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There are a minimal shared set of ethical norms (even more so within specific cultures) that have allowed us to organise as a society. "Don't screw anyone over without justification" for example. They may not be enforced all the time but they are definitely shared by a majority.

Bad things happening in the name of rationality tend to happen where people are not considering ethical outcomes. You can use computers to time traffic lights or launch missiles, doesn't mean computers are at fault. Building a social system that sees people put in gulags, if your course of action is intended to uphold ethical norms - is irrational.

Peoples preference, their goals, their opinions on which life is better aren't plucked out of the air. They follow logic based on a persons circumstance, history and assumptions about what will happen based on their choice. Coal miners didnt strike because they were marxist, they did it for better wages. Gun owners want to keep guns not because of a philosophical stance, but because they distrust the government or just like shooting guns.`

And yes, it's complicated to make decisions and resolve competing interests. But attempting to categorise individual stances on decisions into two groups of thought - when it's actually individual choices on some very low level stuff - doesn't add anything to the table.

Thats what Im confused about..
I could be totally wrong here as I am not an expert in frontend, it seems Google has been the loner pushing web component(polymer,etc). Mozilla was lukewarm about it. Something changed or did I miss something badly?

Vuejs has its own web-component(non-standardized), so does React. If browsers can provide native web-component support that will be really nice.
I mean, it's also not great to bury your head in the sand…
they filed that because it's believed that they have mechanical problems on the satellite. Not because they wanted to:

https://mobile.twitter.com/TMFAssociates/status/106076080100...
If you want to work remote AND live in a very quiet area, there are some nice rural areas of WA state... Remote parts of Chelan and Okanogan counties. Mountains, snow, forests, fruit farms, etc.
> I don't see a good reason why having less money should invalidate your claim to a national park held in common among all citizens.

A reason, besides fairness, is for one of the merits of charging a fee: so that people who value the experience the most are the ones that go. (In the case of campground reservations, one reason for having fees at all is to make people show up.)

You could focus more closely on this metric by making the fee be paid in the form of an increase to your adjusted gross income. But the poor already underpay taxes -- fairer would be for the wealthy to get into parks for free, as thanks for paying for the infrastructure that everybody else uses.
Steve Wozniak has some advice for Zuckerberg: Stop putting money before morals
"If not Soros, then who?"

This sounds like if one cannot pinpoint the supposed funder (and prove that they act alone), then you'll feel free to assume it is Soros? This is nonsense.
Yes, my arguments can apply to relationships, but they especially apply to marriage as the contract, both socially and legally, implies set of expectations. When those roles have been removed, why go through all the trouble? Relationships can still make sense in the face of role-obsolescence as people who don't need each other can still "Netflix n' chill." People can even cohabitate and serve no other purpose to each other besides non-platonic companionship. So at that point, why potentially ruin an already good thing?

> effectively nobody is having weddings beyond their means, or feeling required by society to do so

Our experiences differ significantly in that area. Even when it's within their means, it takes them a considerable amount of work to get there. For many, the outcome isn't worth the amount of effort.

Society isn't requiring people to get married, but that doesn't mean that people aren't subject to cultural expectations and peer pressure. As a perpetually single person, I am regularly asked by people whether I've "met that special woman yet." A person who gives more shits than I do would likely feel that they really ought to find that other person and "settle down", if you will. Society doesn't need requirements for people to do things in order to conform.

> There are just some really rich people (or averagely-rich people with really rich extended families) who pay to have fancy weddings because they can.

That, I never denied.
There's a difference between arguing for the freedom to say something disagreeable and arguing the disagreeable thing itself.
>But do we really regulate the sugar industry killing millions every day?

Hyperbole much? Only 150,000 people die each day worldwide from all causes.

If an industry was committing a literal holocaust every few weeks I think we would notice.
Sounds like a good place to start with the Lenovo possibilities -- thanks!
I probably will sometime in 2019 (for totally unrelated reasons having to do with insomniaphobia, I have a pretty odd sleeping arrangement that involves me sleeping mostly upright these days which I'm told has mitigated this problem).

I'm just saying: if I could just buy the damned APAP and try it out, I would do that first. Friends who've gotten sleep studies have uniformly described it as simply a hurdle to getting the actual RX for the machine, and that all the learning and diagnostics happened after they started with the machine.
Where outside the Valley (and maybe NYC) where new grads are routinely getting total comp packages significantly greater than $140k? All the names you dropped in your other post are top companies that the typical new grad has very little chance of getting in to.
Hacker News has groupthink, but usually if you come up with an argument with evidence people are willing to listen to what you have to say.
They're reffering to Snowden.
The second paragraph wholly refers to Snowden as referenced in the first sentence of it.
I never said those were equivalent. But in terms of being boogeymen, they are. Read any article about the Kochs from the left, and you'd think they were planning the 4th Reich. And the fact that this belief is extremely popular on the left, and that very mainstream outlets perpetuate this shows how widespread it is.

In fact many in this VERY thread are claiming that the Kochs are actually evil people, something you'd see scrawled in the comment section of Breitbart but in regards to Soros...and we're on Hacker News, a place of generally intellectual people.
Not all SaaS are B2B-focused, but Saoier is. They sell tools that make sense for businesses to use. It doesn’t make sense that they should offer something to someone who barely values what they do (you most likely can afford $20/mo if you can afford $5/mo, so your issue is that you don’t think you are getting that $15/mo value from Zapier, and that’s most likely because you aren’t running a business and are trying to automate something unimportant.)

And it might still be fine for Zapier to provide a cheap tier for people who don’t value what they do, but if they offered that, too many businesses that get a lot of value from Zapier from, say, running five zaps, would downgrade.

When you are in a situation where you don’t want something very much, and a seller would lose a lot of money by trying to make you happy, you find a substitute and Zapier has plenty, especially for a developer with more time than money.
>The family unit, consisting of father, mother, and children, was understood to be the fundamental organizational unit in society. The only way to preserve the expectations of society with regard to morality, education, and other aspects of prosperity and stability was to keep the government from interfering with the family.

Modern society, including government, is failing badly on this front. Successful attempts are being made consistently to undermine the traditional family unit and replace it with unworthy substitutes, including “marriage” between two people of the same gender despite clear evidence of the damage those policies have on the family and ultimately the civilization.

This "article" is nothing more than heavy-handed religious garbage parading as patriotism.
> and that Facebook is working on fixing them.

Facebook's business model & DNA is probably antithetical to seriously fixing them.
There is no set price for receiving treatment because there are dozens of different systems of benefits and methods of calculating that cost from those benefits, determining eligibility, etc. The private insurer system is demonstrably the cause of the difficulty in determining prices, and the administrative overhead they incur is an enormous part of the cost of healthcare in the US [1].

People don't become debtors simply because they don't want to pay their bills, they become debtors because they can't afford to pay their bills. The number one cause of bankruptcies in the US is medical debt, and no amount of "price transparency" is going to fix that.

[1]: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmsa022033
My personal forward-looking concerns about both of the companies you mentioned are what will happen when the founders die or retire. It is likely that truly amoral Wall Street folks will take over. I am still very concerned about Google in this regard, but I am not convinced that FB could get any worse.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18453958
When reading the article, was your instinctive response: "cool use of technology" or "ooooh, creepy"?

This is a very large international corporation deriving additional information about you based on something that you have shared. This is of course a major part of the very modus operandi of FB n Co. We are all dimly aware of things like shadow profiles and the like and that our mobile (cell) contacts are mined routinely and cross referenced. Our browsers spew personally identifiable info. and so do our browsing habits.

This is all very new (15 years or so) and very odd (hasn't happened before). FB, Google and all the other data miners for ads for cash pushers are a new phenomenon. These companies are massive, international and seemingly insensitive to anything that doesn't adversely affect their bottom line. Now we have an example of FB proudly attempting to patent a creepy (my term) process because it is now considered normal.

I'm not sure I like the kind of environment that allows FB to consider that sort of process as being potentially patentable. Actually I'm very uncomfortable with the idea that that sort of process being patentable is normal.

I'm going to tentatively label that sort of environment as toxic.
This is the scenario where you know nothing else other than you waited 10 minutes for this event and it didn't happen.

Sure, if you have more data, then you can get much tighter bounds for your estimate.
Indeed it does have a distinction.

And the distinction is usually as follows: speech that threatens or criticises those in power is generally illegal, and the speech that supports it is legal.
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Facebook is one of the most powerful and influential companies in the world. With great power comes great responsibility, and scrutiny. Your pleading to treat them like garage-company hackers is absurd and out of touch with reality.
You completely forgot the ground cpe equipment cost. That will be a substantial adder.
Oh, numeric astrology and probability tantras.

Future is not predictable by definition. It is just an abstract concept, a projection of the mind. Any modeling, however close to reality it might seem to be, is disconnected from it, like a movie or a cartoon. Following complex probabilistic inferences based on sophisticated models is like to act in life guided by movies or tantric literature (unless you are Goldman Sachs, of course).

For a fully observable, discrete, fully deterministic models, such as dice or a deck of cards probability could only say how likely a certain outcome might be, but not (and never) what exactly the next outcome would be.

Estimation of anything about non-fully-observable, partially-deterministic environments is a fucking numeric astrology with cosplay of being a math genius.

No matter what kind of math you pile up - equations from thermodynamics, gaussian distributions or what not it is still disconnected from reality stories, like the ones in tantras.
> Anything negative about Facebook gets to the front page very quickly.

Pretty much everyone (whether you're a Facebook user or not) got their privacy violated by Facebook. The majority doesn't know it but we're on HN and everyone is aware of what's happening, so it's not too surprising that people feel bitter about it. I feel bitter about it too.

> Facebook has billions of users and you don't get billions of users by being evil.

They got billions of users back when they actually had a decent product, nowadays it's just network effects - nobody signs up for the product itself. In fact, they're perfectly aware that Facebook (the product) is on its deathbed, otherwise they wouldn't be chasing new trends by buying Instagram & WhatsApp.
Pentagon Fails Its First-Ever Comprehensive Audit
I'm not very political. I'm assuming that's sarcasm, but I don't really know. There are people who genuinely think the military medical system sucks, though I'm not one of them.
How to improve verbal/written skills in the workplace?
Hello everyone, I am currently working at a company where most of my colleagues are Americans. I am from a country where English wasn't my first language, and I think I need to improve my verbal and written communication skills. I tend to make direct translations of my ideas but I have noticed my colleagues have a nice and polite way of framing sentences. eg. If there is something I don't know, I would just say it as "I don't know how this works" vs others who would say it as "I am not quite sure how this works". There are many other instances where I see this pattern, and it concerns me that I might be coming off as rude. Does anyone have any suggestions for books/videos that would help me learn more about American workplace communication skills?

Thank you.
well trade offs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

EDIT : now that you mention it - micropython is pretty cool -- and I haven't used it - need to try that on the ESP :)
God, what a creepy bunch of fucks.
The next generation will laugh at the stupidity of those who willingly gave their entire genome sequence and personal health data away to a corporation for free.
For anyone thinking this is something novel. It's not.

It's very common for relevant companies e.g. telcos to try and predict the composition of your household so they know what plan you should be on and how much data you are likely to use.

Likewise for energy companies it's useful to optimise their demand curves.
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I believe he s refering to civilian deaths which went undocumented, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_War_documents_leak

I believe the hero-worship of such persons is not useful. But they have changed the landscape and raised the bar for transparency from governments worldwide, which is undeniably a good thing.
> Do you really believe the Iraq Warlogs revealing death, torture, war crimes, and lying is somehow worse than literally subverting American democracy in a presidential primary?

It's interesting... you're asking me if I really believe something that I didn't ever say and implying I did. I actually compared the Wasserman-Schultz situation (which I think is incredibly overblown) to a sovereign foreign government's military intelligence corrupting the American government. And yes, when comparing those two things, the latter is far more worse.
there is just no way I'm doing a sleep study

As others have already explained, you can now do an in-home study. Not nearly as good as when you're all wired up in the sleep center. But still good enough to get a general indication of how you are doing.

Okay, you still resist that, so ...

How about going to bed, for one night, with a small, inexpensive, device on your finger? Viz. a pulse oximeter. Surely you can handle that for one night???!!!

When you stop breathing, which you admit you do (at least according to your wife), the amount of oxygen in your blood drops. Perhaps to unsafe levels. This is very bad for you long term. Very bad.

So, just try the pulse oximeter. For a few nights. It's cheap and non-intrusive.

In anticipation of scaring yourself into getting a CPAP machine, buy an oximeter that's compatible with SleepyHead. Here's a disussion about that: http://www.apneaboard.com/forums/Thread-What-oximeter-works-...
I care a lot about the genocide and illegal wars :( I've written online under my real name and fake names, I've done deep original research, some of it gets fairly decent traction.

I think we all actually are legitimately powerless to stop the war machine and the majority of Americans who actually support it... so the rest of us are lost to apathy.
I think it is, at least nowadays. In my experiences as a teacher, most just aren't doing it anymore. They're not doing anything besides playing on their phones. I'd love to have students who would just do their work. And I think it was true in the past, even before the curse of smartphones. Kids would find other ways to avoid doing their work, and the ones who succeeded were the ones who did it.
That's completely wrong. It's 100% not going to compete with DSL. It will be used by enterprise, or people who pay $100+/more to offset equipment costs. The reason satellite internet costs so much is equipment cost.
From Tesla Delivery Hell to Giving Me Control of Their Forums with 1.5M Contacts
> IMO, what we really need is more automation, plus a Basic Income so that people forced out of work by the automation can still enjoy the fruits of society's success without having to toil in some pointless bullshit job, and perhaps use their free time and efforts to do something more productive (like start an innovative new business, write a best-selling book like Harry Potter's author, etc.).

How do you decide what is a pointless bullshit job? How do you decide what it means to be productive? How much of the success of a business relies on its innovation, or the success of a book on how well written it is? How many people have the drive and self-discipline for self employment?

On the face of it, what it sounds like you're contrasting isn't "pointless bullshit" and innovative productivity, but "what bores me" and "what excites me" or "what fulfills me."

It's easy to confuse the good-in-itself of work with the goods-in-themselves that work facilitates (paying the bills, feeding a family, giving to the less fortunate, et c). If we prioritize the former over the latter, we're going to have a crummy society in whatever regime we use to try to solve the thorny issues of automation and living wages.
North Korea says it has tested ‘ultramodern tactical weapon’
One of the consequences of the Sputnik launch was that it basically enshrined the principle that overflying another country with an active satellite was not an illegal act. (That is, the US government decided not to protest, because it meant they wouldn't have to apologize for their own future spy satellites.) I doubt China wants to break this precedent.
Show the ads to the most users with the highest bid price ?

What is Google's mission nowadays? I don't see them following a lot of "Organize the world's information and make it open". There's a ton of closed walls, they even acquired companies like freebase and then their stuff went behind closed doors.
What exactly are you asking people to do here? See an article about Facebook, the company, and not post it because it may result in people saying mean things in the comments about the people who work there?

Facebook's behavior and the recent interest in covering it by the media surfaces the many ethical issues we, as hackers, have a responsibility to confront head-on in our industry and frankly includes things many people have been warning about happening for decades. These articles about the negative impacts (intentional or otherwise) of the software systems that Facebook has created are the very definition of Hacker News.
Interesting. Out of curiosity, why don't they think Microsoft or Amazon are prestigious? Which one of those parameters do they fail?
Poor little Facebook being dragged through the mud on the hacker website just because it destroyed like not even 10 democracies yet.
Here's a thought: Maybe doctors should do what nearly every other industry can do. Provide a price quote upfront? I will say there was one circumstance where I received upfront billing without health insurance and that was for a colonoscopy. It was around $2k and they gave a 25% discount for payment upfront. So it's certainly possible for healthcare providers to do this. As I mention below, it's not usually the case:

I broke my hand a little over a year ago during a gap without health insurance. Knowing the ER would start at $1000 for a 'hello' and that I might not have a competent specialist, I decided to take matters into my own hands (haha). First was a call to a friend in Montreal with a sister that's a surgeon. I assessed that while driving to Canada would be more cost effective than a US emergency room, the border might give me issues and followup visits would be troublesome.

So, I walked off the mountain and made a makeshift splint at a Rite Aid with medical tape and a plastic ruler for around $5 ( https://twitter.com/vvtgd/status/879360595526635520 ). When I got back home a few days later I went to a hand specialist, told them I'd pay upfront and had them set it. All in with followups it was around $800.

Initially the specialist's receptionist idiots couldn't figure out how to bill me in person. If you have staff that doesn't know how to invoice a client that pays in cash, you shouldn't be in business. Full stop. Why should a cash paid-in-full client pay more than any other insurance company is beyond me.

Another back on insurance anecdote: I needed an urgent visit not too long ago. PCP wasn't updated on my card, but I did it through health insurance website. Dr still wouldn't accept. Had to pay in person with my CC. Receptionist stole the CC details (it was the only place I used that card for magstripe transaction at in weeks). I needed to get a new card and manually submit the payment details. It's been two months and I still don't have the money back for the visit.

(I'm not going to repeat myself but many years back I also had a rabies vaccination story in which I received almost $20k in hospital bills)

What the above anecdote suggests is that the industry is broken and relies on fantasyland pricing because providers no longer have to compete due to insurance networks. The new hotness is VC's getting into running clinics because as universities can do, they can charge unlimited pricing and force the market to accept it. You don't have an option to barter with health providers, you can't sue them when they are scumbags (because professional protections, etc), and in most situations you don't have a choice whether you get sick/injured... it's just the risk of living.
I'm the greater insomniac in my household, so I was the one to note my wife's snoring and breathing cessations. She felt fine in the morning. A sleep study showed her PO2 levels dipping as low as 76. She's a CPAP user now.

I think of sleep apnea as a bit like chronic high blood pressure: few or no perceptible symptoms until you become a dialysis or stroke patient.
Hey, if Facebook ain't bad, they can take it.
Comments like this make no sense to me.

You gave Facebook your data and agreed with a ToS that states pretty clearly this is what they will do. And then are upset when they do it ?