skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But, I'll need something else to replace it with. Even if we ignore the network effect, it will be owned by some other corporation whose policies I'll not agree with. A govt owned will be worse for simple reasons. Do we have truly free system which is open, easy to use and still safe enough to let a 13 year old to use it.
The tradeoff at the center of the question whether to build a Native or Web App
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How dare HN spread this kind of speed-shaming hate slander! ;)

We need to see the bloaty-positive alternative, not all websites have to be Google models.
We had a decentralized social network called the web (or I suppose blogs if you want to think of it at a more granular level). Facebook won.
You must have missed that class, because his name is Reagan. :)
How? Every time I scroll down to click one of the links the website scrolls my browser back up and loads a new article below the one I was reading. I don't want to read more articles, I want to click the links at the bottom of the website!!!

I was not asking if the links work, they probably do, I am asking how do I "click them" if the website keeps moving the webview back up when I scroll to the bottom?
It'd be pretty cool for us to discover that there are tiny virtual humans in that simulation, complete with consciousness, contemplating their own existence.
There's no need to jump straight to closing your account. There's a wide range of escalating actions you can take when companies dissatisfy you. Going straight to firing a company every time there's a problem doesn't really help.

Facebook absolutely cares how you feel when you use their service, because certain feelings are associated with less engagement (and thus less revenue) or people quitting the service. Expressing your dissatisfaction to them is a way to let them know that you're moving in that direction.
Sure as hell not even close to that famous photo.
> What they apparently want is for anyone in Seattle to either have a high salary or to live in a tent city with the rest of the homeless.

That seems like a bit of a false dichotomy. Plus, I think it's a bit disingenuous to imply there's this big, nefarious "they". It seems more realistic (to me, at least) to view NIMBYers as a bunch of individual homeowners concerned about the value of what's likely their single biggest investment.

I also have a sneaking suspicion that the post you're referencing the "tent city" thing from was tongue-in-cheek. That's entirely personal speculation, however.
Not OP, but anecdotally, this happens a lot outside the US. The most recent airline to make me weigh my carry on was Qantas, but I don't think it has ever been required of me within the US.
That seems light for most pages...
Well, solidly 95% of Quebec's electricity is from hydro-electric. It still keeps other types of power plants online for research purposes.
Border line is the existence of service contract. If I allow anyone write anything legal on the wall of my house (the service I offer), I cannot restrict "anyone" to "white male", "anything legal" to "something I'll decide later what" etc.
They were believed to be sub-species and so I doubt zoos mixed and matched.

The real outcome seems to be that the species is now 1/4 its previous size. Where there was once one endangered species, now stand four very endangered species.

Similar and more dramatic story with mantas: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080731-new-r...
It is kind of scary to see how countries are powerless when it comes to Facebook. I know that this article and the whole discussion here is not about that but I get a eery feeling reading about it.
Somebody proposed to use a GUI. That doesn't solve the usability issues of Git. There's this triangle of what the user tries to do, what the commands and options are called and what they actually do. None of them really align, though with some careful use you can actually make Git do what you want - eventually.

I would like to understand what's the yearly damage of such an important tool being so difficult to use. People committing the wrong stuff, unmergeable messes, people not being able to correct their mistakes, there must be thousands of Git rookies fucking up their Git repo or throwing away their work just as I am writing this.

What would be the cost? Millions of Dollars? Perhaps even billions?

It's about as bad as 0 being a legit value for a regular pointer.
IMHO the worst form of private debt in our present economy is personal private debt. We are in a severely demand constrained economy, and personal private debt is really what's weighing the economy down and soaking up consumer demand. Also unlike corporations individuals cannot do debt/equity swaps or raise money by issuing shares in themselves, so personal private debt is harder to renegotiate or reorganize into a more manageable form.

Corporate private debt is maybe the next worst, but as I said corporations have many more tools for dealing with it especially if they are otherwise healthy. There's a huge market out there for equity in healthy and especially growing companies.

I have heard the interesting view that government debt and private debt are not even the same thing.

When you think about it: the government prints its own money (or authorizes the entity that does, e.g. the Fed). How can you truly owe a debt in your own sovereign (fiat) currency? How is debt still a meaningful concept there?

It seems to me (and IANAE) that government debt is more like equity in the nation. Owning a bond is like owning stock in the USA, but with the caveat that you are forced to resell this stock at its maturity date. Maybe something closer to a weird kind of convertible note.
(Disclosure: I'm the CEO co-founder of Flynn)

Heroku is a great product and it going down permanently would be a huge loss to the community.

However there are a number of open source alternatives with very similar user experiences that you can run yourself in a variety of environments including:

https://flynn.io/
https://github.com/dokku/dokku
http://deis.io/
https://www.openshift.com/
How would you formalize it without it being exploitable?

And what about other things, how about a father who killed the man who raped his daughter? Or a woman who hired some one to kill her abusive partner? How would you estimate damage? it's easy to do with itemised goods but how do you estimate the damage of being abused, raped, how do you put a value on someone's life?

These are things we haven't even managed to fully grasp and defined yet, and you want us to define that to a computer?
How are you going to form a legal argument that can lead to a new precedent to a computer?
One thing I've found extremely difficult to handle is the Zookeeper cluster model of containers. Where when a thing dies, a thing has to come back and be able to referred to as "zookeeper-1" forever. The way to do this currently is to use a service in front of a replication controller with one pod. This feels wrong all over. Supposedly they have a thing called Pet Sets [1] coming to solve this, but it's been in the works for an eternity. Also we've started to outgrow the load balancing simplicity that the k8 load balancer gives you, and I have not seen a nice migration path to something like HAProxy in Kubernetes. All that said, we like kubernetes a lot.

[1] To distinguish from cattle. If you have a red blue and green goldfish, and your red goldfish dies, you can replace with another red fish and not really notice, but if it's purple, the others won't play with it.
> roofs of warehouses

And parking lots.
We can mitigate them to some extent with awareness and training.

With research seeming to show subconscious biases remarkably difficult to remove, I sincerely doubt they can be eliminated. We haven't managed it in society and the workplace despite significant legislative effort.
Asking the government to protect freedom of speech is the exact opposite of a threat to free expression. It's analogous to congress passing a law saying that newspapers cannot edit letters to the editor. Some newspapers might complain about having to publish things they find disagreeable, but nobody is being censored anymore.
achieve much the same in chrome with:
data:text/html, <html contenteditable>
That's true, mine was an oversimplification and the numbers would require more analysis; it would be a worthwhile analysis nonetheless, IMO.
Yeah, really. Different books, perhaps, or you had a teacher that made sure to teach it. I remember watching stuff from the first Iraq war in school, but basically everything between WWII/Korea and whatever they said were current events was basically rushed and glossed over.
The setup to get k8s running isn't great, but once it's running and you understand it's config files it makes things so much easier. We're getting ready to deploy k8s at work soon and begin moving more there as we can.

From what I understand, and is completely not in the article, Mesos is designed for scale while most start-ups (and even established companies) can't afford or justify. K8s is simpler but still robust. Better than just fleet or compose and clearly still better than swarm (based on posts read here on hn).
IFA 2016: Examining the Malaise of Bargain Basement Virtual Reality
I like the intention, but a few thoughts:
- If you're dead, to whom have you legally clarified copyright should go? No one but that person can enforce the GPL, because the foundation of enforcement is that it's otherwise copyright violation.
- IIUC, new releases don't reset the date of old releases, so old releases become fair game after a few years. The reason that doesn't help people is that most of the value is in what you're doing right this very minute and your ability to support that today. That is why companies can make money from existing licenses. They're paying your for support, paying you to develop new features that matter to them, etc. But at the same time they can accept collaboration and contributions from even competitors right now. I think you're losing most of the benefits of open-source for making money despite the time window.
I spend a good majority of my time in non-downtown seattle. I don't have a car, and can get by just fine.
Hiring in gov't is hard. We've had to pause and refactor our hiring process several times. Long delays are just as frustrating to us, trust me. It's getting better all the time though.
How about <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome>?
Well yeah of course this is one way of thinking, in that if you could use the early times to do something else meaningful then why not, instead of wasting all of the time on that one single thing which might not be improved that much by all the additional time. That's true to an extent. A good example I can think of is the exam preparation for university entrance exams in China. It's a common practice by high schools to dedicate all three years to it at the expense of other useful developmental activities for students, which is an absolute waste. Just at most one year is totally enough, as proven by some alternative high schools.

However, I'd still argue that the problem of most people/individuals (especially as contrasted to huge organizations with loads of formal methodologies) is still delaying/procrastinating too much instead of too little. Too much pressure sucks, so is a rushed product/result compared with a carefully prepared one. So no, unless you really know very clearly what you're doing and how your plan will work out, which 99% of people have no clue about, start as early as possible, much earlier than your estimate, otherwise you'll definitely regret it. Though I acknowledge that this guy mostly talks about management methods, not productivity for individual endeavors.
If that were true then solar panels really aren't that cheap. Having to run your mines inefficiently should be counted as a cost when comparing the two. Doesn't mean that solar panels isn't still the best thing, of course, just that his assertion that they're super cheap for the power companies is false.
Interesting perspective.

Some basic math on the author's numbers also reveal that the laws have compelling impacts on his bottom line for rental income - mainly in the downward direction.

Plus, looking at the floorplan of the proposed apartment: what on earth are people in one of these microhousing blocks going to do if there's a fire?!
That just makes things worse. Uneducated, inexperienced people are judging what can and can't be posted on Facebook. Well, that's just dandy.
And theft. I've heard of items being removed from luggage after you check. A laptop is probably too tempting.
AFAIK pretty much all Intel CPUs do have a thermal cutoff, and I expect AMDs do as well.

Unfortunately, it's close to 100 degrees. It's only there to prevent damage to the CPU, not the rest of the system (or your back). It also isn't guaranteed to shut down the laptop, just the CPU.

So it really depends on how well the motherboard manufacturer did their job.
If you take out the sheeple statement, then he has a strong point. Look at any graph of the human population or energy use and you'll see the former skyrocketing in the last 300 years and the latter rising even faster than that.

This is unsustainable. But on an individual human level, we don't want to sacrifice the lifestyle we have. And many religious people will not use birth control.

If this was a graph of any asset in a market, would you take a long or short position?

Habitats are being destroyed through everything from logging to overfishing to melting ice. This is a serious planet-wide risk. Already the number of species gone extinct is larger than in the previous million years combined, I believe.
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> From what I understand, the concept of a "legally binding promise" is even more fuzzy across the jurisditions than that of a "simple" copyleft license.

Couldn't you work around this by granting usage rights now that you're only allowed to exercise in three years?

Contracts with specified durations are quite common, including those whose start date is in the future (like, renting a booth or a flat for a specific duration).
I'm 30, we definitely did. However, (I assume) both our parents were draft-age at the time of Vietnam. We also went to school during a time prior to the overly structured curriculum. Part of it may simply have been that the curriculum was generationally influenced.
Parsing Our #olympics Fever with the Cloud Natural Language API and BigQuery
Yes, I commented on that. However history is not predictive of future events. In this case, there are no hostile neighbours and the empire does not rely on long term invasions and occupations. Instead it relies on economic and financial dominance. With the massive brain drain going towards the US having no signs of slowing down, I don't think that's gonna end soon. Additionally there hasn't been such a complete military domination ever.

But what is most important is that (most of) the nations are content with this situation. The complete hegemony will probably end soon-ish but the US will probably be the leader for the foreseeable future.
Make judges reconfirm sentences 14 days after the initial sentencing.
1) Interesting. So you unequivocally support people's rights to say anything they want in the public square? Racial or homophobic slurs are okay, anti-climate change rhetoric, all of it? You may very well be consistent in this way, but I think that most people have something they're uncomfortable with other people saying, and while they wouldn't legislate against it, they'd certainly vote with their wallet or attention.

2) Functionally, this seems like a distinction without a difference. If you disagree, please elaborate as I'd like to understand more.

3) In other words, swearing is a moral issue, and your moral code is superior?

For what it's worth, I agree with you to a certain extent - people need to learn to not be offended at the slightest thing. Thick skins are good, because controlling how you react to the world around you is generally way better than trying to control the world around you. And you'll hopefully note that I never said that the site should be banned for profanity or something like that - just that I prefer not to visit such a site.

I don't think this is a zero-sum game. If I know that someone might be offended by something I say, I can make the choice to modify my rhetoric to accommodate them, or keep my speech the same because I believe that offending someone else is worth what I have to say. How that plays out practically will be different in different situations.
Nah. WW1 happened because nobody in charge had any clue how effective their new guns were. WW2 was payback for hurt pride from WW1.

And the cold war peace have not been that much different from the colonial times.
Like git, we need Linus to come up with totally mindbogglingly simple. I can't tell you how many years we wasted working with stupid/bloated/useless source control systems until git came along.
I rather hopes she keeps putting it back up again. Then they can suspend her.
Stockholm Syndrome?
Sustaining Digital Certificate Security (2015)
Got a source on that?

https://www.craigslist.org/about/FHA#roommates

Under federal Fair Housing law, the prohibition on discriminatory advertisements applies to all situations except the following:

Shared Housing Exemption -- If you are advertising a shared housing unit, in which tenants will be sharing a bathroom, kitchen, or other common area, you may express a preference based upon sex only.
Private Club and Religious Exemptions -- A religious community or private club whose membership is not restricted based upon race, color, or national origin may restrict tenancy only to its members in a property that it owns, and may advertise to that effect.
Housing for Older Persons Exemption -- As discussed below, certain complexes for elderly persons are exempt from prohibitions on familial status discrimination, including the prohibitions on discriminatory advertising.
> You can delete it there are what only 5 datacenters...finding your data and cleansing it should not be too hard just alittle repetative ;)

I don't know if your comment was tongue-in-cheek, so here goes. Actually, it's not about the number of data centers Facebook has, but the number of CDNs and edge caches around the world and how FB manages those, including third party companies (like Akamai) that provide this service for Facebook. Plus, Facebook has had a lot of trouble, in a very shameful and absolutely incompetent kind of way, in removing the visibility of photos that were "deleted" by users. See this saga spanning from 2009 through 2012 as reported by Ars. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

> But the more effective way to make Facebook listen is to hit them in the pocketbook. Keep your account use an ad-blocker if enough people did that long enough…

Facebook is already trying to push more users to use its mobile and desktop apps so it can have more control over the content (read as "ads") shown and collect more information that's not easily wipeable by end users (like cookies, cache, etc.). We will see a time in the coming years when there won't be a browser interface for the platform, and the cat and mouse game between ads that look like content and ad blockers (to block FB ads that look like content) will continue on. Depending on the platform, people may start needing content blockers on their routers (or an internal proxy server) to deal with this.

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/business/2009/07/are-those-photos-rea... (July 2009)

[2]: http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/10/facebook-may-be-maki... (October 2010)

[3]: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/02/nearly-3-years-later... (February 2012)
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12460650 and marked it off-topic.
> "We use X technique because it looks good."

Replaces "looks good" with a more generic "gets the right answer" and you'll notice that phrase repeated on any simulation context where computers are not powerful yet to work from first principles.

If you want a safe place to look, look at chemistry. They have simulations that vary in complexity by a huge number of orders of magnitude. You'll see those non-natural techniques that "look good" get progressively applied as the simulation gets slower and slower. It works really well, but once computers are fast enough, everybody just throws them by the window.
I definitely see the speed issues with JIRA. Self hosted was a better solution than running on the Atlassian Cloud, oddly enough, but I definitely can relate to 2-3 seconds for actions that take milliseconds using just Github Issues.
> Unless she meant algorithmically. I could see that being a problem.

"The posts would have been reported by a user to Facebook’s community standards team, who would then have made the decision to remove them, rather than being removed automatically by algorithm."
"So you're saying that after being caught, he should have sent to the victim of his scam a picture of himself putting live cats in a blender? Just to avoid being seen like somebody that tries to look human, you know."

Why would you even bother making this post? I can't imagine there is even like .0000001% of your being that believes that this is remotely close to what the person you're responding to thinks, so what exactly is this meant to accomplish? "haha, look at me mocking a point you never came close to making..."?
O HAI. You think Jira is bad? Let me introduce you to VersionOne.
More like

(1) Continued rattling and blackmail for international aid

(2) Eventually becoming a nuclear state that nobody wants to touch cementing itself in perpetuity
Rather than dig through the link you just cited, I'll quote the relevant bit:

Under federal Fair Housing law, the prohibition on discriminatory advertisements applies to all situations except the following:

Shared Housing Exemption -- If you are advertising a shared housing unit, in which tenants will be sharing a bathroom, kitchen, or other common area, you may express a preference based upon sex only.
Private Club and Religious Exemptions -- A religious community or private club whose membership is not restricted based upon race, color, or national origin may restrict tenancy only to its members in a property that it owns, and may advertise to that effect.
Housing for Older Persons Exemption -- As discussed below, certain complexes for elderly persons are exempt from prohibitions on familial status discrimination, including the prohibitions on discriminatory advertising.
I never said it was a legitimate threat (in fact, I called it idiotic), just saying that no one was ever worried about poison. You could say they should be worried about poison in the sense that poison attacks seem much easier and much more likely to be effective than explosive attacks, but then again they should be worried about nothing, since terrorism is so rare that it's not worth nearly the amount of attention it gets.
We have gone 71 years without wars between great powers. While I am not a walking encyclopedia of wars, that is to my knowledge without precedent in the last millenium. Certainly, as far as I can reliably trace great powers (to the Thirty Years' War), it's the longest gap, the second-longest being between the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878 and World War I (36 years), and the third-longest being the gap between Russo-Turkish war of 1828-1829 and the Crimean War of 1853-1856 (24 years). That change, largely precipitated by MAD, is nothing to sniff at.
If you are ever near Fargo, ND, the Red River Zoo[1] has 3 that you can come see in person! :-)

[1] http://redriverzoo.org/animals/pallas-cat/
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I sometimes think they reject the idea that the whole point of existence is human flourishing and happiness.

Yes, many people reject this idea. As a matter of fact, this is the first time I've ever heard anyone express this idea.