skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone."

-- RMS, "O'Reilly Open Source Conference: Day 3" by Paul Weinstein, in Apache Week (26 July 2002)
> There are two different kinds of site—intellectually curious and politically combative—and we cannot be both of them.

I disagree. You cannot support intellectual curiosity without healthy, relatively unrestrained (in subject matter) debate.

Now, simply tribal displays that aren't debate where people engage with each other, are a problem and need to be corralled effectively to avoid becoming.the dominant form of activity.

But not only is "politically combative" not opposed to "intellectually curious" in a site, the former is essentially a necessitate to accept if you are going to have the latter.
It's because being on older versions limits your upgrade options. The further you get behind the more painful upgrading becomes.

You don't want to be in a position were you can't fix a bug because it's in the framework and you're several version behind.

There are also security issues with using older versions.
that's awesome, how do you plan on waterproofing all the openings?
Everyone on the left is calling this oppression and suppression.

Everyone on the right is calling this an affront to free speech.

When you piss off everyone, you are probably doing the right thing.
> For a democracy to flourish, no place should be unfit for discussion

This is obviously false. For example, plenty of democracies have flourished despite having libraries where silence is golden.

> One could argue, that when you live in a democracy, politics are a necessary duty for every citizen.

HN is international and if I recall correctly, more than half of users are not from the USA. Some users don't live in a democracy and some don't believe in it.
It wasn't always like that here in the US. When I was young, I walked to school by myself, rode my bike for miles around the surrounding town and area, and had a lot of time to myself as I was raised by a single mother. The current trend of "helicopter parenting" didn't really exist back in the 70s and 80s as far as I can remember, and people certainly didn't get into legal trouble when their kids ran around outside unsupervised like they do now. The things you complain about seem to me to be recent changes, within the last 20 years. I had piano practice and soccer practice, and had to get driven to them because they were much too far to walk to and our public transit sucked back then just like it does now, but not "play dates" and zero unsupervised time. It was basically like you describe for current-day Norway.

I have no idea where we went off the rails in this country with regard to child-raising.
The problem is defining good comments and having users actually follow that protocol.

To many, a comment that doesn't follow their personal logic or point of view is not a good comment. And you end up with echo chambers where only the comments that align with the majority of a community pop up, while the extremists (for lack of a better term) of a community are pushed to the bottom. Those extremists could easily be individuals sounding the alarm on something that's happening, such as skepticism for a story.

On Reddit and HN, I almost never downvote anyone because I think it's a terrible system that is too often abused and reduces the ability to have meaningful conversations about controversial topics.
> Any sort of programming certification test would be gameable.

Seems to be working for the American Bar Association.
The co-founder of Skype has backed a mini plane company with a €10M round
https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/47j9x9/questionho...

> A 1956 Maserati 250F weights 550kgs and has 270hp. Top speed 290.

> So you would need a quite serious road car to beat it. But not impossible.

> A big performance factor are also the suspension, tires and brakes. 1950s tires were quite skinny and not really grippy compared to what you can find on a sport car today, so I would expect the performance gap to be more in favor of the modern car in the twisty bit and the braking.

> But to summarize, you daily driver would still be smashed by a 1956 F1 car, except if you daily drive an Ariel Atom, a Porsche GT3 or something even more exotic.
https://github.com/dickeyxxx/gh

It's not great for everything but the username/projectname is pretty ubiquitous and this just brings that to your folder layouts
Yes, "taking a break from politics" is a privilege granted to those not directly effected by it.
Is there a legal risk of using freelancers when building product version 1.0? What is the correct way?
I think one reason this seems so incongruous is that the change in politics seems to be so clearly interlinked with the technology that we in Silicon Valley have created.

How are things like job displacement and social media not simultaneously political and fundamentally products of hackers?
> haha...that name is hideous

> please.. make it stop..

> closes tab

Look at this sorry thread, the usual open source project bashing going on in the Go community, pathetic, but business as usual in the Go community. The Go community is truly irredeemable and one of the most mean spirited and hateful programming community out there.
There are some unfortunate statements in there (if taken out of context) that requires you to read the whole thing for it to make sense. Like "...but most of the array is still zeros, so it isn't actually taking up any memory..." which is a bit ambigious if not read in the complete context, then it makes sense.
>...it's insufficient to stop people from flaming each other when political conflicts activate the primitive brain. Under such conditions, we become tribal creatures, not intellectually curious ones. We can't be both at the same time.

I 100% agree with this analysis, but is the answer really to avoid discussion of politics altogether? I don't agree, and I think of the forums I visit, this one has the best chance of maintaining a high percentage of rational discussion to tribal noise.
If you're committed to selling there's no reason to imagine your potential acquirers are limited to a handful of competitors. General investors, related but non-competing businesses [perhaps including your customers] and even unrelated businesses are also in the mix.

If the business is profitable and can be packaged up into something close to a turnkey operation, then marketing it will be even easier. But packaging it up like that means a substantial commitment to selling and the price is a lot of distraction from the core business.

Good luck.
Perhaps grounding your moderation policies around concepts you know are undefined and inseparable isn't the best basis for moderating the site.

As for how people see your actions: labeling it as "projecting" might make you feel better, but probably gets in the way of you understanding what they're saying.

In today's environment, you can't simultaneously make the site an welcoming place for people who are anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-feminist, anti-trans (etc.) - and for people who are Muslim, immigrant, women, trans and nonbinary people (etc) or allies to any of these groups. What people are telling you is that they see YC - and you personally - as siding with the bigots.
Whats wrong with a self-made no sugar version in a library ?
That's a one liner and datascientists use lots of libs already.

output = compose(transform1, transform2, tranform3)(input)
or
output = pipe(input)[transform1, transform2, tranform3]
are too ugly ?
Politics is not what HN is about. This is an academic forum. If you want to talk politics, go elsewhere. This has been my position for a long time.
Three Digestible Diagrams to Describe Exploratory Testing
Understood. My post was a retaliation to a blatant ad hominem.

I do not enjoy getting into the mud, but sometimes it is necessary. As you can see from my parent post, I was engaging in discussion whereas EdHominem lived up his name almost immediately.

Regardless, your site, your rules.
> Martini also relied heavily on DI and reflection for convenience and the author basically conceded that this was not idiomatic.

More like he was bullied into conceding that.
I sincerely doubt that my sole efforts to study/game the system really made much effect overall to moderation.

I was thinking more of the effect on me, and other users. I try to engage with people and understand why they hold the views they do. The greater the tolerance for users who are faking their viewpoints, the easier it is to fall into the habit of treating someone holding a genuine minority opinion as a troll or shill.

Other than being worried about the gaming approach, I agree with most of the rest of what you are saying.
DeepMind were acquired by Google but are still somewhat separate and are in a different building to that one without any Google logos on.
Have you looked into SparkR?
I also often see this when someone argues that a certain action by a company isn't ethical--which has no objective truth, but that makes the debate only more fruitful, IMO--and someone else then replies that this company has every (legal) right to act this way, which has more of an objective truth by most standards, but isn't very interesting at all if you don't live in the same jurisdiction, nor has it much relevance to whether the action was "right" (in the ethical sense) or not.

But then, I guess, that person has every right to conflate moral and legal rights ... so sue me? :)
But still ends with a "maybe just a glitch" line. Mostly context/analysis of potential political motives and significance if things are as they appear, but little in the way of concrete answers.
Your point about regional politics is a really good argument for keeping political discussions out of Hacker News, for the most part. While (I'd guess) the majority of HN users are from the states, there's probably a healthy minority that are not and political discussions, which are almost always US-centric, generally do become noise and have low relevance to them. Even to myself as an American I already see too much political discussion on other sites like Reddit and Facebook that a place that is proactive in disallowing the discussions is a breath of fresh air (or bits, I guess).

I understand it's a little contentious to remove an entire topic of discussion, but I also welcome this and if the experiment goes well I would like to see it go longer term. I'm guilty of engaging in political discussions on HN but I try to moderate my words, but I know there are many who don't moderate their words in part or at all and especially because of how polarized politics seems at the moment (in the US at least) it's maybe a smarter decision to not allow people the opportunity to not moderate their words.
I think this moment officially marks the point at which the American tech industry disappeared up its own asshole.
Unleash the Power of Live Chat – How to Get More Customers and Sales
A great example of MVC in PHP
Ln – NTFS hard/symbolic link command line tool
Next up, Rilke week? ;)
Using S3 for your front end
Don't actually look at the project, just look at the MVC part, starting at index.php (and explained in CONTRIBUTING.md).
Gotcha. So curious, is there anything stopping someone from using up too much of your bandwidth? It's a cool thing but I'd hate to see some spammer get ahold of it and end up using thousands of dollars worth of bandwidth. I mean I'm sure you're monitoring it but you're not always next to a computer to put a stop to it.

Just food for though :)
The Recent Uber Revenue/Profit Debate, Explained
Partnering to Help Curb the Spread of Terrorist Content Online
> because you're not on the receiving end.

Nope. I actually am at the receiving end. 2 of my cousins are married to illegal aliens (both Mexican women) and 1 couple has a child born here (so citizen).

Still I had a moment of clarity when I realized that

1) Trump was indeed Democratically elected, and
2) I don't gain anything by fretting over and stressing over after reading 1 bad news after another about his policies, because I really can't do anything as a single person (unless, of course, I make 1 issue my life long pursuit, then it's different).

I've chosen to focus on my Circle of Control and reduce or altogether eliminate my Circle of Concern

Related Reading: Circle of Control vs Circle of Concern: => http://www.jdroth.com/images/circle-concern-control.jpg
You've got over 2k karma. You can afford to lose some.

Even then, I scrolled back through your comments. The last time you got grayed out was over a month ago (although I'll agree that that thread was a little like what you describe, and I was really unhappy to see 'idlewords and 'tptacek say what they did, not least of all because of how much I respect them... I was in that thread too, and I'll remind you that the moderators closed it because it just turned into an all-out flamewar).

I agree with your political opinion, for what it's worth. But I don't agree that you should feel anything based on downvotes. Sometimes people will disagree with you. Sometimes they won't.

But never, ever let a little number next to your name control your life. Don't let it become who you are. Make your comments when you feel they're appropriate, and don't take it too harshly when you get knocked down.

I want you to know that you're welcome on HN.
Why Are Self Service, Agility and Cloud Linked?
Spent a couple of hours of interesting reading. It sounds like faces cluster in high dimensional space. From the perspective of a curious spectator I would love to see a blog post or article that answered:

What would pairs of maximally distant faces look like?

What would the mediods of a large dataset that was clustered into two clusters look like? Would it be a high level feature that we'd recognize like male or female?

Would faces that were mediods of the cluster be considered more attractive?

Would it be possible to build a similar app that allowed you to identify an individual from memory? Cluster the dataset and present the user with images representative of the mediods of the clusters. Discard images from clusters that weren't selected and re-cluster. Repeat until a handful of images remain.

Could that technique work as a virtual sketch artist and identify a person's doppelganger?
China's New “Social Credit Score” Brings Dystopian Science Fiction to Life
I can easily add another runtime. What were you thinking?
We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Very Idea of Ownership
[xtopdf] Wildcard text files to PDF with xtopdf and glob
Alexa was named after the Great Library at Alexandria. It is also helpful that Amazon owns alexa.com and that "Alexa" is a uniquely pronounced word with few rhyming words or semi-homophones making it a great wake word candidate.
It's not a programming language, it's not turing complete and it is guaranteed to terminate. So what's the problem?
Politics is the process to decide upon the policy.
So We've Had a Few Problems with Docker in Production
And by a few, I mean 4 bugs in a month that would wipe out an entire cluster but leave Kube thinking it was up. We issued dumpster fire awards for those of us who spent weeks troubleshooting and fixing them. After all, a dumpster is a container.

http://i.imgur.com/i66FpAZ.jpg

Relevant:

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/22502

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/28518

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/28889

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/26492

Anyone else got some docker war stories?
I don't feel comfortable flagging it because I disagree with the reasoning behind the policy, but isn't this political?[1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404
Using AWS Lambda to call and text you when your servers are down
The division you are looking for is

Hard Realtime: Embedded system, no virtual memory/OS. Or special OS provisions to let them run.

Soft Realtime: Responsive.

In the case you are aiming for the second. There are several million things that'll net greater performance. We're talking about saving a matter of nano-seconds in C/C++. How you load your config will have more effect then this.

If you want to save $1,000,000 rolling pennies a start. But there are likely way bigger savings elsewhere, worth way more time, and less effort.
Voting? Why that sounds positively political of you.
How Ackerman Steering works
I'm not sure I follow this logic, but I sense that my comment was more confusing than clarifying, since I'm pretty sure it doesn't lead to the consequence you're talking about and that's not what we intend (quite the opposite).

The intention here is simply to treat political stories as off-topic for a week. The question of what counts as a political story vs. not, is pretty much an impossible one to answer in the general case, so I probably shouldn't have tried.
North American Aerial Photographs by Pablo López Luz
I always tend to burn up PCBs when I try to de-solder broken parts with a hot air station. I usually use 300°C and a small nozzle... but always until the solder melts at the first pin, the PCB turns black-ish. What do I do wrong there?
This is like TV and music piracy all over again, and yet again content publishers have a completely wrong impression and are doubling-down on it. Accusing your audience is the stupidest imaginable idea.

Content publishers: it is the POOR QUALITY OF YOUR EXPERIENCE that is driving people to take these steps (primarily). 9999 out of every 10000 visitors aren’t trying to “steal” your stupid article. Rather, your visitors are just sick and tired of the auto-playing pop-up videos that consume unreasonable data, delayed and difficult-to-close windows, or any number of other utterly obnoxious advertising schemes that were somehow green-lighted for your sites. A reasonable ad-blocker is not really for ads but to act as an “obnoxious content blocker” and it is a REQUIREMENT for sane web browsing in 2016.

Same thing with TV: maybe some people insist on free stuff but most of us are just sick and tired of having to deal with your streaming services (0. every network has a different app; 1. log in, password; 2. find that sometimes the show you want is unavailable because of Error -306 or something ridiculous; 3. inexplicably inconsistent streaming quality; 4. STUPID introductory sequences that cannot be skipped; 5. buggy; 6. clumsy menus, 7. perhaps still ads, despite paying for it, etc.), compared to the torrent experience (1. play ultra-high-quality content; 2. no step 2).

If I can’t visit your site, your site ceases to matter to me and you slowly lose mind share. The Internet is a big place; don’t be stupid enough to alienate your audience.
I used Orion inside an Oculus and it was reeeaally pretty cool to have hands in there with full finger tracking.

Eg conjuring cubes from finger tips and bouncing them away in the demo. I can see it being a better UI for many games / apps than the controllers
The standout for me is --delorean which is basically rdiff-backup for windows. There's a wrapper script for it here with some extra options: https://github.com/International-Nepal-Fellowship/Windows-To...

Also this page badly needs a ToC.
Partnering to Help Curb Spread of Online Terrorist Content
As promised, here is the GIS related works I posted a couple of weeks back, though I had to brew my own to get a piece without the political angle:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13110904
Bigass world-spanning censorship engine. I can't think of anything to say that isn't totally obvious.
Ah this makes the purpose much more clear. I recommend putting a version of how you explain this on your front page
> Tribalism is so toxic

What do you think HN will be like when only the privileged ideologies are allowed?
Troubleshooting disk usage on a Linux server with ncdu
>The states, if challenged, could assert that a federal ban on marijuana is unconstitutional on its face as it flies in the face of both the 9th and 10th amendments (and possibly the 5th, with maybe a sprinkling of the 14th, depending).

This part sounds critical, but I don't quite follow. If you're willing to expand on that, I'd love to hear about it.
Most of what I've written has been for work, so I can't keep copies of that. In my own hobby projects, there's usually so little overlap that I can't meaningfully share much code between them. I've got a couple of classes that have found use in more than one project, but I usually just copy those from one project to the next, as necessary.
JavaScript testing pyramid
I bet you have some far superior videos for your own open source projects--why don't you post links to those babies so we can learn how to do it right?
It's your prerogative to enforce HN's own rules about political posts, but I think identifying "politics" as a "topic" is a misguided (political) gesture.

It's one thing to say pogo sticks are off-topic in a unicycling forum, and quite another to say basic human drives (thought, sex, hunger, curiosity, creation, expression, socializing, prediction, story-telling, bonding, power, respect, exploration...) that pervade everything we do are "off-topic".

On the road to pathologizing and demonizing people who don't agree with us, this kind of compartmentalization is itself a mechanism we use to flatten and stereotype away the human needs, desires, and drives that animate others.

You may benefit HN (and society) more by acknowledging these entanglements and focusing instead on how to model, shape, and cultivate responsible civic discourse.
Cool. So they just said, "Hey, we would like to offer you the job. Here are the details. Please take your time and let us know when you've made a decision"?
I too find this to be an argumentum ad absurdum.

> The values of Hacker News are intellectual curiosity
> and thoughtful conversation.

> For one week, political stories are off-topic.

That said, I can support:

> Those things are lost when political emotions seize
> control.

This ban should be on political emotions seizing control; not on intellectual conversation surrounding political stories.
This can be used to censor any content, needless to say.
How did the migration go if I may ask? Was it progressive or clean slate? i.e. develop in parallel the new Elixir implementation and just switch when everything is green and all the specs match the Ruby app.
Hyperconverged Networking for the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform
A big win for virtue signalers, champagne socialists, and pseudointellectuals everywhere.
Oni: NeoVim front-end UI focused on IDE-like extensibility
The comment was not that no technique could exist, but that none of the techniques we currently have developed; this could simply argue that a human brain is not like any of our models (which I would personally not find shocking or even surprising).
My impression is that most of those who doubt human-caused global climate change that is harmful do so for one or both of two general views.

One is religious. As promoted by Jim Inhofe, chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, it is that it is impossible because God controls the atmosphere and would never allow that sort of harm to the human race.

The other is based on conservative economic philosophy. It is that it can't happen because most of the CO2 is being put into the atmosphere through the operations of coporations and the free market, and that these can't possibly cause harm to the human race.
I could be wrong, IANAL, but isn't the bar association test based on memorizing a tonne of stuff? A certification based on how much of on API someone can remember would be worth nothing.
Would be nice if HN swaps out all those affiliate-links automatically with their own „tag“. I guess they could fund quite some startups with all the $$$ coming in.
Reddit banned /r/pizzagate 12 days ago for permitting doxing:

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

I'm not aware of any other recent significant bans, so I don't know what user samstave means by ``They were like "Oh! BAM" A ban on /r/this and that.''