skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
John Oliver (comedian/entertainer) is your "source of truth"?

* What is this world coming to? *

> Your comment can be summed up as "Just have money."

Not at all! None of the 6 points I made are solved by "Just have money". They are solved by making responsible choices.
Just be responsible.

I certainly recognize that government policy can be ridiculous and is certainly abused, but what really got the people in John Olivers video in trouble was not taking care of their responsibilities in the first place. Yes, there are people out there who prey on irresponsible people. Don't be one of those people. Be responsible.
in a society with such dramatic wealth inequality, subscription can never be a viable business model for journalism. If you aren't charging people more based on how much they have, You're not going to be able to make it up on quantity, since most people have zero disposable income.

Donations, however, scale with the inverse of the "marginal utility of money". Even though donations are completely voluntary, because they scale with wealth, at some level of wealth inequality, they become more profitable than a subscription service at any price point.

(ad revenue also ostensibly scales with wealth, but not as well, since consumption doesn't scale very well with wealth)
> Sure. But did they break the story on the connection between anti-brexit organizations?

If you think there is a story here report it to the Electoral commission. I'm sure they could run this in parallel with the Arron Banks investigation

> It's funny how the guardian mostly published anti-brexit propaganda.

Leaving the pro-Brexit camp with just The Times. Oh and the Mail... and the Express, the Sun, the Telegraph....
I wonder how they build up their training set? That couldnt have been that easy.
That's a good argument for the land value tax as primary revenue source.
>most guilty to least guilty

Guilty of what precisely?
https://itch.io/t/166155/please-make-the-game-for-mac-too
Maybe. I think the reverse is as true.
Actually, you absolutely could host the website inside IPFS and if you don't mind going to an incomprehensible ipfs.io/ipfs/___ address, it'll fetch.

The webserver is there in this case to make life easier during dev, and to make it easy to call your local ipfs API service to do things like monitor the messages on the pubsub.
Honestly at this point if it collapses, it could be the trigger for a market pull back
> I look around at those who have made it, and the majority are white males from stable middle-class backgrounds. This stability and security, this confidence that a supportive family gives, this safety that a low-crime area brings, access to materials and space in which to learn, this reinforcement at every step that you are surrounded by "people like you" and that you deserve to be there... is such a huge thing that is taken for granted.

You imply that white people are privileged because they're white, yet look at this sentence. It seems to me like poor white people _don't_ go into tech. Couldn't socioeconomic/cultural differences explain the discrepancies and not systemic racism/sexism/-ism?

Just because statistically more white people grow up middle class does _not_ mean that all white people are privileged. Acting like they are is discriminatory.
Tesla truck will need same energy as 4,000 homes to recharge
Or the packets might be thrown out entirely, only letting you use a certain set of port, ip ranges and protocols
There is basically no tax advantage for startups in being based in Delaware -- you end up registering as a "foreign corporation" and paying in-state taxes whenever you're actually located. Delaware is chosen because of the body of corporate law and efficient secretary of state.
Is the fact that he did it privately the issue? I don't see why it should be: why would you have to identify where your lawyer's retainer comes from?
You want to forbid loans?
Did you intend to post a link?
Woodpecka

Too many weird sexual connotations / jokes fall out of that. I wouldn't use that.

WeEcho

Maybe.

WeEcko

Personally I'm not a fan of uncommon spellings and things that don't look the same as how they're pronounced. I'd probably skip this one.

W3Echo

Too geeky, plus see above.

5. any suggestions?

--> voices around the world

VoicesAroundTheWorld.com? (too long?)

WorldVoices.com? (may already be taken, but might be available under a different tld)

WeDeliberate.tld?

DeliberateVoices.tld?

or go with a nod to the greeks:

SocraticVoices.tld?
https://medium.com/@somospostpc/tumblr-is-tumbling-d6deb3bb8...

Seems like this might have something to do with it.
As university Devops engineer working with students, I have had a number of opportunities to advice the young in the ways of adulting. One thing that's painfully obvious is that the 'your 20s are your best time to take on risks' crowd is missing is like, women and fertility. Women in the US are generally more risk adverse, so they're more likely to heed the usual 'save now!' spiel. They're also facing a conflict with career risk vs family risk in ways men do not encounter at all. Worse, talking with friends and colleagues about it can threaten your career tracking if you are perceived as a short timer. I've seen too many managers, on HN no less, say they avoid hiring women who might become pregnant.

And as far as I can tell, health insurance is allocated two words in the lecture series: "health" and "insurance". That's it! I will grant you that the ACA is under incredible threats at the moment, but employer based health insurance isn't going anywhere, and at the very least, HDHP / HSA plans vs. PPOs vs HMOs is a thing. Considering how expensive pregnancy, birth, maternity leave, child care can be, health insurance and savings is a crucial topic not even mentioned in the 'couples finances' section.

The other thing I should mention is student loan debt. 92 percent of those surveyed in the Stanford course say they have no student loans. This seems high -- even the net price of Stanford is $17k / year. Most undergraduates are going to be paying like 4.45 percent interest, which is way better than the 6.8 they used to charge. Despite required financial counseling, most people with loans don't really know how repayment works, and haven't looked at how much their payments will be post graduation.
Ha, brilliant programmers can sometimes be hard to appreciate. They make problems look easy. But the simplicity comes from the complete understanding of the problem.

I think it's a trait of brilliant minds. They simplify things. I don't remember the exact quote, but it was something like this:

* a fool doesn't understand
* a normal person can be taught
* a in intelligent person can teach
* a genius can simplify
You missed the i.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_price

Under monopoly pricing, then they could already be charging you 10x right now if they thought it would make them more money. Repealing net neutrality not required. If this is about price discrimination, there are better ways to extract extra value from richer clients.

But I do want to point out that their monopoly power actually shrinks if you include WiMax based ISP services. Their coverage in the boonies is actually pretty good and pricing is competitive. Even if Comcast is the only real physical option, I often use the threat of switching to negotiate better deals.
Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo recently wrote about the crisis in online journalism and its ad-based model.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/theres-a-digital-media-c...

Basically, advertisers are asking/paying for more video content, but readers/viewers don't actually want it, which is a disaster waiting to happen.

Also, the market is flooded with VC-backed publications (Buzzfeed, Axios, ...) dumping free content on readers in an attempt to achieve scale, and those publications are also failing to hit their targets.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/16/buzzfeed-ipo-stymied-as-reve...

It's hard to compete against free...
I'm probably in the minority but I'd pay higher prices for better treatment of employees and better quality of product/service (which I do think Amazon needs to improve upon as well in terms of its third party seller operations).

I also like going to restaurants where there's a required 20% gratuity that gets distributed to all staff and helps pay for employee benefits. I think the overall service, interactions, and experience are far better at those restaurants and I'm happy to pay for it.
I can second this; at Google I've found that meetings are unusually productive because of the practice. For the most part, regular meetings will follow a fairly strict agenda, which keeps them moving and stops them from going off on tangents (not always, sometimes tangents do happen, for better or worse, but I've found that it's for better significantly more often than at previous workplaces). And the presence of laptops helps here -- people can add bullet items to upcoming agenda items to ensure that they are discussed, without having to interrupt the conversation currently in progress, and the use of a single document means that the historical record is easily accessible.

For meetings that are more oriented as design sessions or free-form discussions, the laptops tend to go away because they are not useful in that situation, unless you're at a point where data that can be quickly acquired can be useful.
It's kind of amusing that all the investment in ML/AI by the internet companies is part of how they'll be regulated. I suspect it won't be good enough for a long time anyway and they're just going to have to hire a lot more people.
And this exactly how lack of net neutrality (combined with lack of infrastructure competition) messes up market signaling. A game then inflates its price, and all customers of the game pay a little bit extra because in some areas the ISP is shaking them down. The pricing pressure lands on the game company to resolve, in part with costs to customers which only have an indirect link to the transaction, not on the ISP that could actually resolve the problem with the direct parties involved.
Break up and nationalize the ISPs and run the internet as a state owned utility.
Dont forget that you need to cool your body, so you sweat when you work out. Also, as you breathe harder, you'll loose more moisture through your lungs (the water activity of your whatever parts in the lungs being higher than that of dry air.)

If you were to exercise outdoors during a cold rain, you'll probably not loose any water at all.

But what do I know? I've never exercised in my life.
And they can get their upstream connectivity for said network from...Comcast.
You're assuming it will be anywhere close to accurate. Knowing Facebook's previous attempts at AI, I wouldn't expect much. I wonder what the false positive rate will be.

"Dave, you should stop thinking about killing yourself!"

- "But...I wasn't thinking about killing myself?!"

"Come on, Dave, deep down you know you want to. You can't fool me! I know everything about you."

"- Well, now that I think about it, watching Facebook all day does make me feel quite depressed..."
Camera Logic in a 2D Platformer
People always overplay the comment sections when they complain about the Guardian. In the physical paper comment makes up a handful of pages, but online because comment is free (to borrow a phrase) it can expand massively, and ad nauseam. They are silly, but the comment sections are also incidental to the rest of the newspaper.

I hope that being supported by subscriptions also means that they can dial back the sensationalism. I want to support papers which aren't screaming in my face all the time, and which support a better society.
Also in fairness, what trust has Comcast built with consumers? Why should I not believe that a company would attempt to make more money if possible?
built in house https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/scaling-airbnbs-paymen...
Everything. If you do something twice, you are doing it wrong.
It's the Independent that was the overtly republican paper, I'm not sure if the Guardian is?
Not if you're a US citizen :) even renouncing forces you to pay taxes to the IRS on your way out the door (the expatriation tax: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/expa...)
There are also “De Correspondent” [1] in the Netherlands, which inspired “Krautreporter” [2] in Germany and “Republik” [3] in Switzerland. Both De Correspondent and Republik set new records for crowd-funding in journalism, with the latter raising on the order of 3.5M USD. These projects used crowd-funding as initial funding though, and not for individual stories. Their ongoing financing is based on paid subscriptions.

[1] https://decorrespondent.nl/
[2] https://krautreporter.de/
[3] https://www.republik.ch/
Most of it from the air, but its not as clear cut as with weight loss (minerals, water, ect are from the soil).

I'm astonished for ignorant the doctors of the survey are!
Ask HN: Offered partnership in a startup, what do I need to look out for?
I'm a freelance software engineer that's been working for basically a single client for the past 2 years, with a very flexible contract and great working conditions.

We recently started working on a new, very interesting project, and today I've been offered to start a partnership with him in a new company based on this product. His reasoning was to give me a greater incentive to work 110% and not to leave him tomorrow towards other pastures.

We haven't decided anything yet, but the offer was 25% in the company, plus a minimum salary since I can't (and won't) work for free while we're building the MVP.

The client is great, has always paid on time and been very professional since I've started working for them, and has always respected and given me the freedom of picking the best tech for the problem. My role would be lead engineer/CTO. Their role would business guy/CEO.

Seems to good to be true, but I'm definitely leaning towards doing it. Is this arrangement common, and what do I need to look out for?

Thanks.
I totally support this, but I also find it ironic that Facebook would 1) make lots of people sad and then 2) monitor them for suicidal ideation.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/12/facebook_makes_you_...
You're right. In principle, my comment has nothing to do with the case. I was responding to the parent posters' suggestions that, simply because Gawker broke the law, no one should come to their defense, which I was saying are short-sighted because they suppose that the law is somehow beyond reproach, which it isn't.
> "spooky action at a distance" connected devices

We have that; it's called radio.

If you're hoping for something spookier and more quantum-mechanical, then see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem which implies that under quantum mechanics as currently understood, entanglement cannot be used for communication.
Deployment of open source applications that are time consuming and painful to install and configure. I've started a project to automate this already => https://serviceshop.io
ARM has been in Chromebooks for a while. 90% of the desktop has been Microsoft Windows for about 2 decades so it's really up to Microsoft to try again.

Ideally, Android and iOS will evolve so phones and tablets replace the desktop for more people.
Even without assuming some value system, we can measure progress in ethics by accumulating a growing set of necessarily false moral propositions. For instance, propositions which necessarily contradict themselves.
Financial movers and shakers are trying to spook people and delay inevitable until they can grasp what is happening.

There will definitely be a lot of corrections, but I see stable future for bitcoin as an asset.
I grew up in a small rural shithole. I don't share the same positive outlook you see. What did I see? I saw poverty. I saw far too much land not bringing enough money into the area to even sustain it. Schools struggled because they didn't have money, businesses suffered because nobody had money, the lack of businesses meant a lack of work. In fact, entire sectors of the economy up there don't exist. As I was coming of age, I realized I was pretty good at solving problems, working with logic, and writing code. The problem? The one software development job for hundreds of miles paid $9/hour. There is no money in the small towns. In fact, even now that small rural town is heavily subsidized by the one or two metro areas in the state.

If an area can't bring in the tax dollars and other money to run the local economy, it degrades. When the only influx of anything is welfare dollars, how is that a beautiful way? It wasn't beautiful sixty years ago either. Stories of my parent's generation are similar stories of poverty and struggle and the occasional running away to live an almost comfortable life closer to the city. The "work ethic" often lauded by those who pine for these times seems to be the willingness to work far too much for far too little.
No, as I said I didn't imagine it possible from what I was used to, so I never spent the effort to look it up. I thought the difference would be between loud and very loud.
> It's really cheap to get $500 million dollars out of Netflix to pay for your line upgrades. And for the next 4 years, they have a blank check to shake down companies in the background.

This.

The consumers aren't the direct targets here, at least not for wired networks. The first targets would be the content providers. You want to push content to the millions of Comcast subscribers? Pay up. Naturally, the content providers won't get stuck with the bill and eventually roll it over to the customers. But that would be them billing you more, not the ISPs directly, which is easier for them.

There are known examples of this behavior -https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140718/06533327927/level....

In today's networks, a LOT of the traffic is streaming video, especially from YouTube and Netflix. Ten years ago it was BitTorrent, and back then "Fast Lanes" meant "Slow lanes for BitTorrent because it's congesting our network".
The story here is that as the Internet matured and connectivity became a ubiquitous, off-the-shelf product, the money went into content. So content producers are fairy profitable, but the network operators feel like they've been left out - they're the ones carrying all of this expensive content, but they don't get a slice of the money.

That's not to say that companies like Comcast won't try to get more money out of consumers too, but that's trickier since the customers are used to a certain type of service and getting them to pay more for more of the same would be an uphill battle.
They horrify me too.

Some are plain fraud. Investors will lose, scammers will profit and/or go to jail.

Some are promising startups, that will raise far more money than is healthy for their stage, and will die from too much money. If you don't have enough money (true for nearly everyone) it might be hard to imagine, but I've seen it when VCs give a startup too much. It makes them grow before they've found product-market fit, and when they realize their fit isn't quite right they're too large to change course quickly.

The second is more sad, because not only will investors lose their money but the world will lose an otherwise promising startup.
Web Payments API is on the way.
Does anyone know how much this improves performance over a simple JavaScript only implementation? This looks cool, but I have no idea if it's really any better with all the extra layers
Facebook users in Romania see content related to street protests reviewed
The Indian man who changed his name to Regret
There's no reason why one can't type notes the same way as well, first listening and understanding before distilling that information into a few choice sentences.

I find writing better because you can freely draw on your lecture notes. The benefit is twofold: one, you don't have have to slavishly transcribe everything your professor says if it's already in the slides. Two, the mental overhead is very low as your thoughts go straight from pen to paper.

If you type from scratch, you end having having to 'transcribe'. If you annotate the slides on your laptop, you have to deal with the high overhead of textbox and geometric shape manipulation with a keyboard and trackpad.

If my lectures didn't have so much diagrams or equations(unlikely in an engineering major), I think a purely text based notetaking software like org-mode would be pretty good.
Maybe they should also rethink how Facebook impacts people's lives in a negative way (https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-facebook-makes-u..., https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/12/study-using-facebook-makes-y...). The problem is that's incompatible with their business model: capture people's attention.

Treat the causes (some of them at least), not the consequences.
Where on this planet can you get 300Mbit service* over wireless?

*Actual real 300Mbit/s that you can watch multiple 4k streams over all day like you can via HFC.
If I have to do something twice, I would look to automate it.
The best thing so far is my stock market trading robots, been doing it for years with a great results. e.g. making more money on average compared to 6 digits salary... Too bad I love my job too much or I would have retired already...
Well that didn't take long
Another unpopular thought:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/tenth_amendment

I think net-neut advocates who really think there's a dark star in the offing for the web should be pushing utility-style muni networks. They're wasting time and money trying to shove the FCC into their view of the marketplace here, and shedding longer-term credibility by refusing to countenance two realities:

1) Broadband is becoming a more competitive industry, not less

2) FANG have parochial business motivations too re: their pro-net neutrality, and they are no more angelic than Comcast's.

Defocusing on national rulemaking and incubating muninet successes in rising cities would do more for their desired outcome.
The Go-To-Market Challenges of B2D Companies
bury yourself in peat
A right wing extremist would technically be more like someone who destroys traffic lights and stop signs. The political left believes in the idea of government and authority, the right wants to be left alone.
I can pay taxes, rent, buy groceries, etc with government money.
No, you can still make a loan by buying a bond etc.

I simply feel banks have conflicting goals as they need to be 'good at' customer service and making loans. This creates a lot of poor incentives and economic distortions.
Decrypt and analyze the network traffic of all your devices on macOS
From the article:

> Facebook trained the AI by finding patterns in the words and imagery used in posts that have been manually reported for suicide risk in the past. It also looks for comments like “are you OK?” and “Do you need help?”
To be fair, ARM has been in Mobile Nintendos since 2001.

And laptops have had ARM coprocessors for quite a while. Power management controllers, disk controllers, NICs, etc.
He's not insulting anyone. Google doesn't have an option to change the search language. They had one years ago and they removed it.

It's a major hassle when the default language guessed by google is wrong, it constantly is for millions of people.
I wasn't suggesting it as serious solution.

And I was under the impression that startups use Delaware because it has a boatload of case law that favors investors.
>Knowing Facebook's previous attempts at AI

Curious what these were.