skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly don't understand why it is even legal for government agencies to spend taxpayer money on jobs like public relations and trying to keep things out of the public or distort how things are perceived by the public.

I pay taxes so those people can do the job they are tasked to do. I don't pay taxes so those people can spend time trying to finesse how the job they are doing is viewed by the public or pay someone else to do the same with my tax dollars.

It would be nice if when memos like these crossed someones desk that they were viewed with the same suspicion as bringing up age or gender issues in hiring processes. Like gender issues and age, trying to keep public policy from being publicly debated is not only orthogonal to their job, it is damaging to the public interest.

Seriously, can we pass some laws prohibiting any behavior where officials trying to keep things from being debated publicly because the public will not approve. To allow them to continue with their self-serving hidden policies is antithetical to the notion of a democracy or republic.
What is the name of the chair?
I'm exaggerating of course but if you go onto most popular websites and really dig into their ads you'll see that you basically hop through a large number of layers of various ad exchanges before you get to the actual server that serves the ad. Usually via a series of nested iframes.
THEY host the intro proxy? Wouldn't it be better if each individual or organization had their own intro proxy that provided this? I.e. mail client-> my proxy -> (linkedIn + mailServer)?
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So what is the angle that does support the notion that he acting with malice in his heart?

And if he's not acting in malice, why would he be doing what he's doing now when he is well-versed in the Constitution?

Note: I disagree with a lot of his policies (including this topic), I'm going for a first-principles thing here.
How did they store the Facebook Graph tokens in the db? It's akin to a password so here's hoping they used 2-way encryption.
Your proposed change to 4. is a statement that no one could ever honestly make.
Before rushing to disable, do note:

All updates have been paused.

Passwords and payment information have NOT been compromised.
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It would be sorted out in a bit.
For me there are a few reasons:

1) Google has a proven track record with email and email security (Gmail) over many years now

2) LinkedIn has a bad reputation for security

3) Most of the people I know who use LinkedIn probably wouldn't even have thought "how does this work". I don't like that any company can "get away with" something like this that could put so many peoples' jobs at risk. It feels shady and unfair.
This is cool, but you're making assumptions about information that is outside of your immediate connections. This could work in a network where one could trust that all the information one receives from immediate connections about others is true, but that is not the case. In your case, user B could mark everybody as a high value poster, and it be successful in diverting your attention. This causes problems even in the core stack, I cannot believe what a node B will say about at what IP address node C is. A malicious node B could overwrite everybody's node information to one single IP address to create a massive DDoS.

So the solution I found is that there are separate degrees of trust for derived and produced information. If you receive something over the network about a third party, that's derived information, which might not essentially be true. But if you have connected to that node personally, that's produced information, and no derived information can overwrite that.
More interesting will be to see stats on car purchase rates in Uber and Lyft's top cities over the coming years. In SF, car ownership is becoming a luxury amongst people I know - they either have a sports car, or no car and use Uber/Lyft/Zipcar for transportation everywhere.

A recent David Sacks tweet claiming this got a lot of attention: "Why Uber/Lyft market is so much bigger than people think: it's not a substitute for cabs, it's a substitute for driving." https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/378305832602980353
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It's cool because:

* host 3D printed projects with version control (based on git)
* generate previews of STL and OpenSCAD design files
* can make commits through web uploader, so you don't need to know command line git.
Hmm, I was affected (my twitter account sent a spam post) but I didn't receive an email. I only found out about it via HN. :/
I like the idea that it's targeted at people for whom the existing system is failing, rather than a panacea for education.

Alternative education programs like this don't have to be capable of replacing traditional education to be a success.
I'll be the brave soul who clicks the link. The chair is called:

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No. The ones that make me think twice either A) don't disclose, or B) handle the fallout terribly.

Buffer is handling this well, and will continue to get my business.
I don't know about the US law, but in at least some european countries (like austria, where I grew up) "getting guidance with the purpose to commit terrorist attacks" is actually crime. As well as "approval of terrorist attacks" (which are quite liberal defined).
In my expectation, the US should not be too far "behind" on prosecuting those thought crimes.
Maybe they did, but they aren't going to tell us how the internal debate played out. That's not how it works. Security teams can make recommendations and can escalate to upper management if need be, but they don't make the final call on new products. Ultimately it's the CEO who decides whether a risk is worth taking.
This only tells where the car went and may not implicate the real criminal. Imagine a someone borrowing a car, fleeing from the police, getting tagged, and then returning the car to its origin.

The tag may help stop the police from engaging in dangerous driving, but what about the driver of the tagged car? If the driver knows the car is tagged, perhaps the driver will still drive dangerously? I suspect the action of tagging a car still encourages the police and the accused to behave dangerously. What if an occupant of the car returns fire?
I know that many fire departments and other first responders are very severely constrained by budgets. There's lots of interesting things out there, but they just don't have budget for gizmos which cost multiple tens of thousands of dollars. A $1000 price point seems much more feasible. Though if you throw this into a burning building, I wonder if it would survive to be used again.
You can apply the same argument to redistributing wealth to the poor. They don't keep it under their bed but spend it. Except the money multiplier is way bigger in the case of the poor, because they:

1) Spend more of their money on what they really NEED, sending price signals into the economy for basics the majority of people need, vs say golden toilets

2) Spend faster and more of their money on themselves PERIOD because their basic needs take up a greater proportion of their money than for rich people

But anyway we need to balance the wealth transfer one way of the other. This is accomplished with safety nets and progressive taxation.
it's not a hard question at all. the cops shouldn't endanger the public just to chase people. It's why they shouldn't also shoot people in crowded areas. these days though the cops shoot first and ask questions later, then get away with it so why not go chasing around like cowboys too, they've already lost any respect I've ever had.
Hey there, sorry about this. I'm the guy building Penflip. It's still in alpha and was not ready to be shared with a larger audience. The email notifications for discussions were helpful for the smaller alpha group that I was/am currently testing with.
I didn't avoid the question on security; I pointed everyone to FAQ that specifically answers that question. And I didn't yell at anyone. But if someone spits in your face, you're allowed to wipe the spit off, aren't you?

But sure, take your ball and go home.
Exactly. I have never heard of Google sending emails on my behalf through gmail without me knowing about it.
Sounds great. Would love to hear more. Is there a blog/project-page anywhere?
They only have a few outfits but some http://seat14a.com/ensemble/the_valley are really great.
A capital gains tax is not double-taxation, as the tax applies only to "gains" on a capital investment, and these gains have not yet been subject to tax. Moreover, most capital investments are made using untaxed amounts (i.e., "reinvested" income), as part of transactions designed to avoid paying taxes.

A capital gains tax is not intended to account for inflation--the persons that pay the capital gains tax (companies and wealthy individuals) are least subject to inflation. The lower rate was intended as an incentive to make capital investments in businesses. Unfortunately, due to the way capital assets are defined (or rather, is not defined) in the tax code, the lower rate has instead resulted in excessive investment in real properties, illusory assets (i.e., derivatives), and other passive investments rather than in businesses.
Nice, I wouldn't have thought of using Yeoman for extension development.
If you want to tax everyone the same, eliminate taxes on corporations and have an income tax when money moves from a corporation to a human. This would drastically simplify many things - loss carryforwards, depreciation schedules, etc.

But comparing the 35% corporate income tax + 15% long term capital gains (less inflation) [1] that Steve Schwarzman pays to the roughly 30% that the teacher pays is silly. The teacher pays far less, but these facile comparisons ignore most of what's really happening.

[1] Or 35% corporate income tax + 39.6% dividend, since you specifically singled out dividends. Or maybe 35% corporate income + 20% qualified dividend, depending on how it all works out.
How many free t-shirts has New Relic given out in the last 2 years?
It also ignores the effect of compound interest: capital gains earned over 10 years are only taxed once, not 10 times, as they perhaps should be.
I have been working on a couple of projects.

The first is software that automatically pauses/mutes your music when you watch a video and restores it afterward by looking at process volumes. It is called mute.fm but only available for Windows at the moment. http://www.mute.fm/

The second is a location-based pasteboard called near.im that lets you share {contact information, addresses, links, text} with people who are nearby who don't necessarily have a particular app installed. I've recently discovered it can also be used as an appless Chrome-To-Phone. http://www.near.im/
No. But it's important to realize that we don't actually store any of your mail in the cloud. You're not really syncing to anywhere but the Inky instance on your device.
Same here, I found out from text messages from friends this morning saying my Facebook had been hacked, but no e-mail from them and the "Delete Account" functionality on their website does nothing.
For people who just want to know the results:

385 cars in 15 minutes for the 4-way intersection

460 cars in 15 minutes for the roundabout
At that scale it is because of the moral hazard
maybe the LAPD should get their vehicles repainted then. it's like "2 hour dry cleaning" that actually means next-day service.
1-You may be right about Alito (I hadn't specifically looked at his fourth amendment thinking, I just went on the general vibe of the rulings in which he has participated in, most notably his majority ruling in Clapper v. Amnesty) http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/11-1025_ihdj.pdf, in which case there is even more hope. I had quite forgotten his earlier thoughts at Princeton: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732487950...

I have to admit Alito is the one justice I can't quite get a handle on.

In which case, flip Alito with Roberts, consign Scalia and Thomas to the non-hopes, and there you are.

2-I don't understand your critique, as this was exactly my point of stating: "a strongly written amicus brief in this situation by technology-savvy leaders could well tip the balance."
Relevant and worth reading:

http://www.livingunderdrones.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/...

It's not just that the drone strikes are killing civilians in large numbers, and that the administration defines "militant" as any young adult male and doesn't really care who they're killing. It's not just that the whole thing makes a mockery of due process and national sovereignty. It's not just that the policy is counter-productive in terms of its own stated aims ("fighting terrorism"). It's that grave damage is done to the entire social fabric of the targeted area, as if they didn't have enough problems.

EVERYBODY living there knows they could get randomly blown up at any time and there's nothing they can do about it. People are afraid to gather in groups of more than 2. Normal funerals are impossible, both because the the bodies are so completely destroyed and because funerals are deliberately attacked. People don't rescue victims because they know they'd just get killed, too. People stay away from the sites of the attacks for hours. The families of victims struggle because the main wage earner for the family is gone. Parents take their children out of schools, and children in schools are too traumatized to focus on studying.

It's all good as long as our brave soldiers never have to face someone that can fight back, right? Susan Sontag was absolutely right that we're being infantilized. Of course it's easier and cheaper to kill people with flying death robots. Of course it's easier to catch "the bad guys" if we just make sure we know everything about everybody all the time. What's missing is any sense of pride that we're too good for those things and we'll accept trade-offs for freedom like adults. The cost of due process is that some criminals go free. The cost of free speech is that obnoxious people we can't stand will say things we don't like.

Given how little terrorism there actually is, giving up ANY freedoms or principles in the name of "stopping terrorism" is cowardly. It's as if the military-industrial complex has no pride in "American values" whatsoever.
As a Brit living in Silicon Valley, I look at these numbers and think that perhaps I should move back to London. I'd certainly save a lot of money on rent. (But, of course, the income scales are very different!)
Say you have a business worth $100k. It earns another $100k and pays 35% corporate tax on it. The rest goes into the bank. The company is now worth $165k. If you sell the company for $165k, you pay cap gains taxes on the $65k gain - at 20% qualified cap gains rate, you walk away with a gain of $52k.

That's what double taxation means. You paid taxes twice on the earnings of $100k.

[edit: it might shock some of you to discover that this is a simplified example to illustrate the point.]
5 minutes or so, unless something is wrong.
Violence is less common now than it has ever been in all of human history. How can you square this fact with your statement about how "having to be violent" will be more common?
If its such a hard question, I guess everyone country in the world is also struggling, and has equally high death count from car chases.

O wait, they don't. It just easier to photo the license plate, and put down a road block.
Or if a couple kids at MIT put the system together it would cost 10x less, be 10x more efficient and have been developed in 10x less time.
I am interested in which parts of that metaphor you think were overly simplistic or ill-conceived. I thought it was pretty right-on as far as how people treat the system.
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Not sure, but I believe in the law of diminishing returns...after a while, a human being gets used to something, and eventually sick of it after repeated exposure.
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What happens when more and more types of jobs are becoming automated?
Thanks for your detailed response. I see quite a few people are involved, and the project is a truly active one; I wish you luck. :)

One last inquiry: have you done any benchmarking / performance tests on your code? I imagine that since the library is thread-safe, it should in theory be able to handle significantly larger numbers of online users, etc.?
My bullshit detector is going 'ting..ting..ting..'

Speaking of magic chairs, I remember when the kneeling chair was all the rage. Whatever happened to the kneeling chair?

Oh, I guess they are still out there:
http://www.ebay.com/bhp/kneeling-chair
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Don't worry the ACA is there to help those who make less, oh wait its not, its the biggest transfer of wealth from the young and able to the rich and old in generations.

Corporate tax rates are too high in the US, however those are balanced out by far too many write offs. Drop the rate, remove the deductions, and that should help.
I'm curious if the author bothered to check what percent of most expensive NYC apartments are bought by Americans (unlike Russian or Middle East kleptocrats).
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I get what you're saying, but regular people have no idea what the difference is between a mail client, GMail, and something like Mailbox. It's just "the thing I use read my email". That was the thinking behind the statement in the first place: we let you check mail in all your accounts, unlike most alternatives consumers use.
If the aim is to gather a panoramic image while in the air, I would have thought priority #1 would be getting a compact sensor that didn't suffer motion blur when flying and spinning at the same time, in low light conditions, with battery power, low weight and a tiny lens.

I mean, my phone camera produces poor images when I'm trying to hold it still, whereas a thrown ball can fly at 80mph or spin at 20-30 revolutions per second.
Missing the point here, this is git for writers not git for techies.
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Just out of curiosity, what are the monthly maintenance requirements and costs on a plane like this? Very nice btw.
If someone can get standing then the Supremes can vote on it. Until then it's status quo.
I don't think its true that the supreme court doesn't understand technology. They might not buy into the ideology that technologists do, buy I think they understand the relevant facets of how it works. As I've said before, we depend on judges to arbitrate disputes related to complex insurance contracts. Technology is easy in comparison.

As for the low-tech workflow in chambers, they stick to it because it works. Email is great for dealing with a lot of information you don't read that carefully. Appellate work is the opposite of that: going over the same pair of 50 page briefs over and over or the same draft opinion a dozen times. Nothing beats paper, post its and pencils for that work flow.
It's been a while since I've formally tested it, but it performs very well. I don't have hard numbers handy, but CPU usage and memory usage is both well-tuned (and better than vanilla/bukkit). I've tested with a few dozen concurrent players and it didn't have any trouble. All players reported smooth gameplay, far better than vanilla or bukkit.
but inflation isn't a flat tax on everyone, it's regressive. In the case of the two families in the admittedly extreme inflation example, the poor family takes a 50% tax and the rich family takes a <2% tax.

In your graph, I see a 25% inflation, not a 3x inflation. If prices increase too quickly, there will be a dragging effect from the multiplier effect as stressed consumers default on loans, so if M0 doesn't increase as much, that 25% inflation may be dragged out over a longer period of time... Not to understate my worry about it, however.

But you're right, the technological displacement is a structural problem in our economy, if the populace has a sense of entitlement towards jobs, or "their job" in particular, or even if not - in the case that there are not enough social resources to effect retraining in the labor force, or those social resources are misdirected, for example towards useless college degrees.

In the non-inflationary fantasy universe where I wish I lived, technological displacement wouldn't be such a problem, since it would effect deflation. Yes, people would lose jobs, but they could afford to lose jobs or often, just afford not to work for protracted periods of time if necessary or desired.
Correct, which makes "Intro" and all other third party apps, which reroute entire communication channels, untenable ones.
Thanks, pretty much what I meant.
I might suggest using YAML too, either as an alternative or as a complete replacement. YAML (when written in a certain way) is basically JSON without any line noise, and optimized for human reading and writing. You will be able to parse it exactly the same.
Next on the todo list is to add a tutorial and do the front page.
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> Isn't its durability kind of one of the major selling points?

Or you make them cheap enough to be semi-disposable. That way it only needs to survive long enough to transmit the images back. If they find a surviving ball that's a bonus.
By now this is a complete clusterfuck.

The core idea behind this "service" of injecting LI info into any mail is broken. No security theater around it will change that.

LI should have worked with Apple to come up with a way to embed this kind of info natively into the mail app. And if that is not possible, add an email inbox to their LI app, so that the email header would be post-processed within the app. Make people use LI as their mail client (who knows, maybe someone would have liked this).

But injecting crap into the normal iOS mail app? What a strange approach.
Interesting, I'm in the market for a new chair. However, I've read even standing for long periods can give similar back pain (I've experienced this myself), with regular movement being the optimal thing to do all day. So what's the truth? Will this chair really solve my back pain?

I'm so tempted, but that's a lotta money for this starving coder.
Are online comments full of paid lies?
The US GDP does grow but at 2% - 3% a year. Just because something is not totally a zero-sum game doesn't mean no one is losing money. As a simple example, if I sell you a stock and it goes up, that's money you made and I lost out on. And if vice versa, then it's money I made instead of you.

Things can happen that transfer wealth way faster than the GDP grows. For example, repeal of Glass-Steagall caused much risky speculation by banks with funds that were backed by depositors at banks. So depositors and shareholders has to be bailed out by the taxpayer. Or the 1980s CORBA bill that says emergency rooms must treat everyone regardless of ability to pay. These things add up.