skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don't give notice about a service change prior to asking for money, then you get called an extortionist. You can still do it, but that's what people will call you.
If you are a Libertarian then you believe that free will is key to our interactions, trafficked people are not able to use their free will, therefore they cannot enter into contracts, and therefore should not be something that libertarians allow... But sounds like these guys didn't care about anything except their own freewill, and that of the people that were financing them.
I'm not an UI/UX expert but a back-end developer. I cannot give you more feedback then this.
Murder, rape, kidnapping all violate the NAP. Morals aside, child prostitutes are no different than child models, actors, etc. All child professions can be coerced and share the same decision issues of child consent vs parent's rights and so on.
Can a Diet That Mimics Fasting Turn Back the Clock?
Do you really think someone could spend two years on a documentary without realising such a mistake?
oh no, I hadn't heard about paid NPM packages- do you have any more info about this? My searchesare just coming up with stuff about leftpad going away and packages called "paid" etc.
import antigravity [1]

I in Python, Given the fact Python is a dynamically typed language, with all the need to write deterministic tests, I am always amazed to see such packages come up. The eco-system is just incredible in this regard. Thumbs up!

[1] https://xkcd.com/353/
Big corporations are made of people.

How many times have we seen this: an exec runs with an idea, but it doesn't pan out fast enough. Other execs then have a stick they can use to embiggen themselves at the expense of their colleague. The end result is that the idea itself is now tainted and no one will touch it.
There's a large number of people on Facebook that I interact with that I don't have email / sms / whatever for. There's also a non-negligible number that I'm happy interacting with on Facebook but not on anything more personal.
Once you have built a residential neighbourhood, parking on the streets is a sunk cost. Cities need money for the police, to collect garbage, etc. So there is no point in coming up with convoluted schemes to charge people for services that the city provides. Keep tax simple and it costs less to collect it.

Of course, you always run into people with mistaken believes in economic incentives, such as charging per kilo of garbage. By and large those cause more problems then they solve. The best option to make people miserable is to let a private company collect parking fees on behalf of the local government. Then you can be sure that a lot of that money will be wasted on expensive officies, salaries for management, etc.

If there is an actual shortage of parking space, and replacing parking space with bike lanes, etc, may cause such a shortage, then charging for parking makes sense.

If most people living in a residential area are convinced they need a car, then charging for parking is just going to make people unhappy and is likely reducing the value of property in that area.
As someone who has written an IRC server implementation, there is no standard protocol. There is an RFC, but no one implements it. Instead, each server uses its own mix of poorly documented pseudo-standards.
Comment voting is a form of mob rule that only serves to make the average person more comfortable while obstructing change.

In my opinion they need to be replaced with something more decentralized that puts each individual user in control of what kind of comments they want to see and makes them each decide individually.

Imagine if people who everybody disagreed with always got censored? We'd have all sorts of situations where everybody would suffer until things like basic hygiene for physicians were discovered. Oh wait, that already happened and you can read about it here - http://www.medicaldaily.com/mad-scientist-6-scientists-who-w...

Online systems are so much more fluid than real-life and we have a good opportunity to change the way things are done, but unfortunately the biggest sites for conversation all follow the same brain-dead upvote/downvote system. I hope that one day we'll have a better system which at least lets individuals choose their own moderator or moderation style.
Lots. Interpretation of some specific event, action, or person as sexist (or not) can be very subjective. For example, if a woman applies for a job and is rejected, she may think it was due to sexism, whereas the interviewer may not.
I had two objections to parent's point, so forgive me for ranting on a bit here.

The strict definition of sexism is a mindset, and the only way to reliably determine that mindset is to have a mind-reading device. That means that almost every time we evaluate sexism, we use a heuristic, and choosing which heuristics to apply is necessarily subjective. For example, I find most of the sexism controversies do not have clear indicators of sexism, but I acknowledge that I applied my own opinion to determine those, and opinions can differ.

Since the strict definition of sexism is difficult to apply, it's also possible to use an operative definition and still remain objective. If we could agree to a set of heuristics, a set of measurable actions through which we can objectively determine that something is "sexism", then we could use that to make our judgement calls. However, I don't see such a standard proposed and agreed upon - in fact, the reason the issue is so controversial is that it seems there is very little "standard" about sexism that we agree on, and opinions about it have a lot of variance. I think it's normal for HN users to then express skepticism and criticize an ad-hoc application of rules to slap a label on someone when we can't agree on what that label means.

This is why I was looking for an objective standard to replace the dictionary definition of the word, which HN users agreed upon and then failed to apply when "SV culture" was put under a microscope.

EDIT: reduced repetition and improved wording.
Disclaimer : I might be biased : I am currently waiting for my H1B to process in order to move to San Francisco.

I have worked in France for most of my career so far. My first hand experience is of course limited (I only have 5 years of experience) but I really feel that the FrenchTech is overblown. There are some great startups but they are extremely rare.

We have started hiring non french people in the startup I work for one year ago and the culture clash is tremendous. Things that have bothered me for a while are doubly strange for them :

- Everything takes a LOT of time and nobody prioritizes making the process more efficient. There are many bottlenecks.. after discussing with colleagues in non French companies, they have all found solutions in order to solve them. Here there is no will to do so. So it can take weeks to merge simple changes.

- very large aversion to new technology. Pretty much constantly lagging 1 to 2 years behind the rest of the community.

-LOTS of office politics

I don't expect any of these to become perfect in another country but I am more than ready for a change of air.
Since I got the pattern of downvoting, I am bored.

I thought first they were smart and it was funny to understand what wwould made you upvoted/downvoted.

Then I understood it was plain propaganda/censorship whether you were taking an opinion refuting the godliness and virtues of VC/startup/entrepreneur.

HN is the modern pravda except it is liberal instead of being sovietic.

Same shit
Are you saying that photobucket derived no value from, and has no obligation to their users, simply because they didn't make monetary payments?
>It's actually quite fun to bike through rain.

Whatever floats your boat.

I would like to remind you that you do live in a bubble, though. Even if it doesn't quite keep you dry in the rain.
> Are private cars the primary means of getting around any city today?

Lol come visit Detroit sometime. Make sure you drive or rent a car, though; you'll need it to navigate our eight-lane roads and ridiculous highways.
Well, actually it looks like (IMHO) there are too many abstractions levels, in fact - I omit many of them on the scheme, and it's still complex. But if we think why that happened, it's because of multiple platforms supports mostly (native, server rendering, etc), each "sensitive for platform" part of logic requires at least module with interfaces, modules with implementation per each platform, module-injector for exact implementation and so on..
IMHO, the market is evolving toward tinker. Many arduino and raspberry pi have been sold. Many people are buying 3d printers. Many android phones have been produced at small scale. We love the idea that we can build (or fix) stuff ourselves.

This would mean an open market with a fierce concurrency (and low margins).

I hope that this is the future, but Intel like many chip makers are fighting against it by blocking documentation of their products (using NDA and/or huge prices).
Controversial, I know—but I wonder how deep that connection actually is...

'the points equidistant from a specific point' and 'X^2+Y^2=1' are both descriptions that we know how to parse and and evaluate into the same thing.

Don't get me wrong, I do think it's a super interesting property of the systems of description we formulate that it's possible to talk about the same things with different abstractions (which happens a lot in math: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duality_(mathematics)), even with very high degrees of precision—but I have a hard time seeing how this could be a property of space rather than of human conceptual structure/language.
html5 canvas blockers / browser fingerprinting blocker for the site linked

your browser is leaking a lot of data, from the plugins you have installed to the fonts & you need to take initiative to patch the holes

here's a website you may find useful: https://browserleaks.com/
Guys we need to read the article first, before someone thinks we're stupid when we seem to suggest a 13-year old, abducted and drugged girl may have voluntarily decided to prostitute herself...
a radical libertarian would basically be an entrepreneurial anarchist - but what would a radical liberal look like.
> But the thing that shocked me most about making this film was that those guys who ran Backpage, back in the day they were rabble-raising libertarians, yet, at some point, my view is that maybe the money became so outrageously intoxicating, perhaps there was this notion that the sale of children was simply collateral damage.
Certainly if there were two identical companies, and one had $10B more in cash, the one with $10B more in cash would be worth more than the other company? I understand it's not 1-1.

I'm thinking completely theoretically, so if the world doesn't work like finance theory, fine. But I just can't see any way in which leverage, debt, cash, etc don't substantially alter the market cap of a company.
"For TrueType fonts, Microsoft has somehow seen fit to require an unsupported registry hack"

this is an interesting comment. iirc it is because most 'fixed width' true type fonts aren't actually fixed width enough to not make a mess out of the console when used there... any pixels that bleed out of the fixed width bounds are left behind when removing the character.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20070516-00/?p=...
Ask HN: How do I become a more focused reader?
I love reading. I have read hundreds of books in my life and I have hundreds more on my bookshelf (both physical and digital) waiting to be read. Lately however I've been finding it difficult to concentrate on reading for long stretches of time. I'll sit down to read and within 10 minutes my eyes will get heavy and I'll struggle to stay awake (even during the daytime). Other times, my mind will wander almost immediately. I'll be thinking about what's happening on Twitter or with my RSS feeds. Then I'll get halfway through a sentence and just stop so I can check social media. I'll set goals for myself to read, say, 50 pages per day but I hardly get through 10 and I'm already 'bored'. What are some practices for keeping my mind focused on the task at hand? I try to keep my phone in another room and set my Watch to do not disturb and that helps. But when I'm reading a book on my iPad, the home button is so easily accessible.
Most of your ad traffic comes from click farms
Your Simulacra.js is a framework, though. Yes, one framework might be faster than another; that's why there are other tradeoffs.
I'm glad someone else picked up on this. That line is completely misinformed and is in fact almost propaganda.
did you know that boring FST100 companies like BT offer shares to all staff? if you had maxed out a share save scheme a few years ago you would have made over 150k tax free?
Labor is a unit of cost, but not necessarily of value.
Really services like Backpage make the work if finding kidnapped people much easier. This has been going on long before there was a backpage.com site, but before the internet these women were forced to walk the streets and the likely hood of this woman finding her daughter back in the 1980s would have been almost nil. It's a double edged sword but if I were in law enforcement I would see Backpage as a valuable intelligence asset.
Best of them all,

Hi, we recently touched base ....

no you didn't you sent me a spam email the day before.

or this one

I'm looking to connect with whoever is in charge of storage, backups and recovery. Are you the right person?

Please reply and let me know or feel free to forward this email thread to your colleague.

no, I don't think I will.
Why does HN on iOS Safari not show comments? (Screenshot)
Yep, Intel had no idea what it was doing when it was designing its IoT product line. Normally, on its CPUs Intel got to do whatever it wanted and everyone just dealt with it because it was Intel (and they were rather open to working with the industry on standardizing communication buses, slowly getting rid of all the bridges, and etc). However, on a microcontroller, you have a lot more silicon than just the CPU architecture and cache so they had to go out and license a bunch of crap (and it usually is crap) peripherals that would never have have met the standard for their consumer/server CPU product lines. Combine that with the reduce R&D budget and they couldn't even properly test have the interactions. The number of errata for even their simplest chip rivaled that of their new gen processors when tech drastically changed (pentium -> core 2 due -> i3/5/7)
Eye Tracking in Rec Room to Show Facial Expressions (VR)
Challenge is not about challenge itself, but about the combination of challenge-reward. If you are fighting for something with a marginal return there's less incentive for that.
The group ends at the verb. I expect there can be ambiguity sometimes, but I don't see it in the example.

I'm learning Danish, and regularly have trouble working out where compound words should be divided. I can't see any benefit compared to separating the words with hyphens or spaces. The pronunciation would be the same.
Profits are too high – America needs a giant dose of competition
The Atlantic reports on study of the economic impacts of climate change
10 projects backed.

Some on time, delay, more delay and never come and consider lawsuit.
This is not surprising or even interesting. The headline in particular is overblown. It's the equivalent of "CIA Targeting French Speakers with Audio Listening Devices". Not only is that painfully obvious and well-known, but it's also far too weirdly specific. Yes, the CIA has tools for spying. That's their job. The tools vary in sophistication. They are used in targeted ways. This tool, like most listening devices, requires some form of breaking and entering to install, and would be easily detected by mid-level security efforts. It's cool to get the details, but the headline (and the general tone of the Wikileaks releases) is scaremongering FUD. The NSA is doing far far more pervasive and dangerous stuff.
I agree that self-hosting audience is probably small for this, but open sourcing also changes its image and workflow a bit.

I'd much rather pay for a hosted FLOSS app, than a hosted closed source app (assuming similar capabilities). Being able to inspect the code, and knowing that anyone's free to collaborate or reuse the code really makes a difference on where I choose to put my money.
A service I loved was sold and became unbearable, so I built my own
Equity valuation in the real world doesn't really work as in theory. But for what it's worth I don't think adventured is right and I find that your point about enterprise value being more meaningful than market capitalisation is mostly valid.

The "best" capital structure for GM has been widely discussed recently, see for example: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-28/hedge-fun...
I mostly agree with you, but I think there's a fine line between what I'll call white privilege and white preference.

White privilege is a complex system of societal advantage. There's nothing Sam (in this case) did to deserve that privilege, but there's also no reason to condemn him for using it to live the best life he can.

White preference is a racist dynamic whereby a white person is preferred over a minority solely because of the color of their skin. There's no doubt this exists too, but it's a deeply disgusting offense that's hard to prove.

It seems to me that a number of people in this thread are conflating the two. You're right that we don't know what's going on behind the scenes at YC, but I think we can give them the benefit of the doubt that white preference is not at play here.
We've written something similar for Java (except it's more generic, it can generate anything you want, and it can be made by certain rules, e.g. 100 users out of which 10 would be women born between 1970 and 1980):
https://github.com/smartcat-labs/ranger
Maybe easier in some senses, but cars are life and death. If 1 out of 10 of your recommendations are bad, no big deal. If the car misclassifies obstacles in the road at even 1/100th that rate, not acceptable.
My bet is it is a compromised client certificate from a doctor or hospital.

The authorities will query the audit logs to determine who accessed the journalists record and revoke the cert.

The log will show the other leaked records, which the authorities will report to the victims.

The investigation into how those records were leaked will land several people in jail, as it is easily traceable to the credential.

Bad idea, darknet vendor! Selling data this traceable is sure to get you v&
IRC isn't federated either, FWIW.
yes but if we don't permit the dumb pipes in the hands of our companies then won't they just be run by people outside of the countries we have legal jurisdiction making the problem harder to solve?
Will we then assume as we can't see the problem that we've fixed it? Is it about actually solving the problem or just that its uncomfortable that its near daylight? That's what I wonder as many of these "solutions" just push the problem away instead of solving it.
I use QupZilla, a random Chrome-based browser because it starts a new session for every new window (not tab).

Even Internet Explorer has File > New Session.
It doesn't make his point stronger because his company is already comparatively huge if you look at most startups who supposedly fall prey to the "growth at all costs" mentality.

His point is moot because a lot of startups will agree with him when they reach the scale of Basecamp. They're not there yet, so they need to think about growth.

Meanwhile, companies who are huge and going after more growth don't give a fuck about what DHH writes. It feels like there's a pretty significant message/audience mismatch.
The Skype api exists in a kind of semi-deprecated limbo. MS tried to kill it abruptly a while back and were talked into keeping limited support over time. It's completely undocumented now though. They're actively discouraging developers from the platform.
As if millions of PHPBBS voices cried out at once and were silenced.
That describes the DBMon benchmark [0] pretty accurately. It has a hundred "components" (rows), each with several subcomponents that re-render based on state changes.

Actually it is less interesting and indicative of mainly one aspect of web app performance, that is re-rendering. The JS Framework Benchmark gives one a more holistic overview that includes bulk insertion, deletion, swapping, events, startup time, etc.

On this benchmark, Simulacra.js outperforms React by a wider margin.

[0] https://mathieuancelin.github.io/js-repaint-perfs/
The future of retailers
I imagine child sex traffickers aren't very smart people. There will be some organized crime that avoids it, but also some lazy opportunistic perverts that are really really stupid.

Remember, the Dunning-Kruger effect was originally about a guy who robbed a bank without a mask in broad daylight that had cameras. Police showed up at his house the next day and arrested him.
Where are you based at the moment?

Potentially!
Usually you should let those being offended decide wether or not it's offensive by definition though.
Looks like a learning project for someone relatively new to C++.

I suggest using git tags instead of putting a version number in every commit message.

Have you looked into epoll or kqueue or even poll? Or for your windows backend, WSAEventSelect/WaitForMultipleObjects or IOCP... Trying to get all these disparate ways of doing async sockets to use a consistent wrapper interface is an interesting challenge.
A chrome extension to track Indian mutual funds
Will someone please think of the children!
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Related, and similarly awesome:

SGI screen fonts: https://njr.sabi.net/2015/11/01/sgi-screen-fonts-converted-f...

DEC VT220 font: http://blog.fosketts.net/2015/10/06/the-best-mac-os-x-termin... (related blog post as canonical site appears to be down)
The article is about discovery in litigation showing that Backpage pursued specific policies to encourage ads selling children. Taking that evidence at face value, there was obviously enough money in it for backpage to want to facilitate such activity.

I agree with your point in general terms: people who hate freedom will always latch onto this sort of thing to shut down activity that they don't like that isn't harmful. At the same time, people who do like freedom shouldn't defend those who abuse their freedom. There are things, like child prostitution, that society just won't stand for. Chalking it up to "collateral damage" is not a viable response. If we want a society where the Internet is free, we're going to have to accept that when someone does cross the line from providing a neutral platform to actively facilitating unacceptable activity, the there will have to be tremendous consequences.
The biggest problem I have with something like this is that unlike SO the answers aren't archived for others who may have the same issue. It would be nice if discussions like this on Gitter could be archived and searched the way mailing lists are.