jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's interesting to see investors continue to pour lots of money into startups that classify their workers as independent contractors even though the risks of doing so are clear, immediate and growing[1][2]. The lines between employee and independent contractor are somewhat blurred in some cases, but given how important the cost shifting is to the economic viability of many of these companies, a lot of these investments are damn near binary. That's fine when you're investing a few hundred thousand or even a few million but not at all necessary in today's market when you're investing $40 million.

In this case, it's also somewhat ironic that Kleiner Perkins is the lead investor.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-uber-lyf...

[2] http://time.com/3748438/instacart-lawsuit/
Kevin is well known for his skills, mostly as a social engineer. I'd argue that he's one of if not the best at it.

He became famous when he was on the run from the FBI for a few years. This was one of my favorite stories: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Watch-Kevin-Mitnick-Explainin...

A lot of people don't know the history around him because it happened years ago. If you were following him at the time or if you've read his "ghost in the wires" book you'd see why he he's rightfully famous.
I’m not directly using TikTok but r/TikTokCringe is one of my favorite. People just seem to have fun and share their videos, it’s so lighthearted and refreshing.
ATI was never in the AI market. They have been trying, but their efforts are a joke compared tobest their competition is doing.
This caught my eye because over the past few months I have felt finding information on Google has been more difficult. Don't know if recent algorithm change is the cause, but I am returned more useless results than I was previously. Frustrating.
> “ American children are too stupid to memorize poetry, so they were jealous that you could do it.”

Anyone else surprised that the child had no concept of cheating, and grew up writing articles asking if plagiarism is wrong?

Plagiarism is a fancy word but cheating is something that kids by that age should understand.

Also that’s a pretty darn nasty and entitled attitude from an immigrant family, who should have been grateful for the country which received them.

> I have a simple recommendation for you: do a half-decent job teaching undergraduates.

Part of teaching well is sending the message that cheating is not tolerated. It is demoralizing and stressful for honest, hard working students to see others cheat and blow the curve.

> There is no moral bedrock in which prohibition of plagiarism is inscribed.

Pardon the snarkiness, but there doesn’t seem to have been a moral foundation put down in the case of this author. Yes, if parents and educators don’t build and reinforce that foundation, then there won’t be any.
Not at all:

delete Object.prototype.__proto__;
a = {};
a.constructor.prototype.x = 1;
a.x == 1

Outputs true
Person A1 has value X, Person A2 has value X

Person A1 and A2 are compelled by circumstance to compete. The nature of this competition forces A1/A2 to prioritize their values according to the cost to retain them (eg., suppose X = privacy in living quarters, and retaining X costs $100/day)

The impact of X being unaffordable is equal on A1/A2, ie., equally traumatic. But A1 is more able to compete than A2 (ie., retain their values) due, eg., to having more money.

Are we saying that A2 is free when she "decides" that $100/day is too expensive? And therefore has to abandon X (eg., dignity)?

Should we instead, rather, regard these circumstances suspiciously. Circumstances in which people are compelled to throw-away their values and race-to-the-bottom.

If A1/A2 never enters these circumstances they both retain X, if they do, only one does. Do we wish for dignity, privacy, (...) to be so circumstantial?

We can regulate to prevent this (and routinely do, very successfully) -- if society bares additional costs for its members retaining X (eg., via taxation to provide welfare/housing), then so be it.

Circumstances routinely bring people into competition where success requires abandoning values such that all participants would have preferred never to have been in that competition -- but when in it, abandon them.

The libertarian view of the mind is deeply naive -- it takes behaviour as always based on desire. We are more complex: we endure the trauma of not being free to act on our preferences when circumstances overwhelmingly incentivise behaviour contrary to those. Freedom is not mere action, it is acting according to our desires.

Addiction is a paradigm case, but extreme competition for resources is of the same kind: we sincerely wish not to do what we are compelled to do by external incentives that destroy our sense of self, will, freedom.
It seems a bit harsh to me as well but since you read the "fingerprints are just user names" mantra way too often on Hacker News, maybe the author of the comment thought it was time to become a bit louder.

Here's my take on it:

If you enter a passcode anyone close to you can see you enter it. It's much easier to figure out what you're typing on a smartphone than on a keyboard, and the oily residue on the touchscreen makes it even easier.

A fingerprint on the other hand cannot be observed. Someone has to follow you or already know where you live and take fingerprints off doorknobs or something like it. Takes a lot of time and failure rate is still high. Then they have to use it on your device, so they have to have access to the device as well.

Fingerprint scenarios make sense for _targeted_ attacks_ when you are way more likely to be hit by a scalable attack.

It is much easier to brute force your password on a non-proof website or to find it in leaked password database. It scales very well and needs no physical access where no 2FA is enabled.

One could argue that most users still will use weak passwords in combination with biometrics.

Still, it pushes them to at least have a password.

And if you're a more professional user the combination of a strong and random password in a password manager plus fingerprint for convenience seems like an okay trade-off, especially since you will know how to deactivate it temporarily (reboot device or press power button 10 times on iPhone for example).
Otherwise entitled in this context means that there's a warrant, court order, reasonable suspicion, etc. that establishes the existence of evidence and that the defendant is completely able even if not willing to produce it.

Of course, where the line is blurry, is as you rightfully note, beyond a point no justice system can be certain that the defendant really still has access to whatever evidence, be it some part of their mind's contents (so a memory, the location of a body, a password, a face), and even if somehow we know they had access but now they don't it'll be impossible to determine intent. (So destruction of evidence cannot really stand when it comes to forgetting things. Unless, maybe if the defendant caused brain damage to themselves intentionally.)
Yeah, I noticed a trend in Google search just sucking (being less relevant) more and more, but tbh same happened to Windows as well.

However I do find Google's lack of relevancy way (compared to itself few years ago) more stark.
It is more my experience working with Housing Authorities in 5 different states, and the stories from front line Social Workers that see some of the abuses of these systems first hand
Not enough in time, but even if you have 30k ones, you need trained staff. (I guess--not being a doc--a nurse with a few hours of training can do 95% of the job but still.)
Inflation is just theft from savers.
healthcare.gov is the only example that comes to mind.
It feels weird replying like this to someone in the UK(according to your profile), but...

Since the original story broke I've been thinking that I would have granted the Candy trademark, but perhaps I'm being too short sighted.

To my British ear candy isn't a common word at all. I say this understanding that the word is common in American English(candy store, candy bar, etc).

The only candy usage examples I can think of are the non-hyphenated Candyfloss(Cotton Candy to Americans), and the even weaker related use as a process as in "candied fruit".

Please point out that I'm wrong. It has been niggling me for a couple of weeks now, and I suspect I must just be looking at this the wrong way.

Edit: Remembered Candyfloss → Cotton Candy the moment I hit send.
Maybe he meant authorization and entitlements, which can easily run into scaling problems. The articles seem to conflate 'authorization' with 'authentication' for sake of simplicity.
To clarify for some who might not be aware of the difference: anaphor is referring to a guitarist named John Williams, not the composer.
It's actually even worse, isn't it? 3X has only 1/9th the solid angle, so ~90% of the pixels wouldn't be covered.
FWIW, fish oil demand is driving overfishing.

http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/15-06/st_i...

There are environmentally better sources, thought they are, naturally, not as cheap.
Read HN like I do. Take every statement as fact! I call it truth hacking.
On a meta-note: I deeply enjoy that linking to Wikipedia articles is part of HN culture. If that which is timely cannot be timeless, then it is of supreme importance that what is News to us, individually, consists of more than what is New at the time of posting.
Sure, but it's still definitely usable on Linux, as much as we'd like to avoid using it. YouTube, Zynga, and most other sites that laypeople use that depend on Flash work acceptably.
When technology problems are sufficiently hard, not working on them is often the right strategy.

The normal progress of science and technology will make more powerful tools available in general, and eventually there will come a point where the solution to the problem is easy because of those new tools.

Better to work on things now that we can actually make progress on, and do research to discover new tools and techniques to expand the range of problems we can deal with.
FWIW, there's already a thread on this topic:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2026716

But to answer the question: I started out with a goal of integrating Apache Shindig[1] into Quoddy[2] to enable OpenSocial[3] support. A very basic version of that is up and working, so now I'm working on refining the account / profile "stuff" in Quoddy and factoring out some common code for use in another project[4].

I'm also trying to get in a fair bit of reading. I had started Googled[5] before the break, and I finished that earlier today. I'd also started Simply Complexity[6], which I finished sometime in the last 24 hours or so (time is starting to become a fuzzy concept to me here). Then I read The Facebook Effect[7] which I just finished up a few minutes ago, and now I'm starting to re-read Bill Gates' Business @ The Speed of Thought[8]. Once I finish that, I'm hoping to find time to squeeze in The Art of Enterprise Information Architecture[9] and - if things go smashingly well - Complexity - A Guided Tour[10].

1: http://shindig.apache.org

2: https://github.com/fogbeam/Quoddy

3: http://www.opensocial.org

4: https://github.com/fogbeam/Neddick

5: http://www.amazon.com/Googled-End-World-As-Know/dp/014311804...

6: http://www.amazon.com/Simply-Complexity-Clear-Guide-Theory/d...

7: http://www.amazon.com/Facebook-Effect-Inside-Company-Connect...

8: http://www.amazon.com/Business-Speed-Thought-Succeeding-Digi...

9: http://www.amazon.com/Art-Enterprise-Information-Architectur...

10: http://www.amazon.com/Complexity-Guided-Tour-Melanie-Mitchel...
This would make for a wonderful plot for a book/movie. I'd watch/read a much longer version of this article.
The AppBrain page you link to for the "pro" version states that you are donating half of the profits. Here you say that you are donating all of them. Which is it?
He is turning into the go-to quote machine for scaremongers. He is legitimately a hacker and yet is guaranteed to hold opinions that provide vague justification for the most ignorant fears about the internet. He also sees everything as a recapitulation of his own disillusionment with 1990s cyber-ideologies; he doesn't acknowledge that there are any other stories to tell.

I used to enjoy the exercise of thinking about Lanier's contrary positions, but then I saw him comparing Wikipedia to Stalinism in the documentary "Truth in Numbers?" It's a point he makes at length in his new book You Are Not A Gadget. Uh yeah, ok, whatever, dude.

His function is now to demonstrate what side of an issue to not be on.
Word is that Facebook assigns a unique ID to anyone that visits a page with a Like button on it and reports back, whether you're logged in to Facebook or not, or even whether you're a member of Facebook or not.

Many ad networks try that to varying degrees, Google may own or run some, I don't know.
A prime example of when HN should allow titles to be editorialised.
Just one in a long line of completely inappropriate and norm breaking things he's done as President. Releasing classified info, false claims on Hurricane Dorian, fighting with his intelligence agencies, vaccine hoaxes, suppressing the press. Just go down the list.

Possibly the least presidential president we've had in awhile.
Exact quote regarding a drug not approved by the FDA for treatment of the disease: "We’re going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately." And: "It may work, it may not work. I feel good about it. That’s all it is. Just a feeling."

From a pharmaceutical company, this would be patently illegal advertising since it's mentioning an off-label use of a drug. From a politician with zero medical knowledge, it's vastly irresponsible given the size of audience who listens to him and trusts him.
You're a lot luckier than I am.

Also it still takes a nontrivial amount of time to not-load a lot of tabs.
Are you concerned about a malicious employee using their own iphone to steal the money? Why couldn't they give you their own square terminal? On that note, when you pay cash why can't they just pocket whatever you give them?

I don't see why you care anyway, they would be stealing from the store, not from you. You would already have whatever item you are buying.
Ah this is interesting for a teetotaler! I did not know it was desirable to keep the whiskey warm. I thought, like soft drinks, the idea was to keep it as chilled as possible. So the optimum temp is just a little below room?
In which case you still aren't going to get anything done, but for other reasons (lack of libs, playing with the language instead of doing anything productive, advocating for Lisp instead of doing anything productive, etc).
Programming is very competitive market. Python is probably good choice for first language. Together with programming language I would recommend to learn some database, perhaps Cassandra, RethinkDB or SQLite.
While I can sympathize with your critique, I wish it were a bit more elaborate so that the author has an idea about what should have been done better. What is bad about that? What are the alternative solutions, etc.
More information on OODA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
Definitely much easier than this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Odyssey
Yeah, a hardware wallet is good, although for a billion dollars, 100 hardware wallets would be better. Could even go so far as to split a private key into seven horcruxes using Shamir's Secret Sharing and bury them in locations around the world.

Memorizing a seed phrase leaves you vulnerable to a $5 wrench attack, I wouldn't recommend it.
but the risk is independent. so once you do the N+1 time safely, you are back to N and your next time is _also_ just an N+1.
Rhodium was the university's library. The Hive was the university's classrooms. Or something like that. I think I came across Hyperreal [1] first, by way of my interest in electronic music, which linked to Erowid [2], which led me to Rhodium and the Hive.

As someone fascinated by chemistry since childhood, I was in digital heaven. I was far too risk averse to consider making controlled substances myself, but I loved participating in the publication-sourcing and equipment discussion.

[1] http://hyperreal.org/

[2] https://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/psychoactives.shtml
That same argument was used by private restaurants that wanted to continue to separate or even deny business to african americans in the southern US.

It's bullshit for the same reason.
On another note, I just ran cssess on this page. It went through and downvoted every single comment and then logged me out.
> It does not appear to have been referenced for that purpose.

Your comment referenced it for that purpose.

Your comment about dose per unit time not mattering referenced an article which referenced their position paper which didn't support what the article said. Hence the article was simply the opinion of the author.

> (And you mischarcterize their claims. HPS does not claim <5 rem doses are "not a problem" -- they said the effects are such are "either too small to be observed or nonexistent". (It does not follow that a health effect too small to be epidemologically noticable is "not a problem").

"Nonexistent" sounds like "not a problem" to me.

"Too small to be observed" is the same. How is a problem that causes no observable effects a problem? That's the practical definition of "not a problem".

And if dose per unit time doesn't matter, then their per-screening and annual limits for these small doses wouldn't matter. They are contradicting themselves.

Further, as mentioned, they are not an independent safety group. They are an industry group for the pro-nuclear lobby. This is like relying on the Business Software Alliance (BSA, a front group for Microsoft and other large software corporations) for opinions on the harmful nature of DRM, copyright laws, etc.
>>But there is some evidence for a threshold limit (below which cancer doesn't occur) and slight evidence that small amounts of radiation is actually beneficial (hormesis).

Interesting, but one question.

That part about a threshold sounds a bit strange?

Are you ignoring alpha (because you have to ingest/breath it) -- or do mean that there can't be unrepairable DNA damage from a single alpha particle?
It's good to be aware of these signs, but sometimes there really is just no warning.
My father died very suddenly about a year ago. It came as a total shock - one day he was just gone. I walked around in a daze for a few months, and I'll admit that it was nearly six months before I started to get back on my feet.

This was one of the toughest things that has ever happened to me, and it definitely changed me. So here's what has helped me to recover

I think that the biggest thing that helps is time - losing a parent is a profound experience, and not one that you can easily cope with. There is really no way to prepare for it. I still think about my father nearly every day, and it's hard to believe that he's gone. But, as time has gone on, I've definitely managed to put it into some sort of perspective. I can't say that it is a positive experience, but I've learned to value the time I do have. My father was twice my age, so maybe I've used up half my time. I had better make that time count.

Another thing that helps is taking a break. It's fine to take a little bit of time for yourself to get things together. It's interesting to see how people respond to the death of a family member - a lot of people try to fill the hole by throwing themselves into a frenzy of activities. Eventually, though, you have to face yourself and make peace if you want to recover.

Finding stability in your life is also important. When my father died, I was working on a startup. The startup was on its last legs, but his death completely threw things off balance for me. I felt like I was floating for a long time, and decided that I needed to add some stability to my life. Just too many things were uncertain at the time, and I couldn't deal with that. About six months ago, I decided to take a job with a more established startup. I feel like adding some stability to my life has definitely helped to put things back to normal. This was kind of the last thing on my mind for several years before that, but in this particular case, I think that it helped me to recover.

Finally, I think it's important to talk about it with people. I'm sure that you have friends who have lost parents - talk to them about the experience. If you have siblings, talk to them. You will find out that a lot of what's going through your head is stuff that everyone experiences. I wish that I had done more of this - I feel like I kind of shut down and didn't really want to talk about it for a while. If you need to (and maybe if you don't think you need do), seek out professional help. They are trained to help people who have been through this sort of experience.
"the image hosting infrastructure that provides fast access to different sizes for a stored picture based on a url is pretty slick"

Any links? I am saving both pics and thumbs and that info would help me a lot.
Sorry for the late reply, but I was simply framing my response in the context of the current situation, where if I want the right to play content that I purchased, then I basically have to resort to 'cheating'. Since I was misleadingly led to believe that I was purchasing the content itself, and not merely a right to play it within some closed box, I was cheated. I then have to resolve to cheating to regain what I believe I lost.

If politicians took a stronger stand against the tactics of media companies, then I most likely wouldn't need to cheat.
" The main difficulty in stopping cybercriminals isn’t finding them, but getting foreign governments to cooperate and extradite them."

Sorry, but no, fuck off please.
US extraditing people from other countries is an abhorrent practice which should not be happening, ever. Imagine if you got an extradition request from Saudi Arabia, because you broke some of their laws on the Internet. Every single country in the world would tell them to sod off. Yet when US does this it's somehow ok? Absolutely not.
Something that has turned into such a contentious topic one would think someone would fork the project to add generics themselves. Perhaps in an effort to "prove" how it could be done easily or cleanly.

How many man-hours have been spent arguing about this?
As others has already pointed out, the goal of Falcon is to ease the creation of REST APIs and run with the best possible performance.

Usually, when you are coding a full API in Django or Flask you find yourself putting additional dependencies in, and this will impact performance and maintainability. Those dependencies won't help you get rid of the "opinion" or "initial purpose" of the frameworks: to build websites, and this will also impact maintainability and performance.
I think that brand loyalty has certainly shifted, but is far from dead. People used to use brands as a denotation of quality, because they lacked information whereas now they tend to be used to denote status (because they lack other signaling methods?).

It's easy nowadays to look up the Amazon reviews instead of just buying something with Harman Kardon on the side, but people still shell out tons of money for Prada shoes. (I think this partially applies to Apple, but not completely because apple products tend to have a large user experience advantage.)