skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- I'm able to use the tool in a way that is responsible and provides value to me. It's a rolodex of all the different people I've met in my life with up-to-date methods of communication to easily reach them. That's valuable.

- At times, I have certainly abused the tool, but I'm quick to catch myself when I feel this happening.

- I only post things that I would be comfortable saying in public. It's like a public scrapbook for me. I have people added from all different parts of my life, including work.

- I don't use it that much. It's a bit like personal email in terms of pace. High frequency communication doesn't happen on Facebook for me, it happens on iMessage. I know some people who use FB Messenger or Facebook itself for high-frequency communication, which is fine if that's what they prefer, but that's not me.
I always thought MS in USA was seen as failed PhD (e.g., did not make it past proposal stage). So perhaps these coursework MS degrees are actually increasing the value of the MS!
Craigslist, from my casual observation (as someone who met my SO on there 9 years ago) had a lot of really obvious ads for sexworkers. They openly tolerated it for a while as long as it was in its own forum.

My guess is that enforcement actions will come down hardest on those with a reputation (like craigslist) for tolerating sex workers and who do, in fact (like craigslist) have a large proportion of ads from sex workers.
Why is the FDA so strict about human trials? We could save net lives if we just did drug tests faster to figure out what works. /s
Let me start by saying that I quit Facebook six months ago because I disliked the person I was becoming as a result of heavy use.

That said, the calls for regulation are misguided. A wildly successful platform was built that took the world by storm. Like any tool, unanticipated consequences were inevitable. And now that people know the true costs of the trade off between access to Facebook and privacy, they can make a choice. It’ll be a hard one since the addiction is real (it took me years of trying before I finally broke the habit), but making it a regulated utility won’t change that.

If you use Facebook, you trade privacy for access. And a lot of people are willing to accept that. Let them.

Or build a new platform that provides the same benefits...without the revenue generating engine. It’ll likely be less innovative and influential. That’s okay.

The path of progress isn’t a straight line.
Please!! They knew of Facebook's bad privacy policies all this time. This is just an attempt by them to gain some good P.R., like this article.
Big Nerd Ranch for iOS app development. https://www.bignerdranch.com/books/ios-programming/?gclid
Thought this might be Nemesis:

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(hypothetical_star))

....but the dinosaurs died much, much earlier than this dawrf star passed by.
The title is clickbait so we changed it, in accordance with the site guidelines, to the subtitle. But we can take out "mostly" if that bit is misleading.
I live across the street from Austin in Chicago and drive through Lawndale to get to my office. People bike through there every day to get to work. Well-off people live in Woodlawn, walking distance from some of the roughest parts of the South Side. For that matter, Beverly is aggressively white and middle class and very close to rough parts of the South Side, and the side-street drive to the Loop from Beverly goes through all the roughest parts of the city. The reality is: if you don't live in the worst parts of Chicago, Chicago gun violence isn't going to impact you. We get to treat it as something external to us. :(
Unfortunately we've had a very poor week for internet freedom. However much of it has been the result of corporate overreach.

This week:
Reddit bans Cigar, beer and Alchohol trading subreddits, toy bb gun sales, and gun related coupon clippers

Youtube (and facebook?) banned Channels featuring guns they deem inappropriate. Including videos regarding proper safety and maintenance.

It has become clear to be that the internet is naturally monopolistic in a way physical institutions are not. One simply cannot move their gun channel, or the cigar trading forum to other sites and have a decent chance of maintaining even 10% of their customers. What happens if google also decides that they don't want these things to show up in search results. We need regulation to ensure that these platforms remain open for all types of users, not regulation that forces more content off these platforms.
Any comparison between self-driven miles and typical human-driven miles has to take into account all the times a safety driver took over driving to prevent an accident. Those self-driven miles have a huge asterisk.
> Craigslist, from my casual observation (as someone who met my SO on there 9 years ago) had a lot of really obvious ads for sexworkers. They openly tolerated it for a while as long as it was in its own forum.

Its own forum was shut down under legal pressure some time ago, and it moved to other personals forums, as I understand.

Which is probably why they are now, with the new legal pressure, killing the personals forums.
In Gallup polls since they started asking in 1944 until this election, only about 20% of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, but later enacted by 48 states) (with about 70% opposed and about 10% undecided).

Support for a national popular vote for President has been strong among Republicans, Democrats, and Independent voters, as well as every demographic group in every state surveyed. In the 41 red, blue, and purple states surveyed, overall support has been in the 67-81% range - in rural states, in small states, in Southern and border states, in big states, and in other states polled.

Most Americans don't ultimately care whether their presidential candidate wins or loses in their state or district. Voters want to know, that no matter where they live, even if they were on the losing side, their vote actually was equally counted and mattered to their candidate. Most Americans think it is wrong that the candidate with the most popular votes can lose. We don't allow this in any other election in our representative republic.

The National Popular Vote bill in 2017 passed the New Mexico Senate and Oregon House.
It was approved in 2016 by a unanimous bipartisan House committee vote in both Georgia (16 electoral votes) and Missouri (10).
Since 2006, the bill has passed 35 state legislative chambers in 23 rural, small, medium, large, Democratic, Republican and purple states with 261 electoral votes, including one house in Arizona (11), Arkansas (6), Maine (4), Michigan (16), Nevada (6), North Carolina (15), and Oklahoma (7), and both houses in Colorado (9) and New Mexico (5).
The bill has been enacted by 11 small, medium, and large jurisdictions with 165 electoral votes – 61% of the way to guaranteeing the majority of Electoral College votes and the presidency to the candidate with the most national popular votes.

It changes state winner-take-all laws (not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, but later enacted by 48 states), without changing anything in the Constitution, using the built-in method that the Constitution provides for states to make changes.
I think that's why more people aren't upset about it. The courts have been very effective at shutting down this sort of grandstanding.
Yes, for now. Capitalism won't be dismantled instantly and will need to be phased out. It'll happen as people around the world relearn it's ok to ask for what we need.
That's the official strategy of FB. They estimate the half-life of any social service to be ~7 years. They fully expect that FB-the-feed will eventually decelerate and then gradually slide into obscurity. That's why they have a bunch of services that aren't FB-the-feed: to prepare for that inevitable eventuality.
learning from prez
In 1969, The U.S. House of Representatives voted for a national popular vote by a 338–70 margin.

Recent and past presidential candidates who supported direct election of the President in the form of a constitutional amendment, before the National Popular Vote bill was introduced: George H.W. Bush (R-TX-1969), Bob Dole (R-KS-1969), Gerald Ford (R-MI-1969), Richard Nixon (R-CA-1969), Michael Dukakis (D-MA), Jimmy Carter (D-GA-1977), and Hillary Clinton (D-NY-2001).

Recent and past presidential candidates with a public record of support, before November 2016, for the National Popular Vote bill that would guarantee the majority of Electoral College votes and the presidency to the candidate with the most national popular votes: Bob Barr (Libertarian- GA), U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R–GA), Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO), and Senator Fred Thompson (R–TN), Senator and Vice President Al Gore (D-TN), Ralph Nader, Governor Martin O’Malley (D-MD), Jill Stein (Green), Senator Birch Bayh (D-IN), Senator and Governor Lincoln Chafee (R-I-D, -RI), Governor and former Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean (D–VT), Congressmen John Anderson (R, I –ILL).
They’ve already started banning all the subs about escorts, prostitution, sugar daddies, etcetera today in response.

Also subs like BeerTrade, BazaarMarkets , and other marketplaces. Say goodbye to an era.

I’m sure many more will get the axe over time.
And WhatsApp is Facebook. It's kinda a bad deal all 'round.
> this could be a boon to bars and other, more traditional ways of meeting people

That is insanely optimistic, randomly meeting people in a bar is significantly more dangerous than a prearranged meet, and the first thing most people do after contact online is go to a bar or public meeting point anyway.

What is a “traditional” way of meeting someone? Through your parents?
I saw footage of a gazelle being hunted by a cheetah. My reflexive thought is -- how unimaginably horrible. Here is an animal which is evolved specifically to avoid your attempts to eat it. And every moment you spend trying to live is a moment lived in fear of this awful creature. What a life! My horror does not even compare to the horror of this life.

But, watching the cheetah cut off its prey and pounce with incredible precision and grace, there is another thought: that the cheetah was also born to eat. It uses its God given abilities to the absolute maximum possible extent. During the chase, it is in a state of complete flow, more complete than any Olympic athlete could ever hope for. The sheer concentration required, the exertion, the split-second decision-making required to avoid dying of hunger. To master this state is to capture the prey, and it must feel incredible to finally catch a gazelle. Incredible in a way that is impossible for a human living a modern lifestyle to fathom.

To fail means to die, of course, and that cannot feel good to a cheetah. But it's just death. We all die anyway. Human beings, cheetah, gazelles. It is a simple fact that you will die.
Ask HN: What's AWS's Equivalent of Google Colossus?
Just a point that you may know, for others, Foxconn is a Taiwanese company, not Chinese.
It's kind of ironic that it's the old heads at the top, like Ginni Rometty, that are the very ones responsible for the position IBM is in.
its hard to see that its anything but censorship when these platforms hold a pure monopoly on the space. If Gutenberg prevented anything displeasing to him from being printed, we would rightly see that as censorship. Further, censorship takes place in many ways only a small number are the result of state actors. In Mexico reporting on the cartels will cause them to target and perhaps kill you.
It seems this and the new Youtube/Reddit bans would push more of this communication to the dark web and/or other private communication channels. I don't think I am comfortable with that. But, hopefully it leads to more support and push for privacy and decentralization.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-21/youtube-b...

https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/ne9v5k/reddit...
>> I'm a software engineer with a full-time job, but I have lots of spare time in my off hours

I have a contract in my current workplace which lets me bill off-hours (they also pay for my taxi costs when I work late, they also pay double during holidays) so I am happily not taking any side jobs. Your day job can become your night job if you can produce more work off-hours for them.
It's ultimately simple.

The government has a fiat printing press.

Microsoft does not.

If Microsoft loses $33 billion per year for ten years (equivalent to ~1/3 of sales), it will go bankrupt. In fact, if it loses money like that for just four years, it will likely go bankrupt.

If the US Government bleeds $1 trillion per year for ten years (equivalent to ~1/3 of its tax revenue), it will tax you more and or print away some of your standard of living. See: Japan's budget deficit versus tax revenue the last decade. Nothing stopped the Japanese Government from being fiscally wildly irresponsible, then debasing the Yen and stealing the standard of living of the Japanese people to pay for it all (still continuing now).

The need to not lose money perpetually, enforces at worst a minimum required level of efficiency by the vast majority of private businesses. There are very few exceptions to that, even in quasi protected monopoly situations such as railroads, telecom or airlines.

The US Government has no inherent efficiency enforcement mechanism. As witnessed by the public debt going from $5.6 trillion to $21 trillion in just 17 years or so.

If you want to talk about required efficiency, trying running a manufacturing business with a 6% profit margin, or Walmart with a 2.x% net income margin, or a liquor store or convenience store with a 5% profit margin. You'll instantly learn how brutal and unforgiving the private sphere tends to be versus the more typically spendthrift ways of government.
It does if you do not have your personal stuff on the same physical network/equipment as your professional stuff.
Why Wishlist Is Really Important to Your Peer-To-peer Sharing Economy Platform?
Bendable displays require bendable batteries, bendable circuit boards, bendable cases, etc....
They aren't even executed in the same queue.
Members of the US Congress can serve unlimited terms.
there's a difference between a MS thats aimed at people who have BS in CS vs those that don't.
Two restaurant jobs means 3 commutes with a 60 to 70 hour work week.

But true, I didn't add in family.
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I was thinking about the transparent screens from Avatar

See: http://itsbeau.com/work/avatar/ (scroll down)
I feel like that's the answer to reddit it many ways too.

Reddit will go the way of Facebook within 5 years I suspect and self hosted federated subreddits are the logical increment. I bet someone is working on it already.
Find another way to make money, tighten up on data. Here's an idea - give everybody crypto wallets and become a banking platform for the unbanked. Yes Zuck, I'm happy to come and help with this plan. If you are still bitter about the Winlkevii, just only list with other non-BTC protocols and give some weak reason for it like governance or transaction speed.
I’m all for nationalisation when there is no innovation required and there is limited scope for competition (eg the state Uber’s taxi business is in and the examples you give - water is water and comes in a pipe, same for gas) but the top websites are nowhere near that stage, without competition and innovation they will never improve and go beyond what we currently have.
You might be interested in a HN submission from last week, a WaPo story of a brief history of Toys 'R' Us' recent financial troubles. In short:

> The company has struggled to pay down nearly $8 billion in debt — much of it dating to a 2005 leveraged buyout — and has had trouble finding a buyer.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16588564
Learn proper posture. This is hard and takes time. It requires persistence and patience. I'm no expert and it's too long to go into even what I know which is not much, but at the very least your posture should be one where you head rests above your shoulders and not in front, your shoulders aren't rounded forward and your elbows are at a 90-degree angle.

The body adapts to whatever you do. If you crawl around all day long on all fours scratching at rocks, your body will adapt to that, too. Adaptations have a price.

The height of your chair and the desk are critical here. [1] I have a desk that I can adjust between standing and normal, and I switch between the two when I can. That can be expensive, though.

I started to make a list of muscular issues (interior shoulder rotation, pelvic tilt) but I realized that first, I'm not qualified to provide the top problems that everyone faces, and second, I'm not really sure which resources to best learn from. Instead, I suggest people spend some time searching in YouTube (or the web) for 'computer posture problems' or 'shoulder pain computer' or 'neck pain text neck' and looking at the Physical Therapy links, sometimes which have a lot of information.

At a high level what works for ME is to 'switch it up.' Use left mouse and right mouse. Stand and sit. I never use a laptop, but at my age I've reached the point that my body punishes me viciously if I sit hunched over for even a couple of hours of time or angle my shoulder, neck or right forearm too long in one bad position.

Body awareness is important and it's hard to convey what that really means - I learned that from a PT and from weight training. It's not something you can read and gain.

But you can be aware of shitty posture when you're using your phone by looking down at it - a HUGE cause of neck pain. At first glance this site isn't bad for a starting point.[2].

1 - http://www.computer-posture.co.uk/shoulder-pain-computer/

2 - https://www.spine-health.com/blog/modern-spine-ailment-text-...
Tangible Holograms: Towards Mobile Physical Augmentation of Virtual Objects
Graduate courses are geared towards research and the generation of knowledge instead of just a consumer. It's probably the biggest difference most students don't get. Yeah, you can look up anything that someone else has done before but what something original that you can add?
I think you're barking up the wrong tree.

Even if you think it's all for show, this is a good way for Craigslist to use their ubiquity to lift FOSTA into the public eye. Nobody knows what FOSTA is much less the sort of impact it could have on their day to day.

But I suspect Craiglist's legal team isn't a bunch of idiots when it comes to toeing the line of prostitution. They outlived websites like Redbook even though they have obvious prostitution classifieds. I'd imagine they're experts.

It looks more like the Communications Act of 1934 was the centerpiece of their defense.
"Move fast and break things" is the motto of Facebook. It means that Facebook engineers are encouraged to make user-facing changes without red tape. If you are claiming that some self-driving car company has "move fast and break things" as their motto, then you are being willfully deceptive.
"Citizens United is overturned, and we get some kind of legislation like this..."

My own opinion is that asking politicians who take "Big Money" to pass legislation to put a stop to that is unrealistic. It will never, ever, happen.

What is realistic is to personally pledge and publicly announce that you will stop voting for any politician who takes or uses Big Money and urge others to do the same.

When you get enough representatives elected who don't take that Big Money, and defeat enough who do, passing that legislation will be possible. But not before then.

This is happening right now. People are beginning to do this. We all need to do this.
I suppose if you work directly with people on the front lines of that problem, Craigslist personals might seem pretty trivial in comparison.
Disclosure: I work at Shippable.

I think the latest features we launched at Shippable meets all of your requirements. You can mix and match on-demand and dedicated nodes, allocate them to specific projects if you'd like, all of this is available in our SaaS edition, and pricing is (in my opinion) quite reasonable.
That seems WILDLY unprovable.

Tell me; how did The Daily Beast, an org that has Chelsea Clinton on their board, get the external IP addresses of the Russian Intellegence headquarters?
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Sure. I'm on my phone, though, so someone else will have to post the previous link.
These consequences are far from unanticipated. People outside the organization have been predicting the catastrophic use of the data facebook is gathering and this is just the first time a problem has been this noticeable, but tons of abuses have been happening for years. Facebook was happy to continue to engage because it's about profit.

Facebook is a hostile platform and that should be checked. This isn't just about free markets and what people will use. People used to really enjoy cars without seatbelts.
I'm wondering if removing money from all the equations makes the risk moot. If I have to choose one person to hire because of limited funds/resources, that introduces a selection problem. Removing the design constraints that lead to needing to choose one person can allow us to push tasks to a decentralized group of volunteers. Without money in the game, the market can be a collaborative one, as opposed to competitive. Then we're all working for the betterment of mankind.

This may be Star Trekonomics 101...dunno. I do know it starts with an organization willing to give it a try and put themselves out there to be the most sustainable with as little money required as possible. Over the second company joins them, it's only a matter of time before they (or someone inspired by then) publicly starts trouncing the rest of the market by reducing the flow of cash into the industry while focusing fully on meeting the needs of their customers. Customers will flock to them, collectively giving the org whatever is needed to include more people in a sustainable manner. Once that starts happening, others in the industry will likely follow and the industry will likely start heavily divesting of cash.

I patiently wait for it to happen in academia.
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I think we need to start using the book burning metaphor. Google, Facebook, et al are doing the modern equivalent of burning books. The government shouldn't stop private individuals from burning books, but the public should recoil in horror.
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We have been seeing massive fishing net globs come ashore for the past few years on the Big Island of Hawaii. It's getting worse. My boys and I personally dragged a large chunk ashore this past year. They are extremely heavy and take a lot of work to move and dispose of all the netting. Here's the image: https://imgur.com/12U4FXg

This is the latest, the largest tangle of net researchers have seen wash ashore.
http://www.fox8live.com/story/37529263/its-huge-40-ton-mass-...
Zuckerberg fucks up an entire election, but gee, he's such a nice guy and all, so let's give him a hall pass, because we know he didn't mean it.

Kalanick fucks up one poor, poor college grad's career aspirations as a site reliability engineer, and because he must bear the responsibilty for the toxic subculture of the corporation he founded, he must be crucified.

Both of them are millionaires (or maybe that's with a B) several times over, so neither will ever actually know the meaning of the word "punishment" and with that in mind, it wouldn't cost me a wink of sleep to see Zuckerberg ousted from his company for everything that has happened.

What's the real story here? Hell hath no fury? Is that the lesson to learn?
Cats sleep 16 hours a day for example. Animals in nature are not constantly looking for food, except grass eaters who ear whole day.
My wage at some random school is roughly 2k/month for 20 hours work, ignoring free tuition.