skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All I'm saying is his logic isn't, well, logical. On the one hand he says Apple's policy has been great for business, which would imply other companies should be adopting these kinds of policies without any kind of prodding from the government.

And yet he supports a law to force everyone to adopt those policies. It's like he doesn't actually believe "workplace equality" is good for business and would like to use the government to level the playing field he tilted against himself. If he really believed the policy was good for the bottom line, from a financial perspective he'd be overjoyed to compete against companies that don't have a similar policy.
I've been fed up with Facebook's mobile app for a long time.
This is the main reason why I rarely use it, perhaps a few times a month, only when I really really have to check something.
When it comes to posting, I always use Buffer so Facebook's mobile app is only to browse my feed when bored.

Facebook's mobile app is extremely slow and bloated. Granted, it does a lot of things for us (all groups/pages etc) and to use us (extensive tracking).
I want something that tracks me less, gets rid of what I don't use and stays clean.

Today, Sunday Nov 3rd, I started creating my own Facebook mobile app, for fun.
Current functionality:
- sections: newsfeed, notifications and profile
- tap on thumb-up icon to like
- tap on on comment icon to see comments
- tap links to open
- tap images to load high-res

... the easiest way is for you to give it a try.
You can get it via TestFlight by going here: http://tflig.ht/16z5hmu

Obviously I'd love to have everyone try it so you can tell me what is most important and what's breaking.
Please remember, this isn't a rebuild of Facebook's mobile app like Sencha (kinda) did with FastBook; this is a lightweight version.

Again, please try it out and share the link with friends: http://tflig.ht/16z5hmu

I already have a list of things to fix and add but look forward to your feedback!

Giacomo
Browsing reddit for hours only used a couple of megabytes for me. Of course, that was before it turned into a picture meme-dump.
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taiwan.gov.tw just causes an error message. Not sure if that means it's blocked, or the site doesn't like the address
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It's an ideological bible-thumping parade. Every ideology has people who do these from time to time; progressives, conservatives, authoritarians, libertarians, everyone. The point is not to convey information; the point is to say (1) this threat exists, and (2) transmit the author's feeling of moral indignation to people who are on the same "moral wavelength". If you're an authoritarian, seeing some post on reason.com rambling about the evils of coercion will just seem silly to you; that's the point, you're not the target.
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Yes, I will buy your book. I hope it is a better replacement for actually participating in PLATO or browsing the Cyber1 archive. Perhaps not the first, but hindsight is sometimes better than being there.
This isn't an issue that the invisible hand is going to fix.

Then why is the WSJ article titled "Workplace Equality Is Good For Business?" Shouldn't it be titled "Workplace Equality Is Good, But We Need To Force Businesses To Do It By Law"?
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Almost every brand mentioned here has a generic equivalent. People don't rely on these corporations exclusively for these types of products.
It took the government to intervene into a very long running and prosperous "free market" to bring an end to discrimination, and nobody was making a economic case for it.
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Would appreciate your constructive criticism on the presentation.
They're as profitable as a pan, pick, and shovel are to a gold miner.
Spot on with the first one! Though i don't get the second's relevance...
It's hard for me to escape the feeling that Islamic banking replaces usury with hypocrisy, but I guess high-context Cultures could probably make the same argument in reverse.
Obvious question: Android or iPhone?

Either way I am going to give it a try, I personally hate Facebook's default app and really hope this works out.
I'm not sure we should expect them to be now.

If you really believe this, then your response should not be to ask the government to pass laws forcing such companies to be "rational". Your response should be to start a "rational" company that out-competes them, by hiring all the talented people that can't get jobs at the bigoted company, and thereby drive the bigoted company out of business.
> There is also plenty of room to cut tax expenditures on homeowners, personal retirement accounts, capital gains exclusions at death, and exclusions on annuity investment returns.

Let's use today's data and assume no changes in economic behavior.
Where do you generally want to go? Where are you seeing your ladies? Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn, etc.
So my take is, the industry is heavily male dominated, and thus that becomes a vulnerability. So we need to counter this. How do we do this? Get more Hot chicks recruited!! If there's enough of them to be commonplace, this wouldn't be a problem right?
When it has discovered a business model that works at scale.
I'm mostly apathetic on this issue. My comment was more of a roundabout way of saying that I don't think religion should be a protected class.
The per capita homicide rate is 30% higher today than it was in 1950. What do you mean when you say there is "vastly less crime"?
what else is the law for?

To give you a level playing field on which to out-compete companies that won't hire qualified employees who happen to belong to certain groups. The proper way to correct "imbalances of power in the market place" is to use the market place to correct them--in other words, to use the market place as it is intended to be used.
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Surprised by the ideas.
Personally, I do think the current anti-discrimination laws are probably fundamentally flawed.
> Falling real interest rates is probably a good thing!

I would argue that is only true in an environment with negative real savings rates which are in my opinion not a good thing. It used to be that 'savings' accounts actually paid meaningful interest on savings.
Techniques for matching similar/identical products from different stores?
I’m trying to write a simple program to compare prices for products from different suppliers.

Different suppliers may call the same product different things.

For example, the following three strings refer to the same product:

A2 Full Cream Milk Bottle 2l
A2 Milk Full Cream 2L
A2 Full Cream Milk 2L

Or the following two strings are the same product:

Ambi Pur Air Freshener Car Voyage 8mL. Fresh Vanilla Flower fragrance. - 1 each
Ambi Pur Air Freshener Voyage Primary 8ml

Furthermore - some products are not the same, but are similar (for example, Full Cream 2L Milk may encompass various similar products.)

What are currently recommended techniques for matching product strings like this?

From my Googling, I found:

1. Some people recommend using Bayesian filtering techniques.
2. Some recommend doing feature extraction on all the products strings. So you might extract things like brands (e.g. “A2”), Product (“Milk”) and capacity (“2L”) from the products, then create distance vectors between products, and use something like a binary classifier to match products (SVM was mentioned). However, I’m not sure of how to achieve this without a whole bunch of rules or regex? I’m assuming there’s probably smarter unsupervised learning methods of attacking this problem? Price could probably be another “feature” we could use to calculate the distance vector as well.
3. Others recommended using string similarity algorithms, such as Levenshtein distance, or the Jaro-Winkler distance.

Would you use one of the above techniques, or would you use a different technique?

Also, does anybody know of any example code, or even libraries for this sort of problem? I could

(For example, I saw that some people were having performance problems with calculating the Jaro-Winkler distance for large data-sets. I was hoping there might be a distributed implementation of the algorithm (e.g. with Mahout), but wasn’t able to find anything concrete.)
I've heard this system compared to the old Renaissance Medici double entry banking system. It's possible that Italian bankers learned about this system and saw it as more secure than moving boxes of money and valuables around thus establishing the foundations of modern banking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medici_Bank

It's also pretty much how Western Union works.
Is there a reason you can't retrieve it via uPNP or similar?
I dunno about that. I walk by a nice little wall display about it whenever I'm at Siebel.
Firefox nightly and the search box kicks in sometimes. Is it only me?
Sorry! You should redact some of the digits of the IMEI.
But if that's the goal, why does the piece end by asking the government to pass anti-discrimination laws? What does that have to do with positive PR for Cook and Apple? As someone else pointed out upthread, if Cook really believes what he's saying, the last thing he should want is for the government to force his competitors to do what's good for their business; he should be happy to let them go out of business, leaving more customers for him.
Note that Hawala is really not that different from Western Union: http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent...
Right, sorry for not specifying... iPhone only at the moment.
Let's assume that a) he thinks companies will continue to be systematically discriminatory despite their best interests and b) he cares less about the competitive advantages of Apple and more about the overall health of the economy. He could care about that personally or on behalf of Apple, which also benefits from a larger, faster-growing economy in which to sell its goods. Does that help?
Apple is big on having DRIs, or Directly Responsible Individuals. It really helps limit buck-passing.
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Not the medallion which is generally not owned by the driver and worth mid six to low seven figures, but the driver's hack license is endangered by multiple violation of TLC's rules.
There was no such "free market" before the Federal government intervened; there was an entrenched system of state and local governments not providing a level playing field. IMO the biggest mistake the civil rights movement made was to ask the Federal government for affirmative action, instead of asking it to guarantee a level playing field, so that minority-owned businesses could simply out-compete businesses run by bigots.
Ok, ok. Stop the world. People is dying. Why don't people in Microsoft is not fighting hunger instead of doing new versions of Windows?
Wow, something like this has been sorely lacking. Thanks!
This system is commonly implemented in Pakistan by a Service called "Easy Paisa" (translated: Easy Money). Where you can just deposit money at a certified corner store with your National ID card and password. and then the recipient can get it from their own corner store. The strength here is the ubiquity of the service. it's everywhere! And when i say everywhere, i mean even in rural areas! There ads actually build on the ability of the breadwinner of the family, working in the city, to send money to his family back in the village.

Recently, another major use is small businesses which operate as FB pages, collect money from customers using this and then send the goods. Convenient for both sides, as you avoid the hassle of depositing money in banks, or the risk of a badly implemented Online Credit Card system.
> The central premise of geneticism is that these things are wrong.

What? The central premise of geneticism is that genetics underpins the majority of human attributes and behavior. (Note: I do not personally believe this.)
I think there is an arrogance problem, and it arises when MBAs from Ivy League schools, lawyers who worked their way through the byzantine federal government legal and lobbying system, Hollywood moguls who have mostly fueled their careers on deceptive accounting, and heads of large moribund media organizations, suddenly decide that they need to get in on this whole tech thing, almost invariably at the executive level, yet lack even basic knowledge of how computers, the internet, software, or for that matter, online marketing, work.
Good for Cook. With this piece he is taking a step towards synchronizing his public/personal. Not easy to do. But good he's making steps in that direction.

Yeah, he's "out" but he's not really "out."

Good for him for taking a step.
I wonder if BFL kept the bitcoins or changed them over to hard currency then?
Not a downvoter, but your observation is (a) false, and (b) irrelevant, if it were true.

To fill in the gap in what I wrote: Even if the physics and the roadmap were known, the infrastructure and background engineering expertise needed to go from vacuum tubes to fabs making cheap ICs at nanoscale in volume would take longer than a decade to build.

Moore's law has been in operation since about 1958. That's 36 density doublings, at one per 18 months. You don't get 36 doublings in 10 years, because that would be one doubling every 3 months.

The only reason I bothered to comment is that I tire of the outlandish claims and "everything you know is wrong" posturing of UR. It was really only worth the original two-word rebuttal.
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Why wouldn't you continue to have close and easy access?
with time and exposure can we eliminate bigotry? I hope so.

I think all of human history shows your hope to be misplaced.
Working for the purpose of satisfaction is high up on Maslow's hierarchy. The point is, a household could live comfortably on one income, including buying a house, college, etc, and anything more than that was gravy. Now many households have two incomes and struggle to make ends meet.
I've always thought Dwolla was named after this. No?
use the market place to correct them

A rather fragile business plan, perhaps not in 2013 USA, but certainly elsewhere in the world and historically. The libertarian argument always seems to assume rational actors playing in ideal conditions. In other words, a situation unlikely to ever arise on its own...
Tech is full of companies that basically do what Tim Cook and Apple wants everyone else to do. Yet we still have a problem. And no amount of publicity blasting discrimination in any form seems to make a difference - sometimes it even does worse by calling all the trolls and bigots to attack the victim(s) involved. So no, that doesn't really work, does it now.

I find it depressing that I have to bundle this industry into the same basket as other companies and industries that other women complain about on the female-dominated forums I frequent. Meritocracy? hahahahahahahaha
in 1967, when the US standard of living peaked

What's your metric for this?
Isn't there a Rule 34 corollary for Tumblr? If you can imagine it, then someone has a Tumblr site for it.
The flipside of that if course is if the rest of the world finally gets its act together and starts to trade oil in some other currency, the US implodes overnight. You're in a powerful position right now, but it is more precarious than you think.
As a 53 year old, I somewhat resented "other olds," because I mostly think Kurzweil is a huckster peddling nonsense. Then at the mention of Star Trek, I accepted that you were making an allusion to an original series episode, and all made sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miri_(TOS_episode)

Kudos! Michael J Pollard (who is 74 and still with us, was awesome in this episode).
3.12 allows for vga reset. So the unresponsive, bind/unbind passed trough video cards are a thing of the past.

For the people that use it could be a big deal.

(Tested on arch, 3.12-RC6, latest QEMU)
> Is TCP/IP really what makes the internet the internet

Yes, because the Internet is the Internet because it's a network of networks, all sharing the same protocols, all routing data among each other via gateways using packets. Networks existed before Arpanet, before PLATO, but it wasn't possible to cheaply interconnect networks and send messages end-to-end before TCP/IP.

Removing TCP/IP and the concept of the gateway from what it means to be the Internet doesn't mean PLATO is first. It means some even earlier computer network is first, and PLATO is still a footnote in the history of the Internet.
A couple problems with your analysis: the population down-voting that post was preselected for those who had not already left/unsubscribed as /r/politics went downhill for the last couple years.

"Censorship" is a biased word, usually chosen by people who don't like what's being enforced. I would perhaps use the word "filtering" and it's perfectly common in a lot of subreddits. I don't think "censoring" is fair because all the same topics and events will still get discussed. The theory being that now, discussion starts with - on average - better reporting.
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Firefox OS certainly would not exist without Google signing the Mozilla Foundation nice big paychecks.

But the mobile web is inevitable. Eventually there will be parity in performance between web apps and native apps. (And Android is on the wrong side of that divide, and Dalvik doesn't exactly help.) Even if Firefox OS isn't doing what it is now, someone would have tried to push for a mobile OS focused on web apps. Perhaps even Samsung.
Hacker News is only 'news' in the Usenet news sense of the term.
You're talking about people who went from a standing start (almost) to nuclear weapons and satellites in orbit in a similar timescale.
The first thing I thought when I saw this was awesome!

The second thing I thought was that I'd never remember to use it.

Just whipped up a tiny little chrome extension that will always redirect you to smile.amazon.com when you go to Amazon. It's not well tested, so could screw you up a bunch, but figured I'd share.

https://github.com/jessepollak/smile
This is interesting. Can you use the SIM in some other project?

Here's the use case: there are applications where some sensor needs to communicate its readings at a very low bandwidth (say, < 10B per second). It would be great if a $10 SIM would allow me to place this sensor anywhere, and not just within range of WiFi.
Why, there has been Chocolatey - http://chocolatey.org/
I hope they do a bug-fix only release. There's been an issue with Intel Wireless cards since 3.8. Had to downgrade to 3.7 to get consistent Wifi...
I don't think alexeisadeski3 is saying that the invisible hand will resolve the problem of bigotry in the workplace. Rather, I think his/her argument is that it is imperative that people be allowed to make an offer to one group of people but not another. I disagree with such an argument but I don't see it as naive or disingenuous (although I must admit to being a white, straight male).
Right, but geneticism is only ever applied to the controversy re: orientation and gender identity in the context of choice. Its importance in this debate is purely to rationalize "wrong" behavior - and thereby cement the belief that it can be wrong.

Notice that arguments that homosexuality is genetic is preceded by arguments that homosexuality is a choice. Instead of defeating the thoroughly shitty notion that homosexuality is inherently wrong, the argument is instead steered towards "yeah, but they can't help it".

Without the choice angle, geneticism would just be a footnote. Whether or not orientation and gender identity are genetic is entirely irrelevant to the morality debate, and its presence in the debate predicates upon the assumption that, if it weren't genetic, the morality of the situation changes.

This stretches beyond the sexuality debate, of course. Whenever the argument is made that we shouldn't discriminate based on things people can't change, the implicit baggage argument is that if we could change those things, we should.

The correct rebuttal is "there's nothing wrong with being gay/bi/black/yellow/red" not "but they didn't choose to be gay/bi/black/yellow/red".
Not sure what you mean by that, but thanks for checking it out :D
That's not true. Facebook is making a profit:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24751441
"The increase in revenue led to $425m in net profit in the three months to September."
Somebody had to do it.
The Californians in the room are laughing at these numbers because they're used to spending $3.5 million bucks _per calendar day_ on transit projects. Makes Seattle look OK.

[1] http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/14/local/la-me-bullet-r...
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despite generally lower rates of crimes and various other bad stuff

You have to be careful with statistics. One of the thought experiments posed later in that same Moldbug post is this: how much of the Earth's inhabited area is safe for a person to wander about at night, alone? And how much was in 1950? His conclusion is that much more of the Earth's inhabited area (in particular, large parts of many cities--Detroit is his example) is unsafe now vs. in 1950. Crime rate statistics don't usually get broken down to that level of detail, so you might not see the pattern there. (Although in other posts Moldbug also quotes the statistic that the crime rate in Britain today is something like 50 times higher than it was in the Victorian era.)
How many people here just realized their corporate proxy is adding unwanted headers in every request?
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Exactly something that could have been pushed into Chocolatey. The biggest thing about these kind of tools is to add and maintain the packages. Chocolatey has been gaining momentum and has a lot of packages. Now, there comes a new kid in the block.
I don't understand why people seem to think that mining is a good way to "participate". Mining is pretty much self-correcting problem - people have incentives to mine, for profit. If you want bitcoin to be successful, there are much better ways to promote it than with mining - for example, software products, startups, implementing bitcoin for your business etc.
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You do have a point. I think the lobbying to increase the number of slaves makes it more exploitative, but the line really is at the point where working in prison is required. And actually, there's an even more precise and similarly distasteful word that describes it perfectly: "forced labor camp".

Some might object that the term invokes a comparison to the forced labor camps in countries with much worse human rights situations than our own. But that seems a lot like saying that house slaves didn't count as "real" slaves, because their lot was much better than those forced to work in mines.
If SV has a arrogance problem then does Wall Street/Hollywood have an arrogance epidemic?
Yes, but how can these be automated?

Current AI algorithms are limited in the sense that they appeal to the common denominator. These algorithms can only observe and measure what humans like and iterate from there. Current AI algorithms couldn't have invented Jazz.

Also, digital actors may never get old, but most people don't want to fuck digital actors. And have you noticed that for some actors, getting old is part of their charm?

And most importantly, algorithmically generating plots is an AI-hard problem - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-complete - given our current status quo of machines that can't even understand what we are telling them, well, good luck with that.