skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes sense in a bean-counter type of way, where you look at employees as warm bodies that can perform a task. You can generally pay young people less than older people. That is pretty much the same point of view that drives outsourcing also. Whether it is good for a company in the long run, is very dependent on the skills and experience required to perform those tasks well and provide value for customers.
One problem with homelessness is that it's in many ways a classic externality. It's often cheaper for localities to provide no services (which cost money and attract more homeless individuals) and instead to encourage homeless people to migrate elsewhere. Hence the controversial practice wherein some cities buy homeless people one way bus tickets to other cities, or plane tickets to other states in the extraordinary case of Hawaii. So even if that $300m got 7500 individuals off the street, another 7500 would move in to replace them right away. Which is why you don't see any visible effects of the spending.

Even when cities do undertake to provide services rather than shifting costs, their capacity to provide those services is only a tiny fraction of the national demand. And it's functionally a national or at least regional market because the homeless tend to be a very mobile population due to lack of fixed housing or employment. So you get cities like Portland, OR, where they provide extensive services, but the downtown areas where the services are located have been inundated with homeless people, which has been extremely detrimental to businesses in the area, has strained public safety resources, and damaged the quality of life of many local residents (eg a couple years ago a homeless man made a tent home on the sidewalk outside my apartment and then would scream at the top of his lungs for hours every night for months, making it impossible to sleep, presumably because of some mental illness).

In some ways, it makes zero sense for San Francisco to spend any money at all on the homeless, because it's one the most expensive places in the nation that we could be housing and providing assistance to the homeless population. But homeless people have rights, including the freedom to travel where they want. So they will continue to be attracted to cities that treat them well, at a disproportionate expense to locals (who ironically tend to be the ones most sympathetic to their need), while NIMBYists contribute nothing and experience no detriment. While also generating homeless people at the same rate as the more welcoming areas.

All of which is to say that we need some national policy here, otherwise a few cities will continue to shoulder the burden while most will skate along as free riders. A functioning mental health system would be incredibly helpful, for example, because then mental health services wouldn't be limited to a few locations.
What if the Laws of Athens, as personified in the dialogue, were subject to change over time, like our social contracts? Would they deserve such treatment that one would prefer death over harming them?

As I see it, this view of purity and absolute objectivity in law doesn't conform to our world, at least in its current state.

Edit: To add, the possible change in the Laws is also governed or driven by entities who are neither objective nor just: powerful individuals, corporations, parties, lobbies, etc.
So you're saying youre ok with employers discriminating based on your age because employers can do what they want?
Tencent’s 60,000% Runup Leads to One of Biggest VC Payoffs Ever
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My impression is that the American software community sometimes doesn't pay much attention to what's coming out of Europe. Have a look at other KDE-based programs if you haven't already - IME KVirc, Kile, KTorrent, and indeed Konqueror and KMail are best-in-class.
But in a process where Zuckerberg could be summonsed by the House it seems unfortunate to use the simmilar but different summons word.
This doesn't even make sense, we can see in the video that the "driver" does look up and react. Why didn't they hit the brakes?
Isn't that around the time of the Homo Sapiens genetic bottleneck?
Why does youtube not detect/fight this? I mean they can easily delay serving the real video until after the ad is shown.
Exploring the early bug behind JavaScript's `typeof null`
Do you actually believe people in authority have the ability to understand what's at stake in this?

If you do, you need more life experience.
Sadly not many mentions of privacy in their roadmap (outside of grouping controls).
Things like "container tab" could allow them to really differentiate from Chrome ...
I'm not sure where you got 1000 rounds per minute from, even a fully automatic rifle generally cannot fire that quickly (it would probably need to be belt-fed or you would be changing magazines more than thirty times per minute).

A semi-automatic rifle like the AR-15 is unlikely to surpass 100 rounds per minute.
would be great if it had actual real examples for each item
Many, many more recent cases have conflicted with Cruikshank and chipped away at its jurisprudence. The court was not well run or fair in those days.

Miller is especially bad case law too, he was dead by the time it was heard and essentially no one even argued that side of the case - it was a total sham.
Absolutely not. This part of tempe is particularly badly light compared to the rest of it.
Which language/society/culture uses unary?
Apple wants 30% of all the money spent on iPhone apps. This alone is the reason enough to never support them. If they win and it becomes the only option it will be a disaster for developers. Can you imagine a world where there is a 30% tax on all the sales generated in our profession going to a private corporation?
Classifiers are mostly orthogonal to the number system, and they're really no different from e.g. English using "a herd of cattle" or "a murder of crows" to redundantly encode the kind of thing being talked about. I'm actually not aware of any language that doesn't have different units of measurement for different objects, it's just that some languages effectively make it mandatory to use them. (E.g. in Chinese you could just always say 一个 to mean "one" but it sounds strange when there's a specific form that's more common.)
We read "man bites dog" stories, not "dog bites man" stories. Exceptions are inherently more newsworthy.
I would have to disagree
There is Hacker Newsletter which sends a weekly summary of top stories:

http://www.hackernewsletter.com/
The first amendment does apply - just, it applies the other way around. The primary function of media sites is to broadcast their users' messages, and in doing so they're exercising their own freedom of speech. To force them to broadcast certain content would be to compel certain speech from them, which would violate their freedom of speech.

(do note that I'm not a lawyer, so this might not be 100% accurate)
> Is everyone on hacker news just a compulsive contrarian?

No we're not.
How the creator of SimCity helped save Psychonauts
The report of my death was an exaggeration.
Yes, the music industry is extraordinarily complex. There are many layers of legal complexity that apply differently (consent decrees) across the industry. There are archaic rules about the source of the music.

And generally, the fact that distribution of original music is effectively a two-sided market business model (media) means music isn't worth as much until it is popular, so one method has been to give it away for free to get to that point (think demo CDs).

Spotify deserves a lot of credit for handling the mainstream content to an international user base. The business rules of serving which version of a song (two users who play the same song can be served different content because of licensing rules), accounting for the royalties to different publishers, etc... are hard enough to figure out.
The irony being that it was one of the countries once upon a time known for actually having them (starting in 1886).
People don't change that much. Amoral asshole will still amoral asshole when he is 19, 42 or 91. We don't talk about 5 year old kid who is defining the basics of his personality and hasn't experienced the world at all. Exception might happen, but they are truly unicorny exceptions with some proper shocks triggering changes, and usually for the worse (ie incidents with serious health damage).

Facebook is an amoral company with amoral aspects of the ways they conclude business. You can dance with the words as long as you like, but can't change this simple fact. It ain't result of a single issue or accident, but years and years of crappy behavior of this company. Most people here agree with this sentiment.

I don't get why people consider him better than other ultra rich who live in their own reality bubbles. Because he wears hoody? Is it really so hard to accept? Seriously, he is just another arrogant asshole (who got lucky with the right idea at the right time), not because he is rich, simply because he is who he is.
I bet the police chief who gave the quotation saw that video once and was startled at how suddenly the person appeared in that video and didn't check and see things like there was another lane or anything about the surroundings.
I rarely look at videos on Facebook but all the Twitter videos (or GIFs which they convert to H.264 video) I've seen have worked in Firefox. Do you have a link to a Twitter video that doesn't work for you in Firefox? If these videos are somehow different from normal then I'd find it a useful test case for an application I wrote which makes use of Twitter video.
I noticed that trend in comments, yes. Unfortunatly, the real issue with what Uber or Waymo (or anyone else) are doing it's with the limitations inherent in the technology itself, specifically, machine learning for object recognition and identification and for the learning of complex beheaviours.

The limitation is -it's a bit technical, but basically, in principle, machine learning is possible under certain assumptions, as laid out by Valiant in his PAC-learning paper (A Theory of the Learnable), especially the assumption that a training sample will have the same distribution as unseen data. Under this condition, machine learning can be said to work and we can look at performance metrics and be happy they look good.

Well, except that the real world has no obligation to operate under our experimental assumptions, so once you deploy machine learning systems in the real world, their performance goes down, because you haven't seen nearly enough of the data you really need to see, in the lab.

And, if you attach such assumptions to safety-critical systems, then you're taking an unknown and unquantifiable risk. Or in other words, you're putting peoples' lives in danger.

And that's everyone who uses machine learning to train cars to drive in real-world conditions. Not just Uber.
Only because Miller was not properly heard almost 100years ago.

Short barrel shotguns were extremely common in world war 1 trench warfare, and that’s what Miller was charged with. Too bad he was dead before the supreme court heard that case.
>"Ok this guy is out of his mind, but Murky Marc should probably go and hand over the company to Sheryl. She knows what to do"

Do you believe that the number 2 executive officer at FB had no part in any of the bad decisions FB have made recently?
This street in particular is weird at night because the street downstream rises up, and the light from those lamps is cast at a higher point. The place she was hit is extremely dangerous because there are no lights on her, and no lights behind her.
I understand your points and agree that it is our right currently as an American to own a gun. I'm not afraid of guns and grew up around them, although I do not own any today. The problem I have is equating guns to cars or any other weapon. Just owning a gun means you are more likely to be injured or killed in a gun related incident[1].

Guns are an immediate force multiplier that can cause a lot of injury with little planning. Guns make it easy for someone who has a brief thought of suicide, anger, or stupidity to act on that thought with irreversible consequences. While in high school, one friend committed suicide with their family's gun. Another person I know was shot because their friend was playing around with a gun.

I think only when both sides can agree that a) guns will likely never be banned and b) yes, guns are dangerous and require more regulation that we currently have, will we get anywhere. Until then people will just talk past each other.

[1] This is based on older studies at this point because the NRA has made it impossible to get funding to study gun violence.
I don't think we'll see a hard decline in usage as much as we might see people become more thoughtful in /how/ they use the platform. I made this mental adjustment last year when I went through and deleted /every single comment and post I had ever made./

Since then I've made maybe a dozen posts on Facebook? Less? And I'll even go and delete some of those from time to time.

Don't feed the beast.
You can prevent crawling (and retroactively remove your site content from the Internet Archive) using robots.txt, with the ia_archiver user agent:

https://www.fightcyberstalking.org/how-to-block-your-website...
Checking if the internet is accessible (not local connection only)
I like your comparison to nutrition. To stretch the analogy slightly, sometimes in life you only have time for that microwave meal rather than a freshly prepared salad. It's about ingestion of calories to keep going, not the quality of those.

The same _can be_ true with code. There can be a better way to do something but if you cannot afford the time to develop and iterate this idea then it can be advantageous to develop the simplest solution that meets your needs today and make progress.
Regardless, we are not going to arrive at an understanding of consciousness by arguing against weak ideas.
That's because it's just a way for tech people to sell work, that shows no immediate benefit to the business, to accountants, who sign the checks, that don't like debt.
I don't think this is true. I would be surprised if there were much federal regulation about bicycles.
FYI, your quote renders as a fixed-width font code block and does not word wrap on mobile. It makes the text very hard to read. For mobile user’s benefit, a different quotation method would be better.
This is the only thing I want from Firefox in 2018. It's the single issue I have with it that might push me back to Safari.
yupe. I wold certainly have hitted the guy. Only seen him in the last second.
To me, a gap isn't a bad thing. I said "unexplained gap". It's just one of many signals, not a show-stopper. I'll ask about it, and if I'm told "I did nothing" then that's not a good signal.

I've also been unemployed for about year (wife was ill), but I used that time productively and took it as an opportunity to retrain.

I look for someone who's self-motivated.
That's reassuring. For a few months I was seriously considering dying my hair, solely for job purposes. Not something I'd ever do for pure vanity. It borders on ridiculous. Turned out I didn't need to, but the fact I had to consider it...
Huli appears regular, but a construction like "ngui ki, ngui tebone-gonaga tebira" to mean "fifteen twos and the three of the third fifteen" does seem like quite a mouthful for 33.
>purely analog with zero possibility of any DRM is more permanent,

I wonder could a make an needle that only works with specific records now..
Why is there a need to reconcile? Worker’s rights trump ROI. If you can’t run a profitable company without discriminating against and exploiting your workers, you shouldn’t run a company at all.

Also, look towards more socialist countries (e.g. Germany), for practical strategies to keep making money while at the same time ensuring people don’t get exploited. Hint: empowering workers, letting them unionize and collectively bargain, treating them as humans rather than “Human Resources”, will not actually significantly decrease your ROI.
Yes I just noticed this as well.

The story originally said that Stamos has clashed with Sandberg over addressing the Russia issue. The sentence has now been completely removed. They did't even print a retraction. This is truly disturbing and more than a little ironic considering the context. Shame on them.
The title of this article matches the tone, but doesn't really match the content. The author makes several good points that would be better characterized as, "given that technical debt is inevitable, try to make simple, easy to manipulate tools."
Share 3D printer over the network and do print jobs remotely
Bean-counters also buy crappy toilet paper[1] and don't mind removing benefits. That isn't really an explanation of why it makes "good economic sense", its an explanation on why people who don't do a specific job just don't value that job.

1) had an old manager that pointed out when the company starts buying the scratchy toilet paper, its probably time to move on sense they are going to make a lot of crappy decisions from now on.
Only ~30% of Americans own guns [1]. Almost all Americans use cars. And most people do not consider cars to be safe. The regulation and training to receive a drivers license is also much more extensive than buying a gun.

[1] http://news.gallup.com/poll/1645/guns.aspx
Samsung Galaxy S9+ Tested: Exynos 9810 vs. Snapdragon 845
So weird. I did this last year and people had nothing but great things to say about taking a sabbatical. Maybe the problem is you’re going through the big enterprisey recruiter shops.
> On one hand, while harsh, laying off older workers (even the ones who have kept up to date on technology) makes good economic sense

It's actually a completely irrational thing to do, you would not get rid of an experienced, productive, loyal employee, unless you are forced into a compensation plan that no longer makes sense and there is no way to diminish that paycheck. In light of the large increase for IT compensation in the last decades, this seems the exception.

In my 20s I worked with 60 year olds that were better than all of my young/senior peers, with deep, multidisciplinary understanding of our product, technology and market.

This is why I have serious reservations about the way the issue is presented in the article, as purely a prejudice against old age. That would make sense say in the airline industry, driven by the customer's prejudices, but in tech it is simply self-defeating, you are not gaining anything, there is no motive, quite the opposite. That is if, and only if, the employees keep up to date, productive and motivated.

A large part of the article is bemoaning how IBM failed their expectations for a job for life where they can retire from. That is a huge warning sign of an employee who no longer competes in the market and sees his paycheck as an earned right.
A small number of judges in a given region to corrupt or coerce, but still doable. Can't say the same for jury candidate selection.

Furthermore, your defense attorney has the opportunity to filter out jurors that have bias against their client. Not so for judges.
Support for ublock origin on the android mobile version make it so useful.
I’m of the opinion that one should only maintain python2 projects not actively develop and expand them. If your project needed http2 then it should be ported to python3.

Edit: would using python3 in a container make sense where the distribution only ships legacy python?
Best part is the narration and how Mr. computer says a lot of "undefined" in the middle of the text. :love
A rooted android device is still counted in their stats on phones running android. An iPhone is showing that you switched to their competition.
>regulating it

Why no one has thought of that before? Problem solved!
I think having a stats background helps a lot in the design of systems, but to be perfectly honest you don’t need much to be effective as an average software engineer.

The place I seem to use it the most is arguing against premature optimization or let’s-just-hack-it-together mentalities.

Two examples:

1. We had a new hire want to go through all of our database queries and optimize them. The only problem? The database in question was only a handful of megabytes large and saw very little usage. Even planning for inordinate success this fact would not have changed.

2. We had an upload feature that we were going to enable for our customers that people just want to quick and dirty hack together. The only problem is that it was going to be handling very large files right away. Even with “low” customer utilization it would be handling gigabytes per day.

As you can see these examples are more about statistical common sense than applying really rigorous statistical modeling to a situation.

If you’re really interested in applying math to your programming, I would recommend looking into getting into finance or science based programming fields.
Also, Swiss French, which has proper words for seventy and ninety, is considered more complex than French French, even though I'd consider having specific words simpler (especially given the complexity of 97 (which is said as 4 x 20 + 10 + 7)
Having a community that challenges assumptions is why I come here.
The clickbait title trend is a blogging thing more than a HN thing. We see it here because there are lots of links to blogs.
These h3h3 videos (The pro man-spreading one and the whiteface MTV one) are kind of silly.

Would you really say that Buzzfeed's bias strains your credulity, or is it more likely that you simply disagree with them?
IBM Unveils the World’s Smallest Computer, That Is Smaller Than a Grain of Salt
It's never going to be en masse. Australia enacted sufficient gun control to drastically limit mass shootings by introducing licensing, purpose and registration requirements as well as banning semi-automatics. There was a buyback scheme which most people complied with.

I do wonder if American resistance to sensible gun control will cause a flip straight over into hard restrictions, but it's difficult to see what the trigger event for that would be. Left-wing paramilitaries? (right-wing paramilitaries are seemingly tolerated!)
Cars don't leave the road which is a 2D surface. In what way is that a 3D problem?
It’s just good ol clickbait.
Yea and also the tweet doesn't contradict the original published content.

"Losing a debate" and being "discouraged" are not mutually exclusive.
No, you do not want to reintegrate a half million cold blooded sociopathic murderers with no regard for human life back into society. No no no. You don’t know what you’re saying.

It is much better for all of us that the ones who we have kill be convinced they’re merely doing it to protect the rest of us. You can mend those hearts. You can’t mend the cold blooded contract killers.
From my recent experience in a new team, this article strikes a chord.

Joining a team that is scared of technical debt and runs circles round themselves in a bid to avoid it end up producing more debt than they would otherwise. For example, making code overly DRY and wrong abstractions coupling unrelated parts of the system unnecessarily.

We must embrace the reality of technical debt. It is unavoidable and not something to be scared of. It can be managed by keeping things simple, clearly tested and keeping a cool head.
Is all this gain due to the adblocker?