skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes, at a certain point in the sophistication of the economy, there should be some system that leads us to have a few judges who have reasonable expertise in one area or industry (aside from bankruptcy and of course the law). I suspect that the hard part here is avoiding the same type of regulatory capture that you see with executive agencies. Both Wheeler and Pai worked in the telecom industry before leading the FCC. I suspect that the fact that judges are appointed for live/good behavior would help a bit with this.

I think this has happened by coincidence a few times actually. I know that back in the early 1800s, the District of Massachusetts handled a ton of fishing/whaling related cases.
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When you want a color that isn't available. Or when you want a bulk of a color and don't want to pay the retail cost.
It's not tax evasion if they are following the law.
The key word he used is, that allmost everyday people get vaporized by US drones, who are clearly innocent but are just foreigners and so the outcry happens when a US citizen got hit, who probably was one of the bad guys.
He criticizes the unbalance and did not said, that also that guy deserved a trial.

But on the other hand, there is a war going on. And in a war you can't really held a trial for every person you shoot while in a COMBAT .. but if you have a death lists of people you are planning to kill, then yes, if you claim to base your actions on human rights and freedom etc. you should prove that those persons actually are the enemy.
Otherwise the step into dictatorship with deathsquads will be only a matter of time, if the best way of problem solving is secretly killing people the government claims to be bad.
Blame the “how” all you want but the primary blame is in the “who”.

The industry has grown much larger and more quickly than the talent base. If the NBA were to suddenly add 200 teams, the average quality of each team would go down.

How many “pretty good” programmers do you know now sitting in Director level or CTO positions? How many programmers with good aptitude find themselves being promoted prematurely as an organization struggles to keep that talent on staff?

The quality of the average software team has been greatly diluted, the industry shows too little regard for experience, and hackers end up running the show on so many software teams. Naturally, the software looks like it was coded by hackers as a result.
I made a screenshot for you ;)

http://www.qownnotes.org/var/bekerle/storage/images/qownnote...
I have a few of those. :)
Go HTTP tunnel: a reverse tunnel based on HTTP/2
This comment comes off as extremely offensive. You are basically saying that you, European people, democratically and unilaterally chose that you can extort people at gunpoint to make better living for yourself, parasiting on other peoples work.

I wouldn't exactly call these values "moral".

Apple should just pull out from Europe.
> In High Sierra they painlessly replaced the filesystem.

Except that a colleague of mine who was adventurous enough to try it lost all the data. That stopped any one of us from upgrading (fortunately, if I may say so).

(it might be due to encryption, but it doesn't matter - the "painless" part is clearly not for everybody)
What's your setup? I had a nice GTT lynx torch but I sold it when I moved, to my mentor in lampworking. He still has it among a dozen other torches. I would rather use his Carlisle though when I am feeling like burning some propane myself.
Held: "Foreign terrorism suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba have constitutional rights to challenge their detention in United States courts. 476 F.3d 981, reversed and remanded."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boumediene_v._Bush

Note that this relates to foreign citizen. The Constitution applying to US citizen in otherwise identical circumstances is even more obvious:

"U.S. citizens designated as enemy combatants by the Executive Branch have a right to challenge their detainment under the Due Process Clause. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamdi_v._Rumsfeld

And US soldiers should, even if there were any ambiguity, err on the side of caution. They are, after all, constantly reminding us how they're fighting for US citizens' freedoms.
"there is a clear structure of who is responsible for what"

In a large org it is never clear, who is responsible for what... ;P
And the result is sometimes even more code duplication, workarounds and bad examples of Conway's law in operation, than in free software.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
It’s a web framework written in Elixir; I haven’t used it myself, but have seen others commenting here on HN and saying it’s similar to (but not an exact clone of) Ruby on Rails.

http://phoenixframework.org
Dell also sells laptops with Intel Management Engine disabled
It is a health hazard. But it is also one of the best insulators. Much better than the cement board usually used these days around a torch.
PHK is the creator and maintainer of Varnish, and has long been known for his diatribes.
Because the purpose of a government is to keep its citizens safe, not act as world police.
That really doesn't describe the meta game of World of Tanks.

Yes, there are tactical positions, but you can't just camp for most of them. They maps are large enough that your team must be dynamic enough to adapt.

You also can't just click without aiming. Damaging a tank always requires aiming, even if you know where they may show up. Many tanks can only be damaged effectively in small weak areas, depending on the gun of your own tank. This can require that you actually focus for several seconds on the spot you are trying to hit to get a good enough aim to actually hit it.
Because all the doublethink acronyms like PATRIOT & SPEECH act are so much more meaningful
Are there areas off the coast of Massachusetts where this style of offshore wind farm can be implemented that aren't proximal to the most popular and picturesque vacation destinations in the area? I'm sure most people can get behind the idea of offshore wind but this wasn't the best thought out location for this project.
Good thing no one has ever sold their rivals to American forces claiming that they were enemy combatants.

https://www.propublica.org/article/uighurs-sold-to-us-milita...
This is very theoretical.

Like if you send a platoon to get into some taliban fighter’s home and execute him in front of his kids it’s a war crime, but if instead you just flatten the house with a bomb it’s not. Well in option 1 the kids get to live, I’d argue it’s preferable to option 2.
Understanding Dependency Injection
Sure, m4 looks hoary now, but portability is the purpose and the legacy of the autoconf system, not opacity, sloppiness or laziness. The only alternative is an OS tightly bound to hardware.
I wrote my own browser a few years back and it was quite challenging/fun trying to figure out how to do basic browser things. You can check it out here: https://paulwebb.software/SciLab/Aries

Since then, I’ve been using Opera, then Vivaldi, and now Firefox, taking notes of how certain things are done. Lately, I’ve been thinking about using Servo as my base insead of Electron and doing a whole rewrite.
Just an FYI, there is a new version of the book coming out in a few months which details the changes in Phoenix 1.3 [1]. Also, there is another book which explains how to build an app with Elixir only and then Elixir+Phoenix [2]. However, I haven't actually read it yet as I'm waiting for it to be officially released.

[1] https://pragprog.com/book/phoenix13/programming-phoenix-1-3

[2] https://pragprog.com/book/lhelph/functional-web-development-...
Interesting that as people are questioning free markets in politics (both in the left and the right, not a jab to any particular side) we are also questioning free markets in design.
> Each evolutionary step was selected because it worked

not really. selected is the wrong word - survived is more appropriate. evolution isn't a set of preordained occurrences.

it's a random mutation which happened to survive - this can be due to many reasons (only one of which is "it worked")
integrating with cal would be perfect. I'm going to look into this as soon as I can.
There's value here in detection of a breach that's already been monetized, but this isn't in the kill chain; it's long-after, so it appears reactive-only.

Why should a non-massive company implement this rather than boosting and refining centralized logging and monitoring which can, if done right, provide far more immediate (even real time) notification of a breach? Your Wells Fargos of the world might do it because they can spare the change, and in your position I'd target the whales for initial revenue, certainly, but why should any mid-sized SaaS firm do it?

Not asking cynically. I want you to sell me on it.
Perhaps the point is subtle, because you seem to have missed it entirely. Republican policy isn't wrong because it isn't Democrat policy; it's wrong because they're the same policy with two slightly different marketing plans. If we judge this policy by its results, it's clearly neither progressive nor conservative. Rather, it's highly effective in keeping the plebes hard at work while ensuring that all resources of society are controlled by the wealthy and powerful and amoral. If you still care to defend one party against the other, you're still being manipulated.
>That is a completely fine and reasonable position as an individual, but that cannot be the position of someone in the military.

Well I have to go Godwin on that... So you hold the soldiers that put then Jews in the oven blameless for their unethical and immoral actions because "they were just following orders"

That defense never worked in Nuremberg.

The idea that unethical actions should simply be dismissed because you were ordered by someone that claims higher authority to commit an unethical action is absurd to me.

>That is a completely fine and reasonable position as an individual, but that cannot be the position of someone in the military.

The comment we are all replying to is not "someone in the military" but someone that has been discharged from the military and is continuing to support this unethical position.

>the civilian government which has decided, in accordance with all its laws, that the things you object to are legal and right.

They may have decided they are legal, that is all.

Legal and ethical are very very different

>Any blame here falls entirely on the civilian government

Nope, I can blame everyone involved. "Just following orders" is not a valid defense IMO
Population will stop growing much sooner than 80 years. You can look up Hans Rosling's talks on the subject.
Amazon – giving exhausted staff chocolates after working conditions were exposed
I got this email and thought it was spam. I think I sent it to ReScam.
Since there seems to be a lot of confusion around transactions in MyRocks:

https://github.com/facebook/mysql-5.6/wiki/Transaction-Isola...

> MyRocks supports two of the four transaction isolation levels: Read committed and Repeatable reads

Repeatable Reads in the default isolation level you get with InnoDB as well (though you can also use "serializable", which MyRocks does not support): https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/innodb-transaction-i...

MySQL does not support transactions that span multiple storage engines (to the best of my knowledge), so you should try to avoid tables with different storage engines within the same database. At least if you need transactions.
How I Manage My Time
Actually you've got it exactly wrong.

The term 'enemy combatant' was an invented categorization of antagonist during the GW Bush administration to skirt the protections offered by the United States Constitution and the formal rules regarding Prisoners of War, which are of course part of the Geneva Convention to which the US is a signatory.

The rules are pretty specific, and preclude the sort of treatment we've afforded 'enemy combatants.'

https://www.icrc.org/eng/war-and-law/protected-persons/priso...

The reason we call them 'enemy combatants' is so that we can torture them, detain indefinitely contrary to the Constitution of the United States, and hold show trials where we prosecute them for fighting against the US in wars that are certainly illegal from an international standpoint.
In a Venezuela Ravaged by Inflation, ‘a Race for Survival’
The bulk of Mozilla's revenue through 2019 is most likely going to come from Verizon.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/14/mozilla-terminates-its-dea...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-21/verizon-i...

I'm not aware of a renewal of the Google financial partnership. Feel free to correct me if you find information that goes beyond 2011. There certainly could be a new deal with Google there but Mozilla is not in the negociating position it once was, so there just as well could not; and seeing as I'm finding zero info about it, I'm leaning towards "there isn't".

But hey, I guess if they don't make a billion dollars a year through donations and take in zero outside revenue, they're not independent.
Reading through this, I suddenly realised that I'd unwittingly re-created a very similar Icon Dock which I used for many years on my Windows machines:

http://www.jaruzel.com/files/jarstrip.jpg
Samsung 150-inch Micro-LED TV Prototype to Be at CES 2018
Why are the sales booked through shell companies in countries outside of France then?
Tencent made a series of significant investments in Western companies this year
I think dealers give away coke at the onset, no?
Most ppl didn't care/do anything when the previous Nobel Prize winning guy droned an American and his son (and other crimes). Why should ppl care now about this if the guys doing it are quite honest in their contempt for the rule of law? Say what you will about DJT, but he's quite honest (mostly 'cause he can't control the diarrhea from his mouth).

If one is unwilling to raise one's voice for political expediency reasons when the "good guys" are doing "bad" things then all this hoopla about this admin pulling back const. protections is a bit of a laugh, aint it?
LIDAR vs. RADAR: A Detailed Comparison
What if, when you captured this soldier, that apparently this platoon of yours can do, you just didn't summarily execute him? That's really my suggestion. Try to not murder people, when you have that option. As opposed to the OP option of summary execution of captured soldiers.

I don't see that this is theoretical. We watched this play out in practice for many years. Turns out that running around executing people really doesn't help. Or maybe we just didn't do it enough? We do seem to be well beyond the point of listening to reality nowadays; maybe we just need to shout ideology louder. Like ISIS.
Python asyncio API design pain
>The convenient thing about the "War on Terror" is that "Terror" isn't a nation

The convenient thing about the "War on Terror" is that like the "War on Drugs" it is not an actual war at all...

This allows unethical people to justify all manner of abuse, and inhuman treatment of Individuals
> Yes, a lot of terrible engineering happened during the dotcom boom, and most of it was proprietary code running on old-school Unix servers.

That's not true. Linux was very popular in 1998-2000 already, with RedHat and SuSE distros everywhere. Server software was usually written with CGI api, in C, Perl or PHP. Also Windows NT 4 and 2000 servers with ASP (classic) with web server software written in VBScript or JavaScript (yes, ASP classic had JavaScript/JScript support on server). Well known top websites of dotCom era like EBay and MySpace run on Windows servers back then. Back then Windows was a lot more popular on servers than nowadays. Also old school UNIX wasn't such a popular choice - name me five well known dotCom era startups that run on UNIX (in 1998 to 2001) instead of Linux or Windows.

@downvoter: care to explain?
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Theologians distinguish between God's decretive will and God's permissive will. The decretive will is God's decree that something come about, the permissive will is His allowing something to come about in the created order.

Thanking God doesn't indicate how something came about (decree or permission), only that God could have brought about something different and chose not to. Thus, any blessing, supernatural or natural, flows from the hand of God.
I'd agree that the browser spec is incredibly complex, but a large part of it is due to not wanting to break compatibility with the web. Many of the problems tackled by the browser are just complicated, and there's no shortcuts.

If we look at other technologies, the same thing happens there. How expensive would it be to write a new OS from scratch? A new C++ compiler? A new UI toolkit? These technologies are all incredibly complex.

Heck, consider how many projects are just frontends for LLVM. The LLVM IR claims to be well documented [0], but AFAIK it lacks a formal spec as well as multiple independent implementations.

[0] http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html
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Wow, that sounds intense/neat. Thanks for sharing.
People dispute what the government “should” do, but when it comes to citizens, there are certain things the government “must” do, regardless of what people think.
IoT Enterprise and LTSB are for embedded systems, they lack many of desktop applications and features (like Cortana) found in "regular" Windows. Windows 10 Enterprise is the desktop version, it has everything in Pro, and then some. There's nothing "shady" about Edge.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/compare
Python has multiple implementations such as CPython, Cython, PyPy, IronPython, Jython. However, because the de facto CPython has no spec, every other Python implementation has behavioral differences from CPython and there is no real way to resolve all the differences without heavy burdens.
Let me answer your first question with few examples:

When Chrome started taking off in 2010, they introduced unique ID per browser user that's sent to their servers. This has nothing to do with the web standards, but it's non optional added feature.

When gmail took off in Canada, Gmail started requesting an actual phone number, to open an email account.

The above are examples when company starts having advantage.

When a company starts having monopolies, expect stuff like mandatory signons just to browse and such.

In China for example, you must register with RL creds if you want to post for the masses online.

TLDR: monocultures are bad, monopolies are bad.
>How does that work?

Say a company is paying Bob $40k to build a better mouse trap. He pays tax on the full $40k.

Then, there's a national mouse problem, so the government gives the company $20k to stimulate research into better mouse traps.

The company takes that money and offers to pay $20k worth of Bob's housing, food, and commute every year, but now only pays Bob $20k a year in salary.

Bob doesn't mind this because he has the same disposable income after all is said and done. Except now, Bob only has to pay taxes on $20k.
No idea, just that he claimed 10% of volume on some days (which is in cumulative # of bitcoins, not # of trades).
Is the fast.ai course being released in January the new/updated version of the current Deep Learning for Coders one? If so awesome!
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/nmuqcf/the-daily-show-with-jon...
Somewhat related, but anyone have any best practices or can recommend a service to protect your users who have been pwned in another sites data breach?

Rate limiting login attempts for an email address or ip address is all well and good for protecting against brute force attacks, but when the attacker has the correct email and password combination already for the user, and access to massively distributed botnets, how do you block those logins?
You drew the insane equivalence! You can’t turn around after being called out and say it’s not about that.

People don’t dunk on you because you have a different political affiliation — they do it because you regularly deny the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change and then blame conspiracy theories and tribalism for the completely predictable responses you receive.

> Your type of tribal thinking is a cancer that will cause much hardship for your country in future.

You wrote this same thing in reply to another poster before realized he’s not from the States and deleting it. Glad you found another spot to dump it!
If you read the original Scheme report, you'll notice that it's full of example programs, zero of which run on modern Schemes. They're full of operators that Scheme doesn't have anymore, like BLOCK, PROGN, CATCH, ASET, -$, *$, //$, EVALUATE!UNINTERRUPTIBLY, START!PROCESS, etc.
Thoughts on net neutrality from the coal mine
This is a shitty title. BOOOOO
Devourer of Encyclopedias: Stanislaw Lem's “Summa Technologiae” (2013)
This article is talking about a browser engine, now a UI. Creating an independent UI is considerable less work (although it still takes considerable effort do to a good job of course).
It was only ever superficially similar and is becoming less so over time.
I think everyone should have rights but him being American is significant because most people's impression is that as an American the right to a lawyer is protected by the Bill of Rights to our Constitution and Americans take any violation of the Bill of Rights very very seriously.
Law is built on qualifiers. Right now social media lacks a qualifier. This case is, as shown previously, seeking to qualify social media. The implications of such qualification would then hold for all precedent for entities of said qualifier such as a legal "open forum." That part is not speculative. What I would speculate is that such qualification may also spark government interest in more direct regulation of social media. It would be done under the pretext of 'clarifying legal uncertainty and ensuring fair protection under the law.'
It's real:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1007683
The Origin of Silicon Valley’s Dysfunctional Attitude Toward Hate Speech
What's your business case for that feature? I'm genuinely curious.
I am pretty sure that when iPhone connects to an access point it uses the real mac, I don't know about android but it is probably the same.

Some access points need your real mac to connect because they use that to authorize you, I think schools/universities use this method a lot.
"To my mind, the only good feminism is one that insists that full-time parenting should be an equally legitimate choice for either parent, not just the mother."

I love this quote.
It would be awesome to see open source speech-to-text becoming a viable option.

Has anyone tested this out? Impressions of its usability?
I couldn't disagree more. In my experience, complexity breeds corruption whereas simplicity exposes it.

For example, how would you game a flat tax?
It’s correct in the email I received. It’s a non-ascii apostrophe so I guess certain mail clients might not handle it correctly?
First article I read in a long time where Basic is mentioned but not followed by pejorative comments.

This article is a prime example of the need for simple and non intimidating languages that are accessible to beginners. The sort of languages that should be taught in schools, exactly for the benefit mentioned in the article: not to make a generation of programmers but for programming to be part of the common general culture like electricity or calculus.
It seems like a weird form of colonialism.
Any integration with Troy Hunt's haveibeenpwned to get notice from him?
Sure, but I was questioning tho use in context of space travel specifically
Or you can read Dream Machine [0] as recommended by Alan Kay. It deals with everything mostly leading up to and during PARC.

[0]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/014200135X/
That's very concise. Thanks. Always good to see actual code :)