skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought it was a great example. Reading it made me feel guilty, and it made me want to make accommodations for these people in our theoretical babysitting-as-a-service app.

But that doesn't make it any more feasible, possible, or even safe. We're talking about special needs that will be difficult or impossible for a non-targeted service to adequately meet. It would be better for a different service to specialize in this, as our theoretical service is likely woefully ill-equipped to handle the vetting of caregivers for the developmentally disabled (among other problems outside the original problem domain). I'd even be tempted to argue that attempting to address these problems simply for the sake of soothing guilt and/or avoiding lawsuits would be immoral itself.

Whether or not there should be legislation to cover issues like this is another discussion. (Maybe there should be! If AirBnB manages to kill off hotels in a few spots it would make for some very interesting discussion.) But I don't think this theoretical babysitting app is a good candidate to be targeted by such legislation, and I think it's a little silly to damn this example... There's other help and services out there specifically for the developmentally disabled, and nobody expects every babysitter or daycare to be able to handle the developmentally disabled either. Calm down.
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to me the article's argument is as ridiculous as the argument that tablets will kill PCs
Write blessed code?
NSA supposedly listens to our traffic, so learning the community string and management station's IP address is straight forward.
"I'm having trouble figuring out how this doesn't still boil down to people making judgement calls on what is and isn't a right" - at the end of the day we're ruled by people. But, there should be a standard by which decisions are made other than "whatever the majority decides".
That should have been no surprise at all.

http://www.catb.org/esr/halloween/

Leopards don't (generally) change their spots.
I have toyed with the idea of an extension that lets you keep notes / tags / custom color by username with the idea of allowing the memory deficient to figure out the history of comments with that user.

I suppose the USENET kill file would inevitability be the results :(
Thanks, just over Reddit in general. Quit about a year ago.
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Having spent a considerable part of my life in China, I can definitely say this is the case, if not even more so. There is a tendency for parents to spoil their children.
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And a large part of it does have to do with politics... what's your point? Obviously non-political content is not what I'm addressing here.
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My freaking cat installed Windows 10 on my laptop - he pressed enter on one of those dialogs with his paw and Windows started updating.

I was more or less resigned to do so anyways, so he didn't do anything I wasn't going to do eventually, he just hastened it.

I wonder if EULA's accepted by a cat have any validity though :)

PD: I googled that and Slashdot has a story on a hardware to have cats accept EULAs :)

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/02/18/1817221/dont-li...

But no, it's not a good anti-lawyer method, a comment says, regarding children and cats "The child is an instrument of your will. Note - they are not acting as your agent, as a child cannot be an agent. Instead, they are your instrument, much like a pen signing your name or a cat clicking a button for you is an instrument. "
grow up. Americans don't blame England for things that happened 300 years ago. Taiwanese doesn't blame Japan for things that happened 70 years ago. Vietnamese doesn't blame France for things that happend 100 years ago
It's just not politics, it's anything sufficiently popular to attract a large portion of the general public. Only niche categories, with a small group of passionate people work. Otherwise, it turns into a free for all.
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It seems we agree, we are both claiming that "there is no one right way".

I love Git, and I used submodules for years in personal projects. It started with a few support libraries shared between projects, or common scripts for deployment, but it quickly ballooned into a mess. I'm in the process of moving related personal projects to a monolithic repository, and in the process I'm giving up the ability to tag versions of individual projects or provide simple GitHub links to share my code.

Based on these experiences, I honestly think that the only major problem with monolithic repositories is that the software isn't good at handling it, and this problem could be solved with better software. If the problem is solved at some point in the future, I don't think the answer will look much like any of the existing VCSs.

Based on experiences in industry, my observation is that the choice of monolithic repository versus separate repository is highly specific to the organization.
Install a neutered pirate version instead of using your license.
Lack of paper towels always kind of irks me... "but the trees" they're a renewable resource... With paper towels you can wipe down the handle after washing, toss the towel and you're good and the handle is cleaner.
Just a quick thought... what about all the monitoring software that relies on SNMP?
Can't really say I blame you. Found any other interesting communities other than HN, obviously since we're both here?
/* NOT IE */
@supports (@supports) {
body > .main-content { display: none; }
.browser-update-notification { display: block; }
}

There you go !
Washington post got former NSA TAO employees to go on record (anonymously) confirming the leaked toolkit comes from NSA:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/power...
1) Can we make the individual mandate in the individual market strong enough to really eliminate (or at least minimize) the adverse selection problem?

I am unconvinced that we can. Perhaps though.

2) Are you really convinced that the pre-existing rules you encountered were bogus? Are insurance companies just dumb when it comes to this sort of thing? I tend to assume, absent other evidence, that insurance companies will be profit seeking so would only turn people down if they expected to (probabilistically) lose money on the deal. Perhaps they're just not smart enough to discern differences at this level though? I don't have much experience in this area.
FWIW, I too much prefer printed technical books, and buy them when I have a choice. The problem is that paper books are more-easily-searchable (!), and more-easily-readable.

I made the mistake of buying a few technical ebooks, but never will again.

My only concern is that publishers seem to be shifting to cheaper and cheaper bindings and glue, which may negatively impact the lifespan of my books.
Exactly. See Compass: https://www.compass.com/
This is why "responsible disclosure" is a joke. The flaws put in by these companies are not responsible. (Sometimes people make mistakes, but we're at the point of carelessness).
Seems like we are trained to scan tablets and monitors differently[0] but that eink is similar to paper[1][2].

Personally I find the tactile experience of reading a hard-copy helps me focus and generally enjoy the physical experience of interacting with a book. And who ever said that people in tech were concerned about the environment?[3]

[0]http://er.educause.edu/articles/2015/9/paper-or-tablet-readi...

[1]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3873942/

[2]https://www.researchgate.net/publication/251509359_Comparing...

[3]http://i.imgur.com/Ad6WrGj.jpg
> How does the 3 month cert limit stem from a much more complicated problem?

Broadly speaking Certificate Revocation is garbage. It doesn't work. So when a bad actor generates a bad certificate there's a legitimate chance that without Certificate Pinning, that Certificate will be accepted even if theoretically revoked. A three months max duration limits the potential liabilities to three months.

Additionally three months offers the better theoretical security against state actors. While a 2048 bit key is normally considered to take tens of years to break, it is possible a state actor with unlimited resources could construct a quantum computer that could cut that time down significantly. If the certificate pair is regenerated every three months using a safe cryptographic source this makes breaking it likely not worth while even for a quantum computer.
> what you can do with the bits of information you named when this vulnerability is not present?

If you have SNMP write access you can effectively control the ASA.
You could for example get the ASA to fetch a new configuration from your own TFTP server.

For example: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/simple-network-...

Hence why SNMP is always protected by an ACL. If you have SNMP exposed then you already have big problems.
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"Do you have an example in mind of when and where we've come especially close to this ideal?" The USA of course - though it's quickly moving away. Hong Kong (though China is ruining it). England before the Fabians took over. Japan after the war. There are many others.
So, HRC hiring an insignificant number of immigrants is wrong but Trump gets a pass on thousands, including a request for hundreds of foreign labor applications last month? BTW, Trump does favor H1b for tech: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/03/...

Looking at your history (African American access to the tech world in NYC), it seems you are a troll, so I'll leave it at this: http://blog.samaltman.com/trump
Oh. I guess I don't experience those a lot because I use it for texting and the occasional phone call, but do see some problems which I ignore because they're rare in my use case.
Interesting that you claim that OS X is not better when you are not even sure about the name…
We may make things more flexible down the line, but for now, it was motivated by two primary reasons:

1. The overwhelming majority of users use one of those three design patterns. For example, I can tell you that more than 98% of GitHub Pages sites use either `master` or `gh-pages` as their primary branch (with only about one tenth of one percent of sites using the `stable` branch).

2. Our experience tells us that every option we add to GitHub Pages increases the learning curve for newer developers. With only those three options, if you're just learning HTML, you don't need to understand Git's branching model before you can create your first website.

We chose these options to start because we thought they struck a good balance between supporting collaborative documentation workflows for open source projects and encouraging "hello world" experimentation among new developers, but as with most features at GitHub, this is just the start.
In addition, they could also have used agent checks to enable each MySQL server to decide of its own weight. This way, more busy servers could receive less traffic until the situation improves.
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When the marker they use to draw a dot on where they need to cut you during surgery costs $50, it's hard for me to believe that the problem with health care is insurance companies not making enough money. Why does all this stuff cost so much in the first place? Medical equipment prices seem so far separated from reality that it's seriously laughable, and it'd be funny if it wasn't everyone who had to find a way to afford this junk. Go look at some prices for medical equipment (where you can even find prices) and see if those prices seem reasonable to you for the equipment.

Let's find a way to fix that? This doesn't even touch how some hospitals / networks must buy from a specific vendor, or how vendors sell packages which include things the buyer doesn't need (at the same exorbitant prices).
Not only is it all internal, but in modern networks SNMP is usually run on specific dedicated backchannel networks, precisely because anyone who has done network security since 1994 knows that SNMP is terribly insecure.

It may be a little less rigorous because ASAs are often prem boxes in enterprise environments, not like tier 1 backbone components. But it might be a little more rigorous because ASAs are firewalls.
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No. Uber & Lyft are basically regulatory hacks. They showed up with enough money to just ignore the medallion rules since they were in a slight gray area. Their investment allowed them to get everyone onto their product faster than the changes that were demanded by taxi medallion owners demanded could get through state & city legislators. Public opinion swayed and it became impossible for the taxi medallion owners to lobby for changes that would ban Uber & Lyft. Tech is an enabler in that story, but I don't even think it's the most important part of the story.
Its interesting that simply restricting immediate commenting might at least deter useless comments. People who are commenting in order to elicit a response, i suppose, probably have less important things to say. Or maybe they wouldn't say them if they are not granted the immediate satisfaction.

I assume it would kill some collaboration/innovation like on HN or a meaningful subreddit, but maybe no one really ever has anything meaningful to say when reacting to general news...

I guess it would also produce duplication from many people not knowing something was said already (however, the duplicate reactions could be monetized later down the line maybe...)
Is it seen as beneficial when one person does the talking?
Apples/oranges comparison.

You're comparing engineer time to the wildcard cert transaction price. You're neglecting to include the time for dealing with the wildcard cert (including manually remembering to renew that).

With process automation, you (or better: a collaboratively supported tool) gets progressively better at nailing renewals.

JoshTriplett's "renew every 30 days, 60 days to fix the problem" approach strikes me as inspired.
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it's not that common to monitor your network infra from the internet, is it? surely you're piping SNMP over local interfaces?
This is great advice, but when a customer is asking for something already on your roadmap, or fits with your product vision, then it can provide an opportunity where a feature can close new business and add equity to the business overall.

At Cronitor, we call this technique the JIT Startup[0]. There are dozens of instances where we've delayed writing code for something until it's actually requested, from boilerplate like PDF invoices to product features like being able to tag something in the UI. We always planned to build them, but working on these things (tertiary to your product) before anybody has even asked for it is a low-leverage use of you time.

[0] https://blog.cronitor.io/the-jit-startup-bb1a13381b0#.2w5dvo...
I think penalties need to be sharply increased, but the problem isn't so much free riders as it is that statistically the most attractive segment of the market is overwhelmingly likely to be employed at a firm that offers group coverage.
Well, adding a .nojekyll file is a way to turn off Jekyll processing ;)
The problem with microservices is that your state is spread over multiple systems.

Then again, sometimes it's advantageous to identify parts of your system where aspects of state can be safely decoupled. And in which having them reside in disparate systems (and yes, sometimes be inconsistent or differently available) might actually be a better overall fit.

You completely lose the concept of transactional integrity, so you will have to work around that from the start.

Then again, sometimes your state changes not only don't need to be transactional; it can be disadvantageous to think of them that way.

Depends, depends, depends.
> people want advertising to teach them about new interests and things they might be interested in

Sometimes they do. I bought my current wallet after seeing an FB ad for it. It's much better than my previous wallet and I'm happy with the purchase. That's how advertising is supposed to work.
I do sit. But those guys I know who refuse to sit, do so on the grounds of manhood. Sitting is not manly. Obviously.
Actually, there are certain express buses SBS-86 on 86th St, SBS-60 that goes from UWS to Laguardia Airport that skip some local stops that already work that way in NYC. There is a dedicated bus lane and riders pay for tickets from street machines.

I think more are planned.
You haven't accounted for the length of the lease in your analysis. A no-fee place is baking the fee into the rent. The longer you stay in a place the better off you are paying the fee and starting at a lower rent. This is especially true if you are right around the borderline for rent stabilized apartments (I believe $2,700 a month in 2016). You are far better off getting a rent stabilized apartment for $2,650 and paying a fee than getting a no-fee apartment at say $2,850.
Apparently to the perspective of "fuck everyone else". These little fold up strollers are not that expensive, and a friend of mine bought one for when she would take her baby on the bus. Or, as someone else suggested, take a taxi/Lyft/Uber.

Just because you're a parent doesn't mean everyone should bend over backwards for you.
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I'm afraid these particular authorities aren't meaningful enough to me to make compelling appeals to them. This all sure looks like drama to me. That is at least why I flagged them.

For what it's worth, I flagged a bunch of anti-Appelbaum stories too. For the same reason. Drama.
Nobody old enough on here to remember Slashdot's moderation system?

Not everybody could promote or demote comments. You got randomly assigned the ability to moderate comments so when it came your turn you took it _seriously_.

That community had one of the highest quality comments. Then somewhere in the mid-2000's it got super anti-Microsoft and anti-anything-not-F/OSS. I'll give them credit; it probably reflected the highest quality comments of their userbase at the time.
Mostly everything you described in that list was something that most web forums and usenet provided, but they were supplanted with a mix of on-article comments and social media in it's current state. It is frustrating to have seen most forums end up evaporating but they are just hard to keep momentum in.

It would be really nice to see someone figure out a good way to bring forums back in a way that didn't turn into a black hole.
I certainly agree that employer provided health care coverage should be taxable income (I assume that's the mechanism by which you would shift people).

It's interesting to note that McCain proposed this as part of his campaign in 2004 and Obama pilloried him for it.
I am, as they says about Unix: Always changing, yet never changing.

I'm still using much of my original stack. The trick is not to chase fads and focus instead on core skills and technologies.

I've been using a Unix-like operating system since my first contact with SunOS, I've been developing in Python since version 1.x, C since Borland ruled the DOS world, JavaScript since it first appeared in Netscape 2.0 and Java since I saw the first applet (Java 1.2, perhaps?), PostgreSQL since, I dunno, whatever version shipped with Red Hat 5.0.

Of course I reserve the right not to mention my previous experience with Delphi, TCL, Symbian, J2ME, or (increasingly) Perl, if it suits me. Selectively forgetting no longer relevant technologies is a very useful workaround.
Demand is not just the job market, but for many of us it is a wonderful place to live. YMMV.

We have a 24/367 Apple Store, 7 stores in Manhattan :-)
Installing a ramp at the entrance to a building or on the side of a cab is a one time fixed cost. I'm not saying I disagree but I am curious, are these examples of regulations requiring businesses take on significant ongoing costs in order to provide for groups that may otherwise be marginalized?

Examples that spring to mind:

* Businesses required to have someone on staff at all times who can communicate via sign language.

* Daycare companies required to have staff capable of caring for children with physical, sensory or mental disability.
The last sentence didn't really make sense to me. I assume Fastly is some kind of backend tool? So why is it only working with CF? when I visit my custom domain, I get a cert from sni75146.cloudflaressl.com but no cert related to github to be seen anywhere. I'm assuming the cert I'm seeing is valid because I'm viewing the page on CF's CDN, or am I wrong?

Well, I think I'm better off asking objective questions, so:
1. Can I change by DNS provider to something else and have SSL work?
2. Can I keep using CF and use my own cert, say from LetsEncrypt?
3. Do GitHub and CF have something in common/mutual agreement so this works?
I'm no expert in this at all, but I do know a number of people who work in government and across the board they are all of the opinion that most people would be shocked if they knew just how cheap it was to buy major influence, even at the national level.
> College campuses across the country are setup exactly this way already.

Really? I suppose that depends on where you are and whether it's a public or private college. Public universities in California have their own police departments, but they're run by the state government.
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Right, that's the point. Facebook and Google refused to cooperate with the Chinese government on censorship, and now the firewall blocks them.
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Well, at least in the case of high-end fashion brands, companies intentionally only produce slim-fitting/smaller-sized clothing in order to maintain an image of exclusivity.
> If you think a ~$100,000 a year to a politician (plus another couple million to some other politicians) is largely responsible for the rules that govern how 20% of our economy functions you are quite mistaken.

cough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act cough

That was purchased pretty cheaply, and industries affected by copyright(books, movies, music, software, software) are a decent chunk of the economy.
Uber and Lyft both have ways for physically handicapped people to get a ride (the cars have wheel chair carrying devices attached to them)
That may feel good to say, but as someone whose job it was to find these kinds of bugs in software from companies ranging from tiny startups to financial exchanges to major tech vendors, this is a kind of carelessness shared by virtually everyone shipping any kind of software anywhere.

That said, the term "responsible disclosure" is Orwellian, and you should very much avoid using it.
If you get the same request for a feature over and over again, but you don't want to implement it directly, there are a few things you could do:

* Offer an API for third-party integrations that could implement it

* Come up with affiliates that serve this particular niche

* Realize that your opinions might change, and collect email addresses (and consent) to contact folks again if you ever do implement it
Cisco is maintaining way to much property code, while laying off people. Wow, that's a recipe for success...
It sounds similar to a phenomenon I've seen in Python. You can overwrite the builtins using Python. There's very rarely a good reason to do so, but people often clobber variables like 'type', 'max', 'min' accidentally. I know at least some atom and vim plugins exist to warn you about this.
I think the article covers that; they explicitly talk about sometimes choosing to serve the customer who wants something you aren't currently offering.