skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they likely are referring to how import mechanisms in other languages operate outside the scope of imperative execution, like Perl's "use" statement, or in the way that a compiled language like Java handles imports. It is exactly the vast confusion that Perl's "use" caused me, even after I used Perl in a professional setting for almost ten years, that allowed Python's "first class object" approach to imports to be one of the most liberating breaths of fresh air I've ever had in my programming career. Of course, imports being imperatively executed causes the nasty problem of import dependency cycles in code but it doesn't even bother me.
I'm pretty sure more Twitter and Facebook users have become mass killers than 8ch users.

The first comment to the guy on 8ch who posted the manifesto was "hello FBI". Not a 8ch user but they don't appear to support shootings. I'm more familiar with 4chan shenanigans and they definitely don't support it, with any threat of real-life violence being met with something along the lines of "[alphabet agency] fuck off". Not saying they don't have crazies but every "social media" (and 8ch is social media, just an old fashioned version of it) site has crazies.
My takeaway from what Michael Seibel is saying is that your MVP should just deliver something of value to someone. If it covers more than one usecase, or is polished in any way over and above what's fundamental to delivering that thing of value, then you waited longer than necessary to get it out there and get feedback.

I think whether or not it's sellable depends on the specifics of that narrow first thing it does. In the case of Box CI I certainly don't see it as necessary. There's plenty of value in just shipping something that's free to use, to see if it's useful for people.
> I think at some point it goes up against the "yelling 'fire' in a crowded movie theater" exemption of free speech.

You know where that phrase came from? It was coined in Schenck v. United States[1], where Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr convicted the defendant for publishing pamphlets opposing the draft in the first world war.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States
They are making it crystal clear that they "do not take this decision lightly."

Not everything has to be so black and white.
85% of the population approves of increased background checks for gun owners. It doesn't have to be an all or nothing debate.
Right, and in order for that to happen they have to be actionable.

If you have a place in which the common discourse includes hundreds of people saying "i'm going to murder someone tomorrow" in a mostly anonymous format, it's not really something you can follow up on without opening up an entire can of first amendment issues (I say this as a
very pro-big government belief structure).

8chan's very nature prevents it from being useful.
Maybe KFC, McD, etc. want to retain control of their product up to the time it delivers the items to the buyer/customer.

There was a recent investigation showing s considerable amount of food delivery drivers for hire (door dash, ubereats, etc.) helped themselves to some of their customers’ food.

I’m sure the chains want better control over who delivers their food and in what state.
Plasma is similar to a conducting gas-like material. So it can become very conductive and transport electrons and ions. These moving electrons and ions are forming a current in plasma.

Magnetism creates a rotation of the path of the moving particles. It can also create magnetic breaking, like eddy currents. The rotation is always reducing the present magnetic field. That is because of EM and conservation of energy.

You can see that in the video of the article. The current follows circle around the magnetic field. And it is fed from the charged centre.

In the case that the magnetic field is reducing in strength, we get a different reaction. A decreasing magnetic field creates currents that sustain the field. This principle can also cause electromagnetic waves.

The NASA theory is that the plasma somehow sustains the magnetic field. And that this magnetic field is localized to long flux-lines.

Their theory is based on the observation of plasma ropes on the sun. With detectors one can find strong Zeeman effects at the start and end of these plasma ropes. And recently they found even stronger effects at the rope itself. The zeeman effect is related to the magnetic field. So their conclusion is that the rope somehow follows a magnetic field-line. This means that the electrons and ions must spiral through these solar ropes. They also assume for simplicity that no electric fields can exist.

When 2 solar-ropes connect, we sometimes get solar flares. So this creates the idea of magnetic reconnection. Some astronomers even go so far to claim that the flux-lines actually exist. And that these flux-lines create energy with a collision.

But because it is counter our laboratory observations, it seems to me that the problem is a lot simpler. The solar-rope are currents that create magnetic fields instead.

But we can go a small step further. The zeeman effect is also very similar to the Stark effect. And this might indicate that we have strong electric fields at the surface of the sun. And this means we have also found the driving force of the currents inside the solar ropes.

And if 2 solar ropes connect, we will likely have an electrical shortcut. Which is as we all know,
very energetic.

But let's use the models on this big solar-rope (Loop) on the sun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFT7ATLQQx8

We can see movement of plasma very well in this video.
The bright plasma follows some curved lines downward and sometimes upwards.
You can also see other solar ropes behaving similar.

The plasma is probably fed by dark mode plasma (cloudy area).
We see no spiralling. And I have no idea how we can explain this phenomenon with NASA's model.

If I use the corrected model, the plasma simply follows the electric currents.
And the plasma follows gravity when it is neutral or almost neutral.
That can happen when the particles combine as molecules.
The currents create magnetic fields themselves that can cause the curve that we see.
So we can expect quite some magnetic field here.
The magnetic field even helps the curve to rise up from the surface.

But having other ideas is not the way to get into astronomy.
I am completely against not publishing the name of the shooter.

I want to know who these shitbags are.

I want their entire family shamed.

Who was the shitty ass parents who raised the murderer? Who were his failed doctors or teachers of friens who failed to help prevent.

I want to know every god amn detail about this person..

Look at vegas. Look at the failed police/FBI/CIA/whatever investigation that has provided ZERO detailas about Paddock and how he carried out a killing of 58 people, shot over 500 people and we have ZERO details.

So fuck this idea that we shouldnt be revealing their names. We should be shaming the ENTIRE POPULATION in his orbit if they had any indication.

We also need a full toxicology report FUCKING ONLINE and compared to every single other person who has done this.

Are they all taking Zoloft for example?

Where is big pharma in here.

The aurora shooter looked like a freaking mental patient in court. Why was he allowed to dye his hair AFTER his arrest.

The idea that we need to be some sleepy apologetic society is bullshit.

This is some shady shit going on.

My personal opinion is that the pedo world is distracting from the epstein case with this. PLEASE FUCKING DOWNVOTE ME, because you have NO argument against what I have just said.
> Mass shootings (generally) don't kill that many people. They are scary, yes, but not that deadly (statistically). Keep it local news, don't

The problem is there is a simmering domestic nationalistic terrorism threat to the country - and that is news.

The killer in TX directly referenced it, as did very many of the prior mass-murders of recent. That is noteworthy, and fundamentally different from people killed in a gas station robbery.

This rising domestic terrorism is fed and incited by nationalistic groups who have explicitly stated this as their plans and goals.

Yes the media could adjust how they report it, but that's not the root problem here. It's an intentionally fostered growing domestic nationalist terrorism.
That pseudointellectual appeal to "rule of law" was painful to read. If a website really engages in illegal activities, then the FBI gets a court order, raids its servers and that's the end of it.

What really happened: Cloudfare came under PR fire from the Washington Post, made a quick cost/benefit analysis and dropped 8Chan.
The idea that in scientific publication, more is better, makes little sense to me as a practicing scientist. The scientific literature is already filled with papers with conclusions that are not well supported by the data, and that is after 50-80% of submissions are rejected.

To argue that publication should have fewer restrictions, one needs to show that the modest number of papers that are improperly rejected by every journal (not just the first submission) equals or outnumbers the overwhelming number of submissions that should not be published because they reflect a misunderstanding of their field or a misinterpretation of the data. For many (most) scientists, the problem is not that important results are unpublished, the problem is that it is almost impossible to keep up with the current gated literature, particularly when that literature is full of mistakes. While it is certainly true that some reviewers are biased and some ill-informed, most of the time papers are rejected because the authors did not communicate well (for papers that should be published) or because the authors did not understand that their data did not support their conclusion (papers that should be rejected).

The scientific literature needs a better signal to noise ratio, not more noise.
You should be legally required to do business with any customer?

At some level does a person not have the right to say, "I don't like you and won't take your money?"

Sure, the US and others have protected classes that limit the reasons you can refuse to do business with someone but those are more to do with people in those classes being unfairly burdened and facing difficulty living tier day-to-day lives.
Why do they keep mentioning the shooting in Dayton, Ohio? At this point in time, the Dayton shooting seems to be a completely unrelated incident with no ties to politics.
While this may be a contributing factor, it seems obvious that a major problem with these mass shootings is that

The USA Government is doing nothing to even attempt to prevent the next one.

Correct me if I’m wrong, would definitely like to change that opinion.
>YOUR ideas and YOUR opinions will never stray off the “approved” line

Perhaps they will, but there should still be a line.
There will continue to be political mechanisms in place to shift it.
You know the answer, for the same reason Facebook wont be accountable or if you want to get political , the strident members of both parties, or some of the lunatics of the press. Yes, some people shit on them, but I dont see a deplatforming along the corner for the truly powerful.

I understand why Cloudflare wants to get rid of this hot potato right now, but it comes across as opportunistic and hypocritical.
Every other country in the western world reports mass shootings in roughly the same way - yet shooting happen at a much lower rate per capita.
> 8chan claims not to be able to ban content because of the way they are set up

How is this implemented?
>I'm more familiar with 4chan shenanigans and they definitely don't support it

The origin story of 8chan from what I understand is that it is all of the people who had too extreme of views for 4chan... which created an echo chamber to further radicalize and ferment.
Why should we censor hateful speech? Do you mean violent speech?
Whenever I come across hateful speech I usually chuckle, roll my eyes, and move on.
> We could have a nationwide epidemic of mass shootings flying under the radar entirely.

There are published statistics. They suggest that the focus should be on car safety, driving and worrying about bad habits that have health impacts. We'd know if there was a problem and the evidence is that your greatest enemy is you. It'd be interesting to get statistics on how many of these shootings are linked to drug abuse though.

> Logic like that is usually applied to forces of nature.

Good decisions that feel bad will get a better result than bad decisions that feel good. Politics is almost always improved by people taking deep breaths and not focusing too much on what is happening today - ideally using logic although simply sticking to process is good enough for me.
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Yours & my lifetime are limited.

How many controversial topics can we recall that we lived through and where they became accepted overtime? What medium was used at the time and was it the popular communication method for the time. I'm sure historically there was a similar fight with what mediums were available at the time. Burning books or just killing someone who speaks out.

The internet can be the only method nowadays where people with little finances can make a loud enough voice be heard and there are still unpopular views I'm worried won't ever get accepted if people are not being cautious about throwing away measures. That's why the slippery slope argument is worth me typing. Even if maybe it won't!
I also wonder if Americans who think this is a problem with the media inspiring more shootings would take the same tack on reporting terrorist incidents. Wouldn't it make sense to say we shouldn't report on them, given that attitude?

I'm a US/AU dual citizen and I've visited America quite often over the last few years, and it feels like we hear about the shootings only very slightly less in Australia than in the US. Here they're still front page news, and my co-workers are all talking about them.

Had some friends from San Diego and Houston over in the last few weeks and the commented on how safe Sydney feels, even in the grimy parts. They said that they had a need for situational awareness at all times in the US, but here it feels like it wasn't so necessary. At this point I'm certainly not looking at America as the safe haven of liberal democracy or freedom. I feel freer walking around the streets near public housing here than I do in the financial district in SF. But I guess in America you get to own guns with a high clip capacity, bump stocks, and get to post white nationalist manifestos on message boards? Cool.
I this sarcasm? I honestly find it hard to believe someone would post something like this on HN seriously.
They kinda are. DDoS protection is only viable at massive scale, but is table stakes for any website with content that someone out there might find objectionable.
I suspect GP was referring to Computer Fraud & Abuse Act where 1 ToS violation is a federal crime.
Telecom companies like AT&T aren't providing "essential service". Being able to call/text someone is not a "essential service". Yet they are not supposed to ban people because they are merely the carrier.
I disagree with several claims from this article.

"Meyer suspects one of the factors leading to this divide can be found in the numbers: according to her book, there are 500,000 words in the English language, but only 70,000 in French. This means that Anglophones are more likely to have the exact word to say what they want, whereas Francophones must often string together a series of words to communicate their message."

If true (I suspect a methodology shenanigan there) I really doubt this is a factor. Very few French or English speaker will have a mastery of 70,000 words, to say nothing of 500,000.

According to one source [1] adult English speakers are typically in the 30 000 - 50 000 range.
[1] https://wordcounter.io/blog/how-many-words-does-the-average-...

Total vocabulary of the language is certainly not a limiting factor.

"Countries like the US and Australia are low-context cultures where people generally say what they mean and mean what they say. However, France, like Russia and Japan, tends to be a high-context culture, where “good communication is sophisticated, nuanced and layered."

I (and many of my French expat friends) have the opposite experience with US: shallow enthusiasm, shallow friendships, fake excitement. Feels like Americans present a simple layer that is actually a mask, whereas French actually show their inner feelings more easily (which ends up being a bit messy, like I suspect everyone is).

I was told several time (and experienced) that Americans love to say yes, and not follow through, which is a pretty rude thing in France. "Why don't we have lunch one day?" "you should come to my house!" "Let's make something together" Apparently these are non-committal statement in US. In France they are. That's why being able to say no is far more important.

Etymologically, "French" comes from "Franks" the name of the germanic/celtic tribe that lived there. It also gave the word "frankness". I never thought much of it but after working with several foreign colleagues, I really think there is a reason why this tribe and this trait got mixed together.

In France we value frankness and we don't find it commendable to hide your feelings or your opinions. If you promise something you have to follow through. You are going to receive a lot of "non" because of that, because "oui" really means "oui".
> The problem was that other Cloudflare customers started calling and threatening to cancel their service if Cloudflare didn't cut the Daily Stormer off. "The pressure to take it down just kept building and building," [the CEO] told Ars. [...] "I woke up this morning in a bad mood and decided to kick them off the Internet,"

So far he has been a "free speech absolutist" aside from the Daily stormer (economic extremes) and 8chan (public safety extremes). They're just defining what their identity as a cloud provider is. There's nothing morally inconsistent about discovering where your limits and tolerance are.
I make no comment about the "science", but it certainly does jive with reality.

Outperform joe average in an intellectual pursuit, and he'll pat you on the back. Outperform the middle of the pack in the gifted class--people who've built their entire identity around being "smart"--and my God! watch the knives come out!
Kids are smarter than us though!
> They suggest that the focus should be on car safety, driving

And it has been. Look at the data for car death over time:

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

For decades the government has passed laws and regulations that have forced car manufacturers and owners to prioritise safety over all else: seat belts, air bags, crumple-resistant frames... the list goes on and on. The results have been a massive success. It's an example of effective government.

They could do the same for guns, if they had the political will. The only way they get the political will is if voters demand it. The only way voters demand it is if they are aware of the problem.
>It's for each privately controlled platform to decide.

Fair enough. People are lame and should just admit what they actually are (not apolitical) rather than hyping themselves up as such.

Humans suck, hah.
Took me a while to get it!
Facial Recognition in Public Housing and Trash Cans
You don't need ISP to be able to live. Also CloudFlare is NOT hosting them. They were the CDN, content delivery network. They are the messenger which carries the message. They shouldn't be deciding whose message they want to carry. They are forgetting the "don't shoot the messenger" saying.
Of course it’s censorship. It’s just not government censorship.
As long as they can be sued for liable the way any other publisher can I have no problem with them pulling 8chan. If they're going to selectively hide behind section 230 to promote their political agenda then I do, they can't have it both ways and I hope congress clamps down on this.
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Worth noting cloudflare leadership has been fighting this war for years and this is just a small battle.

Can you tell us when @Cloudflare will be holding its next "How to Protect Nazi Extremists" workshop? You guys seem to be the experts.
10:25 AM - 14 Aug 2017

The recent string of violence has forced their hand here.

https://twitter.com/ncweaver/status/1124091916520497153

https://twitter.com/klarajk/status/1122625367490146304

https://twitter.com/Riverseeker/status/1122612031234945024

https://twitter.com/slpng_giants/status/1123592717341200384

https://twitter.com/NathanBLawrence/status/10562868097418199....

https://twitter.com/NJDemocrat/status/897147112273608705

https://twitter.com/InvestMib/status/1123308004873515015

https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1124415034610860033
Congress recently added sex work as an exception to CDA 230 protections, and every provider scrambled to nuke everything remotely related.
Lua's Lpeg module (http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/) is probably what you are after:

lower = lpeg.R("az")
upper = lpeg.R("AZ")
letter = lower + upper

Personally I prefer though the terseness of regular expressions.
> you're trying to support

This isn't about "supporting" someone's views. This is about simply allowing one to speak. Otherwise Google should be held liable for every single illegal thing that happens on their platform (and there are ton of those).
I'd argue reddit is a decent example. They banned some very hateful subs, and then later started banning subs because they 'were not good for advertising' see r/waterniggas.
It is not clear if background checks can prevent this type of event.
It is disingenuous to describe white supremacy as "an unpopular opinion".
> What's really going on is similar to what we saw with radicalization in extremist Islam forums. A large group of young, usually lonely and frustrated men, disconnected socially, often with no hope of financial status advancement, find solace and community in online forums with like people, and then act to self-reinforce some of the community's worse inclinations, blaming their predicament on other types of people, dehumanizing them. The irony with these forums are, some people on those forums are not racist or pedophiles, but edge-lording on purpose, but other people can't discern the difference and are swept up and manipulated by other people who get off on manipulating people.

This is something a large number of people don't seem to realize. The parallels between Islamic extremism and this white supremacists extremism should jump out, and both should be approached the same way. It's sick people offering a sort of belonging to disaffected young men.
A good proofread is arguably not as important in a 5 minute blog read, but in a 20 minute read it really adds up.
How do you feel like "mental illness" argument holds up between AU and US?

I think most people's fears are around unhinged homeless than random shooters.
Hi there. Registered socialist here. the `chans all suck. Not just any specific /`/ either. They're all hot garbage. They have been for years.

I post and respond to tons of pro-union, anti-capitalist, socialist stuff on here. Sometimes I get grayed because I'm being a dick and not playing by the rules. Other times I'm rolling in that klout with stacks on stacks of upvotes. I'm sure any communication system with enough users has people who use it professionally for financial gain. That's just the nature of life? If there's money to be lost by something happening, there's in effect money to be gained by preventing it from happening. C'est la vie.

Platforms are always going to have owners. Owners mean an agenda. "The Internet" as we now know it usually consists of layers and layers of platforms, so that means lots of (sometimes conflicting) agendas. You want free speech: it only exists when you control your platform. Anything else is just a rented hall.