skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you may have misunderstood the comment. In the US, Ireland, and probably elsewhere, police are using rogue cell sites ("Stingrays") for surveillance. The person you replied to is claiming that this is illegal, and the police forces that are doing it should be punished. They weren't talking about people experimenting with setting up Faraday-caged toy cell sites in their basement — there's absolutely nothing wrong with that and it should be encouraged!
Different versions of the same libraries for different applications is still the same problem. Fundamentally developers are writing software that distributors and integrators do not want to actually ship.

There are two independent circumstances to that, though. Either the developer does not deserve downstream trust because they abuse their users by breaking their APIs, ABIs, or UX's without due notice or process. This is how things were in the early 90s when Debian first started and the original crop of distributions emerged - the mindset was, of course as a distributor I have to assume responsibility for packaging and integrating all the software I ship, and thus of course I cannot track the individual releases of everything I include while making sure everything still works. That is insane, and no software distributor in the world does that.

The other circumstance is when developers do deserve trust but are not given it, as is the case in Debian, or why KDE needed the Neon project. Or when they want to assume the responsibility on their own, which no Linux distro provides adequate means to directly support users.
The American military was given over a decade and over a trillion dollars and was unable to figure it out. They proved to a high degree of certainty that we could never win.
It's self-evident why the middle class can't outbid rich families for single family homes near employment centers: the rich have more money and they want to live there too. But for dilapidated homes that are ready to be torn down, the strategy for outbidding the rich is clear: rich families who want to build a big home with a big yard can be outbid by several middle class families who are willing to live in smaller homes with smaller yards.

The problem is that we've made it illegal for the middle class to outbid the rich. Single family zoning laws have always been intended to segregate people by income, but the economics of urban growth have made the middle class the victims of the segregation laws they've always supported.

The effects are most egregious in high employment areas with predominantly single family zoning, like Silicon Valley, Seattle, and Austin, where I live. In Austin, the vast majority of the city is blanketed with laws that make it harder for the middle class to outbid the rich than any city in Texas. Where Houston allows four families to build homes to outbid the rich, Austin only allows one. It's no surprise that we're the most economically segregated city in the country[1], and the only growing city that has a shrinking black population[2].

We must fight to desegregate our cities. The middle class is suffering not because they can't afford to outbid the rich, but because it's illegal to outbid the rich.

[1] https://www.texastribune.org/2015/02/23/austin-most-economic...

[2] http://kut.org/post/austins-population-booming-why-its-afric...
Just going to jump in here and point out rayiner is an appellate lawyer.
Not to get all pedantic, but aphasia means difficulty with communication. So "visual aphasia" doesn't make any sense. Still an interesting deficit

Aphasia -Aphasia is an impairment of language, affecting the production or comprehension of speech and the ability to read or write.
(from the National Aphasia Association)
This is an interesting case because dropping a phone is the customer's fault (and thus that action voids the Apple warranty) but based upon the videos claims, the refurbish process did appear to alter the overall durability of the phone.

I suppose there is a risk involved with buying anything refurbished... whether from the manufacturer or not.

For anyone that is interested, Apple has published a few QA and inspection processes involved with refurbishment. Would be surprising if 1. it slipped through this process 2. Apple doesn't actually perform these inspections 3. this device was deemed fit for resale under Apple's standards

http://www.apple.com/shop/browse/home/specialdeals/refurbfaq...

I'm still not completely convinced this was an unaltered Apple refurbished phone though (and I'm not sure we will ever know)...
> I could just as easily say, "The good argument for having a maximum 'price of bread' is that without it, bread prices will be pressured up, because every bakery on the planet wants prices as high as possible, and they generally have the means to achieve it."

You could certainly just as easily say that, but there's an obvious reason why it isn't true: so long as there are multiple suppliers and it's possible to produce bread in quantities sufficient to more than supply the population, each supplier can benefit from undercutting the prices offered by the others and capturing a larger share of the market, and this drives down prices to relatively near the cost of production. (As for the case when it's not possible to produce enough bread, take a look at the history of rationing during wartime and why it existed.) This argument simply doesn't apply to the comment you're replying to.
Single-core performance tends to depend heavily on clock speed. Would be interesting to see what those were.
Kepler (and don't forget Tycho Brahe) get quite a lot of recognition, specifically as precursors to Newton.
I've never seen a single example of this idea working.

I've seen this idea lead to higher rents, with fewer people owning and more people renting.

I've seen it lead to developer hand-outs in the name of tax incentives, zoning variances, and outright grants for subsidized (but still rental) housing.

I've seen it overload local infrastructure, allowing developers to reap the profits while externalizing the costs.

We need to address the root cause -- ever-growing income inequality -- not exacerbate the root cause by building an ever-higher wall between individuals and home ownership.
Sumerian is a language isolate, so the second quote may only correctly refer to writing systems.
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That just changes the question to why did they base their compiler on an obscure 16 year old codebase? I can guess that the answer is familiarity, but, that doesn't change the negative impact of a low tech compiler on the user base.
> began writing

Oh no, he'd published two novels before that, both significant, but for different reasons. Poor Folk was a maudlin debut but it made him the hottest new writer in Russia, briefly. Belinsky, the biggest critic of the day, famously kissed him when they were introduced.

Now that he was a celebrity he thought he'd show them what he really could do, and came up with The Double, which is genius. But it bombed, and Dostoevsky became a has-been in his mid-twenties. It's still one of the best things he ever wrote, equal parts comic, tragic, and weird. It's also short, so one of the best first things to read by him.

All that happened before he went to Siberia, which of course was transformative. His memoir of the prison camp, Notes From the House of the Dead, is another masterpiece and a sort of decryption key for all his later work. It was Tolstoy's favorite.
> That said, the idea that public capital markets are widely considered to be a way to increase equality, of all things, is stunning to me.

Never underestimate the power of spin. Private just has to look worse than public on equality, and it does. I wouldn't be surprised to see an article about this in the next few weeks as journalists compete for eyeballs.
Well, anything can be made look sufficiently complex. But there can be(should be) ways to abstract out or compartmentalize a larger problems to make it easier to focus on small sections in visual programming.

It's true that there has been more questions then there are answers, but I was wondering what attempts have been taken thus far to solve it.

More specifically, I was curious to hear if OP had any story to share dealing with this kind of problem.
>>At least that's how it works during trial.

That is for the first trial, and the first trial only

After that you are guilty, the only thing that matters to the legal system then is their arbitrary rules. The other commenter is 100% correct that actual innocents is irreverent for any appeal.

The US Legal System is completely off the rails of any common sense, justice, or rational thought at this point.

"The law perverted! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish!" -- Frédéric Bastiat
In Python I use a small collection of built-ins frequently for debugging:

For any object foo:

type(foo) # show an object's type
dir(foo) # list an object's methods
help(foo) # pydoc
id(foo) # show an object's memory address
foo.__dict__ # show an object's internal data structure

And I have a snippet triggered by "pdb<tab>" for pdb:

import pdb ; pdb.set_trace()
>`str.is_digit()` doesn't 'check number', it checks if the string is entirely composed of unicode digit codepoints.

What do you mean?
I think the days of Portland being the affordable West coast city are on the way out. Portland real estate prices are forecast to overtake Seattle in the near future. Dilapidated bungalows in our hood across the street from houses with bi-monthly drive by shootings are selling for 650K for the land alone...
Blizzard's Battle.net has an interesting naming system which a few others have adapted.

You can pick any username you want. But the username is appended with a pound sign and a 4 digit number. (for example, my Battletag is minimaxir#1667)

Everyone wins the branding wars. Presumably, there aren't 10,000 people who want the same name.
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If the software infrastructure does exist in Minecraft as you say, why isn't anyone mad about it potentially doing exactly what you describe with the actual product placements actually present in Minecraft? (https://store.xbox.com/en-US/Xbox-One/dlc/Minecraft-Xbox-One...)

The reason nobody is mad is because there is no evidence anything shady is going on there. Just like in this case with Oculus.

It's possible for anyone to track pretty much any metric in any software and then analyze it. So saying it's possible doesn't really mean much.
I found the mechanical process appalling.
Tokyo, Toronto, and Houston are all examples of large cities where it is relatively easy to build housing and housing is relatively cheap.
>There's no such thing as "personal history" with the code in the context of SCM commits. It's all project history.

Yes, there absolutely is "personal history" with DVCS.

Your rigid mental model for "SCM commits" is relevant for older tools like cvs/svn with lock-checkout-checkin-unlock procedures. The "commits" in those centralized SCMs are a Really Big Deal.

DVCS is different. When a programmer decides to "fork" a public repository, he copies it to "local" harddrive and it becomes a personal repository. From that fork, the programmer can also create an unpublished branch and that branch is another level of personal scratch space. The commits in this type of environment are not a big deal. With git/dvcs, it shifts the Important Action from the "commit" to the "merge/fast-forward" step. That's why many programmers rebase to optimize how that step looks.

The concept of "personal history" is built-in into the ethos of how Git and DVCS works and it's been a separate concept from "public project history" since day one. The programmer can certainly choose to share every untouched line of personal history but he doesn't have to. Same concept as not sharing a recording of memory buffers and a log of every keystroke from the text editor. Most of us don't care to see any of that.
It seems like the environment scanning could be a better alternative to the array of external sensors the Vive uses to demarcate its play area. Certainly would be more elegant.
Yes I get it, and it does not matter, I'm just grumpy. The point I'm trying to make is that for an amateur runner, the distance of a marathon is a performance that require LONG time preparation and discipline, and maybe even talent. Not everyone is capable of completing this distance by foot. Not a runner myself, but I have 2 _very_ athletic friends that completely failed this distance with the most unexpected injuries and fatigues, even after a year of preparation. I am just tired of how 'half-marathon' associates with an actual marathon, because a marathon is a completely different thing that will destroy a casual runner. Have a good weekend js2
It is at least n=2. I have seen the exact same thing once before. Keep in mind that I will only see an iPad that was from a user who went to Apple for a refurb after a problem with their original, and then went to independent repair rather than back to Apple for a subsequent problem. That is less common than someone going straight to independent repair with a problem on the original or sticking with Apple for a problem with a refurb
I wear pretty strong corrective lenses (about -8 in each eye) and HoloLens was fine; a lot more comfortable than the Vive with glasses on.
The family of four he brutally murdered might have had an opinion on that, too.
I doubt it's psychosomatic. I didn't know the effects of opiates or marijuana when I first experienced it. It was only later that I discovered THC caused the same close-eyed visuals and differences in time perception. Likewise for opiates (prescribed after dental surgery). The decreased appetite and body high suddenly made sense.

There's research to back this up as well. In response to exercise, the body produces cannabinoids, opiates, and stimulants.[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurobiological_effects_of_phy...
That is so true. Very dark skin, on the border of intellectual disability, poor and male means... no matter what you are accused of or whether you actually did it or not... guaranteed death penalty if possible by law.
Slow day on HN I guess?

Instagram isn't one of the offenders, like you say. Usernames can be changed at will and logins are done through email.

I regularly change my username to a beer-pun when I've had enough of the current one.

I also don't really like your gamification grand plan. Names are too common for that to work. You'd be in the same position you were in before with a name like "Adam" because you'd be competing with "Adam Sandler" for example and he'll whoop your ass on "most pins/tweets/likes/friends/wins".
Note that Go no longer uses segmented stacks (and hasn't since 1.2). It uses contiguous, copyable stacks: http://agis.io/2014/03/25/contiguous-stacks-in-go.html
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> Why is that?

It is a practical problem. The military has an extremely long institutional memory and has perfected the process of mental conditioning over hundreds of years, to the point where 18 year olds can be given the power to kill and dropped into situations with little to no supervision - and it generally doesn't result in an x-rated version of Lord of the Flies. The methods that the military uses to accomplish this would not work for police without a costly tear down and slow rebuild. The list of methods is far too long to list here, but they include a culture of self policing enabled by a meaningful shared experience (basic redefinition of family), and a mythology that requires a carefully managed narrative of history (Gen MacArthur's farewell address at West Point is full of examples).
If a customer is still using IE8 I am positive that he will be OK with not seeing a box shadow on an element, and making 95% of other clients suffer and download images for generating box shadow is just plain stupid for me. I would either ditch those 5% of clients and focus on better features than spending lots of time on restraining cool functionality in order to satisfy a 5% of users on IE8
For "Enterprise" environments it could take another 7 years to get to this kernel level. Rather depressing. Many of my clients are still on RH 5.
I wonder if anyone could have standing to sue a municipality to change the zoning laws on these grounds, under the civil rights act.
A "username" should be a uuid. The user should be able to put a string of their chosing next to it (an alias, real name, etc), and a service like gravatar can be used to distinguish between users who have the same string.
If you have to accept a pitiful wage in order to barely subsist, that is effectively forced labor. In practice, the only alternative is to starve. Which is why a labor market without basic income or some other kind of safety net is not a free market at all.

Not everyone can learn everything, but even if that were possible, if everyone in the world knew e.g. how to code decently, coding would be a minimum-wage job too. There is just not enough demand for jobs to make everyone valuable, and automation is just making this more pronounced.
Think of it this way. What are the odds of the code working correctly when the first time it is run is when it is in the customer's hands?

I've used code coverage analyzers on and off for 30 years. I know that merely executing code does not mean it is bug free. But I've found a very strong relationship between higher coverage and fewer bugs found in the field.

There've been reports on reddit that this is not so in other companies, but I get the feeling they're doing something wrong, because it utterly is not my experience.
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>First, white and black are not races.

Yes, no kidding.

>Many Mexicans and east Indians look visually similar to each other that people confuse they for the other. But one is Hispanic and the other is not.

True, but irrelevant. All I need to do to disprove "race is a social construct" is come up with a single case where it's obviously not the case.
The point to add is that if you pay for a new device, and you notice anything faulty about it and take it back, you will be handed a refurb like this one as your in warranty replacement if it has been 15 days or more since the purchase.
'Safety' being the kind of worry you were trying to project when you mentioned cars and robots going berserk.
IMO the point still stands, in general it will be years before the CLR and .NET native is considered a serious alternative to Java/JVM on linux, although microsoft is doing a great effort, so who knows how long real adoption will take, I guess it can get closer to Golang, adoption wise, than to Java, the introduction of Swift is not going to make it easier for them either.
It's surprising that the solution of simply sharing usernames between websites wasn't mentioned, so that everyone only has to get their preferred username once -- something like https://onename.com/.
This has been done before with cities who were more egregiously discriminatory with their zoning, as I mention in the long form of this argument[1]. I don't know what hurdles are in the way of using the courts to end this subtle segregation, but we should definitely find out and make it happen.

Economic segregation is the whole point of density-based zoning. It is widely supported by property owners. If we can't convince them that they are beneficiaries of unjust laws, then the courts are our best option.

[1] https://medium.com/@niranbabalola/we-must-repeal-our-segrega...
Come to San Angeles. Not cheap by any stretch but costs are kept in check by the simple fact that there's so much of it.
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This is amazing, good work!

Can I ask what references you used to figure out how to write certain pieces of this? There is a torrent of information online, but you've probably got a very good (curated) set of links or books that you recommend.
I signed up for instagram because some dipstick put my email address into the app and signing up and claiming the address was the only way to stop getting reminders from them to confirm the address.

(That is, they have their problems too)
I meant whatever DB they use to get location from an IP address.
Very good point. I was just surprised how much that simple bool assignment slowed things down so massively.
And what's the practical difference between minimaxir#1667 and minimaxir1667, other than there's no "minimaxir" with no numbers?
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I haven't experienced any of those problems. On the WiFi front, I live a challenging WiFi life, because I travel full-time, and connect up to RV park WiFi regularly. I don't find it problematic. I don't know what chipset my laptop has, as I've never had to look into it. It's a shitty HP lappy. My desktop has had several different USB and PCI WiFi adapters without major issue. I do remember I did check google to make sure I was buying a compatible one, though, it wasn't hard to pick one that was known to be well-supported, even at Best Buy or Fry's.

Likewise, USB 3.0 works fine for me. I dunno what chipset any of my devices have, but they all work.

As for Skype, I used to use it regularly, and then switched to Hangouts. Skype worked fine on Linux up until I switched. I dunno the state of it now, but I don't need it, so it's no big deal. Both Google and Facebook have video chat and phone call features built right into their messenger apps, and they work fine on Linux; Skype is deprecated, IMHO.
PostgreSQL. Avoid exotic databases they will come back to bite you. Throw some RAM at Postgres and tweak the config values and it will fly.
It's moderately interesting how these work, they basically check if you're connecting to a "new" tower.

Another app is called aimsicd, I use it personally. Not paranoid, but there's no reason not to use it really. No noticeable drain on battery, and it would be interesting to know if it ever did throw anything.
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You are describing an agent of the state, which is a different concept than what the traditional use of civilian addresses.
> They intentionally tried to destroy the web

What are you referring to?
> install 3rd party apps and setup firewall to gain that privacy back.

Yet you're still paying for Win 10 with either money or market share, thus signaling your acceptance of that spyware. MS will continue adding exploitative features until it starts to hurt the only things they care about: revenue or market share.
What if the successful private company buys out its VCs? I don't know why that can't happen.
Unless you're hovering your mouse over them, it only shows minimaxir.
That's because Houston has no zoning.
Numbers are allowed in the username (https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/700007) so using a pound as a delimiter is necessary to separate numbers at the end of a Battletag and the unique identifier.
Just curious, what kind of shoes should I be looking for if I were to follow your advice? Any specific brands?
It's very easy for me to have a preferred moral code that is almost like yours except that I do not axiomatically declare that capital punishment is equivalent to murder.
Only looked at Swift a little so far, but liked something about the syntax.

Seems clean.

Going to check it out more over time. Hope the Linux support improves.
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Discord implemented the same thing, and I'd like to see more systems do it too. It works really well, especially when users can swap usernames at will.