skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth pointing out that one of the people mentioned in this article, @leftworks1, was banned from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Leftworks1) for abusively using a pile of sockpuppet accounts (both anonymous IPs and actual accounts) to evade protection filters on the Oliver Kamm article (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oliver_Kamm&actio...). His sockpuppets attempted to add information to the article that was clearly poorly sourced and designed specifically to attack a living person, in violation of the BLP policy. However, fivefilters paints this guy as a hero and uncritically reports on his views on things.

Furthermore, this article barely touches on the fact that WP is mulling a topic ban for Philip Cross (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_no...) or is starting ArbCom proceedings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests...), WP's equivalent of the Supreme Court. Both of these are standard dispute resolution steps, and they demonstrate that Wikipedia is in fact taking it seriously (in contravention of this article's conclusion).

These kinds of articles are not helping. If fivefilters/Media Lens/Galloway/et al. have problems with Philip Cross, they should stay out of "off-wiki" opinion-influencing and let Wikipedia's process run its course.
Ask HN: How do you raise VC funding for an international company?
I’m a US citizen in the UK. Say I want to start a company in the UK, but I want to raise venture capital from investors in both the US and UK. I know a fair number of companies have done this (e.g. “our offices in New York or London”).

How do you structure a deal like that? Do you form two corporations and do two separate fundraises? Do you have to keep the capital separate? Or do you have one “parent company” that owns two local companies, and fundraise via the parent company? How do you distribute the shares to investors if the shares are from multiple corporate entities?
Nothing stops a site showing ads; they just have to think of creative ways to target them. It's a new opportunity, as all changes of environments are.
I don't follow your idea of the internet. The internet is a faster, cheaper, immaterial postal system. Of course there are legal frameworks and national borders in it.
The story of mankind, I'm afraid. A few people find a neat little spot where they can hang out, and for a while things are great, everything is pretty cool. Then, sooner or later, the group gets Too Big. Not so cool stuff starts happening, and where formerly you had a small anarchic group that worked with mutual understanding and (unspoken) agreements, now you have a need for Laws and Enforcement and Bureaucracy.

Every beautiful place on Earth will sooner or later be exploited for mass tourism and marketing. If you ever find such a place, keep it a secret, to keep it intact.
We were sat outside the cinema drinking a coffee and talking, the ushers were very concerned we were missing the 8pm showing. Walked in at 8.30 as normal, still had 10 minutes of trailers.

Cinema adverts acknowledge that nobody likes them, and cinemas wonder why people do t turn up. Perhaps they should stop treating paying customers as a product.
Some FUD, but farmers definitely abuse antibiotics. But of course they do, since they buy them in bulk at the store.

I have a lot of veterinarian friends, and the fact of the matter is farmers purchase antibiotics like any other supplies. Farmers get to skirt the process most other animal owners go through, and in most states and jurisdictions don't need to go through a licensed veterinarian to obtain antibiotics.

Most veterinarians I know think it's ridiculous, and causes more harm than good. But farmers have lobbied for these freedoms. Many veterinarian friends complain that many farmers are entitled, and feel that they should be able to do whatever they want with their herd.

If you ask me, Farming is one profession that needs to have stronger regulations that are actually enforced e.g. antibiotics, humane treatment, etc.

It's a grey area for sure -- do I let my sick animals suffer so I can sell them? Or do I give them medicine that makes them ineligible for certain consumption categories.
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Sadly it's a shrinking list and as sites replace static content with things like React it's shrinking even faster.

Good: HN works well and handles the downgrade gracefully (ex: upvoting becomes a POST rather than AJAX).

Bad: The original Reddit site works ok but the new React based one one fails miserably as it shows a loading screen that never changes.
I lost weight when I started using adblockers, my skin cleared up and I got a girlfriend!
But why fluoridate? Why add fluoride to the water supply? Even IF it helps prevent tooth decay and even IF we knew there were no harmful side effects, how is that a reason? Why not add something to make hair shinier? Or your breath smell fresh? Or something for heart disease? It's such an arbitrary thing to add to water. Besides, with fluoride in toothpaste, what's the point?

I would prefer that nothing were added to tap water. Leave it alone.
I don’t agree. While Good and Evil are certainly relative, normative social constructs, in any given place and time there are a lot of behaviors that are widely accepted as “good” or as “evil” — and most of them (e.g. don’t commit cold-blooded murder) are not even near any gray area and are fairly universal and serve important, widely valued pragmatic interests.

It seems overly pedantic to me to act like just because deep, technical moral philosophy can be quite tricky, it means we should abandon big, first-order, obviously pragmatic notions of good and evil.
I don't disagree - George Galloway and several of the subjects mentioned have connections to RT, Sputnik, etc. Philip Cross has had to remove a fairly sizable amount of content that was only sourced to RT and Sputnik (which are not considered reliable, neutral sources). There's a nonzero probability of a Russian connection.
> His case supposedly stems from a deportation order filed in 2007, but Duran's legal team said he never received notice to go to immigration court in connection with the case.

> He has now been detained for months without charge, and his lawyers say it is in retribution for his reporting on ICE.

Here are just two salient points you seemed to have glossed over.
The United States is generally considered to be a free-market hegemony (and has been at the helm of the pecking order since the early 1900s), and the system was set-up (at least when it was originally conceived) in a manner so as to cause minimal Big Government interference in day-to-day affairs of the people and the states of the Union. Freedom is something folks in the United States take very seriously, and this includes freedom to trade and open-up businesses freely, with minimal regulation and taxation -- heck the American Revolution itself was triggered because of tiff over taxation, extending more broadly to tyranny. [0]

Now, contemporary EU on the other hand has a vastly different and divergent history from that of the U.S. and Europeans, generally speaking, aren't as skeptical of their government as Americans are. Also, EU leans more to the left (generally speaking) relative to the United States, most "right-wing" parties in the EU would be considered to be slightly left-of-center if they were based in the U.S. [1]

Now, with that out of the way, to address your question -- both places have vastly different history and the divergent histories has given birth to vastly different cultures, helped by the fact that they're separated by the second-biggest body of water on the planet, making it even harder for inter-culture interaction. Right-leaning countries, like the U.S. for example, generally advocate for more free trade, less regulation and less taxation which is directly antithetical to the core principles of left-leaning countries, like the EU-bloc for example. [2]

[0] http://www.tep-online.info/laku/usa/rights.htm
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%80%93right_political_s...
[2] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/19/5-ways-ameri...
Minor grievance, but I've never had particularly good luck with search engines and the term "nix". Usually I get things for `*nix` or NixOS. Even if I search for `nix package manager`, I would get things like "Congress nixes package ..." as the top few results.
Whole foods, mostly vegetables, grown organically and without antibiotics, prepared at home.
Journalists have an incredible amount of power in society, more than they ever have had before. Like all other entities in a free society, their power must be checked by another force. They are not beyond reproach.

If Elon wants to stand up to journalism he feels is biased or inaccurate, let him do so. I applaud him for it. Let the people decide who is right and who is wrong.
Edit: I had used a quote from the blog post as the title, but updated it to match the blog post as I realised it was a mistake.

The original title was: "Go feels under-engineered because it only solves real problems".
They are free to put up paywalls. GDPR legislates that personal information can't be used as currency - not that you can't ask for payment.
> Well ... laws of physics are being broken by their ships. They use fusion drives (which don't quite exist yet),

Engines not existing yet doesn't break any laws of physics, except possibly those governing material science. The main obstacle for the engines would be to find a material that survives the temperatures involved. The reaction part is pretty accurate, except perhaps that it goes way closer to the theoretical optimums than what our current technology in the area can achieve.

> and in S1, transit between Ceres and Eros on a passenger ship doesn't require weeks/months. Transit from earth to Jupiter/Saturn systems are achievable in days.

No, it really isn't, even if the show gloss over the travel times (because it doesn't make good TV). It is very, very clear in the books that the distances involved take weeks, months or even years to travel.

As for the protomolecule, that one DO break the laws of physics as we know them. But there will be more of that shortly.
What is wrong with sending plain HTML?
>Not sure what 'can still function' means.

Sorry, I've edited for clarity.

>If a business is unable to make enough of a profit from its new business model, it simply shuts down. It was certainly not always a 'donation'.

What's debatable is whether targeted advertising is necessary for a business to maintain that profit. The GDPR suggests it isn't.
A Practical Application of Blockchain in Open Governance
> Duran has been living in the United States for over a decade, since he fled from El Salvador after his life was threatened.

And you purposefully left off the last 5 words of this sentence, which is pertinent information.
I don't think HN users will actually object using this service. Although I dont understand why would you call it FISHY - because what's there on Discord that's not anywhere else on Google :) or Alexa ;)
About Monetization Here you go : https://goo.gl/Af7xwR
> How exactly will higher quality news publishers pay for their existence? Most people are conditioned to not pay for it. So where does the money come from?

I can't find the link where I read this, but targeted ads tend to be detrimental for high-quality publications. Targeted ad peddlers are mercenary. If they want to target a high-quality site's audience, they'll run just enough ads to profile them, then target that audience on cheaper, lower-quality sites which that they also frequent.

tl;dr: Targeted ads and tracking mean advertisers have the technology to shaft high-quality sites in favor of cheaper, lower quality ones.
Yeah, before moving to video games as the new culprit.
Some brands of toothpaste substitute fluoride with xylitol. There is evidence that it hardens enamel.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14700079

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S091723940...
Opera mini used to work this way more than a decade ago, it was pretty nifty as it let moderately powerful feature phones access the 'full' (non client JavaScript) web efficiently. Such a thing is no longer needed though; I'd hope a large amount of that 5.2mb is for reusable assets making subsequent requests a few/hundred kilobytes.
The answer is most definitely a whole food plant-based diet.

See the book How Not to Die for more here: https://www.amazon.com/How-Not-Die-Discover-Scientifically/d...
Well, okay, sure, but then you're in Kansas City. And KC certainly isn't expensive, of course, it's dirt cheap. But even Kansas City is really thin on the specialized jobs which people typically move to big, expensive cities to get. Unfortunately, it missed a handful of really critical opportunities that would have given it a better technology sector. But most of those misses weren't the city's fault. I I mean if you weigh it against Wichita or OKC or Omaha or Saint Louis, Kansas City is one of the best in the region. I think it doesn't hold a candle to Denver, but it's a good city. If I had to live in the middle third of the country, the KC area would be one of my top choices. I like to compare it to Nashville, because if you look at it through a layer of abstraction, it's got similar cultural form and character. Anyway, that went sideways. But yeah, if I was going to be working in KC, I would drive from Lawrence, because otherwise Lawrence is a phenomenal town. It's hard for people living there to see it with objectivity, but it's one of the best cities I've ever spent time in.
What does this have to do with anti cheats in general?
I think there's somewhat of a false dilemma there.

There are plenty of sites that I frequent that have tastefully located, static banner ads that are served directly through the site operator rather than through an add network. This has the dual advantage of allowing the operator some editorial control, and of producing ads that tend to be much higher quality (to me, anyway) because they involve actually telling me about new products and services I might be interested in because they are related to the actual content I'm reading, rather than being a giant pile of "one weird trick" ads and targeted advertisers' sad attempts to sell me things I've looked at before, and therefore either already bought or already decided not to buy.

In essence, it would be a return to the kind of advertising that print media uses. Which, incidentally, tends to command a higher price than all this junk, anyway.

I've also done paid subscriptions to various journalistic websites in the past. I've since stopped, generally because their reading experience is generally so awful that I've retreated back to print media for such things. So I suppose you could count me as one of those people who would be willing to directly pay for a simple web. (It's not like I prefer to kill trees. I just value readability is all.)
Okay, so I don't consider @psergeant's comment to be the most open, but he is suggesting it only because WP:ANB is (specifically, Guy's initial proposal).

> George Galloway is not "anti-war", he's an activist for Palestine and supports Russia's involvement in Syria - he may be anti some wars but the claim of "anti-war" is at best questionable. (from Guy)

> Also on May 14, the conflict spilled over into wider media. RT published "Mystery figure targets anti-war pundits and politicians by prolifically editing Wikipedia" and two days later Sputnik followed with an interview of George Galloway, "Who's Philip Cross: 'Either a Mad Obsessionist or State Operative' – Galloway". (from KalHolmann)

So, while this comment does seem a but unjustified, it is validated by the initial requests to refer to ArbCom.
> We haven't "created countries on the Internet".

We have though. Your world on the internet looks different based on citizenship( ipAdress) and ppl have to get a visa (VPN) to go that country on the internet.

People hated it when China did this but somehow EU doing this is somehow commendable. Now people are europeans, americans, indians ect on the internet. I just want to be a human being.
I have to agree so much.

I think the memories of what made Firefly so special ignore the reality that it's been 16 years.

Nathan Filion will be 50 in 3 years, he can no longer physically pull off the young uppity captain with a grudge against the system.
The same goes for all the other actors - they've all grown up and matured since then.

So to account for that, time would've had to pass.
I find I find it difficult to believe that the crew of Serenity would've been able to stick together for more than another year, two at the outside.

In the movie we'd already had Book and Inara leave, and given the events in the movie I can't see Zoe wanting to stick around much longer, despite her loyalty to Mal.

Given the wanted status of most of the rest of the crew, paying work would continue to be hard to find, and the ship was already running on fumes as it was. Any failures of any critical components would quickly see the ship grounded, and then Jayne would be gone if he hadn't already bailed.

Kaylee and Simon might have made it work for a while, but Simon was always too focused on his sister's well-being to the exclusion of everything else. With the government apparently no longer after River, he might have reached out to the rich father to return home.
Libraries I don't mind: how much time do you really want to spend naming the 394th serialization library?

But for products aimed at end-users? Absolutely don't name it after the language it's written in.

To play devil's advocate for a moment though: this is the software used to run the forum for the language Nim. If you've ever been to the Nim forums, this is a version you can run yourself. Maybe that makes the name a bit more reasonable?
> Blindly trusting the FBI
Fair trade has lost popularity but if we ever brought it back as legislated policy it would force Google to stop being evil and probably put china out of business.
I'd second this, especially since Nim has already got decent server-side capabilities as well means you can write an isometric web application where the server-side is written in a language with performance comparable to C.
> But, overall, the data offer some basis for confidence that a Tesla Model S will lose—on average—less than 15 percent of its battery capacity over the average 150,000-mile (250,000-km) life of a vehicle.

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1110149_tesla-model-s-b...

> maybe you should check the facts before you spout nonsense yourself?

Maybe you should?
The savings of public funds (e.g. avoided emergency room visits resulting from cavity) due to cavities dwarf the private savings.
google.com, google.fr, etc. :)
Pity there is no mention of the leviathan from farscape.
True but it should help since one of the stage 1 C&C’s domain has been seized (by the FBI as you mentioned).

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/fbi-s...
React is actually capable of sever side rendering, in fact one of the Reddit announcements specified that React's SSR was a key factor in choosing it. I'm curious why they're not using it? The new site is still in beta though.
I’ve been studying / beginning to practice permaculture for a little while now and one thing that is often discussed is the subject of human waste.

When you take food out of the ground and consume it, you’ve removed some fertility from the ground. Either you have animals put it back in as manure, or you use some kind of synthetic fertilizer.

When the food goes through your body, you’re also generating manure. But typically we ship it off to some central location where it becomes a massive collection of toxic waste.

The permaculture argument is that if we kept as much of that waste on site as possible, we’d be recycling nutrients rather than not only wasting them, but creating toxic hazards due to the size of the collections.

On a small scale, think of how fertile the ground over a septic field is — wildflowers and grass will grow like crazy.

The more, er, devoted will go as far as installing composting toilets.

The reason I think this is relevant is that when the waste stays local, you’re much more conscious about what’s in it. If you have a septic system, you really don’t want pills going into it — especially if you also have well water. When it’s being flushed to some unknown location it’s easy to not give it a second thought.
Use https://www.distilnetworks.com/

They use AI to block attacks to your site. You can do a bunch of customizations too. They are expensive though and start at USD 500/mo
No worries, here is a UK sourced article

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/25/ibms_watson_layoffs...
They're both major issues. The Samsung one is a safety issue. The Apple is a quality and reliability one.

The Ford Pinto and the Yugo GV were both bad cars. The Pinto would kill you. The Yugo was made poorly with substandard materials. Splitting hairs over which was the biggest failure is something for a top ten list. They were both bad for consumers who spent their money on them and were stuck with a product that they couldn't continue to use.
Isn’t ie11 incompatible with the official grid spec?
This is great. (1) How do I pretend to be from the EU? (2) Th EU should make a law requiring HTML versions of pages with no JS.

The evolution of the Internet in the last two decades has been such a tremendous disappointment. It really peaked in the early 2000s (when I got my first DSL connection but before JS became a thing).
Species like those likely wouldn't have survived the food web collapse at the extinction.
The new reddit interface is horrible without JavaScript. One can get back the good one under old.reddit.com
Here is a paper explaining the essentials of how 45+ years of Causal Inference applies to ML:
http://www.nber.org/chapters/c14009.pdf

In this podcast by the same author, it explains the potential of sharing lessons from both worlds, if you're not in the mood for an academic paper:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2016/09/susan_athey_on.html
Citation needed.

EDIT: Am I really being downvoted for requesting a citation to a claim that seems to have no apparent/straight-forward basis in the law? What has this site became?
I feel freer now companies are limited with what they can do with my data.

I hope that preventing companies exploiting data will lead to more interesting business models than "provide distracting trinket and harvest data".

I don't want to take part in a grand age of the Internet which basically amounts to people harvesting information about me so they can do anything from trying to sell me shit to attempting to corrupt the democratic process.
After getting worked up in the past about all the things that you mentioned and trying every diet under the sun a whole food plants based diet has done wonders for me. Been on it for two years now and never felt better.
I am not in the camp that says that a diet like keto is bad for you. But in my experience it is exponentially harder to get quality meat products than quality (or least bad) plant based foods.

Wrote a blog post a while back about my thoughts on diet if you want to give it a read: https://medium.com/@manibatra23/2016-a-reflection-diet-30c15...
I would reword plant-based to be plant-centric. Vegan/Vegetarian diets have many many issues (xenoestrogen, B12 deficiency, reduced sex hormone levels just to name a few) and are not a normal consumption pattern for genetic omnivores like us humans.