skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some things that actually should be completely deleted and off-limits, though, like people that post peoples' personal information.

But yes, I often wish I could see deleted comments on reddit in places like /r/askscience: I want to see what stupid shit people have said to get banned.

ALTHOUGH, like everything discussed in any of these threads as 'solutions' to the so-called 'problem' of 'abuse': it really is just going to result in more echo chambers.
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I think that a big problem with the UK rail privatisation was that it split a large, badly-run monopoly up into smaller, regional monopolies. Some of which have proved to be just as badly-run. In some ways this seems similar to the breakup of the Bell telephone monopoly.

A necessary part of a free market is that consumers have choice. In the franchised UK rail system, there are very few routes on which one can choose between different suppliers. The franchise system also imposes huge barriers to new entrants to the market. Therefore, there is little incentive for companies, having won the franchise, to improve the service more than the minimum necessary.

The core infrastructure of the UK rail network is still owned and run by Network Rail, which is publicly owned, so the core inefficiencies remain.
GCC is just one C++ compiler among many, but yes we are in UB territory.
That doesn't work for many home networks, where you can't make incoming connections, and there might not even be a fixed IP address -- at the very least you need some kind of simple server to pass messages between the user's phone and door.
It has been done since the 70's [1]. It has been banned in the US since '76 due to proliferation concerns. There are certainly challenges, but most of those challenges are down to stupid choices that were made in the 60's. Newer plants will continue to bring down the cost of using reprocessed fuel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing
Question is - How will Children be able to get a ride ? Can they create account in Uber App (minimum age requirement for Uber ?) And what about their safety ?
Normally Public transport drivers are selected carefully while Uber dont seem to have such criteria.
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see more: https://www.solutionanalysts.com/blog/importance-of-mobile-cloud-technology-for-rapid-app-development-environment/
Just did a bit more math here.

Given the numbers above, if the company is valued at $100m and not adding shares, the valuation could be ~$5.60 per share.

When buying ISO's you need to pay for the shares and pay the taxes on the difference between the strike price ($0.27) and the fair market value on the date of purchase. Therefore, in this example, tax would be owed on ($5.60 - $0.27) * 15000 or $79k in paper gain. Depending on other income and a variety of factors, tax due may be greater than $28k.

Total cash out of pocket to exercise these options would then be the amount paid for the options plus the tax.

$4050 + $28k for a total of $32k on a valuation of 15000 * $5.65 or $84750.

If Gitlab does not decrease in value, he could benefit about $50k on an investment of $32k. If Gitlab increases in value, the benefit could be larger.

Not a tax guy here so corrections are gladly accepted and appreciated to increase the clarity of the situation.
Presumably you only download the site you want when you visit it. If that's the case then can you view revisions of the web sites or do you only have the current copy?
I have to agree. I don't think that 'global moderation' really works as a concept. What someone views as just a joke might be incredibly offensive to me. I have no problem with rape jokes or 9/11 jokes for example, but I never ever want to see any sort of gore, that's completely offlimits for me. Whereas some people (see 4chan) might not care about either, any many care about both.
It's also short-sighted as the four-character ICAO code system encodes geographical data and encompasses a magnitude more airfields.

For example one can determine that EGLL is in Western Europe, UK without having to look up tables to determine that it is Heathrow.
No, but nothing is stopping you from using another New&Better™ Apple API if you're not concerned by cross-platform compatibility. Having tons of vendor-specific code in your cross-platform software, on the other hand, is a pain and one of the main reason why standards like POSIX exist.

Conformance with a standard doesn't just happen on a whim - if you negate the benefits that come with having a standard in the first place, any criticism you'll get as the provider of said API you brought on yourself.

Edit: Also, I have to say: I really don't like the attitude of "there are other use cases, so the one you are referring to when voicing criticisms is invalid". This has never been a constructive use of anyone's time. As I said, there are very valid reasons for why the API works as it does, but that doesn't invalidate the argument that the basic decision might not have been the best one to begin with.
Though it's not all that rare, there's the question of dealing with death in large online social or identity networks.

With Google having some 3 billion Android / Chrome / Gmail profiles, and Facebook roughly as many users, standard actuarial statistics suggest that, even if allowing for multiple profiles per human, the number of newly dead accounts per day probably runs to the tens of thousands.

(Globally, deaths run about 120,000/day, so the figure's within reason.)

Which means you probably want to consider your processes for such matters, as well as various related issues, such as mistakenly presuming a user has died, or being falsely informed, how to handle data assets after death, etc., etc.

Scale matters.
Separating the public and private message might have helped out a bit as well.

In this case, I would have tried to help online (in the forum) at least once, despite the rude forum post. If it kept up, I'd have emailed the "we need to part ways, here's a refund" note.
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Glorifying cultural appropriation.. NOT COOL
Oh look. All the people behind it were white men. It just keeps getting better!
This is what I've waited for for quite some time.
Steve Ballmer talked about this recently on a podcast, and said that they are working on it. It would allow you to buy a "virtual ticket" for any seat in the building.

I think it's a pretty great idea for fans who live far away from their favorite teams.
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I don't doubt it, but the claim I responded to was that we get "heavily upvoted posts here advocating all sorts of nonsense proven to kill millions". Key word being here.
Hopefully by labelling things more interestingly than 'evil hate speech' and 'lovely pro-feminist speech'.

When all your email filter is doing is filtering things as 'spam' 'not spam', it's fine to have a binary file. But what should be moderated on a forum is a completely different kettle of fish. I want Twitter completely unmoderated (except for literally illegal content). Some other people, clearly, want Twitter restricted to only things they agree with. We should both get what we want.
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Kind of reminds me of the old table layouts, although it doesn't bother me personally.
Good point. It's the same with companies like Walmart. All the gains in efficiency go to headquarters. The locals don't benefit.
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Not my favorite term, but it's not new. https://www.fastcompany.com/37133/dorothy-lane-loves-its-cus... (1999), http://www.achrnews.com/blogs/17-opinions/post/83324-hint-us... (2000)
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Gamergate, never allowed to speak for itself, never defined, never counted, but somehow, the people who invoke it as a boogieman know exactly who did what and why.

That should tell you what was going on, especially when what set it off was an abuse victim warning that his abuser was capable of anything for self aggrandizement.

Candace Owens / Social Autopsy found that out when she started getting threatening and hateful emails from "gamers" on an address she'd only given out to progressive "anti abuse" activists.
Coal produces about 2/3rds as much nuclear waste per unit power. [1](http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/5077), [2](https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1997/fs163-97/FS-163-97.html).

We do little to even try to contain that waste, and aren't even thinking of how to 'get rid of it'. The effects of this radioactive waste are totally overshadowed by the 'conventional' pollution caused by coal.

Nuclear power compares pretty well to this.
I can at best give you a circular (or spiral, given that generations pass) argument: nuclear has not demonstrated that it has a great appeal to current stock of humans.
I personally upgrade to follow the latest release. But if I were on a LTS... I wouldn't use that unstable feature.
I agree, it's not that I can't, I'd just rather not have to go through all the James Bond shit required to not be treated like a criminal coming into my own country...
The "official" subtitles that come with the 1995 version of the movie are absolutely terrible, riddled with mistakes, and literal translations that don't work in the english language. Case in point: At the end of the chase scene, after the thug fired his remaining 8 bullets, the subtitles make the major say "All Finished?" instead of "Out of bullets?" - which would've certainly worked better in English.

Another thing is the concept of "Ghost", which western viewers often misinterpret as some spiritual soul but should be understood as "self-aware (part of the) mind/consciousness". From what I heard this is obvious to jap. viewers. But this is hard to translate regardless of how you approach it.

Anyways I recommend watching it with any fansub you can find online - any of them will be of much higher quality than the bundled subtitles.
Cannot access this at work for zeronet.io being involved in P2P activity.

I cannot help but feel disappointed and unamused.
Why? Not that hard to set up but seems overkill.
Nowadays the stuff on GitHub is simply a mirror. Originally, they used GitHub primarily. Why they used GitHub was explained by Sytse (or Sid) in 2013:

"We're just going to stay where the people are. [...] GitHub is where the contributors are."

You can hear him yourself in The Changelog #103 podcast at https://changelog.com/podcast/103. Again, this was from late 2013.
> Since the company was small enough, the CEO decided to take us all to Mountain View, rent a house, and spend a couple of months together.

That sounds incredibly creepy to me (as does the whole astroturfing communication from GitLabs).
I'm assuming that the research is intended to ensure fewer planes crash, so yes.
> collapsing damns [...] kill during normal operation

Thank god I don't live anywhere near a dam designed to collapse as part of normal operation.
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You can query by arbitrary dimension (what we would think of as time aggregates). In the future, you'd be able to materialize to arbitrary dimensions with continuous queries.
And what do you think the response of local oil prices would be if a significant fraction, or all, mid-East oil supplies were cut off?

Oil is a commodity which can move around the planet for 1-2% of its total energy content -- that is, a tanker burns the equivalent of about 1% of the load it's carrying, to carry that load. Which means that oil is a global market.

The price of oil in the US is absolutely dependent on the supply of oil coming from the Middle East, even if that oil flows to Europe, India, and China. Just as the price of oil in the Middle East is dependent on the amount of oil flowing from Canada, or Bakken Shale.

Which is why the Carter Doctrine stands. The United States has vital strategic and economic interests in the Middle East.
If you click on "How does it work?" you get redirected to a short and sweet presentation[0]. According to the presentation, when you, as the site owner, push an update, content.json gets updated, the peers get a notification (using the WebSocket API) that a new content is available, and then they download the new version of content.json that contains the sitemap of the updated version of the website. Cleverly thought out!

[0] - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_2qK1IuOKJ51pgBvllZ9...
Uber tech isn't exactly google[1] in difficulty to implement, but it isx pretty ridiculous to suggest they go out and build an uber clone for 300k-600k. Not only would they need PMs but they would need to develop and build iOS and Android versions of this technology and then all the backend algorithims.

Then they could build in all the business logic to store driver and rider information securely as well as securely charge and pay them.

Then operate the business by marketing it and attracting drivers to the platform.

Subsidize Uber vs. All of That? On a 600K MAX budget for a town too small to seriously consider >2 buses, using an existing Lyft or Uber-esque service is a no brainer.

[1] I mean what google does is a lot more comkplicated than what Uber does. That said, google is alleging that large swathes of the Uber AI program are literally"exactly the same" as Waymo...
This is great well done. I have been thinking a lot about similar stuff.

I would love to see a new IDE/language emerge that elevates us from "a program is a bunch of directories and files" to "a program is a data structure that can be compiled/interpreted and executed".

I want a "tree viewer" on the side that lets me view the components of my program not just files on a filesystem.

Imagine when your IDE could be 100% aware of all different elements of your program in a reliable way.

You could "attach" comments and tests to your code. Your IDE could show you hints about which components lack documentation and tests. You could navigate your program in powerful ways.

The IDE could give you a UI for changing parameters and configuration. So much potential.

Right now we have some of this stuff but it's done in a hacky way built on top of shaky conventions that are not academically sound or correct (comments as ad-hoc pieces of ignored string sprinkled in a file, test naming conventions , annotations etc).

It would be nice to acknowledge a program for what it really is, a data structure.
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>> then the FCC gave the cable companies a special exemption to allow them to start Encrypting the signal that is when they started to screw people over on the Box fees

Admittedly, I don't mind this because it has drastically improved service availability and quality in my area by stopping people from stealing cable.
Seeing a doctor can be expensive and inconvenient (another form of expensive).
Over a period of 50 years, you can mismanage a couple of plants and still kill fewer people. But not the entire industry.
>This is a solved problem, but not one that would catch on. See: PGP

It's only 'solved' if you don't care about usability. PGP quickly becomes a nightmare when you consider the day-to-day things 'normal' computer users will go through (private key stolen, password to private key forgotten, phishing attacks to sign replacement keys for friends, etc).
I was puzzled when I first saw cross tab communication in impress.js for their slide control tab (slid.es) and I am still wondering about the proper use case of this feature today. Isn't this a security nightmare?
> E.g.: the possibility of a maximally great being seems to definitionally imply its necessity.

One of my favourite tongue-in-cheeek replies I read to these ontological arguments: Ah, but surely there is no greater being than one who could create the universe despite not existing!
Hah I knew there'd be someone blaming unions somewhere in this thread.

US public transport problems have nothing to do with unions.
I'm pretty sure that "banning Nazi's" is a catch all phrase meaning banning anyone whose opinions we do not agree with above a certain level / token candidates.

Twitter has a pretty well rounded TOS and they tend to go out of their way to block/ban people even when they haven't violated the TOS/CoC when there is sufficient pressure.

That said I don't understand why people want to turn their social networks to echo chambers, if you only having discussions that do not make you feel uncomfortable or challenge your views you often do not hold discussions worth having.
The rule of thumb that I have found.. you spend 90% of your time on less than 10% of your clients... so just price yourself out of their market.
Indeed, it seems like it's just a software problem: make Smartphone app (with cloud-based backend), distribute to many cities/drivers. But then there's the pesky payments/background check/regulations problem, although 2 out of those 3 Uber can ignore.

GNU Ride anyone?
I don't want to be pedantic, and I do agree that the scenario isn't centralization in a sense that it strongly threatens the network, but I thing there's a point here worth clarifying. Pools don't need their own physical miners to have power over the block generation process. AFAIK, the connected miners are "dumb clients", delegating their block generation capability to the pool in order to share rewards and therefore reduce income variability.

In short: the pool still defines the blocks that the connected miners will mine. They centralize all the collective power of all connected miners.
I always wondered why you couldn't just download a torrent of torrents for the month.
The zeronet.io is hosted on vultr.com. Why don't they use zeronet to deliver its own website?
Put the server in the product - problem solved.

But then I need to be able to open a connection from my phone to the device. With NATs, Dynamic IPs, ISP configured firewalls/routers and so on, this is decidedly non-trivial. Sure, you and I are smart enough to hack something together that will probably work, but end users aren't.
What JS Minifier do you know that does dead code elimination?

I would have thought that understanding what functions of a dynamic language that can be safely removed would require parsing/AST analysis beyond those found in the typical minifier.
And I'm also assuming that remote positions in Europe aren't going to include any medical insurance. Which makes those jobs a total no-go for an American.
> I don't see a customer getting a free garage door out of it.

Nor do I. That would imply that the customer had some extra asset at the end. That is beyond making the customer whole, because such a thing presumably has a market value and can be sold, even if just for scrap.

> Using the refund to buy a competitive product would arguably make them whole.

Not necessarily. If the customer has additional costs that have not been reimbursed, and these costs were incurred as a consequence of the seller's breach of contract despite the customer's reasonable efforts to minimize them, then by definition the customer hasn't been made whole. Search for the meaning of "consequential damages".

It's up to the court to decide how to address the balance. It may decide that it isn't reasonable to reimburse some extra costs anyway. And in the US, legal fees won't be reimbursed so the customer may decide to settle for less. But if it does go to court, then in the case that the seller has "fired" the customer unreasonably the court may look upon the customer's claims for consequential damages more favorably.
I lived in NYC for over a decade. Generally speaking, the train (aka subways) is comprehensive, fast, safe and reliable. While a few parts may be very old, the trains are all relatively new and quite nice.

Oh, and fares have increased many many times. Many people always complain when it does.

And NYC is still building new subway lines. Construction is underway right now on a new east side line.
Why would you think the 10% that's a pain to deal with is the 10% at the bottom economically?
In addition to the factors unique to dam failure, large construction projects will statistically result in dead workmen - at least over multiple projects.
That's kind of unfair, the iPhone 4S was released on September 2011, so it was supported 5 years since release. It went through 5 (!) major releases of iOS, from 5.0 to 9.3.5.

If you buy a phone that you know is already going to be obsoleted soon (it's not like Apple makes its release schedule a mystery), you should assume it will have less support than the latest model.
Where should I start? [...] where to start?

Building an audience + market validation before building a sideproject are the top starting priority for "a side project that makes money".

Start by building an audience (this can be as simple as interacting with professionals on Twitter and/or their own blogs, or even contributing here on HN!). I won't be able to determine what people want without asking people, and I will save a lot of wasted time by building something that I can guarantee people already want to pay for! For example: I intend to walk around my neighborhood with a survey to gauge interest in localized "technology disaster prevention" (aka initial setup of PC & phone backups with verification and increasingly annoying reminders) as a service. The first sideproject is the hardest because initially the audience is smallest but then can be re-used.

I hesitated to post this because most developers have an "if you build it, they will come" mentality (and a tendency to focus on technology/implementation details that they enjoy) that even I personally have a hard time overcoming myself. However, if the criteria is making money, building an audience is the right first step. Once the bare-minimum MVP functions, marketing makes all the difference on the "that makes money" part (see my list of random books to buy elsewhere in this thread)... and there is no point over-engineering something I can't convince anyone to use!

I realize I'm going out on a limb a bit to say that market validation before each sideproject comes second... I know of one example of someone who has built an audience while publicly initiating sideprojects without thorough market validation (focusing on technology instead -- note that this determination is 100% my own armchair quarterbacking with the benefit of hindsight); this person's projects appear to be faltering because of poor market fit. However, it hasn't stopped many from buying into this person's brand / other projects, and that audience is now following the next project even though initially it appears to be trending toward the same mistake!

PS. As mentioned elsewhere I could shortcut market validation by tracking down commercial products (already being paid for) that are getting a lot of visibility and addressing issues raised in bad reviews; however even when going this route I will still benefit greatly by having an audience to market the replacement.

Edit: switched to first person to preach to myself to get off my butt and start doing something!
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Snyder's "Politics and Prose" talk is up on YouTube. Recommended.