skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Debian package of Firefox is not supposed to pull any code directly from Mozilla - whether security updates, marketing tie-ins, updated SSL libraries, whatever. Like all Debian packages, code is supposed to go through Debian. The only Debian programs that are supposed to fetch code on their own are ones where you explicitly tell it to do so (e.g., you're running `pip install` or something).

So the only way this code would end up on my machine is one of two ways:

1. The Debian Firefox package is pulling code from Mozilla without the maintainer's review (which is definitely possible, given how complex Firefox is and how there's approximately one person packaging updates including timely security updates), which would of itself be seen as a serious problem

2. The Debian maintainer specifically picked up this code as part of the tarball from Mozilla, and shipped it without noticing (also definitely possible!) or decided it was worth including

For what it's worth, I do not have this plugin in about:addons, and Debian unstable hasn't picked up a Firefox update since December 1, so as far as I can tell the system is working properly.
Apple has a history of choosing cash over startups
Eh it's a good idea that turns into a bit of a hobby. As with a lot of hobbies practicality goes out of the window at a certain point in favour of continuing the hobby.
That political ideology is not particular to China. Suppression of political consent and overall increasing control are natural tendencies of government. People can be put on a list in the US for example and exempted from flying anywhere.
You mention Keybase as one of those accounts, but isn't this one of the goals of Keybase? See: https://keybase.io/docs/command_line
The emoji character set originated in Japan. When it was turned to Unicode, they weren't going to just remove characters because some of the world doesn't care for it.
Is there any reason why this might be illegal? I understand that defensive gear is forbidden when it can also be used as a weapon but I don’t understand why body armor can do anyone any harm. I am curious what reason there are to forbid body armor than is not dangerous to anyone.
This is hacker news... and it was a stunt related to Mr Robot

Have you considered using Edge?
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." - Winston S Churchill, November 11, 1947

Source: https://www.winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/the-worst-...
I would go home for weekends, and during the week sleep in a van in the parking garage.
This works even better if you can make your work week 4 long days, then 3 day weekend away from the city.
Why would they care? We don’t hide from ants.
It’s so terribly sad that there are men who think this way.
Smashed! Palo Alto area a hot spot for auto burglars
Does this model suggest that anarchy might be more tenable in situations of relative plenty? After all if everyone had enough shit there wouldn't be as much cause to take the shits of others?

Of course we'd still have to come up with activities to occupy all the "guard dog" will-to-power types when they no longer had good excuse to brutalize unfortunates. My suggestion would be a new violent sport! Since physical fitness is on the wane, probably something incorporating motorized scooters?
Didnt want to promote any, but yes, monero is better than others.
The Washington Post article on the same story has more detail and some of the researcher's ideas where the problem is https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/09/11...
Emoji was clearly designed for a date when the Japanese phone and telcoms decided to set union all their icons as font glyphs. Why do you need both left and right magnifying glass, and so many variations of train?
I was there last weekend and it was still there.
What a disturbing article. I wouldn't have thought all the men were remorseless.
Unfortunately, a lot of new entrepreneurs took Product Hunt to be gospel, and getting on the top of Product Hunt to be the primary objective of a startup launch, even if it means gaming the system.
With all due respect I would have liked if the hackernews moderators had kept my original headline "An Anarchist Critique of Democracy by Moxie Marlinspike (Signal SMS), Windy Hart"

I thought this article/transcript was of interest to hackernews in a large part due to one of the two authors being the author of the Open Whisper Systems Signal SMS app.
This article appears on page B1 of the December 11 print edition with the title, "'No answer' in dealing with car thieves".

tl;dr: here's the operative quote:

“There is no answer, because even if we were to send our detectives out there, and do a stakeout, and we actually see the person, they’re going to run,” he said. “As soon as they jump into the car and speed off, we can’t do anything. They just speed right by us, and they can wave to us and pretty much we’ll wave back because we’re not allowed to chase a car for a property crime.

“Even if you catch somebody, which is very rare, there is no punishment behind it. So that’s another layer of frustration. … It’s almost making a mockery of the entire judicial system.”
Lack of any significant gun control is one of the biggest motivations for me to consider moving out of the states. My wife is from Australia and it seems as if it were a night and day difference when it comes to gun control. I wish our founding fathers had written something more explicit and more prohibitive so that perhaps more lives could have been saved to gun violence.

I may sound paranoid but I may end up taking a serious look at some of these options in the near future.
Fox News' Perspective on Net Neutrality
> In the Bay Area, heading towards Vacaville/Fairfield/the Central Valley, there isn't a real viable non-car option.

The Capital Corridor Amtrak line goes from San Jose to Sacramento, up the East Bay and through Fairfield/Vacaville (where there is a stop). Its the 4th busiest Amtrak line in the country, and largely used by commuters. Connections to Caltrain in San Jose and BART in Oakland are available. No matter how you do it though, an 80+ mile commute into Silicon Valley isnt quick during commute hours.
As with many topics of dispute, there's a bit of a gap between the prescriptions of advocates and the fears of those who oppose circumscription of hate speech. Most proposed legislation falls in line with Mill's principle, and indeed, general legal precedent over inchoate offenses. For example, the genocide convention to which the US is a signatory takes a Millian perspective on calls to minority persecution that are not effectively legislated in US law.
I'm pretty sure the vast majority of men don't assume women are "sub human".

This akin to saying "Arabs are terrorists", "Latinos are illegal immigrants", and similar BS.
Your blanket statements are false on their face. Saying that “men think women are subhuman” or really that men think anything as a group is obnoxiously sexist.
I looked up a couple of these and it seems like a normal jacket with hidden pockets for bullet proof plates of armor to go over your vital organs. In retrospect, I guess that is the only way they could do it - but something about the article had me imagining something higher tech, like somehow the fabric was tougher or durable enough to stop bullets. My imagination was the bullet proof spray from Richie Rich, but the reality seems closer to wearing a bulletproof vest under your coat.
Ah, thinking like an engineer!

You're clever, but the IAAF is thorough. Rule 144.3 says:

"For the purpose of this Rule, the following examples shall be considered assistance, and are therefore not allowed: (a) Pacing in races by persons not participating in the same race, by athletes lapped or about to be lapped or by any kind of technical device (other than those permitted under Rule 144.4(d))."
Increased housing population would not cause traffic if it was connected to work in a way that did not cause traffic.

It is demonstrated at this point that sprawl results in traffic pretty quickly, while dense cities with good public transit have a much smaller commute time (e.g. NY, London).

In places like Manhattan you could walk to work on Manhattan, so other types of transit is a convenience rather than a necessary.
Is there anywhere we can read the responses? I would be interested in hearing how they justify their actions and attitudes
It creates an arms race for criminals. If everyone is out there is wearing body armor you have to move up to larger higher power weapons.

Sort of like missile defense systems in the context of nuclear arms.
They aren't a public transportation network, they are a private business.

I'm kind of curious what you were doing to the drivers since it's dog eat dog enough out there that drivers will pretty much take any fare that's semi-reasonable and they don't think they're going to die.
Watch any video from military aircraft and they look very similar, this is zoomed in pretty far.
When all online tests are invalidated, blame Mr. Robot
As one of the people who spent a lot of time calling out Product Hunt's shenanigans, I've actually had the same question.

I have seen little-to-no discussion about it in the past year on social media/Medium thought pieces, but they have made site redesigns and product releases (e.g. Ship) since.
What? Satoshi disappeared! The rest of the developers continued on. How is that comparable to bitcoin cash trying to do a hostile take over of bitcoin, simply because they want to take the brand name for themselves?
I strongly disagree that nihilism is so tightly coupled to anarchism as you claim. There is nothing in political anarchism that suggests life is inherently without value or meaning.

However I do see that exact sentiment expressed by many corporatists, who privilege corporations and their 'rights' above actual people and civil society. And especially from members of the far-right, who are all too willing to dehumanize "The Other" regardless of what rights and interests their declared enemies hold.

I don't necessarily think political anarchism is all that tenable in the modern world we inhabit built as it is on global commerce. In the limited places it is practiced today, it appears to only function in situations of survival and desperation where a group can be held together cohesively by shared interests and some sort of unifying identity, whether religious or ethnic.
Those are extremely generic statements. Maybe you've had some really bad past personal experiences or know someone who has.

The world view your comment presents is just as warped as that of the unrepentant rapists mentioned in the article.

What they have done is wrong; but so too is the prejudice expressed above.
Has the actual paper been published yet? I'm wondering if she also tested them for IQ, blood lead levels, etc.

Given that the WaPo article says that many of them had only a third or fourth grade education, this strikes me as possibly just making fun of people with disabilities.
Totally right. And is easy to look back in our history of not so long ago, and see past examples of tagging groups as sub-humans: women/slavery trading/“aboriginals without soul”, etc
Actually, there are indeed at-least 5 big and established companies with finished products operating right now. I was talking to a cousin at the World Bank and got connected to a battery expert at the IFC. He calms me down that Vanadium Redox batteries are well proven and are being used now. Improvements are being advanced and announced regularly. In the next few years, I believe this will become common terms, as another means of storage.

Some of the "problems" are huge initial capital investment required to start up, the battery sizes start as big as (approx) 5x5x5 ft to get a 5kW output.

The recent bad news in the Vanadium Redox Battery is that of Imergy Energy shutting down[1] and their assets liquidated (I read somewhere, Sherwood Partners managed their liquidation).

For those interested, IFC recently released a 50+ paged Report on Energy Storage[2].

1. https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/flow-battery-as...

2. https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/ed6f9f7f-f197-4915-8ab6-...
Not only that but it makes it easier for criminals to have protection from police bullets.
They carried on after Satoshi left. That's a lot different from an outside group trying to do a hostile takeover and steal the bitcoin brand name.
I'm glad it doesn't do anything, but if I saw this in my extensions list, I would think it was malware. That does have an impact. I could have spent hours with my hair on fire trying to figure out how my system was compromised, and I wouldn't be surprised if others have. I'd expect better from an org that has to deal with security issues all the time.
The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program
I've have Free42 on my Android phone. Do you have a particular emulator to recommend?

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http://thomasokken.com/free42/
It would be interesting if anyone disagreeing with your comments was a woman, instead of a man.
The thing is, even if you had 3000 upvotes for instance, all you will most probably get is fake hope of a successful launch, upvotes will be mostly either by: other hunters, founders, infuluencers who didn't even read the description or care a bit about your product, or by newly registerd users who want to skip the welcome page or just trying to understand how this website works by upvoting anything on the home page and then forget about it.
I respect anarchists for offering thorough criticisms of the democratic status quo that too many people take for granted.

I would even like to see a few thousand anarchists start their own society and try to put their theories into practice on an artificial island or something. Even if they all need to be rescued by UN forces at the end of the day, the experiment will provide the rest of humanity with valuable insights that philosophers and anthropologists can grapple with for decades to come.

For my taste, though, both anarchism and libertarianism seem to be based on an overly optimistic view of human nature. Maybe they'll become more realistic once we've either evolved or augmented ourselves to a much higher level of intelligence and conscience.
How about when they implemented DRM in Firefox just roughly a month after Eich was ousted, which was the actual reason for his departure?

He was the only one higher up keeping that from happening and they didn't even wait until the body was cold to push that agenda.
A theme that recurs in political philosophy, and has been profoundly articulated since Bodin and Hobbes, is the state's monopoly on violence, and its necessity not only to rationalize the existence of a state, but also to empower it with irreducible means to enforce law and order.

If one can obtain some mechanism that effectively negates the state's attempts to use violence on them, they can escape being subject to the rule of law. Prohibitions against body armor stem from trying to curb this; this is also why law enforcement hates widespread digital encryption, because it sidesteps mechanisms like search warrants entirely.
"Market forces already protected consumers, because if an ISP started deliberately slowing down people’s favorite websites and streaming services, or putting an end to free speech, consumers would simply switch to a different ISP."

Fox News has zero problems lying. My case - typical in America - is that of a single broadband provider (Comcast). The alternative is turtle slow DSL from AT&T. I have zero recourse against Comcast's actions, from censorship to price gouging, from preferential fast/slow lanes to them selling my internet history.

The ISPs have carved out geographies and lobbied against Civic internet efforts. They've fucked you into a corner, and you can't do shit. While their buddies in Fox feed you lies to keep you in your corner
Let's take another political document I selected at random.

> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Should we dismiss this statement as irrelevant since the authors did not cite any sources? In fact, they go further, they reject any arguments from authority and hold this statements as self-evident! They don't even cite Aristotle or other "scholars who study politics and democracies".

A political statement is not falsifiable. To a 1000+ essay saying "I think anarchy trumps democracy as a political system", dismissing it because they don't cite source is a completely meaningless attack.
Libertarians tend to accept that coercive force is sometimes necessary, particularly when it comes to property ownership and enforcing contracts, although they also sometimes disagree that a state and monopoly on force are necessary for the coercion.

To this end, Libertarianism sometimes seems to me like a weak or pragmatic form of anarchy.
Amortization and Persistence via Lazy Evaluation
Um, what isn't being pointed out is that there is a freakin' WalMart Supercenter right around the corner. That road is a thoroughfare--this isn't the "middle of nowhere" like the picture makes it look.

I have lots of questions: Why isn't there a pedestrian bridge? Why are the schools on opposite sides of the road when there is obviously land on the same side? Why is there a major thoroughfare in front of a school?

I know the answer: nobody is willing to sign off with money until the outcry is large enough. It seems like the traffic engineers know that there is a problem (15 accidents in the last 5 years and a traffic light plan already in flight), but you can tell from the article that all their solutions are cheap.

That tells me everything I need to know.
The topics covered are fairly broad and overall it seems like a nice collection of notebooks for teaching. Also, I agree with the choice to use Anaconda to install the dependencies. In my experience teaching similar type workshops (to engineering undergrad and grad students), Anaconda provides a good balance of simplicity and coverage, particularly with audiences of varying backgrounds.
That's a very sexist comment to assume all men are like that.

Replace "men" with "women", and I'm sure you're also the first person to scream sexism.
You’ve just tagged men as creatures lacking moral agency.
One reason why they might have asked you this is because working for services like Uber is illegal in Finland (Helsinki is not in Norway), and they might suspect that a darker skinned person driving with a white person at the back is more likely to be an Uber driver (Uber drivers are predominantly from an immigrant background, from personal experience).

Still racial profiling, but maybe not as bad as being stopped for "only" being black.
I wonder if there's an analogous group of women that behave this way as well. The article didn't really dive into motivations, so I wonder how much of it is cultural and how much of it is related to general mental health. And if it is related to the latter, is it possibly a universal condition that also afflicts women as well, in such that it may not be sexual, but that small groups of women can have these predispositions to the worth, behavior, and attitudes towards men with little remorse for their ultimate actions against them.
None of the troubled firms were horizontally integrated in the way the gs would have prevented.
Upserting rows in postgresql 9.5 with pySpark
I think most people assume that there is some level of quality control of third party suppliers.
Reminds me of Kutiman, an artist who made a full album of mashed-up YouTube videos like these

https://youtu.be/tprMEs-zfQA
My wife though not an author is online friends with more than I even want to think about. In some communities there is a LOT of interaction and loyalty between the authors and fans and the authors are quite active on social media. In addition, for a lot of more niche books (e.g. What 50 Shades of Gray would have remained had it not gone viral) the total number of books sold may be surprisingly small. A lot of those small publisher or self published authors are also the people that 5-10 years ago were posting their writings on community discussion sites (e.g. Bruce Bretthauer's Families military SF series).

So, when an author who's been writing a serial on a discussion board finishes and publishes it, there's a preexisting community of folks who have been reading it all along and are likely to purchase it.
The Justice system is distinct from the social system. Or do you think that since Roy Moore, as an example, was never found guilty of a crime, he is innocent and the rumors about him should be ignored?

What you're arguidng for is exactly why we have the Weinstein's of the world, and why they feel empowered to abuse.
I don't think you grasp the distances and relative velocities involved here. Your phone would capture a speck, if anything at all.
Thank you. I have been writing many notebooks in my AI journey. I included some of them with this workshop. Can't agree more about Anaconda!
Australian here: I presume the reasoning is along these lines...

No one has any reasonable expectation of being at risk of being shot/stabbed.

The only reason, therefore, that you would wish to have access to something like bullet-proof clothing or ballistic protection is that you foresee it likely you will soon be in a situation whereby you will be shot at.

About the only conceivable situation that you are likely to be shot at is if you forsee yourself or are planning to be engaged in some type of violent action against a police/military force.

Therefore, the only people wanting bulletproof clothing are those planning violent action against a police/military force. And since no one else who is deemed "socially sane" has any desire to own such a peice of equipment, banning it comes with the two benefits of not curtailing normal citizen's freedoms, while adding an illegal thing/signal to the kind of people who do or would plan to do bad things.

Edit: I realise there is the additional possibility that the person seeking body-armour sees themselves involved in gun-fights with other gun-toting individuals/criminals. Even amongst the criminal classes (and certainly amongst civilians), that is seen as almost an equally preposterous/rare idea as gearing up to take it to the police...
I recommend starting with Poke Pandas. And yes, I'm very proud of the name.
You require the data to be part of the listing, and you share that data with the consumer. It thus becomes a statement that can be enforced as part of advertising to a customer.

Counterfeits would be one thing to go after. Lying to customers would be another.

After a while 'dodgy factories' and/or sellers that lie more often than not would be able to be sorted out and removed from listings. More importantly factories and sellers could build actual solid reputations for telling the truth.

Most importantly, it would make middle-level-marketing stuff much more obvious.
4.5 hours and she is 60 years old. I know for me the older I get the more important getting 7-8 hours is, so not sure how she is pulling that off!