

If a pianist playfully improvises, mindlessly, without intent, does that mean she is not creating art? Sure, you can say that her intent is to maximize her own pleasure.. but then, how it is different from evolution?

It reminds me, is intent the same thing as objective? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXQPL9GooyI
> (apart from attack/decay and modulations)

This is a much bigger factor

if you loop steady state parts of classical instruments it becomes very difficult to differentiate them.
Yeah - our duty is to serve the needs of our customers while making wise and pragmatic security decisions to keep them safe. If large amounts of email that people want to see is delivered via AMP pages, we'll make them viewable and usable somehow - hopefully in a way that makes it clear that they are mutable, and maybe even informs users if they've changed since last view.
Not sure what all of this has to do with the linked article, which discusses purely the scientific merit of claims of bias in STEM.
It consumes 8 nanowatts, which is well below the self-discharge rate of almost all batteries.
>"Meritocracy" is almost always a flawed idea, because it relies on the principle of those in positions of authority choosing the best candidate for a given role; the key word here is "best." That's a subjective term, and usually favors a small set of criteria over a more holistic view.

That's the whole idea. When you need a surgeon you don't need a specifically sexed, or colored, or whatever surgeon. You just need a person good at the "small set of criteria" of performing a surgery.
> If you regularly login to FB and look at your feed they will leave you alone.

This is false. My nan has an iPad she basically only uses for Facebook, and her email is unusable because she has thousands of messages from Facebook. I have no idea why they send thousands of emails to somebody who logs in every day and never ever opens one of their emails but they do.
> Abolish it entirely.

The original argument for patents was to avoid secret sauces that die with their companies.

The reality is that companies that would use secret sauces still do, and those whose technology would be trivially reverse-engineerable patent it.

And a plethora of secret-sauce companies give up and publish to attract talent: see Apple’s move to publish about ML.
Not really. If woman gets high paying job, she makes less money for the same work.

Also women have more expenses than men (ping tax, daycare...). Big cities are unaffordable even at the same salary.
It's also a very niche market and you end up completely captive in their ecosystem if you do this. It's reasonable to assume that there'll still be a market for iPhone and Android apps 5 years from now, I don't even know if Magic Leap One will still exist in 5 months or if they'll ever achieve commercial success. Yeah it'll probably be vastly easier to be the top ML developer but it won't do you much good if you end up with 12 users and a dead platform.

IOs/Android development is reasonably mature now and they're backed by huge companies (and other smaller companies who make dedicated tools for that ecosystem). It would make sense to build on top of that instead of starting from scratch.

Also, price-wise you'll never be able to compete with smartphones when it comes to bang-for-the-buck. The economies of scale are huge. These AR/VR need as much processing power as you can throw at them, it's very hard for a small team to come up with a competitive offering, especially for an embedded wearable solution. If they were making their own custom SoC with specialized hardware to enhance the AR experience it might make some sense, but as far as I understand they're only using off-the-shelf components. It does seem like a strange design choice.
Look at any other website - is there a FB Like button saying "25 of your friends liked this"? Congratulations, FB now knows you visit that site.
> Because when they claim that mergers reduce costs, the automatic thought is the cost will trickle to the consumer.

Please explain how trickle-down nonsense can work when the cost is already zero.

No, the cost benefits will go to investors. That's why the investors approve the merger.
World doesn't work like that. You are not paid by the value you create, but by supply/demand for the position. The economics of the product only dictate whether something will be done or not.

And your second statement is not true. You simply get cheaper workforce in other countries. Even on senior levels.
Thanks! The benefits of having blogged all this already :)
Yup, British-educated here: programme for sequences of activities, program for the thing the computer runs... it’s just a little oddity I’ve noticed I’ve picked up and seem to be quite consistently applying.
ha, this is clever!

I imagine you might get the interpreter running up to spec by flipping actual mainframe to debug, then writing a supervisor at the interpreter's side that checks for parity at each instruction, then single-steps the physical machine.
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To add to this... I also made my account sometime in 2006, right after you didn't need an .edu anymore. It was a great platform, because it combined my friends, photos, and events.

So I could find out about an event, go and meet people, and then find them later in the photos and friend them. It snowballed very quickly, and it helped that I was really into photography at the time. It really was the perfect social platform for me at the time. It contributed greatly to my life.

For me, the main motivation to stop using it and eventually leave was all the frontend changes that made the website clunky and tedious to use. It used to be a joy, and now it's just... Well, IYCSSN... Even m.facebook.com, and many of the features are broken on it.

I deleted my account a year or two ago, after a couple of failed attempts, since there was a 14-day cool-off period before they would actually "delete" your account.

I recently made a new one just for keeping up with a couple of event spaces, but that's basically all I do on it. That, and I friend all the spammer accounts that send me requests, because, why not? The more the merrier. I'm pretty sure that's where most of the growth is coming from at this point.
In a narrow sense you are probably right.

In a more general sense, consider the "laws of physics". People believe in them not because of their consequences, but because they explain reality (and quite well). So people believe in gravity because it has worked for them in the past, and because it has been verified.

Also... _not_ believing in gravity will not make much of a difference for your life (as long as you don't start jumping off cliffs of course).

EDIT: I forgot about religion. AFAIK, most people believe in religion because they have been taught/indoctrinated/raised to believe in it, and _not_ because they have (deeply) thought about the social consequences of their particular religion.
Did GPL or MIT ever actually go to court to enforce the license?
That's the best idea I have heard so far.

Better yet, would be a law passed that outlaws photographing people without their consent, at least while at work. I heard France has strict laws that protect privacy.

I've never liked my picture taken without my consent.
> the fact that many sexist anti-STEM cues are given to children at a much earlier stage, way before careers are even on the horizon

It doesn't look like you read the article. It clearly stated that in countries like Finland and Sweden, where such cues are less likely to be given, there is a larger inequality in STEM. Meanwhile, in Iran there are more women in STEM. Do you think that in Iran young girls are more or less likely to be subjected to "harmful gender stereotypes" than in Sweden or Finland?

> Cues can be as subtle as a wide-eyed look while reacting ...

This was precisely addressed in the article. It goes by the name of micro-aggression. Go back and read about it.
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Evan Spiegel is convinced that he's the second coming of Steve Jobs. http://www.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-to-work-at-snap...
Of course it is. The most points I've ever got for a single post, were for a one-line joke.

But then, my joke was funny.
People always hate redesigns of popular services, and the truth is that it doesn't matter. A redesign has never encouraged any significant % of users to leave any service. People hated Windows 8, new Youtube looks, new Facebook timelines, Twitter changes, and nobody ever left any of these because of those changes. Another matter is that these petitions can be easily scripted and signed from thousands of IPs in a matter of minutes.
>>Also women have more expenses than men (ping tax, daycare...).

What's ping tax?

How is daycare more expensive for women? Surely, a man raising a child on their own will pay exactly the same amount of money for daycare? In a normal case, where partners raise children together, they surely pay for daycare from a shared budget, not just from the woman's salary(that would be just bizarre).

>> If woman gets high paying job, she makes less money for the same work.

The counter argument to this is that if this was true, companies would only hire women, since apparently they do the same work for less money!
> It is the deep, slow-moving tectonic plate on which we build a myriad of other business.

I agree. I think it is worth considering the concept of Shearing Layers [1] - where successful artefacts (buildings, systems, organisations) tend to be composed of layers that change at different rates, and this confers stability and adaptability. Layers that change rapidly (tech-mediated culture, web technology, etc) need lower layers that move slower (net infrastructure, http, email, etc.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shearing_layers
Don't forget that there are two hardware codec licenses, MPEG-2 and VC-1.
I thought it was great, it made it so much easier to stop using snapchat.
> One could definitely take parts of MPEG1 and MPEG2 to create a new good enough codec for many use cases.

Well people did exactly that - and they named it:

- MPEG-4 Part 2 (also known under names like DivX, Xvid, ...)
- MPEG-4 Part 11 (also known as AVC, H.264, ...)
- VP8
- VP9
- AV1
- MPEG-H Part 2 (also known as HEVC, H.265)

Those are all codecs that build on and extend what MPEG-2 is.
Looks exactly like Sprite's offering right down to the scary 15 minute window you are expected to complete your Bitcoin transaction in, doesn't it?
It’s important to investigate this topic from various perspectives, and the text contains a couple of important points (which of course are not new to anyone who’s been following this debate).

However, right at the beginning, this is really a bad argument: “There is particular concern about the lack of women in prestigious STEM fields, such as Ph.D.-level faculty positions, but surprisingly there is no concern about the under-representation of women in lower-level technical jobs, such as car mechanics or plumbing.”

This can hardly be surprising to the authors. People in lower-level technical jobs don’t have as much power over society at large as those in high-level positions. Thus gender imbalances there don’t have the same supposed impact and perpetuating effect on structural imbalances as those in high-level fields (an example: the recent study about facial recognition being less accurate on female faces). Thus they are not considered as harmful in the grand scheme of things.

Edit: In other words: no matter where one stands in the debate about the reasons for gender imbalance in STEM, it is totally reasonable not to be too concerned about imbalances among plumbers or car mechanics, because this imbalance does have less consequences. It doesn’t matter for any other aspect in life whether a woman or man fixes the car, but it matters who creates the algorithms that control everyone’s lives.
It might sound harsh, but from your comment you know exactly what you were doing and the probable consequences.

At this point I'm not quite sure simply terminating is the best way forward, sanitizing a profile with disinformation ( or straight filling with garbage up to the brim) might work better?
you didn't even open the link. ArangoDB is not the clear winner in these results
I really like the change. More friends, fewer brands, and the ability to unsubscribe from specific users' stories. I hope people eventually acclimate to it and it sticks around.
Many arguments are both partially rational and partially political, but lay claim to being only rational.

You might be implying that but it's worth stating as a particular case.

I'd say this article probably fits that category, and is why the flamewar will emerge :)
That makes clear that the meaning of "fork" has changed over time in exactly the way I said. It then goes on to try to rationalize the current usage, which I don't happen to agree with.
It's the is-ought problem really. We can take a position on what is but very often pop off to talk about what ought to be. Further because people have differing levels of knowledge, understanding and acceptance of evidence of varying degrees of accuracy the rational positions on what is can be quite wide. Politics to me is not the opposite of rationality but where we take our is and extrapolate. As long as this extrapolation is reasonable to the evidence presented this is still rational since it's relative to the understanding of that individual. So I'm not sure that separating arguments into rational and political is that helpful except in dismissing others points of view.

For example there is plentiful evidence that women are less represented in certain STEM fields. But is that because they are ill-suited to them or the fields themselves are ill-suited to women. Do we accept this lack of representation as an inevitable consequence? It is this way and it ought to be so. Or do we broaden the possibilities and consider what these fields might be like and may accomplish otherwise if they were more female friendly.

I'd take a wild stab in the dark that prior political world view is probably a greater predictor than most for which of those options seems the more appealing.
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> LAMP CRUD site for torrents

Impressed? Today that would result in an early morning police raid on your apartment.
> It's also a very niche market and you end up completely captive in their ecosystem if you do this.

During my masters in Interaction Design I kind of "accidentally specialised" in gesture interfaces (the pointing kind, not the touchscreen kind). So obviously I have an old-school Kinect, and later got a Leap Motion[0]. This is exactly the problem with the latter.

Your only real options are either doing research, or doing some kind of custom job like designing an AR/VR installation for a museum.

[0] https://www.leapmotion.com/
I agree 100%. All of this fancy stuff is used to 99% percent for marketing, and that seems to be about the only thing Google cares about. There is no need for dynamic email content at all, on the contrary, it will significantly impede the work flow of many people.

Google is one of the most destructive forces on the web for at least the past 10 years or so, they have extinguished Usenet and even try to replace http with their own proprietary technology. I have a feeling that their embrace & extinguish strategy will also work this time. Then again, I can't be the only one who marks all those newsletters and company info mails as spam and aggressively filters them out. No Facebook, Google, Apple, or other web site "news" reaches my eyes unless I want to.
You're not the first person to think of using git-like storage for email, and you won't be the last!

Sadly deduplication isn't quite that easy - while the binary formats might be the same, MIME is very un-roundtrip-friendly when you start from the MIME structure. There are many ways to encode the same bytes, so if you need to reconstruct the raw bytes (FETCH RFC822) then you need a way to recover those original bytes. I've started work on that a few times, but it's never been worth the effort to make it stable.
Out of interest, what of the research that the government inevitably declines to fund, for whatever reason? Should a private entity be allowed to do the research and monetise the results? I ask because, you know, its an obvious question and lawyers would be asking in the courts.
Why would you think that what we want, or, to be more exact, what we think we want, matters? The only thing that matters is what we end up watching more and not closing.

A lot of people say that they want long, challenging reading but they end up reading Buzzfeed articles. Don't ask people what they want to do - watch what they actually do.
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> People hated Windows 8... and nobody ever left any of these because of those changes

How would you "leave" a product that you have already paid money for? They'll just avoid buying stuff like that in the future. Leaving is for services.

Windows 8 is an utter disaster. I'm pretty sure that explosive Macbook growth at the time was fueled by this (and Vista). Today, Windows is for miserable people who can't afford anything better. This is understood by consumers. This is also understood by hardware makers. It takes two strikes to ruin product's reputation.
Yep. Even though a computer program is... a sequence of activities.
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Uh?

_Only_ 5k a year in earnings?

100 users out of 100k is .1% (a ratio of 1,000)

If the other 99.9% of your users paid the same rate that'd be 5k x 1,000 = 5 million which is _way_ out of whack with what your advertisers think your site is worth which is 70k. You're overcharging your users by a substantial amount (a factor of approx 72 if my calculations are correct) so it's unsurprising only .1% have opened their wallets. The other 99.9% don't want to be fleeced by you.