skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I was wrong about it being Korean (it's from Hong Kong -- I just misremembered), but it is on Netflix, as are a bunch of great Korean movies.
That presumes liberals are redefining 'merit' such that it's meaningless. While I would not be surprised in the least if that's the case, I have yet to see indications from any liberal thinkers that they'd ever want to base anything on merit. Even a redefined "merit."
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They glossed over one of the biggest reasons houses are demolished after a few decades: earthquakes. Thirty years of earthquakes will ruin any house that's not a bomb shelter.
same way i find it interesting that the same piece of property can cost $100k in one place and $1 million else where simply because of location. Man can be a very irrational animal, and once he has rationalized some useless idea into being, he can't shake it off his head.
Have you seen what is in books? Really? Most of it is garbage.

Youtube is the apotheosis of the medium of web video. As a medium it will suffer from all of the usual problems. There's no avoiding Sturgeon's law in any medium. But the existence of, say, Jersey Shore doesn't undercut the existence of The Wire the same way that the existence of Danielle Steel doesn't invalidate Mark Twain or TMZ.com doesn't invalidate wikipedia.

Even today there's a lot of great material on youtube that would not have been accessible before. Especially educational material. I cannot even begin to fathom what I've learned from youtube that I would not have otherwise. And that's just a tiny fraction of its potential.
> so why would you assume it was written by a man?

i dunno, maybe it's because i'm sexist, misogynist asshole that supports the patriarchy?

you people are making a mockery of yourselves, to be honest. it's kind of pathetic.
Two bugs I noticed:

* Can't select all in the middle of an auto-completed word.

* Can't type words-with-hyphens.
It all depends on what is meant by "regulate". If the FDA just wants 23andMe to make it clearer to their customers that:

1. Like any screening, their results could be inaccurate.

2. Before making any changes based on their results—aside from eating more healthfully, exercising more, and sleeping better—they really need to talk to a doctor.

... then few people would have a problem with it. And maybe that's all the FDA is trying to do! I don't really know.

Sadly, when an activity or product could result in a bad outcome, certain types of people are incredibly eager to ban (or heavily regulate) it.

Those people don't realize that by doing so, they themselves are actively harming the people who benefit from that activity or product by preventing or heavily limiting their access to it.

Just like we shouldn't ban health discussion boards (and we shouldn't make it illegal to participate in health-related discussions without government-mandated credentials), we shouldn't limit people's freedom to choose services like these. It's wrong.

We just need to make sure the services aren't lying about what they're offering.
> if there really are a bunch of young white males with the right "pedigree" who are getting money thrown at them without having demonstrated any real merit, then I withdraw my objection

That's exactly what happens. You are much, much more likely to get funded if you're a young white (or perhaps asian) guy doing an undergrad at Stanford than if you're a black woman studying at Berkeley. Now, you can hand-wave about connections, and entrepreneurial culture or what have you, but at some level, that just reinforces the point.
Nit: Not all languages have a separation between statements and expressions. Most lisps just have expressions.
My guess is they're pitching themselves to investors as a logistics company with far larger aspiration than just replacing taxi's. They want to replace Fedex too. It's the only way to justify their valuation. A lot is possible once you have a network of locked-in, under-employed workers available at the push of a button. Point-to-point deliveries are a lot harder to pull off than the old hub and spoke model, but Uber have put a lot of the foundation in place to move into other types of point-to-point deliveries.
Fascinating. I had absolutely no idea.

As someone who lives in a property that's over 140 years old, which has been fully renovated, modernised, and improved (at a guess) maybe 10 times over its life I find the idea of housing as a disposable assets rather alien. Granted, there are no earthquakes here.

I wonder what the social and economic trade off is between maintaining and modernising a building for hundreds of years (considering energy efficiency and standard of living too) vs just knocking it down and building a new one every 30 years.

The article doesn't mention the effect this has on the rental market - If the asset depreciates I can't imagine being a landlord is a very lucrative proposition?
I look at companies like Everpix with users, revenue, and growth and then companies like Albumatic.

Albumatic raised 4.1 million dollars and pivoted 3 months later.

Everpix was building a product that users loved and they had the trajectory to be great.

One question we must ask is:
"What do we define as merit in silicon valley?"
There's no perfect solution; people are wired differently. The following may help:

1) Have something to do in the morning, get out of bed and do it.

2) Eat something early on in the day.

3) Reduce caffeine intake generally, and especially after ~noon.

4) Reduce your interaction with screens in the evening
4a) Use something like Redshift or Flux, for when that fails

5) Try to stick to a regular schedule. If you're always getting up at the same time, getting up gets easier.

Don't push yourself too hard, though. Some people are just wired such that it's not going to be easy, and fatigue does a lot of harm.
Why do these make it to the front page of HN?

Edit: Read the submission guide lines in the FAQ. Man with gun isnt a new phenomenon (unfortunately).
The brand new apartment I moved into near the center of Tokyo in 2006 is now something like 30% cheaper than it was then. Whereas refinished 1930s era apartments in LA are like 50% more expensive. I absolutely love the constant push to modernize everyone's home. Why shouldn't home technology evolve like any other. Of course it's expensive and wasteful, but so is buying an iPhone 5s.
Additionally, while it is far from optimal, I do believe we(other than Israel) have the best systemic distribution of capital to companies.
In this application we had to use both the two and 3 digit alpha ones plus the numerical ones (for telex/fax billing).

I also recall receiving a sad email from my colleges in Yugoslavia describing how the country was splitting up and how we where to adjust our routing tables.
Google is not alone in using dark patterns -- Facebook got tons of growth by using dark patterns around privacy. Google is copying that strategy a few years too late. The age-groups that are leaving Facebook are doing so b/c they understand the dark pattern maze for what it is and don't want to deal with it.
From the Guardian article:

Carr said he expects Pando to start making more waves,
but for different reasons. Pando’s investigative team
would target all the most powerful people in the Valley
and challenge them “when they need challenging,” he
said. Some of Pando’s investors “were going to shit
himself” when they heard NSFW’s team was joining
Pando, he added.

Somehow, I really doubt this part. I think non-investors have a much higher probability of getting "challenged" than investors.
I'm not a fan of post-2011 Google.
My point is that just because there aren't a bunch of startup founders who are women, doesn't mean that women aren't benefiting from the halo effect of meritocracy in SV. And you don't have to be a startup founder to be extremely well compensated.

Looking at Snapchat and complaining that there aren't enough women CEOs owning $4B valuation companies is not the point. It's almost ludicrous to use what is basically a black-swan, lottery ticket winner as some sort of point of comparison for progress. The real story isn't that there aren't enough of these female lottery ticket winners in SV, it's that if you are a smart and hardworking woman, you can make a lot more money than most startup founders ever will.
Not IT if the CFO promoted her.
Yes, then you need to make it appealing to your market.

When I try to exercise that, I use to think in products, solutions, companies and items, that look apealing to me, and then I focus a litle bit in compare it with alternatives.

If you're planning a launch, then you need a plan.

Not only about getting a viral effect, but about making it work (the support, the visits, the downloads, the media coverage, namings, dns, communication tools, numbers, taxes, etc).

Many language specialists, use to write comparisons of their language or toolchain, and other languages. I personally don´t like it, but, you could make an A/B testing, anonymizing your future product, and see reactions. Of things valuable, like the implementation.

Write something detailed, anonimize names, create a pristine account on some discussion forums and see what happens without take too much risks.
I'm assuming it must still be more beneficial to Google to continue to press G+ on it's users than cease doing so, because even with all of the bad publicity they receive for it - they continue forward. Bummer.
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It's less about covering infrastructure and more about maximizing return for shareholders.
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Professional jealousy of a system which has made its creator effectively a multi-millionaire? Yet another in a long string of hatchet-job troll papers done by pro cryptographers designed to elicit (or vent) an emotional response rather than an academic one?
The myth is that anyone can come from anywhere and achieve great success in Silicon Valley if they are skilled. It holds that those who “make it” do so due to their excellent ideas and ability, because the tech scene is a meritocracy where what you do, not who you are, matters.

Thus is the straw man constructed. The dismantling of that poor fellah is absolutely breathtaking to behold. He had it coming.

Who actually makes absolute claims like those except for in a feel good, keep your glass half full if you want to succeed kind of a way?
Ultimate power corrupts ultimately. Works every time.
I know people who write really low quality populist fiction on the Amazon Kindle store and bring in over $3k/month. Over time, the old books still sell, so you have recurring revenue that gets compounded as time goes on.

There are other examples, but that's the easiest to understand.
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Interesting example, both math and entrepreneurship are abound in examples of people making a big splash after going off on their own. From mathematics, people like Srinivasa Ramanujan and Gottfried Leibniz made an impact despite lacking formal mathematics educations. Their results spoke for them, not their credentials.

Edit: Nash apparently did study mathematics, not sure what I was remembering...
>Can you provide an example of a deep philosophical division?

The deepest divide (of American libertarianism) is probably deontological (natural rights) versus consequential (pragmatic) libertarianism. Most of the branch ideologies originate from one of the two.

A good read on the subject. The Ethics of Liberty by Murray Rothbard [1].

[1] http://mises.org/rothbard/ethics/ethics.asp
>number of people in India nuclear industry: guesstimate from scaling up British nuclear group at selafield - 13,000 for one site.

13,000 people -- including janitors, accountants, secretaries, guards and officials, not 13,000 nuclear scientists.

And those are not "3 deaths", are 3 very suspect deaths will all the external appereances of targeted murder.
Funny... a year ago I would have said Chrome[ium] had Firefox on the ropes. Now it's looking like Firefox has the upper hand on protecting privacy. And I am surprised to find myself thinking that even IE is probably preferable.
you are delusional if you think jewish is uniformly accepted as 'white', even today.

it's not. full stop.
And with Google and Facebook screwing over their users with dark patterns, their demise was all set.

They will soon realize by finding it hard to recruit talent. Google and Facebook used to be the best companies to work at, nowadays you're starting to get looked at strangely if you work there.

What, you've been part of the NSA thing? What, did you work on G+? LOL was it you who redesigned youtube comments?

2 new horsemen in tech pls.
Cool stuff. Brings to mind earlier tools for generating/manipulating dance music using code.

For example, Archaeopteryx, from Giles Bowkett:

http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/02/archaeopteryx-ruby-...
Maybe. So there are two branch points for this, and one little thing first.

Firstly, I don't think anyone ever thinks that those traits can only be found in men. It's just that they believe that its more likely men to have those traits. Like the chopstick example I gave, no one is ever going to say only asians use chopsticks, and if you told them that the person in question was actually white, they likely wouldn't bat an eye. But their first guess would be asian. So it's not really a problem, because that situation doesn't really exist.

But say we adjust and say the problem is that people think its more common for men to have those traits. Then:

A) Someone comes up with a very good way of measuring those traits. Say it actually turns out to be pretty objective and repeatable and consistent. And then they go out into the field and test a representative sample of North Americans. And then they find that amongst North American men and women, men do score higher in those traits by meaningful measurements of "higher" (say both a higher mean, and an asymmetric distribution shifted towards the higher end).

Now, I'm not saying that that's true, nor do I want that to be true. But if it -is- true, then it turns out people are right! Their intuition matches reality. Now what? Maybe the problem is that its actually true, and we have to dwelve into nature vs nurture and all that "good" stuff. And this is honestly something we have to consider. Given the self-reinforcing nature of society/cultural pressures, and the non-trivial possibility that there are actual biological differences that will bias the traits of the genders, it's actually possible that some sort of difference could be found.

B) Same thing as above regarding reliable tests, but the tests come out negative. No meaningful differences between genders. Well then yes, we have a problem.
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And of course, outraged and harmed by this you proceeded to stop using Google services. They are paying for it by acting in a way you find distasteful, so of course you will show them by no longer using their services.

Or ... are you using their services while moaning about it? No, I'm sure you wouldn't do that.
allowing free form addresses and not validating can cause you a lot of nasty problems - at Reed Elsevier we had some tricky bugs cased by user entered addresses crashing the cms.
It'd be interesting to read survey statistics on who's leaving FB and why. Is there anything like that out there?
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Why do you care about the gender of the author so much? I thought we were supposed to evaluate things based on merit...
> Why shouldn't home technology evolve like any other.

Because it doesn't. Home technology evolves so slowly, that the analogous situation in the tech world would be if you could simply upgrade the memory and hard drive on your 286 to be able to use the latest and greatest software.
In case the author is reading this thread - might be worth adding a couple more reward tiers, for example an equivalent of the "major sponsor" on an individual level, maybe $30-60 to be named somewhere as a supporter. $15-$200 seems like a very big gap (and of course you can chose to donate in between, but I presume that reward tiers are effective in pushing people to donate more).

Looking forward to reading chapter one when I have time, though I suspect it will confuse me quite a lot...

edit: I see he is, already commented before I wrote this
Thank you, and this is the heart of the argument.
I also wonder who's behind this push from the agency.

It took them 40 years to get the labeling for tylenol right..
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/505/u...

They are moving rather quickly on this one... my only question is, why/how??
> Google should be ashamed for trying to pay for their millions of dollars of infrastructure?

"Google's 2013 third quarter profits were nearly $15 billion; that profit is the difference between how much our privacy is worth and the cost of the services we receive in exchange for it. " (Bruce Schneier => https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/11/surveillance_...)
That in fact appears to be what the FDA is interested in; their letter references attempts to clarify 23AM's "labeling". Presumably, the FDA would like 23AM to stop overtly mentioning health conditions in their marketing; they could write copy that refers to the importance of genetic testing in health management while explicitly stating that their consumer service is not intended as a medical diagnostic.

It seems clear that FDA does not in fact want to shut 23AM down, but that they do want 23AM to radically change their marketing. Which seems fair, because 23AM's marketing is disquietingly clinical.
Having people involved to resolve edge cases and possible fraud/theft is kinda the point...
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Here's the corporate jobs site:
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If you're in Toronto and interested, let me know!
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Well... yes it is. You don't need empirical evidence to call unicorns a myth, it is sufficient to point out the lack of empirical evidence supporting the existence of unicorns.
>I heard one response that maybe these groups "don't value education" - I don't know how to respond to that one actually.

I'm not sure about Hispanics, but this is definitely a problem in many African-American communities. It's considered 'white' or essentially bending over for the system if you go to school and actually try.
I'm a little skeptical:

- a bunch of the novel components (the UPS aware persistence layer, for example) aren't actually built yet

- they're pushing for people to build businesses on it already. I would characterize it as "bleeding-edge with bits of glass glued on", so this doesn't seem entirely honest.

- there's mostly a lot of breathless talk about how great and fast and scalable it is, but no mention of CAP theorem. To boil down their feature set, it's an in-memory RDBMS using the Actor model.
Did you find that by googling it? Just wondering.
People get wacky when facing things like this. Remember the stories of Steve Jobs turning to crazy diets instead of treating his cancer medically?

If you dump a bunch of information in front of people who may or may not be prepared from an intellectual or emotional perspective to deal with it, they may take dramatic and unwarranted action.
Yep this stuff isn't new, we just found a new stupid name for it (algorave)
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For whatever it's worth for you to know, it would have been easy to make that same point without being nasty about it, and I think the nastiness harms your argument. "But it doesn't so you don't" makes one sound like an angry teenager; it's a wordier way of saying "so there!". You don't see a lot of adults tacking "so there!" onto the ends of their arguments, because it's a self-evidently silly thing to add.
Can adults learn to code? Yes.
Location isn't irrational. In fact, it's probably one of the most rational factors in real estate pricing in the US. It's one of the few factors that's driven largely by the market forces of supply and demand.

Locations are "hot" because they're in places with good jobs, good services, good schools (though this one needs an asterisk), access to amenities and culture, etc.

Locations are "cold" to the degree that they're in high-crime, poor-service areas, or in remote areas without job prospects. Nobody wants to live in these areas, so with reduced demand come lower prices.

A 2,000 square-foot home costs $100k in rural Montana and $1M in Southern California because millions of people want to live in SoCal, and relatively few people want to live in rural Montana. Housing prices in Detroit are low because the job market in Detroit has been cratering for decades while crime has been increasing. A home with a seaside view is worth more than a similarly proportioned home abutting a freeway, because people would rather look at the former than the latter. A home in San Francisco is worth a fortune because lots of people with lots of money want to live here, but the inventory (supply) is limited. Etc.

Plenty of factors in real estate pricing are highly irrational. With few exceptions, location isn't one of them. When people pay for location, they're not paying for the house on that location; they're paying for the location itself. That's why comparing X square feet in Y area to X square feet in Z area isn't apples to apples.
That's a little much. Google could still make a hell of a lot of money with completely untargeted contextual ads, which don't require me to trade any "privacy" at all.
>Google should be ashamed for trying to pay for their millions of dollars of infrastructure?

They paid for that before without being annoying, Facebook pays for theirs by being less annoying than Google. (Wow, thinking about this just now who would've thought the day would come so soon that Facebook is less annoying than Google.)
Don't wish to be a grump but the original announcement post is from Pando Daily/ Sarah Lacy @ http://pandodaily.com/2013/11/25/pandodaily-acquires-nsfwcor... and this post doesn't really say much </end grumpiness>
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> If the FDA were useful, it would be helping 23andMe rather than trying to take them down.

If the FDA were trying to take 23andMe down rather than helping them, they wouldn't have been working with them for several years to get them into compliance and only issued a Warning Letter after 23andMe walked away from the process.
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"There is no worldwide directory of people and, especially, (outdoors) clubs and events and it sucks"

There you go.

I would recommend asking a few outdoors friends whether they feel the same, and see if bringing about this worldwide directory would be a great thing to them.

To me, it sounds like a great opportunity because you have a specific audience to interact with, and there are opportunities to turn it into a business; think of outdoors venues and outdoor equipment companies who would want to promote their products and services to that range of people.

I would recommend asking friends, and in terms of further research, I recommend 2 books: Founders At Work by Jessica Livingston, and The Lean Startup by Eric Ries.

Go for it!