skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my case, when I talk about "Barack Obama", I have always said "Obama". Whereas, if I am talking to anyone about "Elon Musk", I always say "Elon". Don't read too much into it.

Edit: Not brevity, wrong word.
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I'm somewhat ashamed for feeling compelled to disagree. I know the right thing is to agree completely with you. Justice should be blind, and I've complained about that in other cases.

At the same time, it seems these days that there are so few people really working for the advancement of humanity to the extent that Musk is. (And just to try to abort the inevitable replies: yeah, I get that he isn't a saint, and yeah, he's done some pretty stupid, ugly, awful things.)

You're right that there will always be more visionaries, but the ones that are capable of executing grand visions that improve humanity seem to only roll around once a generation or so. They absolutely shouldn't be given a pass for terrible behavior, but I hate to see society so eager to tear at them, too.
I do the same thing with Gandi.net . Their email aliases solution let's you achieve the same result, while doing away with the hassle of running your own email stack.
A loophole that allows proprietary software to be linked with GPL libraries?
America’s C-Suites Keep Getting Whiter (and More Male, Too)
Absolutely. Even if it Apollo failed and it took 50 more years for humanity to reach the moon, these are small numbers on the scale of human history. Jailing Musk wouldn't mean humanity is forever unable to have electric cars or go to Mars. As another HN user quoted recently, the graveyards are filled with indispensable men.
Like in the US government...
> Derailing him to jail time or prison would be a net loss for humanity

If jailing someone who has committed fraud is a loss to humanity, then I am glad not to be part of it.

The amount of circle-jerking and asshole-worship has gone through the roof here. I mean, yes, after Steve Jobs, some prople need someone else to satisfy their dick-sucking urges, but come on! There has to be a limit to it.
Atlassian's new terms forbid benchmarking
SEC has no authority to bring criminal charges, so unless the US Attorneys Office got involved thay was not in the cards. Too severe for what he did, in my opinion.
> With Geocities you could see millions of high school art students demonstrating for the entire world that they don't know the first thing about design or color.

They've moved to DeviantArt now.
Elon Musk and Tesla Settle with S.E.C. In Fraud Case
Sure, I'd agree with this argument if he sexually assaulted someone or got a DUI or something. Nobody is "too valuable to go to jail".

But jail time for a random tweet seems like overkill, and removing him from Tesla for this does feel like it would be a net negative. He was heavily fined, which seems more fair.
Latest commit: 13 Aug 1983

Looks like they manually backdated that for effect, as there are only 3 commits in the repo.
Yeah. Here is a remi app on https https://tictactoe--amasad.repl.co
Biological determinism flatters the current elite -- "You're on top because you're inherently superior!" -- so it will always find an eager audience regardless of whether it is true. All the excess cheerleading makes it incredibly hard to assess.
$40 million actually.

> Settlement Requires Musk to Step Down as Tesla’s Chairman; Tesla to Appoint Additional Independent Directors; Tesla and Musk Agree to Pay $40 million in Penalties

> Musk and Tesla will each pay a separate $20 million penalty. The $40 million in penalties will be distributed to harmed investors under a court-approved process.
Elon games the system. Puts his brother in the cosmetic role of board chairman, pays $2500 (in regular folk equivalence) and appoints two faux independent directors.

light slap on the wrist, a gentle speedbump, back to same.

Basically a speeding ticket.
Any institutional investor owning SpaceX shares knew that BFR was the plan when they bought the shares.
Like most laws their purpose is normative. The point is to stop the next dozen CEOs from doing something like this.
Ask HN: System uptime monitoring software?
Digital Ocean's interface shows disk I/O, CPU, memory, disk usage, process list, and bandwidth total. It's nice to have without having to tunnel in every time. Sometimes I just want to have a quick glance without running through lines of text (not to say I don't enjoy that, of course!).

This would apply to my personal project(s) and time, so there is no need to be concerned with full-scale deployment. Under a FOSS license and a decent UI (or well enough put together), what options are there to consider?
>My question is, is spice an issue in the places where pot is legal?

It’s basically unheard of in California since you can just walk into a store and buy weed. It’s still a problem in the midwest though.
> Malnourishment, or perhaps too much caffeine, amongst a hundred other things, all determine how our genes for height express themselves.

Not arguing your idea in general, but the caffeine example is probably a myth[1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/18/health/the-claim-drinking...
Well I feel like an idiot, I populated my 'pod' with a couple of personal details, and now have no idea how to undo what I've done* and haven't received a confirmatory email to my address so now have some 'thing' on public space I have no control over, no understanding of and no ability to delete.

Not a great start.

* Ostensibly I've over-written with nonsense details, but a cursory check in another browser, not signed in, shows the same original information.

What a mess.
On a tangent here: The block quote in question is interesting and rightly highlights how strong gender imbalances in STEM might not have a historic/natural bias. However, I always think we are going down a dangerous road when we even argue this point. If we base our campaign for contemporary fairness and equal opportunity on the argument that in the past women have been important and respected contributors to science and tech, then we are making it contingent on this historical fact rather than, as it should be, an absolute right founded on the inherent equal rights of men and women.
>Basically, WebEx sends invites from their own email address. If your customer has not white-listed the WebEx domain, they will not receive the WebEx invitation.

That's rather obvious. If they want to receive emails from WebEx, they should whitelist it. Keep in mind that the quarantined emails are like emails in any folder. You can still check them to see if there are important emails there.

Now I don't know much about WebEx, but ... are you sending WebEx invites to people who are not expecting an invite? If so, I would say my filter is doing its job! That's exactly the type of email I'm trying to cut down on. If, OTOH, I am expecting an invite from you, I will check the quarantine folder for it. And as I said earlier, if WebEx becomes big enough that I expect many people will use it to contact me, I'll just whitelist and put it in the low priority folder.

Fundamentally, the problem is that we've overloaded emails. Emails (for most people) were a means of communicating between individuals. Then people started using it as a TODO list. Then as an advertising platform. Then as a way to manage receipts. Then as a calendar system. And on it goes. One of my goals is to separate the personal emails from everything else. I may still use it for other things, and set up scripts to handle those other things, but I need a way to separate out personal emails from everything else.

Now if WebEx also starts sending me unimportant emails, they're out of the whitelist. Kind of like LinkedIn. It uses messages-noreply@linkedin.com for all its emails - whether it is to notify me that someone sent me a message or to let me know that "Hey, if you're willing to become a Premium member, everyone will want to hire you." - They are not in my whitelist.

And BTW, there is only one customer: Me :-)
The torrent: https://www.thefanimatrix.net/The-Fanimatrix-(DivX-5.1-HQ).a...
There's the theory that you will get informed of what is important by other humans rather than the news. This assumes that one lives in a social way and talk to a wide range of people. It also means you won't get to know about celebrities or far off troubles.
Inspaniduals – Google Search
yes, https is supported. you have to config 3 parameters in the "start" function call:
certfile: ssl certificale filename
keyfile: ssl key file
ssl_version: authentication version (i.e. ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1_2). If None, disables ssl encription
This is also very similar to the clause that allowed Larry Ellison to allegedly try to have a professor fired for benchmarking Oracle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15886333

I was just going through theirs (and other) terms and conditions to understand what kind of legalese goes into these and I was appalled at this. While these terms aren't effective until after 01-Nov-2018, I tried searching online to see if there was any discussion about how stupid this is, and this unanswered forum post came up.

I have no idea how this is still considered acceptable.
He can take out a loan. It's easy, he has all those stocks to leverage against.
Hey -- Just want to give a shout-out and big thanks to the folks at repl.it!!! I love it! I'm teaching college kids who have never written code and repl.it is my platform of choice for quick examples while in the middle of a lecture. At the end, I just save it, and the kids can come revisit the in-class examples whenever they want. It's a great teaching tool! Thanks!!!
Well, not that is more in the hands of the rest of the shareholders. He's no longer on the board and there will be new independent board members so it will be all the easier to remove him as CEO if that is the thing that the shareholders want.
When it comes to password, you're better off using some offline tool.
don't worry about those downvotes...if they want to downvote, then let them downvote...

Just look at those HN karma point votes in the past few years, the upvotes for those really awesome hacking technical articles have been frequently outpaced by those downvotes for those petty trifles...If we take that as a measurement, in a certain aspect, we can see that people's hatred and acrimony grow faster than their kindness and sympathy these days...

so I've stopped worrying about those points...for the knowledge value of their corresponding text, they do not reflect as much as they used to reflect....
I agree completely as I come to terms with my self. With much humility, I have enormous potential but it is tempered by a lack of that drive to fullfil it. My path has been largely driven by chance and yet I am in some ways way beyond average. I'd rather work on my percieved shortcomings than make use of my advantages. I should probably change my priorities. \drunkpost
If you called him simply Musk, I might think you were referring to Kimbal. Elon disambiguates.
Research what he did when he was fired as CEO of PayPal. He made sure the company had good management by making sure Peter Thiel came back (even though they weren't the best of friends at the time), and he stayed quiet, allowing the team to execute and make him rich. Now that you know this, will you update your beliefs about his ego?
I.e. when a website just sticks pure text in <p> in a page, no images, maybe just an <a> for further info. Not HTML5 taking up 2/3s of the page, flashing and jumping about etc.
It doesn't make sense to prosecute every violation with maximum penalties allowable under the law. It's just not how the legal system works.

e.g. Google was alleged to have illegally issued options to their employees back in 2004 by the SEC. If they prosecuted Google's board and officers with maximum penalty in a federal court (and the court allowed such nonsense), then both Larry and Sergey (and a bunch of executives) would end up with 5-year prison sentences before Google had a chance to go IPO. But such a course of action is obviously not in public interest - the amount of damage to investors and the public in general caused by the remedy would far outweigh whatever irregularities in option grants that Google committed.

And btw, the same securities laws also apply when you open a startup and raise funds or issue options. It's not "Oh but Google is rich and I'm poor these laws won't hit me". Quite a number of securities law violations don't require intent. A single filing error by your lawyers can mean you're already in violation (and, years in prison if you use the maximum penalty) - even if you're just a tiny startup with $100k.

Both prosecutors and courts have always been walking a fine line on what's considered fair for each particular circumstance. It's how it has always been.
> jail time for a random tweet

Yeah, it isn't like he was out there randomly accusing people of being pedophiles or anything.
I disagree. Musk as CEO drove Tesla, against every estimate I've seen or heard of, to be profitable. Prior to musk, the cars didn't exist... So they were unavailable to buy. And I don't see how changing him out will fix quality issues, other than having a future CEO halt innovation in favor of bug hunting... Which would be the start of a quick end for Tesla. They are built on innovation.
Reminds me of this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8kX62n6yNXA
yeah, I also love repl.it
it's surprisingly easy to use, and really powerful
Too bad usually the general search engines are smarter than individual sites' search engines, I don't get how it's really useful than not having the bang.
> It is a benchmark comparing what type of data structure are easier to use in the two languages.

Then it's not a performance benchmark, it's a style and usability benchmark.
Essentially, he's egotistical, but if someone forces him to back down, he's also mature enough to handle it.
The SEC isn't there to simply "protect investors". Your implication is the investors worth protecting are those with long positions. What about the shorts?

The SEC are there to protect the integrity of the market. Things like fraudulent information, insider trading, etc are corrosive to the mechanisms which a well functioning market requires.
RacketCon 2018
Why is that? Changes in the board come closer to his formal control of the company a shareholder and owner, so it technically seems like a much bigger intervention.
"There is no such thing in America as an independent press. I am paid for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. If I should allow honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation, like Othello's, would be gone. The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the foot of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. We are the tools or vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

An anonymous New York journalist (actually John Swinton), quoted in Hamilton Holt's Commercialism and Journalism, 1909.

https://archive.org/stream/commercialismjou00holtuoft#page/2...

The book -- a speech given at UC Berkeley -- is a fast, easy, information-packed, and insightful read from the dawn of the advertising-driven journalism age. I recommend it strongly.
The Hobee's restaurant at 85 and Stevens Creek was a pretty interesting hot spot in the 90's as well. It was easy to get there and from there back to Sand Hill Road.

Many times eating breakfast there you would see a booth with some guy sitting there casually in designer sport wear listening while another guy in an ill fitting suit was extolling the virtues of some pitch using Harvard Graphics on a bulky laptop. Now it would be an iPad no doubt but back then it was darn difficult to carry around a decent multimedia presentation :-).
I have worked with it and it's great. Any thoughts on using an established css framework (i.e. bootstrap)? Because manually sizing all controls for different monitors and complicated layouts are cumbersome.
Even better: These extensions let you open the page directly in Reader View, the 1st via context menu, the 2nd via list of sites to be always opened in Reader View:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/reader-view/

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/automatic-reader-vi...
the first and the last examples don't do anything for me :/
I created https://status.commento.io/ for Commento [1] a few days ago and I'm open to open-sourcing the software under MIT if there's enough interest (I don't want to go through the hassle otherwise; and it is a hassle because I need to make it generic and not Commento specific). It's heavily inspired in UI by Stripe's.

Although I should mention it's very simple and does only basic stuff like GET/POST requests to measure availability and performance (latency of response). But I imagine you'll be able to write custom extensions easily.

[1] https://commento.io (still in private beta, sorry!)
> Just a year ago, people were praising him for his style and overall he was considered an extraordinary leader, CEO and a visionary.

His ego has gotten out of control. He started to believe his own press. It seems to be human nature. Oh ya, we have a word for it, hubris.

With all his reading you would think he would have learned from other's mistakes.
> Also discussed is the reason for the different data structures, which is actually the most important take-away.

I agree; this would have been a great stand-alone piece had it focused on this instead of performance.
The reason most people know about musk is because of Tesla not the other way around.

Which is to say that if Tesla hadn’t produced great cars nobody would give a shit about what the guy that started PayPal had to say. He’s famous because Tesla delivered, his so called celebrity status didn’t make the cars popular.
Yep – this is exactly how SpamArrest works.
The crazy things that love causes one to do.
Then the punishment for misleading consumers and employees should be comparable to the punishment for misleading investors.
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/mexico/safety-and-s...

"Crime and violence are serious problems in Mexico and the security situation can pose a risk for foreigners"

"There have been a number of violent car-jackings and robberies along the Pacific Highway and you should be careful when travelling on this route. "

https://globalnews.ca/news/4171527/cancun-mexico-violence-tr...

"Canadians travel to Mexico more than any other country except the United States. But many visitors may be unaware of the growing violence in a main city that was once hailed as one of the country’s safest: Cancun. This week, five people were found dead near the public prosecutor’s office in the city on the Yucatán Peninsula, bringing the death toll by violence in the beach city to more than 100 since the beginning of the year."

Doesn't really sound like the kind of place I'll consider visiting any time soon. I like living in one of the safest places in the world, and I have no interest in going somewhere like this.
I think that's a little overblown. Certainly Musk has his talents but they are not infinite and as we've seen he also brings a lot of disadvantages to the table as well. Not just these outbursts but many other aspects of his management and working style (not just at Tesla but also at SpaceX and going back to PayPal) are incredibly problematic from the perspective of attempting to run a well functioning company.

SpaceX succeeds mightily partly because there are many other forces there to counteract Musk's problems, which doesn't seem to be the case with Tesla. It's also worth noting that Tesla is on a lot shakier ground than many of its fans believe. Tesla's done a great deal to advance the technology of electric cars but the rest of the industry is catching up and Tesla has made some major mis-steps of late (such as with model 3 production). Yes, Tesla would be ill-served by replacing Musk with a typical empty-suit executive, but with a competent and pragmatic leader it would probably be just fine.
That's not the case with CBS. You can absolutely pay for CBS All Access.
I’m not going to argue sentencing, but I feel it’s necessary to point out that Musk doesn’t get to make random tweets, especially about price-sensitive investor information. The SEC treats his account as a corporate mouthpiece and anything he says on it can be treated as an official statement. This isn’t his first rodeo: he should know this stuff off by heart. As it is, you have to wonder what other fiduciary duties he’s not up to speed on.
Elon Musk agrees to resign as Tesla chairman in settlement with SEC
Inside of that is the assumption that the sum of the inner angles that I rotate by as I walk around a closed loop is equal to the angle between my initial and final directions at the starting point, so that having turned 180 means that my feet have shuffled by a total of 180. That isn't true outside of Euclidean geometry, which indicates that its proof might not be as trivial as it seems.
My train of thought was that Musk probably wouldn’t have ended up tweeting “funding secured” in a situation where he’d be accountable to an external chairman of the board. A bit of governance might have been useful these past months.
Realer: countries have been ruined over bad tweets.
Because he's a person just like everyone else, isn't in a position of authority over anyone except his employees, and hasn't done anything to warrant using formal titles when referring to him in casual conversation. What do you think he's done that merits everyone treating him with additional respect?
Awesome! That's great news! I may try to rewrite some parts of my app and see if REMI is a good fit.

Bottle is great if you have a simple use case... but getting HTTPS going was horrible. I can't count how many back-end engines I tried (cherrypi, paste, cheroot, gevent, waitress, etc.). Finally got it working on gunicorn.

I'd love to find a framework that abstracts all this away so I don't have to think about it...
To fully generalize the concept, take Samuel Butler's formulation from Erewhon: If it were possible to know everything about the past, it would be possible to know everything about the future.

Zoom out far enough and nature and nurture are unified into a deterministic historical timeline. Freewill is an illusion and the universe is a static four-dimensional entity.
Musk is a great startup CEO. But what Tesla needs now is an enterprise CEO.

And you can be an enterprise CEO and still innovate as a company eg. Apple, Microsoft, Mercedes-Benz.
I don't think anyone has a problem with ads per se, as long as there aren't that many of them, they are contextual, non-intrusive, non-tracking, etc. So the problem is more about not ads, but who is controlling what ads are acceptable and how they are displayed.

Imagine a web browser that doesn't let publishers decide how ads are displayed, where and how many of them. It can choose an acceptable ad format for the user, like textual non-tracking ads below the content, and if publishers want, they can use that format to put an ad here, but nowhere else. It will still permit a lot of ad supported content, but will remove all those ad surveillance capitalism incentives and clickbaity user engagement.
Radio frequencies, transmitters, and receivers, aren't regulated in any meaningful with respect to preventing remote detonation of bombs.

>The fact that the government doesn’t implement draconian restrictions reflects the balance inherent in all matters of public interest.

That's exactly what I said. Cost doesn't mean purely monetary when discussing cost benefit analyses.

>The reason we don't do these things is that the cost actually implementing all of that wouldn't be worth the benefit