jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Response from Al:

November 24, 2010

Dear Steve,

Thank you for contacting me about the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA). I appreciate hearing from you on this important issue.

I believe that intellectual property enforcement is extremely important. We must protect American jobs from piracy, which has become rampant on the Internet. We don't tolerate shoplifters in stores, and we should not tolerate them online.

COICA would give the Department of Justice an expedited process for cracking down on websites whose primary purpose is to sell pirated goods. Right now, if a company finds that its products are being pirated or counterfeited online, its only recourse is to sue in civil court, a process that can take years, during which time the offending website continues to do harm. Under COICA, the Justice Department gains jurisdiction over off-shore infringers--something that is extremely difficult under current law--and can use expedited legal procedures to stop the worst of these offenders.

I was initially wary of COICA, but there have been some important improvements that have addressed my concerns. The most controversial provision of this bill, sometimes called the "Internet Blacklist," originally directed the Justice Department to publish a list of offending websites and encouraged Internet service providers (ISPs) and other relevant parties to shut down the listed websites without a judicial process. This provision was clearly wrong, and I was glad to see it removed prior to the bill's consideration. I also worked with Chairman Leahy to narrow the definition of an infringing site to include only sites where copyright infringement is "the central purpose" of the site, not sites which may be engaged in copyright infringement incidentally but are also devoted to other purposes.

This bill has also been amended to protect net neutrality. In the initial version of the bill, ISPs were given legal immunity to voluntarily enforce the bill's provisions and block access to websites. This provision has been removed. As it currently stands, this bill won't allow a fast lane and a slow lane of Internet traffic. It will not affect net neutrality, which has always been about protecting users' access to legal content.

It is unlikely that this bill will come to the floor of the Senate before the end of the year. This means that it must pass through the legislative process again in the next Congress. I look forward to working with Chairman Leahy to further improve the bill next year.

Thank you again for contacting me. Please don't hesitate to contact me again on this or any other issue that may be important to you.

Sincerely,

Al Franken

United States Senator
CPU and GPU are good at different tasks. For some jobs a single GPU probably will be much faster but there are some jobs where CPUs will still excel.
In my experience it's only near-instant if it's to the same bank. ANZ to CBA always seems to be overnight, for example.
Doesn't support the following:

Forwarding of X11, SSH agent, etc.
IPv6, with roaming between v4 and v6
Android client

The x-forwarding is what kills me. Still waiting for it though.
All this really is is "I don't work in head office" syndrome. Generally everyone outside head office is either aware of how opaque the goings on are or they have been deluded by the koolaid.

Western companies are just as bad in these respects as their Japanese counterparts.
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You made a throwaway to spout your conspiracy theories. How can we have a discussion?
You don't even need a twitter account when there's blue not matter who culture.
How could you break up Twitter, what's your plan?
No mention of the hundreds of preceded them?

Actions have consequences.
A bit of a grim point, but the timing is also right in that the majority of staff are currently WFH, removing much of the potential for any violent protest/retaliation at their offices. Maybe being naive but I wonder how much this has been a consideration in the past.
Just like Alex Jones... Coordinated cancellation again. They'll just move to encrypted platforms and alternatives. It will get harder to actually 'stop them'.

What happens if this was done to the left? I can imagine the protests at the offices of those companies right now.
I am not sure if you are being sarcastic but i feel this comment.
Thanks for the explanation. Sounds like it would be a move in the right direction. I think the weak link is that until there is true competion, the big platforms will simply exercise their rights to ban posts from people they dislike regardless of how they arrive. Small platforms won't have equivalent reach. But it's a starting point.

I wish I shared your optimism. The level of censorship currently being imposed and surprisingly supported by news media is frightening and disheartening. Twitter just permanently banned Trump claiming that his tweet declining to attend the inauguration was inciting violence!? Scumbags indeed. I wonder if HN moderators will shadow ban me for this comment that mentions Trump?
Remember your post when things don't end up going down the path you think you've expertly designed for your preferred outcome. When you ask "why is this happening?", know that you were part of the reason why things ended up the way they end up.
I realize the article is mostly about the mantra, but I included it not because of that but because of the small reference to the example with the plank hidden in the middle :-)
>They are voluntarily choosing to put in long hours in return for salary+fun.

They are voluntarily are harming themselves. It's still harm. Their marriages don't last/are very strained, their health declines from long amounts of chair time, bad food and long hours. If the collectively bargained for normal working hours, I bet most of them would be ecstatic to get it.

> The net result will simply be that we produce lower quality video games

Perhaps? Perhaps we'll just produce them differently! And even if we do, they're just video games. It's okay if we create less of them in order to produce them without harming everyone involved to do so. I'm sure if we took off all the safety regulations, employee regulations, and negotiated employee agreements we'd have cheaper oil and more of it. Doesn't make that a good either.
Is this important?
From the New York Times:

"Their [research] also suggests that the disadvantages that poverty imposes on children aren’t primarily about material goods. True, every poor child would benefit from having more books in his home and more nutritious food to eat (and money certainly makes it easier to carry out a program of concerted cultivation). But the real advantages that middle-class children gain come from more elusive processes: the language that their parents use, the attitudes toward life that they convey. However you measure child-rearing, middle class parents tend to do it differently than poor parents — and the path they follow in turn tends to give their children an array of advantages. [...] Can the culture of child-rearing be changed in poor neighborhoods, and if so, is that a project that government or community organizations have the ability, or the right, to take on?"

(If you read the whole article, they are using poor to mean low-income minority, i.e. black.)
The bar for "creative work" is exceptionally low. Taking an off-center snapshot of a famous painting in the public domain may be sufficient to have copyright on a derivative work. It may be prohibited by the museum for you to do so, but the copyright is probably valid, and they will certainly assert their copyright in the licensed version.

While the underlying data in a phone book cannot be copyright, the choice of page numbering is copyrightable. I don't think it's any stretch that an artist would gain protection for a new print made from an old negative, particularly if they did any selective exposing.

Being transformative is a criterion for deciding fair use (which this may or may not be), but is not necessary to gain copyright as a derivative work. While I feel slapping a restrictive copyright notice on these images is somewhat reprehensible, I would not bet against it being upheld.
I would agree with you but I think people are apt to tolerate 'big' injustices over 'small' injustices. If you had some kind of COLA apply to taxes --which I think would be more just, you know there would be people suing over the COLA being miscalculated or that their living within a given neighborhood as opposed to the one two blocks away should mean their adjustment is greater... it could get byzantine and unweildly quick.
This site is by no means unique in this practice.
I think fundamentally ICE vehicles have lots more choice right now. Tesla only competes in a few small segments.

At the price points they are competing in, Tesla has a competitive price offering (particularly if you are looking for performance). But there is a huge price umbrella below the base M3.

I'm not sure other EVs can say the same. The Bolt is in this weird territory where it's well priced for an EV, but it's not particularly well priced otherwise. Likewise the Nissan Leaf. I haven't seen or dealt with the VW.

It is very shrewd of Tesla to stick to price points where they can compete effectively. Focusing on places where they can sell vehicles which are competitive on merits allows them to sell vehicles as quickly as they produce them.
Biologists are using the genome expression in each kind of tissue to refine the number of tissues. These were counted observationally in the past. Some suspect the count could as much as triple this way.
I agree, but unfortunately you sometimes don't get a choice of what the other end has created for you to consume.
No, this almost certainly would not achieve the outcome you’re hoping for, and would likely create new problems.
>the American industrial revolution happened during a period without central banks and their "flexibility.

Before the great depression and the federal reserve, weren't there financial crises/panics over and over? I'm not real familiar with 19th century history, but obviously there was a reason we set up all those institutions and laws in the 30s, because the way things worked had become untenable.

Edit:
"Between 1863 and 1913, eight banking panics occurred in the money center of Manhattan. The panics in 1884, 1890, 1899, 1901, and 1908 were confined to New York and nearby cities and states. The panics in 1873, 1893, and 1907 spread throughout the nation. Regional panics also struck the midwestern states of Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin in 1896; the mid-Atlantic states of Pennsylvania and Maryland in 1903; and Chicago in 1905."

https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/banking-panics-...
"Rich" countries have tiny birth rates compared to others, you can't ignore that fact by saying "people love making babies everywhere" (I live in Peru btw).
Incidentally, I've been trying to advertise on 4chan and they will not return my emails.
its coming. I suspect nanotechnology will create new materials and technologies that will make whole new countries possible in oceans everywhere.

It is a dream that will happen. And, yes, there will be pipes, but not sure what kind of concrete will be used :-)
That just refers to running multiple processes instead of multiple threads. Rails wasn't thread safe until recently and many ruby libraries still aren't (including the mysql driver). So it's common practice to run a "pack of mongrels" (a few processes simultaneously) and then load balance between them in case a long request ties one up for a while.

Mongrel2 will let you effectively design part of your app to benefit from Rails (for example) and part to use 0mq and do a more evented style of design. All within one configuration / approach.
As a physician, I find NPR is generally good at addressing issues at a level the average person can understand. No one is claiming the NPR article is the study. They do link to the studies in the text.

As for controlling for exercise: the whole point of the article is that researchers are finding that outcomes are at least reliably associated (with or without causality) with sedentary activity, that is, specifically measuring the amount of not-doing-anything-physical.

The Warren study very specifically looked at driving and watching TV as it relates to cardiovascular disease. In the introduction, they specifically address your contention:

============

Sedentary pursuits represent a unique aspect of human
behavior and should not be viewed as simply the extreme
low end of the physical activity continuum. For example,
several studies have demonstrated that excess TV viewing
time, independent from overall physical activity levels, is
adversely associated with metabolic risk factors (18)

[ed: ref 18 is Hamilton MT, Hamilton DG, Zderic TW. Role of low energy expenditure and sitting in obesity, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Diabetes. 2007;56(11):2655–67.]

============
This is exactly it. The product is easy to replicate, corporate account acquisition is not.
From a response they sent to the press:

Any location data that is sent back to Google location servers is anonymized and is not tied or traceable to a specific user.

It's anonymized. They technically aren't tracking your location but finding out where a 'place' is through the triangulation data of that area, which is sent to their servers so next time someone in that location queries their database - via an app for example - gets more accurate feedback.
I prefer to load resources like Jquery using googles CDN and then pack my own javascript separately. Using something like HeadJS you can load both items non-blocking and in parallel.

http://headjs.com/
Is the world more like Civilization III or IV?

From what I remember, the overhead of high city counts in IV can be prohibitively high. It makes more sense to scale vertically rather than horizontally. Unless, of course, you employ the State Property civic (apt!). Interestingly, China has been switching to the Free Market civic for the last couple of decades... More trade routes and more incentive to support corporations, but higher overhead for the huge city count. There's a reason why you go through revolution when you change civics.
Have you even read any technological surveys? You'll find plenty of respectable histories of technology that don't even mention that Einstein was Jewish. See

http://books.google.com/books?id=XvB1ZcsrDFAC&printsec=f...

for example.

The reason it's not mentioned is very simple: it's not relevant. Just as the skin color of the workers was not relevant to the development of the mass production process.
>then the net effect is a better world.

A child riding a bike can only see the failure and difficulty of learning, not them winning the Tour de France. If we are all in the process of learning, would we even know a "better world" if we saw it, and is a "better world" the outcome that matters?
See also SeatSale: License to Sit: http://wearcam.org/seatsale/
Probably supply and demand stuff. I've never played SC, but I understand that you need to mine for "minerals" and spawn units and build buildings.
Yup, and accessing table availability requires integrating with the restaurant's point of sale system so you can track when tables are getting seated and cleared.

Innovating technology wise in the restaurant space is pretty tough cause sooner or later you're going to hit the wall of having to integrate with a dozen or more point of sale providers, no matter what you're trying to do (mobile/online ordering, reservation/waitlist systems, reporting systems, etc).

Oh, and because of their incredibly low profit margins, most restaurants can't afford to buy this type of tech. And the ones that do typically keep it for 5+ years between upgrades.
I've pasted a copy of the original email I sent to the ReadWriteWeb guy below. Inevitably some of the interesting stuff was edited out in the article:

<quote>

In a nutshell, FluidDB is an openly writable hosted service for
storing, sharing, searching and annotating data. While this is an
accurate description it doesn't tell the whole story (in the same way
as describing Twitter as, "writing messages to friends in only 140
characters or less" doesn't tell the whole story).

Perhaps the best thing to do is take a look at a recent (short)
presentation I did that attempts to answer exactly the questions
you're asking (what is FluidDB?, how does it work?, what's different
about it? etc...). The slides and notes are on Slideshare here:

http://www.slideshare.net/ntoll/fluiddb-in-a-nutshell-628958...

With regard to Google's DataWiki, the obvious similarity appears to be
that both accept contributions from everyone (i.e. they're openly
writeable). However, I've just had a look around their site and it
appears that it's quite a different project to FluidDB in several
important ways.

If I understand things correctly, each page in the DataWiki represents
a discrete dataset conforming to a pre-defined structure/schema (in
FluidDB we don't impose schema on our users and individual things are
represented by objects rather than entries on a list).

In addition, there doesn't seem to be any way to validate the
trustworthiness or source of the data (in FluidDB the permission
system makes sure there is control over who uses specific tags and
namespaces - for example only I can add data using tags under the
"ntoll" namespace).

Also, DataWiki's search seems to be on a per-page basis rather than
across all datasets (in FluidDB it is possible to search for and
retrieve anything using any tag for which you have a "read" permission
- including tags created by others).

Finally, the DataWiki site says they're a wiki for structured data.
FluidDB is more forgiving about the structure of data - in fact one of
its strengths is how easy it is for the structure of data to evolve
and change to reflect changes in the "real" world.

</quote>
Need to explicitly specify case insensitive while searching for strings. Not really a gotcha, but can be overlooked if you are transitioning in from MySql which does case insensitive matching by default.
I think there's some level of equivocation going on in this article.

P1. Computer Science has to do with computers.

P2. Science is more than formal systems, namely empirical evidence and studies.

C. Computer Science is incomplete if it does not incorporate empirical evidence.

The problem as I see it is not that Computer Science is not Science in the sense that maybe Chemistry and Biology is a science. It's called "Computer Science" not "Computer" + "Science". The term is atomic, in my opinion and you can't really draw the word "Science" out of the name of the field and derive some kind of meaning out of it. CS tends to hang out somewhere between the maths and sciences, but not fully one or the other. I'm not sure how you would go about applying the scientific method to programming.

Also, I think the beef is with software engineering as stated before.
My teacher once told me of a newspaper journalist who, when using his computer, would just turn off the monitor and write his piece from start to finish. He would then, presumably, proceed to polish it afterwards. How is that for distraction-free work flow?

There are so many ways to approach writing, it sometimes scares me.
I think the same article could be written about lots of top ten schools, particularly the larger ones. Take UCSD for example: top 10 CS program, great city for young people, decent amount of angels/VCs floating around La Jolla, huge city (LA) only an hour away with access to even more capital... yet there hasn't been a major tech SD startup since mp3.com.

Big schools do not foster startups. I wonder if it's because smaller schools have more in common with startups? They have smaller staffs, leaner budgets, and typically fewer ridiculous processes. Key example: I just applied to Stanford and UTCS for my PhD. Stanford has clear info on deadlines and sent me an automated email reminder a few days before the app was due. UT Austin requires you to fill out two separate applications (one for the general UT system and another for UTCS), with different deadlines for each, inconsistent deadline info between the two systems, requiring duplicate information, and setting up a convoluted group of user accounts.

It is very hard to get big schools to understand startups. Virginia Tech was pushing very hard to encourage starting more tech companies, but their approach was to build a gigantic Corporate Research Center with isolated buildings and establishing formal "partnerships" with established or funded companies. Projects like the BT transit app get buzz only after they are a hit; and they don't try to compound the momentum by getting an order of magnitude more students working on their own apps, but rather let everything die down and force the few startup-friendly professors to start all over again.

As with most big organizations, the problems are fairly obvious. It's just nearly impossible to get them to change anything, especially since the main issue is a lack of willingness to change things.
this is compelling:

> Nomad shines because it follows the UNIX philosophy of "Make each program do one thing well". To put simply, Nomad is just a workload orchestrator. It only is concerned about things like Bin Packing, scheduling decisions.

so is the stuff about saner config syntax

'k8s is bad at everything and nomad is only trying to be bad at one thing' actually makes sense of my reality
I have a silent dishwasher that I sometimes mistakenly open and this is how it responds. Everything cuts off immediately.
This is an interesting chicken-and-egg question we had not so long before - is it legislature or is it business that produces corruption? The answer is not black and white and depends on jurisdiction.
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So it's even worse than the things people called FUD?
Corporate greed
I fail to see the logic behind optimizing around conditionals when you are running in an interpreted language.
What good is a lottery when it's a few hundred people vs. 20,000 bots?

Online camping spot reservations need to ask for your name at the time of reservation, and ensure the name matches your ID when you arrive at the park. This is how many (non-Ticketmaster) concert e-tickets work.
with less than 20m depth ocean going for like 10 miles into the ocean, somebody should just build a Millenium Gate few miles off the Ocean beach and end the crisis (or may it will fuel it even more?)