skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Before they got to court, Bell offered Ramsay money to drop the case — $300, roughly the amount Ramsay estimated the telecom would be over-billing him for two years. He declined."

HA!

"Three weeks before the court date, Bell contacted Ramsay again. He was offered $1,000 to settle, but was required to sign a confidentiality agreement. Again, Ramsay declined."

<sarc>Wow, big spenders! They'll spare no expense! They'll stop at nothing! Would they have gone as high as $1,010? $1,050?!?!</sarc>

It's almost insulting. Good for this guy. If anyone wants to buy the abridgement of your free speech I hope you'll at least demand appropriate compensation. And I hope if anyone approaches me with that kind of offer, they'll at least have the courtesy not to insult me.
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> This process of commodification has turned us all into tastemakers, reviewers, likers, retweeters and brand ambassadors. The platform takes our real authentic friendships and first commodifies them, reifies them, and then sells them back to us as an “image of friendship”, but one that is bankrupt of any genuine social value.

This is the money quote.

The article raises a lot of points and is a provocating read. One of the points it brings up has also been on my mind lately: all the content I contribute on the platform just goes there to die. It's not searcheable, it's not easily indexed, it fades quickly within the matter of hours and it doesn't foster in-depth discussion. The silverlining is that this is finally pushing me to get my own site/blog up. Yes I will still link to it from FB and they can analyze the sh*t out of it if they want; but at least I get to keep and curate my own content.
ooh so that's what those things are! :D
Is Manual Testing Needed?
Please read the instructions at the top, which include "Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here."

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16967563 and marked it off-topic.
This is so true. And we're inundated with images and stories of "better" people who we'd rather be friends with thanks to social media and celebrity idolitry which makes us not want to settle for the healthier, more realistic options we have for friendships. Also "better" isn't actually better, it's only the appearance of better from highly curated public perceptions.
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I don't really have anything against JSON RPC but it is just a standard for encoding a method name with dynamically typed parameters. You can say "close the door" in JSON RPC, or you can just post the string "close the door" to an URL. It doesn't make the service more robust or reliable to use an extra layer of wrappers.
I went through a period of time where I had a hard time making friends and I think it mostly had to do with my own attitude. Partly it was me not being friendly enough (too tired, not feeling great myself) to others and partly it was me not giving other people enough of a chance (assuming they were jerks/morons at the outset instead of the more likely situation that they have their own stuff going on, or maybe they assumed I would be a jerk before talking to me so I have to show them I'm not). I imagine people just don't have as much time/energy as they get older and become a bit more cynical, both of which would be impediments to making new friends.
If you're lucky, this can be "carefully, but still automatically".

Rust lets you specify an exact toolchain to download in a rust-toolchain file; rustup will then download the one you need. For a variety of JVM-based languages, SDKMAN! can install specific versions of the SDK and set them up in your shell; that makes it fairly easy to write build scripts which use a specific version. Where i work, we have packages in our oddball internal dependency management tool which contain the entire GCC toolchain, so i can make sure my C++ projects build with a consistent version.

It would be great if tools like this existed for every language.

Docker offers a semi-reasonable approach to this, too.
Looks like a sibling comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16968312 , discussing the new "Modular Repos" feature, has an answer -- looks like Fedora 28 lets you switch easily between different versions of released software.
webnames.ca says "If the domain cannot be registered on your behalf for any reason, there will be no cost to you."
Sourceforge did this to me a few decades ago. I had created an open source project and was leading a group of developers. I told my group I'd be out of town for a week on vacation. Some members decided they wanted control of the project so they told sourceforge I abandoned it, which wasn't true of course. When I got back, sourceforge wouldn't hand control back to me. It turned me off open source to be honest. At that point I backed out of any other projects I had founded or was participating in. I then dove headlong into proprietary software as a career.

You can argue that it's open and one should be okay with that kind of behavior. But, imagine if Linus lost complete control of Linux, repository, websites, mailing lists and the group and was pushed to the side. We wouldn't have Linux today as we know it.

You can fork if this happens to you. But, the team members who wanted the project could have forked. They only performed a takeover because they wanted power and all the spoils of the effort that went into building the group, website, the name, developers, the claim of being the original project, social connections and user base. They also wanted to erase me from the history of the project. I was wiped out of the AUTHORS file. They had control of the blog entries, its message and direction of the project. It is dirty, underhanded and I am sure I am not the only one who it has happened to.
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This is a good little interesting video on fluorine here (previously linked by someone else), and the ending is the best description of tin fluoride for teeth I've ever seen -- well worth the ~6min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtWp45Eewtw&feature=youtu.be

(edit: added link)
I mostly agree with all that. The only downside of .com is that it's massively crowded.
Facebook is taking on Tinder with new dating features
This isn't really solving the problem, that's just moving the problem into the container/VM.
The least one could say is: The growth factor is not 1.3333, but 4/3.
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Why tech needs the humanities – Eric Berridge
Correct. There are a few things to note here:

One single ad unit may try and load several tracking services so that it can re-target you later, track that the ad was served, and also load in extra services (Facebook Like button) that in turn track you for their own reasons.

On any given Page Load you DO not know in advance what ads will be in your page.

In getting User Consent before you load ads you cannot possibly know what the services are that will eb injected into the page ahead of time.

Thats an impossible situation.

Even if, and I stress this is hard, even if you were able to limit your ads from one network to direct-sold campaigns under the control of just a few agencies that agree to use only a subset of trackers and other services, you might still be talking 20 to 80 items you need to provide the user in a Consent Form.
Yeah... It was between Poll IO and Git Poll...
Google Duo works just fine on iPhones.
May apologies if I sounded knee-jerky. The intention was to show that a picture was a better answer to @dbatten's very legitimate comment.

The idea is to demonstrate that a "straight" line on a surface needs to be viewed along a normal to that surface at the point of the line you are concerned with, assuming the definition of "straight" is "don't have to turn when travelling along line on the surface". That makes great circles look straight, and non-great circles not.
Especially because they have so many projects and users they are expected to make individual calls. GitHub is the home for many open source projects and should care for the needs of their community.

The organization on GitHub was registered by an individual on behalf of the open source project. Now that the person can no longer be contacted, control needs to be transferred to someone else representing the open source project. It's that simple.
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One day I realized that for most of my life I had been looking forward to some better future time. I’m trying to appreciate my life in the now instead, since that’s the only time we really have.

As far as finding solitude, I’ve found that a few solo camping trips a year help. They don’t solve the problem and it almost feels hopeless to take a couple weekends out of the year to solve a weekly problem, but it actually helps enough that I wouldn’t want to go without it.
how can a normal person drown in a flotation tank? I don't see any mention of drugs so I'm assuming he was sober.
"embrace/extend/extinguish" is Microsoft's invention [1].

What are examples of Google's use of EEE?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
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OK. I think we agree on the core parts. Its a question of being able to enforce and your level of risk.

Right now, everyone is in "wait and see" mode on how this will play out.
The author, David Chisnall, is a co-author on a related paper from PLDI 2016: "Into the Depths of C: Elaborating the De Facto Standards", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11805377
You forgot the /s

But I cannot plug my headphones AND charge my phone.
I've worked in homeless shelters and for public health. The major mistake uninformed advocates (not all advocates) make is they think: this is a person, just like me, down on their luck. It happens because that's how we naturally sympathize with people -- we put ourselves in their shoes.

Unfortunately that only describes a small minority of homeless people. The majority have serious psychiatric and/or personality disorders and/or drug abuse and/or health problems -- there's a lot of collinearity here too so it's hard to analyze the percent variance explained by each. Thus, their needs are different. Instead of just more opportunities (and the requisite services to bridge them to those opportunities), many are in need of a heavily structured mental health-oriented program.

In the past there was instituionalization, which of course failed because we treated these individuals as subhuman, rather than human with disability. I'm not sure what the best solution is but providing free gyms and needles ain't it.
We compared PostgreSQL performance on virtual machines from 5 different cloud providers a while back, the results are on our blog at https://aiven.io/blog/postgresql-cloud-performance/ and show that there's quite a bit of variance between them.
Perhaps they are bored. Can you give them something interesting to work on, or totally outside their current responsibilities? I find I get bored when my job gets too repetitive, and a good solution is a big general directive like "go to some conferences and come up with a market research presentation for our company" or have them hire a replacement for themselves to free up time for other types of work.
Not sure why this is surprising to you. Of course I'll protect against namesquatting if I have the right to first dibs.
That seems fine to me, and you freaking out about it to me says something negative about you, not about the article.
My wife and I had the same conversation a couple of days ago, and my wife made the exact same concise point: we keep telling ourselves that socializing online is the same as socializing in person, but it's a lie and the sooner that we stop, the better off we'll be.
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While it might not be their fault those flaws were never fixed, it certainly is their fault that they exploited those flaws willingly and knowingly, to the detriment of the culture at large. Let's stop pretending that "they are just protecting their business" is a valid defense.
It's kind of scary how easy it is to make too; much easier than e.g. sarin and almost as toxic.
Itanium's hardware did not make any of these things easier.
> REST is HTTP.

That's actually backwards; HTTP is the motivating example of REST (that is, REST was developed from observed properties which HTTP/1.0 loosely exhibited and was consciously applied in design of HTTP/1.1.)
> 321. A tamed elephant is led into a crowd, and the king mounts a tamed elephant. Best among men is the subdued one who endures abuse.

Not sure I can agree with this, especially as a man. Essentially saying neuter and emasculate yourself , so the King will ride your ass for the rest of your life and you'll live a content life.
>Also a lot of them are spoonerisms and not puns, which will get you ejected from a pun contest

You struck a blushing crow.
That is your opinion. Just because you think so doesn't make it true.
It probably costs more to ship them than they're worth.
C is Not a True Scotsman
> They'll stop at nothing! Would they have gone as high as $1,010? $1,050?!?!</sarc>

The judgment against them was $1,110; how high do you think they should have gone with the settlement offer?
I wouldn't assume that. Drugs use is very common with float tanks.
The patients who call emergency services dozens of times a year
> I'm really curious of the huge disparity between men/women messaging one another on such platforms. Women tend to get inundated with messages where as men are typically responsible for initiating.

You're basically seeing sexual selection and Bateman's principle at an exaggerated scale, because online dating makes it very easy for males to cast wide nets repeatedly thereby allowing women to be even choosier for their partners.
That sounds like you're saying I shouldn't contribute to SO.
Ask HN: How does the GDPR affect Internet archives or caches?
Esp on the right to be forgotten.
Xamarin’s Side Benefit: App Maintenance Made Easier
It was Microsoft's strategy roughly twenty years ago. It's Google's strategy today.
Just as we pay relevant to local markets in Prague, Barcelona, Zurich, Boston, and Seattle, we also reference local markets in India. (We don't only reference local markets when it suits us.)

Unless you take the view that all profitable employers exploit their employees (a view that I understand but do not share nor agree with), I don't believe that we're unfairly nor inappropriately exploiting our talent in any of our locations.

We seek to make a profit above the cost of our inputs (including risk premium) and I'm not ashamed of what we pay our employees in any of our markets anywhere in the world. If you choose to pay your employees using a different system, I support your right to do so.
this is awesome and reminds me of the tiling puzzle from the book Anathem:

http://anathem.wikia.com/wiki/Teglon

or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_tiling

I would love to have a Penrose tiling puzzle set.