skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We shouldn't do A, because even though A is okay, it will likely lead to B, then C, then D, which is definitely bad.

I don't think this is a valid form of reasoning by itself. The onus is on you to show that the A > B > C > D causality chain is inevitable. Simply mentioning the phrase "slippery slope" doesn't constitute such an argument and can be dismissed without thought.
Again, the user does not care. The user sees blatant racism and sexism being tolerated, and in some cases celebrated, think the place is full of that, and leaves, never to return again.

You don't see how this is a problem for Reddit?
I can't resist the nitpick: you mean "draw", not "stalemate". A stalemate is one particular situation that causes the game to end in a draw.
encrypt it before shipping
3% for a debit transaction? that's insane, in the UK it's 0.2%+1p per transaction capped at 50p....
Yes. Depends on the virus, but in the case of HIV infection, the patient can produce over 1 billion new virus particles a day. Given the size (10kb) and mutation rate (10-3 to 10-6, iirc) every single nucleotide is mutated every single day.

There's more to it than that (lookup "biological filter" for example), but the virus must mutate to avoid drugs, which usually means a fitness hit (lower replication, for example). Upon infection of a new host, the virus can quickly maximize fitness once again. Not a "base version" per se, but a more ideal, fit virus, without many/most of the escape mutations.
We will never have perfect equality, there will always be discrimination upon some sort of vector. At that point anonymity is vastly better than an endless hamster wheel of trying to eradicate increasingly irrational and engrained biases.
> That it's stabler than most 1.0+ libraries is a good argument.

What exactly do you mean by stability here? A 1.0 library (according to semver) is not allowed to break compatibility unless they bump to 2.0.

Pre 1.0 version 0.14 is equivalent to version 14 if it had been 1.0. That's 14 breaking change in about 2 years. Or 7 a year. That's a lot. That's not stable.
The economist also rejects the 'need' in 'citation needed' :)
Lil Nil$ -
> The only problem with this is that this will be a zero sum game. If peak power consumption drops electric companies will start charging higher rates for off-peak hours or drop the off-peak rate completely.

Which will push those who can to local rooftop solar generation. We've already entered what the utilities refer to as a "death spiral" [+].

> Anything that will eventually lower the revenue of the electrical companies won't really be supported by them, however if they can employ batteries to "flatten" their peaks they might be contempt with keeping the current rates as long as is financially beneficial for them.

Agree.

[+] http://cleantechnica.com/2015/06/11/graph-of-the-day-what-a-...
JFK: declassified documents reveal a cunning and cagey president
I'm not sure what the current thinking on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Calhoun but his research would seem to indicate you're correct as opposed to the article.
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I'm not so sure that is a thing that happens with any great regularity - and I say that because the previously bright line between "this person offended me" and "this person is harassing me" has become a lot more blurry.

Sure, any of us can point at high profile cases, but there's that old saying about anecdotes and data.

The problem with your entire last sentence is that it's full of value judgements, value judgements shaped by your experience as a human and your own knowledge and biases. One person's "hate speech" is another person's "spirited argument", one person's "disagreement" is another person's "harassment".

You might have a very clear definition of "hate speech" in your mind as you write those words, but I'd be willing to bet if you defined it here in the most clear and unambiguous language you possibly could, you'd find perfectly reasonable people disagreeing with it.

And therein is the problem - I'm on the side of that line that leaves people the hell alone in all but the most egregious of cases, because at the end of the day, it's all words on a screen.
I will design a logo for your startup, on a pay-what-you-want basis
To give people what the 'exclusive venue' right look like. If a venue uses ticketmaster, and breaks the contract, they can't sign with another ticket vendor for one year. That pretty much locks everybody else out of the market. Or the venue is going to have one very quiet year.
> It is a serious point.

We'll have to agree to disagree there. It satires a position I don't hold. You both seem to assume that I believe immigration to be a 100% clear and unambiguous benefit, which isn't the case.

I'll go further; anyone who presents immigration arguments as simple is selling something.

In reality I'm making counter-points to someone I feel is trying to punch more than the evidence seems to allow.

Now to the points you've raised...

> The same claim - that immigrants are a benefit to the economy - has been stated without refute for 20 years now in the US

This thread is about the UK, and I learned all I know about the US from watching the movie Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps... but sure... if you like let's talk about the US. Why do you think nobody, apparently ever, refutes the benefits of US immigration?

> The participant rate of employment in the US...

Yep. Clearly a first-order effect of high immigration (legal or otherwise) is going to be competition for some types of jobs. I haven't heard any argument with that. There will be second-order and third-order effects on employment though.

It's also important to try to quantify the approximate size of each effect and the timescale over which it occurs. You're welcome to translate that "participant rate of employment" reference for an international audience. They didn't cover that in Nutty Professor 2.

> Now the taxpayers get to subsidize both the unemployed American worker and the immigrant (via health care, schooling, lost taxes, etc.)

I'm surprised that illegal immigrants have much access to healthcare & education access in the US. I'd be curious to know exactly what the cost of that is.

The third type of subsidy you raise there 'lost taxes' could really just be a short-hand for 'all government services', so isn't additive with the others. What's in the "etc."?

Don't misunderstand, having one group subsidising another is certainly a social justice issue, but it doesn't seem like it's in the top 5 biggest social justice issues in America. The Klumps were very informative on that point.

> How this is a benefit for anyone other than capital owners is something I'd love to hear.

From your references to H1B visas and to subsidising immigrants not paying taxes I assume you're objecting to both legal and illegal immigrants. Legal immigrants are much much easier to defend:

60% of the top US companies were founded by 1st or 2nd gen immigrants (Google, Apple, eBay, Tesla), and 15% of US presidents are 2nd gen.

Immigrants are also twice as likely as naturals to start a business, creating both jobs and market efficiency. Both of those things generate tax revenue and prolong the US position as the #1 economy in the world.

Even if you don't believe in trickle-down economics you'd sound like a crackpot to argue against that.

With illegal immigrants there's much less data and the arguments I've heard are are much less convncing... but I still don't believe anyone who presents it as a simple argument.
There may be some prior art here:

https://patents.google.com/patent/CN203310960U/en?q=feces&q=...
TSMC's A9 Chip Outperforming Samsung's in Early iPhone 6s Battery Benchmarks
Those are both types of lithium ion batteries.
Yep. If you want to outcompete Ticketmaster you have to increase your revenue by jacking up the ticket prices even more (so your real customers get more money).
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> It’s not for production use at this point. ...you should plan to blow away all your data between nightly build installs.

I hope they will provide a proper migration path and docs this time from current storage to this new one. Got burned once with the 0.9.x RC series where they changed storage system with no way to migrate earlier RC data.
Except when they close entire research labs overnight with practically no notice, corporate-style:

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/innova...

[2] https://thmatters.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/letter-re-closing...
No idea the highest I've seen is 1.25% for Amex Cashback Platinum...
On one hand they propose dramatically increasing economic spending because if only one thing is certain and in no dispute, its that denser design is more expensive to construct AND maintain. On the other hand they dismiss property rights and representative government as obsolete concepts to be scoffed at because they stand in the way of "progress" where progress is curiously defined as lowering standards of living due to higher density. The only rational conclusion is they must be proposing socialized government owned and operated and maintained ultra high density housing. AKA "the projects". And nobody wanted to live there when we tried it.

Usually the WP has better written articles. The individual lines and paragraphs are well organized written. It only fails are the higher organizational writing levels where its wrong, and poorly organized. One exception is the conclusion is completely wrong. Detroit never stopped evolving. It just evolved in a direction most people hated, so everyone who could, left. FUD along the lines of turn this place into the projects or else it'll turn into the projects isn't very logical.
To be fair, most of the things they deleted were also unpalatable to the vast majority of users, not just advertisers, and many were actively detracting from Reddit as a whole. Why shouldn't Reddit be allowed to do what is best for the group? They have no obligation to provide anything to trolls.
Hasn't really impacted Netflix and pretty much every other customer using AWS.
Is that more of a function of poverty, rather than density though? HK has a lot of density, yet if not for the shitty climate, would IMO have been the most desirable place to live on earth (yeah I know this is subjective, but there is no shortage of people who would agree with me here).
How? Phage therapy — which, let's be real, isn't accepted anywhere outside of Russia, Georgia, and Poland(?) — would only help against bacterial pathogens. It's useless against other viruses.
Autoimmune disorders are a large category - there's also some evidence that autism-spectrum disorders are caused by autoimmune responses in the mother.
Apple Avoids $60B in Taxes by Keeping Money Overseas, Report Says
I'm guessing he's talking about The Guardian article linked to above with AMP. The AMP site looks great to me on a large display.
yes, MariaDB is still a drop-in replacement for MySQL with a number of enhancements. There are a few minor incompatibilities to be aware of.

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-features/
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibi...
They also reposted images from other subreddits, causing hordes of FPH regulars to find the original post and spam the poster with PMs telling them how much FPH hated them and how awful they were. Some of the posts even pointed people at the right subreddit, with the knowledge and complicity of the FPH moderators. We know this because at least one person who was on the receiving end of this complained to the mods, and they responded by posting another post drawing more attention to the original one and posting her photo in the subreddit sidebar. She later posted on r/suicidewatch saying she was thinking of killing herself, and FPH regulars piled into that with some nasty comments too. It got to the point that some subreddits started discouraging people - especially women - from posting selfies solely because they kept getting posted on FPH.
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John Stuart Mill even acknowledged this by disseminating between harm and offense, the former of which trumps free speech and the latter of which doesn't.

Burning flags and racist remarks are discomforting, yes, but sending an individual death threats and stalking them is harmful. Reddit admins asserted that the latter behavior was happening.
You hit almost all of the in vogue anti-free speech equivocations except the "fire in a crowded theater" argument.

Regardless, you've just moved the goalposts from "what is free speech" to "what is violent speech" which contributes nothing to the conversation but adds the specter of "danger", which throughout history has been mostly used by those who wish to curtail political speech under the guise of "safety".
Tearing apart the system would yield significantly more valuable hardware than just the kindle.
Hi there! Thanks for taking the time to reply. To be clear, I was referring to the AMP version of the Guardian page from the parent comment, so that would probably be outside of your domain to fix.

But to show what I'm talking about, here's how the page looks on my desktop in Chrome:

https://imgur.com/OGy3ltz

Again, that just seems like wasted real-estate.
It's not hard to learn, as evidenced by all the people writing functioning perl after reading only a few scripts. It just takes a long time to learn entirely. ;)
It's so common it's a whole genre in of itself nowadays: "quit lit".

[1] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/09/essays-academ...
Hi Cody, It was interesting to read your post. I actually spend all my professional time looking at stuff like this, to optimise my own performance, and that of clients.

The frequent toilet breaks, handstands, water consumption are great ideas. I do similar, but my journey to the toilet in my home office, passes me by a pull-up bar, so I do a bursts of strenuous activity. You could try upping the cardio vascular output.

Your comment about screen distance and eyes is interesting. Personally I can be locked into my screen and in a state of flow for hours at a time, provided the task challenges and engages me. Is this healthy? Time will tell, but my eyesight has remained constant for the last 5 years. That said, I can lucky enough to have views, so I stare into the distance frequently. Could you hang up an epic and beautiful picture, on the far wall?
A few other points to consider..
How frequently are you getting outside? How frequently are you talking to other people?
Have you done anything like yoga or Tai Chi? Suck activities are a core part of my flow state protocol.. and do wonders for long term physical mainataince. Look into QiGong. feel free to email me.. jiro@theflowstatecollective.com :)
I'm curious, because I haven't seen much discussion on this point: Ignoring that it is called Perl 6 and has it's lineage in a well-known language called Perl 5, what are some of its advantages over some of the other languages it will be considered alongside?

If I'm starting a new project, and I'm familiar with a bunch of other languages (including, but not limited to, Perl 5), what should draw me to Perl 6?
Yeah. Not everyone wants to live like this: http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1510808/original.jpg
"trying to keep everyone happy when that is an impossibility."

This is something I think we can all agree upon.

There's no need to denigrate people who may feel triggered or are offended, though. Reddit just needs to decide what's most important to them. If they want to give a platform to anyone, regardless of how vile their speech, that's totally fine! But, they should not also expect widespread adoption of their site. Most people are not vile and will be happy to move along to less hateful pastures.
Agreed that the article fails to empathize with different preferences - I would also argue that it really only considered one side of the environmental argument. Density leads to efficiency in many cases, but the culture of high consumption, travel, and general activity that is promoted by density can result in more pollution rather than less.

In the ideal if we could hold human behavior constant, high density would still be more efficient per capita. Also certainly there are suburbanites who consume and travel with the best of them - but to an individual who is self-aware of their carbon footprint, living in a less dense area may even be an improvement (for instance if it makes the idea of a walking or bicycling commute less unpleasant). And certainly our planet cannot support billions of people driving and buying new plastic toys every year in perpetuity, regardless of where or how densely they live.

Ultimately, if we want to fix the environmental/ecological issues our species faces, it will take more than building some new residences in major cities. This isn't to say it shouldn't be done - but the article definitely seems to overstate the impact of it.
Sand is considered quite valuable also...where value is relative of course. India in particular has a big problem with illegal sand dredging.
if someone ever wondered why ipv4 address space is exhausting so fast: this is part of the reasons ;D
>a baker refusing to make a cake for a gay couples wedding.

>This is an example where government enforced capitalism has been enshrined in law and it is a good thing.

No, it's a government-enforced liability, it has nothing to do with capitalism (if anything, it's borderline anti-capitalistic). The fact that the second store serving the disenfranchised is substandard or non-competitive has nothing to do with the fact that the original store would not serve some population. A third store could also service those disenfranchised by the first and unsatisfied by the second. That's capitalism. Now if there's some kind of regulation limiting the number of stores, that's anti-capitalistic government action (a government-sanctioned oligopoly of sorts).

Let's say the baker decides to close their business rather than be forced to serve some group of people. Is that baker still obligated to make that cake? Why? What if the baker moves their business to a region that allows personal biases, is the baker obligated to bake that cake?

Your example is more akin to stores requiring patrons to wear shirt and shoes to receive service. Potential customers are being discriminated against here for an arbitrary reason based on some ideal of what is considered public decency. Do you think that a Muslim store requiring female customers to wear a burqa is discriminatory, or are they practicing freedom of religion? Does the government forcing the Muslim store to allow female customers without a burqa violate the first amendment?
What if you sold those venues software that let them be their own vendor?
Absolutely fantastic! It's nice to see Sam et al putting their money to good use.

I really hope that we see some development of new types of programming languages. We seem to be stuck in a rut with procedural/OO/mostly-functional languages. Some research around flow based programming, especially related to machine learning. I can't help thinking we're missing something here...
You'll be able to create volumes as first class citizens in the next Docker release with the new 'docker volumes' command if I'm not mistaken:
https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/4b4597ae17d4fd8843aa93...
I'm flattered because it's hard to move the goalposts when you never comment or set them to begin with. Did you reply to the right person?
I used to know it since when it worked from Europe too... and I think I liked its selection more than I do with Spotify.
> b) increasing the probability of malicious injection

Subresource Integrity (SRI) [0] was designed to avoid this potential vulnerability. It's a brand-new browser feature (jus t landed in Chrome stable, is riding the trains to Mozilla stable now) but it's worth taking a look at. Github is already using it [1].

[0]: http://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/
[1]: http://githubengineering.com/subresource-integrity/
> The Barbican Estate in London is one example of just how beautiful high density housing can be.

Really? De gustibus non est disputandum and all that, but I've lived in London for 15 years, and I can't remember hearing anyone describe the Barbican as anything other than a Brutalist eyesore.
Sure it's "human" and not "shibboleet" as in https://xkcd.com/806/ ? :)
Solar is still very expensive at around 10K$ an upwards in the US and considerably more expensive in Europe, solar is also not an option for the majority of residents in the big cities where electrical supply is usually a bigger issue.

I'm personally not a big believer in residential solar, it can't be as efficient as dedicated solar installations and the cost overhead for so many small scale installations pretty much outweigh the benefits in the long run. I do however believe that many smaller communities should be powered with renewable energy where possible. It can allow you to build much bigger and more efficient installations of wind and solar, won't require you to convert it to high voltage in order to connect it back to the grid/transfer it along large distances and your energy storage is also much easier.
Fishing the AWS IP Pool for Dangling Domains
It was a "consensus algorithm" in name only-- any conflict in consensus was "solved" by a central or semi-central control structure. It was also "pre-mined" in that all the ripples already existed and had been magically bestowed upon a few anointed individuals.

In addition to these shortfalls at an architectural level, the folks who seemed to be both in control of the centralized authority and sitting on top of all the premined ripples had well documented histories of shady behavior.
I'm not sure if this address your specific pain point, but if your issue is around building images, if you first COPY requirements.txt and then do `pip install` before COPYing the rest of your code into the image, Docker caching will actually cache that layer for you.
FastMail is not required to implement the Australian metadata retention laws
It'd be further from the truth if war deaths were increasing, or were decreasing at a slower rate. The war death rate is down to about 5% of its peak.

http://ourworldindata.org/data/war-peace/war-and-peace-after...
> Getting root on your readers' computers, no doubt.

Since when? The only JS privilege escalation is this Firefox vuln from 2008: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2008-1...
It's getting heavily spammed currently, yeah. All i'm seeing is "TREE SUCE DES BITES". I don't even know what that means
Can you prefix your question with an 'Ask HN:'? That way HN users can easily see what is a question vs. an article or link.
>I'd never have known about all the "bad" stuff if it weren't for other people telling me about it.

This is precisely the issue with "bad" stuff. It draws better attention to itself than the good stuff does. All the more reason for Reddit to get control of it if they want to inspire user growth and maintain ad revenue.
Thanks dawg.
Seriously, has the world not copped on to these cod merchants yet? Why are journalists still deferring to "Economists" as experts on what's going on? They have no more idea than Punxsutawney Phil. Priests of a failed religion, mumbling the rote-learned catechisms of a banal faith - no existence but that granted by cynics cloistered in vaults of pure iron pyrite.
Considering it's 23 years old, I think it has a roughly equal chance of being submitted on every day - and today's the day.
Orwellian Citizen Score, China's credit score system
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he.rides.across.the.nation

the.thoroughbred.of.sin

he.got.the.application

that.you.just.sent.in

it.needs.evaluation

so.let.the.games.begin

a.heinous.crime

a.show.of.force

a.murder.would.be.nice.of.course