skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the rich and insightful answer. I poorly phrased the "career" part of the question. Noone is pushing me to do more. What I meant was that I feel I can do better for the sake of the project and my own development but because of some "click" in my brain I am left unsatisfied with myself.
It definitely makes sense -- any worldview (such as one that elevates tolerance as a virtue) has to build in safeguards that protect it against existential threats, or else it won't be a worldview that persists into the future for very long.

The issue I'm grappling with that the solution to the "paradox of tolerance" (that it is OK to be intolerant of intolerance) is that it is good at defending against erosion of tolerance from external forces, but opens it up to erosion from internal forces.

If the societal rules are "we choose to be tolerant except in the case of existential threats, in which case we nuke it from orbit", then the incentive becomes to paint mild disagreements into existential threats. Allowing Muslims to immigrate becomes "threat of sharia-law caliphate in 25 years." Allowing a traditional Christian prayer in schools becomes "establishing a repressive theocracy." Advocating right-wing policies becomes "normalizing fascism" and advocating left-wing policies becomes "bringing us one step closer to gulags." Is there any escape from the polarization? Can a society with tolerance as a base-level goal remain stable against this sort of internal pressure to shred it?
>> Edit: I guess a secondary concern is the risk of interest rates going up, will you be ok if the cost of servicing the debt doubles?

Are people seriously considering borrowing against adjustable-rate instruments to buy equities?
Good for apple, good for the Chinese people working those jobs, bad for American citizens who would have been working those jobs.

What is so wrong about using our leverage as the world's largest economy to protect the interests of our citizen's, just like China does?
This is a good thing.

And I say this as an Indian H1B worker who's actually left the US because of the broken immigration system.

I spent 8 years working for a big tech firm, and left the country when I realized that I was essentially never going to get a green card, despite my application being approved 4 years ago. The queue is now decades-long.

I worked directly for a giant tech company that you all know, and was paid a very good salary, easily at par with a US Citizen. I know of so many people who gamed the system, working in cahoots with consulting companies that exist solely to scam people.

Now I live in Canada, working for the same company, making the same amount of money, but as a Permanent Resident here. Life is so much simpler because I don't need to worry about capricious immigration policy, and being treated with suspicion at the border every time I fly back home.

Your system is broken and needs to be fixed. Now, I don't think your current administration is going to fix it, but who knows.
> it's been 16˚C this past week

One single day hit 16 at the max. Another hit ~14. That's a very generous way of looking at our weather this winter. This has been a much snowier winter than last year as well (and some others of recent memory).

Yes it's been unusual to have the final 2 weeks of February average above 0 during the day.

Both December and January were very cold with a monthly mean temp of -5˚C (ref: http://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_data/daily_data_e.html?...). By mid-January there were a ton of stories in the media about how cold our winter had been and various records had been set. Everyone in the city was complaining about this winter for most of it (until recently).

Example: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/fourteen-cold-h...
> And on balance we experience trade deficits.

Why are trade deficits necessarily bad? The trade deficit represents the spread between savings and investment. If net foreign investment in America is very high, then there will be a trade deficit. This is an accounting identity.

Household debt as a percentage of GDP has been declining in the US for the past decade. This leads one to believe that the trade deficit currently represents high foreign investment in the US.
> Well, some of us like our non-fiction to be as long as it takes.

As long as what takes?
#Paypal issue allows disclosure of account balance and recent transactions
> Not tolerating intolerance is not a license to be horrible to other people.

And yet thats usually what people mean. People arguing in favor of this idea generally use it to justify whatever their anti-human rights opinion of the day is.

Whether that is sending people to jail for speech, or banning certain political parties, or vigilante style assaults of people at protests, it is just simplified down to "an excuse to not feel back about being horrible to the 'enemy'", whoever that 'enemy' is, while ignoring all previously agreed upon rules of engagement in society (otherwise known as human rights).

Whenever any of this stuff happens, and it is targeted against a sufficiently unpopular 'enemy', I always seem a mass of people linking to that paradox of tolerance wikipedia page.
Google had a string of big failures that I think set my hypothesis against them being successful at diversification. Even though Google Apps, Gmail, Maps, Android and others play a big role in moving them beyond search.

But you’re right, especially compared to Apple they’re positioning themselves to grow through acquisition. I do wonder if Amazon has the highest chance of maximizing that strategy.
> unless somewhere he has admitted as such

Even then, people make false confessions all the time.
I'd like to confirm that ILM also does color work in Linux.
Yes, chinooks are common in freezing areas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_wind
Some enlisted wear flightsuits. The SAR guys who jump out to save people are enlisted, so are loadmasters. There are lots of cool aircrew jobs outside the cockpit.
Appreciate how heavily we are influenced by what we consume
LUKS, maybe. Although it lacks deniability.

GPG, however, has proven to be virtually impossible to properly use and almost no one does, even in the hacker crowd.
Here in Vancouver, we just got a foot of snow.
Zeplin is the current darling. It's real power is in digesting designs into code to make handoff to developers easier.
25°c is 77°f, not 45.
It's not exactly a teaching resource, but one tool I think high schoolers will be interested in is the browser's dev tools.

Showing how they can modify websites they visit - even if just to replace a phrase on the homepage of their school's website with something else, like legal graffiti - can interest them in one kind of code - web code. It's not the only or even most important kind of programming, but it's highly accessible/relatable to high schoolers.
> iMessage's "end-to-end encryption" (which isn't that safe against sophisticated hackers or oppressive authorities to begin with)

Could you support this claim please?

Re: iCloud backups you're correct. So far. They're about to release iMessages-in-iCloud though, which might obviate the need to include them in iCloud backups.
>> Not really. People were worried about Steve Jobs and Apple. They did fine.

Oh, I wouldn't say that. Succession risk is a lagging indicator. That Apple is doing fine now - extremely well, actually - and has for a few years since Jobs passed away is no good predictor of the future. There are a lot of reasons to be short Apple's long-term future; moreso since Jobs died.
It’s not just paperwork, it’s more chance to accidentally distort the truth. This increases risk substantially, and the chance for penalties to rise increases as well.

So the direct costs may not be huge, but the indirect costs just got raised quite a bit.
I think the author is totally wrong and is just trying to sell some classes. I learned 3/4 of my skill set by coming up against examples when joining a work project or coming upon problems when trying to fix things. There is no functional difference between practice and performance when it comes to writing software, only the goals of the exercise.
Is that right they are encouraging people to record VINs and post them to a website? Creepy.
America has never had a 'reciprocal' free trade agreement, it has used the banner of free trade to engage in low level asymmetric trade wars. The stupid mistake they made was to ship their production capability to China, Japan got where they are under their own power, though the degree to which the Japanese bought Japanese products (mainly because of quality) meant that American products with a Japanese equivalent never stood much of a chance of being adopted in Japan.

Free trade is based on merit (quality) and production capability, America has made some costly mistakes with both.

Sanctions will hit the American consumer harder than the exporters.
It's not that simple; a company may have a great use for part of their revenue but not for the rest. If a company spends $1 to make $2, but can't simply spend $2 to make $4 (market may be tapped out, or require lowering prices to reach the rest - reducing the average returns), they have to figure out some different way to spend the extra $1, and which you might think they are not good at.

In fact, this is easy to see in practice: Apple has tremendous amounts of capital reserves which they are just investing on the market. In fact, $35B of those are in US Treasuries. Is it that absurd to think one can make a better investment than that?
I talk to strangers on planes, in restaurants and bars, while surfing or skiing, or on a shared lyft line, at conferences, etc. Its not rare for me to eventually be talking about energy and renewable energy because it's one of my favorite topics. Never has anyone brought up a solar plane!
I use Trello, but the problem is rather in being too proud of how I did the previous task and being too excited so it distracts me from starting the next one.
> Apple, for instance, nets almost all of the profits from an iPhone, yet in the trade balance an iPhone magically counts as a $1000 deficit with China.

What good does Apple's record profits do for the US? Apple is owned by shareholders across the world, and Americans benefit only insofar as they actually own Apple stock.
True. I was trying to keep my comment short and to the point. But yes, you are correct.
Understanding Dijkstra's Algorithm
I'm not sure actually.

It boils up because people engage in debate instead of doing two things:

* Taking issues to a vote.

* Respecting boundaries of other people.

Debate implies you can change other person's opinion. However, it often tries to talk your way to measures that would never float in a fair voting, or that violate already existing personal or property boundaries.

After a few rounds of debate you're supposed to take it to poll booth. Instead it often turns into name-calling and shouting "nazi" at each other. That kind of discussion should be avoided.
Interesting idea. If your political ideology is part of your identity like race or gender, should it become a protected class for anti-discrimination protection?
Whoa, thank you for a trip into your mind.
I assume the downvotes are because it describes genocides as cases when the victims were too pushy and the majority were forced to defend themselves, something which you seem to agree with. It was a very common rationalization in at least one major genocide: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pushy+jew&t=lm&ia=web
> I am focused when I research one problem, implement it, but I have no willpower to continue to the next problem.

It's because you probably lack of feedbacks. I'm now avid of that and it helps me a lot in pursuing my project's goals.

It's also one of the reason I'm building a community of programmers with some folks. I feel more comfortable since I'm working with them.

PS: You can join us if you wish (check my profile).
> Modern law doesn't have anything that would decrease friction between two groups

This is where human rights law and anti-hate speech law comes from. Verbal exchanges can make a situation tense, but cutting down the opportunities for escalation allows a peace to be built.

It's also necessary to keep weapons out of politics. Anyone forming a political militia is one incident away from being a terrorist group or death squad. One of the key elements of peace in Northern Ireland was the disarming of the Republican side - and the corresponding de-militarisation of the police.
You don't, and it would arguably violate their privacy if you did. But they do.
So, having tried this method in the past, and revisited this again just now, I don't thing it is actually faster. The set up requires each hand to independently form a loop with an opposite twist without the benefit of the other hand to brace the rest of the shoelace against.

The gif of the knot does not show the set up, which is kind of unfair to the standard knot since that part is fundamentally baked-in to the standard knot. I'd love to see a video of the creator doing this from the start, because he probably is pretty good at the set-up which is just as important.

I think part of the reason why I don't find this faster is because I use the more modern style of flat/ovaloid shoelaces. Round shoelaces don't really get "twisted", and linen shoelaces are pliable enough for it to not matter, which means you could roll the laces around in your hand to get them to the starting position for Ian's knot. With the laces in basketball/running shoes, I think you need a bit more dexterity to manipulate the laces to get them to the point where they are 'flat' than could be managed with Ian's knot.

I don't think switching to Ian's knot and round laces would save me much time overall; the reason I like flat athletic laces is because I never have issues with the knot coming undone, loosening, or stretching/tightening. I use round laces on my work boots because flat laces are hard to untie if they get gritty, and I always have to double-knot them or they come undone. Since this is identical to the standard knot, I'm sure that would continue to be a problem, and I think the set-up for the standard knot makes double-knotting easier as well.

As a final note, my best friend ties his dress shoes this way (with the really narrow laces), and it is definitely faster all things equal. I think those narrow laces are probably the best use for this method.

All that being said, I originally found this site while looking for lacing methods, and it's one of my favorite sites on the internet. It's basically everything of what I loved about the "geocities" era of the internet (without the stuff I hated).
That is the biggest load of bullshit I've ever heard. What if your business focused managers fuck up and accidentally write some code? Then they can no longer understand how to work on valuable and sell-able projects? Managers destroy projects and companies and create worthless work all day every day.
Gödel also believed his refrigerator was emitting poison gas.
Right, he loves to hear his voice. Next month he will say the opposite.
Maybe Dropbox is serving mostly smaller companies, which have just a few users are therefore not so price sensitive. If you have five guys, then it's still just like $50-100 per month, not really worth the effort to start thinking how to save money on that.

If you are an enterprise with tens or few hundred users, the monthly bill starts to be in a range where it actually makes sense for somebody to spend a few hours to see if you could cut it by xx%.
How reading almost killed me… and why you should still do it
Workforce participation remains low, wages are stagnant, buying power accounting for inflation is much lower than it was in decades past, all while corporate profits are at record highs.

The promise that outsourcing didn't matter because goods would be cheaper was a lie, Corporations are instead enjoying record profits on the difference in labor costs.

You can keep spouting the same talking points that economists and politicians have for years but there's a reason people like Trump and Bernie Sanders were able to have so much success, people are hurting. The phrase "Don't piss on my shoe and tell me it's raining" comes to mind.

The only reason people would vote for anti-establishment politicians is because the current establishment isn't doing it's job. If things were great someone like Trump would have never stood a chance.
IIRC this is thought as a deliberate temporary solution because Rust does not yet has a stable ABI. There is no fundamental obstacle to build dynamically linked (shared) libraries in Rust.
No it is not.

Read your own excerpt. analytic philosophy is a philosophical practice; computer programming is a software engineering practice.

They are not the same thing.

That's not to say that the practice of philosophy couldn't be done digitally. I'm sure over time more and more of it will. But to go from there to applied analytic philosophy is computer programming is nonsensical.
“I looked around and saw a sea of young Japanese, all wearing the same black suit”
yeah this is referring to how high it is above normal, not actually 25 degrees celsius. there was a delta of 45 deg Fahrenheit.
Back then, wouldn't it have been? I think they used ammonia as a coolant initially.
It's also about half the length that it usually is. Part of that is there not being as many tables, but it also feels like there was a lot less "Buffet commentary" as well. Most years it is a really fun and entertaining read for anyone with even a passing interest in finance and markets. It doesn't feel like quite the event it usually is.
Kinda...but you want 77 - 32 (which is 45).
It sounds like we're largely agreeing, and that larger conversation is the one we should be having.

The only quibble I have (and likely those that down voted share it), is that the full comment is "Yes, it can, and then it is called 'genocide'." There's no nuance there. "can" does convey possibility, but that's removed in the second clause.
I always find the concept of technology worker immigration to be a rather strange scenario. How the hell can the US be so dependent upon immigrants for work when there are so many Americans wanting to work for big technology companies?

This begs the question: Are Americans workers too incompetent at technology development? If so what is the cause of that problem?
When Trump uses the expected weather for the time of year to illustrate nothing is happening it is not exceptional so does not prove a thing. But if something exceptional happens it is a data point in a data set indicating there is a change.

Hot weather in July in the Northern hemisphere is not unusual and does not require explanation or study. Snow in July would be unusual and would require explanation and study.
Poor Ian, bless 'im.
There's an interesting quote in there that goes against much of modern portfolio theory and the standard wisdom about bond allocations:

> It is a terrible mistake for investors with long-term horizons – among them, pension funds, college endowments and savings-minded individuals – to measure their investment “risk” by their portfolio’s ratio of bonds to stocks. Often, high-grade bonds in an investment portfolio increase its risk.
So basically, "China is doing it, so why can't we"? They also heavily repress their citizens and are notorious for human rights violations.
That's not how converting relative Celsius to Fahrenheit works. If I say "it's 10 degrees Celsius colder today than yesterday", that's the same as saying "it's 18 degress Fahrenheit today".
Yes, his mental health was complicated. Doesn't negate his theoretical contributions though.
I would think then that companies who are understaffed because they cannot hire people with the specialized skills they need would lose out in the long run to competitors who are willing to pay market/above-market wages for talent. Anecdotally that doesn't seem to have been happening.
It's solely to surpress wages.
thx so much for writing this. what a helpful comment.
"Currently, the videos are only 32 frames long—lasting about 1 second—and the size of a U.S. postage stamp, 64 by 64 pixels." Too bad they don't show any examples.
I believe it. The most extraordinary evidence of this is the gay rights movement. They've adopted "Love Wins" as their slogan, but then refuse to even interact with people who may not support them (i.e: Mike Pence). Clearly, they don't believe their own propaganda.
> What an overlong and rambling article.

Welcome to Medium
<spoiler about the book Pushing Ice>

A similar theme is in "Pushing Ice" by Alastair Reynolds.

Someone has built machines that capture beings and then use near-light speed travel to align civilization in time.
They don't come from the factory that way (regulation)

They effectively did for a very long time. Harley has a performance parts division, complete with a thick catalog of custom exhausts, cams, intakes, and most importantly an EFI "tuner" box. Harley dealers were more than happy to install whatever you wanted, and even kept a stock of already modified bikes ready for sale.

They were fined $12 million for this awhile back. 2012, I think.
The basic argument is interesting but has important preconditions: the majority needs to be tolerant (the change doesn't cost them much). In the case of kosher drinks, it's almost completely invisible.

When people actually have a preference (such as how a drink tastes) we find that the market provides a lot of variety despite the cost. Consider the shelves of your average convenience store.

Applied to religion, changes are far from costless and we often see persistent disputes. And anyone making large-scale predictions needs to account for how incredibly successful and persistent western culture and products are. This doesn't seem to be due to intolerance.
>> No idea where they expect new users to come from given they have 500M accounts.

500M accounts, but only 11M paying users.
Oops oops yes, mea culpa. Note to self: avoid (posting to) HN after a few drinks. Thanks to all those who corrected me.
How does the 'I know' bit advance the discussion?
The proportion of H1Bs that are employed by actual tech companies, rather than technical consulting companies, is stark[1]. Having dealt with a number of the latter batch of outfits, through our customers that have outsourced their IT work to them, I would not be sad to see their business model go away. Neither would most of our customers, who tend to be regretting the experiment and trying to bring their IT back in-house, as soon as their contracts are up.

I think the H1B system is dumb. Educated, highly effective workers in in-demand fields are exactly the kind of immigrants you would want to fast-track in for real citizenship, rather than exploiting them in quasi-indentured servitude. The other category I found somewhat mind-blowing was the situation of a lot of my international classmates upon graduation; educate them for four years or more at a prestigious US university, and once they graduate, kick them back home and make it difficult for them to come back.

[1] http://fortune.com/2017/08/03/companies-h1b-visa-holders/
Maybe. Maybe not. Everyone agrees the Rohingya genocide is “wrong” but no one is willing to lift a finger about it. Even the Pope himself felt he had to tread lightly regarding the matter on his recent visit to Burma/Myanmar.
One way to "hacking" the location issue is to move to SV, get hired in a big company, then convince them over the years to set up a presence in your home country which you will gladly spearhead with no increased salary demands. Worked for my friend from an African country
> studying how situations lead to genocide

Pushy minority situations? The thought isn't very constructive. It's one of those odd positions that accepts the premises of people who do very bad things, but decries their lack of restraint, discipline, or compassion.
He was on Econtalk last year discussing this topic, it may be easier to digest: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/08/nassim_nicholas_1.h...