skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I consider myself very lucky that no one tried to kill me when I was suicidal. It's going to get a lot more dangerous now that able-bodied young people are getting social and medical "support" that kills them for their possibly temporary depression or nihilism.

Suffering can always be made meaningful and abolition of pain is not a goal for society but a enervation unto death.

Just now in Canada, doctors and nurses are being forced to choose between their professions and holding to a religion that forbids murder. These are their options:

"They can keep their heads down and pray they are never asked to kill a patient.
They can surrender and become part of the death machine—at the risk of the eternal consequences that their faith beliefs portend.
They can give up their careers and hand the keys of what are now religious medical institutions to secular ownership (or, move to the United States where, at least for now, doctors and nurses enjoy conscience protections).
Finally, the difficult but most righteous course would be to engage in a policy of total non-cooperation with the culture of death, forcing the national and provincial governments and medical colleges either to turn a blind eye or to inflict unjust punishments on doctors for refusing to kill. Perhaps such draconian measures would bring the country to its senses."

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2016/03/canada-de...
Does Ethereum have the same scaling issue if a group setup a direct currency on it?
Netflix attacks VPNs
Article is a decade old, FYI.
> It may be anecdotal and specific to me

Just stop right there.
Nations act in their self interest. Why would one need a citation to confirm that?
I think the normal custom is to leave it under your pillow.
'Not even my wife knows': secret Donald Trump voters speak out
Disagree about taxis in Thailand. Taxi fares here in Bangkok are ridiculously low and haven't been adjusted to rising costs of living for quite a while. If the driver is polite and doesn't try to scam you, leave a tip. All my Thai friends do it as well.

However the 20-30 Baht mentioned in the article might be too much, especially for shorter distances. I would occasionally tip that amount on long rides (1h+) to the airport and every time the driver was very surprised and genuinely grateful for the tip.

No tips necessary for Tuktuks and motorcycle taxis though.
Do you honestly believe that the only way to make consensus changes is via pull requests to Bitcoin core?

XT and classic certainly have different consensus rules from core once their activated, that's the whole point of their existence.

I think you're referencing bip 34, but I don't see how that's relevant.
How is Netflix detecting VPNs, just by IP whois details of popular VPN providers and non-residential ISPs? or special client-side latency detection from the origin to the browser?
I commute by bike, my commute is easily one of the most enjoyable parts of my day, around 30 minutes each way, in all weather. Every day is like being a kid again, its exciting when it rains or snows or the wind blows or the sun is out.

I don't think commutes are the problem, its the typical mode of transport humans choose is the problem.
> I'm saying anyone can write their own client but the burden is on them to drum up support and achieve consensus if it's going to be useful.

Consensus aside, this is a lot harder said than done. one of the reasons btcd is not widely adopted, even though it's purporting to be 100% compliant with core, is that there is no formal definition of what that even means. to be 100% compatible with the bitcoin protocol is to be 100% compatible with core - bugs and all. the community needs an RFC like paper describing in details what 100% compatible means. Then we can safely run other nodes without worrying that we'll get screwed by not having the same bug as core for example.

I'm not one to believe in conspiracies or even subscribe to the thinking of core==blockstream. But I don't think you'll disagree that what goes into the consensus protocol is under control of the 5 maintainers
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=193281

In this survey, a small proportion of terminally ill patients seriously considered euthanasia or PAS for themselves. Over a few months, half the patients changed their minds. Patients with depressive symptoms were more likely to change their minds about desiring euthanasia or PAS.... contrary to general perceptions, depression and hopelessness, rather than pain, seem to be the primary factors motivating patients' interest in euthanasia or PAS.... because euthanasia and PAS are irreversible actions, longitudinal assessments of patients' attitudes and preferences are important.
Source? As far as I can tell it was released in 2016.
Personality Piracy
How Snapchat makes money - Ads...

It'd be interesting to see if / what types of ads convert. Perhaps there's some money to be made here
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For what it's worth, you're a fantastic writer and this is one of the most enjoyable articles I think I've ever read. You've captured the essence of the subject perfectly, and your writing style is thoroughly enjoyable.
> There's been centuries of philosophizing and what's that contributed to humanity

Socrates and Plato introduced the idea that morality isn't just about doing what your society expects of you.

Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and others developed the notion that governments ought to be accountable to their citizens.

Frege and Russell formalized logic (as mathematicians) and argued that its structures were not merely syntactic constructs (contrary to Boole) but somehow reflected the nature of reality and/or rational thought (a strictly philosophical discussion).

Popper conclusively killed the hypothetico-deductive model of scientific reasoning and replaced it with falsifiability, the now dominant foundation of all scientific endeavour.

Newton was a philosopher whose philosophising caused physics to became its own discipline. Similar trajectories apply to psychology, linguistics, and sociology, just over the past ~200 years.

Einstein credited his ruminations on Kant's metaphysics with giving him the conceptual insights to develop general relativity [1].

Historically, once a philosophical line of enquiry becomes sufficiently developed, we just stop calling it philosophy and give it a new name. This tends to happen once the methodological and conceptual questions are more or less settled, so that empiricism can finally be brought to bear on these problems.[2]

> I'm with the science guy anyday.

It's absurd to think of science and philosophy as mutually exclusive or somehow opposed to each other. Modern scientists are doing philosophy any time they do anything other than gather or analyse data. Field foundational and methodological questions are, by and large, precisely the kinds of questions philosophy has addressed for centuries.

[1] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/einstein-philscience/

[2] Here's a computational neuroscientist going into more detail about that: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-relationship-between-scien...
> Turns out being a normal person doing normal things is now good advice.

oh come on, there's nothing here supporting that overly-broad, emotive statement.
case in point: everyone here comparing IM with TV or Facebook. at least say telephone in you analogy.
The most likely reason for encryption to be removed is simply that the two engineers on the Kindle Enterprise team who implemented the feature both left the company a year and a half ago. The remaining engineer on the device side portion of that team moved on to another project. The integration, security review, etc with the SoC vendor is fairly complex, and the expertise required to build out encryption was lost. The original integration took quite a while as well. Most of the speculation as to why Amazon removed it seems pretty out there.
Why should we think about one scenario but not the other?
> It's even going to be used in android in the future.

Lol, like that was a choice Google made freely, rather than something they were forced to do.

OpenJDK might be OK in many circumstances (as I said, requirements vary) but you might want to avoid that particular case study.
Woah, I never thought I'd see the day when Mayakovsky is quoted on HN. Thank you, good sir.
Is that true? I would've expected that a diligent employee that tracks the exact amount of tips they actually received would only pay standard income tax on that amount, which would be reported to the IRS.

I found this publication, which mentions an 8%(not 18%), but it appears that the cost falls on the employer not the employee:
https://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Emplo...

It also looks like that 8% can be requested to be as low as 2%, with sufficient documentation. That still seems strange to me, but I'm not familiar enough with the tax code here to understand what the tip allocation number is supposed to mean.

It would boggle my mind if a diligent record-keeper was forced to pay taxes on money they didn't earn, and if this was upheld in tax court. And I would promptly start tipping the enforced tax on each meal I eat, at least until it's changed.
> So ability to charge transaction fees is an incentive to keep the block size limit at 1MB?

Yes. And the reason that may be important is for the long term viability of bitcoin.

In order for bitcoin to work, you need a lot of miners spending a lot of electricity to run these hash calculations. That's what will actually ensure the transaction makes it into the blockchain. The incentive for the miner to do so, currently, is that they will "discover" their own bitcoins while doing so, essentially paying themselves for the work.

However, the rewards are decreasing over time and will eventually phase out completely. The long term vision of bitcoin had been for users to specify a transaction fee when they try to buy/sell something (taken from the amount they're sending), which the miners will earn if they figure out the hash.

For now, since there's still new blocks being discovered, the network has kinda been working with minimal transaction fees. But if people will never be willing to pay transaction fees, there's no long term viability here.
Excuse me, but as a Sr. Engineer, the Thiokol engineers should go to the grave feeling guilty.

Those graphs are an embarrassment ... they certainly collected far more data than depicted there.

And there should have been pre-launch documentation of what the acceptable minimum operating temperature. Do you really think that any of the shuttle parts were mfg. without temp and vibration data?
The experience of taking BART from Fremont, then MUNI, was very exhausting for me. Even assuming BART was running on time, there was at least 15-20 minutes of MUNI (riding and waiting) tacked onto my BART commute (Fremont->Civic Center). The MUNI part tended to really drag my spirits down.
I didn't say it accounts for most of the 40% but it is a factor in killing jobs. I wanted to give an example of stuff I wrote that replaced people.

The typists used to have a room of 100 people typing on typewriters to copy letters and memos. Once the laser printer and word processor was developed you only needed 1 person to type up a letter or memo and press 100 copies. So the other 99 got fired, and the person with a new skill set got the job. I want to use that example to show how automation can cost jobs. But people just learned how to use a computer and word processors and spreadsheets and got new jobs with new skills. The typists just learned how to use a computer keyboard and then switched to a new job, those who didn't learn new skills couldn't find work and became unemployed or had to get a different job.

My father for example worked at AT&T on 1ESS Bell Labs switches and phone equipment. When AT&T was broken up they replaced the 1ESS Switches with IBM System/36 computers and my father was put into early retirement. He even knew Unix but it was the PC era. So it is also a matter of outdated skills that can lead to a job loss as technology changes and new skills are not learned to adapt.

I'm sure there are other factors to that 40%, I just wanted to talk about automation because that is what most of us do, and don't think about the people that lose their jobs as a result. Not all of the 40% but some of them.

I've known people who worked in Novell Netware, IBM OS/2, Wang, DEC VMS/VAX, and others who lose their jobs when the company switched to PCs with Microsoft Windows and NT Servers with SNA Server, SQL Server, Exchange Server, etc. So having outdated skills can lead to job loss when a new technology becomes popular and replaces old technology. I also worked with companies who migrated from these old platforms to Windows NT Server and did the data conversions and file structures for network shares.
Signatures on credit cards are an interesting artifact. Planet Money did a nice podcast on signatures a year or two ago: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/08/29/344034815/episo...

Apparently signatures are still used as a method of determining liability for fraudulent charges, who knew?
I long for the day when these correlation-digging studies with absurd claims will stop.

https://xkcd.com/882/
I notice you didn't include anti-oxidants in your list of things it is impossible to test, because of the mounting evidence that they A) do nothing and B) have a plausible mechanism to be harmful.

It's not Pharma or the FDA. Why would a company selling garlic extract want to run a trial to prove that their one product doesn't work? The number of people using it would probably barely increase if the result is positive, and if the result is negative they will go out of business.
I appreciate that. I've been working in tech since I was a kid and have been transitioning over to writing recently. It's been an interesting shift because it doesn't offer the same kind of motivating fuel (up-and-to-the-right graphs, etc). So comments like this are more encouraging than you know. Thank you.
Admiral, your surname suits you.

Brave has not even started ad replacement, we will bring up micropayments first. When the ad revenue flows, with NI-ZKP based anonymous confirmation of ad impressions, we will share 55% directly with publishers according to user traffic and impressions. We give 15% to users, which by default will auto micropay for their top sites to be ad-free. We take the same share, 15%. Our partner in privacy-preserving ad matching, Sonobi, makes 15%.

To say that our aggregate 70% revenue share to websites goes "directly into Eich's pocket" is either to say something you guessed wrong about, in which case read our site docs and watch our GitHub; or it is a lie.

Ads may decline in favor of paywalls but I doubt they will go away. And we are building, and bootstrap-funding via the 15% revshare, user wallets into Brave, with anonymity. If paying for web content does take off at the expense of ads, Brave is in pole position with our micropayments system to lead and win this race.
Let's entertain your idea for a second. If a person wrongfully executed for killing someone, why not continue that process by prosecuting the prosecutor or jury for the wrongful conviction?
Name clash with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_(goddess)
I just checked out of an airbnb this morning in Bangkok that had signs posted all over the lobby and elevator that this was NOT a hotel and that if you are caught and not a resident you will be taken to the police. It was pretty uncomfortable watching over your shoulder every time you entered as the security guards eye you up and down. Obviously, the listing didn't mention anything about this.

Edit: here is the sign http://i.imgur.com/dAczEnt.jpg
Well the researchers say in the article that sugar should impair cognition.
Caffeine and feeling good are confounders, as they aren't unique to chocolate. The researchers are proposing that it is some kind of special ingredient in chocolate you can't really get anywhere else easily that enhances cognitive function.
Nice post. I'm trying to read up on opengl es to prep for a vr world. Having a hard time at it. I'm a back end dev so maybe not my strong suit.
> Adults generally prefer richer interactions.

I suppose that's why TV is now the province of the 50+ set.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2014/09/05/t...
Never saw that site before today. Careful with "stolen", you will cut yourself with Hanlon's razor.

I also do not see any sentences in common. Brave aims to pay publishers better than the ads we replace would have paid them. No sign of that from what I read just now at i2.si. Did I miss it?
Thank you for writing this. I am sad to see the grand parent down voted because it seems the down voters themselves have not read the article.

Personally, I feel like I am the worst kind of people. I remember being in Texas about nine years back talking to some young women who were passionately anti-choice (or pro-life as they call themselves) and I found myself thinking "but you're a woman". I don't I said anything that revealed my thought process. It feels like it should be easy, right? Just treat individuals as individuals and don't stereotype. Well, easier said than done in my case. Similarly with black people. Just because someone is black and American does not mean they have to be in favor of reparations. Just because someone is a woman does not mean they have to be a feminist. I remind myself of this fact every so often and I realize I am a bad person. However, worse than me are the people who dare tell others they are wrong and don't know what is best for them because of their ideas or choices.
NIMBYs opposing high-density development during a housing shortage is a bad thing.

NIMBYs opposing illegal hotels that exacerbate a housing shortage is a good thing.
Y'all, we need to have a discussion about this stuff. How did this story make it to the top of Hacker News?
Not just copyrights, the US ignored patents too. And that played a significant role in the industrial revolution.
Yeah, I agree that they should control for those things...
Understanding the Impact of Concussion
Emerald: An Object-Based Language for Programming Distributed Systems
ok. are you all a bunch of hippos. i thought this was hacker news, good lord
Before moving to Pittsburgh, I was commuting from Des Moines to Marshalltown in Iowa--60 miles, an hour's drive each way. I didn't drive, but it was still a pain and major time waster.

In Pittsburgh, I found a minimal-walking bus path that required a transfer. It made the path slightly longer than the 5.6 miles from apartment to work, but still roughly a tenth the distance of Des Moines to Marshalltown. Surprise--it took about an hour each way, and longer if, as was far too common, the first bus in the morning was late or the second bus in the evening was late. What's wrong with this picture?

I'm back in the Des Moines area now, and hoping for a much closer workplace.
For a bit over ten years I spent on average 1.5 hours each way commuting to NYC from Staten Island. The commute took a toll on me, on my marriage, and just my overall happiness. Inclement weather, an accident, or constant road construction would often increase a one-way trip to nearly 2 hours. I couldn't stay out late, because of the bus schedules, and if I fell asleep on the bus after a certain hour and missed my stop, there was no bus to take my back to where my connection to my second bus was. It was frustrating. Coupled with being too married to my job and overall stress, it led to separating from my wife.

I then moved right in to the city, a 15 minute walk to work. My overall happiness increased significantly. I could hang out with friends, stay out late if I wanted to - and I almost always found my place to be the place people would want to be at (somewhat opportunistic due to locality - but that's 100% fine by me). The price I paid was nearly quadrupling my rent. I felt like I deserved to treat my self to one year of this - and I quite enjoyed it - but the high rent was just not sustainable when you factor in alimony and past debt.

I then moved to a place about 30-40 minutes away from work. The commute was nice, the distance is about just right, and the rent was $700 less than my Manhattan apartment. I immediately saw a drop off in how many people would be coming to visit me - once again, I am fine with that and understand the circumstances there. The problem is that now my building is raising my rent by $300 - and the expensive commute costs really don't offer much savings compared to living in the city anymore - this spot has been "discovered" and will now just keep going up like the rest of the commutable areas to NYC.

So, this Monday, I am moving back to Staten Island - I will have twice the amount of space, dropping another $1000 from my current rent, and my commute will be about 1hr. I now have the opportunity to work from home a bit more, so by breaking up my week and staying home on Wednesdays, it will take the stress off of commuting in every day. A lot of the people I work with and manage work remotely - and they live all across the country - they don't have to worry about commuting in in the morning, and can live where they want to live -- sure, there are other disadvantages to working remotely, but as the availability of high-internet speeds and technologies make working remotely easier and more common place. As this improves, and more companies understand and embrace remote work mentality, I see the necessity of being chained to a big tech hub like SF or NYC to be far less important.
are you all a bunch of hippos
Consider that suicide removes the limit on how awful a society can be by allowing it to kill off anyone who doesn't fit in instead of helping to find a way to improve their situation. Our communities should focus on healing mental suffering so that the despairing are allowed to see that the lens of depression is not the only way to see their situation.

In one Netherlands case in 2014, a 35 year old woman was killed by a Dutch doctor for her depression symptoms. The first two doctors she approached referred her to treatment options, but she kept shopping around until she found a doctor who evaluated her for only two weeks, then killed her two days later. As someone who had terrible depression for years, and has been depression free for years, I know how cruelly murderous this is. It is no better than when cries for help on the internet are met with bullying and end in suicide. Actually, it is worse because the doctors are administering the coup de grace.
cite for this woman's story:
http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-netherlands-...

Another example of a medical system not supplying a human person with the community and loving support he needed:
"In one highly publicized example last year, the clinic helped a 63-year-old man with severe psychiatric problems to end his life. After a very active career working for government, the patient in question could not face his upcoming retirement. In an interview with the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad the clinic’s psychiatrist, Gerty Casteelen said the man 'managed to convince me that it was impossible for him to go on. He was all alone in the world. He’d never had a partner. He did have family but he was not in touch with them. It was almost like he’d never developed as a person. He felt like he didn’t have the right to live. His self-hatred was all consuming.'"
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/03/the-dutch-d...
There is Tox, Jitsi, Firefox Hello and other services based on Webrtc.
Breakin' the Borders – A Book about the Atari ST Demoscene
I haven't seen that. I have seen a rotating camera of a castle spire with the Z buffer culling backwards. It looked strange as the castle seemed to be rotating the wrong way. I recall the skybox was rendered properly adding to the illusion.

Edit: I realize what I saw is a textured version of what you are describing.
Best read in months. Thanks for posting this.
The True Cost of Commuting