skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>From my experience, socialist websites and forums tend to ignore, rewrite, or white wash the history of communism in Russia/USSR

Your experience is irrelevant, because we're talking about a particular case, not a hypothetical website. Do you have evidence that your experience applies in this particular case, or are you just generalising? For a user named after a philosopher, you don't seem to be very keen to apply logic in this circumstance, perhaps because of bias or bad prior experience.

Not to mention you're grouping in several tendencies and ideologies and opinions within a very broad movement that's lasted 200 years to date in your criticism, which is at best inaccurate and at worst disingenuous.
> I don't see how censoring content to minors only conflicts with freedom of speech

There are several reasons:

* It immediately creates the role of a censor, enforced with the power of law. History has shown that such censorship is very rarely limited only to minors (consider the Internet filtering going on the UK).

* It creates a regulatory barrier to content that is deemed 'offensive to minors'. For example, that barrier might be compliance with laws around proof of age, etc.

* The closer technological measures come to _actually_ preventing minors from accessing 'offensive' content (e.g., requiring a valid credit card), the more onerous those are to adult users, and the more likely they are to curtail free expression.
Oh, boy. Yes, it is true, no one knows better than we scientists that science is flawed and bias-prone.

You can say science is flawed but the best available source of truth we can have, or you can say science is too fallible to be more privileged than any other source of knowledge/belief. What you cannot do is have it both ways, to pretend science is infallible when you agree with it, and biased or problematic when you don't. This seems to be what many on the left are trying to do.
Give credit to Lisa for the presentation. Although she starts with the premise that don't build a OOP over a C API instead use rules instead! Although by the end of the presentation I have to question her recommendations and solution to the problem. Namely her final result is harder to read and understand than the original C code she showed at the start of the presentation.

I would have to question the whole C++ language where still to this day they're still talking about communicating with C API from the C++ layers. The STL/BOOST library are a step in the right direction but also a step back with the language that in a nightmare to work with unless you stick a very small sub-set of the language.
Thanks. Changed from https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-copycats-how-facebook-s....
This make me wonder what performing basic sentiment analysis on the words for each year would reveal.
>Ironic because Socialist forums are heavily moderated

I'm a member of at least one such forum which isn't heavily moderated.

>and quickly ban those who don't repeat the talking points

The forum I use prides itself on allowing such discussion.

>They hate having their ideas challenged

I love having my ideas challenged, and I love arguing, who are you constructing a straw man of?
That's precisely my point. Except that SE Asian expats are boring af on average. There are exceptions to be sure (I made several good friends while traveling) but on average they're shockingly boring, but they're as good as you're gonna get for that Western fix.

Maybe that's what I should have been more clear about. You'll end up hanging out with boring people because you miss home after a bit. Before I went traveling I would have expected that community to be a lot more interesting than they were.
"random people" who with high probability may have undisclosed 0day exploits stockpiled on other devices.... yeah if I'm an APT author DEFCON attendees are (the hardest to exploit and most paranoid [read: likely to get caught by]) the ideal target for any nation-state. not to mention that the conference is often attended by multiple state agencies which makes the target even juicer. yes it's an extremely hard and dangerous group of people to attempt to exploit, but that doesn't detract from the potential value and payoff of a successful APT exploit on said group of people
From TFA: "Salesforce executives were first made aware of the project in a February meeting, and they had signed off on the project, according to one person with knowledge of the meeting."

They had executive signoff until half an hour prior to the talk, and they didn't see the text revoking permission until after the talk. I'm not sure what else they were supposed to have done.
I think strings in Swift are primarily meant to be very correct above being fast or easy to use. It's more strict than both Python 2 and 3. Handling of languages that use really complex character compositions springs to mind.
But if that's all the AI can do, and people know it, then defending should be pretty easy. Any worker or land-based rush can be fairly trivially defended by walling off.
Laravel (PHP) is very Rails like.

I love Rails but clients/projects have pushed me toward using Laravel the past few years.

It's been a great experience.

Lots of great packages, great community, great tools for deployment Forge + Envoyer.

Laracasts.com is a great resource to see what it's all about.
ALL software does this. If it works, I might as well have let someone else do the waiting.

If it doesn't, then It requires a few hours mindlessly running around until you find some stupid flag that was set. Which I might as well leave to somebody else to do.

That this is the state of software is a pretty damn good thing, that most of it has become busywork. But its still busywork and I don't why I'd ever want to do it more than a couple times (once I know the general process)
I mean most of these are names you would have heard had you made any effort to follow music in the last decade. You don't have to love modern music but what is the value in commenting that you don't know it?
Good point. I'll check that out. There are quite a few hazardous waste disposal companies in my city.. and we have a pretty large research footprint, hopefully the rates aren't awful!
While that 2013 study [1] did show that both boys and girls prefer faces to objects at that age, the results seem to support boys having lesser face/object preference than girls. Unfortunately raw data wasn't provided so we can only rely on researcher's conclusions that the difference was not statistically significant for female faces/cars, but was for male faces/stoves, although eyeballing the graphs, the only one where error bars don't overlap is the Real face (female) / Real car. Anyway, every face/object pair has boys showing lesser face preference than girls.
I really can't see how this can be cited as disproving innate gender preference differences - at best, it fails to _prove_ them, but still hints at their existence.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3766397/
It's not really something you can observe well from the outside, but in working with Richard on many things, I was surprised early on how much respect he gives to those he trusts, and how appreciative he is of help.

So "servants" is far from how he views volunteers. And after working closely with him for a few years within GNU, I don't feel at all like a servant---there is mutual respect, and we're not afraid to state our opinions or disagree with one-another. Much of the time he makes me feel like I work beside him, not below him. It's quite constructive.

And this is typical with others as well.
Cool. Now can we find the person responsible for “smart quotes”?
Because Salesforce did nothing after hushcon? Which means it would have been approved.. say if it wasn't approved, isn't that a failure on SF's part because the employees would think it's fine.

I don't see why you keep defending Salesforce, they did mess up even if say the employees did not go through the approval process. You don't fire People over that, especially if previous talks are public on the same subject. Especially not at Defcon. That's why SF is in the wrong.
It is a conspiracy theory.

Do you have a better explanation?
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I agree with you that a /median/ average is more illustrative of the progress than a /mode/ average.

However even better would be an actual /map/ showing you by area of ISP service, the fastest speeds (down and up) that an ISP is willing to attempt* (believe in a normal case they have a reasonable chance of success) to provide.

Then from that map, weighted by population density, reaching qualitative conclusions; such as mode average based on population, or the cutoffs at 20 and 80% of the population.
Nooo.. But then I have to use PHP..

I kid, I kid ;)
Thanks for the rundown. What's your opinion on LineageOS, security-wise?
uBlock Origin on Firefox would be more powerful than uBlock Origin on Chrome, but does it mean that uBlock Origin webextension on Firefox will be as powerful as uBlock Origin "legacy" Firefox extension ?

This is a post of gorhill from the last months Firefox - Google Analytics fiasco:

> Legacy uBlock Origin can block the network request to GA.

> However webext-hybrid uBO as per Network pane in dev tools does not block it. Same for pure webext Ghostery, the network request to GA was not blocked, again as per Network pane in dev tools.

> What is concerning is that both uBO webext-hybrid and Ghostery report the network request to GA as being blocked, while it is really not as per Network pane in dev tools. It's as if the order to block/redirect the network request was silently ignored by the webRequest API, and this causes webext-based blockers to incorrectly and misleadingly report to users what is really happening internally, GA was not really blocked on about:addons, but there is no way for the webext blockers to know this and report properly to users.

https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2785#issue...
Probably. I was using it to watch Top Chef Last Chance Kitchen on BravoTV's website. I don't think they're so strict on it compared to Netflix.

My main use for now it is for security, not for watching geoblocked things, so I'm not so worried about it.
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Give some examples if you're going to name names.
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I followed this guide: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...
I have not looked into Elixir Phoenix but have been hearing some noise about it recently. Folks also frequently compare Rails to Django (Python) ... my 2 cents is Rails has a lot of good tools to build web apps fast and underneath it all provides a lot of strong functionality. Most things are relative though to the specific "thing" you're building so I can not say Rails is the best framework without knowing xyz, but for most web applications I'd stick with Rails. You get a lot that often gets taken for granted. Nowadays it seems folks take 1 month bootcamps and come out thinking they know everything and are so quick to try the next framework. I think that bad implementations, lack of expertise, and biased opinions has hurt the public opinion on Rails. Ultimately Rails enables you to quickly build and figure things out. Once your business is set in stone, the data model is consistent, and you're no longer figuring it out you can switch focus outside of something like Rails and break your system up into solid super fast micro-services. It's just my biased opinion since Rails is "easy" for me. Perhaps Elixir or Django are just as nice, but ultimately I guess it boils down to the developers themselves, the mentorship, the team etc. Ruby isn't dead but if in 2017 developers are banking on 1 language or framework then good luck. Full-Stack problem solvers is becoming a norm now. Just figure out how to become a strong developer in general and care less about frameworks that most people / companies abuse and implement incorrectly all the time. Sorry for the rant but God Damn this Ruby is dead buzz is so annoying, irrelevant, and usually backed by people using it incorrectly in the first place.
> Mailing lists and NNTP make decentralisation quite easy

For mailing lists, most people use one of the big email providers (like gmail), their ISP's email service, or they set up their own mail server. The last option is what would make email truly decentralized, but, in order to be able to send messages to others, you would also need to set up SPF and DKIM on your MX to ensure deliverability to other servers.

For NNTP, on the other hand, you would either have to use Google groups, or one of the free Usenet providers. If you set up your own news server (which would make this option truly decentralized), then you would also need to enter into a peer arrangement with several other usenet providers in order to have your articles distributed on usenet.

I don't have first hand experience with either option, so I don't know how much effort is involved for the decentralized options I mentioned above.
the correct horse battery staple comic assumes it's a dictionary attack. https://xkcd.com/936/
You're never going to remove this choice entirely, the goal is to allow you to keep your libraries when moving between target frameworks.
> Its too "weird" for me.

Yikes. That marketing campaign is so overblown. If you really found Austin weird I'm curious what your day to day is like.

> if I could find parking

Urban vs suburban. I'm willing to walk and want my kids to feel the same way. I remember suburban life well, and don't miss the superficial need for parking within 30 seconds (or 2 minutes) of your destination.
oh dang I used D7 for years and didn't know you could configure it into this mode. I would've preferred it at the time.

I'd say clearly Lazarus is tracking the best of Delphi, not just version 2 from 1995.
That is my understanding as well. I haven't been able to get my U2F working on recent Firefox builds. It's such a shame because I really want to use U2F instead of an authenticator app. I have like 20 different sites in there and finding the right number always takes me a minute or two.

Also Google Hangouts and Meet do not work.
The issue you linked is specific to the `about:` pseudo-protocol. uBO's WebExtensions version works as intended on the web.
I'd like better permissions, but not at the cost of a more flexible, customisable browser than chrome. There should be reasons to use firefox above and beyond muscle memory.
What's the worst is when they tell you the rules when you try to reset the password, and then you know what your password probably was, but a) they won't cancel the password change process, and b) they won't let you reuse the old password.
I think you mean that it's a conspiracy, and I think there are plenty of better explanations than Google working secretly with governments to promote capitalism.
> Many of us have been listening to Stallman for close to 20 years

Some of us for over 30. rms enjoys jokes.
> American metro areas are shaped very differently than European ones.

Oi.

So many excuses for why in so many large cities of the US you can struggle to find anything above 5mbps connections.

"Oh, the US has such a unique density, unlike anywhere else!" - well, actually ...

"Oh, well, the cities are shaped differently!"

Come on now.

> versus $40 for Verizon's 50/50 plan.

You mean with FIOS? That they are not selling any more because it wasn't profitable enough for them once they had had to build any notable infrastructure?

Oh, not to mention that that $40/mo 50/50 plan actually went up to as high as $99/mo after year one, depending on your area....
Swift on Android:

https://academy.realm.io/posts/swift-on-android

Young but potential.
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> they removed the discussion search filter.

Could you provide more detail on this search filter? I haven't heard about its removal before and it sounds interesting.
Citations would be more convincing.
I know that, thanks. I posted it as a real life example of where webextensions are still not as powerful as the so called legacy extensions and wonder if that specific case still applies, is it fixed, planning to be fixed, or are there other specific examples where webextensions fall short.
I used the "Feedback" mechanism, and typically got a human response by email.
This program isn't free for Lyft -- @ 1,000 employees and $375/space/month for each of the 53 spaces, the monthly program cost is $35K per month (with the subsidies net of revenue), or 420K a year in cash burn!!!!

IMHO, they'd be better off shutting down the lot and using it as a picnic area / common area for everyone to enjoy.
I think Visual Studio has the right idea with being primarily MDI but then all of the various windows can detach and float to other screens and wherever. I think if Windows would just render your desktop background on the MDI background instead of a solid color that would be a nice system setting.
Why it's not spark vs. hadoop
This is not a very radical idea. It is known that people are averse to losing things they already have (even in exchange for equal or greater benefit). I'm glad it worked out for Lyft without too many ruffled feathers, at least according to the comic. I'm glad this sort of idea continues to get media exposure. It needs it.

An example, it is absurd to me (and most urbanist types) that Manhattan still has free street parking and that all the East River bridges are free. Congestion pricing in Lower Manhattan was on the table during the Bloomberg era, but never made it through. It should have.
A bit old is an understatement :^) why not update to more recent iterations of Delphi?
Just in case, I found this: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Delphi_Converter_in_Lazar...
I have no clue. I gather that isolation and travel limitations kept HIV isolated for at least decades, and maybe centuries or more. But HIV takes a long time to debilitate, so there's plenty of opportunity to infect others. While Ebola incapacitates much faster than HIV, it's also much more contagious. And it does decimate affected communities rather quickly, arguably faster than HIV does.

I mean, consider that doctor who realized that he'd been infected. He freaked, and fled to South Africa for treatment. He survived, but a nurse who treated him died. What if she had been slow to show symptoms, and had infected family and friends? What if she had a side business as a prostitute?

Anyway, enough of that. Now I'm reminded of Ebola Syndrome aka Yi boh lai beng duk (伊波拉病毒). It's a rather gross Hong Kong horror film. But like the Living Dead films, it's very funny at times.
How do you avoid spaghetti code, in an environment like lazarus?
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Mobile friendly:

> I don't do github pull requests.

> github throws away all the relevant information, like having even a valid email address for the person asking me to pull. The diffstat is also deficient and useless.

> Git comes with a nice pull-request generation module, but github instead decided to replace it with their own totally inferior version. As a result, I consider github useless for these kinds of things. It's fine for hosting, but the pull requests and the online commit editing, are just pure garbage.

> I've told github people about my concerns, they didn't think they mattered, so I gave up. Feel free to make a bugreport to github.
.Net Core supports P/Invoke on Linux and macOS, you aren't going to be using a library that provides bindings for libsystemd.so or whatever on Windows - this is probably one of the most prominent examples. I know there's a handful of others, but I'm having a hard time finding a good article or any relevant documentation on it.
I found it weird looking at my region and not a single map had any significant shading to it. I wonder if our tastes are just that esoteric or my neighbors prefer a genre of music that isn't represented in this article.

Also some of their analysis doesn't quite line up with the graphic... "of course, Eminem is popular in his hometown, Detroit" while Detroit is as darkly shaded on the map as, say, northern New Mexico.
Doesn't the university down the peninsula charge everyone monthly/yearly parking fees to reduce driving and encourage people to take public transit/bike or live on campus?

Most FinDi commuters have to pay for their spots. It's widely used and well known stick to get people to carpool or take alternative means to work.
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A private company with no oversight, obviously.
You'll find that any large state university has dozens if not hundreds of little businesses that sprout up in exactly this way. You see them in the little business parks -- most of them lease rather than buy. You see them at the trade shows.

It goes without saying that the idea is just like any other business venture, with ways to succeed and to fail.

But a useful thing is to try and get a survey of what kinds of businesses are out there, what they are doing, and how well they are doing. Next time you're at a conference that has a trade show, go and look at the booths in the "low rent district," because it will give you an idea of what people are doing.

Oddly enough I work for a F500, and we buy second hand gear. One reason is that if somebody is advertising a particular instrument, it means that they actually have it, and you can get it right away. With new gear, sometimes it can take weeks or even months. Also, if it's under a couple grand, I can buy it on my purchasing card without management approval.
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With so many companies offering employees public transportation passes for commuting, I'd love to see Lyft/Uber create the ability for employers to offer free/reduced fare office commutes (within a determined range). AFAIK the only option they have is to give blanket monthly credits.
There are hundreds of Linux distributions with install media for usb/dvd install. Installing a distro like Fedora is as easy as setting up windows and has about the same UI quality.

Distros like Slackware or Gentoo give you more complicated setups but they are designed for experienced users.

There are so many places online to get help with a Linux install now. If you stick with the main distros as most do for there first taste of Linux its really simple.
So they're gating developers by their appreciation of the chosen toolset? Wouldn't you rather see them challenged on their programming abilities? Do you suggest a correlation, I find it hard to believe there is one?
Tolls continue to represent an effective way of managing congestion in large cities but it's only if the community will be willing to accept it. Better transportation alternatives need to be provided in addition to the introduction of tolls to appease everyone.
That's not how Nation State actors work. One of the things that makes Nation State actors dangerous is they have the patience and resources to attack a high value target at the most likely to succeed point. Backing that up, they generally have the intelligence to know when that best time is. And they for sure know that it's not at defcon when everyone is, as you say, paranoid and on the alert. They're going to get you at home, at happy hour with your non-security friends, in that bar with the great but insecure wifi and no 4g.
Destiny did this with just queens and drones. A lot of games were insane creep spread and spine crawler pushes.
With an autopilot and no one else in on an entire plane. Yup. Ask her that.
> To quote from the original comment in this thread:

> >You're a moron.

> I don't believe the Finnish mentality justifies being so aggressive

A previous Hackernews thread referred to a reddit thread that found the now deleted comment that Linus responded to [1] [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3962978

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/tionj/linus_tor...
This is a good collection of resources (both code and concepts). Thanks for sharing.