skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have a better explanation for the antagonism many feel (and I
personally used to feel) towards codes of conduct?

I think there's a varying range of situations in which people feel attacked by codes of conduct.

1) People actually want the right to be an asshole. They have come to believe that everyone should be allowed to say anything they want in any situation. They call this freedom of speech. Since a Code of Conduct contradicts this expectation, they blame the CoC because it is telling them to change themselves. Nobody likes to change themself.

2) People want to have a strict and narrow definition of what to do and what not to do. In our HN-like group, people want codes of conduct to be like programming languages for humans. Since CoCs must necessarily be vague because it's impossible to narrowly codify all human interaction, people feel unsure and fearful. They thus blame the problem on CoCs and would rather prefer anarchy and being allowed to act however they wish, without fear.

3) People feel like "their" "community" is being encroached upon by foreign individuals who feel "needlessly" victimised. An analogy of the most common case, the boys' locker room is now being opened up to everyone, particularly women. Since they cannot openly attack the newcomers, instead they attack their perceived work of authorship: the code of conduct.
There isn't really a good notion of the size of an elementary particle. What's really being looked for is particles with certain higher (mass) energies. Now, why do we say that higher energies allow us to probe smaller scales? Well, at small scales(/short times), quantum mechanics allows these higher energy particles to play a role, even if there's not enough energy to create an actual particle. The smaller the scale, the more do high energy particles come into the picture. Thus cranking up the energy allows us to see these particles at a larger (detectable) scale than they would usually occur.
Student reporter changed $8k for a FOIA request
It's a matter of perspective though.

BT was ready to roll out fibre to the home back in the early 1990s for the delivery of TV. At the time BT had some of the most advanced fibre tech in the world.

The government of the day, however, decided to ban BT selling TV in favour of opening up the market to foreign owned cable companies, Telewest and NTL.

Without wide scpread Internet use that killed the investment case for fibre (and the U.K. fibre industry).

Today we're at a situation where none of the other players calling for BT's break up want to invest nationwide.

If they do break up BT it'll be great if you're in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds but I don't expect much to improve anywhere else.

I think it's more likely that Vodaphone, Sky, Talk Talk will just try milk the existing infrastructure without further significant investment, as they currently do, and BT would be dis-incentivised from further investment.
Hi hmottestad!

I am one of the people working on the IBM container service that's available as part of Bluemix. I am not here in any official capacity, just as someone who wants to understand what the pain points of our customers.

Let me start by saying that I understand your pain. As every product on the market, we have issues occasionally, such as the authentication one you mentioned or the networking. However, these are only exceptions and rarely affect our users, at least as far as we are aware. Did this happen repeatedly or was it a one time occurrence?

With regards to the ticketing system, I believe you are correct. Things are not as smooth as you or I would like them to be. I will pass this on to the management chain.

For the uploading speed of images, I also believe this may be quite rare, since I cannot remember hearing complaints about it. Did this happen on separate occasions?

With that being said, please send us tickets when something is not going the way you'd expect.

Thank you for your feedback!
Most harassment at tech conferences is male-on-male, and it is not sexual. It is about power and control, and perhaps amusement. Sex, gender, height, choice of programming language: these are ways to create and exploit vulnerability.

Sometimes I don't think psychopaths, sorry, bad actors, care about sex at all, except as a tool for controlling people.
Less need for parking spaces could cause a pretty significant increase in density which would make walking and public transport better.
Backfeed protocols for decentralized economic organizing
Why? The client can work pretty well with the --webroot issue method on any webserver. Hell, if you can take your webserver offline for a short time you can use the --standalone option's built in server.

Even where you webroot is wired into something else (a proxy, fastcgi, uwsgi/django, etc), you can rig it to try to see if a file exists in another directory before handing off.

location / {
root /web/$site/webroot;
try_files $uri $uri/ @django;
access_log off;
}

location @django {
include uwsgi_params;
uwsgi_pass unix:/web/$site/socket;
}

Simple! I reuse this in many sites (hence the $site variable) but you could decouple this and use a single directory for all sites/certificates (it doesn't have to be in the webroot, just something nginx can read).
"people who have a Surface, myself included".

That's a self-selecting group :) , so definitely not representative. I like the Surface, but it would be better to get people who don't own either a Surface or an Apple product to rate them.
I'm sure you can distinguish between contracts and rights, so what exactly are you on about?
OVerview and cooperation, sure. But everything in one ball of code because of "APIs"?!
>>The problem with this is that it creates moral hazard. There are lots of individual acts which are fun that I might engage in (e.g., gluttony, gay sex, inactivity, smoking, drugs) but which impose potential costs on others. Why is it reasonable for me to enjoy these benefits while others pay the costs?

Does it not work the exact same way with private insurance? If you require treatment, you increase premiums for everyone, not just yourself.

Anyway, I'm personally super happy with national insurance because I simply don't have to think about it. I know that if I need an operation, I will get one. I know that if I have an accident, and they need to send a helicopter to get me, I won't even see the bill for that. If I need to stay in hospital for the next year of my life, I won't see the bill. If I lose my job and become homeless I'm still going to be covered. I don't need to worry which hospital to go to, or which doctor/dentist can see me - they all can, there's no receipt produced, it's simply not a worry I have. Right now I pay about ~$100USD a month for the national health insurance, and it's an amount I am extremely happy to pay. Why would I care that other people are having accidents or smoking?
> What is the "content discovery" thing they are refocusing on?

Perhaps it includes things like the changes to the AwesomeBar they're making? It now (in beta) appears to prefer doing searches and visiting the root of a domain over your bookmarks and history. For example, instead of visiting the local Transmission instance hosted on my NAS when I type "transmission" into the location bar, it wants to "transmission - search with {your default search engine}.

(It also gives much weirder suggestions presumably based on the domain name - if I only type "trans" it suggests I visit "translate.google.com", a site I have visited twice in two years, vice the previous behavior, my transmission local instance. So no matter what I do, I have to hit tab twice instead of once.)

For me, this behavior is extremely annoying and disrupts my entire location-bar-typing-experience, but by suggesting web searches, perhaps it's meant to encourage content discovery.
Hm, I've been waiting for the official release for quite some time now and I am surprised that this news was virtually missed by HN comunity.

Is PHP7 so not-sexy and not worthwhile looking at?
I don't have a link but read recently that a judge ruled this to be true - commute time counts as work time.
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The reason I wrote this article is because I think the mainstream is so wrong it hurts. All the behaviors you listed are a normal and necessary part of socialization. Without some argument there is no learning. There is a real right to freedom of speech.

This is why I tried to define "violation" from first principles as an unwanted intrusion into personal time and space. There must be (profoundly) the intention of damage. Offense is not damage.
No one asks people in your society if they agree to a system of property, you just lock them up if they try to use resources they don't "own".

And calling them "rights" instead of "laws" doesn't make following them voluntary.
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"There are no mistakes when coding, just happy little opportunities to learn and improve."
If you want redundancy in your solution, why don't you simply include it in your models that you solve?
wiki: "CRIME ("Compression Ratio Info-leak Made Easy") is a security exploit against secret web cookies over connections using the HTTPS and SPDY protocols that also use data compression."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRIME
I don’t know about other jurisdictions, but in Canada there is actually a law in place that allows the receiver of a payment to refuse more than a certain amount of the payment in coins.

A quick googling turns up this Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_tender

The net-net is that an armoured truck full of coins is not necessarily “legal tender” in every country.
If you are talking about insurance in the pure actuarial sense, the company can choose to charge higher rates or not carry people that engage in excessive risks.

Of course insurance is not purely actuarial anymore, if it ever was.
This is really nicely done.
Can you give a brief explanation of how you made it?

One thing I was looking for, and might have missed, but is there a planetary/trajectory view where we can see the craft go through space in time with the events?
Zoning laws are a big part of the problem. There are far too many backroom deals where the politician rezoning an area as 'high occupancy residential' happens to be the brother of the guy building the apartment complex there. The problem is systemic.
> Sure, US democracy is badly implemented, but that doesn't mean the idea is inherently flawed.

If you believe the act of dropping a piece of paper into a box actually affects what a politician can do, I've got a bridge to sell you. That's what it would take for voting to actually affect something, otherwise you're just engaging in a pointless ritual.

Of course it's only pointless on the voter's part. People believing in the idea that subjects have a say in how they're ruled sure as hell benefits the rulers!

> I just object to libertarians pretending they can avoid it

In fact, I've avoided all non-governmental forms of coercion all my life!
There is no way to reliably revoke certificates. Therefore it's crucial to keep a short expiry limit.

90 days isn't short, it's about 89 days too long.
There is already a plugin that does the job pretty fine : tpope/vim-rsi
"We need to talk about this instead of this." that is exactly the point of the op's article lolol. plus the paper you linked is filled with massaging and still contains multiple instances of "however, is not statistically significant."
> On aggregate, I think we're past the point of "just about right"

That's a ridiculous idea in the reality we live in.

> IMO we need to trim regulations here and there

Who's "we"?
Maybe a new model Kiva that has larger wheels that can make it across the door-trailer gap. If there's a ramp and a height difference, the goods (presumably on a pallet of some kind) can't tip over.
When I was at RubyConf Colombia, I listened to a presenter stating that she will never again speak at or attend a conference that doesn't have an acceptable code of conduct. The reason she gave is that without a strongly-worded statement, the needs of vulnerable inevitably get trampled on, by that very antagonism the idea dredges up.

When there's not a code of conduct and available avenues for reporting harassment and, more importantly, for others to recognize when someone is getting harassed and come to their assistance, then when there is a legitimate instance, the person getting harassed always ends up getting harassed more, by the very people they're trying to go to to resolve the situation. A code of conduct makes everything clear.

Just the very suggestion that harassment could occur causes some people to really get their hackles up, as if you just accused them of harassment. I think that's the ultimate reason people have strong reactions to insistence on the need to have a policy. "Why would we need a policy, I would never harass anybody!" That sentiment itself, expressed to someone with legitimate needs, is perceived as harassment.
From the paper you linked to:

"Mummy semi-solid material is extracted from seams in caves and contains a composition of hydrocarbons, oxygen, nitrogen and sulphur. These materials are used as wound dressings... Some researchers combine known materials, such as bitumen chemical and spectral analysis, to indicate the presence of hydrocarbons. Two types of mummy: fat-soluble and organic materials, such as alcohol chloroform (localised type) and water soluble (type of food), have been characterised."

I may have misunderstood something, but I don't think the "mummy" of the paper is the same thing as the "mummies" of the post to which HN links.
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Try checking other maps like http://aqicn.org/map/europe/#@g/50.9419/4.5137/9z? Also there was a rather detailed map I saw just a week ago, displaying something like 'average decrease in life expectancy due to combined air pollution' but I cannot find it anymore. It looked really depressing btw.
All good points and I don't have any answers ready.

There was some article way back that stater short commute is one of the few things how you can spend money to be happier.
The title is all you need to illustrate what's wrong with the patent system.
There is a package in most linux distributions (sbcl under Ubuntu).

If you want more precise control over your lisp, look into Roswell. It is rbenv for lisp.
Trains, Trains, Trains.

Get real. First off they cost so much more per mile they already bust the bank and then comes maintenance. Finally the end is they cannot respond to population movements.

Light rail is already a boondoggle of an expense in many cities trying to fit them in, with per passenger costs so many times that of alternate solutions only a politician could love it.

Trains are a romanticism that blinds people to their real cost. Heavy rail has many uses and sharing tracks can be a good solution. However when new heavy rail is proposed they don't want to take into account existing support infrastructure, they want to build all new end points; here is a hint start and end at an major airport where taxis and buses already provide service and parking is plenty

As for the safety canard, we don't have enough history on autonomous cars and buses with proper planning to make that call. If you want to even the playing field, instead of making a new train track you instead use that same space for dedicate autonomous vehicle travel. In this you can let cars and buses serve the same central points and at the end of the route there is no need to change vehicles. Bonus, no trains or tracks to maintain!
And you have to take into account the fact culture plays a role.

What's your personal space? It varies based on where you were born and where you grew up. Invading someone's personal space is perceived as aggressive and noisome and perhaps even threatening, which makes it even worse to assume it must be based on pathology rather than "This person was born in Italy, I'm from Norway" or similar.

Similarly, saying things like "culture doesn't excuse bigotry" is rather pointless, given that culture defines what you consider to be bigotry in the first place. What's perfectly tolerant and open-minded in Russia might be unspeakable in Liberia and vice-versa.

My point is, add a culture out of step with the mainstream notions of propriety to someone with even a relatively mild social dysfunction (not necessarily diagnosable!) and you have a "harasser" in the making, especially if everyone castigates them on the first offense and nobody tells them what they're actually doing wrong.
If private insurance can account for your risky behavior (as the article is describing, then no. Private insurance doesn't have this problem. And again, high deductibles mitigate it, since your risky behavior can cause you to lose 20% of your income, but still protect you from tail risk.

Why would I care that other people are having accidents or smoking?

Because you are paying for the consequences of their actions. A quick google search suggests more than 20% of the (far more than $100/month) Americans pay is caused by gluttony alone: http://www.healthycommunitieshealthyfuture.org/learn-the-fac...

That's about 1/3 of what we spent on our overpriced military. And that ignores the costs inflicted by overweight but not obese people as well as various other unhealthy behaviors.

In a country where medical professionals have no other options and therefore take low salaries, this may be less of an issue. But in the US medicine is very expensive, so it costs us a lot.
I did read what you said. I just found it unserious and at odds with the way that human beings actually think, in particular your claim that the amount of relative risk is what should dictate the response.
There is plenty of content aimed at the warm and fuzzy audience. The golden age of comics happened to come right before TV took off, so I would sort of not expect the content to be the only issue.

I actually didn't think that content was particularly useful to the story, it was more in the vein of we-are-so-edgy-it's-awesome, a sort of stunt that is common in popular media these days.
apt-get source sbcl
uBlock works wonders there.
Is making fun (not constantly though) of some bad languages now harassment?
You'll Never Guess What the First Thing Ever Sold on the Internet Was
You may simply want AWS ELB to support SNI, and thus allow you to install multiple certificates.
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> The organizers shall be aware of the risk of "date rape" drugs.

They shall be aware that the most important "date rape" drug is alcohol. That's un-PC to say, especially around drinkers, but it's true.
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yes! (by definition)
Lamenting that people need to commute for their jobs doesn't really change or help anything. People work within their systems of incentives.

Driverless cars will be an enormous help in many ways, even to traffic congestion.

Having many small buses are a distinct possibility. They could be basically boxes filled with standing people with the motors and batteries underneath. They could be be much more granular and recharge on their own. They could even turn their wheels selectively to get around smaller spaces. Even a small one could hold 6-8 standing people.

You have to realize that there is a lot more to an advancement like this then just 'now you can take your hands off the wheel'
In the beginning of the industrial revolution, it used to be relatively common for employer to arrange housing for the workers. No time commuting, but the catch is that the house is part of the salary. But the employer then gets to hire based on merit.
Sure. So what?
Just as solid rock
is not shaken by the storm,
even so the wise are not affected
by praise or blame.

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> On the other hand as a society we actually can afford to treat the 10th guy with cancer and if that we aren't doing so is an ethical failure not an economic one.

Whatever else may be said about health care and insurance, I feel it boils down to two questions: can we afford to cover everyone, and should we?
> Anyone who looks at self-driving cars from an engineering perspective know that there are still many challenges.

I'm not an engineer but (having started as an optimist about autonomous vehicles) I detect the whiff of vapor-ware about them. It seems everyone's saying how amazing they are (which is true if they work) but nobody has yet made them work, at least as a consumer option.

Shame more people don't quote references as you have. Makes for a more interesting conversation and gives an opportunity to modify a viewpoint or two.
I made it in these steps:
- OCR data
- Create timeline in premiere, time media to orig transcript (36 8-hour videos)
- clean data by watching premiere by reading along OCRed data
- Sync data with youtube playback via JS
- create navigation scheme using paper.js
- build data lazy loader in JS
- collect photography, treat photography, time photography to timeline
- ask my good friend, Chris to make it look nice for me

The whole site is client-side. The entire mission is loaded into the browser upon start. There's no server-side. Ironic given that my roots are as a server-side dev.

It took me years. I blogged about the making of here if you're interested: http://benfeist.com/category/apollo/
When Your Boss Is an Uber Algorithm
Kind of an inflammatory title (but from the original article, so not a complaint about HN). "Physicists hope to learn more about physics from the Higgs Boson" seems more accurate. :)
Could you extrapolate from that though that:

1. Since the first amendment allows the free exercise of religion, prayer must be allowed in schools as long as no specific religion is established via those prayers?

2. Since the second amendment allows the right to keep and bear arms, without further amendment, that right should be unrestricted by any registration process considered onerous or restrictive?
Get into? Cable ISPs are already in a massive conflict of interest. They are selling everyone their data twice, just like 'voice, texts, and data' from wireless companies.
It's cheap, it's pretty, it's suitable for puns and anyone can buy .de domains, so probably it is used by many people everywhere.
>If you believe the act of dropping a piece of paper into a box actually affects what a politician can do, I've got a bridge to sell you.

The power of democracy is that it becomes completely socially unacceptable to ignore what those pieces of paper say.

And indeed the people you're complaining about don't ignore them. They find ways to get what they want despite the system, but they never outright defy it. No one installs themself in office without winning an election (EDIT: In the US), and if anyone ever did there would be rioting in the streets.

>> I just object to libertarians pretending they can avoid it

>In fact, I've avoided all non-governmental forms of coercion all my life!

I mean that you're pretending your ideology can avoid all coercion, while ignoring the coercion involved in enforcing property rights.
Lovely puzzles. Solved day 5 without resorting to regexes (which was kinda fun). Only gripe I have is that I can't use requests to get at the data.
Interesting map. Also a good thing that my country Bulgaria isn't there as probably the pollution index will be over 100.
How do I use hacker news
I landed here some days ago and don't know what hacker news is really meant for. Please , what's the purpose of hacker news ?
So yet another case of Goodhart's Law, this time perhaps before Goodhart formulated it?
Good post but I call hyperbole on one of your closing remarks:

> Without good package/version management I don't see it as a good alternative for building anything but trivial applications.

Even if we agree Python has mediocre package management then it is still more of an annoyance/hinderance than a factor that realistically rules out "building anything but trivial applications".