skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is equally an argument against forming any organization, isn't it?

Michels' classic Political Parties is a fascinating and depressing look at that problem. This stuff, problems with democracy, was fretted over 100 years ago, not so much nowadays, since democracy was redefined as what is called 'democracy' in the mid 20th C.[0]

"The iron law of oligarchy is a political theory, first developed by Michels in his 1911 book, Political Parties. It asserts that rule by an elite, or oligarchy, is inevitable as an "iron law" within any democratic organization as part of the "tactical and technical necessities" of organization.

Michels's theory states that all complex organizations, regardless of how democratic they are when started, eventually develop into oligarchies. Since no sufficiently large and complex organization can function purely as a direct democracy, power within an organization will always get delegated to individuals within that group, elected or otherwise.

Using anecdotes from political parties and trade unions struggling to operate democratically, Michels addressed the application of this law to representative democracy, stating "Who says organization, says oligarchy." ... "Historical evolution mocks all the prophylactic measures that have been adopted for the prevention of oligarchy."

All organizations eventually come to be run by a "leadership class", who often function as paid administrators, executives, spokespersons or political strategists for the organization. Far from being "servants of the masses", this "leadership class," rather than the organization's membership, will inevitably grow to dominate the organization's power structures. By controlling who has access to information, those in power can centralize their power successfully, often with little accountability, due to the apathy and non-participation most rank-and-file members have in relation to their organization's decision-making processes. Democratic attempts to hold leaders accountable fail, since with power comes the ability to reward loyalty, and the ability to both control information about the organization and what procedures the organization follows when making decisions. All of these mechanisms can be used to strongly influence the outcome of any decisions made 'democratically' by members." [1] (lightly abridged)

[0] see Michael Saward, Democracy
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy
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This is not about users knowing the difference between www and no www on a site that redirects one to the other, but about users who don't know the difference on a site that doesn't. See my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17930243 for an illustration of one of the issues that may occur.

> Users expect www.example.com to equal example.com.

No, they don't. The expect that the address they write down works when they type it back in the address bar though.

> If a website isn't redirecting one to the other, they, are doing something that is incredibly anti-user and it is a good thing that google/apple are forcing them to do it different.

You keep claiming this with any sort of evidence or backing. This may be anecdotal, but I worked as tech support for a large org (300+ users) most of my career and have dealt with most types of users. I've only seen them interact with the address bar in one of two ways: explorer shortcuts on the desktop/browser bookmarks (few) or stick-it notes on the monitor or keyboard (many). I'd be willing to bet my next paycheck that not 5% of them are aware that google redirects to www.

At least for those users, none of them will benefit from chrome's mishandling of www. Many of them will suffer from it. I'd be willing to stand corrected with a proper study though.

Also, subdomains aren't only used to make http urls pretty, they are intended to be used to refer to actual physical hardware hosts that belong to a given domain. All published standards I know of are written with this in mind. None of them mandate that www be synonymous to the parent domain, not even those responsible for web technologies. Organizations that follow standards are not at fault for following standards.

If having two different hosts on www and the parent domain was truly "incredibly anti-user" (a dubious claim), let google introduce a rfc at relevant standards bodies and have it go through proper scrutiny first.
My understanding is that it's not when you focus it but when you attempt to edit it, either via double clicking or by moving the cursor.
I worked there as a cashier.

You got tested on this.

Prime account is just the replacement for their rewards program. For the month of... may? The old one who stopped and the prime one hadn't started. This made some customers mad.

Plus it's a lot easier if you're basically running off a script to do the eight hours of repetition.
How did the SEC discover this… did someone submit an order and it did not show up on the exchanges?
When I was on vacation a couple weeks ago, I was inspired by the Feynman lectures on physics to review basic calculus.

This time I tried my best to understand derivatives at a low/basic level. When I was in college, many years ago, I was doing my best to just to tread water in physics and the early stages of the calculus classes.

I did my level best to try to explain derivatives as if I knew nothing of calculus. Used my wife as a guinny pig. What I ended up with explained both derivatives and integrals at the same time in a very basic, but correct (I believe) sort of “add up the arrows” sort of way.

I really struggled to do this, but I thought it was really cool when I finished. Well finished is perhaps too strong a term. Most of it is scrawled out in handwriting on my iPad.

I’ve been meaning to go back and wrap it up and put it on the web. I think I’ll try tonight and post back here or somewhere.
I know with the hearing was about. And I know they’re desperately trying to say that they are not silencomg conservatives. Jones has been a very obvious case of someone who has stayed on the platform despite violating the TOS multiple times.

And then after the hearing: Jones went up to a reporter from CNN, screamed in his face, made anti-Semitic remarks about him, AND POSTED IT TO TWITTER.

They was supposed to continue to let the TOS violations go? He probably chose the worst possible time/place to misbehave.

The only thing that would make any sense is that he PURPOSEFULLY did this to get kicked off as “proof” he’s being censored. I’m sure that’s the narrative he’s pushing.

Did he know the end was coming anyway and decided to make the best of it? Did he think they were “losing“ the hearing and he needed to provide “proof”?

Or is he just that incapable of controlling himself/behaving?

Doesn’t matter. He explicitly chose to shoot himself in the foot. I don’t see how Twitter had a choice.

“Do we want all the Democrats mad at us over Jones plus all the Republicans over ‘censorship’... or do we want to enforce our TOS, say he didn’t give us a choice, and be no worse off than yesterday (slightly better with Ds)?“
The man is a national treasure.
I'm not sure that is really logical. The odds of winning are the same regardless of if it $400m you can win or $20m. However, the effect on your life would be basically the same in either case.

To be fair, I do much the same thing. But, it doesn't really have a basis in logic. It's all psychological.
Do you mind explaining more?

I was under the impression that a corporation can take a tax deduction for charitable donations. There's a line item for it on Form 1120 (https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1120.pdf)
How big are they normally?
We already know certain people get special treatment. They were explicitly said it for the president. Jones certainly got it.

I’m not sure who you’re talking about or what they did but I’ve always gotten the feeling that Twitter is very careful about messing with people who have any amount of power/fame.

My position? Apply the rules to everyone who violates them no matter what.

Twitter has shown that won’t do that. But I’ll take 40% enforcement over 5% enforcement.
That's a good reason not to donate to the red cross. There are other organizations out there with extremely high efficiency ratios and noble missions, and you shouldn't let one highly publicized rotten apple poison the rest.
Referencing the AMP URL controversy seems somewhat relevant in this context.
I like this take on introducing derivatives.

My first intro to derivatives was a little less than 20 years ago, but I feel like it was very much in the "traditional" vein of: Suppose we have "f'(x) = lim(h->0) (f(x+h) - f(x))/h" and we substitute in various equations. What will f'(x) be?

The difference as presented here: I (re?)learned an estimation method for decimal place mathematics while at the same point tying it to a larger/underlying principle.

I think a great approach would be to then do the stuff I started with, e.g. finding f'(x) given f(x).

Out of curiosity, how many of you have seen the approach as seen in the above article? I can't recall seeing it before, but again, it was a fair time ago for me.
Maybe no one, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here.
256kb, 512kb?
The motivated student will likely want to read about Ignatius J. Reilly's innovative filing system [0].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confederacy_of_Dunces
well i really hope you do, i'd love to flip through it. each time i read some other person's notes, another tiny angle of light hits the statue.
Just read through the post to make sure there was still value to me doing this. Seems like it. We start similarly, which is good. The visual description seems to be pretty different so I think there will be value in another point of view.
My admittedly anecdotal evidence suggest that they do not. From my other comment: I worked as tech support for a large org (300+ users) most of my career and have dealt with most types of users. I've only seen them interact with the address bar in one of two ways: explorer shortcuts on the desktop/browser bookmarks (few) or stick-it notes on the monitor or keyboard (many).
I don't think an assumption of uniform random distribution is fair.
http://www.pool.ntp.org redirects to https://www.ntppool.org/en/ as does https://ntppool.org/en/, so I guess that's a non issue
A double digit percentage of Twitter comments are abusive by that definition.
In order to take the tax deduction of an expense to a charity they have to first recognize the income the customer just gave them.

Since the income and the deduction directly offset each other, this is a zero sum maneuver.
Offical NES games were between 24KB (e.g. Excitebike) and 768KB (Kirby's Adventure) in size. The Japanese Famicom even had a 16KB game (Galaxian).
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my wife probably signed up sometime- cos when I gave them my phone number they said you have $21 dividend- want to apply it? I was like - wow - I love this place and I don't even shop there a lot. Don't love their prices but I love REI. Too bad the Orchard Supply which is also a CoOp is shutting down.
Yeah, look at all the engineering resources that can be saved by not fixing bad code.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?

Personal swipes, in particular, will get you banned here, so please don't do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Holy mother of god
The issue has only 46 comments at this moment because they have restricted the permission to comment, very nice. I thought there would be hundreds of, otherwise.

BTW, it sucks that existing comments cannot be voted or reacted with emojis, they should know this:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/monorail/issues/detail?id=4248
Several states already ban payday loans and some don’t allow lotteries (let alone state sponsored lotteries that are used to fund things like education). Personally, I think setting an effective interest rate cap (including loan fees) at around 15-20% a year would be very effective at preventing the kind of lending that can lead someone to multiple years of high-interest debt repayment or eventual bankruptcy. More education in high school about how to manage your finances wisely could also prove beneficial.
I guess if you live somewhere where everyone has a car it makes more sense. I forgot I was on an American website for a moment.
Cool site but did someone forget to design mobile first? It looks like shit on my phone, can't read company descriptions
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So I'm genuinely curious, how would a Tor/Meshnet like solution helo in this situation? Because I'm not seeing it.
I normally just say "it's a twenty minute walk" or "it's a five minute drive"
It doesn’t work like that with regards to taxing. What they do get is a good PR image at no cost to themselves (many places don’t match any donations[0]). Worse, some even keep a percent in “administrative fees” [1]

And there is concern that these checkout charities are replacing more traditional means of corporate giving, reducing net contributions.

Whether or not they make you feel ambushed, due diligence is worth hope before giving, as some companies (and the non-profits they give to) are more worthy than other.

[0] Such as walgreens. But there are some places, like Costco, that will match customer and employee giving.

[1] Petco
chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains
deliver the Favicon from a USPTO server, and I think you should nail the most amazing proportion of fraudsters, overnight.
Not poor timing at all! A non-Google alternative is necessary for when Google (inevitably) decides to shelve their version.
The government didn't forget about them.
They stole their money through inflation and stole their kids through corporations and prison.
They created massively scalable surveillance that watches everyone all over the world. Most people wish government would forget about them.
The argument that the market depth and liquidity will ensure narrower bid-ask spreads make no sense. Bucket shops not executing trades don't narrow bid-ask spreads.

Unless you mean, the broker/dealer generally offers fairly competitive spreads and so 10 pips isn't too big of a deal.
Group Intelligence? Honestly I’m not sure, I just know that it isn’t artificial in the sense of AI, sorry.
> not a problem at all to block Google Fonts

Just checked my uBlock Origin on smh.com.au: fonts.gstatic.com are loaded ...
Well, for starters, they were operating as an unregistered broker. [1] So I'm guessing that they were already in trouble for that, first, and the rest was turned up in the course of investigating and prosecuting that case.

[1]: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2017/lr23830.htm
Yeah, I didn’t really do any better. It just felt wrong to say gates at synthesis when it’s still a file on a computer instead of something physical like a transistor.

Although now that I said that, I guess with fpgas that is sort of always true. Programming fpgas is the equivalent of sending a file via FTP. Nowadays at least.
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if you could identify the site as a trademark holders place of business, surely, the Favicon could be stored encrypted as SVG with the browser application distribution?
I went there the other day to buy tomatillos. They didn't have any, so I had to go to Smart and Final.

When Whole Foods can't get produce that Smart and Final can, it tells me that they don't want to carry that produce.
I don’t understand the war on URLs. I can’t even edit the link a bookmark uses in some browsers now, which is infuriating for SharePoint or other sites where “currently displayed URL” is not a clean and canonical URL (even though one exists). And when the terrible random URL jumble currently in the address bar won’t even reproduce the page correctly later, this ceases to be a bookmark.

URLs may be weird but they are not so complex that we need these games.
But, you'd have to recognize it as earned income; and you'd have to pay self employment taxes on it; making the donation cost you money.

-- OR --

You file it as income to your sole proprietorship or llc; you "sponsor" something charitable as an expense.

Either way, the deduction and the income are at best 0 sum.

Though, if it's less than $600; they may not file a 1099 and you may "forget" to report it.
Maybe. I am not saying you're wrong, but we're dealing with orders of magnitude Innovation, and Clayton M. Christensen has shown us that when it comes to disruptive tech, the status-quo standard and incumbents are not the yardstick that they once were.

The Future is not what it used to be.

I stand by my "Maybe", 100% guaranteed.
Maybe "studies" such as this can be used as leverage for more time in the "design" phase of things? Design phase could arguably encapsulate choices related to tooling, appropriate staffing decisions, etc.

Knowing the rough costs of rework and bug hunting, I would hope that "studies", like the above, are taken to add more weight to the activities in software engineering, not just the programming/coding aspects.
Maybe I’m missing something but this strikes me as underwhelming. To the point of something that I could do as opposed to something that the firm that created maps and gmail could do.

Is it just me?
I have not noticed a change in prices.

They have around 20 sale items, and they might be a bit less then before the transfer?

Everything else is a bit higher. It's like they added .50 to everything?
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No, because it doesn't involve deception.
And? If Amazon bought a company with poor working conditions, ripe for unionization, it’s their problem. They’re the bosses now.

Maybe the workers hoped things would get better absent labor organization, but now that they’re being managed by a company rife with labor abuses, their circumstances have become more clear to them.
IG will offer me, here in Australia, 5% margin on shares (20x leverage), 0.5% margin on forex (200x leverage), 0.5% on indices, and form 0.7-4% on commodities [1].

I set up a demo account a while back, and it's pretty impressive the amount of money you can quickly make (and lose) with CFDs. It was possible on a $30,000 capital to make (or lose) over $1000 per day.

I'm a pretty risk averse guy, and also can't be bothered doing enough market research that short term trading is a sensible idea, so I didn't end up investing any real money.

[1] https://www.ig.com/au/cfd-trading/charges-and-margins
Those session resumption tokens save you redownloading 1- 10kb of certificates every fresh connection and the multiple round trips for the TLS handshake. Its a bandwidth and latency optimization.
Ahh, that explains it. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. All I can say in my defense is that it was more fun to build the site using new features and because it's a new site I'm not dropping support for any existing users, just missing out on some news ones like yourself ;)

I expect the next version of Firefox ESR will have the necessary features to make the site work for you. Cheers!
I used to play MIDI files on my windows 3.1 machine, so this is great nostalgia. The quality was dependent on the instruments available on the soundcard. It wasn't until years later that I realized the "real" version of a song I had listened to sounded very different to what I knew!
any plans to do austin and new york or should I do that?
What is the negotiation threat from a union?
About time- I can't imagine how long before more unions start forming. Just hope they come up with a better model for a union 2.0 cos the old model has a pretty bad reputation.
That's what I mean. CTOs have more management mindset or awareness than operators. And they love and trust their engineers. That's why they couldn't resist what their team embraces. They are willing to take technical debt risk because they think their team can handle it.

There are categories of company. Yours has a dedicated team taking care of cluster, even has enough resource to make it k8s-as-a-service. Whatever hype rarely affects companies that have resources (money, human, time etc.)

But hype doesn't choose companies, it spreads and kills approaches that are more proper than k8s to a lot of companies. I'd love to see how many SMEs even need servers clustering.
Famicom also had a 1024KB game (Metal Slader Glory).
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Soo... When is Trump getting banned?
I wonder if this site is published using: https://github.com/simonw/datasette
How much effort is it to create a version for another language? Say, python?
> So then it semi-randomly sends Google URLs you visit?

No, it computes a 4 byte hash of the URL (domain?) and if this matches a local DB entry then it asks google for all malicious URLs with that hash (explained in the link of parent).

Depending how many entries there are your browser contacts google fairly frequently and then google using techniques mentioned in the article can link your TLS-Cookie to your IP.
Control mostly. Slave processes are controlled by the master totally and do work on the masters behalf. Parent/child does not work here as child processes are created by the parent, and do not necessarily follow the parents commands. A child can do other work, without the parent being aware of the goals. Replicas on the other hand clone behavior, it has to be identical to the primary.
Nothing about a sword being straight and sabre curved?
It’s in the complaint. They were using a third party vendor for both the live accounts and the training accounts:

In the summer of 2014, the firm that owned and licensed Platform A discovered Nonko’s training accounts scheme, after a technical inquiry from a Nonko customer revealed that the customer wrongly believed that his training account was a live one. On August 29, 2014, the owner of Platform A sent out an email blast to all Nonko customers alerting them that accounts starting with “TR” were training accounts; the firm then discontinued its relationship with Nonko, accusing Nonko of deceiving its customers.
>... he was a natural with numbers who spent every spare minute analyzing theoretical probability papers written by the 13th-century mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci.

Hope Pascal doesn’t read this.
Please don't post like this to Hacker News. This is a site for curiosity, not bile.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I haven’t watch the full video, but this paragraph from[1] summarizes the issue well:

“Following Vladimir Putin’s return to the presidency in 2012, Russian authorities have increasingly used vaguely-defined, anti-extremism laws to suppress the work of human rights activists. Codified through the laws on Foreign Agents, LGBT Propaganda, and Hate Crime, the Russian authorities’ interpretation of extremism permits an arbitrary application of these laws, which allows a dangerous means of discrimination against peaceful groups.”

[1] https://www.ned.org/events/hate-crime-and-hate-speech-legisl...
Tmux + vim seems better suited for this task.
Yep. I had caused a similar problem in the past that brought down a live site. It's a cascade failure on error handling that caused an avalanche of retrying requests piling up that eventually more and more servers failed under the load. Not fun. Luckily we had well defined deployment and rollback procedures and was able to roll back the change easily.
Sorry the developer wasnt thinking of you
You’re right, it doesn’t contact Google every time but it does contact Google periodically, something which many users might not be aware of.

Ideally Firefox wouldn’t rely on contacting any third parties in their default browser configuration.
Whatever lag FF has is negated 10-fold over Chrome if you install uBlock Origin since there's no more tracking or ads. I can't even imagine going back to mobile Chrome or Safari, I'd rather go back to a basic phone.