skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jail time means a lot to people who usually commit high-stakes white-collar crimes since they have a lot to lose in those cases. A very material risk of facing it would definiely help prevent others from committing those crimes.

If you slap them in the wrist and let them carry on with a fine it makes it very easy for a psychopath to just risk it.
Heap's Algorithm
Which features were missing for you with CircleCI? My experience with CircleCI has been almost entirely positive so far.
Thanks for the correction. I've revised based on your comment.

Note that your link counts the non-tunnel sections as zero cost, which isn’t correct either. There is a significant amount of new above-ground track. Also, the project involved major upgrades to the pre-existing track and stations, which can be enormously expensive: http://www.crossrail.co.uk/route/eastern-section

On the eastern section, 43 miles of track was upgraded, 27 stations were "redeveloped" and 20 bridges were "renewed." These efforts were undoubtedly cheaper than building all-new track, but could cost billions on their own. So the real per-mile cost is somewhere in-between the $300 million and $850 million figures.
The use of the word attack implies force. Clearly no one has been struck physically and there is no force involved. So the idea that free speech is somehow under attack must be misguided.
GraalVM Community is GPLv2 with no support.[0]

GraalVM Enterprise costs $18/mo/core[1]. Every machine running GE needs a license so a 16-core production server, 4-core staging box and 4-core dev laptop will cost you $18*24 = $432/mo.

[0]: https://www.graalvm.org/docs/faq/
[1]: https://www.oracle.com/uk/a/ocom/docs/corporate/pricing/graa...
> Finally, your use of the word "rape" is wrong anyway. Having sex with a minor isn't "rape", it's "statutory rape", and that's only in the US.

“Statutory rape” isn't usually the term in the law, it's a common-language hedge to indicate that it was (at the time the term was coined) literally rape under a particular set of criminal statutes, but not what some people consider “real” rape.

In some statutory schemes it is exactly rape still, in others it has different formal names (“unlawful sexual intercourse” [Penal Code 261.5] in California law, for instance.)
With most kernels the matrix is symmetric and positive-definite so I would probably use a conjugate gradient:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugate_gradient_method
Fire at Russian lab that houses smallpox, Ebola
I agree with you, but what sucks is that instead of 1 or 2 frameworks that are stable you get a large number of them that get deprecated, I was brought to work into 2 PHP projects, one was using yii1 and the second Silex , both frameworks were deprecated and some of the dependencies are deprecated too. I did not worked on Laravel, I hope when I will it won't be again on an unsupported old version.

Also it sucks when you search for help and you need to double check if the solution is for yii1 not 2, or angular1 not the others etc.
You only pay CGT on a house if it's not your main residence - that is, if it's an investment rather than a home. There certainly are plenty of landlords in London, but i suspect that in the areas where Crossrail is increasing prices, it's mostly homeowners.
I wonder how Adam Neumann is feeling through all of this. Stressed out? Checked out? Calculating? Defiant? Worried? Embarrassed?

What's it like being the public face of a company under such intense scrutiny?
Interesting how a man known for making violent video games (Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, ...) helped people break free from real life violence.

And inspired many others, myself included, to go from playing video games to making video games, and programming in general.
What about the right to air a private conversation in front of general public for express purpose of forcing one's employer to disassociate from a person?

Consider this: were you to come to GP's office and show GP's boss a printout of them saying controversial things on HN, demanding GP's termination, GP would most likely keep their job and there would be a good chance you'd get kicked out by security. In order to get a company to fire someone, there needs to be a public mess, and those rarely happen organically. In this case, and other similar firings for wrongspeak that I can think of, a public storm was created intentionally.

Can't see it as anything else than a weaker, non-lethal form of swatting.
Even just basics like counting and being exposed to things like the birthday paradox I think are very valuable.
"Affects the social structure and culture": That may be true, at least to some degree. There are a lot of degrees that are well short of "replicating American cultural values", though. It's not true that Bill Gates shows up, and suddenly Africans become culturally American.
Every minority opinion has paid the price for being one. You have to keep fighting if you believe what you're saying, it's never been easy to make waves and it took at lot to get to this point.

However, comments like what Stallman made are nearly indefensible and only lead to people getting removed. In the end, if protecting pedophiles becomes the norm, he will be exonerated as a martyr of the movement.
If WeWork owns no assets (leasing model), can't raise money, burns billions per year, and runs out of cash, what is there left except bankruptcy? It's a cash flow model that doesn't cover its costs - WeWork pays 100 units for commercial real-estate and flips it for 90 units. This is the Movie Pass model - they give VC money directly to customers!
Your first comment implies you speak for all users; certainly you don't.

Your second comment is antagonistically sarcastic.

Your third comment is easy cynicism. As a counterpoint, Firefox does put a lot of effort into stability, reducing CPU power (read the recent change on OSX in that regard). You seem to be suggesting a shorter release cycle will prevent them from continuing that work.
You should hear about the COBOL guys.
> most of these contributions aren't worth enough individually to charge for

I agree with your general thrust but on a tangent, this isn't true and isn't the right way to think about software contributions, even 'trivial' ones.

A trivial change seems low value to you because you wouldn't have to spend much time at all doing the same thing yourself.

To see its market value, you have to view it from the perspective of the average person - how long would it take them to make that change? Answer: a very, very long time. They'd have to learn the fundamentals of programming first.

The value of something isn't how long it takes to do it in isolation. It also factors in how long it took to get to the position where you could do it at all.
>the problem here isn’t really WeWork, it’s SoftBank

No: WeWork is a huge part of the "problem", with crazy org structure, self-dealing, a "cult of CEO" structure, and a business model that may not be that defensible. Softbank is an enabler.

Let's hope this his "peak hubris" and we're back to more sensible tech IPO attempts.
"should being a jerk be a fireable offense?"

On its face... yes???
That's a lot of releases!
For every Gates there’s a Koch. When we, as a society, decide to rely on philanthropy to fund important public works, we delegate the decision of “what’s important” to the world views of a few individuals rather than the people as a whole. In other words we move even more from One Person One Vote to One Dollar One Vote.
I guess PR firms understand enough about PR to know taking this job would be awful PR for themselves.
The Guass Warthog!
I think without the Euro social safety net system that open source would totally collapse.
What makes you think a society relying on margin maximizing businesses is the better choice?
Statistics - at least the way I was taught - relies quite heavily on calculus.
Dremio Releases Data Lake Engines for AWS and Azure
United States Files Civil Lawsuit Against Edward Snowden
The goings on with someone else's lifestyle business does not affect my own; nor does my business affect yours. I started about 2 years ago, it's the same stack I used at my job since customers don't care what stack you use as long as they get value from it. I have tried to start businesses of various kinds for several years with varying success. This is the first one that hit big and seems sustainable.
> Just to elaborate: The comment is basically saying they are lying

The comment absolutely does not accuse them of lying. They claim the material is recyclable, not that it is actually being recycled. I don't contest their claim that it can be recycled, and I simply speculate that most of it isn't.
If your business leaked millions of private records in a similar manner, would you expect to remain in business afterward?
Shockingly, this was published last week. I was expecting a mid-90's/early-00s article.

I don't understand why this is an article. Its basically saying "Imagine if the Internet of Things.... wait for it.... had more Things!" Of course you'll see an increase in efficiency, and the balance of power will shift toward larger corporations capable of harnessing said efficiency. This has been happening for 15 years. This is not news to anyone.
I wonder where did you get such impression. What is the age of you "new generation of entrepreneurs" in question?

People in their thirties and forties make by far the largest cohort of entrepreneurs I know who can support the claim of them making their businesses from scratch, and not being part of state economy machine.

Notably, I knew DJI when they still were a "garage company," along with half of "Shanzhai" crowd.

On other hand, just anybody who somehow got $1m+ out of nowhere in China in nineties would've been a man "from the system." The few ways somebody made such money in China back then were: 1. land auction fraud, 2. privatisation auction fraud, 3. embezzlement from funds of the state or state company, 4. being a relative of somebody who did anything of above.
"stretching the limits of current human capacity - but not exceeding them"

That means "feasible".

As for inexpensive, it may be a poor word choice, but the alternative is launching rocket after rocket in to space, which is one of the most expensive things humans do.
> I like HN's approach to moderation. You don't ban the person unless they are really unreasonable. You flag the comment, disappear it from the thread and tell them to behave.

That does happen, but HN also silently rate-limits and downrates comments for people that have been flagged as troublemakers by the mods.

I'm currently rate-limited on HN to no more than five comments in a period of, I think, several hours. Trying to post more often produces a cryptic error message that I honestly thought was a bug. I eventually messaged the mods and was told that I must have done something disruptive (they couldn't tell me what) and they'd restore my privileges if I'd promise to stop doing that (which I can't do in good conscience without knowing what "it" was). I received no warning before this began.

They said the obfuscation was necessary because, if I were a troll or a spammer, I'd just create a new account or three if I realized I was being restricted.

I don't claim to be a perfect commenter. I know I've let emotion get the better of me on occasion, and it's fair to want to rein that in. But I think it's clear from my history that I'm posting in good faith, at the very least. Treating me like a malicious abuser benefits no one.
What too many people are missing is basic statistical and probabilistic concepts that allow one to evaluate and contextualize data they are constantly exposed to, and calculus isn't needed for this. Calculating the area under a distribution curve isn't nearly as important.
This is great, although I’d settle for $10k/bug.

Of course this also incentivizes people to add bugs in on purpose
People say they want better software internals and don't care about visual improvements, but people are empirically wrong about what they say they want:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040525-00/?p=39...

>I wouldn’t be surprised if these are the same people who complain, “Why does Microsoft spend all its effort on making Windows ‘look cool’? They should spend all their efforts on making technical improvements and just stop making visual improvements.”

>And with Calc, that’s exactly what happened: Massive technical improvements. No visual improvement. And nobody noticed. In fact, the complaints just keep coming. “Look at Calc, same as it always was.”
What due process does someone deserve before termination, and are you claiming Stallman didn't get it?
>, defending statutory rape like that is really inappropriate

See, the thing about statutory rape is that it is illegal, and sexual assault is also illegal, but (surprisingly!) that does not mean that they are the same thing. (It is left as an exercise for the reader to see if this applies to other pairings like, say, "public drunkenness" and "murder in the first degree.")

Stallman was not "defending statutory rape": he was saying, "Words mean things, and the words "sexual assault" suggest an image of 75-yr-old Marvin holding girls down and raping them, and that it is unlikely that that, you know, actually happened."

>It was a very creepy situation and indefensible.

Oooh, so creepy! Too creepy to think about, even! Nazis were pretty creepy: let's accuse them of violating the CFAA, before there were computers! Anyone defending them against this is defending Nazis, and worse, creepy Nazis! They are likely creepy as well! This creepy stuff seems to be contagious...

Since it can't be made too visible, Stallman's actual comments: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6405929-091320191420...
How does WeWork massively scale back? They have $47.2B worth of obligations. How do they get rid of those?

The problem with blitzscaling is, you can blitzscale into shit.
I've said this before, but the "Internet of Things" is a bad vision for the future. Dystopian, almost. I don't want every little thing to be a computer running software that is buggy, out of date, insecure, out of my control, and constantly pestering me for updates.

What I want is one smart device: a robot that can operate all my non-smart devices. The robot can set the thermostat, unlock the door, flip the light switches, do the laundry and the dishes, monitor the house while I'm away, etc. That's the goal we should be working towards. IoT should be seen as, at best, a stopgap solution. It's not a desirable end state.
I have to say well done BackBlaze. This to me is an integrity move!
Sorry, should have been more clear: I wasn't commenting on whether or not bankruptcy is fair to Equifax or not, I was meant "Would Equifax avoid paying the money out via bankruptcy protections (from which companies can actually emerge from in better position)?" I assumed the OP cared primarily about receiving the settlement.
It basically boils down to whether you think people are really being altruistic, or whether it's simply reciprocal altruism.
Entertainment media's driven a lot of it, I think, for whatever reason. Generations X and Y have tended to make catching accidental (and not even especially interesting) double entendres a prominent feature of the humor-media they've (we've) created in a way it wasn't (yes, some, but not so constantly) before. Earliest example I can think of that did a lot of this is Beavis & Butthead, but it's been all over the place since then. I'm not sure reduced formality's behind the presence of so much of that in media, all of the sudden.
Amazon reviews have become almost entirely useless once they began bundling like items. I've had cases of ordering an item only to receive a similar item from an entirely different manufacturer or seller. Looking at the reviews you'll find a number of different products being reviewed all under one product page which makes it impossible to actually gauge the quality of what you're going to receive
DeepPrivacy – A Generative Adversarial Network for Face Anonymization
Fair enough. I guess I'll have to figure it out myself. :D
FBI agents raided the home of MyPayrollHR's top executive
I wasn't assuming you did say anything about those things; I was merely saying that others commonly do so, and do in fact frequently lump those together with "they have opportunities, but don't want to take them" in a way that harms the communities like the one you grew up in, while being quite ignorant of the policy, available resources, and conditions in general.

I am honestly glad you made it out, by the way. I'm not so presumptuous to think that a comment here would "change your perception" or "co-opt" anyone to serve my "ideology."

Not sure why you'd think your personal experience is representative of the average experience -- decades of social science research suggest the contrary.
MIT scientist resigns over emails discussing academic linked to Epstein
How is it different than any other sort of hobby or volunteering?
Asking for father's name is pretty much India's equivalent of Americans asking "what's your current salary", you use it to judge the person's situation.
Honestly? I hope not, but the guy suddenly and unexpectedly got kicked out from FSF and MIT, two institutions that form the core of his life - and I imagine self-image. And now other organizations related to the movement he started publicly disassociated from him. That had to hit hard, and as 'seanmcdirmid points out, he's also 66 and essentially unemployable now.

So if you take everything a man has in life - everything he anchors his identity to - and destroy it, and leave little to no chance of regaining it, what do you think happens? Personally, I am worried.
I assumed from the headline that this would be about moderators. Given how major sites depend on them, and how many forums there are strewn about the internet, the total man years of free labor must be enormous.
So, if something was violated I assume there will be a court case that will ultimately decide if this was the case?
As I clarified above, I was thinking about whether or not the 147M affected would actually receive anything, not about fairness of the punishment.
Uhh, Part of the Facility Where Russia Stores Smallpox and Ebola Exploded
The Ups and Downs of Life Without Wheels of My Own
People who said Damore got the science correct include Peter Singer[1], Scott Alexander[2], and Steven Pinker[3].

1. https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/google-wrong-article-1.3...

2. https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagge...

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2-JOINlddM&t=40m23s
I hoe that the moderators will crack down on the outrageously defamatory statements being made on this thread...

If the aim of HN is to run a better forum for discussion then lying in a defamatory way about people should not be tolerated as part of civil discourse.
Thanks for sharing this, quite timely in this context
And here is the code repo:

https://github.com/hukkelas/DeepPrivacy
Cosmoteer: A starship design, simulation, and battle game
https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~lazowska/mit/?source=post_p...
For those who don’t see it, it’s just a standard abbreviation of Service Games. Nothing Japanese about it.
Nice article. I just signed up as I've been having a heck of a time with my time machine backups just failing. Great timing!
Does society have a right to not be associated with it? If every individual has that right, then a collection of those individuals working together retain that right if they so choose to do so.

If grouping up people does cause them to lose that right, perhaps that characteristics of rights kicks into effect when dealing with sufficiently large institutions, especially ones who have significant tie in with government far beyond some small mom and pop employer.
Was it a single course on stats?

My college course was "Probability and Statistics" so by combining them you got coverage of the basics but no deep dives and no calculus.
Clarified above, but I was thinking about likelihood of receiving the settlement, not fairness to Equifax. A settlement number so punitive it would put them out of business would substantially reduce the chances of those impacted receiving more than a token amount.
This seems like targeted harassment. Are those NDA's even valid anymore?
Just like Stallman you can express disagreeable things.

If you control money that goes to Fred who employs Bob and tell Fred fire Bob or I fire you then while your actions may be verbal they aren't merely communicative. Clearly you are acting to censor Bob. You may well simultaneously be within your rights to do so and also wrong to do it. If I tell you so I'm not controlling you I'm just trying to persuade you.
It's much easier to deal with port opening or changing than it is to deal with a fragmented address space. NAT reminds me of the networking analog of segmented addressing on 16 bit 8086 processors, but worse as it is not systematic.
I agree morality isn’t absolute, but we’re talking about Epstein (an American and convicted U.S. felon) who as far as I know used only American children in his scheme. What I said is relevant to what stage of life the actual victims would likely have been in, as American teens.
The defense was on the part of whether it should be (morally) considered rape/sexual assault, not on whether it should have taken place at all.
Thieves don't pick locks, if they want to get in something they either cut or pry their way in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-9vWa-C44I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjHnklj6PAs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ViUdd-2LM
Possibly SEC rules and/or advice from lawyers to only say anything when needed - they are at or getting to a critical point in the journey. The PR/support staff can run the comments for now.
It's frustrating and hard to find real information regarding what he did say and what he did not say, so I feel I shouldn't play the judge here. I did find this direct quote of him on his website, and it doesn't sound to me, from reading this piece, that he was trying to defend Minsky:

> Headlines say that I defended Epstein. Nothing could be further from the truth. I've called him a "serial rapist", and said he deserved to be imprisoned.

https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...

I do not think this changes everything, but if this is indeed his honest opinion, then I do feel that he might have simply communicated his opinions very poorly.
I am not a lawyer, but to me if you signed up for class action, and you agreed that the $125 check supposed to be the payment for your damages and the other party backed off and did not provide it that means the agreement shouldn't be valid.
The "step 1 collect users, step 3 profit" business model.
Socialist Rifle Association
See my reply to darklajid
US Fed pours $75bn into short term funding market to deal with liquidity crunch
I think a lot of people are forgetting that the guy has 20 years of public comments like this. You can pedantically pick apart this single statement as much as you want, defend him because this statement has been twisted, and argue that it’s therefore a witch hunt, but... this didn’t exactly come out of left field here.

This is a problem entirely of his own making, stretching out over decades.
Maybe just community? Building something useful to oneself, releasing it to find it solves others' problems, seeing one's work have a broad benefit, collaborating with others to make it better, etc. Not sure if this is just a positive spin of your "ego" hypothesis, but my gut tells me that it's a categorically distinct motivation.
But the question isn't if part of the First Amendment is under attack, so why bring it up?
This is what consequences for shitty behavior looks like. It's the same if someone who has a stalwart career suddenly assaults the secretary at the Christmas party. Sure he's a hell of a lawyer, but he's become more of a liability than an asset. It's capitalism, and self determination.
How do you explain the UK's lower crime rates?
There are no applicable speech rights in a legal sense within RMS's personal scope, so I'm skeptical of this intent.
It's interesting to see how much of this applies to HN.