skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your post is unabashed propaganda, full of false dichotomies, whataboutism, and false equivalence, with no love of truth.

> China does not have freedom of speech but in a way neither does the US.

A radical and undefended claim. In what way is this true? You never say.

> did edward snowden have freedom?

Yes he did. Then he broke the law and ran away from the consequences of his actions.

> It's just another regime.

A single-party regime with no term limits on executive power is a stark contrast with a representative democratic federation designed with a multitude of checks and balances on its own power structures.

> you still have to use the products that China made for you because you as a country do not have the technical ability to manufacture the same products

False choice between Chinese products & domestic. No reasonable person believes that China is the sole manufacturing presence on Earth. There are a multitude of other options. China, however, does need the US -- the largest free market on the planet.

> Just like how the slaughter of millions of people by the nuclear bomb dropped on hiroshima by the united states does not define the united states as a country, neither do the protests of hong kong define China.

Those two things are indeed important, defining characteristics of the two countries you describe. One of them was an act of world war decades ago. The other is current events, the result of an illegal act of oppression by a dystopian communist state, heavily indicative of what China is today.
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Very few things can survive a 10x increase in costs.
And asking "what's your current salary?" is pretty sleazy and in many cases illegal (e.g., in New York)
At no point did I say that the inequality was anything less than awful. I pointed out that it would be very easy for a person to read your initial comment and think that you're implying there exists an obstacle between women and everything that matters in the world. Really, what is true and worth saying is there is an obstacle between women and some of the most coveted forms of power.

I think it's a very important issue, but by not including context is vastly undermines the argument and any empathy you might have incurred. I was suggesting a way to improve your argument, but inevitably I digressed into the fact that the argument is (at best) a squabbling.

I can never help but feel like every form of infighting between the lower and middle classes, races, genders, etc is a waste of time as compared to maybe working together to end our collective oppression under the super rich... so I end up digressing every time.

Also, I know a lot of broke ass artists, and a bunch of tree huggers who are way fucking happier than pretty much everyone I know who really cares about money (no matter how much they make).
I agree with the general consensus pick one and stay with it for a few projects. If you can't pick one, just roll a die or anything. Maybe pick one a friend knows so you can collaborate in the future.

The differences between languages and frameworks won't matter very much unless you're joining a team with a preexisting stack or an edge case company/application that needs top-of-the-line everything.

Even if your app usage does scale beyond what your first version can deliver, you'll often get a bigger improvement by rewriting your app in the same stack using the new knowledge you've learned, than you would by rewriting the same logic in a newer stack.
Then, the mother company can indeed get out fairly easily, at the price of some goodwill, making it, IMO, a (possibly only slightly) less risky investment.
His late friend being Minksy, not Epstein. Which makes the headlines about him defending Epstein... puzzling.
It's a way to stop amazon book sales, I suppose.
Germany after world War 1 and 2 did pretty nice though.

Considering the debt they had to pay back.

Look up: Wirtschaftswunder
The location of objects in cosmoteer is actually vital. Ammo factories and reactors need to be near guns or they won't fire often. Engines are physics based. If you don't armour your ship well or space things out you'll get a cascade explosion.

But the lack of 3d is a hard one to solve from a game design standpoint. It's hard to build an intricate 3D object using a 2D monitor and they are more complex to visualize and change.
I'm curious why this got flagged? It's a pretty interesting snapshot of the political dynamics around the second amendment, especially with the way other groups have been dealing with them.
They use the example of South Africa, but that was a very different process. It wasn't just about not investing in South African companies... it was about not buying their goods, too.

Is part of this 'divestment' also about not investing in the purchasers of fossil fuels? Or reducing consumption in any way? It doesn't sound like it.
> I think your understanding of the tech industry is rather unlike mine.

RMS isn't an employee of the Tech industry. He's a university something (visiting professor, I think, but not a tenured or official faculty position). Members of the tech industry are also unusually privileged in this regard. Ask a line cook or an employee at a department store if they're given a PIP if they are underperforming. And again, by all accounts, it is possible, and even likely, that there was such a process spurred on by the twitter mob. So its not clear to me what your complaint is. To address it, let me be more explicit: What would you like MIT to have done differently in this situation?

As I see it, they have a few options. They could of course not fire stallman. We agree this is unacceptable. Objectively he deserves to be fired. They could have already fired him, this is perhaps the best solution but requires time travel or foresight MIT lacks. I guess this suggests MIT hasn't yet developed that technology or skill. They could wait to fire him, which costs them PR, and potentially causes others to resign, for no gain (they're going to fire him). Or they could do what they did: fire him now. Again I wonder: what are you complaining about?

> PS I also think Charles Manson and The Unabomber were unambiguously guilty. That doesn't change my opinion that they deserved the trial they got.

You're conflating being fired from a job and being imprisoned, or in Manson's case, sentenced to die. Those two things aren't remotely comparable.
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make, but my understanding of his position is that he doesn't believe the word 'rape' should be used for having sex with someone younger than the age of consent, when that age varies around the world. In other words, having consensual sex with a 16 year old in one country (or state) could be called rape, but move a short distance to another country or state and it's perfectly legal and acceptable. My interpretation of his opinions based on what I've read, is that the word rape should be only used for nonconsensual sexual assault, regardless of the age.

Some further reading on the age of consent in different countries around the world: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/age-of-consent-around-th...
"The legal age of consent in most of the countries is 16 years or above, as individuals of this age are considered to be mature and capable of making informed decisions."
Thanks for mentioning this. I was doing the exact same thing, also with Vue, but never finished it. Your comment inspired me to pick it up again.
It sounds to me like they're trying to discourage other CIA/NSA/TLA agents from running off to a place like Russia and writing their own tell-all, even if those books are benign.

“The United States’ ability to protect sensitive national security information depends on employees’ and contractors’ compliance with their non-disclosure agreements, including their pre-publication review obligations. This lawsuit demonstrates that the Department of Justice does not tolerate these breaches of the public’s trust. ..."

That sounds like a reasonable explanation. Granted, I would not be surprised if that was only a small fraction of the real reason, and the vast majority is like you said: "because we don't like him and we can."
Most counter serve places I have been to in the last year or two. The checkout is done through a touch screen tablet which includes a tip screen before checkout can be completed.

The options are usually absurd, too. For example, three large buttons labeled "20%," "25%" and "30%." Then a medium sized-button labeled "No Tip" and a barely readable one that says "custom amount."
Also this, from the same analyst:

> "There is not enough cash in the banking system for the banks to meet all of their liquidity and regulatory needs. I'm not that worried, because the Fed will fix it."

I for one am deeply worried, because this pretty much looks and quacks like a liquidity crisis, so it might as well be a liquidity crisis, I've last had this feeling in October 2008. At least that's what "not enough cash" means to a layperson like myself.
This does exist, but isn’t common. Some newer jets do have something like this. When the A350 has its first flight out of JFK the computer automatically aborted the takeoff because it thought there wasn’t enough runway. Turned out to be a false abort.
I really think your game is ready to offer a paid version / be in early access.

Even if that is just in the sense of "right, current version is the demo from now on, and all future versions are the paid version"

I suggest you gate some key upcoming features and hold on to those until you have a few to "launch" into paid mode.
Minsky didn't have consensual sex. She was coerced.

Age of sexual consent isn't relevant here. We need to legal age for prostitution. Does any US state or any EU country set that below 18?

But also, it doesn't matter. US federal law makes it a crime to travel abroad to have sex with people under 18.

https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ceos/citizens-guide-us-fede...
This is a good example of where UX means a different thing to the user than to the developer. Just because it's available on another page doesn't mean the customer is going to take the time to go figure that out. Take these criticisms graciously and learn how your user's use your software it's going to improve your products immensely.
The’re PRopaganda consultants.
Even thieves and murderers understand this, https://youtu.be/V4sbYy0WdGQ :)
if anyone wants to disclose... how much can/did you make with a system like this (towards the dawn of the crypto hype, not now)? awesome!
Please don't quote with code blocks. For mobile users:

> The whole idea that anything can be so "shared" as to have no value in itself is not a problem if the rest of the world ensures that nobody _is_ starving or needing money. For young people who have parents who pay for them or student grants or loans and basically have yet to figure out that it costs a hell of a lot of money to live in a highly advanced society, this is not such a bad idea. Grow up, graduate, marry, start a family, buy a house, have an accident, get seriously ill for a while, or a number of other very expensive things people actually do all the time, and the value of your work starts to get very real and concrete to you, at which point giving away things to be "nice" to some "community" which turns out not to be "nice" _enough_ in return that you will actually stay alive, is no longer an option.
Hi! Better support for monorepos is in our roadmap, you can see our handbook entry here: https://about.gitlab.com/direction/verify/continuous_integra...

and the relevant epic: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/915
Awesome, thanks for this advice. I'll start trying to set up meetings ASAP! Also, I dig what you've done with Tape - 98% open rates is very impressive :)
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>> ay that someone claimed that Stalin drank the blood of his victims, would it be "inappropriate and indefensible" to try to debunk such a claim (and thus defend Stalin) in the process?

It's an interesting point given that there actually is a certain strain of Stalin's apologists that reply to any critique of their idol with "yeah, and he also drank blood and ate little children for breakfast".
You can get around it for now. They may pull the plug
The insurance has to be some kind of joke, they lost the data. The thing they were insuring against has already happened.
Yev here -> Yea! In the article I mention a few of our company core beliefs and one of them is "be the good guys" - we take that very seriously.
Snowden is a national hero. Period. I don’t care what any one thinks otherwise, but we would be a more authoritarian and fascist place without Snowden, Schwartz, (whom YC funded and he was suicided), Manning etc

So fuck the #pedopaths and fuck anyone who is against any of the above and fuck you YC for being against truth.

This is what killed Aaron Schwartz

https://drop.space/watch/amazing-polly-epstein-stories-you-w...

He wasn’t stealing JSTOR docs - he was going after pedopaths and he went to the MIT media lab to get docs on the pedopaths and was then suicided because he knew the truth

And I’ll be downvoted by idiots who think they are smart and don’t know the real world we live in.

As an aside - where are all you jerks who work for palantir? Your company was just on NPR today talking about how you have been ghosting. If you work for palantir, you are a criminal, period.

I love the downvotes by the willfully ignorants. Keep them coming.
To be fair, calling X-15 “piloted, powered aircraft” is a stretch. While it’s piloted and powered, it’s definitely not conventional plane, i.e. aircraft. It’s a rocket that is launched from the carrier plane and has ability to land as (unpowered) glider after (unpowered) ballistic flight. In this sense it’s not different from the space shuttle: launched from the carrier vehicle, uses it’s rocket engine to go up, has orbital flight with ballistic descent, lands as a glider.

Fair record category would be “takes off under own power, sets record, lands by itself with all the equipment”. X-15 definitely doesn’t qualify.
This is a great overview of different release management strategies and the practical implications:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKsQsxubuAA

Not part of the talk: if you have more than 3 people involved you probably need a release schedule in terms of either scope or time. I'd personally advise you to have one even if you only have 1 person, just for a mental target if nothing else.

The talk goes into studies of projects which did scope based releases and got horrible results in practice. All the ones in the talk switched to time based releases and were much happier. Also, in a software project, you can only fix either scope or time, but not both. Also, if you want to ship in a timely manner, you probably want to fix one of them, not let both float.

Edit: it looks like this is his paper on the topic: http://www.cyrius.com/publications/michlmayr_fitzgerald-time...
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You're making this way more mysterious-sounding than it is.

As the text says, those first categories are INTENDED for sealed letters. Things shipped in those ways therefore retain the privacy protections of letters. You can put a (small) rock or whatever in there instead--that's your business--and if you do, the Post Office will never know because they're applying the letter-privacy standard and not looking inside.

The other categories are NOT INTENDED for letters. As a result, they don't get the protection intended for letters. You can, of course, try to send something confidential that way, but if it's exposed, that's on you.
Product search is about more than "discovery". You need to categorize products to distinguish variations like size and color. That requires real human curators and a revenue stream to pay them.
What device did you type your comment on?
This is going to go pretty much like it went for Frank Snepp and "Decent Interval", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Snepp
Being "employed" in a related field isn't the same thing, though. A moderately animate clothes rack can get a job as a software developer; it's just not that difficult. My assertion is that having those open source software projects is not materially impacting the careers most writers of open source software because of that software's existence (i.e., excluding potential improvements in skill and craftsmanship from writing it; you can get those through not writing open source software just the same). Even in hiring processes it's really rare to have an interviewer bother to so much as glance at your GitHub account or, like, your NPM account.

I'm personally in an interesting spot, as part of why I got my current job is that I have demonstrated proficiency with various sets of tools through writing open-source software (even there it's not my open source work itself, just my understanding of the stuff I'm writing it against). But I'm also aware that I'm very much the exception on that one.
this is basically the only exposure to proofs that anyone gets before college. you want to remove it completely?
I am not a native English speaker - should I use 'nobody is allowed to defend' instead? He was punished for defending his friend and the parent post justifies that:

"RMS was defending his friend who, at the age of 74, is accused of having sex with a 17 year old girl on a billionaire's private island.

There is not a defense for what RMS was writing or how he was trying to defend Minsky.
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The firing was appropriate and reasonable, not a response to extremists, zealots, or some other kind of witch."

As if it was enough to defend someone accused of some crime to be guilty as well. This is clearly absurd - so I am trying to get the author to explain what he really meant.
Here is another

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter
> What's "child abuse"? If you spank your child, in some jurisdictions that's fine. In others it's illegal. For all I know, there may be some where it's okay so long as you don't leave bruises. Does that prevent us from making justified accustations of child abuse?

How does it not? I was abused as a child, physically and psychologically tormented and coerced into taking drugs and participating in weird religious things I wanted no part of, and many people I've encountered, including my own mother, don't view what I've been through as abuse. I consider it child abuse but even the multitude of police who visited my dwellings growing up in rural Louisiana sided with my abusers.

This is an example of the independence and often disparity between objective morality and law. Law wants to emulate morality, but it never will. And thus we cannot use law as a roadmap for morality. That is what people are doing in this case, clinging to the arbitrary laws defined in their section of the earth instead of only making safe moral assumptions based on scientific inquiry.

Stallman has just lost a position that he has spent his whole life working towards in a misplaced attempt to play the devil's advocate for a friend whom he has trouble imagining a dark side of. For what, so we can be morally vindicated? After everything which Stallman has helped give us? What kind of purist authoritarian hyper-reactive world are we living in? Without Stallman the two of us wouldn't even be able to have this discussion.
Interesting timing. Just a couple of days ago, Snowden said he was hoping France would grant him asylum.
So it could be as bad as that? It's kind of why I asked the question, but I thought there would be a rule or process or something. It's 'nice' how occasionally you get a glimpse at the gaffer tape and baling twine holding the world together.
You sell the company at a low price to a friend and pay out the low sum to the plaintiffs. This would need approval under chapter 11, I guess, and if you sell the company it includes the debt, so they'd have to be tricky about it and just sell the meat or the milk, not the whole cow. Ironically, this invariably means selling the customer data (but also existing contracts and what not). IANAL
We are Gitlab customers since 2019 and I can tell you that your expectations for what support can do for you are very unrealistic.
You are forgetting about a third tool in the toolbox. Licenses. If you don't want your open source work to be used for profit select a license that is restrictive.
In some parts of India, first names can be very lengthy, and contain lots of information, like: where you're from, your father's name, your grandfather's name, etc.
Something that never made sense to me in the Snowden case is how any of this works in face of whistleblower protection laws in USA.

According to Wikipedia, the US offers these legal protections:

> Whistleblower protection laws and regulations guarantee freedom of speech for workers and contractors in certain situations. Whistleblowers are protected from retaliation for disclosure of information which the employee or applicant reasonably believes evidences a violation of any law, rule, or regulation, or gross mismanagement, a gross waste of funds, an abuse of authority, or a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety.

But when Snowden blew the whistle on 3-letter agencies, all that goes out the window? Does the government not follow its own laws?
Or nonlinear programming
They're financing on the order of a trillion dollars. It makes a difference.
If the worry is condo prices crashing, hyperinflation would certainly keep them from crashing...
Where are you getting this idea from? Most really old cars are exempt from emissions rules, and I've never actually heard of someone failing an SO2 test (smog, which _isn't_ CO2) unless something was egregiously broken with their engine, like a missing cat. They even have state-certified mechanics that can fix your car if it fails smog. It barely affects the used market at all.

Inhalers without CFCs are cheap in every other country in the world. Your problems with the cost of healthcare here have little to do with some rules around CFCs.
Wow, that's absolutely insane that I have to go through half an hour of 'opting out' from different ad networks in order to visit the actual website I was going to in the first place without being tracked.

Thank developers for ad-block technology.
> A profile picture facilitates hiring discrimination on the basis of age, sex, race, beauty, and possibly other factors as well.

I agree with you. That's why I said I don't see why anyone other than an actor should put their photo on a resume, because it makes it easier for the reviewer to discriminate based on illegitimate reasons.

Perhaps there's a misunderstanding? This discussion thread has been about why anyone should include a photo, not why they shouldn't. Unless they want to attempt to benefit from such discrimination by having a favored appearance, which we want to discourage.
But here the reasoning was weak.

He tried to say that assault shouldn't be called assault if it didn't involve force, because assault requires force.

That's a definition of assault that is incorrect in English usage and incorrect in law. Assault does not require use of force.

30 seconds of web searching, or reading a dictionary, would have told him this.

If this was the only time he'd said something fucking idiotic about sexual violence maybe he'd have got away with it, but it isn't, is it? He keeps on saying stupid shit about abuse of children.

When it comes to sexual abuse against women and children he doesn't know what he's talking about; he knows he doesn't know what he's talking about; but he keeps doing it.
People want the cheapest and easiest.
In an interview, Snowden mentioned that he also took an oath to uphold the constitution. So he had a choice between the form and the oath.
How would WeWork going under torpedo meetup.com? I'm not super familiar with their relationship with each other. Some quick Googling shows that they do have one partnership for a product related to booking a space for use with a meetup, but I don't know if MeetUp earns like a huge portion of their revenue off that.

Edit: Just found out that Meetup.com is owned by WeWork. This makes sense to me now.
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