skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the article it says "In March 2014, he anonymously emailed his complaint to New York officials.."

Then the article says: "In March 2015, Tyler Shultz was contacted by a Journal reporter through the professional network LinkedIn."

Something doesn't match up here. I can only assume that his anonymous complaint did not reach the desired effect in a year, and he went via other channels, using his own renouned last name.
I think, in a way, the media is kind of empowering the "alt-right" by constantly referring to them as the "alt-right". It presents it as the little guy vs The Man, and I think that makes it much more palatable than "far right."

Influential people who think the government is intentionally making gay frogs, that media needs to be under strict control, that climate change is a Chinese hoax, and that everything is us vs (((Them))) just got a candidate that represents their views into the White House. There's nothing alt about it. It's just straight up mainstream now. Referring to it as such takes away from the rebel factor and reveals that this is, in fact, just the new system, as bad as the old one.
I'm trying to visualize how it might be set up, from the perspective of the satellite... If you're familiar with how an o3b satellite uses numerous relatively focused high-Ka-band spot beams, I'm imagining each of these 4000 satellites doing something similar but with much smaller spot beams and tighter focus (but also the satellite is smaller, lower power and has smaller antennas so less gain).

The really curious part is how the satellite to ground trunk link will be accomplished, if they're going to try to build something like a modern version of the satellite-to-satellite links that Iridium satellites use, but at much higher capacities, draining traffic from multiple satellites through whichever one happens to be over a gateway earth station at a particular time. Or perhaps the satellites will be able to do that and also opportunistically connect to operator-owned earth stations when they are in LOS.
I don't mean this as an attack on the author, it's clear he is smart and trying to be helpful, thoughtful and kind in writing this advice.

But I see this type of sweet/safe/simple advice post so often on many sites. The tone reads like how one would talk to a child while trying to be careful not to hurt their feelings or confuse them.

I realize many founders are young with limited experience, maybe even still in school. And there's no reason to be rude about things. But who is the audience for these types of advice posts with this level of handholding?...

Are there would-be founders out there pretty much ready to be in charge of millions of dollars of other people's money, ready to hire strangers, ready to figure out finding/keeping customers, ready to stave off ruthless competitors, but don't yet know that many things in life and in business can be complex and are not predictable and they need this explained??

Also I am quite sure one can explain life and business are complex and not predictable - and so obviously a single metric like $1mm ARR doesn't guarantee funding or anything - without having to borrow (the much more confusing topic) of parametric insurance as part of the explanation...

For a VC screening, if a founder needs such simple, obvious advice and handholding, doesn't that speak to bigger issues?

Again, really really appreciate when VCs share their knowledge and experience, just sometimes when I see the advice they do give I wonder who/how many founders are they meeting who lack such basic knowledge and common sense and need things explained like this.
I don't know if it's so much attributable to malice as it is that it's their business model of working hard to satisfy the 99% but neglecting the concerns of the 1% that cause trouble and take up a lot of labor without yielding commensurate return to the bottom line. I don't know if regulation is the solution, but at the least, we should be mindful of this and try to arrange their lives to be anti-fragile to these unexpected shocks.
Poli now manage this via an API with Westpac at least, i.e. you go to Poli, redirect to Westpac and log in, then redirect back to Poli who pull in the info with an API. Very much like an OAuth flow, but I don't know the actual details of it. (I won't get into how oauth isn't a great solution, but at least I'm not exposing my creds to Poli).
There's been plenty of discussion over the past month or so on why this might happen. IIRC, check some of the Peter Thiel-related submissions from around the time he donated to the Trump campaign.

Sometimes it's a function of user flags (which affect the ranking even if [flagged] isn't visible) which is a more democratic process, and sometimes it's a function of what whether the mods determine that the discussion is constructive and valuable to the overall health and purpose of the HN community. I don't know if the mods always comment when this is the case, but they have in the past done so.
While possibility is another question entirely, from a design standpoint I can definitely see why an app might want to bundle the font together with the rest of the package. It guarantees a homogeneous user experience.
I think these are made in preparation for high-DPI screens.

The serifs are short enough that I couldn't see them all on my regular screen (particularly the right-hand serif on the lowercase 'w'). But on my phone I would be able to see it perfectly well. On a high-DPI screen, the text isn't blurry or anything. They didn't focus on the rendering at all it seems, but made their screenshots in high resolution.
You do not have to use that service and there are also electronic versions of a one-time-password generator.
Playing with that comparison, it looks like there's a +y bias in your algorithm. If I didn't say that in a way that's clear, check out the Mowich Lake picture in particular. Its features are mirrored above and below the shoreline, so the generated features should also be somewhat mirrored, right?

Instead, the entire visual center of the image gets moved up by the Primitivization. It looks like trees on the top half get their exposed tops connected, but those same crowns are cropped in the reflection.

This is such a phenomenal project. Thanks for making it!
No its really not.
I had an account suspended, I still don't know why. It was a generic account my roomate and I used to manage stuff that we shared at the time. I still have some stuff hooked up to it. Logged in one day to get my new credentials from PIA and it was disabled. All I did was open a ticket from the backup account listed (my main account) asking what the deal was, and....POOF! account reactivated.
Thank god I'm not the only one blanching at the thought of supporting this censorship. I'm truly in a quandary over it.
You mean:

DON'T USE ANY GOOGLE SERVICE.
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I am about 99.9% certain that these will not be powered by consumer grade Si solar cells in special panels/encapsulation. Satellites typically use triple junction GaAs cells (>30% efficient) which are rated for space:

https://www.google.com/search?q=spectrolab+gaas&ie=utf-8&oe=...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-junction_solar_cell

Spectrolab is owned by Boeing.
> But this kid stood up to his own family, and lawyers hired by his family

If I'm reading the article correctly, the lawyers who harassed him were hired by the company and not by his grandfather. The only lawyers his family hired were the ones fighting for him.
Yes, but if your credit card gets stolen, it is not your money that is getting stolen. Credit card companies are okay with that. If a CC is convenient, a lot of people will use it. These companies don't care if they have to reimburse let's say 10% of all transactions. In this case convenience > security.
Do you mean it's really not a corporation enforcing its worldview? Or it's really not the same if the wings were reversed?
It feels like political censorship because it is political censorship. Those with the "correct" political views can basically tell people to kill themselves, or worse, while Twitter turns a blind eye to literal terrorists (of the blowing themselves up with bombs variety) using their platform to spread their message.

You can say whatever you want about how terrible the people being banned supposedly were, but Twitter's priorities here are crystal clear. This was an ideological purge first and a (terribly subjective) ToS enforcement action second.
Finally, Twitter is growing up and moving past its cowardly, childish "free speech" dogma. It's taken them way too long to get here though.
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Clickbait blogspam site. Every article seems to be almost a word-for-word copy if its referenced source.

All postings from this site are from the same person, like mattermark.
Same thing from most in-app purchase based games.
So, technically, everyone who does this (provides their login info) violates their terms with the bank I assume, as they probably told you not to share your password with any third party?
I'm not talking about 'uses of unsafe', I'm talking about code that is unsafe. Much of that code is not even written in Rust, so there's no 'unsafe' to use.
I'm mildly uncomfortable with my primary address being outside my control. (Like most, I use gmail too.) A year or two back I registered stretch.email, as Stretch is, in fact, my last name. Obviously most of the more common 'stretch' domains are taken, but this one was available and seemed appropriate. I have since discovered that enough services don't support newer tlds as to make it basically unusable for authentication purposes.

Anyway, I guess I'll probably end up with mail@[firstname][lastname].com, but with some disappointment. I suppose I can always keep the .email and just forward it to the other though.
> there is a problem with testing them

Maybe they're comparing the rendering of the UI toolkit against reference bitmaps, so always need to use the same font, so want to distribute the font in the repository?
Seems like a great mission profile to build a reliability track record before taking human cargo too.

Consistent small profit launches, then as the accident %'s decrease design an ultra low risk human module and start space tourism for real
That'll probably never catch on. Front end dev already have 10 frameworks and 5 browsers to worry about. Let's not add 10 more languages for a total of 500 different combinations.
> Twitter is a mandatory medium for public communication

Which is why everyone should stop using twitter. A private company should never have that much control over critical infrastructure.
ISPs are privately owned American corporations as well. Did you read what you're replying to?
This is a big wake up call for me.

I have everything in google: Drive, email, voice, docs, sheets, etc. I was actually about to sign up for Fi. The convenience of everything in one place is great. But I don't think I had quite thought through a disaster like this.

With this article in mind, need to reevaluate. I guess either regular local backups and/or diversification of service providers would be a good step.
I'm aware of the studies - I remember reading of them at the time - and find them fairly convincing.

It's just that since that time we've become more aware of the "replication crisis" in science generally, and it'd be nice to see independent researchers confirm Nyhan's findings.
Your argument is completely logically incoherent. It amounts to saying that the status quo is circularly self-justifying because... because... just because.

Have you considered, for instance, the possibility that relaxing the moderation (and -- yes -- allowing some real abusers to slip through the cracks) but dealing humanely with those who the admins can interact with would be better for Wikipedia on the whole? (Probably not.)
LOL, so wikipedia is dying because this one person thought it would be a great idea to store personal recipe archive on it and admins deleted it. That's not really compelling evidence.
Sure, but generally native applications should use the system font settings to keep things consistent.
YC harc folks (e.g. Bret Victor, Yoshiko ohshima ) -theyve shaped technology but afaik they don't do many interviews

Vinay Gupta - hexayurt dude / blockchain evangelizer now trying to start an accelerator

Mariana mazzucato - economist, author of rethinking capitalism
I guess the cost of allowing these accounts is greater than the ad revenue they bring in now that election season is over.
Steal their credit cards. Just kidding, don't really do this. (Do it).
http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/videos/a25836/hennessey...

The modifications were basically throw boost and fuel at it until it makes 775 hp.
I hope you don't mind, but I'm interested in talking to you about satellite comms and antennas specifically. You don't have any contact info listed in your profile, but if you'd like to talk you can either hit my personal address listed in my profile, or my planet.com one where my username is patrick.
Honestly how could serif be a good idea? I do not see the appeal at all.
Audio or video ?
Snapchat/Periscope/Facebook Live would be a much better medium.

IMHO Justin Kan already demonstrated what works - office hours !

Office hours are YC's killer feature ..and also the reason why Startup School's format also follows office hours. I don't think YC should do a Techcrunchy podcast.

If anything - do a weekly Q&A with someone famous where users are able to submit questions.

TL;DR - bring the YC format to the podcast.
Monopolies are bad. This is a prime example.
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It's a little odd, since 99% of the time it's really just a euphemism for a particular kind of neo-nazi.
It's rather glib, actually. There is a legitimate question of whether companies like Twitter should operate with neutrality on these issues, regardless of how poorly the issue is broached.
Unfortunately, the nature of Twitter makes debate unlikely to end in agreement. Twitter is just trying to improve the environment for its users so more people will join and stick around. Most people find the "ideas that powered the NSDAP" quite disgusting.
Using headers. We use Mailgun for delivery (and provide docs on configuring SPF records).
The positive consequences is that wikipedias resources don't get wasted on useless crap.
For completeness, if you happen to use Qubes, you can configure a VM specifically for talking to USB devices that would prevent this from affecting the rest of the system.
90 days ago Milo + ISIS came up, and Twitter banned 235,000 ISIS accounts. I wrote a similar comment then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12314841

It's unfair and highly inaccurate to say that Twitter is turning a blind eye to terrorists on the platform. However, I'd be interested to know what radical leftist organizers are doing to use the Twitter platform and how many of them have ended up banned as well.
You can try the 1.5 or 2x speeds. It was odd for me in the begining but after listening for a while at 2x speed hearing adapted pretty well. One caveat, it may make one speak a bit faster.
There's no simple solution here. Part of the Alt-Right platform, as I have it, is that the media (be it news or social media) is corrupt and bent on silencing them. Suspending their accounts would only reinforce that belief.

I would also hope that we can come up with a solution that doesn't involve hindering others's ability to communicate. Even if it is the simplest and most effective tactic, it seems like that's just fighting the symptoms rather than the disease.
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Like this? http://imgur.com/a/61EnF

I probably misunderstood, but it seems to work. "Align with edge" I meant aligning with any edge of any box which is already in play.
To be honest, I really miss the good old flex + wsdl days.

Component architecture, check.
Two way binding, check.
Optional type, check.
IDE, check.

My favorite, typed components, check.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems like a convex optimization problem, assuming you know the sizes of the boxes and volume to pack them in. I think you could define a set of equality/inequality constraints and solve the problem efficiently. For further reading: http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee364a/
Steve Jobs said (in the Stanford commencement address) that he couldn't tolerate seeing his parents spend their life savings on his college and so he dropped out.
Go to a meeting and talk to them. They may not have the expertise to even understand the security issues. Don't forget, your HOA board is your neighbors, so helping out is the best way to get things done.
Hm. Another lesson - avoid Google for critical accounts. Having your account handled by someone who can suspend it because they didn't like how you bought your hardware is simply too risky, besides just how weird it sounds. It highlights that Google wields too much power over their users.
Accounting has nothing to do with the name. Its from the creators of Rick and Morty and is a short, bizarre, hilarious experience. Highly recommended. Job Simulator is exactly what it sounds like --but it's surprisingly fun to play for 5 minutes (not much beyond that though).
ISPs are considered common carriers, which Net Neutrality addresses:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier#Telecommunicati...

I haven't seen this same argument made for websites in particular. If you have good references for that, please do share!

btw, did you create an account just to make this comment? If so, why? It doesn't seem too controversial.
Java enums are the one thing that I miss in other languages.
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Which makes it a right. The Bill of Rights is a document describing the rights of the people as well as protecting the people from the government. In the context of the parent's comment, it confirms that people, at least in the US, have the right of free speech.

Neither the parent nor Jack Dorsey can override that right beyond their own back yard, which does not at all equate to suppressing speech. Getting moderated on a forum isn't speech suppression and doesn't in any way violate the First Amendment.
Better yet: Don't do business with fascists.
Good thoughts. I also shut down a corp (S-Corp) in the last few years and had similar misgivings. But theoretically, if the veil is pierced, whatever assets the corp returned to shareholders should be available for legal defense. Or if the corp still existed and in the red, shareholders would be lending money anyway to defend it and stave off personal liability. If neither corp nor shareholders have enough assets to defend themselves, that is its own sort of protection (the play dead, or actually dead, strategy.)

I'm not disagreeing with you; just adding to it.
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-Elon Musk

-Jason Cohen CEO of WPEngine

-Gail Goodman, former CEO of Constant Contact

-Jason Lemkin of Saastr

-Peter Thiel

-Author of TensorFlow (apparently terrytangyuan@gmail.com)

-David Skok of Matrix Partners
...except the people that want to hurt the president elect, call for all white men to be killed, and rape the president elect's wife.

I've seen all of this and more on Twitter and these accounts have not been touched.

It's childish for Twitter to use its power to silence political opponents.

Some of these alt-right accounts deserved to get banned. Others were just people expressing their political beliefs and not directly attack anyone.

This election has really opened my eyes to the amount of childish, immature, and mentally unstable people we have in the United States.
Wait you have to have a Google account just to order a pixel phone? How dumb would you have to be to do that when you're doing shady reselling deals? But this is why I distrust any online transaction that cannot be done without a guest account unless there's some solid reason. There's no such reason for buying a phone.
Seems like there is a case to be made that Trump should be suspended. Would certainly be a loud statement but also would put twitter in an interesting position.
> Most people find the "ideas that powered the NSDAP" quite disgusting.

If we are truly building a society of tolerance, whether or not one has a visceral reaction to an idea should not stop whether or not one can discuss and debate it. I'm not a neo-Nazi, but I've talked at length with them about their views. I will give anyone a few minutes to explain what they are about, try to listen to it neutrally, and form my own opinion. My personal conclusion of neo-Nazism is that it is a way for white men that feel they have no economic opportunity to blame a convenient target, and they try to rationalize Nazi Germany's domestic infrastructural successes as a reason why the country was doing what was right. I think it is a prime example of scapegoating, and I find it violent and hateful.

If we are paying lip service to tolerance and acceptance of alternative worldviews to make ourselves feel like better progressives, we are doing our views a disservice and acting more hypocritical than those that blatantly wear radical views of censorship and discrimination.
Lol, swift.
So, since we're talking about Rust...

print!("You have %d new messages", messages)

Was that supposed to make me want to abandon all type safety and embrace a GC'd language that runs in a VM?
Hamas' official account had been around since 2010 [1].

235k accounts is nothing. Absolutely nothing. Twitter accounts are like email addresses, cheap and disposable. It took proliferation of articles like that one (and probably more importantly, a lawsuit) for them to get off their rears and do something about it. And this is after multiple reports over months, against unambiguously hateful accounts, some of which I personally participated in.

For some reason, it takes no such media shaming or legal action to ban, limit, or otherwise mess with the speech of the political right. Milo can just mention someone, someone else will say it's brigading, and off we go to the races. A celebrity can talk about getting hate tweets, and the CEO will drop what he's doing and personally reach out to them, while ISIS propaganda goes completely unchecked.

Feelings are less important than terrorist propaganda, full stop, end of story. No matter what you think of the political right, this is a disgusting inversion of priorities.

[1]: http://www.jpost.com/Business-and-Innovation/Why-are-terrori...
1) Wikipedia is not dying. It is the sixth most popular website on the internet. Traffic to Wikipedia continues to grow at above-average rates.

2) Wikipedia does not have a shortage of editors. It is in fact overwhelmed with editors who have a net-negative impact on Wikipedia's stated mission. By failing to read the rules and failing to accept the rules when informed of them, you have made yourself a net-negative contributor. These rules are not inscrutable, but are publicly available and explained in depth. The admin who removed your content provided a link to the relevant rule.

3) Wikipedia's primary challenge today is quality, not quantity. The overwhelming number of abusive users create an enormous burden of editing. The pedants, petty tyrants and robots of Wikipedia may be a deterrent to new contributors, but they also form the immune system that protects Wikipedia against abuse.

4) In the space of 15 years, Wikipedia has become the largest and highest-quality encyclopedia available. The community has developed a complex set of processes to ensure continued quality. Those processes may be imperfect, but they are demonstrably effective. Your criticism comes from a position of complete ignorance as to the necessity and efficacy of those processes.
alternative is pretty much a synonym of neo
Sure, but not everyone enjoys spending their time engaging with Nazi rhetoric. There are plenty of places outside of Twitter where you can actually choose whether or not to have a discussion.
Twitter doesn't turn a profit, do they? If they get a couple months of losing users, that could easily pop their inflated stock. I'm not sure this is a good move for them.
the politically correct term for a racist
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