skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wget or curl might be examples of breakage.

I'm known to use console/text clients (w3m, lynx, links, elinks[2]) from time to time. Cloudflare definitely interferes with these.

Not sure about the other examples given.

And, to hijack: I wanted to say thanks for the work on a Tor-friendly anonymised reputation system. I've commented on that in the past, and need to take a closer look / see others' thoughts, but definitely appreciate the effort.
InfraKit: what you need to know
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I agree it is unlikely that it would be able to compete with Google Now. I see Samsung having more success putting this into their appliances.
Game Engine Using C++11 [pdf]
This was very informative, thank you!
I see a lot of growth potential for manufactured goods if you measure them in mass. I'm not sure there's great growth potential if you measure them in money. Every wave of industrial relocation so far has overtopped the previous one by lowering costs. China's steelmakers are exporting more tonnes of steel than US steelmakers did 50 years ago, but they're also commanding significantly less money per tonne. For that matter, if poor countries are going to get wealthier but buy manufactured goods from abroad, where is their new wealth coming from if not manufacturing or services?
My anecdotes are the opposite. Usually the parents had a job they hated (manufacturing or service sector), and encouraged their kids to attend college.
I suspect, though I have no way of knowing, that she has been thoroughly disabused of any Google-exceptionalism she may have harbored at one point. Remember this was from 2010. Google Reader was 3 years from being discontinued, Google's motto was still "Don't be evil," Buzz was an experiment that people still took seriously. The rose-colored glasses were firmly affixed to many intelligent faces, and it's hard to fault her for hoping something was intrinsically different about the company and its culture.

I'm very curious whether she still thinks and hopes the same things about Google that she did then.
Article on same subject posted a few minutes ago; currently #5 on front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12648990
Well, giving your private key to Keybase is optional. But there is probably no way to prove that they don't have your private key?
Here's the US table of employment by category.[1] (I keep mentioning this table in discussions of employment.) 14% of the workforce makes all the stuff. That's manufacturing, mining, construction, and agriculture. 14%. US manufacturing employment peaked in 1979. Manufacturing output is at peak now.

That 14% number was about 50% in 1950, and maybe 90% in 1900. That's how much things have changed.

As for imports, China's government has decided that it is going to reduce its imports from the rest of the world. This is part of the "China 2025" program announced by Li Keqiang in 2015.[2] The US may have to reduce its imports from China to keep up. At most, though, this will add a few percent to manufacturing employment.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_201.htm
[2] http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/922394.shtml
> And if your theory that companies prioritizing results for profit would lose to companies that always prefer the best products, why is DuckDuckGo still in what... fourth or fifth place?

You'd need to argue that DuckDuckGo's search results are better; I don't think they are. That's what made Google first among many competing search engines, before there was even a clear business model in it. Today the incentive to outperform is bigger.

If a product Y definitely better than X comes along, and only Google Search fails to rank it higher, people will start thinking "I rather search on Bing too, as it finds better products in this category".
"An Open Letter From Elizabeth Holmes" posted by Staff Writer

It wouldn't surprise me if a shadow writer indeed wrote this letter "from" Elizabeth Holmes. That's how the world of open letters from CEOs works, right? But usually they wouldn't expose the farce this way?
What would they do? If they can maintain say 5% of its hype valuation that's worth more than the market/product they have (nothing).
Andy Grove spent the last decade or so of his life crusading about this. He framed the problem as, Silicon Valley invests a great deal in creating innovation, but outsources the scaling of it. Even though that may be in the short term best interests of the companies doing the outsourcing, both they and the country lose out on the economic growth, jobs, and crucial institutional knowledge that scaling innovations brings. And the knowledge transfer to other countries better enables them to continue building on the original innovation, developing their own capacity for original innovation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Grove#Preference_for_a_...
The words you're putting in my mouth are very imaginative, but no, I don't believe in exploiting people. I'm saying people on here pointing out upsides of this, don't deserve to be accused of trying to "whitewash," because finding the upside is actually a good way to handle shitty things that happen.

The advice applies in the mental and emotional realm and isn't supposed to be an answer to "what to do in the practical realm to resolve the issue." People should go ahead and take whatever actions they can toward a satisfactory resolution. But that part is boring to me, because usually the actions to take are obvious, and because even when you do everything right, still the outcome might go the wrong way. You're forced to conclude in that case that the outcome was "outside your control." However, I would argue that even when it goes your way, the outcome probably was outside your control. This sounds defeatist but is actually empowering because you can focus on the things that are WITHIN your control, which is always the interesting part. Learning a lesson from a shitty thing or not, is within your control. How you frame it to yourself, is within your control. Actually it's almost (I'm saying ALMOST) better if things DON'T go your way, especially a few non-catastrophic things that don't ruin your life. But they need to be things that at least hurt a little. Because then you have the chance to practice the kind of magical alchemy I'm talking about here, where you make gold out of lead.
Nobody is mentioning telomeres? That's the key to longevity, the only key. If telomeres can be changed to have their counters not expire that will mean an infinite life.
You make some good points but I think you go a little off the rails with the social commentary.

The truth is that wages a worker can earn are bounded at the top by how much value they add. If they are paid more than the value they create they'll be fired (unless they're executives).

A manufacturing line can produce millions of dollars of value with a few dozen workers. This means if the workers organize properly and if they're not undermined by foreign competition then they can potentially capture a lot of value and have high incomes.

The "service" jobs that are replacing them add much less value. A caregiver can only work with one person at a time, and maybe six or eight in a workday. That guarantees the job will be low wage or not done at all.

Our economy used to produce jobs by the tens of millions where an average guy with average ability and a willingness to endure hard work and monotony could buy a house, raise a family, go on the annual vacation to Niagara Falls or the Grand Canyon, have his wife work as much or as little as she wants and eventually retire comfortably. The economy doesn't produce these jobs anymore.

Now we have jobs that are still well compensated but comparatively small in number and highly specialized or jobs that are not and can not provide wages to live the lives people used to have.
Again, I think because of the limits of terminology and the forum, it seems like we're arguing past each other. But we probably agree on more than we disagree on.

"Judiciously used", by the meaning of the words, limits what it describes to cases where it is in fact the right set of decisions. The injudicious cases are the ones I'm interested in picking out.

If you have a pest or pathogen problem that is recurring, applying RoundUp or some other chemical combatant is not as good as introducing a rotation or a biological competitor or predator. If you're soil is consistently deficient in certain elements--the overall better strategy is to introduce organic matter that feeds life in the soil (rotations, compost, etc.), rather than applying a factory-made fertilizer. The factory input just isn't as sustainable season-to-season as feeding biological matter into the soil.

There are also several perspectives from which to measure outcomes, that may have conflicting interpretations--flavor, nutrition, ecological impact, short-term vs long-term economics, etc.

So to the point that Denmark encourages good long-term economics, ecological impact, flavor, and nutrition--it's a good, sustainable project.
Reminds me of the time I dreamed up the web browser back in about 1991 and I was convinced it would be the next big thing for dialing up to BBSs.
I too like the movie 'Her'
Essentially, to get a nonterminating, program, your top level function needs to take a piece of codata to corecurse over to run indefinitely. Since you can't actually write a program that takes no arguments that produces an infinite piece of data, all programs must terminate.
How to Conquer Your Fear ( and Follow Your Trading Plan)
So many ways around paywalls. Doesn't always work, but almost always worth a try, it's so easy.

- The "web" link at the top of a comments page takes you to the google news search result.

- If DDG is your searcher, this takes you to the google news result:

ctl-K[home]!gn[space][enter]

(ctl-k might have to be ctl-l if your location and search fields aren't combined)

- Mobile: select the title, search for it.

- Some sites are just inept. The Boston Globe throws up a blocking image asking you to register so that you can see the content that you've already completely downloaded. Just choose reader mode, or if that isn't available, then turn off styles.

- Search for the same story at some other site. Often Yahoo carries WSJ articles verbatim, without a paywall.

- Just read the HN comments.

- Pay.

- Don't read.

- ...
That's one of the things that made Philip K. Dick a brilliant futurist author. His tales focused on the social problems of the people in speculative futures.
Please try to judge comments in their context and not look for excuses to try and humiliate someone with sarcasm. I was discussing standards with @int_19h, who brought up the issue of new methodologies. Of course being correct isn't a new standard, I agree with you, but that's not what was being discussed.

Of course morals shouldn't be compromised by scientific objectivity. Again, you're arguing a straw man - that's not the issue I was talking about.

I have stated multiple times, including my first reply to you, that I think the bot is fine. My argument in context is that a paper cannot change because it has been published. Do you disagree with that? That doesn't have any bearing on whether bots or people find & publish errors later. It does have a bearing on how people will respond to PR campaigns to publish errors when nothing can be done about it on the part of the author. Statcheck will do good things for authors who get to use it before they publish rather than after.

Maybe you're not reading all of what I wrote? Maybe I hurt your feelings?
“We’re moving from a mobile-first world to an AI-first world” -Google CEO
What are your thoughts/opinions about this statement?

I believe this was said in yesterday's Google conference by CEO Sundar Pichai. It is in reference to devices like Echo, Siri, and Google Home gaining popularity.
I just have a standard Amazon Payments account I used maybe once or twice. I set it up to use Kickstarter back when they only supported Amazon Payments. Then they started using Experian for identity verification and because I had no credit history, I didn't exist in Experian's system and they disabled my account and requested that I submit various identity documents to reenable it. Every time I tried to do so, I would hit an error saying I couldn't submit my ID because my identity couldn't be verified.

After getting frustrated with the absurdity of that situation, I contacted support and they said it was a mistake and they reset my account and to try again. I did. Same errors. Then support told me that if I didn't submit ID documents within a certain number of days, my account would be permanently closed. I responded saying I had been trying to do so repeatedly over multiple periods of time and constantly got locked out and prevented from continuing every time I tried. No reply. Then a final announcement my account was permanently banned.

In the year since, I've contacted them sporadically trying to see if they've changed their policy or will reconsider, and just get blanket statements about my account being closed and nothing they can do. The last time I did this, they got fairly aggressive and said they could not and would not be reinstating my account, would not tell me why, and would not respond to any further inquiries from me.
U.S.VPN provider leaves Russia after server adoption of anti-privacy legislation
> "We have decided to close our clinical labs"

...or, perhaps more accurately, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services has banned Elizabeth Holmes from running any kind of blood testing laboratory[1]. It seems a little odd to write a letter making it sound like you're just pivoting when in fact your chief executive is not permitted to carry out the kind of business they were previously carrying out.

[1]:http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-regulator-bans-theranos-ceo-...
I doubt she actually wrote this but to be fair all of their posts are written by "Staff Writer" except an op-ed linked by "Theranos Staff."
What you trust is the app store manager. The entire ecosystem doesn't need to be walled off in order to achieve that.
I went to the technology page which was a whoops 404 error.
Why is it that in the Taylor Farms photo of vegetable processing, all the workers are wearing dusk masks or respirators? What is dangerous in that environment?
This is going to be great, The worlds top firms are now in direct competition with each other.

Microsoft(Cortana), Amazon(Echo), Apple(Siri), Google(Assistant/Now) and now Samsung with Viv. The possibilites are just endless, the space race netted us a lot of innovation and this should do the same. Competition leads to Innovation
THIS is a great idea. THIS is how brain-wave-mapping should be approached. THIS is actually how AI will become anything.
I feel bad for those 340 employees. I can't imagine what it would feel like to have years of your work be exposed as (basically) a farce. I can barely stand working a week without getting results much less x years of my professional life.
Manufacturing fetishism:

http://www.johnkay.com/2016/08/29/the-economics-and-politics...
Maybe I'm missing something, but...nothing? Just looking at google maps there are like 10 theranos labs just in Phoenix (my hometown).

Recently, I was talking to a doctor-friend, and they recommended that if I was curious about something like my blood sugar, but didn't want to go for a whole doctor visit, to just go over to a theranos lab and have them do it.
Thank God everyone carefully reads and follows the checked luggage rules and regulations! ;)
No, I meant _rarely_ as in it is rare to find a person so well articulated in their argument.
There go Americans throwing around the terrorism word again. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12620132
Of course.

Although emacs is no more suitable for FP than vi really, other than having better support for some of the functional languages, and for Scheme and CL (which aren't functional, but are often associated with FP, and are sometimes written in that style.
> They'll have theirs default and most people won't bother changing it.

Except in order to have Google services and the Play store you need to agree to a license with Google, which can easily mandate you not replace their stock apps with your own (or rather, not default to your own, unless the user indicates otherwise).

Now, you could ship a phone without Google Play Services, but that's very unusual in the west (less so in China et al).
The handwaviness is telling. Why would an algorithm or its creators even care about the difference? The highest bidder is the highest bidder.
A Slack Emoji Uploader. Right click on an image, give it a name, and that's it
As a regular user of all the main email marketing services:

I feel Mailchimp is missing the boat by focusing entirely on email and not offering a way to contact customers via:

1. In-app messages
2. SMS
3. Push notifications

It's also difficult / impossible to set up advanced automation sequences with it. For example, if Customer X does Y on your site, direct them to another branch with a different sequence.

Of course, their main target customers are small businesses so they may not need these advanced features but these customers would benefit tremendously from being able to for example text certain messages to customers instead of only being able to email them.
It's more than "a little odd". It's a blatant lie.
I can't understand. Helping a fellow human being who is too weak to care for herself is almost the definition of dignity to me. It may be dirty work, but there's nothing more important.

In contrast, the manufacturing job turns you into a pre-programmed cog in a big machine that consumes substantial amounts of natural resources to produce something that will most likely end up in the junk heap in a couple of years. Where's the dignity in that?
Amazing.

People can complain about conditions and what not of mass produced food but it's a big demand. I think it's ingenious the designs of these various mass-production facilities.

Sure, treat the animals with respect. Does suck to think you're born for food.

That line of cows being inseminated and sent back to where they came from. Shit. Sounds dirty haha. Poke. I don't know how they do it though so just speculating.

Great post
Theranos to lay off more than 40% of workers, focus on new testing machines
Pardon the language, but holy shit that is cool. If anybody is reading this and didn't click on that youtube link, click on it. This is seriously amazing.
Unfortunately I think it's pretty obvious why they were acquired, so 99% skeptical of their future. They were probably acquired because:

1. They realized just owning the software platform is very limiting (For example they can't compete with Apple no matter how good they are. Just look at Google maps. Thousand times better than the default Apple maps but will never be #1 map app on iOS because people always choose the default). Also, now even Google is moving towards owning their own hardware platform. As a VC funded company I think this is the best timing to exit. Otherwise it's all downhill from here.

2. Samsung wants to fight with Google/Apple/Amazon/MS and needed a weapon (because, you know, people say AI is the future nowadays).

So at best these guys will be integrated into Samsung phones to differentiate Samsung's hardware. I don't see them becoming the "open platform" that they envisioned at all.
I believe it's possible, they have already tried putting all kinds of apps on their devices that are meant to replace Google functionality.

Some of it worked, some or even most of it didn't.

One thing that we should keep in mind is that some US based services do not work nearly as good in other languages as they do in English.

For example Google Now didn't work as well in German as it did in English for a very long time. Maybe it's still like this to this day. (didn't try it anymore for some time)

So I can absolutely imagine that currently Google Now in Korean/Chinese is worse than Siri/Google Now was in its first iteration in English. For us in the West their apps might look bad and unusable, but to people in Asia our apps might look equally bad and unusable.
It is not the case that all developers have easy access to abundant income. It is at least as wrong to assume that is true as to assume that they are living hand to mouth.
Yup, communication and facilitation are great places to start for a lot of these social challenges.

As for the rest: I'm aware of at least one very effective NGO in NYC whose mission is just such food distribution. The organization is called City Harvest, and I'm sure that a) it could use fresh new ideas and technical initiatives, and b) organizations in other cities could learn a lot by copying their model and learning how they handle the legal and logistical challenges.
I'd imagine it's their sneezes and coughs.

The problem isn't what's going into the workers, it's what's coming out of them.
Being comfortable with the quirks of CSS paid my bills for half a decade so I'm not going to bag on it.

The Peter Griffin CSS gif is just perfect though.
That was my first one, too.
Not a trader, but it sounds more like a blood in the streets situation to me.
Worth reading: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/09/elizabeth-holmes-ther...
Ah yes, the Eric Schmidt-era Google was so seemingly altruistic with so much hacker ethos that all the cynical hackers dared to dream that they would save us. Alas.
California doesn't believe in non-competes. The state believes that competition is in the public interest and enforcing non-competes would be counter to that.
I think the upper bound on manufacturing jobs would be the cost of automation.
Also: is the $241mil estimate the actual literal amount reserved/given to the homeless of SF -- or is it the budget for the entire project of dealing with homelessness in SF? I see this number get thrown around and I don't think I've ever seen anyone clarify this bit? It seems quite obvious and very significant to factor in operation costs if this is the case.

If things like the budget for those shelters and their employees also come out of the $241mil -- even assuming an even split -- you're probably looking at way less than $30k or even $20k per-person already... Assuming it 'only' cost $50 million to run it all, that's about $19k per person at 10,000 homeless, with 25k-at-7k.
Perhaps the workers are dangerous - to the food. Can't have them breathing contagious germs into the food they're processing...
I don't get the Lisp joke. I mean, the parens, obviously, and the horse on top might be a joke about prefix notation, but why does everybody look weird?
You talk about aging as if it's a single thing. You'd have to solve every symptom of again to solve it. This is absurd.
Theranos Retreats from Blood Tests
Why wouldn't you just ask a pharmacist?

EDIT after downvotes: Maybe it's an English thing, but if I wanted to know my blood glucose I'd ask my local pharmacist.

http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/AboutNHSservices/pharmacists/Pa...
>>It should be prohibited for companies to halt service someone without providing a reasonable explanation.

What a terrible idea.
It's very disappointing that Apple got stuck with Siri and does not really improve on what they have. I assume part of it has to do with the fact that they are very careful about customer data and a lot of what makes assistants useful is having as much data in the cloud as possible.

Still. As an iOS user I'm very jealous of what exists on other platforms now.