skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to learn more about these countries then. Don't just buy the propaganda.

One of the ways Marxist-Leninism splits from traditional Marxism is Lenin believed (or realized that) a communist state would need to go through a transitionary market period with strong regulations and planning. The USSR never abolished money. That is way way way farther then they managed to get. There were super markets (not great but I Western standards, but they were there). They believed an ideal socialist state would take a long time to achieve.

Here's a link about shopping and money in the USSR: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/...

China is basically the same story, but the market was even stronger.
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Would these rules also apply to NSA/CIA misuse of surveillance?
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I have no idea who is the "above", and nothing on which to speculate. The internet's two largest payment processors both pulling out at the same time that Gab loses hosting, and becomes the target of a widespread slander campaign, definitely seems orchestrated. You can't dismiss that as "conspiracy theory material".

Sure, it could be distributed social pressure, but even that would just be a standalone event resulting from a larger and more subtle push from above to use social pressure as a mechanism for modern information gatekeeping.

Like I said, I'm not speculating as to who or what is behind this push for modern censorship but don't delude yourself into thinking it isn't there.
That's preposterous. Healthcare startups are doing just fine managing HIPAA, which includes up to $1M fine and prison time for violating patient privacy.
Failure to disclose a significant data breach isn't just about deceit against users, it's also about defrauding investors. To borrow a phrase from Matt Levine (Bloomberg), "everything is securities fraud," including failure to disclose a data breach certain to have a material effect on the company's stock price.

Failure to disclose (or unreasonable delay in disclosing) a massive data breach by the executives of a public company is already a criminal offense! But I don't know of any cases where criminal charges have actually been brought. It's possible that assembling a securities fraud case is extremely challenging, or that US Attorneys are not keen to go after tech co. execs. If the latter is true, I don't suspect a new data privacy law would be any better enforced.
So where you work, requirements are actual requirements?

In software, it's often the opposite. You see a fuckton of "requirements" that aren't requirements at all (or the company is looking for unicorns but inevitably end up having to hire a totally average human being), so people just apply whether they have the required skills or not.
no it doesn't. a large portion of the bill refers only to 1B+ companies.

also if you start a company, take care of user data, or if you can't just don't gather it in the first place.
Yep - I just default to it generally, but I know I can just get rid of it. Force of habit :P
Well it seems some owners seem to think they can beat the market and get higher rent by chasing renters out every few years. So they can raise rent by 7- 10% instead of just say 3%.
Ok, that I did not know. Thanks!
Downvoting this comment, wich usually pops up whenever somebody talks about the dots in hn, won't make the problem disappear. I too receive emails for someone who created an account with my namesurname but with a dot.
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Sadly yes - for major company emails at least.
A similar thing happened in the last place I lived, a small town in the Northwest Territories, Canada. The indigenous people in the area (called the Tlicho) were able to take over some of the governance of their land from the Canadian government, including mineral rights. It is a pretty significant amount of land too, about 100km x 200km. To make the case they had to map which land was included in their territory and demonstrate that their use of it goes back a long time. So they sent out their elders and professional map makers on canoe trips along their traditional hunting routes. The map makers collected gps data and associated it with stories from the elders and artifacts they found along the way, which built a compelling case for the land claim.
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What do you think is a more effective alternative?
Just about the only threat that execs will take seriously is a posse of well-armed men. I’m personally not against dispensing some long overdue vigilante justice, but I wonder whether we’d know when to stop?
Was it really news? I heard 4 months ago that this was going to be around DC for their coming cozy relationship with the military industrial complex. Everyone could see it coming.

Amazon sure won't be doing that city any favors when it comes and replaces its entire population with tech bros.
China is much less pluralistic than Russia. It's more important to send a message to locals than it is to poison the information.
I think many Haskell, OCaml and Scala programmers would disagree heavily with you.

Repl driven development works very well with pure functional code and at no point did I feel an increase in loc begin to make it tedious or whatever.

The repl approach perhaps doesn't work as well in Java because Java and its ecosystem encourage writing messy jumbled code built upon unsafe abstractions.
I'm an engineer at Streak and the primary creator of Ratchet, so I'm happy to answer any questions about the library that people might have.
Treating candidates with basic respect isn't asking for too much.
Combination spreadsheet and YNAB.
> I have zero reason to believe that this fully accounts for one of the 50 states being home to one out of every four homeless Americans.

"One of 50 states" is a misleading statistic, given that states are nowhere near equal in population and California is the largest.

California is home to one out of every eight Americans, has good weather, and has some cities with an infamously high cost of housing. What fraction of the homeless population would you expect it to have?
the fact that we consider dead human bodies “gross” is concerning to me. Human “waste” isn’t at all toxic waste. In fact, it’s rich in nutrients that can be reabsorbed back into the soil for future food production.
I’m aware that there were money and shopping in the USSR, thanks. I’m also aware that there was no real estate market in the USSR, daycare and education of all levels was free, vacations weren’t paid for, etc. I’m assuming none of those are in GDP calculations? That was my question.
Funny to hear him talk about Encarta. I had totally forgotten that that used to exist.
Isn't this article just a restatement of the original Yahoo news story here? https://www.yahoo.com/news/cias-communications-suffered-cata...
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No. This will stop you from building the kind of startup that is built on a bad ethical foundation. Don’t collect data you can’t protect. It’s that simple!
This is actually (almost) legal in teradata sql, which doesn't enforce clause order, but it doesn't accept an identifier as a predicate.
So why pass a law if it can't or won't be enforced? And do you realize how political prosecutors offices are? Also, laws like this become patronage to the drafters when they're out of office. "Well you REALLY should hire our compliance services."

Laws only work when cultural norms already do 99% of the heavy lifting.
The big companies that do this have no shortage. They can afford to be as picky as they want and people are still drooling for a job at these places.

There's still genuine shortage around, but it's by no means universal. Smaller companies are affected more, but they can't afford to shovel workers in like the big companies once could. And it's pretty likely that they are the ones that get hurt the most if they get a bad hire, so they are in a dire situation. The likes of google, facebook and amazon can easily soak up a bunch of bad hires until they realize the problem and show them the door.
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To add to what others said about it being somewhat arbitrary, it should be noted that in different time and places other definitions have been used. Each of the following sets has been "the primes" to mathematicians at some time/place:

P1 = {1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, ...}

P2 = {2, 3, 5, 7, 11, ...}

P3 = {3, 5, 7, 11, ...}

The underlying mathematics is the same no matter which of those you call "the primes". All that really changes is what you then have to say when you want a specific one of those sets.

If P1 is "the primes", and your theorem needs a p that is a member of a specific one of those sets, you have to say "Let p be...":

P1: "...a prime"
P2: "...a prime other than 1"
P3: "...an odd prime"

If P2 is "the primes", it is:

P1: "...1 or a prime"
P2: "...a prime"
P3: "...an odd prime"

If P3 is "the primes" for you, it is:

P1: "...1, 2, or a prime"
P2: "...2 or a prime"
P3: "...a prime"

Given the state of mathematics since the 19th century, P2 as the "primes" probably results in the minimum verbiage.

I don't think anyone has used P3 in a very long time, so unless you are studying ancient math history you probably will never encounter anything using it.

P1 and P2 were used together up until at least the 18th century, with some mathematicians using P1 even longer, but pretty much everything you will encounter now will use P2.

Even is a book you might read now says it is presenting the historical proof of some theorem as it was originally proven, and that proof has done by someone who used P1 as "the primes" in the proof, the book will almost certainly reword it to be for P2 prime.

You will probably only ever have a chance of running into P1 primes if you actually go to original sources, finding copies the actual books or articles or papers of mathematicians from back when many used P1 primes.
Hmm...I think I have (somewhere) a copy of that Born book, signed by Born, courtesy of my Dad who I suppose must have run into him in Edinburgh in the 50's.
You don't need a $350K/year worked-at-Netflix guru to set up 2 or 3 PostgreSQL or MySQL boxes in separate datacenters and ship transaction logs around.

I think many people over-estimate by a huge factor, how tough it is to run and maintain things. The cloud providers of course, love this!
Maybe there needs to be consequences for selective law enforcement and/or selective prosecution?
A lot of ndas at interview time are really just cover your ass in case your company looks like an idiot. I've also been through the amazon interview treadmill where they interviewed me for a different job than I was approached about working on. wasted time writing a stupid essay. got no questions about it. what a waste of time. never really gave me clear feedback that i wasn't being offered a job.
This would probably mean more compensation at executive level for the increased risks!
I've always thought that the CIA was completely incompetent, but I've never seen more conclusive evidence than this. I've never worked with anyone so flippant about security, but no one should ever expose secrets without proper auth. I won't even expose user address without cert or password auth. It just goes to show you that the old adage is true: if you are a completent programmer you don't end up in government.
Given the company's history of misogyny, I'd say she lucked out.
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I’m reading the text of the bill and, so far, it appears it targets only large corporations with 50mil annual revenue and 100,000+ consumer data.

I don’t think start ups will be affected.
I am very new to programming myself and I very much understand your sentiment. Two years ago I learned a bit of PHP and MySQL and built some apps and websites for my own use. What I found out is that I learn best by watching videos, not reading books or articles. I used Lynda.com videos as as foundation with the occassional Youtube videos thrown in (sometimes the pace of Lynda was a bit too fast for me or it felt like the lecturer was doing too many things at once). So I recommend Lynda and/or other similar services to see if it fits your learning style.
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Less than 20 people playing out of 800 seems to be a pretty effective boycott to me.
Not everyone is going to be the next Google, Facebook, Crytech, EA, ...

There are better ways to waste money than spending it on YAGNI features.
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Did you read the article? Human bodies are full of toxic compounds nowadays
I am not a gamer so I could be wrong but it’s REALLY hard to believe hardcore PC gamers are going to play a reskinned Chinese game on a cell phone and pay microtransactions. It might make money, but not from the people up in arms about this.
But the reverse is true. You can upload a list of contacts through your Facebook business manager.
I wasn't really invoking his opinions on Gab specifically, but I would be curious to know them. My point was more like: What happens to journalists like Singal when any writing deviating from to the most mainstream of progressive frameworks of thought endangers the resources/finances of the outlet publishing it? Have you Googled his full name?
I'm not that familiar -- but isn't it possible that the die hard fans who show up to a convention are more likely to be PCMR/console types who don't like the idea of a watered-down mobile experience?

And maybe successful COD example is due to the more casual gamers who wouldn't attend a conference (given that there are many more of them, it doesn't take as much engagement for financial success. )
Or be used directly as Soylent Green.
Well, not that anyone is perfect, but Bill Gates does give a lot of money to charity.
What are you trying to imply with this comment? Are you uncomfortable any time you're in an elevator alone with a man?

Did anything untoward happen? If not, did this at all affect your perception of men and/or men who work at Google?
so they admit, that the war on drugs is not working anymore. a new paper dragon is needed.
At the University of Maryland, our network access was through the NSA's "secret" MILNET IMP 57 at Fort Mead. It was pretty obvious that UMD got their network access via NSA, because mimsy.umd.edu had a similar "*.57" IP address as dockmaster, tycho and coins.

https://emaillab.jp/dns/hosts/

HOST : 26.0.0.57 : TYCHO : PDP-11/70 : UNIX : TCP/TELNET,TCP/SMTP,TCP/FTP :
HOST : 26.0.0.57 : DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL,DOCKMASTER.DCA.MIL, DOCKMASTER.ARPA : HONEYWELL-DPS-8/70 : MULTICS : TCP/TELNET,TCP/FTP,TCP/SMTP,TCP/ECHO,TCP/DISCARD,ICMP :
HOST : 26.1.0.57 : COINS-GATEWAY,COINS : PLURIBUS : PLI ::
HOST : 26.2.0.57, 128.8.0.8 : MARYLAND,MIMSY,UMD-CSD,UMD8,UMCP-CS : VAX-11/780 : UNIX : TCP/TELNET,TCP/FTP,TCP/SMTP,UDP,TCP/ECHO,TCP/FINGER,ICMP :

https://multicians.org/site-dockmaster.html

Whenever the network went down (which was often), we had to call up a machine room at Fort Mead and ask them to please press the reset button on the box labeled "IMP 57". Sometimes the helpful person who answered the phone had no idea which box I meant, so I had describe to him which box to reset over the phone. ("Nope, that didn't work. Try the other one!" ;) They were even generous enough to issue us (CS department systems staff and undergrad students) our own MILNET TACACS card.

On mimsy, you could get a list of NSA employees by typing "grep contact /etc/passwd", because each of their courtesy accounts had "network contact" in the gecos field.

Before they rolled out TACACS cards, anyone could dial up an IMP and log in without a password, and connect to any host they wanted to, without even having to murder anyone like on TV:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVth6T3gMa0
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i love how you packaged your sarcasm and irony in such an innocent-looking question.
There are two kinds of people in this world:

1) those who can extrapolate from incomplete data
It isn't just UB. It's ADL, ODR, templates, multiple inheritance, etc. The de facto compatibility with C and its own backwards compatibility are also both curses on C++. C++ also blew their complexity budget in a lot of questionable ways that just makes it hard to keep C++ code maintainable. When things become unmaintainable, they become buggy.
Unfortunately, as explained in the post, both approaches -- which are similar to red.c in the post -- suffer from the out-of-order issue.
Another is that it dodges the reality check of math. I recall reading a bit of advice to authors of popular science articles: each equation in the text cuts your audience in half.
That is a stiffer sentence than a second degree murder charge which is 15-years in California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_(United_States_law)#Cal...
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curious, what the downvoters are disagreeing with specifically in this comment.
"...grant the Federal Trade Commission authority to write privacy regulations."

I presume the FTC doesn't have authority over the NSA/CIA, so no.
The blizzard developer quoted in the article stated emphatically that wasn't true, and that similarities owed to adopting successful GUI idioms in other markets; does the gaming community have information to update the story?
full bill text can be found here:

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Wyden%20Privacy%2...
There have been a handful of prosecutions (and many hundreds of firings) for misuse of the FBI's NCIC database by law enforcement officials. For instance, ex-NYPD Sergeant Joseph Dwyer was convicted of conspiracy in federal court in 2016 for selling information from NCIC to private defense investigators.

Personally, I believe this kind of breach-of-trust should be prosecuted much more vigorously. But besides the fear of embarrassment, I suspect federal agencies are unwilling to
compromise intelligence methods to prosecute misbehavior.
Why would the environmental cost of cremation be higher than of burying? The required land for a cemetery alone has a huge environmental cost.
> The "Social Text" affair was a major deal because "Social Text" was a major venue of postmodernism at the time

Social Text was in fact a pretty niche venue and it was not even peer reviewed. Yes, its contents were risible and easy to lampoon, but Sokal’s feat wasn’t the crushing blow on the modern humanities that it is often presented as.
I've been using GNOME 3 for almost two years now and I haven't experienced any of those issues. GNOMEs actually been really easy to use. Never had difficulty with theming or ricing my setup.

Just wanted to provide some counter anecdata. I see a lot distaste for it but as an everyday user I've had no issues.
This must be the norm for Amazon. I interviewed for a position a couple of years ago in their networking division, and was interviewed by an individual in Dublin (I was applying for a position in Seattle) who was not only not the hiring manager, but didn't seem to care for interviewing me at all. Obviously, it went nowhere.
openstreetmap in this example!
I see no flamewar here. In fact, the only one who seems to have a problem with this discussion is you.

There are a few low-quality comments, true. But these are mostly high-quality comments, relative to internet discourse on other websites.

You're making bad calls. And if the sole way for me to contribute to this site is to point this out to you, then at least it's an impactful contribution.
A Greek saying goes: Ουδέν μονιμότερον του προσωρινού. (There is nothing more permanent than the temporary)

I keep thinking about it when building out information system architectures, especially ones that interface with end users. Bad design is metastatic and unbelievably hard to get out of. Whatever the cost of reversing a bad design decision you have in mind, 10x it and you still might not be truly there.
> Senior Software Engineer (L3)

Likely because this is reminiscing, _but_ if they told you Senior Software Engineer was an L3, things were even more screwed up. Senior Engineers should be L5-L6.
This looks like pure legacy code and not actually a bug...
Fac, ergo sum
That data is too private.
> Laws only work when cultural norms already do 99% of the heavy lifting.

And this is the aspect where a lot remains to be done in the USA. Many people who buy, sell or plain steal personal data don't perceive it as something negative. Some of these people are high-level executives and get praise as "disrupting the industry", some do their job quietly, and very often their victims don't even realize the extent of the harm done to them.
Times change, what was the norm a few generations ago is gone, whether it's getting in as a low paid minion and move up the ladder or being able to afford a house at age 25 on a single income.

There are plenty of cases where if you factor in your expenses to go to a job, you actually get less on your bank account than getting your welfare.

If your business can't offer a salary that compete with a fairly low standard of living such as relying on "handouts" as you put it, then there's something wrong and yes it should be really hard for you to hire anyone. Yes there are some industries which are notable for being prone to that and that's usually why they also receive their own kind of handouts too.

This law sort of enforce it in a way (and beyond obviously).

I'm not US citizen nor a resident there so I have no horse in this race. But I do believe it's mostly a good thing
This is a very strange comparison to me, given the enormous disparity in the targets. But can you expand on your line of thought?
>Neither side can disprove the other and things just get more heated as we talk past one another.

Woh woh woh. Back the truck up. One side has a hypothesis that can be subjected to falsification. The other says "A wizard did it. Trust me."

The debate on minimum wage is an emperical question that both models fail and succeed on various tests. It's a truly hard question to answer and likely has no stable model.

Completely 110% different types of logical incongruity.
So you’re saying it’s the same but better for environment and faster, with the same dollar cost?
This HN thread is a shocking reminder of how many people view corporate sadism as normal or even good. That kind of nonsense is what engineers should be shielded from, not the other way around. I prefer to keep my dignity, thanks.
This seems great, but growing up among Yiddish speakers, this word has a very different connotation. Just worth being aware of.
Plainly no: in practice, it is the Android SDK WebView class, not the 140MB Chrome app.
Now that we have refrigeration there's no need for "embalming". My family's religious tradition calls for _no_ embalming and burial in an un-adorned, un-finished pine box. This will also save people a lot of money that's simply wasted and better spent on the living.
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Reminds me of Firefox's 3D View

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/3D_View

Can anyone suggest anything like this for Rust or Lua?
Zuckerberg acknowledges it: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/24/billionaire-mark-zuckerberg-...
How does OCR software integrate letter and language models? Do they first make a best guess at the letters and then try to correct it with the language model? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition#... gives me that impression, but I'm not sure.

Brains are said to have a lot of feedback from higher levels of sensory processing to lower. Maybe you don't need as good a language model if its evidence is integrated more tightly with the rest.