skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can make an exact comparison. Not too terribly long ago I saw protests holding up poster sized pictures of prisoner abuse from Abu Gharib and Guantanamo Bay, which is roughly like holding up a poster-sized picture from the 1989 massacre. Nothing happened to these people in spite of the fact that these pictures are deeply embarrassing to the US government and intensely inflammatory in regions of the world where we don't want to be inflammatory.

As much as I give Snowden credit for exposing what can be dangerous autocratic programs, I also must point out that Snowden was not just some random protester. Snowden violated a government secrecy oath that he signed, which is a crime and this fact is printed rather boldly on the contract. Nobody forces you to sign these oaths. You can always say "I'm sorry, I can't sign this, I quit" and walk out and get another job.

That's part of what "the rule of law" actually means. In a nation with the rule of law, the law applies objectively to everyone: crooks, politicians, and yes even do-gooders. If the law is wrong you can vote for representatives to change it, but until then what's written is the law. If the law says it's illegal to hop on a pogo stick, then anyone hopping on a pogo stick gets arrested even if they're on their way to feed starving orphans.

(Secret courts are another matter, and I think those are un-American and should be shut down. But they are used far less in America than in China, and when they are used and the fact becomes known there's generally quite an uproar.)

Also-- personally I find the NSA and CIA less alarming than Facebook and Google. Three-letter agencies operate with at least some democratic oversight and the intel they gather does tend to be used primarily for legitimate intelligence and national security purposes. Unfortunately we do not live on planet fluffy bunny hugs and we need an intelligence service and a military. Facebook and Google operate with zero oversight whatsoever and sell their surveillance services to the highest bidder. Private surveillance operations are completely lawless.
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The above situation is definitely a shifting equilibrium rather than feedback loop. Like, everyone getting a 3% raise won't make the city unlivable overnight, it probably won't even increase cost of living by 3%
I'd think so, too. The iOS app still hasn't been updated for the iPhone X screen...
Upgrading to a new JDK every 6 months is pushing a bit too hard if you ask me. In case of JDK 8 -> JDK 11 (LTS to LTS) you even have only 4 months.

A new JDK may have breaking changes, which may require code changes, acceptance testing, deployment to many customer sites. It is not unusual for that process to take 6 to 12 months, and you certainly do not want to repeat that process every 6 months.
After reading the article I still cannot see the ethical reasonaning for judging his actions and why they are criminalized!
I think that sound is pretty cool! It also works as some kind of feedback.
This is completely anecdotal of course but... my insurance covered all but $700 of the birth. The total cost was over $15k.

What it did not pay full for was ultrasounds. Which aren't technical part of the birth. They only paid full for the first one and we needed 5, which was about $300 each out of pocket for me.

But I hear my experience is not typical. Usually out of pocket costs (even with insurance) are much higher in the US.
The hashing needs to be done by a trusted third party. It would be a cheaper to operate service than wayback, but would let you check individuals content against manipulation.

You have to incentivize people running and storing the hashes.
Straight Erlang is not hard to debug. Functional language, little shared state, and much behavior in apps (for the Erlang geeks: pun intended) is based on message passing between processes, which is very well defined. That said, it gets much more complicated if you are using ETS or Mnesia (which builds on ETS), because now you have shared state, and that state has a rich API with lots of things that could be happening.
Personally I think BTC will be on top at least in the next few years. Many people have realized that investing in crypto could be quite profitable. I read at https://www.valleygames.ca/cryptocurrency-casinos/ that casinos started accepting crypto. It could be a good sigh. I started gambling on crypto not so long ago, hope the lady luck will be on my side.
MetaLua does!
> It's weird that the EU has a monetary union, but so much difference in corporate income tax rates.

That's because it's a monetary union, not a fiscal union.

> Great that IE is 12%, but this "competition" is BS in the sense that they needed the higher-tax countries to bail them out just a few years ago:

That's based on a severe misconception. The Irish headline rate is 12.5%, but the effective rate doesn't differ much from that. Meanwhile, you have countries like France with a much higher headline rate, but an effective rate much lower than the Irish one.

So no. Ireland was not bailed out by higher tax countries. Moreover, our corporate tax rate had nothing to the financial crises, whose roots in Ireland can ultimately be traced back to the ECB keeping interest rates artificially low to help with German reunification.
And somewhat useless. Changing the temperature from 72 to 75 in my well-insulated house does take off a few kWh. But it seems a bit meaningless when the shop down the road is trying to get more people to come in by setting their thermostat at a chilly 65 and leaving the door open all day.

Likewise in spending thousands to upgrade from an average 25 mpg car to a 35+ mpg car, only to drive down the road alongside coal-rolling semis that believe DEF is a conspiracy.
This is awesome. I’ve been wondering how hard it is to partner up, give trainings or consult in China. Without many english speakers there it seems that the Chinese language is a pre requisite but it might be getting better.

If anyone has experience to share I’d be interested. I’m guessing this kind of ventures might be easy sales to universities like Tsing Hua.
When I saw the name “Eric Posner” as a coauthor of the book Vitalik mentions, I figured he must be related to Richard. Indeed, Eric is Richard’s son. Richard Posner has some extremely fascinating writing.
You can always use openjdk right?
I have the priveledge of being around Chinese students who are studying in the US. Two comments I've heard recently:

'Doing research in China is the dream'

'I'll move back to China after I graduate; there's more opportinuty for startups there.'
This is why projects/libraries/services should list the pros/cons of using them. So people know when something is a fit, and that it's not always a fit.

This pattern of some _thing_ becomes popular; everybody says to use _thing_; people use _thing_ where it's a bad fit; tsunami of people says _thing_ is broken. _thing_ keeps living.

Examples: redux, react, S3, EC2, AWS lambda, heroku, docker, angular, ruby-on-rail, rust, golang, well every _thing_ :)
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Can people please stop talking about "zero emission" when talking about electric vehicles. This is intellectual dishonesty. The electricity isn't generated without emissions. The car isn't "environmental". The only environmental vehicle is the one that is NOT manufactured.
Yes, and no proof from those making the accusations was ever forthcoming.
There's good business opportunity is to fork OpenJDK and backport important patches. May be IBM or Zulu will do that. Might become new de facto JDK. I know that I'm stuck with Java 8 for years even if it means that I won't upgrade JDK at all.
To add on the original comment:

Your website, ironically, breaks at a smaller viewport (at least my small screened firefox on desktop).

I would really consider making this work on tablet / mobile devices, and fixing the accessibility ASAP. Especially considering the product you are trying to sell.

How can I trust your phone hardware if your website doesn't meet modern day standards?
>Price it accordingly. :)

I don't see this as very helpful. The above poster views their home as something to protect from the market. It is a safehaven for family and friends and community connections, it is something that holds all the most important things in life and so it is above market mechanisms to the extent possible. Seeing this and purposefully advocating a system which forces them to put an actual price on their family memories supposes that there should be zero aspects of our life which are safe from market mechanisms. That seems like an impoverished way of looking at life.
It is the same with Java. The only breaking changes I have seen were when old code used things that became keywords in newer versions. That said, new version of Java means a new runtime and all the issues that can introduce. Running an application on the new version has always been pretty easy. It's recertifying it and possibly tuning things like garbage collection that make this daunting for a large organization.
recompile

^ There, that could be a problem. I have a couple of anfient Java apps that I have no source code for. Some of them were written for Java 7 and no longer work with Java 9. (Fixable with a tweaked OpenJDK JRE, yes, somewhat)
When I got my Nokia E90 back in 2007, I loved the power of having GPS, internet, maps on-tap. But it never intruded on me, and I wasn't addicted to it. I just used it when it was useful.

But something has changed since then. I'm not sure whether it is with me, or with 'them'. The article talks about the rewards of posting to facebook - and I now see this same reward for posting here, reddit and any other forum you might be part of.
Fighting a bunch of court cases to keep perfect purity in their principles would cost too much, when the number of these exclusions is quite small. Better to provide an easy out to a few whiny people like this author, than to spend all their money fighting every edge case on principle and in so doing bail on the entire mission of the organization.
...or a Word macro that you assign to a toolbar button, that takes the currently selected word and 'googles' it for the correction.
it crashed my browser AND my firewall, never seen that before.
I’ve got premature ventricular contractions which basically means that every once in a while, my heart goes early and then there’s a longer pause.

Being aware of my heart beats basically gave me panic attacks which makes the pvcs worse, which makes my anxiety worse and so on.

I had to work at not noticing my heartbeat, per my cardiologists advice.
This means only one thing: run away from Java now, before it is too late and you are stuck with paying ransom and extortion fees to some big greedy corpOration :-)
Eclipse seems to be the "user" w/r/t Oracle, if I'm reading this right.
More reason for FB to actually police their platform according to their own rules there, and not let site policy violations slide.
>Which makes asking for a resume, rather pointless.

I wouldn't go that far. It still weeds out the honest-but-unqualified with minimal effort - it's basically a good early filter. This actually works for the candidate too - how much would it suck to 6 hours of interviews and then get told you don't have the right degree or some such?
Absolutely. There exists no single human being that does not make any mistakes. The trick is to find the people that make as few as possible, know how to track them down, and that can figure out how to hot-fix them as needed.
Toronto van attack suspect's Facebook post linked to anti-women ideology
One question I suspect the archaeological evidence is insufficient to answer is how far from the last village/roving band of hunter-gatherers the next band into the wilderness would settle. When you broke off would you stay within a day of your old village or would you walk hundreds, thousands of miles before stopping, completely alone?

As far as the mindset goes, I’d say keep in mind that when Europeans landed in the Americas and Australia, they considered those continents to be “empty”, free for the taking. Their world may not have been so different from the first human to walk out of Africa.
It's still plastic. Being put into the ocean. Likely to be smashed to bits by a storm.
Intel's nm numbers are also pure marketing, I believe.
Moreover, Ireland was the fastest-recovering nation financial crisis, driven undoubtedly in part by its preferential corporate tax rates
They are - but I don't think they can somehow unrelease OpenJDK 8.
China and the US have different histories. World affairs are not simplistic binaries of good and bad. Political systems take time to evolve. Western Europe evolved from feudalism over 300 years.

China has 1.3 billion people to take care of. This is not a joke. Let them manage and make the transition their way without sanctimonious judgement from others.

The USA is effectively two party state with both parties propping up oligarchies and special interests with a media who have long ceased to function as a free and independent press and have reduced themselves to mouthpieces for entrenched interests.

The ability to stand on a street and criticize your leader is not the only sign of democracy, the ability to effect change and have a government responsive to peoples needs is. Studies have shown and people can see how the US political establishment are far more responsive to special interests and the rich than the general public. So what is democracy?

Perhaps things are not simplistic or black and white, and continuing to affect a moral high ground inspite of alarming deterioration betrays not only a lack of fundamental concern for any articulated values but also its abuse as a mere political tool to beat others with without any context of global history and world affairs.
You make it sound like the Caddy folks completely ignored the issue without providing a reason ("absolutely no reason", "doesn't even consider"). After looking into it, I find your post misleading and unfair, to say the least.

Link to the issue for other users who, like me, were concerned by your post:

https://github.com/mholt/caddy/issues/1632

According to the author, the issue is that (a) there are two RFCs that contradict each other on this distinction, and (b) most browsers do not treat them as such for the purpose of their same-origin policies. So he thinks it's best not to enable this alternate URL by default since it's trivial to add it as another route if you want.

I don't know if he's right or wrong, nevertheless, this clearly isn't a dude that doesn't give a shit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi%E2%80%93Urdu_controversy
> there must be some incentive

My experience and observation say otherwise. I have no incentive not to litter when I know no one will fine me. Still I get up and walk trash to garbage cans. Even with all the litter around, most people still walk trash to garbage cans instead of littering.

Most people don't shoplift even when they know they wouldn't get caught. Most people stop at red lights in the middle of the night when no one is around. Etc. Etc.

I've found living by my values the greatest incentive. The alternative is to try to accept that my comfort and convenience come at the cost of others' health and resources, which ate me up inside.

I think most people value clean air and water enough that when the culture shifts, they won't need material incentive.

Laws will follow behavior, not the other way around.
(Maybe I should switch to FreeBSD?)

Wait I have to manually install Caddy and then fight with systemd to make it start at boot? What is this? The 90?

Since they don't have have a standard package repo, you will also always be behind. You will have to keep track of their releases manually to make sure you are not missing an important update.

It is unclear why these folks have are resisting standard packages. Is that incompatible with their business model?

It made me move away from Caddy and instead go with Nginx and Certbot. Which is simpler and less maintenance work in the long run.
Here is Rich Hickey's port of this Norvig exercise to Clojure:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Clojure_Programming/Examples/N...
I have been practicing the same habit. I save local copies of anything and everything I find interesting. I can't tell you how many obscure youtube videos seemingly disappear forever less than a month after I bookmark them.

Many tech savvy people I know have been similarly burned by link rot and now curate their own archives.
Of course. It’s just my subjective experience that most don’t. It’s to the point most don’t know what ligatures and stylistic sets are. Most Linux software lacks basic OpenType features support.
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As this is an issue that concerns you, perhaps you could take a fraction of the time the author spent on this article to share some insights on the problems specific to other languages. I, for one, would be interested to read about them.
This will not help with the issue that is raised by the article though. The new messaging service Google is pushing is broken by design. If it gets traction then a lot of conversation that were previously secure will no longer be so.

SMS is in decline because it has poor user experience. This helped provide security to users who decided to use other chat services. Now, if the experience is good enough users might flock back to using insecure communication.
Redux and MobX are overkill.

What most people want is an easy way to pass down state to nested components, but the context API is a bit verbose and otherwise you end up with the props-drilling problem, passing and passing and passing.

Problem is, Redux and MobX solve far more than this problem and in the end you are stuck with all the complexity they add, even if you don't need the other benefits they bring.

In 80% of all apps you don't need much state. They don't have deeply nested components so you can simply store the state in your root components (Screen/Page) via setState and pass everything down via props.

If you end up with deeply nested probs, use "unstated", it adds a bit better usability to the context API and lets you avoid the props-drilling problem. You basically get something like the "connect" from Redux, without the rest Redux would require.

If you somehow end up with an app that fits in the 1% who need fully predictable control over their global state, go for Redux.

React is the simplest framework I've ever seen, sadly Redux and co made it much more complex than needed to be, which drove many people away from it.
If you want to understand, see it as an addiction, especially a slot-machine/pachinko-like addiction. It just shows how widespread it is. When we're free from one, it is easy to say it is =only= a matter of self control.

Like other types of addiction, some of us may be weak to those generated by the smartphone era (associated with a certain socio-cultural mindset based on fame, social validation/gratification).

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/smartphone-add...
London is a big place. All I can say, is that where I live (bottom edge of London) my water is nasty, and I don't like the taste, or that it comes out of the tap slightly cloudy.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Incremental changes in the right direction help, whatever everyone else is doing.
So when relating your analogy to the article, the Finnish would be the Neandertals?
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> As it turns out, it is absolutely possible to have a system that contains markets but not property rights: at the end of every year, collect every piece of property, and at the start of the next year have the government auction every piece out to the highest bidder.

I know this is just a hypothetical example, but...the government takes all property at the end of the year, except for money? Since presumably people need something with which to buy property at the auction. How does this work out at all from individual economic incentives? Seems like that just incentivizes everyone to try to end up with as much money and as little property as possible as the end of the year. And does the money from the highest bidder go to the previous owner? That would make sense, but this article implies that it just becomes government revenue.
Should've at least said "easily".

Just looks like it's capable of doing that which doesn't take much attention.
due to the modularization effort that went into Java 9, a lot of previously accidentally exposed internals have become inaccessible.

Unfortunately, many widely used libraries depended on said exposed internals and now stopped working.

Many libraries have since been updated, but often in form of new major releases and not all libraries give the same backwards compatibility guarantees as Java itself does.

So even if you yourself were a good citizen, relied only on public interfaces and got rid of uses of deprecated API in a timely fashion, then some libraries you depend on might not have done so or might have changed a lot since you last updated them.
> You're not going to beat out Venmo, Apple Pay, and other established platforms.

Those are established platforms where you are. Anecdotally, no-one here (NL) uses Venmo or apple pay, recently there's been an increase in popularity of 'tikkie' (https://tikkie.me/) which allows people to send payment requests through whatsapp (used by 90%< of people here). so if something like this is ingrained in whatsapp directly apps like that would lose popularity, i think
So better start today making sure it runs on Java 10.

It doesn't need to be deployed straight into production.

Surely there will be very few things to fix by the time 11 is ready.

Preview releases exist exactly for that.

We don't need Python 2/3 dichotomy on Java.
Where I live we have a real problem with various anti-social driving behaviours. Around this time of year attention seeking adolescents emerge from hibernation to spread fumes and noise about my town on their rubbish hair dryer scooters. Worse than them though are the grown men with poorly modified cars funded by low level weed dealing that do various illegal stunts in the local industrial estate until late at night, and the weekend Easy Rider fantasists that ride flatulent Harleys ponderously through formerly peaceful English villages. I personally think Top Gear has a lot to answer for in encouraging the growth of a generally irresponsible automotive culture in the UK. I'm sick of the anti-humanity daily violence of noise and pollution.
Not sure I'd blame the client for people not reading their emails...
I would always give at least two weeks notice, and in one case interview my replacement. So while it may have been a shock, they always had time to adjust, and I didn't leave loose ends.
I'd been following Madsen before the Kim Wall murder. He founded the Copenhagen Suborbitals, a (now estranged) group of very successful rocket amateurs, and he built several working submarines. I have always been impressed by his zeal and his skill to use people to help build the stuff he envisioned.

On one occasion, they used one of the submarines to drag a rocket launch platform into the ocean. How cool is that! Using your self-built submarine to launch your self-built rocket into the stratosphere.

That said, the case seems pretty clear from the outside. I have no idea why he thougt he could get away with this.