skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gab is in the same category as The Daily Stormer. It's not courageous to hide behind free speech absolutism to protect content that invites others to violence. That's being too weak to engage in making the hard choices of what you will support with your efforts. It's the exact opposite of being principled.
Gab is not the online community for white supremacists, that's just an absurd hyperbolic statement. I would downvote you if I could.
Isn't @Joyent part of Samsung ?

https://www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent

This should be really interesting in days to come.
Thanks! One of the goals of Edsu is that it's simple enough that you can "telnet" in and just talk directly to the server like you can with HTTP or SMTP. It can seem like a trivial feature, but I've found that being able to speak a subset of a protocol from any language after just an hour or two of duct-tape hacking ends up being a big unsung feature.

And itgoon has it right - this was the most useful thing I could think to write that only took a single day (I had an self-imposed deadline to hit earlier this week).

Here's a discussion of more interested projects and how Edsu could be used in each (and its advantages and disadvantages):

https://edsu.org/use-cases/
In fact, I'd argue that pet dogs are bred specifically for traits like "obedience" which tends to favour less intelligence if anything --- so it's not surprising that pigs, which aren't selected for such traits, could be more intelligent than dogs.
I'm not exactly a conservative, but I sincerely appreciate that you continue to make this distinction. Thanks!
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I guess at some point you just trust the ingredients and process? I’m all for variability, it makes life interesting. But if your responsibility it to make sure that everyone buying Sriracha gets what they paid for, what do you do? 55 gallons is a lot of sauce, but if you empty 300 times that into clear plastic bottles every day, that’s a lot of taste testing.
I think we are mostly in agreement?
Are there others in the >100,000 users range?
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These posts always remind me of Todd Lappin's Telstar Logistics[1] in which he makes his personal vehicle look "official" and gets away with lots adventures with it.

[1] https://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2006/0...

[2] https://www.flickr.com/people/telstar/
Well yes, but the food also costs about $2 in China vs $15 in the US.
Has anyone ever done an economic analysis of free software(GNU licensed software) and how it plays out financially for all the actors involved?

As an example, how does a license like GNU play out for the average person contributing to a successful GNU licensed game versus a closed source game?

And also, at a more macro level, wouldn't a GNU-like license foster innovation and collaboration in the developing world and lead to greater profit for all parties involved in the long run(except ofc mega-corps)?

*I might just open an Ask HN when I've thought this question through some more.
> Why should they force themselves to support organizations that promote the wholesale elimination of other classes of people

Straw man arguments like this really lower the quality of discussion.
Do you still use HTTP compression? Or is it not necessary since the data you are sending to the browser is pretty small most of the time?
Is it hard to tune the gyro because its accuracy is too low, or because it's accurate to begin with but degrades over the course of the long exposure?

Is a pure software solution even reliable enough under these conditions? Slowness can be worked around by doing it in the background, and you get a notification when it's complete. Some people would be okay if that's the only way to get photos they wouldn't otherwise be able to get, short of buying an SLR.
Oh, come on. As today's horrible event demonstrated, all it takes is one single unbalanced individual with a semi-automatic weapon, and the members of any group -- white, black, Asian, Latino, Jewish, Muslim -- are at risk.

And writing about killing members of any group only services to rile up and incite those people among us who are predisposed to violence. And those people are of every color and nationality that exists.
The article only makes sense with a certain, fixed view of money.

Money is a social contract, it's worth whatever we want it to be, and we can change the value of it at any time.

The credit crises is not a issue of money, it's an issue of confidence in the system. No confidence, no credit, no system.

During this time, any government can play magic with the balance sheet and do as they please. This is what TARP etc. was about. The issue is really just about 'who wins and who loses' in a centrally planned game of money magic.

The drug industry mightn't have been too affected, by the downturn, and 'confidence' in their economy just kept on trukin'.

But any 'crash' in a post financially literate age that is not due to a true existential shock (like an earthquake that destroys nations) ... then we should be able to handle it ourselves without the crunch. The real issue just comes down to how we're going to divide up the pie when we wave our magic money wand, and it more than likely ends up benefiting the bankers more than others.
It's only because FreeBSD is my desktop OS, and so I used kqueue during dev. I understand that there's a compatibility shim for Linux, so theoretically a port should be quite easy. The bulk of the code is in Rust, and that shouldn't need porting at all.

And thanks for the kind words :)
Joyent, the hosting provider, has a history of pulling the rug from under people.

Here's an HN discussion of Joyent ending lifetime hosting accounts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4391669

I also knew someone who was using BingoDisk and was left hanging when it was sold to another company.
The "US Standard" generally means the standard by which the people of the US value the concept of Free Speech, which extends beyond that of the 1st amendment. We the people of the US codified our position on speech in the 1st amendment of our governing document to ensure that our government would never infringe upon our most vital right as free humans.

This however does not in anyway mean we believe others including large corporations should have the right to infringe upon said rights simply because "its a business"

There are many avenues one could seek to hold Joynet and others like them that proclaim to be open to all in their advertisements then reject many they disagree with. First and foremost would be Truth in Advertisement laws, Fraud, and other legal regulations which if they were properly enforced these companies would be clearly violating

No the "US Standard" of Free Speech is not just about government censorship, that is ignorant and naive view of what Free Speech is as a concept. Free Speech is concept where by a person is free to express themselves with out fear of censorship from either government or society at large. Free Speech today is under massive attack not by government in the US (yet) but by society at large.

//Edit for the record. I do not have nor do I plan to sign up for a Gab account (or twitter Gab's competitor) this is not about Gab as a service, I honestly could not care less about Gab it is about the precedent this sets when it comes to cloud and other internet infrastructure
It's frankly incredible that you decide to use the term "lynch mob" to describe people criticising platforms that are notable exactly for supporting literal lynch mobs and people encouraging actual murderers. Equally baffling is the equating of the criticism of these platforms to criticism of conservatives in general, which seems like something anybody with any respect for conservatives would want to avoid.
I find your point to be staggering.

Based on your name alone, are you really suggesting that you could engage online in the systematic advocacy of killing against whites in America, and face no consequences?
You haven't even proven that Gab is a white supremacist site. It's not. That's simply a mudslinging accusation meant to unfairly defame a site, probably because it contains different opinions than your own.
Anyone up for an analysis of Philadelphia's 311 data?
https://www.opendataphilly.org/dataset/311-service-and-infor...
Typescript significantly predates ES6 and Webpack. Java developers have been drawn to Typescript for over 5 years now.
What part is a strawman? That is literally the conversation that takes place on Gab.
I think they were saying, if money is free speech, and racist slurs are free speech, and anti-semitic conspiracy theories are free speech, then the quality standard for something to be free speech is low, and any mildly sympathetic individual or organization would put their own standard for free speech higher.
Being in the cloud business does not have to include being in the cloud business with Nazis.
I don't know about “eye movements playing a vital role in coordinating the body’s musculature,” but otherwise:

- The first class is reminiscent of guided meditation where one technique (afaik) is that your brain focuses on the extraneous input while the body relaxes, thus breaking the feedback loop of unconscious stress to muscle tenseness. This sort of meditation works wonders for muscle relaxation, you can't achieve that degree just by deciding to relax or with stretches.

- I'd guess that the movements of each joint and muscle, among other things, improve blood flow and relieve tenseness, which makes them perform better afterwards.

The focus on knowing the workings of your muscles is a big part of meditation for me—I've learned that normally I have a lot of tenseness that I can't shed by volition, and learned to look for this tenseness when my posture is bad. This sounds rather similar to what is said about the subject method in other comments.

However, I'm not sure if this translates to muscle memory: I doubt that a bunch of sessions and occasional conscious alterations to the posture are enough to train the muscles to work a certain way. The article doesn't go into long-term effects, and notably in the last example the author didn't apply the lessons on her own for some reason, without getting back in the class (though it might've just been too early to develop the self-control).
Here’s a hypothesis everyone with chronic back pain should consider: because you sit at a desk all day and never lift heavy stuff, the natural process of atrophy has made your back too weak to support normal, day to day activity, causing your back to be sore all the time. If you want to test this hypothesis, all it takes is about 3 weeks of deadlifting 3x per week (takes about 20 minutes per workout, so an hour total per week).

Could be the best 3 hours you ever invest in anything your whole life.
That would be meat from a vat -- zero IQ.
According to the FDA, no you can't.

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/7c48be3e-e516-4ccf...

"The
term
“bacon”
is
used
to
describe
the cured
belly
of
a swine
carcass.
If meat
from
other
portions
of the
carcass
is
used,
the product
name
must be
qualified
to identify
the
portions, e.g., “Pork
Shoulder Bacon.” "

So labeling Vegetarian Bacon as just Bacon is breaking da law.
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You missed an important step: nobody was on the platform saying "kill all whites" and then going and actually killing whites.

If there was a site that was filled with people saying "kill all whites", and the site was fine with this, and then one of its members went and murdered a load of white people, then yes I'd say they would probably be booted by their host too. They don't get points for booting the actual murderer after he'd done the murders.
I think we can argue tactics in good faith, while understanding that there is not actually a credible movement to eliminate white people. On the flip side, there are active and organized white supremacist groups advocating for the elimination of any number of minorities.
Your comment gives some incredible insight into the mental gymnastic people are capable of in order to justify their own violence & intimidation.
Glad I’m not the only one: https://github.com/neosmart/gmake-proxy

All maintained and ready to go.
Media and activists that pressure social media platforms, advertisers etc. treat the two very differently. Yes, whites are generally the privileged group, but I don't think it's reasonable to say that excuses the type of behavior you're talking about happening on Twitter, and that sort of thing feeds into the conspiracy theories you'll find in places like Gab.
There were many cases in which hosting companies decided to terminate accounts for whatever reason. And that's generally not a big problem, but 2 days notice on a weekend is just outright shitty behaviour. I can understand Joyent trying to cut ties to Gab, but seriously guys, give them time to migrate.
on the demo? No it's not using any compression - just got something working quickly one day to show off the library. The inner workings for the patch messages are undergoing a lot of reworking and I have plans to make different levels of compression available via configuration for the messaging protocol for the patches being pushed over websockets. This is a pretty young library though

the first page load is just a typical SSR webpage though - so compression could be applied just as easily as any other SSR webpage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaser_APEC_pranks
Banning new corporate cafeterias doesn’t go down well with SF planners
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nope, it's municipality run. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-1-1#United_States
People should stop talking for others when they are unelected or not nominated.

Just because she feels that way, doesn't mean every black person does. Maybe many do, but I don't think it is productive to speak for other people's experience.

Of course when speaking for oneself, then it is fine to say anything.
I have. While I'm particularly skeptical--certainly no Common Law theory of liability comes to mind, at least no traditional theory--I was sincere in my statement and I'm prepared to be schooled.
I mapped some of the 311 calls for Boston and San Francisco. Here are the Jupyter notebooks:

BOS: https://github.com/carbocation/jupyter/blob/master/Boston%20...

SF: https://github.com/carbocation/jupyter/blob/master/SF%20311....

(The SF notebook abruptly transitions back to some BOS maps because I forgot to remove them.)
Consider the scheme 79 chip:
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6334
I love when huge corporations end racism for me.
For games, I'd expect GNU does not play out well at all financially (and I say this as the author of a couple of GPL'ed games). Games are a bit of a strange beast, and atypical, I'd say, and pretty much nobody makes a GPL'ed game and expects to make money on it, and those that do attempt it turn out to be mistaken. If you look on http://freegamedev.net for instance, it's pretty moribund lately, though, say five years ago it was more lively. Unity pretty much killed open source games, there's no new blood in open source games, all the young people flock to Unity. OTOH, more than half my career has been spent working on open source stuff (linux drivers, mainly) and in that, it's worked out pretty well financially. But an anecdote is not data, of course.
No that actually was not confirmed at all by the US Supreme Court which ruled in favor of the Baker is very very very narrow technical grounds based solely on the comments/action of the Civil Rights agency that issued the fines. The 1st amendment did not factor into the case at all really.

Please try to actually understand the law before commenting on a legal position.
and using news as a third-level domain is a poor choice: Lynx always thinks I'm trying to open an NNTP connection :(
This is the first I've heard of this project.
There are some rather majestic words and images on that page.

A particular favourite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOC3huqHrss
I think it's unconstructive to command people to get out of a business because the line they draw on how disgusting and hateful content can be before they'll disallow it on their platform is different from the line (or lack thereof) that you'd draw. I also think it's probably purposeful disingenuous to frame that distinction as a righteous free speech decision where anybody who doesn't agree with your interpretation is not courageous.
Harvard dean of econ: open borders would double the world's GDP
I'm a white person and I'm pretty sure people don't treat me worse for my skin colour when shopping. Is that a controversial statement?
They also let you skip to the font of the line and get discounts: https://youtu.be/AWVxmbPKTp4?t=564
Just wait till you discover FreeNAS, pfSense, and OpenBSD! A world of awesome, battle-tested software awaits once you join the BSD dark side.
I remember having great fun some years ago when my friend's Internet Explorer somehow broke in the Win95/98/ME days.

So I tried to guess ftp servers from the DOS prompt.

I think I managed to connect to ftp://ftp.opera.com and install Opera.

Update: looks like it still works today. Anyone looking for a 2004 BeOS version?
A similar article said if you carry a backpack of vinyl albums, club bouncers will wave you through the door.
There is a lot of strawmanning when it comes to free speech. Virtually no one claims the 1st Amendment guarantees people a platform or that it applies to corporations. Yet, I see people clarifying that constantly...when no one is saying otherwise. Free speech as an American ideal, that's all people are really saying.

Anyhow, Joyent has every right to shut down their hosting services to anyone they feel...and no one really says otherwise on that point either. The sticking point is, are we headed down the right path on this issue? Are we setting the right precedent, because while we all likely agree that things like Daily Stormer and Gab are platforms for truly hateful people...are we emboldening them by driving them underground?

Likewise, as cloud providers beginning to show too much discretion over content? Let's take it outside of politics and into copyright. What if AWS hosted a new video streaming service, and some corporation XYZ claimed a (false) copyright violation. Amazon has a large contract with corporation XYZ because of Prime Video and kicks the video services off of AWS with short notice. Would that be acceptable, essentially putting that company out of business? Sure, it would legally not be a problem but would it be a moral problem?

Back to politics. Let's say GCS hosted DailyCaller or something, and employees internally find out and force it off because they find it as morally outrageous as the pentagon contract. It sounds crazy, but it could totally get to that point.

That seems like a bit of a leap from where we are now, but with cloud providers starting to show more and more discretion of what they host, I don't rule out that we could slip our way to things like that happening. It also seems increasingly likely that the more politicized the major players become, the more likely political disagreements could effectively ruin alternative platforms.

Gab might rightfully deserve being kicked off, but we do need to tread carefully on what type of precedent we are setting going forward as things like this become normalized.
Well, that's the end of that lurk. At least in Melbourne, and I assume Sydney.
What if, instead of either of these, we made it clear as a society that advocating violence against or the elimination of a class of people is unacceptable and we gave no venue for that conversation whatsoever?
> cato.org

lol
A thing that really annoys me on HN (though it's certainly not specific to this website but more general to any place where the users self style as 'intellectuals' or 'rationally minded' or whatever) is the amount of smart-sounding comments that betray a very cursory reading of what is being posted in the first place. For instance:

-Yes, we know correlation isn't causation. Don't you think the authors aren't aware of that, you know, being scientists and all? That doesn't mean they aren't useful and shouldn't be taken into consideration for making policies. It doesn't mean people shouldn't investigate correlations in the search of a potential causal link. For the record, many therapeutic drugs are approved way before the exact mechanism causing the therapeutic effect is known.

-Yes, they did control for all the obvious things such as socio-economic factors and so on. You'd know it if you actually read the paper, but searching for confounding factors is literally high school statistics. Don't you think the PhD-level authors wouldn't have thought about that?

-No, no one ever said that there even was a causal link in the first place. It's explicitly acknowledged in the paper. What makes it interesting, though, is: 1) the large sample size and observation period, and 2) the prospective aspect of it, i.e. they simply waited for possible cancer outcomes instead of actively going for them and hunting for correlations. This makes the findings significantly more solid.

Please, remember the guidelines: always take the most charitable interpretation of what someone says. Do assume that scientists are capable of doing their jobs, and whatever you've thought of in the few minutes of attention you gave this link, chances are the authors thought about it in the seven-odd years it took to publish it.
"Isomorphic."
I too am in the same boat. Never did much competitive coding, but am pretty decent at software development.

My colleague is good at both of them. And somewhere I feel, being good at competitive coding helps you develop an approach towards solving a problem. It also comes in quite handy when you have to make performance optimisation. Atleast that is what I observed with my colleague.

You should try to develop the logic by solving these questions!

Cheers
Er, why? That seems unrelated.
> I wouldn’t expect that you’d have moved from one well-respected hifi manufacturer to another with different tradeoffs.

I think you either have more respect for manufacturers and how they advertise, or have a higher estimation for people's ability to successfully wade through marketing bullshit than me.

Here's a question, is replacing your stereo cables with gold plated monster cables an "upgrade"? What do you think the average person thinks.

> Chrome and FF are effectively comparable

that depends quite a bit on the criteria used to judge them. If you value your privacy, I don't think the are comparable (as a synonym for similar) at all.
I was about to mention this as well. In the list of things the author tried, they didn’t mention strength training. Since I started deadlifts, rack lifts, and more strength training in general I have had no back problems. Granted I’m sure this isn’t the solution for everyone of course, but with more desk zombies, I’m sure it’s more relevant than ever.
This is a "bing" issue, not an "edge" issue.
You may as well stop using the internet entirely, there simply isn't anyone in this business that is the type of defender of free speech you're talking about. And if there was, toxic elements would gather there and then they'd most likely have other companies they depend on cut them off somewhere down the line.
Deciding on compensation structure, recruiting/hiring, and handling things like leave, benefits etc. Can all, depending on the company, fall under the purview of HR. None are primarily to protect the company from liability.

There are certainly some parts of the job primarily about avoiding liability but, as go said, that's true for many swes too.