skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly not surprised about this. I'm a long time reader, short time commentator.

HN is a left liberal leaning website. They believe in a borderless world, where all countries should take regugees and have their native society be diluted. Too big to fail government and regulation, except when they can come in and disrupt something. It's ok for them and their investors to reap the rewards where the little guy suffers losing his job.

Sure the little guy can retrain in STEM, doesn't matter if he racks up masses of debt and takes 10+ years. Oh, he can't do that, well there's always basic income.

I expect to be downvoted here, but lets just say. If you are against everything I said. You'd fit well here. Nevermind that America just voted and said a big NO to NY and CA.

Oh and consider this account abandoned. Looks like I've been warned by dang with my last post. Which was sarcasm. But because I attacked his beloved Hillary Cliton, Nancy Pelosi, Jill Stein.

Seriously CA cannot go bankrupt fast enough! A pox on your house.
Can I get a true or false response to each of the following props:

"A story about systemic gender discrimination in tech should be flagged under this policy."

"A comment regarding a person's startup experience that describes how their experience has been impacted by their race or gender identity should be flagged under this policy."

"A discussion of the sociological impact of Facebook's news curation tools should be flagged under this policy."
Even if we had guessed, we don't plan for things like who might win an election. That would be crazymaking.
It doesn't seem like most people on HN want to be politically active here. I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm here to learn new things.

And yet, teaching people new things tends to affect the world more than political discussion ever could. I'm happy that HN exists as a solace from the political storm the rest of the world is wrapped up in.

Of course politics will affect each of us. But as tptacek is fond of saying, HN can't be all things to all people. It's more important to preserve the spirit of the site than to affect change. (In fact, it seems like one comes at the cost of the other.)
Are there plans to add GPU support?
This looks like a neat technique, but it's bothering me slightly that 'peekDistinct' returns false if the element you're testing is distinct.
One downside I see to this: It's not possible to statically determine which resource will respond to which URL.

I suppose that is also a benefit (maybe some resource can divert to another resource under heavy load/when its DB is unavailable). But quite frequently I want to answer this question with just the source code.
In terms of vaporware or in terms of technology? It's clearly not PCM as a technology.

FWIW an anonymous source emailed me that early next year there would be more news on this front. But I'll believe it when I see it.
Or, to take an even more cynical position, "While we totally can moderate discussion to keep things within our standards of conduct, we find it's too much work, and would rather just not have to deal with it."

...then go write another political policy blog post about how a board member's politics aren't representative of a company's mission, etc, rinse, repeat.
> people project this onto us

You might be suggesting an unconscious and in a sense innocent psychological bias.

I also allow that a comment like the GP is in a style intended to twist and inflame. In this context the motivation could be to keep HN on the trajecory of more noise.
Ah, you got me! Yes, it's the overall atmosphere, not just the productivity. The romance is admittedly a part of it. I'm not opposed to robots making coffee, but I also suspect that in a post-work world, I'd be a part-time barista for the social-cool factor and mechanical-aromatic satisfaction.

(I can't help but think that half the attraction of Starbucks is having chipper college students hand-write a personalized drink order...)
How far would you say you got at the end of 6 months? I took a Japanese 101 class a couple years ago and still remember some basic phrases/verbs/etc and how to read katakana and hiragana as well as probably 50 or so kanji. Been thinking about getting back into it so that I can at least use it at some semi-basic conversational level for my trip.
It's the gun-manufacturer/shooter dissociation.

Anecdotally, I had a neighbor who programmed the guidance systems for bombs, and the only reason I remember him is because immediately after introducing himself as such, he followed up with, "But I'm not the one who's dropping them. By making them smarter I can save lives".

I think that no matter how technically intelligent a field's operators are, they are still subject to the same dissociations as everyone else.
Tangentially related side note, as a plasma physicist, every time I see advances like this, I worry a little bit for my future career[0]. It turns out there's a fusion reactor at the center of this solar system that's been dumping energy on us for billions of years. Of course, eventually all energy sources on earth were solar originally.

Not that doing fusion won't be interesting from a scientific point of view, but if we develop solar and batteries further, we could really require no other energy revolution than this.

[0] tongue-in-cheek, there's always stuff to research.
You've already pissed everyone off with this bad decision, it's not like you can make it much worse. Might as well get it out there and at least try to defend yourself.
ASIC-resistant != ASIC-proof

There is such a thing as ASIC-resistant cryptocurrencies as evidenced by the fact that there are many cryptos in existence today that have been around for longer a year and have no ASIC mining yet. OP can mine on this today and not have to compete against ASICs.
> 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?).

I'm not privy to my father-in-law's financial details, and if I was, I wouldn't share them with strangers online.

This is exactly what I mean by "personal attack". You're attempting to discredit me instead of addressing my argument.

> 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.

I never claimed to be unbiased, I asked you to provide sources for claims.

The fact that "it was settled out of court without admission of fault" doesn't mean anything is exactly my point. It does not support your position.

> 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.

Who said I liked WalMart? I have several issues with them, mostly around how they treat their suppliers. I didn't sue them because it would have cost me a lot of money with very little chance of success.

> 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!

My posts have nothing to do with people downvoting you. Your attitude and refusal to support your claims are responsible for that.
> this site was allowed to chug away endlessly with an anti-Democratic, anti-Obama narrative [...] This move could be interpreted as pro-Trump

The opposite people feel the opposite:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108689

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108834
> My google search shows that there is an abundance of research into problems with the police culture. That is firmly established.

It only demonstrates that there are a lot of search terms that match those criteria. Without diving into each source, we don't know what's even relevant to this conversation (we have no idea how "police culture" is defined in each of these sources, for example).

> Your second claim is false. See my reference to the diversity of the ferguson police department. You are simply shown to be wrong on this count.

I saw your reference to the diversity of the ferguson police department, but it has no bearing to my statement. Pointing out the racial disparity between the Ferguson PD and the community it serves does not disprove the notion that police come from diverse communities, nor that police serve diverse communities. It merely proves that in Ferguson, the racial composition of the police don't match that of the surrounding community.

> Also, nobody has said anything about convergence on a single hateful culture, and nowhere is there anything that requires a biased culture of policing to have occurred spontaneously. That is simply a straw man.

Unless you're proposing that police bias is organized (e.g., conferences about how to better oppress black Americans), then it is necessarily spontaneous if it exists at all. If you want to make a compelling case that racial disparities in criminal justice are principally caused by racist police, you had better at least provide a good explanation for how such a diverse occupation might become racist (in particular because the officers most likely to abuse force are themselves minorities). In particular, it is well-documented that African Americans commit more crime per capita than other American racial groups, so your case must sufficiently explain why these data are inaccurate or how to better interpret them.
It's weird to talk about the technical aspects of the Zeppelin if you're not allowed to mention the swastika painted on the tail.
Why use Story points or Time for resource tracking
I had the exact opposite experience.

Ubiquiti works well in a low RF noise environment.

We have 1k+ unique SSIDs visible throughout our office and I was having horrific latency spikes, lost connections, etc. with top of the line Ubiquiti equipment. Trying tuning them every which way from sunday. No Dice.

Spent the money and switched to ruckus and instantly: perfect wifi. Never looked back.
The values of Hacker News are intellectual curiosity and thoughtful conversation.

Thank you for reminding us here about that. Let's make it a month? A year? :-)
The customer is always right just means that if the customer wants a bright pink top with bring pink shorts, they are right.

It doesn't mean every stupid thing the customer does is right.
Ex-GV CEO Bill Maris launching health care investment fund, Section 32
I agree with much of what you said, but the use of the word 'crybully' is why I'd have downvoted you. Also the comment on the -3 points being against the guidelines.

If you clean out some of the more inflammatory words, you make a decent point. I agree that censorship should be avoided, and I see a push on the left for censorship.

EDIT: I initially said I agree with the tone but that was poor editing on my part.
Not from a technology perspective - if Health Care research like Stem Cells or Generic Drugs can be wielded like political discussion weapons, in spite of their STEM roots, then does that make them off limits now too? Or finding a genetic marker which might have Sexual Orientation implications. Controversy and discussion are bedfellows, and wanting the latter devoid of the former is childish.
You guys are great, wish I didn't have to write in stealth mode so I could blog.
Mason – A cross platform package manager for C/C++ apps
A very trivial implementation of TCP running atop RS232<->USB converters connected back-to-back so you can run SSH over USB (or RS232) at around 3Mbps. For tunnels and stuff.

5000 LEDs drilled into 30m^2 worth of plywood, wrote a kernel driver to present the LEDs as a frame buffer on an RPi with Chromium, we (small team) mounted whole thing onto concrete slabs standing in a lake. Another RPi receives SMS text messages using a JS script to decode GSM PDUs with Unicode that are ultimately rendered on the LEDs. Nice graphics are added on top if you write something sweet for example.

A device to virtually switch an SD card out of an RPi and onto a host computer so you can remotely format the SD card and reboot the RPi.

A crawler versus human detector that is a bit simpler than those normally are.

Lots of projects that get tossed because they require expertise outside of my own area. I'm quite bad at finding other tinkerers to cooperate with, unfortunately.
Or remove comment voting altogether (a voting detox week experiment? :)). I'm a bit skeptic about how much comment voting improves the discussion quality... maybe it's completely useless, or maybe it harms more than it helps. A sort by responses may be enough if you are looking for interesting points.
> The topic doesn't matter

Technically true. But practically speaking, I'd wager political topics lead to emotionally charged, intellectually devoid arguments (much) more commonly than others. If that's true, then this moderation should boost the general quality of HN comments and topics, which is why most of us come here in the first place. As a comparison, I was initially annoyed that simple jokes / witty remarks that were void of other content were down voted on HN. But long-term I compare it to reddit and agree with the method: I can still go to reddit if I want wit (I often do). I (ideally) come here for high quality technical content.
160MW peak. 42MW average over a year. That ranks about 25th in the world for solar power installations. Typical nuke or coal plant is about 1000MW per unit peak, and average is slightly less. Three Gorges Dam, 22,000MW peak. This thing is not going to "power Europe".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouarzazate_Solar_Power_Station
My Favorite Books of 2016
Yeah, that's bullshit.

> But Babel6 is still terrible, and no input from your side can change my opinion. Or perhaps it could, if you provided some technical justification for what you did. But this article is the request to stop ranting about your work, as it hurts you.

> For that, I am sorry.

So you get what he's asking (stop the sniping without substance), you're (supposedly) contrite about it, and yet in the same breath you continue to do what you acknowledge is exactly that behavior.

Either there's some fundamental disconnect in your mind that you need to address or you should just say what you mean.
Burglars Crash Car into Palo Alto Apple Store
Making an "is politics / is not politics" judgement is itself a political act. The goal itself is sort of impossible-in-principle.
I would caution against purposefully frustrating your candidates. Interviews where the interviewer is frustrating definitely have not made me looks more favorably on the company.
True, but the appraiser has zero incentive to disagree (unless it's overtly fraudulent there's no such thing as wrong appraisal) and probably some incentive (repeat business) to keep the agent they are working with happy.
I get the feeling behind this, and applaud that. However, this feels misguided and ineffectual. A boycott works by being targeted, and quantifiable. This lacks both. But I think at the root, this is political, and therefore not welcome on HN this week.
Step 1: Identify Problem

Step 2: Figure out a way to Avoid Problem

Step 3: Attain Nirvana
In some contexts, not discussing an issue is equivalent to claiming that there is no issue.

For example, a story about a new data analysis tool or technique used by police would presumably still be on topic. Would a comment discussing how this tool might disproportionately affect minorities be considered off-topic politics? If that story is allowed but the discussion about race is not, the marginalized people might feel like they need to go elsewhere.
Snowy Dance video
One of the major reasons for reforming the fourth estate is that they have crippled large numbers of people's metacognition. Fast news is like fast food. The television watching population's view of reality is impressionistic.

Of course journalists will never consider that their enterprise would require reform. They are used to being the question makers and opinion formers.

I suspect if we got rid of them all the world would be no worse off. People would communicate to each other as before and nothing of value would be lost. Perhaps less coordination of mind-share is what we need. Does anybody seriously believe our political systems improved with the availability of 24 hour news? Perhaps our political leaders should not be available on camera at all. I don't see what the argument is that more journalism and televisual display somehow made politics better. It made it more theatrical and less practical. How was that supposed to improve governance?

tldr; They don't like it up 'em.
Could you get a similar effect by wrapping your data in a decorator that has those methods? Then you just turn your transformation functions into methods that work on the decorator.

```
data = transformable(data)
data.some_transformation()
.another_transformation()
.last_transformation()
```

Not ideal, of course.
Did these guys pay a fee to YC? They seem to pop up weekly on the front page.
Reverse engineering how publishers are defeating adblock
Things can always get worse.
There isn't a dedicated support channel because OSS contributors don't want to support a project - that's a job you need to pay someone to do, they just want to write some code that scratches their itch. If you want more than this you need to be prepared to put down some money.
> It may be possible to have a fine degree of control over air pressure in today's high spec houses because of their high air tightness requirements.

Houses are not that airtight. Long before a house gets airtight enough to maintain a pressure differential efficiently, the occupants will get ill as off-gassing from carpets and paints and wood finishes cannot escape. If you run a large negative pressure in a typical house, you also risk carbon monoxide poisoning from sucking exhaust from the furnace into the living space.

> I know hospitals employ air pressure as a way of controlling for disease spreading.

They use air pressure this way specifically because construction is not airtight. If you run a negative pressure differential (which requires a pretty beefy blower to accomplish and isn't very energy efficient), you end up pulling air in from all the gaps and cracks and porous materials, which means that contaminated air is not going into all the gaps and cracks and porous materials.
Good operating systems also provide `reallocarray()`.
> Why don't we have some politics but discuss it in thoughtful ways? Well, that's exactly what the HN guidelines call for, but it's insufficient to stop people from flaming each other when political conflicts activate the primitive brain

The unfortunate fact is that political discourse in America (and, I understand, in many places elsewhere), has been reduced to lizard-brain questions.

In particular, but certainly not as the only example, the US president-elect ran on a platform that many of us would characterize as playing off machismo and fight-or-flight, rather than actual policy proposals.

HN is a good thing not because it's a way to waste time at work, but because discussing technology ultimately helps us create better technology. But the assumption in this decision seems to be that discussing politics doesn't help us make better political decisions.

I think it's clear to most of us that tech's recent success is due in large part to communities -- open source, StackOverflow, and yes, HN. We learn from each other, and this makes us all better.

If we think this model doesn't apply to politics, that each of us is better left to make up our minds independently, and that we cannot learn from each other, I fear for the future of democracy.
I completely agree that large retailers have an impact on the local economy, both positive and negative - and I while I don't agree with them, many jurisdictions have laws and regulations in place to protect the existing economy.

Where I was seeking evidence was for the claim that WalMart (1) lowers prices below their cost for the specific purpose of eliminating competition and that they (2) raise prices in compensation after those competitors fold.
Been a while since I've done web development; are the Firefox Dev Tools as good as Firebug?
Regular Expressions – User Guide
Thanks for looking. I've never heard of it happening, but all sort of arrangements happen in the grey areas of the law. I've been stipended before as an intern, but under the understanding that my hourly "wage" would not drop below the minimum.
> You're making a distinction where one doesn't need to be made. It doesn't matter if regexp is generally slow or if it's Go implementation specifically - if you're using Go and wanting something where performance is your primary goal then you're generally best to avoid using regexp.

Avoiding regexp doesn't fix Go's implementation of regexp. Making them faster does. Your argument is preposterous. If the Go team really cared about performances it would fix its regexp implementation.
I try to tell people the same thing. I have been involved with RF modeling scientists as a supporting software developer. I also learned that models tend to stink and it's only through painful reality-based tuning that they start to do okay in very limited domains. Long-range claims based upon climate modeling seem to far outstrip the current state of the art. Given the complexity of the problem, it's not at all surprising - but most lay people (even the technology-savvy) don't seem to see the probable gap between reality and the models.
Man, why did I remember 5 :/ thanks.
Show HN: Filter the web by Hacker News
I doubt they paid a fee. But clearly, they're either gaming the system or there's a very large population on HN who are trying to break into the industry with no credentials.
Hacker news does not have the responsibility to improve or stop discrimination that happens outside the website. There is barely any discrimination that occurs on this website. Again, the majority of people cannot tell the race or gender of others unless it is explicitly stated.

And those issues are not just a one sided affair. It is politics after all. HN is impartial in that it silences both sides of that story (the other side being affirmative action or racial discrimination in favor of those who are supposedly oppressed).
This doesn't feel nonpartisan, it feels like it's actively quashing what little political traction can be gained here.

And frankly, a 'detox' is absolutely the wrong word for it. The emotions for me at least come from feeling scared. I have several family members who will lose coverage if the ACA is repealed and I have muslim friends who are looking at the prospect of being sent to interment camps.

This is anger and fear that should be cultivated, not extinguished.

sudo bash -c 'echo "127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com" >> /etc/hosts'
The crimes against them were terrifying, but the judicial system made it worse