skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once you accept and identify as a label then you are no longer part of the middle. That is one of the main arguments against race quotas and affirmative action. It taints the whole idea of equality and neutrality.
Haha, yeah, I just read through that entire list. I'd say that more than half of those seemed very reasonable and civilized to me. But the people complaining about penis.js seemed to have completely missed the point of that whole project.

I then started browsing through my own code to see if anything seemed offensive. One thing that caught my eye: in SPI communications, there is very clearly a "master" and a "slave". I have programmed many SPI-related code... So now I wonder, what was the original complaint in calling Redis servers "master" and "slave"? That terminology is very, very common in computers.

EDIT: I guess this is the original complaint?: https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/3185

EDIT #2: I guess I'm late to this conversation: http://antirez.com/news/122
Wait...how many years of free education do you need to learn "how to think"?
I think the point is to be able demonstrate
the ability to implement high-level abstractions,
in a very composable way,
that doesn't cost on performance.
Welp, so much for “PHP has JIT too.”
I traveled alone a lot and never been that person. Then, I'm an introvert so it's not natural for me anyway.
Indeed survivorship bias - its survived for 2000 years as a valuable asset while nothing else has come close.

Its not accidental though as you allege...gold is pretty. People were originally fascinated with it because it looked nice. So it did have some unique founding qualities distinguishing it from other commodity metals. It just also happened to be hard to find and impossible to make.

You are wrong about gold being useless in a disaster. On 9/11 many gold traders in NYC stayed open...they understood the whole point of gold trading was to hedge against a disaster. History is full of countless tales of gold being accepted everywhere there is greed.

As to investing gold in a fiat - most hardcore gold bugs would tell you this is wrong and you should be holding the physical metal...don't even put it in a vault.

No matter what happens in society, an ounce of gold will always buy you a nice suit, a good meal and a room for the night.
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Ya, I see.
And Google and Wayback machine have not yet cached the issued url content.
Thank you for understanding the thesis of my comment. It's already getting downvoted unfortunately. The most absurd thing to me is how is this kind of rhetoric acceptable at a company sponsored event? It is obviously politically motivated and totally biased. One speaker nearly started crying about Hillary losing. How is that fair to employees at Google that are conservative?
The question wasnt even about "vapers". The qurstion was about underage vapers.

I've known vapers that would pick up a pack for the blizzard when they expect to get snowed in for days on end. Some of them quit vaping (and smoking) by the end of digging themselves out.

Ive known vape shop owners who were regular daily cigarette smokers in between vaping 0 nic. That's the most damaging thing possible - give that sticky tar glycerin to attach to in new ways. Give that glycerin new ways to get stuck in tar. And layer it up!

I may not like it, but I respect Britain's cutoff for tobacco leaf products. If you were born 2000 or later, you will only ever get to buy vapes. Not cigars, not cigarettes, not hookah nor dojah. They're banned from you.

Where the US is close to banning the cleaner nicotine option (salt nic vapes aside), Britain chose to ban the stuff that seriously clogs lungs.
It is a case of social etiquette. Do you go over to your neighbor's garage and use their mower without asking?

Reroute their water into your system?

Siphon off their power? (Which embedded cryptocurrency miners and unwelcome analytics and data gathering are a perfect example of.)

Or use their cellular data, for that matter?

I realize there may be a lot of dislike of this ethos as it may be seen as leaving money on the table, but fundamentals are only fine to skip over when you actually show a credible mastery of them in the first place.

The tech industry's ability to ask before doing has been far from proven. It's only now that people have started to understand enough to realize just how much has been going on out of sight.
What these studies show is that kids who are likely to try smoking are also more likely to try vaping. That's it. That's the whole thing. It's correlation, and doesn't speak in any way to anything like a "gateway drug" phenomenon - and that has also been recognised in studies that bother to consider the possibility.
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I'm not saying you can't have fun. But I do think that it's important to recognize that your fun can impose costs on others. Like I said in my original comment, I don't mind in the slightest that antirez is experimenting with visualizing complexity theory on the command line. What I object to is that he's shipping this as part of redis. Why? It just seems like it adds maintenance burden for no purpose.
It almost certainly is an evolutionary dead end. That is why it is equally almost certainly not determined genetically.
Ah yes, the ol "but China is building a digital dystopia so we should too" argument. A classic.
I was going to ask the same. I can listen while drawing, or playing games. but if I'm trying to do something like reading a document or writing a letter/email I find that one of the my "channels" just shuts off... So either I dont register the audio or my reading/writing goes to shit and i find myself stopping or re-reading the same line 15 times....
WordPress is probably the most deployed php framework and it is extremely exploited.
> who don’t realize that “just be yourself” is terrible advice to anyone asking questions on how to be social.

To me that sounds like - "how do I learn to drive?" - "Just be yourself!" or "how do I train to run a marathon?" - "Just be yourself!". Yeah, thanks for the advice.
The easy social explanation for this is that people who vape are more likely to be around smoking anyways, and thus are far more likely to bum a cig off someone in a party than your average 19 year old. The only clinical result you can pull from this is 'people who vape are more likely to smoke >1 cigarette a year', and the fact that they couldn't produce a more significant result with any sort of correlation tells you the paucity of the data.
Related: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404
Where do people like you come from? 20-year grudges, personal biases and so much hate/spite for something you know literally nothing about and would never use... Why?

Chromebooks are great. Windows 10 is great. My Macbook is great. We have TONS Of great computing devices and choices today. Use an iphone, use an android, use a stick phone, i don't give a crap.

What i do get appalled at is all this hate, misinformation and projection of personal biases and preference as "matter of fact".. its bull crap and ya know it.
Bribery. I'm only half joking.

There's lots of dark international money slushing around out there that happens to make it into someone's wife's friend's company.
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Is Libkedin useful for people in non-growing industries? Is it only useful for industries that have recruiters?
No GP, but [1] How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an interview at Reddit) may be of interest to you.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17110385
Why?

Anyways instead of paper ballots, use silver tokens with as many boxes as there are candidates.

Then just weigh the boxes and don’t bother counting.

(A 1oz silver token would cost $30 to fake)
It's easy to grandstand when you know nothing you say will ever some to pass.
> You could also store bitcoins, or bricks of drugs, or all sorts of things that carry value in the current climate

Thats true and every investor, even a disaster investor, should diversify. Except for cryptocurrency...they are barely useful during peacetime. In a disaster, people will want something they can put in their hands.

Most of your responses seem to suggest that there are people who are so crazy about gold that it is all they own. Only in James Bond movies...
Right, anyone who finds this offensive is implicitly agreeing that removing unfactual results would skew the results to be politically biased.
>if Chinese folks start publishing in Mandarin

They may, and then it will be like during the cold war where Soviets published in Russian and we'd be lucky if someone translated that into English. If it were to happen today, someone would make a business out of translating the publications --maybe even crowdsource the translations.
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That's not the point. The point is the ad is clearly marked and separate from the content you want to see. The other type of ad is known as "selling out." Where a legit content creator abuses their viewers trust in them to put out false information for financial gain. I would much rather have the first option. Although I think a paid tier with no ads is respectable as well.
You just moved the goalposts from looking for "a Fermi estimate" to looking for a correct answer.
Georgia's election administrators are simply wrong.

Printing more ballots is utterly feasible. The artwork is already prepared for absentee ballots. If the current vendor can't or won't, there are plenty of other printers who will happily take Georgia money and get the job done.

There are plenty of new ballot scanners. My own jurisdiction uses high speed document scanners and matching software.

There are two real logistic issues.

Poll site-based tabulators vs central count. The gold standard is paper ballots cast at poll sites and tabulated when the polls close. But election integrity activists would likely prefer paper ballots tabulated downtown (just like postal ballots) over continued use of the touchscreens.

Georgia has a lot of work to recover institutional knowledge for handling paper ballots. Procedures, training, and so forth.

Fortunately, all but 4 other states have returned to paper ballots. Georgia can just ask Alabama or North Carolina for their play books.
> Providing food is meaningful, providing shelter is meaningful, extracting raw resources is meaningful, taxation and welfare are meaningful, taxation and government services are meaningful. I could go io but that covers the basic point.

I'm amazed to read that you don't think these things don't change the world. And more so that you don't think these things are political!

Agriculture is political. Land development is political. Resource extraction is political. Taxation is political.

As GP said:

> there are hidden, unstated political motives at work.
I find it helpful to remove cultural origins and model it purely based on opportunity, and it makes a lot of sense. In this instance, take away Chinese / American from the article and reanalyze it with the kind of education they received.

The fact is that scientific research has extremely poor returns on investment, with high specialization requirements and little opportunity for wealth, fame, or impact. Ground-breaking discovery in niche fields tends to favor one dimensional specialists over generalists, whereas in pretty much any other industry, being multi-talented can be extremely impactful.

In a wealthy country where most people are educated to be multi-talented, it's suboptimal for them to go into research because there are so many better opportunities. Whereas if you're a country with a billion people but doesn't have the luxury to educate people to be multi-faceted, if you have the talent to be a researcher, it's a great opportunity for you.

An illustration in RPG terms:

well educated, multi-faceted individual (can be from the US or China, doesn't matter)

communication: 70/100

networking: 70/100

leadership: 70/100

scientific discovery: 70/100

(with science aptitude)

communication: 70/100

networking: 70/100

leadership: 70/100

scientific discovery: 90/100

A not-as-well educated person

communication: 40/100

networking: 50/100

leadership: 30/100

scientific discovery: 40/100

with science aptitude:

communication: 40/100

networking: 50/100

leadership: 30/100

scientific discovery: 90/100

It's just a lot more common to find the latter in a country with 1.3 billion people, and the former in the richest country in the world.

For the latter example, being good at science opens up opportunities for them. But for the well educated, they probably have a lot better opportunities within their reach. And with the prevailing metric of a good researcher being novel discoveries or breakthroughs, they both have an equal chance to make contribution to the field, so there's no incentives for the well educated person (Chinese or American) to pursue research.
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>But the Challenger didn't explode because of Silly Shirt Friday. It exploded because management didn't respect their engineers.

That's a myth. I encourage you to read Challenger Launch Decision, by Diane Vaughan. Challenger didn't explode because management disrespected their engineers. Challenger exploded because the engineers themselves normalized deviance. They would launch, observe anomalous results, note that the system hadn't failed, and then expand the envelope of normality to include the anomalous results. At no point did the team working on the SRBs say, "No, we should stop the Shuttle program and redesign the booster," not even to other engineers. Repeatedly, in interviews, engineers expressed surprise and shock at the failure, because they thought that the problem of O-ring blow-by was a minor problem that could be fixed with tweaks. Indeed, on many an occasion, they thought that they had fixed it, only for the issue to recur in the future.

It's easy and comforting for us engineers to think that Challenger was due to myopia on the behalf of NASA management. But it's wrong. Challenger was the result of cascade failure of rationality all throughout the NASA organization, and the engineers are as culpable as the managers.
> i know that i wouldn't want to be around such a person for long.

I dunno. I don't mind picking apart holes in a show or two (I watch a bunch of shows and most of them are full of silly holes, that's par for the course) and having some balanced discussion. Long monologues though are probably not good at parties, and definitely no celebrity talk.
> Gold is valuable because we decided it's valuable

Only one notable historical figure thought the opposite - Lenin wanted to line urinals with it.

Otherwise the perception of gold's value is practically universal and enduring.

> The fact that our current culture says gold is valuable because in the past it had been repeatedly valuable and therefor it will be valuable in the future is an illogical statement

greed is not logical! gold endures because greed endures.
I think we're seeing the formation of "Morlocks" and "Eloi". Most people can't conceive of or understand the potential power of FB, Google, etc. to form, in effect, a new mode of government.

Even CA is mostly a "red state" outside of the cities.

Speaking to hypocrisy, I haven't watched the video (yet) but I'm sure the "lower classes" of Google will not be represented in the attendees. The service staff at Google are largely made up of a different proportion of races than the technical staff. Fraternizing is discouraged and, in fact, the service staff can get in trouble for it. It's the kinder, gentler racism of the well-to-do left.
This quote stuck out: "...You don't have real diversity on a college campus when you have a campus full of people who look different but think alike." — Peter Thiel
Note that the power grant to Congress to establish copyright was in the original Constitution, while freedom of speech is protected by the First Amendment, which - as the name says - is an amendment, which, by definition, changes the existing powers.

The legal argument for that, rather, is that all rights are implicitly limited, and that, depending on how important the right in question is, how small the limitation is in scope, and how important the social objective that the limitation is intended to enable, it can be constitutional - with courts being the arbiters of what's important and what's small. The fact that the colonies had slander and libel laws on the book even as they passed the Constitution is often cited as a justification for this point of view.

I think it's a case of parallel construction. The original First Amendment was not a problem to libel and slander because it simply didn't apply to the states at all, only the federal government, same as all others until they were incorporated via 14A. It does, however, clearly conflict with copyright, and there's nothing in the text of the Constitution that resolves that conflict one way or the other, or even sets clear guidelines on how you'd do so. So what we have in practice is mostly judicial precedent - and most of it is constructed out of necessity to make things work (i.e. "we've always done it this way", or "bad things happen if we don't do it this way"). So you have a patchwork of concepts like fair use, creative expression etc.

The most convincing argument that I have heard is that freedom of speech is about freedom to express ideas, not freedom to use specific words to express those ideas. Since copyright only applies to the latter, it's not an infringement. I'm not sure I fully buy it, but it does highlight an important distinction. Stuff like fair use stems from that, to enable you to express an idea that's criticism of someone else's words.

Here's an interesting read on the subject:

https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...
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It's Microsoft. They been doing this sort of thing for at least 25 years. They haven't changed, even if they've fooled some people. It's part of their DNA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
Then everyone will just learn Chinese，like everyone learnt English before.
Many good students move to U.S. I think this is the problems China needs to think about.
Are you the creator of C++?
Huh. Insufferable asshole in 2018 also an insufferable asshole in 1996, news at 11!
It's enough to get far enough inland that it's no longer that dangerous, which is why I said "worst effects."

I've never heard of an evacuation order 100 miles inland.
I see what you're saying, and question the assumption that a higher percentage of Hack libraries will be high quality.

You raise a valid concern, and also this issue cuts both ways.

The FB libs have a good chance of being well-maintained. This will be true for PHP and Hack, alike.

The rate of library neglect will be approximately equal between the two languages.

The real question is: What does the data say about project / library neglect? I'd guess neglect rates may correspond inversely with language popularity.

Languages with fewer people writing code in them will have more opportunity for abandonment and neglect.

Who wrote and is relying on the library seems like a better candidate for predictor of proper future maintenance compared to language flavor.
Let's discuss climate change then, because despite that being a field reinforced by science it is also one that is considered highly political in today's environment. Can you claim you're politically neutral if you are not willing to listen to people who deny climate change?

The problem with attempting to force a politically neutral stance is that it allows politics to invade where it shouldn't. Your logic is fundamentally flawed.
A year or so ago, one of our devs got some questions on our test replaced with things of the type the maintenance team occasionally gets asked, instead of making it solely about development and bugfixing, though twisted a bit to be feasible in an interview test (for example, the source data they'd work on was something like a 3 MB JSON file instead of a database).

Questions involved figuring out how to manipulate that data, and since not a single one could be done solely with a library call it said a lot about their ability to think through a problem, as well as their knowledge of things like data structures and efficiency. The latter questions even built off of the earlier ones, as if the stakeholder came back with more questions.

With a reasonable knowledge of the language you were using, those questions would only take around 15-30 minutes total, and each answer (as long as you did correctly build on the previous ones) was only ~5-10 lines of code.
None of those is a fraction as powerful as Google, which is an $800 billion goliath with multiple hyper entrenched monopolies. Those monopolies entirely change the equation and expectations.

Search, Android, YouTube. All three of those are either monopolies or close to it. YouTube by itself is worth a solid 20 times what the NY Times is.

Breitbart is maybe worth $100m, a top 100 US Web site with a couple million readers.

The NY Times is a $3.6b business, with maybe 10x the daily readership of Breitbart (and a much more lucrative readership of course).

If those two want to duke it out with each other, fine. Just like with Fox or MSNBC. None of them possess monopoly positions, much less in extraordinarily large, critical information pathways, as with search, YouTube and Android.

If Microsoft had acted in 1999-2000, during its peak Windows monopoly power, to use the desktop + IE in some manner to try to throw the Bush v Gore election in favor of Bush, the Democrats would have more than lost their minds over that. It would have been considered an extraordinary abuse of monopoly power by Microsoft. Google is going to soon find out they've unleashed a political genie that is never going back into the bottle.
I'ld also like to see what someone great at using templates could come up with.
Three honest questions:

1. Is there a place that is deregulated enough that it can be used as an example?

2. If so, does that place significantly outperform all others?

3. If so, what holds back the people in more regulated areas from adopting that type of system?
Bacteria absolutely care -- or at least we humans care about how it affects bacteria.

Political policy determines how the FDA regulates (or doesn't regulate) drugs, including antibiotics. Political policy determines if taxpayer dollars are spent getting antibiotics to those who need them, or on missiles instead. Political policy determines whether doctors are incentivized to minimize antibiotic prescriptions (and prevent superbugs) or not.

The idea that anything isn't political is unfortunately naive. It's like saying the air we breathe isn't important because we don't notice it.

If we're talking about a company, everything from the regulations it follows, to the ways it negotiates with labor, to the taxes it pays, the liability it passes on to consumers (or doesn't)... it's all political, because it's all determined/constrained by political policy.

Saying that workplaces should be non-political is a political statement, and by definition a conservative one because it embraces the status quo.

You can't escape politics even if you'd like to, and if you're the citizen of a democratic country then one can easily argue it's your civic duty not to escape it, though of course you're free to neglect that duty.
OK, but the NSF research budget (7 billion) is small potatoes compared to the NIH (37 Billion per year), and DOD (70 Billion). And it's about the same as the Department of Energy (7 Billion, not including the national labs).

There is plethora of other Federal agencies that fund research, such as the EPA, NIST, NASA, Federal Aviation Administration, Food and Drug Administration, even the Bureau of Land Management is in on the act. The VA funds research in prosthetics. The Health and Human Services department (including CDC) funds research.

As best I can tell, total Federal outlays for research are about 120 Billion. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ap_18_...