skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And a TL;DR http://www.bailis.org/blog/scalable-atomic-visibility-with-r...
wait, do codecs create a protected class of voters?
On the contrary - in the real world, trust is unavoidable.

Disregarding the obvious familial trust, I trust the manufacturers of the food I buy not to poison it. I trust that the gas pump is actually pumping gas. I trusted the bank teller to deposit the cash I gave her into my bank account and not just put it in her pocket (a trust her bank shared as well.) I trust my employers to pay me and my employers trust me not to steal their IP.

Of course, in each of these cases, there exists a system to enforce regulations and punish infractions when trust is broken, because while trust has to work in many social and business transactions, people cannot always be trusted not to cheat, lie and game the system. And yes, this means one still has to trust that system to an unavoidable degree.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: "We are considering a memorial a-la-Seth: A memorial one-day conference for all his friends and admirers, organized by his pals: John Durant, Tim Ferris, Tucker Max, Gary Taubes, and other members of that independent thinking clique who connected socially through Seth"
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1015217680...
There's a link to that in the article.

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2012/03/what-int...
I'm not an expert on cyberbullying, but there were a few cases that happened when I was in high school. At least at the school I attended, the victims had never been accosted by the bullies in person. But then again, I have a single-digit sample size.
> One of the most effective forms of dissent I experienced while running CollegeACB were spoiler-filled-spam

That's a very interesting angle, but what you're saying is that the solution is to kill the service, and it's more effective to poison the stream that it is to try to dam it up.
Burlington, VT (last I knew, anyway) has a similar law -- stop signs are effectively yield signs, while red lights are stop signs, as far as cyclists are concerned.
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It's a sad state of affairs when anybody is happy with satellite internet. So much expense for such an awful service in all respects.
I'm still sceptical. I'm not a woman but it sounds reasonable to think that woman have a hard time talking truthfully about how bad they are really treated. It is less likely for a woman to convince the public that something bad was really bad and even from day one of coming out the woman receives more hate than the man.

I also heard that statistics say, there are more false negatives (= woman said bad things happened but investigation says it's untrue) than false positives (=woman successfully lied about things happened).

All that decreases my trust in such a clear "false positive" investigation result, although I admire GitHub for publicly working on that issue. I hope that beside saying that they didn't do much wrong, that they increase whatever they are doing to keep the workplace safe and healthy for the female employees.
The problem wasn't the meritocracy it was the failing to live up to it. Meritocracy is absolutely something we should aspire to. In these examples the men who were paying other men more were simply not being meritocratic - if they were, then they would have hired/given raises to just as many equally qualified women as they did men.

That calling something a meritocracy when it isn't may have a paradoxical effect may be true. But I'm not sure it warrants getting rid of meritocracy as the guiding principle of an organization. We should just be doing a better job of being meritocratic.
It's funny to me. I live in "SV".
I don't have any evidence, that's why I haven't made any claims. I am pedantic because I see no value to broad, baseless speculation posing as facts, and I think calling such statements out is likely to discourage their presence.
One cool thing that the block chain enables is the possibility of publicly transparent accounting. This should enable charities to show that they are honest and give some guaranteed percentage of their funds to those that they are helping. I think that more people are willing to donate when they can directly see their money making a difference as opposed to it just falling into some giant funding bucket.
To add to what @mturmon said; you'll want to keep in mind that even GUI tools (i.e. consider your favorite database tool that supports SSH connection) that support SSH connection will pick up this configuration so you don't have to manually plug in all of the pieces for each session.

Just specify the alias host name as configured in ~/.ssh/config and the user, identify file, and anything else you put there will be used as set.
There are civil and criminal statutes, yes. Presumably nothing criminal occurred or the contract is unenforceable.
The "typical" 9 to 5 workday typically only applies to blue collar workers who get two paid 15 minute breaks and a 30 minute paid lunch, with each break coming after 1.75 hours of work.

Most office workers go 9 to 6 or 8 to 5.
I'm not sure if it's even possible to be "immune", but if it doesn't work oh well, nothing lost.

Changing the mosquitoes in any significant way is incredibly unlikely. Random mutations happen all the time in nature.
At what company do you work, and as what?
I learned the same lesson crossing streets (as a pedestrian) in Rome by watching the locals. Make eye contact, go, and be consistent. The drivers are so alert (because you have to be), that they will stop. Once I learned how to walk across the street there, I had everything I needed to know in order to attempt driving.
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As well, I'd like to add a third victim by this lack of morality (well, I'd prefer the term civility but I'm good with either in a pinch!). Society as a whole.

Although we'd like all kids to be rational, understanding, and mature they simply aren't. I don't think many adults are either. We're ruled by our emotions and if people insult us (or our hair, clothes, etc..) we feel awful on some level even if we know not to care about the insult. Kids even more so.

If we could all be reasonable, rational, respectful we'd be good. But the jerks of the world have ruined it for us and walking away and burying our heads in the sand isn't always possible or the right thing to do.
I was on a project that produced a carcinogenic prototype. The irony was we knew it at the time. Before it was shown to the higher-ups, us developers joked that they'd like the prototype so much they'd come back with a completely unrealistic deadline for the finished product.

They did. They wanted it ready in 3 months. I estimated 10.

We delivered something - I'd hesitate to call it a finished product - 15 months later, and it was deservedly panned by users.

I've spent a lot of time since pondering exactly where it all started to go wrong, and I'm entirely convinced the day we demonstrated the prototype was it.
Something similar seems a good idea to me, too. Example. Germany has 42 million employees and 3 million unemployeds. Reduce working hours from 40 to 37 hours per week - with reduction in salary, but probably not the full 7.5 % - and hire one new employee for every 13 employees. And there you go - no more unemployment and more leisure time for everybody. Saved unemployment benefits can be used to counter salary reduction for maybe a few years. Problems: salary reduction, small companies, differences in job demand and availability.
That's a good point, and one I could have added to the post. There are bugs in Web SQL, but they're largely the same on both Chrome and Safari. IndexedDB is trickier, because the bugs are all different between Firefox, IE, and Chrome. Again, another situation where libraries can help out.

Although in general, it's sad that the "independent implementations" mantra basically guarantees a lack of consistency across browsers. It's like we only have a choice between "pointing to a pile of C code" or ending up with a pile of browser bugs. Maybe the W3C could write acceptance tests to go alongside the specs.
As a form of protest or whistleblowing, anonymity is absolutely useful. Wikileaks needed anonymity to really work, and Twitter users in Turkey reporting on unrest there see the need for anonymity.

The problem is that while you could conceive of a noble purpose, very few people are going to use it for that purpose, least of all US high school kids.
> Your basic argument is that, although robots will make mistakes, we'll let them kill just a few of us to save many more.

What's the alternative? The argument that, although humans will make mistakes, we'll let them kill lots of us to avoid saving some by having robots instead?
I would like to correct myself. Cable franchises are state sanctioned and state controlled. Monopolies ("exclusive franchises") were also permitted under the Parker immunity doctrine, but as rayiner pointed out elsewhere in the discussion Congress explicitly prohibited them with various acts in the 90s.
The original DeWitt Clause was established by Oracle at
the behest of Larry Ellison. Ellison was displeased with
a benchmark study done by David DeWitt in 1982, then
just an assistant professor, using his new Wisconsin
Benchmark, which showed that Oracle's system had poor
performance.

It takes a special kind of sicko to take someone you don't like, create a fairly dickish policy to basically restrict free speech/fair comparison of products, then name said dickish policy after the person who was trying to encourage the exact opposite.

See, if it were just "the ellison clause" it would need no further explanation.
Perhaps he resigned before the investigation was over.
Most of my packages from Amazon over recent months have come via Amazon Logistics. Since our office reception takes delivery I don't know if they are using self employed drivers, but they do seem to have the notification infrastructure right as I get an email about the package being delivered before office reception can phone me. If they can start to narrow the estimated delivery time down then I think they'll have really improved things.
It's true that most people work 9-17 in Sweden, but it isn't legally mandated. A lot of the details about when and how we work is decided through collective bargaining between businesses and unions.

This system has very deep historical roots, and is something that the social democrats (that dominated swedish politics for a long time) and the unions are very proud of. Because of this Sweden doesn't have a minimum wage, for instance. It could be argued that this is a more liberal (in the classical sense, not the us meaning) way to go than what most of the US has done, which is a bit interesting.

(We do have laws about paternity leave, vacation time etc, so it doesn't encompass everything.)
I'm not really sure where the term 9-5 came from considering I've never had a job or known anyone who actually worked 9-5 with a one hour lunch.
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I like this better too - the prototype will inevitably grow from its humble origins, and with every new feature that is hastily thrown in, the application becomes ever so much riskier.
I think we're debating definitional points. In this context, I was equating thinking faster and thinking better; if you and I would---when faced with a problem---arrive at conclusion Q, and the AI would arrive at Q twice as fast, it's thinking better.

So if we distinguish thinking faster (I've doubled the rate at which the algorithm runs) from thinking better (I've refined the algorithm so it only takes half as many "brain cycles" or what have you), I don't disagree that there's no guarantee that a faster AI would improve its own algorithm---but I would disagree that a human-level AI with twice the thought speed of a human wouldn't "outstrip humanity." It stands to reason that it should be able to outstrip humanity on any problem domain requiring cognition, simply by definition of measurement (if the machine is coming up with answers twice as fast as its human counterparts, it's "outstripping humanity").

I also hold to the assertion that it wouldn't take too many improvements to get orders-of-magnitude past organic brains. The fastest nerve impulses are clocked in the range of 120 m/s. If you took the pattern of a human brain and replaced the meat with electronic switching, you'd be improving the raw rate of flow by about a million. Given that you've already conceded hypothetically that P is reproducible, electronics alone (without such niceties as optic fiber for any really big jumps), you'd be looking at the processes of P occurring at an (upper-bound) million times the speed it does in the human brain. Does this prove a lower-bound improvement? No; after all, it's not raw speed but switching and parallelization that matters if we're replicated a human brain.

But I submit to you that the lower bound of improvement by transitioning from meat to electronic is probably more than '2'. ;)
"I don't understand why Microsoft took so long to do this."

Skype had free video group calls long before Google Hangouts even existed. If I remember correctly, they forced their users to pay for it a few months or a year after Google Hangouts launched, which was a really stupid move which surely helped Google's product a lot.
I hear people fretting about liability as a "problem to overcome," but it's actually much simpler than the technical challenges.

People have to drive the same distance regardless. Whether it's human or computer error leading to the accident is irrelevant to your premium. To a car insurance company it's all about rates and risks.

Assuming driverless cars are shown to be safer than humans - and they'll have to be in order to get approval - your car insurance company would be stupid not to cover them. From their perspective it's simple economics. The accident rate is lower, thus the potential liability is lower.

If your insurer isn't willing to insure your driverless car, you'll switch to someone who does. If no established provider insures driverless, that's a no-brainer company to start. Similar payments in a high-margin industry with lower average payouts? Yes, please.

Liability is the easy part.
I'm also in the Boston area (Somerville) and have been wondering about the proper way to respond to right turns with a cyclist in the bike lane behind me.

When I have right-of-way and use my turn signal ahead of time, shouldn't I have the ability to turn right without waiting for the bike to pass (similar to how the cars behind me must wait for me to make my turn before continuing?)
Contrarian clickbait for sure.

Also couldn't load the page.
more like Parse's push value-add (b/c they have a notion of push channels and devices). My previous startup (Notifo) was a push notification-as-a-service company, so I'm familiar w/ push. This was just a weekend project to scratch and itch for an app I'm currently writing and I didn't want to use a 3rd party service b/c they are too inflexible and too much lock-in.
There needs to be some regulation to make that feasible, no doubt. But why does that function justify forcing cable companies to run cable to areas that aren't economically justifiable? Or to put it a slightly different way: while the public is entitled to make equal access a priority, it can't complain about providers not wanting to enter the market or not wanting to invest more private money in regulated service. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Gee... I didn't realize there was an app that could actually bring school to a halt. If only they had such a thing in my day...

Does the author maybe mean a bunch of people were gossiping?

I hardly see the alarmist tone as justified. But people need SOMETHING to write about I suppose.
This seems to confirm my thoughts. My read, correctly if I'm wrong, is that after the first 10k, then you probably had to focus back on the product, thus the growth was 0 and possibly most of the 10k were gone (and the reason is usually that the product is ready for 1k, but not for 10k users).

Happy to see that now the growth is solid, thanks for sharing the numbers!
Given that Marc Andreessen publicly vocalized support for him and his new venture, I hardly think he'll have much trouble with his career.
The setup needs a little boilerplate, but it's definitely possible. And it can support different sort orders after writing the boilerplate once.
For those wanting to test drive it: http://play.golang.org/p/I_Vu34hUoV
When discussing the cable industry, one must acknowledge that it is unique in its government mandated monopoly. Trying to analyze it as normal capitalism is pointless.
What is the conceived noble purpose of Yik Yak?
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Better yet, boring compliments. "X is a nice person". "X helped me with my groceries".
Ha - we're now really living in some kind of cyberpunk future where crypto-currency can help the homeless through the internet!
This is admirable. I wish you and your family the best.

Take a break, simmer down, and ignore the cunt that wound you up. They are just someone behind an internet connection, and they will have no effect on your life or the success of your children's lives. Unless, of course, you let them.

It takes a stronger person to rise above the rest and lead by example.

I'm not sure why I felt the need to tell you that, because I'm sure you knew already. You probably give your children the same advice. Anyway, I hope you're alright.
There are tons of problems with these types of schemes, the primary one being that there is management overhead and people aren't substitutable. The more people doing the same task, the more work will need to be coordinated and thus overall output would probably decrease.
In my experience, one easy way to determine how good the job is going to be is based on the pecking order of various departments in the company. At a company that does software, the software developers are usually at or near the top. Alternatively, at a marketing company, the marketers are at the top and the software developers may very well be near the bottom.

You can gather this information in a number of ways in an interview. Simply ask one of the interviewers where their group exists in the company hierarchy. If you don't want to be explicit, ask to look at the area where the developers sit and work. If the area is well done and people seem happy, you're probably in good shape. If the people are essentially stuffed into a closet or makeshift office/hallway then you might want to run.

Generally, try to work for a company that makes money on software or technology. A company that makes money on other products or services is likely to treat software developers as a low-level function of the organization.
It's easy to say this is a large company problem, but I've seen serious technical debt issues at companies that are less than a year old.

The easiest way to avoid these problems is to commit to clean code, and having the stones to stick to that plan. That means someone in power needs to agree with this way of doing things.

In my experience, the tone of a company is set from the top and works down. If the boss is non-technical and is not open to delegating, then there is nothing that can save that company other than new leadership.
Is this really... Hacker News?
Edit: Note to self: read guidelines first.
Wait .. what ..? People try to kill themselves under your car daily? Are you confusing reality with GTA?
Unless that regulation produces unintended consequences that depress internet access for all of society as a whole.
Depends on how you want to use Linkedin-- smaller networks might make sense if you rely on it as a default contacts manager.
Good rule of thumb, if someone actually takes the time to personalize an invite, you can more easily weigh the merits of that new contact.
The California state government has been running this experiment for a while (sort of). They require all their workers to take a day off out of each 10 work days (so a 5 day week and then a 4 day).

However, they don't get to choose the day. It is assigned to them. The state is doing it to cut down on traffic and commuting, as well as facilities costs.

However, so far they say they haven't lost any productivity by doing this program. Of course:

1) They want it to work because the taxpayers are watching
2) A lot of folks work from home on their "day off"

My point is these are all tough experiments to run due to human nature and not wanting to be perceived as working less than your peers.
What's the Ubuntu version?
This is the life I want and the main reason I keep trying to start my own business. I really don't think it makes sense to work that long and having adults leave work when children get out of school makes perfect sense.
Is ORM the correct term? I understand RethinkDB to be a non-relational database.
The article clearly makes the case that tracking churn is critical to analyzing the overall health of a business.

And the reason why churn is so critical for cash-strapped startups is that new customers are so expensive. In many cases it is an order of magnitude more expensive to sell to new customers than existing customers.
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Indeed. I've had zLinux boxes using VDISKs for swap that get it to the terrible state where the VDISK can sustain swapping at a high enough rate that Oracle will be able to accept and maintain connections, but not do any work. The application attached to the database is unable to see this as a failure and flop over to the other node in the RAC.
One company I worked had 9-hour workdays, and then every other Friday we had off. It was pretty nice, but it was also before kids came into the picture. Now a 6-hour workday sounds amazing.
On the other hand, Taleb has made a literary career out of busting unsound social science. He has quite a lot of practice at it. So a few disparaging paragraphs is just the surface.

What is really need is a rebuttal/response to Taleb's probability based argument.
It finally loaded for me, and was not contrarian. Clickbait? I'd hesitate to label it by saying yes, but yes.
Well, if someone says or implies that these students shouldn't be legally allowed to say the things they say, that's an issue with free-speech consequences. It's really quite patently obvious.

Now with that said, of course, it's important to what we have in the US isn't a constitutionally-given right to Absolute Free Speech, we have a natural right to some very high measure of freedom in our speech and a constitutional prohibition stating "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech" (and jurisprudence extending that down to many non-Congress government entities).

Congress and other bodies can and do make laws which, say, prohibit a variety of things like direct incitement to prompt, violent action... or fraud... or malicious mischeif... things which may involve speech, but for which the courts have said certain restrictions can pass muster anyway, if they're limited enough. And our jurisprudence does afford local school boards and principals additional power on their own campuses.

Anyway...

I'll just say that it would be really nice if people used their freedom of speech more nicely than all this.
Correct.

To build off the metaphor: I think that constructing a "dam" is impossible. Even if it marginally affects the flow of the river, the spillover will affect many more communities that might have gone untouched otherwise.