skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty weak argument. Once you admit that certain views deserve to be taken off the able (astrology, the KKK, Nazis, and "Soviet-style communism," unclear whether Mao-style communism is permissible), you need to have principles about where the line is.

I know a lot of people who would absolutely describe Bannon as similar to Nazis or Soviets, who feel very strongly that his "white nationalist" views are likely to lead to a genocide. It's pretty widely know that the last subject of these "free speech" uproars, Milo Yiannapolous, flirted pretty openly with Nazi-style beliefs--and that Bannon was the one who gave him a platform in the first place.

If you disagree with Bannon being put in that category, you have a responsibility to at the very least explain why he's not there. Otherwise you're just cultivating willful ignorance, deliberately refusing to engage with others' arguments. Creating your own echo chamber, one could say.
Exactly. In fact in practice they do an even worse than random job since many people pick non-random numbers like birthdates or the number of kids they have. Any uniform purchasing strategy would probably have better EV from not buying any of the most popular combinations.
For anyone wondering what he caught:
"The resulting bulk of around 2,200 photographs documents both the every-day life and change of Manhattan, including the historic event of the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001"

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiner_Leist
I’m not sure Amazon really had much of a PR department back in 2005 when they launched the service and named it after a chess-playing “automaton” that had a human hidden in it to do all the thinking. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk
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> Google cache links aren't served from `amp.yoursite.com`

That's not where things are going, according to your own source from the previous comment:

> Our approach uses one component of the emerging Web Packaging technologies—technologies that also support a range of other use cases. This component allows a publisher to sign an HTTP exchange (a request/response pair), which then allows a caching server to do the work of actually delivering that exchange to a browser. When the browser loads this “Signed Exchange”, it can show the original publisher’s web origin in the browser address bar because it can prove similar integrity and authenticity properties as a regular HTTPS connection.

So, the content will be served from Google Cache with the original publisher's URL in the address bar.

> this update _doesn't_ hide `amp.`; only `m.` and `www.`

It's Google, who decides what and when it wants to add to its browser's list of "trivial subdomains". Especially, when the websites with "amp." subdomains will become common.
The original comment has a point about not raising the quality of service in NYC but the consistency of Uber across states and even countries is a huge value add. I have been able to quickly get a car in less populated areas of the USA than NYC or SF (the suburbs of Portland, Maine for instance) without having to guess at or research the quality of local car services.

I have requested Ubers in almost a dozen different countries and been able to easily get a car without worrying about language barriers or being pressured into increased tourist prices. I actually deleted Uber due to the concerns about their company culture and ended up re-downloading their app because it's so helpful for international travel.
I don't think it's possible to have an actual allergy to git, so some training in that area would probably help their productivity. Make sure he knows how to use git, and that he knows your organization's policy in regards to commits. You can set a policy like "just commit everything at the end of the day" and provide a shell script to do that. Don't make git the wedge that isolates you from your employee; make it a productivity tool.

> take it from him to do it from the ground up in 2 days

People that you employ to work for you will ALWAYS do things differently and probably more slowly than you. I have never had someone working for me, asked them to do X, and then gotten a changelist to review that was exactly what I would have done myself. Your employee is not a clone of you, he's an independently-thinking person with different assumptions and experience. (Certainly, if something is WRONG, don't accept it, but it's different... that's the reality of having more that one person working on a project.)

Also... there is no really good way to estimate how productive someone is, including yourself. You could be way above average and nobody that works for you will ever be as fast as you. You also have to expect that someone with less experience than you is going to be slower. For you, 2 days is applying the sum of your domain expertise and X years of a software engineering career to a cookie-cutter problem. For someone that works for you, that could be a month of acquiring career skills necessary to solve problems in the future and some subset of your problem domain experience, and then 2 days of applying those skills. You do enough of those "my boss could do this in 2 days" projects over many months, and then you're the guy that does it in 2 days. That's what experience is.

> complains about errors of others that don't even affect him

Probably worth having a discussion about. I will point out that you're kind of doing this here and in a public forum, hoping that your employee never finds out.
>> wouldn't they just laugh

I laughed. Back in 1998 I attended a lecture that I though was about evidence of aliens messing with our DNA. What I got was intelligent design as proof that the bible was literally correct. Most laughed, but many did not. Students believe what they are told. Not all of them all of the time, but a significant percentage will believe anything they hear so long as it reinforces their world view.
Link to Boyan's recent appearance on the JRE: https://youtu.be/J145vnEZX6w
You can do it, but with SPIF and DKIM checking, it might be hard to avoid detection, at least for some domains. How good is Gmail at detecting this?
Meanwhile the people you're mockingly referring to here are running your country. Just this fact must be enough for you to tolerate what they have to say. If not, you're demonstrating exactly the problem this article is talking about.
While true, that issue arose because you restricted their types. Without the type annotations it would have worked just fine, because the (+) function is polymorphic in the Num typeclass, and because literals are overloaded such that the literal 1 will have type Fractional a when type inference calls for it.

So in ghci:

Prelude> let x = 1 + 1.0
Prelude> :t x
x :: Fractional a => a
Prelude> x
2.0
Imagine I hijack a treasury printing press and print myself $10 trillion every year, but I just shove it all in a storage unit and never touch it. That won’t affect prices at all.
The thing is that this won't clean up anything. It is terrible for ecology, because it acts like a big net. It will kill plankton and other life. The long booms will (and have in testing) fail in storms. It also doesn't go deep enough to even collect most of the plastic.

I get that magical silver hammer solutions are attractive, but this is a global problem that will take actual work to solve.
Automation certainly isn't solely to blame. Our estimate of productivity is wrong.

https://qz.com/1269172/the-epic-mistake-about-manufacturing-...
There's a theory that Musk is behaving oddly on purpose to manipulate the stock price.

If it's cheaper because everyone thinks he's a loon, it makes it less expensive for him to buy up shares and take it private again.
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> They sponsor firefox and safari, so have exclusive rights on the default settings though.

"They pay to be the default so no one else can" is kind of a silly argument. If Yahoo had paid more and/or hadn't had terrible results, it probably still would be the default.
We've banned this account for trolling. Also I hear Uganda is pretty cool.
Looks like this a known issue : https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/763

although one of the proposed solutions involves having the contract maintain a list of owners. The list being maintained by ... the owner...<doh>:

https://github.com/christianlundkvist/simple-multisig/blob/m...

It seems to me that you'd need to extend Ethereum such that contracts were created with multiple owners, by having each owner sign the creation txn. Once created, contracts could subsequently permit additions to the owner list by quorum logic implemented within the contract.
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I'm sure there are better sources, but see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply#Link_with_inflati...

The intuition is that if you hand me a bunch of cash, and I stash it in my mattress, there is no inflation until I begin to spend it.
We call those idiots.
Anyone have tips for getting up on the waitlist? I wonder if they are prioritizing researchers.
We already know that a capable quantum computer can do a lot of things faster than a classical computer and it's undoubtedly going to happen within the next couple decades if not sooner. I think he's just planning ahead and riding the bleeding edge technology.

Edit: Thanks everyone for pointing out a flaw in my opinion. For anyone actually interested in delving into the discussion of whether or not quantum computing is faster than classical computing https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/24943/is-there-...
If the EU continues down the regulatory path, the UK could become the startup capital of Europe if they market correctly
> We can stop calling it car sharing.

I was referring to Uber/Lyft pools in that paragraph: "Share a car to work with some of your colleagues, who happen to live near you, sure." Agreed, ride sharing is a much misused term.

I can't give an informed opinion on just how profitable driving for Uber/Lyft is right now. Everything I've read on the subject has been (potentially) biased, devoid of real data, or since shown to be incorrect. I'd love to read studies on this if there are some available. I do think the best solution is to make as much data on profitability available to drivers, so the market can correct itself if necessary, like you suggest.

However I don't think the ride hailing companies are blind to the economics of their markets. If there is a problem with the economics, that's an existential risk and they're not going to be sitting on their hands. If we're comparing ride-hailing with traditional car services, it's the ride-hailing side which have a whole lot of knobs they can twiddle to make the market work, and they're adding more all the time (e.g.: Uber/Lyft Pool can go a long way toward mitigating driver "opex" - minimizing those empty seats, like any efficient transport operator.)

I just don't think the efficiency of centralized maintenance is really that big a deal. Even if we ignore all the other factors at play, if that's the make-or-break feature Uber could easily provide centralized mechanical support for their fleet. They already have driver centers in each city they operate in.
If you build it, they will come. More seriously, once it becomes obvious how it will be used, they will no longer be ahead. A good counterpoint though is what if they build it based on current designs which require some radically different setup than the future designs that will be worth it.
Emphasis, mine:

>Slat replies that there is not an either-or solution. “We need to do both,” he says. “We need to intercept plastic before it becomes ocean plastic. And we need to clean up what is out there.” Eriksen says that plastic on the high seas is mostly lost or discarded fishing gear. Fishermen could be paid or encouraged to collect it, which he says has worked reasonably well in the North Sea. The rest will eventually break down.

From your link. The last part is why we should get rid of it now, because it breaks down into the micro-plastics that marine life inevitably ends up consuming.
I was fascinated as a kid about "Una calle a través del tiempo" (a street through the ages), which is a very similar concept but with a first-plane of a street (and some general details as a background). Google images reveals some details with this title.
It has some of the main criticisms. Here's another one.

http://www.deepseanews.com/2016/06/the-ocean-cleanup-deploye...

https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-05-30/two-proposals-clean-o...
True, but why do we need to assume that all code should be written by web/javascript developers? Software is a big space.
Please write in your own words, and preferably from your own e-mail address! I can't see getting a bazillion of copies of the same message being anything but annoying and I wouldn't be surprised if they block the sender of such tools.

I wrote to them last time this was voted on and expected zero replies (partly due to the late hour), but actually got 2 out of 13, one of which indicated they had actually taken a few seconds to read some of my words. I later read they had received "thousands" of messages on the subject. I can't imagine most of them getting anything close to even this small amount of attention.
>the most recent victim has been reported by other passengers for suspicious/inappropriate behaviors before, but was not taken off the platform
Yes these things are often take out of context - but it doesn't matter that much that he's lucid and reasonable - the 'headline' will be 'Musk smokes pot in live broadcast'.

It's just a bad bit of PR from a guy who's usually on point.
yes, my family is from them, more people go out to dinner, less drinking and driving, more people are in bars, etc.
As much as I agree with your sentiment that shareholder value shouldn't be the only focus of companies, you can't reason with companies in complete isolation of their environment.

The grimmer reality is that companies compete with one another, and customers - be them consumers, businesses, non-profits, or administrations. They all mind things like cost and quality to a degree, so you need to constantly improve your processes, and indeed automate, to stay in business.
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Your very premise is fraudulent: "You wanted to talk to this bullshit person some software invented, you will talk to me instead."

No, no I won't.

The bot created the resume under your direction: you're not presenting the resume as a science project or submitting it to a Turing Test, you're submitting it to an HR person, or hiring manager, as a potential candidate, and wasting their time. It's just rude.
Educated or not, framing is an important part of any arguement. Time and attention is limited so who is allowed to speak in a venue and how long they're given is an implicit endorsement. There's an appeal to authority there in all future arguments ("well I spoke here, what have you done") and regardless of how much education you have refuting a false claim is always an order or magnitude harder than making one.

It's not so much protecting people, is ensuring their mental energies can be put toward productive measures rather than swimming through falsehoods for the sake of it.
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Smartcar + Hackbright Academy are hosting a connected car hackathon in SF this month! Sign up here: http://bit.ly/hacksmart2018

Hackers will be building on the Smartcar API, and we'll have a Tesla onsite for you to test your apps in real time!
It's not just automation it's also digitalization which removes a lot of middle layers which used to be part of the cost. A much better to think about this is from the perspective of technology.

The music industry is the best example of what happens.

Basically, things that used to require all sorts of manufacturing and distribution layers are now more or less compressed into a single digital device.
This sounds like a wild false equivalence.
> I've been thinking for a while that there should be a movement to allow people running mailservers at their home again.

This will be really hard, because unless you're willing to give home users actual permanently assigned static IP addresses and treat them like medium sized businesses (IP space SWIP to customer, etc), any given /27 to /23 sized v4 DHCP pool of residential customers is going to have a ton of abuse coming from clueless people running infected routers, virus/worm/trojan infected home PCs, etc on it.

Getting the average residential ISP to do proper rDNS for your IP address is impossible in many places.

Therefore when recipient SMTPd are scoring the IP space reputation of your residential netblock, your home mail server is going to be mixed in with all the shit.
Ya, it's kind of like the worry people have about Amazon sending "regular" people to make deliveries.

Gasp! They'll know where you live!

Which is just nonsensical. They don't know who you are and don't need a delivery job to find a house to rob.
There's also a .net implementation here - https://github.com/WireMock-Net/WireMock.Net
On the one hand, I find it revolting that the language will let me do that.

On the other hand, why would I ever want to do that? It's not something one might do by accident. It's along the line of C letting you say

idx[arr]

instead of

arr[idx]

It's unfortunate that it is possible, but there is no good reason to ever do this unless one is trying to confuse one's enemies.
If I understood him correctly: if the money never actually moves, that is, enters the economy properly, then it’d have no effect on it. ie a savings account (to you, personally) is the same as never having received the money in the first place, until the day its spent. If you never spend it, then it may as well not existed.

In the same fashion, the printing of money has no effect if no one ever sees it. The more people who deal with it, the larger an effect it will have
Yes, Musk has no experience running a company this big -- he's clearly bursting at the seams -- so it's not surprising that he's not good at picking people. He's also known to be obsessive and I don't think anyone has ever described him as a great team player, so it's not surprising that he picks terrible teams.
So then short the company and make your money? Why do you have to publicly trash talk them so hard if your analysis has merit?
The only thing immature is the reaction, it's not a professional setting and he's not abusing the substance. It's purely just down to shock media reaction. Nobody mentioned the whiskey they were drinking either but that doesn't make a headline.
The argument is that Didi made it easier for this alleged killer to get his victim into a vulnerable position (as a presumably backseat passenger in his car).

Didi allegedly did not respond to multiple negative comments about this guy's behavior, nor did they expose these comments to future passengers, which might have flagged him as a threat.

If not for Didi, or if they had been more safety-minded as a company, then this guy would not have had the opportunity to rape and murder this woman, allegedly. That's the argument.
It's probably worse than 90%. The major anti-virus programs appear to track your browsing history too.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/avg-privacy-policy-browser-s...

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/antivirus-tracking-youd-surpri...
I just love the apple response mail to the guy who disclosed this to them:

"We have forwarded your feedback to the appropriate team. Someone from that team will investigate and follow up as needed with the developer.

Because we can only share communications about an app with its developer, you will not receive updates about this matter."

It's the perfect email, they can do whatever they want, and they have an excuse why they don't need to account for it - they could let the app do whatever it want, demand it to change it's behavior or throw it out, but the one who spent considerable time researching this would never know.
Isn't Qwant also Bing inside plus additional stuff, just like DDG?
They're executives, dude. All the hard work has been delegated, so they just need to check in from the yacht once a week. /s
I don’t expect Apple to catch behavior. What I would expect is that an app on the App Store never be given permission to a users whole home directory - only a sandboxed area for the app to store files. If a user wants to open files somewhere else, the app should open a file picker where the user explicitly allows access to that file.
it's a fairly different language. Haskell is lazy by default, Ocaml isn't. The Haskell type system makes use of side-effects explicit, and Ocaml does not. They're only similar in the sense that they're both functional languages.

Ocaml's module system is definitely worth looking at especially in contrast to Haskell's typeclass approach if you want to compare both languages.
Not sure analogies are strictly helpful here. Like, alternatively: Say there's a knife being pulled through your guts. Should you prioritise stopping the bleeding or trying to arrest the progress of the knife? The analysis here needs to be more quantitative: what are the returns on various mitigation and cleanup methods, and what do the respective rates of change imply in terms of comparative environmental impact over a fixed period of time?
That's actually incorrect. Many people believe a quantum computer may be more powerful than a classical computer, but that is definitely not proven and plenty of people also believe that may not be true.
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What are the tax benefits?
> OpenPGP ... is only adopted by the most hard core of nerds.

This seems pretty inaccurate.

* Lots of software projects sign their releases with PGP.

* Almost all Linux distributions sign their software with PGP. If you use Linux, your security relies critically PGP.

* Github has support for PGP, and I see people use it.

* My random server hoster happens to sign all their emails with PGP.

You could claim that all these systems are run "by the most hard core of nerds", but at that point the statement loses its relevance.
Full employment is not a goal. Our society's goal is to ensure people have access to goods and services. Unfortunately, that's hard to optimize for, so we optimize for full employment as a proxy.
I like the analogy of "voluntary man in the middle attack", but I do agree with Google's push for HTTPS. In fact, I'm also a proponent for DNS over HTTPS. Whatever we can do to eliminate / reduce "involuntary" man in the middle attacks.
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No, it shouldn't. The goal of society is to maximize access to goods and services. Employment is just a simpler proxy to optimize for, but there's a difference between the two.
Ignoring the cost of building a giant floating recycling facility and providing it with amenities required to have people work/live on it, there's the difficulty of actually keeping it intact in violent ocean Typhoons.
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