skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
money? the real issue is party control of the system. money is the only chance anyone has at breaking through the control each party exerts over elections.

if we want to take money out we need to remove the ability of the political parties from spending money on who they chose and require them to fund a set number of candidates equally. Not all candidates as its obvious you can get some kooks, but as it stands now elections are more decided by the party than the voters. the parties decide who gets to run for the seat and it becomes big news when a maverick usually with their own funds upsets this quagmire.

so please by all means try to minimize the money influence elections but understand that most people's views are being heavily manipulated by operatives of both parties to make sure that the only money in politics is money they have full control over.
All Arrow's theorem does is say that an ordinal voting method can't simultaneously meet a certain arbitrary collection of criteria.

It doesn't prove that any of those criteria are necessary. Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives, for instance, is especially problematic.

Finally, Condorcet methods don't even fail Arrow's Theorem when there's actually a Condorcet Winner (which is pretty much always given enough voters).
People are being overly pessimistic. This would be a potentially great deal. GitHub is very successful at what they do and I don't think MS would change that. More likely they would use GH as lead-in to selling cloud services the same way Google uses GitLab.
I've been sending all kinds of companies a request of my data. Everyone that keeps sending me mails without me knowing why, I just sent them a nice request to give me a copy of my data.

After that, I request them to delete it all :)
Well that sucks, I wonder if this means other discourse instances might be hit with the same GDPR letters? There'll probably be someone who has (or will have) forked discourse to make these changes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17208293
I can't imagine the potentially catastrophically random decisions made by the current Trump administration when it would come to something as serious as a pandemic....
Both are equally as bad.
> retailers have to price in the cost of credit card fees

Do retailers actually do this? I briefly worked in retail a while back and the payment processing fees(online and offline) were all considered to be part of the cost of doing business and essentially taken up by the merchant.

Today I provide ecommerce solutions and all my merchants haven't priced in the cost of payment processing either. They aren't necessarily happy about it but they consider it to be part of the cost of engaging in commerce in the modern world otherwise they'll be annihilated by their competitors if they don't provide easy ways to accept payments from their patrons.
There is precisely one issuer of non-Mastercard/Visa credit cards in the UK - Amex - and they're not accepted nearly as widely. There are exactly five banks which issue Mastercard debit cards rather than Visa - Virgin Money, Citibank, Clydesdale Bank, Yorkshire Bank, and Metro Bank - and none of them are particularly major players. (I think it was down to three or less at one point; Virgin and Citibank only switched in 2015.) Santander and TSB have apparently announced they're planning to switch to Mastercard debit in the future but currently their customers have Visa debit cards too. Maestro is dead as a dodo here, and the old UK-specific Switch debit card system no longer exists.

So in actual fact, people in the UK who're reliant on their debit cards are more likely to be affected by this than people with credit cards too, even if the cards are from the same bank - banks that issue Mastercard credit cards generally use Visa for debit cards.
I think that's the point. I'm personally worried Microsoft may have a very narrow view of what GitHub is. A lot of tech hosted there doesn't even run on Windows, or isn't even related to software. (legal, political, docs, guides, etc.)
Under the banner of "transparency"!
Hopefully it's just a negotiation tactic to get Google to buy them for more than their first offer.
No, but cling [1] does.

I might be interested in trying cxx.jl, thank you for the pointer.

[1]: https://github.com/vgvassilev/cling
That's actually really cool. What was his plan like compared to the actual operation? Also, what kind of methodologies would one use to plan something like this?
People like to complain about professional politicians, but I haven't heard a good argument against them that outweighs their benefits. Wouldn't a professional politician be better than one who doesn't really know what's going on? Governing is hard. Getting results in our political system requires difficult compromises. Creating policy, understanding the consequences of policy, and evaluating differences between policies requires domain expertise. Wouldn't someone with more experience be better?
WaPo has 3 Opinion sections, only one of which they label "Opinion" (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/)

The have /news/the-fix", something they call "Analysis", where they mix fact and editorialism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/

and they have "Perspectives", also filed under /news

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/
I'm surprised to hear that you don't think you benefit from spending on education and police. Would you care to elaborate on those viewpoints?

From my perspective, it seems obvious that education is one of the best investments you can make in society, whether or not you have children. After all, it won't be long until those kids are running for office, managing corporations, etc etc. So it affects us all.
You're the reason we can't have nice things. I hope you are proud of yourself. GDPR is great but will be ruined by people like you.
People asking to exercise their rights on their own private information are not trolls.
Could someone please explain what "OEM configs" means here?
> It is far more than a semantic distinction - Tesla is actively telling people that their car is "on autopilot".

Uh... what Tesla is "telling people" (or what they are "calling" their product) is the very definition of a semantic distinction. The point was that the technical problem being solved is the same one Waymo is working on.

> Some growing percentage of them die.

Are you kidding me? (See what I did there?) That statement isn't remotely true. There have been two fatal accidents involving Tesla autopilot. Sales are growing rapidly quarter after quarter. How exactly do you support that?

That kind of fake analysis (driven by your personal feelings about the company or its owner, presumably, and not numbers) is what's harming the future of self driving in the world.
Good for the country, obviously. If you can't define what good governance is, how can you possible come up with a way to maximize it?

The purpose of elections is not to be happy with the outcome of the election, it's to be happy with the policy that results from the election.
Dockless bikes: Are they bad for station-based bike-sharing systems?
"We've done tons of user testing on this, and it turns out it doesn't work. Touch surfaces don't want to be vertical.

It gives great demo but after a short period of time, you start to fatigue and after an extended period of time, your arm wants to fall off. it doesn't work, it's ergonomically terrible.

Touch surfaces want to be horizontal, hence pads.

For a notebook, that's why we're perfected our multitouch trackpads over the years, because that's the best way we've found to get multitouch into a notebook.

We've also, in essence, put a trackpad -- a multitouch track pad on the mouse with our magic mouse. And we've recently come out with a pure play trackpad as well for our desktop users.

So this is how were going to use multitouch on our Mac products because this (he points at someone touch laptop screen) doesn't work."

-Steven Paul Jobs, Oct. 20, 2010
Didn't github already deliberately kill their own culture a few years back with policy changes and a layer of middle management?

edit: This isn't snark. Didn't they legit cut a bunch of perks, refocus everyone's priorities, and hire some people to start cracking whips? Or was I reading the public accounts of that situation wrong? Got bad scuttlebutt?
Does he have any proof that the person is a troll ? From what I read he just assumes it.
Most forums ban all Tor exits.
It's from an old Tommy Tutone song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WTdTwcmxyo
Legislation is usually applied by unellected people. Judicial independence is usually seen as a good thing. Perhaps you mean that the law was enacted by unellected people, which is also incorrect of course? So now I don't see your point at all?
Even if you go down one representative for ten citizens, chances are that four out of ten won't be represented at all, given enough polarization. Regional representatives, on any level of granularity, solve underrepresented regions, but not underrepresented opinions.
What does it really mean for an algorithm to be biased?
Me too. I think it makes more sense that way.
These sorts of hills grow to mountains with the bones of hopeful pedants who die on them. But I think there's still a chance to hold this one. That's not what 'zero knowledge' means, it's a technical term for a different thing.
It's 1.6% now /s
Almost nobody who even worked at Microsoft in 1996 still actually works at Microsoft. You are bringing up something said in one meeting from when floppy disks were still pretty important to the computing world.

I can't fathom a single statement from 1996 about a computer company that is still accurate today, and EEE falls into that category as well.
I don't feel at all that it's a fair characterization of the overall community. I'm sure I've been the target of more of what Dan Luu experienced than anyone else in the Julia community, from the same source, but I haven't let that stop me from contributing as best I can to the community, by answering questions (on Gitter and Discourse), helping with code, and by contributing my own packages to help out in areas where I felt Julia needed some extra attention.
I also think that most of the community is more aligned with the example set by Jeff and Viral. Both show great civility, patience, and a willingness to listen to others, in my experience.
Finally, with regards to the person that both Dan and I have had problems with (and I have no personal knowledge of that feud, that happened before I had discovered Julia), I respect him a lot (even if he feels I "attack" him when I try to bring up technical issues with code / designs that he's been involved with), I will always be grateful for his role in creating Julia, I think he's a great promoter of Julia, at conferences, etc., and he often has quite a lot of good, well-thought out things to say on GitHub and Discourse.
Why? It's their data and their right to have it deleted.
They sometimes are. Not always. And they walk out free, except for that Jewish guy who lived in Austria (I can’t remember his name but he was the only one to get in real trouble for running an exit node).
Google Cloud's infrastructure, AFAIK, has PTR records using 1e100.net. GC User's addresses, such as a GCE instance's public IP uses googleusercontent.com for PTR records.
> If someone can take advantage of something, it will happen.

As demonstrated by the troll in this very situation, right now (assuming the filer is actually a troll).
Time to disrupt the notion of 'delivery': Sign up to drop off a package or two and get access to the internal city streets for x hours. What could go wrong?
Why? Do you think people are too stupid to do basic math? Totally ignorant of their monthly expenses? What is it that compels people like you to bring up "cost of living" as though anyone who says "higher salary" is a complete moron?

Is it just bay area zealots on both sides embracing the meme that "IT'S SO EXPENSIVE".

We get it. we know. We don't look at SF and go "oh wow, 10 k more a year" while paying 2000 a month more in rent. We look at it and go "oh wow, 110k more a year, even with the rents thats a lot of money".
It's ironic how Microsoft has embraced Git considering it was made for Linux's development.
Hurr durr who cares about privacy anymore.
If I ran a forum for a number of years, and a person decided to close their account, that'd be fine. But if they then said that I need to remove _all of their posts_, that's really shitty.

It would destroy the usefulness of a forum.
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The HTML really is the API.

Writing a site-specific browser has always been a fun project for me. It just pulls the information I want directly from my favorite websites. Maximum signal-to-noise ratio and I get ad blocking for free.

People think Javascript-based sites are safer, but it's in fact even easier to access the content because there's usually a programmatic interface available.
I imagine that in the 2-3 years this contract run, Google shared most of what they needed to share with the Pentagon in order to catch-up to the company's current AI capabilities.
iPhone thief's identity revealed by Apple GDPR tool
Getting rich is often a result of providing value to other people and so can be a positive for society. You can always give the spare to charity if you want.
That's why many paywalled sites give you a few free articles per month if you're coming from a Google search results page.

But it no longer works at all sites. Maybe the rule has been dropped now that paywalls are becoming more popular (with publishers that is)
Google is notorious for killing products too, though.

For me, much of the same rationale would apply
From one of his responses in the link "I do appreciate the links. The gdpr documentation is quite long and I lack the domain expertise to read and comprehend the document in full. Perhaps this is cultural, since the United States is a very litigious society, but I would not feel comfortable accepting liability for gdpr compliance without consulting an attorney. It is also unclear how I am expected to respond to DPA execution requests (what the hell is a DPA request?), which I have already received, and what penalties I could face if I fail to provide a sufficient response. Overall, it just seems like outsourcing to StackOverflow or Google Groups makes more sense. This way I can focus my time on making Drone better, as opposed to becoming a legal expert"
The one thing that I like about Github is that everything is public by default and you have to pay to keep your code private. I feel like a positive consequence of that business choice was the opening up of way more software. Gitlab, while being very awesome doesn't have that same rule and neither does Bitbucket. It's my assumption that this is the biggest reason there's so much open source code flowing right now.

It makes me wonder whether I'll be able to find as many random interesting projects just by searching for things anymore.

I'm a bit sad about this.
Cheaper. An electric scooter is perhaps $100; an e-bike is often 4+. Oddly though, Jump is actually cheaper than Lime once you ride for over 7 minutes.. perhaps that would change.

Another slight advantage is lower weight (obstacles), though in practice this is unlikely to be a major issue.

Otherwise I agree that an e-bike is superior. I prefer the GoBike e-bikes to Lime/Bird.
This is just silly. The brain's reward mechanism is a dopamine hit. But that's not all there is to happiness.
I take umbrage with your PHP reference... JavaScript the language is pretty damned consistent, and nice. The browser APIs, that's a different story.

As to PhotoShop or GarageBand, I think there's some more flushing out to do as far as APIs, and frankly that kind of stuff might be workable with WebAssembly. It would take a lot of effort to convert everything, also, not sure if you can use WASM in WebWorkers, but that may be more ideal. As to the cost, are you meaning overhead, or programming cost?

I'd guess a not insignificant number of "native" apps for mobile are at least partly framed web apps. Also, I would probably just reach for React Native and re-use as much as possible, which would still leverage JS for most of it.

In the end it depends... you get a LOT from web applications today. I see it as a bigger boost for internal/corporate/enterprise applications. Because you don't have to manage wide infrastructure and updates in nearly the same ways, you can simply do server deploys and be done.

Also the 1996 apps reference was in that most UI toolkits default to looks that haven't changed much since 1990's and aren't skinnable in the least. I remember the late 90's and early 2000's, litestep and winamp were two of my favorite things. I know that was user customizations of apps, over developer/designer. All the same, maybe I want my site/app to look like Material Design over Bootstrap, or something else.
I hope you don't mind if I ask two questions here instead of everyone emailing you :)

* Do you have details on the Front End Stack you are using or planning to use?

* Is it correct that only the mobile team is in Berlin? Looks like web development is Leipzig etc.
I can't help but be insanely sceptical. Microsoft has a massive legacy of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish and I don't want the GitHub ecosystem to suffer from the same reoccurring pattern. Call me jaded by Microsoft's past behaviour, but I just cannot forget the numerous times Microsoft has absolutely ruined thriving ecosystems by using the same tricks.
Or you know... just use gitlab.com...
He received the "nightmare letter"[1][2] asking for everything possible under GDPR and then some.

1: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nightmare-letter-subject-acce...
2: https://jacquesmattheij.com/so-your-start-up-receive-the-nig...
Just call your credit card issuer, they will remove one of the two. They may not be perfect, but they have good customer service.
Some informative parts that keep their meaning under s/trust/truck/g include:

"... daylong social engineering workshop designed and led by internal experts that immersed them in a hypothetical scenario involving a malicious insider."

"... a hands-on workshop where Dropbox employees researched, crafted, and presented their own phishing schemes."

"... our annual Capture the Flag"

It's interesting the emphasis on social attacks. You only have to get the cryptography right once, but every employee needs to defend against social engineering.
I'm really surprised and saddened by these tweets of Musk's. He's a quantitatively-minded and trained person, and lowering the bar to Trumpish trolling reduces his credibility. I've posted nonsense I regret to social media, so perhaps this is just a sign of the tremendous pressure he's under. Hope he doesn't crack and that SpaceX doesn't go down.
How does Discourse factor into this? From my read of this, it doesn't seem to be specific to the fact that he's using Discourse.
Microsoft more valuable than Google again. interesting times
Isn't that the point of GDPR?
No, but they are apparently 6th and 7th with a pretty marginal difference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income

honestly, the thing that made me question was lumping Canada in with Mexico. Not shitting on Mexico, but the standard of living there is clearly lower.
Probably sheer numbers in a city that's already overwhelmed by lots of other activities that people aren't supposed to be doing either. As others have noted, a lot of people like them but it's not clear that they are workable if they can never be ridden on the sidewalk.

I'm not condoning their use on sidewalks but it's probably inevitable that they'll be ridden there if they're going to be used to any great degree.
> current trend of artificially propping up the stock market

I've been hearing that forever. Yet still the market goes up an average of 7% per year after inflation.

> Any failure in your investment strategy

You'd still be doing well with a diversified portfolio even living through the 2000 and 2008 crashes. The 100% guarantee of failure is to do nothing.
As a driver I much prefer ebikes of any style to regular bicyclists. Even at 20mph they are fast enough that I don't feel agitated that I'm behind a lethargic turtle in my lane. City traffic often goes at about 20mph between lights in any case.

As a former rider of a "Vespa ebike" I find that it also seem much safer as a rider than a regular bicycle because I could most keep up with traffic and I could easily monitor traffic around me because I wasn't pedaling and switching gears and what have you.

Personally I feel the ebike, Vespa like or otherwise, is the future of city transportation. It's energy efficient, sweat free and all that most single occupancy vehicle drivers need to go about their daily tasks. If most people started riding them they would instantly become much safer as well.
Hah. Interesting. All along I thought it was the group for the poor bastards who had to share the UNIX chore wheel.
Completely agree in general. It's a probability thing, given enough traffic all possible events happen.
That said I do not understand how these mandates protect anyone.

The bad actors are still going to be bad and lie about it, the honest actors just got burdened with some of the worst legislation in recent history without it even coming from our elected officials.

It's dangerous and I don't care for having to backtrack through years worth of projects in use and figure out how they can each be GDPR compliant. It's a tax on creators time and is imo one of the worst possible things legislators can do to an emerging space (as all software is).
VC funding.
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45 C.F.R. § 164.524 (c)(4) requires medical providers to make our records available to you upon request, for a reasonable fee to reflect their cost of preparing it.

“Fees. If the individual requests a copy of the protected health information or agrees to a summary or explanation of such information, the covered entity may impose a reasonable, cost-based fee, provided that the fee includes only the cost of:

(i) Labor for copying the protected health information requested by the individual, whether in paper or electronic form;

(ii) Supplies for creating the paper copy or electronic media if the individual requests that the electronic copy be provided on portable media;

(iii) Postage, when the individual has requested the copy, or the summary or explanation, be mailed; and

(iv) Preparing an explanation or summary of the protected health information, if agreed to by the individual as required by paragraph (c)(2)(iii) of this section.”

Despite this language, actual costs for getting medical records varies widely. “Fees range very widely, from $2-55 for short records of 15 pages to $15-585 for long ones of 500 pages. Times also range widely, from 1–30 days (or longer for off-site records)” from a survey study on the topic.

No one has been investigated on this that I have ever heard of.
I agree. Here's the actual study at Nature ("Cultural hitchhiking and competition between patrilineal kin groups explain the post-Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck
"): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04375-6

Maybe the URL for this submission could be changed?
Their infrastructure probably allows them to host multiple products in the same subnet, it's possible any given (IP belonging to a) physical host could be hosting a youtube API one minute, google search next, gmail the next. So they picked a subdomain that belongs to none of these, to eliminate any confusion.