skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Can I get an amicus please?
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. And Excel spreadsheets. Guess which of the 4 can be used without question against you in federal court.

That is, unless the US Supreme Court decides differently.

An amicus (“friend of the court”) brief is the legal equivalent of a third party investing in your company. Sometimes it’s essential, sometimes it helps, and sometimes it’s just a nuisance. When it comes to the SC, a familiar dilemma presents itself.

After the Court agrees to hear your case (“grants certiorari”), meaning you’ve made the top 1%, every suit in a law firm wants to write an amicus brief to weigh in. It’s like a series B funding round. Every knuckle-dragging neanderthal with too much money sees where the stampede is going and wants in, even though you don’t really benefit much from the help. There’s a lot of prestige generated for law firms if they can attach their name to a SC decision, and “yeah, me too” isn’t hard to generate.

But before the SC agrees to hear your case, nobody wants to write you an amicus. You are not yet derisked, and face that 1% chance of even having your case heard. Instead of a series B, it’s a seed round. This is the stage for a startup where you desperately need a small amount of capital and although the risk of failure is higher, it’s a substantially higher payoff (and unfortunately more work) for the investor. And of the tiny fraction of defendants that realize how essential the help is, most come up short trying to raise it.

Invest in your own 6th amendment right to challenge fabricated evidence against you. And more than money, I want advice. Specifically, legal advice to certain figures in black, in the form of an amicus brief. You can weigh in at mattchannon dot org.

If all you have is money and still want to help, you could always buy some pixels with your advertising budget (milliondollarapp.com). That’d be a worthwhile spend even if I didn’t appeal to your morbid curiosity.
It's certainly nothing remotely close to actual larceny, so when you say "stealing" I assume you mean "acquiring something in violation an explicit or implicit contract." I couldn't disagree more. If such a contract existed, it would mean that every time I download an HTML document, I am obligated to download and execute each resource, document, script, etc. that the HTML document links to, and to do so recursively for each linked document. This would include CSS styles and JavaScript that might make the page unusable for people with certain disabilities or on certain browsers and connections. It would also include all media, which could be slow and/or expensive depending on my Internet connection. It would also include all advertisements, including those that include malware. It would also include all tracking and analytics scripts, which may violate my privacy or even threaten my safety depending on my circumstances and location.

If this is not your argument, please clarify, but it seems like the inevitable conclusion of your claim that visiting a web page obligates me to download and execute other resources that the web page publisher desires. If, at the end of a meal, my waiter brought me a check and a USB drive with software that the restaurant wanted me to install on my computer, I would pay the check, but I wouldn't install the software. If, before the meal, the restaurant informed me that I could not dine there unless I installed the software, I would gladly do neither.
The actual GitLab instance appears to be at [1], I couldn't find this in the link or the gnome.org announcement.

Good news, though! I am hopeful it can help lower the barrier to entry.

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME
How Trump’s Election Shook Obama: ‘What If We Were Wrong?’
Skeptical to see baltimore so highly ranked
Power Laws and Rich-Get-Richer Phenomena (2010) [pdf]
That depends on how close “more or less the same” actually is. Within 10%? Sure. Within an order of magnitude? That would swamp the other difference.

I have no idea which way it is, but spinning lower GDP per worker as more efficient doesn’t make any sense to me.
I would say that this is not a good article. It touches several topics and mixes them up without really being good or clear on any of them. You could write an article about the concept of identity as it applies to humans, you could write an article about this imposter case, you could write an article about identity as it applies to electrons or more generally fermions and bosons, which don't both behave the same under exchange of two particles, you could write yet another article trying to shed some light onto the wave and particle nature of fundamental particles. There would be enough things to discuss for any of these topics to get an long article out of it, heck, you could write entire books on them. But this article just grabs random pieces from all of the topics and leaves you not any wiser on any of them.
I mean, whatever you need to tell yourself to rationalize away what the United States did. Does that boot taste good, though?
> Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Makes my blood boil
You’re right: https://www.ascap.com/help/career-development/a-checklist-fo... suggests that the kind of license I would expect a producer to need wouldn’t come from ASCAP.

So all four claims are relevant, but Disney’s alleged hypocrisy doesn’t seem to me to serve any purpose in the complaint (other than to get the thing noticed by the media).
Netsec subreddit for the latest tools.

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/wiki/start
As someone who knows a few property owners in San Francisco this is a common thing. People in tech make peanuts compared to who is holding property in the city. Most of these wealthy people don't rent because rent control will bring down the value of their property (you can't evict the tenants).

We're talking about international levels of wealth, these same people have multiple pieces of property in Hong Kong which makes San Francisco look dirt cheap.
Gnome is already being mirrored to Github. You can do your pulls from there.

Meanwhile, they want to use the bug tracker and other features too.
Nikon stopped building the F6 a number of years ago. They're just selling through old stock at this point.
CIA Assessment on Surviving Airport Secondary Screening While Maintaining Cover [pdf]
We need a convenient shorthand for "stop being afraid of everything" that doesn't require several paragraphs of explanation
This actually is a good thing to point out IMO. This model did sort of resemble a primitive version of serverless; that's why it was so popular. It was quick, easy, and affordable despite it's many downsides.
It's likely that they would require the site you are uploading the data to to filter it.
Right now this is a proposal by the EU commission (which is composed of representatives from the member states), but it won't become EU law until it's approved by the EU parliament.

I hope this will die in parliament. If you live in a EU country this is a good time to email your representative!

I think this summary by Julia Reda (a member of parliament) was really good:

https://juliareda.eu/2018/05/censorship-machines-link-tax-fi...

(although biased, she is not in favour of filtering and monitoring)
There's no such thing as a blanket license, in the sense that you get to use any and all copyrighted footage you'd like for a TV broadcast. There's nothing kind of like that either. A CCLI would allow you to use footage from rightsholders that have chosen to allow such usage.

The confusion here appears to be with what are called compulsory licenses for music[0]. In those circumstances, people are allowed to pay songs on radio stations and in live music venues, etc, without having to negotiate with each individual rightsholder. A person who wrote a song has no choice about who is allowed to play one of their songs in a stadium, or on a radio broadcast, once they've publicly released the work.

[0] There is an exception for live broadcasts, which don't apply here either.
Time to grow up – the evolution of our product's logo
This is discussed all the time. The reality is that 71% of the homeless in SF were former residents of the city: http://sfist.com/2016/02/11/71_of_sf_homeless_once_had_homes...
Actual title is "CIA Assessment on Surviving Secondary
Screening at Airports While Maintaining Cover" but had to move the words around to keep it within the 80-char limit.
You're forgetting that something like 75% of SF has rent control and are thereby excluded from the main reason to care.

EDIT: 75% of rental units & 45% of total
OP seemed to be arguing that because unions provided benefits in the past, we should keep them around now even regardless of whether they can provide current day benefits on order with their earlier benefits.
Any type of score is regulated by the Fair Credit and reporting act. These scores may fall under that regulation, especially if they are operating as a clearinghouse.
skynet in action
Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth
Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding-meat-and-dairy-is-single-biggest-way-to-reduce-your-impact-on-earth?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Submit_to_HN
Russia is even making public threats to block Apple services for everyone in Russia because of Telegram. Do you not consider this a form of pressure?

I presume earlier Apple just gave in a bit to the pressure and stopped updates to help them censor the app.
This map shows the life expectancy of different Chinese provinces in terms of other countries: https://www.economist.com/china/2015/10/31/noodles-of-longev...
Awesome! Now, could we please find a way to give this gene to people? I feel like we could really use it.
> I think we fundamentally disagree on whether foreigners should have a say in local politics, so we can't really have a productive conversation on this topic while we remain divided on that issue.

Not if you cop-out to Refugees, how many are they, 1000?

Rental prices increases affect everyone and affect every single foreigner migrating into the bay are. It also affects people from other states, and those also cannot vote. When the situation becomes untenable they leave the city.

The implementation of democracy can never be absolutely representative, anywhere, and in this situation that 'leaky implementation' is obvious.
Who Cares If Apple Updates Telegram? It Sucks
No comparison to 2015 data? Maybe Thanksgiving always shorter for this group.
Why Genetics Researchers Are Looking for the Loch Ness Monster
San-serif minimalism is timeless. While it doesn't convey any subtext, it is applicable in every situation.

I'd argue it's the complete opposite of soulless. As the only message it conveys is how you feel about the company. If Verizon had a cool tiger logo, you might think, "man, Verizon is a shit company, but their logo is cool af." But with a simple logo, you just think, "Man, Verizon is a shit company."
It's interesting to see Phoenix so high up. Living there now, and there does seem to be a lot of Software Engineer jobs. But I'm not sure how it's handling the newer programmers. I spoke with 7 companies yesterday that asked if I would relocate to San Fransisco for entry level or internship opportunities.

(Obviously this data does not take that into account)
I think many people would still rather make $55k in SF than $91k in detroit, even if these numbers weren't completely bogus
This is the logic behind calling someone to verify who they are. Harder to fake with automated means, easy for people to verify if they know the person.

The potential downside is that people can sometimes become overly trusting of truer to life higher bandwidth mediums. e.g. Fake IRS, grandson needs money for bail and baby (cue crying noise).
Are there really people who appreciate these redundant notices? Do you need a notice that a website uses TCP/IP too?
You want an explanation? Here is one.

First in 1759 the French lost the war against the English in North America.[0] Canada, then known as 'New France,' came under English rule, and all the French elites that had the means to leave went back to France.[1]

The connection to France was severed. Thirty years later in France society would be upended by the revolution.

Now in the 18th century Paris there were two 'usages' or accents in current use. The 'bel usage' and the 'grand usage.'

The 'bel usage' was spoken by the monarchy down to the common people. The 'grand usage' was used for public speeches and by priests and politicians etc.

The bel usage was more familiar, more a relaxed pronunciation, with many elisions («leux valets», «sus la table») while the 'grand usage' was more 'pointu', that is to say more precisely pronounced, picking out each syllable more individually, with fewer elision and dipthongs.

The linguist Jean-Denis Gendron, in his book 'D’où vient l’accent des Québécois? Et celui des Parisiens ?'[2][3] argues that after the third estate won the revolution, they purposefully adopted the 'grand usage,' perhaps as a means to distinguish themselves from the old order.

Ironically, people in Québec now speak a derivative of the 'bel usage', which has evolved over time, but more slowly because Québec culture was very conservative even up to the 1950s.

It is said that when the king famously said: 'la loi c'est moi', it probably came out like: 'la loé, c'est moé' sounding like a Québecois.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Plains_of_Abraha...

[1] This is the so called 'social decapitation' of New France. Only the priests and local school teachers were left to educate the people.

[2] https://www.pulaval.com/produit/d-ou-vient-l-accent-des-queb...

[3] https://www.immigrer.com/faq-dou-vient-laccent-quebecois/
The Blockchain: Quantum Attacks and Quark Attacks (Explain Like I’m 5)
How did you even?
Shutting Down My PropTech Business
Why? There are a TON of government jobs there.
Those appear to be vacancy rates calculated from submissions by landlords, but what about absentee owners who don't want to be landlords?

I don't think we're measuring the real figure of merit here.
I am fine with locking down cross-origin iframes, but one major annoyance is the inability to detect whether the iframe has a scrollbar and if so, adjust the size until it doesn't have one. I really wish that there was a "height: auto" property for iframes that automatically adjusted the height so that it didn't need a scrollbar.
Not San Diego
It looks like I was wrong about the ASCAP license (e.g., https://www.ascap.com/help/career-development/a-checklist-fo... ). As for lawyerly risk aversion: lawyers certainly don’t want to create a liability unnecessarily, and lawyers don’t want to lock themselves in to a strategy without giving it some thought, but lawyers are also human and, I assume, sometimes ask “what is the fastest way to end this phone call without creating liability for my employer and without locking me into a legal strategy?”
The "Opportunity index" is "determined by dividing the number of job openings listed on ZipRecruiter by the number of active job seekers in that area"

This leads to Baltimore being #1 and San Francisco 17th. I think this is overly simplistic and not representative of "opportunity", I used to live near Baltimore, I wouldn't say it has more opportunity for Software Engineers than SF.
This is the key. Your actions matter. You should do the best you can. And the best you can probably includes never working on weapons. That should apply to all of us, but each person must decide. What is the best you can do?
In the short term, it means that high-tech nations can start wars with less concern about citizen backlash over troop deaths and injuries. That's already evident for the US, given modern weaponry. They're still limited by costs of pacification, however. And AI will help reduce those costs.

In the long term, Skynet.
These are the 23 highest-paying jobs at Apple
I wish, the TSA was tested and it failed to stop 95% of instances of undercover Homeland Security agents from bringing on explosives and weapons.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/01/tsa-fails-95-perce...
Edit: I think I've run afoul of an anti-triplebyte sentiment. I should clarify that I think this post did a good job building a very simple example of the statistical theory behind assessment,but I have no idea whether their product / approach is reasonable or not. Building a good assessment is much more than just statistics, and it sounds from other comments that there are serious concerns about the validity of their tool.

Really enjoyed the build up from simple cases, to more complex models!

If you're interested in the statistics behind estimating skill, and how well questions tell apart novices from experts, check out item response theory :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Item_response_theory
Petroleum Engineers (US median - 129,990USD) and Computer Engineers (111,730 USD) are some of the highest paid engineers there are. And quite a few are in the same realm as Software Engineers (100,690 USD):

* Electrical Engineer - 95,230 USD
* Chemical Engineer - 97,360 USD
* Mechanical Engineer - 83,590 USD
* Biomedical Engineer - 86,220 USD

And when you consider the skewing of those salaries due to the majority of software engineers working in LA (and surrounding SoCal areas), SF, Austin, Denver and New York vs petroleum engineers working throughout the interior US, the gap is much larger.

Software engineers are paid well, but there are definitely other engineering fields beating them.
Does Osquery Violate GDPR Rules Around Personally Identifiable Data (PII)?
Show HN: ReactiveMaps – Elasticsearch UI Components for Maps
Perhaps there should be a more modern marketing effort to push copies of Sinclair Lewis' "It Can't Happen Here"? It was written in 1935 but is stunningly modern. Empowerment of every dim-witted nibshit and mean-spirited person looking for the cover of "for the good of the country" or "for your safety" was a big part of it. And of course Trump's campaign mirrored the campaign of the demagogue in the book as well. Not to mention the campaigns against the media...
Nobody's making a lot of money writing articles for Nautilus.
Neuropeptide of Stress: Dynorphin drives anxiety
It's pretty common for clothing buyers on Taobao to post a photo of themselves wearing what they bought as a review. I'm not sure how the site or the sellers incentivise this, but it surely adds some trust.
Credit Upping
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They mention parts cost $18k in the article, not $28k.
Still don't know what data Cambridge Analytica had, says FB's COO-Sandberg
Here's link to the whole book:

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/
Baltimore suburbs are part of the whole aerospace / defense corridor: NSA, SAIC, Ft Meade, NASA Goddard, and a whole lot more ;)
This one?

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nze74k/the-fbi-bu...
I prefer the term insufficiently savvy customers. Products that are not universally compatible or required specific actions to be taken tend to review poorer. Cheap items tend to review better as customers are more forgiving.

The customer ultimately determines their satisfaction level, even if they are complaining that a software product clearly described as Windows only is incompatible with their Mac. Or their "wireless" machine doesn't work without the power cord inserted.
Scientists Switch-Off Pleasure from Food, Silence Sweet-Tooth Circuitry
>the hype around k8s will waste millennia of man-power.

k8s and serverless are different things. They are different layers of the stack. K8s is just an OS spanning multiple machines (more specifically process management layer which makes it look like we dealing with such an OS when it comes to process management). A scalable serverless implementation needs something like k8s or some similar process management layer under it.
Yes, but at a huge premium to the hash power one could generate with a DIY consumer GPU rig. Crypto mining with these would be like shopping at Home Depot on a Ferrari.
The dynamics here are pretty specific to cryptocurrency (real companies do often have crappy responses to disclosure, but the only drama that ensues from those reactions tends to be pile-ons) and I'm reasonably sure the subtext here is IOTA.
How would a person even know how to be that innocent? Only through researching and studying what criteria are focused on when determining guilt. And who would do something like that? A turrurist.
Agreed, the number of tech jobs in Baltimore according to StackOverflow, indeed.com and whoishiring.io is very low.
I think what happens in Switzerland is that grid-design and sans-serif minimalism is applied with good taste all over the place. It stands out when something is poorly done. In North America, the variety of other styles are applied with no taste or consistency, including those styles taken from the swiss. I'd love to see a very culturally/aesthetically diverse urban landscape with good taste applied to many styles of design.

Edit: Walking around Zurich gave me a weird sense that everything was so consistent as to be too refined and rich. Every woman had the same highly fashionable style, everything cleanly cut, everything sanitized. I'll admit it was a little creepy. Every person I spoke to was more or less a delight, but I felt as though speaking to people would be taboo. Much more so than Downtown Vancouver, though the vibe is often described similarly.
Guide on configuring hitless reloads/hot restarts in HAProxy