skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up in a small town where everyone drove to the grocery store, and that's the only time in my life where people knew their cashiers and genuinely cared about their lives.

Effectively, you still lived in a village. One neighborhood in Cincinnati functioned like a village for me in the early 2000's.Many neighborhoods in Barcelona function that way.

When I lived in New York, one of the most walkable cities on Earth, it was even worse: long lines and anonymous, interchangeable cashiers.

I'm not, as you imagine, touting walk-ability as a panacea. My point is that it's the societal structure that gives the humanity perceived by the Barcelonan commenter, not the checkout jobs per se.
At least when I Google it I get relevant results. It's even worse to have some generic name like "footpath" or "cake".
Who is "we"?

SOME of us are willing to pay 2x. Some aren't. We all get to choose what it is that we want.

Choice is good. :-)
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I am really not good at coming up with names.
I agree it should be possible but unfortunately the technology doesn't allow it. In this case I would give the analogy of online vs offline shopping. Ideally we would be able to buy goods on amazon.com with cash (or perhaps bitcoin) but the technology doesn't make this feasible.
It does enable people not to work in an agnostic view of wealth distribution. Automation means both less labor and more production, which means a net increase in total wealth.

The problem is assuming that total wealth means anything for anyone but the capitalist class that owns said wealth.
Hey Michael, apart from custom internal analytics tools and solutions similar to GA which other tools would you suggest using?
These probably weren't planted in the Somme.
> does this article have information that would change a political viewpoint?

Now that is a "unicorn" in the sense of a mythical beast! You can dig into usenet archives from the 80ies, and find people debating a lot of the same stuff they do today. People mostly do not change their minds about things.
I don't think this is too hard. Cool tech about cheap, efficient solar power: Tech. The "how to talk to climate change deniers" submission I flagged a few minutes ago: Not tech.
I don't see why we would.
There's a couple things to prevent this, some really simple and effective. If you've visited the store before they'll have a lot of pictures of your face to compare anyone checking in with your account with. An additional security check when a new phone is added to Amazon Go. Also when an amazon account is used with Go it'll also include a lot of information about the phone it's being used with so our hypothetical group would have to be able to get a large number of anonymous phones or any half decent fraud detection setup would recognize those phones since most other phones will be associated with a single account ever.
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Holy crap I can't. stop. laughing.
What counts as political? My only real concern is that this is pretty vaguely specified. E.g can we discuss net neutrality? The economy? Economics in general? Professional licensing requirements? Arbitration agreements? All of these have produced interesting discussions in the past, and, while I could stand to go a week without, I'd hate to ding someone's account for posting them.
There's even a ruby lib for that: https://github.com/mojombo/bert
Yep, I posted about Webflow's submission in a similar thread a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12032849
There is a range immediatly below the number, which seems pretty reasonable to me. For my place it shows a range from -8% to +10%
Fashion for this decade.
I was so bullish on Leap Motion after seeing an early demo in 2011 but it seems like they still haven't really figured out what to do with the tech which is a shame. The demos are still neat but fatigue after 4 or 5. Then you start to think about how horrific a general purpose input method it actually is. I think I would have left the consumer market Kinect & Wii and focused on commercial applications.
I keep hearing great things about that book. Thanks for the link, maybe it is time to pick up a copy.
So, now you divulge that your spouse's family has ties of dependency to Wal-Mart (what kind of retirement plan does Wal-Mart give after 30 years?).

And you admit that Wal-mart as a topic is something that held your interest for years, so you're not exactly unbiased when you're asking for evidence, which explains why you were so quick to discount all evidence provided with such hand-wavey statements as "it was settled out of court without admission of fault", as if that meant something.

And despite your own personal injuries caused by their policies, you like the company enough to not bother with financial recompensation you are entitled to.

Keep pretending that your "debunking" posts didn't lead to the burning of my karma, and people downvoting my posting history. I'm now curious about how far it can go!
According to the russian media they also have higher levels of freedom there too.
What kind of health advice relies on air pressure ? wearing masks ? (no sarcasm)
With respect, technology is at the nexus of politics now, like it or not. What possible case can be made that questions of technology are not, as of now, central to the debate on many political fronts? Should we not be leading the charge for robust and informed discussions of the role of technology in the political sphere? If not us then who?
A problem with unbroken track records is that they can eventually be broken.
So HN is yet another filter bubble?

> We become tribal creatures, not intellectually curious ones.

HN is designed to be a tribe. The HN tribe and the Silicon Valley ethos it espouses are by their nature very political, having profound effects on the direction of our economy, our society, and our world. By censoring challenges to this ethos, you are reinforcing the tribal boundaries, and members of the tribe continue on without the constant challenge and testing that is the very nature of truth finding and even science.

This Tell HN is itself a political act.
I don't know how automated the system is, but would it be feasible to say something like "If your email address is in your profile, we'll try to give you a warning by email before we take action?" As it is, there's not much feedback on whether the flagging action is appropriate or not.
It seems better to respect their privacy. HN is a public forum, but it's good not to drag a member's name through the mud. What's done is done, and there wasn't much to be learned from the exchange anyway.
No, I'm thinking of Lithium.
I've never seen someone with a backpack, but it's not uncommon for people to bring their own reusable bags and have the bagger use them. I think a backpack would work the same way. Hand it over, then get it back full of food.
Having been here roughly 8ish years, I don't think I can recall someone being banned unjustly off the top of my head. Surely I haven't seen all of the bans play out, but the ones I have seen have always come as no surprise (Like I'd probably ban the person for 24 hours myself in a lot of cases. )
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To all the people saying there are lot's of other places to discuss politics - what good quality ones (with reasonable moderation, not total echo chambers, accessible to normal people) would you recommend? I'm genuinely asking, I feel like they are not that easy to be found. For my part, I like slatestarcodex.
It's not as scientific, but you can prepare a/b tests for paper prototypes and ask your users to go through them as they would go through the site.

Quantitative methods aren't reliable with such a small dataset so you will have to rely on assumptions and guesses. Unfortunately this makes your observations prone to bias from your hypothesis, so it's especially important to be mindful of this and keep them separate.

Edit: Didn't realize this was an AMA but hopefully my answer contributes to the discussion.
Yeah. Read the post history of the HN mods.
How can HNers discuss topics having "China" / "Russia" in their titles? These are inviting words for many millennials to commit to their media narratives.
The reason so many in media and government act the way they do about China is they want the US to become the next China.

With aforementioned media / government people in the analogue to China's Central Committee, of course.
I'm really just curious about whatever it is that prompted this. It still sounds like "US National Politics" vs politics in general.
But you come to HN and read the comments because... I mean, the comments are the social portion. Not pure facts. They're other peoples views. So, I mean, you kinda socialize when get your news here and post pleasant comments interacting with other readers. So, I take it, you totally get what I'm saying.
Most of Zillow listings come direct from MLS now. They've talked about this on their earnings calls.
Arguably deciding to kibosh political chat before the election would've been even more contentious, because it could be seen as trying to affect the outcome of the election.

No matter who you favor right now, political discussion helps nobody. The outgoing President can't do anything much, and the incoming President can't do anything much either. Nothing you read in the next two months is realistically going to lead to you having a meaningful impact on anything, more than likely.
It should be easy to MITM victims of powned phones unless they pay extremely close care to ping times or RTT in general.

All I have to do is pown someone's phone and use an app on my phone to make my phone look like its their phone, regardless of where they actually are. I can't imagine the facial recognition would be that good.

Its a simple extension of physically stealing phones or cloning like people did in the 80s/90s on analog AMPS. cloning is interesting to think about, steal their amazon auth info, remotely brick their phone for good luck, walk in with a burner phone claiming to be their new phone, its all good.
Gosh I'd need to know a lot more about this number before drawing any conclusions. For example, what counts as malnutrition? In the US, do addicts die from spending too little on food? If a baby dies due to untreated gestational diabetes, is that malnutrition? Does Russia categorize the death of a drunk differently than the US?

So many sad questions.
>You've also shifted your criticism here to "Ok, but how?" from the original criticism that sounded like "Well, humans suck. Boo hoo."

It's not shifting positions. My 1st post was general commentary on JK's post. My 2nd post was asking Mouq to clarify his "solution" since he didn't actually state a concrete solution.

>So, here's one answer to how: as I am doing right now, we can encourage others to be optimistic

Yes, did you notice that I already made that suggestion in my post that you replied to and you just repeated it?
This feels a lot like closing the barn doors after the horses have already gotten loose. This kind of action was sorely needed weeks ago, especially when political articles turned into flame wars populated by 140 char political emotional screeds. It was really disheartening to see HN turn towards the same kind of political discussion I have to endure on other sites. Especially when commentators who tended to post thoughtfully completely devolved.

These days it feels rarer to see the same kind of inflammatory articles gain traction. The same kind of discussion is there but the flaming feels less rampant than it once was. With passions cooled I feel that the community is slowly returning to normal. Though it's likely with such a contentious president, especially to the de facto SV culture, it's not going to be smooth waters.

More brush fires might just be the new normal for now. I think that controlling the burning in this case is more advantageous to the community than trying to stamp it out entirely. Giving the silent treatment to unpopular views is partially how we ended up where we are.

I'm always up for a short term experiment though.
For one thing, air pressure changes are a common trigger for migraines:

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/migraine-heada...

http://www.webmd.com/migraines-headaches/headache-and-migrai...
Well, yeah, 'just' an extra lib with its own encoding and decoding. If your system as a whole revolves around Erlang, it's a fine choice for a protocol. Other times, something more 'standard' that lots of disparate pieces can talk to is better. Totally something to be decided by whoever is building it.
Well maybe you too should take your turn to back your claim with evidence!

I shop fast too. I get in and out as fast as I can, because - after all - the attendants in the store where I go to would not know a leaf of spinach from a leaf of kale...

The same applies to my electronics shopping...

...at least I can justify the guys there not knowing kale!

Jokes aside: not all stores are like that, and not all people shop like that.

I can think of many elderly people using shopping as a main daily source of social interaction.

Diversity means choice and choice is generally good.

I think the interesting point here is that when you remove social interaction and product advice from physical stores, then really you might as well only buy online... and Amazon is the king of online.

So this looks like a fantastic move by Amazon.
I was going to suggest that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=sctb

I guess it is also necessary to turn on showdead in the settings.
It does make so much sense. Makes it easier and quicker to get things out the door.

I'm a performance guy at my work responsible for making sure our Filesystem (Huge codebase of C, and bits of C++), making use of Python to quickly write scripts for Performance data analysis. Right tool for the job.

It is interesting to think about how many use cases there are in this ecosystem where that hard attention to performance is "wanted" but not needed. Could I write my scripts in a complied language and save two seconds of execution time? Yes, but I finished two more tasks in the time it would've taken to do it.
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Did you even read the article? From the text:

"It is entirely clear that 21st century
Americans have no interest in jailing runaway
apprentices. A legislative proposal calling
for the arrest and detention of individuals in
breach of their apprenticeship contracts would
rightly be met with jeers and guffaws."

The big reason they don't like the German approach is because it excludes from the trades those who don't have the "appropriate" licenses. This shuts those of little means out of these jobs. They proposed, as possible solutions, vouchers, loans, and possibly permitting non-compete agreements.

Your accusation of "re-introducing slavery, or at least indentured servitude", is deeply dishonest.
I can see this being useful by freeing up staff to provide value added services instead of being stuck at the register. I can see stores having category experts.
I wonder how this can be when SF has so many local regulations on construction, etc, and no space.

Why aren't there more companies in SoCal? Weather's nicer and so many more people live there. Then we could use Santa Clara for prune farms again.
Sounds similar to my own path. I started off in the libertarian bucket (unsurprisingly, being an affluent white kid) and ended up evolving towards a position roughly summed up as "markets are fine so long as you put the fear of the state in them for antisocial behavior" the more time I spent outside of my CS classes and in my political science and economics classes.

To this day I'm so thankful that I got a B.A. that let me actually leave the CS cage during college instead of just taking more math.
Luckily because of how packages are in go this won't be too much of an issue. Simply have to refer to gorilla/mux or donutloop/mux specifically.
An argument for learning about history, too? Are we allowed to have this thread on Hacker News? ;)
While it's just a lib, it does implement an alternative networking system to the one you're using everywhere else in Erlang, which requires different ways of interacting with it and different knowledge of all the fun edge cases.
I'm sorry, but does anyone even glance at the source of these frameworks before they're upvoted?
Thanks. I stop reading facebook because I've grown so tired of the political posts and comments. As for reddit, thankfully I can filter out political reddits now.
I hope so. But history tell us that the first reaction to high unemployment and bad economic conditions is the dark side of politics.
The problem is that, generally by law, you can either pay them $0, or minimum wage, but not in-between. This creates a gap in the market, and generally skews internships towards people who can afford to make $0 for an extended period.
I actually haven't seen very many political stories on here. I've personally avoided most of the political crap too, so maybe I just didn't click on a lot of it (and therefore selectively un-memoryed it).

I don't feel this need to be an explicit policy. I mean it gets into the entire "what is politics debate."

Hackernews is about hacking (software, hardware, life), and I still see tons of that on here -- well that and Amazon spam, but that's mostly due to their recent conference/product announcements and will probably die down soon.
How do you draw boundaries of what's political? Everything is political - rules for how and where Cars can drive, rules for who can host whom in their house, gender equality and the job market, drones, and accountability abroad, encryption and government surveillance. It's impossible to have a conversation about Uber, AirBnB, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Twitter without talking about whom it affects and how.
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> Arguably deciding to kibosh political chat before the election would've been even more contentious, because it could be seen as trying to affect the outcome of the election.

I meant stating prior to the outcome of the election that after the election, regardless of the outcome, there would be an N-day moratorium on political discussions to allow the community to decompress. Maybe even start it a day after the election as obviously it'd be the news of the day on election day + 1.
> Hacker News often rewards negativity.

Hacker News has a very good mechanism for combating negativity. However, the moderation mechanisms of Hacker News cannot suppress the mass hatred of something.

When we see, on HN, a pattern of seething negativity against something leaking through the fine moderation system, maybe that something has some property which induces negativity. Be it completely unfair, or be it rationally justified, there it is.

There is a way not to be confronted with anything negative, while staying online: join one of those social networks whose job is to feed you ads, surrounded only by content that you like, based on your liking history.
The way I understand it is that no matter how well you manage problems, JavaScript is always going to be an abortion of a language because the real problems are higher up the ladder where developers are not allowed.
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You'd probably use load balancing to send some traffic to new images while they warm up. At lower volumes, you shouldn't be hitting GC pauses mid request. Then after a certain point you point everything to the new version. This is good for QA too.
Tritium breeding isn't a primary fusion reaction, Deuterium-Li(6) -> Helium(4) is.
Well now you're talking about something else. If they just want to put some better tooling around an existing language (or maybe apply a slight tweak to one) that would be great, more power to them, although that's not at all what their manifesto seems to be talking about. That said for the love of Turing please don't put yet another build system on node. Haven't we poured enough effort into the garbage fire that is Javascript yet?
Yeah, that's well put... I could go further to propose that the respectful exchange of ideas and dialogue is the antithesis of tribalism--of othering.

I agree with you that politics are deeply intertwined with hacker culture.

But practically speaking, how we get to that respectful ideal? Throttling political stories when things get too heated might help.
I like this experiment, so long as we can have exceptions for obviously relevant new material, i.e. "Trump advocates backdoor for Linux kernel" or some such.
> Political conflicts cause harm here.

If not the ideal scenario, this certainly isn't the worst possible outcome. To paraphrase Martin Niemöller, if you don't speak up for other people then who's going to be left to speak up for you?

Although it may appear the politics and gardening are unrelated or in opposition, there is actually an important link. PG always lists Kenneth Clark as one of his biggest influences. And if you actually watch Civilisation, in the first episode he says that it's a misconception that art arises whenever people have the resources to do things other than working or whatever. Rather, making art (loosely defined) always entails an enormous personal sacrifice, one which people only undertake when they have faith in the longterm stability of society.
What is the limit that defines "politics" from everything else ?
I personally believe that (more or less) "everything is politics", therefore it is quite difficult to follow this directive.

Actually, the OP is very politic, as it is about how HN is governed, should we flag this post and should you kill the story?

This may sound pedantic, but the example shows the importance of defining what you consider is the limit between "politics" and "everything else"
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No, if we redraw all the state borders, it should actually benefit the ruralites on average. The problem is, right now, the ruralites are lumped in with urbanites they don't agree with, and redrawing the borders would fix this. I'll give some examples:

1) New York. "Upstaters" are always complaining about NYC's influence on their politics and laws. With sensibly redrawn borders, NYC would be in its own state, combined with northern NJ, much of CT, etc. People in the rest of the state north of White Plains or so would now be in their own state. So they'd be able to make their own laws without any influence from people in NYC and its suburbs.

2) Chicago. People in southern Illinois have long complained about Chicago's influence on their laws. A redrawing of borders would probably group Chicago together with Gary IN, maybe Milwaukee, and southern IL would be a separate state (maybe combined with Cincinnati or other cities near there).

3) DC. What do the ruralites in far-west Maryland have in common with people in Baltimore or DC? Redrawing state borders would probably group that region in with WV or southwest PA, which they'd probably prefer. Also, people in southern and southwest Virginia complain about the people in NoVA. A redrawing of boundaries would surely group NoVA in with DC (and probably Baltimore), separating it from the rural parts of VA. So instead, the main urbanites the rural Virginians would have controlling their politics would be in Richmond, Roanoke, maybe Bristol, Charlottesville, and maybe the Hampton-Roads area (if that doesn't get combined with eastern NC instead). These are all cities that are much more reflective of rural Virginians' values than the DC area, and they'd probably be happier with the governance they'd get without NoVA voters.
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I guess I read it that way because merely stating "The same sorts of things happen. (severity unspecified)" is pretty pointless when the severity and its effects on doing business are the only really relevant thing that matters in this conversation?