skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065729

Someone wrote an add-on, but it doesn't work in nightly.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/u2f-support-a...
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Wow. That production story would be the best Shouth Park plot ever. It's complete, with even nobody caring about the censorship and talking about how they criticize Family Guy.
What makes you say that? Muslims have killed a lot more people this year in the name of their ideology than Nazis...
Really? You think that you could make private individuals carry water for ideals that conflict with their own? And that people, far and wide, would just be openly accepting of this idea?

I’ve heard “freedom of speech” defined as a natural right, but this idea is the most unnatural way for people to act.
Very basic, but was a good article for my sales team – what is machine learning
> Why couldn't you say the same about net neutrality?

Starting your own ISP can require MASSIVE capital investment if you want to have a hope of competing and take years. There's a reason there are only a handful of really competitive ISPs in the US.

Changing DNS hosts is a mild inconvenience. They can find someone who will host their records. Google shouldn't be forced to do it.

But if I don't like the only ISP in my town blocking some stuff I don't the kind of money Google had to waste to start a new ISP for me and others in my town.
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Respectfully, I've been using iPhones exclusively for ~7 years and I can still type faster on a Blackberry after using it for five minutes. I type WELL over 100 wpm on a computer keyboard, up into the 140wpm for short periods of time. I really don't think the problem is more practice.
I'm glad to see the EFF making the point I'be been trying to make all week; at the cost of multiple downvotes: "Because internet intermediaries, especially those with few competitors, control so much online speech, the consequences of their decisions have far-reaching impacts on speech around the world."
There's no such thing as "Godwin's Rule" - it's "Godwin's Law" and it said nothing about winning arguments; only that as the length of an argument increased, the probability that a comparison with the Nazis would appear approached 1.

You can't invoke it either. It's a statistical observation.
Not the same thing. The thing that slows down compilation is recursively derived implicit parameters for typeclasses, which don't tend to be a problem for reading - you just write "myObject.toJson" (and behind the scenes it recurses through the structure of myObject at compile time, ensuring that all of the nested types bottom out in values that can actually be serialized to JSON, and compiles to something of similar efficiency to manually naming all the fields). The thing that causes readability issues tend to be overuse of implicit conversions, and the community has largely moved away from that, thankfully.
The US currently has them in the White House.
You could just update the law you know... it doesn't have to be the slave to old ideas.
Because the right has all the facts in its corner.

I'm not talking "preponderance of evidence." I'm talking people who come over to the right shaking their heads, like someone awaking from a dream and saying, bewildered, "How did I never see all this, right in front of my eyes?"

Every molecule of oxygen in the debate arena belongs to us. We own the realm of reasoned discourse. That's why the left must break so many of its own rules to continue the fight.
Given we fought a literal world war over this... is it really that slippery?
Which is why crypto tech is important. The foundations of a decentralised internet are being built[0].

[0] https://ipfs.io/
Yeah, I'm sure that if they can't use Spotify, Neo-Nazis will have no place to organize. /s
The Pandora's box just opened
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This is also dangerous for clear reasons. If speech deemed bad is censored we may have no examples with which to contrast good ideas. Think of free speech as natural selection for ideas.

John Stuart Mill thought free speech should extend into the private world:

Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practises a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself. Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough: there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling; against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them.
The Design of Everyday Things is instructive here. You don't design for the middle or the average. You design for the extreme edges. If you have a programming language that can be used both by absolute beginners who just want to learn enough programming to script their excel spreadsheet AND HFT traders who need to ring out every cycle of performance they can on every core they have at their disposal, then the middle will take care of itself.
> Not all personality types are willing to solve problems (aka working) for their own intrinsic motivation.

I disagree with the notion that wanting to solve problems necessarily leads to having the discipline or desire to work.

The problems I choose to solve in my spare time are almost always more interesting than the ones I solve for work because I choose them out of interest, whereas the ones for work are chosen due to more practical reasons.
Doesn't America have anti monopoly laws? Curious why those don't apply to ISPs . Isn't this an admission that 'net neutrality ' is a bandaid to the problem of ISP monopoly.

Also, Philosophically you won't really care about net neutrality if you have ISP choice. correct?
Yes! Richard Wagner was an anti-semite - no argument! He's been described as 'one of the most virulent anti-Semites in modern history as well as being Adolf Hitler’s most revered cultural role-model'. He also happened to be a musical genius. Do we bann performances of the Ring Cycle or Tristan & Isolde?
It would at least mean any kind of moderarion without due process might be questionable.
Cyberbotics Ltd. is launching https://robotbenchmark.net to allow everyone to program simulated robots online.

Robotbenchmark offers a series of robot programming challenges that address various topics across a wide range of difficulty levels, from middle school to PhD. Users don't need to install any software on their computer, cloud-based 3D robotics simulations run on a web page. They can learn programming by writing Python code to control robot behavior. The performance achieved by users is recorded and displayed online, so that they can challenge their friends and show off their skills at robot programming on social networks. Everything is designed to be extremely easy-to-use, runs on any computer, any web browser, and is totally free of charge.

This project is funded by Cyberbotics Ltd. and the Human Brain Project.

Video announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0k0cJb_Mus

About Cyberbotics Ltd.: Cyberbotics is a Swiss-based company, spin-off from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, specialized in the development of robotics simulation software. It has been developing and selling the Webots software for more than 19 years. Webots is a reference software in robotics simulation being used in more than 1200 companies and universities across the world. Cyberbotics is also involved in industrial and research projects, such as the Human Brain Project. https://cyberbotics.com

About the Human Brain Project: The Human Brain Project is a large ten-year scientific research project that aims to build a collaborative ICT-based scientific research infrastructure to allow researchers across the globe to advance knowledge in the fields of neuroscience, computing, neurorobotics, and brain-related medicine. The Project, which started on 1 October 2013, is a European Commission Future and Emerging Technologies Flagship. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, it is coordinated by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and is largely funded by the European Union. https://humanbrainproject.eu
What I find disheartening is the need to be "more productive" rather than confront the idea that work is eating too much of our lives. What percentage of overworked people can afford to go alone on a silent retreat for 92 days?
I think the article sums up the problem quite well:

"Because internet intermediaries, especially those with few competitors, control so much online speech, the consequences of their decisions have far-reaching impacts on speech around the world."

Can I refused to make a wedding cake for a gay marriage? You can always go somewhere else.
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Muphry's Law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law
Intent is difficult to judge as well. The lyrics for the Rolling Stones' Brown Sugar are pretty clearly racist (among other things). It's not clear, however, if it's meant to promote racism.

Similar for incenting violence and "Pumped up kicks".

Edit: They could also add misogyny to the list and wipe out large swaths of entire music genres :)
It must be said that the "extreme right" is hardly unified.
I'm sure some of the groups labeled in this way actively seek to gain new adherents or to influence public discourse. Others still probably simply want to cater to some preexisting audience. I'd like to see more analysis about the different groups involved.
I respectfully (and strongly) disagree.

Decent People refusing to employ anyone who thinks Jews, among others, are subhuman is NOT the same thing as Indecent People refusing to employ Jews.

Basis For Arguments Matter™
Yeah Chris is cool. He once personally answered some random minor UI suggestion I sent into support@github.
Some people believe that stopping the maniacs and crazies right now is the best way to make sure the West doesn't turn into a new Soviet Union. Whether you agree or not, it's certainly a defensible position.

Yes, you can argue that the Soviet Union didn't happen because the Tsar failed to censor enough, I'm just trying to say that thare is some substance to the argument for stopping the maniacs.
I feel like love is a better tool than hate in trying to affect social change.
Remember its not "them" we need to convince and get back onto the straight and narrow, its the people listening, the children and those waiting to make their own decisions on the subject.
To give those people a persecuted underdog to sympathise with isn't going to improve the next generations ways of thinking.
Racism isn't like polio, we can't eradicate it because its the natural condition of homogeneous communities.

Oh and the false positives for the solution you offer are terrifying by putting the judgement into the hands of everyone. Imagine being wrongly accused of being a neo-nazi?
Show me examples of corporations mass murdering people, though? Your faith in big government is completely misplaced. The truth is, you can't trust any entity with consolidated power to be forthright and favor humanity over all other considerations.
This is an interesting concept. Can you provide any links to the practical info re. this?

It seems to be quite easy to do something similar; especially if you're specifically targeting a single PC with a very specific configuration.

How do you ensure that the amount of entropy in the key is enough to stop a person from finding the key? Assuming the person reverse-engineering the virus already knows the key generation routine, since he has access to the binary of the virus.

Hostnames and lists of installed programs should be prone to a dictionary attack, mac addresses are not even close to having enough bytes.
Benchmarks have been around for a while to compare the performance of CPUs, GPUs, hard disks, cars or even humans. Recently, OpenAI Gym developed a toolkit to evaluate the performance of learning algorithms... Now a new web site proposes to evaluate intelligent robots with online 3D simulations: robotbenchmark.net allows anyone to program realistic simulated robots in Python on a series of robotics challenges, such as a humanoid robot race or a wall following robot. This project co-funded by the Human Brain Project aims at providing engineers, scientists and students with a common tool to compare their achievements in robot control research.
I live in India.. I have about 10-15 options, but not sure if they are subcontracting from the same guy or what. I need to look into it.

>How many ISPs can you choose from where you live ?

Let me ask you this. How many search engines can you choose form, really? How many phone OS's can you choose from?
Which is not good either. IMO, any business shall serve any customer regardless. Unless said customer is breaking a (sane) law.

For the record, I'm not American. I grew up in ex-USSR country that was just recovering from total censorship. What is going on today in the world is sickening me. A lot of rhetoric in the West is too similar to USSR craziness. I'll be happy to be offended and keep my right to offend you. The other way ain't pretty.
I think the hypothetical that people like me on the left need to consider is the following. Our current vice president is extremely anti-abortion. It's no stretch of the imagination to see that portion of the country growing in strength to be there dominant view in power within ten years. In their view abortion doctors are literal baby killers, websites arguing the benefits of abortion are literally advocating the killing of babies. In their eyes, this is literally as bad as Hitler. If you set the standard at "ban everything that the populace deems to be as bad as Hitler" then today we get rid of Nazi sites and tell KKK members they can't use our gyms, but tomorrow who will be condemned? (Note that this isn't even a slippery slope argument: it's saying that who gets to define the slope changes.)

The other argument is that if Google and co have never ever bowed to political pressure to remove something except as required by law, that gives them a great argument to push back against some of the less progressive governments which they must work with. If Assad starts demanding that internet companies in Syria ban his political opponents, then Google could reply "we didn't even ban Nazis, why the hell would you expect us to ban anyone for you?"

And in case this all seems hypothetical, remember that the current US government recently requested all visitor logs for an anti-Trump website.
Reminds me of RIGB (Silicon Valley)
There's a physical layer of the screen between the touch glass and the LCD that can be turned on, reducing the viewing angle. Anyone looking from the side will instead see a floral pattern, butterfly pattern, or something else I forget (stars?), depending on your setting. (You can't pick beyond these three because each pattern is physically its own layer it looks like)

This is classic Japanese market electronics. Rather than increase bottom line, add loads of niceties to compete.

My phone was a smartphone, a mobile wallet (osaifu-keitai, tap-to-pay), my train pass (osaifu-keitai is different hardware to android pay, as it works on turnstiles, even when the phone is dead/off, and has been a thing since 2004), a television (over the air!), an answering machine (no messages stored by carrier; the phone picks up if you don't answer and records it to the SD card), had those privacy filter things, and a really responsive camera.

Sadly, it has a non-replaceable battery and refuses to update android unless it can connect to a docomo tower (I think docomo hosts it's phone's system updates on internal network only, not internet). I had to retire the phone long before the hardware gave out.

I'm pretty much stuck with the phone's stock android because A) It's sharp, so the android hacking community hasn't heard of it. and B) I don't think any ROM would have drivers for any of the galapagos features. (especially I need osaifu-keitai, which as well as being a wallet and my train pass, has all of my arcade top scores associated with it (whenever I go, I just tap the phone and the arcade machine looks me up - unlocks all the bonuses I've achieved and my prefs))
Yup, I expected more of a backlash and I'm not good with words under mob pressure. I prefaced it to avoid the "oh so YOU'RE a racist too huh??" potential retort.
I've formed the impression that I pay more for average sized clothing. I'm average in nearly everything, and when I try to find stuff on sale, my size is always gone.
In addition to what delecti said (getting room in the overhead bin is crucial), I also personally find it more relaxing to get on earlier, even if the seat isn't that comfortable. I can find my seat, put on my headphones, and zone out for the most part. If I'm waiting at the gate, I have to stay on high alert to listen for boarding announcements (often obscured by announcements from other gates), the area is likely very crowded and chaotic, and the seating is rarely much more comfortable than what is on the plane.
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I believe "music that incites violence, hatred or racism." Is defined as: any music that makes a lot of people upset on any given day, esp. when it is trending on Facebook or Twitter.
If you have SLAs with your customers, it would be pretty much mission critical to have SLAs with your vendors as well, open source is great until you are stuck in the middle of the night with a major system down and no vendor support...
Some percentage of people learned the site exists. Some other percent learned there are still a lot of people (relative to what they thought) that believe in nazi principles.

This attention would only be bad in my eyes if the first group was bigger than the second.
Jared Kushner, for one
It's just you. The answer to speech and acts you don't like is more speech, not censorship. It's not like white nationalism is on the rise in the US--that's a complete media fabrication in an attempt to discredit the Trump Administration and it is a completely ridiculous allegation, quite frankly. Each side of of the political spectrum has its fringe elements and there's no getting away from that.
You will be working with some of the dumbest people on Earth and most of your clients will hate you.

You might think I'm exaggerating...
So while I agree that what they spew is reprehensible, what worries me is, who get's to decide what's worth banning? Where is art limited and where is it not? Rap and Hip-Hop and Metal have been accused of inciting violence and hate. Grand Theft Auto and other games has been accused of glorifying violence against women. Where does it stop and who gets to decide? I loathe those people that push and peddle their bigotry but if we want to be free don't we always need to err on the side of freedom? Banning their speech and being hypocritical, is that really how we want to beat them?
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
Part of this is fad driven, but part of this is also driven by other human concerns. For example, had the early web been binary (like we're pushing for now) instead of plain text it would have died in its crib. Executing binary code sent blindly from a remote server without a sandbox is a security nightmare. Now that we have robust sandboxes, remote binary execution becomes a viable option again. But, it took a decade's worth of JVM R&D to get to this point.
Because it happened almost immediately.

HN has always had trigger-happy moderators who abuse their power to silence people they don't like, including PG himself. Just Google 'Hacker News Shadowban' sometime.
It's the Paradox of Tolerance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Refusing to tolerate the intolerant, when their intolerance _may_ be an imminent threat to society (e.g. neo-nazis in the US being defended by the current president) is paradoxical and distasteful, but not inconsistent with a liberal position on tolerance.
> And you fail to mention other projects preceding you on this same exact topic, much less discuss the pros and cons of your approach vs previous approach(es).

I think the issue isn't the recreation/repackaging but the omission of an honest discussion of how the new approach differs or what is done differently.
Code in Lisp in 1979 should be compatible with the current Common Lisp implementations.

However, Common Lisp (1994 ANSI standard) has interesting features that were not easily available (or standarized) on the Lisp implementations of 1979, for example the CLOS object system.

And today, with tools like Quicklisp or Alexandria, Lisp programming is really friendly. There are also some interesting recent books available, like Practical Common Lisp, and Land of Lisp.

These are all Common Lisp resources. There is also the classic "The little schemer" to learn Scheme.
What does it use to generate the key? The secret and the URL/realm? I guess it's implicit that you won't ever need to regenerate one key without regenerating others?
Not saying that I agree, but some people say that the best way of making sure what you describe doesn't happen to America is by stopping the Nazis right now. Yes, you loose the high ground of supporting absolute free speech but supposedly you gain a more restricted form of free speech that is more likely to stand the test of time.
So you don't use any closed source software? What exactly is the bar for "open source guy" ? Sounds kind of like a No True Scottsman situation to me.
> strip you of your constitutional rights

Like the right of free speech? Or free initiative, by blocking money transfer?

The difference isn't that big anymore, and that is the problem.
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As a hiring manager having to slog through resumes of people who pretend to be programmers, it never ceases to amaze me how few applicants understand something so basic as having the skills and experience that a position requires, before applying.
http://imgur.com/a/c7cNx
Firefox had a much higher market share than Chrome back then. Context matters.
I like the advert but it has a huge grammatical error. It is fundamentally impossible to shame a GOP politician even down to the molecular level.
Fair point, but there is a difference: power.

More powerful companies (like Google) need to constrained in ways that less powerful companies (like Joe's Cake Shop) don't.
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The fact you just call them "Muslims" speaks volumes about you and your beliefs. Educate yourself #notallmuslims
The left today: "Speech we don't like is violence. Violence we like is speech."

When the left's pets - Muslims, immigrants, Communists, minorities - kill someone, that's a loner acting alone.

When someone dies in the vicinity of the left's opponents, that's a manifestation of inherent violence.
This should be named “Being poor in the USA”. The amount of priveledge bestowed upon you by winning a passport lottery, which provides you with the access to a multitude of opportunities available to you is unprecedented.

From a perspective of someone born in a much poorer country this sounds like a birth-right priveledge taken for granted.
"Dark web network Tor has said it has no plans to stop the Daily Stormer from using its technology." This straight after having talked about various other services having banned Daily Stormer. It implies Tor is a service controlled by the Tor project who could actually kick Daily Stormer if they wanted. While it could be accidental incompetence I worry this is a deliberate attempt to paint tor negatively in the public’s mind.