skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And I don't see Mexicans (who have good relations, or Dominicans or Venezuelans for that matter) getting on boats and hoping for a better life in Cuba.

Well, people DO leave their countries to Cuba. You just don't see that (and probably also don't believe it). Of course, they don't need boats to do that, because that's really risky...

OTOH, Mexicans, Dominicans and Venezuelans (and people from many, many other countries) DO risk their lives trying to enter the US, even if that means that, if they manage to escape all sorts of risks, they will be illegal aliens there (as opposed to the Cubans who touch US soil: they are, in practice, given a new life, for free.)
That was really, really well done. Thank you so much for sharing.
How will this gain traction over GoFundMe et al?
> Alexander Hamilton “was more a man for the 1 percent than the 99 percent,”

Every generation inevitably reinterprets history to fit their own narrative.
The interesting thing is, as it pertains to this general story, that it's not really a God-made-it-look-old (as in to trick us) issue, but that's a side effect.

When I think about the simulation hypothesis, I picture Skyrim. You boot it up, load the maps, etc, and you see a picture perfect (on the PC anyway) world that looks millions of years old. Mountains are weathered. There are pre-existing historical races that died out thousands of years ago. Portions of the terrain are covered in deep snows. There's rain; it might even be raining randomly when you spawn from a save.

Bethseda isn't lying when they make the place old. It's that way because it has to be. Who knows, our reality for God could be the same thing?

Picture the Wind Fish from Link's Awakening. Whole island with people, places and attack chickens. It was a simulation in the mind of the Wind Fish.
I personally slightly prefer deeper management structures, all else being equal, because they usually result in less management I have to directly deal with. In "flat" organizations it's often the case that you're not very deep in the org chart, but the layer you're on is densely webbed, so there are 3 or 4 people in the level above you who you de-facto report to in one way or another. With more hierarchical organizations you're usually insulated from these other managers because you only directly report to one. For me, having fewer layers of management above me, but in return having to deal directly with a larger number of individual managers, isn't a good tradeoff.

(This is assuming a roughly normal company overall. Something that really takes being flat seriously, like a worker's cooperative, might be different, but I've never worked at such a place.)
Well, what if you're just 'one of the zombies' and I'm actually the only conscious being just reading your comment? Joking, but in all truthfulness I don't think it's all that unlikely. What if the simulation you are experiencing is being put in place by yourself—that is, 'you' in the higher dimension? Or, it could also be some kind of experiment to see how 'you' given your brain, environmental inputs, etc. grow and respond to stimuli. That doesn't seem unlikely at all.
Perhaps you really saw the "bitter truth" as GP put it for the first time? I really don't mean this in a patronizing way. More that powerful drugs like this have a tendency to show you things about reality both good and bad that you otherwise would never have known. The discoveries you make can reverberate for years. The resulting bum out about the bad things (and I guess the stoke for the good things) can manifest sort of indirectly/physically (as opposed to consciously/mentally).
Spotify is down due to this, which is, uh, pretty hilarious https://news.spotify.com/us/2016/02/23/announcing-spotify-in...
Some people will always leave for what they perceive as 'greener' pastures.

My wife's family, for instance, are immigrants, and we know many people who came from her country (their population actually shrinks YoY because of the mass exodus). An interesting phenomenon is also that many of them are disillusioned with life in Canada, having left to become 'rich', only to be very poor and overworked, and unable to go home because of the stigma about people who 'wasted time' (ie. immigrated then went back).

You even see it within countries - Canadians from the east coast who go west. And often you see it go 2 directions - many people immigrate from North America and Britain to France to live an 'idyllic' lifestyle, and there's an equal amount of French people going the other direction for 'economic opportunity'.

The existence of people who desire to leave isn't necessarily indicative of it's quality of life... Hell, I don't even plan on staying in Canada forever, but I'm well aware of its benefits.

Edit - stats on the Canadian diaspora: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_diaspora

With the amount of Canadians living abroad you'd swear it was literally Mordor...
This scan shows glucose metabolism vs "normal": https://www.pinterest.com/pin/264445809342542302/
It must be terrible to live your life in fear like that.
I think that's what they want. But really who cares? The only gay people in North Carolina probably left a long time ago. The law isn't even really anti-LGBT it's anti-laws about the LGBT.
> The fact that you quote "Che" and described him as inspiring is disgusting. Learn history you sheltered kid. Che Guevara was an enforcer for people that believed in the ideals of Mao Zedong. If you own land, or own a business, Che would have killed you. The fact that most of you live in modern western worlds is enough for somebody like Che Guevara to hate and kill you.

This might or might not be true, but you're missing the historical context in which he lived. This was a time of military dictatorships all over Latin America (backed by the USA, of course) and communism provided one of the few ideological vehicles to fight it. You can criticize what he did and what he thought, but I think he was trying to make the world a better place (even though he might have done more harm than good).
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I applaud the effort, but I'm skeptical that building enough additional housing is politically feasible in San Francisco.

San Francisco has its head twisted the wrong way on this issue more than just about any place else. A lot of people here will deny, with a straight face, that supply and demand is real or that it's a relevant lens for understanding the affordability problem. When you're faced with magical thinking like that, what can you do? And it's not just SF either, it's the peninsula too.

Rather than trying to push additional homebuilding at the local level, I think it's more important to work at the state level. When we include the whole state, we include all the people that are being excluded from the core expensive areas. People like the firefighter who commutes from Roseville to Palo Alto[0] have a vote at the state level, but not in bay area local elections. That may make the necessary change more politically feasible at the state level.

And some of the relevant legislation exists at the state-level and needs to be fixed there. For example, we should tweak the CEQA so that a few NIMBYs can't simply veto new development.

[0] http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/07/in-search-of-cheaper-hou...
The Lambdaconf guy who mindbogglingly rejects social media for being "fickle, highly emotional, and irrational" has no idea about free speech.

Moldbug has a record of going to professional confs and advocating racism. (Working to exclude people.) Furthermore, one of their sponsors is a racist political blog, which is unprecedented in my experience. (For evidence, see my comment history.)

Context: a country which notoriously kills and incarcerates blacks, as a replacement for slavery. Racism involves political actions which directly impact the lives of participants and users.

This creates an atmosphere completely counter to education. People always say "Hallway chats are the best part!" so it's not just about a talk.
> Did Heroku ever fix their routing to be less pathological?

I may be remembering my history incorrectly but it had to do with rails handling of concurrency and that the default gem used in rails did not take advantage of heroku's handling of concurrency and that heroku did not tell everyone about this.

As far as I remember they fixed things on their end, the suggestion for rails apps was to switch which web server you were using over to Unicorn or Puma.

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/2/27/unicorn_rails
I'm gonna bet you're not addicted to any external substance and that in your case, this was purely a mind expanding experience.
One could also say LSD might have unlocked what was already there in the background (i.e. "subconscious") of your mind.

I would not consider this a bad trip. More like a rude awakening. Had you gone through something else in real life, major trauma of sorts, you may have experienced exactly the same... half life of LSD is about 5 hours, which means in about 30 hours, most of it > 99% was gone from your body, but your head/brain was still attached :), meaning, whatever your worldview was, got shaken to the core for one reason or another...long after the LSD was gone.

If everyone who tried it had an experience, or rather, epiphany such as yours, we'd all be so lucky.... and maybe the world would be slightly better place than it is today. Unfortunately, few if any experience reflection upon using drugs, pot, LSD or whatever, and continue to abuse them rather than deal with the pain of what's going on (mostly angst and integrity/identity issues that fester for decades sometimes) in better ways.

EDIT: I've never tried LSD, though I've been tempted after reading many testimonials on Erowid from some really smart people who did it to 'see what it's like to have your mind bent'.... Guess I'm too chicken to try it.
Which makes me sad because I have masochistic dreams of writing Objective-C for backends. And WebObjects aside, as I was writing iPhone apps and the ecosystem kept leveling up with GCD and ARC and the like, I always dreamed of having that power on the server-side.

Also I love the language, but I'm of a dying breed with that...
I do not envy the current on-call rotation.
That was nuts. Interested to read the post-mortem on this one. Our site went down as well. What could cause a sudden all-region meltdown like that? Aren't regions supposed to be more isolated to prevent this type of thing?

Seems to have only been down for about 10 minutes, so I'm thinking some sort of mis-configuration that got deployed everywhere...they were working to fix a VPN issue in a specific region right before it went down...
Apple chargers, USB-C... When will Amazon offer a hardware fault bounty?
What about someone who grew up in a communist state, with friends and relatives being hauled off by the secret police on a regular basis?

Those people might feel threatened by communist speakers. Do they then have the right to "no platform" those speakers?
It's just content that exists at the prodding of a PR company on behalf of their client. Once you've worked with and around PR people, you start to recognise it in the wild even when it's subtle. It's not always a direct angle but could be things to build the brand of key personalities like "Running a business with small children" where the business owner is profiled, or "Staying healthy at the office" where the business owner talks about what they eat and drink.

A significant portion of print (and now online) pieces would be as a result of professional PR efforts.

(My wife works in PR and I used to share an office with another PR company.)
Ask HN: Alternatives to Credit Rating Agency Cartel
It's clear the current system sucks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11471151
It's an oligopoly, and it's damaging people's lives.

This is fundamentally a data and identity problem, so I thought I'd ask all you smart people here:

What are some alternatives to the current credit rating agency system? It's gotta go!
You're not, it's just a microscopic drama that is engulfing a tiny subset of the FP world. I'm following a lot of these people and their Twitter stream has been flooded by reactions to this, which makes me think they really don't have much else to talk about.

It's pathetic, really.
D3-geomap: Polymer Web Component for geographic topology visualization
>I wouldn't risk losing it by telling someone else what domain I wanted. Kinda sad GoDaddy doesn't offer gift cards.

Exactly! When my domain reseller launches I will be offering domain gift cards as just one way to proliferate domain registration. But since your the only one who comment before the post being taken down and the basis of your objection for my free domain campaign, I'll send you a gift card when I launch, so you can register the name privately :)
I hate that Apple assigns itself as morality police. Hey Apple - ya know how you don't want the FBI all up in your shit? Yeah, same thing.

Edit: I get, to a degree, not approving an official RedTube app, but blocking a general content browser, especially one with access to huge amounts of legitimate non-porn content, is ridiculous.

Edit 2: wait, the official app gets a pass? How is this a thing?

Edit 3: forgive my incoherent ramblings.
Judges don't decide cases. The jury does. Judges are there to lead the proceedings and instruct jurors in matters of the law. No evidence or facts exist outside the courtroom. Only what is stated in court can be considered. It is against the law for a juror to research an issue outside the courtroom.
Of course play is meaningless. Killing yourself right now is an equally valid choice. It doesn't matter, do whatever. Go on a murderous rampage if you want. If you believe in material monism, then free will is essentially an illusion anyway.

It's pretty difficult, as an animal brain subject to the illusion, to fully commit to living life that way, but I like to keep it in mind...
I agree that's a larger issue. However, IP addresses being enough evidence for a search seems somewhat out of scope of the article.
Back up as of 19:27 US/Pacific: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/16007
I read that the great plains were naturally forests, not grasslands. The theory is they are grasslands because long ago the forests were burned to provide habitat for the buffalo.

This theory is supported by the Kansas farmers having planted trees, and the trees do quite well.

I would imagine that a great deal of forest could be created by replanting the great plains.
> Does anyone know what eventually happened?

Here's the rap genius blog post packed with links to replies and further comments.

http://genius.com/James-somers-herokus-ugly-secret-annotated

TLDR; They were upset that they had to discover the issue, eventually they changed web servers to use Unicorn and this fixed everything. Their final post on the matter was "It was all a dream".
Free Software Foundation Issues Statement in Support of Community's ZFS Concerns
I just received mine last week, and installed Remix OS without much problem (other than having to dig out a Windows netbook so as to use the Phoenix SD card burning app).

I am going to try mine out as a multimedia/game box for my den TV for starters, as there are lots of fun little games the kids & teens like to play on Android. I've had no issues with hooking up dongle-based wireless keyboards and game controllers.
But is that really a different experience than messaging a dozen women and getting, maybe, one reply?
HN is one of the few places Arc, pg's own dialect of lisp runs in production.

Check out pg's page on arc to learn more: http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html

This is a good place to start: http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html

One of the other places arc runs in production is the arc-forum: http://www.arclanguage.com/forum

Arc-language github: https://github.com/arclanguage
Glad to see someone here understands the basics of our legal system. All this arguing about what happens when a judge is deciding a case they don't understand makes me cringe.
What a shame that nobody has yet invented a way to listen to music offline.
Patents and copyright are not related. But yes, software patents are still ridiculous, and getting more so.

As for "the idea behind the source". Feel free to take the "idea behind the source" of FFmpeg or VLC or Linux. The point is that you can't make changes to the free software and then take away your users freedom. As for "but I'm a poor developer, etc" then you have two choices:

1. Use the GPL code and comply with the GPL. This is actually a good thing if you care about your users' freedom.

2. Don't use the GPL code.

Simple as that. There is no third "but I want to use the GPL without complying" option.
Great timing for that new book :)
A reductio does not suggest that an argument is false. It is instead a tool that is useful for contrast enhancement. The real meat of the point I made is that there cannot be evidence for the OP's claim. It's just an opinion founded in OP's spiritual preference, which is apparently to not exist as such.
So anyone to stupid to use Tor can go free and people operating the Tor nodes to enable the perps can go free as well?
I wonder how that would affect tornado occurrences
We have, but I haven't.
That seems sped up, like a 1920s movie.
As someone who likes to dive into data a bit, these animations, while cool, made me anxious. Also, why only show the change in rate (i.e. 2nd derivation)? I'd like to see the first derivation too. Especially in order to support the title - if death rates were high in the cities and low in rural areas, this development actually leads to a narrowing of the "health gap".
I also went to Cuba. I really enjoyed the trip and found the people super nice. Well, except for the touts, who were super aggressive. But otherwise a great trip.

I also found it a complete repudiation of socialism. Seriously, if you are a fan of socialism, go to Cuba and you will get that fixed in a hurry. Houses are literally collapsing because they are not being repaired while what seems like half the city sits around on the street waiting for a ration book. Stores that take the local currency are empty. Its like the Soviet Union in the 80s.

It's also amazing how much has stood still. Its like you went back in time to the 1950s and the Cuban missile crisis was yesterday. The cars, the propaganda, the buildings, broken political and economic systems, all of it.

[To the down votes: Sorry if that is not a message you wanted to hear about Socialism. You shouldn't take my word for it. You should go see it yourself.]
Sorting algorithm visualisation
"It as common for the included film pack to be the only film that ever went in as the years whiled away with the camera in a drawer." This was because replacement film was so ridiculously expensive, you ended up 'saving' the shots you had 'in case you needed them' until the film went out of date.
This is a good strategic move for Russian company PostgresPro because now their work in the fields of rich types & index support has not necessarily to be approved by hackers, and can be shipped in form of extensions.
An end user eventually will get more features for full-text search, JSON, hstore, trigrams, array types, etc.
And fast full-text search should be the first in this list (as Alexander wrote in the post).
Moldbug's political views aren't the issue, it's his political action. He has a record of going to conferences and advocating racism: working to exclude. And one of Lambdaconf's sponsors is a racist political blog, which sounds unprecedented. (Evidence in my comment history.)

(The context is a country which kills and incarcerates blacks, post-slavery. Racism is political action which directly impacts the lives of confgoers and users. Toxic for education and networking.)

Any conf organizer has heard people say, "It's not the talks, it's the hallway conversations!" Racist political groups are now desperate enough to nakedly show their influence out in the open. Harder for them to dominate quietly.
What did Anker say when you contacted them? Anker has a warranty.
This sad story is what happens when people treat inherently inaccurate data as ground truth. What's worse: A lot of those people are in law enforcement, and they really ought to know better.
This is a really great perspective. My background is in the print publishing world...going back to the late 90s. What I realize is that we keep going back to that world for guidance on what the future of the web will hold (in terms of content publishing). The first place I saw this was in design. In the wild west of the early net (prior to about 10 years ago), there was really not much rhyme or reason to how websites were designed. Then people like Khoi Vinh started advocating for grid structure in web design...bringing a concept that was well developed in the print world.

Today, we seem to be fighting for this false binary of either a web with ads or one without. What the old world of print might teach us is the importance of quality, limited, relevant advertising. When done well, people are not only OK with advertising, they embrace and look forward to it. Magazines were best at this...but they've gone down the path of devaluing their ads by moving towards more and more paid content (advertorials) and by overwhelming the content with the quantity of ads.

I think in the end, publishers will have no choice but to see what you see or else perish.
On the other hand, it's not a critical security application. If someone breaks it, you just don't get a little money. If the exploit becomes widespread, you can update the malware.

The author probably wanted to be able to somewhat quickly encrypt/decrypt a full disk on potentially slow hardware.
Show HN: A redis proxy like twemproxy, but for redis 3 cluster
There's just no value add to announcing it. It will be much more valuable in the future after you do some hard work.
Is the story that the "Committee for the Defense of the Revolution" is on every block in every city not real?

(Honest question: When I was there this seemed to be a thing?)
You mean like product placement in movies and TV shows? Because honestly that's quite bearable.
> Perhaps you really saw the "bitter truth" as GP put it for the first time?

That's exactly what happened. He saw the cosmic joke of existence.
Yeah, it probably is. I've not made a production-ready site before, so there's plenty more for me to do. Didn't even know minifying and gzipping were necessary things yet.
"While an intolerant sect does not itself have title to complain of intolerance, its freedom should be restricted only when the tolerant sincerely and with reason believe that their own security and that of the institutions of liberty are in danger." (John Rawls from the same link in the other thread)

So some people sincerely believe Yarvin's very presence is a threat while others find his online philosophical rants to be little more than meanderings.

With that said here's my answer to your thought experiment:

Yarvin would be uninvited if he had been proven (not alleged) to have:

* harmed or advocated harm to anyone
* rallied for pro-discriminatory policies
* lobbied for pro-discriminatory policies
* addressed someone with discriminatory slurs

If he were to deny the evidence then it would be a done deal and he would be banned.

However, everyone gets a chance to repent in my book. So if he had been proven to do these things and he came clean (or eventually came clean) then he would get a chance to publicly apologize online for wide distribution - and again live at the conference at the start of his talk.

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The real answer to your question is that I would not associate with anyone proven to have done abhorrent things. But I regularly associate with people who have all kinds of abhorrent thoughts.
That'll show'em! You do you, XHamster. You do you.

Meanwhile, everyone else'll be doing themselves on some other service, of which there are a plethora.

Also, given the usual right-wing religious background of people who want to destroy LGBTQ rights, they'll be able to tout this as a victory.