skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me YouTube being a private organization is beside the point; I would like the dominant mediums of communication of our era to be open and free, not restricted and censored.

It makes very little practical difference if the censorship comes from a large company or a government if at the end of the day you can't say what you want.

And yes:

I do believe in the basic free speech bargain. I do think it's better to have ISIS recruitment videos (and anti-ISIS videos, and everything else) up freely than to have some organization sitting in judgement of what's "acceptable" and not.

Of course it's a trade-off. There is a cost to social harmony from free speech (& democracy!). China seems to be doing pretty well with a very different approach; they value social harmony highly.

But I was raised like a good little patriotic American boy, so I value free speech pretty damn highly, and I find this policy misguide and scary.

Also, let's not kid ourselves -- ISIS is just an excuse. I guaran-fucking-tee this policy will be used to stifle all kinds of objectionable, non-politcally-correct videos.
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You don't need one. But I bet you that someone who doesn't know much better and has a general love of consuming things could be convinced that if they don't get one, they will be missing out on all the fun things their friends are doing.
I don't really agree with that analogy. Dealing with hardware versus software is vastly different. Demanding driver updates from manufacturers, and then enforcing them onto users is real messy compared to changing an API (with reasonable heads up) and expecting extension developers to adhere or become incompatible.
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What should I focus on to land an internship the summer after my sophomore year?
The title pretty much says it all. I have very minimal programming experience and I will be starting school in 3 weeks for computer science. I understand the utter importance of internships in finding a job out of school, and it's my goal to graduate with two, not just one. I'm assuming an internship the summer after my freshman year will be pretty damn difficult to find, given that I am not coming in with experience and will be at a CC in the midwest (before transferring to an average state school here next year). I'll be working 30-35 hours a week, but will only be in 6 hours this semester, followed by 9-11 hours next semester. I'll cover intro to programming, object-oriented programming (both done in C++), and a couple of math classes such as Statistics, Calc 2 and Discrete Math in this time. Given my workload and 2 hours of commute each day, I'm going to have a pretty busy schedule. I still want to make the most of my time outside of class and work to develop the skills necessary to land an internship early on. Where should I be focusing my efforts in these first two years to help me achieve my goal? Thanks!
6 damage for 3 mana isn't a bad deal but it's not a strong enough 3 drop in the modern meta.
I always admired Mozilla for their efforts in making Firefox better. But I switched to Chrome many years ago. For me, the problem with FF was UI and UX.

Chrome and Safari just feel more "smooth and sleek", and UI elements are consistent (Look how Chrome buttons are rounded-rectangles).

The other reason I switched from FF was that Chrome has always been simply better. Sure, FF can handle many tabs, but I save that for times I want to work with Selenium or something. For an ordinary user (and even pros), Chrome just beats FF.
A white man called her kids the n-word. Facebook stopped her from sharing it
The best course of action in such cases is to vote with your feet.
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>Surely the 275 MB isn't all useful data (I wonder what compression ratios you get on 'apps'), and it should be possible to cut it down to a few MB.

This is pretty tone def. The bulk of apps are audio and ui assets and the compression rates on those are quite good.

That said, the compression rate for iOS apps is horrible as Apple decides to encrypt and then compress the binaries, completely blowing apart the compression ratio of duplicate data.
> Don't tolerate intolerance. Thats not tolerance is spineless.

What does that even mean? You can still have speech you dont agree with, nobody is forcing you to see it.
You clearly are not a mathematician (nor am I). There's a huge, unimaginably broad chasm cognitive chasm between "suspected", "conjectured", and "proved".
Although I agree with the whole YouTube deciding what they want on their platform narrative, the argument loses some steam when talking about edge cases. There are a lot of conflicts where the distinction between quelling extremist content and removing anti-establishment rhetoric is a thin one. Once YouTube starts content censorship of any kind, they might quickly find themselves having to pick sides in somewhat grey areas. Making such value judgements and making them consistently becomes a challenge.
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Mastodon: accidentally DDoS's your server with every link you share
how do companies manage to serve up all the bandwidth for this for free? even storage will be costly at this scale right?
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As phenomena go, ball lightning is one of those things which has always fascinated me. It was said that Tesla could summon a ball of light[1], no one has ever been able to reproduce that feat. That in itself has got to be pretty cool.

I like the idea of a the microwave bubble (or even just an RF bubble). We know that ionized air reflects radio waves (ask any amateur who has bounced off the ionosphere for an over the horizon signal) so I can imagine that a 'ball' of ionized air would reflect any radiowaves that were inside of it with energy leaking out in the form of light. But how to do that with Tesla era equipment? Good question.

[1] "I never saw fireballs, but as a compensation for my disappointment I succeeded later in determining the mode of their formation and producing them artificially.
" --
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I'm afraid, I cannot remember, but I guess it was in one of the first sections, so maybe "wrist"…?
>(energy-wise)

Correct or not, your point is orthogonal to the issue mentioned.
It's not designed to be inefficient. It's designed to solve the distributed consensus problem in an adversarial environment. There are other now proposed mechanisms of doing that (e.g. PoS) that are quite efficient. Working on those would be extremely beneficial to the cause of environmental efficiency.
Yes, anytime source code is retrieved that isn't an existing, approved version, legal review of some sort must occur. This includes even referencing it despite what the other poster mistakenly believed I was implying.
Radicalization is real. It's why terrorism works. If a private service wants to restrict videos of torture killings and beheadings followed by propaganda, why not?

Those shouldn't be tolerated any more than videos that show torture of animals or abuse of children.

Seems like a reasonable standard and not necessarilya slippery slope?
No secure communication AND Brexit ?

Hope Europeans bankers will enjoy their new offices in Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris.
That's assuming linear no threshold models which are not supported in this range by epidemiology.
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The Mics are so good that they can hear them from pretty much anywhere in my 800 sqft home.

So can The Others.
Happier in an orderly country where gun ownership is high, like Switzerland. I'm not saying it's the only thing you need.
This needs more visibility. Behind many a do-gooder trying to rid the world of 'hate' is a well-funded organization or government with an agenda trying to make cynical end run around free speech.
It also works super well.
It's effectively a privately-owned public space, due to the network effects. Simply presenting the ISIS vs cat videos dichotomy is intellectually dishonest - it ignores the subtler effects of a politically motivated private entity becoming an arbiter of speech.

For instance, Jordan Peterson's Google account was suspended today for "violations of terms of service", with no other reason given and no official channel for recourse. It was only reinstated after news of the ban began gaining traction on twitter and other outlets. What will happen to smaller entities caught in the net, with less social clout to defend themselves?

https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/89244909895099187...
I personally agree with this philosophy - more the "use the standard library" than "copy stackoverflow".

I can't count the number of times we've had problems with the requests library, either because of the huge tree of dependencies (both explicit and implicit) that requests has, and because of some of the assumptions made by requests.

On the other hand, when a bit more time is taken (yes, this means a few lines of boilerplate) and the code uses urllib2, it rarely has to be touched again.
It's iOS/Mac only because it has to go through Apple server. This is because of this lawsuit:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20236114
More information here: http://www.star-telegram.com/news/business/aviation/sky-talk...
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Ethereum actually has a better security track record than Bitcoin does [1]. It's the contracts on top of Ethereum that are the problem. Calling those incidents Ethereum security problems is like calling a Windows 0day an Intel security problem.

1. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident
Is this why they disabled Jordan Peterson's Youtube today?

https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/89244921355616665...

(University of Toronto Psychology Professor who makes popular YouTube videos and draws ire from a lot of SJW types)

~~~

In a way, Google is announcing to startups that making a YouTube successor/killer is still possible. As they degrade their own service, they open up more space for newcomers and competitors.
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> Actually it is NOT cheap to operate a nuclear power plant after it is built

I would argue that the innovations in rival energy sources have made it comparatively expensive, but the cost was largely established when the plant was built (likely in the 1960s - 1970s). In other words, it was cheap, but the fact that nuclear requires such a massive outlay to build the facility means that nuclear is a very long term financial gamble and assumes that a variety of other energy sources don't fundamentally change their cost curve (like oil and natural gas did in recent decades).
That's way too cynical and oversimplified to be considered a substantial comment.
It doesn't work in Safari.
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To add a bit of insight: most Payment-Service-Providers actually pay big retailers to be listed on their site, as it improves trustworthiness and brand awareness. So the Amazon deal might not be as favorable to Stripe as it might sound.
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Delphi and VB4-6 used to be the RAD tools. (RAD = rapid application developed) One could drag and drop controls and create an GUI application in WYSIWYG-style. Then in 1999 when Microsoft abdomen VB for their new dotNet vision, MSFT was about to be split up, etc Web took over and Dreamweaver (and Frontpage) offered a similar IDE experience for HTML4 with a tables and PHP (or ASP, etc). To this day VB6 has the easiest to use RAD IDE, no other newer IDE allows one to create GUIs that fast. Nowadays XCode has a good GUI tool. Traditional Windows applications are out of fashion for many years. Only Win32/64 games are made, everything else is crosspatform electron JS apps or legacy apps that get a yearly minor update. Android and iOS apps thrive, and SaaS web apps too. And on Windows UWP hasn't got traction, it's like a failed experiment - I use zero UWP apps, 1% dotNetFramework4 apps and 99% WinAPI C++ based apps.
How so? In my experience Apple products outlast their competitor by a long margin.
All my Macs have lasted about 6/7 years, meaning, being used everyday with latest software for paid work. Most still boot and work today, but are impractical.

Same with iPhones, usually stop using because lithium batteries have a 4/5 years life span.
/u/michael0x2a on Reddit put together a nice tl;dr[1] of the story arc for those that don't want to dig through the thread.

tl;dr for that is basically:

Kite has been collecting "anonymous" data from sublime users with the SideBarEnhancements plugin installed. This has been happening for atleast a year and the data collected included activeNonBundledPackageNames which is basically a list of packages installed via Package Control.

It seems they were intentionally unclear about who the data was sent to and did not think to remove it from the plugin after the Atom Minimap incedent because:

> the truth is we didn't remember [2]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6qwtfz/kite_in...

[2] https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/rfc-default-package-control-...
/sarcasm Really looking forward to reading the Kite blog post this time around: "Staying Open (Still): Kite Responds To the SideBarEnhancements Issue." /sarcasm

Sorry Kite - fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on us. There's now a 0% chance of my ever using your products or services.
Do you believe that videos of 3-year olds executing prisoners is really worth broadcasting? Old men getting their head stabbed with a bayonet until they die? Pilots burned alive?

I'm all for free speech, but why should Google distribute that for free so we can have more lone wolf terrorist attacks?
Eh, banks pretty much are on the side of backdoored encryption - e.g. see recent proposals to make it easier for them to MITM TLS in their own networks, and compliance requirements for the messaging products they use.
Yes, I agree with you that it's within their rights to do so.

The public square has effectively become platforms like YouTube. If I cannot participate in these discussions, my ideology, and perhaps my welfare, will suffer. Giving public speeches in my town is increasingly meaningless, because this is not where discussions take place in the digital age.
Sure, "proof mining" is feasible, but the goal of proving a theorem is only rarely finding any proof, it is rather finding a proof that makes sense, is "elegant", and in the best case scenario a proof that actually forms a sensible new theoretical framework in which the theorem becomes almost trivial to prove.
It participates to negating the difficulty of building and delivering a product, thereby giving said laymen a sense of entitlement over "undeserved wealth".
the sad thing is that this has been out for 9 months. If Kite was looking for stats to help inform their product development they already got all the data they need.
Did not see it, shouldn't you use an adblocker at work for obvious reasons?
> I know a novice user who sticks with iDevices (as opposed to Android) precisely because they have a physical home button.

Numerous Android devices (including, I believe, all the Samsung lines and certainly the flagship Sn and Galaxy Note lines) have physical home buttons. So its kind of odd that one would base a preference for iDevices over Android on a feature on which the two are not differentiated.
> Apple's mention in the keynote when FaceTime was announced that it would be open

They were planning to do so, but got caught up in a lawsuit with VirnetX.
WebRTC might be a solution, if you are okay with peer-to-peer transfers, and don't need the sender and receiver to act in different time slots.

Something like https://file.pizza is really neat, and apparently have no upper limit.
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I wish I could give you more upvotes.
are internships available for non-UK and non-EU citizens?
Does kite own SideBarEnhancements? How did this code get past a PR?
Short answer is the presence or absence of a field can drive us to different paths in the code base. That can lead to code littered with !! and @JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown=true), or multiple intermediary data classes, or similar solutions. For much of our problem space, an extra val or two and some well placed ifs get us out of it.
And also #3.1: you program within the environment you are programming.
Hey, I added your listing to my site too - hope it cool.
"I'm having those conversations in private"

Ah yes, the old "Fuck you, we got ours" mentality.
The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined
Baby born 'pregnant' with his twin brother: Newborn had half-formed infant