skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know anything about the OSS world. I'm just pointing out why that argument doesn't mean anything to me. Someone claiming no negativity toward Asians as a group tells me little about how they think of other races, especially since I expect much less negativity toward Asians than other ethnicities in the US in general anyway.

I certainly think it's possible that blacks and Asians face distinct challenges and biases in this community; one would have to be very naive or ignorant of minority treatment in the US to not consider that a possibility.
I don't disagree about AOL, but I think Demand Media's mistake goes deeper. Most purveyors of shitty news know that they have to build an audience. Thus, we have long-lived tripe like the Daily Mail or the National Enquirer. Demand Media's plan was to force one via search engine ranking.
I don't see the problem being that Doctor A gives you more drugs. I see the problem as Doctor A gives you more drugs at very little cost to the patient. Lots of patients would much rather pay the relatively minuscule co-pay to have three alternative drugs than just get one and risk having to go back to the doctor for a different prescription if that one didnt work.

It is all about incentives. Most PPO systems encourage everyone to spend more money.

- Doctor's want to sell more (and more expensive) drugs. They make more money that way.

- Patients on many PPO plans pay a small flat fee for each drug. Why not go with the more "expensive" one? Its all the same to the patient.

- The government and insurance companies work together to outlaw cheap plans and force people to over-buy for coverage the patients either don't need or expenses that are predictable.
He seems fairly dislikable and he is probably on the wrong side of the law, but what possible benefit would prison be here?
We do regulate groceries. The USDA, the FDA, the FTC, regulations on advertising, labeling requirements, etc. all apply.
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"I'm profoundly uncomfortable with essentially condemning those that can't afford it to having to surrender their rights to privacy."

You appear to be implying that you can get extra privacy by buying a more expensive phone. However, the Moto G does not actually seem to be any more or any less invading of privacy compared to any other Android phone out there (and arguably not moreso even compared to Windows Phones and iPhones). Even if those phones are much more expensive than it.

Furthermore, the inevitable popularity of the Moto G only means that you will be able to load it with a custom ROM that gives you as much control as you want, like Cyanogenmod/OmniROM without Google apps.

Google rightly gets flak for privacy issues, but I think you're going too far by getting the privacy debate into hardware pricing as well.
The laws Microsoft ran afoul of were under the general category of, "Things you're not allowed to do if you have a monopoly", and the court found that Windows was a monopoly, primarily because the switching costs were so high.

Do you feel Google has a monopoly (i.e., tremendous market share, high switching costs)?

If so, in what?
For those unfamiliar with the Indian political scene:

Arvind Kejriwal is a rookie politician who defeated (three-time Chief Minister of Delhi) Sheila Dikshit in the Delhi Legislative Assembly elections (held today).

He co-founded a political organization named Aam Aadmi Party (Translation: Common Man's Party) that won 28 of Delhi's 70 seats in its electoral debut, just 3 shy of BJP (an established National Party), and more than three times the no. of seats won by Indian National Congress (the incumbent party in Delhi).

Relevant background information on Arvind Kejriwal [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvind_Kejriwal

[Edit: corrected figures based on child comment]
Free plan for anybody looking for something to do: start an open-culture content farm. Demand Media's major strength is a way to match underserved searches with cheaply written content.

They (and other content farms) could be crushed by a Wikipedia-like project that fills the same user needs. It's hard to compete with free labor, especially when that free labor uses the lack of time constraint to produce high-quality content.

The main trick is to figure out how they're finding underserved searches, so you can establish a good feedback loop between readers and contributors.
Right now the visionaries are adopting Docker, using it and working closely with us to iron out the kinks.

One of the ways we're working risk-averse businesses who have bought in to the idea, is to pick a pragmatic project that's low stakes and will ship to production sometime late Q1 or Q2.

This provides best of both worlds. Low risk project gets visibility inside of the company, and is a strawman for future implementation. Win/win for everyone.

Solomon (lead maintainer of Docker) has done a brilliant job reconciling all of these projects and community needs in to their essence and implementing just enough to satisfy a plethora of use cases.
seeing this post in front page of HN clearly proves that it has many Indian users.
You can't sell an idea. Prove you can build it. Then prove that what you built is worth something by getting people to use it.
You could always set the script to only run the tests on certain branches on pre-commit. (i.e. if branch name is not master, exit 0)
You could just use the same code which runs reddit.

https://github.com/reddit/reddit
India state polls: Common Man's party wins Delhi seats
Remember that the old filter was "is the applicant white?"
"Business is a zero-sum game."

I'd be surprised if he actually thinks this (though only mildly) - Some business activities are zero-sum, but in general business exists precisely because it's not a zero sum game.
Mr. Kejriwal is by no means a "common man".He has a history in politics,though not in electoral politics. But I do agree that this election reminds scenes from some movies like "Nayak" and "Yuva".
Overall a nice Article though :)
For the most part prescribing doctors aren't the ones who have to deal with inventory costs, it's pharmacies that have the inventory costs. I've even had doctors send me to the pharmacy to pick up injectable medication, primarily because they didn't want to deal with an inventory. So why should prescribing doctors get 6% of cost?
No, looks cool though. That would impact deployability to heroku though, yes?
As a lifelong night owl, I discovered when I could get to bed by 9:30 or 10, waking up at 3-4 am gave me easily the energy I'd normally have doing late night stuff after a long day.

For me it seems to have to do with being mentally rested, not much in the way of distractions, and making sure to make a list of a few things I could dive into without thought to get going. I wish I could do it every day, because I don't regret it when I do.

For anyone discounting this strategy without having tried it -- I get the studies about night owl vs larks. Try it yourself first to see how it works. Waking up early is the road less travelled, staying up late in a way is the default way of operating.
You can also write a Chrome extension to monitor traffic:

http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/webRequest.html
> Who says you can't discuss options openly with doctor B?

Exactly. In my case doctor B once took 30min to explain something I didn't understand, he also grabbed some books for it.. without charging me. One part is true, I can't certainly know who's better.
I'm not sure why I should trust the web of trust especially either. I don't think it's a bulletproof solution to the problem (if indeed there is one). For instance it could be very hard for a newcomer to the web to get trusted status, significantly delaying the time it takes to bring a new service online.

It may be better than what we have now though.
Two very different activities.
It might be of benefit to neighbors he is bothering, and by extension anyone else who will be forced to bear the brunt of externalities he similarly ignores in the future.
Sure, I didn't say it was impossible to convert your proposed Response type to a proper net/http response when you need it.

But, like I said and you just demonstrated, glue code is needed to do that. That makes people write differing middleware application mechanisms that are incompatible with each other.

Sure, ResponseRecorder is placed in net/http/httptest and that makes sense. But then again, nothing in the actual implementation is integrated with the testing package or tied to testing in general. IMO there's nothing that makes it unsuitable for other usage. It's a simple buffer to accumulate HTTP, that's it. Even if one were to implement a buffering writer like that on their own, it wouldn't differ too much.
Are they really widely hated by the populace, or are they just widely hated on small communities like HN?
ummm....

http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/Transparency/Basics/ucm203499.ht...
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Removes him from circulation. Maybe he can AirBnB the other bunk in his cell?
It was probably a suggestion by a pharmaceutical industry lobbyist.
> In addition, Genentech offers rebates to doctors who use large volumes of the more expensive drug.

But doctors don't buy the drug, patients and Medicare do. So it is straight up bribery of people abusing legally protected positions of trust?
> He considers himself a New York entrepreneur who wants to make a buck and doesn’t have much patience for what he views as arbitrary rules and regulations, such as those that govern renting apartments to Airbnb subscribers.

I don't see how this guy is any different from Airbnb itself (or other disruptive-and-dubiously-legal operations like the various digital gypsy cab companies).
I'd recommend checking out Telescope (http://telesc.pe/), it's a very feature-rich news site in the style of hn/reddit, it's very actively developed, has a decent interface/design built-in, and can literally be deployed just by clicking a link (though you can host it on your own server if you want). Many news sites posted on hn tend to use telescope for these very reasons.

You can find out more here: http://telesc.pe/

And launch your own instance through Giteor here: https://giteor.com/deploy?git=com.github.SachaG.Telescope.ma...
Exactly what I was about to comment. They are not really concerned about democracy, they think they know better than the public and it's fine as long as the president supports them. Of course, that's exactly how every authoritarian government works...
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I think you're conflating morality and legality. How does breaking regulations make him a sociopath? Who is he harming?

In what world is renting an apartment, albeit against regulation and terms of the lease, an offense ANYWHERE NEAR insider trading, identity theft, or insurance fraud?

Am I missing something?
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It only proves that HN has at least 16(points at the time of this comment) Indian users.
You could try Telescope, a similar project built with Meteor

http://telesc.pe/

edit: see more informative post above :-)
I am very happy for Arvind. He could have been a millionaire while doing his IRS job. He left all that for his principles.
He was maligned and constantly criticized. Still his party overcame all the hurdles. His rivals could afford funds(guess where they came from?) which are in orders of magnitude larger than his party's tiny 20 crores(less than budget of a Hindi movie).
I wish nothing but best to him and hope he brings the change that India desperately needs.
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> Who says you can't discuss options openly with doctor B?

"doctor B will not give you anything more than you need, even if you ask for it" says that by implication: doctor B seems not to be open to ideas other than his own. That's (personally) not what I would prefer in a doctor.
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Interesting article but they really should have dropped the "man who doesn't exist" stuff after the first paragraph.
Link to a free download of their translation: http://scienceofstrategy.org/main/content/free-sun-tzus-art-...

I read the samples of the translations, and their translation and the Sawyer translation seemed to be the best to me. (Full disclose: I don't know any Chinese.)
Regardless of the GPL, I think this qualifies as fair use by any reasonable interpretation. By the I'll-take-down-your-youtube-video-because-my-copyrighted-music-is-playing-on-the-radio-in-the-background or every-unauthorized-song-download-is-a-loss-of-$150,000 interpretation, I think the author should sue for seven or eight figures.
I'm impressed by how much hate is directed in the comments to the guy in the article. Seems like a lot of people here are either jealous about this guy "hacking the system", or are just too self-righteous.

Why not instead use the article (as it was probably intended) as a way to think and debate about things that are hard to agree on or that are hard to define?

This caught my attention for example: "The Man Who Does Not Exist claims regulations that govern rental apartments are akin to drug laws. They are useless, unenforceable, and an affront to the general public.", and although I don't have a strong opinion about hotel regulation in NY (or elsewhere), I do agree that current drug laws pretty much only benefit government agencies (they get funding) and drug cartels (by artificially raising prices).
Or this one: https://github.com/maccman/monocle

To me it looks way better, but it depends on your needs. Ruby.
Even our own revered patio11 got caught as a patsy, repeating propaganda about how perfectly organized and careful the Japanese nuclear industry was.

Anyway, overall, whether the dangers are technical or social, they are still dangers.
There has always been and will always be government. From village elders to Persian Emperors, the Roman Senate to fascist dictators. People seem to like to form them, spontaneously, and if there is none in place then one will insert itself by force and with great bloodshed.

We need massive reform, we should be very careful about calling for revolution, but life without government in some form or other is next to impossible. It's like asking people not to be people any more.
The fact there are arbitrage opportunities are precisely the reason the regulations exist.

The problem is that the market equilibrium would be really bad for residents. You have to stop and think about what there being no such opportunity would mean: housing in these areas is in scarce supply, and letting the market do its thing would incentivize people to convert rooms to full-time hotels at the expense of people who actually live there (since the true market value of a room is much higher than the average rent; in other words, your arbitrage opportunity), which will in turn reduce the supply of apartments available for residents, thus making rent even more expensive than it is right now for the few that will be able to afford it.

I agree the regulations are not perfect, but people have to understand it comes from a conscious political decision to protect residents. And this by the way is why you need a government to create such rules, because contrary to what people like the man in this article might think, the market equilibrium is not always the most desirable situation.
Or, they don't want to explain in court why they picked the cheap drug and the procedure went wrong.
So far I remember only one movie that shows "hacking" plausibly: Fincher's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [1].

Most of the time in other hollywood films, it's downright bogus. [2]

[1] http://oracle-wtf.blogspot.ru/2012/05/girl-with-ansi-tattoo....

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aApTVqeGJMw Hacking scene from Skyfall, ugh.
That's what Republic Wireless does now, and they just launched with the Moto X at a surprisingly low price: https://republicwireless.com/
Spot on. Every single month there is a drop in Indian Rupee value when oil importers sell rupees to buy dollars. It's possibly one of the main things that drives rupee value down and dollar value up. We had managed to reach a deal with Iran to buy oil in rupees but it's started happening only recently and in small percentages.
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Two prominent Rubyists who happen to be simultaneously black.

https://twitter.com/bryanl

https://twitter.com/daksis
> a visa is not an entry permit, but merely "permission to approach the border or port of entry and ask to be let in

Oh God.
Not exactly the ex (or at least, it doesn't say so), but check the last few paragraphs of http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/loveint-on-his-fi...
Yeah I used to hang around the forums waiting for Noctis V.

He was developing it in Linoleum, which is his own portable assembly language that he wrote. It's still available and an interesting experiment.
I've listened daily for the last 10 years and I can shed some light.

> "The Interviews are more interesting if the person is naked."

This is absolutely not true. The best and most interesting interviews are the celebrity interviews, not the porn stars. Does Howard actually think he's going to get Denise Richards to take her top off? No. It's a tactic just like the tactics in this article. She says no the the extreme, but will compromise with something more tame but still revealing.

> "If you don't have to follow the broadcast rules, you can ask questions nobody else can."

I agree with this, and I love that he can.

> "If you hire a black female as your co-host people won't be so quick to call you a racist or sexist."

This sounds like it may work, but clearly doesn't. Howard has always been a supporter of race equality, gender equality and gay rights, but he's constantly viewed as a racist, sexist homophobe. Infact, when asked, people would rather date Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, "The Boston Bomber" than Howard Stern (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLF7SCNHctE)
I approve of the law as it stands. Hotel taxes and hotel regulation improve my quality of life.

He breaks the law for money. As a result, I would like to see him punished.

(As a secondary matter, he is loathsome for defrauding his landlords -- renting out space to be used as a hotel is a much higher-risk proposition than a long term residence)
And put all CAs out of business?! U MAD!!
Funny, that doesn't answer my question. I was already aware of the letter released by Senator Grassley[1] and none of the stories in that letter match those referenced by the GP.

So, again, can I get a link to that story?

[1] http://www.grassley.senate.gov/judiciary/upload/NSA-Surveill...
So you are volunteering your backyard to store the radioactive material? Or you are only volunteering someone else's?
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My understanding is Google bought Motorola primarily for their patent portfolio, so they'd have some weapons to aim at Apple and ward off lawsuits through mutually-assured destruction.

Is it possible for them to sell off Motorola's hardware operations while retaining their IP?
This compromise was detected by Google because they have hard-coded "certificate pins" in Chrome which specify which CAs the browser should expect to see when connecting to Google.

This type of "pinning" is the only technique that we know of which has actually detected a CA-assisted MITM attack in the wild (a few times now). So it works really well, but only if you're running Chrome, and only if you're connecting to Google (or the few other pinned sites hardcoded in Chrome).

It doesn't scale well because not every website can (or is willing to) hardcode their CA information in browser binaries, the pinned information has to expire at some point (otherwise you can never change your CA), sites are still vulnerable to their own CAs, and it only works in browsers which are willing to maintain this hardcoded list of pins in their client binaries.

Trevor Perrin and I developed a dynamic certificate pinning solution called TACK (http://tack.io) that is designed to address all of those issues. It's a fully specified TLS extension; all we need are browsers to support it.

If you're interested in whats been going on with the CA system, "SSL And The Future Of Authenticity" is a Defcon talk where I discuss some of the problems with CAs, and even interview the original SSL protocol author about them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N4sb-SEpcg
He's a criminal. Of course his business is zero sum. His profits and the consumer surpluses of his customers are balanced against the losses to society.
Full disclosure: I am not an American citizen.

Having said that, isn't it out of place for PR people from the NSA be asking that the president show a form of political endorsement for NSA actions while the NSA is just an agency that does what it is told to do. I mean they are not policy makers and all the noise about NSA surveillance expects Congress and the White House to instigate policy change rather than to "show the love" or hate. The NSA in effect is just an employee, not a policy maker. Am I missing something?
Does require a job though, and you need to keep employed as if you're out of work for a month you have to leave.

I went the 157 route, took longer but you're much safer.
It really makes you question the structure that puts in place the original polices this group "nudges". There needs to be an incentive structure in the government itself, that encourages every department to improve how they function continuously. You shouldn't have to create a special department that focus on one tiny portion of the government at once for improvement.
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Fascinating. I assume that means Chrome wasn't used with the cert otherwise pinning should have been the giveaway.
That doesn't need to be the case. You can have a weighted web of trust where if a new party (e.g. because they presented their passport & proof of ownership of a domain) gets trusted because they were certified by an already trusted party.

You could implement a weighted trust system where you're more trusted the more people trust you, and consequently if you "issue" trust it's counted as more trustworthy than issuing trust to yourself.

So you could have the equivalent of CA's in a system like that, but the list could be dynamic based on total trust on the network, instead of being issued by a static list of 100% trusted parties like the system we have now.
He's not very different from AirBnB.

He breaks the law directly. AirBnB merely induces its customers to break the law. In both cases, they're bad actors.