skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 4chan and 8chan have been linked to almost all of the white nationalist and incel shooters of the past decade.

You can say the same about Twitter and Facebook. In fact, the guy had a Twitter where he posted guns and ammunition with slogans on it, days earlier. Had it received more attention, this could've possibly been prevented.

> At some point, you need to recognize that what's happening on those boards isn't "free speech", it's "incitement" to commit violent acts, and that has never been protected by any of the free speech regimes, even in the U.S. New Zealand's free speech rights are not as broad or strong as they are in the US.

It's a bunch of anonymous people posting crap, often for shock value. Sure, there's incitement on there, but nobody takes anybody serious.

Having said that, I was pretty shocked about the reaction on 8chan. I haven't been there before. It's pretty sad to see.
You make it sound like they're lining up to have a moment with their local representative like the rest of us. As if there's not thousands in campaign contributions and in-kind gifts hinging on the politician swinging their way.
Can someone help me understand the context of this? Is this just some philosophical thought-experiment, or is there a real problem to be solved?

Also: If blackmailing becomes legal before soft drugs do I'm gonna be SO pissed :D
> It often amazes me how little Snowden changed.

I strongly disagree. For one thing, it's changed Silicon Valley's view on advertising based business models. It's also made the public much more aware of how their data is being used, which has changed and will further change the stock price of many companies.

I can also see him indirectly helping bring about the GPRD
So he's a criminal. Great. I don't care if he skateboards, hacks, smokes, whatever.

What concrete results has he delivered?
> One thing to note is the mention of a "Runaway Trim Checklist".

The pilots may not have recognized (in time) that it was a runaway trim issue. Many such issues involve trim being continuously applied. The trim wheel spins wildly.

MCAS will trim in increments of 10s. So it will trim, pause, trim some more, pause. This may have confused the pilots. And they don't have much time to begin with – MCAS engages with autopilot off and flaps retracted. Most takeoffs have at least minimum flaps, so the plane will fly fine and then start misbehaving while still relatively close to the ground.

> Most aircraft have 2-3 redundant systems for almost every control and feature.

Yes. MAX 8 has two AOA sensors. Only one needs to misbehave for this issue to happen. But even with two, it is difficult to know which one is fault (for a machine). With three, it would be possible to tell.

In any case, all of this is still speculation.
Los Angeles has a system of cement washways that move large amounts of rainwater to the ocean to prevent flooding that used to happen semi-regularly.

If they stored that water in reservoirs, they wouldn’t need to get so much of their water from the various aqueduct systems used today.

Such a system could effectively buffer the negative impact of droughts, while still serving the purpose of flood prevention during wet years.
Or github repos, showing how to use it but not even a simple paragraph up front stating what it does, or why you'd want to use it.
One of my college roommates was considering running for office one day. He spent a lot of effort to keep his social media presence clean including avoiding group photos at parties. This was in 2004-2009, and at the time I thought that he was being overly paranoid. It turns out that he was right. Even if you painstakingly prune your social media history today there is always the chance that someone will be able to dig it up. The internet rarely forgets.
"So, anyone telling you it was designed for something other than supporting U.S. military and intelligence operations is either ignorant of its history or lying to you."

Similar to the Internet.
Until reverification? Sure.
I teach my children boxing. Get a pair of gloves and pads from Amazon. I think it has many benefits: improving confidence, controlling anger. It does take patience. Not every kid is physically made to fight. Also, parents need to learn about safety.
The cost of distribution is the cost of selling their commercial digital services on Apple's platform.

If Spotify deems 30%/15% split is too much to be able to sell their services on iOS, they don't need to participate in that market, they can continue selling their online streaming services on the Web and Android and and spend the money they would've paid Apple in distribution costs in more advertising/marketing to acquire new Customers.

If the App Store revenue share is so lucrative they can also consider that as an opportunity and are free to build and sell on their own platform, invest their resources in building hardware + mobile devices, OS, Apps + software, dev tools, distribution channels, retail stores, marketing/advertising to entice everyone to use it and enjoy the 30%/15% revenue share from everyone else choosing to participate and thrive on it. Or maybe it will end up being cheaper for them and they'll get more revenue because of iOS's larger and quality user base to just pay the App Store fees for being able to offer their commercial services to the iOS ecosystem created with Apple's investments.
I think an improved definition may be: coercing someone using the threat of the revelation of a secret to a third party, where there is no requirement the secret not be known by any fourth party.

It's not relevant whether the act is otherwise illegal; someone may commit blackmail additionally to another crime. There's also no need to be paid; you could blackmail someone to not perform their job, or to not compete with you, for instance.
We got a price increase this year on our water bill (on top of drought surcharges from prior years) because the district used less water than expected, so that the district "needed to increase prices to remain profitable." Use less water, so that you can pay more for less.

I'm very skeptical that "drought" prices are more related to encouraging environmentally friendly behavior than they are about disguising greed.
Was anyone about to glean from this whether Beto is 1337?
IANAL, but if the secret involves criminal activity that appears to be the specific case covered by US Federal law.
I once told my daughter that intelligent decisions in life are made by being dispassionate and using logic to reason the optimal course of action.

My wife then snorted and said "says who?". Parenting fail :(

Not necessarily. I think that little story is very instructive. A smart child could well synthesize it thus: There is value in intelligent decisions made by dispassionate logic. Not everyone is going to recognize it, though.

Reality is difficult and messy. If we smart people are truly the smart people, then it behooves us to deal with it gracefully and win. If we end up just railing against the unfairness of the universe and all of the idiots around us, what does that really say?

One of my friends once made this observation about Ward Cunningham. He was convinced Ward was one of the smartest men alive, because he came to realize that Ward always managed to learn something, no matter how smart or how stupid the people were he was interacting with.
I think the single biggest association is actually cartoons such as a Loony Tunes. “Kill da wabbit, kill da wabbit...” you know? The real point of this article seems to be more of an inkblot test of the author and little else.
I couldn’t find anything about the partner bank on your site. Most people probably won’t care, but it matters to enough people to mention it.
Ask HN: Tools of the Trade, 2019 Edition
Inspiration:

Hacker News Tools of the Trade - https://github.com/cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade
Except we're unlikely to ever hear about it, as they'll be lobbying for Pentagon contracts, aka the government teat. Much more profitable than shilling knockoff Chinese trinkets with a site full of fake reviews.
what is the "h" for?
Relationships between employees and employers are uneven by definition, so threatening to quit isn't really forcing your boss to pay you more.
I have relatives in Texas who a few years back were being told by climate experts that drought (where local reservoirs and other bodies of water had sunk to dangerously low levels) was the new normal. Many folks who had built homes near such bodies of water were being told that their properties were now permanently devalued, being not so much lakefront properties any longer.

Of course, not quite more than a year later those reservoirs and such were once again full to overflowing, and too much water was the new problem. So yeah, whenever a "climate expert" tells you that something is the "new normal", or that you are now in a "permanent state of drought", or whatever, then you can pretty much just safely assume that they're full of it!

In my late teens my normally wet-and-green area got hit hard by a drought. Rivers and reservoirs started drying up, wildfires (small ones, at least) became common occurrences, and temperatures peaked so high at times that roads started buckling and the interiors of cars started melting and so on.

Any of that sound familiar? Well, this all happened in my area circa 1980, but before long conditions returned to normal, where occasional flooding was a far more recurrent issue than anything like a drought was. Nobody was trying to blame climate change at the time, either; it was just "drought".
From a marketing perspective it seems like the easiest way to leverage yourself into an audience to do all the viral-ness for you. He is like a parasite and PewDiePie, since people debatably say he is alt-right (I don't know anything about him but the more debatable this is the better) and popular, he makes an excellent parasite host.

Pick a popular figure that people claim is [adjacently controversial] in some way, now that popular figure has to talk about you to disavow your crazyness etc, but if they do, your plan has already worked: You've just hijacked his audience into hearing about you. And if the popular figure stays silent to stop this, other people who hate the pop figure will trumpet your name even louder and farther in trying to get the popular figure to say something.
I work with a lot of people from mainland China and I have not once gotten the impression of any generic sensitivity to criticism of China.
That's a very shallow point though. Technically correct but misses the point completely.
>>> Pilots need to understand and know how to work with and around these systems

There is a problem with the "working around" some systems. While there are definitely some situations where a pilot should bypass something, one must also look at the situations where that would be a mistake. Some systems cannot be bypassed because the chance of a pilot bypassing them in error is far greater than he or she actually needing to.

For instance, asymmetric flaps. One can contrive a situation where the ability to alter flap setting asymmetrically might save an otherwise doomed aircraft (multiple control surface failures) but the risk of misusing that ability far outweighs the benefit.

This anti-stall system may well have crashed these aircraft, but are there any situations where is saved an aircraft? Perhaps someone calculated that the risk of allowing pilots to bypass it outweighed the risk of it malfunctioning. Perhaps that judgement call was incorrect in this case, but I wouldn't say that pilots should always be in a position to bypass every system.
I thought it was going to turn out to be a new copy-on-write zero-day given the name.
Beto has taken more donations from oil and gas companies than any other Democrat. The only politician who's taken more is Republican Ted Cruz. His vagueness on many issues is partly due to how beholden he is to his donors.
Typically if one refers to emasculation of someone through actions, they ascribe to a certain unique quality to "maleness", seems to reject the emotions typically seen as feminine.
> “You could not pay me to see this SJW laden white male hating worthless POS movie,” commented one user. “I am sick of this identity politics taking over pop culture. Brie Larson could get hit by a bus and I would not shed a tear.”

https://www.inverse.com/article/53523-captain-marvel-rotten-...

Does that review sound like someone who is upset with a movie studio because they created fake outrage, or someone who is upset about a movie's female lead?

Plenty more examples: https://twitter.com/camethedawnxp/status/1097593187621842945
The entire world focused attention on the new system after the Lion Air crash, and it was not enough to stop the Ethiopian Airlines crash from happening. The FAA thinks it's likely that the crashes are related.
Not to comment on Greenwald personally, but how can you (outside of very cynical nihilism) analyze political/social activities and relationships in depth and not be, to some degree, an activist yourself?
A photographer captured the last 10 years his parents spent together
How That Taking Notes Has Made Me a Better Developer
Also found by ancient Chinese Zu Chongzhi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zu_Chongzhi
It almost looks like if it was an error to call this plane 737 MAX instead of, let's say, 738, to communicate that it's quite a different plane because of aerodynamic differences and electronic systems to require a training for the pilots. Aircraft semaver.
That's not really how the internet works, because of VPNs.
Logic programming is one such example. Prolog and its syntactic subset Datalog are taught as part of countless CS degrees throughout the entire world.

In fact, logic in general is such an example. At least a basic treatment of propositional logic and predicate logic, computation, unification, resolution and sequent calculus is a common ingredient of CS degrees all around the world.

Other common examples include probability theory, statistical tests and complexity theory, all of which are part of many CS degrees, both at the undergraduate and graduate level.

In all these examples, organizations that need these skills tend to hire people that already have them at least to some degree, making it unlikely to encounter these topics at work for the first time.
Also, climate change might have catastropthic results on some parts of the world, and positive effect on other. I wouldn't mind for instance if Central Europe got warm climate similar to Mediterranean. Now, why would I fight a change that clearly benefits me? :)
We trust our friends and family, our tribe. Something shared on Facebook by an uncle is more trusted than a maliciously researched article on the New York Times.
Thank you for making my first point: No two people agree. Unfortunately, you haven't offered a superior definition.

Most people would agree a preexisting arrangement like an employment contract would make your example not fall under blackmail.
> ~80/90s hackers aren't really the same thing as most post 00 hackers.

Yeah, no hackers from the 80s and 90s ever had any bad intents. /sarcasm
Bmws have a touchpad, all new Bmws have a toucscreen. The only electric Bmw, the i3 has a touchscreen..
That's only cheaper if anyone decides to host it on their nodes, too. Might as well just seed it with bittorrent.
If that is their argument, then it's pretty weak IMO.
Facebook container! I didn't even know that existed. Thanks!
You mentioned the Durbin act which limit debit card fees. Since you're exempt from it, I assume you'll be jacking up fees for merchants in order to pay for your rewards program which is basically just a credit card.

This might not be a large enough of a pain point to be viable. Actually it might be detrimental to consumers who are living paycheck to paycheck. They rely on an incremental paycheck and short term credit fills the void.
Their design team is literally a one trick pony.
Boeing fought extremely hard to avoid doing this because it would introduce new costs in certification and new requirements for pilot training. It wasn't accidental.
I agree with you 100% and I no longer am willing to read any Intercept articles at all.

For me, it isn't specifically that the articles are bias (they are). What really turns me off is that the writers can't seem to get the hell out of the way of the story. Every article is just steeped in the writer's personal opinions to the point where it feels more like ranting than news.
"cow friendly" whilst showing a picture of a cow in a cage. Fuck dairy.
Dang, are you able to report statistics on how many accounts have been banned or considered suspicious? I don’t doubt that HN takes this issue very seriously. But, it would be useful to some of us to see how often astroturfing actually happens here (and from which countries it seems to come from).
@ben_w, @chmod775
It is incorrect to say that United Kingdom would be worse off privacy wise after leaving the EU.

The mentioned privacy invasive bill was ruled by the English High Court to be incompatible with the ECHR.

EU membership is unrelated to United Kingdom being party to the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR).

The Council fo Europe is a distinct organisation from the EU.

Please check facts before spreading misinformation.
As someone who has lived in the Bay Area for over 20 years, I knew this would happen. I was never worried for a second that the drought was the "new normal". I believe the climate will continue to change and cycle. Yes, we are experiencing global warming, and yes our environment is heading for disaster, everyone was too easy to believe that this particular drought was the "new normal" with little proof.
> And I am assuming you are talking about 90k euro after taxes not before because the French have one of the highest tax burdens in the world.

Source?
Or people will realize that the internet is forever and will stop posting even slightly controversially things publicly, unless under a pseudonym. My generation may be the first and last to publicly post all of their stupid teenage thoughts on the internet for anyone to dig up later.
Huawei has built its own operating system for smartphones and computers
>I would challenge the idea that being a “hacker” polls well for a presidential candidate.

I agree with this. It seems an odd stance to take (assuming O'Rourke commissioned, or was at least okay with, this piece) given how other candidates are taking an explicitly hostile stance toward Big Tech. The media has done a fantastic job of convincing people that "election hacking" was a huge problem in 2016 (it wasn't), so it's curious why whatever consultant is working for this campaign decided this was good positioning.
Socratic inquiry and racist trolls are only similar if you refuse to think beyond the shallowest surface description.
What "system" did the DNC have to allow "rigging"? How did it work? Who operated it? What evidence is there that it existed, much less that it was used?
I think you'd need a concept of licit and illicit threats worked in to make it work, which may be unavoidable. For example, in general, obligations legal under modern contract law would be licit. (If you counter with "what if $SPECIFIC_THING?", I'd say "you missed the 'in general'". I'm going to spare us twenty paragraphs trying to nail that down, and I suggest you run with me on that, I mean, unless you're just dying to read that....)

Otherwise you end up with "if you don't make your corn flakes tastier than your competition I'm going to buy theirs" and that's clearly not what we're going for here. The problem lies in the specific conditions being laid down, not the mere conditionalization of my actions on yours.

I mean, if you really think about it, it's not even clear what it would mean to try to ban conditionalizing your actions on the actions of others.
This is good advertising for a book on the cDc that I never would have known about otherwise.
> That's just not practical for most people. Wiring a house is difficult and/or expensive.

That's because we do it stupidly. Why are we running wires in walls where we can't ever get at them? Trim and quarter round could double as conduit.
If you ever go to the flat earth events like conferences, you'll find as I have there's two group of people. The first is the real believers. The second group (which I am a member of sometimes) is there to sell stuff and really doesn't believe.
You probably wouldn't want to drink the stormwater that's washed off of LA pavement.
He has to vote as to what his constituents want. Also having more swing votes in each party is exactly what we need. We don't complain about Susan Collins voting with the democrats on occasion. The fact that we have parties overwhelmingly voting 100% lockstep on issues that affect localities different is troubling. I am not a binary person that goes left/liberal on every issue myself, so why should I expect anyone else to?
I don't, but my setup isn't complicated at all.

The front end caching nodes are just haproxy 1.9 (which has very simple caching now) which precluded my need for nginx. Those nodes have strongswan in transport mode using a simple pre-shared key. The backend is just a simple apache 2.4 server.

DNS is just NSD with multiple IP's in some of the A records. I don't do any GSLB or Anycast, nothing exciting there. The browser will use whichever IP answers which means the end users could end up on any nodes. I could get fancy and use GeoIP mapping to keep most requests on the same continent. Maybe I should set that up this weekend.
> Part of the treaty is that those 5 are supposed to (gradually) denuclearise

and how is that going for the big players since the treaty was singed ?
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Oh interesting, thanks for the background info.
There's a pretty big difference between a chemistry textbook on the one hand, and a step by step layman's guide on how to make a bomb, avoid detection and so on on the other. And then of course beyond that you can go into progressively more dangerous weapons. Would a guide to building IED's with shaped explosives fall under the protections, for instance? I was just watching a documentary yesterday about Iran taught these techniques to Shia militia in Iraq. And then you can get into progressively more dangerous weapons.

The interesting thing is where the line is drawn, how far 'national security' is interpreted.
What does it mean for people not to be able to do things "under the umbrella of the corporation"? Are they allowed to pool their resources or aren't they? If they are, but they have to wink and say, "But this money that stems from the company is funneled through a different resource-pooling group," how do you imagine the world is different? Industry lobbying groups already exist.

The fact that not all Amazon employees approve of the lobbying is irrelevant. Not all union members approve of all the union lobbying done. Should we silence unions? Not all members of a political party approve of all the positions taken by political parties. Should we silence political parties? When people join up into groups, they trade increased power for the fact that the group will not perfectly reflect their preferences.

It surely is the case that lots of people who work at Amazon want Amazon to continue to lobby for things that will help Amazon become more valuable, thus making it less likely they will be laid off and making their equity more valuable.

In what way is the world better if Amazon increases Jeff Bezos' salary by $AMOUNT_THEY_SPEND_ON_LOBBYING and then Jeff Bezos spends that money on lobbying for whatever he wants, which surely includes "making Amazon successful"? Even if Amazon rigorously does not direct him to spend that money or audit his efforts?

I'm fine with foreign companies lobbying the government. Why wouldn't I be?