skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what do you think is gonna happen to the United States?

I have no idea, but the idea of true hardcore federalism ended with the Civil War - for good reason in that case as you can't truly have it if there is an arbiter that can always trump the state if it sees fit. NAFTA, TPP have just eroded independence further.

I'm not saying it's good or bad, it's just what people want.

Nothing is really done by individuals, rather small high effort groups typically are the ones that make things happen. Even within those, you have a handful of powerful people and the rest are largely there for the ride. This is the whole idea behind "key influencers" and "network effects." Get enough of the big people on board and the rest just follow - it's literally the same in every facet of life.

If some form of the Jeffersonian proposal, that every citizen should have a self sustainable farm and gun, is what is necessary for sustainable, free society, Then you can wave that dream goodbye.
At least it wasn't written in list form by a 22 year old intern on medium.
How terrifying that we might one day write of "the Donald's".
The day unit is not the only unit in play. I split my week up this way, where I try to keep one day in the business schedule and four days in the maker's schedule. Unfortunately, as my career has progressed I've started putting two days into the manager's schedule and three days into the maker's schedule, but I find this a highly effective partitioning scheme. You have all your coffee meetings and whatnot on a day of the week of your own designation.
In Old English, thou was the singular second person pronoun and ye the plural, but would be used when talking to someone of higher status. From what I understand, the ye evolved into you while thou mostly disappeared, so now we all get to be plural. I’m not sure about third person pronouns though.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T–V_distinction
Congrats, Rob!
"Medicine has only been a real science for less than 100 years, and we've already seen complete cures for some diseases and good progress for others."

Thats a bit unfair. Scientists have been painfully working to advance the field of medicine for centuries.
Why not? This is not new at all, I've used it whenever I'm not sure of the gender of a subject for as long as I can remember.
Nothing you posted contains any evidence that the NSA gives trade secrets to US companies (directly or indirectly) to increase their competitiveness.

What you posted is just the advocacy center's stated purpose--to help facilitate bids by US companies for foreign contracts.

I know the US government gets directly involved when dealing with companies like Lockheed Martin exporting military equipment. And I'm sure the NSA would share military secrets with defense contractors, but that is directly in their scope of mission to protect national security.

Stealing trade secrets to pad the bottom line of US companies is not part of their mission, and so far you've posted nothing to prove they are violating their mission in this way.
PS. I think there's also another aspect that made me like the image: the dying per se. A lot of open source projects are simply going to die, aren't they, and you don't want that as the author/maintainer, it's a part of your life after all. So the question very much becomes, it's either that project is going to die (with that part of me) or I'm going to protect it.

Users who don't have experience leading projects may not realize that this dying happens, they may only ever see surviving projects.

Now of course a surviving project that is also friendly is the best, no doubt about that, but the question how to achieve this is going to be partially independent. (The cowboy image may be more fitting for the fact that some projects die, and less fitting for how you achieve for it not to die.)
Ask HN: How much does a concept map like this cost?
I'm working with an organization that's looking to start actually doing data visualization (which, believe me, is a pretty big step). How much would something like this cost and where would I look to get someone to do it?

http://www.findtheconversation.com/concept-map/

http://mbostock.github.io/d3/talk/20111116/bundle.html

http://bost.ocks.org/mike/uberdata/
While Counter Strike and Battlefield in particular aren't used as recruitment tools, the US military has (albeit overtly) gotten involved in video games in the past[0], so it's not outside the realm of possibility.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Army
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> WhatsApp is not linkifying Telegram URLs, but Telegram is not even sending messages that are shared from WhatsApp.

How do you even share a message from whatsapp to telegram?
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This happens all the time in all engineering projects. Generally, if the requirements change that drastically in the middle of the project then either the initial requirements were terrible or the requested change is just a bad idea.

Many an engineering project has been sabotaged because someone tried to force a bad change into the middle. I could go on all day just with examples from the Pentagon.
That's how many left because of the raise. We don't know what their overall employee turnover is.
'They' isn't a viable substitute just when gender is irrelevant.

There isn't really a label for what I identify as, but it is not 'she' or 'he,' it's somewhere in-between and neither at the same time. So even 'he or she' wouldn't apply to me: I'm not one or the other.

I _prefer_ xe/etc; but I'm absolutely 100% fine with they/them. Just don't call me he (because I'm not) or she (because I'm not). ;)

Does that make sense?

> It's a natural construct and universal to many languages.

I think this ignores too much how language imposes itself on a culture - and a culture on a language. The gender neutral pronoun is a natural construct and universal to many languages, too. We just don't have an "official" one in English.
Yea that's the exact reason that I end up using the web interface for browsing games. The fact I can browse and open up 30 tabs of games and then look at them one by one without losing my place anywhere is so much nicer.
> Why is using "her" everywhere worse than using "him" everywhere?

Because its just as gendered and conflicts with standard usage (which, in English, accepts the use of the masculine linguistic gender for subjects of unknown sex or gender identity, so it is not better from either a "gender neutrality, regardless of accepted usage" standpoint or from a "clarity of communication through conforming to accepted usage" standpoint.)
That's nature's way of telling you to use NoScript. :)
RSS Board says to use Dublin Core's dcterms:valid in their MRSS spec: http://www.rssboard.org/media-rss

To hide an article you expire it right away. Numerous video platforms support this tag (youtube, thePlatform, dailymotion).

http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/

I'm not sure why it isnt in the RSS spec, but I wonder if any CMS's still support it in the text world.
> The data still exists in aggregate form.

Yes, because it has to, to serve the sync purpose. And the EFF is not challenging the sync purpose. The sync purpose is the entire reason schools are using chromebooks in the first place.

So no, the problem is not that the data exists on Google's servers.

> it's a very tempting target for various types of thieves and governments with national security letters.

OK now you must be trolling. Government NSL requests for 2nd graders chromebook data? Seriously?
It sends "WhatsApp".
First time I've heard of Facebook Notes, which apparently aren't new at all. The notes that I do see aren't styled the same way as Zuckerberg's letter.
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Take the Kerala story with a pinch of salt. Kerala model is loved by the Indian left and is seen as competing model for right's Gujarat model. The state was ruled by communists for long time but almost all parties focused on redistribution of wealth including forcibly taking away people's land and giving it away to others. Over years economists like Amartya Sen have spoken about the model using it to demand that Indian government focus on redistribution.

There are pretty good counter arguments against Kerala Model too as outlined by Prof. Bhagvati in his book "Why growth matters".

Kerala in 18th century was ruled by a king named Marthanda Varma who focused on trade. Unlike other states his lowered taxes, invested extensively in building trade routes, waterways etc. Through some clever ideas he also made his kingdom war-proof. This was the period during which Kerala bloomed economically. By the time British colonized India Kerala was already far superior in health,economy and education compared to other states which are ravaged by war, British plunder etc. (British could not plunder Travancore Kingdom in Kerala as much as they would have liked compared to say Kolkata which was another trade port.)

Since 1947 to 2016 Kerala's progress on most parameters is pretty slow despite huge government spending. Kerala spends 7 times more on public health per capita than Punjab to get results only marginally better than Punjab. Despite having the highest per capita government spending on health, Kerala has even higher private expenditure on health than most other states to get results only marginally better than other states.

Despite the focus on redistribution Kerala has highest income inequality in the country.
The number is from Gartner for Q3 this year - for whatever they are worth :)

http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3146617
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+1. Reading Ben Horowitz's book, every fictional CEO is 'he' or 'she' which makes you think you've missed something and they're not fictional. 'They' could have sufficed perfectly.
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I personally write China PR when government stuff is involved.
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> South Asian languages routinely employ plurals to refer to/call a person with added respect.

Fairly common for some Eastern European languages, too.
> Google's monetization as stated in the article. It's mined.

Yes that's the claim but where is the evidence?

Unsubstantiated claims are also called conspiracy theories.
Because people want usability more than they care about things being private.
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Yes, exactly: you have to write little shim functions. I'm pretty sure this was what bdamm was complaining about, and I'm complaining about it too. I took your suggestion to be that there was some way of using the API that avoided this.

There might be no better way of doing it (or maybe there might be - I have no opinion), but that wouldn't in my view automatically make the C API "remarkably excellent", "absolutely painless", nor the sort of thing that you might describe as "as easy as it is" (as were the original claims). It would just make it no more inconvenient than it has to be. Forgive me for not getting overly excited at that ;)
A great read indeed, plus a nice picture.
I'm going to print out this and read along with my next generation.

I'm thinking about starting to use facebook again, left it a few years ago.
My native language doesn't have gendered pronouns, and it is surprisingly difficult to learn to fluently and effortlessly use 'he' (or 'she') in English in situations when there is no need to specify the gender, or when the gender is not known ("After the user clicks the button, he/she receives ..."). My brain is just not wired that way, I feel like I am forced to create information when there is none, and potentially incorrect information, lies.

Almost as if a language didn't have a construct to talk about cars without specifying their color at the same time, so you all the time have to create random colors in order to talk about cars in the abstract.

I was very happy when I learned that 'they' is a mostly acceptable solution.

I understand gendered nouns can also be a politically loaded topic, but I only meant this as a perspective from someone who learned English as a second language.
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For anyone who prefers the film version, watch Joyeux Noel. It's an 'inspired by true facts' type movie, but very watchable.

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0424205/
All the notes I have seen lately have this same style.
We just bought a SAAS business via FE International last month (http://talentdesk.com). Process was incredibly smooth. I'm happy to answer questions privately if anyone has any on what it's like on the buyer side.
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If the flexibility was desirable then yes but it by definition makes the code do more then it did before and is therefore harder to really understand.

In this concrete case, these many functions are now spread over the entire codebase (spanning many repos). In many classes and inheritance trees and driven by a ton of configuration so there are now many many more possibilities. Here is one implementation https://github.com/groupserver/gs.group.type.discussion/blob... which i don't find very readable personally

Reading the README in the first repo I can now see the flexibility and coupling the rules more closely to their objects was a design goal. So in fairness the new code is doing a lot more then (what i imagine to be) old code to be doing. Also I now note this code is 3+ years old so the zope dependency (which i know nothing about) makes some more sense.
Sorry.
I removed the complaint.
Thanks for the link. I'll note this ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Trend_to_prescri...
reports that

"In spite of continuous attempts on the part of educationalists to proscribe singular they in favour of he, its use remained widespread, and the advice was largely ignored".
Crazy. Even crazier when you realize that that 1% is $450 million....
cpach requested that we replace https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html with a link to the archived page in the comment above.

Since this subthread no longer applies, we've detached it from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10655253 and marked it off-topic.
Our office was about 20 people at the time. Any time anyone had a question, but didn't know who to direct it to, a new group conversation was initiated with everyone in the office. That was the problem.
Spaghetti. More suitable for my plate than an app.
I know that Java is a terribly verbose language, but even for Java this looks over the top.

This code is written with a bulldozer !
How hard is it to refactor each of those branches into separate functions or objects ?

If there's no time for that, I wonder, is there enough time to figure out the security and privacy implications
of this entire codebase ?
Should I trust this code with my life ? Because some people will ...
I personally don't care enough about my vehicle to be opposed to this in principle, but there are too many unanswered questions.

Not the least of which is:

- who's responsible if someone is seriously injured?
- how much money am I spending/month for this?
- What happens if I forget something in the vehicle, or want to store something in the vehicle the way I can do if it's my vehicle?
Note - in python3 variable shadowing is much more controllable - in your example having modify_n look like:

def modify_n(new_value):
nonlocal n

(and of course the print x -> print(x) changes), will result in 4,7,7
Isn't this example just like map/reduce in python?

I guess it is more like parallel running than async, since I associate async with small sleeping costs and good thread switching. How does the GIL play into this?
I'm not sure I understand what it is your asking.

I'm guessing maybe I can say flex = block and inline-flex = inline-block? Except that the flex properties also affect its immediate children.
I think "real science" refers to reproducibly, experimentally driven science.
Thanks:) I really feel like this is the core issue here. People complain a lot about Facebook, but what would happen if by some heroic, Odyssey-worthy effort they actually get people to switch to some other social network?

. . .

The exact same thing. The exact same thing would happen, because the new social network would have _exactly the same incentives_ as facebook.

I have some more thoughts on this here: http://housejeffries.com/page/3 Not sure how clear my writing is, but the "Inspiration" section at the end has some links to great projects trying to fix this problem.
> Singular "they" doesn't replace "he" or "she" when gender is known.

It does when the gender identity of the subject is known to be neither he nor she!
I mean, technically, Facebook has had notes since the early days. I know the format and style has changed, but I remember writing 'notes' on my wall that any friend could read in a dialogue box since around 2005/2006 ish?

To that note, very few people I know actually use Facebook notes compared to other blogging platforms.
It might be the case that Japan's pacifist stance was forced on them by the US ~70 years ago, but they're still officially pacifist because they choose to be. The US has wanted Japan to take a more aggressive military role for years, particularly in dealing with the other Asian countries, but why should they, when they have the world's most powerful and violent superpower sworn to throw themselves into the meat grinder on Japan's behalf?
consider Mary Flanagan's "[phage]"

Good find! Thanks.
Yea, I'm a small dev and I did that last time a critical feature of my app was broken, and the review still ended up taking a a week. Meanwhile people were sending me support emails and I know even more were silently frustrated. It's not fun to be powerless over your own destiny like this.
I would keep a clear eye on the money. Remote work is easily negotiated with a relevant online portfolio, however compensation is something that requires more speculation.

Edit: Also, a lot of remote employers will want to meet face to face eventually. Make sure they offer to compensate for travel expenses and a clear duration in the terms.
Facebook has about 800 million features you would never know existed unless you went digging for them.
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No desktop client. There's a Chrome App being worked on, but that's not an ideal setup. I really don't know why they aren't focuing on this, as it's absolutely the #1 issue whenever I talk to someone about Signal. Even the Chrome App packaged in a standalone Electron-like setup would be better.

edit: Apparently alpha versions of NW.js now support running Chrome Apps. This could be interesting. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/nwjs-general/YuwMHd_uv...
My apologies.. I lumped "god-driven evolution" in with creationism. Where I live most christians don't accept evolution and I forget that in other parts of the world there can be more nuisance. I have never actually heard that evolution is proof of no god, only that god isn't necessary for evolution to work which seems like a different thing to me. In fact wrt "proof", the point I am more familiar with is that god is an unfalsifiable concept which means can't be proved or disproved (which is why faith is required). However, I am sure there is a whole spectrum of quality when it comes to arguments against theology just like there is with anything else.
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You'll be paying for your own utility costs (power and water), so your utility bill will probably double. Make sure your salary is high enough to cover those extra costs.

Does the company already have a good system in place for remote collaboration, e.g. Slack channels for asynchronous standups, shared calendars, Confluence documentation, screen sharing tools for pairing, Google Hangouts, a healthy PR and code review process? Those tools and processes will need to be habitual for you to be a productive member of the team.
Eh.

My answer to that question is usually. "Yes, as long as you're willing to pay for it."

I'm not a consultant. "Payment" comes in many flavors.
Obviously this assumes market conditions will remain stable. Moreover is the issue of the developer/entrepreneur: if you want to stop working for a period of time, the cost to replace your job roles in the company usually means increased cost/decreased profit, so the calculus changes given those factors.
Unless you have a very loose sense of the word scientist, that's very much untrue.

[1]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2641521/?page=1