skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just ....

The people working on the political and PR areas at Facebook are badass. They come from places like the Obama administration. They now have a front-row seat in the negotiations for how governments around the world are negotiating with Facebook.

After the dust settles, these people will start charging $1k/hour to consult on "political or PR" sensitive business areas.
the contention is that they are obviously different in kind, and the difference in kind makes it fairly obvious why we would want regulation for ISPs prima facea, but not content companies like Facebook and Netflix. The government does not protect Netflix's status as a media platform any more than they protect Blockbuster.

ISPs are more akin to power companies, which provide vital infrastructure in virtue of government fiat.
Video Privacy Protection Act
> I think the problem is that people often get away with doing ethically dubious things in early-stage startups.

No doubt. However, I personally don't see this as being at all related to 'fake it till you make it' as a concept.
There seem to be multiple feeds with different angles. The one posted by the Guardian is currently pointed at the current person speaking, e.g. the Senators. Bloomberg, though, has a feed in which the camera is focused on Zuckerberg's face for the entirety of the hearing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyJosQBtzsw
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is apologizing – again
I find this even more despicable because Apple chooses to use a certain type of rubber under the guise of it being more eco-friendly.

Yet this rubber is ridiculously brittle and frays almost without fail within 6-12 months meaning you just end up having to by more cables thus using more of the worlds resources anyway than if they had shipped you one cable that didn't fail.

My 17 year old Ti Powerbook cable used daily for 11 years, no fray.
My original iPod cable, no fray.
My iPhone 3G cable, no fray.
My iPhone 4S cable, 5 years use daily, no fray.
Change happened somewhere here, newer cables are more matte and softer feeling
My iPhone 7 cable, frayed within 6 months
My 2014 MBP cable, frayed within 12 months
Replacement cable, frayed within 12 months
Does anybody have a guess as to how many people died as a result of this scam?

(And is it an episode of black mirror that I'm even on this train of thought?)
I zoned out about half-way, are the sites actually built on blockchain or are they just using crypto currencies?
I don't think clpfd or chr are especially large hogs of memory. Have you run into issues there?

If you can write a smallish program that uses a subset of J (actually APL might be easier, since it is less likely to interfere with SWI's parser) I would be willing to try and figure out how to run it. Aim for 5-10 lines. Email me. I like the idea I'm just not totally convinced.

I feel like if I got better at J, my problems with it probably would be resolved. For instance, it feels to me like J is really bad at parsing (beyond regular languages anyway) and tree structures. But there are built-in verbs for these things, so I could be mistaken. I only threw a few months at it last year. And I kept being indecisive about APL and J. It didn't help that Aaron Hsu was such a passionate advocate for APL, and Roger Hui apparently now works for Dyalog and has tried to close the loop on a lot of the ways J improved on APL there.

My back-of-the-envelope sense, from writing a small amount of J and a fairly significant amount of Prolog, is that J is way better at solving the core of a certain class of problem, but you spend a lot more of your life converting the input into an internal representation you can use and back to a result a human might want to see. Prolog really likes a certain class of problem which is somewhat less general than J, but it makes up for that limitation somewhat by being amazing at parsing and having great internal representations of things. In most of the cases where I would want non-determinism in J, I would probably try to rework my problem so that I'm doing all the possibilities at once and then detecting which ones succeeded. If I had non-trivial calculations to do, I probably wouldn't use Prolog, but if I had to, I would certainly consider calling out to C or something. My day-to-day interests seem to coincide more with what Prolog does well than what J and APL do well.

Anyway, I think it might be a profitable area to explore. I was curious about Brachylog for similar reasons. https://github.com/JCumin/Brachylog

Anyway, I'm curious if you could show me what you are thinking. There must have been a smallish program you thought would work well with this combination. Can you share it?
> I think the missing discussion is that some bad law exists, but that SESTA/FOSTA is not that bad law: Websites should not be immune to prosecution for intentionally facilitating criminal activity. Section 230

Pretending that Section 230 willing enables participation in an illegal enterprise is a complete fabrication with no grounding in reality.

Prosecuting Backpage without SESTA/FOSTA was possible which is why Backpage was taken down and indicted BEFORE the law was signed (and therefore, enforceable).

Why do you think all the torrent sites get taken down? Or YouTube was sued? or 2903420934230 other things where a site violates some law be profiting from otherwise illegal UGC? Or the various dark net markets like the one Dread Pirate Roberts ran?

Section 230 has _never_ provided more than a reasonable barrier to overcome to prevent absurd legal attacks.
While it's hard to say how the business will go, that's not really the goal. We're trying to make coding much much easier, and the tight integration is part of that.
Are you kidding?

Which is longer, the alphabet or the dictionary?

There's a hell of a lot more words in any language than there are characters that make them up.

N case insensitive words is far better than N character password from the normal set of characters (alphanumeric + special characters).

Even if you restrict the combinations of words to grammatically correct sentences there's still more combinations than there are of for the same number of characters

That still holds even if you make assumptions about sentence structure, common word combinations, etc, etc. There's a lot of words out there.
You're not a good example though. You can definitely build a successful relationship with a single dev in India. An easy route is to start on upwork, pay well, churn a bunch of people until you meet someone good, then hire them. The complexity comes when you need a team of people to build more than one person can do.
In the extraordinarily unlikely chance of that happening you're going to want guns, ammunition, and a food supply, not digital Beanie Babies.
Exactly. But having to come up with fake answers to stupid questions and track them, is just proof of how bad some people are at their job.

Apple still does this kind of crap. Actual questions:

In what city did your parents meet?
What is the first name of your best friend in high school?

Recently an airport public WiFi in a major city in Europe wanted my birthdate and the agreement language said that I acknowledge everything I'm stating is true and correct. It's so blatantly asinine. I didn't even bother to look if it cited some EU law that lying is a crime, I just said fuck it, and went without Internet for a few hours.
I wouldn't spend 4k on a mattress. You can get a solid one for 1.5k tops. The important thing is doing the research beforehand, knowing what materials will last, and knowing what kind you prefer. After getting a couple of bad mattresses I got fed up and read up on it and was able to get a much better mattress because of it. Here's a site that seems to have a lot of good information. https://www.themattressunderground.com/our-articles/mattress...
They just raised $100M from Fortress Capital backed by their patent portfolio. If I had to guess this money is probably coming from a subset of their existing stuck investors banding together in a magical thinking exercise to win back. A good lesson in human frailties. It's hard to watch something you had that you thought was worth billions go to zero. They might as well have funded a whole new company.
Actually I thought the point was that it’s $3k/mo easier than it normally would be.
Just legalize it already! It's been proven time and time again across many countries around the world that legalizing and regulating prostitution creates a safer environment for the girls AND the customers.
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Not if step 1 is to port C++.

I hope this idea works out for them though. It's about time someone paid the users of the software.
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You are very honest with your feelings!
I am like that too - feeling envious when reading "you can do it too" articles instead of focusing just on the message they wanna teach us :)
Actually, that's not the case. Back then, it was much more commonplace to have a workstation and run local programs side by side with programs running on remote hardware. The network transparency of the X protocol was an advantage -- again, as long as you were running trusted programs on trusted remote hosts.

These days network transparency is a) irrelevant for most use cases and b) much better implemented with newer protocols like RDP and PCoIP. That's why it was removed from Wayland.
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The ban on prostitution is the same thing as the war on drugs. It wasn't able to stop the practice so the only result was to move these into the criminal environment. I'd much prefer if prostitution (and drugs) was tightly regulated but in the open.
I'm genuinely not seeing the usefulness here. There's always been a tradeoff between image quality and the rate of compression. What they're basically saying is that they are worsening the compression ratio for better image quality, but they want to be the ones to slap a name on this 'new' paradigm shift? Sure they're also making their own compression scheme, but it doesn't matter all that much. We can pretty much gain the equivalent of what their saying from just streaming images encoded with pre-existing lossless compression schemes like png.
But none of the examples I cite need 'high performance' (well CRDTs do) an expressive language for sets would remove accidental complexity and make more complex things simpler and less buggy
Does anyone have an opinion on how this compares to React for Beginners (https://reactforbeginners.com/)? Besides the price tag, of course.
From the arguments I've seen, the big issue is that removing these areas from the web makes those caught in trafficking harder to rescue, as it drives the info deeper underground on the web or off the web altogether.

Even the DOJ even weighed in (https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4390361/Views-Ltr...) and said it will make catching traffickers more difficult. When you have the DOJ opposing a proposal to strengthen a law, that should be a significant red flag.

Of course, I understand my comment is specifically about the implications for trafficking, not self-decided/employed sex workers.

In regards to the latter, I think the article describes it well, regardless of it being illegal, SESTA/FOSTA only makes it more dangerous for both groups.
They stop making new movies when you answer that question, thus ensuring your answer will remain valid.
Yeah, as far as anecdata goes, I have not heard of this sentiment from anyone.
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Thank you! This was a fantastic read.
The number one thing I’d like to strengthen is the process of building a react component for publishing on NPM. It’s way different from building something with create-react-app. I need a solution that has zero config, has HMR, the latest JavaScript and automatic deployment for demos on github pages. I have so many components I could publish, but just can’t be bothered to figure this out.
I’ve worked with many LCD panels: while they all support one of a few signaling standards, there is no standard for the cables and connectors. (Or if there is, nobody follows them.)
For each LCD panel, you need to make a custom cable.

So that part is not something that’s specific to Apple.
I only tweeted it at my Erlang chums is why, didn't expect anyone else to care
Not exactly sure what you want us to talk about when we have no information to go on here... this could literally be just an email scraper for all the information given!

Sounds like an interesting project though. Anybody got other good podcasts I can kill time with on my bike ride to the train? I feel like if I listen to the same podcast for too long I get bored of it, even if it's very interesting.
I smell a "The Social Network 2.0" in the making
The PBS News Hour feed puts them side by side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAZiDRonYZI
As others have mentioned there seems to be a number of studies about the health benefits of itermittent fasting. (I really love big breakfasts though:-)

For me however I do it because I get less tired during the day if I wait until lunch before I eat. (Fasting completely seems to work even better but is less of an option after I got a family that wants me to eat dinner with them.)
What advantage do you see in Atlas if you already have the C corp and business account?
Apple is punishing the iPhone owners, and I think it's unfair to punish them while they are being punished by owning an iPhone.
It's all just hosted on GitHub, uses regular HTML and CSS, no javascript :)

http://darklang.github.io
This is exactly right. In fact, Engineers can't blow the whistle on a company that's violating privacy law without harming our careers.

I think Engineers who carry water for unethical companies probably get paid more. Your next employer would much rather hire you if you kept your head down during the PR Nightmare than if you made noise and created a problem for management.
It's an issue if you use a CDN or other platform-provided TLS terminator; they don't usually support client certificates. And even if you _can_ support it in your reverse proxy and put the certificate details in a header, that's a very different server-side interface from terminating the client TLS connection in the service itself.
Also, to properly investigate something, it's usually better to investigate only one thing, not a combination of various different things that,with luck, means something.
In short, yes.

An analogy with cars, where the same law already is being applied, will work. (Do we still do car analogies in 2018? And on sites which aren't Slashdot?) Suppose you get your brakes changed at some place which is well-known for brake repair. Then, later, your engine dies but the manufacturer's warranty should still be valid. Then, if the manufacturer wants to claim that the third-party brake repair is the cause of the engine failure (and thus that the warranty is invalidated), the burden of evidence is on them.
"Underlying this, don't ever answer these stupid 'account security' questions truthfully. Better to make something up and store it in your password manager along with other account info.

I'd normally be tempted to put in the same types of random passwords I normally use, eg:

> What was the name of the street you grew up on? L9Pro840Of9KNIGfKD4tf8tOwTG9Dcqj"

that's what I do too:

Mother's maiden name: jklqedwsfjkl;ewdfq;jklqwe
First car: iohwrqefhiokqwefiohp0u-0ui

and so on
I mean, you certainly could be a sole operator working for yourself and be interested in this, but the point remains that the $3k isn't meant to replace whatever compensation you would have received if you didn't take this offer.

I guess the important point here is you're not supposed to quit your day job with the expectation that Dark will pay you a livable wage to build your pet project.
We're mindful of this. Our goal is making coding much easier, and obviously that will need libraries. Our plan is that in the early days we'll make it very clear what Dark is useful for, and what's outside of its capabilities.
I'm entirely sure that it will not.
I've been using nwb for that
https://github.com/insin/nwb
Two attempted kidnappings yesterday:

https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Teen-girl-young-woman-e...

FTA: "Just two hours earlier, in what police said was an unrelated incident, a 19-year-old woman was walking just three blocks away from the kidnapping when she was dragged into a car by a group of two men and two women."

The northeast mission remains a center of drive-by prostitution. Hard to read these stories without speculating this is an indication of what's to come thanks to SESTA/FOSTA.

Can't believe that Kamala Harris supported this. It's not helpful to say this is a reasonable law and that prostitution's illegality is the problem. In the world we live in it is and will remain so.

That makes this a bad and dangerous law.
reaperducer must really like being called "Goshujin-sama".
This wasn't a breach, it's literally how facebook was designed to work historically.

Regardless of whether your friend knowingly accepted the terms of some app which grabbed all of their graph info you yourself didn't actually consent to that sharing of data by that 3rd party. You could argue that anything you shared on facebook was effectively public domain information (that's been my position for a long time anyway) but it's certainly not how the majority of users understand it. But now suddenly people realize this information can be used to manipulate others and they are concerned after handing it out freely for nearly a decade and they're calling it a breach when it was the system working as designed?
What do they get from moving public key auth from tls to some kind of web api?

To me this looks like a duplication of efforts
THANK YOU, that was enlightening.

But speaking of peeves: that article of plain-text with static images doesn't render without JavaScript damnit.
Other phone manufacturers aren’t as prolific in updating the low level firmware of their devices once it’s on the market?
Two other options also exist.

OS performs a handshake with the target subcomponent and authenticates that the component really is manufactured by the manufacturer that is targeted by the pending firmware update. If the authentication completes successfully, then push the firmware.

A flip-side alternative is for the component to only boot firmware that it recognizes as signed by the correct authority.

In the first case the device has an embedded identity within the hardware. In the second case the device merely needs to validate a signature. Crypto acceleration is becoming very widespread and very cheap so I don't see either of these as difficult to manufacture.
Unfortunately client certs (broken as the ux was) is headed out of browsers :/
Instead of giving you my email address, I'll wait until you do a Show HN when the podcast launches.
I read somewhere "if you have to do something three or more times, write a script for it." I've been doing that lately and it has helped my productivity quite a bit.
> Section 230 is a bad thing and it going away is a good thing

The last 20 years of web innovation begs to differ. Killing user-generated content will make us all worse off.
‘Bill to: The patriarchy’: How one woman is addressing the unpaid work gap
> We're aiming for all the advantages of static typing, coupled with all the advantages of dynamic typing. For example, you use the same types all the way from DB schemas to API validation.

Sounds like what Microsoft tried to do with the .NET ecosystem, but with cloud integration (which Microsoft should be doing for their own cloud) and API validation.

Someone needs to actually succeed at doing this. Most of the type-checking/inference problems in this domain are decidable -- it's really a tooling/tooling integration problem. Creating a single unified tool instead of having developers clobber together libraries (JSON schema validator, ORM, MVC framework, deployment workflow for all of that, etc.) would be a huge value-add.

Suggestion: code example/screenshot/workflow video on your homepage, and a link to your homepage in the advert. Nearly every programming language/library out there has a concise "hello, world" example on their homepage. Nearly every software development tool has a screenshot of sorts on their homepage. Those examples are worth a million words. Even an appropriately caveated "Wizard of Oz" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_of_Oz_experiment) demo would go a long way.
> The FTC hasn’t said which six companies it sent letters to, just that they “market and sell automobiles, cellular devices, and video gaming systems in the United States.”

Does anyone else read this to imply that Tesla got a letter?
So little? He and Mattis were the pimps in this case.
The first thing to think, when a website (or stranger on the street) asks you an out-of-the-blue personal question is: why is s/he asking? Cuz it's probably not because they give a crap.
Prostitution is abhorrent to the women's rights movement -- it is another tool of oppression.

Women are having sex with men whom they otherwise wouldn't have sex with -- we should be removing the need for sex work rather than accommodating it. Sex "for survival," child prostitution, sex trafficking -- none of these go away when the stigma and illegality are removed and if anything it gets worse because clients just automatically assume their sexual partner isn't (for example) a victim of sex trafficking.
I am writing another post which will describe better the niche I think it should fill - an auxiliary language used to write library modules which would be called from applications written in Elixir or Erlang.

The functionality that would be replaced is currently written by traversing lists - this really is a business-rules language add-on to existing infrastructure rather than a high-performance array processing language.
Off-topic:

> The most impressive people I know have strong beliefs about the world, which is rare in the general population.

Is this true?

The average person is irrationally immovable on religion, politics and sports.

On-topic:

My philosophy on productivity:

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all ― Peter Drucker
It's really sad to hear about sex workers fearing for their very lives, let alone their livelihood. These are some of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable members of society. Their lives could be so much better if we moved towards Netherlands/German-style legalization. Instead, we seem to be going in the opposite direction.

I wonder who exactly the opponents of sex-legalization are trying to "protect". Trafficking victims? They will be vastly better served by a well regulated workplace. The sex workers themselves? I think this article debunks that myth. The Johns? Hah, there's a good laugh. The criminalization of the sex industry seems like Prohibition all over again.
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>the sole interest in banning it appears to be religion

If you can't think of any moral hazards around prostitution, then I don't believe that you are trying very hard.

>I don't think Christian views should be the determining factor in our legislature

Is Christianity the only moral system that looks poorly upon prostitution?