skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, a false positive does harm you if it makes it more difficult for your email provider to weed out the genuine spam.

(But I think you are only clicking "spam" on the unsolicited or hard-to-unsubscribe stuff, which I support)
Ask HN: Does minimum karma downvoting encourage elitism?
When I started on HN a while back I had just assumed the visible lack of downvoting arrows meant that feature simply didn't exist. I preferred it, since to me it meant that quality comments would bubble to the top, while poor arguments would be ignored.

Then I hit the 500 karma mark and realized it was a privileged action. From time to time I'll post a comment that gets downvoted without explanation, and I have to wonder what is being accomplished by signaling disagreement without standing up for anything.

I would like to hear your opinions, as I believe what happens is that when people are designated as part of a privileged class, they will think themselves to be smarter representatives of the community, such that it acts as a justification to downvote and stifle discussion without having added anything to it.

I'm not interested in gaining imaginary internet points, so I have to wonder what the purpose for downvoting is in the first place. If the comment is inflammatory, off topic, abusive, and so on, we have flagging mechanisms for that. So in that case, why bother downvoting?

(Yes, I realize a major reason to have minimum karma requirements is to prevent trolls and bots)
I pay Betterment something like ~$180/year for over $100K in assets, and it includes tax loss harvesting on my non-retirement accounts. Could I go with Vanguard and their terrible web interface with less features? I could. I don't mind paying Betterment what I do though. I don't want to waste time on managing my stock/bond assets; I just want to fund the account and have it be managed programatically.

https://www.betterment.com/pricing/
The paper only talks about virus detection, not bacteria.
It does seem to benefit from being able to tell you exactly which genome you have.
Paying millions for a particular piece of art seems to be antithetical to the idea of "killing your darlings" (or someone else's, in this instance). I think that people who themselves are artists, also realise that by capturing that one moment forever, enshrining that unlikely particular configuration of brush strokes, runs the risk of completely missing any point the artist might have had at any point.

On a vaguely related note, it reminds me how i chuckled at seeing a whole bunch of revolutionary punk and/or feminist works from the 70s and the 80s hanging in the MoMA, where i had paid an amount for my ticket that would've made the people who created those posters scoff. It seemed that the invariably older wealthy crowd walking around intently staring at punk art was the very polar opposite of what the creators themselves stood for.

Oh well.
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What we need is a method and implementation of testing selected piece of fruit and vegetable for actual and not averaged from ages ago nutrient content. I hope that one day it will be possible!
The AI boss that deploys Hong Kong’s subway engineers
Because he is unfair to the the people he singles out, just to make a point. The tone shifts at that point from "get your shit together, prove you can fix some problems at a smaller level before moving to world issues" to caricaturing other people trying to do good in the world for not following his specific desired future, as if everyone needs to be focused on the same thing.

Musk is working towards something he believes has the capability to mitigate human extinction events. Whether you think that's likely or not, reducing that to "he plans detonate nuclear weapons on Mars" just so you can call it out is not exactly an above-board argument.

Maris wants to keep people alive longer, possibly indefinitely. By implying only billionaires will be able to do this, he's immediately separated Maris' goals from your own (unless you are a billionaire), and set this up as useless investment that won't help you. Let's not discount that his goal is actually to save lives.

I generally love the different talks by Maciej Cegłowski, but this one has an unneeded negative turn at the end. To put this in perspective, we can use the same tactics against this talk.

In 2012 38 million people died of noncommunicable diseases, and another almost 13 million died of communicable diseases[1], and this guy is worried about seeing shit on the streets of San Francisco? Seriously?

Is that fair to his argument? I don't think so, but it's exactly what he did to others in his talk.

1: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs310/en/index2.ht...
Does that really help? Unless the hashing algorithm is also a secret, an attacker with the full database of fingerprint hashes would still be able to take a random fingerprint, hash it, and then see if they have any OPM records -- isn't that the main threat scenario here?

I guess it would make it harder for an attacker to manufacture and plant false fingerprints?
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Averages hide all sorts of detail. I spend about 2 hours a week in investment activity and have never had a year where my active portfolio beat the vanguard 401k plan.

If you were the "average" 30-something index investor in 2008, you took a bath. I made a boatload of money, because I commited the cardinal sin of market timing and bought a bunch of stuff cheap with the cash position that I maintain.

People abandon human advisors because their liability issues result in bland advice that you can get for $0 from the Charles Schwab newsletter, unless you are qualified investor.
Its curious why you would feel any more comfortable with a book that would be ruined by water than with a tablet that would also be ruined by water. I actually get why, there's less at stake for your $10 book than for your $60 kindle, but its still curious. I've read my kindle in the bath numerous times :)
That really depends on what you mean by that. With the initial release of the kindle, Amazon was selling major publisher new release ebooks for less than $10 by simply eating the difference between their wholesale cost and the markdown. Agency means Amazon gets a reliable 30% margin on them. All evidence supports that publishers are generally speaking selling exactly as many ebooks as they want to be selling, since they have granular control over pricing - it doesn't help digital readers, but it does keep a moat around their physical business, which ultimately serves print readers.
A good way to accomplish this (not mentioned in the article) would be to build more housing close to Mountain View's campus. Office space has been outstripping housing growth in Mountain View for a very long time. See for example https://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/01/stop-being-bullied-lets-sue....
Do it right: Writing about Apple
Right, most studies don't question the need for copyright at all, just how it should be tweaked to be optimal.
The pay listed is high. Is that true? Crane operators making more than the all rich swe field.
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The marketplace is getting worse for e-books, not better.

Amazon has been pushing the "Kindle Unlimited" subscription model and changed how authors get paid for those consumers, which favors shorter stories. Authors have taken to breaking out a book's chapters and releasing them individually [1] to capitalize on this model.

Conversely, this gives them more shelf space in Amazon's recommendations, and because they are the same book, it lowers the signal to noise ratio in the marketplace for finding something relevant to read.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013RJDCPU/ref=series_rw_dp...
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For the normal users out there. What are the implications? Is this simply IPs being reserved for servers on the internet?
I've never heard this. Who does this?

For various compliance reasons, customer data must never be transmitted in plain text even internally. I've seen point-to-point serial links even require encryption when they come under compliance scope.
> This is one of my favorite charts ever: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/02/business/20110...

While this chart is really interesting and insightful, I think it makes one flawed assumption.

(Assuming I'm reading it correctly) it suggests that one would invest all of their money in one year as one big chunk, as opposed to dollar-cost averaging over multiple years, even decades. It seems like following this approach would smooth out both the best and the worst possible returns, also depending on when and how quickly you withdraw of course.
I work in tech, work reasonable hours, live in Oakland, and do all those things. I also have many neighbors who work in tech and outside tech (healthcare, law, skilled trades) and work reasonable hours, and do all those things.

I think doing all those things is a function of whether someone is in a particular industry. It is a function of whether one has a desire to be involved in one's community.

Having kids is a stronger predictor of community involvement if you are looking for one.
Yes, please open up the code, notice how the implementation of HTTP handling is approximately 30 lines long, and ask yourself if you would actually want to use that. ;)
Oh sure there are, and it's all people with more money than sense, or a strong dose of apathy with more money than sense.

I'm sure I'll get some fine art and wine aficionados in here telling me why I'm wrong, but there is nothing good that really comes out of paying 100k for a bottle of wine, or millions of dollars for a painting (barring charity events).

That cash could be put to much better use than extreme vanity items like that.
I'm ok with it being thick, most automatic watches are thick [0], my concerns are with the way it looks from the front.

[0] http://www.baume-et-mercier.com/content/bem/website-com/unit...
This is not controversial

Maybe it should be - because it certainly is disputed by scientists. Not NY Times-bestselling "scientists", but certainly peer-reviewed scientists.

The intuitive connection between the claim that grocery market food has been selected for "taste and appearance" and the claim that this has led to "diminishing nutrition" is most certainly controversial.
As soon as a company sends me email other than hat I signed up for I report as spam.

Companies need to learn that merely being in possession of my email address doesn't mean they can send me anything they like.

I'd pay money for a modern day SPEWS-like art project.
Additionally, human beings depend strongly upon spatial orientation. Printed materials dovetail with this. Many recount being able to recall information in part based upon its location within a printed text. IIRC, there was... I think it was a lengthy New Yorker piece, a number of years ago, that went into this. Including the "messy" professor's/researcher's office, until one has a conversation there with them and observes them quickly referencing all sorts of material based upon where they place it -- throughout the office and within specific piles.

I wonder whether VR technology will enable us to better engage this in the digital landscape.
I agree. I also thought of getting a Kindle DX but then settled for iPad (though I don't use it much now, I have to admit). The iPad feels heavier when you are trying to read for longer periods (and I can't really hold it with 1 hand all the time). Kindle is smaller/lighter so it works out great for fiction books but not for technical books.

Paper books are also heavy and you can't carry them everywhere so I mostly read the technical eBooks on my computer.
It's a 107 basis point increase.
Paperwhite makes reading better than it was on paper. The screen looks just as good (pixel density makes a HUGE difference), it's a comfortable rigid rectangle that's a lot easier to hold than most paperbacks, and most importantly the backlight means I can stop wrestling with cheaply made yet expensive AAA-hogging clip-on lights.
My only problem with OPAM from the precisely eight seconds I've spent looking at it: 1) unsigned packages 2) not named something goofy like "OPamL." Serious missed opportunity there, guys.
Anecdote: I get tinnitus—just random short bursts of it, the ringing appearing from nowhere and lasting about a minute.

I also have ADHD, but wasn't aware of that for the longest time. When I started treatment for it, the tinnitus went away.

If I stop taking my ADHD medication for any length of time, the random bursts of tinnitus-noise come back.

I mention this because an interesting thing about the dopaminergic system is that stress makes dopamine run out faster, because your body needs to convert it into adrenaline. Tyrosine, a dopamine precursor nutrient, is often marketed in pill form as "for coping with stress, lack of sleep, or prolonged cold", because these are all things that make you use up dopamine.

The question being: is tinnitus symptomatic of low dopamine?

There are alternate explanations, of course. ADHD medications usually have the side-effect of being vasoconstrictors; vasoconstrictors, along with their effect on the diameter of your circulatory system, also seem to fiddle with the diameter of your lymph channels and sinuses, including your ear canal. Decongestant drugs (which are also vasoconstrictors) frequently carry a warning that, in rare cases, they can cause sudden and permanent deafness!
> Stupid elitist title.

Perhaps, but a comment like this lowers quality even further. Instead, why not suggest a better title? We're always happy to change them when users find a better (i.e. more accurate and neutral) way to phrase things.

We already changed this one from the baity original title to a more neutral subtitle, in accordance with the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
One notable exception is Snapchat which recently raised ~$500M selling common shares instead of standard preferred shares.

http://nypost.com/2015/05/29/snapchat-has-sold-537m-in-commo...
Well, context is everything. In principle, I do not want to be expected to work overtime, and it starts at the interview. Also, I am not against taking a day of vacation for interviews (but this is maybe cultural). But if the job is really interesting, I can adapt. And I appreciate the fact that if am asked to work during a week-end, the person interviewing me offers to be reachable too.
German government is never-ever going to let this happen. Lower Saxony (IIRC) is a considerable shareholder in VW AG.
> It now contains nearly 1,500 entries, and changes are made daily.

I tried a few entries, it covers history well, but entries about modern philosophy are very biased.
You're probably thinking of PhotoDNA from Microsoft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA

Apparently many of the biggest online services, including MS and Facebook, are using it to scan images uploaded by their users.
They're giving all the Kickstarter backers who chose Pebble Time Steel the option of exchanging for a Pebble Time Round at no extra cost.
If it makes you feel any better, I learned that lesson investing nearly all of my savings months before the 2008 recession.
This.

People at work are saying this is the end of VW. The fines are so big, they will never be able to pay them. My answer is "Lawyers". VW's lawyers will argue and deal until fines, civil penalties are slaps on the wrist and written off to reduce next year's taxes.

We really need corporate "death" penalty.
And if by some miracle, regulators grow balls and ability to beat corporate lawyers. All the executives will ride home on golden parachutes. Company will be restructured. Business will continue as normal. Only people paying for this crime will be 11million owners of fucked up cars, thousands of "little people" workers and the Environment.
I looked for the "European Federation for Transport and Environment," which is cited to be the agency that alerted of the differences between laboratory and real world testing. I'd add the link from their website too:

http://www.transportenvironment.org/publications/vw%E2%80%99...

The reason is their expectation that (quote): "The evidence suggests he will not be the last head of a carmaker offering apologies in the next few months as other manufacturers will be found making use of “defeat devices” for tricking laboratory tests."
competitive with nginx for performance, and as a tradeoff for an unnoticable slowdown you get a full, turing complete programming language to completely control the flow of your data.

It's almost like erlang and mochiweb never existed but people sure are willing to re-create it all in javascript.

JavaScript: Spending the past 20 years catching up with 1990s-level technology.
I just biked last evening from downtown San Jose to the southern vicinity of the Google campus. There are two main options: Central Expressway or something close and parallel to it, which I've declined. Or trails near the bay shore, which is what I chose.

Bad choice. The trails are for the most part unpaved. Riding my sleek, rigid road bike on those things was torture. Never again. If those trails were paved, that would be a pretty awesome route.

So start with paving the lesser-known trails.
"I've been really disappointed with the pricing of eBooks."

E-book pricing is a bit of a mess in the EU. Many countries have a reduced rate of VAT on print books, For example, in the UK it's 0%, in France it's 5.5%.

However, the EU deems e-books an electronic service and has ruled that they should be charged at the full rate of VAT, not the reduced rate applied to print books. It's pretty ridiculous really.

In fact, France and Luxembourg have been applying reduced VAT rates to e-books for some time leading to the EU Court of Justice to rule that they are in breach of EU rules and must apply the full rate of VAT to e-books. A very consumer-unfriendly policy.
Certainly the engineers must have known what they were doing but I find it hard to believe they would act criminally without pressure from higher up.
> Reading a technical ebook on my kindle has its own set of problems. Examples are usually written for the paperback book (which are usually very wide), so the kindle will squish examples and put them across multiple kindle pages. I haven't tried using an ebook with a large tablet yet, so maybe that is the sweet spot.

Wanting for one of its uses to be as an reader for documents (technical and otherwise) formatted for non-compact print formats is what drove me to choose a Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 over smaller tablet options -- I find its quite good for that role.

> But my last issue is something I haven't seen a good solution for yet. Often I just want to flip to a section of the book for reference and I simply don't have a good feel for how to do this with an ebook right now. Flipping on an ebook usually requires going to a chapter you know holds the content and then paging one-by-one until you find what you are looking for.

Google Play Books on mobile (I assume on web, too, but I rarely use it that way) has a pretty good UI for this for flipping through pages; I find that its the one option I've found that's comparable with paper for flipping through pages (not equivalent, its a different experience, but it ends up being, to me, about as easy, quick, and useful.)
Ha! I'm neither a libertarian nor a technoanarchist -- in fact, I'm frequently arguing with those types on HN. But thanks for the laugh.

Laws have room for interpretation, but again, they can't be written in a way that includes legitimate uses as illegal behavior, or the law is worse than useless. Define a rule that says (essentially) "you know spam when you see it", and you end up where pornography is: email marketing will be legal, with random, ineffective, arbitrary restrictions that make business within the domain unseemly and difficult.

Said another way: criminalize unsolicited email and only criminals will send emails.
40x is likely a massive overstatement. Nobody's actually released any actual numbers or data yet.
It says 'the project had sailed through an approval process.' That requires more than one engineer.
Keep the referral code that's what it's for.
I only buy ebooks these days. I love having access to the same material on any device without needing more bookshelves in my small apartment. However, I wish I didn't have to pay a premium for that convenience. I certainly cringe whenever I see a paperback price that's $2-3 cheaper than the ebook. I try not to even look at the used price.
> scientifically credible people all seem to agree that they were intentionally doing this.

That does seem to be the case. I'm curious when the dust settles if the spirit or the letter (or neither, both) of the EPA requirement was violated.
(We've been customers for well over a year, close to 18 months I think)

You do get support for no additional fee, but you can pay for additional access to support staff. That said, they've always been quite responsive to our requests, with a fairly short turnover time by email.

It is however customary in the industry to pay for additional levels of support:

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/
https://www.heroku.com/critical
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> This is not controversial. A different article could have talked about the same issue but presented a different effect which is that nearly the entire banana crop in the world is at risk of being wiped out because we've pretty much eliminated any variety in order to get the sweetest and best looking bananas.

First, this has already happened once.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_disease

Second, this is an argument against monoculture, not selective breeding. If I have 5 types of selectively bred bananas, I have fixed the monoculture problem but not your claimed selective breeding problems.
I have no first hand knowledge of this, so I'm probably wrong. Maybe it's more accurate to say that the late stage investments are driving valuations up (ie the a16z analysis). But a lot of these later stage investors would not have felt comfortable without the liquidation preferences. The key distinctions is that liquidation preferences are not critical a VC's decision to invest, but are critical to the later stage large institutional investor's decision.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10005709 is related.
The EMH predicts that unless the net probability of effects where totally zero there would be a move. I don't see evidence of there having been one.
Active trading is what makes prices efficient (passive funds just take the current price as a given, hence the name). The less money that's traded actively, the less efficient prices will be, so the more profitable it will be to trade actively.
I hear you, and agree that it's silly to try to beat the market. But there's a difference between a fund manager and a financial advisor. A fund manager chooses an asset allocation for a given fund, ie "picks stocks". An advisor provides a service to clients by helping them understand the investing landscape and to plan their financial future.

In the long run, is there enough value-add delivered by an advisor to justify his presence in the investing "supply chain"? I'm not sure. But at some level of accumulated wealth, "unsophisticated" investors will likely want to pay someone to guide them through the process of investing.
What's interesting to me, is that people are starting to forget how thick mechanical watches were.

Here's a Rolex[0] (Sea-Dweller 4000). Here's a Moto 360[1].

And now instead of holding eWatches to the same standard as mechanicals, it has turned into another thickness race.

[0] https://imgur.com/TVroPQp
[1] https://imgur.com/Vbve1pq
as cstross already pointed out [0]: the reverse lookup can be a mighty tool.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=10267079
My issue is that they are neither here nor there. I would have loved if they did a good job in the skeuomorphism department.