skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Additionally, the transcription is terrible, possibly intentionally so.

> If you look back at the history of the United States, it doesn't take very long for the average person to think about a moment in which it was absolutely illegal to do something. But at the same time, it was absolutely the same thing to do.

Was this intentionally misquoted to take some of the wind out of Snowden's sails? I'm not sure, but given the hostile nature of the interview itself I definitely would not rule it out.
Why would EasyDNS even write about this?

I was under the impression that businesses not infrequently receive threatening letters from legal firms, and that a non-trivial portion of these can’t be acted upon as they don’t follow establish legal norms.

I was also under the impression that only the public prosecutor can charge someone with a criminal offence?
What would you recommend? There are physical buttons of every shape, color, size, material and operational mode.

Yes, plastic buttons are the most popular because they are cheap and easy to make. But it's really up to the product manufacturer to decide what to use. I'm sure the buttons in a Boeing/Airbus are much more solid, resilient, tactile... than say the one off your $10 drug store toy.
isn't the same idea exactly covered by the term "(de)coupled"?
> My money is on early 20th century style oligarchic capitalism

I've been enjoying the historical context in this book. I'm not surprised to be liking the book, but i'm pleased to be getting a better understanding of what the early 20th century space was like.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36448501-the-bitcoin-sta...
There have been significant mechanical improvements under the hood. Dual clutch transmission enabling things like (very quick) paddle shifting has trickled into a lot of cars over the last decade. Gasoline Direct Injection has also seen rapid adoption. Hybrids were a small niche not too long ago, let alone EVs. Turbos seem a lot more common as well.
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It makes sense to me.

In a few months I'm not going to even be able to fly around the US with my Texas driver's license. I don't see how you could fly anywhere without a passport.
I don't think you're getting the difference quite right.

A public interest defense is one that argues that a public interest exception, included in a law, applies. In jurisdictions where a public interest defense is possible, i.e. Canada, it applies only to laws which include it as a public interest exception (in Canada, it would be the Security of Information Act of 2001). If a defense argues that a murder was okay because it was in the public interest, that wouldn't be a public interest defense, because the laws against murder don't include a public interest exception. Arguing that such an exception should be made by the jury, rather than that such an exception in the law applies to your case, is a straightforward argument for jury nullification.

In the US, I'm not aware of any laws that include a public interest exception, so a public interest defense would not be possible--appeals to the jury to find someone not guilty because their crime was in the public interest would be appeals for jury nullification.

There are a few defenses that work on these sorts of exceptions which only apply to specific laws. For example, truth is a defense against a libel charge but not against a HIPAA violation charge, and self defense is a defense against a murder charge but not against a robbery charge.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_interest_defence
Perhaps, but with minimal control, larger risks and upfront costs. Especially if you're a small company selling under consignment.
Book Summary: It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
This isn't true in most cases. Amazon does buy stuff wholesale through their Vendor program. Almost all sellers are also buying wholesale apart from manufacturers going direct to consumer.

If it is shipped & sold by Amazon, Amazon already paid for it from their supplier. If it is shipped & sold by SomeOtherStore, generally they bought it already from someone. There are a lot of dropshippers also and that is a different story.

Amazon similarly protects itself with onerous contracts that can force suppliers to eat the cost of unsold products at times, and does whatever it can to avoid buying unproven products.

Grocery stores and other retailers in general can be protected by refund policies and buyback policies so they are not necessarily taking as much risk especially on packaged products with long expiry dates. They can also liquidate stuff that doesn't get purchased to recoup some money.
I'm from Hong Kong, funnily enough, and what we do with mine is that we switch every 2 years. Renting here is easy (albeit expensive), so we just move to a flat near her work, spend 2 years of me having 3 hours of bus, and then we move near mine, when I am 10 minutes away by foot and she has the 3 hours of commute per day.

What's nice is we can pay the 4000 euros per month of rent. If not we'd find a 2000 euros flat mid-way. The main issue is that hker are either too stingy to rent, or really don't earn enough to spend that much on it. Don't underestimate the number of people here who can't pay rent by sheer ideology, and live at their parents while extremely overpaid compared to Europe.

Also, as a side note, city incentives to companies come either from your salary (via taxes on companies) or your taxes, not the sky, so it's not a solution. Real solutions are sacrifice, like changing job, changing girlfriend or changing flat. Would you ask for the country to give incentive to companies to help you work 300 km apart your gf ? Sometimes life's unfair and the government isn't your mom, you'll have to solve the problem yourself.
Could you link to that apology?
"After the Journal’s inquiries, Amazon took down its A9 website, which had stood for about a decade and a half. The site included the statement: 'One of A9’s tenets is that relevance is in the eye of the customer and we strive to get the best results for our users.'"

Huh, that's an interesting reaction.
Setting aside anything Russia might have gained, there was clear harm done to the reputations of US intel agencies (and US more generally), as well as minor but directly consequent limits placed on their abilities. I don't know if you can tie GDPR into all this but that would likely include "damage" to economies as well.

What matters is whether the disclosure helped more than it hurt. I think the jury's out on that until either the next major terror attack or the US pardons Snowden.
> I think their point is simply that "it's their store" - and to be brutally honest, I agree.

Amazon claims they are a marketplace, not a store. Amazon itself is only one player on that marketplace, according to Amazon.
A sequencing run (at least in the context of Illumina's technology) requires a few very expensive consumable reagents: First being the flowcell (microscope slide that the dna sticks to while being read by a laser), the reagents (containing enzymes with fluorophores and other reagents for amplifying and manipulating DNA), and the actual power consumed by such machinery. This does not factor in prep/lab costs (which can be kept at a minimum with automation, but that also is a high startup cost endeavor). Each sequencing run can take ~1-3 days depending on the format.

Edit: this video may be able to explain a little better how this process works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCd6B5HRaZ8
Something can be unfair to vendors in a way which is bad for consumers. Amazon's own products might be, for example, more expensive or worse quality.
I agree the brand names sound ridiculous, but I bought a Spigen phone case from Amazon for a Moto X4 and I'm very happy with it. Fits perfectly, looks fine, good access to buttons etc.
In a vacuum perhaps but that depends on the credibility of them actually leaving and for there to be new jobs coming into a sector. Manufacturing in particular isn't great because any new company is already going to be looking for lower wages just to compete against imported products manufactured overseas.

A small difference in wages won't attract people from far away to move to a new location because of all the thing I originally stated and ultimately while there are some good benefits to manufacturing in the US it's hard to beat Mexico or China because the costs are so much lower there for labor. On top of that because it's a relatively low skill field the potential hiring pool is very large so there's little need to pull in veteran higher wage (and higher healthcare cost) employees from other companies.
I consider a headphone jack mandatory for two main reasons. First, wireless earphones don't have adequate battery life (not to mention that the last thing I need is yet another thing that requires daily charging). Second, after trying out a variety of bluetooth earphones, I've yet to find one that doesn't give me periodic problems (dropped connections, etc.)

Since Bluetooth doesn't offer anything that I consider advantageous, those two faults mean that bluetooth earphones are seriously inferior to me.

Dongles are a nonstarter for me, for all of the obvious reasons.
Still, they are the monopoly marketplace online. They should be doing _everything_ to avoid looking like they are abusing their monopoly position to muscle into other fields. The fact that they don't seem too bothered just seems to indicate to me that regulators are not prepared to act on them.

Really the rule should simply be that if you operate a market place you can't sell on it. Full stop. Then we could simply be happy that amazon is finally improving it's search and/or the quality of its listings.
Which means he doesn't understand how the legal process works.
Yeah sorry, I built trakkin for the Blockstack hack-a-thon so I was moving quick and mobile UI suffered. I'll get it fixed soon.
EasyDNS's Plain English Terms of Service make them seem like a really unprofessional company:

>We are NOT a DDoS Mitigation Service. [...] If you come on this system knowingly bringing a DDoS on your heels we shut down service (we may also wildcard your DNS to localhost and set the TTL on your zone out to a year. You’ve been warned).

or

>Guilt-by-Association: not only do we terminate any domains or websites which violate our policies, we ferret out every other domain you have on the system under different names, accounts, etc and we terminate those too (don’t worry, we can tell). There is no appeal.

I'm not looking for a DNS provider, because I'm perfectly happy with my current one, but sheesh.
Do you know what hypocritical means????

That the US is opposed to Iran has nothing today with human rights or gays or anything like that.

> which I doubt, since as I said it cooperates with Western interests

Again, you seem to suffer under the delusion that the West interest have something to do with human rights.

Its really not up for debate, SA is less Western in pretty much every single way. Both win the governemnt and far more so when you consider the population.

> If they wanna commit financial suicide that's on them.

So being stranggled against the your will or the will of your population is now 'commiting suicide'?

These sanction make the Revolutionary Guard stronger, not weaker. Pure sanctions have proven again and again that they do not lead to regimn or even policy change.

But lets just continue to hurt the population for no reason because it feels good to do something about some PR stories that have nothing to do with the actual conflict.
But the shelves of Grocery stores are different: you cannot just change things around all the time without your customers complaining or going to another market with better offers. The amount of shelves is more or less constant throughout the life of a store and promoting your own brand often means you lose out on the money others offer you to get a good spot.

On Amazon there are as many shelves as there are product categories and the thing has much much more fluctuation.

What that means is, that a "promoted" product is sometimes the only one which stays at a fixed spot, while all all the others are to be found on the miscellaneous-pile.
That would then not be user-centric.
unhappychoice/terminal_image
It's $CURRENT_YEAR, I don't think we should argue pedophilia. Or rape. Or Slavery. Some things should be considered settled.
The vast majority of people don't have the same threat model, and unfortunately just want the product to work, or they won't use it at all. If you can't provide relevant information for the current website, you just won't be able to succeed as a password manager outside of niche markets.
[Ahem] Ed is the standard text editor.

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.txt
Our Lethal Air
You can say it's more valuable, but not to me. I get almost zero enjoyment from reading digitally. I don't know why but paper books feel better. I don't like the interface on my kindle for actually reading. As a device it's good but as a book, it just sucks. Also, I'm usually only reading one or two books at a time, so I don't need an entire library with me. I do use the kindle for technical books, because those are boring to ready anyway.
Why you're seeing so much news coverage of the climate crisis this month
You make certain that even a 'failure' can break even, and make it so that a success gets milked for all its worth. While you can't increase the chances of a win, you can affect the payout, essentially.
I wonder what impact the commoditization of this will have on forgies and fraud.
How do you pick a random permutation function over 64-bit integers? On a set of N=2^64 integers, there are N! permutations, so you need lg(N!) ≈ NlgN random bits to generate a uniformly random permutation, and thus at least that much time. This is too much: we want a solution in O(K) time and O(1) additional space (in addition to the space for K integers) — something that's Ω(NlgN) is out of the question. Things like block encryption do not generate a uniform distribution over all possible N! permutations of N=2^64 integers (at typical parameter sizes); obviously they can generate only as many possible outputs as 2^(the number of random bits used).
The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)
On iOS, your adversaries are third-party app developers. On Android, your adversaries are third-party app developers and the OS vendor, whose entire business model is hoovering up your data. iOS is, in mathematical jargon, strictly better on that basis alone.
unhappychoice/irasutoya-cli
It's also understood by all who pass by store isles that the store is giving its own products prominence. Tweaking an algorithm that historically featured products based on users purchasing behavior to instead favor its own products without disclosing it is doing so is misleading.
Anecdotally I've spoken to people who compete with Amazon private label in electronics and they tell me Amazon doesn't care about quality, and that the factories they were buying from were known to be lower quality.

I've also heard the opposite about Anker - that they always get the best quality.
> I’ve been through the obsolescence of[...]

The difference is that those things had replacements available that were at least adequate.
> Imagine if the westboro Baptists accidentally struck oil and became billionaires and tried to export that version of Christianity

Lemme tell a story bout a man named Fred...
Got it. (Thanks to a private contact.)

Seems to be from this:

http://equinoxfilms.net/humanlanguageseries/
Your believe that foreign intelligence agencies are all knowing and have the ability to act quickly is probably not accurate. On tv they do but in reality most of their work takes time and their ability to react quickly is based on previous intelligence and careful planning. I can see how the reports could retrieve and filter the materials without issue. No one ever really planned this scenerio or at least put resources in place to opt it.
Android and Google services are 2 different things.

1 is an opensource OS, the other is proprietary services.
Law is ultimately shared consensus. We build an abstraction layer on top of that but sometimes the underlying nature can't help but shine through.
Did you stop reading when you got to something you wanted to argue against or did you just pick the wrong comment to reply to? I very clearly called out that I am not making a statement about whether the workers shared in the losses.
That a simplistic anaysis. A pragmatist ideology like Lenin often went against his prinicples but he is still an ideolog. That's one of the prime tendencies of leninism. The same for the guys in Iran.

We should be carful of such simplistic binaries between idiology and state interest.

My point is this, they way they go their national interest is defently inspired by idiological ways of thinking.
I was using that as a short hand. The real ethical concern is about potential misuse of germline or embryo mods.

ie how do you choose between the ethical ones and the unethical ones?

So if I found a mutation I could make to make people of a compliant disposition I could make an army of slaves.

Note this is someone changing people before they are born ( this is to some extent the playing god bit - you are making a choice for somebody else - not yet born ).

Most people who consider that to be not acceptable.

Or how about a mutation that made people better soliders - one of the problems with warfare is the soliders can be mentally damaged by the things they have done or seen - surely it's better to make a solider that is unaffected....

ie the opportunities for good and evil are enormous - but until you have a mechanism to decide between those, it's easier to blanket ban.

Even something that, on the face of it is benign - like a mutation that reduces the risk of heart attack - what happens if you later find out that it increases the risk of something else? You can't undo it later ( only for subsequent children by the same procedure ) - for the people already impacted.

Again, the cautionary principle applies.
Sadly Newegg is following in Amazon's footsteps with it's affiliate program. You have to choose Newegg as the seller or you run into the same issues.

As soon as Newegg starts mingling stock like Amazon does, then we'll have to go back to big box retailers to ensure we're getting the item we're paying for.
Bokeh and Seaborn are very, very thin skins over matplotlib, and honestly don't improve the user experience at all. Only Altair has changed things for me.
How does version management work with dark?

Do I get access to the "raw text files"?
What this means is if you host a website for someone to sue you in a court of law the process instantly requires an international lawyer.

They are not cheap. Pick your countries right and arguably you would be hard to sue.

IANL but you should consult one when implementing this strategy.
The other vendors who bought from that factory and rebranded them had the same problem did not issue a recall.
It would, yes.
actually having an entity to do the recall is quite an improvement!
We are in desperate need of a startup like that - a social media mechanism that organizes classes (as in class action) and goes after companies. Let lawfirms bid on the cases (percentage/prestige + vote on the best lawfirm to take the go)
Obiously, like google, or like any other company. I would have done the same. The name of that is: capitalism.
Of course, so do your research before choosing countries.
Faster? More resilient? If they went through the cellular network, there would be more latency, and if the scooter is in a place with poor network coverage, it might not work at all.

(I'm assuming that most phones have better reception than the cheap cellular modems inside scooters)
This is a complex topic with many (not-so-related) facets.

From the employment perspective, there certainly are some companies where the benefits a more senior/experienced employee provide are wasted or ignored. In those cases, it makes sense for the company to replace the older worker with younger (cheaper and less opinionated) employee. Granted, I'm on the older side, so I'm not being ageist here.

From a consumer/user perspective, it's more about understanding your user than their age specifically. But generally speaking, much older users have very different backgrounds and experiences; thus, their approach to using things may be considerably different from that of a younger person. That said, most user interfaces and product features probably don't fit any userbase well. So in a way, the sea of bad interfaces isn't ageist - it's just bad UX.
Also, a factory can produce a counterfeit of your product and sell it on Amazon on the same listing as your genuine product, with no way the customer can tell which they're buying.
You ship your org-chart.

You feel that in today's infotainment and electronics integration in vehicles.
Ever been arrested while poor? It's a completely life-changing and world-disrupting experience, even if charges are dropped, even if you never need to appear in court.
No, that was Chelsea Manning.
Is this a limited case? In general I've heard that Berlin is pretty happening place for privacy activists these days. Kinda makes me scratch my head to read this.
I've been harrassed by law firms in connection with photograph copyright claims.

In my case it was a law firm in France who also had a presence in the US.

It was a minor claim (they demanded $500). We took the image down immediately, but they continued to demand their cash "settlement" with multiple letters over a year (1 letter every 1-2 months, each one with increasingly aggressive wording).

I eventually got on the phone with the person sending the letters, and turns out they weren't licensed to practice law (in any jurisdiction). I pointed out that it's illegal to misrepresent yourself as an attorney. They hung up and I never received another letter after that.

Good on EasyDNS for refusing to turn over customer data. If they did, I assume their customer would be harassed in a similar manner.
Sounds like a typed Pytorch module then?
Would love to better understand the ideology. Could you elaborate? Is it the "you will build equity through real estate" argument? Are the people living at their parents saving up for a down payment on real estate so they can get in on that game?
I strongly recommend Altair (https://altair-viz.github.io/) as an extremely Pandas-friendly alternative approach to data visualization. It's the first library that has successfully "hidden" the ugly, gnarled matplotlib layer underneath for me. It also looks killer.
So given that Obama was willing to commute Manning's sentence, and given that the House Intelligence Committee unanimously voted to ask Obama not to pardon Snowden, perhaps Obama had good reason not pardon Snowden, and the damage Snowden did was worse than his advocates are willing to acknowledge.
It may be subjective but if a big enough market segment has the same subjective opinion, then it becomes "reality".
I've been impressed with Dark -- it has the potential to make it possible to build a scalable cloud application in an afternoon and reduce application complexity. This has a number of impacts long-term, from both making existing teams more productive, to bringing less sophisticated developers to participate in application development. I highly recommend you check it out.

[Disclosure - I'm an investor in the company, but my thoughts are my own.]
FYI, 1Password doesn’t force you to use their cloud service. Even if you subscribe (as opposed to standalone), you still don’t have to actually use it. I switched from an older standalone version to the current subscription version, but I’m not using their cloud service to sync my vault.
Yeah, whistleblowers “do clear damage” to the organizations they expose. Personally I blame that damage not on the whistleblower, who is just telling the truth, but rather on the people who actually did the illegal or inappropriate things that the whistleblower exposed.
I don't really trust any lock to keep out someone determined. At least a mechanical lock won't send who knows what data for who knows what purpose to the manufacturer.