skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Think about how the 'one-drop rule' still applies to whom considers themselves black.

Does it?

> there is a large body of scientific evidence that supports the fact that race makes little biological sense and is mostly a social construct

Given the topic, I'd be skeptical - a large body of evidence might still not be conclusive. However, maybe a more relevant question is why it matters - you are what you might be perceived as, so far it might affect how you are treated.
No matter how simple a piece of technology is at face value, people often use its simplicity to solve complex problems. Sure, building a TODO list with react and redux is easy enough, but once you start building a large or complex application you need to establish patterns and design decisions in order to scale the codebase well.

I can't speak to the quality of this list, but I gather that, rather than a defacto list of how to go from 0 to expert on react and redux, the author intended to curate a list of tutorials that they found insightful so you don't have to go digging around Google.
Another Tacoman on HN? People in Tacoma know about this website?

Joking aside, you're in the Central District. Sales are hot north of I-5/SR-16 because a lot of the infrastructure up there is being rebuilt. South End is still a high poverty area with not a lot going on. In fact, the only major grocery store south of 56th anymore is the Fred Meyer on 72nd and Pacific Ave (not the best place to visit at night).

As someone who grew up here, Tacoma still has a long way to go.
Unfortunately, since the W3C caved on EME and DRMs apis for videos (i.e. plugins), there is a possibility of seeing that scheme being extended to images or text content. They caved once, there is absolutely no guarantee they wont cave again in the future and put the interests of a few companies before the idea of a free web.
technically he didn't call him a goat fucker, he said calling him a goatfucker is illegal. which it is, wether or not the one being accused of being a goatfucker is a leader of a country or not. it's called "beleidigung" and can be prosecuted under http://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/185.html as long as the recipient (or his/her commander in millitary or <supervisor> in the church) goes to the authorities and delclares that it should be prosecuted ("strafantrag").
i go dakor with the (currently) most upvoted post it's smart from mutti (merkel) to "allow" it, because of diplomatic relations, when in fact she doesn't have a word to say in that. she can allow or forbid everything she wants, but as she is part of legislature and executive, ?judicative? can do what they have to and don't give a shit what mutti says
The presentation: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/B881
Note the POVERTY_LEVEL constant in there. And the tax rate itself could be progressive. I didn't say anything about a flat consumption tax.
I gave up on that hope a while ago. And also on developing for Microsoft platforms in general.
So, this article talks about the retraction of the 2006 paper, which the authors admitted had some failings.

However, I fail to see much discussion about the subsequent paper [1] that addressed these failings and featured improved experiments that seem to still uphold the hypothesis.

[1] http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/SD_PPIG_2009...
Even if houses are flat its still better to put your cash into one than the bank...
Have you ever seen the screen on the new XPS 15? It's a 4k. It is absolutely gorgeous.
I strongly suggest that you read http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html. To save time, skip to the section "Money is not Wealth" and then read from there.

Note, Paul Graham was the public face of founding ycombinator.
The best thing to do about this is to find such articles and submit them. As jcr pointed out, HN has both moderation and software to try to give these than one chance at the front page. (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926 and the other links there.) That's what happened in the present case, for example. But for this to work, users need to find the stories and post them.
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This probably can be significantly helped from a UI design perspective. As more and more services auto-shrink links for readability there may not be as much of a compelling need to shorten links. Why in 2016 must we keep displaying everything as "raw text". This is a perfect example of the power of richer displays.
The amount of non-debt money in circulation is <20% and always shrinking.

>The value of the units is directly correlated to the amount of work required to get the units.

Do you have a proof of this? I doubt there is much correlation between "amount of work required" and the value of the units. The FRB has instantiated ~$4,000,000,000 with almost no work required and its dependents have gotten those units, also with very little work required.
If laws weren't a chaotic accumulation of snapshots of ethics and morals at some point but logical and reasonable instead, we'd have this:

Pros:

- easy to understand and argue

- no room for personal opinion, especially regarding ethics

Cons:

- less income for crime+punishment system that has a whole industry around it and in some countries even prisons operated as public companies

- emotional views on penal system would go ignored

Precedent law is also highly questionable and dangerous. It's hard to understand why laws do not apply to many, especially those mucking around and making laws.

It could be very simple, but as long as there's no Vulkan (Star Trek) like approach to these things, I'm afraid we'll always have laws that favor some and punish others, regardless if the actions harmed anybody.
You're more likely to write poor code that contains inefficiencies than having V8 or PyPy become your performance bottleneck.
The good news is that part of Let's Encrypt's mission is to make it easier for all CA's to offer similar services through things like the ACME protocol. The ISRG's ultimate goal (right now) is for https to be the default, not the exception. I don't get the impression they care much which CA has the biggest piece of the pie.
http://www.angryflower.com/atlass.gif
Did you even read the headlines?

One guy spent an extra 2 months in prison. What else could be meant by "go to jail"??
Maybe hard to take but these people are wealth creators and make a terrific contribution to society in general (everyone in the state, in this case). Of course they're propping up everyone else.

Assuming you're not subject to the naive 'wealth is a pie' fallacy, why are you so bothered about inequality of wealth? As a non-rich person, I don't get it! Questions of power and influence on the folk who sit in government and have really massive sums at their disposal with little ultimate responsibility if they foul up - are much more pertinent but should and can be dealt with separately.
The prosecutors still are bound by instruction of their superiors (which at the end is the minster of justice, usually of that state). Sure, these instructions have bounds, but it can still lead to interference by political officials.
It is probably about a mental association of decorative trees in the city-dense areas with public space and the off-limits skyscraper tree space gets in conflict with this association. Don't worry, in time they'll get used to it.
I know, I've been using vim pretty exclusively for the last 15 years or so.
Ok, we changed the url to that from https://www.numbersusa.com/news/verizon-workers-strike-prote... and the title from "Verizon Workers Strike in Protest of Foreign Workers".

The post also appears to be a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11487742.
http://www.itep.org/whopays/states/california.php
In context of US court it might fail the Miller test

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_v._California
Agreed though I find that as a professional I'm not as motivated to see side-projects through to completion because I'd rather spend my free time doing other things.
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It's interesting the debate was about "anti-semitism",
because so far as I can tell that has become a code the
UK press uses for anyone who thinks that Israel may not
necessarily have the moral high ground in its dealings
with the Palestinians.

Which is ironic considering that the word simite applies equally to both.
So you're implying that you'd never work with YC or Vogt or any of their investors? GM is spending $1B to acquire Cruise, which is a vast sum for a small company that has been around for 3 years. Even 20% of that would be a great payout for all involved, and think of how much money GM could have left over to continue to revive the dormant U.S. industry, and U.S. fortunes at large. By your standards, if YC and Vogt were ethical actors, they'd ask GM to reduce the offer, because building things and innovating is itself an honest reward.
My father sold his west Texas home in cash to Chinese nationals. West Texas. And the process took 24 hours.

I doubt it's overblown.
developers that are so in love with their helpful feature X, that they ram it down your throat

There is a maturity problem in our industry. As in, the developers and product managers are a bit on the emotionally immature side, and have less ability to put themselves in an other person's shoes, when that other person has different goals.

I also use the Netflix streaming service with a Roku. As part of their ongoing campaign to convince me this is a mistake, the Netflix app auto updates itself from time to time.

This feature shuts off the screen without the user asking for it to shut off. What could possibly go wrong?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11487742
California officials are aware of these risks also. I give a lot of credit to Gov Brown for constantly reminding the state legislators that the good times won't last forever. The challenge with a tax system that draws so heavily from top earners is that you have greater ups (during boom times, like the current) and greater downs (during recessions, like 2008-2010). Moreover, such a huge amount of California's tax haul is due to one-time events such as stock and real estate sales which are even more amplified during boom times.
i'd gladly pay a bit more for a charger that does it all, except i want to not have a charger at all - i want a usb port in my AC socket. the best part about it is that i've already got some. i want them to keep working, as right now i don't need a charger sticking out of the socket at all and would like to keep it this way.
The state when you are not forced to follow other people's agenda is usually called "freedom".
Interesting thought - this NYT article suggests that many wealthy Chinese children are moving to and living in Vancouver.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/world/americas/canada-vanc...
It's amazing how manual this process still was in the late 70s. Imagine spending hours and hours pouring over tables of numbers. At the same time, it's amazing how hard it still is for computers to say "that's interesting". Sometimes it takes human to go "wow"
This is pretty clever. I think you should add this to the big list of naugthy strings

https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings
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Jobs are not created by the person hiring, they are created by the market paying for the good or service.
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Counterpoint: Conditions were just like this in DC 7 years ago, and tons of people bought these dilapidated 350k row houses, put 150k into fixing them, then sold them a few years later for 750k+ because demand in the city kept growing.

It's not a strategy I'd bet on myself, but it has worked in many cities in the (recent) past.
oh the Turbo Pascal and Turbo C days, where I had embedded assembly code mostly to have fun with 5.25 drives. Did fun experiments with copy protection back then; it was a thing; down to interrupt handling and more.

also a fun way to seize up your computer when you got it wrong, I mean it compiled it should run, right?
Please don't add editorial flourishes to titles. The HN guidelines ask you to "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait".

(Submitted title was "How freedom can change, Iran before 1978".)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Exactly. It's specifically intended to be tutorials and information that I have evaluated and determined to be well-written and informative, so that it's a one-stop set of resources for someone wanting to learn.
That's not exactly true. You can renew it before it expires. You just can't renew it until it is nearly expired. I think it's like a 2 week window or something like that.

The bigger complaint about StartSSL should be that if you need to revoke the certificate you have to pay for it.

For a free service though I don't think their requirements are too terrible.
The Works Progress Administration (renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration; WPA) was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects,[1] including the construction of public buildings and roads. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration
Splitting this into two replies...

In the popular press dopamine was known as the pleasure or reward neurotransmitter because of its associating with drug addition but with new research that view is slowly changing. While drugs like cocaine or meth produce euphoria research has also shown that dopamine is also released in response to unpleasant stimuli like stubbing your toe or the near miss at the roulette table. My view, which is shared by some researchers, is that dopamine is primarily involved with the salience, or whats important, about an object or situation.

For example, walking down the street the sudden appearance of an aggressive dog or stumbling on gold coin would trigger the release of dopamine and norepinephrine. The release signals to the rest of the brain that something important has happened and to pay attention (focus). The release also simulates memory formation and learning and it makes us slightly less empathetic. It also deactivates sensory suppression and makes us more aware of our surroundings and puts puts movements on a hair trigger. All of which probably facilitates survival.

However in my case the compromised ability to break down dopamine and norepinephrine via the COMT pathway left that system always on. While this contributed to some of my strengths only retrospectively do I now recognize that there were downsides. Enhanced memory formation and learning also means never forgetting and intrusive thoughts in vivid detail an awkward social situation a decade ago. Heightened sensory awareness means that you can't filter out somebody tapping in the next cube or unfamiliar clothing. Twitch like reflexes compromise fine motor skills (like handwriting). And while reduced empathy can help slice through the politics to "do the right thing" it is pretty much a downer in every other way.

Looking back there are also some other things that I can now see with more clarity. I believe that the brain uses the relative levels of tonic dopamine versus tonic serotonin to measure the levels of wanting (or desire) versus getting (or consummation) which I think is the brains proxy for social status. My compromised COMT pathways resulted in my perception of always being subordinate in any work or social situation. Other than the obvious it has some other subtle side effects including an exaggerated sense of justice and rapid escalation of a perceived threat. This seriously hampered career advancement for a long time because it ruled out a leadership role to other people.
Welcome to the rebirth of the "right-click blocking" scripts. Please, take a trip with me down memory lane, to the glorious days of DHTML in 1998, when there were serious attempts to use JavaScript to "prevent people from stealing your images and code!" http://www.java-scripts.net/javascripts/No-Right-Click.phtml

What is old is new, what is new is old.
Photoshop uses layers to cover over a lot of missing functionality.

In the scenarios above, both Photoshop and Dell are wrong, but they're in a market position to get away with being crappy to the user.
Would you prefer to have a manager who wasn't an engineer previously?
You mean complexity low, not simplicity low, yes?
Is this just a reversion to the mean following a one-time jump due to IPOs from, e.g., Facebook and Twitter?

I guess what I'm asking is, did SF housing prices merely fall back to where they were in 2013? Or all the way back to where they were in, say, 2009?
this hit me right in the feels, shame that doom4 feels like a console port
The reasoning might be that if a place gets luxury apartments, rich people will flood the area. Then the crime rate per capita goes down. The criminal population becomes diluted. It starts a snowball effect where crappy apartments in the area looks more and more attractive to the upper middle class as more upper middle class outbid previous poorer renters for the old housing.
I worked on a project (while a Microsoft employee) where we were told that the coding standard was CNF (Cutler Normal Form). Naively I asked what this was, whether there was a document etc. The answer was to read Dave's code and write in the same style.
My first thoughts when reading the title. Jeez, those were the days.
An Uber, Dropbox or AirBnB IPO would quickly make prices go up again.

However, these companies don't seem to be preparing for an IPO anytime soon.
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Features and bugs is a much better situation than no features and no bugs, which seems to have been the unfortunate trend in recent years. Post-minimalism can't come soon enough.
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I think that's precisely because they are always shortened automatically on twitter's side.
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Minor clarification: when we bought through Redfin in 2010, the rebate came as a check a week or two after closing, not a contribution to closing costs. Adding a transaction to the already complex closing process would not have been worth the benefit of getting the money a bit sooner.
>> "but only pay 45% of taxes. We should be asking if that's enough"

How much is enough?

We often hear that the wealthy should "pay their fair share." But we rarely hear a concrete figure.

Look. I work 3 jobs and bring in about $200,000 per year. I work hard and diligently for that money. I use it to provide for my wife and kids and our future.

And I paid nearly $60,000 in taxes in 2015.

I don't want to pay any more. I'm fed up with how much of my hard-earned income disappears by way of taxation.

More taxes subtract from my kids' future. More taxes subtract from dates with my wife. More taxes subtract from my retirement when I am old and unable to provide for myself.

How much tax is enough? What, exactly, is my "fair share"?

Everyone likes to demonize the rich 1%, but few concede the reality that we in technology are all rich. Heck, even the poor in the US are rich by the world's standards.

We "rich" people are not all demons whose money is an infinite fountain waiting to be sapped by those without. No: we work hard for that. And we have families. Some of us hold multiple jobs in order to provide for ourselves and our kids.

So I ask, how much is enough? Give a specific tax percentage you think I, as a husband and dad of 2 children, ought to pay to the federal government, and please tell us compellingly why you feel entitled to take my hard-earned money away from me and my wife and kids.
I know that this is off-topic, but Gustl Mollath did not walk free because of some interference but because he was explicitly ruled not-guilty and was completely rehabilitated by a court. The case then went up to the highest court which confirmed the ruling. He is not a felon in any meaning of that word.
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Hi. Wanted to test it, needed to create an account and left. If I need to connect my Slack teams after, you will get my name and email anyway, why should I register to your app in addition to already having an account on Slack? (since you build the service for Slack)
Yahoo makes it easier to give Marissa Mayer a huge payday
8% of males are colourblind [1]. If my maths is right that's roughly the population of the USA. A group worth worrying about I'd have thought.

[1] http://www.colourblindawareness.org
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It's literally crazy. We bought our house last May and have seen a 45% increase in value (according to online estimators which are usually off by a bit). So far we've lucked out. Our house was built in 1920 and had major work done in 1950, 2005, and again in 2009. Over the past 9 months the only major issue we've had is updating our furnace and heating from oil to natural gas (which ends up saving us money in the long run). I do wonder about many of these flipped houses though. Just one street over I've seen 3 1920's houses flipped in a few weeks and sold for crazy high amounts. These flips have to be mostly cosmetic. They make the interiors look amazing, but the house itself is still shot.
More like: distribution of sales prices fell. I don't think many individual homes sold for less.
Learning doesn't need to be done in realtime... it can happen async.
So, my impression is that the companies that pay enough that you can actually afford to think about buying in SF are the large and profitable companies... from what I've seen, vc-dependent startups pay dramatically less.

Of course, most of those profitable company jobs are in the south bay, not in SF proper, but hell, if I could buy one of those mini-condos in sf for a quarter mill, I'd jump on it.

I'm trying to say that I'm not sure that the vc-dependent will have as much effect on the market overall as you say, unless the slowdown progresses to the point where it starts pulling down the big guys.

(which isn't impossible. someone put forth the theory that a lot of the highest-margin advertising dollars come from said vc-dependent firms, and if those went away, everyone would pay a lot less for advertising, which would dramatically effect the big, profitable employers around here. I would rate that theory as plausible, but not certain.)
People holding out on a better deal next year.
I disagree, I'm sure there are strong politicians who don't make waves, we just don't hear about them. It's sampling bias.
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Would it be interesting mainly for how much rationalization of envy it would provoke? I can't imagine what else could be drawn from it.
As long as we can poke fun at what they spend their money on, and dehumanize them, we can justify any tax level. Maybe that extra 17% could have gone into angel investments.

Perhaps the idea that those that earn 28% of the income need to be taxed at 45% is an indictment on California's spending.
I don't have time to open up all those links, but from the sound of it, they seem to be personal defamation cases (or other edge cases like disorderly conduct in a court room; false arrests by idiotic police departments which of course do happen but generally get overturned; etc) and generally against private individuals, not politicians.

OTOH, there's an established body of precedent in the U.S. (which fortunately, not too long ago, wasn't anywhere near as PC as it is now -- far from it, in fact) saying that politicians and big enough celebrities are fair game for non-specific, purely pejorative insults (like "goat fucker"), as long as they don't stray into the territory of making a specific claim of fact (e.g. "I saw the Senator drilling a away at a captive goat behind the shed the other day, and boy, you should have seen the look on his face!")
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