skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to answer for the parent but IMHO it's not so much we shouldn't care. It's we should be very careful about what rights and freedoms we give up and how much power we give to a state to scrutinize our daily lives when the very thing we are trying to prevent has not had a major impact on our daily lives.

Yes, it had a major impact on some people and their families and their pain is not to be dismissed lightly but on the other hand we should not give up our way of life to prevent these things from happening, especially when evidence supports that the new laws that are written after these events seem to do very little to actually further protect us.

While a little sensational I think the graphic in this article concerning the TSA in the US does a pretty decent job of summing up exactly what we've gotten from "enhanced" security in the US.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120405/04390118385/tsa-s...
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Won't be so easy if they obfuscate/encrypt the binaries.
Could a professional organization of speech therapist come together and fund a competitor? Obviously you would need to deal with the free rider problem somehow.
My complete guess based is that the body is either already cremated, or in the hands of the family of the deceased. And they wouldn't exactly be jumping at the opportunity to let the police mess with their dead relative.
Pretty sure the Nazi dictatorship first proved that censorship doesn't thwart innovation. It's a totally different question as to whether it is desirable, let alone won't just end in disaster as an unsustainable system.
My interpretation of it was that a 2.7X delta in price between lowest and highest isn't correlated linearly with affordability. i.e. a house that's twice as expensive per square foot doesn't make it half as affordable. People who already have to leverage themselves extensively to mortgage a property will never afford a property twice as expensive per square foot so it's actually infinitely less affordable, if you see what I mean.
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"Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on..."

How does one misinterpret this message to be racist when it is so blatantly racist in and of itself?

"Throwing the racist card has been a pretty effective tactic for the left over the past 8 years..."

With all of the dark skinned people getting killed by police lately it seems more likely that the US has a huge problem with racism. In that context the notion of a "racist card" makes no sense at all in a logical argument.
Facebook sure adds value. It connects people. Friendships, marriages, partnerships, businesses, and more exist because of facebook. I am not a user but the value it provides is real. Otherwise people would not use it (Google+).
Doug, set up a shop with your designs for sale.
Just ask them straight out what the "communications issues" with the existing manager are.

If you're uncomfortable challenging them, frame it as you trying to be the best candidate you can be. "If I take this position, I want to make sure I have a full understanding from day one of what I need to do to contribute the most to the team. What could I be doing to help you?"

This is a question they really ought to be able to answer; not in terms of why the current person sucks, but in terms of where the team is breaking down currently. A good answer to this question means they've thought about the problems and the personnel change is part of some kind of strategy to solve them, which is a good sign.

If they won't answer that, odds are their internal culture isn't very communicative in general, which is bad. And if they can't answer that, it means they don't know where the breakdowns are and are just blaming someone reflexively, which is even worse.
Why that order?
That's definitely real. Normal, unobfuscated VPN will result in packet drops after a couple of minutes. Even obfuscated VPN will trigger packet drops if you send too much traffic.
> Open up an Apple privacy related article's comments

Because people post those to HN all the time.

Or not, because that's not as fun as bashing MS.
Except his net worth far exceeds that which is required to move from PayPal phase to Great Human Projects phase. I think you're giving him way too much credit.

He wants to spread a platform across the globe that "connects" people by isolating them in front of their screens/VR goggles. That's the grand vision in a nutshell.
It's the kind that's nearly impossible to do well, even for the right kind of freak. Software engineering needs a hell of a lot of systematizing and simplification before it's well enough understood that well-balanced adults can begin to accomplish something useful after simply studying it. We're still in the bloodletting-and-leeches phase of the profession.
Ask HN: Addressing Canadian Telco Abuse of Power
Hi HN,

I've been living in Canada for a few years now, after having lived in several other countries. When I first arrived, I was shocked by how expensive phone/internet providers are, and as time went on, things only appeared to get worse.

Every now and then, I check "competing" offers only to find out that they essentially cost the same, sometimes in roundabout ways (confusing consumers with a myriad of options and such). To make matters worse, costs are actually going up. One such example was Shaw downgrading all of their offers (bandwidth, usage, etc.), while effectively hiking up their prices. Likewise, they'll increase the price of your existing package every so often, with absolutely no justification.

I've tried to get clarifications from various telcos, which went about as well as one might imagine. As many other people are, I'm convinced there is corporate collusion at play here, which is reinforced by the few oligopolies running the business. Despite repeated outrage over the years (a quick Google search for Canadian telco oligopolies/collusion will bring up tons of results), nothing has happened and things keep getting worse.

What resources are available to the general public to push this trend back? How would the kind people of HN address this situation in a constructive, realistic and effective manner?

Thank you!
It's common knowledge that they are almost entirely people that have something to prove, how tough they are. Many of them are bullies that couldn't hack it in the military and joined a police force. They're all bullies, and all bullies are cowards. The reason these unarmed black men are getting shot is probably not a direct "I hate black people" kind of racism. It's "I'm a fucking coward, I see a big black man and I'm scared, so I'll pull my gun." If you're scared (and probably stupid) and holding a gun, bad things are likely to happen.

tl;dr american cops are fucking cowards that were probably bullies in high school and never grew up.
They have. Repeatedly. And for whatever reasons most are unaware of, they appear to be getting away with their actions more or less. Why? I don't know, ask a lawmaker. Or better yet, ask a lobbyist. Even better, ask the DHS PAC:

Edit: US example, I have no idea how France government works.
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/11/30/bfp-report-meet-t...
I'd wish for that to be true for a few different reasons, but it's not going to happen. FB will exist, morph into what other services provide, and even perhaps struggle a bit to grow or to handle a reduction in active users as other services (like Snapchat) grab more users. The social media world will see more and more copying of ideas between different walled gardens. But the resolve shown by FB in keeping the platform and making it better is in stark contrast to the several bungles and lack of focus and attention from the likes of Google+ (still no vanity URLs for all in 2016?!).
Not even Google/Apple take such a large cut and they catually provide more value to their value-creators and they also don't try to sell themselves as altruistic
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Thank you for stating the obvious! I'm getting tired of people getting away with hijacking the conversation.
It's my understanding that many police are taught to heavily prioritize their own safety over that of suspects/perpetrators (and at times innocent civilians too). It's part of the 'warrior mentality' - for much the same reason that they're quick to shoot first and ask questions later, they're also slow to aid the defeated, as they've got to first make sure they're all right, their comrades are all right, the proper notifications are delivered up the chain of command, the chain of custody is properly established on all present evidence and individuals being detained, etc. None of which is remotely reasonable, imo, but that's the reality of the warrior mentality.

What really bothers me most about it is that police and their defenders tend to fixate on the fact that their 'lives are on the line every day' - but they don't mention that their training and behavior goes to great lengths to mitigate the inherent risk of their job, to the point of putting suspects and civilians at significantly higher risk of injury or death when interacting with police.
I find that a lot of Angular apps are pretty badly composed... The use of one better option doesn't fix when you don't understand when/how/why to apply a given paradigm or architecture.

I'm fighting with this daily... :-( (passively looking for a new job because of it, frustrated)
I am not sure that this is the clearest possible written explanation - "Each side is two tatami lengths (four widths, two widths and a length) long"?

It is often the case that words + diagrams is the clearest way to explain something, and in most cases where you have a choice, you can choose both. Symbolic expressions fall somewhere between the two, and when used properly, further increase your chances of getting the point across. There's no need to turn every choice into an exclusive dichotomy, regardless of how common that is on HN.
I really wanted to believe that cops shooting black people basically for sport was a media invention.

A lot of us were open to the idea that it was a media invention. Then cell phones began to have cameras in them. As a side effect, we found that UFOs aren't real, and there's no Big Foot. (No, this is not original with me.)

I think what we've really found out is that for a lot of people, if they have a gun and they get just a little bit nervous, the slightest thing will have them pulling the trigger. For example, there was a video a few years back of some arrest in Nevada. Cop standing over the cuffed and restrained accused with gun drawn, and the gun suddenly goes off (not hitting the accused, fortunately). I watched the video several times trying to figure out what set her off. I have no idea. All I could conclude was that she had her finger on the trigger and...I don't know, tripped? Accused ripped a fart? She looked as surprised as anyone, so "it just went off"? (For the uninitiated, handguns don't just "go off"; either you intentionally pulled the trigger, or you fucked up.)

When questioned in this case by the victim as to why the cop shot him, cop allegedly said, "I don't know". That might be true. So maybe we need to teach cops to keep that finger out of the trigger guard until ready to shoot, like the rest of us were taught.
Control is power. Google controls what people can find on the web. Facebook wants to control what people can access on the web.
I am currently working on an alternative approach which is based on a column-oriented paradigm for in-stream analytics as opposed to flow-orientation. It is an adaptation of DataCommandr (http://conceptoriented.com) which is a column-oriented approach to data processing. Unfortunately, StreamCommandr is not yet available but it would be interesting to compare advanatages and drawbacks of these two paradigms.
Many times while listening to podcasts I want to know more about something mentioned. My wish has come true with this
Lovely piece! A little misleading with it's z-axis (given the range isn't very much and it seems exaggerated or logarithmic at least) but that's more artistic license, which is fair (and pretty).

I would be interested to see what it would look like with a more linear scale though.
I'm white, male and have long, blonde hair. I had similar reactions.

I must be in 50 people's photo collections.

Only one person asked me before photographing me. He was about 14, and on a rare school trip to Nanjing from home somewhere in the north. He said he'd not seen a white person before. I think everyone that photographed me was a tourist.
MS, Apple, Google... distinguishing the parties from the actions serves only to muddy the argument for privacy over monetization with red herrings.
And they probably want something they could reliably continue to unlock the phone with. Sure, they could just remove all authentication once they're in, but maybe they want to tamper with the phone and its settings as little as possible.
That would imply something like a $10,000 profit on each F-150, if all the other models just broke even. Seems unlikely.
The video doesn't give any examples of complex formulae written using their "triangle of power" notation. This may be useful for teaching mathematics, but it's not clear that it scales. Much of the benefit of the notation could come from simply writing x⁽¹/²⁾ instead of √x. (Annoying, unicode doesn't have a superscript slash. "(",")", "=", and all the digits are available in superscript, but not "/".).

A huge hassle in moderately advanced mathematics, where new domain-specific operators are introduced, is ambiguous precedence of operators. There's a tendency to define operators in such a way as to minimize the number of parentheses required for the most popular uses of that operator. Such idioms make formulas hard to read. For an example, watch Andrew Ng's videos on machine learning.

It might be useful to always parenthesize in textbooks. Teach kids to always write "log(n)" instead of "log n". After all, how does "log n × m" parse? Is there an official standard on that? If so, where?
Why not FUSE itself? I wonder if the Windows Subsystem for Linux guys could get FUSE working.
No, I don't know what Zuck is in it for. I just don't like what he does, nor the way he does it, regardless of what his intent is.
I didn't think I would ever follow a specific "traditional" columnist regularly until I noticed one great piece too many from Bloomberg View on HN, with comments drawing my attention to the author always being the same guy.

Today I read him regularly. In fact, it's the only content source I didn't bother adding to my RSS feed, since I remember to open it every morning.

So yeah, passing it on and mentioning: keep an eye on this Matt Levine guy, he is great.
Can the answer be both? If you're trying to use it as a chart to figure out home prices it doesn't provide enough information and it's misleading when it comes to determining the numeric relationship between regions. But if you're using it to get a sense of the impossibility of moving from one of the lower-cost parts of the city to one of the more expensive areas of SF, I think this captures that emotional feeling. I say that as a former SF homeowner who used to live right below the base of that big cliff face going from the Richmond up to Twin Peaks/Noe Valley. Looking at home prices in those areas gives you that feeling of smashing your face against one of those cliff walls.
> Is this a calculated derailment technique? Why MS? Because MS is the subject of the article

Looks to me like it's calling out people for their hypocrisy.
>I'm pretty sure everyone thinks visually or geometrically or spatially or something like that. Most certainly visually if you're not blind.

I don't think visually or geometrically or spatially or something like that.

I'm naturally thinking in terms of words and abstract concepts. Visualizing something in my mind is actual work; you can describe a person to me in minute detail without me ever visualizing what they might look like. My sense of direction sucks, and I typically don't solve problems visually (or geometrically or spatially).

Of course I can still convert between thoughts and images (though conversion between thoughts and words is often easier), and sometimes a problem is easier to explain visually. I understand your proof and find it satisfactory, but it took me some time and I would have prefered a proof by induction.
Just a reminder that fingerprints are not passwords.
Do you connect to wifi at least once a month?
Given most cat owners I've met... that's optimistic.

That's why many seem to go with those automated ones it would appear.
Perhaps, but my point is that residents of a country will always oppose immigrant groups, regardless of their origin. It's not necessarily racism. I know people who oppose immigrants. They don't believe hispanics are an inferior race or anything like that. They are mainly concerned about American jobs being taken by the immigrants.

You can't use "racism" as a fully general insult against anyone that disagrees with you.

Europe may or may not have higher rates of immigration. It's irrelevant to US policy. And it certainly seems like they are starting to have their own problems with immigrants the last few years.
Google; no idea, but they're not in the desktop market or used as a business OS exclusively so that may be why.

Apple; there's a toggle switch to turn off telemetry and it works. But it's also not a primary business operating system and doesn't hold the market capital the same way either.

If the country was running on apple products for mail, appointment making, meetings, and all national work was done on apple OS, then it would be open to the same scrutiny. But even so, they've been good about keeping their nose out of your operating system.
What I'm curious to see is if anyone is going to take the opposite end of that bet: Facebook's "openness"/"World is flat"/"End of history" vs. decentralized, tribal, anonymized, balkanized social networks.

As Facebook keeps accumulating users, and as users accumulate "friends", the SNR decreases and makes the product experience less valuable, notwithstanding the efforts they make to "optimize" the feed. Mine is mostly filled with things I'd rather never see.

Facebook is a social network that mostly reproduces geographic social networks, but that doesn't connect people based on affinities. The people discovery mechanism is close to non-existent. People in your Facebook neighbourhood are people who most likely live in your current, past, or "work" neighbourhood.

Are there any social networks that try to dynamically create communities/"neighbourhoods" based on behavior? (e.g. upvote a post and you get "closer" to the poster, with symmetric behavior for downvoting, and second order effects propagating to other users based on their own upvote/downvote of said post).

Apologies if that's too vague, I'm thinking out loud here.
last time I took the bus some guy fell asleep on my shoulder. It's loud, slow, too warm, uncomfortable, and literally makes me feel ill about half the time (I get terrible motion sickness).
The standard joke is that Elon runs on Mars time, so "1 year" for him is about 1.9 standard years.
This is a pretty big part of what the Supreme Court does, although I guess the majority of the time it's because of an appeal or a lawsuit against some other entity and not a lawsuit against the US government directly.
I don't believe that humans can really sense it on their own. But there was/is a group of "body hackers" who would implant a small shard of a magnet into their finger tip to allow them to feel electromagnetic fields.
Why is SF so opposed to building up? Build more high rises filled with apartments and condos, there are plenty of areas that could be rezoned to accommodate high rise living.
I don't have experience with Sequel and rails 5 specifically. The thing is, models are really not very coupled to rails. We don't have to do anything special to use Sequel models - it has good support for Rails migrations and everything.

Regarding authentication, my company makes authorization and access control software, so authentication isn't something we just toss a plugin at.
I'm not saying it won't exist. I just think it'll go the way of Yahoo! (oh wait.) I think people will move on to something else. Many young people don't have an account and many people who do only have one begrudgingly.
Superformula
Is that much different from Android? Google is known for being incredibly pervasive, and also invasive.

I'd argue that my phone is almost a lower common denominator than my computer. My phone knows my geographic location at virtually all times, has logged into most of my web accounts, handles all of my social contacts (definitely more than Facebook. But even people who primarily use Facebook likely use it mostly from their phone and not their computer).

If we want to care about this stuff, things need to change in very dramatic ways.
Overloaded symbols became a nightmare in some of my later undergraduate work.

It is not the math classes where I'm worried that this would be a problem, it's in the engineering courses. There's a few situations in mechanics/structures/materials that I can think of where using ∆ instead of the existing 3 notations would become nearly untenable. In these circumstances each "line" of a solution/step usually took the form of more than one page.
> Rule 11 sanctions

Surely some federal rules of criminal procedure equivalent.
He was shot three times. If it was once, maybe an accidental discharge, which is still unacceptable, but mistakes happen and we're all human. But three times? You can't shoot someone three fucking times and not know wtf happened or tell me it was a triple accidental fucking discharge. What a load of shit. TRIPLE ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE!??!?!
Also, in case that doesn't work for some reason, here's the post as one big image: http://imgur.com/a/cIk1h
So why this, instead of Vim with Lua scripting? Is this meant to be embeddable in the same sense Lua is meant to be?
>>> import pysize
>>> import sys
>>> pysize.get_size([])
0
>>> sys.getsizeof([])
72
>>> a = [[],{},()]
>>> pysize.get_size(a)
0
>>> sys.getsizeof(a)
96 # probably also wrong?

It's cool idea, but needs a bit more work I think.
Yeah, it was up and down for a bit. If it's down again and people want to see the visuals, here's the post as one large image: http://imgur.com/a/cIk1h
It's not conclusive by any means but Mythbusters tested this and came to the conclusion that tooth filings don't act as an antennae:

http://mythresults.com/episode4
:(

s/sabateur/saboteur/g
I lived in SF for 17 years (moved to NYC 3 years ago), and there is one very simple reason: NIMBY. Most SFers would rather see suburban sprawl and the destruction of precious farmland than build up "their" city. They are fundamentally opposed to the "Manhattan-ization of SF".
> highly questionable ROI to the public

Only if you exclude people working for the public sector from you know, the public.

Those things create jobs for voting constituents. That's the main ROI here. Reduction in crime, drug use and increased security are just beneficial, but not necessary side effects of these initiatives.
> The most important reason is that, when used correctly, it is already significantly safer than a person driving by themselves and it would therefore be morally reprehensible to delay release

Doesn't Tesla charge a large fee to have autopilot enabled on your car? Isn't that equally morally reprehensible?
I feel ya. Thanks for making this and thanks for sharing it!