skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blog posts can't be Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html), they can't be tried and it sounds like you were the interviewer, not the person who created the product.

Please use original title, here "I created a $15K/M business selling Unique Luggage Tags"
I love Glimpse! I look forward to the emails ever month, and it always leads me down a rabbit hole of cool new stuff.

Can you explain more about how you mix automated tech and manual editorial work? How automated is the process of publishing a newsletter?
No, the notion is more like "the Internet enables a fundamentally different kind of communication than we've grown up with, and we should rethink our assumptions accordingly."

It's just not like other kinds of human communication that we've had for our entire history as a species.

Human psychological evolution is thousands of years behind the technical capabilities we've developed in the last few decades. A bit of thoughtfulness in the governance of those capabilities isn't too much to ask.
I think the American political right is in general more accepting of science than you might believe. Many of them are scientists themselves.

I think the older generations, the poor uneducated families, and the bitter religious folks have more disbeliefs in science than 'the right' in general.
Canada Post is run like a private company while being a Crown Corporation. It makes a small and reasonable profit, and bizarrely, sometimes the Tories try to kill it because it profits.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Post
Really cool stuff.

Having said that, this is one of those things that sounds too good to be true, so I'll check back in an hour when HN has explained why this tech won't work.
You are indeed correct. Nevertheless that's the way it is for new grads - 1st and 2nd yr fresh out of law school - at high end medium and large firms that are sort of like pyramid schemes. The associate newbies need to generate those billables (are those realtime hours? I never checked. Does the client check?). The partners get their cut from those billables. Periodically the herd is winnowed to make room for those with more energy.
This is not a secret court, it’s the completely ordinary court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
>Amazon keeps optimizing for speed

I think they are optimizing for cost/customer satisfaction, not speed.
Look at this http://xahlee.info/kbd/TRON_keyboard.html

Then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project
and especially https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTRON

If that is not enough, try http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/homepage.html
which is the most comprehensive history of that i can find.

In my opinion that is the stuff which influenced sci-fi anime.

Imagine... A specification exactly describing a common platform with different levels of capabilites, but not down to the bits, but more like an API,
where anybody is free to implement that in whatever way one sees fit,
as long as it conforms to the API.
Mandatory interoperability between products of different vendors, be it hard- or software.
FAST!
All networked.
All with code at least a magnitude smaller than contemporary
counterparts.

So no BLOAT.

That was the spirit of the time there, i guess.

But the powers of Babylon intervened again, i guess.
Ask HN: Why companies buy paid Dropbox today?
I am doing some technology analysis on a few companies and services, and can't find a good answer to why a company today would buy a paid Dropbox service, considering that in most cases Microsoft or Google already offer comparable services, and they're certainly not going away anytime soon.

Any of you can shed some light?
Are these fines dischargeable in bankruptcy? If so, there's not much point in adding more on top of an already unmanageable amount.
Teensy 4.0 Development Board
The only side that denies science is <insert political opponents here>
> "Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice."

This one is the original marihuana legislation, predating Nixon's war on drugs, right?

> "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities."

When was this originally published? I keep seeing it in a 2016 magazine, which is a bit odd given how groundbreaking a revelation it is. Especially considering the quote was collected 22 years prior, and the man died 17 years prior. Was this around and just not well known at the time?

> "In 2013, the ACLU published a report titled "The War on Marijuana in Black and White". The report found that despite marijuana use being roughly equal between blacks and whites, blacks are 3.73 times as likely to be arrested for marijuana possession."

Adverse impact, problematic enough, does not imply something was made with racist intent.
I was referring to the 1W lasers the parent commenter mentioned, but yes of course.

A volunteer at Burning Man was blinded in one eye a few years ago: https://journal.burningman.org/2015/03/black-rock-city/tales...
Gizmodo: Why Can't YouTube Do 'Good' Content Moderation? Because It's Impossible
I get it, but I would be cautious in making it look like the war on drug was created just/mostly because of racism, because something very similar happened even in countries where that wasn't a reason.
> ...book 8K billable hours per year...

How does that actually work?
Not making commentary on Manning specifically, but what you just described isn't "cruel" in terms of "cruel and unusual punishment". Now, the means of imprisonment or acts taken to you while imprisoned may be cruel, but simply imprisoning someone for breaking the law (contempt of court, in this case) does not rise to the level of "cruel".

Unfair? Unnecessary? Unfitting of the wrong? Those are all things I don't know enough to really say or discuss in an educated manner.
And all the users hate it and just connects their mobiles instead. It’s like they ask each developer at the firm what they want to do instead of their customers.
As another user pointed out, I've made the assumption that the malicious user who logs into the target user's workstation would also have administrative permissions, in which case they don't need steam to accomplish this attack.

However, this is not necessarily the case, so I yield the point.
No it doesn't. The attack does not require you to install a compromised game like 0xDEFC0DE was suggesting in the other thread. Obviously if you install a compromised game then no other attack is necessary.
It should really be more like how the internet works with IP addresses.

Its easy to send an IP packet with a source address that is whatever you want, but if you do that the receiver is going to reply to someone else and you won't be able to establish two way communication.
My poor son suffered through this pointless garbage. The only real lesson here was how to give the BS answers that the teachers required and move on with life.
I left msft in 2007 and at that time they were in full "security is important" mode. Due to backcompat it's of course hard (impossible?) to remove local exploits, but RCE is a lot harder. For example I don't know the last time I heard about a windows RCE. Edge/IE sure, but not windows. Windows Defender is a very good security product, and Windows Update "just works".
I don't see why the support guy should be fired for this. There should be limits to the depths of stupidity they should have to deal with. Computers are complicated instruments, and if someone is that idiotic, maybe they shouldn't be using a computer. You can't expect everyone to be completely unflappable no matter how frustrating their job is.
That may be a piece or the seed of it, but no govt forced the lenders to generate fraudulent loans at scale or to then repackage those loans into securities and massively mis-rate the risk of those securities -- both of those activities done at massive scale (along with CDOs and other shenanigans) is what collapsed the banking system.
> Why does this rub me the wrong way

I’m old enough to remember when Judas Priest (the 80’s rock band) was accused of hiding subliminal messages in their songs convincing their listeners to commit suicide, after a kid did so while happening to be listening to Judas Priest. It seems absolutely ridiculous in hindsight, but people believed it, and it was taken completely seriously at the time: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/judas-prie.... The logic here is essentially the same: some internet message boards are “egging somebody on” to do something that they would not otherwise have done, which results in death, so the internet message boards themselves are to blame, and must be censored.
> How does this not fall under your 5th amendment right to not be forced to testify against yourself?

She's not testifying against herself. She's testifying against Assange.

Manning has already been tried, found guilty, and then pardoned for her crimes. She's basically immune to anything she testifies. But investigators need the evidence as they're building a case against Assange.
So based on your argument, imprisonment in general is unconstitutional?
... if incremental income is tied to number of deliveries. If the driver was contractually obligated to work that day anyway, and the incremental load simply increased the time at work without an increase in compensation, then maybe not.
I hope so! Thanks for the alternate perspective.
You learn a lot of mental skills from coding. I believe we should teach it really young, at least a simple scripting language. Sometime around Junior High, it can even be an elective, like band. I thought I didn't have any creative skills because I couldn't draw or play music, but I have the most creative skill of all, being able to build useful tools out of thin air.

It affects how you structure your thoughts, think through scenarios, gives you perspectives. There's so many perks, and kids would able to pick it up easily. You just need basic math and English skills to start.

I taught myself in the 6th grade or so. I believe it made a large impact early on in my life, and it makes programming very natural to me. I know the 10x developer term is controversial, but I believe that's one way to become one.
Indeed. But we need to go further than that. There are (a few) scientists which identify with the Right, or worse, challenge some climate change facts. They should be fired, we can't have science legitimize fascists movements or throw doubt on established science facts.
I like the concept, but the separation of church and state is only nominal in the first place. Barriers that obstruct one aspect of culture from influencing other aspects are good, but these aspects are ultimately part of the same whole.
By the standard of the 8th amendment, it is not cruel, or else we would not be able to imprison anyone.
The issue is modern education actively filters out eccentric scientists and rewards submissive diligent people (ivy league graduates). Creative geniuses dont thrive in modern school systems and thus dont end up with 4.0s. Higher level education (PhDs) is also seen as a great way to migrate to the USA by the Chinese and Indians (not saying they arent contributing to the fields), so you get people who arent passionately trying to push the field forwards but instead are just jumping through hoops and view it as a career.

Other issues in science include people turning it in a competition for prestige. Its often the case that top programs prioritize the prestige of an undergraduate school instead of research ability. The same is true of academic journals and getting tenure. In some fields, more than half of the tenured professors at the top 100 schools in the USA completed their PhD from a top 5 PhD program in their field.
Any recommended reading?
We think it helps if coders need to work with lawyers, e.g. particularly so in the fintech, legaltech, regtech and insurtech biz space. That said, it's somewhat unequal in terms of availability of educative resources. For lawyers wanting to code they are spoilt for choice with free, freemium or premium courseware online or in person.

For coders wanting to learn law it's much less available and significantly more costly. A lot of online legal learning resources are very oldschool, incorrect or incomplete, which is a real shame.
Germany doesn't have grand juries though
FTA

>Despite the seeming clarity of SB 880, the difference between military-style weapons and civilian hunting rifles is a spectrum, not a bright line. “There really isn’t a universally accepted definition of what an assault rifle is,” said Kyleanne Hunter, vice president of programs for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. “That’s why this is so hard to police.”

>While EBay sellers must use coded language to list AR-15 accessories, they can openly sell add-ons for the Ruger Mini 14, a semiautomatic rifle that can fire the same ammunition and be configured with a pistol grip and folding stock. “It becomes a really difficult proposition because it’s virtually impossible to say, ‘This is only for an assault weapon,’”

Now from the definition of "Assault Rifle" not to be confused with the AR in AR-15 which stands for Armalite.

>Rifles that meet most of these criteria, but not all, are technically not assault rifles, despite frequently being called such.

>For example:
Select-fire M2 Carbines are not assault rifles; their effective range is only 200 yards.[17]
Select-fire rifles such as the FN FAL battle rifle are not assault rifles; they fire full-powered rifle cartridges.
Semi-automatic-only rifles like the Colt AR-15 are not assault rifles; they do not have select-fire capabilities.
Semi-automatic-only rifles with fixed magazines like the SKS are not assault rifles; they do not have detachable box magazines and are not capable of automatic fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_rifle
So the idea would be it's illegal for anyone working for the Fed to employ the scientific method?
I seem to remember that it spread through 4chan on the /vg/ board, someone there found that you could make text look differnt and then it began rolling until someone made a worm. I am not sure it was reported to valve beforehand.
This is a good first step, as a game that involve anything of monetary value, or upon which contestants may wager money is considered as gambling. And with such games, the odds usually need to be disclosed.
> It could be me, but they really look like a big lead weight has been gently placed on them.

Yes it's almost as if they've just started what's possibly the most stressful job in the world.
What examples of state/church separation were there before people decided it was a good idea?
I was responding to the question "How is it cruel" - I didn't mean to opine on the legal phrasing/interpretation of cruel and unusual punishment.
Even if I agreed with your premise that humans can’t be trusted to talk to one another, what makes you think that those same humans can then somehow be trusted to determine when other humans can safely talk to one another?
Scrolling is horrible when using a trackpad like on a Macbook
Adding metadata to your Bitcoin transaction
>Sorry but you are arguing that it will improve security. I'm asking you to prove that it does improve security

My opinion on that bit isn't cemented in yet (why I used "likely"), but people are fooled by real-sounding domain names. They don't know what TLS is and they don't know what the prefix is, but they do know the difference between "google.com" and "avs.net".
I'm not sure I understand what this means. Most policy prescriptions rely on empirical research and hypothesis testing. Government is applied social science.
Let's rephrase: the political right that is in power. If this political right is accepting of science, they clearly not have chosen or voted for leaders in their party that promote this.
Even if lawyers don't learn to code, I think they'd find source control to be a significant boon.
Can't tell if sarcasm or serious.
The public position of the Republican Party is that climate change is a myth, and that if it is happening humans have nothing to do with it.

If the Right wants to drop its anti-science reputation, it needs to start there.
Science and politics are different. Politics doesn't prove things. Politics is about making choices. Should abortion be legal, if so, when? That's a moral choice. Or less elegantly it's an answer to the question - who's going to be punished and who's going to be rewarded. Science might be able to to inform that decision but it can't and shouldn't make it.

Science is about discovering information. It could answer the question, "Is climate change happening?" It can't answer the question "What should we do about it?" It can inform people about the consequences of one response or another but at root the answer to that question is - "Who do I want to see hurt and who do I want to see helped?"

Clearly there's a lot of overlap there - it's not hard to see how and why that's the case - but I still think when Science starts to lay claim to political decisions people become resentful and no one is fooled.

The analogy I'd make is politicians invoking religion as a trump card in making policy. No one is fooled by it - and it makes everyone suspicious of religion.
> that grand juries have tended in the past to victimize those they call as witnesses.

This is the same line of reasoning Alex Jones uses to justify his conspiracies. "The government had Project Northwoods, why isn't [conspiracy] likely?!"
Wrong. Science must absolutely be activist, they are in the best position to improve society and combat fascist movements.

Nature itself said it:

> As if full-time research weren't time-consuming and challenging enough, nanophysicist Michael Stopa embraced a second occupation while at the bench: politics.

https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v539/n7630/full/nj7630...
Surprised to see that Bitcoin out performs gold as a hedge.
IDK that killing comment count, likes, upvotes, or your engagement "metrics" really do anything. If I can post a picture and get 100 people saying "Damn, you look so sexy!" imma post that shit even if I'm unable to know exactly how many people just told me how sexy I am!

If you can create a feedback loop, people will use that loop to use that loop to get positive feedback. Unless you eliminate comments entirely, people will keep doing this. And if you remove the counts from your platform, you're just opening yourself up to have a secondary service provider create those metrics and sell them to influencers instead of being able to monetize them yourself.

Again, there's no advantage for a social network to kill its ability to create a community and content on its own. It goes against the model. You want to make this a bigger discussion about corporate responsibility and whatnot, that's a worthwhile conversation. But saying "keep the social platforms, but kill the social part unmeasurable" is a weird place to take it to.
FTA: “Using qualitative content analysis, we found that rap evidence was proffered in these cases in one or more of five distinct ways: (1) to prove gang affiliation for sentencing enhancement purposes; (2) as circumstantial evidence of the commission of a crime; (3) as direct evidence of having communicated a threat; (4) to prove motive, knowledge, intent, identity, or character; or (5) to establish what incited the commission of a crime.”

Later in the paper, the authors posit that a feature of the rap genre is to “blur” the distinction between fictional exploits (e.g. of committing crimes) and reality, and that defendants seem to not get the benefit of the doubt.

> In spite of the creative license that many rappers take when crafting their songs, scholars have noted that the legal system has increasingly used rap lyrics as evidence as if the words were “truthful and autobiographical.”

> ...While nobody believes that Bob Marley shot the sheriff or Johnny Cash shot a man in Reno, neither artist tried to convince the public that the crimes were real. There was no question about the distinction between artist and performer. Rappers, however, blur that distinction all the time.

It's funny, and appropriate, that Johnny Cash is used as an example of how non-rap music is obviously meant to be fictional. While I never thought he "shot a man in Reno", I had always assumed he had some kind of less serious prison record. But Wikipedia says "he never served a prison sentence", though he did go to jail several times for misdemeanors. Country music has plenty of songs about lawlessness and debauchery; as prominent as the genre has been, it would be surprising, statistically speaking, if country lyrics were never used against the artist, in criminal or civil cases (e.g. divorce suits and songs about adultery).

edit: added second excerpt
Why? I'd like to see a more scientifically-minded State.

It's useful to remember that science is a social construction, and thus that there is no definitive science, but rather a collage of emotions and opinions about scientific endeavors. Thus, we cannot actually marry science to the State; the closest we can come is to choose representatives who are scientific.
You are suggesting that to the wrong person. The comment I am replying to is the one that brought up the war on drugs as a racist thing.
Everyone here who holds a grudge against Elsevier (and even those who don't yet) should have a look at the group which owns Elsevier (where it only represent a third of the profits). [1]

Truly, a fascinating business combination including science's rent seeker in chief Elsevier, a number of privacy-dubious services under the banner "Risk Analytics" - including for instance your insurer-imposed GPS car tracker, and a service dubbed "Active Insights" that "keeps track of changes in [client's] households" - and another nice looking rent seeker business, LexisNexis, which is if I understand correctly an Elsevier-like gatekeeper to law information and references.

[1] https://www.relx.com/~/media/Files/R/RELX-Group/documents/re...
if you can afford one, you can afford to rotate between them every couple months. at least until they start fudging around with contract and yearly discounts.
>There's usually no noticeable difference for a user whether the dialog they opened via a button click is built in highly optimized C++ or from an XML resource stream that is read, parsed, and the UI constructed on the fly by effectively interpreting the UI description.

I dare you to compare the speed of UIs of Windows XP and Windows 10, even when using the hardware that was current when those OSes were released.
It's not just reminiscent. It's the same incentive structure: people need papers, as many and as soon as possible. The results need to sound good (so they land in good venues), but they won't be scrutinized too much once they do.
Right up until it's financially inconvenient.