skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Add to that the fact our society continues to push the idea that the men which women 'really want' are aggressive in initiating sexual situations

This is a big part of the problem. These sexual harassment allegations are almost entirely arising in contexts where sex should be off the table. Society’s expectations of aggressive male behavior are entirely irrelevant.
And here I thought the $90/hour late fee that my child's school imposes was steep (they charge $15 for every 5 minutes after 5:45 PM).
Amazing, Thanks!

Funny, they opened a satellite office right near my apartment and I'd considered applying. Then I heard pretty disconcerting stuff about the environment, and now this. Dodged a bullet, I guess.
Can't speak to Belgian law but in the US, the definition of gambling has 3 elements IIRC: consideration (i.e. something of value the player offers up for the chance to win, usually money), prize(s) (i.e. something of value the player wants to win), and chance (i.e. whether the player wins a prize is primarily determined randomly rather than though application of some skill).

Online games dodge these three elements:

-In terms of consideration, the subscription fee doesn't count because it grants players access to the game world, which includes much more play elements than just the drop system, and the player's time doesn't really count since nothing of value to anyone else results from their play time. Note that this gets more murky for Asian-style gachapon-monetized games where the player directly spends virtual currency purchased with real money to roll for virtual items.

-In terms of prize, the fine print of most online games' TOS say quite explicitly that the player has no property rights or ownership of any items they get within the game.(If this weren't the case, they would have to compensate players for the loss of property when the game closed down or if the player were banned.) Since one doesn't "own" a drop, there's technically no prize per se.

-In terms of chance, most likely gaming companies would argue that killing a mob or raid boss counts as some sort of skill. Again, Asian-style gachapon-monetized games are on much shakier ground here.

That being said, it's not impossible that new legislation could expand these definitions to include online games and it's arguable that they should be; you have to admit that there's something unsavory about intentionally exposing minors to gambling-like systems to hook them into playing your game.

(I am not a lawyer and nothing said above should be construed as legal advice.)
Yeah it'll be interesting to see how this all shakes out.

I used to be pretty Randian/anti-regs but I now see that places like this need to operate under some level of regulation to ensure they aren't massive conduits for money laundering, and are subject to basic rule of law (e.g. following court orders).

The real question is the extent to which people see operating outside the law as a good thing. Sure, it may be cheaper in the short run, but in the long term, having recourse to courts, police, and other standard norms of civilized society might be worth more than people realize.
I feel like uber, google and facebook have competition who steal and violate peoples privacy the most..

Please, do not use these corporations services.
I plug/unplug from my display several times daily, since the MBP connected to it travels with me. Granted, the end of the cable in the monitor typically doesn't move¹

¹well, one of them. The crap LG monitors we have constantly forget about the peripherals that are attached, and one easy way to fix this is to detach/reattach the peripheral. I suspect that the company is never going to RMA these devices, sadly.
It's interesting to think about what this could mean for people. We use these mice because they often are convenient models for humans. Are our moods are just as affected by combinations of lots of little things like these - smells, hormones, chemicals in the cleaners, hair products etc.

On the scary side imagine being able to use this for evil. Spray something like this on your product to manipulate people's hormonal system to respond to it, maybe trigger affection towards it. Even worse, spray it to induce rage or hate for example.
If the higher ups feel the need to communicate how important X is to the company, it is usually because X is on shaky ground. If you knew nothing about X before, you know that about it now. If you think about the reasons behind why the message was communicated, rather than the message itself, you can get a lot more real knowledge out of it.
The race to put blockchain in space
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OK I’m drooling reading comments from people who worked on that software at that time. Sounds like such a blast.
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Could you share the source on that? I'm removing Reddit from many aspects of life but still like several subs but an overwhelmed and don't need all.
My favorite is how 8GB of RAM with 8Gbit chips require x16 chips with dual channel, which matters for Bristol Ridge for example.
I thought it was illegal to conceal breaches. Certainly there should be disclosure requirements for publicly traded companies.
That sounds extremely unlikely. My understanding is that both crew members were essential, so you couldn't just put a warm body in the back seat and let the pilot do all the work. The back seat had all the navigation equipment, for one.
Uh huh. Overt racism & sexism, foreign meddling, systemic disenfranchisement, Johnson & Stein pulling a Nader (+2m votes over 2012), $3b of free earned pro-Trump media, Comey’s sabotage, the electoral college, and 300k opioid addicts voting for the Big Chief were all totally irrelevant.

Nope. HRC was unlikeable. It’s all her own fault.
I remember having to explain to my younger sibling that "yes, you can send an email to a Yahoo address from your Gmail account. No, seriously, try it, I am not kidding." They are much younger than I am and they grew up in a world of walled gardens. To them, that's just the way things are and have always been. It's a shame.
I think it's more the "anti-fact" wing of the media (which does mostly overlap "conservative" on the Venn diagram). Unabashed alt-right agitprop outlets like Breitbart news, for instance, or climate change deniers.

There are a couple different things at play.

First, one plank in their infowar strategy is to combat anything that even indirectly propagates any understanding of climate change among the proles. They take positions even against more-efficient-than-incandescent light bulbs, so this line of attack certainly includes targeting electric cars and solar. Musk is obviously a celebrity of sorts in these areas. Any government help to build solar plants or subsidize non-fossil-fuel alternatives (e.g. electric vehicles) is portrayed as deeply corrupt, a betrayal of American values and working families, etc. Ergo, Musk is bad.

Two, Elon Musk and John McCain have a strong association. Musk has supported McCain and in turn McCain has supported Musk and his business ventures. This is the kind of invest-in-politicians-who-can-help-you relationship that is pretty much a fundamental building block of how the American government works, but it always looks bad to somebody inclined to see it that way. (It's probably also objectively bad that this is how the system works, but anyway it is.) So I think a lot of conservative media that doesn't like McCain (because he is too "establishment" or whatever the reason) have repeatedly brought Musk into it, implying corruption on the part of McCain to help Musk use Russian rocket engines at SpaceX, for example. McCain is bad, ergo his sleazy buddy Musk is also bad.
>Few politicians would want to find themselves working in the climate Trump has found in Washington

I can think of a few: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...

If you think the current sitting POTUS is an innocent victim of politics, then I have a bridge to sell you. Uber has used similar PR tactics in the past to deflect/detract from their actions.
Not quite what you are looking for but the International Labor Rights Forum does a great job of trying to change some of the worst of the worst practices around the world (unfortunately, Uber is unlikely to make a top ten list).

https://ilrf.org/
Funny, that's exactly opposite of my perception.

It seems too volatile to use as a unit of account or store of value, but almost perfect as a medium of exchange.
Is rebasing possible in fossil? I was led to believe it was difficult since the commit history was immutable.
I am a cranky old contrarian. I do not like huge monopolies or monoliths. Github in itself is fine, but it rubs me the wrong way how huge and all-pervading it has become - a sort of Facebook for coders.

Fossil avoids all that, and is, of course, orders of magnitude more manageable than Git. For years, I have been using it for all sorts of personal record-keeping. All sorts - code, yes, but also notes and manuscripts and sketches and what have you. Super-handy tool, with baked-in wiki and ticketing, and everything neatly packed in a single SQLite-file.

Mind you, the new encrypted Git-service in Keybase is sitting there, calling my name.
This whole "net neutrality" thing is overblown and sadly the future of the Internet, a technical endeavor, has been swept up in the idiotic partisanship of the existing two party system. A system that instead of calm reasoning and logic employs slanted and selective "points" to further agendas.

The rules that are being repealed actually enshrined into case law a loophole that allows ISPs to edit which sites are visible as long as they inform customers they are doing so. This case law is now forever on the books even though the rules were temporary. [0]

This is really a battle between tech giants and telecommunication giants. Neither care about you.

[0]: http://reason.com/archives/2017/07/18/net-neutrality-support...
We also have some proof of this belief now. Wells Fargo stopped Wires to Tether on March 30, 2017 and Taiwanese banks stopped all international wires from Tether on April 18, 2017.

Tether has since issued 600 mill new tokens.

Source: https://tether.to/announcement/
Sorry to be a cynic but the likely next phase will be a spate of false accusations and then a backlash. The so far largely credible victims have been receiving a great deal of well deserved attention, but attention is a profound motivator for some people; certainly enough that they'll make things up.

We're in the midst of the storm just now... In the last 48 hours we've seen Charlie Rose implode and Pelosi call for investigations of Conyers. In the last few hours John Lasseter ended up in the spotlight and got LOA-ed out of Disney. It's too early yet, but at some point an accuser will emerge with provably false claims against a popular and sympathetic figure and the worm will turn.

It's just the way of things.
You've already got it! If you are reimaging physical machines, most server class machines have IPMI features that allow reimaging.
https://github.com/u-root/u-root

Let us know if you have any questions. There's a slack channel (see contributing.md) where Ron and I are pretty active.
Not badass-plane exactly, but Bill Weaver's story is another cracker. His SR-71 disintegrated around him (no ejection) at Mach 3.18 and 78,000 feet. He was back in the cockpit two weeks later.

https://theaviationist.com/2015/03/17/sr-71-mid-air-disinteg...
You are talking about Bitfinex, and using 24-hour GDAX volume to support your argument.

Bitfinex has traded 1 trillion (not billion) dollars in volume. How did a hacked exchange with no USD deposit or withdrawal method did it? Answer: wash trading and self-manipulation.
Just yesterday, I got some serious flak for suggesting that changing one person in leadership wasn't enough to make them not evil. I'm sad to see just how bad this is/was, but I'm not one bit surprised.
I imagine the idea was that, despite there being so much "car culture" around Japanese cars, many within the culture aren't aware of these things. I certainly had never heard of JIS screws, and I have worked on the odd Japanese motorcycle now and again.
It sounds like whoever told him the buying drinks doesn't work theory was the original PUA, and then he tried it thought there was something to it but didn't care to continue?
Hyperbole anyone?
Linus' answer is based on a comparison between monotone, implemented in C++, and git, implemented in C.

Monotone uses boost, standard C++ practices, and it's much slower and more bloated than git.

The idea is that, even if git could be written in C++, with similar performance compared to the C version, C++ programmers would invariably end with something closer to monotone than git.
Since they got the same effect with just a male worn shirt present, they should be able to isolate what chemicals cause this particular effect.
All my friends have moved to Lyft -- not for political reasons, even. Just because Lyft is significantly cheaper in all the areas they live.
Loot boxes explicitly use the same associations of slot machines: sight, sound, timing, and color associations combined with having a low cost action (hitting one button) to potentially have a highly desirable reward.

While killing a mob/boss is likely to have associations to the actual play and learning of the game.
Why not both: because debundling and/or demonopolizing cable involves moving against entrenched interests, and the pro-NN forces have just demonstrated they don't have the political strength to get neutrality alone, let alone "neutrality and".

Competitive, non-neutral networks is something that much of the country already has, so it's a smaller, more regional fight you might actually win. You can try for neutrality after that if it means that much to you (but at that point nobody will care because NN is a non-issue in areas with a competitive provider landscape)

Network neutrality is irrelevant to areas that can't support more than one provider, weird rural providers and satellite internet are already exempt from neutrality rules (iirc because they aren't "broadband" in the FCC sense). Those places will continue to have sucky internet until someone wires them out of charity.
I'm almost certain someone created a bot on Reddit that automatically posts the story when anyone, anywhere on the site mentions the SR-71.
Stripping a torx or "star drive" screw takes real effort; switching over was the best thing that ever happened to my mediocre carpentry and framing work.
This reminds me of Feynman's story of the researcher who eliminated possible variables in rat experiments one by one, to find a surprising result (EDIT: To find that rats didn't need smell, spatial relationships, taste, or vision to find the cheese -
the sound of the floor was enough) https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/02/the_rat_experi...
>they have extremely high standards for publishing a story, so you can generally assume that they're accurate

Dangerous assumption for any given story. Skepticism always warranted.
Are you using vi or vim? Have you tried emacs with evil?
Your comment is click bait.
I think you have misinterpreted him. His says there is culture around the cars, not within them. He is expressing surprise that even among aficionados whose self-identity sems defined by modifying and repairing Japanese cars, there is surprisingly little realization that a Phillips screwdriver is rarely the right tool for working on a Japanese product.
The parent question was 15min quick start to emacs, not learn niche usage like reading email, irc etc. You can use spacemacs for a lot of languages with good support, if you are only familiar with vim keybindings.
I’d suggest:

- Regulate that pseudonymous use of transactional services must be permitted (with exceptions for, e.g. banks, universities). You do not need my legal name or telephone number to ship me a package, or accept payment, for example.

- Get explicit, arduous permission from users whenever PII is obtained, if you intend to store it in any way, with exactly what it will be used for.

For existing data, over some long period of time (say, a couple of years) get users to explicitly agree to each use, or delete it.

This could work pretty much like default-off OAuth2.0 scopes. For example, you could give Facebook the ability to know your name for display on the site, but not for exchange with third parties for additional data on you, or for the purposes of advertising.

While the ‘default off’ requirement would reduce the amount of PII in circulation, it would also reduce the _false choice_ between security and privacy that Facebook, Google, Amazon, and others present between privacy and security. Want my telephone number for 2FA? Possibly, but that doesn’t mean that you can use it to buy/exchange a file on me from Equifax/Acxiom/MasterCard/whatever.
Uber employee chiming in - while I entirely sympathize with HN's frustrations around our ethics and can't really justify our actions around this data breach, it is very much worth noting that Lyft would not exist were it not for Uber's extremely aggressive practices. There were/are far too many protectionist policies at play at most locales that -- not out of pure coincidence -- needed a company as aggressive as Uber to pave the path for a better option for both riders and drivers (over existing taxis).

We fought all the battles, took a hit on our reputation and set it up nicely for Lyft who very smartly played along with the nice guy approach to capitalize. Net-net, no Uber would have most likely meant existing taxis everywhere and as most riders/drivers will tell you, there is nothing inherently better about either app, they offer the same, pay the same but vastly differ in perception.

That said, we took our aggressive attitude way too far. In an ideal world, Travis would have evolved or replaced himself a couple of years back once the company essentially reached escape velocity where our consumers themselves became our most fervent supporters. Unfortunately that did not play out and making a near perfect switch like that is probably unlikely.

Given this important context, I hope you will give Uber another chance as in the end, Dara and the employees are genuinely trying to evolve by doing the right things and putting all of this behind us. You can get some sense of this from going to sites like reddit.com/r/uberdrivers (or r/lyft) and seeing the changing perception at least from the driver side of things.
> My non-tech friends are all using Uber / UberEats with no clue about the company, and the CEO

Just like we don't know anything about the CEO of the product making your detergents, the CEO of the brand of clothes you purchase, the CEO of your oven at home... Not knowing about CEOs is rather the norm, not the exception, and ultimately if the product/service is good, the CEO does not matter for most people, or they are only going to care about it in passing and then return to their old habits. GoDaddy is still in business.
Sort of. The A-12 came first. That was more or less a single-seat SR-71, built for the CIA as a spy plane. The Air Force wanted a high-speed interceptor, Lockheed proposed a variant of the A-12, and the YF-12 was born, but never got beyond three prototypes because it ended up being unnecessary. The SR-71 was the Air Force spy plane version of the A-12, enlarged to carry more fuel and two crew.

The interceptor variant is definitely interesting, but it's a side branch of the spy plane lineage.
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> they have both insurance coverage and FDIC coverage on all accounts makes me much more likely to refer people interested in starting w Bitcoin there than anywhere else.

Very misleading statements.

The FDIC coverage does not include any bitcoin wallets.
The bitcoin insurance only covers their hot wallets (something like 2% of all the bitcoin they hold). Yes, cold storage is a bitcoin security best practice, but it obviously does not eliminate the chance that a breach could occur, and if it does, none of that 98% is covered.

With that said, to Coinbase's credit, they haven't been hacked yet, which is actually quite an achievement considering the landscape.
You'd be amazed how many of the accused said things very similar to what you're saying, right up until the point when they themselves were accused. It's not simple at all, people who claim it is are missing a great deal of nuance and, oftentimes, merely projecting this attitude in the hopes of masking their own transgressions.
My visudo had a specific line:

Defaults !insults

Well, that won't do. Now, that's an improvement.
The pyramids were built with emacs. Everything else is drywall to me now. More work? Yes. Worth it though.

I like to say gnu+emacs is my OS, and linux is simply my kernel.

Org-mode alone would be worth it.
You can use tools like Talisman which registers a Git hook to check if you are checking in anything that looks like secret.

https://github.com/thoughtworks/talisman
Were rats as sensitive as mice?
Agreed, looks like a Firebase competitor.
He was probably convinced that the democratic party wanted to assassinate him; "Can't we just drone this guy" is what Hillary Clinton allegedly said. He isn't even a US citizen and the Obama administration already assassinated multiple US citizens.

Compare what happened to Saddam Hussein (put on trial and executed when republicans were in control) versus Gaddafi (sodomized and butchered in the street by US backed rebels when democrats were in control).
personally this article would work way better for me with a set of animated gifs instead of turning into a wall of text. And I'd love to see his workflows for what he puts in his different orgs to help with context switching. as I get more senior I'm switching tasks even more and more.
AT&T accepts $428M per year to bring 10Mbps Internet to rural areas(2015)
> IMO, AssertionErrors should indicate bugs in the called API. ValueErrors indicate bugs in the caller's use of the API.

Yes, I agree with this stance. `ValueError` should be used for user-provided input validation (as well as `TypeError` in some cases). But as it happens, many Python developers use `assert` statements to do input validation, and generally don't provide any error messages in their `assert` statements. I'm suggesting going with `ValueError` (and a nice message) instead.
Last time I had this discussion I was told it's fundamentally against the concept of fossil and that editing history is an antifeature. Also, they claim this provides assistance in meeting regulatory standards, but never saw much more than assertions on that.

You could obviously edit the underlying sqlite data store if you really wanted to, but there is no UI and they consider that a feature. While I'm sure I'm coming off as judgey I can understand their points, even if I feel like it would lead to a mess at every company I've worked at.

It is nice that additional things besides source can be tracked, bug requests for instance.
TLDR: Long story with a moral of document your steps, and read others documentation lest you fall into the same traps they did.
I'm not even talking about KYC or US law or anything else. If you want that, there's Gemini and Coinbase.

I say, fine - run it anonymously from Hong Kong for all I care, just be transparent about assets and liabilities so everyone can see that you're solvent.

If someone did this, wouldn't they quickly take the lion's share of volume away from the sketchy exchanges?
This case describes a boss trying to kiss his female coworkers and touch their legs. It's not difficult. It's not the appropriate environment to do that and the power dynamic is wrong, too. People know better.
> With that said, to Coinbase's credit, they haven't been hacked yet, which is actually quite an achievement considering the landscape.

They have been victims of massive USD chargebacks. I think Coinbase is bleeding so much money to chargebacks that co-founder Fred Erhsam figured out company is never going to turn a profit and resigned.