skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LOL. People have definitely tried to call the cops on him before. The con artist's picture has rarely been printed, and nobody in the general public knows what he looks like. They only know his name. So that used to make the mistaken-identity issues even worse.
Microsoft’s Tay Is an Example of Bad Design
It might depend on what you consider "ignored".

Shortly after Dolly the Sheep became famous, Ian Wilmut (one of the main people of that project) visited my university for a talk, and I asked him if he was concerned about the impact of mitochondrial differences between the genetic donor and the host egg. He was quite dismissive, saying (IIRC) "mitochondria are responsible for at most 5% phenotypical expression".

To me that sounded like a lot (and I had asked the question because I expected mitochondrial differences to really matter) but he did not share my view.

So, yes, if Dr. Wilmut's reaction was typical, I think it's fair to call that "ignored". Not "unknown", but ignored.
And Amazon isn't scared of the situation, they just don't want to subsidize it. Not really surprising.
And you'll notice it's conveniently not in the Chrome Web Store (where the average user can easily install it). It's better than nothing, but it is a bit transparent to have this tool yet not release it into their Web Store (or even better standard in Chrome).
The Internet Archive archives many thousands of user profile pages and other types of user-generated content that the OP may eventually realize is not really wise to have online. Things like the individual message board posting histories of private figures. The Internet Archive has no right to display these things, as they don't have a license from the content's author or the outlet that the content author posted on. There is no public interest served by continuing to display these things, as the poster is a non-noteworthy private person and was in all likelihood just posting nonsense. The OP can contact the message board and probably get them to delete the profiles if they don't have a deletion option already baked into their platform, but what about archives like the Internet Archive? Will they comply with takedown requests for such individual profiles, or fight them as well, pretending that there is some public interest served by keeping it online?

Privacy is hard in the internet age.
Yeah... Microsoft standing firm on support dates and actively encouraging people to upgrade seems to have really made a huge difference. I'm sure it also makes them a pretty penny to maintain support contracts for entities that refuse to upgrade past the official EOL.
It's not even a stupid line of code - it's just a line of code which happens to namespace things which most other languages don't.

System is a global object which handles various pieces of the runtime system. One variable on this object is `out` (of type PrintStream) which represents stdout. The `println` method of PrintStream actually does the work.

I get why this seems overly verbose in comparison to Python and similar languages, but I don't think it's stupid. It's just emphasizing explicitness and uniformity over brevity.
Apple Pay uses the same token for many transactions. It's not unique per tap.
Betterment's tax harvesting software got me about $3500 in realized losses which I was able to claim for my FY2015 taxes. That ended up getting me about $1500 in deductions on my tax return, while holding nominally the same securities (albeit from a different financial service supplier). Well worth the ~$250 in fees I paid them this year.

I'll probably switch over to a strictly Vanguard portfolio when that harvesting isn't saving me money any longer, but until then, I think I'll stick with Betterment.
Non-compliant or resistant? The former means "you don't do what I tell you to do" and the latter means "my attempts to fix you aren't working, but it isn't my fault". I hear a lot more of the latter in the literature. In fact, I don't think I recall ever hearing the former...
It seems like many people on this forum would be considered by many psychiatric professionals to be suffering from delusions about the government, but perhaps there is a silent majority of HackerNews readers who are not as overtly paranoid about government surveillance. I doubt the actual levels of paranoia as well. These are Internet comment boards. There's a lot of huffing and puffing and general stage theatrics.
I've seen calendars use this format, but why? To me it would seem not to line up with how we treat our weeks? We talk about the work week as a contiguous block, and the weekend the same way, so why split one of those blocks over two rows?
I could not get it to return any results.
What a wonderful story! The friend in the story began to remind me of the character Emmet from The Lego Movie: an oddball whose quirks ultimately make him a hero.
For PriceZombie and many other businesses, depending on one major revenue source to survive can be a death sentence and at the very least pose an existential risk. Let this be a hard lesson in diversification.
Padmapper was forced to shut down too by Craigslist.When are we going to learn that this type of business model is unsustainable? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4149455
I'd strongly urge that in Amazon's case this advice is functionally irrelevant as they aren't a reliable business partner that reacts in a consistent way when it comes to MWS operations regardless of who you know that works there unless its Bezos himself.
> Cannot use higher order functions

This code:

async function renderChapters(urls) {
urls.map(getJSON).forEach(j => (await j).html));
}

is assuming that the call to await j is the await which corresponds to the top-level async. That's not how these things work! That call to await j is not in the same scope!

I don't buy arguments where the misuses of a feature not working means the feature is somehow bad. Yes, it can seem confusing, but that's the nature of having more powerful constructs. When you mix asynchronous code and lambda expressions, you're going to have to pay attention to scope.
Rosetta code is awesome! I especially like the "Similar Sites" page <http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Help:Similar_Sites>

Thanks @cokernel!
Hey - I just recently wrote a series of blog posts of creating a startup in the US and UK for developers. It's based on my experiences. If you're based in Europe being a UK based limited company is a great option. As others have said you'll need a good accountant and lawyer, the posts cover my experiences with various companies. Personally I'd recommend Crunch.co.uk for helping with the company formation and accounts. Then Lawbite for the legal side of things. They've answered a bunch of my questions.

One big thing to beware of is VAT and VAT MOSS scheme - it's a bit of a nightmare to figure out your way around that. After discussing with accounts and lawyers your best option is to not be VAT registered until you know you're going to exceed the £82k threshold. Again - speak with your own lawyer and accountants on this as everyone's situation is different.

Hope that helps!

TL;DR
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11360598 - Covers company formation (and recommends a couple of accountancy options for the UK)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11360651 - Covers Legal advice for US and UK startups.
Great explanation, thank you.
Who decides what is "disruptive"? Is it "bad" to disrupt society if that society is evil and corrupt? Was a German who sought to disrupt the Nazis in Germany mentally ill, or was he rightfully disruptive and anti-authoritarian?

The point here is that authority and society have no intrinsic worth. The issue is that those who reject authority and/or society are defined as mentally ill according to the psuedo-science of psychiatry, whether or not that authority and/or society is worthy of rejection.
CamelCamelCamel has not went anywhere. But they also don't serve affiliate links as far as I can tell, so their revenue model (if they have one) is not dependent on an affiliate relationship.
Deis Workflow, now in Beta
I've read that it's next to impossible to open a UK bank account as a non-resident (even for a company) unless you can deposit a large amount of cash.
The are afraid of fraud or something.

Is this true?

Would be nice to have a bank account in the same country.
It doesn't matter how they scrape. They could continue scraping prices if they wanted to. The problem is they lost access to the Affiliates API -- which is how they make money.
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This is seriously fucked up. I'm assuming the OP (in that thread) is trolling though. You can't possibly be that ignorant.
> Would you express the same cultural relativistic sentiments about the validity of purpose if a small group decided to repurpose your Wiki?

Well, I do have a wiki farm now, so I feel compelled to reply. Yes, I would have the same relativistic sentiments. I would just impose the banhammer nonetheless.

That's kind of the thing about the DMCA -- it turns us all into enforcement agents. It doesn't really matter how I feel about the rules, because if I don't follow them I get shut down.

How I feel about the core of the issue is that copyrights and patents are imperialism. Imperialism in every culture. The poor and middle class can't afford to enforce their own copyrights, and the are subject to the whim of the the rich. They've created a place where the only culture of the past available is the one they want to sell. Only a few organizations like the EFF stand in the way of this madness, but the IP system is madness anyway.

I have an uncle who served as US Border Patrol for 20 years. He never believed that all of the illegals need to go back, but it's a job. Someone needs to watch the border and deal with problems or it would be complete anarchy. You can have valid reasons for enforcing rules you don't entirely believe in.

So I'll follow the DMCA because I'm the little guy. And I'll do nothing about the IP laywer who I believe has infringed about a hundred of my own copyrights and has acknowledged and then took no action a DMCA takedown notice from me. Because I cannot afford to go against him in a rigged system. And I understand why Angolans want to work against a system that's rigged against the them.
I used to consider Monday as the first day of the week. I started the week fed-up and ended it tired.

I chose to change the way I think and switched my calendars to start on Sunday. This allowed me to change my state of mind and start the week with activities that I enjoy and spare time.

It is 100% in my head, but it worked for me.
> My kids won’t need to code because soon computers will just code for them

Good luck. This sounds like people predicting flying cars and robot servants in the 50s without having any idea what they are talking about.
Most things should be within the same ballpark. The trouble is at the moment that CSS polyfills are an order of magnitude (or two) off native performance.
Example: Current CSS layout polyfills (like grid, regions etc) suffer from this.

Where you will see performance improvements is when developers create more expressive layouts/paints/etc. For example you can implement a grid layout with a bunch of nested flexboxes. You could also do it with the CSS Layout API. Because by using the CSS Layout API requires fewer divs, and maybe no N^2 layout passes, chances are it'll be faster.

But this really gets at the point of Houdini is to inform browsers/specs what is important. If a grid/masonary polyfill becomes widely used, then it will help inform CSS work.
Shitposting the HN way!
They are both unfalsifiable and bizzare.
Yes, paranoid schizophrenia would still be a mental illness in which the fantasies turned out true, if they turned out true by complete fluke.

That is to say, if some crazy nonsense for which you have absolutely no evidence turns out true by amazing coincidence, it was still crazy to have believed it.
All work is a form of prostitution.
Also on the subject of being reckless with strings, I recommend this blog post by Glyph Lefkowitz:

https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2008/06/data-in-garbage-out....
That's on the site too: https://www.programmingalgorithms.com/algorithm/week-of-year

Seems a bit over complicated though, I wonder if it could be simplified the way the day-of-week calculation is simplified.
That isn't 'art' as an expression of emotion (if that's how you want to define it). Those are interesting images generated from combining other interesting images.

> It is, to me, extremely likely that within 20 years, we will have generated novels compete on the market with best-sellers.

Where are we with that now?
Github could easily solve this problem:

If a repo meets certain criteria in licensing, create the ability to "Static Publish" a release. This feature communicates that the version repo is the public's and cannot be removed by the individual or team. Github also enters the agreement that if there is ever a need to "move" the version due to copyright infringement, it provides either aliasing or sooner sort of notification and time bomb before it goes offline.

If this were done, folks could be in the know about which packages and dependencies are at risk, so they enter into the install with their eyes wide open.
Everybody mines user data.
I agree. The advice by patio is generally sound, though in this specific scenario, I don't think Amazon would ever care. PriceZombie offers negligible profit compared to the billions Amazon makes. Even spending 0.5 seconds on their case is a waste of their time.
I would think that to be approved for Stripe or Braintree in anything close to a haven, Singapore included, the underwriting bank will require a utility bill with your name on it, which could be a deal-breaker. Source: I am an American who owns a Hong Kong company which was denied by Braintree (at that time we were doing 30k MRR).
Problem is, property prices make that non feasible. Most companies tend to cluster around the same locations, so a lot of people want to buy or rent property nearby and eventually the prices simply become unaffordable. You can't build upwards or downwards indefinitely, and you can't build too far outwards because the 5-10 miles thing goes away, so people will always have to commute to their workplace.

The population is too high and the amount of space too limited to make this a reality, at least in countries with a decent sized population.
There's also integration with GitHub pull requests for that:

https://github.com/google/git-pull-request-mirror
Those are amphibious fighting vehicles, used for landing from the sea. The sea, as we know, are blue colored.
The Amazon TOS says don't store and display our old prices

How is Amazon fine with CamelCamelCamel [1] then? It seems like they make money off Amazon affiliate links too.

[1] http://camelcamelcamel.com/blog/how-our-price-checking-syste...
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The problem is that unequally applies rules are often intermingled with biases. While a single instance of 'what about that other guy' isn't a worthwhile plea, if you can show a trend as to who gets pulled based on something other than speeding, you have a problem.

In business, it is less of an issue because business doesn't need to be fair to the same standard of law. There are still certain laws and protect groups and such, but the bar is still much lower than in law. The complaint of unfairness can be valid, but also pointless.
It's not finished yet.
> AVS verified billing address
Pretty sur
"It's basically just a bunch of [group self-designated experts] getting together, suggesting stuff and voting on it. It is not science."

That is science.
I added a new milestone to Kik's about us page
I think that tax loss harvesting illustrates my point. I don't know if Vanguard's service currently supports tax loss harvesting but its a feature that takes about 1 man week of work to implement.

Tax loss harvesting isn't a feature that you can differentiate yourself with.

I've implemented it several times over for the hedge funds I've worked at. Its a well understood tool that's been in use by funds for as far back as I remember.
Let's hope the don't suck.
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Operating Systems (3rd Edition), Deitel -- is an excellent way to fill in gaps in your understanding of the OS. Don't buy it new -- used copies can be found on amazon for less than $20.

Learn a radically different programming language: Common Lisp.

Seibel's Practical Common Lisp is a very good introduction -- Keene's Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp will give you a wildly different way of looking at OO -- The Art of the Metaobject Protocol will forever change any preconceived notions you might have regarding objects.
Thank you, Patrick, for the cool splash of water.

My heart goes out to PriceZombie, a tool I really liked using. It makes me wonder, are contracts just passé in today's web/app economy? Do founders not care about having the rug pulled out from underneath their business at any time?

I of course understand if this is a side project, not a full time job, and can't be given 100% focus. But I feel like I woke up from a bad dream: everywhere I look, it's the same App Store model: Apple, GooglePlay, Amazon, Steam...
So if we take the turnstiles off the subway (which was implied in my comment above about no user fee), does it become a public good?

> Public goods aren't just the absence of things. Basic research, public art, and similar things would be public goods.

Oh ok, so everyone can benefit equally from basic research? There are no user fees for, say, cancer therapies based on government-funded research?

Everyone can view public art? There's no limit on how many people can be in a park or museum at once?

The reason I'm belaboring this point is that there is no difference in how we finance, build, maintain, or use mass transit and roads. Heck quite a lot of mass transit is based on roads, like city buses.

Basically I suspect you just prefer driving, and are trying to create a tortured definition of "public good" to give your preference a veneer of objective rationality.
Microsoft's  Chat Robot  Devolves into Racist, Homophobic, Nazi Psychopath
Steve Bartman?
If your objective is to write a crawler that parses pricing information from a third party web site, then write the crawler. Relying on the third party to provide a consistent API that can be remotely communicated with is setting yourself up for failure. These companies can quickly ban you from their platform when using their API. At least by writing the crawler yourself, you're making it much more difficult for them to do this. Another lesson is that building a business model around the availability of a third party is also a recipe for failure.
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Oh Crap, now they're probably going to make other individual developer who'e looking for monetizing their apps harder (discloser, I work for Polarr). The only good news for competitor here is that if Google decides to drop further development of it, then the opportunity to emulate and eventually surpass Nik's functionality is huge as well.
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These are amphibious?

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/1600_640/images/live/p0/3...
So where does my MNIST classifier fall? The ML equivalent of opening a text editor?
For a while I worked for a company that had a direct line to engineers at all of their suppliers (which they often earned by only calling with the right questions). This caused them to get issues fixed quickly and competently, sometimes with them supplying parts of the fix.

I've since returned to working for companies that rely on first line support, and it's much harder to get the support you need, so I totally agree with this point.
My problem with articles like this is they talk about Tay like a "product" (article actually uses that term), though it was very clearly an "experiment". They now have data to work with, which was the goal, for developing the next version. And it's much easier to figure out how to filter this content based on actual communication with Tay than saying "these are the words I feel I need to blacklist" ahead of time.
Well whether or not Vanguard has a similar ETF is irrelevant as the IRS is very clear that if you sell an asset to do tax loss harvesting you can't buy it or any similar product back over the next 30 days if you want to collect the tax loss.

I mean you can buy a similar product to the one you sold within the 30 days, you just don't qualify for the tax loss in that instance:)

The below link discusses this pretty well and I've got way more experience wit this than I really care for.

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/taxes/08/tax-loss-harve...
> My favourite "real world fails to fit the model we've come up with" is Carmel-by-the-Sea, which has many streets that have no addresses

You might be surprised to learn that in India, all addresses are more or less like this. This is due to the fact that we never ended up with the standardised street numbers and names that a lot of other countries have, and road naming is a highly political thing in India, so a lot of people call roads by colloquial names.

A typical address in India goes

- House / Building Name (a lot of bungalows in India have names)
- Locality
- Near [Landmark]
- Possibly another Landmark
- Road Name
- City Name
- Post Code
- State Name
- India
That's a side effect. The intended purpose of those standards are government procurement.
Another Chrome extension doing OCR, including some server-side processing: http://projectnaptha.com/
> It is, to me, extremely likely that within 20 years, we will have generated novels compete on the market with best-sellers.

I'd say it's going to be a lot sooner, given that they're already doing well in writing contests[0].

[0] http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/japanese-ai-writes-no...
If it were any other format other than what you were accustomed to, you'd still be asking the same question. It's just a common convention, it doesn't need to have any deeper meaning.
If you're looking to do business outside the EU as well (and not have to handle VAT-MOSS), you might want to read the Ghost blog on why they decided to move their foundation from UK to Singapore:
https://blog.ghost.org/moving-to-singapore/

(The HN discussion of the above link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11103274)
Science is objective. Psychiatry is not objective. Psychiatry is not science.
> it seems like the use of the fake identity could be misinterpreted as criminal fraud

How could that possibly be the case? Who's being defrauded?
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Maybe I'm too demanding, but it seems like all the main web portal/social network providers have the tools at hand to make email secure against the state actor threat: Protocol standards that enable use of open clients, and a social graph and real-time communication tools that would enable a web-of-trust and key signing to prevent MITM. Their ad revenue per user is small and easily replaced by a subscription fee for using their web-of-trust and storage infrastructure.
Are you familiar with Stripe Atlas?

It was built for this usecase, and allows non-US companies to:

- Get US Bank Account at SVB

- Incorporate as Delaware C corp

- Accept Payments immeadiately using stripe

- have access to PWC consultants about tax and accounting info

- AWS credit

It is in beta, but they are accepting applications. You should give it a go if it makes sense
You can rent a therapist, which seems to be the primary purpose of these rent-a-friends.
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We're all average Joe. "Information advantage" is a very rare thing. Even those who think they have it, probably don't. Maybe they'll learn they don't this month, maybe it will be this year. This is entirely the point of Vanguard.