jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What you say makes sense but it is still sad.

With regard to torture, first there was denial. Then we were told it was rouge elements of the military that did these things. Then came rationalization. We had to do it. After Wikileaks proved beyond a doubt the scope of the crimes there's apathy. The country has gotten so apathetic that Bush admits to his crimes in his memoirs and yet has no fear of prosecution.

It's sad that many Americans see ourselves as a force of good and when confronted with irrefutable proof of our crimes the nation, for the most part, just shrugged it's shoulders. I agree with your analysis. I wish reality were different though.
That's a nice, plausible position to take, and very popular too. Well done for saying what the people want to hear.

Now, taking a more realistic view, when Lehman collapsed, the stock market went into free-fall. The links between all those financial corporations are so thick that if one of them is allowed to fail, it threatens to bring the whole thing down.

If the governments of the world had not, with uncommon speed and purpose, stepped in and "bailed out the banks", money would, at this point, be more useful as fuel in a stove than as a bartering device.

The idea of letting failing companies fail is valid as long as they don't bring down the whole system. If you let companies grow to such a level of interconnectedness and size that they have the potential to destroy the whole world economy in a matter of months, and then you suddenly realise that they are that big and they are failing, the correct course of action is not to let them fail, but to sort out the short-term problem (i.e. bail them out) and then work on the long-term problem (cut down their size and complexity so they can once again fail without destroying everything).

Until a proper regulatory framework is in place to prevent financial companies from getting so intertwined and large that they can bring down the whole house of cards (for that's what every economy is, a house of cards based upon the common trust that it's all going to work out ok), it is in fact very reasonable to suggest that a good medium-term step is to get those companies to "stop innovating", given that their incentives are such that they will inevitably bring the whole thing down if allowed.

This is a more realistic view than the "let them fail" silliness.
I am extremely suspicious of wikileaks and its motivation. For example, they believe that WMD were found in Iraq. I won't be surprised if we find out in 15 years the whole thing was a DOD disinformation campaign.
This article makes an attempt at illustrating that more often thant not, using the first-person-singular can also be an indicator of respect and boundary-maintenance to others:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2533
It's at their clients insistence. Most recruiters would be absolutely happy to reveal the name of the company, however if they did, those companies would not do business with them anymore.

The reason the companies don't want to do that is because they don't necessarily want it known internally that they're hiring. What if a guy who's being replaced sees the ad for his job?

I'm not defending that logic, but just explaining how it works (couple of friends of mine are recruiters)
Thanks, I enjoyed your demo as well. Did you ever hear who won?
I think they've learned their lessons since the first Galaxy.

It seems that there's much dependency on carriers and manufacturers in the Android world.

What if security related bugs are discovered? Are there minor updates to fix these? And how fast are they deployed by the carrier or manufacturer?
I was just thinking about this. This is the only reason that would keep me from switching to an ARM smartbook if a good one ever came out.
Rice University (originally Rice Institute) began teaching in 1912 and didn't charge tuition until 1965, as they were also amending their charter to admit other than white students. My understanding is that Rice still provides a relatively large amount of student aid compared to most elite universities.
I don't disagree with you at all. There's another contingent, like mine (who doesn't care about a yard), that would be happy to trade my large house for an equivalent sized apartment with 2 guaranteed parking spaces in the middle of a dense city...for the same price.

But cities are ruthlessly expensive, if we were to move even to our nearest city, an apartment of the same size would run 4-5x what our home cost and wouldn't be nearly as nice to live in. Move to Manhattan or SF and we'd be looking at an order of magnitude price difference.

People simply want more personal space, and cities make that expensive.
That's not the definition of non-profit. Non-profit companies charge for products all the time, the only requirement is that they reinvest any profits back into their mission instead of distributing it to shareholders.

That's why you get non-profits with million dollar CEO salaries- its they only way to funnel money out.
considering the fact that they were unresponsive and dismissive and some feedback about slacks bug bounty program from other fellow researchers, I really didn't think 180 days was worth the wait so yeah I chose my own. I am at the liberty to do that just like how slack has the liberty to ban me from their program. So yeah your guess is good!

And it's not only me who has had such a terrible experience with their program. I know atleast 3 different researchers who have reached out to me to tell me that they have gone through the same experience. They prefer not to speak out. I did. Period.
What happens for a family making $125,001? Are they expected to pay full tuition? I applaud the initiative in any event.
Not true; you added the byte that happens to be identified in ASCII by !, 33, to the byte that happens to be identified in ASCII by #, 35, and get 68, which is D. This is all perfectly sensible and type safe, two 8-bit numbers being added to produce another 8-bit number; you are only confused by the surface syntax. There's plenty of high-level languages that will let you do this; there's all sorts of reasons to make numbers and the ASCII chars they represent easily usable for each other in source code.
There is plenty of economics in Fascism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
There are legit hidden services indeed, but there a question if the legit ones actually need the protection TOR provides...

The sad truth currently is that the people who use TOR the most are the people who either do not need it's protection or do not deserve it.

As much as we like to play the victim card especially in light of the NSA scandals the truth is that people in free countries don't really get into trouble for doing shit over the internet even when it's illegal (to some extent).

And no i don't count the FBI knocking on your door if you post on facebook that you are going to kill Obama, or the police arresting that dutch teenage retard that tweeted she put bombs on 3 flights and told TWA(?) to figure out which a violation of privacy or civil liberties, those people deserved what they got.

On the other hand if you live in a country where legitimate activities taken over the internet can land you in jail or worse then even being suspected of using TOR will get you in trouble.

Even with all the improvements on masking TOR traffic it is still fairly easily identifiable, heck every entry level internet filtering appliance can block TOR these days with very high degree of accuracy even when the user doesn't use public access nodes.

So TOR doesn't and it's current state cannot provide protection to anyone living under a regime that does massive deep packet inspection of internet traffic(and yes i know the US technically qualifies for that too, but they are still not N. Korea, Iran, China, or Saudi Arabia).

The 2nd problem that TOR has is the fact that early adopters of such technologies tend to be criminals, the same was true with early P2P networks. Heck I still remember trying to download Shrek of Kazaa or eDonkey and getting a ton of pedo pictures instead, and that was very common in the early 2000's...

But this was true to everything from cellphones which back in the 90's meant you were either a business douche or a drug dealer, disk and phone encryption, and offshore bank accounts.

P.S.
Currently i actually have less trust in hidden services than i do in normal secure websites, after Facebook brute forced their address (https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/) and according to them with relative ease.
And since anyone holding the private key for the hidden service can update the directories and route all new traffic to them i think it's not farfetched that a sufficiently funded agency or an individual can do the same.
So while i still consider onion routing to be relatively safe form ease dropping, i consider all hidden services of sufficient importance to be compromised.
It may be this. I assist remotely and thus far we've found Windows VLC after ripping a DVD and stripping copy protection to be the most reliable method. It just works almost every time (though even then she'll find some Windows computers at the uni don't work which the IT guy there suspects is to do with lower privileges and a clash with some group policy - but he doesn't know which ones).

Helping non-technical people get things done isn't just a case of figuring what works today, it's also what is most consistent and will continue to work. She very much gets used to one way of doing thing and disrupting that really interferes with her just getting work done.
The page clearly states that:"Думаю, комментарий излишен :)"

(I think that a commentary is not needed)
Please forgive me if I have trouble taking advice from someone who has set up "tens" of servers and doesn't appear to understand the current set of orchestration tools.

Don't get me wrong, Nix sounds great, but this is a poor article from an inexperienced sysadmin who is unable to really point out the pros and cons.
What methods is this heating strategy going to call on water and stove? Consider for example that the stove builds up rust. Therefore it needs to know the properties of what's inside. Is the heating strategy going to tell it that?
I do have a physical hard disk for my backups but I also backup some critical data "on the cloud" (actually, some servers of mine). There is always a chance that the pc and the disk are stolen by a burglar or my house catches fire. Then there is the matter of making the encryption and access keys survive any of those events.
Wow! Congrats to the Revolution Analytics Team. I'm excited to see what they're able to accomplish with Microsoft's backing.
The ping would be terrible but if you ship a box of DVDs the bandwidth would be decent.
I love the idea! I am planning to start my project in 6 months, I would love to benefit from your experience !
They did cover it, back when it was news. http://www.sfgate.com/search/?action=search&searchindex=gsa&... Looks like 50+ articles on there, from March 2013 to January 6, just a couple weeks ago. Edit: better link
The use of ancient paintings as "proof" that the archers used the right-side of the bow made me think of this: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/nobody-kno...

Just because it's in a lot of pictures, doesn't mean it's really what happened.
It could be the dog trying to naturally please the cop, or the cop could have inadvertently trained the behavior (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans), or the training may very well have been deliberate.

It would be damn hard to prove the last, but what is relatively easy to demonstrate is that dogs do give false signals that correspond to certain biases of the owners. Regardless of whether the last is true or not, the way we view detector dogs needs to be revisited in light of these clear biases. As it is, detector dogs seem to be barely better than dosing rods.
I am skeptical they are going to get firmware for the hard drive. It would be easier to make your own SSD from nand flash chips and write your own firmware.
The Range-r simply tells users how far away movement is occurring in a building.

Useful for a no nock entry, but not much more.

The bigger issue is the number of tactical police raids on private homes, plus some of the other technologies in development and currently available.

Stingray, which is currently in use, acts as a portable cell tower. All cell phone calls in the vicinity of a stingray unit get routed through the mobile cell tower, warrant or not.
Google for 'burial weapons bent', turns up pictures from Celtic burials, iron age, and more.
If you think that's good, you should read the whole book (and all the books within it). It gets much better.
to me, any real creative accomplishments require considerable sustained effort. generally, feeling shitty saps energy, so id say it puts the skids on getting big things finished. however, necessity is the mother of invention, and people will do anything to feel better- often artistic and creative acts can give someone something tangible that they can control (to some degree). then you get addicted by the progress and it becomes self sustaining. so in that sense, the negative emotions can be a source of inspiration. from my own experience, the moments of particularly creative inspiration are always a product of effort, or at the very least highly correlated. since effort can be summoned from both negative and positive emotions, i think its hard to say that one side is more powerful.
> Creating new objects in functions and returning them should be avoided if possible. It's a Rust idiom to create the object in the caller and pass it into a function to be modified.

> immutability is the default

Haven't yet written any Rust code, but aren't those two things contradicting each other? I'd have thought that with immutability the most natural way to operate is to do pure functions (for uninitiated: pure function doesn't modify anything, can only produce new things).
“If you see it as a place to have conversations with your professional community, your feed is going to look like a constant streamed event with the best content.”

No. LinkedIn is where your feed will be full of people trying to sound like super productive “thought leaders” to people who think the phrase “thought leader” means something. Then again, if someone is the kind of person that thinks TedX talks have great content, or a sketchy business seminar in the local Hilton ballroom has great content, then I guess it’s fine.
There isn't a threshold where you become capable of working on crypto problems and code.

Making this safer makes mistakes far less likely and makes all of us safer.
I recall hearing of Stripe recruiting in groups, perhaps others have followed suit since?

https://stripe.com/blog/bring-your-own-team

Best to all those affected.
> I don't evade taxes, so you're welcome to my surplus.

The taxes were already accounted for, my claim is on top of what you already contributed.

> By all means, please expound upon the victims of violence caused by taxpaying in modern day America.

Its all very simple, if you don’t give them what they want, they threaten you at first and then they come take what they want.

> Are you referring to

This isn’t helpful.

> Then you'll have to provide your alternative to taxation,

Its the same as my alternative to rape. Namely, abolition.

> and indeed your alternative to governments or societies, as those can't really exist beyond taxes, at least until we achieve a post-scarcity society.

I thought you were familiar with alternative viewpoints? When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with? If your society is dependent on violence and coercion, then perhaps your society shouldn’t exist.

> Incidentally, I should note that being against the principle of taxation not only precludes income taxes, but sales taxes and other consumption taxes, property taxes, estate taxes, tariffs, public tolls.

Don’t stop there, I’m also opposed to bank robbery, grand theft auto, petty theft, burglary, larceny, fraud, theft by conversion, and rapine. You get a lot for your trouble when you give up aggressive violence.

> you would call it theft and thus NASA would continue to go unfunded.

I’m fine with NASA relying on voluntary sources of funding and ceasing to extort the working class.

> "Taxation is theft" is a meme well-known to the internet, and this conversation we are having has been repeated over and over uncountable times. Neither of us represent original ideas. We are just rehashing the same unanswerable debate many men have had before us.

If you think the debate is unanswerable then perhaps you would enjoy something else more. For my part, the only way to find an answer is to have the debate. Furthermore in my experience these debates tend to get derailed by people pattern-matching their interlocutor’s response to something they feel more comfortable responding to and in the process eliding nuanced arguments in favor of rehashing things that haven’t even been mentioned. Either “taxation is theft” or “taxation is not theft” (or some more compicated relation between ‘taxation’ and ‘theft’), but in no case does “‘taxation is theft’ is a libertarian idea” get use closer to a resolution.

> memoization can be a way to expedite a solution.

I’ll look, thanks.
Well, for example, you can definitely see variations in people's short term memory capacity, basic facilities with dealing with language, and logical problem solving skills. And importantly from a clinical perspective you can see when these are mismatched. However these are very reductive variables, and in the real world there are many more things in interacting with each other than these isolated components.
Funny that you compare YPG to ISIS. YPG/YPJ (alongside others in SDF) where some of the most successful militia in fighting back against ISIS (so much that there where some strategic co-operation with US forces in fighting ISIS).

They also generally fight for Kurdish rights and, ethnic pluralism in general (saved several Yazidi towns from ISIS for example), women's rights and democracy (including forms of local direct democracy seen few other places).

The reason PKK and/or YPG/YPJ is on some terrorist lists is mainly because Turkish government is against Kurdish rights in general. Turkey tend to claim any group fighting for Kurdish independence and/or rights to be terrorists.

So if they're ”terrorists” in the same way apartheid South-Africa saw Nelson Mandela, ANC and others fighting apartheid as ”terrorists”.
According to Financial Times it's a good thing crypto is mostly men, since it's such an obvious scam:

> Most women aren’t as into crypto as men and that’s OK. It’s actually good! Cryptocurrencies consume huge amounts of energy, enable criminality, often lack security, and generally just don't work very well.

> But let's not encourage other women to throw their money away on nonsense. And let's not think that just because a lot of men are doing something, we should do be doing it too.

https://www.ft.com/content/77f34d67-b797-3359-a89d-f9447ca40...
Running a fully verifying node doesn't require that much space, since you can prune away older blocks once verified (if you're fine with not being able to seed other nodes).
It does take a fair amount of time to download so many GB of history.
I have evaluated several "typed Lua" solutions[1]. Haxe might be a bit too heavy-weight depending on what you try to do. There're Teal and TypeScriptToLua which might be a better fit.

[1] https://ruoyusun.com/2021/01/31/typed-lua.html
Yes, the benefit of securely implementing hibernation with Secure Boot on for Linux is a direct benefit for Linux users, no impact one way or another for those using Windows.
That's pretty much it. Cosmopolitan Libc is the simplest project that could have happened decades ago. Anyone could have built it. There's never been a technical reason why an x86 binary can't run on all x86 operating systems. It's just that traditionally only operating systems publish C libraries, and they have no incentive to spend money supporting their competitors. So it's the kind of project that could only happen if it was done by an indie developer just trying to have fun.
This is a lovely illustration of the fact that "not very powerful but highly predictable" is often far better than "powerful but unpredictable" when it comes to tools.
>we would immediately rule out things like stock shorting, put and call options, margin and leverage trading, mortgages, interest bearing loans, selling debt for debt, and so on.

These are the very foundations on which modern society is built and which drives the entire humanity forward. Sure, some people have managed to race ahead but on a whole we, as humans, have progressed from clubbing each other for food to arguing anonymously over the internet thanks to all these
As far as I know, everything you said is factually incorrect in the majority of cases.

Common stock is a security that represents ownership in a corporation. In a liquidation, common stockholders receive whatever assets remain after creditors, bondholders, and preferred stockholders are paid.

Do you have a source for these bold claims?
Prioritising observability and load stress mitigation mechanisms/playbooks is the right thing to do for modern cloud native application service clusters.

In such an environment, you could fairly easily make it possible to subject your prod deployment to synthetically generated end-to-end scenario traffic in a safe manner (through request tainting) so that you can create controlled stress situations and see how your application behaves at breaking conditions.

This is important for understanding if the observability and mitigation mechanisms/playbooks are in good shape or not.

It is especially important to be able to do this periodically because the functionality is continuously evolving. Cloud can lull you into a false sense of safety – not everything in cloud scales or fails over the way you expect them to at all operating points.

So it is important to continuously do controlled assessments at loads 2x higher than your current peak 6 months before that becomes your reality.

Of course there is always live and learn by fire approach where you wait until the traffic growth (from that frenzy flash sale your business team sprung on you) topples your stack over.
I hope gpt3 dungeon is having a great update incoming
The quality of life would be better with the public transit is the point of the quote though, not that you have to live somewhere else for good quality of life.
> Surely that's the whole point of a trap?

I mean, this is exactly the bad faith argument I was talking about right here. If you want to view this as smoke and mirrors until they "trap" you by all means go ahead, but it does shut this conversation right down.
Same here. Twenty years ago my dad gave me a TI-85 and told me I could program it. I remember being stuck for a while until I learned that “string” meant text. The first game I built was hangman, using “split mode” where you could show half the screen as a graph and half as text
If you don't do what China or South Korea did, we're not "going to be fine". The US handling of this is extremely poor. One shouldn't give the people false hope.