skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the Stanford problem, but not everybody succumbs to the allure of power. We see it pretty much everywhere, like on IRC, where power-madness is an expected consequence of giving someone ops in a channel. You win some and you lose some, moderation isn't "set it and forget it," you have to remove some and acquire others from time to time.
This is incredibly insightful; particularly the final dig regarding an unwillingness to compensate others for their efforts.

It strikes me that the open source bounty model never really took off, and neither did the open source crowd funding model.

It's hard to convince users to contribute funding when many of them were drawn to your software _because_ it is free as in beer. Free2Play video games have struggled with this for years, and look at the state of monetization in that market: predatory gambling mechanics, digital storefronts tuned to maximize anxiety in purchasers, and so many hats.

Perhaps the future of open source funding is in selling personalization customizations, somehow.
Politics. He disregards politics and politicians and they eventually had enough weaponry to remove the threat his disregarding their political aims was to them. Nothing more.
I dont think so.. it can be just your drama or dorama in my country said
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Land value appreciation is not part of GDP. Buildings on land typically depreciate instead of appreciate, but upgrading or remodeling are definitely GDP.
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Why is Hacker news so obsessed with sending people to jail? Literally every time any sort of corporation get's fined (for nearly anything), there is a loud call to send people to prison.

It's like there is this undercurrent of bloodthirstiness and hatred for large companies and their leaders that get's brought to the surface.
To be fair, there is quite a lot of money being spent to convince you that they are doing a bad job, so it is reasonable to fight that.
I may be misunderstanding it but that paper reads as completely ridiculous.

We haven’t had a hypoxic atmosphere in the history of the earth since the evolution of photosynthesis (that’s a 2 Billion Year track record). The support for the plausibility of the author's hypothesis is that if you fit a parabola to the data over a certain time window, you get 100% decrease in atmospheric oxygen in a few thousand years??

That model is just nuts. By the same token it predicts we will have negative oxygen shortly thereafter.
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This is a very, very imperfect method of figuring out the key question here ("Would Equifax just file for bankruptcy?"), but their enterprise value is ~$20B, and paying out $125 per person would cost over $18B, so it seems pretty clear you'd need to reduce the per person payout. It would take more work than I can put in right now to decide what it should be, but finger in the wind halving it seems like the right starting point.
Why did you define money as a goal?
Both FireFox and Safari support same origin CSP on instantiateStreaming sources though, which doesn't work on Chrome.
> 6% growth would be the envy of many countries. For comparison, the last time the US did that was 1984

No, not exactly. It has to be contextualised. Growing 2% if you're already rich is fine. It's essentially a promise they'll stay rich, and get ever so slightly richer. But 2% growth for someone who earns next to nothing, is basically a promise that they'll be poor forever.

So let's compare the US in 1984 when it last had China's growth, and China today when it last had... China's growth.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/maddison-data-gdp-per-cap...

In 1984, US (inflation-adjusted, 2011 dollars) had a GDP per capita of $32k. China today is at $12k.

6% might be okay for the US. But for the almost 1.4 billion Chinese (who live on an income distribution, i.e. almost 700 million people living on less than that $12k, and hundreds of millions on quite very little), 6% may not be the promise they'll accept from their government for long.

Not saying it's low-growth, but you can't just compare it to rich countries. The standard is very different, and China will be anxious to crank it back up.
Could this wheelie bin be the solution to the pill testing stalemate?
This is incorrect. The age of consent in the USA varies based on state, many being 16, some being 17 and 18. However, the age of consent for sex trafficking or prostitution is fixed at 18 by federal law.
The faster one tries to learn something the slower it goes.
Unless you water them down like some populate science books, I don't understand how you can teach probability and statistics without calculus?
Might be a dumb question but Google is supposed to have a carbon neutral footprint no?
>In a similar discussion the other day, a user literally wrote that they would have to be paid substantially well to report wrong-doings their company is involved with so as not to interrupt their lifestyle.

There's nothing disgusting about this, assuming that the wrong-doings are really bad and this would all go public. Society does not treat whistleblowers well. They generally lose their livelihoods when they go public with what they know. So yes, they should be paid substantially well to report wrong-doings, because they're usually ending their careers when they do this. If society isn't willing to stop ruining their careers when they "do the right thing", then society has no standing to call them "disgusting" for not willingly sacrificing their lives for the sake of truth.
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I'm not curious; I'm already aware.

NodaTime is a port. He didn't come up with those ideas. He translated Java code to C#. protobuf isn't much different, either.
I find your comment and it’s tone as “absolute” fact to be disturbing.
I agree with you here. The git repo "pulls" changes from a remote instance/branch and then merges the changes.
It’s not that hard folks.

Anyone born in America (north, central, and south) are native Americans.

Some are of indigenous descent.

So when referring to a group of people we should just use terms of person and human. As there is no difference and none are better or worse than another.

If a person has an additional identity they describe themselves as a member of, then those terms should be used, Latino, Lakota, Hoosier, French, etc... when referring to groups of people who self identify with that group.

As that any given person could be of; or any combination of; any given cultural group. As that a person could be of Latino, Cherokee, French, Chinese decent, but live in Indiana. Referring to them as a Hoosier is true, as a Latino is true, as a Cherokee is true, ... is true.

Most importantly a human being is true.
Yeah or several months we've spent on solving quadratic equations and inequalities which was very repetitive and something I've never needed afterwards.
I am afraid it's tough to teach statistics and probability though. People seem to struggle with it and it's difficult to find competent teachers and time necessary for less gifted children to have a chance to understand it. It's much easier to do repetitive trigonometry drills over and over again sadly.
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Thank you much, Sacho. I would never have clicked on the Vice article link. For those who may be confused, &/or on mobile, the PDF is in order from last post to first.

Very unfortunate RS decided to be pedantic here. While he never excused the behavior(AFAIR), it is a poor & insensitive time to argue legal minutiae, IMO. I am disappointed by his callousness. However, I am not ready to join the partially informed lynch mob.

I hope those who make policies in media & enforce the laws do not let side-shows & obfuscations get in the way of bringing every last monster who visited Epstein's island to justice.

PS: Google captcha to post on HN now?
No thanks, henceforth.
Unfortunately, that reads like them finding historical justifications so a mob-induced disassociation doesn't look like it's mob-induced. They had time anywhere between "over the years" and few days ago to pull the trigger. Or they could wait a few days and do it 'after careful consideration'. Whether they bowed to crowd pressure or just wanted to score virtue points, this diminishes their stance in my view.
It seems like we should sue Equifax for their fraudulent handling of the settlement and also the FTC for letting it through. It seems like it was such a joke that it was probably enabled by bribes or something.

They should start over and aim for explicitly liquidating and redistributing all of Equifax's assets. At the same time if there were bribes or conflicts of interest at the FTC then those people involved should go to prison.
You may earn a lot of money but it does not mean you will always have a chance to spend them.
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You could file for additional compensation based on documented damages (time, cost, etc). I'm not sure if that came from a separate settlement or not (doubtful) or if the documentation requirements are even more onerous (likely), but there was definitely an option to do this.
It being smarter for him to STFU doesn't make the witch hunt any more justified.
They probably worked well for 10 years. The ghettos in France are pretty bad right now too. Maybe what was missing was reinvestment in these areas, the development of services and building out the community. London and the UK have experimented with transitioning council flats to owner occupied for example. Gentrification maybe too?
My perception was always that the FOSS hopes of GiMP, Inkscape, etc flopped mainly because nobody in FOSS put work into UI/UX. So, it kind of makes sense that FOSS found a niche somewhere that UI/UX didn't matter.
There is a difference. Please ask some women you know about this, as the parent suggested.
This is an example of attempting to treat the symptom not the disease. Rather than fix the underlying socio-economic issues such as income inequality, lack of affordable housing, and the lack of social mobility and opportunities- the instinct is to hire PR to pretend it is better.

To be fair, that's what happens on the mainland where they don't need PR companies, they just censor everything everything that doesn't enthusiastically support their view.
>I welcome anyone to provide a counter-argument.

You're justifying the actions a lynch mob. Why does anyone need to provide a counter point? The onus is on you to explain why you think a mob taking justice into their own hands is okay. The only justification I can find is that he said something inappropriate. Who are you to decide what's appropriate? Are you the arbiter of morality for the entire world?

>This is a man who said something wildly inappropriate in an MIT forum and got fired. He deserved it. Defending him by pointing towards people who overreact to things is a bit terrible.

Completely missing the point of the outrage.

It's the chilling effect of people silencing views they don't like that really freaks people out, pisses them off and makes them mad. The actual views in play are irrelevant - the issue is that some person was uncomfortable at something some other person said, so they silenced the man's ability to say it. Not just that, they took away his vitality and ability to support himself. Anyone with any kind of functional critical reasoning facilities can instantly understand why this is scary.

It sets a precedent that completely removes the ability to have non mainstream opinions. If you think the wrong way, the progressive mob will make you seem unemployable. Because you had the audacity to say something "inappropriate," (oh also the mob determines what's appropriate and inappropriate on the fly).
I wrote https://github.com/hbt/git-forks-analysis to analyze a git repo and its forks.

I modified existing tools to scan all branches.

The most interesting tool is https://github.com/src-d/gitbase which turns your git repo into a database you can query. This is more effective than parsing git log output.

I keep a list of similar tools here https://github.com/hbt/git-forks-analysis#other-git-data-min...

Happy to add yours
They won't see another penny from me. I assume a large amount of people will feel the same. Can't wait for Stallmans next project, I will be donating to that instead.
It would be likely legal, though the companies would probably face backlash from the public. That drives a lot of these decisions.
With new tech like Fracking, there's a lot of un-tapped resources still unfortunately :/
Yes, in fact Kepler only has a limited area of the sky it's observing. There might be exoplanets much much closer that are outside of that area.
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I was about to comment that most customers might expect more support than a bugfix for a $100k support contract, then I remembered my last few interactions with enterprise software vendors.

If anything, it'd probably exceed expectations.
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You expect them to tell you where to find all these still-unsecured images and medical data?
Is that to say the attribution is contained solely in the line:

Copyright <YEAR> <COPYRIGHT HOLDER>
Some other commenters in this thread have pointed out that nobody is forcing open source developers to work on the contributions that they make, and that is strictly speaking true. But 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 now am starting to rethink this sentiment because the vast majority of the benefit of open source contributions on github, be they to languages, runtimes, application frameworks, databases, etc, go towards increasing the bottom line of for-profit companies, not to developers. And the vast majority of the beneficiaries of open source will never support the project even when they are fortune 50 companies saving millions of dollars by using the work of one volunteer.

There is also the idea that contributing will be great for your career development. I have found that not to be the case at all, I think that no potential or current employer has ever given a rat's ass about open source contributions, and do not consider that work as valuable when making hiring decisions. The work you are paid to do is the only thing anyone cares about. I'm not saying that that shouldn't be the case, but just that that is the case.

Given then, that there's very little upside to doing open source, and most/all the benefits go to profit-making corporations, it is puzzling why do we even push for greater involvement in open source at all? It seems we shouldn't be, we should be warning people who want to contribute to Open Source that they should probably spend their time doing their own studying and personal/skill development which will allow them to succeed in the roles that they have with their current role or a role they'd like to obtain one day, for money.
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Cool, I used to do this by spoofing udp packets from 3.3.3.3 from the client to the servers public up, but was unreliable due to anti spoofing filter. This way is better
Still waiting for them to respond about a month later. Chased up multiple times. Nothing.

They won't keep me as a customer much longer.
// product quality, counterfeiting, and producer control

Those all come from a single reason: commingling - mixing the same product but from different sellers, when fulling an order.

I could see shopify setting up a system of letting sellers buy a certain original product from a manufacturer - and sending it to some warehouse and selling it on their aggregated store.

Let's say this solves co-mingling.

Than it would a be a great time for Amazon to copy that.

And it would e quite easy for them.
> Nobody is doing anything they don't want to do. Nobody is forced to build open source software.

Many job postings list OSS contributions as a requirement / desirable for employment. So, I'm not sure if your statement holds up.

I personally know developers that contribute to OSS because of this. And many that have burnt out because of the constant need to contribute.

Most OSS contributors do it for fun - but there is a section that do it because it's becoming part of the interview / job hunting process.
RMS stood for a world where we have the right to know and modify the code that runs on our machines. A world where we have the freedom to access ideas and discuss them. He battled for decades to protect the freedom of you and me, and he asks nothing in return. He was such an unfailing bulwark against the forces that would deprive us of our rights that his name is practically synonymous with the free software movement.

He took a position in a discussion you disagree with, so you're OK with him being removed from his organizations and his name dragged through the mud. Your argument stands for a world where people deserve to be stripped of their position because they expressed an opinion you disagree with.

Even if you're completely 100% right, how do 'indefensible opinions' get challenged if they cannot be expressed? How do any of us learn or improve?

Has anyone taken a moment to think, what comes next now that he's gone? I hope for your sake and mine that the accomplishments of the GNU and FSF will be enough to keep us free.
Porting a Java project to C# doesn't make one a "Chuck Norris" developer. Popularity is irrelevant.
The article mentions this, but the court will read all the objections. In reality, this means that a clerk will probably be tasked with reading and summarizing them for the judge, and the judge might read some of the most compelling or a selection of them. While it's probably less impactful than showing up, you can definitely object and exert some influence on the judge's decision.
I used Google Fi last month when I traveled in Turkey-Russia

I was surprised by how good this service is and by how fast google support answered when I had some questions

They should open it to more countries and not only for U.S citizens
I have so many questions after reading this. What is this “sticker” that they provide for PoS integration?

> The six-year-old startup earns revenue by charging a license fee for its product from payment instrument issuers. From merchants, it charges a fee on every transaction. The firm is currently at a pre-revenue stage.

So... do they have any revenue or not? I’ll take it as a no.

> over 3,20,00 merchants across the country have adopted the ToneTag technology

Okay.

The technology is pretty interesting. Many years ago I wrote a JS implementation for Chirp which used a similar audio protocol. For payments especially, though, it seems dead on the water: there is no user experience advantage at all over NFC, Bluetooth (and now UWB), and even a $10 phone has Bluetooth these days.
Because frankly wealthy, successful, rich people like those leading equifax (and many other major corporations) are not punished in the same way normal people are.
What else can we call it?

The only alternative names that come to my mind are the "inductive inconsequential postmodernists" and the "emotional radical progressives"
It may have done that back when 128 bit addresses were actually expensive, but it also altered the evolution of that network from a more open peer to peer architecture to a closed silo mediated architecture. Things that should be simple and easy became complex and expensive. We are all poorer for it. You could say that instead of paying to upgrade we are paying for lost capabilities and technical debt.
Why is it wrong to defend someone that is accused of something ? Does an accusation equate to culpability ? Should we ban lawyers and move all court cases directly to sentencing without defense arguments ? This total abdication of reason and emotionally led behavior in the face of certain words put on someone is quite frightening.
Yes, this has already been addressed. He would have been more protected if it was a state school.
Google Fi is the only provider that I know of to best protect against SIM swapping due to the fact that there is no human interface. An attacker would have to get control of you Google account in order to attack you—if this happens it is likely you have bigger issues than SIM swapping.

Given Jack Dorsey's recent Sim swapping experience coupled with countless cryptocurrency SIM swapping horror stories, it feels like Google Fi is necessary. The only negative thing I have heard about Google Fi is the requirement to pay per GB. This point is now moot.
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An incredible achievement by London, for London, perhaps.

Meanwhile in North England...

Nope, not much to report.

We still have converted buses running on tracks, lack of electrification, extremely short trains/platforms, and train companies often on the verge of going bust (perhaps because everyone drives).
Yah been thinking about trying Apple news. Brave browser really isn’t taking off, that’s why plugins for chrome, Firefox, safari would be better.
Wow, the sensitivity, consideration, and care Backblaze consistently shows towards their customers is inspiring. I love companies like this, it's The Right Way To Be. Beautiful.
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There are a large number of non-professionals and beginners coding in PHP, they start from say an existing WP plugin ,open it in notepad and start editing until it works,

it happens in JS land too, find some js package made by a newb and run a linter on it, I see issues on code that is written by coders with a few years of experience where they do not use properly the array functions, do not use correctly the lamda, they copy paste same code in 3 or more places.

Do you think that all js,Ruby or Pthon dev would properly use SQL without an ORM? I dpn;t think so, I found recently bugs in a JS codebase where file upload would fail if the file had non US characters in it's name because some parameter was not url encoded, so all developers make mistakes and ORMs were not popular at that time to prevent this kind of mistakes for SQL.
I had never met that construction. Thanks a lot!
It's great that corporates pay developers for writing open source software! I'm much happier today about open source than in 90ies, when no one was getting paid for writing it.
I don't think it's terribly controversial to say that someone who has a history of making inappropriate comments about women would make it less likely that women would be interested in participating in an organization where that person is in leadership. Do you disagree?
Reston, VA has has best salaries relative to COL? LOL.

Fairfax County, VA, is literally the 2nd richest county in the US; the #1 richest county is right next door. Traffic is heavy, and housing costs keep goin up. Salaries are decent, esp. in the cleared government sector, though civilian gigs are pretty lucrative too.

Don't get me wrong, you'll probably have a decent lifestyle there -- I think about moving back occasionally -- but it's nothing like Omaha or Columbus.

Source: am from there, ran data centers in Reston, Herndon, and Ashburn.
But my freedom of speech should trump your freedom to spin up angry Internet mobs that proceed to turn my words into lies that they use to rip my life apart.

Time will come there will be regulations aiming to fix that, because slander laws apparently aren't enough. And then people will come out and talk about freedom of speech, but the only answer will be, "you had it, and you misused it, and almost ripped the society apart".
Breaking stress would cause catastrophic failure, for sure. Nonetheless when you're talking _hundreds of miles_ of cable, elasticity can make for some fairly profound failure modes too.