skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Can the VC be implicated for financing distribution of controlled substances ? There could be enough grounds for Banks to terminating their relationship with Bailey Capital et al.

Yes, and yes.

>Why would a venture capital firm expose themselves to this, when its not even legal in half of the country?

Because selling weed is basically printing money
How the female Viking warrior was written out of history
I like your word choice: "help". Not just not hurt; it will help. Different things should look different.
I'm sure I'll get downvoted as well, but I do not get it either. What thing of merit or heroics did Bradley Manning do, other than gain publicity by becoming Chelsea Manning, complaining about being deployed to Iraq, and leaking classified military documents? How is any of that heroic?

I don't think Manning is a hero or the devil either. I just think he's a guy that did some stuff and made a bad choice for his own personal reasons. Don't we all do that, to one degree or another, with unfortunate frequency?
Certain study programs at Harvard such as 'Global Governance' seem to be primarily designed to raise corrupt politicians and give future mass murderers the rhetorical means to justify their actions, so that's maybe not such a big loss for Manning.
My company is switching to a combination of little to no js, vue.js, and jquery.

The big fear of c-level guys is to avoid another react legal situation.
We've already had to dump angular, and after react, I now get enormous pushback on using any framework system that wasn't created internally.
For those not aware, this is a bare-metal system for the k-language which is what you use with the kdb+ database system. It allows the user to program in an array based language (ASCI APL descendent) so they can write very terse and fairly fast programs with a GUI and when kOS comes out it wont need a traditional OS. The fintech industry pays kdb+ developers quite well. The entire language is probably only a few pages of C too as Arthur Whitney is a genius and his last language was like that. The only issue i have is it is really expensive and closed source.
That wouldn’t be a good idea but you could adapt your parser to support that case. You can write `/* /* */` in C, for instance.

To clarify: we’d still need escaping but in fewer cases.
The viability of co-op depends on what content creators want from a patronage/crowdfunding platform:

scenario 1: If artists just want a straight monetary passthrough, then artists-owned entity like ASCAP (collects music royalties) may be workable. ASCAP is "boring", but it does what it needs to do.

scenario 2: However, if artists want a payment platform that evolves towards a combination of Facebook+Medium+Ticketmaster+Slack+Youtube+cdn+etc, a co-op model will be underfunded. (In this scenario, you'd have to imagine that there would be future features that artists don't even know they want.)

In the marketplace of ideas, it's possible for both business models to be offered. E.g. artists sign up for co-op platform because it's 2% fee instead of VC-backed Patreon for 5% fee. However, it's possible for artists en-masse to abandon the co-op business for the VC-funded business because its enriched platform gives them ability to earn more which overshadows the higher 5% fee.
Here’s a real-life, slimy example of Uber’s regulator-evading software
Wow, we had to do the same thing recently. Rather than replace all the model queries across a complex codebase, we created a rethink-(rdbms=knexjs in node) adapter layer which gave us a nice 80/20 solution.

https://github.com/MoveOnOrg/rethink-knex-adapter
"Harvard also announced this week that it had invited former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski to be visiting fellows."

It is really just a business, isn't it? To a European it is so odd to see universities being... capitalistic.

Tacky is the word that comes into mind.
Several small devices with low-powered microwave-beams might be able to do interesting things at beam-intersection points:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Do you already have a product?
But income can be also used to help finance their main mission. Obviously they seem to operate fine without strong reasons to expand revenue streams, but I feel like they ignore an opportunity to create improvements for just about everyone.
You escape it. What I was saying was nested strings wouldn’t need escaping.
Sorry, you are right - statements like the one mentioned by rdtsc are fair game.
As a move, I think that this was extremely daft of Harvard. The name Harvard implies so much -- so the idea that it's able to bow to public pressure does a lot of harm to that reputation. You could always argue that they made the wrong decision, but I think standing by what they said as an institution would carry more weight than backing down. That is, recognizing Chelsea is a cross to die on. Backing down shows an abundance of malleability.

Maybe they're unaware of how much respect the Harvard name has? Hopefully this teaches them something.
> I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

Smedley Butler, United States Marine Corps major general
Disappointing, I guess the threats of monopoly busting them have gotten too real.
What exactly will be solved in healthcare with secure document timestamping?
What about GIFs?
I think it's great that top researchers are actually learning from Kuhn's observations. I have hope that humanity can indeed learn from its earlier historical mistakes, but it requires us to be very aware of them in order to collectively avoid them.
You mean the "truth" about Seth Rich that Assange's organization has been spreading.
Yes Firefox seems to be making big strides, and I find myself using it more often these days. It's a ripe environment for them right now too, with many more of the general public growing wary of Google (kind of the new Microsoft, in Mozilla/Netscape terms). If I didn't have to test stuff in Chrome, I'd probably be ready (as of FF55) to uninstall it altogether. Even the Firefox dev tools are better than Chrome in my opinion.
I agree with your general sentiment, but it's still dangerous for governments to unilaterally decide that certain people won't have a voice. Who decides who the "terrorists" are? It's easy to agree when you're talking about ISIS recruiting kids in the US and convincing them to shoot up schools. It's harder to agree when you're talking about people who chain themselves to Redwoods so they won't be logged (aka ecoterrorists).
Yes, actually, it does.

The green PCB looks more like a 2.4GHz antenna to my eye. The epidermal patch is much longer so looks like 900MHz to me. And there is also 27MHz for ISM. The lower the frequency, the further it tends to go.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISM_band
See the point is you don't have the right to impose your preferences on somebody else(here, rural Indians). Concretely, a rural Indian might be okay with privacy violations as long as they believe this benefit outweighs that. They if given a chance might enter into voluntary transaction with FreeBasics, you should not get to stop voluntary interactions.

Why do you get a say on what their preferences are?
Trend Shift Analysis
It's my personal belief that WikiLeaks is, perhaps has been for some time, a tool of a foreign state actor to threaten political candidates and push conspiracy theories (see: Seth Rich, Pizzagate.) That crosses a line for me, and the amount of "moral good" they do is significantly diminished when, instead of working with leaks that help align politician's actions with their speeches, seek to undermine democratic norms by dealing in crass and unfounded conspiracies.
>gain publicity by becoming Chelsea Manning

I largely agree with you, but it's not fair to suggest that the gender change was a publicity stunt.
"Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of having a computer in your own home."

- Ed Yourdon, Techniques of Program Structure and Design, 1975

Yourdon had been at DEC, but left the company prior to 1970.
Manning leaked out private diplomacy between the US and other countries, damaging the standing of the United States and contributing to the destabilization of those regimes. Manning's leaks are widely thought to have contributed to, or even triggered, the Arab Spring which has not only been a disaster for American interests, but a disaster for almost everyone in the Middle East except the jihadists.
REmber though that a retail investor can buy this stock, and pay 25% to get in on a unicorn IPO.

To get in only paying 7% (i.e. at the IPO), you have to already be a wealthy investor so you can get some of the IPO stock.

The 18% difference is your fee for deal access basically.

I'm not saying it's right, but it explains why it makes sense.
A few years ago I remember hearing all about the IPv4 crisis and how we were going to run out of addresses very soon. How did we misjudge this so badly? It seems like it should be some pretty simple mathematics to figure out when exhaustion would occur?
The first 2 links I clicked on were either 3 years old or went to the wrong site. Cool concept though. Just wish it was updated.
Is it wrong to have female characters in games which are e.g. damsels in distress, vapid, submissive, or simply eye candy in the same way that the game "Ethnic Cleansing" by Resistance Records is wrong?

Frankly most game characters - male or female - seem to fall into blatant gendered stereotypes. I think "sexism" is assumed to only be in regards to stereotypes about women though.
Not an any order:

- try putting your self in the shoes of your potential customer(what are they trying to accomplish?)

- start with training, consulting, coaching your potential customers.

- Promote a freebie. try making it viral and/or habitual

- hang out where your customers are.
Type systems can do some pretty miraculous things. For example, you could distinguish between a connected and disconnected socket with types so that you don't accidentally send on a disconnected socket.

I guess I'm arguing both sides now. My point is that one needs to root out the weird cases somehow and that it's often hard to have "100%" validation of inputs. One's initial understanding of what is the valid and invalid state space is often incorrect.
I wouldn't claim to know the truth about that situation unless you're involved in the investigation.
Looks like this is taken into account by the MEI doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_278v_plodvgtXSgnEJ0yjZJ...

as well as "The user tapped or clicked somewhere on the site during the browsing session" (from https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/audio-video/auto...) which should make it a non-issue for SPAs focused on video playback.
The Internet of Shitty Things is always a problem, and you know people will be disabling encryption to save 10% energy.
Facebook Bars Advertisers from Altering News Headlines
Don't blame open-source software for poor security practices
I disagree that Wikileaks was acting consistently with its core value of radical transparency for governments.

They heavily edited the "Collateral Murder" video to make it appear to be murder in the first degree. The entirety of the video shows it to be negligent homocide.

Wikileaks is well-known for omitting information about countries with which it is ideologically aligned. Though this is normal and logical, Wikileaks is being disingenuous when it describes its ideals as such.

Additionally, Assange groomed Chelsea to give up the information. It wasn't just a case of simple whistleblowing. It was more consistent with an intelligence operation with Chelsea as an asset. Again, there isn't anything inherently wrong with that, it is just inconsistent with the narrative of Wikileaks just being a repository for voluntary leaks.
>Annoying people have always been annoying.

But it increases engagement!!!

I'm happy to see these changes coming.
That's what makes it strange. Michael Morell, former deputy director of the CIA, resigned loudly from a completely different part of Harvard in protest to the invitation they extended to her. https://twitter.com/Mosheh/status/908367178067574784 There's a lot of "morally grey" people around Harvard, so why such a strong reaction to her?
Yeah, I was cringing the moment I saw it. No rake on the fork? All that extra frame weight, only to introduce joints that maximize /lateral/ flex? Imagine the stress that top tube joint must be under in even normal riding conditions. This is a bike designed by a graphic designer who intends to decorate a wall with it.
You can create a competing product and you can sue Facebook for anything other than patent infringement and the patents grant will not be terminated.
New York Wants New Amazon HQ, Says City Beats the Suburbs
This is surprising.
There is a lot of chatter on both american political sides for regulation on amazon, google, facebook, and apple.
I guess this is going to be their big oil moment.
My objection is to your statement that it's absurd.

I agree that it's an exaggeration, and even that it's wrong, but it's not absurd.

The further back in time you go, the more the framework changes. How did those nations become relatively wealthy in the first place?

How much was due to serfdom? Combined, of course, with the new political philosophy which centralized absolute power for the sovereign.

(As https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplementary_Convention_on_th... helpfully points out, the United Nations 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery also prohibits serfdom.)

But by doing that, the problem is that most areas in Europe had serfs. I think in Europe only some of the Nordic countries did not. (On the original topic, Sweden's era as a great power was funded by its copper export, and not from slaves or serfs.) And many cultures had slaves or participated in the slave trade, including those that weren't great powers, so slavery, serfdom, and other forms of forced labor are not really diagnostic.

Do you have an idea of how much of the those nations' wealth derives from slavery? I don't think it's an easy thing to answer. It's clearly not "zero".
I believe we can reduce the amount of waste work by doing deliberate practice.

This means really analysing what you did and how it could be better.

Also doing a small amount of work each day is much better than a large amount once a week.

Take a large task and break it down into tiny manageable chunks that you can analyse.

There's tons of material out there that has best practices for mastering anything.
Businesses choose in their own self interest.

If it takes me 40+ minutes longer to ride a subway than drive in (currently true) then it's both me and my employer's interest to reduce cost barriers and pay for the downtown parking.

Tragedy of the commons with a touch of government inertia
Automobiles are quite possibly one of the most harmful things in societies. Obesity, heart disease, diabetes, pollution, sprawl, time wasted going from A to B.

My life improved dramatically when I decided to reject the automobile as a way of life.

EDIT: I am of course referring to personal automobiles.
Since venture subsidizes losses till critical mass is achieved, perhaps it is more likely that a VC-funded platform will initially be much less expensive compared to a revenue financed cooperative.
It's time-based. For example, if a request takes 1 second to process then the user will be charged 1000 * (millisecond price)
Tesla plans to unveil its all-electric semi truck on October 26th – The Verge
For first time in 300 years, no one is living on Barbuda
This is the key point and deserves more attention. Mission control was not concerned with space junk impacting the moons. They were concerned with biological contamination altering potential evolutionary trajectories on any of the moons. Saturn's atmosphere was deemed to be sufficient to cause the requisite friction and head to cleanse Cassini from any such potential contaminants.
Why do they need so much money?
My guess is that this is true of a lot of finance and law jobs as well. Actually, I once talked to a dermatologist who said he wished he got to use his mind more often (he said this on hearing that I was a programmer! I guess he thought it was a lot of deep thinking and logic or something? Seriously made me realize that my impressions of other fields is probably just as flawed).

Of course, there are jobs in all these fields that are fascinating, and people with boring jobs often have had a project here and there that was interesting, so that's what you hear about and how your impressions are formed when you aren't part of another field. After all, people at parties don't like to talk about how boring they are.
Do you mean the theory of scientific revolution ?
Slight off-topic/meta:

"...In a statement released late Thursday, Elmendorf said the school did not intend to honor Manning in any way or to endorse any of her words or deeds..."

What is the purpose of having visiting fellows? As a reader, if I knew that, I might have some initial ability to start forming opinions about this story. Is it an honor? A job? Both? Neither?

ADD: But I guess I'll never know due to the flag-kill brigade.
US election agency seeks views on rule change for digital ad platforms
To me, it sounds like a new kind of weapon somebody is testing. We better quickly get to the bottom of it before they scale it.
> 3. No devices. My daughter started getting hooked on to Ipad and one day, we went cold turkey and put it away. She only gets to watch TV now. No more eyes stuck in an Ipad.

Why exactly is TV (passive) better than an iPad (interactive)?
Right now nearly all new social networks (esp the one which promise free speech) will see an influx from alt right and conservative refugees.

Dtube (distributed Youtube) is see it for yourself. People are complaining about alt-right and conservative refugees being the early adopters of any distributed/decentralized/free speech platform:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dtube/comments/6zlza1/please_dont_m...
For what it's worth, I think games which portray men as unemotional automatons who are only capable of the grunt work, or portray men as mostly machismo-fueled bro types who constantly degrade women, also reflect sexist attitudes. Sexism stifles and limits men and encourages men to be toxic--as a result it harms men, and these portrayals are a part of that.
We use the tax code to subsidize lots of stupid stuff and shouldn't do any of it if you want a fair, progressive tax system. Especially when running enormous deficits.

Free parking should be reported as income, as should mass transit discounts/subsidies, such as healthcare subsidies, etc.
Where can one find access to these 1M investment loans?
Why do you think the gap itself is a problem as an outcome?
Do these separate history as well?
Who would blame anyone but Equifax?
- raise your family in a safe environment

That would be a refreshing change from the crime-ridden dystopia of Redmond, WA. /s

- not seeing crazy / homeless people in the streets
- being able to buy a house

Let me guess, you live in eastern Canada and have never travelled to Vancouver.

Look, you don't get to cherry-pick one small area of the U. S., an area that pretty much all agree has it's own unique problems, and then compare to all of Canada. Canada has its problems, too, as I point out above. In fact, were one to compare the Bay Area with Vancouver, I'm taking the Bay Area. Better pay, cheaper housing, and no more or less observed homeless than Vancouver. "Yeah, but what about $RANDOM_MANITOBA_TOWN?" Yeah, and what about Indianapolis, IN? At least in Indianapolis, if I lose my job I can go find one tomorrow at another insurance company. It won't be glamorous, but it'll pay the mortgage. Outside of Vancouver or the Toronto area, what am I going to do if I lose my job in Kelowna?

Canada is a lovely country, and I have made a concerted effort to take the steps to immigrate. But in the end, I'm still in the U. S. where I will probably remain. Canada can hand-wave all they want, as you have, but that doesn't fix the problem. Quality of life (which is arguable to begin with) takes a back seat when the mortgage needs to be paid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visiting_scholar

> The purpose of a visiting scholars programs is generally to bring to the university or educational institution in question an exceptional senior scholar who can contribute to and enrich the community's intellectual and research endeavors and international projection.
The church's objections to homosexuality are an opinion that they have the right to have-- the state's criminalization of it, however, is the violation of rights which is a crime.

Homophobia is just stupid, government action is the real crime.
How Bitcoin Mining Could Solve One of the Issues with Space-Based Solar Power
Conviction level for which?

For the state of the industry comment: quite high. Developers think too highly of themselves, their ability to reason (in general), and assume unjustifiably that this industry is somehow more merit-based and rational than others.

For the particular arbitrage you describe: next to none. I know enough JavaScript and enough webdevs to know I don't care to know any more. I'll stick with data engineering, computational research, and systems programming, thanks very much.
Also interesting that he spent his birthday at the Russian consulate in Hong Kong.

Not to say that Snowden planned to "defect" to Russia. But we're seeing how skillfully the FSB played the Trump campaign. Let's consider the possibility that they played Snowden and Greenwald as well.
Since they've invented the automobile life expectancies and living standards have increased enormously worldwide, that is a real correlation.
Facebook’s Anti-Semitic Ad-Targeting Disaster
Because she rattled the existing power system at a fundamental level.

A lot of established institutions and companies talk a big game, but they aren't serious about effecting real social change. They do little things at the margins, then go on PR campaigns about how they changed the world.

I find it kind of bizarre whoever made the decision to award the Fellow title didn't anticipate immediate, massive backlash. Or maybe they did and now Harvard's internal decision-making process about this will change.
There is the cstore foreign data wrapper, https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw, but it is still an extension. Hopefully it will go into mainline at some point.
I think the point was that Patreon has a lot of competing services in the same space, just like Kickstarter has in it's. Note that I have no idea if that's true, but that's my interpretation.
Everybody used the band-aid known as NAT and broke everything in the universe in order to not deploy IPv6 for a couple of years.

Now, we're adopting IPv6 in earnest, but everybody is whining that they want to hang onto NAT.

So, before IPv6 got deployed, everybody shot themselves in the left foot by deploying NAT. And, now that IPv6 is deployed, they continue shooting themselves in the right foot by hanging onto NAT.