skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lets take your first example, lets say someone creates some nifty useful function grabPiFromWebPage that returns a "JustValueOrError" (which has the result or an error message" instead of "Maybe".

If I understand it correctly (please bare with me if I make a mistake, I'm not very familiar with haskell)

Just 1 >>= \one ->
Just 2 >>= \two ->
aNullableFunction one >>= \x ->
grabPiFromWebPage >>= \w ->
return (aNonNullableFunction two) >>= \y ->
return (one * y + two * x + w)

wouldn't work, because grabPiFromWebPage returns the wrong type of monad. If you wanted to see the error on failure, you'd have to have some special bind for aNullableFunction to convert its monad to "JustValueOrError", as well as convert the "pure" functions.

So now, because you want to add a new kind of function to the implementation chain, you have to write some sort of converter function for both the "maybe" and the "pure" functions. It seems brittle.

Secondly, it is also confusing as to what is actually happening in the code. When I look at:

do
x <- randomUniform
y <- randomNormal
return (x*y)

I then have to go some place (where I don't know because I don't know Haskell), and figure out what is happening there to confirm that this is operating properly. And if I make a mistake doing that, I could easily get the wrong impression and possibly think, for example in this case, that code isn't deterministic.

Finally, I've also seen examples where probability distributions are calculated and complex things like that. I could easily see a combinatoric slow down that is not self evident because everything is hidden in these complicated structures.
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You can download all your data including photos. Click the little down arrow, settings, general and download a copy of all your data.

I did it 3 days ago. Try it and see what's there.
So I was curious about their technique and read their offer. This is hilarious. I expected the usual myopia where they only focus on a handful of popular ad blockers. However...

> TrackerTap proxies your website's Google Analytics requests

... I didn't expect a poorly disguised scam to steal traffic logs.

> our unique IP is is always changing making it impossible for ad-blockers to pinpoint and block our service

I find it hard to believe they don't know that URLs can be blocked by regex.

> Typically we've seen success in re-capturing about 15% of a website's daily traffic

Yet they are still blissfully ignorant of any traffic that doesn't load the Javascript.

> The only data we collect is whether or not your users are using an ad-blocker.

Plus all the requests they are proxying.

Of course, their FAQ saves the best for last:

Is HTTPS supported?

At the moment, no.
This article is bullshit. Let's say you have one position and five candidates. Without any form of deadline the process would be dragged out until everyone has made up their mind, explored all different opportunities etc. It's completely unreasonable.
Even more so, there is an analogy to construction in software, and it has been possible to fully automate it since decades with tools like make, ant, etc.
I think bigger news here is for US citizens. US consistently denied visa-free travel for a lot of EU countries, including poland
There are lots of alternatives technically speaking - G+, Diaspora, Ello and others. Socially though FB is probably where your friends and family are.
Cats have very interesting parasites.

Full disclaimer: I took a young feral cat into my custody once (after it appeared behind my window on the second floor), but it is still worth mentioning.
If the precision of your notes were the deciding factor affecting your performance, the process of education would be much simpler.
I am hesitant to engage at this level, but - you just couldn't be more wrong about Comey. I know him to be every bit as thoughtful and reasonable as your glowing description of Hayden. That doesn't mean I agree with all of his positions, but he is one of the smarter people I've met, and I do not believe that is an indication of how sheltered my life has been. I also know him to be perfectly capable of acknowledging when he's gotten it wrong, and generally willing to admit it, change course, and move on. That leaves me fairly optimistic about how this whole mess will turn out.
In any case, you taking this instance, and something you obviously feel strongly about, and using it to craft barbs about "the worst kinds of cops" - well, frankly that's exactly the kind of emotional hyperbole that will continue to make rational discourse here difficult. This sort of frothy angst distracts from otherwise potentially reasonable arguments, and probably makes dismissing them seem more reasonable. Can you see how that might be happening here?
>insure ownership

Wow, never thought I'd catch you in a typo, newyorker...
Microsoft Office + a few more,
Adobe Creative,
Salesforce

Plus several that are fairly stagnate markets like Symantec, Intuit, etc. Granted, if they do nothing people go away eventually. But, subscription means being a slow adopter is enough you don't need to innovate.
Did you actually approach the media, authorities in the niche, Techcrunch, etc?

Because you can't just rely on 'on site' SEO to succeed. Adding a bunch of content on your own site is good, but what's really needed is to get authorities elsewhere to link to it. So you need to get good at marketing/PR, in the sense of talking to people with popular sites and social media channels.

You can do a ton of stuff on your own site, but it's irrelevant if you're not being linked to or mentioned elsewhere. And one good link from say, the New York Times or BBC or some other popular site is worth a ton more than a thousand spam links from low quality domains.
German working at a startup in Beijing here. That's a daft case of C2C (copy to china) you've got on your hands there.

You probably won't be able to gain them as a Chinese subsidiary, they'll think you're delusional, hell, that sounds delusional to me.

Them having investors (if they do), doesn't mean much if anything. C2Cs of startups with traction are generally seen as a safe bet by investors, hell, there's teams specializing on it. Money is sloshing around, the silliest things are getting funded.

Litigating is probably pointless. Best case they get scared, drop the thing and another C2C gets sent the code they have.

Clones are to be expected, and as other comments have said, it might even be the Chinese IT company you're dealing with that started the thing, or maybe they've started building something internally. They're probably looking to screw you over as well.

Really, if you're looking to compete in China, you break out your copy of Sun Tsu and leaf through your Machiavelli. Out-engineer them, get some boots on the ground, find some Chinese to work with, lob some nuisances their way, grow in China and squash them. That'll put you in a stronger negotiation position with Tencent/Baidu/Ali/Whoever as well. Your advantage is that whilst chinese coders are cheap, and they can throw 20 engineers at the problem, most of them aren't very good. If you don't allow them to grow more than you do, and you're pushing features whilst they're accruing tech debt, they will loose that war of attrition eventually. Especially if you go for things that are hard.

Good luck man.

PS: If your business plan looks like the work of a paranoid madman, you're on the right track to compete in the land far east.
>The youngest person to be executed was a four year old.

German efficiency eh?
Exactly.

How many Dropbox customers went to that model for free, even though OneDrive is a garbage product in comparison?
We will be talking about this milestone (first reusable space rockets) the same way my parents talked about first step on the moon.
In a sufficiently trusted circle, you could probably just as well use a notion of debt instead of money or barter. Debt would be completely immaterial and virtual. This would work for villages or for groups with "multiple rounds" of encounter, in game-theory speak.
Knuth versus Email (1999)
> Do you have an example?

Just the confirmation from Apple's podcaster support team that iTunes doesn't support sites which use Let's Encrypt. (I don't use WordPress.com myself.)

I've just posted a request for examples in popular podcasting groups, and I'll let you know when/if I get responses.

> We have already implemented workarounds for iTunes.

Can you elaborate just a smidge? Is WordPress.com, for example, not encrypting content when it's requested by iTunes? (Thanks!)
'Stuff' is a smaller part of our economy than you might think. Software, Entertainment, Healthcare, Lawyers, Land, Prestige, etc.

Even then raw materials don't show up by magic. So, automation might get rid of low end restaurants, factory's etc but it's going to take high end AI to really kill 'the economy' as we think of it.
Ok, then. Best of luck.
More speculation that confirms our theory without any evidence. *

The theory is "we're good. Anyone we don't like is bad"

The evidence collection goes "confirms our theory, it's true." Or " Contradicts it, we either ignore it our dismiss it"

Case in point, the unaoil scandal is much more serious than anything in these Panama papers, it involves "the good guys" and it's largely forgotten a week after it release.

* ironically enough RT is (was?) pushing the theory that the CIA is behind it because there are no notable American on the list. So it's a KGB/CIA plot because Putin/Americans come out relatively unscathed
That estimate is incomplete. The drone ship has its own pitch and yaw thanks to the motion of the ocean and is moving on two axes to intercept, plus vertical displacement thanks to the swell. Incredible.
Well, that's an interesting question from a human rights perspective. Hannah Arendt among many others have written about human rights and people who are displaced by war, deportation, lack of citizenship, etc. The view that the European borders legitimately forbid people in need from entering is inhumane as far as I can tell—and not really supported by the constitutions either.
> When he wastes your bandwidth with ads, he is the devil, but when you waste his bandwidth, it's perfectly OK?

Yes. He can try to stop me, just as I try to stop him. This is the game. It's an antagonistic relationship. There's nothing inherently "wrong" about either side - it just is how it is.

> You are not entitled to see the content.

If their server gives me HTML containing the content, it's up to _my_ computer what to render, therefore I am entitled to see or not see whatever is in that response.

I am very entitled to use of my own computer. They do not get to decide what happens once their content is on my end. If I were sending malicious code to their server in order to remove the adds or similar, you'd have an argument but since it's happening entirely on my computer, you don't. The entitlement to how my computer renders it rests entirely on me.
I (anecdotally) disagree. I'd love to have a good-spec laptop that had no logos or branding on it.
I seem to be kind of unusual here in that I like Facebook. Liked it from day one, still like it and have no major problems with it. The reason is to keep in touch with what friends and family are up to, let them know what I'm up to and message them easily.

No where else I can do that as my friends and family are not on G+, snapchat et al and only a very small percentage on Twitter. I genuinely have a bit of a problem understanding why most people here dislike Facebook. It's a messaging and social news service. If you don't like it use something else. If your friends and family are on it it's probably because they like it.

That said I spend more time on HN as there is more interesting content here on the whole.
Loleelolee released
Does anyone know if foreign companies that operate within the United States would be subject to these laws?

If not, then perhaps a lot of big US tech companies will move offshore?

Thoughts?
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It's not that the symbol comma is bad. Lisp uses it as a prefix to unquote a form, which is totally different from the use as a separator.
> Although I would prefer to handle my communication needs exclusively on email, I have people in my life that simply do not reply to email, the only way to reach them is via a facebook message.

This is a big one. A lot of people I know simply don't send or reply to e-mail anymore. And people don't use messenger services like they used to. So for a lot of people, you're probably going to only message them on Facebook, or lose contact with them.

I definitely think that email and messenger programs are better, since you seem to have actual conversations with people (most Facebook conversations I've had are pretty shallow). But they're not an option in a lot of cases. Also, there's a good chance that you probably should lose contact with most of the people you've met, but that's understandably hard for most people.
comeuppance?
Physical currency is privacy, it is freedom of commerce, it is property rights. Giving up physical currency means giving up all your freedoms at once. Simply because government can tell you what your money is worth at any instant, where you can spend it, and if you can spend it or are required to do so to not lose it
Could care less. I'll still continue to use Facebook to talk to my high school friends.
Sounds reasonable. It's very difficult to get US or Canada visa in some countries. Certainly harder than getting a EU visa.
Top 10 countries that offer financial secrecy, according to the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35998801

Switzerland

Hong Kong

USA

Singapore

The Cayman Islands

Luxembourg

Lebanon

Germany

Bahrain

United Arab Emirates

Panama seems to be down at the low-rent end of the financial secrecy market.

So no - the OP is not only not plausible, but raises more questions than it answers.

Practically, I'd expect a Russian hack to specifically target the tax affairs of Putin's enemies.

This may yet happen now, with Russian and/or Chinese hackers targeting the tax secrets of prominent Western politicians - which would be an interesting development for everyone.
This reads like propaganda and misses what I consider a big question: why did Putin claim himself as "the main target" when the media wasn't focused on him and there was no evidence really damning him?

It just raises questions rather than deflecting them. Putin does not seem so stupid. Why would he do this?

It's like getting pulled over for a speeding ticket and saying "I didn't kill him, there's no evidence, this is a plot against me".
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Well, Putin himself claimed that Panama Papers are "western propaganda" so there's no way for him to spin them as legitimate after that.
Not quite - with piracy you get a modified full copy of the content from a non-original source. This non-original source produces an unlicensed copy of the content. This is the illegal or "immoral" or what have you part of piracy.

With ad blocking you go right to the original source, ask them for a copy of the content, they give it to you, then choose how you're going to render it. They gave you the content. They never made me accept a license agreement on it. I can choose to render it however I damn well please because that's up to my computer. Does IE produce an immoral rendering of the page because it doesn't support a CSS feature they use? What if I load the page in Lynx and don't see ads, is that immoral?
I agree with the sentiment of the title, but does the article really support it?

Operation Choke Point (which, in the end, was just the gov't saying "hey, these industries are dangerous") helped stopped Alexander's donations. But it's not like it's easy to collect online payments in a cash-only society, right? This is like saying "how the internet can embolden wiretapping". The gov't action only increased through the technicality of increased technology.

The fact that Visa and MC responded to Sheriff Dart's letter is disturbing, to say the least, though. Though saying the circuit decision is a first amendment decision might be a stretch: It reads to me more like a mix of that and one about abuse of public office.

So.... this article brings up issues that I think are extremely important though. Visa and MC as payment processors basically reserve the right to not service people. Is there a legitimate case for forcing them not to discriminate? Do we need net neutrality for payments?

Someone will say "Bitcoin solves this!" but it doesn't, at least not until the US government accepts tax payments in USD.

The biggest issue with "payment processor purity" would be the question of how does that work with money laundering laws? There might not be a conflict: if payment processors know who you are, that might be enough.

But seriously, Choke Point would have failed any first ammendment challenge if banks wanted to challenge it. But they didn't, because banks believed what the gov't was telling them, and also don't like high-risk, low-reward businesses. Private enterprise is at the source of these issues!

Instead of worrying about Big Brother, I'd say this article is more about how the government _should_ intervene to ensure 1st amendment rights in a cashless society.

A side note that I feel is lost in these discussions: cashless societies (or mixed cash/cashless, if you will) enable lots of people (like adult entertainers, but also everyone on Patreon, for example) to live a life they couldn't with cash-only universes. Even if cash is always there, we should work to make cashless better than ever if possible.
Agreed, it's probably MRI. There's more strange things going on in this article. While "In a way, they [superconductors] are the opposite of toasters" made me giggle a little, "Without magnets, we'd lack generators [electric lights and toasters], motors [municipal water supplies, ship engines], magnetrons [microwave ovens], and much more" made me cringe. Electric lights and toasters are pretty much unrelated to generators and I've yet to see an electric engine on a commercial ship. I wonder whether the author of the article put the examples there, I doubt that Prof. Weinstein did.
Income counts as a money exchange from employer to employee.
What's with the attitude of "computer scientists can solve anything if they displace the original researchers who are incompetent"?
If you step back from the conspiracy theory stuff, why shouldn't the CIA have a VC fund? They have a vested interested in fostering technology that could serve their purposes, so why not ensure that technology finds the funding it needs to mature?

Consider also that research grants from the Department of Defence are effectively the same thing, the government sponsoring technology that it might find a military application for, and those grants brought us the internet so it's not all bad.
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"Incredibly" misinformed? Not really. How many in Saudi Arabia? Gulf states? Iran? The *stans? North Africa? Georgia? In China or Japan or Russia or Kenya or New Zealand for that matter?

How many would be in NW Europe without the spreading plan? How do the ones that weren't even registered, or the ones that went missing move around the Schengen zone?

About the second set of figures. Total immigration is much higher than 7%, because not all immigrants are muslims. Even then, I’d say these numbers confirm that migration is much higher in NW Europe.

But you know, 7% of Belgium being muslim is not even the problem. The problem is that this is happening in a few decades time. In countries that have never seen immigration and were screwing it up big time long before the Syrian refugee crisis. Culturally and economically.

Au fond, immigration policy in Europe is completely reckless. There is no vision, just passively reacting to whatever happens and calling that being compassionate. And to go back to the original reason for my post: I’m especially sick of hearing specious, patronizing arguments like ”but 100 years ago Belgians fled to the Netherlands". We need to move beyond that sophistry. Especially if you live in Brussels.
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fun fact: mpv couples youtube-dl to itself and can view youtube videos simply from the command line.

example:

mpv "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Ey4YChtEU"

(you need quotes because most shells will try to glob match)
It really isn't so ridiculous. Walls are often topped with razor wire or electrified wire. Even if "Trump's Wall" isn't planned to have that now, it may have it after a few escalations.
"They would see sketchy anti-aging out-of-pocket concierge docs for 5-10k a month who would prescribe them whatever they wanted/needed."

I used to feel sorry for doctors who paid a lot of malpractice insurance, and wanted to give them tort reform.
I thought they deserved protection.

But when doctors sell out for money, I could care less about helping them out. It's not so much that they are dispensing HGH, steroids, etc., I imagine the doses are low, and the wealthy patient sees nothing, but placebo effects.

It's the money part. I really don't like doctors whom sell out for money.
That's a great overview. This will come in handy for training at work.
GOV absolutely knew what the consequences / ripples of Choke Point would be.

They knew that it would generate support amongst the Vice Hating Crowd, allowing GOV to address the two things they need most:

/ An easier way to issue debt with less scrutiny (Federal Reserve Notes are quite specific debt instruments that we circulate, while GOV's debt load is approaching untenable).

/ A more comprehensive way to track gun sales.

Many people do not trust various levels / types of government, and see gun ownership as a necessary... hedge. Thankfully, the US has the option of The Four Boxes of Governance: Soap, Jury, Ballot, Ammo.

Ultimately, laws and freedoms are maintained at the point of a gun. And it is the Ammo Box, in the hands of The People, that allows the other three boxes to be used.
Latin America and Middle East: What do they have in common?
Because it's the best discussion platform we have on the web, like a less nerdy version of Reddit. Politicians post on it and actually interact with their followers (with proper threads and without dumb character limits). There are groups for funny cat pictures that many people follow. You can ask "hey what do you think of this thing?" and get email-length responses from people you actually know. It's like a centralised comment section for the internet.

Its messenger also works on all platforms. It boggles the mind that this is still the exception. iMessage only works on Apple devices, WhatsApp only supports one device per user, Skype is run by idiots. Messenger has all users, devices and features covered. It's the new IMAP, although WhatsApp/LINE/kik etc are more popular with the mobile-only crowd.
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Fuel consumption is about the last thing you want to bring to the fore when comparing trucks to trains. You could take all the diesel in a truck, burn it in a oil power plant and use the generated electricity to power a train. You would go much further.