skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Always found it strange that AIM had found a niche use amongst financial traders. Bloomberg is really just an expensive news and chat tool. So traders found AIM to be a cheap alternative to chat with their colleagues. At some point Bloomberg got aim integrated into bchat. I wonder what will fill the void for traders... Symphony?
In the cases I listed above, I cannot agree. I think it is perfectly fine to prevent rape threats from being written. I don't believe things like that fall under free speech.

And while we're on the subject of preventing speech, realize that, if you're of the mind that we should allow those things, you're not preventing speech from being silenced. You're just changing the speech that is silenced. Someone who is constantly bombarded with racism or violent threats online is less likely to contribute their voice to conversation.
i think my yahoo and hotmail email accounts still exist... created in the 90s.
Thanks for this. I did, actually, laugh out loud.

Pity me, brother. For functional programming ruined my young mind. And then I went to law school ;-P
Softlayer's network is crap compared to google and aws. That being said in my previous company we used a combination of Softlayer (for dedicated machines) and AWS for cloud. There is definitely a use case for each, but as Nrsolis mentions there is additional cost in things beyond the cost of the initial hardware itself.
It seems actually like both those groups fit perfectly in that category. Should they feel differently? Who am I to say (probably not).
Inter-specicies bacteria DNA transfer can happen, which is freaky.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer
"It’s commonly assumed that freedom of speech is about the right of the speaker to express their ideas"

... without government interference. However, it is fully within the rights of the audience to condone, chastise, avoid, and laugh at the speaker.

To prohibit the audience from that reaction would be to suppress their free speech.

Freedom of association also requires that a group be able to prevent speech in the context of a group assembly.

"Who decides what to censor?"

Who is calling for government censorship of which expression? This essay sounds like a completely different discussion on free speech than what I am used to hearing, and I don't understand the context.

"If you ask, “Who should decide which ideas you may hear or read?”, people boggle."

Most people don't seem to boggle about porn filters or automatic spam rejection. The books "Ulysses", "Lady Chatterley's Lover", and "Memoirs of Hecate County" were once banned in the US.

While I don't agree with those bans, I bring it up to point out that people don't always boggle.

"So we ban Mein Kampf."

Who is proposing that we ban it? I understand that it's rhetorical, but it doesn't sound like a serious example of anything in the current discourse.

As I understand it, the question is, should organizations like a public university have some ability to override a student group which has selected a contentious external speaker to speak, given that the event uses university subsidized facilities and security staff.

That's hardly calling for a ban on Mein Kampf.
Bigger phones in the first place was a monumental design fail. For the love of god can we go back to phones which are comfortable to hold and use
Can you expand more on this? What do you mean by “much deeper than html”?
Anarchist's Cookbook, yes, probably. There has already been several convictions under this law for owning descriptions of how to make bombs. (The law dates from 2000, although the maximum sentence is now being increased from 10 to 15 years).

Mein Kampf, I'm less sure, there have been people charged with owning ISIS propaganda, but I'm not sure exactly how it worked out on appeal. (They were also convicted on other counts.)
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I've done it part time in the past when I attempted this sort of desperation move that failed. It wasn't sustainable and took too much out of me being "switched on and sociable" like that. On top of that the barrier to entry even if I could manage is higher than people think...I dont have a bachelors degree and am old. Schools want young, degreed and flexible. If all you have is being a naive speaker you get private under the table lessons for cash that constantly cancel and every other broke expat is undercutting you for.

If I am ever going to earn it has to be remote and flexible but I just dont have the skills or stability etc to learn them so far. I've tried "DIY learn to code various things" sort of ideas before but something always interrupts it and I suck at it frankly. Then I read how old and inflexible people cannot get hired for anything and I get even more down. I have not heard a new idea that seemed workable in so long I cannot remember.
How can anyone be said to have freedom of conscience when the range of thought they may encounter is circumscribed by censors?
> The government is a collection of people who have power over us.

Where I live, they have power over me because the people put them there. We can (and absolutely should) talk about corruption and the erosion of popular rule, but I don't think we should succumb to such a fatalist view.

> While inciting a mob to violence can be considered immoral, it is the violence that is the crime... the action.... not the opinion.

Read my argument again. If inciting a mob to violence is immoral and we accept that the law should reflect that judgement, then it follows that incitement itself should be a crime (and, in fact, is a crime).
Developers can't port to APIs that don't exist. Mozilla holding to the November deadline as implementation has slipped hasn't helped them in any way.

Mozilla kept pushing developers to make their XUL extensions multiprocess-compatible even after WebExtensions was announced. At one point, they were going to keep the multiprocess compatibility shims until the WebExtensions deadline, but then they decided to start removing them sooner.[1] SDK extensions were mostly multiprocess-compatible already.

Developers are currently maintaining multiple branches of their extensions because 52 ESR is missing APIs and 57+ won't support hybrid extensions. Aligning the WebExtensions transition with the ESR cycle would have made things a lot easier for them.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/02/16/the-road-to-firef...
It's not a district level measure. It is a measure of how a district plan affects the statewide outcome.

The worked example in the definition section of the paper lays it out pretty clearly:

http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...

If you take 3 districts, with 2 going to A and 1 going to B, 300 votes at 75-25 would be split into 175 and 125. That's a reasonable outcome, the majority took 2 seats, the minority gets approximately proportional representation.

Compare to 300 votes going 51-49 (the most extreme efficiency gap). The ~1/2 minority gets 0 representation (153 vs 147 for that election).
At least for the time being, you can use legacy extensions, by enabling the right option [1] in about:config.

[1] extensions.legacy.enabled -> true
> who knows his things (well, when it comes to these things, at least).

I’d venture to guess that half the people buying MDMA-less molly would say the same thing.

If your friend isn’t sitting in the lab while it’s being made or not doing mass spec on it the product, it’s all someone’s word.
The point they made doesn’t just apply to government
> in the context of node.js is hilarious to me.

leftPad $$$
From experience, the problem is not than SWE don't understand the license but that they don't like to negotiate.

When seeing the license on a project they need to use, most SWE will go tell their boss "Hey we need to pay for this" and the boss will find some convoluted way to tell him "Pay? No don't wanna".

The SWE will most likely stop negotiation at that step and has two choices: Either stop using the project and find a way to do without or continue using it.

Since they actually have a enormous pill of stuff to do by yesterday and this project will save them some time they will most probably continue to use it. And tell themselves that they are personally not doing anything wrong and that's the problem of someone else at the company.

If they feel guilty enough and you are sympathetic to them, they might throw a few bucks from their own purse but I wouldn't count on it.

If they sell a product based on your project, the SWE has some leverage since someone outside the company can take a look at it, but even then that's not a guarantee.

Source: Multiple try to convince my precious boss to pay for our fucking highcharts license
Actually that is precisely what words are for, which is why this announcement is a big deal.
concept-1 that is patent pending needs to use the bottom right space for the backspace button. many times i find myself stretching or having to regrip the phone to hit the stupid backspace because I made an error. no one patent my improvement on the inventor's patent pls. kthnxbai =)
Followed it.

iamdevloper ( https://twitter.com/iamdevloper ) is good too.

DEVOPS_BORAT ( https://twitter.com/DEVOPS_BORAT ), which was often hilarious, seems to have stopped a while ago.
I find testing new user experiences for something as established as a dial pad to be interesting. This post mostly talks about changing the design for the dial pad to put more buttons within thumb reach, without going into many of the additional challenges.

For example, as others commented, many users primarily 'dial' their smartphone nowadays by tapping on somebody's face or going through their contact information. The cost of changing the experience may not be worth the added benefit. Along those same lines, it may well be that most dial pad users are not the owner of the phone, but somebody who borrows it to make a call or enter their own info. In that case, the experience should be familiar to them, regardless of whether the user has grown accustomed to a new dial pad. These are the kinds of factors I'd like to see discussed in researching a new dial pad experience.

Resistance to change on something like this is real. In developing a web-based phone app, people who were using computers, with keyboards, would still prefer to click on the buttons in the style of a traditional dial pad. To me, investigating those challenges are much more interesting than "Here are some designs; let's see which you say you like."
What you just described is literally nothing like the level of low-level customization that past releases of the Mozilla Suite/Firefox had to offer. Not only can extensions no longer modify any of the browser XUL/chrome://, you can't even install Complete Themes that previous let you control the layout of every single browser css element.

It's like Mozilla is deliberately committing corporate suicide with these hasty feature removals.
EdDSA is NOT online, but it's trivial to use it in an online way: sign a hash of the data rather than the data. But now you're back to having collisions (EdDSA is collision resistant). So it's a trade-off you have to make. As for DJB's take on this, there were lengthy debates about this on the CFRG list, and you find out for yourself (spoilers: he's very big on collision resistance). Of course, the need for online algorithms is real, but there's more than one way to skin that cat.
My hands are big, and they hold the bigger phones probably the same as you hold the smaller phones.
These arguments presuppose that people value the truth. I've found, at least on Reddit, that most communities that have rampant censorship subscribe to indefensible ideas. For example, none of the science subreddit would consider banning someone who argues for Flat Earth, because scientists live for the opportunity to debate on the side of the truth.

However, certain subs such as T_D and LSC allow no challenge of their ideas, because they don't merit correctness and know that a debate of their ideologies is a contest that they will lose.

To paraphrase Dawkins, you cannot reason with people who don't value reason.
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Consider Ben Shapiro - one of the brightest political minds of this generation, and an orthodox jew. Regularly branded as a nazi white supremacist by leftist mobs. Hilarious.
Thanks, we've updated the link from https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/10/britain-c..., which points to this.
That cliché needs to be updated. With modern grade inflation even the idiots hardly get Cs any more.
Last I heard they were looking for a maintainer: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.clisp.general/14256

Has someone stepped up?
As the OP says, if you ban speech you are marking it as permanently unthinkable.
Because conforming to the curve assumes everyone is right-handed
you have to think about the non-alphabetical users who "type" by drawing characters/pictures. for them, the bigger the better. phones like the note 8 weren't designed for a western audience.
That's because compactness doesn't actually tell you anything about unfair voting, demographics, party representation, etc. . . . A district can be shaped like a busted IUD and still be perfectly fair and that's precisely why the efficiency gap is so much better at identifying gerrymandered districts. The gap shows the percentage of wasted votes, which is pretty much all that matters.
Also the availability of open source has made a large improvement in courses such as OS and compilers.

Back in 1990, students in an OS class might be doing pretty well if they manage to get something that boots. Writing a compiler from scratch is also pretty tough.

Today students can write device drivers for Linux as well as other modules, also hack on open source compilers.
The camel's nose is in the tent in your country. Good luck getting rid of it. Hate speech laws are blasphemy laws wearing a secular skirt. They will be expanded to persecute political minorities.

http://www.torontosun.com/2017/09/20/m-103-weaponizes-what-a...

https://www.catholicregister.org/item/26111-m-103-could-brin...
I feel like many of these speculative AI pieces seem to ignore that for every incredible breakthrough, there is a large amount of work which is required to build the scaffolding which allows the breakthrough to have real impact in the world. Even if the AI solves "Fermat's Last Theorem" type problems quickly, it seems to me that the vast majority of problems it faces will be "misplaced the database keys", "can't schedule a meeting with so-and-so", "car is snowed under" types of problems.

Take the quote `By developing a suite of other games each day, they figured they’d be able to earn $10 billion before long, without coming close to saturating the games market.`

Sure - but marketing the games, accommodating players' changing attitudes, getting app store approvals -> All of these would have to take place on human timescales, and to "solve" these problems on AI timescales would require orders of magnitude more work (e.g. altering people's memories to convince them they were already attached to the game's characters, or hacking into Steam/Apple servers and auto-approving the games).
Huh, so it's a fork of Halide that replaces the frontend with a set of adapters for various neural net frameworks. Halide is super cool and really ought to be better known. I wonder if they tried to collaborate with the Halide people at all or if they're just doing their own thing?
If you're one person with a vanity domain, maybe. If you're running a business that operates mail, it's mandatory.
A lot of hedge fund traders still use AIM. The sell side is going to use whatever the buy side wants, and the buy side has some tech dinosaurs.

Symphony is trying to tap into that market.

Also interesting, Bloomberg is coming out with a cheap version of their instant messenger ($10/month)
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But how far does that go? Speech can also be used to suppress others. When Leslie Jones was bombarded with hate speech and racism on Twitter by members of Gamergate and the alt-right, she ended up quitting Twitter. That would qualify as oppression to most people. Now if you want to say something about Twitter, then fine. Replace Twitter with the public park.
No offense taken. I was on Wall Street in another life.

I don't know if there will be a crash. The market went up slowly, it could also go down slowly. That's the Fed's goal, it seems.

I do think that any time a bunch of people are making a bunch of money without knowing how or why, but by simply following the herd, it is leading to a dangerous place.

This is happening right now in the S&P 500 and other index funds. Everybody is getting the same advice ("buy index funds") and following it blindly.

I expect there will either be some kind of sea change where the herd starts moving (possibly stampeding) in the other direction, or someone on Wall Street is going to figure out how to take advantage of the movements of the herd.

But this is all speculation. If I knew for sure, I'd be a billionaire in the next few years.
Immediately. There's no harm, and it's more likely that a company is always interested in good applicants. You can always follow up again when the position does show up on their open position listing.

Also, if you apply during the "offseason", it's more likely that technical hire has more time to respond to you in more detail. I've developed a couple relationships that way that paved the way for an eventual hire in one case and a technical relationship in another.
> I understood you

I'm sorry but you don't. (Also, don't I get to decide that, not you?)

> Freedom of conscience seems pretty uncontroversial, and it's what Paine is talking about in the quote you gave (on my interpretation).

Paine and Mill weren't just talking about freedom of conscience or thought. Paine thought it crucial to hear others' ideas so that he could avoid being wrong. That requires the ideas be expressed. Likewise with Mill. Chapter 2 of On Liberty is titled "Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion"[1]. Throughout the text, Mill defends expression as well as thought, and condemns the silencing of any expression of opinion:

> But I deny the right of the people to exercise such coercion, either by themselves or by their government. The power itself is illegitimate. The best government has no more title to it than the worst. It is as noxious, or more noxious, when exerted in accordance with public opinion, than when in opposition to it.

1. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Liberty/Chapter_2
Does banning something make it go away?
Way to make something cool - make it illegal. Teens don't care that much about future consequences, but they get to feel tough for doing something illegal.
Thanks to the internet I’m sure you still get plenty of exposure to America’s actually free speech.
It would be neat if more people used “hexagonal” (i.e. in an equilateral triangle grid) pixels for capture, processing, display, printing, etc.; with higher and higher resolutions and fast GPUs (so that high-quality resampling can be done on the fly) it should be entirely possible to swap out individual parts of the pipeline without losing quality or performance (at the expense of a bunch of work to implement something nonstandard).

A lot of artifacts are easier to deal with on a hexagon-pixel grid. Halftoning and error-diffusion dithering work really well.
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First, the cases I've listed aren't ambitious ones -- there are no censors, only public courts looking at a case after the fact to determine whether someone's speech was indeed inciteful.

Second, how can anybody discover facts about the world if they haven't been discovered yet? Truth and thought are not contingent upon prior art; at best, they just speed it up a bit.
No idea why it was posted. I've only started this one, but what Scott seems to be advocating is essentially Anarcho-syndicalism.

Where Marx said that hunter-gatherers were engaging in Primitive Communism, Scott argues that they were engaging in Political Anarchy. He kinda has a point (at least when you look at hunter-gatherers who are still around 10,000 years later). We just assume that Marx must have been right since he was taking a diagnostic approach, but without archeological, genetic, and anthropological evidence, can we be certain that it was anything other than hypothesis? If Marx was wrong about man's "year zero", what else was he wrong about?

Not that I'm totally on board with Scott and his critique of civilization, but I do think he has some useful views when it comes to pre-history.
> Unknown to analysts, investors and the hundreds of thousands of customers who signed up to buy it, as recently as early September major portions of the Model 3 were still being banged out by hand, away from the automated production line...

Why is this so accusatory? Was there some guarantee made that the Model 3's production line would be 100% autonomous, ever?

Sounds more like Tesla's doing what it needs to do to ship what it can.

Disclaimer - I don't have access to the full story so might be missing some context.
> Freedom of conscience seems pretty uncontroversial, and it's what Paine is talking about in the quote you gave (on my interpretation).

I don't see how you can limit that quote to freedom of conscience. He is clearly talking about the spread of opinions and debate on them i.e. speech.

> I think everybody agrees that freedom of conscience is both good and necessary in an open society.

No, everybody doesn't This is why we have a supreme court cases about forcing businesses to make wedding cakes for gay marriage. We have pretty uncontroversial laws preventing people who have racist believes from discriminating based on those beliefs.

Freedom of Conscience and Speech both need limitations. This article isn't really about that at all anyway. This article is about talking about the reasons why we should value Free Speech.
>Many of them are corrupt and will do evil-- just imagine the worse member of the political party you disagree with as a dictator.

I personally see very little utility in this thought experiment because this isn't reality. There is a reason why we have a government in the first place, and we risk loss to liberty and freedom by making the government too weak. It's a balancing act, and imagining the worst case should not be an argument for what reality requires.

For example, imagine the government was full of rational dictators who had my best interests in mind. Should I give them absolute power? That too is unrealistic, so why make arguments based on it.
I remember after reading Ringworld on a friend's recommendation, saying that it had one too many alien species with non-sentient females for me. One, okay, interesting idea I guess, two, now you're doing a thing.
Just consider it flat out: Pick something you did three years ago. Let's say it took you a day, or a week, or a a good chunk of a month, off and on. With no followup work after that, what's a "reasonable" rate of return for that effort?

I make a good hourly rate, but at the end of each hour, my earning from that hour is done, and none of my hours have every billed at $149k.
I don't even have to click, I remember it after all those years. Something unique in many aspects. Beware.