skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know that "slippery slope" is a fallacy, right? The slope you talk about is no slipperier than the one that leads straight from talking about slavery to actual slavery. The Trumpian "Period" doesn't change that.

Also, note that I mentioned opposition, not censorship. The ACLU has no power to censor anyway. You're still free to spout whatever anti-liberty nonsense you want. The ACLU is free to devote their finite resources to cases and causes that don't have that complication. They're not your slaves, or any other first-amendment absolutist's. As I said, liberty comes in many forms - not just yours.
These cities have been experiencing a significant population boom. If they don't invest in infrastructure, they're going to kneecap their own economic growth. There's a reason why the region's businesses were backing public transit, and it wasn't out of the kindness of their hearts...
I was surprised nobody mentioned mruby in this thread until now. It's tiny, super easy to embed, and Ruby is a fun language.

Also, mruby has the benefit over most of these other languages of having had a recent thorough security audit[1].

1. http://mruby.sh/201703270126.html
What an obnoxious comment.
Since this only covers specific models from 2015-2017, I hope this means the 2018 Macbook/Macbook Pro models (whenever they are released) will have an improved keyboard design.
Next in line: microscratches on the iPhone X screen.
Hah, looks better than my original code. When it was starting to be created, I didn't even know how to write a function, and there were a grand total of I think two when it was retired. Here [1] is my updated code. Apologies for some edgy commands, my IRC server has some... interesting people in it.

[1] https://hoppy.haus/git/Failure/MIPS
Have you been to any non-US city? You should try it...
> Let me know when to expect my MTBF.

That's not how it works. MTBF is a statistical thing it doesn't say anything about a particular device. Just like smoking can give you lungcancer and your 95 year old uncle smoking 3 packs a day is not evidence to the contrary.
Bad idea regulating data beyond HIPPA etc. Companies will flee even though they agree in practice to avoid regulatory compliance costs.
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If you look at the indictment it details that they found encrypted files on his computer, then used a password obtained from his cell phone to decrypt the files.

If this is a setup, it's beautifully orchestrated.
Apple launches service program to address MacBook Pro keyboard woes
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But the usa invents most of the new drugs, treatments, diagnostic equipment and so on which i dont think would exist without scientists and companies being motivated by profit.
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By that measure, the New York Times, Fox News, Washington Post, CNN, and Wall Street Journal are all propaganda.
I'm not sure where you get the idea that GDPR doesn't apply to operating systems.

You can control every facet of your diagnostics in Windows settings, see every bit of data collected about you (both locally and on the cloud), and delete it all.
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I can give you an example of semiconductor manufacturing and its supply chain. Say, I am a company with X billions to throw at building a Fab. You could probably build one, but finding lithography suppliers, automation, building long term relationships with them and being able to do it in a cost effective manner is a monumental challenge. Intel, Global Foundries, TSMC runs on decades of internal knowledge to be able to manufacture silicon. Furthermore, you now need to package silicon, test it, and post-silicon assembly is insanely complex as we go towards chip-scale manufacturing.

Another example is Tesla. They will and in the past have throw billions of dollars to build a solid manufacturing lines, suppliers and personnel; but you can see the challenge today when theyre trying to ramp up.

On small scale, you can buy time with money; but on a large scale, that transaction often becomes difficult or simply impossible.
>It almost seems like the pornography charges against him was a way to punish him but without prosecuting him for the actual leakage

It's the new "tax evasion."

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone#Tax_evasion
That didn't really answer the question that was asked. IRC is an open protocol. Whats your fear?

There are some seriously paranoid people on HN these days, and it is rather disenchanting to have to sift through all the negativity. Failure to embrace new things and new ways of doing things is a surefire way to irrelevancy.
How the audacity to fix things without asking permission can change the world
A few things to note about this decision:

It's a 3 to 2 decision from one of four mid-level appellate courts in NY's state court system. Bloomberg cited the original opinion but didn't link to it, so I have no idea how impassioned the dissent was or if the majority's opinion is well reasoned as applied to Postmates' model specifically. I wouldn't assume that all gig economy companies are alike in the legal particulars.

Leave to appeal to NY's top-level court could be applied for and granted, but if it's not, this will be binding precedent at the trial level in NY's third judicial department, which covers much of NY state's land area except Western NY and the areas in and around NYC. Other NY trial courts have to follow the appellate court rulings from their own judicial department, but if none exists, they have to follow other departments' appellate rulings like this one.

If a split develops among judicial departments, the top-level NY court might make a ruling binding statewide.
Given that planning and zoning boards making it illegal to build anything other than low density suburbs are elected officials, their actions are pretty good evidence of preferences...
As much as I love Apple hardware I am really annoyed by how wasteful their products are. I recently took my Early 2015 MBP to the Apple store because one of the rubber feet came off, I was told that the warranty doesn't cover "non-functional issues" and that I would need to pay them £100 to replace the full bottom panel.

Anyone know a reason why they do this other than greed?
imgur.com hosts quite a few NSFW images. A company's firewall might be blocking images coming from there.
A hidden iframe was used to install an encrypted VM on the defendants computer, with an encrypted file on it, accessible using a password
Only the defendant knew?

There are also extensive file system logs indicating a history of use. That was faked too?

And the IRC logs, those are fake?

Come on man.
The aerial picture of downtown Houston with all its parking lots is a favorite to show the deleterious effects of mandatory parking minimums: http://www.cdandrews.com/2014/09/surface-parking-lot-design-...
"Uber" should be charged with manslaughter -- but who specifically? The driver appears to be the most logical party if they were the one in operation of the vehicle.
It's actually extremely easy, particularly if you're familiar with Prolog (the core algorithm is a couple lines in Prolog, so knowing how that works is useful for implementing it in other languages).

I suspect the lack of statically typed scripting languages is more of a historical accident than anything.
That's funny, I've read the claim multiple times in the media amongst the controversy over its procurement. Not least because it took years for the US:UK dispute over technology transfer to resolve during the Bush+Blair years.

Even since resolution there's unprecedented restrictions of maintenance in RAF service, requiring some major components returned to BAe in the US when BAe are a British based company.

I'm on my way out but a quick search seems to show Israel as having the least restricted version, which is a surprise: https://www.wired.com/2016/05/israel-can-customize-americas-...

Some discussion of the Blair era issues: https://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/uk-warns-usa-over-itar-...
you obviously didn't read the indictment. The claims are not some vague image found in his browser cache, but Gigs of graphic and disturbing content with metadata (i.e. titles) that clearly indicate it as CP.

I realize these claims != guilt, rather that a lot of these comments are arguing how easy it would be to get caught up in existing laws. That's not what's claimed here; if true this guy is a collector.
Is the iPhone X actually more prone to scratching than other Gorilla Glass 5 phones? I've had the X for about four months, and while the screen is pretty scratched up (I refuse to use a screen protector) it doesn't look much worse than my older phones looked.
Did you read the part about the VM he was (allegedly) hiding?
The helium used in balloons isn't actually useful for much of anything.
I tried to teach myself postscript by writing directly to the new laserprinters at school .. and was met the next day by a very angry grad student sysadmin waving two reams of mostly postscript error pages. Something about not being in his accounting budget since I was an undergrad annoyed him. Fortunately, he decided that the only solution was to give me access to his departments new Sun workstations running NeWS.
1) Consumers pay VAT not companies. Companies only collect VAT, unless you mean they are buying goods in the UK.

2) Google use EU cross border services rules to avoid charging VAT in the UK. But since it is b2b it is generally reclaimable so no gain to exchequer either way

3) Uber avoid VAT by classing their drivers as self-employed so they each run a business below the threshold for registration. This is despite being found at fault for this.[0]

So there are some very large cases of US companies not charging VAT.

[0]: https://goodlawproject.org/uber-case/:
I’ve been on IRC for decades, a few years running a file distribution for audiobooks, which sadly meant I ran across some things I’ll never unsee. I’ve never seen anyone actually say “kiddie porn” who was actually looking for or offering it. It’s all “loli” or filename references, and “#yo” stuff. Those chat logs sound ridiculous, but I have to admit that my experience is limited to channels where cp wasn’t welcome. Maybe when they’re on their own they start talking like a special agent?

To me, it would be like being in a warez channel full of people saying, “I want pirated material.” That at least I have experience with, and someone saying “Where the copyright violations at?” Rather than “any good ftp’s and xdcc’s?” Would raises red flags.
It’s not true. The replacement top case you get will be identical to the one you have now.

And it will continue to break. Source: two replaced top cases.
1) Sorry to read about your situation.

2) Please see my comment below about getting yourself on an "income-based repayment plan," if you aren't already on one.

3) Believe it or not, student loan debt is dischargable, though not easily so. See [1] & [2] for a 'success'(?) story not involving a fraudulent institution. IMO this decision was the impetus for Sallie Mae (SM) restructuring itself into SM and Navient.

[1] https://abovethelaw.com/2013/05/in-showing-undue-hardship-co...

[2] https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2013/05/22/1...
For entertainment, I like cities better than suburbs. Hands down.

At home, I like parking in a driveway better than parking on the street.

At home, I like parking in a garage better than parking in a driveway or alley.

At home, I like parking in an attached garage better than parking in a detached one.

I like living in my own house better than an apartment.

I like living in a free-standing house better than a duplex or row house.

I like a large yard where my young kids can play with their friends and I can keep an eye on them out the window.

I want to be able to make some noise without disturbing my neighbors, and vice-versa. I don't like living cheek-by-jowl with my neighbors.

I like living in a neighborhood that has virtually no violent crime or burglaries. I don't want to have to run a gauntlet of panhandlers when I go for a walk around the neighborhood.

I prefer to live in a house built since 1978, so I don't have to deal with lead paint, asbestos, knob & tube wiring, wood lath walls, lead (water) service lines, buckling foundations, damp moldy basements, rotting, leaking box gutters, or cheap, chalky aluminum siding that was installed in 1968 over Insulbrick that was installed in 1938. Unfortunately, those houses tend to be relatively rare and exorbitantly expensive in my local city.

I don't know why so many city dwellers seem to obsess over the fact that there are many people who simply prefer living in the suburbs. But there are.
From Fight Club: Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
To me, this speaks to the incredible layers of protection Apple has in making sure their hardware consumers have as good of an experience as possible, even when they have unexpected issues. I really think some people would choose Apple solely because Apple would do these repairs for free, in a way that is the least amount of hassle to the consumer. (i.e, you can have a real conversation with a real person.)

Otherwise, do people generally think that other computer manufacturers have't had issues, or that Apple is purposefully trying to have a lower quality product? Are people away of the amount of reliability testing that Apple does in house? It's easy to point an ignorant finger at them, but we're better than that. Where's the data?

If anything, the closest thing we have to data right now is what they say on their website: a small number of laptops have a malfunctioning keyboard. Is it even legal for them to say that if it really were most of them?
Much like the auto industry. It is all modular and they replace modules and not small individual parts.
If you're going to go to all that effort to hide your tracks and frame someone, risking your own conviction for downloading and distributing illegal porn, and the umpteen other crimes you're committing, I feel like you're going to have a good reason ... which reason is going to put you on a list of suspects for framing the person.

You're going to need resources too, if you want access without leaving a trace, TBH I can't see how you can do it remotely (ie at a distance) without cracking the targets upstream ISP. Otherwise their logs of incoming connections from whatever anonymous relays you've used are going to implicate an external attacker, which would tend to corroborate the targets innocence.

In the case of "Josh" other people's links show IRC chats where the other end is confirmed from capture of another perp. Also that his personal phone has the passwords on; that he said the encrypted data was his and that no-one else had access. If the evidence presented is true it seems pretty hard to setup without him being party to the whole thing.
> Citizens United has got to be one of the most misunderstood decisions of the Supreme Court.

> If Citizens United loses that case, then there would be little standing in the way of, for example, prohibiting the NY Times from running stories critical of presidential candidates within 90 days of the election.

They could have decided the case on much narrower grounds. They could have returned it as improvidently granted. The majority wouldn't have had to conclude that "this Court now concludes that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption".

I do think there were interesting 1A claims in play, and I don't know how to handle those well. But the decision as written is just naive.
I see what you mean. I just think that’s so different in every trade, and the “control” part that is consistent at all are the extreme ones... the power dynamics I guess? Everything else is just making decisions in response to particulars; anything under the sun.
Please no ircoin.
At $10k/year I would move somewhere cheap in the midwest and use my savings to buy a home with cash. I require expensive prescriptions to live and if those were covered I'd be fine. If not, I'd stay put, continue to work for decent insurance, and just bank the $10k/year.
I would have enjoyed this article more if all it had written was,

"Social Media."
> It’s not possible that we actually love it here, that we like the clean air, wide open spaces, huge yards, non-crowded downtown, small family friendly parades, and our rodeo.

Nobody wants to outlaw suburbs and single-family homes with huge yards and setbacks via zoning fiat, people want other options to not be outright illegal.

I'm sincerely sure you enjoy living where you do, we're just asking for such preferences to not be encoded and mandated in the zoning/land-use laws and regulations and procedures.
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This was fixed more than a year ago, FWIW.
Accounts preparation at a mid size multi-channel, multi cost and profit centre business.
First, this depends a lot on the city as to whether it is true.

For example, MTV/Palo Alto have the same per sq ft price as san francisco. There are sources showing each one as higher than the other, but not to any significant degree.

Second there are a tremendous number of factors that affect housing prices other than personal preference.

I'm really unsure if you are trying to be serious here, because it's so rare a preference like we are talking about here really has a majority at one of the extremes.
> 1. The article says “Roberts noted that the decision also allows for warrantless cell-tower location information searches in emergencies and for national security purposes.”

FWIW, that's not how I read Robert's opinion. He said that this decision didn't decide those (at least partially because it wasn't the question presented).

> This means that any other data can still be obtained without a warrant under the CLOUD act which passed just a couple months ago.

Isn't the stored communications act much more meaningful than CLOUD here?
It’s an indictment, aka one side of the story presented in the best possible light. Of course it’s convincing. That doesn’t mean it isn’t completely accurate, but judging guilt or innocence based on limited information provided from one party is nuts.
> the landlord could deny you access

..or grant themselves access. That's the other risk that the parent comment pointed out.

> In practice, most companies will rent office space without batting an eye.

Presumably, though, they also put in security cameras and don't leave the "crown jewels" (source repo?) exclusively accessible from that office space and needing nothing more than the landlord's key to do so.

> it still feels like a similar calculated risk thing

It certainly feels like it, but is it actually? Is anyone actually even pausing to think about it, let alone calculate the risk?

> the alternative of doing it yourself takes away too much from focusing on your business

I can't help but wonder if the effort required isn't routinely over-estimated. Some of these things aren't that hard, and, when they're critical to the business, there's an argument to be made that doing it oneself is focusing on the business.

I can personally attest to repeatedly running into labor/effort over-estimation in the cloud-vs-hardware decision. This, like (at least rudimentary) chat is a well-enough understood problem that an accurate estimate is actually possible.
Most cultures have some variant of "shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in three generations". People not socialized to earn it, don't.

I grew up dead broke. It's in the very core of my being that I have to succeed. There's no home to swim to.
> It is true that non-math people, hardware guys, or graphic designers may not be able to understand a complex equation and think it is just some kind of hieroglyph, but the right notation can help to make things more clear.

The semantics of these "hieroglyphs" very much depend on the context, though: "a x B" itself only says "apply some operation x to the named entities a and B".
I seem to recall something similar in an old language (maybe Pascal?) where the way to return something was to assign it to the name of the function.
Pretty sure b. already exists, there are consolidation programs where you can get your monthly payment capped at a percentage of your salary. The downside is just like with paying the minimum due on a credit card, the interest can really screw you. In some cases the amount you can afford to pay may even be less than the interest.
What has energy independence actually done for America? We are still fighting wars in the Middle East.

For decades people were saying we need to end reliance on foreign oil. Well, we've ended it. What has that gotten us besides underpriced gasoline?
Would be very interested to hear whether this is actually a long-term fix to the problem. I have had this issue many times with my MBP non-TB model, usually resolved by some compressed air under the keys.
Religiously speaking, banking and other interest-charging businesses are probably more immoral. Payday loans, mortgages, credit cards, car loans, store credit, etc.
> they still have First Amendment rights, and they are still a news organization

I agree. But the First Amendment doesn’t protect individuals or companies from any and all prosecution.
A feature of current voting patterns because it takes place on a work day is that voting is dominated by 50+ people. The voice of those who are paid hourly or without flexible work schedules is not heard very proportionately. It's not that different from a poll tax or reading test or similar barriers to voting - those who care the most in order to spend time/money get to vote - are those reasonable as well?

As someone who is over 50, I feel the current system is stupid. I vote from home using a mail in ballot but the ballot is several pages, often six pages long, and takes me an hour to fill out while I do research online, so someone doing it in person has to make a lot of time before or after work (polling places near their home).
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Or maybe it's not on the list because the comp doesn't exist yet, maybe they'll add it to the list when it comes out.

I hope that's not the case, and we'll see a brand new redesigned, reliable keyboard.
they have their moments. they all tend to be good at cheerleading war, for example. msnbc fired phil donohue for being against the iraq war. last election, the washington post (in)famously ran a glut of anti-sanders material in a short time span (16 articles in 16 hours, i believe it was).
Because it costs money to store and inventory small parts. It needs a sku and a price for the part, then a sku/price for the repair/replacement. How many small rubber feet should an Apple Store keep in stock for the occasional customer who comes in and loses one? Easier to just replace a whole part that contains many of the smaller attached parts.
The newest Macbooks are more reliable than older models according to data Apple Insider got from Apple stores [1].

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/04/30/2016-macbook-pro-...
Sweden is also a member of One Hundred Ninety-Three Eyes and One Hundred Ninety-Five Eyes.
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50+G of encrypted data, specific references to 6yo, 8yo in file names and confirmation by a LEO witness that the videos match the filenames. The videos presumably can be viewed in part (by the judge?) in some sort of closed session if the defence requests it?
Spot on. My checklist is not so easy to follow even by people with equivalent qualifications. It works as a aide-memoir for me, but anyone else would have to learn my profession and look-up the procedure for each task.