skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't trust any provider :)

But yes, I tend to trust those providers less.

It seems odd to accept Bitcoins, and yet want contact information. And some of these providers actually emphasize that they're privacy friendly! But I suspect that it's just that they're using stock software that needs contact information to create accounts. Also, Bitcoin is just one payment option, and credit/debit card payments do require contact information.
Wallerstein said that Capitalism has failed for the Capitalist class, what he means is that it's costing more and more to make a dollar. The reason that income is falling is because the Capitalist class expects to continue making billions against a market which is efficient. They just squeeze that profit out of the worker's paychecks.

Ultimately, that's the problem. The Capitalist project has reached its end, but the shareholders don't want to admit that and entrepreneurs don't want to admit that to them... because why would you invest if you can't continue to make outsized gains against a market that doesn't support your vision of profit.
Now who's talking from a privileged perspective… Searching for a job takes time, and quitting is risky. Sure, most of the time it will be fine. But sometimes you just end up searching for a job (any job) for more than a few weeks, and next thing you know your landlord is kicking you out.

When I say "no savings", I do mean zero. Nothing. Like "I can't buy food this week" nothing.

Then there's social pressure. Why quit your job in these times of mass unemployment? That would be crazy. Even prospective employers will not see that with a good eye: in white collar jobs, you can always say "it was time for me to go", or high-status non-explanations like that. But picture a cashier looking for a cashier job. The employer will want a real reason, and you'd better forge one that doesn't look too bad. (Disparaging the previous employer looks bad, mentioning material constraints often looks bad… following your spouse might not.)
Maybe I'm just paranoid :)

If I were building a system that required addresses, I would validate them. Why bother asking, otherwise?

I'm guessing that OP's system is designed for systems that require validated addresses.

Edit: Once or twice, using gift cards, it's been necessary to speak with customer service before they'd accept the payment. That required a VoIP account. I only did that because I needed a VPS in a particular IP range.
The workarounds are arguably a circumvention of DRM. Sites that have paywalls have chosen not to participate in social news type engagements (unless they make specific exemptions for sites like this, rendering this whole discussion unnecessary), and it seems appropriate to honor their intentions.
Apple Is Taunting Publishers with Ad-Blocking and Apple News
The discussion in these comments is embarrassing (and I'm not even Swedish).

Apparently the mere mention of Sweden was enough to make local politics spill over here. It's like watching a post about a weather app getting overrun by climate change denialists.
I think you are off to a great start, and appreciate the effort.
Well, it’s a debate in my state – which is still a large debate. I obviously don’t know how it’s outside of HH / S-H, as these are the only states that I know did it, but Wikipedia says about 10 states did it.
Living in a Tricycle
Maybe there should be some flag about GeoIP'd posts?

Or just outright banning them?
Yes the government should only be spending it to bail out distressed financial institutions, bankrupt individuals, etc.
When you say "This is not acceptable", what do you mean? If a link is accessible from Germany without a proxy but not the US, would that be acceptable? What if it's accessible to you in Germany and me in the US without a proxy, but not to someone in China unless they use a proxy?

So maybe it's OK to require a proxy from China? But what if a user in North Korea can't access a proxy? Should that link also be prohibited on HN? How is HN supposed to know what consists of an acceptable workaround, and what does not? Are the standards different for different countries?

It seems simpler to assume that the articles that get upvotes have people who want to read them, and that if people want to read the article everyone is raving about, they will find a way. It's Hacker News after all.
Just a sidenote that the Opusmodus software is not open source, not free, and works only on Mac.
I recently hit an odd accident that turned into a cautionary tale about test data.

Someone was testing one part of a new ecommerce system, at precisely the same time someone else was testing another part. No-one noticed until DHL returned a package that was addressed to the Death Star.

They still charged us shipping, but atleast we didn't have to swallow product cost too. But it did make me look at "random test data" quite differently.
Omg Bligh...
How we're spending $55,930.08 a year on SaaS products
I don't really see what it has to do with Curators of Sweden.

Curators of Sweden, has to do with Sweden, specifically the curation or portrayal of Sweden. i.e. "The big picture."

My post also has to do with Sweden, specifically the fact that there is a lot going on in Sweden that is rarely mentioned in official channels and also unlikely to be found in Curators of Sweden, but it is vitally important that more people become aware of.
A link with the actual numbers would have helped.

> It doesn't take much for a regular person to start a business.

Generally in the order of 50.000€ for your average starting business —even a simple bakery. Not the end of the world for a Bay Area software engineer. A moonshot for minimum wage workers.

Sure, you could ask for a loan. But if you're poor, you will likely not get it.
Some anecdotal evidence in support of this claim that such craftsman title might give you better prospects than certain university degrees: A friend of mine learned mill-working directly after secondary education in Switzerland an apprentice system very similar to the German one. He had no problem finding a job after this and could even easily move abroad where he now works as an independent contractor.

On the other hand, I know quite a few people with university degrees that had a hard time to find a job in their area and definitely would have an even harder time getting a visa abroad in a saturated market. This might of course be rather coincidental, but I know that in general craftsmanship titles like the German Meister or the Swiss Diploma are highly recognised internationally, and it's well known that Germany and Switzerland do a lot of high quality engineering, which I would attribute in a large part to this education system.
No, clearly the government's only job is to enforce property rights and suppress anyone who is discontented with the condition of their society.
How Tesla Will Change the World
My dad's doctor once told him to lose the spare tire, and sent him to a nutritionist, who gave him a diet plan.

Some months later, he went back to the nutritionist for a checkup, and the nutritionist was shocked that he'd actually followed her plan. He became one of those unicorns who kept the weight off until he passed away 30 years later, though he complained that he was always hungry.
I like this idea. Or maybe a checkbox at submission - "this is paywalled" - and have HN offer a link to the Google result for the title of the page instead of a direct link if the box is checked.
No. Absolutely no. A net positive is not being realized for humanity when you consider all the factors in this type of behavior. What this is a wasteful process of leaching excessive production into the bank accounts of people pretending to be productively engaged.

I have to agree with OP. Far too many big companies are busy trying to figure out how to game the system and cheat the consumers and have become filled with ladder climbers who have long since lost sight of the original mandate assigned to them by the system. This probably won't last very long historically speaking and it might not end well either. It's unbalanced, unjust, corrupt and just plain wrong.

Incidentally, the companies job is OP's job. Companies don't exist without people.
Snowden criticises Russia for approach to internet and homosexuality
I'm not really to concerned with or even pay much attention to his criticisms of somebody's gestures in a youtube video. The thing I found worthwhile about the site was his reporting of serious matters with serious sources, you know factual things. Why's it important? Because he's highlighting things that one doesn't see much of elsewhere, and they are things that are vitally important in the forming of an informed opinion.

Also the author seems to be overly afraid of other people and cultures coming to Sweden.

I wouldn't call it overly afraid. To me he is just looking clear eyed at the hugely negative consequences the importation of this foreign culture has wrought.

And given current policies and demographics, there is the potential for things to get much worse. Here is Niall Ferguson on that, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE3fTzmdH04

To put it bluntly, what I most noticed on the blog, was the author's detailing of the hugely negative consequences that Muslim culture and behaviour is having on Swedish society. Yes, I know that is something many Swedes like to refrain from thinking about, let alone saying aloud.

P.S. When he mentioned the illiteracy rates, not sure which post, I rather doubt he was talking about native Swedes.
The analogy I'm drawing here is to the intent, rather than the effect. Murder is intentional. Manslaughter is reckless.
OBEY – Asymmetrical multiplayer game where players are free to obey/disobey
The business model of a gym requires that 90% or so of the members never actually show up. The rates charged would have to go up enormously if they did.

An awful lot of garages have a treadmill in the corner buried under other junk, as the resident's good intentions to get in shape inevitably evaporated.
This is a problem, even more so if you have regions with and without tuition. If provinces have the same tuition rates, there is not much damage done, because your province will receive employees from other provinces.

I have been to Canada for an exchange semester and it was an astonishing experience to me in regards to tuition. Most students I talked with where in favor of tuition fees (although they hit them quite a bit financially). In general, they were quite willing to spend a considerable amount of money on top of tuition for university related things. 3 books $200 each on the syllabus for a lecture that is not borrow-able in the university library? Not an issue, people just bought them (I actually bought one book via German amazon in its translation, because it was ~50 EUR there and ~200$ in Canada, so I saved considerably even when including shipping costs). In Germany, Professors often offer their lecture notes (often book grade layed out with latex) as free downloads.

In Germany I have lived in a dorm and had roommates that would probably not have studied with tuition as high as in Germany (back then my home state had a EUR 1200 a year tuition, a measure that was in place for roughly 5 years I think and quickly repealed because it was enormously unpopular). Knowing that education is sponsored by the state makes me much more willing in paying my taxes, now that I actually earn a living.

In the 19th century, lecturers apparently collected tuition upon entrance at the door of the lecture hall. Dunno if this might be a model for tuition to compromise on. Only pay for the services you take. Looking at American tuition fees, I sometimes wonder why students would not just pay for private tutors...
The Shape of Apple’s New iPhones
I went to Russia (Moscow and St. Petersburg) in 2002 while living in Finland (I'm a US citizen). My then girlfriend, now wife is a German citizen and arranged the paperwork and I took my documents to the Russian consulate in Helsinki and paid for expedited handling (unease about foreign country and no passport on hand). There wasn't a lot of paperwork at the time.

First couple of nights were in Moscow. Train ride to St. Petersburg, check into the hotel. Take a nap. Phone call -- "Um, your papers expired today." Dumbass that I was, didn't look at the visa the consulate had issued only covered the Moscow portion. This was a Sunday. Monday meant a trip to the St. Petersburg airport and talking with a border official. A nice gentleman in a tweed suit.

A couple of hundred euros handled the issue (we had 4 days left on our trip). Something I will remember. Putin was president at the time as well.
Graham Hughes from the UK pulled this off a few years ago:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2239087/Graham-Hughe...
To extend the irony further, it's products like the Economist that are consistently of a better quality (than non paywalled publications), it seems. I'm no libertarian, but I have yet to find a news publication better than the Economist.
Sweden Yes
If a link is not available to everyone, link to archive.org, or archive.is, or Google webcache.

This means everyone can read it.
Garage Biology in Silicon Valley (2010)
It seems like a communication problem. If you're still going forward but don't push sub-par content out in the public due to pressure, this is acceptable; but if people don't know (I can't read the KS status updates, but there's not many of them) they'll be angry just because of that.
Working on this now, no ETA though.
Teachers to Become Wealthy
Proposal: A high school teacher can now acquire ownership in a students lifetime income. A teacher can also opt to forego any pay or benefits from the state or district in exchange for percentages of students lifetime income. The amount of investment in a student also determines the amount of money she will receive. For example, if the teacher commits weekends and summers to educating the student not only will the student have a higher chance of success but the teacher's ROI in the student will increase.

The teacher may work with the student on university selection, scholarships, job placement and overall preparation.

The question remains as to the amount of percentage allowed. The student will need to be able to live a normal life and pay bills. However, with the advantage of her education, training and mentorship she will likely hit it big from the beginning.

A corporation can also do a one time payment option to the teacher in lieu of the lifetime incremental payments.
There's a pretty clear potential for overall net savings, if the cost of providing citizens access to fitness programs is less than the cost of providing additional healthcare to those citizens if they remain sedentary.
Iron workers can be triggered by HTTP post webhook requests.
“Obviously, Apple’s hope is that more consumers will shift to just using apps, instead of Safari or the mobile web.

A future app-based web really bothers me.
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Nano bug as seen on IBM 3161 terminal
I stick to mostly body weight exercises plus a weight vest. I avoid the bench press like the plague. It's a good way to get hurt. Wrist curls seem to be effective. Rock climbing has worked the best for me.
It would be easy enough to write a parser for this.

Interesting that they see it as a way to freeform new compositional ideas.

Over the years I've tried a huge selection of music composition software. I've yet to find something that's both easy and composable. It may be, just like the CLI/GUI discussion -- plain text may win out over a lot of mousing around and clicking.
1st hit: a church

2nd hit: some normal-looking house

3rd hit: a church

Are there more churches than homes in the US? :)
Ugh, the entitlement about paywalls on this thread is obnoxious. Pay for the publication/article, don't pay for it, but why should anyone's opinion about paywall's dictate link etiquette/form, etc. If you run into a link and discover it's to pay-walled content simply move on, you've only wasted like 3 seconds of your life.

Also, I'll be creating a scraper that analyzes users' comment histories to determine when they complain about paywalls if they've ever complained about the state of journalism or scientific funding. If they have, I will link to the evidence so they can be duly down-voted, ridiculed, and shamed.
Sure. And many of the downtowns of car-oriented cities have sidewalks too. Having sidewalks doesn't make it a place people want to walk around in, it just means the developers are complying with zoning rules. For many suburbs in particular (not all, but many), walking around there is like walking around a fishbowl: fine for 5-10 minutes, until you hit a large road lined with strip malls; where you'll turn back. It's just not a place for a person. People won't do it. A colleague moved to to such a newish development. She drives to the park to walk with her toddler. Her "goal" is walking, and she could do it on her street. But she does it in a place that's actually for humans, not for cars. No amount of sidewalks is going to change that. So I disagree completely, it is a problem. Walking may be possible, the bureaucrats saw too that, but it doesn't mean it helps people to do it.

Anyway, I will say, there's a personal preference surely, and I know perfectly happy people who live in car oriented neighborhoods, and couldn't care less about driving everywhere. But I very much think those places are a trap, and they sneak up on you. Elderly people who physically deteriorate, because there is no regular physical activity in their life, and suddenly find themselves at the mercy of their children: they are a burden (and I speak from experience). Children who can't go anywhere by themselves unless they're chauffeured, they are a burden. Many of these neighborhoods are long term liabilities too; the tax base after the first generation has moved out is often not sufficient to keep up all that infrastructure (depends from suburb to suburb). Many municipalities are borrowing for infrastructure maintenance. It is like if you would borrow money to change the lightbulbs in your house. It just means you have too many lightbulbs. The same with our cities, they have too much long term maintenance obligations. Roads and bridges to services all that sprawl are not investments, they are liabilities. And that's nothing to say about the aesthetic affront of these places (Where's your next vacation: Wildwood Estates or whatever it's called. Or downtown Savannah?); the environmental impact (loss of habitat, carbon blah blah); the low-value long term proposition (people store their retirement funds in particle board construction, somehow). Anyway, I'm really just parroting what others have been saying about the suburbs for decades, but I surely believe it. It is a genuinely compelling argument. Car-oriented city development is an experiment that we did not anticipate the long term consequences off. We are starting to see them now. And one of those consequences is that people reject their built environment as a place to move around in on their own two feet. So exercise becomes something optional, something you have to fit in, not something that comes naturally, to the point that we actually need Mr. Doctor to prescribe us our daily dose of moderate physical activity.
Is this a real concern? Someone might be on a flight without WiFi and need a digital version of your contact info because the card isn't enough?
Well that one wouldn't have lasted until today, would it?
For one, I do not consider this OK.

For two, declaring rules and then declaring that no-one is allowed to talk about said rules sets a very dangerous precedent.

For three, pretty darn ironic that both this and http://deathtobullshit.com/ are on the front page at the same time.
Translated into American, parent is complaining that gays and blacks get preferential treatment by having their own student groups. Then he insinuates that "those people" behave as if they just came from the jungle.
Curated RNN resources (recurrent neural network)
The citizenship / permanent residency forms are also full of those questions. They seem stupid and ridiculous. But not completely. The logic goes that you if you are terrorist or committed genocide and lied, signed you name under it, they'll have a very quick way to expel or imprison you (or do water). If not for the original problem (terrorism or genocide) but at least for lying about it.
What if you wanted to create an app that allows people to "crowd-fund" gifts to be mailed to random residential addresses with a note inside that contains a unique URL that the person can enter into their browser to visit a page explaining the gift and offering them a way to say thank you to all the givers?
Was shown this address but it isn't valid:

C/o Wlrk 51 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019-0000

Curious where the data comes from. The USPS reserves almost all rights on addresses and only releases them to licensed vendors for certain uses, and I doubt this is one of them.

Even licensed vendors don't get the full list, they get an encrypted database of the address and a C library with which to query it. (Source: I worked for such a vendor and wrote code to interface with said C library.)
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I have no problem with paywalls. In my opinion, that's how sites ought to fund themselves. Ads and tracking suck. So yes, I subscribe to sites that I read frequently. But I'm not going to subscribe to everything that strikes my fancy on HN.

So anyway, what I complain about are sites that load the paywall at first visit. If the site allows five free articles per month, why not just wait until the sixth?
Same worry about the cost. The API gateway seems pretty expensive.
Total riot, and seriously correct.
Facebook has Vulnerabilities too – Privacy at risk again
Sure, that's such a special case that I don't see why it would be a problem. You can also email us (hn@ycombinator.com) when an account is using HN solely to promote a particular site. If we can email them, we often ask people not to do that. And in egregious cases we take away submission privileges.
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No, I'm recruiting more volunteers!

Also, dirt bags beware -- if I'm on a jury, I'll work
hard to support the Constitution. So,
I'll set an example, that I hope
will spread.
Google has false positives on addresses all the time. (What you say is true, though, but also goes against their ToS to build up a list like this.)
Most addresses aren't households; of the ones that are, a great number of those aren't currently inhabited. A lot of packages would be sitting at the doorsteps of new townhouse developments or vacant apartments.
> This mindset that the government should be spending tax revenue on anything beneficial is bizarre.

Anything? Did they say that? Health care of citizens is not "anything", it is a very imporant thing. More important than military, guns, flying to the moon, and many other things. So yes, they should be spending the hell of out of that tax revenue to keeps citizens healthy, productive and not have hundreds of millions of chronically sick patients all needing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of care every couple of years.
People do that in the threads, which is helpful. It's usually better not to supplant the canonical URL of a story in its link.

This problem will get a lot easier when we have a way to group the related URLs for a story. That's something we are eventually going to work on. Indeed, I wonder if it couldn't turn into a broader solution to the paywall question.