skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YouTube ad blockers and YouTube video downloaders are one of the few kinds of extensions that aren't allowed on the official Chrome extension store and so are completely eliminated by the new block on sideloading extensions. Google's fine with extensions blocking any other kind of ad and downloading any other kind of content and doesn't generally stop existing extensions from bundling crapware unless they make the news, so those restrictions really stand out.
> we could find new and better things for those people to do

I do not think this is universally true.
Shanley Kane, Tech Diversity, and Free speech on Twitter 
Anyone have thoughts/info on the recent @shanley Kane @Medium meltdown that was brought about by the news that journalist Elizabeth Spiers was doing a profile article on Kane. Shanley responded by characterizing the profile as a violation of boundaries and a potentially violent act -- even though it's hard to imagine why Medium.com would 'attack' one if it's better known boggers.

Here is how Medium.com responded:

https://medium.com/@bobbie/on-reporting-65077a5c9047
Likewise for http://sturob.com/wc14/

We should aim to do better at collaborating on this sort of thing - before the tournament starts.
Blame intel. They won't allow you to put ecc on many of their chips.
The only thing missing in MyAnimeList are good suggestions, based on your tastes (something similar to Last.fm's recommendations).
> My policy preference would be a law that creating a universal wage subsidy of $7.75 an hour, thus guarantees every worker a total wage of at least $15 an hour.

I really like this idea. Lately I've been thinking about minimum wage laws (SF, $15/hr min wage, etc) and something about it rubs me the wrong way. It feels like minimum wage laws are a convenient way for governments to take all the credit for improving the lot of the poor, while making others (companies) pay for it. It also feels like it disproportionately impacts small business owners, who are already stretched pretty thin.

Implementing a minimum wage like that, where part of the burden is on the government, and comes out of tax revenues (which can be collected in a more progressive fashion) really appeals to me
>In the last sixty years, a tremendous amount of money has been poured into education.

That wouldn't be the last sixty years of explosive innovation and social growth, would it?

You mean the most inventive and creative sixty years in all of human history?

The problem now is that universities have become degree mills and social networking clubs. The subscription fees are insane, and because education has become commoditised, and too much of the process exists to exploit students instead of educating them, the results are becoming ever-more mediocre.

But it would surely be possible to make useful adult education a part-time thing, with the rest of the time spent on useful work.

It's not as if there aren't enough jobs that need to be done in healthcare, infrastructure maintenance, childcare, teaching, and all the other work that counts towards social, not investor, dividends.

Unfortunately these jobs are deemed 'too expensive' and 'a drain on resources' - which is code for 'we're not going to make money from them in the next six months, so fuck everyone.'
Terms that I understand would be helpful. For example, what is a "platform marketer"?
Like you said, strong AI would change everything. The richest will be the first to utilize them. Things get scary from that point on.

Unless we massively redistribute wealth, then inequality will arrive at unimaginable levels. It's hard to think of a world where the top 1% owns many multiples of what the bottom 99% owns.

I'm guessing at some point that we'll decide as a species that strong AIs cannot be owned by individuals. I'm guessing that it won't be a smooth transition. Instead, we'll become quasi-communists and fairly evenly distribute gains made by the strong AIs.

Also by "uploading", I'm guessing you mean simulate the human brain? Actually uploading a human consciousness would come a while after the advent of strong AI.
r/philosophy has this in their "A Guide to Arguments" page:

Logical Fallacies
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I’d like to close with some brief comments on invoking logical fallacies. These fallacies are essentially shortcuts through logical space that pick out common failures in constructing valid arguments without digging into the logical machinery at work. However, like most shortcuts, invoking fallacies means missing out on the complete picture of the argument and it can very well be the case that stating the logical errors explicitly (i.e. premise two does not entail premise three, etc) can expose helpful implicit premises or make it clear to your opponent how, precisely, his or her argument fails. These things are both important to charity and helpful to informative discussion about an argument. For these reasons and others, we recommend against invoking popular logical fallacies against an argument in favor of spelling out and objecting to arguments in more robust ways.
> It's not because they feel pressured to become Uber drivers and take less money - Uber drivers make a shit ton of money

What evidence do we have that this is true or, if so, will remain so past the period when they're recruiting to enter a new market? It seems a lot more likely that Uber is going to keep gradually lowering the rates paid to drivers to maintain their profit margins amidst competition.
It is. http://studio.substack.net/wavepot
I love that page, and actually really dislike fallacy-based argumentation. I was trying to be snarky.
Can we schedule r.http commands? In other words, can this feature be used as an ETL-lite for regularly pulling in data from external sources?
1) If we moved from theoretical/general teachings in college and focused on apprenticeship, the benefits of universal education would be clearly noticeable.

2) My policy preference ... of at least $15 an hour. Why does everybody need to work? Just look around your own company, (arbitrarily) less than 50% of your workforce creates (arbitrarily) 95% of the value. We would save money by paying the rest to stay home.

3) The way productivity is being enhanced by technology means that sooner or later, only a small part of the population will make the workforce, and they will create more value than all of us are creating now. The only question at that point will be how will this value/profit be shared and benefit the "unproductive" population.
> Anyhow, to pretend like there has been no deregulation is to be disingenuous at best.

True, but then to blame a financial crisis on free markets when no such thing even remotely existed is also disingenuous at best.
Not sure why people are downvoting you.

Do I think the F-35 is a great jet? Hard to say since it's still in LRIP. But it's reported by pilots who have flown it to be more maneuverable than F-15/16/18. Not as fast as the F-22, and not as stealthy. Longer legged than the F-18 (either version).

Where it falls down is in cost, largely due to it requiring so much commonality between the three versions. If the cost stays above $150M a copy (depends on how you calculate that, and it's a hard thing to do), it's too pricey. The F-22 would have been better for A2A, and if the line had been kept open, the Raptor's cost would have ended up below that. So if LM can get the cost down closer to the $100m mark, it'll be fine. New build F-16s are over $80M, the Silent Eagle was expected to cost North of $100m, and neither would be able to handle the role of the F-35.
In the end, how much of tech was just about a few guys aggrandizing themselves, not actually benefiting others? From my viewpoint, an enormous amount.

Disruptive, my ass. These guys are chasing the same stupid status symbols that everyone else is. They are not the ubermensch that society holds them up to be, just people who finally Made It (tm).

Motives are exactly why the outcome will be just as rotten as before.
There really needs to be an international standard for these terms. What's wrong with listing a display by its capabilities? 1920x1080 60hz 24bpp. That way we can get rid of all this HD, HD Ready, UHD, 4K nonsense. It's marketing speak only meant to confuse you into buying something you wouldn't have if you were better informed.
Yet more data unceremoniously dumped from a database and munged into JSON.

I like the player "PosX" and "PosY" decimal values, presumably used to position the player on a team formation graphic.

Apparently mobile devices only need one size of image each, rather than havingn various pixel density buckets. For some reason, the Android image is twice the size of the iOS image:

"c_IosImage": "http://live.cdn.mobileapp.fifa.com/awards/ios/manofthematch....,
"c_AndroidImage": "http://live.cdn.mobileapp.fifa.com/awards/android/manofthema...
Oh wow, thanks for sharing. That's great feedback. I didn't consider that approach.

Would it be helpful if we provided a daily or weekly email that showed the startups like that? Name + pitch.
What's your evidence? I regularly use Flywheel, which lets me summon normal cabs. Every driver I've talked to is excited about it. And they say the reason they've not liked the credit card machines is that the cab companies force them to use a particular one and tack on substantial fees. I suspect that if anybody is using regulation to make riders' lives worse, it seems to be the cab companies.
In addition, and as I discuss in the post, right now we can't "solve" poverty because poverty is a moving metric, usually defined as a percentage of income, rather than as an absolute value.

Yes, and this reminds me a point I left out. We also need to look for ways to reduce the cost of living for the basic stuffs of life. In many ways a poor person now is wealthier than 40 years ago. However, the cost of living needed to simply live in society as a semi-normal person has also gone up dramatically. Most people cannot to work, or take a cheap moped to work, because the entire transportation structure was designed for cars. If everyone else is driving a three ton steel machine, you need to drive one too, and better get one with airbags and a four-star crash rating. Similarly, zoning laws have made even small homes in locations near healthy job markers quite expensive. Healthcare is much better now, but there is no option to pay Costa Rican healthcare prices for Costa Rican health quality. It's all or nothing.

The economy is also missing old-school solutions like boarding houses or dorm living for adults, that provide a very cost effective way for single adults to save money while working entry level jobs. Such accommodations now violate zoning laws.

Right now economic policy is geared around GDP and per capita GDP. I would prefer for the key metric we judge economic progress by to be the ratio between the most basic cost of living for a normal person (a two bedroom home near jobs, a food basket with protein and vitamins, transportation costs of getting to work, healthcare coverage that will cover major health problems, amortized costs of education needed to land that median wage job, etc. etc.) divided by the median income for a full time worker. We both need to focus on keeping the basic cost of living down as much as we focus on keeping wages up.
This is more about about promoting sharing as a cultural behavior than making money on this particular product. By incentivizing sharing, companies end up with more personal information. It forces lurkers to participate (some might argue that's a good thing).

The service forces you to pay for content with your own content, whereas before the payment was implicit, or at least invisible -- as long as you were in the store, you consented to being monitored.
You made my point.
False. Depends on the return when right vs. return when wrong.
Ooohh. I like where your head is with webhook.com. (How did you get that domain!) I would have backed your campaign had I been exposed to it. Any way to join late?

Alright... hear me out... thoughts on combining webhook.com with Atom as a single download/install. There are custom Atom packages that provide UI to achieve what you are doing through the CLI. Preview locally, too.
Okay, having managed to read most of it (I think -- my eyesight is crap and giving me fits today), for me, I think the important pieces are the bits about psychology -- about intuition and analysis (which I was already familiar with but not in this business related form) and the piece about loss aversion.

I think those are really helpful for me, but more from a marketing or audience relationship point of view. For me, I am pretty clear that monetization will be indirect (like ad income, that kind of thing) so this is not so much about pricing for me.

But my challenge is that initial intuition piece -- that piece I know of as a concept of "in the blink of an eye" what people think, as their first reaction -- tends to be pretty negative. And I have done a lot of retrenching to back out of that negative relationship as much as I can and I currently have a single person with positive interest and relatively little harassment (compared to what it once was). So, for me and the problems I am contemplating, these seem more like marketing ideas. Which is fine. But I am wondering now how I can apply those concepts to that angle and not pricing per se.

But excellent piece. I forwarded it to a couple of people.
Thanks for writing it (ugh -- video is a problem for me and the formatting of the transcript is kind of frustrating, FYI).
>Slipping back to what - the horrors of statism that we saw in the 20th century?

No, why should it? Just because we've learnt neoliberalism is flawed doesn't mean we should unlearn that statism was also disastrous (in different ways).

I think (hope?) it's slipping back to somewhere in-between i.e. better regulated free markets, a sensible approach to privatisation and the acknowledgement that capitalism vs socialism is not a zero sum game. Both ideologies have good bits and bad bits, the path we're walking down now is one of figuring out the optimal ratio between the two. The fabled "third way".
These are cases of making trade-offs for capability, not outright malware. And why limit it to the iPhone? Do you honestly believe Google is capturing less information?
Also, Sprey was fundamentally wrong about some elements for the F-16. He didn't want it to have radar, and wanted it to be mostly a gunfighter (though Sidewinders were planned from the beginning). He wanted it to be a cheap as hell daylight fighter, yet it was intended to be used primarily in Europe where bad weather is more common than any pilot would like. If the F-16 had stuck to Sprey's core principles, it wouldn't have the longevity that it has.
> AI isn't anywhere near being able to discriminate against an aircraft that is not exhibiting "aggressive" behavior. How will it work when it needs to visually ID an opponent, or when the opponent is flying aircraft that might be allied?

What will you do when the enemy sends up unmanned autonomous aircraft that ignore these niceties and shoot down all your manned fighters?

I'm not dismissing the legitimate problems you raise, but we need to prepare for war, which almost by definition is the absence of rules, such as distinguishing military from civilian targets.

EDIT: Also of interest, if an autonomous fighter shoots down a civilian aircraft, is it a war crime? Mistakes happen in war that aren't crimes. And if it is, who goes to jail?
Military Blimps Will Float In Maryland, Tracking Potential Threats
> improving the world in other ways

Are you implying that Slingshot has improved the world?
UPDATE: Built it!

npm: https://www.npmjs.org/package/hubot-world-cup-live

github: https://github.com/gberger/hubot-world-cup-live
Strong AI has been 30 years away for 60 years. That's not to say we'll never get there. But it does mean that our intuitions that we're close aren't very reliable.
It didn't hurt that in the 50s American industry was reaping the benefits of having blown their industrial competitors to smithereens just a few years earlier.

I can offer all the benefits you want if the odds of my products' prices being undercut by a competitor are roughly zero.
I have looked into these things, sadly commercial dishwashers aren't viewed as being suitable for residential purposes. Toasters perhaps, I'll confess to having not looked into those yet. Washing machine and dryer I do plan to buy commercial most likely as soon as the need arises and I don't live in a place with laundry provided.

I'm not exaggerating when I say I'm fine with paying for these things, I've learned time and time again that I'm better off paying more for a quality product than getting the cheapest thing I can possibly find.
Then they go hungry. When they are ready to work and to eat, their local employment office will be ready with a job and a paycheck. But in the meantime, they need to stay off my lawn. I am a believer in anti-vagrancy laws, so I think with the "jobs for everyone" comes enforcement against sleeping on street benches and panhandling.
Oh heavens. I did say 'most', didn't I?
It looks like all of these code examples were copied right out of the epub book. It's like they took the book and stripped out all of the exposition.

They copied out of a copyrighted work. What did they think was gonna happen?
It's probably worth mentioning that some states offer free or discounted radon test kits. If you live in an area with elevated radon levels, you should look into getting your home tested.

Discovering that your home has too much radon in it isn't disastrous either. Homes can be retrofitted with proper ventilation to lower radon levels to safe amounts.
There is no doubt that SSGs will "grow up" and appear to gain features like Wordpress. The difference will be that SSGs are born out of loosely coupled tools in a toolchain ecosystem. Over time, I believe the successful SSGs will have a decidedly Unix flavor to them. Take http://www.metalsmith.io/ as an example.
"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."
- Kurt Vonnegut

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/k/kurtvonneg103944....
Which does rather imply there's a big crash coming.

That's not a zero-sum nor value-creating cycle: everyone will slowly haemorrhage users, at the risk that the next "thing" isn't something that easily centralizes to a corporation - i.e. a generation of school kids who get big into some type of mesh-networked thing which solely goes device to device.

It would only have to be created once.
Clicking follow mutates the global app data. Changes to the app data causes the entire application to re-render, and React pushes those changes out to the DOM.

So, to answer your question, we don't propagate events :)
The issue with credit card vs cash is actually far more nuanced. For example, in Boston, cab drivers don't get to choose a payment processor, the processor/cab company takes about a 8-12% cut of the total, and it's quite often subject to payment delays of 3-5 days between fare and receipt of funds. Compared to cash, that's a pretty raw deal, and for someone who's shelling out a bunch of money to rent the cab, and run it, can be sometimes the difference between profiting on a fare and not.
Reccomendations on seting up a 2-sided market
I'm thinking of launching a 2 sided market startup. However, as I talk to costumers from both sides, the chicken and egg problem comes up i.e. they all want to see a long list of people from the other side to sign up.

What advice do you have to set up such a startup and get the required traction?

Thanks!

P.S. I'd be happy to be more specific, but this is my first post & I don't know if plugs are welcome.
I'd suggest you read Bair's "Bull by the Horns". Bair, a Bush-appointed Republican who ran the FDIC during the 2008 crisis, made it pretty clear that regulation had become ineffective in a number of important ways. The last chapter is a call for significant strengthening of US financial regulation.

I'd say the "cost of doing business" thing cuts against your argument, though. I read that as the regulations (or the regulators) not being strong enough to keep bad actors in check.
Or perhaps you made mine
I went through it last year. Our company didn't make money so no bonuses for us while the CEO got a handsome package of some $25 million.

It's pretty terrible to go through. Even if you didn't think the CEO has done a terrible job (I officially have no comment on the matter), it was still terrible.
The Magnus Effect and the World Cup Match Ball
Serve some - do well. Serve many, die hard.
EBay’s search results take a hit as Google ramps up its own ecommerce offering
> The quip about fighting the last war ...

... has become an over-used cliche, the one thing many people know about military planning, and thus it is re-used, like the last wars' stratagems, far beyond its weight or value.
This is related to PG's essay on wealth: http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
Show them a documentary about the working environment of the lower class in China.
> ... A shift in sensitivities happened. We're all about ideas now.

Nah, we're all about Stack Overflow rep now.
Support them as a society. There will always be a tiny % that won't or can't work. Unless you want to let them die you will spend more money and effort trying to find the people abusing the system then you will spend on their abuses.
>> "... because the entire transportation structure was designed for cars. If everyone else is driving a three ton steel machine, you need to drive one too, and better get one with airbags and a four-star crash rating."

It's almost like the man designed it this way so as to incentivize you to borrow money from him to buy cars. The only thing stopping something like that would be the fact that the auto industry didn't historically have vast domestic political power and close ties to high finance... wait a second...
Ok, can you tell us then?
I can't emphasis enough for you to pay attention to what the folks above have said.

I also have some experience with a large DNS service and you just wouldn't believe the amount of time and resources that get allocated to dealing with abuse.
Robots, work and the social safety net
A response to Marc Andreessen and Alex Payne
That's an entirely ad hominem statement.

You're implying that anybody that disagrees is irrational and biased. Worse, you proclaim it requires broad agreement.

Which part do you struggle with exactly?
Ehrm, no, obviously not. A marketing intern can be more productive than an engineering intern and make 1/2 as much. It's determined by supply and demand, nothing else.
I was recently talking to two startups through their internal recruiters. The two companies had similar positions available and were of a similar size, but their recruiters were night and day. One of them frequently forgot to get back to me, was unresponsive, gave unclear instructions, and generally slowed down the process. The other was extremely attentive, always moving the process as quickly as possible and accommodating my requests. It was dramatic enough that, even though the company with the slow recruiter had a ~3 week head start, I had to stall with the better recruiter to get an interview with both companies.

Even in situations where the employee profile is similar, recruiter quality can vary widely.
Estimating Memory Requirements in SQL Server 2014
That's actually wrong. I'm not optimistic about humanity. pmarca seems to be, which is why I like reading him (and Thiel, etc.), even though I don't totally believe everything they say. I think the world would be better with more pmarcas, though.

I may be a nerd, but I'm willing to bet basically everyone on HN shares that trait.
Finally a Marc Andreessen take down by a respected member fo the hacker community. In short, Marc and Ben just need to STFU.
The great unbundling continues.

I understand Facebook is worried about a new trend wiping them out, but I don't see how a defensive moat of look-alikes is going to save them. Other than Messenger, are any of Facebook's new apps gaining users? Or are they like Poke — destined to be retired.
Yes. As it turns out, people really like other people.