skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you ask if it would be alright to use your unusual method and only then had this method disallowed, or did somebody forbid you from using it after eg. seeing you use it for homework?

I wonder if they did it purely to reduce the workload of the TAs which will be grading the finals, or did somebody think it would be wrong to have an unorthodox path to the result.
The market for startups will have little impact on the broader market health.
Zuck didn't, but his post is FB firefighting. When a company's most high-profile investor and board member starts a fire, the CEO puts it out. Whether or not you want to call it an apology is immaterial to the substance of my point: that kind of language comes across as incredibly insincere and patronizing.
> How do you figure that deploying 5 services vs 100 is the same cost?

By using generalizable deployment configuration tools - ansible, chef puppet perhaps?. The configuration complexity would probably depend a lot on what exactly those services do. For example - if they are all tomcat containers - with standard integration endpoints then there would be diminishing cost associated with each additional node/service deployment.
I can only speculate on what I would feel if I were in their shoes given my own circumstances.

How is that not a reasonable way to start a discussion? I recognize that I will never fully understand the perspective of a black woman, however I still live in the same society as black women and must live with the consequences of identity politics whatever my relationship with identity is.

I am not a black woman so what would be a reasonable way to approach this story and its wider social implications?

I suspect you simply don't approve of this discussion taking place.
You hit the nail on the head here. It is difficult enough to get companies in certain industries to use one technology, let alone 4-5 stitched together :)
Best buzzfeed article I've ever read. Might even be the best UX user story I've ever read. Talk about finding an evangelist of your product to talk about what they like/don't like.
I think it works perfectly on all architectures capable of executing 16-bit x86 code :)
A Linux-powered microwave oven
GraphQL/Relay: The End of Redux? (Perhaps?)
Pretty easy when pretty much anything with any version of Android OS on it constitutes as "Android". For comparison, as of February 8th, 94% of all iOS devices are on iOS 8 or later, with 82% of those on iOS 9.
No clue. That's what Levine is always asking. Perhaps it helps in that you can rely on the blockchain if the counter parties fall? (although that's a big if)
I wonder what Marc Andreessen thinks about blacks and slavery.
The more things change the more things stay the same...reading this tip:

> BROOKE: Don’t Snapchat boys that you like first — wait until they Snapchat you.

Reminded me of the movie All About Eve (1950), when Bill says: "What I go after, I want to go after. I don't want it to come after me. Don't cry. Just score it as an incomplete forward pass."

...and of course, everything else in past and modern Western culture that advises women to be the chased.

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/All_About_Eve
Purpose of Transcrypt is to be able to use Python in the JavaScript world. The call document.getElementById doesn't have meaning outside a browser. For non-gui debugging purposes module org.transcrypt.stubs.browser is present supporting the bare minimum. Of course someone could write a library supporting all kinds of DOM functions. But I don't think it would be very useful. The idea is to be able to do the whole web "chain" in Python. So CPython + a framework on the server, Transcrypt in the Browser (or, generally, JS client).
All companies grow exponentially. Any compounded growth is exponential. The k in e^(kt) can be anything. You perhaps meant to say, investors want way-better-than-S&P-and-in-line-with-APPL/GOOG/FB growth?
You have to. User specifies thing should happen at 2PM, their time, then POSTs that data to your API or whatever. Well, what time are they actually talking about? You need to know.
banning people just because they follow a religious cult of killers who spread hate and murder threats

I dunno man—when you put it like that, it sounds like a pretty great idea.
I think you're talking about extremes here, but that's not necessary.

> but a lot of people in rural areas/small towns aren't upper middle class programmers who live off the grid with "sustainable homesteads".

Just moving out of a big city with a similar job gives you a lot of extra cash for saving / planning. It gives you extra time, because you don't need to commute and the one shop is just down the street. You get calmer, more relaxing life.

You don't need to live completely off the grid or fully sustainable. But the extra savings gives you ability to invest in some solar energy/heating. And a tiny garden requires next to no effort and can give you a lot of food once you get a hang of it.

And actually yes, there are a few remotely working tech people in my village of ~2k.
> Larry Correia says [1] that "ban" would not be the right word here, but what they were doing was effectively censoring his work. And the reason they did so, in the instant case, was because of politics.

And, if so...which we have only his claim for, and its quite possible the publisher had other reasons, assuming its actually true that they refused it...so what? The right to make political choices about what you publish is exactly the central and most important part of the First Amendment's freedom of the press.

It does become worrying where there is a press monopoly or conspiring oligopoly preventing publication of certain political views and, so, suppressing them in the marketplace of ideas, but that's not happening here, and the evidence is the fact that his book is being published, and available through the dominant retail channel for such works.
Great point! We frequent lawnsite as well and there is resounding consensus that companies in the space want software 'tailored enough' to their specific needs.
We're all addicted to a million things (by this definition of addiction)

It's only negative when that becomes a problem somehow in your life.

It's not even clear to me that we'd be better off with a fully mindful approach to every pleasure and activity.

What is unhealthy though, is disparaging everything other people enjoy. Especially when you don't have the courage to say "I don't like it" but couch your disapproval in terms of concern for their "addictions"
I don't understand what becoming a merchant of comfortable Summer clothing has to do with predicting a market collapse.
Wait 'til it puts on its robe and wizard hat!
ok grandpa
> sooner or later,

It's a meaningless prediction, as it is non-falsifiable. and non-actionable.
I'd love to have all logs stored from day 1 (ie unlimited retention).
Makes looking for bugs a million times easier, when you don't need to open up archived logs from S3.

Might be an interesting technical challenge to the keep search fast with 100gbs of logs.
Twitter was pushing text from people I didn't follow to my phone's lock screen.

Only visit occasionally now.
> Showing work is required, and if work contains a matrix then they'd just mark it as zero.

Ugh, this makes me so angry and resentful ...
As an introvert, for whom standing up in front of a crowd to receive an award and maybe even give a speech would be the purest and most excruciating of torments, my first thought was "Sure, go ahead and give them the scut work, you racist, sexist jerks."

But then I remembered that other people actually like doing that sort of thing.

Aside from that, I'm pretty antipathic toward identity politics. It's a lot like attaching a long lever to your own head that lets other people control where it points, which is often just a way to ensure you are not looking at something genuinely concerning that is in a different direction. For instance, I heard on NPR's ATC a few days ago a segment on how feminists are pressuring women to support Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination because she is a woman. But that doesn't tell me jack squat about whether she shares or supports my values. It was just a bunch of people grabbing an identity politics lever and yanking on it.

So gestures like this make me nervous. It makes me feel as though someone is trying to manipulate my emotions for their own gain, except I cannot fathom how anyone could possibly gain from it.
Cool. Thanks and good luck!
First, to come closer to the most charitable, least controversial framing of what's happening here, replace (c) with:

d) to show the world that companies are more successful when they don't adopt practices that exclude black women engineers?

Then, to be fully charitable, replace "black women" with "statistically underrepresented people", or whatever term you feel comes closest to that which will allow us not to pointlessly litigate.

Then, I think the answer is (a, b, d).

Finally, the simplest, most obvious implication of them not feeling "like a prop" is that they share the objective that their employer has in promoting the idea. The term "prop" is derisive. We don't feel like "props" when we work with other people towards shared goals, even though our work is, directly or indirectly, helping those other people as well.
> cycles

Implies periodicity. But it isn't periodic, it's a chaotic system.
Well then, why is @RT_Erdogan, @SaudiEmbassyUSA or @FraukePetry still a thing?

Because they're white, because they're allied with the West or what?

Political bigotry at its finest. Either you tell ALL the radicals to fuck off or none at all.
> We will be open sourcing our agent soon

Great! I want to stick it in a Docker container.
maybe snapchat should take note and send a 100byte version first with progressive improvement if the image is visible for more than 0.8 seconds (or whatever the threshold is).
problem is that when enough people think like him the prophecy fulfills itself.

theres a lot of that sentiment around since '08.
It only opens up highly complex moral issues in the same sense that a principle of absolute freedom of speech closes these issues by refusing to engage with them at all. I'm not a principled person and my politics don't come from supporting one set of principles over another. I'm only troubled by twitter's conduct insofar as the network is controlled by a few private individuals who aren't accountable to their users. To me, it's the concentrated, unilateral power that is the issue. Because power gets abused. That's essentially what happens to concentrated power.

A federated, open twitter platform would be better. Ideal, in fact. If twitter the company were merely an operator in such a network, i would not take much issue with them banning people i personally would evict from my social spheres.

i mean, i agree with you in that the other examples you mentioned are all objectionable to me too and i think a moral justification for banning ISIS accounts can be extended to those cases. it doesn't matter what they say the reasoning is, the underlying mechanism is a power struggle between extremely large and grotesque power structures.
> Now: Why do you think that is? And what can we do about it?

I think we should invest in areas with lower median incomes and promote education and technology. Which I stated.

I didn't say explicitly, but do believe, that we provide staples like food and access to computers if necessary.

The point, which I stated in my original comment. Was that many act like there is some huge population of extremely talented engineers who, if not for societal bias, would be working at tech companies.

There is, in fact, a huge amount of raw talent not being leveraged because a large subset of the population can't participate meaningfully in the economy.

I will continue to assert that hiring bias and 'passive mechanisms' are so much less important than 'opportunity, environment and peergroup' which we can retroactively correct.

I believe that this is regularly framed as some sort of zero-sum demographic war. Poor people, since fucking always, are probably not less intelligent than the general population. They are, at least in America, often not 100% white. This should be framed as disadvantaged not race.

to conclude, my anecdote was meant to highlight something similar to the analogy of sports.

If 2 teams play each other, the referees may make shitty calls. They usually make them fairly evenly against both teams but sometimes they swing a little bit to either side. Unless there is a particularly nefarious or well reasoned claim that the refs are interfereing, it is widely believed that the better team will win.

My point is not "black people need to work harder than their peers", although to some extent they may, it is that you won't have to convince the referee to make or change a call, if you have practiced well, prepared, and are a better team.

To clarify the framing, in this analogy the better team is meant to represent a single person, while the opposing team is just the general workforce.
Would you prefer they share nudes over some other service that doesn't erase the photos and does allow them to be saved?
Totally agree. I'm not looking at anything that doesn't integrate with AWS IAM and KMS, even if it's an external service.
The vast majority of comments is indeed positive. Could be that most of those who don't support him just don't dignify his post with a comment, though.
If Twitter allowed third-party clients again, they'd all have ad blockers.
You sure it's not the mainstream tools supporting microservices that are the problem? The E language, Fabric secure middleware, and even embedded on OKL4 with Camkes were straight forward. Small teams supported stuff like that because tools do almost all the work. It's like a modular, monolithic app with some parameters to tune and fault isolation.

Just seems like development, deployment, and support tooling could knock out issues people describe easily.
my goodness, how positively web 1.0!
>That's why your models do worse in the real world than mine.

Laughable. There was days without regulations, they didn't come out of nowhere cause someone was feeling bored. I don't want to go back to that time.

How do you explain the supplement industry then?
Can we stay away from quarterly earning reports and wall street style newspaper reportings? This industry is supposed to be a little different. Let's not go along with their rhythm as that way they still mold us in their image.

Let's not be like them.
It's interesting that all the error handling branches are left empty. What does production Golang code do in that case as a common idiom?
IQ and Permanent Income: Sizing Up the “IQ Paradox”
Everything with timezones in a disaster, and the solution always seems to be a unix timestamp that is converted to human readable form at the last possible moment...
This is great progress. Google being the biggest ad network and going with a complete ban is probably the only way to move things forward but glad to see it finally being done.
Those are Snapchat, not VSCO. VSCO is pretty much devoid of social features beyond Follow, as far as I can tell.
Lesser-known facts about CPU on virtual servers
If you use the monotonic time API the issues are restricted to this subclass of hardware failures. All the others will be irrelevant, like ntpd setting a random time or alike.
The idea is to embrace the JS world to the max and not reinvent any wheels. So Transcrypt will cooperate with any existing JS lib. Only personal I code far more efficiently in Python, especially for bigger apps. But (as is elaborated in the docs) that's personal. I've coded quite complicated technical web apps in JS, but somehow it didn't fit me like Python does. For different people that will be different, I guess.
Fine point: in the case of "negative" (clockwise) rotations, the negative sign applies only to a scalar (an angle), not a vector. Surely even negative money is a real thing too: debt, or anyway debit. (Granted, debt can be less real than a pile of cash: if you're owed you might never be repaid, if you owe you might default. But that's a case of reality not matching theory well :)

In physical applications, relative to a coordinate system negative numbers have perfectly intuitive meanings. A negative spatial coordinate simply indicates a point in one of the quadrants or octants other than the all-positive-coords one. A negative acceleration means something is slowing down.

I see no good purpose served by special-casing "negative" integers, and many needless ensuing headaches.
Silly question: Do people not use Click-to-play? I thought it was enabled in browsers by default now, or at least Firefox.
> And let's not call it money. What the FED "prints" is currency, sheets of paper. Money has inherent value (gold is money for instance), but not this FED-Dollar lie we live in every day.

You don't get to redefine terms like "money" to make your arguments work better - not if you want to talk to the rest of the world. And by the definitions the rest of us use, you are factually wrong.
I find all the economic prodigies here entertaining. People who's day job is to predict this stuff can't even make good predictions. I guess I never knew that techies were better economists than the economists
Please excuse my vagueness - I was referring to flagging posts.
I wouldn't expect anything different, but saying that disabling a feature that was advertised and paid for it's a good thing is plain weird. A good thing would be a recall or reimbursement.
One thing HTML5 lacks is the ability to combine all assets into one file. This makes Flash particularly handy for advertisements. Safari almost got there with its .Webarchive format, and Mozilla experimented with a file format but it didn't get anywhere.
Server logs are easily faked. There's a lot of mistrust in the industry (well-earned, due to many scams in the past). Third-party web analytics providers, implemented via plain-text JavaScript anybody can audit, are fair.

(That ignores of course that server logs are virtually useless for determining a user's behavior on a single page app. It's not the ONLY reason server logs aren't used, but perhaps is the most important reason.)
Good riddance. Those older browsers are also going to be full of unpatched security holes, and if websites don't work people will eventually quit using them.
Exactly. Yet Indians are being told that it is "for their good".
You are not a member of a statistically underrepresented population in software engineering, so when you decide to describe how you would feel if you were allowed to participate in an event because of your background, you should be more careful to add the disclaimer that your circumstances are not representative of these people's.

My issue is not that you chose to describe your own feelings, though I feel like those feelings are pretty banal and uninteresting. My issue is that you chose to share those feelings by reframing someone else's feelings. You would be uncomfortable. These people are not. Your circumstances are so different from theirs that we can safely assume there are plenty of valid reasons why they feel differently.
This is super exciting. I am a big fan of YC and My company SchoolMint was part of the ImagineK12's 2013 cohort. From day one, Geoff, Tim, Karen and the whole IK12 advisory network has been extremely helpful with everything (funding, hiring, distribution, employee-motivation0. SchoolMint would not have existed without IK12. I look forward to being part of this much bigger network now and get more help on scaling.
Hmm, I don't remember seeing that. Which clause are you referring to?
I wish people wouldn't make all these age-based assumptions. When I was 12, I was already disgusted at the indulgent addictions to superficial social shit that my peers did. I'm sure if I were 20 years younger today, my feelings about this nonsense wouldn't be any different.
Fiduciary media is money. Money need not have inherent value for value is subjective and thus cannot be inherent beyond people's achievement of various ends.

The gold standard was turned off far earlier than 1971. In fact, all commodity money standards have suffered subversion or suspension by financial institutions (suspending convertibility of notes) and governments at various times. Nor was gold arrived at by the will of market forces. It was imposed through bank charter, displacing the then-dominant silver in the process. Nor was the international gold standard well designed, for R.G. Hawtrey and Gustav Cassel presciently anticipated its collapse and resulting great depression thereof.

Monetary reform is definitely in order, but commodity money has nothing to do with it. Convertibility requirements can be satisfied with interbank clearinghouses and other means.
Hm. If you are 27 like myself, you were around for MySpace which was just as bad selfie-wise.
Why not inject it to `context` parameter in some variable with known name? As long as the field is exposed to CF and in the panel, it should be all we need.
But a reasonable, empathetic villain:

>I wanted the readers to empathize, as best they could, with our future Robot overlords

So yes, this is intended to be something the reader identifies with.
If the publisher chose not to publish the book because they don't think its good, and will sell, that is one thing. If the publisher chose not publish the book, because they agree with the politics of it, that I would dislike.

As far as I can tell no one gains in a society where the right refuses to work with the left and vis-versa. That just makes society harder for everyone.

What is far worse is when one side wields disproportionate power. Fiction has long played a role in advancing social morals. Imagine a case where in a society that was very, very homophobic. If books that featured lgbqt in a good light were not published... and it was considered okay because that is the publishers right, that would be a bad thing.

Finally, I think our rules on situations like this should be abstracted away from poltiical or social beliefs. It is easy to say that we can judge the publishers in my hypothetical wrong, because homophobia is bad, but the publishers in this actual instance okay, because there is nothing wrong with being pro-choice.

However there is a danger in that, and this is largely inspired by http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html, but we have been pretty bad as society and individuals at judging what is good. Which is why I am hesitant to be okay with censoring something I disagree with, it may very well turn out that I am wrong.
You missed the point completely.
Isn't that mostly moot with HTTP 2.0 multiplexing?
So what you're saying is that rather than discussing this particular story, you'd like to discuss a different story, one about how you feel when you get into debates with some other group of people.

I am not interested in this debate and further feel like it's not remotely germane to this thread, which is why I feel entitled to tell you how uninteresting I find that debate.

I suggest you write a story about how you feel harassed by people who seem to have an agenda, and then submit it to HN and see how it does, rather than using this story about Slack and these four engineers as a coatrack.
'Great example' as in representative, not as in exemplary.

I find attempts to financially capitalise on looking Good gross and wanted to draw attention to it. Zuckerberg does it quite often but he's not the only one.
> A federated, open twitter platform would be better. Ideal, in fact.

Federated platforms don't work. We've seen them fail with OpenID, Persona, Usenet and email; I'm stretching the definition of failed a bit with the latter two but Usenet is a spam- and warez-filled shadow of what it once was and email, well, if you're not one of the bigger email service providers good luck ensuring reliable delivery of your messages due to spam, and that IS failure in my eyes.

At a certain scale all services, centralized or federated, require massive amounts of money simply to maintain the infrastructure and to prevent "account rot".

Without ads there is no monetizing in free federated services, that is why Persona and OpenID failed.