skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other countries have done it and the results were disastrous for freedom.

Germany, Sweden, and France for example have taken the idea of hate speech and extended into the realm of control of information. If you post on Facebook the crime statistics for your town that show immigrants are responsible for 90% of the crimes in your district, you can be prosecuted. Freaking Brigid Bardot was fined five thousand Euros for saying Islam is bad for women in her biography.

It is a nightmare. Why did we bother with the Cold War if we are going to institute the thought police we were so against for 60 years.
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Yeah, looking at the stackoverflow model would be good.

It's also worth noting that the anonymous nature of this will probably drive down engagement. Look at Quora, people use it solely to build their personal brand.

Right now people would answer on cent solely for the money.

Let them do both so you can appeal to a broader market.
That sounds strange, especially for a tiny project. What kind of dependency structure did you have?
What happens when I need to log in on a new device?
That's one of the reasons I like working from home. I can look out the window and think about things. Most bosses like that too. Its hard to understand that a lot of companies think that people working in windowless, loud offices is a good thing.
You need yubikey to use that authenticator. The key itself does u2f (unless it's a very old version), so the authenticator is irrelevant in that case.
Insert point about the slippery slope fallacy here.

There is no debate amongst the vast majority of our society that neo-Nazis are provocateurs of hate, racism, and violence. Their beliefs (the suppression and murder of Jews, people of African descent, etc) cannot be tolerated in a civilised society.

The same debate about the role of Islam in terrorism in the Middle East and here in the US is nowhere near as settled. Therefore, I am not sure the slippery slope can be claimed here.
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it stores those under _BORING_COMMANDS and doesn't log them.

Source: Read the source
I read that wikipedia page. I'd say I have more choice with ISPs than with search engines. Won't you say 'natural monopoly' applies to google too at this point?
Yes, exactly.

If this kind of thing interests you, this article about Flame is absolutely fascinating:

http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/media/secur...

Hard to believe it was already almost six years ago.

> On both servers command and-control activity happens through a Web
application called Newsforyou. It processes the W32.Flamer client
interactions and provides a simple control panel. The control panel
allows the attackers to upload packages of code to deliver to
compromised clients, and download packages containing stolen client
data. However, in a technique not previously seen before the uploaded
and downloaded packages are encrypted, so infiltrating the
command-and-control server does not reveal the code or the stolen
client data. The command and-control server simply serves as a proxy
for the data and the data is encrypted and decrypted offline by the
attackers using keys unique to each client. This application also
contains functionality to communicate with clients compromised by
malware other than Flamer. The Web application was designed to be a
framework for supporting different malware campaigns.

> In addition to avoiding the compromise of their operations, preventing
both the uploading of rogue code and viewing of stolen data, the setup
also maintains a clear distinction of roles. The roles include those
responsible for setting up the server (admins), those responsible for
uploading packages and downloading stolen data through the control
panel (operators), and those holding the private key with the ability
to decrypt the stolen data (attack coordinators). The operators
themselves may actually be completely unaware of the contents in the
stolen data. This is due to design of the process to use data security
compartmentalization techniques, as shown in Figure 1.

> Despite these techniques, we were still able to determine that one of
the servers delivered a module instructing Flamer to commit suicide
and wipe itself off computers in late May 2012, an action we also
witnessed through compromised honeypots.

> Finally, access to the control panel required a password which is
stored as a hash. Despite brute force attempts at reversing the hash
to plain text, we were unable to determine the plain text password.

The whole thing is filled with gems like that. They controlled the virus with a PHP webapp called "news for you!" presumably with a sly winky face emoji appended to the <title> tag.
You may have been misled by the title. This is effective marketing to us, the constituents, not the lawmaker.

There was a big thread yesterday based on a survey that most people don't even know what net-neutrality is. This is a net neutrality billboard that anyone can understand.
You should also try use AARRC.info . It is a full-fledged web service with multiple access techniques to flagship academic papers (Elsevier, IEEE, etc) using a solid browser extension. It is also a free service.
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I agree with most of your comments except the work life balance. I used to work in one of the top 5 Indian IT companies. Working till late night was very common. There were multiple situations where I was worked on 2 projects-the second project after coming home and on weekends.
>Show me examples of corporations mass murdering people, though?

United Fruit Company in Guatemala, Shell Oil in Nigeria, BP in Iran... there are countless examples of corporations paying off people to do their dirty work for them
Absolutely. Neo Nazis have been a fringe group for decades and never caused much trouble. Now I actually feel some affinity to them because I see them as an underdog being beaten down. That's how you get supporters - get oppressed. In fact that's how the original Nazi movement started in the first place - a vent to Germans' frustrations at being oppressed by the winners of WWI.
That's why decisive leadership is so important. It's really hard to work towards a goal while the people in charge keep changing their minds.
For a long time, it seemed it was only Tumblr types who were calling everyone nazi. Recently, even people I've known for 20 years, who I thought were normal, have been posting/tweeting to the effect of either you're loudly proclaiming your opposition to nazism, or you're on their side.
This is one opinion.

I always see people criticizing all sort of tests because they are not good regarding to some criteria. Well, this is true for all of them. Those tests are trying to divide billions of people into few categories, you lose information anyway. There are 8 billions of personalities that should be split into 16 categories, some people will match exactly, other will lies in-between and will not match the characteristics.

I don't know these big-five or hexaco tests, but by the principle they also try to reduce the dimensionality of 8 billions people to n<100 categories, the same as MBTI. They may be better than MBTI, probably, but this does not mean the later may not bring useful information for our discussion.

I made some quick stats one of the HN pool (probably not statistically significant, but still a good indication), INTJ are 2.5% in the real population but 30% of HN, INTP 4% but 28.7% on HN, ENTP 6% but 10% on HN, and ENTJ 5.5% but 7.5% on HN. The four together represent ~80% of HN, but only ~20% of the real population. Those are also the four most represented categories on HN, and curiously belongs to the "Intellectual" class of personalities [1], as you would except to find on HN.

Maybe it's not the best test, maybe it has some problems, but it is still a tool that can give us some bases for thinking and discussions.

[1] https://mypersonality.info/personality-types/population-gend...
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Where are you getting your 2.1 million figure? It was 913,000[0].

Combined with 699,000 votes for Clinton/Kaine from suburban Cook County[1]—whose voters seem to have been unaffected by this breach—you get the 1.6 million number reported by AP for the county[2].

[0] - https://chicagoelections.com/en/wdlevel3.asp?elec_code=4 - must manually select 'President & Vice President, U.S.'

[1] - http://results1116.cookcountyclerk.com/summary.aspx?eid=1108...

[2] - https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/illinois?mcubz=0
So in your estimation, Nazi hate is so powerful that even the example of World War 2 and seventy years of progress in racial equality was not enough to inoculate the vast majority of the people of the United States against it -- but passing a law against saying it in public will?
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Writers on free speech thought social pressure was a more effective censor than the government:

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.
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Did you apply this logic to the bakery who refused to bake the cake for a gay wedding last year?

The issue of freedom of speech when it relates to businesses is a pretty good hypocrisy litmus test. Last year the Left was outraged when a business refused service based on moral grounds, while the Right sided with the business, and we have the opposite in this case.
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Yes, it's stupid. But that's the place we're at in the culture war. Pres. Trump is being crucified right now precisely for failing to provide such a statement.

We all have to be careful to pay our tributes, or we'll be ostracized. Can you think of any other reason for such widespread repetition of these useless words?

(And of course I must, too. I'm speaking here from a completely abstract standpoint which shouldn't be construed as support for neo-nazis or anything vaguely like them.)
You can explain how to use a man page (man make RET /\$+ RET).
Exactly, so do we expect that Google / Spotify will remove Chief Keef's "Bang Bang"? Lyrics for example: https://genius.com/Chief-keef-bang-bang-lyrics -- If we don't remove that for "music that incites violence" then its a scary double standard we are building and we are now at the whim of the "PC Thought Police"
I couldn't agree with you more about the Cartoon Wars episode; either it is all fair game or none of it is. I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
It's still not clear to me how u2f prevents phishing. If I was being proxied through a site with a valid tls cert, they still gain my password and a session key.
So Clojure is slow to start and Scala is slow to compile. Is Scala also slow to start? As compared to a Java program to performs the equivalent functions.
But it worth the money for Google to alienate media companies and potentially lose revenue from licensed content to give non-paying[0] users a slightly more convenient way to do something they could already do?

[0] As mentioned elsewhere, Youtube Red subscribers get the option to download content for 30 days.
I agree with that.

By the same token they would need to remove all the content that promotes communism in multiple countries.

In my country it's illegal as is the case with nazism.

I don't hold much hope Google, Spotify etc. would actually walk that road.
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Looking at the examples, not sufficiently different from C to be interesting, imo. Also, go?

Edit; Adding a bit more; when I think of a C like language I'd like to have, I'd like exceptions (naive impl with setjmp longjmp for example), and Java like "everything's a pointer, all allocation on the heap". And reference counting gc. I don't think anyone else would like this :)
> He made a mistake, paid his fine and that should have been that.

Exactly. It's not like I even made a choice to drive with a suspended license. This was nearly 20 years ago now, and it happened in a tiny no-red-light town with no computer system. The ticket was for 61 in a 55 on a downhill grade. The dead-tree paperwork that confirmed that I had paid got lost, they had the wrong address on file, and I never found out my license was suspended. Cut to 2 years later and a different blink-and-you-miss it town that happens to be on a border bottleneck is running their weekly roadblock while I happen to pass through, and next thing I know it's "Step out of the car and put your hands behind your back."
> I would like to have one authentication provider for all my online accounts that I control and trust.

Ftfy
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When I, attempted, to read this paper I felt as though I was Remy's brother in Ratatouille where Remy is trying to show him the power of taste variance but something internally doesn't compute. It's as if sight is a clear understanding and I'm looking at the subject of the paper through frosted glass.

It saddens me that my mind can't quite grasp it.
You have no recourse! Technology and corporate consolidation have made free expression a dangerous game in the 21st century. It's another example of how technology is completely value neutral and can have extremely unintended consequences. Ask a librarian about all this digital crap sometime--it's a nightmare and it's just gotten started!
I was thinking exactly the same thing!!
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We're in the midst of a political witch hunt. I saw a sticker on a stop sign in Seattle that had a nazi symbol in the "O" of "GOP".
Set more non-cheatable time constraints.
bit old school, but in that direction. yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKvsLLfRpLs
Gratitude for what? Training?

1. The training is useful only if you are allocated to the project in the same domain.

2. You are trained in some relevant tech so that you can look for jobs else where.

Both of this is not the case. Mostly everyone is trained in mysql, language(Java, C# etc) or maybe mainframe systems. What extra are you getting over a self taught programmer. (You would get very less in real because the later has some experience working with some project where as you have none). You are then allocated to some support project where you don't get a chance to write a single line of code.
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The problem is really that a very few private companies have become core infrastructure providers on the Internet, effectively acting as the government of the net, however they face little to no regulation or accountability - Google, for example, is too firmly entrenched for consumers to realistically move to an alternative.

So the question is, at what threshold (of size, competitors, etc) should free speech move from the corporation's policy to decide to the customers'? At one end of the spectrum, we've got corner stores, where there are a million options, and policy is decided by whoever's working at the time; on the reverse side, there are governments, who must inherently be monopolies, with policy decided by the voters. Google, cloudflare, godaddy, all fall somewhere in between, with the concern being that they fall too close to government in terms of power, while decisions remain made by internal managers, without user accountability.
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In case anyone is unfamiliar, a major thing to understand about The Satanic Verses is that it isn't even some kind of anti-Islam screed, just a historical fantasy novel that uses the history and lore of Islam as a framing device, much like several of Dan Brown's novels do with Christianity (though Rushdie is apparently a much better writer).

Anyway, we've had this sort of thing in America, but we've probably largely forgotten the history (Lady Chatterly's Lover, Fanny Hill, and so on) and haven't really paid attention to the small-scale occurrences that are still ongoing (e.g. public school libraries are often pressured to remove "controversial" books).
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Private individual getting paid is not so private anymore. Especially once "protected classes" are brought in. Either go all in and allow anybody to refuse service to anybody or make everybody serve everybody. I don't see middle ground in there. It'd always result in he-said, she-said.

Point in case - people bringing up the gay cake in mentioning of google memogate.

Is a bus company right to refuse service to protesters going to a protest? Can a train company cancel trains specifically on a day of event they don't like for some reason? Can cellphone carrier shut down service for people they don't like for some reason? Can gas station refuse selling gas to skinheads on a roadtrip? What if they're just going to work on a regular workday?
Not everyone gets training. I spent a good amount for education and training with a 3rd party company after my bachelors. The company (1 of top 5 among Indian IT cos back then) came for recruitment and talked about hifi projects in their presentation. Then they put me in language testing. I have to check an excel sheet and make sure that the text is displayed correctly in some 30 languages.
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"insane amounts of money" is an overkill.

I have worked for a year in IBM. We had a two weeks training course on Lotus Notes, sub-contracted out to a training institute. In a dingy place, in an inner part of the city.

Even in companies like Infosys, most training is done in-house. So we are not talking about insane amounts of money. Additionally, if you need to really spend insane amounts of money to train freshers, then either you are hiring wrong, or you are dumping complex work on them. Either way, it's the problem of the company.

> students who come out of college without exposure to real work.

Of course, students out of college will not have any exposure to real work. There is no real internship system in India.

Also, training fresh students, just out of college is a process followed by literally every company on earth, which is hiring freshers.

> Yeah they pay peanuts and yes you would be just a face in the crowd. But they likely give you the biggest break of your life.

They are able to do this because, there is a huge supply of educated engineers, and an acute shortage of jobs. Companies like Infosys mostly outsource mundane work, to hastily trained engineers (to join Infosys, it doesn't matter what your major is, Electrical, Civil, Mechanical, Aero, anything will do.), essentially using them as mules. Fortunately, unlike the coal workers of previous generations, the domain of work allows for natural skill development. So yes, a break in life, but not the biggest.

> People need to show some gratitude.

They do. There is a lot of gratitude. But also simmering anger at the failure of stalwarts like Infosys for failing to develop business to move up the value chain.
Me either but that's almost certainly because it isn't an actual grammatical error but a personal language peeve that has no basis in reality.
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Unfortunately that's true. And the people who actually work better from home suffer from that. Sometimes I work several days from home and I really get into a flow and reach a depth of work that I can never achieve in a loud open office.

My direct manager is OK with that but the guy one level up always makes comments about people not in the office so I guess for promotions and raises it's better to be in the office.
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Banning non-competes, getting rid of laws banning municipal Internet, laying tons of fiber down, etc. Ohio has a bunch of good universities and thriving medical and biotech fields. There is no reason it doesn't have a bigger tech scene.

There is also no reason that Ohio doesn't have the best Internet in the country (or any other state). It's there for the taking for any governments that don't want to bow down to cable donations. Governments looking to woo startups (or get more home grown ones), would be wise to provide blazing fast and cheap Internet.

Cleveland, for instance, has Case Western Reserve University and is close to Ohio State, Pitt, Carnegie Melon, Notre Dame and more. Surely, there is a way to form partnerships and programs to harness that knowledge and talent.
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I am also white, and I also grew up poor. I agree that many (though far from all) of the college students who talk about socioeconomic inequality are spoiled brats.

However, you have misunderstood what "white privilege" means: it's not that your life has been easy, it's that the same situations would have been even harder if you had not been white.
Different tumor types have different tumor DNA shedding rates -- this has impacts on test sensitivity. A false negative is not great when dealing with a cancer diagnostic. Additionally, and more challenging, is the variant classification problem. Not all mutations are created equally. Some are pathogenic, some of benign, and some have unknown significance. If you simply report the genetic alteration, and I believe this is the approach taken by Guardant, the onus is on the oncology care team to determine whether the alteration is clinically relevant and actionable. Companies like Myriad and Foundation Medicine provide guidance on alterations which makes this less of a problem. The alternative is for a caregiver to do homework on the alteration and determine whether it is meaningful (through a literature search or ClinVar database query).

Variant classification alone is an incredibly challenging problem. Oncologists are not geneticists, and most hospitals do not have in-house geneticists. Additionally, there is potential liability involved with mischaracterizing genetic alterations.
I wonder if they'll ban the Star-Spangled Banner?

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/bs-ed-anthem-letter...
I present the Streisand effect:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

That prolonged suppression only works specific environments where control is total.

The USA is not that, and censorship attempts often provide further platform for the information.
On a decently fast computer, you're right. On a low-end cell phone, 20MB of libraries will take a noticeable amount of time to parse.
It takes me all of 10 seconds to type duckduckgo.com, and maybe 30 to switch default search engines for the browser.

I don't think I could switch an ISP in 10 days, let alone seconds.
Our communications must be decentralized as much as possible, if we want to avoid the dominance of any kind of thought police. Maybe it's the best time to start rolling out wireless peer-to-peer networks everywhere and to switch to software that doesn't rely on Google or Facebook datacenters.