skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well the USA is not a free nation, in fact the various governments of United States are oppressive, so while not a "dictatorship" it is totalitarian so I guess I do not need to respect the laws...

And before you start naming other nations, no the US is not the "most" oppressive in the world, but just because they are less oppressive than say north Korea, that does not change the fact that US citizens do not enjoy the level of freedom they should in order for me to call it a free nation.
The CPUC has kowtowed to incumbent providers for decades. The wrinkle in this case is that the "incumbents" are taxi companies rather than VZN and ATT.
This reminds me of Yishan Wong's comment about the law being "lazily evaluated" [1]. Whatever the legal merit of the ruling, the plain political reality is that Uber has establish an immense base of satisfied users and will therefore receive significant pushback on this. I personally can't imagine Uber shutting down in CA at this point: so many people are past the the "can't imagine how I did it before..." threshold.

While Uber's strategy was in a gray (if not black) area at the time of inception, by the time the law gets around to "evaluating" whether to act against Uber, the sands have shifted, vindicating Wong's point.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Why-has-Airbnb-not-been-sued-or-regula...
Licensing holds people to standards. Uber might not be a scam, but what if I want to create Cole's Driver Service? With that logic what stops me and a million other scammers from creating shady unregulated taxi services?
I love uber and use it daily. I live in NYC where taxis have been getting worse and worse over the past few years.

I am very concerned about how much their "contractors" make though. Some of the drivers I speak to claim they can make 100k a year driving just Friday and Saturday nights... others say they aren't making much profit after insurance, TLC, and leasing costs.
Better than shouting would be to actually push legislators to fund space programs better. Most of these programs are run on less than 1% of overall government budgets.
1 rep in the house (who can't vote), no senators
Do you mean daylight saving time? The time zone changes, but Unix time is UTC so it's unaffected.
Uber should be suspended in Cal and fined $7.3 mil, judge says
> They literally don't comply with any law in any country

they literally break every law in every country?
The TOR Browser Bundle is a great example of what can be done. I think it's actually pretty effective, especially with the more paranoid modes. It doesn't provide font lists, doesn't run JS, doesn't expose WebGL, picks one of a few standard screen sizes, etc.

I'd agree though that preventing general purpose browser fingerprinting is pretty much dead.
I believe that WebRTC, just like JavaScript, should be disabled by default and enabled only on sites that you really trust and need it; and in the case of WebRTC, the argument is much stronger since its use-case is so specific.
Paying users or even just moderators is a dangerous idea due to the overjustification effect [1]. Once someone is paid for an activity they previously did for free, it shifts in their mind from a hobby to a job. The joy they previously got from participating in that activity is reduced and they will then reevaluate how they spend their time. I don't think Reddit really wants its moderators to think "I spent 40 hours on Reddit this month and that is worth $20." Because the next thought after that is "My time is worth more than 50 cents an hour. I should stop wasting it on Reddit."

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overjustification_effect
Except the science on GMOs is much further from settled. And science hasn't really addressed some of the theoretical concerns.
Taking this further, as a developer, I find I have even less patience for slow loading times than a 'regular end-user'.

I don't know exactly, but I assume this is because I know what goes on behind the scenes, and 99% of the time, the website is doing way more work than it really needs to in order to deliver the experience that I'm asking for.
"You know a $40 billion company wouldn't be a scam."

Licensing isn't just 'we are not a scam' any more than a "site seal" on a website means anything.

Plenty of companies with valuations in the 8 and 9 digit range have a history of doing dubious things up to and including things that have been known to cost lives.

Licensing doesn't prevent that. But does help with some of the things needed to minimize. Uber just "opted" out of "inefficient regulation".
In Madoff's case, he passed SEC audits, licensing requirements, etc with flying colours.

Licensing primarily works by raising the barrier to entry, discouraging 'bad actors' from signing up because society-wise, 'bad actors' are more distributed among poorer demographics and are unable to afford licensing.
I would be willing to bet a newspaper pays dearly for the prestige of having a Nobel Laureate on its staff.
What amazing work! I am very interested in doing research with Tor and a dataset like this could make my job a heck of a lot easier. I have a legal question though: Are your scrapes text only? Before I work with this dataset, I want to make sure that there's no possibility it contains illegal images (child porn).
This is so cool. Thanks gwern.

If someone's feeling bored, you're welcome to put the entire archive on a web server for us to look at......

Or maybe I'll just do it.
In vim, set separate timeout and ttimeout values to get around this. Specifically, set the former high fit regular commands and the latter low to avoid issues like slow Esc processing.
I use it to pause output from a running batch job (e.g. deployment).
They sold 16% of their company. Are you saying the interests of minority stakeholders--no matter how small-- outweigh the interests of all other stakeholders in the company?
Postulating here: Is it possible the mountains are a result of gravitational pull of Charon on Pluto's water-ice mantle during pluto's formative years? Or the gravitational affects of Neptune and Pluto's orbital resonance?
Reddit is competing for advertisers and hence eyeballs. In this space there are an awful lot of growth-without-profit oriented companies. Combine that with a product that is not particularly sticky (nor technically complex) and you have a very difficult problem. I would not like to be the CEO of reddit.
Possibly because the more common situation is that a crop is GMd to not need pesticides. Like the papaya in the article.
I don't think you can say that and simultaneously be on hackernews without sounding a bit hypocritical (if that the correct word)

Also I believe, Reddit has the userbase it does not for its design but for its the community.
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Because I've ridden in non-regulated gypsy cabs before. The driver was terrible, the cab was in worse shape, and there was absolutely no systemic set of metering, just a negotiation of what the both of us felt was fair after the fact. The whole reason the medallion system was created was because prior to the medallions, taxis were a real risk to the general public.

The government shouldn't protect everyone from everything. They should, however, protect people when market failures do happen, like what happened in the taxi industry in the 20s and 30s. Uber's stonewalling here, when they were the ones who helped craft the law, shows how unconcerned that they aren't concerned with working out how to make taxis safer, just that they want to make money on an industry that needs rethinking, consequences be damned.
Somehow it doesn't seem quite like "civil disobedience" when it's a multinational company breaking the law. As an example, if a more established company just started breaking laws that were inconvenient to their margins (especially safety sensitive ones) I really doubt it would be so easy to support.
We've found https://github.com/n8/multi_fetch_fragments to be quite handy for this.
Not overly so. He did in some cases. In others, the SEC had plenty of warnings, concerns, but chose not to act on them (which is a different issue entirely - 'why not?').
Agreed. This feels like adding an additional hurdle that non-minority hires would not face (most generic recruiting sites I've seen don't require degrees).
If by your standards the US is "not a free nation", "oppressive", and "totalitarian", then I'd like to see what nations you describe as "free", "not oppressive", and "not totalitarian". Even more, I'd like you to define how you draw the line between them.

And if every nation is defined by you as totalitarian, then I think the problem is your definition.

The US is not perfect. It is less free than I would like. But there's a huge difference between the US and totalitarianism. If you've ever lived under a totalitarian regime, you'd know the difference, and you'd know which side of the line the US is on.
Lower down on the page, he says he did scrape at least one site with such images, although he specifically only took text. Can't verify that this was the case for all scraped sites.
Companies don't get to pick and choose which laws they deem worthy of following. If you want the laws changed support an advocacy group. To let them off for blatantly ignoring legislation in a democratic society is setting a dangerous precedent.
Do you know how the highway construction is vetted, how your cell phone batteries are vetted, how the gasoline additives are vetted, how the driver's licensing scheme in California is vetted, how vehicle import regulations are vetted, how traffic signals are vetted, etc?

Any of these could cause non-negligible personal risk, none of it your fault. For extra fun, imagine changing jurisdictions frequently and doing all that research over again.

Uber's economic model is maybe not my business, but my safety using them sure as hell is.

I don't want to second-guess whether drinking water is safe, food, etc. Nor do I want to have to Google whether it's safe merely to hail a cab-like service.

It's absurd to expect everyone to take 100% responsibility for all external factors beyond their control. At least some common, important factors need to be regulated simply to spare redundant burden on the populace.
If a regular person routinely disregards the law because they don't agree with it they go to prison.

But when a $40 billion tech startup does it, it's cool.

Got it.
Breeding <> GMing. One is natural, the other is artificial. And that's precisely the point.
GSM hardware is probably the mostly regulated consumer RF hardware out there, it's also the most easily traceable.
Both the imei and the iccid of your sim card are unique and identifiable.

In some countries you won't even be able to buy a pre-paid sim card without an id at tmobile in Germany couple of years ago I was asked for my passport when buying one.

Even in places where it's possible there will still be a mile long trace, even if paid in cash.

Also since mobile phone tracking was a very hot law enforcement topic since the 90's even passive air borne scanners can pint point a handset to about 10m accuracy with ease, when combined with ground sensors and carrier telemetry they can pinpoint to which room of your house you are in.

So yep cool and nifty but if you are in a position in which privacy means life stay away from mobile RF as you are much better off hiding behind commercially available 1.8-5ghz radio traffic with a couple of relays. Also while mono directional antenna's give good signal and also make the signal less noticeable if some one even gets a look at one of the end points they can also easily pin point the other's location if they got highschool/entry collage level physics in their toolkit.
Ah, the thing they never tell you when you learn to program... computers are the source of all frustration.

I have spent all day editing a backup copy of a file, wondering why nothing I changed fixed the bug. I've spent a whole day chasing a missing character. I've spent a week, under deadline pressure, only to discover a bug in the compiler. I've lost the source code for a whole project because I nuked the directory by accident. I have to reboot my MacBook every two weeks because it starts paging and is so lagged I can out-type it.

I did a self-study and found out that I have a 3% error rate in everything I do... and found out that 1/2 of those errors are caused by copy/paste (which I stopped doing). Errors at every level, from typing to syntax to semantics to design to thinking...and every one of them is a source of frustration.

I have to laugh when I hear people suggest that we require students to learn to program. Learning to program is the easy part. Dealing with the continuous, painful, and ever-present frustration is the hard part. All day, every day, every year of my 44 years of programming have included creating, fixing, and bleeding over programming and its frustrations.

You ask "What do you do to deal with this?"... I guess it is like trying to be a really good musician, you just study, work, and bleed at it. Most people give up on music; most programmers "retire into management". Some of us program because, like a musician, "it is not what we do, it is who we are". We program because we must. Frustration just makes that rare success that much sweeter.
I'm surprised Farhad (who's one of the best tech reporters) forgot to mention Reddit Notes (http://www.redditblog.com/2014/12/announcing-reddit-notes.ht...) and RedditMade (http://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/2knh96/announcing_r...), both of which were proposals to monetize using the very same mechanisms (giving back to the community / crowdsourcing merchandise) suggested in the article.

Both failed due to bad management, unsurprisingly.
which it also attempts to enumerate common files such as virtualbox or vmware drivers via <link> and <img> off file://
Yeah good and useful.Thanks for making this, really. But you fell on the same mistake remoteok.io: when I search for Scala, I find matches with "scalable", "scalability". Can you please fix it?
Maybe I'm missing something but Reddit/Imgur is essentially this generation's Usenet. Groups for anything imaginable, bigotry/flaming/trolling, lots of adult material. All that was missing from Usenet was a points system and descriptive groups directory.

Make a CMS with a points system on top of Usenet (tied to message-ID) that is sponsored by embedded ads instead of requiring a paid subscription. Block binaries with the exception of say, images - that way you're avoiding the vast majority of pirated materials. The points system would be similar to Reddit so that posts are ordered by rank but can still be sorted by date/poster. Posts/threads/users/groups can be canned from the CMS side. Posts censored? Feel free to switch to a pure Usenet service but you'll lose your points system/community.

By starting out on Usenet you already have content to begin with. Recall that Reddit started with fake user accounts with some quality content to get the ball rolling.

On further reflection...this would basically be Reddit as it is now.
Sure, why not. More seriously, responding to hyperbole with pedantry isn't productive. I'm pretty sure that quote is intended to convey their general disregard for the law, rather than a concerted attempt to break every law they can.
> So my point is: why bother with increasing their volume. It's a bit like shipping gasoline to a forest fire.

Isn't this exactly what you did at BSD? Enabled advocacy organizations to send millions of form-letter to Congress, making real constituent contact get lost in the flood?

I've already addressed how we plan on incentivizing members of Congress to write better responses, but again: we're looking at an open dataset of comments, and reports on timeliness and content of responses.
As dragonwriter said:

"You realize the law at issue is a law Uber supported which legalized ridesharing services in California?"
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Yes this is why you should avoid these markets if you are a bootstrap business.

The positive is there are lots of markets out there that are too small to attract external funding, but large enough that a good $10 to $20 million dollar business can dominate them profitably - I run exactly this type of company in this type of market. All I can say is it is very nice to have no outside investors to answer to and to see a nice positive balance sheet each month :)
The author is not the one who was being responded to, that's a lazy strawman argument.
Uber doesn't require drivers to carry commercial insurance, because they already provide commercial insurance.

Uber maintains commercial automobile insurance that covers U.S. partner drivers that operate under the “Ridesharing” or “Transportation Network Company” (“TNC”) model through Uber’s TNC subsidiaries, Rasier LLC and its affiliates.(1)

http://newsroom.uber.com/2015/01/certificates-of-insurance-u...

Most of us sees a purpose in paying tax. But, say example, you made an app that files your taxes just like an agent. You could call it TurboTax and sell it, and save $100s of dollars for tax filers. You provide insurance so that if your app does something wrong, you will reimburse people who get penalised.
The rule of law is something that every US business relies on. Further, I doubt that Uber relies on vigilante justice to settle their disputes -- they (just like everyone else) rely on the law and the courts to get what's legally entitled to them.
Yes! I was pleased to see that.
Ultimately, the design hasn't actually changed much at all since 2006 when it started actually getting users.
Adding money to the equation is just going to multiply the problems & attract a lot more people specifically looking for gaps in the system. Reddit already has people doing wild stuff for imaginary internet points...lets not go for money here...
> Yeah, a reddit paywall is going to go over real well. (And if the free version doesn't compromise basic functionality, good luck convincing anybody to pay for frills)

Reddit is already addictive. I'm sure they could take a bit of inspiration from the variety of addictive "free to pay" games and work in microtransactions and perks.
For anyone that wants a bit information on what I mean, your average camera goes through a fair few stages of postprocessing to get from a sensor through to a human understandable image.

I seriously doubt Nasa has got any of these wrong, but their goal seems to be for scientific exploration which to me suggests their main effort is contrast enhancement rather than human understandable colour reproduction (imagine if your camera was tuned to find differences in skin tone and blemishes rather than as a reproduction of what you remember a face as). It would be interesting to see what we can do with the data from before mutation.

More info on the post-processing pipeline here https://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs448a-10/post-process...
Throw in better retirement options than 401k's, and a few other things, and I think that might be possible.
The Taxi groups have done a compilation of Uber related incidents[1]; then only got around a dozen for 2015 in the whole world, and that's with padding the numbers by including repeated news.

[1] http://www.whosdrivingyou.org/rideshare-incidents
The Foveon sensors are a sort-of exception to this rule, but they haven't really demonstrated enough visible benefits for them to become widely adopted.
This is not an answer to your question, nor is this site the same as Jopwell, but it may still be interesting if you haven't seen it before: https://fairygodboss.com/

It's basically a company review site for women. While this won't help women get matched with a new role, it may help them avoid toxic work environments, or target positive ones.
User's insurance isn't particularly great.

For one, they make no mention of requiring commercial vehicle insurance (https://www.uber.com/driver-jobs) and say that drivers only need personal vehicle insurance.

They have contingent liability injury insurance with a total available of $100K.

They talk of having commercial insurance during trips, but it is only third party liability and UI/UM. If you're a passenger in an Uber accident and insurers decline to cover when they become aware the vehicle was driven commercially, you're out of luck.
To use your example, your brother posts a message on Twitter and you don't know your brothers Twitter username. If you're confident that it's your brother posting, then there's no problem. If you're uncertain that it's your brother, Keybase will let you verify it's him -- but that's a problem. Imagine a political dissident living in a dictatorship and it's the government who uses Keybase to match a Twitter username to a Facebook account.

We don't want accounts tied together. People need multiple identities online.

How do you get a persons key, and how do you know it's the right key? I think the answer will work like email addresses do now: someone will tell you a little info (name + hash@org) and you'll lookup their key.[0] Then you'll verify it as appropriate to the situation. That kind of system would allow and encourage multiple identities, and doesn't encourage posting PII.

To "bring public key crypto to everyone" you don't need to build this kind of directory (where you verify accounts.) You can instead get companies to participate in a PKI that they control (like they control email, DNS, http, etc..) and then they'll integrate it into existing software, provide it to users, experiment with UX and client designs, etc... Making an open source, server-side solution lets you turn 'Sign in with Facebook' into an ally that not only gets Facebook to provide keys and integrate crypto, but invest in servers and software.

Last, many people share a sentiment that a private key shouldn't leave our computers or phones (or fobs) to be managed by others. It's a reasonable attitude, but I think getting "crypto to everyone" and widely implemented is more important, and a managed system today doesn't preclude unmanaged keys in the future.

[0] To expand on this example: I'm irq-1 ff38a9@keys.news.ycombinator.com, and at work I'm Alice 23ff45@work. If you lookup hash@org and find a string that looks right (a username or real name) then you get their public key. You have some confidence it's the right person, and are free to verify it further with any other means.
You believe a nation that locks millions of non-violent persons in a cage for possessing unapproved plant material, a nation that has soo many laws and regulations that many studies believe that every citizen commits between 1 and 3 crimes every single day. A nation that spy's on every citizen, a nation that has declared a zone 100 mile from every boarder to be a "constitution free zone". A nation where the police forces can execute the homeless, and blow up bombs in the face of infants with no criminal charges being filed against the officers.. A nation that can simply take any property they want from you at any time with no requirement they prove you committed a crime....

You believe a nation like that can be called "free"

At it core the concept of Statism is oppressive. No nation state can be truly free, democracy at its core is the majority oppressing the minority, and many times in reality the minority oppressing the majority.
Nearly everybody thought Madoff had a serious insider trading scam going on, but everybody wanted to get in on it so they ignored the red flags.
I hope a he gets some good donations from HN, Ill send him a few dollars in BTC.