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The only thing that can and ought to be realistically removed is illegal speech and SCOTUS has already defined what that is... Any other attempts, while well intentioned, will probably backfire. FB seems to take one step forward and two steps back each time they try to take some moral high ground when it comes to free speech... I like the fact they recently increased transparency behind who is paying for ads - whether they are advertising fake or true info, the reader gets to decide what's veritable vs what isn't ultimately, as it should be. Now, they will "identify misinformation".. in other words, they will appoint themselves as adjudicators of what is truth (e.g. "mis-information") vs what is not... they are a medium for free speech - not a scientific, peer-review type of website where consensus kills off or approves publishing of content.

This continuous grasping at straws by FB, Twitter, google, whomever really - of determining what is acceptable in the realm of opinion/1st Amendment speech is really exhausting and will mean the death of their platforms.
This article isn't about any of the examples you just listed, which are already policed by Facebook and, you know, the actual police.
They will just switch to whatsapp. I'm sure "human rights" advocates will be extra happy about the end to end encryption now :')
Totally unbiased? Correct, that's impossible. Unbiased enough to approximately block calls for violence from all sides? That's realistically possible.
Then don't call it a crypto currency and pretend its going to replace fiat currencies any time soon.

A currency is something people want as means of exchanging goods and services, an investment instrument isn't that.

And crypto has performed terribly as an investment instrument as well...can you imagine the chaos if the stock market swung 5-15% from one week to the next for months on end?

Lastly you're conveniently ignoring that stocks can pay dividends, and don't serve only as a speculative asset... Because publicly traded companies generally produce something useful and of tangible value to society, unlike cryptocurrency projects.
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What do you define as "unbiased enough"?
...any jobs lost that are related to the current industry will be unfortunate byproducts of getting rid of a broken system

I'm tempted to argue that an equal number of jobs are lost every day to the opportunity cost of people not taking business risks due to the added risk of losing their healthcare, myself included. My optimistic vision is that the economic growth resulting from removing this burden will absorb the displaced workers, plus create even more jobs on top of that.
9-5 is an arbitrary restriction on a typical office job. The majority of us no longer perform shift work on the factory floor which was the original impetus for this societal norm.

You are recounting society as it exists today which is abnormal in a historical context. I am speaking of a society that could exist. One where 1/5th the population is not needlessly forced through life exhausted and under performing. Not only would productivity be higher, but we'd get more use out of our otherwise vacant buildings at night. Rush hour would be greatly diminished if not everyone had to arrive at work exactly the same time.

Flex hours are a simple and mainstream solution that more companies should adopt. But it has to start with an appreciation that night owls are not "defective" or as you say, "maladapted".
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It doesn’t? To my knowledge it generates .java files, right?
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1) Keep in mind this was written for people scared about what's been happening with NK, especially when Kim and Trump were comparing e-penises over twitter.

The threat that many are worried about is some kind of warfare confrontation. Like the false-alarm missile alert in Hawaii that had people terrified for hours.

2) It's certainly not NK's primary game-theory goal to force a confrontation. They get the 80-20 value out of posturing (both inward and outward). But it could come to blows in a number of ways, such as escalating rhetoric causing a misunderstanding that snowballs, and so on.

An imperfect metaphor is two 10 year old boys play wrestling. Things start off fine, they escalate, one pinches another, the other play hits back, escalates more, and it's all "not real" until finally someone crosses the previously-unknown line, causing the other to hit back real hard and storm off.

NK's primary goal is to sustain themselves and the power they hold. They know that history and the world is against them, so they're "punching from their back foot", which is weak but can still hurt. Or like a trapped animal.

3) That thinking comes directly from the regime. It's the classic tactic of creating an enemy to focus/displace blame and justify unpopular actions, whether Steve Jobs obsessing over IBM, the Third Reich with jews, or Putin convincing Russians that America is out to get them.

4) The resistance is to the regime and the way their state is run.

There's a political theory that the US, South Korea, Japan, and China consider when thinking about NK: The sudden liberation of 22 million people who don't know how the world works would be a humanitarian disaster.

I think that's very possible, but one of those "better to bite the bullet now" things.

But the more likely outcome is that the resistance continues to succeed in changing local hearts and minds, one at a time. It's snowballing. Pulling on that thread can eventually lead to a moment like the Berlin wall coming down or the Arab Springs.
It seems like our current laws already cover the dangerous stuff that needs to be taken down.

If someone makes an explicit call to violence, that is already illegal and should be covered under our existing laws.

No need to change any policies when the existing policies work well enough for stopping the obviously dangerous content.
In fairness Falcon Heavy was delayed as SpaceX managed to double the capacity of Falcon 9 making a business case for the heavy version less clear.
Same here.

I sleep about 9-10 hours, and I'm really more productive than when I had to be in office at 9 every morning (I can't sleep before 2)
> Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence

Yes it is. You may be confusing 'evidence' for 'proof', but here's a proof that absence of evidence is indeed evidence of absence. (How much? That depends.) http://kim.oyhus.no/absence/index.html
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Some anti-blue light glasses and a sleep mask helped me a lot. Meditation before going to bed also helps a lot.
"Leads to"

Anyone can claim anything leads to anything. This is nothing but a blanket censorship policy for Facebook to stifle any speech it wants and claim that it could possibly have led to violence, which is entirely impossible to prove or disprove. Not at all surprising give the track record of Facebook.
I'm surprised those laws exist. Running through red lights and stop signs looks like an excellent way to get killed. I certainly didn't expect it the last time I was going to turn right on red, with my signal on, and a cyclist ran the light going past me.
Reading this with no clue what punk is. The article doesn't do a good job of explaining it or answering the question the title poses to someone not already part of it.
Explicit calls to violence are already against the law.

We have good laws that cover these situations already.
This guy has 2 blogspams that he's been posting over the last 12 hours or so to HN, one about things developers 'love' to hear from management and the other about git.

(They're blogspams because the posts are from 2 other sites. His posts are basically excerpts of those posts (which he does provide links to at the end of his own) ).

basically quotes excerpts from the actual posts from Hackernoon and another site -- he does provide the actual links -- and posts links to his here).
Irish in Ireland is adminstratively mandated, but as a language it is on life support.

There's a particularly pernicious habit here (Ireland) of bleating about the requirement for bilingual versions (Irish always first) of official texts. It serves only to bolster the self-importance of gaeilgoirs (Irish speakers) who have voluntarily made the language part of their identity.

Of course, it is impossible to refute the arguments they put forward for the cultural value of the language... so it goes on.
This looks really cool btw, my gf and I will very likely become users!

I think it says that the $10k will be awarded to 100 companies that complete the course so I assume at the end
They don't say they are blocking calls to violence. They say they are going to block anything could that lead to violence, which could be anything. Anything that could potentially get anyone angry about anything could theoretically "lead to" violence as a result - that's what makes this policy so absurd.
Exactly, FB is book burning. If they want to stop organization on their platform that is one thing, but to stamp out opinions is something else.
An IndieHackers interview went over this exact scenario [0].

Collaborating with progressive, growing, local governments worked well for their product (transit planning). It helped that they were Code For America fellows.

My understanding from this (and life experience), is that working in the same shoes as your intended customer shortens a product's learning curve significantly.

0: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/052-tiffany-and-danny-o...
This is Theranos 2.0.
Facebook is not a government entity (I can hear the jokes about that coming in 3... 2...) and therefore is completely capable of deciding what speech is and isn't allowed on its network. The actual right to free speech is not eroded in any way just because Facebook decides it doesn't want something on its platform.

Edit: This is no different than, say, a shopping mall saying that they will kick out anybody who tries to spread information that incites violence.
Ok, I'm old and got into punk in the late 70s. Never lived in a place with a really big active scene until Seattle in the late 80s / early 90s, but honestly that wasn't punk per se, it was something different. More rock than punk, I would say. Feel free to disagree. The Bellingham Bash in 1990 or 91 had a good vibe, though, and I saw Nirvana at Squid Row for a dollar before they got famous.

I think the point is that punk is accessible and relateable for a lot of people. The punk people I've known were the most open-minded of any crowd, whether that was built around music or something else. I think it's true that it still unites people who otherwise would probably not mix. They are also the most open to different styles of music.

And as for connecting people across space and time, I can't help but think of The Fall's "Telephone Thing" every time I remember the douchebags at Google have all my data as I type HN comments. How dare you assume I want to parlez-vous with you.
My understanding of the lynchings is that they work by someone sharing a 'Billy is a pedophile' on FB/WA, the 'news' going viral, and a few hours later, concerned citizens show up at Billy's house, with axes and tire irons.

Not that different from the pizzagate bullshit back in 2016. [1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/22/533941689...
Hopefully SpaceX will start selling bottled a aether soon
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> the benefits provided by either system should be at parity with each other

You say they 'should be' but do not justify it. In order to claim something 'ought' to be some way, you need to justify it. Not that it really affects your non-existent argument, but the government of the United States does not agree with you. For example, closely held corporations are not required to pay for drugs they morally disagree with, whereas the government can't make these distinctions, as long as the drug is legal.
In PR terms we call this a classic “non concession.” It’s a diversionary, empty news announcement a company like Facebook puts out to mask bad news.

It is a higher order advanced PR technique. Only the best do things like this.

In this case they are masking the documentary about far right groups being allowed to exist on Facebook.

So the counter is to make a low value, obvious announcement to bury the documentary news or counteract it with other news.

I actually am mostly on Facebook’s side here. I think the media are generally out to get them and they deserve to ensure free speech of all kinds happens.

Let’s be clear though: This is a classic non concession to mask other news.
While I agree with you, this is a private platform and has nothing to do with the 1st amendment, which restricts govt. from policing speech, not private corps.
Many indigenous cultures regularly practice community and individual healing. So, healing is an accent tradition but the new part is paying for it and some of the more modern methodologies as the older traditions are more somatic and spiritual.
Thanks for sharing this. Steve Krouse is one of the best thinkers right now when it comes to novel approaches to programming. I encourage everyone interested in this space to check out his work.
> Why didn’t anyone think of this before?

Anyone that's read even the intro section of the Fermi paradox Wikipedia page already has: "There have been many attempts to explain the Fermi paradox ... suggesting that intelligent extraterrestrial life is extremely rare". The paper just formalizes that by demonstrating we can arrive at low enough expected numbers of aliens (namely 0) with reasonable inputs to the drake equation.

> Imagine we knew God flipped a coin. If it came up heads, He made 10 billion alien civilization. If it came up tails, He made none besides Earth.

This occludes a lot more than it illuminates. Although the end section of the paper uses the bayesian inference Sniffnoy hinted at, the graphs SSC used (and his analysis of the papers results) come from the earlier section of the paper that still use the "chance of aliens per star" model. Even the bayesian part merely refines this probability based on observations; it's hardly "the wrong way to think about it" as SSC claims.
>Most therapists can't help you,

Who made you the expert to make this determination? The people it doesn't help are the people who put no effort into the process.
Suggesting there aren't malicious forces actively pushing for their bottom line over say, structural changes that would improve healthcare for everyone is really really dumb.

Sometimes there really are just evil greedy people being bad.
In Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky novels, the characters in the far future track time using megaseconds (~11.6 Earth days) to sidestep the problem of days with different lengths. They still count from the 1970-01-01 Unix epoch, but the characters mistakenly think that date is when humans landed on the moon.
#mefour. I have recommended this article in various conversations over the years. I love how it's grown to include projections from various diverse fields. I feel I have lived forever after reading through it. And the mind-numbing scale eases fears over death for me.
Creator of Jenkins here.

First of all, this is a Google Summer of Code project. Abhishek, who is driving this work, is doing a great work, so I hope people can give him encouragements and feedbacks to push him forward. I'll make sure he sees those feedbacks and will stop by to answer questions you might have.

This is one of the efforts that is pushing the envelop of Jenkins that solve problems people had with Jenkins. Reading some of the reactions here, I wanted to use this opportunity to introduce other bigger efforts going on currently in Jenkins that I think addresses various points raised in this thread.

* Jenkins Essentials is aiming to be the kind of "readily usable out of the box" Jenkins distribution that is a lot less fragile, because it's self-updating appliance that has sane defaults and obvious path to success.

* There's architecture effort going on to change the deep guts of Jenkins so that data won't have to be on the file system, and instead go to managed data services.

* Jenkins configuration as code lets you define the entire Jenkins configuration in YAML and launch Jenkins as a docker container to do immutable infra. Jenkins Pipeline lets you define your pipeline in your Git repo, so that's the other part of immutable infra, and between modern pipeline and efforts liek this one, there's no need to write Groovy per se. It's just a configuration syntax based on brackets like nginx, which happens to conform to Groovy syntax, so that when you need to do a little bit of complicated stuff you can, but you don't need to

* Finally, Jenkins X is focused on making CD a whole lot easier for people using and developing apps for Kubernetes. It's a great example of how the community can take advantages of the flexibility & the OSS nature of Jenkins to the advantages of users.

* A few people mention about container-based build environment, which is very much a central paradigm with modern Jenkins (and thus obviously with Jenkins Essentials and Jenkins X.) See our very first page of the tutorial! https://jenkins.io/doc/pipeline/tour/hello-world/
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Didn't he hire hitmen? Did he get convicted for that charge?
Mind elaborating a bit? I've been planning to learn Perl specifically "for crunching through lots of data", like multi-GB databases, and Python for other scripting tasks. But a few days ago I learned that Ken Thompson co-wrote Go and that it's used by CloudFlare, Netflix, Docker, Kubernetes, etc. Now your comment makes me wonder if Go would be a better fit for me than Perl. Furthermore, Twitch.tv migrated their chat spam engine from Python to Go, so maybe Go would even be a twofer.
Aether, or epicycles? Its more like epicycles in my opinion because it supposedly forms "spheroids" wherever the models need it.
There are always loud fringe groups who, unable to persuade the majority to their line of thinking, instead focus their efforts on coercing leaders of institutions to force their line of thinking onto the majority. Tattle-tales in school turn into busy-bodies on HOA boards and professional protestors outside of Twitter HQ. There is no "victory" for these people, only goal posts that can be pushed ever further until they are 6ft under.
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That Americans keep thinking private companies have to abide SCOTUS rulings astonishes me

SCOTUS rulings shape lower courts abilities

Like here for example, HN can remove dick picks no problem

People are free to avoid those platforms if they don’t like the rules
Not having one vote per person seems to be one of the main grievances. How will ethereum solve this aspect?
As stated in the original medium post, the issue was they only had one credit card on file and no contact at the company. If they had either a second credit card or moved to offline billing or had a contact with a phone number (all free steps), they would not have been suspended.
However, you can actually disable pre installed apps in Android, with some exceptions (AFAIK, none of the Google services apps are in those exceptions).

Disabling an app is almost the same as uninstalling (the app can't be open, does not run in background, etc.), however since they are pre installed applications they are still present in /system partition (not a problem since /system is not available for users data anyway).
Ask HN: What open source projects are you working on?
What open source projects are you working on?

This is my experiment to find new and interesting projects that I could donate some web dev time to in order to help grow my network and to stay learning.
For me eBay always had some niche products I couldn't find on Amazon. Now I just look for it on AliExpress.

Unless you're looking for used items, most items on eBay are sold by Chinese sellers or US resellers with a markup.
I'm guessing AliExpress is much easier to use and friendlier to Chinese sellers.
Video encoding and photography processing mostly use CPU.
1+1=2 is allegedly an unbiased both fact and opinion.
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Well, it has a lot of definitions. I still think of it as a reaction to overproduced rock and disco from the 70s, but it has evolved a lot since then.

Surely someone has put together an introductory listening list that is searchable. No idea if there's a scene anywhere these days. I rather doubt it, but you never know.
>"Indeed, to say just a given galaxy lacks dark matter is inherently to say that dark matter exists."

It means that some assumption somewhere in the calculation is wrong.
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That's a fair complaint.

I could say I like the size because it's beyond my wingspan and however low the pillows end up in practice, my feet never overhang the bed. And that is true and is a reason I like it. But I definitely like the size because it's ridiculous. On the other hand if this bed lasts me longer than a standard mattress then it will cancel out anyway, especially since I know how to replace individual components if they fail.

Regarding waste, I was mostly upset at having to throw out the foam and fabric from the mattress toppers that the bucking column gel came inside. Everything else at least contributed to the bed. I was unable to convince them to just send me the gel. So they shipped me gel wrapped in waste. I talked to a local shelter but they can't accept pre-opened bedding due to health and safety concerns, so I had to throw out a ton of useless junk.

I have some leftover gel (by design based on the sizes of the sheets) but I've given some to a friend and plan to use more for a backpack.
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Another salient difference (and, for me, a deal-breaker): PostGraphile exposes user-defined functions in the GraphQL API, making it possible to define application logic and build a complete service without recourse to any other server-side technology.
YAML is a superset of JSON, so you can use JSON-style braces
if you prefer. Just FYI.
I usually link to this chart whenever this topic comes up.

Growth of Physicians & Administrators 1970-2009
http://gomerblog.com/2015/12/healthcare-costs/

TL;DR: Our overhead is ridiculous.

Any one who has worked inside the beast knows single payer is the correct next step, followed by replacing fee-for-service (treating disease) with capitation (incentivizing wellness).

Not a big mystery. Just look around at what other jurisdictions are doing, copy what works.