skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If her emails were such an issue why have multiple members of the Trump Cabinet and House and Senate members been found to do the same thing and continue to do the same thing. Objectively: voters don't care.

Mentioning it at this point is sheer deflection. If you need a go-to example, pick someone in power like Kushner or Pence.
In this case the typical liberal and the radical liberal are split, much as with trans identity.

To sum it up with too broad of a brush, liberal (mainstream) feminists think sex work is positive, and that only coercion to sex should be criminalized.

Radical feminists see sex “work” as an extreme outlier amongst sex trafficking which by their measure constitutes the vast majority of the sex trade. They would consider a woman who was raped and coerced into the trade as a child, but who has adjusted and now verbally “consents” (by far the typical case) as a sex trafficking victim.

So the radical and liberal feminist agree that person is doing nothing illegal. But many of the radical feminists would support criminal charges for the Johns and the pimps/clubs/etc in the vast majority of cases.
The exact mode of payment is irrelevant. The point is they had to work for sustenance - whether it was trading skills for money, or producing goods and bartering them, or just producing direct necessities.

The core topic is "vacation", the concept of pleasurably not working while using reserves for sustenance. This in contrast primarily with "work" (the process of labor to create sustenance & reserves thereof), and raising the side contrast of "unemployment" (unable to produce sustenance, eating into reserves - or facing the prospect of none - in a decidedly UN-pleasurable situation).

Today we conflate "work" with "payment", as our society has become advanced enough that few indeed need produce the actual essentials of sustenance (ex.: by sitting here thinking for 8 hours, I can produce enough value to trade for a week's essentials - much more productive than simple gardening). The money (now mostly mere etherial bits, tacit agreements of trade) we earn should not obscure the fact that we're working for essential sustenance, plus surplus.

I grew up in a family which engaged in significant (though not complete) self-sufficiency. Heat? cut down trees, split logs, used wood stove. Food? grew half a year's vegetables & fruit. Clothing? made some of it, repaired much. That all wasn't "not working" just because a wage wasn't involved; it was hard work, not a vacation (and not unemployment).
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I have no idea if liberals are anti-booth babe or not, but maybe there is a different issue than selling sex(iness)?

Do prudish conservatives approve of booth babes while opposing prostitution?
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Certainly. The first scandal was easy for voters to see: closing Gitmo was kind of Obama's thing, from the very beginning of the primaries. The second scandal required a fair amount of investigation, but that investigation was fairly legible to voters. The third requires voters to believe what they're told by unnamed sources: thus far no one will go on the record with any proof of anything. The fourth should be easy to see, so I look forward to hearing more about it. I would love to see a precedent set that corruption leads to impeachment; I'm not holding my breath.
I don’t think so. Google is massive and people that work there have been doing lots of different research for a very long time. OP has nothing to do with the past days of Facebook stuff IMO.
Or a Brogrammer chooses to program over other thing he would rather do? How is that different than the 'push' to 'get women in tech'?
I had to look this up because I though you were jesting. Turns out Lyrebirds can mimic nearly any complex sound: https://youtu.be/VjE0Kdfos4Y
I've been in VC for ~10 years, and we see a lot of founder squabbles.

A lot of what makes for great companies is simple: a smart team in a great market, just plowing through things for 3-5 years.

That 3-5 years part is the one that trips up (a) startup newcomers and (b) people who were very successful in school. You get way beyond the "theory" of what you're building very quickly, and there is a LOT of dull blocking & tackling work.

To my ear it sounds like you are frustrated with the slow pace of the work and want to do things that are more intellectually interesting. This is more or less an anti-pattern at the ~1 year mark, and you might consider that your CEO knows more than you think, just not about the technical side.

I can't see a scenario where pointing to an online equity calculator is going to help, so don't go there. If you're convinced that the CEO is damaging the company, you should want them gone, not still around with a little bit less incentive to succeed. Mostly though, you should consider very seriously whether, for all your VR chops and accolades, you are even correct in assuming the CEO is not able, vs whether you are experiencing Dunning-Kruger or simply don't like them.
I agree, if we had the viable and affordable tech to do this, it would be low environmental impact. When you consider the impact of large scale ocean desalination, it would be a clear green choice.
Right, but he also believes the Earth is less than 100,000 years old. Do you believe that, too?
Unless they send you suitcase with human being and they don't expect them to get back with cash, then yes, it would be surprising.
> The problem with Pinker's optimism isn't that
> it's wrong. If you look at aggregate statistics
> everything is getting better. The problem is
> that the distribution of that wealth is shifting
> toward an extreme hockey stick. A rising tide no
> longer lifts all boats.

There are fewer people living in poverty.
DoD technologist favors kinetic boost-phase intercepts for antimissile defense
Flip on fox. someone mentions it basically everyday. Fox is the most watched cable news channel.
I imagine it would depend on the lifespan, and travel patterns of a lyrebird, no? Eg, bird is making the chainsaw noise weeks or years after the loggers have gone, possibly in an entirely different area.
> Some countries are a lot closer to 1984 than others.

Yes. Britain is far ahead of everyone at this moment. I'm sure china and the rest are desperate to catch up.

> The EU and US

As an american, I'd really appreciate it if you didn't lump us in with the EU. EU is a lot closer to china than you think in terms of political system, censorship and mentality. After all, the EU heavily censors parodies and "hate" speech and is at the forefront of internet censorship.

I'm afraid america stands alone in many respects but we have our own challenges. We are most definitely not perfect.
So are porn videos. So are snuff videos.

How do you propose YouTube draw the line on what is and isn't acceptable? Because legal/illegal isn't going to work here.
That quote makes a strange fuss over the ability to see who has voted. Is there any democracy where that is not tracked? Certainly in the US, the list of who voted in each election is public. (Who each person voted for is, of course, secret.)
You used to be able to tumble the bitcoins but cant realistically do it anymore due to high fees.
Android + Facebook is a bad combination at the moment. I don't believe this can happen on iOS which doesn't even have an option to allow an (external) app to view things like text messages or call history.
I hope Facebook won't suddenly remove this data from their export, if they haven't already, because of the attention it's getting.
Roughly half of the current world population [1] depends on artifical fertilizers. So it is rather billions of people than millions.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-with-and...
That seems like a deliberate misinterpretation on your part. There's clearly an implied "report" that comes after "bug".
> blurring the legal distinctions between sex work and trafficking.

It seems like they are succeeding already: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgwnp/porn-on-go...
The 5-year degrees that existed in most of Europe before bologna were not centered around being a "well-rounded citizen". They were centered around being a "well-rounded" major.

In CS, this means that you were taught courses ranging from basic Electrical Engineering all the way to Artificial Intelligence, including physics, algebra, calculus, signal processing, theory of computation, algorithms, databases, computer architecture, compilers, computer networks, robotics, etc.. That is, you got introductory-level courses on everything that makes "computer-stuff", and then there were a number of optional courses where you specialized.

I really don't think you can cover all that material in 3 years...
How a funny subreddit helps explain machine learning to the uninitiated
CTO isn't the right title for my actual role. I've got the "map to the customer", many options for pivots with detail, I understand the customer from another side too (it's teaching tech... and as a former teacher that's also part of "not just a CTO").
It's tough tech. I've already done key tricky bits.
Another part of what hurt was rolling in more tech after the fact (after the 50/50 handshake). I've taken that out, we have clearer focus without it (and I feel better). Part of the problem is my hunger to take the CEO trail myself... from the beginning.
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Do you believe YouTube should be forced to host porn? Why or why not?
This article is amazing to me. You've literally got the e staff and c suite on camera talking about voter manipulation, compromising politicians with human trafficking victims, revealing that state governments were cooperating with Trump's media org directly, all while using a service that not only failed to put adequate controls on how partners used data but also provided services which are illegal when used for elections under the letter of the law.

But no, she implies, this mass panic is unjustified. After all, something something Hilary Clinton. Something something information society. There is nothing we can do because we can and should be powerless to regulate companies.

What an awful opinion piece.
I have been reading "Strategy: A History" by Lawrence Freedman, and reading the papers and books mentioned in the bibliography as I go.
I think the issue people have with "booth babes" is that it presupposes men will be the ones perusing the booths, or the ones whose attention is worth grabbing.

There's nothing wrong with valuing someone for their good looks, but in a field like tech where we are trying to encourage women to participate more, using BB's at tech events is a reflection of the event organizers choosing to cater only to men, since it's mostly men that the BB's will entice.
> In one case americans seems willing to relinquish their rights to the government in the name of safety.

Actually, in one case, the lobbying groups are weak, and localized support in coastal areas. In other case, the lobbying groups are well organized, powerful, with a lot of support from constituents across the US.

Also, we (Americans) are stupid.

EDITED TO ADD: We (Humans) are stupid.
From what I heard, WhatsApp is still semi-separate, and still relatively small. They just let them be, for now at least. Which, IMO, is wise. Google has ruined many an acquisition by forcing it onto Google infra and letting the Google mafia move in.

As an aside, I like WhatsApp precisely because it doesn’t have a ton of “features”.
Did Pinker ever say in his book that every Enlightenment thinker shared the same exact set of values about which there was no disagreement? I seem to recall him saying the opposite at times. The point of the book was not to praise the thinkers of 2-300 years ago, but to identify a subset of the values that really picked up steam around that time and to show how they have contributed to significant progress since.

(EDIT: clarity)
> People are working overtime to make others feel that so much as grunting a sound that sounds similar to the word "Tor" means you're an evil traitor. I don't think that the young, who know little besides the status quo by definition since they haven't experienced much yet..

Hey, only one part got FUBAR'd. Relatively coherent for semi-consciousness! Fixing:

People are working overtime to make others feel that so much as grunting a sound that sounds similar to the word "Tor" means you're an evil traitor. I don't think that the young, who've experienced little beyond the status quo by definition, can be expected to automatically defy and overcome this.

Preserving/rebuilding the internet as a free space will take a much more intense effort than just lobbing the ball across the fence to the next generation and crossing our fingers that they'll figure something out.
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In a lot of no-fault states you may not be criminally liable for a car accident but in a civil suit you won't get off scot-free. In every case of car vs human that I have come across the driver pays something, usually medical bills. Reason being a driver is required to have insurance while a pedestrian does not. And as far as I know, auto insurance companies are more willing to pay a settlement.

Do remember that on a civil suit culpability is a sliding scale. It's not guilt or not but what percentage of this accident is attributable to you. A driver looking at their phone, with an enhanced sensor safety system (lidar, sonar, nightvision) will get far more blame than a typical driver.

I expect the civil case to be settled quickly and quietly. T
Trumps "rapid reversals" are conventional negotiation tactics.

Want to get a better price on a car after you think you have your best deal already worked out? Show up for the purchase closing and say you've changed your mind. Most likely they'll offer you more not to walk away at that point.
Note that FPS Russia etc. are still allowed. YouTube is banning videos that show people how to make and modify guns.

This isn't a debate about censorship. This is a debate about where to draw the line on what is and isn't acceptable content.
The comment you’re replying to isn’t claiming the system is bad, merely that statistics about the German short work week are misleading.
Even if it had just managed to slow from the 38 mph that it was clocked at to 30 mph would lower the probability of death from about 45% to 10%.
You don't know what the side effects are because you don't know how an assault rifle is defined (it depends on which legislation you're talking about, there's no standard definition), and without proposing specific things to be banned, your proposal is just virtue signalling "I don't like assault weapons [even though I don't know what they are or how they're distinguished from handguns]."

Depending on the proposal, a ban on assault rifles is likely either:

- An ineffective nothingburger, targeting features that don't matter for lethality, that can easily be removed or changed, or features that can be built or re-added in a weekend in a garage (which only affects people who shoot recreationally, and not someone planning a shooting for weeks or months like mass shooters tend to do).

- A ban on most semi-auto guns including the vast majority of handguns people rely on for every day carry and self defense.

If you want to try to have an effective ban without nuking handguns too, you have to be fairly knowledgeable about guns and machining and very specific about what you're proposing, and there are likely still holes big enough to drive a falcon nine through.

And then, if you come up with such a proposal that actually might work, you have to run the gauntlet of:

1. It's unconstitutional.

2. Semi-auto long guns are actually better for self defense than handguns, the main reasons people use handguns are that long guns are less mobile/concealable and louder.

3. What exactly are you going to do about the tens of millions of banned guns and maybe hundreds of millions of banned magazines for those guns? Confiscation? Do you want a civil war? No confiscation? Then nefarious people will have no trouble getting them on the black market.

(chimeracoder's reply is completely right, but I didn't want to take the detour of getting into the technical definition of assault rifle when it makes no difference in this discussion.)
The subject of this discussion is feudalism, so I'm not sure why you've launched into a rebuttal talking about China and the USSR in the 1960s. It isn't true that "everything that [peasants] produced belonged to the local lord."
All true. I've shared a large report that I wrote with a consultant to help unpick some of the detail. Superficially, the CEO is right. Scratch the surface, and I'm right. Who's right or wrong is moot(?). I like the thought that I can reduce my engagement with the CEO and focus on the work/relationships that I enjoy. At least for a bit.
Government workers working hard?! Must be a nice problem to have.
Facebook suggests that CA did in fact "violate rules."

But then CA got caught in a video sting talking about illegal and frankly horrifying tactics to compromise elections globally by attacking and comprimising politicians.
Congrats Dropbox
The issue comes up quite often in the local papers here in the Netherlands. Some other commenters here have pointed to some other reports from other countries.
The entire problem though is what is 'toxic' is subjective. Today we find this behavior okay, and tomorrow we don't.

It could be simply having a MAGA hat on could be 'toxic'.

You also have to worry about /toxic/ group behavior. The masses are not always right. So just because somebody has had a lot of people report them does not mean they are toxic.

For any of this to work the very behavior that is not allowed must be defined to the T.

But anyways, This is not my argument, I was merely trying to correct the assumptions of a post. And suggesting that because some feature does not exist today is not a very good reason why a suggested solution can't work or should not be considered.
1st amendment - free speech
2nd amendment - skeet shoot with military weapons
The relationship between hours worked and work done is not direct and, more importantly, the route to advancement into better-paying work is rarely just being really efficient at your job.
"Your generation isn't like mine!" says person worried about history repeating itself.
I think you are wrong since this people die of this exact scenario almost everyday. The camera might be making it darker but that doesn't mean that every driver (Everyone's eyes and reaction times are different) would have been able to see her and get out of the way.
Damn you scrollwheel hijackers!
I don't think you understand my argument. I am talking precisely about discrimination against what you call "protected classes" (actually, I don't think the legislation is class oriented, but let's put that aside).

Companies are not allowed to do that, but individuals are allowed to discriminate even "protected classes". I can freely choose not to associate with black people, for instance. And that is a good thing. So even today there is a legal distinction between individuals and institutions.

And in a certain sense, "advocate of gun rights" is a protected class, because you have also non-discrimination (I would assume, like most civilized countries) on the basis of political opinion.
An argument can be made on what is and is not appropriate to censor, and we would probably disagree. But that's not important - what's important is who should decide what is and is not censored. Should YouTube (and Google) be making that decision, or should the government?

At least in theory, the government is an extension of the people, and a private corporation is not. We should decide as a society what topics should and should not be censored. Then we can defend minority viewpoints and make moral judgements, rather than financial ones.
Assuming the parent is talking about completing a contract on Upwork, then setting up future contracts outside of Upwork: it's not illegal, it's just against their TOS.
>China is the living embodiment of what 1984 can look like in 2018.

The headline brought to mind that scene from V for Vendetta right before Stephen Fry gets disappeared.
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Honestly as a technical founder in VR too I understand where you come from but you are wrong on this.

You don't get equity for having a good background, you get equity for being important to the business and damn you got the same amount that a guy that most likely handled a fundraising by himself.

At this stage they are investing in you more than you are investing in them yet you absolutely did not talk about what you actually achieved for them.

Worse only 5 month after signing you are talking about the demotion of your partner who from an exterior standpoint already contributed more than you both in time and in money gained.

I think that :

1) You are not the guy they need. I am sure that you are great but you are just too high maintenance at a stage that is too early for that.

2) You need to run your own show, you sound like the type of guy who have an hard time following others.

If you think that either doing it by yourself or associating with someone who is "CEO material" would be hard, then it can very well be an indicator that you currently are pushing your luck.
This is actually untrue for about half of all Android users. Being able to granularly adjust permissions is fairly new, and of course, if you aren't buying the latest phone every year, it'll be a long time until you get this.
You use no heating or cooling? That's unusual. Approximate latitude?

I spent 37 years largely without A/C, northern climate usually being below preferred room temperature. Heating, however, was essential. Moving south, both are surprisingly necessary as the area, while quite temperate on average, has annual temperature swings from about 25°F to 105°F - requiring HVAC.

Unless you're in an unusual situation, like high desert in a remarkably well-insulated home, I suspect HVAC is so prevalent in your life you've completely forgotten it's there out of familiarity. Mad King Ludwig of Neuchwuanstein Castle, however, would find much of the year uncomfortably cold - except that he'd completely forgotten it's there out of familiarity.
This is a myth, mostly.

First of all: no jail. This is civil law, not criminal.

Second: it's pretty hard not to have an excuse to do anything you want if you're the board + management. Google, and most other companies, give to charitable organisations, for example. "Now", you'll say, "they're just doing this for PR".

Maybe... But using the PR argument actually works perfectly fine for anything altruistic a company may do.

Unless management explicitly states that they're harming investors for the public good, it's almost impossible to run afoul of the law. Sick pay that exceeds the law? Important for employee retention (and PR). Match your employees' donation to any certified charity? Important to create a community (and PR).
That seems like a fig leaf.

The tradeoff is between the relative costs and benefits of suppressors. Given that ear protection is cheap, plentiful, and doesn't increase the probability of someone getting shot, it's hard to justify the legality of suppressors for purely "safety" reasons.
Semver is awesome. If the owner adheres to it, then it can be a very strong signal to the downstream users about whether they should be able to [probably] upgrade seamlessly vs possibly having to do some major rework. Also, if you see an adherent of semver bumping the major number all the time, you can choose whether you want to sign up for the churn on subsequent releases or not. Semver seems to encourage backwards compatibility. Not force, but encourage. There's a reason Microsoft and Intel worship backwards compatibility. Your downstream users love backwards compatibility.