skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you know the democracy was just for the few free citizens in the city state? They still had plenty of slaves, apparently more slaves than citizens. Not exactly the same as our modern democracy.

Interestingly, Cyrus seems to have had some kind of religious motivation for his view of human rights.

"Thus saith Cyrus, king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD, the God of heaven given me; and He hath charged me to build Him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whosoever there is among you of all His people – the LORD, his God, be with him – let him go there." — (2 Chronicles 36:23)

The peaceful Athenians ruined themselves by waging too many wars against Sparta.

Pax Romana did bring peace and justice to a large part of the world, but it was a very brutal kind of justice, hence Jesus' death by crucifixion.
Consider the opposite - would Christians go out and start murdering people if they stopped believing in God? If tomorrow incontrovertible proof came out that the ten commandments and the Bible were in fact not the word of God, would my Christian friends suddenly start stealing from me or stick a knife in my back? As an atheist I find that absolutely appalling and I don't know how anyone can live like that.
Should I be required to divulge the trade secrets or intellectual property of one client to another to satisfy a corporate IT policy? And if I have a personal conversation with someone, which client(s) should I share that with?

Contractors are always in an odd position, but its pretty logical and a lot easier these days. If I was a contractor again, I would probably put my communications and project files on VM of their own[1]. You should have a procedure to clearly separate your time, communications, and work product for each client. If you are using your company e-mail then separation is well understood by lawyers. I would make sure to have separate Slack accounts per client.

1) This assumes I am not assigned a PC and accounts by the employer because its a staffing position instead of a work product arrangement.
Nothing prevents the bug reports, fixes, or enhancements in a GPL/AGPL world.

> Useful software brings value to it by the virtue of being useful.

To be blunt, tell that to OpenSSL and ntpd. Both are broadly used and freely licensed, yet they're chronically short contributers, bug fixes, funding, etc.

Being useful to others is somewhat psychologically rewarding, as are the occasional patches and bug reports. But it's not why I (and many others) open source their software.
If it's self hosted, then DMs cannot be private from the company/organization since they literally have root on the box.
> it was all woman lingerie...
They don't know you, but they know your subconscious
Isn’t there something called LazyEnumerator that deals with this? In terms of chained .map at least
Might be a good idea to put the trademark disclaimers in the bottom of the page ("Android is a trademark of Google...") just to preemptively avoid any trademark issues.
Sift Science raises $53M to grow its fraud prevention platform globally
I'm not sure I agree with (a), any app that is focused on perf is likely going to use jemalloc or any of the other high performance allocators (tcmalloc), and completely bypass the libc implementation...
Thats kind of my point I guess though I didn't expand on it. They are pitching this like the scraping etc was 'subverting democracy' blah blah... but my contention is they were just doing the kinds of marketing that people know has terrible accuracy and return on investment. Maybe it's the bribery and hookers that were the bits that worked.
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Delete facebook and 5 seconds later you won't remember most of the people you keep in contact with as those connections don't matter.
If you tell the wrong person to fuck off, they can escalate these situations to class A felonies. Doctors and lawyers are a few examples of people with this kind of influence, I'm sure there are other examples.
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Now I'm curious to see it again too! But it seems to be long gone. I just checked the old machine I had the Lytro desktop software installed on, and then I remembered that I deleted the entire Lytro photo directory to free up space a long time ago and forgot to save the 2-3 interesting photos.
I see you have not watched La Casa de Papel (or, as they have recently creatively rebranded it in English, "Money Heist"). Yeah, it wasn't produced by Netflix, but they stick their branding on it and have numerous errors in the subtitles.
Are you really implying that persons of faith are less knowledgeable than the faithless? That faith is simply the lack of knowledge?

Knowledge and science do not preclude faith; indeed, the two often go hand in hand.
There's actually a Slack competitor called Symphony that exists solely because it allows thorough auditing/monitoring/spying on all communications. It's ugly and is missing a ton of features. It's used by a bunch of financial services firms that have a lot of compliance rules they can't enforce with Slack. This move is probably to start getting Slack into that space.
as foundries move towards impression-based licensing for their typefaces in many digital advertising spaces

That's a fancy way of saying "as foundries price themselves out of business"
Even after the Roman Empire collapsed in that same century?
> have an appropriate extinguisher and a plan for quickly getting failed cells outside and onto an inert surface like concrete.

There are two problems:

a) There is no appropriate extinguisher when you have a thermal runaway on 20 kWh of chemical energy.

b) This isn't some shielded, extinguisher-nearby, one-time experiment, when you, for example, solder something off and then while yelling "see, I'm still alive!" run outside and throw it out. This is something that is intended to be running 24/7 at your home (and maybe mounted on wooden wall like the pictures in the link...). Unless you post guard duty shifts around the clock, there simply may be no person to perform the plan of getting failed cells onto concrete.

I see this as super-dangerous, especially when dealing with cells from many different vendors scavenged from thrown-out laptops.
This isn't news. People have been doing this before the Powerwall has come out (except jehu has started branding them this way after it did).
Newer Li-on batteries aren't all that dangerous, especially the round cells. Even when overcharged absurdly they don't combust nowadays.
Relativity Space reveals its ambitions with big NASA deal
The surprising thing to me is that this was not already a feature of Slack. Isn’t the ability to view employee communication a very basic requirement of corporate communication platforms? Does anyone have an expectation of privacy on any corporate infrastructure? I certainly never have.
Hopefully they would choose there own phones to arrange a corporate takeover.
Requiring approval of the worker's council is how an employer's demand to read an employee's mail is usually handled in Germany. I did not mean to imply that it is handled the same way in the whole EU, just that unsubstantiated monitoring is likely illegal in the whole EU.
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They're also kind of burning bridges. "Hey, remember our company? When you left we demanded you sign something that threatened you with damages!"
Facebook is good for loosely connecting with acquaintances.

But for real friends, you will always keep in contact no matter the medium.
I'd also add that Mastodon is more of a Twitter replacement than a Facebook replacement. Facebook is better at isolating your feed into your group of "friends". Mastodon is more of a river of information from folks you follow (many of whom you will never meet in real life.)

I noticed this as well, and it's something I've come across in the past when checking out Facebook alternatives. Most seem to only be a replacement on a superficial level.
Good lord, why is multiplx in that horrible pinterest style layout?
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We've drifted far off topic here, but what's happened here is you've (hopefully by mistake) mistaken human natural language for a system of logical statements.

Human utterances in natural languages have a bunch of unspoken rules, breaking the rules is something that happens periodically by accident, and enables some amusing comedy (the late Ronnie Barker's most famous work "Four Candles" is a classic example) but on the whole honest participants in a conversation are not trying to break the rules. So. One of the rules is you mustn't mention things in the utterance that are irrelevant. For example:

"I've never been to Sweden in the summer" doesn't _logically_ preclude having never been to Sweden at all, but the rule means "in the summer" shouldn't appear in this utterance unless it's relevant, so it becomes a reasonable assumption for the listener that the speaker _has_ been to Sweden in some other season.

If a person says they believe "Innocent people should not be hanged" you're correct that _logically_ this offers no opinion on whether it's fine to hang guilty people. But the rule says it _does_ carry such an opinion implicitly, if innocence wasn't important it would not be mentioned.

When somebody is being very careful to define something in terms of other words and phrases they've used, we shouldn't assume they just threw some of them in for a laugh, they must all be part of the meaning intended - otherwise we can't communicate at all, just as we can't communicate with people who insist on Humpty Dumpty's rule (a word means whatever Humpty chooses it to mean).
Right-to-work is strictly anti-union BS and has nothing to do with non-compete agreements. A quick search suggests that non-competes are enforceable in both VA and NC if they meet certain criteria.
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Potentially it throws off the conclusions they're hoping to convey?
Ordinarily I don't care where articles come from on HN. But in this case, I think, it's important to point out how ruinous Fox News is for American democracy. Fox News does not deserve HN's clicks.

> In my view, Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration. When prime-time hosts–who have never served our country in any capacity–dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller–all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of “deep-state” machinations– I cannot be part of the same organization, even at a remove. To me, Fox News is now wittingly harming our system of government for profit.

- Col. Ralph Peters, former Fox News analyst
> as well as derivatives of the copy

Shouldn't this imply that it's illegal for me to make quizzes on my own from information I found in a textbook? If this app is implemented correctly, what it does should be indistinguishable from a human. It makes no sense to change the infringement status of a work based on how the work was produced.

Also, generally hard facts (like when Hitler died or how Hitler killed himself) are not copyrightable.
I don't believe in an objective moral order, or that such a thing can be meaningfully defined. Your question was whether there's a good reason why an atheist should live by a moral standard; I gave you mine. I don't expect, but do hope for, it to work for others; my experience is that other people are not so different to me.
>Replace "are using Slack" with "discussing at the bar across the street from the office" and what changes about the situation?

That the conversation is no longer happening over a company-sanctioned and controlled communications system? Seems like a pretty clear difference.
Honestly I think I'd rather OD than have people find out I was spending this much money on a mobile game
> Users are Facebook's product

This is an interesting concept. Have you written about this before?
Is the problem really with the criminal justice system, or is it with the laws, perhaps even just the sentencing laws?

It's definitely not an either/or thing. You can bring up some bad laws, I can bring up some bad features of the criminal justice system, and we can go on forever. There are issues with both. Consider the bail system, where many poor folk who are simply accused of a crime are left to rot in prison because they can't come up with the cash. While they are in jail, they can't work. While they can't work, they can't pay bills. If they can't pay bills, their car gets repossessed. Even if this person walks free, they can't get to work without a car, and the cycle will probably happen again. Eventually, an overworked public defender will not be able to help.

There are other factors as well. Consider the for-profit prisons and the politicians who are lobbied to implement them.
Just because societies become "less religious" according to some popular metric (for Europe mostly: "Christian, Jew or Muslim?") doesn't mean that people are more rationally minded.

And I don't see any of that coming, it's merely newer beliefs supplanting established ones. Homeopathy is quite popular here, without any evidence. How rational is that?

Finally, equating "atheism" with "rational" might be your personal short cut, but in my opinion it's incomplete:

To pick a historically relevant example, Marxism-Leninism was (and is) quite sold on "atheism" - it was one of their major differentiators in the socialist spectrum - and I see quite a lot of irrational ideas there.

And while these folks might not be your brand of atheism (no idea), claiming that they were not atheist seems to venture awfully close to a "no true Scotsman"
kind of argument. (We might disagree on the level of their rationality, though).
> Hey, don't underestimate it. Protestant Europe got a big literacy boost from the Gutenberg Bible.

I was responding to your comment saying "that was the original hope with print, radio and TV. So we mostly get scandal sheets, soap operas and reality TV"!

I'm fully aware there's major benefits that have come from those mediums.

> And if you dig around the writings around the time that radio and (later) TV got started, you'll see plenty of hopeful plans for universal education.

Again, you were the one who said it didn't pan out, and you implied the only reason they didn't was because <quote>"What we learn from history is that we don't learn from history", as some wag put it.</quote>.

My comment was pointing out that the reason has to be more than just that -- thus the challenge to come up with a proposal that could actually work.
Exactly. Insurance will generally cover anything that it doesn't specifically exclude in the insurance documents. If you are walking with a can of paint and drop it and destroy your carpet most homeowners policies will pay to replace the carpet. If you leave the water on in the tub (by accident) and flood your house the policy will most likely pay for it. However it won't cover floods from the outside. But it will cover water that comes in from the roof or through the windows (subject to any exclusion for hurricane potentially).

Likewise if you decide to put together an array of lithium batteries in your bedroom most homeowners policies should cover that. After all those batteries already are in products in the house (as opposed to gasoline which would only exist in a lawn mower in small quantities in the garage).
There will be fires.
It is always on by top list, after learnig what the application and domain is all about.

The majority of HR departments tend to suffer from myopia for anything beyond the last couple of months on the current employer.

So always take care not to land in something that will be hard to get out of.
Nobody can or should stop you from finding private spaces to talk to fellow employees -- but you have to provide the space yourself. Slack is part of the work environment being set up for you by your employer, so they're responsible for being able to make sure that it's free of harassment and illegal activity.
That's the point of the law. In many north american jurisdictions you can have your children taken from you if you let them roam around freely.

There was a notable story of a parent in Vancouver who had to stop letting his kids take the city bus to school because a neighbour complained.
Do we actually know what data has been leaked/illegitimately retained/whatever you call it?

A lot of the discussion revolves around friends data -- was all friends data accessible regardless of the friends' own privacy setting (this would be deeply troubling), or was it the data that friends shared with the app users (a bit less troubling, but still very questionable), or was it friends' data that was openly available on their public profiles open to any internet user?
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The sudden mainstream outrage toward Facebook is most likely because the Cambridge event is the perfect confluence of "Facebook", "Trump", and "bad".
Yesterday, a private channel existed where your employee Jim may have mentioned to his friend and coworker that he had a date with his male partner. Today, that data became available to you. You were planning to fire Jim, but now there's a risk that it would look discriminatory. Do you risk a wrongful termination lawsuit and dragging your company's name through the mud? You could check his slack messages to assess that risk, but if you do find something then you're in an even worse situation.

This seems like the same minefield as asking an employee to login to his facebook. The main difference is that this time, slack did it to you -- you were not given a chance to opt-out.
If we are just talking about size of the genome, the salamander genome is extremely repetitive and is around 15x the human genome. I seem to remember there was one crustacean that was estimated to have a 100gb genome (30x human). Genome size has a lot to do with weird chromosomal segregations that happen in the history of the species.

In terms of complexity, that's an interesting question. I haven't looked it up, but I am sure someone has done the study. Just something like counting unique k-mers of the genome will probably give you some kind of estimation.

There are a lot of weird organisms out there with very different strategies for passing on their genome.

There are organisms with program genome rearrangements (lamprey, roundworm) where somatic and germ genomes are actually different. There is an organism (I forgot the name) that literally breaks apart their genome into bunch of pieces and then put them back together differently for their somatic cells. There are also organisms with multiple nuclei (tetrahymena).
Recent relevant company town podcast covered Everett, Washington.

http://thedollop.libsyn.com/320-the-wobblies-go-to-everett

I can't think company towns are a good idea, this stuff creeps me out.
It's further down my list, but I am starting to investigate adding DC circuits to my house. Between solar and battery backups it would make sense to run as much as possible off of 12V DC.
It has much more syntax than any other Lisp I know, and it seems alien even coming from Common Lisp. In addition to the usual (list) and 'quote and `backtick and :keyword and ;comment, it has [vector] and {map} and #{set} and #(function) and @deref and #"regex" and ^metadata and #?(:conditional) and ...

(Yes, several of those are implemented as reader macros. I don't see how that would make them any easier to learn than the same feature implemented as "syntax".)

That's not a knock against it. I think Clojure is the best general-purpose language today, but we've come a long way in the past few decades. Lisp is no longer a language whose implementation fits on a blackboard (and everyone extends it in their own way). We've discovered a bunch of common functionality that almost all programs need, and pushed it up into the stdlib and language.
The real downside is that according to my calculation, at least from German E-bay, DIYing gets about the same price per capacity without all the added technology and convenience of buying from someone.
Don't you think some companies need the ability to investigate things their employees are doing for the specific purpose of bringing it to the attention of government agencies PRIOR to warrants being issued and PRIOR to pissing off the entire federal government?
The fact that our society needs such a law is beyond insane. When did the law change? I walked to school in the 90's by myself at 9 years. Or has the law changed? Or has the enforcement just changed without anyone's consent? I can't imagine raising kids in America today. I'd never subject another human being to this kind of life. Children are human too but Americans seem to have forgotten that lately.
How are they going to keep the riff-raff from East Palo Alto out?
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My point is there is no reason to use indirect means. If you care about efficient use of capital then add a capital tax of say 1%. Now, people who get a higher ROI accumulate wealth faster rather than those who simply conserve wealth.

When accumulation of wealth is more tightly coupled with the ability to invest rather than the ability to let compound safe investments create wealth you increase efficiency.

Beyond that I don't think capital accumulation needs any incentives. People don't invest more because of changes to the tax code they simply get more money from the same investments.
Is laughing that unprofessional? From where I am it seems like the clause is unprofessional and laughter might be the appropriate response!
You don't talk to many casuals then. They are fully aware that all of their data is being recorded and used against them. They've been aware since the massive NSA scandal.
> it should be a civil offense to frivolously report child endangerment based only on the fact that children are unsupervised.

So when I see children alone and think they might be lost, what do I do? Trust the runaways who tell me that all is good? Creepily follow them until they reach their destination? What you call "frivolous reporting" in one area would be "criminal neglect" in another.

That's the whole idea of child protection services: Give them slightly more power to investigate than an ordinary citizen, so they can make an informed decision according to the law. After all, the reporting is not the problem, lack of standards/consensus what good parenting means en detail is.

> not everyone on the enforcement side will get the message

Lack of ongoing training in law enforcement should, IMHO, never be a reason not to change things for the better.
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Belgium has a mainly white population, at least 92%.

Much of the intentional homicide rate in the USA is African-American (often gang violence), plus drug trade MS13 and Mara 18 violence.

Drop that out to match the demographics and the difference disappears.

EDIT to add: the reason I think this is more valid, is that "dangerous gang areas" of the USA are well known and few people from outside, go there. When in Chicago, for instance, I simply never drive through the areas that have gun violence (and likely neither would any other HN reader).

(My own personal view, is that there is/was basically a conspiracy against the African-American population in the USA which created a great deal of dysfunction, including a lot of gang violence and murder. )
Look into Toastmasters. It is a successful community that is specifically designed so you improve this skill.
I'm disappointed, but not surprised. If you are on a company network, assume everything you do is logged.
If it helps, the company is the one paying for that paper trail.
He also implies he lives with his parents, since he says he cleans for them when they ask.
The question was an unsigned 8-bit input, not an arbitrary number.

And the "trick" given in the answer still depends on a fixed number of input bits, no matter if it's 8, 32, or 10^100.