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Is Uber not a YC company?

bad_ramen_soupon The Stock Market Is Shrinking

How are ICOs absorbing a considerable share of this 'consolidation'?

bad_ramen_soupon When racism is fit to print (Andrew Sullivan)

It's so strange to me that this is acceptable for the NYT given what has been coming out. More old tweets keep surfacing.. https://mobile.twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/450398906698842... https://mobile.twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/937858435361542...

bad_ramen_soupon Ask HN: Do posts that are potentially negative to China get flagged a lot on HN?

Wanting to keep the forum honest isn't "off-topic", and I'm not sure what "metaflamebait" is.. Thanks for the link to the query, but would it show everything that has been flagged?

bad_ramen_soupon Ask HN: Do posts that are potentially negative to China get flagged a lot on HN?

Most recently this was flagged, but not sure why.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17633498

bad_ramen_soupon A MeToo Reckoning in China’s Workplace Amid Wave of Accusations

If the traction is informationally contained to enemies of those in positions of power, that would be pretty insincere, but if they let it happen and managed to create a new standard for how people in power should act in private-- that would be good news.

bad_ramen_soupon A MeToo Reckoning in China’s Workplace Amid Wave of Accusations

Not sure how this relates to my comment..

bad_ramen_soupon A MeToo Reckoning in China’s Workplace Amid Wave of Accusations

Isn't it better to see it from the perspective of 'people in power can be sinful', rather than 'because there were some female leaders early on in a (highly propagandistic) movement then they most be on the side of women? Even still, there are many women who harbor men with bad behavior for personal gain.

bad_ramen_soupon Ask HN: Why aren't more startups focused on the problem of garbage waste?

There's a lot of technology focused on facial recognition, why aren't more focused on trash recognition?

bad_ramen_soupon Can China build an anti-U.S. alliance?

China has great relations with Pakistan. Perhaps not necessarily people-to-people relations, but certainly gov-to-gov.

bad_ramen_soupon Ask HN: If another AI winter is upon us, where are the research chokepoints?

I supposed it's really hard to know if there is an AI winter because if a company/research body has made big advances, then it's possible they are still in testing mode before rolling it out and don't want anyone to know about it until it's good to launch.

bad_ramen_soupon Ask HN: If another AI winter is upon us, where are the research chokepoints?

I was referring to this article that was pretty well circulated: https://venturebeat.com/2018/06/04/the-ai-winter-is-well-on-...

It seems as if there is a gap between what we're expecting AI to achieve in a short period of time and what it's actually achieving.

bad_ramen_soupon What's really wrong with WikiLeaks -T. Dalrymple (2010)

"The actual effect of WikiLeaks is likely to be profound and precisely the opposite of what it supposedly sets out to achieve. Far from making for a more open world, it could make for a much more closed one. Secrecy, or rather the possibility of secrecy, is not the enemy but the precondition of frankness. WikiLeaks will sow distrust and fear, indeed paranoia; people will be increasingly unwilling to express themselves openly in case what they say is taken down by their interlocutor and used in evidence against them, not necessarily by the interlocutor himself. This could happen not in the official sphere alone, but also in the private sphere, which it works to destroy. An Iron Curtain could descend, not just on Eastern Europe, but over the whole world. A reign of assumed virtue would be imposed, in which people would say only what they do not think and think only what they do not say."

bad_ramen_soupon Ask HN: How has the labor force changed in San Francisco over the past year?

What do you mean by tight?

bad_ramen_soupon Ask HN: How has the labor force changed in San Francisco over the past year?

For both technical and non-technical roles?

bad_ramen_soupon Ryan Holiday on Conspiracy, Gawker, and the Hulk Hogan Trial

I'm curious how stoicism is tied to this as Holiday has been using his Daily Stoic platform to promote this book as well..

bad_ramen_soupon AI will spell the end of capitalism

If China can pull this off it would be amazing, however people will still have the challenge of finding meaning in everyday life.

bad_ramen_soupon Machine Behavior Needs to Be an Academic Discipline

"We often cannot certify that an AI agent is optimal or ethical by looking at its source code, any more than we can certify that humans are good by scanning their brains."

What do people make of this claim? Is that a fair comparison?

bad_ramen_soupon Facebook board member Peter Thiel helped fund Cambridge Analytica's work

According to BuzzFeed, Palantir and Cambridge had no official contract together:

---"We actually had several meetings with Palantir whilst I was there. ... There were senior Palantir employees that were also working on the Facebook data," Wylie said.

"That was not an official contract between Palantir and Cambridge Analytica but there were Palantir staff that would come into the office and work on the data."

"We’d also go meet with Palantir staff at Palantir."

"Palantir didn’t officially contract with Cambridge Analytica , but there were Palantir staff who’d help build the models that we were working on."---

https://www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/the-cambridge-analyti...

bad_ramen_soupon [dead]

How so?