skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't think the constant drive for profit encourages people to indulge their worst qualities? I'm not saying that people can't be naturally selfish and narcissistic, but people can also naturally be kind, generous, and compassionate. If there was an economic system that didn't put profit above all else I think you would see more of the latter qualities.
> And, either way, the rest of us are still being spoiled by so many free lunches: amazing tech (languages/libraries/frameworks/ecosystems) built by professional teams that we don't pay a dime for.

Don't those things realistically exist precisely because of a virtuous, continual cycle in the greater tech community of paying that free lunch forward?

Even the strictly free lunch use cases, where someone doesn't contribute time/money/effort back into the system, involve helping to popularize the whole and keeping it going; broadening it, spreading it, bringing more contributors in. Those people end up as popularizers/evangelists, which is a required ingredient for the virtuous cycle to keep going.
nope, this will all just be a blip. I don't like FB, but they'll bounce back eventually.

FB needs a good rival that its users will flock to, but that doesn't exist. Twitter is filled with spambots and is more oriented towards a public experience. Snapchat is geared towards the younger generation and is primarily image/video based.
Even as somebody who works in tech, this article revealed something shockingly scummy about Facebook. The general news of "Facebook harvests your data!" is definitely well-known in tech, but I'd say that this story qualifies as a genuine scoop.
It’s less of a grilling when MPs know what they are talking about, which I suspect is not the case here. I expect some will wrongly describe Facebook’s business model as “selling personal information”.

Sending Schrep & Chris will help assess this and clarify some things.
I already use the multi-container accounts to do this. It works fantastically, and is the biggest reason that Chrome is gone from my mac.

Why is this different from Privacy Badger? This allows you to segregate all facebook toxicity to a single container. This allows you to fully use facebook, and places like login via facebook, without exposing other things to facebook in the first place.

That said, this really doesn't address either the Cambridge situation, or the fact that Facebook themselves allowed the Obama campagin to pull demographic information in violation of their own polices, which was arguably impacted far more people (https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/facebook-data-... && http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5520303/Obama-campai...). The only solution to that is to #DeleteFacebook. Facebook is a surveillance as a service provider. The only way to keep them from monetizing you for commercial, social or political reasons is to firewall them off.

You can also associate this with a VPN, if you want to deny them the IP address your home machine is using.
It's been a while since I've used Inkscape to import .ai files, but does Inkscape still have a tendency to mangle them when you try to import them?

If you're moving from one platform to another, you want legacy files to import perfectly, especially when you don't have time to convert old Illustrator assets into svg files.

On Mac/Windows at least, Affinity Designer was the first app around $50 or under that didn't mangle any of the .ai files I threw at it.
Sure it does. Why did they want a higher performance JS VM for the browser? The language of choice to build interactive applications on the web before JS was really viable was Java.

A high performance JS VM means we don't need to use applets anymore.
Looks like they figured out how to make LEDs with atomic layer deposition
Exactly. Almost like it's a problem with the fundamentals of the system itself.
Myspace co-founder trolls Facebook's data breach
"lock-in" potential should be measured in how difficult it is to escape a platform/system/framework.

E.g., if I become unhappy with k8s on Google Cloud, it's easy to migrate to aws. If I become unhappy with k8s, it's easy to migrate to Mesos. If I become unhappy with Linux, it's easy to migrate to FreeBSD. If I'm unhappy with Lambda, it's easy to migrate to cloud functions, or a self-hosted FaaS.

Some systems require major rework, or are just otherwise impossible to migrate off (probably by design). Those are the systems to be careful when adapting.

Evaluate the "exit friction", build something useful, and stop worrying.
I’m often using UberPool. Some drivers use Uber to carpool.
America's previous taxi monopoly is skewing your view on this and have actually got nothing to do with gig economies. Uber circumvented taxi medallions AND introduced gig economy. It was the circumvention of taxi medallions that brought down your price. In countries without those insane medallions, Uber is about the same price, even when running at a loss.

When you put that aside, it's a different beast.

In the UK, DPD, who are Amazon's outsourced delivery drivers, recently killed someone because they fine "contractors" who are ill and he worked himself to death[1]. We have employment laws that protect against this that are being circumvented by 'disruptors' to kill people for minor savings.

The worst part about this, if you follow things like what happens after minimum wages are introduced, price increase are miniscule, sales don't drop. So if you look at the inverse, the misery these 'disruptions' are causing give little to consumers and are extremely damaging to society.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/feb/05/courier-who...
Django-delayed-union: Working around drawbacks of Django's union()
I'm not a huge fan of react either. To be honest, I don't know it very well, but we tried using it for an MVP, and things just took way too long. Ended up redoing the entire MVP as a rails project, which I didn't know either, but was able to make a fast MVP with.
> Could you elaborate?

It is not completely obvious to me what kind of elaboration you desire. So if my longer explanation here misses the point this is probably the reason. :-)

In your trial to find out the strange rules of society you surely made unwillingly lots of accidental experiments that often went wrong. At the end you probably developed some kind of theory of how humans seem to behave, where each rule that you developed is backed up by evidence from an accidental experiment.

If you are interested in history of physics, you surely are aware that developing even what is called "classical mechanics" (I don't even want to start with electromagnetism, relativity or quantum physics) was a lifetime work of many generations of scientists. What a waste of time would it have been if everyone of them had to start from point 0.

So you accidentally have developed something that might be a start of some kind of theory of how people/society really behave(s) (rather think of pre-Newton physics, e.g. Galilei already found out that (ignoring air resistance) the falling time is independent of the mass and the falling time increases by square root of the height; of course where these "strange" laws with strong experimental evidence come from needed the invention of calculus).

So back to "What a waste of time would it have been if everyone of them had to start from point 0.". What a waste of time is it when people all the time had to derive all those laws to which "ordinary" people in society behave (and cannot explain why) from ground up.

So document the rules about people/society/... that you found out and document the experimental evidence that gives strong evidence to you that these rules that you state do indeed hold (a scientific theory is worth nothing if it is not accompanied by a proper documentation of the experimental evidence for it).

Perhaps (if it not embarrassing to you) it is a good idea to use tools that the web provides (e.g. some kind of wiki or Github) so that other people can cross-check your theories, validate your evidence or present counter-theories which also explain your experimental evidence.

You are in a very early phase in a theory of the hidden rules of society (as I told: think where Galilei was in terms of classical mechanics), so this means you probably have to consider lots of frustrating foundational questions. So you are perhaps a true pioneer. But I believe it is worth it, because this might enable researchers who work in AI better understand humans/society.
People who can't afford cars still buy other things, therefore 'such people' also contribute, albeit less in absolute values. The amount of a purchase of a big spender is greater, therefore he is worth more to an advertiser. This means each person financial contribution to a ad supported service is proportional to its spending (or more precisely to his ad motivated spending). That is not equal to being proportional to each viewers income, but these amounts are probably correlated.

Also, as lmm commented, the more people using some services, the more value they provide, so having a fixed price would be a net loss for everyone.
Waymo will add up to 20,000 Jaguar I-PACEs to their fleet
This is ridiculous. Google won two jury trials and the CAFC has no business deciding copyright cases.
> Doing so in a way that produces sufficient energy to sustain the fusion reaction without creating an uncontrolled reaction ("boom") is the trick that always seems to be 30 years away.

Uh, no, not really, a run away fusion reaction has never really been a concern. In fact, that's one of the biggest advantages of a fusion reactor vs. a fission reactor. Fission is a self-sustaining reaction, once it starts you have to work to stop it (via injecting a mediator to interfere in the fission reaction), where as fusion requires constant energy input in order to maintain the reaction. The part that "always seems to be 30 years away", is achieving a fusion reaction that produces more energy than it takes to maintain (allowing some of the output energy to be siphoned off to maintain the reaction). There have been a number of techniques attempted to achieve this with the holy grail being so called "cold" fusion, where cold is defined in this context as something less than the surface temperature of the sun. It sounds like the ultimate solution to the problem though is simply better magnets, not cold fusion at all.

Assuming this pans out, the real thing needed to make this viable as something other than a novelty is how much more efficient the reaction can be made. After all, if the output energy is just barely over the input energy you'd need to scale out to ridiculous extremes to produce enough usable energy, but if it's a significant amount higher then that makes more modest size plants viable.
The Third Education Revolution
Call me naive, but is a company being happy with what you're doing to the tune of them even saying so (or representatives thereof) tantamount to an implicit contract? I know it's been argued in this case, but it strikes me as disingenuous at the least and fraudulent at the most to change your mind. Sure we don't mind Google bearing the brunt of this because they can, but how would we feel were a smaller company subject to this kind of bait and switch based on legalities?
> Uber could operate at breakeven by raising prices slightly more than 10%. [...] Uber could be highly profitable by raising prices 20%.

No, because the demand would be different at those price points, and lower demand might not compensate for high fixed costs.

I got a timely reminder yesterday in (newly Grab-monopoly) Singapore, taking a Grab for $15 that used to cost me $3-6 on Uber.

I took public transport back. One ride was enough to shake me out of my years-trained habit of taking Uber/Grab everywhere when it cost only twice the MRT or bus ride, never really looking at the price.

Travis Kalanick's apparent vision was to create an enormous amount of demand for private drivers by dropping the price to the floor, thus creating the volume needed to make the numbers work, in the same way that Standard Oil's massive facilities dropped the price low enough for Rockefeller to bankrupt all his competitors.
Android popularity (or demise) does have 0 impact on server-side Java. We don't share the toolset, we don't run the same JVMs etc. Call it Jiva if you like.

Google should go Kotlin way, it will be better for everybody.
You're returning it to different people though. At least if you have the common sense to tax the rich.

And in fact, that money is likely to be more economically useful in the hands of ex-poor-now-comfortable people (who will use it to study and start their dream small businesses) than being frittered or sat upon by the very wealthy.
I'm also not from the US but from following US politics the two competing sides seem to react to different types of outrage.

With Obama in power and the GOP "in opposition" you have this "low brow" story around Obama's US citizenship. With Bill Clinton you had a "low brow" scandal around sex and Monica Lewinsky. These seem to provoke the GOP base on nationalistic and religious levels.

Meanwhile, with Trump in power and Dems in opposition, you have a "high brow" story around fake news and Russian-manipulated elections, despite Hillary also have a "Russian scandal" in the closet https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/06/561587174.... Seems this story appeals well to the Dem base.

So I'd expect if Hillary had one, a Chinese hacker story would be too "high brow" to create outrage with the GOP base. You'd probably have some other low brow story being echoed by Fox News e.g. Pizzagate.
We need to get men and women engaging in conversation substantively with a default expectation that it is platonic. One of the problems is that men mostly don't really talk to women except to hit on them. I have run into this problem over and over that trying to engage men substantively often illicits romantic feelings on their part even though it's only a few replies in a public forum, never mind that I have been celibate 12.5+ years and I'm open about that.

My belief is that doors open for men based on two things: establishing trust and casually being exposed to a great deal more information pertinent to developing a career than women get exposed to. Both of these are rooted in the fact that most men can talk to other men a lot without sex interfering. Women can't really do that. Men either decide they aren't interested, and then barely speak to us, or they decide this is a negotiation for sex/romance if there is more than a tiny amount of conversation. It's a no win situation for a woman.

My experience has been that once a man is sexually or romantically interested in me, he's completely useless to me in terms of being a professional contact. I was romantically involved for a time with a man who had recently changed careers just a few months earlier. His previous career was the field I wanted to go into. No, he never read the paper I wrote that I asked him for feedback on.

Men who are romantically interested in me will not clue me, will not make vital introductions, will not give me meaningful feedback. Other men also mostly don't do those things for me because they barely know me, don't trust me (because they don't really know me), don't want to talk to me enough to get to know what I have to offer professionally, etc.

All of that boils down to I need men talking with me more with a strong assumption that it is platonic/professional, not romantic.
Building a Mobile App with Ember and Cordova and Rails
Yeah I don't think you're individually wrong either, sorry if I came across that way. You're acting rationally in the world that we live in.

I know socialism is a dirty word (especially around here) but I think as a society we need to be open to the possibility of an economy that is fundamentally different from capitalism.
There is also a way to use a reactive database without having to trust google by using couchdb+rxdb.
There are many women who are reluctant to take hormonal birth control pills for a variety of reasons. It makes some gain weight or breast size. It makes some more emotional. It can increase risk for certain cancers. Among smokers it increases risk of blood clots and strokes. Some women believe (correctly or not) that taking the pill will affect fertility later in life. Mucking with one's endocrinology is serious business, and it's a serious choice for every woman thinking about getting on the pill. If there's this "perfect" side-effect free birth control for men, I know a lot of women who'd rather opt for that.

On the other side of it, condoms (and hormonal birth control pill for that matter) are not infallible. Plenty of guys want to have consequence-free sex with relative strangers and not have to worry about a condom breaking or b.c. pills being left in the hot sun too long or an unscrupulous woman turkey-bastering his sperm from a used condom or a blowjob.

I anticipate this being immensely popular if it's made available.
Female hormonal BC can have a lot of bad consequences on the health (I know someone who died, one other who lost a lost of her hair, my girlfriend gets depressed, etc.) so I hope more couples would consider that.
I'll admit mostly ignorance since I've only done a Udemy react course and read some blogs. However, I've never seen it done any other way. Isn't JSX an integral part of React?
I've listened to a few of his lectures and read a few articles about him and I don't see a difference between what he says and what every other self-help author who wants to sell millions of books is saying.

It's mostly vague hand-wavy kind of stuff that sounds profound in the moment but later realize it's either blatantly obvious truth dressed up in fancy words or it's nonsense wearing the same clothes.

Had he not gained fame and notoriety through his campaign against that Canadian law and political correctness in general, I don't think anyone would have cared about what he has to say.

If anyone familiar with his work could point me towards some of it that would dispute that characterization I would be happy to read or listen to it, provided I don't have to pay for it.
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Investment dollars aside, there's hard data to show that Uber and Lyft reduce drunk driving in any area where they operate, for one thing. It's a tangible addition to the general consensus that the apps are much better from a user experience perspective.

Additionally, plenty of expanding companies are subsidized by investor money. You could say the same of Netflix and, until recently, Amazon. The point is that investors see potential for them to become more profitable down the road - the same is true of Uber and Lyft.

Of course, you're right that Uber and Lyft are not run by saints and they will have their own problems. But so far I see it as a net gain over the old taxi system.
I guess it doesn't stop info trading behind the scenes.
Remember when people laughed off Stallman as an extremist?
Whaaa? I mean Java is undoubtedly more popular because of Android but it's not like it was hurting before. Sure, there aren't a lot of consumer-facing applications running Java but it's pretty much the standard on the enterprise side of things.
Regardless, the CAFC has ruled -- twice -- that APIs are subject to copyright. The Supremes are likely to deny cert again, so that stands as the law of the land. You steal someone's API, you pay a penalty. Don't like it? Write your Congressman.
> It also seems like leasing a 1.1M asset for 36k/year is poor retirement planning. 3.2% pre tax won’t ler you live that well.

Maybe he was betting on the price of taxi medallions to increase considerably.

> Putting a million into medallions because they’ve risen in value for 80 years is dumb.

It's the basis of investing in a lot of assets - like NYC real estate. Limit supply will protect your investment and it will always increase. This is also the basis of dollar cost averaging into an index. The assumption is that the markets/indices will always increase in value over the long term even if it may fluctuate up and down over the short term.

> These weren’t mostly owned by mom and pop individual owners.

Yep. Regulations and limit supply will do that. Just like most of the farm subsidies benefit the mega corporations, not the small farms.
It is trivial to get around the problem you are describing, you just create a new address for every transaction, which is actually what the reference wallets do by default.
>Actually I think the process shows a strength of the Go community. The initial lack of a dependency management tool certainly had to do with the practises at Google - as Google employees, the processes of Google certainly shaped the needs of the Go creators.

Do you think that's a community process? I always have the impression from Go developments that all major decisions are "my way or the highway" affairs of 2-3 of the initial designers. Possibly the same ones writing those vague "exploratory" posts and dismissals of common proposals, that voidlogic captures well in his comment below.
I run netstat -tunapl easy to remember
Is the doc you're speaking of a primary care doc or specialist? I've been working with some PCPs to try to find new models that allow them to remain independent without sacrificing too much financially. It's a tough needle to thread but I think happier, more independent primary care physicians are a good way to start righting the healthcare ship
Oracle tried really hard to also make it a patent case, but aslup threw that stuff out.
I agree that a 10% price increase may not make a big difference, but as far as the comparison to cab companies raising prices, I think that Uber has a fundamental difference in that many people use it far more frequently than they ever used cabs in the past.

I now own two cars (between me and my wife), but there was a period last year where I was living relatively close to my office and using uber relatively frequently instead of owning a second car. I did the math and it boiled down to Uber/Lyft being cheaper than a second car, even if I used it relatively frequently. Five or six years ago this wouldn't have even been an option, and I would have just bought a car, since traditional cabs just aren't as convenient.

My point is that many people use uber in their day to day life, such that they pay close attention to pricing. Traditional cabs are something that I used almost exclusively on vacation (and still do in places with uber), so I am much less cost conscious on those.
there's a big difference between getting FB recruiter message and actually getting an offer.
> the demand would be different at those price points

Quantity demanded. Demand describes the entire curve [1]. :)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_curve
from TFA:
"Oracle claims Google was in such a rush in the mid-2000s to create an operating system for mobile devices that the company used key parts of copyrighted Java technology without paying royalties. "

If this is true, it certainly isnt happening again. Google dominates smartphones and could very easily decide to phase out java for go/rust, torpedoing whatever rent-seeking strategy Oracle had originally devised. What oracle is attempting to do is nothing short of what Microsoft tried to do with TomTom's implementation of FAT.

If BTRFS, percona, and maria are any indication its not the work that matters. Plenty of talented engineers are willing to devote their time and effort to avoiding Oracle. Quite frankly the Oracle Database has turned into a manacle for Ellison. Unable to prevent its inevitable loss to open source alternatives through NDA agreements that prohibit public release of independent Oracle performance tests, and unable to convince cloud-bound companies to continue forking out high dollar per-core licenses for it, The software exists as a 90s anachronism to the hubris of dotcom. Oracle Enterprise Linux was, for all its intentions, a flop, and after acquisition and rebranding MySQL is a withered husk compared to its open source counterparts.