skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not so fast. Businesses come in all shapes and sizes. Lots of businesses consist of a single person or just a few people or all family members.

It isn't clear at all that the government should prevent an independent contractor from deciding who they want to work with.

Your comment, as written, is an example of a trivial dismissal of a legitimate concern regarding freedom of association and contract. There are indeed attempts to force small businesses to conform. This one: http://aclu-co.org/court-rules-bakery-illegally-discriminate... comes to mind.
It seems pretty dickish to blame the slave because they could have chosen to be killed instead. That's the kind of justification tyrants tell to themselves in those rare instances where their concious tingles. "It's their fault for being oppressed, they are a bunch of weak sheep, if they were real men they would have chosen to be tortured to death instead."
This code seems to rely on IP ranges and whois lookups, which won't work if you're running on a network / VPC that has no internet access

Some clouds provide a metadata api accessible via a link-local address. These are accessibly regardless of what network your instance is in.

AWS Metadata API: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-insta...

GCE Metadata API: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/metadata

Azure Metadata API: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/what-just-happened-to...

This library only appears to support detecting AWS/GCE/Azure, so perhaps trying URLs in each metadata API with no / minimal timeout is a more robust way of accomplishing this instead of relying on whois, and could provide the same functionality as is currently supported in the library.

The downside of this approach is that maybe some clouds/VPS's don't have metadata APIs accessible in this manner. Maybe this doesn't work for some more obscure services, if you want to be super comprehensive.
I highly doubt it, based off the people I know who work there at the ground level.
Trucks and heavy machinery are have a later target (2030 if I remember correctly). The 2025 goal applies to cars for private use and public transportation (Oslo, the capitol, plans to have zero-emission busses by 2020).
It's much more common for Norwegian and Danish to share a sentence, and Swedish to have its own.

You can see this labelling on many products sold in Europe, like cosmetics, processed foods, and some electronics.
So... in practical terms, what's the simplest way for me to get an account on an XMPP server that supports all these modern XEPs? I could maintain my own XMPP server, but I'd really rather not. Life is short, etc. Is there a reasonably-trustworthy company that I can just pay to use their XMPP server? I gather FastMail used to support this, but no longer does.
As someone who deals with spam in an even more difficult situation, that being a forum where anyone can post just by accessing it in a browser with no account needed or even possible: Often nicer ways are not usefully scalable or even feasible.

I get a lot of child porn link spam and am currently looking into OCR software to identify images spam bots post, because the spammers have been hard at work at circumventing any other measure i put in place. With that kind of thing being "spam", i can't be nice about it. I need to be zero-tolerance on any detection, even if it may be a false positive.

As for why it's not reviewed by a human: That may not scale. My forum is rather small, 30000 unique visitors per month, but even so, with a team of three people, there is simply no way to look at everything identified as spam. And going by the contacts we get from users about false positives, even if i assume 10 times as many things are false positive than people ask us about, we're still below 1%.

Also, at a wild guess: With an account as big as yours, maybe you just went past a total size limit for all the repos in your account, looking like a bot trying to treat github like a storage system.

Lastly, something meant to be friendly advice: I understand that you're a little upset, but going to the effort of writing such a big blog post, and using that strong language for something that did no actual damage is over the top. This may not be part of your daily dealings, but before you attack github over this, i invite you to try and spend some time to think about how you could write bots to abuse github, which is pretty much a publicly writable storage system, and how you would counteract such abuse.
Ordinarily, you would find agreement with me. But it's instructive to note that both Andrea and Meredith have been firmly opposed to social justice mobs on every other issue prior to this. I would consider their claims with some additional weight, in light of this.
That's a great theory in principle, but your own comment reveals reality is more complicated. Pedophilia doesn't inherently hurt anyone by itself, and making it illegal doesn't make it go away.

And most people do believe that homosexuality causes a net harm to society (probably falsely, but still.) Or that marijuana is a net harm, etc.

And even if we establish what does and doesn't have externalities, the idea that they should be legal isn't universally agreed on, obviously. I mean heroin addiction causes a lot of harm and is probably a net negative utility to users. Even if it's voluntary, the world would probably be better off without it.
I dunno, I think if there were more doctors more of them would end up working outside of hospitals.

It's certainly the case around here that doctors are moving under the hospital umbrella.

This means that providers have to make up the difference in their contracts with private insurers, which is why they can't tell you how much a particular procedure will cost you - they really don't know, because it has nothing to do with what it costs them.

Yes, this is an obnoxious tax. I don't think the hospitals are forced to keep their prices obscure though (see Massachusetts or Oklahoma), it just happens to be the best way for them to make revenue because if people could easily shop prices, they would. Another component of the problem are the many people who have a plan where they simply don't care about prices because they have a low out of pocket limit.
A lot of people only make 15-20k/year. It would do a lot for them.
I'm curious if you can point to leftists using weapons to threaten people.

Again, what I see from leftists is the desire to make a wide swath of speech (like casually sexist or racist stuff) unfashionable or unacceptable to use--and I see them using the only tool they have, which is their own speech. Not guns, not laws, but speech.
I agree, but doesn't that then lend support to the idea of a FOOM?
I work in GSA as well, and I have a lot of trouble getting software approved that you use all the time, even getting nginx approved took a long time. Forget about vagrant, virtual box, recent versions of python, etc...

How were you able to get ATOs to operate most of your systems and work through these policies?
I used the language professionally for 2.5 years and I have to agree with the parent comment. We weren't doing anything overly complex in Play and once in a while we would come across types that IDEA wouldn't inspect. Even worse, IDEA highlights a section of code as an error, even though it compiles fine with SBT.

SBT is fine if you're not doing anything complicated. But the moment we tried looking into building a plugin, even just to add a step in the asset compilation pipeline, it's a land of mystery. Instead of wasting time trying to decipher SBT plugins, we just used npm for our front-end assets.

I also found working with Java libraries to be overly frustrating. We generally ended up having to write Scala wrappers around Java libraries in order to give ourselves an idiomatic interface.

I will grant you that compilation time is usually exaggerated. Incremental compilation means you normally only wait a few seconds at a time. Now I do a lot of work in Haskell and find compilation significantly faster.
I've never understood why subsidies like this almost always come with income phaseouts. What's wrong with giving everyone a basic income? People who make a lot of money would more than repay it in taxes, and taxes would have to go up on higher earners, but that's not a real problem.
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It's just a protein. It evolved in bacteria and archaea to operate in those cells. There's no mechanism for it to exit the cell, or replicate, or evolve, or anything you'd need to get it to from one organism to another on its own.

I am glossing over the concept of gene drives, which is potentially worrisome, but as far as accidents go the risk is literally zero.
The first admendment also stops people pushing wrong/hateful/contemptible ideas from using the 'martyr' defence to get people on their side. By allowing them, you avoid the situation where people promoting said views say 'see, they must have some level of truth otherwise the government wouldn't be trying to censor me'.

Stops people with these types of views being seen as the underdog that's being oppressed for going against authority.
> For example, you have both an option types and `null`, and libraries being inconsistent in which they pick.

Which ones?
"briefly" and "minutes later" is generally smaller than half an hour.
Except they do even with `set -e`. Especially if you forget to/can't set `pipefail` (which is bash-specific).

Or consider the last example from the wiki link above:

set -e
f() { local var=$(somecommand that fails); }
f # will not exit
I didn't write the article and I am not for the so called UBI. I am very much against it. I am willing to be convinced otherwise, and the start of this article sounded not crazy to me, but I stopped at reading at some point because later remarks reflected enormous cognitive dissonance in the writer, suggesting they really haven't thought it through and full of baloney.
I think it's clear; if you're running a business, you shouldn't be allowed to turn would-be customers away and say "it's because you're black" or whatever. That's not good for society, to permit that kind of casual discrimination. We've been down that road, and things weren't getting better until laws started being passed.

I mean, come on, if you're such an asshole that you really, really need to discriminate against people for whatever reason, then say "sorry, we're booked up". Otherwise, make the stupid cake, whether the couple is gay, or mixed-race, or whatever. And if you can't do that, don't start your own business.
Specially like the wooden case and keyboard. Wish the schematics were a bit easier to read, though. :)
I think you are on to something. When you have hundreds of (front end) developers working on the same UI, refactoring becomes more of a people management problem then a programming problem. And something like React would help in such circumstances. So I can imagine how it would be useful for Facebook. But not the average small team or solo dev.
In addition to the mixed-gender pseudonyms, I think all the "Stories" have Applebaum's picture, rather than the person named. Which makes it hella confusing.

I'm not entirely sure I believe there's more than one person responsible for any of the content on the website.
While it is an interesting idea it is going to have to be crafted in such a way that politicians don't just treat it like tax law and start carving out exceptions.

another area people need to look into is changing the direction of though that has crept into society which that "you deserve this, that, and this, as its your right" and instead get back to the days where people were encouraged to strive to return more to society than society gave them.
that link is broken
Can you source that? It sounds really interesting, but Google turns up nothing
I worked with Scala at my job for 2.5 years. In brief, if you really want (or need) to be on the JVM, then use Scala. It's everything that Java should have been, and after you get comfortable in Scala, you will never want to write a line of Java again.

However I have to agree with many of the common criticisms. My last team had many WTF moments with the language. We also suffered from poor type inspection and IDE support, failed attempts at writing an SBT plugin, and slow compilation. Having access to Maven repos is great, but using Java libraries is often a frustrating experience where you end up having to write a whole wrapper library around the Java lib just to work with something idiomatic.

The language is a great stepping stone to bring hardcore Java devs into the world of FP, but honestly, if you don't need the JVM, I would rather be using Haskell.
You could have a special program for those who can be shown to be mentally incapable of managing their ubi. If you don't pass the test, but accidentally waste your ubi and have no other income, there can be a loan program to be repaid at reasonably high interest rates out of your future ubi
I don't believe a single second that Microsoft is adopting this hard line for security considerations. They want to monetize their users. They want them to watch their in-OS ads, they want to accumulate data on people, they want them to go to bing for search, etc.
The American definition of a "check" is extremely simplistic and notably does not define a list of things that exclude it from being valid.

It can say "sample" all over it or "not valid" and it's technically still a legal check.

Once in a while those "sample" checks issued by junk mailers actually work because the bank fails to check these things: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Playing-With-Money-How-a-...
Honestly, there isn't a big XMPP v. Matrix thing (or at least I wish there wasn't). A good example is on the Olm side of things, where the OMEMO guys are investigating whether there's value in using Olm as their double ratchet implementation: https://github.com/anurodhp/Monal/issues/9#issuecomment-2080... etc.
The argument you read incorrectly and misinterpreted.
While this is an extremely well known charachter attack vector most publicly probably used on Julian Assange, as noted by tptacek this just means there will be more scrutiny of the accusation. I am not familiar with his exact contributions to Tor, but I would suspect that they aren't extremely dangerous to U.S. interests nor is he well known enough outside the security community to have his charachter asassinated in a fabricated potentially damaging (to the agency) way.

I will assume he is innocent until proven guilty & it is possible or even probable he is innocent. However, given the degree this happens at companies it is totally possible this is simply a regular ambiguous he said she said which has happened in Gamergate, Tinder Github ect. Not that I mean to trivialize it, just to point out there is a large precedent for such things to occur naturally & given he worked with wikileaks it would probably be a dumb way to go about dissuading him, although it can't be ruled out until more info surfaces.
> The investment thesis, as presented by the article, is pretty much a truism.

I'll give you this much: what the article says about their 'thesis', in a single throwaway line having nothing to do with the rest of the (long) text, is a truism. Now let's apply the Principle of Charity again. What are the odds that that's because the founders were morons vs. that the article didn't go deeply enough into their investment thinking to say anything interesting about it?

> It seems to me that you're carrying one set of opinions about the subject

What opinions do you have in mind? The one I think I'm carrying is that HN comments shouldn't make uncharitable assumptions to set up caricatures, because that makes for lame, bilious discussion. That's not a small matter, because whatever discussion we have here, it's what we're likely to get more of.
And yes, if you are mentally capable but choose to waste your ubi, and can't repay the loan, we would let you starve. Same if you take your food stamps today and throw them in the river - we would let you starve
For some reason I feel like I have become some sort of FB defender, but I am not. Just to be clear, I am not a fan of FB. I even completely got rid of my FB account a year ago because I got sick of fake interactions on the site and have never looked back. I am happy with communicating with close people just via text and other special purpose communication apps.

That said, the reasons you mention are pretty edge cases. Instead of just hating on it, just stop and think about it for a moment without prejudice. When you email someone you don't expect them to read it immediately, but when you send a text you at least expect them to know they received something, no? (If you say no to this, I really have nothing else to say anymore, you would be just denying the reality) That's what Facebook wants to be. They're competing with SMS, not email.
You might not have been arguing that it was related to the government, but the two posts you were replying to sure did, so I assumed you were as well, apparently incorrectly.

If there's anything else I've misinterpreted, you're going to have to spell it out.
1) This is not a law or a planned ban. It's a mission statement. A target. You'd be hard pressed to find a government more opposed to bans than the one we have right now. Chances are they will increase tax on emissions to reach this target, but they could also do nothing and hope the market will sort it out on its own.

2) Political bans, taxation or subsidies creates incentives. This has a habit of bringing innovators and disruptors out of the woodwork.
What's the practical difference? And don't say it's because it only affects Opera traffic: you can configure a system-wide proxy, and you can VPN a single program.
Edit: After some thinking: Yes, i agree this is a dark pattern and MS needs to be held accountable to it accordingly. My only disagreement with the current direction of discourse is that people are not saying "MS manipulated me into an update", which is the truth, but "Windows updated on its own and there was nothing anyone could do", which isn't.

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They didn't change it, it was always that way. People only realized just now that it does that.

Also, please do take a look at the window people X out of and then are surprised about: http://i.imgur.com/aWFX0vc.png It states clearly that it is going to happen, and when it is going happen, and how to cancel it. The only way a user would be surprised about that is if they didn't read the message in the first place.
There's a 3.8% Obamacare surtax on investment income that adds onto the top bracket starting at $250K.
Two small nits about second part of this passage:

electrovibration — the rapid attraction and
repulsion of the skin to an insulated ground
plane (such as brushed aluminum)

- Metal in unibody MBPs is sandblasted [1] rather than brushed [2] to give it its texture;

- Neither sandblasting nor brushing aluminum gives it thick enough oxide layer (Al2O3), and it is that layer that makes actual insulation. Instead this layer is formed by the way of anodizing [3], complementary and separate process.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrasive_blasting

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushed_metal

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anodizing
I'm upper middle class, and I can already barely afford to live in this country. What we need isn't more taxes but a more judicious use of taxes that are already being levied. An effective and workable UBI scheme would replace all other forms of means-tested social support payments, foreign aid, and expenditures on meaningless warfare overseas. In such a perfect-world version of the United States UBI suddenly becomes feasible. One may only dream.
I've used Scala mainly for Apache Spark applications and do enjoy it.

Pros:

* The type system
* Being able to mix functional and OO design coherently
* Less verbose than Java
* Utilise existing Java libraries

Cons:

* Huge amount of syntax to learn
* Fragile and slow package managers
* sbt uses Ivy and so downloads package files in a single thread. In Australia this is horrible
* too slow for scripting due to JVM boot time
You can't call yourself an adult until you get a lawyer,
I agree that Apple is becoming hostile to its users. iOS has now a level of nagging for Apple services which is similar to the cheapest PCs full of crapware. Please us Apple music. Please use Apple Pay. Please use iCloud. etc. You have to click and confirm you don't want any of that shit pretty much at every OS update. And their "do you want to update now or do you want to update today" is also unacceptable.

I just don't see how that makes it OK for microsoft to do the same.
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Given some practice, you don't actually need that much time until you find it's rather ok.

But yes. Danish is probably the hardest to understand, and particularly speak properly, especially some dialects.

Some Norwegian dialects are quite hard too, but there are some rather incomprehensible dialects in Sweden as well.

The Danish queen speaks perfect Danish AND Swedish by the way, as her mother was Swedish. I think she is probably unique in that way, as you more or less have to change your whole personality to get rid of the Swedish accent when trying to speak Danish in a relaxed way :-)
Just to echo (again), Olm is indeed an independent C/C++ implementation of the double ratchet, and we've been avoiding the overloaded term 'axolotl'. Olm has recently added a group ratchet on top called Megolm which diverges significantly from the Signal protocol, as it's optimised for Matrix's specific use cases of (optionally) syncing and decrypting existing history onto new devices, which obviously comes at the expense of PFS.

In terms of study & scrutiny: Olm and Megolm is still alpha, we're even not using it in earnest in Matrix yet. Things are moving forward fast though, and we're getting a security audit booked in which should hopefully significantly improve our study & scrutiny quotient!

(moxie: did you see my mail? any interest in grabbing a beer next week?)
Forget Tesla. Stuff like this makes it interesting for other companies to join the competition. And competition is good.
You can't say no. It's like Windows 10 upgrade. Do you want to upgrade now or do you want to upgrade today. I don't call that leaving the option to say no.
> The main psychological barrier is that it takes surprisingly long to choose groceries online, almost as long as walking around the store.

Then again, the amount you can order online is a lot larger than what you can carry yourself.

I tend to order from wholesalers online, for amounts that would require a cab and a lot of carrying heavy stuff if I purchased that physically.
This has to be the only tech site where a suggestion to use Linux results in a down vote.