skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. Any community that gives censorship powers to an "elite" group runs into this problem. I'd add to his points (which are good) by noting that when your job description involves censoring, the obvious way to make it look like you're doing your job is to censor lots of stuff.

This is just a gut feeling, but (at least for the stuff I tend to search for) Google results leading to Stack Overflow are more likely than not to wind up on a page that's been zapped by a "moderator".

If you're running a Q&A site, and people are Googling the Q's, it would behoove you to have the A's. Or so it seems to me. Apparently SO management has a different opinion.
Some of these items need to be deployed with "black bag jobs" and that has some natural limits. Still, we know that people like Martin Luther King were the targets of dirty tricks campaigns, and that the treatment of people like Jacob Appelbaum indicate such dirty tricks are still in play.

There are enough prominent technology and finance people reading this who back controversial and truly disruptive technologies like bitcoin, biotech hacker spaces, open source crypto, etc. that they may have a reasonable concern about being a target.
That, and the term 'Techno Riche' is hipster jerkfood and needs to die today.
Ironic that a company founded upon the reuse of public domain works is campaigning against more public domain works.
I have to agree with your statement. I've also used SO to ask esoteric questions about niches in technologies I work with every day. Most of the time those questions don't get answers quickly. However, after a period of time I can see they've helped others by the views and awards that come in sometimes a year or more after posting. I view SO more as a way to display example use cases of strange behavior or puzzling functionality that I discover as I'm working through issues. Especially for things that official documentation explains poorly or not at all.
Another way to look at this, which is how I learned it in grad school, is that your goal is to tell a Story that others Believe. The Machievellian corollary is: whether the story itself represents reality is less important than whether you have people who believe in your story. When people believe in your story, you have power. You use that power to get funding, which gives you runway to work on real problems.
But these are nothing new; you could get them 10 years ago. My Suunto is at least 6 years old (heart rate, GPS, calories, training effect, yadda yadda).
Would the HN API help you? https://www.hnsearch.com/api
Disagree.. tech startups needs a very good seller.. to hire employees, raise money, sell to customers. And developers are notoriously bad at selling!
Don't people bug you about having no way to contact you without a phone? I'm in no social networks currently either, but had to keep my phone..
I don't see how stopping contributing solves anything.
Nope, there was a graph, though that is interesting too. I'm actually quite impressed with how green it is!
My IP law professor once stopped class and shouted at someone wearing a polo with the disney logo, "Sir, are you trying to antagonize me?!"
Ok, just started to read the article, and already I am not agreeing with "Samsung’s update to history’s best-selling Android phone, the Galaxy S series, delivered on the technical specifications but continued the line’s “unpleasant, cheap design.”" The Galaxy S series is to me by far better than the ongoing iPhone look. The only thing keeping me to getting the Galaxy now is a contract.
It seemed like a thoughtful and appropriate response to what almost looks like an intentional misrepresentation of his comments; or at least of the purpose of the discussion.
I'm a trained watchmaker from WOSTEP, so you can trust that I know a thing or two about watches. I picked up a Pebble because of "hot new tech", and honestly couldn't find a use for it immediately. Only when I decided my normal watch needed to be serviced did I actually commit to wearing the Pebble full time for a couple weeks.

Agreed that any knockoff/clone of a Pebble is a dead end. The Pebble is a great annoyance device. It's fun when I'm working at my computer to see what order an iMessage from my Wife comes in on. Is it going to be my iPhone, then Pebble and then my Mac, or the Mac, Pebble then iPhone? It's a fun game, if you like receiving the same alert on 3 devices within a couple seconds of each other. Any new product that is any old product with a screen and connecting to the internet or another device over BTLE is going to be 2014's "It's X, but social!" from a couple years ago. This includes Glass, since it does absolutely nothing more than create an extension of your portable notification device's screen projected up to your eye. It's quite literally "Eyeglasses, but with a screen connected to the internet!". It doesn't make people more connected, it makes the wearer disconnected from the world.
What we learned about human origins in 2013
A list comprehension would work for GP, who wants a calculator. But others like to try out snippets of code in the REPL before using them in programs, and in that case you want the code to be the same.

Would the following work? It's been a while since I've had Py3 installed, so I can't casually try it. In your PYTHONSTARTUP, place the following:

_map = map
def map(f, *args):
return list(_map(f, *args))

So you get lists in interactive mode, but iterators in actual scripts.
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What apps do you trust to earn fee gift cards?
If you are using an app to earn free gift cards on either iOS or an Android device would you mind sharing those apps? I would also love to know what things about the app you both love and hate from the user experience stand point.

Thanks in advance to all!
In a severe but perhaps useful reduction, look at what this and other "secretive" activity appears in conjunction with. Arguments might thereupon be promoted, that it is also "in support of".

Increasing income disparity. Exposure to versus shelter from the legal system and justice -- as stated in the U.S. in published, public laws and mounted through public, accountable law enforcement activities. Freedom of movement, or constraint of same (e.g. the secret, unaudit-able, un-appealable, unaccountable no-fly list). Etc.

I'd argue that, in the large, a democratic society is based upon the willing participation of its members. Who share in responsibility for its security.

What is being created seems already to be, and regardless of ones opinion of current circumstances, capable of being made into and becoming, rather something else.

In other words, "equality before the law" already seems to be going out the window. (Well, that has always been somewhat of a myth, but, in many opinions, it seems to be getting worse.) Our democratic societies deserve and need to know about this, for the sake of remaining democratic.

And it's time to pull out a potent word in description of what has been and is going on: Hypocrisy.

Our leaders actions and their words -- platitudes -- do not align.

And it's time for us to think hard about whether our own do.
Fascinating that OP became a worker in a critical part of Google's machine, and he didn't even realize it.
I usually write the short answer and submit, and then edit to provide more detail to avoid this problem.
I like Linux as much as the next guy, but if there hadn't been Linux FreeBSD would have just taken its place. Possibly more of a split between FreeBSD and Solaris.
I agree. I view SO in a similar manner as you. Several times I've been able to find explanations of bizarre behavior from different frameworks that weren't listed in the official documentation.
A large proportion of backers to my sci-fi novel (http://planetoz.net/kickstarter) came from personal connections, and I forged most of those in person.

While that may have "only" yielded several hundred dollars for this particular project, I anticipate a far greater chance of future backing from them than from impersonal advertising captures. (And I use the term "capture" here with all its connotations.) I also found potential future editors, artists, beta readers, and the like in the process. Even better, I made some awesome new friends.

This all applies to a book that I haven't yet finished editing (23% progress), never mind put up for free.

The insanely successful indie author, J. A. Konrath, explains how he paid his dues with hundreds of hours spent on book tours, convention floors, and the like, all sans publisher compensation. He now brings in six figures or more.

tl;dr - A focus on selling (_selling_) your work to just one person at a time will pay forward in spades, even if it takes a while.

@liamcarton - Feel free to hit me up. We can trade author notes. My email's in my profile. :)
I agree. Sales is often domain-specific, and this becomes truer the longer you spend in any given domain. And sometimes a long list of great contacts is more of a liability than a benefit. You need someone who can call up anybody you need them to -- not just someone who's going to hit up his list every time. The people on the list might not even be the customers you want or need. Hell, who you need may change in two months. In general, a static and inflexible asset in a variable environment is a bad thing.

[Side note: there are such things as general "salesmanship" skills, like being personable, charismatic, good at articulating value propositions, good at finding ways to get in front of people, and so forth. But these things need not be conflated with capital-S Sales.]
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If you are using an app to earn free gift cards on either iOS or an Android device would you mind sharing those apps? I would also love to know what things about the app you both love and hate from the user experience stand point.

Thanks in advance to all!
Ah, of course. Nice call. I'd edit my post, but instead I'll leave it there to document the error. ;-)

It would be interesting to know the impact of US college education on global poverty.
It's generally accepted by the community at Stack Overflow that you don't edit other people's answers except to make improvements to formatting and punctuation. Changing the code should be left to the original author of the post, as that changes the meaning of the answer. The people who rejected the edit probably didn't notice that it was the same person who suggested the edit.

Mike could have avoided that by just using the same account to edit his original post. You can always edit your own work without it going through the review process.
I've really got to disagree with you there. When I think of female-dominated careers, nursing and teaching are what come to mind. And neither of those careers strike me as having a high "ratio of hours of fun to non-fun". Particularly since I've been a teacher before. My ratio is faaar better as a hacker than as a teacher.
>Even before the holiday buying season really kicked in, the NPD Group found that Chromebooks "accounted for 21 percent of all [preconfigured] notebook sales, up from negligible share in the prior year, and 8 percent of all computer and tablet sales through November. It's up from one tenth of a percent in 2012."

Only commercial channels like schools and companies, not retail sales to consumers. That too only in the US. It's a disingenuous claim, if not extremely misleading.

Also, top on Amazon doesn't really mean much for many electronics. For example, Windows Phone 7 was a bestseller in 2012. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57411238-94/lumia-900-tops-...
The Apple markup is large.
> I was under the impression that what I was doing was legal, protected under DMCA’s fair use policy, which by practice is what makes sites like Youtube legal: although they host millions of illegal content uploaded by users, as long as they agree to take down said videos when requested by copyright owners, they are in the clear because it is difficult/impossible to monitor what gets uploaded to their sites.

Actually, YouTube doesn't just passively sit around waiting for copyright holders to whack each mole one at a time; it has an incredibly sophisticated and powerful content-matching engine that does monitor what's being uploaded, and automatically checks new videos against a giant corpus of known copyrighted works.

There's a cool video about it here:

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797370?hl=en
>> If I permit that much, now we're talking about degrees rather than absolutes, and we're arguing about where to draw the line.

We're always talking about where to draw the line, in basically everything worth debating about, ever. There are very few absolutes in life and I think that opting out of the discussion by saying "Well, we're just deciding where to put the line" is a total cop-out.

Where we put the line is important, and where we place our priorities. "Preventing terrorist attacks" sounds very noble, until you add up all the harm that's been done in pursuit of that goal. And remember - there's no compelling evidence that the NSA mass data-gathering activities have actually prevented any attacks.

>> In the battles I choose to take on, rolling back an NSA iPhone compromise is an interesting idea, but it is less a priority than other battles, such as protecting dissidents in oppressive countries (which is also a relevant contrast to the point I first made, as has been mentioned elsewhere)

I don't know how you can't see that these are the same thing. The iPhone compromise, if such exists, further endangers dissidents in oppressive countries, not to mention dissidents in countries we don't consider overtly oppressive, like our own.
Copyright (patents/intellectual property) is one of Benjamin Tucker's Four Great Monopolies[1] that give rise to monopoly capitalism[2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Tucker#The_Four_Monopo...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_monopoly_capitalism
You misunderstand, this project is literally a fork of the bitcoin repo. They didn't just "copy general source code concepts". It's right there on their about page.
Thanks for sharing this man!
A few problems with this. First, most of the modern crap jobs are service-oriented jobs that are done locally because they can't be outsourced. You're talking about "products", which often can be outsourced, and thus have already been outsourced. Not every job is manufacturing. You can't outsource your janitor or dishwasher.

Second, Ethiopia doesn't have a functioning modern economy. So no, they can't do Guaranteed Income. If they want it, they need to modernize to the point where they can provide a stable economy first. Exploited? No one bothers to exploit them. Given the political and economic instability, it's not worth exploiting. Much better to exploit countries like Indonesia that can provide basic stability.

But you're also stuck on the whole exploitation thing. That's a very 20th century attitude. Exploitation for natural resources is no longer the driver of economics. The primary resource now is labor, particularly skilled labor, and that becomes increasingly expensive as it becomes successful - in other words, being "exploited" is the best and fastest way for countries to become wealthier and more independent.
Good for you AlexanderDhoore. You don't need that stuff to have a great life.
Plagiarism is passing someone else's work off as your own. Unauthorized copying is just providing a work for others to consume without claiming credit for it, but without having a legal right to do so. Plagiarism doesn't really relate to authorization at all. If you have permission from someone to put your name on their work, that doesn't change the fact that you are lying, which can have consequences of its own (especially in an academic context).

I thought this was obvious, but maybe it isn't? I see disclaimers on Youtube all the time ("I don't own this") which seem to imply the person posting the video doesn't understand the difference.
There's just an important distinction that you're missing.

If the NSA is intercepting devices and bugging them, then it doesn't really matter which brand you buy - you're being targeted as an individual. Order a Huawei phone and they'll (presumably) try to intercept and compromise it. Country of origin doesn't really matter, because (presumably) the NSA isn't compromising the company producing the device, they're compromising the delivery chain which handles all (most) devices.

The reason to avoid Huawei (according to some US gov't sources, evidently) is that Chinese security services may have compromised the company's structure itself; thus all products they create may have backdoors/trojans already in them.

These two situations aren't even in the same universe.
Commercial channels account for the vast majority of total sales.
I have looked into https://leanpub.com and I definitely like this for a nice starting point and an incentive for keeping the momentum going. It seems it is preferred among some others around here as well. Very insightful, thanks!!
You are just saying that women can't be hacker-founders but you don't think YC needs to change it's selection criteria. What you really want is for YC to be more charitable to support women. That's fine. But at least be clear what you are talking about.

Personally, I don't know exactly what PG is doing to support women in technology right now. But from what I gather it's not nothing. He's probably doing more than any of us. Maybe you should get off your high horse and stop telling other people what they should be doing to solve the problem.
That actually seems to be just the opposite of what he was saying. He stated that he believes this mechanism is broken, to the point that after two years of inactivity, the votes he receives his old answers have kept him in the top 3% of scorers.

He's not looking for votes, he's saying it's silly how trivial it is to get them, and also how many points he gets off of a simple LMGTFY answer (your quote), vs how few he gets off a well thought out and explained one (the kernel answer, I believe).
That's incorrect in any country (167 of them, including most of the west) that signed the Berne Convention (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_convention), which makes all works copyright-by-default.
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IMHO, The banning of "what have you tried", and the removal of "too localized" will lead to even more poor pedagogy.

The question to which the author links (2387218) is a perfect example of a wholly unresearched question, where the only possible valid answers are "RTFM/STFW" or "here's a fish".

This was the kind of thing that would have been deleted under "too localized" as it offers no benefit for future seekers of enlightenment.

I suppose it may be flagged for deletion according to this criterion:

> Questions asking for code must demonstrate a minimal understanding of the problem being solved. Include attempted solutions, why they didn't work, and the expected results.

but that doesn't quite seem to fit. The question is not "give me teh codez", but it does show that the asker has not attempted any solutions.
Paraphrasing:
'the SO system rewards karma based on the quality of answers'

Fixed:
'the SO system rewards karma based on the number of people that find an answer useful'

The population of people needing answers is heavily biased towards newbies. 100% of new programmers need answers to simple questions. (And only a small fraction of them have learned how to use search Google or documentation properly.) 60% of those never move on to more advanced questions [0]. Therefore advanced questions cannot ever target more than 40% of the total user base, where basic syntax-questions target 100%.

It's even worse when you consider that most of the really advanced questions that can generate the most awesome answers are never asked because the advanced users know how to teach themselves and don't need SO.

[0] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/07/separating-programm...
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Bodily maps of emotions
My point is that it's silly to care about how many points you have in the first place.
No http://bgr.com/2013/12/26/mac-pro-windows-diy-cost/
Ah - I had no idea this existed. Just thought it would be an enjoyable quick little hack :)
So, now I read about the "phablets" and the first thing that came to my mind was the then sleep Palm Pre, which already allowed me to call, take pictures, and use it a tablet, where I could use my stylus to do many tasks I can hardly do on the iPhone. "Phablet" is definitely a bad name, I say we call it like the "Walkie-talkie", a "Walkie-talkie-browsie-typie" device.
I think most would agree that plagiarism is characterized primarily by claiming the copied material (authorized or not) as original work.
We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consistent with the kind of massive, pervasive, surveillance into which the Unites States government has led not only us but the world.

This should not actually be a complicated inquiry.

http://snowdenandthefuture.info/events.html

http://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-t...
Media manipulations for a next big IPO?)
Some clarification from the companies would certainly be nice, but for me and many others, the damage has already been done.

If you start your company today and put all your stuff on newly bought Apple machines (or Windows boxen), in case your stuff is stolen by the NSA or GCHQ or whoever in five years time, you will recieve (and deserve?) little compassion: When you complain, people will tell you that you should have known. After all, you started after the Snowden affair caused "all of us" to lose trust in these companies.

I'm starting to arrange myself with the "new" situation to maintain my sanity. If there is some life-or-death info, that should go into a crypto-container on an airgap linux box. For everything else, I'll have to become accustomed to the thought that there is someone out there who can get at it if they want and that all my efforts can make it only marginally more difficult for them.
What device are you using? I've tested it from both my iPad Air and 5s and they both work fine.
I guess I am a PDL but I fail to see how any government-enforced monopoly could be a good thing ever. I genuinely see people who believe such things as backwards, primitive fucks.

Anyhow, among hardcore libertarian circles there is actually pretty wide agreement these days that IP laws are unjust. The work you want to look at for the sea change is Kinsella's Against Intellectual Property free online here: http://mises.org/document/3582
Hey, protester, leave those Google buses alone
No, plagiarism entails passing the work or idea off as your own.
Seems that the reviewers ignored the comment.

I know I have seen nearly 1 in 20 edit suggestions are some random person suggesting an edit to a post that completely changes the meaning.
The people that gentrified the neighborhood 20 years ago, are upset that younger, richer people are moving in on their territory.

The NIMBYs are responsible for the complete lack of new market housing in SF, and have hilariously priced themselves out of the market.
Still available on Steam as of writing:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/38400/

Wonder what happened to cause GoG to lose it.
This. Source:

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