skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That'd be very bad for business. The government is particularly hypocritical in this regard. Our BFFs in the Middle East _execute gays_, oppress women, and finance terrorism, and we pretend not to notice.
One can also just static assert with a ctfe-able message.
The Taft–Hartley Act outlawed the closed shop in the United States in 1947.
Python has the same via help(thing)
There is nothing fraudulent about shorting a stock, telling people you shorted the stock, and telling them why you shorted the stock.

(the same goes for going long a stock)
Ya, for the big one, Baidu is the ultimate search engine for porn and health care scams, where they used to derive most of their revenue. Compared to Chinese Bing which is pretty clean with pretty effective porn filters (but also makes almost no money).

Payments via AliPay and WePay were technically illegal before they were legalized post facto after they became popular. A western company could have never gone near that.

All the western companies pay income tax on private health insurance benefits, while all the Chinese companies don't, because the law is unclear.
Honestly, rent a house in the countryside, a remote place, but with fiber broadband. That's the perfect setup.
Go in France countryside, like in the middle of the country (but i guess any country side in any country will do). No distraction. Perfect.
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The reason hedgefunds look at satellite images and oil tankers is because everyone looks at sequential ids and price changes so that doesn't give an edge.
For reference: In D, you could just take a HTML parser then run it at compile time without writing any new code.
since the union affords you protections

I rarely see this mentioned in the media, but another occasional downside of being a union worker is that a collective bargaining agreement can supersede worker-protection regulations -- in other words, your union leaders can leave its members with inferior conditions.

Here's one example I experienced directly. Normal California law at the time mandated minimum break periods and frequencies based on hours worked (e.g. 4+ hour shift = 1 rest break, 5.5+ hours mandated a meal break, 6?+ hours mandated a second rest break).

The union negotiated away all rest and meal breaks in our unit in return for either a shorter shift or slight shift premium depending on which shift one worked.
One of them seems to be a wrapper for the other:

Game API (C++):

void SendReliableMessage(
std::vector< std::string > const & remote_endpoint_ids,
std::vector< uint8_t > const & payload
)

Nearby API (Java):

public abstract void sendReliableMessage
(GoogleApiClient apiClient,
List<String> remoteEndpointIds,
byte[] payload)

Note that this requires a "GoogleApiClient" object, which ties it to the mothership.
Doctors are incredibly politicised and senior doctors have no qualms throwing junior doctors under the bus (speaking demographically), in exactly the same way as pilots do.

A union doesn't work so well when there's sizable power differential between members, and that's the case with doctors. The political power of a senior consultant with tendrils into management is usually orders of magnitude more than that of a fresh graduate.
As far as I know, all investigations into Tesla self-driving fatalities didn't find the system at fault.
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"Why should the factory worker have more rights than the old lady living off her General Motors dividends?"

If they can work collectively and demand it, who are we to stop them?

Isn't that a market at work? They don't own the building, but they do provide the labor. Let them negotiate, collectively, and get whatever they can.

Why is the little old lady who does literally nothing for that dividend prized over the people who go to work day after day?
Actually, you're describing a corporate pyramid structure, not a "Pyramid Scheme" which is: "a form of investment (illegal in the US and elsewhere) in which each paying participant recruits two further participants, with returns being given to early participants using money contributed by later ones."
Definitely recommend reading "The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook"

The focus of the book sounds like pretty much what you're asking for. The first few chapters cover Elixir basics, but its really just a primer -- easily skippable if you already know it. Starts with implementing OTP features from scratch so you can see what they do and why they exist, then dives into how to do it using OTP.
MLM != Pyramid scheme.

Whether herbalife is the former or the latter is at the heart of the controversy around the company.
I won't call obeying local laws or following host's rules sets precedent. MNCs have been following the local rules since day one. What do you expect?

Would you stop speaking local language because it helps the rulers communicate? Would you stop using the bank notes because it's issued by a dictatorship? You didn't because it's essential to run your business within the country.

The US is your own country, you have obligation to fix it, that's why you stand up against FBI. But not for other countries, they have to fix their own country by themselves.
I think all suggestion of "alternative remedies" is dangerous, since it opens the door to those preying on desperation to sell false hope.

I'm with you on practitioners who charge thousands of dollars offering to cure terminal cancer with carrot juice and coffee enemas. But this is a very small segment of the industry, and from what I've seen, anyone who does that for any amount of time gets regulated or shamed out of business.

Most natural health practice is nothing of that sort. It's things like diet/nutrition, exercise, stress/trauma therapy; all things that have significant evidence of being beneficial.

All the treatments I've tried in my journey to get well fit into this category: low-risk treatments for non-life-threatening conditions, that just support the mind and body to heal and strengthen naturally over the long term. I've been doing it for nearly 10 years and in that time my life has utterly transformed.

Do you have any objection to this that doesn't rely on dismissing every health provider without a medical degree as a dangerous charlatan?
Thank you for the link. I read through their justifications and I think using a git-submodule solves their problems of polluting the main project history and permissions issue. Using directories for mutually-exclusive state grouping (e.g. "closed"/"open"/"new") solves the directory problem.
I am genuinely curious in wondering what proportion of the open standards in technology begin as innovative evolutions of existing standards with only limited support at introduction, like this is. Isn't this essentially one of the accepted pathways to open standards, build the system, invite collaborators, and see if it gains acceptance and traction?
If you can carve the teeth of the key, you can certainly carve the blank.
You can do that today. However, no one can verify you are telling the truth. That is the key point.
Implying that Daishiman's comment considered them 'the exact same thing' is specious.
Not true. Source: I was the ads PM not too long ago.
Interesting to hear a take on the AI disruptions from someone outside of tech but competent to comprehend key distinctions.
Having a hierarchy that gets narrower at the top, with people earning more, is not what makes something a pyramid scheme.

Having the earnings of the higher tier directly funded by financial contributions from the lower tiers is.

I lot of MLMs have a particular 'hiding in plain site deception'. The retail margins on the consumer goods aren't where the bulk of the top tier earnings are coming from. The conferences, training materials, tapes, courses and a raft of support systems for the distributors... all produced at very little cost are the true source. This is where the generous subsidies come from.
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Yes, it throws the HTML DOM out of the window. But if it's built as a native standard, nobody will have to reinvent a DOM, because QML has one, and it's better than HTML's one for applications.
I find it hard to look at American medicine and conclude that reasoned, careful rationing of costs is actually a factor.
Agreed. I'll venture that it's still wrong to prevent access to VPNs (divide the blame up however you'd like) but likening this to the FBI backdoor request is an enormous false equivalence.
I found seeking treatment for RSI pretty frustrating until I went to an occupational therapist.
Actual title: "Free and non free books all can learn from"
That sure does leave a lot of middle ground with doing nothing.
it's not their job to do it.

It's nobody's job to do it.

They still potentially can fix the problem. Wouldn't it be great if they used their influence to help fix things?

I agree that there's a "choose your battles" aspect to this. Considering what Apple did with the San Bernandino case, this seems (ideologically) right, but the potential losses are pretty high.
First response to a coworker storming in to cuss you should be to stand up to your full height and look them straight in the eye. You're not the one who set this belligerent tone, they are.
Assuming the encryption works as advertised, these schemes still allow more de-anonymization than you'd think. If you can compute very specific set intersections you can then get the set size low enough to reveal personal information with 100% certainty. (The set of people that bought X at M and Y at N and saw ad A at P and ad B at Q on a particular day might contain one person)

I do not know of any work in homomorphic encryption that claims to provide privacy guarantees in the face of side-channels from other sources (in this case, the side-channels could be phone location information for brick-and-mortar purchases, or web browsing activity timestamps for online purchases). It's not surprising that such work is hard to find, since merely computing correct query results breaks most reasonably privacy guarantees.

Also, the field of homomorphic encryption encourages people to use horrible cipher-modes like code-book, so guilt-by-association makes me highly suspicious of stuff in that space: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_mode_of_operati...

The closest thing I know of that is workable is differential privacy, which (in laymans terms) introduces enough noise to make sure that overly-specific queries return random (but representative) garbage. Apple says they use differential privacy to train models on data that's stored on iPhones without actually giving themselves access to that data. Cool stuff.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/08/31/the-rubber-room
> A lot of people really, really just want a name for what's wrong with them. So you take a constellation of symptoms and slap a name on it, like CFS. But does that help?

I don't know that that is really all people want. But even the name itself is helpful, yes -- it gives you something you look up and understand what is happening to you, it helps you find and connect with others, and for practical purposes (say, negotiating reasonable accommodations at work) being able to name a disease you've been diagnosed with is obviously helpful.
I can't seem to find a parser for HTTP requests in the repo. I assume this is out of scope for the crate?
I think a lack of skepticism/cynicism would be the main cause, which is probably correlated with religion but can certainly be lacking in non-religious people too.

A common phrase around our non-religious household was "why do you have to be so cynical all the time?". This cynicism has protected me from such rubbish as homeopathy, natropathy, magnetic bracelets and other things those family members have wasted time and money on over the years.
In the PSX/PS2 era (or really, the era starting from the SNES's SuperFX chip), the dedicated graphics ASICs in consoles, combined with the fact that those ASICs were being targeted individually at a low-level by game devs, were putting out results that seriously outpaced what you'd expect out of your PC's 3DFX Voodoo card.

That wasn't because the designs were more clever, mind you; but just because the hardware designers didn't need to think in terms of an architecture that contained concepts like dynamic frequency scaling and multi-monitor support and a kernel that blocks on disk IO. Consoles were hard real-time embedded systems, and the games were their unikernels; well into the PS2 era, console game were still relying on VBlank interrupts for physics timing!

And what this got you, was effects that were only achievable on an $8000 SGI workstation, for $300. Slightly-beyond-state-of-the-art, for cheap. But in exchange, it forced heavy consolidation in the console manufacturer market, because developing that specialized hardware wasn't cheap (like it was back in the 8-bit micro era.)

But "generic" PC GPUs eventually started scaling in power geometrically, to the point where the specialization and hard real-time guarantees just weren't needed any more to achieve modern graphics cheaply. The low-level-targeted specialized-graphics-ASIC technique wouldn't be of much benefit today, because six months later there'd be another new "generic" GPU out that could do what that ASIC does without breaking a sweat.

The same thing happened in networking: ASIC switches with special RTOSes were needed to run data centers—until CPUs and PCIe advanced enough to take over. Now everything (except Internet-backbone gear) is Software-Defined Networking, i.e. generic boxen running VMWare EXS running a Linux/BSD router VM.
Jack Ma stealing tens of billions of dollars from Softbank and Yahoo by giving himself a very large stake in Ant Financial (completely unsupported by his ownership % in Alibaba), divesting it out of Alibaba without proper compensation.

Something like that is nearly unthinkable in the US or Western Europe. It would be equivalent to Jeff Bezos spinning off AWS and giving himself 2/3 ownership of it, without approval from AMZN shareholders.
I'm familiar with users searching for porn but not health care scams.

Are you saying that Baidu was directing traffic to health care scams willingly?

Interesting remark on AliPay & WePay. I wonder what kind of agreements Chinese gov made with those companies after the fact.

Here's as good as any point to remember that a warrant canary disappeared from Apple's privacy text about a year ago. Before it was about "we will protect user's privacy".. then there was a big "privacy" announcement that had text about following the law etc. IMHO gov got to them and it's understandable - companies exist in frameworks set by governments. It's in Apple's best interest to comply with them. To suggest otherwise is a political stance, not an economic one.
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Not possible to watch it being counted.

* The ballot gets mixed in with others
* the bundle gets divided up (A cards go in 1 bundle, B cards go another)
* taken to a vote counting location;
* each bundle is then divide between ballot counting machines.

The whole point is that an individual ballot becomes untraceable before the counting actually starts.
Are they still doing that? I haven't seen a request from LinkedIn for email access credentials in a while. Still a pretty sketchy thing to do IMO.

I wonder if Google, Yahoo, MS etc have done anything like watch for requests from LinkedIn with correct credentials, block them, and reset the user's password and give them a warning that they just gave their account password to a third party and this is a Very Bad Idea.
You might wanna check out Fossil, it's version control system with integrated bug tracking and wiki. It doesn't really work for all projects, though.

[0] http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
Looks like this crate is merely trying to provide a standard set of types used in an HTTP pipeline to make different crates that want to have a part in that pipeline able to be combined together, without having to convert your types all over the place
> I don't think we should be so certain analog voting is as secure today, as it was in the 80s and earlier.

correct - the machines are vulnerable even if the paper is not.
I don't think Apple has any other choice, except to open up iOS system so that it doesn't have the responsibility to censor apps. It's interesting to see how Apple's centralized control turns out to be a convenient tool for authoritarian governments.
They were ran by a skeleton crew for a few years after they were initially acquired by Advanced.
This amount of cultural relativism is silly and frankly just plain ignorant. China doesn't restrict free speech for cultural reasons. The CCP restricts free speech because it fears losing its ruling status.
Ya, Baidu got caught last year and got a slap on the wrist. Oddly enough, they were in it with a military hospital for that case, which should raise a lot of other eye brows.

China doesn't have rule of law, so everything is illegal but nothing is, if you can navigate that contradiction, then you just have to make sure your context isn't bad enough to be cracked down on. The same was true with Didi and anti-black cab laws (but Uber operates in the gray margins of those laws all the time, so there was no point in mentioning that).

China doesn't really care about your idealism. If you go against the government's interests, they will beat you down. This is one thing the Chinese companies get really well and allow them to play fast and lose with the law as long as they adhere to that one principal.
> if someone is in pain/unhealthy there is a reason. Rarely it is psychological

Work in medicine, and you'll find a lot of malingerers. Some of them don't even realise that they're faking it. Yes, it sucks from your point of view that no-one believes you, but from the other side, a lot of people fake it, and you have to sort out what's actually going on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munchausen_syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munchausen_syndrome_by_proxy

I used to be a neuro tech and have done a lot of EEGs in my time. There are enough people faking seizures to make it a non-trivial issue. Munchausen-by-proxy is a particularly sad problem, where parents make their kids sick in order to get some attention or compassion from others.
They make the claim that Americans get ripped off more than other countries, but I didn't see any evidence suggesting it.
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you said
> Is there, at least theoretically, a way to prevent other people from pushing to my repo?

so I answered, _yes, theoretically_ we have ideas for how to implement that. you can also unfollow and block griefers, but so far pretty much everyone has been nice and we just havn't needed to implement that yet.
Just released https://docstamp.io which lets you notarize documents on the Ethereum blockchain. To make it accessible to the wider audience, I accept payments in USD. I have a FAQ which has a link to the contract. I’d love to get some feedback on the site.
Google and Facebook took this stance and look where it got us? China just made their own bloody search engine and social network.

We need to stop looking to corporations as doing the jobs our government should be doing.
Like a dude in a Starbucks on free wifi and a script?
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Defining the type as a trait would prevent link-time optimization of library-consumer-side manipulations of data of that type, no?

Really, you want a concept that's like a trait, but is explicit about the fact that there's exactly one implementation of the trait, and that that implementation is discoverable at compile time. Less like an interface, more like a C typedef in a third-party-library header file—just without the "header file" part.
It's ok, we got Barron and Ajit on it, they're geniuses at the cyber.

In all seriousness, my research following the DDOS/astro-turfing campaign led me to at least some of the astro-turfing being the result of efforts by the Center for Individual Freedom[0] a far right-wing political operation masquerading as a non-profit.

There's an entire shadowy layer of questionable "public advocacy" groups out there tied to unquestionably partisan organizations. And sometimes even the political parties themselves.

The Center for Individual Freedom for example has received monies from Crossroads GPS[1], which is Karl Rove's umbrella organization for disbursing funds raised nationally to further the extreme agenda of the American right-wing and its financial backers, whether that be Putin or the Kochs.

[0]://cfif.org

[1]://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/04/karl-rove-crossroads-gps-center-individual-freedom/
Big barrier: Convince voters that the system is reliable in theory and perfectly implemented.

Paper works fine.
Maze.cafe
Miners might want to sell the games/discounts to recoup their losses. After all, if you get a $50 discount on a $200 monitor then you can just re-sell it new for $200 and get your money back.
Did they edit their comment to say "treatment" instead of "procedure"?

Because there's lots of things that fall under treatment that have pretty effective legal gatekeeping around them.
> old iMac

I object that qualifier, if you don't mind :)
Indeed.

I believe that the regulation that requires that disclosure comes from the 1933 law establishing the SEC.
A specific concern was how advertising past returns fed into getting people excited about bubbles like the one which popped in 1929.

Therefore the regulation was meant to address a systemic problem rather than individual malfeasance.
No, it's not. A symphony can be copyrighted.

It's the same as calculating force equals mass times acceleration, without thanking Newton every time. That's an example (natural law) which is always and immediately public domain, the same as recipes.
GitLab does not fully embrace Open Source.

GitLab Enterprise Edition does not have an open source license. Since GitLab.com runs GitLab EE, their two (presumably) primary sources of revenue (EE licenses and GitLab.com paid accounts) come from non-open source software.

But: it's still fair to call GitLab as a company way more Open Source than GitHub. All of their development happens out in the open, the vast majority of their codebase is Open Source, and the source code for GitLab EE is even made available.

This is a spectrum, not black and white.
Technical countermeasures are possible to some degree.
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For the interviewer 1 question of sorting an array with only two unique elements. Am I missing something? The solution just requires counting lower value and writing it number of times it occurs and then writing the other value until the end.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_sort
Global multiproxy temperature reconstructions over the last 2000 years
As soon as I quit soda in my 20s, my cavities stopped. My dentist said I could have as much water and beer as I wanted, but no more soda.
They'll need to raise a lot of money if they're going to be competing with a company as big as Apple, which appears to be their plan.
Let us keep passing the buck... We need to stop looking to governments as doing the jobs United Nations should be doing.

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
(keep in mind that was 7 years ago. Google's role in China has been always been varying)