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dang,

genuine question: will inadvertently starting a flame war be censured?

Also, I can't help but ask, I don't know if I'm hellbanned or however it may be I don't see my comments except in my profile- I wish only to ask, if I am censured following a recent comment that was repeatedly modded down, including after surgery substantiation of proof of my premise that my comment exclusively conveyed, may I seek your personal assessment of my concern?

This was the exchange:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16514358

I wrote one more comment above, that I think was the perceived problem, in which I simply said that there's no defense of entrapment in the UK. This I believe proved contentious, in fact I gave up that affordance in my clarification, pointing to the fact that my statement arose from case law precedent, not statutes.

In the UK for some time now, even reliance on the legal profession in the lower end of criminal law, is a serious risk. Resources are so taxed, I own better books than most barristers, themselves less now a step above solicitors, all earning frighteningly low salaries, a comparable plight with the untenured teaching staff at American universities.

Our criminal law situation in the UK is beyond description. I consider myself only socially responsible for maintaining a current reference library, so often have I been able to save friends and acquaintances from terrifying potential escalation of circumstances.

Knowing what Lord Justice Reed said of strict liability, could be invaluable to sustaining the freedom of almost any man involved in acrimonious divorce. I don't desire to profile, but the statistical likelihood of a HN reader being on the Aspergers Spectrum, only adds to the potential advantage of this knowledge.

Strict liability is the concept of unwavering guilt by action, which is the test every kind of domestic dispute restraining order has applied by statute- Lord Justice Reed said that when reading any statutory strict liability clause you are to prepend thereto the condition of Mens Rea (criminal forethought and capacity of malicious decision making) "as if it were written in the text of the law".

Almost no practising lawyers in the UK know the above, despite being reported in Blackstone's Criminal Practice since the 2010 edition at least (first I owned). This means that a entire category of summary convictions may be unsafe.

Since I founded my company, I am my own reference, buy learning the above the hard way, despite having heard the reassuring opening words of a senior judge, "We should never have been in this court.." cost my way of life and world. I am actively seeking to discover acceptable means to actively recruit others like myself whose careers have been similarly harmed. I can't imagine how a less well positioned individual than I , could have coped.

If I earned my censure by other means than my statement about UK law, I have no argument whatsoever. I have been badly affected by a smorgasbord of (non opiate nonetheless addictive I learned from late advice) painkillers for various injuries, and was far below that standard of cohesion I find acceptable to myself.
Why is this only concerning now? Wikipedia has had this issue for at least a decade. I would be less concerned with Russia and more concerned with the agenda of the people who have been working with impunity on Wikipedia all this time.

Infogalactic doesn't have this problem.
Never used it, but I've heard good things about the darksky API: https://darksky.net/dev
I've noticed the same behavior on Reddit, hackernews, Tumblr, and lesswrong. As long as you say it in the right cadence for the given forum, you can be completely off base and be getting upvotes.

I try to be aware of it but I see myself mindlessly agreeing with someone just because they took the superior tone for the given format.
Ask HN: Can you post a picture comment from the Facebook mobile app?
It doesn't seem like it's possible. There isn't even a media icon to attach a pic or a clip.
Which BLP page are you referring to here? I don't see it in the article we're talking about. (I believe you, I just don't know what you're talking about).

I don't know what "clearly in the wrong" means. Cross and I don't share a POV; from the little I know about him (exclusively: this article) I find his politics noxious. But I would be extremely disturbed if my opinion about his politics somehow controlled Wikipedia.
Isolationism != Staying home
Where would one go to dive into a top-level controversial topic? Outside of doing the research oneself or having a organization which is explicit nonpartisan with the goal of unbiased reporting (ie fact checking sites), what options are left beside Wikipedia?
Lots of tech companies in/around the Research Triangle Park area. The Federal Reserve Bank (which is way more "techy" than I would have guessed) and at least a few other large companies are in/near Richmond.

I think we're getting to a point (in the U.S.) where there's a decent, growing "tech scene" in any city of sufficient size -- even where I live (Indiana).
I'm not sure if whether it's Russia has anything to do with it. The point is that objective truth requires moving above tribalist mentality, clearly cross failed to do that. Dragging Russia into this is also failing to rise above tribalist mentality.
There are a lot of schools with bilingual programs (English+Dutch) and the programs are of high quality. Seems simpler to go for such a program, no need to send your kid abroad.
The admin who dismisses the conflict of interest complaint later comments that 'being attacked by RT and George Galloway is a reasonably reliable indicator that you are doing something right'.

It's very easy to see how someone might view this as being up against a "they".
This is not true! There are techniques to determine causality passively. Here is one such example, which takes advantage of the behavior of noise to choose between "temperature causes altitude" and "altitude causes temperature": [PDF] http://papers.nips.cc/paper/3548-nonlinear-causal-discovery-...
That question excludes an obvious middle ground, which is supporting a reasonable feature set in the BBS software so that the question never even comes up.

Let's stop carrying water for lazy programmers. The lack of a proper quoting syntax has been a problem on HN for a long time.
Holy God are you living in a dream state. We have presidents getting elected on false info. Wars being faught on false info. Biz empires and fortunes built on false info. Celebrity and product worship produced on false info. But you want to believe that getting false info changed is simple?

How can you believe that in 2018?
No, you've misunderstood my argument. The problem is that it's difficult for editors to remove "cruft" on articles about marginal topics, because there are so few (usually: zero) reliable sources to draw from. You can't start from a premise that "cruft" can be removed without removing classes of articles; that begs the question that deletionists answer.
you should have no trouble pointing out examples.

There are really entire broad topics that are bad. Lots of maths pages are horrible and un-encyclopedic.
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OK, to me it being a private company doesn't in and of itself imply that: a private company generally acts in the interests of its shareholders, and when the sole shareholder of a company is the state, it doesn't necessarily follow the primary interest is profit (see many of the various companies wholly held by the UK Government for example, Network Rail being an apt one here).
https://www.facebook.com/help/
The answer is to do both. Continually fix systemic issues as best as we can, but also help individuals become more empathetic, wise, and responsible, as best we can.
"ditch Wikipedia" seems a bit melodramatic.

Definitely, if they call for ditching Wikipedia over a single contributor in the title of the article, how much are they exaggerating about other things?
The point of the stock market is to speculate. The point of the educational system is not.
I wish I could report comments like these. I can't even respond because your comment doesn't even say anything.
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Ask HN: Are development/maintenance costs high for Slack App Developers?
Are the server costs for maintaining a popular slack app prohibitive?
Here, I'll help (from just googling "Linux API wiki"),

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel_interfaces

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Linux_Programming_Interfac...

Probably a lot more, but can't really reverse image search SVGs.
That's an awesome idea. You should contribute code for that right away!
> "Anti-war" doesn't sound like a particularly descriptive adjective for the apparent targets here. They are not anti-war campaigners per se, they seem to be sitting in the Russia-sympathetic zone of discourse.

No. Please, everybody stop with this Russia nonsense. Russia has become the bogeyman to which every evil and its opposite can be attributed, included the election of a US president that the US citizens voted themselves, and of which on average are pretty satisfied, I'm afraid.

Some of the people mentioned in this story as targets of Philip Cross have been questioning the West's alliances and wars- and the narrative that enabled them- for decades. Since a couple of years, Russia seems to be openly, and somehow aggressively (from an information point of view) doing the same. So in case it's Russia that aligned with them.
As a stumbling late-in-life math learner and thus reluctant frequent consumer of Wikipedia maths articles, I couldn't agree more. But I'm looking for patterns of editors working to keep topics bad, not just examples of where WP isn't good yet.

WP's coverage of computer security topics is generally quite bad. Also: the WP process prevents them from getting better as fast as they could; that's the conclusion I came to after spending several months trying to work on them. I was unhappy about this at first, but I gradually came around to the conclusion that what was making topics hard to improve for me was also what was making the whole project work at all, and it's just fine if WP doesn't have great security coverage yet.

I'm interested if you think that's a crazy perspective.
> No. The rich and everyone else send their kids to the same public schools.

Yes, The Netherlands has private schools (and international schools) but not many. Here's one example: Luzac [1]. Its an exception though, and its very expensive. I've been to one of these and seen the nephew of lawyer Bram Moszkowicz over there. Also, you can expect other of the higher echelons like monarchy on such a private school. But again, it is very much the exception.

[1] https://www.luzac.nl/
You can see the "File usage on other wikis" section to see Wikipedia pages in which any commons file is being used. I see a list of couple pages for the particular resource linked there, and verified that the resource exists in those pages.
Or just buy a cheap second-hand Android phone - has mostly advantages.
> the success of the role will be measured in terms of marketing

Err... trying to grok that, and failing. Are you ok to flesh out what you mean? :)
We chalked SF to promote our startup
Can stop visiting them too, to complete your climb to the moral high ground.
http://www.axiomexergy.com -- they build "ice-batteries" where they create ice at night when it's cool and electricity is off-peak, then use that ice to cool industrial refrigerators (supermarkets, cold storage facilities, etc) during the day.
Haven't read the article yet, about to, but that sounds a bit naive.

In-memory is not exactly to do with persistence, you can still have non-volatile data be in an "in-memory" DB and take snapshots of it, but even so, what about when you decide you need to scale your compute but not your RAM and move the data structure to a networked box, or when you need to have more than one local process read the same data structure, or when you want to ensure your architecture will always support such a thing if you need to, or if your language doesn't have a decent implementation of a particular data structure, or etc.
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Well, if you want your posts readable there seem to be two choices - either convince HN to change their code or use what they support. Which one do you think is more likely to happen?
"Healthy aging" is a oxymoron and people should stop using it. Aging is by definition a rise in mortality risk occurring due to the progressive failure of bodily systems. It is the opposite of health.

You cannot age healthily. It is an impossibility. If you are aging, your health is deteriorating.

To say you want to do something about aging by saying that you want to allow it to continue - but "healthily" - is to immediately engineer the defeat of whatever it is you then plan to do, because it won't be anything meaningful. The only way to address aging is to find a piece of it, a cause, and reverse or repair that cause. To attack aging. To oppose it. To try to end it.

Running around trying to figure out why some people have a 1.1% chance of living to 100 rather than a 1% chance of living to 100 isn't helpful. Yes, it will probably tell you something about how our biology works when it is horribly damaged, but why would we care about that, rather than caring about what the damage is and how to repair it?

So very much of aging research is completely irrelevant to progress in human health because it is misdirected in this way.
It's both typical and despicable.
Stingrays don't add bandwidth in normal operation, as they act as a repeater. Most will have the bandwidth halving effect incurred by single transceiver mesh nodes or relay stations: http://www.strixsystems.com/products/datasheets/strixwhitepa...
Embassies are not "foreign soil". The Russian Embassy in London, for example, is not a Russian place, it's a British place that just happens to have a Russian Embassy building on it. Russians there are not magically exempt from British law.

However, in practice diplomacy is impossible without affording Ambassadors, their staff, the places where they live and work and so on, broad immunity to normal civil law enforcement. Eventually this was formalised as the Vienna Convention, and the current iteration of that convention is the state of the art as far as relations between most countries are concerned.

As a result Convention signatories do NOT on the whole search embassies of other signatories in their country. But it's not because the embassy in any sense isn't in their country.

For example the US government absolutely could tell the Russian mission to all shove off back home, they would be entitled to a "reasonable" amount of time to leave, and then the Ambassador (if he has foolishly remained) is just a Russian citizen in the US without immigration papers, the same for all staff and families. The embassy, the homes, and other facilities are all just ordinary buildings able to be searched by police, parcels sent to the embassy become just ordinary parcels which may be opened, examined, redirected or destroyed as appropriate by the USPS. The Americans would never choose to do this, because diplomatic contact with Russia remains essential, in anything short of total war, but legally they absolutely could.
But they say it is relevant data if there IS involvement of the ISP
> I could edit a page, citing credible sources, and still distort it by including implicit, one-sided interpretations of those sources results/contents.

As an example of this, at a certain point John Perry Barlow was indicated as being against net neutrality. The source for the claim was his declaration of independence of the cyberspace because it claimed he didn't want government intervention in the net. As far as I know, this isn't "being against net neutrality" and I never read anything by JPB advocating against it.

So yes, someone can always cite something and twist its meaning to fit a particular agenda.
Not sure what others think here, but I thought it was an interesting collection of tips for people trying to be avoid being doxed online, or who wanted to keep nosy companies and social media mobs out of their personal life.

There's also quite a bit about how you can not only keep your information secret, but seed the internet with fake information to throw people off and lead them up the wrong tree:

https://paranoidsbible.tumblr.com/post/162576936634/uncle-da...

Also interesting to read this story about someone who did something similar:

https://medium.com/@mombot/zachattack-how-i-tricked-anti-har...

Basically, they made a bunch of fake accounts which they pretended were 'secret', and filled them with details confirming their enemies every suspicion (in this case, cause they were conservative, the profiles featured a young, white hipster guy from an upper class background). Then all they had to do was watch their rivals find the accounts, falsely believed they'd doxed them and enjoy the fireworks.

There's some interesting stuff there.
> The crux of the problem is that the field of artificial intelligence has not come to grips with the infinite complexity of language.

I stopped reading at that point. The field came to grips with the infinite complexity of language since before it was called "artificial intelligence."
This is on my list of technologies I've been waiting to make commercial availability. Just waiting for tech to catch up. First is the wasp x-jet (flying pulpit) from the 1980s.
That actually seems like quite a good proposal. If a teacher applies to a school in a certain part of a city, presumably they'd also be happy to work at any other school in that part of the city. It would also be a win for the teachers, because they'd only have to apply once for multiple schools.
I suspect that this is because a human propensity exists to allocate and apportion blame, particularly in cases where the interactions involved in the immediately prior actions are unclear.

I have actually not even once encountered this 5 Why's method.

I neither heard of it before.

But I founded my company in 1996, starting out with almost two hundred years of experience surrounding my incredulous and lucky younger self, including several PhDs and former Fortune 500 board members.

I will hazard that this 5whys technique is fundamentally flawed and easily susceptible to manipulation for procuring a scapegoat.

I only hope that explains why I have never encountered this before. I hope moreso I can feel a little like something​was going on in the right way, in my business, to filter and reject what I think is, and definitely comes across as bogus to me.
My understanding was that the IRS was directed to enact Obamacare by Executive Order, because they (the Federal Government) have no Constitutional mandate in that area. Same with the EPA.
There is a bunch of networks that operate on the idea the the majority involved are good actors and the detection rate of the bad actors is statistical good enough.

Take the tor project. It is very easy for a exit node operator to be bad. If you wanted to you could go and compete on who make the most egregious changes to traffic before the tor project bans the node. If the wast majority of operates did this then the project would die. Similar, torrent sites and BitTorrent is easily poked at by bad actors that either insert malware or do other bad things to the network. It too only operates on the basis that the wast majority do not have the intention to bring it down.

Of course the same could be said by HN. If a wast majority of users ganged together to push a specific agenda then it would likely take a while before the moderators could intervene. The upvote/downvote and flag system operates on the concept that the majority of users operate as independent agents and do not intend to try bring HN down.

In the end however for all the weakness and dependency on the statistical good nature of people, sites like those tend to be resilient in the long run.
A few years ago as part of my MS program, I used Protobufs and Datalog to try to write program analyses over Java source code. I ended up implementing a simple alias analysis using this framework, and then drafting a paper--essentially a tutorial--about the design of analyses in this style; alias analysis was my detailed example.

https://github.com/dwtj/deductive-points-to-analysis-paper/b...
I feel like a large number of businesses already use software for scheduling but it’s a matter of having an API that can be exposed to customers that isn’t really supported. So it might be easier than you’re leading on.
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Individual offices for developers are unusual in the US these days, but that's exactly why someone would want that information. There are also shared offices and team rooms.

"Pod" seems to mean completely different things to different people.

"Pet friendly" workplaces tend to be noisy and discriminate against people with allergies, so some users will want to filter them out.

Even if you don't want to track current openings, what kind of jobs a company has is important information.
This is terrifying, and I want to know more. Would you mind listing a few companies that do this, or perhaps provide a link to a place where I can find more information?
No, usually they're going to a private school to be in a certain social clique. Its actually quite poisonous IMO, had a few upper crust friends who went to O'Dea or Bishop Blanchet for high school here in Seattle (despite not being Catholic), and ended up getting in with those social cliques while letting their old friendships drift.

Most of that group did not make it through college, even for an Associates.
They do, they’re called scribes.
I suppose I have a bias. I don't see the value in studying him, or in picking apart these postmortem campfire tales. Aside from (and I say this whimsically); to analyze and better understand the horror that we intelligent human beings are capable of allowing.

I don't envy titans of industry any more than I envy celebrity for this reason. They seem to be our social experiments. We are lucky to have them and luckier still that fewer than most become real devils.

Wish I had a point for this ramble. I just feel like there is a terrible _cost_ to being someone like Jobs, Musk, Tesla, etc. A cost that doesn't seem to be adequately explained to them _or_ the people who revere them. They are the milk producing cows of productivity that we happily take out and slaughter for meat once they burn out. That we seem to love them just makes it all the more strange.
That's a nice way of implicitly slandering Americans while hiding behind "just a feeling", yet it doesn't change the fact that it was a group of Europeans, not Americans, that brought this lawsuit forward.
Maybe these editor(s) are paid Public Relations of some "war investors".
IBM Warns Quantum Computing Will Break Encryption
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-warns-of-instant-breaking-of-encryption-by-quantum-computers-move-your-data-today

Quantum computers will be able to instantly break the encryption of sensitive data protected by today's strongest security, warns the head of IBM Research. This could happen in a little more than five years because of advances in quantum computer technologies. "Anyone that wants to make sure that their data is protected for longer than 10 years should move to alternate forms of encryption now," said Arvind Krishna, director of IBM Research.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but does it mean that my KeePass database that I uploaded on Dropbox is going to be broken in ~5 years time and I need to start changing my passwords right now?
This CEO Took a Pay Cut to Give Employees Now He’s Battling Amazon