skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great article. I am forwarding a link to that to a few friends and family who have open minds about such things.

It annoys me when people rail against the incompetence of the ruling elite. They seem all too competent to me, and processes like manufacturing consent, etc. are too obvious to ignore for people paying attention. The middle and lower classes have lost the game.
She dismisses it as irrelevant, but this part (in italics) really stood out as the important insight:

>Coming out of college without much more than freelancing and tutoring under my belt, I felt it was fair that I start out working in the customer support section of Yelp/Eat24 before I’d be qualified to transfer to media. Then, after I had moved and got firmly stuck in this apartment with this debt, I was told I’d have to work in support for an entire year before I would be able to move to a different department. A whole year answering calls and talking to customers just for the hope that someday I’d be able to make memes and twitter jokes about food. If you follow me on twitter, which you don’t, you’d know that these are things I already do.

It seems she would have done better to get mentorship in building up awareness of her tweets so she could have a kind of "portfolio" to show off to media companies.

This is not to put the blame on her, but highlight a more general problem with the labor market, and how bad it is at connecting candidates with positions they're qualified for, and how employers end up putting unnecessary barriers as a filter. If the labor market were more transparent, we would have less problem with discrimination as well, since employers could see more of the good aspects of candidates rather than judge merely by the bad.
Don't use this prettified JSON format. It's awful to parse. Put each message on it's own line. I had trouble parsing someone's irc logs in JSON because it was too big to load into memory. It was much easier to just load one line at a time from the file.
In the Star Control II lore, the Ur-Quan (evil invading alien race) have as a condition of surrender the destruction of all structures older than 500 years, to destroy any history of not being subjugated by the Ur-Quan. It's a really interesting and sad thing.
Alice ML works on Mac OS X as well, although there was a build issue with "Resource temporary unavailable" that I had to work around. Build instructions are in the README: https://github.com/aliceml/aliceml
I'm really struggling to think of a company that wouldn't fire an employee for writing a widely shared blog personally attacking the CEO for not being more forthcoming with solutions to her own personal finance misjudgements, complete with suggestions that any idiot could get more money working for CVS and she didn't really want to be in customer support anyway.

I mean, I'm sure she's fundamentally right that Yelp isn't particularly high on the list of attractive entry level opportunities in SF and buried beneath the invective might be a couple of genuine issues with their operations. But even as someone whose approach to questioning management decision-making was once described as "approaching my career the way a lemming approaches a cliff" I wouldn't have written a letter like this without intending to be fired for it.
Apple Can, Should, and Will Help FBI Unlock Shooter's iPhone
Male Sellers on EBay Have an Edge Over Women, Study Finds
I would love to understand how it would be huge for your line of work just out of curiosity - my mind was BLOWN the first time I tried this.

In terms of getting it to work you can with the Structure Sensor, import the mesh in Unity 3d, drop the OVR plugin for the Oculus Rift and you're there.

Seriously it's incredibly simple, each of those steps you could figure out with a cursory Goog search / tutorial.
The investors are aging. It seems like there's a pretty definite time horizon for the employees: are the investors "getting old"?
Having done this for friends and others in the past, you'll want to be cognizant of how to leave the nonprofit with something they can update. CMSes like Wordpress are okay, but come with pretty high "update pain" if you tell them "I'll just install this on a Digital Ocean droplet for you". While this is less true now that WordPress has auto updates, you've still got the security hassle of needing to update the Linux box (and the occasional "hey the server is dead").

If you can swing it, most nonprofits could get by with a simple App Engine based app and never have enough traffic to go beyond the free tier. There's at least no OS updates.

If the nonprofit just needs a static site though, something like hosting it on Github Pages, S3, or GCS is even better. But, again, then they can't update the content of they're not familiar with how to have done this themselves in the first place.

Disclaimer: I work for Google on Compute Engine (not App Engine).
The question is also whether you are allowed to publish a digital copy of a copyrighted sculpture

Also, how does Bridgeman square with the reality that photographs are certainly copyrighted (Getty, etc)?
We had our sites configured in sites-enabled (ember.conf and django.conf). The LE client copied everything over to new files with encryption enabled, and had the old port 80 Virtualhosts redirect to the port 443 Virtualhosts.
> He also had no respect at all for medical confidentiality and would gossip about patients

Did you report it?
Then stakeholders need to redefine the problem until the solution presents itself. You can't solve a hard problem without understanding it.
Presumably because it would cost more to pay the delivery drivers for small orders than they would gain in profit from the orders.
It doesn't take long, talking to people in the Chicago software industry, to hear horror stories about working for Sears. A good friend got to see multiple coworkers recruited by Sears, only to have them return after only two weeks.
My main concerns are these:

Just like a patent troll can hold a company hostage with a patent, can a "copyleft" troll / lawyers hold a company and users hostage with copyleft lawsuit?

If the zfs + linux kernel NAS products become wildly popular, can a lawyer + a kernel src copyright holder sent letter to NAS company + its customers and demand $500K or $1-10K per users to ask them to pay up?
The prose has an odd feel to it, like a patent description.
Interesting ideas, but when it gets into utopian promises about being able to find all versions of a file ever on the web, it reminds me of the talk around RDF[1] and FOAF[2] in the late 90s/early 00s. Not to mention pre-Web hypertext theory, PGP, and any number of other things. All these things can be very useful patterns in tightly restricted, highly curated environments with specific use cases (whether or not they are part of the larger web). But they aren't panaceas and they don't address the underlying sources of the problems they are trying to work around, namely that all this unorganized junk on the web they aim to take control of is created by people and companies who are one or more of: lazy, sloppy, confused, conflicted, error-prone, avaricious, malicious, obnoxious, cruel, naive, desperate, or ignorant.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOAF_(ontology)
No argument from me about the seriousness of issues like Rowhammer. Computers are built in layers, and layers require reduction to logical assumptions. The degree to which Rowhammer destroys logical assumptions is astonishing.

However, we've got lots and lots of common flaws that our present coding patterns aren't quite covering. This exact code written in JS wouldn't have been a problem. It wouldn't have been a problem even if it was just transpiled to JS and kept in a well defined sandbox (which isn't how we're doing sandboxing right now).
Because contrary to popular belief, source code is for humans. If we were after strict utilitarianism, we'd have switched to some MMIX-like abstract assembly with GUIDs as signifiers for all constructs.
Thanks for this, I've got a few pages in and I really like his writing style.
In North America Volvo has definitely evolved in to a luxury car brand, if just by the prices of their cars.
Did you say shrubberies?
Unless I misunderstand what this is for, a similar concept is already used for trackerless bittorrent using magnet links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme

It's not the exact same specification, but I imagine these two concepts are similar?
RubyFu: Where Ruby Goes Evil
more than that, i remember reading it was pronounced "see url" .. which makes sense when you look at its default behaviour of printing whatever's at the url you give it; especially compared to wget, which 'gets' whatever's at a url

:)
She almost certainly had better financial options; she wasn't suffering severe disabilities. It's just that these options weren't the kind of thing that would lead her to her dream job/life.

In a sense, this is no different from the tradeoff everyone has to make between "stuff you enjoy doing" vs "stuff that will pay". Someone who knowingly makes a sacrifice to get close to the job they want is different from someone who simply can't find work at all; the author was far more like the former than the latter.
Except for well branded characters, toys already sell basically at cost of materials, thanks to Chinese manufacturing
Just a note, read up on glacier pricing and issues. Standard S3 might be better
As optimistic as I am about photogrammetry and other 3D-scanning technology, I'm leery of calling it "preservation" or letting you "recreate" artifacts.

It captures shape and texture, but that's all. It's hollow. You can't take a core sample of a 3D scan, you can't X-Ray a 3D scan, you can't smell it or touch it; you can't tell if there's anything inside and you can't carbon-date it. It can't capture how pliable or brittle the object is or how dense it is. A high-res scan of the Mona Lisa can't actually be used to recreate the Mona Lisa. Short of nanoscale replicators, there's information missing.
A pedophile emotionally identifies with children. A perfect example of this was the guy in the movie Con-Air who sought out the little girl in the trailer park and sat with her to play at tea-time.
Sounds similar to https://IPFS.io/
Unbelievably superb!!!
Factoring (relatively) large semi-primes: or, why you should just use YAFU
Wow, I didn't know them before. Cool stuff!!

PS. I entered with my android mobile and to my surprise it works... Another thing I was not aware is that I have Java applets on by default...
I didn't realize you were involved with Alice ML. Are you the only contributor? The original project page seems to be down.

You've been there longer than I, but it's nice to see your involvement in /r/sml as well. Thank you!
Some people say one example is Stari Most, an Ottoman built bridge, in Bosnia and Herzegovina that was destroyed in 1993 after standing for 427 years.

"After the destruction of the Stari Most, a spokesman for the Croats admitted that they deliberately destroyed it, claiming that it was of strategic importance.[8] Academics have argued that the bridge held little strategic value and that its shelling was an example of deliberate cultural property destruction. Andras Riedlmayer terms the destruction an act of "killing memory", in which evidence of a shared cultural heritage and peaceful co-existence were deliberately destroyed.[7]"

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

A replica was reconstructed and reopened in 2004.
Of course, the real one will be blown up, sooooooo. Hanging on to the copy of the copy of the copy worked ok for books. it's infinitely better than nothing.
Show HN: Review the journalistic integrity of news items
It's exemplary of IETF work; it's specific, utilitarian, clear, well-documented, and will never be used by anyone ever.
Hi! I wrote this. Signups only require a username and password, so please feel free to try it out and let me know if you find any bugs. :)

You can find general information about it on the "About" page: https://www.pressrise.org/about

Basically it's a news aggregator that takes reviews from users, and ranks stories based on their journalistic integrity. It also has an aggregator-style commenting system.

If you're curious about the tech stack, it's written in Ruby, on the Rails framework. The frontend is Bootstrap/jQuery soup. It's hosted on Heroku, and also uses S3 for thumbnails.

Feedback is appreciated, thanks!
Yeah but one is an exercise in thought and engineering while the other is typically an exercise in vapidity and narcicissim.

What the OP learns about this BT button could transfer to him building his own that works better, then coming up with an derivative that has market appeal and now they're employing people and engaging the market. It probably won't happen but that person with a selfie stick is NEVER doing anything for society with that selfie stick.

It's not about the importance of the task, in my opinion, but the mindfulness of the task that makes something worth while.

I too look down on selfie sticks, but primarily because they've become such a pain in the ass- go to a crowded tourist spot (especially an international tourist spot) and it's been made worse by now having to weave through a mass of humanity and trying not to get hit in the face by a long aluminum stick.

I also think the self centered nature of them is annoying as well. Seeing them kind of reminds me of something out of Idiocracy.
Hell, I've never used Scala at all, and I can read that.
In all honesty, the more guides that are out there, the better. For most people, myself included, learning how to use git is a very daunting task.
Don't you mean referer?

Edit: yes, I know. This was an HTTP joke. Not a very funny one. Here is another one: what is the difference between a hippo and a zippo? One is very heavy, the other is a little lighter.
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What problem is this solving?

One of the magical things about the web is that you have the freedom to distribute information as you wish, and DNS namespace scopes everything.
Toyota had it's fair share of bad software design issues (Lexus is a division of Toyota)...
Can anyone explain the motivation for this? I'm not really getting it from the document and don't have any background.
London, UK.
1 GBP charge to park in a motorcycle bay.
Only possible way of doing it is via a mobile phone, online or by calling. No meter on the street.
Drove to work, parked the motorcycle.
No signal.
Went to work, paid for it when I got back as the signal was back up.
120GBP fine.

Is it unreasonable? Well, I didn't follow the instructions. But I would argue that it's unreasonable to fail to account for the fact that people can't just drop everything and run around for half an hour trying to get in contact with a parking line. I wanted to just glue a pound coin to the seat, to be honest.
My favorite has to be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOGJQD0WXkk , "Your Brain-Gun: Turn Off the Safety". Much darker.
> In China where people worry about many things including clean water and corruption, having to have to worry about a large portion of the population being swindled by a bad acting foreign media propaganda is a real concern.

And how are they gonna act against poisonous water and corruption if they cannot form a movement through some sort of free media?

> In an undeveloped country this could potentially result in a nazi takeover. See impoverished Germany after World War I as an example.

Do you really consider 1930s Germany undeveloped? Even a developed country is not impenetrable to propaganda. Just look at all the radical nationalists across all of Europe.
Cant trust anyone on HN these days:-)

My bad
Mental illness is not a predictor of violent behaviour. You're falling for (probably) conjunction fallacy and confirmation bias. You find newspaper reports because those incidents are rare compared to all other murder; you use those newspaper reports (of rare events) to say "look how common it is".

(The SOMD link isn't loading for me) Note that all but one of your links involve drug abuse. Here the violence isn't due to mental illness, but to drug abuse. Drug & Alcohol addiction is a predictor of violent behaviour. (Much stronger than mental illness.)
Yes that is a very accurate way of looking at the actual power structure involved. Though I think the abstract idea of "fairness" is usually the way that the country justifies its levying of taxes in public discourse.
The D4 actually have 5 cylinders. All the DX motors on the XC60 has, the difference is in the cc.
BLE "tags"[1] cost ~$2 shipped and seem to send a notification every time their button is pressed. I'm not sure if they perform well in the case of powering down and then back up, though. It seems like they might need a button press to allow a host to reconnect to them, which would present the same problem as in the article. And they have awfully annoying beepers in them that beep with every button press, and beep multiple times before powering down.

1: https://github.com/sylvek/itracing2/issues/5
> a more equitable way of distributing the benefits

That sounds much nicer than "abolition of property rights," which does not get you anywhere near where you're trying to go.
Bridgeman is only about "exact photographic copies", like a 1:1 photograph of a painting. Trying to be as exact as possible doesn't count as creative work and therefore isn't copyrightable, even if it requires time and skill.
soccer is just slang for "association football" and this whole soccer/football debate is a very modern contrivance.
yep,great repository
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The Ur-Quan masters do it themselves and of course, most of Europe gets blasted and funny enough, also a part of Antarctica.
Mark Smith's reading of Great Expectations is great highly recommend.
I hadn't noticed the original page had gone down. It was up a few days ago so hopefully it's only a temporary thing.

I've used Alice ML on a couple of projects for a while and didn't want to see it die so I got permission from the original authors to host a mirror on github and keep the bitrot away. I forked from work that Gareth Smith did on bitbucket a few years back (with his permission) that fixed some issues and added features. I'm the only one working on it at the moment but hopefully others join in. It's survived this long!

It's great to see you keeping /r/sml active!
Or go GCS Nearline, same great price, no terrible gotchas.
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/nearline

Disclaimer: I work on GCP
> A high-res scan of the Mona Lisa can't actually be used to recreate the Mona Lisa. Short of nanoscale replicators, there's information missing.

Baby steps. 100 years ago, I'm sure no one considered 3D scanning and 3D printing might ever exist. The next 100 years are going to be just as fun.
Non profit is not non-profit-yet.
I'm editing my fist novel. I'm going to learn how to sail this spring.

Pick something that you haven't done. Try it!
I enjoyed listening to Candide a month ago: https://librivox.org/candide-by-voltaire/
The most enlightening introduction to git internal model (graph of commits) and how the main commands alter it I have read so far: https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/

I think it is slightly more relevant to understand the model than the .git/ structure since the .git/ folder is just an implementation detail.
Not sure what you mean. In the sense that it features user-submitted summaries for links, yes. But there are lots of blogs where each post is a selected link with some sort of background info. (E.g., Marginal Revolution also has this format for many links.) My dream is to have this for all sufficiently popular links going around the internet on a given day, and to let the summary get progressively more refined.
I'll concede to the fact that this has stirred a debate the public cares for. Also, I am genuinely sympathetic to the plight of workers being exploited by their employers.

However, the post risks polarizing readers, most of whom could start to see or confirm that managers don't care about the plight of their lowest rung. At my work, our lowest level employees get paid ~$23/hour, but even at that level, a few still complain about their wages being too low to live on. Managers are perhaps myopic in thinking about living wages, but they don't have much choice.

Companies like Yelp are coming of age, and that means they need to turn profits, not just grow. Most such businesses have strict wage budgets, usually a % of revenue, to control operating costs. In this case, if Yelp's CEO capitulates and increases wages, his team will have to hire less people than before.

Perhaps once again, a lose-lose situation. The business loses servicing power and less people get the opportunity to work towards their dream of working in media.
Daniel Kennefick on Einstein and Gravity’s Chirp
Redundancy is a good thing.
It does seem a shame to me that such things are often prohibited from being photographed, at least without a flash.

I do recall a few years ago the British Museum in London hosted a few dozen Terracotta Warriors. I snapped a photo only to be told not to. When I asked why, they said it was copyrighted!
Yelp CEO responds to employee's open letter about low wages
> I'd want to be proud of it as a machine not just a symbol.

As a machine and as a symbol aren't necessarily independent of each other. Being less reliable and more expensive to fix can make it more prestigious in some cases:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Clas...
WiFi network based on urban animals wearing wardriving servers
Disney's FaceDirector let's directors change facial expression post production
Wow I didn't know a product like that existed. How well does it work? Could I scan the inside of classic cars with it and recreate in Vr? What about a room?
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Wow, awesome response. Will need to let that sink in.

> So, as someone who is not an information architect or data scientist, it seems like we have an ecosystem where a scaled down version of google can be built and trained on the per user basis and completely private.

I'm skeptical. Search is a huge problem just because of the bizarre amount of resources you need to throw at it. I can't afford to build my own datacenter(s) to host my custom search system. There might be huge advances ahead in terms of storage capacity on commodity systems, I don't know, but in any case, I'm only one person crawling webpages versus millions of people (and bots!) creating them.

You implicitly address that a bit later by talking about "silo crawling", but again, I'm skeptical. The only silo structure that I can easily see is large sites with useful content like Wikipedia or StackOverflow/StackExchange, but I'm likely to come across these anyway in any given domain, and I can easily filter for these on Google today, e.g. "site:en.wikipedia.org". The more interesting and hard part is the long tail of small, sparsely interconnected websites which might contain unusual insights but are unlikely to come across with a silo crawler (or with Google's current UI, for that matter).

> Search experience is getting worse in terms of control

I guess that's the classical problem of scaling a product to a large audience of mostly technically illiterate users. Maybe Google is learning from Apple, whose UIs have for a long time favored ease of use over giving control to the user.
Yeah, the idea of "let's serialize the ASTs and add names only when humans look at it" comes up all the time. There are also a few implementations, but editing it is just so different from text editing that the hurdle is quite big (and emulating text editing on top of it is really hard to get right, without loosing most of the benefits in the process).

example: http://www.lamdu.org/
Insecurity of things... by default, the connection is insecure [1][2] and unencrypted. But at least they're starting to move in the right direction [3], if you have a commercial license.

[1] https://docs.mbed.com/docs/mbed-client-guide/en/latest/Howto...

[2] https://docs.mbed.com/docs/mbed-client-guide/en/latest/api/c...

[3] https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls

*edit: formatting