skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s unfortunate that “broken window theory” has become synonymous with the awful and racist police tactics introduced in NYC.

Broken window theory is real: imagine a random person in spotlessly clean city versus a city where there is trash everywhere. More people would litter in the latter city, I don’t think that is too controversial. Thus a run-down neighborhood with lots of broken windows will normalize behaviors that would be stigmatized elsewhere.

The unfortunate part was when NY adopted “broken windows policing”, which is to go into those neighborhoods and make lots of arrests for petty crimes, as if replacing all the broken windows might somehow reduce crime. Of course this is pretty dumb, since entrenched normalization of deviance (decades of bad/discriminatory policy) can’t simply be fixed by zealous application of punitive measures.
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Pragmatically you have a good point, but technically it's wrong. There are technical solutions to almost all of these issues, and if not, or you can avoid using these sites and apps.

I'm not arguing for one course of action or another, just saying, technical solutions exist. For example, an alternative to government regulation could be government funding of libre software and tools that block ads, trackers, third-party cookies, etc.
That's an uncharitable reading of my post. By applicable I meant laws that apply where I am, e.g., I am in Texas right now so I don't follow the laws of another state.
Your claim was that "cyclists tend to break laws in ways that mostly harm only themselves", and you cited running a red light, although I suspect running a stop-sign is much more commonplace. As I am sure you know, these are considered to be quite dangerous and serious traffic violations when performed by a car, to the extent that most drivers would not even run a red light if stopped at an intersection with no opposing traffic visible. By comparison, it is difficult for cyclists to speed on most roads, but there is no evidence to suggest that they would be any less inclined to do so than drivers were the speed attainable and were it to seem subjectively reasonable. These are "different laws" in the sense that one is a violation of a safety margin designed to allow prompt braking under all circumstances and the other is an unexpected, unpredictable violation of the rules governing patterns of traffic behaviour.

This makes me think that the "difference" you cite is less a matter of which laws the cyclist chooses to break, and rather more due to the vehicle with which the cyclist chooses to break them. Were cyclists likewise equipped with an exterior body and 1-2 tonnes of mass they would be responsible for a wholesale slaughter.

Unlike the selfish car driver, of course, the cyclist at least has the ethical honesty to knowingly commit to breaking specific laws, secure in the knowledge that they will only harm themselves, their loved ones, and the driver of the car that kills them.
as much as i love the python ecosystem and django in particular, the parent is definitely correct.

Don't ever choose python for performance. Its definitely fast enough for most things, but its just not the tool to leverage if you actually need performance.

Its wonderful if you just want to get shit done though, there are just so many good libraries around that you can use to get your project finished without committing several times the effort it takes in other languages
You do not need a large team of Erlang developers though, a much smaller team can hold the project afloat, even hire consultants to fix it and leave it for a few years. Also Erlang dev salaries aren't that stellar, just average what you'd pay a Python or a Java person.
Super nice. Despite presence of weebly, gumroad, shopify, squarespace, carrd et al, there is something missing that would put the rest of world on web, I feel; much like how WhatsApp has replaced most modes of personal communication in one fell swoop over the years, and how Twitter has taken over micro-blogging (key point: Both are free).

To do that, I guess, 1mb or similar businesses could add capability to create a website, post to it, update it via something as ubiquitous as WhatsApp, kind of like a Tumblr or posterous clone; add ability to accept payments, sell things.

Curiously, among my friends, telegram is used to consume content. They subscribe to telegram-channels and simply search for content posted and browse it right from the app. Much like how YouTube has replaced games, and Instagram has replaced Facebook, telegram in a sense has replaced Google/Browser.

Perhaps, someone needs to invent a new kind of web that is in symbiosis with WhatsApp or these other very popular apps. I guess that is exactly what Meesho [0] is doing, but not quite? May be some business like 1mb will figure it all out.

[0] https://blog.ycombinator.com/meesho/
Oh man, Sears… Sears apparently found a treasure trove of part numbers correlated to product names and decided they would sell any and everything known to man online. That they didn't actually have the product (or know what it was) is completely immaterial— you just click "Add to Cart" and then "Check out!" I remember searching for a datasheet for some really old transistors & ICs I found in my late grandfather's TV-repair parts. Sears was light on details, but offered to sell me some brand new ones despite the company having disappeared a few decades ago!

It was a bold strategy, but unfortunately teaching people that your listings are not serious and should be immediately ignored didn't work out in the end. I'm not sure they can pin that on "millennials."
Oh boy; I know, and I hate these terms as they can mean different things to different people/companies.

From their faq:

"When do you send payouts?

Payouts are sent on a NET + 10 basis. It means that for every work completed and approved in a specific month you get paid for it on 10th of the next month. E.g. if for work completed and approved during September you'll get paid on October 10th."

This is basically Net 30 + 10. It can get even more complicated by internal payables cycle.

Edit: When seeing things like Net+10, always asks what the Net term is; it could be anything + 10 days.

EditEdit: That 10 days you're referencing would be from the end of the month, not the beginning. From the beginning of the month, you're 40 days out. With legit corporate work, or direct to legit customers, this can work; when you're subcontracting to seo shops like this you won't even know you're not getting paid or have to fight for it until the next month.
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I found this linked video about using 747s as aircraft carriers quite interesting as well: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=drnxZlS9gyw
To elaborate on this: In Germany if you are a contractor but all your contracts amount to effectively working like an employee for a single company it can be ruled that you are an employee. There are obviously exceptions, like seasonal work, and the system can be gamed. But trying to game the system means you can't keep your good workers because you can only contract them for so long before offering employment.
I agree that wage earners lose real purchasing power with inflation. However, agressive minimum wage adjustments and welfare (for lower incomes) and unions (for higher incomes) should provide all the incentives for employers to keep raising wages, I don't think banishing fiat money is necessary for that. There are other ways to achieve the same purpose.

I also agree that it was preferable to be payed in non-deflationary tokens, but I fail to see any real-world examples of that.
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Weird. We have the opposite issue in the US; I've known several instances of people demolishing an intact structure because they didn't currently have a need for a barn.
What's the use case you had in mind? Running offst as a daemon on an average 8h-a-day workstation/PC/Laptop? Or on a server? In any case, a mobile phone is basically offline most time -- It seems to be online thanks to push-services like the Google or Apple cloud ones, but that API is hardly usable for offset without some kind of relay server (however, you do have relays already in the design, which is neat).

However, running a networking service (daemon, app, whatever you want to call it) 24h on a mobile phone will massively drain the battery, just because Wifi et al needs some power.
So, what makes something an "intellectually interesting angle"? I just read the news guidelines again and we are told not to editorialize and stick with the original title. There are political posts on HN every day that don't get flagged. I really do want to understand lens where this article isn't intellectually interesting.

I posted this because it covers the a potential near future where politics repeats itself in a big way which means it's potentially turning into a pattern. That's why I posted this article. Also, to say this situation is "garden-variety politics" is wrong on so many levels in my opinion. Sure, if this was an article talking about the purchase order of jet fighter being delayed, I'd agree with you; This article is talking about a party pushing their representative out of the white house. How is that garden-variety politics?
Thank you for your kind words! :)
>What's the underlying reason for people wanting to use PayPal?

That's a good question, and here's what my customers have said. My company's market is digital products at around $10-100. Not saying everything here is justified, but the fact that a customer thinks these things should be justification for you to cater to them. (Customer-is-always-right principle.)

- Credit cards are hard to obtain in my country, but PayPal is easy enough.

- The last time I had a credit card, I spent it all at once! So all I have is PayPal now.

- I have USD in my PayPal account, but I don't think my credit card works with USD.

- PayPal is safer because it offers some protections against fraud.

- I don't trust to give a company my credit card number, but I trust that logging into PayPal at a paypal.com URL is fine.

- I have extra money in my PayPal account that I can spend, but I shouldn't spend from my checking account.

- PayPal is easy to sign up for. I don't have to walk into a bank or make phone calls.
As you should but it is a bit of an honor system and a lot of people don't even know you are supposed to do it. I see tons of Massachusetts plates at the mall and I guarantee you most of them won't be writing a check to the MA Department of Revenue. The process of having the seller withhold the tax is much more effective in getting people to actually pay and that is the system a lot of states that rely on sales tax are pushing for.
Not exactly. In tired light theory, red shift of light is result of scattering, which is very unlikely, because scattering changes course of photon, so these photons will not be associated with original object after some very short distance.

My own idea is that photon itself has no mass, because it just wave of energy, but vacuum of volume of photon has some non-zero mass.

As analogy, water wave has no mass, but water has, so water, which forms wave, can be affected by external forces, e.g. gravitation of Moon and Sun, thus form of water wave can be disturbed by these forces. LIGO demonstrated that light can be affected by gravitational waves, so these gravitational waves, in form of constant noise, can disturb shape of photon, so photon will lost small fraction of energy to gravitational field.

Moreover, as EM force, photon should be affected by fluctuations of quantum foam, which are happened nearby. In this case, photon will lose small fraction of energy to these virtual particles.
I did too - I've never seen an analog meter like that before - it surprised me.
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How would that Git implementation look to you?
They need to encourage immigration for several reasons, but they don't like immigrants.
I didn't see mention of why the other 6 states are not available in the data?
Very interesting. But that probably doesn't translate to professional projects where people have more incentive to contribute and core contributors the obligation to onboard and mentor new hires...
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Oh malloc lab.
These look fun; in particular the "Attack Lab".

Dockerfiles might be helpful and easy to keep updated. Alpine Linux or just busybox are probably sufficient?

The instructor set could extend FROM the assignment image and run a few tests with e.g. testinfra (pytest)

You can also test code written in C with gtest.

I haven't read through all of the materials: are there suggested (automated) fuzzing tools? Does OSS-Fuzz solve?

Are there references to CWE and/or the SEI CERT C Coding Standard rules?
https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/plugins/servlet/mobile?c...

"How could we have changed our development process to catch these bugs/vulns before release?"

"If we have 100% [...] test coverage, would that mean we've prevented these vulns?"

What about 200%?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox
Mt. Gox reported 65 mln dollars missing when declared bankruptcy. 8 years later Tether / Bitfinex reports 650 million dollars missing.

I wonder what would happen in next few years if so called “decentralized” currencies really become mainstream.
I saw a proof of concept video of exactly this using LastPass.
Reddit's aim was not to change peoples' minds. They simply don't want to host those kinds of content on their platform and and they did that. Toxic content reduced and so it worked. Period.

On the other hand, having those communities on popular platforms makes them more easily accessible. As the market grows, it makes new audience susceptible to have similar view.
I was referring to sub-reddits and the moderation that happens there where "toxic", trolling , offtopic ares clear terms.

Not the full reddit platform, it is a private thing and a business, if keeping toxic sub-reddits on would make them money and good PR then they would keep them , it was a business decision and if it is legal then it is nothing you can do then move your community elsewhere.

I also don't like when business ban perfectly legal things like adult content but what can you do? Make a law forcing business and private people host things that they don't want, if you had a forum and someone would spam it with disgusting images don't you want the freedom to remove that? Reddit is not a monopoly, we have forums and they even work better for some content type
This is a typical reaction, and it’s definitely true. But it’s only half the story. If there were no investors pumping $100m rounds into startups, they would all IPO.
I good pilot does this or that this or that way. I cannot imagine how the instructor could have put it in a better way of saying, this is the right/suggested way. Also, for some reason the guys voice is just right! Watching these videos may be my new guilty pleasure!
Perhaps in German it is even more obvious.
"to recognize" => "zu erkennen"
"to know" => "zu kennen" (alternatively, "zu wissen")
For starters unlike Hugo you don’t have to install 1MB
Sharding is basically a data storage concern, so it's not something that the language can really control.

There are however, frameworks that enforce some level of "shardability". The Datastore (now Firestore) in AppEngine/Firebase comes to mind, in that your data is shared all over the place (the details are hidden from you), and you can't write un-indexed queries that don't scale well. The Datastore has some limitations that definitely seem awkward if you're coming from a relational DB world (e.g. no joins, limits on the kinds of inequality queries you can do, etc.), but these limitations are there specifically so Datastore can guarantee performant distributed queries.
No, I think there should be some kind of accommodation for long-time homeowners who are actually cost burdened by increasing property taxes. But a regulation that narrow -- only residential, only primary residence, only long-term owners, only when substantially cost burdened by increased property tax rates -- would only overlap with the current Prop 13 by a small sliver. "Grandma might lose her home" only represents a tiny percentage of the beneficiaries of Prop 13.

> It makes a hell of a lot more sense for FAANG to open offices somewhere else.

Network/ecosystem effects are a natural part of economies and businesses. Why don't we leave it more up to businesses to decide where to hire?

Besides, the current setup is manifestly harmful to any non-homeowners and recent homeowners as it is. Why support a system that strains budgets, kicks out the poor and renters, hurts the environment, and forces long commutes?
> if a driver killed you because you ran a red light, that could seriously harm their wellbeing

While there are people who would be seriously bothered if they inadvertently contributed to a cyclist's death, I think the number of such people is smaller than the number of people who claim they would be bothered.

One only needs to look at their revealed preferences to show this. Given the choice between waiting a minute or two (estimated 95th percentile; the median is likely around 15 seconds) to safely pass a cyclist, many drivers instead choose to pass a cyclist very closely and dangerously. If they actually would be bothered if they killed a cyclist, why do they do this? My life is not worth a minute of someone's time.

Of course, the bad drivers could claim that they didn't know passing a cyclist closely was dangerous, but in my experience few drivers claim that. I've spoken to many drivers when stopped at stop lights, trying to understand their perspective. Often they imply that I deserve to be passed dangerous because I broke some rules of the road. So they can't claim ignorance.

(The "rules" I broke are not actually rules. For example, I've had people tell me that I was going far below the speed limit when I was going 17-18 mph in a 15 mph zone. I intentionally picked that road because of the low speed limit, yet some people want to drive 40+ mph there and apparently that makes me a jerk who deserves to be run over.)
Women and women's rights advocates find themselves in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. Not putting gender in the title fails to celebrate female accomplishments. The student will be assumed male. Putting it in the title inevitably leads to some kind of criticism, often an extremely and unnecessarily ugly criticism.

And it tends to not matter how one frames it when trying to signal pride in female accomplishment. Someone is bound to have an issue with it. People will debate endlessly whether "female" or "woman" is the worst, most offensive term. Or people will be mad that gender was signaled at all and decry it as "reverse sexism."

Progress in such issues would go better if people would stop having a cow about gender signaling in titles and stop being agressively ugly about it never being perfect enough.
Most aircraft aren't that sophisticated. When they are, like Boeing 787 and Airbus 320 series, much of the checklists are automated, but there still remain portions the pilot must perform themselves. Quite a lot of the checklist items have to do with establishing situational, contextual and sequential awareness.

Also, general aviation is a much bigger portion of aviation than scheduled passenger airline service: number of airplanes, pilots, airports, and jobs. Any automation is going to be narrowly applied outside of general aviation, it's just not yet a general purpose solution.
Totally fooled me, but pulling down on the fake 'inception' bar brings back Chrome's url bar. Neat trick.
You're welcome.

While I have you: What itch lead you to build this? What did you draw inspiration from?
If you want to give another company control over your MDM and VPN then you should be able to.
Sure. But more importantly, you're free to work for many companies so that if one becomes abusive you can turn up your hours on another.
I ended up moving to FastMail because workmail does not support catch-all addressing. It’s just a hosted exchange server, so the UI is very similar to what you would get with Office365 or an outlook.com email address.

As with most paid email setups, WorkMail won’t show you any ads or mine your correspondence for better ad targeting, so definitely a step up from Gmail. I recall you being able to choose the AWS region in which your WorkMail instance is deployed, whereas with FastMail your data falls under Australian jurisdiction.
Well, I don't know your particular jurisdiction, but many have come to see such wills as against public policy. That can make them unenforceable. So the estate might not be able to come after the school, but the specific mechanism will depend entirely on how the scholarship was setup.

>>An Ontario judge has struck down a deceased doctor’s attempt to set up university scholarships exclusively for white, single and heterosexual student. [...] Her decision invoked a little-known legal principle — stemming from an 80-year-old Supreme Court of Canada judgment — that allows courts to quash people’s final wishes if they clearly offend the interests of the state.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ontario-judge-overturns...

While US courts still tolerate race and gender-based discrimination in wills invoking close family members (ie "my son only inherits if he marries a Jewish girl.") they are less tolerant of bequests held out to members of the public. "100$ to every non-black man in town" would be easily challenged. Specifying only "boys" is a step towards that line.

I still see the occasional land deed in my area with a "no chinamen" stipulation, but everyone knows to either ignore or erase such things.
You can say everything you need to say about white surpremacists without having to resort to "we're right and they're wrong". I don't see what shrouding your preferred state of affairs in objective language gets, other than the potential for cognitive dissonance.
Long experience, observation and reading lead me to say that the pop-culture idea of "falling in love" is just hormones and curiosity and adventure. Real, true love is a decision to faithfully be there and serve a person through thick and thin.

It is best if that decision is well-made. Related to courtship and marriage, I have put many thoughts here (based on experience, research and lots of observation): http://lukecall.net/ (under "Life Lessons").
Not too long ago during the Camp/Paradise fires, just about everyone in northern CA was breathing a toxic cloud of burnt drywall, cars, chemicals, etc. for over a week. Think of the millions of gallons of water wasted, flame retardants dumped, and carbon emissions created. Californians need to live in denser construction near jobs. No more sprawling, low-level construction where fires can easily spread and jump from one building to the next.
> ...tools that block ads, trackers, third-party cookies, etc.

This is an arms race that I’ve watched privacy advocates slowly lose for the last 15 years. Between dom randomization, browser fingerprinting, and the extremely popular reCaptcha Google’s tracking feels especially inescapable by technological means. On phones the situation is often even worse[1] because of a more opaque and restricted OS environment.

[1] https://www.ibtimes.com/these-apps-send-data-facebook-withou...
What I find odd is that he chose to get his 0g flight by flying a parabola, in the style of the vomit comet, instead of just flying in a roll. For example, roll by 200 degrees and then raise the nose by about 20 degrees. (probably can't just roll 180 degrees without stalling)
At least it isn't poisonous.
An indictment of American theatre more than Ibsen. In London, Ibsen adaptations have been shocking as ever. Robert Icke’s phenomenal Wild Duck was one of the best plays I saw last year. The fact that Ibsen can be hit or miss is down to the production, not the writer.