skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In both my comments (my original reply to that person and my later one to you) I defended/supported the substance of your point of view, while seeking to de-escalate the conflict.

I don't think the accusations/presumptions they made about you were fair or reasonably expressed, but again, I chose my words in an effort to de-escalate things. The heated, ideological nature of the discussion began with your root comment.

The HN guidelines explicitly ask that "Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive", and this discussion shows just why that's so important.

I personally care a lot about free speech and want it to be something we can have constructive discussions about on HN. They can't happen when people throw ideologically-charged bombs around.
Because GAAP is a useful tool for analyzing a business, independent of what the CEO might say. The CEO is not exactly an objective observer to his own company.
Of You want to mix system colors with your own you can calc the contrast too! (How i leave as an exercise for the reader)
What is your argument? Share your view of how an insurance work, so that we can compare.
Wouldn't Google and Amazon rather have more money for effectively targeted ads?
That's a fair point. I concede: I understand why it makes some people nervous.
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Yes. Didn't realize GIC is a Canadian term only. They're almost exactly like CDs.
Are you incorporated? I think you're required to pay yourself if you are, even if minimum wage. That would put it back on your balance sheet, and make the IRS happy.

(If its a sole proprietorship, I'm not sure shat the rules are)
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> Windows is a clear winner over ChromeOS

Could you expand on this statement?
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I'm using this for years. It's very solid.
Same for me. It may be because Instagram lends itself to "life style" follows?

In my case, I'm interested in climbing, and because brands actually post interesting content, I'll follow them. Do this over a few categories of interests and it may result in Instagram having a better understanding of my interests/things I'll care about.
Facebook still crushed the numbers even with all the 'scandals'... There's no cheaper way to upend a democracy... I mean 'connect people'.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/30/facebook-earnings-q4-2018.ht...
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Your dock is a glorified USB hub, unless it's a more expensive Thunderbolt dock, in which case it's a glorified PCIe switch. In either case, the added latency is completely imperceptible to humans, and in the latter case, pretty hard to measure from userspace software. The dock is not even close to being the largest source of latency in the chain. The components that can be responsible for tens or hundreds of milliseconds of latency are the display, hard drives and overloaded SSDs, network, and bad software.
If I crank the steering wheel of my car hard right the center line of the freeway doesn't actually move. It might appear that way from my little bubble but reality stays the same. From the perspective of a typical Fox News viewer education has a strong left bias because they're effectively driving on the shoulder.
Spamming a stupid joke at someone on twitter is far right harassment? Good lord, all that's necessary is to not look at your notifications for a week until the meme passes and you'll never even notice anything happened.
You can get that price in London too e.g. at the Peckhamplex. GP probably went to the Odeon flagship cinema in the west end.
And if it costs you as much but you get paid way more, then you have way more money to spend on other shit. The math is not that complicated.
Another view on their methodology:

"The (K12SSD) table at right shows that the majority of “school shootings” over the last 48 years occur outside while on school campus. When tied in with non-shooting “school shooting” definitions, such as brandishing, we get a very different picture. By this project’s definitions, if someone on the sidewalk outside the school brandished a gun, that was a “school shooting”. Three percent of “school shootings” in the database involve no shots being fired at all. And if we include single shots (regardless of from where they came, or if they were suicides, or if they were late at night, etc.) those add up to 63% of all incidents."

http://www.gunfacts.info/blog/school-shooting-database-and-p...

I hardly think K12SSD's releases come "with no editorializing".
> You still have to install Android Studio, build your app as an APK, and upload it.

:(

Not having to do that was what I was hoping for with stores allowing PWAs. Maybe it at least means that the APK only needs to be built once? If it has to be rebuilt for every release, I don't see what this offers that Cordova can't do better.
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The HN equivalent of the deplorables comment.
Yeah, sure. Let’s bring back the racist bullshit undermining democracy for your entertainment.
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That’s a good point. My guess is that extensions do not run when a PWA is installed and launched in standalone mode.
The point of ad targeting isn't to generate relevant ads. It's so the advertising platform can put you in a more expensive targeting cohort, increasing the revenue from serving the ad. The "optimal" bid for serving you an ad to your cohort is proportional to the product of expected relevance and the revenue per conversion.

If a programming placement firm makes $100 per lead (after various filter steps) on your targeting info, and a witty t-shirt makes $10, your cohort has to convert ten times as often on t-shirts to match the recruiting firm's ad bids.
I'll add most Western media to that list of publications with anti India bias, such as NYTimes and Washington Post to name a few.
You sussed that out right! Thanks for explaining perfectly, and more rationally, what I was trying to express.
The part where he says "My problem has always been that I have too many interests -- everything is interesting to me"

that really rang true
There are plenty of competitors! :)
And The Economist
I happen to agree with you, but others might not. I'd rather the system just let the user decide, and that preference get propagated into the appropriate place.

But, every company wants their app be a glorified ad for the app I'm already using, and wants it to use their branding: their colors, their fonts, their precise level of rounded corners.

I just want to have a consistent UX that allows me to get shit done.
Eeeeh. They're getting reasonable in price but I wouldn't call them dirt cheap. Since it's a homelab that lives in my house that rules out anything that sounds like a jet engine. If I match my other ubnt gear you're looking $400+ for a SFP+ capable switch.

I can hit 125MB/s on my ZFS migrations so it's not a unachievable number, just that Ceph had overhead(which is fine, it's doing something different than ZFS).
I'd count Minecraft as a success story. (Not sure if the deal closed under Nadella, but it was certainly started during Ballmer's reign.)
> Is this field flipping man made?

No.

> Let’s spend billions of tax dollars in an attempt to stop the field from flipping.

What?

> Scientists are always correct.

No actual scientists are arguing that it is man made...
The curious case of the Carstairs key fobs has been cracked
I have never bought anything from an ad. One time I saw an ad for something that seemed very relevant but I had already clicked on the next link and when I navigated back the site showed something different :-(
One of my favorite railroading business yarns is the opposite of an IPO: the dissolution of the Reading Railroad. When the railroad started to collapse a group of savvy investors bought a controlling share for pennies on the dollar because they realized that the company owned a fortune in real estate and facilities. They then sold off those assets to finance a group of movie theaters in Australia and New Zealand which still exists today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_Company#Post-railroad:...
The reason they can get away with this is because they make it so difficult to figure out the total price.
chill out, the murder rate is going down. Police focusing on non-violent drug offenses and continuously militarizing instead of focusing on those said cold cases is not an excuse to do genetic surveillance at scale. Illicitly building a genetic database with the help of a corporation which is basically screwing over its customers is not the linchpin of solving the 40% of murders which remain unsolved. I get that fear sells, but let's not look from the sidelines while the police state is being built and rationalize it because OMG, HOW MANY MURDERES GO FREE. Again, the murder rate is going down, this is just good old state surveillance.
yeah indeed... loads of scifi distopias seem to be well suited on a British stage. Also I wonder after Brexit the UK goes a total different path considering privacy etc. than the EU will go.
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I think one of the clearest examples of this is "old Microsoft" vs "new Microsoft". Windows used to be something you bought (or pirated...), and then MS would just leave you alone. But Windows 10 is definitely headed towards the "service" model; despite being a product that can be bought, it's also full of deeply embedded nearly-impossible-to-remove telemetry and gives Microsoft power to arbitrarily disrupt you with forced updates and other unwanted changes.
> One does not simply add complex script support to some simplistic text drawing codebase.

We don't disagree here. This is the reason why rendering support for non-Latin scripts is usually abysmal on most software like op. It's why authors need help and usually won't do it themself.

> Thus, it's a major architectural decision to support complex scripts at all, and to figure out how to do it.

That's all the more reason to contribute to the project.

> It's not useful advice.

Perhaps it isn't very practical, but someone has to do it. It's also better than the alternative of just complaining without contributing towards a useful result.
The article you linked is about GEDmatch and the golden state killer. This one is about Family tree DNA.
Net neutrality: Federal judges had tough questions for the FCC
> If you give them access to your code what's to stop them kicking you to the curb and taking it for themselves? Free code and no need to pay you.

The code is already OS. They are paying me for convenience (don't have to self host) and my expertise.

> The fact that you're a sole founder should be zero issue with clients, frankly it's none of their concern at all how your company is structured.

I think you're very wrong about this. I think my customers are correct to be wary about trusting a key part of their business to a single founder just due to the bus factor problem.

> The fact that they think it is their concern leads me to believe your presenting yourself as a one man band as opposed to a professional company which is something you can control.

As mindcrime says, I'm obviously not going to lie about it. It's also pretty obvious I am extremely small compared to my competitors given the very niche market I'm part of.
Cancer Rates of Vegetarians
The tentative release for many of these new electric cars are in 2019/2010. There's probably going to be a good chance that they are delayed with the technical difficulty of manufacturing electric cars at scale.

Also I wouldn't count out Tesla's major advantage in sourcing the best batteries at wholesale prices.
MMKV: An efficient, small mobile key-value storage framework
Realistically, the average speed of any car navigating an urban grid with stop lights/signs is usually going to be a lot less than 25 miles per hour. Maybe more like 5-10, even if it's not deliberately trying to drive slow.
Intriguingly, I've found more good podcasts through Overcast recently than almost anywhere else.. via their ads which are so high quality and well targeted that they work as a discovery mechanism.
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Animals have been genetically modifying themselves to have stronger immune systems for millions of years. Are you proposing to halt evolution through natural selection?
Also I'd suggest you may be interested in reading the article properly because he clearly explains and has a reason for the color-coding and for it to be visual.
I think the essence of a web app is that it works on any platform. It shouldn't know anything about Google Play Store or Apple App Store. Otherwise, it's just a native app with a webview.
Aztec Political Thought (2013)
What's false about any of the information from articles I posted? If all you have is making fun of the name of the website, but not commenting on the content of the posts, then you don't have argument. You have an insult.

Stop being a coward and pretending like you're giving career advice here, or just in it for the lulz. Look at the screen grabs from 4chan. It's pretty explicit that the goal is to make these people's lives unbearable simply because they disagree with what the journalists write.

So why don't you stop pretending like "it's just a joke" and come out and say what you really believe? Which, if it aligns with the beliefs of the kids on /pol/ that are pushing this meme, is something like "people who write things I disagree with need to harassed so much so they stop writing things I disagree with." And if your goal is not to harass people who write things you don't like, you at least have to admit your are aligned with people who want that.

It's not so much the message I find repulsive, it the cowardice of the messengers.
I haven't had a car payment in years. I buy older cars for cash.
Simplicity helps us find the truth without pointing at it (2007) [pdf]
> I would gladly donate my DNA to be tested to find criminals.

The definition of criminal can change overnight. This may not be used only to catch serial killers. Nobody is stopping the feds to use this to target political dissidents. I don't get why anyone who knows about COINTELPRO can side with the feds on issues like this. It's not like they've stopped, actually. Check out what the feds investigated about the neo-Nazi rally in Sacramento. Still want them to handle your DNA?
They even have a high-touch sales process where a real person sends you emails and replies when you send them questions. Imagine that at AWS!

You haven’t had the joy of having a business support plan from AWS. You can start a chat and get immediate help. They will do a screen share with you if necessary. I have had a 100% success with them. This is everything from CloudFormstion issues, S3 cross account permissions with CodeBuild/CodePipeline, API gateway/Route53 set up issues, IAM permissions to read and write from S3 to Aurora/Redshift, a best practices question with DynamoDB/Dax with Python, and a Route 53/Security group/autoscale group/load balancer issue.

All of these issues were because of my
lack of knowledge on the platform.
I kinda doubt actually. Personal anecdote : I disabled location history about a year ago, and it almost never asked me to enable it afterwards, obviously they dialed it down quite a bit lately. Other claims are also hand wavy. They should include tiimestamped videos with build ids otherwise, it is horse manure.
A-fucking-men. YouTube's recommendations are effectively worthless to me because they're full of garbage I'll never watch instead of videos actually relevant to the one I'm watching (no, YouTube, just because I watched an antivax conspiracy video because it was linked on reddit and I want to laugh at it doesn't mean it's something I want to watch every day after watching entirely-unrelated things).

On another note:

"But everyone sucks, except Pandora."

No, they suck, too. Thumb-up one song and it'll commandeer the station. Half the songs are live recordings (and I haven't checked if they finally added the option to exclude them, but given that it hadn't been added many years after the original feature suggestion by the time I switched to Spotify, I don't have high hopes); thumbing down said live recordings doesn't actually stop them from showing up (in fact, my "fuck this, I'm switching to Spotify" moment was when Pandora queued up three live recordings in a row, all of which I thumbed down, then on the fourth in a row wouldn't let me thumb it down because I had too many "skips" today).

Fuck Pandora. Spotify's radio feature is just as good (which ain't saying much, but it doesn't bombard me with live recordings, so that's a start), and of course Spotify supports use-cases besides procedurally-generated radio stations. Way more useful.
> Surely you would need to place that suspects DNA at the scene

Don't underestimate DNA transfer. Your DNA can end up in locations you have never been:

https://www.wired.com/story/dna-transfer-framed-murder/