skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sure, chalk working people's issues down to "anti-immigration sentiment". That's how Trump got elected, and despite being liberal if the housing crisis continues, I'll be leaning toward voting any party (even conservatives) that can promise to resolve the issue of the market being flooded with this crazy influx of new immigrants and foreign buyers bringing the salaries down and property prices up.
I don't get your point. We all know Trump is anti regulation. So everybody that thinks net neutrality is a good idea is worried.

Personally, I think hardline ideologically driven policies leads to disaster. But it looks like that's what we're going to get.
This is emblematic of what's wrong with so many subreddits and so much of the social web that comes in the form of "forums" -- it seems like we have entire generations of users who have associated the totalitarian nature of forums with things being "advanced" on the internet.

Social media isn't mostly about free thought, free speech, and free inquiry anymore. Nowadays, it's mostly about the rapid dissemination of conformity. Woe betide you if you actually have a nuanced opinion that doesn't fit neatly with either side of an issue. Your fellow posters/commenters will reject their pattern-match and call you a liar and 5th columnist for the other side.

Technology came and killed the impulse towards freedom. It taught people through repeated iteration that conformity to the mob was the highest good. It taught smart people that wrangling their way into positions of centralized power to exercise authoritarian rule was the insider move. It taught everyone that suppression of anything that you didn't like was the winning move. It was called the internet.
That would be impossible. I understood 4h total.
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Is it? There is some hivemind like the rest of the internet, and tech discussion in general (including here), but the value of the people who frequent the sub should definitely override that. It's still much better then stackoverflow etc.
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You're definitely not wrong that it's not guaranteed she would win. She'd probably have had a better chance though. It would've been harder for Trump to make his pitch in the areas Clinton did well in.
> The original purpose of the electoral college was NOT to provide disproportionate voice to non-populous states. In fact, the states backing the college were some of the most populous as long as you count slaves.

This begs for a source. Where is it stated exactly what the purpose of the electoral college was, in the Founding Fathers' own words?

Furthermore, you have to keep in mind that at the time the U.S. was founded, the individual states were essentially their own countries with individual governments and leadership. The only way they could make the deal work with all of them was to ensure that no one state could "overrule" the others. If smaller states could be bullied by larger states, the term "united states" loses a quite a bit of its meaning.
It's such a weird situation all around, there's many angles at play. Moving out soon anyways to a more insulated place soon so all of this will cease to matter (hopefully). Thanks.
> I would argue that a moderator shutting down a community of 25,000 individuals because of their own personal opinions is just as much if not the greater abuse of power. (blitzd)

This is emblematic of what's wrong with so many subreddits and so much of the social web that comes in the form of "forums" -- it seems like we have entire generations of users who have associated the totalitarian nature of forums with things being "advanced" on the internet.

Social media isn't mostly about free thought, free speech, and free inquiry anymore. Nowadays, it's mostly about the rapid dissemination of conformity. Woe betide you if you actually have a nuanced opinion that doesn't fit neatly with either side of an issue. Your fellow posters/commenters will reject their pattern-match and call you a liar and 5th columnist for the other side.

Technology came and killed the impulse towards freedom. It taught people through repeated iteration that conformity to the mob was the highest good. It taught smart people that wrangling their way into positions of centralized power to exercise authoritarian rule was the insider move. It taught everyone that suppression of anything that you didn't like was the winning move. It was called the internet.
> Sell me on the argument against it?

There are three groups of people opposed to network neutrality. 1) People who don't like government regulation in general, 2) Telecoms lobbyists and 3) People who don't understand what network neutrality is.

Obviously only the first are worth listening to, though the second are the loudest and the third are the most numerous.

And the issue with listening to the first group is that we have to do it in the right order. The principle of not having the government regulate is that the free market will take care of it, but there is currently no free market for telecommunications, in part because the government has given the incumbents access to eminent domain and a trillion dollars in government subsidies over the past century. So the order of things would have to be to first somehow have strong last-mile competition (e.g. more than 20 providers on average) and only then remove network neutrality.

The people who actually believe this also believe that last mile is not a natural monopoly. The proper way to answer it is to give them e.g. Nevada and let them prove it. Then once Nevada somehow has 20 independent last mile providers, we can do the same thing everywhere else and won't need network neutrality anymore. And if they're wrong and they fail, then we'll know for sure and the only people opposed will be the people no one should ever listen to.
Defending the liberal Reddit CEO on the liberal HN site.
Except it's likely that Matthew and Luke used the Gospel of Mark as a source and this whole subject is heavily debated.
I try not to worry about HN downvotes on comments less than 12 hours old. (Or really downvotes in general.)

Lots of my comments go several points negative only to be dug back out hours later as the more sporadic, calmer crowd filters through and quietly votes.
My comment is not related to the topic at all.

Don't you think that these terminology we call each other by (liberal/conservative..) is stifling constructive discussion?

I am sure there is a popular or objective definition of these labels. However, there is also so much misinformation that loads these terms.

Whenever someone starts a conversation by calling the other side a liberal or conservative, there is an automatic implicit assumption of their beliefs whether that is correct or not. The social baggage that comes with these terms are automatically placed on the other person.

I see this so much in real life and online discussions. It's just a shame that people are using these words as an antagonist rather than a heuristic.
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It reminds me of this old french show, they once played a scene (live) backwards. So funny and amazing : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Noy0DdjG3FI
Keep moving the goal posts huh? This is literally science fiction (HAL9000).
One reason could be that Braintree is less known than Stripe?

In my case: I've never heard of Braintree before this discussion and I was going to implement Stripe for my SaaS without even looking at the existing competitors.
> Clinton got over 2m more votes than her opponent, but will not be President. That's not democracy.

I suppose it was kind of a rotten trick to not tell the Democrats about the Electoral College beforehand, yeah.
Also the infrastructure which allows Reddit to exist is not. All those scaling issues they've "solved" over the past ten years? Have fun with those if you're trying to copy and paste the repo..
That they would try to appeal to all Americans and not just a handful in a few states? I think that is a better system.
Well, no. It's one of those issues where the elected officials of both parties largely agree, and the voters of both parties largely agree, but the voters disagree with the officials.
> Has the American Truffle Company figured it out? “It remains to be seen how well their system will work,” Mr. Michaels said. “The frustrating thing about the truffle is we still don’t know the basic conditions.”

No.

Why do headlines still get written this way?
What problems does Braintree solve that Stripe doesn't?
There is no reason to abolish it, unless you prefer majority rule.

However, if you want a true republic and protection against the problems of majority rule, then you might want to potentially change it, but not abolish it.

https://fee.org/articles/the-accidental-genius-of-the-electo...
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I mean, sure zuck rhymes with cuck, but... do you really find the insult of 'cuck' to be clever? You know what using it associates you with, right? It's transparently misogynistic.
That's right. IF he immigrates here. I will be making sure to vote for the party that slows down this insane amount of immigration.
My problem with "therapy" is that the word is woefully undefined.

Sticking an ice pick up a person's nose, into their brain, and just moving the pick around has been counted as therapy.
Why is the amount of money spent relevant? At the end of the day, more individuals felt that Clinton should be their president.
you're this smug about an article describing a huge water deposit on mars? I'd hate to get your opinion on something more mundane
It's not the principles, it's the actions being discussed to follow through with those.

You know the phrase "I'm taking my ball and going home"? What he wants to do is take someone else's ball, go home, and make sure that no one else is playing with a ball again after he leaves.

He's wanting to destroy something the community finds useful, and not only that, wanting to prevent the community from building and using it on their own in the future if they wanted to continue without his involvement. That's the harmful action. It's fine if he says "I won't use reddit anymore". Perfectly fine. But shutting down the subreddit, deleting all of its content, and specifically reserving the name so the community can't continue in his absence is just... well, immature. There are better ways to handle it. This is a pure temper tantrum.
[..] domain names are exposed in plain-text within the https request.

Only if your handshake negotiates to use SNI.
The headline says could. What's your point?
You are right, if the security sandbox is broken, then you have lost control.

But at the same time, you also know that only 0.3% of the Android user base is using this year's version, and less than 25% are using last year's version.

The security design of the app should reflect this.
Axler's book is very good. An alternative to consider is Paul Halmos's much older Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces [0]. Both books take the same basic approach, and the proofs of the major theorems are substantially the same. (Halmos's book is well known and well liked and was probably Axler's starting point.)

Axler's book covers more ground (most notably, Halmos presents the polar decomposition but not the singular-value decompostion) and uses more modern terminology and notation. But Halmos's book has the merits of being half as long and a third as expensive, as well as having been written specifically to prepare the reader as directly as possible for Halmos's short introduction to Hilbert spaces [1].

I highly recommend one or the other of these books for readers who want to understand linear algebra as mathematicians do.

0. https://www.amazon.com/Finite-Dimensional-Vector-Spaces-Paul...

1. https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Hilbert-Theory-Spectral-...
Are the UK and Canada republics or democracies?
> We already have the senate. The house also favors less populous states, even if not by design.

The Electoral College also favors less populous states.

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature
thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the
whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the
State may be entitled in the Congress

So Wyoming gets 3 electors for a population of 584,153 or 194717 per elector. California gets 55 for a population of 38.8M or 705454 per elector.
PLEASE don't force me to use google groups more then I have to!
When people get "pushed hard enough" the usual thing is deleting comments and banning users. That's a known and accepted moderation power. Sure it's abused sometimes, but at least it's not lying and wrongly attributing negative comments to people.

Invisibly editing comments is a very unexpected route to take. I doubt you could push most CEOs to that. They would just delete the comment.
If everyone preferred to leave, this would be a non-issue. The problem is, the only people who seem to be in favor of leaving are the people who aren't using it in the first place. On Google Groups, everyone is in favor of shutting it down. On Reddit, everyone is begging for it to be left up.
It's super cool. Like this:

https://gopro.com/odyssey

https://vr.google.com/jump/

"Advanced computer vision and a whole lot of computing power to transform 16 pieces of video into stereoscopic VR video."
"No Viet Cong ever called me nigger." --Muhammad Ali
Do you see that regularly? At least online, I never see target more than 15% more than walmart and usually about the same.
That doesn't make a lot of sense. How is a "democratic republic" not also a democracy? (Unless you define "democracy" to mean something else than its usual meaning, which is not "direct democracy".)
Then you should have made it clear what you meant because your post looks like a completely offtopic rant.
"There’s not a man I meet but doth salute me
As if I were their well-acquainted friend" - Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors

If it's good enough for Shakespeare it's good enough for me.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-specific_and_gender-neu... for some examples of times avoiding singular they makes the sentence sound silly or ungrammatical.

"The average American needs the small routines of getting ready for work. As he shaves or blow-dries his hair or pulls on his panty-hose, he is easing himself by small stages into the demands of the day."

"... everyone will be able to decide for himself whether or not to have an abortion."
When I started using Stripe the thing for me was ease of use, it was quick and painless to add to an app, the APIs made sense and were incredibly well documented. They also had a reputation for great customer service (though I've heard this has waned as they grew). I honestly didn't consider Braintree at the time but it was clear from the moment I started researching Stripe that they understood the pain points of payments and were making a product to alleviate them.
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And that is an interesting meta-point, in context. (What is kept in view.)

So yes, as an example, Herodotous may have been a Greek political exile ("loser"), but the fact that Arabs managed to destroy substantial chunks of Sassanid Iranian records and archives left the Greek version of the ancient Persia to persist until well into 20th century.

This is the sense of the phrase "history is written by victors". It has nothing to do with the individual historians (since they are not warriors) but with their supporting sociopolitical/cultural context.
> The lesson that a lot of anti-Trumpers appear to have taken away from this election is that the electoral college is bad because it lets people who don't live on the coasts have a say too. I would prefer that the lesson were: "Gosh! The President has too much power!

This is not a fair assessment. Plenty of people learned that lesson a long time ago, but always get laughed out of the room by the party in power.

I remember in the aftermath of 9/11 when GWB made one of the largest executive power grabs in history, and the right-wing whole-heartedly supported him in the name of keeping us safe. A common refrain from my left-leaning friends explaining why this was a bad idea was "Imagine someone like Hillary Clinton with these powers." Of course, that was all hand-waved away until Obama took office, then suddenly "executive overreach" became such a hot topic.

The only way to change the momentum of the executive gaining more power over more things is to convince both the in- and out-of-power parties that giving the President more authority is a bad thing. Good luck convincing the in-power party of that, no matter which side of the aisle they sit on.
Direct election was a proposal at the time, and many founding fathers supported it, but the slave states shot it down.

The slave states are often mis-characterized as rural/not populous as compared to northern states. But that logic only holds if the color of your skin defines your humanity -- slave states weren't significantly less populous, it's just that a huge portion of their populations weren't enfranchised. In fact, the most populous state was a slave state. So IMO the thesis that the electoral college is a result of slavery is mostly accurate.

As far as the "official" reasons (since slavery was a touchy motivation, even back in the day), see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._68 which outlines the "official" reasons for having a college as well as all of the alternatives at the time. Most of these seem pretty irrelevant to the modern world:

* As a veto on dangerous men -- I don't see this ever happening in our modern world.
* To avoid "cabal, intrigue, and corruption" as well as pandering. None of these function as arguments against a direct vote, but rather as arguments against the use of governors, congress, etc. in place of the electoral college.
There's an explanation on wikipedia [1]. In the light of the current election, the following sentence from that article sounds ironic to me:
'Hamilton was also concerned about somebody unqualified, but with a talent for "low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity," attaining high office.'

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_(United_Stat...
But what is a fact, other than a conclusion that appears obvious? The logic by which people have decided what they regard as factual data, upon which they base their arguments, can itself be debated.
Would those be managed by the community, or by the admins? If it was official, it seems like the admins could still shut it down, or edit that database to ignore their changes.
So semi-related to this, I've contemplated about the feasibility of a cryptocurrency/blockchain built specifically for a pseudo-MMO game where instead of a central server, it's actually a network of servers where anyone can host a server. Each server would be a "game world" that falls into a few categories, such as PvE, PvP, and Town, where Town would be a sort of server browser to find PvE/PvP servers.

The blockchain would store users' character data i.e. level, currency, inventory, etc.

It would use a hypothetical form of proof of work where either the previous hash or the nonce would determine what monster and items are available on that server for some given amount of time. Clients would then be required to sign with their private keys a "chain of events" that would have to line up with the server's chain of events somehow.

I wouldn't know how to determine if a client and a server are cheating or not though.

The game developer would imaginably host some of the larger servers and could then sell the cryptocurrency they gain from hosting said servers for some actual fiat as a means to make money.

Clearly this is an incredibly rough idea that I have not actually spent too much time thinking about.

EDIT

an inspiration for this idea was "The World", a fictional game from the dotHack series
The password one is good, but if three admins decided to conspire to change a comment, what then?
I don't think the problem is using Google or not. The problem is that software collects and sends data to a network without user's authorization. It is a package manager, not a program for reporting what software you are installing and how exactly you do that and what operating system you are using and user might not expect such behaviour.

Free software is supposed to do what the user wants, not what its developer wants.
This is nice and all, but where's the Chromecast support they promised a long time ago?
One can be deceptive by being imprecise

The question is whether this imprecision qualifies as deception.
I get what you're saying. But the things you can't transition to the cloud are microphones, cameras, keyboards, other HIDs. If they see a future where there is no "pro" because we can all be pros, wouldn't you want to reduce the cost of entry as much as possible? Ie. make it trivially easy for anyone to plug almost any HID in and begin authoring content.
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x230 with 16GB RAM and a 256GB SSD from 2013 - and I see absolutely no need to upgrade.

These are my "pain" points:

- RAM: with too many VirtualBox VMs running (e.g. Clusters for testing) I have to close some other applications, but 32GB is so hard to get in a laptop, not worth it I guess

- CPU is fine unless I'm in a hangout. Seriously, WTF Google
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I actually hope that regular mental health checks are as common as physicals. One way to reduce the stigma, anyway. Until then, suggestions to folks that are intersecting the system would do well - on top of actually having enough trained professionals to do so.

The last bit might be one key to it: Sometimes folks have trouble even finding an free practitioner. The problems get even worse in the US if you are low-income since not everywhere will take medicaid.
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I agree 100%! This is probably one of the worst things I've learned the hard way. You begin to notice that many of the hardest things to "get just right" are completely skimmed over by nearly everyone. That fancy section you spent 3 days making perfect? Nobody even looks at it.

You get a good idea of how some people have been "conditioned" for how they search for things. Depending on the market - the only thing they are looking for us a phone number or a contact form. Even when the phone number is in the header, we see people scroll straight to the bottom of the site and look for a phone number in the footer!
the person whose tweet is in the news article had to protect her* tweet because people were sending her hate mail.

what the hell.
I'm sorry to hear that :)
How is it bad for those things, especially freedom? Regulation takes away freedom, by definition. An ISP start-up offering services which discriminate traffic now can't exist, and therefore can't give consumers more options. This is why I'm against net neutrality. I also believe that even with NN, companies will do what they want if it's worth the risk of being caught.
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Disclaimer: I am working with the author

The problem is even with using LWTs for both updates you are running into the same problem, the only thing you gain is that one of the statements (either lock or release) wins and in this case it then only works because the lock uses a TTL and is removed after some time.

Also, two conflicting statements from the same thread going to the same node should be easily serializable for Cassandra - or at least be logged.

> Don't take shortcuts and you won't get burned

Since you are the Datastax CTO, maybe some alignment with the marketing team on how features are communicated to users might help users not getting burned? :D
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