skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends upon the circumstances, and the agencies involved.

If we're talking about the FBI, then sure -- the FBI does questionably legal things (or outright illegal things) all the time, and suit can be brought against them (though if you're fighting a civil suit against a state actor, good luck paying for good enough legal defense to win even a case that should theoretically be open-and-shut in your favor). But, the FBI doesn't develop their own software in-house.

If you're filing a suit against the NSA or the CIA -- in other words, agencies operating with classified materials -- you can run up against a lot of (potentially artificial) roadblocks relating to classified materials. The agency can claim that they have some classified material that exonerates them, without revealing it in camera; they can throw out the content of leaks by claiming that (because it is technically classified) it cannot be entered into evidence. These tactics work more often than you would reasonably expect -- sometimes both in the course of the same case. And then there's all the (theoretically illegal) things they can do to you in order to discourage you from bringing suit in the first case.

The legal system is essentially a mechanism for making decisions based on overhearing arguments between human beings. In other words, it is and always will be a mess.

There's also the problem that software licenses are rarely upheld in court (and often contain clauses that have been ruled against). Just because a license says something doesn't mean that it's true or meaningful -- for instance, the warranty invalidation clauses in EULAs are not legally binding (and if you violate one you still can demand warranty protection/service in many cases, although you will probably need to go to court to get the company to aggree).
Becoming an Olympian involves having talent for a given event that attracts the attention of an investor, the investor's resources in getting you trained, nearly the exclusion of all other activities for a good portion of your life and dedicating all time and energy to your event and maybe, you MIGHT get there.

Being president requires membership of one of the two strong parties, having name recognition enough to be nominated, have vast resources either at your disposal or willing to be invested in by others, all that again for the actual election, and being able to win over one of the most fickle voting populations on the planet.

Being happy...is just a change in how you think. It really is that simple, it requires commitment and self-policing to a great degree but in the end anyone can do it. I wouldn't say it's anything like those other two things.
Migration between infrastructures is always painful, so I don't think vendor lock in is that big a deal, if you keep APIs small and their I/O well documented (and designed).
Apple had the same hoops to jump through as MS.
The issue has been discussed for at least a century; as well as being directly discussed, its been a common and recurring theme of art and literature within and concerning the capitalist economies for more than a century.
I think it would be almost perfect if it just trusted the user a bit more.

If it trusted the user just a bit more, it would be making many of the same mistakes other languages make, which Go is trying to avoid. You're free to go and use some of those other languages.
Lack of ecosystem lock-in beyond Dropbox the product is amazing, and I've never in several years of using it been anything but 100% satisfied. Unfortunately I'm expecting it to be crushed any day now by competitors who can bundle their analogous products with other ubiquitous software (e.g. Gmail).
Link to Acme editor: http://acme.cat-v.org/

I'm not sure what 'modern' means in the context of a text editor...unless it means IDE...and I don't think that's what it means here.

Anyway, I doubt that there is an Acme knockoff that's about as good as Acme for the same reasons that there are not Emac's knockoffs that are about as good at being Emacs as Emacs. With text editors, the improvements tend to be extensions of the platform [and thinking about Eclipse, I suppose that's the case for at least some IDE's: which I suppose means that thinking about IDE's as text editors might have some merit].
> most jobs that pay enough that you could spend less time at work don't give you the option of doing so.

In most countries outside of the West jobs pay much less and you'll be forced to work much more to merely survive. Want to trade with them?

> Folks, this is not some unintended side effect of capitalism- this is the way the system is supposed to work. You're not supposed to be happy.

So an economic system where private enterprises produce goods and services based on what they believe will make profit (and not through coercion) and where you, the consumer, as a result have more options to choose from is somehow designed to make you unhappy?

What would make you happy? "Democratic Socialism"? Would you prefer to work in forced labour camp? Because that's how Socialism inevitably ends every single time. Even in case of the poster child of Socialism, Venezuela, which recently passed a forced labour law.
Which, however, is completely irrelevant to the other charges against him.
The company who built their business on scraping people's data is suing people for scraping data. I hope they fight this.
I greatly prefer rotisserie chickens from grocery stores to baking my own, just for the convenience. The fact that it's typically cheaper than buying and baking your own is a huge factor as well.

I really want to recommend trying baked cornish hens at home to anyone who hasn't eaten them. I buy a 6-pack at Costco for about $18. A single one by itself is an entire meal for me. If I'm really, really hungry, I'll eat it with a side like pita bread or rice. Fat, water, and seasoning pool under it to make really tasty drippings that you can use for either.

They're super easy to prepare and bake. I just spray it with cooking oil, salt and pepper it, and stick it in the oven at 400F for an hour. The great thing about it is that it's really difficult to overcook it due to the fat from the skin, and the small amount of meat compared to a whole chicken, so you can play around with higher temperatures and times without having to worry about ruining it.

They taste sooo good, especially the crisp skin. It's one of my favorite things to eat.
I live in PA and I'm an Apple Music subscriber. Looking at my receipts, Apple's been charging me 6% tax all along. I wonder why, if this change to the tax code just went into effect on 8/1.

http://imgur.com/FvPdJHR
The Science Behind Why You Feel Sick When You Try to Read in the Car
"Terrorist movements always fail" Ehhh, no.
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Probably the most important bit of the entire article, which you can probably get from many self help career books (applies to all, not just programmers):
"Ask others to explain why they do things, but don't just accept dogmatic reasoning. Demand examples and inquire about context, so that you can try to imagine what it is like to be in their shoes. Doing this is tremendously valuable because it allows you to see the strengths and weaknesses of ideas in their natural habitats."

One thing I can add is always question. There's a reason kids ask tons of questions, they want to know. Asking questions not only increases your own knowledge, and that of the person answering, but it also creates a culture where complacency is extinct. The one thing I hate more than people that litter are people that say "oh, well, that's the way I've always done it." There's lots more I dislike above that, but...complacency is the death of innovation. Then again, sometimes things just work....but that shouldn't stop you from trying to improve it.
You aren't cynical this is a hackneyed genre of writing.
Can you quantify this, then?
I'm a big fan of Google App Engine; it has support for many languages now and powers some huge apps like Pokemon Go.

https://www.g2crowd.com/blog/platform-as-a-service-paas/plat...
I said that I did not care about performance. Nobody would pick C if computers could execute code instantly.
Yes, I am planning versions for Arch and Fedora soon.
Android version is in plans, too, but I need to make desktop version stable first.
Gawker case: Thiel is 'serious threat' to press freedom
the conventional definition of net neutrality is with respect to internet service providers favoring certain traffic over others.

you're correct that taxation of internet streaming content by the government is not what is conventionally meant by net neutrality.

however, I do think that taxation is highly relevant for issues of economic fairness. is Pennsylvania subjecting streaming services to a different level of taxation is their non-streaming competitors? that would be economically unfair in a similar way that non-neutral network access would be unfair.
Multiple RCE Vulnerabilities Within Lexmark Perceptive Document Filters
Coding is very easy. Anyone can learn how to do it within a few weeks and make over 6 figures in any city in America. Congrats for figuring it out!
FYI https://magento.com/legal/licensing

"You may not use the Magento trademark or any other mark associated with the Magento offering from our company in your domain name or URL. (For example, "www.magentohosting.com" is not allowed)."
It's basically competition to WhatsApp, several years late. WhatsApp solved the messaging for masses, non-technical folks, parents and grandparents. Which is why its so popular.

my entire family and friends circle runs on WhatsApp. Photo sharing, video sharing, voice calls, video calls ... anything you can think of. And it does a good job, really good job. I have never interacted with WhatsApp and felt frustrated or lost.

The lack of desktop interface didnt feel like losing something becasue it was never there to start with.

given Google's history, I don't trust them to do a decent UI that works for everyone or the longevity.
I had a lot of friends during college who went to school in China. And I had a lot of Chinese CS/Math professors who would often say things like "We teach this to 12 year olds in China".

My Chinese friends would laugh when i asked them if that was true. They said that sure they covered it, but they just memorized algorithms, and no one really understood the concepts.

I don't think that looking at math textbooks is going to tell you all that much about the way math is actually taught. You're not going to see any of the official and unofficial performance incentives that can alter the way material is taught.
If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good "Show HN" post.

Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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A Good Endeavor
For one, who said success is "nice clothes and a nice car"?

And why "demonstrate success" on a date? What is the other person supposed to be? Whore/Gigolo?
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Don't fear. Be assured!
And a Real Programmer™ makes salsa.
It's on Twitter for Android, which falls back to the system webview (on my old-ish phone, IIRC Chrome v30), when you don't have Chrome installed.
> "Is Pennsylvania subjecting streaming services to a different level of taxation is their non-streaming competitors?"

The first sentence of the article (emphasis mine): "Pennsylvania has joined several states in enacting a tax on digital streaming and download services."

Unless you can think of a competitor that offers neither streams nor downloads, no, they're not.
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If your job does not require you to be aware of 24/7 news, weekly journals can be a good alternative.
If they're stricter, it's only because they rule out more kinds of incorrect behavior.

Sounds pretty bondage & discipline to me.
Yeah. I used to work with a guy who mainly knew databases, but also had to do some C# as part of his job. He did loads of MS certifications, just to have them on his CV, but was clueless and usually had to ask me how to do anything more than the most simple programming tasks.
Unfortunately the packets are not in any way similar. It has been over 10 years since I've been in one so it's possible it's gone all to hell.
Problem is that it's very hard to get rid of your own bias.
So? If they're that shallow to prefer the fancier suit and car over the more appropriate soul mate, let them fucking have them...
That's the thing with partial fluency -- and really now, their English is quite good (much better than our proficiency in their native languages) -- that it will be peppered with many idiomatic phrases ("can do with X as they please") while other parts remain comically broken. Like, you know, Google Translate.

BTW, it should be "the files".
Let me give an optimistic feedback because Reginald's work is well worth it. Reg's essay and his combinator book have had a huge influence on my career and my way of thinking as a programmer. I really recommend everyone here to take a look at the combinator book at http://combinators.info

As to the point of the presentation, it's an interesting view of things. Making a note of my explanations explanations is something I should do. Introspective exercises like this can sometimes lead to surprising discoveries.
I've been using dropbox for many many years now. I had a lot of space because of the space race thing they did when I was in school. I still have about 7 GB of space which is ok for the moment.I would not pay for more space though. I have a NAS connected to the internet anyway. I am pretty sure a majority of the billion users also will not pay. So what is the point in having so many users?
The problem with either of those setups is you don't get the flexibility of being able to use the same portable, quiet and power-efficient laptop for both work on the go and for gaming at home, so you never have to worry about keeping things in sync between multiple machines (which is easy enough if you just need files, but often impossible if you also want to sync arbitrary settings for frequently used applications).

For many people like myself, the TB3 laptop + GPU dock combo is worth a lot more than the sum of its parts.
True!

This article ignores an important aspect of time. I earn about $90 an hour. So between cooking and doing dishes, let's say i remove the wait times and stuff where i could do other things, I am still using up about 10 to 15 minutes extra preparing a fresh chicken.

I understand I don't work 24/7, but still, even my downtime matters so even if I cut down that price per hour in half, I'd still rather get a pre-made chicken especially during the week when time is of the essence.
I totally agree. The only problem is that when we innovate, sometimes parts of society fall behind. The real turning point to bring about what you speak of is how to enable all of society to reap the benefits of innovation. If you have a way to do that, and gain buy-in from the entirety of the third rock, then we can make some real progress :).
> For large, long-lived codebases, where there have been effectively many different teams and a number of different managers, the standards, coding styles, and tooling are almost certain to change.

This presupposes that change is bad. In many (most?) codebases, the change in style is good. Gecko, for example, has survived as long as it has because of the gradual migration away from '90s Don Box-style componentry toward modern C++.
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Hint: the case was named "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission". What does that tell you about who the plaintiff was?
The linked timeline at https://timeline.debian.net/ has entries linking to announcements by Ian including the annoucement of the first official release; "Debian GNU/Linux 0.93R6 released" -- https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/1995/msg00007.html
Link to Scribd is broken.
Anybody can pretty much eat anything. They don't; which is a different matter.
Reddit's post-mortem about Zookeeper migration
Google Live Cases: Super Custom
Most popular, pervading opinions are continually challenged, re-examined, and refined. Debates wholly grapple through the complete meaning of the issue from a wide range of perspectives without resulting to name calling, ad hominem attacks, tone policing, etc.
I still use manpages now and then. But only by googling them.
I think its a mistake to equate the absence of a current rule prohibiting something with the existence of a specific right to that thing, rather than the general right to take actions which do not violate laws which themselves do not infringe recognized rights.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_disease .
Their Hair Fell Out. Should the F.D.A. Have the Power to Act?
If it involves Facebook, tracking, advertising, Mark Zuckerberg, or the like than no thanks.
Ha, that's exactly what I had in mind. I'd really love an i8, but you know what...I'm cheap, practical, and I'd rather spend the money on something that has a return on investment. If I ever find myself in a position where image matters, and it has to be flashy...perhaps an i8 will be in order. Till then, I'll keep the next gen i3 on my wish list.
Besides the fact that I think it's less simple to have ad-hoc compiler extensions for the standard library types that can't be replicated in userspace, so the alternatives are code generation and type erasure, it doesn't have to be an absolute principal! We can have generics without sliding towards some slippery slope of abstraction! You don't allow some kind of generics one day and wake up the next day with custom operators and monads. The buck really can stop at this one pain point.
It doesn't matter which cards are better at OpenCL, because it is a legacy technology on Apple platforms, most likely to never be updated beyond the current version 1.2 (latest is 2.2).

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202823

Apple develops their own drivers for Metal Compute.
Yes that's why experienced gun users regularly bump back the slide/open the breech a crack/otherwise check the chamber when handling firearms. I've seen firearm instructors who could perform that action in tenths of a second with their favorite semiautomatic pistols. In a variety of situations, it's just as important to be able to confirm that a chamber is loaded as it is to be able to confirm the converse.

You do know that a missing magazine is no proof of an empty chamber, right?

My "problem" is experience. An acquaintance who was a little too fond of the "commando" trigger finger posture inadvertently fired a shot in my presence. The firearm was properly pointed at the ground so tragedy did not ensue, but this person was soon convinced to leave his fingers on the grip where they belong, until such time as he is sighting his intended target. For rifles without pistol grips, it's fine to wrap one's hand around the neck of the stock.

[EDIT:] I wonder whether my difficulties in this thread stem mostly from cultural differences? In every nation in which I've encountered soldiers holding their rifles in this posture in public spaces, including to my chagrin USA, their presence has made me feel less safe. I don't assume that they know what they're doing, nor that their commanding officers do. I am not comforted when it's pointed out that their firearms have been somehow neutered, as if that were possible. A firearm has one valid purpose. If it's not time to kill someone, it's not time to handle firearms. Leave it holstered, leave it slung, leave it racked. Go to the range often enough to be comfortable handling your firearm safely, and other than that don't handle it until lives are threatened. Firearms are not suitable tools for rhetoric or ceremony or morale or intimidation, and the growing number of third-world-attitude governments (like that of USA) who see them that way are a blight upon humanity.
To bring this full circle, "a marketing guy can sell a tomato-based fruit salad."
Here's an idea: Add more sensors to the robot vacuums. Improve their navigation abilities so they don't run over toys. Implement sensors that detect dog poop and vomit, or puddles on the floor, and have the vacuum avoid them.

These are all problems that can be solved with basic engineering solutions.

The only lesson to be learned here is that there is a ton of room for improvement with the current set of robot household helpers.
For my birthday in 1996, I ordered a Debian CD and some game. I played the game once or twice, but am still using Ubuntu, a Debian derivative. Debian has its faults, but has done a lot of good work over the years.
Costco rotisserie chicken is probably the best existing deal out there right now. $4.99 for 2-3 days worth of food.

I infrequently make my own rotisserie chicken and it costs me at least $12, including chicken, spices, etc.
Terrible name there is already a popular security auth app called Duo with a similarly named mobile app. https://duo.com/

This is likely trademark infringement because they are both on the app store and it is easy to confuse the two apps and they are both the top 2 apps now on the play store
But this is clearly only a plus for Google, by abusing the relationship with the publisher. The logic is circular here. If Google wants people to make better sites, then why don't they just rank sites higher if they aren't full of bloat?
https://techcrunch.com/2006/01/31/the-online-storage-gang/
The New York Times seems to do this:

http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/03/an-ad-blocker-for-tragedies...

If a story is marked as sensitive, an option is set and ads aren't shown on it.

The Guardian has this too. And I've done this on a few sites I've worked with as well.
I completely agree. What's so nice about DropBox is how little I notice it. I'm a happy customer but interestingly I would be a wary investor. I'm not seeing their growth strategy. I've been looking for them to build on their advantage for about 7 years now. New products they've introduced to satellite around their core sync technology don't ever seem to hit traction.

That doesn't mean I think they're a decent business and will stay around. I just don't see much on the horizon that would push the business (and the stock) forward.
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Me too, however I do see Go as having a sweet spot for those that don't want to move beyond C, but can accept having a GC around and more type safety.

For everyone else, there are better options.
All of Google’s cloud database services are now out of beta
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https://welp.zone

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