skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm interested to see if Amazon will go into the carrier business, and force the others like UPS, DHL, etc to up their game and provide a good service i.e. packages delivered looking like they haven't been kicked about like a football.

However as far as I'm aware, this business is also very low margin, so a lot of room for them to lose money here too.
You want to read an article for free, they want you to see their article with ads. It's a negotiation, and you are free to say no and just not read the article.

I thought it was tastefully done. They even mentioned they were running a "light ads" site.

Why would they want to serve their pages to people using ad-blockers anyway?

What would you prefer they have done?
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Awesome work. But I would prefer log-in/registration with own email/password combo. I hate 3rd party logins.

One alternative would be, and what worked for me, is a simple old school pomodoro tracker:

1: get pomodoro app/timer like http://tomato-timer.com/
2: aim for 3 or so pomodoro sessions/day for your project or new thing you want to do or to learn
3: profit

Nice thing about pomodoro technique is that the distraction is already included. You focus 25 minutes and then have 5 minutes distraction time. It adds up for motivation if you know that you can have a break after a short perdiod of time.
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Didn't know about that one, thanks for the link! I've added it to the discussion at https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/issues/266
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How many people actually opt out of the scans? I always do, but when I'm waiting to be patted down I always seem to be the only one. Everyone else always seems to go for the scan.

Another annoying thing is that invariably they have me wait sitting almost right next to the scanner. I've seen images showing that people behind scanners also get scanned. The best I can hope for is that the radiation dose is somewhat lower than when you're actually in the scanner itself.
I like this trend, but this change has made me curious. Why?

I'm guessing that it's a subject that most on HN can relate to, yet one where no-one who programs is completely happy with the languages and tools they use today. It's a rich area for potential new developments and ideas, and no doubt many of us have thought about what we'd like to do if we invented a new language ourselves. That makes it both an interesting topic for discussion and an interesting field to observe even for those of us who will never personally have the time and conditions to develop the next great language.
Exactly. So the person's example seems to hold: duplicating dollars isn't a good idea economically, and would have a negative impact like duplicating mp4 movies - it reduces the value of the thing being duplicated.
Indeed, I joined Book of the Month Club to get the introductory offer of the two volume OED cheaply, and ended up leaving after paying $50 for stuff that I just didn't want. I still have the OED, but I couldn't tell you what the other books were. I do, however, remain the pain of writing the $50 check, which was a good deal of money for me then.
"reject desire and attachment" sounds nice on a poster, but that's just so thoroughly not human that I don't even know where to begin, let alone that it too has almost nothing to do with anyone's extrinsic circumstances.

Exactly. I remember reading a book by a couple painting a pretty picture about how freeing oneself from all desire (material, emotional) solves all the problems you may have. I got fallen in to this cheap advice back when I was suffering from unreturned love and tried to preach it as well, but retrospectively, it didn't actually work. It is only the passage of time and other events of life that may result in something like decrease of pain and moving on with life. But I guess this kind of advice (freeing oneself from desire, embracing religion) still has some value in the worst cases where the person is willing to believe anything just to stop the suffering. It gives an illusion of a solution and that helps a little bit.
Sorry no technical reason just haven't got around to it yet, didn't know what the general preference was now, will add it shortly. Thanks for the feedback
Wow, that's powerful. What I was left thinking the most: so how do I go about coming out of the "bubble"? How do I come to see what "normal people" are?
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Thanks I'll see what I can do, maybe one of those overlays on first visit?
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> Parks, libraries and schools are largely not communally-owned spaces, but government-owned. Crucial distinction.

It's only a crucial distinction if you don't consider yourself part of your own municipality. For the rest of us, (local) government is an expression of communion.

> Many people rightfully may consider their extended families to be not worth interacting with

I'm not convinced about the "rightfully" part. Your extended family exists because of choices of your direct family; to denounce the extensions is to make your direct family subject to your approval. You're free to do so, but I don't think "right" is the qualifier I would use.

> Beauty standards are determined first societally, then by entrepreneurs.

Except that entrepreneurs don't idly sit on the sidelines while "society" forms its standards. Our social self-image is dominated by only a few corporations, which have a lot to gain from controlling that image.

> The profit motive is intrinsic to a world of uncertainty [..] It is wholly neutral.

Just as the military motive is intrinsic to a world of uncertainty, I guess. Is developing and deploying nuclear weapons wholly neutral too?

> Clearly these are unresolved issues on part of the consumer.

On the contrary, when the majority of consumers is led to the wrong choice (cue philosophical derailment about moral relativism), it becomes a systemic problem. Maybe it's time to stop relying on 400-year old dogma?

> This is the almost cliched refrain of every moral reformer.

Your post also reads as the most cliched refrain of every economic anarchist. Can you even name one truly free market?
My ad-blocker is run to prevent tracking as well. I want them to not track either.
No I won't, will be adding opt in reminders later. Thanks for the feedback
Thats like saying you dont know how to fish unless you learn the detailed operation of 10 different types of fishing boats. None of which you have access to, you're fishing from the dock and your budget is $20.
I didn't realize the suicide rate in Japan was so high. It's sad. Combine that with Japan's phenonmena of "moss viewing girls" [1] and "herbivore men" [2] and it really seems like the Japanese are destined for extinction.

[1] http://ignition.co/398
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbivore_men
Or not: https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/3xckcu/sword_fo...
Ah, the old Constitutional bait-n-switcheroo.
It is frustrating (and to my eyes highly suspicious) that the TSA announced this when it did, when a lot of people are paying less attention and doing less reporting as so much of the country is shut down for the holidays :/. Here is the context you may have missed.

"TSA can now force you to go through body scanners [pdf]" (166 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10779589

"TSA Sued Over New Policy to Refuse Opt-Outs" (77 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10788826

"TSA Announces It Will Decide Who Goes Through the Body Scanner, Thank You" (4 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10782118
Forbes is one of those sites from which I really don't feel bad about blocking ads. And now, with their new anti-ad-blocker wall, I don't feel bad about not visiting them at all.

They really earned it by having one of the most consistently obnoxious web surfacing experiences for many years. Their ad interstitials are so insulting that I'd rather just give my eyeballs to some other publications.
I have been hearing this pitch since approximately 1995; always five years to mass adoption. Not holding my breath for flying cars, either.
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Inaccurate title. 1000 years before columbus, first nations people were already living in NA.
While I haven't used GWT recently, I did a lot of development with it from 2006-2011.

Good bits:

- abstraction from different browsers

- ability to set breakpoints and debug code running in browser (browser based tools were not so full featured as they are now)

- refactoring

- Java code organization (packages, classes, interfaces)

- could share validation logic between front end and back end

Bad bits:

- abstraction broke sometimes. I remember one bug that drove me crazy--only showed up when I deployed the optimized code (vs the detailed code which was human readable), and was due to a namespace collision with a global js variable.

- compilation was another build step and sometimes not a quick one.

- far better for full page applications than drop in js widgets (we used it in both ways)

Overall I think it was a great solution for its time. Now a lot of the JavaScript ecosystem has caught up or surpassed it.
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> How many people actually opt out of the scans? I always do, but when I'm waiting to be patted down, I always seem to be the only one.

A few times when I've flown out of PDX, there was a substantial line for opt-outs; sadly not every time.

I've also heard anecdotes that when DEFCON let out, the airport handling all the return flights ended up just sending everyone through the metal detectors rather than deal with thousands of people all opting out.
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Same here. I always opt out I'm the only one sitting there for 5 minutes. Funny thing is I was thinking about the radiation sitting next to it last time also. I was about 10 feet from it I think at MIA.
I do but we're definitely in the minority. My father thinks I'm a paranoid nut because of it. I think he's a sheep.
From the AtariAge article:

If you're looking for the point that Atari
died, it would be the acquisition of Federated

I was a software engineer at Atari then. We were all pretty mystified about why Jack wanted to buy a retailer. (Jack also tried to turn engineers into salespeople for a while, having us "adopt" stores and try to sell computers there. That did not go well).

I have the feeling that Jack, Sam and Gary Tramiel really only understood the art of the slightly crooked deal; that's how they saw the business world. Secondarily, they understood computer hardware, because a lot of that world involved striking deals with suppliers, and that was the level they were happy working in.

The world of software was largely opaque to them, and they never really invested much in it, and never understood how to run long-term and larger scale projects. Ultimately that marginalized them and they lost to competition (Windows / Mac) that did understand software.
Until a large part of the ecosystem adopts terse APIs,
conventions, and strives for significantly reducing
implementation details for end-users, abstract tooling may be
our only outlet.

Convention over configuration? ( ‾ʖ̫‾)
I'd like to see the constitutional amendment that would get written. If written in general it could probably be used to throw most of the politicians in jail. Wouldn't advocacy for gun laws be generally inciting violence, how about violent video games? Wouldn't calling for going to war be considered generally inciting violence? The bible talks a lot about violence should it be outlawed?
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It's worth pointing out that there are issues in Japan with homicide cases being reported as suicides:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/02/03/national/media-n...
Actually, I find it perfectly reasonable to believe that during these hundreds years of naval shipping, there were at least some cases of adventurous, misguided or lost ships reaching the coast of Americas. What I don't understand, what's the big deal about that?
"A research paper published in the Journal of Affective Disorder in 2013 (four years after the first lights were installed) found that there was an 84 percent decrease in suicides at stations with the blue lights. The exact reason why the lights are effective isn’t known, but some researchers theorize that it’s related to the apparent positive effect of light on mood. A recent study led by Hiroshi Kadotani, from Shiga University of Medical Science found there was an “increased proportion of railway suicide attempts after several days without sunlight,” based on 971 suicides or attempted suicides in Tokyo between 2002 and 2006."

So they don't know how blue lights do anything. The title of the article is totally misleading.
Anecdotally I saw blue led lighting to prevent at a train station for a London Airport (I think Gatwick). The platform guard didn't seem to think it made any difference, and that it was bought at the end of a budget period.
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How much of a dose do you actually get from the scans?

The best numbers I can find seem to point to something in the 0.015 μSv to 0.88 μSv range. At cruising altitude, you get 0.04 μSv per minute from cosmic radiation.

I don't think the radiation from these machines should be the biggest concern.
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It's not like they don't have enough ads on the article pages themselves. I'm sure they are extremely profitable with all those ads plastered everywhere, with enough ads that it slows the browser. I hope LinkedIn and Quora contributors gains more traction, because the user experience is much better for the reader. Facebook is another example of a company that is extremely profitable while running ads that are not too obtrusive or annoying.
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I live in a rural part of the US and have many, many strong pro-gun friends and acquaintances. The vast majority (95%+ at least) do not think there is any conspiracy to disarm existing gun owners. To imply otherwise is disingenuous at best.

The problem is that a lot of times the restrictions don't make any sense. We'll ban 30-round magazines but not 20. We'll ban barrel shrouds that are entirely cosmetic. We'll ban pistol grips on shotguns that actually reduce the lethality of the weapon by making is less accurate. All the while these things are proposed by legislators who truly do not understand what they're talking about. It's worse than octogenarian Senators discussing the internet, it really is. There you have "it's a series of tubes," and here you have people referring to "the shoulder thing that goes up."

If you could have a well-spoken conservative Democrat who actually understood firearms and the culture surrounding them, who could propose real gun control solutions that aren't based on emotion or cosmetics, you'd probably get something passed.
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It doesn't say they were the first to do so.
Looks great, theres also a Brew formula. Not sure I'll remember "dtrx" though...
But it also runs afoul of the "don't break two laws at once" principle. If you deliver drugs via conventional methods, the police need probable cause to stop and search you for drugs. If you deliver them via illegal drone, they can stop and search your drones whenever they want.
I read an article one about murder in the sumo community in Japan. It suggested many murders were considered suicides by the police, and thus not investigated.

This would keep the murder rate artificially low and the suicide rate artificially high.

I also heard that due to the nature of elderly benefit receival in Japan, its status as having some of the longest living people might also be in doubt...

Nothing substantial I can give you, but I'll just mention this :-)
Japan has a severe depression problem among young male population due to all the social experimenting done by American institutions in the theory of eulogy and Malthusian economy. I will quote Wikipedia:

"Seventy-one percent of suicides in Japan were male,[2] and it is the leading cause of death in men aged 20–44.[5][6]"

Basically young males of working age. Japan has a severe problem of Hikikomoris who are almost always male. Unfortunately most Japanese men don't have any social way to express themselves, contrary to all the theories and movies about powerful patriarchy etc., and so are silently labeled by the academics instead of owning the identity as being MGTOW. And the government has confused suicide problem with suicide bombing apparently, and is all about prevention rather than cure.
Just keep stepping to the side, away from the line of sight of those machines.
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With an LD_LIBRARY_PATH they'd have to drop 2 files into the folder, the dll and a wrapper that sets the library path, I don't see the issue...
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> I think he's a sheep.

Oh please. You're not helping with that attitude.
I wonder if changing this behavior would break anything. I can't imagine too much software relies on it.
I can see strawmen, reactiveness, ad hominem attacks in your post. Please take time to read and empathize with the people you respond to. This is not a place to win arguments with aggressive tone.
Stand up for yourself. If you're fine with the pat down but not the body scanner and you're refused, turn around and go home.
Actually, this has been implemented already on the previous 3 stations on the red line (2008), and on the tram extension to Barrandov (2004). The band was originally supposed to have been red (as in "danger, train approaching, do not cross"), but was changed early in the process: red is already in use for train signalling and the designers have seen this as potentially confusing to train drivers (the lights tend to reflect into the tunnels somewhat, and "red light" in the underground signalling code means "EMERGENCY, STOP THE TRAIN BY ANY MEANS POSSIBLE") - so they have chosen a color which is unused (green and orange/yellow are also assigned meanings for signalling - "clear to proceed" and "next block occupied"). Source: local transport grapevine.

(On second thought, most Prague underground stations are lit with light that's closer to the "daylight" range than to "incadescent", but that might be an artifact of the lighting systems rather than a deliberate choice)

TL;DR: Just a UX coincidence.
I’ll tell you how “I” did it.

I was raised as a Christian, but when I was 18 I gave it up. It was a matter of conscience. I didn’t believe. As you said, I thought it was irrational.

But as it turned out, my rationality and extraordinary intelligence just gave me the ability to screw up my life that much more. I was miserable and empty, not because of my circumstances, but because of me. I sucked.

That changed when I turned my life over to Christ at age 29. I still sucked, but it wasn’t about me. I still suck even today at age 53. But it is absolutely OK, because I’m not trusting in myself. I’m trusting in Christ.

God’s grace did it. I didn’t do it. It was “easy” because I didn’t have anywhere else to go.

I hope you can get back to that place, littletimmy. I’m rooting for you. Let me know if you want to talk more.
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Glad to see this story getting some coverage, hope to see more. As someone who has always opted out (when not pre-check), last week's news made me anxious of how many debates I'd have to get into all over again in regards to the constitutionality of the AIT machines when flying.

Can anyone give a good reason why they don't send you through the metal detector before the pat down? If security were the objective, that seems far better to combine the two.

Sadly as we all know at this point, their mission seems to be security theater, not actual security.
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Interesting .. my laptop's screen has a slight blue tint ;)
I believe it's possible, but I don't believe the show Oak Island is a credible source for evidence of it.
Most people hear radiation and automatically think "Chernobyl 2.0" without looking into the details. I love using the banana equivalent dose as a way to help people understand that not all radiation is created equal.
FWIW, I block pretty much everything ghostery can block and can interact with the Forbes site just fine.
I've never seen anyone I wasn't traveling with opt out. I'm not concerned about a radiation dose or whatever, I'm more concerned with "fuck the TSA". Anything that makes their jobs shittier makes me happier. It's pure spite.
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do some research into ketogenic diets. "if it tastes good don't eat it" mainly refers to processed sugar and carbs, not real food. for example, roasted chicken and cauliflower tastes delicious and i would certainly choose it over a donut any time of day. is chicken and cauliflower somehow off limits for diabetics? i'm no doctor, but probably not.
What social experimenting are you referring to?
Why is this here? I ignore a million of these emails a day? If your looking for a critique you might want to add something to the effect of "whats in it for the developer?" Are you paying 50% over market? You offer training to someone without that experience to get them started? Think outside the box... come up with something that's going to attract "smart people" ...or there's "need a job have a job" posted every month.
Reminds me of https://wakatime.com/
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Yes, very annoying. I wrote on the spot this very crude one liner to bypass it. Not an example of software engineering, sorry. I'm sure people here can rewrite it in their language of choice.

URL=http://www.forbes.com/sites/lisabrownlee/2015/12/24/tsa-body-scan-just-say-no-leading-expert-says/
ruby -e 'require "json";require "net/http";
puts JSON.parse(Net::HTTP.get(URI(ENV["URL"])).lines.map {
|line| line.match(/fbs_settings.content = ({.+})/) }.compact.first[1])["body"]'
> tmp.html; firefox tmp.html; rm tmp.html

Edit: broken into multiple lines for readability.
I mean I don't disagree with the idea behind what you said, but we do have search. You don't have to read the man pages like a book to get use out of them.

I'm willing to bet this is quicker than finding the question on stackoverflow:

http://paste.click/HrdrGW

And there's even an example.
Scott (the author) is using "thinkpiece writers" a bit equivocably, I think, with the latter usage being his hobby horse of attacking left wing social justice activists.

His counterpoint to you, which I would say has some traction, would likely be that those thinkpiece writers are deploying constructs like "privilege" as a way to discredit the very real struggle of people in groups that don't fall under the accepted rubric of privileged and oppressed, for the very reason that their issues' existence is either ignored or defined out of the category of "systemic oppression."

Most everyone is "in favor of being empathic to everyone's humanity and not discrediting anyone's struggle," but as humans everyone seems to have a hard time putting that principle into practice.
Also, the government occasionally allows a radio amateur to operate. Just this month, North Korea was active on HF (last time was 2002). They'll be active again in Feb 2016:

http://www.arrl.org/news/p5-3z9dx-concludes-demonstration-op...

http://www.eham.net/articles/35853