skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the culture of software development, there does seem to be an ambient message often repeated or hinted at, that it is good to "give back" to open source by contributing and that it is virtuous to do so.

I can't think of any civic institution I belong to that isn't constantly asking for volunteers, and riding the volunteers they have to do more. I'm not sure it's any different.

Society needs volunteers, and money isn't everything.
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Back in 1999 when I had AOL 4.0 at the age of 16, I would frequent www.goregallery.com and other various gore-related websites that showcased real crime & accident scenes from around the world. Still to this day, I am fascinated by that kind of content. I don't really seek it out like I did as a teenager, but it excites me nonetheless.
Do you mind not doing this here? This is not reddit. We're trying to have a valuable discussion here.
I respect the hustle, but why do I have to create an account and login with GitHub to see anything?

I recently had to rewrite my resume and found it surprisingly difficult to find any decent templates, so I created my own in Google Docs https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LoPO2A_mZXJTpn90K27FPKU3... . Anyone reading this is welcome to use it.
Just wanted to make the distinction that we are not the customer therefore, expectation to be treated as a customer are not going to be met. I was highlighting the frame of thinking and context that one should be using when thinking about their relationship with such entities. I could have delved deeper and specified that it is actually aggregate data, about us that is the actual product. My main point (which granted I could have been more clear on), was to emphasis that expectations will not be met if one thinks of themselves as a customer to a credit reporting agency. That is unless they work as an agent of an entity extending credit to consumers.

It was not my intention to be rhetorical nor to cast moral judgment, rather just to highlight that the relationship is different than that of a customer/business relationship.
I believe I understand what Stallman suggests. I'm saying that it has no merit.

Do you believe it has any merit? His emails suggest that he doesn't have an idea of what the existing laws regarding consent actually is - even the ones which are not ambiguous.

> considering the globally varying age of consent

That's why it must be a merit-less argument. 1) It's a distraction because age-of-consent isn't the issue here, it's the inability of minor coerced into sex work to give consent, and 2) there are regional differences in just about every crime, so if Stallman's argument has merit then it means almost no laws are moral, so talking about the morality of laws isn't that meaningful in the first place.

> He was just advocating stricter language around the issue.

He did not demonstrate that the term was used incorrectly for this case.

He made up his own definition, which requires 'force or violence', then asserted that it is "absolutely wrong to use the term “sexual assault” in an accusation" ... when people are using the term correctly, in its strict legal definition.

Why do you think the use of "sexual assault" for this case is not the correct strict language?

BTW, Stallman doesn't seem to know that "no coercion given his past with Minsky" may be irrelevant to the question of if sexual assault occurred. Some sexual assault laws have strict liability. If 73-year-old Prof. X has sex with a seemingly willing person under the age of consent, with no coercion on X's part, then it doesn't matter if X truly believes the underage person is of the age of consent. In most US jurisdiction, "I honestly thought she was old enough" is not a way to avoid a statutory rape conviction.

For Stallman's argument about coercion to be effective, he needs either 1) to demonstrate that the the laws regarding the Minsky situation require knowledge on Minsky's part that the sex was coerced - and I don't know the relevant laws, or 2) present a strong argument for why strict liability is wrong for that case. He didn't.

I assert it's because he didn't know the basic issues on the topic, but is only arguing what he feels should be the case. Which is not a good basis for complaining that others are being insufficiently strict in their language.

(BTW, why does at 73-year old Minsky think that a young woman wants to have sex with him? Did he consider it might be part of a blackmail plot? Or does he thinks he's so famous that of course a teenager wants to have sex with him? We'll never know.)
its a horrible, and wonderful, story, but we will see, if we work willfully, wont we?
> Why should "gender presentation" influence some one's biological sex?

No one has suggested it should.

“Man” and “woman” are terms of ascribed gender, which until recently was usually ascribed based on assessment of genitalia at birth (“biological sex” is a different though related issue) and considered immutable, but is now, in most of the developed West (despite usually being still initially assessed by genitalia at birth) held as something which should be adjusted to align with gender identity.

> but that shouldn't force me to change my behavio

Obviously, no one (on HN) is forcing you to abandon the retrograde and transphobic behavior of misgendering individuals based on imposing your personal preference for how and on what basis they should be gendered over their gender identity.

Calling it out, sure. Forcing you to change, no.
Keras still has CNTK and Theano backends in addition to Tensorflow. Given that both frameworks are not being developed anymore, is there any point in maintaining those backends in the future?
Unfortunately I have no such claim code. I also don't remember receiving one and there was never a confirmation email sent. If there was one on the screen, I regret not saving it. It's sad and frustrating the lengths they are going to, to make sure they pay so very little for screwing so many people.
That's amazing. How do you fund it without charging for it?
Um, I'm actually worried that I or other person will be punished for something that they didn't do. In the third world country I live in you'd have to accuse someone and then bribe the judge. Turns out that in US one don't even have to bribe anyone, mob will lynch them. You just need to accuse them of right things; e.g. stealing and homicide won't do. Is that the progress that humanity has made?
> Bankruptcy seems quite appropriate.

Hmm... Would not they just file for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy, restructure their debts (i.e., write those pesky $125 payments off), then emerge in a better shape than they were?
What evidence is there that there even exist any gender differences in cleanliness? How do you know that very idea isn't rationalizing cultural sexism?

I know lots of people, men and women, who don't care about being dirty. I also know lots of men and women who like things clean. The people I know in the U.S. have almost nothing to say about the cultural expectations on women in India or Turkmenistan.

How many domestic women do you know and talk to who are living in Africa, Saudi Arabia, or North Korea? Do you really think women in Africa are being clean freaks, and that explains the statistical difference in education and income?

> You might as well call a man's tinkering with an old hotrod in the garage "unpaid auto mechanic labour".

That might be true if globally women were culturally pushing the men to tinker with their garage projects to the point that it was expected they don't go to college and instead work on the jalopy for four hours a day, and if lots of men weren't allowed to vote or drive cars or have jobs.

You called it 'unnecessary' housework, based on your own assumptions and biases, having no idea whether it's even housework the article is talking about.
Ask HN: Average Startup per Diem Rate?
We have a 10 person startup including 3 sales agents who travel a fair amount within their local region. While on business trips a fair amount is being expensed: meals, drinks, snacks, newspapers.

How should a startup calculate a reasonable per diem rate for sales associates? Is is typical to expense every single purchase while traveling for work?
Book Summary: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Hard to imagine using Discord for open source projects, but this is likely all marketing/branding association for me.

That said, I can see the appeal. Definitely one of my favorite pieces of software these days.
Courts have thrown out NDAs before because they were unreasonable or unconscionable - Snowden would argue that he signed an NDA under the pretense that the government was behaving according to its' own laws, and that the NDA should be thrown out because that reasonable expectation was violated.
How does that jive with:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Probably the same way civil asset forfeiture does, somehow precedent became the supreme law of the land as opposed to the constitution.
I've seen many job adverts that specifically cited "seeing Github contributions" as a requirement.

I don't see how that is not enforcing free work.

You could say that you can choose to not apply to that company, but not everyone lives on SF and has tons of offers to choose from.

It becomes this unspoken rule that to work on many companies you have to contribute to OSS (preferably on Github). If you really need a job, you can't really pick and choose.
There's this thing called chlorine that's been around for a few decades, at least, which owners of motorized vessels can use to clean out inaccessible locations like bilge pumps and cooling systems.

It's actually more likely for personal watercraft to carry invasive species because they're less likely to be cleaned (even though they're easier to clean).

Inspections for invasive species have been a major issue for at least a decade, because nobody wants to repeat what happened in the Great Lakes, where invasive species nearly destroyed the lake ecology and its many fisheries.
The laws against publishing classified information only apply to people who are authorized to have it in the first place. As soon as that info makes its way to someone who is NOT authorized to see it, they can legally do whatever they want with it.

There is no legal definition of "journalist" in this context.
The conversation might go better if you framed it as paying the members of that team less than they'd get in comparable jobs with less child abuse.
Not a whole lot of meaningful statistics you can do without at least a little calculus. The integral is an essential part of nearly all inference, even in very trivial problems such as estimating a bias coin.

Statistics without any calc is basically applying ad hoc tests without understanding what they are actually testing. This is the kind of statistics we should be getting rid of, not expanding.
All those (mostly distributed) systems are not exclusively used by big corporations. They are also used in research and smaller startups too. Hell I know people who use the Java Spring Framework on personal projects.

The world of open source benefits the powerful entities, and that's OK that's what open source is about... Everyone gets the code for free... No matter who you are
It's only a club now, as far as I'm aware. I went there once when it was actually a cafeteria and it was...pretty gross.
I really have no idea why the 4th amendment only applies to a subset of mail, just that it does. It'd be great if someone with more knowledge could explain the reasoning behind it.
I hated calculus until learning Physics. It was so abstract and seemed useless. I'd much rather be presented with a problem, like how far did this ball travel, then learn calculus as a tool to solve that problem.

I agree with you though that attempts to teach Physics without calculus are sorely misguided. It's ridiculous to force students to memorize kinematic equations that can be trivially derived from each other.
It's worth mentioning that Gitlab does facilitate mirroring to Github in quite an easily configurable, pretty zero-maintenance way.

This of course won't benefit Gitlab's SEO in the long run, but it does allow using Gitlab with less of the cons.
The article speaks about Chad. A country where the birth rate is around 6 children / woman. I am a developer who comes from a similar country (5.7 c / w) or we are the second poorest country. One thing we have in common with the people who grew up in gethos/projets is violence. It pushes us to stop thinking about what we need beyond surviving... We are wasting time fighting against diseases, addictions, wars (gethos gangs are small compared to the war in Chad, Yemen, Middle East!) or peoples who bicker for $ 10 ... because 10 dollars in our countries is about life or death!

Nobody would ever thought that I will be one day (I who was a refugee for 4 years) an experienced developer working internationally... And the funny thing about all this is that it's UNICEF who gave me this chance [0].

[0]: https://blogs.unicef.org/innovation/open-source-tech-in-the-...
Post-breach, both TransUnion and Equifax now work with CreditKarma to let you view your score and whether or not your report is locked, and they both let you create an online account with them as well to view your score or easily lock/unlock your credit report whenever you need to. Experian refuses to work with CreditKarma and only lets you "freeze" and unfreeze your account in the legally required way, which requires filling out a big form and resubmitting your Name, address and SSN every time you do it. To create a similar online account with them to manage lock/unlock status and view your score they charge an absurd fee of $20/month.

The problem with boycotting Equifax is I also want to boycott Experian. And in the future, maybe TransUnion will have a major issue, who knows.

Is the bank going to be cool with me boycotting the 2 biggest of them, or even all 3? Obviously not, so let's not pretend that consumer choice is a real way out of this mess.
Question not specifically related to the settlement:

Shouldn't this breach of nearly half of all Americans' social security numbers be the nail in the coffin of pretending SSNs are a secret that can be used to verify your identity?
That's hilariously hypocritical. I'd bet the NRA would like it if people simply forgot about that.
Would be curious to read "raise prices" patio11's opinion on this one.
> The cross Pennine route is a sick joke, still running those awful bus on rails trains.

Pacers are an amazing innovation that are best appreciated in the appropriate context: videos from Geoff Marshall making fun of them. They're completely useless outside of that and should be binned immediately.
and now neither you nor anyone else who reads this comment are able to properly serve on the jury
There is an optimization that needs to be done between manageable code and deliverables. If your code is poorly structured it may be very difficult to expand or iterate upon. This is not ideal, and will slow down your goals.

However you could spend forever rewriting and refactoring. What is the value in that?
Doesn't mean UFO's are real, just that these unidentified flying objects have been recorded.

But then, is this a disclosure that UFO/aliens are real?
The return of startx(1) for non-root users [with some caveats]
Honestly, video, music, and images are the least-interesting use case, because they are large blobs of static data. Yeah you can put those in a flat filesystem just fine. We even already have open standards for this and a healthy ecosystem of file hosting providers and file-consuming applications that integrate with them.

However, the flat filesystem model would be awful for most productivity apps. Think GMail, Google Docs, Calendar, Slack, Trello, GitHub, Jira, etc. These are the use cases I care about.

Video, music, and images might be the bulk of most users data by raw volume but certainly not by frequency of access or importance.
Git Aliases I Use (Because I'm Lazy)
30% of non-profits make it past 3 years in operation. This is a huge milestone for this community. Thanks!
I will delete my comment if I am wrong, but I believe that is in reference to the caste system.
That requirement is even stupider considering many FOSS projects don't even use github. So a decade-plus OpenBSD developer would not be qualified, but a guy with a million useless and broken npm modules would be a shoe-in.
I had some trouble accessing the site; if anyone needs a mirror:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190917180019/https://cosmoteer...
[angular misinterpretation of supposed-problem-with-renaming runways "10", as the opposite-direction versions of "28"/282-degrees, deleted]
Treble due!
Downtown is fine.

Here's the website: https://www.cliftonsla.com/
It's not about going after Snowden, it's about going after the publishers of the book.
I quite like the modern trend of "fact check" articles. Which is to say editorials with references that give lip service to non-partisanship. It's incredible really journalisms continued reliance on reputation and disdain for references.

I think if this trend continued it would be effective against the weak arguments pushed by far-right boosters.
Deductive databases are pretty neat
I'm sorry... I mean, really? I thought you were just trolling originally, playing up the "I don't see race" trope. Well, I'll spell it out very plainly for you then: A profile picture facilitates hiring discrimination on the basis of age, sex, race, beauty, and possibly other factors as well.

You'd get into trouble if you wrote "I am a young, white, normal-looking man" on the top of your resume... but maybe if you just sliiide a little headshot in you'll get the message across.
Seriously?

1. He resisted arrest. He clearly stated his intent to resist arrest. He was given the option to be peacefully arrested, which he declined. In the resulting forcible arrest he was choked, which is wrong, he shouldn't have been choked, but he absolutely wasn't "just standing on the sidewalk" - he was resisting arrest.

2. When you say he was choked to death people might get the impression that there was intent to kill him or that he died on the spot from asphyxiation instead of later from a heart attack. (edit: roughly a heart attack. The coroner listed several pre-existing conditions that contributed, including heart disease, but didn't say "heart attack")

Since we've had literal riots over things like this I think it's appropriate to ask that we all try to stick to the facts.
Totally missed that, facepalm
Curious how this handles data that is not specifically about one person, but is about the relationships between many people?

Facebook's social graph, for instance: is the fact that I am friends with someone on Facebook my property, their property, or Facebook's property? Or this conversation we're having on HN: you could argue that we each own our words, but the conversation itself (including contextual replies, quoted text, arguments responded to, etc.) is its own entity that doesn't make sense when individual posts are removed, and that's why HN has a time limit for deleting your posts. What about a crowd shot that has various other people in the background? Is it property of the photographer, the clearly-visible foreground subjects, or anyone who happens to appear in it? Does that mean someone who goes around tourist attractions photobombing people has a right to claim all your family photos?
Hi, I'm the author of ES4X I'd love to check your graphql test. I've no experience on Apollo so if you could share a test/benchmark it would be great to see where the bottlenecks come from.
How about "I'm happy to apologize to anyone who's actually offended by anything I've said"

https://www.startupgifs.com/gifs/4736f47b854
I'm right-leaning and I see extreme amounts of propaganda backed by false information on the left side of American democracy while the right merely questions beliefs with statistics, facts, and law. I've never once seen any kind of propaganda that was right-leaning use false information. In fact, the right typically debunks left-leaning news reporting by finding more detailed information on the news at hand, while the left usually cuts away bits & pieces of information from their stories that would otherwise disprove their narrative. Also, I've noticed that left-wing news uses psychology to manipulate their audience by victimizing obviously crooked politicians within their stories to make them look like good people when they've been stealing from the public for decades.
They choked a guy to death who had just broken up the fight they were called there for.
On the other hand, driving the value of their stock to zero would be a very effective deterrent against future bad behavior.
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> I've seen many job adverts that specifically cited "seeing Github contributions" as a requirement.

> I don't see how that is not enforcing free work.

Paid open source work, on GitHub-hosted projects, still produces viewable GitHub contributions. That requirements enforces open source work, it doesn't enforce free work. Like other professions where people are hired based on portfolios, having a portfolio requirement doesn't mandate free work, just work that is not restricted by the client in a way which prevents it's use in your portfolio.

Of course, if your paid work doesn't fit that model, you may need to do free work to build a portfolio.
A big win for privacy in South Africa
America being the continent or the US?
Sexual assault does not have “a” legal definition. It has many different and often conflicting legal definitions depending on which state you happen to be in. Things that might factor in would be the victim’s age, whether the defendant knew the victim’s age, the type of sexual act, etc.

Laws are notoriously complex (it’s why we have lawyers), and if you are going cite “a legal definition” that conflicts with the common definition of a word (e.g. assault), I think that carries a burden of actually citing the applicable law that was violated. But that’s simply not possible with in Minsky’s case as there are just not enough details in the deposition where he is named, and he was never formally charged with any crimes.
From another comment of mine, the specific relevant passage is on page 7. Copied verbatim - line with a '>' is Stallman quoting another e-mail in the thread.

"""

> Giuffre was 17 at the time; this makes it __rape__ in the Virgin Islands.

Does it really? I think it is morally absurd to define "rape" in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17.

I think the existence of a dispute about that supports my point that the term "sexual assault" is slippery, so we ought to use more concrete terms when accusing anyone.

"""
I actually don't think taking the monitoring is a bad idea. The $125 will not amount to much and he knew that. The monitoring does include some type of identity theft insurance I believe which could actually end up costing Equifax a lot more.

Since the settlement amount was fixed, I don't see any reason the the ftc to encourage not taking it for the wrong reasons.
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