skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m not seeing the connection here between “antitrust” and the alleged discrimination against conservative views. How does alleged discrimination become an antitrust issue

Discrimination regarding expression and ideology/belief becomes an anti-trust issue when you're dealing with platforms, broadcasters, or otherwise distribution systems in cases where the company has a monopoly.

The NY Times and Fox News may discriminate on the basis of political ideology, precisely because they do not have a monopoly on news. If one of them were the monopoly, it would be acting as a censorship extension of the US Government so long as it were allowed to keep that position. The actions of the monopoly would be the actions of a government censoring speech and expression by extension.

Why? Because there is no alternative. At that point it's not merely a company with a bias, it's censorship.

The government is given power to deal with monopolies, via anti-trust laws among countless other agency controls. They're often the only entity powerful enough to be capable of removing a monopoly (consumers realistically can't get rid of eg cable or airline monopolies without the assistance of the government).

Google and Facebook both have monopolies directly dealing with expression and distribution of information.

Facebook's social monopoly is a multi-faceted monopoly that is extremely entrenched. Its actions to block speech are de facto censorship accordingly. In the course of censoring, it's inherently discriminating. It matters because they're the giant monopoly in social, with WhatsApp, FB, Instagram.

Google has a global monopoly in a distribution platform (Android), a search engine monopoly, and YouTube (a broadcast and distribution platform). There are no serious, large competitors for what YouTube does, it's overwhelmingly dominant. Its monopoly in that segment of video is every bit as strong as its search engine monopoly.

If Google, using its search engine monopoly, decides to remove all/most search results for the left or right politically, then it's a clear anti-trust abuse (to use a glaring example). It's using its monopoly position to censor. Only the government can deal with monopoly abuse with any consequential immediacy. For example in a case where a monopoly like Google or Facebook attempts to throw an election by using its monopoly power.
Make it simple, make it work, then add complexity.
I think the "preying on fish" part is key here not "scientifically observed." A captive mantis eating a fish placed in front of it is different from a wild mantis specifically hunting fish.
That younger people often are wide eyed and enthusiastic but lack experience in production systems
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. - Cardinal De Richelieu.

Regarding your latter point, re. self-determination, I'll try a stab at making it more relatable. Let me know if this approaches that ineffable problem.

Our presentation of ourselves is essentially plastic; with few exceptions, changing social or temporal variables change our self-expression. We do not act around our family as we would around our colleagues or around our close friends. We did not act as a child as we did as a teenager, or young adult, or elder. It is socially acceptable and even expected to modify "who you are" to fit the situation you are in.

The internet and mass surveillance has crystallized that plastic nature. You are not just the person you are now, but also the person you were ten years ago. You are not just the person in front of your employer or parent, but also whoever you are to your friends or romantic partners. You are no longer allowed to pick and choose how to represent yourself to another person; your entire history is available for their perusal. The best representatives for the downside of this, I think, are teens. Everyone can remember stupid things they said or did as a teenager, and for the first time, none of that history will ever be erased. The words you spoke at one of the most irresponsible and impulsive parts of your life will forever be a Sword of Damocles hanging above your head.

(Oddly enough, I think this is not, fundamentally, an awful thing, but for the fact that social understanding has not advanced past the monkey-brain thinking that the perusing in front of you will act according to the sum of information you have about them. In the old days, you would see that they were a decent enough worker and that would be it. But now you know they like to, I don't know, drink a lot or smoke weed in their own time and that colors everything else about them in your eyes. I can't help but feel that within a few generations the old way of thinking will die out, by necessity if nothing else, but agree that for the present it represents a significant problem)
>> What are some things that only someone who has been programming 20 years knows?

Those in positions of power (the managers) have never been those who programmed 20 years. Either never programmed at all, or were early successes either trough luck or more often than not, connections.

As a result they don't know and don't care about the things known by those who programmed 20 years, it's not their problem.
Non-locality has nothing to do with randomness. How does the quote apply to that argument?
I was about to get free Fitbit from work program. And then I heard work would have access to data in Fitbit. Nah, screw that.
China has the same issues, its why there has not been famous Chinese games breaking the international mold despite having one of the world's largest gaming markets and a couple of the world's biggest gaming companies by market value but not actual game titles (they buy a lot of games or shares of studios).

Rampant copyright issues means that a pirated AAA quality Western game is way cheaper than any native Chinese game that any struggling Chinese game studio can make.
> I don't really understand the concept of a 'AI superower' at all. Superpower at what, warfare? Concentration of wealth as AI returns flow to only a handful of people?

Yes and yes?

> Have Americans and the Chinese pondered whether there is some higher goal to the development of AI or just competition for competition's sake?

If they develop AI driven warfare techniques and we don't, they'll beat us. We must close the AI gap! (fwiw this terrifies me)
Nationalistic trolling will get you banned here. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Word-level sentiment is like spherical cows in a vacuum in physics. Everyone knows its an extremely flawed model, but it produces good results in a lot of scenarios, so it will inevitably be used because it also has the enormous benefit of simplicity.
A back-of-the-envelope calculation says that it would cost significantly less than the annual budget of the (London UK) Metropolitan police to put every window in London under laser-microphone surveillance.

Likewise, I assume that every sufficiently important person is targeted with some form of surveillance by at least one organised criminal gang interested in either taking their money or corruption, both of which can be achieved by surveillance-enabled blackmail. “Sufficiently” is variable depending on much this tech costs, and it’s constantly getting cheaper.
The UK is screwed.
Making something illegal means putting people in jail directly or if they refuse to cooperate. In many countries this is what happens to people with what you would consider poor recruiting practices. It's usually called something like discrimination against a protected class. Many people in power today consider your rejection of jailtime for poor recruiting practices a sexist position.
Playing devil's advocate if Google and their leadership weren't so overtly political and anti-conservative and actually bothered to show up at the hearings they would not be in this predicament.

Apple (while not social media per-say) has stayed neutral and Tim Cook has done a great job working with the administration when needed.
Few hiring managers in SV see it as a bad thing that you took time off to start a company, assuming it was a serious effort.
Hm. That title starts off sounding like it belongs to an entirely different and more disturbing sort of article.
Hawaii’s Freemason Kings
WLinux – A Linux distro optimized for WSL based on Debian stable
I thought it was a new gen bike
An interesting twist: sometimes it may be worth finishing purely for the psychological boost of confidence, or other similar meta, 2nd order effects.

I don't have a good algorithm for knowing when this is the case, but especially for smaller individual-level projects, I think it is probably not that uncommon. It also seems highly context dependent -- e.g. if one hasn't had a win in a while, it should be a larger consideration.

Framed another way: first learn how to finish projects, then learn how to finish the right project.

And of course, there is the problem that all outcomes and evaluations of worthiness have at least some uncertainty, if not significant amounts.

The sunk-cost fallacy is a useful tool, but it isn't always easy to apply in practice.
http://www.yelmjouie.com/2018/3/18/a-game-about-islamic-art
Also by Yara Elmjouie, interesting piece on an Iranian developer's game about geometric design. He makes the point here that there are so many ultra violent games that shape our societies, and how that deadens us to violence
No, you can't. Say you have two nodes, and a client has just sent a COMMIT to node 1. Then Node 1 gets partitioned away from node 2 and the committing client vanishes. Giving clients the ability to switch to node 2 doesn't help you determine whether node 2 does or does not have the data that was committed (consistency), so you have to choose between CP and AP.
The parent comment it's replying to says:

> That said the primary “imbalanced exposure” seems to be due to evicting people who simply spend their time attacking minorities, attack equal rights, and promoting violence towards anyone that they dislike. For whatever reason the Republican Party seems to have decided that those people represent “conservative” views that private companies should have to support.

How is that also not "tedious, partisan and uncivil"? Not only is it not flagged, it's upvoted.
I wonder how often a (widely expected-to-be-true) mathematical hypothesis fails, versus how often it turns out to be actually true, versus how often it remained unknown so far.
Why doesn't the fish wriggle? The fish looks much stronger than the insect.
FBI Issues Warning to Workers Who Receive Direct-Deposit Paychecks
Lurking behind the article's entire thesis, and yet barely addressed in it, is the issue that despite demand for truckers outstripping supply, their employers aren't willing to significantly raise wages. They instead eat the costs of trucks sitting empty despite loads available to carry. "Higher demand for labor raises wages" is the bread-and-butter of mainstream economical arguments for how to help poorer segments of society and, fundamentally, why economic growth is a good thing- yet cases like these show that it is simply not true. Raising wages for less skilled workers is apparently so absurdly painful for employers in almost any field that they'll pay almost any other cost.

This is how wage growth has stagnated for the majority of workers in the U.S., even in the face of a prolonged economic boom [0]. The standard economic models of the labor market do not work, and yet almost no one is willing to acknowledge this.

[0] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-...
Then the creator of the smart contract platform reverts the change, provided it was a big enough amount of money for him to notice, and everyone follows him. It’s a major downgrade versus the existing system of contract law.
Someone was reaaaallly really bored at work.
Here's one for JS http://johnkpaul.github.io/presentations/empirejs/javascript...
When you ask someone to explain something, and the response that you get is merely "it should be obvious," what it achieves is a) you have just been told that you are a stupid idiot and b) you are in fact so stupid that you are not worth educating. The remark isn't quite so biting if it's paired with an actual explanation, but by itself, it serves little purpose other than to insult the enquirer.
Interestingly, I was just about to edit my original comment to say exactly that: there are tables which are exactly analogous to entangled states in that they cannot be written as a cartesian product of two other tables.

But I have to stress that I do not intend this to be a deep insight, just an interesting (IMHO) observation.
Show HN: Headless Chrome as a Service, Works with Puppeteer
Just curious, what are boutique VOIP providers?
China and Vatican Reach Breakthrough on Appointment of Bishops
Am I the only one that clicked expecting to see a motorbike?
You will get more attention if you explain what you need and what you have already researched. The main two alternatives are MIT/BSD and GPL3, with many many many variants.

What is your project? Why do you think you'd prefer MIT/BSD? Why do you think you would prefer GPL3?
Careful with Delaware, shares and taxes.

If I hadn't consulted a CPA I would have had a large tax burden.

This is a pretty good write up:

https://www.cooleygo.com/so-you-owe-thousands-in-delaware-fr...
What do you mean by growing quadratically, exactly? The rotational drift of the Earth is growing that fast? Where can I read more about this?
According to current doctrine, monopolies are only a problem if the consumer is harmed. Given that Facebook and Google give away their services for “free”, it is hard to argue harm in terms of higher prices. However, if a certain portion of the consumers are getting their lawful communications suppressed, and if they don’t really have a viable alternative due to the monopoly status of the incumbents, then you have both monopoly and consumer harm.
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> the American paradox is that you often have very good governments, but trust them very little

That distrust is a reason why our government has been stable over the past 200 years, despite a series of technological, economic, geopolitical and cultural changes.
Thank you for indication of the showdead feature. That's useful. Though, though his/her comment wasn't removed, the fact that I have to turn on "showdead" in order to see it says something.

That being said, remarkEon's comment was far from: "tedious, partisan and uncivil". That's ludicrous.

remarkEon was replying to a comment by user "olliej" which stated:

> the primary “imbalanced exposure” seems to be due to evicting people who simply spend their time attacking minorities, attack equal rights, and promoting violence towards anyone that they dislike.

This is a _blatant_ "tedious, partisan and uncivil" comment. remarkEon was pointing out _only_ that this is a "gross misrepresentation". Additionally, user "olliej" stated:

> For whatever reason the Republican Party seems to have decided that those people represent “conservative” views that private companies should have to support.

Again, remarkEon is entirely correct in pointing out another gross misrepresentation which is tedious, partisan, and uncivil.

If you attack remarkEon's comment as being the problem, rather than a statement pointing out the problem, you are sorely mistaken.

By the way, olliej's comment stands in full force; it has not been grayed out, and I don't have to turn on "showdead" to see it.
Have you read the decision? That is an odd way to frame it...a corporation cannot ‘be the government’, and there is nothing in that decision that says they were. The more applicable passage would be:

“The more an owner, for his advantage, opens up his property for use by the public in general, the more do his rights become circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who use it.”
I'm a Heart Doctor and Wary of the New Apple Watch
Empirical evidence clearly does not work in mathematics :)
Is there a place where you can download the source code that is used in the book?
The best reading I’ve done recently about dyslexia is Language at the Speed of Sight, by Mark Seidenberg [1]. He goes into great detail about the neurology or reading and various reading challenges (acquired and lifelong).

1: https://www.amazon.com/Language-Speed-Sight-Can%C2%92t-About...
I made the same thing for command line: https://github.com/kissgyorgy/interactive-youtube-dl
Smart contract do not override existing law os if there's sanctions for say selling PS3s to Iranians, even if smart contract could let you do that, it wouldn't be legal. In any case the existing case law in the US and UK already has it that a contract does not have to written down to exist so if you're pretty sure things are going to go well - say mowing the lawn, you can go ahead and just enter the contract with nothing written down (an no need for smart contract either)
the author's email is yahoo.fr, so possibly french
As a car driver, I love the brightly painted bike lanes. Helps decrease my cognitive load for knowing where I should and shouldn't drive, and where I should expect bicycles to be when turning right.
ANECDOTE TIME! And actually a career related question:

I'm an absolute nerd for sports stats, and have a friend that moved out of the finance/BI world in the hospitality sector and landed herself an impressive gig at ESPN-of all things, as a stats editor.

It seems a relevant jaunt (because all I know of her profession is that she's an incredible mathematician) but the gap seems wide just from a perspective of domain knowledge; she openly states not caring at all for sports but the new job location puts her close to family.

My question is: is Data Science so applied that one can make that kind of jump domains easily? This gal is one of the smartest people I know but the more I look into what it is you folks do, the more I am simultaneously intimidated yet interested in the field.
No, you absolutely should not trust or be loyal to for-profit companies, as either employee or consumer. Everyone's got at least one story, and most people many. My second serious job situation after college taught me well about capitalism and trusting companies...never again.

They use you, you use them...remember that well.

Money is, indeed, the root of all evil. Dvorak was a large part of the heart and soul of PC Mag since the beginning or very close thereto. I used to read it all the way back to I guess 1980 and I always loved his columns and in fact still go the website and read them nowadays once in a while.

They can fuck off and die.
So do I. But it's a bit like criticising a car for being slow because you didn't push the accelerator pedal. That's not really the car's fault.
There's a big difference between how much it costs to do research in CS and how much it costs to do research elsewhere. It costs $10^9/year to run the LHC.
> Do the rich countries of the EU have the same appetite?

As a matter of fact, Germany and the other EU countries do massively finance the poorer EU countries (per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_statistics#EU_b...).

Problem is corruption: EU funds too often get shunted sideways (e.g. for Hungary, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/12/how-hungarian-...).
It really seems inevitable that Macs will switch over to Apple chips at some point, probably soon.
I first read about this when I was a teenager, and frequently think about it when making decisions, but have never once found that being aware of it has been helpful. In the face of uncertainty, you never know what is going to happen. I have never experienced a situation where I have poured money into something and it became "obvious" (for a rational agent) that i could do just as well by abandoning that previous effort.

I would be very interested in hearing other's experiences.
Source code of pie (used in the book) at https://github.com/the-little-typer/pie
Ask HN: How to come up with monetizable side project ideas?
I love building small tools which solve problems I myself face in my day to day life. Having been worked in different companies over the last 4 years, I feel I've acquired enough knowledge to develop big applications(big enough to make money) on my own.

I was wondering, how one can come up with side project ideas which can generate few hundred dollars per month on the side. Any inputs, resources and wisdom are appreciated!
Absolutely true. Dvorak should start his own venture...a lot of fans would jump (the sinking) ship in an instant.
You jest, but people really do underestimate Excel. Yes, it sucks - but there is a reason that despite all its flaws, people keep trying to use it for things. (And no, that reason is not "they're too stupid to learn how to code")

And I'm not sure the things that make Excel so crappy could really be fixed without sacrificing the things that make it such a flexible and useful tool. For instance, adding the ability to recurse or iterate sanely would remove the transparency of having every iteration of a computation clearly visualized cell-by-copy-pasted-cell.
> I don't really understand the concept of a 'AI superower' at all. Superpower at what, warfare? Concentration of wealth as AI returns flow to only a handful of people?

In principle, in the sense of being able to give all of your citizens the ability to complete any task which previously only experts could achieve.

Google Übersetzer ist oft schrecklich und schlechhören(?) oft meine Worte, aber es ist immer noch deutlich besser als ich auf Deutsch, obwohl ich das Äquivalent einer guten Note an der High School habe.

> Have Americans and the Chinese pondered whether there is some higher goal to the development of AI or just competition for competition's sake?

Americans certainly have; its part of both utopian and distopian fiction. This fiction has been a guiding force with regard to what the AI looks and acts like in many cases, for example Alexa’s adverts were clearly trying to sell it as the ship’s computer in Star Trek.
More of a specialty shop, not a one-size-fits-all RingCentral competitor. Targeting specific industries with use case specific solutions (ie. going after car dealerships with overhead paging, DECT wireless handsets, etc.) -- yes, they can get all this with RingCentral or 8x8 or anyone else -- but your positioning, marketing, and niche expertise is what will win the deal. Can also offer more of a white-glove service, on-site install, etc. that the big guys simply don't offer. You don't even need to have local presence - just find good folks on FieldNation that can perform the job and pay them for 3-4 hours of work. $500 to secure a $18K contract is a no-brainer.

Overall RingCentral and the other top-10 providers are shifting their focus away from SMBs to large enterprises. There is a big hole to fill. They are losing customers as fast as they gain new ones. This is a huge opportunity for smaller operators.

If you get just one 20-person office customer per week (or multiple small ones adding up to 20 users total), after 1 year you are at ~$22K MRC at standard prices. And this is the bare minimum that you will be getting with bare minimum effort... people don't realize how big the opportunity is in this double digit billion dollar market.
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According to that article it seems specifically related to corporations (C or S), but the parent comment advocated for LLCs.