skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are you bringing it up if you don't think it applies in this situation?

I always get nervous when people say stuff like this because it's like... he says he doesn't think it's a small problem, but then the only thing he's talking about is how we have to be careful making claims about scale... Why would he bring that up except to question the scale of the problem?

But I must be missing something, because you explicitly said you're not doubting the scale of the problem. Maybe you can help me understand what you are trying to say about this story.
So how should one take a prank like this to the next level? Use abbreviations like Bs and Fu, or even outright spelling out dirty words by discovering and naming a bunch of elements with consecutive element numbers?
The Nest Cam Never Really Turns Off
"The one thing that perplexes me more than anything is nobody ever thought free speech allows us to monitor the people who have radical ideologies and ideas that threaten our country."

you really are perplexed if you think no one's ever thought of that. i remember john stossel making that case, oh, 15 years ago. i'm sure it wasn't an original thought then either.
When that happens, I'll be malicious and dismissive toward feminism. But that hasn't happened yet. There are more feminists who are reasonable people than there are vocal crazies.

Some things said by feminists:

* "Men weren’t really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill." -- Betty Friedan

* "Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one of our great collective female shortcomings to presume that whatever we do not perceive simply isn't there, or that whatever is not communicated in our language is not intelligible speech." ― Norah Vincent

* I can't find the reference, but I seem to remember that the first person to widely spread the idea that it's possible for men to be raped was a feminist.

Remember that the college kids at Yale are exactly that: kids. I remember a time shortly after I became an atheist where I was angry at everyone religious for wronging me. It took me a while to realize that many religious people weren't horrible people, they were just humans, who were doing the wrong thing while trying their best to do the right thing. College students who are newly finding their voices are defining the conversation here, but they're not bad people, they just haven't realized yet that the people who they're attacking are just humans, too.
You can run the letsencrypt client as non-root, but it takes a greater degree of system configuration first. letsencrypt-auto in its current incarnation sure does run as root, however. The current state of affairs is to prioritize ease over running with the lowest degree of privilege that is feasible. (and there are other ACME-protocol implementations you can choose if you prefer not to run the letsencrypt client; ISTR reading about one implemented in Ruby)

I do feel more negatively about their choice to use a third-party list of domains to blacklist, particularly since they can't offer any effective appeals process (they can't afford to have people in the loop AT ALL at a price of zero)
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Exactly. The people often complaining about 'privilege' are some of the most privileged individuals out there, yet they don't see that their huge class based advantages kind of make the others a tad moot. But hey, got to complain about the attitudes of those from a worse background, because otherwise they'd have to see their own issues and the holes in their own belief systems.
It's not just a question of grooming. Short but sparse beards can look unkempt. This is probably self selecting as men who have issues growing a thick beard are more likely to shave if there well off.
You're missing the point of my reply. Tolerance isn't good for tolerance's sake, and claiming that tolerating something that actively harms people is the same as tolerating something that is morally neutral is just fair and balanced horseshit that leads to Jews losing property rights and Gays losing rights in the state constitution.
Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did
Ask HN: How do you deal with problems in your job that are outside your control?
I'm on the support team where I work, so this may be more of a problem for me than most, but I know that our product is constantly having problems that I'm embarrassed to admit to our customers are actually our fault. Sometimes they're bugs, sometimes they're features that were just not thought through before being deployed, including some backwards-incompatible changes to our public API (for which I maintain a lot of the documentation because the development team doesn't).

This is my first full time job out of school, so maybe the answer to this is, "That's just part of having a real job, deal with it."

I do like to think of myself as a developer even though that isn't my title, I do maintain some customer-facing open source code as well as some personal open source projects, and I like to think that I hold myself to a higher standard than some of the code that makes it into our product. I'm not trying to say that I don't write code with bugs, of course I do and I'm not trying to denigrate the actual devs on the product, but it's painful having to tell customers for weeks on end that bugs in our system, that should really have been able to caught before it was deployed, still have not been fixed is demoralizing.

I've been spending a lot of my personal time on open source projects, some that I'm basically donating to my company because they'll make my job easier or make our customers ask less questions, but they fall under a non-compete clause of my contract, and some that are unrelated just for fun mostly just to prove to myself that it's possible to do without all these problems.

Does anyone have suggestions for other things that I can do to stop feeling like all the problems here are my problems?

Side note to my coworkers that can probably identify me from this post, please don't spread this post around, thanks.
That sucks. May I ask why you got the MacBook? The air always liked like a better deal to me.
I get what you're trying to say, but you're wrong. Culpability is not the same as cause and effect. Either you are conflating the two concepts, or you are assuming that someone else is conflating the two concepts.

"If those cops had done their job, two people wouldn't be dead." This is a statement of cause and effect. It is not a statement of culpability.

Imagine that I said, "If you had remembered to lock your car, your backpack wouldn't have been stolen out of the trunk." You can accuse me of "victim-blaming" or you can realize that I'm not stupid and I actually do understand that the thief is to blame for the theft.
This is going to sound worse than I mean it to be, but I'm not familiar with NYC.

Is Philly a "hipster" region?

A full (groomed) beard in SanFran will be seen completely differently than full (groomed) beard in Los Angeles. You'll fit right in with the SF hipsters but you'll be seen as a bum/idiot in LA.

There is a drastic difference in perception against say.. the Dollar Beard Club [0] and "manly-men" beards. The difference in perception is a source of comedy [1].

The source of this perception difference is that people "allowed" to grow beards for work were/are typically blue-collar workers. Blue-collar work is associated with those of lesser intelligence (sorry to any hard working blue-collars out there....) while white-collar professions are seen as "more intelligent" and have typically required being clean shaven. As it follows, facial hair = blue collar worker = less intelligent. That's just how things are currently.

Obviously this is changing, but more-so in "hipster" areas where people do white-collar work and grow their beards out. As the requirement/stigma against facial hair dies out.

[0] https://www.dollarbeardclub.com/

[1] http://www.primalunleashed.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/...
yeah, but if he felt free to say publicly that he didn't like them because they're homosexual, then he might feel free to harass them, as has been the custom.
well. actually it's that the private key is the same for all machines and publicly accessible.... im going to have lots of fun with this. a ton of Dell machines about to get totally owned.
It's a cloud service, I doubt they have database access.

But remind me never to ever use BLOX. This seems like the MOST basic thing you'd want to be able to do.
Is peer review slowing down science and technology?
Because there is no such thing as secular morality. And morality is mostly fiction anyway. Usually determined by who won the last major war.
> I bet 95‰ of the population of the US thinks all people in prison deserve to be there

Maybe 95% of the middle- to upper-class white population of the US. (But probably not even that, unless by "deserve to be there" you mean "actually broke the law for which they were sentenced" rather than "deserve to be in prison for breaking the law for which they were sentenced"; I mean, its not like drug prohibition is that popular even among that group.)

EDIT: just realized that the parent actually says 95‰ (95 per mille) not 95%. That's equivalent to 9.5%. That may be correct, actually, but is probably not what was intended.
This kind of stuff is why I'm with Bank of America. I tried switching to First Tech Credit Union (besides being a CU they also have chip-and-pin credit cards that work well in Europe). Their website is just terrible. The last straw was when I found out I can't pay my First Tech credit card with anything but a First Tech checking or savings account.

I wasn't able to use Simple either, as I'm married and even after all these years they don't support joint accounts: https://www.simple.com/help/articles/account-info/shared-acc...
Ask HN: Dealing with WordPress wp_options table
The WordPress wp_options table can quickly get filled with a copious number of rows causing page load time to increase and server/db load to increase.

There are several plugins for clearing the entire wp_options table and generally clear all of the posts, pages, comments, etc and return your installation to a vanilla WordPress install; however, I'm looking for a way to remove only the rows in wp_options that are not used anymore.

For example: removing old theme data stored in wp_options, plugin data/configurations, etc.

Does anyone have any tips for even identifying which data can be removed?
No. The original wording is accurate. It can do 1.5 times as much work per unit time exactly correlating with real world speed.

"33% times faster" doesn't make sense. You need to drop the "times" or use "0.33 times" for that to make sense.
Hey, I've used LaTex. It deserves aspersions as much as accolades :3
> Does the guy in that article look like a serious threat to you?

Well he's old now, that was probably the point of his sentence.

> I also question the extra months after he served the many many years for a shoplifting charge when he was 17.

He did allegedly try to kill a cop afterall, I have no doubt the judge was not kind to him for that.

He's rehabilitated now, but you're right that 44 years wasn't necessary. I'd also say 25, tops.
I thought superposition in like was a QM effect.
It is not part of the legislative process in western liberal states to introduce laws that target specific named corporations or individuals separately to their peers.

This mechanism is sometimes used by totalitarian or very authoritarian regiemes as a form of window dressing to justify punishing corporations and individuals who displease the government. And of course these punishements are always justified by some appeal to "protecting citizens" - both Hitler and Stalin constantly used this as justification.

I like the fact that I live in a country where I can be punished for breaking actual laws not one where laws are vague or can be applied whimsically based on a notion of "spirit" or the intension of the drafter of the law instead of what the words of the law state.
I used to be enough to get lots of big boats:

Larry Ellison; Oracle:
http://www.superyachtfan.com/larry_ellison.html
(including his Americas Cup yachts)

James (Jim) Clark; Silicon Graphics, Netscape:
http://www.superyachtfan.com/sailing_yacht_athena.html

Paul Allen; Microsoft:
http://www.superyachtfan.com/paul_allen.html
(3 very large vessels)

And more recently:

Larry Page; Google:
http://www.superyachttimes.com/yachts/details/333

Now you need a rocket! OK, Paul Allen did go there first, as far as I can tell.
As other's have pointed out this is a very short sighted view that's predicated on the assumption that the only hateful commenters would be on the hook. Punishing people is easy and that's why it should be done with extreme care.
If there is a 4% error rate with prisoners on death row, I'd imagine that it's even higher in the general prison population (because they're subject to less scrutiny?).
Let Ω = R (real line), F = the set of Lebesque-measurable subsets of R, and P(E) = the integral over E of the density function of the standard normal. This is a probability space in the Kolmogorov sense, and my previous example carries through perfectly well in this framework. You observe x = 0.7, and compute the probability of the event X >= 0.7 as an integral. There are no ratios, and you don't need to label the observation as agreeing or disagreeing with the null hypothesis.
Sites with anonymous posting features already exist. It's an addon you can get for XenForo, and it's been installed on quite a few internet forums.

For example;

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/bd-anonymous-posting...

But we need something similar on sites like Hacker News and Reddit as well.
Dell makes chargers that are very small (or at least thin) but are very though.
The Apple charger is small but quite bulky (especially with a UK plug) I got both an MBP 15 and a Dell XPS 15 and the Dell charger fits better in every bag i have.
It's has the overall footprint of a ~5-5.5" phone/phablet and is about half as thick as the Apple charger.
http://www.amazon.com/Original-Dell-Replacement-Precision-Co...

I actually find the Apple charger a bit annoying, it doesn't fit flat in any of the smaller / side pockets of my briefcases or messenger bags, and overall the Dell charger isn't "ugly" if you would gave it the apple "storm trooper white" finish and an apple logo it would not look out of place in Apple's catalog.

The other thing I kinda hate about Apple is the fact that it won't take a standard mickey mouse cable, if you forget the cable / socket plug you are pretty much screwed if you are at a non-startup company :<
In the first 2 pages of your HN commenting history, I can find half a dozen comments that, tied to your real identity, and given a sufficient amount of the right flavor of public attention, could be blown up to ruin your life.

Not that I necessarily think these comments are so wrong that you would remotely deserve such an outcome for thinking or saying them, but that's the point: if it came down to it, that wouldn't be my judgement to make. And would you have unreservedly said all the things you have, if they were going to be permanently and publicly tied to your real identity?

In fact, after a few more pages of your history, applied to some leet cyberstalking skills, I know your real identity and where you work and live. How would you feel about being outed, even over such nominally innocuous things?

I would never do that, because it would be wrong.

You commented with the assumption of a certain degree of anonymity. So did the people you're saying there would be nothing wrong with stripping a similar anonymity from.
Here’s my approach to the MacBook flimsy cable problem:

1. Sometime during warranty period, purchase AppleCare extended warranty.

2. Don’t worry about cable strain, just treat cable as if it were well made.

3. When cable frays, return power adapter to Apple Store for a free replacement.

4. Rinse and repeat.

AppleCare also comes in handy when the $800 display fails.
China Is Setting Up Its First Military Base in Africa
> The USA is not a democracy, it's a representative republic.

The US (by Constitutional form) is both a (representative) democracy and a (federal, and democratic) republic.

> Unfortunately, it's unlikely that the USA will ever become a real democracy

You seem to be using "real democracy" to mean "direct democracy", buy direct democracy is no more real than representative democracy. (And there's a good case to be made that the problems the US has with being an effective democracy are curable while remaining a representative democracy, and that the problems lie largely in the particular electoral system.)
EPO threatens ‘defamatory’ blogger with legal action
That's a good question. There are a lot of conditions where twin and adoption studies have established a genetic predispositions decades ago, but the exact cause of these disorders is unknown, and understood to be more stochastic in nature.

Rather then single gene mutations, such complex disease predispositions could be combinations of single base variations in the binding sites of transcription factors and/or slight variations in proteins, which elevate disease risk, but may still require environmental factors for an actual outbreak.

Our understanding here is improving rapidly, while we are learning about the regulatory elements in our genome (see the ENCODE project), and the influence of the 3D arrangement of the genome into what is known as chromatin.

However, teasing apart these variations and causal relationships is extremely complex, as you can imagine.

Bottom line, there is still so much we don't know or understand, but progress is being made.
One use case of having URL in the state (from the lib's README: https://github.com/jlongster/redux-simple-router) is that you can snapshot/serialize the app state, and load it up later and see the same thing. This can be useful for development and debugging.

It's also worth mentioning that this lib also provides a really useful action creator- updatePath(). It allows you to navigate from other action creators, for example, in response to a successful AJAX call. You could achieve that a couple other ways as well, but this is the simplest/cleanest way I've seen so far.
Perhaps the premise that the school's actions successfully (does the policy work?), appropriately (is the policy ethical?), and accurately (does the policy have negative side effects?) counters that ideology.
Its hard to be incarcerated for murder without someone actualy being murdered. Therefore the most effective way to avoid incarceration for murder is to stop murdering. People are not being wrongly incarcerated (wholesale) for violent crimes that dont exist, not being violent is sufficient to avoid incarceration for such crimes.
If commenters can opt out of having their old comments posted, then the Standard can opt out everyone who has not opted in. The only reason the Standard has this problem is because they want to retain old comments even though doing so would violate their privacy policy.
Looks like they are winning on university campuses, and there is a counter-movement led by Trump appealing to non-college-educated whites. Many of the people supporting Trump cite "saying things other people aren't willing to say" as their reason for supporting him.

These seem to be the two extremes driving political discourse in the USA right now.

The "Oh My God We Must Punish You for Saying Anything We Suspect of Maybe Possibly Being Construed by Some as Racist/Sexist" crowd, and "I'm Going to Say Racist/Sexist Things Constantly, and You Can't Stop Me" crowd.
If anyone knows the API endpoint to consult membership details of terrorist organizations, including level of studies of their members, I'd like check myself that we are really "9 times" more likely, and not 8.4 or 11.3.
Hugo provides many of the same features of Harp.js which is also a good project.

Hugo provides a server for local development like jade.

Hugo is a bit easier to install as it doesn't have dependencies and doesn't require an existing environment.

Hugo is noticibly faster.

The big difference between the two is that Hugo has not focused on compiling all the other assets like scss, less, coffee script, etc. While this is planned for a future release today Hugo users have experienced a lot success pairing Hugo with Gulp. You can read more in this discussion on the forum: https://discuss.gohugo.io/t/gulp-hugo-hugo-npm/1121

Unfortunately by introducing gulp it negates some of the benefits of Hugo's one binary install.

Hugo does provide some advanced features that I don't believe Harp provides including:

* Data file loading https://gohugo.io/extras/datafiles/

* Live data https://gohugo.io/extras/datadrivencontent/

* Live reload (this is a huge feature) https://gohugo.io/extras/livereload/

* Menus https://gohugo.io/extras/menus/

* Themes https://themes.gohugo.io

If you are happy with Harp and it serves your needs than there's not really a reason to switch.

The big difference is Hugo + Gulp is a workflow that works really well and has all the features that Harp provides (plus all the Hugo features). If you need a feature that only Hugo provides there really isn't a way to add that to harp.js.

I'm the author of Hugo and haven't ever used Harp so take all of this with a grain of salt.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10628060 and marked it off-topic.
This is an incredibly racist way to look at the issue.
I much prefer the disposal (consumable) MagSafe adapters. I've ripped out the prior RCA (?) style Powerbook connector numerous times.

But if the MagSafe connector cannot be made more robust (durable), then it should be replaceable.
> I, as the user, want to override HPKP, it should be easy for me to do so.

Absolutely. For debugging purposes, browsers should have a mechanism where you can purposefully use your own local certificate, with a big unremovable warning at the top telling you that. It should not, on the other hand, ever look like a valid secure site.

No legitimate reason exists for a browser to silently show a site as secure that uses certificate pinning and doesn't serve the pinned certificate. Ever. For debugging purposes, you don't need it to work silently.

And if someone started intentionally compromising browsers to make such warnings go away, we'd have a clearer indication that they'd progressed past ignorance into malice.
Depends on type of error. I have heard estimates as low as 50% when you include procedural issues. As in would they have gone to prison with competent legal counsel.
The guy is an absolute imbecile. He states that it is a small city where people know each other, and then immediately states that he doesn't think there will be consequences for most of his readers. He writes his own counterargument. There will be consequences for these people because it is such a small city. And he doesn't care because he thinks the only people who will be harmed are "meanies". What if your political/social/moral views differ from your parents or your wife and you don't want them to know in order to keep the peace. A simple google search on the site for your real name will take them to your comments. Those people could be genuinely curious to read what you have to write, with no il intent of "catching" you whatsoever. There will be plenty of innocent people who are harmed by this. Especially since the people that are being commented about in these articles are people who are known irl, not just names on paper. Privacy is more than about meanies on the internet, and this idiot should be fired, if only for telling the lie you quoted. Are the people of Montana to be treated like a bunch of inbred hill people who don't about these fancy city computers? His entire response was unacceptable and poorly thought out.