skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a hard time buying into that contrarian view in a post-Cambridge Analytica world. If anything, it feels like whataboutism to me. While Twitter is trying to deal with the mass corruption of democracy around the world from micro-targeted lies, they want to talk about some kid's high school student president campaign.
Of course not. But the point is there are many possible explanations other than "aging" to explain lack of breakthroughs in older people.
The same question can be asked of Twitter. Twitter serves up other content alongside tweets, and makes a profit doing it (as of last year). Is this a privacy nightmare? Yup. Is it more of a privacy nightmare if a different company does it? Depends on the company. Maybe a given user will trust a given provider more than they trust Twitter, or maybe they'll like their ad policy more, or maybe they'll be willing to pay a premium to not be served ads, or maybe they'll want to search through tweets using more specific filters than Twitter allows. To me, choice of provider sounds like something that should increase security for those who desire it and educate themselves. For those who don't, there are other tradeoffs they can make.

This all assumes I'm interpretting Dorsey's statements correctly, and of course I may not be.
Try Kexi (Qt, part of Caligra Office, formerly KOffice) and glom (GTK)
Tony Jack makes this pretty clear. Schools are patting themselves on the back for increasing low income and minority enrollment without considering the fact that a large portion of these students is the "privileged poor". As a result, entire school-wide policies are being misguided and failing poor students who did not have an elite-level secondary education.

Back-of-the-envelope math (which I don't believe is correct) is not going to invalidate this. Why is this research important? Because it's bringing attention to how universities are failing truly disadvantaged students. Tony is currently shaping discourse about class-relations on campuses around the US, and I don't think the gravity of these discussions should be trivialized simply because these students do not represent a huge population of students. By encouraging schools to fully grasp the extent of the difficulties that doubly disadvantaged students have to overcome, I think we can start moving in a productive direction that empowers poor students beyond elite institutions.
My first job out of school was fixing someone's bright idea of writing a few dozen ecommerce websites with Access as a data store. They stored the CC# so it could be run later as a card not present purchase. It was nightmare fuel, this was in ~2006.
Speaking of lazy things: your justification has entirely consisted of "history has shown" without even giving anecdotes, let alone data to support it.

I will do some actual work and delve into said history.

(1) Taxing the rich and corporations excessively -> offshoring income and sheltering assets.

(2) Prohibition -> mass gang violence, marginal reduction in alcohol consumption and a repeal of it.

(3) Recreational drug laws -> overcrowded prisons, broken families and generations of damage.

You cannot just make a law and not consider all of the consequences. Especially one as flippant, unresearched, vindictive and pointless as banning the ability of people to pay to add intellect to their own children.
FileMaker, in my experience, attracts a certain smug developer who simply cannot believe that there are more industrial-strength database systems and that FileMaker can't solve every possible problem in the world. Access devs, at least, don't seem to have that particular quirk.
Does this not give an advantage to people like Trump, who have a large following and media attention, thus letting them still "advertise" via their own tweets? Couldn't people with large followings take money to tweet on behalf of others?
This is some pretty severe self-loathing. You should find yourself a better environment if this is what you’re being told.

> Men capable of rethinking ... what it means to be a male, rather than a man

What does this even mean?
It is, but I also suspect that more checks and balances would be a good thing in this situation.
It is probably better to use "export BC_ENV_ARGS=-lq" than "alias bc='bc -lq'".
The link exists across all primates (and many mammals). Older men teach young males to behave. This is obvious if you know and speak to men about their childhood. All boys want approval from older men and will act out to get it (girls probably want approval from older women, but that's irrelevant).

Anyway I'm not going to write up all the evidence in a post because others have already done so. Here is a good news article which links to a acholarly meta analysis: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-proof-is-infather-abs_b_4...

Also I'm not arguing against female involvement but female only involvement or female dominant involvement. I'm arguing for dedicated parenting by both parents. Women have been raising men since forever and have actually probably had more influence in the past then today. The hand that rocks tge cradle and all. This is great but not a substitute for father's on a societal scale. Men can't substitute for mothers on a societal scale either. But that's not a major issue today the way father absence is.

Finally it does not take a very involved reading of history to realize that individual women also utilize male violence for their own ends. Mothers often ignore sons violence or even encourage it to further their own ends. See any mother of medieval or classical kings and princes to realize that women as a class do not share common interests.
I lost it when you yelled "WHO SHIPPED THIS?" Man, the number of times I've felt that sentiment.
Welcome to MS Office, the Operating System in your Operating System.

"About 30,000,000 lines of code make up the current version of Office that we are developing."[1]

[1]https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/macmojo/2006/11/02/its-all-...
This is just another way of saying that advertising has evolved and twitter is only cracking down on advertising 1.0 and not advertising 2.0
Tesla’s new generation of superchargers already promises something similar for Model 3. Interestingly, you need to select supercharger in navigation system so it can condition the battery before arrival to get best charging time.
Whataboutism would imply I was trying to refute your value judgement. I was pointing out how divisive they are.
I have a lot of respect for the AWS team, but...

> one insanely-complex routine task that we do all the time is hiring. You know what the LPs are at hiring time? A checklist. Now even the typical all-day interview marathon isn’t gonna reliably dig into every LP, but we do an acceptable job of taking a close look at enough of them. I believe that’s very helpful in bringing down the asshole ratio.

In my personal and second degree experience with Amazon and AWS hiring, the application of the LPs by interviewers doesn't work nearly as well as most of them seem to think, and it often devolves into a mostly arbitrary hazing ritual. I'm willing to believe that AWS has fewer assholes, and that you can't excel at operations while an asshole, but I've seen too many bar raisers who acted as arrogant know-it-alls and made completely capricious, arbitrary and damaging decisions.
To steal from patio11, an employment contract is both payment for current services and also an option on future services-- hiring people is hard, and you want to keep them around.[1] A 60 year old is less valuable since they're more likely to retire than a 30 year old.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21177759
Can you explain why would fourier help on talking and not singing?
they can't avoid the hassle. if they terminate me they'll face a wrong termination lawsuit.
> I will admit that there are a fair number of programmers that are fashion-following zombies, but there are a large number who are not easily led by the crowd

Perhaps not, but they are led by money. No one is hiring lisp programmers.

> The alternative - that you're one of the enlightened few, and almost everyone else is a mindless sheep - may feel satisfying, but the very degree to which it is satisfying should make you more wary of accepting it as truth.

I should hope that's not how I come off. My meaning was more that which languages are popular is more a result of inertia than anything. My impression from reading internet forums is that most people who use java and javascript are unhappy with those languages.

> OS programmers in particular are not among those easily led by fashion. If Lisp gave them a real advantage, some of them would use it.

And they do. OS programming is notoriously hard to get into, but even more so if you leave the beaten path. It's inertia again: everyone else is using c, and there's a lot of existing literature about how to write OSes in c, so that's what people do. Rust--which has recently been popular for hobbyist OSes like redox--and c++ were explicitly designed to support the same kinds of programming paradigms as c, so OSes written in them aren't indicative of a deviation from c. But those people who have enough expertise to move past toy OSes and stolen architecture can and do write OSes in other languages, like the lisp os I linked above.
The effect of "meritocracy", at least in this context, is not linear. Every incremental unit of influence or fame (followers, impressions, etc) leads to super-linear influence between some interval (probably tapers off at the tail).

And it is not independent / non-zero sum. If "A" gets more influence, it may take from "B"'s opportunity. And if the growth function is indeed super-linear, then B's opportunity is very quickly squashed.
The author of the article is advocating exactly that, though. I quoted him saying just that.

The move toward a shorter work week seems like a good idea, but this would reduce GDP and the tax base, and would necessarily be counterproductive to the author's goal of redistributing more wealth to the poorest.

Why would we expect gift economies to increase as total output decreases and gift dollars are more dear?

I haven't read 'Bullshit Jobs', but based on a quick Google, he uses the meaninglessness of some jobs as an argument for UBI. His first premise may have merit (it has probably applied since the industrial revolution) but his prescription of UBI as a cure is odd. I would be interested to see a comparison of the mental states of people with "bullshit jobs" vs people who live off the file. And anyway, a Libertarian may make a decent case that taxation is theft, but that doesn't magically make the Libertarian ideal of a voluntary society a realistic proposition.

Your reference to Keynes and Galbraith seemed to argue for a general endorsement of a vague notion of progressive tinkering-- what exactly did they endorse in this regard?
In any event, there is nothing wrong with tweaking the economy in considered and careful ways. UBI is neither considered nor careful, which is why it does not deserve serious consideration. Big ideas (like actual socialism, communism, and UBI) that require a massive top-down rework of the global economic system are doomed to fail. And that makes them dangerous. Careful, considered action over long periods of time aren't sexy, but they're safe(r), responsible and more easily refersable.
I had to touch a little bit of Fortran 77 when I interned at Lockheed Martin nine years ago.

While I don't know that I would use Fortran for anything nowadays, I do kind of have to appreciate how completely simple Fortran was in comparison to my favorite language of the time, C++ (I hadn't learned Haskell or Lisp very well at the time so I didn't know better :) ).

I haven't touched any later standards after 77; is Fortran still technically not Turing complete?
Hey, thank you for checking out Micro CRM.

At first glance Monica is a great open source CRM with a lot of good features. The main difference with Micro CRM is that I am trying to implement integrations such as email and calendar and build an API for third party integration without users having to deploy their own CRMs

The other difference is that being a closed source product, paying customers will have a person to talk to directly in case of a problem.

Lastly I am proud of my product and will also say it is better haha!
Note this is free form FORTRAN 90 code; not your grandparent's f77 optimized for card punch entry.
A decentralized Blockchain is the only sustainable Answer to meetups price hike
More work, less pay.

People between 40-60 tend to have things they care about outside of work at higher rates.
The other side of the original argument is this: someone like The Rock has a huge advantage, but on the other hand anyone without a following will be at a huge disadvantage. What happens if a celebrity politician tweets a falsehood like "my opponent supports VileIdeaXYZ" and the opponent has 300 Twitter followers and can't pay to promote a tweet?

I don't think a system that favors people based on how much money they have access to is great, but I also don't think a system that elects people based on their fame is great. Having both paid and unpaid options for reach provides a little bit more balance.
What do you think of a world where Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Paul Ryan get to decide what is and isn’t “political propaganda and deliberate lies”? Because until very recently, they were “the government.”
If a house is hard to live in, does it really matter how beautiful it is?
Yes that change has been a literal lifesaver for me. That $3000 I save a year can now be put towards healthcare that actually works instead of going from doctor to doctor as they shrug their shoulders while telling me there's nothing they can do.

I understand that there are many who believe the gutting of Obamacare is a universally bad thing, but it does put more money in the pockets of hundreds of thousands (maybe millions) of sick people who the healthcare system completely neglects. I'm not talking about moderate illnesses either, I'm talking about illness that completely destroys every aspect of your life. Many of the most seriously ill commit suicide because the other option is withering away in excruciating pain while people accuse them of being crazy.

I don't think you appreciate the choice I've had to make. I'd rather take the risk and go without insurance. The other choice is death from not being able to afford the treatment I need right now.
The last bit is funny, it would take a lot of words to explain. The most important mechanisms are filters that exclude topics from your friends feed, self-moderation and 3rd party monetization. You are a guest, it isn't your place, you should and shall behave as such.

I dont know who your fb "friends" are but mine are diverse enough not to bother them with stuff they dont find interesting. You should post a picture of your lunch not some 1000 word article.

Also, if you wrote the above on your own site i would return to read more. Here i dont bother.
At a previous job an operations analyst built out an Access database because our IT group never got around to helping him build something more robust. It actually worked pretty well.

Once we started getting to scaling issues we imported all the tables into MySQL and had Access use the remote tables that existed in MySQL.

This worked really well. All the forms and various things were in Access and the tables in MySQL and this scaled out pretty well to many 10s of users.

A nice side benefit is that I was able to reuse a lot of that data in an internal web application.
If it's purely a choice between XML and JSON, I'd agree that XML is a bit better. I'd prefer to use neither.

Most of these UI layout formats are essentially complex domain specific languages, paired with IDE support. I don't see any particular need to base them on XML, which was intended for marking up documents.
That's fun, well done!
Yahoo and then dmoz. Search engines existed (AltaVista was the best of a bad lot) but before Google you needed a curator to sort the wheat from the chaff.
But if you type it in your address bar and search it, they're the top result, which is the point.
Paris is a multikulti failure.
The FAA is usually better about things like this though. At least in the past, they've had the advantage of making good contact throughout the small group of people they regulate.
Those advertising methods don't allow you to micro-target based on people's private behavior. Micro-targeting and machine learning lets campaigns (like Cambridge Analytica's) generate what's effectively a thousand different campaigns, targeting exactly what triggers specific people the most. There's absolutely nothing stopping them from saying the exact opposite thing to two different people. That's what our current institutions may not be prepared to handle.
And they are not banning political tweets...
Thank you. MICRO CRM is a relationship management app. The only thing from a funnel software that I plan on Implementing is a pipeline which I believe can be useful.
My suggestions for lawmakers is as follows:

If you have a user base in excess of 1% of the general population, you are a "Platform" and cannot restrict entrance by individuals or businesses, or full participation thereof, except upon a court order limiting said participation. [Fines t.b.d., but expect them to be punitive in nature.] This law supersedes any Terms of Service a provider might wish to enforce.

Want to enforce "whatever you want" on your "platform"? Stay below the 1% threshold and you're good. Otherwise, you need to interact with the public in a completely neutral manner.
I feel less dumb for not being the only one who didn't know this.
If you use F#, Fabulous[1] for mobile apps and Fable+Elmish[2][3] for web exist. I use Giraffe's[4] view engine for server-side HTML templating. And it looks like AvaloniaUI is going to have a similar style UI in FuncUI[5], but I'm not sure how active that is.

I'm not sure about any C#-focused efforts.

1: https://github.com/fsprojects/Fabulous

2: https://github.com/fable-compiler/Fable (transpiles F# to JS)

3: https://github.com/elmish/elmish

4: https://github.com/giraffe-fsharp/Giraffe

5: https://github.com/JaggerJo/Avalonia.FuncUI
I was curious about ServiceNow and googled it and was excited as they offer demos. But they require registration and a lot of information about myself, so i stopped. Is it not meant for small businesses perhaps?
I've learned that guessing french words from their english sounding roots is very precarious.
If there's some hope, it's China. Hundreds and hundreds of small shops don't care about patents and build their RISC-V based chips.
Only if contexts are defined and logically comparable. Otherwise it will just risk or tilt on question like any other human, until the risk taken take down the problem to increase the definitions. The right question would be: can computers define concepts(names for numbers) by itself? Would you trust while it makes you happy or will you investigate by yourself the magic?
It’s patently untrue that someone can’t be both a perpetrator and a victim.

Also this is just disgusting. This basically says “Who cares. Men deserve it because they’re assholes.” This is no different than the overt misogynist who says women deserve to be treated like shit because “women are bitches”.
Condos are for rich people.
While I agree with you, the most vocal of Twitter users likely won’t. Some will be furious if NRA ads are allowed, and others furious if ACLU ads are allowed. And for some reason those are the people society has decided to listen to.
I don't think your points are mutually exclusive. In both cases, negligent government policy is fueling the deaths.

They are killing chronic pain sufferers and addicts alike, and addicts are sick humans too.
> Code generally isn't declarative or hierarchical unless your language is those things as well. A declaratively defined interface in C# would end up being some like a bunch of strings or enums passed to some object constructors. At that point I'd rather a an XML implementation that can be verified and processed with tools.

I should clarify and say code can be declarative with the correct language support. I agree that it's probably not well suited to C# in its current state.

> I frequently write WPF code these days and don't find it any more verbose than attempting the same thing in C# statements. If anything, it's less verbose and it has the added benefit that it's all organized in the same group of files.

Here are two examples I would consider overly verbose in XAML:

1. Triggers, DataTriggers, EventTriggers, MultiTriggers, etc. Here we're dealing with the fact that XML is not a programming language and lacks basic control structures, so we've gone ahead and defined our own mini-programming language just so conditional values can be expressed in XML. Why?

2. Anything having to do with overriding ControlTemplates.

> Hasn't really been my experience. Syntax errors are caught by the editor typically and further errors do get caught at compile time for XAML at least. Some errors don't get caught, but these are the same errors that would get missed if I attempted the same thing in C# code.

Ever make a typo in a binding?

I agree that Visual Studio is really good at helping you out where it can, but at the end of the day we're still trying to shoehorn programming constructs (objects, properties, enums, etc) into a document language format by shoving everything into XML attributes (where everything is a string) and there is a fundamental impedance mismatch between the two. Good tooling only goes so far.
It comes down to incrementality. Sure Trump has way more money than most challengers, but most people have also already made up their minds about him. His cost to acquire incremental voters is probably much higher than a lesser-known challenger.
5% isn't
I know you say that being something other than a web application is a feature, but we have Microsoft's replacement for access in Office 365 and it's PowerApps combined with Flow. I haven't been able to dive too deeply, and it definitely has a learning curve, but so did access. Further, data is actually backed up and permissions can be applied.

I also have fondness for Access, but I think that we have a chance for something like that again.
Sorry, but

<ol>
<li>...</li>
...
</ol>

is more verbose than

new OrderedList(
new List<ListItem> {
new ListItem(...),
...
}
);

??
For context: the Q4 revenue/EPS results came in ABOVE sell-side consensus per Factset and Q1 guidance is also ABOVE Factset consensus on both revenues and gross margins.
Cross-compiling from another platform (say, SBCL) only brings to your target whatever you have written yourself, not any attributes of that platform (say, SBCL).

You don't magically get SBCL's reader, garbage collector, hash table implementation, object system ... or anything else you might want in the OS.

(You could fork that system though to borrow those things instead of doing it from scratch.)
Let's not forget why Thiel was upset at Gawker. They outed him as gay, putting his life in danger because he did business in places where the penalty for homosexuality is death.
Absolutely. I just don’t like the disingenuous pro-legalization argument that pretends that “restricting the supply of opioid painkillers has only served to push those who need them into the black market” as if that’s anything close to the whole story.
1) Get sympathetic media to print a claim

2) Plaster claim over grainy black-and-white photo, with attribution. Run TV/internet campaign with it.

If you're having a lawyerly debate about the technicalities of the accusation, you've already lost.
Go read some a Daniel Dennett and/or Max Tengmark.

Consciousness is a conceptual problem, not a physical one. It merely goes away once you start asking the right questions.
Forums are alive and well. Take XDA for example.
I wonder if this is more due to Mercury's orbit being so frequent that it is more often able to occupy that "closest window" while other planets remain further away for longer.
Would this mean the second closest for any planet is Venus being the planet with the second highest orbital period?