skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to think they barely give a crap about ideology. Especially the vocal minority of SJW's that seems to aggressively dominate discussion on "feminism" while not representing any consensus by majority of either feminists or women. They just want to have a chance of a good life with same opportunities as anyone else while minimizing any significant, rather than made-up, abuses. So, they focus on issues most likely to harm or help them instead of gender politics as usual.

Thing that jumped out at me was that the writer implied women were stupid for thinking voting for Hillary was voting for "the Establishment." Hillary allegedly started in Watergate, tried to strip Constitutional protections in various ways, supported the torture program, supports dragnet spying, and recently (with Trump) mocked the concept of free speech. Most of her actions, like other tyrants, remove power from the voter and consolidate it in the federal government. So, yes, she's very Establishment and in pretty bad ways.

Good to see a lot of women are noticing that. Maybe they'll vote better women into office or end up being one themselves.
I have never seen an illegal library, have you? Don't try to confuse a respectable institution with pirate web sites that didn't ask permission to anyone to do their illegal thing.
There were also some interesting comments yesterday when this was posted to the Rust subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/45gcmh/why_rusts_owne...
And practically, too, perhaps not politically or economically possible.
I agree and gave a specific example wrt Hillary in my above comment.
i only use hn and reddit and group email threads. gave up all the rest many years ago because i recognized the negative patterns it was reinforcing in my own life and others'.

if you're thinking about it, do it. you're recognizing that there's a problem in your own life. if you've never thought about it, you're probably fine.
That use of GopherJS is really cool to see!
On one hand, I find it cynical and clever and appreciate the idea the way I appreciate black humor. On the other hand, I hope they get shut down. This is toxic and will cause problems:

1. Because people will see it as free money, it's likely to increase expenses for weddings which are already too high

2. It's extremely problematic in case of abusive relationships. They have a clause saying that the abuser is liable to repay the entire amount but that would not help a lot (most) people who escape from an abusive relationship. In many cases, people who've been abused will not want it to become known. There's a lot of reasons for it (the perceived stigma of having been abused, blaming themselves for having been abused, not wanting to cause problems to their ex,....). That means that a lot of abused people would still be stuck with the bill at the end. It also creates one more barrier to escaping from a an abusive relationship which is already hard enough.

This I believe is a net loss for society and will cause sufferings. Even if it might save a few couples who will work it out instead of facing the consequences of paying back the loan, it won't balance the number of people who stay in very bad situation just as a consequence of having had a slightly grander wedding party.
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That's sarcastic yeah? ;)
I liked it. Nice article. It makes me happy about Dart's design decisions in this area. Hopefully something nice happens for Go.

In the hazy future, one thing I wonder about is how to do back-pressure outside the monorepo: if upstream makes a mistake and breaks something important downstream, how quickly do they find out? Today this happens informally. Ideally (from a responsible maintainer's point of view) you'd have an easy way of finding out before publishing a new version, and the second-best approach would be automatic notification soon after. This might involve speculatively compiling and testing some downstream packages to find out how bad the breakage is, and probably involves coordinating continuous builds somehow, or perhaps making continuous builds the job of the central repo (making it even more centralized).
Human relationships have always been about selective ignorance.
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> Senator McConnell has announced that the Senate won't take up a Supreme Court nomination this year.

Of course. The question is, why do the Democrats let the GOP get ahead of and frame every debate? Will they roll over this time or draw every bit of blood they can and make this position cost the GOP more and more politically until they give in.

Unfortunately, I would not be surprised if they roll over. You'll know they did if they don't respond soon to McConnell, or not with an effective message, and Obama nominates someone as far to the right as he can stand.
I was attempting to be generous.
I used to feel like that - that Justice Scalia was an thoughtful, intellectually honest justice that I profoundly disagreed with simply because I found his foundational principles alien and wrong.

Then came Eldred v. Ashcroft. Larry Lessig, argued the case before the Supreme Court. In his retrospective on the case [1], Lessig describes how he built his argument on the Lopez/Morrison line of decisions which said that Congress's enumerated powers had to be interpeted so that they are structurally limited. In Lopez/Morrison, Scalia agreed with the argument that Congress can't regulate whatever they want simply by declaring it to be related to interstate commerce. Lessig's argument in Eldred was that a similar structural limit should apply to the copyright power: Congress shouldn't be able to establish effectively unlimited copyright "on the installment plan".

I want to be clear what I am claiming here. I'm not saying Scalia was intellectually dishonest because Lessig lost. I'm claiming it because (as described in the retrospective) the Court didn't even address his core argument. Even if Ginsburg didn't want to include it in her majority opinion (perhaps because she didn't agree with the Lopez/Morrison decisions), Scalia could have explained why Eldred was different in a concurrence, but he didn't. That's where I see the intellectual dishonesty.

[1] http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/March-April-2004/story_le...
Facebook is strange. People on that site don't understand satire.
Is $35 billion a lot of money? We did get a step forward in engineering. The lessons learned advanced our knowledge forever. The money spent in actual wars for little things like air conditioning, for example, cost more:

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/25/137414737/among-the-costs-of-w...
I have worked for game companies making large console games both with the STL and without. One thing I noticed about STL is that it really bloats the build times because the STL headers are so massive. I did some analysis of the preprocessor output one time and found that just including a couple of headers like vector.h and string.h would increase the size of the preprocessor output by 80000 to 100000 lines, even for a cop file that is otherwise trivially small. Typically almost every cpp file in the codebase would either directly use STL headers or bring them in as dependencies, and so in a codebase of a few thousand files you are talking about hundreds of millions of extra lines of code that the compiler has to churn through. This amounted to each cpp file talking several seconds to compile and the entire codebase taking most of an hour to rebuild. People would not have been able to survive that without using Incredibuild to farm off compilation to other machines. The company I currently work at does not use STL and so largely avoids this problem. I an curious to what extent EASTL has this problem or avoids it.
In my opinion, this is a tricky way to convince thousands of couples to apply - and therefore provide data, etc - without any need to give the 10k to all of them.

Smart marketing move, but... What happens to OUR data if we're not selected to receive the 10k?

Can I guess? The company keeps the data and uses it whether you like it or not.
The Future of RichFaces
Convert an existing application to Spring Boot
that gets boring quick

streak of 6 with a mean error of 0.03
Self-hosted. The web UI for code reviews and approvals seems pretty nice, although we're really just getting started. A lot of my stuff is still on tfsvc.
The thing about Twitter is unlike Facebook (to some extent), you can pretty much customize it to just give you information that has utility. Since everything right now is shown chronologically and following individuals is fairly simple, you can opt to cultivate your feed by seeding it only with interesting people and organizations rather than people in your immediate social network. It's like Google Reader where people's Twitter accounts are RSS feeds. Being able to read thoughts from prolific authors, theorists, influencers is edifying.
I'm an American, and I get asked "where are you from?" almost every time I meet a new person here (in America). I look very non-American and have an accent most people find hard to pin down, so I'm thinking that the question is just not posed to people who look and 'speak' very American.
Yep. I've been looking into places I can host compiled binaries on a budget of $0. GitHub Releases makes it difficult for security reasons and S3 doesn't fit in my budget.

Here's hoping for the SF revival.
"The problem with Mrs Clinton is that she is an anti-feminist. She went viciously against the women who have been speaking against her husband, she supported legislation that disproportionately affected women when in Senate, and she never gave two hoots about women's issues abroad when she was the secretary of state."

BOOM! She's doing her job as a politician by trying to get votes from women with fake empathy. All of them will do that. So, for me, I'm pretty much organizing them in order of tyranny from most to least then voting for the least. Clinton and Trump are high up on the tyranny list. Sanders by default maybe.

Far as feminism, all I see online in forums I'm on is the anti-male, SJW style. I'd love to see a moderate one that fights real abuse while allowing men to be men w/out tons of self-censorship. Know any articles by feminists pushing that?
You mean force the landlords to pay for the utilities? Doing that means the tenants then blast the heat with the windows and doors wide open: they have no incentive to be economical with their energy usage. All it takes is one bad tenant like that with $2000/month utility bills and the landlord has to declare bankruptcy.

Why not just have some kind of regulation requiring rental dwellings to meet certain energy efficiency standards? And combine this with some programs to help landlords upgrade, perhaps with low-interest loans or something.
>> "But once it becomes known that getting approved for one of these loans is a strong signal of getting divorced it seems like people would shy away from them."

~100% of couples, always and everywhere, are sure they will never get divorced and that divorce is solely for other people. Centuries of actuarial results cannot convince them otherwise, so probably this won't either.
From what I've seen on Hacker News and Reddit over the past few months... if you just say "gitlab" 3 times in the mirror after midnight, he will appear.
It is plausible that gold coins are no longer on the wreck. It just seems too pat that every one of the 600+ souls was rescued, yet the coins were not.

Suppose the Connaught's purser and some crew members were in on it. Leak, unexplained fire and convenient rescue may all have been planned: opportunity, diversion and getaway. The feel-good story of the rescue would only serve to hamper investigations.
That's because a lot of women actually like men, The majority do. And the majority of men and women in western countries respect each other. And they don't see the premise invented by modern feminists. A premise that sadly PBS is also trying to push as well on their various cool hip properties. The conspiracy of the patriarchy just doesn't hold up.

And people are discovering thankfully so that the most toxic people are modern feminists. Look at various movements that have been hijacked by feminism. Occupy wallstreet, the skeptic movement, video gaming and feminism itself have been ruined by feminism.

If you want a better layout of the problem of feminism, see the recent videos by Thunderf00t.

The sad thing is how modern feminists claim that in western cultures men hate women, but these same feminists completely ignore and therefore give a pass to muslim countries, where they actually should be campaigning for rights.
This is just Idris propaganda.
Nobody is forcing couples to (under) estimate their divorce probability or make bets about that probability.
Employees can easily experience tunnel vision even if they were happily dogfooding the product themselves:

http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/6/10926816/twitter-employee-e...
How I fixed my Facebook: I unfollowed everyone I don't want to see but have to keep as a friend for whatever reason. I never see them, ever. But they're there if I need to contact them through Messenger.

You could go a step further and unfollow everyone and just use Messenger (which 99% of the people I come in contact prefer/use). But that's just my use case: Messenger remains the best way to get in contact with people, and group chats are very fun (been on some that are nearing their third year anniversary!).
> Also, as a non-american I find it absolutely absurd that for a lot of people there is this fascination with "the constitution" as being this all-powerful scripture and that's what the supreme court is supposed to defend, not the more abstract aspects of morality.

People have very large disagreements over what is morally right.

In the American system of government, it's the role of the legislature to ensure that the laws represent some consensus of justice and morality. It's the role of the judiciary to resolve ambiguity and contradiction in those laws. If the judiciary were to rule based on their subjective views of morality, it would subvert the will of the people, as expressed in laws and constitutional amendments passed by the legislature (and legislatures of the states).

The courts are courts of law instead of courts of morality or justice, largely due to interpretation of morality and justice being much more problematic and arbitrary than interpretation of laws. It's the role of the legislature, not the judiciary, to determine consensus views of justice and morality.
It's not as extreme, but it is similar. Forcing people out of their homes is usually frowned upon when it's some Natives being forced at gunpoint to pack their stuff and walk across the continent, but somehow when it's old retirees being forced to sell their house just to pay the taxes and then hope to find a new place to live somewhere, where they don't know anyone and are completely unfamiliar, that's somehow OK. It's really the same thing as gentrification, just that it's a different demographic.
States administer their own elections.
So you there there's something wrong with not being an Evangelical Christian? Nice to know that you think this site should only be for Christians. Is this a common sentiment around here? I'm a bit new. I never saw any messages saying this forum was intended only for conservative Christians.
Why is move the default? In many code bases the number of immutable references outweighs that of pointers.
Does npm have this?

https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/gradle_wrapper.htm...

I think that's what GP was referring to -- it's not a shell script for automating use of the tool, it's a shell script for automating acquisition and initialization of the tool.
Sigh, ok -- a fraction as dangerous as lung cancer to smokers.

According to NY Times, even mouth cancer risk increases more for smokers anyway (given modern snus).

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/business/studying-snus-a-s...
You mean a failure mode that is simply the time server saying "start of epoch, no offset"? There's a ton of ways for an offset to be zeroed by accident.

Hell, two years ago I was setting up logstash, and was wondering why none of my front-end searches were getting loglines. Turns out the front-end was expecting four-digit years and I was saving two-digit years - by widening my search to include the year 14AD (rather than 2014), there were my loglines.

I don't expect a vendor to intelligently handle this error and fix it for me, but I do expect a product not to irrevocably break itself if such an error does crop up.
I'd be curious what kind of tech problems you need to solve. Shoot me an email: meddlepal@gmail.com .
Thought experiment: How could a computer UI be made equally accessible and efficient?
> there is much less predetermined ideology

The outcomes are pre-determined. Then they have to work backwards to justify them. It is extremely obvious when you read e.g. the Dred Scott or Korematsu decisions that were decided a long time ago, but it is still very obvious when you read recent decisions like Obergefell or Citizens United.
I was watching a documentary years ago (vhs tape) that talked about how there were problems with the Osprey. The lingering question I had was whether it was a problem of that design or the concept. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidents_and_incidents_involv...
Newer might not be but maintained and popular definitely is.
For me at least, it's nice to have a language feature which tells me "BTW, the borrow checker is about to start caring about how long this memory is around." As opposed to the opposite, which is that everything you ever do will trigger the lifetime checks for passing arguments, and you would have to explicitly tell it to go away and that you want ownership to move.

Edit: I'm referring to the `&` operator which creates a reference/pointer to the memory it precedes.
That's not at all true. People have access to the work by virtue of owning copies of it. Music can be played. Software can be reverse-engineered or just copied. Artwork can be copied. The ideas which are the core unique value of creative work are already out in the world by virtue of the work being seen and handled by the public. Copyright exists to provide the creator protection so that they can release their creation to the world without fear of it being immediately devalued by duplication. Without copyright I don't want to release my new idea, I want to keep it secret and charge people ridiculous amounts to have access.

Society has never demanded people hand over their work without compensation. Copyright is not at all about handing over the source of your works. Copyright is about artificially preventing other people from duplicating your work for a period of time. When that time expires, others are allowed to reproduce your work, but you are not required to hand over your sources.

When a carpenter makes a chair he can claim copyright on the design of the chair. During the time that his design is under copyright nobody else is allowed to make chairs that are obviously copied or derived from his design. When the copyright expires the design is no longer protected, but nobody goes to the original carpenter to confiscate his inventory and release it to the public, nor to appropriate his designs. Those are his. He still owns the designs. They are just no longer protected by law from duplication.
1) 2 hours outside a city is not commutable to your job in the city.

2) Scottsdale is an extremely conservative city with a downright hellish climate. Not everyone wants to live someplace where it's 120F every day in the summer, and never goes below 100F at night.

3) So you wouldn't have a problem with people with entirely different political views from you moving into your city, and then demanding and voting for totally different policies than you're used to? If you advocate for people to move to where you are because the cost of housing is cheaper, then you have absolutely no right to complain when they change the political climate there.
True, although keep in mind that while USENET's bandwidth was definitely sponsored, the technology (above the TCP layer) was built by hackers as a side project. At some point Larry Wall (e.g.) got a job just being himself, but for a long time he had unrelated professional responsibilities.

Since the bandwidth funding model has now bubbled down to the consumer marketplace, it seems like the conditions are right for a huge variety of services. Actually that was starting to happen before the web swallowed all other services. Don't get me wrong, the web was/is a great thing, but it severely dumbs down the range of protocol expression. The state of websockets in 2016 is a weak imitation of IRC or MUD capabilities more than 20 years ago (never mind adoption problems).

I guess that's a curse of being "good enough". The better has an uphill battle.
...for Java. This is important bit, as I can't use it freely in my projects.
You mean it's forcing you realize this and restructure your code to free resources early like an eager collector?
> It would be like saying: "Their warships are not the essence of the Navy. The Navy wants the best ships, but there is absolutely no link to winning naval battles."

No, it wouldn't be like saying that at all. We are talking about the link between profits and salaries, not assets and objectives. If you can't understand that there's nothing more I can really say.
Script for downloading real-time images of Earth from the Himawari-8 satellite
I'm in college and Messenger has pretty much replaced texting unless it's something urgent/an emergency. I've recently made friends with some people (a few weeks) and I still don't know their number. I just talk to them on Messenger. It's honestly an interesting shift.
An alternative commercial program (not OSS), but free for Hobbyists is Autodesk Fusion 360.

It does have significant drawbacks... but if you're just getting into CNC stuff, it has fairly decent CAM functionality in built, making it a reasonable intro thing. :)
That way the syntax is the same everywhere. Reference by default would look different, and then you'd need a sigil for move, etc.

pcwalton said that back in the 0.1 days this was actually implemented, and it was very confusing.
This announcement is for https://cloud.sagemath.com which seems to be fairly easy to use.
The West Wing... That counts right?
This isn't really directed at you, but it seems like a good place to address the crowd.

I didn't say the man was a saint or that he was always perfectly intellectually honest all the time. No one is.

But I think was a lot more of those things than he often got credit for. Some of you seem to forget that people who have different opinions than you are also people. And as such, they have the right to try to get those opinions represented. Scalia's attitude towards torture was repulsive in my opinion. But he represents the attitudes of a very large number of real people.

It's not like he's some kind of singular monster or something.

As for saying crass things, giving people shit when maybe he shouldn't have, well, we've all done that too.

I figure if there's one day you can cut a guy a little slack, it's the day he dies. Sheesh, if you can't find one tiny little positive thing to say about the man, I suggest that you aren't even trying. It's not like the man was pure evil.

I further suggest that you say nothing at all if you honestly can't think of anything good about him.

The vitriol in much of this thread is utterly tasteless and shameful.
Maybe it's time to let it go.
They need to add a leaderboard.
> near 0% chance to be confirmed

This seems like very unreasonable estimate. Being election season, the Republicans will be sensitive to public opinion and stalling for 9+ months could cement the perception of being obstructionists. If Obama nominates a somewhat moderate candidate, they may decide to live with it.