skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn’t there a bit more than that?

For reference: https://www.justice.gov/file/1050276/download

#12 Alleges the age scrubbing behavior tptacek has mentioned.

#13 Discusses their lack of interest in a warning message and cites an email discussing limiting their reporting of incidents because they didn’t want to exceed 500 reports a month to the NCMEC. Far from your claim that the motivation is unclear, it is in fact explicit.

#51 Is actually the second warning Backpage received about the underage issue, the first being a letter from the AG’s as outlined in #39

#61 Is a list of newly banned terms including, “Lolita, fresh, high school, tight and young.”

#67 Adds “amber alert” to the “strip out list” tptacek has mentioned, guided the moderation’s “cleaning” of ads pimping children; ads which were not removed.

#69 Discuss their rejection of using age-verification software because of the ~$.60 cost per query.

#72 Refers to a letter from Seattle PD warning about the prevalence of underage prostitution ads on their site.

#74 A letter from state AG’s alleging multiple counts of human trafficking through their site.

#75 Rejection of an attempt to handle the “underage issue” because it would not provide a PR benefit.

#76 A presentation by their own PR firm warning that of the three major categories of ads on their site, one was “Pimps and Men Looking For Kids.”

#77 Email about underage issue, includes joke that site should be called “entrapment.com”

#78 Padilla admits to editing 76 pages of ads with the word “teen” in them, not removing said ads.

#79 Alleges thst during performance reviews many mods who ignored underage escorts kept their jobs.

#80 Actually states the reason, “If we don’t want to blow past 500 this month, we shouldn’t be doing more than 16 per day.”

#83 Keeping a 17 year old’s ad up despite her attempt to recruit a 15 year old because the 15 year old wasn’t actually in the ad.

#86, and #87, and #88 A mother explains that her drugged, kidnapped daughter is appearing in ads on the site, cites a phone number, and asks for ads to be removed. Response is that since the site in question (Backpagepics.com) isn’t owned by their corporate entity they don’t need to bother.

#93 AZU study showing issue with underage prostitution is shown to BP along with recommendations which are ignored.

#94 Coaching someone posting underage prostitutes on how to clean up the ads while keeping them up.

You didn’t even do a good job of cherry picking, and why bother with that unconvincing attempt at deception when we’re discussing a document we’re all reading?! A document which is quite damning and conforms to tptacek’s version of events rather than your own skewed version.

And you still had the gall to open with You are clearly reading the indictment in the way you choose to. Let's have a look. Look in the mirror.
I see it as more of the same corporate 'streamlining' that's gone into other media. Much like movies and video games, pop music is being produced for a mass international audience. I've got friends in Indonesia and the Philippines that know more about modern American pop music, movies and video games than I do. Other than what comes on the radio at work I have no idea what's really popular these days.

That being said. I've heard lots of great modern music being produced you just have to look for it. Kinda like the way some of the best video games I've seen being made these days aren't giant AAA games with huge a Dev staff and budget, but small indie games with one or a few developers seem to be the real leaders in game innovation these days, a lot of the 'good' music being made isn't the stuff that comes on the radio or hits the top song lists of Spotify or whatever the kids use these days.

Loudness is kind of ridiculous these days though. But, I've noticed a big difference in songs I listen to that are intended to be released on vinyl(this still happens) vs songs that are intended for digital or CD release. The vinyl tracks are far less compressed, have moredynamic range, and are 'quieter', even for dance type tunes, than the digital ones, which have peaked red lots without any kind of amplification and their waveforms are basically just one big blob from start to finish. Compression and normalization have kinda wrecked the quality of a lot of music. One of Metallica's newer albums suffered from that badly, the song's weren't terrible but the mastering made them sound like shit. Then there's autotune...but that's a whole other pile of bullshit right there.
This is my all-time favorite Haskell resource:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell

Just jump to the bottom and go through as many pages as possible. Going through Functors, Applicatives, and only then Monads puts everything in a broader context and makes Monads easier to understand.
I'm not an economics major, so forgive the possibly 'not even wrong' question: but does anyone know if there is a term for the phenomenon that price, as represented in currency, is really a lagging indicator of total value to the market, as the market has yet to digest and sum over all of the intangible value of a given 'something' into a single agreed-upon numerical metric that can the used for trade?
I got an offer recently to be a first engineer where two founders (non-technical guys) would ask me to solve some major problems but could not offer competitive salary and absolutely refused any stake in the company when asked. So no technical knowledge and no common business sense.
That’s a bummer. Sometimes small teams get very overwhelmed, and sometimes spam filters go awry. Did you try emailing them again, or contacting them on twitter?

From what I can tell they are a team of eight with one dedicated support person, I empathize immensely with her.
> It's a very simple basic concept

I mean, sure, the general concept of feedback is "simple" and applicable to helicopters, in the same way that addition is "simple" and applicable to planetary orbital dynamics.

But even basic control theory – what you'd need to actually stabilize a dynamic system as complex as a helicopter – fills a textbook or two, and the field is still evolving. [1]

Not to mention that the whole concept of "hovering" is damn difficult for a machine to quantify. You'd need LIDAR and/or visual tracking systems to accurately hold your place in all six dimensions well enough to keep a worker next to a powerline, and only in the past decade have those even become good enough for use in land-based vehicles.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_theory
Ask HN: Startup School – lecture attendance
Now that YC accepted all 15K companies, it's going to be extremely hard to RSVP for in-person lecture attendance. I tried doing so less than an hour after I received an email with a form to RSVP with no success.

"Thank you for your interest in attending. Unfortunately we've reached capacity for this event."

I understand that this is optional and not required, but with so many companies in, would it be possible to somehow increase the capacity?
> There is a whole strict regulatory system for determining facts vs mere puff.

That sounds amazing. We should probably copy that entirely, for the US.
It shouldn't be too hard for
a study too
determine if the distribution of "number of conspiracy theories someone believes in" is bimodal with one mode near 0. I suspect it is.
They do, because I don’t murder or rape. Funny how that works.
How to secretly live in your Prius
I like the movement of Valve toward open source, support of such a big company is what will make Linux gaming mainstream.
After the Steam OS fiasco this is more than welcome.
I hope in a few years it will be standard to have a Linux version of games.
> but all other users will be unaffected by this change.

This is untrue for the simple reason that you will be unable to apt-get install this software directly from Linux distros with a policy of including only FOSS.

Or, more generally - the value of FOSS is in the opportunities for public collaboration and redistribution. If you think you're doing the vast majority of the development work anyway and you want people to get packages from you anyway, great, there's no need for an open-source license at all: just provide source, allow people to make private modifications, and allow people to send fixes back to you. If you value the open source ecosystem, though, cutting yourself off from it is a bad plan.
I think what you’re describing is called “post-scarcity utopia”. It’s hardly an interesting point of view to say that this would be desirable. Pursuit of it, however, has killed more people than war in the 20th century.
It's an in-memory key-value store. Its primary function is to let transient processes not have to hit the disk to update state. Go ahead and write one this weekend, in that shiny new language that you're interested in, and then finish it up by adjusting the redis bindings of a popular CMS to work with your daemon as well.
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It is obvious you have never actually flown a real plane, and you have no familiarity with actual aircraft avionics. There are so many errors in what you said above that I don't have the time to correct them all.

It is true that state-of-the-art navigation systems operate the way you described. But airplanes have been flying for over 100 years, and there have been autopilots for nearly all of them (the earliest autopilot dates back to 1912). The vast majority of airplanes flying today do not have state-of-the-art systems.
Productive or not, here’s the reference you can use the next time this comes up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17815396

It does in fact completely validate your position, although I guess you know that.
My brother-in-law is a fundamentalist Christian. My sister homeschooled all 8 kids from kindergarten through 12th grade. His view is that since God made Adam as a full grown man then it's possible that God created the world “with age” in his parlance. The point is that people who want something to be true will engage in the nececcsry mental gymnastics to justify their belief. It’s not unique to firinge ideas but it is easier to spot in people with fringe ideas.

EDIT: The fringe idea I referenced above is the notion that God created the world to look like it's really old even though it isn’t old. I've not encountered this rationale before. My comment is in no way diminishing religion.
Clearly "desirable metro area" is the problem. Some would even call it a self-contradiction.

The increased salary of an expensive area does not normally compensate for the increased costs. It might if you are content with a studio apartment and you put most of your income into a retirement fund that you will spend only after you leave the area. You're in deep trouble if housing is a significant need for you.

It's like this: salary goes up 50%, and expenses go up 200%, so you lose.

70k, with just a single income, is perfectly fine if you live somewhere cheap. You can easily own a home and raise a family with that kind of money. I know people who manage that on far less.
I, too, preferred the animated, stick-figure version of Lawrence of Arabia.
This is a very welcome development. One of the reasons I still have a dual-boot setup with Windows is gaming. Many of the games I play with my friends have no Linux support. I could use WINE for most of them, as far as I know, but it's too much effort for me to maintain that, when I can just boot into Windows and have the native experience without additional bugs that the compatibility layer may introduce.

Being able to install it with one click in Steam is a game-changer, especially with all the additional work Valve is putting into that ecosystem. I can live with a few "emulation" bugs (I know, I know, WINE is not an emulator) if it means I never have to switch into another OS, when the setup is this simple.

One of the first supported games is "Doki Doki Literature Club" which I actually streamed from my Windows PC to my laptop (which is only running Solus Linux) when I finally wanted to play it a couple of months ago. Guess I should've waited a little longer.

Another use case I've just been made aware of is downloading the Morrowind game files for use with OpenMW[1], which has Linux support but needs the original game files to function. Until now I had to either do that in WINE or copy the files over from Windows.

[1]http://openmw.org/en/
I never knew I could be enthralled by a faulty power line. What a story!
HTML is by definition intrinsic to Web development.

LYAH is not intrinsic to Haskell programming.
For future career prospects, a stint at FAANGM is a safer bet than joining a small startup. Most startups fail and it may not easy to find another job right away. If you're at a big tech company, you'll have the credential to find a job more easily (and with their job stability you can generally choose to look for one while working there).
How about EcMH - the "Eventually-consistent" Market Hypothesis

/s-orry Bogleheads, couldn't resist :D
I disdain Pajit's FCC, but I fail to see what this incident has to do with net neutrality.
I think it's ambiguous enough that this in itself will drive people away.
> It's easy to get overwhelmed when you least expect it.

I am in process of learning this the hard way. Too much stress built up has lead to lots of physical manifestations.
Blind leading the blind without metrics.
How is it surprising (let alone disturbing) that women and men employed in the same capacity at the same company produce the same results? That's what I'm still not getting. Why would it be reasonable to assume that a man will perform differently than a woman in the same role (let alone to be so certain of this to a degree that evidence to the contrary is "disturbing")?
This reminds me of a hotel that elected to advertise its own "Room Service Pizza" as a local commercial business. It went something like this...

A given guest checks in, unpacks, and finds themselves ready for dinner. They skim over the room service menu, considers Room Service Pizza, and then dials a nearby pizza chain for delivery. Reviews for Room Service Pizza were not good. At the time, "Dominoes Is Cardboard" among similar chain-pizza love was going on so it wasn't looking up for Room Service Pizza even though it was right there on site and arguably not that bad as the story goes.

The hotel tried "everything" but it would never work; recipes, surveys, fresh ingredients... "One Chain Pizza, Please" was always the result.

One day someone desperate and with authority had an idea. They had changed "everything else" by this point, so let's go "marketing". This person drums up a separate phone number, business name, menu, logo, uniforms, the whole bit for Room Service Pizza. Drops the flier menu into the "local restaurants" courtesy spread in their rooms. It's not "Room Service Pizza" anymore, it's "Tony's Tower Pizza" or whatever.

Orders pick up. Reviews go up. Deliveries for Chain Pizza start to drop a bit on a noticeable level. Every time the special phone line for "Room Service Pizza", aka "Tony's Tower Pizza", rang up they knew something had finally broke free for themselves.

... So, I guess my point is that this isn't the first time pizza and playing masquerade have come together for a business. Here, a hotel uses ads and "rebranding" to sell their own pizza vs Google using fake pizza to sell more ads. If pizza were a coin, these might be opposite sides of it.
I don't understand how a copyright license can restrict consulting. If Redis Labs distributes redis to Alice, and Alice hires Bob for redis consulting, neither Alice or Bob are distributing Redis so the license terms are irrelevant to them.
What book on any language shows you whole programs that couldn't be seen in repl (assuming a repl exists)
Not only do we have low assurance that Australian uranium won't end up in weapons, but indigenous sources of uranium can now be dedicated 100% to weapons, instead of being shared with energy production. There is also the use of neutrons from 'energy uranium' being used to produce tritium from lithium-6, which is essential for producing fusion boosted and thermonuclear weapons.

http://isis-online.org/isis-reports/detail/north-koreas-lith...
Paper, if recognised legally means you have the responsibility to hold and present it as proof. You could keep the paper in a safety deposit. You can make certified copies.

If proof is electronic, you have no recourse if computer error causes a dispute, since you do not hold any proof yourself to present as evidence!
lol @ startups with no engineers yet paying “market rate”... they will maybe pay market rate within their stage band i.e. compared to other SV seed-stage startups, but this will still be way below the liquid total comp at a post IPO tech company. At this point in the tech cycle the math is so out of whack in favor of big co that I can’t with a straight face recommend to anyone that they join a seed startup as an early employee engineer unless they’re already well off financially (5-7 years ago I felt like I could). There are exceptions, of course.
Note, you have a minor misquote of the statistic from the article; it's 725 per 100000:

> From BJS [Bureau of Justice Statistics], [...] an incarceration rate of about 725 people per 100,000 population.

> Suppose every federal drug offender were released today. That would cut the incarceration rate to about 693 inmates per 100,000 population. Suppose further that every drug offender in a state prison were also released. That would get the rate down to 625
Agriculture is an enormously important industry in the US and agriculture lobbyists are extremely embedded in the government, from farm-state senators, to insurance, to tariffs, to myriad tax breaks. Arguing that farmers don’t influence government, SNAP being one issue of many, is laughable
> If you are offering employee #1 market pay, why would you give them 10% equity?

So that they care about the company on a similar level to the founders, and feel a real sense of ownership, dedication, and responsibility.

I've been in a position several times now where at work I'll have a reputation as a very capable engineer, typically placed on or leading the most critical projects etc. —but, my employers still have no idea what my contribution could have been if I were made to feel like the company was partially my project too, and that there wasn't some massive (though never explicit) social divide between the founders and everyone else, the rest of us being mere tools for the founders' use (only one job I was at really gave that impression—the others were pretty good about creating an environment where everyone felt equal. But from speaking with many other prospects, it appears to be a typical attitude).

There are thresholds in perception of ownership which when crossed give access to new categories of behavior in the perceiver. Think about 1%, 5%, and 10% equity in terms of sharing an object among a corresponding number of people: how much do you feel that thing is yours when sharing it with 100 people? With 20 people? With 10 people?

For me, 10% is about where the line would be where I'd be willing to drop side projects etc. and seriously dedicate myself to the company. (And in my experience, this is not atypical: in the very early stage startup I was in, basically everyone was laying groundwork for their own startups on the side, or at least had other projects they were more interested in—but they'd make sad, fake displays of their dedication to the company to try and cover. At our largest there were still only ~7 people in the company.)
The more common hypothesis is that the earth/universe is only 6000 years old but evidence of prior ages was planted by God or the Devil.

Of course, this is functionally indistinguishable from an argument that the world was created last Tuesday, with all evidence of prior existence intact.
I get many wasp nests around my home every year... I think that I will give that a try but my current solution [1] works very well also (it instantly neutralize the whole nest).

1. https://www.amazon.com/Spectracide-Hornet-Killer-Aerosol-20-...
What a lesson in unintended consequences. The license is vague enough that Amazon & co can just lawyer up and ignore it. What are they going to do, sue Amazon? Good luck.

On the other hand, it will definitely scare away users of their software who will be concerned that their CRUD app derives "substantial" value from it and is thus infringing.
If it's so easy, I'm sure we'll see replacements of equal quality. The initial Redis release was in 2009. I would think it's unlikely you're going to reach the same feature and stability parity orders of magnitude faster that Redis did.
Ansible supports powershell remoting. In a past role I used it to install SQL Server and other software packages on Windows servers. I've also used it to install VMware vCenter and all its dependencies, pGina etc.

A bit clunky to set up but it works. I'd rather use SSH than WinRM though, which should be possible in the future now that MS has added SSH support to Windows.
Consulting around open source software seems to my industry-new experience how people tend to make a living around open source software.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that how the core Linux folks make money? Or the organization running node?
WebHosting Talk (that's a blast from the past) is still around:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/

Creation Date: 2000-03-23T16:45:52Z
How about "it's the fallback system working for the people"?
> Another use case I've just been made aware of is downloading the Morrowind game files for use with OpenMW

Woah, yea, you're right. That's excellent!
This is really impressive! Seems like it would be in Microsoft's best interest to recruit him for the Code team.
Great article. Agree with most of the points there.
It's an idea that looks great on paper but it's actually not that great.

It's like the 'unlimited vacation' rubbish. Like yeah, people area actually afraid of taking vacations or they take too much and got terminated. It's best to know how many days you've actually earned and take what you have than playing those games.

Plus no actual way to verify who's doing the homework assignments anyway as opposed to a live interview however imperfect that is.

On top of that, some sketchier startup founders opened up that they're starting to abuse this to get tasks done for free. So as a candidate why'd you allow yourself for this?
I wonder if there's a way to get something like this working for citrus gall wasp. They're a big problem for suburban citrus, and there's not much in the way of protection you can do since you're neighbour's trees are probably infected. If there were some way to signal to a wasp that this tree is taken...
Why is "everything and the kitchen sink" terrible? Thoroughness is appealing. You aren't obligated to read all of it.
The linked article is interesting but also slightly misrepresented. The 693 number is incarcerations without federal drug offenses. The change would be from 725/100k to 625/100k across state and federal, which is a slightly more significant change.
I remember the original Asterisk hold music being called "Calm River" (from Freeplay), and now I know that Cisco's music (which is alot longer than I expected!) is called "Opus number 1". But, there's one piece I haven't been able to identify.

An old Royal Mail (UK) video uses it, at 3:38 in https://youtu.be/aZJE4oJxrVM?t=3m38s; do any PBX admins recognize it?
Does the verbosity interfere or can you skip over details you don't need?
I don't see any reason why countries committed to nuclear non-proliferation should endeavour to make weapon production cheaper. In fact, they should have to decide between peaceful uses and weapons of mass destruction.
I've thought about this episode a lot lately because of the of all of the reporting of Tesla issues. In the episode you hear about workers purposefully putting objects inside of doors to make them rattle, drinking in the factory, and even gambling. Additionally it is interesting because NUMMI was reopened as the Tesla Factory.