skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seemed like a clear entry into gender war, which is a familiar hop from race war, but definitely not what we want in HN threads.
I doubt many of RMS's critics, if any, support Trump or at least that comment by Trump. Society seems "schizophrenic" because it's composed of many people who all have different perspectives and opinions. You should only look for ideological coherency from organizations and individuals, although even then you'll be disappointed fairly often. But looking for ideological coherency across the general population is certainly an exercise in folly.
I replaced my Nest with a Sensi once Google took over. In doing so, I extensively researched the available options searching for an acceptable one that could be used without a cloud server somewhere, but those just don’t exist in any decent-looking package. Choosing the Sensi was a compromise on settling for a company not likely to go out of business or discontinue the device within the near future and whose core business doesn’t conflict with keeping any data private.
I've never heard the term "venture lawyering" before but it seems apt.

It reminds me of somebody who lawyered up after being denied disability benefits. The lawyer took the case if the client signed over 25% of the payment in perpetuity.

On one hand, yes, they're helping someone resolve the issue without funds to pay for it. But I'm still bothered by the fact the lawyer is either a) cutting deeply into the funds of somebody who needs it because of a true disability or b) is helping someone game the system if they don't need it.
Maybe the metaphor is a bad one, but he doesn't mean physically approach the fear, he means confronting the actual problem mentally instead of sticking your head in the sand and just hoping it works out.
Great analogy. This might be the case with some of physics, too.
Manichaeism: The Ancient Religion That Rivaled Christianity
If I had 1 user on month 1, 1000 users on month 2, 5000 on month 3, 10000 on month 4, I could claim a 1000% (10x) MoM growth rate. But that'd imply you'll have 100K users during month 5 and 1M users on month 6, whereas it'll likely be <40K.

One of the reasons you look at MoM growth rate is to project how fast it'll keep growing over the immediate future. It's unclear to me right now

BTW don't get me wrong, I like the story and the hustle. Just not these numbers :)
The visible galaxies.

That is we see red-shifts when we observe distant objects. And comparing that to other distance estimates, we see that far away things are more red-shifted. As if they are moving away from us.

When we build cosmological models to explain this, we could choose reference coordinates for time and space in different ways. But if we choose to define time and distance in the usual way then we get a picture in which the distances between all galaxies is increasing with time.
WARNING: This article has nothing to do with UFO's.
I agree, but I think most people wouldn't agree with the conclusions.

For example - if someone is criminally wronged in a property crime, wouldn't it make more sense to leave them free but garnish their wages to make the wronged individual whole instead of putting them in prison for decades? Yet if you bring up the idea of compensating the victim instead of punitive justice, a majority of people are extremely offended by the idea.

From that point of view, it isn't surprising at all that class action lawsuits are much more about retribution than restoration in the adversarial system.
> NetHack players probably appreciate on the whole that the game doesn't actively suggest this possibility to them and that they have to think of it or try it to see what will happen.

I did try in explore mode to see whether the game prompts you with unusually-edible items when you're polymorphed, and it actually does, so it's a slightly less hidden feature than I was thinking.

"This whistle is delicious!"
I think people intend something more like the RUC -> PSNI transition, with a wholesale replacement of only senior staff and a rebuild of the ethos.

Some of the US police problems might be solvable by a floating Federal civilian force which could come in from outside to replace and investigate the most corrupt local forces.
Again a false equivalence. Financial information is already protected by numerous regulations. We are talking about generic cookies that are being used for tracking user behavior for a large number of useful and benign purposes. Most of the data is already pseudonymous.
1. I have a vague idea what the second "do" is for. I don't have the slightest idea what the first "do" does.

2. I have some idea what "$" is, but I have no idea what it does in this context.

3. param "uri" is presumably extracting a parameter, presumably from the result of an incoming HTTP request. How is that request passed into "app"? How is it passed into the "get"? How is it passed to "param"?

4. Why does "parsedURI" need a type signature?

5. "Just/Nothing" more or less makes sense, but "Left/Right" (used outside the excerpt I quoted) is a notation that makes about as much sense to communicate meaning as "car/cdr" does in Lisp.

6. A response is generated. How does that response get back to the client?

7. What does liftIO do?

8. The overall syntax is just a pile of wrongness. There are left pointing arrows and right pointing arrows, which have completely different (and entirely non-symmetric) functions. There is an equals sign, which has a somewhat similar role to a left pointing arrow, but for some reason needs a completely different operator. There is a right pointing arrow in the function signature which is completely unrelated to the arrow in the case statement. There is an empty pair of parentheses doing Curry knows what. There are return values, which you can identify by following the peaks and valleys of the indentation.

So, TL;DR, this is an incomprehensible control and data flow, wrapped in an ugly syntax.
Because Portugal decriminalized everything.
Unreal Engine is the first one that springs to mind[0]. No class actions or jury trials, and jurisdiction is restricted to North Carolina, but also no arbitration requirement.

> You agree not to bring or participate in a class or representative action, private attorney general action, or collective arbitration related to the Licensed Technology or this Agreement. You also agree not to seek to combine any action or arbitration related to the Licensed Technology or this Agreement with any other action or arbitration without the consent of all parties to this Agreement and all other actions or arbitrations.

[0]: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/eula
It's really expensive if you have to pay the lawyers their regular rates. But their costs are a small fraction of that. You should not compare 'retail' with 'house'.

It's similar to a car dealership trading in a car that is 'uneconomical to repair' on a new vehicle. Then they repair it anyway and sell it. Because shop costs and parts costs for them are not the same as shop costs and parts costs for you.
I love this The Onion video that is a news report on the CIA's most successful project ever, Facebook:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggW08BWO0
decent business model fwiw

get a little price discovery on how much data is worth while re-targeting a bunch of customers that stopped using your service sometime over the last decade
Not OP, but in particular one of the major points of your post about the issues surrounding DNSSEC is that TLDs are controlled ultimately by the government with jurisdiction over them. Specifically I'm talking about the section titled "DNSSEC is a Government-Controlled PKI". You present the argument that the existing CA system is more protected from government interference than registrars. I think that argument is pretty weak considering that for the most part we're just talking about DV certificates and all a DV certificate from a CA signifies is that that particular CA verified that the entity they issued the certificate to controlled that domain. When ICE seizes a domain name, they can get a DV certificate no problem, they own the domain at that point. If Muammar Gaddafi ordered bit.ly to be seized for some hypothetical "Bureau of Information Technology", he could have absolutely gone to any CA afterwards and gotten a DV certificate.

Why should a litany of CAs with authority to sign certificates for largely any TLD be preferable to only allow the entity that's authoritative on domain ownership being able to sign valid certificates? DV certs are just indirectly checking with DNS anyways and there are pitfalls in that process and no real benefits in the end.
I'd be curious to know if they have kids.

I think California is far more tolerable if you don't have kids. Without kids, you don't need a big place. A couple could live comfortably in California in a home that's 1000'.

But once you have kids, you need to live in a zip code with good schools, and you need SPACE.

That gets expensive.
From a cursory search, it appears the CEO died in March in a helicopter crash along with other employees. Wondering why this article is coming out now, if somehow everything got unveiled due to the deaths?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/kenya-helicopter-crash-tr...
One for NY should be pretty easy, just a splash page showing the user how to send the state everything in their bank account.
> Doesn’t that imply that we are getting “bigger”?

Yes, if by "we" you means "large scale cosmological structures".

But galaxies stay roughly constant size because gravity holds them together. Smaller things are also held together by various forces.
Chestertons
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fen...
China got a spot there too, I don't really understand what the UN hopes to gain by putting totalitarian dictatorships that murder their own people onto "human rights" related councils.

Here's a good one about China: https://unwatch.org/deniseho/

And Venezuela murdered 7000 civilians barely a month ago: https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/09/18/venezuela-extrajudicial-...
GitLabber here, one of our core values is iteration and our mission statement is "Everyone can contribute" https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#iteration

Honestly, you could submit and merege request to our handbook to change global sales policy and tag our CEO to review and merge if he agrees :) Admittedly, this is a unique way to run a company. Other companies are limited by only getting ideas from a small group of people that are directors and executives. At GitLab we understand that good ideas can come from anywhere and we embrace that.
You’re going to have to walk me through that. Because from where I’m sitting it’s almost trivial if you view it through a graph database lens.
For reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCR_LBzur-k (and that was years ago)
The most intolerant political ideology will always in the long run win out over open and tolerant ones. The irony of course is that the most intolerant and closed minded ideologies cloak themselves in the language of "tolerance" and "inclusion" while often violently shunning those who call out their lies.
I did state you would have to use reputation scores too. If I see its the onion or babylon bee, I can probably assume its satire.
That is if you can install the app. Some people aren't tech savvy but quite internet savvy. That wouldn't be us :P But some older aunts and uncles that I know, definitely.
I wonder what actually happens if you send them an objection (per section 11 of the linked page).
Due to health care inequalities people are talking about single payer where the government is the only payer.

However, an even bigger problem is legal inequalities. Rich people can afford top legal representation and poor people cannot. We should instead have single payer legal representation. Lawyers are required to charge a standard fee and are paid by the government for their work. They are not allowed to accept payments in addition to the standard government payment or to take contingency fees.

Doing this would ensure that the poor in America are not disadvantaged due to the rich having better lawyers.
scp executes .bashrc if I recall correctly. Any echo in .bashrc broke scp for me in the past.
> C Language took off in popularity despite BASIC/Pascal being the language more often taught in schools

While C is less constrained, it's structurally very similar to Pascal; they don't differ in paradigm and are in the same syntax family.
> All that said if the monetary value of this data is removed by restricting private usage of it then we'll likely see the equation of value vs. cost for companies storing data shift back to preferring to store as little as possible. Disallowing private data silos may effectively restore a measure of privacy to most people by removing anyone's motivation to collect data.

on the other hand, the first few years of having everyone's search history be public could be pretty chaotic...
Yep.

I think my Mom is typical: because of Prop 13, she can't move. Her property taxes on a new home would be 20X as much.

Due to this, she's kinda 'stuck.' She lives in a house that's larger than what she needs, but she can't justify moving. I think she'd love to "cash out" some of that equity, but she can't.

This is how we got reverse mortgages (which are horrible.)
I strongly agree with the vision of abstracting away the infrastructure details, having worked on, around or adjacent to Cloud Foundry over the past 5 years. These days I lurk on the fringes of Knative.

Cloud Foundry is my reference model for the power of clear, safe boundaries between roles. Good fences make good neighbours.

Right now I'm writing a book about Knative and one of my goals is to require zero prior Kubernetes experience or knowledge. It's turning out to be trickier than I'd first thought. I can't tell if that's genuinely because of the close adoption of idioms and patterns or whether it's just that I've spent a lot of time around Kubernetes for the past 2-ish years and can't faithfully recreate my original ignorance.
The vote of the election isn't "Can you make this one website that is messy better?" because the politicians are incentivized to never let it get that bad.

One only has to take a look at the Obama administration's apparent panic over healthcare.gov to see this at work. When it wasn't going well, it very much was a political issue at the forefront of political conversation.
There's no "decision," just an agreement. However, judges often must approve settlement agreements to ensure that it doesn't benefit only the attorneys. (Yes, this one looks bad, but looking at the numbers involved here, the attorney's fees look pretty reasonable in terms of the amount of time spent on the case.)
> It would be totally hypocritical for the right wing to break up Google. The Democrats tried that with Microsoft back in the late 90s, and as soon as Bush took office the case was dropped because Republicans don't believe in enforcing anti-trust law.

Circumstances were different - Microsoft wasn't doing anything particularly political. They aren't pro-Republican. This is the difference between politically attacking an entity because it is a corporation (a bad reason) vs attacking because they are politically active (an acceptable reason).

That is the central point. Google are removing potential defences against a political attack.

> Maybe, but coal companies are bad for Democrats (they give money to Republicans to help them win races), so why is this OK for coal companies, but not Google?

It is OK for Google, they can donate to whoever they want to. The issue is if they are going to be an partisan actor they control too much information and have too much influence on how people gather information.
I think a better solution is for consumers to simply stop giving so much information to companies. If you are selling apparel/shoes etc then the only information you need from me is my shipping information. This is why I like cryptocurrencies. When you pay, all of your personal information is concealed.
The context is specific to the recipient of the advice, making it effectively impossible to scale.
I use ACR and it worked wonderfully for a long time. I had some big problems with it on Android 9 when I upgraded to a Pixel 3 - there was a note about Android removing the required APIs for privacy reasons, and the ticket didn't look very hopeful. But now on 10 it seems to work pretty well. Don't know what changed - haven't look into it much because I haven't been having problems with big companies lately.
i found one of the power supplies on ebay fairly easily. i’ve thought about replacing their voltage regulator stuff internally as well.
> Radically centrist in that they go out of their way not to be liberal or conservative in an attempt to stay unbiased

You can't go out of your way to avoid particular positions to stay unbiased. Going out of your way to avoid particular positions is bias.
The author configures lots of syncing by setting the location of config files, I do it by setting up a whitelist based gitignore in my homedir:

*
!.gitignore
!.bashrc
!.ssh/authorized_keys

It's fast (comparative to a blacklist based 'git status' scan) and less work :)

On a sidenote, I'm curious about the security implications of the git repository - if the git host the service is breached, as far as I known there's really nothing stopping the actor leveraging access to achieve code execution on my host right?

I'm aware of commit signing but in the context of a raw git directory synced over ssh an attacker could create and use any valid signature key to commit to the repo. Hosting on Gitlab/Github would require a breach or significant abuse of security controls, but is still possible, too.
Interviews of Aquameta:

https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/527

https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/449
The weirdest thing to me is that the data is still there and is still accessible. Google Maps won't remember my "Home" and "Work" locations, but when the device is in airplane mode, it will show the GPS coordinates of both (although they were "forgotten" several devices ago, and this phone has no way of knowing about them)
I actually agree with you. Both sides are reasonable. I also didn't think of your last paragraph.
The Rust compiler does a great job of making suggestions for how you can fix your code, which is tremendously helpful for the majority of cases where your mistake was simple. There is no reason (in theory) that GHC can't offer the same level of guidance.
The vaguest rule to me is the one against making derogatory statements toward "our community". What community is that? Gitlab employees? Developers that upload open source software on Github? Customers that have on-prem gitlab deployments?

If a politician (or to invoke Godwin's law a literal Nazi) I don't like uses Gitlab and I say "fuck that guy", do I need to worry about my account being suspended?
Some do, right now Google/Facebook/MSFT/etc are compiling "Brain Trusts" but the trick is you have to have a track record. If you spend the next 5 years getting published and collect a few more patents you might have a shot though.

Whats your area of expertise?
It seems like this creates a large incentive to push externalities onto millions of voiceless users and then pay off a handful of lawyers to avoid the actual court case.

If you cost 300M people each $20 worth of time and aggravation so that you can make $5B, your net effect on the economy is a cool negative $1B. However, no individual person would ever find it worthwhile to file a lawsuit for $20. That's why we invented class action lawsuits, but if the company settles for say $300M (that's 5 cents on the dollar), 1/3 of that goes to the legal team and 2/3 goes to the class members (in the form of free credit monitoring or a 10%-off coupon or something), and a legal team of 10 splits the legal fees, that's F-U money for every lawyer involved, under a dollar for each class members, and a profit of $4.7B for the company. The transaction is value-destroying for the economy as a whole, but happens regardless because it fits each individual participants' incentives. All because the legal system cannot scale to the harms that may be inflicted upon members of the public.

Arguably, this is the system we're living in now.
Although, to be fair, no harm or negligence has actually been demonstrated in the case of this suit. Which is probably why the settlement amount is so low. I can hardly imagine these lawyers actually made their typical rates getting paid only $1.5M for a matter that took seven years to resolve. From the outside this looks more like a situation where Zappos said, "fine, we'll give you a token amount to go away."
You can sell the coupon on ebay, assuming it isn't some generic easy to get coupon.
> venture lawyering

We ran into this at a previous job. The firm got sued by a group of attorneys, who between them didn't have a single plaintiff. We settled out of court, which means that while they didn't get the windfall they wanted, they still got a decent payday that more than paid their filing costs.
Except the vast majority (85% according to this NYT article [1]) of Rikers inmates are pretrial detainees, ie people who have not been convicted of anything. Many are there because they can't afford bail, meaning they are in effect being punished for being poor.

Also I disagree that the conditions in jail are part of the punishment. I think the punishment is supposed to be the loss of freedom, not the risk of harm at the hands of other inmates.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/16/nyregion/what-is-happenin...
Because it's not that useful.

There is an contest organized by the International Conference on Functional Programming:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICFP_Programming_Contest

It was more or less designed to show the superiority of functional programming languages. Yet in that contest C++ has done better than OCaml or Haskell...

The FP crowd seems to be more active doing advocacy than writing code. Yes, we know, there is that one trading company using OCaml. It's such a niche language that they have to pretty much maintain the toolchain and standard library themselves. Meanwhile, plenty of more successful companies use C++, C# or Java with no problem.

If you want to convince someone of the superiority of FP, write a real killer application. A new browser to compete with Chrome, a video game that can dethrone Skyrim or the Witcher 3. Maybe a DBMS that's even better than PostgreSQL? Basically: show, don't talk.
I don't know why more people don't say this. I agree 1000%. This should absolutely be the case. Why should anyone have a lower probability of winning a lawsuit just because they're poor?
NBA commissioner Silver says Chinese government asked him to fire Rockets GM