skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the thing that intrigues me is the number of ways in which "liberalism" (call it "doctrinaire liberalism", as practiced on universities) are convinced they believe in one thing by name even as they believe the opposite. Liberalism right now is actually highly authoritarian. It claims not to be, but uses every ounce of authority it can come across and seeks vastly more.

If you say "I'm a liberal but I'm not an authoritarian", then I'd suggest at this point you may not actually be a "liberal" anymore, or certainly not a doctrinaire one. There's a lot of people who are, IMHO, coasting on definitions now a decade or two out of date and voting for people who are labeled "liberal" without noticing the two "liberals" in question aren't the same thing anymore. It's a significant driver in the realignment process that we've begun seeing in the spectrum. (Trump is only the beginning of the realignment, not the end, and he is an effect, not a cause.)

It is also strange, for example, to see "liberals" who are, presumably, still considering them superior to those stuffy, stuck-up Victorians with their hangups about sex, even as they push consent laws that are far more constraining than a Victorian would ever have dreamed of.

There's a huge gulf between what doctrinaire liberals believe, and what they believe they believe (no typo). It boggles my mind.
It's just a informal term for the things mathematicians study. So the natural numbers are mathematical objects, as well as a set, a function, a manifold, a vector space, etc.
Wait, so if I go to your boss and tell him you called me a MILF, it's true?

It's not completely implausible there is an ulterior motive. And she is well protected if there is. He, on the other hand is not.

None of us know enough about the situation to make a determination in either direction.
Here’s Every Amazon Alexa Project at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon This Year
If you had taken the time to read the article you would have an answer.
MarsFS – A Near-Posix Namespace Leveraging Scalable Object Storage
Bold move, but a good one, I think. I've been considering starting my students (just friends I mentor) on Elm for a while, but it's only this year I've heard of local companies hiring for Elm here in Salt Lake City.
A slap on the wrist? It ended his career. (Any charges, etc, were a means to that end, but he resigned.)
Using Tweets and Posts to Speed Up Organ Donation
I don't think "distributed event processing framework" describes this system at all. It's exactly what it says on the tin: a replicated log (i.e. event log) storage system that one can build other systems on top of. It's not processing events as far as I can see?
OverNest launches GitZero with encrypted code searching
Run2Escape (Fun & Adventure game)
Audit-ability is essential to accountability is essential to effective government -- in our case, a democracy (well, ok, a republic).

Failure to provide for this should be considered outright failure in one's job. Failure to serve a fundamental tenant of our form of government.

To the extent it is define as a crime by our laws, it should be fully prosecuted.

In the private sector, I've cleaned up far too many ill-defined, ill-documented messes. Private or public, these things end up being and serving gross dereliction of duty. I've seen it over and over.
i know this is just too easy now, but... we told you so :)
It has changed, in that the language is moving away from Native code, and instead is trying to provide the web-platform as part of the language/core libs.

And for everything else, there's Ports. You can't use them in libraries, but for your own projects they're a much better JS FFI.
I feel like we really have the technology available to prevent a lot of drowning. Maybe it's a sensor worn on the head that can send off an alarm after being submerged for x seconds.

Maybe a drone or fixed cameras running computer vision algorithms.

Those are just some example solutions. I'm sure you could come up with more after giving it some thought. I just would like to see something like this.

Or if nothing else how about public service ads that educate people what to look out for.
Well, color me interested. I read the T&C and didn't run into anything that seemed obviously bad. Might as well start the process and see if I run into any red flags!
Or all gay people?

Honestly I think it's far more interesting that he has multiple Congressmen as his delegates, given some of the lines that are rumored to have been drawn inside the party about supporting him.
http://arewewebyet.com/

I always look for a SQL driver, and then if it has connection pool support. If a language passes this second test, the language is ready ;)
Yes, very likely.

You'll notice that lifeguards usually approach from behind the person that needs rescue. The standard response is to grab anything that can help the drowning person stay afloat, which includes the rescuer.
It's right under the document, here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TjWba0CR9RHFm47rvW1n...
The title isn't wrong. The original article uses 'PayPal co-founder' and HN guidelines suggest using the original title unless it is misleading (which, in this case, it is not). While Peter Thiel may have name recognition on HN and in Silicon Valley, he is better known as a co-founder of PayPal in political circles and the rest of the US.
This would be great for a simple classroom demo on congestion control!
I agree that there is a tremendous amount of dissonance in the ideas that executives deserve massive compensation and that they don't have much control over such gargantuan organizations. The way I resolve this dissonance is by not buying into the idea that corporate executives as a class are worth their extreme compensation packages.

Humans seem to have a soft spot for narrativization, and it's easiest to pin a narrative on the chief of an organization. But it's my belief, and I think the evidence doesn't contradict it, that these narratives usually have little to do with the causes of changes in organizational fortunes, particularly in the case of conglomerates.

"But Steve Jobs!"... Well, few CEOs are Steve Jobs. None, actually...
Yes, they have old people who dont get enough for a pension. That is troubling as so far, as it prooves that people can in the end vote with there hands and feets against the free market approach of everyone insure himself against beeing poor at old age.
Who did their best work before 20? I looked up a bunch of Greek philosophers, and it doesn't seem to apply to any of them. Socrates was in the military during his early life, and Aristotle did his most famous work late in life.
Recent related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11608985
Rails Performance and the Root of All Evil
Looks very good. I got stuck learning elm at about the point I wanted to integrate a call to a javascript function. Can't for the life of me remember if that involved signals or not. Will definitely try the tutorial(s) again when I get some more time because I really was enjoying everything else about the language and developing in it.
Christianity also has the very convenient line "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's"[1] in the New Testament that basically codifies separation of church and state into the religion. Islam has nothing equivalent, in fact more so the opposite.

1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Render_unto_Caesar
Quite likely. I nearly drowned once at sea and my friend came out to get me but I kept dragging him under because I literally had no energy left to do anything, let alone the brain power to coordinate my movements. Fortunately he was a very strong swimmer and so we made it back in one piece.
What's meant by a reactive database vs a non-reactive one?
They do, and have been made much clearer: http://guide.elm-lang.org/interop/javascript.html
Under "other cool stuff" it's mentioned that error reporting when parsing fails is greatly improved. Not sure if that's what you meant.
Teenagers have better vision and are typically in better shape.
If he's known at all in the rest of the US.
Such scoring already occurs, the most obvious example I can think of is the security clearance process. It can be argued that such a filtering is necessary in order to keep those no good commies out, but consider the sort of self protecting cultural feedback loop that creates. I always had to stifle laughter when the question was asked "Have you ever belonged to an organization that advocates the overthrow of the USG?" I'm not laughing anymore, because depending on the interpretation of a couple of words, you can face some pretty serious consequences. US Code 18 § 2385 specifies "by force or violence", but I've never heard that qualifier used.

The gulf between the interviewer and interviewee has grown to the point that Janet Napolitano's report, advising LEAs of the domestic terrorism risk posed by veterans, caused a lot of soul searching among law enforcement.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2385
Doing away with signals is a great move, everything else about the elm architecture felt so intuitive.

I'm excited to give elm another shot, and I yearn for the future he describes where web assembly makes elm a viable js replacement.
Does it have a name? Any name at all? Even a code name?

Are we calling this "Amazon Video" or something? C'mon man.
Does one get into the credits for such usage? If so, do some people use stage names for such things? Note: NOT interested in knowing their name.
I moved from React/Redux/Typescript to Elm a few months ago, and I'm now on my second serious project with it, making mobile application with Cordova. I've found it an absolute pleasure to use, and I especially like that you can be pragmatic about it; if there is something that is annoying to do in Elm then you can simply drop into Javascript/Typescript using ports.

Coming from languages like Actionscript/Javascript/Typescript/PHP I have found the whole Elm experience quite mindblowing; if it compiles, then it just seems to work. I hardly ever find myself poring over bits of code trying to debug a subtle error, and if I do the problem is going to be in the Javascript/Typescript bit.

Basically, I'm sold :)
Well, I really don't feel like working at the moment so I'll bite!

The article, of course, doesn't just give an opinion. It tells an historical story---partly from her own experience as a social justice activist---and makes an argument that a wrong turn was taken. You could well disagree with her conclusion, some premises, or think she left out key facts, but I think her grounds are a bit less flimsy than whatever biases she happened to inherit.

FWIW, I didn't know who this person was, but I googled out of curiosity and she appears to identify as trans herself? (but, sure, this doesn't matter inside this dialectic since she could still have "cis privilege").

One of her recent criticisms seemed to be parents subjecting their children to sex reassignment surgery before they are old enough to give informed consent. And that the explanation for this---obviously, right?---involves the prominence of gender and sexuality in our cultural zeitgeist and as technologies for self-identification. She also points out that sex change is now being misleadingly presented as a solution to deeper problems that would really remain unaddressed.

A Twitter-inflaming interview had some interesting remarks on a connection between sexuality and cultural decadence---which she has apparently written a book on the history of---but she seems to be actually well read and was working with a much more complex structure than bloggers picked up on ("decadence" is used as a technical term, the link isn't causal, a richer concept of self-identity is assumed, the objectification of bodies is placed in a more complex network, etc).

But again, this is just my impression from procrastinating for a bit!
APIs to understand your customers and grow your business
> a Stallman-like free software ideology

You say that like it's a bad thing.
We have lifeguards. Less sexy (well, in a strictly technology-enthusiastic context), but proven in use.
I hope you are joking. Popular/big subreddits are astroturfed like crazy and often have mods devoted to controlling the narrative. Example: you'll have to search long and hard before finding anything positive about Trump in r/politics.

Re: HN. The comparatively smaller size and narrower focus helps. Good luck to anyone that says anything out of line with the site's group-think, however. Even if you are as respectful as possible you'll be downvoted at a minimum. Keep it up and you'll be shadowbanned in favor of "keeping the peace".
I think the interesting part would be to see if his cabinet is more pluralistic and diverse in composition than that of the other candidates --who by and large pick apparatchiks. Remains to be seen, but if he does, I hope it would pressure other candidates to be more politically inclusive.
Platform evangelism
Agreed, not to mention that to fight any notice in YouTube, you have limited options - as in, you are presented with a form that has radio buttons, of which none of the responses are 'this claim is without merit'.

I've had to battle YT multiple times over music or content which I owned the rights to. In many cases, I was the creator of the content in question.
Can any recommend a good video of article about this to post on Facebook and such?

This one is good but I don't think it would work for all the people I know with short attention spans and limited ability to read multiple long paragraphs.
Evan wants to design Elm as thoughtfully as he can, and has been deliberately resisting community evolution. Eventually it will get too big and too useful, and he'll lose the ability to make big breaking changes easily. So he's tried to maintain control of the direction of the language and community during these early years while he figures it out. He's trying to reduce the feedback loop and come up with the best possible base before it starts to scale.

It feels like it's stabilizing. I expect that over the next year or so this will change dramatically and it will become much more community driven.
Interesting you mention the fact about it being poorly displayed. I would say it is, but not because you don't often see this frontal view. As you may or may not know, the sculpture was originally meant to be displayed on the roof of the Duomo. Michaelangelo altered the proportions slightly so that it would appear to be correct when viewed from an extreme low angle.
The fact that a rule is in the OT doesn't mean it is Christian belief that it is applicable. In fact, the rejection of most of the OT Jewish law as inapplicable to non-Jewish Christian is itself in the Bible (Acts 15).
Budweiser has a new name, and that name is America
The comments in this thread would suggest otherwise though.
Am I missing something here? Being a pledged party delegate is very different from being a true supporter of a candidate. It just means that you intend to cast your delegate vote for a particular candidate. There's essentially no one but Trump left in the Republican Primary, so is it really surprising that Peter Thiel, a Republican, would pledge for him?
You are correct. Tattooists aren't known for their biochem chops.
Nissan developers copied code from Internet, pasted it into a remote-access app
Exactly no ambiguity. The Quran and the Hadiths clearly state things as they should be and leave little to ambiguity, and that is why reform is extremely difficult within Islam. When the book clearly says that it is the one and true word of God and is perfect, how will you justify reformation. Saying that religion is not a political issue in the middle east is a complete misunderstanding by people.
> The specific measurement result IS the interpretation.

Hmm, ok, so we are also giving a different meaning to the term "measurement result". I'm afraid our ontologies are too different to have a meaningful discussion.
Word of warning, The XPS DE is definitely _not_ perfect. When I got my XPS 13 DE last year they had a multitude of issues I could go on and on about, but the bottom line is that the laptop was completely unusable out of the box.

Part of the issue is that the Sputnik team has to take the XPS 13 hardware as is (as it was designed for Windows) and try to support it. They are releasing the drivers upstream (at least they were when I last checked) so that's awesome! But it meant I had crazy stability issues until the 3.19 kernel release.

The newer models of the XPS 13 DE seem to have better hardware for linux (Intel vs. Broadcom wireless for example) so it may be better, but I would still encourage anyone looking at the Sputnik projects to consider the Precision M3800 instead (15" workstation version of the XPS 13). There are also some other Dell workstations available now that might have better hardware for Linux.

Edit: Also I have owned a couple of System76 laptops and have had 0 issues with them out of the box. But their drivers are proprietary (AFAIK) and their chassis are Clevo...so definitely not in the same ballpark as the XPS when it comes to build quality.
> To preempt: a systems language shouldn't dictate these high-level matters

But you cited a whole bunch of languages that do dictate this. Those languages don't have those problems because you can't write competing implementations of low-level async I/O in those languages.

And there certainly are competing, incompatible implementations of relatively low-level functionality in Golang, for example fasthttp: https://github.com/valyala/fasthttp

I'm all for standardizing on one solution when the time comes. Rust will have an async I/O story. But right now nothing is mature enough yet to begin that process. Rushing to standardize something that is not yet ready is the worst of all possible options.
From what I've read, it can be common practice to punch the drowning person to stun them and stop flailing limbs.
NASA to Announce Latest Kepler Discoveries During Media Teleconference
Billionaire Facebook Investor Peter Thiel Is a Donald Trump Delegate
Doubtful. YouTube doesn't punish false claims. It's one of the reasons content creators are upset with YouTube.
Its a little wordy, but now that I'm used to it, it takes no time to write decoders/encoders. There is also a tool to automatically generate them from JSON input at http://noredink.github.io/json-to-elm/
Yes, but the guidelines explicitly say "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". I'm okay with that, I'm here for both things, tech-related or otherwise, as long as it's interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So explain to me how a non-classified source would get information from a meeting of Sudanese generals that occurred 24-48 hours prior, in such quantity that it needed Blumenthal to summarize it in a lengthy email.
47% of Americans cannot come up with $400 for an emergency room visit, much less moving to a different city.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/04/47-percent-americans-...
The difference is that the New Testament explicitly rejects at least part of the Old Testament's rules: http://crossexamined.org/cherry-picking-the-bible-are-christ....

Moreover, the elevation of faith over adherence to law as the path to salvation also has the effect of deemphasizing the latter.
Which says " At design time we had concerns about Kafka’s I/O model and its lack of strong durability guarantees‐a non-starter for an application like a distributed transaction log[3]"

Seems reasonable, right?

Except "[3] Kafka addressed these durability concerns in version 0.8"

So they built a whole thing, because they didn't bother to ask or say "hey, if we help fix the durability, would that we welcome?" or even "do you guys have a plan and timeline to fix it?"

That's .... not great.

Now, maybe there are other reasons, but they aren't elucidated in this blog post :P.

Even then, my general view would be "did you approach the community and discuss your concerns or just dismiss them out of hand as infeasible", mainly because my experience is that if you do this, you often find they have exactly the same set of concerns/goals, and just need more resources to make it happen.

The desire to build shiny objects is very large. Outside of the paper plans of engineering teams, these things rarely end up up more shiny than what already exists or will be built by the time you are done.
I'm interested in this as well.

I have had a few very close calls, but never had the drowning response, even when severely out of breath and panicking.
I express opinions (which is what we do here right?). If you read those as 'definitive statements' then I might have phrased them differently if I had known. I tend to talk that way and I try to add 'in my opinion' / imho to stuff but here I guess I did not (enough).

And sure, I don't consider shuffling money around in a way that is actually inaccessible to 'normal people' to make rich people richer (obscenely rich) to be something 'good'. That's my opinion and I guess you can read that in my way of saying things. That said, I am interested in it. And what I read about it (which is indeed what I read online) makes me have those opinions and nothing in this thread makes it less rancid so far. But because I have been wrong I read other opinions and explanations.

The word 'this' is missing from the last sentence, apologies, I fixed it. So my question is; if a hedge fund grows from 5 billion to 10 billion it incurs double the cost of operations? Like, for instance, a software services company would do? If not, then why are the fees a % and not a fixed number based on operational cost, unless it's mere easy pocket filling because 'everyone else does it'?
I don't think the semantics are any more imperative than IO in Haskell, it's just that there's a different abstraction used for dealing with it.

Moreover, Tasks are absolutely monadic, with `andThen` being the bind operator. Elm just chooses to focus on the individual use-case, as opposed to focusing on the broader abstraction.
Is it possible to stay compatible with mio's interface, perhaps via something layered on top?
What the AWS numbers really mean
There hasn't been a better movie with laser-mounted gorillas since.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11668278 (and a few others: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Trump%20Delegate&sort=byDate&d...)
There's free software that allows you to create subtitles/captions. For your average consumer who just wants to shoot a family video and upload it, that is a very large barrier to entry compared to youtube. For a high quality video creator who puts a lot of effort into editing videos, it's not much extra effort. This would be one way to ensure most videos are high quality.
Well, perhaps, but I'd rather just... not have a car that is a computer on wheels!
MSSQL's text comparison by default is case insensitive. Its limit clause is nonstandard (select top 10 * from . . .). Its syntax for other things, like trimming or casting, is just much more typing. Installing the driver on a Linux server is several times harder than Postgres. When I get the syntax wrong, all it gives me "General Error." The command-line tool to Postgres, psql, works much more smoothly and has many more features than MSSQL's tsql (and Oracle's isql, for that matter).

If you use MSSQL all the time, I have no doubt that you get along fine. You can get used to its ways, and most applications don't need features that aren't shared by almost all databases.

I didn't mean that if you use MSSQL then the app will always noticeably work worse than if you based it on Postgres. It's just that for someone who switches back and forth, MSSQL makes my life less enjoyable, provides no benefit, and costs a lot more money.