skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spark managing director Simon Moutter:

>Our Spark security experts are working hard to close off the websites attempting to distribute the hateful stuff originating from the perpetrators of the massacre in Christchurch. We hope it causes minimal inconvenience to legitimate internet use by our customers.

https://twitter.com/simonmoutter/status/1106418640167952385
Some people’s first knowledge of the attack was that link being sent to them.
I’m not sure what to think of the block (I don’t seem to have been blocked) but wanting to preventing the videos spread seems reasonable. I think it’s too late now though.

Edit: I am blocked from some sites.
Highly politicized voters tend to see things through a tribal lense: our tribe resists bad people with fists if necessary, their tribe does violence. Our leader has a freethinking stance to sex, their leader is sexual predator. There are of course a few of universally bad, and universally good things, but "hacker" certainly doesn't fall to these categories.
I don't think it should be illegal to do that, per se. If doing so intentionally brought undue and unreasonable harm upon me, then the general act of causing that harm could be made illegal, while the specific act which happened to cause it is not. For instance, that could be slander/libel.

If it were a true statement, then I certainly wouldn't have it be illegal. If your society fails to react correctly to the truth, I see no reason to believe it will be improved my making the truth illegal to speak.
I wouldn't say they're a thing yet; there are some nice 'luxury' electric scooters, and there are cheap lead-acid scooters, but not too much in between yet.

I'd love an affordable, reasonably well-constructed LiIon scooter, but it's not there. Definitely coming, but not here yet.
Yes it's the same basic design, but you might be hard pressed to believe it. Notice especially the engines.

Original 737:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737#/media/File:D-ABEA_...

Max:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX#/media/File:HS-...

The fuselage, tail, wings and control systems are close enough to the original type to stay certified.
Yes, I did misread. Edited. Thanks!
I wouldn’t call it very easy. You drive to a place and have some beers. Then you have the choice of leaving your car or drive above the BAC. Most people choose the latter.
Admissions scandal unfolds amid cynicism about moral values
The biggest selling point is this.

You can trade hours for javascript money but can you make money while you sleep or lie on a beach?

Your side project (SaaS, info product) can.

If you have the entrepreneur drive you'll already be thinking about ways you can create something that will become your main source of income and getting away from trading time for money.

You don't have to quit consulting, that's a nice way to fund your side project.
I think people without kids romanticize children as these pristine entities, but the truth is they are ruled by fear and greed just like anybody else. The difference is they are generally ignorant of social norms, expectations of performance, and their own biases. It is exhausting raising kids, explaining every detail in a way that they will understand over and over again until they finally get it, sometimes taking years; teaching people how to actually fit into the norms our society sets takes a lot of work. Teachers deserve higher esteem as they do take a lot of this on... kids having peers helps.
As someone who has used one, I disagree.

Tesla has tried to establish charging stations near shopping areas. There is generally lots to do. For example the last one I visited had multiple fast food places, an outlet mall and a casino. (This was in Primm, Nevada.)
I don't see why repetition requires one to arbitrarily pick a side, why can't one hold a position of undecided indefinitely? Almost no one seems to do that of course, but is there a good reason you see why people couldn't do it if we made a genuine societal effort to educate people on how to read the news critically?
Not videos of people dying?
Isn't this the guy who wants to dissolve the border between Texas and Mexico? Jesus.

Here's the difference borders make: check out Nogales Mexico vs. Nogales Arizona -

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/travel/nogales-arizona-me...

It's not race or genetics or even culture. It's the institutions separated by country borders that let almost otherwise identical cities have radically different outcomes.
Payment processors like Stripe may fix the rate at something profitable for ease of explanation, but the underlying interchange fees are not the same.

They even vary by credit card type (rewards cards have a higher interchange rate than a non-rewards card), and by type of merchant. See the MasterCard rates at https://www.mastercard.us/content/dam/mccom/en-us/documents/..., for example.
I finally see why Mark Zuckerberg is advocating AI. They are basically playing whack-a-mole because all they cared about was growing the user base without paying enough attention to how users were interacting on Facebook. All these algorithms were introduce to drive engagement which coincidentally meant showing more provocative statements. Now it’s biting them in the rear. He thinks that machine learning will solve all his problems with the soup of hate speeches and misinformation. And that there is nothing wrong with the current business model of invading someone’s privacy to earn advertising money. I fear it is nothing more than wishful thinking that it will solve all the underlying problems of Facebook.
To be fair, this is true of many of the candidates. Bernie's got a store, a donate button, and a big animated gif of Bernie looking cheerful. Gillibrand explains what she cares about, but doesn't have any serious policy platform. Etc.
Greenhouse effect, ozone depletion, poisoning the hydrosphere and biosphere, etc; not going to dignify the question with further details.

I don't understand why one wouldn't believe in the environmental dangers of conventional energy sources but be hyper concerned about the "environmental catastrophe waiting to happen" from nuclear energy sources.
Netflix is most definitely a marketplace, more akin to the App Store than I think you're giving it credit for.

Netflix shows a wide variety of content to the buyer, the buyer pays and consumes certain (but not all) of the content. The content owners are ultimately paid in a way that reflects the demand for their product relative to the others available in that marketplace. (It's not per-unit pricing with a rev share, but you still get paid more to license big blockbuster content than little-watched niche stuff.)

Also similar to App Store, Netflix has certain "blessed" in-house products that it pays to create itself, and lists along side the externally-created products.
I think most would volunteer their bodily fluids for free food
> you might already own a PC [...] if you also want to use Xcode and develop iOS apps as well then you have to buy a Mac.

You might already own a Mac.
It's considered a medicinal drink in some religions.
Words are cheap. How are you taking action? Are you taking action?
They're using the chance to get every site they can blocked. It's a new take on the good old "think of the children" to erase anything they'd like to for everybody, children or not.
>Economists have long faced an embarrassing question: If it helps deter undesirable actions, what exactly is wrong with blackmail?

First, what are those "undesirable actions"? Can they be derived from first principles?

If not, why can't blackmail simply be added to those (and that be enough justification that it's illegal)? In this case, it doesn't matter if blackmail "helps deter undesirable actions", since it's an undesirable action itself.

In the end, what a society finds an "undesirable action" (including things like murder or incest) is a decision. Some societies are OK with ritual murder, others allowed incest. Some tribal societies under study even allowed theft. (And of course the US e.g. allows judicial executions, which are still a kind of murder). In which case, there's no reason why blackmail can't just be added to the "undesirable actions" list ad hoc -- all the items are there in an ad hoc way anyway.

Second, blackmail implies a covert monetary transaction (to shush the blackmailer). As such, shouldn't it be in the open, with e.g. IRS knowing? Isn't it illegal as a blackmarket activity?

Third, isn't blackmail an invasion of privacy? If someone keeps secret that they're gay, and someone blackmails them for that, aren't they threatening with an invasion of privacy, which should be illegal? Individuals should be able to control their private information. In which case, I'm arguing that even publicizing the fact that X is e.g. into BDSM or whatever without their consent should be punishable (and in some jurisdictions such actions are iirc, regardless if the accusation is true).
Oh yeah totally agreed, I was just thinking that the 737 MAXs currently only have 2 installed so that’s what they could work with without an even greater retrofit.
A Mass Murder Of, and For, the Internet
Hey, I may have missed something -- do you have a cite for the claim that he wants to dissolve the border?
> I wouldn’t call it very easy

Yes it is.

> You drive to a place and have some beers.

It's quite easy to decide not to drive to a place if you are going to have a few beers over too short of a time to safely and legally drive home, or to choose not to have too many beers if you need to drive to and from the place.
This just makes me want to consume dairy/meat less, and I'm an omnivore.
According to wikipedia, the USB-C spec was finalized in 2014, while lighting was introduced in 2012. So GP's point was correct that USB-C was not an option when lightning was created.

As far as whether Apple should now migrate from lightning to USB-C, that's a separate question with tradeoffs on both sides.
If I understand correctly, you're making an argument that goes around this: Exposure to freedom of speech is dangerous to society.

If I understand you correctly, you're making the argument that inciting someone to commit violent acts of murder is freedom of speech which is good for society.

I believe in freedom of speech. I've defended it in court. What happens on 4chan and 8chan isn't free speech. It's acts of incitement that just happen to take the form of text.

Adults should be able to talk about whatever they want, and no third party should decide what they can or cannot read.

You don't understand that free speech relates to the words and ideas. Free speech means that the people on 4chan and 8chan can use whatever words they want, and spread whatever ideas they want. So long as they aren't committing criminal acts such as incitement. The words and ideas are protected, not the acts they represent.

For this to be possible, communities with a very light handed approach to moderation should be allowed to continue to exist. This includes those that allow anonymous posting, as there's enough precedent in human history on perfectly fine ideas that are now generally accepted have been met with hostility. If posting safely is not an option, many will choose to not post at all. Thus ideas would get repressed.

I agree. And if 4chan and 8chan were solely about the sharing of ideas, I would be opposed to banning them...in the US, where the law would protect such speech, however abhorrent it is. But 4chan and 8chan long ago crossed over the line into being more than just sharing ideas...they're now websites where people incite and plan violent crimes.
Private Blockchain Games
Only if you could prove that it wasn't true.
Hm but is it fast?
Not OP but from their website it looks like they rely on Mastercard:

> Every dollar in your Point Bank Account is insured by the FDIC up to $250,000, and unauthorized charges are covered by Mastercard Zero Liability protection.

And Mastercard offers the same protection for both debit and credit card products[1].

[1]https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/about-mastercard/what-we-do/...
Are you playing dumb or are willfully ignorant? His follows are public information.

Stefan Molynux and L. Southern, for two among others.
> in a language which doesn't warn him about how broke his code is.

Can you make a citation from the codebase to back up this claim?

The classes in the various <blah>widget.h headers have members that are plain pointers; that might be one place to start looking.
I am pretty sure that this will stop people using Tor because they cannot figure out any counter measure. People are so dumb, government is so smart.
"throw them all in jail" is your sensationalized interpretation, which BTW is what I hate to see on HN. I was just talking about the poll results would not change.
Not OP, but probably this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_So...
*Some people in India
Yes, banning websites, instead of weapons...

Snuffing the Medium will not remove the Cause nor the Means.
Bullshit. It’s literally saying “if your goal is to allow criminal activities”. Per TMG §8ff any service provider providing a free service whose traffic is neither filtered nor inspected bears neither responsibility nor is required to keep logs. [1]

This law cannot be applied in practice as there would need to be non refutable proof that the operation of the nodes would be used to facilitate illegal activities. That’s already illegal if they can prove it, or else it wouldn’t be illegal.

Source: my lawyers. I’ve been running massive exit nodes for years in Germany.

[1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/tmg/__8.html
I think it's still fair to say that the Rust community either attracts, or doesn't discourage this type of advocate in a way that other communities don't. Personally I've encountered this type of behavior in a few situations:

1. When Swift for TensorFlow was announced, the team released a document explaining that they had narrowed the language choice to 4 languages including Rust, and eliminated Rust based on the sharp learning curve. Once commenter unrelated to the project logged an issue on the GitHub page and went on for many multi-paragraph quotes about how Rust should have been the choice.

2. In a thread about gfx-portability, which similar to MoltenVK brings the Vulkan API to Apple platfortms, when the original poster was questioned about the comparative completeness and and performance of these two implementations, they were completely unable to offer details (like come on, you can't even say what percentage of the tests are passing based on the Vulkan portability standards? You never benchmarked against the most similar product on the market?) and deflected to making totally unfounded claims about how MoltenVK is unsafe and even dangerous to use.

3. In a thread about Rust syntax, I made a comment about how I personally lamented some of the choices made in the language, like going with snake_case as a convention, and naming dynamic arrays Vector. I was promptly downvoted and received several fervent responses explaining why my personal taste was objectively wrong.

I think Rust is an interesting and promising language, but there does seem to be a somewhat tribal tendency in the community which is a turn-off for me.
Agreed, see my carnival analogy in the thread :)

The 30% is interesting, but so is the Verge article I read about Google lowering their fees from 30% forever to 15% forever: https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/19/16502152/google-play-sto...

I’m sure no one is in the right here, morally speaking. But as far as I can tell, big business is as far as you get from morals.
You're also going to ban the hate in rap music, right?
I don't see why we should go from "emotion shouldn't be considered an infallible source of info about the world outside our consciousness", to "emotion isn't a legitimate source of information." There are many situations in life that aren't accessible by pure reason, such as basically all aspects of social life.
For the uninitiated this is "rationalist" writing and makes numerous references to a Harry Potter fan-fiction written by Eliezer Yudkowsky. Some of the phrases and mannerisms might be confusing if you don't know about him and his following.

http://yudkowsky.net/rational/
Performance-Driven Development (2016)
My understanding is that those numbers include any donations from individuals who work for Amazon in any capacity.
Yes, my perspective is people can sit still and still (sic) enjoy art.

Sitting still and enjoying art is orthogonal.

Some might not like sitting still, but that doesn't make sitting still incompatible or constraining the enjoyment of art in abstracto -- just for them.
Why entrepreneurs are leaving the Bay Area for their next startup
Absolutely. Why wouldn't I? Let's say I didn't request it. Wouldn't you want a way to reach out to support to let them know that someone might be trying to get into your account?
What? Really? Can you provide any context on embellishments by Greenwald?
Congrats! It will look nice next your Point card :)
Of course! I hope you don't avoid using your version control system because you're waiting until you have a perfect, sensible commit and you don't want/know how to squash them later.

My commits locally are 100% my damned business. I don't want any automated system messing with the way I commit anything. Ever. When I push to the server (and particularly when I open up a PR), I will have squashed my commits, or separated and arranged them sensibly so that they're easy to read and understand, and they must pass linting/PR checks before they get merged to master.

Commit hooks are the absolute worst way to accomplish this goal, and fuck any system that confuses the two concepts (what I'm committing locally vs what goes to master), and any system that gets in the way of my local development loop. Go back to SVN if you want every commit you make to be instantaneously put in master and distributed to every other developer.
Countries forced to take loans they don't need and then being forced to pay back is actually a bad thing. Us government is using American taxpayer money to funnel it back into American private companies, in the process increasing corruption world over, making USA less safer and hurting global economy is a bad thing. (again this is pretty much like student loan bubble. )
A pub audience is probably a handful of people, some platforms have a reach many magnitudes larger and this changes the dynamic.
You carefully left out the delta tunnels.
Jury finds Apple infringed on 3 Qualcomm patents
Is the difference in airflow between two wings big enough to matter? Genuine question, I don't know.
Lockheed Martin Is Waging War on Boeing’s F-15EX
Except that 2001 was already existing as classical music. (Strauss and maybe others.)
MSM has always had a narrow range of news topics allowed. Narrow range with vigorous debate arguments inside that range. This isn't new.

So what is new? The internet is 30 years old now. So that's not new.

My controversial opinion is this: Pro-military and nationalist propaganda campaigns by the military since 2001, including a major push into video games, has radicalized a disenfranchised youth, who are seeing their world worse off than their parents. In other words, a military recruitment campaign went awry.
Expect other sites to be caught up in the dragnet. I'm sure politicians across the globe all have laundry lists of "naughty sites" that they'd love to see shut down, and now they were given a great reason to go do it. We've seen this played out before: patiently wait for a horrific event to happen, then push the ready-to-go agenda through while people are grieving.
OP didn't say "all people in India" so your correction isn't at all necessary or helpful.
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Practically, mostly true. Certainly one can construct scenarios where an employer has let too much depend on a single employee. Pay me $1m or I quit and you won’t be able to ship this product on which the company depends for survival.
In the US, incitement is a very narrow exception. According to a first-amendment lawyer:

> In America, under the First Amendment, I can say something like "if Donald Trump gets elected, someone should assassinate him for the good of the nation." That statement may be immoral, and destructive of the very American values it purports to defend, but unless it calls for imminent action or expresses an objectively credible intent to do harm, it's protected speech.

Source: https://www.popehat.com/2016/08/09/lawsplainer-no-donald-tru...
A range which has been narrowing recently, meanwhile the chans have been popular for decades now. I agree with you in part; 4 & 8 have been gaining popularity because people just don't trust the news, but it's not because of fake news that people are joining. It's because the news doesn't agree with them.
Why Getting in the Forex Trading?
Most credit cards have sign up bonuses worth a couple hundred dollars in points, that's definitely something to consider for your customer acquisition.

Not sure how you're going to compete in terms of CAC when banks are spending so much on this already.

Also, MR and UR points are transferrable to a ton of partners -- not all points are created equally, MR and UR points are some of the best at 2cpp.

Overall, since you're comparing yourself with the CSR, I would much rather get a CSR with 50K UR point bonus which is worth $750 in travel. I also get $300 in travel benefits, and I can cancel the card later to avoid the second AF from hitting. And finally, I earn points faster since it's 3x on travel and dining.
No. No. NO.

My commits locally are my business, and 100000% orthogonal to what YOU (my teammate) will see when I'm ready to make a PR. Because I rebase, I reword commits, and I squash things as necessary before I submit a pull request.

The horrible conflation of commits (what I do when I want to save my work) and pull/merge requests (what I do when I want to integrate my work into the repo that everyone sees) is the very reason why git was created to begin with. If you want centralized version control where "commit" means "everyone sees it and it has to pass checks", use SVN. Seriously, get away from my tools.
People not listening, a store choosing not to sell something, and a company choosing not to broadcast your information to their audience are all scenarios that are not censorship.
I've found this to be the case as well. There's an enormous amount of surveillance technology that over the last ~3 years has sprung up on buildings, streetlights, traffic lights, and highway poles. I try to talk to people about these things, but they've often never seen them. When pressed, they say "it's probably for traffic". When pointed out, they shrug. They might say, chuckling, "they're watching you" as if it's silly and meaningless to consider. Finally, there's "so what are you gonna do about it?"
It appears that you aren't very familiar with 4chan or 8chan based on your other posts about not knowing much about them.

4chan and 8chan have numerous skinhead forums. They are two of the most popular forum sites for skinheads and white nationalists.

Again, these forums are made up of pure shitposting. Nobody knows anybody. Nothing on there is taken serious, even things that should be taken serious. It's a brain dump.

This is objectively not true. You can repeat it all you want, and you might even believe it because it's true for you, but plenty of people take the stuff on 4chan and 8chan at face value and take posts their seriously.