skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What would you have wanted them to do differently?

Not let a government set their principles on what they can and can't do on Twitter. This is really simple. If they principally believe that they were wrong to like that tweet, then I disagree with their principles. If they were being pressured to react to it by a government, then I disagree with them cowering to any government about a liked tweet. Either way, they did wrong and they weren't very clear about what was requested by a country's government and what wasn't.

No different than Apple being forced to put icloud servers in control of non-Apple company in China...all you have to do is be transparent so I can disagree with your principles, unless your principles are money only, at which point I can disagree with that too. (and no, don't pretend like all of us with companies only care about money)

So, to answer the question, they should have ignored the request and been clear about what was asked of them. Since they didn't, they probably saved a lot of money even if they lost mine.
I get it. There's no one metric to rule them all. It's a narrative. But that's kind of my point, the obsession with revenue doesn't always make sense. For example, my company talks about growing revenue for many recent years. That's the biggest takeaway if you we're doing laymen research. However, we talk about it because it's a good story instead of mentioning that our margins are eroding. Actually, our business is shrinking but due to growing revenues nobody knows it. For us, revenue naturally grows at the same clip of healthcare cost. When that's 20% and we're growing by revenues by 15%, well most outsiders would not know we're shrinking.
Does the risk behavior survey measure anything other than lies from people who can keep their lies internally-consistent for an hour?

(And I do include false negatives in addition to false positives in the liar category.)
Based on market cap, if TSLA is to become the next GM, that would imply a stock price decline of 6%...
thank you - this is what i was looking for
Walmart's tech division to add 2,000 employees this year
How do you improve communication issues when you discover them?

For example suppose you encounter documentation by word documents in windows shared drive and an set up but not really used confluence (so we don't need to think in this example about setting up a system technically, but how to make people use it).
You're not alone.

If you don't know what to say, don't ask "What happened?" - that focuses on the problem. Say "Are you OK?" If they trust you, they'll open up.

Suicide is shut down.

Moving country is reboot.

There is a reboot option.

If life doesn't work out elsewhere, I might try to become a monk first, before trying to end my own life. Or taking dangerous occupations, such as war zone journalism. There's nothing else to fear when death is no longer a threat. I haven't yet tried all those alternatives, so I'll do that first before making a permanent decision. I'd still rather commit suicide than be forced to murder someone else though (e.g. military service), so I hope that no government forces weapons into my hands.
I literally just explained to you why this is not a question of enforcing the law, it is a choice to behave in an immoral and repugnant fashion that the law does not require. Make an effort to at least pretend you are keeping up with the topic.
From Ruby and ActiveRecord to Rust and Diesel
This is a really difficult and emotional subject that will hit a nerve for a lot of people. I'm a woman and I am quite open about having attempted suicide in my teens and about ongoing struggles with being prone to being suicidal, though I don't really suffer depression. I don't think I'm really the right person to try to lead this discussion about male suicide, at least not today, not now.

But I will ask that people try to say something substantive, per HN guidelines. It's a hard subject that can easily go sideways and frequently does. That doesn't mean it has to.

I don't think it is really helpful to implore people to "get help" while making it clear you don't really want to talk about it in earnest here and now. Having spent a lot of time suicidal, my view is that "Well, yeah, sure. Everyone would like me to get better and most people don't want to deal with it. That feels to me like a very dismissive not my problem, go get your broken self fixed, but don't bother me with it kind of position."

I really rather dislike seeing comments of that sort.
I appreciate the way you think. I’d love to hear you brainstorm on social problems using the same approach.
It's paid for by all the entities paying Linux developer's salaries as well as everyone else that contributes with their free time. Those companies probably build that cost into the price they take for their products, just as they would do with licensing costs for proprietary software.

But it's not a wash. The difference is that with Linux all those contributors not only get a usage license for an OS but they also get all the control over it.

You're a startup with some new kind of device or service? Good luck getting $PROPRIETARY_SOFTWARE ported to it if you're not HP/Dell/etc. and can guarantee sales in the millions. Heck, even HP didn't manage to convince Oracle and Microsoft to continue their IA64 support, despite major dollars being involved.

Where I work, one of two reasons for saying "we can't do that" is when hitting the limitations of nature (obviously). The only other one is when proprietary software is involved, commonly encountered with e.g. networking gear or server/BMC firmware.

While we don't get to not obey the laws of nature, the other one just sucks. It should be us doing the tradeoff between the benefits of doing something and the amount of work required to make it happen. It shouldn't be up to some 3rd-party vendor which is unlikely to consider us important enough to quickly implement a feature we want or heck, even fix a bug without having to wait $LONGTIME. With free software, that's exactly how it is.

If you want control over your own fortune, you don't get that with proprietary software.
I found this: https://github.com/dart-flitter/flutter_webview_plugin

Looks rather hacky.
Nintendo? The same company that let's you download games directly from there store (without buying them) so you can play them on an emulator?
Of course the specifics of US housing policies incorporated the racism of the time but my point is that many such policies also exist in countries where such racial tensions have never existed. So there are clearly many good non-racist reasons for such policies to exist and that shouldn’t be dismissed.

Likewise it’s counter-productive to view US history purely through the lens of racism, important as it may be. White flight occurred during a post-war boom of new housing, new roads, especially the new interstate highways, and newly wealthy post-WWII economy full of qualified GI-bill graduates. The baby boom still remains the highest rate of births the US has seen, and all those families needed housing. Developers built the suburbs in response to those factors. The modern family had their own house, their own garden, a clean, quiet street, fresh air. The modern man drove his own clean, personal, car to work in the city on one of the new highways. Meanwhile automobile/tire/gas companies were literally buying up city street car services and closing them down to force cities to replace them with busses (which they could sell them). Similar stories happened in cities all over the world during this period of post-war economic expansion. But the story you tell above gives racism the sole credit for what happened and that’s not even remotely accurate.

Was racism a factor? Absolutely. “Redlining” by banks prevented black families from buying a house in the suburbs. In some cases realtors engaged in “blockbusting” so that they could sell all of the houses in a neighbourhood.

Race is a huge and important factor in American history and politics but the narrative you give above is really not representative of what happened.

Likewise your description of Europe is misleading. Many European cities lost their industrial base and never recovered, one only needs to look at the North of England to find ample examples (Birmingham, the UK’s heavily industrial “second city” had its peak in 1951). Meanwhile the suburbs boomed.

Your list of major US cities excludes LA, the 2nd largest, which has boomed.
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Networking Scale 2018 recap
`apt-transport-https` has been merged in apt since v1.5. Good.

https://ftp.us.debian.org returns a certificate for `mirrors.wikimedia.org`.
https://ftp.it.debian.org returns a certificate for `ftp.bofh.it`.
Do mirrors support TLS?
My biggest complaint with JSON is the lack of support for comments. For that reason, it's hard to take it seriously for human-maintained configurations.
> That is a bad look for Marriott, for sure, but if you disqualify establishments for unfairly firing a low-level employee, you should get used to travelling a lot less. This particular situation just happened to be well publicised.

I put this in parentheses: "less about the specific firing and more about censorship cowering sans transparent statement". I disqualify establishments without principles in situations like this. Very simple. It's why I alluded to Nestle as a company too. The they-all-do-bad argument doesn't mean we can't exercise any judgement within.
Your question was about that.
This is likely what's gonna happen if these bills get passed. The Chinese GFW has created a "Chinternet" already, which not only blocks access to Google, Facebook, etc., but also throttles the bandwidth going out of China down to 1990s dial-up modem speed. The EU is not authoritarian but I suspect that EU regulators may do the same to block US websites that do not comply with their copyright laws in the future.
>Rails has been encapsulating the best practices around server side web apps for 15 years.

Not to be pedantic, but I worked on Rails projects in 2006 and 2007, and had probably heard of it just a bit before that. This was during the initial Web 2 boom. I would not have thought that Rails was created much earlier than that, since I usually keep some track of at least major tech developments (although could be wrong, of course - I could have missed reading about it when it was created, or only first read about it after it became a bit popular). So anyway, I googled, and the Wikipedia article for Rails says:

>Initial release: 13 December 2005; 12 years ago[1]

Haven't used it lately, but I do keep reading that it is very mature and productive, as you say.
What is a DIF?
I believe Signal uses the other policy, that the timer starts when the message is read rather than when it's sent.
To be quite honest I dislike using XML for human editable configuration files. Variations on Microsoft's .ini files (such as TOML) seem to work best for that, IMHO.
Pbh101 and eythian - where in the world are you? I’m in New Zealand usually and France currently and I’ll pay attention in the U.K. next week. I’d love the strip to be redundant.
Interesting. I've heard from the managers at my local indie theaters (in LA) that MoviePass tried to shake them down for concessions, then pulled their theaters from the app when they refused...and then came back hat in hand 2 weeks later offering to take only 15% of concessions if the theaters would take them back.

One did, because MoviePass customers at his theater actually purchased enough extra concessions to justify it. The other did not, because the MoviePass customers at his theater were cheapskates who tried to sneak in all their own food and drinks.
Pure p2p networks scale by O(log n). This means if the popularity of your video scales with n then your infrastructure just scales with log(n). The idea is that leechers become seeders. So with every new layer of distribution the coverage increases exponentially.
Smokers at least, and im sure it would also apply to alcohol abusers, actually costs less money because they die much faster and easier (conveniently usually just before retirement age), they are offered less health treatment options overall because of their smoking, and they miss out on the most expensive healthcare, old age care when you need two hips, two knees, and 30 medications a day.

The idea that smokers cost money to take care of is pure myth, and in most places they end up paying more in sin taxes to the state than they receive for life medical care costs.
What is PFM?
I've managed to teach non-programmers to successfully edit YAML files without too much trouble, but most non-programmers have a really hard time consistently producing valid JSON by hand.

As much as there is a lot to not like about YAML, it is the easiest one for humans to consistently write in my experience.
Musk says 3500/wk as of the 16th. Bloomberg says their model is slow to catch sudden increases in output.
There is a difference between a new monarch 1) letting a symbolic but insignificant fraction free to gain popularity / manufacture consent for the governance of the new monarch 2) clearing out all the prisoners.

Symbolically different alliances/parties fight each other, but within one such party/team the partners are competition too! Why liberate an old partner, if that increases your commpetition? Often the strategic value of this partner was low as the prisoner has been out of the loop, destabilized, broken. Automagically everyone agrees that "agitators are agitators" and a large fraction of the populace already believes whatever the political prisoner was accused of by the previous government.

Regarding petty criminals and the "expense" of housing prisoners, that story really gets old very fast to be honest. Although seldom depicted in caricatural movies, we know historically there were no dedicated mental institutions. In the past they locked them up with normal criminals, no distinction. And they did forced labour like textile industry, like proto-factories. From the perspective of government thats an income, not an expense!!
Concatenating strings like this is known as "Shlemiel the Painter's Algorithm", since each concatenation starts back at the beginning of the string.

From https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/12/11/back-to-basics

> Shlemiel gets a job as a street painter, painting the dotted lines down the middle of the road. On the first day he takes a can of paint out to the road and finishes 300 yards of the road. “That’s pretty good!” says his boss, “you’re a fast worker!” and pays him a kopeck.

> The next day Shlemiel only gets 150 yards done. “Well, that’s not nearly as good as yesterday, but you’re still a fast worker. 150 yards is respectable,” and pays him a kopeck.

> The next day Shlemiel paints 30 yards of the road. “Only 30!” shouts his boss. “That’s unacceptable! On the first day you did ten times that much work! What’s going on?”

> “I can’t help it,” says Shlemiel. “Every day I get farther and farther away from the paint can!”

The more general problem is being "accidentally quadratic", e.g. assuming that N concatenations will be O(N), but it's actually O(N^2) because each must traverse the intermediate string, and (assuming each input string has O(1) length) that intermediate string will have length O(N). There's a Tumblr blog at https://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com which collects examples of this, but I can't seem to get past Tumblr's GDPR landing page to see it.
Safety? Sounds like rosy retrospection to me. We're still dealing with XML vulnerabilities.
I would love to see Slashdot "Funny" mods on HN.

For those who don't know how it works. On Slashdot, you give a reason why you upvote or downvote. Downvotes have labels like troll, redundant, offtopic where upvotes have interesting, informative, and funny. Users can then chose to give weights to these labels. For example, they may ignore "funny" upvotes if they don't want to see the jokes.
Especially when technologies like E4X came out to make writing and reading XML in JS so much easier. Although I don't miss SOAP at all.
http://bit.do/mawazo
In theory not having the signatures means the messages could be falsified, but many people would trust a screen capture still. Regardless, the signatures themselves could be extracted before "exploding" so the feature really is promoting unsafe security assumptions
Is it possible that the ego in this article and the ego that the Buddhists are talking about are two different things? This may be a miscommunication, using the same word to point to different ideas. How can we know when the article never clarifies exactly what it means by ego?
I meant that if you were to declare a similar War on Jaywalking, you'd see jaywalking rates skyrocket.
I'm gonna continue using YAML, like, even if each parser came with support for a halt-and-catch-fire directive that you couldn't turn off or whatever. It's just about the only markup language where you can embed multiline strings without the indentation being fucked either in the markup or in the resulting string, without requiring lots of escaping.
It's more like the company is punishing the current and arbitrarily the future owners of a perfectly functional device because they have some project going to prevent copyright infringement within their company, and way above that is consumer protection laws that are just woefully slow to be applied forcefully.

It took many years but Steam changed their old refund policy after a judge in Australia noted how criminal the old one was where they gave themselves permission to steal indiscriminately from consumers seeking refunds and used their imaginary authority to steal from an estimated 20,000 Australians. They actually stole from people all over the world but seem to have gotten away with it everywhere else.
We get notified every time a post gets that penalty, and we review them all and restore most of the better ones. I'm not sure the Rails thread is one, but will take another look.

Edit: the article seems borderline for HN but the discussion is quite good, so we'll turn the penalty off. It's https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17355187.
How is any bitmap editor not such a tool?
>First: They are not entering illegally if they intend to report within a year.

Illegal entry is illegal entry. I don't know what you're talking about. There is no exemption for asylum seekers.

>This is probably what 45 is referring to when he talks about a "loophole" in immigration law

The loophole is that the Trump administration is enforcing an existing law that was not enforced by previous administrations. You're advocating for following the precedent set by previous administrations and simply ignore the law again.

>and why he feels politically safe asking for a legislative rather than executive solution.

But it should be a legislative solution. It is a bad law that was made worse by the ninth circuit interpretation. If 1/10th of the pressure that is levied on Trump was put on Congress, this law would be changed already.

The fact that Democrats in Congress are now using this for political gains is incredibly distasteful. [1]

[1]http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/393069-schumer-rejects-go...
Tesla Autopilot miles estimated at over 1.2B
is there a way to estimate unreported cases from end result, actual deaths?
Either way Clinton body count +1 (Read: sarcasm)
I’ve read the checklist manifesto, so I understand the gist now! Thank you.
I never understood what it is that people like about YAML.

I keep configuration in EDN, which avoids all of the problems described in the article and has other advantages, too.
It’s not just Microsoft: lots of tech companies are quietly helping ICE
IMO every programming language definition should also define how documentation strings are associated to syntactical constructs and how they can be accessed programmatically.
yes.very good http://bit.ly/2JV4VSP
Which is how map/reduce systems work at the core - and how we implemented it back in the 1980's.

Each record type and field in that record had its own entry in a MIDAS table so you could process say TELEX records differently to Email, Data etc.
"data interchange format"
No

Law is not defeated.

It means that Google, due to its market power, got the clips for free. Everyone else might be asked to pay.

It's actually anticompetitive.

I totally understand the intention behind it - you see what the death of good media and rise of clickbait/shill articles did to US and UK. The other EU governments are terrified their own information landscape might go similarly downhill - and all you have left is spam, lies, propaganda and corporate ads hidden as articles.

It's just that the approach taken here is the wrong one. They are trying to fix something but shoot at the symptoms, not the cause.

It's also true that Google is exploitative in how it uses its ad + News Power (Look at the content preloader discussion) so clearly it's not aiming at the innocent. It's just not the right tool for the job. Probably because so far no one has figured out how to fix this...
I got hit by lack of comment support in go-yaml recently.

https://github.com/go-yaml/yaml/issues/132
I’m not sure what’s wrong with this, why does everything have to be completely authentic to the original source?
To give you some idea of how badly you and everyone else has been had by the media: in the hours since you posted this comment, the New York Times found out that Trump was planning to stop separating families at the border and simultaneously decided that actually, this legal restriction - which the entire press had convinced everyone Trump just made up - exists after all and will probably stop him from doing so. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/us/politics/trump-immigra...

Not only is everyone going along with the new narrative, they're confident that Trump supporters are the ones who are too blind to see that today's talking point contradicts the previous talking point.
Though the FAQ at the bottom of the article suggests some sort of minimal repudiation support is in the works.
I think the author's point is that when juxtaposing 3.5.3 and 9.3, it's easy to overlook that they'll be parsed as different types.
How a Few People Took Equifax to Small Claims Court Over Its Data Breach and Won
User extensible types on core functionality is where Julia really shines! Looking forward to see how the downstream libraries use it.
In contrast, JSON is super intuitive and basically self documenting.

Personally I've found the exact opposite when dealing with 'normal' people. Most people can get basic YAML, but unless they're a programmers (or at least know how to program) most people fail miserably at writing JSON by hand.
Data Interchange Format
That's exactly what I was thinking. I don't buy that he went through all of this merely for not getting promoted. Especially since he's only been at the company for a few months. Definitely working with outside entities.
github.com and http://mawazo.tk
Tesla sues former worker for hacking
This changed in Java 7: http://java-performance.info/changes-to-string-java-1-7-0_06...
Well dang, I thought it was closed source the whole time. Thanks for pointing this out!
Verizon and AT&T will stop selling your phone’s location to data brokers
Your languages is stronger than I'd use, but this feature really is irresponsibly promoted at best and maybe just flat out irresponsible altogether for a "security" product.
Even as a paid subscriber you can't get past the paywall? Has their customer support been unhelpful?

Edit: Why was this downvoted?
> [Go lacks] nested functions with access to variables in their enclosing scope

Surely Go has this?

func main() {
a := 1
func() {
b := a
g := func() {
c := b
fmt.Println("c is", c)
a = 7
}
g()
}()
fmt.Println("a is now", a)
}

https://play.golang.org/p/zmWwCNm_PuU
I don't love YAML, but for configurations I always choose it for the simple fact that it supports comments. Comments for json are almost always hacky (for example, imbedding a comment key inside the value).
Pure F... Magic

Source: Worked with senior devs long enough to hear the term uttered before.