skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

"The new privacy rules require ISPs to get opt-in consent from consumers before sharing Web browsing data and other private information with advertisers and other third parties. The rules apply both to home Internet service providers like Comcast and mobile data carriers like Verizon Wireless. The commission's Democratic majority ensured the rules' passage in a 3-2 vote, with Republicans dissenting."

I don't consider myself a privacy nut, but I have a hard time imagining why this is so controversial, that it splits so strongly along party lines.

Here's the crux of it, it seems:

"Internet providers shouldn't face stricter rules than websites like Google and Facebook, which are regulated separately by the Federal Trade Commission, they said."

"Wheeler argues that ISPs are uniquely capable of collecting consumers' Internet traffic because they can monitor everything that goes over the connection and because it is difficult for customers to switch ISPs."

I'd prefer to see stronger consumer protection for companies gathering consumer data, rather than relatively weaken them for ISPs.
Why Did I Just Buy That Zcash Mining Contract?
Why not the same way Instagram has? Or SnapChat? The most-prominent Vine users craft a brand, and companies can do the same thing if they're engaging enough.
I'm learning Japanese, and I often wish I could find literature in that language that's both slightly above my level and something I want to read. It's really hard.

But part of the problem is that finding things I want to read in my native language is hard, too, so I'm probably just too picky.

I've tried to learn Esperanto and the complete lack of entertaining books that aren't translations from another language is depressing. I just couldn't get anywhere with it because of that.
Thanks - why the down votes on this?
Glad to hear it! It was/is and awesome project. I still help present at some of the workshops, when I get a chance.
Happy to answer any questions about the fundraising process.
Proving Stuff in Haskell
I find the treatment of psychology on HN to be perplexing. On one hand, there have been attacks on psychology as a field [1] due to legitimate concerns related to replication. On the other hand, blog posts such as this come up every few days that take the same results for granted and frame them in everyday terms.

I wonder, are there different groups of HN readers with different attitudes towards psychology? Or does the treatment also depend on the presentation, e.g. in the form of a scientific publication vs. a brain hacking tips or cheatsheet.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12643978
Twitter Needs a Full-Time CEO
Sure, here are my dotfiles:

https://github.com/mikemaccana/powershell-profile/blob/maste...

I use ComEmu, the openssh, Pcsx, PSReadLine packages, Sublime, git, Sourcetree (might try VSStudio but have better things to do than change editor ATM), node version 6.
"This means you won’t get spend controls approval to build one unless you can provide substantial evidence to show it’s the only way to meet the need you’ve identified."
While I've never tried to live like that, I know that I'd act much the same... Without the thought that I'm preparing for a better future, my choice would be to have a better present. Every time.
yep - at the time we were not sure if we would want to transpile the code.
Integrating two services of this scale isn't trivial or inexpensive, even for a big company. Especially for a big company that is laying people off.
This is the Windows equivalent of the stereotypical Linux over-complicated advice like "oh that's easy, just build from source but set the following compiler flags..."
BASIC Interpreter Hidden in ESP32 Silicon
DTrace for Linux 2016
Please do not assume that US-American ideals are universal.

Germany has a complicated history, which it has and will always struggle with. Restricting hate speech and symbols is completely legal and also seen as an important and good thing. The modern German constitution was built especially to defend its democracy even against a majority hostile towards it (Artikel 20). Germany has learned its own lessons from history.
It's hilarious that I'm being the one accused of arrogance when you're telling me to Google black swans and the tulip bubble as though I don't know what they are. You're being an asshole and patronizing me as though I don't know just as much about investments as you do.

Index fund over-investment is a red herring which is being promoted by active managers to try to justify their fees. In truth, the market balances itself out: the more passive money there is, the greater the returns to active management become.

In fact, looking through your comment history, you are in fact one of the pariahs of the internet who's trying to push your bogus options strategies on unsuspecting fools. Get lost and go spam somewhere else.
Animated gifs with audio. That's it. Also super easy to create from a camera phone, no video or gif editing skills needed.

I know at least some content producers on youtube will be happy. A lot of vine hate comes from them when random anonymous vine user uploads a tiny portion of their long video and gets tons of views and maybe some ad revenue (or at least takes away potential ad revenue from the youtuber). It's resulted in youtubers creating short clips by themselves on their channel or sister channels, but I can see the annoyance, if not fully understand the complaint since it's no different from the timeless complaint about media being easier and cheaper to distribute and consume than to create.
Ask HN: How many of you have “hidden” posts that you don't remember hiding?
For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, click your username and then click "hidden".

I ask this because I often, especially on mobile, accidentally "hide" posts, and I don't really understand the value of this feature even existing. Is this supposed to address Situations where people feel insulted by a post existing and repulsed by the idea that it is not flagged out of existence? Or, is NSFW/etc. the primary reason for this?
That's excellent!

Treating a dictionary as an iterator automatically iterates over its .keys(), so you can remove the .keys() in fb.keys() and just map over fb itself.

>>> map(lambda x: x+x, {2: "who", 4: "do", 6: "we", 8: "appreciate"})

[16, 4, 8, 12]

A problem that this highlights is that the order in which the Fizz and Buzz and other strings get concatenated depends on the order of the underlying dictionary hash, which can be thought of as random. In Python 3 it even changes from run to run.

https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.3.html#summary-release-...

$ python3 -c 'print(list({"foo": "bar", "baz": "qux"}))'

['foo', 'baz']

$ python3 -c 'print(list({"foo": "bar", "baz": "qux"}))'

['baz', 'foo']

For predictable behavior across larger sets of divisors, and for consistent behavior on Python 3, you'd probably want to use collections.OrderedDict.
It is probably more accurate to say referencing functions is more awkward. Just doing a standard function call looks the same in both. Specifically (function arguments). However, in a Lisp1, referencing the function is to just name it. In a Lisp2, referencing the function requires you to use a special syntax.

So, as an example, passing it as an argument to another function, in Lisp1: (other-function function), in Lisp2 (other-function #'function). Note the #' in before function.

There are a few other restrictions, they are all in the linked page.

That make sense?
Future of On-Demand Urban Air Transportation
> Your browser doesn’t support live streaming of the event.

first topic: Apple is launching a new accessibility website
Do you have any examples around how meetings have changed? I'll need to relay that information promptly...
ah ups. Thanks!
I might be willing to forgive (not forget) but not while MS is doubling down with the "telemetry", ignoring privacy, forcing their corporate choices, and in bed with government divisions of ill repute.
There was no evidence of your claims in your citations.
I had a few keyboard input issues with vim, and 256 color display problems. My "solution" was to just have Xming on startup, and create a shortcut on my taskbar to launch an xfce4-terminal instead of the default cmd.exe based thing the default Ubuntu Bash program uses.
Well, first of all, Twitter bought Vine. So they did no innovation on that front. Secondly, I think it makes sense from a business standpoint for Twitter because they've incorporated it into Twitter, and they NEED to start making a profit and this will help. Twitter stock may actually rise a bit due to this news.
Indeed. Are emails considered "letters"? How many IMs does it take to equal a "letter"? What about forum posts?

I suspect that if you measured it word for word, I write at least "4 letters" worth per day.
My belief, sadly held, is that this is just the 2nd step of a Yahoo-scale transition. It won't be the user numbers that get them, it will be the ads side. Twitter is going to get a shrinking piece of the ad budget, especially as new entrants arrive. Which new entrants you ask? Snapchat, for one. Pinterest is heating up as well.
Completely agree about Redux - it has a large scope of functionality that also includes a long learning curve. I started using FreezerJS [0] a while back and have loved its simplicity. To my knowledge is the simplest alternative for state management, which you can understand in the ~100 line "Example" they provide.

[0] https://github.com/arqex/freezer
The only thing the rMBP has going for it is a good display. Go do some research on Dell and HP's small business laptops. They blow the rMBP out of the water wrt to value. The Latitude 5 and 7 series by Dell in particular are fucking awesome.
Not sure if serious, but if so no it can't except in the most primitive way (like describing harmony vs dissonance in musical notes). Art is far more complex than that, and as for prescribing philosophies of living, forget it.
I think it doesn't fit their 'live' mission.
I base my comparison on the observation that both are purpose built for capturing a very specific kind of experience that few have, but many think they should have (but never will).

This is certainly no predictor of absolute success, just an element of understanding the potential market.
>All of my crying aside, I'm left with one thought. How in the actual fuck do poor people afford this shit?

A unpopular thing to say is that there exists two types of poor in this country. The poor and the working poor. The poor are fine, they get Medicaid, Medicare and discounts at the exchange. The working poor are fucked they get to pay higher taxes because insurance is too expensive and when they lift themselves up to a point where they can afford it, it doesn't cover anything anyway.

This sort of bullshit has chilling effects. Rig the game so obviously against low income Americans and they might just decide to stop playing. That is why you see the lowest labor participation rates since the 70's. It's better to be poor than working poor anymore.
Accessibility – Apple
I don't know how snapchat is monetized. An Instagram ad though is an image in a sea of images for the most part. Easy to digest, not worth skipping through while you're browsing images, they feel like they belong. I'm not sure you can replicate that with videos.

I'm not sure what you mean by the Vine users crafting a brand though. Companies having a brand on Vine doesn't make Vine money.
> whole paying for Windows when I wasn't buying the machine to run Windows

I can't get past that. Not only did they crush several companies trying to sell better software, but Gates gets to whitewash his reputation by spending the stolen money instead of rotting in a cage.
This is why I'm a fan of open data / data sharing, and why I wish federal grants would more emphasize intermediate steps that could lead to papers rather than the production of papers themselves. The barriers to data collection are quite large (it's at least $1 million to acquire an MRI scanner in my field, neuroimaging; a huge fixed cost that most individuals would never be able to afford), but the cost of hosting those data once they're acquired is trivial. Once up on the net and publicly shared, anyone can take a crack at the the data and see what they can find.
Shocking Poetry by Eighteen Year Old Indian Girl
This looks like a very powerful tool just by browsing through the examples for few minutes on the site. Minor issue with the documentation, however, is that there seems to be issues with pages of the site rendering incorrectly on both Safari and Chrome on the iPhone.

http://imgur.com/PRDR2j1
That is such a naive and ignorant generalization. Are you suggesting that every parent who had an unexpected pregnancy is foolish? What about single parents? No-one is truly prepared or ready for parenthood, nor can you know what life might throw at you. Having a child when you're struggling day to day is certainly not ideal, but to say it's foolish is insulting. In theory, any would-be parent would want to have kids at the right time. Unfortunately, biology doesn't work like that, nor does the world. You can only be so ready.

You're also assuming that the original comment was about bringing a child into the world in a circumstance where it was hard to make rent, they couldn't afford to quit the job and had a horrible boss. What if these circumstances happened after having children? Not everyone can simply quit and work elsewhere.

If you're an engineer working in the bay area, you might have plenty of companies to send your resume to but that doesn't mean you're going to land on your feet. What about non-engineers? Or those who don't have the good fortune to be in an industry and location that is largely unique? I'd be interested to hear your advice for any factory workers in the Midwest where that factory closing means tough times ahead. Please, tell us how you think they should've avoided raising a family or making sure they had marketable job skills so they could land on their feet with a job of similar pay so they wouldn't have to struggle.
>Broadly speaking, the search engines aren't disclosing these algorithms because we know then people will abuse them

That sounds like an argument that would apply against open sourcing anything.
(for them to regain your trust)
Just looked at the Locality Adjustments, and as a person who has/does live(d) in NYC and Houston, TX, for them to have pretty much the exact same adjustment doesn't make ANY sense.

My rent in Houston was $1100/mo for a 2 bed, 2 bath 1200 sqft luxury apartment in a nice development with hiking and biking trails. My rent in NYC for a 1 bed, 1 bath, 600sqft luxury apartment in a nice building with a doorman every other day (idk why) is $2300. More than 4 times the price per sqft.

Every day staples are 20-100% higher in NYC than Houston. Car insurance is almost triple. Parking which used to be free and assigned is now in a garage and $200-400/mo depending on where you are (thankfully mine is in the rent).

I think the government needs to re-evaluate their adjustments.
Funnily enough I had the opposite transition. Sorta. I didn't mind Windows 7 so much, but Windows 10's user hostile behaviour makes me wince every time I have to use it. And I have to use it for work because of Microsoft's own hostile decisions (Skype for Linux can no longer do group video calls? Seriously!?!).

I start a freshly installed Windows 10 instance on a desktop grade i7 with Nvidia 960M and it takes minutes for me to be able to even type in the search bar, ... because Windows decided to commandeer all my disk IO for Windows Updates that I can't disable. At least Windows 7 acquiesced to my wishes.
It is Mac only. If you don't have one, no need to spend time following the link
I think gambling like this provides incentives for people to follow up and review their predictions. Or to have their friends follow up in some cases :) Otherwise people never realize that they were wrong.

And once you know you are wrong, you can now start figuring out what you did wrong.
YouTube is long form video though. Plenty of content to advertise on. Where are you going to cram ads in to vine without it being annoying enough for adblockers to nuke them?
Apple took so long getting Skylake rMBPs out I've looked at pretty much every competitor. They all compromise on key things like screen and battery life.

The X1 Carbon is a 14" laptop (Lenovo doesn't really make a flagship 15" laptop). The battery is not replaceable on the fly, which is a big problem because it's only 50 watt-hours (versus 75 on the 13" rMBP and 100 on the 15" rMBP). The screen is meh (PWM). The keyboard is good, though.

The Thinkpad's vaunted build quality is also mostly a pre-Lenovo thing. I have a T450s through work, and the backlight bleed is atrocious and the keyboard is warped and sticks up near the palm rest.
Another "solution" would be to force social media companies to randomly mix in some low percentage of opposing views into someone's feed.

Of course this would have strange side-effects, eg. it might mean that a spam filter had to let through a certain percentage of spam.
Can you speed read?
Makes me think of a similar issue with censoring pornography.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it

Essentially, the population at large decides that a thing should be censored for the greater good, but it can't be exactly defined, yet a consensus can usually be reached on any given example.
To prosecute your stuff, they still have to confirm its existence. You don't have to prove it doesn't exist.
Human rights and accessibility in VR
Head coaches salaries (http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/)
You can start by going through the docs of popular open source bit-torrent clients like qBittorrent (https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent) or Transmission (https://github.com/transmission/transmission).

Join the respective IRCs on freenode, observe the chats and ask specific questions when you don't understand something and Google can't give you good answers.
There are many solutions to this, some already listed. For best effect apply all of them together: Rate limiting api requests and movement, hysteresis on distance, randomness on distance, snap to grid, increasing randomness the more you seem to be trilaterating, etc.

Some of thrm will also solve the problem of just discovering a user, starting a chat and then instantly loosing them, even though you were both siting still, as you were on the border.
Yeah, there's quite a lot of this but I can't think of any good references offhand. When doing audio logos I've always looked to catchphrases and famous movie quotes and tried to emulate the underlying intonation/cadences. I'm not aware of this knowledge being systematized anywhere though.
Lenovo Thinkpad T-Series here, all hardware functional out of the box. Additionally, any Dell I've tried it on works just fine (XPS 13 has explicit support for it, too).

In fact, in most cases it "just works" these days, but the range of hardware I attempt it on isn't great. I've had trouble with a low-end Toshiba of a friend's in the past, and even on the Thinkpad I'll sometimes have issues with rarer configurations - namely a complicated multi-display setup using the Lenovo dock/port replicator.

It certainly isn't the Apple "don't make me think" experience I would love to present people with, but it's been far from a nightmare for years in my experience.
These two, by Jack Qiao:
http://jack.works/
http://jack.ventures/

These sites have set the standard of beautiful personal website for me. Despite their modern appearances, they're both just static sites, generated with bash: https://github.com/Jack000/Expose
Really? Or were some scared of being singled out? I have managed teams, asking 40 people a question will get you 40 different answers. But in this case they were all for it? Lies.
I'll throw two of mine into the mix as well.

Blog: https://axiomatic.neophilus.net
Photoblog: https://odyssey.neophilus.net

Particularly happy about the way the photoblog turned out. I think the interactivity of the globe, showing you where photos come from give it an immersive touch that isn't in your face.
You really should warn us not to drink anything while reading that. I almost spit my drink over the keyboard laughing at this
How long do you expect that to be sustainable?
Yes, but that's a bit orthogonal (I don't think it has to do with not having/using an inner voice). I could since I was young, which made the teachers irritatedly think I was joking when I was done before the rest of the class were a third of the way into the text.
> putting ads on my Start Menu. Or on my lock screen

Anecdotal, but I haven't seen any ads in those places. Been using Win 10 since the preview. I'm not a fan of the "metro" interface/apps. I am a fan of the underlying tech in Windows and the general focus on usability and reliability. My laptop "just works" in every sense of the phrase, and it feels more responsive to my choices and demands than competing platforms (OSX and Ubuntu).
At the time their were an exception, nowadays I'm not sure if there aren't others doing the same.
Related to biases are fallacies in argument as illustrated (in a less serious but instructive manner) here: http://existentialcomics.com/comic/9
There was one word missing from that article

Motorola

Didn't Google, years ago, already fully control its own phone, both hardware and software?

In addition, doesn't Google's track record of dalliances make the Pixel something to be discarded and forgotten at the inscrutable whims of higher-ups?
A bit embarrassed about mine but I'd welcome feedback:

http://www.pablodamasceno.com

More a researcher type of site but it also showcases the work I've done, so perhaps it's useful.
It's pretty clear that they are targeting designers with this product, and that audience is very largely on macOS.
Droplet Tagging: Organize Your Infrastructure
That was funny! I expected the post to explain why Zcash is a good investment, an exciting technology, etc. But the author explains in some detail that, indeed, he didn't really know what Zcash is and is genuinely unsure why he bought the contract.
There is a favor towards Kahneman's work, either out of interest or approval. It hits all the HN high notes (oriented around decision-making, thinking, personal effectiveness, reason) while additionally being backed by Kahneman's more-than-typically-rigorous models.
I saw that, too. Their support matrix is fascinating: Safari pretty much anywhere or... Microsoft Edge. Any guesses why that is? Is this an HTML5 <video> DRM thing?
I can get into an inner monologue too, but, more often than not, I realize that it's going on, think "this is useless, I already know what I'm thinking" (wordlessly) and stop it.
This is incorrect. I worked for a decade as a film sound engineer. If you don't implement the 0.1% pull-up/pull-down, then sync will begin to drift noticeably.

https://www.lynda.com/Pro-Tools-tutorials/Understanding-vide...
While it's easier to doubt the advice in those circumstances, ad hominem is still a fallacy that shouldn't be discounted. The advice could still be sound.
Why limit yourself? I have a laptop running Windows. My other laptop simultaneously runs Mac OS and from there I VNC into my linux server.

Know everything.
Yeah. This is really interesting to think about. I can talk with myself in my head, when I'm internally debating something (having one perspective question another, then another question the questioner, etc, a kind of 'second thoughts' per Pratchett), or I can sort of...play out a script in my head, like a monologue, when I want to 'hear' how something will come across before saying it, or when writing (such as now), to try and sound it out, and I can think in non-verbal ways, where there's no voice, where I'm examining and abstracting and constructing patterns and etc, things that are innately non-verbal...but I never actually thought about those as being distinct methods of ~thinking~, and that some people might not be able to do it.
I used to have one when I was younger, it's just like talking to yourself all the time, only inside your head.