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snsron Ask HN: Reading recommendations for understanding food allergies?

As a parent of a child with multiple life-threatening food allergies, I cannot stress enough the degree to which the references you've posted are actively harmful.

The quackery promoted by some of the people you've mentioned can have real consequences for people who have anaphylactic reactions to foods.

snsron Slow leak detected aboard Space Station

Apparently a 1.5mm puncture due to a meteor/debris strike in the Russian Soyuz MS-09 module.

More information:

http://blogs.esa.int/alexander-gerst/2018/08/30/slow-leak-de...

https://twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7...

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/soyuz-ms-09.html#leak

snsron McConnell bill would legalize hemp as agricultural product

Legalize it.

snsron Palantir deployed a predictive policing system in New Orleans

> independent academics found it can have a disparate impact on poor communities of color. A 2016 study reverse-engineered PredPol’s algorithm and found that it replicated “systemic bias” against over-policed communities of color and that historical crime data did not accurately predict future criminal activity.

That sounds like more than "bad press".

snsron Police Homicides in the United States

> But in a little less perfect imaginary world, in which bad people never get the chance to hurt innocents because police stops it, some bad people might still go down resisting arrest, at which point 100% of all homicides would be police-inflicted, and that would be good. Not perfect, but better than what we have.

What kind of dystopian nightmare is this?

> The real question is, how many of those killed by the police were killed in totally justifiable self-defense, and not just because of policemen being trigger-happy. Or, put another way, what's the probability that a person who is not resisting arrest to get "accidentally" killed by the police.

It's rarely an accident.

snsron Police Homicides in the United States

> but I think this is a complicated result of wider cultural issues, none of which can be isolated

The lack of accountability for murders committed by police in the US is not a difficult "issue" to isolate.

snsron The Equifax disaster points to a much bigger problem

What. the. fuck.

http://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-republ...

> The FCRA Liability Harmonization Act is particularly noxious. Authored by Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), the bill would cap actual and statutory damages for class actions involving credit agencies at $500,000, and completely eliminate punitive damages.

Loudermilk said Friday that his bill “is aimed at curbing frivolous class action lawsuits against businesses under the Fair Credit Reporting Act,” which contains many of the rules for credit agencies.

snsron Cybersecurity Incident Involving Consumer Information

> I'll bet $5 that signing up for their monitoring service comes with a class-action waiver

It does indeed.

https://trustedidpremier.com/static/terms

snsron Show HN: BigQuery dataset: 22M FCC comments on net neutrality

Not sure who, but the fraudulent comments were all submitted by a bot. Verizon has made similar efforts in the past.

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Bots-Flood-FCC-Website-Wi...

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Consumers-Demand-FCC-Inve...

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/6a6qvi/someone_...

http://www.zdnet.com/article/a-bot-is-flooding-the-fccs-webs...

snsron Leaked document: EU Presidency calls for massive internet filtering

snsron Internet Censorship Bill Could Spell Disaster for Speech and Innovation

> So where is the problem again?

Third-party liability for content hosts is a problem for all online platforms. Platforms are not dumb pipes in the way that an ISP should be.

snsron Why We Terminated Daily Stormer

> Not all neo-Nazis

Give me a break.

snsron Intel CEO leaves American Manufacturing Council

Absolutely incorrect. No brakes, and he sped up. This was an intentional attack.

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/896433978810519552/pu/p...

snsron EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown request

> it seems very odd that the DMCA could even be applicable here

This is an invalid takedown request.

snsron Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud

> As much as I dislike the guy, I do believe he didn't want to rip the people off, he wanted to try to salvage what he could to make himself look good get them their money.

I think his behavior in both this case and in his "pharmaceutical" endeavor clearly demonstrate his willingness to rip people off.

snsron Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures

I tried it and instantly switched all of my editors and terminals over - it's clear, legible at different sizes, and the monospace script "italics" are great for variable names, comments etc.

snsron Jeff Sessions Announces Justice Department Will Increase Asset Forfeiture

> I don't like Mr. Sessions, nor do I like asset forfeiture, but I'd like to know more about the efficacy of rehab before heading down that path.

It's a lot more effective (and just) than locking people up.

snsron Jeff Sessions Announces Justice Department Will Increase Asset Forfeiture

It's now possible for a drug dealer to serve time in a forfeiture-financed prison after being arrested by agents driving a forfeiture-provided automobile while working in a forfeiture-funded sting operation.

— Reagan attorney general Richard Thornburgh in 1989

Replace "drug dealer" with "minority individual" and this quote would be as accurate today as it was in 1989.

snsron Jeff Sessions Announces Justice Department Will Increase Asset Forfeiture

This practice (brought back to life by Reagan's "Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984") is not only unjust but unconstitutional at face value.

The cynicism required to double down on this practice is a new low for Sessions, something I didn't think was possible.

snsron Archiveteam are backing up SoundCloud

> As long as there is a single party interested in content hosted on IPFS, the "IPFS Network" will persist.

I imagine that's one of the reasons why it's not ideal for archival content.

snsron Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment

> Instead, there must be social and business pressures brought to bear to prevent emboldened behavior with accountability.

Some of the actions described in the article are crimes - these assholes should be prosecuted.

snsron It’s Complicated: Unraveling the mystery of why people act as they do

Thank you

snsron The Liana Vine and Its Role in Global Warming

Anecdotally, it's prevalence seems to have increased markedly in my neck of the woods over the past ~15 years.

snsron Tanium is facing employee unrest and an executive exodus

> Where is the evidence?

> These claims are 100% false.

hmm

snsron Protesters raise more than $200K to buy Congress’s browsing histories

There were no "fence-sitting" Senators for this vote - all voting Republicans wanted to remove privacy protections. All Democratic and Independent Senators voted to keep privacy protections in place.

snsron US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering

snsron AT&T, other U.S. advertisers quit Google, YouTube over extremist videos

> but the news programs during the day is just facts as far as I can tell

Selective reporting and the style and tone of presentation matter.

snsron MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award

I imagine so, and I certainly applaud the spirit of the award, but I still thought it worth noting.

snsron Stocks are up but 80% of the value is held by the richest 10%

> everything keeps going up

Except real wages for the vast majority.

snsron MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award

MIT was complicit in the prosecution of Aaron Swartz for seemingly qualifying activities.