skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Title: "8% of uBiome customers are transgender"

From article:
>8% come from people who identify with non-binary gender.

Is this title just made up? I don't see any evidence that "non-binary gender" means transgender. By my reading of the term, there are several different buckets of gender identification that could be feeding into that number, not all of them transgender. Furthermore, some transgender people might not describe themselves as identifying with non-binary gender. It's hard to draw a conclusion such as that implied by the title.
Why is this comment even necessary? The number of dirt poor rural whites in the US is staggering. Would you be comfortable telling such a person that they have immense privilege because of their white skin? They'll probably slap you silly.
At ~200k/job, why not just have the state give universal basic income to everybody in Racine? Don't like handouts? Have them dig a giant hole and fill it in afterwards.
> There's lots of innovation and quality tech in Europe.

I agree.

> We just don't see it because Europe has much greater diversity of language and culture than North America. This means that companies can target a niche in their country that has zero relevance to Americans.

But then how come american companies are able dominate europe and even the world? On the flip side, how come canadian companies aren't dominating? How are american companies overcoming the challenges of language and culture in europe?

There might be some merit to you diversity of language and culture claim but the more I think about it, it seems like a crutch or an excuse for europeans. I think europe has a lot to offer, but they aren't living up to their potential. Could it be lack of capital/funding or cultural aversion to risk taking? Or maybe other commenters are right, there are more to life than being the top tech producer.
A more successful entirely does not generate more profit in consulting body shops. The only thing that generate more profit is more consultants billed for more hours.

Sell quantity, not quality.
Pick a boring name. Do not make your adopters fight an uphill battle trying to sell it to non technical decision makers.
If you want to be good, you need to know both anyways. Being a specialist on one side is for people who are still on their way to go deeper to multiple parts of the stack or those who feel good just by knowing 1 thing sufficiently.
Apple's Folly: Long before the iPhone, the Pippin console flopped hard (2013)
The more I think about it, the more certain I am that I would like to never install a non-EV cert based app.
>> The other day I was logging into newegg to order something

> Newegg uses ads.

That's not my point. We generally understand that newegg is there to sell you something. I was using it as a convenient example and perhaps a better one could be found. Just because they use ads does not invalidate my point there.

From the HN guidelines: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

> as a content provider, you might not want users who refuse to go through CAPTCHA. Nobody is forcing you to access the content.

Theoretically speaking, this is true. I can opt to simply close the page, turn off my computer, etc. However, it may not be practical to do this all the time. Some example maybe school/government institutions that you have to use deploys reCAPTCHA, or something like the CloudFlare pages that makes you fill out a reCAPTCHA for each website (which amounts to a large part of the internet).

> It only hurts users that the content provider doesn't care about, because they don't generate any revenue.

Disagreed. Perhaps in cases with ad based sites that is the case. If you're selling something and preventing me to buy from you, you're hurting users that may generate revenue. You could say that perhaps the benefit is outweighed by the cost, which maybe true from an abuse perspective. However, if everyone starts doing this, then my cynical view of Google will play out, which is the original point of my argument.

It's clear there's an economic incentive at play, otherwise Google won't develop this and people wouldn't deploy this. I just think that it's overly favored towards Google (and other ad based entities), as opposed to sites that do not rely on ads and the users.
What makes you think inherent value of stock is tied to voting rights?

If in the future Snapchat pays dividends, won't the non-voting SNAP shares still have dividends paid out at the same rate as everyone else? It was my impression that this (along with other profit-sharing mechanisms like buybacks) was what drives the inherent value of stock.
No, no, no, no.

I do not want Google to have any more fucking data about me than it already does! "Put this blob of JavaScript on every page of your site so that we can see how users are clicking, scrolling, and browsing around. Think of the children^W spam and abuse!"

I just cannot believe that Google somehow gets away with spinning this as some sort of "guardian of the Internet" thing when it is a transparent attempt to a) make adblocking more difficult and b) force people to accept being tracked by Google or get blacklisted from the web.

Getting banned from sites or treated as a subhuman because you don't want Big Brother to follow your actions around should not be something that we're okay with. It just shouldn't be.
Gotta feed the machine right?

Just so you know, the more you protect your privacy, the more websites, everywhere, will have Recaptcha requires that you work for Waymo even though you do not want to work for them (you know, describing road signs, identifying potholes, finding traffic lights, etc).

Want some privacy? OK, waste 2-3 minutes every 10 articles and work for Google. Don't want to work for Google? OK, disable all privacy protection and you're good to go.

Paying a subscription to the website will, often, not even prevent Recaptcha from popping up.

That's dystopia, both feet in, but somehow it's OK because some "guys" are abusing the system o_0
Re: when people complain about complexity they are often complaining about a change from the thing they know to something they don't.

If something is truly better, then it should be easy to articulate why in a concrete manner, such as exploring total lines of code that need to be changed per a change request scenario that's realistic for your particular org (and not a cheesy textbook example).

It's also good to see it actually working in similar organizations. Often people copy from dissimilar organizations and make a mess. Microservices are like this. They don't fit many shops or orgs; but because Netflix finds them useful, everybody has to copy.

Often "new things" are passing fads. It's good to vet things for actual productivity improvement instead of just using buzzwords such as "separation of concerns". Otherwise, the org will have separation-of-wallet.
I wonder if Reddit has surpassed Twitter, Snapchat, etc, for the title of most popular non-Facebook social network. You rarely see anyone do any kind of comparison of them.
Not that politifact is trustworthy, but OK, which alternative do you like? That article lists "unauthorized aliens", "inadmissible aliens" and "deportable aliens". Undocumented is when somebody loses their wallet, so that won't do. These people generally have illegal documentation, possibly even matching your documentation.
The shortened duration times at the traffic lights generate $32 million for Suffolk County, which is why the county allows the practice to continue despite their own study showing they lead to an increase in accidents with injuries.

This is exactly what lawsuits are for.
The game might think it's running under Windows, but the Steam process that launched it is Linux-native.
>I fail to see what isn't "conservative" about that.

I believe the "not conservative" part is that they're giving massive amounts of public money, both directly and via free infrastructure, to a private business. That's basically the opposite of any sort of free-market capitalism. According to standard conservative thought & rhetoric that should've been applied to gov't debt paydown, legitimate gov't functions (roads, schools) or rebated to taxpayers.
> Google and Facebook could charge more for ads which impacts mostly the advertisers

How does that work? There is no level of indirection after which the money somehow comes from some magical place.
This is still paid for by the consumers in the end. Somebody pays for the ads and the cost of that is factored into whatever the ads are for.
Serious question, I'm wondering, why you, personally, value other people getting MBA/Engineering degrees over arts?

I really enjoy going to the theater and seeing performances of all kind, just as I like tech/business advances. I want people to enhance the arts as well as the sciences.

I acknowledge the idea of focusing on marketability and "ROI" for someone choosing their own path... However, when providing "access" to education, why encourage someone who could write the next show I want to see to instead consider crunching hard maths that they don't care about?
Facebook is half-open (Twitter and G+ are similar) aka fenced yard. Instagram is fully walled garden. You cannot compete a fully closed network, because each of them are incomparable. You could compare fenced yards by telescoping them.
Gwendolyn (music composer Orange is the New Black)
I don't know. Recently I was at an event where an older teen was giving a speech where he mentioned some social media platform and then explained, "That's like Facebook for you old people". That got quite a laugh, but in my experience there really is a stigma among young people that Facebook is only for old people.
Last time I got one of these "tickets", it came from the red light camera company and informed me that as long as I paid the fine on time, I would not be reported to the authorities and therefore would not receive a moving violation (and so points on my license). The money went to the red light camera company.

So, as a private entity, they collected evidence of a "crime" I committed, and threatened to expose me to the authorities unless I paid them off. How is this not extortion?
>I was defending Spiegel's decision (hence my devil's advocate opener) and why something that seems wrong for the general public may be what's best for a company like Snap at this point.

And the entire basis of your presumption was that O'Hara wasn't exactly what she is ("a well connected, veteran exec who comes from a company known for its operational excellence" who is also a new employee.)

Even if you were right from the start, you're just absolving a CEO of poor decision making. He didn't just "make a decision", he publically promoted someone to an important role and soon after changed his mind. Not exactly grand leadership on display.
Sure. Let's oil tankers spil remaining oil in the ocean as it pleases them. And let's facebook print partisan ads and fake news paid by Russia in local election.
Yep, I do.
The base classification structure was borrowed from r/listofsubreddits sub directory: https://www.reddit.com/r/ListOfSubreddits/wiki/listofsubredd.... However it was modified a bit in order to even out the clusters, size wise. Keeping it unchanged would make more than half of the subs entertainment. That being said, some hiccups were made during the formatting, and the purpose of the repo is to fix/enhance any mistakes people spot.
A closer comparison is the Vancouver International Film Festival. From their website:

> Under the laws of our province, only registered non-profit film societies such as VIFF are allowed to screen films that have not been classified by Consumer Protection BC. Only members are permitted to be present at the place where a non-classified film is being exhibited.

...so they charge $2 annually for membership, where you can pay that fee along with your ticket (and then keep the membership for any other shows you're going to see that year.)
I mean just between two endpoints, sorry for being imprecise. So instead of opening X TCP connections to a server to run requests in parallel, you'd use one QUIC connection with multiple streams. Much like HTTP 2 does, but using UDP instead of TCP so streams can be ordered and retransmitted separately.
The Bloom Is Off Bloom Energy
They bring up a lot of the missing evidence in the second season. You're allowed to draw your own conclusion from the case, but it's obvious to me the whole thing wasn't just bullshit but that the police department coordinated a coverup for a murder. Even if that wasn't the case, they violated so many laws by illegally ignoring proper procedure that the sheriff, district attorney, and interrogating officers should all lose their jobs and potentially face criminal charges.
I wonder how much those free ER services actually cost. It comes up in conversation, but is it 1% or 50%?
It seems like you maybe have slightly missed the point by overly focusing on the examples in the article though.
For me I've moved from Reddit back to Digg, Reddit seems to be the worst parts of Facebook combined with the worst parts of Twitter. The redesign is horrendously busy, the comments are trite or vicious, and the v.reddit videos either autoplay or never play when you click on them.
Disappointing, but it kind of showcases that the PS1's biggest strength was in its third party support. This then provides an issue for any classic console deal based on said era, since third parties hold pretty much all the cards and that if they're not on board... well the reasons to buy it become signficantly less.

Add Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Tomb Raider, Castlevania Symphony of the Night... etc and this thing would be a much more compelling purpose. But it's not really under Sony's control, and hence the line up here.
I really thought they would realise how fucking stupid this was and roll it back, but I guess they really don't care at all. I feel sorry for anyone who has opted out of the Google ecosystem so far and is now going to be penalised by not being able to access many websites
>Doesn't that prove my point, that there's an impedance mismatch of Elm trying to present a purely-functional world on top of a very side-effect-full environment of the browser+DOM etc.?

Your reply doesn't even address my point. That's all I'm saying. All I said is that I disagree with you.

>It sounds like you're arguing that for apps smaller than "absurdly large", plain JavaScript can be better.

>Calling bs on anyone having anything approaching 10 million LOC in Elm. You're just making things up.

>Edit: for reference, the Linux kernel has about 20 million LOC (according to Wikipedia), so you're talking about half a Linux kernel written in Elm. Absurd.

Don't ever call what I say absurd or BS that's plain offensive and against the principles here on HN. If you want me to continue replying to you, I'll need an apology otherwise I will ignore you.
Maybe, but at least my college-age kids have friends that are all over the country (including back here in their home state) and they don't use Facebook to keep in touch with them.
Canadian companies are struggling because our best CS and SE grads are going "Cali or bust." Believe me, I'm enrolled at University of Waterloo and I see it every day. People fight like crazy for the best co-op jobs in California. Why? Because they pay a lot more.

It's a chicken and egg problem. Quebec is different though. There's a lot going on in Quebec in French that we don't see in the English-speaking press. Same goes for the major languages in Europe. Of course none of these will "dominate the world" because they're not in English.
From a previous discussion, beta-ameloyd isn't well studied, but it appears to be a viral catch-all, attaching to many viruses. The reason herpes is so significant is because it uses time-release capsules to continually reinfect a host user, and continually caught in the beta-ameloid. So herpes sufferers have more beta-ameloid to clear away most nights.
> Bold prediction: FB will try to acquire Reddit soon

This would be bad on so many levels.
Maintaining 65k open connections in a single Ruby process
I have to +1 this.

The price must always go up over time. If there were a first rule of business, that would be that.

Price decrease is just a longer term strategy where it goes down before it goes up.
Selegiline has also been associated with increased lifespan. I sometimes wonder if vitamin D's effect on blood sugar is comparable to metformin.
> I do not want Google to have any more fucking data about me than it already does! "Put this blob of JavaScript on every page of your site so that we can see how users are clicking, scrolling, and browsing around. Think of the children^W spam and abuse!"

They already do with google analytics.
>> That doesn't change the fact that a three second yellow would be unsafe at most normal automotive speeds...

Lights go to yellow for 3 seconds in all of EU and the only EU country that has more fatalities per 100k citizens than US is Lithuania[0]. If anything, it seems to me like the American 5 seconds is unusually long.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
Definitely not interested. I want something that provides a service for money and won't about-face to trying to milk me for growth, ad revenue, and commodified personal data.
I asked them about it and they told me the feed is sorted based on what they think is most interesting. They have a survey about it at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NewStravaFeed
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I still can't play Windows-only HL2 mods.
Starcity (YC S16) is looking for a senior back-end software engineer
Scott Walker is the incarnation of evil. It's no surprise he is finding creative ways to help his rich benefactors.
I appreciate it when you folks do this. But the UX for the reader isn't great, in that I must separately open your link to see the contextual parent of the split thread.

Perhaps you can prefix the split post's content at the same indentation level as its own content with something like Moderator-edit: Split from $URL as offtopic, original parent was: $PARENT or somesuch would help.
If you built a software product, would you consider your customer service & sales staff part of that? How about the people who ensure the systems are kept running? How about the accountants & lawyers who are eligible to practice in those jurisdictions and know the relevant tax codes/laws?

Do you think your software product, if made in USA, would be bought in France or Germany or Italy or anywhere but North America if you did not have someone who worked in that timezone and spoke that language and knew that culture?

Would those people who did that role be considered an important part of your company, considering you would not have anywhere near the same number of sales from those regions if they did not exist?

To pre-rempt the "I'd outsource it" response. When 7+ figures of revenue(& profit) are at stake, I can assure you that you would change your mind.
Or if you would not, the new guy the board hires to replace you would.
The legality of issuing tickets without being able to identify the driver is beyond me. I"m sure there is a "reason" it just seems inherently unjust to me.

Heck I'd rather just have humans deal with it as a sort of jobs program even ;)
The problem isn't the specific number, it's the intent behind changing the number and the decades of training the public on a different number.
This. You won't be much special if you stick to one side of the stack which will give you only average salaries.

It's sad people get impressed when you can just program and handle servers at the same time.
I suspect the problem is more expectation than absolute value.
No. If a candidate gave that as their main reason for changing jobs I would take it as a bad sign.

Companies hire people to solve business problems and add value, not so they can use their preferred languages or tools. Your “stack” counts for a lot less than what you’ve accomplished. A professional programmer resume lists accomplishments in terms of problems solved and value added, not tech “skills” in terms of languages and frameworks.

Learning a business domain, solving real problems, working with a team, and understanding trade-offs count for more for your career growth.
Not proof of bots but that subreddit definitely exhibits some unusual voting patterns

http://ryancompton.net/2016/08/07/upvotes-over-time-by-subre...
we run okd as well...
It doesn't really matter that Google does.

Sure it might be cheaper to use a competitor but if it will cost us 10M to migrate and test the working production workflow then it would have to be 10M cheaper to switch.

This gives our current provider a strong incentive to charge us a bit extra. Say 1/4 the price of the migration. Nobody wants to start a high risk migration that would take 4 years to pay for itself. Easier to just keep paying 2.5M extra. Safer that way and it isn't their money anyway.
> Force creators to handle the complaints about comments on their videos... an order of magnitude less work.

In practice, this will result in YouTubers disabling comments on their videos because most creators don't want to play moderator for toxic assholes.

... I'm okay with this. ;)
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Sure, one should never intentionally run a red light, and I wasn't suggesting that they do.

The article specifically talks about them shortening the duration of a yellow light from 5 seconds to 3 in order to increase revenue by catching more people running the (shorter) light. They purposefully are creating a situation where people feel the need to speed up to make it through the shorter duration light and more people are getting killed because of it.

I don't know about where you live, but in a lot of places if you cross the crosswalk and are now in the intersection and the light just changes from green to yellow, 3 seconds isn't enough to clear the intersection before it turns red unless you were already traveling the speed limit and the lane is clear ahead of you. Imagine yourself in rush hour traffic and you're the first car stopped at a green light because you can't safely clear the intersection. The car ahead moves and you start to enter the intersection because there is now space to clear the intersection without having to stop in it. Just as you start to accelerate it turns yellow, and then red 3 seconds later before you clear it because they shortened the time. If the light stayed at a 5 second yellow light, you would have made it through. Is that genuinely your fault if you did everything according to the book but only got caught because they artificially lowered the yellow light time?
A ticket is a summons, not a conviction; the owner of the car can, of course, argue that they were not driving, and present evidence to that effect.
SoftLayer is not competitive. It was undercut by Google Cloud since last year, while AWS is not that far off.

Once everyone offers a choice of 1 TB Virtual Machines for rent, SOftLayer will be completely out of the equation. They're strictly worse in services and pricing.

https://thehftguy.com/2018/01/15/the-inevitable-demise-of-ib...
I have found that the machine learning research community uses twitter pretty effectively. I don't tweet myself, but I do follow a good number of other researchers and often find interesting papers and results through the venue. It's much more effective than scouring the arXiv.
This exception is so limited that I don't even get how it is potentially considered circumventing DRM to begin with. Once you have legally acquired the source wouldn't you normally also have the right to modify it to remove the DRM?
A summons for a person based on "I saw your car" seems unjust too.
Twitter is really useful for sharing content at conferences or other events with a clear hashtag.

Other than that, and perhaps sharing more substantive articles/blog posts/etc to a wider audience, it's at best silly, and at worse, well...much worse.