skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Josh Marshall, from John Gruber:

It all comes down to a simple point. You may not like Gawker. They’ve published
stories I would have been ashamed to publish. But if the extremely wealthy,
under a veil secrecy, can destroy publications they want to silence, that’s a
far bigger threat to freedom of the press than most of the things we commonly
worry about on that front. If this is the new weapon in the arsenal of the
super rich, few publications will have the resources or the death wish to
scrutinize them closely.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/05/25/marshall-thiel

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-huge-huge-deal
Especially so when it is simple to look up what has been written about these kinds of questions. There is literally a book (quite well known) titled "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria".
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Have you tried exercise?

In any case, all your ancestors managed to procreate (duh!). So you can't blame your genes too much.
both my first and last name are very rare so I could get it for $10/yr
Why do you think the wealthy should be able to stop the free press from publishing things they don't like?
Portland is ok, but I'd rather price you out of the market.
I am non-white and American, so I'm not wondering what the GP comment is, but this example isn't very helpful at all. It's hardly rare for strangers to call people "honey" in everyday interactions, and I've been called that by men as well. Those men generally happen to be gay, but that says more about our attitudes towards masculinity and the way men can express themselves than anything inherently wrong with them saying that. The only reason I can imagine that would bother someone is that they're uncomfortable with homosexuality or old-fashioned about masculinity. (If this seems wrong to you, consider whether you'd find it weird if a female waitress or something called you "honey" and what exactly the difference would be if she was "some guy").
What makes you think I'm okay with it?

By the way, are you taking a shot at people afflicted with Asperger's syndrome by referring to me as an "Aspie"? It seems rather hypocritical of you if that's true.
The term "pro-life" is intended to imply that opposing points of view are "anti-life" or "pro-death" in exactly the same way that "pro-choice" is intended to imply that opposing points of view are "anti-choice."
There's the story about a developer who outsourced his work to China so that he could browse reddit:

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/01/16/verizon-finds-de...
Ask HN: Medicine/drugs you wish existed?
Title.

I'm particularly interested in (-)-BPAP (and its weaker relative PPAP), a drug that apparently increases catecholamine/serotonin transmission, rather than just dumping neurotransmitters from vesicles/reversing the transport protein's neurotranmsitter flow. i.e. selective dopamine/norepinephrine/serotonin release enhancement.
> thought Australia spoke some sort of pidgin English

well ...
> Y'all "young gods" will just have to figure out some other place to hatch the singularity.

Lol. I've always found it amazing how many people run towards SV. Software is cool because you can do it from anywhere. To each his own, I guess.
There used to be a section of Commonwealth Ave around Boston University known as a supercar parking lot, mostly driven by internationals. Cheating of the sort above was rampant. But I figured since they were paying full fare they were subsidizing us rubes so it was worth it. Ultimately college is about what you learn, not your classmates, and what happens after.

I saw a couple of kids like this come through our "homework interview" assignments intended as a phonescreen-lite, and they invariably bomb the in-person interviews.
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Okay thanks. I always have file vault on so guess I already have this one
Nothing new here. People with power, money and influence can do shady things. Facebook with trending news, Peter Theil with funding suit against Gawker...they are all the same.
They missed the boat on office in the cloud... Despite nearly a decade of lead, they've essentially lost the GoogleDocs vs Office 365 battle. Google Docs hasn't really moved the needle in almost ten years, while Microsoft's offering is almost as good as the desktop version.
> San Francisco is the largist metropolitan area with the most wilderness/open space around it in the world.

It's high on the list, but it's not the one with the most:

Vienna 51%
Singapore 47%
Sydney 46%
Hong Kong 40% 70% is the total green space 40% is protected
Rio De Janeiro 40%
London 38.40% Almost 40%!
Stockholm 30%
Johannesburg-Gauteng 24%
New York City 19.7 % or 14% Park Score/World Culture Report
San Francisco 17.9%

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1660203
> But if the extremely wealthy, under a veil secrecy, can destroy publications they want to silence,

Is there some method of 'destruction' that isn't reported on here, other than Peter Thiel financing Hulk Hogan's lawsuit? I think you are going to be hard-pressed to find people that think Gawker should be able to publish a 'sex tape', ignore a court order to take it down, because it's 'journalism'.
In Hardy's words, "Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. [...] It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics.

Wolfram can continue writing these articles but as long as they aren't accompanied by actual research, he is just another critic that somehow finds ways to point back to himself - which makes it even worse. At least even the self-actualized critics realize that unless they are seriously involved, they should have a bit of humble pie to avoid making their audience even more turned off.

I love Mathematica, I like the idea of cellular automata. But man, there are no excuses for what Wolfram does in every blog post. Shameless.
This is absolutely democracy. It's just democracy on the state level, rather than the local level. In this case, the state level is appropriate, because San Francisco's policies have an effect on all the surrounding cities, and all the other Americans who might want to live in SF. Would it be "undemocratic" to say that San Francisco can't unilaterally vote to stop paying federal income taxes?

In any case, cities will still have huge influence over what gets built, since every building under this law still has to comply with local zoning. All this law says is that cities can't pretend to allow development, and then arbitrarily block individual developers for no reason (or because they didn't pay enough bribes).
They still sell them today. They're called Nuclear Event Detection (NED) chips. It detects a spike in voltage from the air and drops all power to everything, acting as an instantaneous power interrupt for everything you care about.

I used to test them for Lockheed all the time on stuff that flies on stealth aircraft. There is a very specific sequence of events with very tight specs they have to pass, the whole thing is over in 250 ms, and that includes the shutdown duration.
I remember they even fixed the kernel to make sure some old viruses can still run.

See http://www.computerworld.com/article/2554467/linux/torvalds-...
Smart Tampon? The Internet of Every Single Thing Must Be Stopped
got mine in around 2005 for about $8 a year
Honest question, are your local friends mostly software engineers or do they work in other positions?

Edit: cool I see the down votes. Is this an unfriendly question? Just wondering what the diversity is like in SF and if people care
Ask HN: How do you monitor web apps and apis?
How do you monitor performance and errors of web apps and APIs? We get emails whenever there is an exception, but this is becoming less and less usable as we grow.

We process at least 500K requests a day. We have 20+ web applications on each environment and 100+ servers in several region. We use .NET.

We are trying out Stackify[stackify.com], but wondering if there are any better tools.

Thank you.
These types of discussions always depress me. You'd think from reading them that everyone has cheated or popped some Adderall at some point, and it's a normal part of college. Is that really true? I never have, unless you count making up excuses for turning in the occasional thing late. I worked hard in school and got decent but not amazing grades (3.7 something). When I hear this shit it makes me feel like I was playing the game handicapped all along.

Either that or the cheaters among is are always looking for ways to rationalize it by making it seem more normative.
I'll just put this here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y1ya-yF35g
In the absence of a regulator, something needs to keep the 'press' in check.
Couldn't be further from my intent. I'm not looking to give housing to people who are "already on top" - those people would not want to live in an old house in the Sunset ;)
That's because the Python community had a choice to stick with 2.x. If you go with Swift, Apple will make you upgrade.
The goal is of course to support the legacy interfaces without having to keep using the legacy code behind them.
Freedom from speech isn't freedom from consequences. Gawker can publish what they like, and when they break laws against revenge porn they can be sued.
Yes. I manage the servers for a small startup I'm working on, we sell our software to the enterprise and have to do a custom deployment for each one of them which is very time consuming. I'm considering installing cloud foundry and doing all the deployment through that
I might be interpreting your words, but are you suggesting that being extremely wealthy is reason enough to give up on privacy?
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They specifically dropped the part of the case that would allow an insurance payout. Typically, people who don't want to destroy an organization will prefer to get the more assured money from insurance.
> Why should someone get preferential treatment just because you happen to know them?

Because I know what sort of work they will produce, their attitude towards work, and their general behavior/personality and whether that will fit into the team without causing disruption or loss of productivity. That's why.

Business isn't about making everyone feel loved and accepted, business is about making money as efficiently as possible by providing a product or service that your customer want/need. Anything which furthers those goals is absolutely fair, especially things which are discriminatory only on the basis of knowledge.
This is a poorly thought out argument. He isn't doing anything under-handed or illegal to destroy Gawker. He isn't fabricating evidence against them or paying off cops.

He's simply financing a non-spurious lawsuit, which the courts have decided was legitimate. This is exactly what I want the billionaires in our society doing.

He may be acting in his own self-interest, but it also happened to align with the public interest. And if the courts had decided against Hogan, it all would have been for nothing. There is no grand problem here. He isn't "destroying publications he wishes to silence", he's augmenting the resources of someone with a legitimate legal claim against the newspaper.

If you are putting forth the argument that merely financing a lawsuit is a corruption of the public trust, then we have much more serious problems with our legal system than Peter Thiel having it out for Gawker. Anyone should be able to fund any lawsuit that they want, and then the courts will decide if that lawsuit has merit. That's why we have courts in the first place.
I hear what you're saying, but, maybe a "brick wall" of resistance is not the only possibility.

I'd like to suggest an alternative: a companion bill that requires local and regional governments to provide adequate service and infrastructure expansion once the inevitable building surge happens.

Access to government services and infrastructure really ought to be maintained at current levels for everyone.

And if that can't be guaranteed, then cramming more people into a given city or area should be recognized for what it is: a transfer of wealth. And _of course_ there will be resistance to government mandated transfers of wealth. We should expect such resistance as a fair and rational response to these kinds of laws.

The real question becomes: how do we make this as fair as possible for both the newcomers and the existing residents?
Except at the end of the day it does not really matter. "I was here first" has usually been a strong economic force, but has never been overriding or absolute. SF has spent decades doing its damned hardest to resist growth and development, and has failed to stop it so far, and it has only caused pain for everyone involved by gentrifying unevenly and having its present housing crisis.

In the same line of thinking about democracy - the entire established population of SF might not want to attract the tech industry, but the tech industry - many times more people, in effect, than SF - chose SF. The greatest flaw in democracy is being out of the majority opinion, and if "build up SF" were not so it would not even be on the radar as a question.
Such a product exists: https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/ . It's pretty good and we pay $199/month. But they have not been active recently and the company may be dying without enough business to support them.
1. reading the source code, I'm not convinced that it is entirely safe from various soft attacks large shareholders can take to influence the agenda of the fund. (This is hard to predict though... I don't see any full-on bugs, it's more an issue of shortcuts taken in the code for efficiency reasons that may or may not cause problems)

2. Many people are locking all their eth holdings at the same time in this fund- This will prevent them from acting on eth price fluctuations that I might possibly wish to exploit- I want to leave my options open.

3. The idea of creating a company that makes executive decisions by direct democracy is untested and may simply be nonviable.

4. There's some hairy legal issues that could cause liability for shareholders, and I'd rather not have that anxiety in my life.
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Man John is just a little dramatic sometimes. Financing a lawsuit which so far seems to be legitimate under US law is equated with destroying publications?

The fact that gawker is online after losing the trial pretty much illustrates the point.
This blows me away. I think ignorance comes to those people who refer to comedian shows when talking about seriousness.

This shows me ignorance, not John Oliver, but the person who chooses to use it to satisfy some valid and real point.
I'm always amused by these Windows phone supporters that will argue until their red in the face that Nokia would have still suffered the same fate had they went Android. They have nothing to back their empty claims other than hate. The truth is that they would have fared way better had they selected Android instead of dollar cost averaging the windows phone fiasco all the way to the bottom. Nokia was destroyed by Microsoft. The only saving grace is the 8 Billion dollar severance package they got by unloading the carcass to Microsoft.
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That really hurt when I was taking Discrete Math. Extremely challenging course, and I'd put in 10 hours a week on the homework and still have a few that I just couldn't figure out. Practically cried when I saw people copying answers just before class. Unusually for a university course, the homework was worth about 60% of the grade.

I saw a fair amount of cheating in college. It really sucked to be competing with people who had an easy way out that wasn't even available to me.
Just because you are rich or influential doesn't mean you don't get a right to privacy. If people want to know his stance on being gay, ask him. At what dollar figure do you lose these rights exactly? Why should your sexual orientation matter more than your words or actions?
Peter Thiel is not directly damaging Gawker with his money. He's doing so via the intermediary of the justice system, where for whatever reason money has relevance. Peter Thiel is just incidentally throwing his money in this direction, but that money has a matter in justice is not the doing of Peter Thiel.
Exactly what is unethical about his conduct here? I really don't understand what problem anyone has with this.
I do enjoy watching people quote one of Gawker's favorite lines back at them.
And it's also precisely anathema to the purpose of a university. It's especially infuriating if people are doing it while studying CS or similar engineering topics, because in most cases the job market doesn't require the credentials only the skills and their cheating is causing grade deflation for people who actually put forth effort.
The official vacancy rate is low but the unofficial vacancy rate is much higher. Many empty units are kept off the rental market due to how tilted the rights are in favor of tenants. 39 percent of the landlords surveyed in 2003 said they kept vacant apartments off the market because of regulations. [1]

http://missionlocal.org/2015/06/a-closer-look-at-airbnbs-inn...
Reflection on six months of Swift
Seems definitely plausible given how Chrome renders these on my computer.

I wonder how this plays out handwritten on paper?
There are currently 18 residential projects in Redwood City, 7 of which are already entitled but not under construction, 1 which withdrew the application after being entitled, and three in planning, leaving 7 under construction. Given that half of the entitled projects are not proceeding, I don't see the evidence that the government is the one holding things back.
If "scrutinize them closely" means leak private sex tapes, then I'm happy to see few publications willing to do so.
Well, you know, defense contractor
> but it also happened to align with the public interest.

That is debatable and also the problem. What if it didn't align with the public interest? Is it ok then?
> U.S. universities offer an easier way to get ahead, with a quality education and better job prospects.

The better job prospects part might not be true. Those came back to China for jobs will get their current position with or without a U.S. degree.
Arabic typography can be pretty interesting. (Cyrillic, too, but that's just a `normal' alphabet.)

German Fraktur used to have lots of ligatures, and eg differently shaped s depending on context.
Basically any influence by 'extremely wealthy' is automatically viewed as an attack on 'freedom'. It's a straw-man political argument.
There's a difference between freedom of speech, and freedom to violate privacy of others.

I don't have any problem with deterrence - or "chilling effect", if you prefer to word it that way - on the latter.

It's unfortunate that it requires a millionaire to fund the court case to get us there; but the only cause for concern here is that someone else might see their privacy similarly violated, and not have a rich sponsor to pay the legal bills for personal reasons.
This is an irrelevant "attack." If you don't trust the site to serve you a safe installer, then you shouldn't trust the site to serve you a safe program either. Do you regularly verify the entire source code of programs you install?
For a few minutes after I was done reading Mr. Adeagbo's piece I wondered if maybe the story of his interview was made up or exaggerated. It's hard to believe someone would do something that mean-spirited (or perhaps just deeply insensitive). I thought to myself that, surely, people in tech don't actually say or do these kinds of things.

But I kept reading comments and the ones at the bottom put my doubts to rest.
Ditto. If only we could next rationalize and overhaul our property tax system / prop-13[1] of 1978. Then we might have a fighting chance of [ more ] affordable housing.

Maybe instead of paying linear tax based on purchase price, we could implement a reverse logarithmic scale for property tax % based on state / national / something average sales prices / sqft that would be re-assessed yearly. And then either apply that to all new home purchases, and when enacted, allow existing home owners to opt-in ( recent buyers ), or opt-out.

[1] http://www.californiataxdata.com/pdf/Prop13.pdf
Everyone is giving examples of situations where they think an autonomous car will have trouble but many of them boil down to the same thing. Cars will not truly be able to drive as well as humans until they can model humans as other rational agents and interpret subtle environmental cues (like nonstandard signage). Maybe this still isn't strong AI, but it's pretty damn close. So in that regard "fully autonomous" cars are still a ways off, more like decades than years. But I've always thought the industry will still push forward quickly, the core tech is finally getting good enough that there is a strong incentive to just go in and brute force many of the little logic "defects" inherent in the current state of AI. If it can work really really well but only for 70% of weather/driving conditions that still has huge value.
Indeed. I'm as certain as one can be that the flat earth movement is half stupid and half troll (at least on Internet message boards). I sincerely hope that my unscientific estimate is not erring in favor of the right hand side there.
I've read those articles, but I still don't see why you need dynamic features to implement the responder chain.

UIResponder can have implementations of all the methods that return NO. You override whichever you want to, and return YES. Then, instead of checking if a selector exists and then invoking it, the system just calls the method, and if it returns NO, it moves on to the next responder in the chain.

What am I missing?
> San Francisco's policies have an effect on all the surrounding cities, and all the other Americans who might want to live in SF.

You could make that case for all regions of the world. Nobody is completely isolated. We breath the same air and everyone deals with the effects of pollution.

It's not a reason to prevent changing existing law.
>Y'all "young gods" will just have to figure out some other place to hatch the singularity. Move away.

Tech employees are hated everywhere. Portland, Seattle, etc. want us gone just as much as everyone else. Why is your hatred special?
Construction costs do not explain housing prices, but construction costs do explain which developments are undertaken and which are not. Consider that construction costs are basically the same in Oakland and San Francisco, but prices are higher in San Francisco, it makes little sense to develop in Oakland. The profits are simply not there.
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"San Francisco is the largist metropolitan area with the most wilderness/open space around it in the world."

This bill specifically applies to development in urban areas only. More development in areas that are already urban will reduce pressure for cities to expand outward, into pristine wilderness. That's why environmentalist organizations like the Sierra Club support infill development: it's a low-water-use, low-greenhouse-gas alternative to suburban sprawl.