skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You gotta love the uncaring, cynical dev with more interest in his own pocket than the effects of automation and the well-being of his technical and non-technical co-workers.

As someone who eats, sleeps and breathes automation projects you (probably) won't find somebody more worried about the human costs of automation than me. 90% of our job as an internal development team is to reduce labor costs by automating various tasks, and while we continue to grow staffing because we have continued to grow our list of contracted facilities there will be a day (even if it's a decade or more away) that REDUCTION in workforce is a possibility - I fear that day, and I can only hope by that time our civilization is prepared for it.

> Be positive my friend, I’m sure we’re capable of creating a new type of union in 2018.

We've always been capable, unions people complain about are almost always a direct result of poor participation by members - if you want things to change make your voice heard and vote on union issues, it's no different from politics in that fashion.
It is not ML deciding where to turn, when to slow down.
Disadvantages of Telegram, Signal: Add: don't work on desktops.
Oh man, I had literally this exact idea too (although targeting general GPU workloads, not AI specifically). I actually wrote a pretty detailed product roadmap/desiderata/business plan/basic market research/etc note about it.

I ended up not pursuing it to work on a different idea, feeling like Golem would probably eat that lunch. I love the simplicity of your approach - very in the spirit of an mvp. Let me know if you'd like to see the note (teaser: an ad that says "Because not everyone has a 500 GPU cluster", but "not" is crossed out and replaced with "now", over a background image of a Go board).

Anyways, best of luck, I'll be excited to see how it turns out!
I dunno. Sometimes it's easier to simply stare at a problem & noodle your way through it. That's hard to do when forced to jibber jabber. Is the ol' stare & noodle a pair-friendly activity?
I am unaware of this behavior by Craigslist. I want to believe that people are taken seriously when they alert authorities to crimes against them. The #MeToo movement suggests this doesn’t happen as readily as I would like.

> but someone will still want to fuck 14 year olds

This is still wrong, we can still criminalize it. That’s fine. We can still give a lot of other sex workers way more safety and legitimacy than they have now. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

There could be secondary effects that help the 14 year olds. (1) Most Johns would prefer the legal adult market, so that’s where the money will be. (2) There would be a bigger stigma to the illegal stuff because there are good legal alternatives, creating s higher barrier to entry. (3) institutions would develop to support sec workers, and they’d have resources and visibility to help the minors, more than exists now.

The point is we can decriminalize/ legalize a LOT more than we do now, and have a net positive impact.
I think that’s a separate app/Platform? > https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/02/bumbles-business-networkin...
>Regardless of your view on labour laws I think most people agree on this.

Not if the other option was China shutting down a bunch of Marriott hotels and hundreds of employees losing their jobs instead.
tldr;

News Feed -> Nuzzel, Digg, Apple News
Messenger -> Signal
Events -> Paperless Post, Doodle
Birthday Reminders -> Google Calendar, etc...
Marketplace -> Nextdoor
Groups -> GroupMe
3rd Party Logins -> 1Password, LastPass
What exactly is your question? He, like other early employees, is probably sitting on a nice bundle of common stock that he will be able to sell X months after the IPO.
> If you were in China would you really find it insulting that Tibet is considered by some to be its own country?

This is the GP I am replying to. I don’t believe the employee should have been fired.
It's definitely within the same app. It's just a separate profile you can fork off of your main one.
The problem is he put himself in harms way by trolling. That's why his bail got revoked. It's probably a part of the reason his sentence was harsh and they didn't believe he showed any remorse. I may waste my time, but it's not to harass people online and get attention for myself.

I don't have the final word at all, but he asked to call if you hated him, and I did feel some hate towards him. He had world of opportunity at his hands, plenty of wealth and connections, and he largely earned it himself, he wasn't given it. I respect that. But he squandered it all because he loved the attention he got from showing off how clever he was on social media.

The Angular thing was just funny because we couldn't figure why a guy who is a C-level exec by all measures would think learning a random web stack would give him some special insight into the world of software startups. That's what you hire people for. If he really wanted to be useful there are plenty of management or computer science-y topics that would make sense. He was obviously just reading it to show off to people who don't know any better. He cares far too deeply about what people think of him than is healthy.

I do hope he works himself out some in prison at least. Might actually be healthy for him to be offline for a while.
Nihil sub sole novum
If a number of people(experienced/experts in a field) are willing to volunteer their time and/or capital in exchange for equity/patents/stock, then it's all good. My problem lies with externalizing the cost and risk to employees.

If they need something done and they can't guarantee long-term employment, they can buy commercial services for what they need. Engineering firms and temp offices will be happy to send you a secretary, a software solution or a CAD file with what you asked.
That was pretty much the list before Facebook (or the popular version of it, anyway) existed too.

It's not that people use Facebook because it's better than those tools, or worse than those tools, or even because it's an aggregate of those tools.

They use it because all their friends/family/colleagues are there.
That's not the case in the US: employees have a lot more protection if they're a part of a "protected class". And, surprisingly enough, it works pretty well.

I, personally, have a limited ability to be a part of a protected class, but that appears to work out ok for people like me. I've been fired once, and I got a better job as a result.
Gravitational sliding of the Mt. Etna massif along a sloping basement
As someone who cooks a lot, I was curious what /ck/ could have to offer. I hadn't been to 4chan in years. I'm not sure how this board has tremendous amounts of useful information.
It's not over yet - Holmes could still do time for fraud.

Re Shkreli, as soon as he was convicted for security fraud and paroled he offered money to assault Hillary Clinton. What would you do as a judge? http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41262249
Cloud storage is 'kind of' commoditized. Like the price per gig for buckets or blobs is pretty similar. But it's hard for most folks to collaborate on with buckets or blobs. They're in the collaboration market, which is bigger than the storage market.
Another _problem_ with these suggestions is that they suggest +5 services to replace one. It's difficult enough to have a coordinated migration to a single new service. This just compounds the problem.

To have a good chance at becoming a viable replacement, all of this functionality would have to be replicated in a single service. Taking on a multi-billion dollar company's cash cow product head-on is quite a difficult task.
Webm for retards is one example of censorship on Github. There are plenty of repositories that have no code in them that are perfectly fine by Github rules even if they're just pieces of propaganda.

What I'm trying to argue is that they're hypocrites that are only against censorship when it's applied to them and endangers their profits.
No different than California? Let's see. I don't know the numbers well in Cali but I know what I paid in France. I'd be curious to see what one would pay in California for a similar situation.

For a 100,000 euros income as a sole proprietorship, I paid 42% altogether. From those 42%, 7% were income tax, the remaining 35% were Charges sociales which covers healthcare, unemployment and retirement benefits. When French people complain about high taxes for hiring, they complain about the Charges sociales.

When ones is employed, most of the charges sociales are paid by the employer so do not come out of the employee salary (but it's the same in the end).

Honestly, it's not as big a problem in tech where wages are quite a bit lower than the US to account for the high charges sociales. But for smaller companies hiring low skilled labor or for jobs that are traditionally less paid (customer service, etc...), then it is rather high.

And to add insult to injury, the organisms that are charged with collecting those charges sociales are a complete clusterfuck. For the same year, they calculated 3 different amounts and none matched what my accountant had calculated. Closing down the business and getting out of the RSI's list took 2 years and repeated letters.

That said, I do agree with you regarding employee protection. Those regulations are helpful and should be there but there's a balance to be had between both extremes. It's the same with renter's protection in France which are way too biased against landlords and also create a lack of available apartment (coming back to France after living abroad for multiple years meant that I didn't qualify for the new unpaid rent insurance the government created and locked me out of a third of the apartments in the city I wanted to live.
Only until the next recession, which will come.
This is their business, not yours. They wouldn’t pay you a penny if they could, and have whole departments for figuring out how to pay you less
A new data leak hits Aadhaar, India's national ID database
The New Law That Killed Craigslist’s Personals Could End the Web as We’ve Known
Journalists get arrested at protests all the time. The difference is that they’re typically released without charge.
I found the exact same thing. I found the staff rude, slow and like they thought I was beneath them. I consider myself a skilled developer with a long, happy client list filled with some pretty big names. I also felt like they didn't respect my time with regards to my timezone. The guys at gun.io have been pretty nice but I haven't worked with them yet.
> And then you have major auto manufacturers are also pouring BILLIONS into the space

That is now. But at the time Uber made its decision to develop self-driving cars, the auto manufacturers had just gone through a bruising financial crisis and were skeptical about this new self-driving technology. Uber recognized it as an existential threat before anyone else and did not want to rely on an industry with a poor reputation for management and technology investment.
If you live in a developed country you're probably getting way more than your daily dose of aluminum and Teflon which should be zero.
Influence of fake news in Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election [pdf]
More often, you assert. But have you got any evidence to say so?
How to Build Marketplaces and Why Many Will Be Decentralized
I keep reading that US companies complain that they dont get skilled people and I always think its because they are not ready to pay a good salary but looking at the list the salaries look good. So is there really a skills shortage?
>>Forcing employers to keep employees they don't like

Many jurisdictions allow firing without cause - they just make the employers pay (significant) severance, often related to the length of service of the employee. I think it's perfectly reasonable to say "I don't want you in my company any longer", I just happen to think it might be reasonable to pay for that privilege.
Yes, they COULD licence the tech from someone else, but the price would be too high to make it worth doing.

My feeling is that if someone else has self driving technology, Uber has no way of adding value. Tesla, Waymo, whoever - will simply run a taxi service themselves and reap more profits.

It's possible that a smaller self driving company might not have the capital to start an actual fleet, but I feel like investors would go for it as it'd be a pretty sure bet, provided the technology is solid.

I think Uber outright acquiring another company that has the technology is more likely - again, that company would probably also just start their own taxi service, but it might work if they have different goals - the owners may simply be looking for a short term payout.

Uber knows that. All they have is a userbase with an app installed, which isn't of as much value as it is for say, a social media app, because there's no network effect. You don't have to use the same taxi service as your friends do. People will be more than happy to switch to a different service if the price is competitive and it doesn't have a bad reputation.

It's not impossible they'd licence self driving tech, but I doubt the economics of it.
Search for "deleted" in https://www.facebook.com/full_data_use_policy. The bit you'd be worried about is: Keep in mind that information that others have shared about you is not part of your account and will not be deleted when you delete your account.
There is one big difference. If you have a long term contract in the US where you can get fired at will, you can still get a mortgage. If you're cumulating short term contracts in France, no bank will agree to let you get a mortgage or will make it very difficult.

This creates an underclass of people who are unable to buy their own house because of the employment situation
i've honestly been happier with ddg than google for a while. Google search was a lot better during the page rank days. Maybe the SEO war is too awful or maybe google is curating results far too much. Quite frankly, it scares me that google personalizes every single damn search result.
Re edit: Isn't that what Google's already done? If only other big tech companies would flip Beijing the bird the same way...
This is a bullshit story for sure. Anyone who lives in Seattle knows this is simply not true. If you move south to Kent or Tacoma you will find a lot of places with a decent rent.
Same if you start moving north to Shoreline and above.
Those places are not far from Seattle. If you live in a freaking RV in downtown that's definitely your choice.
You have that. You can take a job in a union shop and you’re able to pursue negotiations as part of the democratic process in the union. My colleague in a former job is in the middle of that right now, running for union office. Or you can go somewhere else.

Whatever you’re negotiating yourself, 9/10 times you’re still an at will employee and really have no bargaining power. Individual negotiations for jobs are like buying a car — every dude is telling you how they beat the dealer. I’ve hired many many software people over the years and almost never leave a fairly narrow salary band — maybe 5% of cases. Offering a few percent over average is usually enough.
The Q&A is a gem:

> Q: I'm trying to understand what Sidewalk Labs actually does? Is it, for the most part, a consulting firm? A developer?

> A: ... We want to ... we launched ... with ... belief ... we hope ... not going to build the whole thing ourselves ... need to work with all kinds of partners ... We see our role ... as trying ... things like people-first street designs, an energy system that could one day be climate positive ... all kinds of local innovators, civic groups, academics, etc, will fill in the details will their ideas and creations.

Google will be Google and local developers will build condos there. Don't worry. It's Canada ;)
If you think that the FB page is worth that much to Tesla and SpaceX, I’d like to sell you some Facebook pages...
I see this pro-worker sentiment on HN pretty regularly. But I also see the "hire slow, fire fast" mantra.

Are these views held by different people, or by the same people regarding different situations (like working for big companies versus startups)?
Stallman's One Mistake (2016)
In the US, we call this argument "Red Baiting". Sure, let's accuse our opponent of starving 10s of millions of people to death!

When there's a financial problem, there are multiple differing opinions as to what's reasonable.

But if you want to call the US the "only developed place without reasonable worker laws", you might want to consider Denmark. Because they don't have the opinion you're propagating.
> This is essentially equivalent of a driving test but would be a controlled environment that simulates real cities.

So, which is it? A controlled environment, or a real city? I think it is a bit naive to expect /every/ edge-case to be worked out prior to even a testing permit being given out. If you could pass a test that faithfully simulates ALL the intricacies of driving in a real city, you're well past testing phase anyway.

Further, this ignores that we may be able to incentivize this behavior (learn all the lessons you can in controlled environments before putting people at danger) in other ways, e.g. financial penalties.
- You can't use the networking functionality unless you have a public profile on the dating side, so everyone you are networking with knows you are open to dating or whatever. (Trying to disable a public profile on the dating side turns off the networking functionality.)

- Just like in the dating app, women go first in the networking app, sending the signal that maybe it's not entirely about dating.
Was it a franchised property, or OandO, or was it just merely managed by Marriott?
I'm not sure I buy that second part.

Legalistically, I guess it could (the behavior isn't defined, after all), but typically the optimizer makes some valid-only-if-the-code-is deductions and things snowball from there....
A Mar 2018 Long Now seminar podcast (with discussion) can be DL'd directly at this link. http://longnow.org/projects/seminars/SALT.xml
"and yet those companies dont dominate the rental car market.." this is a fair point, however I feel there's more to rentals that stands in the way of that, such as real estate. There's only room for so many car rental places in a convenient location at an airport, for example.

I'm not saying setting up and running a company like Uber is an easy task, and I acknowledge that not every company vertically integrates everything they possibly could, but I don't feel like the hurdles to running a taxi app are as significant for a car company as they would be for entering other related markets.
I wonder how this affects pattern recognition.

Would people more readily recognize that say, "Large Spiky Orange Fish" strategies lead to greater returns, compared to if the strategies were presented as "Short | Value Investment | Large Market Capitalization"?

This could also be an interesting way of eliminating inherent bias while leveraging human pattern recognition abilities. Represent values pictorially, and hide data labels.
> you are a startup in France, with long-term employees, and suddenly you realize you screwed up, and you have to cut your expenses in half.

You dismiss employees equivalent to half of your expenses on economic grounds, and after the appropriate notice period (1 month for employees with 6 months - 2 years tenure [1]) you now have half the expenses.

If that's not fast enough, I doubt your startup would have survived for more than 2 months with an instant layoff.

[1] http://www.oecd.org/els/emp/France.pdf
I think pg in that essay makes the assumption that morality is absolute, and we should always be questioning the thoughts of ourselves on the basis of where we are now. But the fact is morality isn't absolute; he falls too much into the positivist trap of believing in humanistic perfection, while reality is much stickier than that. Ultimately, people believe in something, and whether or not that is right (to you), that's what's true to them. Qualms about moral relativism aside, you have to at the very least accept what people believe to be able to level with them. I can definitely accept what pg says about moralism insomuch as it 's a force to be questioned, but that's a morality as is any other. Ultimately, morality rests in the collective conscience, even of a nation, and what China thinks is bad is bad for China. Maybe we don't think so, but that's us anyways.
Couldn't you embed a task or sub-task with a known result and throw out responses from nodes that didn't successfully process the sub-task?
One question I had after reading your post is - We currently build languages with purely additive models, ie features can be added to a language over time. Overtime the interaction between features creates "incidental complexity". Was wondering if you know of any languages that have been able to drop old features / ideas in a controlled manner.
This is why cities should be turning away Amazon's HQ2.
This is just being atavistic for no reason. The telephone system is a horrible UX. I hardly ever use Facebook, but I'm definitely not replacing it with the telephone.
So when the police order a protest crowd to disperse, whatever happens next should go unobsevred and unreported?
Why no Bitcoin Cash? :)

But seriously, it does have the lowest fees of the four supported by coinbase, and always should (since that’s its whole raisin d’etre!).

Cool idea, well done!
Interesting links, thanks. From the Mental Help article:

> the major concern about [Johns] is not so much that they pay for sex but that they seem blind to the plight of these women. They convince themselves that prostitution is a choice and that none of the women they see are exploited.

There’s a lot of exploitation in our society, and I don’t like any of it. Simple example: when I go to a restaurant, it’s very possible that the person serving my food works 2-3 jobs and still can’t afford health care. I hate that. I would like to be confident that everyone I meet was able to get basic necessities like healthcare.

Legalizing prostitution would open the door to reducing exploitation. Does the prostitute have a state issued sex worker ID? Are you paying at least the state-mandated minimum? Did you pay via a certified escrow service that has strict requirements to watch for common signs of abuse? Then no worries, you’re probably not supporting exploitation.

Compare that to what we have now, which is a total lack of transparency. Demand for sex is not going away. We need to prevent it from causing exploitation by creating a safe, legal option.
Maybe not now. But 100 years ago, it certainly would. And that's about where China is now, regarding Tibet, and such autonomous regions as Xinjiang. It takes time for opinions to go from offensive to laughable.
Sleepless in Seattle anyone?
Hmm, I can see the scroll bars, but seems wheel mouse scroll only works in some pages. E.g., no scroll on NYT [1], but it works on Wikipedia [2].

Interestingly, the Chrome extension is a lot more stable than the bookmarklet. For example, the NYT page scrolls just fine using the Chrome extension (probably because changes the page, while the bookmarklet just creates an overlay on top of the existing page).

Well, still has my vote as one of the most useful extensions.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/technology/personaltech/d...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Chastain