skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Common misconception that this is directed by the government, like Mubarak ordering the internet cut off or something. The Office of Film and Literature classification reviews and classified media material in NZ, similar to how the MPAA does for films in the USA. It can also classify materials as “objectionable” at which point they become illegal to possess or trade (except by certain request, eg if you’re an academic wanting to study it). This is extremely rare. It must meet the definitions under the law that the office operators under. And it is free from political influence because the role is separated and operated independently as a commission. It is checked by the ability of the judicial branch to evaluate these cases against the definition in the law. And the law can be changed by the citizens electing new representation and giving mandate for that to be done.

The takedowns that Facebook and YouTube have been performing started immediately after the attack loooooong before the video was classified as objectionable. This is because Facebook and YouTube do not want to distribute these videos. That’s all.
> limiting free speech is wrong

Enabling the spread of terrorist propaganda, like the blocked websites have been doing by hosting the Christchurch shooting video. You'd better believe if websites like Twitter and Youtube didn't self-censor ISIS propaganda like they did in 2014, many countries would be having their ISPs block those sites.
I think it's a gimmick if you decide to do it later for marketing reasons. If it's there from the beginning as a representation of company's values, it's something different. (Better?)
Almost everyone in NZ that I've talked to, which includes a few gun owners, has been in broad agreement with the moves to ban MSSA weapons - cheering for it is probably a good assessment. I cannot fathom how anyone could call that Orwellian, it feels more like plain common sense.
There's no reason to think valproic acid is going to solve the Alzheimer's problem. It's worked in a couple of mice models but that's it. And we could fill a warehouse with drugs that helped Alzheimer's in microwave and did diddly squat for people.

Just to be clear I think it's worth testing but just not especially more than the 500 other drugs that there is credible reason to think they'd work.
You need to rely on large scale studies to make statements about the population at large.

You can use your small number of data points (anecdotes) to generate hypothses, but you need a lot more data to test these hypotheses.
The ISPs aren't banning sites for kicks. New Zealanders have been arrested for distributing the video.
I appreciate the thought you put into this, but the naivete is his a bit off putting.

Diplomacy is a game of liars probing liars. Everyone at the table will tell you exactly what they know you can prove, and no one tells anyone everything they can prove since that would give away valuable information with regards to their own intelligence and reconnaissance capabilities. It's a game in which every comment spoken by a Diplomat, Ambassador, or Head of State is scrutinized and cross-checked against every participating country's models.

Outright deception is one of many tools that is employed, and even if Russia truly didn't have anything to gain from Trump ending up in the White House, they did get a chance to dry-run a potential doctrine against one of their biggest international rivals.

The press was right to be suspicious, and the ethical shortfalls of the President and his administration only amplified the situation in terms of the optics required.

Make no mistake. Intrigue happens. It's why diplomats love the phrase "Trust, but verify."
How many Obama campaign managers did they indict? How many Obama National Security Advisors did they indict and force to resign over Russian ties?

How many times did Obama deny that the Russians attacked American interests during an election only to be rebut by the FBI with a string of foreign indictments?
We're working on that through Kaggle Datasets https://www.kaggle.com/datasets

We support data versioning, interactive web previews, seamless loading into hosted Jupyter notebooks (Kaggle Kernels), seeing/sharing analytic results built on the data version, and adding direct collaborators right now.

We don't support a data-oriented version of an "issue" or a "pull request" quite yet, but these needs are definitely on our radar.
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but anyone here works in a medium to large company using Postgres (especially one that switched from multi million dollar licensing), convincing the hire ups of setting a up a small yearly donation or buying a support contract from a core developer is how we can give back.

I honestly think PostgreSQL is one the core pillars of the open source community, and one of the more underfunded ones.
Any way we can help at Kaggle? Is https://www.kaggle.com/datasets helpful for your work in connectomics?
Yeah, I could see that would be the case that would likely break if it's violated.

Making anything better opt-in sounds all great and well till we end up in this position again whereby we rely on one (or more) browser's unspecified line-breaking algorithm for the "better line-breaking" option. If we specify anything, we probably actually need to specify the algorithm (and given AFAIK there hasn't been notable improvements in decades, that probably isn't the end of the world).
Both wolves and humans are social creatures. They key ingredient is highly hierarchical structures. Where individuals compete among themselves for the position in the group. And capitalism is just reflection of that in human societies.

First social creatures that "discovered" hierarchies were lobsters about 300 milion years ago. This is before even trees existed. Very long time from the evolutionary perspective, i.e. they do provide advantage to species that employ it.
That's more or less what I thought. So it's not even illegal in NZ unless the Office of Film and Literature Classification actually bans it?

Edit: I see now they have banned it, and the "manifesto" too. https://www.classificationoffice.govt.nz/news/latest-news/ch...
Because why not? They are not hurting anybody so let them have fun.
I'll say this from my experience as a coding kid. If you find your kids have programming interest don't treat them like children when they come to you for help.

I taught myself several languages when I was ~11 but my parents always treated my interest as a curiosity. When I went to them for help they bought me kids books. This held me back because it never went beyond the basics and never explained the fundamentals I was missing like algebra and pointer math. Almost all the kids stuff is "cookbooks" that will give you a working program without explaining why. My biggest breakthrough was getting "the Perl Bible" and a bunch of orielly books on Java for Christmas.

The best kind of teaching is 1:1 tutoriing. Assuming you know programming since you asked this on HN, I think the best thing you could do is train your kids personally as if they were in a CS101 course.

I would teach them just like you would teach an adult. The only difference is they're going to be missing some math and data structure basics. Find their gaps and fill them in, and I think you'll be surprised what they're capable of
That sounds a lot like iMuse, first used in Monkey Island 2 (1991):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMUSE
What did they do? I'm only aware of the gun bans, which strikes me as reasonable. The TSA, for example, with the random luggage and body searches strikes me as an order of magnitude more Orwellian.
That wouldn't be much different from operating a server yourself, so while it's not impossible, it's more a question of what benefits it provides.
EDIT: removed because I did not realize what kind of website the site I linked was.
Right, it's more commentary on how much of our society is built around ignoring life's pressures.
> Flynn (security advisor for a couple of day) -- was setup

Uh...ok. Citations, please. That's quite an outlandish and unsupported claim.

> There was no collusion with Russia to change 2016 election outcomes, that Flynn was accused of.

Flynn was talking to the Russian ambassador during the transition, promising to lift sanctions that the then-President was imposing. He was convicted for lying to FBI agents about that.

Perhaps there's an innocent explanation for the incoming National Security Advisor lying to the FBI about secret conversations with the Russian ambassador to undermine the acting President during the transition. I'm curious what that might be.

> Roger Stone did not have his day in court, and the allegation were are not about directing Foreign powers to do anything.

Note how at no point did I mention Roger Stone.

> Roger Stone did not have his day in court, and the allegation were are not about directing Foreign powers to do anything.

Also not a thing I mentioned.

> The other indictments had nothing to do with 2016 election and happened for offenses outside 2016 election activities.

Al Capone was convicted on taxes. Let's read the report.
I'm no Gates Foundation fan, but their unlike every other group that attempted to tackle educational issues, they were relatively honest about good and bad and they documented it.

The problem is that they found what everybody knows but doesn't want to admit. The current public school system is about optimal for the amount of resource being spent. There is no mythical "pile of waste" that you can magically draw from.

They found that focused resource does help outcomes, but in far less proportion than the increase. If you want 5% improvement in achievement, you need closer to 25% increase in resource--and it needs to be sustained over years. More teachers that are better qualified is a good idea, but that is also the most expensive choice. And, your most effective option is to spend almost all your resource on the lowest achievers. All of these are highly politically unpalatable in the US.
Agreed - details matter a lot. For example many years ago, Camden in London put in green asphalt cycle paths - one was dangerously hilarious - you ran parallel to the main road, on a painted strip, on the side of a one way street - going against the traffic.

However the new cycle "superhighways" in London are a big improvement but oddly now I find the biggest challenge is to change the attitude of the cyclists - we have effectively been given roads - and so now need to obey the laws of the road - it's a toss up if every cyclist will stop at the traffic lights for these superhighways - frustrating if you are a fellow cyclist and dangerous if you are crossing

At some point however we are going to face the fact that roads are a cheap form of transport because they are shared and so are dangerous - the UK has 4500 deaths a year - and when we look at segregating cycle traffic to make it safer we realise it is effectively asking to build a railway- and we shall face the same as self driving vehicles get close to good enough but plateau out - and I bet the business case for self driving cars rarely has ever been coated with "we build segregated roads everywhere with huge fences to keep out pedestrians and other hard to avoid objects."
Just the things that are public about Trump should be disqualifying for an American President.

* failure to disclose tax returns

* failure to divest of his business interests

* blatant nepotism ( including issuing his son-in-law a security clearance against the advice of professional sta
ff )

* Owning a private club (Mar-a-lago) to which he sells memberships and visits at taxpayer expense where his customers have exclusive access to the President and his cabinet.

Add in his business interests in Russia and what looks an awful lot like a quid pro quo trade of favorable treatment for policy changes desired by the Russian leadership...

And you're gonna declare it's all just fine because there is no smoking gun evidence of campaign pay to play?

I really hope you all are more attentive to your own businesses; this is basically the political equivalent of your CFO suddenly developing a sports car and supermodel habit; maybe everything is fine, but you should probably get an outside audit.
This is very interesting to me. What are you working on?
The Purge?
All respect to Aaron's memory, but it hasn't aged that well. There's an implicit trust in books for authority, but those have been used on both sides of the Trump press war for political reasons. News is how you find out the candidate you might want to vote for is actually a hypocrite through undeniable audio/video evidence. By the time a book is written, printed, and distributed, most elections will have likely been decided already (except for Presidential election activities which seem to never end these days). You can't just bury your head in the sand on this but there are no good alternatives yet.

I still think I'm going to follow that prescription though: establishing trust has become even more difficult as fake accounts can establish a thin authority by pretending to trust each other. Information complexity and volume has only gone up and there is more information to digest, and establishing someone as a trustworthy source by yourself is time consuming.

The only way this changes is a) humans manage electronic volume/complexity more easily (enhanced brain and more available time) or b) by coincidence we happen to get news sources that are all unbiased and social media platforms with good moderation. (a) is far more likely IMHO.

It's going to be a hell of a ride if there's nothing more in Mueller's report. And yeah, I'm exhausted. I'm giving up my news habits either way it goes.
This looks pretty cool! I'd like to try it, but it looks like I'll have to wait for the Python client library first.
I've been saying for quite some time that the media has been making it quite certain this embarassment of a president will be reelected when Mueller comes up empty.

The religious voters will come out in droves to vote for him based on guilt alone for society having dragged his now irrefutably innocent name through the muck all these years. The poor man!
Now if only there was a way to specify that paragraphs of text shouldn't leave an orphan word on the last line, I could use one CSS property to get the consultants off my back instead of having to preg_replace the last space in every <p> paragraph with an &nbsp;.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
I disagree. The Trump administration has done everything from secretly meet in Trump tower with Russian officials and lie about it to firing the head of the FBI because of the Russian investigation.

In my mind, these two acts alone have warranted the last two years of coverage and investigation.

Simply imagine a world where these things were ignored. How untrustworthy would the press seem then?
This sort of thing could not appeal to me any more, honestly. I've been trying to work out the most cost-efficient way of doing exactly this.

Of course, I am aware that _the_ most cost-efficient way is to accept that having the brand new and shiny every year is - for the most part - utterly pointless, but hey.
Is this mostly written for a sysadmin / dev-tool creators audience? As a web developer of consumer (non-technical users), while I found myself agreeing with a lot of these points, I feel as though this was not written with app devs in mind because I don't find the advice very actionable.

For example:

> your app should mostly expose operational data for its application users, not its developers.

Okay, so I agree that we should provide visibility through through _some_ means specific to operators at different levels of abstraction. i.e adding framework middleware logging (if you're building a framework for devs) for app developers so they don't have to add logging everywhere in their app hoping to spot something off.

What about the "end end" user - the 60 year old retiree using turbotax. I mean - those are also people feeding input into this complex system. What operational data do you offer them? Or are they not considered operators in this context? (I may have answered my own question haha)
Anyone know an affordable microcontroller with a few good dac channels?
What is the use case for "my scheme" - is this similar to the approach widely known from Debian signing docs ?

I am not sure where to start other than "describe what you do and why" :-)

Am interested very much in learning new ideas in this space - contact details in my profile
> There is overwhelming evidence that Trump sees part of his job as being diplomat-in-chief, going to other countries and making/renegotiating deals.

Ok pal.

> There is no way this attributed motivation of 'evad[ing] scrutiny by the American intelligence community' passes the Occam's Razor test of he wants a quiet place to talk before major public negotiations.

Actual national security practitioners find this beyond laughable.

> He wouldn't be the first or last president to have a quiet back-channel to a foreign country for negotiating purposes. It could be standard practice for all we know, it isn't a bad idea by any stretch.

The practice of backchannels is not unusual. Everything else about this is extremely odd, to say the least.
Ignoring it is one thing. Practically promising collusion is another thing entirely.
There is no 'perhaps' about the media's outrage factory.

It distracts, causes unnecessary polarization and most importantly takes focus away from much bigger underlying issues - why voters turned to Trump, how to connect with them, the broken advertising/click/view maximizing model, campaign finance reform etc.

Taibbi is asking the important question of how is focus going to get back to the real stuff, when outrage and emotion and blame are the only tools being used?
How can people endorse? Pretty easy - cognitive dissonance, projection, vicarious tithing, etc. People are really complacent about other people suffering things they themselves would hate. We're asshole in that way.
I don't see any problem with a government who is freely elected enacting laws that disallow hate speech.

To assist with balancing these rights and restrictions there is an independent judiciary and court system that moderates these laws and works out whether they have gone too far.
Check out the hype on the Waldorf Kyra (in prototype this was know as the Valkyrie). The Novation peak is another recent FPGA based device. Take a look at https://novationmusic.com/peak-explained for a bit more of an explanation why FPGA is necessary.
Wow, that'd be 100% awesome ..

If you visit my site, https://blondyn.com , you will find Episode 1 of my Aladdin adaptation (Aladdin Exponential) for which I moved to the city.

Also, I recently self-published an NYC short story compilation (Lit Art: Vol.1 - LOL POP), which right now is free to read if you've Amazon Prime.

If you're interested in a fun & light read, I'd recommend the short stories.

Aladdin Exponential is a novel - a spin on Aladdin ~ the premise ~ instead of a Genie coming out of the Lamp, the Aladdin character gets pulled inside to discover a Whole New World .. adventure ensues.
I recall doing this to my first gen intel MacBook Pro. Sad to see Apple still hasn’t figured out how to apply thermal paste a decade later.
In a dynamic language, other than specific math scenarios do you really ever notice this?

(Curious whether it really matters or if it's just something you need to be aware of day to day)
And the reputation of bloggers because it's not published yet.
That seems very sane? It's a more fuel-efficient 737; carriers and pilots want and need redesigned cockpit and instruments as much as I need the latest take of the Gmail design team on how a mail app should look and function.
It's easy if you believe people should be free to live their lives as they want
Is not using an ad blocker a conscious decision on your part? I just have trouble coming up with any logical reason for an even remotely technically skilled person to be risking browsing the modern web without one.

The only people I know personally who aren't using them end up immediately installing one or asking to have one installed as soon as they find out it's an option. This group typically consists of grandparents and other people who know little to nothing about the internet.
Note the bans on some of those NZ ISPs started before the video was classified as objectionable. So they’re not banning them to prevent their customers from facing charges. They’re doing it for other poorly explained reasons that aren’t legally required.
Interesting, and a bit cyclical - roads were originally "smoothed" in the 19th century because of lobbying from cyclist organizations.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2011/aug/1...

Note: the obvious pun wasn't intentional, but I'm leaving it in because it's a pun.
It is very odd and telling that this is the comment that gets downvoted on this thread, while all the deep-state ravings get upvotes.

What is happening to HN?
Everyone needs to follow Aaron Mate on twitter. He is one of very few reporters that's been debunking russiagate from the outset
It is a showing of poor attitude to say, "oh, mistakes happen" when missing such an important detail. Those companies need to stop tripping over themselves in eagerness to satisfy that Orwellian distopia called China.
Reasonably interesting way to find people to work with
Multiple senior members of a Presidential campaign have either pled guilty or been convicted of serious felonies, and you think the ones to blame are the FBI?

I mean I think the FBI has a lot to answer for, here and on plenty of other issues, but...

I don't know how to tell you this, because you won't believe it, but if you're sincere and not a troll then you have a very unhealthy media diet. Your take here is very disconnected from reality.

I'm sure you disagree. Alas.
I can't really see any decision point where an engineer might have stood up and said "this plane isn't safe," like Allan McDonald did with the Challenger. The article tries to hang blame on the decision not to upgrade the cockpit info displays, but there was nothing wrong with the old display systems. It's still not clear if the plane is actually aerodynamically flawed or if the MCAS was simply programmed poorly. Even the business decision was fine; from the perspective of a non-technical executive, "add newer engines but change as little else as possible" seems like a pretty reasonable directive and not likely to cause safety issues. Engineers could have complained about the pace of work but I think it was made clear to them that they were fighting for their jobs: Boeing has had numerous 10,000+ workers layoffs in the past. With everything we know now, I can't see any criminal charges being filed in relation with this disaster.
Okay, but...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...

That's 496 citations and a warning "This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably".

In other words, there's overwhelming evidence that Russia interfered. Like, not even a question. Suggesting it's a made-up media frenzy is just... alternate universe.