skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is no greater protection to vulnerable populations than transparency

This is somewhat true, but your argument has a pretty big flaw.

> When people communicate on a public platform unself consciously, they reveal themselves openly and freely

This simply isn't true. You aren't revealing that you read this content. THe authors aren't always revealing themselves. Those who don't really do themselves any harm because they tend to be well established as white supremacists already.

Richard Spencer doesn't care if someone calls him racist and evil.

This is why people take photos and plaster them online when white supremacists march. People get recognized, that's the point where they can be called out.

> Freedom of speech is a gift and a valuable tool.

These people are radicalizing young men into committing violent acts. They should be banned the same way terrorist content has been removed from other platforms.
Those footnotes are pretty funny.
>What other options do these officials have?

Paper voting, for one. If no system is offered that is secure enough, then the default should be no electronic voting system at all and just paper voting. It's scaled fine for hundreds of years and has clear processes in place for custody of ballots.

>The companies have the choice to improve their security of their hardware at the possible expense of lowering their profit margins.

You can't expect companies to just "make a choice" to lower profit margins without some sort of (dis)incentive or external pressure like regulation. It's unrealistic. Companies exist to make their principals money. It's the government's job to check that and make sure that the companies are acting in public interest while they pursue profit.

Local and state officials definitely can effect change on this level since they are often the ones in charge of the procurement process.
Which is not PG anymore.
Last release was 7 years ago. Clearly not an option.
There is a trivial way to just analyze the metadata of pictures and videos. If you take a picture and upload it, it has a lot of information that comes along with it vs. if you just download it from a random website and re-upload it. That would catch only the most obvious attempts, for more advanced filtering I would use machine learning.

You are correct that its a big task, but if one would take it step by step and start with pictures only I am pretty sure you could come up with a decent success rate.
Yeah, a date and datetime / instant are two very different things, but I just renewed an insurance policy, and while it's been all dates on the forms so far the actual policy documents is clear about midnight to midnight on those dates.

In the particular case of employment I'd assume there was as implicit time as well, because employment would be a legal contract (whatever the precedent is in that jurisdiction would probably apply). You couldn't do something that's against your contract on the way to work on your first day, for example, and claim that it didn't count because it was before office hours.
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well, the second paragraph in the article gives you the answer:

> Why: Developers are starting to push WebAssembly beyond the browser, because it provides a fast, scalable, secure way to run the same code across all machines.

It allows you to use the same code both inside and outside of the browser. For example, Figma might use it, they already have a web app and a regular app, both using WebAssembly, so WASI would perhaps simplify their code or allow them to add more native integration to their app.

Making a product that's a slight variation of an existing product is often enough to gain significant market share. For example, was Chrome needed when there was Firefox? Was Figma or Adobe XD needed when there was Sketch? Is Rollup or Parcel needed when there is Webpack and Gulp? This could go forever. I mean, should Java be the only universal deployment platform?
Solus/Budgie

Fedora/Gnome
A brave new world. Sleep well people.
> Trump was elected by a free, fair, democratically held vote of the people.

We don't know that, and will never know that. This is a helpful resource for understanding why:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...
His position was that government should not stifle speech, but that a private company should not be forced to re-print it. There's a big difference between prohibition/regulation and coercion of speech.
Huawei devices are not secure to start with. The modem and radio/GPS stacks in particular do some especially fishy things.
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Something that's "complete risk" should take even more risk? Doesn't seem logical.
If there's enough demand in the market, either the person already living in the apartment or someone else is going to live there.

With rent control, whoever lives there pays lower rent. Without rent control, whoever lives there pays higher rent.

There is no net change in the number of people living there either way.

So why (other to benefit landlords) would we want whoever lives in a given apartment to pay higher rent?

"it will tend to weaken coalitions in favor of reducing housing prices for new home buyers/renters and will tend throw currently homeless people under the bus"

Landlords are not going to voluntarily lower rent prices if they can get away with charging more (else rent control would not even be necessary), and homeless people are not going to be able to afford the higher prices that non-rent controlled apartments cost.
April fools, Microsoft is a very hip company. /s
The obvious questions are and always have been "what constitutes 'harmful speech'?" and "who gets to decide?". Sure, we can agree that "white supremacy" is harmful, but in the last 5 years we've seen the definition of white supremacy slide from "people who espouse views that whites are better than nonwhites" to "people who espouse views that are not in line with progressive orthodoxy".
These recent white supremacist terrorists like the Christchurch attacker all have the same white nationalist memes and talking points on their social media. The Christchurch terrorist said in his own manifesto the white nationalist memes played a part in his radicalization. The white supremacist groups in their guides admit that the their ironic racist memes are propaganda to get people in their funnel and progressively radicalize them.

I'm glad that after these white supremacist terror attacks and seeing how these attackers all share the same things on social media, more people are waking up and realizing these memes are like ISIS propaganda.
it might not be pretty.

The current arrangement is already not pretty, unless you have the means to ignore the unpleasant parts.
Ah, that could be where the confusion came from.

> I presume the word "magentic" came from this description in the article

A poor choice, then, since magnetic monopoles famously don't exist (or aren't known to exist). But, mistakes happen.
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Most of the governments of those countries have been around since the end of WWII

What happens long-term when the people whose memories of the horrors of the early 20th century die off? That is still an open question.
> American pride and Basque separatism, which are an important part of people’s identity.

I'm not saying it should be banned, but "American pride" being an important part of people's identity is really part of the problem.
Here's the one, I believe. Linked to parent for context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14754

PS: They're basically the same, really, just adding another candidate to yours.
An interesting case was time stamps for photos on a global photo sharing site. UTC and conversion to local for display was the normal pattern. We decided to change this to display the time of the photo local to where the photo was taken. This where-taken and when-taken were paired. It made new years' and other holiday or time of day shots make sense.
Good luck to them
NO, that's ABSOLUTELY not the case.

If you are looking for examples, search HN comments that begin with "I'm hesitated to say this but" or "I know this sounds XXX"
"Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you're really in favor of free speech, then you're in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you're not in favor of free speech." - Noam Chomsky
Apple has lost that magic it had. It's no longer a special company where people used to wait for hours at a time to buy a phone. Apple isn't that company anymore, where someone with good taste used to make your choices for you, and they somehow knew what you couldn't quite articulate.

There was an iPhone, an iPad, a MacBook Air, and a MacBook Pro. If you wanted the experience of an Apple phone, you bought an iPhone. You didn't go around asking if you should buy an Xr, Xs, or X, 9, 7, or iPhone googol. You went to the store and bought an iPhone. The product categories were clear. The vision behind them was clearer. Everything just made sense. And it worked too!

Apple doesn't make sense anymore.

I have a top of the line MacBook Pro 2016 that I can't type on. I am the professional these machines are meant to target. My use case isn't "hardcore" or "niche." It's that of most entrepreneurs, programmers, and designers. I wanted a machine that I could carry around in my backpack with good-enough battery life that could let me work from a coffee shop. Nothing fancy. Nothing complicated. Just a machine that a woman can use at a coffee shop with her soy latte.

What I got for my thousands of dollars is a machine that can't be used without its cradle. The keyboard has stopped working correctly despite weekly cleaning. I am worried that the screen will stop working too. And I don't have the time to take my machine back to the store and get it replaced because I'm so busy that I can't live without my computer.

Apple was supposed to be the company that made computers for people who do stuff. Now, it's a dividend machine that happens to make crappy computers.
Biggest issue is single point of failure for total access to all devices. Get\guess\beat out the master password and its game over on all connected devices.
Facebook and others are not responsible for what their users upload and enjoy the legal protection that comes from it.

If they decide that they are going to be curators of content on their platforms, they are no longer a mere service provider, but a publisher. They might find those protections vanish, which would more or less destroy their platform.
Let's see how it continues, so far it looks like compatibility was an important goal of the Cloudflare team.
I'm 99% certain this is wrong. The boundary is "imminent" "lawless" action.

If your speech inspires someone to shoot someone an hour from now, it's legal. It wasn't imminent. If you speech will inspires someone to commit a non-violent but illegal action immediately, such as buying some drugs, it's potentially illegal (outside of 1st amendment protection).
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> What’s not easy is needing to manage a subscription account, log in on multiple devices

Yet you seem to do it with Dropbox just fine... You make it sound onerous. The reality is it's a one-time effort of about 20 seconds for each device. Drop the hyperbole, it just makes you look silly.

> and either manage caching music local to the device (and frequently needing to clear items out of the cache to switch with other items)

How is "putting them into Dropbox or transferring them via VLC to each of my devices" materially different from "manage caching music local to the device (and frequently needing to clear items out of the cache to switch with other items)"? If you want to put music on a device that's already full, don't you have to delete something first whether you're transferring files manually or downloading them through Spotify?
They don't actually have any influence in the purchase decisions, as it's a state matter. Machines are bought by local governments, with varying state regulations on what can be purchased depending on the state in question. Most machines were paid for by local jurisdictions with a mix of federal funding (HAVA), and in some cases, state funds for part of the cost. Some states have uniform systems; others do not.[0] On election day, there isn't just "one" election but thousands taking place.

There's no single procedure for procuring voting machines, well, anywhere.

To make matters worse, each jurisdiction and the states are fiercely protective of their power in this matter. A federally uniform system, or even just something beyond the very basic requirements set by the Help America Vote Act in 2002, is right now very unlikely and would be a massive political and legal mess. Or, more accurately, a series of messes.

0. http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/the-can...
Very cool. I would love it if there was better tooling for using a kbps connection for download/searching file lists and making a 'drop drive request', so you could use your low speed connection to decide what you want on the drive, then buddy could basically just get a list of files to curl, throw em on the drive with new indexes of available file directories.
Yeah it is about a website that is about an API. To make it easier to read and comprehend I compressed the info in the title. Thanks for the clarification though!
Sure, like how he threw the G3 iMac “hockey puck” mouse out before that unfortunate thing shipped.
uses humblenet: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/06/introducing-humblenet-a-cr...
Apple is simply not making Apple News available in China. That's not "censorship", that's "not doing business in China". Censorship would be if Apple News was available but only carried state-sponsored articles devoid of any criticism. Ya know, kind of like what Dragonfly is aiming to do.
There was a time in history where everyone could start a newspaper. Pre civil war in the US, the modern day price of a printing press was $10k and almost everyone in a town would buy papers and take them on a journey across America. That's how information spread back then.

By WWI, the cost in today's dollars for a newspaper grew to several million. People can't live off small papers today. They live off Patreon and YouTube. They depend on distribution platforms in a way we didn't before.

If Amazon bans your books, it's effective censorship for people who only read eBooks. Sure you can distribute the epub/mobi DRM free, but few people are going to bother with that (or know what to do with the file).

I've written about this before:

https://fightthefuture.org/article/the-new-era-of-corporate-...
Is there any source code for this. I would like to reproduce the findings.
I would love for all people around the world to become level-headed and rational enough so we can have complete and total free speech. Personally, I enjoy 4chan and don't experience any negative emotions conserving to people who openly advocate genocide that would target me and my family.

However, people en masse are different, and tech platforms have to acknowledge that. So, I believe it is a good thing to ban and police hate speech, at least when private companies do it (and not government).
FB isn't the government though.
I don't have the patience to go through that, especially considering I had my keyboard swapped last week and keys are already behaving differently again, and I've got a new Genius appointment for tomorrow.
> when landlords receive higher rent, that money is either being re-invested or spent on "real, useful products" in the end.

This is simply untrue. Wealthy people do not eventually hit zero on their balance sheets, they typically keep the wealth, invest it by gambling in the market, and pass it on to their children who also do not spend it all. Spending is the key to economic growth and wealthy people absolutely do not spend as much as poorer people on real goods. The economy is always better off with wider distribution of wealth.
The new keyboards are great because they reduce the size of a portable computer, which makes the portable part of the computer even better.

If you want a less portable computer so that you can type at work and at home on its keyboard, you'd be missing out on the _much_ better desktop keyboards that can be had instead.
The polite term is "legal fiction".
This reads like an explanation to a sample question on a standardized test. This isn't a formal debate and no one gets points for logically correct but empty observations.

I still don't know what the specific alternative to "paid journalists" is. I don't need a random HN commenter to tell me that there are humans in newsrooms and sometimes they display bias, make mistakes, or even lie on purpose. But injecting comments like the original don't actually add anything to the conversation other than a generalized paranoia. If return0 has specific complaints, they should articulate them.
Are there many apt packages that don't require root / sudo privileges to install something?
I totally agree. I am still suffering the keyboard, and all I got from the genius bar is: "blow it with compress air".
The answer to your examples is that the conversion from date to datetime sometimes is ill-defined and you shouldn't assume that this can be properly done.

Legally, employment usually has a well defined start date and end date - and it often simply doesn't have a well defined start datetime and an end datetime, you might as well assume that it's undefined unless/until a particular situation forces you to get a court ruling for that.
Search "patriotism".
It doesn’t have to be a human in the middle though - if you’re in a position to MITM, it’s much more scalable to put a bot in between that relays messages between one person and the person they intend to communicate with.
Still Fedora with KDE for now.
The entire 'sex trafficking' thing is a manufactured moral drama. It doesn't actually exist at scale. All the large 'sex trafficking' courts set up a few years ago have now closed due to lack of cases.

This is just the normal government/media cycle of using kids and/or sex in order to pass laws (ie, FOSTA/SESTA) to violate the rights of individuals and empower the state.
“Not every programmer in the world wants to work in a private office. In fact quite a few would tell you unequivocally that they prefer the camaraderie and easy information sharing of an open space. Don’t fall for it. They also want M&Ms for breakfast and a pony. Open space is fun but not productive.”

— Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Trello and CEO of Stack Overflow
All those patriarchal forums are the top-end of a stochastic terrorism funnel.

1. [The Pewdiepipeline](https://youtu.be/pnmRYRRDbuw]
2. [Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34858587-kill-all-normies)
X1 Carbon if you don't need >16GB RAM. Otherwise P52 if you don't mind running Windows or Linux with NVidia binary drivers - 3K USD gets you 6core i7, 4K display, 32GB RAM 2x512GB NVME / 500GB spinning. That's without deals - which there always are.
It does suck incredibly badly. I don't understand why either, why can't I just initiate a transfer from a different instance, get notified on the old phone and initiate an encrypted transfer between the two? Instead I have to write down a ridiculously long number and transfer the backup by myself. Last time I couldn't get it to work on my first try so I gave up and restarted from scratch.
That’s awesome. Just signed up.

Wonder if the answer should be technical. It feels like more a self controlled issue. Like I keep refreshing my emails for no real reasons. But if I block myself to this feed, I will just switch to another feed. Eg HN or Reddit.
>“We are aware that a small number of users are having issues with their third-generation butterfly keyboard and for that we are sorry,” an Apple spokesman told Stern in a statement. “The vast majority of Mac notebook customers are having a positive experience with the new keyboard.”

Doubt it. Both me and my manager have 2016 MacBook Pros and we both have had issues. I at least have randomly repeating B's. Not sure what my manager had, but he seemed to be more affected/annoyed than I was. Luckily I have external keyboards at the office and home, so I can avoid using the keyboard and not break it even further.

The butterfly keyboard itself wouldn't be so bad were it not for the failures. It wouldn't be as good as the old MacBook Pro keyboards, since whenever I use my old 2011 MacBook Pro, I am surprised by how nice the keyboard on it feels.
This seems to assume that rent controls are the only thing preventing new home construction (because of the uncertainty of being able to sell units without being hit by rent control), but supply can be restricted in many ways. The most common of which is simply running out of room thanks to natural boundaries (rivers, oceans, lakes) and local policies against building high density housing.

So rent control tends to show up in areas where rents are growing significantly faster than inflation already, meaning the rent control is at best a band-aid over the existing problem. And then the problem gets worse and economists blame rent controls.
What stores or businesses allow to choose their opening time or beginning of shifts like that?

That might work for an office worker but beside these?
>Similarly, yesterday's system that takes an attacker 3 days to MITM your machine, will take 3 hours, and then will be somebody's python script that installs and aggregates millions of exploits.

The big cost of a MITM attack is getting in the middle. The cost of doing the actual attack is minimal.
I think it is a valid observation that statistically, the Republican Party represents fewer citizens per politician than the Democratic Party. This is partly due to geography and the deliberate choices of Senate representation, and partly due to the skillful manipulation of state politics by the Republican Party. The Democrats collectively forgot for a while that politics starts at the local level, unsexy as it seems compared to, say, POTUS, and the Republicans cleaned their clock.

Of course, currently the Democratic Party relies heavily on actual racial/gender minorities, but if they are smart they understand how fleeting that association can be, there is no guarantee it will remain durable over time. Especially as the number of older white male voters dwindles through natural attrition, it is pretty likely that the demographics of the parties are going to evolve.
"Race" is a de-facto cultural category, at least in the U.S. It's not merely a description of someone's outward appearance; the reason people even care about the construct in the first place is its social aspects, which happen to be rather pervasive. It's not obviously wrong to advocate for separatism on the basis of such things, nor is separatism per se hateful or violent.