skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I come from a country where we had the secret police(Poland) and everyone knew that there was an archive somewhere where most citizens had a folder with whatever the police gathered on them. Any telephone conversation always started with the operator announcing "this conversation is monitored, this conversation is monitored". Letters would be opened randomly and read.

And you know what - vast majority of people didn't care. They accepted this as reality they lived in and that was it.

Well, almost 30 years on after fall of communism, these folders are still coming back and haunting people. People find facts about themselves or about others, that shouldn't have been collected in the first place.

Not to mention the old story of completely innocent data that actually lead to people dying(governments before WW2 collected census information about religion, and that very information was used by the nazis to hunt and kill jews).

My point is - even if right now it seems like collecting this data is harmless, you never know how it's going to be used in the future. Governments fall all the time, wars happen, people look where they shouldn't. The less data the government collects the better.
A vacation, or buying a house, or just about any other use of the money would also benefit the economy more than paying it back into loan accounts at some bank or gov't ledger.
Snowden blew any chance of this when he leaked tons of data about totally legitimate foreign intelligence activities, not just domestic spying. Regardless of whether you think leaking the domestic spying programs was justified, his leaks about our activities overseas are unforgivable.
> I don't really understand the threat.

Do you view the government as benign? What if that were to change?

Do you view all governments as benign? Foreign governments can further justify their actions by pointing at so called "free", and "democratic" nations and say if they can do it, so can we.

Do you trust these organizations (government or otherwise) to secure your data?

Governments change. Conditions change. Imagine another large criminal act in the US where thousands perish. The citizenry starts demanding more and more invasions of privacy, in futile attempts to stop further attacks. As each generation grows up with less and less privacy, they become even more accustomed to it. Is it possible to have a free society that's completely surveilled?

> And if it was warrantless then it's inadmissible anyhow, right?

In 2015, not a single one of the FISA applications for a warrant were rejected.

> If you don't want them "taking" your info, just don't speak to them.

GHCQ in the UK collects massive amounts of data on all internet users. You don't have any choice, if you're operating on anything but the dark web. The issues we're facing here have never been faced before. It's never been possible for the police/governments to just record and store everything, making it possible for them, or some future government, to use it against you.

I should also point out - when I say you, I don't mean you. Or me. We're just two idiots on the internet. I'm talking about people with power. Or journalists, who want to expose wrong doing. Judges, who are going to decide whether or not to put that person in jail (or let them off). Maybe even other police. Oh, this officer wants to report me for corruption? Find out what shit we have on him, make it stick. Nothing? Well, easy enough to add data, and problem solved.

If you're not convinced - think about it this way. This is the exact opposite of what should be happening. We should know what our governments are doing, what they're spending OUR money on. We should know when a corporation is planning to pollute the air so that they can sell more cars. We should know if a moral pillar of our community is a den of pedophiles. WE should have the information on THEM, not the other way around.
Yep. This isn't a store, it's an event. The price model is about introducing time pressure to motivate you to buy right now rather than take the time to investigate alternatives. If the price reduced as more were sold, it would motivate a competition around "how long can I risk waiting for the price to go down?" which would lead to people leaving and forgetting to come back.
I'd suggest looking at caching a bit harder - could you take an (automated) screenshot of the map, load that initially, and then only actually load the map when the user began interacting with it? If this worked, it would probably load faster too ;)
This is why non profits need to separate governance from fundraising. If "donating" money gives you influence, it's not a donation -- it's an investment.
Sure, it's an idea, it's not something you believe anything about though, that's a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept. A hypothesis is a statement of a possibility to be investigated and either upheld or invalidated. It is in no way equivalent to a belief.
That idea also figured heavily in one of the Jack Bauer TV shows. I had an interesting discussion with a couple of lawyers over beers about it once. As far as anyone could tell, there's no precedent to suggest that that it would work, but none to say that it wouldn't work, either. If the President was still in office and didn't object when you tried to invoke the advance-written pardon, it wouldn't seem as though anyone else would really have a place to interfere. The sticky situation would be if you got an advance pardon and then did something really heinous, such that the President who gave the original blank-check pardon objected on the basis that the conduct wasn't meant to be covered. You'd be on thin ice then.
You'd get indirect benefits from the debt unloading. Things like economic stimulus from increased spending power, likely increased home values by bringing more buyers (but this is good debt! /s). That last point is probably controversial depending on if you own or rent, it would be a real killer if that student debt unloading was just converted into a different kind of debt that hit a diff. proportion of the population.
> If you don't want them "taking" your info, just don't speak to them. That's your right.

One problem is that it sets up a very adversarial relationship between the police, and the people they are supposed to protect. My every interaction now has to be weighted - do I expose myself to more risk by talking to this police officer, or by not reporting something fishy I just witnessed?

And as far as the threat, one of the problems is that it's the unforeseen threat that's the problem. I listened to a podcast that described how birth records were used to deny people of their rights based on their race - the law changed from how a person was categorized based on their ancestry, and overnight some people became "legally black", and were denied many rights.

Sure, you can say that that's in the past, that's in the south, there's nothing like that in your data, but you can't really know what will become problematic in the future.
Overview https://www.pgcon.org/2016/schedule/track/DBA/923.en.html

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SS4R1sFH3c
Alan Kay, When he first created his OO language, SmallTalk 72, It didn't have classes, or Inheritance. That development came later in Smalltalk 80. The only thing that Kay cared about was encapsulated code that could pass messages around to other encapsulated code.

Kay's thoughts on the matter are in the link below.

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/46592/so-what...

I made up the term 'object-oriented', and I can tell you I didn't have C++ in mind

-- Alan Kay, OOPSLA '97
Before this I did, since it didn't do anything as long as no app requested GPS. (at least it did feel very much like a GPS in warm-up mode when I did use it once in a while, and it had no discernible effect on the battery)
With public "willing" (ignorant enough) to subsidise that "investements" (google: AIG bailout), every time they inevitably fail, nothing really can compete in short term. Rich get richer with guaranteed profits.

Despite what neo-cons/keynsians acolytes proclaiming, saving money is an investment (low yield, but quite safe), and it should be yielding profit (in form of deflation).

As money tied in such a p2p contract will be deflationary, it will be competitive (as long as the Ethereum/currency it uses does OK).
Why not keep adblock plus, but also install ublock origin and three other adblockers as well?

Not only would they all have to sell out like adblock plus, but advertisers would also have to pay each of them before you saw a single ad.
They are completely comparable.

You don't think people who change channels to avoid ads/who use DVRs is factored into the price per viewer for TV ads?

Your individual impact might be harder to track than with ad-blockers, but on the aggregate you are driving down the price per viewer by switching on channels during ads, using DVR, etc.

(Imagine a world where 100% of people used a DVR and skipped ads. Obviously the price of TV ads would plummet. By using a DVR you are contributing to making our world, that world).
In all fairness I have yet to see a language with an awesome builtin collections library that meets everyones needs (and I use JDK collections all the time.... it took a long time to get where it is and still is sort of ok). If you know of a language that does please chime in.

The big thing I missed in my limited playing around with Rust is more types of queues. This is in large part because I was attacking Rust in a similar way to Java. Because of its lack of other concurrency models other than threads I was resorting to queues (I'm sure there are more "reactive-like" libraries now).

Overall I can't decide if a better approach might be to let library writers work on adding more structures instead of a batteries included approach. Maybe just have the traits included and thats it.
I'm non-russian and I use Metrika, their analytics product.
Interesting how gun records are forbidden to be computerized. NRA knows how to avoid big brother.

http://www.gq.com/story/inside-federal-bureau-of-way-too-man...

>> That's been a federal law, thanks to the NRA, since 1986: No searchable database of America's gun owners. So people here have to use paper, sort through enormous stacks of forms and record books that gun stores are required to keep and to eventually turn over to the feds when requested. It's kind of like a library in the old days—but without the card catalog. They can use pictures of paper, like microfilm (they recently got the go-ahead to convert the microfilm to PDFs), as long as the pictures of paper are not searchable. You have to flip through and read. No searching by gun owner. No searching by name.
Show HN: Moogi – The Film Discovery Engine
Sorry, man.

BTW, the link in your profile is broken.
I would never write such an if statement. In the article it was an example of the Specific/Generic Rule violation.

Implementation evolution is as following (backed up by respective test):

Sum(a,b): 4

Sum(a,b): a+2

Sum(a,b): a+b

1 example test for the requirement and 2 iteration of triangulation with transformation priority premise.

I hope that makes sense. Sorry for not being clear enough in the article about the example being a violation of the rule, that you shouldn't do.
Clicking on ads isnt necessary. A vast amount of ads are paid on an impression basis and I can guarantee that you've been affected by the advertising you've come across in your life.

This is one of the most data-driven industries on the planet and there are petabytes of data generated every day showing how well it works.
I dislike guessing what someone's intent and rationale are, when we can simply ask, as we can here.

In any event:

First, the CA itself is a dependency: if it fails, no login certificates will issue, and users won't be able to log in. So they traded one kind of service dependency for another.

Second, it hasn't been established that a backup login path is available. In many environments this may not even be acceptable (e.g. PCI and billing systems, which I know Facebook has).
Interesting. I am moving soon so I have given up the fight for now, but I might have to aim for that after the move. Thanks for the tip.
Good news overall, at least with Apache the project stands a chance of continuing. Oracle has shown to be a poor manager of open-source projects.

Maybe we can even get a proper Python plugin out of this ;-)
The pricing model could be the logical conclusion to some basic behavioural economics insights. Feeling of a loss >> feeling of a win. Thus you create an ever present feeling of that potential loss (missing out on the lower price) which forces potential buyers to act to lessen that feeling of possible pain as opposed to the standard approach of selling based on the feeling of a win (my nice and shiny logo). This idea could probably also be leveraged to combat procrastination somehow.
It also has that novelty factor of the pay per pixel advertising from back in the day.
Neat :)

I guess the only problem is that the last logo shouldn't sell easily (without adding more).
Any logo: $420 . Price increases by $20 with each logo sold.
Show HN: A Tiny UI for Twilio SMS Chat
Yandex.Mail is my favorite email provider and I would invite anyone reading this to give it a try.
Refresh a few times, it usually works.
You can also deploy from GitLab, see https://about.gitlab.com/2016/08/26/ci-deployment-and-enviro... for an introduction.
> it's much harder emotionally and financially to quit your job to travel the world or start your own company

Sorry, I have to laugh. This is the most HN thing I've read today. It's a tremendous privilege to have the option of quitting your job to travel the world, rather than the fear of being arbitrarily laid off, and failing to put food on the table or lose your house. My redneck might be sticking out this morning, though.
WTF is a CTO?
I am not in control of any person. I can only advise. "letting" someone do something is not something that I can stop. If I want to drink 20 cans of soda a day, my wife can only complain about it. If she tried to force me to stop doing what I want, I would leave her and continue to do what I want. No-one should be a slave master and control another person.

Also, 2 cans of soda is very little compared to most Americans.
I'm going to be so pissed off if a whole generation of students gets their students loans forgiven two decades after I paid mine off.
> This implies second order logic.

No, it does not. The second incompleteness theorem is provable in first-order Peano Arithmetic.

> Of course I'm in no position to say a similar thing about Goedels incompleteness theorem, and I even referred to it's result in higher order logics, but I still doubt the relevance, as many seem to be ignorant of his former completeness theorem.

I have no idea what you're trying to say, but I assure you that people who do this kind of research are aware of the completeness theorem.
How does the search / indexing compare to sphinx or lucene?
JS is not object oriented. A prototype is not the same thing as an object. There are no classes in JS.
How I quit Reddit (serious version)
> What does it even mean, apart from lip service to those who disagree with their vote?

Just what you suspect it does: nothing.
Man on skateboard films man doing yoga with spectacular results
They meant it in terms of malware/viruses/tracking and probably could have phrased it better as "hostile payloads" or something similar. Books generally don't contain malware and those that do don't contain malware that will run on your computer when you open the book.

This is made apparent by:

>loss of data, loss of time, loss of money and loss of privacy.
Also who ever changed the title, It's "Erlang - The Most Object-Oriented Language," as per the quote in the article!
-- "Joe makes a comment about Erlang being “the most object-oriented language.”"

If you are going to Change it At least change it to "Elixir - The Most Object-Oriented Language"
Please cite examples as to why it's your favorite Email provider.
Debugging an sms chatbot has been tedious at times, so I built this simple UI to view a conversation with a given user!
I'm not seeing the substantial difference between those two things, aside from the unrelated-to-my-point variable of how much the idea-holder wants it to be upheld.

That variable certainly exists - it's why we have blind-controlled trials as the gold standard of research.
I'm really glad US has such tight immigration norms. As someone from India, it is great the see that those innovators who couldn't get visas, are innovating outside US and living a much better life. why move be an alien in US, when you can live in home country and innovate?

I think the author (also an Indian turned American) has been making this point for quite a few years. Not all, but some of America's loss is China and India's gain.

India and China are so vastly different markets, that most of the products made for US really dont fit outside US. And innovating in China / India truly help these countries!
Depends where you are. Where I'm at, I can either drive to the grocery store in 15 minutes, or I can walk a mile to the nearest highway where I can make a fairly dangerous crossing to try flagging down a bus that comes about once per hour, with very little regularity and often fails to stop. Then the actual trip to the store, another brief walk, and I'm limited to what I can carry, so instead of going to the store about once or twice per week with no more than an hour of transit time, I'll probably be spending a solid 4-9 hours per week travelling to get groceries. One hour per trip walking from house to bus and back, half an hour on a bus, twenty minutes walking to the store and back, multiply by 2-3 times per week. Add an extra hour every time a bus is missed or doesn't stop, which would be at least once or twice per week.

And that's not even touching trying to get to work, which takes me about 15 minutes in a different direction, and I'm not aware of any public transport that would get me from here to there without routing me in some other direction first. I could probably take on a part time job in the time I'd spend walking or riding buses.

It just wouldn't make sense for the majority of people in my area.
I use this bash feature also.

I think this not just "partially helps", I think it completely addresses the problem described by the above commenter. Perhaps s/he is not aware of this feature.
As a NoScript user I'm curious what eroded your trust in it. Should I be looking at switching away from it for some reason?
It's a great argument, just not phrased correctly. It's more like "I had to work hard and make difficult decisions to succeed which included choosing a field that is guaranteed to pay and being obligated to pay back the money I borrowed. Therefore, everybody should have to do the same. If not, then I at least want to be treated fairly."
You can do that even if LDAP is your primary authentication method. NSS and PAM have supported fallback methods since their inception, nearly two decades ago.
Clickbait title (even before factoring in the low average quality of writing on Forbes). What's the surprise?

Edit: Content without the aggressive anti-privacy software Forbes is running: http://peg.gd/9ki

And the "surprise" is: That bioherms ("mounds of ancient calcified algae") are bigger and more circular than previously thought.
Is there anyone here who is against what FB is doing in this situation but supported FB's backdown on the napalm episode? Welcome to the slippery slope of bad precedents.

Why does no one actually talk about the fact that no one should tell FB what it can and cannot bring down on its property? Feeling unhappy about their heavy handedness? Just stop using FB.

If you see my comments history, you will know that I actually despise FB a lot - but on this issue, I not only feel sorry for them, but I am a little surprised by the double standards.

Question for those who are now suggesting that government of country X should decide what is best to allow on FB's private property (remembering that FB would want to play it safe and in their ideal world would prefer that FB resembles Disneyland where people just wave and smile and buy expensive stuff)

1. Which government?

2. What if the government has an opposing government which has the exact opposite view on the censorship?

3. How can you be so sure the government you support is doing the right thing?

Is there anyone here who is actually surprised a government pounced on the first sign of placation from FB to now demand things which should be best left to FB's discretion? And do you honestly think the governments of other countries are not queueing up with their demand next?

And let us suppose that FB does follow some government's diktat, and takes some action which somehow counterintuitively worsens the situation somehow? Would you all then personally also take responsibility for the consequences? Here is what everyone will say at that point: well, no one can predict the future, and of course FB had to do these things at its own discretion.

And what about this statement: "All of this underscores the severe dangers of having our public discourse overtaken, regulated, and controlled by a tiny number of unaccountable tech giants."

No company has any more power on these matters than that which we give them, often willingly. They certainly exploit it, but why is the article talking about this as if FB sent its troops to scatter people who had gathered for public discourse? In your mind, maybe FB's censorship looks the same - but that is only true if you are left with no alternatives. Public discourse has not been "overtaken", people just want to have their cake (undisturbed expression of thoughts) and eat it too (on property that does not belong to them, or to the public).

I noted before, but FB should have been left alone to bring down any post it wanted, as long as it consistently enforces its rules even if you feel the rules are too naive and simplistic (e.g. nude picture of child).
In my case it doesn't seem to be the wifi side of things, but the routing side of things that's causing trouble. I can consistently ping the local AP itself, but the connection to the internet has periodic dropouts.
It's not a malicious bias, but a bias nonetheless. We tend to show more love towards services we know of, use, hear about, or have a friend work at.

That Yandex chiefly targets the Russian, other Cyrillic, and Turkish markets limits its exposure to people who aren't in those markets. And some of it has to do with the kitchen-sink nature of what Yandex does (a lot of tech and some media), in that it's easy to mistake them to be similar to other such companies (Yahoo, Verizon, AOL -- incidentally they're now all the same) that have a similar spread of services, and yet they're not generally complimented in their tech achievements.
Yandex doesn't seem like it would appeal to the kinds of people who comment here. If you think that having your data hosted in the USA is a privacy concern, imagine having it hosted in Moscow.
i'm speaking to technical aspects, not advertising copy or imagery.
Apparently, they are big in Turkey…
The Startup Tapes
I didn't mean to imply that a ten year wait was acceptable. That being said, expecting stable concurrent libraries just one year after the language stabilized isn't reasonable.

Futures just landed, and those seem like a good first step toward a good concurrency model.
Hysteria and hypocrisy in the war on mediocrity
I think the problem here is to leave decisions about what's good/bad ads to other people (e.g. EasyList). I believe blocking technology itself is a user's right and should be allowed, but deciding what's good/bad for others is meddlesome. Individual users should make their own decisions about what should be blocked and what's not, as easily as possible.
Despite being a subsidiary of Naver, LINE is a Japanese company.