skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the idea behind the nascent "mosaic" theory of the Fourth Amendment: that by aggregating together many individual observations that each in themselves aren't a "search," you arrive at a result that gives you so much information about a person and their activities that the aggregate program would be a search that required a warrant. Put another way, each individual "tile" of a search program might not be so controversial, like police being able to take your photo in public, but a mosaic formed by aggregating photos of you automatically taken every block and matching them to your drivers' license photo becomes far more problematic, privacy-wise: the whole is more invasive than the sum of its parts.

The theory has made a minor appearance in at least one Supreme Court case: U.S. v. Jones, where police placed a GPS tracker on a car and didn't comply with the restrictions of the warrant they'd obtained to do so. The holding went against the government, but the mosaic theory only featured in a concurrence. The decision was based not around the invasion of privacy inherent in round-the-clock automated location monitoring but instead on the rather mundane and case-specific fact that the police committed a "trespass" to the car by sticking the device magnetically to its underside.

It's a tough case because it's really the plummeting cost that's changing things: round-the-clock warrantless public surveillance is legal and basically uncontroversial if done the traditional way, by sticking police officers in a car and following you around. But the growing ability to get the same information at massive scale, at minimal marginal cost, and even retroactively is... not so uncontroversial. The Court, and courts generally, are still firmly in the camp of analyzing searches individually and not in aggregate, but there are glimmers of change on the horizon.
A related topic is bioplastic, i.e. plastic from biofuels or biogeneration (on the short term rather than millions of years like plastic derived from petroleum). Maybe educate on that too and the importance in general of replacing petroleum-dependent industrial materials and processes.
Was this really a problem on github?
Willful ignorance
A hostile commenting environment (e.g. racist or sexually explicit messages) negatively impacts the UX of the site, particularly for new users. It's bad for business.
> Why is it the HOSTING services job to decided community guidelines?

because GitHub has been trying to save their reputation after some pretty lousy things went on, leading to them deciding to bend to PC pressure.

I'm all for respecting others, and absolutely against any sort of threats of violence, harassment, etc... It's a massive problem online.

That's a ways from having people flood your project with requests to change things like master/slave terminology or the name of the project because "bro" is horrible.
see also the infamous Star Wars Episode 3 Chinese bootleg "Do no want".
The real win is when you do Effective Java chapter 1 immutable objects with @Builder. I worked at a Big Dumb corp that eschewed lombok, and required full test coverage of getter, setters, builders, toString, equals, and hash mehtods, and 100% javadoc coverage for all methods (even private methods). It was insanity, and carpal tunnel inducing. Lombok would have reduced the workload by 90%.
Do you think they should allow spam?
Success defined how? By publication record. Which leads to the rich get richer dynamic I think is troublesome. The more students you have, the easier it is to get funding for more students.
Shouldn't one also factor in the cost of purchasing comparably classed vehicles? For example - the base Nissan Leaf costs 29k versus a comparable Nissan Versa costing 14k. 15k difference in vehicle is equivalent to just over 6000 gallons of gas (or around 186 thousand miles).
A lot of us in Rust-land are very big fans of VS: Code and what they're doing. I'm in the process of switching to it as my primary editor.
I'd like to be able to post a video without having fear of harassment and threats.

That doesn't seem like too much to ask.
> (propaganda)

meaningless. what you mean to say is "something I disagree with"
Certificates have a "tbsCertificate" component which holds almost everything (issuer, expiry, distinguished name, etc) except for the signature. The CA takes HashAlgo(tbsCertificate) and signs it with its issuing key.

The relying party can then take HashAlgo(tbsCertificate) and see if the CA signed that value.

Make sure you do not confuse encryption with signing. The hash is not private, so you do not need to hide its contents. I'm not sure if you can call it a MAC, because there is no key involved. It provides integrity guarantees, but the hash itself does not provide any authenticity guarantees; only the signed hash does.
> if every car tomorrow switched to electric, we'd literally have no way to power the cars. The price of electricity would skyrocket to reflect the complete and utter lack of generation capabilities.

I think you might be overestimating how much electricity is needed.

I own an electric car, and drive about 450 miles per month on electricity.
My car charger uses just 12 amps. That's not a trivial amount of power -- but it is less than half of the amps any average appliance uses individually (like an electric dryer or electric stove or central AC). And my electricity bill reflects this, my car charger uses far less electricity (in total KWH) than my home central AC uses during summer months.

The electrical grid handles all those other appliances (often simultaneously) in millions of homes today. I'm not sure why an extra 12 amps per adult is some nightmare scenario.
Thanks for reading my comment - I'll be here all week/month/year.

More seriously, I don't shy away from posting comments that I suspect will get down-voted - when we're having a debate, at most half of us can be right at any given time. The lovely thing about a debate is that we can all think we're right.

I have a couple of personal anecdotes I could share about China's knock-off business, starting with electronics and mechanical equipment in the early '90s. I've now got a couple of other IP related stories that I am not permitted to share. I'm not going to paint everyone in China with the same brush but I will stand behind my comment as a cultural aspect.
Indeed, "free speech" is a narrower issue. This issue is merely one of tolerance, and whether or not it is possible for people to continue to work together while respectfully disagreeing on political matters or whether we would prefer to divide further and eventually have separate Republican and Democratic economies.
another idea from the early 20th century: company towns running on company scrip.
When someone follows you around constantly, against your will, it is called stalking. Even when in public places. And there are laws against this.

I think the government and businesses should be subject to the same limitations:

"Stalking" someone, even in public, is illegal and is a violation of their rights.

As one quick example of restriction of rights, constant, pervasive tracking may inhibit one's right to free speech by assembly and association.

Corporations so often insist they are "people", when such claim is to their legal and economic advantage. Well then, treat them like such. Capable of "stalking" and subject to punishment for same.

Next up, crazu EULA that are purposely onerously burdensome while, amidst all that mess, claiming to secure the right to e.g. "stalk".
That's discussed in the 2nd paragraph of the article: No.

Electric cars have a ways to go to have lower total cost of ownership.
I work on Sublime Text.
> Building software should be safe for everyone.

Give me a break.

We are redefining words to the point of parody. There's nothing dangerous about writing software or interacting with people who do.

Sometimes you have to wonder how people get through the day. Humans are resilient creatures, but they can't be the more and more we try and shield ourselves from everything.
YouTube comments on channels with predominantly a fixed followerbase can be nice environments, but they never provided the tools to moderate larger comment sections and form communities. (+ of course moderating larger communities in "a bad neighborhood" is a lot of work, and many channels have very limited resources)

AFAIK YouTube ranking also prioritizes controversial comments, which increases interactions (metrics!) but also highlights bad stuff.
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I actually agree, it's not that hard, yes one can definitely grasp that with some efforts. But my point really is: the time from start learning Rust till when you can deliver your project is definitely longer than many other languages out there. So Rust needs more tooling than many other languages out there, which is not a bad thing considering all the merits in Rust. That's why we are seeing tooling growing very rapidly in this space.
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Part of the reason I refused to relocate to Raleigh is that the office was so isolated.

It wasn't just getting food, though that was certainly a hassle whenever I was visiting that office. It was also the infeasibility of finding a place to live that would leave me with less than an hour total time spent in the car per day. Let alone a location that would let me walk or take a bus to work, which is my strong preference. I'm in a dense city now, and my total commute is admittedly longer than an hour, but half of it is walking and the other half is reading a book or knitting, so it hardly ever feels like a waste of time.
I'm referring to the MSVC "backend" for Rust, not Visual Studio.
Ah ok, I see what you mean. Yeah, I meant expected value with the bias parts.

Thanks for the explanations!
Yes but think of the timeframes and the scope. Increasing energy independence is a relatively recent phenomenon - say the last decade? Geopolitical "investments" aren't traded quickly precisely because they're not supposed to be so transparently viewed as merely an investment in resources. The perception of things is still important which means such support can't be withdrawn in the short term. (Edit: so yes, I do agree, but...)

The US may well be largely energy independent but a large number of significant client states within its sphere of influence are not. The viability of those client states goes directly to the global effectiveness of US hegemony.
That's so WarriorForum
The courts actually did both.

When Section 3 of DOMA (the portion prohibiting the Federal government from recognizing same sex marriages) was overturned, it was partially on a Tenth Amendment argument.

It was in overturning Section 2 of DOMA (the portion allowing States not to recognize same sex marriages performed in other States) that the Supreme Court recognized marriage rights as something which could not be restricted on the basis of the sex of the participants.

I am not certain you could construct an argument that would allow the Supreme Court to overturn Section 2 of DOMA without also declaring all State laws unconstitutional; once the Supreme Court recognized that right, the 14th Amendment applies.
Judging by his comment, it doesn't seem he's advocating for forcing a private entity (or at least this particular one) to do anything "against their will". Instead, he's moving his business elsewhere because of a policy he disagrees with -- a non-aggressive response of voting with one's wallet. Do you believe this equates to forcing Github to take actions against their will?
You can disable comments.
A HIPPA-style regulation would go beyond government use. I want private companies to have to treat aggregated personal information with the same delicacy and punishments as for medical records.
It is not true.
The problem is several of those are completely arbitrary. You define rules which seem nice at first and then get abused for political reasons.
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The syntax highlighting is done in process using a declarative format, eg: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/extensions/g....
I definitely agree! While I was reading about Rust couple of weeks ago I was thinking maybe exposing the compiler's detail would help refactoring and diagnosing bugs here. It's so awesome that you guys have already think of this! Really awesome work!

Again, just want to mention that my point is simply that Rust needs more tooling to overcome its learning hurdles, and to me this is not a bad thing. Because once we have tools solving the learning curve problem, we can enjoy all the benefits Rust provides :)
Well, people's emotions may be fragile, the point is, should we tolerate or even encourage it? Shouldn't we try to evolve into a species with a stronger heart?
I ruled out RTP because of the 4hr round-trip to the ocean. Too bad, the sea shore there is beautiful.

[Edit: clarified round trip.]
There may very well be steps to sustainability that should not be continued in the long term or for more than some people. Should the president resign because the world couldn't function if everyone could veto things?
"On average it is $60 cheaper per month to drive on electricity than gasoline."

So far in 2016 I've spent less than $87/month on fuel. In February I spent less than $60, while some long road trips in July pushed me up to $144. I've taught my son to drive this year, so that's a bit extra, but it's hard to imagine this working out for me.

If I'm reading the chart right, Texas comes in at #18, with $810 in savings. So far I've spent $869.59 on fuel this year. Admittedly, the year is not over, but I suspect it might take more than $59.59 for me to charge an electric car.

I mean, if my parking space weren't such a very long way from my apartment, that is. For now, I'm planning to buy a Prius, but not the plug-in model.
If Hillary isn't in a relatively strong position by 2020, I suspect she'd be reasonable enough to switch with someone else.
Photos, imo, are a great example of where cloud storage falls apart. High quality photos take a lot of disk space and take forever to up- and download in their native formats.

Once you overrun your local disk cache, you're SOL until those gigs of photos are moved.

Not to mention the browsing problem; thumbing through thousands of thumbnails and hundreds of full sized photos in a session is impossible with cloud storage.

There's a reason photographers buy multi-terabyte SANs and spend days backing those up online after a single shoot.
Don't forget about the time github forced a repo to change because of the word "retard".

I was uneasy before but now this confirms it. I'll be moving my open source projects to Gitlab. And if they start with this monkey business I'll just host my own Gitlab instance.
The US gov is 99% certain it was and is Russia.
Been coding Java for close to 20 years. Can anyone show me what's being done in the language to bring on newcomers, or did that ship sail 10-15 years ago?

Some ideas that would bring people back:

* Wildly new, terse, and clear syntax and a great library of built-in tools that are briefly and intuitively named.

* Easily write and design interfaces that generate both/either back-end or matching integrated front-end code which is off in its own directory and can easily be used by existing JavaScript and HTML.

* Similarly be able to generate the JavaScript front-end code that use those JS client libraries with easily writable/pluggable generators so that it can generate Angular 1.x, 2, ReactJS, Bootstrap, etc. in "best-practice" ways that can be updated frequently as the community changes.

* Simultaneously provide the option to serve very similar pages using straight HTML, degrading even to the point that a text only browser could use the site easily.

* Easily define responsiveness of pages.

* Support multiple 3D, 4D, etc. interfaces with customizable inputs to be forward-compatible without overdoing complexity (i.e. it's really pluggable).

* Similarly support generation of almost any kind of service integration, with easy pluggable authN/R.

* Easily scalable.

* Relational, noSQL, versioning DB (noms) support.

* Make fun books for kids and a site where they can share what they've written, write games, build things, etc.

* Make it integrate with every browser, even some older versions, operating systems.

* Make it compile low-level vs. byte code so it's fast as shit.
Does all that complexity limit the amount of price competition airlines engage in?
You might well see something in the realm of HIPAA aimed at the Googles and Facebooks of the world relatively soon.

I'd have to believe that the federal government, and law enforcement generally, would be excluded from such a law, though (in much the same way they're already excluded from HIPAA itself).

Even assuming otherwise, laws restricting what the government itself can do aren't always terribly robust (see, for example, the Patriot Act). I appreciate the idea that private companies are as much or possibly more of a concern in this space as the government, but the problems of the two really move in concert. As the scope of data Google has on you grows, so does the power of the third-party doctrine.
and have no more community interaction.
> An education system that would promote entrepreneurship would one that focuses on group projects and encouraging students to take risks with new ideas.

I'm not sure an "education system" could do this. The whole point of having a "system" for education is uniformity: everyone learns the same things. There is some variation, but not much, because no "system" can handle much diversity. But the whole point of entrepreneurship is diversity: everyone tries different things.
Standard linear blending suffers from "candy wrapper" pinching. Dual quaternion blending is better at volume preservation.

https://a.fsdn.com/con/app/proj/mayadqskinning/screenshots/1...
I've wanted this for a long time. But I don't see why it has to be language-specific. Maybe some of the fancy parts do, but why can't make/cmake/ninja/etc. support this in a language independent way? Just basic queries/commands like:

1. run any build steps that directly depend on file X
2. run any build steps that directly or indirectly depend on file X
3. get whether the build of X succeeded or failed, and console output

These alone would go so far towards making Vim/Emacs/etc more user-friendly.
4 hour drive to the ocean? Does your car have a 30mph speed limiter? Raleigh to Wrightsville Beach is 2 Hours, 1 min according to Google Maps.
I don't think that contemporary journalists are any more virtuous than a blogger. Journalism quality is terrible, and it's not because amateurs are dragging down the mean: almost everybody lives down there.
Can you please link to a quote where he "expressed hatred" for Hillary? Ideally one that is dated before the point that she joking-not-really called for his murder via drone?
Huh?

Even all the way from Durham you can be in Wilmington in 2 hours and a few minutes.

4 hours will get you almost all the way to Charleston, SC which is way way way far away.
First they came for those I deemed offensive, and I did not speak out—

Because I did not deem myself offensive.

Then they came for me—

and there was no one left to speak for me.
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Are they? I've received e-mail containing just "we've changed privacy policy. Full text here". And they are required to do that, so it's not their choice. So I tried to find diff or short blog post about it. I coudn't. I've found this tread and HN user posted link to DO's github repository (https://github.com/digitalocean/tos/commit/782ce59ec49a75fe2...)

Is it really transparent? Is it really worth the praise?
The story of the development of the Los Angeles basin is an interesting one that I've been going through over the past few days. "Why does Los Angeles even exist?" being one question. "Why did it out-grow San Francisco?" being another.

The 1906 quake and topography likely had a lot to do with it. Just at the time the Westward migration really started in earnest, San Francisco burnt down, and LA didn't have to build any bridges to get between places.

Mix up some oil and water for added fun.
Are you familiar with the concept of 'entryism'?

It is where a political organization, among other things, puts headlines in the news to try and wrestle control away from the owners of a company.

This is not imaginary, in China this is explicitly done with the Communist party and small companies when they reach a certain size or amount of influence.

The right believe the left is doing this with Silicon Valley. Here social justice warriors are something like shock troops indirectly manipulated by higher level political organizations like the Clinton foundation. We know for example that Salon and Gawker were put up to specific stories in pay for play and they received mysterious anonymous donations when they did so.

You don't have to believe that, but perhaps this will explain to you the hesitancy of the other side in taking your proposition seriously.

When a right wing tech employer hires a person (esp. a woman or minority) they sometimes wonder if they are part of a leftist ideological struggle which is orthogonal to the business's interests. An example is that we see the CEO of Yahoo, a woman, firing large numbers of men to replace them with women for no conceivable reason relating to merit.

This sort of thing appears to be uncontroversial in Silicon Valley but it is very not OK elsewhere. Mayer is being sued for sexism against men with a class action lawsuit I believe.

I predict Silicon Valley bifurcates along leftist and rightist lines but there is also a chance political chicanery tears the industry apart.

All of this is to explain to you that we are very aware of this:

> community has a tendency to ignore other "soft" problems (like gender equality or diversity in tech) that are very relevant and important.

It's that if I were to start a company tomorrow I would explicitly make it clear that SJWism was something that would get you immediately fired for the same reason having a 'StormFront' club in the company would be bad news for the manager.
Not everything has to be a social network. Host it on youtube, post it someplace else. Blog, facebook page, website with comments... Youtube seems to work fine in its current form for many content creators.
Did you mean TLS 1.0? Retiring 1.2 seems a bit premature, since 1.3 isn't finalized.
no sweat, it's a pleasure to communicate with people who are able to think systematically and who can do an actual discussion rather than just shouting from rooftops.
You seem to have missed that eli was suggesting that you find Guthub's new policies...offensive.
This most likely originated from TypeScript, which actually went further with compiler and code analysis integrated
How are you at risk of harassment on youtube? Simply don't post your personal details.
The tiny house thing boggles my mind. Where I grew up, I had lots of friends that lived in them. The rich kids made fun of them, called the "trailer trash".
On Chrome on Nexus 6 with Android 7 get black screen regardless of orientation or screen touching/dragging.
I think the current trend is a rest api with json input/output, and an sdk in the popular languages that wraps the api.
I would like to better understand your point of view. What in particular about the guidelines inclines you to move? Why do you think GitHub shouldn't be doing it?
Is it because that's the way Walt Disney did it?
Simple: existing infrastructure. Just as phasing out petrol-powered vehicles will take decades, so it takes years to move IT infra to the new standards. Add to it this complexity: new ways to solve IT problems arise all the time. Just as now it seems that REST + JSON are the best possible solution, SOAP + XML had the same status a few years back. What will happen when browsers run byte code? Or when we descentralize internet services?
This is a great point, and indeed the article is overly simplistic.

I think though that what really matters beyond the base cost in this point is the depreciation cost over time. This is of course much harder to estimate.