skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been following your linux insides posts for a while now, and I just want to say thank you for sharing your incredible knowledge in such a clear and enjoyable way. This booting process series has been particularly enjoyable and useful for me as a newer Linux user who wants to know how the internals work, as well as someone who has an interest in low level programming and computer engineering. Thanks again, I'm really looking forward to your future posts!
The primary cause is society losing the concept of courtesy, but the secondary cause is people losing the concept of spite. You can thank all of the able-bodied people that have enabled this behavior by accommodating it instead of standing up for themselves.

I give about 65% of the sidewalk to an oncoming person/group. I'm not slowing down either way. Most people take the hint.
> You can optionally use a credentials file in ~/.remtail.json of this format:

What ever happened to just using .netrc?

http://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/manual/html_node/The-_...
I wasn't disputing the validity of your comment, I was questioning the necessity for vulgar language to achieve your point.
Sure. But all software has bugs.
I don't think that disables checking for updates.
"Hence in the Monte Hall Problem, there is no advantage to switching if Monte selects the unchosen door to open at random, and it happens to be a goat. That situation is consistent with the description, but perhaps not the 'feel' of the game show setup."

This isn't quite right. Obviously if there's a chance Monty might open the car, it screws up the gameshow, but it doesn't actually change the odds in the situation that he opened a door with a goat.

The knowledge in Monte's head doesn't change the odds.

To simulate this properly, you'll need to change the problem statement somewhat... you'll either have to throw out cases where he opened the door with the car, or state the problem such that we're only look at cases where he randomly opened a door with the goat. But you'll still get 2/3.
I'm going to upvote you.

It's a very good point you've made here.

This founder is giving bad advice to women who don't want to get pregnant causing some women to ditch contraception like condoms... resulting in unwanted pregancices.
Arguably a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8848544.
Ignore the junk that doesn't add value. You're right -- it's noise, and there's a lot of it right now.

Identify the specific long-term opportunities where the added technology can actually give users a superpower: a valuable ability they didn't have before. That's what we've tried to do with Pantelligent. (Disclaimer: co-founder / https://www.pantelligent.com/ ) For us, it's the ability for home chefs of any skill level [democratization] to cook any frying pan-based meals [versatility] perfectly [quality] every time [repeatability], even when you're multitasking in the kitchen [convenience]. If that isn't adding user value by adding a bit of connected intelligence to an everyday home appliance, then I don't know what is!
Instead of clarifying the request, in case the support person had misunderstood it, the customer goes on the attack on the very first message after the first reply. The second reply of the support person is an explanation, and once again the customer continues the attack.

If I was the support person, I wouldn't accept that. People are mirrors, they reflect how you are treating them. If you ever feel you are mistreated, it's likely that your own previous behaviour is at fault.
If I'm reading this[1] correctly, these might be proxied DMCA submissions. Total Wipes Music Group sells software:

Total Wipes Anti Piracy is a complete anti-piracy system that allows to you
complete control to view, automate and remove illegal contents across
cyberlocker, torrents, vk.com, filestube.com and illegal streaming sites
whilst searching for your content across over 5 Billion piracy webpages
24/7. Our carefully own created script uses the info you provide to deeply
scan a vast range of IP networks, search engines, social sites, and other
infringing locations for illegal instances of your content. Following a
large group of data, our internal spider's scripts identify all links
as valid or not, beginning the removal process. A consistently action
of removing illegal instances of your content from all platforms drives higher
sales. Protecting your content from illegal and unauthorized use puts
copyright control back into your hands.

[1] https://www.totalwipesmusicgroup.com/pages/antipiracy
Looks the same as https://wakatime.com which is also fully automatic and detects projects.
I'm also curious about this. If there is no downside of filing a false DMCA complaint then what prevents someone from causing the receiver a ton of unnecessary work?
The DMCA states it is criminal to send false takedown requests, excusing from mistakes. However "Whoops, I sent a takedown for nothing but open source software!" is not a mistake. It is negligence in writing scripts or a human review process that avoids false takedown requests. If the city "mistakenly forgets" to repair the brakes on its busses, injuring dozens of people, they would of course be liable for the damages.
does anyone know were to find thos note notebook-files on yosemite? can't find it under /Users/aaaa/.Library/
Because they--content providers in general--continue to violate all sorts of implicit conditions of the "implicit contract".

The "implicit contract" says they shouldn't be attacking my computer with malware or attacking me with scams.

The "implicit contract" says the ads for a single page should not "take over" the rest of my computing-experience with stuff like auto-playing sound.

The "implicit contract" says one site's ads should not be part of a global panopticon secretly spying on my internet-wide activity through a thousand sources.

The "implicit contract" says the ads should not drastically change the page-loading time or cause the experience to stutter.

I believe at least 90% of all ad-blocking is attributable to these systematic violations of the users' trust.
I really don't understand the whole cars are in league with big oil. What on earth do the car companies have to get out of it?
The big name in the 90s, Ballard, had buy in from a couple of car companies and no oil companies.
When I say "current valuation" I really mean "best value": at what valuation could the company realistically raise money? For public companies, it would be the share price. For companies close to IPO, it would be very near the strike price. For start-ups, it's likely much higher than the strike price... more along the lines of the last round of funding (if recent and no big developments) or what a reasonable estimation would be if they raised right now.

I do appreciate the high five figure datapoint you've provided.
and Hydro as well.
"I'm baffled that users continue to trust it. "

Baffled? And exactly how would "everyone" know that "evernote software cannot be trusted".

Is there a central repository of information that is obvious to check that would point that out? Or are you assuming that it's just one of those things that's totally obvious and that people should know because everyone is up to date on every situation with respect to companies on the web. [1]

For the record I don't trust any of these services and never have. I roll my own solution which I am in control of. I've found problems with time machine on apple, so although I do use that in most cases I also clone disks, [2] use rsync and have offsite backups and so on.

[1] Like "Google tends to neglect and kill products" or "Paypal can kill your account in a heartbeat" and so on?

[2] SuperDuper works great for cloning Macs I've been using it for years.
Military uses of the moon are zero. Moon's distance from earth: 394,000km (238,000 miles); too far for reconnaissance, space-to-earth weapons or even anti-satellite technology if publicly available information is accurate.
I think "foo.bar is undefined, not a function" might be clearer.
The current trend seems to be granting "official" or "verified" icons (youtube does this IIRC). Though looking for those icons isn't as intuitive as seeing a name that 'seems official' (i.e. a name that only a person who has claims to it should/would be in control of).
And not to forget that people get branded for things they didn't do or were misinterpreted or for one-time mistakes. Should these people have to live with that forever?
I discovered this through a Facebook thread that has a ton of comments on it from non HN or techie peeps. Thought you might want to know what normal non-techies think.

"I think it is a great idea that has potential but I personally wouldn't use them because I can't find anything about them on the website. Looks like a scam."

"They need to re-design their website so it doesn't look like it was slapped together in 10 minutes and add an about page so we know who they are."

"Not even a business at this point."

"This stuff kind of annoys me actually. I get the minimal product concept to test the market but when stuff like this is pushed out there it makes consumers very wary."

"These guys will take this to some bay area VC's and probably get funded because it blew up on Reddit and HN with a bunch of other techies. Meh!"

"It is going to take some serious $$ to get a service like this going. The support alone for handling inbound texts and having reps look for and book deals is a very big undertaking."

"Yay! Another useless service that creates more low wage service jobs that cater to the wealthy."
The customer support rep gave you the answer. You didn't like the answer and you picked the fight. Customer support staff don't get to decide what features a product will or will not have. Your feedback probably could have been directed to a different channel within that company that actually does look for feedback.
Plenty of people think this. Let's not pick on any one specifically.
Wow... really? It's absolutely viewed as low prestige in my experience. I mean our culture has an ingrained stereotype of the socially awkward, maladjusted engineer, that's definitely out there. The jocks, "cool kids," extroverts, your typical fraternity member etc. are supposed to be in finance or striving to be an executive or something.

I think it's generational to some extend. IMO the baby boomers are particularly bad w/ regards to the stereotype. My parent's friends ask about my work as a programmer, and I suggest that their son or daughter who hasn't figured out what they want to do consider taking it up (code bootcamps make it easy, great market now, etc.), and I just get such cringe reactions from them.

But... younger generations are better, given how startups are now viewed as "trendy," and I do think movies/TV like the Social Network had a big impact.
Maybe one approach is to start by doing everything by hand but then gradually try to automate things. This would not work for answering questions, but when it comes to ordering things I would assume majority of orders would fall into not-so-many categories.

It could be valuable to just record all the transactions and how the agents filled them. What the customer asked, what kind of questions the agent asked, did agent Google for the service, what steps did they take on web sites to perform the order etc. If you have this kind of data for thousands of transactions that might have some value for Google, Apple or other companies working to build digital assistants.

For more complex/expensive purchases one added value thing for customer could be that the agent knows how to find a good deal. There's for example a service (or maybe just a forum) where people can post their travel plans and airline ticketing experts compete to provide the best ticket options.

One obvious income source that comes to my mind is affiliate fees and companies paying for you to introduce them for new customers. This is of course also difficult one since customers would like you to recommended the best provider and not the one that pays best affiliate fees.
As opposed to the special snowflake club ignoring the politically inconvenient research done in the last 20 years on gender equality? Differences in in-group bias, differences in headline coverage as victims, differences in court judgments, ...

Let's keep rewriting history so that white men are to blame. It's not like they do things like land probes on comets or anything.
You can filter a lot of that out.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=perl%2C%20python%20-m...

Looks like the interest in monty python and snake pythons is pretty constant.
Diversity within the police department would probably help.
I'm from Ireland and "blue movies" used to be a common term for pornographic films and I'm fairly certain that our British neighbours also used this terminology. However, while typing this comment it occurs to me that I haven't heard the term in many years and I suspect it has fallen out of fashion as Internet sites have taken over from sex shops (which really only arrived in Ireland in the mid to late 90s).
Personal anecdote: I've been using Evernote Premium for 4 years (coming on 5). I have over 800 notes and I am not aware of any data loss issues.
Not that I'm saying you constructed it this way intentionally, but this argument is the rhetorical equivalent of one of those Highlights For Children "How Many Things Can You Spot Wrong With This Picture" puzzles; including, at least:

* The notion that politicians occupy high-status careers

* The notion that it's the status held by politicians that is the reason they're allowed to set national policy

* The notion that your intuition about status trumps the actual numbers for occupational prestige, which are (a) easily found and (b) immediately refute both the premise and conclusion of this argument

* The notion that most lawyers are on a track to become politicians

* The notion that lawyers would be overrepresented among politicians because people love lawyers that much, and not because the top echelons of law are disproportionately well compensated, or because those people make decades-long careers out of making connections with businesses and power brokers

* The notion that you can evaluate the overall status hierarchy position of a career solely by observing it's top echelon (here: national office-holders, and not city council-people)
I don't mean to be cynical, but mass harassment is a problem for a very small percentage of twitter users.

From a business perspective what is the incentive for twitter to solve such a problem?
There is no excess. Renewables do not have anywhere near the capacity to charge a fuel cell automobile economy.

Additionally, if there was capacity why not use it to charge lithium batteries?
I assume it's a measure of the amount of malnutrition.
I usually using simple text with dropbox and git repo, just in case dropbox failed pretty hard
I may be wrong about this, actually. Guess that goes to show you that precise terminology matters here.

This python gist appears to simulate the situation correctly, and shows that it becomes 50/50.

https://gist.github.com/ecdavis/da8f67258860e9f35620

That said, I'm not sure I completely agree with this solution just throwing out cases where he opens the winning door, without replacement. I feel like at this point we're calculating a different problem where we haven't precisely defined what it is we're measuring, so you could tweak things to get either answer.
Actually, Pharmacy is going to become the new Law. http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119634/pharmacy-school-cr...
He does not raise that topic, but as I see it, that's a strength of the article. It questions the utility of fuel cell hydrogen cars entirely on technical grounds, providing good arguments for why that is not a good technology to bet on in the future, from someone that has participated in developing said technology. This gives much more weight to his arguments than if he had started to discuss how this is some plot to keep the petroleum infrastructure in place.
Instead the article gives solid arguments for technical minded people, that can be used in political discussions elsewhere
Maybe someone already mentioned this to you, but 140 characters is pretty much the only unique thing that makes twitter recognizably twitter
No but you've pulled this exact same "do you know who I am???" spiel before. I remember the account name. Didn't care then either.

Hint: if you were relevant, you wouldn't need to remind people. And if you weren't stuck up, you'd have made a point here instead of acting sanctimonious.
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FYI, this is interesting because of who the tweet is coming from. About the author:

> I’m currently a Research Assistant at MIT CSAIL, in David Karger’s Haystack group and an Invited Expert in the W3C CSS Working Group.

Unfortunately, reading the whole conversation does not give much insight as to the logic behind this moral claim. It's just asserted. The author takes it as self-evident that viewing ads is the cost of visiting some websites.
Apple's new iPad ad, filmed on an iPad Air 2
Thank you very much! <3
That sounds like an incentive for these companies to file deliberately nonsensical DMCA complaints, so that they'll always be able to disguise malice as incompetence.
Unfortunately, there's no efficient process for that. Efficiency of electrolysis (when not using expensive catalysts) is around 50%.
> It's now low prestige, it's just lower prestige than e.g. medicine, law or "investment banking".

Software developer and data scientist are both at the top of the list of best careers in America right now, and more people aspire to be startup CEOs than movie stars or pro athletes.
Exactly. Never trust any one solution with everything. I use Evernote and Dropbox, but I also keep incremental backups of everything with crashplan, and take regular snapshots of my primary hard drive. It would be a pain if Evernote lost something, but never a catastrophe.
Especially thinking of a synced cloud folder as a backup is just asking for grief.
Find a way to spend time with kids. I find kids are consistently better at knowing how to "be" than adults, and they can help you reset how to perceive reality.

In my shirt pocket, I always carry stickers from a game I'm working on. Whenever I bump into a parent wrangling kids, I offer the parent stickers with this line, "In case these are of some use."

I do not explain they're from my game, nor do they have any branding on them. It's not about that. It's about making a kid happy with a sticker, and it works.

They do all kinds of things with them, from sticking them on themselves to immediately creating stories behind them. The good parents usually remind their kids to "thank the nice man for the stickers" and then they proceed to be good kids and deliver perfectly adorable "thank you"'s.

I've seen and done a lot of things, and it'll sound trite, but not nothing can compare to making a kid smile.
Seems kind of sweet. Except for the prefixing symbols.
I like Traceur (at least with tools like System.js & jspm), especially with its support for optional typing and annotations, but for some apps, Babel makes a lot more sense.

I came across the difficulty of using jspm on the server and client for an isomorphic React app I am building for an online community I run, and I was advised to just use npm (& naturally Babel). Integrating browserify with babelify into the build process was a far easier task.
It is pretty simple to check to see if it is really refrences to monty python.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=perl%2C%20python%20-m...
I switched from Evernote to OneNote too, though lately I've been doing all my text-based notes in https://workflowy.com/ (YC '10). It automatically uploads your data to Dropbox if you upgrade, but you can easily export everything as a single file yourself.
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I think the link should be http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/us/ties-to-corporate-cash-...

Currently the link is for the science section, and this is the top article.
I'm not trying to weigh working at a start-up vs. a late stage or public company. I'm trying to get some data on what various companies are offering for the equity portion of their compensation, and am using "dollar value" as the way to measure this.

Imputing a value isn't that difficult. In fact, this happens each time the company goes out to raise money. A lower bound to this would be the latest 409A valuation.

Granted, there are still plenty of variables that can affect the overall value of the optoins, such as companies having different growth/exit trajectories, and the difference between "strike price" and "current valuation", but "dollar value" is probably the most reasonable way to compare apples to apples.

Several methods of determining how many options to grant employees are based off of "dollar value"[1]. For example, if you are foregoing $100k of salary over 4 years, it makes sense to obtain _at least_ that much in "dollar value" of options. I'd like to see how much equity is actually being offered in practice.

[1]: http://avc.com/2010/11/employee-equity-how-much/
Unlike Europe, most of the urban infrastructure of the United states centers around the automobile. I'm not referring to roads vs train tracks. I'm referring to density Of the population. Our suburban cul De sacs make most forms of rail based public transportation prohibitely expensive to build. Only in a high density city like nyc would this make sense.
To address the problem we need to dramitcally change our cities.
I'm sure it's been said before and I'm sure it'll be said again, but there need to be punative measures. Automatic submissions like this that waste service providers' and uploaders' time and while it might not be malicious, if you file legally binding papers on somebody (like a DMCA) you should have your costs covered if it turns out to be bull.

Even an automatic $100 fine per 10 URLs per domain would stop idiots crap like this, and fairly remunerate Google for going through it.
So is the Evernote local content DB not included in Time Machine backups? My understanding is that it typically is, although it takes a little doing to restore.

I tend to put important stuff in DropBox because, as a collection of local folders and files, it is well-integrated with Time Machine.

Important reminder that NEITHER Evernote nor DropBox are backup solutions. They should be; they're a good approximation; but ultimately the only reliable way to back something up is to put a copy of it somewhere else.
Oddly enough, I use almost all windows in maximised mode on this small old laptop. That is with Gnome 3 and/or MATE. Just seems to make more sense.
I would like a social network where I can choose people to "follow", and then I can see when those people post things. That means:

1) Don't show posts from people I don't follow
2) Don't hide posts from people I do follow

Facebook gave up on that years ago, and that's probably one of the reasons I've mostly stopped using it. Now Twitter is following in the same footsteps. More and more I'm getting posts showing up in my Twitter timeline that are not from people I follow and weren't retweeted, they are just "person X follows this account, so here's a tweet from it". No! If I cared, I'd have followed it myself.

And now all this talk about showing "important" tweets that Twitter thinks I "missed". Stop it! You don't know what I think is important. Again, this is what drove me away from Facebook.

(Not even talking about ads/"sponsored tweets" here, though that doesn't help either.)
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