jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Held: RFRA’s express remedies provision permits litigants, when appro-
priate, to obtain money damages against federal officials in their indi-
vidual capacities. Pp. 3–9.

RFRA is an Act of Congress. Looking just the quote above, what SCOTUS found isn't a constitutional right but a statutory right, which means the statue can be amended or repealed, for example, and also that the statutory right is limited to whatever the statute says (or SCOTUS read in it). Without reading the rest of the opinion or the Act itself, I am probably justified in imagining that the right doesn't extend to violations of any constitutional rights so much as to violations of constitutional rights relevant to "religious freedom", which is mainly 1st Amendment rights, and maybe some others. I wonder, for example, whether RFRA would protect one's right to refuse a mandatory vaccine for religious reasons -- it might, though I don't have time to go read it (and related case-law) and find out (plus IANAL).
this actually reminds me a bit of the amazon echo in that it is completely and totally household dependent.

i have an echo and think it's completely amazing. my friend, basically has siri in his pocket and doesn't understand my crazy-love. the difference is that he's a single guy with his own apartment who always has his phone or computer within reach. i'm not.

my house is a family of four (me, the beautiful wife, a couple pre-teen boys) with a large common area filled with lots of traffic and commotion. the kids don't have phones. my wife and i have phones and computers, but they're not always in reach. whether she's making everyone's lunches in the morning, i'm playing munchkin with the boys, she's helping them with homework, i'm washing dishes after dinner, etc. -- it's rarely convenient (not to mention the poor social etiquette around the dinner table) to whip out a phone and do any 60-seconds-or-more task. with a family, you are kind of forced to be fully engaged most of the time.

this means we use the heck out of the amazon echo for the shopping list (also the music player, weather check, and timers for the boys) out of pure, unadulterated convenience.

in a busy household, it may sound cliche, but it's EXTREMELY convenient to just say "alexa, add sandwich bags to the shopping list" and the like while you're elbow-deep into putting away leftovers.

but having a free, physical button that magically reorders trash bags or detergent or paper towels placed in the very location where you would consume such things? magical!

because, again, in a busy household there are about a thousand other things you need to get to by the time you notice "oh, we're almost out of toilet paper" and inevitably, you'll catch yourself standing in costco next week trying to remember all the things you were almost out of.

and these are just the benefits to me -- for tide? this seems like a huge opportunity for brand lock-in and is probably even a joint venture between them and amazon.
I'm in Germany working with an international team of software developers.

About 22,5% of Germans are first to third generation immigrants. Not even the people who don't want more immigrants generally hate immigrants - certainly not you individually. Since there's comparatively little "segregation", with immigrants and non-immigrants having attended the same schools and living in physical proximity, you will be hard-pressed to find people frothing at the mouth at the sight of someone who looks like an immigrant.

One thing that is true however is that Germans will expect you to act German when you're in Germany and you'll be treated like anyone else for better or for worse. There's no "immigrant card" you can play. Complaining about other's behavior - often to their face - is a very German past-time. At least if you fuck up you'll know, because Germans will tell you about it at length. God help you if you screw up the same thing a second time.
Considering how many cool projects are being written in Go lately, it seems that a lot of people either don't mind the lack of generics or like the rest of Go enough to power through. I'm personally in the latter camp, though I can't say I've written anything remotely as cool as this.
I didn't say it would be easy.

But dictionary and password list-based attacks are expected to be quite effective anyways.

http://www.openwall.com/presentations/Passwords13-Energy-Eff...
I'm not sure if you understand the video game industry, but literally every popular game is a clone of something that came before it.

EDIT: This is obviously not true for some X where X is a base case of a popular game genre (e.g. Portal, Donkey Kong, Wolfenstein 3d), but it's generally true. Mario 64 is just a 3d platformer at some level, which is why it's so easy to clone.
"People who believe in the government are dangerous idiots."

That might be true, but that's still my point-- it is to some extent democratic. If more people were genuinely and strongly opposed to torture, we'd be getting somewhere prosecuting it. I'd say a majority are weakly opposed and a minority are strongly opposed. If a majority or super-majority were strongly opposed something would be happening.

(Being weakly opposed is basically meaningless.)

In some ways all societies are democracies. A totalitarian society is where the majority either supports the totalitarian regime or at least doesn't dislike it enough to invest the energy and risk required to rebel against it. There's a minimum threshold of support that any regime must have in order to maintain control. At the very least you must have sufficient support among a society's wealthy and powerful (money), those who wield weapons (military and police), and those who control key infrastructure (operations). If those sectors of support fail, kings get deposed.
Actually I'm meaning to talk about both; I wanted to bring up the long integer folks because that's a less obvious need to embed integer overflow machinery in your CPU.
They are not expressing themselves peacefully is the issue. They are calling for armed insurrection.
I don't think there's much doubt that social media platform algos increased the flaming the flames over a period of years. What we're talking about here is their role as a means of communication over days/weeks.

If we are talking about their role as a means of communication, where is the rage at Verizon, ATT, T-Mobile, etc.? The is where the argument of repealing Section 230 because of the insurrection breaks down.
Pics https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/kar...
So literally nothing can change your mind at this point unless the results happened to show trump won, got it.
Maybe for you, I would have needed more than 3 months to get one. Thankfully in my case the issue seems to have been benign and was gone in a month.
People with authoritarian mindset have a great respect for force.
In this case "the government" refers to the upper management of Ford, or at least that's how I read your parents post.

To reword:

> But since this time, the shareholder value has taken over the government.

But since that time, Ford management only cares about maximizing shareholder value.
Yes, it's a matter of how much the team gets done, not only how much you personally get done. I used exactly this example in "Programmer Productivity – Interruptions, Meetings and Working Remotely" http://henrikwarne.com/2013/04/02/programmer-productivity-in...
Oh, I really appreciate your corrections, thank you!
I understand that reading bad English is really annoying for natives. I try to be careful here on HN, but sometimes I do some mistakes.
Github was valued at $750mil in 2012, should be worth a whole lot more now.

Basecamp, has not gotten outside valuation for a long time, but they are just as if not popular that Asana who was valued at $280mm back in 2012.
So creating a BuzzFeed clone, a Grindr clone and a card game clone makes you a king?
The article fails to mention that Facebook is starting to crack down on organic clickbaity content, which is were all of the viral sites likely get 90% of their traffic.
> I am telling you that the two are not equivalent

Well, that's where I disagree. I think they are functionally equivalent.

> I address the "ignoring" part in my post

You address it by claiming that sleep training doesn't mean ignoring a crying baby. If there are sleep training methods that don't involve this, I doubt they would work with most kids. Realistically, if you are committed to sleep training, you're going to have to ignore some crying unless you have a really mellow baby.

> sleep training is bad and people who try it should be ashamed

Well, yeah. I get why people do it, but I think it's very likely to be damaging to our kids and our society. So I'd rather that people stop doing it. I know that plenty of folks have already drunk the kool-aid and are unlikely to be convinced (doing so would likely mean confronting some uncomfortable feelings). But there are sure to be brand new parents or soon-to-be parents reading this thread, and I'm hoping to convince some of them that there's a better way.
The only way to prove it, would be a massive data leak.
looks like zillow removed the cors headers from their autocomplete responses preventing it from working
I find that whenever I'm inclined to unsympathetic to the experience of another person, it's best to stop and remind myself that most people try their best to be good and happy, and care for those that are close to them, and that perhaps I'm just missing something.

In this particular case, I'd argue that in many areas of the USA, cars are not a luxury, they're essential to moving around in the (to me) odd car-based infrastructure. Cell phones are also not a luxury, even here in Europe, which is why most homeless people have one. Kids are also not a luxury, because, as the author argues, context and basic human needs make it all but impossible for many (most) humans to keep from procreating, accidentally or otherwise.

I think it's intellectually lazy to apply your own situation to others without considering their particulars. Sure, there are times where you can conclude that someone 'deserves' their lot in life, but I've found much more often than not that this lot is a result of external factors, and concluding that it isn't is dangerous, arrogant, and easy.

Edit: I'd add that judging others in this manner often hinges on the assumption that willpower is somehow just a choice, where in actually there's a lot of evidence that it's not, at least in large part.
Creator here. Could you explain by "another one of these"? Is it the anonymity that you don't like?

If so, I'd have to completely disagree. I think we need more anonymity on the internet, not less.
"Even a small black hole would suck in our entire universe".

Jesus fucking christ.
> "Contextually relevant!" That's a good one. :-)

It's true on a global scale, not just in the Arabic context. As you immerse yourself in a language, you're encouraged to follow newspapers/articles/tv/shows/etc. It is entirely unreasonable to censor your own learning process. Take this unfortunately common headline:

Death toll of Yemen anti-Houthi bomb blast rises to 49.[1]

Now censor your knowledge:

[? ?] of Yemen anti-Houthi [? ?] rises to 49.

Also, aren't we overlooking the fact that the TSA isn't the NSA/DHS? Did they guy have any things that could endanger the flight and his fellow passengers? Indisputably NOT. How is arresting him because of "suspicious literature" (a) acceptable and (b) within their jurisdiction? Report him to the NSA/DHS as an Arabic learner, if you like, and have them add it to his file, but arresting him? Isn't their job to make sure that he isn't sneaking [explodey things] onto airplanes?

To make a broader point: this is exactly what Schneier means by "security theater". If someone is a genuine threat, you can bet your ass he won't be carrying "suspicious" flashcards in airports. As they'd need to avoid suspicion/detention at all costs, every piece of their luggage/carryon would be scrutinized before they even got to the airport.

This hostility and pre-emptive guilt serves nothing except for ticking boxes in procedure reports and power trips.

> What a world we live in.

You can say that again.

[1] http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/01/01/...
> I do expect TSA to flag me if I literally hand the agent a stack of cards with "bomb" and "terrorist" written on them

Really? What else should you have not written on cards when trying to learn a foreign language? Insults? Names of body parts? Names of crimes?
I think the point is that poor people aren't poor because they cock everything up, but because social structures and the very belief that they will cock things up is what denies them the opportunity to pull themselves out of poverty.
> suspecion ... training

I don't think that those two words
had anything to do with the situation! Sorry 'bout that!
And, in an important sense, the training was
right on target! Again, sorry 'bout that!

It's called CYA or cover your ass. Or, what would,
could it look like to a higher up who worried what
it could, would look like to a reporter and what
it would, could look like to someone who wanted to
make a big stink, create a gotcha that later
they might be able to use, etc.
Or, the poor, lowly TSA agent
had to think:

"My supervisor is under a lot of
pressure and has me under a lot of pressure.
If he hears that I didn't regard that
passenger as suspicious, then it could be
my job. Letting the passenger board the plane
had no good
upside for me and possibly a big downside.
Calling the cops had a big upside for me,
took the hot potato out of my hands, and
had no downside for me. So, dirt simple
decision: Call the cops, get rid of the
issue and threat to my job, and get back to
inspecting swag some 4 year old girl
got from her trip to Disneyland."

Or, it's
all a stage play, commonly called security
theater. The passengers have to play along,
look like middle America tourists to Disneyland,
a salesman going to a sales convention where
he will eat and drink too much, or other
cases of a common man in the streets. Or,
first rule of such a sick, paranoid social
situation -- don't stick out. Instead, fit in,
conform, go along with the crowd. Else will
need someone with a lot of authority, power,
rationality, integrity, etc. to bail out your
poor, suffering back side, and that can take
a long time.

Did the SCOTUS ever pass out such advice?
Likely not.

Is that what the US Constitution says? Nope.

Is there a gap between reality and formality?
Yup, wider than the Grand Canyon.

Or, to paraphrase a common statement:
"It's not good enough to be innocent.
You also have to look innocent."

Have to understand that TSA, police, etc.
can get away with total nonsense behavior
at least occasionally and can say
"My long experience has taught me that
he was suspicious" and get away with that.

Is such nonsense TSA, police behavior
fair, just, reasonable, constitutional,
objective,
etc.? Nope. Real? Yup. Do I like it?
Nope. Can I do anything about it? Not much.
What can someone do? Try to stay
out of airports. Try to stay out of neighborhoods
where the police like to beat up on people.
Fit in.

The training? The TSA agents and police
likely do understand such things. One of the
little social secrets in the US, call it
social intelligence or understanding of
Organizational Behavior 101,
is that the citizens
have to understand such things also.

Yup, my blood boils, too. But I haven't been
to an airport since 9/11, and I'm not
eager to go again.
I don't feel that an apology cuts it anymore. We have so many sources of complete garbage. Imagine if this was what caused the significant drop of the IBM stock price (on the 21st)

Could we create a blacklist of sources that just aren't credible that we can just filter them out? e.g. Sky News.
Perhaps negative weighting won't work; perhaps we should add a credibility weighting for respected works (web sites, or authors?)
> Everything is "exposed" by default. It works on top of AWS Cloudformation. You can extend the CF template using native AWS Cloudformation, or override anything that Stacktape generates.
> So basically, Stacktape gets you to production very fast, but isn't an obstacle when you need to scale and go "lower level".

I get what you're saying, but please look a little closer at your messaging and your value proposition.

Your value proposition is "with Stacktape, you don't need to hire a DevOps engineer, we charge you not even 10% the cost of a DevOps engineer, therefore by buying Stacktape you will save money." But, apparently, eventually your customer might/will grow out of what Stacktape can offer, in which case your customer will hire a DevOps engineer anyway, and well at least they can take comfort that there won't be any vendor lock-in.

Which begs the question - how is a customer supposed to know when that point in time could or would be? You're not promising that they'll never need a DevOps engineer, because you'll help them migrate, and you're not promising the benefits of a PaaS, including full responsibility for the resources you create, because ultimately they just belong to the customer on their account and it's all their responsibility.

I don't think telling people "we help you spin up lots of stuff that you don't understand but you'll be responsible for it anyway if something goes wrong" is a compelling message. People who look at your pricing page, they're not going to compare your price to the price of a PaaS or a DevOps engineer, because you're not providing the value of a PaaS or a DevOps engineer, i.e. someone with the experience to take responsibility and fix things when and if they go wrong. Instead, they will compare it to the actual value they are getting, which is "is it worth it to me to pay $45/month to read these docs and maintain this shorter YAML, than it is to read these other docs and maintain this admittedly longer YAML?" Maybe there is a market like that, and if so, then I wish you the best of luck (I'm a DevOps engineer so I already understand that longer YAML so your solution doesn't give me value).
Do you know how effective it was?

Sounds like an interesting idea. I
I think that there’s a difference between just seeing something and taking it in deeply enough to carry the information into their minds eye and then transfer that onto a canvas through finger movements. I’m absolutely no expert here but it seems like the physical reproduction step (moving paint around) is secondary to the skills involved with the first step, even if that’s what people equate to being an artist.
facebook some time ago added a way to export your posts (is that what they are called?) - to wordpress - it's really hard to find -

but if it's still working - I'd suggest showing folks how to export thier posts to slow social - and have them saved - then weekly published - give people options to re-order blocks / sort by time/date .. sort by drag and drop or number ordering or something..

offer a way to have that weekly post sent by email for fam / whoever could opt in reply to get it that way.. also rss..

could be a thing.

I could see this useful for both pro and non-pro folks in different ways.
You might need nuclear-grade duct tape for that: https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-17542BLU/3M-Duct-Clot...
I'll fix that up when I have some time. Thanks for pointing it out. Most panics come from when something went wrong with the ffmpeg subprocess. I didn't know that there is a way for the user to handle errors coming from this subprocess.
I still use it with scheme48. Mostly for the process notation (which you can get in chicken these days).

Lisp are in a great place where you can extend syntax to the problem domain. This means that you can bolt on a system like this and it feels just like home.
I wonder if there's a mental break situation when your alter ego is so drastically different when your real self.
Does "Distinguishing modifier keys" feature work on macOS Terminal ?
I ran into the same problem. There is no download link. They should have an option to directly upload it to youtube.

UPDATE: Finally figured out a way to download the video, incase you don't see the download link. Find the "cid" from the "Edit Video Info>>" link and paste it in this url http://www.google.com/video/upload/DownloadVideo?cid=[video_...
Never used it, but it seems more complex and doesn't use standard tunneling (eg. wireguard).

You should also check out Innernet if you're interested in this space. Wiretrustee is similar to TS in that it mixes OS/Closed source.
clickable http://www.keeapp.com
how do you think organic food started? people decided that the FDA's labels for what is and is not acceptable was too granular so they created their own certification based on their own values.

I would argue that government regulation lowers quality in general because it creates an overhead for any competing entity. Consider if the government created a "free milk" program and payed for it with taxes. Instead of suppliers competing for the many quality levels that consumers are interested in the vast majority now only cater to one quality level: that set by regulation. What is easier to game? one customer (the regulator) or millions of competing customers?
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If true, it's perhaps a bit sad that he's so willingly gone out - with this blog post, and the one about Go - in a way that paints himself as a total asshole. It's all most of us will ever have had in the way of contact with him.
Strange that you picked that example, considering it's the only instance where you could hope to argue that the 'war' was successful. You don't see much Communism these days, at least not in the tradition of Stalin and Mao.

On the other hand drug use is still a worthy adversary despite the US having waged a long and bitter war of attrition against it for decades. Also poverty, obesity, probably a bunch of other pet struggles we appropriated the word 'war' for.
I write Go exclusively during my day job - these are indeed chores I encounter daily.

I could and probably will blog about problems with the Haskell as well - nothing is perfect.
Within a month or two, I'll be relocating from Kansas to San Francisco to (hopefully) help a startup do great things in a Software Engineer or Web Developer role. I'll be in the Bay Area from today (in KC airport now) until Sunday for interviews. My resume can be found at http://drop.io/benresume. If anyone has any interest/info, email me at bengoering@gmail.com
This wasn't really about the fact that it wouldn't accept his name but about the message it gave him, which to me is a problem of letting developers write error messages. Why do we write error messages that sound like robots when spoken?

Maybe that is unfair to robots who speak the way developers programmed them.

Either way it doesn't seem like anything worth getting in a huff over. I don't think it was meant as purposefully degrading or had intent to insult. If anything it just wasn't clear enough; they meant - contains invalid characters for this system. Why take it personally? I don't think whoever wrote the error message was trying to make some sort of statement against "traditional" names.
One point to keep in mind: you have no idea how long a time 15 years are. You have no idea how different a person you'll be then. And you will.
In addition to what wwortiz said, you do not have to create an image using less than half your allotted storage from the get go. So long as you can ultimately get it down to under half the size by deleting files, etc, later, you can downsize the image. In other words, get an 8gb image down to 4gb of actual data and you can resize the thing down to 4gb from the linode CP.