skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Self-control is hard, and at the end of the day, most people don't care whether they've made themselves into a stronger person in the course of doing their work. They just care that they did their work.

If you have goals in life, you’re probably going to need some sort of organization. Even if it’s an organization of just you, it’s still helpful to think of it as a kind of machine. You don’t need to do every part of the process yourself — you just need to set up the machine so that the right outcomes happen.

For example, let’s say you want to build a treehouse in the backyard. You’re great at sawing and hammering, but architecture is not your forte. You build and build, but the treehouses keep falling down. Sure, you can try to get better at architecture, develop a better design, but you can also step back, look at the machine as a whole, and decide to fire yourself as the architect. Instead, you find a friend who loves that sort of thing to design the treehouse for you and you stick to actually building it. After all, your goal was to build a treehouse whose design you like — does it really matter whether you’re the one who actually designed it?

Or let’s say you really want to get in shape, but never remember to exercise. You can keep beating yourself up for your forgetfulness, or you can put a system in place. Maybe you have your roommate check to see that you exercise before you leave your house in the morning or you set a regular time to consistently go to the gym together. Life isn’t a high school exam; you don’t have to solve your problems on your own.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/nummi
> And if the religion condones crimes against humanity?

No. If you want to block people who say they are against homosexuality, that might be legal. If you want to block people who say their religion is against homosexuality, that's not legal.

The subtle differences matter. Similarly, if you're hiring for a warehouse job, you can discriminate against people who cannot safely lift 50lb packages repeatedly. You cannot discriminate explicitly against people in wheelchairs, even though that group in general will have a lot of trouble lifting 50 lb packages overhead.
Its time to start a world backslash to defend American workers. Like we do to ask for good working conditions in Asia.

During the 17th century England started to fight against slavery. One of the reasons is that with the Industrial Revolution, the only way to compete with them were with slave labor. Maybe we should combat slavery in USA.
The number of instances of the word "believe" is where your argument (and Marcos') fails.

I'm not a justice expert, but unless Trump is judged and condemned, he is innocent and none of his actions are to be considered criminal, correct? That being the case, supporting him shouldn't be punished as well.

I'm thinking that maybe the People should prosecute Trump over hate crimes and such (there are grounds for that, right? Inciting crime is a crime in itself). Once he's a felon, then we may discuss if supporting him over a certain extent is to be considered criminal...

Again, I know I'm not creating the most solid argument here, since my legal expertise is limited, but judging people from supporting a free person seems misguided to me, rebellious as Trump is.
I'm not a fan of people getting paid for copyrighted works decades after the work was created but in this case I think Harry has it right. He obviously is not just looking to cash in on previous revenue that, if he is correct, is owed to him; there are a couple of paragraphs at the end describing how Vivendi has done little to nothing to enforce the trademark on Spinal Tap except when the actual actors/players decided they would like to do something more with it.

It seems to me that if the original creators want to go out and try something new with their work and the company managing the licensing of said work is doing nothing to contribute than they are indeed within their rights to seize it back.

Copyright law is complicated and IANAL but my layman's reading of this is that Harry, and the rest of Spinal Tap, have a case.
It's sort of like asking "what is a celebrity"? There's a line somewhere, and the existence of paparazzi doesn't impact the privacy rights of ordinary people.

The political line is somewhere over the level of voting, and could be somewhere below the level of donating millions and giving speeches to millions.

There's no reason the line inherently has to be drawn at the limit of "legitimate" behavior. We can say that something is legitimate to do, and legitimate to affect who will do business with you.
> There is a difference between having an opinion or stance on something and repeating racist, ignorant and bigotry statements from a candidate.

There is, indeed. Donating over a million dollars that can be used for ads repeating racist, ignorant, and bigoted Trump statements falls squarely in the latter category.
The field of Organizational Behavior has done research on 'grapevine communication', and found that most rumors are true. And this was decades ago: http://tqr.nova.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/singh3.pdf

What's changed is that we have more leaked documents, more ability for whistleblowers to mass broadcast anonymously, and more tools for immediately uncovering discrepancies in people's stories. So the rumor mill probably is a little more accurate than in prior eras, but it was probably already reasonably reliable even before the advent of WikiLeaks or whatever.

The other difference is that people now have a lot more incentive to turn to the rumor mill (e.g. r/dncleaks, r/wikileaks, r/the_donald) since the mainstream media has been blatantly ignoring a lot of this stuff, and with the advent of Facebook they can spread whatever they find a lot faster.
So, give references to international law about what exactly qualify as a war -- and what does not?

Because obviously, the top law specialists don't agree with you -- presidents aren't above the law.

Edit: Here is the US law about unlawful combatants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Commissions_Act_of_20... It came after a decision from the US Supreme Court. (Another Supreme Court decision says the unlawful combatants are protected by the Geneva protocols.)

Edit 2: I asked for references and got nothing in the answer below. Enough for me.
China's PLA has a great track record of winning battles....in China. Ya, the USA military is focused outward, but they aren't killing a bunch of people in their own country.

When you are looking for a country to live in, that is important. You can tell what people think by the immigration rates between the USA and china.
I think Steve Ballmer actually would have been a very good presidential candidate.
"Conspiracy theories" are pretty broad, and some of them are crackpot, but some of them are reasonable, and some are still true. FWIF, the term didn't have a negative connotation until the CIA started to use it to discredit things they didn't like to control perception

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/how-cia-invented-and...
"Reactionary"? could you point some examples of reactionism on HN? Also, I didn't see much (if any) "conspiracy theories" in the original thread. Finally I don't understand how a discussion about current political events can be considered gossips.
Can you be more specific? Quality of life in Europe can vary greatly :)

I've considering applying for Canadian residency last year as I was looking for a new job but I quickly gave up.

There are many places in Europe with similar or even lower CoL all things considered, better social benefits, and a lot more opportunities.

Unless you specifically want to join an early stage startup, I don't see where Canada wins. But I might have missed something.
interesting, I've always used "nonymous" for that, but "onymous" is etymologically sounder
So, your argument is that people who, because of Thiel's donation, aren't as afraid of a Trump presidency as they should be, those people need to know that Graham and Altman have cut their ties with Thiel, rather than that they simply disagree with him, and that, by insufficiently ostracizing their friend and business partner, Graham and Altman are somehow sabotaging their stated goal of reducing Trump's support?
I did get your point. But if the onus to produce such a proof is on the miner before they can broadcast the next block, then the PoW is no longer optimization free.
More were correct in the past than was believed at the time.
> and proclaimed that one of his first acts as President would be to ensure the imprisonment of his political rival.

Yeah, but he's saying that because HRC has used her power and wealth to evade punishment for the white collar crimes she has committed.

Or are you saying HRC has never committed any white collar crimes and gotten off scot-free?
I think he meant JIT compilation.
Of course Python as an abstraction layer made it more readily available on Windows and allowed allocation of developer resources to hgtk, including a Windows Explorer extension.

Still, despite its flaws, C is the common layer we have to expose an API that you want to be consumed everywhere. That, or a message passing interface with a client/server architecture. A client/server design may lead to zombie servers, while a tightly coupled C API might crash your application, though you can isolate the C API consumer in a supervised and automatically restarted server you talk to with messages, so that's the more flexible API to have.

The Rust rewrite of parts of Mercurial by Facebook is a no-brainer and given the possibility of GC-less C API in Rust, I wouldn't be surprised if a built-in-Rust C API for Mercurial were to follow. I don't like Rust when compared to high-level languages, but it's a viable C replacement with compile-time exclusion of certain bug classes, so I can get behind such a project. That said, the soundness bugs reported on github are worrisome, so I wouldn't trust Rust's checker to be correct or exhaustive, just yet. It's still a step up from C, that's undeniable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism

There were factions in the Nazi Party, both conservative and radical.[23] The conservative Nazi Hermann Göring urged Hitler to conciliate with capitalists and reactionaries.[23] Other prominent conservative Nazis included Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich.[24]

The radical Nazi Joseph Goebbels hated capitalism, viewing it as having Jews at its core, and he stressed the need for the party to emphasise both a proletarian and national character. Those views were shared by Otto Strasser, who later left the Nazi Party in the belief that Hitler had betrayed the party's socialist goals by allegedly endorsing capitalism.[23] Large segments of the Nazi Party staunchly supported its official socialist, revolutionary, and anti-capitalist positions and expected both a social and economic revolution upon the party's gaining power in 1933.[25] Many of the million members of the Sturmabteilung (SA) were committed to the party's official socialist program.[25] The leader of the SA, Ernst Röhm, pushed for a "second revolution" (the "first revolution" being the Nazis' seizure of power) that would entrench the party's official socialist program. Further, Röhm desired that the SA absorb the much smaller German Army into its ranks under his leadership.[25]
Right, I was pointing out that there are negotiations where one side expects the other to lay their cards on the table and has the leverage/position to make it happen (underwriters don't care a whole lot about individual mortgages).
2 points :
- Peter Thiel has a right to support trump. The common misconception is that for something to be a right it should be morally right as well. This is not the case. Having the right to do something doesn't mean it is morally right to do so.
- You can support a subset of someone's ideas without agreeing to all of his ideas. For example, I think Socrates is a great guy but I don't agree with a lot of what he says.

The backlash towards Thiel is an interesting sociological phenomenon. It seems that the pressure to conform is extremely high in the tech community.
I'm getting flashbacks from 2000. I would hope we could learn from history, but alas, history tells us otherwise.
I misread the tweet, they said "black-rimmed glasses" rather than "sunglasses".

So it seems to boil down to, "It seems like most of our critics are those upwardly-mobile Jews." Another sad chapter in the descent of WikiLeaks from a journalistic organization that was a reason to hope for humanity into a the Daily Mail for the Kremlin instead of GCHQ.
I'm not sure you know what Occupy Wall Street was about.
That's not common knowledge to me, especially since I don't live in California. You have asserted certain claims and offer no evidence. "Common knowledge" isn't evidence.
I don't know that there's a reason to specifically doubt a or b, but in contrast to their other major (and known valid) leaks, this one is much more tied to their organizational interests, so there's that much more reason to be healthily skeptical of it.
The US is still paying for Gitmo, they also might still be paying for Alaska :P
If I'm reading https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/candidate.php?id=N0002386... correctly, it's a good 1.5% of all pro-Trump money spending (currently $84,640,147) in this election.
I only very loosely followed Node/npm for the first few years, as I was mostly working on windows. 0.8 kind of worked, and 0.10 was the first version that really worked, and npm was finally baked enough. That said, the few binary modules you came across rarely worked in windows, and there were some rough cuts along the way.

I know what the pain/churn was like then... I mean it's overwhelming, build chains, task runners, configuration files, tools changing left and right, exponential (for a while) growth... Not to mention more functional approaches clashing paradigms, the detour of bower, less vs sass vs whatever... It was a huge shift. But the backdrop has settled a lot... Yes, there are new options out every other day, but it's not like it was for a long while.

Node 0.12 through current is mainly about bringing in new JS engines and performance improvements and less about introducing sweeping changes. Webpack and Babel are now staples... ES6 modules will shake up the npm ecosystem a bit for the next while, but if you're using Webpack + Babel, you'll probably notice it less.

There's still growth, but the churn isn't quite as massive if you just concentrate on the core (JS, npm, webpack, babel) and less about specific modules (lego blocks) until you need a given brick.
He has repeatedly stated that he would happily release information on Trump and the Republicans if someone would leak it to him.
Ascribing government propaganda to anonymous sources is basically 70% of the New York Times "reporting".
Wikileaks can't appear to be unbiased to those who will perceive them as biased as a result of releasing info that may hurt Hillary Clinton.

What would they have to do to appear unbiased but still be able to release information damaging to the DNC and Clintons?
That's a great attitude for the browser--and I completely agree that decentralization is important for the browser--but does your opinion here extend to server-side JS as well?
Hillary considers THEM?! GTFOH. These men would never come 2nd to this raging old lunatic.
The condensed version is "There are some issues so contentious that negotiation by committee does not work."

Imagine trying to end WWII if every citizen of every nation in that war were sitting at the negotiating table.
What criticism? There hasn't been a single case where information leaked by his organisation has been proven false. So he leaks the truth, I've got no issue with that.

You like being ruled by corrupt criminals?
What concerns me the most is not HRC or Trump. I will vote for neither and I don't believe that either of them will make a big difference. However a big divide in American society is the real problem. I grew up on Soviet Union and it Communist Party was the one and only ideology pushed down everyone throats. The ideology was more important than people (see for just one of many examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlik_Morozov).

With the D and R camps right now I see exactly the same - the ideology becomes more important than anything else. For example, in this discussion "support for candidate X" factor is considered more important than personal and business relationship between people. This is exactly how Communist Party wanted the people to behave. I don't like it at all.

Instead of working together, the D and R camps push supporters to the extremes. Unfortunately, if this continues then things will go really badly. I am really looking for a force/person who can unite the people instead of dividing them.
Or just clone your dotfiles from a repository.
> e.g. why doesn't FB use dependency management (or binary package management aka maven, npm, etc)? That is have multiple repositories and cut releases. Build tools to help cut and manage the releases and dependency graph of the releases.

Because it's a pain in the ass and a monorepo means you don't have to deal with that crap for internal code. It's especially important for refactorings or API changes where you can atomically perform a change at once rather than have to wait for the changes to trickle down across hundreds of repositories over days or weeks.

> potential coupling that can happen with a gigantic code base

The coupling is a feature not a bug. Decoupling is a mean not an end, and it has costs. If you don't need it you'd rather not pay it. Same as generic collections, if you don't need them there's nothing wrong with specific ones, quite the opposite.
Robust application design on AWS: queues in the cloud
Kayak has this too. I use it all the time.
I'm pretty excited about that one, it's JEP-286, http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/286.

Valhalla is pretty big. Goetz described it as pulling on a very long string. It's going to touch everything in the JVM, including reifing generics, although as I understand it, erasure of Objects may be here to stay for the language.
> Most only get involved around election

Which I am afraid indicates it has much more to do with "our team winning" than supposed goal of politics - i.e. making things work better. So when I read such demands as the parent post I can't help thinking "virtue signaling".
Different kind of enemy.
As someone who works at another company with a big monorepo, briefly:

* Ability to change an API and all its users at the same time.

* Circular dependencies become a non-issue in a lot of cases where the would be if you vendor your dependencies.

* Even if you vendor your dependencies hunting for bugs is a lot easier, your bisect of a bug in a library will just come down the commit that upgraded it from 1.0 to 2.0 without a monorepo, with a monorepo you can bisect anything down to a specific commit.

* Code discoverability / mass edits are a lot easier, and integrate seamlessly into a lot more tools than if you need to manage multiple checkouts etc.
More are provably correct than in the past.

Um, that is, numerically more are provably correct, not more as a percent. There are far more conspiracy theories (of which I am aware) than there were in the past. I don't know that the fraction that are provably correct is any higher now.
That is the goal. This runs on App Engine, Google's PAAS, if the Java lock-in is anything like the Python lock-in I have experienced this won't be very useful outside of their infrastructure. At least not without a major rewrite.
I'm sure he would, that doesn't make it appropriate to use leaked information to carry out a vendetta.

edit: getting source
Absolutely. How could I forget disabled reader!
I am an outsider, but I don't understand why Wikileaks doesn't leak into CNN.com and friends in the MSM?

or something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY ?

Nothing bad sticks to the democrat candidate. I'm not talking about proofs, but about headlines that get written all the time for clicks. Where are those for Hillary? Not on CNN, nytimes, etc.

Every day there is a new headline about how Trump winning would destroy the universe. Where should I read the news? Politico? Infowars?
I look forward to seeing the answer to this on the FP tomorrow :D
Inconveniently, that's not actually how economics works. Values aren't set in stone; they're negotiations between seller and buyer, where information asymmetry moves the price point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
Buzzfeed, who are way up my shit list for clickbait crap, have nonetheless done some phenomenally good reporting on the TPP and ISDS issue, including multi-part deep coverage.

You've got to dig for the good stuff, but it actually is there.
Yeah, like someone submitting stories at a certain time of day to HN instead of just when the idea hits them... oh sure, of course they would say "I thought you might find this interesting, that's all I'm doing here", but I'll feel secure in the knowledge that you'll show up to call out their "specific agenda".
Access vs. ownership is great -- whats the stat on a typical owned car? 90% of the time it is idle and parked.

But access-over-ownership is kinda orthogonal to making things repairable and upgradable. You can still make progress on the latter. I read a comment from an engineer somewhere... he said you can take tons of classes on designing for manufacturability, but he's never seen one on designing for maintenance.

Back to cars, I think the example he used was there's some makes and models known to mechanics as being complete shitjobs when it comes to regular maintenance... you need to take half the engine apart to get to some regularly-serviceable component like a clutch or whatever. I'm sure it was designed to be put together easily in the factory, but when the maintenance is an externality, you just don't optimize for that. Access over ownership doesn't address that.
Ultimaker 3 Announced with Dual Extrusion
His internet was cut, but they have landlines. Is it really Ecuador's obligation to provide him uninterrupted internet access? What else are they obligated to provide? They're giving him a place to hang his hat for free. We have no idea what kind of house guest this guy is. If WikiLeaks requires Assange to have internet access to function, it speaks poorly of how organized they are.
When you split your libraries into separate projects, you have to start versioning them.

And every update to the code requires other teams to then update their library/app to use the new version, and apps depending on that dependency... you get my drift.

You end up with a complicated dependency headache which hurts productivity.

With a monorepo, you can statically identify all places where your library is used and update those automatically with tooling, or manually. You can also monitor where and how a piece of code is used across the company, etc.

If you then ensure that only commits get accepted that pass the relevant tests, you end up with a sane and working HEAD that's always up to date.

Of course there are lot's of drawbacks as well.

But Google and FB seem to have concluded that this is the better approach for them.
You don't normally have candidates insisting that the election is rigged despite having no evidence to support that assertion. The reason that the insanity subsides after the election is over, is because the majority of people accept the results. The losing candidate concedes that he was defeated fairly, and most of us move on with our lives.

If 40% of the country doesn't accept the results because their candidate is telling them not too, things can quickly get out of hand.
DNA reveals a hybrid Ice Age bison species depicted in ancient cave art
Where in the US and where in Europe...? It is very hard to generalize

San Fran vs Toronto vs Paris or Cleveland vs Vancouver vs London
Wikileaks != the Wikileaks Twitter account. It is perfectly possible for Wikileaks to be multiple people, and also for the Twitter account to be only one.