skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazed they are charged. Any good lawyer should be able to get them off on mistake of fact, of simply lacking the elements of the crime.
There's a balance. People might _say_ they want more content but sometimes when you give it to them they get bored.
> Here in Canada the prosecution would have quickly withdrawn the charges

There in Canada, prosecutors are not elected, because that would be completely batshit insane.
The Pixel 3a has a 5.6" screen while the iPhone SE has a 4.0" one, that's not even comparable.
I've done many personal websites, and the discussion forum or two, over the years. And more or less without exception, the lack of engagement has been disheartening. But (of course, I guess) most of them were Tor onion sites, so silence was predictable.

But even on clearnet, promoting personal websites is nontrivial. How does one do it?
>I can make the same argument about killing literally anyone because they might kill other people.

This feels like a slippery slope fallacy.
Do people still use Mention tools?
We are planning to launch a new mention tool.
The concept is simple: Tracking mentions worldwide for any given keyword or phrase. (Your company, brand, your competitor, keywords of a campaign, anything) The data is crawled from all the search engines, news websites, social media sites, blogs, forums, communities, review websites and video sites.
The launch plan is to give free subscription to 1000 users. And the platform will be closed for signups and it will be invite-only, every user gets 3 free invites. There is another option, by submitting your details and we may approve you to be a free user.

But my question here is will this low-end disruption model work? Do you guys use mention tool and if not, would you use if given a free one?
No need to be a redbull person... this happens all the time in Thailand.. different values here. In Asia in general, its can be solved by making a payment pretty much all throughout Asia
This is a civil lawsuit.

Jury nullification gets its teeth from the principle of (no) double jeopardy: once a defendant in a criminal case is found not guilty of a charge, they cannot be re-tried on those same charges.

(There are an increasing number of loopholes, including of charges in another, or higher, jurisdictions, and/or on different charges.)

The prosecution has no right of appeal. The defence does.

This is not the case in a civil suit. Either party (plaintif, here, the US government, or defence, here, Snowden) may appeal an unfavourable decision, through courts of appeal or ultimately the Supreme Court.

Jury nullification specifically does not apply to this case.
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> I was surprised that Lyft quickly gave her the reimbursed fee, but without doing any extra follow up with her.

I haven't used Lyft, but from my experience with Uber, most of such support requests don't get a follow-up. Even if I deliberately ask my driver to take a scenic route and add an hour extra, if I complain to Uber that the driver took a longer route, I can get reimbursed without a follow-up.

You can't keep doing this every time, but Uber sometimes just doesn't want to deal with an investigation and tend to make the driver lose the money. Uber doesn't lose money in this case, so it's an easy decision.
It seems like regulating emissions should be the job of a government but not shareholders.
Shame on the prosecutors. Burglary requires intent. By all appearances, these guys thought they had permission.
He was creepy and unprofessional, not a criminal. “Be fired” is the proportional and appropriate response.
The FAANG tech unicorns at the current height of their power still pales in comparison to the East India Companies (British/Dutch/whatever the country doesn't really matter). Traverse the dependency tree of power and I don't think you will like what you would find near the root. At the end of the day, tech unicorns flourish within the legal sandbox of civilization. Without any command over legitimate violence, they have relatively little power compared to the government.
This is actually a huge advantage. As I understand it, there would be no need to accelerated to GEO before docking with the station. The earth side of the teather would travel at about 10% of GEO. This is a large savings in energy expenditure because kinetic energy is m*v^2
The police themselves would put an officer on paid leave during the investigation, right?

Lyft could suspend the driver, paying them temporarily into escrow, then release that if the allegation is false. Not perfect, but that would mean they had acted quickly and the driver didn't go without income if they were innocent. If it started a rash of false claims so drivers could be paid without working, you can investigate the claimant for fraud (?) and flag the driver's account for review.

Or look into what taxi companies do in these situations.
Very inspiring. As a coding newbie / wannabe entrepreneur, I will need some time to understand what each part of your technology does though. I will start using Listen Notes later today. Keep up the good work!
the original guy that wrote keras now works for google.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/fchollet/
Why do fusion and fission both release energy?
> > I do not believe video will come to dominate such that text and audio won't still have a place.

I almost never follow links to video, because you can't scan them for relevance and quickly bail.
The problem with this type of inflation is that it's lopsided. Assets inflate -- equities and real estate. That's great for asset owners. But wages haven't really increased, because most workers don't "need" to own equities, and most Americans already own a house, so they aren't affected by rising rents and home prices.

This is why rent can raise 10% in one year -- the largest expense for nearly everyone -- and you can have 1% inflation. Most people aren't renters. So they aren't paying more for their rent. In fact, when bond prices go down (from this manipulation), mortgages get cheaper, so most people are paying LESS for the same house / mortgage.

Equities go through the roof.

If you're a laborer / renter, this is like a double gut punch. If you're a capitalist aristocrat, it's like a double gift horse.

And, as far as inflation goes, at least the way the Fed measures it -- it doesn't have a huge effect.

Commodities are so globalized now, and the US isn't 50% of the global economy anymore -- more like 20%. So strong upward pressure on commodities here, doesn't have a huge impact on commodities prices.
The contract will almost definitely go into evidence. Unless the judge makes an explicit ruling to the contrary, I believe this means that it will be made public (although access might involve a physical visit and some fees)
1. Climb down through the drop down ceiling
2. Cut the drywall behind the umbrella from the other office. Reach hand through and take the umbrella., Then put the cut piece back in, tape it, mud it, sand it, paint it. Done.
Yep. How professional devops people can think running chef in docker (what GitLab does) is beyond me.
He's not astroturfing, astroturfing requires deception.
...it is illegal for any US citizen to inform...

Strictly, no.

This is not a criminal case, judging guilt for crime; it's a civil contracts case for injunction against profits, per the NDA.

And citizens not bound by the NDA, who happen into the information (as would be the case with numerous US-citizen reporters who've written on the Snowden stoy while including specifics of his information disclosures) are not enjoined. At least not in this case.

The NDA does make it remarkably difficult for anyone with specific insider knowledge to publish and profit by disclosure.

NB: I am a space alien cat, not a lawyer. I'm not defending any position, publication, or contract, or questions of possible criminal prosecution. Just clarifying what is at hand, and what language applies.
I second that. At work we use Jenkins and BitBucket with no issues at all.
Having gone through this learning exercise myself, it always makes me giggle to watch others do it. People first learn about arbitrage and think they can automate it to make money (tm).

In reality, the complexities involved are enormous and the biggest issue is simply that it is almost impossible to predict when the opportunity opens. Therefore, you're always dealing with what is effectively stale data. The next step is to try to trade faster, which then exposes bugs in apis and issues with dealing with connection failures.

That said, I do think that with the proper architecture and enough effort, it is definitely possible to build an arbitrage bot. Especially when you get into more complex solutions, like 3+ way. Those that have done it and are successful with it, don't sell or give away their bots because, it is arbitrage, and to make money, you have to be better at it than everyone else. Why sell a money printer when you can use it to print money?

The other realization is that the exchanges must be running arbitrage bots against themselves. I also would not doubt that there is cross exchange collusion in place as well. They help create volume and heck.. why not? No trading fees.
Absolutely nobody? I update all the packages on my Linux machines (personal ones, not servers) at least daily. I'm happy to get any changes as soon as they're released. Obviously I'm likely in the minority here, but is it really that inconceivable that a decent number of people might be fine with updating their browser once a month? It's a pretty quick process, and for the average user who isn't using many extensions (if any), things don't really break when it updates.
This idea is amazing - exchange attention for saving cash.
I saw a Lyft driver clip a car outside my house - I emailed Lyft to let them know. Provided time, registration, make/model, address.

They replied saying that was insufficient information to identify a driver. So I left a note for the damaged car and suggested they file a police report.

Lost a lot of respect for Lyft that day.
Your point about the "kill chain" is well taken. I have not having paid enough attention here to have followed it in this case. But I certainly think the lack of nuance in the media is absolutely a real problem with many bad consequences.

> Depends on the reason for you being upset, I would hope that the paper would either pick it up and air it, or laugh you out of the room too.

Yes, absolutely.

In an ideal world, if there isn't a deeply troubling reason to be upset, a respectable media outlet should (in an ideal world) push back. And an employer should want to defend its employees against trumped up nonsense.

In this world, I fully appreciate that many media outlets love controversy and clicks, and it may be easier for a company to just fire someone than stand up for them and deal with said shit-storm.

> I think there's something wrong with trying to end someone's career - thus causing significant, real, material harm to them - just because you personally found their speech offensive. It's like a lightweight form of swatting someone because you got angry.

I agree completely that trying to end someone's career is very extreme. I take no position regarding the specific case of whether or not RMS should have resigned.

I would, though, push back against drawing an equivalence between swatting and trying to end someone's career.

I can easily imagine cases where I would try to end someone's career. For instance, if I had evidence that someone in law enforcement had a deep hatred of {women, men, gays, straights, Blacks, Whites, Jews, Muslims, Christians, Atheists, ...}, that would be deeply problematic. If I then saw them unfairly {arrest, harass, ...} someone in the hated group, it would seem very reasonable to object strongly to them continuing in their career.
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> part of the reason there are special rules around work is in society today people need to work to survive.

In America at least, we have an entire social safety net intended to avoid that scenario. Doesn't always work as intended, but there are too many counter examples to that simple description to accepted it at face value.

What people often do need work for is self-actualization, money for non-essentials, or to feel like they're making meaningful contributions to society. I don't see anything about RMS stepping down from the FSF that precludes him from submitting patches to whatever open source project he would like, or precludes him from publishing his own thoughts and research on his own website.
As much as I dislike licensing zealotry, this is where I think the BSD guys have it dead wrong. The BSD license strictly enables corporate parasitism by dis-incentivising upstream contributions and source-sharing. If the pride in suspecting that one's work is widely used is payment enough for a person, then so be it. But I've never understood why subsidizing corporations is a point of pride for those folks.
If he were clever he'd have negotiated an escape clause for this contingency.
>In most states, unless you are a locksmith, yes it is a crime.

This is not true. Only nine of forty one states make lockpicks illegal. https://tihk.co/blogs/news/116232133-lock-pick-legality
The information hurts more than the money helps.
yeah, choice of language is not so easy in this case: c++ seems to be industry standard, but I am curious to measure how golang or scala would improve time of development and what would be their performance.
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"and the Web Player and Desktop Apps are part of Pocket Casts Plus, which is available as a paid subscription."

If only Google podcast had a webapp I could ditch Pocket Cast.
Probably for a similar reason to why c++ releases a new standard every 3 years. This blog post explains c++'s reasoning:

https://herbsutter.com/2019/07/13/draft-faq-why-does-the-c-s...
As sibling comments have said you can buy more minutes, but you can also setup your own runners and build to your hearts content on them.
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- Formal Methods
- Functional Programming
- Distributed Systems
- Firmware
I did my Ph.D. 28 years ago and Rod was on my thesis committee. At the time the big debate was over whether robots should plan or react (with Rod, of course, being at the vanguard of the "react" contingent). My thesis basically said: they should do both. 30 years on it feels like things have come full circle and we are once again arguing over what AI architectures should look like. I think the answer now is the same as it was then: all extreme positions are wrong. We are not going to build AI simply by throwing more computing power and larger training sets at the One True Algorithm, neither are we going to do it by hand-coding everything. Human brains are the messy result of millions of years of evolution. I see no reason to believe that successful AI will be any less messy.
10gb cloud storage, web/desktop app still has no feature parity with android app after years. It's been years since beta, no playlist, per podcast setting sync, chapters support etc.

Waiting for a bigger player to take podcast experience to the next level to TBH. Listenernotes posted the other day was a good start that I've been using for a while. But would be nice to have transcription support, searching within episodes (which youtube now has), commenting, recommendations to specific episodes of other podcasts based on current episode etc. I know Google has been working on podcast transcription but their podcast options including googleplay music are pretty anemic. It's still basically Google Listen circa 2009.
Extending free speech in that way infringes upon people's rights to free association.

Neither MIT or FSF should be required to continue to associate with RMS if his views are repugnant to their organizational core.
I’d say Gates is making the more utilitarian or effective altruism argument that besides just “warm and fuzzies” you can look for investment approaches that also have a real world impact.
way back then the Igs were awarded for discoveries "that cannot, or should not, be reproduced"

Could you be thinking of the Journal of Irreproducible Results?
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I have paid for both the app and the web client. There is a lot of hate going on in /r/Android about the changes. In my experience they've delivered an app which doesn't crash and has all the features I'd expect.

They also don't sell all the data they possibly could (like others do), which is definitely worth a non-zero amount.

One time payment means once an app isn't actively acquiring new users, the dev will need to be finding other sources of income. The predictability of income can certainly lead to better quality apps.

I have no problem with the changes they're implementing. Servers aren't free, so an ongoing income stream versus potentially shutting down because of a lack of new users makes sense.
Maybe you read different words from the rest of us, but RMS pretty much dug his own grave on this one.
Hey, it is just what I am planning to do on my own game. Supposed to be kind advice. Surely they don't want to split their user-base?
Why use DMR and what is it?
There are many instances where an intolerant minority is able to get a neutral majority to adopt their will. Nassim Taleb describes this as the minority rule. It’s the same reason why all lemonade is kosher*

A small minority of people NEED censorship-resistant and seizure-resistant DNS, and the bet is that they can get the majority to adopt Handshake. The key is that Handshake is backwards compatible with existing DNS, so for the majority that don’t care, they can switch to Handshake without problem. I’d also emphasize that in addition to the minority that absolutely needs it, there are millions of prosumers who care about privacy and security as well, as evident by how quickly Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 has grown.

On the point of Cloudflare, 1.1.1.1 often gets a lot of usage in countries with strict DNS censorship. When Turkey took down twitter.com, people literally spray painted 1.1.1.1 on walls since you could use it to get around the censorship. OpenDNS got a lot of growth outside the US this way as well. In both the case of Cloudflare and OpenDNS, they can’t promote the censorship-resistant use case as strongly because they have a single IP. Handshake doesn’t face the same restriction.

Eventually, the goal is to get browsers to adopt Handshake in order to reach the late majority who don’t care either way, but that would only happen after significant bottoms up adoption. At a certain point it’d make sense for Opera and Brave to integrate Handshake, and then Firefox, Edge, and all the other browsers as well.

*https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
This is a bit tricky. I think you need the required brand (i.e. reputation) to be able to arbitrarily charge more in order to make people appreciate your work.
Ask HN: Best chair for extended reading? (Not at a desk)
I’m seeking advice for a good chair to read in - one that is good for the body (no negative impact / limited aches and pains). I use a standing desk or an aeron chair normally at my battle station, alternating between the two. However, when I want to do extended reading my sofa / couch just isn’t cutting it from a comfort perspective and ergonomic perspective.

What does HN recommend when it comes to ‘lean back’ reading ?
Yeah, not a lawyer outside of my armchair, but I don't really see how they could ever be convicted of any of this. It sounds like there's a very good chance they were contracted by a legitimate security auditing firm to do a job of a nature they had no reason to believe was not already outlined some statement of work agreed upon by all parties. Even if there was some misunderstanding, it sounds like the fault lies with the firm rather than with the contractors themselves. Obviously there are more facts that would need to be reviewed to come to definitively arrive at a conclusion like this, but at a glance this whole thing seems ridiculous.
You must be an engineer.
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I used to love Pocket Casts, and still think its pretty good overall. It's really the only podcast app worth talking about on Android, and it can just about keep up with the likes of Overcast and Castro on iOS. Its also basically the only podcast client for the desktop besides iTunes.
Walk, ride a bike/e-bike/electric scooter, or drive an electric vehicle (to not include the last option is unreasonable IMHO). A Nissan Leaf or Chevy Bolt are options, or a Tesla if you want to splurge.
Maybe Lyft/Ubers should have video cams recording footage at all times, I know many drivers already do. It can help protect the driver just as much as the customer.
It benefits other developers by making their lives easier: no management purchase decision hassle, can inspect source, fix bugs, customize, etc all the standard open-source stuff.

It's just not financially beneficial to developers.
I built a simple BTC arbitrage bot some years ago in Python. I'm basically illiterate when it comes to programming, so it was a bit of a slog. It was possible to use it profitably for a time, netting maybe between 10 and 200 USD a day, due to arbitrage opportunities between a certain small exchange that no longer exists and Bitstamp.

My bot basically only traded on two exchanges, and only triggered trades. For any real profit you had to tie down quite a bit of money and risk having them on the exchanges. But the biggest issue I faced was execution. The connection to the API for both exchanges was unreliable. Arbitrage involves executing a trade on both exchanges, and much too often, one trade would fail to execute and instead of arb the bot would effectively take a position in BTC or USD. I concluded it was beyond my abilities and willingness to learn to try to mitigate the risks that came with. Frankly I wasn't sure the problem could be worked around reasonably.

A fun exercise, for sure!
Sure, point taken. I'm not saying don't give to charity or volunteer for a good cause, I just question if contributing to open source software is really an effective way to go about doing good. If the project you contribute to has some special positive impact on the world, then probably, but if you're just contributing to the general software ecosystem, then it's hard to see how that directly benefits anyone other than, at best, a bunch of well off software developers (though that's not clear to me either) and at worst, only benefitting profit seeking corporations which we would normally expect to fund work being done to run their business.
> It's true that divestment drives down the stock price.

I find that hard to believe.

Stock prices are set by the profitability of the company. This doesn't change by investors divesting. Only if you manage to get a 100% boycott could that happen, but then it would be insanely profitable to break the boycott and cash in.

To me divestment just looks like a form of shunning. People think some companies are disgusting, and our tribal instincts are to throw them out of the tribe. In 2019, this urge can be satisfied by selling stock, which shows what a flexible, yet primitive, primate species we are :)
Ping me at tieshun at Namebase and I’ll send you an invite!

(Anyone else who’s interested can do this as well!)
I love the Racket stuff on your site! If it were me hiring seeing something cool and unexpected like that would be a much bigger plus than a generic Material UI site.
The paper actually points out and hints some very interesting implications. It could also serve to stabilize a station at the L1 lagrange point. Such a station could be permanent as it would not need reaction mass to maintain orbit. If you couple this with cheap material from the lunar surface, you could create truly massive habitats from thin plastic sheeting from earth and regolith from the moon.
It is, perhaps, plausible that he's a popular enough individual that they were worried about a mob reaction, if you will, if they cut ties with him because he did anything short of try to defend rape.

But to be clear, that's still a bed of his own making.