skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a very superficial critique, lacking in actual arguments and references. While I generally don't agree with the guy, he makes sense. His articles are coherent and insightful, if sometimes unpleasant and generally long-winded.

If anyone's interested, here's a summary of his writing[1] with links to most important articles. His posts are also a goldmine of one-liners[2].

BTW He used to have an account here[3] but was banned, unfortunately.

[1] http://moldbuggery.blogspot.com/

[2] https://twitter.com/moldbuggery

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=moldbug
> The connotations of "speculators" are so negative that I always want to say, "speculators and Jews."
> If your bond portfolio returned 6% last year, but gold went up 9%, you have speculated incorrectly; if you could go back in time and speculate again, you would speculate instead in gold. (It's hard out there for a Jew.)

Because casual ethnic slurs always add weight to an argument.
Sergey Brin's actual statement was "You can count on one hand the number of years until ordinary people can experience this" as transcribed from an interview.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9231707/Self_driving_...

That is an ambitious prediction, and I wonder what that suggests about the cost of the self-driving system, as fewer and fewer cars look affordable to many "ordinary people" these days. I think Brin, being a billionaire for several years now, may have a warped sense of what "ordinary people" can really afford, so I give it ten years till I'm likely to be able to buy a car with self-driving features. But that means I can buy at most just one more car without self-driving features (to replace a car that threatens to fail at any moment, after almost 170,000 miles of driving since 1999), and then the next car I buy will be a self-driving car. Cool.
Someone's going to cry over this? I would have thought going through normal ridiculing in middle school and high school would have toughened someone's skin enough. And why are you even paying attention to the great twitter circle-jerk?
> The sooner people understand this, things like these won't happen.

Something tells me that even widespread awareness wouldn't change things one bit.
There's nothing 'ad hominem' about my attack. An ad hominem fallacy is an appeal to an irrelevant negative quality of the speaker; it's fallacious just because the negative is unrelated.

My attack is directly relevant: MM's larger body of work is a huge, dense construct of lunacy with low probability for any reader of being worthwhile; any portion of it is therefore suspect. If you want to buy a car, and I tell you that the company that makes that car has an absurdly high defect rate across all lines, I've given you some helpful information, haven't I?
I foresee certain technical careers, such as us developers, having combo driverless cars that also double as their office. It picks you up, you simply start working. The destination that day is where ever you want to have lunch, or some meeting with a client or fellow developers on your team. You just work, in your traveling office, and arrive at desired destinations for your breaks.
He can still make a fallacious and ignorant comment while being aware of the difference.
Does it strike me as odd that our federal government continues to limit the autonomy and freedom of Americans right down to what we can do with our phones? No. Does is strike me as wrong? Absolutely.
First video of Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs - and he nails it
Other people to show: Einstein, da Vinci, Hawking, Isaac Newton, and Cookie Monster.
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This isn't the first time an HN editor's change has made a post's title less relevant to the HN readership[1].

I'm really tired of it, but since it's all done behind the scenes, I don't know how to productively comment on it or suggest that they stop doing it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4994745 (and that link's parent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4993953)
Pretty much every FCC application requests at least limited confidentiality. This in itself should not suggest Google is doing anything crafty or secretive or even unusual.
This already exists. You can even rent time in them as a civilian, and they are pretty interesting. Not only do you get to work on mechanics, but they put you in situations (there's a live operator determining outcome) where you have to think "should I fire or not", rather than just working on the movements.
So, I've felt the same way about uploading my own work-in-progress code to GitHub, but I use it as an antitode to perfectionism / procrastination. It's almost a form of militant pragmatism.

I've worked at some quite successful small companies, and they all share the property that you really don't want to examine the code too closely. The sausage is inevitably somewhat disgusting on close examination.
Ad hominem doesn't invalidate a critique, and it speaks specifically to credibility.
More unlikely is not 0, and you don't want to skip all the mid points and create the super bug in one treatment. Probably safe if you do this now and then, but not if it's the SOP for antibiotics.

No idea if that's why they don't do it. Side effects sounds plausible too.

Also, remember that medicine is all about postponing the inevitable. We put a ton of money into postponing a person's death. It makes sense that, if they don't have a better alternative, they would continue to use these antibiotics if they got local results even if the practice has an expiration date.
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For the record, "hated" is something of a term of art in investing. It's just colorful language used to describe the situation where a company's share price has tanked because nobody has any confidence in its long-term prospects.

It doesn't necessarily mean that consumers hate the company, although a poor overall consumer opinion is frequently a part of the equation.
Try Same Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlVBg7_08n0
In many ways, SQL is the protocol by which we combine programs together.
The Fenix lights are about the cheapest good ones. My favorites are Surefire (on weapons) and Novatac (handheld). I have fenixes to leave at the desk, car, etc. though, since they're $20 on sale vs. $100-800.
http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Em...

> "you must immediately translate into dollars all items of income, expense, etc. (including taxes), that you receive, pay, or accrue in a foreign currency and that will affect computation of your income tax. Use the exchange rate prevailing when you receive, pay, or accrue the item."

This is fairly straightforward -- if you get paid in EUR, you have to use the exchange rate from when you get paid and declare your income in equivalent USD. Given that bitcoin calls itself a currency, I would expect the IRS to treat it the same way.
"Imagine also that there are two types of BTC users: Jews [...] and Aryans"

What is this Nazi-era shit doing here.

It's hard to take the article at all seriously when the author frames it in terms like this.
After buying a pair boots online last week, I found myself searching social sites to get a better idea of a) what they looked like b) how people like them. This resulted in me realizing there isn't a great site which provides this service. As such, I threw this together.

It's pretty basic, but searches Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter for the product you would like to see more about. My hope is to monetize it with some Amazon referrals. It's pretty scrappy right now, but I also added a very basic sentiment analysis so people can see both popularity ranking and overall sentiment for the current product.

I would love some feedback. I'm hoping my rate limits for all these APIs hold up until I can allow people to log in using their own accounts.
Of course, but a reasonable chunk of my development work happens in shells. It continues to shrink over time, but there are a lot of things pipes can handle better than lisp. :) I would be lost without it.
Verizon has been trying to persuade me off their unlimited 4G data plan for ages now (I'm grandfathered in). Little do they realize that, as soon as they remove the one incentive I have to stick with Verizon, I'm ditching them for an open carrier.

Amusingly, I'm also paying for much more data than I use - I use maybe ~200-300 MB/month, so there's no way they're losing money off of me. But then again, we've learned time and again that the data caps have nothing to do with costs....
Maybe not "deep" but a lot of his lyrics are social commentary.
The internet doesn't disagree with him, a vocal minority of hyper sensitive cry babies and desperate white knights disagree with him. Very few people who don't care take the time to say "who cares?".
They are explained here: https://github.com/grisha/thredis/blob/master/README-THREDIS

Initially Thredis was just threaded Redis, and I had a very specific use case for that. The idea of adding SQLite came later.
I'm Sorry Too
Why Android APK Format is a Mistake
>How an unsigned white rapper changed music

This is fucking racism. Why does it matter to you if the guy is white/black/tall/short/smart/stupid/dick?

Well, fuck you linkbaits.
IMO, this is the real threat that the record labels/RIAA etc have been worrying about when they go on about piracy.

They've realised for some time that they have little to offer to artists these days as far as promotion or distribution are concerned. So the only way that they can attempt to stay relevant is to create a big bad guy (in the shape of piracy) that can only be stopped by huge organisations with huge banks of lawyers. Their repeated suing of fans has not really been to send a message to the pirates - it's been to send a message to the artists - "Get rid of us, and piracy will destroy you".
As one commenter points out on that page, this may only be true for plans with a single phone. I have a family plan with 5 phones on it, and I couldn't find a prepaid account with comparable service for the same price.
Did you grow up in a place where what shoes you wear is considered important? Or that gays were considered second class citizens?

I'm curious because I did and I suspect his music won't reach those kinds of audiences. He seems like a "preaching to the choir" kind of issues musician. Which is fine, it's hard to reach people who aren't inherently your audience. But I also think if you're a musician and you know you're talking to a certain audience and your message is political, it's a higher bar for your message to be political and meaningful.

This guy is from Seattle, if he's talking about gay rights and what shoes you should wear, that's kind of an easy target for a region like the pacific NW. It kind of becomes a critique of people who aren't like you rather than a message that we can be a better culture. There's a real danger of the message becoming "the burden of improving society is on those of you who aren't already as thoughtful as I am."
An uncannily accurate prediction of the tablet computer as we know it now. These didn't appear in 2000, although by that time there were PDAs with touch screens.
Erh, everything (ok, most things) has a dollar value, especially bitcoins whose USD value is constantly tracked by numerous exchanges. It's slightly harder for the IRS but not as hard as finding out about your Swiss bank account. As long as you don't report income you're simply conducting tax evasion.
The Guardian is charging for what people could easily learn for free
Why would I want to do that? No need to get a vet involved when you know what you're doing. It's not like I used it as a feed additive for growth stimulation (which is a horrible practice, in my opinion).
This shows using PCRE to recognize text following a context-free grammar (and some context-sensitive ones). Can you make it produce a parse tree too?
> no keys

Yeah, every time I did this, I had to break into my own house through the window. :(

Never again.
They are raised in unsanitary conditions and antibiotics reduce the infections. Watch the documentary Food Inc. for a good overview of how screwed up the US meat industry is
It's a joke. The author is jewish.
> would be able to MITM any conversation

Sure, in theory. In practice, eavsdropping on two Skype users required presence on a network route between the callers, which might have been entirely in some random country's Internet segment.
Relevant quote from the press release:

> Mr. Kenney said the government is partnering with Canada’s Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA) and the National Angel Capital Organization (NACO), which will identify members of their associations eligible to participate in the program.

So VC/angels get to decide who is eligible for the visa.
Add to it that the title misrepresents the nature of the article. This doesn't seem to be a list of the top ten most hated companies, as ranked by some metric. It's just a list of ten companies that did really poorly in 2012, in no apparent order.

So the fact that T-Mobile is the third item the list does not in any way imply that T-Mobile is somehow the "3rd most hated company".
Well, as the Abe in question, I can explain a bit :) I was a tech specialist on the News team. I worked with a team that managed the publications included in Google News, and specifically I worked on the technical side of the publisher inclusion process. It was nowhere near the kind of crazy-impressive engineering being done by the folks technically in the engineering organization, but I was writing code and maintaining infrastructure.
Sorry, I didn't mean to disparage open source or people creating open source software - I love it!. The point I was trying to make was that even people with good ideals are fallible.
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I don't understand your using the headline "Why do we tolerate...". This particular discussion in no way, shape, or form involves me. Maybe it involves you but it doesn't involve me. So why do you say this is about we?

In other words, I don't care what/how they treat each other in their own forum because it's not my business or care. If Mauro, Linus, or other members of that forum don't like it, then they should do something about it. It's elitist of you to try to make it any bigger than that. It's silly and asinine of you to say that I "tolerate" such behavior when, in fact, I had nothing to do with it (nor will I).
No, you see that. I see different social groups having different social conventions. The fact that you can't imagine how someone in a different social group could possibly not follow the social standards you deem correct speaks only of you, not of them.
Not to be a detractor, but you really ought to try getting a smartphone that's halfway modern. The GTA02 is four and a half years old -- that's practically ancient history as far as smartphones are concerned -- and it doesn't help that it was always a pretty funky device.
The problem is this. I buy a phone from Verizon, go through and pay my 2 year contract.

Legally, I am done and all paid for, except I can't switch out to T-mobile now (or at any time), if I wanted. I have to pay the price that Verizon mandates. I'm basically trapped unless I waste money for a new phone.

So basically when gas prices go up, I can't go to a different gas station a mile away that I know to be 50c/gal cheaper. So they all make it go up to fuck me over.
Precisely

There are some infections that call for combination therapy but it must always be done with an eye to side effects;

Effectively microbiologists work out what the 'MIC' or minimum inhibitOry concentration is, and then use that because hopefully that will be the least likely to cause other side effects, or I.e. totally obliterate the patients GI fauna which could open them up to attack by something worse
I have flagged this post. This is a flamebaity post that does not impart relevant content to the HN community.
I don't see this being a major problem. It's technically been illegal in the UK for years as you don't own the handset until your contract has paid up.

However, every handset I've ever had is either "SIM-free" or has been unlocked.

I now however only buy SIM-free unlocked handsets so I can give my telco the finger or throw another SIM in if they go down.
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It's irony.

I hope.
'resistant' isn't the same as 'totally unaffected by' - it's a spectrum, and the duration of treatment is one of the factors which determines how much of that spectrum is killed. At the 'I feel better now' stage, there could still be quite a large population that would still be killed by completing the course of treatment.

One function of the immune system is killing bacteria, but it can also quarantine and reject (e.g: Phlegm, vomiting, etc) them, which is one source of transmission.
>Not to mention that a little bit of adversity breeds resilience. If you're coddled from all criticisms, you deal less well with other stressors.

That's the sort of psychological pablum that sounds reasonable, but I'm not sure it's actually true.
Interestingly, this is another way in which MM's verbosity is a defense mechanism: It's virtually impossible to make a detailed critique without engaging him at equal length.

I'll mention one specific critique, which is what originally twigged me that something was off: MM constantly introduces special definitions that are close, but not quite, what's commonly meant, and then proceeds to use those definitions for 5 or 10,000 words. This is a form of rhetorical sleight of hand that's suspicious in an of itself, and MM demonstrates this in the linked essay:

"But here at UR, we are operating under our own special theory of money, which I have modestly dubbed MoMT (Moldbug Monetary Theory). If you know and believe MoMT, the leap is obvious. In the conventional wisdom, it's not obvious at all."

He does this sort of thing constantly. Besides investing a lot of time in reading even one of his essays, you must spend a lot of mental energy tracking all his off-by-one definitions of slightly uncommon terms. Again, you have to buy into Moldbugism to even start judging it, which is part of the trap.

Edit 1: I've upvoted you because I think yours is a fair response to my attack, while Tav's cry of "ad hominem" below is mistaken.

Edit 2: Moldbug's comment history here is interesting, in part because it demonstrates that he's very capable of making a concise point. Why was he banned? His karma looked okay.
Totally the opposite on how is my country (Chile). Here it's illegal to sell locked phones.
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He noted that that's difficult, using just the PCRE library in PHP. In perl or C, where you can make the regex engine fire arbitrary code when certain things are matched it becomes much more possible (but still probably not an approach you really want to take).
T-Mobile is already dropping subsidized phones. See http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/07/us-tmobileusa-ipho...
I only know about Tor (https://www.torproject.org) which could help. I hope someone else can recommend any others.
I don't find the joke very funny.
> If the exchange rate goes to zero

Users would switch to an exchange in a different jurisdiction before the price ever hit zero.
I don't think it is so much a matter of the Librarian being given authority to decide as it is a matter of his office being responsible for interpreting the law as it is written. The Librarian has a ministerial role, not executive authority.

Partially, this situation may be attributed to the way in which the law has been written. Many laws charge agencies with rule making authority and this necessitates public input. If Congress does not delegate rule making to an agency, then interpretation is the only option.

(Edit)

The relevant section is Title IV clause 5.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...
Amazon Buys A Text-To-Speech Firm To Rival Apple's Siri
Somewhat slanting the topic here, but what happened to Tetracycline (non-synthetic)? One of the oldest, inexpensive treatments available – discontinued for, what appears to be, no tangible reason. It was highly effective for all sorts of infections and was involved in some groundbreaking studies that tested its use as a cancer treatment, as well, was found to slow angiogenesis, treat rheumatoid arthritis, aging, depletion of collegen, acne, prostate cancer and treatment of fibromyalgia just to name a few. It's also a pretty reliable anti-inflammatory.

For whatever reason, it is now hard to get or not available at all. Any insight into this?
Without government regulation cartels wouldn't be illegal.

Instead we have a regime where cartels and monopolies are illegal, unless specifically created by law. Which is what we have here.
You shouldn't write those type of things. I mean, you can comment about potential problems in the code and whatnot, but don't disclaimer your code like that before anyone even complains about it.

Most of the "your code sucks" comments is based more around you didn't do things like they would have. Such as:

"You didn't use OO principles the way I interpret them so you suck."

"You used that library/framework/language that I hate so you suck."

"You're not coding in my *nix flavor with my choice of IDE so you suck."

"Your project does something I already do with this other project so you suck."

Rarely do I see actual constructive comments on how the person in question can get better. At this point I'd rather communicate with a bunch of nobodies and learn together than follow somebodies that ridicule someone for trying.
Is efficiency the biggest problem?
It seems to me the bigger problem is that streams of raw bytes over pipes is the wrong level of abstraction for most tasks; at least we seem to have decided that is the case when we are writing code within a program, so I don't see why it shouldn't extend to interprocess programming. I don't see people recommending only defining functions that accept single dimensional arrays of bytes (rather than strings and trees and hashmaps and multidimensional arrays and so on), even when programming in C.

You end up with every tool containing code to parse a stream of bytes into the appropriate data structures, and then probably also write them out to a stream of bytes too. The user has responsibility for a lot of data munging too. It is error prone and repetitive, at least when dealing with anything other than very simple text files containing lines of strings where you know which encoding has been used. (Re)using libraries that read and write more structured data is likely to get you flamed[1]. The history of Unix contains plenty of security problems due to people not correctly accounting for nulls or control characters or spaces etc when chaining together commands (although this is more of a problem with shells than pipes themselves). The output is often not friendly to human eyes by default (I'm thinking of things like localised date and time formats, number formats and so on) since it has to be suitable for passing to another program, unless you use more options or another tool to reformat it.

I would compare it to working with raw memory in C. It's the lowest common denominator, you can do anything, but it's also trivial to screw up and there is a high cognitive overhead. Perhaps it's just too hard to introduce anything higher level at this point.

Perhaps my opinion would change if I spent years (deeply) learning unix tools, but maybe that would just be because I had invested so much time learning a complicated system.
Thinking of moving to North Korea?
Here's a pretty good YouTube video I've found that explains what separates the great rappers from the average rappers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miIxNCn-vjY