skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> eavesdropping on cell phone calls

That's not the part that warrants a strong punishment. Jail time is justified for the abuse of power while acting under the color of law. The particulars about that abuse (eavesdropping on a cell phone) is less important.

> registry

While this is an interesting idea, I caution strongly against creating any kind of "registry". The current examples we have seen (e.g. "sex offenders") has shown how registries dilute important concepts like "innocent until proven guilty" when presence on the registry doesn't map 1-to-1 with "found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt".

Even more worrying is the idea that someone should be tainted for life (or "a long time") for a mistake. Branding people with a modern "scarlet letter" for their mistakes doesn't create an incentive for that person to change their behavior[1]. Once someone has "paid their debt to society", they deserve a 2nd chance that is free of past accusations.

There may be a way to make some aspects of a registry work without these problems, but I'm haven't seen it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBmJay_qdNc ("The Truth About Dishonesty")
"Qualified" will always mean "can make a computer do things we need done" and that's not negotiable.

We do hire at all experience levels and several of our successful squad leads are original college hires (having only worked with us), so we have some demonstrated track record of mentoring and retention.

Even in college recruiting (where I'd expect the greatest diversity of candidates), I can't recall any recent black applicants, and except for a somewhat higher ratio of women to men than the industry average, the ratios of college grads seem to track the industry ratios reasonably closely.

I concede that there is a bias towards college grads in industry and stated above, and that nothing is legally barring me from crafting some kind of Cinderella program to seek out possibly qualified candidates who avoided college or who failed to graduate. There would no doubt be some successful candidates that emerged from such a program.

The practical bar to that is my belief that any such single-company program would be utterly uncompetitive versus other efforts I could make in staffing. Opening an out of country office, while hard, is probably much less work per successful candidate, has a higher success rate, and often presents much more compelling economics.

If the above is remotely true, the shortest path to better prospects for minorities is to increase their college attendance, STEM majors, and graduation rates. It also has the practical advantage of having a high level of self-determination and influence; rather than waiting for me to fix their problem (where I necessarily have many competing priorities), they can take initiative to address their problem (where they naturally have more focus and vested interest in the specific outcome).

There is unlikely to emerge a single-company Cinderella type program that will markedly change the industry. The overhead costs are too much and the successes too few. A regional (or even national) charitable or educational institution may be able to move the needle (but even there, the shorter path might well be "encourage college and STEM participation rates")
And because more people have "nothing to hide" they will try to convenience undecided, who will vote on those who support surveillance to fight "terrorists"?
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I used the word "successful" not for ambiguity but because success is relative to each person. Has your Show HN made it big? If so a link would be great!
Our company which sounds similar to the makeup of you company has been using Teamwork.com for project management along with getharvest.com for time tracking and invoicing for a few years now. Both of the tools are great at what they do. We also use Hipchat for instant communication, project specific group chats etc. although lately the service hasn't been stellar. I think we are going to give Slack a shot instead.
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> If the status quo continues, expect the overall app quality to stagnate and developers to move on to other platforms that have a less skewed power law.

This prediction likely won't come true. I don't know why but the situation hasn't changed in years and developers keep pumping out thousands of apps including many high quality polished apps.
I was just writing the same comment, then said to myself: "hey don't wake up hackers, do it yourself :p" and i continue to my boring paid job like nothing happened.
France is not part of TPP.
Very uplifting. Thanks for sharing.
As far as I know nobody has tried so far, but that would be cool.
Why give the keyboard and screen access to the kernel? Do you want to get kernel exploits? Because that's how you get kernel exploits.
> Do they not understand that prohibition benefits the cartels and funds their violence?

Maybe they understand that argument, but disagree with it.

I personally think it rather unlikely that legalization will lead to the dissolution of the cartels. In fact my first (paranoid, almost certainly wrong) thought was that the cartels had some sway with the Mexican Supreme Court.

Most of the time the people who disagree with you are not simply stupid or ignorant, but have different values and don't share all the same assumptions.
I will be dead before I allow an always on camera to be watching me at my computer.
Zip file download (with all annexes) seems to be broken. Chapters + annexes are available as dozens of individual files. Zip file mirror needed.
Uh, in both cases "not the user", your friend using any other system unless he decided to back it up would have been locked out anyway unless he was using a localised system like POP3... Most systems allow admins to block/prevent data exports one way or another. He could have copied and pasted the slack history if he wanted a copy as easily as he could have backed up gmail / irc / etc....

I think your argument is somewhat null....
I have a Betty Crocker cookbook from the sixties that gives exactly the same cooking advice, right down to time, boiling start, and shocking in ice water.
Well, his parents couldn't name him Bobby Tables, so he has to go by Christopher Null instead :)

https://xkcd.com/327/

Just tested it on my programs and they don't have a problem with his name fortunately.

How did Bank of America start parsing "null" in the middle of an email address, I don't know...
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I feel a little uncomfortable about this being posted again. The whole incident was very unpleasant, but everyone involved regrets it deeply. Steve Klabnik particularly has commented several times how greatly he regrets the role he played in discouraging a fellow programmer (as well as of course making a public apology). He's currently doing an admirable job encouraging newbies and making the Rust community a welcoming place to all. He is the primary author of https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/, which many of you may have read.
> 2. No Party shall require a covered person to use or locate computing facilities in that Party’s territory as a condition for conducting business in that territory.

No Russian server situations

http://www.mfat.govt.nz/downloads/trade-agreement/transpacif...
> Some might argue against this and only count technology on or in the person, because we could also count books and libraries in the same sense.

This is somewhat true but if I want to know the height of mount everest or the most common human blood group I can get that answer in under 3s with google which I couldn't do in a library, not to mention I carry everything indexable by google around in a little 5in across piece of glass and plastic.
If your argument is that you, as an American, feel farfrom your government, imagine what it's like for the rest of the world.
Why anti scientific ? His theory is based on a lot of anthropological observations. He elaborates a very robust hypothesis with rigorous reasoning and comes up with a brilliant/thought-provoking and yet simple theory (so much more simple & elegant than freudian theory) on the structural role of religion, rituals and sacrifice in human societies.

Overall you don't need to agree on everything he says or consider it as scientific ! Scientific proof anyway in human matters are hardly testable, subject to contradiction and ideological bias. So criticizing him because of a lack of scientific rigor is just bashing in an open door.

However I don't know much about Paul Ricoeur, so I'd love to know what you consider great about his work.
You can upload your own image as the template, on the right side next to your target image.
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Not even give an error.
This is quite interesting though. On the web, search engines were built to fulfil a very specific need... finding content. The more open the web became the better search engines could find what you were looking for. Now with apps, they're being built at an extremely rapid pace, I wonder if we could expect to see some content-finding framework popping up to solve the saturation/discoverability issue.
I got a certificate revoked error, then I realized it was signed by WoSign.
This is why I think mobile vehicles that visit the homeless (for medical, dental, showers, food) are just so brilliant and wonderful.
> Note that moving 30 km (or 20 miles) east or west also changes the sunset by one minute.

Depending on how close to the poles / equator you are, and probably also time of the year.
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Their point is not that the product was low quality (although it was), but that the brand's resolution of the problem was of low quality.

Although it may not be possible to control an entire production chain, it is entirely possible to control the customer service department or at least the refund policy.
I would recommend you to improve your English and have someone proof-read the texts you write. The grammar in your post as well as on your website is very bad and full or errors. It makes the product look very unprofessional (even though the product itself looks great!).
Especially strange because the project in question seems to be pretty simple, useful, and decently documented. It doesn't even seem to be near the "laughable" threshold to me, and I'm a pretty spiteful and cynical person.

I have a hunch that maybe some people interpret a GitHub project page as a claim that "this project is amazing and better than other things and you should use it," when actually the only implicit claim is "here's a free thing."

A related question has to do with package namespaces, e.g. npm. This project claims the name "replace" on npm. What does that entail? How do we decide if it's a "legitimate" claim? If someone makes another replace utility that's way more sophisticated or beautiful or whatever, should the name be reassigned?

Npm has a policy: https://www.npmjs.com/policies/disputes

Even more abstractly, it's pretty interesting how names, versions, URLs, and publishing becomes an area where "politics" come into play, more than one might expect given the nature of the code artifacts. That stuff brings up all kinds of policies, claims, etc.
National data sovereignty would be restricted by TPP, if enacted into law, http://www.zdnet.com/article/tpp-moves-toward-killing-off-go... & https://blog.ffii.org/a-license-to-spy-cross-border-data-flo...

"Governments ... will be unable to force companies from those countries to store government data in local datacentres ... governments will not only be prevented from mandating data sovereignty provision, they will also be unable to demand access to source code from companies incorporated in TPP territories."
You know, there doesn't have to be a strict dichotomy between "a dozen people own half the world" and "Stalinism". Other political possibilities exist.

("Their" labour is really an assumption we should challenge: Jim and Christy Walton didn't stack every shelf themselves, there's 2 million other Wal-Mart employees. Perhaps the future is they're all stacked by robots and you have two billionaires plus two million starving people; we might want to find ways of avoiding that future)
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<jokingly tone>
The most amusing part to me is the glorification of Bourbon and Tennessee Whiskey. IMO, They don't stand a chance in front a good Scotch or even a Rye.
</jokingly tone>
Wasn't this illegal already? Or no?
The loudest hecklers are often the most successful at projecting an appearance of competence that may not necessarily be warranted. They derive energy and peer recognition from publicly berating colleagues for decisions.

Absolutely a great point, and a very ironic one to see considering the comments on Linus Torvalds that have been going around on HN lately.
Hey, I agree with that. But the fact is that people steal and will continue stealing. Especially when they can't get a job, which is an extremely bad situation.

From the top to the bottom, everybody steals, but only the pawns take the fall when the time comes. Look for the head of a problem (and cut it off), not it's tail...
I'd like to point out that he also heavily influenced Jean Pierre Dupuy (also professor at Standford) who wrote a few brilliant books. Among them : "l'Avenir de l'économie". Don't know if it's translated in english but for my fellow french hackers I highly recommend it
It be cool if you could add the name of the artist who's work your uploading. So excited to see my Manet-mashup!
So make it for 15 years.

The thought is that a registry/disclosure rule is still a strong punishment (it presumably prevents them from using their primary skills to repeat the offense) but should cost less than a prison sentence.

I suppose I don't care if incarceration is justified, I'm more interested in whether it is necessary.
Looking at the package list I can see:

python-sphinx
and
python2-sphinx

From this I conclude that python-sphinx is python3 version of sphinx right? Do you think that's sane (from user experience point of view) assuming that /usr/bin/python should point to python2?
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/
> once you have proper, fresh eggs you won't go back to store-bought.

Placebo

http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/08/what-are-the-best-eggs-ca...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06...
Adding to that, the good old excuse "funding is coming", I've heard that before.

From the article: " “We had an indication from the investor that we’ll close the funding by September end and we gave a 45 day period (for the F&Fs). But due to a bad market, it took time to close the deal and we were extremely cash crunched. So we requested people that as soon as we get new funding, we will shoot (off the payments). We told the old employees that money was coming on the 15th and we’d distribute it the same day.”

I'm not sure about India, but in Uruguay, severance pay is HUGE (usually several salaries) and can impact very heavily a company.
From the "Legal and Institutional" section, http://www.tpp.mfat.govt.nz/assets/docs/TPP_factsheet_Legal-...

Any Party may withdraw from TPP by providing
six months notice of withdrawal.

How many ISDS lawsuits (http://isdscorporateattacks.org) and World Bank fines (https://youtube.com/watch?v=M4-mlGRPmkU) would it take for a country to withdraw from TPP?
Tree Isomorphism is a much easier problem than general Graph Isomorphism.
http://mfat.govt.nz/downloads/trade-agreement/transpacific/T...
The 100:10:1 method: my approach to open source
Is there an ETA for getting built-in ACME clients into nginx and Apache?
Most programmers who just read about the leap second and don't get enough information seem to miss this:

If you use time() function as POSIX defines it you already now get the "sane" number of seconds for the common calculations: to get the day after and the same time just always add 86400 seconds. It was so even at the day the last leap second happened (June 30, 2015). So the commonly used algorithms don't have to care. We already use the time as the astronomical time, add 86400 seconds and get the expected time a day after, and that there were 9e9 more oscillations of the Ce 133 atom between these two datetimes compared to other days we don't have to care.

Only if you change your system not to be POSIX compliant the calculations aren't obvious. Just don't do it.

The system as it is now, with the leap seconds happening, works. Who needs to care about TAI already cares. No need changing it.

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/torvalds_leapsecond/

"You’d have to teach people to not care about the correlation of time to the sun, or the correlation of dates to the seasons. That doesn’t sound very realistic.

The people and computers who really care about “atomic” time tend to be astronomers. For the rest of us – both people and computers – we’re probably better off taking the POSIX approach to it, and just say “who cares”, with a few unlucky people worrying about bugs happening because of the perversities of timekeeping."
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Most recent edition, sent yesterday: https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural...
This one was submitted first but discussion seems to be happening over at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10512882
Oh boy, they should have stripped metadata from those PDFs.
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The person who I'm replying to advocates for confiscating people's money "because they are rich". So, I guess you either did not read it or you simply block it out because you don't want to comment on it, but still wanted to make an argument. I'm sorry. That's not how it works.

Waltons might not stack shelves, but they invented vendor managed inventory, which transformed the global supply chain and lead to many, MANY other things coming to reality. They also manage a multi billion dollar company. Perhaps one of those shelf-stacking employees can substitute them for a day. I'm sure it's not a big deal.
Computer aided dispatch. Essentially all trains are monitored via control centers owned by a few of the larger railroads. Passenger traffic is even handed off through these centers when crossing the territories.

And yes dark territory is what they call the areas that are unmonitored. Usually these are way out in the middle of no where on single track. Most monitoring believe it or not is hard wired and not wireless. For example, hot box detectors which are basically buried on the inside of the tracks monitor a trains bearing/axel temperatures and can report if one is over heating. This is critical because it is a source of derailments. Those boxes though usually are wired directly to lines running along the track and back to a common point. In many cases a number of lines terminate at one location and are fed to radio towers that beam that data back. In other cases it follows the fiber all the way to a rail yard or dispatch center.

I can't say now what the differences are with PTC in Europe, but I know when I was at GE we looked a lot at what they were doing because in most cases they are far more serious about their railroads.
Are there some students who can't learn how to code?
We have a very nasty issue in kubernetes with it's userspace-proxy leaking handles, when misbehaving workload doesn't close connections properly (e.g. Java InputStreams). Could this be related?
France is part of TTIP negotiations which probably will cover the same stipulations.
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Yeah sorry. I figured dupe detection would pick it up but this one uses a different link.
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Well maybe if we stopped declaring people Useless or Sinners and deliberately pitching them overboard...
Yes, python-sphinx is the Python 3 version of Sphinx. Note that Guix does not conform to the FHS, and thus has no /usr directory.
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I agree somewhat with the headline; however, what is the definition of knowledge? I think knowing how to search for the right things is part of knowledge. Knowing how to search for what you need to know extends your knowledge almost infinitely, and I don't think this is a bad thing. When I introduce others to web development, I prompt them to look things up and help them learn how to search. I think this is a critical skill, or maybe it's because I'm constantly googling while devving haha...
NP.

I guess overdose being the biggest risk is subjective - if a substance gets you addicted but never kills you then personally I'd consider that less bad than a substance that doesn't get you addicted but could kill you - so I'd rather use pure heroin than, for example, cocaine or un-pure heroin. Not that I plan on trying regardless, myself.
What a waste of time and money when we've had the solution all along: its in 9th Century Anglo-Saxon literature!!!!

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-32117815

</sarcasm>
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I wonder if there are any systems for defining these things in a more explorable format, because I don't particularly enjoy reading legalese.

assert> forbid(anyone-in(nz), sale(illegitimately-labelled-product("Bourbon Whiskey"))

query> prohibitions-for(anyone-in(nz))

Or something. Semi-logical legal code.
Is Facebook planning to be a threat to Craigslist?
> What kind of society lets a mentally ill man roam the streets, deteriorating, instead of institutionalising him and helping him recover?

What gives you the authority to institutionalize him?

This isn't a snide question. It's a very difficult question that leads to a whole raft of difficult questions.

How do you force a person to take their medication? Why should you do it for this particular person but not that particular person? Who is responsible for the cost of doing so?
I know this is purely subjective, but personally I genuinely haven't found a bourbon I like, while I love plenty of single malts (not just from Scotland but also Irish/Japanese). Maybe someday that'll change for me or maybe I'm just destined to not be a fan of Bourbons - I have plenty of friends who love them. Haven't tried Tennessee.

(But as a Brit I completely approve of your joking, too)
We were talking about fiat currency.