skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am also openly a woman. And I'm probably one of the lowest-ranked members on here, precisely because this community is already so fucking much a "place where racist, misogynist, fascist hackers can feel perfectly safe". So i only come over here when something is really interesting or really appalling, because it is a toxic awful cesspit of a community and Mr. Gackle doesn't seem to have done any better than any of the other mods in that regard. IDK why you have any more faith in him than in any of the rest of them.
Ooh. Forgot about that. Sorry.
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Thermodynamics states that in any closed system the entropy ALWAYS increases over time. I think this law works, but they need to stipulate that it's for situations where there is a begin-time and end-time (finite time range), but if you integrate entropy over all time (even in a closed system), you end up with a situation where the total area under the entropy curve is zero. In other words if you sort of 'remove' time from the equation, and only consider a closed system, then all particles are guaranteed to have had time to interact with each other and fall into a well ordered pattern where there is equal order and disorder. This is my belief and it is NOT the 'conventional' understanding, but people are beginning to adopt this idea into their thinking.
Do you know that for sure? He certainly makes that impression.
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Hmm. Given the amount of information removed (justifiably so), there isn't much left to analyze other than aggregates. (Which the dashboard mockup in the post already does)

What might be interesting is graphing a network of the relationship between services which suffered a breach. Fortunately, I have the proper workflow prepared to process the data in this manner, so I'll take a look.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DanBeale1/status/8058790825966592...
Head ups, a twitter account for some reason has a link to your comment, probably to manipulate up or down votes. I dont know what official policy is about that.
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[msft] RE Dropbox - Very sorry about that :(. We discovered an issue earlier and are feverishly looking at fixing it. Will remove the UI until it is fixed. Meanwhile you can !curl in data among other approaches.

RE Storage/CC sign up. I'll locate someone in that group & reply back.
> Note the "most". Pointing out one counter example where discussion barely shows up isn't a counterpoint. I would also argue that those experiences are shared but that is its own political discussion.

Virtually any interaction between two people could be put into this bucket. If you want to just talk about adjust-your-pince-nez tech stuff, Lambda the Ultimate exists. Pretty much everything with more of a human element than that is intractably political--you just may not have a dog in the fight.

Hiring is political. Firing is political. Performance reviews are political. Getting funded is political. SOPA is political. Hate speech is political. Wikipedia NPOV is political. The surveillance state is political. Facebook's content filtering to show you what you want to see is...political.

This isn't stuff that "barely shows up". It's the core of the culture. Computers, ultimately, barely matter to tech--people do. And people are intractably political.

> I don't think it is reasonable to feel uncomfortable about not being able to discuss two sided issues on one board out of millions on the internet.

I'm being careful not to frame your arguments poorly; I would appreciate the same charity. I feel uncomfortable with tacit support for a white, male status quo on one of the more read, more important culture sites that are in the tech community of which I am a part.
> the world is fundamentally and inescapably political

Thank you for saying this.

It feels like what we're seeing here from HN leadership is denial - or abdication – of moral responsibility. That's a choice you can make, and it's known to be an argument going on within Facebook right now. It doesn't impress me much, but in all honesty, HN doesn't; this place has real problems with sexism and racism.

Speaking personally, I guess it means I'm unlikely to ever apply to YC, because I weigh these moral – call it social justice, that's fine with me – considerations pretty highly in choosing who I work with. Other people will find different personal calculuses here. Many YC founders are my friends and they speak highly of the people involved; this just happens to be over my personal line.

Nevertheless, I'm still just... disappointed.
I feel your pain, brother.
Ask HN: Amazon recruiters email me every week for hiring events, you too?
Do you also receive these annoying emails from Amazon recruiters every week about software engineer hiring events in Seattle?? It's like a copy/paste generic email that makes you feel so special. That is the worst practice i've seen so far in terms of recruitement.
Your response seems irrelevant to mine.

Being nice is not a behavior that is only exibited when paid to do so, as you seem to believe.
There's no reasonable definition of "pure San Francisco values" for which that would be true even with a 20K karma threshold.

HN certainly isn't a representative sample of the (global or US) population, ideologically speaking, but the idea that HN is a pure representation of any single ideology, either in general or at any particular karma threshold where there are more than a handful of users, is absurd.
Well, at least your POV is consistant. Which is more than I can say for many here.

I maintain that JS is an acceptable language despite its flaws, and that the best way to write JS is to just buck up and learn about them, rather than trying to paper them over.
The fact that you think that this set of statements is framed in a neutral or apolitical way is proving the point, you know?
But the people behind those libraries are part of the community.
That was more or less my point. So thanks for clarifying it.
In one bio ("Hard Drive", maybe?) it mentioned that he'd just go on a boat for a week with a huge stack of books once in a while.
Well, sure, of course it will, but I don't think Nick is advocating replacing a complete, full featured monitoring system with this.

It could be very useful to, for example, keep an eye on your monitoring system. At $work, we have a pretty extensive monitoring system that we've built out. We use an external service to watch over the monitoring system, though, to alert us of any issues with it that we haven't otherwise caught.

Besides, like he said, it's "fun" and kinda neat.
What's the unit on the y axis...?
This and that!

It's the same as "Twitter clone" with just posting messages with 140 char limit and "build a blog in 15 minutes".

Alerting over a downed website are is sorta like a glacier, there's so much under the surface, if you just see the surface you're missing out.

1. Multiple locations
2. Multiple check intervals
3. SMS/email provider switch on fail
4. Auto recovery of your checkers
5. Multiple providers with a single storage.
When France goes to war it does so independently of the rest of the EU. And Britain has no obligation to help Sweden if Sweden is invaded. If that's not a hard line between nation-state and not, then I don't know what is.
I've always been surprised that memset is usually just a nonmagical for loop. I used to expect that the OS does things to magically make it faster (running lazily, etc).
Yet, isn't followed.
> That quote is from 2015. If everyone held people to what they said a year ago despite them softening on the issue or even changing their mind completely...

Ok, this is reasonable. There have been some indications that Trump might be softening on the issue. Language alluding to this policy was removed from his campaign website on election night, for instance, and it hasn't really come up since (at least from him). I'm still very concerned that it was said at all, but you can certainly make an argument that this statement doesn't represent the current state of things.

> well then why is Obama so highly regarded by the left?

You have veered into defensive tribalism. We are not discussing in what regard Trump is held, but rather the likelihood of him implementing a particular policy based on what he has said about it. Whether or not liberals forgave Obama's transgressions is irrelevant to a muslim registry.
Getting rid of wasteful jobs is a good thing regardless of whether you can handle the people who lose those jobs in the short term.

The job-saving technology will live forever, long after the people who are temporarily displaced die. You're doing an immense amount of good for the untold number of people who aren't even born yet.

Technology is also global, but the political problems associated with eliminating jobs are problems on a state-by-state basis. Is it immoral to develop a technology just because some political systems are incapable of handling the gains in productivity, while other states are?
I have recently noticed multiple women with longstanding accounts that were (mostly or entirely) inactive for apparently a very long time but which have recently started being active again. I also have exchanged emails with Dan Gackle on a number of occasions and he has banned accounts for making ugly personal attacks at me that were completely out of line (and gender based) and he has also engaged in more limited, but useful interventions.

There are other things that I am not willing to comment on publicly, but which inform my opinion.

I am sorry your experience has been so negative. I certainly had a pretty difficult time at one time, but I have always had a pretty good opinion of HN and I felt I had reason to work on the problem from my end, since I am good at certain things. I believe it is generally getting better and women are generally being received differently here than what happened at one time.
The question isn't whether they would like to raise prices, but whether they can.

You know the King in the Little Price? He ruled over the whole universe - provided he just made reasonable demands, like ordering the sun to rise at dawn.

Likewise, some monopolies are only kept as long as the monopolist doesn't actually abuse it, because as soon as they do, it starts to make sense for competitors to open up.

Then the question becomes: if Walmart raised its prices so much, why didn't one of the other large chains move in to the same area?

Personally, I started asking anonbanker about it because I find most claims of long-term abuse of monopolies won without State help (Standard Oil being the typical example) to be flimsy at best, so I'm interested in finding good cases. Usually either the monopoly doesn't last very long or it's actually not being abused.
Incanter/Clojure?
I am disappointed by this decision, but I don't love HN any less for it.

Many comments have pointed out that there are plenty of places on the web to have discussions about political topics, so let's keep the HN about tech.

I see the merit in this sentiment, but for me reading the political discussions within this community is something I value greatly. For one thing, there are a great many non-US based people here. In my experience I have been exposed to a relatively balanced set of perspectives, and generally commenters are thoughtful and un-troll-like.

In short, I learn many things from other folks in this community, and that includes political topics.
> You are not buying a copy of the software; you are buying a license to use the software.

And you generally cannot use software without first installing it to a hard drive so obviously it should be treated as a part of "usage", not "making a copy". Like playing a DVD is just usage, not making a copy. But of course the law doesn't always follow common sense.

I think that making copies for oneself (as long as one doesn't distribute them) should not be regulated by copyright too.

The Berne Convention says:

> Authors of literary and artistic works protected by this Convention shall have the exclusive right of authorizing the reproduction of these works, in any manner or form.

> It shall be a matter for legislation in the countries of the Union to permit the reproduction of such works in certain special cases, provided that such reproduction does not conflict with a normal exploitation of the work and does not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the author.

So it is possible to permit making copies for oneself under Berne Convention if the lawmakers wanted that. For example, law allows to record TV programs.
>I often feel marginalized by unfair downvoting in political discussion

This is insane. Why are people worried about internet points. I'm guessing you are an adult right? and you don't want to express your points of views because someone might click the little arrow?

Why? Please, honestly, explain this to me.
The very next sentence was:

> I find this topic fascinating is because my first job, in high school, was writing software for the entity that controls the power grid in the Northwest

I wonder if somewhere in bowels of a northwest utility company there is a machine silently chugging away, running code written by a teenage Bill Gates, helping deliver electricity to the masses.
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I'd like to know more about end-to-end systems in R. I'm not familiar with serious production environments using such tools. Any pointers?
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Probably those with non-average "average days" are more likely to respond so I'll balance it out by stating the useless and the obvious:

Average days are average. Average is boring.

My average day:
* 9 AM arrive
* 10 AM standup
* code until lunch
* code all afternoon
* 6 PM leave

Corporate system pressures you to be average, but your boredom will pressure you otherwise. Always find new things to work on, meet new people, don't burn any bridges, stay sharp.
Life without a Headphone Jack
Hey, didn't I just run into you over in the other thread...?

But, yeah, you're welcome. I've been here long enough that not saying anything was untenable. Email's in my profile if you'd like to talk further.
I support research in AI of all kinds, however, its history is one of vastly over-promising and under-delivering. Modest but demonstrable progress is better, in my view, than yet more hype.
>Anything else is amateur hour.

Such as writing the optimizing compilers that make it feasible for you to use C at all?
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Something I've found helpful is pre-heating the board (e.g., with an under-board IR heater) before breaking out the hot air. As another poster has mentioned, chip-quick is also great stuff.
so the Americans living in Beijing had no right to complain about this.

Please provide a quote that indicates I held anything resembling a position like that, or admit that you projected that.
etcd does contain ACLs: https://coreos.com/etcd/docs/latest/v2/auth_api.html
Your CSS is very broken in Chrome, would love to check it out though.
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You caught that, didn't you? I've been careful to offer my responses in good faith, but I couldn't help but notice that, yes, his defense is coming from a pretty regressive starting point.

The words people pick tell you a lot about them, don't they? ;) Almost like they mean things...
(dig && ping && traceroute && tcptraceroute) + tcpdump ?
I agree with the week detox but I also agree that it probably shouldn't be permanent.

The equivalent analogy might be that the HN magazine has published too many politically slanted stories in recent issues and worries about losing sight of their larger editorial goals.

It's too easy and too cheap to make another politically provocative cover story. It might make sense to totally stop writing political stories altogether for a bit to break the habit.
TAF usually means Thousand Acre-Feet in water resources. (ie, a unit of volume.)
If they were using S-video in 1990, they were either converting to s-video from composite which would negate the benefit of s-video, or they were using a playchoice-10 arcade unit and converting the RGB to s-video, in which case the pixels would be sharper but the colors were wrong because the arcade ppu had a different color palette to accommodate direct rgbs arcade monitors. I sort of doubt they were using a Playchoice unit because back then pretty much all projectors could take an RGBS arcade signal directly (I am doing this today but with ordinary CRT) and gotten even less loss so, they would have used that. But, it was common back then to convert composite to s-video not to improve the picture quality, but to reduce the picture quality loss from long cabling so I'd guess that is what they were doing. I don't doubt you saw a good picture but it probably had more to do with the projector. There were projectors back then that could do a thousand vertical lines of resolution.

Subpixel rendering was a necessity to make recognizable faces on the tiny sprites, this is common knowledge in the pixel art community. This pretty much relied on the blurring effect of the CRT. Arcade monitors are sharper, but it's still a very low-res CRT.

Now that I have expressed the limits of my video knowledge from that era, some grey AV nerd with even more knowledge please come out and put me in my place.
The only prereqs for this course are an introduction to programming course and an introduction to statistics course, so this isn't surprising.
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One can refuse to approach the inherent political nature of the topic, but not deny it exists, which was what I was responding to.

That said, sure, not every thread should re-hash the same conversation, but that's neither exclusive to politics (see the discussions in every thread about JS frameworks) nor is it the problem being called out by the moderator.
I am very curious: are the impacts of technology and whether-we-should,-not-whether-we-can not appropriate discussions for a "tech board"? Because those are fundamentally political topics.
> Why discuss a few hundred innocent (and quite a few not so innocent) black people shot by cops when we can instead discuss the tens of thousands of innocent white people harmed by blacks?

Three reasons.

1) I pay officers, and they aren't doing what I pay them to do and they aren't improving the things I want improved.

2) We can discuss both. But it's pretty obvious when this presumed black violence is trotted out as an answer to police violence rather than a conversation that just happened to be going on.

3) "Black" isn't a voluntary or revokable status. You don't choose your skin-color, nor can it be revoked when you misbehave. You literally cannot control people of your color. You also can't control other gamers, other men, other women, etc. Whereas "Police" is both voluntary and revokable. They can choose not to be police officers if they're upset with the behavior of other officers, and can revoke the status of bad officers. Even if we agreed with your assertion, black people cannot fix other blacks, officers can fix other officers.

> why is police shootings of black men the topic at all?

The discussion about police violence was already ongoing, but the police mistreat blacks disproportionally so it's not a bad place to focus. Fix the big leaks before the smaller ones...

Are you having trouble getting attention for your police violence complaints that you think this discussion is blocking, because you aren't black?

> Also, the levels of black crime are directly relevant to the topic of police shootings of black people.

Actually no, blacks suffer even in non-violent areas. The black professor arrested while breaking into his own house...

Also, it's just tactically not how it works. When police apprehend anyone they're actually afraid of they stay well away, call backup, bark orders through a bullhorn, and approach only once the person is laying down on the ground with their hands visible. Anytime you see an ongoing situation with an officer less than three steps from the person that officer is not afraid. That's intimidation, not safety, they're going for.

In many videos of police thuggery and shootings we see police going out of their way to put themselves in a tactical distance where they will be "forced" to respond by any slight movement. If they were really at all scared they'd be on the other side of their car, radioing for backup.
Why do so many people disagree on something that should be nearly empirical?
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It was pretty clear he didn't (or even hardly ever) watched the movies whose stars came on his show. It definitely seemed that, in the case of authors, he generally had a more personal grasp of the book.

I wonder if in some cases his producers would give him "cliff's notes" for the books.
There as about 18 billion other places on the internet for useless political arguments. HN was much more informative and intellectually stimulating when the immune system response to even hints of political bickering was brutal and swift.
The new kubeadm tool makes it a little easier, but I've always run into issues setting up networking. Truth be told though, I've found kubernetes fits in better as a piece of the orchestration puzzle rather than the end of it - I managed to get OpenShift (Origin) deployed in under 2 hours on 6 CentOS Atomic hosts (3 masters, 3 schedulable nodes) and got all the k8s goodness with a bunch of nice extras on top (same day we deployed 2 node.js apps to it and my team was super excited when I had them push to git, OpenShift automatically build and deployed the docker image and the new releases were live in moments).

Seriously, if you want Kubernetes, look at just deploying openshift, there's ansible playbooks out there and even an installer to write the ansible inventory on your behalf to make it super easy, and the OpenVSwitch configuration is just magic compared to getting flannel set up right for k8s.
This. As long as the appraisal is close enough for plausible deniability, it serves the purpose. The originator just needs a number that's close enough for reality that whoever they sell the loan to (probably the government) can't come back and accuse them of fraud.
If you can spare an hour a day, and can read at least a page every two minutes, that's 210 pages a week. I understand if you have family obligations and long work hours but I also like to squeeze some reading in during lunch if it's not a social lunch or maybe right before bed. Just like everything else in life you have to find the time for it and then make the time for it.
Sure, I can see that coming from your perspective. Matlab can do things that are similar, a researcher creates a model that is totally detached from the production environment, works beautifully and leaves ALOT of engineering required of the production team. I wonder how probabilistic programing will fit over the next 10(?) years. I'm not a fan of "I programed this, now you implement it" dev cycle and I that will decrease as Data Science matures. Sadly you are at the friction point for now.
Somewhat related, Twenty Thousand Hertz. Stories behind interesting sounds.

https://www.20k.org/
I just did the same, after reading two very compelling stories. It was tempting to first read one more (and one more after that...), but it's already clear to me that this is scifi worth supporting.