skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a very simple dream, although I haven't taken the time to code it up.

I want a website with my name on it, owned by me, that auto-generates an index of all public content I put on the net -- FB posts, Tweets, HN posts and comments -- all of it. If I upvote a story on HN, it's listed on the site. If I explain something on Quora, it goes on my site too. It should be easy to download/backup. If I delete/modify something on my site, it gets deleted and modified on the other platform.

In this fashion, online content providers can make a buck off of me if they like -- but the stuff I create is primarily owned and managed by me. Which is the way it should be.
Do we need legislators and regulators to tell us to do
our work with due care for those whose lives we affect
in so doing?

Easier to tell your boss "We have to do this the expensive quality way, because that's the law" than to tell them "We have to do it the expensive quality way, because I say so" - especially if he's used to be the one giving the orders.
You haven't spent a lot of time in Japan. There are a lot of unemployed older men who have been out of work since the 1994 recession.
Munich is actually joining the program from 2017 on. Bremen already is in it.

So, it's actually not that misleading.
Question: Would anyone here pay for high quality generated python docs with a built in sandbox and "live" example text areas (a place where you can see how the API actually works). I'd like to do this for about 1/2 dozen languages and opensource projects, but don't know if people would pay for it. If you would pay do you think a $5.00 monthly subscription (that you could start and stop as needed), would be too little, too much or just right?
Unless you're naturally gifted in Mathematics it's difficult to obtain a BS in CS.
eh, I sorta share the sentiment. I really like the format of "Learn X in Y minutes" but I'd love if Y could be anywhere from 5 minutes to one month.

but yeah, big words.
I wish they'd leave the 100mhz APT signals on these so kids around the country could build their own little "weather stations"... Being able to listen to those (I never had a wideband enough radio to see them) was one of the coolest things.
Alas, if I had to stretch. Basically, there's rampant prejudice and anti-intellectualism from all points on the political spectrum. The response to the enabling of trolling by anonymity is an upsurge of authoritarianism by (of all people) many on the Left. The Right? Not much better.

If I had a dollar for every time someone pattern matched me or a phrase I wrote, then jumped to conclusions about my ideas of internal emotional state then even insisted I am lying when I tried to disabuse them of the notion -- I'd have a whole lot of dollars. (Hint, if you start sniffing around trying to justify that they're right, I haven't left you sufficient evidence and you're probably also doing that.)

Apolitical people? Mostly just as bad.
I think there is more to it than that. HN also has a bias for depth and correctness (relative to most social media garbage; or even uncurated newspapers).

This applies to the quality of article that make it to the front page, but I see it much more starkly in the comments. Sure, we get low quality comments, but it is not out of place to see someone with direct experience in the field come to post about some of the subtleties; or for someone to dig up the primary source (research paper, bill text, etc), and point out details directly from the text that the article misrepresented; or for someone to bring in additional research on a subject.
As usual, NYT is ON IT. https://twitter.com/NYTOnIt
Thanks! I'll need to spend some time trying to visualize it though, I'm nowhere near grokking it.
These are excellent points and it correctly shifts the responsibility onto those in decision-making positions.

Frankly I think we are well passed the point of no return -- there most definitely is no means to regulate the industry. Hundreds of thousands of businesses across the planet need a steady stream of code pushed out and they all need to keep costs down, there is no legal entity that can reach across the planet to provide necessary legal protection to the ethically inclined.

Repeat: there is no legal entity that can reach across international jurisdictions for this.

At best we can rally around national voluntary accreditation facilities (eg: Canadian Medical Association, American Medical Association) but it would be difficult because the best of us can simply opt out with little to no personal loss.

The world really is held together by duct tape and bailing wire with occasional sections of steel and concrete. I'm sure we are all familiar with this where we try (as hard as we might) to seal the cracks every chance we get.
> I'm skeptical that there is such a thing as efficient and comfortable public transport.

Have you tried living in a country made for people, as opposed to cars?

Like, just about anywhere in Europe.
Do you know what the connection between the two writers is? Seems to me that the quote is neither here nor there, but I haven't found anything solid to confirm who said what.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck#Disputed

> "John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires", Wright, Ronald (2004). A Short History of Progress. Toronto: Anansi Press. pp. 124.
The "left"* keeps blaming "fake news" en masse for supposedly influencing the election in a way they didn't like, but they willingly ignore the broad trend of using and undermining the credibility of the news industry as a whole to publish propaganda.

Clinton's "pied piper" strategy, along with super PACs like American Bridge who railed hard against any reasonably alternative establishment candidate like Bush, backfired spectacularly.

I suppose it's more comfortable to blame "fake news" than to acknowledge that Clinton outspent Trump something like 10 to 1, ignored voters in states all their models believed were a "firewall", only nominated because of a general behavior among the party of 'anointing' instead of debate, and had almost every advantage and connection at their disposal.
All things considered, they lost where it mattered, and blaming 'fake news' or 'James Comey' can't change that fact.

On the bright side: it gives them a convenient excuse to ban anyone they don't like while leaving large swathes of "leftist" vitriol to populate their echo chamber.

*I can't even call these people liberals.
> One of the more interesting features of the American political environment, over at least the last three and a half decades, is the extent to which the demographic that is (or was) nominally represented by unions has voted for politicians who have made no bones about their intent to weaken the unions and labor law, especially at the state level.

They failed because the majority of people are hard workers who loathe being yoked to a lazy or incompetent person, and unions have proven to be exceptionally good at maintaining employment of people who are terrible at their jobs.

Some people are absolutely baffled by the software industry not having unions. It's because people getting hired and fired within 12 months at my job is what ensures that I only work with the best.

Unions suffer from what most of the progressive movement does: everything bad that happens to them is the fault of the big, bad republicans and capitalists. If they'd bother to introspect for even a second, maybe they could fix their shortcomings and start to do some good.

The environmentalist initiative that went on the ballot in Seattle this month was lead by a guy who is working within the Republican party for climate reform because he's said it's not possible to work with the left anymore because of their dysfunction. The left's response to this? Tried to torpedo his climate bill. The head of the left is so far up its own ass that I think it's getting close to terminal. Progressivism in America will have to die and be reborn as a functioning body for political change.
I've passed the Fundamentals of Engineering exam for EE. There was a civil engineering portion, and I passed it despite never having done any schoolwork in civ-e. It's not hard.
Show HN: Easy FOIA to Request Records from USCIS MVP
For some reason I never used FB for other accounts - I always used Twitter or Google, so it wasn't a problem for me. I guess if I deleted my Google account a lot of things (GitHub, Freenom, Soundcloud) would go down too.
Is there any evidence for a government having a backdoor in Cyanogen or another Android OS fork? Or, for that matter, a backdoor into iOS?

As far as the geostrategic component of telecommunications choice, when was it not like this? Postal letter: address logging, letter opening; telegram: logging, transcription; land telephone: call logs and wiretapping; wireless telephone: call logs and wiretapping; email (without STARTTLS): metadata logging and interception; social network: government search order.

The modern encrypted methods of communication (iMessage, PGP, Signal) are the first methods where one could feel comfortable about the local government having extreme difficulty intercepting your communication.

I think it is essential to consider geography when deciding telecommunications hardware, software, and service. There may have been a local maximum in the early-mid 2000s, but this is only part of a long-term trend of improving privacy in telecommunications.
Smartphones make the problem 10x worse for me. It virtually calls out to me from my left pocket to check for updates.

I'm on vacation now and am experimenting with reducing my phone time dramatically (about 10 minutes a day to respond to texts). I don't carry the phone around with me at all times. It's great -- mentally liberating and actually allows me to completely space out staring off into the distant landscapes, or completely focus on reading/writing.
Work is work. While I've never enjoyed cleaning toilets in jobs where my duties included that I've never especially objected to it either. I much prefer it to, say, cleaning out the grease traps in a commercial kitchen.
If I were you I'd look for the government data rather than the media:

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001?output_view=net...
Thanks.

I think I'll just do that.

Actually read Amy Hoy saying to double the price you have in mind and that's the correct price, but I'm still afraid to undercharge even with that.

I'll start with doubling and then do A/B testing.

Thanks for your help.
A slightly OT question: does any 2016 Android phone have MHL/HDMI alt mode? It seems to be a feature that became dropped by multiple manufacturers around 2015. I wasn't able to find one in this year's models.
LG G5?
I've seen this in scientists and engineers, too. A scientist can be very exacting in what he accepts as evidence in his field of expertise. But outside of that field, he'll continue to accept the flimsiest excuse for evidence just like everyone else.
Agreed. The 800-word comment/essay from an expert in the field is the hallmark of HN.
I've used this a ton. It's great if you need to modify some library or project and you don't know the language. In the most extreme example I twice got an interview challenge that was mandatorily in X (despite having previously covered that I didn't know X). One of those times I actually managed to pass the challenge and got an offer. Thanks learnxinyminutes!
I'm having a hard time imagining how a significantly below minimum wage job would allow a person to exist and not starve in a 'pure capitalist' system. Minimum wage jobs only make sense now because those people have their expenses heavily subsidized by the state.

I mean, sure, I'll do whatever if it keeps me and mine alive; but if I'm gonna starve either way, I'm gonna starve hanging out in the sun reading a book.
Whether the modern Android experience has roots as a free/open source system is becoming a bit of an academic exercise. In a practical sense, useful distributions of Android and iOS are both combinations of open and closed source components.
I thought it was mainly burps (eructation), read that somewhere recently, eg http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/150803-cows-burp-....
I think the world is better when it's held together with duct tape and bailing wire; because the alternative is politics. Politics is inherently sick, and any chance to avoid it will ultimately save lives, even for something as silly as whether or not to regulate portfolio websites.

I think the medical associations have done a bang-up job, and perhaps the software industry could learn a bit from that.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Junkies-Shooting-Up-In-S-...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1027021079747556520

http://sfist.com/2015/09/02/sf_hiring_potty-sitters_to_keep_...
The new LG V20 and the LG G5 also have a replaceable battery.
Don't know but if it ever happens again I'll give hat a try XD
I'm with you on the tension between employment and professional ethics. The small business characterization... given the number of small businesses, "many" can be true but the implication that it's a large is off. You do make the qualification "if not most". Is your impression that it's close to 50%? Larger than in larger businesses?

In some ways I'd think large business might have an easier time with forcing workers to behave in some way unethically. Losing a single worker for refusing to do something unethical doesn't have as much impact on their business as a whole. I wouldn't go too far with this argument without doing some research, thought. Just a thought experiment.

I'm not denying the experience of your friends. I just am unsure of how far this goes towards advancing an argument that an interestingly large number of "small businesses are run by liars and frauds", which I'm admittedly not sure you're making. Which is why I'm asking :)
Austin Gunter wrote a great book about how to do exactly that, "The Liberal Arts Techie: How to Break into your First Startup Job" ( https://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Arts-Techie-Break-Startup-ebo...) based on his personal experiences.

More about Austin: http://www.austingunter.com/

He's a coworker, full disclosure, but it's a good book that I paid for with my own money.
Muslims and Mexican immigrants (admit it, that's who all the "illegal immigrants" rhetoric is aimed at) aren't a threat to the USA. If anything, they'll make the USA greater than its ever been, just like the millions of other immigrants have come before them have.

Aside from the Native Americans, who the settlers genocided, virtually every "great" American has been either an immigrant or the descendant of immigrants. Everything you see around you in the USA was built by immigrants or their offspring. Whether they had some paperwork when they achieved what they did is beside the point.

Jewish immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Polish immigrants, Chinese immigrants, or Japanese immigrants were all widely vilified and discriminated against in the past (and some still are) and seen as threats to the country. Mexican immigrants and Muslims are just the latest target in this long and ugly history of xenophobia.

Some people somehow can't see past sensational headlines and tired anti-immigrant rhetoric recycled from the mouths of the Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazis through the right-wing media, whose nudge-nudge, wink-wink racism and bigotry can not conceal their hatred from anyone with a modicum of knowledge of the history of this country, or the others where their ilk have shown their face.

It's really a sad and shameful day when such KKK rhetoric is not only given a hearing in the mainstream media, but is starting to become the mainstream, to the extent of electing a President who might as well be wearing a white hood and burning a cross.
Yes, that works for now.

But if I'll implement these things, I'll want to do them using the new APIs in the first place.

So I'm waiting for the new APIs to come.
Just not the case.

Public municipal toilets in Europe are staffed, just one person constantly keeping the place clean, and ready to call the police if anything like that goes on.

And it works. Certainly works better than having elevator shafts in MUNI and BART smell of excrement.
Super nit-pick but if you are talking about the DS1, I believe it was JPL under contract for NASA.
>One of the more interesting features of the American political environment, over at least the last three and a half decades, is the extent to which the demographic that is (or was) nominally represented by unions has voted for politicians who have made no bones about their intent to weaken the unions and labor law, especially at the state level.

Honestly, neither of the two major parties have looked out for their interests in decades.

Hence the revolt against both the major parties this year.
In UC Berkeley, the 2 level means graduate student level.
Please don't misunderstand the lack of support as lack of anti-Trump support. The comment just reads quite illogic and not very constructive.
You make a good argument. But "fairness" is a loaded term. There would be no need for unions if no employer had more than a few employees. In that case, employers and employees would have similar market power. But when employers have numerous employees, there is an imbalance in market power. Through collective bargaining, unions restore employees' market power.
Have you read Pinker: The Blank Slate, and Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty?

And "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order" by Samuel P. Huntington?

Also, Gleick: Chaos?

Oh, and for fiction the James S. A. Corey: The Expanse series, veeeery easy to read, normally funny, and quite clever.
Android is a lot more open though.
Oh, it's some sort of $20 SanDisk copy of the original iPod Nano from ten years ago. Plays MP3s beautifully, but that is about it.

So I ended up buying some files from Audible, then had the choice of resorting to torrenting the ripped versions or using some dodgy converter to extract something useful. Or cancelling the subscription and getting a refund, which is what I did.
I have a memory of age one, bathing in a tin tub in the garden of father's boss. No language, but the impression that life can be good had such an impact that I remembered.
This is an inaccurate headline. The context around the pictured Terms of Service is:

> Uber may, in Uber's sole discretion, permit you from time to time to submit, upload, publish or otherwise make available to Uber through the Services textual, audio, and/or visual content and information, including commentary and feedback related to the Services, initiation of support requests, and submission of entries for competitions and promotions ("User Content").

It isn't giving an irrevocable license to use your account data (i.e. location data, payment, etc.), but data submitted that falls under the User Content category above. And they actually limit it to three categories feedback, support requests, and contests/promotions.
True, I always try to open a training about surveillance by mentioning Western Union etc to give it historical perspective.
I was once asked by a boss to write code that I felt was unethical. I don't remember exactly what it was now. I do remember that I managed to convince them not to do it by finding a (probably) better way that didn't challenge my ethics. Had I not managed to convince them to do it ethically, I don't know what they'd have done. But I'd already told them that I wouldn't do anything unethical when they hired me, and I told them that their solution to that problem was unethical.

It wasn't even anything important. It was only "a little unethical" and wouldn't have really affected many people negatively. But the line for me isn't how unethical it is, just that it's unethical at all. I simply don't need that in my life, no matter the price.

I wish more people would draw the line where I do, but I do understand the conflict and why they might choose otherwise.
Turning Greenhouse Gas into Gasoline
souper: https://github.com/google/souper
The German system would be a step in the right direction (if the restaurants that participated actually let homeless people use their toilets). But most restaurants in SF close pretty early, and some problem parts of the city don't even have restaurants nearby. What would one do at night, or when in one of those problem areas?
It's about making tools that help with the structural aspects of generating code. It's not part of machine learning, but rather it's very much about symbolic/analytic/logical production of code based on a specification of some sort.
Solar thermal can mostly solve the problem.
Congrats on your qualification as a civ-e then :)

Just joking. I mean, the questions are doable, they just aren't very meaningful.
eg racism can only be performed by white people.
Turbo Pascal really set the standard for IDEs that would run on consumer machines (as opposed to workstations). The compilation times were near zero, even on my 12.5MHz AT. Switching to Turbo C++ was a huge step backwards in that regard (AMD 40MHz 386DX, hit compile, go play Frisbee for 15 minutes).
You are asking the wrong question. The real question is why are you still driving to work? What is special about your office that requires you to be there in order to get work done? Do you not have internet at your house?
I'm not offended - I've never been offended. I'm just calling it out as bullshit.
Why would a junkie want to shoot up in a public toilet of all places? Sure I imagine its better than a park bench in front of the police station, but observing worse solutions doesn't prove something else is the best solution. Their own bathroom? A methadone or other treatment strategy clinic? Its a mere assumption that a culture rich enough to afford places to poop can afford mental health care? Some contaminant in the dirt of the USA that makes it unaffordable here, only affordable everywhere else in the civilized world? If so, wouldn't it be sensible to fix or decontaminate our magic dirt? What, specifically, is wrong with our magic dirt, such that it doesn't work here?

I've noticed that since I was a kid, something has developed such that the public library seems to be used as a free day care center for poor people. The solution to that societal ill is probably not to ban libraries, or ban being poor.
The rational point of view on all this is to ignore any and all news from social media outlets like facebook. Get your news from places that do not have a vested interest in keeping you glued to the screen for as long as possible.

In a very real sense facebook does not exist without clickbait so facebook's core value system will never be aligned with spreading actual news. It is the same reason network news is no longer news. Real news does not keep viewers glued to the screen so the network channels have evolved into their current form to optimize advertising revenue and ratings.
This list is awesome, and I hate to criticize. But it would be really nice if there was just a little more metadata for each link to provide some extra context.

Being on GitHub, this is probably a problem that could resolve itself with some PRs.
Perhaps someone on HN has had a similar experience to me. I can "remember" my mother telling my father that she was pregnant with my little brother, which means I was less than 21 months old at the time. I have some specific details I've corroborated with my parents (like the fact that my mother put a sign in the driveway to surprise my father when he got home from work), which they were amazed that I knew.

But I realized a few years ago that the memory, despite having true elements and feeling legitimate, takes place in the wrong location: the house that we moved into shortly after he was born. So I'm sure at some point I either was told this story and confused it for a memory, or I held onto the "gist" of the original memory long enough and then recalled/rewrote it enough times that the setting was changed to the place where the majority of my childhood took place. But I find it amazing that I still feel like it's a real memory.