skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it might be only a matter of time before a court somewhere rules in the favor of a person found innocent who is suing to keep as many details of a particular murder off the Internet

Which in the context of "murders of unarmed civilians by law enforcement and subsequent acquittals" sounds bad, because it's possibly against your concept of justice, but what about the other end of the spectrum, where baseless claims are leveled on a person and this is high in many search results, or people are defamed through libel and the jurisdiction doesn't allow allow for a legal remedy?

I mean, if I seed the internet with 20 SEO optimized sites about how you're a murdering rapist, should Google's right to keep that in results be defended? Freedom of speech is complicated, and not absolute in the United States. We have laws for libel and slander to prevent just this sort of thing, and I don't usually see those being called a bad idea. Perhaps that should be an indication that this issue isn't as black and white as it's often portrayed, and deserves a more moderate, considered solution.
Ahem, what?

Are you really saying underrepresented people don't know why they don't contribute to a project they maybe would have?
Vitalik's been talking about a sharding system around the corner for years now. The team working on it seems to be more interested in the theory than the practice of sharding. Additionally, any sharding design will probably have to break some existing assumptions and contracts, making it a really hard fork. I wouldn't be surprised if something else comes along offering a somewhat ethereum-compatible system with sharding for those who are working on real applications and need it.
Personally, I find the new Firefox containers feature more friendly and useful from a UX perspective than Chrome profiles. You can learn more about them at https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/containers
Yes. The multi-site issue combined with the $19/hr problem prevent the study from being very useful.

Given this quote:

This pattern of average higher pay and more employment appears also in food services: a decline of about 150 jobs paying under $19 from 2014 to 2016 and a simultaneous increase of about 4,500 jobs in all pay levels at single-site food service establishments.

Would you concede the possibility that in Seattle's restaurant sector a higher minimum wage did not have negative employment effects? (NOTE: I edited this question)
It looks like this (e.g. `#2dcond`) implements a way to directly embed other languages in a racket file [0] and avoids the problems encountered when trying to do it using the `#reader` syntax [1] in a source file. Essentially letting you have multiple readtables in a file (probably not nestable though). I could be wrong about this (need to look more carefully when I have more time), but nonetheless could allow direct embedding of completely alternate syntax with the right setup.

[0] https://github.com/racket/2d/blob/master/2d-lib/private/read...
[1] https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/hash-reader.html
I had, but I thought the dino was just a static icon.
I can't really answer your question, I'm no expert in this field, but I can tell you that I did experiment with lucid dreaming/out of body experience techniques in the past and this usually involved the strangest body sensations. So what you describe may be similar.

I never really succeeded, but I had a few, very short OOBEs. They only lasted a few seconds because I always got too excited the moment I realized it finally happened, and so I immediately woke up.

When you say this happens randomly when you are falling asleep, then this sounds to me a bit like the start of an OOBE.

Here is what I did and felt when I tried to experience an OOBE: lay down comfortably and try to let your body fall asleep. Take deep breaths, observe your body and look out for certain sensations, try to focus on the here and now so that the mind stays awake. Most of the time I just fell asleep and woke up in the morning, without remembering anything.

But if you stay focused enough, you may start to feel and hear some kind of vibrations in your body, which may intensify if you stay focused. This phase is usually referred to as the "separation of the mind from the body". Once the vibrations are over, and you stay focused, you may start to get the feeling of "floating" and other strange body sensations. Sometimes it felt like my feet started to float, then my legs, and finally my whole body. If you are really good at this then you can try to "open" your eyes and look around. It may be really dark at first, but with enough focus you can literally say "let there be light".

I was only once at this stage, my body started to float, and I "opened" my eyes after a while when I suddenly "saw" the ceiling right in front of my face. I got so excited that I immediately got "sucked" back into my body, and then I woke up.

Nothing really happens in the physical world, an observer will see you falling asleep, but the whole experience always feels so damn real, the beginning is almost always the same and many people can confirm this. It's incredible and fascinating. Unfortunately I never got really good at this and I lost motivation. I was around 17-18 back then and seeking for the meaning of life.

Another fascinating part is that there is no real scientific explanation for this phenomenon. Of course it's usually labeled as some kind of dream state, or just a chemical reaction in our brains.

It depends on who you ask, but for some people this is esoteric nonsense and just simple dreams, for others this is the gateway to a another reality/dimension/quantum world. Personally I have no idea and never figured it out, and I don't care anymore. I got older and I have other problems now, like paying my bills. But it's still fascinating stuff and I like to think back about it every now and then. The internet is full of information and reports about this topic, some serious, some less serious.

Anyway, thanks for making me remember about all of this, after a very long time. It was a fun experience.
> Most slaves probably got worked half to death, beaten, and generally abused.

No, this is uncommon, for the same reason beasts of burden were generally not worked half to death, beaten, and generally abused. They are valuable.
Google Inc. V. Equustek Solutions Inc
You can have friends and push files to them via pushbullet
What happens when the next one is hacked to the same degree? I doubt a second fork will be tolerated.
Thanks for sharing, keyboard-focused browsers are great.

Wanted to share another keyboard-focused browser, luakit (https://github.com/luakit/luakit) which is using lua instead of python, but is basically the same idea.
Ethical behavior generally requires honesty and forthrightness. If you are only concerned about your own ethical behavior, you should tell them. Keeping it a secret is effectively lying.

If you want to do some ethical calculus, you can probably quite easily determine that your employer (or the general economic system) is less ethical than you keeping this a secret, which may give you some "ethical leeway" when dealing with them.

Furthermore, you could determine that your employer is likely to behave unethically towards you if you told them, in which case you may be able to determine that keeping it a secret is a net-positive ethically speaking.

But yes, it is unethical to lie to your employer about how you're doing your job.
You are demonstrating a fundamental misunderstanding of how bitcoin works by allocating responsibility to people with commit access to the bitcoin repository. It matters little if you commit a change that the 80,000 nodes that form the basis of the bitcoin network don't uninstall their existing node client software and replace it with your new version. It is this resistance to change that is the entire point of the architecture.
Fortune article that cites this source:
Google Must Delete Search Results Worldwide, Supreme Court of Canada Rules - http://fortune.com/2017/06/28/canada-supreme-court-google/

Techmeme version of the headline: Canada's top court rules that Google can be compelled by lower courts to remove search results worldwide, causing concern among civil liberties groups
Far as I can tell the whole real estate industry is built on information asymmetry. As such there is a whole lotta meat there. And the real estate industry isn't going down without a fight.
Um, so fucking what? I could put a pair of braces or parens around the algol program, too, but they are implicit. Or is that too exotic a concept for your lisp-addled mind to accept?

I get that you think having to wrap your entire program in an extra set of delimiters is super special, but it's really fucking not.
I'm not referring to just here in this thread, but in general.

And I disagree on #2. I think the vast income disparity is far more damaging to the poor.
Yes, yes. Or governments can enforce a more equitable split through taxes. But you still have to give some benefit to those who save, else there will be no reason to do aught but consume all one produces.
Not sure how that's useful.
He's also an upstanding citizen.
Um, fuck no. That's vastly different in terms of scale currently and past.
Remote contracting is place to be for that guy, now.
That varies depending on time and place. There were islands in the Caribbean (IIRC) where slaves had a life expectancy of 3 years after arriving from Africa. After importations of slaves were banned, but slavery was not outlawed, the slave population was shrinking. Births could not keep up with deaths. Though, tbf, some of what I read about that surmised that slaves had to be using some form of birth control as well (as a form of protest to the brutal conditions).
Should be not <found "not guilty">, but <not found "guilty">, I believe.
What if Godzilla were to read the blog and decide that house was a good landing place for his foot? So what.
Thanks for the information, this may help me a lot for testing against Nightly in future. But still I think having the standard installation of a Nightly mess with your stable build is just a no-go. Chrome's approach by simply maintaining a second profile for the canary build is how to do it.
They probably should have used this instead: http://scottmcpeak.com/elkhound/
To be clear, your last paragraph (EDIT: now removed) weirdly conflates Rust with Mozilla; only one person on Rust teams live in Mountain View, many (most?) people on the teams are not Mozilla employees, and this isn't about Mozilla hiring people.

Your observation about the current makeup is in fact what we would like to change, and your suggestion to reach out to people is what this post is intended to do.
delusional.
> It contains people who have various strong opinions on different nuanced security related topics, yet all agree regarding this.

But it takes a while to verify this if you're not already familiar with it (I'd argue that's a reason why they shouldn't have published the article to begin with, but w/e)
Perhaps you should use Developer Edition instead? It uses a separate profile.
Evolving Messaging for Microservices
Ah, thanks. I parsed that sentence incorrectly the first time I read it.
This has been discussed at length on HN. See e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13382491
> It's of course disingenuous (and insane) to say that raising the minimum wage will not cause deadweight loss.

Except that there's good data that this doesn't happen, ie. that minimum wage increases are actually associated with small increases in employment.

There's also very good data that subject of minimum wage increases is fraught with rampant publication bias.

https://www.ctdol.state.ct.us/lweab/Doucougliagos%20&%20Stan...

In the minimum-wage literature, the magnitude of the
publication selection bias is as large or larger, on
average, than the underlying reported estimate. Overall,
correcting for publication bias would transform a
modestly negative average elasticity to a small positive
employment elasticity.
"all models are wrong, but some are useful"

i read this discussion as sillysaurus3 arguing the wrongness of ALL models, while not acknowledging dahart's examples of utility: constrained/simplified for some is good enough for others.
Yes, but that's not counting things like post likes, FB Messenger, check-ins, account creations, profile edits, logging and statistics, etc etc. I wouldn't be surprised if they're in the millions of writes per second.
I've only experienced this in a university, not in an office, but it was really easy to fall asleep when everyone around you does the same (even easier than alone, IMHO).
Because you don't benefit from half of your population if you only teach men to code. The same applies to other minorities. Of course it is essential that we can get everyone to code so that everyone can contribute in the future when a lot of work will require coding skills.
I can confirm that this works, with some effort, for some Rust programs packaged as rumprun unikernels targeting seL4.
It was in my browsing history, somehow. No idea how I got there initially.
In some ways, I find the modern OpenGL with shaders to be simpler than the fixed-function pipelines of old. The important parts, like the projection math, happen in your code. If you understand the math, it's easier to follow than a bunch of API calls to modify global matrix stacks.
Palm sanders are frequently used to vibrate stuff like concrete forms (There are also specialized tools).
How did we solve the problem of recording every written word into a single book?
"Fair use means she can do what she's doing" sure sounds like legal advice to me.
Let's just say the tech has progressed somewhat since the 90s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Impulse
The only thing driving it is bigger and bigger fools trading back and forth with each other on speculation. Eventually the biggest fool will be left holding the bag and the speculators will move on to their next target.
Ask HN: Good sources to find part-time contract work?
I have been having trouble finding a new web dev job for a while, but recently luck fell in my favor and found a new contract job I'm enjoying. This job sort of fell on my lap, rather effortlessly compared to other job interviews I've had. It's also not web dev related, and in a language I've wanted to get professional experience in (C#).

It's also a part-time job which makes my current situation interesting. I'd like to supplant it with another contract job as otherwise I'm not being paid well enough as I would as a full-time contractor. So I have a few months till this contract expires, and ideally I'd like to get a second part-time contract (preferably also in C#) to fill the rest of my time.

Where should I go to get another part time programming job like this? I know part-time is not very common in software development. Am I required to take a more freelancer approach to this? I also don't want to use those freelance job sites that create a race to the bottom in price and quality due to global competition.
If the certification disallowed extra garbage that would do it without a gun.

> It's easy to sit back and cast judgement when you don't deal with that industry

I work making special purpose appliances right now, well maybe not right this second, clearly I am posting on HN, but I am at my desk where I should be writing software for one of these appliances. I am only describing exactly what my team is doing. We have a certification process too. I know exactly how painful it is. Bitching about the current and acting like it is immutable law won't fix it. Deciding on what "fixed" looks like then trying to change conditions to get there is one possible way to fix it. There are surely others but throwing our hands up and giving while making excuses isn't one of them.
For which courts? Canadian rulings would not be considered precedent-setting in a Saudi court.
Now you have a bunch of pieces each with different classifications.

Possibly you could feed in parts lists from a huge amount of existing sets - have some sort of (handwavey learning thing or even markov chain), and generate mixes of pieces based on data sets from spaceships / cars / etc.
And this is better how exactly?
This was submitted and flagged several times but as far as I can tell it's a substantive article with lots of information. We've changed the inflammatory title to the more neutral subtitle and are going to try turning off flags. (For an object lesson in how determined discussion can be by title alone, the alternate submission at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14656463 is interesting.)

All: if you comment on this please make sure your comment is substantive and edit out any flamebait. Let's see how far we can get with a civil discussion.
Agreed. Assuming he's salaried and not hourly there's no argument in my mind that he should feel required to tell them. If he's hourly I'd say it might be a gray area.
I am really not interested in your current rant.

I care for a well-thought post, which I hope you are capable of.

I could not care less about what you think is or is not relevant to you.

I don't even know what identity politics is supposed to be.
Compare Mystery Science Theater 3000 with RiffTrax.

MST3K has to clear copyrights for the original films, even though they "mark up" those originals in the same way that McMH does. RiffTrax did not have to clear rights with anyone, at the cost of some customer convenience.

I don't know for certain whether MST3K licensed things because they had to, or because they didn't want to be sued to Hell by film catalog rights-holders. It certainly seems like ridicule, commentary, and parody to me. I don't think it matters all that much whether anyone makes money from it or not. A professor can fairly use photos for educational purposes in a class where all the students pay tuition, right?

As a potential juror, I am prejudicially biased that McMH's use is fair use. If I were a judge looking for a test, I think I would ask "Is it sufficiently transformative that this use does not compete with the original?" For MST3K, you're making motion picture entertainment from existing motion pictures. Watching the MST3K version of a work competes with watching the original. So MST3K is not fair use. But reading McMH does not compete with browsing those real estate listings. So it's probably fair use.
The Tricky Translation of Mathematical Ideas
We do development on Firefox, and we see very very few edge cases where those two browsers will behave differently. In the last 12 months I can only remember one issue we had with javascript and form submit where we deactivated the submit button.

If you have a lot of compatibility problems, you are probably using a lot of experimental features.
You don't have to disable the connection. Try navigating to about:dino
Property management companies do not take the majority of the profit. They often work for marginal fees based on the unit itself - somewhere around 10% of yearly rent. On top of that are fees for the maintenance of the building. Depending on how you bought the place you may need to pay financing -- or not. The rest is pure gravy.
And that's just the rent. Next you also need to take into account the appreciation of the underlying asset - the land the property is built on. This is where the majority of the profits from home ownership come from.

A lot of work goes into property ownership. It's just not very expensive.
I assume they think it's better to be thorough. A C&D isn't a lawsuit, it's a letter to persuade someone to change their behavior. It doesn't hurt to mention all the reasons you think they should stop even if some are a little dubious.
I've never not conceded that possibility! From the abstract of the UW study:

> We estimate an effect of zero when analyzing employment in the restaurant industry at all wage levels, comparable to many prior studies.
I work at a startup and every second week we run an anonymous https://www.menti.com where all emplyees get to vote between 1-9 how happy they are at work. It's a simple metric that gives management some insight about how the company is going.
I think the evidence shows the vast majority of cases of homosexuality are genetic in origin, but my understanding is there's some evidence there could also be an environmental role (be it exposure to certain substances or perhaps even how a child is raised) for a certain subset of cases.

Research there risks treading into dangerous territory very quickly, since the study could be sensationalized to suggest the researchers are trying to claim that homosexuality is voluntary (which is very different from "environmentally-caused" or "environmentally-influenced").

Same reason why it's dangerous to study what genes may contribute to IQ.
> For more complex formats, where you have to carry state around, or binary formats, they're extremely cumbersome to use.

That's not a theoretical issue, but more a practical issue.

> you'll have to hack around the generator's limitations

You're probably thinking of LALR(1) class generators. But we have GLR parser generators for a long time now, and they are very flexible and have little limitations. See e.g. [1].

[1] http://scottmcpeak.com/elkhound/
Well you also can't spend paper gains, you have to sell and therefore pay taxes.

And you could, you know, lose money in the stock market.
The second part of the nya has a hand waving requirement of 80,000 or so nodes uninstalling their existing node client software and installing a new unreviewed and untested node client three months after the segregated witness component is activated. I don't even know how that would be possible even if it was a change that everyone wanted, which they don't.

Reckon the first component is going to happen but there is very little chance of the hard-fork part.
Except in my case, it was literally the only McDonald's for 30 miles.
I think thst there is also a fundamental imbalance between people's general expectation of what's fair for a company to do, and what's fair for a person to do. After all, if a company had discovered a way to make, say, an expensive medication for almost nothing, would the company be expected to disclose their secret? Would a company be expected to announce to the world: "we can make this for almost nothing now, so were dropping the price to almost nothing!".

In the case of the OP, I think the company should have made it clear that employees wont be penelized for doing their job well. he would certainly deserve a bonus, and some extra vacation time, for directly contributing to making the company better. He shouldn't need to worry about loosing his job.

Honestly, if the employee expects to get screwed over by his bosses or the company, then I can see why he wouldn't disclose the programming and automation.

Maybe he can open up discussion by asking his manager what would happen if he could make his job, say, 10% faster or easier by automation. Just see where that goes and figure out the next step...
That's true. Being able to point out the flaws from your own memory substantially detracts from the enjoyment.
According to Wiktionary it's /fʁɑ̃.sɛ/. So like the English word "set" without the -t. Even including an "n" is not correct; it nasalizes the vowel. This is why English-like transcriptions can only take you so far. There's only so many sounds in English, and when languages start using ones that don't exist, it's impossible to bridge that gap.

As a monolingual English speaker until college, I have had a terrible time with distinguishing some word-final diphthongs. For instance, I catch myself using the English "-o" /oʊ/ in Spanish, when it should be just /o/. I also have a hard time with /e/ vs /eɪ/.
https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/

The real answer is simple: it provides very little value. TLS was designed to assume that the DNS was insecure, and if you care about security, you need at least TLS.