skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is nothing special about speech here. In general I have a legal right to go the the park and wave my arms about. But punching people doesn't fall under that right, and wouldn't even if "the right to wave your arms about" were explicitly in the constitution.

The thing that makes people so keen to find limitations on free speech in particular is that they are often keen to supress what someone else is saying and are casting about for an excuse that they can stretch in their favour.
Yes agreed. I'd also argue that black millennials (and younger) aren't just drivers of culture, they're also tech early adopters! Vine is a great example, Worldstar is a somewhat notorious example, BlackPlanet... those are just off the top of my head.
>if you write code that can't be understood by a junior developer

Only true for simple apps (i.e., CRUD, etc.)
I second this. To your question, I believe it's because the notion is multifaceted, and there are many reasonable answers. The most common being that we need nuclear weapons for deterrence (defensive) reasons, same as the reason for having a war machine or military alliances at all. A reason less touted is that we need it for offensive reasons, but then again, the best defense is offence so the two are difficult to clearly distinguish. Another reasonable argument against a ban regards enforcement: how to you enforce something from a position of weakness (having vowed not to use nuclear against a ban-breaker)? I could go on but the point is not that these reasonable objections are insurmountable obstacles, but rather that there are real difficulties that need to be addressed in order to avoid the nuclear havoc that otherwise seems a probable end result some time this century.
Go: Ten years and climbing
Brandenburg vs Ohio[1] overturned Schenck v United States. As it turns out that "falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater" IS protected by first amendment[2], depending upon some more complex criteria called "imminent lawless action"[3] over "Clear and present danger"[4].

Under this, distributing communist fliers is protected by the first amendment. What is not protected is Antifa's call to 'immediately' riot against their perceived enemies. The element of time is important in imminent lawless action test.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_and_present_danger
Right, but isn't that the point that now they can't track you across sessions based on logins and things of that nature. If I use the app on my phone, they can't check my browser history against that and, on the Mac, they can keep my login information but they can't track me across sites. Seems like a win-win for users on both ends.
Good article. When I saw this I thought the UK press in general is really into panicking about the internet. Didn't they prompt the Youtube "Adpocalypse"? Not saying the concerns are irrelevant, but that the call-outs and subsequent remedies have to be well-considered.
It does not take a lot of views for Amazon to link stuff together.

I have a wholesaler dealing in closeouts (end of life products) that sends out emails with new inventory. I noticed once when looking at one item, that 2-3 entirely unrelated items showed up under "Customers who viewed this item also viewed", all that had been previously offered by the same wholesaler.

I don't know how big their email list is, but it's probably in the double to low triple digits. So several dozen people, at best, viewed all of these items, and that was enough for Amazon to pick up and correlate them.

A different time, I was advertising multiple entirely unrelated products with the same associates ID. One of them ended up, similarly, on the other item's page, presumably either due to the same people viewing both ads or them correlating by associate id.
Not sure about SSL, but in the past customers of mine have copy-pasted full Heroku PG URLs to me and I was able to get in via `psql` immediately.

So yes they're public but their addresses are basically impossible to guess.
> It's not protected if you lie when you shout it. The risk of injury to others is possible either way, but your intent is what protects you.

Falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater is ALSO protected by first amendment (Supreme Court reversed their opinion in 1969 btw). I clarified more in this other comment[1].

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15307871
That's literally the design of a Claymore mine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M18_Claymore_mine
Out of curiosity, where do you recommend buying BTC?
I'm working on something to generalize it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwZmAgAuIkY

Doesn't have graphs/state machines or tables yet, but the trees, lists, and maps probably show the basic idea.
> 3. Many who currently produce wealth to make ends meet - paying income-scaled taxes included - may very well be enticed to "go Galt" by seeking a self-sufficient lifestyle where $UBI/mo covers all cash needs without one having to get a job per se. (I find this option quite attractive.)

I also find this theoretical aspect of UBI quite attractive - the potential for a lot of self-organization into self-sustaining communities of scale in rural, low cost of living areas.
I used to do rocketry about 15-20 years ago, we had some pretty stringent requirements back then for the high power stuff(G+ impulse motors).

I'm kinda surprised that the hobby hasn't been shut down completely given how hysterical some of the media can be about this stuff.
I think in terms of the training, it was easy. I learned to program in 1981. My mom was teaching CS, so I had a view of what programmers were learning, and I endeavored to learn the same things. Today, I'm aware of what an entry level programmer brings to the table. I'd say that the subject matter required for reaching that level is easy -- at least no harder than math, physics, or electronics.

On the other hand, you're right about challenging oneself. Reaching a higher level of expertise is definitely harder, but that's true of any subject. Meanwhile, my career moved in a different direction, and I only use programming as a tool rather than for developing commercial software.
Well written piece.

I stopped reading news after Trump got into office and I have no shame about it. It feels great and I don't I miss out on anything.

When people talk or ask me about politics I just say I don't know because I don't read. They make s surprised face and then continue talking and arguing about absolutely pointless topics and about the upcoming apocalypse.

I just hope someone tells me an hour beforehand. I'd pay for a service that emails me only once s month and only about topics that matter. Just a brief overview. If I want details I can study history later.
Unless I missed something, we have different price points for 3 different models, but apart from storage capacity, no mention of other spec diffs between these models.

So we don't know if these models also have increasing ram, or more powerful cpu's, in addition to the extra on-board storage.

Until we get the full specs of all the models.

Which is why ascribing the price increases solely to the increased storage size is, well, silly.

If you have these "widely available" specs showing what exactly is different across the 3 models, then spill the beans. Otherwise ...
What I meant was, is there a reason to keep it low beyond "bigger isn't necessary"? Like a performance reason for instance, or an address is like a URL so shorter is easier to remember, or something like that.

The reason I ask is if there's a good reason that a bigger address space would be worse in some way, then "bigger isn't necessary" might be a decent argument, but if there's no good reason not to make it bigger, then it's not such a good argument.
Autonomous tractors are totally a thing. They will only get better with time and development, but they can't replace pesticides yet.
I’m not convinced that UBI will dramatically affect the housing supply for many people who would rely on it. Maybe you can expand on what you mean in light of an example:

I live near Vancouver, which is the most expensive housing market in Canada. Poor people here have access to free health care, a provincial welfare program, and a permanent disability allowance. The income amount is enough to live on in some parts of the province, but not Vancouver. Still there's a glut of unemployed poor people who prefer substandard housing or homelessness over relocating to where they could afford to live. They don’t choose to live anywhere else, even though they're not in Vancouver to “make a living”.

Programs aimed at helping the poor here focus on providing subsidized housing, not relocation.

It seems to me that if UBI doesn’t help these people afford a better standard of living where they are now, then it won’t help them at all unless they’re forced to relocate. What am I missing?
What does HYP stand for?
In CA we don't have basements usually.
I don't think this is unique to Harvard or privileged students. The idea that the student is a "customer" and should be treated as such, including being indulged by professors and administrators, has been gaining significant traction over the last decade everywhere. You can also see it in how administrators bend to the demands of activist student groups asking for some of the most absurd accommodations, punishment of their enemies, restrictions on allowed speech and events, etc.
The Crystal Language
A16Z invests $39m in ActiveHours
Don't fear. The inertia from all the over the top action sequences where the reading marker drops through the stack of pages like through vacuum keeps you going through the heavier parts in no time.

Ps: Anathem > Seveneves, unless you ignore the last third. Stephenson is usually weak at the end, when all the pieces are put in place and there is no room left for brilliant tangents. Anathem suffered surprisingly little, Seveneves more than usual.
From a quick peek at it, it seems better than Ruby. Maybe the AWS CodeDeploy Agent and Gitlab packages can be rewritten in it, which are both coded in Ruby and slow
Flash Ubuntu Touch onto a phone, and tape on a bluetooth mini keyboard.
It seems like some variant of a bounded estimator would have dramatically reduced volatility without the complexity of two currencies.
Extensive discussion of original article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15302662
Agreed. To me, it felt like three good books squashed awkwardly into one with jarring leaps forward in time, and entire viewpoints cut out. I also found the third act entirely unsatisfying.
You make good points, but you can still buy BTC with Coinbase and then transfer them to your private wallet that you control.

This is very useful if you want to set up a long term investing strategy. For example you can set your debit card or bank transfer to automatically buy $500 of BTC each week, then monthly or quarterly transfer those coins to your private wallet based on your individual risk tolerance/free time.
No, you were never going to beat the elite at their own game if you came from relatively humble origins.

But the unwritten agreement was that if you probe yourself useful enough, you would be accepted as a kind of junior member of the club. Then your children would be Ok to marry their children, and your grandchildren would be undistinguishible from the rest of the elite's offspring.
> Having a compiler and standard library written in the language that it compiles has some huge benefits for increasing the pool of possible contributors.

But this isn't the official compiler, this is someone's personal project?
Wow, article is from March 2017.

Summary: Attacker sends a malformed Content-Type header on file upload, which throws an exception due to the Content-Type being unknown. But, in the exception text is the direct, unsanitized user input from the header.

There is not a specific text localization handler for struts.messages.upload.error.InvalidContentTypeException, so a generic exception handler ends up being used to process the exception. This generic handler turns out to parse the unsanitized user input as OGNL markup, running the attacker code when processing the exception text.

Some effort is made to blacklist loading other Java libraries in the text rendering context, however it was easily defeated by emptying the blacklist in the attacking code before calling the blacklisted modules.
> But until any of these new age apps/platforms support federation and decentralized communication, there's not much use for the masses to look for servers run by specific people.

Have you not heard of https://matrix.org?

100% open source server + client(s), decentralized, federated, easy to stand up your own server, end-to-end encryption, bridges to tons of other networks (IRC, telegram, slack, mattermost, etc), full history sync even when you log in from new devices, read receipts (even for individual users in group chats). They're by far (in my opinion) the most feature-rich of the "new-age" communication systems. I've been running my own homeserver for over a year now and I can't recommend it highly enough.
The article suggests, though that the author WAS trying to abide by an institutional anti-grade-inflation policy and that's why the lower grade was given in the first place.

The trouble seems to be that not everyone at the institution has bought into the policy - or perhaps that some hidden perverse incentives remain at multiple levels.
I'm starting to think this may be the only way to stop the incessant, low-productivity "whack-a-mole" legislative campaigns. Cut off the money feeding them.

The ACA could have been the entre into an effectively regulated system of universal coverage via private insurance, akin maybe to what Germany and some others have. But politics and self-interest won out over compromise and progress.

So, maybe it's time for a public/government payor plan to cut off the lifeblood of said politics and self-interest.

Not that it would/will be easy.
Backups are important whether the thing being backed up is online or not.
Did they still make you do the drill where they'd set off the fire alarm and you'd have to crawl under your desks? I'm a bit older and that was mandatory at my school. I am not sure why they felt a desk was good protection from a nuclear blast. Considering that my school was usually right next to a base, it probably would have been a fairly direct blast.

We were rather morbid kids and I think our leading child-theory was that they made us do that so that it would be easier to count the bodies.

This would have been in the sixties. I'd later go to a boarding school that was really remote, and they didn't make us do the exercise. In hindsight, getting under the desk while being that far from any likely blast might actually have afforded us some protection from falling debris.
Singapore Ranks First as Launchpad for Global Cyber Attacks
Seems like a change in the license is on its way:

https://github.com/facebook/graphql/pull/363
What I miss the most from Postgree is the compression feature in the same level as RocksDB or Tokudb. The actual compression is very bad compared to them.

Do anyone know if they have something planned in this department ?
Known as "Security through Obscurity" [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity
I was being partly hyperbolic about the worst case. Keep in mind that fixing Experian doesn't fix TransUnion or Equifax, and there's no simple way to correct all three at once.
It is indeed, isn't it? I'm actually underselling it, using principally names that I think everyone on HN knows. But if you know anything about cryptography, the repudiation of that "backdoor" story is even more devastating. Look at the list at the bottom of this post:

http://technosociology.org/?page_id=1687
Indeed, I only just read about Chaplinsky -- and it seems pretty grubby and authoritarian. Just letting cops arrest people for -issing them off.

As the original article points out, the first half of the 20th century was dark time. And I'd be surprised if the present day court would rule the same way if the literal facts of the Chaplinksy case were repeated.

It's an example of what I was talking about above: it's right that you aren't allowed to use your freedom of speech to incite violence. But the court in Chaplinsky extended that to protect the violent. It's a good thing that courts have been moving away from that heckler's veto.

But I fear the way the politics of outrage is going, in 40 years time we will back to authoritarian norms that brought us two world wars.
thanks for trying but HN doesn't want to hear anything but socialist apologia these days.
Isn't that pretty close to how credit bureaus work?
I'll grant you that you've found a clever justification for stealing from producers. The question is what do you do once the people who are generating the value no longer agree?
Getting a home loan is relatively easier, because plenty of banks still do manual underwriting for things the size of mortgages. And if we had a culture that avoided unsecured debt, car debt, etc. then more banks would have to perform manual underwriting because no one would have a credit score. Instead they would have something better: money.
The term "jailbreak" was coined by the users that broke into the first iPod/iPhone firmware, not Apple. The file with the key was called "lockdown.d" (or something of that nature) and so exposing the locked-down area was colloquially referred to as a "jailbreak".
I switched from Coinbase to Gemini. Their verification process is very quick and their customer service is too. Coinbase never responded to my ticket when I asked them why my purchase was pending for over a week.
On the other hand, since you're not going to be the only one with this line of thinking, it will create a potentially large incentive for other countries to establish their own UBI to prevent a "brain drain". (It wouldn't totally eliminate the draw of the USA's UBI, though, since foreign UBIs would likely be lower.)
I'm going by the official inflation rate. Here's a graph [1]. Where do you get your numbers?

How to include housing prices in the consumer price index is apparently controversial. (It's by "imputed rent", what you could theoretically get if you rented it out.)

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi
Equifax has removed language requiring arbitration in free monitoring
If it had been legitimate dirt on Russia or Trump, the NYT or Washington Post would have published it. That means this guy was attempting to discredit Wikileaks by passing them bogus intel like the "Trump dossier" mixed with already public info. Wikileaks made the right call, and you sound mad about it.
Vice Media’s Video Employees Unionize
It seems to stand for harvard, yale, princeton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Three_(colleges)
No, they aren't. It isn't doing anything useful, just acting as a speculative asset. It isn't developing the economy so that production is increased later on. Gold and bitcoin mining similar don't create value either (for gold's usage as a speculative asset).
again showing that socialism causes division and tribalism. i dont want to give more money (currently near half my earnings) to the top 1% of the world (any american on minimum wage) over the current global charities I give to
Is Ethereum part of the fishy coins the author is describing?
My biggest fear is identity fraud, but perhaps I can trust CoinBase enough for that not to be a problem. Still, I would much rather not upload a picture of my passport if I can help it.
> BET is a horror agglomeration of MTV, E! news, and crude commentary so prevalent on the internet today.

Its almost like the corporations that own those channels are trying to repeat their success except by targeting a niche group.

> What I dream is for popular TV shows to have a black lead, where not every character has to be black, nor words spoken in a "black" vernacular, nor a need for the show to be transmuted into a platform for social justice or black values.

Scandal.

> We need shows with black leads that rival enterprises like Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones, Simpsons, etc. I want something that everyone can get behind and imagine themselves as being.

They tried with M.A.N.T.I.S, Spawn: The Animation, Blade: The Series, and Cleopatra 2525. They succeeded with Star Trek: Deep Space 9.

Not only that but the middle class has pretty much been hollowed out in Hollywood. Its hard to make a movie or television show unless its supposed to garner awards (for which message movies/shows are generally shoe ins) or is meant to appeal to the widest audience possible.
There are several prominent women in CS that I know personally and respect (some of whom are image processing/CV researchers), who find the image sexist and demeaning. I sympathise with their viewpoint and am inclined to agree with them. I'm clearly not looking to create controversy or be offended on other people's behalf - I'm just trying to not be a dick.
This is super impressive, and small, too. This is a lot less code than I would have imagined for such an ambitious project. The JS ecosystem has gotten really strong in recent years in terms of library support and how concisely complex tasks can be implemented.
The nice thing about speech is that it doesn't really matter whether randoms on the web are reliable or noble. You can leave them alone anyway.

(Julian Assange is not the best example of this though, because he seems to have done stuff wrong well outside of just what he publishes.)
Graphviz seemed to come close to this, at least as a language to describe graphs to be visualized.
Yeah, that part seemed a little forced, as if he was working backwards from the title, to accidentally arrive at the good stuff that comes before that in the book. Which makes it a good read nonetheless.
D.C. court rules tracking phones without a warrant is unconstitutional
Gravitational waves may oscillate, just like neutrinos
Golden words.
That link is really terrible and GNU should be embarrassed to be publishing something like that. Referring to people as "iMonsters" and the general tone of that page make it seem very childish. Some of those points are even worth discussion but it over-simplifies them to the point of being worthless and easily dismissible. That's a real shame.
You totally missed his point. Wikileaks does not pretend to be unbiased. They are willing to speak truth to power whereas your "accredited journalists" do nothing but cower and cover up for it. Who do you think is paying for that accreditation? Middle class families or billionaires?
@happy-go-lucky Thanks for posting.

I'm the first author of this paper, so I'm glad our paper attracts your interest.

I'm also happy to answer questions about the paper too.
Wouldn’t Toshi.io work?
And this is easily testable. We just house a population of animals who sleep in a hermetically sealed environment that provides all that they need, but is never in darkness. After a couple of hundred million years we open the door and see if anyone is napping.
why are companies so horrible so often? ugh.
Top SEC Officials Only Recently Told of 2016 Filings Hack
SoFi Faces New Sexual Harassment Claim Days After CEO's Departure
Is there no robust way to hold publications accountable for carelessly peddling bullshit?

I fear it will be incredibly difficult to improve the existing incentives.
organic food stillnhas those.