skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, Tinfoil's got a good product. They're definitely still active and I think they're business is doing pretty well.
In the words of Joel Spolsky, "code doesn't rust."

Who cares how old the code or the medium is? If it's tested and working, and it's used for nuclear effing weapons, I'm happy to leave it in my pile of tech debt.
Hypothesized awhile back, though the candidate is different.
http://isteve.com/Infectious_Causation_of_Disease.pdf
Mind you, Gawker is the organisation that revealed the Facebook Trending News... 'scandal'.
That is not true. Our legal system views some lawsuits as themselves being illegitimate attempts to silence people by forcing them to defend against frivolous, meritless lawsuits (see SLAPP). It does not view lawsuits as SLAPP-worthy merely because based on who's paying the bill.
I was directly replying to the comment that "They have no moral high ground, noble principles, or higher purpose." Actually reading the context would make the logic much less baffling.
Because of the climate we live in.

You can get away with being racist as long as you're not white.

The sob story in this piece is hardly moving - as someone that's been working in Silicon Valley for the past 8 years, it is an extremely open place and have never seen anything approaching this type of behavior. The truth of the matter is that for any given open requisition for a software engineeer, less than 1 black applicant will apply. That is not our problem to solve (directly, at least) and it is most definitely not something for whites to feel guilty about.

The truth is, in everyone's struggle to be "remarkable" they latch on to what they can and in this case it's to be "that guy" that cries racism.

This type of hyperbole is often encouraged with an attitude along the lines of "the ends justify the means." I took a few classes at a community college in Oakland and it was unbearable.

What is preached is not equality, is not kindness unto others, what is preached is black superiority and an attitude of "white people took what's ours."

A shame really, since all it did was bring race to the forefront for me when before this experience I was more or less happily ignorant treating everyone I came across the same way.
There are plenty of things that lower GDP. Environmental policies, for one. That's not reason enough alone.

I suspect the impact of restrictions on SF growth at this point are large because as the parent notes, growth has been large there in the digital age. Tech businesses have had it good there for awhile. Maybe time for some change, no? At least get rid of Feinstein..

Edit: please explain down votes, thanks!!
If you are a security purist, why aren't you using grsec / pax / rbac in the first place? The general totem pole is grsec rbac is king > Apparmor is a destitute wannabe hacked together disaster that is still more usable than SELinux > Archlinux doesn't give a shit while Red Hat is off doing their own thing with SELinux with the NSA and Google.
Good; there SHOULD be a chilling effect on publishing private material of the sort being litigated. There's a difference between 'what the public is interested in' and 'the public interest'.
> This is a town for freaks and weirdos.

Those are all the people currently getting forced out by the lack of housing supply. Opposing this legislation won't magically make the rich leave, instead the city will continue to be less accessible to the middle class.

I hope that some day everyone who wants to live in San Francisco can live here. It seems like the only way for that to happen is to increase the housing supply.
He isn't only funding lawsuits - but is asking to be judged by the standard of a philanthropist who supports libertarian values, freedom of the press and justifies his actions against Gawker as so.

That part is clearly bullshit.
Somehow the city with the highest average salary/cost of living usually goes unmentioned... Seattle has two huge tech companies, a lot of mid sized tech companies, and a growing startup scene... and it's not that far away from the bay.
I think the answer is no. You have to have a magnetic field to induce changes on a floppy (don't get them near a magnet). An x-ray would require a curved flow to generate a magnetic field (think electromagnet) so the generally direct x-ray flux should be harmless. Of course the equipment and power requirements may make it difficult to avoid magnetic fields. Not an x-ray expert.
Crud. Sorry for the accidental down vote.
it looks like IMMUNOLOGY is going to rule them all (well, most) of the medicine: cardiovascular diseases, cancers, allergies, diabetes, and now Alzheimer's.
Check out the latest dell xps13. They come with 16gb ram, ssd, great screen, etc. Also pre-installed with ubuntu
Sure. But if we stick to the scientific method, then alternative avenues are more experiments. With the pencil, for example, assuming that water actually breaks them is a reasonable premise of the initial experiment, but then you see that it's not actually broken - that's the second observation, disproving the theory.

But if all your experiments say that it is non-deterministic, again and again and again, Occam's razor approach is to say "yes, it is non-deterministic". Creating an elaborate framework which basically lets you say "it's ACTUALLY deterministic, except for all these other things that make it LOOK non-deterministic for all practical purposes" is not really science, it's just placating a preconceived (and possibly hardwired) notion.
There's no evidence that this is motivated by his own "outing" as gay. It's not as if he was concealing it, and he's smart enough to have known that it would become public knowledge as his profile grew.

As he says in this interview, he's big and powerful enough to defend himself.

What he's fighting is the practice of destroying the reputations or lives of people who don't have the power to defend themselves, and claiming "free speech" as a justification for operating without any sense of morality and compassion.
About as concrete as "End Global Poverty" or "Cure Cancer".
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I suspect this is also happening throughout the UC system, particularly Berkeley as well.
I absolutely despise Gawker. The stories they run and the stuff they do would normally mean that I would love for them to be run into the ground.

At the same time, they are the only independent online media outlet left in the world. Every other company that once prided itself on being "independent" from the large media network owned by ancient billionaires has now received at least hundreds of millions of dollars in investment from them.

Say what you will about the publishing of the tape (and I for one think it was a despicable action) it certainly showed Gawker's true editorial strength. They could do whatever the hell they wanted, publishing for the editorial integrity rather than to get pageviews.

The idea of every single large online media outlet being at least partially owned by a small group of media companies owned by billionaires is horrifying. BuzzFeed has a great and fascinating new editorial unit, but they have 200 million reasons not to publish anything that goes against the mainstream media.

Gawker is a horrible company, but I'm going to miss them.

[edit] Wow, this is really being run into the ground with downvotes. If you disagree, please don't hesitate to let me know why, as I'm genuinely curious. My email's in my profile if you'd prefer to contact me there. Cheers!
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So...only cheering is allowed from the peanut gallery?
Of course, I was merely addressing the claim that it's always OK to fund lawsuits.
If you can live without the bang, you could just add a search engine to Chrome with the text "gh". Then, prepending "gh" to a search would just search Github.
You are assuming it's able to recognize that it needs to do that.

And a complete stop on the freeway is not exactly safe.
I use that too. One of Bangs' advantage is it has suggestions, so I don't have to memorize all the keywords I've set. Of course, Bangs work with keyword search (e.g. du !amazon alice in wonderland), but you lose the suggestion.

In any case I mostly use keywords to search google, youtube, and wikipedia in several languages, so I don't see bangs having much utility for me.
Totally agreed. Homebrew is not an appropriate tool for server package management (It assumes everything should be installed under a single user account)- but 98-99%+ of the people that use OS X and servers are not running OS X on their servers, macmini colo users excepted.

The wording dangerous was poorly used, inappropriate for server package management would have been better.
The problem with this argument that this is asymmetric. Most ordinary people will not have problems like Peter Thiel had, since outing them has no entertainment value. This is sort of a rich-only problem. Most ordinary people have problems like being screwed by their health insurance (denied claims), bank, some other big company, etc. I had for example a case when my business accounts got suddenly frozen by Wells Fargo for "unauthorized access". They would not tell me who accessed them, what IP, any specifics. I had to renumber all 10 of my personal and business accounts (huge problem for a business with receivables and ETFs), and in the process they lost all transaction history which created a huge accounting burden. When I expressed concerns, they addressed me to their "legal department", that employs a couple of hundred lawyers full time. Would Peter Thiel fund this?
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I don't think Thiel is being unethical and I think the decision in this case was valid.

That said I do in general have a problem with all this. I mean what does it say about our justice system when a millionaire needs a billionaire to help seek justice for himself. Is that how it's going to be in the future? If you find yourself wronged by some massively wealthy or powerful entity you now have to find an equally massively wealthy or powerful entity to back you in seeking justice?

We've all known money has far too much power in the legal system. But this just lays it out plain as day. How can anyone look at this and think, "Yea that's a good way of handling things".
The canonical example would be a plastic bag on the freeway.
This town won't be for the freaks and weirdos for long: they're being priced out. You can rage against the techies all you want, but unless we can build more housing, the techies will be the only ones who can afford to live here.

It seems bizarre to me that those most fervently opposed to the influx of tech in SF are doing the most to harm the existing residents. If you make it hard to build in San Francisco, there won't be enough houses. If there aren't enough houses, who do you think gets the few that remain? It's not the freaks and the weirdos– it's the wealthy. The freaks and the weirdos have to leave because of your shortsighted policies.
Why did Peter Thiel supports Trump? It is unimaginable.
The funny thing about Germany now is that it's actually in a bit of a bind because its prosperity is perilously linked to export. The reason Merkel is so aggressive about maintaining the integrity of the EU is largely because Germany needs the free trade zone, common currency, etc to keep its export-driven market running (not to mention favorable access to cheap labor to its east). The author emphasizes the dangers of over-dependence on import, but the opposite is likewise true. Interestingly, when the 2008 recession hit, Poland was the only country in the EU left with positive growth and this is largely attributed to the strong domestic market that made it more resistant to failure in foreign markets.
A rule of thumb when studying history: if a side appears really stupid, or really evil, then you probably don't have all the facts.
> Perhaps most notable, is that I wrote it w/o having taken a compilers class or having much (any) understanding of stack-based parsing, but it still lives on, so I guess it was good enough to get the job done.

Isn't that the story of PHP itself, too?
William Johnson is probably actually pretty safe. It's the people with names just unusual enough that no one has met more than one who have to worry.

For instance, a friend of mine has a somewhat uncommon name. Unfortunately, there's another guy (I think there's only one) on Facebook with the same name who has a borderline racist cartoon as his profile picture. Guess which one comes up first when you search on my friend's name.
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All the tiles on the map are showing up as owned by undefined. Is that a glitch?
Closest I can think of is the GE of old. But not nowadays.
Bitch/hoe are terms that the politically powerful majority use to keep a minority in check. The people who use bitch/hoe are already on the skirts of society. The people who used nigger casually included powerful people of all stripes, right up to senators (and probably a few presidents). Bitch/hoe was never seen as something that a 'respectable person' would legitimately say.
"It was renters living in the Mission who were (not incorrectly) terrified that new development means they will get evicted and displaced."

New development as the cause of displacement is just outright misinformation. There has been very little development in the Mission:

https://rationalconspiracy.com/2015/05/25/new-york-times-mak...

There is an extremely strong negative correlation between development and housing prices across cities:

http://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/asking.price...

This is an excellent writeup by Jason Furman, chief economic adviser to President Obama, which explains in detail how land use restrictions make cities expensive (and cause other problems besides):

https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/page/files/20...
But what's the solution to this problem? Ban wealthy people from financing lawsuits? That's never going to happen. What about ban people with malicious intent from financing the lawsuits? You'll rarely be able to prove the intent.
Okay, your argument then seems to be "They do have a moral high ground, noble principles, or higher purpose some of the time but the rest of the time they break the law". That's not much improvement, I would think.
This is a contentious issue and in case you are not from SF and wondering why Y Combinator is taking a stand on it, it has to do with the politics of the tech boom.

The plain truth is that the housing crisis is a combination of too much sudden demand fueled by the tech boom and too little supply. The tech community likes to deflect criticism of their sudden influx of relatively high-income workers and say "don't blame us, it's a supply problem."

This bill focuses mainly on juicing supply by removing restrictions on builders. But part of that is weakening the affordable housing restrictions on them.[1] The problem with that is, increasing market-rate housing alone may not make an appreciable difference in prices where it matters most from a macroeconomic perspective: for low-to-mid income residents.

Cities need teachers, service industry workers, artists, etc. Already the restaurant industry is facing a major worker shortage.[2] Let's not even get into the cultural effects of long-term residents getting displaced en masse. So if market-rate supply alone can't solve this, then you need affordable housing regulations to set aside spots.

Sam has offered a rather simplistic statement on the law of supply and demand on this. But that masks the real question: whether weakening affordable housing demands as this bill does is a smart move. Will juicing mostly market-rate housing be enough?

[1] http://48hills.org/2016/05/22/a-terrible-housing-bill-looms-...

[2] http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/print-edition/2016/0...
How do you test such a thing? Small nukes?
That is so much bullshit.

1. Cite real studies, not paleomom

2. Cite studies that are based on the high-fat, moderate protein people who live a keto lifestyle eat, not the high protein diet used for epileptics

#1 is key because if you cite real studies we can talk specifics, all your sources are is paleomom's version of broscience. #2 is important because almost all the low-carb studies that show negative biomarkers are not the LCHF diets recommended by places like /r/keto and other mainstream keto sources.
4 way stop signs were really confusing for me when I first learned how to drive. It seems there's so many nuances about when you should go or not. Is there even an algorithm available to handle them?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11774588
60 Minutes covered this in 2014: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tour-a-nuclear-launch-control-ce...

They were surprised to see things like "an antique computer without a monitor."
Singapore would probably work well for that. The people there are reported to speak such a thing:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlish

That said, if learning English is the goal, then that probably will be counterproductive.
"Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you're really in favor of free speech, then you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise. Otherwise, you're not in favor of free speech."
A bit off-topic: The word "meritocracy" carried negative connotations even at its birth. From Wikipedia:

'Although the concept has existed for centuries, the term "meritocracy" was first coined in the 1950s. It was used by British politician and sociologist Michael Young in his 1958 satirical essay The Rise of the Meritocracy, which pictured the United Kingdom under the rule of a government favouring intelligence and aptitude (merit) above all else...
In this book the term had distinctly negative connotations as Young questioned both the legitimacy of the selection process used to become a member of this elite and the outcomes of being ruled by such a narrowly defined group.'
I find the logic that freedom of speech only applies to journalism you agree with baffling.

It's straight out of the 21st century authoritarians playbook - nobody is dumb enough to admit that their actions are against the principles of freedom, but people are dumb enough to agree with those same actions when you simply redefine who those principles apply to.

It's the new-newspeak, see how Putin has as much power as any Soviet leader but with the veneer of democracy, popular support and individual freedom.
Believable (17.9%) if you are measuring only within the S.F. city limits. San Mateo and Marin counties and the East Bay have huge tracts of open space for metropolitan areas.
How does the bill weaken affordable housing demands? And doesn't building more "luxury" condo open more affordable housing stock.

This is such a confusing issue, everyone seems to be making sense.
> The idea of creating a company that makes executive decisions by direct democracy is untested and may simply be nonviable.

This isn't true - it been tested and runs successfully at scale:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_democracy#Current_ap...

Two examples with Wikipedia entries that were easy to find are mentioned there:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation - turns over ~$16B USD and employed ~74,000 people.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Semler - Secmo
> increasing market-rate housing alone may not make an appreciable difference in prices where it matters most from a macroeconomic perspective: for low-to-mid income residents.

This may well be possible to argue, but you're going to need a source for a claim that goes against the basic concept of supply-and-demand.
Stimulants (of any kind) don't complete your work for you, at best they provide a little extra capacity and focus.
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Why are kids of older dads at higher risk for mental illness?
If you're building a complicated dynamic UI want to take advantage of the latest ideas in front end data architecture (like om.next, or the the stuff in Elm), F# is still a bit behind when it comes to these ideas. The community has been very slow to embrace React-like UI technology, for example.

For general backend stuff it is awesome. I can't vouch for mono, however.
> it seems like the author(s) don't know a lot about google's capabilities

It seems to me Google is determined to keep its features a secret from users. Why isn't there an easy to use and easy to find advanced search screen?
Unless you kick your feet into the brake pedal accidentally whole dozing off and it disengages emergency braking and you plow into an object at full speed while still asleep.
I am non-American mixed-race. I personally consider racism to be -- in and of itself -- a non-issue. It does not kill you, and everything that does not kill you, ultimately makes you stronger.

I consider racism to be irrelevant because it mostly is. I can barely imagine a new situation in which someone would be able to stage a racist attack. I am probably entirely hedged against those already.

The real problem is always the abuse of government power: "I’ve been interrogated at gunpoint by police because I fit the description".

So, yes, if they choose the time and the place, they can indeed attack you, if they so desire. However, it perfectly well works the other around as well. If you chose the time and the place, it would work too. The only solution that truly works against the problem of lack of respect, is to inflict respect-instilling reprisals.

Therefore, the real problem, are your false beliefs in their fake legitimacy. Hence, in reality, state racism is a problem of religion.

Racism against Muslims pretty much fails, because they are increasingly making that very practice insanely dangerous. The police are very aware of that. They know that there will routinely be reprisals. This is the enormous attraction of Islam. It pretty much solves all the problems of abuse of power, including state racism.
But how do you reproduce the dpkg packages? When your friend hands you a deb, instead of a docker image, what have you accomplished as far as knowing how they arrived at their configuration? Debs are also binary blobs, just more of them, and separately.

From what I can see, there are two philosophically pure approaches to software packaging. Either we can build everything from source, so that we have reproducibility (see e.g. emerge for a practical system, although it is still not bit-for-bit reproducible) or else we can ship everything as a blob so we have total consistency (e.g. Docker, Go).

The other approaches, apt and nix, seem to me to be compromise positions. They may even be practical or useful compromises. But they are ultimately about the degree to which we allow binary blobs, not whether we do.

But it seems to me that once you have accepted installing binaries via apt then installing them from Docker is a question of degree, not of kind. It seems very hard to me to argue that distributing binaries via Docker is really worse than via nix.
Not an expert, but you actually focusing on a pixel is your brain doing image processing, not a function of your eyeball.

Your field of vision (and focus) is much bigger than 1 degree, so any part of the image that you are "looking at" is something the brain is doing to the image as post processing, not something your eyeball is doing.
No one gave him the authority to control speech. He has money, but we didn't give him the authority to do this. I honestly hope you are wealthy and this viewpoint supports some sort of authoritarian self-interest. Or you're not American I guess.
As a life-long immigrant, I hear this everywhere I go. "My <geographical location> is the best. Go Away Hordes of invaders!". Hearing this from a progressive immigrant sanctuary city is especially disconcerting.