skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The EU has defined privacy, along with 117 other things, to be a fundamental human right. However the EU also contradicts that right with another right of "freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority". In the case of "right to be forgotten" EU law is holding that it is more important for an individual to be able to censor information about themselves than it is for other people to be able to share and receive information about that person. The courts also held, uselessly, that each invocation of the right to be forgotten must be individually balanced against that other right to convey and receive information, and that the burden of proof lies with the respondent charged with removing the information by the individual. In other words the right to be forgotten is effectively absolute, because no person or entity could afford to investigate and respond to each such claim, and is forced to simply accept them all as if they were uniformly meritorious. As a result, the public loses their right to receive and impart information, which is guaranteed by the EU Charter.

So you can argue that "it's a country's first duty to protect the fundamental human rights of it's citizens" but in this instance the courts have erased one of those human rights. Also I wonder if you also believe in reciprocal enforcement of all the various rights guaranteed to Americans by their Constitution and by jurisprudence. You might not be aware, for example, that the most fundamental right of free speech in the US extends not only to individuals but to organizations and corporate entities. Are you prepared for American courts to start laying fines on European companies for infringing on the rights of free speech of American corporations?
Yes please. As someone who is the one making the noise and feels bad for neighbors, I really want better sound insulation.

I am renting a house which is much larger than I need just because I practice piano and don't want to disturb my neighbors. If not for this I would rent a place closer to work.
There is no reason that roads cannot pay for themselves. Gas tax revenue comes close to paying for roads when it is spent on roads.
So, they implemented Active Directory/RADIUS, a terminal proxy, screen, and a web gui? Does this not seem to anyone else like a weird mix of features for one tool?
Any android developers in the Dallas area?
Looking for a hire a full time junior android developer for our startup.

Salary commensurate with experience.

Thanks!
Thanks! I don't have any plans to monetize this to be honest. I built this because I had the need for this myself and, if people like it, it will be a nice exercise in maintaining something that works well under stress :).
Garry Shandling Dies: ‘Larry Sanders’ Creator-Star Was 66
It's all fun and games until your boss's boss walks into the room and says "Why aren't you using Eclipse? Real developers use Eclipse."

If you have sufficient seniority, you can tell them to fuck off without worrying. But if you're new to the company, or worse, industry...
Yes, people should do that.

Here's some thinking from 2010 about right to be forgotten and EU data protection law: https://secure.edps.europa.eu/EDPSWEB/webdav/shared/Document...

- It is important to highlight the persistent memory of the internet
regarding the information used for the harassment. This information
might stay for ever on the web and will be extremely difficult to erase
completely. This point presents a great challenge for the respect of
the right to be forgotten or for the enforcement of an appropriate
and proportionate data retention policy. Here again the providers of
such platforms are in a position to play a determinant role and their
role could be driven by the respect of data protection rules which
can, if properly implemented, mitigate the side effects produced by
these three factors.

Ignore this next bit - I'm wrong. I'm leaving it here because people have already responded to it. {RTBF arose because a man was a victim of harassment, where the harasser was creating very many websites across the world using fake details to do so with a variety of hosting services who had a variety of responses to the man's legal paperwork.

At that point his only recourse was to go to the search engines and ask them to stop republishing (which is what the search result text snippets are doing) the harassment.}

There are protections built into the RTBF for stuff that's in the public interest.

EU and US have pretty different understanding of rights. US has strong freedom of speech, EU has strong right to privacy.
Twitter is known for deleting twitter accounts when they get reports of tweets though.
And it actually works well without javascript!
Building a Killer Events Machine: 5 Lessons Learned from Hosting 500+ Events
Thanks! One time provisioning token helps node to connect and get a host certificate signed by the right CA key. All further authentication happens using OpenSSH host certificates. This also means that new nodes can simply join the cluster as long as they have the right certs, not using provisioning tokens at all. This allows you to have an external authority bootstrapping new nodes without talking to existing auth server.
That's not how it works. Without the 99% that don't pay, you don't get the 1% that do pay.
Twelfth-highest, as it happens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_tax_levels_in_the_United...
By the way, ES6 syntax (works in modern foxes and chromes):

leftpad = (str, len, pd = ' ') => Array(len > str.length ? 1+len-str.length : 0).join(pd) + str

WTF are you talking about? Making this into a module?!
Congrats to Justin! Here is a clip he talked about himself his
startup experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGvS3NvuLWU
It's just a different way of structuring.

api = new Api('http://my.cool.api')

api.get('/it')

api.post('/it')

// connect = rootUrl => method => endpoint

api = connect('http://my.cool.api')

get = api('GET')

post = api('POST')

get('/it')

post('/it')
Yeah, I was super impressed as well. Obama understands AirBnb better than many people in tech do.
Tech firms urge further improvements to snoopers’ charter
Markdown won for me because I never had to learn to use it; I just write text like I'd be writing it anyway, having grown up on plain-text email and the like, and for the most part it just works.
All of that information is already public. Anyone can get it from facebook (not just your friends), why would you care if already public information gets reposted?

Also the app didn't request access to your friends list.
Thanks to all who answer.
I've always wondered whether that's an issue with the media now (specifically) or whether it's actually been an issue for its entire history, with the difference being that with the internet, we can finally look up claims made by 'authorities' much more easily.

That wasn't really the case in the olden days, where gatekeepers controlled access to the media and a large audience. If your local/national newspaper was lying, you'd only know if you were deeply involved in the subject or went to serious lengths to research it. At which point, so what? You'd have no way to easily publish your findings and get a large portion of society hearing them and realising the current media were lying to people or pushing a distorted narrative.

The internet has merely made it easier to fact check people's claims and expose the mistakes made (and lies told) by the 'establishment'.

Note: Of course, the media could indeed be worse for various reasons (like say, the internet making decent journalism too expensive to be viable and culling the herd down to 'those best at attracting attention to themselves'), but you have to question whether things really were ever 'good' here, or whether the barriers to entry just made them appear to be 'good'.
Presidents are extremely smart and can quickly pick up on topics. Combine this with advisers giving you a detailed run down and you get this.
I don't see how that's a compelling argument at all.

All that's keeping you from committing your credentials is a .gitignore file. They have the file, it works reliably, don't worry about it.
I absolutely do this as well and I'm not ashamed to admit that I've been able to come up with some solutions by smoking a bit of weed and just thinking about work. It can really open your mind if you can think clearly enough.
Patterns in primes: some Bayesian inference
We created this wonderful thing called the Internet that allows us to work and collaborate with each other from anywhere in the world, yet we all still cling to the silly idea that we need to continue to expand and repair our physical transit infrastructure so we can all travel two ways every day to sit next to somebody in some office to... stare at a computer connected to the Internet for 8 hours. It becomes even more absurd in areas like San Francisco where there literally isn't even enough housing to fit everyone.

We could solve our transit infrastructure woes overnight with policy. Give a tax break to companies who have remote workers. Either that or charge people to use public transportation infrastructure on a supply/demand basis. If more people use a freeway to get to work, the cost to use it goes up, and if you don't use it at all, you don't pay a dime. This would force companies who require their workforce to be physically present to pay higher salaries to cover the cost of commuting, which may cause them to re-evaluate remote work.

Commuting to and from work really only makes sense if you are interacting with things you can't take home with you.

And before you jump in and start spreading FUD about remote work, consider this: if it suddenly became illegal to require employees who could do their work remotely to come into a physical office every day, would businesses simply shut down? Or would they figure out a way to make it work? I'm guessing they would figure out a way to make it work.
Hi, article author here. I have never used Improv but while researching for this work I did read about it and yes, it did seem to have introduced several innovations to address flaws in the spreadsheet approach. The OSX Numbers app seems to have picked up some of these ideas. And, I'm hoping to apply some of them to Stencila Sheets too.
Mass transit can make sense, but it isn't profitable. Very few public transit systems in the world are profitable. Bus systems are more likely to be profitable. https://www.quora.com/Which-public-transportation-systems-ma...
Tech could help secure public spaces, if Europe wants more surveillance
ParkMyCloud – now supporting team saving in AWS
The purpose of these rules is to keep stupid humans from being biased against race. Humans are awful and treat people very differently if they are just ugly or have different political opinions, etc.

An algorithm only cares what is true. It's not biased. It does its best to make the most accurate predictions possible with whatever data it can get.

So it's not the same as a jerk that decides he hates black people and won't give them a loan. It's not even remotely the same as a chatbot trained on 4chan trolls.

The alternative is not using predictive algorithms at all. Humans count too btw.
Humans are the worst.

You can't just remove features that correlate with race, since everything correlates with everything. At best you can give it race as a variable, and then control for that, so it gives the average result either way. Rather than trying to infer race from data.

But why? If men really are more likely to get in accidents than women, they should pay higher insurance. The whole point of insurance is to predict your risk. Wood houses should pay more for fire insurance than a new brick house, etc.
YC W16 Tech Stacks
What is irrational about blocking Muslim immigration? I could understand an argument that it's mean, racist, or a few other negative things, but from the position of a non-Muslim what about it is irrational?
I agree wholeheartedly. It seems this device just creates more points of failure (e.g. lost/dead phone, urinary tract infections, interference, etc.) for a little convenience.

Self-cathing isn't that difficult once you get the hang of it.
Actually California has the 4th highest taxes in the nation behind New York, New Jersey, and Conneticut. It has the highest income tax, but that's because its other taxes are relatively low, in particular property taxes which were evicerated by Prop 13. California's current tax system is actually regressive, with the poorer section of society shouldering more of the tax burden than the richer segment.

https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/tax-tips/Taxes-101/Sta...

Also the tech industry holds an awful lot of wealth outside the US, in tax havens such as Ireland. And while taxes in California are high by US standards, many European countries (with excellent public transport systems) tax at higher rate still, for example sales tax in the UK is 20%.

The state of California is chronically underfunded because it does a poor job of taxing the people who actually have money. Not because the money isn't well spent (some 40% of it goes on education alone).
What does "works well on the cloud" mean specifically? Is there some difference when run on your own hardware?
garyvee
It's true that politicians talking about shared values and ideals can turn simple private goods into nightmarish public ones (e.g. US medicine). Have politicians created dumb laws like "the conductor may not kick someone off the train even if they don't pay" or "long trips must cost the same as short ones"?

The train is merely an intermediate capital good used to provide train seats. It's private at the level of capital goods which is also the level at which it's paid for - only one railway can use a piece of rolling stock (rivalrous) and that railway can prevent other railways from using it (excludible). You might as well say that a house or a car is a public good, since they are merely capital goods that provide a stream of an underlying consumer good (space to live, road trips).

What are the positive externalities of a train? If anything, it's externalities seem to be negative - it creates pollution and noise. (It might be less negative than driving but that's a different claim.)
> I see you're taking the least charitable one, i.e., "everyone let it slide." That interpretation is incorrect. People stopped talking to him.

Good, because I used your interpretation: silence. You silently enabled a white supremacy propagandist.

Of course, you're certainly NOT silent when it's time to support him. (Despite your own evidence of his history of "casual racism" at a professional networking event.)

So you're oddly quiet with white supremacy: you "stopped talking". But god forbid you "ignore" when a conference right next to Ferguson (StrangeLoop) declined to help promote a white supremacist's influence!

(Hell, if I mocked people's favorite programming language or text editor, I'd almost certainly get a vocal reaction. Mild rebuke at least. Says everything about techies' priorities.)

> As it happens, the participants were at best plurality white. And no, the PoC weren't all Asians either.

That's interestingly vague: were these participants to Moldbug's "casual racism"? I imagined he only did this with obviously sympathetic audiences like you.

(And what does "the PoC weren't all Asians" exactly mean? For someone berating others for interpretations you don't like, you leave open a wide range of interpretations.)
I will admit the full extent of the Citizens United decision terrifies me. But even then RTBF doesn't affect information of public interest. So any sort of inappropriate behavior on behalf of a corporation wouldn't really be covered.
Google is not digging up any information that hasn't already been made public. Any news stories it surfaces about an individual are part of the public historical record.
> Convenient proxy factory bean superclass for proxy factory beans that create only singletons.

that actually makes sense to somebody?
yeah, we need a different name for these things, like FAM, "flexible asset managers", or AIMs, alternative asset managers. The key point is that they can do whatever they want, not that they "hedge" anything.
Very nice. I've bookmarked it.

By the way - there was another similar service recently, but stores files: https://transfer.sh/ , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11322007
>The market only cares about people that do pay. Those 99% might as well not exist and nothing would change.

Except that's not really how it works. You have to make your game good enough to attract the amount of players for which that 1% of paying users can support your development.

Go ahead and try to design a game that focuses on "whales", see how the works out.
Last time I used excel it was a Dev environment. Some menu option opened up Visual Basic for Applications with a full IDE. Is it no longer like that ?
I use the Safari extension from http://hckrnews.com/about.html#extensions. Works great.
Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card
Well, the Japanese legal system actually put laws in place to stop some of the worst excesses. That's probably going to happen to the mobile market in the rest of the world too. The 'freemium' games with microtransactions go too far, so the legal system puts out laws banning various practices and the industry crashes hard.
Niice. So if somebody were to mark all non-action scenes (like dialogues) in action movies as "language", i' be finally able to watch some real action. Nice.
People are going to be breaking into your car to steal stuff 99% of the time, not trying to steal the car itself. They are often homeless, or have some sort of chemical dependency, or are mentally ill. They are not going to have the foresight, funds, or ingenuity to use some sort of electronic hacking device. They are not going to make the effort to scout out people as they leave their cars (of only certain makes and models) and play secret agent to use some sort of device between the owner and the car. And they break windows in broad daylight all the time - just smash, grab, and run. It's not like anyone is going to try to tackle a meth head running away with some stranger's $90 GPS.

Even on the infinitesimal chance they steal the car itself, you have car insurance. It doesn't really matter aside from the inconvenience, and the odds are so low it seems like a silly thing to be an absolute deal breaker for anyone.
The gas tax doesn't take time (or supply and demand) into account. Driving during rush hour should cost a lot more than driving at 3AM on an empty street. Sure, you use more gas sitting in traffic, but it doesn't make that much of a difference.
Copying from https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw#usage

To load or append data into a cstore table, you have two options:

You can use the COPY command to load or append data from a file, a program, or STDIN.

You can use the INSERT INTO cstore_table SELECT ... syntax to load or append data from another table.

Note: We currently don't support updating table using DELETE, and UPDATE commands. We also don't support single row inserts.

So I think you can certainly mutate tables, but the focus is on bulk-inserts, rather than individual append actions.
What? Revenue? No, no, no, no. No revenue.

Why would you go after revenue?

If you show revenue, people will ask how much, and it will never be enough.
I'm surprised no one here has commented that they just use the iOS Reminders app that's native to the iPhone. I've found it to be more effective than any other system out there, and it's also significantly simpler.
HELP!! The CEO heard about this new service and now my manager told me we need to upgrade all our packages to this new service ASAP! But there's nothing on stack overflow I can use to change our system! I need to get this pilot done STAT so we can plan the migration and send it out for bid!

HELP!!
Serious question, why do rural areas have higher suicide rates per capita?
I may sound old but one can start with just backing up node_modules/ directory.

If third party modules are hosted on GitHub, you can fork them.
I'd actually love a definitive list like this. In my experience, there aren't many. Here are mine:

* Monument Valley

* Practically everything by Mika Mobile

* Toy-ish games like Windosill and Wonderputt

* Carcassonne — a classic

* Lots of shmups work wonderfully on iOS; Danmaku Unlimited 2 is a great indie one

* Recently discovered: Furdemption
I heard Justin Time was lazy... though is always there when needed.
I've been using the todo.txt format lately: https://github.com/ginatrapani/todo.txt-cli/wiki/The-Todo.tx... . No extra tools, just Vim, a text file with a line per task, with the lines kept lexically sorted.
I don't know where you got that the RTBF came from harassment. The case was about a man who didn't want people to be able to find out that his house had been repossessed by creditors:

" On 5 March 2010, Mr Costeja González, a Spanish national resident in Spain, lodged with the AEPD a complaint against La Vanguardia Ediciones SL, which publishes a daily newspaper with a large circulation, in particular in Catalonia (Spain) (‘La Vanguardia’), and against Google Spain and Google Inc. The complaint was based on the fact that, when an internet user entered Mr Costeja González’s name in the search engine of the Google group (‘Google Search’), he would obtain links to two pages of La Vanguardia’s newspaper, of 19 January and 9 March 1998 respectively, on which an announcement mentioning Mr Costeja González’s name appeared for a real-estate auction connected with attachment proceedings for the recovery of social security debts."
I think this is useful; the next step in usefulness would be an automated test suite that looked for these vulnerabilities; and the next level in usefulness would be a chart describing common ways these problems get into code - I don't do SQL professionally, but every time I look at it, there's some language specific API, and without deep knowledge of the language and API, I'm not sure that I'm not unintentionally allowing data to be interpreted as code.

E.g.: I'm competent in perl, and I'm pretty sure I could prevent data from getting interpreted as code there, but I won't make any such claim for ruby or java or .... though I can usually read those languages.
Google shares data center security and design best practices
Oh, China is getting worse too: https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/06/04/china-is-exporting-its-...
DragonBox on steroids.
KIND SKATES TEE
What we talk about when we talk about a brokered convention
There's a fantastic documentary on the failed 'war on drugs' called 'The House I Live In' from Eugene Jarecki (http://www.thehouseilivein.org).

It suggests that the criminalization of narcotics (opium, cocaine, marijuana, etc) was set in motion purely as a way to prevent non-whites from 'stealing jobs.'

Whether you agree with this or not, it's an interesting view. It also gets into crack and the massive penalties that come with crack possession vs cocaine possession.
The species used here (mycoplasma) does not have a cell wall. ;)

The whole point was that the new genome, when transferred to a recipient bacteria's plasma membrane with the recipient's genome removed, produces a different phenotype, which they showed. I think they are entitled to call this a minimal cell.