skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you (and Hume, but he has the weight of being a product of his time) don't understand is the reach of science, experience and empirical testing. Morality is a product of evolution, and by understanding it through science (in the broad sense) we have made incredible moral progress.

Nihilism is a problem that is not solved by postulating a god, doing so doesn't get you any further. It is useless. You don't get meaning from anything by adding a god to it.

I don't presume human healt to be an ultimate good, experience has shown that it is an ultimate good, or as ultimate as a goal can be. Of course health nihilism is also a thing, but is also not gonna get solved by postulating an invisible, undetectable agent, even if you call that agent god.

I have not chosen a camp. You have provided no evidence for your position, and even gotten as far as claiming you don't need it, how convenient, and have dismissed offhand every argument against it in this thread simply because you don't understand that the "is-ought" problem is not as complicated as you make it sound.

I don't dislike the conclusion of my position, I'm fine either way, ultimate objective morality to me is just as irrelevant as ultimate objective medicine. What you want is to ground morality to something so objective in a perfect sense, to which no other human developed idea has or can be.

Why you want so bad for morality to be grounded on a god, and one of the worst if not the worst as the christian god is beyond me.

What you need is evidence but you have none.
Glad hate speech does not get used as soon someone talks a bit to much out of the norm. Oh wait.
Edward Snowden Responds to Eric Holder
I worked at a company very briefly in the early aughts. I thought I was hired to be on the team that built the platform. But before we would do that we needed to have a list of beta users. So my job was writing bots that scoured forums and other social networks for contact information (emails, phone numbers, names, etc.)

It took me a week to realize what I was actually doing then another week to plan and execute my escape. The rest of the team were east european and did not give a fuck about what they were doing, it was good money to them.

They eventually did release a product with a few thousand users. Not long after, Facebook changed their signup strategy from schools to the general public and the rest is history.
having bases in countries that have more than sufficient GDP to protect themselves

As in Germany, the bases aren't there for the US to protect that country but the other way round: to ensure that country remains US-aligned.
There's one called Facebook Unseen that works well. It's a Chrome extension that gives you a toggle.
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QGIS, Open Source GIS and R
Facebook/Twitter/YouTube/Microsoft to censor hate speech within 24-hours
I don't memorize the specs in Apple products, so I actually have no idea what's under your laptop's hood.

I can tell you that my thinkpad is an i7 with 16GB of memory, so if it ran slow on my machine I'd blame the browser.

My point was that you spend just as many keystrokes to tell the reader it's a late 2015 model macbook pro as you would to type out "i5/8GB" or whatever, but the phrase "late 2015 macbook" means literally nothing to some readers.
Huxley/BNW

"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
> *edit: btw I can tell you stories about volume rendering non-voxel data from CG production if you want.

Yes!
The problem there, as i see it is twofold.

1. the screens were mounted upright. Notice how keyboard are nearly flat by comparison.

2. touchscreens thus far can't tell a finger resting from a finger pressing. So while a near flat screen avoids much of the gorilla arm issue, longer durations will put strain on the wrists.
This is true, literally, of every package manager that came before Nix and every one that will come after. It's fundamentally what a package manager is and does. This isn't the power of Nix -- it's table stakes.
In alternate world, where Tor is a dominantly used browser, How will hypothetical google works ? ( i.e. Autonomous content discovery ? )
I agree. "I hate you, you stupid [insert bad word]" whilst wrong, should be permitted.

"I hate you, you stupid [insert bad word] and I am going to come to your house and attack/kill/rape you" - get out the ban hammer.
I really think this quote is a bit unfair here. Especially in the startup scene, many companies have quite vague product descriptions. I've worked at a place where it took me 3 months to figure out what they were doing (nothing immoral BTW, just very complex/diverse products).
By "the actual product" you mean "a completely different OS written on a virtual machine that happens to also run on Plan 9", then yes. Inferno has 9P, it has a lot of the same good stuff as Plan 9, but there's a pretty big gulf between the two and fluency in one does not translate to fluency in the other.
Now I'm curious... How did they sell the change in focus to your team/company? What aspects about MLM did you find most surprising?
It's better to re-tool at 30 than 31, and better at 31 than 32, and better at 50 than never. A few years is nothing, maybe it's different where you are but in the US it's very common to become a nurse as a second career in your 30s.
In Utah County, by chance?
indeed!
But the question is ... can tax evasion be considered an ethical violation? :)
What CNN has learned from Facebook Messenger bots
The student debt indenture system is the same thing in the microcosm.
For an individual that makes sense. For a nation the cost/hassle of selling gold is comparatively low, and the risk of the fiat backer's interests being averse to one's own is much higher.
Independent means not by cult members. I believe it's a very reasonable thing to ask. No, there are not multiples references, and no, you don't need to be "an expert" to know this, because even those that defend the historicity of Jesus admit that.

You are defending an authority fallacy in soft but unequivocal terms. My advice is to learn about History standards in general and then applying them to this particular case. A question: who do you think the experts in this field are?
In 1996-97 I was working at an anthropology center in Thailand. I was using quicktime VR to capture the interiors Thai temples and cultural heritage objects in 3d. We used a gigantic pivoting rig for the large objects.

This was all on film cameras (nikons). We had film scanners (and film printers for creating presentations), the works (a special tripod head was used for the interior shots).

This was back when you had to use MPW (mac programmers workbench) to do the actual stitching.

I'm sure all those photos are sitting in some government office still (or maybe in that center) and could even be reprocessed today, in a MUCH easier manner.
Worth noting that the reporter on this story is a beat reporter who has been covering the Philadelphia tech scene closely for years now. She knows it like no one else.
When you're discussing performance, then the hardware that's ostensibly underperforming is relevant.

To use your analogy: If our cars are the same model year but mine is faster and you're wondering why or just complaining about it, maybe you'd care what's under the hood then.
If you see ads, they have subconscious effects even if your conscious mind ignores them.

Then there's the curation problem of sites like reddit and facebook. People curating information streams, or developing algorithms to curate information, think they're doing the right thing by eliminating bad content, but by doing so they introduce bias into the information stream, and that bias might be just as pernicious.
Inferno isn't Plan 9. Written by the same people, yes, but it's a different OS running on a virtual machine rather than x86, different programming language, etc. The main commonality is 9P, which enables some other similarities such as Acme, synthetic filesystems, etc.
Hmm, that and AR and you have some interesting potential.

A wrist worn device pr hand that can track individual fingers. Thus freeing up the hand to still do grasping and such.
Considering that the definition of "hate speech" has already morphed into anyone addressing race, sex, gender, national origin, religion, etc. it seems we have already arrived at such a vile place you described. It absolutely boggles the mind to realize that we are living in a world that is imploding on itself through self-immolation and self-doubt and self-destruction.

I guess the cry-bully crowd will be happy once the west and the civilization and peace and prosperity it has brought to the world and provided them is left in a crumpled heap an we are all so fortunate as the rest of the noble savage world that does not indulge in the "privilege" of freedom, liberties, free speech, individual rights, self-determination, competition, etc.

The blessings of socialist nirvana will soon be upon us and we will all be equally destitute once everything has been torn down in an infantile fits of social rage and tantrum akin to what led up to the dark ages.
Well, becoming good at anything takes heaps of time. Time spent learning to dev is time not spent learning art. Vice verca.
I got the impression it's just super fun.
We're doing ad syndication! We sell space on websites! We have an innovative peer disruption space sorting alorithm optimizer!
How we built our polling tool
Autoplay video on CNN, I hate the internet.
Yea, good point. We live in an age when a whole set of duplicitous practices are now just referred to as "growth hacking"
I read it a good few years back and found it interesting although I was slightly skeptical about to what degree the conspiracies described existed outside of the author's head.

However, being older and somewhat more cynical (particularly after binge reading about the UK involvement in the Iraq and Afghan Wars) I do wonder if I should read this again - are there any materials out there that support his claims?
Creating a paper prototype for the app of my $1000 challenge
I agree.

Too bad the author didn't Grep "password" plus a few lines on either side. Even if you sudo <stuff> and type outside the prompt once every few hundred attempts it's still gonna turn up a lot after a year or more.

Even the most novice of adversaries would have a field day with the bash history of a lower level IT admin.
How to Get Long Luscious Lashes
A quick google shows that there are lock-free implementations of AVL trees and red-black trees. And every paper I've ever read about lock-free data structures includes both addition and removal operations.
https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite
Can you give an example? I struggle to think of anywhere the standard uses a wording that would fit here.
Sometimes this adware crap hijacks legitimate open source projects as well and installs on unsuspecting users like this guy:

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=78825
Sorry, I may have missed this, but I don't recall them having committed libel. Do you have examples?
No-platforming is an excellent way to produce an echo chamber though. Is that what we want our online spaces to be?
That makes no sense. He's only got one laptop, why would he exhaustively list all the configurations?
I used to agree with your basic sentiment. I'm still a strong believer in free speech, including speech that causes discomfort to those who hear it.

However, we live in a world that focuses violence on specific individuals, depending on their race, class, gender, religion, and a number of other factors. Our everyday actions are part of that system. Sometimes we help focus that violence, usually without realizing it. This is true of victims of violence as well as those who are not targeted.

What is our responsibility? Ignore the situation?

I'll tell you this: Feelings do get hurt, but the problem is not hurt feelings. The problem is the poverty & oppression baked into our system. A system that supports some people (definitely me) while making life incredibly hard for others.

Is removing hate speech going to stop these problems? Absolutely not.

Would I have any problem removing hate speech from the discussion community I run? Absolutely not.

Would the good people at Ycombinator have any issue removing hate speech from Hacker News? Absolutely not.

Does that hurt your feelings?
Why was it hugely disappointing? I've had one since the start and it was always very accurate, precise and reliable. It had some issues with not being able to persist in tracking hidden fingers, but it worked really really well on extended ones.
Cached: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http:/...

The post says the first code snippet's variable naming is easy to understand. Really? To me it's unreadable despite ticking all the best practice boxes. I mean there are no comments and all the variable names seem to be as short as possible, it's hard to follow exactly what and why it's doing things to me at least.
Nearly 1 in 4 people abandon mobile apps after only one use
OTOH what about audit trail? Are there any standard solutions for saving commands input at servers without giving person inputting those commands access to the logs?

Also, silly idea for a DOS attack vector: script-spam enough commands to have the audit history consume all available space on server.
What, because I reinforced the fact that islam is a vile organization founded by vile savages? Are you so feeble minded that you dismiss reality simply because a concept is repeated. Islam was founded by people who slaughtered people who surrendered, and then mass raped their wives in the blood soaked soil and then enslaved them. What other word does your thesaurus suggest could be used besides vile?

Islam is a cancer on all of humanity. It constantly and persistently proves it, yet for some reason the morons cannot see the blatant reality right in front of their faces that will cut off their head the second they gain control. Fools think that muslims are innocuous because they know them personally as I have known them all my life, but reality is that islam is just like a cancer or virus, if you have a few abnormal cells or even early stage cancerous cells, you can avert the inevitable, but you will rue the day you do a Steve Jobs and try to meditate and juice away your highly treatable cancer until it is too late.

Islam is an infection on all of humanity, all other cultures, all other religions, all other humans. Once muslim is fine, a few muslims can't affect much; but that's why they continuously and insatiably reproduce and infiltrate and undermine and will never and relentlessly hammer away until they have dominated. It is precisely and exactly how Islam grew and spread throughout the middle east and it is precisely how they will dominate Europe after centuries of blood, sweat, and tears spilled to keep the caner at bay.

You are supporting the cancer that will eat away at every single thing you claim to believe in. There will be not stopping it, it is not just a cute little mole that give you character, it is a cancer that is eating away at you and will only lead to one thing. It is precisely like a virus, precisely a trojan horse.
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cat-v is full of assholes, yes, and most of the Plan 9 community retains what I call "a sad devotion to an ancient religion"--anything written at Bell Labs is holy writ, anything written outside is suspect and probably tainted, must purge the heretics.

However, most of your objections down-thread are "People are used to X/Y/Z, it is literally impossible to change them now."
Glad you think so. Done!
Transportation technology needs the next Internet protocol
Guessing you never directly programmed such frameworks. Back in the day, writing multimedia for Windows was a nightmare... especially if you wanted to do things like play multiple videos in sync with a common master clock. QuickTime was the only way to do it reasonably.
> I just mean I want to write the same code and put in heroku or whatever

> I don't want to be involved in figuring out how to make the DB work on a larger load.

Sqlite definitely wasn't made to fulfill that need of yours. Why do you think it's supposed to give you that?
You have to start somewhere.
I met a guy at an open house. He said, "we are like ebay, but a lot cooler". He was wearing a silkroad t-shirt.
Once you learn that they are selling ads on websites, "what does the company do to earn money" seems to be sufficiently answered.

Also I would strongly suspect that most traders of stolen goods (ad spots, in this case) would have a path for legitimately acquired merchandise as well, not only for plausible deniability but also because they sure would not mind paying their bills in a clean way, they just failed to resist the lure of the extra cash. With that in place, you'd have to actually work in the shady part to know about it, or have bird's eye numbers of the whole company where you might see that output does not match the legitimate input.
That's literally the exact opposite sentiment of the post. How about using those triggers for something more useful? Or encouraging people not to do those things?

Why not aim to create something that improves things, rather than looking to exploit it and add to the problem?
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Yep - get more people using the same setup and have a larger crowd to hide in.

Altho I think the new security slider in Tor Browser effectively breaks that crowd out into those groups plus any individual whitelisting the user allows

I think it should just default the settings to the highest security level, but understand the design requirement that many users use Tor as their primary browser so need video, JAR's etc.
Interestingly it's just had a version bump which makes the description a lot more obvious:

"Uses a web service to detect mistakes and suggest fixes - great for Markdown or any text file."

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-spell-check/commit/70847...
I also always wonder how the people working on engineering land mines do.
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Pro Tip: The "what questions can we answer about $COMPANY" section at the end of an engineering interview should be used to ask about the business model and revenue/monetization, not just the tech stack
Not really surprising. I rarely watch videos that people share on facebook or reddit, however if I'll watch gifs all day on the same sites.
This call for action seems rather unorganized and vague.

What does this even mean:

"The companies also agreed to promote "independent counter-narratives" to fight hate speech, including content promoting non-discrimination, tolerance and respect."

Are they trying to stop ISIS or please offended snowflakes? Doing both is a heroic task which will leave millions disenfranchised. Will this open the market for new social media platforms?
Or rather "many big $biz_sector companies".
>...in an infantile fits of social rage and tantrum...

And yet you've given us quite the example already!
Possibly.

However tax evasion and avoidance are often confused, for a public company not avoiding taxes would most certainly be an ethical violation.
I think it really depends what you start with at what age. Some of the books I loved as a kid and where the stories are great, are painful to re-read now because the exposition is clumsy.

If you want to try something, I'd recommend Alan Moore. Especially his Swamp Thing run or Watchmen. They are both very literary to the extent that you could if you wanted to largely ignore the art (you'd lose out, but the story still largely makes sense) and just read the text. It lets you let the art just be there in the background.

Swamp Thing is basically a gothic epos of the man become monster (sort of; that was the original origin, which Alan Moore slightly upends in the second issue he wrote) who struggles to find his humanity and love, and then learns that his place in the world goes far beyond his old human identity.
I'm not so sure things are as dire as he thinks.

Most of the people I know are growing more and more irritated by Facebook and other social media. Many have stopped using it and deleted their profiles. And these are not "tech" people but ordinary adults and teens.

I think people are quite perceptive when a service changes from being truly useful, as Facebook was in its early days, to being an intrusive pain in the ass as it is now. They may not all jump ship right away because people have different tolerances for this stuff. But from what I see, people are more aware of what's going on than Mr. Moglen is giving them credit for.
>> On this particular challenge, I am expecting many will use RegEx as a part of the solution. The regex needed for this is some of the most basic regex out there

Woohooa, cowboy. The language of palindromes is a classic example of a context free language that is not possible to describe with a regular grammar, such as accepted by a regular automaton... in other words a regex.

In Recruiter-Parseable English (RPE): you can't decide whether a string is a palindrome using a regex. It's impossible. Like, maths-impossible.

You can use regular expressions to compare strings while you decide whether a string is a palindrome but you can't do the whole thing in one regex.
Exactly. And there are so many ways it can go wrong.

That's a problem with big companies. They need to please a mass of people that are very different with each others. Eventually they settle with the lowest common denominator, and eliminate more and more things that can offend.

Among them you will find:

- new ideas which you can't know if they are bad or
good yet and need assessment but will feel
inconfortable.
- old ideas becoming relevant in our new context
(or that we are evolved enough to accept now)
that have been put asides for long because
of habits.
- ideas that are important for a part of the
population and unsettling for another part.
- distrupting or creative things, arts, that just
need to exist for humanity to keep grow, even
if it's not always good.
- bad things that people need to know exist.
You can't exercice criticism if you don't have
the material to criticise. People need to be
able to read "Mein Kampf" so we can argument
against it.

If you remove all the things that is offensive to everyone, the only thing left is a white sheet. Wait, not necessarily white, I didn't mean to imply... Well yes, sheets are made from trees I realize it has an impact on the planet but... Ok then there's nothing left. What do you mean I can't think outside of my white-sheetist stereotypes ? What if I identify as a nihilist ? You are offending me!
I don't know, failure modes these days could include exciting bugs like "drive to the nearest large concentration of pedestrians and ram it at top speed." You just need to find the right field.
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Tor/Mozilla still haven't gotten the FBI to reveal how their pulled of their most recent Tor attack have they (not the CMU one, but the kiddy-fiddlers one).

Many have put forth those users were using flash, plugins or were convinced to download and execute something, but we don't know do we? And until developers do, the Tor Browser bundle could have a vulnerability that could compromise its main purpose.
If you see ads, they have subconscious effects even if your conscious mind ignores them.

Yes, so what? This has been the nature of advertising since long before the internet was involved.
Well, by definition yes. Tax evasion and tax fraud are equivalent.

I think you mean tax avoidance, which is quite a different matter. While there's a lot of debate on the matter, in the United States at least, the general rule of thumb was laid down in 1934, and is as follows.

> Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes
-- Judge Learned Hand
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