skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well.. sort of.. but, like, (in my view) the word 'theft' has this implicit baggage to it that you're pretending doesn't exist.

Theft as a moral/philosophical concept doesn't mean "deprival of another's property against their will", it means "extrajudicial deprival of another's property against their will". The so-called governmental 'monopoly on violence' (probably better put as 'monopoly on compulsion'..) is encoded into the concept. So it's extremely relevant what governmental framework you're thinking in terms of.

I'm not saying "hey, if you look up theft in the right place, you'll find that it has this extra clause". Definitions in dictionaries aren't concerned with properly inflecting to handle philosophical debates, anyway. I'm saying "the meaning of the word 'theft' that everyone uses in real life seems to have this definition, actually, under inspection -- but you're operating on a different, more simplistic definition, and that's why you're reaching these nonsensical conclusions".

So you could stick with your (imo incorrect) definition of theft and continue declaring that taxation is theft, but I think you're just weakening your position by using an inaccurate model of the world. If you used the definition I'm using everything makes sense. You can still argue against taxation, especially the level we experience, without your argument being "taxation is theft!!" and alienating almost-everyone.
So because predecessors decided something, the current state has the right to steal from me just because I was born here and haven't moved to another location where there is another state that does the same thing?
In Swift you have access to the utf8 and utf16 views. For a string constructed from UTF8 the utf8 view is a view onto the underlying storage more or less. That said the String API is getting some revisions in Swift 4 to make it both faster and easier to use without sacrificing correctness.

Swift supports unicode in source code so its parser is unicode aware. I'm not sure there is a good case for parsing in a non-unicode-aware way.

If you're working with strings as opaque data why are you even using a String type?
It's in the eight admendment, and you decided to be a citizen. (You can give up your citizenship?)

Now--the sixteenth admendment is violated all the time. (Excessive fines, blah, blah, no one seems to care? This is the real theft in our society, or in my world?)
Agree. This was the initial stance, when the focus (our misunderstanding) appeared to be on ptrace as the only vulnerability rather than ptrace as the means to easily exploit the vulnerability. Once we had a better understanding, we were also not convinced that this provided total protection.
I don't think Medium weakens Coinbase's brand. Mishandling something like an IRS subpoena is a lot more fatal.
Come on. This comes across as entirely disingenuous.

"This was independent, not authored or commissioned by us." - "the fact that we posted it on our Twitter as "why your containers are safer with Docker", posted a lengthy blog article in no way means we were criticizing competitors..."

"Nowhere do we make the point that other products are insecure." No, just "less secure".

"The context we were in was responding to a massive communication campaign ... " - so you were responding to criticism by what, exactly? Oh, yeah, that independent study that you just decided to post about?
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~shudders~ Good thing we can each do our own thing.
I did used to ponder over this sort of mystery, but I realized the actual answer to this lied at the particle level as explained in QED by Feynman: A positron can be treated as an electron traveling backwards in time. When it collides with an electron, the two create a photon. Should you ever come close to the speed of light, one way to "exceed" it would require a collision with your anti-matter self, resulting in (self-obliteration and...) photons from everyone's else's point of view. Of course, assuming my understanding is correct, it's also possible that you transform into your anti-matter self... bizarre. Going forward again would require some similar interaction, but I seem to recall formulating a thought experiment where this violates causality, making either the whole idea impossible even from a Relativistic standpoint or forcing some denial of causality, which would make other dependencies on causality (such as science itself) unreliable.
One approach for a Python implementation would be to store strings as UTF-8, and generate an index array as needed. For most operations, you don't need an index. Concatenation doesn't need one. Ordinary iteration (for c in "hello" :) doesn't need one. Regular expressions don't need an index. That covers most of the common use cases.

I like "rune" as terminology. A rune is one Unicode code point. A grapheme is a sequence of runes which should not be split.
"Leading"

Self-delusions of grandeur of Quebeckers are funny.

Too bad they can't attract talent and can't use the ones they attracted there

Meanwhile some top experts are in Silicon Valley, some others in London, there's a lot of ML investment in Berlin and other cities

Montreal is a great city but gets dragged down by the French Quebec BS
I'm going to break with the pack and say you are quite right. By itself landing the boosters isn't a dramatic achievement. After all they're not even manned.

But it's not about landing the boosters, it's about what this will enable in the future. If Musk really can reduce the cost to orbit by a factor of 100 it will revolutionise space transport. Imagine a series of moon landings just like in the 60s and 70s, but all using the same launchers and spacecraft? How about manned missions to Mars in reusable ships? It's the first step in a new era. So ok it's not headline grabing next to the moon landings. But compared to that, the Mercury missions don't look all that much of an achievement in hindsight. Yet they were vital groundwork.
That took a while. SeaWorld, you're up next!
And in Python:

with open("foo.txt.") as f:
foo = sorted(list(set(line.strip() for line in f])))

with is a context manager that will automatically close the file once it's out of scope, not required but it's much cleaner and safer. Should the code change you don't have to worry about the call to close the file getting lost. The call to set() could be replaced with a set comprehension, {i for i in sequence}, but for clarity I used set().

It's certainly not the most efficient way to do it but it's simple and clear.
Using raverbashing's logic, it sounds like he is saying every American resident "consents" to everything that Bush/Obama has done and everything that Trump will do...
Java strings are sequences of 16-bit units and don't guarantee UTF-16 validity. There are newer standard library APIs that perform astral-aware operations, though.
Mac users have long known that using Safari extends their battery life. This change by YouTube probably improves it further.
Oh my fucking god.
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Unfortunately, there's not a lot of detail.

One interesting comment on the video is: "Wow! Hi Stephen Broumley here (my name is at the top of the trex.c source code shown in the video) - I coded all the bosses, cinemas, effects, and a bunch of other systems for Turok back in the day when I was a young lad! I remember that dev hardware - what a blast from the past! Thanks so much for sharing!﻿" .

Pretty wild!
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You could develop for WebVR (https://mozvr.com). That way you can publish whatever you want, no gatekeepers, and will eventually have instant distribution to anyone with a browser and headset.
Of course mishandling the IRS would be worse, but I wasn't comparing the brand damage of the two actions (though you
seem to contradict yourself by saying "doesn't weaken" and then "a lot more fatal"). I was making a general claim that hosting important information or communication about your company off-domain weakens the brand of the company. I could imagine a worst-case scenario where putting great content on Medium actually harms your SEO, and you end up with Medium outranking your business in search results that you would really want going to your domain.
>When a trip into orbit costs $20,000 then a lot more people can go. When it costs $2,000 then anyone in the developed world can go. What impact that will have on our society?

Are you seriously implying that landing a rocket is an unprecedented step in that direction?

Do you think something like this would have been impossible if people had set their minds to do it, in the 60. I don't think so. I mean, we had missiles that could follow and destroy jets moving faster than a bullet...like, I don't know, 30 years back? Exactly that is why I think this is just marketing and PR (Not the actual stuff they are doing, but how it is seen and projected)...
Define it or call it whatever you want. But when it comes down to it, you are forcing someone to surrender their property under the threat of violent force. That is never deemed just when it occurs between normal people.
As an Emacs user, why not use magit? Staging, committing and pushing would be just a few key presses ('C-x g S c c <write message and C-c C-c> p P' assuming magit bound to 'C-x g'). You also get to view the status and diffs along the way.
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Bitcoin is a technology defined by its community. That's why they made a public comment about a pending legal issue - to defend their reputation within that community. A community that, for instance, leads a HN discussion to be >50% arguments about whether government of any type is a bad idea. They'd get even more customers of they refused to comply with any subpoena, but then they'd be unable to interface with modern banking.
Just to be clear - this is an argument of tax being beneficial, but is not in fact an argument of tax not being theft/extortion. Am I reading you right here?
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> You deal with strings as bytes (opaque data) more often than strings as text in systems programming, basically.

Now you're really confusing me. Are you talking about simply byte strings vs. unicode strings? Most modern languages, including python, have that distinction. What am I missing?
Seriously? As a user of their service I'm glad to see them offload an extraneous expense to someplace that's better equipped for the service provided.

After evaluating this situation further, I felt further comfort in knowing there's an added level of authenticity to the post. They could have signed it with a GPG key which would've been nice, but not only would their core site have needed to have been comprised but also their medium account in order to deliver this news. Should this have been a security incident I would have been comforted by these additional ID confirmations.
Speaking as a Coinbase user I would love it if they could just send me a 1099. It would make filing my taxes a whole lot easier.
In addition to the Rust design making more sense for systems programming than Swift's, what Rust puts on the language-level is forward-compatible with future Unicode versions. A future version of Unicode could define combining behavior for currently unassigned code points, which means that iterating by grapheme cluster will change as Swift becomes aware of new Unicode versions.
Nasa was landing and reusing the main engines of an orbital launch system is the early '80s. SpaceX hasn't actually reflown anything yet - the landing is cool and all but it's a pointless stunt unless and until they can actually refly the boosters they've landed.
Surely cash tips up to a level are tax excempt.
Very true (and parent makes a really good point, also).

I do wonder: rather than a single axis, how many would be appropriate? If you did PCA on... well, some crazy mishmash of factors -- demographic, political, socioeconomic, geographic -- what would be the eigenvalues of today's US politics? (And what's the minimum sensible number of values to capture the range of experience?)

Man, I can just hear my cofounder exhaling in frustration, at such an ill-posed problem, and abuse of terminology... and no doubt there are real, quantitative answers to some of this (and PCA is probably naive compared to... latest whiz-bang etc)... But still.
Thank you, nice twist!
Air Canada isn't a global company. It's a flag carrier for Canada only.

The rest is wishful thinking. Building an industry isn't just top down (all the braggy stuff was about top down), the bottom up stuff is critical and important.

Good luck with it. But I feel like while the research might be OK, the commercialization will come out of the bay area anyways. There just isn't enough quality people to do this in Canada.
I don't care for the idea of contaminating the ocean with nuclear radiation in the case of something going wrong with the reactors. That seems like a really bad idea.
Sad. It will be tough on the circus folk. That's a culture of its own, with hard-won skills useless elsewhere. Now they have to find other jobs.
Theft as a moral/philosophical concept doesn't mean "deprival of another's property against their will", it means "extrajudicial deprival of another's property against their will".

Doesn't this line of thought lead to the rather
unpleasant consequence that the state is incapable of murder? I mean by definition, a legally sanctioned state killing of a person or group of people cannot be extrajudicial.
Right, but the IRS has already classified bitcoin and provided guidance as to reporting requirements [1]. This situation isn't much different to cash wages. You can in theory not report any of it, but then you're breaking essentially the same law.

My question is: don't losses from unreported cash wages vastly outnumber losses from unreported virtual currencies and isn't that likely to remain the case for the forseeable future?

With this sort of action, is the IRS signaling a belief that virtual currencies will replace cash for average citizens in the near future?

[1] https://www.irs.gov/uac/newsroom/irs-virtual-currency-guidan...
Isn't the access to the views an iterator?

> I'm not sure there is a good case for parsing in a non-unicode-aware way

I'm not saying that you should parse in a non-unicode-aware way, I'm saying that most parsing code deals with ASCII delimeters, so grapheme clusters are a distraction (and will mess up parsing, since most formats do not consider EGCs. An HTML closing tag followed by an accent would totally break the parser otherwise). You rarely need to index, though.

Basically, in parsing, you're looking for characters which themselves are single code points. So it doesn't matter.

> If you're working with strings as opaque data

Well, not entirely opaque :)

But the String type is basically "here is a valid piece of UTF8 data", and you can pass that around. That's a distinct enough purpose to have a String type, even if you don't mess with its innards.

IME the most used String APIs are those for interpolation, concatenation, and search, all of which don't need to be EGC aware (though search being EGC aware is sometimes a good thing). Slicing sometimes gets used in conjunction with the others.
It really sounds like you have a mental model of the 'social contract' concept that isn't aligned with what it means for everyone else. To be clear, it says that we (possibly tacitly/implicitly) agree to give up some freedoms to the government in exchange for their governance/defense/etc. It has nothing to do with the enforceable contracts and things you sign. It just frames the relationship between government and constituents in terms of an agreement.

So if we give up certain freedoms in this agreement (such as the 'right to not be taxed'), then it's not unjust - we have (tacitly, implicitly) consented to this. It's true that you the individual might not have consented, and might not have the means to leave if you don't like it. But the collective is consenting, and can change the constitution if they change their mind.

So taxation is not inherently unjust if the state's constitution says it can tax you by definition. You might think the social contract that we're using is bad, or that the constitution is bad, and that's fine, and you can change it democratically if enough people agree with you. But 'unjust' doesn't really work.
Doesn't this article contradict itself? On one hand, the article quotes some guy who says his work isn't influenced by bonuses and then just a few sentences later it says the danger of bonuses is that they influence risky behavior.

Which is it?
The prices will go up and then, at least in the bay area, some time will pass, then some other ride share company with a slightly different take on things will start with their own VC subsidized business model. We'll all switch to it, bemoaning how Uber/Lyft used to be so much better before they got greedy and raised the prices.
Bulk purchasing power does not mean anything when the people you buy from in all your different locations are not the same.

Not even for gasoline, which is the simplest commodity of the bunch, will you find the same companies selling to you in the US as in Europe as in the Middle East as in China as in India.

Can anyone point out a single thing that Uber buys locally that they can get from the same vendor in more than a handful of countries?
>SpaceX are essentially setting up the future building blocks for far more affordable and common space flight now.

What exactly is the breakthroughs/discoveries that Spacex have made that will justify the claim.

Please note that landing the rocket does not count. Because I don't think it involved something new, some new technique that was unknown before.
There is a gift shop in Guantanamo bay? What's next, one in fucking Auschwitz?
It's totally true that a constitution could declare the state is not capable of murder, and if the governed agree to that then it's not really unjust for the government to murder people. Yes. The idea is that people would not agree to that.

(That's in the political philosophy sense. You can argue that there's a universal moral sense above that and that's fine, but that's not what we're talking about when we're talking about the just-ness of government actions. It's totally possible to have a morally-wrong constitution, and it's on the governed to change it.)

The US government has this relationship with the murder of enemy combatants right now.
I don't think this is what most people think of when they think of "e2e encryption".

If "A" is FaceBook software (client) and the communication to FaceBook's servers is encrypted, that should be standard, but it's not "e2e encryption". That's what TLS/SSL does. Why do we need another protocol when we already have TLS/SSL? Those are hugely deployed protocols whose implementations still have bugs.

I think "A" is me. I think that's what most people think, that we're talking about keeping the communication private between them and their partner. "A" is not the software that FaceBook controls: If FaceBook cannot decrypt my messages, then nobody can hack FaceBook to decrypt my messages, and FaceBook cannot be compelled to provide my messages to someone else. That's something that is actually valuable, and befitting a special label of "e2e encryption".

FaceBook can update that software (so can Google, Apple, or potentially Amazon or any other "app store" in the ideal scenario, hackers in the less ideal, and an oppressive government in the dire) at any time, so you simply do not know what it does, did, or will do, but at least you can keep it honest if you can supply and verify the keys yourself.
You're missing the parent's point. It's not about whether you are married with kids vs a bachelor; it's about having a healthy relationship as husband and wife (with or without kids).

The author does not have a healthy husband/wife relationship to me. Based on what she wrote - it's all about her and her husband is along for the ride.

> But my husband doesn’t yell WHAT THE HELL? at me like he should.... He acts like he doesn’t even notice that I should be locked away forever and ever in some bad, drafty place that serves only American cheese.

She knows she's not doing a lot of things she should as a wife, but then she writes about how she appreciates how he falls in line. It sounds like he's a way better husband than she is a wife. That's not healthy and might not be sustainable.

> You and your spouse are slogging through the slop of survival together. And it’s romantic. Mark my words.

That's a fairy tale rationalization.
New York 1655:

One of my most vivid childhood memories is waking up early in the morning to see the Negroes come through the Port.
It was a truly wonderful experience, one that I wish I could share with others without supporting the overarching practice of slave trade.
Conspiracy theory style speculation doesn't do well on HN. I can buy the conjecture that comma satellites might be tapped for intel. It's pointless and groundless speculation along the lines of mud slinging so expect downvotes, but at least it's not completely implausible. But the idea that space weapons might be sneaked onto non-classified satellites not covered by military level security standards makes no sense. Why would the military expose themselves to security risks like that? It's pure BS.
I agree. I went to a circus once, as a child, in 1999. I found it to be a mostly disturbing and garish experience featuring tired and exploited performers, humans as well as animals.
While you may or may not agree with his opinion or the way he worded it, a personal attack on him is really unwarranted (besides, I don't even get what's that bad about his job description?!).

I think we can all agree that it is nicer to have an atmosphere where you can share your opinion without your work being attacked by strangers.
You're equivocating between "homeowners" and "residents". Even newer homeowners are likely to have lived in the area longer than many residents.
Most companies don't regard brand-building and SEO as an extraneous expense. I'm sure Coinbase has spent their share of money on promotion. I'm also sure they could host a blog, or have someone else do it for them (does Medium have a self-hosted or custom domain option?)
In the US, maybe. In other countries (that rank better [1] on science and math at 15), they seem to be ok.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/business-32608772
Taxation is only "theft"[1] in precisely the same way that any part of the constitution is enforced.

So I guess i'm not sure what the point is. In the US, the government derives its rights from the consent of the governed (see the declaration of independence, which, while not an binding source of law, explains this quite well:P).

Here, the governed chose to enact a constitution that allowed the government to take taxes.
The government does so.

If the governed wish to not be taxed, they have a way to do that too!
Pass a constitutional amendment.
Agreed. But from what I recall having worked in restaurants, etc, the IRS does take steps to encourage reporting of any cash wages by pressuring employers to notify their employees of that obligation.

So it must be considered a signifcant source of taxable income to them.

But of course thats just one example of possible cash income...
It's not theft in any way.
It's by consent.
Xiaomi roms don't have ads. You ordered from a third party vendor that had installed their own rom showing ads. This is a problem of their distribution model -- the phones are available internationally only via unofficial third parties -- rather than their product.
I scratch my phones badly so i cant resell them. But if i or a friend need a temporary phone i happily give them out.
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