skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can and do draw detailed psychographic categories with a few data points, but it's far from clear whether the results (and especially the details) are actually correct.

I think "since the 50s" should be taken as evidence against these models. Myers-Briggs first came into vogue in the late 1950s, and has been used for career counseling and hiring since despite being utterly unfit for purpose. Priming work dates to the 70s, and now it appears that many of the long-term uses advertising relies on don't replicate. The 'decoy effect' that drives many product strategies was formalized in the 1980s, and recent work suggests it exists only under very narrow conditions. Modern industry leaders like the Food and Brand Lab have apparently spent the last 20 years publishing absolute nonsense. Even results 'validated' with A/B testing are in many cases just noise from misusing statistics.

Precisely because we didn't have microtargeting or consumer-level feedback, all we've had since the 1950s is the belief that we can build and use these models. We know ads basically work, they improve brand recognition and reputation, but the Don Draper psychological rationales are essentially just-so stories written in the absence of data.

(As far as CA, no one seems to have dug up any seriously unusual patterns in 2016 voting. So unless they paired high-impact psychological targeting with an elaborate statistical coverup, what they actually did with the data wasn't exceptional.)
I am a big fan of the Japanese zoning system. I'm sure it has its flaws and that there are arguably better systems, but it seems much better than what we currently have in the US.

http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
Cyber gangsters demand payment from Travelex after 'Sodinokibi’ attack
> [Facebook] provides less donor data, so charities can't thank donors or reach out to them again in the future.

As a donor, I've found myself giving more often through Facebook to keep my contact information more private. I tend to unsubscribe from mailing lists and set up Gmail filters, so perhaps I'm more sensitive to unsolicited mail than average.

In my experience, most of the charities and institutions I've donated to directly (e.g. Red Cross, National Park Foundation, my university) send mail for years after a donation. Some of them like the National Park Foundation share your information with other charities so you get even more unsolicited mail.

In contrast, as far as I can tell, I haven't received any physical mail nor email after donating through Facebook. The privacy, for lack of a better word, is compelling enough I'd prefer to look up a charity on Facebook rather than going to their website directly.
It's an aping of GNU is not unix and such. So, yeah. That's a fair statement.
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Maybe it's nostalgia, maybe it's the retro mindset of work as a way of life, maybe it's just "how things used to be"... but I've spoken with a few old, retired Boeing engineers that are acquaintances or family friends (I live in Seattle) and a lot of them really make out the 70's/80's Boeing to be a "family". There is a warmth and camaraderie and a fondness that is hard to describe.

Lot of these old engineers stay in touch, godfathers to each others kids, go on fishing trips, go to church together. Still have Thanksgivings together. At one late family member's remembrance I think more than half the attendees were retired Boeing engineers, or their families. I really do think that, rose-colored-glasses aside, it sounds like a few decades ago it really was the kind of place where aerogeeks ran the show and obsessed together over making great products like the article suggests.

I know two people who work for Boeing today, as well, and I don't think either of them really like it very much.
I don't personally, it conflates boomers with capitalists, and there are plenty of boomers who aren't a part of the capitalist class by any stretch of the imagination. Just because some of them benefited from it, doesn't mean they had any part in its construction, execution, or intention.

This story just obfuscates the fact that this tension between capital and labor existed long before this generation and pretends like the entire generation was in on it, when it was really just the boomer capitalist class, not all boomers.
Co-founder of Boundless here, thanks @hailpixel for the shout out.

AMA! Here's a link to my soundcloud, we're hiring, thanks for coming to my TEDx talk.

We are hiring though.
I'm interested in the economics and law of when this is counted as income.

The article says that in the general case, the company only counts the card as income once it is redeemed. Until then it is counted as a liability.

This makes a little sense, since they still owe you goods and services, but (1) aren't the goods/services they are offering worth less to them than the value on the card, and (2) aren't they generating interest off that?

Next, it says that under a 2009 law, the companies can start counting it as income sooner (6-24 months), and the accompanying article suggests that this is good for the companies' bottom line. But wouldn't it really be the opposite? Before they counted it as income, surely they had all the benefits of the money and it's not even being taxed as income yet? Wouldn't they want to hold off on counting it as income as long as possible?
Unlimited governmental power. It's what democracy is, it's what Californians want.
hired*

But yeah.
#2. I've had an idea I've mulled around for a couple of years now about a new social network. One which limits your 'feed' to 25 friends and that is it.

25 might even be too high (or potentially too low; the number is arbitrary), but the general idea is that in your life there are only a handful of people who you should really care to keep tabs on. You can "friend" more than 25 people but you can only see the activity of 25 of your friends and the others are relegated to essentially being contacts.

I remember about two years ago Facebook was getting into a lot of trouble due to the amount of negative mental impact it had/has on its users and they did a study which found social media can have a negative impact on its users unless the user only follows a small circle of real-life friends and interacts with those people online. I don't have a source to this; I'm willing to accept there isn't real _evidence_ behind this claim.

Anyway, I'm surprised social media has been around this long, has been the subject of such controversy and there haven't been any or many real, impactful changes to the nature of it. Facebook and Instagram are, in my opinion, trying to be too much. They want to combine personal and public spaces. This, of course, works from a business perspective. But what are the long-term consequences of these products on our mental health and society?

We need a new social media focused on personal, tight-knit groups of people and interests. One that makes this the focus and doesn't stray for the purposes of profits. And, if that's not feasible in an economy that demands growth, we need better legislation demanding certain consumer protections are created for this sphere of products.
Thank you personally for allowing corporations to exist.
They care a lot about their reputation. Reneging on promises and dealing in bad faith is a quick way to get a bad one.
Land consolidation can be done through communes/co-ops, in which case the benefits of increased productivity are fairly distributed, or through private corporations, in which case profits are privatised and concentrated on a small owner elite class.
Apparently it is not ready for primetime yet :(
Thanks for letting me know!
>Personally, it is sad to see this change since so much of my family history and memories are tied up in the way things used to be

In some ways I can relate to that, but that is an extremely dangerous trap to go down.
As a web dev / designer,does it make sense what my newsletter can help you with?
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I am struggling to find the perfect words to describe what my newsletter will help you with. Mostly because English is not my first language. I use Grammarly, but if I don't know what to explain, it ain't gonna help much.

All I need is your opinion from a web developer and digital designer point of view.

Would you use it?
Does it help you?
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Parts and service cost as much as a new unit. This happened after free trade and if we produced locally the repair business would be a growing field.
The interface looks too much like desktop notifications to me.
> R is a Lisp 2. Variables and functions may share the same name. This leads to confusing errors.

Isn't that a Lisp-1, then? Maybe I've got them backwards. CL is a Lisp-2, and it's not unusable, so either #'readmacros are good enough or there's something else going on to balance out the ambiguity.

EDIT: I see what you're saying now, it's a Lisp-2. They can share the same name at the same time, not just 1 name referring to one value or the other.
That 1/3 was designated as subordinate (ie non-restaurant) use. Fancy restaurants would have the same problem if they started using up a bunch of space for whiteboards and printers.
Samsung is a 30% shareholder of Xtal. Xtal became an immediate ASML competitor for Samsung semiconductor using the theft as implied by "our biggest Korean customer" quoted from ASML CEO in interviews. Stating Samsung is the immediate beneficiary of the theft as conjectured (AKA "hinted") by Dutch media based on ASML CEO interview at the time... is not neutral how? Lot's of IP shenanigan in high barrier semiconductor industry and Korean Chaebol industrial policy has history of IP theft to benefit domestic industries. Please explain how any of my claims triggered you so much:

>Don't forget to wipe your history so as to make it difficult to guess your national origin (though I didn't have to), because it's so easy to see your ulterior motive through the garbage -- it destroys your credibility.

Like what is this even?
Pre-Inca canal system uses hillsides as sponges to store water
I would like to chime in by noting that Rust's mature form is borne of a very specific scenario, which is the web browser, software so complex that the "zero-cost" element is more like "actually possible to optimize" in practice. And a great deal of that complexity is accidential in some form, a result of accreted layers.

And in that respect, it's not really the kind of software anyone needs to aspire to; aspiring to write programs simple enough that Zig will do the job is much more palatable.
Those aren't considered targeted advertising.
I only ever get Amazon gift cards. Don't know what I would do with something like a Red Lobster gift card.

It's easy to redeem them immediately and have that balance in my account forever.
Yes, I agree with that. It is not that customer is always right. But it is not that customer is always wrong either. We have to look at requirements, give them benefit of doubt, ask and listen to answers to figure out which are wrong.
Yes, we definitely want to arrive to a universally accepted unification of gravity with quantum field theory. The M-theory, as sophisticated and promising as it is, does not cut it for some reason. That should tell us something.
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I agree with you, but I think that particular example says more about our police than it does about the cameras.
It's interesting to hear all the positive comments here about Workshop Cafe, and at the same time in previous threads there have been many negative comments about WeWork.

Can someone who has been to both and has differing opinions about them share how they differ?
I take your point, though I'm not sure taxes are the answer. Very rarely is air travel even close to the cheapest option (in the US here, Europe has low cost airlines that may shift the math). Although I'm pretty well off as compared to the average person, I don't know anyone personally who takes the plane purely on a whim, and I know nobody who prefers to fly when another comparable time option is available. If you were to tax air travel at say 10%, that would likely not change my travel, just make it more expensive. A $200 ticket now costing $220 isn't going to make me not take the flight. If you tax it more, sure I won't take the flight, but then you reduce quality of life given that in many places the alternatives don't exist.

In Europe I usually take the train places. If it's 2-3h away by train it's usually faster to take the train, and it's often (though not always) comparable or cheaper on price. In the US, I virtually never take the train, there simply aren't adequate options. The distances tend to be much larger, and we simply haven't built the infrastructure. We could build it, but that's proven quite hard (see CA high speed rail and efforts to modernize northeast corridor) for both political and practical reasons. NY<->DC I often take the bus, it's cheaper and only a slight time penalty vs. the train.

4/5 people sounds like a big number but those people are much more likely to start eating meat or buy a car at first than to fly. That's a way bigger problem environmentally.
The human race is a race to the bottom. We’ll see what happens when we get there.
This claim was also used as a justification to exclude certain ethnicities from being able to purchase homes in particular neighborhoods.
They charge per hour for `workspace`:
https://www.workshopcafe.com/pricing & https://www.workshopcafe.com/meeting-rooms

A true cafe doesn't charge you an hourly seating price. Its somewhat a grey area though as a cafe might have an `order` minimum/hour or kick someone out who hasn't bought something recently.
Airtable did some great work on the UX. Introducing people to table schemas with typed columns is pretty awesome, and the creative way they've leveraged that with the little tab that comes out of the side for either a nice view over the data (e.g. a map for an address column) or for showing Pivot Tables/Aggregations. They deserve some design awards for those ideas.

But it's not a great alternative to a DB. It's really expensive per seat (twice the cost of Google Apps and you only get one app). The row limits on tables are too low. And I'd really like native webhook support to ingest row updates.

I'd be very interested an Airtable clone that I can run locally on-top of Postgres or Mongo or something like that. My main use-case would be to replace expensive-to-build internal CRUD apps that really should just be spreadsheets but require bespoke integrations with other internal systems.
> I used to think that highly competitive markets with low prices are the best, but now I am not so sure.

The market for air travel is highly competitive, the market for airplanes is not. In the market that the 737 serves, there's options from Boeing, Airbus, Tupolev and maybe Comac. Comac and Tupolev are deeply connected with the governments of China and Russia respectively; Airbus and Boeing are heavily subsidized by European and US government too, although more independent. There's a few more manufacturers if you include slightly smaller jets.

Building high capacity passenger jets has large inherent barriers to market, but then you also see things like Bombardier being forced into partnership with Airbus when it tried to develop a new jet around the market of the 737.

Long manufacturing queues and logistical difficulties of mixed fleets also make it hard for airlines to switch models or manufacturers, especially for smaller airlines.
If they are celibate because of their bad attitudes, can you still can it involuntary?
To name and shame at least one example, such code was included in some versions of the Java Development Kit itself and could be found in easy Google code searches at least at the time Microsoft skipped Windows 9.

Microsoft and Apple and others also prefer to skip 9 for the international marketing reason that 9 is a very evil number by superstition in most of Asia, like how some of the west believes 13 to be unlucky and things like elevators tend to skip 13 in the US/Europe.
I can imagine though, that there's a real chance that the "fear" of people having their jobs automated would cause them to cut back on spending, perhaps causing an immediate recession!
I don't know about cars, but I am typing this on a Thinkpad in which I can change the battery with no tools and can change most of the internal components without more than a screw-driver.
Yes, if I understand IPFS correctly, you can. Since IPFS works as a content addressed system, if you embed the date, send the document to the judge (the hash which is based on the content), don't show it until a later point, you can prove the document is the same as you sent, even without revealing the content until later.

IPFS doesn't seem to have anything about "version control" as onyb mentioned.
Do you know what Citizens United actually was about or allowed for? This video on campaign finance might surprise you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhpy1uzOvrY
I think this is what clarified it for me:

> A good analogy for this principal is a movie theatre. Customers must buy a ticket to enter (i.e. reserve space), and the principal use is the movie theatre. Customers may purchase food and beverages in the theatre, and may consume them in the actual theatres. Such food and beverage sales often outpace actual ticket sales. However, the Planning Code does not consider a movie theatre to be a restaurant simply because its customers may, and often do, purchase food and drink that is prepared on-site.

(principal is your pal)
> Facebook claims this violates their TOS. Based on that, the data can be called stolen.

They can call it that sure, but if they didn’t restrict access it’s hard to take this as anything but Facebook covering the entire point of their api—to get user data. Hell, if this is theft I should add “master burglar” to my resume—scraping in spite of being an obvious TOS violation is common in the industry. It’s certainly not a crime.
Absolutely agree. Juniour doesn't mean "without experience". I will venture far enough as to say that a juniour developer should have very solid tech skills and real world experience.

I've known many people myself included who had 1-2 years of professional experience by the time they graduated from university. And naturally these folks would hit the ground running when hired post graduation, which is as it should be.
Had a great experience. Their GCP credits made all the difference too.
A few recent links for your consideration...
http://cancerherald.com/alcohol-itself-causes-cell-damage-an...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190708084334.h...

https://neurosciencenews.com/age-alcohol-consumption-10835/?...
One which limits your 'feed' to 25 friends and that is it.

An ex-Googler (that never played defense![1]) tried that with the social network Path. I think the limit was 50 friends though. It failed.

Edit: [1] Quote attribution: "I don’t use a ring of any kind on my phone. This is so that I am always on offense and never defense." - Dave Morin
Pulitzer vs. Hearst: A Lesson for Content Marketing (2016)
misdiagnosis usually ends in disaster
Exactly this. No skin in the game will lead to these outcomes.
The real shame here is that the city is basically setting up a “ask permission before trying anything” environment. Quite antithetical for a location that prides itself on innovation.
The zoning administrator is part of the San Francisco Planning Department. Last September, the SF Planning Department Director, John Rahaim, announced his retirement. Mayor London Breed will need to find a replacement nominee soon who will then need to get approved by the Board of Supervisors.

If you're looking for a way to get involved, letting the mayor know your thoughts about this might be a good start.
Contestant accused of collusion after winning $1M in fantasy football
> Not all of these fake reviews are one stars – some give five star or other highly rated ratings. The catch with these highly rated reviews is many of them are created to give the false appearance that they were written by Tomlinson to raise his own Goodreads ratings, spoofing his name and photo and sometimes even using his own copyrighted writings.

Wow, that's devious. I wonder if any of the fake product reviews I've seen are obvious fake endorsements placed there by the competition.
> 2) I imagine most companies don't even need a 10x engineer to build the product they need.

So true. 99% of businesses are CRUD and "complex-because-of-humans" business logic very rarely needs someone like Michael Abrash as a chief scientist to get the job done.
Which one pays more in taxes? Of course it’s that one then!
Two young men killed by security forces during Colombia’s national protests
In Canada it is the same and you could get sued in court for the full amount.
Nothing stopping people from doing that.
Security cameras generally don't actively monitor either - they merely record and let someone go back and look at the footage if they feel there is a reason to

So you list every possible bad thing that possibly could happen, and that is reason enough to not even bother with something? Have these horror scenarios played out in any place that actually is heavily surveiled?

Are there no young vibrant urban blocks in London? No sense of trust in Islington?
California Sues Vinod Khosla over Martins Beach Public Access
That’s exactly why Lambda School starts with the precourse work. It’s not a fit for everyone, and the 40+ hours of precourse work helps us discover who that’s true for.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/florida-government-shu...

“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelt...

>Taking joy in that suffering is more human than most would like to admit. Somewhere on the wide spectrum between adolescent teasing and the smiling white men in the lynching photographs are the Trump supporters whose community is built by rejoicing in the anguish of those they see as unlike them, who have found in their shared cruelty an answer to the loneliness and atomization of modern life.
Zoning laws are so backwards that it borders on parody. Can we get a state-wide referendum to eliminate all but the most important zoning regulations and then let the cities grow naturally?
It's weird you keep cropping up on this thread interpreting me saying "women are not going to flock to you just because you meet some basic criteria so it is foolish to start behaving that you are entitled to this" as "obviously, philosopher1234 cannot possibly have a girlfriend, q.e.d".
That article mostly just hammers home how terrible most American zoning is. It's like city planners all grew up playing Sim Cities (residential here, offices there, residential here, shops there).
Quipu – the ancient Inca writing system
this is a proof that a user viewed a webpage rather than a proof that a webpage existed with given contents, which would need many users to find consensus on the content of a webpage.

as a result of this model, there's no way to verify the content is 'correct', since the user can arbitrarily modify it before submitting

so my understanding of this is that cryptographically it can be used to say that a user submitted some content at a given time.

what's the use case for this?
San Francisco has become a place for junkies and Google sociopaths. Creative people have left and remaining creative people are leaving. It's a very bad place to start a company now (not to confuse starting a viable business with raising venture capital).