jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>The state is increasingly controlled by the hyper-wealthy individuals and corporations that fund politics, and its policies and propaganda increasingly reflect their interests.

The root problem isn't money in politics, but alienation of voters from the the real business of government, a business people must understand if they are to hire (elect) the right people to run it. Political money just fills the void of that ignorance. That business is fundamentally an allocation game that starts with accumulation from taxes, fines and fees and ends with a set of spending decisions over time. This "spending decision set" represents a much greater degree-of-freedom than the traditional, policy-obsessed "how a bill becomes a law" narrative from school would imply. One key part is the appointment game, where an elected executive leader assigns arbitrary people to run major government departments, who themselves get wide discretion with "operational policy", policies that have the most impact on tax payers and yet get the least attention.

So, yeah, let's start focusing on government as a hierarchy of allocation and policy decisions.
They're just pessimistic on the college tuition inflationary trends by the time the kid grows up.
> The receiver explicitly chooses what senders to listen to.

Not necessarily. The receiver could just specify what kind of messages to receive instead, and be decoupled from the sender.
> Did they react this way during the Troubles?

We had certain other reactions that were themselves troubling. Such as this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988%E2%80%9394_British_broadc...
It works as a stable multi player multi round prisoner's dilemma.

Basic strategy "always defect until everyone agrees not to while voting that everyone not defect."
I was aware of the group structure of the Rubik's cube (it is, after all, a subgroup of the permutation group on 54 elements), but apparently I had never given it much thought beyond that. Thanks!
Bit of an unfair mischaracterisation of my position don't you think? People can still conceive of the social implications of security / privacy issues and disagree in informed debate.

However it appears that a certain segment of the community only get as far as analysing the immediate, personal impact of said security / privacy issues before giving the thumbs up. To them, there is no value in discussing / considering the wider social implications, because they don't actually care.

Perhaps that tendency should be called the narcissistic defect of security / privacy analysis.
Yes - that Helen :)
Thanks for the kind comments!

Re: how do I add a venue to my Event without also contacting the venue? You can work around it right now by adding to Favorites first but yes, that is something we're working on changing!

Re: Yes. We are currently focusing on the 20-500 size events but will be be letting people select larger venues in the future (we are continuing to add larger venues even now). We will also be incorporating other new features for the more high touch events - so stay tuned!
The problem is their completely moronic geo-ip auto-redirection technique of inserting a 'uk.' subdomain prefix. Deleting the prefix will usually let you view the desired article.

The fact that they haven't figured this out by now tells me there's something very wrong in their software camp.
If I live in one city, would I be able to access the library of another city? Do all libraries essentially converge into one big cloud based library?
If it's a static site, copy it into your dropbox public directory and share the public link.
Sure! I love to see others using it :)
I think it will put in context the silly, local squabbles that are behind all this. Iran is a western-style Democracy that has a radical faction thanks to decades of US meddling.
I agree, better tools are often very quick to write. I'll plug what I think is a lovely piece of code now ;) Here is a tiny toy Ruby framework inspired by Arc https://github.com/julesjacobs/Raamwerk (29 loc, if you don't count blank and end lines). In the examples you can see that even though the framework is a toy you can write interesting applications much more concisely and logically than with e.g. Rails. For example a page that displays a counter, and a link to increase the counter and a link to decrease the counter:

def counter(i)
puts "the counter is #{i}"
link("increase") { counter(i+1) }
link("decrease") { counter(i-1) }
end

The quality of the code you're reusing is much more important than the quantity.

Edit. Another example: a stack based calculator.

def calc(stack)
tag(:p){ puts stack }
%w{+ - * /}.each do |op|
link(op){ calc([stack[0].send(op, stack[1])] + stack[2..-1]) }
end
10.times{|n| link(n){ calc([n] + stack) } }
end

Video demonstration: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/388822/calculator.avi
(a) Google this:

site:.gov.au blog +comments +submit -moderate

(b) Pick a blog. For example:

http://agimo.govspace.gov.au/2010/11/18/independent-review-o...

(c) Add a comment. For example:

I am concerned that the rights of Australian citizens are being unjustly impinged. To fine someone $11k per day because they choose to link to a website is a slap in the face of free speech and free citizens of the world.

<a href=http://www.wikileaks.org >wikileaks.org</a>
Can someone who support this release care to explain this. I seriously don't understand how can publishing someone's conversations be good.

1) How should communication with foreign embassies be done? Publicly via twitter?

2) Do you think that absolutely all information that gov has and exchange should be public? If not who should decide which info can be published?

3) What if somebody from Google get all you gmail conversations and publish it? If you dont like this idea, please explain why you support somebody publishing gov conversations then?

Thank you.
If your interpretation is correct, I don't think the jester analogy holds, since it is the jester who acts/looks absurd.
>I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you any different.

Easy to say that, sitting on a Hugo award and the subsequent career of Kurt Vonnegut.
By "a competitor" you mean Google?
It means Nepal Time is designed to be as true to the natural time as possible for Kathmandu, the capital city. It'd be a little ridiculous to say Nepal Time is UTC + 5:41:46 though. Not much more ridiculous than what we have now but still a little more ridiculous.
The other reason not to use margin and padding together is that you'll have less inconsistencies between browsers (i.e., IE6 vs every other browser — these properties are a source of a lot of annoying IE6 bugs).
again, i feel this is a false dichotomy. it doesn't always come down to making the choice of spending an hour clipping coupons or doing something you enjoy.

sometimes you have idle time and have the choice between spending 10 minutes to clip some coupons while watching tv, or doing nothing.
You can still maintain offices, but they become more like collections of team rooms, private offices (ex: for phone calls), unassigned cubes (for telecommute folks) and assigned cubes (for office folks). Maybe you don't need as much office space and equipment to do the same work.
I took Chinese in college and the problem for me was the tones. If you don't grow up hearing them then they are very hard to pickup as an adult. The characters you an learn with effort. But the tone shifts just didn't register.
In this case pinyin would have worked, since (afaik) it's a representation of Mandarin pronunciation, which happens to be the language they were speaking at the time.

However, (1) we don't have such a dictionary, and I think demanding such a specialized dictionary violates the argument in the OP; and (2) if they'd been speaking Shanghainese, which is her other Chinese tongue, or another dialect, pinyin wouldn't have helped.

I'm not familiar with zhuyin, but given what I understand about the problem, I imagine the same weakness would apply.
I'm sure I'm missing something, because Zed is smarter than me. Why is this much better than just running each of those services on different ports? How does having everything behind a single port increase flexibility? It seems like he's serving multiple services over a single port, but I thought the point of ports as a software construct were to advertise different services?
1. i don't think its a big deal for a site like yours to even ask for a registration and verify. Just enter in a unique name and password and let people go.

2. Im trying to use your bookmark and its telling me i need to login, then when i login it says wrong.. do i need to register my email first ?.. if this is so.. I've already clicked away from your site, and forgotten about it.

3. its confusing wheatt and links for later. which site am i using. just let me use one.

I don't think tagging links and saving them is enough anymore. I just gmail links to myself, enter in a bunch of keywords in the body, and put them under a links label. Which pretty much does a much better job than what you're doing.

Good luck.
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I have also added instructions on how to add an RSS feed to iTunes on my blog, if you don't know how to do that:

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Enjoy and let me know if you like it ;)
I believe that's generally true for the TSA, but not customs.
While I do think a "vast number of errors and safety lapses" is unlikely to come out of a cult (note the word) of engineering which embraces ritual suicide as the cost of failure...

This is about human psychology, rather than reliability in the engineering sense. I truly believe it would lead to better safety, but not perfect safety.

The idea is that yes, all or most of the engineers involved in a nuclear accident of any significance would kill themselves. Not only would their knowledge be lost, their fellow nuclear engineers would carve their names on a black stone, bury it in the earth beneath their corrupted stain, and never mention them again. Their families would be rewarded only if they showed honor by staying to fight the nuclear corruption, and dying honorably when the disaster is contained.

This won't work perfectly, but it would let society as a whole live with the contradiction inherent in nuclear power: it sustains us, while running the risk of turning our children's children into walking bags of cancerous mutation.

This is also pure thought experiment: what would it take to have a culture of safety as serious as the threat of nuclear disaster? I'm not willing to pay this price, and yet, I'm thoroughly familiar with the mass balance equations governing extractable energy and haven't a clue how to post-carbon without at least some nuclear.
Especially since MongoDB is not too hard to inject, in particular its aggregation framework.
Interesting, I've been working on a nginx buildpack for Heroku/Dokku/Flynn optimized for static sites. I should create a Tengine fork to benchmark with nginx.

https://github.com/cpursley/buildpack-nginx-js
s/he/she
s/guy/girl*

*Feel free to replace girl with another appropriate feminine noun, I know some people consider it diminutive but it's probably the closest alternative to guy I can think of right this moment.
Ok. Let's try some more imaginary maths. If Valencia has five million inhabitants, and one in ten in these, in turn, send one document to the regional government every year, that would be, at a hundred Euro each, about 50M€ going to Microsoft. If the government uses LibreOffice, that's a big saving for the people.

On top of that, I guess most of the 100.000 users at the government -doctors, teachers, judges, clerks...- have never used a pivot table, and won't get those extra 72 seconds per day. This ain't Henry Ford's factory and there are much bigger externalities to take care of before this kind of imaginary optimizations.
The detention of David Miranda IS TERRORISM.

It's sad that those who are supposedly trying to protect us from terrorists are beginning to terrorize us.

Picture this, you have a wife and little kids at home. One day while the family is away, the family home is "attacked", broken into. The family's sense of security is lost. As the man of the house, you decide to protect your family from these "terrorists" thieves. You become too paranoid, waking up randomly at night and checking all doors and windows, waking up your wife and kids in the process, you stock pile weapons and ammunitions, sometimes you go outside at night and shoot randomly into the sky as a warning to potential thieves that you are ready. How would your family feel? Would they feel more safe or terrified that you are losing your mind? Yeah, well that's what the government is acting like today.

I for one is scared as hell. Hell, this is the first time I'm really posting on this topic and it's scary to consider the fact that a posting like this could be used to crucify me tomorrow.
Typically, they would not provide hormone therapy because

a) it is not essential for the job (they pull teeth instead of fix them for crying out loud)
b) this is typically something that would lead to a medical discharge and in some cases, dishonorable discharge because it wasn't listed in the health questionnaire at time of application.
I know what the deniers are going to say: the risk is just equivalent to dumping a banana into the ocean.

Whatever.
I found it interesting that they chose Gemini as a name for an exchange; given that the ISE runs already runs an options exchange named Gemini.
There are many non-radioactive carcinogens.
We colocated in both Fremont DCs for about 10 years. Their newer one had 2 power outages within a couple months when we were there (I think this was in 2009 or 2008). I don't remember why exactly it happened, but I think for at least one they had redundant power disconnected for reasons. Other than that we had no issues though.

But it's been about 7 years since we've colocated our servers there.
Write one.

Or build distro or something. You've got an itch, might as well scratch it.
> Does the definition of empire preclude the idea of modern empires not following the same methods of past empires?

Yes, basically. There's a long wikipedia article on American imperialism because it's a popular trope among blue-team coastal elites. Here's A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry on empires: https://acoup.blog/2019/11/22/collections-why-are-there-no-e...

"...an empire is a state where the core ruling population exercises control and extracts resources from a periphery which is composed of people other than the core group (linguistically/culturally/ethnically/religiously distinct). So an empire is a state where one set of people (the core) extract resources (typically by force) from another set of people (the periphery)."

You could argue that descriptive linguistics blah blah basically the word just means "really powerful state" now. And maybe it does to a lot of people, or maybe that's where we're headed, but it makes me sad and I don't think we're there yet.
I mean, they do have an option. Companies like Google, Netflix and parts of Amazon are completely unavailable in China. Their option is to not be complicit in data collection for their oppressive government, but greed and disrespect for user privacy usually triumphs.
This is a very nice and detailed teardown of the popular CalDigit TS4 Thunderbolt 4 dock. (Link found via a post in the Framework community).
They purposefully broke picture in picture, there's no question about it. If you use the Shortcuts app to run some JavaScript in Safari that blocks propagation of the `webkitpresentationmodechanged` event, PiP will start working properly again.
This is quite exciting. Do you have notes on how you installed 2.3 on your droid? The lag from 2.2 drives me crazy, particularly when I go to the homescreen. (It did force me to learn the keyboard shortcuts for switching between applications, though.)
Agreed. In fact its funny you make that analogy... in that whenever I think about doing some biology I want to use nanotechnology. My brain just has more trouble settling into emergent systems.
Just curious: what is the better way to teach math? Or is that not obvious?
>Mint.com sends you an email. If Mint.com did not have unencrypted access to your data, it could not provide you with this service.

That's a terrible example. If this is your primary argument for web services, then they've been obsolete since cron came with UNIX V7 in 1979.

On Mac OS X, without even running the app, iCal has no problem sending me an email to notify me of an upcoming event. How does it accomplish this magical feat? It runs a background process that just happens to have access to my local calendar database, because it's already on my computer.

>The in-the-cloud services which provide the most value to me could not exist without being able to process my data in the background.

And you would have a very difficult time actually using those services without access to a personal computer that already has far more resources at hand to do the same processing itself.
Yes, I suspect you're right. When I get a chance I will put one in my hand and play with it for sure. I just really hoped the Nexus series of phones would always imply 'no compromise / this is the new high bar'.
System 76

I got a Core-i7 (quad core with hyper threading, the OS sees 8 CPUs), 8GB of RAM, 164GB SSD, for about $2000

Yes, it comes with Ubuntu pre-installed.

You can get it a bit cheaper with a regular hard drive, but if you're craving the performance, go for the SSD.
The brilliant thing about all of the free space that Dropbox "gives away" is that most people who get it (90%? more?) don't actually use it.

I'm up to 4.9GB of free space, but I'm only using 7.6%, so I'm well under 2GB. And I would venture to guess that I'musing more space than the average free user.

So their cost isn't even the pretty-low cost of (cost to store 128MB * the number of people who do the task). It's the tiny cost of (cost to store 128MB * the number of people who do the task * percentage of those people that actually use the space).
As it stands, string theory is not even wrong.

There is no scientific proof of it, even though there are many careers based on it. It can make a good living, like religion to priests.

This is just the usual HEP PR mill.
As a forecast of tech-to-come, it seems like science fiction hasn't managed to really predict anything radically different than it was predicting in back in 1990 or so. The accuracy has gone up because everything is now "five minutes in the future" rather than "in the year 5000." Even if we look further ahead, today's far future is just like yesterday's far future: filled either with spaceships (albeit carrying ems, ala Accelerando or Diaspora) or grey goo, and with not much room for real retroactively-falsifiable speculation, which I think is the key to good sci-fi.
Against the argument of "it doesn't hurt to disinfect": it does have some negative effects.

Businesses have "installed" sanitizers and clean a bit more often. Correct air ventilation is mostly too costly, too inconvenient or outright impossible. But since the business is already doing _something_, "complying", there is a false sense of security.
No, the website makes it very clear that those are reserved, unclaimed profiles.

They can also removed be removed on creator demand.
Ultimately, "value" is always a social construct. When currencies were backed by gold, you could say, well the currency value is its gold equivalent - but this only works because, apparently, gold has "value".

Otherwise, things have "value" because we can do things with them. Food and drink are probably the most immediate ones - we need them to survive.

Classic currencies have quite a lot of use too. They are universally-accepted, protected by governments (inflation concerns notwithstanding), tamper-protected, there are safe and easy ways to store and exchange it (bank accounts / transfers, cash, cheques), it is protected by the full might of the law against crime. In some countries more than in others of course. So it's a good universal medium of exchange, even if ultimately it is a social convention.

Crypto in general has some, but not all of the above properties. I now totally get that when you really can't trust your crony government to provide such a currency, they are a good alternative.

But ultimately all "value" is merely what someone will pay (exchange) for the thing.
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Apparently the Irish Data Protection Commission is going to bust Facebook.

Facebook leak: Irish regulator probes 'old' data dump: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56639081

I hope https://NOYB.eu is aware of this breach.

Of course Facebook, or even FAANG, for that matter, would keep all of the data that they hoarded from EU citizens, illegally. It goes along well with the Silicon Valley mentality (I am culturally American and I am from the west coast of the US, so I understand what is going on here. I also hold EU citizenship...)

The number one rule is "don't get caught". The "move fast and break things" mantra still holds well for Facebook. So, no surprise that they were sloppy with things, and got caught.

If you want to check if you were caught up in being Facebooked (data leaked), the download to the data dumps are here: https://archive.is/MZqak

I am furious at the moment because I found my (fraternal) twin brother's info in the data dump files. :-(
Ah, ok, that is also a solution indeed. Still, a bit annoying that one is forced to use the Safari basis, but not any plugins that apply to it...
This made me laugh :D

I want to point out that I wasn't forced though. Rather, they asked around if people have some interesting things to share and this particular PR seemed a good fit for an article. I don't really write about Go stuff on my own blog so I figured why not contribute to our company blog.
Conference calls also have hosts who can mute and manage the guests. We had conferencing 2.0 about 5 years ago with the likes of Uberconference, and now 3.0 with Zoom. What is actually new?
Hell most jails in the U.S dwarf this complex. Dear lord I hope an EMP never hits any of those towns. Sure hope the gov hasn't taken away the ability to protect yourself.
I just turned 30 last year. I'm a failure.
This site will let you download their geolocation database .. http://software77.net/geo-ip/

License info:
http://software77.net/geo-ip/?license
Haven't used it yet.

I'm guessing that that economies of scale and quality control over their publishers they can potentially negotiate larger-than-normal commission arrangements with some providers, and they only need to take a small percentage to be profitable.
While we are in public-service-announcement mode: I believe that the above protections are still a lot smaller for debit cards than credit cards. You still have $50 limit on liability with debit cards, but you must report the theft very quickly indeed and the thief is emptying your personal account in the meantime:

http://banking.about.com/od/checkingaccounts/a/stolendebitca...

This is why I never use a debit card for anything.

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