skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know, I don't really see it as a problem. What is the difference between this and FANGco hiring the developer to specialize the product for them in-house, which is something that happens often?
Well, perhaps they should upgrade it for the sake of the ~170 CVEs that have been published against Java 1.8.0_60? https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=...

Sure, a lot of those probably don't apply to how they're using Java, but I'd bet at least a couple do.
You can't do arithmetic with numbers and bigints, so when would you ever accept a parameter that could either be a number or a bigint? The places that `typeof a === `number` || typeof a === 'bigint'` could be used seem rare to me.
This post really needs a /s on it for full effect.
I've been thinking about creating a platform for discussion of present-day issues, built on a reputation-based contribution system akin to how StackOverflow surfaces quality content.

The goal is to give average citizens a place to go to:

- become informed about all sides of an issue in a quick and easy way
- share a new opinion, or up-vote a remark that resonates
- monitor and engage in affairs you care about while ignoring those you don't

I feel democracy in North America needs to foster more constituent participation, and I think the internet can turn governance into a two-way street.

Anyone could open an issue, no matter how controversial. Anyone can provide their opinion, and one of the challenges is figuring out how to engineer the site such that high-quality submissions float to the top while trolling and inappropriate remarks sieve down to obscurity. Conflicting positions would be grouped into major camps with the top-voted contributions of each equally showcased (picture the Amazon review page with the most helpful positive and negative review on top).

Each issue would have a section organizing fact-checked, unbiased research presented from well-reputed sources (possibly distinguished through community moderation) and make that work easy to cite. It would also track related, real-world events as they occur (e.g. bills being voted on, court cases, protests, breaking news, etc). We'd link to existing sites where it makes sense (e.g. Wikipedia, Factcheck/Politifact, stuff like TheyWorkForYou, etc.)

The site would offer (but not require) to collect your demographics and share anonymized stats with levels or branches of government you choose (e.g. local counselor, municipal utilities, state, etc) or social researchers. You could opt in to lightweight surveys from your representatives (targeted by geography, demographics, or issues of interest) to help them gain more granular understanding of the needs of their constituents.

This isn't fully fleshed out and I know it covers a lot of ground - too much for one startup to do all at once. Some of it has already been attempted by others. Would love to hear your thoughts on it.

One thing I became convinced of pretty quickly is in order for this to succeed it needs to be built and hosted by a non-profit able to maintain a strong public reputation for being unbiased.
That is an interesting explanation, but felines usually hunt in the night and our low light vision wouldn't allow our ancestors to defend themselves in a way that relied so much in accuracy during the dark.
When I said 'planning' I'm trying to include current plans and revisions to them. My point being that there's a major population bubble to contend with and we haven't really addressed how to handle that (at least in America).
There is still, for me and a few other people, value in obtaining and sharing music that is outside the influence of corporate curation. It feels more organic.
Common name for what you call "universal numeric type" is "number tower". Most lisp dialects have something like that. What that means is that you have classes for small integers (fixnum), arbitrary precision integers (bignum), fractions, floats, and even complex numbers along with the appropriate abstract base classes (eg. integer, rational, real...) and arithmetic operations transparently use the most appropriate type for the result, i.e. the result of "1 / 10" comes out as "1/10" (of type fraction) and not as float "0.500...something".

Python 3 has mostly same approach to number types.
I really wish I hadn't peaked the comments on there.
I mean this worked for a while, but many songs now are distorted or slowed down so they're not detected by Youtube copyright bots.
> not something meant to be eliminated

I said exactly the opposite: "not eliminate it"

> Most of the law is the tradition of judicial interpretation of those statutes.

This is a very good point. You could simply have judges write decisions in a decision language as well, which is defined just as the law language is defined.
If you want to make sure (like I do) that journalism isn't criminalized -- then you probably should not label criminal activity as journalism.
Okay fine, let me rephrase. It is not something meant to be reduced.
> Can you blame Snowden for accepting that "hospitality"?

If he does not want to stand on principle, then no, I cannot blame him for choosing what is likely his only opportunity for any amount of freedom.

Part of being a martyr, is, well, being a martyr. He knew the game when he released classified information, even if the ends may eventually justify the means (for some, not all of the information he divulged). I agree that he is essentially irrelevant at this point, he has said what he had to say, and done as much as he will ever be able to do.

But I cannot blame reasonable people for believing that it is important he stand trial for breaking the law, regardless of how damning the information released. There is an argument to be made that we don't want to make it okay for every individual person to make their own judgement call about what classified information should be kept secret and what should not.
You are right. We can store and manipulate Int32 arrays as a typedarrays. The arithmetic is limited to a few operations.
Is this an offer? Because we would do it :)

But your company probably doesn’t depend on our software.
Have the receiving phone send an acknowledgement message back and if the sender's phone doesn't get one after a few seconds, show a "{name} failed to receive your message. Maybe they're offline." dialog. Allow the sender to try again later.
They're missing out on probably dozens of security fixes from the past 4 years. Unless they depend on buggy behavior, it is incredibly unlikely that they'll have any backwards compatibility issues, and hopefully they would have tests they could run against a newer JVM to help surface those issues.
Is there such thing as a solid fuel aerospike?

I'd think the spike geometry would still give ambient (maximally efficient) expansion over a range of altitudes but IDK how they'd make that work with solid propellants.

I'm sure the students didn't because it's never been done before, and you get an A for succeeding with proven technologies, not failing with unproven ones.
I don't know why it was flagged but it could be mod intervention in regard to a discussion about tptacek.

As for the link, I mostly made a lazy search just to provide a link to "news articles, politicians, political pundits". If there was multiple people on HN claiming he was not going to get charged by the US then I would expect to see similar opinion outside HN. I thus tested the theory.
I totally understand your desire to develop things in a sandboxed environment but the source code for Rust/Cargo/Etc. is all available under their organization at GitHub. [0] It would be easy to audit and raise issues if you have any concerns.

[0]: https://github.com/rust-lang
Hmmm... I don't think I ever argued against an income tax. I only argued against a personal property tax, pointing out that the government is typically very happy to take from the poor, even without any law making it explicitly legal (see the civil forfeiture cases). My main point so far has been to urge the utmost caution in these laws. It is certainly not something to enact simply because we want to make Mr Gates less wealthy. That is a bad reason to open the flood gates.
There are 3 main approaches to NDAs:

-Use an instant reviewer. The most popular free NDA review tool is http://www.klaritylaw.com/NDA (http://www.klaritylaw.com/NDA). A Y Combinator backed company called Klarity released this free, instant, NDA review tool that is used by Salesforce and Segment. This approaches assumes minimal risk, is the fastest, and is free.

-Pay for a lawyer to review the NDA. NDAs take between 25 - 60 minutes for a good lawyer to review. This approach assumes the least risk, however, it takes the longest and is the most expensive.

-Review the NDA yourself. This option assumes the most risk and takes the longes. This approach assumes the most risk, is quicker than using a lawyer but slower than using an instant NDA review tool, and is free.
Meditation, exercise, and a diet that includes no caffeine, no added sugar, & no processed food has done wonders for my ability to focus. I also made it a point to become a morning person, usually up by 5:30.
> they encourage sources to leak classified information, which they then publish

Where's the line between "encouraging a source", and trying to crack a salted password hash on their behalf so they can say "Here's the password, use this to get into this classified system"?
Unfortunately, I think people usually search StackOverflow, or just type into Google and get pointed to SO. If they type in "how do I download a web page in python" they get:

1. urllib [1]
2. BeautifulSoup and a comment mentioning requests [2]
3. requests [3]
4. urllib, httplib [4]

Which is looking better than I expected... but no information on 2 or 3 relating to how you install those libraries. So 1 and 4 will Just Work.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45717889/read-the-text-o...
[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26050064/automating-down...
[3]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44553348/how-to-download...
[4]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2646288/retrieve-some-in...
Luckily we don't grant individuals the right to take property or liberty or life without criminal consequences
> Manning jailed forever.

in case you missed it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/us/politics/obama-commute...
> For similar reasons the architecture of V8 in particular has effectively dictated the design of WebAssembly, especially regarding control flow constructs like goto and coroutines.

The weirdness of WebAssembly with regards to control flow constructs is rooted in Emscripten's "relooper", which was developed in a naive manner ignoring previous (superior) research on irreducible control flow.
Did I argue real estate taxes were totalitarianism? No.
Interesting alternative to...

Anyone remember how cryptocurrency was going to be the way to pay for open source projects? By which I mean buying the kickstarter-like tokens of the project and trading them on markets, speculating until it launches?
Interesting, I will check Klarity out. Anyone else have any experience with this company?
Spotify did it right; they managed to put together a service that is actually better than piracy in the ways that matter to a typical consumer.

The movie and TV industry have instead put great effort into building services that are significantly worse than piracy.

And nobody can understand why movie piracy is still rampant, while music piracy is receding.
I don't have a positive opinion on taxation that I'm willing to share really. I simply would like to urge caution with regard to the idea of allowing the government to tax wealth simply because we don't like the fact that the Zuck is rich.
I was referring to an etherial notion of "loss", which is why I said minima.
Constitutional Amendment by PR? :)
>And virtually none of the comments will be from people who have studied in psychiatry, are seriously engaged (pro- or con-) with pharma, or have ever run a trade show.

I mean that's how internet comments work on virtually any largish web site ever. I don't think submissions should be based on the commentary they might attract.
The article doesn’t explain what makes this the airplane that led the D-Day invasion, and not one of the.

Luckily, the airplane has its own site (https://thatsallbrother.org/), but even that is fairly limited in its explanation:

”June 5, 1944:

Lead aircraft of the main airborne invasion on the eve of D-Day. Led over 800 aircraft dropping over 13,000 paratroopers behind enemy lines in Normandy.”

https://commemorativeairforce.org/aircraft/165, similarly, is too succinct.

I would have hoped to find out how we know that (scans of logbook, etc, but alas).

Based on what I found, what’s on those sites wouldn’t stay up on Wikipedia. Anybody have better links?
That is right. Russia can today not supply China with sufficient soy. But Russia has enough soil to change that and since the political will from China and Russia exists, this most likely will happen.
On the one hand, I would love to own a Buchla synth. On the other hand, no way in hell would I want to maintain an analog synth. The closest I got was when I bought a second-hand Korg EX800, which was a digitally-controlled analog unit. Fun machine, but it was unreliable and I wasn't up to the task of taking care of it.
The word "classified" means it's not intended for public consumption. Do you imagine that governments should not have the ability to keep information secret? How do you think that would work out.

We elect representatives who are able to review the classified materials and act on our behalf.

That's how the system works. If you think governments shouldn't have secrets you are in the minority.
That's a damning article not only for Panera, but also for the press and their lack of journalism. It appears they just copy pasted Panera's PR.
> you contradicted your initial "slippery slope" point. either we judge the constitution or the constitution judges us. either it's a buffet where you take what you like or you don't. which one is it, tauthage?

If we lived in a world where the constitution currently allowed slavery, I'd say begone with it. But we do not, and I am uninterested in considering what I'd do if I lived in a time I do not.
Anyone who would do this doesn't deserve to have a dog. Sad and shameful.
This happened to my company in SF.. we got kicked out because of eminent domain for the new Transbay Terminal ...

We never ended up going back to offices after that.
"People on HN: Of course the government aren't spying on citizens. What are you? Some kind of tin-foil hat-wearing conspiracy theory nutjob?"

This never made any sense to me, and I brought it up any time it was mentioned. It is the nature of spooks to spy on everybody. The pretence that somehow magically their spooks don't spy on US citizens never passed the sniff test.

Think about it, how could they possibly _tell_ if someone is actually a citizen? They've got no reliable way to do that, and obviously the grey areas are _exactly_ where you should look for bad guys, so in practice _obviously_ they will spy on citizens.
Manning hasn't really been jailed forever. She had her sentence commuted, and the recent legal trouble she finds herself in is entirely of her own creation, no?

IMO both Manning and Snowden have the weakest legal arguments, and Assange the strongest. I would personally have advised him to avoid taking sides in US politics, but he wasn't asking my opinion :). Playing in the big pond as a small fish is a dangerous game.
Developed countries actually are doing relatively well when it comes to CO2 emissions. EU reduced theirs in 25% the last 30 years. USA and most of others maintained them in those 30 years.

It's mainly China (it increased theirs in 300% in 30 years) that is the problem.

Legislation and treaties ate mostly worthless, when only the developed world does what they actually agree to, while China keeps making empty promises that they never fulfill.

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P.S. I also don't think that environmental data per capita makes much sense. What we should be looking at is environment metrics per land/sea area: you (a country) has control over a part of the planet, so they have to use that part in a way that they don't over tax those natural resources (for CO2 this is basically directly proportional to the full area of the country).
I agree! I'd have had a heart attack on that first one in the video, cutting in front of the other car.
Perhaps "special" here means "implements the std::marker::Copy trait"?

Or is there something else going on?
"Turtle smashing mental level requirements are not much higher than social media surfing" -- what leads you to this conclusion? It is not clear to me that this is a trivial statement.
Is this how Tesla does their magic? Brilliant!
I'd wager few customer companies care. They're a leader in DNS features, which if this is something you care about as a company (customer) then you're probably up on the high-tech trends. A lot of those same companies are also embracing remote work in some way/shape/form. Also customers appreciate when their vendors DON'T go out of business - saving money on rent helps keep things going.

For many tech jobs, a remote workforce is a benefit. Technical Operations staff distributed? Great, it means someone is more likely to be awake and monitoring things - heck of a lot faster response time then the ol "It's 3am and the pager just went off, I'm groggy, where's my laptop, what's going on?".
I hereby award you 1 pedantic point. Spend it sensibly!
They've never been documented eating any reptiles? Not even something trivial like lizards? That seems so odd, I don't know why but I assumed they ate just about everything.
> There is an argument to be made that we don't want to make it okay for every individual person to make their own judgement call about what classified information should be kept secret and what should not.

I would argue that we do want this to be okay, at least on a case-by-case basis. Unfortunately this means that it's incredibly subjective as to whether an unauthorized release of classified information was justified or not.

We currently live in a world where unethical (and often illegal) activities continue, secretly and silently, likely because people who do have some shred of a conscience are too afraid of the consequences of stepping forward and speaking out. We tighten that status quo only to our detriment and the continued erosion of our civil rights.
I'm currently working on an application platform based on postgres and was very happy to hear that Azure will soon offer Citus scaling (or does already). During the development phase it doesn't make sense for me to spend a lot of money in order to have my database hosted in a sharding mode but in the long term I would like to use the Citus offer on Azure. Do you have any advice on what to consider in my database (table) design in order to avoid issues when migrating to Citus at one point in time?
I only read that it makes sense to have one column (e.g. customerId) in each table so the sharding mechanism knows based on which information the data should be distributed among the nodes. In my case I guess such kind of key would be organizationId (= a group of users)
Merck also did some fraudulent science to get the Gardasil vaccine accepted by the FDA:

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/25-reasons-avoid-gardasil-v...
I wish they spent time at making the code a tad bit less symbol-ic and more verb-ic, the amount of nonalphabetic symbols used is just immense and it's not easy to decipher quickly. C++ suffers from the same issue I think.
Your complaints pop up in basically any thread except for the most bland, or specifically technical, of posts here. Saying it's a bad post because it pinged something particularly offensive in your brain is your own biases talking.
Color me just so incredibly surprised.
That's fine to say, but what does it actually mean?

How do we protect forces providing oversight and sunlight to parts of the government that we the people really should know about to be informed voters? How do we reasonably protect 'watchers', and how can we have reasonable oversight of the 'watchers'?

Part of the issue is that there is not a clear standard that must be adhered to; where does selection bias count as an editorial action and where does it count as being an agent of a foreign power? If someone is a completely dumb conduit that does not evaluate the data but republishes it without inner knowledge do they have more or less protections than someone that evaluates and 'publishes' the content (I.E. in technical terms 'the press', even if not part of something traditionally obvious as a news organization.)?
Isn't violating Unreasonable Search and Seizure on a Massive scale illegal?
I've made several predictions in this thread and I have been making others through the years I have a pretty good intuition about what to worry about and what to now, historically.

I'm from Denmark originally I grew up with wind and understand the pros and cons pretty well and I know the reality of wind and solar which isn't what you seem to think it is.

Furthermore, now I am investing in interesting energy companies doing anything substantial and I can just tell you that it's a much harder problem than most thing and is solved by neither sun nor wind.

I am wrong about a lot of things and I will change my position when I am, however, this is not an area I am wrong about but an area I predict you will realize in 10 years from now that I was right about.

This is why I say there is no scientifically demonstrated consequence of climate change we can't deal with and I have yet to hear anyone able to refute that. Climate catastrophism is going to be a joke a decade from now and we won't be leaving oil anytime soon, it's simply too valuable for human life and the ability to live with nature.

Furthermore, I seem to be one of the few people who actually care about the only thing that matters in the context of this discussion which is how much do humans affect the climate. What's the number? Where is scientifically demonstrated proof?

If you can give me that and show me it's high then you have convinced me. Until you do that then you are asking me to act on something there is no scientific evidence for.

Anyway, thank you for at least being civil about it and not (I assume) downvote me like more or less anyone do on anyone who dares say anything that isn't part of the normal spiel.