skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For one, the tabloid could argue it was merely trying in good faith to resolve a dispute with Bezos—not attempting to blackmail or extort him. This reasoning is why, for example, a lawyer can send someone a letter saying their client will agree to settle a lawsuit if certain terms are met.

So IANAL, but my understanding after some research is that this is well-trod territory resolved by deciding whether there was a ‘lack of nexus’. To quote State v. Pauling, which I have not read in full,

> Molotov Pauling was convicted of second degree extortion under former RCW 9A.56.130 (1975) for threatening to disseminate and, in actuality, disseminating nude photos of a former girl friend to collect a valid $5,000 small claims court judgment he had against her. The Court of Appeals, stating that the statute lacked a requirement that the threat be wrongful, declared former RCW 9A.56.130 unconstitutionally overbroad because it prohibited threats that constituted protected speech and reversed Pauling's conviction. We hold that a limiting construction is available, requiring that the evidence shows a “lack of nexus” between the threat made and the claim of right. This construction confines the statute's application to only extortionate threats that are inherently wrongful and are not protected speech.

> [...]

> There are significant differences between, on the one hand, threatened disclosures of such matters as consumer complaints and nonpayment of dues, as to which the threatener has a plausible claim of right, and, on the other hand, threatened disclosures of such matters as sexual indiscretions that have no nexus with any plausible claim of right.

> Id. (emphasis added). The court held, “where a threat of harm to a person's reputation seeks money or property to which the threatener does not have, and cannot reasonably believe she has, a claim of right, or where the threat has no nexus to a plausible claim of right, the threat is inherently wrongful․” Id. at 71 (emphasis added). Although a person might have a legal right to collect a judgment, there is no nexus between the exercise of that right and the threat to post embarrassing nude photos on the Internet. On the other hand, a person with a legal right to collect a judgment would have a nexus to a threat to institute garnishment proceedings.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/wa-supreme-court/1260888.html

I found about about this through a good article by the Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

Although I cannot confirm any of this—it's not my field—I can say for certain that I think this should be textbook blackmail, and it's hard to imagine the case actually failing.
There's a good reason all the major internet companies were founded and grew in the US.
Lisps do not "typically" use this relatively obscure data structure. Can you name one Lisps that use it? If so, how about two more?
I would argue that DDD is not as efficient if your optimizing for speed and efficiency.

The problem is that there is now another variable you would need to keep track of: your UML diagrams / documents.

I guess creativity comes into play. For example if I am designing a video editing API. I could think bottom up and start from frames/buffers maybe. I might reason that I require a:

- Renderer
- Singleton that is an editor which holds our sequences
- Interfaces that can be exchanged for different types of editors
- etc.

However the other approach is top down. Imagine how the ideal api looks like and go from there:

editor.addSequence(sequence)
editor.process(item: [
.transaction(action: editAction),
.transaction(action: saveAction),
.transaction(action: finishAction)
]

^ so for example I might start from there and build the system from that point of view.

Anyways would appreciate more of a discussion here.
Stock buybacks come from profits which are taxed, and those who sell the shares back to the company also have to pay capital gains tax. And S corp income is taxed at personal income rates, not capital gains rates (except for some ridiculous 20% rebates in some situations in the new tax law (but is still higher than capital gains)).
Nope, no info! Just a total guess... Feel free to downvote me, I just have a feeling it's gonna surge, but who knows?
'Reform' always means expanding copyright restrictions even further...
nothing on my network tab in ff 65.0
Ime, I used to run occasionally and never warmed up, but once I started running more seriously (5-6x a week, interval/long runs, ~20 miles a week) injuries popped up right and left (knees, hamstring, shin splints). Warming up improves range of motion and flexibility, and I run with much better form. Cooling down I dont do as much, but I do focus in muscles that feel tight. Tight muscles tend to have poor flexibility and can lead to injury and poor performance.
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Without context it isn't a well-posed question; the important context of that question is the teaching material itself, which would have introduced scalars as reals in this case (I assume), thus establishing what is meant by "obvious" or "usual" [object].
How can you not rely on these platforms if you are building an app? You cannot expect anyone to go download .apk's manually. Users are too coddled to do anything different when downloading/installing the app.

Then maybe we should start educating users in the other direction. There wasn't this problem before app stores and walled gardens became common.
> Google's law team's time is way more expensive than whatever lawyer you found to write a letter or two is going to charge you.

The reality of it is that the legal team is a sunken cost to the company. They hire or retain lawyers for whatever's going to happen anyway.
The problem with "bullshit jobs" isn't necessarily that they're completely unnecessary, it's that they lie many layers of indirection and specialization away from the delivery of value. For example, receptionists and secretaries (two rapidly dying professions, BTW) don't just "serve to make their superiors feel important", they significantly improve the productivity of the people they assist. These jobs are literally an Econ 101 example of comparative advantage.

But even those examples are blatantly obvious to anyone who actually works with a receptionist or secretary. Other examples are less so, but effective organizations try to do a good job of showing people how their work fits into the bigger picture. If you're on an assembly line all day drilling three holes into a sheet of steel, by default you're going to feel alienated. The solution to that is to say, no, you're not just drilling three holes into a sheet of steel, you're helping to build a car. And if you do your job well, you're going to build the best cars in the world. And if you have ideas about how to improve the part of the manufacturing process that you're personally involved in, we will continuously improve the process based on your feedback. And so on and so forth. Alienation happens, but it doesn't have to, and when it does happen, it usually either leads to or coincides with poor results. Those solutions I mentioned didn't come from academics or revolutionaries; they came from engineers and industrialists.

Pointless jobs do exist, but most of these jobs exist for reasons like "it's hard to efficiently coordinate large organizations", "sometimes game theory leads to shitty outcomes", and "some people are either con artists or cranks".
> Almost none of those things you listed are extremist right wing. Politics are way too polarized and you're proof of that.

As is you immediately making it personal, but I disagree. As is mentioned elsewhere, "extremist" is a relative term. Plenty of people would consider what I listed to be pretty extremist... but had you made a good faith attempt to read my comment, you would have seen that the premise of it was to point out that there is an entire spectrum of "right wing" content allowed on Reddit, from the mainstream to the fringe.

>I'm not even sure what you mean by anti-feminist but I'll guess "hate women and their rights", which I'll say leftists are guilty of disrespecting and sending threats to conservative women with "incorrect opinions".

Incels, redpillers, mens' rights advocates, etc. And you're correct that this exists on the left, but given that I never claimed it existed exclusively on the right, only that it existed on the right, I don't know what the purpose of the equivocation here is.

>On top of all this, you lump in anti-left and anti-liberal with your other categories of "evil", making anti-right and anti-conservative the good guys.

Who are you quoting here? I never mentioned evil. I never made a moral value judgement at all in my comment.

But... anti-left and anti-liberal would by definition be right-wing. I don't know why that seems to to be controversial to you, as you clearly fall into that category yourself.

>Your bias is showing, and you're alienating political moderates in the center. This is why people are not voting the way you want them to.

Oh.... I see. You're not actually responding to me, you're responding to the strawman.

Fair enough, you do you then.
> will protect Europe’s cultural heritage

What does that mean? A free and open internet means history will be erased or something?
Solution: remove the dislike button. Alternatively don’t report the dislike button and only use it to adjust media suggestions.
I love the Red language. I think this is an interesting experiment – and I’m not trying to be mean here – I found the page difficult to read. But I hope the OT continues on this path.
Restrictions on state aid date from the treaty of Rome 1957 (https://www.nao.org.uk/decision-support-toolkit/annexes/anne... ), and Ireland joined the EU in 1973. It's not about targeting Ireland, it's about creating a genuinely level playing field while ending trade wars.
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Spotify, the leading music streaming app, is finally profitable
Ahead of it's time I guess... Internet and gaming weren't enough of a thing back then for anything exorbitant.

It must have done well because I heard of it despite never playing it.
What your missing is that, thanks to globalization, those cities have to compete against cities in third world countries without nice things such as minimum wages or workers rights that tend to be viewed as burdens by most corporations. This is less an incentive to expand and more begging the company to stick to the status quo and not to bail out to Bangladesh the first chance the company gets
There are 100 million party members in China. It's a big part of getting ahead.

Of course the deal was approved in the boring sense. Neither that nor party membership mean that this is strategically interesting to the government.
Fair enough, but have they passed and survived judicial challenges, though?

A proposed law isn't a law, after all. Anyone can propose anything.
Thats the problem of monopoly. Also depend 100% on a single company.
I thought that as well, but then I realised that I was literally moving my cross over the button and clicking as fast as I can. Thats not how I usually browse the web. I move my cursor usually where I am reading, which includes links, so I am hovering over it before I have decided to click it
No, I was not accepting an argument that came across as 'our account was terminated and we have the RIGHT to be reinstated because this new account has done nothing wrong' In many other types of businesses it is rather common to be judged by the company one keeps. Given the importance of the app store account to this business, it seemed rather critical to keep it in good standing which would include vetting those they associated with it.

I admit that I was judging the story by the details that weren't included as I found the omission of them as the most relevant. Perhaps the flagging of the account in question was in fact wrongly done but it seems incumbent on the author of the article to make that case which they did not, in my opinion.

Here's the thing that really annoys me about this whole topic: I'm not a fan of the direction the app stores have gone (either as a user or a developer.) I'd much rather be reading and participating in discussions about what's going to disrupt them.
To save you reading: the article discusses and dismisses a lot of the hype of Fortnite exceptionalism, and the author's basis for "Fortnite is the Future" is that it's being used like Second Life, aka a social forum for people to hang out as much as for gaming.
The problem with this starts with the word "we". How do, for lack of a better word, "we" get some kind of authentic sense of we-ness going in this modern age of increasing social atomization? Here's how I do it... when I'm not busy hacking away on the next generation of (potentially planet saving) general computation[1], I am performing my solemn duties in the real world as "the peace guy"[2].

[1] See: https://linuxontheweb.org/desk.os

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=the+peace+guy
One Brain. Two Minds? Many Questions (2018)
An old (5+ years) ThinkPad will do just as well as a Chromebook.
What irks me about all this is that it’s entirely a one way street – American companies can’t go buying influence over Chinese social media companies because that’s simply not possible. These Chinese companies really want to have their cake and eat it too.
Hey thanks.
Not sure if that will work now with Facebook and all.
No, it's not fraud. A key element of fraud (civil and criminal) is that the accused knowingly misled, and to prove that you'd need to prove that there is no reasonable interpretation of what they said that they could have believed was true.
“Oops, we didn’t notice, but it’s another to be a company like Facebook that takes your private messages and sells that data. It takes your address, it takes your interest, it takes your browsing history and sells that to people without your permission Wydens.”

Does anyone know what context he refers to? I wasn’t aware that Facebook ever directly sold private messages. Same for address, interest...
Average Tax Refunds Down 8.4 Percent as Angry Taxpayers Vent on Twitter
New ‘microneedle patch’ could help heart attack patients regrow tissue
Yeah. The reason is that its a large country with a homogeneous population (language-wise). But as long as they have a EU leaning immigration policy I don't care what story of entrepreneurship people want to sell.

Edit: In response to one of the comments, which points out that US is not homogeneous in the full sense of the word.
How to know you've been coding too long in .Net
The minimum is $1. The guarantee is ~$10. I’m guessing nearly every tip is $1-9 meaning the tip never affects the amount the dasher receives, only the amount DoorDash pays. I don’t think anyone expects this to happen when they tip.

Encouraging customers to tip and suggesting 100% goes to the deliverer is fraud.
I'm a high school math and science teacher, and I completely agree this is a problem. Several of my students struggled greatly with simple arithmetic until I set down and gave them reasons for why a negative times a negative was a positive (which meant I also had to explain to them why multiplication works like it does).

I personally think part of the problem is how elementary education is structured. At least in my state, elementary school teachers are expected to be extreme generalists, and only have to take a math class or two -- and then nothing above simple college algebra (which is fine). But they always complain about how difficult it is, and they don't understand math, often taking the state's required exam multiple times because they can't pass math. Yet these are the people we allow to teach kids math; it's a huge issue when they're being taught math by people who don't understand why it works, only the algorithms they've memorized.

Coincidentally, this is also why the 'new math' was so lambasted -- these teachers (and often, parents) don't understand how numbers work, thus they think it's useless to teach kids to subtract 20 and add 2 instead of subtracting 18. Despite the fact that one is much easier to do mentally, and allows you to get a good sense of how subtraction and addition interact.

I'm not a fan of charter schools, but if I had money, I'd start an elementary charter school where the subjects were taught by people who understood that and not generalists. And students would get like multiple hours of recess a day, especially those first few years. Just pure, unstructured play time. But that's a rant for another day.
these guys are really into x86 assembly programming and win system programming:

http://masm32.com/board/index.php?PHPSESSID=2cdfa8b26fb4f6b9...

and they have a toolset and kit on thier frontend landing page:

http://masm32.com/

they are not into hax or reveng stuff and are seriously averse to please do my homework for me requests but the old timers know thier stuff.

agner is a good place as well for inspiration:

https://agner.org/
> This reads as passive-aggressive

To be fair it is, it was written in the heat of the moment.

> and incredibly self-centered

I don't agree. The commenter or anyone else who participated in the comments isn't an island. Threads now have holes and they read like puzzles with every 10th piece thrown out because the user decided to be self-centered.

You are completely correct, they don't owe me or reddit anything, but that doesn't mean that their act of disobedience, protest or grudge didn't leave collateral victims.

Imagine people re-writing or deleting their comments or answers on Stack Exchange. Sure, we aren't owed anything but it hurts thousands of people who click on it, and the website owner very little.
Indeed, breaking the web by misusing GET is not a good thing. By extension, keeping the web broken by not exposing this breakage is not a good thing either.
I agree that Overcast is the best game in town, but that's just because it has the best UX. There is something about the underlying audio technology that seems to be keeping this world pinned to mid-2000's tech.
Yes, the problem is that it will affect us - these companies are poking hornet nests and creating terrible precedents. If we were running Internet-style software to carry out these tasks, politicians would be faced with the prospect of policing individual behavior. But rather, they have a nice centralized target to attack.

It's not pedantry. It's disingenuous to equate Web Giants as standing up for Internet rights, when they're really just optimizing for their bottom line. While the two concepts start off aligned, what happens is that the companies compromise in a way that preserves their profits, yet still destroys the freedom. This actually sets up a barrier to competing with them, called regulatory capture. Witness that it wasn't enough for Google to simply suffer the DMCA, they went beyond and created a whole slew of systems to proactively police their users' activities.
If you know this is how the company handles tips you should never tip.
I thought just about this the other day, when I stumbled upon some category on a streaming service. It contained dramatic documentaries about various workers, all of which shared similar characteristics to those one can play in a simulator.

I started to think about how hard it would be to create a docuseries about any of the positions prevalent among HN people. "We need to refactor this codbase, ASAP!" is not really worthy of dramatic cuts and voiceovers.

I like my work, but it is kind of baffling how most of my day is spent manipulating "imaginary" things. So many levels of abstraction between what I do and the final (and only) physical result: The change of light emission on someones piece of glass somewhere.

(And of course changed charges in some memory module somewhere, but that's quite hard to observe for the casual viewer)
I imagine it depends on the situation.

Complete re-writes can sometimes help you elliminate a lot of technical debt and move faster if you do it right the second time. You can use different architectures, better tooling etc. So sometimes rewrites can be useful.

In other cases, your system might be doing just fine, and it needs parts of it re-written to be more scalable/efficient/whatever.

It always depends on the specific circumstance you're in. When deciding between the options, it makes a lot of sense to think through these things for a while and make sure you're doing it for the right reasons.
I doubt it's actually functionless, but it's not a "please reconsider your decision", but only "please check you haven't made an error" they probably expect everyone to hit, and treat it as such.
In RDR2 your character has a camera, too. It also has (like many Rockstar games) an excessively detailed and rich virtual world. There's even an actual game mechanic for birdwatching.
Yep, Google is by far the company with the worst customer support I've ever seen - they sucked up $500 without telling me and then when I found out, they hid behind a smoke screen as to why they couldn't refund it.

I also have another friend who has been banned for life by Google for the Play Store as well by association. Google refused to reconsider on appeal, and offers no recourse for him, a professor who teaches Android dev.

Google's lesson is clear here - don't use their services if you can help it because you expose tremendous liability due to Google's unwillingness to take any.
Illustrations like this one only serve to muddy the waters - http://witchy.co/triangle.png

The moon is lit from the wrong side and it has a crescent shape in what's basically an overhead projection. And it's not like there's much else going on in the illustration, it's one of its main elements.
All I can do is speculate as I don't know the answer to either question conclusively.

So...to speculate:
I know that spam email is coming from an IP; I don't necessarily know that the IP is officially associated with a given domain. Sure, I could do a dig to see if the A record matches the IP, but blacklisting an entire domain is a pretty draconian step. I need my blacklist to be accurate, with a minimum of false positives, or its market value diminishes. Adding domains based on IP association is going to be more likely to induce false positives and increase the administrative overhead involved with my blacklist, even if that overhead is mostly automated through "get me off this blacklist" forms and the like. /speculation

As an aside, I've noticed that if a cloud provider recycles IPs (Digital Ocean) the chances of pulling a blacklisted IP off the heap is pretty good. At this point, even if all the server is doing is sending the occasional password reset email to a handful of internal staffers, we run the email through Mailgun. It just isn't worth dealing with the hassle of trying to get an IP off a blacklist.
With respect, I am 100% sure that Google does this (no insider knowledge here - just conjecture on my part). I am completely sure that Google - a company that lives and dies by data - keeps logs.

But there is zero value sharing this with "customers". If you shared this and it said "Algorithm/Employee #12345678 linked this account with previously banned account" where does that get you? It doesn't get you any further - all it gets you is another thing to argue about, but they've already made their decision and you agreed to their TOS about how they can cancel your account at any time, so you've gained nothing really: Google still don't want to do business with you, sorry.
Worth pointing out that this is what Cloudflare wants people to do, they even have a blog post for it: https://blog.cloudflare.com/logs-from-the-edge/
You're happy with thousands of people wanting to find something, read it and then find gaps in it? You're not screwing Tencent and Conde Nast, you're screwing the average person who now has half a picture of what happened in the comment section.
By your casual interchange of "4G LTE" and "4G" it just goes to prove it's been done before, nothing happened, and the public went with the marketing. "4G LTE" is not "4G" just the same as "5Ge" is not "5G". The latter of each pair are ITU standards, the former are just marketing terms that sound like ITU standards.