skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a full time job, side project(s), and a family. There aren't enough hours - so something has to give.
> Look, the Fed is going to raise rates RSN.

Is it? It doesn't really seem like it, they raised them .25% in December and haven't done diddly since then, with no signs that they will. Like it or not it is incredibly difficult for us to get out of the ZIRP trap, we most likely won't see anything more than 2% out of the fed for a decade or more. Barring massive inflation, it definitely won't go up fast enough to have a major effect on housing prices like that.
First, I don't think you speak for "People," just the kind of people who are just like you.

For example, I have never used the expression "crybullies," and if I did, it would probably be to describe the kind of white male who gets on a place like HN and cries that his freedom to be a raging asshole in somebody else's privately owned medium is being trampled by moderation.

But back to your point, I will argue with it in good faith. You say:

> There's always "Block" button, and then, there's always "delete account" button.

This sounds (superficially) fair. If I insult Milo, he can ignore me, block me, or insult me back, and I can do the same to him. If either of us rage-quits Twitter, well, sucks-to-be-us.

Well here's the thing. What is it doesn't work like that in practice? What if the "block" button is not an effective mechanism for using Twitter positively? What if Milo blocks me, but thousands of my followers insult Milo, overwhelming his ability to block them all?

It's more than just his feelings, if his entire experience is flooded with my army of trolls, he simply can't keep up with the tools in place.

And the kicker is this: People know this, so they "game the system" by flooding your mentions with so many new and different accounts that you simply can't block them all. Overwhelmed by a DDOS, you delete your account.

IF there were effective tools for ignoring insults and floods, I would agree with you that you have options, and if you delete your account that is entirely your personal choice. But in the current design, Twitter provides a grossly imbalanced power dynamic between those who wish to abuse other users, and those who wish to use the system without abusing other users.

Where does this imbalance lead us? To social network where only trolls remain standing. That is not in Twitter's best interests, nor does it have long-term survivability even if they thought it was. This dynamic has been repeated many, many times, and so far it has always worked out the exact same way; When the trolls arrive, you either moderate actively, or your social network dies.

Now, you say:

> if you can't handle insults, it is not anyone's job to prevent them

Actually, when you run a social network, it is your job to decide how it is to be used. We're on a moderated platform right now, and it is someone's job to prevent certain types of speech from taking place.

Furthermore, it has nothing to do with whether any one person or group of people can handle insults or not. Hacker News simply does not wish to cultivate an insult-heavy tone, period. So it has guidelines, and it enforces the guidelines, and people like you and I decide that the benefits of a moderated conversation outweigh the freedom to unleash our raging id.

Should Twitter be less like voat and more like facebook? That is a question of opinion. But it is not necessarily true that it's not anybody's job to police the the of a social network, and it is certainly not even remotely true that there is always the block button, because the consequence of Twitter's current design choices creates an asymmetry between abusers and the abused.
Again, in both cases it's using violence as a rhetorical trick.

Verbal and emotional abuse of children are serious issues, but they do NOT have to be violent for them to be horrible. The conflation of the two muddies the language that we have to describe the events that happen to us.

If someone says, my parents were very violent to me, what would you assume happened? Doesn't knowing that there was physical abuse help give context that helps you respond to the situation?
Has the hacker news policy on politically motivated posts changed?

This is not about tech and invites a divisive political flame war on HN
Pulling away from the metaphor for a moment, I was under the impression that with today's technology (not the panels of 20 years ago), solar panels take about 4 years to produce as much power as it took to manufacture them and then service lives of 25 years minimum. I'm honestly curious, do you have a source?
And people are actually considering voting for this guy?
The Elites have decided that the "commoners" are too stupid to be trusted with actual decision making. They let us play at democracy, the way you might let a child play with Legos, but the real power and decision-making has always been behind closed doors. It's not new, it's just that we are more aware of it now. The Internet and fast flow of information changed the game and the political systems are slow to adapt.

I only see real Democracy working in small, relatively wealthy and homogeneous countries. As soon as you go >X for some value of X where X is the population size, it starts to rapidly fall apart.

Maybe too many people introduce too much chaos and political structures hate chaos. More than that, the markets hate chaos. If you let the people actually control things, you introduce the potential for rapid change, instability, etc, all things that Big Money hates.

This is why they want larger governments, single currencies, centralization of power, trans-pacific and trans-atlantic trade treaties - it brings economic and market stability. At the expense of your personal freedoms and often, your economic well-being. A lot of money will be made, yes, too bad most of it will go to the top 1%.

The US political farce this year is a prime example of that - the Republican base finally got fed up, the Democratic base finally got fed up. The UK also finally got fed up.

The Elites and Globalists ultimately have a single message that they keep repeating - Globalization is good, immigration is good, if you disagree - you're a xenophobic racist. Oh, you're a blue-collar worker and globalization and immigration actually end up destroying your town's economy - too bad, maybe you should have been a banker or software engineer or bio-med researcher! How silly of you to not be one of those three things!

So yes, the GDP keeps growing, economists are happy, but you're not seeing any of the benefits. Housing is getting more and more expensive and your salary is stagnating and all the Elites keep telling you is that this in your best interest, and is, in fact, the only way to move forward. And if you disagree - well, aren't you a silly little backwards out-of-touch country bumpkin?

We haven't even seen the worst of it yet. Automation and smarter AI will keep removing jobs at a break-neck pace, population migration will keep destabilizing countries and what is the end-game to fewer and fewer good jobs and more and more people? Well, we're looking at the results already. Nobody has a back-up plan either.
Last pass also has a flaw on 2Fa. They cache local copies of the encrypted files, and the auto-fill populates the fields after password, before promoting 2fa.

It does erase the fields and promoted 2fa, but passwords are available briefly.

I Sent a ticket to their supportthey, they acknowledged the issue and just asked me to disable local cache...
(Chrome extension)
Definitely not true of current neocons. They use freedom of speech as a cover for "let me say whatever I want to say" while ignoring it when it suits them.

As a live-right-now example, the mods of /r/The_Donald on Reddit are preemtively banning users before Trump's AMA to prevent dissent, and have stated plainly they will delete any unflattering questions.
The best Ted talks about artificial intelligence
Elites are the guys who make deals for a living. Investors, executives, traders, etc. The people who own the tech companies, the people who service the IPOs, the people who own the real estate we pay such ridiculous rents on, the CEOs and board members of our employers and the companies we buy stuff from.

Our pay is high, all things considered, but not nearly as high as law or medicine, and certainly not management. I'd say we are rising from the upper tier of clerical workers to the lower tier of educated professionals. That is "elite" compared to the average person, certainly, but not compared to the economy as a whole.

The term generally given to this strata is "upper middle class." Some resent calling it middle class at all, but nonetheless - there is a critical distinction between "owners of the means of production," "managers of the means of production," and "highly skilled operators of the means of production."
So Linux PM sucks because OEMs implemented unnecessary and inferior replacements for perfectly functional standards because Microsoft?

Your argument ignores a number of truths.

Much of the original BIOS was being replaced with proprietary extensions by vendors to overcome it's limitations and it was in dire need a replacement. At one point Western Digital was shipping what was basically a boot sector virus to overcome the Hard Drive size limitations imposed by the BIOS.

ACPI doesn't just replace APM, but also PnP and MPS. None of which support newer buses or interfaces and would have to be patched or extended to do so.

Microsoft has no love for ACPI and even went so far as to disable ACPI by default and only enable it for a small whitelist of machines with earlier OSes. Vista was the first OS from Microsoft to actually require ACPI, that means it took them over a decade to come to terms with it.

UEFI was meant to replace both ACPI and the BIOS but hasn't replaced either. Unfortunately vendors have been using UEFI to just load BIOS and ACPI implementations. This isn't at all how it was intended.

You can't blame Microsoft for these standards because PnP and APM are the only ones they had a hand in implementing. It also sounds like they're the ones you actually prefer which is funny. If there's anyone you should be blaming then it's Intel because they championed all of them.

The whole setup is a house of cards and no one seems to like it. Why you choose to blame Microsoft for it is beyond me.
Nothing against paywall articles everybody is allowed to make money however they like I would like the option to filter them out though.

If I can prevent them from showing up in my list I'm ok with it.
The next leaf will have the same range of ~200 miles.

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1104610_next-nissan-leaf...
There is (almost?) always a best way to do a piece of code.

Nah....we can't even decide on a 'best' language to use. Or how to best indent, or where to put the braces, or what variable names to use. The code you write is a reflection of what's inside your mind, just like art.
There certainly is an opportunity, it's just still very questionable how things will play out.

Current state is that 25% of the Steam library is Linux-compatible. That's about 2500 games, so definitely enough to keep you entertained, unless you're the type of gamer who always has to play the newest AAA titles.

With Vulkan slowly picking up adoption, this will probably increase even more rapidly in the future, too.

Next thing is that Vulkan as well as DX12 make it so that drivers for graphics cards will be much smaller and therefore the resulting drivers will be much less likely to be broken, which has been a big problem on Linux in the past.

But Nvidia has now pretty good Linux drivers anyways and AMD has recently started investing more resources into it. Among other things, AMD open-sourced their drivers, so now the Linux-community can help to fix up their drivers instead of maintaining an own driver.

I also figure that the growing machine learning market gives a good incentive for Nvidia and AMD to have good support for Linux, so that should translate back to the desktop, too.

The only problem is that all of this can serve as reason to not avoid Linux, but unless Microsoft really does continue making such great arguments against using Windows, we won't really see many people change operating system...
They're just talking about reality of every day landings. If you don't like it, don't make up counterfactual claims in the first place.
Is that meant for a production environment? I don't see anything referencing anything other than using it for dev
> Renaming: I think if the enter key does anything except execute/open the selected file it's non obvious and nonsensical.

In a vacuum, sure, I could agree with that. But in conjunction with cmd + [arrow] to move in and out of your current position, I think cmd + down to open a file continues that line of thought and is intuitive and obvious in the Finder context. After drilling down with cmd+down, if it's another directory, open it, else if it's a file... open it.

Alt-up and enter to do similar navigation all make sense in their own individual context, but in the context of each other or Explorer itself, is not intuitive and is nonsensical imo. That would be like mouse wheel down to scroll, but ctrl+up to scroll the other way. And F2 I guess, as you put it, is just pure randomness and would make no sense in any context.
>This sort of thing really merits a judicial investigation

The victims involved in this have specifically asked this to not happen. I'm sure you can understand why the members of a community like this would have personal or political reasons to avoid a judicial investigation.
Fwiw, his question did not sound at all like that to me. Your reaction feels like unfair personal bias. Not trying to start a fight but you seem openminded enough to hear it so figured Id let you know
Oh my god. I just realized I've crossed over and become a HN title complainer. I need to take a break from HN for 24 hours.
I'm on the waiting list for a Model 3 and plan on getting and e-bike some day http://www.ktm.com/gb/e-ride/ I own a loud KTM 300 2 stroke and a diesel truck. Tho I'll probably never sell my Harley evo, loud pipe save lives ;-)
Amazon debuts a dedicated shop for Kickstarter products
I have personally lost the belief that you can actually change someone's opinion on almost anything. So an echo chamber doesn't have to be a bad thing. I think people overestimate the value of having your beliefs challenged, does it ever really change someone's mind? If that's the case, you might as well view twitter as entertainment and to clue into the things you care about, in which case it can be pretty useful.
and still... you can't find something better than it in its category ;)
Why Climate Denier WattsUpWithThat Went Solar
I think the bigger picture is that they got a lender that actually looked at their specific financial profile instead of a cookie-cutter credit score.

ECorps have a lot of trouble doing that.
Linux VPN service
> So, if torture would have prevented 9/11 should we have done the torture or should we have let 9/11 happen?

The problem with these kind of "if torture would prevent..." scenarios is that there is generally no way of every being in a situation where you know that torture would prevent the harm that is hypothesized to justify it. (And, I've yet to see anything indicating that, even in the case where you somehow know that there is an imminent harm and know that a particular person has information that would allow you to prevent it, that there is any basis on which one could ever reasonably conclude that torture would be the most effective method of extracting accurate information.)

Even leaving aside the moral argument that torture is never acceptable whatever the benefits, none of the torture that has ever been done, no concrete policy allowing torture that has ever been adopted or proposed, and no approach to torture that is even conceivable given the information that appears to be available would ever be able to limit torture to situations where the kind of "if torture would prevent <specified class of harms>" scenarios that are frequently cited to justify it.
I have a 2015 Razer Blade that I really like. I use it as a my daily Linux work computer and it runs Ubuntu great (with the caveat that I don't use sleep, hibernate, or the nvidia card; and the webcam doesn't work).

Pros:

- Almost unbeatable specs for the chassis size

- 14" display, which seems to be getting rarer now, but I really appreciate the extra inch of screen space

- High quality display, if you get a good IGZO panel. Some panels have color issues, but this seems to be common to all IGZO type panels--my Nexus 6 has the same issue. You can return it until you get a satisfactory panel.

- Can dual boot to Windows and play modern games at high quality if that's your thing

- Clean and simple chassis (excluding the silly bright green logo)

- Excellent Linux compatibility

- You can purchase an aftermarket SSD and upgrade it yourself if you're OK with voiding your warranty

- Very nice trackpad with multitouch that even works in Linux. It has physical buttons which I personally prefer, and that's also getting harder to find

Cons:

- Absurdly expensive

- Parts are proprietary so you have to mail the unit in for even the most basic repairs (changing the battery for example), and repairs are expensive

- Matrix-green keyboard and logo color scheme is a little silly and might not look professional. I put a matte black round sticker over the lid logo which helps

- A poster below mentioned screws falling out; I've noticed this with mine too. I think since the chassis is aluminum and is itself part of the system's heat sink, the heating and cooling expands it and gradually pushes the screws out. But pulling out your Torx screwdriver once every few months is enough to fix the issue

Overall I very much like the machine and even moreso since it supports Linux without headaches.
Without taking a stance on either side of this contentious issue, I would note that it should be technically feasible to offer an option which would auto-block any account that hasn't established a certain extent of "not a troll sockpuppet" bona fides - for example, by being more than a few weeks old, and having a certain degree of engagement with the community at large. Accounts which fail to meet these criteria, and persist in attempts to abuse someone already recognized as being targeted, might be automatically suspended or banned.

I don't care for Twitter particularly, but it's a thing that exists, and it's not likely to go away any time soon. And I don't care for shitposter brigades at all. As the current brouhaha demonstrates, manual intervention in high-profile cases is no solution at all. Twitter's engineering team is easily capable of an automated solution; all they need is for their management to turn them loose on the problem. I'm not sure why that hasn't yet happened. Of course it's impossible for any automated solution to make everyone happy - but what we're looking at right now is a response that has made everyone unhappy. Twitter can do better. I hope they take this incident as sufficient reason to do so.
It is not, and there are important features that are not implemented in it. It's a great way to test out Kubernetes configurations though.
There's a great book catering to people just like who you described (me included) - "If you're so smart, why aren't you happy?" I'm part way through it and it's been helpful.

https://www.amazon.com/Youre-Smart-Why-Arent-Happy/dp/B01DYF...
Effective comment, and you still have 32 characters to spare.
there is this userscript that marks them, which you probably could change to hide them instead: https://github.com/voltagex/hackernews-paywalltag
This makes no sense. Several of the issues he identifies are also problems on Facebook but they haven't hurt that network:

140 Characters: I rarely see "thoughtful exchange of complex ideas" on Facebook which allows as much text as you can type.

Perverse Mechanics: it's the same metrics used on Facebook and every other social network out there.

Terrible Filtering: Same filtering as Facebook.
SpaceX spending about $300M on Red Dragon mission
Well, having people answer phones costs money, and you are not paying for Twitter. Your "data" and "eyeballs" aren't actually worth much. Would you be ok with a premium rate number where you pay per minute?
I understand a concern with my phrasing -- to be honest, I didn't put much thought into it as far as considering multiple interpretations.

I have sent a message to 1Password through the official customer support channel to ask the same question posed here. I'll update once they reply.
Standard of living is all about the location. Sounds like a bad place to live.
Also Metacritic has managed to keep foul comments under control.
The list of companies that thought they could co-opt the Android runtime and compete with Google all have one thing in common - failure. Blackberry's system has always been plagued with compatibility and performance issues.

>The real reason why Windows Phone with Astoria would fail, is that the platform only provides marginal benefits for most consumers (if any). Add to that uncertainty created by exceptionally bad management (two OS rebases in just a few years) and you have a dying platform.

It's already a dead platform. They simply cut their losses and pressed the eject button because they suddenly realized their implementation would have been fraught with endless problems. So they decided to go with Project Islandwood to make the process of porting iOS apps to Windows Phone easier. Unfortunately, this too has been a failure as no iOS developer is going to waste their time porting to a platform with a market share that is hovering at about 0.05% and gradually declining by the quarter.

>That said, I think the real danger for Android comes from within: Chinese OEMs providing Android without Google Play Services and/or Samsung being so powerful that it could fork Android.

I really think you underestimate the power of the Google ecosystem and Play services. Selling an Android phone outside of China without Google Play Services is just a recipe for failure.
Here’s What We Know About Russia and the DNC Hack