skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me it's interesting that this shows just how dangerous Twitter can be to people as their social brain just can't properly comprehend what it is.

20 years ago, the lawyer would have told his wide's friend and she'd have gossiped it to a few other people and 5 years later it would have eventually been a well known secret that would be occasionally alluded to by the columnists of the papers. Rowling could still remain tantalisingly stum and no-one would be much the wiser.

Instead she says it on twitter which feels like a fairly intimate gossip to a few choice friends but in fact is massively public and boom, consequences for the Law firm, the lawyer and huge public embarrassment for the friend.

From a social point of view, the friend was just acting as she'd have acted 20 years ago, but technology is so different now that a simple piece of gossip has had very different consequences.
And where is your original post?

p.s: The idea is not new at all.
some of these are really interesting ideas. I have one to add to the mix: go implement them! As technologists we all have unprecedented power to create change at our fingertips and I'd love it if you could come back with a list of great ideas, _with some of them implemented already_.

[note] the biggest one for me is the "life engine" - I would happily pay you £50/month for this!
You would be thankful but not in the way he thinks. There should still be an open conversation about tactics.
When someone uses a specific, pejorative, widely associated with disaster (plague of Biblical scale, no less) word for a "local variable" he's being intellectually dishonest, or manipulative, or both. One generally can't just read a word locust and think "harmless", "cute", "needed" and such as a first thought - and that's exactly what this rhetoric aims for. That's the reason why I won't read the article. It's perfectly possible to use neutral language for presenting a point convincingly; I can't be bothered to read authors that didn't even try to do so.
Swedish music sales up 12% in first half of 2013
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You are right that one aspect of lower crime rates is that police department leadership, in some places, discourage reporting crimes. Especially if they have an incentive structure based on crime rates. There is enough variability in reporting rates to hide a lot of crime.

BUT this article was very unsatisfying. The above factor is just one of many. And the problem is that paramilitary "boys' toys" enthusiasts, prison guard unions, recipients of anti-terrorism grants, and all the other interest groups are all contending to lead the low-crime parade.

It's pretty certain that some crime is becoming less prevalent. It's hard to hide a shooting or stabbing victim. But these gains have to be defended against the kinds of fudging you describe. And, to reap the social and budget benefits of real reductions, we also have to call BS on false claims of the lock-'em-up interest groups.

It could be that the answer is that more people know what a normal middle class life is like and therefore more people want to live that way, even if it is just aspirational.
Indeed. And there is a long and respectable history of journalists doing just that:

http://www.rcfp.org/jailed-journalists

The list is neither exhaustive nor particularly recent, but certainly it shows this is nothing new - there has never been protection for journalists who will not comply with a court order to reveal their sources.

The good ones will refuse to reveal them anyway, and face any consequences.
What's interesting here is that there's value in providing better solutions than the official ones.

Every transit system on HopStop has its official site, with its (usually crappy) website. I assume most of the info in HopStop is either scraped or consumed through undocumented APIs.
"I think ever member of the community has a right to make their own informed choice."

Point taken. For now all we have are members of their community that made contact with external world and expressed an isolationist stance. Of course we may not like it and consider that (regardless whether they want or not) they should be exposed again and again until we'll finally get out of them the buyer's "yes". I also guess that only then we'll call their decision "right" and "informed". If we may somehow disable our influence as actors in their decision then yes, I agree with you that individuals that desire the freedom of making informed choice should have it. For those who chose (having peaceful reasons) to willingly get in contact with external world, there should be left a door somewhere in their reach.

"Culture is not a tangible thing to be 'lost' nor something that need be preserved"

Here I doubt that you got in contact with enough cultures to make for yourself an informed opinion.
Yes, fixed, thanks!
this is the original post :https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6058018
It has been held by many courts that the ability to keep sources secret aids in the flow of knowledge to the public and allows the press to function.

Floyd Abrams has an entire chapter on it in "Friend of the Court."
Yep, right next to all your cards. Brilliant idea if ever I'd seen one.
You are right, it never did. Yet almost every movie involving scenarios of lawyers and sources has it. As does any TV show and book. It is deeply ingrained in our thought process yet it is wrong (from the point of view their is no such protection). It is kind of amazing when you think about it.
I'd move in a heartbeat if they'd take me, but it's hard when you can't afford education and most countries want you to have a bachelor's at least. So I got to live without either college or health care for five years instead. :( Now I have nervous system problems, so I'm sure they'd want me even less...
#54 sounds cool. How about doing something similar for comparing Enterprise Systems/Applications?

Anyone to join hands with me?
> So, if I beat someone with a phone, I'm a hacker?

Only if you beat him with phone you made or with new kung foo style you created.
It does not extend to your source. You invoke the 5th only for yourself.
> Airbnb vs the entrenched hotel industry
really? Entrenched? Aren't all industries entrenched in that sense?

I can get the hate for taxi commissions but last I checked hotels are a pretty good service.
In the US, spouses cannot be compelled to testify against each other.
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This is not quite true - they still can keep their sources secret, but under the renewed threat of being charged with contempt of court.

Whether or not this causes a sufficiently chilling effect on whistleblowing within the US, or reporting on it, remains to be seen.
>Total recorded-music revenues are up 12% year-on-year to SEK 499.4m (around $76.4m). Digital accounted for 75% of those revenues, and streaming now accounts for 94% of that digital income. Physical sales fell by 24% in the first half of 2013[...]

Music sales were up, 75% of the sales were due to digital income, and of that income 94% came from streaming. And streaming realistically means Spotify in Sweden. Physical sales fell but that was made up by the increase in digital revenue.

As a personal anecdote, I now spend more on music per year than I ever have before. All thanks to Spotify. Sure, more artists have to share the money I spend, but the pie is bigger than before.
> A utility that allows you to create a GUI window from the command line.

Defunct now, but it lets you easily create windows without all that event-basedness that is annoying and unfit for scripts: http://easygui.sourceforge.net/
Germany attempted once to take over Europe and lots of people died. Totally unforgivable.

Now: people sometimes visit Germany, and they're often just tourists. I will build things for Germans, as that makes me money.

But contributing directly to Germany is too much for me.
I think you are pointing in the right direction re the internet. Crime is cultural. The internet has spread cultural influence farther and faster than broadcasting, even if internet culture is more diverse.
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I don't care what they wear, so long as I can afford to see one. :(

/American citizen
I would suggest "for a from b". If that only uses .next and .send, it might work with class instances too, like the iterator protocol in Python.
I too enjoy absurd comparisons.
Where does it say its for mission critical applications on constrained hardware? Who has ever advocated JS for such an application?
Number 22 is more or less how Windows PowerShell works.
I'm with you, but users must be educated and they will adapt, take as an example the touch revolution. Even old people adapted to this change.
I wonder how well a machine automated one-syllable rendering would fair (compared to the manual ones). You'd need to use a thesaurus limited to single syllables and ensure the correct meaning was being chosen. Doesn't sound too hard.
Well, stop judging the Microsoft of today with the one of yesterday. Many of us worker bees never went through that time period, and we really are just trying to build better things.
Remind me a bit of http://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html.
It certainly aids in the flow of knowledge to the public but so would a lot of clearly not allowable things like hacking celebrity phones.
You guys are confusing federal and state laws. Many states have shield laws protecting journalists from being held in contempt (there are cases where this is voided, but that's not important). Anyways, while states might have this, this doesn't apply in federal court, as there is no federal law.

And journalists know this.
The problem is most modern computing is driven by the single question: "How can I monetize this idea?" It's only hobbyists and academics that really try to improve the state of computing, rather than having a primary focus on revenue. It's unfortunate that groundbreaking ideas are usually not the moneymakers, else we'd see innovation at a quicker rate.

Software patents are another hindrance to innovation too. Often the results of some publicly funded research are patented, and never actually made into end products, and the public has no rights to use the invention funded with their tax money. I'd bet a dozen or more of those hundred ideas are already covered in part by some patents that aren't used in any real products, but serve only to prevent anyone else from developing them.

I can't really see most people being so open about ideas as the author of this article precisely because innovative ideas people have will also come with the idea of monetizing it, with the belief that they need a patent to do so.

What's more of a shame, is a list like this 100 ideas, doesn't serve to prevent anyone from patenting an implementation of such idea, despite it already being published. Articles like these do not serve as 'prior art' when considering patent applications.

Perhaps it wouldn't be so bad if anyone who developed an idea could patent it, but little guys, hobbyists and academics can't afford to without outside funding, whilst the wealthy corporations whose primary motive is profit can patent ideas by the dozen.
Good idea, I'll see if I can add that.

I've almost got yieldfrom working...
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Would you marry someone in a T-shirt? Would you go to a funeral wearing a T-shirt? I don't have a good answer to any of these questions :)
Comparing "embrace, extend, extinguish" to the Holocaust isn't exactly helping me not judge you.
Well, that's not entirely accurate. Many states have shield laws. They just don't apply at the federal level.
I'm working on something similar to #73. Web Of Trust Recommendations at http://reqqi.com/

I also keep a spreadsheet of ideas that I'm probably never going to work on, this might have inspired me to publish my own list.

Also, if anyone is interested, Reqqi is hiring
A lot of these are already done, like command autocomplete.

Many show a lack of vision, why are we thinking about putting buttons and windows all over the place, adding complex nonstandard headers willy-nilly to our emails when we could be thinking about important things like indexing the vast power of existing UNIX tools in a voice-controlled environment?
I agree that it would be nice to have this nested (meta-)lists on a service that would treat them as sets, merge them together and as a cherry on top would show you the overlaps.
This seems to be a case of "how you dress defines your competencies in your profession", which for some professions it surely would have some bearing[1], but in general, how you are dressed should not really make any difference to the job you perform.

This is, as others here have pointed out, more generally a question of conformity (with some arbitrarily expected "norm").

[1] An example off the top of my head: I'd question the competence of a fire-fighter turning up to fight a fire in jeans and a t-shirt instead of proper protective attire.
I've worked for four different companies here in Canada—two of them startups—and none of them asked for anything except standard IP assignment (e.g., time/equipment) and disclosure of in-progress or previously created works.
The magnets do need to be strong enough to ensure a good electrical connection.
Yeah my example is off because anyone who goes to Yale is already wealthy in the first place.

On a related rant ... obviously there is no real difference between a Yale education and a state school education ... academically speaking. What you get at Yale is the social network and the "badge" ... so (as you say) you can walk into any job on Wall St., Publishing, Consulting, etc, and have an immediate "in"... just because of the badge and the social connections.

The idea that there us upward mobility in today's society is a farce.
The reporter must appear and give testimony just as every other citizen must. We are not at liberty to conclude otherwise.

I hope they hold the same opinion of NSA agents.
There are also lots of native UNIX Scheme-evaluating shells, shells done in dynamic language environments like Python, Ruby etc...
Yes, and that's what journalists want to mean when they promise to protect their sources.

Now, a state might have a shield law (I believe most do), but they don't apply at the federal level. Anyways, that there is not federal shield law is why journalists generally make a big deal out of them protecting their sources. If it was a matter of course, a protection they were guaranteed, then it really wouldn't be a big deal. It would be a meaningless platitude.
Apology accepted.

The tone in the first part of your original comment was condescending and you needed to be told so. Maybe you thought your statement hinted at "how ideas can be traced back to common beginnings", but you did come across as a boo-parader. There was nothing blooming about that.

And no, I never think it is pointless telling people they are rude. Otherwise, rude people think their behaviour is accepted.

The rest of your original comment was constructive and I enjoyed that.

I refer to Anki in the preso and I hope it doesn't seem like I am trying to claim that I invented spaced repetition.
tl;dr - "Poverty is a more powerful influence on the outcome of inner-city children than gestational exposure to cocaine."
The narrow focus is odd, even if true, and might serve better as a footnote.

Not odd at all. The concentration or severity of existential depression in gifted children is well documented if not well known. And Jim Webb, the author, has devoted a good deal of his life (30+ years) to understanding the needs of and helping the gifted, with a focus on gifted children [1]. He also founded SENG (Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted) [2].

[1] http://www.greatpotentialpress.com/authors/james-t-webb-ph-d...

[2] http://www.sengifted.org/
Cool!

What parts of Anki do you hope to simplify?
I know someone whose friend put drugs in his truck. The cops charged both of them with possession even though he wasn't even in the truck at the time. His public defender convinced him to plead guilty! His parole officer looked at his case and said, "How did you get convicted of this??"
"So, if I beat someone with a phone, I'm a hacker?"

LOL, well sort of, yes. Especially if some sort of clever kung fu was used to do so!!! And yes, I thick mustache should be part of the hacker uniform!!!!

I count myself as a hacker. I am not highly talented, but I can get stuff done by utilizing bits and pieces of other's creations, or modifying things to fit or work. But I have that mentality that I can apply to most problems. Im not thinking Scrapheap Challenge. To me, those contestants are great hackers, but in a mechanical subset.

Dont get me wrong, my "definition" is not perfect, its supposed to be a loose general fit. Er, a hack!!!!

Damn. Even my replies are hacks......

I need to go away and have a think about that.
"Poverty: Not even once."
The Locker Project (http://lockerproject.org/) was a good stab at this. Seems to be abandoned now though (https://github.com/LockerProject/ - last update 9 months ago).
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I like it. Wish it was a little further along... so you must be doing something right.
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No builders, doctors, dentists, or car mechanics then? Your point is a criticism that can apply to any profession. No reason to target lawyers.
This brings up a good question: Is RMS a hacker?

He has made important contributions, and at one point could have been considered so, but what has he created lately that is worthy of the title? Some titles like "doctor" are really indicative of the education, not of being a current practitioner, but "hacker" is not one of those titles.

Maybe someone should create an official overseeing body of hackers like "The U.S. Board of Hackers" and a social organization called "The Hacking Society" to go with it, and I could go to school and come out and in front of my name on all formal letters would thereafter be "Hacker". But, until then, I think he was but isn't.
please continue the PPI race so I can get an even more awesome Oculus Rift!
And if we didn't have a government we wouldn't be funding:
, useless research we're not allowed to use
, the software patent system
, massive amounts of child sexual abuse around the globe by supporting local regimes
, welfare addiction
, destruction of the economy which was solving poverty before we started "solve poverty" campaigns
, wars with which we disagree
, the wholesale destruction of personal privacy by people technologically incapable of protecting the data they gather
, copyright fear mongering
, government-steered news organizations

etc. etc. etc...
Why voice controlled? I can type all day but speaking for an hour leaves me hoarse.
That's pretty weak contrarianism.

There remain a lot of benefits to be reaped by modifying what are currently male-dominated cultures. Everything from having less-risky decision-making in international relations and finance to population grown reduction can pay big dividends from getting a balanced number of women into power positions in those domains.

Someday the pendulum may swing the other way, but that time is not yet near.
Re the quiz, in the first answer response it says "Excellent! I guess you have some regex knowledge, so let's get started!". Perhaps you should also add "Click a task below to continue." as it took me a few moments to work out how to continue. I expected that perhaps the "did i get it right" button my change to "continue" or something.
Like the JKR case, neither of us know enough to comment. Least of all in this case the lawyers reasoning. We don't even know that the parole officer was correct. Its just an anecdote.

We all "know" iffy examples. Doesn't make it general fact. Unless of course we have some stats that show lawyers are generally more self serving than any other walk of life. Do we?
Aside: Why do people use px for text and not pt? pt seems like it'd be much more portable.
I worked with a very good programmer who liked to dress up for work. He was't pretentious or snobbish, he just really liked nice clothes. It was fine, no one complained that he was showing off or anything.
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The email metadata idea reminds me of EDIFACT, or at least what it was intended for - a standard electronic format for commercial transactions. It predates the WWW though, so looks quite 'ugly' by today's standard of using markup language to describe data. However I think it would be a good starting point for coming up with a broadly applicable data schema.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDIFACT
I remember some people on HN saying that having the right to a job would be better than having a minimum income. As I understand it the various communist countries are an excellent case study in why this is a bad idea.
Yes, I'm not defending illegal acts, but it seems that many cases, _e.g._: Pentagon Papers and Watergate, could have only been done with protected confidential-sources.
whatever happened to the tradition of bouncing around after hours clubs and coffee shops before staking out the first caltrain??
> A utility that allows you to create a GUI window from the command line.

In Gnome there is Zenity (https://help.gnome.org/users/zenity/stable/) that allows creating simple dialogs from command line.
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I fully agree. If James Risen testifies, his journalistic career is over. If I was a somebody like James Risen is[1], I would not even think twice before holding any court of law in contempt[2].

[1]: He is a Pulitzer-winning journalist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Risen

[2]: If you are reading this statement, you, your government, and anyone else hereby lose your right to sue me for any reason whatsoever to eternity.
He/she asked how to do it with filters.
It does look great, but Im not sure my hands and fingers would fare well if the edges got chipped. A chipped edge would not be enough to pay lots to get it fixed, where as a shattered screen is. As a result, I see minor injury being a bit of a problem.
Also, bash already has a hook to do these types of completions: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/316
I don't think it's "fair" to say that someone who initiated the free software movement, wrote the first versions of GCC, GNU Emacs, the core utils, … is not a hacker anymore because he is dedicating his life to something else than coding and coding and coding.

I really don't see the need to formalize what a hacker is and who correspond to those criteria, especially the way you present it where it would be tied to one country, which is not really compatible with the hacker culture as I see it.
After I submit a website there should be an option to enter an email address if its not yet indexed so I can get a notification when the analysis is completed.

Very cool.

What other websites besides Alexa are people using for this?
This is getting into questions you can't ask, and IQ is a severely flawed metric, but I wonder what the IQs are of the parents, and if the children's scores are higher or lower, and if we can rule out heredity.
what were they running? IIRC they were running one of the more popular open source php forums. Either phpbb or phorum. can anyone confirm?
Hurt's study enrolled only full-term babies so the possible effects of prematurity did not skew the results.

Doesn't this mean that their selection sample effectively excluded any babies that had a noticeable physical reaction (other than having cocaine in their system) to the effect of their mothers' cocaine use?