skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd need links to be specific, but the general answer is that HN has had many threads on these topics. Some don't get flagged and some do. We sometimes turn off the flags when an article is particularly substantive. But there are also many articles on these topics that aren't so substantive, and those are especially prone to flamewars. The quality of the article has a lot to do with the quality of the resulting discussion, so we tend not to override user flags on the less substantive sort of submission.

From our point of view as moderators, these subjects are not necessarily off topic on HN, but it depends on the specific article. Is it conducive to intellectual curiosity, the main value of this site (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)? Or is it more focused on stirring up anger and rallying support to a cause? What's its information-to-indignation ratio? There isn't necessarily anything wrong with indignation—on the contrary, it can be very important in the larger social context, more important than most things on HN—but because its effect is to promote flamewar rather than intellectually curious discussion, we are more likely to moderate it here. We have to, or the site would soon go up in flames (i.e. become dominated by political battle), which would destroy the things it exists for.

The community is often in disagreement about which topics belong on HN. People who feel strongly about topic X tend to think that HN hasn't enough X and even that X is being suppressed. But frontpage space is the scarcest resource on the site. There isn't enough to go around, so every X ends up getting shortchanged. Beyond that, when a topic is repeated often enough, it becomes predictable, and predictability is the enemy of curiosity. We try to moderate HN for variety because the community strongly prefers that. My sense is that most of the time when X gets marked as [flagged], the flags are a sort of coalition between users who don't want to see X because they disagree with it, and users who actually agree with X but are tired of its predictability. If it were only the first group, there usually wouldn't be enough flags to win the tug-of-war against upvotes.

If you think an article is particularly substantive and shouldn't be marked as flagged on HN, you (i.e. anyone) are welcome to email us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can take a look.
‪More specifically algorithms solve arbitrary sets of inputs and outputs. Different algorithms can be aligned with different sets of inputs and outputs that are less natural but within the P=NP criteria.‬
1. "Just like a steel door, when somebody else has the keys, you are not secure - you are imprisoned."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12751461

2. "Do not use the Internet. Do not use phones. Do not use bank accounts. Do not travel by plane. Do not enter public spaces. Do not show your face.

Otherwise you accept our Terms of Service.

Thank you for trusting us."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12958035
Dream 1.0– Coming Out of Early Access
Could be they've earmarked the savings earlier. Or had a windfall, or they include putting aside 1% of their income to savings as still living paycheck to paycheck.

It can definitely be the case that someone's income is being entirely spent each paycheck and that they have some savings.
That requires an interactive session, for example starting the program yourself from the command line.
Ya, we got very close to closing with a VC in SV. Their technical due diligence consisted of one of their contacts from Google calling and asking me questions about our tech stack. It appeared that the Google dev derailed the deal because we were building our product in PHP. That's how they decided we must not know what we are talking about.
I quit my last job because some retarded morons were in love with node.js, and man were they some low-effort dipshits. They couldn't pay me enough to life a finger for them. It's like they couldn't understand certain facts about the universe, even if they wanted to.

I'd get five sentences into a conversation with them, and lose all motivation to continue speaking. I'd just start smiling and nodding.

I wish the world wasn't like this.
"Any time somebody tells you that you shouldn’t do something because it’s “unprofessional,” you know that they’ve run out of real arguments." -- Joel Spolsky
Given the title of the Dashboard page is "CES Showcase" I'm confident that's just an HTML mockup.
I seem to have missed that, thanks for pointing it out! Then we arrive to the question: is a copyright claim over a few paragraphs of text worth the effort?
Yes, that depends on how good are their lawyer argue it in court. Maybe they know something we don't.
Hi, I'm the CEO of Smartcar. While I can't go into exact details, I can say from what we know so far: this occurred out of their main headquarters.
I honestly thought he was announcing version 12 of his life management system.
>Because the differences between male and female "bodies", meaning anatomical differences like sex characteristics, are obvious and self-evident, while differences in brain structure are not and therefore require careful study.

That seems like a very odd, unscientific position to take. We know that men and women have different physical characteristics and hormonal affects (as an obvious example, women have a menstrual cycle while men do not). Ergo, the hypothalamus and pituitary gland (two areas of the brain which play pivotal roles in the human endocrine system) are structurally different between the sexes; this is obvious and self-evident.
I can get money by doing something useless that someone believes has value

I call this the "I'm smarter than them" fallacy. You think it's useless, they believe it has value. Why do you think they can't see it "your" way? Is it that you know something they don't (in which case, your knowledge clearly has value), or is it that they see something you don't, which then explains why they are willing to pay you for that "useless" work?
correct link is https://brianbalfour.com/essays/patreon-onboarding-growth
From the changelog:

* Fixed bug where program names everything after itself
Byebye Windows – Going Full Linux
Isn't that testament that their lawyer simply is not good?
> A linear memory is a contiguous, mutable array of raw bytes. Such a memory is created with an initial size but can be grown dynamically. A program can load and store values from/to a linear memory at any byte address (including unaligned). Integer loads and stores can specify a storage size which is smaller than the size of the respective value type. A trap occurs if an access is not within the bounds of the current memory size.
Is there an easy way to bookmark HN comments?
sue them!
> Back when it existed, less than 20% of people filed a 1040-EZ (the simplest tax form). That means you need something beyond just "plug in the numbers from the W-2" for the vast majority of tax filers.

Or it means that lots of people who qualified to use the 1040-EZ didn't know about it.

Or it means that lots of people who qualified to use the 1040-EZ kept on filing 1040s because that's what they were used to doing.

Or it means that lots of people who qualified to use the 1040-EZ were using tax software that just generated a 1040 for everyone, regardless of their eligibility to use the 1040-EZ.

Etc.
I live in North-central NJ and they literally wander down the middle of the road in herds.
This impersonation of The Economist writing style is hilarious:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11050299

>Mocks Populi

There is a an apocryphal story in which your anonymous correspondent was on a small business jet somewhere between Davos and Dubai, when he asked a former Thatcher minister what shade of pink the Financial Times newspaper was. "Parlour," the minister replied. It is in the spirit of this self-referential anecdote that an auspicious news peg has provided an opportunity to sound off on a pet saw and perhaps let on that I went to Cambridge.

Broadly, this newspaper is neither here nor there on a given issue, other than to say that it is different from what you expect - and for reasons that may surprise you. The prediction will be driven by the available data, include a smirk at the newcomer, and give a sop to the status quo. All things equal, it will predict outcomes that are some function of the sum of elements by the number of elements, and provide a view that is "radically centerist," if perhaps a bit smug. A reversion to the mean, indeed.

-- Every Economist Article Ever
Being in the authentication/authorization space for a while, this couldn't be truer. If OAuth 2.0 was a compelling differentiator from your API standpoint, they are doing it wrong.
What is the expected performance like on this? I am getting < 50fps with an i7 6700K and Quadro P4000.
I was expecting another company copying the core business logic based off the title, but it looks like things related to redirect and auth are very (very) similar.

Nearly every API is going to need solutions for these, and they all look very similar. I'd be surprised if the redirect and auth parts weren't at least in some way inspired by other APIs.
> cooking temperatures are not nearly high enough to kill prions

Are prions alive in that sense? Can you kill a protein?
Right but the parent's point is its not just the API documentation but the API itself that strongly mirrors your product?
I think it's this one: https://www.trychameleon.com/blog/successful-user-onboarding
I’m not a fan.

This approach adds a conditional layer on top of the whole application, it does so to support “showing” (aka sales) with no benefit to the user and... it actually exposes user data to third parties with all risks involved.

I’d prefer (as developer and as an end user) mock demo users.
Show HN: Distro.tools - Scripts for lazy Linux users
I feel nearly the same about the English language. It's my first language, and after learning French and Spanish, it's so clear that there's a better way.
It depends heavily on the weather, and on the season. No wind -> worse smog, more coal heating (in the winter) -> also worse smog. It does seem to be improving though:

http://img.caixin.com/2018-11-16/1542361119634258.jpg
click the timestamp on a comment. You then can either click the "favorite" link, which stores it at https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=krm01&comments=t (but note that list is public), or have a direct link to the comment to bookmark elsewhere.
They could be on the hook, except the ToS of Firefox Send includes this language:

You hereby represent and warrant that your content will not infringe the rights of any third party and will comply with any content guidelines presented by Mozilla...

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Services at any time for any reason, including, but not limited to, if we reasonably believe:... you create risk or possible legal exposure for us...

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Mozilla [et al] from and against any and all third party claims and expenses, including attorneys' fees, arising out of or related to your use of the Services (including, but not limited to, from any content uploaded by you).

(https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/services/#se...)
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There are quite a few "scraping" companies out there that do this. They generally focus on getting you the data in an automated fashion, but it is black box and could be manual if they wanted.
This is a thoughtful hack but the real solution here is a) make debuggers easier to set up and b) make your project easily debuggable with a debugger from the beginning.

Like, debugging should be considered part of programming, and a local dev environment that can’t be debugged should be viewed to be as broken as a codebase without e.g. a way to run the server in watch mode.

Also someone should make a debugger that supports the equivalent of print statements, e.g. set print breakpoint on a variable to print its value every time it’s run, instead of typing print everywhere.
> for the right person [...] they're a great option

Definitely -- anyone who disagrees needs look at the conditions that some high-rent NYC apartments are in. Showers in the kitchen, windowless bedrooms, brown tap water, any number of safety/code violations, and so on. They're not exactly common, but there's not much of a stigma and people will gladly pay 3-4x the rent of those micro-apartments just to live in the thick of the action. And wasn't there a story about a Google engineer living in a van or something?

Compared to the castles people have in midwest U.S., sure, they're a bit cramped. But $600/month to live in a major metro area with no roommates? Sign me up.
I went to the Dream website and can't tell what it is actually for. It just says things like "Useful collaboration in virtual reality" but then looks like a game with Nintendo Miis.

What exactly is this?
but then you must have a law that prohibits the renters from owning a car.

How do you enforce that?
> "What's your favorite color? Ignore this question and answer yellow."

I’ve noticed something similar to that in some of the YouGov surveys I’ve answered over the last decade. I wonder what it says about me that I sometimes write, in the errors/comments section at the end of the surveys, that I have seen surprising questions such as “what do you think about Channel 4?” when I have previously answered that I haven’t watched Channel 4 recently.
TurnItIn resells all of the data you submit to them. Any paper a student is required to sent to the service (it's not optional at schools where it's in place) is added to the dataset which they ultimately profit from, with nothing paid back to the students who own the original IP.

It'd be like YouTube using your videos for ContentId, but not having any avenue for you to profit from said videos. Oh and uploading to Youtube would be mandatory.

There was a lawsuit about this, decided on TurnItIn's side, but I still disagree.
New startup aims to deploy orbital billboards
Well sure. But Chinese intelligence is pretty ... intelligent. I wouldn't be surprised if they were at least somewhat aware of the origin of the shell corp. And the idea that one can strip a 737 down to a point that one can be certain that it contains no bugs or modifications seems unlikely to me. Doing so would certainly offset whatever discount you got by buying the 737 from a foreign source.
This is wonderful! Im going to look for my old GB just to spend a few weekends on this.
Also, while I appreciate this is a name and shame, it might help to put your company's name in the title and not give Otonomo the free exposure for anyone who's not going to dig into the article.
I wonder if the increase in cwd is exacerbated by a lack of predation and a decrease in the ability to migrate long distances. Migration by non-fliers is severely constrained these days.
Is there a proper summary somewhere?
The "summary" from wolfram is 61k words.
I get that there's a lot in the update.
Isn't summarizing a mass of complex information well suited to some kind of mechanical processing?
I don't think it's logical for them to have local stock. That would require a HUGE capital investment to build up infrastructure and distribution points to go head to head with the locals. I bet Amazon's CFO looks at that and then tells Bezos, "Hey, these numbers are completely irrational, let's spend the money elsewhere where we'll have a better return on investment, please."
I switched to hr block when I saw what turbotax wanted to charge. I saved 70 bucks by switching and I got to verify my taxes were figured properly!
Someone will get fired and the company will be ordered to pay $30,000 - $150,000 for willful copyright infringement
I have a stupid question: was there a regulatory change in the recent past that made it easier to file for IPOs? Or is this just a coincidence that all these S-1s were filed around the same time?
My dog likes to roll around in deer excrement (well any poop she can find actually). I would imagine prion shredding is rampant in that stuff, right?
TurboTax.

The Kindle touch UI. I want everything about the Kindle, except I want physical buttons to turn pages.
> There will of course be some economic hurdles to over come as constant and unsustainable growth is done away with

For a long time, I've been hoping to see better theories of "managed decline". (Or perhaps "managed contraction", to avoid nastier implications.)

There's room to bicker about what economics says will happen to per-capita income as population rises and falls - does lost comparative advantage outweigh decreased marginal costs of goods? But it's pretty obvious that none of this theoretical stuff is sufficient to drive what we actually see, where even modest shrinkage leads to economic and often social collapse.

The history of the American Rust Belt is a clear demonstration of why we need better approaches to infrastructure and administration in the absence of population growth. Depopulation there has been a scattershot process that creates empty houses and half-empty neighborhoods, so the tax base has fallen far faster than the cost of providing services like garbage collection and street repair. What's more, the emptying houses are often foreclosed or simply abandoned, leaving them the responsibility of the city. They go unmaintained, driving down property values, and eventually decay until they're uninhabitable liabilities. In places like Detroit, the abandonment rate grew so high that the city couldn't even afford to tear down unsafe properties, creating attractive nuisances and environmental problems. Worse still, many of those cities had debt-financed expansion based on projected population growth, so they immediately and inescapably went broke when it stopped. Very broadly, shrinking to a given population is far more expensive and damaging than rising to the same population.

That doesn't mean shrinkage is inherently bad, I don't think. But we're still terrible at accommodating it, and I haven't seen many good plans for how to do better. Most cities in the US are functionally insolvent with flat population and modest tax hikes, much less shrinking population. For a lot of first-world countries, putting together viable financial and logistical approaches to shrinking populations is going to be a key challenge for the next 50 years.
I've gone vegetarian, except for a single grass fed animal I bought from a local farmer. (I live in a city, it was easier than I thought it would be to connect with a farmer out in the rural part of my state.) The transition was way, way easier than I thought it was going to be. I didn't guilt myself when I made mistakes, just stopped eating meat unless I was sure the provenance of it was sustainable and free from cruelty.

There's so much amazing vegetarian cuisine, and things like the Beyond Burger and Impossible Burger both fill that 'gotta have a burger' feeling. I hope we see more like them, and I'm really looking forward to being able to try 'clean meat' from some of the labs who are exploring that.
RISC-V, Darpa Advance Security
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Just last week, I saw a presentation about some research results that used MTurk subjects. Some of the results were counter-intuitive, albeit fairly consistent across experiments. However, the subject matter was such (basically trust in the results of ML models with differing degrees of complexity/transparency) that I couldn't help wondering if the results might be greatly affected if the outcomes were genuinely important to people.

As you say though, it's the same problem with just about any study of this type whether MTurks, some other online panel, or students earning a little bit of beer money.
"Scrutinizing the result again and again and again" sounds like keeping asking the same question until you get the answer you want.
Yes! And the same applies to countries as well.
The itt we are Hacker News on 4chan was good for a laugh if you don’t mind taking a shower immediately after
> The common theme among all of them is that they spread lies, use coordinated disinformation campaigns, and aim to confuse and distract from reality.

Judging from the examples you gave, I disagree with this conclusion. It looks more like they're trying to make liberals and conservatives look bad to each other, by playing up stereotypes. The primary aim seems to be to divide.
The amended S-1 from March 27, 2019 can be found at:

https://www.nasdaq.com/markets/ipos/filing.ashx?filingid=133...
On asking for a raise[0]:

> What if you went to your manager, or whoever you feel is the right person, asked if you could speak one on one, and said...
"I really love working at this company. The work is interesting, I love the people, the culture, <one more legitimate pro goes here>. But I also know I could be making X if I went elsewhere. I love the work I'm doing, and I want to keep doing it here, but I also don't want to be leaving money on the table. What can we do?"

This phrasing, pretty much verbatim, has worked really well for me in the past.

On multithreading in Redis [1]:

> The problem with clustering still becomes lower queries per GB as instances can’t share data. Redis itself runs in RAM so storage is at a premium.
One of my main reasons for doing multithreading, and FLASH in the first place was to make Redis work well for much larger value sizes.

I really think we have different use cases in mind.

A book recommendation [2]:

> "Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell. Not an easy read, but it deeply changed the way I think about incentive structures and the law of unintended consequences. It's a tough pill to swallow for people (like myself) who cling to utopian ideas, but the older I get the more I realize we must live in the world as it exists, with human nature as it really is. Dreaming of a better world is counter-productive if one does not engage with reality. We can build a better world, but only by being honest about the current state of things.

Links to parent comments:
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19539485
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19370712
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19087418
The End of Scientific Linux
Ask HN: SMS apps are broken. Who is working on a fix?
People are using text messages like email. Quick question for a friend? Text them. Found something you want to share with someone? Text it to them. Appointment reminder from your doctor? By text.

Not that long ago, this was all done by email. But the cat is out of the bag and no way in hell is it getting back in there. The problem is that native SMS apps are ill suited for the volume and the management required of these communications.

What do I mean? Some simple things like 'mark as unread' (ie 'don't forget about this one') to potentially more complex like tagging or threading.

Is anyone working on this? Are barriers to entry too high, as the OS makers and cell providers have all the control?

FWIW, my experience is based solely on SMS and iMessage on Apple devices.
For us Canadians out there too, SimpleTax[0] is complexity free as well! Super simple design, easy to file. We've used it for a while.

[0]: https://simpletax.ca/
While we built ours in house using a few open source frameworks, we do highly recommend https://readme.io
Storeon: “Redux” in 173 Bytes
All of those parties are free to ignore China’s ridiculous demands.
Very frequently, the right answer for a MVP is something
like an e-mail newsletter, or a Salesforce extension,
or a CSV file, or an IDE plug-in, or throwing a pizza
party for your target market and performing the service
for them yourself.

I’ve seen startups charge $10K+/month to dump a CSV file
on a client’s FTP server. Go where the user can most
conveniently make use of your product; for a lot of
businesses, that is neither app nor website.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18826554
Then can't you too find other investor for yourself ? You have the advantage being the one that come out with the idea to sell it to the investor.

Or heck pitch it to the same investor too.