skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The three issues: philandering, sex trafficking, and pedophilia, are pretty different.

It's true that there used to be a vocal no-sex-outside-hetero-marriage movement that would have opposed all 3, but you don't hear much from them any more.

Condemnation of sex trafficking and pedophilia are much more widely held views, which are not intellectually honest to call "anti-sex".
Please read the document.

Backpage have already admitted a lot of this stuff was happening.
What country are you talking about that gives prisoners "access to computers, the internet and programming tools"?

(I've heard of them being able to send email to whitelisted addresses from locked down kiosks, but that's not the internet as we know it.)
But what makes eBay eBay isn't their startup cost, it's the millions of people buying and selling items that make it a usable service instead of just one guy posting pictures of his funko pops for sale.

So yeah, I could launch ebay2 tomorrow but it would just be me on there. I could actually do that with Comcast2 as well, just by turning on a computer in my house but if it's not connected to anything else it's about as useless as the ebay2 running on it.
I gradually stopped reading books over a period of years. I didn't really know why. Then I got progressive eyeglasses, and suddenly I was reading again.

Apparently, I had stopped reading because it was getting hard to see the words, a process so slow I didn't notice it.
AFAICT the above is from the reporting that DefenseOne is criticizing; that doesn't make it false, but it means we shouldn't take it at face value.

It was discussed recently on HN and, IMHO, mostly discredited. For example, the RAM amounts are wrong for Google and Azure, and certainly they have 150 miles between data centers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17754079
I highly doubt the western-led efforts of "stabilizing" the middle-east have yielded positive results though either.
It’s worth noting that this is a voulenteer program and that for every day you work you get 1 day off your sentence. So you can effectively halve your time in prison.

This actually seems like a pretty good deal, what would you pay to get a day off your sentence?

That said, I think the Prision system is fucked, has horrible incentives, private companies abuse bought prison labor, etc. etc.

But I actually felt like this program was pretty good - though they ought to let them become fire fighters!
Thank you. Those were in cash, RSUs were separate. It is definitely very high, and I feel fortunate to have gotten it. Many of my fellow interns received similar signing bonuses on their return offers, so at least for people in similar situations it's not out of the ordinary.
Teens lower attention span due to txting and soc media instead of reading books
Interesting. I'm the opposite. I'd rather pseudocode something on a whiteboard than spend my personal time doing it.

As long as the interviewer isn't a stickler for correct syntax when I'm writing stuff on the whiteboard.
Seconding this opinion. Haven't read Graham Hutton's book, but LYAH was just really poorly structured IMO.

Some chapters are really basic and easy to read (like the chapter on recursion), and others are insanely dense and thick and basically unintelligible the first time through (like the chapter on functors).

We tried reading it for a book club once, and the weeks with the easy chapters there was no discussion to be had and the weeks with the difficult chapters ended up being "did anyone understand any of this?" and trying to figure it out together - which was somewhat helpful, but the book just really ended up being an excuse for us to learn together and not a resource in and of itself.
Go ahead and beat your kid because he's not doing the dishes. Feed them sub standard food and not enough at that. If he talks back at all, throw him in an empty room for a week or two with no human contact.

Let's see how long you can do that before the government and society come down on you

Edit: I don't think "relatively recently" even applies here. Child labor laws were passed long before we had laws allowing things like mixed race marriage, gay marriage, civil rights for minorities, and other social changes. We are no longer an agrarian society that needs mass free labor to survive
> I think most people would choose alternatives if they had similar taste, texture and price to "the real deal"

I, personally, would not. I like to know that what I'm eating has a known affect on my body; people have been eating beef for a long time, we know what it does and why. Whilst I appreciate this isn't a sweet chemical replacing sugar with little to no study into the long term side effects, do we know what the long term impact is? How does the change in diet need to be balanced with other changes?
There can be several large issues with target date funds.

1. Ignores income streams from things like social security, reverse mortgages, held away assets

2. Ignorant to future medical advances that could change life expectancy

3. Built on past assumptions of bond yields and interest rate levels

4. higher fees than an equity ETF

5. large discrepancies between each one

6. Bonds are not necessarily less risky than stocks. As yields drop, bond convexity is high, meaning the bond price will be very sensitive to interest rate changes
That trailer's voiceover is so cheesy, I have to hunt down the movie and watch it. And the movie poster: "See...Great Special Affects!" Clearly, the producers had a lot of self-awareness.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0087451/mediaviewer/rm3916634368
County Fire believes it is likely that Verizon will continue to use the exigent nature of public safety emergencies and catastrophic events to coerce public agencies into higher-cost plans, ultimately paying significantly more for mission-critical service

So I guess they want to use net neutrality to force cellular carriers to offer enterprise-grade service at consumer prices. That's what everyone wants, of course, but it's rare to see someone actually say it.
Even more relevant: The Beeminder Android app has a tally counter built in. :)

(I use it mainly to count pushups by putting my phone on the floor and touching my nose to the phone with each pushup.)
This is the worst advice. You don't want to spend resources on problems that are not yet even problems. Especially extremely early when you don't have any resources to burn.

One super power startups have is being frugal with money, why would you want to throw it away?
It's a (un)necessary hazing ritual to justify how much all these MITM attacks by realtors, brokers, title corp, etc., pinch off for themselves.
You could move from Ghost Pro to another Ghost provider without being completely manual. A quick google turned up FastComet at $2.95/month. Page claims 1-click Ghost installation, easy Ghost upgrade service, and daily/weekly Ghost backups.

https://www.fastcomet.com/ghost-hosting

Yay open source!
Indirectly the solution/workaround the sites have come up with is saying, "if you want to use our site, you will have to agree to our cookie settings. Else don't use the site."

I have cookies disabled by default. Whenever a site does not work without cookies (news sites, travel sites, and blog sites especially), I open them in a guest mode. Still feel, its a bit tedious thing to do, but works for me.
> I admit that I have Star Trek dreams of post-scarcity happiness

I think a lot of us, here on Hacker News, do. I kinda worry that's part of the problem. But you and me and Sam Altman, etc, are not representative of society at large. I was thinking of the HN crowd (myself included) when I wrote this part:

> Just as you can find Silicon Valley techies who think Soylent is the only sustenance a person will ever need, intellectuals tend to think everyone could be as content as they would be living life in their heads or inventing their own destiny. Most people need to be doing something to feel satisfied and a potential UBI system addresses this need just as inadequately as disability checks do now. Cue drug epidemics.

I think average people need more direction than that. I don't think that's a bad thing, but I think its a much more serious problem than the average person's relationship with money.

Put another way, the problems of today and the near future are not primarily ones of money. They are ones of community and meaning. By most available data, even the poorest in the USA are doing OK on the money front, though its obviously not ideal! Some cites on that claim can be found here: https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/937200378919055360

So I worry UBI is solving the wrong problem first, and might make the real problem a little or a lot worse, depending on how the job landscape changes.
Pseudo Constant Time Implementations of TLS Are Only Pseudo Secure
> you can bet sites pop all over that allows you to search problem and frameworks and download the common solutions with a click.

Sounds like a lucrative business, especially if you can introduce enough variety into the downloaded code to prevent detection by a system like the anti-plagiarizing systems colleges use.
See... Space Herpie the Love Bug!
> I think that people want to work

UBI would make it easier for people to work, so if you think most people want to work then shouldn't you support UBI?
What blows my mind: which composers would you be able to save that never got old enough to get famous? Or would antimicrobial resistance kick in? Alas, the pitfalls of time travel
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/21/tls_developers_shou...
Some traits I look for in engineer #1: a) should obsess about architecture and code organization (they will be laying a foundation so having a bit of OCD helps), b) should make good tradeoffs and optimize for speed (they will be building the wrong things initially), c) mature enough to understand that they will be writing and rewriting a lot (see (b)) and d) last but not least, should have a strong desire to do a startup (knowing all the risks)....
A third option could be that interview code takes longer to write than production code.
This concept is very creepy. This particular pizza example reported is not but who knows if they come clean on ALL their experiments. They have a lot of power in their hands and now they are running experiments on people without them even knowing? This can get out of hand just like ads were used to push certain narratives during elections all over the world in all platforms and just like Facebook was playing with people's emotions with different posts shown [0]. No regulation, no ethic panel, no external audit, no transparency and they still show it off innocently.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/30/facebook-...
I have a law degree and used to work for a federal judge (am a developer now, though).

The 13th Amendment says that you can enslave someone as part of their post-conviction sentencing. This is very broad language and allows for the general slavery of anyone who has been convicted of a crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat...
This is outrageous, but it's outrageous because it is legal to describe something as unlimited that is in fact no such thing.

The reasonable thing here would be to simply require companies to be honest and state the actual bandwidth they provide.

This issue seems orthogonal to net neutrality; the real problem is in allowing companies to mislead.
Learning "how many calories are in this handful of snacks" is what helped me. I suggest people weigh everything with a kitchen scale (for a few weeks) until the get the feeling of what a serving of cheese is.

Once you get a handle on serving sizes, something like this above is a much easier tool to utilize.
1. Find somebody that is very good and passionate at something.

2. Present your idea the best you can.

3. Only hire if he/she is interested in your idea.

4. Offer stake in your business so it is also his/her business.
I'd guess that the performance could be slightly better than the 1080 scaled by cores/MHz/FLOPS. The reason being that the memory bandwidth is higher on the 2080, and that's hard to model unless the person knows exactly how efficient the kernel is and if it's memory bound.
There's some great videos of installing spacers on multi-100kV live lines and of the Bond villian tree-trimmers.
> During the Bush years democrats believed stuff like Bush declaring martial law after a lost election. Or look at 9/11 conspiracies.

I've never heard the former before, and the 9/11 conspiracies came from the right as much as the left. Sometimes, it's not equal; sometimes one party is acting worse than another.
> For example, consider a prison which forces ... it's [sic] inmates to attend classes to learn job skills and avoid behaviors that landed them in prison. Would this not also be a form of slavery given they are forced to attend? Slavery isn't defined by the slave doing something useful to the owner. A slave is still a slave even if they are doing nothing or if they are being commanded to improve themselves. And in this case I wouldn't see it as immoral.

This raised all sorts of alarms in my head, so I decided to look up a more formal definition. In this case, the source is Wikipedia[0]:

> Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property. A slave is unable to withdraw unilaterally from such an arrangement and works without remuneration. Many scholars now use the term chattel slavery to refer to this specific sense of legalised, de jure slavery. In a broader sense, however, the word slavery may also refer to any situation in which an individual is de facto forced to work against their own will.

Your redefinition of slavery is significantly broader than the accepted definition of it. This is extremely problematic in trying to talk about whether or not it's immoral.
Sorry, your right.

There are tax advantages, but it's more complex than simply not paying short term capital gains on dividends.
I wish this was shared less, it does a really bad job at teaching practical Haskell skills. For a long time this book left me with the feeling that I was unable to learn the language.
This is awesome. There are a so many places in the aegean where its cost prohibitive to connect to existing electricity (even when its available within a few kilometers). That problem, coupled with consistent presence of wind and sun, makes its an excellent place for off-grid solutions to flourish.
ReasonML vs. Elm
But we don't provide that stuff either. Most prisoners have to pay for basically everything but the bed they sleep on, prison clothing, and food - which is sometimes bad. Need soap? Tampons? Underwear? Be prepared to buy it.
We don't provide halfway houses for everyone either [1]. No job placement after getting out. No help finding housing nor any money to start a life. Parole officers often won't work around work hours, so folks have to take off work to see them.

I don't really mind prisoners doing basic upkeep in prisons (housekeeping, laundry, food prep, and things like that) for a few hours a week. This sort of thing is normal in a household, after all, and part of being a productive member of society. Anything outside of that is slave labor if you aren't getting paid anything but a pittance for it and have nothing to show for it when you leave. I don't mind it being reduced minimum wage (25-33% less, for example), but it should be more than it is.

If anything, prisoners would have a fund saved up for when they leave. We wouldn't have to make the prisoners families suffer if they can send money home for food and such. And they could buy basic toiletries.

[1] https://www.lawyers.com/legal-info/criminal/criminal-law-bas...
So your definition of labor refers only to, for lack of a better term, "work" done in a business relationship?

Then I don't think it really applies to this situation, since just as familial relations are superseding "business" relations in your example, certainly the prison relations change the nature of the business relations drastically.

But I think this is certainly labor, but the distinction between labor and chore is not so clear. I don't think it matters to the inmates, but I found it bizarre how confident HNers are that chores and labor are intrinsically different.
A company that doesn’t anticipate the end of a given revenue stream does a disservice to its shareholders.

Facebook is not its only web property and it will still have hooks in a majority of internet users for some time in aggregate by improving other properties and by acquiring new ones.

Does the Microsoft of 10 years ago look like the Microsoft of today?
Here is a list of all 22 states that filed, with links to their local roadblocks to municipal broadband (if any):

California : https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...

Connecticut

D. C.

Delaware

Hawaii

Illinois

Iowa

Kentucky

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Minnesota : https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...

Mississippi

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina : https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...

Oregon

Pennsylvania : https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...

Rhode Island

Vermont

Virginia : https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...

Washington : https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...
Humans also respond to dietary cholesterol differently. I'd leave this up to the doctors.
> ...more preferential treatment...

I don't see this position being articulated here. Can you help me understand how you read the people disagreeing with you as saying that?
Safety-of-life applications are not appropriate areas for throttling. That should have been in the state's contract with Verizon from day one, but it probably wasn't seen as necessary before the recent FCC ruling.

Interesting moderation in this thread, concurrent with the sudden appearance of what looks like a brigade of counterfactual Verizon defenders. Hopefully the HN staff is keeping an eye on the IP logs.
Not just not paying off your debts but being proud of it. You want Greece? Thats how you end up Greek. But the evil banks! Try buying a house without them then. But the evil system! You are living in it and you were enjoying the boom times.

This article reads like a Marxist manifesto. Which is fine if these people vote Communist next election.
I have had great success giving out a very simple homework assignment before in-person interviews. I ask you to write me a class which will score a bowling game. Just hard enough to show me that you know how to code, but not so difficult that you will spend hours working on it. Gives us something to talk about while I figure out if your personality will be a good fit with the rest of our team (because really, that's number one on my priority list).

I'm biased, I suppose, because I loathe algorithm questions in interviews or whiteboard coding. Neither does a good job of letting me show you I'm not an idiot.
You can’t access the contents of iCloud backups via the web.
> There is only 3 things I have ever been afraid of; electricity, heights, and women. And I am married too.
Ask HN: Any alternatives to Adsense for a tech blog
I have a tech blog that generates about a few hundred views a month and was wondering if there are any good alternatives to AdSense.

The content is highly technical and focused on Javascript / Node.js so any related promotion on there would be very effective.

Does there exist some sort of a marketplace for such custom ad space buy/sell? If not, do you see any use for such a project?
I don't like my country that much (France), but here, to be lawful, a noncompete clause must be:

* limited in time
* limited in area
* paid

I don't know the specifics and I'm not a lawyer, but in general, employees who sign such clauses are extremely happy if those are enforced :-)
Did society put people away, or did the policy-makers who have come to represent a shrinking fraction of the electorate and an increasingly strong corporate sector? If for-profit prisons lobby to maintain non-violent drug offenses and the ludicrously failed drug war, which swell prison ranks and the coffers of prison ownership, then how is it "society at large" that is to blame?

Issue after issue, money is a terrible influence in our politics.
I think the tenses are inconsistent in the sentences you wrote there.

Life has more value in well off western countries today. Child mortality is low. Families have few children. So no, you can’t abuse your kids, the state doesn’t like that.
An Introduction to Elm
Can't find the final court decision but the Utah Harvey/Keane case didn't look so good a few months after that article came out.

http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=54163714&itype=CMSI...

> In accusing Keane of negligence, the Sedgwicks, their lender and title insurance company pointed in court documents to a recent article in Harper's magazine that quotes remarks from Keane at a dinner with the writer during which he made outrageous and sexually explicit remarks about his role in the case.
Your statement is so misogynistic and paternalizing that I don't even know where to begin.

I'll just have to go with "what can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence". Back up your claims, and "I talked to a few women" does not count.
And see...Ferocious Space Possums!
That's the piano the article is about.
That's strange to hear, in my experience serif fonts are most definitely used more for body text (referring to paragraphs of text) on sites where legibility is a primary concern. Look at the websites of almost any well designed news outlet (Bloomberg, NYT, Guardian, Reuters, etc). I say this as someone who previously worked for a type foundry that has worked with major organisations on corporate type projects and now works as a web (and occasional book) designer/developer.
Research that I have seen largely suggests that health care is more expensive in the US compared to similar quality health care elsewhere. The primary cause, though not the only cause, for this cost imbalance is largely due to a variety of administrative inefficiencies that have grown out of balance over time. These inefficiencies are economically allowed to exist because many forms of health care are a basic need rather than a luxury want.

Some additional data from the insurance side of things is that about 5% of patients account for about 50% of health care expenses and about 1% of patients account for about 25% of expenses. This is not something to primarily solve for, but it is something the insurance industry must account for.

Solving even for the some of the most basic cost insecurities of health care is hard, because some side of the industry always benefits from a particular angle of each inefficiency. You have to be willing to financially harm a large segment of that industry to make it better for everybody else. Realizing this each segment of that industry (all industries) will maximize identity politics and team identity as necessary to ensure the survival of their collective business interests.
Are you arguing for child labor or are you just unintentionally doing it?
Pretty excited to see Fintual on that list. It's the first Chilean startup that got accepted.
Either you like a rule for minimum wage or you dont, if you start choosing who gets it you subvert the very core principle that people deserve a sustenance wage.

It would be reasonable to devote 10-20% of the wages to prison maintenance or victims reparations, but saying their labor is worth 1$ is preposterous.