skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of Glenn Greenwald's article on the subject:

> The indisputable fact is that prevailing institutions of authority in the West, for decades, have relentlessly and with complete indifference stomped on the economic welfare and social security of hundreds of millions of people. While elite circles gorged themselves on globalism, free trade, Wall Street casino gambling, and endless wars (wars that enriched the perpetrators and sent the poorest and most marginalized to bear all their burdens), they completely ignored the victims of their gluttony, except when those victims piped up a bit too much — when they caused a ruckus — and were then scornfully condemned as troglodytes who were the deserved losers in the glorious, global game of meritocracy.

Also:

> opinion-making elites were so clustered, so incestuous, so far removed from the people who would decide this election — so contemptuous of them — that they were not only incapable of seeing the trends toward Trump but were unwittingly accelerating those trends with their own condescending, self-glorifying behavior.

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/09/democrats-trump-and-the-...

Worth a read for anyone who's still confused about how/why Brexit and Trump happened. The filter bubbles created by sites like Facebook, Google and Reddit seem to be much stronger than most people realize, and many still don't understand that they're trapped in a bubble at all.

Or if you prefer a video, Russell Brand did a great job of explaining it as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Ou5uFFn8Q

To no one's surprise, neither of these items made it anywhere near the front page of Reddit.
Tangent: I try to only use Firefox on my Android (for the same privacy reasons) - but it crashes so often... especially Medium articles seem to deterministically crash Firefox/Android.
Seems great, I'd suggest making the front page search input box larger (it's too vertically narrow)
> I could imagine that complying to this regulation wont be worthwhile for most companies.

In all likelihood, a crony-backed service handling this for foreign tech companies doing business in Russia will emerge.
Trump would have won, for the simple reason that he can slip between incongruent realities seamlessly - he is so well practiced a liar that speaking two contradictory untruths in a sentence doesn't cause him pause, and his audience selectively hears the truth they wish to hear. Honestly - watch interviews with his voters - he is all things to all men, often contradictory things. He projects his realities outwards, and his followers reflect them back to him, amplified by their own perceptual filters, and it reinforces.

Take a straight man like Sanders. He's consistent. When you only work with one reality, as he does, you limit your ability to slip and feint between narratives as trump does, and as a result your appeal is limited to people in that or similar realities.

In short, if you're prepared to cheat, any move is legal, and an opponent playing by the rules cannot win - particularly if you are also the adjudicator.
Is it just me or is fasting as an intellectual property a ludicrous idea?
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Visiting the Valley and planning my next move in life, thoughts?
Hey there HN!

My questions are at the top followed by my story.

1.If you’re not a technical founder but need to get programming done for your startup would you recommend: getting a CTO, teaching yourself programming, getting a MS in CS, something else?
2.Would you recommend starting a startup in the Valley? Or do you think starting in Buffalo, NY and then moving here once the idea is validated is a good idea?
3.What opportunities in the startup space are there with a BS in chemistry + MS in biology?
4.What places should I visit while I’m here? People to talk to?
5.General thoughts/comments!

I’m from Buffalo, NY (2200 miles away!), visiting the Valley for two more weeks, BS in chemistry + MS in biology, love to build things, and I’m at a crossroads in life: do I go the startup route or do I continue onto more school?

Startup route: My background is in science and I have a heavy interest machine learning. Tech startups really excite me, but I’m trying to figure out how I can contribute with my science/medical background.

I have three tech startup ideas which I’ve built prototypes for (didn’t use programming, just simple mockups.) So I’m thinking I need to teach myself programming, learn programming from a Masters’ program, or join up with a CTO to help bring these ideas to life.

School route: If I went back to school I would pursue either a MS in Computer Science or a fellowship in Biodesign (biomedical engineering at Stanford.) I really love science and I love tech, if I could combine both interests I would be really happy.

Miscellaneous: I visited the Hacker Dojo + have spent plenty of time at Stanford. Loving the culture here!

Thanks so much for all your help + I really appreciate it,
Mike
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If I'm wrong, I'd like not to be, but I'm having trouble finding references to substantiate this claim. Would you happen to have something suitable at hand?
Graham's essay does not describe "default alive" as being "cash flow positive." Rather, in his essay, "default alive" means that you are on a path towards being cash flow positive.

"Assuming their expenses remain constant and their revenue growth is what it's been over the last several months, do they make it to profitability on the money they have left?"
I'm not arguing against your point, but most western countries manage to have a more or less competent police without such adherence to libertarianism. Maybe is easiest to implement, they have done so.
That's what I was going to go for unless there was a self-hosted alternative. It becomes another application to maintain, so was hoping to avoid that.

Django it is.
I have experience being a american remote worker for a company that is based in canada. They have a wholly owned subsidiary managed by trinet (http://blog.capterra.com/top-zenefits-competitors/) that employs me and my fellow SF coworker.
Generating fake evidence to blackmail someone? No one would do that. They are too busy chasing terrorists.
For me the most interesting chart is #2, "My Country is the Best Country in the World".

Some countries (US, AUS, and a bit less the UK) show a marked divide between young and old responders for this.

Any ideas why?
Time for a distributed solution that the users themselves keep alive. So much gardening and organising has been lost.

Maybe we should start "pirating" pirate sites so their metadata can be re-used if they shut down.
I would agree that they handle more than suicide response, but I would disagree that they are not primarily suicide response. If you call not in immediate crisis it sounds like they are going to refer you to the closest suicide prevention coordinator. From their when to call page:

>If you’re thinking of hurting yourself, looking for ways to kill yourself, or becoming self-destructive, don’t continue to face it alone. Contact the Veterans Crisis Line immediately...

>For Veterans NOT in immediate crisis:

>Help is always available. Suicide Prevention Coordinators are at all VA Medical Centers (VAMCs) nationwide and work closely with Veterans dealing with mental health conditions and with difficult life events and experiences.

https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/GetHelp/WhenToCall.aspx
It's absolutely fair. To even SEE these files, there's a warning you must click through that notifies you that you can cause significant harm to your system if you modify them. So when one does so, and then one modifies them... one should definitely expect to cause significant harm.

People who enable visibility on protected system files and then act upset that messing with protected system files breaks things, are the sort of reason we don't give out admin rights where I come from.
I made some pretty good friendships on what -- their community was great. Their music torrents were as rich as could be -- great metainfo, organization, depth, rarity, you name it...

The first major program I made was for what, so I can download many albums at once after my hard-drive failed. What had a feature known as "Collector" which gave you a zip of an artist's discography. With my program, you could dump that zip right in and it would send it to utorrent downloading in a structured directory (per user settings). I would have never taken it as far as I did (GUI from command line tool) if it weren't for the community loving it and giving me feedback to make it better & better. I called it "collector's secret lover".[1]

Another one I did was for nice looking release info of torrents called generically "description generator". It gave users an easy way to grab all relevant info (from discogs) for an album upload so they can copy and paste [2]

This is a sad day, what.cd was much more than a place to just download music.

[1] -- https://github.com/joslinm/CSL

[2] -- https://github.com/joslinm/Description-Generator
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This was just an example, please don't take it as criticism.

The point, though, stands, and is illustrated by the fact that I can't even use a permalink to a version of the WHATWG HTML spec that still has scoped styles defined (at best, you can point to a ancient bikeshed or anolis commit).

Which is why WHATWG HTML isn't a "standard".
*than the median
How does the integration work with Sentry?

Aside, would love to explore if we can make a richer integration. We added some functionality recently which is intended to allow certain kinds of embedded data in Sentry reports (as well as aggregate data).
The majority of voters voted against Trump.
Based on the tone of comments around here lately, I'm getting the sense that HN has been populated by closeted alt-right for a while now.
> I don't think anybody uses LI except in the strict context of finding new jobs, and making sure you can find new jobs in the future.

I also use it as an up to date electronic rolodex of sorts. Is this person still working at Cisco? What's their current contact info? Let me LinkIn with you so I don't need to keep this business card, etc.
You have it backwards. The problem is changing linux files with windows editors.
This is classic red state governance.

Strip the organization of resources over time, put politically appointed people in charge of work that should be performed by civil servants, and create a situation where the inmates run the asylum.

Even if nobody applies pressure, there's an implied threat of reprisal when the an appointed former garden blogger turned director of whatever gives an undesired answer. That job should be a civil service gig protected from direct reprisal.

Compare this ridiculous methodology compared to something more robust like the CPI calculations performed by the US DOL.
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Totalitarianism all over... 1984 monitoring voted in UK (right after Brexit), Trump win in the US, Putin and Erdogan on the east, China and its big walls imprisoning billions... I am honestly giving up hope on the human race.
I've always imagined how this industry would play out is that Google would supply the "android for car" autonomous tech and they'd eventually take ~70% of the market while others like Tesla use their own in-house tech. This is the first article I've come across that posits otherwise and it is an interesting proposition.

Maybe there will be more categories of tech for the autonomous car than we think. Maybe the automakers do agree upon a standard which would allow an interface to certain high-level data (ie not the raw sensor data but the predicted path of the car) to a "guest OS". So the automakers would have their own linux-based proprietary OS running for autonomy. Then the automaker decides which user-interaction operating system they want to provide with the car. This OS would run maybe in a container of sorts. So Apple & Google could offer up their Car OS to provide the user experience. Really this is sort of what we're already seeing with Apple's car play which I assume is also likely "sandboxed" away from the actual car's "operations OS". Maybe, then, there's also a sound OS provided by Bose, human interface OS provided by Microsoft's Kinect or Amazon's Alexa, etc.

Obviously the idea of a single, tightly-integrated car OS seems more likely due to the players in this space wanting to retain as much control as possible but maybe we're wrong- maybe the automakers see a future where their bare-metal operational OS will remain throughout the life of the vehicle but customers can upgrade every other facet such as the "user-interaction" OS.

Picture this: I buy a 2019 Toyota Sedan, while at the dealership the salesmen tell me to launch the Apple Car app bundled on my phone to scan a qr code on the car's display. The app then let's me choose between multiple tiers of Car subscriptions, I choose one and the car display shows "Configuring Apple Car Premium Over The Air...". However, I could've performed all those steps with Google Android as well to choose Android as my Car OS.

The likely way this plays out is that automakers will try their best to provide a great UI OS and they'll all fall-short of the customer's expectations for what makes great software usability. Then one automaker will give choice to the consumers and a chance for Apple/Android to showcase their OS's and if they provide a better experience the rest of the market will follow suit.
When a country's economy falters, the first reaction is usually nationalism, whether it be through state directed propaganda (e.g. China) or self directed by the maligned (e.g. US, Britain). Scapegoats feel good.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this.

No one has a solution for climate change that doesn't involve changing personal habits. People don't want to do that. Eating less meat or a carbon tax (i.e taxing the working poor) is not a solution. It's admitting defeat.

People don't need to "believe in climate change". We simply need to build a solution that is much better than what they have available now. What that solution is? Plenty of ideas, no one has a clue how to execute them.

The current strategy for the left is: let's see how guilty we can make people feel about their consumption habits and scare them with far distant consequences.
Talk about funding "green"/eco-friendly businesses which barely make a difference and try to sell people on carbon tax.

For the right, the strategy is: deny, deny, deny. Double down on economic growth and hope innovation follows.

Of course, "hope and dreams" sells. Admitting defeat wouldn't get you elected. The rhetoric is adjusted accordingly.
Ask HN: What are other alternatives to Facebook?
Since a lot of people have grown wary of facebook (more particularly concerning privacy and misinformation) what other alternatives that exist that could possibly replace it ?
The issue isn't with the manufacturers, but the state. I can't do it justice and the whole subject is a bit crackpotty, so you're going to have to read up on your own. For example - Rights vs Privileges by Michael Badnarik.

I say "common law fundamentalists" because there is a whole community of people who have ran with these ideas and believe that the key to restoring their rights is just asserting them harder. While it would be great if true, I don't subscribe to this view and think it's much healthier to view such legal reasoning as explanations of exactly how things decayed to the point we're at.
Yeah, not much feels as good as running up through the gears with a strong V8! I'll be sad when they finally ban those cars from the road.
Some of it... An example I saw regarding a restaurant offering meals to uniformed police... depending on jurisdiction this may be considered a bribe, and not allowed. It really just depends on the specific case.

For the most part, most cops are mostly good... there are some very bad apples out there, and some jurisdictions are definitely worse than others.
"A call for deadly force should be an explicit, intentional escalation."
I agree with you that reporting selective truths can still be a very strong form of bias. However, Oliver is completely open about the fact that he's entirely biased. It's clearly editorial. (And also clearly a comedy, not a serious news program.) I could still see an argument that the bias is unfair, but in my opinion far more insidious are organizations like Breitbart (and I'm sure some left-leaning ones as well) that use this selective truth-telling to serve their biases while making an effort to appear unbiased.
Yes. Let's refrain from one-line puns.

I'd hate to open a HN thread in the near-future only to have the top-rated comments be puns. Good, on-topic forums are as rare as hens teeth these days.
There's a 2009 paper "Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity" that may be of interest.

> The planetary boundary (PB) concept, introduced in 2009, aimed to define the environmental limits within which humanity can safely operate. This approach has proved influential in global sustainability policy development. Steffen et al. provide an updated and extended analysis of the PB framework. Of the original nine proposed boundaries, they identify three (including climate change) that might push the Earth system into a new state if crossed and that also have a pervasive influence on the remaining boundaries. They also develop the PB framework so that it can be applied usefully in a regional context.

[1] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6223/1259855
[2] http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...

edit: and the indicator that is off the charts relative to its corresponding "safe operating space" boundary is biodiversity loss - measured in species extinction/(millions of species * year). Climate change looks practically controlled compared to that. (ha).
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Please don't say such things.
I think you are unaware of the scope of the problem. (also I did not and cannot downvote you)

The amount of life and species lost to human activities already makes the past few thousand years a major extinction event in line with the 5 other major ones. With this fact in mind taking the stance that this is OK because "life had to face a rapid and drastic climate change" is the moral equivalent of saying killing most of the life is OK because it happened before. That is morally repugnant. I do not think are morally repugnant so I must presume you are unaware of the facts I just presented.

CO2 stays in the atmosphere a long time. If we keep putting there permanently. If we kill ourselves (not with CO2 but with wars caused by the resource availability changes caused by climate change) then what happens during our "rounding error" many will still be dead.

The planet will probably be fine, the Bay of Texas will probably be fine and my newly made beachfront property in Omaha will be damn fine. If you live on a coast, get most of your goods by boat or live in one of the areas that will tear itself apart in useless resource wars then the eventual cooling trend doesn't help you and has no place in this discussion.
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Sure. But I feel like I remember warnings in the mid-'90s about bad modelines in XF86Config being able to cause smoke to come out of your monitor....
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It is also that big entities like to reach deep into people pockets and spend their money on vanity projects and there is no responsibility whatsoever. It is especially visible in the EU. Sometimes it gets tragicomical - in IT for example, you can get government grants for supposedly innovative projects. So then you can get websites about cats (there was no website about cat like that, so it's an innovation!) and other non-sense out of tax payer pockets. That's just tip of the iceberg.
I am not saying that in the smaller, self-governing entities could be any different, but it will be easier to spot who is responsible and no longer suitable for office. That's rather not possible in the EU. Bureaucrats are getting fatter and fatter, civil servants are getting more and more important with more and more powers and little liability. They tell you how you have to live and you must obey. If you do not, you are being labelled bigot, outsider, racist, fascist or whatever label works... and people just want freedom.
Unprecedented loss to the Internet community itself. This truly might be one of the saddest things happening online since the inception of Internet itself.
Or cryptic error messages because the config file contains a "carriage return".
No, there is an Antarctic ice sheet that is gaining mass. As a whole, Antarctica is losing ice mass. As is the case for global ice mass balance.
Chart of satellite gravity measurements for Antarctica:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/images/Antarctica_Ice_Mass.g...
That is fun and all, but it would still lose a real race to a real sports car since it cannot sustain this power output level for over ten seconds (try it).
Just a note: This article published yesterday refers to VS 15 Preview 5 as unreleased but VS 2017 RC (the next Preview on) was also released yesterday.
People are more afraid of more things than ever.

Many of the fears are quite concrete and actionable, such as climate change displacement.

My theory is that in an age of 'infinite communication' and 'infinite information', few people can keep a conscious and subconscious rational, risk appropriate outlook when bombarded with an endless array of not only bad news but also associated vivid imagery.

Even though we as a species are safer than we ever have been, even though women are doing better than ever, even when the worst kinds of poverty are at historic lows, we're more afraid than ever. (Note: I'm not saying things are all peachy, and we have a long ways to go, but the historical trends are clear) Our evolutionary psychology is based on over-reaction to bad things, because that has been, for nearly all of our existence, a survival advantage.

Now, though we try to look at things rationally, that evolutionary baggage is still there, making us afraid, on conscious and subconscious levels.

That's one part of it. The other part is the more directed role technology plays.

Social media wants as much of our attention as possible. That's a business model.

I think they have discovered, via actual direction and/or via various machine learning sources, that our attention is maximized when we are formed into like-minded groups or tribes, and when those tribes are 'fighting' inside the social media lobster cage.

I don't mean to say that there aren't 'villains and heroes', because there certainly are.

But I do believe that most of this churn is straightforward, natural and even an inevitable result of the explosive increase in connectivity and communication capabilities.

In short, technology is the main reason we're getting kind of crazy. And I have no good ideas about how to realistically bend the curve back toward less crazy.
“Due to some recent events, What.CD is shutting down.”
Truly amazing.
From the wikipedia link:

"In November 1965, the UK purchased the entire Chagos Archipelago from the then self-governing colony of Mauritius for £3 million to create the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT),[22] with the intent of ultimately closing the plantations to provide the British territory from which the US would conduct its military activities in the region. On 30 December 1966, the US and the UK executed an Agreement through an Exchange of Notes which permit the United States Armed Forces to use any island of the BIOT for defence purposes for 50 years (until December 2016), followed by a 20-year optional extension (to 2036) to which both parties must agree by December 2014. As of 2010, only the atoll of Diego Garcia has been transformed into a military facility."