skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand you might find this cliche cute, but it's actually not even cute.

Gay men challenge what it means to be a "man", that's what can make people uncomfortable.
I have a soft spot for Zaurus as it was my first "smartphone". Compared to the smartphones of today, the UI was horrible, X11 used through a stylus with applications that were barely any different from desktop apps. However you could compile Linux programs [small ones, at least] and run them on your phone!
> I have much respect for Virgil, but I also think Tor is in need of a rebrand at home.

Thanks! I love you too.

> These are things that economic resources that have to answer to Western political authorities will run from, and if the project needs funding, it needs to have a feel-good message that supporters can parrot to politicians and others that actually have power.

This is a totally reasonable response. I would be delighted if Tor Project could make a pronouncement like this.

As a reply, I saw no indication they were having trouble appeasing western authorities---e.g., they had no trouble getting DARPA money for the big MEMEX project. They are voluntarily cutting themselves off from defense because they dislike the politics of the funders. Instead, they are piloting themselves into a position where they are forced to take money from human-rights funders just to stay afloat. And becoming "Human Rights Watch for Nerds", makes Tor work vastly more difficult in the Asia Pacific.

I agree with you that Tor could use a rebrand, but this is a poor choice of one.
This is a great example of what I had in mind when I asked the question. I used Emacs while exploring Lisp, and while I wouldn't claim proficiency, I have an appreciation for it's power.
Go and Node's problem is the dependency hell. Caddy, a simple HTTP 2 webserver, pulled N packages to build. There are Node packages depending on trivial things (remember left-pad?). Too much modularity and relying on others' work sucks. Go's problem is solved by static linking, and Node's by installing all the required libraries in the node_modules directory.
You really don't see how indirect insinuation can be very damaging? Here is like an ultimate example:

"We have asked John Doe not to attend the party as we have heard word that many parents would not be comfortable having him around their children".

Claims nothing, insinuates obvious reputation destroying behavior.

The insinuation made in the actual example with Douglas Crawford isn't exactly this clear cut, but it is still very damaging while lacking documented basis in reality.
Take my money.
Could we get a less descriptive title? Not clicking on clickbaits.
How is this different from interactive rebases?
I concede that this is the sort of material that would probably garner coverage on TV news channels. Frankly, I am unsure whether that is a good thing or not. However, I find it quite fascinating.

I am far removed from what is happening in the 2016 USA presidential elections. As someone that has seen first-hand the politics of fear/hate/identity/class that has come to characterize this year’s campaigns, I can relate to some of the rhetoric (to mean that I have heard similar tangents, although in a more unsavory, vitriolic, and outright murderous tone). But that really is not the point behind my submission of this story.

There is a clear disdain among the HN folk regarding the submission of political stories due to the inherent risk of attracting trolls and eliciting comment wars- this is supposed to be a civil community and, in my experience, this continues to be the case. Indeed, as a young unlearned African man with a libertarian streak- and one that has previously encountered this association between racial and libertarian rhetoric, implicit and otherwise- I felt that this may be the best community to have this sort of conversation. Does the libertarian movement still provide refuge to the racialized aspirations of the white supremacists and the alt-right? Are there points of convergence? Is the marriage between the iconic libertarian Peter Thiel and the divisive Donald Trump emblematic of this convergence?

I am in the formative stages of forming my own political identity and a conversation along this line can benefit me greatly (and HN has, perhaps, some of the most qualified people to weigh in on the matter). In fact, a lot of my posts mirror my own developmental process as an individual, an aspiring software programmer and entrepreneur, and an active member of my local civic community (also, I love gathering information and I reckon that HN conversations are the bee’s knees).

No malice was intended by submitting this post (as a long-time lurker here, I deeply respect HN’s sense of community), but I totally understand if that is how the submission came across.
Not sure this is true, although it appears to be the dominant perception. Programming skills bear a closer resemblance to language learning or critical thinking for many practical applications. Perhaps NASA engineers, kernel gods and lovers of binary will remain in the minority, but I wouldn't be surprised to see scripting in languages like Swift and Python become a more ubiquitous skill in the next 10 years. Even writing basic iOS apps is not beyond the range of someone with a creative writing degree.
I have learned not to jump to conclusions in these stories, even when I want to back my ideological "team". (I'm not a fan of SJWs, but many of the anti-SJWs make up for it by being even worse).

The Nodevember statement seems reasonable on its face:

"[...] his presence would make some speakers uncomfortable to the point where they refused to attend or speak.

We reacted to this feedback. Nothing else. Any other speculation around his past behavior was not taken into account.

This conference was started by a group of friends to gather around the love of a shared language and community.

We are in over our heads. The conference has grown to something we never anticipated. We aren't professional organizers or PR people. We are still learning, and will make mistakes. We don't do this as a full time job. We do this because we love the community."

OK, they're just a group of friends doing their thing, and it's their club, their rules.

On the other hand: they're charging $350 a ticket, so can hardly be complete amateurs. It sounds like they're trying to downplay any political angle, when excluding such a speaker would inevitably be seen as a political move in the current climate.

(Conference for an extremely hip, progressive community (Node) excludes old-school elitist greybeard. Only reasons cited publicly are mildly condescending remarks in Crawford's public talks and unelaborated backchannel complaints).

So, though I don't know enough and so withhold firm judgement, it does appear that the Nodevember organisers thought they could deliver a public slap to Crockford by ostracising him, proving some political point, and are now downplaying their own behaviour to avoid the PR backlash.

Either way, it is their club, their rules. The real solution to this is for those closer to Crockford's philosophy of life to assert their right to free association, and host an elitist conference for Real Programmers where noobs are flamed, idiocy is excluded, truth and justice reigns supreme, etc.

Edit: I've just seen this https://twitter.com/nexxylove/status/771503661956501504 which makes it look as though the Nodevember organisers were bullied into excluding Crockford to deflect a PR s...storm about their insufficiently diverse keynote speakers.
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This talk of free college in this election has been really upsetting to me. It's a huge waste of money and time for millions of more kids to get worthless college degrees. Nobody benefits but the professors and administrators of universities. And degree inflation creates a perverse situation for the sane people who don't want to spend four years of their life getting a college degree to be an administrative assistant.

College shouldn't be the default. It should be an option society encourages only for the very few fields that require four years of dedicated academic study.
I think you, in turn, are mistaking the legal concept for the general principle. We have the legal right to be presumed innocent – true. However, most people would additionally advance the principle that we, outside legal proceedings, ought to expect hard evidence to accompany allegations of wrongdoing.
Ask HN: Unix system version information
I am writing cross-platform shell scripts, and seeking advice on how to print the current unix system version information on BSD, Linux, macOS, etc.

Here's what I have so far: https://github.com/SixArm/unix-system-version-information

Can any HN system administrators suggest improvements or additions? Much appreciated!
I most of the cases there is no need for I part.

What most people actually need is local in house system. They do not need leaches that suck on their data and they do not need products that stop to work in few years because company producing them and providing a "service" looses the interest.
How about also that the arts are important to a rich and diverse culture?
Do you have any actual examples of people complaining that they were misled and would have voted differently if this particular issue (NHS) had been clarified for them?

Personally I have not seen any examples. I've just seen sore losers on the Remain side latching onto this one vague campaign poster and declaring that the people (other people, obviously) were fooled and the result is therefore, in some way, illegitimate.

It's quite possible that the entire referendum campaign period was basically irrelevant. People have been discussing and forming opinions about EU membership for years. It's not like evaluating a new electoral candidate.
Definitely true, but the important point is that's a measurable effect, and one that can be weighed against the people being harmed by the effects of alcohol consumption under the status quo. At the moment, there are already some alcohol taxes, but relatively limited black market consumption. And odds are that you can push the taxes somewhat higher before black market consumption starts to negate the benefits.
Yeah, I don't know about that. I don't think it's possible to consistently apply good judgement about subjective and polarising issues in highly visible contexts without excessive costs.

Judgement is often possible in business because good judgement and self interest are frequently closely aligned. It is also often possible in government, because there are laws and rules in place that try to ensure an impartial and fair process.

On the other hand, projects with high visibility such as conferences are very much exposed to mob justice fuelled by social media and I don't know if it's possible at all to apply consistently fair and good judgement in a context like that. Really the only example I can think of is dang's and sctb's excellent work here on HN and quite frankly I don't know if that model would work anywhere else.
Why wouldn't they want a relay? They are not 'turning a blind eye'. Every byte in and out is analysed, and the characteristics of every session gathered.
It's between 6-9g. Two tbsp of peanut butter is 3g, then 3-6g for the bread.

Now add a tbsp of jelly and it goes up 10g.

So you are talking 19g for a pb&j.
I've had people do this sort of gaslighting to me before in discussions of a technical nature. Implying my disagreement with them was somehow emotional. Which is particularly annoying in online discussions where emotion can be inferred or not at the readers discretion.
That's a perfectly fine response, and it's completely logical.

However, Tor self-righteously insists it is improving human rights, especially for improving human rights outside the west.
Perhaps you have some enlightening refutation? Tactical deflection is not an argument its simply intellectual cowardice.
I do not understand how banning people due to some unproved, anonym accusations will result in a more inclusive society. Actually it sounds like a surefire way to achieve the antipode.
I can imagine this being just as—or more—reassuring than examining visual dashboards. Hearing the "hum" of your distributed system throughout the day, getting used to it, and knowing that everything is working okay when it sounds "normal" is pretty sweet!
What i am trying to say, sure people think what they ask for is most important thing to do, but eng has their own thoughts, and they can / and should be able to prioritize. You should not commit to your priorities months in advance. If you think something is not important, you push back. If it's important and you agree, you do it. If some new project comes in, you reprioritize your own stuff - it might just take a day or two to implement and could prove to be of big impact.

Manager will ask the eng what he think of the project, and then there will be discussions, meetings, requirements, formal processes, which will not only kill the mood, but also will slow down the projects significantly.
I think you mean formally charged
Are you talking about just mapping a file into memory? Because there are only two function calls you need to do something like that in POSIX:

open(), and then mmap().

If you're talking about POSIX shared memory, you can do that with shm_open(). The only thing you have to do is have both processes use the same name for the shared memory area. Additionally, you can use POSIX named semaphores as a synchronization primitive.

It's pretty easy to wrap these functions up in a C++ class. You could conceivably share an entire C++ class between two processes using these primitives.
Because human beings write Python code and attend Python conferences.
Star Trek:TNG did an episode that is basically this[0][1].

[0] - http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Chase_(episode)

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chase_(Star_Trek:_The_Next...
Your argument here is that it's harder to moderate a small, in-real-life, private, subject-focussed event than it is to moderate one of the Internet's most popular open- to- all- comers technical message boards?
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Correctly used just means not using stupid settings like 96 kbps MP3. Apple's standard of 256 kbps AAC is correct in all cases.
pastebin of a nodevember slack channel discussing the incident:

http://pastebin.com/3mQc7DfG

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/50u77r/douglas_...
Wrong. You trust yourself too much. A vibrant, well-documented and tested framework will likely be better than your own one-off code

If you really believe what you say, why are you using Go (or Java, or Rust or whatever) at all? Someone else wrote it...
It would be nice to include installation instructions.
"What they produce can be produced by Mercedes, BMW, Toyota, Nissan. Anybody in the world can make it eventually, at much lower cost and probably much more efficiently,"

That's exactly what some experts have been saying about Apple for decades. In reality, Tesla and Apple are selling continued innovation, and creating the innovation by marrying significant leaps in hardware (such as batteries and chips) and software (such as AI and machine learning).
You could have inherited $1m five years ago, though.
Tor operators are the main ones at increased risk. But the key point that there's no good reason for any of them to be at increased risk at all.
You've invented a strawman. I am aware free speech has consequences. I am not against criticizing a person publicly, if the argument lies in that realm.

My point is that the SJW's often escalate a discussion from the realm of words to the realm of actions. It's an extremely passive aggressive style where the implicit threat is "if you don't tow the party line, we will go out of our way to create bad consequences for you". As an example of that happening, well, look right here. Douglas Crockford did not apparently do anything, but his views were deemed "problematic" by someone, and because of this he is now suffering in the actual real world.

Personally, I think that's fucked up and I don't abide by that behavior. I view people that act in such a way as hypocritical cowards.
Ah, the trick must be to use an incognito window.

Thanks.
Oddly... I have grown rather weary of them. I have yet to get a surprise recommendation that I cared for. At best, I have seen people surprised that some good recommendations came out of a system.

Which usually just leads to curation systems being key. And they work well, until they are gamed. And they will be gamed.
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Good thing I have a floppy drive
How does anyone know that this happens because of flagging? What if the moderator(s) did it? Does HN have a moderation log at all?
Where does the speed advantage come from? Is it because LinkedBlockingQueue doesn't spin-wait before giving up and rescheduling the consumer's thread?
No, I mean formally accused. See mickronome's comment below.
I live with my elderly father. For some reason Facebook and Amazon think I am a geriatric.
Pretty cool if there were a SETI equivalent for this on our own DNA.
If your standard for private individuals censuring someone is unimpeachable truth of wrongdoing, there is pretty much no way for that standard to be met. Private individuals can't conduct criminal investigations, compel testimony, or do any of the things that make it possible for courts to do their jobs. (And in the case of sexual assault, courts are terrible at punishing the guilty.)

Innocent until proven guilty is a thing because the cost of a wrong criminal conviction are absolutely devastating to an innocent person.

In a civil situation, the cost of not censuring a sexual predator is absolutely devastating for the people hurt by them. The converse cost of a wrong censure are much lower then they are in the criminal case.

The fact of the matter is, given how rare rape accusations are, if one person accuses another of rape, you can think of it as a tossup. If ten people accuse one person of rape, odds are much better then 50/50 that they are a rapist.

50/50 odds shouldn't put someone in jail, but I sure as hell wouldn't want to ever see that person as part of my community. The personal cost of this to them is nothing, compared to, say, a felony and a decade in state prison.
Xeon Phi isn't an answer to ARM, Intel has the Xeon SOC which is directly competitive with ARM and it's pretty damn good.

http://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/processors/xeon/xeo...

No 64 cores, but 16 X86 Xeon Cores @ 1.3ghz with HyperThreading will give pretty much any high end ARM SOC a run for their money, a TDP of 45W also doesn't hurt ;)

Intel has made a bet that by the time ARM would get their performance to x86 levels Intel would get their power consumption to ARM SOC levels and Intel seem to have been correct on that bet.

The Xeon Phi is also pretty interesting Knight's Landing and onwards provides pretty good performance for deep-learning and other applications that companies like NVIDIA were swinging at, it's still not on the same performance level as NVIDIA's top tier of compute products but it's close and the x86 compatibility is likely to have a sufficient advantage in certain scenarios to make the Xeon Phi really competitive.
NVIDIA was planning on having x86 compatibility for it's HPC parts however both AMD and Intel killed that dream in court.
To people on Hacker News, art is just "content".
I missed the part in the article where it describes how the change in branding will result in someone's death?
I am LGBT myself, and I think that, unfortunately, you are probably correct.

This is unfortunately something almost everyone is guilty of (LGBT activists included). Once you politicise an issue, people begin to twist the facts, misrepresent data and select evidence that is perceived as supporting their own view point, while tossing aside evidence that contradicts it. Everyone wants "the science" to come out in their favor.
I don't disagree with the grandparent: there are people who would do it, but I think for engineers right now the incentives are aligned against it.

And I agree with you, for employers it's definitely in their interests, they just need to get over the inertia of "bums in seats means work is getting done".
ok, please give me a fucking suggestion that isn't offensive, you ninny poo baby
TL;DR: If I understood it correctly, it describes performance differences on how using one thread for doing JNI to LevelDB request serialization and IPC communication between other threads, using different IPC mechanisms.

I would like to see where the time is spent, e.g. if pipe communication is slow because of small requests, because how serialization is implemented (e.g. time on spin locks and mutexes), etc.
Are people drinking beer at the drop zone before they jump? Because that, by itself would seem like a huge red flag about the culture of safety in the sport.

Or if you just mean after the fact, hanging out at the end of the day, then never mind.
I think this: "I don't have a specific job title, as I wear several hats." is the crux of the problem.

Imagine a software product labeled "business software" because it's capable of running your whole business. SalesForce could do that, right? It's a database with profiles of the people critical to your business, document storage and workflows that accurately describe the processes that the business uses to get work done. Surely "business software" is a category with more potential customers, literally all businesses, than sales teams needing CRM software. So why does SalesForce verticalize in this way? Because no one is on the market for "business software" but lots of people are in the market, right here and now, to have a specific problem solved.

People don't pay undefined generalists. You need to pick a single thing that you do best, double down on that and convey a value proposition within that vertical.
It's common for people to have too much trust in technical solutions, even when the solution includes stark warnings on its download page. It's even worse with VPNs and 'secure' email providers.

Tor can still be useful as a building block of the next thing, but people should start demanding something better than Tor.
>For some reason Facebook and Amazon think I am a geriatric.

Heh. Me too. I suffer from joint/ligament issues and buy supplements for those.Now, Amazon thinks I am a geriatric and recommends me 'helping hand' sticks and incontinence products :\

Reminds me o this tweet

https://twitter.com/kibblesmith/status/724817086309142529

Amazon is a $250 billion dollar company that reacts to you buying a vacuum by going THIS GUY LOVES BUYING VACUUMS HERE ARE SOME MORE VACUUMS
Should be more appropriately titled "What is your phone telling the next rental car driver"
Can you run your own server to save having try find one; should reduce the lag on one side too.
So, of the list of current platforms:

alpha Digital Alpha-based systems
amd64 AMD64-based systems
armv7 ARM-based devices, such as BeagleBone, BeagleBoard, PandaBoard ES, Cubox-i, SABRE Lite, Nitrogen6x and Wandboard
hppa Hewlett-Packard Precision Architecture (PA-RISC) systems
i386 Standard PC and clones based on the Intel i386 architecture and compatible processors
landisk IO-DATA Landisk systems (such as USL-5P) based on the SH4 cpu
loongson Loongson 2E- and 2F-based systems, such as the Lemote Fuloong and Yeeloong, Gdium Liberty, etc.
luna88k Omron LUNA-88K and LUNA-88K2 workstations
macppc Apple New World PowerPC-based machines, from the iMac onwards
octeon Cavium Octeon-based MIPS64 systems
sgi SGI MIPS-based workstations
socppc Freescale PowerPC SoC-based machines
sparc64 Sun UltraSPARC and Fujitsu SPARC64 systems

There still seem to be a few that aren't supported by LLVM