skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is making politics way too personal!

Governments have never been as powerful, influential, or pervasive as they are now. Even at the height of the Roman Empire, the machinations of the Senate and the Caesar had less impact on the average citizen's life than today.

It's fairly natural to assume that as the scope and influence of government grows, the more personal politics will become, as it affects our lives to increasing degrees.

This schism will only get worse as governments become larger and more intrusive.
> You're depending on 1018 people who actually may not be statistically relevant, since America is a big, big country, to drive your thinking on that country.

It's a problem if they're badly sampled, but the sample size you need is doesn't really change as you increase your population, as long as your population is a lot bigger than your sample size. If 1000 people would be OK for a population of 1M, then it should be just as good for a population of 100M.

I don't think this really invalidates your point, it's just a misconception I see a lot.

http://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm
I forked it, I don't know Chinese, but i think that it would be neat to have a translated version.
I agree that it is way too difficult to manage a bunch of monthly subscriptions, and also that having to put my credit card information into a website (and have it bill me every month) is basically as bad if not worse as putting up with the advertisements on a website. However, I think that micropayments/a flattr-style fund for reading articles is doomed to fail because of the psychological shift between "I'm reading this article for free" and "I'm reading this article for $0.01, I only have 1000 of these left this month, maybe this isn't the one I really want to spend this on." My opinion is that a Spotify/Netflix-style subscription model is the best: collect subscription money, then pay per-user that accesses an article. However, the issue with this model is that the "network" of things that you are allowed to read will be really small at first.

That said, here is my proposed business model. Create an app that allows users to load money into the app monthly and issues each user a unique credit card number[1] for subscriptions to other websites, giving a central location to manage subscriptions. Once you build up a number of users on a single site, go to that site and say "Hey, you can save the 1% of the subscription cost from our users that's eaten up by credit card fees[2] by going through us to manage subscriptions. Oh, and it will also increase your conversion rate among our users since it will only take two clicks to subscribe instead of having to enter a bunch of credit card information. Once you have a critical mass, you go around to companies and now create the Netflix-style subscription service. If you're clever, you probably can create article-level bundles, e.g. "every article in our network that was linked to off of Hacker News," but NOW you have the pay-to-read subscription with a critical mass of information that people want to read, instead of "we're launching with these twenty sites from these four companies and we hope to add more."

[1] Yes, there are a bunch of problems with issuing credit card numbers. Yes, I know I complained about having to enter credit card numbers in the first paragraph. This is a big picture thing.

[2] This is kind of wrong, since a credit card fee will be charged to load money into the app, as well as for disbursements. At this point, the startup would probably have to eat that fee or heavily push ACH/lower fee methods of payment (even though I hate companies that push ACH for this reason).
Yes, to some extent. Since we are looking at Saez:
http://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/course/Labortaxes/taxableincom...

You can see the massive shift in _reported individual income_ around the tax cuts.
What evidence do you have to support Bernie could bridge the gap better than Hillary?

When they were both in the Senate they voted 93% similarly. In addition, Bernie is liberal/progressive (far left) and Hillary is more moderate/liberal. On the spectrum, Hillary's politics are closer to Repubs than Bernie is. And Hillary is essentially a Bill Clinton in ideology, which is someone who enact legislation that's a hybrid of dem/reb lib/consv ideologies.
For references, no I don't have anything other than email conversations with FAA engineers, but I'll see if I can find it somewhere else too. Both of us will have to do better than he said she said, but since you're with consensus the burden is on me.

One thing I'm not disputing is that the clocks run at a different rate. What I guess I haven't made clear is that any rational extension of classical physics would presume the clock rates would be different. Bear in mind that Lorentz's Aether theory was ultimately classical in nature because even though he had the Lorentz transform and all the time effects, light speed constancy was modeled as an illusion within a preferred frame.

IE from a purely newtonian perspective, there is a "catching up" that light would have to play in a moving apparatus such as an atomic clock. This naturally lends itself to time dilation from motion. Furthermore Newtonian mechanics also predicted deviation of starlight and therefore gravitational time dilation of exactly one half that predicted by Relativity. Einstein mentions it in his book "Relativity".

So what I'm talking about is a little more nuanced than it seems. I'm simply talking about the actual difference between Einstein's theories and what classical theory would have come up with is insignificantly small.

I'm not saying that the whole time effect is insignificantly small.
I'm still relatively new to formal specification but it seems that some form of weak/strong fairness would suffice for the correctness of your invariant and then it's a matter of testing your liveness properties while holding the invariant with a model checker.

TLA+ seems pretty good at this. Why would this be a waste of effort?
Let's all agree to be happy instead of angry. You can only control your own actions and emotions. Be grateful what you have instead of focusing on what you don't.
Correct, but maybe one day someone might want to write or use some software that's not a web app?
Will it be any different than it is now? Because right now, I've seen some of the most vile and hateful things come out of some specific groups..and they get no account bannings because they cry out that they are being bullied or harassed.

Many times it has nothing to do with 'feeling safe' and everything to do with banning political speech that you don't want to hear.

A tool to censor free speech and give someone power over another.
Let me add one more thank you for that blog, it's one of 6 I have saved to bookmarks. I love it!
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Hi @dave2000, I am that man. Sure, I've done illegal things, and I still do, but generally I avoid breaking the law.

I note that my respect for the law has increased with age. Probably due to encountering more accomplished lawbreakers and not wanting to be the guy who says, "Yes, but it's OK if I break that law because it's a stupid law." Also knowing people who, perhaps, had a problem at an airport or with the state police. I find the law to be a useful reality check.

I note your argument above has made this into a 0/1 proposition ("because they are illegal I won't take them").

But I believe it is more true to reality to look at it probabilistically, i.e., on a given Friday night, is it more or less likely that I'd be offered MMJ by a friend if it's legal in CA versus not legal in CA.

I think this thought experiment clarifies the argument that consumption increases when MJ is legalized. Indeed, for medical MJ specifically, I think that is the point.
Recruiter here.

Due to the amount of turnover and lack of upper management effort you can "hack" almost any recruiting company. Most new recruiters have access to all internal records and are using a basic password (12345678 or password123)

It's not uncommon for recruiters to access other companies database to find numbers and email addresses.

Honestly if you have ever sent your resume to a recruiting agency your information is fairly accessible to anyone who cares to look for it. I can find cell phone numbers of most managers in the city because they applied for some recruiting agencies entry level positions 10+ years ago.
I forgot about patent trolling, which I see other commenters have mentioned separately.
Started off interesting, then ventured off into conspiracy theory territory.
I seriously would be interested on what topics you find the same thing.

I FORGOT to say minimum wages I just find it crazy that we provide the safety net for low wages for large profitable corporations and that they want to continue supplying workers for them on the backs of tax dollars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Duffie_Shriver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8xlUNK4JHQ

(I would like to see corresponding movies warning students coming to study in the U.S. about U.S. government attempts to recruit them.)
As the article clearly states, these math programs are only attended by the well off due to awareness and finances not being a hindrance.

What about the vast majority of students who don't get to attend these type of programs?

We need to come up with solutions that are inclusive and accessible to the vast majority of students. Clearly inclusiveness and accessibility are missing from these programs.

The methods that these programs use to promote the development of problem solving in students are novel. Maybe they can be incorporated into school curriculum and better train the teachers to handle this new approach to learning.
As a native (small n) American, I can definitely say that I'm aware of this and make it a point to not watch local news for exactly this reason; it consists of the local channels trying to out-compete each other for the largest fear hit. I don't believe it's at all healthy to consume with any regularity.
Well, I am personally skeptical that those well-established models and prior theories are a) being followed and b) as effective as thought. More a) than b).

But my greater skepticism comes from basing policy or expectations of a country on simplifications. Again, I wonder if they asked the same number of people if the same questions and subbed out disappointed for angry if they would get a significantly different response?
So how should people remake their country if not through the political process? Through armed rebellion? I'd say that's rather polarizing too.

I think the solution goes back to an old civic ideal that's central to a successful democracy. Duty. If Americans dutifully studied the issues, civilly discussed the alternative policies (knowing there must be tradeoffs and delays as different solutions are tested and refined), and participated constructively in the process as if their children's future depended on it, we wouldn't have time to bitch and moan. And we'd rightly shame those who do for being childish and useless.
So does nginx still have to know about all of the modules at compile-time? Or can I compile nginx, then later compile a module for that nginx?
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Poor management by the government is hardly a surprise. Systems have to be constructed to deal with that as a reality. Or we need to stop hiring managers based on how popular they are.
It's part of American heritage to not trust their government but I think that leads to a spiral of terrible government. It's a self-fulfilling prophesy. In other countries, people actually demand their government be effective and useful. In the US, it's just expected that it won't be.
No it wouldn't. Either hack a quick shim to start the interpreter or rely on the operating system to figure out how to run a script. The #! is there for a reason.
Many FOSS projects/groups are non-profits.

FreeBSD, Apache, etc.

This being the case, it made sense to point the obvious problem with the "sell a license" issue. I'm not saying a for-profit is "wrong" but you aren't taking tax deductible donations if you are running a for-profit.
I have conservative friends and relatives as well, and we get along just fine -- the trick is to see the person and not the ideology. This is why this statistic is so shocking to me. So your kid fell in love with someone from the opposite party, and you can't see why your kid fell in love with them through your ideological glasses?
That Steinbeck quote reads with a degree of wisdom but really it's as well-worded as it is untrue.

The reason "socialism" never took root in America is because of the way our Constitution separates political powers. Socialism is 100% incompatible with the 10th amendment because you cannot have socialism if wealth is not distributed in an apportioned manner. If States get the authority to legislate on all matters not explicitly defined in the Constitution, then there is no way for socialism to take hold in the US.
It's worth noting that a lot of these age limits are a result of COPPA, which is legislation that prohibits companies from tracking people under the age of 14 without parental permission.

When this law was first introduced, a site that I used heavily as a minor required me to get a permission form signed and faxed by my parents before they'd unlock my account -- while I actually got them to do this, it would have been faster and easier to create a new account with a fake age.

I think these laws need to be revamped, although because they only affect kids they're not really on anyone's radar (in the US, the deteriorating and underfunded school system is a more pressing problem). Companies end up tracking kids anyway through their parents, whether it's the "35-year-old female using Angry Birds" (actually their mother handing their phone to their kid on a train) or having your parents upload your baby photos to Facebook hours after your birth.
This is a bad title edit, if it was edited. The original title, "Safer Internet Day: Young ignore 'social media age limit'", at least focuses partially on the actual topic of the article, an event meant to raise awareness of online bullying. A better title edit would be "10-12 year olds report seeing, experiencing online bullying in spite of social media age limits".

But, you know what else puts youth at risk for bullying? Going outside. Going to school. Being different. Liking things other kids don't like. Being gay. Being black. Being asian. Etc..

Random trolls on the internet can do orders of magnitude less psychological damage to a kid than their actual peers can by excluding them from activities in the real world and making the state-mandated 9-5 they go to an experience they dread.

This sort of dominance behavior is likely a human evolutionary constant, but so are a lot of behaviors we've as a society decided are no longer acceptable. What will actually stop bullying is enforcing, across society and consistently in front of children, that it isn't acceptable to hurt other people to benefit yourself.

I'm sure virtually every educator knows this, because they're usually trained in child psychology. So if you see an "educator" saying that the thing we really need is an "internet safe zone" "for the children" you should know where their loyalties really lie.
The 27% is what they keep, not the tax rate. The comparison would be 73% to your 40%.
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I saw this article listing the proposed new tax brackets.

http://www.fool.com/retirement/general/2016/02/07/bernie-san...

Personally, I can't afford a house in the valley, and the new brackets would cost me an additional $10-15k/yr, putting home ownership out of reach for a long time. In fact, the additional $10-15k/yr would put me close to not being able to afford my rent.

That's even before looking at the change to capital gains, which would tax them at the marginal rate.
Politics is personal for many people. For example, reproductive rights are being eroded by one party, and not the other. If reproductive rights are important to a person, then politics is personal and important to them. If someone is poor and rely on food stamps, then politics is personal and important them. If politics isn't personal for you, i'm glad for you, but i think you can understand why it can be very personal for others.

There was never an American consensus. There is just a dominant culture that tries to erase a history of conflict and astroturf it with a false narrative of unity.
You can build things like 2 phase locking on top of that. You're right though that simply taking a lock before updating two values doesn't solve the atomicity of that update problem. However if you're updating a single value then taking a lock can make your life easier vs. systems with no locks and eventual consistency.
The way our country works, it becomes harder and harder for normal people to get by. Some Americans think this is the fault of immigrants. Some have other ideas.
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Is there some similar web UI for an Apache dashboard?
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Thanks for the links. They appear to be on the wrong level for what I'm interested in learning, though I need to look closer look at the historiography books, like "The Historian's Craft".

I posted my question yesterday to Reddit, as you suggested. It's at https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/44s7ak/how_t... .
There's no salty like antirez salty. I have mad respect for the guy as a programmer, but he needs to take things a bit less personally IMO.
Weren't Americans (or at least their ancestors) generally dissatisfied with their lot in the first place and that's why they became Americans?

I don't know that dissatisfaction and mistrust is genetic but I'm guessing it probably gets passed on culturally, at least to some extent.
Windows isn't exactly known for OS innovation! A whole bunch of things were promised for Longhorn and then never delivered. Are you thinking of one of the many Microsoft Research projects that hasn't quite made it into use?

The sheer permanence of the Windows API makes it hard for Windows to innovate.
RMS is a classic Green Party guy, explicitly. That is not the same as being anti-capitalist.

And only idiots think that free markets don't have externalities, so RMS noting that there are environmental or social issues free markets fail to address is itself completely unremarkable. Anyone who denies those facts should be completely disregarded. Even the most staunch free market advocates who have any understanding of reality accept that externalities exist.
"A number of studies have found that biology may be linked with political orientation. This means that biology is a possible factor in political orientation, but may also mean that the ideology a person identifies with changes a person's ability to perform certain tasks." [1]

How cognitive biases affect our interpretation of political messages [2] "There is considerable evidence that people presented with balanced arguments place weight on those they already agree with, exhibiting what is termed confirmation bias."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology_and_political_orientat...

[2] http://users.ox.ac.uk/~chri3110/Details/P460%20Cognitive%20b...
The powershell terminal is a little better than the normal CMD shell, but there's some weird stuff there... Why are they still using the block selection for copy-paste? Never has that been what I wanted
Do you have any references for this?

This discussion is very interesting and I would like to read up a bit more on your argument and why is this so.

I know that distributed systems are hard, but this is a problem that I find interesting to learn more about.
There goes a wasted work hour reading your blog and remembering our overland road trip from UK to South America in an old VW Westfalia.

Would love to get back out on the road, but 3 kids now (as opposed to just one for the trip) means it is unlikely.
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You may also enjoy:

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/09/either_conservatives_...
The article is still a listicle. It's tuned for clickbait and for short attention spans.
Because advertisers provide the income for the media companies.
The common rule is that "no one thinks the same thing" unless there is a traumatic mind altering event that aligns people for a short period of time. Media, government, corporations, friends and family are all competing for attention to some degree.

Puppet masters know this all to well.
Would you be okay if your child married a neo-Nazi who believed strongly in the white nation's victory in the coming race-war?

Because that's politics. I wouldn't let someone like that near my children at Christmas because of potential memetic contagion, much less enjoy having a conversation with them.

Lesser degrees of disagreement are lesser degrees of disagreement, but political positions are personal beliefs about the philosophy of how we cooperate with each other and what we should be doing, not simply different teams to root for at the big game every four years.
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Well, that's the rub, isn't it? Everyone thinks they are working in the best interest of the children. At least that's what they tell themselves, regardless of whether their own agendas are coloring their perception of reality, which is probably happening somewhat on both sides. Unfortunately what's best for one child may be the opposite of what's best for another child in this situation.
Well, participation in single-payer health care will either hurt the top hospitals or it won't. If it doesn't, who cares? If it does, what's stopping them from remaining private and only accepting those who can afford it? Surely the market for the best available care wouldn't evaporate.
I absolutely hate this quote; it gets parroted all the time as a smug and flippant criticism of the American Dream.

Isn't it a good thing that people see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires? How is that any different than seeing yourself as a temporarily embarrassed rock star, or astronaut, or breakthrough scientist, or famous artist, or successful entrepreneur? Is it such a bad thing that we're a nation of dreamers? Go ahead and tell a child that they shouldn't have big dreams because it's silly to believe they might come true, because that's essentially what Steinbeck is doing to the poor in this quote. See how smug you feel then.

Or should we do like the Europeans do and set low expectations rather than suffer the pain of not meeting higher ones? They say that the Danes are the happiest people in the world because they nave notoriously low expectations. I'll take naive optimism over pragmatic pessimism any day of the week.
Uh... you could pay.

Seriously. What is so objectionable about respecting their proposal for viewing the content they produced? You don't want to agree? Don't read it.

I have a feeling that if your question was, "how can I subvert this project's open source license?", you would be flamed into oblivion. I'm not sure why a request to violate the WSJ's implicit license agreement is not similarly received...
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Using high-level languages for init systems is a great idea. In fact, we do this for the Guix System Distribution. Our init system is called GNU Shepherd, and it's written in Guile Scheme. It's great because you write services as Scheme code. For example, I have a number of Ruby web servers that I run for development at work that are nearly identical. Since services are first-class Scheme objects, I wrote a simple function that returns a service object for running a Ruby web server, specialized for a given application. For this workflow, I run Shepherd as an unprivileged user and additionally manage all of my user services like gpg-agent, emacs daemon, offlineimap, etc. No crappy external domain specific language to learn; data is code. Highly recommended.

http://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/