skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyway, the point about the "fraught relationship" depiction is that it's basically an elephant-in-the-room thing. Such language might work to describe the relationship between the U.S. and Russia (or China), because those countries are essentially peers on the global stage. But to use it in the US/Cuba case pointedly ignores the fundamentally one-sided and, in the view of many inside (and essentially everyone outside) the U.S., petty-minded and abusive nature of that country's treatment of its much more vulnerable southern neighbor.

There's also an unpleasant blame-the-victim tinge to it.

The Post could have stated the obvious, of course, and acknowledged the elephant in the room. But it knows very well that in order to maintain its image as the (lessor of two) "papers of record" within the center of Federal power, that just would not do.
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"get secure access to world-leading digital services" - Which basically means... absolutely nothing?
In some cases they're giving the opportunity to self-incriminate for speeding.

Maybe they didn't get a solid read on their radar gun, or maybe you saw them and were slowing down already when it locked, so they may have no actual evidence. But if they can trick/scare you into admitting that you were speeding, then they don't need the radar gun readings. So you should be very hesitant to tell them any numbers that are above the legal limit.
> What about the counterfactual where Pulseaudio was never started?

Everyone would then be using JACK, and the world would be a better place for it.
How this is supposed to work in the future - hopefully soon - is for you to be able to authenticate yourself in any friendly embassy or consulate. The first issuance must be with a strong proof of identity.
"For the Fed to collapse the value of bitcoins they would have to sell lots of bitcoins." tim333
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"The one-time state fee for the card is 50 euros, other fees will depend on service providers – public digital services will be offered mostly free-of-charge, just like to ‘real’ residents."
The article hit the nail on the head. It is a no-win scenario. Having watched many law professors give lectures on this very topic and something they always make sure to point out, the issue that I always have with it is the wording:

"Anything you say or do may (or can and will for modern readings) be used against you in a court of law"

What it does not say is it can be used for you. What would of changed if Tom knew that showing good human conscious would help him in court? Yet the Miranda Warning worded to say nothing good can come out of this for you, that is I have absolutely nothing to gain by talking to you. It's a lose-lose situation. Could you imagine the frustration?
For some time, I have daydreamed of various cool scenarios that would only be possible with a government-issued digital ID.

But in my daydreams, I've never considered a third-party government issuer. I don't see value in this beyond the value that I see in a corporate-issued digital ID, and that's hardly more valuable than a self-issued ID.

Obviously, Estonia has considered some angle which I have not.

You can become an e-Estonian!

They should probably change that to e-Stonian or something so that it's pronounced "eastonian". :) The "eee-eh" is awkward to pronounce.
If they're slightly more muscular, that would make up the difference in mass and since muscle has a somewhat different distribution than fat, would explain the slimmer waist.
I wrote about this here five and a half years ago, before it went "sour so quickly": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=470181

As a grad student back then, I saw a pyramid scheme. Training programs were (and are) funding way more students than there is room at the top. If funding at the top level stops expanding, the current scenario unfolds.

If I have undergrads in my lab who want to go on to graduate school, I give them sufficient information on these numbers that they can provide "informed consent". If they still want to go ahead, they receive my full support.
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Yahoo's official response to the ShellShock Threat notification.
> I don't usually talk about this too much, and hence I figure that people are really not aware of this, but yes, the Open Source community is full of assholes, and I probably more than most others am one of their most favourite targets. I get hate mail for hacking on Open Source. People have started multiple "petitions" on petition web sites, asking me to stop working (google for it). Recently, people started collecting Bitcoins to hire a hitman for me (this really happened!). Just the other day, some idiot posted a "song" on youtube, a creepy work, filled with expletives about me and suggestions of violence. People post websites about boycotting my projects, containing pretty personal attacks. On IRC, people /msg me sometimes, with nasty messages, and references to artwork in 4chan style. And there's more. A lot more.

My jaw dropped. Feelings about systemd aside (I actually quite like it), this is uncalled for, and outrageously bad.

Grow up! Hiring a hitman? Are you for real?

Anytime someone makes a large project that gets traction, people are going to disagree; that does not make it acceptable to launch personal attacks, and call for violence against the developer.

As a community, we need to call out the people doing this and show it's not acceptable; irregardless of any politics that may be involved.
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The key is to have a strong project sponsor who believes in you, and if done correctly, you can actually make your sponsor look really good as an executive who "gets" technology. Believe it or not, the term Agile is making its way into the dictionary of senior leaderships of traditional organizations.
Bank robber calling the cops to report the safe has already been cleaned out...
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That's awesome, congratulations!

Do you mind me asking how did you get your first few customers? Ads, blog, cold emailing?

Thanks.
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No, that's stupid, because the cost of taking it seriously is far far greater than the estimated badness of any of those threats.

Reasoning like that is why we have the TSA.
Fascinating (if a little hard to stomach) video. This seems to imply that bipedal locomotion is learned, while quadrupeds have the skill hardwired into lower-level structures. (Certainly, having watched my eldest figure it out, it doesn't seem to be an innate ability in humans.)
Restricted why? They are allowed to take away rights as punishment for a crime.
I've always wondered this while driving through Chicago. The speed limit is 55mph, but everyone, cops included, goes 70 when traffic allows for it. And I've done 80mph with a cop behind me and not been pulled over.

Which leads me to believe that the speed limit is only there so the police have a reason to pull over anyone without any other reason. Don't like the look of the driver? Pull them over, while ignoring every other car doing 70.
Some background information here: http://e-estonia.com/taavi-kotka-promises-10-million-e-eston...

Although the first stages will be more towards foreigners who conduct any business in Estonia, the next stages should allow appearance of new business models and internationally operated activities headquartered and registered in Estonia.
XOR is fascinating. It can be understood as binary addition, discarding the carry (the higher bit of the result). It is also useful for drawing a cursor pixmap: XOR the screen with the cursor, XOR again to remove the cursor, without ever copying the area below the cursor.
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An open, warm, inviting, inclusive, and friendly community that cannot author useful code is of immense social value but very little technical value.

I'm not willing to assume that a more diverse project and larger potential contributor pool will automatically produce better code. Not all contributors are of equal value. Some contributors are of net-negative value, particularly those like Kay who persist in such. It is highly desirable to limit the potential contributor pool to as few of those individuals as possible.

Size is not the sole meaningful measure of a contributor pool. Quality is equally - and often more - important.

When dealing with matters tangential to a core purpose, sometimes the ends do justify the means. When was the last time you thanked an open source developer for stopping development on features you needed (perhaps permanently so) in order to encourage the surrounding community to be nicer to one another?
I'm not quite sure why you seem so sure he didn't also send an email to that address (or use that form)? I didn't read the article thoroughly, did he enumerate somewhere which ways of contacting Y! he tried?
I guess I'm seeing to much into "mechanism not policy" don't I?
Things are seldom "proven" in court the way they are in mathematics. Instead, Mike would swear that he had never looked at the source code, which, if his lawyer is any good, he will only let him do if it's actually true, because it would open him up to perjury charges. Later, if Monit had evidence this wasn't true, they would present it. IANAL.
With the rats in the same study, the body weight difference was only 6%, while the different amount of white fat tissue in the belly was 22%. So it is pretty clear the body is changing composition (more muscular, less fatty).

BMI is worthless in such a case because it penalizes muscle, which is heavier than fat. I know countless very fit friends who have bad BMIs just because they have a lot of heavy muscle. BMI only allows you to be a certain weight at a certain height, it doesn't allow you to carry muscle instead of fat.
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It is a voluntary transaction between 2 private parties. Either party can deny that transaction, but the government stepping in and preventing the transaction seems like a very different thing. I suppose some would say it's part of thew government's right to regulate interstate commerce.
I was surprised as well when I first learned about them...Control Theory as a formalized scientific/engineering discipline didn't even exist until after the proliferation of the Centrifugal Governor, which has some varied accounting of its history, but generally is not quoted any earlier than the late 1700s.

One of the beauties of the algorithm is how well it scales to complexity. It can be implemented in something as simple as a mechanical or hydrolic controller or DSP, but can also be used in heavily modified forms that take advantage of advances in Machine Learning, OR/Optimization, etc.
Feedback really welcome, looking to expand this guide to include testing and other Angular features :)
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I guess for some people it works, however, for myself the more I devote to enjoying life the better I feel (and perform, though I no longer have the spreadsheets to prove it).
If I understand their argument correctly, when Google+ allowed you to specify who you Follow, and then Google Search started showing you results informed by the things those people had +1'd, that's an example of Google "cheating their algorithm."

So, instead, Google shouldn't let you search based on the recommendations from your friends and other people you trust...?

I'm sorry, but this movement is wrong-headed.

I like to see reviews based on my friends. The restaurants, movies, apps, products that they like and recommend.

If there were an open and federated way for all users to express their recommendations, sure, we could yell at Google for not using THAT instead.

But yelling at them they can't INVENT a system of recommendations, or use it in their search results, is a bad argument for me.
Two things leap out

- who makes the smart card? What is the model?

- wow - that's just like Neal Stephenson and joining Tribes based not on location but membership.

But I can't see myself going to Estonia just to pick one up ... I'll wait till the embassy in London does it :-)
I was in Estonia two days ago. I just passed through on a whim as part of a European bicycle tour. I am embarrassed to admit, I knew very little about the country before being there.

I was only there a week, so my impressions are addmittedly naive, but very positive. There was a lot of technology forward thinking - online voting, constitutional right to internet access, co-working spaces catering to young entrepreneurs.

So quite hight tech on the one hand, and on the other hand, there is a deep respect for and serious comprehension of nature. The country is 50% forest! And my experience with Estonian camp sites was that they were free, ancient, and beautiful. I felt like I was camping in a sacred grove (I probably was).

Man, wish I had stayed longer. Anyone doing any cool projects there?
Maybe that's how mailing lists worked "a quarter century" ago, but it's most certainly not how mainstream mailing lists work now.
Fair enough point, though I don't feel this is a gray area. The chilling effect alone, being that I could be sued for simply looking at open source code is disturbing. Because that's what it boils down to. Most of our software today is a derivative work of something. I looked at rails code, so does that mean I can never write a web framework lest I be sued?
There's a piece you're missing in observing this phenomenon.

It is difficult to motivate a group of individuals to "hate on" an individual, technology, or movement without a personal stake. As 4chan would say: "Not your personal army".

The escalation process to this point is not quick. Instead, it is often cryptic, hidden, or complex to understand. When you see it laid bare, it can make a twisted sort of sense if you were there to see it build up; if you saw the initial back and forth vitriol between two parties.

Once a tipping point is reached, the building tensions spills over into an adjacent community which then bandwagons. This is the point where parties start complaining about forum invasions, threats, and it spirals out of control. This is where it becomes visible outside the community.

When you see the fighting from the outside, it is all noise and no signal.
By this time all of the discussion that could be had between parties was already had. The time for legitimate arguments had been passed, and now it is only an emotional clash of personalities and communities.

What you don't see are all the disagreements and intra-community conflict that never make it to that level and are resolved quietly. These greatly outnumber the knock-down, drag out fights, or at least they never escalate to media attention.

I think what we're seeing now is not a fundamental shift in the state of online discourse, but rather the changing role social networks and "media outlets" that report on online controversy acting as a delayed amplifier which only fans flames and provides a place to appeal after all context is lost. Social media also enables bandwagoning and cuts across interests but tweets and hashtag oneliners cannot capture the nuance of the lead up to the current conflict.
"We are working to add capacity to our embassies to process e-residency applications and issue cards abroad by the end of 2015 – so that you would not necessarily need to travel to Estonia to
join us as an e-resident."

From the leaflet [PDF] http://e-estonia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Become-Eston...
Every Soylent article will have a bunch of comments from people who actually like to spend time on preparing and consuming food. Good for you, I guess? There are still a lot of people who would gladly skip some meals and use the time for something more important. What could be more important? It's not really your problem.
They don't need the radar gun reading to give you a ticket for speeding. There was a discussion of it here on HN, where all they need is "based upon my training and experience" and a visual estimate of your speed, you can get nailed without a radar gun.
> Luckily he doesn't need to, because (as above) he's obviously talking about the open source community.

Which open-source community? The Linux kernel community is very different from say, the Haskell community (which is also very invested in open-source).

> You couldn't care less.

You accuse me of splitting hairs on semantics, yet you choose to correct me here. You understood what I meant, local slang here (for better or for worse) is to say what I wrote (even if it's not 100% gramatically correct), but you are more than willing to criticise me for not 'accepting' ambiguous language for something that should be 'obvious' to 'the open-source community'...
So far? Omit a "St." or "Ave. in an address, in a form I see all the time ("123 Main Somewhere NY, 10101") and it gets thoroughly confused. The author(s) are uninterested in fixing this, too - I don't think they care about "weird inputs" at all.
For some reason it was considered anonymous and safe from surveillance.
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Actually bit addition in ALU is usually implemented using an XOR gate (with an AND gate to compute carry)...But as "diff" is essentially addition (over complement numbers), they mean the same thing...

Also note that XOR is associative -- that's the key to prove the XOR swapping...

For those who are interested in binary tricks, there are several good resources:

* HAKMEM, http://goo.gl/F6sBjt

* Hacker's Delight, http://goo.gl/llQumw
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Technical documentation is hard, really hard. It's easier to explain what not to do.

Some suggestions:

- It's no prose, so don't try to be arty.
- Keep it short!
- When in doubt, drop it.
- Use simple words. Not everyone is fluent in English.
- Any sentence with more then two lines is an anomaly.
- Be consistent. Avoid surprises.
- Usecases and Examples are important and may shorten explanations.
- Include common mistakes and their workarounds.
- You have to refactor often (>>20x).
- Use a versioning system like git or mercurial.
- Avoid abbreviations and introduce them at first occurence e.g:
concurrent versioning system (CVS)
- A colum shouldn't exceed 9-12 words (~60 chars) to improve readability.
- Keep your rules in a file (e.g: doc.playbook) and check them
- Let others proof read, or yet better find an editor.
- Try to be gender agnostic. Why? cautionary tale:
https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015
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There's nothing particularly Estonian to this - you can buy European digital identity in all EU countries (except Great Britain and Ireland, last I checked). All documents signed by your key are legally as valid as those signed by your hand.
Sadly, it's not used much outside of government services.
How about right to be in shock, unable to speak? Where is basic empathy?

Guy just trashed car, possibly killing number of people including his relatives, police arrests him just after accident. In such situation I would shit myself , rolled into fetal position and would not talk to anyone for hours/days.

No he gets jail, because he does not make statements for police..
That doesn't help the main point here, which is police imposition on people that have done nothing wrong. You don't need to yell at the side point without actually contributing to the conversation.
Unlike you, I am not a laywer, so take this for what it's worth:

I agree with most of what you say, but I do think the following statement is a bit unfair:

> So it does make sense to talk about invoking it, since the same people who have explained this right have said, as part of that explanation, that you are required to do it.

Unless I'm mistaken, you're referring to two separate SCOTUS decisions that are separated by several decades (the latter decision is very recent). I don't think it's right to treat the Supreme Court as a singular, monolithic entity even within a given session (let alone separated by many years and with different chief justices, etc.)

Our public understanding of the supposed 'right to remain silent' developed after the Warren court decision, and while it's true that the Roberts court clarified (or imposed) the requirement that this be explicit, AFAICT it's not the only way to interpret the Warren ruling.

Again, I agree with the rest of what you're saying, but I don't think it's unfair to criticize the most recent SCOTUS ruling for appearing to[0] reverse or mitigate our understanding of the earlier SCOTUS ruling.

[0] I say 'appearing to' because it's easily arguable that this is a clarification, not a reversal, which AFAICT is the whole controversy to begin with
Maybe in your country. In Norway it's normal. The (few) times I've been interviewed I've gotten the full story by mail before publishing or a phone call.

I work for a student newspaper now, and last week we even implemented a feature to automate the sending of unpublished articles to our sources.
I think another issue here is that those who idealize the Jobs/Torvalds way of doing things automatically assume that they're going to be on the "good side" of things. The same way people who idealize things like eugenics know that their genes will, of course, be allowed to spread.

What they don't seem to realize that its more likely they'll be on the receiving end of the negative traits they applaud. Either by an occasional screw up or because Mr Bossman is having a bad day. To be humiliated in public like this is often very painful, even for the thick-skinned. The day that happens, they're lawyering up and getting HR involved because, how dare someone yell at them. In their minds, the yelling only happens to someone else, the imagined dumb peons they see themselves as being above.

I think way too many techies seem themselves as John Galt-like supermen, and that the negative consequences are for the sub-humans. There's a real dynamic of here of dehumanizing others that's often swept under the carpet. I think this dynamic is sociopathic.