skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, okay so this is not a question of the law, or the internal Department of State rules. You're bringing up the question of intent. Why would someone set up a personal homebrew server?

So let me first sort out a number of motives:

1. They may think that a private sector service is puts government documents in private hands which they might consider to be bad.

2. She may not be acquainted with the security differences between the homebrew server and yahoo mail. (I am not. I would assume that a competent technical person with off the shelf software could make it fairly secure.)

I don't know if we must impute nefarious motives from a personal homebrew server.
Hi there, one of the founders here. AMA.
Here's the effect that this ultimately has, as far as I can see: The most reasonable people, who we would ultimately like to see build something that people use, get discouraged and go work on something else. The most stubborn, unreasonable people then charge ahead, and eventually a few of them break through via marketing and win millions or billions of users, with whatever they put together. It's a net loss.

I don't understand the value of pointing to something that died 5 years ago and where nobody even wrote a single test as a model to learn from. There's got to be better models to follow, if our goal is to point people at things to learn from. There's no need to turns things ad hominem by shifting the focus to authorship and away from the actual merits of the software: design, code quality, test coverage.
Really? That's the opposite of where I thought you were going with your comment. Based on what you're saying, it sounds like all Snapchat has/had to do to be more successful in South Korea was add soju and fried chicken filters to their existing product.
As far as I know, Google hands out stock to employees.

Stock which is highly liquid and very valuable. I don't think they're having any trouble attracting talent.
I believe the actual "LGTM" phrase is configurable via a .lgtm file in the root of the repo. Airbnb's Enzyme has it configured to work with a :+1:.
You say you will drop the name-calling after saying again that I am insane, and in another paragraph calls me "retard". Are you sure you willing to "let it go" or are you keep taking cheap jabs with the name calling?

Anyway, let's have another round of a friendly debate. Shall we?

> I never made these claims (about protectionism and WeChat) and Tencent (owner of Wechat) Employs more then 30,000 chineses (sic) (...) this is my one argument

You might not have realized, but when you say that WeChat is better for China (because it creates jobs and whatnot), you are exactly claiming that protectionist policies are good for the country.

We could have a longer debate about that (protectionism vs open market economic policies), but this has NOTHING to do with my original question. My question is "why is WeChat better for the users compared to Facebook? What makes WeChat better due to being closed and protected by the government?

You keep going to this argument related to it being "beneficial for the Country", I am talking about it being beneficial to the users that live in that country. Do you see the difference?

--

Regarding "real understandings of economics and politics": again, you are using bad data, and even if you were using the right data you still are reaching wrong conclusions that any honest economist would be able to point it out.

I don't know if you are doing this out of intellectual dishonesty or just confusion, but let me point a few examples:

- The article you linked says clearly that the devaluation post-FHC-reelection (1998) was of 40%. So the USD went to R$1,40, not $4,50 as you wrote.

- The problem with the artifical parity of USD:BRL and subsequent devaluation is not related to the cost of debt "in dollars". The problem was actually the opposite! The debt kept growing and the austerity policies kept being pushed to keep the BRL artifically strong. If we had then a free-floating exchange rate (like we have now), then the dollar price would rise, our exports would increase and we might have been able to keep a better trade balance.

The reason we didn't do any of that was that FHC Government needed to control inflation, and the only way that was possible by controlling the exchange rate and adjusting the budget. It was a bitter pill to swallow, but it was one that was very much needed. Had we not done that then, we would probably be today in a situation similar to Venezuela, completely in shambles.

- You still haven't retracted yourself in regards with the tax rate during FHC years. If you don't believe me, I will even give you a very pro-left source (http://jornalggn.com.br/blog/luisnassif/o-aumento-de-imposto...) to check it out.

--

To close up: I would appreciate very much if you could read carefully what I am writing instead of just (1) calling me names, (2) ignoring others that point out your factual mistakes and (3) trying to "win" by piling more and more about things that are not related to what was originally asked.

And this thread is already getting too deep, so if you really want to continue this you can send me an email, just take a look at my "about" section here.
The article mentions the brilliant Scott Aaronson, who's written a couple of articles on the subject:

1. http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2756
2. http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1951

I'll admit that 85% of what he said flew way over my head, but the 15% I did grok was quite interesting.
How to Achieve Flow State: Sharpen Your Mind, Body, and Work
I see this in context of automation system with feedback loop.

Look here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Change_w...
This are responses of different PID controllers to the change of target value. You can notice that controller can overshoot target value to get near target value faster. I see conservatives working for one side of this graph and liberals for the other. You probably just need both.
The most interesting problem out there :)

Would it help to perhaps, instead of philosophizing, guessing and mathing, to try and look at things that definitely do influence consciousness (birth, death, alcohol, sleep, others) and experiment from there?

No matter how far removed it is from answers, at least you can get some arguably measurable datapoints, compared to guesswork that's a big win!
Yeah, it's interesting to see that that part is explicitly pro-immigration by the people it refers to with the slurs, and complaining that the King is keeping them out.

The original:

> He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

(So the original Declaration did complain, in a fashion, that the King was obstructing immigration.)
I wouldn't call the two cases eerily similar.

One is about operating a private email server and using it for official business that occasionally included sensitive information that shouldn't be held on internet connected computers.

The other is removing classified information from secure systems (I think it's implying SIPRNET) and keeping copies of them in your home.

One case is a person not saying "hey guys, we shouldn't talk about this here" when topics get sensitive and the other is a deliberate copying of classified information.

One constitutes careless handling of sensitive information, one constitutes intentional mishandling of classified information.
Ha! I found the old GLL mag code. Here's the actual patch as delivered to the magnetometer team:

;;; Engineering offset patch:

(compile-patch ": FIL! 1234 SWAP FILTF ;")

44C8 00 CA 00 1F 12 34
44D0 01 71 44 A2 00 D5

;;; Optimal averager sampling period patch. (Uses 2 bytes at 46FE)

(compile-patch
": SDSPIN DUP 15 = IF 1ST-DSPVECTOR TS! THEN DUP 28 = IF
ADDR-BUFFER DUP @ 20 + DUP 4CF8 > IF DROP 4800 THEN
DUP ROT 2+ 20 MOVE ADDR-BUFFER ! THEN
1 46FE +! 46FE @ 0= IF OPTST -7 46FE ! THEN
DUP 0= IF MAT-LOAD 4FF0 C@ 20 - 2/ CMDPTR +! THEN ;")

42B8 00 CA 01 60
42C0 00 2A 15 02 43 00 76 05
42C8 04 3B 41 63 01 60 00 2A
42D0 28 02 43 00 76 2C 40 50
42D8 01 60 01 95 00 2A 20 00
42E0 E9 01 60 00 1F 4C F8 02
42E8 37 00 76 07 01 6C 00 1F
42F0 48 00 01 60 02 B0 02 5D
42F8 00 2A 20 01 03 40 50 01
4300 A3 02 3F 00 1F 46 FE 01
4308 AF 00 1F 46 FE 01 95 01
4310 C0 00 76 0D 41 B8 00 1F
4318 FF F9 00 1F 46 FE 01 A3
4320 01 60 01 C0 00 76 14 42
4328 54 00 1F 4F F0 00 8A 00
4330 2A 20 00 F6 0E 3A 04 71
4338 01 AF 00 D5

A little longer than I remembered it, so maybe NASA got its money's worth after all!

I have the complete source code for this project. If anyone is interested let me know and I'll post it somewhere.
I hadn't heard about pebble jams as a problem in pebble-bed reactors. Here's a link to (scant) details about that German event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble-bed_reactor#1986_accide...
This is noted, thanks!
That's an incorrect reading of that statement. Imagine the author had written "those who commit sex crimes are more likely to offend". This sentence is confusing or trivial, because those who commit sex crimes are offenders by definition. So the author could write "those who commit sex crimes are more likely to offend again". But then according to your logic, this couldn't be applied to the general population since they hadn't offended yet, so could never "offend again".

If we are considering a baseball team down with a runner on third with two outs in the bottom of ninth, and of the next two batters (Jackson and Smith), only one has gotten a hit today (Jackson), would you consider this sentence trivially true?: "Jackson is more likely to get another hit than Smith?" Because Smith can't "get another hit"? No.

And as I've already addressed elsewhere, the comparison to other convicts doesn't make sense in the first place for the author's argument.
For anyone interested in this, I can highly recommend Giulio Tononi's book "phi". Part fictional, part art, part science. Pleasure to read while being an informative introduction to his findings about consciousness
> (There's one in Germany that can't be unjammed or decommissioned.)

Sounds interesting. Got a reference?
The original proposal for how to do warrant canaries is pretty valid (Steve Schear) -- basically they'd be a paid service, sort of like a bug bounty, and multiple canaries, very specific. They would be a revenue center, too.

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/cypherpunks-lne-archive/...
hm. ironically (?) none of the linked examples work without javascript.
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A degree in History is usually associated with leftist/socialist/communist thinking in South America, usually due to indoctrination from professors. Is it the same in US/Europe/Asia?
So apparently you often see the two extremes: Either absolute backwards compatibility with the struggle to preserve every quirk and wrinkle lest clients could break - or "my way or the highway" where you "iterate" the API whenever you feel like it and expect everyone to update.

Is it not possible to find a solid middle ground? E.g. provide different versions of your API in parallel and internally map the old API on the new one. Where that is not possible, iterate the API using a sane timeframe.
These articles reinforce the imperative of thinking beyond majors. Rarely is any major all-consuming, and students who prepare well can complement a major in one general field (e.g., the social sciences) with a suite of technical coursework. The ethos with which one can approach a history degree isn't altogether different from how to confront training in computer science: rigorous introduction to fundamentals – whether through theory or method, is often more enduring than a skills-based view that is too anchored to the whims of the day.
As if there aren't other ways of teaching critical thinking...
> In my experience the salary difference isn't usually that large.

Speaking as someone who recently did a round of interviewing with a mix of established companies and startups, $50k is a _very_ conservative guess. The difference between my Google offer and the highest startup one was ~$100K - if you drop to the average startup offer, it goes up to ~$150k. And that was at ~3.5 years of experience - it gets worse as you become more experienced.

It's hard for me to imagine how sure of a bet a startup would have to be for their equity to be worth $150k/year.
Well ESO fund has been around for 3 years-ish. VCs also do this ad-hoc sometimes too with employees. I think other older engineers have known this to be a 'problem' too for many years.
In my experience yes. Any time someone holds up a major and uses terms like 'critical thinking' or 'widens horizons' and they're not talking about a logic class they really mean hard left indoctrination.
You could make this argument about any major.
It's not impossible to know because people report they were molested long after the fact. There are a lot of estimates to the number of people molested as children (some say 1in 5), and the NYT article linked in another thread suggests that these numbers are falling and that currently about 50% of sex crimes against children are reported.

Statute of limitations etc. It's not very black and white, you know.
I like GTK+, but this release schedule horrifies and disgusts me.

If you're going to break the ABI, just increment the number. I get that they want to break the ABI incrementally so that they don't end up with what has become of GTK+ 2.x; where half the applications people use are still on 2.x and so don't have smooth scrolling or new windowing system support.... but I just don't think this is the way to fix that.
Well, my point still stands. Given that the vast majority of English words are borrowed from other languages, why don't we ask the same question about all sorts of words? Maybe this word is uniquely German and doesn't have an equivalent in other languages -- I don't know enough about other languages to know that without further investigation -- but the mere fact that a word was borrowed from German to English doesn't seem like reason enough to ask why it's a German word.
It's not impossible to know because people report they were molested long after the fact

In which case we have the data for both reported and unreported offenses and can adjust the recidivism rate accordingly in order to make a reasonably accurate estimate of the real rate.

Either the data can be relied upon, in which case we can know recidivism rates, or it can't and we don't.

Again, you don't get to have it both ways.
Somewhat tangential but: as a general rule a company is either too big or too small to benefit from a CMS. (Not counting brochureware pages - "About", "Contact Us" etc.)
There are academic departments that have that reputation in the US, but history (after high school) by and large doesn't have the reputation for being ideologically skewed.
s/have been able to crack the chinese market/are not banned by the government/
I think he was referring specifically to himself. However, he isn't that wrong. There are a few that want warm intros, and one that actually won't even talk to you without one [1]. But if you view your fund raising strictly in terms of dollars raised per hour spent, you'll find that simply contacting more people is the vastly more productive route in most cases.

[1] https://lowercasecapital.com/prospecting/
MS 4000 with mechanical keys is my dream keyboard too,

Is the market for such a niche product large enough for a kickstarter project ?
The very premise of the title is faulty. It's not an either-or; such crimes generally mandate sex-offender registry even after parole or release.
This is a more general problem. Warning labels on toothpaste and such generally include the phrase "SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH MAY RESULT" if they really mean something's dangerous. Medications don't seem to do the same thing, so you can't tell if they're worried about you irritating your stomach or ending the human race.

In fact, I have a medication right in front of me that has a little label on it that says "Take or use exactly as directed. Do not discontinue or skip doses unless directed by your doctor."

That's all it says about it on the bottle. Doesn't explain why. Doesn't say how serious it is. Doesn't even use an exclamation point. My first thought is, well, I've had lots of medications before that came with labels like that, and what they meant was, "You might get a little dizzy for a day or so if you stop too fast." Not this one, it turns out. Three paragraphs into the fine print on the literature that came with it, it says, "Some people who have suddenly stopped taking similar drugs have had . . . heart attacks." Oh.

That really seems like it ought to be worth a "SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH MAY RESULT".
The beginnings of the war didn't see tens of thousands killed in such short periods of time, nor did the war planners anticipate such at the outset. World War I was more about a chaotic system getting away from its designers and turning into something of its own beast.

The trench system was put in place slowly over time, each increment the designers thinking it would only be a temporary set back. The start of the war was much more mobile with land being taken quickly. Initially the Germans had planned to defeat France within 6 weeks.

When this failed Germany was having a tough time on the Russian front and the Triple Entente saw an opportunity to reclaim lost land. Yet by this time modern weapons gave the advantage to the defenders and the war was in stalemate.
Is your employer public? It's much easier to liquidate a portion of your RSUs to cover taxes on the rest in the public markets.
Do wonder if that claimed X compatibility holds up with recent Xorg versions, as they seem to enjoy ripping out code these days...
I was responding to this: "Only a matter of time before guns will only really be useful in third world countries without electricity" (emphasis mine) - still convinced that "issue not relevant at my level of abstraction" is not the same as "nonexistent".
It's hard to know of something is more expensive for the sake of being more expensive or because it is actually higher quality.

I once bought a higher end item because I expected it to be good quality. Ended up being one of the poorest quality items I ever bought, replaced it with something that cost 1/4th the price and is better quality.

I have a $200 phone. $600 phones also exist but the $200 does everything l need it to do perfectly. The expensive option isn't better for my needs.
LGTM doesn't currently work with GitHub reactions mostly because the API [1] wasn't available back in November when the project was created. I do personally like comments because they are a bit more visible than reactions, which require you to hover over to see more details.

Now that the reactions API is available it is certainly possible to enable this sort of functionality. I openly encourage people to fork the project and hack into something that works for their team.

[1] https://developer.github.com/changes/2016-05-12-reactions-ap...
Ha. Yeah, it's amazing how often people use this phrase when they mean "I find it illogical that people disagree with my politics". Actual critical thinking, a skeptical examination of assertions and data, tends to be called something else.
I've been looking for part-time work with very little success. Still hearing the old "if one person is working part-time then everyone will want to" excuse.
Surprisingly, yes; there is a device named "Neurologger 2/2A[0]" which has a mass of just over 2g and a battery life of 33 hours.

From the abstract of "Do birds sleep in flight?", Niels Rattenborg[1]:-

"The recent miniaturization of EEG recording devices now makes it possible to measure brain activity in flight. Determining if and how birds sleep in flight will contribute to our understanding of a largely unexplored aspect of avian behavior and may also provide insight into the function of sleep."

and in the section entitled "Future Directions":-

"Until recently, EEG recording devices were too large for a bird to carry in flight. However, Vyssotski et al. (2006)[2] recently developed and successfully deployed an EEG and a global positioning system (GPS) logger on pigeons during short, daytime homing flights to their loft."

[0]: http://www.vyssotski.ch/neurologger2.html

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7093774_Do_birds_sl...

[2]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7529290_Miniature_n...
Show HN: Best way to distribute big, complex Python projects regardless of OS
Do option counts not change as a result of a split?
The sex crime rate has been dropping faster than the general crime rate since the 1990s when the registry was implemented.
Hmm maybe it's a case of not enough of us upcoming the article. I know I'm pretty bad for it, I'll go straight to the HN comments the. Forget to upvote(hey it's a long way to scroll up!). I'll try to be better in the future :-s

Edit:
@dang on the off chance you read his, is it worthwhile upvoting an article once it's dead? Or is the flag permanent?(I figure it's pissing against the wind, but I'd like to know either way).
Chromium is on GTK+ 2 btw.

I actually like GTK+ 3 applications, but honestly Chromium should just use ozone on X11; they only actually use GTK for text boxes, buttons, and context menus. The only tricky bit would be getting input methods working correctly.
Ask HN: “Remove me and all my info entirely from your database and records”?
Sometimes site users email and ask for "all their information to be removed from the site". This comes in various forms, from "please deactivate my account" (easy) to "Remove all of my information COMPLETELY from your systems" (maybe not so easy).

What are recommended approaches for dealing with this?

I'm assuming that "soft deletion" isn't actually "removing information completely", but trying to engage consumers in that conversation isn't productive.

Also note that if destroying data is on the table, that deleting one person's records may necessarily destroy another person's (for example, in-site communication between 2 users).

Considerations:

1. Feasibility: What does this mean? I think some users may mean "scrub traces of my access from your logs, delete database records (and possibly from backups)".

2. Legal/Ethical concerns: What, if any, legal concerns are there with this? What, if any, are the ethical considerations surrounding this type of request?

3. Obligation: What obligation or responsibility does a site have to abide by these sorts of requests, if they are feasible?

4. Recommended practices: Independent of how feasible it is, what the legal or ethical responsibility is, whether such an obligation reasonably exists -- what are some of the ways that people deal with (or recommend dealing with) these types of requests?
Generally you DON'T want to implement it in software; you want to make it a manual/human-in-the-loop process, ideally involving an offline signature key.
Wait, are you being serious? Can you explain that.. very broad statement?
You can if you want to have the same lifestyle of someone from 1935. But standards have risen so it costs more as well.
Thanks for the links. Rebuilding V8 is a bit much though. Maybe this is an opportunity for a web service akin to gcc.godbolt.org