skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course it's a frivolous case, but the US legal system is incredibly misandric/anti-male, as every man who's every been in a divorce case in the US can testify. It's Pao's rational self-interest to exploit the misandry of the US legal system.
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ironic...this site hides my comments and the NY Times does the same...yet both sites are posting this article which scolds colleges for doing exactly what they themselves do
I find that article to be hopelessly confusing, and can't make heads or tails of it. So I have no opinion on GC.
I don't even know why I read this. I'm so tired of people debating people. Time to go do something creative instead.
While I gently agree with some of what you say it's probably important to note that I say in my profile that I struggle with tone and that I welcome email or downvotes to guide me to do better. And I sometimes talk about the increased hostility on HN.

So I invited this tone policing. (And of course I continue to do so)

> I believe your comment was far less aggressive than it's parent,

I'll be honest: I thought so too. It's interesting to me that other people read the posts so differently.

Still, the change I made stopped downvotes so tone matters.
Everyone knows that, these apps are of no use. People shold work on their own to stay healthy without using these apps
> Indeed, it's actually more poignant that the tyranny is both ephemeral and, more importantly, inevitable. This is the real issue. It's easy to comprehend the issue by looking at semi-permanent states [1], like Marxist class divisions or political polarization, but those are consequences.

I disagree; if the oppression is ephemeral, then it's nowhere as bad as when it is (semi)permanent. (Maybe an example would help - all the oppressions that come to my mind from history, that were formalized in law, are attempts to permanently subjugate or even eradicate the minority.)

(In fact, I can come up with an example of "ephemeral" oppression - unemployment. It's irony that people who argue that democracy leads to tyranny of majority often fail to see the tyranny of the markets.)

People do have empathy and memory; if you being in the minority is ephemeral, then you will remember it and vote differently. Oppression can only work if people are afraid; if they are not, they can change things and work toward consensus.

And if you look at direct democracy in Switzerland, for instance, you will find that direct democracy (I don't consider representative democracy only one or the best possibility) actually leads to more consensual result - people vote differently on different issues, sometimes they have minority view, mostly they have majority view (as it happens statistically), and because of that, the party or class tribalism you describe from American politics is greatly reduced. So empirically, exact opposite happens than what "tyranny of the majority" crowd tends to think that happens. (Another counterfactual claim is that direct democracy will lead to some torrent of crazy changes - in fact common voters are more conservative and less decisive than politicians.)

> This is a problem. It is the exact opposite of what you need to make sure that a majority is an emergent majority.

I don't understand what is your point here. In direct democracy, the majority is always emergent; it depends on your actual views, not on which party you decide to vote for.
The entire asset management industry is a candidate for the bullshit job title. Within the equity asset class for example, aggregate performance is worse than passive investments and there is ample evidence that substantially all managers are unable to actually provide the service they are selling.

As an industry, it effectively taxes savings and distributes those taxes to the employees within the industry, sometimes as eye watering salaries and bonuses.

One may argue that the consumer is free to choose not to consume the service, but the reality is that most countries have mandated retirement savings mechanisms that efficiently funnel employee pensions and savings into the industry.

[1] http://www.umass.edu/preferen/You%20Must%20Read%20This/Picki...

[2] http://web.stanford.edu/~wfsharpe/art/active/active.htm
This is an issue for any software that is able to access the GPU: http://blog.lxgr.net/tag/opengl.html
Not by using that signature, no you can't.
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>For example, you could say slavers were trying to reallocate labor from where it was less productive (African subsistence farming) to where it was more productive (building the American economy).

I think that's a different discourse. Slave labour was not a "bullshit job", it was productive. However, it was unethical. You can have productive jobs which are unethical, but that's a separate discussion from bullshit jobs.
On the same theme, Bret Easton Ellis [BEE] has been a vocal critic of what he has termed "Generation Wuss" and "Outrage Culture"[1][2]. BEE is obviously trying to be provocative, which might get some people to dismiss him out of hand, but I really think he's onto something. One has to remember that BEE is an author of transgressive fiction, and has experienced attacks based on the content he featured in his books all his career (without his attackers bothering to analyze his intent).

[1] = http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/bret-easton-ellis-interview
[2] = http://www.vanityfair.fr/culture/livre/articles/generation-w...
In life sciences, just read the figures. Papers are full of exaggerations, overgeneralizations and other self-aggrandizing claims. AFAIK it's not like that in physics, and CS is different altogether. Anyone who has tried to do research to create a model based on biological data can attest how hard it is to find reliable meaningful consensus values in the literature.
I agree that the GP and GGP both are great points, and I aspire to that state of mind myself (not always reaching it, but trying to).

That said, it definitely bugs me when someone comes to be "looking for a debate", so that may be why people have reacted negatively. I can generally tell when someone's genuinely concerned with an issue, and when someone wants to provoke me into a debate. I prefer not to spend much time with people who do the latter.

However, I recognize that we may be understanding the term "debate" differently here. To me, the emphasis in a debate is on the debating prowess of the participants. Whereas in a discussion, the emphasis is on the issue to be solved. You may well be referring to what I think of as a discussion.
Gorgeous! :)
No, it's not the same.

X a = new X("foo");
X b = new X("bar");
X c = a;
swap(a, b);
// after this, a points to X("bar") and b points to
// X("foo"), but c should remain pointing to X("foo").

If you swap the contents of the object, c would point to X("bar").
It would mean that the invoked method gets a reference to the original object rather than its own copy of the object.

It's only obvious if we assume some knowledge of Java's semantics.
>Off-shoring is a wonderful example of private equity types reducing global inequality

Pitting third world workers against first world workers isn't good for either of them in the long run.

The same threat that hangs over US workers (we will offshore your job if you unionize and demand higher wages) actually hangs over 3rd world workers too (we will reshore your job if you unionize and demand higher wage).

It's a win/win situation for private equity though.

> It's true that the wealthy Americans who formerly collected rents

Wages are rents now are they? That's doubleplus good doublethink.

>Real income is rising

Median incomes are in decline.

>shift of comp from wages to non-wage benefits

...if you do some creative accounting on healthcare costs. Theoretically you might be getting $150,000 worth of benefits if your company insurance pays for your appendectomy. You and I both know that those absurd prices only really apply to the uninsured.
Bailiffs and debt collectors are two different concepts.
Well, not very. The usual agricultural practice for dairy cows is to take the calves away so that they're not consuming the mother's milk (because you want the milk; that's why you're keeping them in the first place). Female calves become more dairy cows, but male calves are pretty much useless, so you eat them.

So chances are you'll have prepared veal from the male calf at the same time as its mother is producing milk.

I've never been certain what this law was for. Most religious food practices stem from food hygiene laws; unclean animals are usually riddled with parasites, kosher and halal killing practices codify particular (safe) ways of slaughtering animals because otherwise people wouldn't do it properly --- but this one? Dunno.
Maybe you shouldn't have opinions on private equity if you find it hopelessly confusing.
Then they need to estimate how many procedures of each kind to contract, or how large facilities to maintain, in Croydon. Which in part depends on the number of 30 year old white males living there.

If they get it wrong, he doesn't magically get treatment anyway. He either has to wait, or travel elsewhere (and someone still has to figure out where and when). Otherwise, they waste money on unused capacity.
That was an incredibly moving and insightful story. Really well written. I feel like I'm one of today's ten thousand :)
Ask HN: Which external HDD/SSD are the most reliable?(to use for backup)
Any Advocates for Updating the Boundaries of Boston Wards?
? What are the changes to Boston Ward Boundaries that would be more in accord with population https://archive.org/stream/municipalregiste1925bost#page/186/mode/2up
Dunno about many, but there are clearly some, and often in positions of power. Popehat has often unsettling stories about "censorious dipshits", from any political position: https://www.popehat.com/
> rule-breaking

> rule-bending

These are different.
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A big part of manuals is being able to read or scroll fluidly into the next or previous section - very often one doesn't know whether what they are looking for is mentioned in 1.3.1 or 1.3.2 - having to manually click each section is completely atrocious for usability. Not to mention you just broke search.

This, it is often split in sections smaller than the screen so you have to uncollapse way to many items. Make the navigation jump to the right section in the document, maybe allow to collapse sections, but have it all visible by default.
Every seen those ratings of countries as "Good places to do business"? Part of that is how well contracts are enforced and debts paid.

Countries where it takes 10 years to force a company/person to pay a debt are not highly ranked and thus people are a lot less willing to do business or invest in them.

Eg You little startup won't be able to lease office furniture if the hiring company doesn't think it can at least seize it back..
Yes, that is the exact same issue. While searching for any prior art, i did not find your blog post, but the problem seemed far too obvious for me to be the only one to have ever stumbled upon it.
I do think this issue needs some exposure, there seem to be a lot of potential security ramifications.
TLV — certainly. But TLV isn't like the rest of the country
Ask HN: List of (open) software licenses?
Hi,

I am currently researching possible licenses for a small project of mine and need a broad overview over what can be used.
Show HN: Provide high speed data access over WANs, for Delphi db applications
Wow, I'm surprised to see a comment so critical of Venture Capitalists on HN. But I guess it's fair: The VC industry as a whole badly underperforms the S&P index on a risk-adjusted basis. Or aren't those the asset managers you were talking about?
"Nowadays, it is true, we are made so sensitive by the raving crowd of flatterers that we cry out that we are stung as soon as we meet with disapproval. When we cannot ward off the truth with any other pretext, we flee from it by ascribing it to a fierce temper, impatience, and immodesty." - Martin Luther, 1520!

Maybe not such a new phenomenon?
Why employ the means of a party though? Isn't that the 19th century political form par excellence? In particular - why the one party?

I get that you're trying to reinvigorate the notion of the political party, but there is an argument to be made that a form of politics which reflects the internet itself would have no parties, and certainly not one party - no universal representation of particularities, since, as you write in the manifesto, the 'peers' are themselves singularities, and by definition singularities cannot be subsumed. (Kant 101.)
In my current employment, the environment provided me doesn't exactly feed commitment, but it at least marginally allows for it. We are soon moving office and the new environment is definitely one of those "the best you can hope for its compliance" type environments. But I have a hard time trying to tell my boss that without incriminating myself.
The US began the WWII draft over a year before Pearl Harbor

But not before World War II started... Notice that you called it the WWII draft. U.S. involvement in WW II did not start with Pearl Harbor.
Has anyone looked at ReadCube?
I found it when searching for software to help manage research papers I needed to read.
You can download papers through their client, annotate and get analysis on papers.
https://www.readcube.com/
I thought it was a part of the contracts but apperently it is a swedish law that disalowes gathering of personaly identifiable data without explicit consent.
If you ever meet a cabin steward off the job, ask them to use 'command voice' on you. They're trained in shouting at people, for precisely the reasons you mention. It is _terrifying_, and very effective.
>>>Safe spaces are an expression of the conviction, increasingly prevalent among college students, that their schools should keep them from being “bombarded” by discomfiting or distressing viewpoints. Think of the safe space as the live-action version of the better-known trigger warning, a notice put on top of a syllabus or an assigned reading to alert students to the presence of potentially disturbing material.

The Church of Scientology had to create itself some safe spaces in order that its practitioners could feel comfortable learning new things in spite of the rampant counter-opinions on the subject of the mind, body and soul.

Does the idea that colleges and other social institutions need a safe space, away from all the 'counter-opinions' offend you? Maybe you should stop reading right now.

Unless daily protected from doing so, every safe space eventually becomes a prison. No institution is safe from authoritarian behaviour - even those who fight repression/oppression/suppression. In fact, it is a daily struggle to prevent these very human elements from impacting society - because fundamentally there is a desire in all of us, every single one of us - enlightened or otherwise - to repress those we do not agree with, suppress those we despise for whatever reason, and hate those for whom we cannot find anything to love about.
No idea about Israel. Senior rails consultant in Munchen, Germany 700-800 EUR/day. Senior Front-End/Javascript (AngularJS) consultant in Paris, France 750-900 EUR/day.
Oh god, I remember the first punch to the nose. Nearly impossible to hold back tears. It didn't hurt nearly as much as I felt my pride was hurt, my emotions. I just could not deal with it. I didn't fall down or anything. But that feeling of being punched in the nose shook me to my emotional core.

Now it's just eh. Hardly notice it anymore.
I stopped for 6 months a few years ago when I was on a sabbatical, no problem. I still need a morning coffee to feel awake even on holiday though!
The web browser that came back to haunt Microsoft
That's easy to turn off.

I have many other reasons not to recommend Ubuntu, but that's not one of them.
How about https://notedcode.com
Comedian, Chris Rock, no longer does campus shows for this reason [1].

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/01/chris-rock-colleges...
I said the article was incoherent. Not the topic of PE.
The FSF and opensource.org each maintain a long list of licenses.

A broad overview is nearly useless. It leads to the paradox of choice. What you want is either the GPL, LGPL, MIT, or Apache license.

Or, people have answered this very common question. A Google search for "which open source license should I use" - including the quotes! - gives over 300 hits. One leads to http://choosealicense.com/ .
http://gendal.me/2013/11/24/a-simple-explanation-of-how-mone...

I have a feeling you're remembering this article that was on HN a while back (at least I did, reading your comment).
> Without health insurance or fire insurance, people have to save up as much money as they can in the case of a catastrophic accident which they probably won't have, and possibly declining to spend that money on important things like higher education

Some countries have figured some of that out: Distribute the health and education risk between every citizen (it typically achieves a 50% discount vs. privatly insured countries)[0]

[0] http://www-tc.pbs.org/prod-media/newshour/photos/2012/10/02/...
I agree. It's interesting to see a back of the envelope calculation to prove that the idea is not applicable.

Another interesting calculation would be how this method compares to other electricity generation devices for isolated places, for example solar panels or wind turbines.
> There are no sure-fire shortcuts to happiness

Cannabis Sativa/Indica blends have been known to artificially satiate your needs hierarchy, as explained by maslow, pretty well (except sometimes for hunger), allowing one a temporary shortcut to self-actualization.

I've gained massive insights into myself through the use of psilocybin, and I'm not alone. it isn't uncommon to hear someone compare one night with a breakthrough dose of psilocybin to a few years of therapy. These insights, and the resulting lifting of depression, lasted upwards of 3 months the first time it happened to me.

is it better to get to a happy/enlightened state without them? absolutely. but make no mistake, there are shortcuts. like every shortcut, however, make sure you watch your step while you're going through them in order to avoid pitfalls.
The C++ implementation of swap given is wrong.

SomeType temp = arg1;

This would do a deep copy of the object pointed to by the ref arg1. What is intended is probably

SomeType& temp = arg1;
It's great to see this kind of grass roots triumph. Hopefully, this will prevent a water monopoly (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_empire).
Martin Luther: Open Letter to German Nobility, 1520 http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/source/luther-germnobintro...
Some chipsets before Sandy Bridge had that processor, but were able to operate normally without its firmware, with a disabled ME.

Since Sandy Bridge it's mandatory.
Temporal Authority: To What Extent it Should Be Obeyed http://pages.uoregon.edu/sshoemak/323/texts/luther~1.htm
> (I'd probably give them bonus points for mentioning what the Greek words mean, but only because someone who knows that is likely to be someone I'd enjoy working with.)

I know what the Greek words mean, but it would never in a million years occur to me to mention it in an interview; I would have no way of knowing without being told that you would assign positive value to such.
From: James Gosling
Date: 1/13/11

Don Hopkins wrote:

>Hey I know it's 2011 and we're living in the future and all that, but
>there still seems to be some confusion and debate about a matter I
>thought was perfectly clear: Is Java pass by value or pass by
>reference?

Depends on your terminology. But it's kinda both. It's pass-by-value for
everything, with the twist that for class instances, the thing that's
passed-by-value is the pointer to the object, so it behaves like
pass-by-reference.

From: Don Hopkins
Date: 1/13/11

Reminds me of the controversy about Niklaus Wirth's name:

"Whereas Europeans generally pronounce his name the right way
('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's
Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call him by name, but Americans
call him by value." - Introduction by Adriaan van Wijngaarden at the
IFIP Congress (1965).

It seems to be a consequence of pretending pointers don't exist -- you
also have to pretend you have variables with object values and
references, but you still can't write a swap(a, b) function. If you
think of Java object values as pointers, then it's obviously passing
references by value. But if you don't believe in pointers and think of
variables as containing objects, then it's obviously passing objects
by reference, but your view of the world is an illusion, because it's
really implemented with pointers.

Or is it??? Someone suggested a Magic Elves theory, which helps a lot
of other stuff to make more sense.

Here's the discussion from 2011 about this issue that prompted me to ask James Gosling for a clarification. You can see that many people were VERY confused, and extremely fanatical about maintaining and spreading their confusion, in spite of the fact that it directly contradicted the Java spec and the inventor of Java himself.

Java is PASS BY VALUE.

http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_i...
Go with your gut. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. This advice has never served me wrong, although I have been burned plenty of times before by attempts to rationalize around red flags.
> I think the biggest problem with Vancouver is that there isn't enough venture capital flowing in.

To be honest the same can be said for London. Despite an abundance of capital available, investors this side of the Atlantic are far more conservative than in the US.

I don't know what it is in the US that makes investors take a punt on risky ventures, in the UK they just don't. If you're not making revenue in 12 months then they don't want to know.
I think my fave of Luther's insults is "There you are, like butter in sunshine."
>The room was equipped with cookies, coloring books, bubbles, Play-Doh, calming music, pillows, blankets and a video of frolicking puppies

That is something you would expect to find in a young childs room. Is that really the state they are at?

And also, what is wrong with a real puppy?
Farming isn't a bullshit job, at least not if you love it. The same could be said of everything.

What society, and by secondary intent technology should aim to do is to enable everyone to be capable of performing the job for which they have passion for.

My parents are farmers, and love it. I love it too. It is far from a bullshit job. But for the average joe slaving away on a rice paddy in China, they may dream of something grander than the opportunities afforded them.

I have been fortunate enough to have more education and opportunities than even 0.001% of the population could wish for - excellent schools, 3 bachelors degrees, 10 years at uni, mostly having the time of my life. I'm a doctor performing a job I find fulfilling, and I have a startup that grew out of a hobby. And it's profitable.
Society should aim to give everyone the opportunities afforded to me. Because then there would be no bullshit jobs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_and_antisemitism#...