skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its time for humanity to realize that genes are no longer the only replicator driving our evolution.

Having evolved consciousness, we now have the ability to spread ideas, inventions, values, etc. -- memes if you will. This is why humanity has beat all other species, and what drives progress on a societal scale. Memes evolve much faster than genes.

The intelligent career driven people are busy replicating memes -- inventions, discoveries, institutions, influence, etc. The best memes survive and evolve. Is it better for humanity to discover penicillin or preserve a single bloodline?
Home, Sweet Kleptocracy
OK? I dont mean to be snarky but financial investment isn't necessarily the ultimate motivator for all things.

Also fundamentally, we are talking rental property, rental income is a legitimate financial reason to buy rental property. Spend 5 million today, rent out for 500k a year, make your money back after 10 years, literally get money for nothing for every year after that... thats not a good enough financial reason?

basically real estate is a very slow moving ponzi scheme, perhaps one can argue its a ponzi scheme that cant fail as long as the human population continues to increase.
>I don't care about the men/women ratio.

I don't care about clothing styles, but if you dress very strangely, I'll judge you just the same. You know why? It's because dressing strangely means you do care about style, and even though I don't care about style, I do care about priorities, and I might find your prioritizing of style to be counter-productive and off-putting.

So yeah, I actually do care about style, because it matters.

>What I can't stand are these "Women in technology" conferences and workshops to "close the (gender) gap". Why? Because if you focus on one group, then you are actively not focusing on another. Given the dichotomy defined by their stated purpose, they are actively dismissive of men (boys). That is wrong.

And right now, you are not focussing on technology, but on gender issues. So you're a hypocrite. You care enough about gender to voice an opinion, but only to lash out at others who dare to have an opinion?

People have different priorities from you. Some people want a safe, encouraging work/hobby community. Some people want role models. Who are you to say they shouldn't work to create those, and instead work to get what you want?

And what do you care that someone holds a conference you wouldn't even go to?

>If I say this publically, then I, too, will be ostracized.

Have you considered the possibility that you are actually wrong about what you believe? How do you know you're not rationalizing where your feet are by measuring where your shoes are?
>If governments are going to charge high and involuntary taxes on things, we shouldn't be surprised when people shop around where they are able.

I don't disagree with this at all, actually.

In some respects, would you consider taxes to be a 'necessary evil for a net good (prescriptively speaking)'?
Sort of like the Governor of Alabama saying exactly that on the footsteps of the University of Alabama?
Developing for Security [Infographic]
wow, wasn't aware of that. certainly doesn't inspire confidence. will check out threema right away.
> Poor whites are not a privileged class.

I just wanted to respond to this because (like a lot of these ideas) I think they represent a response to a strawman. The core point of the discussion of privilege acknowledges that all people have privileges. The question then is defining what they are and how useful they are.

When talking about white privilege, the point is that poor whites are better off than poor blacks, just by virtue of being white. The interesting thing here is that there are privileges only afforded to poor blacks. The problem is that the privileges afforded to poor whites are more useful than those afforded to poor blacks.
Pull-request makes sense in Github, because the typical work-flow for open-source on Github is to fork the repo you want to contribute to. Hence, the maintainer has to pull the code from you.

Merge-request makes more sense in Gitlab because they're main use-case is as a self-hosted internal tool where developers most-likely are pushing all of their feature branches to a central repository and asking for the branch to be merged into the mainline branch.
It was, but it would be in place regardless of whether you succeeded or not. Maybe not historically, but today, whether I personally succeed or not doesn't matter to the budget/deficit. Those who carry the taxable base are the middle class; the employees who can't restructure their affairs.

Paying back / forward is great, but (imo) it has a limit. Unless you inherited your wealth, most people who are self made will have paid a significant amount of tax before they tax optimise their structures. So, if you’re a success, you will have paid back your “debt” to society (and then some).

There needs to be a limit somewhere. Some countries are more aggressive (i.e. the US) in collecting their tax dollars than others (i.e. the UK).
a liberal tea party?
Pakistanis target drones with giant posters of child victims
What I wonder: EVERYTHING is available as China knockoffs, but I have yet to see a fake, replacement MagSafe connector...
Airware (YC W13) is crunching drone data in SF
Airware is building the Aerial Information Platform for commercial drones, comprising hardware, firmware, software, and user interfaces. We are a rapidly growing startup, well-funded by the world’s pre-eminent technology venture capital firms, including Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

We're a passionate team who believe in ownership, excellence, community, and continuous improvement. Here you will find the computer hacker, private pilot, laid-back surfer, RC hobbyist, homebrewer, and video game designer. If you thrive on solving challenging problems with a fun group of really bright people, we want to hear from you!

Here are some of the positions that might appeal to HN:

Software Engineer, Image & Data Processing - http://grnh.se/e5wbnx

Sr Software Engineer, Javascript - http://grnh.se/njc42f

Software Engineer, Data Analysis - http://grnh.se/h8m1c6

Engineering Manager, Native Apps - http://grnh.se/4bhujm

Software Engineer, C# - http://grnh.se/8cas1n

See all roles here:

http://www.airware.com/careers
Why we avoid deploying releases on Friday
> I had an ex co-worker who confided in me that he doesn't like gay people. I was very happy that he couldn't say that in public.

Good call. As long as your opinions remain "acceptable" you have nothing to worry about.
If ADD is genetic in origin, why isn't a DNA test used to diagnose the condition?
Worg, the Org-Mode Community
You are still building equity as opposed to throwing money away to a landlord. And there are a lot of other intangibles such as stability (no more rent increases or evictions) and freedom to modify/alter/improve the property. These are probably much more important features to potential home owners (especially ones considering/having children).

And another thing to consider, for most homeowners a hot real estate market only benefits them if they are willing to move to a lower priced market or downsize their home. Moving laterally or trying to upgrade during a hot market means you are exposed to the same percentage of price increases as everyone else. The only people that really benefit from hot real estate markets are investors and landlords.
That's actually our biggest hope of getting rid of SJW phenomenon. The underhanded methods they use means also that as they grow, they start to turn on each other. The cancer gets cancer, and dies before it can grow too much. I think the general population will slowly realize that being evil is not the best strategy for making others better people.
It's not their opinion that merits the "Ugh." It's that people seem to be perpetually misinformed about many basic factors regarding the Eich case.
The secret to any cord's lifespan is: don't pull on the wire.

When people wrap the thin cord of the Mac brick, they either pull it nice and tight on the first wrap, or leave it loose on the first wrap. That's the difference right there.

Same thing with USB cables: to keep them healthy, grasp the hard plastic of the plug to insert/extract it.

I don't use the little wrap tabs on my Mac power brick at all anymore. I find I need the extender cord to reach a plug half the time anyway, so I just wrap both cords in a loose ~4" loop and use a little velcro strap to keep it together. My original power brick on a late 2008 Macbook Pro is still going strong.
I saw it, but I took your comment "trivializing sexual assault" as also applying towards your reasoning for the statement "I also resent your use of 'rape' in that context." and my comment was meant to address both.
And others feel that a person who can make this statement:

https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/inclusiveness-at-mozilla/

...I know some will be skeptical about this, and that words
alone will not change anything. I can only ask for your support
to have the time to "show, not tell"; and in the meantime
express my sorrow at having caused pain. ...

and who has never even been accused of discrimination, harassment, or abuse of any kind in his professional capacity (or otherwise AFAIK) should be given the chance to prove himself.

I'm pretty sure they didn't send the ads out for the approval of every campaign contributor before they aired them.
A bit unrelated but after reading the wiki pages for Somatization and Conversion disorder and then reading the suggested links I stumbled upon this gem, the Cat Nun hysteria of 1844:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_hysteria#Cat_Nuns_.28Fran...

>A convent of nuns began to meow like cats and others followed until all would meow together at a certain time for several hours together. This continued until the surrounding village called soldiers to threaten the nuns to stop their singing.
The school (teachers and students together) recognizes an ideology (patriarchy) that they see as a problem and responds by creating a culture that opposes that ideology, in order to reduce the power of that ideology. I don't see any way to take a neutral stance on this issue, as ``doing nothing'' is supporting the status quo (patriarchy), so if you agree that patriarchy is a problem, then the school should be celebrated for picking the right side of the issue. If you like patriarchy, that's a different issue.
Hop Over the Great Firewall with Government Help
There are a few men out there who see women as nothing more than sex objects and baby factories. For a woman to openly reject that role challenges their male chauvinism. They don't actually care that she reproduces, but they don't want her to influence other women to think they don't have to settle for the role they've been assigned. That's why one threatened her with laryngectomy, which obviously has no connection to reproduction.
Ya I'm not really sure what they were getting at there. Is it that they think the OpenBSD source layout is hard to understand, they saw cvs and stopped looking or is it that they believe OpenBSD ships with tools that do not have the source released?
The secret power of these apps is that I don't waste time reading bullshit in the Internet. I see an interesting page in HN, go to it, click in "Read Later" and Instapaper will send it to my Kindle. Now there's 99% of chance that I'll never read it, but I won't fill the urge to read it instead of working. Win! Win!
And particularly with OpenBSD, having pioneered AnonCVS.. the entire system source code is available, assuredly.

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-paper.pdf

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-slides.pdf
Still not a recruiter. Never have been. Not even a little bit.
Terrorist ideologies are absolutist and fundamentalist. The mental habits that engineering cultivates are unfortunately compatible with this way of thinking in political and spiritual/religious realms. There is an absolute truth and an absolute right and wrong, etc.

I've never met a "terrorist" but I have known a surprising number of engineers who subscribe to totalitarian politics and/or religious fundamentalism. At first I found this shocking and confusing.
Amusingly, the author is complaining about "slowing rents". They mean "not increasing as fast", not "falling".
Nothing happens, I bet. I'm still with a credit union that was affiliated with an employer I left over 10 years ago. That employer doesn't even exist anymore, but I still bank with that credit union.

Once a member, always a member.

EDIT: I think I misunderstood your point. If you're talking about being close to a branch or whatever, then that's also not necessarily a concern. The closest branch for my CU is 350 miles away. But the Co-op network and the website together cover 100% of my needs.
And thus you have the shifting definition of what is "extreme" or not.

Then again, if you keep chopping off the edges of the bell curve, everything that doesn't precisely match the middle is extreme by comparison.
Dryvyng official Twitter account hacked
I hadn't seen this before, so first off thanks for the pointer. I just spent 15 minutes poking through the instance you mentioned and looking at the project roadmap. That wasn't long enough to really get a feel for how easy it would be to extend to other languages. Based on that (brief) exposure, I'd say this lines up nicely with what Sourcegraph does for other languages. The big difference seems to be srclib, which is the underlying library that allows them to support other languages. I will also mention that the UX for Sourcegraph is more Github-inspired (I could use a word like 'modern', but that might not tell you as much) whereas DXR is a little clunkier.
thats not a good enough financial reason?

Your scenario (buy for $5M, rent for $500K/yr) actually sounds quite terrible. At even nominal interest rates you're probably paying 150% of the purchase price, so you won't breakeven until almost 15 years in. And with the time value of money, making a big investment now for $500K per year 15 years from now must be an absolutely awful return.

I do see your point thought. There is nothing wrong with buying a house because you want it. However, that's not why most people buy houses (at least in the US). There is the pervasive perception that housing is a "good investment".
"Group X tends to do Y."

"How dishonest. You're saying all members of Group X do Y and should therefore be ignored."

"I said none of those things. I said Group X tends to do Y, which implies that some members of the group don't do Y."

"Pedantry is a poor defense."

Calling me dishonest or pedantic is pure projection. If you have trouble seeing it, here's a mirror: http://www.amazon.com/SJWs-Always-Lie-Taking-Thought-ebook/d...
Inflammation: Medicine's burning question
I pay US$1 each month to Instapaper to do it for me
And the problem now is that if you say something like that the response will range from being told to "check your privilege" to sensitivity training. You may be told your speech is violently aggressive and creates an unsafe environment.
PowerNex – kernel written in D
I do this too. I found it almost impossible to post on my account under my own name, on any topic about psychology, politics, economics, or diversity because I am too afraid of what I've said being taken out of context later, or used against me in ways I can't anticipate now. I found myself frequently writing a post, only to delete it shortly afterward, worrying that it was somehow too risky.

In today's climate, you can't really even propose a thought experiment or discuss a hypothetical without being accused of holding that position yourself, and criticized as such. I don't even really have strong convictions about most of the things I discuss, except the desire to analyze them rationally and objectively, and the willingness to challenge both conventional wisdom and new radical positions.

Even while posting under an anonymous username, I still find myself self-censoring because of the risk that my identity could someday be connected. HN administrators can certainly trivially connect me, since they see the origin of my traffic for my two accounts, and I have not taken pains to anonymity the traffic for this one. However, HN admins themselves like pg have been posting under alts (and probably still do, for the same reasons), and seem to support this.

I have been wanting to propose that HN or some site like it offer a feature where you can switch your post to "Anonymous Coward" later, if it proves to be too controversial. Or post as "Anonymous Coward", and later assign the post to your name if you feel OK about how the discussion turned out. I think this would be better than having people feel like they can't post at all, or that they need alts to post. Having an alt is kind of like Anonymous Coward, except that you can't claim credit for just a single post that you turn out to feel OK about later.

The thing is, I think, that humans "try on" ideas like they try on clothes. We don't necessarily mean everything we say all the time (unless we take great pains to ensure it). The public discourse seems to expect that people have their minds firmly made up about everything, and a completely firm viewpoint that can be understood and criticized, but the reality is much more fluid. Or to put it differently: writing something that you can firmly stand behind requires a lot of time and energy, and a bar of quality and thoughtfulness and judgment that can rarely be met for Internet forum comments. Sometimes I'd just like to have a conversation, without fearing that something I say can be taken out of context and used against me years later when random-topic-of-the-day becomes a hot-button issue.
Landlords pay for the ads in the news outlets.
The pm does care more than everyone, its a fitting definitiom but once you learn all the things you say you're not you'll increase your earning potential.

Also, it should be abundantly clear for anyone who spent a day working in high tech that the CEO decides absolutely everything.
3D printing monuments or buildings
On this site (http://osmbuildings.org) there is a button that allows you to extract a model of the building or the monument and then send it to a 3D printing service.

Here the model of the Berlin TV tower ready to be printed: https://3d-button.com/en/uploads/ec751af1-cb94-4151-b5b2-a0e9cff23e00/
I assume that would work. This was a return trip though so it wasn't a concern. Not sure why you'd be more worried about this being stolen than anything else you keep in a hotel room.
Yup had one catch one fire, was just thankful that I was around to see it happen and stop it from burning the house down. The charger was around 4 years old but I never wrap the cable so it seems like a major design flaw.
Indeed. Some stuff is really clearly not true, and we shouldn't need to work to make space and provide representation for it in schools and such.

But how do we avoid the problem where if I suggest that maybe the moon isn't all Vince Foster all the time, I'm an evil person? (a racist, and oppressor of women?) Can we get to a place, not where we agree that the moon could be made of Vince Foster, but where one can suggest it's not Vince Foster without being literally ostracized, from schools and jobs?
This drove me out of the humanities completely when I was in college. The topic of discussion in a class freshman year was whether natural selection still or ever applied to humans. I said no, because decisions on how many kids you have tends to vary from culture to culture, and I mentioned specifically Catholicism and the 1 child law in China. And I was called racist.

Never got accused of being racist in Calc.
And vice versa! Biggest problem the internet currently has around these social justice issues is that the loudest voices are often extremists on one side or the other completely lacking empathy for anyone different from themselves.
You are still building equity as opposed to throwing money away to a landlord.

That's a fallacy. Whether or not you rent a place (pay another person to buy it) or you buy it yourself, buying is not always better than renting.

There are many situations where if you rented your whole life you'd be better off than owning, even assuming housing appreciates.

I was renting (after owning for many years) right before the housing crash in 2008. I paid ~$30K to rent a place over two years. I know folks who bought who lost 3 times that owning a house. When I wanted to move I just gave the keys back. The landlord took the hit, not me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_for_Individual_Righ...

A summary of some of the universities and cases they've dealt with. They seem to be fitting their self-described role of a civil liberties group more than your ascribed role as a "right leaning think tank". Civil libertarians fit on both ends of the traditional right/left spectrum, see the ACLU for another group that ends up (not always, but at least on many issues) on both sides of the left/right spectrum in an effort to defend civil liberties.
In fairness, Apple's post-sale service is exemplary IME. I've had two power supplies and a battery replaced under warranty. In all cases it was a straight swap at an Apple store, no questions asked.
The tax rate is set by congress, not the IRS. How is this the fault of the IRS?
I can think of at least 3 reasons:

- it's a fun project, if you're into that sort of thing

- dart has a VM, so you can run server side applications on it

- more bragging points for ceylon, as it confirms their design as a VM independent language

Now, it would be fun to compare the javascript code produced by ceylon directly with the one produced by the the dart compiler.
Their argument is demonstrative rather than persuasive (although there is a persuasive component, but they expect interlocutors to be familiar with structuralist theory, which is not unreasonable in an academic setting). I'm not sure this is the most effective way to communicate their ideas, but the frustration and discomfort they are causing to other people is something that they have a lifetime's experience of, which is why they are able to push people's button's so effectively. They are showing people what it feels like to be unexpectedly and unjustly placed into an out-group.
>I don't care about clothing styles, but if you dress very strangely, I'll judge you just the same.

That is a direct contradiction. You acknowledge as much right after. What's even the point of writing this and posting it?

>And right now, you are not focussing on technology, but on gender issues. So you're a hypocrite. You care enough about gender to voice an opinion, but only to lash out at others who dare to have an opinion?

You either ignored his point or completely misunderstood it. I can't tell which. Then you also made a strawman.

>People have different priorities from you. Some people want a safe, encouraging work/hobby community. Some people want role models. Who are you to say they shouldn't work to create those, and instead work to get what you want?

Ok, I'm wondering if maybe English isn't your first language and something is getting lost in translation here. Your points just...make absolutely no sense. It's like you're responding to a fictitious argument that you've constructed in your mind.

Anyways, responding to that bit: So different priorities means, to you, that it's fair to disenfranchise a group? You think that it's preferable to raise one group up at the expense of another, as opposed to striving for equality? I get very serious "your rights end where my feelings begin" vibes from your way of writing.

>Have you considered the possibility that you are actually wrong about what you believe?

Have you?
It's disappointing that this depends on React's router, considering Redux is an agnostic framework. Unless I'm reading something wrong here..
No reason the TPP has to open our taxpayers to blatant exploitation by US corporations who profit from US's protective military.

- The rest of the world.
I was thinking same thing. To me, this shows sign of development and progress.