skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have switched from a life long moderate Republican to a moderate Democrat. I think most of my friends think I am now going to Hell and I am a Hillary lover. I tell them that Republicans have no room for moderates. They make the craziest things up about Common Core, Environment and the nation's Safety Net. They have no idea how crazy they sound.
Not exactly.

GNU social was its own project when StatusNet was still a thing.

GNU social, StatusNet and "Free and Social" merged to become GNU social
> If you want perfect, you have to throw away your computer and somehow live inside Knuth's books.

Either that or wait for GNU/Hurd.
Surely you must realize that I'm going to check out ronomon.com, see that it's absolute shit, and conclude that any further time spent barking up your tree is wasted?

Instead of playing internet tough guy, why don't you put something on github, or find some constructive way of obtaining validation? You've got an uphill battle if you're really trying to convince people that having a bunch of text files on their app servers is really so fucking great.
Both your statements are correct: Amazon is most likely running lxc containers under the hood though, so anyone could duplicate what Lambda does using an evaluator for javascript/python/etc with a REST API containerized in a docker container.

Disclaimer: I am a heavy Lambda user.
Knee jerk reaction? The main target of that page is the UK, where BBC do not display any ads.
I have a friend that's writing a book and has this very problem!
>Except minors don't have contractual capacity, for exactly the very reason that they can't understand what they are signing.

They can understand the simple contract far better than an adult can understand the average legal heavy contract. Any reasoning to not give contractual capacity to a minor (especially one who is able to read/write) applies just as well to the average individual.
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The status quo is devastating for the vast majority of aspiring athletes. It’s only a tiny fraction who come out ahead.
I'm sure I read a study a while back that found that people who have "right wing" views are more afraid - and this certainly agrees with my experiences in the UK (particularly Daily Mail readers).

The US is rather more "right wing" than places like the UK so perhaps that leads to more fear?

And as the wee green beastie said:

"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate.. to suffering ..."

Edit: I think this is it:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/07/biology-ideology...

"political conservatives have a "negativity bias," meaning that they are physiologically more attuned to negative (threatening, disgusting) stimuli in their environments."
Many GNU Social servers are hosted by individual users. In this case, it looks like the admin got a certificate from Let's Encrypt for "vinilox.eu", and then tried to use it on "micro.vinilox.eu". It doesn't necessarily mean that the site is not trustworthy.
I realize what 2 factor authentication is, and perhaps I jumped too soon before considering it, but with everything else happening I can't help but think they would want my number for more than just my added security.
anti captcha (against recaptcha) works via captcha farms, the biggest being deathbycaptcha.com. $10 gets you about 10k solved captchas.

They work quite well. I tend to get about a 1 out of 5 correct of the squiggly words, whereas the service is more like 4/5

I am not aware of any successful dictionary attack on recaptcha. And the only OCR techniques to bypass recaptcha was by xrumer[0] but that was a few years ago

[0]xrumer: once popular forum spamming software waned in popularity / effectiveness in recent years
A Diverse Pixar Crew Grabs an Oscar Nomination
I also think these experiences are important for people to learn. It is why I am enjoying the current discussions around the Dark Zone in The Division. It is a PvP enabled zone in an otherwise PvE game, with a harsh absense of repurcussions meaning personal resposibility is all that stands in the way of losing everything. Many people cannot handle that and want to blame others for their "bad" behavior. It is very similar to EvE but in a genre that is more popular with younger, more ideal folk.
The article does a good job hitting several 'topics' in the conversation, which is a reasonable place to start. As a collective emotional response, "anger" in the US population likely has a lot to do with rapidly changing social adaptations, acceptance, and transition which is frequently in direct conflict with traditional identity values - thus, a pretty understandable survey answer. Start broadening the perspective to include economic conditions (inequality, labor force participation) and it's not really a pleasing long-term outlook on an intellectual level.

For some reason, I can't quite shake the mental image of a cornered rat - its survival instinct response might be classified as 'anger' but the context and conditions are relevant in the grand scheme of things.
Economics is politics, not science.
>The fundamental problem of education in public schools and its ineffectiveness is not being addressed.

If it so ineffective, how come americans win so many nobel prizes, have thriving high tech industry ect

http://graphics.wsj.com/which-country-has-the-most-nobel-pri...
(A) The real issue is not setting tax rates after some national soul searching, compromise and a moral-philosophical discussion about greed, wealth, liberty and so forth. It's not about economic theories. It's about practicalities. It is increasingly hard to tax the wealthy and large corporations. This is for reasons that are not easy to remedy, and may not be remediable. The reality in all developed countries is that (1) total budget/gdp is %35 - %45 and (2) the middle class pay disproportionately high taxes. This is effectively what you are working with as a leader in a 2016 developed country.

If you think you can get significantly more (ie percentage points of GPD) out of the wealthy... well... that's the significant part. Tell us about that. Lets debate that. Personally, I doubt it.

I think we need to acknowledge that these are the parameters of our nameless, global political-economic system. It carries some parts of the capitalism, welfare state theories, labour unionism theories, but it's pretty far from those on paper.

(B) There are examples in the US and elsewhere of high marginal taxes. This is not a venture into some unknown.

I'm not American, so no real dog in this race. That said, when I here someone talk in this way, as if from a sketchbook of political ideas, I kind of think it's naive.
I love the current ad-based world that lets me get free access to premium content in exchange for ad views, I just don't want to be profiled.

I'd be SUPER happy to see ads that support a site that didn't track me.
Here's a sign: there are the names and numbers of members of a secretive FBI counter-terrorism unit in the list. Stuff that, if not actually classified, is held close.
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Switch statements is broken in .NET with latest Roslyn compiler
As a non-US citizen who just casually observes US news like an outsider, I can think of the below reasons:

1. The technology industry and EFF is very upset because of the ongoing patent-trolls issue. Only recently, a technoloy company was extracted of $625 million by the East Texas jury. Similarly, Oracle is trolling over its Java patent on a matter as trivial as the Java API. These two incidents are enough for the technology community to lose faith in POTUS/SCOTUS.

2. The second group which is not happy is the entire populace who like an open market and free competition. Power users who understand it know that Net-neutrality is harming it a lot. Again, POTUS/SCOTUS is not listening to this problem, but has turned a blind eye to it.

As an outsider, my assessment could very well be observed, but I do think that these issues have enough potential to cause a feeling of anger and distrust in a lot of Americans (if not all). Ignorance or inactivity on part of POTUS/SCOTUS is only going to aggravate it.
I wonder how long SpaceX will maintain ops in their Hawthorne facility before opening a new one. With the larger rockets, I would think shipping via highway would become a problem. Also I wonder how feasible it is to continue to produce rockets so far from launch sites
I don't see how the page you linked to supports your thesis. It doesn't call out, or even discuss, election years. 1996 looks to be better than 1993, 1984 better than 1981.
I'd love to show you, but wouldn't know where to look for that, tbh.
http://www.spacex.com/falcon-heavy
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Linked In asks for your email account's password, but I wouldn't be surprised if they secretly attempt to log into your email account using your linkedin.com password, hoping you reuse the same password.
1) It can't. Unless Bernie gets several hundred like-minded people elected to the House and Senate, this is going nowhere.

2) Depends on how much competition there is between employers, but it could happen the way you fear, especially in a soft economy.
A Russian scientist was struck by a particle accelerator beam in 1978
It seems a lot of people are misinformed in this thread about Bernie's plan. Here is a quick video explaining Berine's plan to change Washington (by Robert Reich): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfIhonVoFSg

tldr; Bernie wants a political revolution of voting progressives which will put new Senators/Congressmen(women) in DC, which will allow for new FDR like changes to occur.
It's not just pro-athletes who have short windows of high earnings. A lot of the so called 1% are only in that group for a small number of years. It might not be as extreme as NFL athletes but think about, say, a startup founder who takes a very low salary for 5-10 years but then has 1 great year when he cashes out.
Beautiful font. Wish the pricing model weren't so stratospherically off just to use it in a text editor. "From" $199.
Try reading what I said.

I said "Linux isn't perfect, like you think it is"
My understanding is that isn't really preemption, rather it's cooperative scheduling. As soon as the scheduler hand execution to the actor, everything else in the system has to hope there isn't a bug in the actor that permanently ties up that thread.
That wouldn't be unique to Americans.
How isn't this blatantly illegal?
This list is rather incomplete. As an American, I'm angry because:

1. I'm 31 years old and not even halfway through paying off my student loans.

2. I can have anything taken away from me at any time with little to no legal recourse.

3. My constitutional right to privacy and to refuse unreasonable searches no longer exists.

4. If I am ever charged with a crime, I will face a justice system that is entirely stacked against me, and regardless of the crime or my guilt I will be coerced into agreeing to a plea bargain.

5. A cop could shoot me in the back in broad daylight, on film, with witnesses, and most likely only wind up with a paid vacation as punishment.

6. If I ever become suspect in a crime of national security I will likely be tortured, physically and psychologically, for years at a time.

7. My government is torturing people right now, and the most I can ever hope to do about it is to eventually elect someone that will put a stop to it.

8. My government is supporting the monopolization of internet services and suppressing initiatives to make internet service fair and reasonably priced.

9. Every new copyright law is designed to further suppress fair use.

10. Institutionalized bribery and corruption at every level of government means that without money, my voice will likely never be heard.
Neither the specification nor the analysis contain a formal, verifiable specification. How can one test an invariant and properties and make real conclusions about the safety/liveness of Redlock without it?

Is it not useful to do so?
How about an ad company that doesn't track you? An ad company that was based on (as in, its mission statement) anonymous data or client-side-session-level tracking?

The "problem" would be that current ads are SO tailored that they have a baseline click-through rate that'd be higher than one based solely on the content of the website.

To solve that problem, how about client-side ad picker?
(e.g. I download a score of ads from "nottrackingyouAdCompany.com" and a client-side JS solution chooses what to show, meaning my privacy is only "broken" on my own PC.)
It's a branch of Y-Combinator, funding startups with the expectations of high rewards for high risk & effort without strangers confiscating some 75% of profits. It's the discussion forum for real-world objectivism in action.
This. I moved to the US recently, and I must say advertising is on another level here.

Also the news, especially local channels, is so over the top. They had a report on a car that drove off a bridge (it didn't hit any pedestrians), and they then had a "passer by" saying she was now too scared to walk outside.
Yes. Publishers are currently maximizing ad quality and content quantity instead of content quality.
Which party is the one that wants everyone to work together for the common good, and which party is the one looking out only for its constituent in-groups?
Another major engine fork is for Star Citizen / Squadron 42.

They've hired several ex-Crytek engineers at the Foundry 42 office in Frankfurt, and among other changes have modified the engine to support a 64 bit data in coordinate system and rendering, multithreaded physics, and independent physics grids for inside the larger ships while they're moving around. Probably other things, but those are the main ones.
Inactive Subscribers Are Still Valuable Customers
Its nice to have healthy skepticism for these kinds of things, but I don't think we as laypeople know more about polling than the polling organizations whose job it is to eliminate biases with regards to the verbiage of questions and sampling. A lot of this stuff is based on well established models and prior theories.
yeah, I've known this for a long time.

On Reddit, for instance, I saw a discussion in /politics (by many, many users at the time) about why a 13 year old can still be just as mature and smart as someone over 18.

I'm in my mid 30s and the only reason anyone would say this is if they are close to that age or they want to have sex with someone that age (and justify it).
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That's right. And there's more.

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." Steinbeck

That worked for decades because people truly believed it, but they're seeing behind the curtain now that it's not getting better -- it's getting worse. That future, that they assumed would reach them too, somehow, someway, is gone. The reaction, for some, is anger.
Linkedin profiles are one way for you to get feedback from people that actually worked with someone.

You might find the guy who seemed awkward and nervous in the interview was always very helpful to the rest of his teammates. You might learn that the guy who seemed to know your entire tech stack is actually notoriously slow in delivering working code.
Intellij is fairly close as an IDE to Visual Studio on Windows. It's sad you are not seeing it.

And that without mentioning ReSharper which enhances VS quite a bit.
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> why try to start a business when if you succeed, you won't keep that much of the winnings?

I'd call $9.9 million or less a year pretty big "winnings" without hitting these tax thresholds. Plus the way tax brackets work mean you get a pretty big payday on the money below the top most threshold.

It is completely unrealistic to claim that people won't start businesses because any personal profits they make over $10mil/year will be taxed too highly. It is completely out of touch with the financial position that most normal people are in.
Oh, really? Now THAT is interesting.

Neither Unity nor Unreal currently support Alembic - this is the first indication I've had that the Amazon engine might have some features the others don't.

Thanks!
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I saw some of these parameters discussed here recently, so I figured I would share with the community if there's interest.

It seems like a continuous topic that these are hard to set for the average user, but I don't think it should be that way.

If you know of settings I missed (that don't break most sites!) please let me know.
Amazon Is Building Global Delivery Business to Take on Alibaba
I rummaged around and found a lot of the old, deprecated mysql_functions (with error suppression turned off, even,) raw queries and no prepared statements anywhere. They may be there, but this codebase is frustrating to roam around in. I did find a few comments warning of possible SQL injection problems if parameters aren't sanitized - which should not be a thing in modern PHP.

I support the project wholeheartedly but I can't help but despair at the amount of NIH syndrome and archaic patterns I'm seeing. Unsurprising given how old some of the code seems but be, but still... code like this doesn't inspire confidence in the long-term stability of the project.
Is anybody tracking how Sam Altman's bet on the bubble is doing these days?

Ie, what's the latest valuation of his three propositions? Though it's still way too early to make any conclusions, as there's still four more years of potential growth.

http://blog.samaltman.com/bubble-talk
I did the reverse and found the same is true the other way.
Rand is overly simplistic and draws false dichotomies abound. It has never been the case that the "productive" have been opposed to wealth redistribution or other state proclivities, since they do in fact benefit greatly from favors such as limited liability laws, barriers to trade, subsidization, land laws, police power, government contract procurement and other initiatives. Hell, the NRA part of the New Deal originated from a plan drafted by the then-president of General Electric, Gerard Swope.

Thus they are not so productive as they are symbiotic with the state. Tax laws are a complete red herring, serving mostly as a public show to incite people about whether or not someone is paying their "fair share," even though nominal balances are generally frictionless in absence of velocity of spending. Poor people have lower wealth elasticities of demand and will always bear the most burden from taxation.

Rothbard is much more lucid than Rand.
Selling a "license" generally denotes a for-profit activity anyway. I tend to avoid the thought of taking "donations" because they are a tax headache for anyone and everyone involved (many people incorrectly assume that any donation is tax-deductible, and I still have to pay income tax on them as I am most certainly not a charitable entity)
I'm not sure what that statement means. Do you mean they only added ANSI colors and not VT100 sequences?
Can we see the Django Software Foundation's latest Form 990?
Does Dynamic modules will help to enable mod_pagespeed easily?
I'd answer yes, the nature being voting.
I read Brandon Sanderson's "Stormlight Archive" and "Mistborn" series, and I couldn't stop thinking about how awkward the names sounded, from Kaladin to Kelsier. It repeatedly took me out of the scene.

Meanwhile, the team behind Morrowind seemed to have an uncanny ability to produce names that just felt completely right. Somebody responded to my random thoughts on the topic with this very sound summary:

> Morrowind's names are a pretty remarkable achievement. I don't know who was responsible for it but whoever it was did a really good job of ripping off name "templates" from disparate languages, tweaking them enough to retain their associations but not their meanings, and then sticking with those templates across the board. Modeling the Ashlander names on Assyrian was a stroke of world-building genius.

> Mistborn's names, in contrast, never seem to have much purpose behind them. The templates are inconsistent and arbitrary, and convey no information to the reader. You have fantastical gibberish like vin/reen/camon, standard anglo names like dockson/hammond, bizarre nicknamey nouns like breeze/clubs/spook, and cod-french like valette renoux. It's a mess and it makes it difficult to figure out what this world is when there doesn't seem to be any natural way those names could have emerged in one culture. It's fucking weird.

> That being said the only names I never liked in Morrowind were the Redguard names. I could never figure out what they were supposed to be doing.
This is simply not true. It's not impossible and it works exactly like any program would.
Oh, definitely not. We aren't at The Last Game Engine by a long way - but currently it's an uphill battle to introduce a new one, and I'm dubious this engine is differentiated enough to succeed.

There might be a lot of competing blogging engines, but there's only really about 3 that have any significant market share, and you can explain why each of them are has at least one radically superior feature to Wordpress in about a sentence and a half.
I find BBC to be low on the click bait usage. I do find it crazy how angry my fellow Americans feel. I seriously think 1/3 of my friends think Obama is going to declare martial law and stop all elections so he can be in power for longer. I explain he can't wait to be done with this mess.
My father is very conservative on most issues, where I am very liberal on most issues. We still get along perfectly because politics is not that important. He's still my dad, still a great person, and still an exceedingly good debater.
A policy shift through POTUS is intended to happen with the President acting as a leader of people as opposed to a POTUS that does the standard job of President.

This hasn't happened in my lifetime, and was said was going to happen when Obama was initially elected, and never occurred.

It's an unknown property. To have a POTUS that actually regularly talks to the population directly and asks for their support and effort to force politicians to change. I think a similar example in concept, but not in policy is Hugo Chavez when he had a weekly program to the people.

It's difficult to say what effect this would have, I have absolutely no idea for or against. I think anyone who thinks they do is speaking more from their personal opinions and less about what will actually happen.

--Edit - I said "It's just never been tried in a country like the US", and then I remembered FDR's fireside chats, which are perhaps a better direct correlation than Hugo Chavez.
The author might look at how a minimal (yet fully functional) init works:

http://git.suckless.org/sinit/tree/ (look at config.def.h and sinit.c)

and build up from there. Given how minimal sinit is, it's a great place to start your functionality from, and see the power (and limitations) of a basic SystemV init system is.
Making smooth transitions is really hard with React's Virtual DOM implementation. Because in every state update, the VirtualDOM abstraction calculates something between DOM and State. Instead of, I'll update (reflect) objects manually while the user dragging objects instantly.
"like" in that $10 is $10. Otherwise, totally unlike in every way. Django is a public good (non-exclusive, non-rivalrous, everyone can share), coconut chips are private goods (exclusive, consumed). Nobody adds expenses to Django by becoming a user. But somehow the costs that are stable regardless still need to get covered.
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Because that would question capitalism.
This is a nicely written summary of what I feel most of HN understands is wrong with America. However I have never seen it written in such a succinct manner before. And all in one place!