skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, you're not looking to scare a client, you're looking to clearly define the terms of the engagement. If you were hiring your client, dollars to donuts they would be giving you a contract of their terms to sign.

Second, a business attorney is not doing a custom one-off for you. When you call around, you should be asking if they often work with freelance technology consultants -- that's who you want to hire, someone who is familiar with what your needs are, and what's reasonable to ask of a client. They have a baseline template that they've developed that will serve as the framework for what will be modified for your specific needs. They've likely had cases where the business relationship between the consultant and a client went south, so based on that experience (and well known cases, etc.) they're going to ensure that you -- and your client, as contracts are a two-way street -- are sufficiently protected if things were to go awry.

Here's how it worked for me on my initial (free) consultation with the attorney I ended up choosing. I showed up for the appointment. He asked about minutiae of the work I do (since a lot of his clients are freelance contractors that work in tech). He asked if there was anything that was important to me. He then gave me the template (that he developed) that he starts with as a baseline when creating a service agreement. He went over why some terms were there, and why they were worded as such. We talked about what we would add to meet my needs, we talked about what I'd like to modify (too constraining for clients, unnecessary terms, etc.). We shot the breeze for a few minutes, and that was it.

Three days later I get a draft in my inbox. We had a quick phone call, made a few tweaks because I felt a few things would never apply to my company, and that was that. The result is a straightforward six-page document that a sixth grader could understand -- something that my clients really appreciate, because their legal dept. looks it over and finds it completely reasonable.
I think this is just an argument over semantics, the "null hypothesis" is a perfectly valid model using the definition of the statistics community [0] (i.e. a collection of probability distributions over some sample space).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_model
a bit dated the last time I looked at it

I was going to ask about that. A lot of these books are a little old, published a decade ago. How well did they age?
But the ease of creating companies and abandoning them or otherwise obfuscating their liabilities says that they won't be the ones paying dearly.

In short, I think regulations will prevent more damage than post-hoc legal retribution.
This is pretty bad. That pretty much destroys the credibility of Reddit's commenting system in a single act. No one can look at the integrity of the comments written by others the same any more.
There is potentially a plugin that might work for you but an RFC on our core repo would be worth the time. Check out hard-source-webpack-plugin and see if that helps you.
Skyscanner is based in Edinburgh, with another large office in Glasgow. This is huge news for the Scottish tech scene, and will hopefully bring much needed cash to help it thrive. There's a lot of interesting stuff happening here in all types of tech.

Sadly Scotland's other unicorn, FanDuel, looks set to close its hq in Edinburgh after merging with draft kings. However, that will probably release a lot of talent to help smaller co's
Usernames on Reddit do not require even an email address. For that reason, I find it hard to muster up even a modicum of concern for the sanctity of 'authorship' and 'attribution' for individual users. For all I know, every comment on Reddit but my own are generated by a very clever computer.

That congress sees fit to investigate Reddit comments and news websites find credibility in re-posting them are separate issues that absolutely deserve discussion. But the editing of "Fuck [username]" posts...
Could this hurt Reddit's credibility? Seems like it's kind of a big deal.
Thanks! OP here, I'm not sure what the deal is.

I just created my account last week, I wonder if they made some change to the key generation algorithm... I wish I knew enough cryptography to guess what could be going on. How can two passphrases both work unless they both happen to hash to the same value?

I literally had never yet typed the mailbox passphrase on this computer and somehow didn't need to in order to log in. I submitted a note to their security email address, but I'm really confused/concerned that something is up.
More than 50% of the population of India doesn't have a bank account. A large percentage of Indians use an open field as a bathroom and have trouble getting access to clean water. How does this help them in _any_ way?

Hold on, let me spend time walking 10 miles to a bank and sign up for electronic payments instead of tending my field and barely making enough to survive on. Yeah, while this is great for India's banking industry to get some growth, I hardly see the benefit for the significant rural population that does not have easy access to a bank nor any of the supporting infrastructure that is required to support electronic payments.
...pervasive throughout history...
Random probably fruitless game development endeavors.

Still working on a game project I started in January. It's terrible, and could have been finished in a month if I knew what I was doing, and stopped shaving all these yaks.

Also I've decided I want to go through the noobtuts[0] Unity tutorials and implement them in C++, since they're really basic and I want to learn Unity and actually have some finished games.

[0]https://noobtuts.com/unity
„...getting called a pedophile constantly...“ Why?
I'm not sure exactly what distinction you're making, but I realised after posting that I made a leap from observation to experience. Observation doesn't require experience, in the sense that a p-zombie could take in sensory information, and use them to make scientific inferences, without ever experiencing those observations.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is that the only way to observe consciousness is to experience it directly, and doing so proves it exists (at least to ourselves). And sure, from the perspective of some kind of science automaton in the material world, consciousness is as ridiculous as invisible unicorns, but we still experience it.
Not him/her, but I suspect he/she is referring to:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/3bwgjf/riam...

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3cuk3y/what_i...
And the thread was otherwise so civil: https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5ekdy9/the_admi...
> one cannot sign a contract electronically

This obviously varies by jurisdiction, but if you're US based you can absolutely sign electronically (there's an entire Act that enables it). The easiest way is to use services like Echosign or Docusign which most people are pretty familiar with these days.
The reason being Wikipedia is a summary made by a constantly changing group of people out of actual sources with a real name attached to it, which are the ones you're supposed to link.

In any case, a permalink to a specific revision that includes a sha256sum of the article is a good way to ensure you're getting a reliable link to information which can not be tampered without failing the checksum.
Please someone make this.
You probably have to buy hardware from them if the drivers are on the microkernels because I doubt they're doing many ports. I haven't used the product as I had custom stuff. Here's a video of the academic prototypes that both the commercial stuff and Genode drew from if you're wondering about performance. That's on a Core Duo 2 @ 1.6GHz. The L4Linux VM's were fast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9IwtY9gqCg
Many people post on Reddit under their real identity. Now it is madness to do so, as a malicious Reddit employee can frame you as having said anything.
>"Statistics alone cannot tell you which of those two models is correct."

Statistics can tell you whether a model is consistent with the data. But you need to deduce the null hypothesis from your model rather than use the default "no difference" (of course, sometimes no difference is deduced from a real model, but not often, in that case: great!).

In fact, that is the proper use of statistics. I would guess >99.99% of current usage is incorrect (ie pseudoscience) and amounts to a waste of time at best. The usual usage turns scientific reasoning on its head, and has lead to a (literally for most people) unbelievable amount of trouble.

This was pointed out most aptly by Paul Meehl long, long ago:
http://www.fisme.science.uu.nl/staff/christianb/downloads/me...
I'm assuming this specifically refers to the 1Password app (iOS and macOS)? Do you have better-informed-than-me opinions of their web based 1Password for Teams? (I'm using it at work, but don't "trust" it in the way I trust my personal passwords to the 1Password apps on my phone and laptop. Not because I know of any specific vulnerabilities, but just because "Web app? surely that's a probably-unnecessary risk for my passwords?")
What I would appreciate from fellow HN commenters, is their opinion if these books are actually the best ones (or amongst the very best ones) in their particular areas.

That's something I always struggle when it comes to IT/programming. There are just so many written materials about a particular subject that it becomes very difficult to find which ones are those that I should actually read.
Or that it's got particles from other peoples' farts!
We already know that Reddit was originally filled by sockpuppets, so more deceptive behavior from reddit higher-ups today doesn't surprise me too much...although this isn't really deception, this seems more like admin trolling.
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awesome to hear! I'm the guy you'll talk to if you have a support question, so I hope to not hear from you soon (since that would mean that everything worked as expected :))
Python Humor
Reddit is known for censoring subreddits the admins do not like or when they're involved in some drama, they have a specific algorithm to filter out Trump's subreddit from /r/all[1][2], the default subs are strictly aligned with the admins' political views, and recently the CEO mocked Facebook's knowledge of their users data saying that at Reddit they know not only what one publicly speaks (such as in Facebook), but also their users "darkest secrets" (in an interview about advertising on Reddit).

[1] https://voat.co/v/MeanwhileOnReddit/1373659
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/shittychangelog/comments/59s3ao/red...
Hah, yes, good disclaimer. It can be quite explosive under the right conditions.
I was surprised. This was wrong of me.

Reddit (the company) is a wretched hive of scum an villany, where this sort of stuff seems almost regular. Perhaps it wasn't always so: I don't know.

But I can't think of any other forum that would put up with this. If an owner or mod did this on the *chans, the chan in question would be abandoned within the week.

As for HN, dang does as he sees fit, as do the admins: they'll split your thread, redact your post (and if they doesn't, the software will if it gets flagged enough, IIRC), and (or so I heard) even shadowban you of you're bad enough. However, they're mostly right, and not corrupt. And they wouldn't pull crap like this. Blocking a comment that talks about how HN is just a massive circlejerk is one thing: actually altering it to say something else is quite another.

I suppose it might be common on forums run by egotistical gits, but come on, you're heading a company running a large forum/news aggregator. You can do better than an egomaniac with a website.
Wikipedia's sources are usually terrible (a blog post), unverifiable (I don't have access to the actual book), or they 404.

Sometimes, Wikipedia editors don't understand the source so the Wikipedia article and the source are actually at odds with one another. I've witnessed this a few times when I investigated dubious claims.
But what is better? Magento takes 1 sever per 10 customers due to how bad the perf is.
When a website receives a court order or congressional subpoena to preserve data, they are under penalty of perjury and contempt of court/congress to not alter it. Physical evidence can be just as subject to tampering as digital data. For both, the integrity of the court system is enforced with strong penalties for those who are dishonest.
Does lambda calculus have character strings, structures, exceptions, symbols, mutable variables, quoting code as data, macros and three different kinds of object equality?
Lack of civility does not make these actions ok. /r/The_Donald is not a bar you want to measure yourself against.
Plugin to add crypto signatures to comments and validate them? :-)
From what I have seen. It seems Reddit has shut down a subreddit whose people are in the midst of investigating pedophile rings.
I'd think so. Now we _know_ admins can and have edited comments without people knowing. Makes you wonder if they've done it in the past.
Thanks for the expansion. I appreciate it!
This is like sarcastically mocking how "serious" /r/coaxedintoasnafu is.

/r/The_Donald's purpose is to be a "24/7 Trump rally". There are other Trump-related subs for serious discussion with supporters.
Would be good to have some distributed model (like Bitcoin, etc.) for message platforms like Reddit?
was he drunk or in urgent need of a break? OTOH , good of him to take the responsibility immediately. OTOH, maybe he even wanted to send a message to those who rely too much in reddit's freedom.
While I strongly disagree with what he did, the level of fake news and conspiracy theories hitting the front page has been toxic and out of control this year.

Everyone has been accusing of Facebook and twitter for spreading fake news while reddit has also been absolute shit at it.
Politics and the ethics of what spez did aside, /r/The_Donald seems to be one the most nightmarish communities one can think of, and it's a huge.

Very toxic.
A bit of backstory: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11...
I think I live in a bubble...

But...

Who buys these products? Why does a toaster need to be connected to the internet and synced with your "smart"phone? What exactly can you achieve having this feature?
The tension that The_Donald and many alt-right subreddits place on reddit in general seems to be reaching a boiling point. I get the feeling the admins are just waiting for a credible reason to present itself that lets them cleanly wipe out all of them.
> ...it seemed to be a relatively poor player in the Django ecosystem...

DRF fits in very nicely with Django, especially if you are used to class-based views. We use it at edX for nearly all of our APIs. We don't have many complaints.

As someone mentioned regarding Django, it is important to not try to work around the framework. If you're not making a RESTful API, you may have a hard time taking full advantage of DRF.
Of course, if we adjust "mainstream" so that it refers to that set of languages which have pass-by-value, strictly evaluated arguments, with no implicit currying, then your point is nearly self-evident. :)
Ask HN: How to escape the rat race?
What are your thoughts on achieving financial independence? Is doing startup worth it if you have 50k in savings by 31?
Reddit's mods are famous famous for doing all kinds of horrible crap, as are their employees.
There are no NVIDIA parts in the Hololens... It uses a ULV Intel processor with integrated graphics, along with what Microsoft calls a "holographic processing unit" which is built by Microsoft, but utilizes slightly customized Tensilica cores for DSP offload.
I guess it doesn't amaze me at all without knowing a lot of details. I could write the most naïve format imaginable as a first draft and easily get a 99% reduction in a second version.
What the free-market crowd can never account for - here, or anywhere - is how the market is supposed to resolve issues that are not of direct, immediate interest to self-serving buyers or sellers, but which are of massive and justifiable interest to third parties outside the transaction.

Case in point: If a seller in one country can lower the costs of a good shipped to another country by scrapping responsible waste management in favor of polluting the commons (i.e., places where individual property rights claims are difficult to press), then "the magic of the market" is likely to increase - not decrease - the amount of pollution generated by the trade.

What libertarians don't like to admit is that they see free markets as more than ideal mechanisms for preserving efficient economies. They also see them as efficient sources of good and just governance. Like all belief systems, faith in the quality of governance supplied by free markets, while rational and well-supported to a point, can be taken to counter productive extremes where it maintenance stops operating like empiricism, and starts to function is ways indistinguishable from fundamentalists religions.

Not sure how many sensible knowledgeable people want this to be the dominant force in guiding global network security.
Why didn't he simply delete them? Editing their comments seems so odd.
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So /r/pizzagate was a subreddit convinced they'd found evidence of a pedophile ring in the government and more specifically implicating Hilary Clinton. They were recently shut down because they kept publishing people's information (which is against reddit ToS _even if said info is publicly available_). This prompted them to assume reddit admins were part of said ring. I assume /u/spez has been receiving accusations since.
https://help.shopify.com/themes/customization/order-status/a...

They try to make it slightly harder to write a store that steals credit cards.. not a terrible thing..
I feel like Telegram will release something like this at some point...at least I'm hoping so!
A prime as an identifier constituent is not "weird syntax". The ancient C tradition of only allowing [_[:alnum:]] characters in identifiers is pretty pointless anyway. I really wish more languages would allow question marks and exclamation marks (and everything else), the way Lisp and Scheme do (e.g., https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/syntax-overview.html#%28p...)

There's a very good example in C++ of how this causes problems, where vector::clear and vector::empty are much too easy to confuse (which one of them deletes all elements, and which one of them checks if a vector is empty?). Replacing them with clear! and empty? (or is it clear? and empty!) would be a huge improvement. Whenever a language moves away from arbitrary legacy restrictions, that's a good thing.
Laws against rape and murder facilitate the prosecution of those crimes, but not necessarily the investigation. Furthermore, the trade in child porn is not legally the same as the crime of rape, but does have measurable negative effects.

As for people moving, I certainly can know that if we're talking about existing and imminently foreseeable conditions. That you need to posit a completely alternative reality where the act of communicating is a crime suggests your argument is fundamentally weak. I'm pointing out the demonstrable lack of interest under current and historical conditions. Available evidence suggests that people are pretty attached to places and prefer to undertake clandestine activity rather than just up and go somewhere else short of a stark existential risk.

Do I know this to be true in the epistemological sense, of course not. Am I pretty damn sure about it in an empirical sense, yes I am. I've moved repeatedly and feel little or no emotional attachment to my birth family - in fact the farther away from them the better I like it. But this is really really unusual. the vast majority of people are intensely concerned with maintaining their family ties even at significant economic/political cost. Just because I don't share that mindset doesn't mean I can blind myself to it.
Look, I get that being lambasted by your base sucks, but yes, being the boss means you have to keep your cool and not abuse your power, as difficult as that is. The job demands you have a superhuman temperament...and he definitely is human, but that shouldn't excuse his behavior.
No, he was tired and emotional.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=z49LjJj3VTI
If they control the checksum check they can alter it too. Maybe, if you are careful enough to store all the checksums of everything you do online you will be able to tell, but others that see your posts won't even notice.
True of the handful of battery breakthroughs that you hear about on a weekly basis
> proprietary software is inherently insecure

Unlike widely used and security-critical open source projects, right? Like, say, OpenSSL?

("All hardware sucks. All software sucks." This is at least as true these days as it was back on alt.sysadmin.recovery in the '90s)
Plot twist- young finance workers have robotic life.
Add a 1 GB image to your store and watch how the no limit thing plays out...
The social benefits are that our knowledge develops. You can argue that that is not a good thing because of the social upheaval it causes, but everyone who has argued that since we were cavement have been proved wrong.

For example, humanity's current best attempt at sustainable society is an unstable mix of democracy and capitalism, and in many countries that isn't working out too well - particularly for blue collar workers, but increasingly for your white collar workers too.

It isn't inconceivable that deep mind could design a better political system for the US, for instance, that resulted in broad consensus instead of virtual civil war. Or design a fairer tax system that meant more people could have fulfilling and enjoyable lives.

Whether deep mind's masters would apply it to those questions is moot, but the parent's point is that the huge resources being poured into Facebook makes it a much better example of the squandering of the efforts of our brightest and best.
Reddit has large radical left and radical right communities that are constantly fighting and overwhelm the site with political drama and propaganda. If they don't do something about it they are going to lose the users that come there to look at cats.
Also, if punctured, a supercap can unload all its energy in microseconds, which can be a lot more disastrous than a battery igniting.
OK Go’s video, for the song “The One Moment”, took only 4.2 seconds to film
That's exactly what every unifying theory looks for. String theory included. Quite tough to find the thing that has all the symmetries but not too many and does all the right things.
I can put the politics aside. But the ethics? No. The_Donald might be awful, in your opinion. But what spez did isn't just awful. It's the canonical example of bad behavior on the internet from a mod.
Clearly to troll them.
so what you really need are pgp signed messages
This? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT-fOr29OfA
How to Force Our Machines to Play Fair
Take a look at steem.io if you are interested in such a thing. As a disclaimer, I would not recommend investing much money in it.
He changed a 'F U CEO' (upvoted by 1.6k users) comment to 'F U unpaid reddit moderator', without any indication that the comment was edited.

Very juvenile and unprofessional way of dealing with the situation, really erodes trust in the platform (simply deleting the comment would have been a better response).

Would maybe expect this from the founder of a young fledgling startup, but the 33 year old CEO of a company like Reddit ought to know better.