skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, my question is - just how reliable is this? black-hat hackers are one concern of course, but given the revelations of snowden/prism/vault7, is it actually just the case that we are, for all intensive purposes, living in a post-privacy world? Of course, I've taken some steps to try to help my own internet security, but even for the straight-forward threats, its difficult to know what helps what, and the magnitude of the benefit conferred.

Are there perhaps any websites out there that provide comprehensive guides to building up internet security/privacy, with regular updates about what courses of action should be taken each each new database breach that becomes public knowledge?
Can someone recommend a good tutorial for key shifts in Melodyne? I wish I could learn how to do this for other songs.

I'm also interested in chord progressions. I wish I could tag my iTunes library with the Roman numerals for each song. But I don't know of any automatic way to do that.

Read the SuspiciouslySimilarSongs list, or watch the 4 chord song by Axis of Awesome to know what I'm talking about. The pop-punk chord progression is famous, but there are other songs that sound similar.

(e.g. Hall & Oates - Maneater, and Stevie Wonder - Part Time Lover, or Linkin Park - New Divide and The Offspring - Gone Away).
One of the comments amply illustrates the meaning:

"Once a violent criminal, always a violent criminal. That part of him will always be part of him. How dare our legal system release such dangerous people back into our world. Maybe he changed, but most all of them go on to harm many more people. Too bad he wasn't killed during the robbery. I only wonder how some of his victims are coping with his violent acts, and how many other victims he harmed before he was caught."
They used to be the world's garage sale. This worked for them.

Now, not only did they become the world's sketchy back-alley, they're not even very good at it.
yes, good on the TSA for not stealing the laptop they confiscated/found.
When the United States, Canada, and Mexico negotiated NAFTA, they explicitly chose to agree on a mutual set of best interests over that of any one members specific best interests (minus some explicitly carved out exclusions that were also negotiated). Unfortunately, some parameters of the agreement were either not negotiated at the time or forgotten about. One such parameter is the definition of a government subsidy, and what actions or set of actions constitutes to be as such.

Proponents of the United States variety of capitalism preach and espouse (or at least used to) free trade as both gospel and a kind objective truth while ignorant (at times on purpose and at times sufficiently unaware) of how big business and the government are bedfellows scratching each others backs (big sugar, the corn lobby, big oil, the automakers, other agribusinesses such as dairy, telecom, Silicon Valley and other tech companies, the military-industrial complex, and commercial aviation to name just a few: Boeing straddles the last two industries).

In comparison, Canada has more hybrid approach somewhere between a market economy and a command economy practically necessitated by the confluence having a large land area, a relatively small population, and an economic, cultural, and military powerhouse for a next-door neighbour. And yes, similar sort of mutual government/business back-scratching does occur in Canada. However, most if not all of the policies that Canada has is mostly to prevent itself from being economically and culturally drowned-out/overwhelmed (do notice that I left out militarily). In spite of the investments that the various levels of Canadian government make, they readily allow foreign investors and corporations to buy or merge with large, iconic Canadian businesses after assessing the impact through mandatory reviews much like US Congress does (Molson Coors, Target buying Zellers from the Hudson's Bay company, and Wendy's merging with Tim Horton's, Tim Horton's later repatriating itself, then merging again with Burger King.

TL;DR There is nothing inherently wrong with looking out for your own best interests. But, there is something wrong with the pot calling the kettle black (hypocrisy).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molson_Brewery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molson_Coors_Brewing_Company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zellers#2010.E2.80.932013:_Lea...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hortons
Quick, spread some FUD[0] to justify our conduct and nanny-state:

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/17/uk-most-seve...

Seriously the timing of these 2 stories is very questionable.
Good to know! I might give it a go. I'm really not a fan of the new MacBook Pros and it's about time to upgrade my laptop.
Does anyone know of a newsletter management system with an actually decent development workflow? We don't need the WYSIWYG editor. Just something with git integration for templates that are coded manually in Zurb Foundation for Emails.

You can import zipped templates into MailChimp manually. But if you made a typo, it's painful to export and reimport each time.
Always deal with debt collectors via snail mail, not phone calls or email.
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Intelligence and creativity are also divorced from one another. Unlike Newton, da Vinci, Einstein, most intelligent people aren't creative in the cultural sense. Their creativity is rather directed towards fitting in more effectively and being more social than the norm. Which in extreme cases looks like multiple personality disorder, i.e. changing one's responses according to context, the opposite of integrity, including the intellectual integrity required to create new stuff.
No, it didn't. Or, at least, it needn't have. 3,000 people died. Yes, it's tragic, but it's much less tragic than the hundreds of millions of others who have died since.

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/09/forget-911.html
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Hi. Progressive Enhancement is a separate term and concept from Progressive Web Apps. The intention is not to replace the meaning of Progressive Enhancement. As you say, it is a very important concept in its own right.

Progressive Enhancement is an important aspect of PWAs, as it is for web development in general. PWAs are bringing new features to the Web, but it should/must be done in a way that does not break the experience for anyone else. I guess that's why Alex chose that word in particular.
> Mailchimp isn't spam-free but it stops the spammer hitting you straight away and has human follow-up for problem cases. If that increases the price of sending mail, so be it.

Really? My attempts to get unsubscribed from a mailchip spam list were largely unsuccessful until I spammed as many mailchimp employees as I could find on LinkedIn. Mailchip offers zero support for those on the receiving end of their garbage.
I think the port of San Francisco has been pretty much supplanted by the port of Oakland so now it is mostly for tourists.
Iunno, negative feedback for buyers was never helpful for sellers since sellers never had much control over their buyers anyway.

At least these days you can somewhat restrict buyers (can't have zero feedback, more than 2 unpaid item reports...)
> Now remember truck drivers are the most populous single occupation in the US

Based on non-uniform binning criteria. Bin differently and other jobs might be on the top. Although they might be just as susceptible to automation. It's a nice example, but it is about as solid as pluto's planetary status.
> Reddit is a cesspit waiting to fail that encourages abuse as a platform.

People mistake reddit for a single bulletin board, because it allows you to aggregate multiple subreddits, and criticize it like it's a single place. In reality it's just a free hosted bulletin board service. As such, it's just a cross-section of the internet, and to criticize reddit is to criticize the abstract concept of internet fora. There are serious places like /AskHistorians in there, along with many others. There are bad neighborhoods/poorly moderated fora in there, but that doesn't make reddit itself a cesspool any more than the existence of Skid Row makes Los Angeles County a cesspool.
I wondered about this too so I RTFA and now I know!
Many people who feel wronged end up growing a bloodlust and indulge in schadenfreude. This is probably due to some corruption of our animal nature. These feelings are of course hard to come to terms with, so it's hidden under the guise of "deterring other people" which is much more palatable
Which is reasonable, given that WhatsApps social graph is your phonebook and therefore portable. This is different with facebook or facebook messenger.
You are an idiot. Buy second-hand.
Go vegan :D
Nearly every platform has a C compiler. Many embedded platforms have almost no language alternatives. No way Zig ( or Rust, or Go ) is ever going to target them all.
Was it in this?

http://www.roninsoft.com/wsraider.htm
Could you add more info into your account profile? Is there a way to learn more about you?
For me, I feel like wisdom-of-the-honest crowd is actually somewhat attainable. If you can find corroborating reviews across different review providers (Amazon, google, etc) then I've found that the information is much more likely to be true.
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I am, but it certainly was at 60fps on my laptop when I wrote it, which was also a mac.
This is a toxic attitude.

You say that some prisoners will never be rehabilitated and say they won't become Georgetown law professors. This ignores the possibility that they could become something better than a prisoner. Note that the comment you replied to did not claim that all prisoners should be Georgetown law professors.

You admit that prisoners could have better outcomes with encouragement then make unfair generalizations that reinforce our alarming incarceration rate.

This is a huge cultural problem in the United States and we need to start being honest with ourselves about these biases.
I've done a few startups, one successful, many failed.

The one successful startup was with someone I met online. I bought his book, he added me on Facebook. We trolled each other a lot and became friends. When I asked him to join as a cofounder, it was the second time I met him in person.

On the other hand, the biggest failure was something I did with a former best friend and roommate. He was a true hustler, but his approach was very different to mine. He would lie, cheat, and outright refuse to pay partners.

One startup also failed, with a person I knew for years, but not very well. It was a good idea, very solid market. But startups are mentally exhausting and neither of us could push hard enough.

I think the key is really whether you would trust this person. Would you hang out and talk with them for no reason? Would you add them on Facebook? It's a major red flag if you don't.

Basically, would you marry this person? Because that is what a startup really is like. You literally share the same hotel room at times. Sometimes the office is the hotel room. You have to be that comfortable with them.

And you have to make sacrifices. You're sacrificing years of your career for the dreams of this person. You might be sacrificing your relationships with others. I know a person who never saw his newborn son until the baby died, because he was busy with his startup.

It doesn't really matter if you know them for years or days. What really matters is that you're willing to put everything aside and commit to them.
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A particular line of economics just looks at the money in, the product out, ignores all complications, and concludes that it's globally best for mankind if we send money on ships and get back cheap sneakers, regardless if they are made by slave workers or whatever.

It's not only the quality of the products that compete, it's living standards, health laws, worker protection, environmental protection, social welfare, healthcare, educations and human rights that compete.

If I live in a (economically) large enough country that trades with another country that fail providing reasonable levels of all of the above for their own people, mostly to the gain of some oligark or another, there is little reason to offer totally free trade.

An optimal tariff, possibly even invested back in the originating country - or even used to fund healthcare or education - is most likely globally less maximized in term of number of cheap items per dollar, but could still help stimulate both economies, maybe help the poorest, and hopefully avoiding a race to the bottom for the 99%.

[edit]... This doesn't mean that a 300% tariff on airplanes is justified between EU, US and Canada. Or maybe we in EU can fund your healthcare if you just buy from Airbus in the future...
http://www.dictionary.com/misspelling?term=bettlefield&s=t
Do paralegals have less access to law libraries than prisoners?
The rest of your statements are pretty well founded but

> There is not a hard law that states speed limit at least in California

Incorrect.

I don't know what you mean by "a hard law", but, in California, there is a section, from the very statues you present, that sets a statutory maximum limit.

The complication, being that there are three maximum speed limits in California: 55mph, 65mph and 70mph, depending on the scenario.

CVC §22349 sets a maximum speed limit of 65 mph throughout the state (except for the 70 mph limit on some freeways).

CVC§22349(a) reads: Except as provided in Section 22356 [70 mph on some freeways], no person shall drive a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than 65 miles per hour.

The CVC§ 22356 referred to above allows a 70 mph speed limit if justified by an engineering and traffic survey where a 65 mph limit would otherwise be applicable.

Try arguing the 22350 while you have been cited the §22349 on a ticket. Not going to fly regardless of what one might read on websites online.
Sure, but it doesn't seem realistic to suggest that they stop collecting it.

The best idea I've come up with (and it's got serious flaws of its own) is a social network where deletion is impossible, but you have a choice between anonymity and authority for any given submission you make thereto. Anonymous utterances might be true, but they'd have to have a very high truth-value indeed to overcome the skepticism that would attach to them. Authoritative statements would thus be backed by a person's reputation, which in turn could be good or bad to different people depending on the historical quality of their contributions. Trolls and spammers would thus be marginalized by the low quality of their output, which might be regarded as even worse than anonymous whispers.

I don't have a theoretical foundation for this, and while I've thought it out in rather more depth than I am offering here it;s the product of intuition rather than analysis and iteration. Web annotations seem the best path to explore for experimentation but I'm not equipped or inclined to develop this into an actual product.
"It doesn’t really. I’m not claiming this works with standard Haskell practice."

Then I don't understand where you disagree with me. I'm not saying assoc-in is impossible; just that it's impractical.

We can write assoc-in with dynamic types, but that doesn't integrate with existing functions, and is generally a pain to work with. Alternatively we can try and to statically type it, but then we run into the limitations of Haskell's type system.

assoc-in is a solution that doesn't really work in Haskell, because the constraints of the language prevent it. Adding static typing to a language adds practical limitations in exchange for compiler guarantees.
The unwritten corollary of course is that "almost nobody writes commercial compilers." :) Almost all of us do, however, write parsers for data, config files, languages etc... all the time. I'd personally used ANTLR of course for all my parsing needs beyond the trivial.
I don't think it was ever common that a husband would write to his wife a letter clearly laying out rules like in this letter:

http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/04/einsteins-demands.html

No trying to demonize him but this definitely a little unusual.
There was some reporting a few years ago on just how extremely the extant sites had been cherry-picked. And that overall / longer-term reserve estimates and production cost estimates might be quite off, based on false assumptions (and possibly deliberately misleading promotions) about the productivity and production costs associated with the remaining known and estimated reserves.

Haven't seen much about that, recently, in the news I've encountered.
Yes, changing the name will not solve the larger problem I mentioned. Better education would be necessary, but even as someone with a strong interest in history I doubt the overall value of more forced history in schools. Changing the name at least clears up confusion that can stem from ignorance of the subject.

An apt mathematical comparison is infinity. Most people have heard of it, but their idea of what it is and why it's important is lacking. Some people still think about it and talk about it though. Being wrong about infinity doesn't run into the same problems as the Dark Ages though, just stoner philosophy and crackpot theories of perpetual motion.
>I could also see arguments for allowing the above for misdemeanors but not felonies.

You'd be surprised at how many petty offenses are considered felonies. Shortly after high school, a friend of mine took a stop sign and put it in his apartment. A few years later, the police came for some reason (he might have gotten robbed) and they saw the stop sign. He was arrested on a felony charge because the stop sign cost more than $500. (the second jaw drop is the stop sign company duped taxpayers at the tune of $500 a sign).
LOL I recognize that. It was a reply to me.

For reference:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15338480
> Authoritarian violence is absolutely an ideology - every group that's ever employed it has been a group with a political utopia.

The “every group...” part wouldn't support the conclusion that it is an ideology rather than mechanism adopted in support of varying and widely divergent ideologies if it were true, and it's also not true, as there are plenty of violent authoritarian regimes in history (and even today) that were not driven by any vision of a “political utopia”.

> And every group that's articulated a political utopia has employed violence.

That's also not true, though every group that has successfully established a government (whether or not they had a utopian vision) has employed violence. OTOH, that also doesn't support your claim. In fact, given that “violent authoritarianism” and merely employing violence at some point are world's apart, it's not even germane to the point, even if it was true.
That's actually where I got the idea!
I don't read the comment that way. If we consider prison terms to be the debt to society when they are complete they should be irrelevant. This means a person's ability to become a Georgetown law professor should not change based on their criminal record. This doesn't imply that all prisoners should become Georgetown law professors.
It's definitely easier. No longer do you have to wait for a book about your turbo C plus plus compiler to arrive from far away to solve a problem. Now you just Google and have an answer so fast.

It probably depends on your industry though, working on new experimental projects has a lot of benefits now because the experiments are talked about in the open on forums like Reddit and Github
Aside from that comment being absolutely repugnant, it's also a very unfortunate and limited way of thinking. Thanks for clarifying. Hang em high sentiment indeed.
I am in a similar situation and made a decision few weeks back. I am a senior engineers with 8 years exp. I was getting frustrated thinking that in few years I was looking at a dead end career. I didn't want to max out as engg. manager or director. I was thinking about production management, primarily because most of my ex-colleagues jumped into product management and they are doing well in their career. I was looking for all possible ways to move to product management but in the end I got an advice from someone:

1) As an engineer, your technical skills are more rewarded and valued. You can quickly learn new skills like AI/Machine learning and will boost your career.

2) There is no guarantee that moving to PM role will boost your career. I feel PM skills are overrated and your success doesn't necessarily depends on your skills. Organizational dynamics & politics will also play a major role. In the few years that you will spend as PM, you will loose your technical skills and moving into a new domain will be a big challenge.

I personally choose to stay in engineering & learn AI/Machine learning and moving up the engineering ladder.
There was this well-publicized case in Canada. A man was beheaded and partially cannibalized in a Greyhound bus [1]. The killer was determined to be not criminally responsible. It was proven that he was suffering from severe mental health issues and did not understand what he was doing. He was sent to a high security mental health facility. There was no death penalty in Canada, so everyone was content for as long as he was behind bars in the facility. But when he was deemed treated in 2015 and scheduled for discharge, people on the internet lost it. They didn't care that he did not knowingly do anything wrong. They said he brutally killed someone and for that he should be punished. Some said they wouldn't mind if "an accident happened to him." Others wanted him behind bars for the rest of his life. Everyone blamed the government and the justice system for bring too soft and naive. It was sad to read the discussions. After seeing that, I have to agree with the commenter you are replying to rather than you. People want an eye for an eye.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean
Double digits of customers is... 10? That is awesome if it's B2B, rather poor if B2C. Revenue is always a really good sign though.
FWIW you can filter results to show just auctions, used items, etc.

The key to eBay, IMO, is setting up good searches and email alerts.
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I believe a teen can be convicted of distributing child pornography for sending a picture of themselves to someone. The legal system terrifies me.
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Whoa, this is amazing too!
The teletypesetter, driving the keyboard with a paper tape, at the end was the icing on the cake.
Or otherwise they know each other for years online. I've seen some good partnerships happen with neither party ever seeing one another.
Sailthru can do that
> It is rather self-serving to say that people following the rules are creating danger

Not so simple.

The rules are created via legislation affected by lobbying.

The AAA for decades have been lobbying to keep speed limits low.

In the perfect world, speed limits would be informed by the 85% percentile speed of engineering surveys.

In reality, it's much different.

If a large number of drivers are driving at a speed higher than a prima facie speed limit, the speed limit could actually be low, in which case, the drivers actually following the prima facie speed limit are creating a hazard to the flow of traffic.
Amazon is, but their customer is themselves. They use 50,000 robots today and that will grow fast.

Google doesn't sell robots. I don't know if they use them, apart from a few for research.
>this will only establish anti-competitive policies as an accepted norm

Wouldn't it have the opposite effect? Quebec subsidized a local industry and lost.
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Agreed. While I'm not a fan of the writing style either, the premise was enough to keep me interested until the end. It wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't too far off the mark for the next 50 or so years.