skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I consider myself fairly progressive in my politics, and am quite annoyed that Trump got elected. I'd like to think that folks like me are on the right side of history.

That said, one of the biggest missteps in progressive popular rhetoric that we've made in the last five years has got to be the increasing reliance on identity politics when engaging the opposition.

Concepts like intersectionality, privilege, erasure, and so forth can be quite useful in an academic setting. They can shed a lot of light on how to view issues of diversity and give some insights in to how we can evaluate different social and cultural structures. They can enable somebody performing analyses to help acknowledge and account for their own biases, producing higher-quality work.

In an informal or public setting however those same ideas tend to be distorted and misused by people, being used to do such things as assign guilt and blame and to erect unimpeachable rhetorical positions that prevent good-faith discussion.

In trying to acknowledge minorities and their plights the untrained or the emotional will often throw back in somebody's face supposed privilege, and dismiss any statement as being valueless because of who it comes from. The untrained will sideline themselves with intersectionality arguments that require that everyone must be recognized and have a seat at the table before anybody individually does, and in so doing deadlock efforts to make progress lest some tiny splinter be left behind. Folks will make arguments about being erased and having violence committed against them for such minor things as their opponents being bad with pronouns or pointing out factual inaccuracies.

This strategy many of our side have adopted, and it's a strategy that others people we should be trying to reach. It antagonizes those who might otherwise be our allies, because it denies their shared humanity with us because they don't have the correct skin color or bank balance or upbringing or culture.

And perhaps worst of all, it inflames the passions and biases the vocabulary such that, when a real threat does come along, we are unable to speak out and be taken seriously.

We have to leave the lens of identity and related tools back in the contexts where they help, not hurt, understanding.
The city of Santa Cruz, California has a similar program: http://cityofsantacruz.com/departments/economic-development/...

The main downside is that the bathrooms are only open when the businesses are open. That means folks living on the streets still don't have access to toilets for a big chunk of the day.
>the way of communicating with people is totally different

lol u srs? j/k <3
A world view that relies upon censoring and denying an attack on a news crew that actually occurred...
Ironically, they can't fully defund it as it is mission critical for the military industrial machine. All deployed aviation assets in the US military have somewhere attached to them a USAF meteorologist. I flew the Shadow 200 TUAV "drone" in Iraq from 2003-2004 and we always had a single air force person with us for weather stuff. It is critical for safety of flight. Also, for launching things like missiles and really anything airborne, you need to know the weather for safety reasons. It only lightly touches on it in the article, but this is why the DoD is so serious about funding and working with NOAA even though NOAA is part of the Department of Commerce.
I have something very similar, but I know that I didn't hear the story from anyone. I would have been under 27 months because my brother wasn't alive. In my early 20's I asked my mother when we had a brown honda, and she replied that we never did. I said I was sure that we did because I remember being in a brown Honda, driving on the highway and that we got a flat tire, and the police came, and that there were Palm trees. The part that didn't make sense is that I thought we were going to Alberta beach(in Alberta) and there are clearly no palm trees there. After talking about it for a while and giving some more details of my memory, we figured out that it was a trip to hawaii that we did before my brother was born and that the brown honda was a rental car.
Ash HN: am I wrong thinking that ip v6 is the solution to Netflix ban on VPNs?
My understanding is that Netflix mostly detect VPNs by flagging ips being used by multipe accounts at the same time.

I also know that some (expansive) VPNs are still working with Netflix by proving a unique ip for each client, solving that issue.

The problem is, with the shortage of available ip v4, they've become quite expensive and no VPN can provide you a unique ip in each country. Most of them provide you a unique US ip and some a unique UK ip and that's pretty much it.

With the virtual infinity of ip v6, wouldn't that be cheaper to provide unique ip adresses in all countries and make it nearly impossible for Netflix to flag it?
I'm pretty scared about how this would happen.

My ideal would be something like the actuarial exams. You start with exams on math, calculus, linear algebra, DEs, probability theory, numerical analysis, and so forth. Eventually it moves on to more industry specific exams. There are quite a few, different levels to pass.

It is highly rigorous, but one very key feature of all this is that you don't have a specifically proscribed academic path. There isn't a situation like law school, where aspiring professions are essentially forced to spend $120k+ on tuition to join the profession. You can major in math, I think that's most common, and graduate degrees are not unusual either, but you can major in a related field or, as far as I understand, just study math really hard on your own. You are free to decide how to prepare.

Looking at these tests, I can't possibly imagine that anyone who can pass hasn't learned very rigorous coursework.

Something like this could work for programming. We could set up a series of exams, similar to the actuarial math exams, but covering the essential CS work (another bonus: we could do this once, and it would be graded consistency and fairly, rather than being subjected to repeated "interviews" where we are randomly quizzed on data structures every time we apply for a new job). As it moves on, it might get to more industry specific things.

CS would be an advantage, sure, but a math major who has taken some CS and plugs the gaps through self-study would be perfectly free to join the profession. This is essential, in my opinion, it's very important not to allow a cartel like the law schools to take over. That would be extremely harmful.

I'm sure I haven't thought it all through, but this seems to be the most promising approach.

Oh, and lastly, it's not engineering! The licensing bodies for professional engineers are honorable organizations that have no domain over software, no more than they do over actuarial work. Software is its own thing, it isn't engineering.
http://reddit.com/r/The_Donald
What kinds of companies were these? In many industries you'd seriously compromise your hiring if you ruled out all the experienced 40+ year old candidates who don't care for FB accounts. Mechanical engineering and defense work especially.
The radio question is almost dead.

https://www.amazon.com/Moto-4th-Generation-Exclusive-Lockscr...

(cheap phone with support for big 4 US networks)

edit: Also, Verizon Communications bought out Vodaphone a couple years ago, Vodaphone no longer has an interest in Verizon Wireless.
Elon Musk says Trump presidency won't hurt Tesla – here's why
Would you care to justify the statements that the State Department and the Washington Post "have a much greater blame in the mistrust"?

Claims of propaganda, rather than simply disagreeing with your political beliefs, require a bit more than simple say so. Otherwise, one could just point the finger back at you.
So you think they should have included DDR4 RAM? (that'd be their only option to support >16GB).

DDR4 has a bunch of really huge caveats, as outlined in the article. Did you read it?
Not if they have legal injecting rooms.
There is an even larger issue with the basic proof of stake method. It's called 'nothing at stake'.

With proof of work, you can only mine on any one block. You make sure this is the last block in the chain because otherwise you'd need to mine 2 blocks in a row to convince everyone. This ensures it is really hard to rewrite history.

With proof of stake, nothing is preventing you from 'mining' on multiple base blocks on the same time. Anytime you spend a coin and get the goods, you might as well try and see if you can 'mine' 2 new blocks to erase your transaction.

I've seen proposed solutions that combine these 2. Basically, a block then requires both proof of work and proof of stake. This doesn't help (much?) with electricity costs, but helps somewhat with centralization of power.
I'm actually trying to read less and do more. So instead of reading about compilers I'm building some. It feels like a slower way of learning sometimes, but it's exposed lots of places where I thought I knew how things work but I actually didn't. It has also taught me more than reading alone would.

The downside is that I find it harder to get time for building. It's easy enough to read at night in bed, but harder to concentrate on writing code.
All of them are made of some sort of memory foam and come rolled up inside a box. Except for Helix that is custom fit to your needs and has a small layer of micro coils in between the foam layers.

If you don't mind me asking, what's wrong with memory foam?
Bathrooms are only mandatory in NYC with 20+ seats. Some places will have "staff only" bathrooms you can use if you're not obviously a junkie.
They honestly won't have to if they have a backdoor in the baseband modem, which even in the most OSS friendly phones is still controlled by a large binary blob from the manufacturer. Who's to say state agencies (NSA/GHCQ/etc) haven't found bugs in it just like they have in hard drive firmwares to persist APTs indefinitely?
When I'm not consuming my weekly tech podcasts, I'm listening sci-fi or fantasy on Audible. Books are really cheap if you pay a subscription, and you also get access to "channels", I sometimes put some comedy channel to lighten up my day.
How does a union take away fair compensation and room for negotiation?
A short summary of the argument as I understand it:

With proof of work, you can only mine on any one block. You make sure this is the last block in the chain because otherwise you'd need to mine 2 blocks in a row to convince everyone. This ensures it is really hard to rewrite history.
With proof of stake, nothing is preventing you from 'mining' on multiple base blocks on the same time. Anytime you spend a coin and get the goods, you might as well try and see if you can 'mine' 2 new blocks to erase your transaction.
Didn't you just become older and more mature?
Follow the money. NBER's source of funding is dubious, at best.
> If you lose your job because you are asked to do something illegal, can you sue?

It all depends on what you can prove - which is the hardest part.
In many situations, without a union, there is no room for negotiation. This is the way it is with Walmart.

You are afforded no freedom or fairness in that situation, just what Walmart wants to offer you.

Fair implies room for compromise or a lack of unequal advantage from both parties. In this case, Walmart has all the say in how your employment is handled.

A fair fight assumes that participants are on an equal footing. If Walmart shows up with a tank and you've got your bare hands, that isn't fair.

This is what I mean by fair. Fairer compensation can be ascertained by both parties through a fairer negotiation.

Unions raise the minimum standards for negotiations and conditions, whether you are a member or not.

Many unions allow for up-negotiation or work within a pay scale. Walmart has a scale too, so does your employer, except neither bottom out. Ask for compensation above the top bound of that scale and you will be laughed out of the room. A union forces an employer to raise the bottom for up-negotiation or a pay scale and negotiate for a higher top bound. Bonuses exist outside of the scale.

I cannot come to the same conclusion as you with regards to unions taking away fair compensation and room for negotiation for those reasons.
Controversial Productivity Boosters
You mean other than the two cases listed in the comment? No thanks. This isn't an argument. It's a statement that broken trust causes mistrust.
Free, open source projects generally suck at good UX and gaining momentum, and I'm not sure either of those is a solvable problem. Well sometimes you can fix it if there's a major corporate backer willing to fund a bunch of full-time devs, but that's not really consistently reproducible.
My gut tells me the opposite. Here are some unscientific reasons why.

Proof of stake: the mechanism to secure the coins, uses the coins it's trying to secure. Circular.

Proof of work is simpler to describe and implement, which is attractive. Joining, then leaving, then joining and catching up is easy. Blockchain reorgs are easy.

Compare the length of Bitcoin's whitepaper and any PoS whitepaper, or the cited link even.

It'd be interesting for the author to share his intuitions for why it might be better.
randomdata basically pointed out that freedom isn't always in a person's best interests. The two of you are certainly using different definitions of fairness as well. randomdata's definition seems to have more to do with lack of third party involvement/regulation of the negotiation while you focus on the exchange of time & effort vs financial compensation.
I'm currently working through CMU's 15-213. I highly recommend lectures 5-9 for anyone who never learned how processors handle functions calls on the lowest level. Part of the effectiveness of the class is CMU's interface for displaying the classes which is the best online class experience I've ever encountered.
The fact that, even after applying all this technology and know-how, the ROI on ad spend is a black box with no meaningful metrics, and the spending vectors are based on sentiment tells me that advertising is not a safe long term foundation for revenue. At some point, someone is going to have to prove that the money is well spent.
Marriage as a state-sanctioned construct is almost entirely about property and other legal rights. You cannot achieve the effect of marriage using a combination of other legal constructs. For example, even a prenuptial agreement cannot fully divest a spouse of rights in property acquired during marriage. Moreover, you cannot create things like spousal privilege contractually.

In contrast, child-rearing works more or less the same whether or not the couple is married. The rights and obligations attendant to children arise out of the parental relationship, not the marriage. About the only practical parental right tied to marriage that I can think of is the legal presumption in most states that a woman's husband is the father of any child she has during marriage.
Unless a big portion of those 3 hours are spent in traffic jams, then bike could be an option, or at least an e-bike.
By definition memory foam is a bad idea. It is a foam that does not spring back into it's original shape. Thus when you sleep in one place for a few weeks, a rut develops and eventually you feel like you are stuck in it. I like to be able to roll over and don't like the feeling of sleeping in a trough.

Memory foam and mattresses that roll up into boxes is about lowering costs.

Edit: I've always found "memory foam" to be an interesting demonstration of the power of marketing.
There's a more comprehensive article here:

http://rz.github.io/articles/2016/oct/time-on-your-side.html
Wouldn't more information make it more difficult to claim unscientific things?
True. They are not without sin. I still trust them more than others at this point.

I dont think you deserve Downvotes because that's a perfectly reasonable point to discuss.
Are you aware of how much water fracking requires?
Venezuela’s Nemesis Is a Hardware Salesman at a Home Depot in Alabama
Reddit API: The Gateway to Data
The Influencing Machine (2004)
Focusing your company on hiring people based on their race and gender, rather than their ability, seems like a horrible idea. Not to mention a great way to open yourself to law suits and massive animosity among your employees.
Nope, but it illustrates my points perfectly. A company like Amazon should have hundreds of those, with real use cases that developers (or DevOps) care about. For instance, I have a Rails/Node/Go/whatever app. How do I deploy it using any of the available services? Which one is preferred? Why? What about the connecting services, like Postgres+Redis? (I know there's an offering for everything, I'd like to know how it all fits together, best practices, etc)
Lot of people write good reviews about mattresses like these at Amazon. Some even after a couple of years after buying them report that no sagginess has occurred. But yes, I'm afraid of getting one for exactly that reason.
> - some you can root, some you can't.

Don't worry. At the rate we're headed, soon nobody will root their devices anymore, because practically every app they want to use will refuse to work on a rooted device.
To mention the Spanish and Italian way: there are public toilets, some on the street (not that many, mostly near playgrounds), most in public buildings, rail and bus stations and the like. They are always free to use. Condition can be from very good to very poor, depends on the area and who looks after the toilets, mostly.

Aside from that, every place serving drinks or foods with the possibility to eat in the premises must have fully equipped toilets, and those are usually in good condition, so what most people do is walk into a bar or restaurant and use those. Some people just ask if it's OK to use the toilet, others will buy an espresso or bottle of water. Personally I ask and then pay for someone else's coffee or tip the barman, but I'm neither Spanish or Italian. Paid toilets are unknown there and would be seen with hostility. Toilets at shopping centres and motorway stops can always be used freely. Petrol stations and underground car parks also tend to have toilets that one can use, sometimes you have to ask for the key.

In France, it is mostly the same except that bar/restaurant toilets tend to be, let us say, a character building experience and being a different culture, the "let me use the toilet and I'll buy a bottle of water from you" thing does not quite work (apart from the water being at least €2.-) There are, however, a lot more public toilets, often the self-cleaning type (the French are big on automation, due to their awkward labour laws), and best of all, the "pissoirs" (from "pisser": to piss). There aren't many left, but you can still see them in some villages and small towns.

Some pics and history here: http://untappedcities.com/2010/07/08/i-need-to-pee-public-to... (also shows the newer automatic toilets), and a bit of an extreme and not completely serious example here: http://www.pwfg.de/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/open-air-pisso...
That's partly the case, though note that in terms of Bitcoin, stock would be considered to be centralized, not distributed, as the exchange determines ordering of transactions. It's not really proof of stake because it doesn't have the problem that proof of stake is trying to solve in the first place.
E2E: Erik Meijer and Leslie Lamport
I think for me what helped was taking an ethics class in college. I realized then what should have been obvious, that people who hold different beliefs from me didn't arrive at those beliefs because their logic is somehow defective, but rather they have different priorities and care about different things.

I don't think my own error would have been corrected through programming; it might even have have led me somewhat to believe that political/religious/ethical problems can be approached the same way as writing software or formulating an equation, and they have answers that are objectively right or wrong in a way that any reasonably intelligent person would arrive at the same conclusion through the application of logic.

Which isn't to say that programming isn't a good way to treat certain kinds of unhelpful attitudes.
Are they not? (I haven't heard anything either way.)
If there was an equally qualified man and woman- choosing the man over the woman because he is a man would be considered sexism. Choosing the woman over the man because she is a woman is considered progress.

Asians are way over represented at Microsoft vs our country. We need to boost the white percentage as well.

To me, race "diversity" is a foolish kind of diversity, because of how shallow it is. I don't think skin color makes you a different person, so I don't really think that more people of different colors in a company makes anything better. And I guess that makes me the bigoted one?
what's the issue?
Those are de-jure numbers. Add 50% to get de-facto numbers. So yeah, 50 MPH is normal for residential. The highways marked 65 MPH are actually 100 MPH.

Speed limits suffer from a NIMBY problem. Everybody wants to the limit to be 5 MPH around their own home, but 125 MPH when traveling elsewhere. The locals control the limits. The same goes for speed bumps, often loved by the locals but hated by everybody else.
It may depend on the weight of the person writing the review.
I remember when mounting /tmp noexec and chmod g-w on htdocs was enough.
So how is this different to simply asking people for help?
I think that the phone companies are struggling to get a grip on the drivers on the market.

The rather esoteric needs of a software developer is probably not high up on the marketing department's list of USPs... Plus, that it seems as if different regions are wanting different things - like an absurd number of cores, etc.

As an example, I am very fond of Sony. They make the best android phones in my opinion, with a really nice clean design and good support for updates. A plus for me is that it's still a Swedish team that make the phones although they seem to slowly loose the fight against the Japanese mega-corp mannerisms. There is more and more shit pre-installed on the phone, etc.

Unfortunately they peaked with the Z3 - anything after that is a lesser phone in some aspect. ZX is good and expensive as hell but compensates the faster processor and camera with a much much worse battery. X is fast, but is not water proof, etc.

Edit: I don't think the ZX supports CDMA unfortunately.
Smart packing for a world tour: Do’s and Don’ts
How do you, then? What's the secret?