skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay I'm home now. Let's dissect the most famous example.

1) Adams compares women to children and people with mental disabilities.

2) Claims he didn't and that everyone who thinks that has bad reading comprehension. Also plays the victim card anytime someone accuses him of misogyny.

3) Writes article about hypnosis. Adams says he can convince people that two things are related without doing it directly. Gives example similar to the time he did with women and children.

4) Praises Trump for being a master wizard, whatever that means. Gives example where Trump associates two things without stating it directly.

5) Claims everyone is an outragist for thinking that Trump associated Mexicans with rapists.

And a quote: "They [Gawker] love me. And I love their hate-traffic, so everyone wins."

https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/669004328326172673
I'm confounded as to how these uber drivers who either live in the city, or drive through it every day, don't know the city. How does that even happen?
Does AP7 beat Stockholm index? Which is free on most Swedish brokerages. Actually on NordNet all Scandinavian index-funds are free.

You're asking me to believe that a government run by Kaplan, Romsson, 100-dagar-Fridolin and that SSU-Douche who stole money will be the "competent" part in your equation?

There is no black and white. Sometimes smart people in government do better. Sometimes entrepreneurs do better.

You're biased from growing up with intelligent people running Sweden and believe that to still be the case.

Sanandaji would like a word with you....

Both Avanza and NordNet allows you to get free Index-funds. When I say free I mean with no courtage or cut from profits. No costs.
I'm from India and the conditions of many farmers is pathetic here, poverty isn't a word enough to describe their condition. They are illiterate, exploited by higher-ups in the society and struggle to get even basic necessities in life. Conditions are so gloomy that on average, one farmer commits suicide every thirty minutes in this country!

And these are the people whom Zuckerberg is targeting for the FreeBasics free internet program. Maybe, he thinks that socializing on FB or performing a quick google search on farming methods is going to help them, but that is far from reality and just fascinating thinking. All I know is that the millions that Mr. ZUckerberg spent on displaying FreeBasics ads in the Indian newspapers and TV channels would have been much better spent by actually donating that money to the farmers he intends to help.
I'm working on product that federates software deployments to any target cloud using immutable data structures provided by the blockchain. It's called Wisdom.
http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/time-warner-warns-custo...

"In a statement provided to NBC News, the cable giant said "there are no indications that TWC's systems were breached," and suggested the mails may have been acquired earlier by other means, such as malware, phishing attacks on subscribers or security breaches at companies that stored TWC customer information."

So seems like it was just phishing and malware to the unlucky ones.
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Why did you not use something like supervisord? I run a few containers (obviously not at yelp scale) and supervisors has been spectacular at restarting, managing,reloading,etc. It handles nginx,gunicorn,puma,tomcat, etc pretty well.
Yes its python - but was that the motivation?

Also,you guys should comment on https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/5773 which is work on unprivileged systemd in docker. I think you guys can influence the bug with your experience in this.
Kodak is bringing back the legendary Super 8 camera, and Hollywood is stoked
You're not being downvoted, the comment is, because it doesn't contribute to the discussion.
Yeah what kind of idiot would make a movie about Robin Hood, the Wizard of Oz, or Alice in Wonderland?
Never, not once in 15 years, have I had a cab claim their meters are down. I've suspected a padded fare a couple of times but the difference was so small, that as a native I didn't notice. Credit card readers being down used to be a common refrain, but seems to have gone away in the face of Square.

What I have had, not commonly but often enough that it no longer surprises me, is extremely racists statements about where I live (I'm a white south sider which seems to attract crazy talk). This has occurred in taxis, Uber & Lyft. I've even had Uber and taxi drivers (Lyft isn't immune, just small sample size) try to refuse to drive me home after picking me up. I've reported these incidents to either 311 or the respective apps. With the apps I have no idea of the effectiveness. With 311 I had a case number assigned and received an update months later when a driver lost their license over a racist incident.

If I really had any complaint about Uber & Lyft is that it seems to have driven the profit out of livery cars and really created a race to the bottom in that market. I used to much prefer private cars for most things, but now the difference isn't worth paying for except for prescheduled events.

All that said, I use taxis, Uber, Lyft & livery cars with some regularity, and my usage of them largely is based on convenience not quality of service. Taxis when I'm in the loop or some other busy spot, Uber/Lyft when I need an adhoc ride elsewhere, and private cars for scheduled rides.
srsly Tolkien was a chump
What if - and believe me this is a hypothetical - but what if you were offered some kind of a stock option equity sharing program. Would that do anything for you?
I stand corrected. I went off by several orders of magnitude! :)
I'd be curious to see some of their numbers. Sounds like they just were profitable.

We offer "telemedicine" via Skype and facetime in my shop, and most of what the patients want is a plain old phone call. People will actually refuse the option to facetime and just request to have the physician call them.
B.C. town offline since November living like it’s 1990
I've had Google maps tell me to go the wrong way down a one way street. Two different times! You gotta be paying attention to where the GPS is telling you to go. Knowing the roads in invaluable for a driver. That being said I've had many cabbies who had no idea where they were going.
You simply could not be more wrong.

In the end, having children is the only thing in life that really makes any sense.
Don't worry. The government already has all your information.
They don't pay for it. That's why they're "criminals". As opposed to the ones that buy it.

Either way, your privacy is dead, unless you can find a way to not have your home address on your account. I use a UPS box for everything... Except home utilities and Internet / cable.
We as a community should be embarrassed that a significant portion of our community believes Codes of Conduct are necessary.
Intellectual Impostures (1997) – Misuse of scientific concepts in postmodernism
Apple’s App Charts: 2015 Data and Trends
Few points here:

1. It's not really internet. It's a set of 100 sites that includes a real estate portal and a personal blog. If you are talking about connecting the unconnected with essential services, why have these on your list? On the other hand, chennairains.org, a website that helped people during extreme floods in chennai was not on that list.

2. There is no proof that "free basics" actually improves internet connectivity. In fact, Facebook's telecom partner (Reliance Comm) advertises it as a way to save money for surfing on facebook and whatsapp.

3. None of the traffic must be encrypted

4. All traffic flows through facebook's servers

5. It's not an open platform. Facebook and Telcos reserve the right to accept or deny websites on "Free Basics"

The above points make it clear that "free internet" is a facade and it's more of a walled garden that makes facebook the gatekeeper. Another Telco launched something similar a few months ago and was scrapped because it violated net neutrality.

Arguments that "free basics" is required for internet to grow in India are ridiculous. India added _52 Million_ internet users in the first six months of 2015 (http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-09-03/news...)
Why? What do you expect a 20 year old male to die from? I would guess it's mostly violent accidents of one sort or another, since something has to go pretty wrong for someone to die in their prime.
"GPS still doesn't beat a good driver 9 out of 10 times for city driving."

Most of your data points are from a single route (your daily commute) and this may not be representative for all trips, even within your city.

I live in a city with significant variation in traffic patterns from day to day, and GPS with traffic info performs much better than someone who knows the roads.
Throw away for obvs reasons. Lately I've started hating using facebook. I get spam on my feeds. I get spam on my notifications. I don't really talk to friends there. I only contact friends on rare occasions when an opportunity comes by.

I do use messenger to talk to people close to me. Most of the time I use other platforms to talk to teams, groups of friends, etc.

If I start getting spam on my inbox I'm joining a new platform and deleting my facebook account. Most of the content I get there is garbage. The only reason I haven't left yet is because of the Messenger app.
Scaling Yelp Engineering in Silicon Valley
> It is true that customer data is trusted with a lot of services-of-services nowadays, but do you want to go back to the stone age where the only people who can store anything must run their own hardware with their own databases and so on?

This statement is in conflict with itself logically. It's arguing that diminished trust levels for data are rationalized to achieve a savings in time and cost to run the infrastructure for the application. The conflict comes about when you start assuming the data has acceptable levels of trust requirements for a given customer. The fact is, you can't speak for my trust levels, which is exactly what is being discussed in the link.

I get to say what trust levels I want for my software and data. Not being able to use the software because I can't trust it is an unacceptable proposition, so I challenge our abilities to build something better than what we have today, and do so without rationalizing why we aren't building it.
>donating that money to the farmers he intends to help.

Donating money directly almost never helps in the long run. I think Zuckerberg is doing what he thinks is good, and I don't think free internet to farmers will do any bad. It might help only a few and by a little amount, but that is still better than nothing. Who are we to decide how somebody else organizes their charity?
There's lots wrong with PHP. http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
Hey look, it's someone who hasn't written any PHP since 2008!

Things have moved on. It's just another language.
Why would you ever do that? You'd end up a bunch of unreadable rust code wrapped in a gigantic unsafe {} block.
Sounds like you guys and your apps are a mess. Is this really where we wanted our mobile experience to go?

You know what rarely crashes for me? m.facebook.com on a web browser.

Facebook will never get installed on any device I own. Ever.
This is exactly why Netflix gave up on movies and now emphasizes its TV reruns and originals. The streaming movie catalog has always been sparse.
>I don't have a stance on the issue per se, but I do think there are strong arguments against unrestricted gambling.

There are strong arguments against unrestricted anything. I think it's a shame so many people see little value in the ability of people to do what they want and accept the consequences.
I loved how the whole point of the essay is not to waste your time reading the comments and not to get bogged down in minutia, yet here we all are, reading the comments!
I recently had some murky thoughts on my ideal Matlab replacement, and it would have a feature like this. It would be huge for array-oriented programming:

func train_model(X: [n d], y: [n 1])

So many lines of code are spent verifying that the sizes of two function arguments are compatible.
As a Python programmer who doesn't understand this notation - what am I looking at, and what's amazing about it?
Yeah this made me really disappointed as well. We've probably already lost so many works because the original distributors have long gone out of business and we're not legally allowed to preserve them. Not to mention that most of the original authors are dead so it's not like this is for their benefit. Such onerous terms are only there for the benefit of bloated megacorps. Aaron's case is also relevant to how our government views the matter: the prosecutor wanted to use him as an example even though JSTOR only cared about getting the articles back and it also made up a ridiculous sum for their monetary losses. These copyright terms are not built for the good of society.
Interesting to see the difference between males and females, especially when young. Looks like we should all be trying to maintain and strong circulatory system for our later years.
In my experience in SF, all Uber drivers who use the nav built into the Uber app fail at this. They never know which roads tend to be choked with traffic during different parts of the day, and it's rare to end up with a driver who actually knows the city well.

Drivers who use Waze (still a minority, it seems) tend to do much better.
I kinda feel like a cranky old man saying this, but I miss the days when this would be a thread on a forum and not a 'news' article
What you're describing already exists: television.
Even though it seems a big number, 52 million is nothing compared to the people who still do not have access. I think the growth rate is not fast enough. We should be doubling the installed base every year. 52 million is just about 1/6 of the total number of users. And I'm inclined to believe that this sluggishness is due in part to the cost of access.
> This would be problematic for any programming language, though.

C?
> If those opposing the FreeBasics are trying to decide on behalf of poor, isn't FreeBasics itself not doing the same thing?

No, not really. It's giving them an option, and they can decide for themselves.
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Just wondering what the sticking point was? I would buy at least 10 of them if there were any in stock the > 30 times I've checked recently.
That is not a virtue. Java (And ruby, and python, and ASP.Net) get faster when they warm up.
I was around for the fateful Metafilter thread where Scott Adams sockpupetted vigorously until he was found out:
http://mefiwiki.com/wiki/Scott_Adams,_plannedchaos

It's a pretty........... interesting read.
http://www.metafilter.com/102472/How-to-Get-a-Real-Education...
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Mechanics turn auto shop into big party zone
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Remix OS (Android for PCs)
From what I can tell, the vast majority of SF Uber drivers don't live in SF, and to make matters worse, most seem to have only been driving for Uber for a matter of months. Routes and traffic patterns are actually more complicated than you might expect, and it can take quite a while to figure it all out.
haha you're right! very nice. C# is tolerable.
Maybe having an optional, editorialized subtitle for submissions could help?
You need about 100 lines of assembly to get to a Rust kmain in long mode.

Rust has effectively no runtime these days. Same amount as C or C++, basically.
Yes I want unlimited free content for $7.99/mo. What's so hard to understand?
If nothing else, I inspired one. Well said! I appreciate that response.
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It's not a false dichotomy. No one is offering to improve the basic infrastructure, nor lobby for it. The actual choices are the ones he outlined above.

Do you ascribe to the Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics? http://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-ethi...
Show HN: Flexdrive – a cloud drive for your Mac
> Deploying proxies has costs - it obscures the endpoints of communication from sensor software and makes anomaly detection more difficult.

It also establishes a single machine that sees all the plaintext of everything that should have been TLS encrypted from every machine on your network. It's like attacker catnip.
People would actually benefit from the free (limited) internet. In fact most people are also ok if Facebook gets something back in return. It would have definitely helped if it was clearly stated as a commercial program and not an altruistic venture.
Just because something has made tremendous improvements doesn't mean it's not laughably bad. There is no reason to write new applications with PHP in this day and age with the exception of protecting fragile egos of those who aren't willing to learn something better.
even Belson couldn't come up with such excuse - like it was just a Nucleus' feature allowing to test viewers' loyalty to the show .
I bet pro athletes, sports leagues, and college conferences take home more of the money than actors.
Evil is "good people" thinking "the ends justify the means".

"It's unfortunate we have to persecute these even the women and children, but it's required to make a more fair and just world."

"It's unfortunate we have to go to war in Iraq, but it's required to defend peace in the region, from the threat of mass weapons of destruction."

Of course, "the ends" are never achieved, because the "means" they use will cause even more problems to be solved.

Persecuting Jews to achieve justice and fairness for the German people => Destruction of Germany.

War in Iraq to remove dictatorship and mass weapons of destruction => Rogue terrorist group governing by coercion and hundreds and thousands of civilian deaths.

I ask you. What other examples of evil can you see in our world, today? What other evil things are people are doing in the name of good?

Most important to remember: Evil is stopped by being persistently good ourselves, even when pressured and coerced to do otherwise, and that's all that we have to do.
Most people in the US have no idea where there information is these days. Any start ups developing software that can monitor server connections and use ML to detect unauthorized or unusual connections?
Motivated Numeracy and Enlightened Self-Government (2013)
My own experience is just the opposite--I've never had a problem with Uber but have had plenty of problems with taxis. Just yesterday coming home from the airport the taxi driver got off the highway in the wrong neighborhood, ignored my verbal directions three separate times, and when he finally got to my house refused to get out and help me with my luggage.
There it is. I was just waiting for that one fractal of bad design post from 2012 that everyone references in this argument, every time.

Cause, ya know, 4 years later there's probably nothing that is changed or improved. Better to just write it off completely than to do your own research and use relevant facts to shape an argument.
Realize that the y-axis represents a percentage, and as such it follows that if you die at such a young age it is much more likely it is from an external cause (gun violence, suicide, car accident, etc) than a health condition such as cancer.
Why is PHP laughably bad?
Windows 10 for PCs offers the store but does not require you to publish through it.

For now, anyway.
You're gonna have to read the article to find out.
I honestly think Facebook would have done well by providing access to the full internet but making Facebook the start page / captive portal.
They should call the app "Get Distracted". Its an interesting idea, and potentially very useful, but most likely its going to become the annoying reason your phone keeps going off every 5 minutes. Will give it a try to see.
Right now they are limited by supply not demand. If they sold them at $1 there would be the same number in the hands of consumers at the end of the year. So I don't see how the high price could be resulting in not enough developer interest. If the VR experience can be something everyone want to try if they get a chance Oculus isn;t going to have any problems.
> the only way to monetize on youtube right now is via ads

That's not true, you can also set up a channel where users have to pay to purchase or rent your videos (or pay a subscription to see all of your videos). More information is here: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3249127?hl=en
You know, berating a programming language, just because it's older and not considered kind of "cool" or in vogue, is a clear display of intellectual juvenility. Also, you might want to know about a word called "slacking" which is a very real phenomenon, especially at workplaces.
I think the idea is to first revert to a state where people behind this MITM boxes can receive updates to firefox, and then decide how to handle things from there.
Agree with most but to be fair, although currently the program is limited to few 100 sites, the way the program works is if you own a website, you can register it with Freebasics and they will provide free access. And to this the sites cannot be encrypted. For information like e.g. what helps Farmers, encryption need not be a blocker.
You can do this in Julia now, with many of the affordances you'd expect from Matlab.

function train_model(X::Array{Float64,d}, y::Array{Float64,1})
I think you might be overestimating the mpbs needed. Netflix site says minimum 0.5 mbs.
What features is it missing that make it such a challenge for you to write anything with it?

I have yet to see a substantial answer to that question, even with all the PHP bashing, of issues with PHP that actually matter in the real world.
Damn, this is some extra crazy. https://www.reddit.com/user/plannedchaos

Good thing PG only updates his footnotes when people "misunderstand" him.
> 4 years later
> literally just became 2016
this busted cycle is a bit different from others, the government is the _sole_ one pushed the stock up before it crashed(using its controlled media to pump up the stock with lots of promising articles over a few months), the stock index had been staying at around 2200 for quite a few years, then shot to ~4600 last year and now it's swinging back.

to justify this crash, quite a lot fund managers are now in prison, who became the scapegoat for the government--the real one initiated all this mess.
"buy twenty pizzas, then hurl them into the ocean at this exact point"

Yes, you made my day.
Once you reach a certain scale of users, percentage growth don't matter because it's hard to hit big absolute numbers. In whichever way you look at it, 52Mn is a freakishly huge number. And this timeline is 6 months, not a year.

Further "Free basics" has been launched in other countries. But there is not proof that it results in more internet connectivity. (http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/ther...)
Blaise Pascal, in 1657: "I have made this [letter] longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter."

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/
Good point, but on average our users get about 1-2 per day as you choose exactly what you want to receive.
So you abandon open protocols, and then try to be yet another whatsapp / snapchat / hangouts / skype / whatever the hell.

Didn't we do this in the 90s? We had AIM, Yahoo, and MSM. We learned that is stupid as hell, and we should just use the same protocol. So then they all supported XMPP.

And a decade later, the cycle repeats. Everyone walls up, tries to treat chat as this money pot, and I hope we can get back to open standards sooner rather than later. I'm sick and tired of not being able to talk to people easily and just resorting to email since thats the only common open protocol left people actually use.