skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The USPS sends two - one to your old address and one to your new address. The one sent to your old address does indicate that they’re redirecting - that is, it is sent after the fact, it is not asking for confirmation or providing a grace period before they do - but it is marked clearly as something that should not be forwarded.

I suppose it could have been forwarded by accident (at scale screw ups do happen), but perhaps you confused one with the other?
Because it's not massively used yet.
Showing the snippet makes people more likely to click through, not less. If you aren't a copyright maximalist, how is that not good for both aggregator and news site?

A better question is whether it's good for the user. Filter bubble, and all.
Note the text 'and an inalienable right to obtain an fair and proportionate remuneration for such uses'

The idea is to make it impossible to give Google a free license.

The best outcome would be if Google would refuse to link to any content of European publishers.
I think that’s a legitimate approach. Though I personally think all substances should be decriminalized (rather than legalized) as in the case of things like heroin addiction the addicts fear of punishment and the stigma keeps people from seeking help and ultimately we should want them to seek help.

Alcoholism would exist with or without alcohol being illegal, the only difference would be that drinking alcohol would be more dangerous for those wishing to drink responsibly and those drinking irresponsibly would have less options to become well.

Regarding these other substances though I wholeheartedly agree real research is needed. It’s one of the really tragic things about the war on drugs actually, that research was completely stopped. Even if you keep a substance illegal, researchers should still be allowed to investigate these things. There’s life changing non mind altering treatment for cluster headaches for example that has been nearly impossible to research until recently and even still it’s never going to see the light of day in this political climate around drug paranoia even though it has zero mind altering impacts (it’s a chemical related to lsd where they modified to remove the altering effect).

I’m pretty ok with substances being banned (albeit not my preference) in general as long as research is allowed to continue and the ban persists based on information produced from that research. I.E. it’s not based on fear mongering but science.

Another aside, one of the main reasons I think decriminalization (for all) and legalization (for some) is pretty compelling is that it makes it a lot easier to regulate to ensure the products themselves are safe. A large number of the safety issues simply comes from people obtaining unsafe/fake products. Though regulation you have consistency. Nowadays with recreational marijuana you can see the lab report for every single product. Back in the day you just had to rely on some shady character telling you “it’s good”.

People are going to be doing these things, keeping them illegal in the way we have been (serious jail times for personal possession) only creates more harm and cost to society rather than alleviate it (the supposed goal). The war on drugs has created a quite insane cost through mandatory minimums and three strikes laws.. if the goal was to reduce cost to society we’d have saved money providing government supplied drugs to addicts. If the goal is to “save” or prevent harm to addicts, locking them up and making them felons seems to be having the opposite effect. They fear seeking help, and once caught up in our penal system it’s hard to escape.

So what part of criminalization is really benefiting us?
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Maybe this will improve the quality of HN submissions :P It's probably meant to make links to pirate torrents illegal though. If you have already made something publicly available eg availably for everyone for free, and you intent is to get as many readers as possible, then you can't really complain, and a sane judge would just laugh at anyone trying to sue for linking to it.
What news sites used to complain about is that readers did not click on the article to go to the news site, as most of the article could be read on Google, with images and all.
My point in the downvotes is that sometimes our contrarian opinions garner support and sometimes they don’t.

Folks shouldn’t be discouraged about posting things that get downvoted. On balance my posts and comments are well received, but I’d be worried if they all were - it might mean I’m afraid to express my ideas.
I've definitely gotten more assertively talkative, not as concerned if I say something out of tune or that falls flat.

I've found a reservoir of resentment/anger that is my next focus... and I've been on the verge of random crying breakdowns here and there.

I've been advised that "fake it until you make it" doesn't just apply to startups, and there are lots of times that I put on the "same me" mask while my head spins inside.

I can see myself making some waves amongst family and friends at some point as I change, but I can't see any big issues, just adjustments.
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Nope. Fill out form, hand in (or IIRC, drop in any mail box). They may glance to make sure you signed it, but nothing more.
Overfit to ... your augmentation policy? I think that’s a good thing. :)
Go itself says you "cannot take the address" of some values. For example:

m := map[int]int{1: 2}
p := &m[1]

The second line causes the compilation error "cannot take the address of m[1]".

https://play.golang.org/p/pIMgeQzOSZK
That’s only possible if there’s a bubble that causes total production to exceed demand-at-zero-profit. As this thread forked off a suggestion of nickel production, I looked that up — around 2,0000,000 tons per year right now.

If there’s enough production going on in space to bubble-and-pop at that kind of scale, I’d expect overcapacity to be used for construction of space habitats, not lowering prices below cost in a fire-sale.
It is racism to realize the negative aspects to other races, nevertheless pitch it as universally functional, and push the cost/pain to other races. Laziness is some of it, some of it is the realization that only other races bear the brunt of the cost.
Brief yes, but nothing about the question suggests they want details. As long as you're not making things too personal you can answer non-positively.
It's not illegal, so that would require a law change. Which is what this article is about.
[]byte is crucial if you need to frequently modify the contents. The classic example is building a string with a loop that appends a new character on each iteration. Using += to concatenate strings inside such a loop will be slow; the Right Thing To Do is to preallocate a []byte with sufficient capacity, append to it in a loop, and then (if necessary) convert to a string only at the end.
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It's a sysctl that can be toggled. If you want hyperthreading and don't care about the security concerns, you can turn it back on. The commit message specifically mentions that this was implemented because many modern machines don't allow hyperthreading to be disabled in the BIOS.

You'll find out in a couple of months why they did this. I hope you'll remember the comments you've written when that happens, because you might learn something about what OpenBSD means when they say they "strongly suspect" something.
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The political elites are using your emotions to get power. Here: see this fake photo https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/8sdb23/telemund...
As a EU citizen I have always been (and still am) a strong advocate for the European Union. I think the founding of the European Union was one of the greatest things that could ever happen to European citizens. I full heartedly believe this institution played a major role in retaining the piece after World War 2. The concept of open borders in (most of) Europe is something I would never want to miss.

But seeing the lawmakers fucking up more and more on these kind of laws makes it harder to build a reasonable argument against all the so called "EU critics" (most of the time just straight up racists).

It also makes me wonder if the laws they pass in other areas are as disconnected from reality as this is.
It seems a bit like Youtube got surprised and maybe even frightened that PeerTube could pop up as a viable alternative. They need to keep the market leader position, even at the cost hosting popular videos that don't make money to anyone.
I don’t think policy happens in a vacuum. And I imagine the same forces were are work in other counties as well — drug laws are a great way to keep young people and minorities disempowered and to preserve institutional power.

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A top Nixon aide, John Ehrlichman, later admitted: “You want to know what this was really all about. The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying. We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.
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I submitted this link to HN a week ago [1]:

https://savethelink.org/

The site highlights whats going on, and encourages people to write to their MEPs.

If I understand the bill correctly, it will become illegal for 3rd party sites to use all those 'graph' meta-tags that provide rich snippets/previews when you post a link to your status etc. If so, then the impact of this will be massive.

--

[1] but it failed to get any traction.
FWIW: submission is not endorsement. I think there are tons of flaws in this argument.

For example, they mention TLSA would have prevented this. TLSA would not have prevented this. Not only did the attackers not succeed in acquiring a TLS certificate (every DV CA knows about partial BGP hijacks), no browsers actually implement TLSA or have indicated an interest in TLSA.

I don't know if the article refers to TLSA as "pinning" because they don't understand what TLSA is or because they're trying to obscure it, but "pinning" does not generally mean "replacing your issuance system and trust root wholesale with an obscure system controlled by whatever organization controls your TLD".
Absolutely - this is an example case where the legal status of the drug I don't think would have made a difference, the drug clearly had a profound effect on this individual. Cannabis is by no means a safe drug (no drugs are 100% safe), but it does tend to get painted as either black or white by either side. The politicisation of the issue makes it hard to have a rational discussion around drug risks, and harms, especially in relation to each other (e.g. cannabis is much safer than alcohol by most measures, especially when not smoked). Almost all drugs also have benefits too, including alcohol and even heroin - which has therapeutic benefit for the terminally ill in extreme pain, for example.

Sadly we're a very long way away from a truly rational approach to drug use, not least because we've spent the best part of a century making it a moral issue.

(Mushrooms - one of the safest drugs - were legal in the UK, but were made illegal a few years ago - amid moral panic).
The Canadian side is relatively developed (vs american side) and an economic engine (tourism, jobs, wines). Your parent commenter's point I believe is that the federal/state/local government has failed the local people in investing and developing a local economy in the area. Both sides have essentially the same resources (the falls), but one side is doing better (economically) than the other.
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That's why we have so much clickbait.
Show HN: imwith (YC S17), a messaging app that memes everything you say
It is totally useful, emails is a pain in the neck. How can you prevent startups from spamming tho?
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Hello all! We’ve built imwith because we wanted to provide people with a messaging app that lets everyone be their funnier self and laugh together with their best friends. It uses an NLP engine (named Guggy) that we’ve built specifically for messaging, which allows us to understand what you write and make memes out of it.

We believe that relieving users of the need for thinking of and searching for memes makes it much more accessible and fun for them and generally creates a unique experience.

One other thing we felt was lacking in other messaging platforms was a fun reaction feature, and we tried to tackle that as well - you can react to your friends messages with GIFs, which we think lets you express a wider range of laughs.

Lastly, we’re decided to opt for a button-less UX in our messaging app, so in order to send messages you basically fling from the input towards the chat. After using it for a short while we’ve found ourselves trying to fling in other messaging apps too :)

We’d love to hear any questions or feedback you have on the app.
Ah, yes, sorry. I realised my original comment was ambiguous. I meant that the vote next month will be by the entire Parliament rather than just a committee, not that next month's vote will necessarily be the final decision.
TL:DR - email addresses and password hashes leaked for users registered until 2017-10-26, affecting 92m accounts.

No password reset, no mention of usage of salts, no mention of hash algorithm used, (edit: originally said no 2FA, but 2FA was added, thanks bbarn), no auditing to confirm that other systems were not leaked ("we have no reason to believe those systems have been compromised"), internal investigation has been fruitless so far (for two and a half weeks).
> Second it's hard not to notice that much of what the EU does is try to hurt US tech companies

These are European laws designed to regulate industry inside the EU. If an American company decides to do business in the EU they're subject to the same rules as any business already operating inside the EU. So claiming this is designed to hurt US tech companies is quite a reach. If you feel American tech companies are being hit harder than their EU counterparts then perhaps that is because those American tech companies were attempting to game the system to begin with - in which case the EU is right to regulate their European operations.

It's really no different to how goods manufactured outside of the US still have to adhere to American safety regulations if they want to get sold inside the US.
Maybe this is just spam then
> As we understand it now it’s ... and our non-standard decision to not monetize a popular Youtube channel.

You still seem to be wrong. Or am I missing something else?
> at least not too aggressively.

Oh for sure! Maybe I overstated my point. Reasonable best efforts play a huge part in making affordable residential service. But right now, there's no way for a consumer to compare what's realistic, driving down competition, because they "assume they're all the same"
Rather than encouraging a trade war, how about reducing tariffs on US imports? This would be a welcome treat for poorer Europeans who have to pay for a high level of European protectionism. Not much chance of that given that corporate interests trump those of consumers when it comes to lobbying the EU. What's the point in spending all that money if you don't get results?

https://lobbyfacts.eu/reports/lobby-costs/all
> it requires online platforms to pay publishers a fee if they link to their news content.

This is such ridiculous government overreach. Forcing people to create a business transaction that neither party wants?? The EU was a mistake.
> just have two (or more) identical servers in separate locations under different people's control

"just"... The whole point of reproducible builds is for many 3rd parties to be able to rebuild packages easily and get consistent outputs without having to spend months to set up a perfectly "standard" buildbot.

Many large orgs are already rebuilding stuff anyways - adding security checks is going to be easy.

> No need to fuzz the dates

No, you still need to handle that.

> a bribed/black-mailed Debian maintainer slips in a patch to some of the tens of thousands of packages they tweak

No, other developers and 3rd parties will notice the patch being applied by the build tools.
We are not progressing as a world society. The world is retreating. This is why people of conscience and ethics must double our effects to secure freedom for every person in the world.

I condemn this legislation by the European parliament.
> When your whole country is about 8.5 million people it must be difficult to ever go anywhere and be a complete stranger.

I know it's not HackerNews material, but: LOL.

In a country with 8.5 million people it's not like you're living in a village with 5000 people where you know everyone. I think that once you have more than about 1 million people it's quite feasible to have perfect anonymity.

More than that, in Switzerland they speak 4 different languages (German, French, Italian and the Romance language Romansch). The communities are quite separate, it's entirely possible for your average French Swiss to not have much to do with his fellow German Swiss countrymen.
I agree with this of course.

I’d want our education system to be modeled after these ideas as well.

Ironically, many schools look and function a lot like prisons.

It’s been said the way a society treats it’s prisoners is a bellweather of its health.

Perhaps by bringing cutting edge practices to prison we can lift the entire society.
I guess quality is a factor, because CKEditor 4.X might have a lot of lines but it is one of the worst library I had the displeasure to use.
First, I read this as "Unsecure data centers offer colo" which did not make sense. Then, I realized this company is spamming by making random posts on quora and linking to them here.

See also

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17300718

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17282740
No it's not. Please don't turn HN into a joking competition. There are other websites for that.
I request good ergonomic equipment so I don't needlessly work in pain. Otherwise I'm pretty flexible.
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If the process is 'off' around branching policy, there may actually not be a problem. It's certainly possible the new dev prefers a different branching policy simply because that fits with what they are used to. There may be reasons, and good ones, for what may at first appear like poor git practice. Or it may be a problem, but a new dev should at least give it enough time to determine there is no reason things are this way before advocating change.
Ask HN: Should you accept that as a developer you have small impact in company?
Currently I work in small size software house and I feel that I don't have any impact on the products and I try to accept this fact, fortunately, I have my side projects. It's quite annoying that if you ask harder questions about company and vision, you get answers like "It's none of your business". Sad thing is that it's cool company and have really open culture and this still happens so it would be even worse somewhere else.

Previously I worked in product house where I was the only developer for a while and still all my ideas were not even considered. I wasn't supposed to have anything to say, just code and keep servers alive.

Lately, I started thinking about it more intensively as I have written the GitHub library with almost 500 stars on GitHub and my blog post went viral on medium. I forgot that I have more talents than Ruby on Rails development like knowledge about product development, marketing, SEO, creativity, writing skills, psychology.

It doesn't seem like it bothers my other co-workers and they are not so interested in doing side projects, startups, product development, writing. We had chat while ago about starting something on our own and they were happy with what they are doing here.

All the software companies are now the same and if you don't get to the higher position you will be a cog in the machine even if it's a small company.

So back to the question. Should we accept this as a fact that we are only developers and hope for the better future if we raise in the ranks?
Nobody cares. Developers use Electron because it gives consistent results across platforms, not because it looks native. If Chromium were to switch to a custom font renderer that looks exactly the same on all platforms, no developer using Electron would care - in fact, they would probably like it even more.
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If you like Confessions of a Crap Artist, you should try to see the French film adaptation, Barjo. My recollection is that it was a pretty good version, but it is now more than 25 years since I've seen it.
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It's pretty common to discuss topics other than those specifically mentioned in a linked item on Hacker News. What do you mean by "change Hacker News from an article based format to a topic based format"? What actual change would be necessary? People have, pretty much forever, commented on lots of things of varying degrees of relatedness on everything submitted to HN.
The key takeway is there is a performance cost to converting between []byte and string and minimizing the number of conversions would be a reasonably low-hanging fruit in looking for performance optimizations.
Not to mention that in the U.S. there is Federal, State, and typically multiple leveles of municipal bureaucracy to contend with.

However, you also have to remember that in the typical American’s most of the services that they consume are at the local/municipal level
I tried to approach Go as a better C and alternative to C++. C++ has too many warts. I was hoping Go fixed them. A lot of them it did, but articles like this reminds me how many warts Go still has.

> Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were redesigning the UNIX system. His reply: "I'd spell creat with an e."

Similar naming is littered through Go. It's like he never learned.
I had this problem yesterday, misplaced USB drive and needing to do a large transfer. https://www.sharedrop.io to the rescue.
Lead pipes don't necessarily imply significant amounts of lead in the water; it's highly dependent on the acidity of the water (notoriously, see Flint).
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Reminds me of all of the scapegoating of the EU for local policies and outright fiction like banana curve standards.

Ironically the actual things to object to the EU about like their godawful internet policy proposals aren't on the radar.

Anyway UK has parliamentary supremacy so a constitution would be empty words without changing that. I would say that the policy seems very dangerous but constituions are messy in terms of getting ease of change right - especially in such an legal body. Imagine if nasty old bits like not allowing Jews to inherit property got embedded.
It doesn't matter if the pharmacist thinks -- or even knows -- that they are doing the "right thing", pharmacists cannot prescribe medications. Their life would be over in a heartbeat if anybody ever found out that he or she legally provided a drug to somebody without a prescription. Additionally, pharmacists should use their best judgement to deny valid prescriptions, similar to how a bartender would use their best judgement to not sell alcohol to a customer.
The scope here is much larger as it’s every package in the Debian distro, not just the base system.