skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>From a socialist's pov putting a profitable industry in the domain of _everyone_ and sharing the profits is freeing capital from the few and providing an (more)equal share to all. It's not capitalism but that does not mean it isn't "freedom".

I don't believe all ideologies and their definitions need to be given equal respect. Socialists shouldn't get to just redefine "freedom" to mean a government monopoly running major industries, by outlawing private citizens from owning productive enterprises in those industries, and have everyone else accept their definitions as equally valid as a classical liberal's.

Think about it practically for a moment: what is the government going to do when private citizens in another country fire up thousands of servers and begin providing web services to the people within the government's jurisdiction? Put up a firewall? Start raiding anyone running a relay node that bypasses the firewall? How is that congruent with any reasonable definition of freedom?

We can pretend that we're frameless and judging all perspectives as equally valid, but in actuality that will never happen, as it would make any sort of meaningful communication impossible. Someone could argue war is peace, slavery is freedom, etc, and there would be no way to reject their statements as unequivocally wrong. We would be uttering words to each other that mean completely different things to different people, because we would no longer follow the basic convention of language, which is that the widely observed and long established definition trumps the unorthodox one.
Money always gets spent. It is in its nature.
Maybe nationalization is a bad way to go about it, but these companies are too large, they have too much power over society and society needs to exert power back onto them. So there should be some kind of external oversight when decisions that affect millions of people are being made.

I think governments are inefficient and corrupt, but companies are absolutely free to do as they please when deciding how to change products that affect society. Also, there is much more spying freedom in the private sector. This is why there should be a mechanism to oversee what happens with our data.
There must be cases where this isn't practical. E.g., if the normal treatment for greyscale is to cut off the arm before it spreads, how could you try any alternative treatment?
He strongly objects to the use of infinity and proofs and mathematics that involve it, which includes real numbers

He is not alone, this is a known branch of mathematics called finitism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finitism
One of the things I love about dired-mode is wdired, which lets you edit the contents of the dired buffer as if it were a file, and then hit C-c C-c to make your changes happen: renamings, deletions, even file permission changes.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Wd...
As Steffoz said below:

"Most WordPress websites are just "brochure websites": they don't expose anything dynamic to their visitors excluding comments, contact forms and search functionality. We already handle these scenarios out-of-the box. Also, every plugin you use that does not have any front-facing components, it's perfectly fine. It's not a hosting solution for every possible WordPress website out there, but it can handle a huge slice of the market, with big benefits for agencies/freelances."

Maintenance problems are those you have when you need to update your installation but you can not because the update break stuff around. I had lots of these :-)
So 'Trust me, I can't say why, but they are okay'.

FTC applies US rules, the EU Commission applies EU law. You can stay clear of one while still violating the other.
Umm, as part of remote company mostly based in EU, most of the payments from US just came via standard bank transfer - even for coworkers in Ukraine. The costs were usually around 30$ - certanly not cheap but not that problematic in grand scheme of things.

Being paid via bank transfer is standard here (for employment it's actually enforced by law), if my employer in US would try to pay me via some strange intermediate or god-forbid BTC, I'd immediately think of a scam or attempt at tax evasion (with all the liability that comes with that).
Very cool, thank you! I'll take a look at this.
Detecting anxiety on Reddit [pdf]
You're right that there are more laws than any one person knows. There are also complex interactions between laws and interpretations of laws such that even diligent legal scholars acting in good faith would struggle to do complex actions without arguably violating some law. I definitely believe the law should be simplified and clarified to improve comprehension.

However, there is a world of difference between unwittingly violating subsection III A.15 of some act you've never heard of, and intentionally bribing a government official. In the latter case you are intentionally suborning the function of government for your own benefit, and corrupting the whole system thereby.

Bribery is inefficient. Systems that operate according to law are safer, cleaner, and more productive. The only argument in favor of bribery is that in the short term, the specific criminals involved, get what they want. That's not a great argument when compared to the harmony and productivity of a society.

Bribery is illegal for a reason. If you can't do business without committing a crime, then you shouldn't do business. If India's culture has rampant bribery, then firms from less bribery-inclined areas should not do business there. Either other countries will come around to India's policy of bribing people, or India, desirous of commerce with the outside world, will come around to the "Bribery is bad" school of thought. In either case, whole societies will be enriched and improved.
Did you check out the article? 16 bits can cover the range very well, more than you (or anyone) could ever distinguish
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> There were also societies with high death rates and low birth rates which for the obvious reason no longer exist.

If you claim to be worried about extinction of the human race, you'll have to consider all societies, not just the ones with pathologically low birth rates. A tiny group of people committing suicide has zero effect on the overall human population.
It may be different when comparing GPU to GPU because of difference in parallelization
My anecdote is that I've done a number of these tests (Foobar has a plugin that allows you to do them on yourself), and I can reliably tell the difference between FLAC and 128 MP3, but can't tell the difference on 256 MP3 and up.
Pop-up political advocacy communities on Reddit.com [pdf]
I'm not sure if it costs money to have a verified business account but frankly, this is what Twitter should have done. Have paid verified business accounts. I'd easily pay $25+/mo and have a bunch of handy business features and maybe be promoted once in a while to a relevant audience. Missed opportunity.
I remember the Xing encoder was blazing lay fast, but sounded worse than LAME. This was around 1999, IRRC.
Sigh. Please see my other reply. It isn't a matter of bit rate (indeed, 16 bits could be more than enough). It is a matter of how engineers serve the targeted markets of each format.
I think for his next study he should do one into the mental health of those who interact with Institutional Review Boards. If nothing else, it would have a nice recursive effect on the authors.
I don't really get the fuss about this one. It's annoying and a vector, true, but keep in mind that even with this fixed, a malicious gem can overwrite arbitrary files. A gem can bring with it a C-extension. This extension is compiled with a makefile created by the gem-provided extconf.rb. AFAIK, the code in the extconf.rb is executed at gem install time, so arbitrary code can be executed at gem install time.

AFAICS this is the relevant line: https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/blob/master/lib/rubygem...

Edit: Or, if you want to get a little more creative, have your gem include a plugin to rubygems itself, similar to what https://github.com/rvm/executable-hooks does.
They care because it becomes a political disaster for America when an American corporation is enabling some kind of bribery scandal.

This could easily lead to american investment abroad being blocked, and generally tarnishing the image of America on the international stage.

A lot of the American world order is based upon the perception that America are "good guys", allowing corruption to run rampant is very counter to that.
> Most WordPress websites are just "brochure websites"

Thats possible for the overall majority of WP users, it just isn't what I've seen it used for.

> Maintenance problems are those you have when you need to update your installation but you can not because the update break stuff around.

How does this service solve that problem? Or do you mean, it allows you to not update immediately to patch a vulnerability, because the site is not the one publicly accessed?
Sure, there is no causation of "higher bitrate necessarily makes for better sound", but the correlation of "higher bitrate format just happens to have better mastering" is often strong enough to make these the go-to formats. There are a large number of classic recordings that are difficult to obtain in the digital era without harsh compression being applied to them, so the 24/192 or SACD release is the most convenient way of hearing them with decent dynamic range.
I am amazed that there is no open source, distributed search engine to rival Google. We let Google get too much data about us. Search engine research has advanced a lot, we can use that.
Are you sure you heard all the stories?
My grandfather had a farm too, in Nazi-Germany- and during the "Produktionbattle" they did some pretty unforgiveable stuff with "novell" chemicals.

They used mercury as seed dressing- and various other atrocities.

Sorry to rain on your nostalgia parade, but if you whacked away on weed in the sun, for weeks and there is no end in sight, those herbicides become a heavenssend.
Firefox 57 lists third-party accessibility tools that may spy on users
When Ello first arrived, I saw it as a very welcome competitor to Twitter/Facebook, and was using it. The questions of "how will Ello make enough money to survive?" came up. I was one of the vocal supporters of a paid account, as I would gladly pay them $5 a month just to help them continue to exist. In the end they took money from VCs, at which point I promptly stopped using them.

I can't speak for anyone else, but their move to take VC money instead of my money is largely what killed their traction for me.
I like a lot the general idea: use the machine to explore the design space.

Here the authors start with a seed program, which exchanges data with a target server; and let the machine explore the core functionality of this server with systematically generated inputs and observed outputs.

The tool finally regenerates new code that wraps the skeleton code with boilerplate code and systematic error checking, leading to a new implementation which is more robust and secure.
I don't think you understand how EU law works. There are multiple interpretations and the courts decide which one is "right.

I recently worked on a project concerning the fee you employer pays you if you have to use your own car for a meeting, and the taxation involved. 8 different cities wanted a digitized solution, the law text involved is around 10 lines of easily understandable text.

Wanna guess how many ways the law was interpreted? 9.

9 because in one city the city council decided to go with their own interpretation rather than what their own legal department advices.
PRAW: The Python Reddit API Wrapper
The scary thing is that you'll find conservatives are going to come on board with this, if you pay attention to ruminations recently. They're very concerned about censorship. I am as well, but I'm too libertarian to want the government to be the solution.
The author complains about there not being enough of an ethics gauntlet with the bipolar test in question, and then complains of having to run an ethics gauntlet to do the study.

The author keeps on bringing up nazis and suggests he knows about study methods, when it's clear he's pretty clueless about doing studies. Several of the "this is stupid" questions really aren't that stupid, given that these are generic forms for any study. Why the fuck do you care if you're being asked if you're removing organs? Just tick 'no' and move on to the next question. Does the author also complain that other genders are selectable on online forms, and not just his own gender - after all, it's equally useless information? The setup to the story is: 'waaah, this application form isn't tailored exclusively to MY study'.

I ran into problems with ethics committees myself when doing an (aborted) PhD that caused significant needless delays. They're annoying as hell, I agree, and there are some genuine complaints in the article, but most of what the author is complaining about makes it clear that he doesn't understand the point of the questions posed.
Ask HN: Implementations of Faceless person recognition
Wondering if there are models or services available that does person recognition where the face is obscured or just not available.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.08438
What if we had tax brackets for corporations, as we do for individuals? Tie them to market share? As market share goes up, so does the tax rate.
TeachAhead Ranked as the Foremost Mobile App Dev Company India by Goodfirms
Facebook in particular should really be governed by its users, whether that's indirectly under the public ownership of a democratic state, or directly through some built-in form of democratic governance. Nobody should have so much power without some form of accountability.
I don't see a good case that Google has market power (which is distinct from market position) in search; the classic indicator of market power is pricing power (the ability to raise prices without losing unit sales to competitors.)

While I can accept that search services are paid with ad views and associated targeting info, not a free gift (if they were the latter, market power would be nonsense because their would be no market), I think it's pretty clear people do switch out from Google over search’s advertising-related “price”, and increasing that price would lose Google more unit “sales”.
The other problem is that these definitions are time independent - they treat the probability of each event as a roll of die, when in fact each previous event impacts the probability of future events, by impacting surface features, moving centres of production, driving further energy expenditure and altering haloclines and other such variables.

It's a positive feedback process.
My take: you do not truly understand modularity until you have had to work with a third party framework where your software is integrated as plugin. Working with Eclipse / PDE / CDT has taught me more about modularity (good and bad) in 2 years than a decade of green field development (plus, I can now write a usable Eclipse plugin faster that I can write the equivalent Vim function ...). I also recommend "Practical API Design" (which contains both large scale advise and tiny but important details regarding source compatibility vs binary compatibility with aspects that have been unknown to me after several years of developing Java) and "Java Application Architecture" (which contains decoupling strategies, but you only learn to appreciate those after you have encountered the generic problem pattern).
There is actually some corruption in France (domestically). If you work in the building business and want some juicy contract with the City, building gratis a new pool for the mayor's house will definitely help.
I got "The page you were looking for does not exist" when trying to confirm my subscription.
AWS Cloud Management and Optimization Best Practices
FB, Google, Amazon should be split on many levels. The companies, the datacenters, the data. Especially the user data. The new system should federated, like email and SMS, with account and user data portability.

There should be public access to the unique datasets these companies collected from user interactions - all done in a privacy conscious way, for the betterment of sciences and society.

We can't let this valuable, unique data (that only exists in the largest companies of their field) benefit only those companies. It's our data, ultimately.
> This is an example of the erasure I'm talking about. "Actual oppression" is what you as a white man are willing to accept as oppression. Everything else is fake. Who gets to decide? Not the people experiencing it. Not the experts in it. You, a random white guy with no particular expertise. And conveniently, the dividing line between "real" and "fake" is the one that lets you off the hook. What a surprise!

Oh gosh, you are so abrasive!

First, I think she said she was a black woman, so clearly you haven't been a good faith participant with cracks like that.

Second, your use of the word oppression is too loose. You can't slap that word on practically every interaction between humans and not have it lose meaning!
Flashback time, anybody remember when AIG insured multiple claims on the same pieces of property which were overvalued and unable to be paid for by an individual plebe's income, and got Congress to use everyone else's money to pay for this business practice by having the Treasury/Fed buy shares of AIG?

And then AIG used the surplus floated capital to give bonuses to the executives and traders, because that quarter happened to be awesome, numerically.

And then AIG was part of a lawsuit that sued the Treasury/Fed under the expropriation clause of the 5th Amendment because the value of the shares was not deemed correct?

Well. ultimately the Fed made like an 80 billion profit, 1/12th of what they make from annual tax collection, so if they keep that up maybe they won't even levy income taxes to fund the Federal Government's general operations anymore.

With that logic, nationalize all the things because I can't stand paying for the general operation of this plunder.

Partial sarcasm.
You have failed to read and/or grok my post :(

The "number of hurricanes" is irrelevant. Arguably it is misleading: many small hurricanes is much more human friendly than a few monster hurricanes. Climate predictions are solid on more intense hurricanes that last longer, have more rainfall in the short term, and additionally increase with (mild) frequency in the decades to come.

At the same time, hurricanes are a specific weather incident with no reflection on the broader climate (monsoons, tropical storms, cyclones, Pacific/atlantic differences, el ninos, etc etc).

At the same same time changing the goalposts of the conversation from number of "once in 500 years" to "how many hurricanes" is in-congruent. As I pointed out: rare events do not directly correlate to extreme events.

TBH: climate trolls and sceptics on the net really need to up their game. This stuff was played out in the 90s. Any information anyone is honestly missing on this topic is readily available in google, so at this point one has to assume that ignorance is willful.
Ranger includes the fantastic `:bulkrename` which allows you to safely edit the marked files with _your editor of choice_.
According to [1] 75% of Facebook Users are located outside the US. And According to [2] India has more Facebook Users than the US. The statistics differ somehow, though they both should be current, but the point remains: Facebook is very much a global company. I am sure that you can find similar statistics for Google or Amazon.

[1] https://brandongaille.com/facebook-user-statistics-by-countr...
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/268136/top-15-countries-...
What is the best answer to "We won't go with you because you are too small?"
A bit of a sidetrack, but has anybody bought their laptops? How are they? Particularly the trackpad.
"They have almost nowhere to go but up" has been being said by people for many years now when it comes to interest rates. It's a leading statement that somehow implies that rates are destined to go up because they are so low.

This isn't true. They have a few places they could go. They could go up. They could go down (ZIRP is a thing.) Or they could do what they've been stubbornly doing for a long time now, wobble around basically within the same range.
> it allows you to not update immediately to patch a vulnerability, because the site is not the one publicly accessed?

Exactly. You can never update a vulnerable plugin if you don't want to.
Country/State?
Just because it's an IP address in one of the private LAN ranges does not imply that the connection isn't being MitM'd, and it definitely doesn't imply that you're talking to who you think you're talking to. (How do I know I have the right 192.168.1.42? Am I on the "right" WiFi?)

The actual thing that TLS certificates set out to verify — that you're talking to who you think you're talking to — is simply not possible against a private LAN IP address.

(As an aside, I feel like it's entirely possible, technologically, to give IoT stuff unique DNS names, and thus, actual HTTPS. The problem is social, boiling down to the quality of the software we use. Consider: a machine, say an IoT device uses IPv6 (this is needed to get around NAT, since NAT won't work with the next bit). It can determine its hostname via a reverse DNS lookup on its IP address, and then, with ACME, get a certificate for that hostname. Now, it's not a pretty hostname, but nothing prevents ISPs from issuing better hostnames except a lack of imagination. E.g., I could be deathanatos.giant-isps-customers.com, my machines, machine1.deathanatos.giant-isps-customers.com, etc. Heck, the ISP could essentially delegate me that DNS space, or even allow me to set the reverse IP address record to point to my own DNS name that I pay for. I'm not 100% certain if it's entirely foolproof, but you could also envision a protocol for devices to allocate a subdomain under the customer's domain. But again, this will all never happen.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy
Nationalizing doesn't mean the decisions won't be for the benefit of a single person, a single person can manipulate them regardless, and the people will support it.
"für x in z" should be perfectly comprehensible für Programmierer in Deutschland.
Have a look at the video. Having immutable values doesn't mean you have immutable variables / names.
I think we should start small, from, say, nationalizing the authors' personal possessions and primary residence.
Funny anecdote, I first became aware of this while watching Aliens. When the aliens cut the power and the set is bathed in the red of the emergency backup lights, the resolution of the video appears much worse.
The whole point is that these companies are inherently resistant to competition. Nationalization doesn't require limiting access to any other service or restricting competition in any way.
Using data binding in iOS
Ruby email validation gem: https://github.com/SixArm/sixarm_ruby_email_address_validati...

Feedback welcome. I'm the contact person for the gem.
Stick some of his stuff in my pipe.
Right. Doesn't this just make your "admin" site the target then?
Watch how you can use Apple ARKit in Food ordering
Journalism never really was detached: A case for data and analytics in newsrooms
"Fixed quote agile is best agile."
أزالة الجلبريك وتحديث الأيفون ألى iOS 11
That happened back in 2015, right? I seem to recall a movie that made that claim ;)
Any insights on what's better than Gigster? Asking for meself.
The 192 is really for low latency not for anything you can actually hear. You can't hear the difference past 48khz. An audio interface that can do 192 gets you down to 5ms latency where you can finger drum without being thrown off. But it has nothing to do with audio quality. Like if you use guitar rig you will have the lowest possible latency for realtime computer generated guitar effects at 192.