skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you're that out-of-step with the people around you, you'd be better off just moving, instead of trying to force everyone around you to adopt your mindset

That's some real victim blaming there. By your logic, if I'm being sexually harassed by my employer I should just change jobs. I shouldn't complain, or try to enact any real, meaningful change and stay in my current job - no, I should voluntarily leave due to their illegal behavior.

I hope you're not a manager or CEO, because frankly your solution to an employee coming to you complaining about discrimination seems to be to just tell them to get another job.

> Minorities don't have a right to force their views on the majority, though they do have a right to basic civil rights

That depends on their views. If your view is backed by the law, then yes, you do have the right to force your view on the majority. I think you have confused the fact the views of many minorities are basic civil rights, like the right to not be discriminated against.

Someone who is trans probably believes they should be treated the same as somebody who is cis. Given that view is enshrined in law, I'm pretty sure they have a right to enforce it on the majority.

> But there's only so much change that's feasible: attitudes take generations to change, since you usually have to wait for the people with the wrong attitudes to literally die out.

Except with your plan, everyone experiencing discrimination has moved away, so these attitudes never die out because there's nobody to correct the behavior in the first place.

> I would, however, support a tax credit (not deduction) for anyone moving because of redrawn state borders

...which would effectively mean the government is subsidizing discrimination. You are bribing minorities to move out of areas discriminating against them, at great cost to them (finding a new job, a new place to live, etc) and at zero cost to those who wanted them out in the first place.
I grew up between Leningrad, Copenhagen and New York, as a diplomatic brat. The Soviet Union was fun. We had access to the Party shops, and foreign currency.

But just about everyone old enough was at least somewhat drunk, at all times. Except for the Jews, anyway. And that was a very good thing, because without them, there would have been total chaos.

For context, I also found that many Americans were at least a little drunk, most of the time. It was just part of some cultures. People drank at lunch, and then seriously after work. Many a bit in the morning, to take the edge off.

We had friends who would show up drunk, after driving for several hours. Beer and vodka in the trunk. Cops would help you get home, and tell you to sleep it off. As long as you were white and at least middle class, anyway.

That culture was just stronger in Slavic areas, and it lasted longer. The Soviet Union didn't have WASPs to keep people sober. They had Jews, but they lacked the authority. They just got stuff done, and imposed a little sanity. And the got out, as soon as they could.
This is interesting. I would love to see something open source like this for voice recognition. So many companies are heading to voice control full tilt, and I don't really want it unless I can know exactly what it's doing with my voice recordings. I realize Amazon has the DIY echo tutorial, but it still is a black box between sending the recording and receiving the result.
I'd consider mp3 an open format, and office documents are an exception. MS has gone above and beyond for it to work. There is thousands of dead formats out there unfortunately.
Posted on Medium, a central, private, for-profit publishing platform. Oh the irony.
Producing higher yields is not analogous to producing healthier food.

The interests of farmers (ie produce more yield/mass that is impacted less by weeds/pests) do not match the interests of consumers (ie purchase healthy/tasty food with no unforseen side-effects).

Considering the turnaround time between the time a seed is purchased and when the resulting food is consumed, the 'testing period' of newly introduced GMO breeds is very long compared to software iterations.

At the very least, consumers should be able to trace what GMO breed they're consuming and where it was produced. That way, if there are any unforseen side effects, it'll be easier to trace the source.

Just look at the fallout caused by pistachio yields that have been contaminated with E Coli and Salmonella. The long shelf life of nuts means that contaminated foods could still be sitting on store shelves years later.

I'm all for GMO foods if it improves farming effectiveness but the process needs something similar to version control to track quality and a way to clearly indicate GMO foods so people can opt out of beta testing new breeds.
Haskell may not be the best in production, but it's amazing for learning computer science. It's also pretty good for learning quite a bit of intermediate and advanced programming. The concepts and styles of thinking it teaches can be applied elsewhere to great effect.
Haven't looked at this in detail yet but the key changes all outlined in that article seem completely reasonable. Opinion will always be split on right to be forgotten but nothing else seems particularly objectionable.

Edit: I believe this is the final text if anyone is interested: http://statewatch.org/news/2015/dec/eu-council-dp-reg-draft-...
There's a lot of ground between definitive proof and "personal observation of many cues".

Put it this way: are there any scientific reasons, however nebulous or merely suggestive, to suspect that this is the case?
There is no dubious legality about adblocker software. I can install whatever software I want on my computer to selectively filter whatever information I choose.
48% of people plug-in USB drives found in parking lots
What do you mean? I've seen both males and females in charge of HR.
I mean, this map (as any) has a lot of problems. The most obvious ones in my view are "How is Wyoming part of the Great Plains and not the Inland West" and "How is all of Indiana urban in the same way that Chicago is"?

But the bigger problem is twofold. First, you don't have to <redraw state lines> to do this, and it seems like a lot of HN commenters feel that redrawing states is the best approach. Second, due to Republicans who hate all government and Democrats who view all "urban planning" as inherently racist, there's no real possibility of a consensus to have any plan at all to improve American cities as a whole.
It seems to me like the Merkle DAG decentralized infrastructure with by far the most momentum right now is IPFS. It would be great to have a usable social network developed on top of that.

This article seems to culminate in a call to action to support a github project consisting solely of a README.md. I think a call-to-action post that is much better than this one is the archive.org one: http://blog.archive.org/2015/02/11/locking-the-web-open-a-ca...
I think you're missing the point here. He's coming at it from a sales perspective. I.e. if you're trying to sell into Romania then there's no point bragging about being bootstrapped because that is a normal way of life for them. You also should recognise that they can produce the same products at a fraction of the cost, and so you may just be too expensive.

On the R&D thing, of course there are issues with going international with development, but if you find the right people, you'll find that many are extremely competent and easy to communicate with.
I wouldn't say "dislike" but "distrust" a little, for these reasons:

Modern industrial agriculture is both a triumph and a tragedy of optimization. It is now possible to buy a cheap, beautiful looking, round, red tomato any day of the year in most supermarkets near me - and they all taste like crap. At the same time it is getting more and more difficult to buy a good tomato when they are in seasonal around here. Many groceries store chains can't be bothered to move off their large distributors for a product like that for 3-4 weeks, and consumers have stopped being aware of the times when it really matters. I'm willing to say it is more triumph than tragedy, but the tragedy part is real, and it matters.

GMO as a tool allows for quicker iteration on optimizing various aspects of a crop - my distrust lies in the fact that I already think we have over-optimized some aspects at the expense of things that are important but more difficult to measure directly. So long as downward price pressure exists we are likely to continue this trend.

The other problem is hubris. GMOs tend to lead to more monoculture and more drift from naturally biologically stable systems around them. In this we are messing with complex systems we don't really understand that well, and I'm not sure it's worth the efficiency gains. At the very least, it's not clear...
"What is needed, in some ways, is a return to this more flexible, broader way of thinking." Well, if the courts and the White House (as inhabited by Democrats AND Republicans) wouldn't keep moving power from the states to the federal executive, then maybe there would be more flexibility. Instead, what we have is a slow and constant undermining of the idea that states should serve as laboratories of democracy,[1] and a steady disappearance of the federal nature of the system in the U.S.

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

(edited to correct a typo)
I can’t stop playing it
While there is a lot of general cleanup work to do in some places, there probably isn't enough manual labor to go around. There are machines that grade and pave roads with amazing efficiency. A new WPA would probably have a large training element since health care, assisting teachers, etc. are the areas that need the most headcount.

Plus this could get us over the downside of shrinking the surveillance state, prison industrial complex, Homeland "Security," etc. If there is a fallback program that always has jobs on offer, the need to create jobs more expensively declines.
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Ubiquitous language without domain-driven design
Was that first map calculated on a GPU?
Absolutely. If everyone voted, there would be far more incentive to please the most number of people, not just the most invested in the status quo, or some other ideological view.
Added to title.
No, I haven't suggested that at all.

I've suggested that it's rather hard to sustain the argument that a prosecutor and jury trial represents a "less just" way of deciding something than a political leader intervening to tell the judiciary she will be making the decision for them in this instance. Especially when reporting suggests that rescinding the bill via the accepted constitutional process for legislative change as she's said she intended to do would make it impossible for a sentence to be carried out in the unlikely event of a court deciding to convict anyway.

Similarly, I don't think it's possible to argue that the decision of whether to prosecute or not resting with the head of state is compatible with the concept of an independent judiciary (whether the outcome is changed behind the scenes or publicly is a tangential point)

To be clear, she's declined to use a special executive privilege written into this archaic bad law to give the state power to intervene if it's in their foreign policy interest, not a pardoning system introduced as a constitutional check and balance. I'm sure the German legal system has been designed with plenty of actual checks and balances.
Show HN: MarkupKit – Declarative UI for iOS applications
If it were teaching them history, philosophy, science, math, literature, etc. then maybe it'd be disconcerting. But these things seem more focused on algorithmic thinking, programming, maybe math (though not necessarily higher math), logic and a bit more.

MS produced tools, lots of people use them. MS didn't write the textbooks and explain to students that Windows was the be-all-end-all of operating systems, the rest are heathens.

A video game like this, to be successful, requires a well-structured volunteer base (hard), or profit. And it's hardly a monoculture, anyone who wants to put in the time and money is able to produce a competing game.
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> I find it deeply fascinating just how broad a benefit of the doubt UN peacekeepers get, compared to anything that has to do with the US military

Yes, it's really hard to imagine why UN peacekeepers have a bigger benefit of the doubt than a foreigner invading troop. Very hard. \s
I prefer to install Notepad2, it uses the same engine as Notepad++ (Scintilla), but I have turned off most options to resemble the stock Notepad:

http://imgur.com/vFu51NV
The Czech Republic should be renamed Czechia
Password manager using gpg and ordinary unix directories
[CORRECTION/RETRACTION]: I misunderstood ipfs. You can totally edit your DAG in ipfs (which gives you "delete" ability). So Yes cypherpunks01 is completely right.

The explanation of how you do "deletes" in a DAG still stands.

[Original comment:]
ipfs doesn't have delete. It's basically a global immutable data store. Brilliantly well suited for a "permanent web" but not well suited for the kind of communication where people want to edit or delete the stuff they've put out in the past.
from (0) to (rows) -> row:
(row, 0) !!= row

Doesn't look very functional to me. It's imperative style.

Yes, I did read the introduction.
Google Play Music to Add Podcast Support on April 18, Says Report
http://foodnetwork.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/food/fullse...

:)

Mostly joking. :) Most of us should be so lucky to have a manager like that, and I hope that I'm at least partially like that myself. :)
I read this as 'cron job'.
This isn't the proper forum to discuss the morality of taxation. I have been in those forums. I don't want HN to become like them.
Great article. Not hacker news.
Search engines are the only practical way to make RTBF work.
Boring manager PoV here: I love initiative, but bring it up in standup to minimize surprise. Sometimes one step forward conflicts with another 10 steps forward on another story.

On our team we have a bunch of fun stories with lower RoI at the top of our ready backlog, that may never get pulled into the sprint, but are there if we eat all our vegetables (e..g code reviews) and get the Sprint goal done early.
The fantasies of central planners never end.

The author neglects entirely the fact that these city-states arose without any central plan to create these economic zones. They are the result of the market and political processes we already had in place. Did some technocrat wizard in Washington say, "We should target the Northeast Corridor to produce 20% of our GDP"? No. That result was organic.

Here's an alternate proposal: decentralize power back to the states and have groups of states work out arrangements among themselves to enhance their shared cross-border economies. Reduce the federal take of taxes, leaving the money in the hands of the people who actually innovate, employ, and make economic decisions.

The primary fallacies in this central planner's thinking is that some new National Economic Planning Board will be a) completely altruistic in allocating a pile of cash to the places that will produce the most economic benefit, b) able to out-perform the decentralized economic decision-making mechanism of the market (prices), c) not be subject to the lobbying that so corrupts the Congress now.
+1. And you read it because you're visiting hackernews (also central, private, for-profit). It's a systemic problem. That's why we need new tools that let us operate outside that system.
Epic CX Fails and What We Learned
Video funny monkey and sexxy girl
Say i have a facebook page with 100k followers. I can then say "check out this awesome page about ....", put it through one of those services. I'll then get $x per 1,000 clicks. Of course, my facebook page readers will have to sit through a second or two of adverts, but i'll get $$.
warning, it appears you've had too much to think.
Wow. Thanks so much for this!
In a market with limited supply, taxing homes for rent will raise rents to cover the additional taxes.

You don't solve a supply problem by adding taxes. If anything, that will reduce the supply even more.
Isn't the purpose of any merkle-dag infrastructure to be an immutable data store? How does hypercore support editing in this way?
Only Idiots Compete in Earnest Against Their Peers
> But women, more often than men, had the freedom in their life to quit - while more men simply didn't have that option.

It would mean that women have it better than men, which is not a popular
narrative today.
We have created an ObjC parser using its grammar. our converion service convert iOS project code source to android or swift project. This conversion is done using syntaxic and semantic mapping technology. You can check out converion samples here https://github.com/MyAppConverter

For more information about mapping technology: https://docs.myappconverter.com/
I work for AT&T in an office job; a lot of non-union employees got trained last year in the event of a strike that never happened. This happens every few years; the WSJ wrote an article on it in 2012 (http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023040720045773236...). The general consensus was that none of us would actually be able to fix anything with the amount of training we received; my understanding is that it's a combination of regulations (we need to be able to say that the network will keep running in the event of a strike) and a bargaining chip (although to be honest, if I were the technicians working out there in the field I wouldn't be scared of us).
With archives, bots, etc. you can't really "delete" stuff now and be certain its gone forever.
> The German constitution guarantees freedom of expression and the case will undoubtedly be dismissed when it reaches the courts.

The hurdle for civil suits (libel / slander / plain insults) is much lower in Germany. Flip someone the bird and you're 2000 EUR lighter.

> (And I agree that laws such as this should be abolished.)

Yes; it's anachronistic to persecute this as a crime, but as it stands now, I expect a verdict (most likely minimum sentence and parole). Maybe there's a way out by somehow spinning the matter in a way that makes Boehmermann look like he did not intend to actually broadcast the stuff; i.e. claiming that it was accidentally leaked.
The example is hilarious. If volume over 60, sendSMS, 911-party attempt in lounge.
I don't remember much hungarian in CNF, I do remember a lot of whitespace...

//
// Comments are always surrounded both by empty comment lines
// And by whitespace
//

//
// The return type is always on its own line.
// The function name always starts at column 0 and is whitespace delimited,
// this (allegedly) was a consequence of search macros that Cutler used
//

int
main (
int argc,
char **argv)
{
//
// Even a one line comment ends up taking up at least 4 lines
//

printf("Hello, World!\n");

if (argc == 2)
{
//
// All blocks always use braces
//
}

return 0;
}
I take it as being about who holds (and therefore owns) the data. It's not that the corporations are evil, it's that we're operating in a system where only the corporations get to accumulate the data in their hands.
“I’m inclined to say Facebook has the same responsibility of any legacy media company” - except most every newspaper in the country endorses candidates for President.
No, it hinges on the idea that both states and individuals matter. The Senate represents states; the House represents individuals.

Why is it this way? Because at the Constitutional Convention, the small states were wary of being dominated by the large ones. Well, that was then: Is it still a reasonable concern? If you live in Iowa or North Dakota, say, and you don't want New York, California, and Ohio to set policy for the whole nation (including you), then yes, it's still a reasonable concern.
I clicked expecting the map of America, not USA.
Nowhere did he mention "aliens".
Baby monkey funny and so cute
Just a quick correction. Mojang hasn't hired the guy that created Forge. They hired Dinnerbone and grum, two guys from Bukkit (a server plugin API). They also hired developers from MCP (Searge and Professor Mobius), which enables Forge to do what it does.

Forge's early contributors have mostly moved on from the modding scene, but the current maintainers are cpw and LexManos. They've worked with Mojang on a few issues, such as the block model format, but haven't been hired by them.

Additionally, I'm not sure if you meant it this way, but the mods you mentioned aren't by Japanese developers. There is a significant modding scene in Japan, but there's little overlap with the more common mods such as you listed above. Some notable mods from that community are StarMiner[1], RealTrainMod[2], and Helicopter Mod[3].

[1] http://forum.minecraftuser.jp/viewtopic.php?t=17975

[2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0yAsWJZxkLFrogH1Rfa8EA/vid...

[3] http://forum.minecraftuser.jp/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=14837
The problem:

> The internet has been stolen from you. Scooped out of your hands without much of a fuss. A small number of corporations are locked in a zero-sum game of land grabs.

The solution:

> The solution is to decentralize further, relying on a peer-to-peer model...In short, create an app, one that you run on your computer or phone, that writes social data (aka “posts”) into local databases and then replicates those databases to peers using a peer-to-peer protocol

Directly from the article, and it's surprisingly detailed in implementation suggestions - I'm forced to conclude your lack of understanding is willful.
they are one time use though
Ensuring Transparency and Choice in the Chrome Web Store
Corporate tax structures which encourage middle class employment and things like R&D and discourage minimum wage and overpaid executives.

Inequality is getting bigger and again reaching historic highs, if you don't see anything broken then your eyes are shut. The only thing that stopped the inequality which occurred around the great depression was WWII and entering into a pseudo-planned economy. So it's a problem that can correct itself, but the outcomes aren't always welcome... or peaceful.
Yeah, if you google it, a lot of stuff comes up. I'm sure if you google "GMO's are not toxic" you'll find a lot of stuff supporting that claim too. My advice would be to start paying attention to nutrition in general, then over time you can draw your own, educated conclusions. Unfortunately I don't think is a topic that you will be able to find a black-and-white answer to.
"tough". it's a fucking joke. techcrunch has long succumbed to repeating the myths. but i guess that's what "reporting" is.
This is just another example of the disastrous copyright system in America. The whole thing needs overhaul. I hope there's a flood of similar lawsuits to constantly remind politicians of the idiocy of their resistance to reform.
If you think about how to do this in a fair or precise way you soon realize that it's hopelessly complicated. For example, we can't just move the points because some people will have voted for both.

The ranking of a story like that is determined by a lot of different factors, not just points and timestamp, and I'm not sure that it's important for it to stay on the front page for much longer than it has. But I appreciate that you feel differently about it, so we'll roll back the clock on it a bit (easier than adding points but will have a similar effect).
Depends on Country, actually. Google Maps displays it as "disputed" in most of the world, as "Ukraine" in the Ukraine, and as "Russia" in Russia.
Someone in the comments at The Guardian said that the initial goal was actually $10,000. That number has been all over the place.

I'm interested in both crowdfunding and astronomy, but this particular campaign seems like one that should be avoided.