skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Almost all of the mass shootings were committed by men with a history of domestic abuse and violence. I think the real root cause is entitlement and not seeing other people as humans.

And what makes women immune to being entitled and not seeing other people as human?

Personally I would explain the fact that most of these shootings are committed by men by the fact that men are generally speaking more likely to react in a physically violent way to stress than women are. That plus the fact that these shooters are an incredibly tiny portion of the population would explain why most shooters are men.
Transparency is not verifiable, just as it's impossible to prove the non-existence of something.

PIA could appear to be 100% transparent while secretly creating and backing up logs, or passing them through a third-party. An auditor is less likely to be fooled, of course.

The bottom line is that it's reasonable for us to choose our VPN based on both transparency and trust, and we have no reason to trust the new owners.
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Has anyone actually stopped to think maybe city councils (and the people who vote them in) don't want you to live there and that's why they constraint the supply?
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> Programming in C should be against some kind of Geneva Convention

Possible and likely in languages other than C. It's just going to hit an out of bounds error when you index the buffer, instead of potentially overwriting an unrelated allocation.
These policies are taking the country by storm, because there's a new generation in town, and that generation feels strongly about the phrase, "criminal justice."

In New York state, January 1, 2020 a set of law changes take effect that reclassify many crimes to misdemeanors, turn arrests into desk tickets, and help expunge records. They want to go further than that (eliminate cash bail, and more). It's not quite as bad as California, but it's getting there.

In New York City specifically, the City Council / Mayor have in the past few years decriminalized quality-of-life crimes. In the (non-right-wing) press, they put it in quotes like this, "quality-of-life crimes" like it's some game, some ruse, or like quality of life is a meaningless sin or privileged pursuit. We should all suffer equally, is the implication. Meanwhile, the city has gotten noticeably less safe, with homeless people becoming more aggressive, open urinating / drug use (of the needle variety), and incidents inside the subway.

There's nothing worse than being forced to take an underground car, being locked with other people, and having other people screaming schizophrenic fantasies, or walking back and forth trying to hustle for money. Every day. Twice a day. 30-50 minutes+. It's an enforced suffering.

Guess what? If you're wealthy, you have a driver and/or you live near work, you live in a doorman building, and many other amenities. Dealing with street quality-of-life issues affects poor and middle-class people, which is what is personally so enraging about these so-called progressive ideals.
Supreme Court hears first 2nd amendment case in a decade
Updates to the Mozilla Web Security Bounty Program
Snowden was not a national security threat, he was a government embarrassment threat. It’s not okay to conflate the two
I'm no UI programmer, but this is such a strong claim that I would ask you to elaborate further.
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> SF is a beacon of hope. We don't throw poor people in prison just because they had to break into a car to get money for their daily dose of crack.

You should be throwing them in jail for that. Otherwise you just perpetuate the problem and they do the same thing tomorrow, and the next day. At what point are they responsible for their own actions in your eyes?

> you'll be able to get your drugs from the corner grocery store, and if you are too poor to pay for them you'll get them for free.

What could go wrong!?!1

> It's disgusting that in a city with so many billionaires people need to steal to make ends meet.

They don't need to steal. You have tons of outreach programs and if those are not enough and the cost of living is too high then a perfectly reasonable response is to get out of SF if they can't afford it.
We've already spent the money on the transportation and forgot the upzoning that should have accompanied it. For example we poured billions into BART to serve dispersed areas full of detached single-family homes. All areas within half a mile of a BART station should permit 5-story multi-family dwellings without mandatory parking. This was the point of SB50.
Mozilla DeepSpeech has come quite far and has a very similar streaming interface for transcription. I wonder if on-prem will win the day due to patient privacy concerns?
Rust#
We (Zulip) added type hints to most of our Python Django codebase a while back. The blog post[1] below has a lot of details on this. Also included a link to the hacker news discussion of the blog post[2]. Feel free to come and ask in https://chat.zulip.org community server if you have any further queries :)

1. https://blog.zulip.org/2016/10/13/static-types-in-python-oh-...

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12703008
That's an awful story and I'm sorry that happened to your family, and I'm sure you were charged for the additional care.

I'm curious how you know the hospital was "happy" about it though. I ask because a close friend is a nurse/midwife who delivers a lot of babies and I find it very hard to believe that caregivers, at least, would be happy about this outcome. I also find it hard to believe that the hospital administration would reward them for this outcome; indeed, hospital administration usually inclines toward bureaucracy aimed at preventing mistakes, rather than incentives to create mistakes.

Under a single-payer system, new providers would still need to train on the job; mistakes could still happen; and the provision of care to mitigate those mistakes would still cost money. Doctors and nurses don't work for free just because of a mistake, even under a single-payer system. Administrators would still get paid too. In general, medical employees get paid to treat people; that is true regardless of how patient insurance is structured.

I don't think customers should pay extra for medical mistakes; but I also don't think providers in a for-profit healthcare system intentionally and happily create medical mistakes for the purpose of profit.
Why humans are so good and so bad
And what, practically, does this verifiable transparency look like? What stops it from being just another _unverifiable_ promise on the internet?
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Since everyone here has probably hunted for jobs before, we would love to listen your feedback and learn more about the pain points that you think we should be focusing next.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21612151
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13783786
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14729005
Where does this 20,000 number come from?
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You can build Rust code as a static library and make the C build system consume that instead. This is the approach that librsvg took.

Moving C build to build.rs is not necessary. It's usually done only because people used to Cargo don't like bringing CMake along. If you were to publish this as a Rust crate, it'd be slightly easier for downstream Rust users to have one less external tool to install.
Historically it means they would start with Rust and then add in just enough Windows proprietary stuff to make it not run on any other platform.
It's still crazy. It's not like opaque lunch boxes and paper bags are luxury items. Concealing a handgun or drugs isn't all that difficult.
> Ones I know of based on friends and family are Israel (follows the European public healthcare model)

While every developed country (and every OECD country, which are overlapping but distinct sets which are not subsets of each other in either direction), except the US in both cases and maybe Mexico in the OECD case, as I've seen sources going both ways on Mexico and universality, has a healthcare system providing universal access to comprehensive medical care with a substantiallty larger percentage of total healthcare funding coming from public sources than the US (though often not more per GDP or especially per capita public spending), there is not, whether in Europe or more generally, single model for this, there are many, fairly radically divergent models from the government-as-provider model of the UK NHS, to the government-as-exclusive-insurer-of-core-services, to mandatory-and-need-subsidized-insurance-with-a-default-public-option, among others.

So, except for “don’t emulate the US’s broken system”, there is nothing even approximating a single “European public healthcare model”.
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When investors bet on an early stage startup, they are betting on the team. This is startup fundraising 101, the track record of the team is what shows they will stick it out and find a solution.

These are three people who know product! But they could be totally wrong about how the market will take the product, and have to be willing to work together and possibly pivot until they find product-market fit.

Finding teams like this pre-product is what makes early stage investment so valuable. There should be no confusion about the focus on team and vision.

I am stoked to see cloud scale tooling become even closer to the hardware, and become more accessible. The completeness and openness of the stack is what attracted me to -- and kept me on -- Joyent's products. Best wishes on your new venture!!
I have been frustrated by those lines for years now, I don’t understand how they could even be legal but they are ubiquitous in online contracts
You're asking VCs to disregard social proof and FOMO, which will never happen, as those are the main things they rely on.
> This reminds me of first time founders who can't wait to get "CEO" business cards.

I worked for such a CEO. In the first year we had four week-long retreats to: an island in WA state, Palm springs, Austin, and Banff (that's where the stats team was). TONS of swag. Aeron chairs. New MBPros. Oh, and champagne fridays. Needless to say it burned through it's good will seed round in 1 year, and the CEO begged for another year's worth of money from friends before shuttering. But hey, hype sells in the software world.
The Django incompatibilities is a small problem. If you do sign-up for the theory that it's better to use its ecosystem, the changes on the related projects are much larger.
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Isn’t it usually a red flag when the announcement of a startup talks about who the founder(s) and investors are before the product? Am I seeing shades of Theranos here? Why not focus on how far along the product is or the viability of the idea?
Ever hear of dtrace?
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I don't watch GoT, but that price for an 8-season series with ~10 episodes/season (I"m guessing), is about $2/episode, which I think is pretty reasonable.

I have a box set of the old NBC sitcom Frasier. 11 seasons, 264 (!) episodes, probably $200 total. I've had it for over a decade, and it's been a great thing to have while traveling, or moving to a new home where I won't have Internet set up for a week.

I'm happy to pay a one-time fee for content I'll own forever and can watch in whatever delivery method I want, be it Plex, Kodi or ripped to my phone's SD card. Netflix, Amazon etc can pull these shows off their catalog whenever they want, and shove some unrelated show in my face when their search results don't show what I'm looking for.
Ah, finally we have the business plan:

> desire among customers for a true cloud-like on-prem experience

> it seems likely that more will consider buying machines instead of always renting them

They know companies are insistent on making the mistake of trying to build and run their own platforms, so they're becoming the company that you can throw your money at if you're not willing to pay for IBM/Oracle/etc private cloud.

Old folks remember the revolution in distributed computing came from commodities. The idea was to get a lot of the cheapest resources you could and loosely tie them together. This was fast, cheap and effective, because everything was disposable, flexible, open. Even if you hired a dozen engineers, you saved 3 mil a year on enterprise hardware and software licenses.

What these folks are betting on is that businesses want to "buy a cloud" cheaper than they'd get it from a traditional cloud vendor. But to get cheap hardware and software, you need to strip it down to bare essentials, use the cheapest, crappiest parts, literally throwing away parts rather than fix them. Purpose-built hardware and software is the opposite, and of course ignores the management costs (unless that's going to be part of the payment strategy?).
If you like this document you should watch the documentary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBS:_The_Documentary

During this time I was the REGION 9 cordionar for Fidonet and latter to become the president of IFNA.

I agree Fidonet suffered from politics from the first meeting in Coloradio Springs. As a software development project and public resource it was fasinating to see it work. Even the side stories should be told. SeaDog and ARC data compression (Later to become ZIP). Xmodem and SLIP are also tied into these stories.

I don't miss the $800 dolar phone bills I plaid for myself or the politics. I do miss the people.

My personal contribution was "The Communicator" modem program (Freeware AKA Open Source) and the inspration for ProComm.
Thanks for the tip. Hadn't heard of Atom, looks promising.

I use Visual Studio to edit & compile, and Qt Creator. You've given me an idea: a VS plugin. Would a VS plugin be allowed to display the source code, I wonder? I'd pay money for that.