skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see you're new here, but if you think something is relevant to the site and a "Good Thing(tm)" then you should upvote it.
1) it depends on the age of the consumer
2) it depends on the porn. Much freely available sits somewhere between aggressive and violent, and potrays women in a derogratory and demeaning way. That is not "normal", and potentially is damaging in so far as it results in very unhealthy attitudes towards women and sex.
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What a bunch of bullshit. Wired republished that?
They are wedge issues because people care. You don't see teenagers standing on the sidewalks getting people to sign petitions to address domestic spying after all.
plan pension doesn't mean anything in french, at all. Plan "de" pension would (maybe) means something like retirement pension plan, but i've never heard anyone say that here. Since it's used twice in the text, it's not a typo. So maybe the author is canadian (they tend to mix english with french differently than in France)..

It does looks very fake. The engineer says he is also a hobbyist writer, so maybe he has a taste for romanticism, but i think it is way too much stylized to be a real testimony. It definitely reads like what contemporary french author writes.
i'll assume it's fake. We dont know who the guy is, no name no address , nothing. i could come up with the same stuff ( i'm french).
IF you cant verify an information , assume it is fake.
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3. Upvotes are weighted. If you're a
relatively new user, your upvote
has little impact on someones post.

Do you have a reference or some evidence for that? I'm not disputing it, but I have no evidence either way and I'm interested to know how you can be so sure.

Thanks.
I've never considered call detail records to be particularly private. That's all this is.
Great another way for them to slip in a couple of websites that are not porn related like say... political parody.
Just look at T-Mobile for an example they block "objectionable content" like say... some links that show up on hacker news because they include "hacking".
Damn it now i need a VPN to the free internet.
My point is specifically this:

My old guy, would goto

* The same barber

* Same Grocery store

* Have the Same locally made cigar

* Listen to the same news casters.

I was always the type of person who would experiment.
Age is fucking with me now.

And now, like my dad I look for "virtuous" people/business to trust.

I structure my life around virtuous behavior because I have kids.

In short, people my age give money(value) to virtue.

The above addresses,

> Virtue is not value.

> Value is not virtue.

No one feels happy for being called a master chef and be paid, when he works for a fast food chain. That's the gist of OP's feeling.

> I'm trying to save him some angst.

No, you are arguing for business without morality, like
the late night infomercials which, the entire 20-30 oriented startups are, in a way.

Things you never wanted, but you have an ab-cruncher in your house anyway.
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But I can say what I want on the telephone and write it in a mail. Internet is point to point bi-directional communication. It is not broadcasting.
Ads did show up in Google Reader, though I suspect the overlap of RSS users and ad blockers is high.
I did 10 interviews at Amazon, for a freaking sales job. 3 on the phone and then they flew me from DC to Seattle for a 7 more interviews in one day. After all that I didn't get an offer.
>so hard to distinguish the fine differences in quality which separate a remarkable piece of writing or photography from the mediocre

I just paid several thousand dollars to a wedding photographer for my wedding. That is pretty standard from what people tell me. I wouldn't say that no one is willing to pay for content. It depends on the content.
The comments from Senator Liz Krueger buried in the third section are very interesting and I almost missed it!

Unlike most articles blindly debating the pros and cons of the sharing economy, Krueger claims many hosts are professionals who arbitrage by leasing or buying long-term apartments and filling them nightly as a distributed hotel. It seems the money earned hosting -- (cost_of_operation * nightly_rate * occupancy_rate) -- is greater than signing a one year lease.

I used to offer my home on weekends when I was out of town for travel. Eventually, a guest offered to pay for the full month for significantly higher than my mortgage payment (and I contemplated various ways to spend a month away)! Sadly, our co-op board discussed and decided paid nightly guests violate our policies, ending my short hosting stint.

I'm torn. I love Airbnb and have used both sides (host and guest), and I like the idea that some people can use a space more efficiently than others. I'm less worried about taking a rental unit off the market and more worried about the intangible and hard-to-quantify side effects (safety, insurance, tax enforcement, neighbors' rights, etc).
I dont get the connection. The iPhone and iPad is limited, yes. But how does that relate to T-mobile, a carrier? You buy your gadgets and cellular-services separately.

This headline makes about as much sense as saying China is communist. Cars are the exception.
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I've never considered Call Detail Records to be particularly private.
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The problem though is that these are huge fields of thought and also that the very contentious. Ethics for example is usually defined to be asking the question of "what is good?" Obviously defining "what is good" is an undertaking which leads different people in different directions.

I take the approach of saying "what is good is what is conducive to human flourishing." This is largely an Aristotelian approach (and so you can't really accuse me of deriving terms to meet economics). Therefore I would say there is some virtue in entertaining people or rather that such is at least potentially virtuous.

The problem is that if you accept that human flourishing is the goal and thus the definition of virtue, and if you assume that to a large extent this is also the goal of the economy (something I think that both most economists and the Classical philosophers shared), then virtue and value can't be seen as separate at least in terms of solutions (as I say, wages are different).

Or are you saying that Hayek does not see distributive human flourishing as the ends to which our economic systems work?
Too bad they didn't release the court order which allows them to record the conversations..
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Even taking it a step further - If monitoring my phone calls about my kid being sick and puking in the back seat of my car keeps me safe from assholes, be my guest. Listen away.
Don't most of them rely on the BT pipes anyway? So you're getting filtered regardless.
LOL... I have to admit, I don't remember "GBQ". What was that?
Oddly enough, reading this made me want to move my NL servers elsewhere :)
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>> If you ask people in the street whether we need another Facebook, most would say no

Don't take this as a disagreement with your whole comment (it isn't), but one trap that people fall into is equating what people say they want with what they actually want - at least as expressed by what they are willing to pay for, which is what shareholders and VCs care about.

There was an article on HN a day or two ago about how asking people to bet on political propositions affects their stated beliefs - when there's no cost, people will happily spout whatever their favoured party's line is, but if you ask them to put their money where their mouth is, they will often skew away.

VCs are investing based on where they think people will actually put their money, not on where they say they will. If evidence is that people spend a lot of time social networks, AND evidence is that advertisers will pay money for web adverts to people, then it might follow that a new social network is a good investment.

The main issue as I see it is that as we use money as a proxy for value, we disproportionately weight the desires of the rich over those of the poor. A service for rich people (e.g. an online photo sharing website) doesn't need to produce much utility to be worth a lot of money, whereas a service for poor people (e.g. clean water for poor villages) can produce a lot of utility and still be worth little money.
GBQ? Gigabecquerel?
With right-extremist nutters like Wilders, economical decline, and the singling-out of a certain demographic (muslims), which happens internationally, it's more likely than you think. Yellow stars embroidened on coats have been replaced with profiles in large databases containing a billion times more profiling data though, instead of a simple yellow-starred label.
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Are tourists taxes ever determined by the principle of estimating the cost of the tourists to the city? Everything I've heard about them is that they are almost pure profit both for the city collecting the tax and for the businesses they frequent, and the mechanism for determining taxes is basically "how much can we charge before we significantly decrease how many people want to come to our city and/or the local business owners revolt?"
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Somewhat ironic that a) this section of the paper is called "comment is free" and b) it relies on people trolling so that commenters get all riled up and commment (for free!) and c) while they are busily working (for free) at winding each other up the newspaper shows them ads.
Well, if an impressionable youngster's only experiences about sex are from porn, it increases expectations. Take anal sex for example. I've heard that it's increasingly expected of teen girls (by teen boys) due to its prevalence in porn. Not only that, but if you only learned about anal sex from porn, you wouldn't realize that you that 'ass-to-mouth' is probably a bad idea, wearing a condom is probably not optional, lubricant is probably not optional, etc.

This isn't to say that porn is inherently a bad thing[1]. The issue is that if the teens aren't getting good information elsewhere (other than the base 'here are some anatomical diagrams of sex organs' teaching), porn becomes a learning tool, which isn't necessarily a good thing.

[1] I realize that the production sucks in a lot of people that suffered from abuse, and it's debatable whether or not large 'porn houses' are just exploiting these people.
I also live in London and can fortunately say that my experiences are more in line with the author's than yours.
This is pretty much the same method a user can use to provide a negative comment using the Like Button comment feature on a company, though actually a lot worse and a bit more annoying. This also appears in "X is posting about Y" which I wrote about a while back [1], grinds my gears really.

The ad push is more aggressive than I am comfortable with

On the flip side, because how these sponsored stories/posts work, if you are able to chain together an exploit with either click-jacking or otherwise you can get a pretty decent worm [2] going using their very own sponsored stories feature against them.

[1]: http://philippeharewood.com/facebook/tupac-is-posting-about-...
[2]: http://philippeharewood.com/facebook/make-it-red-and-viral/
FYI, it's C-- (not C-): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C--
If there's been any government anywhere in the world, at any time in history, that hasn't asserted an absolute right to minutely inspect anything that enters their territory, I'm not aware of it.

There are exceptions for items under diplomatic immunity, but that's about it.
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Get out of the Republican vs Democrat team mindset?

Choose individual candidates who believe in and you trust to legislate based upon some core principles. Examine voting records when possible since speeches can be useless.

Too many people get caught up in the complexity of noise issues that aren't that important. These noise issues are like the trade-in value of your used car when you go to buy a new one... or the infamous "under coating". They're just mixed in with the important issue (price of the car) in order to confuse you and maximize the power that the dealer has in the negotiation.

Government abuse comes from too much government power. Too much government power comes from too much legislation and too much money through taxation and money printing.

Vote for politicians who understand the beauty of the limitations created by our Constitution and who can push for following a more strict interpretation of it.

In the end, it's all about power. Power corrupts. We want the people in government to have only as much power as they absolutely need to do things that we cannot do (national defense, TRUE interstate commerce regulation, etc.) The rest of the power we grant them is just ripe for abuse.
so why not leave a bug in the room? i imagine it would be very easy to leave a bug in the trash that would be thrown out later. and i bet no vc is checking for that.

(this might seem crazy, but 20 years ago a fellow postdoc did exactly this to listen in on a meeting. he was an electrical engineer and built the bug himself, but i am sure you can buy things these days) (yeah he was kinda sleazy).

(obviously one "why" is that it's ethically questionable. but from another pov it's very much a hack solution. i see posts here urging founders to think outside the box, never give up, go to extremes etc etc...)
I've been seeing a lot of machine learning resources lately, all with one key thing missing: a simple, real world example of what I can use it for. Don't get me wrong, I don't doubt the examples are numerous, but for someone who has never even dabbled in machine learning, it would be nice to get a sense of some practical, cool things I can do with it.
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Purely anecdotal I'm afraid but considering how pg likes to keep the algorithms relatively secret, it's probably as good as you'll get.

Anyway, a good friend (and a relatively new member of HN) upvoted a post (not my post) and after refreshing the page we noticed nothing had changed. I upvoted the same post and my upvote was instantly registered. Seen that happen a few times now with different users.
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Patriot act was overwhelming supported by Republicans AND Democrats when passed. Let's not rewrite history here.

The more we learn about the Obama admin, the worse it gets. This isn't a R vs D thing.
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On-the-fly WEP/WPA2 decrypter, forwards decrypted traffic to another interface
> do find it funny how abortion even rises to the level of audibleness in the conversation.

Legalized abortion, allowing half the species agency over a basic biological function central to their ability to equally participate in society, is the single most important human rights issue since the outlawing of slavery. Of course it rises to the level of "audibleness." It should be deafening!
This diagram is only presenting algorithms as currently implemented in scikit-learn. Deep Learning models are not yet implemented in scikit-learn although baselines (stacked RBMs and MLP) will probably make it in the coming months.
This reminds me of this excellent poem, To Be of Use by Marge Piercy.

Cuts to the heart of it indeed: "The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real."

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2006/09...
Wow, the first 5 comments on this were about should they use LLVM:)

The author is currently writing a book about OCaml that is now available in alpha format from here:

http://www.realworldocaml.org/

I've finished the first part and looked at the compiler section, and I love this book, no affiliation in any way.
No. Otherwise google would be axed currents too. Google isn't trying to make you abandon feeds, they're just trying to consolidate into fewer platforms, ones that give premium positioning to their own non-standard protocols. Their new notes and messaging apps reflect this. Currents is more of the same.
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I tried that one a while ago, but I got disappointed by the lack of activity in the front page
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Just try and imagine for a moment what actually happens to a murderer evading justice.

Even a psychopath will worry about the evidence they've invariably left behind, which leads to getting caught. A life of constant, nagging doubt is not a good life. Can you imagine trying to plan for the long-term under those (self-created) circumstances? "Well, maybe I'll major in Geology. ...that is, if they don't catch me first," or "maybe I'll buy this house. It has a 30-year mortgage, so when I pay it off, I'll be able to travel to New Zealand, just like I've always wanted. ...that is, if they don't catch me first," and "I wonder if that new forensic technique will implicate me. I sure hope not!"

A criminal will grow uncomfortable every time something reminds him of his crimes, because, short of coming clean and turning himself in, the only way to escape the above mental processes is to evade it altogether, and that means shutting out anything that might remind him of his crime. This includes an ever-increasing array of things, many of which would only be tangentially associated with the original act. Escaping knowledge of reality becomes a deeply ingrained mental habit. Lies to other people are inevitably required in this pursuit.

Most people are not psychopaths, so there is an additional and deeply emotional dimension to the above for them. They will feel terrible, and deeply guilty for the rest of their lives. Actual happiness is an impossibility in that state...

Isn't all of this obvious?
when i wrote that comment, the top conversations were about how good the google translation was. that's what i was referring to.
"Get Big Quick".
In the rare times when I've submitted something (that I've made) to HN, whether it be a small project or just a blog post, I kind of relish criticism. I don't think what I've created is all that great, in the scheme of things, but the fact that I put energy into it and think it's worth notifying the public means that at least at the subconscious level, I'm confident that what I've made has some merit.

So hearing praise is nice...I greatly appreciate it that people take the time out of their busy days (or HN browsing, and what have you) to check out the link and then take the time to say something positive...but the substance of the praise isn't usually constructive, because if I've done something good enough to praise, then theoretically, it's natural that people like it for the same reasons that I had for even making it.

But criticism...well, I usually self-critique pretty hard, but I don't think you can ever impartially critique yourself. When people rail on the shortcomings that I know exist, even just putting up a defense or an explanation is valuable to me, because I may have underestimated critical flaws...but if my judgment was right, it's still a useful critical process to re-examine those assumptions.

And of course, the gold standard is when you get criticism for things you didn't even realize were problems...and that's immensely helpful. To use that cliche saying, what's worse than harsh criticism is being ignored. And I think it's much easier to psychologically motivate yourself in times of criticism than it is to persevere when no one cares even enough to troll you.

And one last thought...the anonymous nature of the Internet does make it easy for strangers to flame each other. But the other side of the coin is that the personal nature of face-to-face contact often stifles much needed constructive criticism. Maybe HN's level of constructive-to-trolling criticism isn't perfect, but it's one of the better places to get free, useful analysis of your work by likeminded people.
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First of all, the plumbing analogy can be made to many professions. From a certain point of view, engineers, doctors and lawyers are all plumbers too - it's just silly. Said that, I think the author bought the propaganda that want to make us (web dev) feel special and valuable. But hey: that in no way means that the whole world - or even our bosses - think that we are very special and intelligent people. That means they know we produce more and get more creative when in certain environments and being well treated: so they provide. It seemed to me that the author climbed out of the propaganda and now thinks that the whole industry is pointless. He is on the other extreme of the very motivated hipster developer. Don't buy it too: we are needed (now) and our jobs are valuable. So are teachers, cops and many other jobs.
Funny that this thread has become about the Netherlands.

I moved to Amsterdam from Seattle last November, and have to say that I feel far less vulnerable here, information-wise. Perhaps if I compared the policies and behaviors of only the national governments, I would remember the US as the land of the free, but I prefer to take all levels of government and corporate power into account.
> "This is Hacker News; the audience is comprised of people who could re-write the core of Facebook in a heartbeat"

I'd amend that to say it's compromised of people who think they could rewrite the core of Facebook in a heartbeat.

The everyday life of HN involves criticizing people and things without domain knowledge, vastly underestimating problems and people, and vastly overestimating oneself.

> "Try this: Open it up right now and read the first 10 to 20 status updates and then count how many you care about"

Then why are you friends with these people?

I see this criticism a lot, but I don't understand it. Facebook is what you make of it. If you friend a bunch of people who post nothing but inanities, of course your news feed is going to be a morass of awfulness.

The best way to get a feed that you care about is to friend people you care about.

And you can do this without being a socially awkward penguin also. I fried lots of people I'm not particularly close with. Some of them turn out to post interesting things to Facebook, others don't, and it's two clicks to deprioritize them from your feed. From that point forward you will hear about them dramatically less, if ever.

In my top 10 posts on my feed right now, I care to know about 9 of them. That's pretty damned good.
i was building developing new circuit testing algorithms 5 years ago, then i went to work for web startups because it pays way more.

but it's the sad fact of me outperforming my peers, in something that is essentially a big pile of junk and waste of time.

i'm now thinking about going to some neuroscience lab in the states to get a ph.d and build something meaningful again.
not sure what is wrong with a life expectancy of 88 or 98 years of age.
I think this is a good observation, that the interest in this market as a whole creates a dearth of really poor business ideas.

I think this is natural. But if you're in a startup incubator especially, you have to remember that those aren't the cream of the crop. They're people who will most likely fail, and the world will be better if they do (if the world wanted their product, and they're the right ones to build it, they would surely succeed).

I've sat in tech incubators and overheard direction discussions and software discussions, and just laughed. My overwhelming thought was simply "That is the worst idea I have ever heard in my life."

There were one or two companies that had good ideas, good people, and did well. They quickly moved out of startup kindergarten.
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You are describing 99 percent of IT shops. Focus on your career, not your employer.