skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think if someone gets mad or ignores someone because they claim that the other person is bikeshedding based on a single comment or suggestion, that's most likely a misuse of the term bikeshedding.

Bikeshedding is when an entire discussion gets bogged down or derailed by people who would rather talk about something that's not super relevant, than say nothing and let other people talk about a topic that's important but they personally have no expertise in. They would rather sidetrack a conversation so that they could be more involved, than sit back and let other people talk about the original topic.

This makes sense for social situations (where what you're talking about is usually far less important than keeping everyone engaged), but makes no sense for situations where the communication really is about solving problems. You can really see this tension on more developer-focused open source mailing lists, where often a small number of people are working really hard on evolving some critical software, but their discussions get drowned out or derailed by precocious teenagers/overconfident CS undergrads/bored retirees who are just killing time on the list as a hobby, and who expend lots of energy trying to get everyone to talk about how terrible the variable naming convention is (or the source file directory structure, or source file naming conventions, or how much they hate this or that open source Internet celebrity person, or what's the deal with airplane food...)

I can totally imagine someone who would dismiss as bikeshedding any comment that they didn't feel like talking about, but that person would be misusing the concept of bikeshedding (and probably being super rude on top of that, as it's an accusation against the presumed bikeshedder as well as a dismissal of what they're saying).
Using encrypted communications and bitcoin you can make sure that all your physical interactions are with people you can trust. Dark Net Markets are an example.
Food on a train isn't a necessity of life either. You aren't going to starve to death if you can't eat your fish and broccoli on the train.

Constantly feeling the urge to vomit doesn't disturb your concentration, but music does?

I'm confused how you can't see the commonalities between the two examples. In both cases, a person does something which disrupts many people in a shared space.
So very true.

Sadly that is also true for San Francisco :(

And Roma conversation is just easy way to get that out. The same is true for feeling about Jews, Arabs, Indians, Asians, Mexicans and African-Americans. You just need to have enough of white crowd and enough of beer.

In short we are all bigots and racists by default. I accept that I'm bigot and I'm working hard not to be. And that is not easy.
Did I miss something? I don't see anywhere where it "debunks" anything.

It has some talk about traffic accidents when you travel outside of a cul-de-sac, but doesn't talk about the increased safety inside (especially for say children who play in the area), doesn't talk about crime rates, or any of the reasons people move into suburban areas. It throws in some off the cuff comment about being more connected, but doesn't say why that would be true in a more densely populated grid layout (as opposed to knowing your neighbor more in the the suburbs).

The article seems really poor actually, rushed to meet a deadline.
Apparently they still count data: URLs towards the limit.
https://monodraw.helftone.com ?
What makes you think they aren't to blame?
I'd much rather select the libraries and frameworks I want to use than some huge monolithic beast of a framework. Oh did I mention that all the libraries I select in the react echo system are just JS? Not some massively proprietary framework like angular? yeah.
Well, the basic design of Cockroach (assuming no bugs) prioritizes consistency over availability, which means that your data should be safe even if the network is misbehaves arbitrarily. So the really interesting question is, how much availability can you expect?

"Mesh network" implies that the network should reconfigure itself if individual nodes or links fail. That's fine, but it will necessarily take some time to detect a failed connection, which means temporary unavailability while the database performs a leader election. CockroachDB is sharded, so if any single shard loses a majority of its nodes or becomes too badly partitioned, that shard becomes unavailabile until the network is restored. There's a tradeoff here -- if you're willing to accept slower performance, you can increase the number of replicas per shard.

(It's also interesting to think about what happens under heavy load. If the Cockroach daemons are handling requests as fast as they can, then whatever daemon is responsible for the mesh routing decision-making could become starved for CPU, leading to high packet loss or intermittent network partitions.)
And you can write a simple and clean TODO app in any framework. You really need to see how it manages complexity to evaluate it properly.
Why is this getting downvoted? Please don't downvote if you disagree with this viewpoint. Rust has its reasons for is current form, which is OK! In general, the whole song and dance around GC is a hard problem.

I agree that the syntax is cryptic. I also think that programs are written by humans for human consumption (for accomplishing a certain task).

If you have a long term plan, you might want to factor in the talent pool, hardware cost, and tech debt. For your case, if that leads to Rust, so be it. Or if it means Python, that is fine too.
With Bitcoin there is no central agency that can simply confiscate money with a call. The government would have to torture you for the private key. But there is not even a way to see, let alone prove, how much money you own, as long as you made it anonymously.
This is accurate. Returns of VC portfolios follow a power law distribution. One or two companies generally return the entire value of the fund, and these tiny acquisitions are considered 'gravy'.
I lived in Europe for 14 years. I had several Roma friends, and I also had several family members (grandmother, father) robbed by Roma in the street. I don't see much benefit to letting those who want to leave Europe live in America. Many Roma populations are mired in multigenerational poverty, with all the vices that tend to accompany that condition.
Here's something: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TphNS93ebqU
I volunteer in my leisure time, but I'm not sure I'd call it leisurely.

It's not really a hard-and-fast rule, but I suspect in many cases that leisurely-but-productive activities have output that is only nominally productive, like, I don't know, amateur painting, dime novels, learning a couple chords on guitar.

Really economically valuable output usually seems to require concerted work, which (even if fun) most don't think of as leisurely.
Bike Balls :) LoL
Guanxi
This was very helpful to me thanks
Also US leapt ahead while most of Europe was recovering from a devastating war.
I think the point is how much does the behavior of one American tell us about how a second, separate American, will behave?

On an individual level, not a lot. So it would be lazy to bake-in prejudice based on a single bad experience.

At the same time, prejudices (pre-judgements) of particular populations is common sense and statistically logical. For example, from a random pool of 1000 Swedes and 1000 Saudis you could guess with a fair deal of confidence which group has the more enlightened view on women's rights.

An interesting topic that tends to result in well reasoned, respectful, and enlightened points of view. /s
Thanks Michael.
There's plenty of cashflow to negate the occasional fraud/chargeback. This is presumably how Venmo works.
I feel days of these rental portals are numbered - tech behind these are pre-Facebook days and they serve few million static pics!
Bye Google.
Have you ever thought that if all these reasonable people from Europe have the same opinion about the Roma, then maybe there's some reasonable facts that you are not aware of?
Looking at their wealth breakdown now:

$12.7B from Georgia-Pacific (a "pulp and paper company")

$10.6B from "Other Businesses"

$9.6B from Koch Pipeline (petroleum)

$4.5B from Flint Hills Resources (refining/chemicals/biofuels)

$3.8B from Molex ("connectors and interconnect components")

$3.5B from Koch Fertilizer

$3.0B from Invista ("polymers and fibers")

all other sources below $2B

Looks pretty diversified to me. Just because they made their fortune in petroleum doesn't mean that's currently the largest source of their wealth.

Source: the Net Worth Analysis from the RICH function on a Bloomberg Terminal
I'm pretty sure the second line is a tongue-in-cheek reference to this meme. At least I'm hoping it is.
Is having a '.name' email address a good idea?
Ok, now try to find at least one framework without breaking changes after initial release. Code should evolve, planned changes is a graceful evolution.
For AI engineers is 10M per engineer.
http://www.recode.net/2016/9/17/12943214/sebastian-thrun-sel...
Ask HN: Stripe for 10k plus transactions?
My next saas product is going to be annual only, b2b with a price of 10k or more a year.

I know Stripe has a theoretical limit above this; however I'm concerned that credit card companies will often trigger alarms for such high charges.

What are the most common ways to collect big, yearly contracts? Paper checks? Stripe? Some sort of bank transfer API?
What does this have to do with the article?

The article is about Roma who say they have had "camps demolished, businesses firebombed, neighborhoods walled off and children beaten" in Europe seeking asylum in the US.

You're just making counter accusations about the Roma. It sounds like you are justifying the firebombings and beatings. Are you?
How do you want to solve the problem if you are not allowed to talk about it?
I live in Edmonton, AB, and it somewhat follows a grid system. Although, a bunch of newer nieghborhoods have not continued to follow it. The roads all have numbers in a predictable pattern. This is very helpful for navigation, as just giving someone an address means they will probably be able to find it without consulting a map. Named streets automatically imply that I cannot find an address at all without a map. You can't even find out which general direction would be correct.
I can't speak for France, but in Sweden the vast majority of antisemitism comes from muslim immigrants.

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=https%3A//samtiden.n...

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A//www.express...
> I see Gellman failing to acknowledge that a tibial stress fractures are a common medical diagnosis for "shin splints".

Even if "shin splints" weren't the common name for a different and lesser less severe diagnosis, those wouldn't be equivalent.

The House report would still be dishonest in calling Snowden a liar for a statement that is completely accurate. And Gellman would still be completely dishonest (even with the failure to acknowledge that you suggest) in painting the House report as dishonest for dishonestly calling Snowden a liar for a statement that is completely accurate.

This isn't "both sides spinning". It is one side outright lying and using misdirection to get away with that, and one side pointing this out without any misdirection.

The acknowledgement (even if it were accurate) that you fault Gellman for giving is irrelevant to the point in dispute, which isn't "Snowden actually had something that can be described with the term 'shin splints'", but "Snowden was dishonest in saying that he had broken legs". His discharge report indicates that he had broken bones in both legs. Snowden was not dishonest. At best, if one accepts your description, the House report relied on people's ignorance to sell a different, nonconflicting-but-also-not-incorrect description of the events as a conflicting one so that it could call Snowden a liar; at worst it actually invented a false narrative to call Snowden a liar, but whether it was a false narrative or simply relied on a false presentation of conflict, the House report relied on deliberate falsehood to call Snowden a liar.

> I think it's clearer in light of Snowden's original claim to the Guardian that he left training after "breaking both legs in a training accident" (it is possible, but unlikely, that Snowden acquired stress fractions as a result of a single discrete training event --- but Snowden was getting a lot of mileage out of the ambiguity).

Its not all that unlikely that the stress fractures, if not being acquired, became acute enough to cause him to leave training as a result of a single discrete training event, and its even less unlikely that he became unable to train and sought or was referred to medical attention as a result of pain and lack of ability to take weight occurring in the immediate context of a discrete training event and in the course of being diagnosed, was not disabused of the notion that the training event in which the injury was recognized was not necessarily the sole or major cause. So, its not improbable that Snowden's description to the Guardian was accurate, and even more likely that it accurately reflected the facts as he knew them.
Yeah, while I'm sorry for my other, idiotic comment in sub-thread thread... I don't understand how you could think that's "pretty clear".

Why would he seek help on doing it in a way that is difficult to impossible, compared to redacting/tokenizing after export? That makes zero sense. On the other hand, doing it this way would prevent the normal justice-based extraction procedures from working, because subpoenas are specific to people usually. I can't see any advantage of doing the hard way, other than that... it's hard for me to imagine a lawyer or professional investigator employee making direct use of a PST file or the equivalent.
To me, "source" implies where the wealth came from, and it's misleading to say that the Koch brothers grew rich from a diverse portfolio of anything. They were born into oil wealth.
I've had brushes with Roma in Italy. They're very hard-pressing when begging, but other than that, they seemed OK. People were really not nice to them, though. It scared me a little.
It sounds like your saying that racism is a white thing.
Try dating cross racially in the UK and you'll pretty quickly be disabused of that notion.
I use a .name domain, but redirect .com to it. I also ended up using the .com for my MX record after experiences similar to those outlined in OP. This approach seems like the best of both worlds.
I think this is an age thing. People who grew up using the web before javascript started destroying it are more likely to accept professional responsibility for progressive enhancement, and Google skews older than many competitors.
I don't think there is any one box that fits "huge."

The way I answer it is if you can say yes to the question "Has this new product/service overwhelmingly changed how people do X?" Still pretty variable.
1400 years of persecution has culminated in a denial of access to basic education, healthcare and representation in government. The stereotypes applied to a people who live on the edge society are to some extent true for a dwindling minority who eschew societal norms, but who can blame them. Without access to the jobs market and a path to integration they're largely kept in their place. The response of Romania upon joining the EU was to thrust their failure to integrate the Roma on to other EU member states, who in turn have refused to offer anything resembling comprehensive help. It's sad that there's no realistic prospect for integration and no EU state truly believes in constitutional multiculturalism anymore so no protections will ever be afforded to the roma as are to jewish, christian & muslim minorities.
> Shitty code often makes the world a better place.

That's one of those things I have probably read - and agreed with - a hundred times before, but never that succinct.

I will make that mine; I hope you don't mind.
So you're saying Roma people are born evil? Like if you grabbed a Roma kid, well fed and educated, taught the right from wrong, and you would still get a petty thief? Like the society and policies have no effect on them?

Is this hackernews or did I just accidentally open up the comment section of daily mail?
The Internet Is Killing You and You’re Begging for More
Welcome to the Dark Net, a Wilderness Where Invisible World Wars Are Fought
And Fortran, where it works fine. Perl lets you change the array index offset but everyone warns you that your computer will reach out and slap you in the face if you do. As is often the case, the devil is in the details.
A one way flight from Europe is North America is not that expensive ($300-$800), it's something even poor people are able to save up for and larger families are able to pool their resources together. The practice described in the article has been fairly common for well over a decade now, but previously the destination was typically Canada rather than the United States.
I spent a few years driving the integration of "our" technology inside Google. So yeah, there is agency.
How do you want to integrate a population that refuses to send their children to school?

This is the problem we have in France, and from what I understand, just about everywhere in Europe. The Roma want to live on the fringe of society.
The same reason why many Jews have left Malmö in Sweden [1] by now: the rise of anti-Semitism which goes hand in hand with the rise of Islam as a power factor in these places.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_Sweden#Situati...
Having gone through military basic training (and later being peripherally involved with recruiting), we had people wash out relatively often for 'shin splints'.

If you washed out it would have to be severe -- if the shin splints were minor you'd simply be given time to heal and the ability to rollback into the next class. But even if they were severe, we (recruits and staff alike) called them 'shin splints', not 'broken legs'.

However technically true Snowden's usage of 'my legs were broken' may have been, we would never have called it 'broken legs' unless he'd suffered a macroscopic fracture or a break (in other words, something that'd normally require a cast, splint, or crutches).

So the fact that Snowden did so is actually quite consistent with the HPSCI's assertions about his 'narcissistic' and 'self-serving' nature. There /should/ be little shame in washing out for shin splints, certainly not enough to be deceptive about it when your credibility is about to be closely examined for something that is theoretically far more important to you.
Of course it's a feel goody story, it's an advertisement for positive immigration by the mass media.
Are you guys distinguishing between what the buyer pays and what the engineer gets?

To put it another way: if you personally promised the engineer $5 million (vesting over 3 years) they may switch.

This means the buyer must see some value in the company over and above the engineers. (IP? Customers?)
While I interpret both as signs of overconfidence, there is a difference between talking to loud in public and throwing trash on the streets of your state supplied house.
I wonder how engineers at Google feel about all this. I guess they feel they should be joining these startups instead of slogging at Google. They can just easily retire/do their own thing if they are part of these acquihires.
I have found this to be true. All my developers can at least program some F#. Some are better than others, but all can do it. Before I started, no one on the team knew F# and were a little hesitant to use it. Even the majority of the interns I had programmed it too. The biggest problem with adoption is fear / apathy.
Curious, do you see that as truly antisemitism, or anti-non-muslim-ism?

I frequently see misanthropy or xenophobia masquerading behind specific racist/sexist/theist/etc slurs.
Australia's new money is literally transparent
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=secure+enclave
I don't know about Google, but I've heard of this happening during other acquisitions. A friend of mine with a Ph.D. in CS worked at a startup that was just acquired. He was responsible for the a lot of the tech in the platform they were acquiring, yet since he didn't pass their algorithms heavy interview they didn't want to hire him. He ended up working for one of the other companies interested in buying the startup.
Frankly I can't believe we're still debating whether a canceled passport 'trapped' Snowden in Russia or not, Wikileaks admitted two years ago that they told him to go to Russia: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/461862504243953664?ref_...
> Edit: And I don't like the 'well you must be racist if you think this' comments here.

You've raised the issue in a well-reasoned manner which largely avoids being gratuitous. Your discomfort at saying this suggests that you would otherwise prefer to view the Roma as decent people, and there is little to make one doubt you'd be happy to afford them the rights and dignities which all of mankind deserve.

Others here have presented the case in far nastier ways and their comments have gotten the predictable flag / kill treatment.
While I've seen a lot of racism against Romas and Muslims, it seems to me that at least in France they're not racist against Jews...

Not that that excuses racism whatsoever, just an observation that the new hated minority that's used as scapegoat is not the Jews anymore but instead the Muslims.

But, yes I've heard equally horrifying things from people who seem otherwise smart and friendly. Just go to Japan and listen to when people talk about black people... Go to Europe or the US and listen to what people say about muslims... Racism is everywhere and it's not only frothing skinheads, it's normal respectable members of the society and that's what scary.

As to the Roma, well, I haven't had much experience but there was a Roma kid in school for a few months and I got along well with him... So, at least anecdote-wise on my side, I haven't had bad experience with Romas.

Now, it's been my experience that while different groups have differences in cultures, the difference between individuals of a given group is bigger than the cultural differences due to belonging to a given group.

So, for example, after living in both Japan and China for a while, I have certain heuristics that let me expect certain behaviours from a Japanese person compared to a Chinese person. But, those are heuristics, they are not absolute truths and they are often wrong for a given person. So, even if Japanese people tend to be more polite than Chinese people, I've met quite a few rude people in Japan and I've met quite a few very polite people in China...
So major public health concerns are not the government's responsibility?

At least you understand saying, "That's not what I pay taxes for" is a moot argument then.
At the risk of fulfilling the "HN loves tesla" stereotype, I find it really difficult to take seriously an article that begins with a photo that was very clearly chosen to be unflattering, captioned "Overlord".

That kind of flagrant skew poisons the credibility of everything else around it.
Where did OP imply that? He said it's a cultural thing and that's something you're not born with.

From my own experience and dealing with NGO's that are trying to turn the tide, I can witness the same.
wow, HN.
the advance of minifies and transpilers and modules doesnt seem to increase page performance. one of the effect of it being so efficient to minify and transpile is that large imports and frameworks are easier to use, and that boosts the total JS lines of code, making the JS parsing take a long time, and the page performance get "janky"