skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I will send DDOS for $xxx, send paypal to ###@example.com"

That's the the extremely unpopular speech that you're proposing to censor. The instant you say "oh but that's different" because of the contents of the speech, you're interjecting your own opinion about that speech.

Which, actually, is fine, but don't play that off as not being speech.

At the level where Cloudflare's network isn't actually being used to send the DDOS attack itself, it's also still speech.

Cloudflare will close accounts when asked, backed by court order. The problem is on today's Internet, that's nigh impossible, which realistically means it falls to Cloudflare to interject an opinion on what's good and bad, but so far they've avoided that as effectively as an ostrich burying it's head in the sand, and so are effectively supporting many bad actors.
I think that's the best description. Today with all the propaganda around 'open workspaces', white collar workers have been forced back into the lower class (in spite of getting higher salaries).

Your class is more related to your self-esteem than your income.

In one of the companies I worked for as a contractor, I had my own office and it felt great.

When I was younger, I briefly worked in a telemarketing call center for the equivalent of $20K per year. Then many years later (after I finished uni), I was earning $200K per year in a different company (as a software engineer in an open workspace).

The $200K workplace didn't boost my self-esteem much more than than the $20k workplace.
Great post. In fact, this is the perfect article to counter the fist-shaking cries of "Why is this article posted on Hacker News?"

The take-aways from this article are so broad that they are applicable to many disciplines, especially coding, technology, and entrepreneurship. Here we have two writers with very different ends. Joyce, the great poker of form, who must have mildly infuriated the utilitarian and reductive sensibilities of Wells.

The letter makes me reflect on the tensions of my own life between engaging in more experimental flights of fancy (where I'm making something I really love) and, conversely, asking myself if other people may actually find value in what I'm doing. Either way, I find articles like this much more insightful than another Iphone headphone jack op-ed or whispers from the Elon Musk rumour mill.
I wonder if the number of stolen boxes (either while in shipment or when left on porches) went up?
You're probably right!

dang, if you see this, the above might be a better link for HN
Shippers huck stuff around with little regard for the contents, particularly if they aren't blazoned all over with fragile/biohazard stickers. Fedex and UPS tend to be just about one-half step above the folks handling baggage at the airport, and how many times have you seen those people wing around suit-cases like they were throwing the hammer in the Olympics, and seeing just how far back they can toss from and still hit the conveyor belt?

If I had a nickel for every time I've had an Amazon purchase refunded or replaced because the delivery person smashed it to hell, or jammed it into a mailbox that was clearly too small, or left it out in the rain unwrapped, or even tossed it in the snowbank during a storm that dumped a foot and a half of snow and disappeared it until spring... I could probably buy a candy bar.
I think infodroid was using 'business owner' in the sense of 'captains of industry', not 'local corner store proprietor'.
I've heard there are two kinds of jobs: the kind where you shower before, and the kind where you shower after.
Is there a commonly accepted definition of middle class? (in the United States; class definition seems more rigid in England)

Preferably something that involves net worth as well as net income; for me rich and poor indicate status of wealth/net worth, which is often correlated with income, but isn't the same thing. Taxed on those with high income are considered taxes on the wealthy, but may also be taxes on people who had a one time windfall, but aren't wealthy.
Google's self-driving car is the victim in a serious crash
> Today with all the propaganda around 'open workspaces', white collar workers have been forced back into the lower class.

This is the epitome of pampered engineer BS. You aren't lower class because you don't have a private office.

$200k/year and lower class? You can afford to buy your own private office for much less than that.
I've found that phone is far more effective at resolving disagreements than email/text. For serious disagreements, meeting face to face for a beer works best.
Interesting that the interviews were done in Minneapolis, a city I'm currently spending the summer in. This city is big on public services - public transportation is particularly good. Probably everyone in that article took the Metro to the Mall. The libraries are plentiful and excellent, and there are really good amenities in Downtown. The rent/home prices around here is also astonishingly good (Note: I'm from LA). Heck I'm renting a 1500 sq ft. house with a garage and a yard for $1500/mo, and that's kinda pricey. You could probably find a reasonable 1Br around here for $400/mo.

tl dr: $30k really is middle class in some American communities.
A good native gui based profiler. Essentially an affordable version of intel Vtune.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affluence_in_the_United_States...
Newbies... The Internet has a RFC*.txt, not a README.md!

http://www.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc-index.txt
If we are to agree upon your premise, then one complaining about such things must be even less desirable to read.
That's a feature of the absurdity of compliance checkboxes.

If the auditor is an idiot, you can get a moderate finding for doing things like applying a security patch that isn't FIPS validated, or similar nonsense.
I read it as "play over Monk". It's a reinforcement of "Don't listen to me, I'm supposed to be accompanying you."

But Monk was known to get up from the piano and dance during performances.
Well then get a new Nokia dumbphone: https://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/phones/all#order_by=late....
Organizations are bad at communication. How do you disseminate that the information that "look guys, bicycles are fragile too" to ten of thousands of logistics workers?

This is an awesome hack, and it's a great way to fix behavior without having to collide with bureaucracy.

It's not ethically fraudulent because the shipper shouldn't be breaking anything. And I'm sure they do pay fees for what they break, and the shipping company is trying to do what it can fix that, but putting a picture of a TV on the box is still more effective than whatever the shipping company is trying.

I'm scared to think what else you would view as ethical fraud, if pictures-on-boxes qualifies. I tell baristas that I want "room for cream" in my Americano. But I never put cream in it--- I just want less volume so that when I walk I won't spill hot coffee on my hand. #EthicalFraud
Lots of cell carriers are starting to do HD voice with VoLTE. It's definitely helped a bit, but there doesn't seem to be much in the way of crosscarrier compatibility.

I like Skype or Hangouts. I think the latency is a lot lower. When I'm on the cell, I feel like I'm always talking over people.
Or a bobcat. Or just put one in the box.

Is the success rate of printing the decoy box that much better for the relative cost compared to just putting shock stickers on the box, though? Probably. But one is an accidental effect with no guarantee that it will work, versus a tool that is designed for this specific purpose.
afair this test was run 24/7 with no power down time. Earlier test (the one with 830? I think he moved computer mid test and had to power everything down) showed drives look healthy until you let them sit offline for a while, then it turns out all data evaporated.

840 is especially broken and dramatically slows down when you dont touch the data for >month. The "fix" is firmware silently rewriting everything in the background burning thru the rewrite cycles.
"When I was a kid, some of the guys would try to get me to hate white people for what they've been doing to Negroes, and for a while I tried real hard. But every time I got to hating them, some white guy would come along and mess the whole thing up."
-- Thelonious Monk [1]

It seems like he had some good personal interactions with white people.

[1] http://www.musicwithease.com/thelonious-monk-quotes.html
But that's the thing, you cannot ignore those parts in topology. Even if they look small compared to the rest of the body.
Bikes cost as much or more than televisions these days almost across the board. Obviously the cheapest bikes cost less than the most expensive televisions, but a decent 50" flat panel is around 600$ USD now and an entry level road bike is maybe 750-800$?
Pieter Hintjens – Building Open Source Communities – DomCode 2015
A solid example, with biting British commentary to boot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbNq2xdvU_g
Except we do know, we have a pretty darn good idea. We know how many people self-report mental illness. We know how many people actually seek treatment for mental illness. We know the self-reported rate of mental illness amongst other populations and can compare the two.

It's literally like any other disease. We don't know how many people actually get the flu every year. We only know how many people self-report getting the flu, and how many people seek treatment. Self-reported surveys are used all the time in epidemiology and we manage to form effective public policy based on that.

So sure, there's definite bias when it comes to self-reporting, but your suggestion is to ignore what data we do have and form public policy based on what? How you feel? First principles?
That's definitely a really interesting piece of prior art! It looks like the patent expired last month. I'm sure there are a lot of other interesting approaches in the space, so I'd personally (and I'm assuming other people in the HN crowd) really appreciate similar things in the comments!

A lot of the ideas for constraint-based graphics date back even earlier (1963!) to Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad (YCR's HARC revisited some of the under-explored ideas of Sketchpad in 2014 https://github.com/cdglabs/sketchpad14).

Also by HARC, there's Apparatus (http://aprt.us/) which, like g9, uses numerical gradient descent to handle constraints (we actually both use insanely awesome uncmin implementation from NumericJS).

And of course there's the work by Ravi Chugh, et al. on prodirect manipulation with Sketch-N-Sketch (https://ravichugh.github.io/sketch-n-sketch/), which handles constraints symbolically with careful provenance tracking.

From CMU's HCII, Stephen Oney's ConstraintJS (http://cjs.from.so/) also explores the idea of using constraints for building interactive web applications— though, like Sketch-N-Sketch, it's primarily a symbolic approach.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the developers of Carbide, and contributed a little bit to G9.
or "THEM"
The cell phone + supra lockbox approach could work. One would need to be a realtor though. Supra only sells through realtor associations.

Thanks for the info regarding the components.

I wonder if there'd actually be a market for this kind of thing.. i.e. One person unlocking access to physical keys in a lockbox at a remote location so that another person can gain access to something. It would be used in a temporary installation, not like ring.com installed at a front door of a house or remote access tech built into cars these days.

Another case of technology in search of a problem... :-(
The bikes that the average truck-loader comes in contact with cost $120.
So you're saying that Amazon doesn't honor your insurance policy? I guess if that's generally true for shipping companies, and there's not much competition, that explains it. (in which case, tricking them into being more careful seems more ethically appropriate).
For Science: Let's see if LG's willing to have some TV boxes printed with bicycles...
"sadly they're killing the last GSM network in Canada next year"

Source?
Will Google Natural Language API Kill the Market? Linguistic APIs Review
Grace wants to eliminate mundane work from Salesforce management
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Shaming has its purpose. I've been pulled into line on HN for some badly worded comments and for that i'm thankful because it maintains the quality here.
Will any delivery company actually just leave a TV on your porch?
I think you're massively overstating how bad HTML+CSS+JS are, but how do you feel about WebAsm + WebGL as the target?
A virtual overprotective mom (2014)
someone watcher "Her" and thought it'd be a good idea to do a kickstarter
San Francisco is getting tiny self-driving delivery robots
I've got a parallella knocking about not doing anything. Did anyone write any interesting software for it in the end, that's worth putting it to use?
Cheated. Tried to solve this for about 4 hours. Now I feel like a complete idiot...
Still fun though! Waiting for new stuff!
I encourage you to seek a better class of cleverness.

There are a bunch of clever things that I still have to remind myself exactly how they work. Several kinds of data compression come to mind.
Are Google fonts free to use in publications/books? Does anyone know?
Yes, they can ship them to me and I will verify the results.
I think this is another example of popularity and commoditization eventually destroying something.

First, telephones start out as expensive, only available in big cities. I'm not old enough to remember this, but I suspect it would have been an exclusive and prestigious club.

Eventually, telephones get widespread, and cheaper - I'm thinking like mid 90s, before mobile phones became mass market. This was "peak telephone", and it's what I remember from my youth. It was actually pretty good! As the author says, you could casually call your friends without seeming intrusive or clingy, and you could call most business or government agencies and talk to staff, getting quick responses to inquiries from knowledgeable people. Towards the end of this era, you have lots of information lines for time, weather, movies, phone banking services, etc.

Around this time, call centers are introduced - if you call a business or government agency, you don't end up talking to some knowledgeable subject matter expert about some topic, you talk to a call center operator who has a script, and if it's anything non-trivial, tries to transfer you, call back, or generally mess you around.

At this point, the phone network is so cheap, with so many subscribers that the temptation to abuse it to sell things to people is irresistible. Robo-dialling, answering machines, caller ID, and the Do Not Call registry are all introduced to the system, in a nuisance call arms race between callers and callees.

The call centers go to India, and the Philippines. The call center operators get placed behind a interactive voice response system (IVR). Now, it's pretty much impossible to get anything useful done by phone. Landlines are disconnected, people have voice numbers on their mobile devices, but refuse to answer calls from numbers that aren't in their address book.

Unfortunately, this seems to be the fundamental nature of communications networks - the story isn't much different for postal mail, fax, email, usenet, facebook. Success seems to kill the network in the end.
I get the frustration, but there are many situations where a searchable corpus of your deliberation process is a liability. This is especially true if there there are multiple stakeholders with varying positions.

That said, there is typically no intelligence behind 95% of conference calls with more than 5 parties.
@dang: ^
I'm curious, what are your main expenses?

Living in the Bay area?
Or scary eyes...[1]

But not sure what customers will think.

[1] http://www.citylab.com/commute/2013/04/posters-angry-eyes-ac...
Techies are not an ethnic group. No one goes to SOMA to try the delicious techie food.

The issue is an economically diverse city becoming polarized into a theme park and bedroom community for high earners, and a bunch of poor enclaves, with a service sector that has to commute in from outside the city.
Depends on how the pay scales. If they pay 70% more to live there but only make 50% more, they probably aren't able to save much more than their peers. This is also where the regressive nature of income taxes start to hit.
It happened to me. A TV intended for someone else ended up at my front door, and I had to chase the delivery guy down. Not even the correct street. It was shipped from Walmart, no signature required.
A Concise history of neural networks
That can be a good thing! As noxious as a conference call is, a drawn out mailing list battle is far worse.

Those situations are so common at Microsoft that they put a button in Outlook specifically to mute those threads.
You know, things have gotten ridiculous if we have reached the point where living in any particular geographic area larger than a neighborhood has become a luxury.
I mean it seems like Houston does get a lot right. The off-street parking and mega blocks though are really where it gets it wrong. That said, how much do people actually want to walk around in Texas? It's fucking hot down there most of the year say compared to Boston or NY which are only really unbearable for small portions of the year. I was in Austin a month ago and I was really unhappy walking half a mile in the heat compared to say Boston where I'll walk two or three miles to cross the city and not even think about it.
If you go to the Pricing tab you'll see links to buy the parts through popular North American and European distributors. This data is supplied via Octopart.
> My wife and I combined make well above the limit for 1%-er range, yet we both feel middle class, although upper middle class is probably more accurate.

If the definition of upper class is top 1%, then upper class is accurate, but maybe the top 1% threshold in the bay area is higher than you think?

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-salary-of-the-top-earners...

http://gis.mtc.ca.gov/home/images/motm/motm212.pdf

I made the argument on another comment that most "rich" people still work for a living, it seems you're a good example of that.

And yeah, having done it, I know first hand how you can be rich on paper, but live in the bay and feel like a college student.

Don't know if it makes you feel any better, but roughly 99% of people make less money than you do, and also don't feel rich and will also be hosed if they lose jobs. ;)
Well I didn't say it was a huge deal necessarily. Just not totally clean. Perhaps fraud was a bad choice of words and I changed it. And I agree it's a very interesting hack.

I don't necessarily agree that a shipper shouldn't be breaking anything. I think that they should meet whatever the agreement was. If the agreement is "we'll try super hard not to break stuff" and they're clearly not holding up their side of the bargain when it comes to bikes, then sure, changing the picture is fair game. If the agreement is "we'll pay for anything that breaks", then they should determine how careful they want to be, since they're footing the bill for it. Making that determination for them by changing the picture, I think is not totally honest, unless they also have a history of not paying up.
I hate phone calls, especially from people who just "like to talk." Nobody should expect someone to be able to take 30 minutes or an hour unscheduled from their day.
Hey, I do this kind of stuff. Email me and I'll help you get started.
> How do you disseminate that the information that "look guys, bicycles are fragile too" to ten of thousands of logistics workers?

A 3 paragraph email.
This reminds me of the Ebonics controversy of the 1990s[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_Ebonics_controversy
I am familiar with kaggle, and from my reading of postmortems what I'm seeing is that winning is a matter of finding the right packages to use in the right ways.

This is the difference between theory and practice. If you care about practice, hire from kaggle. If you care about theory (as presumably openai does), then don't.
NYT Editorial Board Endorses Hillary Clinton for President
Strange. I've never had a damaged Amazon item in 100+ items.
Question regarding "averting a Detroit outcome":

What was SF (and SV) like after the Dotcom crash? I was in high school at the time on the East Coast and haven't really heard any first-hand accounts of what the cityscape was like after. Did rents / housing become cheaper? Was there mass out-migration? Etc.
But if I searched in the dialect of the content I would get the content. This is simply segregating the internet. Not "pushing down" rankings.

As an aside - this is a slippery slope conversation. Some people believe language requires rules. Other, more special people, think language is fluid and anarchist. The latter of those two do not make search engines.
Very constructive, thanks. We recently installed the app (Intercom) and it has really helped provide a channel for feedback which we have then used to prioritize improvements. I'll talk to my team about reducing the number of pages the automated pop up shows up on though.
I'm kind of surprised HN doesn't implement censorship of swear words. Also I worked at a company where Fuck was dropped all the time. I'm not sure why people think it's unprofessional.
Doubtful. The largest mail order bike companies are rather upscale. Look at Canyon, Planet X, Rose, Bikes direct, and others for a sampling of the most popular mail deliver bike companies. These aren't fly-by-night sketchy retailers either, Canyon bikes are ridden by many pro teams despite not having a storefront presence.
I'm really puzzled as to why signed hashes have not essentially fixed the problem for people with largely static sites, like Krebs, AFAIK. No one needs to know how Krebs feeds new signed versions of his website into a proxy cache of at least one ISP, then the resources to block it somewhere are the resources to bring down an ISP from within its clients.

In many respects, Akamai is (or was?) that proxycache system and all that is broken is viewing it as an independent entity that doesn't inherently have to have greater resources than all compromised clients. If every ISP were providing that replication for the most hit (such as most attacked) sites then offlining sufficient hacked clients to keep their cache running becomes an entirely local problem.
I like what you shared. I actually can't believe I haven't seen that paper before (it has >4k citations ffs), but I admit, I work in a less statistical side of physics.

What I'll say is that what something is is a fuzzy term, although I generally agree what you mean especially about a power law says about the behavior in the tails especially. That comes from thinking a small deviation on the tail is "small" due to optics and not realizing it is deviation on orders of magnitude. That might be what the replier to my comment was referring to. That's why "two graphs" is usually a good answer.

PS
Also, I would never fit a straight line on a loglog or semilog graph, nor should anyone ever. People who do that don't understand what least squares is at all.
Loved all the Sierra games, especially Hero's Quest.

Any recommendations for PG (kids) for something similar today? Deus Ex seems good but not for under 10... I really loved the fantasy world, the interactive story telling, and the challenges of the Quest for Glory series.

Would pay good money for a hand painted, well crafted, modern point and click with an immersive story like this. The 8bit EGA/VGA stuff brings back warm memories but I don't think that's the thing that made it magical for me.
I saw that, but decided to go for the secondary source because they hugely improved the title. "Our secret’s out" is way less informative and, IMO, too much attention-seeking.

Yes, I could have tried to mix the new title with the original post, but I feared that would get changed back.

Also, in a sense, https://twitter.com/jasongay/status/772556605548326912 is the original, but that's "[citation needed]"