skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Gun laws, abortion, the trans bathroom thing in NC...all recent issues that the GOP sided on states rights vs. federal regs"

All things they brought up before the current administration took office. All things that they've decided now to defer to the Federal government to, now.

"I think it’s fair to say Democrats would rather have centralized healthcare, gun laws, lgbt policies, and abortion access, rather than leaving it to the states to decide."

To be perfectly honest, it makes absolutely zero sense for some of those, abortion and LGBT policies in particular, to change your basic human rights just because you moved 5 miles.
The Hidden History of Trump’s First Trip to Moscow
Right, isn't that because they are integrated? If you are buying from the google store that has all the info, makes sense. Were you buying from a microsoft store as well? Just wondering because I agree if that is the case, otherwise, there is no integration there. But cool that google has it. I was under the impression is was just some random feature to track a package, my bad if so.
You don't have to be that cynical, they waive the requirements whenever they feel like it. https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-trump-administrat...
Modern Postfix replacement to send large volumes of emails – ZoneMTA
So... if you climb over, you get to space? That would be so awesome
As a start I'm looking for a different tradeoff in regards of presentation and screen utilization (screen real state is a really scarce asset in this kind of tool).

This being a new tool the feature set is currently quite limited, and I'm exploring differentiation possibilities in there too.
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You know, if this was true, half of congress wouldn't be there. You forget about gerrymandering and establishment party politics keeping people who are amiable to telecoms in power.
Net neutrality is not an arbitrary rule.
Specifically 3 "I'm not sure what I would do after I finish that work (what the next step is)", has definitely been something I've personally identified in the past. This article is actually the first time I've seen anyone else identify it as well.

For me personally, this list is pretty much spot on.
There’s a simple explanation:

You’re getting older, more conservative and more averse to change. It’s ok, it happens.

As part of this you’re also likely over-estimating the danger and underestimating the benefits.

I’m sure every self-driving car death will (and should be) scrutinized heavily. But remember there’s between 30,000 and 50,000 auto deaths every year. I’m betting self-driveing cars will do better.
>The number of bugs are proportional to the lines of code, this is undeniable from empirical data. Ergo, fewer lines of code will tend to yield fewer bugs. So if your code is literally the same, there's no reason not to extract it into a function.

Except you've added a dependency that connects two pieces of code that were independent before.
This article is founded on bad research. Research that considers only what it costs to have a consult with a doctor. The same research does not consider what it costs that doctor to become and remain a doctor. Those costs are borne much more directly by the physician in the US, whilst in the other countries discussed it is far more diffused into the public tax burden.

In other words, the entire article is built on sand.
Thanks for your feedback. I will look into that.
There's a great book about (what might be) the general problem here: that there are many factors that keep us at a bad equilibrium, where a bunch of people would have to change at once to accomplish anything.

https://equilibriabook.com/toc/

Here, I think it's something like, "insurers move very slowly to new systems, and until this new testing has a lot of data behind it, they won't adjust premium. to account for it being better. Furthermore, juries will continue to give punishingly big damage awards for using it, on the mistaken believe that a toker shouldn't be on the job even if he wasn't high and passed the reaction test."
I don’t know if you lost format or context moving from Disqus but I found this largely unreadable.

Of the parts that were readable, I find myself strongly disagreeing with a majority of your paragraphs, notably:

- I don’t see how Crowdstrike vs NSS has any relevance in this at all, especially given the preamble on Troy’s site. Reasonable people can disagree on the outcome of that case (as a former Crowdstrike employee, I can acknowledge my own biases there), but I just don’t see how it’s relevant.

- Similarly, I don’t see how formally recognizing Torvalds and RMS does anything meaningful, and I can think of a dozen other researchers who have had objectively more concrete contributions to SECURITY than those two.

- Whitelisting every url pattern isn’t going to ever be a viable solution - in large part because the white lists will eventually be regexes and people are bad at regex.
Link: https://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstracti...
Oh yes. I have tried to introduce jupyter notebooks with pandas to data analysts so many times, but they always want to do it in excel.
The number of bugs are proportional to the lines of code, but shared code can massively multiply the cost of making a change, because of the risks involved.

Sometimes duplication is worth it simply because it reduces the impact of changes.
Back when I was at MSN everything become oriented at delivering Bing searches at all costs, so whoever did this probably boosted their stats, got a 4.5 on their review, and now nobody dares improving the behaviour lest they have to justify the millions of lost Bing queries per day.
In the early days, I fairly sure you had to manually request a payout. Even when automatic payouts were added, the default thresholds to trigger a payment were at what would now be a fairly significant amount.
> The sad reality is there's not much we, Eric Schneidermann or anyone else can do about it.

If the FCC is cooperating with criminals to cover up fraud, can they be RICO'd?
As someone who is going through the process of building a van to live in... this is a terrible resource. Better ones are:

- Almost anything on https://www.reddit.com/r/vandwellers/

- http://www.alwaystheroad.com/conversion-ebook/

- http://www.sprinter-rv.com/sprinter-rv-conversion-sourcebook...

- http://vandwellers.org/

- https://www.campervanlife.com/
I feel this in my soul. I work on a JavaScript project now where sometimes two duplicate pieces of code are “refactored” into one function unnecessarily. Just because there are two similar lines doesn’t mean they need to be their own function/class/whatever, especially when it makes it harder to generalize later when you need similar code that DOESN’T make sense to lump in with that abstraction.

I keep having to simplify the code and it’s exhausting.
I like internet freedom much better. So do the politicians looking to dress wolves in sheep's clothing.
I think this factor is overplayed sometimes. Why can't people simply be lazy and not driven or motivated enough to overcome that laziness? It doesn't help that internet and TV feeds into that laziness and lack of motivation by providing quick escapes from thinking about what needs to be done.
maybe I live in a bit of a bubble as a techie

Your post takes the "new media" vs "old media" narrative at face value, and it looks like you identify with one of the teams.

I might be in this world too, but I came in before Facebook was created, and out of happenstance never wound up working at the current school of popular but criticized companies. For this fight, I don't have the kind of connection that sets my position before I know what the arguments are.

This editorial is just another point in the slow process of the rest of the world starting to notice the things that - just a few years ago - they used to brand people as paranoid conspiracy theorists for caring about.

I just don't see people (even among my very non-techie friends / acquaintances) saying "Wow, WTF is wrong with (Google|Facebook|Amazon|Microsoft|Instagram|Snapchat|Uber|$Whoever)?

Most people are ill-equipped to understand that they've been owned inside out. We've been watching it in slow motion for a decade, regular people don't understand what is happening. This article is an attempt by one editorial board to spread their assessment of what is happening to us.

Secondly, Like most things in the status quo that people are powerless to change, but are ill-informed about and/or don't have their political team teaching them to dislike it, their assessment is "I guess it couldn't be that bad."
Their metric is "deaths per billion vehicle miles travelled", so yes, I think it's a fair comparison.

It naturally scales up and down to match the amount of driving that happens in different countries.

I'm only deeply familiar with the US and UK, but the contrast there is pretty stark. I routinely see people on their phones or driving drunk in the US. Those do happen in the UK but they're a lot rarer.
That is not how the credit reporting laws work, but it's how the system works.

That process is extremely flawed and unreliable. Have you ever tried disputing your credit? good fucking luck. I've been arguing with Equifax for over a year because they "have it on record" that I lived somewhere that I've never lived. I have no legal recourse unless I want to spend thousands of dollars on lawyer fees.
> That isn’t realistic in this decade for rural/remote areas.

Not OP, but I recently lived in a rural area and had 3 options for Internet:

* Mediacom cable with permanent 20-50% (or more) packet loss

* CenturyLink DSL at 1mbps (not a typo)

* Local wireless company, 7mbps, no packet loss

About 2 decades ago I worked for a different wireless ISP (same rural area) that delivered the best local service by FAR. (Cable wasn't yet an option, and satellite had crazy latency.) So wireless was superior ~2 decades ago in that rural area as well as recently, for many people. So I don't know what you mean by wireless being "[unrealistic] in this decade for rural/remote areas."

My position is that municipal fiber is the way to go, but give wireless ISPs credit because they're helping a lot of people get on the Internet who would barely have connectivity otherwise.
A company that didn't benefit from his appointment. Is that crazy to expect? Is it really that hard to find?
> We can't. It is absolutely not in the public's interest to allow just anyone to dig up roadsides and bury cable

Yes you can. Have the municipality be the one responsible for running fiber from reaidences to common access points. The the ISPs all have equal access and you can change ISPs very easy.

But again, politics and encumbent ISPs will prevent this.
The time filters are broken for me - clicking on '1h' results in a plot of about 3 days.
You perfectly articulated the opposition to Real ID. I usedto share your views.

Then I created regional health exchanges and worked in election integrity policy (voter registration databases).

Without guids, there is no way to both link demographic records across systems AND encrypt those records at rest.

I’d be okay with a handful of id (guid) issuing authorities per use case. Voting, health care, pension, etc.

I very much wanted infratructure for faceted identities (personas) which could not be correlated. But now I don’t think such a thing is possible. I believe, but cannot prove, that Big Data will always win the privacy vs deanonymization arm’s race.

PS- Corps like Facebook, Lexis/Nexus, NSA, etc have already uniquely identified everyone living and dead. My proposal daylights that fact, restoring power to the people, and insisting that our data is encrypted at rest.
Absolutely not. Non-MDs don't have slightly less medical knowledge, they have orders of magnitude less.

This proposal will cost lives, and since you've just promoted it, it's now blood on your hands.
Not into the arms of a large company they were regulating. It means they have a massive conflict of interests.
That's a completely different topic altogether, though. Even if there were 100 ISPs, Net Neutrality would still be an issue. When there was plenty of competition among long distance phone carriers (back when people needed to worry about that kind of thing), there still was "phone neutrality", meaning that no phone operator could slow down or otherwise interfere with your call based on who you were calling, what provider they had, or anything like that. Net Neutrality is the exact same thing.
Everyday people commute from all over England to London, via train.
>Yes, DSLs are typically easier to read, but only after you come to understand the primitives of the language.

Quoting user quotemstr here:

"Every program is a DSL. What do you think you're doing when you define types and functions except make a little DSL of your own? (...) Programming, in large part, is an exercise in language creation."
In the USA there may be one or two more layers but "lobbying" often boils down to "bribery" in the end. It's just not quite so flagrant.
It's a great principle and I reference it frequently, but as a catchy buzzphrase it has the potential to do as much harm as good: it's easy to abuse as an excuse for copy paste programming.

Duplication is still bad, and correct abstractions are still good.
OpenMandriva Lx 3.03 released
> If you can convict of high treason anybody who speaks publicly about what the NSA does, why would anyone at Google, Microsoft or other companies working with the NSA have any incentive to say anything?

This is where your rhetoric is getting ahead of the facts. The Snowden leaks were published in American newspapers. Company officers from each of those businesses publicly berated the NSA. FBI national security letters did force companies to disclose information about foreign intelligence targets, but this is not because of secret NSA powers, it's from a law passed by Congress.

> When you work for the government (and furthermore of the military establishment), as I said earlier, you can bring down a whole new level of pressure that money itself cannot buy.

What does the military have to do with Software-as-a-Service providers? Can you name an instance when the modern military provided a chilling effect or seriously impacted these services?
Do you not fear that regulatory capture would leave us with the worst of both worlds?
On skinnerware (Richard Garfield: "A Game Player's Manifesto")
No. If I buy a package from Amazon and the tracking information goes to my gmail account, Google Now cards will automatically show my tracking numbers with links to view full tracking information.
>I really do not want my family to be the brave eggs we had to crack to get to the omelet of a driverless future.

Simple way to avoid that:

Make a law that requires the
CEO CTO and all the engineers and their family
Who built the driverless cars
To all drive around in their driverless cars / bike / walk around those driverless cars
For a non negligible amount of time

No reason they should take the upside and public takes the downside.
> The sad reality is there's not much we, Eric Schneidermann or anyone else can do about it.

If Ajit Pai continues to obstruct investigations, I would consider it obstruction of justice. That's something that an Attorney General should seriously consider in the current light.
Yeah, it's the obvious choice for him, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't set up perverse incentives.
It's pretty normal. My town has its own ISP. But they're not allowed to provide service outside certain zones, because Comcast already provides service there.

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2016/mar/15/h...
This article reads like PR spam...
The amount of time makes reference of the length of each candle.

Perhaps I should look into some way of making that more clear.
How can I disable Cortana?

I've tried and failed. I don't know why it is necessary an auxiliar app just to index my executables just to be able to type a few letters and start them quickly.
Tesla launches powerbank alongside new truck and roadster
Meg Whitman joined eBay when it had 30 employees. Even if it ended up worth tens of billions of dollars instead of hundreds of billions of dollars, I think she really deserves a lot of credit for its success.
Power and prestige are another aspect.

If companies like Equafax held only collections of public records (facts) then a 'breach' like this would have no consequences; all of the data would already be public.

What presently gives them power and what makes this breach so bad, is that these facts are used as proxies for an actual form of identification/authentication.

A national ID based on strong cryptographic solutions and issued to all citizens, preferably with their own private keys being also signed by the government if they desire, is how we properly enable digital signatures and progress to an age where forgery of identity is far more difficult.
Or, also within the realm of possibility, Trump flip flops on his positions to side with the Dems, just because he doesn't want to be seen as being out of power.
They're an example although I would argue that, in this case, "properly used" equates to not used at all. Also cigarettes were the subject of long drawn-out legal cases and a substantial settlement so they're something of a unique product.
Completely disagree. In most of the companies, unless it is a strict hierarchy, a 'junior' should be able to tell a 'senior' that his approach is wrong or propose a different solution. Now the 'junior' might be correct or incorrect, that is why the 'senior' should be a level-headed person so that he/she can recognize his/her mistake or correct the 'junior' without insulting him/her.
> Your blog is acceptable to me

That is literally the nicest thing anyone has ever said about my blog.

(Realistically I probably should have started different sites as my circumstances/interests changed, but it's my blog and I'll do what I want)
I don't think those are good examples of states' rights legislation. Just because some NC Republican state Senators enacted a bathroom bill doesn't necessarily mean those Senators think the issue should be left to the states to decide, they could well prefer that their bathroom bill be made federal policy. Pushing legislation at the state or local level instead of federal can simply be a strategic decision rather than an ideological one.

If US Senators pass bill that explicitly delegates something to the states to decide, that's an example of states rights. If US Senators back a bill that explicitly overrides state laws, that's an example of federal regulation.

(It's actually interesting that you bring up the bathroom bill, because it actually is an example of centralizing power. The bill explicitly prevented local and city governments from adopting a different policy. Just an interesting aside.)

> I think it’s fair to say Democrats would rather have centralized healthcare

Obamacare specifically allows individual states to choose whether or not to participate in Medicaid expansion, and gives the money for Medicaid directly to the states to use as they see fit. That's a pretty clear example of states rights in action.
Google will track packages based on emails in gmail. I works OK for amazon, so, i.e. the vast majority of all packages shipped (mild exaggeration). It works a little less will but not this terribly for less conventional shipping confirmations.

I don't think I've ever seen it work as well as just going to the delivery services website, however - so it's critical that it's relatively bug free and low-overhead.
All right, keep the good work!
Is this free or does it cost $29 per month?
He could be writing blog posts and making videos to supplement. His writing isn't bad.
It's actually probably an easier sell outside of major population centers, especially if marketed as an advanced form of cruise control, which people already use on long, straight shots down country highways.

I think people would be much more inclined to trust self driving tech in these scenarios than in congested traffic with complex intersections and people unexpectedly darting this way and that with little to no warning.
Honestly, that was the weirdest moment. Plenty of people are foolish enough to try to threaten reporters, including by threatening their sources - it's a bad idea, but not exceptional.

But effectively blackmailing an employee while on a call with a reporter you've already threatened? Surely even the biggest bully should be able to see how that'll work out.

(And, of course, a PR flack could probably explain how "off the record" works, and why it should have started both conversations.)
> Every time the topic comes up, you bring up the Medicare funding issue. Every time I explain why that doesn't seem to make sense: you can balance demand and supply by passing some of the costs on to the resident[1]; many will still gladly accept this because of the extreme returns to becoming a doctor.

And every time, I've explained that there aren't "extreme returns" to becoming a doctor. After accounting for all the expenses that physicians are required to pay out-of-pocket (which are not tax-deductible, due to AMT), the expected take-home pay is lower than what a mid-career engineer at Google or Microsoft makes, And the debt load is already high enough that it's discouraging people from entering the field[0][1][2], due to both the size and the risk..

Making medicine an even riskier bet (by taking on an even larger debt load with a longer time horizon) isn't going to solve any of that; it'll just lower the overall quality. At that point, it's more efficient to talk about NPs and PAs than piling on more debt to physicians.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15758833

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15757466

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15758984
I really hope Lyft can take advantage of all the mistakes Uber has made.

I wonder if it is a good time to start a role at Uber or Lyft? I’m not sure which one I would pick.
Announcing Tip, Q&A on the Blockchain
It also shows the package tracking information on the Home tab as a card. The flow that the Notebook tab tells Cortana what to pay attention to and the Home tab shows information about the things Cortana is paying attention is a subtle one, but I suppose one UX designers would assume people pick up that Notebook acts like a giant Settings area and Home is the focus area.

Also, there is a happy path where Cortana does pick up things like tracking numbers from email automatically without having to manually enter them into the Notebook. Though it's easy to miss that happy path, because it also surfaces primarily as cards on the Home tab. (Though Outlook.com now has deeper, more direct, integration than that, showing the tracking cards directly above the email; Outlook (OG) has something like that in Preview, though not yet Cortana connected, and the Windows Mail app looks like it will pick up the feature eventually, too.)
"I’m betting"
Thats the problem. How do you know? When you have family, and people you care about, thats not 'conservative'. Thats the reality of being human. If 'change' means that consumers become the testing grounds for unsafe technologies, then yeah, I'll be plenty 'adverse to change'. These technologies do not require people to die to be made.
Looks great, what did you build this with?
Maybe they don’t learn, maybe they don’t care: it’s how they play ball in their home court, they bet they can do it elsewhere too.
I don't see this happening at all. The smaller issues help people understand the importance of the bigger ones.
As of 2015, there were 9 car models without recorded deaths - https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/record-9-models-have-...

I'm not sure how statistically significant the numbers are, but it's something!