skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note both slack accounts have to be on the paid plan. This isn't mentioned anywhere but makes it much less useful than they are presenting it to be.
You can pay them some sort of living wage, if the alternative is uproar over innocent drivers being suspended by fake allegations. That's all I'm saying.
What toxins are we being exposed to in air travel?
Assuming this is posted re: the civil litigation against Snowden, and is meant to initiate a debate.

I'll bite: If he signed this, it's pretty much open and shut that he has to forfeit all proceeds from any sales of a book or other medium containing said secrets. However, if the medium does not actually contain any secrets, but is rather about his ordeal and experiences as a whistleblower, well that's not covered by this document. Hence why the state is suing instead.
Inkscape is my go to image editor. The UI is reminiscent of the old Macromedia Fireworks, with a paradigm that feels much nicer (to me) than Photoshop et al.

I downloaded the beta pessimistically thinking that they still wouldn't have native OSX Menu support (I've been using the non-updated 0.91+devel+osmenu fork/branch forever), but was pleasantly surprised to see full OSX integration in this beta. Great job guys!
I imagine there's enough capital to take over the divested amounts. Warren Buffett has no trouble investing in oil (e.g. the recent Occidental/Andarko merger, he got some juicy preferred shares out of that). And I'm sure he's not alone.

Taxes/limits, we need that on carbon. The economic status quo on the subject is also the most obvious response: pay for the externality you're causing when burning carbon. EU's limits system (cap-n-trade) is already there and has been for many years, can be plugged into a global CO2 emissions market. This should eventually extend to cars, airplanes, ships, steel, concrete, home heating, whatever - even the farting cows.

Either that or solar geoengineering.
We need to understand that open source contributors "working for free" is not in the context of market norms. There are experiments[0] indicating that people who work for free adhere to social norms and they do a far more fantastic job from what they would have when they get paid to do the same work.

I myself am an open source contributor working for free and I do it to the best of my abilities even though its "free".

[0] Predictably Irrational - Chapter on The cost of Social Norms.
Funny enough a lot of film scores and more recently TV and video game soundtracks also follow that formula with specific motifs for different characters with variations depending on the scene.

It's particularly noticable where you have a long running series that allow for the motifs to mature over time.
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We currently dock with the ISS which is traveling 10X faster.
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> the ongoing human rights violations in China

We have ongoing human rights violations in the US. I'm not saying The United States is on equal moral footing with The People's Republic of China. I'm saying that both have a terrible track record, and claiming one is vastly superior is a reflection of your nationalism.
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I think it would easily burn up in the atmosphere. With <1mm in diameter it has a huge surface area.
I paid for Pocket Casts and also for the web player. But after the recent UI updates they went through, as well as the developers' underwhelming response to criticism, I switched to using AntennaPod (https://antennapod.org/). AntennaPod has its own UI problems but it's FOSS and with frequent updates it's constantly getting better.
Snowden sacrificed his extremely lucrative career, his access and his ability to live in his own country to expose the illegal and unconstitutional conduct being carried out by the NSA. He put himself in extreme legal jeopardy to expose this illicit government activity and the lies of government officials like James Clapper, who perjured himself before the Senate when asked directly about these activities.

In direct contrast to Snowden and his unselfish, principled actions are people like you, who spread blatant falsehoods, such as your suggestion that Snowden gave the Russian government intel.

The Constitution is the highest law of the land. Those in government and in other official positions who have violated our Constitution are the real enemies of our country, not the people who expose their crimes. Sanctimonious babble about, "national security" does not excuse them, lessen or mitigate their crimes in any way. Hopefully the release of Snowden's book will rekindle interest in the unconstitutional, illegal surveillance that continues to be carried out in the name of, "national security" so those lawbreakers and criminals in the "intelligence community" can be put behind bars where they belong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwiUVUJmGjs
I've inferred the entire contents of the book from the plethora of HN comments discussing it.
> requires a willingness to go down with the ship

IMO, it would have lessened the impact if he went down with the ship. Otherwise I agree.
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Any possibility of releasing the simulation environment? Looks quite cool!
This is along the lines of how I was interpreting things. Its really scary. I would be happy to hear a convincing argument against this version of reality if such a thing is possible and if anyone is able to make one.
>If you like what you see, we'll ask you for $9. Just once.

They promised something they shouldn't have promised. No excuses here. This isn't good news for people who bought the app.
General Melchett: If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through.
> To whom? To those that endorsed questionable business relations that drew attention in the first place that still are in leading positions at the MIT?

Side note: Ito, at least, is out at MIT. Others may be as well.

As far as to whom, it would have been to "anyone who was harmed by his statements". This could include those at the FSF who he represented, the students and researchers at MIT, who also were associated with the statements, and to people victimised by Epstein and others like him.

It's not as hard to find someone to apologise too, as it would be for the guy to actually admit he's wrong in the first place.
This is an app I've used every day for almost 4 years (first on Android, then on iOS). I've paid them practically nothing for it. Probably less than $20 total, I don't even remember.

It's been a nearly perfect podcasting app for me. Syncs everything, subscriptions and episode progress, between devices and on desktop.

Am more than happy to pay $10/yr for it going forward. Actually surprised it's still so cheap.
> 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

This is nowhere close to true, unless you define “benefit” as “cash profits”. Even then, it’s a tough argument.

There have been extraordinary benefits to most people in the world from open-source contributions. Without a wide range of open source code projects there would be no Wikipedia, no SciHub, no web forums, no search engines, no web maps, no movie/book/restaurant review sites, no craigslist, no online dating, no news websites, no web education platforms (MOOCs, Open Courseware, Khan Academy, ...), no technical Q&A sites, no video sharing sites, no social media, no e-commerce, no online banking, no ...

The great majority of the benefits of all of these software products and projects accrue to their many users, not to their authors or corporate hosts.

(Of course technology is not all positive, and many people have also been harmed by technology. Open source also enables surveillance, stalking, bullying, new kinds of fraud, new venues for propaganda, new legal risks, new avenues for social and political control by self-interested and unaccountable people and institutions, etc.)
If one of your primary motivations for working on FOSS is to improve the world (which for many of us is the case), then it's very easy to feel an obligation to un-break Amazon because it is a quick way to improve the world for millions of people.

That, on its own, is fine. It brings you satisfaction rather than financial support. What starts being fishy is when companies like Amazon who can readily afford to offer financial support instead rely on and exploit that sense of obligation to get work done for free.

I realise this sounds whiny and that's not the point. The point is that by withholding FOSS contributors financial support, these companies are creating an environment in which the best and most dedicated contributors run the risk of burning themselves out, making everyone worse for it.
When Google’s GSuite moved from 5 bucks to 6 bucks they just sent an email and it took affect the next month.

Being confident in the value you offer and raising prices without groveling shows confidence. I stayed with gsuite and disk time think anything of it.

You guys offer a great service. Don’t be afraid to charge fair prices.
Have you heard of awario? (www.awario.com)

I've come across it in use online, but don't use it personally in any of my work. As for your question, if I had a need for it and it got the job done, I'd use it if given a free one.

Best of luck.
Oh wow it's finally no longer using XQuartz! This is great!
Perhaps you have some better reason why Posix has rejected it, again and again? Some sort of conspiracy is conceivable, but in service of what?

I have seen much, much better designs, that take into account that these functions are rarely called in isolation. In those, calls cooperate with previous and subsequent calls to share the burdens of maintaining correctness and safety.
0.001%?

https://www.nealdavislaw.com/blog/sex-crimes/false-rape-clai...
It’s true that a single static IP address is easy to block, but what is stopping an oppressive regime from building tech specifically designed to block Handshake? Correct me if I’m wrong, but Handshake still functions over IP and as such a government could potentially block all IPs associated with Handshake via similar mechanisms that are used to block a single IP. If there exists some kind of public list of all Handshake resolvers, as, from my understanding, there would have to be, they could very easily continue censoring content deemed inappropriate. I don’t see anything built into the core of this that will solve this problem. Oppressive regimes will adapt.

And DNS as it stands is fairly seizure resistant as long as you use secure passwords and the customer services folks don’t get tricked into resetting your account or something.

The vision is grand. I’m excited to see where this project goes and will definitely be following along. Best of luck.
> This sounds like my worse nightmare. Fake “fun” at work. I don’t go to work to have fun. I go to work to get a paycheck.

Well said. I can understand "fun after work" (which I don't want as I prefer to go home). But what this all rant about "fun at work" ? all valley cult. Remember 'enjoying work', 'good work environment' are completely different than 'fun at work'.
Yes, that's insufficient. I mean, what would Lyft look into? Would they call up the driver, and then ask if they clipped a car? And what if the driver said either yes or no? Then what should Lyft do? This is a civil matter between the driver and the car owner, not the driver and OP.

A police report is real and actionable and something Lyft could follow up on. That's something that the person whose car got damaged should pursue, and OP could serve as a witness, which she volunteered to do. That is the proper way to do things.
I like the dark mode and the undo stack / feature--works well. I'm less familiar with markdown than others so a built in collapsing component reference to that might be cool, but I could see how you might argue against it for minimalism.
> In the article it said they were aware of a forced entry made at another court house, but I'm assuming it was after the fact and the security company told them they did it before? If it was before the test then that changes the story but I dont know why they'd admit it to the press otherwise.

It isn't clear at all. Perhaps Coalfire informed the Iowa State Court Administration of the Polk county break in when this came to light to avoid further misunderstandings? Who knows what "similar in nature" actually means in this context.
Direct link to paper:

Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, "The Case Against Patents"
https://s3.amazonaws.com/real.stlouisfed.org/wp/2012/2012-03... (PDF)
Northern France was already inhabited more than 650k years ago
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Good idea with nice design and landing page. What’s missing in my opinion are some samples (2-3 generated resumes). The other thing is the pricing. There are CV generators in the $10-$20 range, so maybe adding a “normal” version at 10-15 dollars and maxed out version at 25-30 would capture more price-sensitive users. The copy regarding the price is perfect, but additional price levels may bring more users.
Not. Free.

Another stupid subscription.
$1 here, $5 there. Every dang month. There is no way any of these monthly services deserve that money.
American newspapers regularly publish state secrets, write about how the people in power are fools, and generally go out of their way to make life more difficult for politicians. That doesn't mean the press says everything true and nothing false, but it's very hard for me to understand how you could look at the situation and suspect the government has some secret censorship power.

It's far from uncommon for a reporter to explicitly say "by the way, the government told me not to disclose this information but I'm gonna do it anyway".
Is capital raising relevant? When was the last time a fossil fuel company raised capital? How is that the way to hurt a company?

Also, markets price in these sorts of things. If divestment was a real threat, that would already be factored into the price. It is partly why the P/E ratio of BHP is 13.94, whereas it is 75.56 for Amazon.

Lastly, with a lot of money in index funds (~50%), divestment seems close to impossible. Unless index funds specifically were pegged to non-fossil fuel indexes, they will alway be investing in those companies.

This seems likes the investment version of the plastic straws ban: ineffectual at best.
Pretty weird that a comment linking a chapter from an oft referred to haskell text is a dead comment here. Surely if the alternate explantion in "Learn You a haskell for great good" is somehow sub-optimal it would be better to explain how rather than kill the comment inside 10 minutes?

You see this sort of thing from language warriors fighting silly wars but, yeah, what's wrong with Learn You a Haskell? Why must it be fought and suppressed immediately? Crazy...
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you can use the partial escape velocity equation. ~10 km/s to get to GEO without the radial velocity. delta-V to the moon is about 18 km/s (one way). Keep in mind that kinetic energy is proportional to velocity squared.
So many people feel this way all the time that the HN people made a button you can click to express the sentiment, saving you valuable seconds.
Personally I was really surprised it was free. It doesn’t have a lot of content yet but what it does have is great.

That said, it may be hard to switch now without garnering those negative reviews you are talking about.
Do you have any prototypes / conceptual drawings of shoes without the bare spring--I suspect that might be what some customers want as you are tackling a very aesthetically sensitive market?
> life long beginner stage programmers?
Make a healthy climate a legal right that extends to future generations
nobody was harmed by his statements.
Inkscape is fantastic. I used it to convert a taster image to vector art and it exceeded my expectations.
Agreed. At this point I'm more inclined to follow the "seize their assets and jail their leaders" doctrine rather than a "let them continue to profit" one.
I honestly didn't realize the price had gone up until I read this post. Checked my billing history and saw it's been $6 the last few months. Shrug. Underpriced service that I'll keep paying for.
During the trip its not clear to me what the expected behavior from the service would have been. The suggestion that the customer should be notified or driver questioned when off track just doesnt seem like something a court would agree is a standard expected right now. The idea of negligence would go out the window as soon as they show how many rides go way off track, and how many customers considered that great service because their own requests changed mid trip. The victim here is saying this is part of Lyft’s nonchalant and dismissive attitude to bolster her case, I think it hurts her case, whereas other parts are stronger for reprimanding Lyft.
Concise, clean, effective and without cruft. That's the main reason for Golangs unstoppable growth.

Java is a language and computing platform from the 90s and it shows. It really needs to just stop and the mess around licensing only serves to help kill it.

I also wouldn't tout the concurrency of Java over Golang - having the concurrency model baked into the language and runtime means a clear advantage for Go and one which simplifies the communication among different agents.

Please learn some basics.
Then don’t use it. No one is forcing you to buy anything.
It is completely absurd as you have absolutely less than zero evidence to support it has occurred.

The main problem here is the binomial distribution, not any other kind of bias.

Fossils are rare enough that even a small change in behavior could really stack the deck.

Do you think the was perhaps a child bias in Homo fossils caused by curators? (They're overrepresented probably for obvious reasons.)
An important realization that I had was that monads/functors/applicatives aren't patterns in the sense of design patterns. You don't solve a singular problem with a monad. With something like a strategy pattern you have a concrete problem: how do I select different potential algorithms? Monads don't have a specific problem that they solve. Any attempt to motivate monads in such a manner falls flat because the problem is either too general to be motivating or too specific to apply to monads as a whole.

Instead, functors/monads/applicatives are more like a technique that can be used to solve a wide variety of problems that all coincidentally use the same function signature. And therefore, it's perfectly acceptable to say "I know how monads work with Maybe and List, but not Reader" Because fundamentally, how a Reader implements bind is in no way related to how Maybe or List implement bind.
I know many artists and musicians. "Good business owners" is not that demographic, generally.

The general theme here is a short half-life. You're advocating for shorter rollover - public domain after 7 years. I believe society needs a longer rollover.

I'd advocate for the lifetime of the original author, for the reason that I believe that the author of an enduring work should be protected by copyright for the duration of their influence _not exceeding_ their lifetime. My reasoning is the reality that most creative activity happens during the earlier stages of one's life, that creative people are often guided to less lucrative short-term outcomes for the promise of greater long term outcomes. It's the case of being compensated mostly in options, great for the long term if you have long term success. But also recognizing that long term success should not amount to infinite future benefit.
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Anything remote friendly? Unfortunately all jobs are in SF only.
Gotta be enough to subpoena the driver's phone's location or get some footage along the route.
Having read some NDAs now, this is a doozy. Ctrl-S.
Except it's not just about "free speech", it's about protecting the organisation's integrity which was already shot because of Epstein. Context matters, and in this case MIT couldn't afford to just let him off with a warning after already being hit for taking money from a sex trafficker. If RMS had thought about the big picture, he would have known better than to engage on the topic to begin with, especially in that forum.

The FSF is even worse because he's supposed to be in a position of leadership there and represents the organisation. And they shouldn't be put in a position where they have to decide whether to support some controversial statement about age of consent laws just because one of their leaders decided to stick up for one of his friends. It's just not worth it.
I did read his e-mail, actually. And what's why I wrote:

> To defend Epstein, or the people who were associated with
him, is unacceptable.

He's defending Minsky, who was indeed an inspirational genius in many ways, for being part of Epstein's sex trafficking.

Sorry, but there's no possible defense there. Trying to say something nice, or claim that Minsky didn't know, or say that we shouldn't use terms like "sexual assault" because they are laced with moral judgment, is all pretty bad.
OK - the whole flamewar shows that indeed the mailing list was probably not a good way of defending Minsky. It was not effective and it generated a lot of chaos. But then the question is what would be the appropriate way?
Do please feel free to, you know, engage and, respond to the issue of "Learn you a Haskell..." like an adult capable of intellectual discussion.
I have been using Pocket Casts for about 3-4 years.
It's a great app, hopefully their subscription fee helps development.
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And the police just throw them into the system and say not my problem
It's rare to see the usage of the phrase `optimize [..] quality` with a negative implication. Does this qualify as Newspeak?
I am the author of this submission. I have strong opinions about functor and monad tutorials, and here are my thoughts:

Back when I didn't understand what a monad was, I would read a bunch of tutorials and get confused by the analogies and examples. For example, I would get confused by comparisons to "boxes," or I would think that Maybe was the definition of a monad, or that IO was the definition of a monad.

The information in the tutorial that you link seems to be all correct. However, it's too "jumpy" for my tastes. The tutorial talks about "contexts," but doesn't really explain what a "context" is, except for making a comparison to "boxes." I get that a functor is an abstract idea, so explaining it in an understandable way is difficult. However, I wish that the article would discuss type constructors, because the idea of mapping types to types is an important part of the definition of functor. Without this explanation, I imagine that the comparison to "boxes" would have given the past me the wrong impression of what a functor is.

In my tutorial, I sought to teach the actual definition of a functor, applicative, and monad. I explain that a functor maps types to types and functions to functions in a way that preserves composition and identity, that an applicative preserves the product, and that a monad is characterized by a "join" operation that "flattens" the data and a "return" operation that "wraps up" the data. I actually would have preferred to explain the actual category theory, but I felt that it would be too intimidating, and so I attempted to convey the ideas in a non-category-theory way. With my current understanding of functor, applicative, and monad, I believe that if one doesn't learn their actual definitions, one doesn't truly understand them. I guess that I wanted my tutorial to be more rigorous.

However, I am not an expert on teaching, so maybe I'm taking the wrong approach.

See my Reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cy35zz/functor...