How do people still not get this? The First Amendment is a limitation on the government of the United States. Period. It does not apply to other countries. It does not apply to private entities within the United States. It does not apply to Facebook, Twitter, Reddit or any other social media.
“When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think . . . ” he didn’t finish his sentence. “A country is more than an economy. We’re a civic society.”
|> Implying that Asian CEOs can't be part of civic society.
That's 9.6 kilometers for you metric folk. Someone has suggested a March breakup for the Ice block. That is the time of the Minimum Ice Extent. I would love to know what the projections are for how long it will take for this iceberg to melt. Imagine what adventures it will have traveling around the world with albatross, turtles and whales for company.
Yes I am. This is my personal account, but I use it to automatically post to Hacker News. I was playing around with BigQuery one day and found the Hacker News dataset [1]. From my experience with the Reddit submissions dataset [2], I knew that I could compose this query,
SELECT
AVG(score) AS avg_score,
COUNT(* ) AS num,
REGEXP_EXTRACT(url, r'//([^/]*)/') AS domain
FROM
[fh-bigquery:hackernews.full_201510]
WHERE
score IS NOT NULL
AND url <> ''
GROUP BY
domain
HAVING
num > 10
ORDER BY
avg_score DESC
which returns a list of domains with more than ten submissions sorted by average score. This turns out to be a list of some of the most successful tech blogs on the internet, as well as various YCombinator related materials. Out of the domains with over 100 submissions, daemonology.net has the 9th highest average score per submission. I manually visited all the domains with more than about 30 submissions, found the appropriate xml feeds, and saved them. I added a few websites like eff.org whose messages I think everyone should read anyways.
Then I jumped into python and started trying to figure out how to post to Hacker News. It was a little more complicated than I anticipated [3], but an open source HN app for Android helped me figure it out.
I set up a cron job on my $5 Digital Ocean that runs the script every few minutes (pseudocode):
If you can reach http://news.ycombinator.com, Check all feeds for new entries, Post a new entry to hn, Sleep for an hour before posting another
[2] The only difference on Reddit is the subreddit system.
[3] After you send a POST request to send to the login screen, Hacker News gives you a url with a unique "fnid" parameter, and you send another POST request to another url with the appropriate "fnid".
By YC startup standards again, Reddit isn't a very successful company. The amount of early investment that went into it has certainly paid off, but monetization is a seriously hard problem for them.
The article's point is very well-made. During my two-year-long stint as a philosophy major at Berkeley, at least two courses spent absurd lengths of time on the vagary specificities of Descartes' cogito which, while important, could have easily been a place to at least peer into other traditions' basic arguments over the existence of a soul, like Avicenna's Flying Man or the concepts of Gautama Buddha. The fact that these myriad connections between genetically unrelated traditions are never drawn is the real travesty. American philosophy would be much more creative if it wove non-European traditions into its historical tapestry.
I've found that if you ever want to contact a company, find the appropriate person and email them. Collectively owned company emails are terrible because they often don't have a single point of responsibility.