skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've got lots of hard proven facts on a lot of topics, like vaccinations. People still don't get their kids vaccinated, and then we get outbreaks where kids die from the measles.

Perception can easily outweigh facts for a lot of people. If we could find a way to trick people into vaccinating their kids we would use it.

The attitude of "they're just stupid people who don't know better" is kind of disgusting when we've got college and university educated people exhibiting the exact same behaviour. Who's dumber? The person that doesn't know better or the person who should know better, because I think it's the latter.

So to all the people who think these are just stupid people. If the US government had exterminated 70 million Americans three decades ago, would you be giving your kids a single vaccine? Or would you expect it to be part of another genocide campaign?
I know the title is a bit flamy, but I think it can generate an interesting discussion on how to best handle the publication and handling of this type of issues (especially when involving competing companies).

Thoughts?
Well, some of the bolts were already there, and I'm not sure if Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson actually drilled any of their own bolts, but I wouldn't be surprised if they put in a few.

Bolts have always been a source of controversy in climbing – in fact, bolts were the main controversy in the first ascent of the Dawn Wall (/ Wall of Early Morning Light) back in 1970, so much that the first ascensionist's rival Royal Robbins actually climbed the route and chopped the bolts off as he went. There have been similar controversies all over the world, another notable example being on Cerro Torre in Patagonia.

Unless a climbing area is a designated "sport climbing area", bolts are generally not placed unless there is no other way to protect a stretch of climbing. Climbers try to place devices that don't damage the rock (nuts, cams, tricams, hexes, etc.) first, but sometimes none of those devices will work as they all rely on jamming against something, and blank faces do not have the cracks and holes into which jamming gear can be inserted. When this happens, bolts are placed because there isn't any other way to protect the climbers in the event of the fall.

So, I don't really have a good answer to your question except to say that the use of bolts has always and still is a huge source of controversy in the climbing community. These days, with sport "crags" being the exception, climbers try to rely on other "clean" methods of protection before turning to bolts, which is in stark contrast to past eras where bolts and pitons were the predominant way to protect pitches.
It's a tough debate. On one hand, bolts are not very visible and no wildlife is going to try to eat and choke on a bolt. On the other hand, it's permanently altering the rock, and bolts don't have an infinite lifespan. There are also cases of landowners disallowing white chalk (or chalk in general) because it visibly stains the rock and doesn't wash off very quickly.

Bolts allow cliffs to be used for recreational climbing, much like how trails alter the landscape, but allow the land to be used for recreational hiking. No human activity is 100% impact free, unfortunately.
I keep trying. I never stick with emacs.
It's not without controversy, and climbers are far from unanimous about it. The decision to bolt is definitely one that the climbing community at least takes seriously and has a vocabulary and some rubrics around (though admittedly there are factions of opinion on it).

Generally the decision to bolt is favorable only when it's unsafe to climb with traditional gear. The impact that bolting has is rationalized worthwhile due to it's (arguably) low direct impact on the environment and the fact that sport climbing proliferates lots of outdoor enthusiasts with the attention and dollars that brings.
You don't think college education has impacted the world at all? Its literally just a resume checkbox?
Step 1: Site operators install backend library to detect uid cookies and send them via API to a central database

Step 2: Privacy-minded activists install a browser extension that reads the uids from central database and spoofs HTTP headers with them. Extension could even cycle through uids on a daily basis to cause more mayhem.

Result: with just a few big sites running this, a few thousand people with the extension could irreparably corrupt the uid header's "uniqueness" and it could no longer be relied upon to respawn a lost cookie session. Because Turn wouldn't know whether it's a real mobile Verizon user, or a jackass with an extension.

Shameless plug: I've already written a browser extension http://flagger.io that spoofs HTTP headers in Chrome and Firefox. Would be easy to add this functionality if people can help on the backend side (writing libraries for node/python/ruby/php/etc.)
If it has a good Internet connection, and is well-ventilated, I bet half the people reading this would be OK with living there.

I'd install a camera up top and hook it up to a large 4k display for a "window".
So you have to make close to $30k before taxes to pay for day care? Is this normal for daycare?

If one parent in a situation like this is making around the median individual income of ~$40k a year, it probably makes more sense financially to not work until the kid is school age.

Obviously it's not that simple because of potential lost future earnings resulting from delayed career advancement, but I wonder if people really bother doing the math.
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You can't feed them garbage.

Verizon operates at the network layer - if you are on their network presumably they will copy the real value over your garbage value.

If you aren't on their network then they can check IP address and ignore values not from the Verizon subnets.

There are a couple of other solutions you haven't mentions:

VPNs: Annoying and currently too hard for most people. Perhaps it is time for device (PC and mobile) manufactures to consider offering VPNs integrated with their devices.

Competition: If the US had a more competitive broadband market then people could choose other providers.

Legal action: If Verizon was sued and lost over this then it could have a cautionary effect. However, the loss would have to be huge for it to have an impact, and large financial settlements generally require proof of significant harm. That's going to be hard in this case.
Uh, (citation needed)? As far as I'm aware, the scientific community is pretty convinced that the adult brain has a large degree of neuroplasticity [1] and can retain a significant amount as we age [2]. It's also been shown what we refer to as "fluid intelligence" can actually be trained and optimized for [3]. I would argue that until real, systemic cognitive decline begins occurring (let's say ~65), any differences in an individual's ability to learn new things and retain facts based on age can probably be more strongly attributed to their internal biases from their pre-acquired knowledge than an inability to learn.

Maybe in some part I'm arguing semantics ("either way, what appears to be a decline still occurs"), but to say that cognitive decline happens sooner when related to aptitude for maths as opposed to aptitude for biology is a little silly without a citation. Would love to read these articles if you have resources.

It's probably a mistake to write off an older adult's ability to learn. I would lean to heavily favour Elon's anecdote [4], "I do kinda feel like my head is full! My context switching penalty is high and my process isolation is not what it used to be. Frankly, though, I think most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying." --- more knowledge means you have the ability to be more discerning which can be more computationally expensive (and take longer), but it doesn't necessarily offset ability to learn. In fact, you could probably make a convincing argument that with proper pattern recognition you can learn the right things more quickly.

1. Plasticity in the human cerebral cortex: lessons from the normal brain and from stroke. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15070490

2. Plasticity of the human brain ‐ “We never use the same brain twice” https://www.mpg.de/38899/hm09_PlasticityHumanBrain_basetext....

3. Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2383929/

4. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2rgsan/i_am_elon_musk...
Ah porcelain, BPA free since 1600 BC.
Someone who understands this well needs to write a very short 'elevator' explanation for non-technical end-users that we all can copy and paste. That small act would be invaluable to spreading awareness, which is necessary for any progress.

I was going to send the EFF article to some Verizon customers I know but I realized they would have no idea what it meant. I don't have time to read it thoroughly and write an accurate, succinct summary.

Any volunteers? (The EFF is doing a disservice to the cause by not doing it themselves.)
URL should've been http://www.neowin.net/news/after-throwing-microsoft-under-th...
ahahah this is great... the map looks like it's something out of War Games
It's strange to read this and then simultaneously read people complaining about HTTP2 requiring SSL. It'd surely be nice if law protected us from bad actors but SSL protects from this in a way that (hopefully) can't be circumvented.
I've had recent experience with the DMV, Charter, and my doctor: of the three, I was treated most professionally and with least wasted time, at the DMV.
So is being negative. I hadn't read this, and its less than a year old so not old.
Precisely my thinking. I was wondering what'd happened to Word Lens and so to see them baked in to the Google engine is really exciting. Great work and congratulations!
This graph:

http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/education/data/cps/histor...

and others on this page:

http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/education/data/cps/histor...

seem to disagree with your intuition
Works fine on my 2013 MacAir
Human life or human ego?
Water pipes, phone lines, and electrical lines are built into your house too and you're not usually forced to sign up for the monthly services if you don't want them. Fiber would be the same way, the lines would be in the ground before the buildings are erected, and you'd be able to sign up for service if you want it.
Maybe whenever someone advertises remote, the pool of applicants is just huge and can't be sorted reasonably. I think the other commenters are right. Reach out to businesses and create the situation once you've established that you're a responsible, reliable programmer who can stick to development schedules.
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"You never know until you try."

Saying "I didn't follow a link because I was unsure of what was behind it." is the same as never having followed that link. Why bother to say "There is child port on Freenet." and then in the same breath say "I've never seen it." That's the same as keeping your stupid mouth shut, but unfortunately stupidity like yours is simply contagious.

If your statements are correct, then that would mean that Everyone You've spoken with has actually seen kidporn. Does that include your hairdresser? We don't really care about the hear say of someone who can't remember the last time he/she talked to someone about something other than Freenet.

At least tell us how many ppl you've talked to who claim to have actually seen child pornography? I sure haven't and I've seen a lot of porn, even went looking for the stuff and have only come close. There was a few times when I though "ohh, there it is", but then did some research only to discover that the model in question was in her mid 20s. Now that's not to say the content of the images was legal. My understanding is that if it looks like a kid, then it's just as illegal as the "genuine??" article. That is had drawn images of children are illegal, even though no children were harmed.

If there is kidporn on Freenet, then do the correct thing please post a takedown request.
Thanks for the input. We're testing the message. If you go to our regular site www.devdraft.com, you'll see the original one. Which do you prefer?
Mandatory fees add another $2,260 annually though. Doesn't really change your point, but it's not quite that cheap.
> Do they?

If you want them to be economically competitive, then yes.

The largest current expense is the driver salary, mostly due to the low quality of the working conditions and extended stays away from your "home." If you're still carting people around in the truck, then you will have a difficult time competing with large personnel and technology expenses.

What I'm trying to suggest is that a fully automated nation-wide delivery service is going to be exceptionally difficult and will take a long time.

This is mostly from the perspective of OTR/long-haul transportation. You'll likely see faster adoption on smaller scales such as in-city delivery services like grocery delivery and the like. It will blossom outward from there but it's still going to be a very long process.
To be fair not all universities are the same either. A university may have a great engineering program but have terrible liberal arts professors. Why pay thousands for an English class where you learn to write a basic five paragraph essay (which you should have learned in highschool), when you can pay a few hundred instead.
2.5 hours, round trip, car+train+walking (1/2 mile one way walking.) Most of the train ride is productive, but I hate walking when there's snow and ice. The summer is awesome though.

I try for remote if I can get it, but can live without it.
I have read a bit about data-oriented design, and wonder if speedups could be gain (an how?) if use .NET? Or more exactly: What if I'm in a managed environment (like Java, .NET, etc)
Somewhat related, does anyone know about Verizon FIOS TV commercial injections and how they possibly relate to FIOS internet tracking?

I have IBD and have been spending a lot of time on UC/IBD related sites lately. I've noticed quite a lot of tv commercials for IBD drugs on TV and mentioned it in passing to my friend. He said Verizon uses tech from RGB Networks and similar companies to inject custom commercials into the FIOS TV streams based on FIOS internet data.

Does anyone know more about this program?
If your logistics operation allows for that, sure; most do not. You want to do as much work with as little miles as is possible, so turning the trucks over quickly is important.
Typically, no. But it meets the literal definition of one.

My concern is that government often does not have any incentive to innovate and often operates extremely inefficient due to bureaucracy.

As far as opening up for competing ISPs I'm all in favor of that.

However, I would be much more in favor of a building tenant being the owner of the last mile line and contracting out work to a 3rd party company. That way the tenant has the option to lease or purchase outright. Let the tenant decide the level of quality and the price they are willing to pay.

With taxes and the gov't providing it you take away choice and force people to pay for things they may not need. Or if they want to pay more for higher quality, they don't really have that option either.
They're still going to have to fill out the applications to get in, which aren't significantly different in difficulty from the FAFSA. And most colleges have people who will help you fill out the FAFSA anyway.

I can't imagine that eliminating the FAFSA form requirements will allow a noticeably larger number of substandard students to attend.
Internet connection is wireless only (unless you get a phone line to property). No broadband and cell coverage is hit and miss.

5Mbps is about as fast as you can reasonably get and runs about $80/month. It lags very slightly, and the receiver better stay pointing right at their tower. The winds sometimes shift the receiver a little, and it has to be adjusted or speed really drops.
The original research checked the Turn / NAI / DAA opt out. According to Mayer, it does't respawn. This part of Turn's response is a lie.
Obama to propose paid sick leave for American workers
The original memo sent by WIRED's editor in chief is a gem: http://www.theawl.com/2015/01/re-new-wired-offices

I can understand the need to keep the office tight and organized, but I think the tone of the memo sounds more like Morgan Stanley than the "home of world-changing journalism".
There is alot of permanent and semi-permanant installtion set up on the route. There is alot of outside help. There is alot of "aid" being used to actually climb this route and to resupply it. To me this this is free climbing like gym climbing is "free climbing". The level of "technnical difficulty" is high, but that deosn't seem to be the whole story.

The feat is immensively impressive, but use of the word "free climning" here is starting to become almost meaninglesss when there is that much permant aid/infrastructure and siege tactic being applied to the problem.

If these 2 guys were alone and hauled up their own gear/disposed of waste, and actually climbed the route sequentially...rather than using aid to rest between pitches...something seems to suggest they would have faced a significantly greater obstacle.

So the media hype around a "free climb" here is overblown. On the other hand, its kind of ??? we as the public need to hang our hats on the "category/name" here to appreciate what these guys are doing.

That label seems needed market the climb and their sponsors... or apparently the public would be inclined to take it so seriously (??).

Kinda warped view...but it is what it is.
We connect people to job opportunities based on merit. Behind the BS Detector is our auto generated scorecard that gives you an unambiguous view of your skills and presents them to companies. No linkedin. No resume. No BS.
Not dumb! Deserts are beautiful and amazing. If you never have, take a peek at Namibia[1] (my favorite visited deserts to date).

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Namibia/@-23.1991868,17.22...
Not to be negative, but I am simply not impressed. I thought milling PCBs was over about 15 years ago when pcbexpress and the like of plot and go quick turn services came to the market. There is just no reason to mill your own boards anymore (and -ugh- manually fill your own vias) with services around like dirtypcb.

If you truly need a quick turnaround, pcbexpress can get you a slightly higher quality board tomorrow for less than $200. That's around 1/15th the cost of this device, and a better product (i.e. less likely to cause a problem which will waste a ton of your time)

The pick-n-place aspect is somewhat interesting, but HaD had a project for a $300 pnp machine; I expect to see something like it on kickstartr soon.
That's correct, I want to use someone elses hardware with software I want to write. I guess basically I'm looking for someone that is just like square except instead of them writing the POS interface they were like Stripe where they provide the API and not the UI.
If the value of bitcoin is so low that you can't buy enough of them to pay for your purchase without drastically changing the value of the currency then they're not particularly useful as a method of payment.
If the government was your ISP, what are the privacy implications?
Yahoo is doing just fine
I've seen a couple of talks by these guys, and it definitely seems like some cool tech, especially the seamless fallback to human operators when the NLP algos fail.

That being said, this vertical seems limited in market size. I have a sneaking suspicion that their true strategy is to build up a good AI/NLP stack and sell to FB, MSFT, or GOOG.
Totally agree. It's the first time in many years where I was genuinely surprised at the capabilities of a computer.
Native Minnesotan here,

I was homeless at one point in my life, so this kind of hit close to home (no pun intended). Thank you for making this as great as you did.
True, but neither are municipal broadband ISP's a mature organizational model. In both cases, we have a few plausible examples, but much more work is needed to verify their viability.

For my eye, I think that CJDNS is the most likely of the current candidates to emerge as useful for this sort of implementation.
about 45mn one way in the crowded Tokyo train.
On the way to $220M in funding, Instacart quietly changed its business model
You can download the language for offline usage, at least in android
Some friends and I actually did something like this at a hackathon. We built a Google Hangouts app that used Google's translate API for real-time video conferencing in different languages.
Books on a Diet
Instead of 2 more years of "free" education, why not ask how we can add more value to the last 2 years of high school, so that people graduate with job skills? This is just an attempt to buy votes, and funnel more money into gov. $60 billion is an estimate, and it will probably be triple that. Look at other gov estimates and you'll see a pattern. How much was the Iraq war supposed to cost? What about that NASA project in Mississippi?
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One more bureaucracy to add to the pile.

ISP: "It's not our fault, it's your demarc".
Demarc: "It's not our fault, it's the city".
City: "It's not our fault, it's the ISP."

A better solution would be for the building owner to provide for the last line and contract the work out to 3rd parties. This gives them control over price, timing, quality, and maintenance. It also creates a market for last mile line installers and competition.

With a government run last mile you have none of those choices. If you aren't satisfied with the level of service you have no options. If you don't want to subsidize someone else's Internet, you have no options. If you want to upgrade you line, you have no options.
At Silk Road trial, federal agent explains how he trapped Ulbricht
Slack Plus Plan
The Dollar Value of a Stolen Life
Ehhh...

For my home, 2.5mi from the Capital Building in Washington State, I'm offered four wired broadband providers:

1. Comcast, "advertised 100mbps to 1gbps" (true enough, although you can only get 150mbps, so I'm not sure if that's bracketing)

2. CenturyLink, "25-50mbps" (CenturyLink's own website says "Our systems indicate that our High Speed Internet is not currently available at your service address." I tried several other streets in the area that indicated that none of them had availability either.)

3. Platinum Equity LLC, "10-25mbps" (err, Platinum Equity is an investment firm - oh, one of their portfolio offers "T1 and Bonded T1" lines to businesses)

4. Integra Telecom Holdings, "3-6mbps" (a Vancouver telco that does business fiber).

So there's one - Olympia, WA.
> As a result, households there can now get 1 gigabit (1,000 Mbps) service for just $70 per month.

> The Obama administration is also planning to offer subsidies to promote investments in local broadband.

While $70 doesn't seem like an outrageously great deal (it is good), it brings up an interesting point my dad had the other day. Is the true cost of that gigabit internet $100/mo, and tax dollars subsidize $30 while you cover the other $70 as stated? If municipalities truly can provide faster cheaper internet I'm all for it; however, I would hate to have another reason to bump taxes, nor a reason to crowd out competition and remove the incentive for innovation.
Working Longer Hours Can Mean Drinking More
Could also have an 18 bit output where each 3 bit block told you the index of that input in the sorted array.
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Biochar could boost agricultural yields and control pollution
Renaissance Farms: 1 for 1 Opensource Aquaponics
We appreciate the feedback, and you'll start to see more and more cross promotion of campaigns on the platform in coming months (especially for our projects on the open source version Tilt/Open which has been powering some really cool stuff lately). If you have any additional feedback, i'd love to hear it - my email is james @ tilt.

Congrats to GoFundMe btw!
16 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8813484