skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The definition of poverty is decided by people who have an incentive to say poverty is declining. It changes over time.

Why do people take these definitions at face value without examining what they actually mean?
Just to be clear, in case there are people actually wondering:

> Is it appropriate to smile at a coworker of the opposite sex? Or to instant message them about work late at night?

No. And no-no.
"Or britain - you know the place that 1984 was about. Or germany, spain, canada, russia, saudi arabia, etc."

What rubbish. The assertion that nations like Canada are comparable in terms of freedom to nations like Russia and Saudi Arabia is utterly bizarre.
Someone more familiar with satellites can correct me, but from my understanding you should be able to detect deforestation from real-time satellite data. You alert on changes in the level of greenery in the images. The indicator might trail behind detecting chainsaw noises, but it wouldn't require the mass distribution of detector devices.
There have been external servants for as long as we've had nations... that's something you must get over if you're enjoying the spoils of a better off country. There's also a lot more trade going on because of better technology (seafaring, navigation, freight, etc), along with farming which is generally occupied by about 2 or so percent of the US population which was historically much higher.

Let us not forget that your home would be staffed with a small militia of servants if you had to trade back your dishwasher, washing machine, dryer, fridge, and vacuum, etc.
I agree with this to an extent. Where I'd diverge is on the question of whether we should say that some of the reasons things aren't "as good" as they were in the post war period is because certain segments of society (business interests, capital owners, etc) have used their influence to improve their prosperity at the expense of the average citizen. To the degree to which that's the case, describing the post war period as "lucky" will gloss over the systematic process of favoring corporate interests over individual interests and normalize the idea that a strong prosperous middle class is an abnormal scenario that we shouldn't attempt to replicate.
I don't believe it's easy to return to the specific economic circumstances of the post war period but I'm not sure we're trying very hard right now in the U.S.
Just a term you may not have heard before that will lead you towards similar conversations - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
That's a very odd view. The bankers did ruin the economy, because an economy with a bubble + the ensuing shock is far worse by most metrics than one where the bubble never happened in the first place.
It seems that you can burn a foto of the King of Spain without any punishment, according to the Strasbourg European Court.

You could not use the letter N in China for some time without being blocked.

I perceive a difference.
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It's similar to the keybase.io identity model (using popular services as defacto authories). It might be overkill but it could be nice to supplement that with a check of the repo mirrored on e.g. Bitbucket and Gitlab.
three people in the back seat are in front of the rear wheels/basically over the rear suspension. Its a different moment arm to have it in the trunk or on the roof.

Source: I teach statics
If government were operating on a profit motive it wouldn't be doing the things it should be doing.

Government should focus on exactly those things where a profit motive doesn't make sense, i.e. areas where maximising total well-being does not correlate with the ability to extract a profit.

EDIT: So efficiency as applied to government services should really be based on very different criteria than profitability. Though to a lesser extent that is also the case for private companies.
lol, I was just 'asking HN' why the DropBox IPO was not #1 on HN. It wasn't even on the front page 5 minutes ago. Thankfully, I decided to check before posting.

Congratulations all around, and we finally get to see whether DropBox is actually minting money or not.

Good Luck!
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EU law is written so it can apply for many decades – when the precursor of the GDPR was written (1995), MD5 was considered secure.

So, you should expect the "appropriate" part to mean the current state of the art to keep something secure.

An "appropriate" hashing algorithm today would be bcrypt, scrypt, or potentially still a salted SHA512 with many rounds.

An "appropriate" protection against unauthorised access would probably be a strict permissions setup in your AWS rules, proper firewalling, and potentially at-rest encryption.

An "appropriate" encryption would be AES 256 GCM.

"Appropriate" always just refers to the current state of the art for what is considered secure.
> That's the Mark Jenner who also spent years having a relationship with the environmental activists he was spying on.

It reminds me of a story about, after the 2015 terrorist attacks in France, a police group was created to infiltrate and spy on racists and anti-muslims hate groups. In one occasion, all the members were the cops...
Congrats to Dropbox and to Y Combinator for their first IPO.
"...sending all audio up to our cloud-based servers"

Curious why they stream all that sparse data to the cloud over dubious cell networks. If they used AWS they could easily deploy that TF model to the edge using Greengrass ML Inference and just send up anomalous signals.
As someone in a similar situation as the author, I actually agree with you.

It is perfectly normal that people who are not in similar situations don't know how to interact with such children and their parents, initiate, respond, or continue a topic. So I am fine with most remarks people made that the author may find uncomfortable or offensive, unless the remarks are bluntly inappropriate or offensive even to the ears of parents of normal children. For example, since I am not religious, it is really annoying to bring God into the topic, "there must be a purpose", etc.

I agree with the author that please invite our child to your party, to have a playdate, etc. We understand it means the hosts will put in extra efforts to accommodate our child. We greatly appreciate it. We will do our best to make it a less burden. For example, it is OK to invite our child for a swimming party, although he won't swim. He would be very happy to watch other kids play in the water.
Were I a pre-IPO stock holder, I'd be extremely annoyed with the advisers right now.
From what I've seen it's mostly just incompetent people who were born rich or friends/family of board members.
> GDPR is for avoiding Cambridge Analytica/Facebook disasters

And SESTA/FOSTA is for avoiding human trafficking.

Complex far reaching laws often don't end up having the result they were said to be intended for.
Is it possible that the released video was so dark because the dashcam was behind a tinted windshield? The other dashcam videos from the same place might be from cars with non-tinted windshields. Of course, any video cameras used as self-driving sensors would be outside the windshield, so their view would be clearer.
They probably would have been worse to Bush up front had 9/11 not happened. Blasting the President in the year(s) after 9/11 would have probably been in poor taste through the eyes of the public.
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Which means that minimal requirements to win kernel and embedded devs is to integrate well with the rest of the C ecosystem, including myriad of C compilers and to be really well suited for low level work. This excludes pretty much all ideas, but meta languages that produce C code. Might even be necessary to promote the language itself not as a new language, but as a meta preprocessor for C to avoid alienating developers. But realistically this is not feasible nor necessary. There are much more feasible ideas to improve safety, than forcing half of the world to learn a lot of new things and change.
Malice is one possibility, but I think indifference is more likely. Such people are the ants about their feet; they aren't usually going out of their way to step on them, but they are also not particularly troubled if they do.
Just because a company would turn down a short-term gain doesn't mean they aren't profit focused. Any popular site that runs ads is overflowing with offers to run sketchy ads for big money but actually running them would only hurt their brand in the long run. This doesn't necessarily mean that site is editorializing.
The original idea was to make a summer camp alternative for students so that they didn't have to be interns at big tech companies. I think YC was first called "Summer Founders Program."

Funding a company that IPOs is pretty wild when you think about it in that context.
Agreed, that line seems like ludicrous false modesty. If anything, I think they should be shocked about how long IPO#1 took.
So you advise to scope on the reviewer hypothetical beliefs and personality next time? That is bound to succeed and show my analytical prowess? Even in uncharitable (and possibly mistranslated by me being critiqued!) case her points are baseless and manufactured?
Not defending, but maybe explaining...

A HN headline yesterday explained which licenses were prohibited by Google:

https://opensource.google.com/docs/thirdparty/licenses/#bann...

Most of the licenses on the Mozilla page are either restricted or banned at Google, based on a cursory crosscheck.

https://voice.mozilla.org/en/data
I think they mean that Paul Graham et. al launched YC as a small, cheap experiment, and never imagined they would have success like this.
As well, they (and Google) are tracking your movement across the web, through affilliates and embedded webbugs. Don't think for a moment they've not connected the dots. All it takes is one gstatic image load while you're bringing up hotmail or one clicked embedded link and they've got an identity.

"Social Media" is a nasty spy network in candy-coloured wrapping.
Regulations like this usually draw from other sources for inspiration. So if your company is subject to other regulations (like PCI-DSS), then these really vague sentences start to seem more concrete.

1.) Make sure your software has all vendor-supplied patches.

2.) When personal data is being processed, keep it in RAM.

3.) When personal data is at rest, ensure that it's on a locked-down system and safe. Encryption at rest is called out in GDPR, but it's not required. (The definition of "locked-down" can fill a couple paragraphs, but consider it like SOX - only give access to employees that need it as part of their job title. Block off all access for everyone else - network, physical, logins).

4.) Make sure that all systems that store/receive/transmit personal data are audited and logged, and do not give out access to people unless they absolutely require it. (Anonymize data for BI, developers, business reports when able)
If they are "surviving", for me it looks like money well spent :-)
Most US sex workers fled CL and use Instagram now or any chat program that provides location distances. In other countries Weechat is the preferred method to find companions for hire. You'll also find countless escort ads in any adult social media hookup site like say, Fetlife or Adult Friend Finder.

A warning to anybody thinking of building a gigantic illegal escort listing service or agency and hosting it in Russia or via Tor, imagine the massive effort to come after you in hopes they discover political rivals have been using your service.
I think you're simultaneously reading too much and too little into it. I think when they first started it they didn't even know if the premise would catch on. But also a lot of startups fail or get acquired and acquisitions are also a favourable outcome for YC.
You probably won't, but I'm not going to engage an obvious troll any further.
I found this regulation put too much burden on small businesses.

It's not. You are wrong.

What if this law will be abused as a tactic to attack business competitions?

Why would that happen?

How do you understand this "security appropriateness" of the above text? How can you be sure your understanding is correct?

You use your knowledge or regulation to read and make decisions. If you don't have the required experience, you hire a consultant or a lawyer. Just like you do when complying with any other piece of legislation.
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Gray in his review doesn't establish that enlightenment thinkers had no common values. He only points out that some of them had wrong conclusions. The leap from that to implying that they lacked any common values is entirely illegitimate.

I have looked at both Gray and Pinker but have not read this book or any of Gray's. If Pinker doesn't articulate historically defensible core enlightenment values, that is a valid criticism, but doesn't deeply undermine his thesis.

I'd very much like to see a sympathetic exploration of the question "What exactly are enlightenment values?" That is a potentially deep question in the history of ideas but not the one Pinker was trying to answer. I don't think Gray is a trustworthy guide in exploring that question -- way too tendentious.
> not having to worry about paying for healthcare gives a person a huge amount of freedom.

Except you are paying for that healthcare through your taxes. Only now, you're paying for 10x as many people for crappier government management. Unless you're dirt broke, you're paying more than what you pay now. Just look at Canada's broken system for an example. Their healthcare system looks more like a DMV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2jijuj1ysw
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The parent is wrong in that they fail to distinguish between terminal/differentiated cells and tissue stem cells. Also they imply there is a one-to-one correspondence between the relevant cell divisions and number of total cells at any one time. This is not the case.

Eg, you can have one skin stem cell divide once to replace a single terminal cell (one of the daughters remains as a stem cell). Or that one daughter cell can divide itself once to replace two terminal cells per stem cell divisions. Or those two cells can each divide to get 4 terminal cells per stem cell division, etc.

The relevant number is divisions since the fertilized egg for each stem cell lineage.
Huh. This is strange. It's asking me to say "My voice is my passport. Authorize me."

(Hint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zVgWpVXb64)
Reason and Liberty by Shayne Wissler. It can be downloaded for free online.
Is weird to call it a shadow profile because mow people like yourself are talking about victims. They basically just ran an SQL query. They didn't abuse anyone.
Yeah. Though I deeply disagree with political affiliation being a protected group (at least in part because you get to choose your political views).

In any case, there isn't yet a gun-rights-maximalist party against which YouTube could be prohibited from discriminating.
I do believe we need to advance the idea of 'Basic Income' it will give people the freedom to de-attach themselves from toxic working environment or pause for a bit. I did that few times now. I never regret it. Giving people some social safety net to look after their family and make decisions about their well-being and happiness is a must. without making it easier for those who may abuse the system.
"You cannot invade the mainland United States; there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass." --unprovably attributed to Admiral Yamamoto

"Wolverines!" -- Hollywood movie Red Dawn

There are enough guns in the US for every man, woman, and child to carry one, and enough mulish stubbornness to carry on guerilla warfare for a long time. Americans shoot at each other constantly, and have been intensively studying next-generation warfare overseas for decades. We would certainly not hesitate to convert school shootings into checkpoint shootings, and random/racist bombings into vichy collaborator bombings.

Any nation with experience occupying Afghanistan should consider it before attempting to occupy the US. Those without it should consult with any allies that have it.

It doesn't contribute to the security of the state, but it does increase the security of the country. Except insofar as potential invaders decide that a standard invasion is infeasible and instead nuke every city and military base, I guess.

> I cannot yell "fire" in the movie theater...

Mr. Ken "Popehat" White would like to have a word: https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...
Diaspora (alternative to Facebook)
Has anyone from Facebook actually outed them on this or is it (highly plausible) conjecture at this point?
Well, the context here is largely about relative vacation time.

Now if you'd rather have a job which was notable in the 14th century, that's a different - and also interesting - discussion.
You where not limited to your own hut. Further you where often staying with a large extended family so playing with children and telling stories etc. It was very different than staying home at a modern single apartment.
They'll have so much time free to work on waiting in the bread lines.
Thank you, I'm not able to provide a lot of help but I would like to follow the discussion, perhaps the sensible thing to do at this point is to wait for the first beta, then probably the mailing list will be open to everybody. Thank you for replying.
Does ShotSpotter have patents or something? It seems off that they aren't mentioned, but they're definitely prior art for this.

Hopefully it works better for logging, which is to mean: at all.
> Consider drug addicts. One of my good friends died of an overdose last year, and all of his friends including myself had tried for years to get him to quit. No luck. If someone's closest friends can't help them, what makes us think the government will be anymore effective?

The government's much greater resources and number of full-time professionals at its disposal is one reason to think they might be able to do things an addict's friend could not.
I'm guessing it's less comfortable than you're led to believe from the TV show.
Legislators don't (and shouldn't imho) get into the specifics of how an industry should abide by the laws they make. That makes the law flexible for the future.
In the US, at least, if you were brought up on charges of violation, they would use the reasonable person test. That means that a reasonable person in your position (with the expected knowledge of the industry/field/underlying tech) would have done it in the way you did. The reasonable. person in hashed out by the jury based on testimony by experts on both sides of the case.
Basically if you are using best practices, you should be ok.
Qualification: I am a non-practicing attorney
I think it's just poorly phrased. He's referring to the proverbial "you" and the bug "you" reported, not the bug "you" introduced.
Most laws of this kind are made so that they can exclude small players from the market.

If something goes wrong, Facebook can easily hire an army of lawyers and "prove" that they "processed [data] in a manner that ensures appropriate security".

But a small player can't do that. This has the follow advantages for big corps and governments:

1. Big companies can use the laws to destroy small companies (they just need to push the enforcers of regulations in the right direction, maybe with a little gift or something wink wink)
2. People don't even try to create a small company, because it's too risky, so big companies don't have to face any competition at all
3. Governments and other institutions can use the laws to stop people who spread informations or products that go against their interest. In fact the main reason for GDPR is stopping the spreading of true informations about the current political situation in Europe (what they techinically call "fake news"). It's much easier to control the web if you only have Facebook, Youtube and other channel you can easily manipulate. Good luck instead controlling hundreds of thousands of small blogs, mailing lists, chat rooms, etc
Serfs and slaves weren't so much exempt from paying taxes as exempt from earning income, whilst still being obliged to provide labour for other people alongside trying to meet their own subsistence needs.
> Considering how hard it is to write truly exception-safe C++

Is "writing truly exception-safe" something that necessary ? for me, the biggest benefit of exceptions is that I can have some code throw from anywhere and display a nice error pop-up message to my user which informs me of what went wrong and revert what was currently happening during the processing of the current event, since the "top-level" event loop is wrapped in a try-catch block. Often enough, the user can then just resume doing whatever he was working on.
How about detecting fraudulent blockchain ads?
Considering Britain is banning journalists like Lauren Southern and convicting people for making jokes on youtube ( count dankula ), I most certainly believe it.

Not only that, Britain is the most surveilled society on earth.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/6108496.stm

That's from 2006. Britain has at least a decade head start. But china is working very hard to catch up on their surveillance.

But I guess it's evil when they do it, but it's "civilized" when britain does it?
> London investigators want the private Slack messages of a Londoner they suspect of bank fraud. The London police could go directly to Slack, a U.S. company, to request and collect those messages. The London police would not necessarily need prior judicial review for this request. The London police would not be required to notify U.S. law enforcement about this request. The London police would not need a probable cause warrant for this collection.

Is the implication that before the CLOUD Act, if London police wanted to ask a US company for information they had to notify US law enforcement?

Sure, if they wanted to force a US company to give them information they would have to get the US legal system involved, but as far as I am aware US law enforcement is not a gatekeeper over foreign access to talk to US entities, at least when those foreigners are not from countries that the US restricts contact with in general.
1. google the web, e.g. using duckduckgo, for "firefox nightly ppa"

2. Go to https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-daily/+archive/ubuntu/...

3. apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa

4. apt install firefox-trunk

5. firefox-trunk

At no point during this are you informed that you will be subject to illegal tracking and analytics.
That's not the intent of my question. I'm asking "how" in the sense of explain (as opposed to just a "yes" or "no" answer). I'm asking you to apply those same criteria to the system you're using with the same critical eye and see how it stacks up. I don't know you system and I want to learn more about it.
Because it's not C++, it's C.

It doesn't require them/us to change much, just add these flags and the compiler will warn you about things that are unsafe.

I've always found it quite sad that no one is interested in bettering C enough to push relevant changes through.
Beyond that, it's not even really about sexual exploitation at all. That's just a stalking horse for the real purpose of this bill -- to begin the process of eroding and destroying section 230 and normalizing the censorship already taking over the internet.
One part is true: I am relatively young. But I have very rarely met government employees my age. If I had to guess, standard would be 35, but have met plenty of folks who are 50+ working in government (something I don’t see in the startup scene at all). Most of them are likely underpaid; however, to be fair, that’s often made up in health benefits and likely somewhat in retirement benefits. And while I don’t doubt there are lazy government employees, the presumption that they outnumber or even match the private sector in this regard rings as false.