skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not if you do the equivalent of hanging a sign on the front door saying "please come in". Which I would argue is the equivalent of what you are doing by putting your content on a communication protocol designed to make it freely available.

Indeed, such behavior is reminiscent of one of the oldest tourist scams in the book, no doubt experienced by anyone who has traveled the world in any amount.

That is to say, the mark is offered something for free, usually some trivial trinket, or a photo, or something like that. The mark believes it is for free and accepts it. Once the mark has accepted the "free" item, then the scammer changes tune and implies that they should be paid for this exchange, playing on the marks feelings of guilt, obligations and fairness.

Apparently this is now a respectable internet business model. Hah!
Well, yes, obviously, in order to know something you have to know it!?

What I don't understand is what any of that has to do with any sort of "correctness"?!

How do you find out the correct name of James Miller? How do you find out the correct domain of google.com? That just seems like a set of nonsensical questions to me.
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I got into a conversation once that I think frames this well. We had WILDLY different views on whether going to Mars was a good idea (like, violently polar opposite views). The strength of our disagreement surprised me.

I was arguing that we should “race to Mars”, mainly because the value of having a second planet dramatically increases the odds of survival for our the human race, as a whole. Thus Mars is one of the highest importance activities we could possibly be focusing on.

My friend was countering that all the rich people escaping to Mars made them not care about Earth and their fellow citizens, and was just about the most abhorant act he could think of.

He’d rather see everyone die together on Earth than a small group people live (at least it’d be fair). I’d be happy to sacrifice 95% of the humans alive today as long as some live somewhere (I’m ambivolent about who they are, I presume there’s a formula to be found?).

I think my view is more that of Silicon Valley/entrepreneur/programmer types. These people (me, etc) want the best long term outcome and will take big actions towards that, even knowing it’ll cause some short term pain.

I don’t think ‘regular’ people think like that. They generally care more about the people around them, their own pain, their tribes, their cities, etc. (But not at all about trillions of as yet unborn humans.)

I think it’s easy to label Silicon Valley as “unethical monsters” who’re out for themselves. But Assuming we’re talking about the crime of “innovation without regard for effects” (as opposed to ACTUAL rulebreaking, like theft, assault, fraud, which I assume the Valley is no worse for than anywhere else in the world), the intentions of entrepreneurs aren’t evil or unethical, they just care more about the survival of the entire race than, today’s people.

I also think a lot of hackers/builders/entrepreneurs, for all the optimism they have about growth and innovation, are simultaneously very realistic/pessimistic about all the various ways our race is fundamentally screwed, and kinda recognises they need to be more powerful and have more resources in order to do anything about that.

Startups are more about “getting us out of this fine mess were in” than money.
That's not diplomacy, it's bullying. There is a distinction.
My guess is someone didn’t double-check the account name that had received 1000 abuse flags in the last half hour and just followed procedure.
Well, it's a warship. In their defense, they really have to plan for people dying and part of the ship being destroyed.
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> people hate paywalls .... An automatic cryptocurrency micropayment system

and yet they are willing to expend more electricity, at a huge inefficiency, to produce vastly less monetary value to the site. I would rather just pay the 1cent.
Not really the same thing. In your first link, the court found that, for environmental reasons, the areas where the picketers were located should be considered public space, and therefore First Amendment protections apply. They're not claiming that the company must uphold people's 1A rights, but that the company does not actually have full legal control of that land.

(In addition, I believe acts like picketing an employer are specifically protected by law.)
"The world-wide population of human beings skidded so sharply we were down to roughly a thousand reproductive adults."

This is a completely mind blowing idea that humans were down to a count of about 1000 adults. Look at us now at 7 billion, and we just can't stop warring with our fellow relatives.
"The real problem is people selling short-term benefits over long-term consequences."

No, that's not it at all. If that's all it was, then I'd have no qualms or quibbles; that's a choice for each individual to make. The power of the secondhand-smoke argument is that it catapults this debate out of the realm of individual choice. Now those nefarious smokers are harming you, too! They must be stopped!

This is the key you need to unlock smoking bans. You can't get any of that done without the overreach on secondhand smoke.
how could it not use real money (i.e, it has no monetary value), and yet be an acceptable form of payment?
I don't think that would work out for many people in homes. Many places are under city/county ordinances that would forbid a lockbox solution. For example, those living in Alameda County technically only allowed to have landscaping-related objects in the first 20' from their property line, which is the setback for a typical lot [1]. Unless you have a big porch, you're SOL for a place to put a decently sized lockbox.

This of course varies by location, but the point is there are typically rules in place to prevent people from using the front of their house for storage.

Not to mention HOA ordinances which can be much more restrictive.

[1] https://www.acgov.org/cda/planning/ordinance/documents/R-1_D...
Wikipedia article on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory#Geneti...

The Toba supereruption does correlate with a population decline, but evidence beyond that isn't very conclusive.
> If cryptotocurrencies continue down this path, it’s quite likely these types of organizations could cease to exist. Resulting in a huge energy savings.

These people will still be employed, and other people will be consuming energy maintaining bitcoin farms, designing new mining hardware, etc.
I use this in conjunction with Auth to use as low speed VPN to access home resources, and also for IRC gateway. No port fowarding configured!
Well, yeah, sure ... so how would that be any different with tor hidden services?
I see this as a valid point. You don't need Tor for that, any local app could proxy a connection that way. But, yes, it is a useful side effect of Tor.
Surprised no one has mentioned StackOverflow Docs, which was recently shut down as a failure. I unfortunately panned it at launch but it seems they devoted significant resources to the dead product.

StackOverflow Sunsetting Documentation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14917765

Why I think they targeted the wrong market:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12399438

tl;dr:

- it doesn't make sense to donate open-source docs to an offsite corporate service that might shut down

- also, the very common complaint that SO has poor moderation, groupthink doesn't work for docs like it does for one-topic answers
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This question was asked two years ago on HN. I'd like to see some new responses. Non-fiction and fiction (e.g., 1984) both welcomed.
I don't know much about socialist Romania, but if they were like USSR, the crime would be 1) stealing the parts to make the computers, and 2) actually selling them. The Soviet criminal code actually had an article in it titled "Private business activity and commercial brokerage".
> If one of those persons was a loved one of your own, would you want him to get the death penalty?

No, I wouldn't. That seems like an easy way out for them. Why should I have to live a life of pain and suffering from my loss and they don't?
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There was a big ferry accident involving a similar transfer of control problem in the New York harbor.
Is there a purpose to the display being so colorful? If AP were the only green thing and the others were monochrome it would stand out more.
So do other navies have a single person steering their ships like you advocate?
That's an opinion not a statement of fact.

The fact is that Mac sales are growing which contradicts your opinion.

And as the owner of a MacBook Pro 2015 and 2017 which I both use everyday I would disagree with your opinion.
In other words, the ABI you have is the ABI that got used, not the ABI you thought you were building.
> I mean he did wish for people to get the death sentence earlier today, Im sure that goes against Twitters Code Of Conduct

I doubt it. There is a prohibition on promoting violence, but it seems pretty clear that it has an implicit exception for violence that is legal. Otherwise you'd see them throwing people off for various tweets about boxing, football, jousting, and other sports that involve people committing violent acts on other people.

The death penalty is legal in the US. Tweeting that you think someone who is accused of committing crimes for which that is a possible penalty should receive that penalty is almost certainly going to fall under that implicit exception.
Fair point and you're (obviously) spot-on for the attacks and very valid point on the names used.

It's a problem with most learning resources, you get what you put it. Most people get out of these exercises one of these two things (or both):

#1 a real understanding of the issue (best case scenario)
#2 awareness that encrypted/signed doesn't mean bulletproof.

Worst case scenario, I think these exercises help people with #2 and may get them to look a bit deeper when they are reviewing applications. It's not meant to be a crypto training (IANAC), the goal is to help people gain some awareness around crypto issues they may encounter during an assessment.
It isn't "newly discovered." Even the article title doesn't say that. It is a new species, as in "newly recategorized as a separate species." Big difference, and the title on HN is essentially clickbait.
Genuine question here:

Are there defamation or slander laws in the US? How does that reconcile with the First Amendment?
The "big void" in the pyramids is very symbolic of the false deities of the Egyptians. Those worthless voids lead to slavery, suffering, and death. Its quite fitting the secular extremists in the US gov use the "big void" pyramid on their seal while they're forcibly freeing us from Elohim's wholesome and life giving ways. Secular = a big void of Elohim.

The ancient Egyptians were not genius, not creative, not illuminated, with one exceptional time: When Joseph and his illuminated relatives like Moses were guiding the Pharaoh. Without him, they would have starved from famine. And when his relatives left, they were driven by their prideful rebellion against Elohim to their deaths at the bottom of the Red Sea. Don't worship the tombs of failures, even if they're big and the world calls them great. Great failures maybe, forever documented in Exodus.
> The alternative is that Microsoft has complete control over what software can run on any Windows PC.

That would be the relatively little known (and new) Windows 10 S, where only apps from the Windows Store can be installed or run. Designed for security (?) and to compete with Chromebooks.

See also Windows RT
About 15 years ago I was supporting an IC used in a consumer product. Our first big customer designed it in and from Feb through middle of August we fielded a constant stream of questions, spent a countless hours tracking down and solving obscure bugs in the silicon. And then in the middle of august all the calls just stopped and in the middle of Sept we got the news that they were punting to Q1. Six month delay because they didn't feel comfortable handing over the pre-production units to the buyers.

Okay so that was a scuddy consumer product that sold for $150 retail. But at 1M units a year. Tesla's trying to go full production with a product that is 100 times more complicated. But at 100k/year.

The other funny bit is no one bats an eye when a traditional automaker delays a new model for a year or two. You see a press release in 2013 about the brand new 2015 model. And 2015 rolls around and it's now delayed till 2016, then 2017. Anyone want to guess why that happens? Oh yeah.
I'm really surprised that we're missing one really simple solution:

Better, real-time truck-tracking information for user expecting a delivery.

When you request an Uber or Lyft, you see where the car is and exactly when it will be at your door. FedEx/UPS/Amazon trucks certainly are being driven with intelligent GPS systems which instruct a certain predictable route... share this data with the user so they know when you're be at the door - and possibly, give them the ability to input preferred time through an app ("I won't get home until 2p.m., can you be an hour or two late")
>Startups are more about “getting us out of this fine mess were in” than money.

I think this is a very naive view; novel new ways to share vapid content on the internet and unnecessarily internet-connected junk are getting nobody out of any sort of mess.

There are a few aspirational startups, but the vast majority follow The Cartman Plan: http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/5457c9ae6bb3f7d33da...
Yeah, my company requires something like that if you want to access their stuff from your phone. By doing so you enable them to erase (non-company) stuff from your phone and monitor it. Most employees just say no at that point.
Complexity doesn't come from abstraction, but rather from the lack of simultaneously short and precise descriptions of how things work. C++ isn't complex because “it's flexible enough to support several programming styles” or whatever nonsense. It's complex because its features are all bolted on, rather than parts of a coherent design from the ground up.
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This isn’t about free speech, Twitter can kick Trump off its platform for whatever reason they want, including that the President of the United States is breaking their TOS. It’s their platform, the President isn’t required to get special treatment.
There's a prototype Mirage based DNS server that does that, Jitsu. See there:
http://www.skjegstad.com/blog/2015/08/17/jitsu-v02/

Quote:
"Jitsu - or Just-in-Time Summoning of Unikernels - is a prototype DNS server that can boot virtual machines on demand. When Jitsu receives a DNS query, a virtual machine is booted automatically before the query response is sent back to the client. If the virtual machine is a unikernel, it can boot in milliseconds and be available as soon as the client receives the response. To the client it will look like it was on the whole time."
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I want to know more about that.
“Most demographers say we will hit 9 billion before we peak...”

I believe this thinking is very out of date at this point.

The 2017 UN Population Prospect report has the World population at 11.2 billion and still climbing by 2100. The population of Sub-Saharan Africa alone is projection to be over 4.1 billion which I have to imagine will be nothing short of a cataclysm if it actually gets to that. The data here is stunning:

https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Graphs/
> Free speech isn't important because it's in the Constitution, it's in the Constitution because it's important.

Also for almost everyone on Earth it's not "in the constitution" because we don't live in the US.
Other points notwithstanding, Sayfullo Saipov is not an American citizen.
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Given the number of accounts that I've seen indefinitely suspended for a report storm that were honestly quite reasonable, this seems likely to me.
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Some of the colors do have a rationale. The blue and brown background are actually the attitude indicator display. Blue is sky. Brown is ground. There is now an option available that renders the terrain you're over so you can "see" outside via the PFD even in clouds, e.g.:

http://glasspilot.com/2008/08/is-synthetic-vision-a-game-cha...

But the other colors I think are just "because they can." There are a lot of IMHO stupid aspects of the G1000 UI design. (To be fair, the G1000 has to many features that designing a good UI for it is a real challenge.)
Hmm, after skimming the white paper, it seems like what you are doing is you are having your consensus algorithm be that Nodes simply vote on what they believe to be the current blockchain.

How does this solution respond to someone spinning up a thousand nodes, and simply voting for their double spend attack?

In part of the paper it is states that " In a BigchainDB network, the governing organization behind the
network controls the member list, so Sybil attacks are not an issue.", which is directly contradictory to your statement that it is decentralized.

A decentralized network has no "governing organization".
Yeah, I don't see how you can put a good spin on saying that you don't care if 95% of humanity dies.

Treating people equally means it only solves 5% of the problem. Probably far less than that. It rounds to zero.
I honestly don't think Trump could ever get kicked off Twitter at this point, he saved their failing company, he can do whatever he wants. Special privilege sure, but it's not our choice.
Now I can imagine it :P
I have watched users blindly click past dialogs that must have been showing up for them daily for years without ever showing the consciousness to click the "Do not show me this again" checkbox that has always been on that dialog.

:headwall:
Social connections (social capital?) is also how poor people survive everyday setbacks that others would pay their way out of, a “social stockade” would be debilitating.

Debilitating your debtor IMHO seems counterproductive for getting a loan repaid. But is the harm it would cause even an unforeseen coincidence - the guy might have heard some of the studies on how crucial social connections are in poverty and gone "aha! Here's something that truly matters to them, it could be wielded as a cheap big stick in loan repayments"
Beautiful and intricate, but also hard to love. Milton is a spectacular poet, but there's something about the poem that kept me from appreciating it beyond its aesthetics. It's similar to Dante's epic in that sense, lovely and complex, but also so lofty and serious that it felt like it wasn't written for mere mortals like me.

That said, I still think it deserves its place in world literature as one of the testaments to human creativity.
> Free speech isn't important because it's in the Constitution, it's in the Constitution because it's important.

Currently basically facedesking at never coming up with this phrasing of it myself. Filed under "good enough that it's obvious as soon as you've seen it".

Thank you.
I would've agreed with this except that my parents, who only do exactly that, decided to buy a new one because they said the old one was starting to feel slow. It's exactly as fast as it is the day I gave it to them for that kind of stuff but they went to the Apple Store to get my dad's phone serviced and they played around with one of the demo units. My dad commented on how much faster it felt and BAM, they walked away with a new iPad and a replacement iPhone (out of warranty but cheaper than a new one).
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Majority of are just excuses. Sure there are some people who legitimately can't exercise but majority can if they had the will power. Just look at The rock/Kevin hart, they are travelling, shooting and still sneaking in their workouts. You don't need to be a meat head like them to live a healthy life-style, a 45 minute work out is good enough. I personally feel people don't want to accept that it is their own fault that they are not living healthy life style and thus blame it on external circumstances.
> Saipov came to the United States in 2010 on a diversity visa, the Department of Homeland Security said. He has since become a legal permanent resident.

While not a "citizen" essentially, excluding voting rights.
I'm not sure it's about how shallow the network is; even logistic regression can be fooled by the same techniques (e.g. 1-layer NN). That being said, maybe it does have something to do with linearity (I suspect not) or maybe it's just generally harder to deal with nonlinear functions.
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Great story. I love the future.
PBS is a non-profit non-governmental entity. It has no obligation to follow the bill of rights.
The most overtly political act most software engineers are likely to make is to choose GPL over BSD or vice-versa.

Walk away from a cool idea for ethical reasons? Risk their salary or their safety? I'm sure such engineers must exist, but they're not among any I've ever known.

Unfortunately, I am rather pessimistic. We're in this Orwellian/Huxlean dystopia for a reason.
I'm mildly amused that you bemoan "liberal outrage" while being outraged about your Lord and Savior being accidentally banned from a social network for 10 minutes.
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I made the same thing for Node.js but without credentials. The main gotcha is that your spreadsheet is public (but unlisted). It also has some basic commands to use it as a Mongo database, or just use the array of data:

https://github.com/franciscop/drive-db/

I also made a small tutorial of how to use it:

https://serverjs.io/tutorials/spreadsheet/