skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nations need to think about strategic interests beyond the capitalist trope that motivates most of us.

So, are you agreeing with me that it'd be good for Canadian government to require software (or at least significant part of it) be made in Canada?

> If and when relations between the two nations degrade, Canada needs to be able to continue functioning.

Thus, Canada should build its own Linux, its own Windows, its own Google, its own Facebook, its own Amazon and so on... Just in case they ever have bad relationships with the US, you know. And since nobody would use those while US alternatives are available, it would make sense to ban Canadians from using US equivalents - for their own good. After all, this model is being used with great success in China.

> The random shit that speed out of the US is making everyone question everything.

I have read this phrase five times and still have no idea what do you mean. Is it wrong to question things? Is Trump making people question things they did not question before and somehow it is bad? Is Canada being hurt because people were not daring to question things before Trump and are questioning them now, and these things can not withstand questioning? Frankly, I am a bit lost here.
I hear these kinds of comments every time there's some pushback against such behavior.

Despite your shrill protestations, there is no "mob filled with righteous hatred" going around. Where action is being taken, it is with a preponderance of evidence.

Only those who have actually indulged in such behavior need to worry.
True but deaths and incarcerations are not something a company can control (perh some places you can bribe against incarceration) but a company can control when and how they fire or not fire someone for misconduct.
> It's a reasonably rare case where it makes a big difference, but it almost never hurts, and frequently is a small positive. Who would I need to convince to change this? What sort of benchmark would they need as motivation? Would pointing to Intel documentation possibly be sufficient?

From someone completely naive on the compiler scene, I think I can safely say that

- A benchmark with better results than it should have (ie, savings on the order of whole seconds) would obviously grab and keep attention

- For finding out who to pester and/or what everyone thinks of the subject, #gcc is big-ish, #llvm is a bit smaller, and #clang is smaller still, all on freenode - presumably low activity (as seems the norm nowadays) and type-and-wait, but a lighter-weight (for want of a better term) alternative than the mailinglists. Ultimately I expect you'll end up posting to a list somewhere, but IRC sounds like a good way to get oriented first

- My strong guess is that LLVM and GCC already have fairly heavily ingrained internal architecture/structure, and yeah, some convincing would be needed.

- I have no idea how to get in touch with people associated with LKML off-LKML, but they seem to have opinions about generated code quality too: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/10/310 (focusing on reply at bottom, not quote; linked in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15849305, from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15845118)
I'm just hoping that amateurs with agendas, trying to cherry pick studies with outcomes they like, is not seen as science. Because they are ones that seem like anti-vaxxers to me.
I am trying not to hire any professional women who are not married and old. There is no point to do that, men can do those jobs better than women as proven for years in the most successful industry of the last 30 years, the tech industry.
I don't mind hiring young good looking women for secretarial jobs though, those women don't have a chip on their soldier and are quiet happy with a bit of flirting from the well payed men in the company. The older women are more mature and confident, they can play with the men in the company like toys and are happy for any attention. All together it works perfectly for everyone, I just hope that as the company grows we will get more pressure to employ more women in the engineering side of things, but I am going to stall it as much as I can.
? Sure i did.

> Nodes even define the PoW algorithm that miners have to employ.

Nodes change PoW algorithm and the old miners have expensive loud space heaters. They know this, which is why they didn't follow through on 2x. They knew that threatening that attack leads to one outcome : ruin.

It's a complex subject, sure. But I can't force you to understand how bitcoin works dude.
That seems like a convoluted definition of "free market". For that to work there needs to be some agreed upon definition of what effects are considered "externalities" and there also needs to be an enforcement mechanism. There's no way that's going to be handled other than central planning.
I propose referencing 1984 and adding a second number to indicate the banned word.

Assuming the above list is inclusive and in order...

s/vulnerable/1984#1/i
s/entitlement/1984#2/i
s/diversity/1984#3/i
s/transgender/1984#4/i
s/fetus/1984#5/i
s/evidence.?based/1984#6/i
s/science.?based/1984#7/i
s/logic/1984#0/i

(For anyone that doesn't know sed rules, s?regexp?replacement?)
I have been recording the vast majority of my conversations with people for about a year now.

Doing so has saved me not once, not twice, but three times from blatantly false allegations regarding my speech/behavior.

I HATE living my life this way...but what choice do I have?
I don't really care about the industry in which he is in.
I'm just wary of witch hunts started from nothing just to destroy an individual.
I'm certain that this is not the case, but how would you react if someone that has a grudge against you would write an accusing unverified comment and your career would be finished because of this?
Is that an official position? I knew they were more accepting of it in general.
Partially, this is just bloomberg doing shitty reporting. This is a poor article about a blog post. The blog post itself is much more damning in my eyes https://medium.com/@kristianlum/statistics-we-have-a-problem...

For any mods reading, it might be better to point the link to the primary material here.
LXLE Review: A Hassle-Free Linux for Older Hardware
Let's not forget Steve Jobs.
I just this Americans have too much free time on their hands.
> There have also been a lot of cases where sex was consensual, but later on one of the parties had regrets, and now it was considered rape

Sure, "a lot". But it is a very small percentage of all rape reports (obviously not counting the millions of rapes that are never reported).

> This sort of thing is what happened with Louis C.K

No it's not. Not in the least.

> the women actually consented to watching him pet his monkey

No they did not.
I completely agree here.

Most of the replies state that the VC provides a return on the investment of other people's money.

Which then leads me to question, why do we need to invest money? If you have enough money to live comfortable and all your needs and wants are provided, why invest to get more?

Number becoming bigger is exactly the point.

Most of what is being provided is utter nonsense. Life would not stop if 99% of the services provided ceased today. Life might be uncomfortable, particularly those living in cities without means to provide food for yourself beyond a week. However, would still continue. A much different life, but life nonetheless. More fulfilling is a debate on the purpose of life, but I am sure as hell certain 100% of the issues we concern ourselves with today would become a non-issue.
With the recent series of news on bitcoin, it seems like the media and gov is increasingly painting a picture of Bitcoin as a thing for selling drugs, people and terrorism. Bitcoin maximalists will cry victim but it's no use, everybody is HODLing, nobody is buying pizzas or taxi with it. Why would you with the ridiculous security, transaction costs and slow speed?

Knowing that anything that was remotely used to aid terrorism in the past has resulted in the hammer flying down as they did with LibertyReserve.

https://www.reuters.com/article/net-us-cybercrime-libertyres...

You don't even need to have terrorism, after 9/11, money laundering has only one purpose in the official's minds.

I think if you are operating a cryptoexchange, blatantly breaking the rules thinking oceans will protect you is a critical mistake, one which never seems to deter people from being thugs.
I think you misread my comment. I was saying that I thought it didn't have negative meaning, but that the person I responded to did.
I think will_brown is saying that Trump wants to fund science-based pro-diversity research on fetuses and transvestites while appearing not to fund it in order to trick his base into supporting him, which is saving face because it is quite obvious that he will still fund said research, but he can pretend he didn't know.
Quality brakes are usually easier to adjust. Like Avid V-brakes or Magura rim brakes for instance. Luckily I did not have to bleed them yet. Cantis are by far the worst, although I've never used Avid Shorties.
Also FATCA [0], the US is happy to write laws for the banks of other countries.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...
These days they're mostly used to warn about tornadoes, which Colorado ranks #9 in the nation for.
This is a lesson we seem to be learning over an over: Don't rely on services provided by others continuing to exist indefinitely. Whether it's your social media account or free charging for your car, if you aren't prepared for losing access to that service, you are guaranteed to have a bad experience somewhere down the line.

Which is why I'm not terribly sanguine about the current everything-as-a-service model. Going off a bit here, but aren't we kind of becoming serfs again, with ownership and power flowing into the hands of the corporations renting us their services?
I’m not familiar with Canadian law, but we can take an illustrative example from US law. Say you want to stand in the town square with a sign and talk to anyone who will listen about Yemen, or Black Lives Matter, or Universal Basic Income. That is your right, and it’s protected by the First Amendment. Setting up a website where you write about your opinions is likewise protected. Eliminating net neutrality potentially makes it much harder for people’s voices to be heard, much like the city government suddenly converting all roads into toll roads for the duration of your protest. To me, silencing the voices of the people, or allowing them to speak but not to be heard, impinges on freedom of speech and assembly.
I like how the dirty coins are now magically clean, thanks for washing it for us, marshalls!

best bitcoin next to the ones that come straight from miners
That's why the tech industry thrived in the silicon valley and not in Canada. The lack of regulation made the internet what it is, if it was up to Canada we would still deliver bit and bites in punch cards delivered by union members with certificate to cary punch cards in a format approved by the government. I would leave net "neutrality" to the Canadians but would like to adopt their immigration policy if possible please.
Today is there a word more inane and overused as "diversity"? It probably shouldn't be used in government reports.

But no word should be banned and attempting to do so is dangerous.
Eh. I live in vancouver and pay $34/mo for fibre and $40/mo for unlimited LTE + calling.

I lived in Florida and my net taxes, incl health insurance was the same
For everyone who seems to be skeptical of this article or skeptical of overreaction, it's just a shitty article. Read the blog post it's reporting on. It's much more damning than 'he made off color jokes' or 'he flirted awkwardly' or anything like that: https://medium.com/@kristianlum/statistics-we-have-a-problem...
> The argument is that your carrier can now block you from getting information relevant to your rights.

I have never heard of anything like that happening in the US before 2015. Could you give me some examples of this happening?

I've heard about Google and Facebook and Twitter blocking sites and content that they consider inacceptable, such as Russian media outlets associated with Russian government. I have also heard about some Nazi sites recently being essentially booted from the Internet by companies no longer wishing to be associated with such sites. All this happened while 2015 regulations were still in place, so apparently NN, at least as far as 2015 regulations go, is no barrier to this.

However, I have never heard about ISP blocking access to an abortion clinic (excepting parental control, etc. setups of course, which are usually done in more localized manner).

> internet services in poor black neighborhoods may have their access to educational materials limited

How? Any why anybody, at a time where one can lose his job just for questioning HR diversity policies, and be booted from air for having the same name as a Confederate general, would be crazy enough to do such an outrageously racist thing, even if this were possible (which it almost certainly won't be)?

> While I think that's an unlikely outcome, it would be devastating to free speech, equality, and diversity.

If it's unlikely outcome, why Canadian politicians talk about it so much and do not talk about more likely things? Rhetorical questions, of course, I know they are just blowing hot air and duckspeaking.
It's fantastic, but it takes a lot of memory to generate a private transaction (no mobile wallets for that!) and because private addresses are opt in, not many are being used in the wild
i meant the exact same statement "It never fucking ends with this company" ..This same user puts this exact same response on every post. Uber deserves it or not is not even the question. I am just curious if there are bots on HN.
I was disagreeing with the use of the term 'predatory', I didn't suggest that what he did wasn't wrong.

Folks: someone touched someone on the thigh at a conference (inappropriately), and it's making international news? This is ridiculous.
> Sure, "a lot". But it is a very small percentage of all rape reports (obviously not counting the millions of rapes that are never reported).

Fair enough, "a lot" is most likely not accurate. It's probably a small percentage of all rape reports.

> No it's not. Not in the least.
> No they did not.

Yes, they did. His mea culpa was essentially a statement that he believed that his asking for and receiving consent wasn't valid because he didn't realize that the women's respect and admiration for him would cause them to feel pressured to consent. I don't fully disagree with his analysis there, but if the standard is that anybody who has respect for you cannot consent, we are in some trouble.
Excuse me? How would you find "preponderance of evidence" for a leg touch? I'm genuinely curious.
Once while I was stretching on my chair in the office I bumped inadvertently with one colleague that was passing behind me.
Do you think that I should be fired and my career ended if she suddenly wrote in a blog post that I touched her?
Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc. are blocking controversial content all the time. Any major content hoster and social network does it. Cloudflare does it. Hosting providers do it. If it were serious concern now, which it hasn't been serious concern in 2016? Or 2014?
Or maybe he's not onto something and it's totally possible to not be an asshole and try to take advantage of the situation when left alone with a person of the other sex?

I don't see how Pence's comment makes any good sense. If you do what he says, you either:

- Don't trust yourself (or don't care) to demonstrate appropriate behavior

- Don't trust women to respect you if you respect them back.
I think a better analogy would be if Steve Wozniak started a new company called Apple Electronics back in the middle 80s.
> With the recent series of news on bitcoin, it seems like the media and gov is increasingly painting a picture of Bitcoin as a thing for selling drugs, people and terrorism.

It's been like this since...2011? 2012?
How is it impeded? It's like saying "free trade is impeded by Canadian trucks forced to pay for gas in US". No, it's not impeded - expecting to pay for services is not "impediment", nobody owes anybody to serve them for free, even to Canadians.
Good and evil is always relative to ones position.

This is a PR response to former FB employees posting/blogging in recent weeks that FB is bad and they wished they had not done what they did.[1] This is strictly a counter PR move FB had to make.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chamath-palihapitiya-former-fac...
Unverified allegation are a terrible way to deal with this but they are better than nothing.

That said, one would hope that if virtually all universities, corporations and VCs put sufficiently strong policies in place, bad behavior would occur less to begin with and be dealt with quickly when an individual does so behavior rather than having a given individual engage in a long streak of behavior that only stops when a large number of people go public.
Yeah, that's the problem. The forces that drive the internet today are more interested in locking in the users.
I realize that snappy pages help, as an engineer myself (who often depended on Etsy's API responses...). I appreciate the great job they did taking Etsy from the substandard heap it was circa 2009 to where it is now. My point is that Etsy needed more of a guiding light than their engineering department providing effective technology.

Rob Kalin was not an artist - what was his art, Swimmy? BS? A couple wooden computer cases? In my perception he was a con-man hipster who dabbled in craft. I have no praise for him or anything he did, and am not suggesting his vision, whatever it was, or certainly his management, would have been better. I believe he is the one who imbued Etsy with a toxic culture from which that they are still suffering. One inept conman doesn't disprove 'artists' being management, and that's not what I called for - someone with retail experience would be nice, ideally online as well as the typical setting where Etsy members sell their wares offline like art galleries, craft fairs, jewelry stores, boutiques, and so forth.

All the time I've dealt with Etsy, I've heard the excuse that it's impossible for them to police their market place in any sort of pro-active way. But the sellers in each category have no problem finding obvious violations in their categories every day, and reports have never been dealt with logically and promptly. I, and others, gave up reporting mass production and resellers after it seemed futile due to lack of response, or even Etsy would claim items that seemed like clear violations were not violations.

I don't have a preference for Etsy's future, as I gave up attempting to use it years ago and have recommended to my friends and clients for years that they buy a domain and set up a shop they actually control, using shopify or big cartel to make it simple.
> "It's clear that we need regulation until there is sufficient competition..."

I don't think it's as "clear" as you seem to think it is. What does seem to be a matter of historical fact is that the FCC has never been an organization which has had an interest in, or been able by fiat to, increase competition in the telecommunications industry. The US basically went for the entire 20th century with a heavily-regulated, government-enabled, monopolistic telecom network (AT&T, Verizon landline systems & DSL). The parts of the internet which have seen investment, growth, and improvement over the last 30 years? Yup, the unregulated, non-common-carrier networks (cable and fiber).

> "why get rid of regulation before competition exists?"

Because lowering barriers-of-entry into a market is exactly the best way to encourage competition in any industry. Before anyone starts an ISP (or any other business), they consider the costs of doing so vs. the expected payoff if they succeed. Regulatory compliance (especially FCC common-carrier compliance) is an added cost of doing business which absolutely could be enough to keep a business from starting up.

You don't need NN to get telcos to behave. When did Comcast lower their prices and up their speeds? When Google Fiber came to town. When did Google Fiber come to town? When they got the municipality to remove as many barriers-to-entry as they could
All that I can see as a result is that people will just get out the thesaurus and find equivalents/"euphemisms" -- not exactly the same, but "close enough for government work" (no pun intended)... I see mentions of 1984 in the comments, but realistically, if you look at history it seems that attempts at controlling what thoughts people can express have only been met with opposing creativity to great success.
Mozilla Betrays Firefox Users
Any links to who wants both?

Sounds like apples and oranges, because I can understand some may want high-speed free/low-cost internet for all while advocating penalties to those that hurl hate speech online.
> especially with the US on the "telling" end.

Well, in that case it is certainly presumptuous from US side, and also bad - copyright system is broken enough in the US that spreading it around makes life only worse in other places.
They are not looking into it, well they are as much as tobacco companies looked into the ill effects of smoking. This is a PR move in response to recent ex-FB employees talking about how social media is not good for society.
Very cool, this works uses a lot of observational data from different telescopes. The LBT [1] is, depending on how you measure, the largest optical telescope in the world (two 8 meter mirrors on the same mount versus 10.4 m GCT [2]).

But one of the things that the articles mentions that I think is really cool and may not be familiar to many people, what with LIGO and gravitational waves in the news:

> LIGO is not able to detect gravitational waves from supermassive black hole pairs. Instead, pulsar timing arrays such as the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) are currently performing this search. In the future, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) project could also search for these gravitational waves.

I've visited the GBT [3,4] several times for observing and have heard some presentations on the NANOGrav [5] project. It's very cool. The signal properties of pulsars can be measured so accurately, that they can be used to accurately constrain very low frequency gravitational waves, ie nanohertz frequencies (hence the clever acronym), for binary supermassive blackholes with wide separations. This complements the high frequency gravitational waves detected by LIGO of merging compact objects, in the 10-100 Hz range. If I'm remembering correctly, you don't measure any particular pair of supermassive black holes, but measure the field from all such systems (at the Earth). Measurements have not been sensitive enough yet to detect this field, but as they dig to higher sensitivity, they are able to place constraints on cosmological models that predict how common binary supermassive blackholes are (we really don't have a good idea) and what the distribution of masses and separations are.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Binocular_Telescope
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Telescopio_Canarias
[3] http://greenbankobservatory.org/
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bank_Telescope
[5] http://nanograv.org/
You have been judged guilty of thought crime.
Arc: A server for your secrets
Its not about cost but if internet access is expensive or constrained in bandwidth it severly limits its utility.
If anybody knows how to deal with such tactics (for having used it himself countless times) it is Trump. But we'll see how it goes. It's unlikely US would ever say "yeah, we wanted to get rid of those regulations, but since Canadians asked us to have them, we can't now" but of course it never hurts to ask :)