skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Justin Kan posted something about the deal to his FB account a few months ago.
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> thefreeman

> It is EXACTLY the same thing.

Of course it isn't. Let me spell it out:

Censorship: A nation-state determining what its own populace can read about general world affairs and affairs concerning that governments own actions, inspection and possible redaction of communications between citizens and their access to media (such as books).

Privacy: The right of an individual to govern the whereabouts of the data concerning that particular individual.

You can't possibly confuse the two.
US says evidence shows Russia fired artillery into Ukraine
Looks like phishing, but i think is real
Its pedantic, but I think this is sublty different than what is being dicussed here. All over the US, there are situations where 2 lanes converge to 1 and drivers "take turns" merging. But I think the scenario that is being discussed is a little different, where there is 1 "working" lane and one "closed" lane, the thought process of drivers in the lane that they know is 'closed' up ahead is to merge early.

I wonder if cultures where queueing (like, in the grocery store) is not as common as in the US have this problem? I suspect not.
Unfortunately, some people never come to understand that. Being able to recognize consequences before acting (and changing behavior as a result) is, IMO, the definition of wisdom.
Is this is a US only offering? I don't want to register if it is.

Also it failed at the first hurdle for me. I don't rent or own. (I am deposit saving with in-laws)
Streisand effect can only exist when the speech is free. When EU can ban any mention of a politician being embroiled in a juicy scandal 10 years ago, how would you disseminate this information? Only at great risk to yourself. This is not what should be happening in a free country, but apparently EU doesn't really need all the troubles of being free countries, their politicians are completely fine to deny their citizens the right of free speech. It's safer for them this way.
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I tried Trello and didn't get it.

Now I'm wondering if I'm the only person on the planet for whom it didn't work.

But still - I have a lot of ideas and projects that need organising, and Trello just didn't happen for me.

Good on JS for another successful launch though.
>"I'm not sure if that is valid justification enough to avoid abolishing the death penalty, but I think it does touch on a concern I have with the "life imprisonment is cheaper anyway" argument."

I agree completely with these points.

>"Do people sentenced to life have fewer appeals? If so, why? Do they simply choose to appeal less, or are they not afforded as many opportunities to appeal?"

This is what many criminal defense attorneys say, and the reason that some defendants prefer a charge which carries the death penalty to one which has a life imprisonment sentence.

>"One of the other common criticisms of executions are that they are final; finding out that somebody was innocent after killing them is useless to that person. However if for some reason people sentenced to life are receiving fewer opportunities to be found innocent since it seems less important or time-critical, are we seeing any real benefit?"

This is a clearer statement of one of my ill-expressed thoughts.
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I'm not sure that it is legal to stay in an apartment after you lease or rental ends. It is just also illegal for the owner to force you out without going through a really complicated and lengthy process.
i'm mostly impressed that the USPS has the analytical resources to produce this. did they put this much thought into email, before revenues started cratering? what was their intelligent plan to manage runaway employee pensions? do we still need so many people physically shuffling around junk mail? (apologies to newman). seems like they have plenty of issues to grapple with that are closer to the present than the impact of 3d printing.
Until such a system is in place I have a simple hack that has worked well for me - being googlable.

When you use the same name on all social media, have a domain with it, a blog on it, and openly invite people to google you if they feel like it ... and you aren't a complete arsehat, great things happen. Things like finding a place to live in SF become relatively easy, getting jobs/work becomes simpler, hell, even Tinder works better.

We already have the trust networks in place. Why are so few people using them is a better question.
There are also non-technology reasons you can't store cars tilted 90 degrees. People leave small items, half-finished sodas, etc. in their car and wouldn't want them all on the back windshield when they get back. Not to mention, in a high-density packing, you don't save any space by tilting the car 90 degrees.
You've created a unique definition of capitalism that applies even to state run industries.
No, not if that was not under the original terms of the lease. You may own the building but in the eyes of the law it is the tenant's home and you can't throw them out onto the streets without due process.
Very cool! I'll try to find some time to test the other providers, and assuming everything looks good then I can add a link to this in the README.
> As far as Justin and Co having deserved this, they worked harder than most people ever will

When you say this, you mean harder than other people in western based office work?

Sorry not trying to pick on you, you seem reasonable and decent! I just think it's a shame that bestowing incomprehensible amounts of wealth on individuals should be celebrated as a deserved reward. Hard work = lots of rewards is not the reality for the majority of the world.

I agree they deserve a payout of course, that level of wealth just feels wrong to me, like everything feels a bit out of whack. And I know myself I would of course probably keep the majority of it as well.
It's not just popularity. I wouldn't trust anyone on my team (of 4) to 'get' a Functional Language. Maybe one out of four (Not counting myself in this scenario), and almost no-one that they would hire later on. That leads to a pretty low chance of it ever being adopted where I work.
Because of rush hour, a large fraction of self-driving cars will still need to park. However, they can drive themselves out of the city center and park in the cheaper outskirts.
I think you're completely right, but it's worth noting that removing barriers to entry into existing businesses is a very viable business model. Even "buying and reading books customized to your state" is a barrier to entry that a company like AirBnB could help with (though they don't seem to want to go that direction).
How is it any more impractical than how temporary lane closures are currently done? It can still be done with cones or barrels and the end result is exactly the same.
Hah! The way vim extensions are going you'll have emacs-in-vim soon enough. Not that I think it's a good idea, mind you. People spend too much time in vim as-is. (it's fine for emacs; that one's essentially a desktop environment)
That sounds horrific, and basically like a trial by popularity.

Count me out.
We have your info. Now quick, delete this message before your employer sees it :)
Note that the concept of 'free speech' the way it is practiced in the United States is not present in EU law.

Arguing that freedom of speech trumps your privacy rights is a rather twisted interpretation of the UDHR, by that interpretation we have no privacy at all, because after all, anything, once uttered by another person immediately becomes 'free speech'.

Your life belongs to you, and so does the data about you, unless you choose to become a public figure (for instance by seeking public office), or you become one through circumstance (for instance because you crash a cruise ship into a rock and capsize it).

In those cases your right to be forgotten is going to be trumped by the rights of the public to be informed.
Within a hotel, rooms in the same category can have widely varying characteristics. Rooms with ocean views could have full views, others could have a sliver view. We've collected tips on quiet rooms, large rooms, and rooms with a view for about 30K+ hotels on Room77.com under the "Insider Tips" section on the hotel pages.
Free speech is guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

And pretty much every European as well as the US has put some limits to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
Super comment, thank you very much.
> every serious party engaged in the rental business is familiar with these laws

AirBnB's disruption is to enable unserious parties to engage in the rental business, so the negative effects of unserious parties engaging in the rental business can pretty reasonably be laid at the feet of that disruption.
Quite the opposite. Monopolies and oligopolies are the first two kinds of market failure they'll teach you about when you're learning basic capitalist economic theory in school.
You keep writing backlog. Backlog and back catalog (the latter being what the rest of us are talking about) are two different things. A backlog is work you have to do and haven't gotten to yet. A back catalog is a list of a companies products (including out-of-print, obsolete, etc.). But a more general usage applies to Good Old Games as they started, a collection of otherwise out-of-print (in a manner of speaking) games. Indie and contemporary games came later, it's not wrong to talk about their history this way and it's still an image many people have for them.

Now, if you think that we're talking about a backlog, then yeah. We'd be fucking morons. I doubt they have a backlog of orders considering their delivery method.
This is readily available by a variety of services. Google "flat fee mls" to see the options.

I sold my house using one of these services in 2011. I saw seller agents adding zero value outside of MLS, so I just paid what it cost to get on there. Buyer agents are actually a little more useful to their clients, but ironically, the seller has to pay them as well. When you do flat fee MLS, you specify on the MLS contract what % of the sale will go to the seller agent. I actually don't know if you can write in "0" or "0.5" in that box on the contract, but I know for sure you don't have to write in the industry standard 3% (standard is 6%, with 3% on the buyer broker/agent and 3% on the seller broker/agent).

In my experience, we did not need to do anything that required an agent. The paperwork is mostly prepared by the buyer's loan company and then a title agency handles the rest. Paperwork like the purchase agreement is basically boilerplate and I had a lawyer review ours just to be sure.

The lawyer cost me $50. That plus the flat-fee totaled less than $600, saving me thousands on what I would have payed if I had to send an extra 2.5-3% to another agent.
> they should be doing away with restrictions on name changing.

There are very few restrictions on changing your name in England. Is that not the case for the rest of Europe?
You are saying balance, but what you mean is agreement over values. The nasty thing is, people just can't agree on anything, especially on values.
I think the most interesting part of this post's comments is how everyone views bootstrapping differently. In Chobani's case, per the article, they didn't take in any outside equity, but they did take in outside investment. It just happened to be structured as debt.

Nothing wrong with that, just found it interesting. Good reminder that there are a number of different ways to grow an amazing company.
>Would you say that the functional paradigm has started to gain more traction lately though?

That is certainly true but I think more people will not shift to functional programming languages to do functional programming style programming but will stick with their favorite imperative language and do functional programming there as more and more imperative languages add features and facilities that allow functional programming style programming.

Case in point, i have this Qt/C++[1] library that evaluates lambdas in a lazy fashion.

You can have,for example, a function that returns what is called "a future",ie something that can be evaluated at a later time to produce a value "held" in the future or the future can be cancelled if the function caller decides they no longer need the result.

Introductions of lambdas in C++11 allows for this kind of programming to happen in C++ and i suspect more and more C++ programmers will start coding to this style as more and more APIs will start getting released that will take lambdas as arguments or return them as results.

It is an interesting new way of doing C++ and these ideas are mostly borrowed from functional programming world.

[1] https://github.com/mhogomchungu/tasks
A number of older hotels have decent wired connections. Otherwise, if both the wired and the WiFi is bad or non-existent, I use my personal router (WiMAX) and connect that way. My phone is good option too.
Not only that, they don't give a fuck because they get a cut no matter what and have carefully disclaimed all liability. For example, remember how they made a big deal about changing their rules on hardware projects to protect backers after several scams made the news in a big way?[1] They've now quietly removed all those restrictions to make it easier to list scams, er, projects[2]. After all more projects equals more dosh for them!

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/accountability-on-kickstart...
[2] http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2014/06/04/kickstarter-ren...
“Our development team was working on a content management system for a client.”
The EU can not ban any such mention, you are completely misrepresenting the intent and the actual use of these laws.

Free speech American Style is American, the EU is different, whether better or worse is not for me to decide but it is the law of the land and as such it should be respected by corporations operating there.

The EU is concerned with privacy here, you are concerned with censorship, those are not the same concepts and they are not addressed by the same mechanisms.

The fact that in some EU countries (ex) politicians hold large stakes in media conglomerates and can manipulate public opinion is a much bigger source for worry than that some politician embroiled in a juicy scandal would be able to wipe his trail completely. Especially newspapers will take a serious stance against that and it will simply not work.
Interesting article. I'm not affiliated with Noah in any way and just now read a few posts from his bolg: http://okdork.com/

Very insightful and interesting. The bonus article when I signed up for the newsletter was about his rise and fall at FB. It was a really...hard to find the words...human tale. I'd recommend having a browse.
"Brooklyn, ny" and variants thereof not found, including "New York, NY" and "New York, New York", and plain zip code

Also my payment doesn't include escrow for taxes and insurance, so asking for that monthly number requires back of the envelope math to continue, as well as seeming like a distraction to me, since taxes and insurance likely won't be affected by a refinance.
Look, ethically, I totally agree with you.

Practically though, if you've worked in sales, you'll know that what the OP is talking about isn't just something that happens often, but is basically the life-blood of some rather large companies.

Now, I dislike it because it puts the impetus on the developers to deal with it if it goes wrong, and that sort of crunch-time stress is just crazy, but it's also not something that the OP has come up with on his own...
I guess this is an area no one in online payments is really competing in yet on this scale. Given two checkout options Stripe and Paypal if one gave me some mediocre rewards program it might just be enough to tip the scales and make me pick them.

Mediocre might be pre-emptive but it just looks like you'll be fed special offers for stuff you probably wouldn't of bought otherwise. Paypal's history has taught me to expect to be underwhelmed by just about every aspect of their offerings.
A system like this would still not account for outliers, nor deal well with temporal changes. People can be completely well behaved for long periods of time and suddenly really hit rock bottom. If you're the person who they are interacting with at the time, the trust system fails. Sure they get a lowered rating now, but then you have to ask the system, was this person who had a bad interaction being honest and how much of a ding is this to a long record of good ratings.

There's no catch all, even a single, centralized system wouldn't be very successful at dealing with the outliers in human behavior on top of the questionable honesty of the people adding ratings to the system in the first place.
Well it's not a question of which one is better (although I know where I side on that one), it's a question of whether or not the EU principles will be allowed to extend to servers operated out of the US.
No more “put a skirt on it”
"Killer App - none that I can see (darcs?)"

Maybe pandoc.
Good tip but is it sensible to admit to several criminal offences on a public forum?
Get to talk to your users
>and besides, the newspaper morgues are not so forgetful

So how can such a double standard possibly be justified? How can google be forced to delete things from the servers, but newspaper archives can't be forced to burn their material?
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Did you use it with other people? While it can work on an individual level (i.e. where you are just making boards for yourself), that isn't really what it was designed for. I wouldn't put it in the same group of tools as personal productivity software. While you can use it for yourself, it really shines when you have a group of people trying to collaborate and share information.

It's especially useful for viewers (i.e. not people writing things in Trello, but people watching others update info and tracking the progress of something).
A foil party balloon launched in England with a radio beacon is flying over WA
A man in England launched a foil party balloon with a micro-transmitter and GPS on 12 July. It's flown across Europe, Asia, and the Pacific Ocean and it just made landfall over Washington State!

http://aprs.fi/#!call=a%2FM0XER-4&timerange=3600&tail=3600

http://spacenear.us/tracker/

http://www.leobodnar.com/balloons/
How is this a standard? I agree that it's fairly common, but I see a lot of different variations just in my own inbox.
I tend to compare this to my mom, which keeps me on the humble side of things. She worked really hard her whole life long and does not have much to show for it. She supported me and my siblings whenever we needed it. When I was 21 and sold my first company I realized I had just made more money in a year than my mom made in 10. That was a really weird feeling.

So I'm well aware of the fact that 'deserved' is a pretty elastic concept. But if you want to start that discussion then you should pick up the Forbes list of billionaires and start petitioning them to abandon the capitalist way, they are most likely as much or more 'not deserving' of their wealth as the people that put together twitch.

I've got a very healthy respect for people that do regular work, farmers, masoners, lathe operators, millwrights, mailmen and so on, if only because I tried my hand at all those professions at some point in my checkered past and have found that each and every one of those takes tremendous dedication and skill to perform with any amount of success. And yet, barring lucky accidents very few people in those professions will ever be wealthy.

It's an unfair world we live in, but that does not stop me from congratulating those that achieve a certain level of success if they played this particular game by the rules that they themselves did not set. That it is possible to envision a better world in which the wealth could be spread better does not detract from their achievement.
The entire paragraph is about Lisp if you read carefully. The mother tongue of the author is irrelevant, he clearly thinks that Lisp is a superior language for a possibly more intelligent coder:

Emacs is developed by Lisp whose syntax is different from common programming languages. A developer who is curious enough to try Lisp is possibly more intelligent than average. Lisp is often the third language he/she learns (Java/C/C# is the first, a script language like Bash/Python/Perl/Ruby is the second).
I do not understand. When you write, "earned his stripes," what exactly do you mean?
I ran through this for real. Here are two major issues that made this not really work for me:

The mobile experience on an iPhone left a bit to be desired. It was responsive, but not totally and I found myself panning incorrectly because of the use of modals (I.e. The phone was panning the background and not the modal). I can't emphasize enough how clunky it was. I was technically able to do everything but it was not a polished experience.

Also, it fails to ask if I have a home equity line of credit. I happen to have done an 80/10/10 when I bought my house. That makes it look as though I've got way more equity than I really do based on the questions. There is also no way to indicate if I want to consolidate said line of credit into a single mortgage as part of a refinance.
Yeah, I know, but I shamelessly piggybacked on this thread to write a comment I wanted to write for a long time.
Anyway, it's often more a matter of intended public and where the company is registered than a matter of where exactly the servers are.
The point is, suppose they are repaving the road one lane at a time. (Or, repaving half of a 2-lane road)
Thanks for your feedback. This is passed on to our dev team to take into account other living arrangements like yours. And yes, t is a US-only offering at the moment. Thanks again.
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Phishing attempt?
Thanks for the input chaddeshon. I would love to chat with you about what you expected vs what you found, and what you would change.

Mind shooting me an email matt@mattkremer.com? Thanks!
Newspaper archives do not vacuum up random facts about random citizens, they don't build mile-long profiles, they store articles about events that were considered news-worthy by some newsdesk. Automated collation of data and journalism are not even remotely similar processes.

What I find interesting is how everybody is focusing on Google here, when the real focus should be not on how this system could be abused but why it exists and who it could benefit. And that gives a completely different picture. But it's late here (3 am) and I'm off to bed.
How would I realistically change Boston's Internet/ISP policy?