skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is it a thought terminating cliche?

When you don't apply the same "people" standard to Muslim and Christians, when you want to strip one of those classes from free speech, from free entry into their country or their religious freedom, do not be surprised if "the left" ( but really, anyone) gathers that they are not being seen as people.

The reasonable questions you are asking are not the questions your (I'm assuming) party is asking. The answers to those questions are also extremely different to the answers that same party is coming up with. You don't solve a cultural difference problem by removing the culturally different, that's just making it worse.
They were part of Russia for several hundred years, gained independence in 1918 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Brest-Litovsk) and were retaken by Stalin in 1939.
> Given all the barefaced lies told during the Brexit campaign and the US campaign it does lead to questions about democracy, i.e. should the average man on the street really decide?

I think (I hope) that the problem isn't the average man, but rather our system of democracy itself. Currently, there is not any reason to do the hard work it requires to become informed, because with millions of other voters (not to mention the winner-takes-all electoral college) your vote literally does not matter. Contrast that situation with a twelve person jury, where the jurors spend weeks and sometimes months to decide, gathering every bit of relevant information, and letting each side argue in as fair a way as possible. Then the jurors spend days in discussions with their peers, often agonizing over their decisions. These are regular people, who usually make good decisions, because they know that their decision matters. Contrast this with the voter who gets all of their information from a limited number of biased sources and then makes their voting decision on a whim, and who can blame them when there is no probability of their vote changing the outcome? Elections ought to be more like juries, with a smaller number of voters randomly selected from the population and then thoroughly educated on the issues.
Ask HN: What are the chances of California seceding?
Ask HN: What are the chances of California seceding, and how would this impact SV?
> a) Baltic states are separate nations from Russia and b) were occupied by it).

I actually agree with both of these points. In fact, these are just basic facts, what's there to discuss?

But if you say "here is fact X and I prove it by Y" where X is true and Y - exagerration or outright falsehood, why is it wrong to challenge Y? I actually find this a form of trolling, because if you continue slipping an untrue with well known facts often enough, then some people might start thinking - that other thing must be true as well.

> Neither of your three points explain why artists, especially writers, were deported.

That's a good point, I don't actually know any Lithuanian artists or writers that have been deported. Could you please name some of them? That would indeed invalidate my argument.

(Btw, this - learning something new - is exactly why I am trying to have a discussion at all, it's nice when people answer with facts, even if these facts change your position, instead of useless rhetorics.)
That's some reckoning on the level of 'Roko's Basilisk.'
> How work is done, how meetings are held, being on time, eating, restaurants in general and the food and the drink. Also how friendships work. I'd say french and german culture is one of the most distant in all of (western?) europe.

Would love to know more. I like to think I know a little about French culture (or could make a guess at it) but I've never been to Germany.
In my experience as an immigrant liberals are the only ones who have ever shown racism towards me in the West.

Usually it's the type of patronising racism where someone subtly implies that immigrants are basically stupid children at best who don't know what's best for themselves. So we need liberals like yourself as our teacher so you can tell us what to do.

This kind of aggression towards people who are different isn't only shown towards immigrants but also towards all who are religious, are not college educated, are conservative, are not politically correct, listen to certain type of music and so on

Depending on which group you belong to the aggression can be anything between treating someone as a subhuman to actual physical violence.

You comment is a great display for a liberal viewing all who dared voting against the second of two options as subhumans. You can be proud of yourself

On the other hand a conservative will just not engage with me more than necessary if he doesn't like me for some reason. I'm fine with that, who am I to tell that person what he should do?
Waiting for the 2017 update:

http://thebulletin.org/timeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock

We definitely live in interesting times.
May I ask what's your field of work?
How's the paycheck in Germany?
>It is quite customary in Europe

Except northern Europe (although not Belgium). But yeah, it's pretty common.

>fact of the matter is that it's being done to prevent people from avoiding the extra tax the ECB wants to create : negative interest rates [2].

You can avoid that tax by keeping your money in anything but money - which is what the ECB wants. Just buy an index fund. That's what you should do anyway.
FYI people have been saying this since the 50's. Symbolic assemblers were supposed to make 'programming' obsolete; there's a relavant quote by Richard Hamming I can't be arsed to look up.
This really seems like a waste of time or an I missing something ?
Hell is real: The 'SelfieMic' is here
I won't get too much into the various possibilities, but simply put, if neither candidate has 270 electoral votes, then the election is decided by congress, the incoming one. So really there is no chance its not trump.
I wonder how many will support this just to "pay back" for enjoying their pirated Amiga/C64 copy of the game so much in their childhood?
Many supporters might agree that Trump isn't the man for the job. But you really think Hillary can serve as a symbol of our culture? She's a integral part of the politically correct movement that Trump supporters hate.

They weren't duped - they got what they ordered - but liberals might want to re-examine their mission statement.
Trump is old. Had skeletons. People didn't care.

Sanders had a similar message as Trump, just a bit different flavor. That resonated with the voters. I think Sanders would have grabbed more electoral college votes but to win, no idea. Hindsight and all that
Maybe it was because windows update was running in the background?
How Groove Built a $5m ARR Business with Content Marketing
> And you know what? Eventually that changed. It takes time. The approach the left has been taking lately is to make sweeping changes that a lot of people aren't comfortable with RIGHT NOW OR ELSE YOU'RE A BIGOT AND YOU DESERVE TO HAVE YOUR LIFE RUINED. For a large portion of the population it was just too much, too fast and they had enough.

Originally ,that was what the conservatives side supposed to be about: consistent small changes to society that can be rolled back, to make sure that the result works.

Viewing in that lense, things like constitutional originalist makes sense since the justices are essentially just saying "if you to change things, go through the whole amendment process", which is slow and stable.

I'm not sure if the changes can be attributed to either the left or right, but the result is that the left is now trying to make sweeping changes, the right turned into a rose-tinted extreme that goes "past is better".
Saying this is essentially dismissing someone else trying to correct the ignorance that Estonia, Latvia, etc. are the same or have similar cultures. This isn't highlighting differences any more that someone correcting someone else that USA and Mexico are not the same countries because they were both colonialozed by europoean countries.
If you watch stuff from YouTube you should check out Peter Coffin's break down of this. This is a failure of neoliberalism and it's something that needs to be addressed ASAP for sure.
I think many minorities are terrified this morning just because of your answer. Because when we peel back the rhetoric behind opposition to illegal immigration among many people (which is a legitimate position), we find opposition to the legal immigration that changed the racial fabric of America after 1965.

I'm Indian-American - my parents likely would not have ever been able to immigrate to America if the racist, pre-Hart-Cellar quota laws were still in effect.
You might be interested to read http://www.salon.com/2015/12/28/behind_the_ronald_reagan_myt...
Whoa. Why in the world could that have happened? Article doesn't really go into any theories.
Odyssey.js
In cases where we're "acting on" some value, like a dictionary, surely we should be able to store the comparison function in the value? I don't know Elm, but something like the following Haskell:

data Dict k v = D (k -> k -> Bool) [(k, v)]

empty :: (k -> k -> Bool) -> Dict k v
empty f = D f []

-- and so on

Of course, this is a naive linear-time implementation; substitute with whatever alternative you like. If you already have some type-level "comparable" thingy, you can make an "emptyFromComparable" to pre-populate with the built-in compare function.

We could do the same for things like Set too.

As far as I can see, the only 'problem' would be operations like `merge`, where we might have two different functions. The simplest thing would be to bias in favour of one, e.g. turning `merge d1 d2` into something like `extendWith d1 d2`.

I'm not saying this can replace typeclasses or modules in general, but in these sorts of cases we're already passing around a datastructure, so why bother passing around the required functions separately?

There's probably some irony here, considering the fact that GHC implements typeclasses using dictionary passing!
I think they are the biggest driver behind LLVM projects (LLVM/Clang/LLDB) as well which is a huge value to OSS too.
I've worked with a couple of JD holding developers over the years. So there is precedent from what I've seen.
> Retirees would be crushed; retail would be crushed; real estate would be crushed; US government spending would be crushed; Wall Street banks would be crushed; US advertising would be crushed.

> But at the same time farmers would soar; manufacturing would soar; oil producers would soar; miners would soar;

Interestingly, the industries you are suggesting would crash employ most of the people in all states and the ones you suggest would soar are not large employers (with the exception of oil/mining that might come back online).

Oil and mining actually might get wrecked as well if the US/China relationship gets worse as Chinese demand is so important to those industries globally. Its hard to tell what the equilibrium point in those markets would look like.
Perhaps it is much like disability and they turn down a lot of people?

Reimbursement for a stay in a nursing home would also be subject to a doctor deeming it necessary (and also whatever rules Medicare has about it), home care is just a lower level of care in that sense.

I wasn't really trying to compare the programs, I just saw the possibility in your comment that were not very aware of it in the US.
The parent comment was talking about relatinship with ideology of Islam, and you've changed the subject to relationship to Muslim people. Don't you see the difference?
The media wanted a razor-tight race because it was great for their ratings, so they gave Trump billions in free advertising on the 24-hour news cycle. And they got their wish: 48% to 48% of the popular vote.
Yes I'm in IT in Atlanta and at a large corporation and I got tested. In fact most medium to large companies that I know of do in this area.

I believe you get some kind of tax break by drug testing.
Knok raises £300k to expand with its Uber-style private healthcare platform
You can't mention a trademark in App Store description
Pardon me, but didn't the Pakistanis show quite aggressive Nationalism for decades now towards all their neighbours except for China?

Hindu Nationalism sounds more like a reaction to me than anything else.
> "[...] integration should be an essential part of immigration."

This is an idea I have seen or heard a lot of during this election cycle. What exactly is it you want when you say it should be essential? What do you think the consequences should look like for immigrants who are having a difficult time integrating into the culture?

Further, what exactly is this culture? Speaking English? Watching sports? Joining the local church?

How do the Romans define what it is that the Romans do such that they can require it of someone?
Sure, his son only sentenced opposition to prison instead of giving death penalty like his dad. This is a great improvement.

And yes i mistyped this - I meant vice-minister of justice.

> Hardly the same order of magnitude though.

Really? The highest prices for motorways, the vice-minister of health department was sentenced for corruption.

Or maybe that one time when we all saw on TV how PIS suggested they will take over Samoobrona members of parliament by paying off their debts from OUR money? This was the reason why they lost their rule and lost next elections. There were more but those are the ones I remember without digging in sources.

What about FOZZ that was quickly killed off by Kryże?

Short memory people have it seems :-)
It is not ok to be this sort of an asshole on HN, least of all to Slava and his team, who poured their hearts into RethinkDB for seven years. They have nothing to be ashamed of. Those of us who've followed Slava's work and writing for all that time (and before!) know that we have more reason to listen to him, not less.

It's supercilious comments like yours, which dismiss other people's achievements, that are the shameful thing. I'm ashamed to read them on HN and, even though I know it's human nature, it gives me a sickening feeling to see how they get so upvoted.
> Are these the worst things you have to worry about?

What else? What other issue are you going to conflate with this one in order to derail it? The "There are starving children in Africa, so all your problems are trivial" argument?

> Your culture is imprinted right across the face of the world

As previously mentioned, "white" isn't really a simple culture, there are many white cultures. If you can be specific by what you mean by culture in this instance?

> woebetide anybody that dares point that out to you.

generalization. You don't know anything about that poster, other than their interactions with you specifically. Your dismissing specific problems in your own arguments as just being general disagree-ability in you opponents.
I am in the UK and had to give samples for a software job 4 years ago. I lost one hire due to that policy
At the end of the day I hold hope he'll approach this like a business. He'll hire the best he can find, fire the incompetent (of which government has many) and generally clean things up. What remains to be seen is how much the politics of any one group may stop that type of thing.
okay i don't mean to be rude, but i'm actually a startup founder looking to score this exact visa for myself soon. i was under the impression you couldn't just "create a company and receive a visa", but rather you need the endorsement of some kind of incubator or accredited investor. is that not true?
"safe spaces" in Universities.
This is a useful resource - thanks for compiling it.

I'd suggest allowing users to submit short reviews of each ebook. I'd imagine it would be useful to have some insight as to which book would be most helpful for different circumstances - especially once you start to get some more submissions and there are more books per category.
A madman has been given the keys to the surveillance state / Boing Boing
Ah, ye olde time inverted option
> When I go to a Polish festival, there is sausages and beer. It isn't broadcast that the government has gone extreme right wing, that womens right to abortion is being removed and criminalised.

Probably because neither of those things is true.
Is that true? In his speech the other day he was arguing for a very moderate kind of libertarianism.
> Neither started to deliver yet

Election day was yesterday. Shocking how Trump hasn't fixed US economy yet.
Yeah, the English are the only ones who are afraid of nationalism...

I think you might be forgetting about at least one other country.
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> we should finally start to listen to his needs, ideas, fears and dreams.

> his needs are obvious and simple as well. Give him a job that exhausts him, give him a wife, 1-2 children, a tv, if possible a single family home. Then he's happy and won't trouble any politician.

Yeah, right, sounds like you got it.

Please somebody tell me this is sarcasm ridiculing the leftists.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12909204
Until 2010, the Democrats held control of the House, Senate, and White House. At least consider the possibility that they accomplished what they wanted to accomplish.
This is hardly about silencing anyone. But I refuse to not call racism racism only because it could offend someone.

Wasn't it Trump who has the been the biggest opponent of the political correctness? That cuts both ways, you know.
A Croat here; I have no idea what you're talking about; Who the hell are Yugoslavians? Where does this ethnicity live?

Before the breakup of Yugoslavia, some people identified as yugoslavian, yes - as one might identify as European today, but by far the majority of population identified as being one of yugoslavia's constituent ethnicities. After the breakup of Yugoslavia, practically nobody identifies as yugoslavian today - what would be the point, since that attempt at unification seems definitively dead to history now?

I assume you meant "lumped with Serbs (as being Yugoslavian)?".
Thing is I can know if the necessary information is provided (i.e. CPU architecture, version of the standard). Portability is a feature of C, but C's portability is mostly syntactic and only partly semantic.
'tmux' is actually something that runs server-side if you are ssh'ing into something, it should work with any terminal emulator the same way as GNU screen would if you ever used that, e.g. PuTTY works fine for tmux.
>speaking english in the US too though

English* is not my native language, I was taught Germany at school, I lived there it was OK. I wanted to move to the UK, I learnt the language mostly myself. I don't have any more that much time and energy to learn Austrian dialect of German or remind German again. Yea, I'm lazy, but I can communicate in 3 languages.

>This comment is beyond parody.

Agreed, your comment is funny :)
Peter Thiel on Trump's win: 'He has an awesomely difficult task'
I wonder if a hospital can really use an open source hospital information system for several years without the need to change much of the workflow to the point where modifying it will make it impossible to update from the its original source.
Life is not all about money, if it was, most people on this site who live in US will be heading to Silicon Valley.
Can you elaborate? In what way? The Federal Reserve sets the monetary policy not the President.
Perhaps the barrier to contribution aims to act as a filter against poor/troll contributions.

Also the necessary skills to submit a book overlap a lot with the skills of the people who might be interested.
Election fraud https://news.vice.com/article/new-york-lawsuit-voter-registr...
Yeah. That number is what, like 200,000 at most?
Does adding screen sharing to phone calls increase #saas #sales?
I could name few assholes from any nation, could argue that Mussolini doesn't represent italians as a nation, or french/britain/spain tyrans don't represent nobody except themselves. But I see you are deafened by hate.
The actual city centres buck the trend, as you point out, by attracting young, mobile, educated, affluent people who are more likely to be open minded and engage easily with people from other backgrounds.

But get out of the cities in the north of England and you find a place not dissimilar to America's Rust Belt: forcibly de-industrialised, full of lingering resentment. When I go back to my hometown in the north it sometimes feels as though time has stood still since the 1980s, and the steelworkers and miners who Thatcher put out of work now have children and grandchildren who have been brought up feeling hard done by, apathetic and with few aspirations, despite having access to free education, welfare and healthcare that other countries would kill for.

This is the white working class problem incarnate.
I came from screen when I started using tmux. I spend quite some time to make the key bindings similar to screen, however, kept some things the tmux way because it was better. For people interested, this is my complete tmux.conf:

https://github.com/gitaarik/tmuxconf/blob/master/.tmux.conf
Want to know the reason that grass is greener on the other side of the fence? Because, it is fertilized with bullshit.
I'm sorry to hear they don't live up to your standards.

I'm feeling rather excited that Americans decided to take a gamble.
I actually agree with you in some cases here. I'm not a huge fan of Hillary. However, as a young women working in technology and male dominated environments, it's really hard for me to believe the pathological sexism isnt a fundamentally limiting component in making everything better. I don't believe women should get free rides and everything should be equal overnight. I'm not a man hater. I know many educated male programmers I work with who agree both work and college culture and the products made in technology would be better if there were an equal gender ratio in the workforce.

As a woman who has been spoken to in previous workplaces the way Trump has spoken poorly of women, it's too much for me to overlook. It may seem like a one off issue for intelligent men who are (and you should) looking at all the contributing components, not just focusing on the pieces targeted media ads bring to light, but to me its a fundamental component for economic and technology depressions that women are not making money and contributing to technological advances and product creation geared for the masses.

It's fundamentally hypocritical to be a proponent for economic growth and treat 3.5 billion people in the population as potential girlfriends instead of opportunity for economic growth beyond buying diamonds on TV (the business his ex supermodel wife has).
It doesn't depend on it, they'd move straight over to Insta or whatever by the afternoon. It honestly makes no difference.

I've actually worked on these sort of campaigns, you never just rely on a single platform and pray for traction.
Very good point :) Btw here're some facts for the original game and pirating it.
I think First Samurai was one of the most pirated Amiga game ever. Just after the game published Robert Maxwell passed away and the publisher Mirrorsoft changed hands. Because of this the game was not really available in the stores, despite the fact that it was the game of the year. So basically it got pirated quite a lot because that was the only way getting the game :)
> On one of my teams of 10 people at Google, we had immigrants from Iceland, England, Vietnam, China, Taiwan, and India, and I was the only native-born American citizen. California would sooner secede than deport all of its immigrants.

If you think the immigration debate is about Google employees, I think you don't understand the immigration debate.

> If push came to shove and the interior decided to push a nativist, nationalist agenda, what if the coastal regions that benefit significantly from trade were to say "Okay, you guys can play with yourself, we're going to play with the rest of the world."

The interior (culturally and geographically) is massively over-represented in the security forces and military. So good luck with that.