skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(a) Pretty sure that's not what "despotism" means.

(b) Pretty sure Thiel isn't going to shut up no matter what Sam Altman does.

(c) Pretty sure political criticism doesn't mean "the kinds of criticism I am comfortable hearing" --- in fact, pretty sure John Stuart Mill specifically warns against using discomfort as a litmus test for criticism.

(d) Pretty sure Thiel did more than simply donate to Donald Trump.

(e) Pretty sure the declaration that YC is a "non-political organization" is one you made, not one that YC did, and further pretty sure that nobody at YC agrees that their actions are cabined by your (so-far-unstated) definition of what a "non-political organization" is.

(f) Pretty sure YC has already threatened to blacklist organizations that disagree with them politically.

Oh, I could go on, and on, and on. But do we really need to?
Im particularly interested in the contents of the leaks but definitely not through the lens of /r/the_donald. That place is a cess pool of Trump worshipping shit posters.
Wordpress is likely to be more secure than anything an above average developer can roll up on their own. Anything that's broken is likely to be fixed faster (and discovered faster to boot).

The professional measure of a website that's going to matter most to a small business is the design. On the technical side that includes the ability for any old shad tree mechanic to maintain it. Wordpress definitely fits that.
No, that is a false statement.
> I got confused because the parent post mentioned the "downfall" of "the Atheist community in the US"

Yes, I was the person who wrote that, and this is what I meant.

> as opposed to an outspoken atheist who said something stupid online and got publicly ridiculed for it.

... which then resulted in infighting over if it should be ridiculed, a mass exodus of the thought leaders, and general dwindling of the community. Seriously, Dawkins was shunned by major atheist conferences over his comments in my earlier link. Many atheists then shunned those conferences for shunning Dawkins. When's the last time you saw new material on athiesm in the news? Your answer is almost surely "before elevatorgate"
That is not true at all. It's also not an issue that is going away. This is The Singularity. It's only going to get worse. Either you learn to adapt or you get left behind. And "adaoting" could mean, "learn to quit being a magpie distracted by evwry shiny new thing."
Much faster on Windows for large repos.

Better extension system. Some like hg evolve are science fiction compared to typical git workflows. Sounds like hg absorb is similar.
> As for, "people who have all the weapons", unless they have tanks, an air force, a navy, and AA capability, they're still just idiots with popguns who were already joining militias and similar groups en masse over the last 8 years; appeasement does not work.

I know people say that, but let's not forget, our armies are still only good fighting traditional armies (like we did in WW2). We are still no good in invading and not-killing civilians (which would be the ultimate priority in a SHTF/TEOTWAWKI scenario).

Earlier this year 5 cops were shot down by a veteran who got agitated by the shootings of African Americans by the police. If SHTF scenario happens, a lot of veterans would be in control of the militia groups, training people, guiding them (pretty much the same thing which is happening in Iraq/Syria, except much worse).

No I am not predicting a civil war or a rebellion, just saying that among all the countries I could bet on regarding a civilian population's ability to defend itself, Americans are as armed as they need to be in case such a situation arise.
Reminds me of that bit in The Last Continent -

They'd never stopped, or even thought of stopping. You couldn't stop Tradition. You could only add to it. The three men reached the shadows by the main gate, almost blotted out in the whirling snow. The bledlow on duty was waiting for them. 'Halt! Who Goes There?' he shouted. McAbre saluted. 'The Archchancellor's Keys!'

'Pass, The Archchancellor's Keys!'

The Head Bledlow took a step forward, extended both arms in front of him with his palms bent back towards him, and patted his chest at the place where some bledlow long buried had once had two breast pockets. Pat, pat. Then he extended his arms by his sides and stiffly patted the sides of his jacket. Pat, pat. 'Damn! Could Have Sworn I Had Them A Moment Ago!' he bellowed, enunciating each word with a sort of bulldog carefulness. The gatekeeper saluted. McAbre saluted. 'Have You Looked In All Your Pockets?' McAbre saluted. The gatekeeper saluted. A small pyramid of snow was building up on his bowler hat. 'I Think I Must Have Left Them On The Dresser. It's Always The Same, Isn't It?'

'You Should Remember Where You Put Them Down.!'

'Hang On, Perhaps They're In My Other Jacket!' The young bledlow who was this week's Keeper of the Other Jacket stepped forward. Each man saluted the other two. The youngest cleared his throat and managed to say: 'No, I Looked In . . . There This . . . Morning!' McAbre gave him a slight nod to acknowledge a difficult job done well, and patted his pockets again. 'Hold On, Stone The Crows, They Were In This Pocket After All! What A Muggins I Am!'

'Don't Worry, I Do The Same Myself!'

'Is My Face Red! Forget My Own Head Next!' Somewhere in the darkness a window creaked up. 'Er, excuse me, gentlemen—'

'Here's The Keys, Then!' said McAbre, raising his voice. 'Much Obliged!'

'I wonder if you could—' the querulous voice went on, apologizing for even thinking of complaining. 'All Safe And Secure!' shouted the gatekeeper, handing the keys back. '—perhaps keep it down a little—'

'Gods Bless All Present!' screamed McAbre, veins standing out on his thick crimson neck. 'Careful Where You Put Them This Time. Ha! Ha! Ha!'

'Ho! Ho! Ho!' yelled McAbre, beside himself with fury.
Your reply makes sense and triggered some further thoughts:

We need to push ourselves to do things with no immediate reward (because our instincts are a bit short-sighted).

I however still fear that (2) might cause some detachment from your "inner self". If you force your mood, your feelings, your body to step back to make the high-level goal possible you might burn out quicker. The high-level goal being something you imposed on yourself, like having a skyrocketing career. That in itself might be triggered by swelling fears you don't want to deal with (to stay productive and functioning, haha, here we are in a spiral). On the other hand effective working might reduce stress too and your career can avoid money trouble. It's hard to weigh in all factors. But as said, I think it's healthy to be a bit skeptic towards such self-optimization.

edit: Another thought: when I was young I used to play computer all day long for the first 2 weeks of the big summer holidays. After that, quite suddenly, it urged me to do something more fulfilling that might be considered more healthy. I think there is power for self-regulation, even on a subconscious level, but it might need some more freedom to keep that. In this case it needed a whole 2 weeks to waste on games before it made me feel empty and longing for something else. 2 weeks of time sadly is a luxury I just had once a year as a teenager and is hard to come by as an adult.
How does this affect Assange's supposed "dead-man" switch? Wasn't the idea that he has the push the switch every 24 hours? Wouldn't that require internet access?
There's an interesting dichotomy when people talk about this election. The same folks who accuse Trump of being divisive, then demand folks break ties with all Trump supporters.

I detest Trump, but I understand a certain aspect of his followers. (I know several intelligent Trump followers. They do exist.) Their core premise is, "We want to push Reset on the crony capitalism in Washington, and if it takes a terminally flawed candidate to destroy the establishment, so be it." In this light, things like "He's never done the job before", "He's a Pervert", "He lies a bunch" don't hurt him. And when Republican leadership abandons him, it strengthens his cause. (Yes, there's racism too, but let's leave that to the side for now) Yes, Trump is reprehensible, but you can appreciate that the disaffected are rallying behind him with "Let's not have 4 more years of the rich bailing themselves out and bringing cheap competition in for our jobs."

YC can join the Facebook drama queens who unfriend people with opposing political views, but that's childish. Better to engage the opposition, and allow people to support whatever politicians they want out in the open.
If there's one thing you'd expect the city of London to excel at, it's finding a loophole that lets them pay a debt to the crown using property the crown loans them. If they're really doing it right, they probably get to bill the crown for holding the goods for them.
Republicans were not opposed to Obama because of his race, though for the past 8 years that has been the excuse to avoid talking about the issues.

And once again, Liberals are not talking about Trumps positions, but merely calling him racist and sexist.

"It seems so fucked up to vote for someone hoping that they're just a pandering amoral liar who won't deliver on their promises."

Well, the charitable view of Hillary supporters is that this is what they are doing. Otherwise, you really think journalists should be taken out by drone for publishing things embarrassing to hillary?

You really think free speech rights should be taken away from people who make a movie critical of hillary? (That's what "Citizens United" was about - the supreme court defended free speech for a group that made a movie critical of hillary-- and since then we've been hearing how evil that ruling is.)
I tend to fall into the distraction trap for days/weeks at a time. It's hard to notice until you take a step back and realize how little was accomplished over a given time period.

"This is all a lot easier if you’re working on interesting and important things." Definitely one of the more important points made at the end of the article and, unfortunately, not always something within our control.

I was recently reading about learning theories (during a period of distraction) and noticed a possible relationship between Vygotsky's Zones of Proximal Development [1] and distraction. There must be a point of inflection between "completely distracted" and "deep working focus" where we feel compelled to switch off a current task or procrastinate. Maybe a similar scaffolding approach can be used to ease you back on task.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_proximal_development
How important is Assange, himself, to WikiLeaks? If he's critical to its operating capabilities, why?
I suspect they've disabled it, or somehow changed it to a more manual process, e.g. phone call or physical meeting.
Agitating for people to be fired based on pilitical affiliation is not "criticizm". If you think it is consider how you would feel about it when you are on tbe receiving end.
> Defence in depth.

You know, nearly every time I hear that phrase, something bad follows. You are kind of an exception, that's not a bad set of protections, except that they are off-topic, and won't apply to container design.

In practice real defense does not have depth. If you are in a position where you can apply a deep stack of protections, you've already lost.
>I don't understand, what do you mean by this? Does anyone force you to buy a bitten off apple brand phone? You can get excellent smartphones that last for 3 years for less than 200$

You're not going to get a newer iPhone for anywhere near that figure.

And if you're questioning why someone needs a new iPhone, then you're obviously not married.

>Does anyone force you to buy a gant sweater?

Here again, you prove that you're not married.

>Your kids "want" an ipad? Buy them a cheaper tablet, or better yet, don't buy them a tablet at all.

Yet again, you're definitely not married.

>But a raspberry pi and a couple of snes controllers and download some old games. Problem solved.

This one clinches it: you are definitely not married.

>but if you are aware of that, what's forcing you yourself to buy into it?

If you ever get married, you'll find out.
As an-ex journalist who recently left the industry to become a programmer, I'd say one of the issues is the short-sightedness of senior management. When I started teaching myself to code last year, I told my editor as well as a couple of other senior staff members (including the chief exec) about my ambitions to combine coding and journalism.

My editor was all for it but there was little she could do besides telling her boss about what I was doing and hoping that would lead to meetings for me with our in-house dev team based in London (I was at a regional paper owned by one of the biggest regional newspaper owners in the UK).

In the end I left because nothing happened. I appreciate senior staff members are busy with other stuff but I'd have thought somebody would have taken more of an active interest in what I was trying to do. One of the issues is that developers working for news firms are creating tools based on briefs from people who do not use those systems on a daily basis, so you end up with products with a poor UX for both readers and journalists.

I was a journalist for only 4 years (I was fortunate to get a job straight out of uni) but my sense is that we are spending too much time thinking about the content and not thinking deeply enough about the platforms serving that content. By that I don't mean building the next Facebook etc but starting creating platforms which will be one of the places we serve our content and possibly bring other sources of revenue. I imagine this would work better on a local/regional level because you could be more specific with your audience.

It's probably too late to do that now but I think the journalists who will be more successful in the future will be those building media firms which serve niche audiences but don't rely on content being their #1 source of income.
Or diving into a rotten code base...
Whelp, he was being used. And I'm sure he knows that, but now that EC has other things on their minds more important than being a thorn to American politics, it's back to Realpolitik and Assange releasing info which may further embarrass their horse in the American political race would counter their political cause, so it becomes a casualty.
We have seen many examples in the last decade of "enemies of the left" being fired and no platformed for their views. This campaign targeting Thiel appears to be a product of the same value system, so it is understandable that some people consider it relevant to the discussion.
Trumps is for isolation not globalization.

His rhetorics are not his politicis just like Hillarys rhetorics are not her politics. We will not get rid of Drones by voting on anyone of them.

Which brings me to my point. You are just accepting another kind of problematic foreign policy over another. They are both bad.

And again. I am not voting for any of them. I do not support any of them.

Your claims about Trumps killing millions of people is so absurd. But to use your own argument.

If you really believe Trump will kill millions I have no problem with your defending Hillary only killing hundreds of thousands.
There are also ClojureScript and Elm to consider.
Multiple US sources say Assange is pulling a PR stunt.

Multiple US sources say Trump is the anti christ.

Multiple US sources say Assange is a false flag placed by the Reptilians.

Wow, this is easy!
We did this calculation in a course I took in college. I've completely forgotten how it worked.
Concentration and willpower are not the same thing.

Concentration rests on a foundation of relaxed awareness. Concentration states include flow, zone, etc.

Willpower is usually thought of as having to force your way through things. However, there are disciplines that reframe and retrain that. For example, the Taoist principle of Wu Wei is a good example. Wu Wei is usually applied in the West as Fk It, but it's more that you become the person whose will is naturally aligned and in harmony with the environment and the universe, and as such, you naturally (Zi Ren) do the things. There is a similar idea in classical, medieval Tantra from India.

Having said all of that, I had removed the Facebook app from my phone years ago, only access Facebook through incognito mode without the benefit of passwords. I used to look at it once or twice a month, but now I kinda forget. Sometimes I want to level up my work and not level up my concentration skills.
I think you mostly call it a "saner world" because git tooling and performance doesn't work with unified repos, so people avoid it.

But it can be fixed, too, which is what Facebook and Google are doing.
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Software is uniquely suited for remote work. I run a small but acceptably successful startup with one other partner and it really doesn't matter where I am as long as I have a power outlet and internet. (and an hour of internet access is enough if necessary).

So I've started spending about a third of my time abroad (more in the winter, less in the summer). Usually it's a week in some southern-european or mediterranean country, from Portugal to Egypt or Israel. Flights are about 60-200 Euros return, accommodation is around 25 Euro/day, and a changing scenery is actually pretty good for creativity.

I could spend more time away, but social life makes being at home too attractive. I wish there were a few more people and we could start the compiler-wielding traveling circus :)
I think this comment should be higher. Industries have done exactly what Marco wants[1] and it was not a good look for America.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist
Take a look at: Shopify, Wattpad, Pager Duty, Uken Games, Opencare, Quandl, The Score (ESPN), Wealthsimple, Top Hat, Event Mobi.
If I wanted to freelance, I can simply do that in the US and solve the work/life/vacation balance myself. I will be exploring freelancing in the near future. I might be too down the tech stack, since I will not find exactly what I have been specializing in.

Of all my friends that "majored" in Computer Science in high school (which is what you do in Italy, ITIS Informatica), none of them work in software. Most never have. I heard of one classmate that was working as a software developer. Granted, I graduated a long time ago (well before social media) and have not heard from any of them since graduation.

Croatia is another country I like due to the lower costs and good weather.
The Google Pixel phone makes me wish the Google Play Edition phones had caught on, because the more I think about it, the more I realize that's all I really wanted:

- The phone I want (an HTC One M7 or M8 at the time)

- No OEM bloat

- Continued OS and security updates

That's it. And unfortunately at the time it had been announced I had already purchased an M7 on-contract from Verizon, so I couldn't well get the GPE Edition.

It didn't continue, presumably because it didn't sell as well as they were hoping (though to be fair, none of HTC's phones for the past five years have sold as well as they were hoping). But I really liked that idea: rather than buying the Nexus, which has always had certain compromises (lack of SD card slot), buy the phone you want and Nexus-ify it.

After looking at the Google Pixel, I don't really want it: I'd prefer to just buy an HTC 10 that is debloated, not carrier locked, and guaranteed to get OS updates for several years.
Is Twitter Shadowbanning me?
A suggestion if I may... Don't use monospaced formatting (two-space prefix) as a way to put a '>' on every line of a long quote, as it becomes unreadable on mobile. One '>' at the beginning of each paragraph is good enough (with blank lines to separate paragraphs), or italics are fine too.

Here's a copy that should be readable on any device:

> Facebook is writing a Mercurial server in Rust. It will be distributed and will support pluggable key-value stores for storage (meaning that we could move hg.mozilla.org to be backed by Amazon S3 or some such). The primary author also has aspirations for supporting the Git wire protocol on the server and enabling sub-directories to be git cloned independently of a large repo. This means you could use Mercurial to back your monorepo while still providing the illusion of multiple "sub-repos" to Mercurial or Git clients. The author is also interested in things like GraphQL to query repo data. Facebook engineers are crazy... in a good way.
Understanding Application Performance on the Network – Part VII: TCP Window Size
> One candidate has repeatedly taken racist and sexist stances

I dislike Trump immensely, but this narrative that this guy is OBVIOUSLY a racist, homophobe, a misogynist whatever, is not good for your country. Every election the DNC dog-whistles that the GOP candidate is all those things in order to discredit their opposition. For example, Romney was a flake but generally a decent guy and yet he was spun as a misogynist!! He's not a misogynist. Trump is a narcissist and a huckster, but he's not a racist. I'm not even sure he's a misogynist either.

You cannot disparage your opposition like that. It's unproductive because it entrenches supporters in their views and even radicalizes them. You're basically alienating 100 million people from mainstream politics - do you really really want to do that?

Stick to the issues.
> If you can explain the mechanism behind the manifestation then you can understand why it isn't real.

I watched, with my family, the Algorithms documentary available on Netfix. While not perfect (but very, very good), it certainly did a great job of explaining in simple terms some algorithms and how they relate to the world.

One of the most interesting parts, in my opinion, was the admittance during the section where they were discussing the XBox Kinect. It was all done through some machine learning algorithms, and impressively, they confessed to not being completely certain how the code actually worked. You could argue that this means that they cant explain the mechanism behind the manifestation.

Now, of course, this is a massively simplified version against the near-future Westworld narrative. However, it does call into question whether we would understand the mechanism of something so advanced. Also, applied to humans, if we end up understanding the mechanisms behind the brain, then does that make us less real?

They point out in episode three I think that one of the 'Hosts' are experiencing physical discomfort while going through diagnosis. If such a thing were coded, and it was made possible to respond to it (I would argue that the best possibility for making this possible would be a learning algo, similar to the Kinect analogy), then how would that be different from the very physical and chemical responses that a human has to experiencing suffering?

It's hard for me to make a decision in either direction. It is a complicated and nuanced problem. It reminds me of the short story "They're Made Out of Meat" [1], and could just be the result of human-centric (or in this case, biologically-centric) thinking.

1: http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html