skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And it's of course important to consider the "worst case" implementation of laws. If a law is written to allow the government to do $bad_thing and their defense is "Don't worry, that won't happen," it should be cause for alarm.

It doesn't take long to go from "These are emergency measures for use in extraordinary terrorism cases" to "Drug dealers are the terrorists in our cities" to "The children of this neighborhood are being terrorized by drivers going 30 in a 25."

All of that to say, if a law is supposed to have a narrower effect than what the EFF is warning about, it'd be better to have the law written more narrowly.
OpenBSD 5.9
Sure, because it's obviously better to use closed, proprietary hardware from a single source than one that's not just open to global competition but lets you build PCs yourself....
You have your arguments swapped. 30 bits for 8^10, 26.6 for 10^8.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=log2(10%5E8)
In Italy the government helped itself to current accounts with overnight decrees "in times of crisis", even more than once.
The British which colonized many West African countries did something worse than quenching the independence movement in Nigeria.

From History books I've read and talks with the older guys, the British pursued a divide and conquer approach to keep the country dependent for a long time.

The Western part of Nigeria had the highest rate of education (still does). The Easterners were more interested in business than in school or politics. And the Northerners had the worst education rates, procreated regardless of resources to take care of the children but were very obedient.

So the British pushed for them to enter the military. And they did enmasse. Till date, the military training facilities still exist only in the northern states.

The string of coups, looting and stupid policies that dragged the country down were done mainly by the Northern born heads of states e.g. Buhari, Abacha, IBB. They are interesting reads btw.

"Together we stand, divided we fall" I believe is a lesson these countries need to internalize FIRST, before any meaningful progress can be achieved. And this bonding is easy to achieve.

"Nothing bonds like having a common enemy." - Blair Warren.

US presidents have always done a good job of providing a clear enemy. For their founding, the enemies changed at different times. From the Indians, to the black slaves, and finally to the British.

Later, it was communism. The time when the USSR was the enemy resulted in a lot of innovations and development (internet, satellite launch, moon landing...) for the country.
Consumer ISPs are not a free market, they're a collection of regional monopolies. The solution is not regulation, it's increasing competition. If every consumer had a choice of 5 or more competitive ISPs, then the market would sort this out. ISPs could literally advertise "We won't slow down your favourite websites! All websites equally fast!"
I would like Apple to fix search before they start asking devs to pay for placement. For such a simple data set, their search features are completely non-existent. Search terms look to need to be pretty close to exact, the search results are artificially limited by some mechanism, no ability to search multiple terms, no ability to create custom lists, no ability to filter based on more than their two or three meaningless filters, etc.

I suspect that after nearly a decade of no meaningful enhancements, this is done by design and helps push specific apps up the list in some manner.

Adding paid search capabilities helps no one except Apple and large development companies that can now blow through their marketing budget even quicker. Great for them not so great for Jane Doe's app which suffers under this type of oppressive change.
So basically your comment is a "holier than thou" critique of Jewish Kashrut laws, which concludes with you complaining about others having "holier than thou" attitudes.

And ironically you've posted on a Friday evening when the religious amongst the community you're criticising are not available to provide counterpoint.
Apple seems destined to repeat their previous mistakes.

They had a big lead in with Apps, but now their phone market share must be approaching their desktop market share.

They owned the app store, but then they did such a lousy job: no paid upgrades, very poor policing of fake reviews.
This sort of thing helps explain projects like the Google Video Quality Report ( https://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/ ) or the Netflix ISP Speed Index ( https://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/ ). They could be viewed as attempts to shift the public perspective from saying "Netflix is slow" to "my ISP is bad at Netflix."
Thanks for the wonderful explanation. My question is How? How does the bill allow a Consumer ISP to be paid by a Website owner? Can someone provide some text from the bill or at least a summary of how the bill is drawing the line from Websites to Consumer ISP? I don't see how FCC regulations however obscure or convoluted they may be adds a new money flow requirement.

To be clear I am not disagreeing with the explanation but rather asking for help in understanding the leap from "this looks as though it just prevents the FCC from setting price floors and price ceilings" to "The problem is that this arrangement would have businesses paying money to ISPs that they didn't choose, and can't walk away from."
I like the post, and the ambitious GitHub repo with a single README made me smile. We're re-discussing an existing idea to see if maybe something sticks or clicks. An idea might be the same, but circumstances change.

That said, I agree with a lot of the comments here. Like coding, let's see if we already have a library that does what we want before writing it (again). A good question is, what's the most pressing problem we face, and how does this solve it?

I don't have a problem using Twitter or Facebook to, let's say, organize a grassroots movement or lead a protest, but I ought to be concerned about the viability of these platforms for such activities when they're unpopular with the company or government behind it. How might we solve this? Maybe this project leads to some solution...?
I don't know, really. I'm not the most pro-Mozilla person around, but if there's no proof... Not even the name of an employee... I can't believe it, sorry.
> don't Russian based companies run the risk of being locked out of the larger and more influential US market?

Of course, and in fact it has happened a few times, e.g. see [1]. But Russian based companies tend to be aware of the possibility and plan accordingly. OP's audience is Silicon Valley startups trying to enter foreign markets for the first time, and for them the idea might be rather unfamiliar.

[1] http://insidehpc.com/2014/01/us-lifts-trade-ban-russian-supe...
id software followed up with lots. quake and enemy territory were amazing.

we played hours and hours every week of enemy territory in the office in 2007-2009

... on Linux (and the occasional Windows and Mac in the same server) no less!
That's horrifying.
Well, this (particularly the fines for non-compliance) should be an interesting clash with the EU-US data sharing mess.

::grabs popcorn::
> Centralized planning worked for the Insterstate Highway System [1], which was considered successful.

Well and it seems to be working as part of any sufficiently large company.
Justin Trudeau’s Government Introduces Assisted Suicide Bill in Canada
Annnnnd I'm locked out of adding this because I couldn't answer my security questions that I definitely never set up (I know this because I never use real information but random words that I save in 1Password if I am forced to make these.) So now I can't add 2 factor to a device that is and has been signed into my iCloud account for months.

Neat.
Here's an article from the same author that presents a different view: http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-usafs-rationale-for-ret...

I'm no military expert, but it's fairly convincing.
I'll probably do it on Github and post it here.
My supposition is that it forced the OP to actually eat better quality, and possibly also less portion size, food. It would also tend to reduce eating overly complex foods as it would be more difficult to ensure that EACH ingredient was kosher.
"Every toddler has a right to bear arms"

No toddler has a right to bear arms in the United States. I hope you were being facetious, otherwise you're grossly misinformed.
Voip numbers that have emergency dialing access should be required to get that information. In fact, they are, so you'll note the article mentions a loophole of calling a non emergency number, then asking to be transferred to emergency services.

I don't know how harmful closing that loophole would be for legitimate calls. Can police track how many legit calls were transferred from non-emergency calls, and came from numbers without emergency calling capabilities? Knowing whether that number is negligible or not is important.
The question is why it's necessary to have highly militarized police who respond with overwhelming force at the drop of a hat. Oh wait, that's right, the War on Drugs.
Does this fallacy have a name?

How can they presume that there wouldn't have been better tasting food without the kosher law?
Is it live? I checked both of my up-to-date macbook air and iphone, and there is no mention of this new "Two-factor authentication" in the settings. In fact, there is the "two-step verification" turned on already in the settings, which I assume is the old way.

Anybody seeing it in there devices?
Once upon a time, Americans didn't care about violating European (largely British) copyright. I expect at some point, the Chinese will start moving to protect the "originality" of their near copies which will get more legitimately original over time.
Just a heads up: Jupyter Notebook is not an open source alternative to Mathematica. Originally, Jupyter was iPython notebook, an IDE of sorts for data science and analysis in Python, by writing code and markdown together in a more coherent and integrated way. Then they incorporated a host of other popular open source languages for computational science such as R, Julia, F#, ect., so that we could use the best tools for their task, all in one document.
Drug prices to soar nearly 50% over next few years
TempleOS Unified Document Format – DolDoc
> Well, how come the teams that are already fully in Romania not out-competing Silicon Valley?

Recent-History is littered with American companies acquiring European tech companies that out-compete Silicon Valley for : Skype and MySQL come to mind.
Don't worry, cheetohs are Kosher.
They will be led to believe these rights exist when there's sufficient Chinese artistic IP that people from abroad want to use.
His beliefs may or may not conform to reality. I don't find it worthwhile to prejudge the cases based on my read of someone's actions. He's not required to act in a rational manner and the less rational a plaintiff's behavior, the more outlandish the claims may be (see also: Paul Ceglia).

So I'm going to stick with no opinion either way and wait for the hard evidence, rather than trying to read the behavior of people I don't know, who may or may not conform to my ideas of rational behavior, which is something we've yet to establish.

This is very important given that flat-out crazy parties (see also: SCO) have tied up the courts for, well, decades based on stuff and nonsense (and mostly the latter). As I can't prove whether plaintiff or defendant are rational until I see evidence, we're stuck with "stay neutral until you get the facts."

I've read plenty of cases and I've yet to see a case where prejudging the parties was a good idea. Contrarily, I've seen plenty of people get excited about nonsense that was laughed out of court later.

So no, there just isn't a good reason to rush to judgement on this or any other case. Whether the plaintiff or defendant is right is something we should wait to decide later, once we have a more complete set of facts.
This project - Swadeshi - it's an idealistic and foolish idea. Which is why I'm interested in seeing where it goes. I generally make pessimistic assumptions, and I'm assuming this project will go no where. But we still need audacious ideas. Even if the concept itself doesn't succeed, the project may create and disseminate related ideas and technologies that could be transformative - a successful failure.

What follows are a few blockers, or possible failure modes for Swadeshi. The biggest potential issues are not with the technology, but with the ecosystem it has to live in.

Network Size - Facebook, Twitter, et al. have the great advantage of having huge numbers of users. To use an alternative requires not only that I adopt the alternative, but that that I convince some significant part of my friends/family/society to use the same.

It's like Bitcoin - Bitcoin is not that difficult to use, and has a number of features missing from traditional currencies. But the great potential utility of Bitcoin comes from having nearly everyone use it. Currencies, like social networks, require large numbers of users to be widely useful.

One important exception is for users who can't or won't participate in "normal" currencies or networks. Which is why Bitcoin became the de-facto currency the Silk Road and other black markets. And why, initially, Swadeshi will most likely be used by those groups who can't openly participate the normal social networks - child pornographers, white nationalists, islamic fundamentalists, freedom fighters, revolutionary groups, etc.

The danger here is that "stink" or "danger" of these out-groups will be associated with the project in popular consciousness. The network may be de-centralized, but people still think hierarchically. Swadeshi could easily become "the kid-toucher's social network" much like "Bitcoin is the Sewer Rat of Currencies"

Capture - Swadeshi is de-centralized, so there's no single entity controlling the state of the network. But that doesn't rule out capture. Look again at Bitcoin. The idea was to create a virtual currency (which it did). But it was quickly captured by speculators to the point of crippling the network. Control and capture are two different things, and solving for one doesn't preclude the other.

Facebook can still win - Suppose the Swadeshi project gains millions of active users. That's real momentum for a Facebook replacement. But Facebook can still win by embracing and extending the technology behind Swadeshi. Facebook could be all-Swadeshi under the hood, but present the familiar FB interface, with their value-adds of Photos, Groups, Pages, etc. Moderation could be FB's major advantage. If Swadeshi is the wild-west of social networks, FB could bolt on their anti-spam and abuse reporting mechanisms to tame the unruly bits.
>My personal theory that the path to becoming one of these 'red pill' people goes like this:
-Naturally unsuccessful with women, because of personality / looks / etc.

Funny, because my personal theory about how some men become feminists starts much the same way; they actually consider it an "in" to get women.
>You can't kill every bill just because something is poorly worded

Why not? Why should we ever be OK with passing poorly thought out legislation?
A lot of suburbs shouldn't exist, and aren't willing to pay to take of even the basics. It's a ticking time bomb.
It's not just because gift giving is an accepted practice in China. It's because they are very flexible.

They are VERY willing to offer you a service at any price range you want. American businesses in particular are not so flexible on price and standard.

One popular way of stealing funds is awarding of road contrasts. The German company Julius Berger makes solid roads that lasts for at least a decade.

Typically, or rationally, Berger should win every road contract. However, the officials do not want a road that would last for ten years because it'll cut their lucrative source of income.
Templatizing/de-templatizing enough code to see a difference would be a significant effort on any non-trivial code base. But I'll spare you the trouble: instantiating a template is less work than parsing a duplicated file. Some of the early C++ compilers had problems but it hasn't been an issue in 20+ years. If you look at both the G++ and Clang test suites you'll see they verify performance, memory usage and correctness with complicated templates by doing basically this exercise for you.
You have to turn off two-step verification first.
Amazing that people paid over $14 million in royalties to sing Happy Birthday; wow, utter madness!!
Apple's app store is crowded in the sense that developers, in total, have spent far more worth of development hours building stuff for the app store than the app store generates in revenue.

That is why only very few make money, most make nothing, nearly all make less than their cost of development and advertisement.

Apple now appearantly plans to ask developers to pay for search position, in addition to what they already are paying for advertisement and development.

This will only make the problem worse.
> A good developer in Eastern Europe now costs $1000-$1500 a month

I haven't found this to be true, at least when trying to build an international "work from home team".

I've found most estimates for the cost of skilled labor in other countries to be low. Example: For software developers in South America, a good rule of thumb is you need to pay at least half of what you would pay in the US.

I have some people who do marketing for me in the Philippines. They need to be getting about a third of what a US person would be getting.

In both scenarios, you will be able to find people for a lot less, but you will have issues with quality and reliability. This is because even though the job market might suck in their country. You are still dealing with people who are trying to live a comfortable life. In order to get first world productivity, there is a base level of first world comfort that the employer needs to provide (food, air conditioning, health insurance, internet, computer equipment, car, social status, etc...)

Another factor to consider is that as you approach the upper echelons of play, pay rates start to converge at an international level - regardless of where the person actually lives (not a full convergence).
I had to turn two-step off in order to enable two-factor
Chetohs and Oreos are Kosher. Not sure I suggest that diet.
LKY was smarter, less confrontational, more pragmatic, and ruled over a city-state -- not over a huge country.
I think the current name is superior to all of the choices proposed.
Right now, the FCC is actively preventing ISPs from making the threats they need to make to get money this way. This bill would remove the FCC's authority to do that.
A lot of it went into the kernel for Windows XP. It took until Windows 7 to clean up the mess inside.
That was just one striking on the ground account, the recounter didn't seem 'racist.'

You can find plenty of other info from more respectable sources. Albeit more staid in presentation.

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2015-12-09-the-da...
Being a victim is different than playing the victim card. It's hard for a victim to get out of bed and do things but isn't impossible. Sometimes it's hard to tell whether she has legitimate reasons or not and other times its clear as day she's taking advantage. One thing I like about the red pill and also happens to coincide with stoic philosophy is that you call things what they are rather than what society tells you they are
One solution [0]: Password Protected URL Shortener http://thinfi.com/

[0] - at the cost of usability
Same thing happened to me. They said I had to wait like a week or something. Kinda dumb
Lenovo x1 carbon
Because laws are not rigid computer programs that solve logic riddles. They are broad strokes designed for the long term, to be interpreted by Judges.

ANY contract can be read at least three ways. One of the comments here discusses advocacy vs scaremongering and computer science people seem particularly prone to having their buttons pushed by sloppy legalese. I wish the real world were clearer, but it just isn't.

There's no excuse for poorly-thought out legislation -- but that's why we elect representatives. You can't rally the minions every time there's sloppy bricklaying. It does not scale. And as a citizen, you need to know when to spend your limited supply of outrage.
Both part of "Gnome Office" along with a few other applications as native GTK+ office applications. Though I guess it's probably be more of a collection than a well connected suite like MS Office, LibreOffice or even whatever KOffice is called these days.
That really just means that both houses had too low of a listing price.
If maybe they could have access to your explanation...
It's fun to play with code and try out new ideas in such a rich interactive environment. When you want to get the work done in production scenario, the shortcomings of unable to use version control and the overhead of interactive environment just kill it.

What works is that you get a subset of your data and try to develop some code to process it and generate a handful of graphs. You can then save the code in its true text form and edit with your favorite editor, and run it on your real data.
Speed aside, it's nice to leave the world of moving parts.
Genuinely don't understand how the medical systems in place throughout Europe are also socialized but so much more stable than ours. Is their quality of care lower? Fewer patient needs being met? Relative spending higher? It looks like Americans are moving towards socializing medicine more and more yet the further we move towards it, it seems like efficiency is only getting worse.
What I really mean is morally good. Call me naive but I think the majority of employees at Mozilla do want to make the world a better place. Mozilla doesn't sell your data or undermine your privacy unlike its main competitors. It doesn't want to lock you into their ecosystem and hold you or your data prisoner. They have a core mission to bring people access to the web and not have it controlled by a few select companies. I think they're fighting the good fight.

I disagree about power users to a small extent. Rust has to be one of the best things Mozilla has ever been involved in. Servo looks really promising. e10s has actually worked out and Web Extensions will finally make addons secure. It's not an easy path or transition. Constantly modernising such an old codebase is a huge challenge I don't envy. I think the criticism levelled at Mozilla is too harsh some times. They've taken risks and sometimes it doesn;t always work out, like FirefoxOS phones.
If I remember correctly, food can't be kosher if prepared by gentiles (non-jews).

Could someone with proper knowledge confirm this?
They can go up a miniscule amount, 2%. So not exactly forever, but relatively close
The problem is Congress and the FCC bear just as much culpability for the anti-competitive telecom markets as the state governments.

It's naive to think that a group that created these monopolies have any interest in the sort of deregulation that would actually encourage competition, and in particular would allow the success of new telecoms/ISPs.
Yep, that's the first sentence in the article :)
Neil Gaiman Adapting Good Omens for TV, Due to Posthumous Terry Pratchett Letter
However, even if there was more competition, ISPs would still potentially be able to demand money from less prominent services that consumers are unlikely to switch ISPs to use, and exempt their own services from data caps.
I assume you're not speaking about judaism right now — because the point of kosher slaughter is exactly in avoiding unnecessary suffering and rendering the animal unconscious instantly.