skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny what a company will say, then turn around and do...
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/18/cloudflare_ceo_rubb...

"It's not in CloudFlare's philosophy to just take down sites because management doesn't agree with the content,"

...unless the press tells them what their philosophy needs to be? The lesson is that no capitalist company can remain neutral, today. Which has good and bad consequences. It's amazing how the small number of media conglomerates have solidified their political power alongside their commercial power. A true locus of control in Western society.
"We had to destroy the village in order to save it" - US Officer, talking about the decision by allied commanders to bomb and shell the town regardless of civilian casualties, to rout the Vietcong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%E1%BA%BFn_Tre
Well, it's unfair to label it as "Trump being evil".
I'm pleased to see the forced arbitration and class action waivers get noticed, here.

I was going to recommend the EFF's "TOSBACK" program, but it turns out they're already linked to TOSDR. I'm pleased that TOSBACK is still running! I expected to find it dying from lack of support, like the EFF's printer tracking dots list.
> I think Aaronson's dismissive attitude is unbecoming and disrespectful amongst colleagues.

That is exactly how science works. You have to prove something before it's made a fact. Science operates completely on the notion that incorrect statements should be gotten rid of.
I know for a fact I've seen GPS spoofing apps, at least for android.
I am surprised by the criticism of CloudFlare in these comments.

I was a systems admin for a while; User privacy and security were very important to me, despite my lack of technology or skills. FWIW.

CloudFlare did not necessarily follow "Due Process" because no such process exists. They seem to think that's a problem worth addressing.
I see your point. Thanks for clarifying.
Nice project. It seems to make a lot of assumptions about your online shop, so I guess this works only in the most simple shops. E.g. Your payment provider interface does not have any authorize/capture logic.
If I see it correctly you have not included tax or discount logic, which I think is a good move, because those are hellish topics to solve once and for all.
For the same reason I am surprised you included so much info on products as I would think that the Microservice would only treat them as abstract ID.
What is the goal that you wish to achieve with this software? Selling licenses? Using it for your own shop?
I like it, I've just made it the family name of my D&D5e gnome :D
Dude, you're forgoting HN's biggest jerk: the lispjerk
It's amusing watching people complain about how we're headed to a world where the streaming services are no better than cable TV. Netflix is $10 / month. Pile on a half dozen services like that, and you're still only around 50-60% of what the average cable bill in the US is (just over $100 / month). Did you really think that all these media companies were going to magically shed 90% of their revenue?

The user experience does kinda suck, but I think Apple TV, Roku, and other meta-streaming-platforms will solve most of that in the long run. They'll be the new cable companies, essentially. But I bet you'll get less bundling than cable has now. Although I constantly see people saying that they want bundling. "I'd love to just pay $100 / month for every tv show, movie, song, etc. out there..." That's the ultimate bundling :)

Also, for the people who keep saying they want to just pay for a single show, can't you do that on iTunes and Amazon? Buy a season pass for a show? I haven't really done this much, so maybe it's outlandishly expensive, or they have poor coverage of shows people want.
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That's just hyperbolic. An ideology that has as few individuals as white supremacy does is hardly an existential crisis. Unless, of course, there is reason to believe more people will be pushed to white supremacy in the future, which is proposterous. For what reason would more and more people be pushed to extreme ends of identity politics? Truly a mystery.
never have I had a stronger "shut up and take my money" moment. I noticed that you only have a ios app at the moment. Any plans on supporting android?
I still don't get why people consider bitcoin a suitable form of currency. It has a fixed supply, so its value is going to vary wildly - depending on demand. That's the opposite of what you want from a currency (where your main goal is price stability).
Netflix has almost 100 Million users. That means they are spending approximately $70 per user on new Content in 2018.

Netflix costs between $7-$12 per month. Many of those subscribers will not last the whole year. It is awesome they are spending basically 100% of their revenue on new content, but this model is not sustainable.
An inside look at Ford’s $1B bet on Argo AI
I don't know anyone involved in this but based on the data given this is really just an acqui-hire so it's expected that they do that. They just buy the tech to be on the safe-side and will just store the source code somewhere and never use it again. Google hopes to get something out of the talent in the company but is likely very clueless and will waste their time in the end. They will filter bad people out but you'll still get slimmed down version of a normal interview with more flexible standards. So a much higher percentage of the interviewees will make it through the process.

I really don't get why we have these 'failures' always in the news and spin them as a successful exit (it's really just run out of money or have no hope of getting anywhere and that's why we want to sell). I went through it myself and you'll likely get some nice title at a nice company and a great stock packages but otherwise it's wasted time besides looking nice in your CV. For the company itself it just means it was a failure (could still mean nice tech but they would have went nowhere).
I'm with you on lines. Fuck that, there's always better things to be doing. But you can skip the bi-rite lines if you just go at a non-weekend day. Tuesday mid-day? No lines!

Also Ice Cream Bar has better stuff. Fight me! :P
I'm sorry, is it empathy to agree with folks that, "yes" it is okay to kill? Should we not call that act of violence and act of violence?

This seems to me like a category error that you're making here.

It's possible to be upset about treatment of citizens in China but also strongly disagree with racially motivated violence in the United States. People walking around with torches chanting blood and soil art literal, not figurative, Nazis. They have a very clear agenda. That agenda claimed a life and injured many others. Daily Stormer then supported it. This doesn't seem like a very grey zone to me.

I'm also not entirely sure that I agree with your characterization of the Chinese government has a fascist government. There are degrees of Badness in the world.
people whose namesake is derived from a group of people that committed genocide is where I draw my line

Jacobinmag has no trouble with its host.
Matthew Prince is asking for a conversation to begin on establishing policy for supporting free speech vs. policing a service. Service providers of all kinds have been more-or-less flying by the seat of their pants on this issue, making up policy according to their individual ideals, and a lot of arguments so far have fallen along ideological lines.

As more and more people continue to participate in the internet, there are going to be more issues like this, not fewer.

So let's maybe kick off that discussion a little bit? Someone that's articulate might be able to build the foundation for a policy here that would be attractive to lots of service providers.

Some things to consider:

-> Local law vs. ethical considerations. A lot of expressions and statements that are just fine by US standards are illegal or otherwise censored in other place. Google has struggled with this in China for years now. There's no reason to believe that the US will continue to be a beacon for free speech forever. Efforts to control, surveil, and censor speech are ongoing in the US, as Dreamhost recently pointed out. How should services handle this? Do you adhere to local laws or to what you believe is right?

-> Free speech vs. abuse. In this case, I don't mean abuse-by-meanness, but abuse by misuse of resources. From blatant spamming all the way down to just being the loud-mouthed jerk who posts too often in a forum, there's a whole spectrum of abuses here and most service providers happily block this content. What constitutes abuse? Should everything be supported, to the best of the service provider's ability, or is this a point where nearly everyone agrees that free speech should be limited?

-> Free speech vs. disruptive or disgusting speech. Communities gather assholes. Some of them are accidental or ill (HN has its own, which it has merrily perma-banned), some of them just want to stir shit up. Some of them give us something to think about, they just want to be really abrasive in the process. What are the limits here? What if we end up on the wrong side of some issue, what would our opinions about limited speech be then?

-> Nice vs. Free. These all kind of could be distilled down into a single debate: do we want a nice society, or a free society?
Free speech, the cultural value, can only be protected by the government. The market doesn't demand things like liberty and justice.
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Yes, I understand it's just a protocol but it's a pain writing it by hand especially when I just want to test it out on some existing projects Vs selenium.

Thanks for the binding link. Will check it out this weekend.
Style bikeshedding. If you don't like expert opinions, there's always CNN.
Sure, fire is good when you're dealing with them roaches, but kill them as you will, does nothing for the ideas, which sunlight is good for.

Yes, the US actually does have excellent lines on what's acceptable speech. In my not-professional judgement, it's speech that is the proximate cause of violence and incites it, and the daily stormer is outside of that. If you're talking about the US, you'd let the courts decide, and not corporations.
> I'm sorry, is it empathy to agree with folks that

I may not be able to understand where White Supremists are coming from, but I fully appreciate their right to free speech. I also don't understand people who prioritize limiting speech, but respect their opinion. That's the empathy I refer to.
We are NOT fighting the people here, we're fighting the ideas. I don't think we should ever forget this.
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I was fairly certain I had done it before. I did some Googling to sanity-check myself and found, "UML can be compiled to run within UML" [1]. I don't seem to recall any unusual compiling options to make it work, but then that was a long time ago, as was that document, I suspect (although it has no dates). Maybe it's broken...

[1] http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/old/UserModeLinux-HOW...
Because "I disagree with this" is semantically different from "this is stupid". They communicate different ideas. You can disagree with something without thinking it's stupid. A reader can and probably should react differently to a post being intelligent, but wrong, versus being just plain idiotic.

The post on question also didn't call the author an idiot, just said that the paper was idiocy. That's not ad hominem at all.
Probably better to do this at the nginx level
> but one "terrorist attack" (unplanned murder with a vehicle) occurs in a state in the US and suddenly the gloves are off.

> According to the Government Accountability Office of the United States, 73% of violent extremist incidents that resulted in deaths since September 12, 2001 were caused by right wing extremists groups.[41][42]
>"You can now get secure email anonymously"

How exactly... by paying with Bitcoin?

And this is coming from a security-conscious company?

Unless I mined the Bitcoins myself, and never spent the remaining 12.45 BTC that I mined (after presumably spending 0.05 BTC on protonmail)... it is far from "Anonymous".

If they started accepting Zcash, however...
No, of course not! I think the line is pretty clear there, a person can't choose to be black or white, but a marriage is an "opt in" event, two people are freely choosing to be married.

There have been a lot of these sorts of incidents; I didn't hear about the DOXing incident, that's quite sad, and of course, inexcusable, for any reason.

However, there was an incident [http://bit.ly/1MxG5S8] where a lady was good friends with a man and was a regular customer for years. She did not want her company's name associated with his wedding (sounds oddly similar to the OP), so she politely declined.

This all being said, I'm very curious how you reconcile the two situations, I'm interested to hear your viewpoint.
No, the initialism PM is usually the same job everywhere but stands for Program Manager, Product Manager, or Project Manager.
wow I'm intrigued and haven't even heard of tabu search before you mentioned it, thank you very much! You surely are my hero today loserboss =)
I showed up very late to an Apple keynote about 10 years back, and was grabbed while walking in by some staffer to sit in a third row seat. I had no affiliation with Apple; I assume I was picked because I "looked the part" (which was, apparently, a college aged nerdy computer science student).

So yeah, I'm sure it's mostly Apple employees, with randoms like myself thrown in here to make the crowd shots less homogenous.
Oh, certainly for English results showing news results for that query is very, very relevant given what is going on in the US with people waving actual nazi flags. You can see that if you e.g. search for a flag that isn't in the news (like danish flag) there is no news result.

I'll report the flag bug.
> I may not be able to understand where White Supremists are coming from, but I fully appreciate their right to free speech.

These two facts are connected. Another example would be not being fully sure what bleach exactly is, but being all for drinking it.
The larger point about trying to censor people out of having opinions instead of ignoring or condemning them is valid. This has raised their profile far beyond simply ignoring or condemning them and treating them like any other repulsive website (of which there are PLENTY that Google/GoDaddy/Cloudflare now "officially endorse").
So what if no ISP wants to give them inet?
First, it's not my argument. As I said it was copied verbatim from the article.

Second, I do find interesting that you feel offended at the thought that women might assume men are sexist, but from your comment history you seem to be OK with Damore's memo which ascribes a number of traits to women.

Don't you think that is a bit hypocritical in itself?
It's my fear this locus of control or suppression of voices is part of the reason we have an increase in violent rhetoric.

I learned an important lesson in 2016, my worldviews are not shared in America outside of big cities. It forced me to realize that I didn't even know people disagreed so fiercely because of media conglomerate created echo bubbles.
Matthew Sheffield‏'s belief in the claim was not based on hard evidence at the time, but rather based entirely on two tweets from white supremacists known for trolling. He parroted the claim in the off-chance that it might be true. He's a gambler, not a reliable source.
I will actually fight you over this

But yup, my GF and I actually took a day off work on a Tuesday specifically for bi-rite. Made the trip up all the way from South Bay. Worth.
Yeah, I work at Blockstream and this is as idiotic as it sounds. We don't do it.
Exactly. Millions of times faster than DBAN.
Bluntly, people have a right to hate, as long as they're not committing assault and battery.

I'll take the world where that exists before I live in a world with thought police.
Do you have clients switching because of memo saga?

I like it, but by knowing how difficult it is for businesses to switch to new tools, I'm surprised.

All the best of course, with or without the memo, one cannot trust the once cute company wanting to change the world.
A social network isn't a place which implies exclusivity. If you are at one place you aren't at another and it also implies significant effort to move from one place to another.

Sending an email really does imply moving your finger an inch to use a different app.
Zappos has had free one day shipping for years now.
Having lived in both places, I honestly think NYC is worse. New Yorkers love waiting on lines, and every single week feels like a new stupid craze that people are standing on line for. I always like to just wait three months and then check it out. The hordes have moved on and the kinks have been worked out.
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Yes, late 90's, AIM was a thing... if my mom wasn't on the phone, or if my dad didn't need the computer for work. Didn't help me early 90's and certainly didn't help me figure out if my friend was home before I made the bike ride over :P
You too should read this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15032018

and maybe this for good measure:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15014737

I forgot nothing, I'd rather say I know things you haven't yet understood.
Ah. Well then, I am a millionare (in a manner of speaking).
This always sounded so silly to me. Are they legally allowed to refuse service to them? According to the law: absolutely. But that has no bearing on whether or not we are allowed to criticize them.
The first amendment guarantees the government will uphold this value.

More like "The first amendment purports to guarantee that the government will uphold this value."
You're making way too much sense for this thread, get out of here
A protected class is what we decide should be one. There weren't any protected classes at all, until one day there were, and we added things to that list since then.

Nazis specifically aren't a protected class, of course. Neither are white people. But (any) race is a protected class. And (any) political opinion could be a protected class, as well.

IIRC, this is already the case in California, with respect to employment - i.e. you cannot be fired for expressing a political opinion.
Inciting violence has never been a protected form of speech.
> If you're talking about the US, you'd let the courts decide, and not corporations.

In the US, you let corporations decide how to exercise their right of free expression just as much as anyone else.

Freedom of speech means you are permitted to seek collaborators to help you spread your speech, not that others are obligated to disregard their own views to help promote yours. That kind of entitlement would violate the free speech rights of the forced collaborators.
I think it makes absolute sense (in overall terms), hardware capabilities at a fixed price scaled exponentially while the costs of producing software went up mostly linearly, or to put it another way.

I have a 5 minute mp3 that takes more space than my first hard drive had and some icons on my desktop that take more space than my first computer had RAM.

Whether that will continue to hold I don't know, mobile has certainly pushed certain parts back towards caring about efficiency (though more because it impacts battery life).

If you remove a constraint people stop caring about that constraint.

The old school geek in me laments it sometimes but spending twice as long on developing something to save half the memory when the development time costs thousands of dollars and twice as much RAM costs a couple of hundred seems..unwise.
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We might agree on a few points but trying to clarify that the murder wasn't a terrorist attack, that it was just "unplanned murder with a vehicle", makes me want to re-examine my opinions on the points where we agree.

The murderer may not have woken up that morning and pulled out a binder full of detailed notes on vehicular murder from under his bed, but he did not accidentally drive into that crowd of people. When he got into the car and plowed into that group, he did so because he stopped regarding them as fellow human beings, because he disagreed with their opinions on some issues, and because he hated them.

It was an act of terrorism, identical in purpose and outcome to other acts of terrorism in the UK.
I'm more likely to have someone on facebook that I am to be able to look up their email via name on any of my phone apps (either by having their email saved against their contact, or having it in gmail)
Most of the content has a shelf life much longer than one year, so I'm sure that factors into the equation.
In the context of a Linux distribution, there's a fair bit more to supporting UEFI than the BL supporting it.

At a minimum, disk layouts are drastically different in UEFI and BIOS.

LFS is so woefully out of date that it isn't even funny.
> They claim to be able to extract the key using hdparm.

No, they claim only to be able to use hdparm to extract the logical block address at which a file is stored. Whether that gives you any useful information is entirely dependent on the internals of the SSD.
It seems hugely disingenuous to leave sept 11 from that.
Yeah, and you'll take it all down with your foolishness.
Well, vaguely revisionist history aside, that was at least part of what the civil war was over. The southern states were upset that the constitution in the case of slavery could override their state powers and ban slavery. The confederate states wanted to rewrite the constitution to strip the federal government of essentially all powers except the power to wage war and the regulation of interstate commerce, essentially blocking it from having any impact on the activities wholly within a state. The Union states of course wanted to keep the constitution as it was (or even strengthen it), that is giving the federal government veto power over states and the ability to enforce human rights guaranteed by the constitution. Thus in one sense the civil war was a fight over a weak vs. strong federal government. When making that argument though it's important not to downplay the importance of slavery as a motivating factor for the confederate states. Many revisionist white supremacists try to make that argument as a way of whitewashing the confederate states actions and trying to re-frame the confederate states motivations as being non-racist, when they were anything but.
I love Bezos and Amazon. Except WaPo isn't a becon of freedom or journalism, it's a lying PoS rag Jimmy Dore has called out numerous times.
Inception as a set of commands to start and stop docker containers within docker containers, and programs within those containers. As a bonus, the last command should be trying to determine if the top level is a docker container, and segfault.
Cool, I removed the confidentiality from the issue. Thanks for reporting this.
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If people have a right to hate, then your ethos demands private companies can mute anyone they want.

It seems difficult to have it both ways.

Edit: it seems my debate partner deleted a telling comment. Too bad.
I don't think that's fair because defamation of character could be applied here. What would you prefer they do, sue the Daily Stormer while continuing to distribute their content? Cutting off their services seems a far more rational approach.

At the end of the day Cloudflare are just exercising their own freedoms to accept the business they choose to. The Daily Stormer will (if they haven't already) just switch to another provider so it's not like they're being censored (well, not in any effective way) and everyone is now clear where Cloudflare's position is with regards to The Daily Stormer while very little time was wasted with expensive lawyers. On balance I think this seems a pretty fair outcome for all parties involved.
Do they enable any? I don't recall hearing about that.