skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have unfollowed all but about 3-5 people on Facebook. It's pretty great. It's turned down the junk, but I miss out on stuff so much more often now. Oh well. The alternative is worse for me, and it makes me seek out real interactions with my network instead. That's a huge win for me. Facebook could win back some of my time by allowing me unfollow topics or other entities, across my timeline.

I LOVE some of my friends, but I hate 99% of any post on the NFL. I'll certainly never seek it out. I unfollow people because it's just so frustrating to start to dislike the person ranting about something I don't care about, just because Facebook isn't smart enough to understand how human relationships work. In real life, I can tell that person, "Look, I love you, but you've got to stop talking about the NFL around me! You're showing me you're not listening to me or valuing me as a person by doing so..." And that's what Facebook is not doing: valuing me as a person. So, I unfollow everyone; the NFL is just one example.
That would depend a lot on the story for using npm modules in your favourite language and your transpiled code. If it's not possible, it's a non-starter.

And why would you write ClojureScript to use on the server, when you could just use Clojure?
Out of respect for people who don't like being surprised, that link is a PDF.
Is the hardware expensive enough that reverse engineering the driver would be economical?
Similar experience. I was in a Ryokan in Kyoto where some workers were about to repair some fittings in the street and make some noise. We were given a leaflet in English apologising for the noise made and the next day when we got out the supervisor was ready with a candy and a small toy for our daughter.
Quite a lot. Religiously followed the schedule. Felt good for doing it. Can't say it helped or not.
I could not disagree more. Rapidly picking up any language is simply not possible (unless you're a genious). Because the language is not just the syntax; It's its history and evolution, design choices, documentation (or lack thereof), community (both kindness/aproachability and responsiveness), leadership, etc. It takes time. Which sometimes, as an employer, I'm not willing to invest in. Because money.

Plus you've somehow managed to state that JS developers are not decent enough.
What is the cause of the population getting taller?

The brain is just another organ that is affected by nutrition in the same way height is. Improve nutrition and those individuals that are below their genetic potential due to poor nutrition will improve. Guess which half of the population has suffered from poor nutrition in the past?
YES!!! I've been looking very carefully at this, but Elixir still feels intimidating to me. A friend of me gave me an ebook which I'm working through at the moment.

For me, the jury is still out on whether I will be able to model my domain well in a language like Elixir.. I love Haskell, but I sometimes wonder if its a healthy attitude to be so stubbornly against OO. That said, I understand the arguments against essentially `this` and mutability. Any pointers on how to model your domain model in FP would be really welcome!
He'll make empty threats, which will get him votes. OvidStavrica never said he was the best candidate to deal with the situation.
The Seven Deadly Sins of Microservices
YES! I have the same problem (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10849984). I solved it by being OK with it, but I think that a browser extension would solve this issue pretty quickly, if I knew how to do it. Delete any element on facebook.com* that contains "* liked ". I can do it manually, I just don't know the Chrome extension world at all.
Bush 41 is George H. W. Bush. Junior is Bush 43.
> This hasn't been covered in tv compared to Clock boy which made it to the front page of HN a couple of times.

That might be taking the rules too literally. The point is, if this is a story you would expect to see on the evening news, it is unlikely to be suitable material for HN.

> The gender imbalance with more males with exciting cultural baggage will make for interesting times in Europe.

I'm sure it will - but it's still not a relevant submission, IMHO. Posting stories like this will eventually cause HN to become just another news aggregator without any particular focus.
> i could imagine that a decent full stack dev would rather use the right tool for the right job.

The right tool depends on the requirements. If there's no special requirements then I don't see why javascript can't be a substitute for ruby, python, php, or perl on the backend.

> you would use something like couchdb instead of a relational db

I'm not sure this is a good analogy since javascript (as well as the backend languages that it seeks to substitute for) is more of a general purpose tool, and not a super specialized datastore.