skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are lots of reasons but I will give four.

One of them is Arrow's Theorem, which proves there is no such thing as a "public interest" in which the preferences of a multiplicity of people can be aggregated. There has to be some coercion and some of people's preferences dismissed out of hand if you don't want to have cycles where people like Nader better than Gore and like Gore better than Bush but like Bush better than Nader.

Another one is that people are afraid of anarchism because they think it would be like the Watts Riots. The problem is not that the sheep will either riot or get lazy, but that with no government, the wolves will fight each other to make one.

On that note, we have referenda in many states in the US and looking at the record it's hard to believe these are a force for good in any way. Typically some rich guy is able to put forth something that sounds "populist", promotes it heavily, and then we have to live with the results.

For instance, California had a referendum called Proposition 13 in 1978 which is a major reason why there is an ongoing housing "crisis" because it created a regime where building housing causes fiscal damage to the enclosing town.

Finally, the political system is it's own entity which needs care and feeding, and politicians will attend to to that. One theory of politics is that politicians will do and say the minimum they can to get and to stay elected. If politicians gave everybody everything they want, the cost would be way too high, so disenfranchising voters is the key to survival. Right now the "gridlock" in DC is pro-systemic because it means when somebody asks a (Democrat|Republican) "What have you done for me lately?" they can say "Nothing because of the (Republicans|Democrats)"
Honestly, I expect it's because the HN audience probably doesn't like Hillary Clinton. It really has zero relevance here.
These are things I thought of when I heard of it a few months ago. Sad to hear they are true.
Do you really need someone to point out what you learned?

> - touching dog poop to enter a "ninja" club

Dog poop is icky and kids will make other kids do anything, and they will do anything.

> - entering many private properties

A lot of private property is not very tightly secured.

> - climbing dangerously high trees

You can climb trees. Might save your life one day.

> - crossing quadruple railroad tracks with TGVs passing on them.
> - putting my head next to a passing TGV (about 2 feet away), just to see how it feels and be scared

TGVs are fast and dangerous. Also said railroad tracks may not be adequately secured.

etc. What would you have learned if you had stayed indoors? Nothing.
Most, but not all, "REST" APIs (other than the web) violate at least one element of the definition of REST, most commonly they don't actually implement HATEOAS, requiring out of band knowledge of applicable resource URIs or URI patterns and/or information about data formats not communicated by documentation of media types and hypertext relations.

But that's because REST is often used as a buzzword by people who don't know what the architectural style entails, or aspirationally to describe one goal of the design of an API, but one that may be compromised for conflicting goals.
Going to openloopz.com (no www) serves up a Heroku error page.
A PhD is not so much an apprenticeship though, its goal should be to bring a novel contribution to the state of the art in the field. The current system does not need more requirements, but it does need more time and freedom for PhD students to develop truly novel ideas, and not fall prey to the "publish or perish" mentality that is so pervasive in academic culture. Dependence on supervisors can be sorted out with proper labour contracts.
> I don't get it. There is a lot of variants of set theory. ZFC is just one of them, albeit the most common. But some proofs are founded on an extension of ZFC. For example, the Mizar system, which is another proof assistant, has adopted Tarski–Grothendieck set theory, an extension of ZFC.

Some mathematicians accept extensions of ZFC. But I would definitely expect a proof that relied on such an extension to have in big red letters "we use these additional axioms", and the mathematical community would hope for and expect a proof without it. (Indeed proofs that make use of the axiom of choice still often flag this up and we look for proofs without it where possible). I am quite surprised that Mizar would do this, and certainly hope that it provides a way to distinguish between proofs that are valid in ZFC and those that aren't.

> According to "The QED Manifesto Revisited" [1], it can be difficult to use Coq as-is for some kind of proofs:

The statement about aleph-0 and aleph-2 (the one that Coq has problems with) isn't really mathematics so much as metamathematics/proof theory, at least if we're viewing it as a statement about the consequences of axioms. Which sure is a valuable field and one we'd like to be able to reason about, but it's circumscribed and doesn't affect normal working mathematics.

If we're talking about accepting that axiom and actually using it in a proof, then it's certainly not "totally non-problematic". The paper admits that most mathematicians wouldn't even know the statement of the proper forcing axiom. They certainly wouldn't write proofs that depended on it.
As I said before, paid users get stabler products whereas us the free loaders are beta testers.
It's unreasonable to expect all private communications to be on public record, and if you write a note to your babysitter during office hours, why should the wider world have to know about it?

You can start by using your work email for all work-related purposes.

If someone on Wall Street refused to use work email -- which can be monitored by their employer -- for communicating with clients, it would stink to high heaven.
Exactly my experience. Turns out my neighborhood is full of kooks. One of my favorite threads is a group of neighbors encouraging everyone to boycott the local Von's until it stops being so "ghetto". In retrospect I think nextdoor might be a good way to scope out a neighborhood when you're in the market for a new house.
My guess is that the heart is a muscle and just like other muscles it tends to not have as much output as you age.
I must disagree w.r.t dynamically typed languages. For an explanation, see this formidable rant: https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/dynamic-lan... .

If you’re one of the lucky ones who already understands this, congratulations, you probably went to Carnegie Mellon
Me too, especially when the presentation of the contract indicates that the other party desires information asymmetry (e.g. they look impatient and try to rush you, or they have a huge contract in a tiny scrolling window on their site). You have to be ready to walk away from the deal too, or why bother?

Still, I see some totally one-sided (and what I believe to be unenforceable) terms sometimes and I may sign anyway. For the other party to actually get what they want requires a lot more work than just getting my signature, and I'm firmly in the "Fucking sue me" camp. Classic blog post from Pud that everyone worried about contracts should read: http://pud.com/post/10103947044/fucking-sue-me
> Why should I lie to them about my level of interest and personality just to get a job offer?

I think that's the crux of these two different viewpoints, and I think it is merely different tactics falling out of different strategies. On the one hand, if your strategy is to find work that you're interested in and are a great personal fit for, then it absolutely makes sense to prioritize being yourself above getting the job. If, on the other hand, your strategy is to get this job, either because you're very ambitious and this is a high-paying, high-status, or career-expanding position, or (more likely for most people in the real world) you really really need a job to pay your bills, then it might make sense to "please the interviewer in order to be granted the prize of a job".

tl;dr; The answer to your question that I quoted is, Because you prioritize getting this job over getting the "right" job.

The more interesting question is whether the tactic of being nonchalant still works better, even if you're desperate to get the job. I think it probably does, but the great Catch-22 of the job market is that it is so much easier to get jobs when you don't need them.
I wonder why there are multiple style elements, in div#footcnt there are 2 right next to each other, they could have saved a whole "</style><style>" there, think of the bandwidth!

/s
Neat. I'll give this a shot this weekend. :)
Are you unable to escalate? Seems a bit odd to have no appeal against the decision of a low-level support worker...
These [no malware] requirements apply to software hosted
on your site or linked to from your site.

Perhaps it started with this? You linked (or let a reviewing user link) to a hacked site. I can understand Adwords taking action in that case (even when it is a simple hyperlink, it is dangerous to users of the ad network).

The support was just bad. I can not defend that. Good on you for keeping your cool.
This is a very good point. In all honesty, id Software really moved from 'making games' to 'making tech demos' with Quake 2 and Quake 3: Arena. The same is pretty much true for Epic and the Unreal Tournament games.
> I'd argue that the best protection is the advice of a lawyer

That advice turns into: "You could fight this and possibly win, but it would take a year and it would cost more than you'd get back." I get what you are saying. You definitely can't really "trust" anyone, but there are so many ways to legally screw you that I'm not sure you can trust protection using a lawyer.
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"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." ~ George Carlin

Do you really want people with 0 domain knowledge deciding whether to go to war? Or how to determine teachers' efficiency? Or how to set minimum wage? Or whether gay marriage is marriage? Or whether it is OK to execute people by a firing squad? Imagine 4chan running the government for the lulz.

Technology for this exists, or can exist. The problem is people. You really don't want an average person governing.

Not that an average politician is much better, but he/she can be. The idea with representative democracy is that you give people jobs and it is on them to execute. They get rewarded (re-elected) if they do well, and punished (not re-elected) if the do poorly. It's just that in the US where you have 90%+ incumbency rates in congress, there are no consequences for bad governing. It literally doesn't matter what you do, as long as you can raise money effectively, and that's what we are selecting for with the current system. Technology solutions should fix this problem, and the problem of PAC's, not let every single person with 0 knowledge weigh in.
I'm not wild about having non-FS options that a man in the middle could force a downgrade to. IE8 on XP isn't worth it.
I went through a similar adventure last summer, when Google abruptly suspended my Merchant Center feed (BTW we are AdWords customers since 2006). After ~1 month, I eventually succeeded in talking to someone who apologised and immediately restored it. Thousands of clicks forever lost because someone misinterprets a policy!
Anybody tried it? How does it work?
Browsers have the "click to play plgugins" option.

Can we have just have "click to play" with sub the option "click to unmute" for everything?
Reading the main page I am not sure what it is. Is it a chat application? What would be the elevator pitch? The story you would tell someone about how it is inevitable that all chat clients would do X and how openloopz does it today (todo lists?) What is the problem it solves? Or how does it help me make money? Maybe that is in the FAQ, but from a marketing perspective I stopped reading after the Why section (also the big black bar under made it look like the end of the page).
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The idea that his money should be taxed instead of spent as he wants is a bit disgusting. He's already paid taxes on the money he has earned, and if he wants to spend it on something you find lacking in efficiency and sensibility that's his business. So kudos for derailing this thread about an interesting archaeological find.
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Google customer support is designed to discourage you from using using customer support. I guess that's true for many companies, but Google is excelling at making it a torture.
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There are two problems with this approach.

One is the classic paradox of hiding something and revealing it at the same time: the vote must be secret to prevent social chilling effects, but it must also be strongly authenticated to preserve the integrity of the process. This is essentially the same problem that renders DRM ultimately infeasible.

The other problem -perhaps also a paradox- is that an abundance of information has not, in practice, resulted in a more informed populace. This is not to say that it has caused the populace to be less informed -that would be absurd- but it has not caused them to be particularly more informed either. 9/11 truthers and antivaxxers constitute some relatively non-controversial evidence for this claim; there are others that would invite non-productive flamewars if I listed them here.
So according to the employee if Google itself wishes to continue using AdWords (and not get banned) for creating ads linking to its search results, it has to remove all clickable links from google.com
I think culture-fit is important to have the right "vibe" in the office

What kind of "vibe" are we looking for? Are people writing unit tests? Are they respectful to each other? Is devops easily reproducible?
dont sell yourself short eg "its a bit confusing".

the only thing this may do is preface your delivery with a confusing expectation.

let them decide!

I fell into this same trap when I started pitching potential investors one-one due to lack of confidence/experience. "I'm not a very good presenter but here is [my awesome product]" they told me to stop saying that. It only hurts you.
Precisely. Programming relies heavily on using others' talents and code and abilities.

For example, I wouldn't know how to do face recognition quickly. But thanks to OpenCV and QT, I was able to make https://github.com/jwcrawley/uWho

I leveraged the code that was written to allow me to go a tiny bit further.
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The real answer is, politicians and the elite want power for themselves.

You have to ask yourself, when a system is created where there's only 2 options, and where the same interests rule no matter whom you choose, do you really have a democracy?

Edit - apparently propaganda works. Both posts criticizing the US' democracy have been downvoted with no explanation. Still doesn't change the fact that what GWB started, Obama has continued, and the next incumbent, whether Dem or Republican, will continue... And the NSA will continue to grow, and whistle-blowers will still get imprisoned, and your rights will continue to be eroded away...

And the vote that comes up on top for me is one stating that the average US citizen is too dumb to be directly in charge (not entirely wrong, but also a very cynical attitude concerning democracy).
Haha! One of my most favorite anime from the 90s.

Really glad to see that mentioned on here.

Video of the related neural interface (for the YF-21 "Omega One" fighter aircraft): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSkhkX-MmmE

The highlight of such an interface is increased reaction time and finer-grained control over the vehicle's activities.

However, it pales in comparison to the unmanned fighter, the X-9 "Ghost." This UAV is driven by an AI rather than a human.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hJepWBUqZk

(The X-9 is the red one.)

This seems prescient to current debates regarding UAV and their military capabilities.
Try "non-participating" by not paying taxes....
the loopz seems to be a cool concept. Still I'm not sure what problem you are solving:the website doesnt help me to understand anything and only the blog post helped.

btw I'm in a similar situation : 34 with 2 kids + one on the way and I'm almost out of money after investing on my 2nd startup.
You shouldn't see this as a desperate situation but as a challenge with an opportunity to focus on what really matters ( in your life and in your company ).
Good luck ;)
There is no ban on hyperlinks. So while your case may be ridiculous, it's not as ridiculous as you imply.

Adwords Policy prohibits something called "low value content", which includes:

Landing pages that are solely designed to send users elsewhere
Examples: Bridge, doorway, gateway, or other intermediate pages

Adwords clearly (but mistakenly, I guess?) interpreted your page as a gateway page, with the sole purpose being to drive users to your Amazon listing page (on a different site, obviously).
>people don't take the time to read and understand contracts before they sign them

Should an individual be bound by an agreement they did not understand when they entered into it? Take phone contracts. Every time I've spoken with a sales person, they outright lied to me about the contract. I'm one of the only individuals who sit down and read the contract realizing where they lied to me. But friend and parents are far more trusting and have been tricked numerous times.

Given the evidence that companies are exploiting both customer's trust and customers limited understanding (especially when you consider that many below average individuals are signing these contracts), I feel these contracts should be just as valid as a contract signed by a 7 year old.
Everything is terrible -- in that the two leading parties in the United States are doing a poor job of representing the values of the people. They need to be fundamentally readjusted or be replaced by better alternatives, and that is not accomplished easily.

In nerdy terms, if there are N dimensions to public policy and individuals are represented as N dimensional vectors, the ideologies of our current parties do a terrible job of dimensional reduction.
A practical option is to move to small town in a more rural area that has a strong and tight-knit community. The type of place where your neighbors go to the same church you do. (Aside: the "we go to the same church" thing is something the non-religious have utterly failed to replace, in my experience.) I've often felt that a big part of this problem is that people just don't really know each other. That "some asshole" wouldn't call the police if they thought "hey, there's chrisBob's daughter, probably headed to the park to play".

This is one of those trade-offs we've made to reap the many advantages of urban- and suburban-ization.
Also, have a look at this presentation from JavaOne last year of you are interested in the gory details: https://www.parleys.com/talk/runtime-code-generation-jvm
Yes, but that is self regulation. I think the point here is that, short of having convenient Romanian hackers break into the personal accounts of high ranking officials from time to time to update us, the state and the public have no way of knowing if they are using personal accounts for some of their communication. The only way to get around this would be to actively monitor all web activity by these officials to ensure that the National Archives are fully aware of all pertinent communication through any channel. Obviously this poses serious questions about privacy for public officials, but if they take a position of public office and have been shown to be deliberately subverting the system in place to keep them accountable, then perhaps that is what's necessary?
Couldn't agree more with this, thanks for articulating it.
"I'm not smart enough" is, I think, 50% "I'm too intimidated by what I don't know" and 50% "I don't care enough to overcome the initial learning curve."
They're incentivized to do this by ad networks. Auto-play means the auto-playing of ads, thus money in their pocket. They know its annoying and user-hostile, but those extra ad impression revenue is worth it somehow.

I have click-to-play in Chrome set for Flash. I think its a nice middle ground between ad blocking and just accepting everything the web throws at you. HTML5 video autostart is also a problem and disabling that should be an easy to find option in browsers once that becomes the norm for ads.
Which also exists but is probably only exciting if you're diabetic: http://googleblog.blogspot.ch/2014/01/introducing-our-smart-...
So what is "pretty well" in this context? Damned if I know.

If you have acess to capital at 0% interest rates, you are doing fine.
Good luck, I used to live in the NE of England (hence why this is the first Show HN I have actually looked at.

Maybe is all the front page HN traffic (or my slow connection). But after 30 seconds of waiting for the page to load, I was greeted with a..... blank page.

sigh maybe it was a timeout, or maybe I really must allow JS to see anything on the page. Maybe this is just me, this annoys me and if a site won't display SOMETHING without JS I leave, but a fellow NE Englander, I will make an allowance.

Anyway, am another one man shop, so don't really need a communication tool. But did the same as you couple of years before, no actually a few years ago now. Quit job / in the 30s / with family to go out on my own.

As you said STOP CODING AND START PROMOTING. It is hard the knockbacks hurt, but whore yourself to all potential customers. You do know who you potential customers are, don't you? Find where they are and do all you can to get them on board. If it is a forum, offer some respected members full free access, people like free things, get them to talk about it.

Learn marketing / seo. Yes it is the spawn of the devil and all marketeers should kill themselves, but you have mouths to feed, morals go out the window.

Again, good luck
I think the problem is that they're effectively building a customer service system but they don't realize this is what they're doing, so they don't build it well. If you look at good customer service, one thing that's always there is that it's easy to communicate with a real person who is empowered and motivated to help you. They are courteous and understanding and they will try their best to resolve your problem, and if they can't then they will do their best to explain to you why they can't and what you can do to resolve it on your own.

I feel like Apple, for app review, attempted to build a system that would be invisible, and because of this they ended up with a completely awful customer service system. I think their goal was to build something where you just submitted good stuff and it went through, and bad stuff that didn't go through was obviously bad and you should feel bad for submitting it. It turned out that there are a lot more gray areas than they thought but their process isn't built for it. The result is that it's like interacting with a badly programmed computer. Sounds like Google is in a similar spot.
I think this is probably why you mentioned IRS:

http://m.cnsnews.com/news/article/irs-buying-spying-equipmen...

But then again, if you don't belong to one of the groups "interesting" enough to the US government, you wouldn't care if your tech is bugged? Privacy should not be a means but an end in itself. If we all "have nothing to hide", then we should all use postcards for our mail.

Techs made by someone with _direct_ ties to the government are more likely to have surveillance capabilities baked in, and tend to be easier for government to access. Especially when that government is well known to engage in espionage by directly sponsoring cyber warfare carried out by military units.
I also experienced some depersonalization thinking deeply about this.