skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm quite skeptical, it could be really handy as a reference after your drawing is done, comparing it with the example to see if all the proportions are right. I've spend the last 6 months learning to draw. Also can recommend drawabox, it becomes painfully clear that observation skills, understand space and volume is much more important than just putting a line on paper.

Drawing is a skill anyone can learn, you can learn to draw a cartoon horse in a day, but it's more valuable to understand how animals are constructed. That will give you a foundation to draw it from any angle no matter how bad or good your linework is.
>>> I personally see the lack of women in STEM in Western countries as a good thing, it means that they are doing well economically and don't have to deal with the tedious STEM education and workload.

I personally would like the same freedom applied to men.
> PGLAF is entirely in the US

PGLAF has awesome mission, but that base assumption is not really correct. With publishing content in Germany (or whatever country) over Internet (or otherwise) they have crossed physical and legal borders. You must obey local laws everywhere and US laws are legal in their soil only. The attitude that US laws are something globally applicable and Internet is something above local laws is naive and total blockage “revenge” is just plain childish.
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How is that personal, how is it connected to a person?
His senior thesis at Harvard. Evan doesn’t have a PhD (not that he needs one).
I didn't mean otherwise. It was an example of criticism, so obviously not written by Linus.
That's quite ironic, Gutenberg was German https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg
Works fine for me for all books I tested. Can you name some specific ones which are blocked for you?
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PROJ (also known as PROJ4) gets a first major release after 25 years (PROJ 5...)
Come on! Trade wars are good. Amazon will win. It's easy!
Relative quiet and actual quiet are different things - I don't believe the physics exists to displace the noise/vibrations generated; you can change the propeller shape and sizes, however that energy still needs to go somewhere, so you'll mostly just change where the energy's going and the frequencies and concentrations that are output. I'd love to be proven wrong.
Definitely intentionally. Shame on Project Gutenberg and their lawyers.
Short-term these will be piloted by certified pilots, and quickly be automated.
> ... 100's of terabytes of biological data. When working with this kind of data, Pandas is often the most preferred tool

"biological data" is a bit vague, but for the data I know to be that big, sequence and array data, it does not naturally have the structure of a dataframe nor is pandas the tool of choice.
I'm on the side of why don't you just let Evan do his thing? Maybe a big part of why Elm is kind of really awesome already is because it's being developed differently. Just let a cool language develop differently this time! It might turn out to be great.

And for people who supposedly have so many lines of an alpha language in production, why are you confused about how Elm is being developed? I'm not even using it, but just an interested follower, and it's been pretty clearly explained how he plans on developing it. A couple highly visible threads here and there (some in quite poor taste too) and you are bound to have been given solid, well thoughout references to why Elm is developed this way. I've seen tons of disclaimers that you are using an alpha language in production at risk. No one was misled.
> Do you typically run Redis on the same host as your web server?

Yes, at least initially.

> Treating it as "in-memory" can have interesting side effects as you centralize it and introduce network delays.

I'd love to hear more about this!
It's easier to add instructions than to remove our restrict them. Hardware or software exploits to break out of the sandbox are huge concerns. I'm all for
introducing new features slowly.
They belong to the Holtzbrinck Group [1]. They also operate a VC [2] and own or are invested in a lot of startups.

[1] https://www.holtzbrinck.com/

[2] http://www.hvventures.com/
Which is, btw., entirely covered by the license as long as you allow redistribution and have proper attribution. Wikipedia is mostly covered by CC-BY-SA.
I felt the same way. Felt like the ending of 2012 to me. Life begins again!
in-person assessment. and yes, quick availability.
Why does crap like this always happen? Can’t we not just keep the things that work well?
Very few people seem to remember Google started this little war with blocking access to Google Apps on Amazon devices and blocking their app store on Google Play equipped devices.

It is weird though because a couple months ago I thought they had announced they had come to some agreement, and now it seems to be escalating again.
Perhaps if that’s the only action they ever take. In the short term, it’s possible it’s the only action they can safely take, if they want some time to analyze the situation.
Everything you said, just reinforced my positions.

You can't even acknowledge that my positions may have some merit.

And that's the problem with trying to have a rational discussion on sensitive things like this. You get people like this guy, that only sees it from his angle. And this whole thing just becomes another echo chamber.

You should consider reading this:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/the-social-media-ech...

At this point, you can have your say. And we can agree to disagree.
You’re right this was mostly pre-Khronos. Apologies, I’m not an expert in the history of OpenGL. But I believe he was also talking about the period after the Fahrenheit deal, in maybe 2000–2005. He talked about MS sending people to OpenGL committee meetings and intentionally trying to gum up the process and prevent interoperability. I don’t really know the details, and this is all second-hand and poorly remembered from a conversation a decade ago. So take it with some salt.
PG did exactly the right thing here.

By only blocking these 18 books, nobody would have taken much notice of this. By blocking all German users from the site, they will get a lot of media attention, and S. Fischer Verlag will get a lot of bad press. Whether or not they will move from their position is questionable, but it will hurt them.

Just sent a small donation to PG.

Making an effort not to buy books from that publishing house ever again, and telling all my friends about it.
It looks like they've been phasing it in. This is from March last year: https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/22/medium-debuts-its-paid-mem...
They could also be foul tips or grounders thrown to the crowd.
I just donated $100 to PGLAF because they are fighting the good fight. Their donation page [0] includes "Think of this as a contribution to your grandchildren." However in this instance I think of it as a contribution against publishers (ab)using the justice system much like so-called patent trolls.

> Q: The plaintiff is S. Fischer Verlag, GmbH. Is that the international conglomerate?

> A: Yes, it is part of a family of companies all under single ownership and control or majority stakeholdership, from Germany, reaching around the world. S. Fischer Verlag, GmbH is a unit of Verlagsgruppe Georg Holtzbrinck GmbH. Internationally it is known in the US and elsewhere as Holtzbrinck Publishers LLC. Readers in the US know this as Macmillan, which is one of the largest publishers in the US by revenue, and owns many familiar imprints. US readers might also recall that Macmillan was one of four companies accused by the US Dept. of Justice in 2012 of price fixing. The companies eventually settled the antitrust claims, including by giving credits to customers who had overpaid for eBooks.

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Project_Gutenberg_N...
Although exploitation is more difficult, all programs that run in an X session have complete access to all the other programs in it, regardless of user ids or for that matter the host the program is running on.
From the mailing list:

For the first time in more than 25 years the major version number of
the software is changed. The decision to do this is based on the many
new features and new API. While backwards compatibility remains -
except in a few rare corner cases - the addition of a new and improved
programming interface warrants a new major release.

The new major version number unfortunately leaves the project in a bit
of a conundrum regarding the name. For the majority of the life-time
of the product it has been known as PROJ.4, but since we have now
reached version 5 the name is no longer aligned with the version
number.

Hence we have decided to decouple the name from the version number and
from this version and onwards the product will simply be called PROJ.

In recognition of the history of the software we are keeping PROJ.4 as
the *name of the organizing project*. The same project team also
produces the datum-grid package.
The top ten of the top 100 list are all blocked, as well as many random books in several random languages.
there's a company testing a remote driver system to take control of self driving cars when they can't handle a problem ahead.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sel...
Repost of https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/09/why-the...
One thing that bothers me is that fact that STEM degrees are consistently more difficult. Sure, there's a lot to learn, and the amount has increased as we've moved forward, but the same should be true of an English major. There has been an explosion of writing and more than ever to learn about.

It feels like we must be letting the liberal arts majors down by setting lower expectations.
But... I don't think that detracts from my main point, which was to give an example of a technology that was "simply too cheap to be developed" that was, in fact developed.

Sure, for various reasons it ended up not costing pennies, but my point is just that the underlying concept is extremely simple and if you ignore all the things that makes good engineering expensive, and all the things that make medical devices expensive, potentially quite cheap.
Wooah careful there buddy, using the word "revenge" is not legal in my jurisdiction, and you just published it here by placing it on the internet!
Finally. This will be great for the environment and especially the climate.
Flying cars/taxis will never be a widespread thing for the public (IMHO).

The weight of a car is an excellent kinetic energy weapon. Fly over soft target, detonate something on-board to disable safety features and you have the poor-man(terrorist?)'s remote-kill drone.

Makes driving trucks into crowded streets look positively medieval.

The danger of this far outweighs any possible benefits.

Flying cars will become a thing, but stay heavily regulated and a rich-person's toy.
> Most Irish never experience a wake

I wouldn't go that far. Both of my grandfathers died in the last 3 years, one in suburban Dublin, one in a large country town. Both had wakes with the body laid out and dozens or hundreds of people coming to pay their respects. I agree it's no longer the universal custom it once was, and it's dying out - or perhaps ebbing, to come back into fashion in another generation.
Well, no crap sherlock

I don't see why Project Gutenberg thinks it isn't subject to German law. And yes, it sucks and it is against the spirit of the internet.

But it's either them being sued or ISPs being ordered to block the website.
> The Court in Germany has promoted a theory that it has jurisdiction, mainly because the www.gutenberg.org site has some content in the German language.

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a German citizen, certainly any site that takes his name submits to German laws!
In high school I hung out with a lot of such people, but I went to high school in Utah. My best friend had 11 sisters and 3 brothers.
>These companies need the Russian threat to justify their existence.

Not really. China works just as well.

Fun fact: the US Navy response to Russia's unilateral abrogation of the INF treaty (IMHO one of the greatest achievements in modern diplomacy & arms control) is to build INF-range missiles - to counter the Chinese.

There's a reason there's an SS-20 and Pershing II next to each other at the NASM. INF was a really big deal. It should be worrying to more people that it is being abandoned with such haste.
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I'm on one of the biggest German ISPs (Deutsche Telekom) and I can access front page and books just fine.

Tried it with the HTML versions of four different books, among them "most popular" like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and A Tale of Two Cities, they all work without issue.
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As the sibling said, trade dress and marks are used, as is copying of the appearance - so there's torts there.

There are usually wider issues of public safety that come along for the ride; tortuous malfeasants are prone to criminal actions - like goods that don't meet fire safety standards (or RF interference requirements, etc., but has the requisite marks), etc..
It's false though. The court says German law applies because German users can access the site. German language is only briefly mentioned, but not the argument of the court.
I am completely confused by how this court order even works.

I am assuming that PGLAF is owned and operated in the US. "PGLAF has no actual presence or activity in Germany".

I suppose the Berne Convention allows US police to honor international court orders for copyright violation, but what's to stop a country from making a ridiculous law that extends the copyright length to 2100 years, creating court orders for the 1 billion people who own a Bible or other old text without paying license fees, and collecting all the money in the world?
Product quality is horrible on Amazon. AliExpress seems to be as good, if not better, with more consistent listings and possibly a better search.
The military-industrial complex will certainly leverage any international conflict it can in order to expand its existence - and I wouldn’t put it past nefarious activities - but some underlying geopolitical conditions must exist to exasperate conflict and in the case of Russia that its natural aggressive and expansionary nature towards its neighbors. There countries naturally turn to defensive collectives such as NATO to protect their sovereignty from Russian aggression.
I have just such a scenario for you. Laser weapons deployed on a SpaceX BFR. The anti-missile Boeing-747 based laser weapon was cancelled by Robert Gates in 2012 [1] because it had limited range (about 60 miles). Put the same weapon in vacuum though, and the range extends potentially to thousands of miles. A single laser like that could potentially zap dozens of incoming ICBMs. Make these nukes fly in the lower part of the atmosphere though, and the laser won't be able to reach them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1
Is there a licensing reason why someone couldn't just fork Elm and come out with a new less-dictatorial leadership-driven project?

https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/blob/master/LICENSE

Actually, what IS that license? Is it completely unique and not one of the more standard ones?
Yes, but as this blog post shows, you can apply dynamic programming (and then various other optimizations) to make it fast for common uses.
Based on how media companies sue German torrent sharers (it's a cash cow for the law firms, like the one that is involved here, Waldorf Frommer), they sue individuals for making copyrighted content available on the internet -- because when you're torrenting something other people can get the completed parts from your computer, so if you run a mirror which is accessible from Germany, you will probably get a letter from the above law firm.
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In the US, copyright protection is based on the number of years since publication.

PG should be careful about misinforming people. This statement is only true for books created before '78. Since then, in the US, copyright protection is also some years after the death of the author, except works for hire.
I can't imagine that there would be such a writeup. Even just trying to understand the security framework of one browser is a gargantuan task.

As for Chrome being a real issue, some points off the top of my head:
- Its extension store breeds out malware in regular intervals (feels like there's headlines about that at least every other month).
- Pretty bad autofill exploit that was left unfixed for years: https://github.com/anttiviljami/browser-autofill-phishing
(Might've been fixed in the past year, I haven't checked, but I doubt it.)
- Chrome Sync is not end-to-end-encrypted without the use of a second password, which effectively means that it is unencrypted for 99.9% of Chrome users. Google also actively uses this data, weaving your browsing history into the profile that they keep of you. So, if they ever have a data leak, a lot of data is going to come from people using Chrome, too. The NSA/CIA/FBI also tap into this data, possibly using it for cyber war attacks, so if you live in a country other than the USA, you're making yourself a prime target and an easy target by inputting this data through Chrome.
Compared to what? The compute market in general.

AWS is a premium provider charging premium prices, they've essentially priced themselves as the most expensive provider on the market. It feels insane to describe them as "very cheap".

You might as well be calling a Bugatti Chiron "pretty cheap".

Any datacenter provider will be able to sell you compute time at a fraction of the cost of EC2. Look at OVH for example.
> A lot of this boils down to figuring out a delegation model that works for Elm.

I agree. This is harder than people think; we've tried some delegation models in the past that didn't go well, and we reverted back to the way things were previously.

We're still trying new approaches. The next release will have a core module (Array) written and maintained by a community member (Robin H), and I predict the debugger will be the next core project to fully transition ownership from Evan to a community member.

If these go well, they can be models for future delegation to community members!

> you're basically asking people to fork your project and what happens after that is unknowable

It's pretty predictable though - forks basically always fizzle out unless it's major contributors splitting off (as was the case with io.js), and there aren't factions like that among Elm's most prolific contributors.

Turns out it's a lot of work to make something people really want to use!
How are you drawing the conclusion that IQ is correlated with hiring value?
Did Amazon even apply for a MADA with Google to use the Play Store and their apps? They can choose at any time to not make their fork incompatible with mainline Android, and get access to the Play Store just like any other OEM. You seem to blame Google for Amazon wanting to have it both ways.
It ought to be... maybe we'll see an anti-trust case.

Obviously, companies should have some choice in how they do business, and what products they choose to sell. I won't fault drug companies for refusing to participate in state-sanctioned murder, or super markets for selling exclusively organic.
Nor do I fault AWS for not advertising Google Cloud products.

But when you build a platform/infrastructure, maybe you also have to give up some control.
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And he was from Mainz, which is only a 30 minute drive from where this court case was tried.
Sorry, it just felt like the story was being buried when I could see no good reason to. I personally didn’t want to get involved in the conversation (which is like walking on eggshells for me), but was interested in reading the comments.

Raising a dupe flag of an article that has been demoted for any reason doesn’t make sense to me. That means each story has only one chance, no matter the source, rather than seeing it through. If someone comes in, doesn’t see the article on the front page when they think it shouldn’t be there, they will naturally resubmit because they can’t see the conversation occurring.
I think your approach with UUIDs is practically equivalent to my suggestion involving hashing: you replace something that is the actual personal data with an irreversible proxy.

My concern remains the same either way. It's not that such measures can't technically be implemented, it's that the effort required to do so in practice is disproportionate, particularly for smaller organisations using limited personal data for legitimate purposes where there is little risk to privacy from otherwise properly handled data not being fully deleted on demand.

For example, instead of a small transport business buying a standard backup service and using backup and restore tools that just save all their important data to a secure, reliable location in case of disaster, it appears that they might now have to implement data crunching logic customised to their specific circumstances, despite possibly having no knowledge about how databases or programming work at all.

I fail to see how such a requirement would be constructive in terms of safeguarding anyone's privacy in a meaningful way, but I also fail to see how it isn't required according to the letter of the GDPR.
Could be. I read the 2015-2001 food-borne botulism surveillance reports, and came to three conclusions:

* Botulism is incredibly rare.

* Don't eat seal blubber.

* Be careful with your pruno; one jailhouse batch took accounted for the majority of cases in 2012.
Donated too. I haven't have a fantastic use of the project until now, but I do appreciate the effort, and the will to resist the bullies.
> When I tried to create complex input forms with a lot of complicated, relational data that users would be able to input and modify, it felt so much harder than exposing the data models in the admin panel

Hmm, really interesting. I can't say I've ever run into this, and maybe it's just that Django is so good at the admin stuff, it makes everything else look hard in comparison.

Most forms I have start off as subclasses as ModelForm. If I need to combine two forms on one page, I just give the form a prefix and populate them both within the same <form> tag. I'm not sure if this is the sort of more "complicated" use case you were thinking of, but y4mi's suggestion of breaking forms into sections with wizards is another great way to go about it.
Not only is meat cured with celery extract still cured, but it probably has more nitrates than "artificially" cured meat, since if you're using powdered nitrate salt, you can add precisely the amount you need.

Generally: if it tastes like what you expect ham or bacon to taste like, or it looks like what you expect it to look like, it's cured with nitrates. Nitrates have a powerful effect on flavor and color.
Yeah, I tend to use modified hdf5 tools for data that big.
You claim that "he's making communication worse". Well, you don't know that really. He using strong language could actually make his communication more effective. You can wave your hands and say it's "bad behavior", but that is subjective as well.

And where exactly is there an insult, though?

You seem to confuse he calling CODE shit with he calling PEOPLE shit.

People very well can see the points even though there is strong language. There is a small amount of people that ONLY look at the strong language and make a point out of it.

> And I just don't buy any of those arguments as a defense for bad behavior.

You define bad behavior as using strong language (swear words basically) and then accept nothing as a defense. But no-one really cares about what you buy.