skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your reply is completely nonresponsive to bsbechtel's point.

The point, stated more explicitly. There is a relatively small overton window permitted by the media - this is essentially what Chomsky would call "flak machines" and Moldbug would call the "cathedral". The "People", as you call them, will simply support whoever the media chooses to anoint. This set of candidates will basically be nothing but a few left wing Republicans and establishment Democrats (think Bush/Romney/Hillary) and we'll get more of the same.

In contrast, the richest 200 families are far less monolithic than the media. Money actually makes it possible for choices that the media establishment dislikes to get real traction. For example, Ross Perot or Donald Trump. If the People like such a candidate, they can then vote for that candidate.

tl;dr; The media has network effects which enforce a narrow overton window. In contrast, one eccentric rich guy can - if he chooses to spend lots of money - break through that and get other ideas out there.
It's not surprising large numbers of internet users in emerging markets skipped the web entirely. Delivering product via SMS and chat starts to make a lot of sense in context.
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You're assuming that LinkedIn is a reliable source.
So is my password my identity? Well, of course not.

But it has great potential to identify a person.

For example when you do not use an unique password (but perhaps falsify other personal information) for two separate user accounts.

Then your password can be used to relate two separate accounts together. This kind of interlinking is common practice in the industry for fraud detection and could be used for more sinister purposes.

But lets assume that you actually share your password with your mother and only flip some number of random bits in it (you can see an analogy with DNA).

Now assuming that your mother identity and password is known and you are only child in the family, your identity is also known given your password because there is fixed change distance between your and your mother password.

So I would say based on this that actually DNA is less unique than a fingerprint (assuming that there is no detectable correlation between parent and child fingerprint).
Definitely lots of exciting discoveries happen by accident--possibly most. But understanding what those discoveries actually are requires carefully designed experiments. In the absence of careful controls Occam's razor has to apply.
I'm a bit dubious of using their partners as a source for the technologies effectiveness though. From the insurer's point of view they are getting extremely cheap blood tests from a company using the same equipment and methods as any other lab. Thats a great thing for the customer and the insurer but why would either care whether shifting to the proprietary technology gets approved?
Having worked with and without ORMs, I'm not sure what a "good ORM" is. On the other hand, a somewhat type-safe generic SQL query builder would be very nice to have.
It's hard to say--peer review isn't anything magical. Three experts read a paper and provide a recommendation to the journal editor. Ultimately, it's only the journal editor who decides whether to publish something. Unfortunately, the whole process is confidential, so in most of these cases it's not possible for most people to know what happened.
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It looks like most of the jobs on HN are full time gigs. Are you pinging them to ask about freelance work?
Especially disturbing in light of this recent article about the systemtic mishandling of DNA evidence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10366761

Unsurprisingly, it seems that the labs are biased in favor of their primary customers: the proseccution.
According to Wikipedia the inland waterways of the US carry cargo worth $73 billion each year - which is about 4% of US GDP. In that context the fascination with inland waterways seems a bit odd.
And an "awesome list" of web scraping open source tools: https://github.com/lorien/awesome-web-scraping
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Can I post a job ad?

[...]
The other kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, but are not stories: they have no vote arrows, points, or comments. They begin part-way down, then fall steadily, and only one should be on the front page at a time
- Auto-resolve CAPTCHA’s

- Automatic IP rotation

That's just wrong. Is there a website where we can blacklist IP addresses of such violators ?
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Given the context, you'd also want to look at the historical importance. The rust belt wouldn't be where it is except for those inland waterways.
While the Internet as we know it was derived by Darpa, I'm not convinced we wouldn't have one without it. Large scale networks already existed. INTERconnected NETworks don't forget. I had access to Janet, FidoNet & Compuserve prior to the current network.
Sanders also wants to reform campaign finance.

Lessig should throw his weight behind Sanders if he wants to have an actual impact.

As it is, if he takes even a few votes away from Sanders he could end up giving away the primaries to, well, Clinton, who isn't going to do anything about campaign finance.

Progressives need to learn that being divided with people who basically agree with them is how they lose elections.
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American politics is pretty broken but it's not so broken that nothing is achievable without campaign finance reform.
>It's a really, really, really big sea of possibilities nowadays for developers.

If you are in the silicon valley or at least in some 1st world country - sure, you have a lot of possibilities and ridiculously high pay.
The sad truth is that exactly same skillset can be valued 10x less or 10x more depending on your location.
Actually it was "government assistance for the poor" - not low incomes - that rated highly on polls, which presumably includes people without jobs. My mistake.
I think you're getting this backwards--this is not an argument that there's more limits, it's an argument over whether limited energy actually implies limits to growth. What the economist says is "even if energy is limited, growth is not" and the physicist goes on to rebut that claim.
Presumably, though, what both of you actually do is:

build.sh

Once you'd done the up-front work of figuring out how to do deployment sanely, it became equally easy for both of you.
> Regulations take away freedom.

The freedom to employ children, the freedom to lock the fire doors, the freedom to drive your truck for 36hours straight, the freedom to pollute the environment.......
Another cron trick is to use chronic/cronic before your command. It silences the command except for error states - cron likes to report any text it sees, which you don't want for non-error states. It also detects errors better than just assuming all errors happen on STDERR.
Not everybody lived nearby a sea. My family is from the north west of Argentina (Jujuy). To reach the sea you have to travel a few hundred kilometers horizontally and more than one kilometer vertically, so bringing anything from the sea was very expensive.

Moreover, the iodine content of the food was very low and that's bad for your thyroid. The government mandate to add a small amount of KI to the table salt NaCl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodine_deficiency
People thinking this way, people in relevant positions thinking this way, people trying to implement this and people successfully implementing this in order of increasing unease.
How long did the L1 application take for you? I filed my petition 2 months ago and am still waiting to hear back from USCIS. Keeping my fingers crossed; 50-50 chance that it'll be approved I guess.
Fun fact! Contra Lessig's plan to resign after magically gaining support for campaign finance reform from the two other branches of government, Presidents can do more than one thing per term! That means it is possible for a President Sanders to take action on both climate change and campaign finance reform, assuming the other two branches of government are amenable.

Amazing but true!
Don't call it AI news app. It gives an impression that this news app doesn't do anything at all and is just a marketing gimmick. Differentiate your app based on what it actually does and I am sure "being intelligent" in not what it does.
Why 10-20% of RAM? How much RAM does each machine have? What else are they doing? Are they virtualized?
I don't believe it.
thanks! About scripts I think they won't be useful for anyone, because most of them are like: "scrape all apps from app store", "scape 30 million business profiles from website A.", etc. But anyway will try to put some :)
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The only "real and practical" reason I can think of is that the team were familiar with OCaml language and they were able to convince the management/others/etc about using the language.
I am not sure what is intimate partner violence but 40% of victims 'being hit' by their partner are men, and in most cases of 'being hit', women start it - predominantly under the assumption that no one will hit them back because a) they are women b) society still goes gaga after 'women and children' and not men c) in practice women are protected from any consequence of hitting a man but men are by default assumed guilty until proven innocent.

For example, while VAWA talks about non-gendered domestic violence, in practice only one partner is arrested so the other can be allowed to take care of children and in 100% of cases where both parties got into a physical altercation it is MEN who end up in jail and with a restraining order.
> coastal plain of the Pacific Northwest

Where's that?
Are there other internal diseases caused by fungus? Obviously there are fungal skin infections, but it sounds strange that a fungus would be able to live inside the body.
I get linear scaling with PyParallel: http://pyparallel.org/
Good actual data, though the total figure is 15.3%

NB: it drops to 2.9% (just the employer/employee portion of Medicare) after the cap, which is currently $118,500 for both 2015 and 2016. And then the employee portion of Medicare rises by 0.9% above $200K, but that's not specific to self-employment as it's the employee portion only.
Voting hardly matters when there are two parties available representing largely the same company and pac interests.

I know this is unpopular to say, but if you'd like to make a difference in governance, you have to pay for it.
On Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....
His point is that it's not an islamic custom to bury people at sea, and he's completely right. The custom is to bury people in the ground, facing mecca, the same day of the death. That doesn't mean burial at sea never happens or isn't allowed or preferred under relatively rare circumstances, but an islamic custom it certainly is not. The custom would be to have buried him in the ground, not take him onto a ship and them dump him in the ocean, lashing him between planks to obviate bloating so that one may find him washed ashore and bury him properly. In short, he wasn't buried according to islamic custom at all.
Forensic DNA use variable repeating sequences in non-protein-coding sections of DNA. Special chemicals latch onto to each key sequence. The repeat lenghth appears as distance or intensity in a chromatagraph. Enough probes and the chance of multiple matches can be less than the worlds population.

Forensic DNA was developed 30 years ago when actual DNA sequencing was mostly a pipe dream (just short disease areas).
> Yes, we would sometimes break plates or furniture or whatever, but we tried to be as polite as we could be to the people whose establishments we were in

Reading about this group is just surreal.
Scrolling sideways UI feels a bit weird. Mostly people go for scrolling up and down habitually.
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Obama came into office with the same idea, then expended pretty much all of his political capital on passing the ACA. Lessig's plan seems to be on the same order.
This can become prohibitively expensive even for a small web scraping job that you're required to do everyday. Say scraping a news site for articles.

The tooling and intuitivity is awesome but besides that at the heart doesn't it do what any other headless javascript enabled browser does?

For example: https://phantomjscloud.com/site/pricing.html

Is there a way to get a less feature rich version of this i.e. sans auto-resolve CAPTCHA etc?

Great work none the less though.
I am Indian and taken back by your comment about Indians/Filipinos. I worked as a freelancer on oDesk; fulltime; around five years ago for more than a year. It was great. I was charging far higher than $15/hr

Probably you should bid for better jobs than scraping websites. I assure you, you be undercutting many Indians/Filipinos by your rate..
People always say they don't like "Politicians" but politicians get things done. People who know how to make deals and bargains.
The price that she quoted him was $15. It's not clear that that was $15 an hour, or whether it was $15 for the entire job (regardless of how long it might take.) Considering that the writer questioned whether she thought it would only take him one hour to complete the task, that would be the way that I would be inclined to interpret the way it was taken (if not necessarily the way it was meant): Five hours work at three dollars an hour.
Possibly, the better understanding of the problem domain would make a rewrite from scratch better than the existing stuff. That the improvements have little to do with the language in which the newly conceived solution was implemented.
If everyone had such a negative attitude as that we never would have had Google.

Countless sites depend on web scraping. You can scrape and be a good netizen, the two are not mutually exclusive.
> "Are there any problems with serving pages as application/xhtml+xml?"

That was more relevant when XHTML was still vying to be the future of markup on the web. The issue was that the XHTML content type mandated a strict XML parser that hard failed if your markup wasn't well-formed, whereas HTML is more lenient. With XHTML, it was easy for a single stray closing tag to kill your entire site. This was an especially common concern if you allowed markup in, say, comments.
That's supposedly an urban myth...

From Wikipedia:

In A Brief History of the Internet, the Internet Society denies that ARPANET was designed to survive a nuclear attack:

It was from the RAND study that the false rumor started, claiming that the ARPANET was somehow related to building a network resistant to nuclear war. This was never true of the ARPANET; only the unrelated RAND study on secure voice considered nuclear war. However, the later work on Internetting did emphasize robustness and survivability, including the capability to withstand losses of large portions of the underlying networks.
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Why not? It is widely consumed, but there is a portion of the population that has a severe reaction to it.
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The main whitewashing Ive heard was he and some of his family were shot in cold blood, i.e. Weaponless and without provocation. I am guessing due to the tight constraints of the operation and the difficultly of a high profile prisoner. I dont know why some thought they had to whitewash the story, because most people would understand the necesity.
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And people should really be thinking twice about the consequences of suppressing core political speech from those they don't like, be it a single citizen publishing a book (in oral arguments the government admitted that fell into the McCain-Feingold ban), an arbitrary group of citizens producing and distributing a video about a public figure running for office, or the eeeeevil NRA with its five million members amplifying their voices in collective action, which e.g. AlwaysBCoding in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10403569 explicitly wants to silence (note below that one of the ways to achieve such survey results is to keep gun owners in the dark about what's actually being proposed).

Is "democracy" really enhanced by silencing one very large but disfavored side of the debate, by the side that just so happens to be catastrophically losing it? Was this what our founderes were thinking about when they had the 1st Amendment to the Constitution enshrine freedom of speech and the press?

To bring this back to Hillary!, the subject of the * GOVERNMENT CENSORED * 2008 campaign Citizens United video---yes, this really happened, the FEC got the District Court for the District of Columbia to ban it, per Wikipedia it "found that the film had no purpose other than to discredit Clinton's candidacy for president", which obviously is beyond the pale---well, in the debate a few days ago, echoing Obama's recent statements, she called for outright mass confiscation of guns with a token "buyback" compensation. I could put this advertisment together in a few hours, a few minutes if I was into video editing: http://www.pagunblog.com/2015/10/16/hillary-clinton-endorses...:

The ad for the general election writes itself:

Scene 1: “In Australia, the government confiscated 1/3 of the guns in the country. In America, 1/3 would be around 120 million guns”.

Scene 2: footage from Australia of big piles of guns getting ready to be melted down (it’s on YouTube in a documentary).

Scene 3: footage of Hillary saying Australia is a good example of what we should do in America.

Note that the NRA helped demolish the 1988 Dukakis campaign for President publicizing an even more clear quote, "I do not believe in people owning guns, only police and military. I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state.", which was the sole copy on a solid black background that was the chilling, high impact cover of the November 1988 issue of the American Rifleman. They wouldn't have been able to do if McCain-Feingold had been law back then.

These people want to deny us the soap box to present these incontestable facts, effectively denying us the ballet box by keeping the vast majority of affected gun owners in the dark. They really should think about which box follows.
I looked at Erlang a while back but passed (didn't "click" for me), yet I'm now learning Elixir (which totally "clicks") to complement Ruby in polyglot apps.

Sounds like you didn't really invest much time in the former, or that post-hoc experience made it easier for you to understand, but you instead flocked over to Elixir.
Why is generalization something you hate? Your objections stand but just because VW is caught at doing something wrong it doesn't make it any different.

Owning a car kills people indirectly, be it VW or not. Yes they deceived with a purpose but people accept the direct and indirect deception, be it in eating meat, or driving botched/normal cars. This is always the way it is.

One can have so many conflicting opinions and attitudes inside one's head, one can be mad about VW but not mad about the highly subsidised food industry, or transportation industry in large.

It's just the way it is. Yes, as you've said, almost everyone is ignorant about the bigger picture.

I was just trying to say that by looking at everything else I'm not at all surprised/shocked/disappointed with people's behavior. It's the way people are, and it always was as it is today, it might sound fairly pessimistic, but an average person needs a car to travel around quicker, needs meat to nurture their palate, needs heating to avoid the inconvenience of dressing several layers of clothes in their home. Given all of these entirely personal, individual, selfish needs it is no surprising at all that the majority doesn't care / see the bigger picture.
It's maybe worth noting that we (pypy team) had a huge success testing C code just with cffi, writing tests in python. It gives you the ability to write C, but with all the flexibility of python for testing and some debugging (sometimes you obviously have to use gdb)
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It seems pretty clear that they're objecting to the means, and I don't see any evidence that they're naive about the ends.
Larry Lessig definitively has my vote.

It is just inconvenient, that I am not an US-American. But if he would run for election in my country, I would give him my vote.

The reason: He really takes democracy seriously -- some thing, that I would not attest to most people in our government -- and definitively not to the leading politicians of most political parties in my country.

That is the reason, I fear that democracy is bound to fail -- and to be replaced by corporate ruling (in fact, we are already at this point, where corporations have much more power than politicians or voters).
I've been a freelancer for almost 4 years and I have yet to make money via any sort of website. The clientele's expectations are borderline delusional for the price they want to pay.

I get all of my contracts through recommendations from past clients and colleagues and can charge from $60 to $90 per hour (the most I charged was $250 per hour for a job I didn't want to do and didn't expect the client to accept).
Please post a copy of source code (maybe a masm listing) if you still have it, along with any technical docs. Even though it's 'just another' clone, it's still worth preserving for history.
Well that sure is an arrogant reply, and not even close to true. In the US everything published (online or not) is copyrighted.

Since you're clearly not a content creator, and have decided since you didn't work on it it has no value, but putting something online does not make content public domain.
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Signed up and then was forwarded to a support-request page, is there a how-to guide to start experiencing it with the free account?

I then wanted to back out, of course there is no way to remove your account.

While I know what scrape/robot/etc does, I don't know how to start using this one after spent some minutes reading through on the website.
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One of their features is "Automatic IP Address Rotation" so it may not be easy....
ZX Spectrum clones (the big hit at the time) aren't on the list as well.
How do you contact them? Email, cold calling?

Have you tried doing rfps?
>Obama came into office with the same idea

Obama's ideas were never made very clear during his campaign. It was all "hope" and "change" and not a whole lot on policy specifics.

He then went and implemented the same neoliberal bullshit that George Bush pushed with a slightly different flavor.
I was going to ask the same thing. It seems kind of spammy to me.
60% is too low of a bar. 40% of a country vehemently disagreeing with a big change is a big deal. That's why the amendment process exists and is supposed to be used.
I learned to code largely because of my interest in Linux and Emacs. Connecting to a sense of pleasure, fun, and interest is critical to successful learning in any domain- I've found this to be true in exercise and meditation, too :)
how can be the research into internet unethical? or the automation of that unethical?
How do you save on hacker news?
But they aren't interested in the victim's DNA so that is irrelevant. They are interested in other DNA found at the crime scene, i.e. belonging to the attacker or someone related to the attacker.
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