skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although I expect some improvements to be possible, I doubt it's practical to do the sort of large-scale transformation that would really make a difference.

I mean, I keep reading stories about how famous corporations have terrible codebases which they can't fully fix it, and we're in a domain where deployment is trivial amd doesn't literally cost the time of the entire legal profession to familiaise themselves with the changes.

I'd love to be wrong. The saying "ignorance of the law is not an excuse" is necessary, yet at the same time not possible when the law is as complex as it is now.
CT significantly pre-dates the recent Symantec issues, but yes, it does provide an excellent tool for providing evidence of misissuance [0] [1] - and that's the crux of it - in order for a certificate to be considered valid in a CT world, it must present proof that it has been publicly logged.

[0] https://security.googleblog.com/2015/09/improved-digital-cer...
[1] http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/450411573/Certific...
[2]
That's fine, as long as there's one Lamborghini per mechanic. We can sustain a society off of that.
I don't think so. 45% of Americans pay zero income tax, even accounting for withholding.
That's it, blame TurboTax.
and this pure gold:

Aegle was once in bed with double action—
The eunuch Dindymus and some old geezer.
She lay between while they both got her hot.

Neither guy could make a go of it;
One lacked equipment, the other was senescent,
So Aegle burned without real satisfaction.

What could she do? She fell down on her knees
And prayed to Venus for herself and them:
“Make Grandpa young, make Dindymus a man!”
Why not just use openpgp signing instead like most GNU/Linux distros?
You have to be able to guarantee that your liquid nitrogen powered freezer (expensive) will never fail even once over decades of storage (extra expensive).

I'm not sure what kind of profit margins sperm banks are working with, but there's quite a bit of competition, so I suspect the prices are mostly pretty close to cost. It's all very labor intensive as well; they need to employ a bunch of lab techs, all of whom have biotech or medical degrees.
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No-one knew the world's worst problem, so we spent 8 years trying to find it
More importantly, they must be pretty aware of the fact that they'll be tracking minors, and all that entails. They know that their lifeblood is their reputation for being utterly family-friendly. At the end of the day, it's just... it's like complaining about being surveilled in a museum.
The way each object is implemented in the VM reminds me a lot of the way you wrote objects in ZZT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZZT).
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Thorium isn't rare. You probably have enough in your lawn to supply your lifetime energy needs. Also, it's a waste product of rare earths mining, and there's a United States stockpile of 3.2 million kg of thorium nitrate that nobody knows what to do with.
Websites compromised in 'Decimal IP' campaign
Sounds like they need to adopt the Uber model. Regulations causing you trouble? Just ignore them!
It is the regulation that created the monopolies. Local cable companies and telcos have legal monopolies in many areas by way of franchise agreements with municipalities.

Monopolies don't last in a free market. Someone hungrier will eventually come in and undercut the incumbent.
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Similar in Norway. You receive a pre-filled-out tax return in your digital inbox (Altinn.no). All the fields are filled out from wages, bank accounts, charities etc., numbers which have been reported to the government. You don't need to do anything with the tax return unless you want to make changes or attach additional forms. If you do nothing at all, it will be automatically submitted.
Thank you for this link! The info-gem bandwidth of this man is off the scales.
It's fairly expensive. You're looking at around $400/yr on a year-to-year basis for a single sample (which is only enough to get around a 30-70% chance of pregnancy depending on delivery method and sperm health).
The wave that he is modeling is due to having a field in space-time that will interact with nearby values of the same field in a linear way, which results in it moving at a constant rate.

The waves that you see in water are the surface representation of 3-d movements under the surface of the water. So you get effects such as the depth of the movement for a wave determines its velocity. A wave that moves a very deep water column moves very fast. (One that is a half-mile deep can move as fast as a jet!) A wave that moves a shallow water column moves slowly.

Another interesting fact about waves is that there is a significant nonlinear interaction between the depth of the water and the depth of the wave. As you come to shore this causes the wave to rise up. Surfers enjoy this effect when it comes to normal wind driven waves. But in the case of very deep and fast waves, the effect is very much like a tide unexpectedly coming in. The result is known as a tsunami or tidal wave.

These complex behaviors mean that water waves can behave very differently from light and sound.
What are Canada's "structural and tax issues"?
> The average person

The average person doesn't escape insulin responses. Counting carbs and preferring fatty foods is easier than counting calories and helps the person far more.
Notable Changes:

* buffer:
- do not segfault on out-of-range index (Timothy Gu)

* crypto:
- Fix memory leak if certificate is revoked (Tom Atkinson)

* deps:
- upgrade npm to 4.2.0 (Kat Marchán)
- fix async await desugaring in V8 (Michaël Zasso)

* readline:
- add option to stop duplicates in history (Danny Nemer)
Yeah, Britain did that. The reprocessing plant has turned into another money pit full of leaking pipes and dubious practices, with a multi-billion pound decommissioning budget.

Plus, as you suggest, no-one wants to buy the MOX fuel product because it's more expensive than enriched uranium.
If ISPs ban VPNs, the people who want to use VPNs will cancel their service. If enough people want to use VPNs the ISPs will be forced to allow it.
They're just nudes. Nothing pornographic that I can see?
Platform doors are generally installed when you install modern signalling (CBTC) onto a line, which much of the NYC subway does not have. CBTC equipped trains can operate under Automatic Train Operation (ATO) meaning that trains can be made to always stop at the same location on the platform.

Furthermore, platform doors require you to have trains that have the doors in the same positions on the car body, which much of the newer subway fleet (R142,R188 & R143,R160,R179) has but the legacy fleet does not. This issue get compounded even more where multiple lines intersect (which is often due to the NYC subway's unique connectedness) requiring that certain stations would need to support 3 or 4 different car classes.
That is 100% correct . There was however propaganda , like
"Reach the goals soon " , "Communisum makes the country great ".

And after posting this ... I am worried FBI or Homeland Security will knock on my door and ship me to Alaska no questions asked.
> Sorry - but you're accusing me of a timeline I had not stated.

That was my best guess at a timeline for your conspiracy theory. Would you care to give an alternative?

You're also kind of all over the road here. First you say "I simply stated that Gaddafi was murdered for his money" but in the next paragraph you say "Gaddafi got killed for a reason we will never know". And you follow that up with "and his ~$70 billion dollars evaporated to who-knows-where" when just before you proposed that the money was taken by HRC. And you seem really certain at least some part of this is true, saying "He was murdered for his money. And anyone who says that is not true is fucking clueless about what the fuck is actually happening in this world" but then respond to someone calling your theory "a rumor". I honestly don't know what you believe or don't
Hmm, you're right.
What would be a better title?
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You linked to an /edit page rather than the video.

This works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_oTtDUV0yI
Thank you for your response.

I watched that section, and I offer a rebuttal.

My summary:The speaker here argues that post-modernism's great illogical flaw is that it invites all individuals to assign themselves labels of victimhood, and argues that if one were fair and listened to everybody, everybody is a victim.

Firstly, that argument doesn't appear very insightful - the individual's narcissism is incompatible with fairness. On a separate note, the speaker uses self-identifying label as a call for victimhood when many individuals (which is the perspective he is using) would never see it that way, so he is revealing a prejudice about the labels he is referencing. Either not self-aware or a deliberate choice.

But that's not the point here - this argument has it backwards. It's not about a black person saying 'I am disadvantaged because I am black'. It is about statistical facts showing that black people are disadvantaged, and historical laws showing that this is due to decades of policy and laws which were a result of another bucket of people (whites) saying, 'These people are black, let's disadvantage them'.

The segueway about LGBTQIAK label is I think parallel/tangential to this and is itself super interesting with a whole bunch of complications that societies have to unravel, but let's not conflate the two, because they are not analogous.

edit:grammar and clarity
Seriously ! Get some professional help. Your long term happiness will improve with therapy.

I like to remind myself: Don't sweat the small stuff; it's all small stuff !
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Making a hash of the release is just a small part of it (and is the first part of what they are doing).

The trick is to be confident that you're getting the same hash as everyone else - and that's what requiring a proof that it be added to a CT logs gives you some level of assurance about.
Adjust for rent. Not that this will help Toronto as land prices there are retarded also.

Montreal is touted as an AI centre and has cheap land.
Well, you can't expect desktop software to run on something with a few tens to hundreds of K of RAM. But basically all the TI graphing calculators can be programmed in C. I don't think anyone has bothered, but there's no reason at all you couldn't run APL on one, if you either wrote or found a lightweight enough implementation.
The image seemed to be uncompressed, or at least, the relevant parts of it were uncompressed. I'd guess they had to be much pickier how what and where to compress, given the constraints of the system.
North Koreans can't really simply Walk to South Korea because of DMZ. It would be easier for them to walk to China.

And S Korea and others are planning for possibility of NK collapsing. But I honestly believe no planning would be enough. NK people will have to be fenced into NK for like 10 years to be reprogrammed. And allowed out to rest of world slowly.
Whereas in the US most people don't pay any attention to where their tax dollars go. Meanwhile, President Trump raised our already ludicrous defense budget another $50 billion.
What do you think of dotPeek by JetBrains?

https://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/
Instead of an editorial techdirt article, do you have the law's text where the behavior is expressly forbidden? One of these things matters, the other has no bearing on reality.
But that's not the important part. The violence is the important part. Feudalism wasn't unjust because the kings had a lot of money, it was unjust because they got a lot of money through force and not through productive economic activity.

Also, I think it is extremely problematic to compare any system with large disparities of outcome with an essentially violent system like feudalism (or just defining "inequality = violence", which people do) because what you are doing is basically justifying violence against that system. Violence against capitalism has happened historically, multiple times, and has led to huge injustices, the slaughter of innocent people, and the ruin of every society that has tried it (unless they ease off like China). That alone is a great counterexample to the idea of capitalism = feudalism = violence.
Does nuclear actually produce more nasty waste waste, or does it merely produce more local waste? Coal produces a huge amount of nasty waste, but the disposal problem is "solved" for much of it by just venting it into the atmosphere to go wherever it will.

What really brings it home for me are the warnings to limit seafood consumption for pregnant women, children, and other vulnerable populations due to mercury contamination. About half of that contamination comes from coal power. Coal is so dirty that it has made an entire type of food dangerous to consume!
They're also neighbors who live in the same neighborhood:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medina,_Washington

You can kinda see both of their mansions (covered by privacy hedges) when driving across the SR-520.
It has it already. It had it for a while
Sperm banks allow sperm to sit exposed to air (in a container) for 15-30 minutes to allow for liquefaction. Sperm actually have a rather long autogenous lifetime.
Republican lawmakers made it legal to buy search histories, so let’s buy theirs
No I don't think I have a moral obligation to help people I've never met that I don't live anywhere near. I do think I have a moral obligation not to do people harm, but that's really about it.

As far as helping people, I feel morally obliged to help the people close to me, and no one else. That's not to say I refuse to help anyone outside of that group, it's just that I don't feel obliged to. My position is perfectly normal and natural and probably shared by the majority of the Earths inhabitants. Global Altruism is the edge-case here.

The 19th century missionary analogy is that you believe you have a moral obligation to help everyone on planet earth. Whether you have religious motivations or not is beside the point.
According to the story it's still available in California as an option for paying your state taxes, it's simply never became the default/only option. If you're in California and want to go find it and use it, it seems you can.
Someone is putting lots of work into hacking GitHub developers
Everywhere I turn, people speak of AI. Often to say little, or less, as is the case here. The ACM in full splendor (I'm a member).
> If it was just a matter of lobbying dollars, the 0.5% of the economy that benefits from more complicated taxes could not possibly out-lobby the 99.5% of the economy that benefits from simpler taxes (all else being equal).

This is a laughably oversimplified way to think about, so much so that there's even a term for how wrong this is: diffuse benefits, concentrated costs (and its inverse, obviously).
> If you really want lower taxes, you need to be honest: you'll be taking that money from someone else.

s/lower/raise

Taxation is theft.

> Take a look at defense spending. And don't pretend it won't cost some people dearly if you cut it.

I grew up on a US Army base. I can honestly tell you from firsthand experience that an absurd amount of that money goes to waste. 550 billion dollars is an insane amount of money.
Founders choosing to live outside the biggest metro areas (e.g. NYC, SF Bay Area, LA) are often more "control-motivated" as opposed to "wealth-motivated" [1], and thus bootstrap their companies longer while keeping more equity. Google, Apple, Facebook, Netflix, etc took more rounds of financing. If you go one step further, in small businesses in rural areas the founders have almost 100% equity.

[1] N. Wasserman. The Founder's Dilemmas. 2012.
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I think I might be a little outdated on my knowledge of VPNs, but wouldn't they throw inefficiency into how your traffic is routed around the internet? It's not like you're going for the most efficient exit out of the VPN closest to your intended target, simply the one advertised as a gateway.

VPNs may be a solution to privacy issues, but the whole Internet will be worse for it if everyone were to use one.

I wish we could quantify how much electricity is wasted just routing things around inefficiently from VPNs. How much infrastructure must be upgraded because of the growing use of them. Maybe this would incent ISPs to avoid selling analytic data on its customers?
> Being a slave means that your masters consider your life to be less valuable than theirs. So even though you're a human being, they deny you rights and treat you like a lower form of life.

The same can be said in our society about criminals or the poor. Not universally, but slaves were not universally seen as "lower forms of life" either.

> Is this life form a human being? Are they well intentioned?

The use of "well intentioned" here is a catch-all for being able to say "anyone who does not follow my moral framework may be subjected to the punishments of my moral framework." It is equally capable of condemning the well-intentioned thief stealing food (or money for food) to live, with no ill will but no belief in other opportunities for getting by, and also the well-intentioned parents who refuse medical treatment to a dying child due to the belief in their religion that God will heal the child without the corrupt manipulations of the material world. There is no objectivity here.
I miss the internet where you could find stuff like this.
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Of course, you also need to pay one of the tax prep companies just to file your return online (if you're above an income threshold), because you can't do that directly as an individual, either. Also due to their lobbying.
> a radioactive bomb might kill you anywhere from now to twenty years from now and everyone exposed to it will be left wondering when their number comes up.

I feel obligated to point out that this also applies to things like lead paint, mercury (got any CFL bulbs?), red meat, burnt toast, gasoline vapors, asbestos, new car smell, and sunlight.

Nuclear waste is dangerous, but not outrageously so. It's treated with a deference far beyond what's given to other stuff that kills us regularly.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply :)

At the end of the day, I suppose there's a certain inevitability to the sort of service you're providing, and I'd rather there were 20 smaller companies, than just CloudFlare. So carry on, and I'll check out your tech when I have a chance!
FYI, Blizzard has a modern-PC-friendly free download up, along with Blackthorne, Rock'n'Roll Racing, and Diablo II (!): https://us.battle.net/account/download/?show=classic
Learned Pascal on one. Good times. Good times.
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You can refer to TurboTax all you like, but you just basically admitted that you're committing tax fraud and challenging society to catch you.
why paste all that here?
I'm curious.... is there some sort of crazy image recognition tech going on here or does the website owner need to somehow identify what's in the image for the ads to work? If it's the former then this is seriously impressive.
Yes, very cool. I believe we should do something similar for web applications. I wrote a blog post about that a while back:

http://blog.airbornos.com/post/2015/04/25/Secure-Delivery-of...
You could potentially say the same for some people who live extremely unhealthy lifestyles as well. The problem is that you have to balance liberty and safety. What's the difference between a person living in the street who generally bothers nobody and a hoarder living indoors in filth, but also bothering nobody, their visibility?

I'm aware that it's oversimplifying, but we don't seem to care as much when it's out of sight.
I don't think I believe this. Source?
That seems a terrible idea. Don't do that!
Put another way: coal kills about as many people each year as nuclear has in its entire history if you include the bombs dropped on Japan.
> That's not "very little"

In my book, a billionaire paying a lower tax rate than their secretary, driver, security guard, etc. is paying proportionally "very little" taxes.
No, wrong again. The resolution prohibits the FCC from making rules like this in the future, so the legal climate itself is different. The threat of regulation doesn't hang over this shady-ass business anymore, and things like this don't happen in a vacuum. Your "fake news" claims are the greatest "misrepresentation" in this thread
I think grandparent comment's point was that at some point, greater good for disabled people can be delivered by specifically helping them rather than re-engineering the world to fit them. Considering that each has a concrete price tag attached to it.

The "wheelchair that can climb stairs" vs "adding ramps everywhere" comparison.

I feel like in the past the latter made more economic sense, but at some point technology might tip the balance the other way.
The problem is that a corporation is legally defined to be the same as a person. A corporation has the same rights that a person does. Spending money is legally equivalent to speech.

Because of those two simple legal precedents, a corporation's right to lobby is literally protected by free speech.
Are you suggesting that impoverished people from developing countries who have just lost their jobs to automation are going to embark on an international journey in order to storm my house and take my stuff?

How did you come up with this far-fetched fantasy?

The people from developing countries who could afford to do that come from a more privileged background than I do.
Migration is not cheap.
Oops, good catch! Fixed it.
Absolutely. But don't think that you'll have an easy time of it. Expect that 501c(3) status won't come, because ultimately it's the IRS that makes that call, and they've already been suborned or cowed to the pressure of the tax preparers.

Expect your credentials to be challenged. You need a license to prepare taxes for other people - And I expect they'll try to say every developer who touches a line of code must have one. Expect character assasination, and every mistake to be amplified. Buzzfeed will run "10 dangers of using open source software to do your taxes". The forms will become even more of a moving target than they are now, and APIs will absolutely not be public.

But it's a fight that should be fought. This is the kind of thing that makes better government, kicking and screaming.
You built a content blocker that only blocked The Deck?
The Lost Vikings was a favorite of mine growing up. I remember jumping amd yelling at the screen while playing it with my sister.

I have always had a passion to hack and mod anything and everything. I think I'm going to make some time this weekend to see what I can do with The Lost Vikings.

Thanks for sharing.
A) I'm not a local. Never claimed to be

B) 30 miles makes it part of the same metropolitan area.
> CAD also means less expenses when converted to USD

Many things are more expensive because of the weak dollar.
It's linked in the story, but check-out the details: http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2017/03/unit42-di...
if it's a simple program, why would you want to include a few hundred megabytes of dependencies? Seems like a good opportunity to learn something better.
Signing a binary allows the updater to verify that it came from a trusted source, but it doesn't tell you whether they gave you the same binary as everyone else, or a custom one.

Binary transparency ensures that there's a complete, public list of all updates sent out. It's an additional level of verification showing that the source isn't up to any shenanigans.

It's more of a deterrent though. It doesn't prevent sending a custom update; it just makes it difficult to hide.