skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typical lobbying is completely the opposite of that. The companies who have the resources to do it aren't going to be inside the threshold between e.g. $25m and $100m and they wouldn't want to stay that size anyway, so what they'll do is lobby for a generic exception that isn't related to entity size at all. Or if anything is inversely related to it, so that the same large entities that have the resources to successfully lobby to change the law are also the only ones who can comply with the rules while simultaneously skirting their intended purpose.

And if you have a problem with corporations controlling your legislature then in general it doesn't do a whole lot of good to debate what some other law should be since the better law wouldn't be enacted by a legislature controlled by lobbyists anyway.
That's nothing. You can do, in Emacs:

- Run Nethack

- Chat over IRC. Double combo with Bitlbee

- Chat over Slack/$whatever proto is designed in Elisp

- Write Interactive Fiction

- Emulate Interactive fiction with a Z machine in Elisp

- Write and read emails/news with GNUs

- Listen to music with EMMS

- M-x doctor because is too complex and you need to talk to someone

- Comment on HN with eww

- Do literate programming

- Do math, and with Maxima/R, algebra/statistics/whatever

- Use GIT with Magit

- org-mode. With this you could write three ebooks larger than the Java specs.

- org-babel. I forgot it. This is damn magic. Programming as if you were in a word processor, going back and forth, easily, showing up your results inline.
Fixed by @brillout

https://github.com/kiwicopple/paul.copplest.one/pull/2
Today’s rates, assuming perfect credit. Silly assumptions.
Jeff Bezos’ Hack Inquiry Falls Short of Implicating National Enquirer
The age, gender, etc. distributions of the people who visit your website. I don't know anything about GA, but I'm guessing they'd know this from the currently signed in Google account.
Can Antiferromagnetic Materials Replace Silicon in Future Computers?
"something like this could subtly distort our collective concept of the past"

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2014/11/09

...really?
Oh, the irony of an account created specifically to defend Yang in the discussion about bots created to defend Yang.

If you're truly looking to support him this probably isn't a good way to help his case.
Right. He did the work of multiple dealers and got a fraction of the punishment. Evidently the criminal justice system has two problems. The victims and the loopholers.
The man-or-boy test for IDEs was proposed long ago by Martin Fowler. If the editor can do the ‘extract method’ refactoring, then it's an IDE that properly understands the structure of the code.

More generally and forgivably, I'd say the IDE must know that two variables of the same name may be different variables, and to know which instances are which vars. Funny enough, this benefit of IDEs might rarely be felt with Javascript due to its uber-dynamic nature (at least without classes).
For me it was three things: 1) learning to understand push/pull between data structures and algorithms 2) learning new programming languages from different paradigms, and 3) understanding the physical implications of programming (i.e. latencies of disk-access, network, and memory; the non-amortized cost of pulling data from a database only to do the joins in memory, etc.)

My younger self did not truly understand the strength of modeling or treating data as the reification of a process. I saw everything through the lens of what I knew as a programmer which was, for the early 2000s java developer I was, a collection of accessors, mutators and some memorized pablum about object orientation. I treated the database with contempt (big mistake) and sought to solve all problems through libraries.

Now I can see the relational theory in unix pipes. I can see the call-backs of AWK and XSLT processing a stream of lines/tuples or tree nodes as the player-piano to the punch cards. I understand that applications come and go, but data is forever. I no longer sweat the small stuff and finally feel less the imposter.
SDL w/OpenGL more or less covers the big three though
what's the benefit of this compared to a chat/slack request for a phone/videoconference call?
AI Dungeon is very playable if you are make an attempt to guide it in the right direction. If you try to confuse it, though, you will very likely succeed.
Yeah I have to go in monthly to get mine as well. Thanks to college kid abuse and the opiate crisis doctors cover their ass when it comes to writing stimulant scripts. This means monthly visits (and they get $300 each time) and sometimes drug tests.

Wish my psych would do 3 month scripts.
An Algorithmic View of Law
it's hard to pin any actual evidence that he used company resources to plan/execute the NeXT startup though.
There's no correct timing for a popup imo. Unless they are user-initiated, they are unwelcome.
Never in my life have I wanted to use a walkie talkie in an office.

I've used walkie talkies a fair bit on construction sites and industrial plants, and there the value is obvious. Walkie talkies are a broadcast mechanism - everyone stays on the public channel, and you don't squelch unless you have something urgent to say.
So strange that I have said almost exactly these words. The characteristics that we depended on for survival as hunters now make life difficult in the middle class.

My theory extends to my desire for action and my risk taking behavior as a younger person.
Feedback Appreciated
I would love feedback on the PhotoNote website as we begin building the application.

http://www.photonoteapp.com

Initial thoughts on the marketing page?
What seems interesting about the application?
What would you LIKE to see in the app?

Also feel free to sign up to the mailing list to become a Beta tester :)

Thanks in advance!
Punching darts; breaking hearts my friend.
An anonymous account is not the same thing as a bot. As acrimonious as the current state of politics is, I wouldn't blame anyone for using a pseudonym online to voice their opinion.
>2031: Google defends the swiveling roof-mounted scanning electron microscopes on its Street View cars, saying they 'don't reveal anything that couldn't be seen by any pedestrian scanning your house with an electron microscope.'

https://xkcd.com/1204/
"Honestly, I see very little here to make this a blow against legalizing drugs besides confirmation bias for those already against it."

I don't see Budweiser execs going to prison for selling alcohol that resulted in someone become addicted or killing someone in an accident...which is most likely killing many more people per year than any other drug.

"Organized crime takes a serious hit with legalization"

This one has been proven false with MJ legalization. In California, for instance, legalization has only gotten more people interested in using and then when they realize they can get it for cheaper on the illegal market, it's put many legal shops out of business.

With legalization comes higher prices (and possibly shortages and the inability to get it whenever you want). As a result, it has really done nothing to curb organized crime or illegal sales.

This was only my theory before it was legalized, and now it has been proven correct. I guess drug users don't really care about paying their fair share.

This was from a year ago, but things haven't changed much:

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-crac...

"Consider Prohibition in the United States. Alcohol's a drug, actually a fairly destructive one. Why did they repeal it?"

It only worked because they stamped out corruption and killed/jailed all of the organized criminals involved in the illegal booze business.

With drugs, it's already gotten too big. The corruption in Mexico is at another level. The cartels run the country. The illegal market will never go away, especially since they don't have to deal with regulations and can provide a cheaper product (which will always be the case).
It would be easy to describe pragli as a conference call that never ends, but I'm not sure thats fair. Its one of various forms of telepresence, like a video wall or telepresence robot. If text messaging has taught us anything is that a chatroom is the right amount of distraction most of the time - until the VR workplace apps come (soon).
Sorta but sorta not.

Lots of things are contracted out but still run in DoD data centers with government oversight.

Me = Former DoD software engineer of 12 years.

But even so, there are a shit ton of DoD software people.
> Which is a part of The Matrix story that doesn't make sense...

Yes, it makes zero sense. Just burn the food, if you even need to use food at all.
My fear of facial recognition is not just governments it's criminals. All they have to do is crawl my linkedin on facebook and bam they have my name next to my face.

Worse they know where I work or where I live.

This opens up a world of problems.

Say someone sees a stranger in a situation that the stranger may find embarrassing. Embarrassing enough that they could be extorted. They open their phone and find out who the person is. They can now make contact and threaten to contact your employer or spouse with images of you in this embarrassing situation.

You now have a real life avenue for this sort of thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextortion#Webcam_blackmail.

I know the greater problem is that we now share our details online maybe no linkedin no facebook is smarter.
> You have to schedule everything.

I actually like that. Less waiting in lines.
Wikipedia is great. Every time I create an article, it ends up being tended to by a bunch of gardener bots who fix up all the markup and make it look nice and put an infobox in, and then other people add a little and so on and it just gets better. Honestly, pretty astounding.
We have a lot of fun with this walkie-talkie

https://cb.virtualairwaves.com/channel/1

WebRTC Push to talk. It "just works" in most desktop browsers. No login, no registration. You can make private channels and there's several public ones. There's an iOS and Android client, too.

We really like the "push to talk" model. You can leave the client up and quickly say something to everyone else in your group. Especially good for non-critial, time sensitive things (i.e., "Y'all want to get lunch?") that are still important for a sense of "team"
This!

I used to visit Tripadvisor a lot, but then, with time the site became less and less useful - always pushing the next tour, next paid event,

complete disregard to what the site was supposed to be, advice about trips

Hence I stopped visiting altogether.
A fractured landscape is a competitive one. Valve had several years of high margins (meaning more money to them, less to the people that made games) and stagnation of the Steam platform. I prefer this fracturing to the monoculture.
(See branch for clarity)

What I think you're saying is that the requirements don't make sense to you, or that they bother you because you're thinking that they're not requirements you can meet.

IMO, you can at least meet the requirements in spirit.

AFAIK / IMO, most groups that defined themselves as for X or Y group are mostly doing two things:
1) They want to center the conversations around topics not normally in the center
2) They want to avoid issues that people from outside the group commonly have
2b) They want to avoid issues that people from outside the group commonly have when interacting people from inside the group.

#1 is pretty normal and maps well onto any group defined by common experiences. You succeed or fail at this pretty much the way you succeed or fail in any group. Join a ham radio group to talk about not ham radio, and when you don't have any interest in learning more about ham radio? Yeah. Good way to do this on the 'net is to lurk.

#2 is a a lot subtler and harder to hear, particularly when you're likely to have those common issues. Some of them are just communication styles: Ever seen a group of guys excitedly discuss something? Interruptions are the norm. Some are massively problematic even if they're rare, like harassment. Or situation specific, like asking the group to teach you enough for #1. Some groups like to educate newcomers so they can do #1, others just want to do #1 without that.

Resolving #1 takes learning, but resolving #2 takes training, and facing hard things. Both of these are resolvable through dedicated work. Go learn enough about the group that you have something worthwhile to add for #1, go learn enough about yourself and that group so you know what the common issues are, take a hard look at yourself to understand which you have, and then train yourself so you can avoid them.

Most groups (IMO) that define themselves as for A, and/or for excluding B, are doing so to save time, effort and risk. It's a cheap and reliable way to achieve #1 and #2.
The world economy runs on Google/Microsoft/Apple/Amazon. Imagine if any one of them were to fail, it would be catastrophic.

That said I'm not sure I trust the current American political climate to step in and regulate, and I'm not sure they have a right to... The influence of these businesses extends far outside the borders of the United States.
I might agree more with the author if many of the problems in the modern world weren't as trivial as they are.

How many times are respondents here passive aggressive because a poster clearly didn't read an article?

How many of the posters who argue either side about Damore's bibliography come armed with their own annotated bibliographies on the subject?

How many comments here start by apologizing for what the poster knows is an inadequate sample size of one... followed by an opinionated anecdote that cannot be verified because HN only requires a handle and a password (and HN disallows talk about how inadequate this is for functional social media)?

If self-reliance is the tale that must be told to get respondents to do any meaningful work at all, its practical value far outweighs any questions about truth value.

If you're reading this and are now amp'd up to actually go to the woodshed, please help reverse engineer the touchpad for the Pinebook Pro because it's not working very well for me atm[1].

1: https://github.com/jackhumbert/pinebook-pro-keyboard-updater Most of the work done seems to be on the keyboard. There are some i2c captures of the touchpad in /firmware plus some labeling of the hardware. I thought at first that it might just be a problem of not polling often enough, but after some more use it seems like the noise filter might be too greedy.
If it only detected actually wrong oil, that's a reasonable design. But that would basically never be the design goal.

And you should never have a warranty voided for doing an unauthorized but valid adjustment/repair.
You can also include a camera in your face and screenshare all the time...
I have been wondering why "women" is used as an adjective so much these days -- "women entrepreneurs" -- rather than the word "female." "Women" as an adjective has a very 1950s, almost Ralph Kramden-type vibe to it. "Women drivers" and the like. We wouldn't say "men nurses."
Yet to be tried in court, I think. I suspect, that unless someone is using a facial covering to hide their face while breaking the law, it would probably be found against the charter. One does not need to identify law abiding citizens and protesting is very protected expression.

Not a lawyer though, so I speak with little authority on the topic.
That benefit is just like any other investment income. Lots of financial products have a payout irrespective of their market value. Some countries even treat "you can live in your house" the same as e.g. dividend income by taxing imputed rent.
I’ll chime in and say that I was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult and that I love the way marijuana makes me feel and sativa strains are by far the best.

It makes me feel like I’m finally how noticing how beautiful the world is and like I can face all of my challenges head on. I feel like with ADHD it’s easy to focus on something that’s fascinating and weed makes anything I want to focus on fascinating.

Edibles can be hit or miss even while sticking with the same brand.

I bought a PAX so I could vaporize bud rather than smoking it and I think that’s probably the best experience since you know exactly what you’re getting without having to smoke.
Adtech is a pretty big bubble. Failure would be disruptive. But from a long-term perspective I'm not convinced adtech is desirable or needed. Let's go to Luna and the icy moons instead.
offering them the actual hardware and them refusing? Changes something in legal world.
It was a poor joke making a critique of the Medium post.

> It does make me more interested in hearing what Yang has to say because it seems honest and like a statement from someone who hasn't been doing political activism for years.

Lots of people suggest the Joe Rogan podcast [0], but that is old, things have changed in his campaign, and it is long. I rather like the Now This interview [1] (30 mins). Others like the Iowa Town Hall[2] (hour).

The reasons I personally like Yang are #1, climate (I'm a scientist myself and work in labs with many climate scientists. I don't think his plan is going to solve everything, but I like it more than the other candidates. It is clear to me he has talked to experts), #2 I think he's trying to answer an important question that I've been curious about for a long time "How do we transition into a post scarcity society". Or specifically "how do you transition into an economy where you do not need a large number of workers. What do you do if 10% of your population is unemployable, not because of lack of skills, but because lack of demand?" It is the reason I am interested in UBI in the first place (where I've read a lot about here on HN). So I rather like his talk about changing the rules of the economy and making them human-centric. I do personally see a drastically changing economy and society, and I think he is asking the right questions about it. I have also seen him change positions after talking to experts, which I think is an essential quality in a president (though I know changing positions on a topic is often seen as negative in a political climate).

If you do want to learn more about him I highly suggest posting in the subreddit [3]. It is __extremely__ active and people really do want to answer every question you might have. It is a welcoming community and I do think feels different from other political subreddits.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTsEzmFamZ8

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Ct-lC8lGg

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8la_6gtnKA

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/YangForPresidentHQ/
If nobody can truly understand the EU how can you hold anyone or anything accountable? You've just made half of the sovereignty argument for me.

As for Scotland joining the EU. Even if Scotland does become independent (it won't), the EU wouldn't let an independent Scotland in.

> In order to join the EU you've got to have a budget deficit of 3% of GDP or less or be obviously (which allows for some fudging) moving in that direction. And Scotland, now that oil has plummeted, simply is not there. It's difficult, given the intertwining of British and Scottish accounts to get it exactly right but reasonable estimates have the Scottish alone budget deficit at 8 to 10% of GDP.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/06/26/the-prob...

Scotland cannot sustain itself at all on its own. The SNP run Scotland poorly (and it is in their interest to do so) so it would have to go under massive austerity the moment they go independent.
I don't see much psychoanalysis involved. I see a description of someone with dubious goals who is getting played by bots into believing they're making progress.
I'm not a moderator. I've just read the guidelines. Since your post is now dead, I don't really care about this anymore.
I would disagree; "Better Platform" != "Supported Platform".

While it is an admission Linux gaming was hardly going to take off on its own from a cold start, it allows people to use the platform that makes more sense for them. With the increased capability of Linux+Proton as a platform, its horizons are pushed and it makes more sense for more people.

The only possible downside here is the potential for a developer to neglect Linux support now that people "can just run it in proton", netting Linux users a couple losses of what-would-have-been native ports. However, I believe the increase to the viability of Linux gaming overall makes up for it.
I think the most fascinating thing is the bit about how people criticized google for placing knol results in more accessible spots on google search and the conflict of interest. This is exactly the same debate we are having over a decade later about AMP.
TDD and clean architecture for me.
The problem with short replies is nobody knows what you're thinking. And then I was off doing other things.

No, I don't think it's exactly the same thing. Very few things are (except in code).

I have some issues with how the other responder phrased it, but the concerns you present are looked at in what I felt was a pretty significant subplot in that storyline.
What are you expecting to receive as input?

Designs, wireframes, functional specs?
People have been smoking pot since the 1930's in the United States.

Your statement is grossly unfair: opiates are complex chemicals that are the product of deep chemistry.
Pot is a plant, the product of evolution.
Cigarettes contain the chemical ammonia.
Pot is not toxic. You are covertly pushing your own political beliefs when the comparison between opiates and pot is wildly unmatched.
> Profiling like this is only necessary when your life is potentially in danger, like being a cop in a dark alley.

This is an interesting contrast with the frequently-expressed view that profiling is especially pernicious when the cops do it.
Bill C-309 is the law in question [1]. It should only affect "unlawful" assemblies, but I'd be interested to see what the functional criteria are, how much warning is appropriate, and whether a protest's status can be changed retroactively.

>Harper years

The Liberals were also supporters of this bill, including the current Prime Minister.
A lot quicker to do something specific. What if your problem involves text, but is always changing? Then you need general tools and a way to compose them together. Just like general Unix command and Awk which automatically loop through files. I would go crazy if I had to write actual code to do that kind of work 50 times a week.
> But getting that started on company time, including poaching other Apple employees, is totally out of line.

This is easily resolved. He was simply on break every second he spent planning and recruiting for his startup.
No I don't think this is it. IRL actions are forgotten over time and they're not indexed against each other. If all your actions can be tied to your face with automated tools everything you do can be recorded, indexed and cross referenced.

Now maybe that protest you went to as a college student shows up every time you attend a job interview. That time you drank too much and were seen peeing against a building by the buildings security camera is available to someone that was recording the unsecured stream.

People from old youtube videos are now locatable as they had their face show up on facebook.

That cute girl on the bus now gets stalked home because the creepy guy that likes her can find here address.

The guy you cut off in traffic has a dash cam, he uses it to find out who you are and is waiting for you at work the next day.

The picture of you at a party on someone elses facebook now shows up to every employers search as they can now search by photo.

How do witnesses in criminal trials disappear now? They might show up in someone's publicly posted holiday photos or on a webcam feed that hasn't been locked down.
Thanks, that's exactly the situation. Thank you for the support, as well.

I had forgotten HN discourages it!