skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if only for tactical reasons, it's better to treat this as a well-intentioned mistake, and not as a vast conspiracy to round up dissenters etc.

Taking that point of view, the argument is that there's a subset of criminals that are stupid, or make mistakes. For people who've bought into the "nothing-to-hide" mindset, even a tiny chance to catch a few criminals is enough, because there's precisely zero on the other side.

So the task is: a clearly articulated argument for why privacy is important. I'm not saying someone should leak all the porn-URLs visited from Parliament, but it wouldn't hurt. Although some PG13 reasons may be even more helpful with the conservative crowd: "Prime witness in mafia trial killed after location revealed in log leak"...

The "rounding up dissenters" argument should still be in there – as "we're creating tools that a less benevolent government could exploit." C.f.: Trump/muslims, the Dutch (Danish?) burning their register of Jews
In addition to the bizarre idea of excluding parts of the vote... Your post was not factual; the numbers are grossly out of date. The current numbers for the popular vote are about 64.2M vs 62.2M, and the count is not actually yet finished.
If every site that had ads did it like Stack Overflow I wouldn't mind ads.
My bad, I think the 600,000 tonnes figure is the total amount of lithium mined ever. Actual yearly production is closer to 35,000 tonnes.

Here's an excellent discussion with sourced facts and figures http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2010/ph240/eason2/
If you count in "hiring" security from within the community, then this would probably describe most governments.
Probably because accepting donations as a company is non-trivial?
He's saying that because the person who says they've been here for 8 years registered 16 days ago. As if, in 8 years of Inflammatory HN commentary, only just now did they decide to stop lurking. And only just now did they become so vocal about what matters to them.

That's my interpretation. It could also mean the more obvious, "I've been here for 8 years but under a different name."
Ironic that Moxie, who doesn't go by his real name and is the founder of Signal, wants all of his users to identify themselves by providing their phone number and IMEI numbers; IMEI or 'International Mobile Equipment Identity' is a unique 15-digit number assigned to all cellular devices.
With a password, I can log in to the website from anywhere. With client-certs, I have to pre-populate the cert onto all of my devices.
I'm building something like that now but instead of annotations in the code it captures your browse through the codebase as a tree that you can then annotate, save and share. It is going to run both in the browser to explore code hosted on GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab, etc and locally as an Electron app.

Very vague landing page with signup here:

http://www.browsethesource.com/
Phabricator handles it well thanks to its Arcanist CLI tool.
Sorry about that.

My guess is that this is a poison chalice... someone lining the BBFC up to look bad, for some reason incidental to online porn.
And is there an alternative to software patents? One of the examples (linked to the case against TomTom) is related to Fat32. I can imagine that if you "invent" a filesystem and everyone is enthusiastic & starts using it - you have the right to be paid for your work?
I would actually be in favour of banning Fifty Shades. It was awful. The only good thing about it were some of the reviews that went to town on it :)
I'm not positive that I understand what you mean by "common denominator", but if you mean "it's possible to somehow express or explain what one language has encoded using another language", I would agree with that.
Because it's not user friendly? Especially across devices
Any possible considerations of the substantial arguments against your view seem to escape you. Moreover you pull the straw man trick by putting arguments in the mouth of dissenters to your view. This is an immensely difficult issue with strong arguments on either side; please don't trivialize it with airy condescension towards those seriously taking on board the consequences of decriminalization (for instance: http://www.dea.gov/pr/multimedia-library/publications/speaki...
and there's tons more). They are not idiots.
Are you in any way associated with Dropbox? If not your site feels a little too familiar.
Ponzi scheme website, MMM, more popular than Facebook in Nigeria
Do you stackexchange, do you. I have made lots of money by relying on great answers posted on your site, solicited by your code and app and hosted on your hardware.

I think anyone whose upset by this sort of move is living in la-la-land the rest of us know you have to make money. I'm surprised your not doing it on all sites and haven't done it sooner.
Isn't over-the-top Zed Shaw's "thing"?
"sometimes even adult porn"

Which is also currently up for discussion: "UK to censor online videos of 'non-conventional' sex acts"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/23/censor-no...
Where did you find these numbers? There are 14,000,000 tonnes of mineable Li on earth (http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/lithium/).
If you can still edit, I recommend you move the last sentence to the start of your incredibly insightful anecdote:

Based on a lifetime of being around doctors as personal and family friends (my mom is a medical doctor too), I don't think doctors are going to pick up this cause enthusiastically, even if it makes sense on paper.
Client certificates are harder to put in place than a login form. It requires to create the certificates and install them on every device which will log to the website. And you will have to manage the changes/lost of devices.

But I agree it is a good solution in a 2FA for internal applications.
I had problems with my C.H.I.P.s not booting fully when the power was not sufficient. They are very iffy that way. Also the WiFi is not great.

The larger PIs, on the other hand, will boot from a potato battery but will corrupt your SD-card doing so. If you can get away with using a PI-Zero (100mA max draw), you should do so. You can basically use anything to power it.
Usability is awful: https://support.globalsign.com/customer/portal/articles/1211...
It's going to be so much fun, I can't wait to see you there!
I am on scaleway bare metal at 3.6€ per month. I use no-ip.com for the free domain name. I have a docker image to update a jekyll static site that I publish over ssh with rsync. I use fgallery for the pictures collections. For me, it is the easiest solution because I am familiar with the OS and it uses only standard tools that will never change and no fancy and broken website interface.

It is cheap enough to not bother with the limitations of most low-cost static site hosting.
Product recalls are usually done by the government in the US. The CFPB in the US.
> Has it ever occurred to you that Political Correctness acts as training wheels for people who are exhibiting bad natural behaviours?

I get your points, but I disagree on this one. How people adapt to be perceived by others on the surface - I couldn't care less about that. When they are rotten deep inside, broken and shattered to pieces - no matter how many correctness masks they put on, they are still same piece of s__t. I'll rather know straight upfront who I am dealing with, life is much easier.

So yeah, PC is evil for me. Noble goals for sure, worst possible implementation how to get there.
> What makes you think parents are more reliable at this job than the government?

It's not about reliability. The government could be more reliable at telling you and you children how to dress, does that mean it should be able to?
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The media literally did Trump though, because they were looking for profit (because he did make them a ton of money). I don't think you can ever call them free.
My ISP doesn't appear to block or filter anything (not one of those listed by parent).
Curl security audit
The thing I don't get about the UK is that they have very pervasive surveillance set up both online and in the real world, yet anyone can buy a mobile phone and a prepaid SIM at some random Tesco's and pay with cash without giving their name or ID.

Why do they keep allowing this? Other countries have always required presenting ID to buy a SIM. It's a surveillance measure that's presumably quite effective, but also far less invasive than this law and others.
From https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux/read:

> Does tmux persist sessions after restarts?

I suggest mentioning tmux-resurrect: https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect as this has made me far less grumpy about restarting a machine with many active tmux sessions. Save/Reload all your sessions, windows, panes, and layouts with a single shortcut key.
Is that true? Can't you sell "overpriced" T-shirts or whatever and treat that profit as the "donation"?
In modern times smoke is replaced with coffee. And it can be deadly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_enema
I don't think you can say that this is a refutation of the Chinese room argument. Here the system doesn't know what the semantics are. For instance, it wouldn't be able to use some kind of logic inference to disambiguate between the two meanings of the same word. It may use some statistical inference (ie. if we talk about meat elsewhere in the sentence, it's likely that Hamburger refers to the sandwich rather than to the inhabitant of Hamburg), but it wouldn't be able to understand the content of the text to provide a translation that derives from this meaning.

However, what this article seems to point out is that there is an intermediate representation that is being used within the neural network. This intermediate representation would correspond to a Chinese room where symbols (like hamburger) are first matched to something common to all language (let's call it X), and then translated back to specific languages.

What this means is neither the Chinese room argument is true or false, it means that it's more complicated than that. It means that "understanding" has various degrees of depth, and that the first degree of understanding really is just syntactic conceptualization.
In order for you to make such a statement, you have to believe what the parent said was completely false or that it is true but shouldn't be said.

If number one: Human evolution did not start 50 years ago. How do you think humans used to live for thousands of years, or how primitive tribes live right now? (Spoiler: it is not a feminist's dream) Are human males not more capable of gathering resources due to their inherent traits? Does evolution not select those most capable of reproduction? It does not take a degree in anthropology to put two and two together.

If number two: If basic evolutionary biology is too hurtful, perhaps it is time to consider whether the ideology that led you to feel inadequate is the social construct that needs to be done away with, rather than commonly agreed upon facts.
A majority wont care since it has nothing to do with Britain got Talent or Goglebox

A minority will be pushed to use proxies and vpn's which will flag them for closer examination

Everything is going according to plan so...
The problem with these systems is regardless of the efficacy, they are incredibly difficult to dismantle and easy to re-purpose with the stroke of a pen.

And these "tech-savvy" people are dreaming if they think that access to VPN services from the UK will remain legal in the UK, esp. after a naughty person or two is shown to have used one to commission a crime. It won't happen quickly, but #include frog_boiling.h.
I was working on a project and found a plugin that was perfect. Unfortunately my project didn't use jQuery and the plugin was built on jQuery. I didn't want to add another dependency. I noticed the plugin was licensed under MIT, so I thought I would fork it and refactor it to remove jQuery dependencies, which I did. Thought I would share.
I was asked to scrape details of 50k+ people from LinkedIn and load them into essentially a spam cannon because, you guessed it, we needed the e-mail signups. And follow-up sales calls. So, probably illegal (because spam), generally horrible behaviour, and also a huge violation of LI's terms of service. I said no. Fortunately if I didn't program it in that company nobody was going to do it and all I had to put up with was snark.
> there have been times my phone was dead and I didnt have a backup plan.

This. Just recently this happened to me when I needed to get into my Gmail and I was shit out of luck. Didn't have my phone on me. The best Gmail would do was some sort of account reset that would take 2+ days (for good reason). I was entirely locked out, no solution short of returning home to get my phone.

Anyone recommend a solid backup plan?
The most scary thing for me is that both political left and political right is nowadays for increasing surveillance - and there is no one in opposition.

Except probably for Pirate parties, which are mostly irrelevant.
True for Europe and America. Asia and the middle east have had religious bans that where legally backed up by theocratic governments or totalitarian rulers that would ban substances (mainly opium) on and off in their particular kingdoms.
There are loads of websites that get developed in Python. Django has gotten more and more popular every release. I work in a Python shop, and getting to Python 3 was something we've always wanted to do (and did! Recently)

Language communities evolve. Guido is working on a static type checker.

Python 3k transition was bad, but I haven't really met many people who are against the current state of the language. Re litigating the transition over and over doesn't accomplish much. Everyone knows how bad it was now
I would like to extend the question: is any startup/company working on something that would simplify the client certs process?
Why haven't we really moved beyond password-based logins yet?
Would this be a viable replacement for a support / community forum? I'm a DO customer but never have questions so I'm not sure what their support setup looks like.
Really interested in adoption of nfc smart cards. Still, it's just not possible now - you'd need hardware, software support on basically every platform. Looking forward though
In a short comment I don't have time to present much of substance, but I get your point. Different communities have different problems with drugs, and are affected in subtly different ways. Different measures have different effectiveness in different situations (if supply can be controlled easily for example, banning drugs outright makes much more sense). I don't think legalisation is the perfect solution, but as far as we know[1], it's the least bad solution so far, and the current 'ban it, and criminalise users' is doing more harm than good. There are many other factors such as education to take into account too. I am not suggesting legalisation is a silver bullet.

[1]: https://mic.com/articles/110344/14-years-after-portugal-decr...
> I think success is a product of more things than talent, it could be about projected talent as much as what's underneath the hood - confidence as a product of ignorance and narcism is indistinguishable from the real thing, unless tested.

Maybe talent isn't what you think it is.
Flywheels have very different properties from battery storage. Most notably flywheels loose a lot of power over time and are mostly good for short term storage. So it depends a lot on the situation which technology makes more sense.

In the case of that Island I assume what they need is that over longer timeframes they have enough sun and can store the oversupply of electricity for a relatively long time, because the occassions when there isn't enough sun are rare.
I'm surprised this ends up being as controversial as it is. Either the capabilities of web technologies that are here or coming (webasm) what can be done with a web page is increasing. How many native apps are even compiled natively? Webasm actually has the potential to be faster than many native apps at the same time.
Google updates LocalBusiness Schema
Yeah that as well, and even Turbo Pascal was already quite fast on MS-DOS systems (I was using it with MS-DOS 5.0).
The problem with Java isn't so much the language. It's the ecosystem and the community. The ecosystem is very rich, so there are many ways of doing pretty much anything, which means it's easy to get lost in the complexity. And the community is fad-prone. Patterns! Injection! Annotations! Something else (for now)!

A certain skepticism is crucial for staying sane.
This is great work. And (this is not a jab at the creator) a signal for me to move on from web development.

We are now at a similar point to knowing HTML in 1998 would land you a plum job; except it's now frontend frameworks. There's going to be tremendous downward pressure on wages in the next few years; especially in web development.

I recommend everyone who wants to stay competitive to move on to harder things or leverage whatever soft skills they have.
Clickbait title. Tldr: some of his picks want a smaller fcc.
> Management that takes critism positively without tit for tat attitude is not everywhere. By your own account you said "if you could find the right person to talk to, things could be changed from within". Well, is it employees' job to find the right feedback channel? Its the management's job to set up the right channels and make their employees aware of existance of such channels were they can give their feedback without fear of retaliation in any form.

Sure. But a company that won't take feedback seriously I don't see why they would do anything when a large amount of people quit either.

At least in my experience if they're not receptive nothing but massive failure will actually change anything.

> For bad examples for such process Snowden for one told he did go through such internal channels.

To be fair we still don't know the extent of his attempts. He claims he sent emails to district heads but many in the DoD space know those typically are figure heads with little ability to change anything and there are better channels to go through. Granted I have no idea if it would have made any difference but I'm hesitant to use his example as one where a feedback channel failed.

> Also quitting a company that displays many such questionable ethical choices would feel good for my morale. Most people don't have such financial independence (runway) to quit and so they keep their jobs and keeps their opinions to themselves.

Fair enough! :)
Unless your fraud involves dietary supplements, then there's almost always no consequences.
It's also not very developer/ops friendly. Quite hard to set up currently.

Not that this couldn't be fixed (as the client side), but no one is doing this.
Space Jam movie website still the same 20 years later
This is a great response. And arguably, the argument.

A friend of mine is a policeman, and says exactly that. MOST criminals have a level of ineptitude that allows them to get caught. Except this isn't being sold as "we want to catch the guy who beats his wife". And if it were, why not just install a 'telescreen' in everyone's house and catch them in the act?

Regarding the _encouraging people_ to get a VPN, that shouldn't be the default. The police were already in a position where they can monitor anyone they suspect of a crime. This targets _everyone_, with the false promise of safety.

Adding to that, when you couple this with Claire Perry pushing (_again_) for 'adult' sites requiring 'age verification', you're on a very slippery slope.
>It was the days back when phones still had mechanical keyboards.

This should probably say physical keyboards. Mechanical typically refers to the ones that go clickety clack.

Edit: And

>our username’s in the channel persisted in the chatroom list

this should say usernames instead. Hope you'll have a proofreader look through all of it!
It seems Chomsky has had to back down on quite a bit of what UG should mean, for example suggesting that individual pieces can go unused in particular languages and language learners.

One interesting thing that might still be left is criteria about what languages would be learnable or unlearnable. For example, perhaps there are reasons that it's impossible for human beings to become fluent in a conlang like Ithkuil (or Lojban), even if they were exposed as children to interactions with (hypothetical) fluent speakers. Yet this isn't true of Esperanto (or at least very slightly creolized versions of it), which does have native speakers for whom the language didn't seem to present any challenge. There could be criteria about what makes a language too weird or too hard to learn and speak with the facility with which all existing natural languages can be learned and spoken by almost all children; maybe some of those criteria are fuzzy but others are firm. I think this is related to UG, but clearly a weaker concept.
Your statement only makes sense if you have the strange assumption that something that is a good solution for an isolated island is also a good solution for everybody else.
On large continental grids you can do a lot of things to reduce the need for battery storage, e.g. transporting power over distances, demand side management in large factories and using other terrain-dependent storage technologies like pumped water storage.
It's more about Google and Mozilla's differing approach to web standards, not the question posted in the title itself.
Thanks, interesting article. Just read it briefly yet, but it looks like it's author summs up with that there is not even enough Li for building batteries for some billion cars.
What the hell man, you stole my account
Maybe that is because I was a child once, but I see absolutely nothing wrong with children accessing adult sites, even if it is a self contradictory sentence.

I hope the Lovejoys will censor youtube too, I see too much swearing by top youtubers nowadays.
Why is anyone surprised, Governments have the power to do this, if you don't like it, take that power back.

On one side you have people asking Governments to ban Games like GTA, on the other you have people who are surprised Governments use the power they have to "protect the children".

Only solution to this i think is to limit Govt's power and The majority of people using a constitution.
Haven't you just described 2FA?
TBH, I doubt it. There's lots of nifty tricks that can speed up CFD for visualization (like this) by many orders of magnitude. Yet no engineers are willing to touch any of those tricks, because we are making physical machines that can kill people if something like the pressure spikes are off by 10%.
Stack Exchange sites are some of the only ones on my whitelist for my ad blocker and Privacy Badger.

They do ads the right way.
Having gone some surgery few months ago where a miscommunication (let's name it this way) from the nurses about my prescription left one day longer in the hospital, made my cry out of pain and made me afraid of even trying to stand up, I must say that I never understood the idea that "let's refrain giving so much opiates to these patients who have a life-expectancy of few months because it might get then addicted".
It's a usability problem. Can you think of anything easier? I can't.
> Webasm actually has the potential to be faster than many native apps at the same time.

How do you figure?
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No. kind of, the colors and the simplicity maybe. Dropbox's UX is a good design and UX standard.
I can't tell if this is sarcasm, so at the risk of looking foolish, I'll just say, pressing the door close button on an elevator almost always does nothing. In most elevators it's not even connected to anything behind the panel. It's there to make you feel like you can effect the situation without letting you do so, which I think is the exact opposite of your point.