skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
or, how to regurgitate the inherent biases used to justify the establishment of of your own philosphy about another one without actually understanding it to be biased...

> Nobody is Equal The world is hierarchical.

Unlike now?

> People of different estates and statuses are widely seen to be "of a different substance."
> Peasants, seen by the nobility, are closer to hounds than the noble's peers.

1st world 2nd world, developing countries, etc.

> The person of the monarch was literally sacred - divine matter.

Not actually true. Rule by divine right was not universally accepted, and didn't imply immunity since this was a 'right' or 'title' under a christian society - the monarch was intended (yes I know) to embody the best virtues of the best families, and if this was not the case, he (or more rarely she) was deposed.

Indeed, having such a strong power structure meant abuses were rampant, and people took advantage.
but even the philosophical basis of the time did not believe this.

> Also, men and women were made of completely different substances.

Clearly much crazier than the present day, where men and women are made of the exact same substance even though they actually aren't but somehow embody distinct 'gender identities' which are devoid of biology and can be applied equally and arbitrarily in differing configurations.

> The idea of a law that applies equally or fairly to everyone was neither acceptable nor practical.

Pretty sure murder was punished with death, as one example. Whether one could get away with it is another thing.. Certainly our courts now are always fair and never manipulated..

> Justice is a modern conceit.

justice under rule of law is an enlightement concept.
justice under law of 'what is right' is more traditional.

I posit that false convictions or incorrect enforcement are both feasible under either model.

> Neither speech nor assembly nor the commonest transactions of life are free.

mass surveillance, etc.

> There are laws for everything, and if there are no laws there are customs, and if there are no customs people will be reactionary and suspicious anyway.

see also voting response to this post, I am sure.

> The medieval world could be shaken by a speech, forever changed by a book, split by theological controversies over a line of text or the intonation of a hymn or the date of a holiday.

And what are the Kardashians up to this week?
I hear so-and-so is planning to invade somewhere-or-the-other..
It's 9/11.

> Displays of magnificence were not only convenient, they were mandatory. Misers were spurned and mocked.

Indeed. This is why monasteries utterly failed in that time period, and dressing simply and repairing ones garments, items, etc. is a common practice in modern consumer society.

> The Church glittered. Cathedrals were pieces of heaven brought to rest upon the earth

John Calvin called, he want's his reformation back. But I guess you were away and on holiday in Vegas, so you missed the memo.

> Patrick says "the ruling class are living like Kardashians" and he's exactly right.

welll well, looks like we agree on something.
If you like dealing with clients (and it sounds like you may be patient enough to be good at doing this), you could try your hand at being a project manager and managing several development contractors for the projects you get from your clients. I built a web development agency like this several years ago.

Basically, you start with the same clients that have been hiring you, then tell them you can assemble a team of developers to help get their project done, and all they have to do is work through you as the main point of contact.

This is easier said than done, of course. Starting with existing clients is a nice way to jump-start this kind of a business, but you'll need to find more clients eventually. There's also a whole arena of skills you'll need to develop in terms of recruiting, account management, and project management too.

This isn't for everyone. But someone with technical skills has a vast advantage in such a role over someone who doesn't, with all other skills being equal.

Just an option to consider as you think about moving out of a technical role.
We may also need people whose thought processes aren't perturbed by stopping to make payments. It's possible that not all transaction costs are captured fully in per-txn fees.
With Google Duplex I'm sure we're heading towards a future where a computer is going to be answering all our customer support calls without us knowing about it.
How Do You Decode a Hapax legomenon? (Also, What’s a Hapax legomenon?)
I suspect the function of design at FB is oriented more toward consistency than beauty.
My first bigger company experience consisted of a COO who felt the need to create seating charts every six months for no apparent reason. My smart ass blurted out, "I have not had a seating chart since kindergarten." Ya I lost that job.
> You can only do that if you're Steve Jobs. The chances of someone ever working on a product that's going to define an industry are infinitesimal.

I don't think you have to necessarily be that influential to have at least part of the same power. In other words, I suspect there are mini-Jobs all over the place. The sad part is I think you can get a long way without much influence at all, as what keeps people around isn't how influential or amazing you are, but how much they perceive you to be, and some people are finely tuned producers of bullshit.
> site that may or may not have the content originally linked two weeks later.

I have a handful of web personal projects which I built and maintain just for fun (no ads on them), pretty light on the incoming traffic, to put it nicely, but a couple of days ago one of them received a spike in traffic originating from Facebook. But looking at the referral got me into a black hole, i.e. the infamous l.php FB page which doesn’t tell me anything about which page linked to my website, in other words totally opposed to the original idea behind the www.

Like I said, I maintain those projects just for fun and I was really looking forward to having a conversation about said project that got linked to with whomever decided to follow said link, but because you can’t peak at all behind FB’s wall that meant that that idea was dead from the very start.
Can we get Family Groups enabled for G Suite accounts? My family is on a G Suite account and it is frustrating being unable to take advantage of any Family features (sharing purchases, music, etc).
My takeaway is a large cloud storage plan that's cheaper than what they had before.
Monadic RDP
Is what you're offering substantially substantive above https://startyourownisp.com?

I won't mince words: you're asking customers to outsource the core pieces of their business (netops, backhaul, billing) that they should be competent in, which puts them in a precarious position if you exhaust your runway, decide to move on to another venture, or are acquired by a less-than-ideal org.

Full disclosure: Muncipal/coop broadband proponent.
> When it hit $18,000 you would still look back at the $2 (then) worth that you spent at $200 / bitcoin and regret it.

This a completely emotional argument, there's no logic behind it, you could also regret spending $2 at Taco Bell instead of on Bitcoin.
Have you tried integrating home-grown services into their workflows? Curious as otherwise it looks pretty good.
ridiculous. It is not difficult to make a determination that enslaving millions of Africans for hundreds of years, and the continued history of oppression against their descendents, has caused real harm which requires reparation.

What is ridiculous is you trying to detract from this history by pointing to an Africa that has _also_ been obviously and inarguably harmed by imperialism. It is absolutely indefensible.
Not entirely sure, but it looks like a new branding of Google Drive. Can't tell from the announcement if there's more to it than that though.

edit: Maybe more of a compilation of google apps for business with drive?
I'm happy to see the 200 GB plan. I use Google Drive instead of Dropbox because I only have ~70 GB of data. Now if I hit the 100 GB limit, I can just pay for an extra 100 GB instead of having to go all the way up to 1 TB. I don't understand why Dropbox doesn't offer more pricing tiers. I'd happily switch since unlike Google Drive, they have an official Linux client.
Show HN: Use Slack with AIM Notification Sounds
This is a great insight. I always knew they didn't recycle well but I never really understood why, given that they are in fact made of plastic.
I like the pricing model, but why couldn't this just be an upgrade to Google Drive?

On second thought, why couldn't this be a $9.99 a month bundle of YouTube Red, 1TB Google Drive, Google Play Music, some Google Voice credits, and add free Google Search?
Steve Jobs and John Carmack are very similar people in a lot of ways.

They're both from lower-class backgrounds, incredibly smart, had serious personality problems as children that could have landed them in prison as adults.

They're both entirely "self-made" and spent their entire lives with (almost) singular focus, to the point of becoming the best in the world at what they chose to work on.

My impression is that John Carmack has avoided being CEO during his career because he knows it would involve him becoming more like Steve Jobs than he wants to be.

Could John Carmack have made an even bigger positive impact in the world if he had gone in Steve Jobs' direction? How much would he have had to change as a person?

I suspect a lot of people would come think of him as an "asshole" if he chose to get his hands dirty with the work of a CEO. Maybe the world would be even richer than it is now but at some cost to John Carmack and (perhaps) others.

In any case, they're both beautiful examples of the greatness and weakness of the partially-evolved primate we call Human.
Hope this leads to iCloud pricing drop.
They introduced a second 1 TB plan for twice the price with questionable added value except for Smart Sync and their offerings with more storage space are only made for teams.

Maybe it is time for me to switch away from Dropbox?

Previously, one of the main advantages of Dropbox was their reliable sync client but this attribute is fading away:
When I do many little file operations on Windows (npm, TeX Live), I expect to see MsMpEng.exe to eat away my CPU cycles. This is somewhat expected from an on demand antivirus scanner and as a Windows user it is somewhat common to whitelist some project folders or temporarily disable the AV before starting certain tasks.
On macOS the same thing happens thanks to Dropbox! Even outside of my Dropbox folder their sync client seems to intercept all file operations and do some CPU-heavy calculations on them. I don't know when this started and what the technical explanation for this is but at some time the Dropbox client on the Mac started to cause a system-wide performance regression.

What is the state of Google One sync client? In the past I read some bad reports about it but after several rebrandings maybe it has matured technically?
I only read the article (and not the podcast, if it's different) but I think their argument misrepresents how the economics of higher education work.

> "Economics 101 suggests that declining demand results in lower prices."

This isn't true for college sticker prices because colleges have perfect price discrimination. Most students don't pay the sticker price; they pay exactly what they "can".

In no other industry do we have such perfect incentives aligned on the provider side to increase prices--

- People who can't afford the higher prices can pay less, through financial aid and scholarship programs.

- To determine what is the "maximum" price you can pay, the student/parent voluntarily provides literally every data point possible. Every tax record, every loan, etc.

- Because of this perfect price discrimination, an upward trend in college costs (that outpaces inflation) is not only reasonable but expected. It's in the interest of the institution to maximize its surplus/profit to the student's upper limit.
Revised 1.k.

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#w / lines
+/u / words
+/t / chars

Counts for words and chars are closer but still short due to inexperience using k.

But it appears the script is now faster than wc.

time -p wc big10.txt

1284570 10956950 64886660 big10.txt
real 2.78
user 2.66
sys 0.12

time -p k 1

1284570
10956830
63602090

real 2.57
user 2.42
sys 0.14
The article doesn't mention that middle management exploded at colleges in the last few years, and those people are going to try to hold on to their jobs no matter how low enrollment gets. http://blogs.wgbh.org/on-campus/2014/2/6/growth-nonacademic-...

Also I think the part about half of tuition at one school going to "discounts and financial aid for freshmen" is misleading. That's not really costing the college money, they're just charging less to begin with.
"There are plenty of capitalists who don't support this kind of degrading, dehumanizing shit"

That may be true, but they're not the ones in charge at Amazon.
It is, thanks for linking.
Favstar will shut down as a result of Twitter’s API changes for data streams
Pretty much.

> it looks like the reason management got pissed was because android users didn't log back in after the bug logged them out

Q4 of 2015 was the first time they reported[1] a negative figure for Monthly Active Users. They had squeaked by with 0% and 1% growth before, but that quarter broke the dam and reported a negative figure. That last few days of 2015 could have been leveraged to annoy the piss out of people with NYE tweet notifications to get users to inadvertently click on a link and squeak their MAU figure up to the flatline they were used to. With the 40m logged out Android accounts, it probably would have been fairly easy to get that to a flatline number with enough notifications.

It's basically hovered around 0-1% ever since, but even then it's only had 2 more quarters of negative quarter over quarter MAU figures reported[2].

Not that it's any excuse. And from the next quarter's results, a lot of users appeared to log back in eventually. Just not in time for that NYE dash to pump up the quarterly numbers. Which is likely a reason management threw such a tantrum to assign blame.

[1] The QoQ% for MAUs in the US: http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/AMDA-2F526X/626329529...

[2] Q2'17 and Q4'17, also for QoQ% for US only: http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/AMDA-2F526X/626329529...
I'm not blaming the victim. Yeah I can say that living in a major metropolitan area with an in demand skill set where it is easy to change jobs. But not everyone has that optionality.
Speaking his .plan files. One heck of a trip down memory lane: https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive/
Two things:

1. Actually read my resume before sending me an email.

2. Don't offer me a pay cut to work at your silly startup.
Who is leading the self-driving car race?
GDPR Compliant Privacy Policies Like Creative Commons
most gas stations store their volatile energy sources underground anyway, so the same for flywheels would make sense
Why not just get a subscription at that point? NYT basic is $180/year so you are just asking for a discount on that, assuming you would plan to read less than a couple hundred articles a year.
They are taking advantage of the ruling and pivoting to straight sports betting. http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/05/fantasy_sport...
I've been using gmail since you needed to have an invite. I just learnt that:

> Two envelopes in a stack means 'mark as read'

from this article. I had no idea what it did before.
I have no doubt I'll get another interview at Google at minimum, the question is if I'll be able to pass it. The answer is a resounding "no" if I couldn't pass it now.
This, and the thread from the parent tweet, is a fun read!
To be completely honest, I also felt a lot of frustration towards recruiters when I first started working on Key Values. (It might be one of the reasons why I built it...)

In the last year though, I've met a wide variety of people with a wide variety of responsibilities, approaches, and backgrounds, yet they all share the same job title. There are certainly awful recruiters out there, but there are also some really fantastic ones! (Just like how there are both awful and fantastic devs out there.)

I've gotten to see both sides of job searching/hiring and it has been eye opening. Both sides have similar complaints of the other, which is why the process looks so darn similar to dating.

My guess is that founders, CTOs, and recruiters would all probably make a list similar to yours:

- Actually try to get to know and understand our company

- Don't use fill-in templates

- Have some actual knowledge of our industry/product

- Don't focus on positions you worked on 10 years ago during
college

- Don't be greedy
Yah first time I saw the prototype I thought, “that’s a good way to lose the initiative on a patrol”. Perhaps a battery powered version with quiet servos will approach. It will also need to understand hand and arm signals to go on patrol.

The idea is incredible. You could greatly extend the range, duration, and lethality of the average patrol (9 men) by taking a few hundred pounds off their backs (or just adding that much in water and ammo to the robot).
Who'd write/pick %G from the man page when they want a year and day and month have their respective d and m letters? Just because it comes first? And it's sparkled with NOTES and a suspiciously long explanation.

> %G The ISO 8601 week-based year (see NOTES) with century as a decimal number. The 4-digit year corresponding to the ISO week number (see %V). This has the
same format and value as %Y, except that if the ISO week number belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used instead. (TZ) (Calculated from
tm_year, tm_yday, and tm_wday.)
> is just an umbrella term

Indeed.

> nobody's confused about what it means.

Are you high?

No seriously, no one understands "IP law", even its practitioners. Every week there's some new and interested case before some court somewhere ferreting out yet another poorly regulated side effect.

Contrast that to, y'know', actual property law. How many cases has SCOTUS taken over the last decade dealing with hard problems about deciding who owns a physical object?
If by "consistency" you mean "function over form" then sure. It's basically brutalist.
You won't be able to decrypt email just by intercepting them
AWS introduces 1-click Lambda functions app for IoT
I've wanted this for forever. Thank you :)
If that account is a true reflection of events - it's really disappointing that engineers got fired (edit: or resulted in engineers leaving).

A company needing hours to identify/fix a minor code issue that affected 40M people is a senior management failure - not engineering.

When I read the initial %G post - I couldn't see how you could/would even test for it - unless you'd heard about such a scenario previously.

Rolling heads in engineering for understandable errors just creates a toxic environment for building anything remotely interesting going forward.
I'm in Texas. I've never experienced this myself, and haven't ever had to apply for unemployment benefits (knock on wood), but I know plenty of people (5-6 in as many years, all with different companies) who have been fired or laid off and none of them has ever received unemployment, even after fighting their former employer on it.

My point is that you should NEVER count on getting it, and especially not with getting in quickly. I got laid off in Michigan and was eventually accepted, but by that point I had burned through all my savings (I was pretty young, so there wasn't much to burn through) and already accepted a job here in Texas. It was a nice bonus, but didn't really help me with my unemployment situation in any way.
I think this is an important consideration. A subjective observer can never be ‘dead’ from their own perspective. So we are left with something like Zeno’s paradox. We can get closer and closer and closer to death, but we will never reach the end. Could this lead to a form of eternal life? Your final living moment, subdivided endlessly, could play out as entire additional lifetimes in your experience.
The mechanics of lens and frames aren’t yet within the reach of 3D printing, unfortunately.

The current system is absurd and unsustainable.

These guys look interesting (met them at a conference; haven’t tried the product though): they use your phone to scan your face, show you what various frames will look like on your face _as you move it_, make custom frames and lenses on demand, and ship them to you. https://www.topologyeyewear.com

The app seems to work pretty well, but as I said I haven’t tried the real product.
Thanks for saying that. Somewhat related, inspired by John Robbin's "Diet for a New America" [1], since 2015 going mostly vegetarian for breakfast/lunch was one of the better ways for me to reduce my footprint.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_for_a_New_America
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That seem really cheap doesn't it?
No we don't. China just imposed a waste import ban.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4164821-waste-management-ef...

What gets me is the smugness of the "green movement" in that they are perfectly fine with ignoring facts such as the energy intensiveness to manufacture wind turbines and solar panels

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2014/11/1411...

And they also conveniently ignore the fact that without the plastics industry, the average quality of life for the average human would be far lower than it is now.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3791860/

Top it all off, imagine the resources that would get used if the world stopped using plastic and went back to 100% paper, cotton, and glass. That's a lot of trees, plant material and sand. The first two would lead to an increase in fertilizers, which would lead to an increase in chemical runoff.

I'm not trying to shill the plastics industry here, I'm just saying that the green movement is rife with bias and hypocrisy, and the situation is far more complicated than anyone give it credit for.
You're wrong. There's nothing nefarious or underhanded about this decision.
All things equal (features that I need from the product) I like to buy high quality things because they make me feel good (they look well built, they give me this warm feeling inside that I got my money's worth). But I realize this is all emotional and rationally I shouldn't, in most cases.

I don't think they pay off long term, at least it seems heavily dependent on the product type. That's because we are playing a lottery game, even if this product breaks in 0.1% cases vs 5% cases for a much cheaper product, we're not buying large numbers of them, we're buying just one and while the probability to break on me is smaller it can still happen and the monetary loss would be much larger than if I were to buy the cheaper product. That is, the warranty doesn't scale with the price (the expensive top quality TV is $2000 and the cheaper one is $500 and both have 1 year of warranty), for the same money I can buy 4 of those $500 TVs and would last at least 4 years (but very likely to find at least one that will work much longer, since I'm buying up to 4 of them).
"... I need a job, and you're hiring, too."
It says that a record number of applicants are applying to each institution but the number that are going to attend is lower.