skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is extremely relevant. You can't possibly pretend otherwise.

Amazon following tax law and that pissing people off is entirely irrelevant to Amazon donating to charity. That's like saying your height is totally relevant to your favorite food. The only common point is you.

> Is it that time already? Where we randomly start listing off fallacies?

Yes, changing the subject from charity to Amazon tax dodging (which is absolutely false anyway) isn't a straw man, it's totally coherent conversation that would naturally take if you weren't agenda-driven.
If you want to go with a more Marxist interpretation, it's because they all know they can squeeze the lower classes for now. Once capitalism eats up all the growth they will turn on each other and capitalism will eat itself.
Again, what Signal is trying to do is to create a wholesale replacement for the (vast majority of) messaging traffic that exists now and is addressed by phone numbers.

It's weird to me to see people downplaying this; if they succeed, it will be a monumental achievement, surpassing SSL/TLS in impact to communications.
Same thing that happened with 3D-printed and home-CNC-machined guns - there'll be a moral panic, and a demand to ban the tools.
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>I do, however, believe that promoting inferior and untested cryptography is immoral.

So you're doubling down on the lie I called you out on the first time around, then?
and it’s adoption rate is a great example of what that does to user experience
> Reply edit It’s already outlawed. In the US for example pornographic drawings of children are outlawed. In the same way it’s illegal to try and sell cocaine stimulants, it’s illegal to try and sell child pornography simulations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcroft_v._Free_Speech_Coalit...
Related: a guaranteed unbreakable captcha by Scott Aaronson. https://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/captcha.html
Yes. I think there's a subtext here about other messengers, some of which not only log this, but keep it live in a database in order to populate their equivalent of buddy lists.
Yes! We are alpha testing other locations and have around 25 homes between NYC, Boston, LA, and abroad. You can fill out the form and mention the city you'd like to go to in the freeform question, and we'll contact you!
When I click on tutorial, I get a 404 page. Not good. So no info to provide feedback.
Of those issues, I believe only mandatory phone numbers are valid, for what it's worth. And I'm fine with mandatory phone numbers; there are other options for people who have a problem with that.
Seriously... I was very surprised at this response; I get the feeling the author would take great offense at being called an estrogen chugging pseudo-male / individuals who want to live far away from people like the author... despite the rhetoric being roughly the same. It's also disproportionately antagonistic of other's choices given the conversation at hand.
As tptacek says - Signal isn't attempting to solve every problem or cover every edge case.

If you don't have a smartphone you can install apps on - perhaps the company making a smartphone app which happens to integrate with a desktop app as well) isn't for you. Same for "tablet users".

FWIW, you don't need to do _too_ much hoop jumping to get a non-phone device running Signal - I mainly use it on a dedicated iPod Touch, and I've got the iPhone app running on an iPad as well - in old-school 2x ugly-mode, but it works. (You do need to be aware of the risks around whatever phone number you use to bootstrap your way in possibly being reallocated. You might not want to use a 30 day burner SIM or a temporary Twilio number if you might have a targeted enough attack to impersonate you by hoovering up temporary mobile numbers...)
I just started playing with Go's WebAssembly support last night. Support is still nascent but I was able to get up and running very quickly, and the API is dead simple: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/WebAssembly
They're both still in the same overall thread, but detaching the off-topic bit from its parent allows it to sink to the bottom of the page. Does that make sense?
Amyloid-beta is associated with sleep deprivation. This new research could suggest that sleep is an essential component of the immune system.

If so, then the plaques it forms might be the brain’s last-ditch effort to protect itself from microbes, a sort of Spider-Man silk that binds up pathogens to keep them from damaging the brain. Maybe they save the brain from pathogens in the short term only to themselves prove toxic over the long term.

I really like the thinking here.

Similarly: In people with CF, calcium and glutathione build up in the cells. High levels of calcium are associated with cell death, so much of the CF community believes calcium is harmful.

I believe the calcium and glutathione are desperate efforts to buffer the cell in the face of deranged cell chemistry. I believe the high calcium is indicative of other things being really bad and the body trying desperately to compensate.

If this guy wants another outside-the-box research project, there you go. I would love to see that looked into.

Edit: Is it me, or does the article actually switch from saying amyloid-beta to saying beta-amyloid midway through?

This month, however, he got an unheard-of email from NIH: The agency had found some extra money lying around in its budget. Would he please respond to the reviewers and resubmit his proposal? An over-the-moon Moir did. He expects to hear back in a few weeks.

Yay! I hope he gets it.
Seems like a straightforward case for small claims court against KitSplit. You just have to sell the judge on a very straightforward case. The thing about not getting fucked over in situations like this is having the intestinal fortitude to bully companies like KitSplit into making it right for you. You'll probably get compensated by them by blogging about it but you probably could have just muscled them to give you your $4.5k in small claims court.
Needed more than ever. alas, the primary channels for communications (fox) which matter here, are not likely to screen this, or the alternates.
Also, it's something like $300/night on average these days in SF, which is bananas.
Doxing isn't good, even for accused criminals. You could get sued or even (rarely) trigger some kind of vigilante justice overreaction.
I suspect your sample size was heavily biased to your own social class. Singapore is ruthlessly capitalist, and can be a terrible place to be if you're poor or a foreign worker.

One Straits Times (local Pravda) story I recall was about one of those old ladies who cleans up in hawker centres, earning on the order of S$100/month. This is way below a living wage, even in Singapore, and there's no state pension in Singapore either, so this was the sum total of her income. Because she couldn't afford an apartment, she slept (illegally) on the "void deck" (ground floor, exposed to elements) of an HDB housing block.

None of this was news, mind you -- the news was the fact that somebody stole her life savings of $50 from a cookie jar, and this is not permissible in squeaky-clean Singapore.

Many maids are also kept in modern-day slavery, working 365/24/7 and literally locked into the apartment so they don't run off and get pregnant, in which case the maid is forcibly repatriated and the owner is fined.

More eye-opening reading here: http://twc2.org.sg/
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This is generally how mergers work, yes.
Independent information from trusted sources would be good. My simple initial google searches don't throw up enough, any even.
Hi! This is so exciting! Quick question: how does this compare with the Courtlistener/free law project data? (And are there any plans to work with them?)
Thankfully, this isn't true. Employees cannot engage in deceit, intend that you rely on the deception (i.e. 'making the sale' once you believe them), and have their business profit from the action. This is the cornerstone of consumer fraud protection. A transcript demonstrating false statements made by an employee helps tremendously when forming a cause of action against that company, as it establishes all of the required elements (other than the actual damage you suffered) by itself.

Critically, consumer fraud protections do not typically even require the employee to have made a materially false statement (only a deceptive one). Nor do they even require that the employee is aware of the falsehood! In common law fraud, both of these are required, making it a far more burdensome charge to plead.
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They've got a lot on their plates already; probably best not to try and dive full into social network for now. Plus you'd have to be really careful not to lose the separation that makes it good in the process.
May have been mentioned elsewhere in the comments, but I haven't read through all.

I think most commenters here missing the major point against Facebook for many young users: being forced to use your real identity (and only one account).

As already mentioned, most young people have switched to Instagram and find Facebook embarrassing.

That made sense.

What I was surprised to learn was that almost everyone has more than one account - often three or more.

This is actually the killer hidden feature of Instagram - easy to manage privacy.

So one has a main account, possibly public, that is OK for parents and strangers to see.

Then they have a private account for friends.

Then possibly a third account for close friends. This is one that nudes/sexual/illegal content is posted on.
> Making it anonymous & fungible is only necessary if you're unable or unwilling to stand up for your actions.

Doesn’t this presuppose “good” people are in charge?
Singapore is not very good at recycling or limiting the products of individuals. On the other hand, they recycle 100% of garbage from building constructions. Which is a pretty big volume of garbage.
Moist Tropical climate + concrete == mould.

Hawker style food + stalls with no trashcan == rubbish.

I love Singapore, but like Bangkok, Taipei, Hong Kong, its a constant battle to deal with nature, and social behaviour.
If the name is unique, name search is easy.

When a TIN comes in handy is if there are two non-profits with similar names.
Currently, the c++ wasm tool chain is the most mature one.
Apparently the royalty terms predate Apple's entry into the marketplace! I was pretty surprised to learn that Apple's manufacturers are the ones [still] paying this royalty that existed before the first iPhone.
You're probably thinking if gross revenue. Looking at net revenue however, it comes out to about two weeks... Okay, still a very short period of time.
How would you feel about Redhat if it stayed independent? It sounds like they were in trouble.
What if the actions are perfectly legal?
While I agree there is a lot of plastic used for disposable plastic bags, it is not common to get disposable chopsticks in hawker centers, unless you ask for takeout, which often costs 20-50c extra. Usually all plates/cutlery in hawker centers are reusable plastic.
While Singapore cannot be compared to Europe in terms of "save-the-environment" attitude, there recently has been improvement (e.g. some supermarkets started to give discount if you bring your own bag; government incentives to educate people to use reusable plastic etc).

Also, you say Singapore doesn't feel like a very clean city to you, but you don't have any examples. Certainly Singapore is very clean compared to any European/German city of the same size, or anywhere else in SEA.

I'm also German, living in Singapore for 6+ years.
> I believe making diversity a goal is a misguided effort and it has nothing to do with kind communication guidelines.

If you're speaking on behalf of yourself, or one project, that's fine, but RMS is in a very special situation of being both the father of the Free Software movement, and the leader of the GNU project, so what he says has more gravitas.

> I would add that they create a somewhat "ominous" or "heavy" atmosphere, making for a less playful and creative environment.

For you, but what you may find playful may be the thing that keeps someone feeling oppressed and keeps them away.
It is definitely a "cleaned" city. The level of cleanliness has gone now and litter has increased. Public awareness of this has gone down. If you know Singapore, there has always been a history of govt-led campaigns.

15 years ago, it wasn't like that. People bring their own tupperware to do take aways. All the cutlery were washed and cleaned. This meant more time and energy from the hawkers. In the name of efficiency, low cost, disposable plastic/styrofoam/chopsticks is a convenient solution, unfortunately.
They are doing/attempting it all the time (in 2nd/3rd world countries where the law can bought) this is why there are security firms equipped better than most of the special forces out there. In 1st world countries the law can be fought instead and still it happens (just a recent "New trial for Sydney property developer Ron Medich over murder of former business partner"). But I am certain most of the time it is (like with the regular folks) just hatred and personal revenge for theft/insult rather than "just business".
Pretty sure doublepg23 was referring to those of us who aren't straight, cis-gendered males. Politics directly affects us, sure the rich among us can run to lavender marriages and try to cover up their innate desires, but the rest of us will end up being fed to the wolves.

For us, going to a rural town or even many suburbs elicits the observation "It smells like dead gay people" as you've entered an area where you may get lynched for being yourself. Even here in Seattle, non-straight couples are getting violently assaulted for being out in public with their significant other. The state of affairs is rapidly getting worse for us!
Level 1, level 2 and level 3 are the authors conceptions. Another post of his details what he means... http://www.pathsensitive.com/2018/01/the-three-levels-of-sof...
redhat owns the centos trademark and employs most of its developers.
I lived in Singapore for six years and then San Francisco for almost six years now, but seriously, I don’t feel US is any more “free” in any tangible ways. Maybe there are more “freedom” defined by laws in US but certainly not something that normal people will miss in daily lives.
Also over focusing on “individual” freedom apparently won’t always align with the interest of the entire society and could eventually bring down the average happiness of individuals.
What are some of the best design books you people would recommend for a junior developer?
You should visit other countries in the area and then you can see the difference in Singapore, it’s a pretty remarkable and unexpected achievement.
This is not correct. AML/KYC regulations are just as strict in Canada as in the USA - they have to be, because our financial systems are so intertwined. Furthermore, it is not the job of the RCMP (or of any of the provincial securities regulators) to oversee these issues; there is a special entity called FINTRAC (http://www.fintrac-canafe.gc.ca/intro-eng.asp) that does this, and believe me they are a deadly serious organization.

(I used to be chief compliance officer and "ultimate designated person" of a registered dealer.)
I take some issue with the $4,500 figure. Searching eBay for recently sold listings of used gear, a used Canon 5DS R is worth ~$1800, and the lens ~$600.

$2,500 is a long way off from $4,500. Even longer when you consider they short-changed him about $500, not $2,500.

I'm not defending the service; they should have just offered to replace the gear or offered a fair amount, but it's worth pointing out what the situation really is.
"But actual poverty is a culture and a set of habits that easily pass from one generation to the next."

Wow.
learn something every day thanks
Thanks for this suggestion! We'll definitely kick Blacklight around as an option. We have a complex data model (cases, opinions, parties, citations, courts, jurisdictions, volumes ...), and tens of millions of pages, and weird access restrictions, and multiple output formats (text/html/xml/pdf), so whatever we end up with will have to be pretty custom.
> I feel the KCG are actually a step in the right direction in this regard; and since it doesn't alienate as much of the anti-CoC crowd, it seems foolish to battle it.

You may be right that I'm being harsh, at the same time, I don't see this the KGC as a neutral thing. It says "Here is the line", but sets that line very far from aspirational. If anything, it seems designed to address how people are to interpret his comments.

We can (and need to) do better.
I had one metallic straw in a fancy cocktail bar. The rest were plastic. Not to say, that I get a plastic cup full of ice with a plastic straw when I order a green tea, which comes in a can and is already ice cold. For the litter I see the most: part of plastic bags and Dasani water bottles. I hope the change in trash management, recycling and maybe trash separation does not only start with the rich people here, but with everyone.
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Good thing you didn't write this on top of Etherium instead. I suspect you would quickly run into a situation where you... needed more Vespene gas.
Towards the back of the article it talks about video from inside the house where the man shows the knife to the camera then turns off the camera.
> You do need to be aware of the risks around whatever phone number you use to bootstrap your way in possibly being reallocated.

They recently added an optional "Registration Lock" feature to address this: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059792-Re...
> Erlang with its active objects seems to me to fit precisely his description.

Simula 67, one of the first (if not first) OO language way back in 1967 was exactly this also.
How Music Changes Our Perception of Touch
Health is the ultimate wealth. Thanks for inspiring me to put something in the bank here.
In places where the rule of law is weak and corruption is rampant it is easy to literally get away with murder just by paying off the police. But that doesn't protect you from retribution from associates of the people you had killed. You have to either wipe out the entire enemy tribe, or make it look like a very convincing accident, or very convincingly pin it on someone else. Sometimes you combine those with the assistance of the corrupt police.
> The country has long had an obsession with hygiene and cleanliness.

An obsession with shiny appearances. Hygiene and cleanliness? What a joke. So many meat shops don't store meat in a cold and clean place. Plenty of hawkers are far from clean.

> There are 56,000 cleaners registered with the National Environment Agency. There are likely thousands of independent contractors who aren’t registered. Mostly they’re low-paid foreign workers or elderly workers.

This says everything. It's easier to keep the city "clean" when you have slaves.
You will occasionally run into problems requiring much deeper systems expertise than in a standard Ops or SWE skillset. Red Hat is a practical and economical alternative to hiring kernel hackers yourself.
Not the only way, but the best way.
If my IP address is my current VPN endpoint - I'm only worried about "the global passive observer" - and if I've got them curious about me there's no sensible technical measure I can take to prevent losing out to them.

As James Mickens teaches us: "YOU"RE STILL GONNA GET MOSSAD'ED UPON"
Why was he unusual? (I didn't read the article.)
> Is caselaw data an artifact originating from the public dollars which funded the whole show to begin with?

Yes and no. It’s important to realize that the US courts (1) are a distributed system comprising hundreds of autonomous courts; and (2) predate the internet, photocopiers, telephones, telegraph, a large centralized federal government, and indeed the federal government itself.

Today court opinions are published as PDFs on courts’ websites. But back in the day, they were published as slip opinions stored in the clerk’ office of each individual court. Private companies like West undertook to collect cases from all these hundreds of courts and publish them in books called “reporters.” Back then (and even today) that meant sending someone out to hundreds of courts to collect and copy the decisions. They not only published the opinions, they organized everything within a comprehensive ontology of their own creation, and added their own annotations.

When computers were invented a century later, these publishers were well placed to digitize their collections and offer access to them over pre-internet electronic systems. Then, of course, those moved to the Internet.

Even collecting these cases together on a going forward basis is no easy task. As noted above, the courts are decentralized, by design, even within the federal system. Just getting the decisions from hundreds of courts and uploading them would be an expensive endeavor. Nothing stops someone from undertaking this—court decisions themselves cannot be copyrighted and you’re free to go to and court and ask to copy published decisions.
My guess is that it will be more sustainable than government that restrict much less freedoms - people carry guns, have drugs, piss on the streets, destroy public properties and do all kinds of creepy things and government can’t really do much about it. How is that more sustainable
This is it. If you tell a typical senior executive at a company that their actions will lead to the death of 10 million people, their primary concern will be if the company will still make money one the deal, then how they can hide their actions from regulators in order to maximize their return.

You might think they would consider whether or not they'd be jailed, but that thought never crosses their mind.
I doubt it would pass antitrust review were that the case. Qualcomm is the only viable US market chip company that high-end phones can use. All the existing patents and agreements don’t go away if it were to be acquired.
> I was doing homework one night and the building next door's top 2 floors were blown up because some banker had a hit placed on his head.

Wow. What country was that in?
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One can raise an eyebrow at a clean city that uses corporal punishment for visa overstays and the death penalty for drug offenses without being a radical libertarian.
Vim support for plugin authors needs to be improved (poll)
Didn't they patent the corners on iPads and iPhones? Just a rumour that I've heard as a reason we couldn't get parts a few years back, but still.
Yes you can do stuff more easily if you control all parts of the network. That doesn't mean we have to give up on standards based messaging just because it is harder. In the long run silo based systems are more work because you have to reinvent everything every time you create the next entirely incompatible system. If that system doesn't catch on then you have to reinvent everything again and again until you get lucky.

This feature is an example of what happens when you don't solve the meta data properly in the first place. It doesn't really work that well but unless Signal starts routing through something like Tor (a system they don't and can't control) they are stuck with half measures.
Right, I know. You are saying Eau Claire is a nice place to raise a family, but that's not important to NCGs. Then you're saying most engineers are there (in addition to Fox River valley and the cities). Mostly a little older folks then I guess?

As a sidenote, what kind of firms are up there? I'm familiar with madison and milwaukee, and know some companies in the Fox River Valley, but am not real familiar with Eau Claire and the surrounding area.