skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm aware of something called the Franc CFA, but that's not a tax...
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> The Attorney General of Texas Child Support website

It would not surprise me at all if this password hell was intentional.
"According to court papers filed Friday, federal agents placed secret recording devices in at least three locations around the entrance to the San Mateo County courthouse in Redwood City without first getting judicial approval."

The part of not getting a warrant is really the problem.
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Surely you're familiar with the story of Arnon Milchan, late of Hollywood?
A longer, more involved article from late September has a bit more information: http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/9/28/how-facebook-tells...

>If a friend is in the same area then a push notification is sent asking if they are OK.

One thing that I'd like to understand is how "area" is defined. The limiting factor is, of course, finding out something has happened, but someone at Facebook has to draw a border that encompasses everyone at risk but minimizes those out of harm's way. An earthquake is almost easier - there's (relatively) rapid data on the epicenter and size - but in an event and place like Paris, there have got to be some hard calls made in real time. Who are the people and teams involved there, and how do they make those decisions? I'd love to see that.
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In particular on HN there are plenty of a very extreme breed of libertarians who believe 'open society' means no regulation or taxes as well. It's a generic weasel word that means "stuff I like and not stuff I don't like".
>Even then, in a lot of cases programmer time is infinitely more expensive than CPU time, so it often still makes sense if Python is the more accessible choice.

I think this is generally true outside of scientific computing, but often not the case here. Esp. if you consider the low salaries of scientists in the public service compared to private industry.

Even in the private sector I have routinely made things an order of mag. faster saving the need to massively scale out. People also forget about total cost of ownership, 10 servers costs much less than 10x what 100 servers require operate when you consider cooling, networking, power, part replacement etc.
Plus, for the last many years there's been a big warning at the start of the Python documentation. Quoting from https://docs.python.org/3/library/pickle.html?highlight=pick... :

> The pickle module is not secure against erroneous or maliciously constructed data. Never unpickle data received from an untrusted or unauthenticated source.

(In the 2.6 documentation, the warning was not quite at the top of the module. It moved up for the 2.7 release.)
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> But they attacked the US because our presence was a direct obstacle. They didn't put suicide bombers in China or Copenhagen or Paris for that matter.

al-Qaeda has for more than a decade overtly targeted China over its policies in Xinjiang, and the Chinese government claimed that the East Turkistan Islamic Movement behind many attacks there was tied to al-Qaeda (and, indeed, some senior leaders of that organization were killed in fighting against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan.)
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The argument wasn't that we should be doing things better in order to make these systems "valuable".

The argument was that these types of things simply cannot be done with the current state of tech, and any attempts by governments to do so should be viewed by the public as both useless wastes of public funds and thinly veiled power grabs-- similar to how we view authoritarian regimes that try to extend their own term limits or institute a national curfew in response to political protests.
Let me brag a little bit.

Myself and my fiancee don't have children yet. However, you may kinda want us in society's gene pool. After all, I've got a damned resilient immune system, she's wonderfully empathetic, and we're both ferociously clever and hardworking individuals who valued our educations and actually want to contribute to society. Hell, we're even proud of paying our taxes, we both volunteer for things in our spare time, and we consider time spent on civic or community affairs to be well-spent.

I'd be fine paying the "opportunity cost" myself, but you see, I'm not the one with the uterus. Really, if we could get by and support a kid on one income per couple, we could easily just make some sacrifices of Nice Things, but we can't. Yes, we actually are stuck between living as fiscally responsible adults in the Dual Income No Kids class, and the precarity of the so-called "middle class" nowadays, in which one layoff or unexpected medical emergency can throw the whole family into poverty.

It's become: housing, children (with the entailed college funds, housing cost of good public schools, etc.), responsible preparation for a rainy day -- pick any two.

Elizabeth Warren was lecturing people about this a decade ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GHg3GAeQ1Y
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The Intercept just posted an article about this, too: https://theintercept.com/2015/11/17/islamic-states-goal-elim...
This is always the part of the anti-Snowden case that baffled me. Those who seem to think that he alerted terrorists to the most secure means of communication seem to assume that, prior to the Snowden leaks, they were communicating by yelling really loudly across the NSA buildings. It's like they simply forgot about the biggest reason it took so long to find Osama bin Laden: he was so security-concerned that he used couriers and relays (which, counter to the broad narrative about the terrorist shift to security, actually cannot be decrypted)
you're saying its only possible the NYT "blamed encryption" if encryption was the article's main topic or the article's lede?
The biggest problem with the "encryption is too good" crowd is that they simply refuse to recognize the simple fact that if there is a way in for them, there is a way in for others. If there is a back door, it's simply no longer effective encryption.
Not really, because the proposals aren't to go to no encryption but to go to government-backdoored encryption. To an observer you've still just a random stream of bits until someone tries to decrypt it with the backdoor key. Pretty easy to hide in unless we're monitoring every message.

And terrorists would be smart - they'd employ non-backdoored encryption, hide that in "legit" communications, and encrypt that with the proper back-doored government encryption. They'd appear to be a totally normal snapchat user, or whatever.

If we actually meant to give up all encryption, card-kiddies would destroy civilization in three weeks.
To clarify, I was surprised because when I criticised other languages or ecosystems in similar ways I was met with strong pushback, e.g.

1. Go generics
2. problems of node callbacks
This is pretty crazy. I'll continue to be "rude" then.

I've also learned to lower the armrest as soon as I sit down. If an overweight person sits next to you, it will be impossible to lower it and they will be taking up part of your seat.
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> The average distance between any two of Facebook’s 1.5 billion users is 4.74 edges

Pretty crazy to think about.
> Well, only 50+ years ago there was an over 40% population in the US that thought that blacks were inferior and shouldn't sit in the same restaurants/hotels/schools with whites.

Having read various internet comments over the past few days, I'm doubting if that number has gone down any since then.
Though I'm all about civil liberties, and very wary of the surveillance state, this was public property outdoors. I mean no, there really isn't an expectation of privacy there, and no warrant is or should be required in that situation.

EDIT -

Yeah, that's right. Don't respond or disagree, just vote it down. Dear (non-existent) God, echo chambers everywhere, with just different brands of stupid.
I disagree that a request for sources is unwarranted in this situation. Your language assumed the reader agreed with your viewpoint based off of not-commonly-known facts: "of course... stupid because..."

I understand your decision to reply with snark to a snarky comment, but in this instance, "src pls!" does in fact add to the discussion.
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I'm interested in what this says about Netflix's plans to stay on AWS, move off of it, or simply diversify their infrastructure. Maybe' we'll see a Chaos (Whatever's bigger than Kong), that models knocking out an entire provider: i.e., don't have to rely on Amazon's WAN anymore because they also have Cloud Platform/Azure to supply things.
Exactly. It's as if some are just wishing privacy away as an inconvenience getting in the way of tracking us for advertising revenue.

So what does a post privacy world look like? Should we do away with curtains in our bedrooms? Should we remove the doors from public restrooms?
The leader of one of these organizations is known to have said: "God told me to bomb (them), so I did. God is on our side."

It's not always easy from the outside to tell them apart from their propaganda.
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It's not perfect but I'd much prefer this plaintext than that garbage website any day: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/anonymous/2a3fda72943396a...
I think it's an ok essay, certainly better than "click bait".

I urge programmers not to call themselves engineers, but it's not really because I'm worried about a misappropriation of a title. We already have sound engineers and special effects engineers and financial engineers, and I don't think anyone is confused about the difference between a structural engineer and a software engineer, so this controversy seems a little bit contrived. Also, while reading half a book on PHP and MySql and calling yourself an "engineer" is a bit of an eye roller, I don't think that calling people who design large scalable systems that need to provide highly accurate and timely results in high stakes systems an "engineer" is that bad an appropriation of the term "engineer". Keep in mind, this term had meaning long before the PE bodies showed up. According to the wikipedia page, "engineer" is devised from the latin words for "to contrive, devise" and "cleverness", so in many ways, you could say a clever bit of programming is closer to the spirit of "engineering" than conservatively applying tried and true formulas to make sure a bridge or building doesn't fall down.

I avoid the term "software engineer" because I don't want organizations like the "National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying" to start thinking they have a right to regulate who gets to write software. I also think programmer is a great word. I feel like there's a kind of insecurity in calling ourselves something other than programmers. Yes, programmers do more than just write code, we consult, understand business requirements, start businesses, interact with users, take early adopters through betas, refine, adapt, prototype, teach, write technical articles. I just don't see why we need to keep adding a new word.

I don't really mind "Developer" either, but I'd say let's stop the word churn and instead make our title something to be proud of, rather than trying to appropriate another word. When people ask me what I do, I just tell them I'm a programmer.

In spite of all this, I'm not really against some kind of exam, but I really don't like the idea that it will be locked down to people who have paid $45,000 a year for three possibly unnecessary years of graduate school, under pain of imprisonment, like law. It's really awesome that people who studied math, or physics, or philosophy, or didn't go to college at all can contribute at the very highest level, and in fact many of the most brilliant contributions have come from people who didn't study CS. Many brilliant contributions come from people who did study CS. But we really don't want to lock down Software "Engineering" this way, and scope creep is a serious danger. In short, I could see it being a good thing, but I could also see it going wrong in a very harmful way.
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> But shouldn't that be true for people who live in single-story houses also?

That isn't what the article is about.
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>All religions are silly ridiculous relics. Let's stop talking about them.

You can't actually reliably say this without first going through every religion and telling us how ridiculous you find it.

But I'm not really bothered about every religion. Out of interest, what's ridiculous about Buddhism, and how are you going to quantify the ridiculousness?

Your argument doesn't work as well with Buddhism. It works to an extent (there are repressive Buddhist monks etc.) If I lived near a Buddhist (or Christian) monastery, chances are that I'd respect it, and I would wish to preserve it. I'd even offer up for an alms round. After all, they do no harm to me.

Note that I'm only picking Buddhism because it's a religion I'm relatively familiar with. I don't know enough about Christianity (the largest religion in the world, which doesn't even advocate circumcision) to argue the point on Christianity.
> The defense motion claims that beginning in December 2009 government agents planted microphones in three locations near the entrance of the courthouse at 401 Marshall Street in Redwood City: inside a metal sprinkler box attached to the wall, in a large planter box and in vehicles parked on the street. The hidden microphones were activated at least 31 times through September 2010, according to the filing.
>
> The only authorization came from attorneys working for the FBI and Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, the motion states.

In one sense, this is a small thing. There isn't any allegation that the recordings caught privileged attorney-client communication or jury deliberations. But it is an attack on the integrity of the legal system, and it's part of a pattern of attacks on the legal system that adds up to a serious threat to the rule of law.

Defendants are asking for these recordings to be quashed. That is what is customary, but it is not sufficient; there need to be consequences for those who did it and who authorized it. The defendants are only incentivized to argue as far as necessary for their own defense; it is up to the judges to censure the parties responsible.
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Oh yes, I agree. Unfortunately, we live in an imperfect world where not all followers of a religion follow its true message. You might say "well OK, so get rid of religion". People will still seek power, but in other ways. In other words, there are people who always seek the easiest way to gain more power and influence.

Yes, the Quran was revealed directly to Muhammad. He told his wife first, and she believed him. It just spread from there. I'd argue that the absolutely miracolous rate at which Islam spread throughout the region is a plus in favor of Islam :)

As for your point about eternal torture, let's say a guy comes up to you in the street nowadays and tells you he's a Prophet sent by God to save humanity. He tells you about this book called Mojimbi which is the word of God. At this point, you have complete freedom to accept of reject his claim. Unless he can convince you that what he's saying is true, you wouldn't believe him and he'd be on his way.

Muhammad however was able to convince people with two things.

One, he was known in his community to be an extremely honest person; never once did anyone hear of him lying. He was a trader, so he dealt with a lot of people. So when he said that he was visited by an angel etc, some people just believed him on the spot. Of course, many others called him crazy, so it wasn't a fool-proof plan.

Two, he had the Quran. Some background first. The community Muhammad lived in was very well-versed in the Arabic language. Most mastered the language and its intricacies by the age of 10, and were known as experts in poetry. Look it up, Arabic is extremely complex.

So he recites some verses from the Quran to people and claims that these are words from Allah (keep in mind he was illiterate). They were amazed, absolutely awestruck by the words coming out of his mouth. The structure and linguistic nature of the verses was perfect, and this was coming from experts in the language! One of the Prophet's biggest critics (and a great poet no less) at the time was almost going to join Islam just because of this.

Now, let's go back to the example. You're a professor of English language at Standford, and a guy you've dealt with a lot and who you know is an extremely honest person in all aspects tells you the same message. He also recites some verses that are so elegant and beautiful in structure that they make Shakespeare look like a pre-schooler's work, and tells you these are the words of God. Wouldn't that make things different?
Neat, I had no idea about that feature of 1password.
A shame this is being downvoted, it's concise but in my opinion on point. I enjoyed several of Houellebecq's novel as an undergraduate, but when I revisited them recently I was surprised how superficial their social critiques are. You can get a lot more from one good literary essay than from his novels, albeit minus the deliberate offensiveness (misogyny, racism, etc.) with which he proves himself "edgy."

A Rebours isn't a perfect novel, but the image of the jewel-encrusted tortoise is a better passage than anything Houellebecq has achieved.
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Why would you quit your job to make an app? I have bootstrapped 3 apps and pushed them to the app store in my own time.

To be fair, every time I do it, it's hard. I have to prepare my family that I'm undertaking something that will take up a lot of my time. It's tough but, they know I love it.
Since there was so much other content there, the pulling of the article could have had nothing to do with that one sentence.
Yeah, I didn't know 1password supported that, I've always just used Authy on my phone.
I actually had a real-deal power struggle with an employee once about using hipchat instead of IRC. They refused to use hipchat, then left the company eventually. So it's not a game for everyone.
The title doesn't paint the full picture of what happened. The bugs were placed near the courthouse entrance at public auctions held at the courthouse. The defense "maintain[s] that their clients had a reasonable expectation of privacy when they gathered to speak in hushed voices away from other auction participants."

Unsettling nonetheless.
One of the bits I loved is the discussion on how the word atheist doesn't make much sense (which I've always argued). Non-theist sounds like a good alternative.
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Thank you for your suggestion. I think this is the best course of action.
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NYT changes the there story headlines alot these days ...

After Paris Attacks, C.I.A. Director Rekindles Debate Over Surveillance

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/17/us/after-paris-attacks-cia...
You're clearly just not living in the spider-age like the rest of us.
OT3?

In that bastion of critical thought called 'the Onion' they had a pretty good summary of such a solution:

http://www.theonion.com/article/northern-irish-serbs-hutus-g...
Insofar as preference depend on nudges/framing -- that is, insofar as preferences aren't even uniquely defined -- then you need to actually test the various nudge.

The airlines already have the ability to "nudge" and "frame"; the big three legacy carriers in the US all have flight-search interfaces which show you the different types of fares and highlight the conveniences that come with them.

People still just pick whichever one is cheapest and then complain about how awful it is. Two of the three big legacies have, as I noted, already begun the rollout of ultra-bare-bones no-conveniences fares for this very reason: they have the data and they know what works.

I think everything else you've written is also consistent with my primary claim, which is that we should not legislate seat sizes. I appreciate the other info, though.

I think we are at or near the point where seat pitch and size will need to be legislated, not for comfort but for safety. As I understand it, many safety tests (such as verifying emergency evacuation within a required minimum time) on airliners are already conducted using cabin arrangements with significantly higher pitch than is typical for actual aircraft in service. And as seat pitch decreases various flying-induced medical conditions either become more likely or are exacerbated.

And when something is affecting safety, I will absolutely support legislation to deal with that.
In what sense is this wrong? Everyone from all sides is saying this: that ISIS is different from other radical Muslims in their effective use of propaganda. Have you seen some of their videos? They are crazy, and I'm not talking about the beheadings. They use "Western" techniques, including stuff like slow-motion for dramatic effect.

Public beheadings, whether televised or not, are always propaganda, a show of force, a message to the common people. Public punishment is sometimes a barbaric form of entertainment, which is a form of propaganda as well. Historically this was the case in most countries, including those in Europe.

In the case of ISIS, I also think they are meant to shock Europe and the US into action. A war between Islam and the West is just what ISIS needs.

I find your explanation about Mohammed utterly unconvincing, because most Muslims don't go around beheading people, only some. ISIS and people from backwards, poverty-stricken countries/communities do, but that's a different issue.
If developers are currently using the OpenSource solutions, then they probably work for those people. Who are "you" to question what works for them and what features are a priority to them?

Many developers pay for close-source editors and IDEs, and the companies that support/develop them aren't necessarily going under. Heck BBEdit is still around despite falling out of favour as the de facto MacOS editor years ago.

Just within the Python ecosystem there are 2 or 3 IDEs that cater to Python developers despite the number of Python developers that prefer Vi(m) or Emacs.

The idea that developers don't or won't pay for an editor or that the OpenSource/Free alternatives are the equivalent of developers coding in Notepad on Windows just for save a few bucks is a false premise.