skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What of the claims that Sony orginised methods to get around the $2000 limit of donations? I'm curious if this would be illegal, and if not I feel it should be. And even if there are reasons for it to be legal, I'm grateful I at least can learn about it when it happens.
Is there any linters available for IDE's to ensure conformance with a vanilla ruleset of scala? If that existed, scala would be able to shape itself up nicely.
Thanks a lot for the link. :)
> Note that there is also a due process for whistleblowing

The so called "due process" is a joke. Whistleblowers are often ignored, harassed, lose their job, or even jailed in some cases.

If you look at historical whistleblowing (e.g. 1980s, 1970s, etc) and even today, nothing has improved. A whistleblower's life will still be "ruined" by whistleblowing.

Remind me again, is Snowden back in American living free and clear? Or is he still effectively excommunicated into Russia of all places with the threat of a jacked-up criminal prosecution looming over his head?

> The leakers in previous cases chose not to follow that process.

If they had have followed "that process" they would have been fired, and the general public wouldn't have heard a peep about any of this.

Give us an example of a whistleblower who did follow the process and that it worked out just fine.
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A New Potential Cause for Alzheimer’s: Arginine Deprivation
> I switched a few months ago and I must say I'm really impressed: there is (nearly) no Vim feature I miss!

Well, I just tried it literally for a few seconds and just stumbled over the not working text objects.

I really like things like e.g. 'ci(' or 'dat'.

But it always seems like this if I'm trying a vim emulation.
[I've not been in your situation so please take my comment with a grain of salt.]

I feel there needs to be a closure. The "experience" that @jacquesm refers to is an understanding of what worked and what didn't. Solely based on your the comment above, I think you may need to spend some time learning why the cash flow stopped. Look into what lead to that situation and what could have been done different. Perhaps this may (as it's fresh in your memory) or may not (due to your emotional state) be the right time to do the analysis. People with more experience can chime in here.

Anywho, I don't think people who set out to do things of this nature can be failures. The experience and knowledge gained will easily put you above the median. Replenish & repeat.
The finance system failing has nothing to do with failures of the monetary system, nor of retail banking. If I wanted to point to one of those, I'd say Cyprus.

Gox failed in a remarkably traditional way: a bank run. They didn't have enough reserves to cover their liabilities. It turns out that this was due to fraud and/or insolvency.

It's always possible to say "bitcoin cannot fail, it can only be failed", because the failures are those of its support institutions. However, the support institutions are critical to actually using it and it retaining its value. They're not part of the tech but they're part of the system.
>I think this movement will let off some steam and people will stop taking it seriously, but I don't think it is unfair to worry that they will take real positions of power in the future.

They're very highly active, and in control of, many student unions throughout say the US and UK. Student union reps often go on to become politicians, so it is indeed something worth worrying about.

Especially since their movement is based on dividing people and making one group the oppressor and the other the victim, even if such perceived oppression has no basis in reality.

Their movement has entirely turned against gay men now and blasts them as being "oppressive". They're almost as bad about FTM transsexuals. There's really no telling where it goes next. Most bizarrely though is the vast majority of the division is being carried out by largely straight, white, middle class or higher women at the helm.
As an emacs fan, I find vim model simple, abstract and efficient. Emacs default paradigm has amazing foundations but give fingercuts too often and lack composability while vim is quite self consistent (how ironic giving lisp essence).

That said, growing your editing system by evaluation a small function is still a bliss. Go lisps.

#repant
BlockBot doesn't censor anyone, does it? All it does is prevent the person who uses it from seeing output from the people they are opting to filter - they can continue to talk, rant, abuse, write poems, whatever they do with impunity.

"Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins" is a good analogy, I think.
Is it in the public interest to release ALL of the emails though? If they published just those which show "powerful entities mingling behind closed doors" fair enough. That would be a legitimate expose.
That's actually maybe the only good point about the whole NSA interception thing, they indeed force us to step up our game.
> Do you have a source for this?

There's a lot of second-hand discussion of this readily locatable on Google, but I haven't saved and can't readily find the posts from people actually involved in implementing Scala on .NET that I saw years ago that directly pointed to this as a problem.
There's a great mental model called the Circle of Concern and the Circle of Influence. Happiness, according to this model, is about making the former circle only slightly smaller than the latter.

For some people, "focusing their thinking" means acknowledging their powerlessness and becoming unbothered by it, narrowing their scope to the things they can actually do something about. For them, politics was never useful, because they never believed they had any influence.

For others, such focus means pushing out their influence to encompass more things, so that their concerns are something they can do something about. For these people, politics is inevitable and necessary, because influence will naturally touch more and more lives and consequently, more and more politics.
Point taken. Most do not care about privacy. I would like to see what happens however when backdoors are transparently and honestly declared or legalized. I do think competitors will form in such a market. Will they succeed is a different question.
I don't know a sysadmin on this planet that dreams of using Ruby as systems scripting language. That sounds like hell.

Again, its the trade off between a relatively simple port and adopting a new language with different standards, technical difficulties and culture.
I don't mean to be rude, but I'm not sure you understand the comma. It has nothing to do with combining types of instruments. It's a problem that exists even with a single instrument.

The problem is that, even on a single instrument (say a piano), if you start on some note (say C0), going up seven octaves should land you on exactly the same note as going up twelve perfect fifths (C7). The problem is that the precise tuning of that C7 is different depending on if you followed the perfect octaves or perfect fifths.

If you followed perfect octaves, which have a ratio of 2/1 (or just 2), C7 should have a tuning of precisely (2^7)·C0 = 128·C0. If you followed perfect fifths, which have a ratio of 3/2, C7 should have a tuning of precisely ((3/2)^12)·C0 = ~129.74·C0. The difference between these two is the Pythagorean comma.

Equal temperament solves this problem by keeping the octaves perfect (2:1), but compromising on everything else. It defines a half-step as the 12th power of 2, so a fifth ends up being a little narrower than a perfect 3:2 perfect fifth.
Fallacies abound.

>Nobody outside the internet takes seriously the idea that due process shouldn't exist. The Internet is made of people. Do these people (you and I and everyone ITT) not exist in the real world?

>...ever since Ronald Reagan. Do you honestly believe a Golden Age actor invented Conservatism? Crazy town banana pants

>...the Tumblr left is somehow mainstream. main·stream
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noun: mainstream

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the ideas, attitudes, or activities that are regarded as normal or conventional; the dominant trend in opinion, fashion, or the arts.

Isn't mainstream more of a reflection of Common Knowledge then ubiquity throughout subgroups? Regardless, the idea that leftishness is somehow an underground thing is CTBP. Full disclosure, I am an intellectual anarchist. THAT is a fringe group.

I am not trying to hate, i just disagree with what you said, and i am sorry if you feel offended by anything i wrote, but i am not sorry for anything i have written.
Google Tracks You. We Don’t: Interview with DuckDuckGo Founder
No, this is emacs with vim keybinds (and other goodies like leader key) implemented via evil-mode. It's one of the best if not the best vim emulation you can find. But other than modal editing everything else is emacs. Configs, plugins, elisp etc.
Why have they lost your respect now and not years ago? Didn't they publish 750,000 unrelated and benign files along with the couple of files that showed government wrongdoing when they leaked Manning's stuff? Its not like Wikileaks changed recently, its more like people are just finding out what Wikileaks is.
I actually disagree--it's not at all hard to run a regular ol' business. It can be time-consuming, and it definitely requires mastering a different set of skills (marketing, talking to people, etc) than we're used to.

But if you wanted to start a one-person construction business, with a goal to employing a few people by the end of the year, no, it wouldn't really be that hard.

In any business, you're going to spend 80% of your time talking to people (and persuading them to give you money), 10% of your time building some fancy new product, and 10% of your time changing the product based on the 80% conversation time.

Not hard, just different. I guess, though, to the technically inclined, that makes it seem really challenging.
What exactly are in these emails that are in the greater public interest? It isn't them lobbying for their own interests, as everyone here would be doing the same scraping money together for their small startups. The whole reason these docs were leaked in the first place was because someone didn't like the premise of a movie. Not because Sony was allowing chemical spills to poison people in a small town and are covering it up.

There is no "greater interest" here other than people wanting to stick it to Sony because they won't let you download their movies for $1 the day they hit the theater.
I'm not a game developer, but I experienced something similar to that when playing around with SFML. Their texture objects adhere to RIAA, so copy constructors will copy the texture from GPU memory to main memory, copy it to another location in main memory, re-upload it to GPU memory, then destroy the original texture and the memory it took up when copying to main memory.

I asked about it and the response I got was basically "It's RIAA, that's how you do C++". The worst part is they have a caching system underneath that tracks OGL handles across different objects, and it's even safe for access by threads.

But whoever designed their texture class chose not to use it.

So when I read your description I understand where you're coming from a bit. I'm not sure I understand why you couldn't just avoid using destructors, but I've honestly never tried to use a C++ allocator for anything as I've never needed control quite that tight for anything I do.
> Microsoft were not initially in control of the ecosystem; it was IBM's PC cloned by Compaq and then a horde of others. At one point there were competing desktop environments - Desqview, OS/2.

...

> There is also the antitrust argument: control over the OEMs restricts the possibilities for competing software.

Which of these arguments would you like to keep? You can't have both; or at least, they don't refer to overlapping time periods. And I'd take issue with either: in the first case, MS always had the option early on of carving a controlled niche rather than trying for wide appeal. That's exactly what early Apple did, and I'd argue that MS could have done precisely the same on PC hardware, if they'd chosen to. As regards the anti-trust argument, why don't we see that being levelled at Apple? An MS which chose to drive a more closed ecosystem probably wouldn't have been so utterly dominant as to run the risk of antitrust accusations, and again, that was their choice.

> They then faced the upgrade problem: at any point, restrictive control over drivers would mean that hardware that ran Windows N-1 would not run Windows N.

Again, that was their choice.

> And there's a limit to what they can do. My latest driver/hardware bug was discovering that my Crucial MX100 has some horrible interaction with write caching and link power management such that it can vanish from underneath the operating system.

I'd argue that this sort of problem affects either sort of ecosystem.
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ideavim is easily the best vim emulation I had ever used until I tried spacemacs/evil. Ideavim blew the eclipse vim modes out of the water
Are these wireless charging pads affected by water on the surface?

I, like most people, use coffee tables, side tables, etc. to hold drinks which occasionally get condensation or spill. Would this cause any electrical hazard?
Yes, women have a lot more choice in what they wear for business attire, whereas men have it pretty easy. Overall it doesn't really make sense to reject her for this reason when the dress code is casual for the position she was applying for. Perhaps if she was going for an executive position it might make a difference. It might be a problem is she dressed as a hooker, but that definitely doesn't seem to be the case.
I fail to see the irony. It seems entirely appropriate to me.

I'm admittedly no proper scholar of the subject, just a former armchair enthusiast, but when I read texts from the Pali canon it seems clear to me that from the earliest recorded times Buddhism has considered itself a living tradition. In the stories it tells, Gautama Buddha often refuses to weigh in on those sorts of matters. Fast forward a couple thousand years and you've got things like a letter in which a major Zen patriarch explicitly refuses to offer any opinion on a point of "theological" disagreement between Pure Land Buddhism and his own sect. And in between, plenty more stories of leaders encouraging flexible thinking on these kinds of matters. It's really not like Abrahamic religious traditions where there's this tendency toward obsessing over orthodoxy.
Chris Dodd's Email Reveals What MPAA Really Thinks of Fair Use
They stay private because it's in your interest that they stay so. There is nothing illegal about making your own mails public if you wish so (except if you signed a NDA).
What is your start up? If you can live off of 200 a month and be fine, there might be someone who believes in your idea and will send you 200/month.
At this point in time, the upcoming EoL in 5 years should be pressure enough to start new projects in Python 3 when possible.
Sony execs lobbied Netflix to stop VPN users
I would disagree that it has no competitive advantages. For people in Venezuela and other places where the state has failed to control inflation, Bitcoin allows people to escape capital controls(Think China). Of course there are still many drawbacks, but there are competitive advantages over 'some' currencies.
Programming could be like circuits drawing
> exact behavior they are purportedly against

This is the worst kind of rhetoric. Probably all groups who were ever oppressed suffered a little bit more than just people criticizing them. I guess your empathy did not go far enough to realize that?
A very misleading title, yeah. This is what I clicked through hoping to read about, not a brief and vague summarization of the author's encounter with Bhutanese Buddhism.
> Can you imagine the conspiracy theories that Assange would be spewing on twitter if his emails were hacked and published.

LOL good luck! They're behind seven proxies. </meme>

But seriously, if someone pulled a WikiLeaks on WikiLeaks that would probably go over well. Hats off to great exploits and whatnot.
I'm personally having a hard time grokking what blueprint is saying here. An example of formulating "good problems" would be somewhat helpful, although my gut feeling is that providing a concrete example would be as helpful as "giving me a fish" would be.
The one that managed the FBI to give them a cover story with the whole "North Korea" stuff might be a good start.
The question is _are you going to want to_ continue using a 10 year old laptop? That's an eternity in technological terms.

That might have been true 10 years ago, when typical speeds and storage capacities were increasing dramatically from one generation to the next and those increases were actually useful.

But even entry-level PCs have been able to run typical home or office applications -- things like reading e-mail, browsing the web, writing a letter or putting together a spreadsheet -- for a very long time. You don't (or at least shouldn't) need an i7 hexacore processor overclocked to 4+GHz and 16GB of RAM to write a letter. The only sharp improvements in recent years have been high-resolution displays (much more important on smaller screens, but generally a noticeable benefit) and SSDs (particularly in much faster boot/load times on otherwise modestly specified machines), and for applications that need them, GPUs.

Even for more demanding applications that really do benefit from greater RAM and processing power, the real world specs for both processors and typical system RAM have barely moved the needle for probably 5 years now, with the emphasis more on low power consumption and more cores within a single CPU. The cost/benefit for upgrading even a high-end workstation from a few years ago to the state of the art today is rarely favourable.

The biggest problems with longevity today, in my experience, are monolithic hardware where components can't be swapped out on failure and, more than anything, software. The reason my third-generation iPad isn't as useful any more has nothing to do with the hardware spec, it's because Apple chose to write more recent versions of iOS in a certain way and then forced the app ecosystem to upgrade because they have absolute control via the App Store. Now we have a choice between not using a lot of newer apps or upgrading to a new version of iOS (which is widely reported not to work reliably on our equipment, and with no way to downgrade again if those reports prove to be accurate in our case). All of this is entirely due to artificial problems caused by a throwaway software culture, and nothing to do with the hardware.
Not if those projects/SDK's have to interface with C, but that's just the reality.
Well "due process" without the supervision of the populous tends towards the law makers, which have proven at this point unreliable at best. When Government offices can blatantly disregard/subvert/willfully misinterpret the law and perjure themselves in court about that with impunity, it's clear that the existing system is broken. I wouldn't say it's beyond repair, but certainly the legal system needs to be held far more accountable than it is presently - and it's clear that Wikileaks is serving that purpose which is good. However, the manner in which they're doing that isn't beyond reproach.
Because Python 2 will be phased out in 5 years.
Every text object I've tried has worked great for me (even non-standard ones like cia/caa from arg-text-objects)
Everybody who develops SIL 4 code has a really tough time using any modern compiler, because the compiler has to be approved for development of security critical code. This usually means that the shippable version of your code has to compile on some proprietary compiler that is at least twenty years old and can't be improved without losing its certification.
I don't see the problem.

If Uber's costs will go up if they are no longer able to classify their employees as contractors, they can simply raise their prices. Uber appears to provide both a lower price and higher quality taxi service than traditional cabs, so even if their prices go up they will still be competitive.

If they have to raise prices above traditional cabs (highly unlikely), that suggests their service depended too heavily on a legal loophole that traditional cabs did not have.
'ci(' works, I just tried it. I don't know the 't' parameter there, but 'da(' works as expected as well.
From the email I read, that relied on executives making a donation of their own money. I don't see how this different from any other appeal. And in any way political donations are publicly available, you don't need leaked emails to identify them.
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Come on, this shit storm is way out of proportion. If it hasn't occurred to you that using Facebook Chat is essentially like writing postcards, you're probably new to the internet game. There's a million secure alternatives out there, choose one. (Threema, Telegram, and Wickr are among the best.)
Quite a lot of the proposed advantages of bitcoin are things that non-US banks have provided for a while. US banking is a badly functioning market with regulators who aren't interested in modernising the retail experience.
How can you say that? So much of the prose in the article is caveats, disclaimers, and admissions of existence. Indeed, these days one cannot state an opinion with out declaring political ties, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, shoe size and height. If this trend continues, disclaimers will make up 90% of any blogpost. If he had admitted/disclosed the nature of the one source you have mentioned, would your opinion of the article change?
So she was late to the interview yet she thinks her attire is what cost her the internship?
I think the sample data in this particular study is skewed horribly by the fact that it comes from SO. Only 5.8% female? Maybe thats because SO is sometimes a hostile community, curated by a bunch of pedantic gnomes. The fact that 48% of the responders to the study were self taught may be more accurate, as there is frankly so little schooling available in traditional education for web development. That said, SO is an ask-and-learn community, so Im actually a bit surprised that 48% is not larger.
Given their recent sales numbers, not very many.
From the article (EDIT: emphasis mine):

"Uber screened and trained its drivers, and drivers could get deactivated by Uber for having their rating dip below what local managers set as a cut-off, for not accepting a certain percentage of trip requests, or for customer complaints.
There's a cadre of people who troll this site for crimethink, then screencap it and post it to Twitter under the hashtag #hnwatch. If you have your name or company in your profile, be careful about posting here too.
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Yeah, the only number that impresses me there is the proportion of paying vs non-paying users which seems on the high side for a freemium product.

200k users could be achieved by signing up 3 or 4 megacorps (obviously at enterprise rates far lower than $10 per user) and having a business on that scale that doesn't make you a unicorn, even if you have a decent product and profitable business model. In fairness to Slack, the revenue run rates not mentioned in the article are more impressive, though I haven't seen how much they're spending to acquire those users.

Skype had well over 50x the user base of Slack - achieved over a similar timescale - when they sold for a similar valuation back in 2005. Frankly, I was far more impressed with how circumspect Butterfield was about his startup's prospects than the growth figures.