skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your guess may be as good as anybody else's; I haven't seen anything so far, but as an Electrical Engineer by training the amount of times I've said "Wow, that's where that comes from" in my graduate Mathematics classes is a bit staggering.
So this is a right for Google to not show unflattering results but not about a publishers right to publish unfavorable content?

Is this not blaming the card catalog for the content of a book?

If the information is true, than how can we argue it should be hidden? If it is false, then that’s a libel case against the publisher of the false information — not the indexer.

If someone wants to be forgotten, they should be addressing the publisher, not the indexer.

The precedent of removing factual information from discovery is a dangerous one. It would seem like existing libel laws ought to cover cases where false information persists. Should a newspaper delete old content just because “people change?” That’s just crazy.
>"Immutable" as in "immutable up until the folks at the top decide to alter history to benefit themselves financially". See also - Ethereum & The DAO.

You seem to be implying that the Ethereum Foundation had the ability to unilaterally alter the blockchain for everybody. But that's not really true. While anyone can hard-fork the blockchain, that doesn't mean that anybody else is going to accept the new fork. In fact, a bunch of people revolted against the Ethereum Foundation's decision and kept the old blockchain alive as a Ethereum Classic. Ultimately, it was the market that decided to recognize the Ethereum Foundation's fork as the winner.
It's already massively adopted in this field, like it or not. Buying drugs with bitcoin is mainstream; no drug dealer takes cash now.
I also declare myself a journalist. Thus I will keep records on everyone!
So you are saying the Twitter is still not developer friendly? I haven't followed the story closely in the past 10(?) years, but how many times have apps been created on their api, for them to see their use stopped because Twitter decides to deprecate, close or revoke access to some (all) of their api?
I’m in the same boat. I don’t understand if it’s just all the smart people at Twitter don’t know how power users use Twitter or they just choose to ignore all this.
I don't know of such a reference. It sounds like you're looking for an electromagnetism textbook. In practice most circuit designers don't use very much math, since it is easier to design using common circuit blocks and heuristics.
It took just 32 minutes for someone to show up and demonstrate my example of vaccinations and false information. Good job, HN.
Ajit Pai’s “Harlem Shake” video preparations must remain secret, FCC says
I see here a few comments criticizing the right to be forgotten, but I pose a question a bit differently.

Let us assume somebody commits a crime. He goes to jail, he pays for it, as society deems necessary.

A local newspaper reported it and now every time you google their name such an article pops up. This makes every person they might do business with to withdraw.

It seems to me the debt to society has been paid by going to jail, and yet they keep paying by having the news of their mistake be very prominent.

What is the right course of action, in this case?

Note that the difference between traditional newspapers is their general availability. Now the entire history is just a few clicks away, whereas with paper you need to go look for it specifically to find it, so it's a LOT less damaging.

What does HN think about this?
Ever saw that episode of "Hazel" that also made fun of "New Math"?

Would you happen to know what his thoughts were on the Cold War and the space race?
It's moot if there's anyone or service doing backups of HN, whether for archiving purposes or other. I know Reddit has a few services doing that for threads -- which recently lead to evidence on /r/legaladvice that can be used against an employer as both the employer and employee posted separately, the manager essentially stating that they wanted to fire the employee in retaliation and for not participating (regardless of their cultural/religious practices, and having been told so prior to continued violations).

Unfortunately we don't have government organizations that help with moderating discussion (like a therapist would), such as a parent would help children learn how to communicate with others in difficult situations, to deal with emotions, etc; and if bad behaviour, giving someone time-out until they can "play nice" again.

We have to of course make an environment good enough, rewarding enough to be part of, that it's an incentive for everyone to want to play nice.

Perhaps we need to come up with a new system (separate from legal system, or part of justice-education system) for dealing with situations that teach compassion when compassion/understanding is missing, e.g. should bullying a crime, or who should we leave that up to - is it even required to bring all participants related to bullying together, parents of the perpetrator and the victim, and create a healing circle to uncover the deeper underlying issues?

The whole point would be to rally support, so we can build stronger, deep community - and society could, like with criminal law, have fines or other limitations created if people decide to opt-out of this system.

We really need to become more comfortable with accountability, that our actions have consequences - though we also must support a practice of learning, mistakes happen during learning, etc; there's pretending to have learned, and genuine change/evolution in a person's thinking and behaviour, difficult to perhaps tell in some cases online.
Are you either a millionaire or a billionaire?
Maybe you should be able to delete a post with replies only if all the authors of the replies agree?
"We believe..."

Hahaha, no you don't you disgusting liars.
"When I was consulting I had a build pipeline to production up as my #1 task."

I used to cost that out as a separate item on my offers, but half of the time people would balk at paying for such things. No amount of explaining how it's better for all parties could convince some people. Now, that sort of prospect was someone you don't want as a customer anyway, but in the beginning you want to convert every prospect...
Also:

* Austerity (e.g. leaving pothole fixing in portland to anarchists) - which reduces aggregate demand for labor, and thus reduces overall wages.

* Benefits cuts - which increases low wage workers' reliance upon their wage income, and reduces their negotiating leverage.

This is why certain politicians are extremely concerned about "fiscal prudence" when it comes to government spending on wages, pensions or benefits, but lose their sense of fiscal prudence as soon as the topic is tax cuts or military spending. They're mainly just trying to inadvertently push corporate wage bills down.
You'd think that if Kreisler was the one visiting the US he must have seen Lehrer perform in English rather than that Kreisler would have been visited by Lehrer to see him perform in German?

That said, given his last name it is very well possible that Lehrer visited Germany and that he speaks/understands German.

Interesting!

Edit: Looking some more it seems that Lehrer's version is from 59 and Kreisler's from 63.
„there is no way for its developer to fix these issues.“ ... few paragraphs further down: There might be a solution in place.
> creating money outside state control

Which if successful enough to constitute a counterweight with enough force to push back against "the state" will yield merely... another state, but conveniently one with "Our Guys" in control of all the economic leverage.

You call yourself non utopian, yet Bitcoin - a tool to deleverage the state by sapping its power of taxation - is a nakedly self serving utopian project. And yet tax rent (in the form of landowner's premiums like mining rewards and tx fees, and soon by lightning network channel brokering fees, not to mention off chain but indispensable infrastructural scaffolding like exchange fees and fiat ramps) doesn't just disappear, it merely flows to the pockets of a different cabal composed of early adopters and wealthy latecomers who were able to buy large tracts of influence and infrastructure in bitcoinland.
Should we give Trump the right for his bankruptcies to be forgotten?

Removed from google != removed from public record. If google has become our only source of information we are pretty much screwed. If Trump were to have his bankruptcies "forgotten" by google then journalists would still report when relevant since he is a celebrity/(sigh)politician, and any entities considering doing business with him or anyone should be doing proper due diligence.

Google CANNOT become our only source of truth.

Edit: grammar.

Edit 2: My point is about the perception of Google as the only relevance source of information for society. Not a value judgement on the concept of a "right to be forgotten" from any source or surfacer of information.
Are you saying that some other clients allow to see the timeline in chronological order? I'm a Twitter noob but started to use it more recently - still using the web client.
The good news is, HTTPS is pretty common these days and Cloudflare just launched encrypted DNS (1.1.1.1). Those two things cover a large portion of exposed data.

If you're on Android, this is an excellent app that allows you to set a custom DNS server across all apps and connections, without root: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/. As a bonus it also lets you blacklist domains, though of course that's not relevant to concerns about your ISP.

Be wary of third-party VPNs, though (bottom section titled "VPNs could put you at risk"): https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/aimin...
On the other hand, it can be incredibly frustrating to be looking for a piece of information and find a nice thread about Just That Thing on reddit - only to find that all of the posts that actually contained useful information are [deleted] and there's nothing left except "I have this problem too!" and "Thanks" "Thanks" "That fixed it!" posts.
I don't think it has much to do with "looking scary", rather it has to do with raw power. Very few ardent gun activists would argue that citizens should have access to fully armed m-1 tanks or nuclear weapons because they're too powerful. There's an implicit understanding that certain kinds of arms are too powerful, so the right to bear them can be infringed.

I'd argue that the same kind of logic should apply to weapons like the AR-15. An accessible, reliable, fully dangerous weapon like the AR-15 is so far beyond the 'arms' of the 1790s that the right to bear it could be infringed.

A gun in the hands of a qualified, reasonable person is a legitimate means of self defence, but I can't think of why that should apply to something like an AR-15, which is built to kill as many people as quickly as possible. Qualified, reasonable people have many, better options to protect themselves from the threats they'd reasonably face that can't so easily be perverted by deranged fucks.
There are cases where the First Amendment can apply to "private-owned public spaces", such as company towns [0] or shopping malls [1]. While such a designation has not yet been applied to Facebook, some are exploring the possibility of doing so [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama

[1] https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/2010/08/free-speech-cali...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-11-29/how-to-ta...
A search engine != the internet.

It should not be removed from the internet, but it should be removed from google. It's not the same thing as dealing with paper newspaper. One you have to go an explicitly look for the information and browse through them to get it (and still it can escape your gaze). With google you just need to type name and surname, and everything is at your fingertips.
For a candidate with exceptional skills and experience we may be able to ask our office's HR department to waive the requirement.
We completely agree there!
I mean, it's in the police blotter that's published in the newspaper. Assuming you still have a local newspaper, that is.

I'm not specifically aware of whether this is the case, but I would hope that the results of deliberations by criminal courts is public information.
> if there are factually wrong then absolutely they should have the ability to have it removed.

Who is responsible for verifying facts before they're allowed to be removed from Google?

If I publish an online review saying "baldfat stole money from me, don't work with him" is Google supposed to be a private investigator and verify my claims?
Reporting in from Asheville: the tech scene here is incredibly small. Most of the people I know here in town that are working in any sort of tech space are remote workers. Asheville is indeed a city that's seen a lot of growth over the past 15/20 years and is often talked about in the same way as Austin; I'll often hear someone say, "when I moved here in YYYY, is was so great; I miss the old Asheville." The city officials seems dead set on promoting tourism and not supporting a tech industry. I'm still here because I love this town and want to help promote the its tech scene.
How many times? I did 5 consecutive purchases in a day with TSB, no PIN requirement. Contactless VISA allows for cashback. Barclays, 3 consecutive purchases, haven't tried cashback.
Iterate faster with Keys.run's Node.js SDK (key-value API)
Not really familiar with twitter, but isn't tweeting directly to someone public? As in, everybody sees what you are trying to resolve?
All places are changing, some faster than others. The Berlin of Christopher Isherwood and the Paris of Hemingway are long gone.

The funny thing for me is when I say my mom's family moved to the Oakland hills after the earthquake, they think I mean in 1989.
I'm not sure I agree, most of the time I just want to read some text. I don't want an """experience"""
The situation wouldn’t be nearly as bad if the federal government offered some sort of API or search service to which all states would have to report, but this is currently only being addressed by the private sector. And at kind of a prohibitive price for very small businesses, in some cases.

Fortunately, there’s almost no enforcement at all with respect to small- to medium-sized businesses collecting and reporting interstate sales tax. Do the best you can with it.
> Bitcoin is more than 10 years old. It is a mature tech that is still in search of a problem.

I don't understand how this can be said with a straight face. Aeronautics, ballistics, these are examples of mature tech. I can't think of a single example of technology that was considered mature after a mere ten years.
When will he improve "Poke"? :)
Does Zuck actually even use Facebook?
>I can’t see Google and Facebook being thrilled about implementing support for this, but given the recent scandal involving Cambridge Analytica, Apple should have extra leverage to push them in this direction.

If Apple makes it an App Store policy, what choice do they have?
Facebook makes around $5 per user per month [1] Fine, where do I enter my credit card?

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/02/facebooks-revenue-topped-5-p...
Are people going to want to burn the history books at their local library next because it contains some information they don't like reminding people of?

Funny (read: sad) that you should mention this

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/10/15...

I'm not posting this to suggest it's a harbinger of things to come or anything like that, but...the events here are just too ironic to not be the result of us somehow stumbling into an alternate dimension (I'm not above ruling out CERN as a possible culprit)
So uh would you mind quantifying what "decent" rep means to you? This feels like something that is quite subjective. 5k, 10k, 50k?
I spent about 3 days contributing answers to SO before encountering some real pricks who live on that site and are on the offensive to get every reputation point they can. Snide comments and downvotes from these assholes has caused me to avoid contributing to the site even though I sometimes end up there occasionally for answers.

Also I've found that as I've become a better programmer, I spend way less time on sites like SO and more time reading actual documentation.
I'm studying Electronics Engineering and have found this course to be a good summary of the theory essentials: https://www.edx.org/course/circuits-electronics-1-basic-circ...

For the practical side of things buy a protoboard, a multimeter and some components (resistors, capacitors, etc) and start mounting simple circuits. Learn how to solder and start fixing stuff and doing fun projects. You'll eventually need more stuff to learn, having an oscilloscope to see the signals is needed to understand what is going on with AC circuits, but you could probably simulate it instead with software like Multisim https://www.multisim.com/create/

Learn about Microcontrollers too, they give you the ability to do the really cool stuff, like robotic projects.
Last fall came before last winter...so you were cured before last winter?
There is a huge gulf between what a public person can do under the right to be forgotten and what a private individual that is not otherwise notable can do.
>This is like saying a grocery store should be exempt because it sells newspapers

well, yes. or are you saying a grocery store should have to read every article in every newspaper they sell to ensure it doesn't contain information that legally should be forgotten?
Seems sensible to me.
I think that's a very compelling argument: that China's swerve towards totalitarianism in the past few years is motivated by the fact that the government sees an economic depression coming.

This isn't about Bibles, the Bibles are just one aspect of a tightening grasp on society that's been going on for a while now. You could just as easily focus on their attacks on feminism or homosexuality, with a completely different attendant set of armchair socio-historical theories.

The economic explanation is the only one I've heard that makes sense to me: at present, civic peace is largely predicated on continuing economic growth. The main reason the populace tolerates the current regime is that it has provided steadily-increasing prosperity. If the government anticipates a bump in that process, it makes a lot of sense that they would now be battening down the hatches.
I love that there's a "See this less often" action that you can click on that content, which appears to do nothing.
It sounds like the actual problem is

>This makes every person they might do business with to withdraw.

Hiding information from people sounds like a bandaid to the issue of people being overly judgemental. Maybe we need to be more accepting to rehabilitation.
It's about the searching feature, not about the fact that the data is recorded somewhere. So if you knew that it was published in some newspaper you could always go and look it up, but it wouldn't be the first hit in google anymore.
I'm not too familiar with travis/codecov, but maybe you could add "npm install" to your .travis.yml "install" section? That way the dependencies would be downloaded before the scripts ran.
No. I'm sure that you could argue that technically, if you go by the literal acronym, it is "LIDAR", I really don't think that flies. When you use the term LIDAR, you imply a certain amount of robustness and error rejection you only get using ToF.

Sticking the same parallax technology people have been using since the 80s on a board and calling it "LIDAR" isn't really honest.
vitamin C daily, plus, good hand/face practices, combined, have correlated with a huge drop in the rate I get colds/flu/sinusinfections/pinkeye. for me, these are all nearly zero now. and I always weigh first-hand direct experience much higher than any academic theory or random stranger's arguments on the web. I'm sold.
what makes you feel that one will be "private"? Please don't tell me that you believe into the Musk PR. Google used to be the same way "Don't be evil...".

It is the great circle of life. The incumbents love to be privacy-centric, but as soon as they become big enough, they realize that they can make a shitload of money with data//metadata now that they got a captive set of customers
> I mentioned this in the other thread yesterday, but my AT&T gigapower router is hard coded with 1.1.1.1 on an internal interface

Wow, AT&T of all people should know better. I mean, I understand the attraction to that address for customer setup reasons, and bypassing different configured NAT address ranges (i.e. 10/8, 172.16/12, and 192.168/16 networks), but surely a customer who configures a custom address range would be capable of finding the new address.

Here's hoping that as IPv6 becomes ubiquitous, this is replaced broadly with something standard, possibly based on ND.
As an anecdote, I couldn't finish Left Hand of Darkness, but "Omelas" is a long time favorite short story of mine.

For me these two are like night and day, in terms of overall quality, emotional impact, and style.
It's been a consistent of my life, every good friend I've had already knows all the words to all the Tom Lehrer songs. And enjoys singing them while drunk.

My parents... who are only slightly younger than Tom Lehrer... think he speaks too fast, think he's too disrespectful, or just don't get the humor. I get that he was successful -- but I think classic example of someone born a little too soon.

Anyway, if someone could put Tom Lehrer and Stephen Colbert together for an interview I'd be pretty happy.

===

Good atricle from 2000.

* 'When Kissinger won the Nobel peace prize, satire died' | Global | The Guardian || https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/jul/31/artsfeatures...

===

Some of my favorite songs... but you can't go wrong, and they're all on YouTube.

* Tom Lehrer: Smut (concert live) (1965) - YouTube || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jARdWfJulo

* Tom Lehrer: Alma (concert live) (1965) - YouTube || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL6KgbrGSKQ&list=RDQL6KgbrGS...

* Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun - with intro - widescreen - YouTube || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTKn1aSOyOs
> we have quite a few millennia of trying and failing in [fixing human beings]

Actually, research is showing that brutality is declining and empathy is on the rise [0]. We may be living in the most peaceable times in history. Maybe the optimism is warranted?

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111904106704576583...
Disappointing to hear this with the "do no evil" ethos of Google.

Organizing all of the world's information is a great goal, but blurring the boundaries between personal, private information is another thing.

If Google is journalistic:

- Does Google know the difference between journalism and opinion/editorial content?

- Can standards of external journalistic integrity be applied to Google?

The majority of content online is OpEd and not subjective.
Anabolics are also very prevalent in the lifting/bodybuilding world at all levels including amateur circles. IIRC it was legal up until the 90s, and enforcement is a low priority for LEO. Hell, Ronnie Coleman was a cop for a long time.
That’s my point.
I doubt the worry was a friend attempting to blackmail.
Wow thanks for clarifying. That is absolutely deceptive. The UI never mentions that, but I found some support docs that do. I imagine the majority of people deleting messages aren't aware of this...
I usually make throwaways for the same reason.

I think there is some merit to the idea of Right to be Forgotten[1] but at the same time, I feel like that would just help evil people hide their true nature. The other half of me wants to just have the NSA dump everything one day and let everyone know what everyone else has really been saying for the last 15 years. The first couple days would be tough for everyone to acclimate knowing who everyone really is. But in theory that is a net good. Deception is rarely for good.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten