skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've sent quite a few FOI requests myself when I was a reporter, and my experience biases me against thinking there's a significant problem of state employees sending out FOIAs quickly/prematurely out of fear. In fact, I've never dealt with an employee who broke protocol -- for non-routine requests, the vast majority of them consult with their FOI officer/legal counsel. And they have no incentive to rush things because most FOI laws allow for a delay in response time -- Washington's law doesn't even have a set time limit in which the government has to respond.

> The point is that individual people feel pressure and make decisions based on these articles

That is literally the situation of every public servant -- as just about any police officer will tell you. The difference with FOI is that the law provides ample protection for government employees to take their time to get it right, and every investigative journalist I've ever worked with puts up with those delays -- it's only when the delay goes into months/years such that it's tantamount to a rejection that legal action is threatened, because the lawsuit itself takes months to resolve.

The only example lawsuits you've found were ones in which the agencies refused to fulfill the request. Until you can show a single instance in which a state employee, or even an agency, was punished because they were late while trying to respond in good faith, I don't think we should assume you know what you're talking about when you claim the author has "no background/understanding" of WA's public records laws.

It's especially absurd that you're trying to argue that the mistake the city of Seattle made in his case was done out of hurried fear, when the author provides correspondence that shows he and the city emailed back-and-forth from April to August before they sent him the data. A technical screwup (via internal miscommunication) is the most plausible explanation by far, as no one in the IT or FOI office had any reason to rush this request.
Ah that explains it, I was viewing on mobile.
ProtonVPN is simply the best choice for a VPN if your goal includes anonymity / privacy; I place zero stock in this.

1. No other VPN that I'm aware of has any of its own data center infrastructure.

2. Even though ProtonVPN (and essentially all VPNs) works with untrustworthy companies like Leaseweb to provide many of their servers, SecureCore allows you to route traffic through their own data center infrastructure to another exit node server.

3. Public-facing CEO who has a verifiable history. You know his name, his face, he's given a talk. This helps with accountability.

I've said it before on HN and I'll say it again, their reply to this situation satisfied me completely, and nobody has said anything against this reply: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/8ww4h2/protonvpn...

There is simply not a better option than ProtonVPN.

Yes, I sound like a shill, but the facts are still the facts.
This project looks pretty interesting:

https://github.com/square/beancounter/

Allows mapping a date to blocks or see what the wallet balance was at any given time.
DarkPulsar
James Mathews of Sky News said exactly the same phrase in the interview with Dankula. He wasn't tried.

This is practical demonstration than intent and context matter. The other explanation would be, that the law is selectively enforced. Which is worse?
I think this is the reason YouTube is complaining. Previously they just got away with Content ID and it was just how the service worked. Now the law is drawing attention to the concept and people might get the idea that maybe an automated decision isn't the fairest implementation of this law and not having a real appeals process is unacceptable.

Especially if you consider that the EU already explicitly included a ban of purely automated decisions in the GPDR (though "luckily" that is probably not applicable in the context of Article 13, yet).

YouTube doesn't protest the idea of upload filters. YouTube just doesn't want upload filters to be a thing so much that they might end up being regulated and have legal decisions based around them because that means Content ID will be regulated and have legal decisions based around it.
Sort of agree - BUT I would think that colonizing the moon would be a better bet than Mars (for now). Less travel, easier to supply and we can still prove out stations, growing food etc
There is no "stages" in Marxism. That's a Stalinist bullshit that doesn't make any sense in the theoretical framework of Marx&Engels. The natural force that makes capitalism possible is commodity production because: as long as there are commodities this implies a division of labor where a labor produces something for the sole reason trade and thus implies social class; and as long as there is commodity production you'll have the accumulation of value. Communism is in direct opposition to social class and value. The Marxist idea is instead that communism is the society where the natural force that generates capitalism is somehow killed, this implies the society will not have social class, will not have value (and as an implication no trade, since in Marxism value is determined in the moment of trade, and that moment alone). Thus thinking about "stages" where some "State" is governing "towards" a classless, valueless, stateless society makes as much as the rest of Stalinism. Traditional Marxism predicts a communist revolution much like French Revolution.
If there ever was a good time for a book recommendation, check out "The Calculating Stars."

Probably the most impactful part of the book is the appendix, where it's made abundantly clear how much of it was based in reality.
YouTube doesn't support fair use though...
It isn't necessarily consistent.

I used my coworker's iPhone yesterday, opening a link from a text message, and couldn't figure out how to go back to the message. Swiping in from the left side went back... within the browser, which had no back history. I had to go to the home screen and open text messages again.

On Android, you just hit the back button and it goes back to the previous app in the stack if you launched one app from another.
So what you're saying is that 1 BTC = 1 BTC?
If you can't understand a contract you're signing, you aren't really signing it.

It's a very protective industry - you go through a lot of very expensive and time-consuming training and selection to get to be a certified lawyer, everyone in the industry has a heavily vested interest in making sure that there's a lot of valuable work that only certified lawyers can do.

No wonder, then, that they're resistant to automation - if you can bill $300 an hour for braindead work you can hand off to interns and just get checked by a lawyer before it goes out, why would they want to kill that cash cow?

The trouble is that quite apart from the rent-seeking cartel behaviour, it skews our entire legal system to much better serve those who can afford to pay for lawyers.

Perhaps the government ought to be supporting legal automation services.
Fascinating history. It's one of my favourite drinks that I pick up from my local bodega. My other favourite is Jupina.
The problem is that legal people understand the contracts but are not able to take decision based on that.

Oh sure that contracts says we would have to pay 10 millions if X happens, but then what is the likelihood of X happening, and what should be done to minimize it?

Of course it sounds easy: "just tell the business guys the risk and they will assess the probability", but in practice there are thousands of different risks associated with a contract, even the simplest one, so that ends up being EXTREMELY difficult.

And then you have all the contracts were the legal department thought they understood everything and it actually ends up not being as expected at all because rules and unclear, political and change like the wind, especially when it comes with international contracts.
Shipwreck found in Black Sea is 'world's oldest intact'
The timing is easily explained from the perspective of the New Yorker's article publication and a want to do something visible to the contrary as evidence of a willingness to improve as a community.

Hence why the CoC is a whole lot broader in scope than anything Linus has ever done. It's more of a "while we're here on this subject and have everyone's attention, let's clean house a bit."
It also requires:

1) the ability to avoid debris at those speeds (which would obliterate the ship)
2) to survive radiation,
3) the nearest stars to be of value life-support wise,
4) a couple of generations to pass,
5) us not to hear back from the mission for years upon arrival,

So, a more far-fetched version of solar system exploration, with the next steps even further...
Is there an actual remote work policy there? I did think working south in the summer would be a neat way to escape the cold, though I'd pick somewhere closer. Raleigh or Nashville, perhaps.
I'm a well paid engineer and I give away everything on my website for free + encourage people to share.

This is possible because I'm well paid.

The concern is that content creators that need money will turn to being paid by the worst offenders. Videos with the sole purpose of pushing a product/ad/political agenda.
Does someone has more technical details? I wonder how this could happen. No app on my android phone can run in background the whole night while my phone is locked. Is Google News installed as system app on some phones?
Free space Optics gets a loop
Nevertheless, the crossover between the needs of legalish and what we perceive as the legal field is remarkable.

As someone who spent five years as a software developer in the legal industry, this whole article comes off as a lot of fluff to sell a product. I'm not even really sure what it's suggesting aside from using them instead of lawyers, because the legal system is too conservative for automation... or something (not true).
Youtube's contentID is pretty poor, and easily abused. The DMCA seems to be widely misued.

The new EU law isn't great, but it forces Youtube to design systems that don't catch non-infringing content.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20180906IPR...

> Any action taken by platforms to check that uploads do not breach copyright rules must be designed in such a way as to avoid catching “non-infringing works”.

Youtube is pushing article 13 as an attack of "fair use", when really for Youtube it's mostly an attack on the people uploading full episodes of tv shows with no added commentary.
I don't think there is contention in saying that it is a better place to live than earth in any circumstance.

Rather, I think it is the power of the process of a global collaboration in what would be the most exciting adventure for humanity in a generation. Us embarking on such an adventure would lead (I think the majority) of people to consider the importance of a "global" perspective and would probably be good for people to treat others better and make countries less likely to kill each other over seemingly "trivial" matters.
> an illegitimate DMCA takedown request would be a felony

No. DMCA takedown requests go like this

"I represent Bozo Media, they own all sharks wearing hats, and this video is infringing on their rights, take it down"

The only part that's under penalty of perjury (a felony) is the claim that you represent Bozo Media. If you do, you have not committed a crime regardless of whether the rest of what you wrote is obvious nonsense.

Maybe Bozo actually only owns "Toothy the hat-wearing shark", a large orange cartoon shark. Doesn't matter, not a crime to claim they own more.

Maybe the video is of a mouse wearing trousers, which is neither a shark, nor a hat, and definitely isn't the property of Bozo. Doesn't matter, still not a crime.

Is this awful? Yes. But it's the law. You are welcome to go to court, Youtube will even help you get that far if you're determined, but it will almost certainly bankrupt you even if you're right.
Deleting cookies with AppleScript
MacOS Mojave Patcher
Anti-money laundering: Hummingbird raises $3M
i think the problem is, as intuitive as that sounds, people are good at finding scapegoats and blaming others instead of looking in the mirror, and issues as large as those are so abstract at some point idk... i don’t know what the answer is exactly but i think it starts with ‘edu’ and ends with ‘cation’... just my observation....

but maybe you are right... i just shudder at how bad it would have to get for people to notice.

[edit] misspelling (thanks ipad)
Having more humans in the loop would probably benefit the content creators as they could actually reason with them and claim fair use for stuff. Provided that they actually hire competent staff for this.

I don't monetise my videos by default but I've have a few videos where I have had 1-2 minutes of copyrighted music. When that happens they will force monetise the whole video for me and send the money made by it to the music copyright holder (BGM in my case). That seems a bit silly to me.
Can you check the other comments in the thread and any other post about CoCs in FOSS communities over the recent 4-16 weeks?

Check out this discussion for instance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18281676

Also note that my previous comment is at -4 already of the time of this writing, which must be done by someone who doesn't like that opinion. You wouldn't go ask 5-7 of your friends to give downvotes to that comment just because you disagree with it, right?
Interesting article. I'd like to hear more about this but other than his Synaulia[0] project, I can't seem to find anything about his music...

[0]https://www.soundcenter.it/synaulia.htm
We are trying to file our non-profit.

An office said they could, expecting it to take 3-4 hours, at 200$/hr.

I found out this can be done for a 45$ filing fee in about 20 minutes.

That nice girl on the phone was straight evil.
There is an immediately visible cellular data switch (right next to airplane mode) in the control center, as well as a hotspot switch which is hidden behind the 3D Touch.
What is your mathematics curriculum like?
The 8086k was 1-core 5ghz turbo. 9900k will do it with two.

And it OCs to 5.1 on all cores.
I'm not an expert, so take my words with a grain of salt. 9900K will reach 5GHz for 2 cores. So if your OS uses only 2 cores at the same time, they'll work at 5 GHz. If your OS uses more cores, CPU will slow down frequency. Also if CPU will be boosted for too long, it'll slow down anyway, because it must keep its 95W TDP. But you can change setting in BIOS, something like MultiCore Enhancement. This will allow CPU to use as much power as possibe, so it should be able to keep working at 5 GHz and 2 cores, if your PSU and cooler are good enough to provide and dissipate that power.
Seriously, what doeos "topology of latent variables" even mean?

A topology on U is a system of subsets of U that's closed under union and finite intersections and containing the empty set and U itself. Go!
The problem is we are obligated by law... to know and understand the law.

So the issue is more than the law texts and contracts are too complicated for us to understand despite the fact we are living by them.

You can't have a lawyer behind each decision of your life. But if you want to live a legal life, right now you need to. It's insane and not be sustainable for a democracy.
It can be a problem eg in the labour law field as a specialist in hr/ir law told me once that you get people who are told (by the lawyer that did their house purchase) down the golf club.

"oh you can sue your employer for breach of contract over that" and the employee A) thinks that they can a do that and B) stand a chance of winning.
Does Windows come with a better command line shell yet? That's the big thing keeping me away. There's just so much unix-based tooling (works on both Linux and Mac) that I don't want to go without.
I mean, yes, I guess it is entirely possible for male journalists use a science article to describe anyone's hair, cheekbones and face in a way that wouldn't sound out of place in a holiday novel. It's a possibility they seem to only explore for women though.
"embodied energy" means the energy needed to create the material. So that involved in mining aluminium, refining ore etc, moving it around the world until it's built into a building.

Carelessly specified new carpets will off-gas VOCs to the detriment of the local air quality (until there's none left in thecarpet material).

In both cases he's saying that an architect should be aware of the wider context of their material choices and consequential effect on both the planet and the building's inhabitants.
I think the parent is suggesting that the scenario describe is the most usual way to use it, but not their most favorite way.
I will / am reading it, but if as its title and first few paragraphs suggest its discussion is on the top 10%, it doesn't really change my statement. $59k median income means literally half the country-- 2.5% of the world's population-- is making at least 6 times as much money as literally half of the world. It is not until you get to some US income percentile around the 15th that incomes drop below the world's 50th percentile income bracket.

I do not deny that there is wealth inequality in the US nor do I have any elegant solutions to it, but I perceive a lot of self-interested hypocrisy around the issue. Surely fighting wealth inequality means cheering when manufacturing jobs are sent overseas, and the corporation's US base means that we can use economic leverage to enforce safety / wage standards on these new jobs in India / China / Mexico. This brings up the global median income, surely a good thing for anyone concerned with income equality.
Author here! This is part of a series where I describe the development of an R package I've been developing for mapping and visualization:

Show HN: A raytracer to shade, plot, and 3D print topographic maps in R, part 4
http://www.tylermw.com/3d-printing-rayshader/

Show HN: A raytracer to shade and visualize topographic maps in R, part 3
http://www.tylermw.com/3d-maps-with-rayshader/

Show HN: A raytracer to shade topographic maps in R, Part 2
http://www.tylermw.com/making-beautiful-maps/

Show HN: A raytracer to shade topographic maps in R
http://tylermw.com/throwing-shade/
We don't need unsubstantive troll comments here, so please don't post them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Do PSAT Scores Matter? The Top 5 Answers
Coming from Epitech, I would say that you are right. The code, code, code mind is more Epitech and less Epita nowadays.
What’s more volatile than Bitcoin? You may be surprised
All Hail the Condom King
I'm not convinced by this concept at all! https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0200/1582/products/HAG_Cap...
Defintermediate all the things, so someone else can reintermediate them.

The Internet has been handed over to de facto monopolies operating under a thin pretext of competitive legitimacy.

We'll probably see antitrust action to split them up in twenty years or so, by which time it will be too late to make a difference.

The only thing that can change this is physical server decentralisation, which is going to rely on massive bandwidth improvements and nation-state grade security protocols.

When I can run a personal server on a personal device and serve content to thousands - some of whom may want to peer it, if it's interesting enough - then we may see a genuinely free Internet.

As it is, instead of "seeing censorship as damage and routing around it", the Internet has been seen as political damage itself, and the political system has effectively neutered it by reducing it to yet another financialised cultural channel.
Because they have some policies that are unfriendly in some circumstances to creators, it is hypocritical of them to oppose the imposition of other policies that are more unfriendly and/or unfriendly in different circumstances to creators?
Not really. At least not in Peru.

Especially in more mountaineous regions coca leaves are available for breakfast instead of coffee. Some hot water over a few leaves makes for a quite refreshing tea, which I found less aggressive than coffee in its effect.

Leaves can be openly bought at kiosks in bags and contain the calcium stone required to chew them. Personally I found the taste a bit offputting (the effect is rather refreshing, though), but figured it needed to be tried once in Peru (same as guinea pigs, which, alas, I found too much of a bother).

Also, Chicha is still widely available in Peru. My sister in law (who is Peruvian) adores the stuff.
> Why should an architect know Shakespeare and QWERTY?

Well why not? QWERTY could refer to just being able to type. An artist could possibly do well to be able to use a computer? It could also refer to the placement on old style typewriters where the type bars could get jammed if letters used often in the English language were typed in quick succession. (Myth maybe? But interesting to think about anyway for someone that is going to design things for other people to use.)

As to Shakespeare, it has been suggested that people that read fiction/literature of this sort develop empathy and makes you a "better" person.
Resistance varies greatly depending on jurisdiction. Your terminology suggests you're not in the USA (pardon me if I'm mistaken). Over here in the states the established firms have a vested interest in automating or offshoring (or both) as much as possible, for obvious reasons.

The US government should be supporting legal aid for civil matters. From watching the boob tube civil matter legal aid is a thing in old Blighty. Pity we didn't adopt that along with the common law. But w/r/t govt funding in the US it can barely finance public defenders (to which there is a right, if I read Gideon correctly) and anyway, it's every man for himself. That's the American way.
I'm glad it was reposted, because I found it intriguing and inspiring for the reasons mentioned in the current top comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18282678

It may not be _genius_, but I don't think it's stupid, and especially not because it's an artistic rather than practical guide.
Sitting on anything 14h/day is a recipe for disaster!
But most people wont go ahead 1600 elo easily without theory.
It's not a race or gender thing, but class struggle, dysfunctional families and problems that are passed on through generations. If your social group is basically your family, you can't afford to not fit in. It's a parallel society with its own rules.
> Already happened in the UK: Sargon of Akkad and CountDankula joined UKIP and are out there speaking out about their brand of alt right/lite YouTube politics.

It's so strange to see people parrot media talking points. But that's what the media is there to do I suppose.

> PrisonPaul of InfoWars also joined, but it seems he’s still mostly staying in his basement and making endless clips about PC or immigration than making the transition to “IRL” like the other two have.

You obviously have no bias.

> What kind of impact this will have remains to be seen. UKIP is still a fringe party for now.

Hopefully they will serve as the counterweight to the far-left extremism in media.
Who says lawyers are resistant to automation? E-discovery is a booming market. Y-combinator just funded a startup called Klarity that reads and interprets contracts for you.
The rovers we've sent to Mars weren't designed to travel great distances. Autonomous rovers built for maximum travel distance would be pretty easy except for supplying them with enough energy and protecting their delicate parts from the elements. Both problems are harder for humans, even on a one-way mission.
Go on, I'll bite. Which date format in the article is weird?
What massive penalties?
Afaik mysql migrations doesn't have transactions in Django.