skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're correct; it doesn't matter. Until it does.

Edit: BTW, you'll eventually have to throw this mouse away because the battery is dead. And there are AA batteries that can be recharged and used many, many times.
some kind of ubend, and the "pellets" are magnetised?

say we drop a rocket into this ubend and it redirects the energy back up into space?

and in orbit there are rockets that lift them the rest of the way, remove the passengers and then drop them again.
The Wirecutter worked because a reader could understand that its source of income was affiliate links for quality consumer goods. And we trusted that it'd be critical and honest.

On the other hand, a media company that relies on advertising for a significant chunk of its revenue naturally seems like it will have a conflict of interest between its advertisers and the products it may be reviewing.

Anyways, congrats to Brian Lam and co., but I'm curious how this would benefit the Times in the long run.
> My assertion is the advantage of having function scoping is apparent to those who understand function scoping.

I assert that if you can't say what the advantage is then you don't understand it yourself.

"You'd see the advantages if you understood this, and since you don't you must not understand it" is not a reasonable thing to say to people.
That bigger companies spend more on R&D has nothing to do with whether Tesla is able to turn a profit.
To me 15 years for murder sounds low. Even for Nordic country standards.

My understanding is that the ~15 years is because the convicts try everything to get the sentence repelled. Which signals that "death sentence" is really something they consider lot worse than being in prison.

There has been research that humans are unable to accurately discern more than 3 years into future. I don't think 15 vs. 30 vs. 45 years makes much difference. But 20 years vs. lethal injection, there is obvious difference in the quality of the punishment.

>Also, is being shot by a sharpshooter the death penalty without due process or a reasonable effort to preserve the lives of innocent people who may be involved?

You could claim that any death penalty is exactly that. No matter which position you take, the best situation in either case would be the perpetrator turning in and getting that due process.
We don't store things that are actually secret, as k8s secrets ;-) Hashicorp Vault is quite good at this.
Really useful content that frames not just what but why they came to their conclusion and how you can adapt their evaluation to your own needs.

I can see how it could work because I have spent several thousand based on their advice. Several times through the Amazon link.
[quickly] Reading through: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure...

If you say that disclosing surveillance on US citizens was ok, how do you explain these leaks:

* """The Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS), which cooperates with the NSA, has gained access to Russian targets in the Kola Peninsula and other civilian targets. In general, the NIS provides information to the NSA about "Politicians", "Energy" and "Armament"."""

* """In France, the NSA targeted people belonging to the worlds of business, politics or French state administration."""

* """the NSA had been monitoring telephone conversations of 35 world leaders"""

* """In an effort codenamed GENIE, computer specialists can control foreign computer networks using "covert implants," a form of remotely transmitted malware on tens of thousands of devices annually."""

* """According to Edward Snowden, the NSA has established secret intelligence partnerships with many Western governments."""

* """revealed NSA spying on multiple diplomatic missions of the European Union (EU) and the United Nations Headquarters in New York."""

How are these matters relevant to the citizens of the United States? Aren't these things exactly what spy agencies are supposed to do? Why should Snowden get a pardon for disrupting normal intelligence work?
Where are plans like this so expensive? My family plan's premiums for very good PPO insurance are $23k/yr (including employer contributions). HDHP plans were in the realm of $5k per year when I was insured by one, just a few years ago.
You are definitely not alone in that feeling...
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Snowden's revelations about domestic spying made the US safer. Snowden's revelations about non-domestic spying made the US weaker.

If all he'd done was the first he should be pardoned. Because he did the second he should get life without parole.
> UX continues to dominate all other market factors

There is an inherent tension between security and UX from the perspective of designing an individual tool. But from the perspective of building good security habits and policies, good UX is essential. The only way to achieve both is to invest the resources into thoughtful system design. What drives people to invest such resources?
I'm not sure I follow. Healthcare is mandated, or you'd be paying some penalty on your taxes. So charge a startup fee for some entrance check of taxes, but otherwise why would an individual getting insurance be any riskier than a group? (It does make me start to think of farfetched scenarios like people joining a front-company to get group insurance rates...)

Same with disability, examine the individual coming in to make sure they don't already have a disability that's being covered, but after that why would the individual odds be any different than accepting a whole group? If you do an actual exam, they might actually be better.
I estimate it took 60-70 hours, of which 2/3 of that was for the documentation.

Thanks for the compliment and the link to TSTC. I'll add it to my personal list.
Wow. 5 years of work. 30 million. That is like 6 million a year.
I don't like Docker, I feel that most people who claim it's "easy" don't really have sufficient experience with stacks that do not use Docker, and I think it's overall an overhyped piece of rubbish that shouldn't be recommended to people other than in some very specific usecases.

That having been said, this site is terrible. It suggests a conspiracy without ever actually providing any evidence, and it's full of claims and assertions but very little to back it up. Docker has plenty of legitimate problems to address, and I don't really understand why somebody would half-ass their criticism like this.
It's "production ready" if you're willing to do a lot of work yourself. It has a lot of solid theoretical and practical advantages, if you're willing to do so -- as well as some downsides. Advantages include things like real reproducibility, a "unified language" that can describe everything from your packages to server networks, atomic upgrades and rollbacks. More minor advantages are things like powerful development environments, automatic support for distributed/remote builds for your software/deps, easily supports customized software (it's very easy to patch your kernel and have all kernel dependencies rebuilt automatically, stuff like that etc), and other stuff. It's probably one of the most forkable/customizable distros, just purely due to the way Nix works, and fact everything is in one git repo, making 'wide changes' as easy as a branch. Downsides include the fact that the security story is still ongoing on several fronts (userspace/kernel hardening, quickly shipping userspace vulnerability fixes) and that compiling everything -- when it happens -- can take some time. (I only list these two, but obviously these aren't small problems and IMO are two of the biggest ones).

NixOS certainly isn't ready for "ordinary consumers" or anything, even among people who might use Linux regularly. It also just factually isn't going to be to everyone's exact taste, in terms of some design decisions (hence Guix exists, and Guix is great!) But for advanced users and operators, it can certainly be well worth it, and confer some unique and powerful advantages.

Note that I'm specifically skirting the question of "does it address all the same things as Docker" (in fact, they aren't even fully competing projects, in many ways) -- because that's a fairly complex question given all the ways people use both projects, and it could fill a blog post (or several) in its own right.
What a shame. Happy for the founders as it is a great site, but hopefully the quality doesn't take too deep of a dive.

Right now they make all their money off of affiliate links, so let's see what happens when the parent company depends on advertisement.
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Switzerland is in Schengen. And free movement of labor isn't covered by Schengen.
There is no evidence that it caused any harm though. Can you explain why you feel that way or show some evidence?
Because their versions of the NSA spy on Americans doing the same things we do for them, and then trade the information.

Their NSA spies on us, our NSA spies on them, they trade to subvert their local laws.

That is maybe the most important disclosure that Snowden helped make happen.
And it has the potential to fail catastrophically for the guy doing this, too.

Can anyone still take the other side in a negotiation (or any other situation, really) seriously if it becomes know that they're trying to pull this parlor trick? Whoever is found out doing this would seem both ridiculous and repellent.

Like a pickup artist.
The minor gripe I have with Docker is how they're tying swarm into the docker tool. I can see a future where sysops will use the tools built into Docker because it's included just like how Windows made IE6 the default browser.
>but if this recall is being conducted at Hangzhou Xiongmai's own initiative

I imagine there were a lot of angry calls from Washington and Beijing over this. I don't think companies are magnanimous like this without external pressure.

>but I think we should also applaud efforts of those who are taking the expensive steps of fixing the problem with no direct incentive to do so.

Applaud what exactly? That all these companies ship devices that happily take IP addresses and go on the public internet or punch through firewalls with upnp and do not force a first-time password change and do not have an auto-updater installed? Even the cheapest Netgear comes with a sticker on the side for a semi-random password instead of shipping everything with 'admin/password.' Or using antiquated and non-encrypted transports like telnet. These 1990's habits need to die and it won't happen because of corporate good graces, because those haven't worked historically. If it happens, it'll happen via external pressure via governments and lawsuits. Market forces are rarely a fix all here.
Honestly, 4chan always felt like a place that Reddit and Tumblr and other less-horrible media sites should subsidize. You Might not want to go there, but it drives a lot of free revenue for a lot of other sites. It's the equivalent of a whole bunch of rough-and-tumble prospectors panning for gold (or copper, let's be honest). Exhausting, rarely productive, and unpleasant to be around, but ultimately a steady source of valuable material.

I can't really imagine using the site regularly, but a remarkable amount of material elsewhere is ultimately 4chan-derived. Imgur pretty consistently has 'greentext' on its front page, which means views derived purely from rehosting 4chan content.

To continue my metaphor, 4chan pans for gold (copper), Reddit sorts the results for purity, and Buzzfeed packages it all into something pretty looking at an enormous markup.
> I couldn't agree more.

And that's why raising awareness matters.
> leave as soon as your bank account is ready for your next 3 month vacation. I personally consider myself semi-retired since the age of 30. Though it is a life of seeming instability, they’ve done all they can to make long-term engagement unsustainable.

Does not seem like good advice, or taking enough responsibility ("it's their fault I am semi-retired").

In fact, the whole article is a manifesto on how to shift blame onto external sources from oneself—projecting blame onto others and taking as little responsibility as possible.
It doesn't help that many variables are objects, and const means that you cannot reassign the variable, not that you cannot modify it.

e.g.

const x = {};
x.foo = 'it works!'
I'm sort of shocked he was that aware of what was going on. As a regular reddit user at that time, I wasn't even sure he knew what reddit's domain name was.
"Priming" covers a lot of ground. At one end of the spectrum, there are fairly straightforward lexical priming effects. You can recognize the (scrambled/faint/etc) word "Banana" faster if you've been previously primed to think about fruit. These effects are pretty robust (at least as far as I know) and are fairly consistent with some models of memory.

At the other end of the spectrum are these embodied cognition experiments that fall back on "priming" as an explanation. For example, people allegedly walk more slowly after being primed with words related to old age, or view others as being more "warm" if the subject hands them a hot beverage. These typically do not replicate well and tend to fall back on vague, handwavey theories.
It looks like Google will allow app integration with the Google Assistant:
https://developers.google.com/actions/
In theory yes, but in my experience ./configure && make install is a lot more reliable.

Projects that recommend piping curl to bash are trying to dumb down the process, and they have a tendency to make too many assumptions about the system it'll be running on.
It depends I think.

For example, in my opinion

const Header = ({ children, iconName, iconSize, title }) => { ... };

is more readable than

const Header = (props) => { ... };
As a Frenchman, I chuckled at "In Britain, however, the French standard was interpreted in an erroneous way, due to which British orchestras commonly tuned to A = 439 Hz."

NOTE: I hope the word chuckle isn't interpreted as condescending, I only meant that this story is almost a perfect parable for our relationship with Great Britain throughout history, one of mutual defiance and refusal to acknowledge the other party as an equal even though I've always felt that there is some hidden love and respect going on at a deeper level on both sides.
> but the effect was minimal beyond crypto heads and maybe enterprise users.

Security/privacy on the Internet is known for being hard, and it used to be, if you wanted privacy you had to withdraw slightly from society, and learn Linux, read about TOR, learn how to harden your web browser, or otherwise attempt to 'go dark' from the prying eyes of governments or sophisticated criminals.

Now it can be said with certainty that many of the things we take for granted, have come along leaps and bounds due to Snowden, and are a lot less complicated to Install and setup.

Now a privacy-conscious teenager can install TOR browser bundle, Signal, uBlock, or any number of things you can find on sites like PrivacyTools[1] with relatively little trouble compared to the Internet pre-Snowden.

> UX continues to dominate all other market factors in computing by a huge margin

It might come at some cost, like reduced UX, as you mention, but that's called a security tradeoff or a privacy tradeoff and it's a well-known hard fact of protecting your communications and traffic.

[1] https://www.privacytools.io/
Because plants are subject to changing climate too. If regions get drier then all that CO2 will get released in a short amount of time. This is like technical debt. It's released CO2 that does not affect the climate yet but could do so in the future due to feedback loops.

And even if that doesn't happen, it's only 25% of the released CO2. 50% are still warming the climate and another 25% are still acidifying the oceans. So that's a pretty high cost for a few greener forests.

And then there is the issue that increased CO2 levels mostly increase the complex carbohydrate contents in plants. They do not produce more proteins since they need nitrogen for that. Which may actually make things worse for the foodchain. E.g. it decreases the nutritional value of pollen, which is a problem for bees.

So there is really not much positive value in there.
I have great respect for moot's statement that he created 4chan partly because he thought "people need a place to be wrong". As in, people need a place to experiment with ideas that are controversial or even downright stupid with being afraid.

4chan and Something Awful provided that. I think it's healthy for the world to have a few places cordoned off to be primordial slimepools/cesspits. But, I wouldn't given anyone a hard time for trying very hard to not be one of those places.

For example, I think a big part of the continuing high signal/noise ratio at HN is it's tradition of downvoting sarcasm, memes, jokes, fluff, "nice post!" and other low-signal comments. As HN has grown, this has been slipping. But, it us already lasted much longer than I expected.
Never seen a "library" make that kind of video before. Cool.
She was hamstrung by her position from defending herself. In hindsight it's clear that she was set up as a scapegoat.

That said, the incendiary anti-Thiel op-ed she wrote last week was also out of place and ridiculous.
You are assuming that 3rd party javascript is not taking the whole URL including the hash part and sending it for analytics. I have seen at least one analytics company do that.
The most important impact will be difficult to gauge: The US and Five Eyes have built a world-spanning interlocking hierarchy of lords and vassals of surveillance. This means none of the important governments in the world has true autonomy in decision-making, without their decisions being anticipated and influenced by the US and its closest allies.

Security efforts will get serious if state actors decide to try to escape this web.
> Reddit is laced with gender issues, someone filing a wrongful discrimination suit isn't the correct leader for that site. The Reddit users weren't willing to sweep that under the rug.

That lawsuit had zero to do with Reddit though.
I've used The Wirecutter and the Sweethome to guide most of the major home purchases I've made over the past 3 years. So far, their advice has been spot on.
4chan is populated by uncultured assholes. Reddit is populated by self-righteous assholes. Between the two, I actually prefer the uncultured ones - at least they're self-aware.
It would be nice to see how companies like google/twitter/facebook/apple/microsoft/etc got negatively affected by these disclosures. Probably by checking usage drop or some other relevant metrics.

I know a few people (non it related) that dropped gmail.
"then any argument that a life is inviolable goes out the window."

Very few people argue that. Even fewer people who are pro-capital-punishment would argue that, for obvious reasons. An argument that only convinces those who already agree isn't even an argument.

"An execution has all the hallmarks of something that would tick every possible mark of a particularly heinous murder otherwise."

No, it doesn't. You're just doubling down on the sophism. Again, let me emphasize that if anything, I'm angry that this is a bad argument against capital punishment, not as a defense of capital punishment. Everyone from philosophers to the man on the street have understood the differences between cold-blooded murder, murder in the heat of passion, execution, warfare, and self-defense for millennia. Nobody who is capable of making those distinctions is going to be convinced to see all killing as equal, when even the man on the street considers it a rather unsophisticated position.

See also why the animal rights argument that "if it's wrong to murder people for premeditated reasons it should be wrong to kill animals to eat them" hasn't gotten any significant traction. Appealing to people to deliberately dumb down their morality for that to work isn't a good argument, especially when, again, it's not even that sophisticated a difference we're talking about here. We're not into weird Latin terms, reading 19th century existential philosophy, or even arguing what "begging the question" technically means, we're talking stuff that your average 12 year old could explain.
> their versions of the NSA spy on Americans doing the same things we do for them, and then trade the information.

Disclosing the things I listed is not required to tell us that.
To lower support costs. Its a lot easier to use upnp than explain to consumers why their app or web browser won't connect to their home device because of how NAT and firewalling works. Or to implement hosted servers, which also cost money, to be the go-between.
Well, they did disable ssl3
Who's saying Azure will over take AWS? Last I heard AWS was an order of magnitude larger than its nearest competitors.
The spin on this is just great.

As others have said, new features have nothing to do with moderating. Note how the company did nothing wrong. It is not their fault they can't shield developers from user shitstorms.

"Alexis was supposed to announce it [..] but somehow that did not happen". This is just casually glossed over. Somehow that did not happen? again, it is the communities' fault for assuming the CEO fired someone, when they could've easily been informed about who actually did it.

"FUCK your free speech, this is why we can't have nice things." yeah, or this is why we can't have advertisers. If you want to have advertisers, you have to ban the subreddits that make the site look bad. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/4ll9tc/it_looks_li...

Isn't it convenient how they could (in a series of moves)

1. Fire Victoria (for whatever reason)

2. Make the impopular CEO take the blame to get rid of her and

3. Hire a former founder as the new CEO (embraced by the community)

4. Who drops a "Reddit, we need to talk" and gets rid of the shittier subreddits
> If you build a system that doesn't deal with spam, it gets drowned in spam. If you build a system that doesn't deal with abuse, abuse becomes commonplace. If you don't secure your IoT devices you get journalists DDoSed by lightbulbs. It's the same kind of social responsibility.

I think it's deeper than that, it's Inverse Conway's Law_. Reddit was fine before they introduced sub-reddits. It used to be a nice "not quite so tech" HN. Sub-reddits allowed very different cultures to form and easily war with each other.

Conway's Law states that systems end up with structure that mirrors the structure of the teams that design them. The inverse is true too. Social systems tend to mirror geographical (or in this case, technical) structure.
The cost for Privacy is pretty big in terms of loss of convenience.

If people really cared about it duckduckgo would be huge and gmail would have never gotten off the ground. Facebook would be a desert. Most people feel comfortable sharing and being a mostly open book. Only real privacy people care about is who gets to unlock their phone.

Most people are lost in that their privacy is they are one flake in a snowstorm.

I seriously had friends for year say "Don't put my kids on the internet." After a few years that all goes away due to the ease of sharing life with friends and families.

So when people who own iPhone see Amazon's Alexia and their horrible Siri they buy the Echo from Amazon.

Apple just makes things harder for their customers with their attempts on privacy.
Ellen Pao had all those issues prior to joining Reddit.

However, things only blew up when the moderator was fired, and it had nothing to do with gender issues.

The fact is: Ellen did not fire the moderator, and all of Reddit went into uproar insisting with no evidence whatsoever that she was responsible.

I'm not saying Ellen was an angel, or even a good fit for the job. She had her issues. However, all of that had nothing to do with the criticism leveled against her for firing the moderator.

The attack on her was a mob attack - no less.
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