skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be beyond great if someone would create an open source version of that graph so I can see just how much of my info is being captured and used for and/or against me on a daily basis.

I specifically carry an unlocked android handset that is not connected to a carrier, and use a custom ROM that allows me to turn off my cell radio to prevent that sort of tracking.

I use a throwaway google account but do sometimes check my real email thru the device (and so have the account on the device as a user), but sometimes turn on wifi location for various reasons, so I can't really tell how much "they" know.

I just wonder...is anything I'm doing really helping things?
I agree on the difference in distribution, but not on the desire to have those things. All those items you listed, Americans want them to. The difference is the desire to attempt to do so with little or no government involvement. The reason is because in our own short history that it is quite evident that on a national scale the government attempting to do such things almost always ends in spectacular failure. Of course, it's sold as "almost" working so, of course, more money is required to get it right this time.

In many ways, those items are being addressed on the US state level, as they should. I, for one, have all the things you list available to me. Are some more expensive then they should be? Sure, but most likely if you dig into the truth of the matter it's because of government interference.

In the end, most people want the same things regardless of their government.
That output doesn't look good, especially compared with the Obama char-rnn output: https://medium.com/@samim/obama-rnn-machine-generated-politi...

Perhaps the Trump corpus could be fed into char-rnn for comparison and figure out why the output is so nonsensical?
I consider Noam Chomsky one of the smartest person on Earth and his assistant obviously has to be as well, to keep up with him. Really excellent read.
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What are the SJ issues? Nothing really seemed agenda-driven to me other than the anecdote of Leigh and her family's insistence that she only have female caretakers.

In the given context of safety and a request for only female caretakers, is the conclusion that male caretakers are unsafe for female patients?

Unfortunately it's never explained so can't understand why it's even in the article.
Modern 3-2-1:

3 backup services
2 formats
1 local copy

I guess that could get expensive depending on the services.
It is no wonder that Chomsky didn't treat him as an equal, given that Sam Harris is really in no position to discuss anything with him...
If you think that what defines you is a series of recorded or remembered events, worrying about this makes a lot of sense.

Loan providers using this instead of their predatory bullshit system now seems ok to me.
The first person to reach 100K stargazers on GitHub is Sindre Sorhus
If you were running rails inside of Torquebox you could make use of the Infinispan Data Grid (http://infinispan.org/) to cache your views. It's underlying linear scalability mechanism is far more mature than Redis Cluster, and it's deployment story is quite nice. You won't get all of the data structures that Redis provides of course, but if all you need is a great cache, and you're already on JRuby then this could be a better fit for your loads.
Here's a anecdote of how a typical webapp goes to shit with the best intentions from everyone.

"building it right from the start" sounds great. I've never worked on a project where people did not honestly try to do it this way. Lets say that for once you have a clear set of unambiguous requirements (a rarity) when starting in. I like to start with the database first. I'll design a nice normalized database and start building the website from there. If the requirements are fleshed out enough you'll already have a map of what pages ought to do what.

Once you get to the point where you can have a customer try out a few pages you get some "feedback" which is actually a change in the requirements. You can't hit them with a change request for every little thing at first so you comply. Maybe it's just a small change turning a one to many into a many to many relation for example, or moving a few fields from one table to another. Soon you have 30 or so similar "small tweaks" even if you hit them with a change request every time, they don't all come in at once giving you a good opportunity to re-evaluate the schema/application as a whole, it's always viewed as a singular "small" change so re-factoring the whole thing isn't really an option. The more changes that come through the more your elegant implementation becomes a series of hacks.

Soon they may start complaining asking why their "small" changes are taking so long to fix. This adds further budget pressure.

The problem is, it's not very clear to people down in the weeds when implementing the small changes if it's a hack or not. I think this is something that takes experience. So even when you have cleanup be a blocking requirement, taken one at a time it might seem fine and no large refactor is obvious until it becomes too large of a task to lump in a typical change request.

This is an especially easy trap to fall into for people who have been toiling away at the current design. They will have a blind spot/affinity for keeping as much of their implementation as possible and resist an overhaul.

If you have an iron will and a steely ice cold 1000 yard stare from 10 years of war in enterprise app development it's easier for us to kill code because we don't get attached to it as easily.

Be careful not to fall into the dark side though, (the flip side of those 10 years can instil a cold iron heart who stares right through the hacks and stops trying to argue with the client about doing things properly. In this scenario you just do as you are told and stop caring about the overall state of well-being of the codebase.)

The real art to web dev consulting is being able to build a flexible enough design to withstand these sorts of changes and still remain elegant and well thought out. It also takes the experience to know the difference between a hack and a proper change and the will power to do the right thing. It's really hard to do and it a good "gut" feeling for how a particular thing will actually be used, what a customer really means when they say something etc. I'm not sure that it's something that can be taught. It leads right back to your brain dump wish.

Cheers
The key difference is that denying the Holocaust is a couple orders of magnitude more hurtful to a lot of people than denying "flat Earth", creation, of evolution.
So, going to the principal's office is a punishment so severe that it forces the student to pray when said student doesn't want to? I mean, if they were beating the child I could agree, but a trip to the principal's office? I fail to see how that can force anyone to do anything.
Some argue that the "system" exacerbates inequality because rich (maybe including middle class) people can afford to hire people and services to cover for when their personal desires interfere with their kids' development.

That is, rich people can hire nannies, drivers, coaches, tutors, move to safer neighborhoods (less time spent on teaching Junior how to not get mugged or killed), and install security systems. They can upgrade old-and-maybe-not-safe foods and products with expensive better-safe-than-sorry alternatives.

Even given the premise that all of this is the middle class coming down to Earth, going forward, it's another question entirely if families are generally better off with an at-home parent.
"how frequently a user recharges the phone’s battery, how many incoming text messages they receive, how many miles they travel in a given day or how they enter contacts into their phone — the decision to add last name correlates with creditworthiness — can bear on a decision to extend credit."

That's more than social media use....
Specifically as described here:

https://users.cs.jmu.edu/abzugcx/Public/Student-Produced-Ter...

The benaphores were a brilliant idea. Plus, the general threading approach that avoided issues with direct, pointer manipulation. Add microkernels, memory protection, and threading all the way down for quite a unique kernel with incredible performance on old hardware. I'd be curious what a vanilla port of BeOS kernel on modern, multicore hardware would do vs a typical OS in fair benchmarks. We'd also include a little note that only one does it relatively safely. ;)
This is good, but nothing compares to Borat warning Jimmy Kimmel that the nincompoop Sacha Baron Cohen has fooled the world with his fictional and offensive characters Ali G, Bruno and Donald Trump. Then when pointed out by Jimmy Kimmel that Trump is actually real, still disbelieves Kimmel because "the only person who would ban Muslims is a person with a brain like a female chicken. It is a clearly a parody of a rich, American racist".
if it really is a leak it would be intentional.
That's funny, that's not what I said at all. You're combining two different points in response to the post in an attempt to make it seem I said something other than what I said.
Technical skills: That depends on your software stack, how much time developers have to invest in themselves

Soft skills: Empathy, user-focused, good written communication, ability to deal with ambiguity, tact in office politics, ability to be likeable and have good small talk
> measure what actions you take based on "being connected" that you feel improve yourself

I feel like, in general, something like facebook just makes my thoughts MORE negative in general.

For instance, I'm a member of some groups for different hobbies, and I've adopted a "one strike and you're out" policy with regard to what people post to the group. If I find a post to be irrelevant to the topic at hand or in any way annoying -- boom, "Ignore all posts from [user]".

I'm saying to myself, "Hey stranger, you tried getting involved in the discussion by posting this, but it didn't live up to my standards, and therefore I never want to see anything you say ever again."

While it's relegated to facebook, I feel like having that kind of attitude in my life can't be healthy.
Thanks! I was perhaps mislead by Wikipedia, since that's where I looked for info ;-)
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Hi, Does anyone maybe have an extra keybase.io invite code?
I'd really like to try it out. Sorry I was not able to comment on any old stories. So I had to submit a new one.

If you have one, Could you please send to <aryan dot ashwani at gmail dot com>
Pull out the more general example. Unexpected shit happens. A bad code push deletes data, a disgruntled employee decides to leave a "present" after they leave, etc. All things that have happened before. Having a backup away from production makes it much more easy to recover from unplanned outages.
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Martin Shkreli is right: fraud charges only arose because of pharma scumbaggery
I own a few patents, as I'm sure many on Hacker News do. As I write this, I'm in the middle of a patent lawsuit with Square (http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/24u13j6tr/california-northe...). I don't apologize for it.

I'm not a troll. I'm an inventor and I made a real product. I'm also someone well known for having dealt with intellectual property theft as a victim. I also spent a year at Stanford Law School poking around as a fellow as I developed what is now the most accurate patent assignment database there is--far more accurate than the official one--on PlainSite.

I'll be deliberately terse with my comments here, but the upshot is that the problem here isn't the idea of patents. They are a lottery ticket to a lawsuit as Elon Musk has said, but they're also an important insurance policy for serious innovators. (Another such insurance policy is VC, but not every serious innovator has VC backing.) The problem is the legal profession. Patent trolls (and other sorts of IP trolls) are by and large the creations of corrupt lawyers. Inventors are slighted in favor of large corporations because of "upstanding" lawyers. Transparency is impeded everywhere you turn in the patent world courtesy of the patent bar. And unlike the USPTO TTAB, where corporations can represent themselves at virtually no cost, in the USPTO PTAB, the patent bar has seen to it that you must hire a lawyer.

It's not a coincidence. The system is incredibly broken, but if you want to blame someone, blame the lawyers for ruining what might have been a workable and necessary paradigm.
And from the sounds of this peer to peer networking is being used. Does that mean that when I use the program I am acting as a peer? Or did I misread this?
This is a misrepresentation. The "Have you ever" was to demonstrate a point. There are armies of IT housemen that believe they are better than securing data than the major storage providers. This attitude is pretty pervasive and patently nonsense. My point was to get them thinking. If you in your entire career have lost even a single byte of data. You are statistically missing the mark(in terms of data loss) by orders of magnitude. S3 is stupidly resilient. So much so that no amount of raid configs, backups, and redundancy on the part of the joker in the corner cubicle will ever even be even close.

So getting back to risk management. So we about to make a QB selection for the big game. Now that we understand that the implementation of folks like jaque here are like the 12 year old pee wee standout vs. the cloud provider's seasoned NFL quarterback. Which one do you pick to safe guard your business.
I can't seem to find the one about college graduates. Could you point me in the right direction?
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For me personally, I never even desired one to begin with for the purposes it's actually used in practice (social media and the miscellaneous service).

My line of reasoning went in that I'm buying a general-purpose computing device that has been deliberately constrained to make it as undesirable as possible to actually use like a general-purpose computing device. Why would I want it, when I have a perfectly good IBM PC-compatible/Wintel box at home? For telephony purposes, I've always used dumb cells running some Java ME bare-bones interface or similar. And so I continue to do. It's not like I get cravings to check my feeds if I'm away for a few hours.

On the other hand, the fact that I also feel no need to use any applications associated with the "sharing economy" probably helps, too.

Is it even possible to do so working in a tech field?

Absolutely.
The quality of psychiatric care, in general, is abysmal. There's a ton of poorly-competent therapists.

SO when someone has autism or ADD or depression or these other disorders that make it really difficult to reach out to get help, and then that one person does reach out and gets shit for help, well, then how do you not give up?

The behavior health system is stacked against the most vulnerable.

And nobody cares enough. All those doctors that dismissed this woman again and again need to be publicly taken to task for their lack of professionalism and lack of giving a shit (which IMO goes right against the Hippocratic Oath).
A Markov Chain is only as good as its input. It doesn't have much to work with unfortunately.
Hmmm. Does anybody know if this qualifies the processor for a refund/replacement if I bought one to learn and use TSX?
I was responding to the commenter, not the article.

The reality is, the smartphone is just another in a very very long line of ways to gather information about folks.

Before the phone, there was credit rating agencies, who have access to your entire financial history, including credit card purchases, bill payments, bank loans, etc (for decades, now, Experian, Acxiom, etc, have known more about you could possibly imagine). Then we got the loyalty/reward cards, where people traded their purchase history for low low prices. Then we saw the rise of the internet and cloud services of all kinds (Google and Facebook).

Frankly, I wouldn't even put the phone at the top of my list of concerns, as at least my phone is on my person, and I have some level of control over it...
> I used to think I could recall conversations, but how do I know they actually happened?

That seems trivial to verify; just record details about all conversations you have with everyone. I have been doing this since 2009. I have a 5 MB yaml file with details of every conversations (mostly tags), and I might have an above-average memory but yeah I definitely forget things .... (and sometimes I get some of the details wrong even if a conversation happened just minutes ago).

Another way to verify (to yourself only) is to writeup your memory of a conversation, PGP sign it, hash it, give the hash to a friend who was originally in the conversation, then have them do a writeup, then reveal the commitment and compare the two accounts of a conversation. The writeup would be better if it was done immediately after the actual conversation, because otherwise social groups have time to mingle and confuse everyone about what actually happened.

Another way is to do a public group writeup of a conversation after it happens (or an audio/video recording), then have everyone PGP sign the writeup (to confirm their agreement), then later pick a random conversation where this setup was performed, and write down your memory of the conversation. This doesn't work if the conversations where this setup is performed are all unique; probably has to be a few thousand different setups happen before this starts to test memory in any meaningful capacity.
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I'm much more excited about LFE personally. (http://lfe.io/)
I asked about this on Community Building SE a while ago and got good answers. http://communitybuilding.stackexchange.com/q/711/530
Mint can already look at your CC transactions if you connect the bank account to it. I wonder how come they've never done something similar. It wouldn't really cost them that much to maintain a database of subscription based services and do a text match to highlight them. Heck it can even be a category. You can of course do this manually, but they could automate it just as easily.
From the original post:

> There is very little innovation in that space and that's a bit unfortunate

I'll have to respectfully disagree with Armin here, but perhaps I map the terrain a little differently than he does.

In addition to the half-dozen tools he names, which are more narrowly targeted at blog-like static sites, the broader space of asset pipelines and static generation is seeing a lot of innovation. I'd point to Gulp and Rails' latest as a sign that there's more work to do here. Even strictly in the Django world, there are a zillion asset-pipeline-like-apps; django-compressor and django-pipeline, the two most used, are quite different in their approach and philosophy.

I'm excited by this proliferation of tools for generating static web content "offline" and expect to see far more in the future. Lektor looks like another interesting piece to the puzzle, particularly in its focus on end-users rather than programmers. (Anyone remember Movable Type? That's probably the first user-centric static site generator to gain widespread use?)
Really a DOX bro? That company went under anyway(because it was financially unstable not because I chose to use S3 to host their site), but interestingly the page you've found has been continuously hosted (without even a minute of downtime) for almost 3 years. It also hasn't seen one minute of administration time since 2013. But seriously your tact shows you are a piece of shit.
It's possible in the tech field if you set expectations properly. I've done it for weeks and months at the time but always ended up back with some variety of smartphone primarily because of so many things you lose by giving one up.

I use social media very little, and only Twitter for sports and other news. I read a lot on my phone (Pocket, HN, Feedly), and I use it as my sole GPS, my sole camera, and my only physical phone.

I hate that I tend to use every idle minute reading or fiddling with it, and it's something I try often to be cognizant of. But, admittedly, I don't do well with it. I'm fairly addicted to using it to stave off boredom.

I would be curious to know if those who have succeeded in giving up their smartphone for a long period of time just replaced their idle time with something else - iPad, laptop, video games, etc. or did they genuinely reduce their "connected" time?
Give us a few years, we'll drain it for you.

--Love, the Western US.
Thank you ! :-)
The article says he is not coming with.
While I agree that you're probably going to be upgrading in part to amortize your costs, it's not like you're getting no value out of it. The upgrade from 4.1 to 4.2 had significant speed and stability gains in active record. And recent versions of a lot of popular gems are both faster and more secure.
Meh. Creditworthiness based on your online activities is solution looking for a problem. It hardly is issue for loaners today. The problem is how to lend more, not less. So no fear here, if you are good today, you are good tomorrow, no matter the online activity. Secondly if and when really some loaners voluntarily limit their market, there will always be who do not and whose position on the market will be total ignorance of online stuff.
> Holding a pilot's license means having responsibility to the public

uh, no it doesn't.

> Celebrities are not entitled to special privilege in the US

I think the point is more here is 2 recognizable names who also have reason to hide this data.
It should work, but it'll slow down any process you're tracing. As you mentioned, screen works great for stuff that you have the foresight ahead of time to run in a screen session, such as a remote demo.
I'm not an expert, but I do know paying off your total credit card debt every month does nothing to help your credit score and, in fact, may even kinda hurt it.

You would be far better off to get 2-3 cards, ring up some debt on each of them, and then make the monthly minimum payment, on-time, for 6-12 months.

For sure you would see a pretty big jump in your score doing that.
The RESTful principle actually just declares that request response cycles and server-client interactions don't have to be stateful, not that it's necessary they're stateless.

It's still possible to use sessions and other ways of maintaining client state while adhering to other stateless principles such as indempotency of certains types of requests.
Which is why the FAA needs the data, not a reason to disclose it.
> While it's relegated to facebook, I feel like having that kind of attitude in my life can't be healthy.

I've taken the same kind of attitude (towards vitriolic and stupid posts), because when I looked at my reactions to all sorts of those posts, it's inevitably not the way I want to be spending my time. I don't get on Facebook to fulfill my "balanced world view" quota ;) ! Realize that we now have more exposure to other people's opinions than we've really ever had before... IMO it's a healthy way to cope.
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