skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is it that has changed for the worse?

More equality for women? That has improved.
Access to abortion? That has improved?
Domestic abuse and assault in sexual relationship? Are there any good statistics on these trends?
Courts upholding child support agreements with force of law. Don't pay your child support and see what happens.

The reason something may appear broken with modern relationships is the fact we are looking at them thru historical perspective, when it was much less likely a person could survive and raise children while not married. The fact is so many things have changed (at least in the U.S. where I am) in the last 50 year the chain of causality is likely impossible to unwrap.
> Congress...has shed...constitutional limits

> things you did wholly inside your state

These two statements are related. Congress has the Constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce. That one little phrase in the Constitution is mostly responsible for the federal government's power grab over the last 100 years or so.

Unless you have your own fully self-sufficient farm and solar plant, and don't have a telephone, TV or Internet service, you're probably consuming goods and services that are made in other states and interacting with companies based in other states.

Since the federal government has the power to regulate those transactions, it can intrude into the corner of your lives.

Also, the amendment giving the federal government the power to collect income tax was another serious mistake. It was sold to voters as a "temporary" measure to pay the country's debts from either the Civil War or World War I. Spoiler: It wasn't temporary. If the government had never had the revenue to engage in the massive spending of the last century, the current fiscal mess wouldn't be happening.
So? You can't claim certainty is per se evil without lapsing into hypocritical contradiction. Those who zealously preach anti-certainty are hypocrites, intrinsically.
I tried this a while ago and could never get used to it. It asks for too much learning to be widely adopted. (Think dvorak)
There's an old saying, "people study psychology to figure out their own problems."
It sounds like it wouldn't be illegal, but the judge would probably say, "You have $2 million in savings [probably more like: "Oh, you were a cofounder of this startup that was acquired by a multinational publishing conglomerate"] and you're asking normal people to donate to your defense?" and perform some kind of punitive measures (or at least have disfavor cast upon his side of the story for appearing unethical) for what appears to be a major misuse of clout (i.e., a wealthy man fleecing the much poorer masses for his own support).

IANAL
I agree and I'm the same. I can relate to many of the stories told by the author, however I find real sex immensely more exciting, to the extent that even when viewing porn I will often fantasize about sex I've actually had. I also think more about women I meet and date than I do about porn I've watched (and I've watched pretty much everything there is).

I am curious though, was your upbringing liberal regarding sex, or was it considered a taboo as well? For me, it was very much even taboo to think about it, even though I later found out this is terribly hypocritical considering those telling us it was taboo were doing it just as much as we would eventually. I even got in trouble for uttering the word "condom" once, almost to the same extent as for saying "fuck", which seems utterly ridiculous to me now. I'm curious if sex having been taboo for so many years is actually what makes it more stimulating, or if it's just a difference in sexuality from person to person.
Fucken retards! You're on trial, not me! I didn't steal anything.

If you so much as look at a woman with lust in your eye you gotta pluck-out your eye.

God says...
C:\Text\QUIX.TXT

mind to continue his discourse, and would have done so
had not Sancho interposed with his smartness; for he, seeing his master
pause, took the lead, saying, "My lord Don Quixote of La Mancha, who once
was called the Knight of the Rueful Countenance, but now is called the
Knight of the Lions, is a gentleman of great discretion who knows Latin
and his mother tongue like a bachelor, and in everything that he deals
with or advises proceeds like a good soldier, and has all the laws and
ordinances of what

----

"I will send a famine. not for bread but for the word of God."

God said Christian rock was "musical privation"

You need food clothing and the word of God.

Hell is the absense of God.

You fucken retards should be begging me for my presence.

Has money made anyone happy?

You should kiss my ass and beg.

God says...
C:\Text\QUIX.TXT

t. They told me they trusted and confided their honour and good name to
my virtue and rectitude alone, and bade me consider the disparity between
Don Fernando and myself, from which I might conclude that his intentions,
whatever he might say to the contrary, had for their aim his own pleasure
rather than my advantage; and if I were at all desirous of opposing an
obstacle to his unreasonable suit, they were ready, they said, to marry
me at once to anyone I preferred, either among the leading people of

----

Why don't You punish them with... boredom.

God says...
C:\Text\WEALTH.TXT

e people employed
in them is kept at home, and only the surplus part of their work is
exported. Mr Hume frequently takes notice of the inability of the
ancient kings of England to carry on, without interruption, any foreign
war of long duration. The English in those days had nothing wherewithal
to purchase the pay and provisions of their armies in foreign countries,
but either the rude produce of the soil, of which no considerable part
could be spared from the home consumption, or a few manufactures

----

God said war can fix unemployment. No He didn't ROFLMAO

We're broke.

God says...

C:\Text\Words\AUGUST.TXT

or as among the powers in
man's society, the greater authority is obeyed in preference to the
lesser, so must God above all.

So in acts of violence, where there is a wish to hurt, whether by
reproach or injury; and these either for revenge, as one enemy against
another; or for some profit belonging to another, as the robber to the
traveller; or to avoid some evil, as towards one who is feared; or
through envy, as one less fortunate to one more so, or one well
thriven in any thing, to him whose be
I'd like to add that I went through something very similar, although on a smaller scale. The prosecutor was charging me with ridiculous things, giving me the option to plead guilty or go to trial and keep appealing until I went broke, and ending up in jail on top of it.

When I read Aaron's story, I understood exactly how he felt. I felt like killing myself so many times. The prosecutor destroyed my family, my livelihood, my reputation, my life. And there was no "victim" either. I was completely alone at the end of it.

I'm on year 2 of starting again, and I'm telling you it does get better. A lot better.

I hope that Aaron's story sheds some light on the lack of empathy, and straight up bullying the prosecutors employ against vulnerable people. They went harder on me when they found out I lost my job. They are bullies, plain and simple.
Far less than when Steve Jobs died, and for a shorter duration.
Ugh, if they delay important things like health care, copyright reform and the economy over gun reform, I'll be angry.

I mean, guns are a minor issue. Make them freely available, and some crime stats change somewhat. Completely ban them and do away with 2A, and some crime stats change somewhat, and destroy a relatively small industry. It's not a huge issue either way. Tiny compared to the overall economy, or overseas wars, or the drug war, health care, or copyright, or STEM education, or immigration reform.
I want to offer my condolences for your loss, Im very empathetic to Arron's situation. I can only imagine someone that graduated and took the right path in life to be potential labeled as a felon If in fact he what I assumed cared greatly about his reputation
I ask that you all watch; titled Illegal Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBiJB8YuDBQ
its my goal that maybe this tragedy may help the next Aaron????
As unethical as it would be, a scientific experiment to replicate the system closely and charge people with falsified crimes to find out the percentages who admit guilt while knowing they're innocent.. it potentially really could save thousands of innocent people
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> they sought time to tell people why the death star isn't
going to be built.

There is no political fallout from refusing to build a death star.

The Republican Party's rapid backpedaling after publishing a memo outlining what many HN'ers consider a reasonable policy stance on copyright -- to the extent of firing the staffer who prepared it, never mind that it appears he got permission from the appropriate party channels to publish it as a policy document -- show that the copyright lobby has on its side some of the finest politicians that money can buy.
I tried it for a few weeks.
What was a real downside is that the tip of my finger got sorta friction burn from swiping too much. Maybe it was my cheapo phone screen, but it just wasn't working that well.
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Sorry, guys. My 2-year old posted, and Im unable to delete it.
Does violating a few TOS's warrant 35+ years in prison?
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China uses a lot more energy for heating. Things may change once AC becomes more common in India, but that's still a long way off. Also, IT is a larger portion of India's GDP, which takes far less energy than manufacturing.
> I would appreciate it

Oh, you would? How dare everyone on the internet not cater to your expectations.

Someone from the community shared a story of personal struggle. They didn't hide behind a pseudonym, and it was probably a hard decision for them. They also, did in hopes it would help someone else.

They might not have used precise definitions or scientifically correct terms but they were honest and civil and even after you insulted them.
I would confirm that from my observation and interaction over the years as well. I wonder if there has been any study in that area that proves or disproves.
I like this quote, only slightly newer, by Paul the hermit:

"Tell me, I pray, how fares the human race: if new roofs be risen in the ancient cities, whose empire it is that now holds sway in the world, if any still survive, snared in the error of demons."[1]

It epitomizes the futility of "news:" even if you live in a cave for many years (decades), as long as you know a bit about human nature and history, you know the news--just not the names. Like the OP, I find news pointless and go long periods without it.

[1] http://www.hermitary.com/articles/paul.html
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I actually forced myself to learn to use this. It seemed cool, and potentially very powerful, so I used it exclusively for 6 months on my phone.

I got to the point where it was completely coded into muscle memory, I can still type on it without the letters displayed. While it feels really cool when you are using it, there are some pretty fatal flaws.

First off, even when you are going full tilt, it is slower than using the built in keyboard. Tapping the screen is much faster than making a loop on it.

The bigger problem, which I think would be interesting to see addressed, is that there is no tactile feedback to let you know where your finger is. Sometimes you will accidentally hit the middle partway through a figure, giving the wrong character. Other times you are on the wrong side of the dividing lines when you get to the centre. These things happen often enough that it gets annoying having to go back and delete characters.

A quick fix for the "being in the wrong spot" problems would be to make the centre into a square. A more complicated fix would be to try to look at the patterns that advanced users are making and analyze them to figure out what they are actually typing ( If my finger is moving down, I am probably trying to type the top quadrant ).

When you get going, it is pretty cool, but you are still slower than other keyboards, and when you try to relax a bit you will hit the lines in the wrong places from time to time.

A bit of work on making it smarter, and giving some sort of tactile feedback, and it would be a really great way to touch type on a smartphone, but for now it is not worth it.
The NIH has been working hard at getting all NIH-funded research publications into a free database, PubMed Central. And I'm pretty sure all publications listed on CVs for NIH grant applications must include a PubMed Central ID.
Aaron Swartz was not a hacker. He was a builder.
I couldn't post to one of the children under you, so I'll post here, agreeing with you.

http://www.japanese-buddhism.com/giant-pink-penis-festival.h...

The Japanese have had a penis festival since the 1600's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maypole#Scandinavia

"The central part played by young children in the celebration emphasize the procreation aspect of the celebration"

We've had celebrations and representations of sexuality throught history.

The Romans took to this a climax (pun intended)

http://www.mariamilani.com/ancient_rome/Ancient_Roman_Orgy.h...

Interesting thing is in most of these historical cases, there is a strong authoritarian push to stop these festivals to keep from corrupting people. This is the wheel of history coming around again.
The ostentatious stuff was par for the course for the 90s. Thinking Machines, like SGI, had a profitable market but was horribly run and found it impossible to transition from a research project to a company. OTOH, Sun Microsystems executed brilliantly but was killed a decade later by the commoditization of HPC.
How about people that are like-minded band together and dedicate one person to research all of the issues and present them, or an issue per person (or something else)?
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When, therefore, we speak to you of God, we mean your own conception of God.
- pg 47 of The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous; Fourth Edition

One's own conception of God could be any of those things I listed. Personally, I have spent nearly 4 years in an AA group. So rest assured, I have read the steps.

As to what is taught - God referring to Allah, The Flying Spaghetti Monster, Jesus, Mohammed, etc. - depends on the group/person/persons you've received your information from. There is no governing body for AA, and every group is completely self sustaining. Individual traditions, teachings, and cultures grow naturally in each group providing slight variance from group to group. However the core will always come back to God being whatever you choose God to be.
Yes, I'm glad someone is putting the truth out there that pretty much everyone from the Millennial generation has been watching porn since our pre-teens. The vast majority, as far a s I know, havn't experienced problems from it. There is a vocal minority like in r/nofap, but considering that literally 99.9% of millions of males do it, that can't be a surprise.
Exactly what I was thinking.

Suicide these days is treated as if the person who did it had no choice.

No amount of bullying or bad life situation merits taking your own life. Mr. Swartz had a choice. He chose wrongly.
Case law is free as in beer and free as in speech.

What isn't free is all the work Lexis Nexis and West Law do to edit, cross-reference, index, etc, cases. As a practical matter, these additional features are indispensable, so the text of the opinions alone is of relatively less value.
And you missed the point as well: if you didn't know who Aaron was, and you didn't click any of the links on HN about him, would your life be any different?

I didn't know about Aaron until all the articles started popping up here. Only curiosity drove me to find out the story, no real need or purpose.
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As a once undergrad music student now working in acoustics, thanks for creating this. Something like this has been on my list of things to program, especially with libraries out there like D3.js. Good luck!
Ask HN: How to hack GRE?
Hi HNers,

I have my GRE tomorrow. wish me luck. Any tips for me you might have found useful? Anything online or any particular publication you found essential?

Thanks.
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Because the article title is misleading. Purely publicly-funded research is freely available (e.g. NASA reports). What's at issue are e.g. papers written pursuant to research that is the subject of public funds, but by research teams who are otherwise employed by a university or research lab. In that case, the resulting paper isn't purely a product of public funding, so it's not obvious it should automatically be freely accessible.

Also, these papers are generally the result of editing/publication processes by journals. The government isn't paying for those papers to be edited and published.
Super curious to hear about the legality of something like this, have you looked into it?
Efficient power plants produce less pollution for the same energy output. So replacing old power plants often reduces pollution even when that's not the goal.
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Assuming there is such a state, calling it detox implies it's normal or good. I'd be curious what, if any, physiological changes result to reduce the influence of one's sex drive. If so, why not "simply" auto-castration? (If the goal is to reject one's drives...)

I see a general male catharsis that borders on the neurotic. Society demands verile/potent men who can, at the same time, subjugate themselves fully to society and their mates.
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I bet someone somewhere has pitched that very idea as a reality show.
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I worry that he may be too friendly a pick for the job. It's easy to imagine that if Prof. Abelson's investigation identifies wrongdoing, many will discount the findings because of his presumed sympathies.
Just days before he died a deal with federal prosecutors fell apart
Aaron - my 2 cents
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If your test is tomorrow, there is nothing that will help you more than a good night's sleep. If you aren't confident that you will ace the test (i.e. you have consistently done well on realistic practice exams), I would suggest rescheduling or withholding your score and studying for a solid 3 months before taking it. Take a class (Kaplan, Princeton Review, etc)...they really do work.

About me: I taught SAT,GRE,GMAT,LSAT for Kaplan for 6 years
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That sounds suspiciously like a meta-political party.
Ask that the US Attorney Carmen Ortiz be removed: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-stat...

Carmen Ortiz is planning on running for Massachusetts Governor so if you live in Massachusetts OR if you know any one who lives in massachusetts spread the word about Carmen Ortiz.
Tangentially related: http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...

An account of Richard Feynman's time at the company.
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Children raised in single-parent homes, children born out of marriage, and rates of divorce all started skyrocketing in the 60s. The upper class has been less effected, as Charles Murray's book "Coming Apart" shows. Divorce, single-parenthood, and other symptoms of sexual liberation went up slightly for the upper class in the 60s and then leveled off. But in the lower classes the standard family has become the exception to the norm.

Today, you have stats like this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103235/Most-childre... or this: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/health/13mothers.html?_r=0

Again, I'm not saying porn or a less repressed culture are causative, but they are part of the syndrome we observe that sex is less serious and more pervasive, relationships are more temporary, and children grow up in more chaotic homes at a distinct disadvantage to children that grow up in stable homes. The family is disappearing for a large portion of the population. Marriage is later. Children are fewer - especially for the upper class. You have more wealth in the country and more children being raised in poverty by a single parent.
> The traditional solution to large numbers of young men without mates is not repression

Compulsory military service is often defacto slavery. It's an even more insidious form of repression. And if the populace is manipulated into wanting to go to war, that's worse.
Here you go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99vsUF4NuLk
The sarcasm was more referring to the fact that Java (and to some extent Flash with Alchemy VM stuff) is already the best solution for cross-platform native sandboxing in the browser.

(If Oracle improves on the updates, that is, and I'm sure they will, they've got a lot on the roadmap for Java.)

This is a neat idea though!
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Another interesting thing would be to let the plea-bargain cases go to trial, with a moot outcome and see how many come up not guilty. Unfortunately, it would be very difficult to motivate lawyers to argue their hardest.
They pushed Aaron Swartz to suicide because they did not fear what would happen next. They are right. There is nothing to fear. Ultimately, respect will always remain based on the fear for reprisals. Where is the respect?
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People used to say the same thing about Java. When you can write a web app for Chrome that can do the same sorts of things applets can do, you're going to see the same sorts of exploits. The problem isn't that the Sun and Oracle people didn't know what they were doing. The problem is your opportunities for security problems scale with the amount of functionality you're delivering.
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"The actual sensation of higher dopamine levels is stress and anxiousness - it actually doesn't feel good at all."

Hmm, maybe that explains why whenever I get this rush of anticipation whenever I think about playing Starcraft, but when I actually play it I just end up stressed and anxious.
Not just HPC -- they made more money on enterprise servers than on their few sunfire systems and Cray SPARC systems.

x86 and NT (and later Linux, but initially NT) killed them on the Workstation market, and Linux/x86 killed them on the server. Then Oracle engaged in serious abuse of a dead body, which gives us Java today.
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Another way to look at it is that district attorneys are doing their job and only prosecuting cases with solid evidence to back them up.
Lol, this is hilarious.

This is basically Palm OS Graffiti, brought back from the dead and celebrated like innovation.

Heck, even the Apple Newton had it before the Palm OS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_%28Palm_OS%29
This CNET article's title is a re-quote of a single line appearing in a Forbes article that originated from a 7-person "youth marketing agency" that lists a total of four technology clients: blogtv, unidentifiable logo, cybiko wireless, and verizon wireless (1).

(1) http://buzzmg.com/clients/#lifestyle
Yeah, just because you come across an unlocked door doesn't mean you have the legal right to whatever is behind it.