skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right - I can't see anything that would possibly prejudice his case.

While it's typical for lawyers to instruct clients "don't say a word" - making it easier for them to control the narrative - in this instance, it's entirely unnecessary.

In other contexts, I'd go further and say it might even be risky to do so, given there are laws around deleting/preserving evidence when litigation is anticipated.

Here, though, it's just a fairly innocuous request for advice.
Luckily in this case I can point to the data the FCC collected themselves. After it's been denoised/despammed, it's almost unitary that legitimate comments supported net neutrality.

Of course, the FCC was very quick to completely dismiss the entire data set, and didn't even refer to it in their final decision because it was so filled with bots spamming the list with identical submissions from dead people and even apparently Barack Obama - the very person who asked the FCC to take the strong stance in the first place. But, who would have expected any different from a government this steeped in corruption and controversy.

It's okay though. You're an outsider. You can easily miss the nuance of this conversation as it's played out on Hacker News literally every single working day.
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Eh I’ve seen how dogs eat. They will eat until they puke. Mice may be doing the same.
The algorithm BTC uses has been depreciated in favor of ASIC resistant mining protocols which prevent what we see with Bitmain and allow normal users to access mining rewards.

BTC ASICs are a case of failure to prevent centralization. Nearly every successor to Bitcoin has developed ASIC resistant algorithms to allow normal users to contribute to securing the network activity and be rewarded with newly minted supply for doing so.

Block rewards are nothing like savings interest because it works like an all or nothing lottery.

If the developer or an exchange controls 40% or even 10% of the supply, they have a significantly higher likelihood of taking newly minted coins which compounds further increases to their probability of increasing their control of the supply. All the while those who have less of the supply or are too poor to qualify for staking will not be exponentially increasing their wealth.
The left has intolerant people as well...However, somehow they aren't running the party like they are on the right.

The intolerant left seems to have Berkeley buttoned up.
I'm paying Sonic ~$100 for 12 down/2 up bonded DSL, and two phone lines I think I've used one of, about twice.

I'd still rather give them that money than Comcast any.
I agree. It seemed to me that Damore's memo was nevertheless fallacious, though nevertheless totally unworthy of the criticism that he received. Unlike in fields we are used to, psychological results have remarkably little prescriptive power given the inherently complex and malleable nature of social structures, and it's still pretty much up in the air how much or little effect nature has on preferences and to what extent a social arrangement is able to affect/has affected/reinterpreted/transformed those preferences without effecting a change in overall happiness/satisfaction.

It also saddens me that a number of Damore's suggestions to make the workplace more "nurture-trait-friendly" got overshadowed by those dubious extrapolations. It seems interesting and fruitful to me to explore the work dynamics and psychology present in more "nurture" fields and see how well they translate to software development and collaboration.

There is a silver lining to all this for me: it shows that whereas women used to have little voice in the public sphere, "American women" as a class now have a sufficiently loud voice that even its less-well-thought-out ideologies have traction and influence in civil society (along with all that entails, including having possibly self-proclaimed representatives and "thought leaders").
Language classes in the US are finally useful
I’m sure there’s a government or two that insists paying back exact currency amounts.
IBM talks about a metric called "quantum volume" that combines number of qubits with error rate to summarise useful computing performance. See https://dal.objectstorage.open.softlayer.com/v1/AUTH_039c3bf...

(disclosure: IBMer, but very different area)
You can’t buy more than 2 packs of 200-250mg ibo in the UK at the time, and only one pack of anything higher, doses above 500mg require a prescription.

Prescription Ibo can be 2000-5000mg per pill so yes it does reduce the risk.
Don't work at Netflix, but I imagine "don't make the same mistake twice" is a fair interpretation.
I think what people fail to realize is that it's not unpopular enough and not with the right people. For the GOP base, they may disagree wholeheartedly but what are they going to do? Vote for a abortionist gun-grabbing Democrat?

For Dems, the best use of these things is barrage the election cycle with negative news about the GOP. Failed policies, bad ideas, myopic leadership. Bad bad bad bad. Suck the energy right out the way the Clinton investigation did in 2016.
>"that final polishing process ... takes about 18 months"

That's a lot faster than it used to be. The 200 inch mirror at Mt Palomar took 13 years to grind and polish. I guess they have greatly improved the technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hale_Telescope
I've got 55/5 from Comcast for half the price. Promotional, of course, but once promotion ends I'll find some other promotion, likely. Not SF though, a bit south from it.
> I would be curious to see ack get into the test suite, however. Even if it is much slower, I'd like to see the results.

You'll need to add it to the benchsuite script (which should be very easy to do, just peruse the source to see other examples), but for me, ack is too slow to benchmark this way. In theory, I'd be fine adding it to the same benchmarks as pt/sift are in, since they are also generally too slow to benchmark, but are at least fast enough in some of them to tolerate it. But ack has different characteristics. While pt/sift have a very high ceiling (like ack), they also have a very low floor in some cases. ack on the other hand has a reasonably high floor compared to the others, even in the simplest searches. This makes all benchmarks on ack take a long time.

I did a couple ad hoc benchmarks on the same machine:

ripgrep ack
linux_alternates 0.113s 9.750s
linux_alternates_casei 0.133s 19.955s
linux_literal 0.103s 7.220s
linux_literal_casei 0.122s 8.025s
linux_no_literal 0.356s 18.881s
linux_re_literal_suffix 0.104s 6.778s
linux_unicode_greek 0.194s 8.537s (ack reports no results)
linux_unicode_word 0.111s 7.299s
linux_word 0.108s 6.763s

subtitles_en_alternate 0.247s 9.829s
subtitles_en_alternate_casei 0.247s 43.091s
subtitles_ru_alternate 0.978s 28.134s
subtitles_ru_alternate_casei 0.978s 107.314s (ack reports incorrect)
subtitles_ru_surrounding_words 0.245s 6.633s (ack reports no results)

The subtitles benchmarks are perhaps unfair because I think ack is more focused on directory tree search where as ripgrep claims to be good at both. I included a few anyway to show the difference though. In general, the benchmark just isn't that interesting, and it makes the benchmark run take a lot longer than it would otherwise (because each command is executed several times).

> And I'd be very curious to hear your reasoning for the different results in the subtitles_ru test cases -- why is rg returning radically different numbers of lines as compared to the other tools?

Because ripgrep correctly supports Unicode, and does it by default because it can generally handle all Unicode features without a corresponding performance loss. GNU grep handles Unicode in general as well (assuming your system's locale settings are up to snuff), but it can pay a huge price for it some cases, although admittedly, I'd consider such cases to be somewhat infrequent in common usage. It's explained in my blog post: http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/#single-file-benchmarks --- The subtitles_no_literal is particularly interesting, because it shows what happens when you ask GNU grep to do the correct thing. ;-)

Note that both ag and ucg have the opportunity to support Unicode correctly, but they don't twiddle the right flags in their use of PCRE (and PCRE2, respectively). AFAIK, neither expose a flag to twiddle these things. From scanning the ack man page, I don't see any option there either, although I'm sure Perl regexes probably have that option too.
> you can probably pick up four working used HP 7475A pen plotters or similar on eBay for the AxiDraw's US$475 price

Will they plug into my mac via USB? And run off of a open source, easily available piece of software?

And if not, how much do you think those features are worth?
Great reference, thanks!

From the link you provided:

According to the report, the transition from an initial prescription to chronic use begins very early on. Even a one-day opioid prescription carried a 6 percent risk of use at one year later and a 2.9 percent risk of use at three years later. The sharpest increases in the likelihood of long-term use came at five days after the initial prescription, with another spike seen at one month.

Whoa! That's frightening.
> WebKit is affected because in order to render modern web sites, any
web JavaScript engine must allow untrusted JavaScript code to run on
the user’s processor... WebKit is affected by both issues because
WebKit allows untrusted code to run on users’ processors.

There's the elephant in the room, though this article doesn't go far enough. Trust isn't binary. It's not that the code isn't formally verified, or doesn't type check. It's that the people running it don't consciously install it, the people distributing it don't know or care what it is, and the people writing it are often adversaries far more sophisticated than the people running it.
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I'm not sure why you're being down voted for expressing a rational argument.

I'm all for net neutrality, but I would also much rather Congress made it a law rather than relying solely on title ii.
But aren't all these app creating their own coins? Doesn't that mean the tokens are only usable in that app?
Yeah, thanks, not sure HTF I missed that the first time.
> spices, like salt

That's the issue. Spices in the article refer to asian spices in the spice trade, unlike salt, chilli peppers, (which are not native to asia at all), Garum, etc.
Texas has a form of this. Every state agency (with a handful of exceptions) will automatically be abolished every 5-10 years absent explicit action by the legislature.
So they have no problem working with Damore then since he never said such a thing.
I use CBD infrequently for pain.

Chronic high CBD usage will result in withdrawal upon cessation.

The 5HT1A agonism aspect of CBD makes for a particularly bleak and anxiety ridden withdrawal.
> Many startups do a terrible job keeping track of who executed what

It's not just the startups. The companies that handle the finance side for companies that experience liquidity events are fully capable of screwing up.
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>This vote seems like the best chance of maintaining NN at the national level. Congress ultimately directly serve at the pleasure of their constituents, unlike the FCC commissioners.

The best chance is actually passing a bill revising the Communications Act of 1934 to explicitly include internet access. Anything else will result in a return to court battles over whether the FCC has authority to control the medium.
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It really sounds like you might like Rust. Have you looked into it?

/snark

But seriously, for a long time before Rust was fully baked, I kept wishing it would be done, so that people hating on Go could go use Rust instead. Now it's fully baked, which is awesome.
"It has been proved that the temperature at the earth's surface is dependent upon conditions of the atmosphere, and that the universal tropical climate that produced the Coal Age was not due to the earth's internal heat. If we briefly examine the Coal Age we may be enlightened and assisted in our investigations. Enormous quantities of carbon dioxide mingled with the air of that period... Man has consumed the forests. Each year he mines, in the United States alone, two hundred million tons of coal. He has tapped the tanks of petroleum and the founts of gas, and is oxidizing it all - all that vast quantity of carbon - converting it into carbon dioxide...and now we find that the product has accumulated over the surface of the earth and is wielding an influence that is assimilating our climatic conditions more and more to those of the age of coal. ... I advance the theory, that the increased amounts of carbon dioxide that have gathered from all sources into our atmosphere produce, as I have described, the change in the weather and climate of recent years..." - G.W. Furey, M.D., Medical and Surgical Reporter, Volume 63, published in 1890

https://books.google.com/books?id=kUSgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA504&lpg=...
I don’t have a source rn, but my expectation is that the Vive Pro will have somewhat improved optics too, courtesy of Valve’s new lenses.
This reaction only makes sense if the situation without Net Neutrality regulation by the FCC is a reasonable approximation to a free market. It isn't. There is already a massive amount of regulation in this sector; it just mostly isn't regulation by the FCC. The big ISPs have cut sweetheart deals with state and local governments for monopoly access to particular areas; and when particular municipalities try to go around that by, for example, building out municipal broadband to be rented out to all comers at market rates, the ISPs have sued them and mostly won.

Net Neutrality regulation by the FCC is certainly not an optimal situation; it's trying to make the best of a highly suboptimal situation because there is no feasible path to an optimal situation.
Anxiety over close proximity to explosives seems justified. Anxiety over somebody stating ideas you simply disagree with doesn't.
I would trust Stripe more to not cancel my account and forbid me from ever making/receiving money again. I also trust Stripe more to not disappear with my money on the process.

Information security and capital security (they not declaring bankruptcy or running away with my money) are low enough to ignore for both.
> Republicans are on the bullet train to dismantle and sell off the government to the highest bidders.

This is equally true of the Democrats; they just have a different set of preferred highest bidders.
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This is why we are not launching our ICO until after we have a working service. We are raising some money in a pre-ICO (Series A) but given the scams, we felt it was best to deliver before going public.

Of course, we are not a typical ICO. We are selling an unregulated security: equity in our company and we will pay dividends. We are only going this route because we are an extrajurisdictional company and traditional fundraising is incredibly difficult for such a setup.
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Good point. See for example: The Whole Foods Diet: The Lifesaving Plan for Health and Longevity" by John Mackey, Alona Pulde, Matthew Lederman" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34837239-the-whole-foods...

Based on research studies cited there, the typical US American stitching from a SAD diet to a whole foods plant-based diet would live about ten years longer, and additionally have a much healthier and happier twenty years or so at the end with much lower likelihood of chronic illness or dementia.

See also: https://bluezones.com/live-longer-better/

For example: https://bluezones.com/exploration/loma-linda-california/
"Today, a community of about 9,000 Adventists in the Loma Linda area are the core of America’s Blue Zone region. They live as much as a decade longer than the rest of us, and much of their longevity can be attributed to vegetarianism and regular exercise. ... Adventists tend to spend time with lots of other Adventists. They find well-being by sharing each other’s values and supporting each other’s habits."

But even as good diet is essential, it is aspects of community and infrastructure that help people keep eating healthy together. Likewise, community and infrastructure can help promote daily exercise. So, ultimately, for most people, longevity is not an individual thing. It is a community thing.

That point on community is also made in the sequel to "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat,_Sick_and_Nearly_Dead and is even made by Dean Ornish in the trailer: http://www.fatsickandnearlydead2.com/
If you want to know it's legal ask a lawyer.

Am I shocked? no... reminds me of ACH and the file format they use.
adam bier in SF is my lawyer, he's very good and has dealt with something similar for me.
'expose Antifa' - right. Riiiiight.
Often these statements are carefully phrased to be correct. For instance, most Americans want to "protect gun rights", and also have "common sense gun laws". These two slogans don't conflict, but the politicians who push them clearly do.

In the case of Net Neutrality, a survey which started by giving people pros and cons of net neutrality found 83% support for it, while another which phrased it as "government regulation" found over 50% opposed.

I would call this a good argument against government by referendum.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/12/12...
This is an easy opportunity for Republicans to show they can be bipartisan without actually risking much, given the widespread support there is for Net Neutrality. Later they can attack Democrats for not being more bipartisan on one of their issues.
It is not like pc unixes ran blazingly fast or were terribly useful back in the days of 486. Solaris and sunos/386 were probably least stable, followed by next(not x86) and netbsd. They may have seen fine to play around with but would crash horribly under any heavy use like cad or mathematica
Enough to be significant.
That humans aren't blank slates.
For a company not having any R&D cost, granted monopoly/duopoly via lobbying, yes 12% may be insane.
Oh I wasn’t having a go at you, merely answering the question posed by the parent and grandparent commenters here :)
It is completely disgusting. We started by calling our ICO an IPO and making a note that we are selling shares, not tokens. But people still want to see a whitepaper and hear about tokens. And despite clearly saying we accept physical dollars [cash] for payment of services, people still think we are selling tokens to buy stuff with and comment how little sense that makes.

In the end, we decided to go along with the ICO terminology because it was too hard to fight perception. We still do the right thing: We're selling an unregistered security, shares in our company, and will pay dividends.

In short though, people trying to do the right thing are punished, and the people that overhype and do the ridiculous approach are highly rewarded.
The ability to not only grow but store grain may well have led to small scale civilizations that then grew into large civilizations.
I'm starting to think naming multiple similar vulnerabilities by different names was a mistake. Every article I read I have to go back and remind myself while one was which.
That’s highly unusual, unless you have USB issues or an odd camera setup. It’s generally accepted that Vive and Rift tracking quality are very much comparable given a proper setup.
Let's compare it to what would happen if any other organisation did this.

Say, your employer demanding access to the tools you need for your job. That desk chair ? 20$/month. Computer ? 200$. Screen ? Another 30$.

That would be just peachy wouldn't it ? Oh wait. That's illegal by law.
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Paracetamol is acetaminophen (Tylenol) and both are commonly given to children. Aspirin typically only if a doctor says it's ok.
Well, first off the title doesn't exactly match the content. Studies found that you're most likely to do something extreme when your age ends in "9" (29, 39,...).

Mostly, though, I was a bit disappointed that a marathon was considered extreme. I was thinking more like climb K2, sail around the world, that kind of thing. I've run plenty of marathons, they're hard (the training is really the hard part), but not what I'd call extreme. Hell, how many hundreds of thousands (millions?) of people run a marathon every year? The reason I call into question the definition of "extreme" is because a K2 climb or a big sailing trip cost "extreme" amounts of money, the kind of money I sure didn't have when I was 29.

Definitions aside, I think it would more accurate (and less click-baity) to say that people push harder to accomplish goals as they approach an age milestone. I'm not much of one for that personally, but even I've done it with the goal to run the Boston Marathon before I "got too old to do it". (It was mere coincidence that I was 50 when I finally crossed the line.) I think it's perfectly reasonable and not all that newsworthy when folks say, "I'd like to do $ACHIEVABLE_GOAL before I hit X9."
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I want to see James Damore understand the impact of his words and learn from it.

It's quite evident from reports in the news media, that there was tremendous emotional impact. The fact that so many people could be so extremely triggered is very telling, but it doesn't actually speak to James Damore being some kind of villain, or his words being somehow horrible. If a whole bunch of adults stop behaving like adults and start exhibiting striking intellectual dishonesty, I think this is very revealing indeed.

I ask this as a member of the Left, who wonders: When did the Left stop being the side of free speech and intellectual honesty? When it finally felt powerful enough in the culture to have become corrupted by that cultural power.
Hah. I carried a point and shoot in my pocket from 2004-2010, until I got an iPhone.

I used it for telling time, taking photos of maps and other useful notes, etc. Super useful.
I agree only in a sense similar to how people in a wheelchair lack the capability to access public spaces in the same way as non-disabled people do.

It's funny how even in a highly logical technical community the conversations on certain topics are the same as you'd find elsewhere.
No it is not.

Republicans are far more dedicated to the task of destroying government than Democrats are. I agree that some Democratic senators have historically been pretty shitty on the topic of net neutrality but this false equivalence nonsense needs to stop. Republicans will sell off national parks, shut down the EPA and FDA and shut down any banking regulation you put in front of them.