skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Decency is subjective, and there are enough outliers from 'average decency' that it's important to formally state what is, and isn't acceptable for a community of people.

Society has laws, and any subset of society that forms into a community will draw tighter boundaries around what and how they define whats acceptable within their community.

Then add the lens that within any community there is always going to be power differentials where some people in the community have more power than others, by position, contribution, or just stupid historical reasons like "wealthy and has lots of free time". Declaring how power in the community works (i.e. who is in charge, who has decisionmaking, who has commit access) also needs to be written down.

So, anybody who's ever in a position to potentially be the target of poor behavior is much more likely to feel like the community has their back if something bad goes down, because its all written down about whats going to happen if somebody does behave out of bounds.
I'm actually really hoping that Light Phone 2 takes off. Seems that they're making a very smart move to specifically contrast themselves to the addictive functionality sets of other smartphones, and Light Phone 2 seems to be in a good sweet spot.
Some of them do, but the overhead is ridiculous. I don't have the data in mind, but I think that the NoBreak brand consumes 20kW+ just idling. It's ridiculous
> So, outsiders can muckrake and as long as they are loud enough, someone will be removed?

No . . . one has to actually violate the code of conduct to be removed. If there is no muck to be raked, then you should be in the clear.
Yep, but there’s a big difference with how I treat dev and production dependencies. I wouldn’t use something nearly that large in production. Typically I look at a dependency to see if I could maintain it myself if necessary because it’s always risky to depend on a third-party.
Eric Lundgren, the E-Waste Refurbisher Microsoft Helped Send to Prison
It's not clear in the update so, will "real names" be still enforced?

I got banned three times from the Gopher's Slack workspace for using "John Smith" as my display name. Dave Cheney was one of the admins who decided to block my account, we calmly discussed about it in private and came to the conclusion that, because of security concerns, I would never disclose my real identity. He stated that, as long as the code of conduct requires real names I would not be able to participate in any type of discussion in that Slack instance.

I have felt very sad because I continuously help the community by answering questions on StackOverflow, /r/golang and #golang in two different Slack workspaces where young people and professionals from other programming communities share their willing to migrate to Go because of the tooling and — according to many of them — the welcoming community, something that I also try to promote, which is kind of ironic because I have felt exactly the opposite since the enforcement of that document.

EDIT: As someone commented below, it seems that the admins of the Gophers Slack workspace are not associated in any way with the Go team, at all, so much that their code of conduct is completely different [1] and the only way to sign up for an account there is still the same from +4 years ago [2] a form that requires you to type your real name and agree with their community rules.

[1] https://github.com/gobridge/CodeOfConduct

[2] https://invite.slack.golangbridge.org
HN comments are full of unverifiable anecdotes like GP.
You can't half-ass something and just your lack of interest in its perceived "inefectiveness".

You just need to look at the upside enjoyed by other countries which have seriously invested in education. The easiest example is South Korea. I'm not saying it's perfect, but they went from the Korean War to Samsung and LG in half a century.
i don't follow, do you mean that's a possible scenario? That's the last thing you need to worry about yet. I expect first random emails from hackers demanding coins for 'not reporting you' in the first awkward month.
I'm not comparing the atrocities of the Nazis to sexual harassment. I don't understand how you can think that I was. I specifically wrote that the scenario that started this thread was hardly a controversial one. I then said a better scenario, that is, one that isn't so easy to know the answer to, would be Nazi medical experiments. Clearly, I'm not in any way comparing Nazi medical experiments to sexual harassment.
Uber is a prime example that the “Move fast; break shit” mentally that Facebook pioneered and the Valley companies so love is now costing lives.
I think I had a lot more tolerance for antics back then, thinking about it.
Then you can exercise your right to add to the viability of another party, create one etc.
As long as there is muck to rake and the Project Steward is convinced. If there is no muck, no amount of waving a rake around will work. If you don't believe that the Project Steward will in general work in good faith, maybe you should avoid the project.

(That last bit is true of all open source projects, you just usually don't know in advance who all the stewards are.)
Putting the codeboxed quote down as a regular quote for mobile legibility.

> Passive observation of execution times can predict password length (smaller concern).
> ... I still make a distinction between their customer (the company paying them to do the job) and the actual operator.

Nope. Lying to someone because 'my superior told me to' is still lying.

> Yes, I agree that it's a scummy tactic

So, how low are you willing to go on the "scummy tactic" scale?
Hm. I can't "Hey Siri" someone else' phone, can I? It's certainly never worked for me.
Microsoft made a bad decision. The 950 was too expensive. They should have take a loss at the 950 and get the phone to customer's hand. No phone no developers.
Successful advertising campaign? Wasn't expecting it to turn up here!

https://mashable.com/2018/05/01/get-new-zealand-on-the-map/
That's not true. They shut down everywhere after this fatality. They just said that they'll shut down AZ permanently (not that AZ would probably let them do it anyway), and resume testing in Pittsburgh sometime soon, in a more limited way (which apparently the Pittsburgh mayor isn't wild about).
> EVs just aren't mass market yet.

What’s you definition of mass market?
Because the regulation is meant to enforce lawful behavior, not make the government richer. If they break out the maximum penalty for a minor violation, it will obviously stifle business and cause economic harm to the EU.

But they do need a credible threat to really punish wilful disregard of the law, for companies that profit from breaking the rules. We see how well it works when the fine costs less than the profits from breaking the rules. The EU is making sure that this will not be the case for the GDPR.
If the STEM disciplines weren't rife with sexual harassment, would we have lost the insights of countless women?
Why doesn’t petty theft carry the death penalty? Penalties for any crime must be, in a democracy, be reasonable to the general population (which of course contains a lot of people who both are data subjects and data controllers via owning smaller and larger businesses) - otherwise the legislative body will be voted out, laws changed, etc. Equilibrium. Yes, EU laws might have more red tape around them, but we still vote for our representatives.
I don't see it mentioned in the GKE release notes, so I assume there's no option to enable it yet.
Every time I see this sort of headline: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/cKX4uqFUbFwZ4g0JpxzhLKji9-I=...
Question for the HN community. What if you take some copyrighted picture and make it a meme and put it on /r/AdviceAnimals, should the person submitting that post or Reddit be liable? Even if the intended purpose of posting that content was a joke/satire of some kind? I don't know what the right path forward here is. I do feel that if the intended purpose of using the copyright material was to make money then I do feel that legal action is required. I don't see that is the case here though.
It is not the same in all the countries - for example in Poland the goal is to get you to pay fine and if you go bankrupt then civil servants get special points. There is a culture of hatred towards private businesses coming back from the communist times.

Second, you don't know that - bored civil servants eager to hit targets and get bonuses for scoring big fines could have gone for a low hanging fruit that is small companies without legal teams scared and paying instantly.

Third, as its current state GDPR doesn't feel like ready "for production", so why would companies want to implement something with so many unknowns?
> Here is the hard thing to swallow: Some people are worth more than others.

This type of rhetoric is what put an incompetent lying reality television star in the White House. Signaling to people they are worth less than others hurts them on an emotional level regardless of veracity. People who are emotionally hurt can and will make problems for you.

People with high emotional intelligence understand this, will avoid pressing that button, and will achieve better outcomes in their endeavors as a result.
> Preventing technological progress to ensure that we can have the "less brainy" spend their time carrying out tasks that are completely pointless?

Why is technological progress ipso fact good? I'm becoming increasingly convinced unguided technological progress is, rather, a terrible plague, and that some "progress" should be stopped altogether if we want our children to have any chance at a happy future.
That's not the same system, and if you're McDonalds and fuck it up, you've just accidentally offered someone discounted fries.

Things are a little different when a location error might mean 911 doesn't send emergency responders to you.
The g is proununced as in "gif".
My home as got many 3W led bulbs for small lamps. 7W is the norm
One of the best things about HN is how joke comments aren't usually upvoted, even if they were funny. It makes room for other kinds of conversations.
Bitfinex hired Friedman LLP to audit them.

Friedman only gave a report explicitly specifying "THIS IS NOT AN AUDIT" because Bitfinex wouldn't provide the documents and access beyond simple statements.

Friedman LLP recently removed all mention of ever having been involved with Bitfinex from their webpage.

Previously visible here:

http://archive.li/xbhxI

http://www.friedmanllp.com/insights/auditor-engagement

The Bloomberg article states that Friedman was issued a subpoena from the CFTC, at the same time Bitfinex was subpoenaed.

Friedman LLP, a New York-based auditing firm, was also
subpoenaed by the CFTC after Tether hired it last year to
assess claims that Tether held enough U.S. dollars,
according to a person familiar with the matter.
I think it's the cost structure. If they were based in China like Xiaomi, you could see it monetizing differently and have another type of product.
Wouldn't modifying the sample slightly, like lowering pitch by a few cents or stretching parts, also make it seem original?

Audio is definitely too easy to spoof for it to be a security method IMO.
There's no reference to real names in the new code of conduct. I'm not sure if there was in the old one either. Perhaps the Slack channel has additional rules.
> There's no ignoring going on. Reason exists on its own because it's not opinionated on what sort of app you're trying to build

I think either I wasn't clear, or you completely misunderstood me. My point, that Reason should have a standalone installer or package that gives you a working Reason as simply as possible without a whole build infrastructure required, is only bolstered by this statement.

I don't think it matters if it's the Reason-to-Ocaml targeted, or Reason-to-Javascript, or one for each, or one that includes both. Having to install one language, and then use tooling and package managing from that language to install another, strikes me as somewhat ridiculous in this day and age. just ship the entire tooling stack abstracted away.
>Your entire point rests on the implicit moral premise that the "worth" of a human should determined by their ability to produce utility for society.

If we are to measure the worth of a person the value that they contribute to society is the most obvious way.

A stupid person that contributes nothing deserves nothing. People don't deserve things for existing. They are given a chance to contribute and if they fail to take advantage of that chance they are not rewarded.

The belief that everyone, despite the decisions that they have made over the course of their life should be treated, rewarded, and respected equally is abhorrent.

The ideology you are promoting would have a wife and child beater be treated equally to a doctor.
>If there is a God, he doesn't care about economy.

Generally, God does care about other things, though - so still not equal :-)
I said that in my comment? Carriers control visibility for big, flagship phones, but the Chinese manufacturers still manage to sell decently by marketing their cheaper phones directly to consumers. That's the kind of strategy Essential should have emulated, until they got big enough to start cutting deals with carriers.
Or Nobel Laureate Tim Hunt's situation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hunt#Controversy_at_WCSJ
Windows Phone was dead as a doornail long before the 950.
Well, that's what OnePlus did, and it seems to have done fine.
Privacy ... not only to protect badmouthing

There also other things, like pillow talk etc.

And I simply don't want anyone else to take part in that, whether they are russian, chinese or NSA hackers, or the company by itself.

And I usually tell people in their face, what I think of them.
Interesting, question is.....will it survive. There are so many upstarts, although, it seems to have quite a bit of momentum (420 stars) so there's that. Good luck! I hope these devs succeed where many others have failed.
Interesting contrast to all of the "doomsday" posts about side projects not being viable for fear of getting fined.
I would think then that you should be supportive of codes of conduct: you know up front that you have a fundamental distrust of the FreeBSD project leadership and GitHub organizational leadership, and not of the Go project's leadership, precisely because they have different codes of conduct saying different things.

(I'm opposed to cargo-culting codes of conduct for this exact reason. By all means, copy the Contributor Covenant word-for-word, but only if you truly agree with every word!)
Alexa misinterpreted some voice commands

Oh is that all.
> My observation of America is that for a whole lot of people we F'd up a long time ago

I didnt say the individuals are the source of the issue. I'm saying as a society we screwed up by more or less creating this issue. Things like a lack of financial (and other) education, or failing to teach adequate data science in high school etc.
Using copyrighted material for commentary or satire, even to make money, even if the original was commercial, should be heavily protected.
There's a quote that's gone around by Peter Bailis:

"Despite the ubiquity of weak isolation, I haven’t found a database architect, researcher, or user who’s been able to offer an explanation of when, and, probably more importantly, why isolation models such as Read Committed are sufficient for correct execution. It’s reasonably well known that these weak isolation models represent “ACID in practice,” but I don’t think we have any real understanding of how so many applications are seemingly (!?) okay running under them."

http://www.bailis.org/blog/understanding-weak-isolation-is-a...
The reporter who took down a unicorn [Theranos]
> why do we need to formally state that we should be decent human beings?

That's problematic phrasing. "Decency" is subjective and sits too high up on the pyramid of abstractions. Decent people disagree on what being decent actually means. If they're actually going to communicate, the conversation has to be about specifics.
Please don't conflate this sort of irresponsible, malicious, homicidal behavior with general mental illness/disability.
Even if this is true without scrutiny... Netflix literally relies on comcast for infrastructure.
Worse is better. Process isolation, valgrind and similar tools are good enough.

D is better than rust IMHO.
The Uber crash has shown us that the public tolerance for AVs killing people is somewhere lower than presumptively around 30x more dangerous than the mean human driver.

Uber had a fatality after 3 million miles of driving.

The mean fatality rate is approximately 1 per 100 million miles of driving.

It's a sample size of one, so the error bars are big, but it drives me insane that people are acting like the Uber cars are the ideal driverless cars of the imagined future, and are super safe. The available data (which is limited, but not that limited) is that Uber driverless cars are much, much, much more dangerous than mean human drivers.
And in the other timeline, they're saying "Phew! Can you imagine what would have happened if we hadn't taken discrimination, bias, and harassment seriously back in the 1960s and 1970s? We would never have had the brilliance of Ricarda Feynmann or Jamal Watson."

Seriously though, I think Feynmann would have figured it out and adapted. Some say he was notably nonsexist when it came to teaching or talking physics, but horribly sexist when it came to everything else. Maybe he could just move some of that from one column to another.

Interventions should be appropriate. People are complicated. There are some high profile cases (usually involving "Twitter activism") that collapse all that complexity, which may be good for awareness or motivating institutions, but it's often bad for justice.
I would say that a shutdown essentially freezes the data and prevents it from being used internally, hacked, misused, disseminated, etc. For all intents and purposes, at the moment it doesn't exist. Once they believe they are back in compliance with the law, it will be "unfrozen" and users will be able to retrieve their data or opt-out completely by cancelling their accounts.

And who's to say that Instapaper did not contact the authorities and discuss a plan such as this to mitigate the problem temporarily?
Pretty simple really, as you scale up the group you cannot rely on everyone having the same concept of what acceptable behavior is. It is like bribery, in the US it’s unacceptable, but elsewhere it’s an everyday occurrence.
Actually, I can think of a very good use of the ability to trigger silent phone calls. In the case of home invasion or domestic violence. If Alexa detects what could be signs of distress it can dial an emergency number without alerting that it was triggered. Otherwise, trying to shout "Hey Alexa, dial nine one one" will alert or enrage the perpetrator.
Sure, but that would be one more input into your system. And if enough of those inputs are conflicting then that would be a very good reason to dig a little deeper while the squad is en-route, or to alert them to a possible hoax. If all the bits of evidence align then that can be taken as confirmation that it is not a hoax.
Might be a smart approach at this point to work with city officials rather than attempting the Uber/Airbnb method of "do whatever the fuck we want, worry about the consequences later". I think cities are much more prepared for this sort of thing now.
You alleged "mass hysteria". Come on man.
There was actually a good article in The Atlantic recently answering this very question because of a real incident: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/is-this...

The tl;dr is, because an implicit code only works as long as no one actually uses it. As soon as an unspoken CoC is actually counted on to do something, people realize they didn't have the same expectations about what it meant, and so everyone on every side ends up angry and feeling they were treated unfairly.
I have tried to scroll, and move around but the contrast does not change.
Unless a subreddit is heavily moderated, I've yet to see one that's gained popularity outside of its core users that didn't turn into a meme/clickbait/karma-motivated cesspool.
I would argue that the _only_ way you can come in to the phone market is through the high end.

In order to sell at the low end, you need to sell a lot. A new company doesn't have the market share to make a low end phone with almost no margin profitable in any reasonable amount of time.

On top of which, people with the money to buy high end phones are the ones with the money to throw away their perfectly fine phone in order to get the latest and greatest toys, and the ones that want to do so so they can brag that they have this cool phone that not that many people know about.

The main problem was not the price, it was the execution. False promises, late releases, poor support, general lack of transparency. The execution was abysmal, but people were willing to pay the price.
Yes, three year old data was already covered by the DPD.
Code of Conducts are just markers for "this is SJW territory".

They are not harmless, innocent things.

By comparison, imagine conferences and open source communities would be required to have a little footer saying "We are committed to making America great again" on every web site. Surely a harmless message nobody could possibly disagree with?
Scooter Companies Have Two Weeks to Get Off the Streets of San Francisco
It's a standard thing in the enterprise space, yes. No one buys anything that seems flaky. It's true that big datacenter operators (Amazon, Google, Netflix et. al.) have a lot more freedom to handle risk.

But regardless, things like the 300W idle draw are going to kill a sale even there. That's almost a dollar a day, so there goes the price delta with Intel over the life of the system already.
I moved to a small town in Middle-of-Nowhere, MN last year. It's great. My wife and I bought a small house for $40k. Our house will be paid for in no time, then it doesn't matter what we do. We do miss some things about living in the city, but having nature so close and neighbors who can keep an eye on things for us is fantastic.

Even though we're making less than we were in a bigger metro (St. Louis) we're saving a lot more and our quality of life is much better.
Yes, in cases, to the first two. Containment is frequently buried concrete vaults.

Not AFAIK for the last, though precessional torque bearing load is a nontrivial consideration.
That was definitely not the case when I tried it a couple years ago. If they’ve since locked it down, then I’m glad to hear that.
Every time my wife says to me, "Are you serious?" Her iPhone chirps up with something like, "Yes, I am Siri."

Somehow it hasn't broken her (my wife) of the habit yet.
"Harassment" is an open-ended enough term to make it nearly entirely up to the opinions of the muckrakers and arbitrators as to whether or not you violated the code of conduct. The sane response is to shut the hell up unless you have either tacit or explicit support from the ideologues that gravitate to the positions that let them judge you.
By your logic if that were the case, Tether would need to be destroyed everytime the crypto-markets rise...

Plus, Tether's offical website and documentation state that's not how Tether is intended, they claim it is always 1:1 backed by a real USD reserve in a bank account (which they tell people they will audit, but the auditor backed out after giving a statement that said Bitfinex would not provide the proper documentation and access, later erasing any mention of having been associated with Bitfinex.)
The exact same thing happened with Ok Google a year ago, and I will repeat the same thing again for those who are able to hear. This happened due to a bug, except not the way you would think. The only bug was that the recording was sent to an anonymous user instead of the Amazon HQ. Don't trust them.