skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I should have s/ a / any /. The description may have said "The video depicts a man repeatedly inserting a hot iron into the cow's vagina", which to me doesn't seem very vague, but isn't what happened in that video. "Fondling" is appropriate but as you say somewhat vague. So how are you supposed to know without watching the video?
Thank you sir. I am going to print this off and put it up on my motivational wall. Being a female founder is difficult, and it's posts like this that give me the strength to keep pushing.

Now stop gabbing on HN and go get me a coffee, okay hon?
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Voluntary cash tranfers between corporations and local municipalities have existed since time immemorial. Look at almost any town with a college.

Local government are prohibited from taking as much money as they want from local companies by statute, e.g. they can only use property taxes by fair market value.

Think of how bad greater discretion would be. Local governments are quirky and idiosyncratic, and are elected by a tiny number of citizens. They are strongly constarined in their powers by the state for a reason.
From what you've written, it sounds like it's not okay go undercover to expose abuse.

I disagree.

It's in the public's interest to expose this abuse, because the activity is inhumane, immoral, and likely illegal.

It's not uncommon for journalists to go undercover to uncover the truth.
Can you currently convict someone of a felony for lying on their resume?
How does it compare to delicious.com?
34 dead, 100+ hurt. Children are murdered. They cut a mother's throat in front of her child. But no western media would call them terrorists, they call them separatist(BBC), knife gang, terrorists in quotes(cnn), violence fight(U.S. Embassy)
I draw the line at illegality. Activists filming distasteful but legal processes are sketchy. Activists filming animal abuse in cases where the government turns a blind eye should be encouraged. Ideally the government would perform this function, but I don't see that happening.
A lot of people don't understand that "factory farms" get franchised out to "small farmers." Big chicken producers hire farmers to raise their chickens. The smaller farmers take on much of the financial risk, employment issues, etc. So when someone takes video of bad practices on a farm, the responsibility might be on the hired farmer, or it might be on the big agra company that hired him but didn't pay enough for humane treatment and sanitary conditions.

The main issue is that often a farm isn't merely some small farmers property. It's the place where big agra policies are being enacted.

Few people would be outraged if someone smuggled a camera into a big factory to document abuses. Be skeptical of privacy arguments here. This is the equivalent of a big manufacturer contracting out to small sweatshops.
That's not the way logic works. Affirmative assertions need to be demonstrated by the person making the claim. It's not encumbent on anyone to disprove Snowden's claims; it's his responsibility to show that they are true.
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"The best way to predict the future is to invent it". - Alan Kay

Therefore, the obvious solution is to invent a new JS framework.

To me, it looks like the Google team is committed to staying relevant based on their roadmap to 2.0. I personally feel confident AngularJS will be around in 5 years. Web components and dart fit well with angular, so I doubt it'll go the route of GWT.
I was fishing for a slightly better description, maybe half a sentence or so, and then I was going to trust it. The specific case isn't critical enough for me to feel the need to verify by watching an unpleasant video.
I created Mediabattl to compare songs and covers and share these with my friends.
For example, here is an example of a battle I really like: http://www.mediabattl.es/battles/19/preview.
Note that you don't need to be logged in to enjoy the battle.
I never said two wrongs make a right. Both are wrong and that just makes two wrong... nothing right. Both are equally fucked up. So why do we villainize only one?
Can you back this up with some links please?

And anyway, even if the LAPD may not be using anything more sophisticated than PredPol with growing their CCTV array, they will in the future. Think of it like this: right now the data is stored. In 5-10 years it will be cross correlated and profiles will be built on everybody. Thanks to the efficiency, the definition of crime will be expanded. Look at Singapore's law against gum wrappers. Look at local laws against homeless blankets. More to the point - the sites you surf can be cross correlated with the places you visit to indicate a reasonable belief that you may harm your kids and they will be taken away after you've been aubpoenaed in court.

20-30 years from now: court cases initiated by computer and suggested to the DA, based on cross correlated databases. Theories built and presented against you by the eloquent lawyer, with the jury thinking, "yeah this cant be all a coincidence." And a vastly expanded private prison complex.

All in all maybe not a bad thing, but people arent used to living like robots.
It's a fortune 100 chemical corp and the biggest employer in town
As a soloproneur, I couldn't agree more.

I'd like to follow you, are you on Twitter, or G+?

Frank at winesecretary.com
They're really neat. When I learned about them it emphasised that it's amazing what a handful of cons cells and some thin air can do.
What am I missing here, aren't these two comments conflicting?

> Audit the Pidgin chat client, fixing security bugs

And

> we don't want to use Pidgin/libpurple
can't tell if bad propaganda or just bad journalist
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/02/us-ukraine-crisis-...

This seems to be a much better article that speculates less and actually explains the declaration that Putin made.
We should add namespaces to JSON. And schemas. And schema validation. And stylesheet transformations. Yes, that would all be good...

Extensible types would be the next thing to add.

Now that'd be a good extension.

And we could call it Extensible JSON language. A good abbreviation would be XJL.

And eventually we'd have a standards-body defined way of querying JSON documents. We could call it JQuery.

(</sarcasm> just in case...)
We've done much more impressive bespoke layouts than this in the past, but this one was made 100% with native CMS entities. AMA.
"Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can. And it is not as if we were the first to make this law, or to act upon it when made: we found it existing before us, and shall leave it to exist for ever after us; all we do is to make use of it, knowing that you and everybody else, having the same power as we have, would do the same as we do" -- Thucydides, 431 BC
You really shouldn't comment on an issue you know nothing about. The Ag-Gag laws have nothing to do with private property or private rights of action, they are felony criminal laws criminalizing certain kinds of speech, and there's currently at least one Constitutional challenge filed by a plaintiff who was arrested and charged with filming a farm from public property.
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The goal isn't to "harm the employer", the goal is to expose their behavior. If exposing your "internal operations" harms you, the problem isn't person doing the exposing, the problem are the "internal operations".

I find it fascinating how everytime someone makes scandalous practices public, people come on the scene to condemn the people who go to the public.

If there is no legal way to publicise abhorrent practices, we must break the law. Especially if "breaking the law" is something as harmless as lying on a resume.
+1 thanks! Nice example. Scotty is appealing to me because it has a Sinatra like feel to it.
After re-reading both accounts, it's clear to me that Brett misunderstood Poul-Henning's argument. Poul-Henning said to "just build the damn bikeshed, I don't care what color it is," whereas Brett said, "Poul-Henning's assertion that all such ideas should be dismissed as "bikeshedding" reflects this dismissive attitude"

I read Poul-Henning's argument, which did not say that ideas should be dismissed, but rather 'just built', as attempting to contribute to a constructive spirit, and Glass's argument as defending the broken management process.
Spotify's rollout has nothing to do with the country's laws nor regulation, but due to private commercial agreements between parent record labels and countries' OpCos. Blaming a country's laws and regulations, instead of the private commercial/licensing agreements that stifle content rollout is unheard of. You are mixing two very different topics.
Have you never heard of the Prisoner's Dilemma? Even if nobody wants the status quo and everyone would like to cooperate, all we can see is other actors strongly incented to betray each other.

And if you see how nothing in Germany could be decided that affects the UK, what do you think would happen if German and French banks had refused to fund bailouts for the less responsible EU companies? No effects felt outside of Germany?
War (possibly a world war) is breaking out in Eastern Europe, and the top story on hacker news is about cows being caned on farms in Idaho...
How does this play with the current whistleblower laws? Presumably longstanding employees would be protected. Where do you draw the line?
> Would you claim that this also implies consent?

I'm not seeing the mental leap here. A cow making it obvious that she is ready to mate is equivalent to a woman making it obvious she does not want to mate? Consent implies agreement before the act; an orgasm during the act would not apply.

I'm not even sure if a cow indicating desire to mate implies consent, but that is why I asked the parent's opinion. I'd tend to agree with you that consent and animals do not even mix, but the parent clearly disagrees: Rape isn't even a concept without being able to apply the idea of consent.

> Also, looks like you have quite a naive picture of how insemination actually works.

What gives you that impression? I've spent the majority of my life around dairy cattle and am very familiar with the processes (which may or may not include the use of a bull). I was trying to simplify the argument so that we could have a meaningful conversation without having to nitpick over irrelevant details.
I hope Sergey Brin's artificial meat project will take off soon, there is this constantly increasing demand for cheap meat which has been one of the main reasons behind the increase of factory farms over the years:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2013/aug/05/google-...
There are already ways to track every car and person in a city: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/new-survei...

It will only become better and more accessible to organizations. Deal with it... by starting your own companies and making sure things go in a good direction. Maybe educate lawmakers on the potential dangers.

But banning technology isnt going to work.
Amazon Said To Be Looking At March For Streaming TV Box Launch
Suggested Price @ 0.75 Per Unit at 100K Batch.

Would Love to get one to play with :D.
My favorite part about the SAS v R debate was the conclusion of this article:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/sas-warms-to-open-s...

"""In the article, Ms. Milley said, “I think it addresses a niche market for high-end data analysts that want free, readily available code. We have customers who build engines for aircraft. I am happy they are not using freeware when I get on a jet.”

To her credit, Ms. Milley addressed some of the critical comments head-on in a subsequent blog post."""

(Boeing uses R heavily and when you fly on their aircraft, you're flying on open source)
Small enough to be installed in the cables of your device.

Freescale's best trick with these is putting them in business cards (between thin plastic).
Close. That's a string that can be parsed as a date as opposed to a date literal.
What os do people run on this?
These people:

http://www.teamwpc.co.uk/

produce a compiler, tools etc that run the language of SAS.

(disclaimer: I interviewed there last year)
So how would you propose someone expose (what they consider to be) criminal or unjust practices? It's only ok if an impartial observer just happened to find themselves in the middle of a commercial farming operation with a video camera?

I get that it sucks for someone to be acting in bad faith toward their employer, but isn't that justified and even necessary when the employer is acting in bad faith toward the populace? Obviously this is what Snowden did - he knew what he was doing, he didn't just stumble upon a pile of documents. But maybe you would describe what he did as sketchy, criminal, and wrong? Many have, of course.

Edit: Well you heavily edited your comment while I wrote mine. But, I don't think the wife-beating analogy is valid, it brings in ulterior motives. In this situation there is no mayoral campaign to derail, they actually just wanted to expose the crimes because those are what they took issue with. Still don't understand your desire to demonize the whistleblower.
In the meantime, TorChat (https://github.com/prof7bit/TorChat) is usable.

Though it doesn't fit the specification of the linked project as it uses its own custom protocol based around Tor hidden services, rather than implementing XMPP, Twitter, Facebook messenger, etc. This may be more secure as it is keeping everything within Tor rather than using exit nodes, but perhaps less usable if everyone else you know is using more popular IM software.
By robbing strangers in the dark you can lose your life! I don't think you understand the argument here. I sincerely think you are confusing strongly the way you think the world should work with what decision-makers can do under the limits of bounded rationality. Because something is to be gained is almost the only justification for everything that happens.

If you want to figure out a world where people aren't self-interested and risk-averse, maybe a church would be a better place for you to have that discussion.
The people are the state. Whatever the majority of the people wants is what the government has to do. So IMHO the right thing to do in such a situation is to conduct an out of order referendum to establish what the majority wants (and I would argue it should be a clear majority like 2:1 to justify exceptional measures) and if the majority agrees that they want to replace their elected president immediately then the president has to resign immediately. If he does not follow the will of the majority, the people have the right to remove him with force. I am of course aware that it might be quiet hard to conduct a representative referendum about a highly controversial topic and probably even without support of the current government.
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There is definitely some speculation in the article, but claims of an actual declaration of war.

"The upper house of parliament in Moscow unanimously approved the declaration of war, and thousands of pro-Russian demonstrators turned out in the industrial cities of Kharkiv and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine to demand Moscow's protection. "
an RTOS (uC/OS, Freertos, chibios, ...) or simply a hal such as CMSIS.
This would be preferable to me and many other users. I can see the need for both projects. If you're going to go out of your way to communicate securely then TextSecure seems like the way to go, but if you just want to add general security and anonymity to your existing network maybe Tor IM is what you want.
"My theory is that there's some audience for any half-competent film."

I had high hopes that social media sites would make it easier to find new stuff, but it seems their business model of selling advertising is actually in direct conflict with building tools to discover new media. Apple might have had a chance with Ping, but they bungled it so badly.

I would imagine that someone will either make their money from linking media to audience or find a revenue source that doesn't conflict.
My first amendment rights would be violated if I was arrested and jailed for a year for saying something in your house you didn't like.
Husband beats wife, it's a crime. He should be
punished. Neighbor sneaks into house, taping
husband beating wife, then publishes it online
as part of taking apart husband's run at mayor,
it's still a crime, but it's also a political
stunt. The two are not mutually exclusive.

You're also ignoring this angle of it:

Husband is never charged. Crimes are swept under
the rug. Husband lobbies for a law that
specifically makes it an extra crime to film
husbands beating their wifes due to 'invasion of
privacy.'

Also, your original analogy is flawed. If someone
lying on a resume is not the same as someone that
is breaking and entering. The analogy would go
more like:

Husband beats wife, it's a crime. He should be
punished. Concerned 3rd party gets hired on as a
day laborer, cutting said husband's grass. Films
husband beating wife through window (for the
sake of argument, let's say that it's impossible
to see the windows from public land -- e.g. a
20-acre estate).

You're also cutting a huge chunk out of investigative journalism. How does one discover what goes on behind closed doors without going undercover? It's not like filming these abuses doesn't already come with risks. If someone is beating an animal to death because (e.g.) it has a broken leg and can't walk, is it really such a leap that this person might severely beat someone discovered to be filming it?
I've been in the community 5yrs now. And I've seen a little bit of everything.

This is my favorite one so far:

A, B, C write paper, submit to his pal D.
D appoints E,F,G as reviewers.
C, and E were in school together.
F was a C student.
G sends the paper back to C to auto-review it.
C cannot be bothered, so delegates the review back to A.
A reviews his first name paper.

(poor phd student B doesn't even know)

yay peer review!
You quite possibly don't run an OS, but there are a number of RTOS stacks available - or some people still brew their own.
Stating that "the American People" voted for the Patriot Act repeatedly is ignoring the massive disenfranchisement of Democratic voters in states with Republican-controlled legislatures, and the gerrymandering that leads to a lock on US House seats[1]. The goal of the Republican Party is to win government by hook or by crook, and lately it's been the latter.

Without this gerrymandering, it's debatable how things might have gone otherwise. Colbert might not have so much faith in the system if he played the Redistricting Game [2].

[1] http://election.princeton.edu/2012/12/30/gerrymanders-part-1...

[2] http://www.redistrictinggame.org
Get yourself a discovery board from ST, same architecture (actually: a good range of choice) and no need to solder a 3 mm2 BGA ;)
Or right on the bare metal.
Counterpoint, object.next() was removed from python3 and replaced with next(object). It both modifies state and returns data. I really prefered next() as a method since it does change the state of a generator.
Freescale will probably do a Freedom Board with one of these on it, I expect it to sell for ~$13.
I think IE is covered, but:
"Android is the new IE".

Think of % of 2.x.
Notice that they explicitly mention IoT, a week after Atmel announced a similar controller for an IoT module:

http://atmelcorporation.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/atmels-smar...
Snowden is a hero because he exposed that our political class was lying to us. We make broad exceptions when it comes to the government itself because there is no other form of recourse. If the government is lying to you, you're truly hosed.

Here, all sorts of things could happen to bring crimes to light. A worker might rat out his employer. A news crew could be filming some other story. A civil suit might involve disclosure of practices. The FDA might investigate the farm as part of some food chain issue.

After all, we've created a seriously complex system of laws and enforcement to handle stuff like this. Are we now saying that they aren't good enough? If not, why not fix them, instead of having people sneak around other people's property? And let's not forget, if you let the special group called "people who care about animal treatment" violate property rights, then you'll be doing it for everybody, including people you don't agree with, like perhaps "people who don't want abortions happening"

Nope, there are tons of ways to catch this crime and punish the criminals. Let's use them and enough with the self-promotional I'm-upset-so-I-have-a-right-to-break-the-rules bullshit. No amount of drama here is going to change my mind about the firm necessity of respecting private property in the abstract (meaning assuming there isn't more to the story.)
To you and the other commenter:

But how is that different from a journalist making the same thing?

If it was false or showing the farmer having sex with his/her wife/husband/alien living in the attic, it would be understandable to ban it[0], but showing a number of abuse and the lack of oversight of a large company doesn't strike as particularly reprehensible.

[0] Amusingly, these kind of things are NOT banned. Cue all the leaked sextapes of celebrities and those websites by Hunter Moore.
Well I was thinking there is no DB for them to draw from because it was a private run camera, not because the facial recognition DB doesn't exist (because technically it does exist for anyone who has ever got a biometric passport in Europe so you don't have to go through old style passport checks).

Remember, at that "gas station", you were on private property. Do you want the government telling you what cameras you can have on your property? How do you know the other cars around you didn't have dash-cams with OCR?

If I pin a name tag to myself, I won't get all up in arms if someone takes a picture of me and I certainly won't make the distinction if their camera is equipped with OCR software or not. If I don't want that information out there, I won't put it out there. If I am regulated to put it out there, then that's that really.

There may have been someone writing everyone license plate down too, I wouldn't care (but that's me). If I saw them trying to break into my car to get my license or registration, then that is a different matter altogether.
Thank you so much for the reply, it means a lot.

These are the kinds of points I've been thinking, but wanted to make sure I wasn't overly confident in thinking. It's very very nice hearing it from someone else. Thank you for your time!
i don't feel like this is significantly different from whatsapp. at least not yet
> You're effectively using the trust given to you from somebody to make a political propaganda video damaging their interests.

Unlike PR? You know, the means by which private companies manipulate their (potential) customers and interested parties into thinking one way or another about their products. How is this different from the political propaganda in any other way than the former serves to further business and the latter serves to further an ideology? I agree that it's kind of sketchy, but I don't agree that companies and ideological organizations shouldn't get to play in the same ballpark.
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The difference is that in Sinaalp (1) users can categorize their links. (2) They can add the image that they wish to the link, (3) also share thoughts and discuss them, also they can discuss the links. (4) Finally it has a global search engine where users can search links by categories.
Google accused of making sexist, racist doodles
Google is much better positioned than Facebook for one reason: Google Analytics. Many sites, even those which aren't otherwise using Google services, embed it and there's really nothing like its reach because all of the competing services cost money.
If by 'harm your employer' you mean 'expose the illegal, immoral, unethical, and unconscionable actions of a corporation and its employees', then I think myself and the vast majority of Americans are all for protecting that speech.