skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> applying modern morality

I would say morality is something that is ingrained in every human being. While it's true that some cultures had less of what you might call "modern morality" -- the fundamental things like forgiveness, compassion, empathy, love, etc. and finally the sense of what is right and wrong. These, I believe are ingrained in every human being. While some might choose to be more loving and compassionate, and other might choose not to -- the sense of one being good, and other being bad is crosses cultural and historic boundaries.

For more see Mere Christianity: http://www.amazon.com/Mere-Christianity-C-S-Lewis/dp/0060652...

Regarding the book: you can use Amazon's "Look Inside" feature to read the first chapter (The Law of Human Nature), which covers the question of right-and-wrong/morality as a universal human thing. Although written from a Christian perspective (I'm a believer), its arguments are valid from a secular viewpoint as well.
What would be ideal, I figure, would be if we could have the infrastructure to enable a sharing economy, but without centralized gatekeepers taking a cut and ultimately being a middle-man.

Until then, there is certainly disruption happening (hotel chains, taxi firms, airport parking businesses are worried about all this), and that is a market positive - but it's certainly not the all-round-benevolent model that the name 'sharing economy' would suggest. There are winners and all you have to do is follow the money/data.

As a side-note, I think the kind of naming used for new technologies and business models is increasingly manipulative - I certainly share a lot of the author's skepticism, and agree that the mere name 'sharing economy' will likely encourage people of genuine good intention to put their energy into it without seeing the full picture.
And then the next day the NSA forces the credential authority to give up all their information.

This is not a solution.
I wondered the same thing - my conclusion is that it's an intimidation tactic.
I will accept that the hazards may have been insufficiently obvious prior to the warning label that states exactly what might happen to a person who eats Buckyballs. I believe the warning labels on the packaging are sufficient to entirely shift responsibility for safe use of the product to the purchaser.

The general principle I'm advocating here is that product manufacturers should not be liable for injuries when the potential hazards are either self-evident to a reasonable adult[0] or clearly marked on the packaging. This might get a bit murky when a product is marketed to young children, but as far as I can tell, Buckyballs were definitely not marketed to age groups who were likely to eat them.
I just signed up, and am now uploading ten tb of win swap files. ;p
That's a serious chip you got on your shoulder there.

It's a boutique product that they've put time and effort into and won't ship volumes.

You're on HN, figure out yourself what business model they'll have to adopt and what that means they have to do with the price.
Even in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe there was democracy. There were election held, with very little fraud. I remember my father taking me to the voting booths when I was a kid - there were only red and orange ballots inside (the orange were the Communist party subsidiaries the Farmers Party). Communists won 80% of the votes the farmers 20. We had elections, we had democracy, we could vote. We lacked freedom and choice.
It has been shown that humans prefer pay for work over the same pay for no work (within reason). Many othere species too. Except Cats.

Also there is lots of room between an "adequate" engineering salary and minimum or no wage...

Figuring out how to get underachieving academics into paying or even wellpaying jobs should be a higher priority in politics.
You're missing the biggest point of having a government job. It's all the benefits, deductions and discounts you can have.
I didn't know penguin was a bad word. In what sense is it being used in the kernel?
Some people in some countries have always had to ask themselves this question.

Typewriters were licenced equipment in some places; "They" would take a sample of type so they could link documents back to the licence holder.

Luckily, for the vast majority of people and the vast majority of documents the answer to "will I be killed or tortured if this document is discovered" is "no", even in the US.
> How exactly do you stop sockpuppetry while maintaining anonymity?

I don' t think this is possible. Nor is it desirable; someone might well want to use different online identities for different parts of their personality.
Chargeback time. That action on their part might be viewed as fraud.
Young people who earn jobs or internships with the NSA are generally in the tops of their classes. While they aren't immune to the recession, they have more prospects than the average grad, and employers sometimes compete for them.

I couldn't find any publicly available data about NSA recruitment, but there are some interesting anecdotes to show that the NSA is having a harder time recruiting top-notch students:

http://reason.com/blog/2013/07/09/nsa-recruiters-peppered-wi...

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130704/12162223721/nsa-re...
That approach could have unintended consequences, though. A department could just cut back on the services they provide, in order to cut back on their spending, to stay well within their budget. If these services are critical, then that may be worse than some wasteful spending, but a higher level of service.
Same reason, why policemen get lower salaries than Java developers. There are many people who want to be and become policemen.
As a native chinese,I have no comment for Internet censorship .I don't wanna talk about whether I'm under surveillance for what i'm doing on the web.I just wanna say fu/ck off CCP.
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IIRC there were guys going around recorrecting all the profanity words just to push a commit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4
I never understood the obsession with swear words in source code comments or 'creative' variable naming.

It's childish, and I don't think the authors themselves found it funny anymore once they got off their caffeine high.
There are a few recreations of old supercomputers using FPGA, so it's nice to add this one to the list.

(http://www.chrisfenton.com/homebrew-cray-1a/)

and here are a few more (mostly home computers)

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4931867)
Perhaps. But if they are aware that their system has a bug, and that bug results in them getting extra money from customers without the customer's consent, then you're entering into a lot of tricky waters. The clock has started ticking for them before they enter "fraud" category.
This post cannot be taken seriously because:

1. You didn't cite any sources to your claims.

2. The author didn't even reveal his identity (posting under the author name of "news")

3. Self proclamations like this "ArabCrunch is an independent media, an alternative to the lies of mainstream media." don't help you at all.

tldr: I'm adding this website to my blacklist.
The police were not involved until after the plaintiff fell through the skylight. The plaintiff was unable to move. How is this "escaping the police" in any sense of the phrase?

As to "He sued the people he was robbing and won", this is a blunt view of the world that should not be used as the sole basis for deciding culpability.

Consider "I was going 10 mph over the 55 mph speed limit when the engine of my car caught fire. I sued the car company because of their faulty engine design. We were able to show that several other cars of the same model also caught fire at 65 mph, and the company knew about them, but the company hadn't done anything about it. I sued, but because I was breaking the law when it happened, I got nothing."

In your view, is that appropriate?

Consider "That night I shoplifted a pack of gum from the store. While still in the parking lot, I fell into an open manhole. The store had left it open for a week, without any signs or barriers, and the outside lights weren't turned on. I hit my head and was in a coma for 10 days. They refused to accept any liability, because it was part of my crime of stealing the gum."

In your view, is that appropriate?

In both hypotheticals, the lawbreaker "was injured while committing a crime", so I assume the answer to both questions is "yes."

I disagree. The commission of a crime should not automatically revalue one's life and health to $0.

In addition, how much proof does there need to be to establish that someone has committed a crime, before the owner's immunity kicks in? Does the person need only to be accused of a crime, or does a full criminal conviction need to take place first?

Do you really want there to be more criminal cases in order to reduce the number of (rare) civil cases? Or do you really want the property owners to make arbitrary claims, for the purpose of avoiding liability?

"The litigous environment to which this case history refers has gotten worse, not better."

I regard that is a statement of opinion not based in fact. For example, California Civil Code Section 847 ( http://law.onecle.com/california/civil/847.html ), which was passed after the above lawsuit, says:

> An owner, including, but not limited to, a public entity,
as defined in Section 811.2 of the Government Code, of any estate or
any other interest in real property, whether possessory or
nonpossessory, shall not be liable to any person for any injury or
death that occurs upon that property during the course of or after
the commission of any of the felonies set forth in subdivision (b) by
the injured or deceased person.

Isn't that exactly what you want for this sort of case? If not, what should the law be?
I believe zb is correct. I'm also a Blue Card holder living in Berlin, and as a US citizen, I was able to enter Germany on a tourist visa and then apply for the Blue Card from here. However, a friend of mine from the Philippines was in a very similar situation (got a job offer while he was here on a tourist visa) and he had to return home to apply for the Blue Card, since the Philippines are not on that short list of exempted countries. Your girlfriend's case was indeed different, since she wasn't trying to convert from a tourist visa.

Here are a couple of resources on the matter:

http://www.make-it-in-germany.com/en/working/guide-to-workin...

Particularly the three paragraphs starting with "You must apply for your visa in your home country before travelling to Germany."

https://www.daad.de/deutschland/nach-deutschland/bewerbung/e...

Starting around "Important! If you enter the country without a visa or with a Schengen visa..." (This site's aimed towards students, but I believe the info on entering the country is still applicable here.)

In the OP's specific case (especially considering the fact that the German embassy in Syria is currently closed), I would definitely recommend contacting an immigration lawyer in Germany before entering the country. It's possible that there are other options or exceptions that I'm not aware of.

EDIT: Just noticed that those two links have slightly different lists of exempted countries. The daad.de link might just be out of date, because the following official site also lists only seven countries: http://www.berlin.de/labo/auslaender/dienstleistungen/bes_st...
The good old times when Stephen Colbert was funny and wrote his own jokes.
I severely question your conclusion that offshore talent and H1-B visa workers lower your personal salary by a huge amount.

It might be just pretty argument which is very useful for politicians and labor unions (or the like).

Actually the opposite can be argued. If those workers get a lot less, the team's cost as a whole drops, making room for paying you raise. Except for external factors like management just taking the cost savings and put them somewhere else. But then again, these savings could have been taken out of your paycheck ...
It would be very worrying if someone on a random phone call managed to recover any information on public email from the NSA. At least now we know that the NSA seems to be safe against very poorly executed social engineering.
I noticed the word "fuck" when looking at some code comments in the LibreOffice codebase, and submitted a patch to remove it. I guess I was curious to see if they would accept it. They did!
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there is no propaganda, if you measure the ground that the Mujahdeed has gained you will see it is 70% of Syria.

It is not a conspiracy theory about secularists and the jews, it is the truth. they are the one who destroyed Islamic Khilafa in Turkey. Arab nationalist launched Arab revolution in Mecca in alliance with UK and France and launched an armed revolution in the region. In Turkey it self there was a party that its members have ties to the jews. and secularist ended islamic Khilafa and announced a secular state.

Read history before you judge about propaganda.
Ha, my cable for connecting HP-48s to a computer was... the CD-ROM to Soundcard cable that came in early "Multimedia Kits"

But at least it had IR to share files between calculators
Just fax them to a random number, NSA will get them :D
Most microcontrollers are. Makes certain bits of design and coding a lot easier. The AVR, some ARM Cortex Ms, etc, share that.
you must be jew or a CIA or Mossad Agent
I'm a native chinese,i just made a comment,but unfortunately it's deleted.I just told the truth,but i didn't expect that in America, a country of allegedly freedom,did deleted sth they don't wanna see...it's pathetic...
Especially Google do this (everywhere they try to rope you into Google+)
You might be able to use mechanical turk to get some cheap proper readings of text ;)
Its not conspiracy. Just the US companies are spineless and scared from offending anyone or anything. So basically if a few people find something offensive it is shut down without consideration.

Case in point - a protesters in my country recreated the Liberty Leading the People painting both as a salute to the french for Bastille day and to lift morale of the protesting people. And the girl had one boob showing up ... pictures of that become wildly shared. And FB begun deleting them because of "nudity".

So don't assume malice.
I got an spam to upvote this. Totally uncool.
>Or maybe the recipient just freaked out because he didn't know how to dance to this tune and C&Ds seem like mighty and terrible things to someone who has never received one before?

No. An actual lawyer has responded to this -- it was not even need to begin with (to protect their copyright).

So no reason to continue defending Tumblr's behavior.
That's not how it works at the highest levels. Employment of capable hackers is sky high right now and everyones paying top dollar.
My current side project is a web app to teach you to imitate sounds in a particular language. There's some fantastic resources here that will be very useful so thank you.
Government jobs seriously underpay.

This was true in the past, it hasn't been true for a very long time however. It used to be true that government jobs paid less in wages but more than made up for it in greater benefits. Now they are equal in wages and still have the cushy benefits.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/31/news/economy/federal_worker_...

http://www.cbo.gov/publication/42921

There are of course studies that contradict this, all of which conducted by unions representing government workers.
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what you need is p_slides[1] - it supports export to pdf (via printing to pdf) as well as syntax highlighting

1. https://github.com/munen/p_slides
p_slides[1] does just that.

1. https://github.com/munen/p_slides
The alternative to HFT is not pit based trading. False premise.

The fact that brokerage is too expensive is a straw man in this discussion.
Alright I just deployed a hotfix that includes TLDs for: com, net, org, de, fr, in, ru, it, tr.

I will also be adding lots of new content soon, so if you are interested in a particular theme for words/phrases ("flowers", "dog breeds", "Flirting 101" etc) just let me know. I will give them higher priority.
No, but many of us are Americans. We have a weird sense of etiquette.
Very interesting. I remember back in the late 60s and 70s when credit card adoption raised in the US, charge back was a key selling feature. Customers refused to use cards that didn't offer it.

Makes me wonder how the world is going to change when BRIC economies get bigger than the current "developed" ones (if ever). Banks and other oligopolies may get away with far lower customer, privacy, heath, etc. protection.
When I browse, I often have multiple windows with lots of tabs open at once. Chrome gives me an option to "Continue where I left off" but only does this for a single window at a time.

Create an extension that lets me press a single button to close all of Chrome. It should also automatically restore all these windows when I start Chrome. My current workaround is to kill the Chrome process and it'll attempt to restore when I restart Chrome.

I'm not familiar with Chrome extensions so I'm not sure how hard this would be. But if someone built this, I'd definitely use it!
More likely the poor operator couldn't answer his question, so she was going to pass the details up to a supervisor and have the supervisor deal with it.

Later when the supervisor got on the phone, she just hung up on him.
> If you dilute the workforce with idiots

This seems to be the sort of problem that markets are pretty good at dealing with. I wouldn't worry about it.
Good politicians are experts at manipulating people to like them.
Alternatively, phone operators are instructed as a matter of course to record details about the phone calls they receive...
Thanks for the clickable link!
A super-lightweight HTTP client for Android and the JVM
./drivers/scsi/qlogicpti.h Am I fucking pedantic or what?
Yes, there is no collision detection with other vehicles yet. But I'm working on it! :)

Thanks!
Why haven't they do this before? Cause now this looks like damage control, they have to show they care because they are losing money. But tooo late, compromised services opened significant area for others, only in question is quality, but quality is also defined by people using those services and lot of people want to use something not compromised -> if you ask me now is right time to get dirty and do the job.
Trying to wrap my head around this. Seems difficult without clear usecases.

Let's say I have 10 devices d1,d2....d10 making updates to "a" on the server and went offline.
a==20 and last update was by d5 before everyone went offline.

When the devices come back up, the fate of "a" depends on the rulesets. Following are 3 possible high-level combinations.

i) All devices have "remote" rule.
On reconnection, everyone rollback "a" to 20. They are essentially back to the time before going offline. Even the device which did the last update(d5) before going offline is rolled back too, which seems bit odd. Still simple to reason with..

ii) All devices have "local" rule.
On reconnection, the last device to reconnect updates "a". It is then broadcasted to all other devices. Note that
it is not the last device to update "a". Rather it is the last to reconnect (Now, even if all of them reconnect at same time, depending on the queueing at server, the one at the tail wins). Not really simple..

iii) Mix of "remote" and "local"
Let's say d1 had "local" rule and all others had "remote". On reconnection, d1's "a" will be propagated to everyone. This is irrespective of the order of reconnection (I am assuming that between reconnections "a" is not modified). This is pretty simple and perfectly predictable. Now, if we have more than one "local", we start getting non-deterministic, and at the extreme move to case ii)
Here's a suggestion I read early on in the Snowden-storm that hit HN, and that I thought was reasonable:

If Microsoft and Google are really united and seriously hurting, why don't they each individually (not acting as a cartel) kick the NSA out of their data centers? There may be a lawsuit, yes, and there will likely be a hit to their share value, but it's that same old problem of trading short-term safety for long-term freedoms.

It's a good way for them to put the money where the mouth is. Yes, I'm aware of the "requirements" to allow monitoring equipment; I'm specifically calling for the executives of these companies to engage in civil disobedience. Politicians are famously sensitive to anything that actually gets the attention of the _masses_. Like, shutting down Google due to court-ordered monitoring and Google refusing to comply. How long would the NSA endure such a standoff before backing down with some weasel-words about "coming to an agreement"?
The parody shirt the NSA doesn’t want you to wear
Six popular myths about healthy diet get debunked
The Happy Meal is a very well known type of Sun Ethernet card found on just about every Ultra branded system with 10/100 interfaces. Under Solaris they're registered as hme devices.
Beat me to the quote. But this is even worse for FC - they are pissing off a customer for $7 by accident, not on purpose.
OneTab. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbo...
The DoD and I'm sure other organizations are instructed to try and get as much info from the person as possible if it's a suspicious phone call like this. People call up and use all sorts of techniques to get information from these organizations, which it seemed like what was trying to be done here.
I once worked with a system controller that was suppose to work in both big and little endian. Too bad it just ignored the endian setup bit and would just truck along in little endian mode. These are the things I have nightmares about.
You imply as much when you suggest that they must send C&Ds to the guy. They don't. It does not hurt their trademark use. And if your intent was to suggest how they weren't being extreme, you did not make that clear in anyway.

The belief that you have to enforce a trademark to the point where you have to threaten even innocent use of that trademark needs to be shot down. It's an annoying meme that needs to die. Hell, even a lawyer is saying what I'm saying.
Nope. They make $$$$ by having the option checked by default, and every now and then a customer fails to check their order before submitting it.
Well, not quite. You have to send your kids to an accredited school. That doesn't mean that they have to be state-owned. There are plenty of private boarding schools and especially Waldorf education is hugely popular. Some evangelical sects tried establishing their own schools.

The states have a much easier task checking whether those schools are doing their job well, then checking on every mom and pop. Never mind the socialization requirement, which probably would mean involving the CPAs as well etc. It's not just about ideology, but about feasability as well. The homeschooling crowd is a very, very small minority in Germany.

And about the studies, well, let's assume they're actually okay and not on the level of the (multitude) of "homeopathy works" studies. That still would make them US studies, right? So whether that's applicable to Germany is an open question, the school system works quite differently here (and I'm not aware of any metal detectors). I'm reminded a bit about the gun control debate...

This might be the result of me going through said school system, but if you show me two donkeys, one being the big bad statist schools and the other homeschooled kids, I know where I'd pin the tail of "likely indoctrination".