skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After President Franklin Pierce's child died gruesomely in a train wreck, it was believed, even by his own wife and family, that it was God's punishment for him seeking authority and power.

I didn't live in the past, but my reading of it leads me to believe that, at least through US history, it seemed that the public consciousness in the past has had very real skepticism of authority.

Perhaps that is the opposite today in many parts of the developed world. For example, a German guy recently looked me dead in the eye, smiled, and said sincerely: "But why would anybody not trust their government?"
Seems similar to the copyright infringement shakedown https://torrentfreak.com/us-online-piracy-lawsuits-break-rec...

I wonder how many other threat letter business models there are.
You need to figure out what will have the biggest impact on the short (<1 month) and long term (6+months).

Start by taking to your customers to understand their pain. Most likely they will be able to articulate short term pain points, but by knowing their process you can figure out the vision for the long term.
Then what did you order with? Credit cards provide buyer protection against fraud unlike debit cards.
Interesting the see that the BGP WGs take such a different approach. Both DNS and BGP fill a similar essential role, you'd think that they would develop new standards in a similar fashion.
Electron tunneling for new light emitting devices
I am very interested in reading as well. Is it handwritten?
What are your thoughts on how "Googleable" these product names are: ".NET" and "Azure Functions"
Yes. Mainstream programming is more art than engineering, like how we built buildings before statics.
If I censor something on a site I own... is that the same as government doing it?
I wonder how the cost would change if we got rid of sugar subsidies.
I'd rather have a 10GHz CPU in a laptop than another mediocre CPU to the mix :-(
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Isn’t this what Slack is?
Most of these people only know about the Dragonfly project because of previous leaks. I would agree that there are productive leaks, and unproductive leaks, but getting mad at leakers/the press in a general sense is shortsighted.
Misapplications of ML are not demanded, they are sold. Demand is for clean solutions, not dirty ones that make new problems. The selling is where false confidence in broken solutions gets made. Greed is sitting at the root of institutional incompetence in most situations.
Have you ever been checked for sleep apnea? Sleep paralysis is a common symptom.
It's my recollection that Slack is emphatically not p2p, has that changed?
I typed it, with my hands. So far it's 15 pages, 8800 words.

I'm worried that once I fill in the blanks and edit, my #1 supporter CLGrimes will be gone and I'll be skewered in the e-court of e-opinions. Can I count on you to wait for me?
Anyone who starts to study how deliberative democracy works, discovers this quickly.

Transparency and publicity in deliberative democracy does not mean that everything is just public and open discussion, because it just don't work.

Most areas should be maximally public, like results of meetings, meeting agendas, who is attending, decisions and laws of course with very rare exceptions (personal privacy, ongoing criminal investigations, ...).

But sometimes the meetings themselves should not be public to enable honest discussion and ideas. Just make sure that every party involved has a representation. Chatham House rule is often good choice when full privacy is not needed (you can talk about what was said, but not about who said what).
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I've always had trouble with false memories. Not of anything important, but I sometimes dream of very mundane things, like moving my wallet or keys. Or telling someone something.

Makes it very difficult to keep track of things.
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Beggar’s Chicken
And thus qanon was born.

Let's not rush too quickly into conspiracy theories and false flags.
I don't think the automakers are set in their ways. Chevy acquired Cruise for a billion dollars. Waymo has partnered with Fiat Chrysler. Ford's committed $4 billion over the next few years.

Maybe Tesla's ahead of some of them. (I'm not sure they're ahead of Waymo.) But they've still not learned how to make an affordable car at scale. They're having a hard time getting to a $35k car, and estimates put the lowest Model 3 at $41k to produce. Average American car price, including trucks, is below $34k, and those are being sold at a profit.

And again, all of this is not to say that Tesla won't succeed. They probably will. What they've done is impressive. I just think there's a very good chance that they're on a long, difficult, slow ramp up to being a major car company, in which case their current share price will have been a bad investment.

Edit: also, I left out another huge risk factor: Their CEO. They have a visionary leader who is clearly overextended and shows signs of fraying to the point where he's possibly breaking laws over Twitter.
eh that was a pretty bad lecture. Most of the technical problems he talked about are easily solvable.
Space travel and computers: two of my favorite things.

Since reading _Digital Apollo_ by David Mindell, I've had a huge appreciation for the computing capabilities of the Apollo missions. That book was full of detail, but focused less on the computer than I'd hoped.

I will definitely be checking out your book!
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It’s of course totally beyond imagining that execs would plan such a leak to avoid further disclosure and sway favor to their side. Especially when they just lost to employee organizing on Project Maven and their entrance into the Chinese market is on the line...
What you are describing is an example of of customers demanding non-testicle exploding drugs as why we don't have them.

When a drug causes problems, customers often end up suing the manufacturer/developer of said drug. If doctors prescribe said drugs after it becomes common knowledge that it could cause a problem, they also might be sued for malpractice.

Are people sing IoT companies for poor security practices? If so, are they winning? Without that, what inventive is there for those companies to do anything more than they already are? It's not like there's actually any level of brand awareness for the vast majority of these devices, so it's easy enough to just ignore complaints and rely on the fact that nobody pays attention to your track record when it comes to this market.
https://twitter.com/davidein/status/1027906040283713537?s=20
I can make a one line program, I wonder how many bugs that would eliminate?
No that's you curating the platform you own to conform with the terms of service you laid out when users signed up. Which is exactly what happened w/ the alex jones stuff, it was always against youtube's ToS.
Like the answer to (and cause of!) most problems: booze!

A nightcap and time away from screens to reflect does wonders for rentention as you get a chance to think clearly about the days knowledge gains without distraction. Scientifically test too!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/24/alcohol-improves...
John is the reason why I use Tcl to this day. Good times back at Sun Labs.
Buildings before statics were not built by 'art'. That entire 'programming is not like engineering' analogy is just terrible in almost every conceivable dimension, despite its enduring popularity.
Both of those platforms were a fair bit more technically advanced than the Amiga in many respects, and a bit less memory-constrained. (Cartridge+RAM would be equivalent to a >1MByte Amiga.)

But the key thing is always artist time - and the extent to which artist time is finite is related to the budget! And budgets on SNES and Megadrive games were probably a lot higher, on account of the larger potential market...
Ever hear of privately owned public spaces? At what point does a medium of communication with wide enough adoption (perhaps to the point of being a de facto monopoly) merit consideration for the same regulations as apply to those?
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Conversely, if you’re prohibited from censoring on something you own, a means of your free expression has actually been limited. This is not a simple thing, and people who would have you believe that there is a single dogmatic “always right” answer are either naive or selling you something. Sometimes censorship is terrible, sometimes it’s acceptable, and most of the time it’s just complicated. I would support YouTube censoring a channel of child pornography, be against censoring a channel teaching people how to make hummus, and conflicted if they censor a channel showing people how to load custom shotgun shells.

At the end of the day though, a video being downed from a private service doesn’t make it go away, for better or worse. It does make it harder for the average goon to find, unless they’re strongly motivated in which case they still find it. The ability of a private service, however large, to choose what the host also strikes me as reasonable, just as I have a choice to use them or not. We have a right to freedom of expression, not convenience of expression; it sort of feels like people arguing that 20 years ago, everyone should have had the right to get Simon & Schuster to publish their book, or they were being censored. The same facile arguments about “sort of a monopoly” could have been applied then, and they would have been ridiculous then too.

So instead of a good debate we’re stuck with either slippery slope arguments which ignore the history of all countries other than the US, or dishonest arguments about the definition monopoly.
I'm curious why Google is okay with doing more business in China, but they have moral issues doing business with the US Department of Defense?
No but there's incentive to provide many small half-truths out of context to shape the narrative into one beneficial for yourself want.
>but why do you think it's desirable?

For the same reason I'm not allowed to post porn on hacker news. Why aren't we talking about how Y Combinator infringes on my freedom of speech by deleting my posts on Big Wet Asses 7?

>Why defacto monopolies should decide who is allowed to exercise speech and who must be silenced?

You should brush up on your definition of monopoly. What is the monopoly that is deciding who is silenced, and what market do they have a monopoly over?

>Do you feel this practice will never be turned against you? Do you disagree with the idea that if crazy people don't have freedom of speech, then nobody has freedom of speech?

This is a very tired and poor argument. If you have "crazy" ideas, like for example, if you believe the earth is flat, you are fully welcome on Twitter/Facebook. What Alex Jones and his ilk are accused of is harassment and inciting violence. The day I start using Twitter to incite violence is the day this "power" will turn against me. Until then, I have nothing to worry about.
Good regulation doesn't get made because regulation as a practice is broken by malicious actors who sponsor our non-representative elected officials.

Remember campaign contribution limits? Yeah.
That makes sense. In theory LDAP is also an opaque key-value registry, but in practice Windows AD is so perverted that one has to interpret everything there.

I can understand how Samba had no other option. Still, it's hard to blame this one on DNS complexity.
Doesn’t matter if you elect new councillors. If the Council can’t hold a substantive meeting without the public present all meetings are electioneering. You can’t negotiate in public unless you are completely secure in your power. Any negotiation will involve setting out options, give and take that will anger some part of any coalition. If the meetings are public those angered people get to yell at the councillors and otherwise disrupt the negotiations, not just physically but by raising coalitions against proposed measures in almost real time.

Obviously the various factions will have private meetings among themselves and have private meetings between representatives when they actually need to get things done or come to an agreement.

This degrading of internal communications is pretty much the entire point of Wikileaks.
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U.S., China Plot Road Map to Resolve Trade Dispute by November
I tink this practice is an understandable pressure release valve for early societies with poor rule of law. If your court rules consistently against the strongest people it will have trouble remaining in power, but if the legal order is set up to be subordinate to the "natural" (most easily achieved) order it will have an easier time prolonging its own existence. It essentially means, "you can break the law, but only if we would have a very hard time stopping you."

If the government exists to serve the people, that's insane - but if the courts are just resolving disputes between people with no power then the nobles will be incentivzed to prioritize stability over any other goal.

The rule back then had less to do with "might makes right," and more to do with "power goes to whoever manages to obtain it."
I believe there’s likely some inflated reporting with all AG census data.

As there’s massive tax breaks available for land owners to report grazing usage and maintain agricultural exemptions I’m not surprised to see such a number.

The reality I’ve seen is that almost all small-scale livestock production is barely utiling the land (if at all some years). A lot of small acreage land is used to produce donkeys and chickens so that the owners can maintain low taxes, but occasionally cattle, sheep and goats also.

The exception is the corporate owned farms and long term family ranches that generally have over utilization issues as they try to produce as much profit as possible. Those owners seem to produce the vast amount of food in the USA.

Here’s the cattle census for the US:
https://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2012/Online_Resou...
Ayn Rand's “crow” epistemology applied to programming
I get this feeling from even some of the biggest conventions there are...cough I felt fairly fricken disenfranchised during a recent convention for a popular containerization solution...
What kind of different strategies did you have in mind? So far as I know, P/Invoke already tries to be as low overhead as possible - e.g. primitive types and blittable structs are just passed as is, with no conversions. The recently added Span<T> is also special-cased for P/Invoke.
Tesla stock sinks after Musk gives tearful NYT interview
And my ax!

But, seriously, I'm also interested in the comparison of kingdom to corporation.

E: spelling
> "why do you believe in religion, there is no God"

This is why tolerance is so important. When there is no tolerance, then people will justify anything.
GraphQL or REST, that is the question
It's this: https://xkcd.com/538/
Mysqli Subquery with repeated variable and IN with Like
I have a subquery that search all the genres that have an specific book, and the query makes it find all the books that have those genres of the subquery and it is creates a count of the times that repeat the same books and creates a new column of the counter. The orderly query remaining is based on books that are repeated more to less.

This query works but the problem comes when i tried to insert variable at server part with mysqli. I'm trying to do it for oriented objects but it does not return results. Well, i was looking for all post but nothing has worked. I tried REGEXP and similars but returns results that aren't correct.

//I used asigned letters because you can understand better

$book = $get_id_book;
$book = "%$book%";

$result = $link->prepare ("SELECT b.name, COUNT(name) AS duplicated, c.arxive, t.type, t.name_type
FROM Books b, Covers c, Types t, Genres_book g
WHERE b.id_book = c.id_cover_book AND
b.id_book = g.id_genre_book AND
g.id_book_genre IN ( SELECT id_book_genre
FROM Book b1, Genres_book g1
WHERE b1.id_book = g1.id_genre_book AND
b1.id_book IN (?)) AND
NOT (b.id_book = ?)
GROUP BY b.name
ORDER BY duplicated DESC");

$result->bind_param('i', $book);

if($result->execute()){
$result->bind_result($name, $duplicated, $arxive, $type, $name_type);
while ($result->fetch()) {
echo "....";
}
}
On b1.id_book IN (?) I want something like this: b1.id_book IN like ?

Sorry for my english, I'm desperate I hope someone can help me out.
Given that an unlimited ride metrocard costs $125 or so monthly, that sounds unrealistic to me.
I'm curious - what was the solution to the problem?
But why wasn’t the “th” in that sentence a letter thorn? þ

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)
> The way to fix market failure is well understood, though; regulation

No, the way to fix market failure it to increase the aspects that cause markets to function and reduce aspects that cause market dysfunction, and if that doesn't do the trick, then you fall back to regulation.

Markets change in small ways constantly which results in large changes over time, and even regulation that fits perfectly initially is doomed to affect the market negatively given enough time.

When it's important enough, we use regulation to ensure minimal levels some attribute are maintained for the benefit of everyone, such as privacy, safety. Regulation might end up being a good response for a part of the problem, but so could actually holding some companies liable for negligence. I suspect some combination might be best.

I think if you approach the problem of market failure with the idea the the only and best fix is regulation you're likely to just punt problems down the road a decade or two (if you're lucky).
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I’d like to see James Mickens vs Yoram Bauman in a comedy roast battle.
Ask HN: Facebook on iOS, better to use the website or the app for privacy?
I realize using Facebook inherently voids most of my privacy, but it’s a necessary evil at the moment.

I know some Android users only use the website, because the app has access to everything, but iOS has better security features and permissions so I’m not sure that’s valid.

Any thoughts?
The Public Option has 75% popular support. Medicare-For-All has 59% popular support. [HR] Yet we have neither. Brexit was decided on an embarrassingly close vote: 51.9%

So we have two seemingly popular things that haven't happened and one that has happened but was not so popular (but it turns out that it was more popular than was suspected by anyone beforehand). I'm afraid that is politics. If it helps, I am not a fan of Brexit but will have to live with it anyway.

There is no conspiracy and I don't think that it is fair to accuse your police and government of being arseholes (to put words in your mouth!) Sometimes we simply have to accept that our personal will does not always dovetail with that of the majority - that is how democracy works. To be fair though, there is also nothing wrong with getting a good rant in on HN.

If you feel really strongly about healthcare, why not emigrate to the UK? Our NHS is bloody amazing and only costs: https://www.gov.uk/national-insurance/how-much-you-pay - roughly 12% of your salary. There is a lower band and an upper band so it is not 12% of everything you earn and it also covers unemployment payments and other things.
Slack is multi-tenant hosted SaaS. Single point of failure.
nobody's ever sued me for leaving flaming bags of dog poop on your front porch before ringing your doorbell and making a getaway by segway while cackling madly. yet, every day, i resist the overriding temptation to do exactly that. why? well, gosh darn it, because it's the right thing to do!

i think the drive to reduce every bit of human behavior to economic incentives backed by a government force structure is ultimately counterproductive. would you agree?
I would have included Gelernter's "Mirror Worlds" as a reference.
This, exactly this. The PC (technically the AT) grew so much because it was originally an open platform and almost completely standardised and documented. There have been many recent efforts to lobotomise it but it still remains mostly standard and well-documented.

ARM platforms are extremely diverse largely due to the fact that its cores are integrated into SoCs for a wide range of uses, and I'd say the majority of ARM SoCs in use don't even have any public documentation. This is particularly true of those used in smartphones and tablets.

Or put it more bluntly, "legacy-free means compatibility-free."
Beer consistently raises the pain temporarily, and does nothing longer-term, in my experience. Milk and sugar soothe for the short term, but nothing long term. Haven’t tried spirits, but given how beer goes, I dont have much hopes
> I don't often see someone actually owning up to this view - good for you.

Not sure if you meant it this way but "owning up" sounds like it's something to be ashamed of. I'm quite proud of being a classical liberal and supporting free speech even if it does unfortunately mean that some not very nice people also get to their say their piece.

> Do you have a specific definition of "consequence" that you'd like to elaborate on? Anything could be a consequence (like, just hearing the speech in the first place).

The parent poster is the one that introduced the word "consequences" into the discussion (as I was careful to note in my response) so I refer your question to him/her. Judging by the approval with which s/he speaks of Danmore's firing, it seems rather improbable that it's benign to the recipient though.
"Who stands to benefit from this?" is the easiest way to determine any leak's source.
In that sense, cigarette taxes are also regressive. But extremely high taxes on cigarettes have helped a lot of people quit and deterred people from starting to smoke in the first place. In the long run, that helps people avoid spending money on cigarettes at all. Not to mention the long term savings on health care.

It’s not like soda is something one can’t live without. If you can’t afford soda, drink water. It’s better for you and will also save you on health care costs in the long run.
> Obviously the various factions will have private meetings among themselves and have private meetings beteeen representatives when they actually need to get things done or come to an agreement.

Those private meetings are illegal under state law, yet the councilors do it anyway (this was brought to light during the recent Head Tax debacle).
That substitution was actually a result of printing text, and limiting the number of characters used. In the 13th century Scotland this was all going to be written by hand, so y was still an “i” or a “u” and thorn would have been its own character; uppercase þ, lowercase ð.

For an earlier example of y as a u, and thorns all over the place, try some of this intermediate Saxon circa 9th century

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/a02_05.htm

Feala ic on þam beorge gebiden hæbbe
wraðra wyrda. Geseah ic weruda god
þearle þenian. þystro hæfdon
bewrigen mid wolcnum wealdendes hræw,
scirne sciman, sceadu forðeode,
wann under wolcnum. Weop eal gesceaft,
cwiðdon cyninges fyll. Crist wæs on rood.

Amusingly, G’s at the start of a word are used like Y’s are used today, Y’s are U’s, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were REAL small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
How the hell is that advocating violence?