skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ragel State Machine Compiler
> It certainly seems that the mere accusation of racism ... is career-destroying.

Examples?
Economists, Biologists and Skrillex on How to Predict the Future
It's also quite hard to file a bug. I did just that the other day, didn't want to make an account tried to use my github account, failed at that eventually did make an account. It's a pretty annoying bar to have to create an account with some system just to report a bug (which one should be able to do even anonymously). I understand you're trying your very best and work extremely hard but these little details all taken together add up to a fragmented and inconsistent picture which is something I really find a pity because Mozilla is an absolutely excellent product from a group of extremely capable people.
> Perfectly-well-meaning people, while supposedly building a bright tomorrow, create hell. Just like the 1950s Czechoslovakia. University execs scared not to cater to idiotic demands, public shaming, double-speak, government-sanctioned kangaroo courts.

After WWII, the Czechoslovak communists were faced with the problem of replacing the management of literally the whole country's public sector, as well as the newly nationalized formerly private sector, with people loyal to the new Republic. This meant no Nazi or Western collaborators, this meant purges. A lot of good people were chewed up, some died in prison or were executed. In the universities that had been closed since shortly after the beginning of the war, the students were allowed to take over, and run the administration, and later conduct the purges. This gave tremendous responsibility to people who had no qualification, no training, no life experience; and also tremendous power to people who by bribery or false testimony leveraged the system for personal gain or revenge. These drumhead hearings were not dissimilar to the Title IX hearings that take place on the campuses today. Here also are people with inappropriate training, perjury is rampant, the verdict is swift, but can it really be called just?

Read Kundera's The Joke[1] (also a 1968 movie), for a good illustration of the absurdity of it all.

The protagonist sends a letter to his girlfriend with a joke regarding something or other. She finds the joke offensive, shares her concern with some of her colleagues, a hearing is called, and our protagonist finds himself kicked out of the university, and branded politically unreliable. This means he can barely get the worst of jobs, and will in fact be forced to work in a penal colony for a few years. Never having been convicted of a crime, never having been given the opportunity to defend himself in a court of law. Because of a joke.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joke_(novel)
There are many ways to win wars against guerillas, but just as guerilla attacks on civilians are incompatible with western values, most of the responses are similarly incompatible.
This looks very interesting!

Also related: https://github.com/dominictarr/npmd
When I first heard about this in passing I had to investigate further because I just couldn't believe someone could go to jail for making a youtube video expressing a view. Especially not for decades with no warning.
I was under the (clearly naive) impression that the 1st amendment was a right that belongs to all Americans.
Can anyone explain how this can be legally justified?
I can certainly do networking, but there’s a difference with that and pure socializing. When you network, you want to know that the people you’re about to talk to have some reasonable chance of being interested in your topics. In pure socializing, it doesn’t matter, you just mash as many different people together as possible and it’s all good.

When I network, I want to know that this group, here, at this time or in this room or at this table, is actually interested in a specific topic which I wish to discuss. I can’t do that with a conference of hundreds of people most of which are not interested in the topics I want to discuss.

A conference should not be simply an opportunity to socialize. If that’s how you do conferences, then you’re doing them wrong.
This type of effort has a long tradition in the United States going back to many of the original colonies which were founded to be utopias based on the religious beliefs of the founding groups. A 'city on a hill' so to speak.

I think this has much of it's roots in the European Renaissance and the European Reformation. But the roots go farther back than that. Pythagoreans attemtped to form an ideal society and the ancient Israelites left Egypt to build a new ideal, sanctified society in the Land of Canaan.

You can see the fruits of this all over America, in Zionism, and in the Tech community which envisions Silicon Valley as an Island governed by the future :). Humans just want a nice place to live? Or maybe the end result of history really will be a Utopia? ;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_upon_a_Hill
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Harmony,_Indiana
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopian_socialism
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz
It's the price we pay for anonymity—which, when necessary, is important—and for a low barrier to entry, which is what allows project creators to show up randomly and comment, often adding some of the best material to HN. Those things are so valuable that HN is willing to pay the price of trolls and other abuses of new accounts. A general principle is that HN would rather tolerate bad things than miss out on good ones, as long as there are systems in place to deal with the bad things, like flagging and moderation.
Right. In that case I'm sure you'll understand if I tell you to fuck right off.
Why You Should Not Startup for Now
Sure, the OPs point was stated somewhat flippantly but the point still stands. If an average user owns an Apple device, they cannot install apps that are not on the App Store. Talking about what apps are available just seems like clouding the issue.
How high do living expenses have to be before a place has trouble hiring low-income or blue collar employees? Or will there always be those who are willing to put in the travel time to fill them?
Intel 4004 is announced, November 15, 1971
I’m not sure I’d say it “got a section” in The American Pageant. The coverage is pretty slim and light on detail. There’s discussion of how atrocious the American military was, but with some “oh the Filipino soldiers did bad things to American soldiers and then the Americans retaliated” excuses thrown in.

It’s on pp 637–638 here:
http://www.scuc.txed.net/webpages/cbaker/files/chapter%2027%...

And pp 646–647 here:
http://www.scuc.txed.net/webpages/cbaker/files/chapter%2028%...

And page 807 here:
http://www.scuc.txed.net/webpages/cbaker/files/chapter%2035%...
That's a very easy thing to say from a place of privilege, with current and historical institutions set up to protect and enforce your (and my) interests.

Edit: Here, I'll put it better: by telling people from historically disadvantaged groups to buck up and be quiet, you're effectively saying, "I reject your understanding of your experiences, so your perspective is invalid."
Why Each One Should Eat His Own Turtles: Equality in Uncertainty [pdf]
Then get an Android device. Yes, I know that sounds absolutist, but not having root is part of the proposition Apple offers users.
It's a delicate balance between security and freedom, and I imagine that it is something that Apple and other device makers juggle constantly. In this case, it means slower adoption of certain kinds of functionality. Like you say, it's something you get to live with, which I do as I use Apple products.
British Columbia, 1983/1984. I'm struggling to remember whether it was Grade 9 or Grade 10 - it was in the section covering world war II. Mind blowingly boring, and the teacher was clearly just checking off all the bullet points in the curriculum, one after another. Horrible way to teach.

I'm wondering if that particular segment was dropped(or was added at one point) to the curriculum for propaganda purposes - certainly didn't make the Japanese sound like very nice people.
The article we are currently discussing is a good place to start though there are certainly others if you care to look (in academia at least).
Or maybe for some of us it's okay to use a closed ecosystem as long as we understand the limitations that come with it? Maybe it's worth it for what we perceive as the benefits of such a system?

"Age is a bad excuse"
Do we need an excuse for using a closed ecosystem? It's a choice and one that doesn't have to be justified to anyone but ourselves.
We banned this account as abusive, detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10569461, and marked it off-topic.
Visit China. Maglev trains, new cities from the ground up, giant dams... It's happening.
The ins and outs of research grant funding committees
VirusTotal analysis results for adobe_flashplayer_9.exe: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/fd2e9b0f25c675f1d42743ea5...
I think I know what you're referring to, but we've never called them "byzantine streams".

Are you talking about snapshots that have been broken by extended attributes bugs, or "disappearing" snapshots ... and then what happens when you send/recv them ?

Actually, either way, would you email info@rsync.net so we can chat over email ?
One of the most underrated poets of all time. What's incredible is that during his lifetime, he was known more for his painting than his verse!!!
Obvious or not is a bit of a red herring. The key test should be whether somebody would have done the same thing without a patent. If they would have, then a patent is unnecessary - the government shouldn't be in the business of granting arbitrary monopolies, only those monopolies that specifically promote something, for example, research. If a patent is granted for a thing that would have been done anyway, then that patent is a kind of a dead loss for society.

In the case of flux I think it's relatively clear that it would have been done without a patent, but maybe some people would disagree.
So all applications to the HSTS preloaded list are hardcoded in that json.

How big will that file get in a few years? Looks like the first addition of user submitted websites was done over a year ago.

I wonder how ubiquitous HTTP/2 (TLS mandatory) will affect this.
Do you know seibelj? Just curious how you knew s/he was in a place of privilege.
Algerians massacred in Paris in 1961
At the risk of sounding provocative, Debian are a political effort first and a technical project second. They're much more of a target platform than a leader in their own right.

As such, I'm not surprised that there was significantly more interest in self-preservation and socializing than in any technical work. I don't recall Debian ever pushing boundaries.
Smallest RPN Calculators
Caveat: This is a response to a more general concept, not necessarily applicable to this particular issue

> Much social change begins this way

Much social change also DOESN'T begin this way (see: OWS), and it can be frustrating for people who agree with the underlying principles behind protests but think the execution is disheartening and misguided.

Especially because these kinds of movements tend to be the story that gets told: People with thoughtful dissents get eclipsed by the more vociferous and extreme (one could argue that this is because extremes tend to be better fodder for the media).

> For myself, when I feel myself responding that way, I try to take it as a sign that there's something beyond my perspective that I don't understand.

I think that's a somewhat simplistic view of it. It's entirely possible to understand and have a developed perspective of an idea, and to still reject it - sometimes vehemently.

Sure, some disruptive ideas are very challenging and ultimately end up being a good thing. The vast majority are not, though. Sometimes those disruptive ideas are detrimental, and it's not hard to see why people get angry when those detrimental effects start surfacing in visible ways (e.g. anti-vaccination).
I wasn't referring to "pro-life". While that is one of the right's phrases for it, I was specifically referring to the more extreme usage "pro-abortion". Here is an example:

http://www.issues4life.org/pdfs/news_20100307a.pdf
Maybe I'm taking your use of "career-destroying" too literally. This dean will surely have no trouble finding another job.
Study finds improved self-regulation in kindergartners who wait a year to enroll
"Here’s what happened:

Unarmed Algerian Muslims demonstrating in central Paris against a discriminatory curfew were beaten, shot, garotted and even drowned by police and special troops. Thousands were rounded up and taken to detention centers around the city and the prefecture of police, where there were more beatings and killings.

How many died? No one seems to know for sure, even now. Probably around 200."
So apparently being stoned consistently increases reaction time by about 10 years.
Why are you allowing a website to execute arbitrary code on your machine?
> Americans have little to no understanding of this history.

That's different than 'written out of'.

Americans know little about the Astor expeditions to the Pacific Northwest, the Fremont expeditions, Californian independence and statehood, or any number of other things.
Celebration definitely still exists and it's one of the priciest areas in the Orlando metro. It has a very unique style and is really a beautiful town.

There are definite Disney-ish touches, like background music and theme-park-like maps of the area in the downtown, and the locals are definitely Disney fans so you'll see a lot of homes decked out with Mickey Mouse stuff, but for the most part you can't really see the man behind the curtain. Someone could visit Celebration and never know Disney was involved.

Celebration is nothing like what Epcot was planned to be. Celebration is your typical new "post-suburban" suburban development with a walkable downtown, apartments above shops, etc., and more classical suburban homes encircling the downtown. Those things have been springing up all over the place over the last 2 decades. Celebration may have been one of the first.

Source: live right by Celebration, kid used to go to school there
I don't know that person, but consistency in usernames makes it easy to check before posting a comment with that assumption.
5 things we hate about Spark
Just check the _MASReceipt/receipt of some apps I downloaded from App Store. The NotAfter field of the receipt certificate is still Nov 11, 2015. Wonder how OSX still allows me to run the app... Any idead?
K-Means Clustering with TensorFlow
Crimea?
Yes, no one's forcing you to use that middleware of course! But saying that you don't need to use it because you can write decent code is seriously not a relevant reason. The idea behind this middleware is to provide a solution that works regardless of what front-end framework you use. Sure you can do it with decent code and handle fetching data and passing it to your templates yourself, but your decent code will probably work for one single framework, and maybe for just that single application you're working on, and it can get messy! Can you imagine now how much work and time this middleware can save you? Regarding your question about scaling, if your application can handle 200 requests per second, I think it will work just fine even when using this middleware. Expect seeing some benchmarks soon! Also, next versions will provide an option that lets you choose to render your pages only when the request is coming from a search engine bot or a social network scrapper.
I think it's more like speaking up when somebody is harangued and bullied is the right thing to do. You don't curtail their free speech, you just tell them that "my friend over here is not a racist, what you're saying is bullshit, and I have his back; please continue".

But it is also a courageous thing to do, because then you will stand there harangued and bullied, and spat upon, the same as your friend and colleague.

The "safe space" they accuse Chodosh of not providing is necessarily a metaphor — it wouldn't make much sense if taken literally.
I couldn't find a single mainstream media website in this list. Only the Washington Post and RT are accessible through HTTPS, but no HSTS headers are provided.

edit: removed acronym
>"Mostly I pin the blame for the flourishing of ISIS collectively on the Middle Eastern countries which themselves have epically failed to confront the rising threat of ISIS on their own turf, while doing seemingly everything possible in their own domestic policies to in fact encourage ISIS recruitment"

ISIS formed in the power vacuum created by the United States toppling Saddam Hussein. [0,1] So yes, the country that had its leader and military demolished was unable to combat the rise of ISIS, you're right. But pinning the failure on them is to ignore the reasons they failed to do so.

>The Middle East has been facing endemic war between Islamic sects basically for the entire history of Islam itself. The "holy wars" (call it barbarism or medievalism) being carried out in the name of Islam (by so-called "Islamic terrorists") is evidence enough that this is not actually problem of foreign policy, but a deep seated and historically pervasive domestic problem.

To collapse the rise of ISIS into the same civil wars that have been raging for the past millennia and a half is the same willful ignorance of the complex cultural history that you deride in your first paragraph. The roots of ISIS are in Wahhabism, a faction that existed mainly in Saudi Arabia. It wasn't until Roosevelt met with King Ibn Saud in 1945 (following the discovery of oil there in 1938) that this nation had any serious ambition at exporting their brand of Islam further in the middle east. Then, with the Oil Crisis of 1973, Saudi Arabia proved its political power and was able to leverage it against the United States. When it came time to expel the Soviets from Afghanistan, the United States armed the Mujahadin, a proudly Wahhabist faction.

The US being the reason that ISIS has flourished is not an opinion, it's the conclusion made over and over by analysis of historical facts.

[0]http://www.cfr.org/iraq/islamic-state/p14811
"The group that calls itself the Islamic State can trace its lineage to the aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, in 2003. The Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi aligned his Jama’at al-Tawhidw’al-Jihad with al-Qaeda, making it al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI)."

http://www.thenation.com/article/what-i-discovered-from-inte...
[1]"More pertinent than Islamic theology is that there are other, much more convincing, explanations as to why they’ve fought for the side they did. At the end of the interview with the first prisoner we ask, “Do you have any questions for us?” For the first time since he came into the room he smiles—in surprise—and finally tells us what really motivated him, without any prompting. He knows there is an American in the room, and can perhaps guess, from his demeanor and his questions, that this American is ex-military, and directs his “question,” in the form of an enraged statement, straight at him. “The Americans came,” he said. “They took away Saddam, but they also took away our security. I didn’t like Saddam, we were starving then, but at least we didn’t have war. When you came here, the civil war started.”

ISIS is the first group since Al Qaeda to offer these young men a way to defend their dignity, family, and tribe."
I totally agree with all that, for the record, and I do think the moderation works well.
First crusade: 1096 AD

Muslim expansion wars: 736 AD

In a way you're right, you've just got the agressor wrong. In fact the crusades were started because of muslim agression. Because, and I'm quoting muslim historical sources here "the blood of Christians was standing above our knees in Jerusalem".
What tools did you use to make the documentation? It's excellent.
I said "obvious and trivial thing to do once you know that blue light affects melatonin production." In the past people did other hacks with CLUTs (like some early 3D games baking gamma correction into the CLUT so that proper linear lighting could be displayed without an expensive postprocessing pass). If you were aware of the blue light effect (I'm not a sleep scientist, I don't know how long they've been aware of it) and had some low-level graphics programming knowledge, I don't think it would require great leaps to come up with this solution. It's just that no one else was interested in or aware of this problem.

Regardless of whether it was obvious or not, I hate the idea of extremely simple solutions being locked up behind patents, keeping the world today worse for the sake of hypothetical future innovations. It seems especially scummy the way they're trumpeting over social media about the harm that blue light causes while quietly trying to profit over an extremely simple solution to it. More than likely they know that Apple will never allow this on their app store because of the potential for abuse the necessary APIs would provide, and their end game is hoping the angry mobs will convince Apple to implement this as an official feature (and thus, pay them royalties). And more than likely, Apple would have implemented this years ago, had f.lux been an open source student research program with no patent applications attached.
I just watched that entire video and it's pretty terrifying.
Debian has plenty of technical work done within its boundaries. (Don’t forget the pioneering work that Debian did with its package format which was greatly superior to that of Red Hat’s RPM at the time.) A distribution is not created by simply downloading all software from the upstream authors, compiling them and burning a CD. Simply read the Debian Policy manual to get a feel for the vastness of an undertaking which creating a distribution really is:

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
Micromort – the Unit of (Risk of) Death
You're right about the underlying JS API being async, and that's why those functions are as well.

I wouldn't mind adding a blocking variant of these functions, and use async internally to make that happen. But, not there yet.
Point taken. Thank you very much for the feedback. We thought this may be a bad idea. Currently the Profiler supports instances from AWS and Rackspace. We are working with additional providers to get them on board soon.
UN conference reaches agreement on radio spectrum for global flight tracking
Socialising is very important (hell, why are you talking on HN if you don't want social interaction)? The teams that have lunch together perform better.

http://ridiculouslyefficient.com/boost-employee-productivity...

I think the precious little time at Debconf is good for socialising. It seems ok if that's the main purpose. There is already plenty technical discussion in Debian mailing lists.
Debian is your common topic. The people who are there are interested in a topic you're interested in. From what it sounds like, you want to precognate that down to one or two people.

Networking is about meeting people you can get along with who maybe, one day, some day, if things work nicely, might have a mutual benefit. You don't begin it with a pretense about what they can do for you now. That sort of opportunism is phony and can be smelled from a mile away. Networking works best when you just meet people to become friends with them, then hope to figure out ways you can help them, as friends do. My experience is that people pay it back in spades.

If it were just about merits, resumes would be a thing that actually worked and were important. Conferences are about networking and networking is about socialization.

Yeah, it could be years before the networking you do today pays off. That's just the way it is. You're dealing with people, not machines. It's like dating, you can't magic up a spell to make someone like you. People have their own agency, but they tend to congregate around and like to help out other people who are friendly and helpful without expecting anything in return, too.