unclesaamm's comments

Much more likely for it to be the ole "Download it quickly and I'll make it private"

Edit: After reading the article, I have no idea what could explain this. They had a dozen passwords in there as well..

Google Sheets isn't open sourced and MIT licensed is one big difference

This is the most neoliberal thing I've ever read. No, doing nothing will not make the world a better place. And no, our mindless slide into capitalism-in-all-things is not actually good for most people. For one, see the Clinton Foundation's disastrous neoliberalization of Haiti (touted as a success because it "raised people out of poverty"): http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/05/clinton-found...

In fact, by working for a typical VC-fueled tech company, you're probably helping a few very rich people extract rent more efficiently from a greater number of people. Your best bet for social impact is to do the exact opposite -- get involved in left politics, find ways to show solidarity with people who are being hurt by the Uber-ization and Airbnb-ization of the world, and use your tech skills to counter those effects.

Non-paywalled link: http://facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s...

> As much as you guys love to hate on Uber, do you honestly want to go back to a world without it?

Why is the choice about going back? I want to move forward into a world with driver-owned Ubers (aka platform cooperatives). I like ride hailing apps, I don't like how Uber is a vehicle for VCs to extract rent from drivers.

The Ringling College of Art and Design is a reputable design school. Doesn't have much to do with clowns or PT Barnum.

The purporse of anti-net neutrality advocates is basically to make the web less free so their clients (large telcoms) can capture more profits.

I think big money realized fairly late in the game that the Internet's decentralized structure makes it difficult to perform rent-seeking, so any legislation that tends to centralize the Internet is viewed as a pro by these people.

In other words, it's the same effect you see in every other field -- special interest lobbyists for large corporations want to rewrite the rules to suit them, at the expense of ordinary people's privacy and a democratic Internet

Is there a standard for "real-world conditions"? I could easily see Waymo driving their cars up and down the highway near their headquarters for 50 million miles and calling that "real world".

Not sure what the Portland Loo comparison is meant to suggest -- from what I've read, they also cost ~130k, and at least in a few cases, much more: http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/sdut-portl...

Read the full sentence:

> "Ms." began to be used as early as the 17th century, along with "Miss" and "Mrs.", as a title derived from the then formal "Mistress", which, like Mister, did not originally indicate marital status. "Ms.", however, fell into disuse in favor of the other two titles and was not revived until the 20th century.

It wasn't until the 1960s that "Ms." appeared as a formal category in the United States on forms.

For everyone whining about how this is "newspeak" and brainwashing, consider how the pronoun "Ms." didn't exist until the 60s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms. (edit <- the period is part of the link, but HN strips it out)

Shouldn't the arguments that language can lead toward changes of thought (the "newspeak arguments") actually _spur_ these changes toward less biased thinking? If you agree that it is possible to change language, and that changing language changes thought, then the only remaining arguments at that point are appeals to a nebulous concept of "freedom" and that you like being a dude and saying whatever you want.

Appeals to 1984 are extra bankrupt because this is not a government, and there is absolutely no penalty for disobedience, except the social one -- and social punishments for disobedience of social norms has always been a part and parcel of living in, well, society.

I think Facebook also connects people who appear at the same wireless access points, so you could have received the suggestion once your phone connected to the Internet at the doctor's office.

Definitely 3, at this point. Most libraries are Python 3 ready, and it doesn't make sense to start with 2: http://py3readiness.org/.

Community operated and moderated. It's amazing how the entire tech community has come together on a message board run by venture capital. It's not a neutral forum. At the very least, a GNU-friendlier alternative would be appreciated.

Can we migrate to an open-source alternative to Hacker News already?

This is ridiculous. By this logic, the working poor in areas of the country where jobs are scarce would be paid much, much more, to offset the extremely damaging effects of getting laid off.

This reminds me of Jiro Dreams of Sushi, and his advice to his kids (paraphrased): I don't care what you do, as long as you do it every day for the rest of your life.

I think one of the main thing this advice misses is that if you're doing a "lean startup" then you could very well end up doing something different than what you started. It's hard to know what exactly the continuation will be in what you do.

You're right about the prevalence of guesswork about probability along laypeople (and everyone until Pascal was essentially a layperson). The Emergence of Probability is a very interesting book on this topic that sketches how statistica emerged from an odd mix of intuitive advances, from places like medicine and alchemy where before statistics you had to guess whether your medicine worked.

Looking in the code, it loops over all the indexed text and does substring matching on tokens from the search query. Good enough for everyone so far, but...

I heard this from recruiters when I was negotiating salary right out of college. "I want to give you more but we have a policy that unless you have another offer..."