skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of other platforms out there for the people who believe their first amendments are being violated. Youtube is going to do whatever it must to protect itself from losing money and consumers. If it turns out the majority of the population is disgusted by gun rights propaganda, and that content starts littering youtube, people are going to start moving away from the platform. Logically, they are going to remove the content that reduces their revenue. This is just a hunch though.
So, basically they set the price wrong?
I'm remaining skeptical. The NTP study they mention had methodological problems. David Gorski of Science Based Medicine wrote about that study when it made the rounds (https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/no-a-rat-study-with-margina...):

What’s problematic about this study is that, even though there were 90 rats in each group, that’s actually a small number to detect meaningful differences in low frequency events. Here’s what I mean. The study reports increased incidences of tumors in the brains and hearts of the male rats. ... Comparing such low frequency events between groups can be very problematic, particularly in the case low plausibility associations with multiple comparisons.

(I originally wrote something about not knowing the control group cancer rates, but
thaumaturgy has access to the paper and addressed that in a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16659270)
Yeah, I'm not really sure about that. I'm pretty politically engaged and I barely give a shit about this, considering the current clusterfuck that is politics in Britain.
More details on why this was appalling, please.
Agreed. Its too complex an issue for it to boil down to "Generation A has it easier than B".
Great visuals as usual. Thanks, J!
How is that a problem? Nothing is stopping people from seeding their content themselves or archiving it...
They failed to stop the crime they were trying to stop, but did ruin something else, so the government's actions were a net negative. Are you at fault if you just make things worse? I suspect most people would say yes.

Governments have a long history of enforcing laws in ways that harm everyone but the criminals they were trying to stop. You shouldn't expect people to be pleased.
echo hi | cat -

is also equivalent to

echo hi | cat

You only need the - if you are concatenating other files with stdin [1]. Incidentally, any use of

echo x | y

can be replaced (at least in Bash) with

y <<< "x"

This is called a "here string" [2].

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cat&manpath=FreeBS...

[2] http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/x17837.html
I agree about messaging someone of any gender about work at night (without prior agreement), but why would it be wrong to smile at a coworker no matter who they are?
There is nothing wrong with using GCC extensions.

Also, porting C is not that hard and does not require you to touch internals that much.
Yes indeed. CRISPR is a big shiny red button.

However I don't think there's any better option than pursuing enlightenment values to address this problem. Complaining that we can't always get that right (as Gray does) is not helping to solve the problem.

What better options do we have? I'm open to changing my values if there's strong evidence that others are better.
A good resume won't get you consulting clients. You need marketing - see e.g. https://doubleyourfreelancing.com/ which has lots of free content.

You are also not likely to get a remote job without some relevant work experience that demonstrates you can work independently. So your resume should heavily focus on that - show you can learn on your own, manage yourself, etc.. Lacking any programing job experience, though, it's going to be somewhat difficult.

If you don't have relevant job experience, can you get a non-remote job to begin with?
> Please don't use GNU C, or any other non-standardized version of C.

Everything standard was once non-standard ; if no one uses it it will never be standardised and we will be left with a poor status quo. For instance, there wouldn't be int8_t, etc... if people weren't using non-standard macros beforehand. Likewise for atomics, threads, etc.
i don't know any CI/CD framework which utilizes it though.

and i'm unsure if it really is. There are some imo really good features missing such as document separation, cross references and the newline to space conversion.

toml would be great for pretty much everything thats under /etc/ though.
The way I read it, Pinker wasn't adamant about these values being determinate and shared. Quite the opposite, he was aware that there was disagreement and that things were messy. From the first chapter of the book:

> What is the Enlightenment? There is no official answer, because the era named by Kant’s essay was never demarcated by opening and closing ceremonies like the Olympics, nor are its tenets stipulated in an oath or creed… The era was a cornucopia of ideas, some of them contradictory, but four themes tie them together: reason, science, humanism and progress.

In other words, the themes are of Pinker's own determining, with the benefit of hindsight.

More importantly, this is not a book about the history of the Enlightenment. Out of the many thousands of paragraphs in this book, Pinker only devotes a small handful to discussing the source of the values/themes he defends. I don't think it's accurate to refer to their origin as the argument Pinker makes in the book. It would be more accurate to say that this is merely one supplemental point he makes in the book, and that it's largely irrelevant to his central thesis.
> These twits are going to win eventually, just slowly.

This is basically my expectation for how all privacy and legal freedom end on the internet. It's easier to pass a law than repeal it, and so this stuff will get done by throwing up slight variants of the same bills over and over until they get through Congress and the courts. Constitutionality can be ensured by getting lucky with wording and a friendly court. Passage comes from simply wearing down the opposition, who are drastically less well-funded and organized than the advocates.

I honestly have no idea what can be done about it. Internet freedoms work like a ratchet, and even winning 95% of the fights means that everything gets worse every year and never gets better.
Note that the other licenses listed lower on that page are for other data sets. Mozilla's data is CC0, which shouldn't be a problem for Google, because it doesn't include the "noncommercial" part.

Text of CC0 for discussion purposes, is here: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

CC0 appears to have most of the legal text expected in a proper license including clear allowance of modification and distribution, and lack of warranty or liability.
> Lawyers wished to create a 'walled garden' for their knowledge and methods. Doctors do the same and the churches also did it. These people charge fees for access to this knowledge and do not want easy access to the general public.

And programmers do the same thing, using a secret language called "code" to make their work incomprehensible to mere mortals. /s

More seriously, I've heard it stated that there are actually a lot of similarities between legalese and software code, as they're both constrained languages to meant to make certain kinds of statements more precise.
Thanks! We are a relatively small engineering team and we were mainly focused on improving our system. This took a lot of effort and time, we just haven't had a chance yet to think about open sourcing or blogging. Our days were focused on coding. If there's interest in blog posts, I could write up some of our technology. Just let me know whether there's an interest and what you'd like to know.
Preventing the accident might not have been possible, but even being able to decrease speed by a tiny amount would have greatly improved the pedestrian's chance of survival. Slowing from the 38mph that the car was traveling down to 30mph would decrease the chance of fatality from about 45% to below 10%.
Decentralized Infrastructure Is a Moral Imperative
just to respond to a specific part of your post, people can decide to adopt a child with a disability.
I think the fundamental disconnect here is that there are, honestly, perfectly rational reasons to not do this.

A dear friend of mine in high school has a sister with Downs Syndrome who is 13 years younger than she is. My friend's parents have missed out on so much of what most people view as the good parts of life.

They missed my friend's college graduation because her sister refused to go. Literally, "we can't make it because your sister doesn't want to go." They missed their son's wedding and the birth of his first child because of this as well.

They have to spend tens of thousands of dollars a year on care to be able to work, and they can't quit their jobs to care for her because of insurance and income reasons. They are both well into retirement age at this point and they are forced to work demanding jobs still.

It's put a strain on the entire family, and the only time my friend's life is ever discussed in any way is when she's making 'wrong' choices. When she graduate college, she didn't get so much as a congratulations; when her brother married, he and his wife received a rushed phone call congratulating them and nothing more.

I am fully on board with the idea that there is an essential dignity to all people, but I think that asking why people make these choices is still a completely valid question to ask, especially when you consider the blatantly deleterious effects that such a choice can have. Even if for no other reason than understanding, this is an important question to ask.
YC was started as a way for PG and Jessica to learn about angel investing. They originally gave teams like $20k for the summer and positioned it as alternative to a summer internship. They told students that if they decided at the end of the summer to quit the startup and go back to school, that was ok. They expected the cost of this education on angel investing would be some failed investments in startups. Most people back then apparently thought they were crazy for writing checks to undergrads and having them start companies -- this was in 2005, before zuckerberg, right after the dot com crash, when the world was a different place. I'm sure the YC founders thought in the back of their minds that their startups would succeed, but they probably were hesitant to say that out loud.

It's easy to take the YC model for granted today, but back then what they were doing was sort of crazy. Their insight was that these young founders were diamonds in the rough, and their brilliance was fighting for these founders when no one else would

http://old.ycombinator.com/start.html

http://paulgraham.com/summerfounder.html

http://old.ycombinator.com/old/sfp.html

Edit: readability, more links
Pictures of the actual checks :) https://twitter.com/sama/status/977215073386053632
Or go straight to the source, vs the PR statement?

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2018.01.037
Wat? You just stated that it's inappropriate to smile at a co-worker of the opposite sex.

That's sufficiently bizarre that I assume you misread the original post... (I'm applying Occam's razor).
> If Adobe freed the source code of Photoshop, how long do you think it would take for missing features to make it into Gimp?

If that were to happen, it stands to reason that Gimp would never get any new features, ever again.
If by "our society" you mean the US, I seriously doubt it will reach 1 billion people any time soon.
There's going to be a lot of bankers and their clients celebrating tonight. With 36M shares outstanding, dropbox left around 360M on the table for the bankers.
I would like to see these backported into RHEL7. They backported the PCID code due to the Spectre / Meltdown vulns.
First Case of Orca Infanticide Observed
There are a few summaries online, search for "GDPR for developers"
Using the magic of augmented reality, stolen art returns to its rightful home
>It just seems like now anything short of the economy of the mid-20th century is seen as a disaster

Well, I think it's also about what Boomers did with the prosperity of that time. Many of the countries destroyed post-WWII invested heavily in building a floor on their economies that made sure people had equitable access to things like healthcare and education.

The US, especially from the 1970s on, did precisely the opposite. And it's into that era of privatization, destruction of unions, and massive wealth inequality that millenials were born.
> We've configured the search to disable the prefix search once you press "Enter"

I thought you were joking but it's true. Try removing all characters here: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=china&sort=byPopularity&prefix... and type out "china", look at the bottom results and then press "Enter", now you get different stories.

What awful UX, what was the thinking behind that? People who search for the same thing gets different results, depending on if they actually searched or if they just typed it out.
Perhaps more directly - if we're trying to stop sex trafficking by shutting down the places where victims meet clients, we're going to have to ban streets.
>If you truly wanted to curb sex trafficking, you’d legalize prostitution, not drive it farther underground.

What does that mean? Countries where prostitution is legal have little to no sex trafficking? What are you basing this on?

In any case, hopefully as a society we'd want to reduce or eliminate prostitution, not enable it. To me, it is quite sad that a person feels compelled (in many cases) to sell themselves as a piece of meat.
The pressure is now on to match that price with quarterly revenue/profit, should be interesting.

Too bad crystal balls are only a thing of fantasy, I remember seeing Google's post IPO stock price @ ~$81 and saying how absurdly over priced...oh well :)
Agreed. Gives some ammo to spotify avoiding a traditional route.
Would you rather your daughter hooking on the street making barely enough to stay alive because her pimp takes all the money or in a safe place with healthcare, police protection, and high earnings?
There's some irony in that the 'TPS' acronym used in this article to mean 'Toyota Production System' also stands for 'Throttle Position Sensor', which also gave Toyota some serious notoriety and shook up the automotive industry's fix-it-later practises.
Oh, there's a ton extraordinary going on. Our economic system has been a farce for years. We financialized everything and fake a working economy. The financial sector's portion of the GDP is so high, it's patently pathological. The internet is still young but has finally reached the vast majority of everyone. We're in the last years of any chance to avoid massive climate catastrophe as we already experience the early realities of climate change. And automation is truly in the beginnings of taking over the last unskilled jobs where (unlike all past cases) it won't merely be a shift from one industry to another. I could go on…

I was not saying that everything today would be normal if not for Trump.
The difference I imagine is that YouTube is not infrastructure, they are a publisher that takes full responsibility for the content present on their site. It's not 'X's videos are hosted on YouTube' it's 'X is a YouTuber'.

I think you would have a much stronger argument if someone like Amazon said you couldn't host gun videos on AWS.
China and Russia aggressively are pursuing hypersonic weapons
Sure. And I'm saying that just because they are profit focused doesn't mean it's only about profits and there aren't human decisions involved which is what I took GP's comment as saying.
I agree with what you said but, most of the trash looks like it’s from industry and not consumers.
> By that logic, we should limit owning and operating a motor vehicle to special car parks because we're scared of the mental fitness of our fellow citizens. Why take the risk?

We do regulate where you can drive a car, though. Large swathes of cities can block off the use of cars in certain areas, and of course you're only allowed to drive them on the road, according to strict regulations. We even have a licensing and registration system for cars that says you can't drive one unless you pass a test, and that your car must meet certain specifications to be road-legal and actually get registration.

It would also be extremely difficult to impose the kind of regulation we have around cars, on guns. It's extremely unpalatable politically. While we ban certain modifications (though a lot of those bans have expired) typically there's no mandatory registration, save for some states.
But think of the children. I've heard all these metrics tend to correlate with infant mortality rates, so they all must be good.

Never mind the affluent US which should be the reference of wealthy, has these things decoupled with mortality increasing.
Let's celebrate AFTER we see what Dropbox does with the IPO proceeds. Here's a to-do list:

1. Resurrect drop.io product killed by FB.

2. Acquire HelloSign or build it internally.

3. Acquire and fix Scribd, and restore document publishing capabilities; or Zoho.

4. Acquire Zapier or one of their competitors (eg. Integromat).

5. Acquire Canva, ASCIIflow and PandaDocs.

Thus leaving Box.net in your dust and await acquisition by Salesforce.
Why would there be a difference? They're both liquidity events.
You should have a look at codementor.io/

I started last year in May (see https://www.codementor.io/radubrehar) and already doing pretty well. Work just when you want to! Plus, it feels great to mentor people and help them solve real problems everyday.
> If I'm billing hourly and I'm billing an 8 hour day, I'm including a 30 minute lunch, regardless of rate.

If you bill daily or weekly, then great. If you bill hourly, then the only way this is okay is if you put "30 minutes lunch" on your bill and show that you're charging for it. There's a reason why it's very very hard to bill for 8 hours of work in a day, and that's because you don't work for 8 hours.
Cold calling got it's name from that but generally people think of it as reaching out to someone to sell them something with no prior introduction.
Adding a piece of metal to the end of a barrel doesn't increase the probability of someone getting shot. It doesn't increase the chances of the gun to fire accidentally.
A few things happened that made this possible.

1)Silicon Valley surrendered the high ground in terms of free speech. In the past, Silicon Valley at least used to preach a near absolute commitment to free speech. Now, they don't anymore.

2) Consolidation of content. Before, the internet was very distributed. Number of nights a 1000 poeple might regularly visit could be in the thousands. Now, a significant number of people just visit Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or one of a maybe a dozen top sites. This makes enforcing regulations much easier.

3) Silicon Valley managed to pull off the near impossible feat of angering both sides of the political spectrum at the same time. The left was angered by the perception that the tech companies', especially Facebook's lackluster enforcement of policies allowed Donald Trump to be selected President. The right was angered by the apparent enforcement of political correctness at the expense of free speech. In addition, it became clear with this election that many in silicon valley despised the Right. Thus, Silicon Valley was left with few defenders.

4) Governments realize how disruptive tech can be to entrenched power structures. Things like the Arab Spring, Brexit, Donald Trump's election would have been much more difficult without the Internet and social media in partiy. The powerful across the gloves in China, Russia, EU, and now the United States have realized that an uncontrolled Internet can be a huge danger to their ongoing status.

Put all these together and it is very likely that this is just the first wave of further regulation of Silicon Valley.
[actually on the Cforall team] This is basically our pitch -- the last 30 years of language design features applied to a language that is not only source-compatible with C (like C++), but actually maintains the procedural paradigm of C (unlike C++) -- idiomatic C code should require minimal to no change to make it idiomatic Cforall code, and skilled C programmers should be able to learn the extension features orthogonally, rather than needing to figure out complex interactions between, say, templates and class inheritance. We are working in the same space as C++, and do draw inspiration from C++ where useful, but with the benefit of decades of watching C++ try things to see where the important features are.

There's also some really neat language-level concurrency support; work is ongoing on new features and a shorter summary, but you can see one of our Master's student theses for details: https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/handle/10012/12888
Sounds like they left a good bit of money on the table.
We thought they'd be successful, but it's very rare for a company to be this successful.
>A stock market dip does not a recession make

You're right, but it's a pretty good indicator.

It's been 56 days since the DJIA's peak close of 26,616.71 Yesterday's close was 23,957.89 and there has been a sustained loss of 2658.82 in the time since. I'm not the NBER, but a dip lasting almost 2 months sure smells like the start of recession to me.
It's about trust, you either trust some central solitary authority, i.e. government, bank, etc... or you trust the majority of users -- to do the right thing.

Think of it like a dictatorship vs a democracy. In the dictatorship one guy ( the central authority ) gets to make the rules... he has a bad day? he decides to take all your wealth for himself. In the democracy 51% of nodes have to decide to screw you, some people think that's a better bet in the long run.
>Also to note none of those causes of cancers are protein deficiency.

Ah, but that opens people to a whole different ailment: having the appearance of someone with cancer
> "History is repeating"

How so? This is not about blocking political speech from these platforms. It's about a specific issue: whether YouTube should make it easy for people to find instructional videos on how to make and modify firearms.

Would you be upset if platforms blocked content showing how to make bombs? Biological weapons? Why not include the blocking of firearm modification videos?
> because an economy with a bubble + the ensuing shock is far worse by most metrics than one where the bubble never happened in the first place.

Only for those who invested directly or indirectly into the bubble.
"..social interaction is cultural and learned.."

or may be, just may be we are genetically programmed to avoid things which starts uncomfortable thought process.

"They just don't automatically know what to do"

This might not socially acceptable thing to say out loud, may be, people don't have _enough_ time or inclination to imagine other people's condition in everyday life.

Like you remembered some cases where you looked away, there might be more cases where you didn't even notice that somebody disabled was around you.
The news media is at best entertainment, but mostly it's just straight up propaganda. Even the BBC is like that now.
"Limited edition Beary Garcia" is code-word for submachine gun.
This is nice from a business-perspective.

But, stepping back ... I'm sure that a lot of the folks here would agree that something as basic as file-sync should be a standard part of any OS, and follow a non-proprietary protocol.

So whereas they have turned something that should have been a commodity into a profitable business, I'm not sure what we have achieved here.
Congratulations! What a consistent drama free run. Also, resisted an acquisition offer from Steve Jobs!