skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have frequently seen the argument that Assange should be incarcerated because he is dis-likeable. Thankfully, that is not a crime in the U.S.

It seems that the federal government is trying to prosecute Assange for obtaining classified information from a source, a practice that is common among investigative journalists. (The details, I suppose, are in exactly how he obtained that information from the source). This seems to me to be clearly protected under the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

A democracy that prosecutes civillians who obtain secret information from sources for the purpose of disseminating said information to the public will likely not remain a democracy for long.
Pride cometh before the Beresheet
I'm not sure why you think 20% of costs are fixed and 80% are variable, or that the elasticity figures are what you suggest they are.

Realistically, Uber has a higher cost basis than a taxi because taxis cut down on insurance and fleet expenses through pooling. As such, Uber is not really able to beat them on price. There's no evidence to support the idea that people are willing to pay more than taxis to use Uber or Lyft. Customers have virtually zero loyalty and so do drivers. If Uber raised prices by 10% and Lyft didn't, wouldn't bookings decrease further? Why do you think it'd by just 20%?

Your napkin math makes sense given your numbers but we don't have any data to back them up.

Re: SDCs, didn't a leaked internal study of theirs a few years back indicate that SDCs wouldn't move their margins by more than 5%?
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> I agree Waymo is doing the best here, but Waymo is nowhere near a real self-driving car. They can't make unguarded left turns. Or drive in the dark, or the rain. Much less the snow, or in construction, or on poorly marked roads, or roads that aren't marked at all. Or city roads that aren't laser-mapped to the centimeter. Or roads with many pedestrians. Or cyclists.

I work for Google, opinions are my own.

I don't know the specifics myself but I trust what you're saying is true and agree those are real problems.

Nevertheless, one of the best things to do when you have a really hard problem is to simplify the problem. It's not as though we have to have fully self driving cars before they're released.

I think what would make a lot more sense is some middle ground where we have certain sections of the road where self driving cars will be able to work well and only allow them there.
Just looked at it... wow LYFT is losing ~1% value each day adjusting for S&P variations.
I would like to know what the Mueller report and US intelligence has on him and his involvement with Russian interference is US elections. Assange was pretty active during the 2016 election and I'd like to see what his involvement was.
I agree with most of what you say. But Socrates not only spoke of Logos he spoke of Ethos and Kairos. Bad people making good statements can often weaken an argument because no one wants to associated with lying aholes. I’m sure Hitler said something good about something, but I’m sure as hell not using his arguments.
No reason at all, except a robust, complete implementation not hopelessly tied to a particular editor.
>Which is protected by constitutional rights in the country Mozilla’s nexus exists in.

Your understanding of the first amendment's protections is fundamentally flawed. The first amendment protects individual freedom of speech from prosecution and silencing by the government. It does not preclude private businesses or individuals from choosing to ban or prevent certain thoughts and opinions from a service which they provide. If Mozilla gets enough complaints about the speech that can be found on Dissenter, they have every legal right to choose not to host that app.

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences of said speech. Dissenter users are perfectly free to find another home on the internet to voice their opinions.

>It’s not necessary for a bloated non profit to remove access to an extension for political reasons (versus technical deficiencies).

Mozilla themselves has said that they didn't remove it for political reasons, rather it was the language and vitriol being used on the platform. As an example, it's one thing to use something like Dissenter to calmly and rationally discuss why you might think a nation should close its borders to all immigrants, it's another thing to use that same platform to say stuff like, "Fuck those worthless lazy piece of shit beaners coming to this country and stealing white jobs" (not my opinion, btw).

I'm not going to pretend to know that stuff like that was posted to Dissenter, but you and I both know that language like that is commonplace on alt/far-right platforms. It's by no means a stretch to imagine that those kinds of posts are what got Dissenter banned.

>Free speech is useless if you’re not willing to defend that which you find most disagreeable.

I go back to my point above. It's one thing to have a political opinion, it's another thing to be a horrible human being to other people just because you disagree with them. I still think that people should be able to say whatever they want, but if Mozilla doesn't want them to do it on their platform, then the rest of the internet is literally wide open for them to go and find another place to say whatever they want.
> I wonder if space agencies have agreed to build space vehicles on a standardized side.

Because space vehicles often need to share space roads?
I created an account to let you know you should probably apologize and delete this comment. Unless you like this sort of low-effort assholery to be linked to your real name, which took me way too little time to establish.
>factual reporting

I'm from one of the regions mentioned and I've literally never been discriminated against or heard of anyone else being discriminated against because of it. The article likewise called all Han Chinese racist three paragraphs in so yes I would consider it China Bashing.
That's not at all similar to what happened here.

In my country we have separate laws which specifically criminalize the act of preparing to murder someone, so yes that'd be illegal. I think that's right
Funny, I just commented on my desire to pick one of the top editors to write a complex plugin in.

While VSC sounds like a better editor, I want to write a multi-cursor, modal based editor with some UI tweaks. Ideally I'll use Xi long term, but I'd like a prototype working first. By your description, it sounds like I should stick to Atom for plugin development then?
Any word on what can stimulate production of COL17A1, or is it still too new a research area?
>If someone acquired the same lock as me, tried to pick it in the privacy of their own home and never actually broke into my home I would sure hope that they wouldn't face criminal charges.

Acquiring the same lock is bad phrasing, since the same model has different keys.

So what you're implying is that people who go around cloning locks to crack them at home, and generate keys, with the intent to break into homes or military installations, have committed no crime?
I was a huge fan os Assange back when wikileaks was an equal-opportunity expose of government secrets. Unfortunately it didn't stay that way, and over time seemed to largely function at the behest of the Russian government.
cough James Watson cough
I’d want one that’s just an online account with a single picture, name, address, phone number that lets you have friends. No posting - basically just a contact list that’s always up to date because people update themselves.

Keybase could be this.

The main way to get people in would be a focus on event scheduling relying on twilio and sms for including users that don’t have accounts.

Make it cheap but not free ($1/month for people with more than 25 contacts) and advertise no ads or tracking ever.
True, but in the context of the employees (in the US) they are either American citizens or on some form of US Visa. It would seem somewhat contradictory to be a non-Citizen protesting the policies of a US company while employed at that company on a visa issued by the US government.

Also, having had a relative that was high up in one of the services and dealt with logistics. Not every contract involved with the Pentagon is specific to a direct conflict effort. It could be HR/Personnel systems, inventory tracking, etc.

During my undergrad/grad years, I worked under a DARPA grant around weather prediction leveraging GOES imagery. Money coming under the auspices of the DoD, but related to research not specific to a military usage. Amusingly, some campus individuals who were anti-DoD put up wanted posters of the professors involved with work under this same grant. (I know different than providing cloud services, but just an example of government military budget going towards efforts that dovetail into civilian uses)
From Page F-31 / 114 of the S1, Uber Eats 2018 revenue is 1.460B.

GrubHub's 2018 Revenue was 1.0B (https://investors.grubhub.com/investors/press-releases/press...)
I've always assumed Obama's DOJ would act once they were able to, and that the DOJ itself was always intent on pursuing. He finally wore out his Ecuador welcome and so it's happening now. Had Clinton won, I think the outcome would be the same, if not far more aggressive (due the DNC email leak).
Love it. That's how it should be. Drivers should get max possible cut of the fares while the network operator works as a non-profit.

100B pump/dump is a scam. Think about all the indices-tracking-ETFs/Funds that will pick up this overpriced stock(our hard earned 401ks). Sigh. Silicon Valley should not have pumped up what was originally a good idea. This has a high chance of ending badly
> What part of the first amendment exonerates knowingly attempting to crack NTLM keys of US military logins?

Is doing math a form of expression? Breaking a password amounts to thinking for a very long time about all the ways you could rearrange some bits, and choosing one. I'd call it an expression of preference for certain possible results over others, by way of saving one and letting the rest go.

I know, I'm laughing at the thought of framing a cracked password because you're so proud of your expressive art. Still, I am deeply uncomfortable with a government having the authority to say, "You may not run that program."
> I always felt SDC is the death of Uber.

But aren't SDCs currently something veeery remote (e.g. even Tesla cannot currently drive autonomously even on technically "simple streets" like highways) and especially only as long as no active offensive social behaviours start to emerge (e.g. gang menbers standing in the middle of the street to stop a SDC to rob/kidnap the occupant and/or destroy the car etc...)?
The most important thing is to realize just how damn simple they are. As you get mired in the literature everything will seem overwhelmingly complex. Just grok the very very basic idea of them and it will come easier.

Also, they’re just a convenient model (for some problems), not a holy truth.
Ecuador also received 4.2 billion from the IMF this week. What timing.

https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2019/03/11/ecuador-pr19...
The extent of their usage of Elixir is highly questionable. One of their employees was at elixirforum.com for recruiting but could not, or would not answer how much they use it for. There's also some partially substantiated rumors that the Elixir was a single employee's experiment, and those services were either in the process, or had already been re-written in Scala.
> I think a lot of the verification problems for electronic voting could be solved by simplification and using old 'outdated' technology. You don't need a full fledged PC to tally votes, you need the computing power of a 30 year old calculator that could be built on a 2-foot wide board with large and simple traces. Something somebody at home with a multi-meter could probe around and test.

Yeah, no thanks. We had that in The Netherlands. The NEDAP voting machines were running on m68k machines. With very weak cryptography. In mid '00s.

What we need to do, is keep this last part of technology out of our democratic process. When people count ballots, there are many eyes, and you do not know of each other which candidate or party you represent. Hence, the system works. It isn't broken. Why fix it with a worse solution? A solution not everyone understands? Yet everyone age ~5 and higher understands manual counting.

I've volunteered 3 times thus far (end of may is gonna be my 4th time) as ballot/vote counter in my country (NL). I can highly recommend to just try it once, to learn what it's like. Its also (mostly) fun to work in a diverse team with people of different backgrounds and ages. You never know who you're gonna get beforehand. One footnote: do not discuss politics while counting ballots. Its inappropriate (since you're supposed to be neutral and not know each other's preference) and pointless (won't affect the outcome anymore in any way).
Today, I learned that WC means water closet.
In that case, consider rethinking your use of the word "supposed". Most native speakers from my part of the US will interpret that use to mean something similar to "ostensible".

I.e., if you want to avoid confusion, don't ever say "supposedly X" if you actually do believe "X" is a fact.

Oxford has this to say on supposedly: "used to show that you do not believe that something you have been told is true". Hope that helps
A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’s history
‘Less bad’ here compares one valuation of Facebook's actions to a previous one, whereas ‘equally bad’ compares Facebook's actions to those of Buzzfeed. So they can be both true (regardless of whether they actually are).
Yeah, they use a dead simple solid-fuel rocket based on their ballistic missiles that can only really hit LEO and has a pretty limited payload.
more speedy automatic declassification without exceptions would be nice.

Retrospective control is better than nothing.

Although if you commit benign computer sabotage and happen to acquire information about war crimes, that should be a freebee.
Do you use it as a debugger? For me, this was the difference in switching (when I am in a desktop environment) to VS Code. The debugger is just so powerful and I have no learned (despite using Emacs for 20 years) how to replicate that in Emacs.
Which distro you migrated to?
On most mining properties in North America and elsewhere, driving is strictly on the left. This is because haul trucks have such large blind spots to their right side, it's best to give them a clear view of the side of the road (which may be a sheer drop-off).

I've done a fair amount of driving on site, and it's a bit of a trip. Usually right after the main gate there is a cross-over point where you yield and switch sides. And don't forget to drive on the right after you leave for the day!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/31603030@N08/24313254363
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How is that a counterexample when they started when Uber and Lyft couldn't operate? Are there examples of local services that sprouted up and had to compete with Uber and Lyft and got off the ground?
Surely it's a supposed or ostensible act until he's actually convicted?
Uber needs SDC, alphabet doesn't. Alphabet will not risk a company ending lawsuit due to SDC...uber is more than happy to bet it all on SDC if that is the sole way to become profitable.

Uber vs Waymo will be inetersting for sure.
So if Verizon would block certain websites for its customers it will not be censorship? Well, it will be. You seem to believe that censorship implies denying legal rights, and only is real when it's total. But censorship can be perfectly legal, and it's never total (albeit it requires either efforts, or money, you can reach forbidden websites in China). I'm not arguing about legality of Mozilla's decision at all. Nevertheless, it is censorship, and as long as it's motivated by ideological differences it's ideological censorship. And as Mozilla pretends to be just browser (not some party's browser) it looks weird, and no exactly smart. My question is why anybody who's not fanatically partisan would support it? Does it mean one feels a lot of pain using Mozilla just because political adversaries use it too? Consequently, do we need a separate fork of every browser for every faction nowadays (apparently, with separate sets of ideologically proven extensions)?
The internet will most likely be split into national zones and citizens or subjects will need something like a passport to view the networks inside these zones. China does this to a certain extent with their great firewall. Other authoratative regimes are working on it. So even though at this time democracies allow most trafic unfiltered (seems that way), in the next world war it will be impossible. Free passage from country to country was not as big of a deal today as it was before world war one and two. The same will happen for most if not all of the internet at some point.
I'm curious how scalable this is. If it can't go beyond what you can load into memory, it doesn't seem that useful.

If you already know SQL, you could just as well use Pandas (the Python library) to load data from various sources and query it.

Also: AWS Athena
Can you publish benchmark code?
The first study of a twin in space looks like good news for a trip to Mars
I'm starting to believe this is how all of these IPOs are getting funded. No sane dilligent investor would be willingly investing in these stocks. Almost entire funding therefore must come from indices which in turn are funded by unsuspecting 401K, state pension funds, educational endowments like accounts. There was a book called Modern Tycoons which had term for these accounts, something like "global river of money". Given how indices are now leveraged for automated funding of IPOs, we would soon be back to stock cherry picking it seems.
Exposing government corruption (and sketchiness) isn't really the best area to apply black-letter law though - it is usually going to be illegal; governments routinely try to stop people publishing embarrassing information.

If a whistleblower can't intend to get information of a government network, how are they meant to make an allegation with some substance behind it? Are they meant to have unsubstantiated word of mouth? We had that for years with ECHELON, the moderate middle just didn't take any of it seriously until the breaking-the-law levels of leaking happened (yes, the legal details are different with Snowden, but the strategy is very similar - leaker gets hit with incidental charges).

The argument here seems to be that while in theory whistleblowing would be OK; none of the ways to attempt a credible whistleblow in the real world are legal. There is a lot of disagreement in this article's comments about what the law says, so it isn't obvious how a whistleblower, who could be anyone here, is meant to follow the details of what they are and are not allowed to attempt.

Assange isn't even a US citizen, so he isn't expected to know US law. Functionally, all this rigmarole is to ensure that if the US government does something sketchy or even illegal then any foreigner who talks about it is legally subject to one of the US's famous black-bag-over-the-head abductions. The charges seem to be independent of what he leaked.
There's also the fact that there are only 4 Interstate highways in Hawaii totaling 54.9 miles, while in California, there are 25 Interstates totaling 2,455.7 miles. So, we've got more space to get up to speed ;) and, of course, longer distances to travel...
See also, the day the US changed its rail gauge: http://southern.railfan.net/ties/1966/66-8/gauge.html
Yes, it's linked from the article: https://github.com/edgedb/webapp-bench
Hi yingw787, I work on the product team at Rockset. Thanks for your thoughts!
I'll try and answer your questions below.

- The different file formats get indexed and turn into a Rockset specific format which ensures that irrespective of the file type you get excellent performance for your SQL queries.
This also means you can JOIN data from different sources (containing files in different formats) using SQL irrespective of the source formats.

- Depending on the complexity of the SQL queries, the latency can range from low tens of milliseconds to a few seconds. Since we index ALL the fields in several ways,
if we're able to use our indices to accelerate the query (which is almost always the case), it will likely be in the 10-200 milliseconds range for a wide range of analytical queries.
Look out for some numbers in the future.

- Data cleaning is something we facilitate through the use of our delete/update records API that lets you mutate the index and remove/update the records that you consider to be containing bad data. Since Rockset supports schemaless ingest (https://rockset.com/blog/from-schemaless-ingest-to-smart-sch...), error documents don't really break anything and you can work around them by writing a query that ignores them. We are interested in providing visibility into the data so that you can quickly detect issues with the data and fix them.

- Rockset has a REST API, clients in different programming languages (https://docs.rockset.com/rest-api/) and some visualization tools like Tableau (https://docs.rockset.com/tableau/). Can you elaborate on what you mean by colocating data and the extension API?
https://blogs.findlaw.com/seventh_circuit/2015/09/non-citize...

hm.
For someone who isn’t a citizen of the United States, it’s not illegal to fight against the military of the United States. It’s not possible for Assange to have committed a crime here.

Would you suggest indicting a drone operator of the US Air Force for violating Afghanistan’s law against murdering people?
Was the request to restart the engine made from Earth?

It seems like the landing program would want to have a feature in place that automatically restarted the engine in a situation like this.
There's a whole category of apps that attempt to help with this problem:

getstation.com (yc w2018)

tryshift.com

slapdash.app (yc w2019)

meta.sc

IMO search is only one facet of a larger problem created by both the way we build modern productivity software (still mostly siloed and only sometimes having one-to-one integrations) and the number of apps we use on a daily basis.

Search is one of the more obvious problems but if you zoom out you'll see that workflows are broken and inefficient but we just don't realize it yet (or at least we do not realize how much better it could be in the same way a person using a blackberry in 2006 couldn't really imagine how much better a smartphone could be a year later).

Once a solution comes along that fixes this problem it'll likely introduce a new platform and a new level of user experience but the solution isn't going to be as obvious as global search + "put all my apps in a dedicated browser".
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Many fast food restaurant chains deliver in South East Asia. It's a bit different because fast food is not the cheapest option there, but it's a step up from street food.
After seeing how people drive in Tel Aviv, I'm not surprised.
When considering 2018 you really need to ignore the 4.9B in other income. The vast majority of that was a one time event, and then the next largest line item is unrealized gains. Not sure what the gains were on but likely something not very liquid and volatile, e.g. a start up.

It's basically a 4B loss for 2018. The numbers all around are just unreal.
Dark day to see so many people willingly claim assange deserves punishment.