skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, the problem is if you try to treat, say, an LLC as if it's not an entity with any constitutional rights, then, ....
it has no constitutional rights.

Want microsoft or google or facebook to have a 4th amendment right not to give up your searches or email?
Sorry, not a human entity!

Want CNN to have the right to publish news under the 1st amendment?
Sorry, not a human entity!

At least in our legal system, you have no standing to really raise constitutional violations or rights issues of others (except in very very specific circumstances).
This is in large part because it would be ridiculously difficult and complicated to make such a thing work
(can anyone do it? If so, who gets to do it? First person? Person you like the best? etc)

So the solution chosen was to treat these entities as having rights.

Not an ideal solution on it's own, mind you, but let's call it a "workaround" for a set of very very hard problems.

But every time i see someone say "corporations shouldn't be treated like people", my answer is, "sure, this is pretty much a truism. How do you actually implement it in a way that isn't a complete disaster, though?"
It's still an ambiguous construction in the middle of a standard form contract, which is bad news for whoever drafted the contract in many legal systems. And from my experience of lawyers, highly paid or otherwise, incompetence is just as plausible an explanation for their bad work as anyone else's.
DNS lookups are expensive at server scale. Bot traffic ranges from maybe a quarter to 80% of traffic, though googlebot was only a subset of that.

Cheaper to look for Google ASNs.
Still there are index funds in Europe, 401k equivalents and you can buy international stocks.

What kind of stocks do you need for your personal financial planning, that you cannot get in Europe? I have heard nice things about Vanguard on HN, but so far have not had any troubles with iShares and the like.
Median household income is 52k. At 52k, you get massive ACA subsidies. At say 75k or 100k, yes you can afford the $250 (or more realistically $1000 or $1500) it costs to get a family health insurance.
I wouldn't count Oracle out just yet. They're still much bigger than SCO or its predecessors ever were. They're also under the same management that built the company up from nothing, whereas SCO was a new management team that took over Caldera and was trying to pivot them to the product they'd just bought from the former Santa Cruz Operation, had no idea what they were doing, and eventually settled on litigation as a business model.

(SCO, amazingly, is still continuing its litigation, despite having no products, employees, or assets remaining. Oral arguments on probably-the-last-appeal are March 22 in Denver.)
It seems plausible to me that there could be much worse consequences than an air travel disruption if four volcanoes all have big eruptions.
Just using facebook or just using messenger without the other is a pain.
Also first time I used FB Messenger on a new phone (an iPhone after using android). Went through several screens of "Add your phone number", "Constantly upload all your contacts!" and "Invite your friends to messenger". all with well hidden ui for skipping each step (particularly the last one).

If I wanted to contact people on messenger they would already have messenger.
Interesting. I have set up a few VPN servers of various kinds (and other network trickery) in Virtual Machine hosting services, and ultimately gave up due to issues with TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_receive_offload) interacting badly with PMTUD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_MTU_Discovery). The result was that TCP streams (often Downton Abbey, fwiw) inbound from a remote server, tunneled to me via the VPN, would stall and generally suffer from poor QoS.

I spent some time submitting support tickets to all the hosting providers I had tried (many). Every one of them told me that they had no way to disable TSO and the other common TCP offload features on their hosts.

So now I use Packet.net which gives me a honest to goodness actual bare metal machine (over which I have complete control), for much the same price.
just in case https://bettercrypto.org/
Ok. I think most of this sounds reasonable. We do necessarily adopt the attitudes and dispositions of those we associate with. HN is a pretty ambiguous place from that perspective: an internet gold-rush town inhabited by those who feel the need to justify/discuss their position by engaging online.

In a spirit of hopeful insight into what's going on, I'm linking to the Wikipedia page for Skagway, Alaska.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skagway,_Alaska
"At any rate, I think that when you dismiss figures of the past as human sewers, you overlook just how past atrocities happened, which makes it easier for them to happen in the here and now."

i disagree. how past atrocities happened is less (probably not at all) from name-calling the victimizers of the past and more from wiffle-waffling intellectual obfuscation of pure self-interest as something more than what it is. what could justify kidnapping people, putting them in mortal danger by shipping them across the ocean against their will, selling them to masters who had liberty to anything they liked with them?

flip it around: there're plenty of horrible things happening right now, and lots of people proffering up weak-ass justifications for them. i have a low opinion of them. why should i have a higher opinion of their counterparts for 150 years ago?
I'll second the recommendation for djb software. http://perl.plover.com/yak/qmail/ has slides from a presentation about qmail internals.
This remind me that I don't like employment anti-discrimination laws, especially for jobs highly unlike manual labor. One of the reasons is PIPs which best show the kinds of problems I am talking about IMO, and I think there is a lot of laws that varies by state there (with California being most strict I think).
On the one hand, I tend to agree with you. I used LaTeX (with beamer) to make several slideshows over the past few years, and it seems safe to say that this is not the exactly the kind of thing that plays to TeX's strengths.

On the other hand, there exist wizards who do things like this:

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/134638/showcase-tex-...

(check out the pink one with hearts; note that it uses random numbers so it doesn't even come out the same way each time, try doing that with anything but TeX (just don't ask why you'd want to); there's also one other that also used random numbers)
Isn't Chrome quite buggy and leaky? (for any user of Chrome.) The same goes for Chromium, right?
Calhoun college was so named in 1931, and the only reason seems to be that he was a Yale alumnus who was Vice President. I'm not seeing the big offsetting factors. It's not like they're trying to rename something named after Thomas Jefferson, who also owned slaves.
Correct and correct.

The stock market cannot go to 0. It is literally impossible. If you are invested in the fortune 500.. and the value went to literally 0.. we are in a zombie Apocalypse. Money no longer has value. So yes I lost all my investment, but I also don't have a job, and a gun is my most valuable asset.

Buy and hold = Buy big index funds (i.e. Fortune 500), and then never ever ever ever sell, until you are ready to spend the money (i.e. draw-downs in retirement).

Trying to go "oh the market lost 20% this week, it is going to 0 soon" is a fools investing.
Doesn't seem like it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Cruise_Line
How Overfunding Killed Nasty Gal
You can literally just google "cruise industry immigrants" to find that this isn't true:

http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2014/04/17/health-and-fam...
The Stockfish chess engine: https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish

I learned a ridiculous amount from reading the source code to TeX (https://www.amazon.com/Computers-Typesetting-B-TeX-Program/d...) but it is written in a very 1970s style.
There is also m.messenger.com.

Although trying that it seems the certificate isn't trusted by iOS Safari.
I've actually-used QR codes once or twice, in the last... six years. I still have software that'll scan them installed, but just because Scanbot coincidentally does it as a side-effect of what I actually use it for.

That said, the use on this card of encoding a complete vCard is actually pretty decent. It's not a tiny URL which you could enter in a few seconds.
I always thought Postfix was nice. Maybe I'm wrong as I haven't seen it mentioned.
I suspect at least 50% of the people who ask decide I'm crazy or otherwise very suspect socially when I tell them I don't have Facebook (or Twitter or Snapchat or Instagram for that matter). This happens even with people I've known for a while. Apparently it's very unusual to be completely absent from social media.
Right. For instance, if you are China.. odds are you have agents in Google and Facebook, right now.
Whenever one of these posts come around, people start sharing horrible experiences they've had with facebook and how they're "scaling back" or tailoring their facebook usage ie. using the mobile browser instead of the app. It's a strange discussion. Just leave the platform and send a formal request to delete your account. It's like reading a meth addict forum.
It's a complete vCard. So if you scan it, you get an "add to your contacts?" prompt.
In Android 5 or higher, you can simply deny notification permissions to the app by long-pressing on any notification until it changes to the app icon and name of the app, then pressing again.
I'm pretty sure the overlap of academics who hate TeX and academics who comment on HN is small.
"To give an account of his "feud" with Chomsky, Chomsky claims that recursion (in the sense of embedding sentences into sentences) is the defining characteristic of human language that sets it apart from other animal languages. Everett claims that the Piraha language doesn't display recursion and therefore Chomsky's claim is wrong."

I realize that your summary of Chomsky's theory is short, pithy, and misrepresents Chomsky, but your argument here is incorrect.

You say,

* X is the defining characteristic of Y.

* Z (a purported element of Y) does not have X.

The only possible conclusion is that Z is not an element of Y: the Piraha do not speak a human language.
Hm..

"At the time the report was released, the FSFE questioned why Accenture was commissioned to co-author a report assessing the use of Microsoft software, when the consultancy runs a joint venture with Microsoft called Avanade, which helps businesses implement Microsoft technologies. For its part, Accenture said it has an "independent view of the technology landscape".

"At the time Munich began the move to LiMux in 2004 it was one of the largest organizations to reject Windows, and Microsoft took the city's leaving so seriously that then CEO Steve Ballmer flew to Munich to meet the mayor. More recently, Microsoft last year moved its German company headquarters to Munich."

Everything else that is written there points towards it making no sense to switch back to Windows.
There's a very simple solution: Uninstall the apps. I promise you, it's still very easy do things without them.

But if you're looking for a way to get free services from these companies, I got bad news. Nothing is free.
The solution is to delete the apps. I get enough notifications from texts and emails.
When you get a notification, don't pause it or make it temporarily go away. Do whatever it takes to make that not happen again. It's like unsubscribing or marking emails as spam, rather than just archiving.
From what I read, initially the Soviet "illegals" programs were successful. This was before the Cold War and during the early parts. After that, it was less successful and often viewed as a waste of resources.

If interested, I recommend "The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB".
There was a post-Cold War defection of an individual (Mitrokhin) who worked for the KGB in their archives and provided a large trove of intelligence. A researcher (Christopher Andrew) collaborated with him to produce 2 books, which included a large amount of data about the Soviet "illegals" programs.

It's often going to just be more effective to bribe and blackmail people with access, rather than hope your illegals have successful careers and gain the right access.
Better at what? Most users just write simple letters in Word and make simple lists in Excel.

I am known as an Excel power user, and Excel is better at some things than calc, but not very much. Calc is better at exporting unicode CSV, which is big news for a developer.

365 starts at $99 a year, per user. That is quite a lot in my book when you have thousands of users
It's not so easy to leave when so many people are in your contact list only on fb and also there are many discussions and posts made on fb that one would miss out on.
So - I'm definitely not willing to go as far as the GP was with their statement, but Oracle's database technology is pretty amazing. I love postgres, Spark, NoSQL, etc. and think the progress they have made is amazing, but Oracle's database from a raw featureset is incredible.

- Shared-something database clustering - true scale-out database clustering without writing sharding logic into your application, worrying about hot spots, or sacrificing significant performance due to overhead

- query offload to storage for bulk reads

- Flashback - someone wrote a bad update that might have messed with some data? You can tell the database to set your view of the database back to before that update to verify, and then decide if you want to move the whole database back, or just extract the records that were changed by that query

- fine-grained permissioning - have a table with credit card numbers in it? Give everyone access to it, but the credit card numbers are all obfuscated

- replication - block-level? statement-level? real-time? real-time with delay? Whatever you want. In fact, you can say "Hey, replicate this database to another datacenter, don't make it synchronous, but don't let it get more than 10 minutes out of sync"

- also, btw, when you need to failover that database, if you're feeling really brave, oracle can do the whole thing for you automatically, because their database client will notify a watcher that a majority of them have lost the necessary access to the database, but can talk to the standby, and the watcher handles the failover

I could go on and on. There's just so much intelligence in the Oracle database platform. Would I ever pay for it? No, it's better to build applications that don't need that level of sophistication. But if you're a big company who doesn't want to write software to be smart about data storage and recovery, Oracle does an amazing job at just guaranteeing your data won't go away.

On the business apps side of things, I think their software is mostly terrible, but I also think that they do focus on problems that OSS typically has not. If you are a manufacturer of satellites, there is probably not an OSS ERP solution that will work for you. If you need to store 300,000 personnel records, there's probably not an OSS HCM solution for you.

None of this means that they're not eventually doomed nor that they're not shitty, but it is very fair to say that their software deals with hard problems that OSS has not typically focused on.
Postfix is a good example of a system written in C with separate components (running in different processes for security).
Twitter only grew by two million users during Trump mania
As opposed to OpenOffice or Libreoffice for free?
Thats what I had recalled, until I found his mugshot when he was arrested stealing smoke detectors - his face was covered in lesions attributed to radiation. Pretty sad. If it wasn't the immediate cause, it likely wasn't unrelated either.
There is nothing on GUI side in Go and it does not seem to be priority of core team.
> The "next generation" of developers equals SQL engines with "old and bad"

I think that what you mean is:

- they don't understand the relational model
- they don't understand the tradeoffs of ACID vs BASE
- they never bothered to actually learn SQL
- they *think* that they have "big data"

Don't get me wrong - there are compelling use cases for, and decent products for, every class of non-relational database.

But there's nothing out there that can handle the general use case like an RDBMS.

Anybody who doesn't understand that isn't qualified to be making organization-wide decisions.
The mention of “Windows Basic Client” jumps out to me. Is that a reference to the thin client version of Windows? If so, what's the point of switching away from Linux?
EITC is a sort of backdoor minimum basic income. There's a few places experimenting with basic income right now, so we'll have empirical data soon.
Engineering Disasters: Sherman Tanks
One might counter that in a truly diverse and moreover free nation, a citizen should be allowed to identify as they please.
>So is the heat death of the universe, yet we don't feel existential angst about that. Global warming is a serious problem and it'll have a tremendous impact on human life. However, this will happen in a timeframe of several generations.

Several generations, my foot! The real nasty stuff will be coming to a head just about when I'm starting to hit retirement age.

>While the consequences are certainly dire global warming won't mean the extinction of mankind, or most non-human life for that matter. Life will adapt. Mankind will adapt. We can't prevent global warming anymore but we can do something to slow it down and temper its effects.

This is a stupid thing to say to people. "Oh, sure, you might die, or your personal prospects might get a lot worse, but humanity as a whole will probably persist!" Oh joy? Look, it's very nice that humanity might survive in some form, but I was hoping to survive in some form, into my natural old age.
Computer Modern has a very high contrast of thick and thin strokes, and the axis of the strokes is completely vertical. This makes it very difficult to render on bitmap displays: you can end up with 3-pixel lines next to 1-pixel lines, and the optical compensations of antialiasing can't fix the visual appearance because most of the lines are orthogonal.

These characteristics of the font are intentional: it's really a showcase for Knuth's Metafont system which lets you tweak stroke contrast to a high level, so you can create many weight and casing variations of Computer Modern parametrically. And it does look bearable in print. But it's really the worst possible screen font.

Times is much better in this respect because it was designed for readability long before computers, for newspaper printing where unexpected ink bleed and other artifacts were daily routine.

(Cynically, it's possible to view Computer Modern as a fitting portrait of computer science itself: the font is used because it's exciting to have 62 tweakable parameters in a system designed by someone famous in the field, not because it's any good for the end users.)
Socialism need not be paired with a command economy. Capitalism plus redistribution works better.
The glacier covering it is a quarter to a half a mile thick.
If someone care about GTK+-3 and C, I would recommend gnome-recipes[0]. Well written and smaller codebase (It is still in active development, so not yet feature complete).

It shall be helpful in learning Object Oriented Design using C programming and GObject.

[0] https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Recipes
I specially like the collection class: https://github.com/illuminate/support/blob/master/Collection... It's almost as natural language.
you can keep verified boot on custom roms.
play services expose you to googles nsa'd taps we'll hear about in 5y.

source: im another google engineer
You are right. But I do think that what is now called "fake news" is generated by a similar mechanism. I don't know what term to use. Wrong or false don't quite cover it. Perhaps 'unmoored' - a boat can be unmoored accidentally or deliberately, or by outside events - a big wave.
Curious, are these discussions and posts really important?

How many crucial conversations have taken place only on Facebook?

I removed my account a couple of years ago when I found out stuff about people that I would have been happier not knowing. And I haven't missed much.

I don't expect that my social life and yours are that similar though.
So, no real reason? Or may be MS paid someone in charge? It doesn't make any sense really.
At the risk of sounding brusque, don't just read the headline of this article and then comment because the headline doesn't mean what it reads like on the surface. It's not "house prices are falling and this could be awesome." Instead, the article's thesis is:

> So instead of looking at homes as investments, what if we regarded them like a TV or a car or any other consumer good? People might expect home prices to go down instead of up. Homebuilders would probably spend more time talking about technology and design than financing options. Politicians might start talking about their plans to lower home prices further, as they often do with fuel prices.

The article is going over a paper[0] that asks what would happen to house prices if houses were treated as disposable consumer goods instead of a means of storing wealth. It also points out, correctly in my opinion, that such a shift would be monumental (if only because everyone would have to do it at the same time).

0 - http://realestate.wharton.upenn.edu/research/papers/full/802...
you don't lose your 2fa. thats it. all other options are unsafe
> 365 starts at $99 a year, per user. That is quite a lot in my book when you have thousands of users

It's really not. Office is the single MS product that is actually better than the competition (Libre, Apple, etc) and it's also THE core business software. Most businesses might have huge ERP systems, but the war is won in the Excel trenches. If you're an organization of 1,000+ users, $100kpa is nothing.
Even better, you could layout with Inkscape AND typeset the text with LaTeX using textext: https://bitbucket.org/pitgarbe/textext
I'd love to see the financials that justify the move.
What's stopping you? You should be eligible for Indian citizenship (or even hold on to the US Citizenship and get an OCI card).

Did you apply?
Search YouTube, for "Yandex oracle to PostgreSQL". You would be shocked at how the enterprise space is just sick to death of oracle and once they actually TRY moving off it to PG how much insanely easier, cheaper, and better performance it is for most workloads that people thought they HAD to have oracle for.
Pretty much, yeah. Unless you want to find Mexico and DR some more export markets.
Are there limits to the recursion?
It's like a secret handshake.

This comment could sound sarcastic but it's not. Even that marketing manager could be a nerd, and it would be awesome to find out.
> Calhoun, and most everyone else in human history, lived in a different time.

Your attempt to seem wise and clever might come across a bit better if you had even the slightest aquaintence with the topic of history, about which you seem to be almost entirely ignorant. By 1837 slavery had been abolished in the countries the US would consider itself a peer of. Slavery was not some mainstream idea; it had, for decades in the civilised world, been on the run.

Appealing to the notion we are unreasonably judging the slavery advocates of the mid-19th century by their own standards shows either complete ignorance or a frankly creepy desire to propogate their philosophy.