skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up in Cincinnati and grew up with current staff members of both 3CDC and other active development groups in OtR. They have had good goals, overall, with active talk about in-fill development that at least gives lip service to gentrification concerns. However, they have also had decidedly non-diverse staffs, have held lots of non-public meetings even when the public was clamoring for meetings, and arguably just pushed poverty out of parts of OtR into other areas of the city.

Here's some articles that have a different perspective:

http://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/citywiseblog/3cdc-in-over-...

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/letters/2015/03/18/l...

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/24138-econocide-over-the-...

The Brandery is a pretty big incubator, I bet there are some HN readers that have been through it or work there. Looking forward to hearing their perspectives. As far as the perspectives of the people that have lived in OtR through the 90s and 2000s, don't think you'll get many of them. I lived/played in OtR in 2001-2003 and grew up running around there in the 90s going to house shows, art openings (from the very first wave of incidental gentrifiers, one might say), boozey dive bars, the local goth club, etc.
Why did you post the same comment in two places?
Please don't post about how bad HN is while making it worse yourself.

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Western leaders' stage-managed press conferences in China
The reward for working hard is that they're being paid more in the first place.

There are plenty of arguments to be made about progressive taxation, but this idea that it punishes the rich is tiresome. Reducing the size of someone's reward is not punishment.
The change in stock price doesn't give the complete picture. You want to look at the change in market cap. There is roughly a 10x difference in the change of market cap with SolarCity increasing by roughly $350 million while Tesla decreasing by $3.5 billion. Tesla has actually lost more shareholder value than it would even take to purchase SolarCity. That would seem to indicate Tesla shareholders feel that SolarCity as a company has negative value. I'm not quite sure what to make of that.
For those curious, here is a summary of Rule 41 as it presently stands, followed by the proposed new section:

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Rule 41 (b) At the request of a federal law enforcement officer or an attorney for the government:

(1) a magistrate judge in a district can issue a
warrant to search or seize a person or property in
that district.

(2) a magistrate judge can do so for a person or
property outside the district if the person or
property is located within the district when the
warrant is issued but might be outside the district
when the warrant is executed.

(3) If the investigation is for domestic terrorism
or international terrorism, a magistrate from any
district in which activities related to the
terrorism may have occurred can issue warrants for
persons or property within or outside the district.

(4) a magistrate judge can issue a warrant to
install a tracking device in the district, and the
warrant can authorize tracking within or outside the
district or both.

(5) a magistrate judge in any district where
activities related to a crime has occurred can issue
a warrant for property outside of any state or
district if the property is within

(A) a US territory, possession, or commonwealth,

(B) a US diplomatic or consular mission in a foreign
state or any building or land used for the mission's
purpose, or

(C) a residence or land owned or leased by the
United States and used by US personnel assigned to a
US diplomatic or consular mission in a foreign
state.

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(You can read the complete rule [here](https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_41)).

The proposed change adds a sixth section under 41(b):

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(6) a magistrate judge with authority in any
district where activities related to a crime may
have occurred has authority to issue a warrant to
use remote access to search electronic storage media
and to seize or copy electronically stored
information located within or outside that district
if:

(A) the district where the media or information is
located has been concealed through technological
means; or

(B) in an investigation of a violation of 18 U.S.C.
§ 1030(a)(5), the media are protected computers
that have been damaged without authorization and are
located in five or more districts.

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(The source for that, straight from the Supreme Court's site, is [here](http://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/frcr16_mj80.p...).
We've banned this account. Creating throwaway accounts to break the HN guidelines with is an abuse of this site.

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That would cost money, as opposed to 1¢ of tape doing the same job.
Teaching a for/while/if loop in Swift is useless in all other languages \s
Take a look at http://scribbleton.com/
Screen scrapers are often practical in that they deliver some value and yet are simple enough. With or without leveraging a library like 'scrapy' you could probably do one easily in 1000 lines.
Sorry, I was typing on my phone earlier.

It is awfully high risk and awfully low reward for Russia to hack the DNC right before the 2016 election. The Democrats are likely to win, and they'll come into office with a fresh memory of Russia having screwed with them.

On the other hand: if they did hack the DNC, but screwed up by getting caught, maybe it makes sense to recast the operation as some sort of Wikileaks-esque information liberation strike?

Or, some faction either inside or outside of Russia is actively trying to mess with some other faction inside of Russia by implicating them in such a cartoonish plot.

The thing I don't see being taken very seriously among security people is the idea that there is a random hacker somewhere in eastern Europe who pulled this off on their own. Not because it would be hard to do, but because the specific traces that apparently got left don't make sense for a freelancer.
No, it's just predatory, disgusting, and wrong.

Five years.
On many older devices the signal from the internal microphone is routed through the jack, just like the speakers often connected through the headphone jack. Plugging a device in physically breaks the connection to the mic/speakers in those cases.

That does not apply to most modern computers though, and especially not anything with a four-pin combo jack (including that Macbook). Those have to be able to handle situations where normal headphones are plugged in and the internal mic is still being used, so the mic switching is entirely software on these.

Headphone/speaker switching may be in hardware, but a lot of laptops I've used under Linux allowed me to treat the headphone jack as an entirely separate audio device. I suspect the Macbook would allow the same, though I don't have a new enough one available to test. Mine's an '08 model that Sierra finally EoLed.
Love the podcast. Will most definitely be using this to reinforce Python chops when I need them this Fall.
Jacques, please stop.

The article is unfortunately ambiguous. It's pretty clear from the comments here that there are two different camps in terms of how people interpreted it.

However, it's quite clear to me that the author defines 'winning' as reaching a consensus on one person or the other's point of view, and 'losing' as battling to a stalemate or having one person impose their solution on the other. It's about the team winning or losing (or, to put it in other words, "if we do it well we all win, and if we mess up then we all lose"). 'Picking your battles' is an English idiom that means avoiding confrontations.

It's a little light on specifics, but it's not terrible advice. In fact, it's the exact same advice you are trying to impart here.

Even if you don't agree with that interpretation, I think it behooves you as a HN-famous person to at least consider the more charitable interpretation before publicly branding the author as someone whose "advice could quickly turn a functional team into a non-functional one."

Please consider re-reading the article with a view to trying to understand how other people may have interpreted it, and the author may have intended it, differently. Failing that, at least take some of your own advice and give up your scorched-earth battle to the death with the author and every commenter who read it differently. We're all losing right now.
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Elon is the chairman of SolarCity, it was founded by his cousin and he is the largest private shareholder. Now after the shares have tanked in value he is buying it with new TSLA shares... This stinks to high heaven. If he really believes it is valuable he should have bought it himself, not with other people's equity.

As for why I think it's an awful business:

1) Huge amount of debt
2) Hugely negative free cash flow (-$790m last year)

Sometimes this can work, but it's absolutely the last thing Tesla needs (they need to put cash to work building out the battery factory and production of the Model 3, not subsidize solar panels).
What happens when you build more supply, but increasing amounts of people just buy up the units not to live or rent out, but in order to run virtual hotel businesses on Airbnb?

The better supply side solution to increase available housing stock is to build more purpose built rental. This would eliminate the possibility of new rental supply turning into short term rental.
Political agendas discredit truth now?

In the time it took you to detail the supposed biases of the link (which you didn't back up yourself, mind) and post a throwaway shoot-the-messenger comment, you could have read and understood whether the arguments they put forward are persuasive and correct, something with infinitely more value.

The tl;dr:

* SolarCity is massively in debt. True.

* The solar industry as a whole, including SolarCity, has a tricky future since government subsidies are sunsetting soon. True.

* SolarCity acknowledged those risks and others, and disclosed them to the SEC. True.

* A promient Wall Street advisor rated their stock a "Sell" based on all this. True.

I see nothing in that article that is misleading, non-factual, or even a question of interpretation of unarguable facts.

I'm all for pointing out when a source might have a bias, but that absolutely does not invalidate what they have to say or "discredit" its poster.
You're right, but I might not want to work with you if that comment reflects your attitude.
You've repeatedly posted uncivil and unsubstantive comments to Hacker News. Please stop doing that.

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And execute the do-gooder liberal activists. EDIT: I am being literal. Read the article.
Nick Bostrom on AI: ‘We are like small children playing with a bomb’
That's super interesting! I had no idea but definitely worth considering/knowing. Thanks!
I can't tell if you're being tongue-in-cheek.

SolarCity's business model is incredibly risky. [0] They've already gotten shut down when trying to "sell you that electricity."[1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11520789

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-solar-power-buffett-v...
It's not the same, but definitely similar. I made it in response to someone else's comment but thought it'd be a good top-level comment too. Should I delete the original? shrug
1¢ of tape solves the issue of someone gaining unauthorized access to the CEO of Facebook's laptop? I think not.
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Given that he's done a stellar job running two impossibly difficult companies for a decade now, I'd say he knows how to focus.
Lost and Found Photos from a South African Photo Studio
I don't know why I would care about Zuckerberg in particular doing this, but while we're on the topic, can anyone recommend a decent retractable camera cover for mounting on a laptop?
> You're still not making sense.

Maybe you could be more specific. You could ask pointed questions, or quote the line or lines which you find confusing.

> You seem to believe that Apple should not be running coding camps out of their stores, which exist whether or not they're used for coding camps. That's silly.

Apple is a machine for making money for their shareholders. They can do whatever they like, as long as it is legal.

Apple should emphatically not be praised for running coding camps out of their stores.

The fact that apple's stores exist regardless of whether coding camps are run has nothing to do with anything in this conversation. Maybe you thought someone was making an argument about the allocation of real estate resources?
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I believe it was going to start manufacturing its own panels (IRIC in NY State)
Zero is the number of security people I know, including many who sincerely loathe HRC, who believe the DNC staged this. CrowdStrike's CEO (an acquaintance) is... uh... not exactly a Democratic partisan.
How to fuel a rewarding culture
Ugh. Don’t remind me. I used yfrog (Imageshack’s Twitter-friendly brand) for years, and now I have probably hundreds of old tweets with missing images.

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I think it's been proven that "losing an awful amount of money" does not equal "an awful business" It might - but that alone is not proof. Many businesses invest (pour more money in during an early phase than they make) and end up doing really well.
Given a fund is generally liquidated after 7 years, yes. But at first glance it actually sounds like a decent model.
Somewhat reminiscent of Robocop where OCP privatizes Detroit to turn it around.

http://robocop.wikia.com/wiki/Omni_Consumer_Products
> infinite term and zero interest for newlyweds

Why not just call it a tax free gift from the government then? And print the money from the central bank. It's about equivalent.
But he's not abusing shareholders as you seem to think. He obviously believes Tesla stock is going to be fantastically valuable in years to come. He believes he's making the right move for everyone. And isn't that the CEO's job? To do what he believes is best? And do you think after the past decade of performance, this is where he's finally going to go wrong and steer it into the ground, after getting this far?

He wouldn't have done this if he hadn't carefully analyzed every aspect of the situation and concluded it could all be done. He's not just throwing dice in the air. Neither SpaceX nor Tesla could have done any of the things they've done if he was.
> I'm a very health conscious omnivore and honestly didn't even know there were omega 3s in beef.

Here's a rule of thumb, fresh fatty meats (incl. eggs) contain all human micronutrients except for Vitamin C and so called "phytonutrients" (that usually only make it past our livers/kidneys by accident, as far as could be observed so far in-vivo).
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Churning through large amounts of phone numbers / consumers with aggressive sales tactics aka "dialing for dollars"

(Not churn in the saas sense of the word)
Yes. That makes a lot of sense. One of the two largest political parties in the US should definitely engage publicly in a debate with "Guccifer2". Why didn't anyone else think of that?
I have a live demo: http://kbsportal.com

Edit: however, stick with Python for deep learning NLP, and NLTK works well and is exceedingly well documented.
Sorry, that should be: ... are not exactly helping ...
Inside a developer-centered app world
Unlike Tesla, however, they are also losing their investors' money
I think you should read/watch the following 2 resources if you can:

'Start Small, Stay Small A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup' [0]
'Creating and selling a digital product' [1]

Your product on codecanyon appears to be doing quite well and has good reviews/sales [2]
so you should probably market it more (if you're not doing so already). Also, building an
ecosystem of free/paid plugins around it might be something you could explore.
Finally, you could look into offering hosted instances for less technical savy users.

Good luck and keep up the good work!

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Start-Small-Stay-Developers-Launching/dp/0615373968

[1] https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/creating-selling-digital-product

[2] http://codecanyon.net/item/stock-awesome-inventory-system-and-stock-control/11210315?s_rank=2
The existence of similar structures doesn't making switching costs zero, therefore the Uncle Ben's comparison remains a straw man fallacy.
Please don't break the HN guidelines by being uncivil, even when another comment is bad. (Also, please don't use all caps for emphasis.)

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I think the whole idea behind "fake meat" components is due to the lack of vegetarian dishes in Western cuisine (speaking specifically for NL here, don't know much about the rest of Europe or US). That situation is changing very slowly, but ten to twenty years ago there was almost nothing.

Still, these imitation components strike me as tacky or cheap knockoffs. Even worse, for me they signal that even vegetarians can't go without the taste (or structure) of meat. I really wonder if their availability is a net positive for reducing meat consumption.

I consider myself quite a meat-eater, but I do enjoy properly thought-out vegetarian dishes (like Thai or Indian vegetable curry's), and I'm a big fan of main dish salads (usually with Feta cheese, walnuts or raisins). Still, when I do need to "replace" meat, I'd much rather go with nuts (mostly cashew, pine and almond) than any of the meat imitations.
Is it legal to use one of your companies to bail out the other? What about obligations to shareholders?
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Code reuse is fine, but taking that over the top is not fine.
The same with Java some things actually do too much.

Especially dealing with many external dependencies is a real pain. A really big one.
Does this mean Amazon can mine Netflix's data to improve their Prime Video services?
That's personal and supercilious, and therefore uncivil. Please don't post comments like that here, even when someone else is wrong.

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If all you're saying is that Apple shouldn't get extra kudos for running (Apple-tech-focused) programming camps at their own stores, fine. I might even agree with you. Super boring point, but, whatever.

But your original comment suggests you believe Apple is doing more harm than good with the camps. That point is interesting because, as I said, it seems silly.
So what are you going to do about it? I'm not being uncivil: I'm merely pointing out HN's hypocrisy when I see it.
After trying it out, I feel like their implementation of scrolling might be an important factor. The editor scrolls significantly faster than my browser normally does.
Unauthorized access to the laptop is a very different thing than the user (Mark Zuckerberg, in this case) browsing to a website that utilized a camera API, or accidentally clicking Allow, or being caught by some weakness in the Flash API without realizing it. He's probably also got all sorts of other protections on that laptop, but having an extra $0.01 bit of security never hurts.

I think microphones are more dangerous actually; it's hard to glean much meaningful data from most webcam streams (besides perhaps some less than flattering pictures of the user) but a microphone can pick up all sorts of confidential conversations.
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If the failure mode is "public utilities have achieved regulatory capture", then isn't having something like Tesla come in with billions of dollars of support an effective solution?
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Scanning firewalls for differences in IPv4 and IPv6 rules (March 2016)
I tried to find those stats when I was writing my comment, but I had to settle for overall info. Unless delivery vehicles are incredibly safe compared to vehicles overall, my point stands. To cause comparable harm, drones would have to be deadlier than the most pessimistic projections.

Also, drones can substitute for more than just delivery vehicles. They could replace most car trips involving moving things (as opposed to moving people). Instead of driving to the Apple store, a drone could pick up your broken laptop and return it when it's fixed. A drone could pick up and return your dry cleaning. Drones could deliver groceries. Etc. The end result is fewer car trips and fewer people maimed or killed.
> Liberal democracies usually operate under the principle that you can ask anything you want of someone

Except in cases like blackmail, extortion, racketeering... even harassment - you won't get much luck asserting the person you were harassing never bothered to tell you to stop. There is a whole host of behaviors that do not require the victim to mount a defense, because we've identified a power imbalance that might make it infeasible.

I think you're missing the problem with the current situation. It's a matter of incentive, and the fact that the FBI has no incentive to stay within the parameters of the law, no incentive to limit its requests, no incentive to get things "right". When a mere mortal citizen steps outside the bounds of the law, they are swiftly punished, and ignorance is no excuse. When anointed government officials overstep the boundary, it's no big deal because quite often, there's just no mechanism to punish them for it. But there needs to be such a punishment, otherwise trust in the system erodes rapidly.

The dilemma you posed is a false one. There is plenty of nuance inbetween the two extremes - "Don't let the FBI ask" and "The FBI can ask about anything and it's your job to figure out if it's legal or not". Possible recourse could require a pattern of abuse, determination of gross negligence, the punishment could be contextualized - mistakes leading to fines in favor of the citizen, while gross abuse leading to criminal charges. There's plenty of room for discussion of the specifics of such a system, but it must exist, and also the public must see it applied effectively in cases of extreme abuse.

I think your comparison of "you can ask anything of someone" ignores the reality of the relationship between two private citizens, and a private citizen and the government. The government expects trust, demands obedience and respect, but you cannot have any of those if it will also bend the rules it is supposed to be following, lie and cheat its citizens out of their rights. Even if staying within the marginal bounds of the law, this creates an adversarial relationship between citizens and the government, and breeds animosity and contempt. I believe there is a middle ground to be found between the government being paralyzed to act due to fear of making mistakes, and citizens living in distrust and fear of the government, which is supposed to serve them.

This "feature" of the legal system, where the weak are trampled because they do not have the power to assert their rights, makes it rotten to the core. Ask any CDL what the outcome of this "feature" is, for the poor, the uneducated, the ignorant, for minorities and for the weak. The law does not need to protect the strong - they already have the power to do so themselves. If a legal system fails to protect those weak in society from abuse, then it is at best pointless, and at worse, just another tool for those in power to subjugate the rest.
Dropped Oracle, using MySQL. Why not use AWS Aurora instead?