skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, the old “he was free to leave anytime” argument. No. He wasn’t. Yes, technically, he was free to leave, but arguing that is ignoring the fact that leaving would mean jail.

It’s victim blaming. Would you say a victim of Stockholm Syndrome is “free to leave at any time”? No, because that’s a ridiculous argument. Would you say Snowden is “free to leave [Russia] at any time”? No!

So why is it an acceptable argument when it’s Assange? Because he possibly committed a crime in Sweden? Because he indiscriminately blew the whistle on the US government’s crimes?

Sure, he’s a puppet of Russia, but to say he doesn’t deserve the same protections as the rest of us is to argue for tyranny.
If we go by that definition then everytime your partner is horny and you're not, but you have sex with them regardless you're "sexually assaulted". As you didn't really want to participate.
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One team's development patterns with VueJS and Django REST framework
Best not to work at all?
I believe this is the case, yes. Apple still has a licensing deal with Yelp, but I'm not sure if that includes business locations.

Apple has put significant effort into gathering the data for this new map (4+ years).

I'm sure they still include data from other sources as well, that they may not fully own (like satellite imagery).
After "ReiserFS kills your wife", here comes "administering Solaris kills Tamils".
I think most people feel like they are sometimes pressured into work they don’t want to do, but we don’t call that slavery.

Frankly maybe we should, but until we do it’s going to be hard to make this a bright line.
So cure is to never work? Got it!
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I think you are missing the point. You can be productive for yourselfas wellas for other people ...
> He got away with raping a woman completely.

Why are you saying this like it's a undeniable fact?
It's not totally separate. Paying taxes to fund orphanages, or to fund weapons of mass destruction, or actual wars that one considers to be intrinsically immoral, are radically different acts - and the moral act of payment is affected. To fund an orphanage might be considered an obligation by many, while to fund an immoral war might be considered a form of slavery and the funds taken under duress.

In other words, the morality of paying taxes is directly dependent on the legitimacy of the government demanding payment. And that legitimacy in part derives from their very actions, for which in an ideal wold they would be held accountable.
If I buy anyone in my family a home speaker, or Fitbit, or other thing for holiday I'm getting laughed back into my car
WC3 used JASS and the starcraft bug is known as EUD, theres a post about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16305769
I always thought their app was really nice, but I have never tried to get data out of it.
Do I get that correctly and you're proposing tax evasion in all seriousness?
You can literally write a “some users say blah blah” article with any narrative and it won’t be fake news, strictly speaking.

Well, at least this article doesn’t embed a few tweets, which is an immediate sign of garbage journalism.
> will not extradite anyone [..]

will not easily extradite own citizens but less care is given for foreigners.
Do it during flu season when it’s totally normal to cover your face with a surgical mask.
"Gotabaya Rajapaksa, younger brother of former president Mahindra"

humble sysadm, lol
Yep, immediately thought the same.

Journalism is dead. It's honestly a shame.
It's possible to be both unfairly targeted by a superpower and commit sexual assault, one doesn't cancel out the other. I'm not saying he did, I don't know how any of us could know. You seem quite confident he didn't though, I'm curious what you base that on.
Cow and deer herds align like compass needles (2008)
On 9 May, Assange had only been in jail for about a month. The expert claims the abuse predates that ("for a period of several years") which implies it started in the Ecuadorian embassy where he had been staying of his own accord.
Melzer was asked about that. He responded: "Mr. Assange was about as free to leave as someone sitting on a rubber boat in a shark pool." - https://twitter.com/NilsMelzer/status/1134400849097220102
Seconded.
A funny yet surprisingly instructive book.
His concept of "VCR questions" (about the importance of processing emotions) was really eye opening for me.
He is an odious figure who has been improperly deified. I'm not sure why folks love his self-aggrandizing, reckless behavior. The guy helped Russia destabilize the globe, resulting in our current geopolitical situation, for his own selfish goals rather than any other.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate released information exposing bad behavior by governments (Snowden, etc). Just not this guys selfishness and cooperation with Russia.
Either there's a rule of law or there's not. You can't hide from the police and then claim that the very act of hiding is an act of torture enacted on you by the police.
After a little more than a 1000 years we've almost reverted to the sexual freedom of the Roman Empire. Sex work and decorating your living room with well endowed gods of fertility is still frowned upon in most of the world.

In fact, in some countries gore is more acceptable than female breasts.
Stinky plant based substances can also help counteract getting stressed over things you don’t need to also!
Even the "general" interpretation is bloody wrong. People google more symptoms than their own, and not everybody uses google either. FitBit's data is valuable to any party trying to muscle themselves into siphoning some of that health care money.

Google is on a war path, but many prefer to stick their heads in the sand.
Seriously this. It absolutely baffles me how many accountants and lawyers there are in the United States. I find it funny that there's not that much automation on that front.

We will always need people to check over numbers but the question is always going to be, how many and how much should you/they be paid to check over numbers versus building a system that can check for numbers and alert someone when something looks fishy...
Also OpenStreetMap and actively improving OSM data around the world https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/issues/154
You might be able to estimate how many users are jumping ship by looking at the resale market (say on eBay) and if it’s spiked recently.
By the way, Chelsea Manning (the actual leaker) has been in jail for just over 6 months - again - for refusing to testify in the Assange extradition case.

If you're so inclined, send something to her legal defense fund: https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/chelsea-manning-needs-...
From this perspective life itself could be seen as a form of cancer though, imho it has to have a deleterious component to deserve that analogy.

This has been considered with the concept of gray goo. Self replicating nano machines that eat the environment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo
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I have a theory as to why Engelbart (and in general, some other thinkers far ahead of their time) have trouble being appreciated and why "serious" computer scientists (in general, academics) of their time met them with a "thundering silence".

Quoting from the article, Engelbart's 1963 work has these lines:

"This hypothetical writing machine permits you to use a new process for composing text. For instance, trial drafts can rapidly be composed from rearranged excerpts of old drafts, together with new words or passages which you insert by hand typing. Your first draft may represent a free outpouring of thoughts in any order, with the inspection of foregoing thoughts continuously stimulating new considerations and ideas to be entered. If the tangle of thoughts represented by the draft becomes too complex, you can compile a reordered draft quickly. It would be practical for you to accommodate more complexity in the trails of thought you might build in search of the path that suits your needs."

The year was 1963 and the first word processors such as WordPerfect, came in 1979, 16 years later, and the mouse demo only took place 5 years later. Basically, Engelbart talked about word processors in the punch card era when
there was no human-computer interaction, only programmer-computer interaction, and that too, in minimal amounts.

In comparison, Turing was taken seriously by serious mathematicians of his time, although he wrote in the 1940s about the idea of stored programs, in an era where the punch cards themselves didn't exist. This might be because his central idea was purely theoretical, and only required a construction of a hypothetical machine (a Turing machine), and thus, academics could interpret it as a thought experiment. Thought experiments are and were always considered "serious".

On the other hand, when the central idea is not theoretical, but involves construction of machines, it is interpreted
as philosophical or useless. I'm saying ideas that essentially rest on engineering constructions that do not yet exist, are often dismissed in the academic space, but purely theoretical ones are found to be interesting, although they also require imagination of the non-existent.

Just a theory, I may be wrong. I just got to wondering if Engelbart had presented the idea of breaking down complexity with a more theoretical framework (e.g., constructed a mathematical model for augmented memory or something like that), would he have found NSF funding sooner?
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He’s not saying that Assange didn’t have symptoms similar to a torture victim - just that he was there voluntarily, and so it isn’t actually torture.
I bought Sourcetrail a few years ago. It’s been highly useful in diving into large, unfamiliar projects. Thank you! I hope the open model works for you. I know the cost stopped some of my co-workers from buying it.

For others, I suggest giving it a try. The only issues I’ve run into is when a project has a build setup that won’t work on your machine. It still works, you just can’t dive as deep.
I just returned the Bose QC35 - was worsening my tinnitus, they are really flat and uncomfortable to wear around neck.

Sticking with Sennheiser HD25s
Maybe highly empathetic people are the ones who feel for the people on the receiving end of the meanness most, so dislike the assholes most. The point is it could be many things, not just politics, so the external validity is questionable.
The article says "Money in trusts grows tax free". Not sure that is true. I think and I could be wrong (someone please correct me) but the trust would still have to pay federal taxes at the highest rate after the first $5000.00 it makes for the tax year.
If you lose the condom it doesn't make it rape. It makes you a loser who will probably be a social outcast.

If you agreed before to kiss for 10 minutes but stop after 5 it doesn't make it rape either.

If the person asks you to stop and you refuse that's rape.

If she finishes first and asks you to stop and you continue that is rape.

But you don't need to have a detailed conversation agreeing to everything beforehand. If you try something and the other person doesn't stop the action it is not rape.

You could both agree not to do something beforehand and end up doing that act and it wouldn't make it rape unless one party refused that action during the attempt.
>"Surreptitiously removing a condom would be in character."

You provide zero evidence for that naked assertion.

> it's not all propaganda.

If it has no evidnce and no substance as it seems no to, the rationale behind it is of academic interest alone. Maybe it's pure malice? Maybe it's jealous rage? Maybe it's delusional? Maybe it's propaganda? Maybe it's just not interesting what caused it - it shouldn't be to the legal process. Substance is everything. What seems like a strong lack of it here, stinks.
I'm not weighing in on this particular example because I haven't looked at in sufficient depth.

However I want to strongly push back on the argument that: something can't be torture or abuse because the person is physically able to leave. The absence of a locked door does not capture the full scope of coercion and psychological in many situations.

This sort of excuse is often used by cults and domestic abusers to justify why the terrible things they do are not abusive. People die or have life long psychological trauma from hazing rituals that they are "free to leave at any point".
I think the point is that you don't know the limit until you reach it and when you do it may be too late. Seeing a spike in stress doesn't necessarily mean you'll burn out or that it will last forever so many try to weather it out with unfortunate consequences.

But I guess YMMV, every person is different. Some can take more punishment and get more time to decide if they want to keep it up. Some may burn out faster than they can realize.
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> His "freedom of movement" is self-restricted by his fear that he will have to face justice for acting as an agent of Russian military intelligence to attack America including laundering Russian intelligence into America to upset elections.

Let's assume for a moment that your premise is true, and Assange got the DNC documents from Russian intelligence.

Should he have buried the documents? He had in his possession documents that a huge number of Americans would find politically interesting. They showed, among other things, that DNC operatives were biased against Bernie Sanders and looking for ways to undermine him. They also contained transcripts of speeches to Wall Street firms that Hillary Clinton had refused to publish during the primaries.

Assange has always said that he will publish whatever documents are verifiable and of public interest. If he had decided not to publish the DNC documents, that would have been a violation of his stated principles. It would even look like he's hiding documents in order to help Hillary Clinton win the election.

What you're describing as "acting as an agent of Russian military intelligence" is actually the publication of documents of public interest - something journalists do. If what you're saying is correct, every NY Times journalist who publishes state secrets could be thrown in jail. Imagine if a NY Times journalist got a cache of documents about misdeeds of the Russian government, and the NY Times were to publish those documents. Imagine then that the Russian government claimed those documents came from a foreign intelligence service, and labeled the NY Times journalist a hostile intelligence agent. Would you support the extradition of that journalist to Russia to face charges of espionage?
It's time for syndicalism to make a comeback.
Victims and prosecutors disagree on the path forwards regularly.
Briggs–Rauscher Reaction
Bungalow Raises $47M to Prove Co-Living Is Not the Next Co-Working
This is like calling a robbery a donation because you can choose to not give them the money.
> TikTok poses a major threat to Facebook and Instagram in particular.

Billions of downloads doesn't tell you if 'something is growing' it's the Daily Active Users. Ask them how TikTok plans to make money in order to remain profitable and they will completely fall tone deaf.

This article tells you nothing about TikTok outperforming instagram.
This reminds me of the technique that went viral via Reddit a couple of years ago:

https://lifehacker.com/this-weird-trick-might-give-you-brief...

I don't suffer from tinnitus, but I know people who do and some of them have said that this helped them.
I've benefited greatly from the system, as did my siblings and parents, so I'm more than happy to pay taxes. Taxes:

- Make sure the area I live in is clean, safe, accessible
- Paid for my college, allowing me and my siblings to end up with a higher education and (in my case) earning more than my parents did. Social mobility, something my parents could not have afforded on their own.
- Paid my dad when he lost his job
- Paid my brother who never managed to land a job

And of course if it wasn't for taxes / a functioning government, half my country would be underwater.
Snowden's case is different, if I'm not mistaken, since the US suspended his passport. Meaning he cannot travel anywhere else (unless he's got a Russian passport, which I doubt).
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But what if the TF2 server runs on the same Google machine?
> This is coming from a lady pitching for redistribution of wealth and universal healthcare.

So someone sensible then?
I don't want to defend Lamo, but he surely got pressure from the government and some kind of deal.
In fairness to the ultra liberals of HN, there is still plenty of support for Assange around here so your brush may be a touch broad.
Generally people accused of serious crimes are not as free as the rest of us.

He has always been free to face his accusers.
This article leaves out some important information. Killing animals was a key component of biological study. There were no cameras so bringing back a specimen was common practice. The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker was such a rare sight that its last several sightings, all of which were killed by the biologists who spotted them, are believed to be the last of their kind. One man managed to drag a wagon filled with primitive audio recording equipment through the woods and swamps to record its song. He shot the one he found anyway. There are a few experts who believe the most recent reports of their sightings[1] but modern day habitat destruction does not bode well for them, if they are even there.

Furthermore, killing the local animals was a means of survival and a way of life for sailors. The Dodo was a hapless, plump and defenseless animal that sailors ate until they were extinct.

Both of these practices were careless and destructive but we are all products of our environment. Explorers felt like there was no limit to what we could discover and many believed that Earth was given to us by God to provide endless resources.

Poor ecological practice is not ignored for the sake if hero worship, as the article suggests. It is often left out because the topic deserves to be handled responsibly and fairly, which the article fails to do.

1. https://www.audubon.org/news/possible-ivory-billed-woodpecke...
No, it's not dead. There are still plenty of very good journalists and in-depth stories being published. They are just more crowded by this type of entertainment "news".

If you want real news, there are plenty of places to find it.
I'd tell them to go on Indiehackers for the business side of things.

To be honest there are probably tons of problems people in their 20-50s totally ignore that a 60 year old could make lots of money from.

If they have imposter syndrome, send them to www.nocsdegree.com
But that line of thinking doesn’t make sense to me …

Just for the sake of argument, say you are a bank robber who successfully barricaded yourself somewhere (really uncomfortable) where police cannot reach you. You are then free to leave at any time, but would be arrested as soon as you did.

Would you really argue that police would have to drop the case to avoid torturing you?

Your line of thinking seems to presuppose that the threat of arrest was somehow unjust, but you never really argue for that point.
How can I protect myself from hackers if I want to start a blog?
So many words, yet so little said.
Sure thing, Eichmann.
The average Joe that uses Fitbit probably doesn't even know that this transaction is happening. Sometimes we think people read the same news we read and understand things the same way we understand them. That's definitely not the case.
If you agree to "we can have sex if you wear a condom" and then secretly take off the condom, that's rape. The sex being had was not consensual.
He was due to be released on 22 September after serving his sentence for breaching bail conditions.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-49689167
The example was not meant to be taken literally.
> Sometimes the other side is objectively wrong both morally and effectiveness.

The thing is that both sides feel that about the other.
Thanks for bringing that up. I felt the same. It really diminished the article and let's not forget ageism.
Sort-of.

You can make use of Adverse Possession to take ownership of land. The owner must reclaim their property, (and prove their ownership) or loose all rights to it. Unfortunately in UK squatting in a residential property is a crime, amusingly adverse possession still applies - you could claim someone's house but go to jail.

It's a weak threat though, most luxury apartment blocks used for 'investment' have security, you need to reside continuously for 10 years, they will send the owner a letter, etc.

I would like to see the principle of 'use it or lose-it' for limited public goods like land.
The book shows that a lot of the people who sustain that system (by writing the laws we are all subject to, but leaving convenient loopholes in them) do actually benefit quite a bit.
What is going on with Michigan's Upper Peninsula? Did anyone at Apple look up there and notice that they paved Lake Michigan?
You're assuming he had a lot of choice in the matter and that the UN didn't take that into account. Nils Melzer when asked about it responded: "Mr. Assange was about as free to leave as someone sitting on a rubber boat in a shark pool." - https://twitter.com/NilsMelzer/status/1134400849097220102

Also, as far as I'm aware, Assange didn't claim he was tortured, the UN experts on torture came to that conclusion.
No one can disrupt the traditional banking system without getting enabling federal legislation passed first. This isn't an industry where startups can just disregard the laws. The government literally seizes assets and puts violators in prison.

So your friends are right, for now.
To some extent particularly screamy metal has so much noise it works pretty well too. On particularly bad days, Taake was probably the most effective - not only lyrics in an unknown language but a sound level that felt more like ocean waves, completely washing out the surrounding sound landscape.

(of course it helps if one likes this kind of thing, which I do)
Not true; 1.2 billion has already been recovered, and there's still investigations ongoing - and likely will be for years to come still. Just because it's not on HN doesn't mean it's not happening.
Sometime the quality from an author's reading isn't the best, but it's always interesting to hear a work read exactly as it was conceived.
This is a good point, actually. Attributing the blame to an extreme minority of people (billionaires) is counter-productive. The problem is not their individual moral failings (however numerous) but the system that permits them to exist and incentivizes their parasitic and exploitative practices.