skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OMG Arvada is pretty bad too. We had some hispanic kids causing trouble in the park and people were trying to organize on NextDoor to go confront them with baseball bats. We're talking about 13 year olds here... It's definitely been used as a safehaven for paranoid old white people.
A entire section of the article is devoted to this topic. Ctrl-F "GPS Introspection".
Sure, it's better than nothing. That doesn't change the fact this is one more twist in an already Kafka-esque system.

In the old days when this country's government worked you'd see a new visa category created and USCIS able to keep processing times within reason.

Nobody should take this proposal as an example of the system working.
You can publish in Research Disclosure (http://www.researchdisclosure.com) which exists expressly for this purpose.
Metasyntactic variable
A lot of the codifying of MVC happened in Smalltalk. However, the reality of Smalltalk development is that most people had Model objects, then stuck everything into instance slots of an instance of an "ApplicationModel" subclass. Originally, ApplicationModel was called "GluePuppy" because it was just an arbitrary thing on which to stick other things.

So who in the world are these MVC police? Does anyone in the world actually do MVC correctly? Has anyone ever?
Remind(1) – a sophisticated reminder service
I really like the language you used here.

I don't think veterans are the best example for this point, but I totally understand what you're trying to say. I say this because I've never had someone legitimately and purposefully try to end my life. I have no idea what that feels like. Therefore, there are some topics of discussion that I avoid when I'm around combat veterans.

I think your comment about "special snowflakes" hits the nail on the head. I've been using that phrase for years to describe the type of people that push the "trigger warning" and "safe space" rhetoric at universities and on the Internet. These people, for the most part, are not victims of significant trauma of the type to actually cause the types of disorders for which the term "trigger" was originally defined in the psychological community. These people are living the life of what I like to call "perpetual victim-hood" in order to garner attention and give meaning to their lives. These people choose to take this route because the other paths to a meaningful life are more difficult and require much more effort. Why actually invent something or do meaningful research when you can complain on the Internet and garner millions of followers who throw continuously resonating rhetoric into your own personal echo chamber?

This has become a bit of a rant. I apologize for that. I just get very frustrated with these kinds of things because I believe it stifles the spread of new ideas and hinders progress.
That's some serious hand waving.
You must be suffering from White Fragility [1]

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anna-kegler/the-sugarcoated-la...
The Moral Virologist

http://eidolon.net/?story=The%20Moral%20Virologist
...NSA should be stripped of its IAD mission, and a separately funded and operated IAD capability should be spun up under DHS...

Maybe DHS could get an actual CA-issued cert for https://www.iad.gov/ ?
International Entrepreneur Rule ANNOUNCED (startup Visa/parole)
I'm thrilled to share that the White House just announced a "startup visa" immigration option for foreign-born startup founders to get permission to live and work in the US to start their companies! We've been waiting two years for this announcement and this is going to be HUGE. I'm blogging about it here with details and updates:

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As a Silicon Valley immigration attorney, my team and I help highly-motivated foreigners obtain legal immigration status to start amazing companies in the US, and I can confidently say that this program will be of enormous value to foreign founders. There's going to be a 45-day comment period so it's crucial that you let your voice in support be heard!
Fungal sexual reproduction has more than two mating types, as well, which is apparently made possible by handling the mitochondria differently from animals. In animals, the two parent cells fuse and the male's mitochondria is destroyed. In fungi, the nuclear material is transferred between cells, and incompatible mitochondria never occupy the same cell.

So a species could have one type or thousands of mating types, and may be homothallic or heterothallic. Meaning that individuals of the same type could be compatible, or not, respectively.

In a dimorphic animal species, if you wander the wild and encounter a random member of your species, it is about 50% likely you could reproduce. For some species of fungus, a random encounter could be as high as 99.999% likely to be compatible.

We don't even need to imagine aliens for this. We have species right here on Earth that are incredibly different from us, and also available to be studied.
Why pets might be the next big thing for VCs and marketers
I Spent Two Weeks Tracking a Secret Teen White Supremacist Messaging Group
Mmmmm, smell that plastic grass.
What kind of monetization plans do you have?

I've considered doing the same for EQ, but it looks to me like the subscription based WoW sites that provide game analytics aren't very actively developed. And WoW would probably be the biggest market and health indicator for this type of service.

e.g.

https://www.warcraftlogs.com/
http://www.worldoflogs.com/
http://www.askmrrobot.com/
Generate high-quality custom movie clips, on-demand, in the cloud
have a look at the top of the front page... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12367071
When I looked at that title I thought: "new rule in ____ . Leaves drivers furious!" and wondered how HN was infiltrated with click-bait advertising.

The Internet has ruined me.
"undetectable-through-normal-means matter" is by definition not normal matter. We do not know what it is, so we have a placeholder name for it: "dark matter", i.e. matter that does not shine in the EM spectrum. We have theories about what it is, but most of the mundane ideas (like cold dust) have been ruled out by observations. Now we are left with all these stranger ideas. "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
Just guessing, but the industry likely migrated to fly-by-wire because of some quantifiable benefit, either from software-aided stability correction, or reduced risk of a mechanical failure. Maybe they proved that its less likely for FBW to fail than it is for a cable to snap ?

I'm not against using plasma, btw. I'm just saying if one were built today, I'd prefer to trust existing designs until they have a decade or more of testing done.
Since a significant number of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies are not American (http://blog.proclinical.com/who-are-the-top-10-pharmaceutica...), I find this statement dubious to begin with. And since pharma companies spend more on marketing than they spend on R&D (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/11/big-p...) I also doubt that research costs are as high as people claim.

It is much more likely that, given our largely unregulated market for medicine, the market is pricing medicines in this country as expected by theory: as high as the market will bear. No ethics or morals apply, just pure profit. Whether that is OK or not depends on whether you happen to critically need those medicines and can afford them.

Other countries are allowed to negotiate the price of drugs and/or restraint profits made, so their prices for the same drugs are often significantly lower. Companies in those countries still make a profit, just less than here.
Related:

In some documentary of some Chinese factory on Youtube, they showed an employee bicycling to a supplier to get more parts.
The site seems to work fine, but this really isn't a support forum for such issues. Send them another email or something
Good Practices for Capability URLs
Development is mainly in swarm mode, but yes the older swarm is still supported, it is just an application that uses docker so will always work.
I'm a little surprised that this is even a point of ignorance...

Of course they do. Of course there is military research. Of course there is spying research. It's just the way it works.
> undetectable-through-normal-means normal matter

I assume by this you mean dust and planets and such.
https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/could-dark-matter-just...

That also goes for 'aliens', because presumably, they'd also be made of normal matter, and if they're not, then we're back to some exotic form of matter like dark matter.

As far as being a mistake, it could be possible that we are fundamentally misunderstanding something about how gravity works. That would be as interesting a result as dark matter, to be honest.
Yes indeed. Backend developpers have known "services" layer for a long time, but it seems to be completely unknown to frontend developpers (except maybe angular ones, which heavily promotes this pattern).

Model is basically a collection of types, and services are where the business happen and shit gets done. And only in the end should you care about presenting all that stuff in a good looking way.

But even this is a bit of a simplification once you get into low-level architectural decisions : is your app real time, does it handle data synchronization with a backend, can it work online and offline , does it need to make certain operations atomically ? Do you have n publisher - n subscribers types of communication between your components ? etc etc.

Those are the true questions you need to ask yourself first, and not think in terms of three or four big boxes where you have to put all your junk trying to find descent names.
> The problem with email is the signal to noise ratio is too high, because it is globally accessible.

If your inbox is deluged with spam from outside the company, you need to filter your e-mail by domain.
Try to put a price on UX.

macOS is the choice * nix desktop operating system as far as I'm concerned. All the * nix utilities, POSIX compliance, all of the proprietary software, none of the virtualization bullshit.

I'm a hackintosh guy so I can't say I 100% disagree, but there's also something to be said for build quality and look-and-feel(TM).
>> You think MariaDB would choose jemalloc if it wasn't efficient in memory use?

I don't think this is a smart way of choosing an allocator.
I don't follow. Could you make this argument more specific? Who's doing this attacking? What kinds of vulnerabilities?

Stated as vaguely as you have, that's a hard argument to rebut. I tend to agree: the world would be a safer place if everything was publicly disclosed immediately. But even NSA's opponents tend not to support that as a policy objective.
I didn't know what nextdoor was (nor do I live where it exists) but I see what seems to be a fundamental error:

- They claim to have reduced "racist posts" by 75%.

- They say they accomplished this by asking extra questions whenever a racial descriptor was used.

In other words they simply made it harder to post when using a racial descriptor than not and claim this is a great reduction in racist posting. As a software developer I'm well aware of one thing: the more complicated I make a feature's interface be, the fewer people are going to use it. Without them having enabled the extra difficulty for all posting regardless of having used the racial descriptor or not, they're simply looking at people who don't post more using race not because they're racist but because they're placing an artificial hurdle associated with that.

Now, if they simply wanted for people not to describe race they should've simply removed it from the options; they seem to be so proud of effectively doing that but in a (thinly) veiled way, as I understand it they're saying that any posts that include race of the individual are racist.

Am I missing something obvious here?
I speculate that inter-solar-system travel is just not physically feasible on a human-like time scale. In the absolute gigantic nature of the universe, a scale beyond all human concept, we have not come across any evidence of other life forms traveling to us. I have to believe that if they are capable, they would be willing to do so, and they wouldn't do so and leave without interaction. An alien race that explores seems to suggest to me that they have curiosity and motivations. They have some element of humanity to them. And I can't believe they'd come this far just to watch billions of people die (from any cause) over the next tens of thousands of years.

I think our best hope is that one day, humanity evolves away from biological bodies. We become hardware. We can now travel as an entire society throughout space for millions or billions of years without a problem. At some point, before the heat death of the universe when we're no longer able to get the energy needed to travel (or even exist), we might come across another race that has also progressed and advanced just like us and our paths happen to intersect.
Opiates are less harmful than alcohol. Very well tolerated on the body. Methadone is actually rather dangerous. It's potent but takes hours to "kick in". A somewhat uneducated user might dose, wait an hour, dose again, then die when it hits. It's used in clinics because it lasts a long time, making single daily doses possible without leaving users sick.

Methadone is really cheap[1]. A user on 200mg morphine equivalent dose per day will spend just $0.30 a day, buying from Walgreens.

Or "harder": Methamphetamine is legally prescribed in the US for ADHD and obesity. It's available at popular grocery/pharmacy chains.

So even "hard drugs" is a bit of a misleading topic sometimes.

1: http://m.goodrx.com/methadone
Agreed, except to say that mathematical and scientific beauty are at least as important as aesthetic beauty. That doesn't diminish the value of aesthetic beauty, it just makes it sad that more people can't easily appreciate mathematical and scientific beauty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSZNsIFID28

There exists spreadsheets whose contents evoke a beauty that rivals The Met!
> Most of Mylan's drug portfolio has come from acquisitions of other companies

You say this like they aren't doing R&D. But the industry has just broken up into two sub-industries: the big firms who specialize in large-scale distribution, and the small firms who mostly die but some create the new successful drugs, and then get acquired.
Not to mention 1.11's restart timer never were reset to 0 even after the container ran well for more than 10 seconds. (ie: after a few restart, your container would be waiting hours to start!).

This and I can attest to 1.12 problems listed in this article.

Can't remember the specific with 1.10, but basically, nothing really ever works as promised which make people waste a lot of time trying to make something work when it can't and second, doesn't give much trust in the product's stability.

I really wish they would collaborate a lot more and fragment their solutions in smaller module while keeping everything simple. I think they have a great product, but too much growing pain.
Sam Harris is one of a few atheist activists who started to use denounces against religion in general as a tool against other racial groups, just in line with American foreign policy. From what I see Bill Maher is following on the same steps. It seems clear to me that Chomsky doesn't want to have anything to do with that.
I personally just getting into Docker and am looking at the swarm feature for deploying containerized compute nodes to our cluster. People here seem to be complaining specifically about Swarm mode, is there anything I should watch out for? What does Kubernetes provide that Docker swarm doesn't?

I've tested Docker Swarm a bit and it seems to work as advertised.

Is it just about node selection not being sophisticated enough? In that case I don't need to worry since all my nodes are the same, but if there's any words of warning I'm all ears. Thanks.
Am I supposed to care what some pimple covered idiot thinks of Noam Chomsky? I do not recall seeing anything in my life as sad as "Mencius Moldbug".

Now, HERE is a great article on "Moldbug"
http://thebaffler.com/blog/mouthbreathing-machiavellis
I think remote productivity coaching is a great idea. In particular, as an ADHD person, this sort of thing would be an excellent supplement for ADHD coaching. ADHD coaching generally includes productivity checkpointing, but it's considerably less frequent (weekly is common) than what you describe.

I'm not at all sure what I'd pay for this, but I'll throw out there that a good 1:1 ADHD coach is ~$100/hr. I wouldn't pay that for this, to be absolutely clear, since the same level of responsibility as a therapeutic service wouldn't be there and there are things an ADHD coach does that this service would not, but that gives some idea as to value.

Some random thoughts:

* There'd have to be a clear value add demonstrated over a reminder program and more typical self-check procedures like Pomodoro. Accountability is one, I'm not sure it's enough of one. People need to see a vision as to how to make their life better immediately.

* People with major procrastination issues for whatever reason do typically need a lot of handholding at the start to figure out how to organize to get past them. You mention this in your pitch on the site, but I can't emphasize enough that this is where the major value and challenge probably is.

* I'd be very interested in the qualifications of whoever was doing this. A basic outsource PA would probably not be sufficient for what you describe in the sense of adding value past what automated solutions could do. If it were, people would probably just use them for that.

* People who procrastinate also tend to wander off compliance with stuff like this. That may or may not hurt your bottom line (we also forget to cancel subscriptions :) ) but it might speak to the efficacy of your service. How would you address the core problem of keeping people engaged?
Making Sense of Sprint’s Announcement of 3-Way Carrier Aggregation on LG G5
11 signs that you work at a Startup
They would have to know the exact meeting time and would use space on the device, which could be noticed.

This case is not a silver bullet, but it's a useful tool.
Just because he responds doesn't justify how he responds. There is a way to respond in ways that engage and there are ways to respond in ways that are dismissive.
I know, by name and face-to-face, a serious university professor, a linguist and "expert on languages," as you put it, who does know Dan Everett and does not think he's a fraud. He was proud of knowing him, in fact.
Since HN discusses about books time and again - will it be a good idea to have a group for HN in goodreads ?
I’ve seen plenty of bosses who might talk the talk about demanding exceptional performance but, all too often, they just want employees to like them. What’s more, they want people to speak well of them, to be “friends” with them. ... Some of the best leaders I’ve seen, whether in research or coaching, come to work with a razor-sharp focus on results. These immensely successful bosses don’t care much about being liked.

He's missing the point of "niceness" (as a trait for managers) entirely. It isn't about wanting to be liked; it's about treating people decently because it's the right thing to do, and no so coincidently is the right strategy for getting the results, in both the short term and the long term.

The idea that people who go out of their way to treat people decently (despite the pervasive pressures and inducements not to do) only do so out of a desire to be "liked" strikes me as a very... shallow, and sad way of viewing the world.
Looks like the paper was removed. Can anyone confirm?
The only thing we're sure it exists is - there's something out there that acts exactly like normal matter with mass, and it interacts gravitationally with itself and with regular matter, but it doesn't seem to interact in any other way.

That's it. The name "dark matter" is a bit optimistic, because we don't even know if it's anything like "matter".

It's not a fluke in the equations, it's not a fifth fundamental force. All these alternatives have been shown to be very unlikely.

It's not "normal" matter because that one would interact in ways other than gravity, too, and it would tend to make "clumps" (stars, planets). This one doesn't make clumps.

So, yes, it's pretty certain that it exists, but nobody knows what it is. Its only attribute observed so far is its mass. Maybe we should call it "dark mass" instead.
Yes, that's it!
Would Netflix+Spotify = the ultimate modern media conglomerate?
How has he denounced religion as a tool against other racial groups?
Certainly they can. I did at that age, in Applesoft BASIC - not at the level your son does, of course, because BASIC is, well, basic, but what capabilities it did have, I understood and used. If I'd been confronted instead with Scratch, I rather doubt I'd have stuck with it.

The thing about Scratch is that it's designed to be easy for kids, and that's not a good thing but only seems to be one. In presenting Scratch to a child one makes an implicit statement along the lines of "Here is what you can do. This is your level." There's something intensely limiting about that. It's like being given toy plastic versions of Dad's power tools and told you can use them to actually make things. Kids are ignorant, but that's not the same as dumb. No one is going to fall for this, and it will earn you the enduring contempt of those on whom you try it.

Whereas when you sit a kid down in front of something like Applesoft BASIC or I guess a Ruby or Python interpreter, a Lisp or Node REPL, whatever - the implicit statement is instead along the lines of "Here is a thing that does things. Find your own level." And there's something intensely liberating about that. It's a vote of confidence, and that counts for a lot to a kid just like it counts for a lot to anyone - perhaps quite a bit more.

And by all means feel free to tell your son that some random goober on Hacker News wished him a happy birthday!
This article's a little dated. Just for the record, work on the Hurd continues: https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/
This will change with the availability of Graal as a library in OpenJDK 9.
> Since a significant number of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies are not American

Those foreign companies sell to Americans using American IP law.

> I find this statement dubious to begin with. And since pharma companies spend more on marketing than they spend on R&D

This is irrelevant. You can't draw any conclusions from the fact that I spend more on taxes than on housing.

> Companies in those countries still make a profit, just less than here.

Not everyone can be the marginal customer.
well answered!
Guys lets patent putting this on golf balls!
Not useless. Just less useful.

It pushes the capacity for your adversary to operate into (slightly) slimmer confines, which is a marginal improvement.

Otherwise, your adversary can behave in an unrestrained manner. No?