skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People calling you in the US pretending to be from the "IRS" and yet nothing is/ can be done about it?

Not quite sure I understand your premise on that one. You can't stop people from pretending to be from the IRS any more than you can stop criminal activity by outlawing it.

Essentially anyone can call anyone else and pretend to be from a government agency. Ultimately you're going to have to verify that or otherwise know better, there is no practical technical means to stop it. There's a certain level of personal responsibility that comes into play there. That goes with similar things like falling for investment scams over the phone as well. Such should be pursued by the authorities obviously - and you're still responsible for your own person regardless, you can't be saved from everything: the IRS doesn't call people like that, it would take 30 seconds to figure that out via google. The same type of problem would arise if an impostor showed up at your door pretending to be from the IRS. How do you stop it completely? You don't, you arrest after the fact if you can; if it gets widespread enough to be a big problem, you attempt education outreach to teach people not to fall for it. These types of scams are ancient, and will never stop existing (the scammers will always adapt); the only highly effective means of stopping it is awareness.
It's funny how the HN user base is sensitive to propaganda of some kinds (for example, relating to encryption) but are hostile to the idea that the inequality issue might be an example of the same.
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It now costs $1.15M to buy a Manhattan home
Axciom, Epsilon and similar companies track your credit card purchases and correlate them with a profile of who they think you are. If you work for a large corporation that is probably easier to identify than a small one.

http://www.acxiom.com/ http://www.epsilon.com/
"Perhaps someone with millions of dollars could give more of their money to organizations fighting poverty rather than investing in a premium coffee subscription service."

I do look up to Paul Graham and don't like to see him attacked unrightfully. However reading the several responses made me ask as well: why does someone like PG just accept economic inequality, and blog about it, instead of using some of his visiblity to reduce it, however little this might be.

I don't like economic inequality which is why I do a small bit of my own - loans on Kiva and volunteering every now and then. I'm just a software engineer and this is what I decided to do based on my belief and my available resources. Bill Gates has more of the means and he is also using some of his resources to reduce poverty, and thus economic inequality. There are many other people who care about it, and do something, and even more who just don't care and don't do anything about it.

We know PG also cares about economic inequality, as this is his second blog post. It only is fair to ask: what is he doing to help reduce it? If he shared some of this, it would make his post much more credible.
Not really (at least the way I interpreted it). PG seems to be saying that attacking the "final state" may not be the most productive approach here. Rather the discussion and consequent solutions should be focussed on the obviously bad factors that lead to this state (and his argument is that not all factors that lead to this outcome are bad - again you can disagree with that but the analogy in the article isn't appropriate because it focusses the discussion again on the outcome (the cancer)
I've attempted to use a couple that have done so.
Sincerely, thank you for reporting this and helping bring it to the spotlight. It's too easy for things like this to fall under the radar of any major acknowledgement, letting corporations get away with major scandals without any accountability.
>> No doubt even this version leaves some room. And in the unlikely event I left no holes, some will say I’m backpedalling or doing “damage control.” But anyone who wants to can test that claim by comparing this to the original.

> “It is literally unthinkable that my ideas are bad.”

This "translation" is ridiculous. Clearly, PG is claiming that his simplified version is fully consistent with his long version, and in this quoted part not making claims of value.

I could similarly "translate" eevee's translation to "This has nothing to do with logic and everything to do with how evil you are!"
Do you have any sources for this based on actual data?
Something akin to git is far better than the existing banking system, although the proponents of "private blockchains" don't seem to be very clear on their threat models.
Also, for reasons I don't understand, if you are a parent you just have DVDs. I don't know why. I don't buy DVDs for my kids ... but we just have them. And more keep coming.
You could use OpenWeatherMap's API. Something like this is pure (remove the `&units=imperial` if you prefer Celsius):

curl -s "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?zip=$(curl -s ipinfo.io/postal),us&appid=2de143494c0b295cca9337e1e96b00e0&units=imperial" \
| sed -e 's/\(.*\)temp":\([0-9.]*\),\(.*\)/\2/'

or you could replace the `sed` pipe with a call to `jq`:

curl really_long_url | jq '.main.temp'
He's saying that inequality is the wrong thing to optimize against. Rather than attacking inequality writ large, it's best to attack the negative causes of it.

The author ignores this, and says that economic inequality is bad, full stop. PG does a much better job than the author of making his point.

Consider the case of global warming. It's caused by CO2. But lots of things produce CO2. Some, like people and farm animals, are good. Others, like coal, are less so. Attacking CO2 production as a whole, rather than the CO2 production we can do without, is likely to lead us to make poor decisions about what sorts of CO2 we limit.

Creation of wealth is good. Concentration of wealth can result from the creation thereof. That's not a bad thing. Fighting economic inequality by limiting the creation of wealth would be asinine. That's what PG was saying, which the author went out of his way to not acknowledge.
"This seems akin to suggesting that skin cancer is not bad per se, because it’s caused by the sun, and the sun is good. Where would we be without the sun? Attacking the sun is a bad idea. So stop trying to fight sun-related skin cancer. Also, I own a large share of the sun."

The author's right. Communism is bad. It results in mass poverty among many other atrocities.

In the real world, everyone isn't an altruistic completely selfless person. Therefore, communism has never worked and never will. The entire premise of it is founded on an assumption that, if true, would render the entire need for forceful conscription mute.
so two obs variables that are indistinguishable by the additive noise model must either be the same or have a hidden cause.
I didn't read much of the article, because to me at least it's fairly obvious why advertisers who have a large financial motivation for tracking, and no disincentive for tracking users who don't wish to be tracked; will track.

As far as I understand the implementation is a lot like RFC 3514[0], which was published as an April 1st joke.

[0]: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt
i remember reading the controversy surrounding corporations' offering an egg freezing plan and thinking to myself, 'i was unaware that was even a thing'

then some time later i was having a reviewing of idiocracy and i realised i had heard of egg freezing plans before

because i know i had seen the film before and the film was referencing the option
This post opens by stuffing words in Paul Graham's mouth:

"I wrote a LiveJournal post so preposterous that even Hacker News didn’t swallow it. I’m painting this as ‘controversial’, which only makes sense if you accept that I am roughly as important as the entire rest of the Internet. Rather than step back and wonder if I might be wrong, I wrote this patronizing Playskool edition, to give the unwashed masses a second chance at appreciating my brilliance. Please admire my generosity."

Oh come on. This is just a better-spelled version of "ur a fag!!!!!!". Reminds me of Scott Alexander's post about micronations:

"I think everyone should have the media perform a hatchet job on them at least once. It’s this really scary feeling when you know you’re trying to be honest and do the right thing, and yet you see how easy it is for a hostile writer to cast every single thing you do as corrupt and destructive. And how quick everyone is to believe them. And how attempts to set the record straight get met with outraged “how dare you give one of those typical sputtering non-apologies!”. It reminds me of those computer games where “ACCUSE” is just a button you press, and it doesn’t even matter what the accusation is or whether it makes sense." - http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/15/things-i-learned-by-spe...
These companies need to burn to the fucking ground.
I agree. In conversation, people choose their "devil terms." For some, income inequality is one. My devil term (the bad-in-itself beyond argument) is "a situation where poor people can never rise." This might be the result of income inequality, but it isn't the definition of it. Whether it is the result is determined by studies done by experts.

I'm sorry for going on a tangent. Skin cancer is a devil term like income inequality. I can't follow the argument because I don't agree with the choice of terms.
2a) I would even argue that the supply of workers on the market is increased.
1) Your's is a listing site you can start with premium listing features giving more visibility to the paid post.

2) Could charge a small fee to the user to get their listing verified from your side. Namely the car condition and other details that they mention on the site.
The problem seems to revolve around: what is good and what is evil? The age-old answer is that it is forbidden to do a number of things but that besides that, you are free to do as you please. Unfortunately, these waters are muddied by the existence of man-made law ("high incarceration rates and tax loopholes"). With unfair inequality the result of the ultrarich buying man-made law, the problem can only get solved by getting rid of man-made law, while people like Evee usually propose to solve the problem by creating some more man-made law.
Singapore is ~1/4 of the size of Rhode Island and ~200 square miles larger than lichtenstein, the smallest country in Europe. It's like 50k USD to own the ability to own a car which expires in 10 years at which point you will have to scrap it or rebuy this cert. A passat is somewhere north of 150k.

Also, I would add that subways are probably a better way forward than busses for a modern city, or at least some sort of connected underground transport system.

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

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-06-04/singapore-...

https://www.google.com/search?q=singapore+size

https://www.google.com/search?q=rhode+island+size

https://www.google.com/search?q=size+of+the+vatican
and in the end the film remains hopeful of the future
I don't think so...Paul's point is that economic inequality is not in itself a bad thing: for example, consider the economic difference between David Beckham and Mark Zuckerberg. Beckham is worth $350 million, while Zuckerberg is woth $36 billion. But no one would suggest that this inequality is an injustice, even though Zuckerberg is worth 100-times Beckham.

The fundamental issue isn't economic inequality, it's poverty.

Edit: removed 'the' typo.
Christ, who cares?
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I have actually never read a review placing the Oculus above the HTC, I haven't read reviews in a while though. Around 6 months ago the consensus was that HTC Vive was way ahead IIRC.
Microsoft Solitaire was developed by a summer intern
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If what creators are making is so great and they have an audience that loves their work then they wouldn't be "scraping by". You can have all the free users in the world but if people aren't willing to pay you for your work then I'm sorry but the conclusion isn't that you're valuable. Some guy earning $20k/year on patreon and someone founding a multimillion dollar startup are not even in the same ballpark of creating value. In a market economy you get rich by giving people what they want.

This whole rant is poorly written and riddled with obvious holes. Twitter is full of ads BECAUSE users don't value the service all that much, not the other way around. If people were willing to cough up as much cash as they spend time on Twitter and demanded an ad free one then that's what they'd get. People value a free ad supported Twitter over a premium one though. Just like with most other web apps they use. So that's what the market gives them.

Did the author stop to think that people might actually want smart luggage, valet dry cleaning, or weed delivery? On face value those all sound like the kinds of things people want to me. Drinking water to Africa? I know far more people that smoke weed regularly than I do people that care about how Africa is doing. Perhaps the author is just misinformed as to how self interested people are and is confusing business accommodating that as forcing it? Shooting the messenger so to speak. The day people start caring about Africa more than they do about getting high, YC will be full of a ton of startups to that effect.

YC invested in 5 different career websites and the author claims this as evidence that PG thinks we need 5 competing career websites. I can't read that as anything other than disingenuous. Even the most casual reader of PG would understand that he expects most startups to fail.
Seems like an extension of work by Judea Pearl (the graphical models in the blog's first figure is a dead giveaway), which requires knowing certain assumptions about the data. Not sure I'd call it "revolutionary" as there is a ton of work in this direction (much of it cited in the pre-print).

Specifically, note from the pre-print this limitation, so it's not really the causality that most people have in mind when they think they have proven cause and effect (intervention is still the only way to really determine cause and effect without redefining causality or making tricky assumptions about the underlying causal model):

In this work, we will simplify matters considerably by considering only (a) and (b) in Figure 2 as possibilities. In other words, we assume that X and Y are dependent (i.e., PX,Y 6= PXPY ), there is no confounding (common cause of X and Y ), no selection bias (common effect of X and Y that is implicitly conditioned on), and no feedback between X and Y (a two-way causal relationship between X and Y ). Inferring the causal direction between X and Y , i.e., deciding which of the two cases (a) and (b) holds, using only the observational distribution PX,Y is the challenging task that we consider in this work.
Don't really know, but it was pretty recent: the RSA booth at blackhat US 2015
Right. The laptop is too thin to fit one.
I think the order was DEC fueled Microsoft, Msft fueled Google and Amazon in Seattle at least, Google fueled Facebook.
From the title one can draw the obvious question: What are the differences between normal video game players and “compulsive” ones? Or is that difference glossed over in the study?
The 48-hour target has a stupid side effect: in order to meet it, lots of GP surgeries won't let you book more than 48 hours in advance. You have to ring up within minutes of opening time in the morning to book a slot.

Similar things happen with the 4 hour target in A&E: if you're in hospital but conscious and not bleeding, expect to wait at least 3 hours. Having said that, I've twice been in for "this is either nothing or an early warning of something very deadly", been checked over, and of course not had to pay anything. That risk assessment looks very different if it might cost thousands of dollars.

The NHS is completely fantastic at bread-and-butter medical care: diabetes, asthma, minor injuries, obstetrics (it is insane that anyone ever has to pay for this), handing out antibiotics and contraceptives, and so on. The complaints people have tend to be about long waits for non-urgent surgery (anything up to 18 months), and the refusal to pay for marginally effective very expensive cancer drugs.

The only charge is $10 to get your prescription filled, and even that is waivable in poverty. On that subject I have noticed that US pharmacies stock a lot more OTC stuff, presumably due to the difficulty and expense of getting prescriptions. They'll even let you buy dangerous things like 500 paracetamol at a time.
Amazing!!!!! Thanks for this :)
+1.

I'm beginning to wonder if the ACTUAL policy Apple is trying enforce w.r.t. HTTPS is if you were to roll your own suite of encryption tools (i.e. as opposed to using the OS's TLS/SSL implementations).

That would be far more reasonable. Especially considering, with iOS 9, HTTPS is now the default configuration for all traffic.
Teacher's wages are only not "livable" in SF, because the housing market is dicked.
What would be the proposed alternative to economic inequality? Some type of communism, only somehow tweaked so it wouldn't be the total disaster it was before?
Has Dell made any sort of announcement about this? Getting hacked is one thing. Failure to promptly notify the public is another.
The grammar capos of python are back.

Can we get rid of the stupid indent vs tab stuff and have errors visible on screen without black magic?

Oh and maybe why not braces to really control variable lifetime?

from __future__ import braces
SyntaxError: not a chance

Ah ah what a joke.

Just remember that use strict exists in Perl and in python you have

dyslexia=0
if True:
dylesxcia=1

will raise no error.

The strawman fallacie of python purity of style
Code written in language that allows imperative constructs != imperative code

I would say that React is far more friendly to a declarative style than Angular 1 at least. Immutable data, redux, and virtual dom all encourage this style, whereas the path of least resistance in Angular 1 is definitely imperative mutation of state. Anyway, if you're doing significant amounts of logic in your JSX/angular templates, you're Doing It Wrong.
The film Star Wars stole from
> Sorry, currently our video library can only be watched from within the United States

I always wonder why a company would do that. "Oh, you are not in America? Well fuck you, we don't want your money."
I have Xprivacy and Cyanogenmod's privacy guard, and also use the Amazon Underground store and apps. I can tell you that with location, contacts, and most other permissions blocked the apps work just fine. So whatever the author did to get this result, it isn't from blocking permissions.

It also seems strange that someone who cares so much about his privacy doesn't have xposed with Xprivacy, because then he could have spoofed the data instead of having to block it all together.
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As someone who is trying to move to Mac and earlier failed to move to Linux. I must say that Windows has some good applications and I still reply on windows for that apps. I hope they just the stop all their nonsense interface and go back to windows 2000.
Check out the spikiness of the graphs---they show much higher rates on Saturday and Sunday. And substantially higher-than-most-weekdays rates on, say, Christmas. That's gotta be driven by a big disparity in residential vs commercial IPv6 adoption.
What is the difference between modafinil vs adderall?
> vanilla js running up to 40x faster than React

That particular link is a strawman argument. React isn't magically fast. Writing a 5 line shouldComponentUpdate would normalize the performance.

If you think you can do better with something else, feel free to ignore the React hype. For my part, I've been doing frontend full time more or less exclusively since 2005 and have tried dozens of libraries/frameworks in earnest. I don't know of a better way to write client side code.
What other tools do you use alongside it?
All the bad things people are saying/ implying about the new MacBook are completely right! But the truth is, I wouldn't trade mine for anything, because I love the fact that it's incredibly light and does not have a fan. I have many, many, MacBook Airs and mac pros, but the MacBook Air has always seemed to have a problem with the fan going on at random. Now that there's no fan, I'm a very happy developer.
Teachers in San Francisco should demand to be paid more instead of receiving subsidized housing.
I can't understand why we don't just pay teachers more. Is it even controversial?
i've noticed this article just disappeared from the front page (flagged to death i presume).

I totally disagree with the person who wrote the article, but I think it's sad that the "flag" button is now a "i'm offended" or "i disagree" button.

the comments in this discussion provide interesting perspectives that are now hidden to the general readership.

I think this is why 4chan still has a massive user base -- less opinionated moderation.
It's the isolating arm of capitalism drilling its elbow grease directly into your personal life.
React (learning) roadmap
I ran across [1] last week. I saw another (not ractive) a month ago but I've forgotten the name.

[1] https://github.com/Lucifier129/react-lite
Have you tried trazodone for sleeping? That stuff knocks me out. I take adderall for ADHD and used to have insomnia too until my doc prescribed me trazodone. Now I fall asleep in 10 minutes and get the best sleep of my life.

http://www.crazymeds.us/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Meds/Desyrel
If you actually research it at all they're very clear that they track users time spent in each app as that is how they pay developers.
Regular expressions: Rust vs. F# vs. Scala vs. D
US-bound Filipino latest victim in alleged bullet planting scheme at NAIA
Notepad.cc will be shutting down February First, 2016
Had a black (Centurion) card for years. Was underwhelmed. They did very little extra, and even botched the one important assignment I gave them (front row seats to a concert they sponsored). Given that the black card costs $10k/year, Magic starts to look acceptable.
You're attacking a strawman. No one has suggested anything remotely resembling full-one Marxist Communism.
Maybe its really high time for C and its buffer overflows to go... And SQL injection.

Because no one ever wrote an insecure website in Java? And certainly PHP must also be completely safe since it has no buffer overflows to worry about.

Are you sure the language is at fault?
No, it's not that the insurance money is going into a pool to pay for someone else getting that. It's that they are forcing you to buy coverage for something that you can't possibly use (e.g. child dental care for someone with no children).
Exactly Why Hire Expert Packers Along with Movers?
Why isn't this on the front page?
As someone who used to work at a research lab funded by GM, I can tell you they are incompetent. I was so put off by the experience that I will make sure to never buy a car made by GM.
By preventing them from selling their insurance on the state-run exchange if they don't meet the standards.