skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Courts (especially in the US) have been known to equate all kinds of things with speech, so it's not unthinkable to equate the symbolic act of NOT doing something with a form of speech. Not standing for the the national anthem or Pledge of Allegiance, for example. So in THEORY a court could rule that the act of not doing something you might be expected to do, such as include a warrant canary, is still a form of speech, and in doing so you are violating your gag order.

Still, all theoretical and purely speculation, because as far as I know this has never been tested in court.
That really depends on how much you can put into your day job. If you're at a small firm and you have equity, it may be more worthwhile and interesting to focus on professional work, dealing with problems at a scale and complexity beyond personal projects.
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at what point does it stop becoming "not publishing a statement" and becomes "publishing a coded statement"?

"No NSL Letter has been given for data to users with the 1st letter being P"
"No NSL Letter has been given for data to users with the 2nd letter G"
etc etc. Publishing 200 haikus a month like this would surely go against the gag order (since you could reveal the username like this).

I think at one point common sense comes int play
Isn't all communication on HN public? (I thought the only additional info on the servers was the votes. Or are IP addresses and timestamps stored for visitors?)
A Honda CR-Z is a compact 2-seater in the United States.

A Toyota Prius is an economy sedan with a surprisingly large back seat.

A Subaru BRZ is a small 4-seat sport coupe.

Your comparison can't possibly be valid because it's all over the map. From what I've seen, it IS a small sedan in the vein of a 3-series of A4 (larger than a Civic, smaller than an Accord).
“This is why the iPhone's screen will always be 3.5 inches”
Good shout, although a quick duck search didn't throw anything up for them doing anything long-term related. I was under the impression they have a "newest is best" policy. Happy to be shown differently though.

Edit: I think this confirms my thinking: https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-1-6-1-7-released/
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> Finding out my dues were embezzled have certainly soured my opinion. I think transparency is more important than formalization.

Doesn't the fact that you know your dues were embezzled mean that they have in fact succeeded at being transparent? Seems like this is the best outcome. The alternative is that your money was embezzled and you never found out.
"A little copying is better than a little dependency."

I like this but how do you protect yourself against growing into a lot of copying?
I am interested in what Yishan has to say about Amazon AWS

https://www.reddit.com/r/yishan/comments/4cub02/transparency...

Does that inform anyone's choice of cloud infrastructure?
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"Until a 4+ inch iPhone screen appears, and then adoring iFans will line up to call it revolutionary, exciting, even magical. And when those outside the Reality Distortion Field point out that other manufacturers did it first and Apple was only catching up to the competition, they'll say "yeah but Apple was the one who finally got it right". Presumably, by putting an Apple logo on the back."

When average people predict historical events. Hilarious!
how very unsurprising. my advice to the author and the rest of the field would be to read a bit more on learning and memory in humans. AI starts with I.
> On a per-unit sold basis, Tesla Model S is wildly profitable, with a gross margin north of 30% [1]. However, they are obviously still in startup mode, so they reinvest all of those earnings along with investor capital into improving the business.

They would still report a profit under this scenario.
> > I just wanted to mention that I found out the other day that the Go garbage collector doesn't free memory.

> If you mean `free` as it's used in `C`, then I guess technically, it doesn't `free` memory, but I fail to see the practical difference between that and how it it releases memory back to the OS - which is does.

Misusing memory overcommitment doesn't count as "freeing" memory. Sure, it happens to mean that the kernel frees the page and provides a new one in its place (which is a Linux-ism and isn't explicitly stated in the man page). MADV_DONTNEED has several quite big issues (it's worse than munmap in almost every category since it has to do an munmap immediately and then create a new page as well). The point is that the process still will get killed if overcommit_ratio is a sane value.

> > So your process will never shrink in memory usage

> I think you've been mislead. This statement is observably false.

Depends how you want to define "memory usage". I defined it implicitly as "sum of size of all mappings given to the process". In other words, how much is committed to the process. That number doesn't go down. RSS does go down, but I'm currently investigating what looks like Go not reusing "unused" pages properly.
I would sooner welcome a president distributing $6.5 billion dollars ($100 * winning vote count 2012) to normal people than have to suspend rationality and instead have faith in every actor capable of manipulating votes (of which I feel there are many).

If you honestly believe there is nothing any candidate can offer you which is worth more than $100, I propose you should be allowed to take that deal.

( Of course, completely open source hardware and software is the real solution. )

EDIT: I am a little bitter because I'm in a state using machines which don't even keep a paper trail to begin with. https://www.verifiedvoting.org/verifier/
I'd pay for model 2.0 of this: Send in a picture so they can get your complexion, take some basic measurements, then get a stack of suitable t-shirts and fitting jeans, maybe with a subscription option.

For me preferably with no visible brands and organic cotton, although whether that should be just another option or vital to the branding of the supplier is open for discussion.
http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.HTM

Here's an 18% estimate while transportation is 13%.

Here's a 51% estimate, trumping everything else.

http://www.worldwatch.org/node/6294

No one can say with certainty.

Although, raising 100 billion animals yearly, most of them having over 250lbs, I'd say it's pretty close for CO2.

When it comes to methane, cow farts are 65% of our methane emissions.

http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.htm
> Of course, this type of single-snapshot-in-time study can’t tell us whether the athletes’ training actually changed their muscle health over the years or if the athletes were somehow blessed from birth with better muscles, allowing them to become superb masters athletes.

I really appreciate this kind of honesty. It's rare that a popular article explicitly points out possible confounders.
Yes, but in the meantime, methane retains heat 84 times as efficiently as CO2, to the point where even though there is still 200x as much CO2 as methane in the atmosphere, methane still accounts for roughly a quarter of all global warming.
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I'm sorry, but luxury is relative to class. If you think a 6 series is luxury, but a 3 series is not, .... what is your definition, exactly? A 3 series is luxury because its compared to smaller generic cars, where a 6 series is ALSO luxury because it's compared to larger generic cars.

I'd never call a Porsche a luxury car because I consider them sports cars, even though many of their model lines are not particularly sporty anymore. Bentley/Rolls/etc are in a whole entirely different splashy show-off league where even many billionaires wouldn't buy one, simply because they're too ostentatious.

What's hilarious here is that you call the CLA (which is a bargain basement car) luxury, while a 3 series is not. Seriously, compare them. The 3er is a larger car and it's nicer. IF you're saying a CLA is luxury "in that class", then so is a 3 series.

But my Golf is nicer than a CLA. Of course, it's not considered a luxury car either, which is part of the appeal :)
Wouldn't that just be gray coveralls/speedsuits?
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RATP (Paris Metro) announces new station names
http://www.ratp.fr/fr/ratp/v_149039/metro-rer-la-ratp-renomm...
Stanford, 9am. Out by 11:10.
So it begins... I love April Fool's day...
I'm beginning to think, that in order to make big money in this American economy, we need to think like the masses?

Maybe take that old IBM laptop in the closet, and repeatedly bang it over your head. More than three hard times. Really--Really hard! Enough to cause some physical damage.

Then build something like that Kardashian app?

I was shocked to find out people spend money buying clothes for her digital likeness? It makes the Pet Rock look like a conservative investment?

(I don't know much about the app, but maybe we are overthinking what people will spend their money on?)
> Depending on simple things like "left pad" is just shooting yourself in the foot in a future time, as this has shown

But it hasn't. Left-pad was republished by a third party shortly after it was unpublished by its original author. It was open source and so it was trivial to fork and republish.

Personally my only direct dependency on azer's modules was a module for shuffling an array in place. A quick look in the registry provided me with a substitute that had the same API and used the same algorithm and had the same test coverage, by another reputable author.

Now imagine instead of dozens of small tiny modules it had been jQuery, or React, or Babel. Or anything else that survives the "is it too large to copy-paste into your codebase" test the article puts forth. Good luck replacing that kind of dependency in less than an hour (if your argument is "well, I can just download a copy elsewhere and paste it: what if it was unpublished because of an undisclosed vulnerability with no patch available and you need to replace it).

Facebook and others "copy" by checking in dependencies into version control. They will never be affected by a decision to unpublish something from the registry. But even so unpublishing is a red herring: it's a quirk of npm Inc's registry.

The real takeaway from #unpublishgate is: don't depend on external sources for continuous deployment. If you need a registry, proxy it (hint: there are free alternatives to npm Inc's on premise offering). If your deploys only work when npm (or GitHub) is online, your deployment process is already broken.
No 500 easily showing, but server still reporting the old version. Are you the creator?
Well done! Thanks for the interesting quotes.
I remember an earlier Perl6/Rakudo post here (I think), where chromatic showed up and mentioned a few things that had been running reliably for a couple years in his stack. That it was at least "good enough" for his purposes.
I would recommend http://www.ubuntu.com/tablet
No it isn't

Elasticsearch and Redshift are.
In a piecewise Bézier curve, as used in vector graphics tools like Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape, or as the main curve primitive in PostScript, PDF, SVG, font formats, etc., each control point affects only a particular segment. Every shape tends to be made of numerous tiny segments.
They are about 3x the cost of OSHPark. I get OSHPark orders in about 2 weeks delivered to Europe, so 7 business day dispatch isn't particularly competitive.

edit: ah, I didn't notice their pricing scaling, they meet OSHPark when the quantity increases. That's a little annoying actually, is there any pricing information or do I have to look at the site every time?
The panamera is a very awkward car, I agree. But I get where the parent is coming from. I expected the 3 to look like a scaled down S, and a Tesla employee friend said to expect something between an S and an X (yes, he had seen it.. and no, comparison to the X is not a compliment).

I was pleasantly surprised to see the video footage of it, though I don't think it translates well to the stills/screen grabs we've seen.

The headlights-above-the-beltline look reminds me of the Roadster and the Panamera and maybe a touch like the Dodge Razor concept. it's very much not an S, while somehow being attractive in many of the ways the S is (and ugly in none of the ways that the X is). Overall I'm quite pleased with the looks.
The import ordering is pretty common:
https://google.github.io/styleguide/pyguide.html?showone=Imp...
Well, it's more about what happens if something bad happens to the FSF? What if they get acquired and then $BigCo gets all of the copyright assignments. I don't believe that the FSF would betray people like that, but there may be situations where they don't have a choice.
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I actually sent him an email about this and asked for his opinion (as well as ask a few questions about CLAs in general). I'll post the response here if it's interesting.
Because as we all know providing services has zero cost for the company and hence service companies don't have to live on a profit margin?
This kind of response is as reflexive as it is common; every innovation in programming language notation meets with it immediately. I think it has to be regarded as a middlebrow dismissal, indeed the middlebrow dismissal in its class. It's Tall Poppy Syndrome applied to programming languages: no unfamiliar expressions allowed.

No language makes sense before you learn it. Therefore unfamiliarity should cause us to suspend judgment, not rush to it. Otherwise we end up with what Alan Kay calls pop culture programming, which tragically junks things like the breathtakingly beautiful and powerful APL, and limits us to surface tweaks around the edges.
I don't thing so. It's not about "where" but about "time": 'now' is saved to ~value end used later
It's back up now though, strange.
This reporting team already has a Pulitzer for their medicare fraud piece a few years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carreyrou
Am I the only one who misread this as "How to Hack an Elect_r_on"? :)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
I'm really not a fan of this domain grab to write a single article with no(t a lot of?) new information aimed at selling services from a single host. You're not the only person guilty of this but it feels quite misleading like the article is coming from a 3rd party.
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CO2 stays in the atmosphere for a very long time. A large part of the released CO2 will stay basically forever.

http://www.nature.com/climate/2008/0812/full/climate.2008.12...

While Methane is bad, releasing the equivalent amount of CO2 would be way worse.
"manufacturing is still important for the health of a country’s economy, because no other sector can generate nearly as many well-paying jobs"

This is a tricky starting point. Economies have all sorts of side effects that are important. But ultimately, economies are supposed to produce stuff that people consume. We have plenty of pots and pans, furniture, cars, etc. The price of manufactured goods has been dropping for centuries and the quantity has been rising. As the article states, manufacturing is still growing. Wanting manufacturing to keep pace and maintain a proportion of the economy well... We don't need that much manufactured goods.
I'd almost consider re-joining. Almost.
I'd go the opposite direction. As the owner of a Golf R (which competes with the STI and Focus RS), the 1-second-slower-to-60 Model 3 (this is the very base model, mind you.. no talk of dual engines or performance models yet) will certainly have less peak torque, but I think it will feel faster due to the linear nature of it. Having driven and ridden in a number of different-spec RWD Model S, the impression of acceleration is exaggerated by the off-the-line torque and lack of jerky shifts (remember, power has to let up in order for a shift to subsequently jerky).

Car and Driver just released a review of the STI vs Golf R vs Focus RS. Both the R and the RS had 1-second-slower 5-60 runs vs 0-60. Why? Because they don't have clutch-dropping launches. The STI was vastly worse -- 2 seconds slower 5-60 vs 0-60. That's right -- 5-60 was ~6.8 seconds vs ~4.8 seconds 0-60.

Remove the ICE drivetrain dump launch and suddenly ICEs don't feel so quick. A Model 3 that can do 6 seconds 0-60 might sound slow, but is faster than it sounds, and likely feels so. It laughs at 5-60 because, in the electric world, that's 5 fewer mph it has to accelerate through. In the ICE world, we're talking about a lot of revs we need to pound through before the exhaust gasses spin up the turbo enough to create adequate boost to force air into the engine to create powerful enough explosions to try to create enough power in the itty bitty engine. That's, quite simply, a huge amount of time lost.

Even in my R, I can mash my foot to the floor and wait a second or two before acceleration is truly impressive.

Which is crap compared to the naturally-aspirated 3.2L I6 in my BMW. Which is crap compared to the same engine with individual throttle bodies where there's less distance between the outside air and the valve controlling the intake. Which is crap compared to a much larger engine, like a big V8. All of which are crap compared to a properly-tuned electric motor. (yes, in the interest of efficiency, you may find that many electric motors are programmed to have really laggy throttle response; even so, BMW brags that the i3 is quicker 0-30 than their own M3, even though I found it to be horribly laggy in throttle and deceleration response)
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How does "uses SLE packages" and "kept up to date" work together? I'm seriously confused because that seems to be exclusive to me. For example, an more up-to-date kernel package isn't really derived from SLE anymore then, right? And how can a developer be sure his software working on openSUSE Leap is running on SLE when there are different packages? That's what this post is about, kinda.

The more apt Red Hat equivalent seems to be Fedora here, which is 100% free as in speech & beer as well. Or CentOS, if we're talking about developing Enterprise software. It's a binary-compatible RHEL rebuild after all.
So whats the lesson? To me it's pretty simple. You want change learn to do it the right way. Gandhi, MLK and Mandela didn't burn themselves and get change over night. And guess what, being media savvy is how you make change happen. There are to this day people who will call those three characters the most media savvy men of their time.

If marketing can sell Coke, Donald Trump and Kim Kardashian it can be used to sell other things too. Positive things. Constructive things. To pretend without media savvy your message will get out and have influence is highly misguided in this day and age.
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Amen to that. In general, I think successful economies should strive to be pretty balanced sector-wise, for two reasons:

1. Like with outsourcing, if you have enough people to be experts in a given thing, it will probably cost you more to outsource than to keep local expertise, due to additional transaction cost (transport, culture barrier, outsourcer profits, corruption..). And nations typically have more than enough people to be experts in some basic economic production infrastructure.

IMHO, it only pays off to outsource high-end stuff, like microprocessors, to other nations. It is also good for a nation to be expert/leader in some area like that. Switzerland is a good example of this.

2. There are network effects when you have mixed economy. How can you produce any good, say, agricultural machinery without agriculture? You may be the best machinist in the world, but without trying it out you don't know what problems you're solving. IMHO, this adds up very quickly. Similar with computing - you cannot solve manufacturing problems without having manufacturing industry in the same place you have the people who know computers.

It may seem that in today's connected world it wouldn't matter, but I doubt it. You need to get people from different fields to know each other, to talk over lunch or beer about problems they have. I think (in the U.S. at least) there is also social stratification issue, which is partly resulting at people poking at startups (sometimes rightfully so) for stupidly catering to middle classes instead of solving real problems.
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Yes, the linked-to article elaborates on that:

> Even when the search turns up the proper source, it might not turn up the proper edition of the source, and for scholars, that level of distinction very often matters. In order to ensure that Reader B has every possibility of seeing the same thing in a source text that Reader A saw, B needs to know whether A read the edition of a book published in 1819 or the revised edition published in 1831, or whether A read an article as originally printed in the journal or as it was repackaged for inclusion in a later edited volume. Much like the situation in a laboratory, these variables matter, and so this level of precision in their citation matters.

That said, DOI does not make the "promise that the content is immutable". I'll quote the DOI FAQ at http://www.doi.org/faq.html :

> The IDF does not have any rules on this. Individual RAs adopt appropriate rules for their community and application. As a general rule, if the change is substantial and/or it is necessary to identify both the original and the changed material, assign a new DOI name.

That means I was wrong. DOIs could be immutable in that way, but aren't. I made the incorrect assumption that what happened for chemistry-related fields was indicative of a general policy, which it isn't.
Parrot VM is a separate project from Perl 6. It originally started as a VM that could handle Perl 6, but then decided it wanted to focus on being a general VM for dynamic languages. This led to a rift between the two communities.

Before all that happened, though, there was Pugs, which is the Perl-6-on-Haskell thingy that you are thinking of. A fair portion of the current Perl 6 test suite comes from the Pugs project, at least originally. And, IIUC, it was the success of Pugs that revived the Perl 6 efforts and led to the Rakudo project (Perl 6 implemented in Perl 6) which is what we still use today.

So yeah, it is definitely the case that Haskell had a big influence on Perl 6 both from a language design and a more raw "inspiration" in the sense that it literally might not have happened without it -- the original wave of Perl 6 development had largely failed and there was some serious burnout happening. Pugs, Haskell, and Audrey Tang managed to put the ship back on course.

A lot of history happens in 16 years, and I make no claim to know the truth of any of it. There are more than a few rants floating around out there that will give you a picture of what happened when, albeit from a ranty perspective. Hopefully one day it will all be collected in a more comprehensive historical document.
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I don't think so at all. His posts and calls to rally where catalysts that were required.
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No but TBH I didn't with Windows 8/8.1/10 either. In either case, you should be aware that malware exists for any platform (Linux too) and always apply the right level of caution.
Let me know if you have any questions .... :)