skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without checking the figures, I can agree with the idea that a one-time seizement wouldn't assuage much.

Certainly Bill Gates and his endeavors have created immense value for many.

None of these points are being contested or purported in the "line of thinking" you mention (the letter I linked I assume?)
RMS has the answer: "The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0)."
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Corporations act on the behalf of shareholders. They might employ people to do so, and those people in some sense might “make up” the corporation, but it is literally their job to pursue the interests of whomever owns stake in the corporation.

I glossed over a lot of steps in my hacker news comment about a specific context.

The context is some people trying to get github to take a stance, an opinion, about a department of the us government.

It’s hard to be creative enough to imagine a more partisan or divisive topic, where moral consensus is effectively impossible.

Within this context is is absolutely safe to describe the role of the for profit (public in this case) corporation - as opposed branches of the government, or non profit organizations, or unions, or groundswell movements or any of the various emergent structures you might want to throw in here - as seeking profit.
Depends on how you define inception. Muhammad himself was illiterate so the job of writing down came to his followers. Many of them wrote on parchments which were kept in random order. Over years people added more parchments to the pile. Soon there were several hundred versions of koran. I think Muhammad's third generate Khalif managed to create one "authentic" koran and burned all other versions.
> Essentially, before the iPhone, most people did not believe they needed a smartphone.

I think that's way overstating it. Long before iPhone people were asking for more software features out of their phones. Browsing, email, music, etc.

Even the touchscreen and the development model were things tried in the past with many attempts by various companies to make the PDA a success.

Apple did exactly what you say. They took a few ideas whose time had come, ideas that just happened to be in their wheel house from the work they did on iPod and presented them better than anyone had before.
Static typing can help with a lot of things but it can't fix this error:

pub fn add(a: i64, b: i64) i64 {
return a - b;
}
The process for recovering a locked iphone is problematic if the user forgets both the iphone password and the icloud password (because it was only used once a year before).

That happened to a family member recently, I guess they were using face id regularly and changed their pin at one point and by the time they needed it again couldn't remember it.

The part that really pisses me off is the "10 strikes and we wipe your phone bit". That happened to me too on an infrequently used iphone last year. I'm pretty sure I would have remembered the password because it was one a few dozen pins I use, but I didn't get the chance to try all of them because the fscking phone decided to wipe itself first (not attached to icloud).
I recommend the book "Managing Gigabytes", which while dated is still relevant. The title doesn't indicate this, but it's heavily focused on data structures for indexing text documents.

But Elasticsearch running on a cloud VM with an attached EBS volume would be a fast way to get work done.
Society tends to tell stories about survivors. Just believe, believe even harder, sacrifice all, and you'll succeed.

We don't share stories of people who believed so hard, and then ended homeless and broke.

xkcd touches on the subject too ( https://xkcd.com/1827/ ), as they tend to do regardless of the topic.
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This would be a lot more compelling if the author also listed the benefits of nul-terminated strings.
As someone who is interested in one day starting my own business, I have nothing but respect for someone who has the guts to follow through with that and pursue their vision.

That being said... why did you (or if anyone else can chip in) decide to chase funding when you didn't have a business model? Maybe I'm being naïve here, but isn't it kind of crazy to raise 3.5M in funds for a business that has no plan but to be acquired by someone else?

I'm torn, because I believe that people should absolutely pursue passion projects, and that a passion project should absolutely be monetized... if you have developed a respectable business model and a potential product-market fit.

My first thought is that you could get some funding and use this as a platform for fashion retailers to exchange consumer profiles at the B2B level, or as part of the internals of the recommendation system.
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OpenBSD has a really novel concept of using unveil and pledge to contain processes into restricted-service operating modes. And being OpenBSD, these security features are actually turned on by default for many binaries. See discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17277067
With respect to your OS versus your browser, you're using "trust" in a different way than I am. Obviously, you have to "trust" your OS in a strict engineering sense; if the kernel is compromised, nothing the browser can do will meaningfully mitigate that. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm saying I "trust" my browser developer to care more about DNS security than I "trust" my OS vendor, just like I "trust" Chrome's X.509 handling more than I "trust" the certificate validation code that ships on the OS. It's not that I think the OS developers are malicious; quite the opposite. I just believe, with some evidence, that they're not incentivized to adopt modern security mechanisms for those features.

My operating system ships with IPSEC VPN support. I'm not going to use it, even though I think highly of the poor souls tasked with maintaining it for Apple; I use WireGuard instead, because I trust Jason and, more importantly, Jason's incentives, more than I trust Apple. I certainly don't feel like I need permission from my OS (in the form of them formally adopting WireGuard) to do so.

With respect to endpoint security – I assume really what you mean is the security of the resolver server that you use, which can indeed monitor your DNS requests – yes! You do have to trust the DoH server with your requests. You should choose one that you do trust. But because your US ISP is already violating that trust flagrantly, you're almost better off with any off-network DoH server you can find. Really, if you're a stickler, you'll just run your own DoH server. You can't do worse than the status quo ante.

I don't care about the "convolution" argument.
Uh... me.
> everyone is angry at Google for trying to dictate how they can build web pages

But we're already doing that because Google downranks results that don't use AMP. We're generally OK with Google downranking sites on actual metrics (such as HTTPS) but not when they're pushing their "solution" that clearly has a number of issues with conflict of interest.
A long time ago I learned the saying:

The only things I ever did that I regret....
I did while drinking gin!
I'm not super familiar with snap, my weak understanding is that it makes for a very poor isolation boundary.
We've moved most comments from this thread to that thread.
Wow, perfect timing. I'm looking for a new podcast and wanted to try something fictional. I'll give it a go.

I found the show on Google podcasts although it wasn't a top entry. I have no vested interest, but I've found Chartable worthwhile. They provide a link that detects the device and then route the clicker to Apple podcasts or Android etc.

I use it for my podcast called The Chat Bubble. It's about messaging (SMS & Messenger) as a marketing channel. Shameless Plug - https://link.chtbl.com/5aq29ViJ
I find my code occasionally has those things, and that it is a minor inconvenience, not that it is littered with it. If it is littered with it, you are probably in the "doing it wrong" category. Do not try to force Go to do "functional programming". Or you're way out of scope. (I have lost count of the number of people I've counseled to not use Go if their first interest is numeric programming, for instance.)

(I am underwhelmed by the crowd that insists map/reduce/filter is so important anyhow. I've used a substantial amount of Haskell. In Haskell, map/reduce/filter is the beginning of the functional style, not the completion of it. It goes beyond just "an alternate way to write for loops", which is most of what I see non-Haskell usage doing with it. In Go... just write the for loops. It's the same thing, just spelled differently. In Haskell, it's not the same thing.)
I was one of Lou's "boys", but I never met him personally.

My group was started in NYC in 2001, shut down after the WTC attacks, and then moved to Boston while the remaining partners shifted focus to building casinos in Las Vegas. I only met one of them, a Harvard MBA and owner of one of the biggest apparel brand management companies in the world.

They did tryouts as a huge spectacle with thousands of young men in a line stretching around several city blocks. Of the chosen ones, most of them failed training, and others were removed later, which is how I came in, after the move to Boston. They found me during a Harvard student party that they had lent out the space for, and which I had been invited to.

The connection to Lou Pearlman and his other acts was hidden at first, but everything in the show was from the top names in the business: trainers, choreographers, songwriters, composers etc. Everybody started with the same contract, and it paid almost nothing, a few hundred bucks a week. I didn't care; it was fun. I also didn't pay attention to the legal stuff, although I did see the "American Greed" episode, which was hilarious to me. It was funny to think about the biggest names in music getting paid the same that I was making.

It was fun. For me personally, a real stretch for my personality, some crazy experiences, and some disastrous results.
I suspect that a large part of this is that Amazon has (according to Wikipedia) more than 300 warehouses.

If this is correct, then it would not be surprising if a few warehouses are outliers even if the overall figures are reasonable. After all, randomness (both in terms of overall luck, and the distribution of shitty managers) will end up skewing a few of the results very high or very low.
The problem is that a certain percentage of users set-up the icloud account with a password, then promptly forget it exists until they need it. Which tends to be when they have also forgotten their pin, because the pin is now similar to the icloud password and not required for every unlock.
Original source: https://github.com/dateutil/dateutil/issues/984
Justice Department Goes to Court to Lift Paramount Consent Decrees
Not aware of that, but friends friend works in Jumpshot, they still have access to the avast data.
Java has it's problems, but I think they're mostly on the implementation side (e.g. lipservice to OOP while having a load of AbstractFooHelperFactories or leaking all your inner workings through Getters and doing "Ask, Don't Tell" rather than vice versa) but I don't get why people rail against the "boilerplate" so much.

It's just signposting, you can learn to look past it so soon it makes no difference.

I play music and don't need the treble clef on the stave to tell me what notes to play — you could call that boilerplate and get rid of it, but I don't think it would make it easier to play or read
macOS has this already.
Weakness can be a kind of leverage. If the interested party knows that the company has weeks to live, they are forced to make a quick decision or lose out on the opportunity permanently.
Looking at your own brand homepage, my impression is that it is too technical. I had expected to see many instagram-like pictures of people who demonstrate that they have managed to dress better by using your product. Isn't your value proposition that people can dress better?

Maybe I have overlooked it but I think you have the perfect software to run an online shop. Pay influencers to use your product and viewers who like the results will want to buy clothes from you. The profit margins of the sold products should be higher than anything that can be made from selling an app.
Don't confuse a software product with a business model. Their own words state they've "solved" the previous human problem of fashion without figuring out a viable way to capitalize. That means they don't yet have the right product. I think they've solved an intermediate problem on the path to the actual underlying pain that people would pay for.
Ecuador concluded that Assange was working with Russian intelligence, too.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/15/politics/assange-embassy-excl...

Despite being confined to the embassy while seeking safe passage to Ecuador, Assange met with Russians and world-class hackers at critical moments, frequently for hours at a time. He also acquired powerful new computing and network hardware to facilitate data transfers just weeks before WikiLeaks received hacked materials from Russian operatives.
> Java is missing basic tools for abstracting idioms

Such as?
Yup, in large part because users expect things to work across the boundary.
I’m fairly certain the actions themselves of the entity being protested are what’s driving the discontent here. People are upset about Hong Kong protestors being tortured and disappeared by police just like they are about migrants being treated the same way by ICE.

It’s not it being your own government vs. a foreign government that’s at issue. It’s what they’re doing to people.
Abusing the ssh-agent doesn't lead to the private key being stolen, which is a really nice difference.
> stay out of their way

that's some authoritarian nonsense
Generate business/call card
I feel like BJJ is pretty unique in this regard. It's the only activity I've come across where it's still fun to go 100% against a complete newbie.
I originally wrote skim. I changed it to speed. I therefore lost again since speed reading is less worthy than skimming which is less worthy than slow reading.

But, I am winning at losing. Nobody can take that away from me.
Interesting comments, sorry I never responded. It is certainly a difficult problem!
Sold a car on it ~2 years ago. Offloaded some computer hardware (servers, switches, desktop parts) as well. This was around Seattle.

It is what you make of it. It's barebones and there is a crappy signal-to-noise ratio that you need to work around, but 1) it works, and 2) I got the prices I wanted, in cash.

For a simple, basic site that's not bad. I can only imagine how some full featured app, e.g. "Amazon Community (Powered by AWS)" will data mine me and demand a 2% cut.
My first iPhone was a used one, obtained from a willing seller who unlocked the device upon my purchase.

My purchase was not a freak one, it was not an exception to the rule. The rule is, the willing party unlocks the device when sells or gives it away.

Framing it as if iPhones or Macbooks are tied to the original owner and becomes e-waste after when the original buyer no longer needs it is not honest. Especially with the Apple products, the 2.nd hand market is very healthy and Macbooks and iPhones change hands until they become obsolete.

If we are going to turn into a socialist utopia where we share the resources willingly or not, I don't believe that it's Apple's device lock that's stopping us.

The same goes for the repairs, it is not true that manufacturers make devices unrepairable. In some cases, it might require more skill or equipment than other cases but these devices obey the laws of physics, therefore can be repaired. In some products, the miniaturization is way beyond what manual labour can handle but for those products companies and governments offer proper ways for disposal. IC's took over transistors and made things hard to repair, you throw away billions of perfectly fine transistors just because one transistor in the CPU went bad and this is OK because of the reliability is much better and the miniaturization made the material waste much smaller.
I bet a lot of people's haunted houses can be explained by animals (raccoons, rats, crows etc)
> Scroll to continue with content

No fucking thanks.
Sure, it might be true that DPRK is a uniquely threatening situation. It might be true that the right way to deal with this unique situation is constant aggression, over the decades even unto centuries. That's certainly what we've read in the papers.

Except, we've read that of at least ten other situations in the last two decades. Over the last seven decades, we've read that of probably thirty more. As history has unfolded, that claim has never been true. The war media might be right eventually, and maybe DPRK will be the place. It's just that they've been wrong so much, at least since the Mexican-American War.

Mainstream journalism's war on the American people is not only an assault on peace, on innocents in other lands, or on our wallets. It is primarily an attack on epistemology. We have been gaslit our entire lives. If the world were not dangerous enough to require vast nuclear and other lethal arsenals, how would we know?
> You are interfering with their freedom of association.

A corporation has no inherent "freedom of association." A corporation has exactly what rights we choose to give it, because it is fundamentally a legal fiction - the concept of a "corporate person" is useful for legal reasons, so we create such a thing in our laws. But it only has the rights we ascribe to it, because it isn't an actual being.

With that in mind: we've given corporations no "freedom of association." But even if we accepted your claim here - how does "pressuring a company to drop a contract" violate its supposed "freedom of association?"

"Freedom of association" is not freedom from consequences. "Freedom of association" means "you may associate with whomever you please and the government may not interfere". It does not mean "you may associate with whomever you please and no one may protest."
"Maybe I'm being naïve here, but isn't it kind of crazy to raise 3.5M in funds for a business that has no plan but to be acquired by someone else?"

That's a sane question. IMO it's the current financial environment that encourages such "leap without looking" strategies.

Fear of missing out is huge right now.

I know of a startup that received a multi-million valuation and many more million in funding. They don't even have a prototype!
What's the most important piece of screen real estate that they're giving up?
Dependencies are great. Critical infrastructure with little to no security engineering effort is the problem.
What strikes me as odd is how unstylish everything in that post and on the fashion taste api website is.

Is that intentional? Because I would think with $3.5M in funding, you can hire professional photographers, models and stylists to make the photos and the videos. And a webdesigner to make the site.

The appstore pages look better. And you have good ratings from thousands of users. So why do you want to close it down? How many users do you have and what are your running costs?
At what point is it appropriate for employees to start sabotaging GitHub b/c they dislike the ICE contract?

When they have good enough reason to believe that breaking up the contract will achieve a positive end that is worth the violation of freedom of association and precedence for using coercive, destructive and potentially illegal methods.

In this case, I don't think any of the activists can really articulate the goal they think would be reasonably achieved, beyond having a vague personal feeling of satisfaction for making ICE's job harder and punishing their employer for doing something they didn't like. In fact, it seems to me as if temporarily crippling ICE's software development workflow is not likely to improve the situation on the ground for migrants at all.
But Amazon's response is bullshit. The data is from government stats, and the reporting threshold is the same as it ever was (basically, if an employee is admitted to the hospital):

https://www.osha.gov/report.html

Amazon's PR people are pretending the high numbers are because they are reporting papercuts, but papercuts would be rejected for the government stats. This is "severe injury or death" reporting only.

"According to the report, workers whose injuries were logged by Amazon were each forced to miss an average of 64.04 days of employment."

Does that sound like papercuts? An average of three months off work, if they even return?
If physical work is overwhelmingly dangerous, and physical work is (currently) overwhelmingly male, then wouldn't it be misandrist to treat it differently from mental work, where an equal labor distribution is lauded?
It's worth noting that gigawatt peak power in an ultrafast laser is not special, but that gigawatt peak power in the x-ray region is special.

In larger wavelangths (i.e. visible or near-IR), you can get this level of peak power from commercial laser systems (e.g. https://www.spectra-physics.com/products/ultrafast-lasers/sp...)
Nation-state actors can be deterred by nation states. If Vova believes that CNAing someone in the US will cause the US to bankrupt him and/or the people whose support he requires to stay in power, he'll make damn sure this doesn't happen. As long as the US does not demonstrate this capability and willingness to use it, he'll continue to misbehave.
reading the blog post I learned everything I needed to know to understand why they haven't been successful commercially. I wish them good luck but their business skills seem to be awfully lacking.
Are you saying you'd be completely fine with the above scenario, where Google downranks each webpage based on the number of external assets it loads and the amount of dynamic content it has? Instead of using AMP?

Personally, I prefer AMP for security reasons. It's tightly restrictive and does a lot to limit the available space to mount attacks aimed at browsers. But I understand that's far down most people's lists, and tends to fall under the same sentiment as "devs should just write fast websites".
You have to specifically turn on the "Erase all data on this iPhone after 10 failed passcode attempts" option for that to happen. If you do that without being very confident about remembering your passcode, it's your own dang fault.
Would the experience be any better in gTLD? The registry of .com gTLD is VeriSign Global Registry Services. Would ICANN handle a domain-related dispute themselves or would they redirect us to Verisign? Is Verisign any better than NIXI?
I would consider this to be a huge breach of privacy.
Monitoring is not a 'solution', but it's quite effective. The real issue is that instrumentation is quite weak, so detecting this attack isn't trivial in most typical monitoring tools.

Monitoring is also something that requires expertise, and therefor is something only companies are really going to benefit from. Individual users are not equipped to do this.
I'm a bit torn and often err on the side of installing into --user or virtualenv. What often happened is I would toy around with a project, install a few libraries, then abandon it. Months/years later I would hit an incompatibility and I wouldn't know which packages were necessary for things I use everyday and which were because of that abandoned package. Similarly, when revisiting that abandoned project I wouldn't know what a good known set of libraries were. Installing stuff globally also makes it really difficult to know what dependencies were needed to run it on a different machine.

This wasn't just for Python libraries, but also with OS packages (especially non-sanctioned RPMs). I've been very selective about what I install globally, and usually first reach for a VM or other virtual environment.

One big counter to this is when I want to make it a simple commandline tool to run. I have to enter a Virtualenv just to run my fancier `ls` command?