skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had come to them with a couple of ideas during my employment which they had rejected but I said I may pursue. In addition, they had purchased my company so as with most buyouts there was the usual cultural and operational issues between myself and upper management. So I framed it that it would be good for both parties to release each other from any future claims and we could both go on our merry ways.
>>(Don't get me wrong, shit like Conservapedia has been around for years now. But most of the stuff I read, for better or worse, has been pro-social justice, pro-multiculturalism, etc. until now. Do fewer people buy into that nowadays? Or is what I'm seeing the result of more people participating?)

I am a liberal too and multiculturalism is good to some extent but I hope you don't want to bring Islamic sharia based barbaric culture (e.g. honor killing, stoning women, throwing gays off buildings) in the name of multiculturalism.

But what I have discovered is the left/liberal failure to address the rational fear of Islam (the barbaric, vicious ideology) that is grappling the minds of most sane people.

Liberals and leftists are failing to address these issues. Their response to this threat of Islam is utterly dishonest: they shun even legitimate criticism of the barbaric ideology of Islam under the phony reason of Islamophobia/racism. People have fed up with this.

I don't support Trump to a large extent. But I see that many people see only Trump making an attempt to address this issue in a meaningful manner. No surprise, he cashed on it.

Sam Harris has put it quite aptly: Liberals failure to talk honestly about Islam is responsible for the rise of Trump [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YCWf0tHy7M
There is no way to install all updates to caskroom apps in homebrew. Apt with PPA just works.
I agree with your critique, but I disagree with this line of thinking:

> If you need the company/paycheck and don't have enough of a background to command a change in the standard employment contract, then you have to sign away all rights.

You're not signing away your rights, your signing away everyone's rights. What about the person who doesn't like to sign his rights away, but is now expected to, because some other poor person lead the way? Accepting this kind of bondage from employers means either setting a very bad precedent, or following a very bad precedent. Either way it hurts the workforce.
Heres one who hasn't spoken out.

I'm glad that I was able to get appropriate treatment (15 years later) but how I was treated as a teenager in a mental health facility was atrocious. Misdiagnosis, over medication, and only keeping patients as long as their insurance held out was par for the course.
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There are a bunch of legal obligations that make that impossible, at least in the short run. As somebody noted above, ESPN itself is locked into very expensive exclusive-carriage contracts with various leagues. And the providers like Comcast and DirecTV are locked into contracts with ESPN and other content providers. There's just no price flexibility, and won't be until things get so bad companies start failing.
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I am surprised at the abuse that was thrown at Mozilla. This bit in particular:

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If you haven't heard of the WSP, it is an example of what happens when standards enforcement is left to the masses. This organization's intentions are pure: It's a nonprofit organization of Web developers, designers, and artists who encourage browsers to support standards equally and completely. However, somewhere along the way, the WSP took on the aspect of a holy war, a Web jihad.

The WSP's behavior is tantamount to lynch mob justice. After all, there are no gray areas of justice: only black and white, right or wrong. The same can be said of support for the enforcement of standards: A company supports standards 100 percent, or the company is noncompliant and, therefore, evil.
Well, I'm sorry but it's in french and I don't speak it, and english is not my native either, but it's rather established when comes to open software.
Ask HN: Why Study _____?
I have had this interesting idea for a while. A Q&A site for passionate educators, enthusiastic teachers, and students in dire need of motivation.

The pain point which I’m trying to alleviate is students’ inability to recognize a real world use case for some theoretical topic in various fields of study. By creating a forum and getting teachers or experts to explain what is so cool and awesome about knowing what the student is about to learn, I’d like to motivate interest in learning the topic at hand. How does knowing it affect the decisionmaking process? With what other challenges does it help? What would they not be able to accomplish if not for the given material?

People learn well when they are interested in a given topic. They are interested because they found a way to relate to it in some way. Sometimes the material is far removed from the actual use-case, or the significance of it is not explained very well by the text or the instructor. Creating a place specifically for this discussion would be pretty interesting, I think.

StackExchange’s Q&A format seemed perfect for validating this idea, but it doesn’t seem to be an option, unfortunately. The new topic proposal is closed: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/104796/why-study

I’d love to see what you think of the idea. Whether it makes sense, whether it will be useful, and if there are other places for hosting this (aside from making it yourself, for now).

Here are my examples of questions - possibly the reason why it was rejected. I tried to pick different fields and ask something thought provoking.
- Why study zeta functions in mathematics?
- Why study Utopian literature?
- Why study Imperialism and Nation-State Formation?
- Why study molecular forces in physics?
- Why study type theory in computer science?
I'm surpised at how many programmers I meet who don't use a password manager. In my work alone I have over 30 credentials to remember and they expire.

An aside, I use KeePass and strictly use it offline with a secret key and passphrase. Browser integration and mobile and desktop KeePass apps are not really polished and all have their own quirks. I've noticed a huge audience of 1Password and other password managers that store the passwords in the cloud. The apps and integration look good but I can't justify trusting somone else to handle my data. Am I being too paranoid?
From tmptmp's profile:

>Am I against Muslims? No, I do have many Muslim friends...

"I have many [insert ethnic group here] friends" is always a red flag. I'm just trying to figure out how you managed to get 700+ karma on here?

There are most definitely better places to wage your Internet crusade. Please don't junk up HN with this copypasta drivel.
I'm saying the concept itself is absurd to begin with. Is all French data kept on French servers? Obviously not. Whatever infrastructure google uses to power their data layer is replicated across continents. So when a French citizen says "Remove me from all your indices because my government gives me that right" google is not allowed to insert some extra phrases in there like "only if the person requesting that data is also French or is asking for the data from servers located in France".

Even if we assume that somehow all French data happened to be located on servers in France then complying with those requests would mean purging the data except it is obvious they are not doing that if a person from another country can access the data. So however you slice it google is either non-compliant or is purposefully misunderstanding what it means "to be forgotten" from their indices.
He never actually said it. A myth.
If you think bordered countries make sense, then bordered data should make sense, right? Can't we trace packets back to a physical emitter?

I don't think this is a non-issue at all. If we replace "data" with "nukes", it's obvious that borders matter. Neither nukes nor data care about borders, but people do.

I think the last sentence sums it up really well:

"...should the balance between the right to free expression and the right to privacy be struck by each country—based on its culture, its traditions, its courts—or should one view apply for all?
> If what you said were true, the biggest marketing budget would always win, but it doesn't--far from it. The economy is littered with the wasted marketing budgets of failed products.

That would be true if ad budget = ad quality, but I don't think it does.
I've never understood this argument. Contracts are a two-way street; why should the NFL demand ever-increasing fees for a product that's being watched by fewer and fewer people? Network rating have been down for years, it's only recently that ESPN has been following the same trend. At some point the sports leagues will have to realize that declining viewership means smaller contracts, it's just a question of whether ESPN can survive until that day.
I wonder how this compares to the Pirate Parties Liquid Feedback voting system. On first glance they seem similar.
The goal of Linux governance is that all the video developers can understand and maintain all the in-kernel video drivers in order to evolve the internal API as needed. The goal of AMD is to reuse whatever the hell they had to write for Windows. Since Linus and friends are not in charge of Microsoft's driver API, these can't be reconciled.
There are many weaknesses in this system.

The first clause of Design Considerations, "Although elegant and (thus far) invincible," shows a lack of understanding of currently possible and prior blockchain attacks.

This protocol allows voting any Voter ID multiple times. There is a significant window of time until one of the blocks containing the Voter ID/ballot ID Hash is added to the block chain. During this time, all Voter IDs in the prospective block may be voted multiple times. This can occur by making a copy of a physical voter ID and simply using it twice at relatively the same time - just not on the same terminal. The exploitability chance increases as the number of votes per block increases. The blockchain plus the union of all unsent blocks for all terminals, not a local database, should be checked for who has voted. This is compounded by not checking when the blocks are added to the blockchain.

Another issue with the local database, is that even if it is made to be a site database, many jurisdictions with early voting allow voters to vote anywhere, not just at their assigned voting location.

The selected candidates are not signed properly with a voter's key. There is no assurance that a particular voter actually cast a vote for a specific candidate and not, say, "Mickey Mouse." This is actually one of the purposes of smart cards and similar. Beyond any protocol issues, this is the central purpose of any voting system, to ensure that when votes are cast the voter id is redacted but that that voter id's candidate selection can be validated!

The Central Admin should release the list of the machine's public keys _prior_ to the election not _after_.

There really are a lot of security issues with this security design.

That being said, this paper is the winner of a cyber challenge here: http://www.economist.com/whichmba/mba-case-studies/cyber-sec...
People still look for backdoors of that type, though.

Additionally, if you really made something that specific, that was only ever discovered and used to hack an election, and the only people that could have done it were the chip vendor... how do you think that will play out when it's discovered? Or do you, as the attacker, bank on no one ever discovering this, ever?

If you're an engineer working for one of these places, how much do you have to get paid, or what do you have to be threatened with, to make this work out?

This seems much more like a novel written by Ian Fleming, not le Carre...
Innocent Man's Life Destroyed by Anonymous Topix Poster
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What are your components???
I don't have anything pressing and I don't know the ecosystem so I'll be waiting it out. My frustration is mainly that I think F# with Fable and Kestrel in VSCode is very compelling for JS shops and the only reason I can't recommend it is the build situation. An explanation of how to make a project, add a dependency, and run it that would make sense to someone used to npm would really help people who aren't on windows and running visual studio. I do appreciate the efforts of the F# team has always made in maintaining an open source community and I do recognize that there are lots of complications involved. Thanks for your efforts.
Please don't be tempted to discuss politics in a partisan manner, especially taking things further afield of the submission topic, regardless of what's happening in the thread.
I don't think so.

Companies often die because they don't send enough emails, not the other way around. Fallibility is your own worst enemy in a startup, and email outbound is one way to kill it faster.

That being said, there should only be one follow up.

There's only 2 reasons that have high response rates for messaging people outbound.

1. They want to make you famous and build a relationship with you. In which case you should respond. I always advise this as the best method for building customer relationships. Just setup a blog and reach out to them asking to interview them about what they do. Only after the outbound company knows the candidate, should they discuss the mechanics of their businesses and if they can help eachother.

2. If there's deep timing context. (Saw you just raised, saw you in the press, etc...)

3. (This one is really tough, but if you're very high profile, you can just reach out.)

Everything else is likely low response/open rate.
Google is mis-directing here. It is obvious what I mean when I say "Delete me from all your servers". I don't care what country those servers are in. This is not a freedom of expression vs privacy issue. This is people being in charge of their behavioral and historical data that google has locked up in their data silos. Framing it otherwise is disingenuous. I'm still free to express myself however I want on whatever forums I choose. Whether google gets to freely index and profit from it is the real question except their lawyers are trying to make it sound like they're champions of freedom of expression.
Hourly billing is (very slowly) going away. Fixed fee arrangements will be king (people want predictability). So then a lawyer will want to be as efficient as possible. The legal industry is admittedly behind the times, but they do continue to move forward.
> Be mindful of Joel's bias (he's a CEO, not a developer).

Sorry, but this is ridiculous. Spolsky has built his career around promoting a good work environment for developers. After reading his blog for many years, listening to his talks and podcasts... he's either an extremely talented thespian, or one of the most conscientious people in tech.

And, while everyone has bias, I seriously doubt Joel and StackOverflow worry, or have any need to worry, about employee side-projects. They seem much more interested in employee retention.
He claimed that NSA analysts could read anybody's communications straight off the internet companies' servers. Multiple journalists, bloggers, tech workers, companies, and even the government corrected him and pointed out how he misread the slides, but he continues to make that claim.
Ok, I'm sorry you felt like you were trolled—that's not pleasant—and believe you that you weren't doing the topjacking thing.

I probably gave you less benefit of the doubt about this because your account has a history of being snarky and uncivil in comments. It would be good for all of us if you'd work on eliminating that; it lowers the level of discourse we're trying for here, and (case in point) fosters misunderstanding.
A lot of really good therapists don't accept insurance. A lot of really good psychiatrists don't take insurance.

Insurance covers on average two sessions of therapy annually.

Therapy is only effective over long periods (years) of regular (weekly/biweekly) sessions.

It's a fucking travesty.

I spend close to $500 per month, after insurance, for my mental healthcare. This is a therapist and a psychiatrist.

None of this is covered by my insurance.

I pay what I can with an FSA but it's extraordinarily exhausting.
Much of that coastal land is protected from development. What this proposed law will likely do is increase density in areas that are already developed.

Having said that, I think you have a point: there are benefits to more housing, but there are also costs. Those houses or apartment complexes have to go somewhere, the infrastructure to support more people living in an area has to go somewhere. The bay area can't keep on growing forever.
You said something very important here, commercials are really a no-go. I pay $10/mo not to see them on youtube and especially not to be seen by my kids. Just requests for stupid toys are worth $10.
I am surprised nobody here has yet mentioned the real case of what happened to Evan Brown, the former president of the Dallas Ft Worth Unix Users Group who worked at a telephone switch company as a system administrator and had an idea for a generic code translator.

Maybe the New York Times tells it best:

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/08/business/an-idea-not-yet-b...
You make a very good point about the thread going off topic (though you're doing it a bit yourself upthread) and rightly bring it up. Please do so civilly, though. Please don't junk up HN with this copypasta drivel. isn't constructive.
Ah, my mistake. I could have sworn I saw them listed on HBO.

While this might disprove my statement, I don't think it's entirely without merit, still.
Isn't it because the high end hardware becoming useless because of the very lack of drivers? Nobody wants to spend lot of money on hardware and don't get to use it optimally.

Driver support on platform -> Games released on platform -> Gamers using the platform.
Sometimes you need to make a cry for help and the only lever you have is saying this.

It doesn't mean that what was said was the actual reason, which happens to often. Not enough follow-up happens, and the original trigger for the call-for-help goes unaddressed.
> Can't we trace packets back to a physical emitter?

No. Not really sure what else to say; this just isn't the case. Even without any sort of advanced privacy tech like tor, you still can't assume you can geolocate the source of a packet.
> cut thousands of dollars of charge hours young associates waste on bullshit tasks

Doesn't this take money away from your firm? It is only when firms are competing on cost, time or client recognized quality that they will institute better workflows via software.
Runtime isolation would absolutely solve that problem, it would safely shift the blame to AMD if the thing becomes broken.
Without it, the kernel devs now have to maintain more and more code that they probably dont know anything about. I dont see how that can possibly be a good solution.
I dont see how anyone can even argue that. Why should a 3rd party graphics driver NOT be a plugin instead of core code? Stupidly obvious to make this an isolated plugin.
I think "The Right To Be Forgotten" is misleading in its use of the passive voice. A more accurate description would be "The Right To Force Other People To Forget".
That's beautiful.

I went through a tough time when I wasn't sure if I wanted to be software engineer anymore. Working on my side projects not only made me go through that time, it made me truly happy. Reminded me why I am in this in the first place.
>though you're doing it a bit yourself upthread

I know, and I do feel a bit guilty lol. I suppose I should've just let his comment sit in the greys. You're right, there wasn't much point in being nasty.
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If you buy illegal drugs in a country with a government like Thailand's, you're asking for a bad time. I've spent over 5 months around TH with no problems at all, as have many of my friends. On top of that, Phuket is a terrible cesspool of scammers and partying tourists and should be avoided at all costs. Try a nearby smaller town if you're going for the nature. He gets no sympathy from me, but thanks for the story.
t's trying to contain software which wasn't written to a strict boundary, to a strict boundary.

Exactly. That's why NSA, decades ago, wrote SELinux. It wasn't intended to be a security measure. It was intended to encourage development of user-space software which lived within strict security limits.

That never happened. The desire for loopholes ("must phone home", etc.) beat security restrictions. All a single-player game really needs is read access to its own assets, input from user input devices, output to graphics hardware and sound, and the ability to write in its own preferences/save directory. Try to find a commercial game which will run under such restrictions.
Force would be misleading, it's more like "enable"
It's almost certainly multi-faceted, but I don't think it's just "conservatives discovering the internet," or at least anymore than it was 4 years ago.

Two things that I think contribute heavily to the phenomenon you're seeing:

1) We've had 8 years of a democratic president. People were similarly fed up with conservatism at the end of GWB's presidency. If things haven't been going well for you for the past 8 years (and for most Americans, they haven't been going great), it's easy and common to blame the president for those troubles. And by extension, the president's party and theoretical political ideologies.

It's much easier to have strong feelings after such a long time with one political party in charge (theoretically).

2) I'd wager a large sum that most of those comments come from white males who earn at or less than the median income, who previously may not have felt that strong of a political ideology or at least not enough to comment on an internet forum.

Much of the current liberal discourse in America is focused around historically oppressed groups, e.g. black Americans, or people who don't fit into classic gender identities. This comes at the expense of ignoring (or in some extreme instances, trivializing) the struggles of the working class or middle class who may not necessarily fall into one of those historically oppressed groups.

I think it's easy to imagine that if you're a white, poor male you might not feel like American liberalism in its current state really cares about you or your problems. Not that I think Republicans really care about their problems either, but at least they pay them lip service.
How's that? How is asking google to remove me from their indices forcing other people to forget? Where exactly is the "force"?
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I think Spolsky has done a fantastic job of building a an employer brand that attracts developers. It allows him to attract quality developers at under-market rates.

I don't necessarily think this is even a conscious act on his part. It's just that if you spend decades on one side of the table, you inevitable adapt that side's biases. Every employer wants their employees focused solely on their projects.
> This is people being in charge of their behavioral and historical data that google has locked up in their data silos.

Why are you using intentionally strongly connoted language like "be in charge", "locked up", and "silo"? A more accurate version of this statement is "This is people wanting to make someone else delete data that they have on their servers." You're also presuming that someone "owns" any and all data that pertains to them.
I agree that people won't cord cut over this issue. Cord cutting is about saving $1000/year and still being able to get 90% of the content online.

Still, I don't see how it does ESPN any good to be so liberal. The powers that be at the network must see this criticism in every story and consider the option of becoming less political. I expect this to happen in 2017.