skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not clear to me that it's necessary to make money from publishing news. Many people contribute to Wikipedia without being paid.
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> He was just saying that the term "sexual assault" is inaccurate in that it implies violence.

Which is also incorrect. Sexual assault encompasses coercion without physical violence.

It is accurate to say that the girl was sexually assaulted; whether or not Minsky sexually assaulted her is up for debate.

I agree with the parent that it seems sketchy that Minsky (and the others present) didn't have at least some idea what was going on. At best, these girls could be prostitutes, but just assuming everything about the situation was completely legit is in my mind morally questionable.

Then there wass also a person present at the gathering who says Minsky turned the girl down. If she says that she had sex with him, I would tend to believe her, though.
AFAIK Epstein was not a convicted sex offender back when the original story happened.

Is it truly an assault if Minsky didn't know what and how someone was sent to him? If someone forces a non-obviously underage girl to come to you at a bar and seduce you, should you be tried for sexual assault?
> They made the conscious decision to monetize personal data belonging to more than a hundred million people. That means they should take every measure available

I disagree. I think it means they owe a hundred million people (a) an offer to opt-in to their service and (b) a share of their profits for doing so.
It's unfortunate that scarlet letter offences are still alive and well in today's culture.

Normally, when someone engages in behavior seen as offensive, the procedure is to pressure the person to apologize and mend his ways, and only get rid of him if he refuses to do so.

But when a "scarlet letter" offence is involved, we jump straight to the punishment phase, removing the person outright with no judicial process. This is completely backwards, anti-democratic, and anti-freedom. It brings a chilling effect on everyone, because suddenly people start to realize that they're living under the Sword of Damocles, which could destroy them at any moment without warning. You can never be sure if something you say or do is going to get you publicly pilloried in future, and destroy your career, friendships, and reputation in the blink of an eye. Far better to just sit quiet and never say anything that might offend someone. Far better not to participate at all.

Mob justice always turns ugly in the end. That's why we have courts.
Probably reddit
its more like entertainment 720 or whatever it was called in parks and recreation
Isn't a normal run of the mill business that happens to have an app the definition of a startup?
You’re missing the point, not working at FB/Google/Microsoft/Yahoo!/Amazon/Apple doesn’t mean you aren’t a talented engineer, but the fact remains, having worked at one of those companies for several years or longer is a sure fire way to get recruiters to chase you. So not having any of those folks (which recruiters lust for) and yet being a “tech unicorn” is generally not a good sign.
> "there was a time when children were taught sex in practical lessons with their parents and this was the norm and perfectly accepted and as such worked well."

What time is this referring to?
DNS working in a corporate IT environment is a surprise. Often, clients are issued an internal DNS server via DHCP, and outbound DNS to arbitrary servers is blocked. This helps mitigate DNS hijacking and also allows some additional outbound domain filtering and logging.
This quote resonates:

‘We want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen, in the best sense. As it is, we make both ungentle, the one envying, the other despising, his brother; and the mass of society is made up of morbid thinkers and miserable workers. Now it is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.’
I think you’re right, there is definitely room for consumer-funded content in the market - and I wish you the best in your endeavors.

But I think suggesting an ad-free future is a leap, not least because paid content platforms need to do marketing. Why do you have a Netflix subscription? Because you heard they had some good shows? how do you know what shows they have before you subscribe?
It's only 4600 light years away. If it collapses in to blackhole, it would be the closest blackhole to the earth? In few 10s of thousands of year, can it devour solar system?
I think if you are going to respect the environment, you should have every right to witness the best of our planet.

Even if visiting that place destroys what you supposedly cherish?
We had a situation at work where some developers really got attached to downloading npm modules at container start time to make builds fast. But then starting the containers took 15 minutes :P
I have promblem with my memory
I have a problem with memory, sometimes 3 or 4 days, I lost a quarter of the memory, and it makes it hard for me to learn programming, is there anyone who has experienced something like me?
Nope, anybody from developed world (UK, Europe, Japan etc) can buy or sell US stocks. You just need a proper broker, something like Interactive Brokers, IG etc
To make the email look more genuine, a Microsoft logo was added.

I'm not sure the number of people who would fall for it with or without an extra logo would be all that different...
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He would say that. Nobody likes to feel like a dupe, and there’s safety in numbers. I doubt he had a Purdue rep in his office change his mind about prescribing habits.

Still, you go to conferences and there are often a few Gladwell-caliber speakers at the big ones who get your head bobbing up and down for an hour. It’s very much in the drug companies’ interest to convince those speakers. Then the whole thing feels very organic, everyone’s new opinion feels like a reasoned medical choice.
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It really is insane that people buy these services. Do you hire a security guard to stand in front of the bank as well?
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> I wish somebody would have simply advised him not to speak on such matters because nothing good could become of it. Maybe he needed a PR manager. That sounds awful, but apparently this is what the world wants: carefully filtered speech that doesn't stray far from what people already agree with.

The world needs everyone to speak about every topic. If we all self censor then only the extremists will be speaking.
Have you tried paying more?
What does this say of the army of homeless in California? Are they just 'doing it wrong'?
How does one learn what is wrong unless they speak out? You have to give people room to grow and forgive them when they fail.
Yeah we're going to continue to kill hundreds of thousands more people before this will even start to be discussed by politicians because our politicians are incredibly stupid and closed minded. But maybe if enough people die, things will change, possibly through voter referendums. I never thought legal marijuana would be a thing, yet it is (federal laws notwithstanding). Once people in states with referendums get tired of their friends and family dying by the thousands, maybe they'll act. Current politicians sure won't. But these primitive morons will eventually die themselves, hopefully sooner rather than later, and hopefully their replacements will be slightly less idiotic, more pragmatic, or perhaps even compassionate. Stranger things have happened. That's why we must continue to advocate for the only solution that has been proven to work despite the challenge of getting it implemented. One day we will look upon the drug war and its perpetrators the way we look at Nazis now. Or our children or grandchildren will. That I'm certain of. How far down the line, no one knows.
I think the big thing is trust in the market. Consumers tend to be conservative in which parts of the market they trust. They don't want to pay for something if they have no idea if they're going to get their money's worth. With existing markets, or any market that lots of people are using, people trust that it's okay so they join. With something new, are you going to pay money to access something if you don't know if it's any good? Moving towards free+ads is always easier than towards payment up front.

That said, Netflix is incredibly successful with something new, but that also took years. Netflix worked hard on the reputation that they had the best, most interesting new TV shows that you couldn't get anywhere else. But it takes years to overcome that inertia.
>Mind you, the fundamental thesis of our presentation was Politically Incorrect, but we wanted people to get upset about the actual content rather than the form in which it was presented

Gosh, that were peaceful times in 1993, weren't they? Nowadays they would risk to get into a twitter shitstorm demanding their resignation, firing, and disappearance.
My reaction to his comments, which is entirely personal and wholly my own, is in response to all of his words in this e-mail thread

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6405929-091320191420...

Which I interpret in the context of some of his previous comments

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Astallman.org+pedophil...

His comments are painful to me, and I feel they were spoken with an air of zero accountability in regards to his leadership role. I don't think he "should" be forced to resign his leadership role, I'm here only to comment that it gives me hope that leadership and accountability are trending toward not away from each other.
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This is an era where you can only have extreme opinions. If you are not all-out against statutory rape, you are seen as pro-rape. One is not like the other.

You don't magically get the mental tools for informed consent for sex the day you turn 18. You may get over the threshold for informed consent before, you may do so much later, and some people may not get there at all.

Classifying his opinions as fundamentally wrong is a childish view of the world. He does not advocate non-consensual sex, nor does he argue for pedophilia. He holds a much more nuanced view, which may be wrong for the current US moral compass but is not fundamentally/laws-of-nature wrong as is being painted by SJWs.
Might as well not even vote. Your one votes can't turn the tide.
They were born to the wrong parents. http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/ is a great read about the specific advantages that a trivial percentage of Americans enjoy
Nintendo licensed the console version to Coleco. They produced a version for their own console, the Colecovision (where I believe it was a pack-in title), as well as a version for thr Atari 2600.
guy seems to have matured a lot in his later years.
That, on average, they would be worse off if they were born elsewhere. It's a predictor - nobody was suggesting that it's the only factor, or that it's deterministic.
We don’t know where they were born.

But more importantly these studies just prove out that the zip code you are born in is highly correlated to the socio-economic status of your parents. Which is the real predictor for future status.
And now the twitter post is gone? I'm guessing the west coast woke up and someone at Apple said "Wait, you could infer some proprietary information with that information ..."
HN definitely has a pitchfork mentality similar to other groups. It also leans politically left. It's not as bad as reddit yet but it is slowly getting that way (waiting for downvotes).
Its mass would not change, so it should not affect other objects more than it does at the moment (I think).
You could look through language ratings like this
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

And choose some new language which is not loosing its market share (like Java, PHP or Perl), but growing now (like Python, Go). Also the best way to switch to new language - is to choose some similar language to the one you used recently, like PHP -> Python or Python -> Go.

Anyway, good luck in your career!
I think advertising increases discretionary spending, it just redirects it.

When smoking ads were banned, profits for cigarette companies went up, because they didn't have to spend money on marketing anymore. Addicts still kept buying them anyway. Previously, smoking ads were to get people to buy your brand rather than some competing brand.
> never used them innapropriately

> I’d save them

Worth noting that by the definition a doctor would use these two observations are incompatible.
> I'm not really sure why you're expressing derision towards people that don't want sexual assault trivialized.

I have no issues at all with people who disagree with RMS or myself or anyone else, and express their opinions. I have issues with people who believe that their opinions and the sensationalist claims media distort them into justify a mob crusade trying to destroy organizations, careers, friendships and so on.

> Also it's not a bad thing to want social justice,

Social justice will never arise from people who organize lynch mobs.
> Don't talk authoritatively about subjects you don't understand

No one is allowed to have an opinion unless they're an "expert"

(Sarcasm)
The bigger question in my mind is how much geography matters inside one country. For comparison's sake, I think the point of the article works even better to compare a woman in America to a woman in Saudi Arabia. On the other hand, it's a bit apples and oranges -- the kingdom explicitly disallows women to do many things without a man, whereas if there are effects like that in America still, they're definitely much more subtle than being enacted in law. So how does the apples to apples comparison work out? Does geography play nearly as large a role in a country? Does it play as large a role in a smaller, more homogenous country (Sweden, say) than in America?
This reminds me that I can't recall the last time I wrote something by hand.

I don't even have a pen now on my desk.
What exactly do you have in mind?
Can we focus on what the article says rather than on a distraction that focuses on an alleged anecdote about the author from decades ago that does nothing to confirm or refute the research and presentation of this article?
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Interesting to see such a fueled reaction against the tech industry by those wanting to regulate it. If that's going to happen, then I guess this may be signalling the beginning of the end of a long merry-go-round of startups, apps and crazy acquisitions. Hence why all these unprofitable companies rushing their IPOs ahead of the prospect of a possible tech regulation.

For those who were lucky enough at the time, congratulations to you. For everyone else, I have just had a visit with the four horsemen of the apocalypse and they told me that a recession or a crash in the tech industry is coming.

Welp, its time to get ye earnings and to get out while you can.
However grocery stores and other businesses in that chain have bailers for the cardboard and other processes to insure recycling.

blue apron's fault is trying to enter a space too easily replicated by others including the very grocery stores who have everything mostly in place except for the recipes.

it wasn't long after services like Blue Apron came about and were newsworthy before many grocery stores started having prepackaged fresh items you could mix and match for a quick meal.
This is something they (ICQ team) are working on right now (actually they are launching ICQ-based Slack-alike collaboration solution, Myteam)
I think there's more nuance, though. Trump gets a pass (and even praise) for the garbage he spews because he has so many supporters. RMS gets kicked out because his community demands better.

If you or I said something stupid, it'd either not be noticed much at all, or get 15 minutes of fame and then fade into obscurity. In reality, our lives wouldn't change all that much. Yes, there's an outside chance that we could do something so dumb that we'd lose our jobs, but that's vanishingly unlikely, and still, I'd expect the effect to be temporary.
But his argument wasn't 'statutory rape isn't bad,' his argument was 'statutory rape isn't always assault, and saying it is unnecessarily widens the definition of assault.' The widespread, seemingly willful misinterpretation of his statements does make it a SJW witch-hunt imo.
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Nathaniel Hawthorn raising.
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I second that. This seems really full stack as you can get, but I'm not really a professional dev by training, so I don't know if most people are this hardcore. I built and host some web apps myself but everytime I have to switch from doing something front end to back or vice versa I find I need to refamiliarize myself with a bunch of stuff and have to stop myself from panicking
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Uber’s baffling claim that its drivers aren’t core to its business, explained
Not sure why they put Melinda's gender as a handicap, it allowed her to get things handed to her on a platter by Bill. She is now loved and famous thanks to spending Bill's money on charity without taking any of the downsides and hate related to starting a company and fiercely clawing yourself to the top like Bill did.

I agree that being a woman is a handicap in many situations, but saying that Melinda had to make more sacrifices to get where she is than Bill is laughable.
>Point is the media is making this out to be an indictment on some SV tech bubble but people in SV are looking at this from the outside like everyone else.

Question: How do you think this company got a $40B+ valuation?

Answer: By renting office space to "Silicon Valley" companies with equally silly ideas and terrible financials. It epitomizes SV.
>Don't talk authoritatively about subjects you don't understand

Then it's time to just shut down HN in general, eh?
He said things as a certain role model or in a setup where he shouldn't.

It's just reasonable to remove him from those positions.

Independly I find it very weird what he was saying nonetheless and for this he falls under a category of humans which I don't think are worth it to give such amount of support.

There are other people out there which are worth it more.

I stopped working with people who might be technical good or very good but dicks. I hate working with dicks. There is no amount of brilliance which justifice being a dick.
Maybe he isn't talking about becoming a dollar billionaire at an early age at any community. Maybe he is talking top in the context of that community. If he was born in a remote village of a third world country, maybe he was going to rise to the top and have more cattle than anyone else, but globally, he was going to be a successful but an unknown herdman.

Edit: Removed confusing Latin terms.
I'm curious as well, for example to imagine how the event would unfold, as it would not be the direct remnant of a supernova. For an observer, would the neutron star seem to just disappear? Where would be the horizon and what would it look like as it suddenly appears?
So long and thanks for all the code!

To be blunt, I’m not sure the FSF is worth having without someone as stubborn as RMS at the helm, but with any luck, they can still do a proper job of maintaining his legacy. Increasingly I find Stallman was right, and I hope he will continue to publicly do what he can to advance free software.
And everybody can speak about anything. As long as they don't care being hounded by the neo-puritan prudes and lose job, career, social standing.
> The world needs everyone to speak about every topic. If we all self censor then only the extremists will be speaking.

Thinking in extremes (we all self-censor or everyone speaks out on every topic) is the first step towards extremism.

There is a middle ground. Our curse is being unable to pin it down, while forever having to search for it. Democracy is hard. And it should be. Easy solutions are not going to be democratic.
> but apparently this is what the world wants: carefully filtered speech that doesn't stray far from what people already agree with.

Let's never forget that famous G.B. Shaw quotation, always appropriate in such situations. http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/692.html

I don't want to live in a world where everyone has to take great care all the time to fulfil the FotM expectations of certain noisy people who believe they're a majority.
Could someone explain what non-automated underwriting means? And what does confirming mean in this sense?

I get that they win compared to those who use more labor, but still some details would be nice :)
I expect so, I just found it amusing. I picture him looking back on his callow middle age with a bemused expression.

on edit: finished, got cut off early by interviewer.
>This has nothing to do with 'SJWs'

>I think it's much more likely you're clinging to buzzwords.

The ESR's article[1] you are referencing is so much more than just headline. I encourage you to read it, and try to re-construct the events, the thoughts, and the emotions that led ESR to post a piece that explosive. The comment section alone spans some 760 responses over four years, with people chipping in with their observations from the trenches and with their shattered dreams. While writing, ESR was in communication with several victims of then-recent social media mobs, and conveyed their woes.

The two bits of article that stood out to me:

>The hacker culture’s norm about inclusion is clear:
>anybody who can pull the freight is welcome

and

>We must (...)
>learn to recognize their thought-stopping jargon and kafkatraps

--

[1] "Why Hackers Must Eject the SJWs", http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6918
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I can see the Twitter post without issues.
I would still just do Whole Foods delivery and cook together if that’s what they’re after. It sounds like they’ve memorized the recipes if they really cook them that much.

Or order take out and save even more time and share dinner together.
For my past six or seven contracts I've been carrying around the same set of fetch util functions I wrote in ES6 a few years ago - it's less than 200 lines of code. If the API endpoints are ready to go, CRUD is the easy part. Which tools would you consider CRUD as something you get free?
Lenders don't look at credit karma, so they are useless, can show you any number you like.
Unfortunately we carry a second responsibility to help the DEA control drugs, and the scope of our liability is ill-defined. We need to make medically justifiable choices at each point to retain the privilege of legally prescribing or dispensing controlled substances. I will err on the side of not dispensing opioids to someone I don’t know or a case I’m not familiar with.
Twitter has become a breeding ground for mobs and unjustified moral policing.
I started following people based on the technical work they have done and was hoping to learn or get inspired them.

Apart from a very few, every accomplished technologist have started using Twitter and their followers to attack others. This is nothing but the witch hunt from medieval times done differently.

I have interacted with RMS in Emacs developer list, he has a strong opinion and nothing more, nothing less. He is not trying to create a mob and nor is he starting an upraising. If you have an opinion, voice it and leave it. Yes, I agree RMS needed a PR to tread the land mine ridden modern life.

Overall, it is sad to see RMS and his work getting trivialized for totally unrelated reasons.