skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So has the question about the boundary between "censorship" and "required to support someone you disagree with."

When it's the government, is easy to say that censorship is when the government goes beyond time/place/manner restrictions on free speech.

But with the migration of the public commons to private areas, is it censorship to prevent a Black Lives Matter protest at the Mall of the Americas? Occupy Wall Street managed to survive so long because Zuccotti Park was on a privately owned public space which was required to stay open 24 hours a day, and thus avoid city curfews in public parks.

It's even less clear that a private entity like St. Martin’s Press must never change their mind about publishing a book, should they decide that doing so will give a Holocaust denialist the ability to use their name in support of his cause.

When HN users flag a spam comment for maid services in London, and it's later deleted, is that censorship?

We know all know of HN posts which cry out censorship for receiving downvotes.

The few times I've looked into one of these controversies, it seems more like people are using "censorship" as synonymous for "criticism I don't like." (Certainly not all cases! Just a boringly common majority of them.)
>you can almost always get a tone similar to your target

Therein lies the rub. You can't beat real circuits and valves especially when you're cranking it loud for a gig. The difference between the (admittedly pretty amazing) VST's and the real deal is the difference between sounding good and sounding great.

Touring a band is still expensive. So much so that it was the difference between going on extensive global touring as a duo or not touring at all (4 piece) for someone I know.
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Who are "these people"?
Hacker News

IMPOSSIBLE
If you say this, you've only listened to early 80s Steve Miller. Check out his blues and folk. Lots are up on Youtube. (Which, to the point of the original article, probably doesn't pay him much)
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Visual Studio, XCode, Adobe <insert product here>, anything by Autodesk...

As good as alternatives like GIMP are, they simply can't compete with their Mac/Windows alternatives like Photoshop.
I wonder what is the legal basis for having separate bathrooms at all. The separation seems to be a cultural one. Most of us have shared bathrooms with our family. What practical needs does the segregation solve ?

For example, if "penis sighting in the urinal" is a "problem" that the segregation solves, then self-identified gender is irrelevant.
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Sorry, I should have spoken better to begin with. I think it has a place in e.g. traumatic therapy, but I don't think the average use of MDMA is going to naturally lead to much introspection or a better understanding of the world without focus and guiding the experience—again, you might have a nice night, a night you need, but it's not comparable to psychedelics or meditation. This last point is what I mean by "stupid".
Not absurd at all. The malware infects the PC and does its bad thing.
After it's finished doing the bad stuff, it creates a full screen window which looks just like a BSOD screen with the QR code containing the attacker's URL.

User scans the QR code and navigates to that URL. Now he thinks he's on microsoft.com and will readily hand over his Microsoft credentials.

When you have Bitcoin, bank accounts, credit cards, etc as potential rewards, bad guys can (and do) get quite creative..
Interesting. I took a quick look and can't say I'm qualified to render any real insight. It is interesting to see they claim $11M of expenses on $6M of revenue for the primary operation.
While you're here...

What was the NeWS security model like? Could it safely combine Postscript programs from multiple users on the same display server without information leakage between users?

And I suppose the NeWS source code got eaten by lawyers long ago and is unlikely ever to see the light of day?
It is creepy. But US colleges have done far far worse.

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/15/magazine/the-great-ivy-lea...

> ONE AFTERNOON IN THE LATE 1970's, deep in the labyrinthine interior of a massive Gothic tower in New Haven, an unsuspecting employee of Yale University opened a long-locked room in the Payne Whitney Gymnasium and stumbled upon something shocking and disturbing.

> Shocking, because what he found was an enormous cache of nude photographs, thousands and thousands of photographs of young men in front, side and rear poses. Disturbing, because on closer inspection the photos looked like the record of a bizarre body-piercing ritual: sticking out from the spine of each and every body was a row of sharp metal pins.
I think the basic problem is that quite a number of the core Gnome people are RH employees and use Fedora as their testbed.

The whole thing thus turn into a echo chamber involving Fedora, Gnome and Freedesktop (with Red Hat looming in the background).

Meaning that if you want your distro to be Gnome and Freedesktop compatible, you effectively have to turn it into a Fedora clone.
He posted this down the thread which starts with:

> Disclaimer: I'm CIO @ Namecheap

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11479810
Not at all. Blogger (where Moldbug's posts are alive and well) is a _platform_ - and it's owned and operated by Google. Using your logic, Google is "endorsing" this type of speech. Oh yeah - so is AWS, Azure, Akamai, CloudFlare, etc. when they take a neutral view of content.
"I simply don't understand what is the huge effort in using the restroom appropriate to your physical gender"

Fun story time:
I went to the Santa Cruz boardwalk a few months back with some friends. It was packed and the line for the woman's restroom was massive, so I figured I looked androgynous enough in jeans and a black tshirt that I could get away with using the men's room.

The whispers started immediately after I made it to a stall. "Whoah, did you see that? There's a girl in here!"

Now, by your definition I was using the restroom appropriate to my physical gender (since you seem fixated on genitals or genes or something). I'm also a tiny 5'5" thing and transitioned a decade ago in my teens (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cfx0a8fUAAAfsoW.jpg). These men were twice my size, and I was mortified and a little scared.

I did my business and got the hell out. It was a lovely day at the beach other than that.

Anyways, if I lived in NC, I have no idea where I would actually use a restroom if I was out in public. Is that not insane? Why should a bunch of conservative men be able to pass a law and restrict a basic bodily function that we all need to deal with? I'd be stuck having to find gender neutral bathrooms where I could.
Americans and Their Myths by Jean-Paul Sartre (1947)
People make mistakes. The customer support person was probably just trying to be helpful and not fully aware of all the ramifications. This is unfortunate but presumably there has been some retraining.

Note: I have no direct or indirect relationship with Namecheap at all.
Rolls-Royce Reveals Latest Vision for Drone Ships: “This Is Happening”
...in the US
Sadly closed source.
Let's Encrypt might be one of the most important initiatives for a secure web. I applaud all their great work.

The fact that they have chosen to reduce certificate lifetime in order to encourage automation is a really big win for the security of the web as a whole.
Of course. How else could someone understand anything except within the context of their worldview? Adopting a fully alien perspective requires deep immersion, which only few people have time for, and even they can't do t for all perspectives.
About NCPI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Payments_Corporation_...
Amazon has the resources to go through intensive identity verification processes. And so do banks.

Most tech companies (especially startups) don't.
I'm not quite sure what you mean. I certainly have fears, anxieties, and assumptions that build up in my mind that prevent me from taking the best care of myself as I can. I would be surprised if I were unique in this.
Can someone clarify something for me please:

"1.7 million certificates for more than 3.8 million websites"

How is this possible if they (AFAIK) don't issue wildcard?
Cool, deep perspective on software design (“physics of software”) [pdf]
From one debate on bc-talk: "I'll point out that I've met someone who wanted to post on bc-talk but didn't just because they were uncomfortable with the whole underwear color thing. Also, I haven't been doing it when I post because it seemed weird to me." So at least 2.
For the available positions, it'd probably be better job experience than anything else.
They do do SAN.
You've lived a good life, mate.
If it can be solved beautifully, it would be cash cow. like the others mentioned, translating UDF (user defined function) would be a challenge. also in bank, it usually load quant library xll. It would be impossible to host quant library as service. nowaday i see bank just use spreadsheet as front end. a lot of logic are wrapped in code and fully tested somewhere else
Isn't it as simple as: You only need a semi colon if the next line starts with "[" or "(" ?
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Are Semicolons Necessary in JavaScript?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsfbh17Ax9I
This is the part that is utterly indefensible:

"After the CT scan, a CBP [Customs and Border Protection] agent presented Ms. Doe with a choice: she could either sign a medical consent form, despite the fact that she had not consented, in which case CBP would pay for the cost of the searches; or if she refused to sign the consent form, she would be billed for the cost of the searches. She refused."

And the medial center duly billed her more than $5,000.00.
Singapore is such an impressive city-state, but it always struck me as the political equivalent of that guy we all know, who went to a top school and became a highly performant professional but never subjected himself to a serious self-examination of his ultimate purpose in life. Singapore is a stunningly efficient country, but towards what end? Governments and cities should exist for people, not the other way around. I do still admire Singapore, and very much hope to visit some day. Great article.
Incidents like this remind me of Blizzard's policies vis-a-vie their 2-factor auth system.

I don't know if it's changed since this happened, but in the early-ish days my friend's phone broke and he lost his ability to generate 2FA codes. Blizzard was happy to remove his 2FA once he had made a photocopy of at least one (maybe two?) forms of ID and (I think?) some evidence he owned the credit card paying for the account. Once he mailed that in to Blizzard hq, some human confirmed the info and they removed the 2FA. If Blizzard can do that, and they're protecting MMO characters, certainly other providers can do so as well (maybe for an increased fee as I realize it's more expensive than online chat).

IIRC, people hacking into Blizzard games resorted to compromising users' computers and capturing the 2FA codes in flight - then logging in and changing the credentials before the user could react. That's a much higher bar to clear than the one here.
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We could also just start flipping coins. Probably nearly as effective and far cheaper.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-01-06/news/ct-met-ca...
Whiskey is usually the fifth.
Isn't the cache going to be in the 100GB/s range? Why would we even have a cache if memory speed wasn't a bottleneck.
All kinds of potentially dangerous technology is safe and regulated in practice. Broad categories: aviation, medicine, automotive, electrical power, ...

Speaking of the latter, no matter how you generate electricity, the electricity itself is dangerous; if that isn't made safe and regulated, you have problems. Explosions, fires, electrocutions.
This has been one of the prominent use case of IPython from the start (now refactored into a language agnostic web based backend: Jupyter).
OpenDomain -

We have apologized, admitted mistakes, and made tremendous internal change to move on for the better. We would not do that or even post here if we didn't care.
But they can. They can also have their license suspended.

Software Engineer on the other hand, is just a label that doesn't mean anything. AFAIK, no jurisdictions license Software Engineers. Unlike law, there's no punishment for working as a software engineer (although there are some jurisdictions where the title "Engineer" is regulated).
Did you make it through to the part of the article where he says "my biggest personal lesson is to make off-host backups"? Not sure why you're making this post.
(Assuming here a very successful project.) It's simple - people will want scripting. That's where it will start. Once you have scripting, mods will come - useful things like integration plugins for languages, for instance. Then you will need parameter and configuration system, for things like keyboard shortcuts and themes. Then will come its own packaging system for those mods. Eventually, it will evolve into a complete ecosystem on its own. It happened with every bigger IDE out there, and they are much less hackable than this purports to be. All this is just a consequence of making system hackable.
"Charitable" foundation. Aka IKEA R&D department and funds bunker.
The T420 isn't listed as officially supporting W10 by lenovo. When I installed Windows 10 on mine the wifi would go out after it woke from sleep.

https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/ht103535#thinkpad
Ah! Didn't think of that. Thank you.
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Sounds like what you get if you ran HTML5+CSS+JS as a desktop...
Dude, you left her at the Hotel California so you could escape?

I can see the conversation now in that Hotel in Santa Barbara:

Clerk: Sorry. You can never leave.

You: Can't you take the blond?

Clerk: Only if you buy her a one piece.

You: Which piece? She already has two.

Clerk: A one piece, it's the style around here.

You: Ok ok...

Apropos of nothing,
another song about the music industry sucking is Man of Constant Sorrow by the Soggy Bottom Boys.

Edit: The people modding you down are just jealous.
I have a few bank accounts with banks that don't have branches. To "verify" your Id they ask you questions from your credit report - which can be problematic. "What was the payment and term on a loan you had 5 years ago?" Fuck if I ever knew what the payment or term was, I didn't care when I took out the loan, I had my own payment schedule (I think if you can't pay back a loan [with the exception of a mortgage] in a year or two you really can't afford the loan...). Some of the stuff I just plain can't remember!

The best was when they asked me which model of car I had owned... and listed two cars that I had owned... I could only select one.

These records can be flat out wrong too. The DMV associates a car with my address that I don't own, for example. I think this happened because the owner never changed their address with the DMV. Or someone could have just fat fingered something which gets populated to other databases with data sharing.
The 2016 Transit of Mercury
Yes, I agree. It can. Just like film can encourage aggressive behavior. Or video games or music or fashion or art literally anything.

But to act like none of those can equivalently be used for good is pretty unfair.
DataStax layers graph database on top of Cassandra engine
Housing, Education and Health Care are all insanely unaffordable for the middle class. Eventually the home equity of their parents that has been floating the millennial generation will run out and what happens then?
Well I read the reply :

"we offer service X"

could be from anybody trying to say they offer the service, not obvious at all it is a representative of Namecheap
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It's all in the title, folks.
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Thanks for edit2 :) I see us having used the word "mistake" many times here! But yes, we apologize that this happened as well.
Many Lives in Many Worlds
Reminder to the LE site maintainer folks:

http://i.imgur.com/jvp6a8M.png

Open Sans does not render very well on some platform combinations.

Edit: I should say your specific version of Open Sans. Your 14272-byte version of OpenSans-Regular.woff renders like this, whereas other sites' 21956-byte version renders fine.
That's what I've thought all along. Artists think they can be artists and make money without learning business. As your parent mentioned with someone like Grimes, I think we're starting to see this change.
For every site that does this, I have a blob of text in my password manager where I write down

Q: what was your childhood best friend's last name?
A: pathway-titian-slowly-quiver-kodiak-hue

etc., even for fact-based things like "what city were you born in?" or "what street did you live on in 1995?".
Badlock patch released today
>your true Scotsman.

I don't think "OOP" is an unreachable shared understanding such as the "No True Scotsman" applied to debated concepts like "communism".

Despite the different vocabulary and emphasis of Alan Kay (Smalltalk) and Joe Armstrong (Erlang) about OOP, there is still a commonality of understanding there. The OOP concepts expressed in Objective-C, Borland Delphi, and other GUI toolkits share that understanding of encapsulated state with message passing (methods) via a coherent "public interface".

The author was not arguing against that "shared understanding" of correct OOP. Instead, he highlighted bad coding practices (albeit very common ones), then labeled it as "traditional OOP".

Yes, there is a ton of misunderstood and misapplied programming practices that others label as "OOP". That's the fault of the people doing the mislabeling and not the fault of OOP.
I view that more as a risk of using mutable state, not OOP. Regardless, I'd rather have the mutable state contained in as limited a scope as possible.
I had something along those lines tryin to log in to mojang on a new computer. "We've not seen you log into this pc before (although I had on that IP), please answer these three security questions. Of course I don't remember so I just reset them. I imagine the new answers and the old answers had a lot in common - they were composed primarily of expletives.
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As much as I want to agree with you nostalgia wise on the "real circuits and valves" thing, pretty much every industry magazine interview I've read with the top teir of guitarists basically say that "real amps" are for in the studio and when going on the road just use the Kemper[1] and nobody will be able to tell the difference. Honestly I would buy one of those in a heartbeat if I had the income/need/ability to write it off as a business expense.

[1] A Kemper review from 2012 - http://www.musicradar.com/reviews/guitars/kemper-profiling-a...

>This is the context in which the Kemper truly excels and it proves possible to create amp profiles that are good enough to fool three sets of very experienced ears during our testing process. At one stage, we even find ourselves unplugging the reference amplifier just to make sure that it's definitely the Kemper that we're hearing and there isn't some elaborate hoax taking place!
I really hope Ethereum takes off. I think this will go a long way of cutting out the middle men between the customer and "content maker". I even hear all the code that runs on Ethereum is open source which makes it even more transparent/turstworthy. Its the cure to capitalism ! hopefully

See http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/imogen-heap-shows-how-music-smart-c...
Getting MS-DOS games to run on Windows 95: The interrupt flag
This has to have been written by somebody who only knows of Steve Miller's admittedly bland hits in the middle 70s. He put out 5 remarkably good albums in the late 60s that sold, well, lukewarm at best. It's hard to blame him for realizing that the great stuff he'd been doing wasn't making his retirement secure. Even in coming out with a string of bland big sellers like he did took a degree of talent that most can't even imagine.
>>Its a way of forcing people to report crashes when they otherwise wouldn't.

They already automatically collect crash logs in win 7,8, 10. Don't think it can be turned off in 10 though

In my opinion, it's simply change for change sake.
That tweet espouses way more stereotypes than it's supposed to mock.
This is one of the reasons I will (most likely) never visit the USA.
I assume "Leaving Beta" means their service as a whole is leaving beta, even though their Github client is still Beta?

From https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt:

"The Let's Encrypt Client is BETA SOFTWARE. It contains plenty of bugs and rough edges, and should be tested thoroughly in staging environments before use on production systems."

And NGINX support is still labeled "highly experimental".

Not complaining though; these things take time. Thank you for bringing free encryption to the masses, Let's Encrypt!
It does not appear that you are wondering.
It appears that you are making assertions, while using the word 'wonder'.
I just use the driver supplied via Windows Update. It works out of the box but there is also a driver update available if you manually upgrade the driver from device manager.

Card is Intel Ultimate-N 6300 AGN
Driver is 15.18.0.1 Date 30/04/2015

The only drivers I had to install were for the SD card reader (Ricoh) and an update for Audio from Lenovo as it is a later version than from Windows Update for some reason.
Huh. I'm going to say thanks to HN, and this comment chain, for bringing this to light. That seems kind of insane.
Shit hit the X11 fan as the DEs adopted OpenGL as an UI accelerator, effectively bypassing X for most tasks.

CADT at work yet again it seems, as it the code could iterate faster if they were not bound by having the OGL traffic go through the X infrastructure.

From there is has been a hop skip to Wayland, where X is seen as a slowly withering appendage.
I'm exactly the contrary : I "shipped"* about 50 projects in 6 years but maybe half a dozen are really used.

* admittedly they're small programs, not the size of a MMO.
I top my 5,000 IU of vitamin D with 5 g of Omega 3, daily. There are many supplements with questionable benefits, but from all the research I have done, those two have a significant impact on one's health.