skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Anything that a person would be able to say, a group of people should be allowed to get together to say. The much-maligned "Corporate Personhood" is a founding principal of pretty much all of US law, in that it defines a corporation as simply being a proxy for all of it's members.

There are plenty of places where Corporations should currently be being prosecuted for fraud and false advertising. These are places where the people behind them would and should be just as liable for those things (and judges should pierce the corporate veil to prosecute those responsible). This is not those times.
Yet another frivolous lawsuit in the land of the USA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyLqUf4cdwc
Seems there’s a bug on the site. This shouldn’t be prompting anyone to sign in. We pushed out a new version, this afternoon, so perhaps that bungled something.

Sorry about this. We’ll get it fixed.
A corporation spending money to host and spread speech in order to make a profit.
Deep Neural Nets are inelegant now? Have you tried building effective DL models?

In fact it's more like science than you let on. You have a hypothesis for the data you need, test it, evaluate results, test etc... and result in optimized weighting.

The elegance is inside of the architecture.
A starter kit for React Native apps with Redux and Navigation out-of-the-box
I'm sorry, that's based on what?

If you honestly think me responding to a terrible work environment by refusing to do work outside of work hours or go above and beyond for the company makes me a bad coworker, I think you have a very distorted view of workplace relationships.
Money laundering is lying on federal documents, claiming your business is making more than it really is. And there's no reason to do it unless you've gotten the money illegally: otherwise you could just report to the IRS why you really have that money. And you suggest people are/should be able to lie on federal forms in the name of privacy?
You're taking issue with material that is covered in every haskell 101 course worth it's salt (how to understand the properties of foldl and foldr).

Oh, I'm not "taking issue". This isn't personal. It's just my observations.

And yes, that one needs to explain the consequences of lazy evaluation and the potential for space leaks to a complete neophyte to justify foldr/foldl is literally exactly what I'm talking about! :)

Space leaks are complicated. And they're nearly unavoidable. I doubt even the best Haskeller has avoided introducing space leaks in their code.

That's a problem.

Are you saying it's not? Because that would honestly surprise me.

Furthermore, are you saying eager languages have analogous challenges? If so, I'm curious what you think those are! It's possible I'm missing them because I take them for granted, but nothing honestly springs to mind.
Germany has the largest low wage sector in Europe. Switzerland doesn't have competitive manufacturing.
Seems like it’s only the direct links that are causing a problem. If you go to the main streams page, you can read this article there: https://officehours.io/streams
How bad does a food system have to be to get to the point where people deliberately choose to eat this?

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Troy does great work running HIBP.

It's an incredibly useful service - I highly recommend sending over a few dollars to help with infrastructure costs if you feel inclined to do so: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Donate
thank you for clarifying
This is a common problem with modern supercomputers, which are all clusters of some sort. We have a supercomputer at NASA Goddard, much smaller than Pleiades, that gets new "Scalable Units" every few years. The first parts of it are now long gone and what's there is a mix of several recent generations of Intel CPU and some Intel Phis. I'm told that some codes run better on the older CPUs due to caching and other architectural issues.
I second MealSquares! I've been on their subscription for months now and don't intend to stop. I really appreciate their emphasis on full nutrition with whole foods.

I'd never again trust Soylent with my health for all their problems.
Correct sir! And I've spent the past 9 years of my career as a Linux monkey in electronic trading / HFT / whatever the hip term for it is today.
Tau C++ multithreaded lib: async file, network and process IO
I didn't claim space leaks aren't a problem. But one has to size the magnitude of the problem appropriately. And one should also cross-reference that with experience reports from companies using Haskell in production.
Sure, but what makes poets want to write? How does the answer being "the initial condition of the universe" instead of some acausal mechanism change anything of importance?
You know it's strange because I can only ever find people arguing this when they know they won't be the ones to be out of a job. Aka this forum is pretty open to the idea of people being displaced but go check out some of the threads here about H1Bs, there's a lot of vehement opposition there. Or for a hypothetical, imagine we were able to import or outsource our politicians to cheaper politicians in India. How quickly do you think that market would be closed off? Yet we abstract ourselves away from the problem and declare that maybe if all these people suffer we'll be better off for it in the end. In society we make those tradeoffs, that's reality but once we start sacrificing more and larger groups surely we come to a point where we realize maybe it's not actually worth it?
... or when the Mongols brought about the end of the Golden Age of Islam. ;)
> No, pal. Terrorists are pissed off because of what your govt is doing overseas.

What about the islamic terrorists attacking in Sweden, Germany, Belgium? Are they also pissed off of what those countries are doing overseas?
Just for the sake of discussion:

What about Silk Road? I would say that's a legitimate case of a company (of sorts) engaging in civil disobedience. Ross Ulbricht was ideologically motivated.

I've heard some rumors about Travis' ideology. Maybe he's similar. (He named his company Uber, maybe he's some sort of Nietzschean?)
Freediving with Sharks in Florida
Ironic considering a for-profit organization is paying to host and spread your speech right there.
Miranda warnings only apply to when you are in police custody. The fact that it's an App is irrelevant: the App was designed with a feature created with the explicit purpose of disrupting a police investigation. They intended to disrupt an investigation, and as a direct result of their actions the investigation was disrupted.
The Tribeca Film Festival hosted a VR immersive this year. There was a showcase of several creative VR films and experiences. I'd say filmmakers are diving head first into VR. The descriptions of the films sound fascinating.

https://tribecafilm.com/immersive
I'm torn about this legislation. Since obamacare passed I've had continually higher premiums which is pushing me to the breaking point. I support insurance for preexisting conditions, I don't believe insurers should be able to turn anyone away, for any reason. That said, I don't want the government running my healthcare, I don't want to have to buy insurance from the government, and I don't want to pay for the bad mistakes of others - that's difficult to do but that's my opinion. That all said, I think the media is still in the "fuck Trump" mode and no matter what the republicans or trump comes up with, the media is going to take a shit on it.

All that being said, I don't think the issue is republicans, democrats, or trump. I think the issue with our healthcare is the insurance companies themselves, doctors, medical device companies, pharmaceutical companies, and everyone else who takes a cut, adds a surcharge, and has generally done all they could to squeeze every last dime for their shareholders. Like the big banks, I want to see reform of the health care INDUSTRY, and strict limits placed on what they can charge, whom they can charge, and the whole pile on, surcharge habit.
Leaked: UK's blueprint with telcos for spying on internet,phones and backdoors
Interesting to see that some companies do proactive audits by running a list of their current user emails against HIBP. I guess that was bound to become a thing sooner rather than later.

However, I also note that if such a company detects that an email address used by one of their users has been compromised on another site, that this fact is communicated carefully. Specifically I can see the confusion with the Digital Ocean case in the OP - it could sound like their email address in DO itself was compromised, when all DO did was check it against HIBP and discovered it was pwned previously probably from another web app...
would you feel radically different if they were suing multiple non-profit/charitable sites that hosted discussion forums and provided communication platforms where this stuff took place?
Section 230, Communications Decency Act, no ISP is liable for what third parties do on their site. There's an intense amount of case law backing it up. This lawsuit will likely be dismissed before they even get to a court. It's amazing to me that people even still try.

There's social media liability insurance you can get just incase someone tries to drag you into a frivolous lawsuit. The cases all get thrown out, but not before potentially $20-50k in legal bills. The insurance is really just there to cover the legal bills until the plaintiff pays it back after dismissal (which can take a while).

If you run a hosting service or a small social network and don't have enough money to hire a staff lawyer, definitely check out getting some liability insurance to protect yourself from crap like this. It runs about $100/mo for a $5k deductible up to $1 million in coverage, but those numbers probably vary a lot.
I work at a management consulting firm and I'm building a two week course to get anyone who is interested some basic programming skills. If you don't mind me asking, how big were classes and what was the general course about?
While it's tempting to look for a single, recent starting point for Western-Muslim issues, it's also worth mentioning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Martel (about 1200 years earlier). And then, >350 years later, there's the crusades.
Do you shower?
(IANAL) The law doesn't, but juries do.

See, the whole point of civil disobedience is this: under the Constitution and the precepts of common law, bad laws don't have to be followed. So civil disobedience is making a show of deliberately breaking a bad law in order to call attention to the fact that the law is bad, risking your own liberty in the process. Then when it goes to trial, a jury may decide that though you broke the law, you are in the right and acquit you. This power of "jury nullification" is also recognized in common law and while it may not actually nullify laws, it makes them more difficult to enforce and when they're not enforced they are effectively void. A lot of the fun-fact ridiculous laws like "it is illegal to kiss in public on Sundays" are old laws which the local authorities can't be bothered to enforce and so are not really in force.

But back to civil disobedience: it is an assertion through deed of human rights. Corporations lack human rights, and furthermore if you are making money off your violation of the law you are less likely to be smiled upon by a jury.
Facebook and Twitter did not build the tools used to enact the shooting. The claim is that Facebook and Twitter allowed their platform to contain things that influenced the perpetrators. This is closer to blaming Charlie Hebdo for the terrorist attack against them, because the content they published clearly spawned the attack.
Of the two, I could bet a fortune on Rust and sleep easy about it.
I split the difference: Those who indulge in risky, generally recognized unhealthy behaviors, should pay more. Those born sick, no, absolutely not. We should do more to incentivize people to lead healthier lives. Since when has health insurance ever gone DOWN?! I lose fifty pounds my insurance rates won't go down, while some guy that doubles the amount he smokes and drinks won't necessarily see any increase.
That's not my read of that case & I don't think it applies here regardless. as per above, Uber is a company, so it can't engage in civil disobedience--thus there need be no concern that RICO "could be interpreted as a weapon against civil disobedience."

Basically, in 2003, a very different SCOTUS said sorry Planned Parenthood, but, actually Operation Rescue, as awful & harassing as they are, are not committing EXTORTION, so no RICO for you & overturned their damages award.

Here's the part of the article I'd guess you are referring to:

"The decision, Scheidler v. National Organization for Women, No. 01-1118, did not appear to reflect any particular attitude on the court toward abortion, but rather a concern over the implications of invoking the federal racketeering law as a weapon against political protests. In a concurring opinion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the court was ''rightly reluctant, as I see it, to extend RICO's domain further.'' She noted that in the argument in the case, Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson, who supported the clinics in their interpretation of extortion, acknowledged that the definition might have applied to the sit-ins of the civil rights movement."

Ginsburg's concern was, if SCOTUS accepted that definition of extortion, others could use RICO to prosecute citizens for civil disobedience. Conseqently, she ruled against Planned Parenthood.
Unfortunately, in this day and age, I don't think it's reasonable to expect privacy even from a first party application.
in case you are not aware France was already involved in the middle East before Charlie Hebdo happened.
Here's something from six years ago ish with similar results (faster) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qok636pe_qw
As with all strange things, they can usually be explained by incentives.

Banks get paid far less interchange rates for Chip & PIN than they do signature. Thus the system we have. So some banks can skim an extra .5-2% off the top of every single transaction in the US.
Here is how I would run this experiment.

For each language, I would have two experts in that language. Call them P and D: programmer and documenter.

They would not be permitted to communicate.

P would be required to write strictly code, without a single comment or a shred of documentation.

D would not be permitted to view the problem description: only the input data (along with documentation describing what the data means) and the code written by P.

D would have to determine what the code is doing and specify the problem being solved, relying on his or her expertise in the implementation language to unravel how the code is treating the input data, and hence what is its meaning.

Then evaluate the time spent by P, the time spent by D, the size the code, and the degree to which the code actually solves the problem and the degree to which D's documentation actually reverse-engineers the specification not revealed to D.

Then we could say meaningful things: like a given solution is very small and was developed quickly, but it took great effort to unravel what it's doing. That's not bad: there are situations when that is acceptable, namely the development of one-off solutions that will never need to be understood or maintained, and which are needed ASAP. Situations would also reveal themselves when the program takes long, and isn't particularly short, but is a breeze for D to understand. Usually we would prefer that situation in permanent production code.

The all round winner would be: small code written by P in a short amount of time, quickly reverse-engineered by D to recover the spec. (With bonus points for time performance, small memory use, etc).

There is also a degree of realism in this setup. How often are we called upon to understand some code which is utterly undocumented? That's when we feel the differences in languages, programming approaches and styles.
> fingerprints have the unfortunate property of not being rotatable if compromised

Coworker has a wonderful term for this. He calls fingertips "amputationware". It really drives the point home.

But there is another very good reason to avoid fingerprints auth methods. The scanners are by design doing some level of fuzzy matching, so if/when[0] someone finds a way to generate an input that reproduces the signal pattern from the reader well enough, it can be fooled. (Yep, done already.)

My personal take on fingerprint authentication is that they are not passwords. They are usernames.

0: http://engineering.nyu.edu/press-releases/2017/04/10/so-you-...
Good to have the 1st Amendment protecting our free speech from government interference. But why any individual our company thinks that helping to promote hate speech has anything at all to do with free speech is beyond me. The right to choose what not to publish is as much an act of free speech as any.
I came back to comments to ask that too. I wondered if it meant on IM, or as a sort of placard used in stand-ups like there was a post about recently using pseudo sign language for some reason.

I suppose it's a character shorter than 'ack', but no different to 'OK' - and arguably slightly confusing given the use of '+1' for agreement, to me '==' seems like it should mean 'meh, I feel neutrally about this'.
Another one! Can't wait to watch the Uber movie.
Putting everything into one big Model struct is a good practice?
I think rider auto corrected to driver...here is a link to a copy of the alleged Uber email to Miami driver's [1].

I don't believe they misspelled anything but if you change the charge from illegal ride for hire to prostitution, drugs, etc... it's Fairly easy to see organized crime... some of our drivers/prositutes/dealers have got into legal trouble, while we work to lobby to change the law, you can hopefully avoid legal trouble by x,y,z but don't forget if you do get in legal trouble we will pay the fines and provide a lawyer (so you have no clue what's going on and we can cover our ass).

[1] https://uberpeople.net/threads/welcome-to-miami-internationa...
Planet Nine: the score card
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14270692.
is rate limiting a defense against this? I get that these attacks could come from a botnet, but it at least increases the necessary size of the botnet.

Is there a service for correlating failed login attempts across sites?
A tweet isn't designed to kill someone. A truck isn't designed to kill someone.

Unless you think an AR15 is specifically designed for killing exotic animals.
That's an interesting one. It seems like it wouldn't work at first but then thinking about more maybe there is something there.

These companies want to position themselves as the new media, the gatekeepers of "truth" so to speak. That's why they are pushing "Fake News" and moderating it, classifying it etc. It is basically a strategy to fill the void left by the older mass media companies, which are seen as failing an unable to manufacture consent effectively. So in a way they are signaling "Come to us now, we'll advertise your stuff and mark you competitors ideas as fake". It's a good move really. From a business standpoint, can't blame them there.

I am trying to conduct a mental experiment and imagine what would happen if say CNN gave al-Baghdadi a few minutes here and there to express his views. Or letting the local KKK chapter air their ideas once in a while. Many would agree CNN then might be complicit in inciting violence for example and would share a bit of responsibility. So if these other companies what to play "gatekeepers of truth" game they should also be responsible too?
Thank you! It was a tremendous addition to the product and I still benefit from it many times every week. It's such a great detail - very nicely done.
Take the smartest monkey, then take the dumbest human, they'll probably nearly identical in intelligence. Monkeys were probably fun to get drunk with like it would be to with like your retarded uncle, or something. They'd probably fun to prod with hot needles too.
Oh my gosh, one of you shows up in every thread about Soylent or veganism talking about how we need 30% protein in our diet or something.

As I went vegan I went from benching 120 to 200 with about 20% protein intake, and it was fine. We don't need shit tons of protein that everyone says we do, Soylent has a nice ratio of it.
<it's not uncommon for drivers to allow undocumented immigrants without drivers licenses to use their Uber car/account> pulling an Uber on Uber
He seemed to be making a slightly different point: allowing core functionality to be completely removed makes the user experience less reliable.
> To make this research unbiased

I wonder if there's ever been even a single comparative programming languages study which would adhere to the standards routinely required in medical and epidemiological studies?
Not really. If someone hands you their credit card and you refuse to sell to them because their card has a Star of David on it, you are doing something nefarious with CC information but not violating PCI.

PCI is concerned with reducing fraud cost. Visa does not care if the business charging your card is shady, only that it doesn't result in extra costs to Visa.
I believe that one of the main verified aspects of cannabis consumption is something called the munchies. Users want to eat. And when humans eat, they want to drink as well. And if the cannabis use is in a social context, the food that they eat will be social food. Since people are programmed to drink beer with social food, I can only see the use of cannabis being a driver for beer consumption.

However, there will likely be a big impact on beer sales for Wall street. They see the beer sales of big publicly traded companies, brands like Budweiser, etc. But in the world of cannabis consumption people are more likely to be consuming beer from small local breweries, which fly under Wall Street's radar because they are more like trendy restaurants than like McDonalds.

I do expect legal weed to change things, but I don't expect beer sales to go down. However the big breweries will lose market share because consumption patterns will change. If your business model requires vast numbers of people to buy your product, then a future in which people are more diverse, is not a good one for you.

And if you look at how many people are explicitly rejecting mass conformity such as political correctness, you can see problems for Wall Street while at the same time business is booming and local scale businesses thrive.