skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm seeing variants of this thrown around a lot here, but I don't see people engaging with tptacek's point, at least to my reading of it.

Let me turn this around. When corporations choose to get actively political, like Chick-Fil-A's support of anti-gay groups and Ben & Jerry's support of Black Lives Matter, should we not take that into account when we decide whether to do business with them? I don't think you'd make that argument, because really, it's not a very sound one. It's not a very sound one to say that we are compromising our principles if we share our stance on those corporations with others and try to get them to come around to our point of view, either, is it?

So why does it suddenly become sound in this case?
Many people think this election is different from all the past elections but I'm telling you:

When Trump or Hillary become president nothing will change in your daily lives. Mostly everything you do will remain the same.

So this election matters almost as much your favorite sport team winning some stupid sport which is to say it's a matter of life or death.
> Should we be able to track the position of every soldier in real time?

No, but that's not what the article is about. There's an important difference between laws and orders/realtime tactical information.
Problems of this kind are the reason I always wanted a dbms to offer a direct plan API instead of a sql parser. It's dumb to fiddle with the statement until you get the desired plan. You should be able to just call for that plan.
Hi Marco.

I disagree with you for a couple reasons.

(1) Seek to understand, then seek to be understood.
If we want to eliminate misguided beliefs, convince anyone who thinks sexual assault and racism is okay, etc., you need to first understand them, and have them feel as though they are understood. It's a basic rule of effective communication. No one will listen to your criticisms of their arguments if they are not convinced that you have understood what they are saying and show empathy towards their position. So, a dialogue wherein all parties work together to develop shared understandings will be far more effective than the demonisation of a section of society.

(2) Supporting Trump doesn't necessarily mean Peter supports Trump's more bigoted and/or inappropriate views. This is Peter Thiel we're talking about. Peter gets excited by thinking differently to other people. If thinking differently were a sex act, it would be Peter's fetish. Peter would support a candidate only if he believes it's what the country needs to help bring back a time of growth and optimism that he thinks has been lost long ago (see: Zero to One). Now, remember, just because Peter believes something, doesn't mean that it's right (see: Clarium Capital).

So, it is my view that Sam is right in supporting the sharing of vastly different ideas, views and understandings. Thiel hasn't specifically supported any of Trump's shameful views, as you aptly describe them, so his only 'crime' is to believe that a protectionist moron (he'll perceive him differently) can do anything positive for the country - a belief that might be mistaken, but is by no means a crime or something to cause shame.

Stop demonising Trump supporters. You'll never convince idiots of anything by addressing them as such.
I have such a burning, unquenchable hatred for NPM that I just switched to using Yarn. It's fine, has done what I expect it to, and hasn't caused any problems so far. Maybe not an ideal solution, but for someone coming primarily from languages that have non-shitty package managers it's a breath of fresh air.
> monopoly

I'm still surprised so many people here are using google and not duckduckgo. I use the duck all day long. I used to revert to google when I couldn't find when I want, but I've found in the last six months, if it's not on ddg, it's not going to be on google, either!

We don't have to support google. Let's just stop giving them everything for free. People sneer at using Yahoo for mail, but what is the problem, really? It's almost all aesthetic.

Why give away our power and beg google to throw away profit and treat us right?

Persuade your friends to use other email and search providers. Design your websites so they have Links sections your visitors can navigate instead of going back to google. That's what I do and it works.
That's my point....

Remember how in the late '90s, everything was e-/i-/cyber, even things that were only tangentially related to computers or networking? It feels like that.

Today, I've seen posts and ads for "deep work", "deep analytics", "deep thinking", (not using anything recognizable as deep learning), and a few other things. Most of these are more-or-less idiomatic, but I think they would have been called something else 5 or 10 years ago.
Everyone has access to commodity hardware by definition, which increases decentralization.

Specialized hardware goes in the opposite direction in both ways.
On the health costs specifically: You basically get your health insurance for life & as understood at the moment portable to other EU countries, what happens when you lose your job or if your startup folds in the US or your insurance provider wont honour? I don't want to sound like some troll or something but theres tonnes of articles that go through the differences.
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I have all this things in the US. Sick leave is not counted in my vacation.

Maternity leave is much longer than paternity. And is paid for in full at my company for a time. FMLA allows 12 weeks total but it can be unpaid.

The main difference I've seen with the Europeans I work with is, they take big chunks off at a time in summer. They pay more taxes but have more time off. Most likely don't get full pay for Maternity/paternity leave.
What do you expect when Yarn has been out for less than a couple of weeks and this person isn't involved with the project in any way?
No, I'm sorry, you'll have to do a better job at connecting the dots between political criticism and despotism.
Are you implying all European companies are boring? That seems like a strange assumption..
I was thinking the same thing. I want to know about the pitfalls and reasons not to use yarn. For example, does it support modules from github?
>The bigger the data pool, the easier it is to defend, and the faster the system runs and more hashes/second it supports.

Which means these data pools will end up stored in the cloud. And in the end of the day only big players can afford sufficiently large pools. So your model encourages centralization and outsourcing of security, doesn't it?
> Especially when you consider that we appear to switch our brains off in the wake of any significant terror attack

I agree but we must admit that it's terribly difficult when faced with terrorism to consider the proposition that doing nothing might be better than any action. Harder still is to make the claim in front of politicians who might consider that an opportunity to spin it into a weakness rather than a strength.
I admire YC for continuing to stand up for the principle and practice of free speech.
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She wasnt with Billy Bush while condemning people to die so it's not entertaining enough for people to care.
There's a substantial difference between forcing someone out because of the potential that other people would shun them for political reasons vs because they are taking a stand that you think would do irreparable harm to your industry. The first is pure politics, with only the indirect consequences on your company that all businesses could face. The other is a piece of pointed legislation whose primary goal will disrupt your industry.
There's a notion that venting your anger only rewards it and conditions you to further anger (and outbursts).
There are two separate questions here:

Q1. Is Trump a spectacularly bad candidate, i.e. would he turn the USA intor a dictatorship, start a nuclear war, or do somethnig else equally damaging to society?

Q2. If Y Combinator shunned Thiel for supporting Trump, would that make a Trump presidency less likely?

If the answer to Q2 is no, as I suspect it is, then it doesn't much matter what the answer to Q1 is.

If we end up with a culture where people are shunned or lose their jobs for their political beliefs (e.g. Brendan Eich) or for who they associate with, that can only coarsen political debatre in the USA, in the long term making it more likely that it does become a dictatorship, something the people doing the shunning want to avoid.
If that is indeed the idea, isn't it much better to push for renewable energy instead of focusing on the use of carbon polymers?

Eventually we can just burn all that trash down, and reassemble the carbon the way we want. It's is not the bottleneck for decades already.
Because those things aren't even close to being on the same level.
Weird, I just happened to be reading about this topic last night. If you liked this, make sure to check out the articles by Eli Bendersky in the footer. He has a 3 part series on how debuggers work:

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/01/23/how-debuggers-work-p...
http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/01/27/how-debuggers-work-p...
http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/02/07/how-debuggers-work-p...
>Them: "So, was that a yes? or should I find someone else that can?"

The correct answer in this case would be "I guess you'll have to find someone else".

"Just following orders" is not an excuse, certainly not when national security is at stake.
Currently offline until the satellite bidirectional dish arrives - yes, that remotely ;) - but once I'm back, I'll gladly share. Gonna comment here again then.
As I often tell people when talking about mobile devices: we're not there yet. Not from a hardware point of view, not from a software one. We're not even close. Smartphones still have a long way to go. Battery life sucks, software sucks, updates suck. Not to say they aren't great devices, but they still suck big time.

Makers are beating around the bush because they can't innovate anymore, and make you pay top dollar for 64/128 GB of memory. I will hold onto my Nexus 5 (not an Android fanboy, it just happened to be the one device that fit the bill) till the day it chokes, because it was just about the only phone worth the money. 700€+ for any device is a completely ridiculous price for what it can offer today.
In many ways the "newspaper" is its own ecosystem. Editors/reporters, printers/delivery, academia,pollsters, others rely on this ecosystem to earn and prosper.

Except readers.

This ecosystem is morphing under their feet. But the large number of humans living off this ecosystem means it just won't go away quickly. Holding on to the fifth estate oversight gives newspaper people strength.

For the sake of all earning a living, I hope mid career changes are not forced on those that entered their ecosystem.
In a sea of partisan squabble, you've said something truly worthy of thought. This has analogs in everything from organized crime to the interactions of genes.
It's not a moral fashion to believe that jailing political opponents or advocating laws making it illegal for the NYT to criticize him is outside the boundaries of "wrong, but tolerable".

And while I'd agree that employees should be protected as long as they do not intentionally harm their employers, Thiel isn't an employee and his "firing" would have far fewer consequences for him.
> I'm not sure that there's a realistic way out of the decades-deep hole

I'm not either. I think broad-stroke laws reversing much of the damage are necessary.

We need a law prohibiting secret law. Any legally-binding statute, regulation, opinion or judgement that is not published to the Federal Register within 18 months would be rendered invalid.

Regarding government documents in general, I think everything should be published by default. Instead of FOIA applications to have information published, agencies should be applying to keep their documents secret.
It's even worse than having secret law -- it's secret analysis and interpretation of law.

In some cases, if a statute says: "All pens must be blue", and the administration's attorneys study the statute and determine "When the congress said that pens must be blue, we understand that they meant to say black", and they then make that determination secret. The outcome isn't secret law, but secret meta-law.
Shocking how the javascript community has done just fine before this group of well funded enterprises organized and nominated itself as leader of that community.

This is an attempted capture of a major open source community by commercial interests.
There has never to my knowledge been a president who banned immigration based on religion. If it's happened it was unconstitutional then as well. Certainly it's within the government's scope to ban immigration but not based on a religious test.
Probably should be on v45 rather than the upper v4*s if you're not doing upgrades, since it's the extended support release and will receive security fixes. Although opting to not take updates because Firefox is taking a harder security stance going forward seems a bit self-destructive...
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False equivalence to Rumsfeld and Feith (and interesting you leave out Rice and Powell). What about somebody who contributed money to the reelection of George W. Bush in 2004?
That's true. To be honest they're not different in principle. They used to have amazing customer service, where I had a very good relationship with the guy on their end (we emailed each other pictures of our cats). But that person no longer works in that role and I no longer have the time to email often, so lately my customer service experience has been pretty basic.

I'm sure there are many services you can use that would let you do this. The only other time I've had PCBAs made in China was through GoldPhoenix and I was very unhappy with the quality of soldering.

All I can say is Seeed has worked for me.
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> overridable “Untrusted Connection” error

Allowing users to click past security warnings is a really bad idea. How is a user supposed to know the difference between untrusted because of SHA-1 deprecation and untrusted because of a MITM?
And it's easier for me to believe that the market for, say, app-summoned cars is more elastic than the market for renting a room while traveling.

In the former case, you're competing with a bunch of alternatives that you're happy to substitute given a better/cheaper option. Maybe you take less public transportation or don't ask for a ride or don't drive yourself and use Uber.

AirBnB, on the other hand... Yes, some people will travel more/stay longer given cheaper lodgings but there are a lot of other costs associated with travel (including, for most, vacation time) so it's harder for me to believe that AirBnB will dramatically increase lodging days to the same degree that Uber could potentially increase taxi or private car-like service miles.
The article concludes that secrecy is necessary but requires a process with more checks and balances.
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See https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/ads/README...

I think with the numbers of ad tech companies coming on board every week one can safely say that the process is working for them.
Video decoder bugs are not unheard of - unless you want to leave open the possibility for someone to inject content of their choosing into code running on your computer, you lock it down.
Many of us understand that ginormous asteroids are whizzing uncomfortably close to Earth (often undetected until 2 days before they pass!). But what many people don't understand is that we need fully autonomous vehicles and robots (that can operate in space!) if we're going to have any chance of stopping or rerouting these asteroids. This is the story of two mad scientists working on a solution, with a little help from the humble C Elegans roundworm...
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Thanks, I should have said CSS/JS, it too is impossible to read due to the optimization.
Validation needs to be as light as possible in absolute terms (not just relative to the computation) for DDOS protection. An attacker could spam you with fake blocks and force you to compute expensive hashes to realize they are fake. Also consider the case of building a lightweight hardware device to act as an SPV client.
When I think of my european colleagues I'm always struck by a little jealousy. They enjoy an unbelievable quality life. They seem to be on vacation all the time and their cities are incredibly pleasant. The US has so far to go. There is no meaningful comparison that can be made by using currency.
Validation needs to be as light as possible in absolute terms (not just relative to the computation) for DDOS protection. An attacker could spam you with fake blocks and force you to compute expensive hashes to realize they are fake.
It's worth sharing this again:

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

For what it's worth, Thiel seems to have the view that Trump isn't actually going to do horrible things, and will invest in infrastructure and American businesses.

This seems deluded for the same reasons that some American liberals were about Stalin, and purging him for his authentic and not apparently horrible beliefs would be the same mistakes that we did during the McCarthy era.
Yes, because how else are we going to hear the views of white billionaires?
The problem is the racial manner in which he has chosen to conduct his campaign. Today we see the normalisation of hatred and marginalisation of entire races and religions. It's not even dog whistles, rather flat out villification purely based on observable groups. It might not bother the average white male, but believe it or not, there are other groups in society who will uprise one day in a very violent manner if this kind of rhetoric continues.
Encouraging your well-armed nutjob supporters to go to the polls and 'monitor' them is kiiiind of on another level.

Trump isn't just a moron spouting off nonsense--he's the leader of a large radicalized army, an army which includes large swathes of the police and military. Americans are so complacent and used to stability that they think this is all a crazy TV show that can't affect them personally, but this is a very volatile situation that could quickly go in the wrong direction.
HRC is also a fascist dictator wannabe. The difference between them is more kind and less degree.

Anybody who opposes Trump and not Hillary on the grounds of fascism is, to be charitable, being inconsistent.
It looks like it's just a single 360 camera with one viewpoint so it isn't really a "true immersive experience" on VR headsets, it's just a 2D image projected on a sphere. For true immersion in VR you need stereoscopic 360 degree recording, which can be achieved with using two of the 360 cameras or with this mount for GoPros:

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He doesn't even "do business" with them! As Altman himself said: Thiel doesn't get YC equity. It's a marketing relationship. If it were an employment relationship, I would probably feel differently.
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I'm starting to think distraction is the root of many problems. There's little hope for most people trying to read an in-depth article on their mobile devices. The article about deep work on the front page has made me realize just how long it takes me to take care of the stuff that is severely hampered by distraction.

I think a big hurdle will be removing distractions like chat or noise/interruptions from coworkers without creating problems. It would be nice to just sign off/hide away for extended periods but that's bound to go overly poorly in our collaboration enthusiastic world.
"I think self-control should be valued higher than self-restriction."

Well, I wish it could be that way. But it's not. Or, at least, it's not even an issuing of valuing one more than the other. Using self-restriction strategies is based on understanding and acknowledging that our self-control is not as strong as we want it to be, our level of self-control varies over time and may not be as strong in the future as it is right now, and our level of self-control is not wholly within our power.

What you call "self-restriction" strategies involve changing things so we don't need to assert self-control (will power) as much, but still get the benefits. Yes, this conflicts to some extent with (an old-fashioned, inaccurate, unjustified) view that ties lack of self-discipline to lack of personal responsbility. But the emphasis on self-restriction is actually an enlightened way of being _more_ responsible. You can (1) forego self-restriction and rely entirely on self-control and self-discipline as distractions come up, or (2) you can acknowledge, sadly, that self-control is limited and use self-restriction methods to reduce the need to rely on self-control as much. Which of those two is more responsible?

The author of the article ends it by suggesting that, although he hasn't found it, "there may be magical fix". That's wishful thinking. Yes, the "internet era" has made this stuff harder, but it has never been easy.
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Well said. Although I only agree within the domestic context. Some countries make all their citizens tax returns public - that's a good kind of openness. However, when dealing with foreign countries there will often be a need for secrecy.
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as an anecdotal counterpoint, I always used chalk for any deadlift over 2 plates, otherwise I was simply unable to grip the weight at all. And while I didn't need it for virtually any other exercise, sometimes when my hands would be extra sweaty a little chalk went a long way in improving my grip, for example on the bench. I can use more strength in the exercise itself rather than worrying about losing grip
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This is not uncommon. In China, the government owns all of the land and grants long-term leases to people. It happens stateside, too. For example, all of the land in Irvine, California is (was?) owned by the Irvine Company and the people living on it own the structures but lease the land.
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I definitely agree with the short term rental stuff. When I came on a J1 visa I was told to Airbnb for a few days while I sorted out an address.
Ask HN: Are there any alternatives to Grafana that support non-time series data?
I'm hoping to add per-commit performance results to our CI (buildbot) and would love to be able to display them on a dashboard like Grafana. Has anybody had any success doing something similar and which tools did you use?
Excellent points. I have no love for someone as ignorant as Donald Trump, but the values demonstrated by some of the most committed Trump haters seems the most likely to support a dictatorship in the years to come.
My current Macbook Pro cost me about £1100. No part of it is user serviceable so it's disposable.

My first Apple laptop, a Titanium Powerbook was almost 3 times that. Hard drive, keyboard, ram, battery were all user serviceable.

My point was the company isn't what it once was, it's not a high end tech company for the few but a disposable tech company for the many.
Exactly, if the Hillary camp is capable of doing that, what more is fabricated of all the Trump weirdness in the news?
> The only effective response is to judge by actions and refuse to work with any Y Combinator company until Thiel is fired (and Altman resigns)

You want to shun people (YC companies) for not shunning people (YC) for not shunning people (Thiel) for supporting Trump?

That's people at three levels removed from Trump. Is that really what you want?
Neat. Are normal ceramics machinable this way?