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> I can have an opinion that HN user geofft is a <insert horrible thing>. This is my right. However, I cannot go to other people and say that geofft is a <insert horrible thing>, particularly if doing so causes you harm, for example economic/reputational.

Yes, you can.

Now, if geofft can prove that it is false, and that you reasonably should have known it was false (and the standard may be higher depending on subject matter and other context), then you may be liable for defamation.

> Except of course if the accusations are true, but they must then be proven to be true.

No, in the US, falsity is an element of defamation where, as in the other elements of the tort (rather than defenses against liability) the burden of proof is in the plaintiff, not the defendant. The offended party must prove the statement false. As well as proving the negligence of the one publishing it with regard to the truth.
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None of those examples remotely resemble the G+ issues and subsequent shuttering.
> burn dinosaurs four miles away

It's mostly plants and zooplankton
Although I don't advocate physical harm to people, I question why it is necessarily undemocratic. Are "anarchy and mob violence" mutually exclusive with democracy? Is the criminal justice system, supposedly supported by the will of the people in most countries, not exercising violence, but in a controlled and stringent manner through the courts and police?

Let us also consider the ideas of structural violence in this discussion. It is often missed because the perpetrator is an entire structure, an abstraction.

Just to note, it's interesting to me how your post has lumped "people and property" together so easily, as if one cannot talk about a person without talking about their property too.

As much as this is an interesting issue as you say, your post comes across as much more of an endorsement of the prevailing ideologies; the only form of collective action is voting action, and if your goals cannot be reached within those confines then your action must be condemned. As others here have pointed out, doesn't this restrict the capabilities for change significantly in almost every qualitative aspect?

Taking the UK by example specifically, the parliament operates a website in which you can submit a petition, and if your petition gathers some specified number of votes (10k? I can't remember) then they will debate the issue. Not a single petition has succeeded to my knowledge. Most petitions are returned with non-answers and restatements of the current position, as if the right course of action is determined by positions rather than knowledge.

These people who talk about "mass action" believe (rightly or wrongly) that the current system is compromised, and structurally so. To say that they should sit down and simply vote, perhaps hold up some signs outside of parliament is not only not engaging with their grievances (and possibly correcting them), it's remaining ignorant of the issues they present. It is missing the point.
There's not much nuance here; the "difficulty" aspects of proof-of-work are one of the core features of Bitcoin.
I prefer the DTube approach personally.

It instead uses the Steem blockchain for text content so it doesn't have the issue that ActivityPub or other federation protocols have where it needs to bootstrap to the largest instances, which is in effect partial centralisation.

Blockchain use also means that server costs are passively paid for due to block rewards which makes it scalable. Lastly content creators can get paid directly via cryptocurrency so it encourages much more content creation.
Google was able to finger a specific number of accounts that had data marked as private that may have been shared with third parties. The thing that makes this issue unique and interesting is that Google is claiming is that they deleted all the relevant logs, so they can't confirm whether the private information was indeed shared or not. This is a big problem since if this becomes a valid way of deferring responsibility or accountability, it creates a major incentive for companies to copy Google's claim here.
Or just use Python or other languages that require fewer braces/semicolons in the first place? We have so many options now, we don't have to deal with the tyranny of overly precisely punctuated languages if we don't want.
I find it annoying how people equate blockchain with cryptocurrencies. GIT repos are basically blockchains, yet they have nothing to do with greed nor cryptocurrencies.

> But it has also become the byword for a libertarian ideology that treats all governments, central banks, traditional financial institutions, and real-world currencies as evil concentrations of power that must be destroyed

Would you blame them for wanting that though? Admittedly most people who moved to cryptocurrencies only care about greed, but is this not simply the side effect of the whole scheme becoming popular?

> there are hardly any women or minorities in the blockchain universe

I don't know how true or false this is (especially when considering that there are many cryptocoin farms in china and Russia, as well as the likely Japanese ethnicity of the creator of bitcoin), but I fail to see how this is the fault of cryptocurrencies themselves (with the exception that one already needed money in order to invest in the GPUs).
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"all their bugs (security/non security) discovered internally"

No one. And no one is asking this of G+. Congratulations on this apparently successful straw man.
Not too barebones though. It has multiple playlists in tabs, fast type in search, good support for tags, decent seek bar and volume control. Good menu.
Sensible file dialog instead of custom silliness.
Easy handling of whole directories.

It can handle thousands songs in a playlist and supports a lot of audio formats, perhaps the most of audio players out there. You even have queue if you wish.
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That's what the parent comment says but the linked page on Google is talking about users: "The graph shows the percentage of users that access Google over IPv6".
Parent is not equivocating harassment (or presence, as you seem to take it) as assault. They are simply stating that one often leads to the other.
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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18212759.
There was massive internet backlash toward it but I still truly think Valve's "paid mods" idea is the way forward for this. Back in the day, when Unity/Unreal/Godot weren't freely available for anyone to use, people would put a lot of their own personal time into making mods, without any expectation of pay. Now, even if the mod tools were there for modern games, why would anyone make a "total conversion" mod instead of just making the game themselves using free modern tools?

Creating incentives for game developers to add mod tools to their games by creating the incentive for potential mod-makers to make some money off their work seems like a solid strategy for me. (I think I heard a rumor somewhere that Valve is going to bring back the "paid mods" idea again soon, possibly in a retooled form.)
There are two separate items, just in the first sentence quoted, that can reasonably be challenged as unfair.

First, there's no evidence to date that the vulnerability in question actually resulted in a data breach. This is distinct from there being actual, affirmative evidence supporting the idea that there was a breach. Here, I am using "vulnerability" to mean there was potential for exploitation and "breach" to mean an actual exploitation and exfiltration of data. I understand that some might opt regard this as a distinction without difference.

Second, it is not a common practice to make a loud media-friendly disclosure of every potentially-exploitable vulnerability. I've personally closed dozens of vulnerabilities, potentially exploitable vulnerabilities, in a variety of software packages for a variety of companies over the past decade. Of these, exactly one turned into a public notification of any sort. Hosted service companies in particular are unlikely to create what they would view as an undue media circus around bugs they find and fix internally.

With these items in mind, I submit that some people might find it reasonable that the phrasing of the article and the factual claims it makes might be at the very least unfair and potentially possessed of an opportunity to come into greater alignment with evidence-based reality.
xcodevn said “in a formal/logical sense”, not “in a practical sense”.
I don't disagree with it, my focus is more on it being a sensationalist piece of news, which makes the content less trustworthy because I know their goal is to make me move.
It doesn't matter if they would complain, I just said they'd be confused. Why add a potential sticking point? It sounds like OP is trying to sell a new product, playing pricing games at these early stages is a big distraction. Someone up thread said charge $49 without cents -- go with that and get on with making the product better.
Don't know how the law works in Japan, but public streets are well...public spaces. In most places you need to have a reasonable expectation of privacy before being able to use this defense.

Also this is an effective way to name and shame people against acting in such a way in public if you wish to do so. Some would argue that if you wish to avoid such a situation you should hold your drink better. Though that could just be passing the blame on the victim.

Note that this is not my personal opinion on the matter.
This paper explains the cryptography and game theory behind their approach: https://www.projectcallisto.org/callisto-cryptographic-appro...
I'm seeing no shenanigans in Firefox. The context menu works for me.
>Some of these groups have a publicly stated goal of overthrowing British democracy

Britain doesn't have a democracy, it has a monarchy. The queen "consents" legislation, PMs, etc. They also have an entire "house of lords" which is literally a forum for the aristocrats to counter the democratically elected parliament.

One could argue they spy to avoid democracy, not protect it.
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Work in corporate security or law enforcement.
Tcl beats it in terms of both transparency and ready-made-ness. In Tcl, all filesystem access goes through the Tcl Virtual Filesystem (VFS) layer. This is a layer of indirection that allows for the interpreter, including at the script-level, to intercept filesystem calls and replace them with their own data. The default (and catch-all) driver is called "native" that just passes things to the native OS, but you can write other drivers and over the decades people have done so.

The most popular one is Starkit/Starpack which uses the Metakit database (which is a heirarchial database) and appends that archive to a loader (either a script, as a stub, or to an executable which includes the stub with the ability to open itself). This database can be modified externally using the starkit tools (sdx), and when you pack all your resources into it, it appears from within the interpreter that all the files are just normal files even though only the database is being accessed.
Yes but you're ignoring the many hours of entertainment derived from obsessively refreshing your Coinbase account balance.
Groupon, today, is a two billion dollar public company. That is no small achievement.
That's really beside the point and the people at The Guardian know that anything under their masthead is ultimately going to affect brand perception.
It's under their brand, they published it. Imho we should expect better from them
Wasn't really an argument against EV's, just an observation that plastics production is a major use of oil and a pollutant (EV's are mostly plastic and alloys for example) at all levels, while the tree planting reality will have a massive positive impact on pollution and seems to be getting overlooked as it is not commercially attractive to big industrialists.
They're working on it.
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Agreed... it's interesting that Steve Case also thought it was a good time to give an interview as well (on the lessons of AOL/TW), but they don't discuss the billions in restated "earnings".

https://amp.businessinsider.com/steve-case-lesson-aol-time-w...

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/business/media/aol-adds-a...?
> Four of them deceived women into sexual relationships while using their fake identities. One spy met one of his wives during his deployment and had a child with her.

[s] How do you expect them to do their job without instigating or perpetrating the very same acts they were supposed to guard against (indirectly), or deception that goes way beyond what they were mandated to do? [/s]
Here we go... the slow trickle of them saying every few days that the data breach is MUCH worse than what they had said days ago. Boil the frog.

1 month from now, compare what they've said to what they said this week.
I think the best point for class implementation you mention is to have all the related stuff in one place. That convinces me most =)
Yeah I think paid mods was off in execution not idea. Would love to see it come back.

The main thing that mods give developers is a distribution network and that is invaluable if you ask me. Getting someone to install your game is the biggest hurdle.
Not until you can pay your taxes in crypto (or live in a 0% tax world) will they really be afraid. Failure to pay taxes is punishable by prison, so there will be demand for dollars.
fixed link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/07/10/08/0340229/scientis...
> I see you've ignored nearly the entire Middle East and what the USA has done almost everywhere in the world throughout its history.

Everywhere in the world throughout its history? That's a pretty amusing statement, given the US barely left its shores for the first 140 years of its history. The US didn't even have a serious standing military until after WW1, and more realistically just before WW2.

Demonstrably the US has done dramatically more good in the world than it has ill. In the era of the US superpower, the world has never been better off. It's just as absurd to ignore the vast good the US has been responsible for, as it is to ignore the mistakes it has made.
> I've definitely been in the room when people talk about how there'll be a black bloc coming to an event for "direct action", where we all know damn well that black blocs come to, you know, break stuff and beat up cops and fascists.

That's literally what “direct action” means—action which, as opposed to indirectly dealing with the problem by convincing people to stop doing bad things, directly deals with the problem by interfering with the flow of required inputs to the act of doing the bad things, or by awwreducing the ability of people to do bad things by destroying or incapacitating either the instruments used in doing the bad things or the people who would otherwise do the bad things.
There are "fraudulent practices" in the real world exchanges - look at how LIBOR was/is rigged (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal). And I certainly hope its "exchange value" isn't exactly the same as a government currency as that would defeat the purpose of having something different in the first place...
You are free to hold that view, but nowhere did I see that anyone says their ideas are not valid because they're white.

What I did see was that the claim that cryptocurrency is unlocking power and wealth to impoverished people doesn't hold up to the reality that it's just perpetuating the same financial and power structures that have come before.

And to people who argue against that, well, I'd love to see who, for example, in Africa, is getting rich or at least better-off from the existence of any of various cryptocurrencies. Or where are the people of color in Chicago or Baltimore, spinning up their own coins or empowering their communities, or any of that?

For all the supposed world-changing potential these things supposedly offer, why do the outcomes they're producing so closely resemble the way things already are?

I, for one, would turn my opinion on cryptocurrencies 180 degrees if I saw them being used to give any of the war-torn or impoverished African nations (both of which are a consequence of European colonialism being exploitative and drawing borders to maximize regional conflict) a real leg up on the world stage; and one for all the people, not just the ruling elites there.

Think of it something like a sovereign wealth fund derived from crypto, giving every citizen a monthly draw -- why don't we see anything like that?

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And the explanation, by the way, for why you often see people making the claim that reverse racism isn't a thing is because, in these discussions, racism isn't just hating someone or assuming something about a person based on their skin color, but about the economic and political power structures that get wielded against certain groups based on skin color.

In the US, there's never been a white chattel slavery system (though white supremacists have spun a false narrative about the Irish to try and muddy even this discussion), there's never been policies that exclude whites from living in certain neighborhoods like redlining did for decades, etc. The machinery of the state has never been applied to white people the way it has been applied to people of color time and time again.

Black people can hate white people all they want, but you never see wholesale systematic destruction of white communities like, for example, the Tulsa race riots in the 20s.

So you can say this is all acceptable racism, but I for one can't imagine how anyone can look at any facets of the history of this country and come up with that same constellation of ideas that there's now anti-white acceptable racism.
What I love about Rob's book is how much practical advice it has, rather than the handwavy BS that so many startup and business books have.
Looks pretty cool and easy to use, at least for the synchronous methods. The async methods could use a little bit more documentation, e.g. what is really async about them (what is Action? Some kind of deferred response? Can you store the request objects there for longer than the act() methods scope? Etc).

What I would also like to see there are additional examples which show how streaming the request/response body is done, e.g. for file uploads and downloads or SSE.
> No, you pretty much have to infiltrate in order to find out whether or not they're trying to violently overthrow the government.

I would add that enterism is a real thing with quite a few notable cases of a minor fringe group within a moderate party serving as a spearhead to takeover the reigns and leverage its goodwill to advance extremist ideals. This sort of thing is only caught by insiders keeping tabs on the organization's inner workings.
They are crimes of cowardice committed by mean-tempered bullies pumped up on steroids with an itchy trigger finger and very nearly complete immunity from prosecution and a lack of discipline beyond a paid vacation pending an internal "investigation."
> You can't have multiple versions of the same application

In many package managers you can have multiple versions of the same application without a big deal -- in most cases you don't want to SUPPORT multiple versions of the same application, so there's always a trade-off.
I can assure you this hack looks casual: you do it in groups of two and it seems to anyone standing 2m away just as if one is leaning on the machine.
Good pre-reading to this article is Brett Wooldridge's (of HikariCP) article on connection pool sizing: https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP/wiki/About-Pool-...

An important consideration is that increasing the pool size many times above the number of cores is very often counterproductive in the face of decreasing IO latency. Also, there may often not be justification for anything other than a constant-sized pool.
That’s only helpful while you’re at home.

Also, the obsession with HEPA and its 99.7% reduction of the relevant particles seems silly to me. For a filter that recirculates air, the relevant figure of merit is the rate at which dirty air is replaced with clean air, which is roughly the air flow through the filter times the efficiency. So a 90% efficient filter with 50% more airflow is better. For a stand-alone unit, the “clean air delivery rate” is a more sophisticated measurement.

You can do very well by upgrading your HVAC filter to MERV 13 or better and running the fan for a few hours a day. But check with an HVAC contractor before you change filter types — it may affect the overall performance of the system.

For an outside air intake, the efficiency does matter, and HEPA is a good idea.
Where to find an API that gives latest pricing of beauty/cosmatics?
I need an API that can gives the latest promotion info of some cosmetic sites, such as https://www.maccosmetics.com/ , https://www.sephora.com/ , https://www.gilt.com/ , https://amazon.com and others. Appreciate your help, guys!

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Yeah sure. I tried to look up the front-end codes of every sites. They are all different. Using this hardcore way of decoding frontpage codes, I barely can't get the latest pricing info of a determained products. Because I don't know when the new product pricing will be updated. Or I can get the pricing by an endless loop program on that determained web page. But some promotions comes with promotion/discount codes. Without a trusty info source, an endless-loop program is useless. That's why I need an API which gives latest pricing info. Maybe someone did it before.
Nitpick: WoW allows add-ons which are user created in Lua.
Oh Bryan Cantrill... (don't worry, not criticizing him below)

This is someone whose mind seems to be going at 500mph all the time. I used to love his (and counterparts') early talks on ZFS, but yeah, I've found that pretty much any talk by him is packed with interesting info, but you may have to watch it at .5x speed (even if you're a native english speaker).

His talks on dtrace, ZFS, containers, are all very interesting (most on YouTube).
Thank you, this is a great thread.

I think the elements that make Lucian's version specifically like The Sorcerer’s Apprentice are:

* the Sorcerer's magic is appropriated by another party that doesn't understand the magic

* a "broom or pestle" is the animated object

* the object is ordered to fetch water but won't stop, eventually filling the house with water

* the object is chopped to pieces in an attempt to stop it, but the pieces continue to fetch water

* this continues until the Sorcerer comes back and angrily reverses the magic.
Crypto systems are platforms for fraud and censorship resistant applications. There is value in that, the markets are just having a tough time figuring out how much.
Just some kindly intended advice, but you should consider deleting this comment man.

This is just the sort of comment that some might view as an invitation, or as you challenging them. And on a place like HN, you probably have quite a few people and groups around who would be well qualified to "make a point" so to speak.
All stock markets are glorified gambling.