skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as an ideology is small enough, completely shunning it's adherents is actually the best strategy, because everyone is susceptible to social pressure.

But I fear that at 40% of the population, and with the social bubble people have build around them, Trump's neo-fascist movement may be beyond the reach of such tactics.

> it's on the question of what should be done about it

Everything that is legal. When, in the past, Republicans advocated trickle-down economics you possibly had a chance to convince people with arguments.

But I'm equally pessimistic about convincing anybody rationally. Trump and his supporters live in a reality completely divorced from any actually existing facts. It's this world with FEMA death camps and vast conspiracies planning to use the national guard to invade Texas and sell it to Mexico. There is no overlap anymore in what sources, what types of arguments, what axiomatic moral laws the two tribes consider valid.

Both strategies seeming comparably useless, I decided at some point that, when my grandchildren ask me in 40 years or so I want to be able to say "I did everything that's legal".
Or just make it a preference, like what Apple does with trackpad scrolling direction.
I may be wrong, but I believe they are trying to imply the government's oversight on such services, which in my opinion is a valid concern.

However, they're (China) at least not pretending like they aren't involved heavily like, say, the US government that tries to hide they have their fingers in mass amounts of data and servers. The reality is most major economic power governments seem to be.
Some of the more dynamic content from the NYT is coming the closest to what I would want to pay a subscription for, but still far from my threshold to pay. Static word content that we once paid handsomely for (in terms of ad space and subscription fees) is regurgitated at far lower cost everywhere now.

But I've yet to see widespread adoption of content with active models to work with, even download and run for yourself, for example. Connected to databases holding the raw data that the story is about. With side-commentary, Torah-like (the Torah has a tradition of recording significant interpretations and amplifications made by past rabbis), possibly by multiple competing editors, summarizing swathes of comments into concise, cogent chunks that add to/update the original piece. Organized not just by time, but through/over time: so not presented only as a "this is what happened this hour/day/week" narrative, but in a Wikipedia-related fashion describing "this event that happened is placed in this context in our overall knowledge".
Isn't 1211 four hundred years before the King James bible?
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I don't think they'd be interested.
Maybe have the investigator player redo the fight with tweaks.

Now that I've had some hours to think, this'd actually work better in a single-player format: The player can only advance by tweaking enemies until they can defeat them, knowing that the next time they encounter that enemy it'll be stronger in exactly the wrong way. Then it becomes a complex game of managing how the enemies grow and balancing tactical concerns ("how do I beat this one enemy") versus strategic concerns ("I could beat this one by decrementing its dex, but then it'd be unstoppable in the future.").

EDIT: this feels a little bit like "warning forever" but maybe with more depth and a clearer focus?
That's a good way to think of it.

It's important to use the password as part of the entropy so that an attacker has to make a Blind Hashing request for each attempt to crack a password versus being able to make a single request to effectively unblind it.
My girlfriend used to love visiting Paris, now it’s basically a no-go zone even in daytime.

A bizarre thing to say, for multiple reasons. Most chiefly being, Paris has quite famously had a large Muslim population for several decades now -- which the recent refugee influx has hardly made a measurable impact on.

So he's saying his girlfriend "used to" love visiting Paris, with all its Muslims, up until about 2-3 years ago -- but now it's a "no-go zone"?
Oh, I'm persuaded- just look at the actions of W and Obama - both moved the presidency closer to dictatorship.

As for elections not being legitimate, that clam was made repeatedly, with merit, after 2000. The democrats lost, and they lost due to widespread fraud.

Finally, Hillary belongs in jail. Basically all of the allegations have been proven by the wikileaks email releases.

When your opponent is a blatant criminal it's quite fair to say "you'll be in jail" and quite different than saying "I'm going to jail you for disagreeing with me" which is what people seem to want to clam he said (so basically they are lying about him. If he's so obviously reprehensible, why the need to lie about him?)
Thanks. I stole the glass analogy, but I'm not sure of the origin...
We need to blame the voters as much as we blame the politicians. People get so scared that they demand a dictatorship, basically.

Look at the scare du jour, ISIS. I mean, come on! We have the worlds largest military by a factor of 10, and yet people are peeing their pants at the sight of a few gun-toting crazies 8,000 miles away!! We faced down USSR which had the capability to annihilate us 100 times over, and yet we cringe at the sight of ISIS. What's wrong with these people?
I think this is too arbitrary. It's making a distinction for the sake of argument. Either people can support a candidate freely or we can't and we go the way of official approved politics.

If you want to remove money from politics, go ahead, do try. But don't make arbitrary cases for when its apt and then, when it's convenient, make it not apt.
Wait a second. That data just measures correlation between father and son in terms of income. Thinking through it, if you had more sons do worse than their fathers economically, they would show up better in this data.

It's not measuring upward mobility, but mobility in general. Seems suspect.
We used to have "hacker" friendly phones with hardware keyboards etc.

There are some in development: https://puri.sm/posts/share-your-input-on-the-upcoming-libre..., but they may end up being niche items.
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No, we can just see right through the gross hyperbole that people are so fond of invoking. It's like the anti-circumcision folks saying things like:

"Circumcision is a barbaric practice in which babies have their genitals violently mutilated by religious nutjobs."

People that have actually been circumcised roll their eyes at such a phrase because it completely disregards the meaning and weight of the words "barbaric", "mutilate", "violent", etc.
Businesses are made of people. But your argument is even less coherent than that. When people boycotted Nestle, they were supporting a campaign whose intended impact could have put thousands of people out of work, many of whom had no opposition at all to the boycotter's ideas. Boycotting a company is an even more grave act than criticizing some dude with more than one McLaren about endorsing a Trump campaign surrogate who could most likely buy McLaren Automotive. But we tolerate and accept boycotts, as we must, because they are a form of political speech.
Trump has he said/she said accusations popping up, 20 years after, a month before election day.

Hillary has the director of the FBI calling her "extremely careless" (but difficult to prosecute) before Congress.
Obligatory self-plug: the "awesome-redux" list is cluttered and not well organized, and was actually rejected from inclusion in Sindre Sorhus's "awesome-awesome" list because of that ( https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome/issues/714#issuecomm... ). On the flip side, I keep a list of Redux-related addons and utilities at https://github.com/markerikson/redux-ecosystem-links that is actively maintained and has (hopefully) much better categorization, as well as being a much more comprehensive list of all the useful pieces out there in the Redux ecosystem.

But yes, as I've said in some recent comments: Dan and Andrew found a sweet spot with Redux's design in terms of approach, concepts, and providing building blocks for others, and that's led to an explosion of useful stuff that people have built for their own use cases.
This post provides a great general purpose overview of common data modeling techniques. I'm going to take an opportunity to share some of my work in the area. NoSE[0] is a tool I've been building to automate the data modeling process for NoSQL systems. The models it produces cover many of the techniques mentioned in the article.

The high level idea is that with a model of the data an application wants to store and the workload, NoSE will suggest a data model for a particular NoSQL store. Currently I've only tested this out with Cassandra although most of the work to support MongoDB is in place as well.

Happy to work with anyone who may be interested in trying it out :)

[0] https://michael.mior.ca/projects/NoSE/
Looking forward to this being spun into some deep conspiracy.

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You just repeated your position and ignored what I wrote. I will assume that means you have no serious arguments.

If you really don't understand: A serious argument would be showing that it is not a war situation -- or that you have to put enemy combatants into a court before you can shoot at them.

(Edit: To argue that it is wrong or illegal to declare war and hunt e.g. alQ is not relevant either. I made that distinction in the previous comment -- and didn't take a position.)
"The bigger problem is that the (very large) community of reasonable nerds who care about bigotry has largely abandoned Hacker News. In doing so, they've conceded it to the racist fringe. They, too, should reconsider."

Should they though? When the community tells them with every post that this isn't wanted here, that the community doesn't care, and that the contributions are not welcome, should they really spend (or waste) their time, effort, and keystrokes here? And if so why? This isn't rhetorical, but really something I think about often when I'm waiting for an app to deploy and choosing what to do with those free minutes. And more and more, the answer is a resounding NO.
> Everything is made in China.

Well then allow me to introduce you to the fun fact of the day: were US manufacturing output a stand-alone economy, it would nearly be the size of the entire French economy. As the #2 manufacturer - only overtaken by China in 2011 - the US is twice the size of the #3 manufacturer. US manufacturing output has also doubled since the early 1990s and is now greater than the #3 (Japan) + #4 (Germany) + #5 (S.Korea) manufacturing nations combined.
Interesting, I wonder what world Clinton would have picked either of the two, including the other non-traditional candidates.

I imagine that it'd happen if Trump had cleaned his act up when going face to face with Clinton, and his "business acumen" had been drawing a lot of voters to him.

Also lol @ how Bernie is his own category
I don't know for sure, but Sunday newspapers are typically filled with ads and coupons for local businesses. It's probably the day that is most profitable for newspaper and ad sales together.

Why they choose Sunday to stack in ads and coupons, I don't know. Might be related to Church services, I wonder if it's the same for newspapers in other countries?
"best practices" is just a phrase. There is no objective proof that what people call "best practices" is at all. Far more often, I've seen it used as a protectionism for not learning or trying new things.

Stuff like minification you probably want a pre-existing tool to do. It's stupidly simple and not that difficulty to integrate into any build process.

But stuff like transpiling is completely optional. ES5 is a really high level language. There isn't anything particularly "wrong" with it, not any more so than most any other language you'll end up using.
Maybe? It'll be interesting to see how many bugs turn up in Yarn that've already been fixed in npm. Until we can perform that kind of comparison, I'm not sure it is possible to know whether building a new package manager from scratch was more worthwhile than improving the one that everyone already uses.
I understand that unsolicited notifications are annoying but all of the notifications can be very easily turned off. There's no need to seethe.
> We need a law prohibiting secret law.

I am not American, and much less an expert in law, but isn't this already illegal? From what I gather, American law ultimately rests on the same western civilization ideas that already come from the Roman Empire and before. Surely your constitution or other fundamental laws should already cover this, or am I wrong?
The real question (in Europe at least) is why the church and "nobility" are allowed to keep their land that has often been obtained by dubious means.
This feels like exactly the thing that's been dismissed as an unrealistic slippery slope elsewhere in the thread.

When the narrative was "Thiel's connection to YC is about prestige, so YC should sever that connection to preserve its reputation", I found it basically reasonable.

But if the narrative is "Disavowing Thiel will make Trump-supporting founders uncomfortable with coming to YC, or uncomfortable admitting their support?" Then we've jumped to punishing people professionally for being in a group comprising 40%+ of the country.

Hounding founders who support Trump (who, perhaps, don't even donate or like many of his views) seems to go straight into the awful kind of patronage/exclusion politics that's being condemned here.
Doesn't Kayak do they same thing? They have the wait buy stuff too.

However my favorite site now days skiplagged. The site united try to sue.
I think Steve Ballmer would be great choice. He would have simply concentrated on Voters! Voters! Voters!
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That data is a proxy for income mobility. It's measuring the correlation between generations. As I mentioned in another reply, it's not measuring upward mobility, but mobility in general. If a country had a future generation do worse economically it would show up as having better mobility.
They wrote about it here: https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc...
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What do you mean by "self-awareness"?

Do you mean "knowledge about yourself", such as realizing that you are a person, knowing your limitations, getting the word "I" right, predicting your own behavior, etc.? If so, that seems pretty easy to test. If someone/something can accurately answer detailed questions about themselves, obviously they are knowledgeable about themselves.

Do you mean the little "theater" we live in, where it feels like we're surrounded by sights and sounds and we're a little person in our head that chooses what to pay attention to? There's a book about this, and a proposed part of the brain that gives rise to it, though it's still fairly preliminary research. [1]

Do you mean our "inner narative" where we monologue to ourselves, slowly building up our "narrative identity"? [2]

Do you mean something else? These are all very different phenomenon, and you can have some without others, so I don't think a discussion can be very helpful until we've decided which we're talking about.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Workspace_Theory
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_identity
Well Trump openly claimed he wanted to torture terrorist suspects and kill terrorists' families. So yeah, I think that's worse than targeted drone strikes on terrorists. While I have significant concerns about the drone program, I also recognize that we are at war with certain groups and capturing these people in order to get them to trial is mostly infeasible. I don't consider drone strikes to be worse than special forces strikes. I do consider torture and murdering families to be considerably worse.

I find Guantanamo morally indefensible.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/06/politics/donald-trump-torture/...

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/03/politics/donald-trump-kill-ter...
They do if you are a Qliance subscriber.
A potential customer that finds your terms and conditions unreasonable is not a potential customer because the value proposition that your service provides does not meet their needs.

My suggestion: recommend that the prospect consider obtaining a bond against the consequences of data loss. The cost of the bond plus overhead and profit can be added to the cost of the service for the customer once the customer has determined what type of bonds are available in the market and which type and level meets their business needs for compensation in the event of a breach.

Obviously, the prospect would pay the costs associated with any measures a bonding company might require to make your service bondable as well. I'd recommend cash up front. It shows that that the prospect is serious.

Good luck.
I agree emphatically that this is on both sides. Those of us who have watched with relief and hope the decline of influence of irrational, moralizing, censoring fundamentalist Christians[1] (on the right) are somewhat shocked and disappointed to see such a dramatic uptick of irrational moralizing fundamentalist social justice activists[1] on the left.

[1] Not all of them! But enough to cause harm to society
If that is the case, I say good luck to them. They might as well try to hold on to a handful of sand.
No no, it was a Downfall parody you were referring to! The /r/atheism split, of course!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXXnt3jm6UQ
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This is definitely the case here, many libraries that are certainly not all that awesome, or even maintained.
Wikileaks: Multiple US sources tell us John Kerry asked Ecuador to stop Assange from publishing Clinton docs during FARC peace negotiations.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/788369924175441920
Of course. I also know it started as a left-wing workers movement that moved to the right to gain favour of the wealthy capitalists required to fund its growth which included seizing control over the media.

As a European looking from the outside and more than aware of this history, I see the media goose-stepping to the tune of one campaign which uses it to stoke up moral outrage about their opposition of which this story is a current symptom. The candidate that rhymes with history is not the chaotic/offensive TV personality.
That's called integrity. Not something you see a lot of anymore.
I wish voltaire witnessed this or the free speech proponent of earlier decades saw this. Today being conservative is presumed the worst crime against humanity, having a different opinion on things popularised by mass hysteria is absolutely repulsive. If the silicon valley does this, it is they, who will be doing an unimaginable damage to themselves and everyone else.

Today you can be murder, and con women and rioter and terrorist or any other hundred different other repulsive things yet in the eyes of "Liberals", "Progressives" and "feminists" you would be better than a conservative person.

Free speech warriors really waiting for rally behind Mr. Thiel or else change your name to hypocrites.
Same poster there as well.
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I do not support "hounding founders who support Trump". In fact, I don't support hounding most Trump supporters. I am content with hounding key members of the Trump campaign itself.
wow, are u saying states in usa have same level culture difference like european countries?

just in spain alone we have 4 different OFFICIAL languages
Well we already have a solution for that. We just need to create massive farms on unused land. Plant enough stuff to feed the world populations of humans with large excess and you're going to also plant enough things to scrub co2 out of the atmosphere.
Eisenhower did not want either to abjure or to further turn opinion against them and so left it unspoken, but the original phrase was the "military-industrial-Congressional complex".

By the laws of the nation, it could not be enabled any other way.
I do a lot of JS development and I think most dependencies are highly overrated. ES5 is a very high level language already. I use a package manager, but frankly, I'm considering stopping because there is a lot of value to being able to just keep a local copy and include scripts with a script tag. It forces you to manually update and inspect for regressions. You get a much better sense of your total payload size, too.
No, not all needs to be public. Particularly negotiations while they happen need some privacy otherwise there is a risk they degenerate to a series of individual win-loose battles when a bundle of compromises would yield a win-win.

But one needs to take a look at the impact the IT industry had on concentration of knowledge and power. A lot of things used to take more people and was so subject to more checks and less privacy. Today these things can be kept perfectly private.

Right now due to less than perfectly implemented systems once in a while a door to a cache of "private" information is opened. These caches contain a mixture of stuff that should have been private and stuff that really should have been published a long time ago even if somewhat embarrassing.

These leaks are destructive in the sense that they undermine the sense of privacy in areas where this is vital and also undermine the trust as it becomes clear too much is kept under the rug. It also opens the door to all sort of conspiracy pushers. It is highly problematic that the society seems to be reliant on the leaks to stay informed.

Sharing information makes one vulnerable. It is also vital to connect. Governments need to decide on how they relate to their people. Actually the people need to tell the governments what is acceptable and what not...
Odd thing to recognize but you are right King James Bible is from 1611.
My favourite is http://adioso.com, it's even cleaner than Google Flights and it has "Anytime" as a choice for date of departure.
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Saying he's made "a few off hand fascist remarks" is a pretty generous characterization. I'd say he's shown strong contempt for the rule of law and division of powers, has gleefully stoked racist and misogynist resentments to excite his base, and has very literally encouraged violence at his rallies (and is continuing to lay the groundwork for significant election day violence for the first time in a century).

Does any of this mean he could establish a legal dictatorship? I don't know, hopefully not, but I would hardly say the comparisons are baseless.

What strikes me as actually anti-intellectual is the trend among Trump sympathizers (particularly the ones I see on HN and other more cerebral contexts) to refuse to acknowledge that the inflammatory language he's used during the campaign can and already has materially impacted the way millions of Americans perceive and act upon their world.
> encouraging political violence

And where did actual violence happen? How is it that it's his rallies that are violently attacked?

And his headquarters that got firebombed.

Not only that, the attackers had the gall to draw swastika and call the victims nazis.
Yeah. What kasey said. I've also considered this-- going down the permaculture route. I'd say, take baby-steps. Try WWOOFing with some of your vacation time. If you like it, get a remote job and start incrementally farming. Raise chickens, etc. Going cold-turkey is probably not a great plan!