skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a case where a person does not have the option to avoid the speech they find offensive. I think that happens a lot on the Internet.

For example, on Twitter, users are harassed, but short of leaving the service they don't have an easy way to avoid their mentions being cluttered by hate speech. It devalues the service for them and puts hate speech directly in their face. Blocking tools are improving, but people who want to harass others claim such tools are against free speech.

From the sounds of it many subreddits "branched out" onto personal Facebook pages and other places to attack users — to put offensive speech in front of the people who would find it offensive. It complicates the ideal scenario you put forward because while these are public places where anyone can post, there is a malicious intent behind much of the speech. To put that offensive content in front of a person's friends and family in a way that they can't avoid, or have to work to avoid, is very different from reciting that speech in your own private area of the Internet. Yet defence of one is often blurred with defence of the other. How do you stop such hate groups from "branching out" without shutting down the source and being accused of stifling free speech?

It's a nice ideal to say that one person is free to speak while another is free not to listen, but one is able to make a physical (or virtual) location distinctly uncomfortable and scary for another person. This sort of harassment is often defended under the guise of "free speech."
Is there research indicating these types of activities stave off Alzheimer's? I'm skeptical, is all.

The site design is charmingly old-school.
Self-driving cars will be the norm by 2030
If you didn't notice, that part had a link to the months-old policy change when it was enacted.

That isn't a new policy, they were just reiterating it. The actually new stuff is the NSFW scope enlargement, hiding from search, etc.
While it might bring a few boos or hisses these days, there are a lot of lessons to be learned from reading the jQuery code base.
http://news.yahoo.com/video-released-shows-police-killing-un...

I dunno...sure seems true to me.
You're right.

Craigslist needs an overhaul as well - it's hurting their bottom line.

While we're at it, HN is pretty crap on mobile, they should fix that - I'm sure people will like the change.

Stack Overflow has barely updated their layout for years - they are stuck in the past.

Everyone loves it when gmail and facebook force them into a different UI - people rave about the new features and definitely don't leave/complain/get confused/lose trust.

Why don't other people learn from their shining example?
It's like the 90s again.

- WebVR - VRML

- WebGL - DirectAnimation

- SVG - VML

Now let's just wait for WebMIDI?
Woah! Was he working under Von Braun? Because his entire team was based in Huntsville.
All of those (except spam) are slightly wider nets centered on things that are illegal.

See, for example CA penal code sections 422, 653m, and 653.2.
Good C# codebases to read?
Bill 2976: 'Replace references to “wives” and “husbands” in Federal law'
Quite right--in fact, I love your analogy. :)

On places like Reddit (or HN, for that matter) though that would suggest hiding users you don't like or avoiding subforums you find disgusting...not griping to management to remove them for you and everyone else!
So when does anyone get down to doing any work in your plan? I mean, you're there assuming everyone is there to do things for you (talk about your ideas, test your stuff) or free to waste time with you (talk about things that interest you). Presumably everyone else is coming to it with basically the same idea.

So when is anyone supposed to do any work?
They could still show ads, and donate the profits to charity. If the charity is opposite to the subreddit, it could even motivate people to leave (say, coontown ads could be donated to a charity related to #blacklivesmatter).
A more meaningful event would be when mobile devices become self-hosting. Then can we truly talk about post-PC. Until then, they're just a really widespread toy.
Cheers !
Consensus on brain training from the scientific community:

http://longevity3.stanford.edu/blog/2014/10/15/the-consensus...
I think they meant "not successful" in the sense of not showing up on popular indexes, such as:

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

I'm only pointing to Tiobe because it is popular, not because it is accurate, but you could use any other popular index and you would get similar results: a whole lot of imperative languages, but none of the officially Functional languages.
Recently released full details on the process Uber uses. Looks like murder is covered:

http://newsroom.uber.com/2015/07/details-on-safety/
Boto3 was made using a much more principled design approach, while Boto grew organically and frankly got a bit out of control. I love boto3, it makes AWS a joy to use.
NYC Mayor basically trying to screw over Uber. Why would he do this?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=webmidi
Ask HN: Good Perl codebases to read?
I've been working on a lightweight API solution for R recently. Still needs a bit of devops tooling, but I think the code is converging on stability.
Thanks for trying it out. I am also working on a grid removal algorithm which will run into similar issues and so it's good to get some ideas. The naive color distance approach might not be the best for that scenario.
Thanks.

Key paragraph:

> “We object to the claim that brain games offer consumers a scientifically grounded avenue to reduce or reverse cognitive decline when there is no compelling scientific evidence to date that they do. The promise of a magic bullet detracts from the best evidence to date, which is that cognitive health in old age reflects the long-term effects of healthy, engaged lifestyles. In the judgment of the signatories below, exaggerated and misleading claims exploit the anxieties of older adults about impending cognitive decline. We encourage continued careful research and validation in this field.”
So we should never talk about possible improvements?

The basic idea of the article is quite reasonable, whether one likes the particulars or not.
How would this compare to Famo.us?
Ask HN: Building a secure Linux distribution?
I want to build a secure and very minimalist system/OS. I'll be buying a new Laptop for that purpose (thinking of Dell XPS). The purpose of the system is to:

- Read/Write Emails

- Browse the Web (using Tor; and text-only is fine)

- VIM / Rust

- SSH to my server securely

* I won't be using the system for anything else.

* I want the system to be as minimalist as possible. That is, I can do this stuff now with my OS X. But I don't want to have XX applications and packages installed.

* I would prefer if I only have a command-line. No desktop environment.

Now the hardest bits:

1. What distribution to choose? I'm thinking of Arch, but I have little experience in the Linux world.

2. Is there a guide that covers what security precaution I should be taking to protect my identity and privacy?

3. How to install the system on my FreeOS laptop and make sure that Internet via Wireless both works and secure.

I'm doing this to learn Rust and relying on the Command-line completely for all work. I think Email is superior to Slack or anything else for communication. I think the Web is mostly distracting; and I can use my iPad for non-sensitive and casual browsing. I also think that VIM (or NeoVim) are more superior to IDEs; and so is Rust as a programming language.

But this is just my opinion. I want to build my dream setup from scratch and I need: 1. advice and 2. reliable guides or books.

(PS: I'm not limited or required to use Linux but I think it's the best for my use-case?)
Thanks!
> These regulations pre-dated the internet. They existed in a time before information was easily shared and available.

That's cool, any tips on how I can easily pull driver's arrest record and history of traffic violations?

I would also like some data on his last inspections to ensure that he's doing proper maintenance to his vehicle, and I'm not going to ride a beater who needs some break fluid and whose tires skid just a little in rainy weather.
Google self-driving car hit hard in yet another rear-end crash
Yes, the split was unusually structured to ensure that Larry & Sergey maintained majority voting rights.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/03/google-is-splitting-its-sto...
Harassment is usually defined as some repetitive unwanted targetted behavior, particularly where it has been made clear that the behavior is unwanted. I don't think a single comment is going to be considered harassment.
P3D – Twin Otter – Difficult Approaches Barra – TrackIR
So your claim is that the demand for actual computers (the things with large screens and keyboards) is not going to be 0. You are right, of course. In terms of the market share of total technology "gadgetry" with computing capability, however, the percentage of these computers is rapidly decreasing and will become miniscule pretty soon.
Mouse, Monitor, Keyboard
For the record, I wasn't arguing about it; I just didn't understand the reason. I do now!
No, it doesn't include subsidies (ED: I mean, we don't get subsidies). I signed up directly with the provider. Your number looks egregious. I wonder how that kind of plan works, though, with ACA's 80/20 rule.
> The site design is charmingly old-school.

Seriously. This site is one step above geo-cities.
Why do you insist on a Linux distribution to begin with?

In any event, I'd recommend either Alpine Linux or Hardened Gentoo for this purpose. The latter has SELinux, rule set access control and the PaX/grsec exploit mitigation kernel patches configured out of the box. The former is similar, but also uses a non-GNU userland in Busybox and musl libc, which should lower the TCB attack surface.
A usual split just issues additional shares of the same class. The google split is unusual, because the new shares are in a new class which has no voting rights. The tickers were changed as of the split.
> Some octopuses did not like being removed from their tanks. They would hide. They would squeeze into a corner where they couldn’t be pried out. They would hold on to some object with their arms and not let go.

> Some would let themselves be captured, only to use the net as a trampoline. They’d leap off the mesh and onto the floor — and then run for it. Yes, run. “You’d chase them under the tank, back and forth, like you were chasing a cat,” Warburton said. “It’s so weird!”

> [..] “Catching her for the maze always took twenty minutes,” Warburton said. “She’d grip onto something and not let go. Once she got stuck in a filter and we couldn’t get her out. It was awful!”

What seems far more awful is using these apparently-highly-intelligent animals for laboratory experiments, against their will.

This isn't the usual argument of animal rights. Here we have a highly intelligent and inventive creature repeatedly trying its best to escape - it's hard not to identify with it! - and the scientists just recapture it by force. They actively oppose the animal's attempts to liberate itself, again and again.
It would be good if you wanted to make some content that has smooth animations that renders in all different browsers (i.e animated greeting cards, animated presentations, or animated websites). Basically anything that you could do in Flash 2D, you could also do with this.

Example: makemake.io (although PIXI.js is used in this case)
>because principles as the basis of morality then go away.

I don't see why. Why can't I say "uncomputable function X is the basis for morality", and simultaneously believe that X satisfies principle Y? There's nothing about uncomputable functions that says you can never know a value, and principles are useful even if they aren't always correct anyway.

>making moral decisions becomes about looking at each _specific_ situation, and applying as much context as possible - instead of trying to say "well in general, X is bad".

Why can't an uncomputable function have a rule that X is bad? It might not be computable in all cases, that doesn
't mean it can't have rules.
SQLAlchemy is one of my favourite larger python codebases: https://github.com/zzzeek/sqlalchemy
For what it's worth, my response would be that, if you want to decide whether or not to read posts based on their titles, then you want to see the original titles, linkbait-y or not; seeing a toned-down version will just 'trick' you into reading something you wouldn't have otherwise. On the other hand, since you are glad that you read it, maybe that's an argument against deciding whether or not to read based solely on the title.
"I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose." - JBS Haldane
Hooray! Thanks for pointing it out :)
Or welfare, tax cuts, rebates, free everything (public transport, tolls, etc). Democracy is great, but it falls down when everyone is selfish.

edit: thinking about it now, basically populist politics.
I like that analogy as far as you go, but I think that there's a third component to remember: Bob doesn't have to hang out with Catalina if she wants to spend her time listening to Ann. (This misapprehension is generally borne of a complete misunderstanding of the First Amendment and the idea of "freedom of speech".)
I don't know, in an Internet context "harassment" can be very ambiguous. In real life situations it's usually pretty clear, but some people may consider certain Internet activities harassment while others may strongly disagree.
People should know this though. My auto mechanic (in the US) charges $90/hr plus costs. I don't think he's making $180K/yr and even if he were, it's the market rate.
Why was crack new and popular?
I don't think it was a thought problem. The goal was to put satellites in odd orbits and still be able to return to a fixed airstrip, requiring great lateral transit. There were plenty of smaller lifting bodies that could have done most of the work, but the Shuttle was built to handle pretty exotic polar orbits from a west coast launch facility.. that never happened.
The point was that "unrelentless" is not a word, and even if it was, it would mean the opposite of the intended meaning.
The Rise of the Software Engineer
Somewhat off-topic, it's interesting the article lists LAX as the third busiest airport, when I googled to see what the first two were out of curiosity it was shown right in the search results as the second busiest. That data on google appears to come from the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_i... for "Busiest US airports by total passenger boardings". LAX then appears to be listed as fourth busiest in "30 busiest US airports by total passenger traffic". These numbers obviously vary by year and it seems the one google picked up was from preliminary FAA data. No idea why this stuck out to me but for some reason I want to know why the author settled on third busiest here out of the myriad choices.
That Toronto guy bothered that woman and her acquaintances for months and months and made ongoing personal comments. If that's not a form of harassment, I don't know what is. Christie Blatchford isn't exactly an impartial news source.
What is the main difference between it and SparkML pipeline?
Entirely different worlds.

People think "The Federal Government" is a monolith, and they could not be more mistaken. It is a collection of individual entities, operating largely independently and often at odds with one another. 18F is a different entity with a different set of goals from the law enforcement (FBI/DEA/etc.) and intelligence (NSA/CIA/GeoInt) agencies.

In any case, it's also different parts of the tech stack - encrypting everything over the wire with HTTPS is fine so long as the underlying encryption is weak and/or the NSA have a set of keys. The FBI can always just issue a national security letter to the party with whom you are communicating.
UX: Key Differentiator for Modern Brands
Step 1: Someone invests a bunch of time making something new.

Step 2: Someone posts it on Hacker News.

Step 3: Project is immediately derided because other people have also been making new things.
> That seems to me to be more a decision for the search engine to make.

I'd argue that it's absolutely the site owner's prerogative to determine which sections of the site can be indexed by a search engine.
Man arrested after filming fatal crash from inside car
Anytime I see John Markoff's name, I think of the ethical issues in Kevin Mitnick capture, case and book. Has that air been cleared? Time for me also to move on as Mr Markoff work since then has cleared that shadow?
Wow, I wish I could get all pissy and yell at my customers when they ask me to do things that are mildly inconvenient for me, but I am required by law to do. Your situation is why Uber exists.
Here's a proposal:

1) At the beginning of the case, each party proposes how much money they would like to be spent on their side of the case.

2) The Spending Limit is set to the greater proposal. They then must pay the other party the difference between what they proposed and what the other party proposed (to be spent only on legal expenses for this case).

3) Both sides are prohibited sprom spending more than the Spending Limit on legal expenses for this case.

For example, if A and B are going to court, A proposes a $10k Limit and B proposes a $100k Limit; B has the larger number, so the cap is set at $100k, and B must pay for up to $90k legal expenses for A.

Clearly there are some details that must be worked out (eg what if someone wants to raise the limit halfway thru the case? What about money spent on preparation before going to court?) but i think this would be a good start. This proposal achieves substantive equality without sacrificing procedural equality and without preventing either party from spending as much as they want.
Silicon Valley struggles to hack its diversity problem
I work on IBM Streams, which has its own language, SPL (Streams Processing Language), which solves the same problem. You can check out a small SPL application here: https://github.com/IBMStreams/streamsx.demo.logwatch

And a direct link to the SPL source code for the application: https://github.com/IBMStreams/streamsx.demo.logwatch/blob/ma...
Ask HN: Good Brainfuck codebases to read?
He drove you next door, I think $9 was probably generous to begin with.
I paid a huge fare once for a long drive home from the airport (in Chicago) because I didn't feel like taking the L as planned. Of course, the taxi driver also had attitude about that, because apparently they are acustomed to quickly flipping back and forth from the nearby hotels, not driving all the way into the city to drop people off. I have avoided taking taxis as much as possible because I hate the attitudes that many of the drivers have. I actually find I'm more willing to pay for an Uber/Lyft because the drivers are usually pleasant, or at least not actively hostile.
> Show HN: Strong Brain – Anti-Alzheimer's mental exercises *

* "This statement has not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease"
I've been doing data science for a while now, and for me personally:

Not really.
The SVD is much more important.
No.
Yes.
Yes.
No (R-N) yes (CE).
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Personally, no.
Only in the usage of MCMC.
Yes.
Yes.
No.
Of course.
All the time.
Yes.
Yes.
The most I'll do is remember to use the sample standard deviation.
No.
Yes.
No.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
No.
No.
Yes.
I just use a solver.
See above.
See above.
Of course.
Yes.
Yes.
Not privileged w/r/t/ other bases.
Of course.
I've never needed it.
Ditto.
As another tool in the toolbox.
They would not be my first or second choice.
Yes.
No.
No.
Yes.
No.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
No.
What are the chances that somebody would do LAX to Santa Barbara ?
I've run into this at several airports -- seems the standard procedure is to set your pick-up location somewhere near the airport, then call the driver and tell them where you actually are.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. It was new because it was new. It was popular for the same reason any drug is popular. You're not gonna go Crazy Maxine on me, are you?
First Transistor Fabricated from Black-Arsenic Phosphorus
Intel's 7nm? Anyone?
HTML5 was an improvement. HTML6?
I think the biggest benefit AirBNB has over Craigslist / dealing with someone directly is insurance. Before AirBNB existed, I'd use the vacation/temporary section of Craigslist. I'd go stay at someone's place, and hope that I wasn't going to be kicked out, and lose the rest of the money I gave them for my stay. It was worse for the people subletting - if I damaged their place, they had almost no recourse.

While it's possible that enough trust can build up over time to where people would go around SpareChair, I doubt it will be a problem for them. Even if friends of friends were to co-work at my place, I'd feel a lot more comfortable if they were insured.
What is the future for insurance when machines do what we do?
"If, after all, Nagel is proven wrong—that is, if subjectivity is in fact reducible to an identifiable network of neural synapses—what is the point of investigating the human condition through a humanistic lens? If what it is like to be human, much less a bat, turns out to be empirically situated in the dense switchboard of the brain, what happens to Shakespeare, Swift, Woolf, or Wittgenstein when it comes to explaining ourselves to ourselves?"

Nothing, of course. Thinking that believing reductionism will somehow transform human minds into mathematics is like thinking that believing evolution will transform humans into chimps. And whether or not you believe in reductionism, the reality of humanity won't change. The only thing that changes is that the non-reductionist philosophers lose and the neurobiologists, cognitive scientists, and AI researchers win. Which seems to be happening, in any case.
Okay, so what is a relevant metric on which the iPhone underperforms?
A hack near and dear to my heart! The toggle bit on this is a very nice touch. I wrote something similar [0] a short while ago, except that, after the native styles are stripped, a very small amount of css is added to: constrain page width, make text a green monospace on black, improve line-height and remove images.

[0] https://github.com/kndyry/detox