skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a reflection of American individuality, which sort of turns into selfishness and isolationist at some point. Everyone must have their own front/back yard. Everyone must own a car, which in turn is housed in its own garage, which itself is its own sanctuary cum creative space, so much so that most music bands start rehearsing in garages, businesses start in garages, etc. Garages also double as storage rooms for home maintenance tools, machining equipment, car repair, and everything a "man" must have. The average American home can supply all the tools necessary to start a small, home-repair business. Why does everyone need a 12' ladder just to clean the gutters once a year? Why no borrow/rent?
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That sounds extremely counterproductive. At the point where you are letting the government mandate warning labels on political advocacy, you are by definition delegating authority for the absolute prohibition of that same speech, subject only to an exception when government-approved content requirements are complied with.

Think about this as an algorithm: Try to imagine all of the security flaws that are jumping out at you. What if an actor trying to subvert the system chose to require content warnings that were significantly longer than the ensuing speech? What if the warnings mandated displaying horrific images or ear piercing noises? There are virtually infinite ways to abuse this authority and convert it into a veritable license to ban opposition speech.

Allowing the government to ban certain speech right now is terrifying enough, but it's at least limited by fairly objective and reassuring judicial safeguards. What kinds of standards could possibly be durable enough to codify regarding which kinds of political speech can be required to bear which labels? What about what kinds of content the labels can be required to include? The permutations are endless; there's simply no practical way to prevent leaky abstraction. The system will eventually fail.

When that's just normal hardware, it's a pain in the ass to fix. But when the substrate upon which you're operating is modern civilization, you probably won't even get the chance — your first mistake will be humanity's last.
I think there is also a political dynamic in the US, where the inconsistencies in moderate politics have to be resolved one way or another, and people resolve them by choosing extreme views.

By inconsistencies, I mean that anyone who is moderately left-wing with regard to Israel, will be called a crazy anti-semite (as Rand Paul is) unless they are to the far left on domestic politics. Similarly anyone who is on the moderate right on domestic politics is expected to be far right with regard to Israel and the Middle East.

Anyone with moderate, consistent views would be called anti-Semitic by the right, and racist by the left.
I'm thinking of setting up "gateways", like bitlbee, so I can do:

To: facebook#post#friends@localhost

Subject:

Body:

Hey this is a post to Facebook, from email!
I thought we were talking about Slack, and several other hosted services, which don't fit the description you've just given, at all. But, for a self-hosted chat service, then yes...that's a benefit.
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If your code is on GitHub, you might be interested in Reviewable (https://reviewable.io, disclosure: I built it). It's made for incremental full-branch review (though will also do per-commit if you wish) and deals gracefully with rebasing. As a bit of social proof, Mozilla's Servo project (https://github.com/servo) moved their code review process from Critic to Reviewable a couple months ago...
"Kissing hands and shaking babies."

Brilliant.
> If the price got lower there would probably be less poaching.

You are making a ton of assumptions about the behavior of the market that I'm assuming you have nothing to back up with. But provide some links if you have anything, I'm all ears.

> Combine that with funded-via-non-poaching campaigns against poachers.
And organizations like http://vetpaw.org/

Yes, what about them? They are increasing the price?
You are seeing the country from your own lens. That doesn't make sense. The circumstances that surround this country are very different from they places we live in.

> * "Saudis prefer not to grant visas to unaccompanied women"

Saudi Arabia has managed to be secure for certain conservative reasons. Unaccompanied women create too many opportunities for insecurity and the country's security forces cannot handle this.

> * "Nationals of Israel and those with evidence of visiting Israel will be denied visas"

Israel and Saudi are not exactly on talking terms. Same policies exist in Israel for those who visit muslim countries in the Middle East.

> "LGBT activities are illegal in Saudi Arabia and it is one of the least homosexual friendly countries in the world. First offenses attract prison sentences of several months to life, fines with whipping/flogging, castration, torture, vigilante killings and public execution. A second conviction invariably results in execution."

So was America for a number of years. So was China. And they will continue to be the same way for a very long time. America and China have different reasons for not being this way, and it has absolutely nothing to do with morality or social freedom.

Think of a country's laws as a reaction to the nature of the people. In the western world, there are a different set of laws for crowd control. In Saudi Arabia where illiteracy is high and schooling is decentralized, crowd control takes on a different soul. Consider Iraq and Egypt and Syria, countries that have gone through their own transformations. Dictatorship seems to have returned or is being demanded for the purpose of safety and stability.
Looking at Whatsapp and Instagram's engineering teams' sizes, could twitter do with less than 100 engineers?

If yes than what justifies having thousands when 50 would do? How does an organization get to that point?
One example I particularly like is why there aren't animals that roll as their primary method of transportation. The steps in between walking and perfect roundness are so disadvantageous that mutations in that direction would probably be the death of that individual (imagine a square armadillo). If an animal was genetically engineered to be able to roll without all the steps I'm between, it might make them even more fit than their non-mutated cousins.
Those are staggering statistics. All the more reason to streamline the immigration process to make sure they become valuable contributors to US growth.
Exactly. Or if looked at in this specific guys case. Someone is willing to put two kids through college, and all he wants in return is some old jeans.
Employers require you to hand them your passport, and you get it back at the end of your work contract.

Not unusual for employers to owe labor several months worth of salary, and then deny knowing them, so workers get deported. A process known as tarheel in Arabic. When a worker decides to quit his or her job, out of desperation, the employer reports them and their visa status is flagged as huroob, it literally means "escapee", or runaway.
Certainly there are people who can calculate the net impact such a group has on revenue or cost of operation?
Idea: Ferrolic showing Rorschach faces until it's 'asked' to show time.
Saudi Arabia has just been chosen to head the United Nation panel on Human Rights. Disgrace abounds.
Not at all. That world existed, for the brief interval between 'only people who have access to a computer are people who devoted their careers to it' and 'everybody who can afford $50 a month has access to the Internet'.

In that time, only a few people had access to computing and network resources, but they were all well-educated, reasonably well-paid and curious, with lots of motivation to help each other out and little motivation to undermine each other. It might have remained just a brief blip of history, except that so many technologies developed during that time, designed with the security assumptions of that time (i.e. practically none), became the fundamental underpinnings of our modern world, like MS-DOS and Unix.
Wrt the example of fraction division, isn't this the standard way? Was anyone here taught to cross-multiply for division?
Looking at the list here: [1] Most of the top employers are hardware companies, and therefore likely to contribute mostly driver patches. For example, the rankings by LoC for this release list AMD as over a third of the contributions, almost certainly because of their new AMDGPU driver. Drivers are important, of course, but hardly news-worthy. Red Hat is always near the top of the list, and they do a lot of both the drudge work and the interesting stuff, but I feel as though everyone in the Linux community already knows that.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/654633/
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This guy has a serious talent for pragmatism.
We've already witnessed it in Ruby so many times, for example in method naming, just to quote the most obvious.

Here we witness it once again: the way he wants to tackle in Ruby 3.0 the features the community has always been asking for (mainly speed and concurrency) is just so convenient and right. Also, to top it off, after seeing Ruby issues with switching from 1.8 to 1.9 he is always keeping one eye open on retro compatibility. A perfect example of a lesson learned case at work. Hopefully the final equation will be wisdom + love = Ruby.
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Have you tried software called Long

Path Tool, it is absolute solution for

such kind of errors.
To be frank, it's more like 1084. There is no sophisticated surveillance apparatus, because they Hay'a (as it's known) is forbidden from spying on Muslims.

"In addition, the power of the mutawwa'in is limited by the Koran, which frowns upon those who intrude on the privacy of others in order to catch them in sinful acts. The mandate of the Committee on the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice is specifically to regulate behavior in the public realm. What occurs behind closed doors is between a believer and God."

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/05/the-king...
Great document. Lots of this rings true to me. I have two "$thing Zero" anecdotes:

Paper Zero: Have a paperless office

Consumerism Zero: Rather than buying items based on advertising or impulse, do deep research to find a quality product that meets your needs.
I'm a parent. I'm finding this a valuable read for checking in on my kids' common core math.
Historically opiates were available for public consumption and caused far less harm than they do now. Experiments since the widespread campaign of prohibition with prescribing unadulterated heroin for recreational use has shown it to be effective. Chasing the Scream documents the history of illict drug prohibition since the Volstead act very well.
This speaks to flexibility and information density inherent in text

That is true, however, the only reason there is such "information density" is that you already know the meanings of those words, idioms, assumptions, etc. You know a lot of context that isn't being explicitly stated.

That quoted sentence has little meaning to a child or to anyone without a good deal of education and shared cultural background.

Diagrams and text serve very different purposes.
fwiw, I was taught in the mid 90's about how (a/b) / (c/d) = (a/b) * (d/c) = (ad)/(bc)
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I'm confused by the last sentence:

> The whole web, including Firefox users, will benefit.

Why is Firefox thrown in here? And the post is even tagged with "firefox". But the contents of the post seems to have absolutely nothing to do with Firefox, except inasmuch as Firefox is an application that interacts with the web.
Regardless of the coefficient, it comes down to whether or not everyone else in the company realizes that the tools expertise is the secret sauce driving the money train. I think that's what the person you were replying to was getting at.

It is unfortunate, but the reality of our profession is that tools/infrastructure work always has an uphill battle when it comes to justifying engineering time. It's something we all have to fight for when appropriate, and discussing why and how to do that can be super useful.

Working on tools and infrastructure is by definition time spent making things that will help us make things to make money. The people paying us usually would much rather have us spend time making things to make money, rather than making things to make things to make money. If there's not enough trust between the engineer and the nontechnical manager/investor/whatever, it can be hard to get buy-in for time and money spent making something which is essentially an IOU for hypothetical returns later on. Build that trust and have great ideas and hopefully resources can be directed towards indirect (tools/infrastructure/whatever) engineering expenses.

It is always an uphill battle though, I think it's just the nature of the industry, or at least most companies. :( I'm not bitter though, because it really is totally rational if you look at it from the perspective of the stakeholder who would have to approve it. Just part of the professional landscape to be aware of.
No the helper block is the assumption block. The input to the block connects to the first output of the implication block. The output is the assumption, i.e. whatever you typed into it. You can use that to prove more things. Then use the implication block to show that the assumption implies those things.
So, but that isn't really a "proprietary OS" if it's a Windows 7 image loaded with software.

That internship sounds pretty cool. I bet they do have some neat tech.
Improve entrepreneurial rate by filling a minor gap.
SOLUTION
A platform that allows Idealist to post an idea and get feedback from the crowd. Make fragile ideas into solid. Idealist’s value would get Feedback (F), Comment (C) & Vote (V).

For people who has an idea but don’t know whether their idea is workable.

We think this is very important to get the feeling from the public about your idea before you start focus on it and before you launch your product to the market.

PROBLEM
We should stop wasting our idea and be creative to do the things we want to do by using our experience, interests and talent, as human brains are unique, which makes us all has unique idea.

COMPETITION
http://www.ideaswatch.com/ are one of the identical site that related to my idea. I believe there are a huge potential for improvement.

WHY AM I HERE
I am doing a user research. Hopefully can get some feedback from the public about the competitor website (http://www.ideaswatch.com/).
I think this is going to become more and more common. There are not a ton of great reasons IMO to locate anything but your core engineering team in tech hot spots like San Francisco, Boston and New York.
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It doesn't seem to say so anywhere on the page, but "Rhei" is presumably a reference to the ancient Greek phrase, "panta rhei" (πάντα ῥεῖ), which means "everything flows." It's associated with the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus, and while the phrase itself doesn't occur in any of his extant writings, it's reminiscent of his famous observation that you can never step into the same river twice.

Pretty awesome name for a liquid clock.
Awesome news! When I 1st arrived in USA (from Australia back in 2009) I never knew of Atlassian when their tools were brought on-premise at Coupons.com. Boy was I proud to hear it's an Aussie product. Yap, it was expensive.

As time went on and I moved on to do my own gig. I wanted to go cheap so I explored many alternative products to replace Jira/Agile, Bitbucket, Confluence, Bamboo etc.. what I ended up with is different tools with different interfaces sticky taped together working just OK.

This got frustrating and I decided to dump them all and move to Atlassian OnDemand. The overhead of managing & educating staff on all these tools was just not worth the pennies saved. This is the power in Atlassian products, their tight integration and consistency. Yeah there are quirks here and there but those always get resolved and features added over time.

Anyways I love Atlassian products and I hope their IPO is a success! Long journey to get this far but well worth it. Solid company!
Facebook used to have this feature but I can't find it anymore. I only found out about it after meeting someone in Tokyo and have never been able to find the feature since which leads me to wonder if it's geofenced.
The new touchpad definitely has physical travel. I turned mine off and pressed various spots on it. The "click" went away, of course, but the travel is clearly visible around the edges of the touchpad.
Submissions do not have to have anything to do with "Startup/Hacker culture", I wish people wouldn't assume that.
I don't know why you got downvoted, because you are right, the new touchpad definitely has some travel. If you turn the machine off and press hard on the touchpad you can see the motion quite clearly around the edges.
I really do wonder what kind of numbers we would get if we did the same on a number of other large projects. I keep having the feeling that RH have a massive amount of say in the Linux ecosystem, for better or worse...
The author works for mozilla, and firefox is a common theme on his blog. I think it's for regular readers of his blog to understand the practical impact (readers he assumes care more than average about firefox).
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I haven't read Pattern Recognition in years. Cayce Pollard would dig in an old mine for 135 year old pairs of jeans, wouldn't she??
I really hate that link. Not only is it uninformative, I disagree with it. If you know the shape of your html data, parsing it with regular expressions can be much easier than with a dedicated parser.
In the UK most people have a dim view of the military and really would not want their children to join the army when they grow up.

That's interesting. Only 75 years ago the UK came oh so close to speaking German, were it not for the military.

Do you believe that human nature has changed in such a short time? I don't. In fact I think there are quite a few Ukrainians (and other Eastern Europeans) right now who can only wish they had a capable military to counteract that little megalomaniac dictator in Russia.

The military doesn't exist solely to "kill beige-coloured people".
well, I am not saying that warning labels of that sort should be placed on speech. What I mean is that it is extremely difficult to know the biases. What I am attempting to articulate, perhaps not that well, is that a media outlet claiming to be 'fair and balanced' should have to articulate what that means and how it effects their reporting and how they frame their stories. News should mean just that, presenting advocacy as neutral information reporting is also counter-productive for the viewer.
Are they really different things? I inform, you advocate, he spews lies and deception.

Just sounds like different perspectives on the same action.
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I can highly recommend it.
Was about to mention aspect-oriented programming myself, the pattern here strongly reminded me of it.
They aren't doing a very good job. Their site is broken.
I would also say www.campusbulletinboard.com; let me know what you think?
First you have to separate this view that Muslim == repression.

The ruling class is held afloat by oil. The people that would otherwise be itching for "freedom" are either held in check by state oppression or the direct proceeds of oil. All the machinery of oppression, and the silly exporting of de-stability (the arms to ISIS) are a direct result of both oil, and the alliance between the US and Saudi Arabia, promising that the US won't invade, and SA will continue to pump oil.

The Saudis ruling are literally the family that give everyone else a bad name. (although Qatar and Kuwait are very close)

Turkey is a democracy and is liberal, However they are not Christian, so they have different values. They also have three active wars on 40% of its borders.

The solution is stopping giving them money, arms and other interventions.
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>Same policies exist in Israel for those who visit muslim countries in the Middle East.

I find this hard to believe. Do you happen to have a source?

Israel does indeed frequently deny entry based on bigoted reasons[0][1][2], but I've never heard of people being denied because of Muslim country passport stamps.

[0] http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2012/06/191899.htm

[1] https://electronicintifada.net/content/us-states-should-act-...

[2] http://gaza.usvpp.gov/border-crossings.html]
> The Lyft customer support team was informed that the move includes a lower pay in salary after one year in Nashville, according to sources.

Sort of a big ask, no?

Move to another state, take less salary or be fired.

Not saying it's not the right move for the company, but it's sort of a raw deal for the reps.
Nashville has some of the nicest people in customer-facing roles, in my experience, and coupled with its low cost of living and the area's desire for a more diversified economy, this sounds like a multiple win.
It's absolutely the case that having technical support, technical delivery, tech pubs, QA, engineering, all sitting close together and interacting has a lot of value.

Harder to make the argument for expert-tree customer support though, I'll grant you that.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect

>The term cobra effect stems from an anecdote set at the time of British rule of colonial India. The British government was concerned about the number of venomous cobra snakes in Delhi. The government therefore offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Initially this was a successful strategy as large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually, however, enterprising people began to breed cobras for the income. When the government became aware of this, the reward program was scrapped, causing the cobra breeders to set the now-worthless snakes free. As a result, the wild cobra population further increased. The apparent solution for the problem made the situation even worse.
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> Wow... how... how do you fix a place like this?

Electric cars and alternative fuels?
How many views do you need on YouTube to pay for 2 iPhones?
that neatly misses out the role of the otterman empire.

the Middle East is the way it is because we (NATO et al) dicked about repeatedly.

Iran is like it is, because we overthrew a democratically elected government to install the Shah. (operation AJAX)

Iraq is bollocksed because we gave arms to them to fight Iran in a war that turned religious.

Saudi Arabia is the way it is because there is an alliance between the US promising full military protection in return for oil.

Libia is fucked because we helped overthrow a dictator, pumped in arms and then left a power vacuum.

Syria is in shit because its a proxy war with russia, iran, SA, Qatar and "the west". We've all been pumping arms into there and wonder why its turned into a shitshow (yes, ISIS are driving around in armoured cars that we, the UK bought for them, they were the rebels yearning for democracy)

There are more, but its too depressing to right.

The main take away is that our interventionism is nothing to do with freedom, religious or otherwise. its to do with influence. We want a government that we can control.