skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Your statement "many millennials to commit to their media narratives" is itself part of its own narrative.

- Making a sweeping generalization while implying a lack of nuance or legitimacy of others' contributions shows a lack of self-awareness while not contributing constructively to the discussion.

- Your including a politically charged comment in a thread about attempts to limit the negative affects of political discussion indicate just how difficult this can be for some contributors.

Edit: Even shorter: Political Detox Week is targeted, in part, at statements exactly like "These are inviting words for many millennials to commit to their media narratives".
Cool, that's a good idea! The granular nginx control definitely sounds nice.
I did something similar a couple years back except thermally by monitoring the dryer exhaust temp and ran into a problem where apparently "permanent press" means cold air for the last 10-15 minutes. Ok then that meant a timer initiating when the temp drops below whatever. I would imagine this will show up in your current monitoring where the heating elements turn off but the tub keeps spinning. Of course you may be monitoring a gas dryer LOL. Good luck it'll be fun.
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True, that said, it's much less theoretical to the people doing it than the average blue collar worker whose lives they're disrupting.

That's why I think the industry has a moral and practical responsibility to push society to properly prepare for the results. Because we understand the implications better than anyone.
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This is a mistake. The sort of problems we have in the US can't be solved with censorship and earplugs. If anything, we need more conversation, not less.

Ditto to the many commenters who point out that nothing is apolitical and that such censorship would be subjective anyway.

Don't do this.
Ooooor, Zillow has no way of knowing that you've renovated your kitchen unless you tell them you have...

But yeah, your conspiracy theory nonsense is probably just as legitimate.
Many. They get flagged off the front page, but that doesn't mean they aren't still very active. Here's a recent example that helped convince me we needed to do this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13095475

You'll need 'showdead' set to 'yes' in your profile if you want to see all the comments in it.
Back when I was a kid, there was a saying.

"I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death, your right to say it".

Of course, now many on the left rejoice in the censoring of all sorts of speech. I find the prevalence and acceptance of these 'crybully' tactics to be much more frightening then the terrible atrocity of actually enforcing existing immigration laws which you appear to fear so much.
> If you need someone with a level head, try to frustrate your candidates and ditch the ones with short tempers.

Interviews are a two-way street. If as a candidate I'm given an unrealistic expectation that's intended to frustrate me, I'll get the impression that's how the company normally operates and choose to look elsewhere.
snowplowanalytics.com - What do you think of this one? It's open-source...pretty crazy.
Ah, the "Slippery Slope" fallacy. I can't prove you wrong, but time might be able to.

the downvotes will likely not be weighted. flagged comments will likely have +3 karma as much as they have -3 karma. at least, that's the hope of a 1-week moratorium, right?

To answer your question, the only thing stopping the abusive meta-moderation activity are the two mods here. So long as the posts otherwise meet the posting guidelines, they'll likely remain unmoderated. If they're not flagged, they might not even pop up on the moderator's radar.

Basically, it is up to you to point the mods at things that may or may not be abusive. Which I guess answers your question.
> Censorship is where you can't say something in any (public) outlet.

HN is a public outlet, anyone is free to register and participate in the discussion. The thread is soliciting the community to censor themselves with a pretty vague and large blanket under "politics".

HN is run by an American corporation correct, it's servers are in America, then it should follow American values. If this was a Chinese or Russian company, well, their land their rules.

People are freaking out because dang set a precedent for future discourse, the community leadership can declare any topic they deem unsuitable with a pretty vague set of rules and discretion which does not follow a democratic process.
I think that it's important to support minority opinions, sure. Civil discourse needs to be civil.

That said, not wanting to talk about politics is a political act. It's basically saying, "let's let the status quo keep going for now", because most things involve politics on some level.

Can we get away from namecalling and toxic behavior? Sure. But having a politics free space isn't the way to do that.
Growing up

Religion
Sex
Politics

All "no nos"

Still Good Advice!!

Now I add

Money, abortion, Hitler, the holocaust, child care, and elder care.
Here is some activity recently on this issue, but Jupyter team is not interested:

https://github.com/jupyterhub/jupyterhub/issues/703

Also original issue here and "Wontfix" comment:

https://github.com/jupyterhub/jupyterhub/issues/7
> If you're going to get all worked up over something that slight, maybe doing work in public isn't the way you want to spend your time.

Or maybe the people doing the actual work have opinions that matter and the person whining only does at the contributors' discretion, so the complainers can pull themselves together if they want to be listened to at all?
Refreshing. The hype around AI/machine learning in places like here and TechCrunch is exhausting. It doesn't help when people like Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk speculate about nightmare scenarios that seem to have both feet firmly in the distant future. We're so, so far away from anything resembling so-called "general intelligence". It's totally nuts to compare clever engineering scenarios like Google's Go project to general intelligence. It just isn't.

My theory is that paid per click advertising/clickbait is making it increasingly difficult to say anything that gets attention on the internet, so people increasingly use hyperbole. "Internet journalists" will trump things up to make it sound more exciting, feeding the hype machine. Those that don't succumb to the practice are just not heard. There are, of course, exceptions. But a well-reasoned, calmly stated argument from a nobody is never going to go viral in the way that an outlandish story from that same nobody could. i.e. Seth Godin doesn't have reach just because he's interesting, it's also because he's been working at it for over a decade, but any idiot can make up some fake story that goes viral and impacts the public consciousness.
The point is that china has it's own sites that are more popular than FB, WhatsApp, eBay etc, in a large part because they are more appropriate to local norms. This doesn't imply some sort of China-exceptionalism; Blackberry was huge in Indonesia and Orkut in Brazil.

They'd like to have some of the magic fecundity of the Valley too -- and why not? Though copying the overt structure doesn't get you there -- many many many have tried, including many in the USA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_with_%22Silicon...). Hell, there are many studies and theories of how the Valley got to be where it is, with no consensus. I have commented further down in this thread on some unique or highly unusual factors that make it so effective (for me) right now but I have no solid theories of how it got to have the magic mix it does.
I've put together illustrations for each habit I'd like to keep, and then printed them on archival paper. I also built a LED calendar to keep track of things and combined it all into a wall frame. I occasionally write project logs on Hackaday[1].

It's fun to work on and I've noticed I'm already keeping up on these habits since they are always on my mind when building. Also the sunk cost has an effect on me to want to get as much out of this project as I can.. even more incentive!

[1] - https://hackaday.io/project/18304-21days-habit-tracker
1) No it is not going to harm it's living subjects. That is complete hyperbole. You having to go somewhere else for your news for a week will not affect you. Sweet baby Jesus. Seriously?

2) The person was informed by the hive mind of a subreddit that reddit allows. I mean look at what happened when the Steve went and edited user data on Reddit. We talk about not wanting censorship, but then we blame technologies that don't sensor for having toxic communities. How do you find out if the community or the individual is to blame? Would you perform an Experiment?

3) Software has perpetuated the thought bubble issue, this is one thing I can think of being introduced to society purely by software so I agree on this point.

4) Which is why I think after the experiment we should go back to politics on HN.

> Finally, how could anything be more crucial to technologists than discussion of those who will hold the reigns of the national security sector?

I get my political news from other sources, I'd suggest anyone reading this does too.
The canonical and excellent read on the subject is Cadillac Desert.
Latest drought map for CA not included in article: http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?...

About 88% of the state still in some form of drought.
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The values change because estimated sales turn into real historic data over time.
The downvotes on this illustrate the point of dang's experiment.
Thanks, this is an important point. static.land itself may be best considered a demonstration of the open source software. If someone has significantly large files they're looking to host, they would want to host the staticland-api server themselves or consider other options. I'll add some text to the site about this.
Wow. That's some serious skill that went into this.

If the author is reading: how did you develop that multi-layer board? Do you have a PCB fab that can print a board in, say, one or two days time? And how did you assemble that PCIe inject board, given those ultra small SMD parts? Did you order a fully-built PCB or did you do all this by hand?
How do I know that ("jane" "jim") is a list (like ["jane", "jim"] in JSON) rather than an associative array (like {"jane": "jim"} in JSON)? S-exs can represent the difference certainly, but not in a way that is as clearly readable by humans.

The difference between lists and associative arrays is quite unambiguous and readable in JSON. This helps make the language editable by non-expert users, which is a critical benefit.
This would be very, very bad for performance in a lot of cases do to non-aligned struct reads, were it true.
Thank you, I'd also prefer HN is only tangentially political. I don't want it to become reddit.
I you calloc some memory and then the first thing you do is write to it, can the compiler optimize away the initial write of zeros since they will just be overwritten?
The HN guidelines say most politics are off-topic, not all. So we are talking about a change here, though I suppose it's a bigger change in our (peculiar) world than in most HN users'.

Edit: but it's only a change for one week!
I've used Google Apps (G Suite) for hosting kje.ca email for a long time and it's great. I'm luckily grandfathered under the free plan but I'd pay $5 a month for the service if I had to.
I really wish this top level comment could get some traction. People seem to think that because something is important to them, it should be important to the community but that's not how communities work. I for one feel that no amount of discussion of politics on HN is going to meaningfully change or move forward the debate and is unlikely to be instructive to people who have already made up their minds. What I love about HN is that it's mostly rational. People aren't being rational right now in the political world and while I could see an argument being made for enforcing rationality through strong moderation here, I also think an experiment like this provides value.

It would be interesting to know how they will judge the results of this experiment when it concludes.
> In HTTP you have resources, and resources are not flat, they are hierarchical.

That isn't really true. There is nothing about HTTP, or even REST, that requires resources to be hierarchical. That said, it is quite common, and helpful for human beings, if they are hierarchical, so ...

> I wonder why frameworks built this way are so uncommon

Good question! The only one that springs to mind is Stapler:

http://stapler.kohsuke.org/what-is.html
DIY Home Automation, using a mix of Raspberry Pis (for "bigger things") and Atmega328p micro controllers (same chip used in the Arduino Uno's) - Goal #1 is to have heating controlled by this lot..

So far, I've the heating relay control board done (16x 240V channels, controlling boiler activation and zone actuators to open the flow to different rooms). The on-wall thermostat PCB's are currently being manufactured, once they arrive I'll solder all the components in place and get a crude mounting done.. Then it's time to design the enclosure.

Once all this is done, I'll move onto the lighting as Goal #2. For these, it'll be the ATMega MC's, some RFM69 RF modules, and either a simple relay (for on/off lighting) or some as-yet-to-be-determined dimmer circuit. The challenge for these is, there's A) no neutral wire in at the light switch in EU (or maybe just Ireland/UK?), and B) it's 240V supply or nothing - unlike the thermostats, where each is wired separately back to a central point, and can be swapped over to a 5V supply, these will need to drop the voltage on board using minimal space (much less than a typical 5V wall-wart).
A submission on climate change was flagged and removed due to these political guidelines. Is this really considered political? Wouldn't it be more justified to call it 'scientific'?

How is anyone supposed to realistically draw the line between what is political and what is not? Couldn't any topic in the world be related back to politics one way or another?

This seems like a blatant plot to censor 'unwanted' topics and articles. A huge downvote from me.
I wasn't meaning it as a class-based statement... just that I don't expect one of these to pop-up in either oakland or the tenderloin in the next few decades...
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(I don't mean to rehash the previously linked discussion)

> Shut I man's mouth, and they'll only try harder to speak. Ignore them and they'll have to focus on why people aren't paying attention.

This article is titled "trolls" but is about gender-based harassment. If what you said was true, why did they need to hire an outside firm to deal with it? I much prefer a hands-off approach, but the tech community hasn't had the best record of self-policing and being inclusive. And proactive methods, like ones mentioned in the article, have proven to address these issues. (admittedly, I think P.C. has gone a bit far at time and alienated and stifled the community)

GitHub is a private company. If "free-market dynamics" tries to turn GitHub into a political discussion platform, that might not be the kind of service GitHub wants to provide. I think it's also fair for you to criticize that you feel this is overreaching since you're a participant in their community. Even if market dynamics shoo bad apples away you still have a dead repo with unwelcoming content hosted indefinitely. Every repo on GitHub is associated with their brand.

Creating a repo is easy, naming things is hard, and individuals often create things with blasphemous or offensive names just for fun. While I don't want to be stifling, I have seen people talk about concern for new or interesting tools having blasphemous names that would cause trouble if they tried to use at their company.

Personally, I don't care, but I'm glad they care about how they're perceived and don't want to see poor or negligent stewardship (like happened to sourceforge and google code).
You'll have to lower the prices if you can because the next store in the neighbourhood will do it to outcompete you anyway.
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.
It's not about feelings getting hurt. Some of us just don't get any value out of the political discussion on HN. HN always had guidelines and moderation, this isn't exactly new.
Except it isn't a success, and it isn't very good.
To follow up on the setup-less SNARKs, the idea is to create concretely efficient probabilistically checkable proofs. These are proof systems first pioneered ~25 years ago, and contain a lot of elegant mathematics but unfortunately to this day they are highly impractical. However, Ale has been doing a lot of work on bringing these systems into the realm of practical feasibility, and the next few years in this field will be super exciting.

The additional benefit of PCP-based SNARKs is that the cryptographic assumptions they rely on are pretty-well understood, and are almost standard today.
At Appcues, we use a combination of both approaches.

We have our Elixir backend where we need some combination of:

- Low latency -- Lambda + API Gateway requests typically incur a ~200ms invocation latency

- Persistent connections, e.g. WebSockets

- High performance

- Continuous usage, let's say at least ten calls per second all day every day forever

For everything else, Lambda and API Gateway have been fantastic, even without a framework like Serverless. It's so cheap! It's so convenient! It's so reliable-enough!

But we couldn't get along on a 100% Lambda backend, far from it.
Parts of the readme are copied from [0] julienschmidt/httprouter...

"In contrast to the default mux of Go's net/http package, this router supports variables in the routing pattern and matches against the request method. It also scales better."

[0] https://github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter
I hesitate using Erlang/elixir for this than aws lambda + event distribution. Any thoughts?
Considering the consistent nature of at least one very prominent YCombinator staff member (leader) inserting themselves into political and/or low-rent gossipy slap-fights, I can both appreciate the "sentiment" or "rationale" behind a Detox Week on HN, and concurrently derisively laugh at the ignorant hypocrisy deploying such an edict reflects in practice.

I mean, yeah I get it's probably a lot of work to moderate all the political related discourse and keep the lanes wide enough for a lot of different voices, but it's the catch that comes with having a "community" in the first place.

If this is the first of a series of "experiments" I wonder which other "conflicts" might "cause harm here" - Identity Discussions? Health care in the US? As cheap as it might sound to pull out a slippery-slope card here, it seems rather apropos.

I get a lot of flack for it here, but if you don't think Politics and Tech are coiled together in significant ways - eg. DMCA and Copyright - then you're just ignorant, childish, and a fool. SV and tech culture is actively using the "Political System" just like every other special interest. Pretending there's some kind of effin' halo over the Hacker News community where such conversations are "below" or "too conflict loaded" then just shut down the forum altogether.

Man discovers fire. Man burns self. Man puts out fire. The end.
Thank you for bringing up the implementation-specific nature of #2! If the author is running Linux, then perhaps they've never checked out overcommit vs. not overcommit.
Basically Windows XP doesn't have an app store so Web apps beat native apps even given the huge technology handicap.
It looks pretty impressive in satellite imagery [1]. Does anyone know what the black and green rectangles at the southern end are? Heat storage?

Also, there is what appears to be more land immediately to the north that has been leveled - presumably for more arrays.

[1] https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Centrale+solaire+Noor+1+...
>I feel like trying to ban discussion of these conflicts will lead to the same outcome that reddit's weird "free speech" policy had, if more subtly. If Hacker News is the place where racist, misogynist, fascist hackers can feel particularly safe, that's going to be the kind of people you attract, at the expense of marginalized hackers.

How are marginalized people "thrown under a bus" here? Not allowing discussions about race and gender is not equivalent to that at all.

I can barely tell the gender or race of anyone here.
Great post. Open source maintainers clearly have some responsibility but we need to remember that they contribute their free time to make users lives easier
The appearance of a single overwhelmingly-dominant ideological axis is an artifact certain electoral systems produce in the societies that host them. The fewer axes of variation the electoral system supports, the fewer end up significant in discourse in the society.

The "broad" definition is the one in most dictionaries; the narrow one you suggest seems to be the overlap of partisan tribalism with a society with a single overwhelming axis for the reason described above.

In any case, simple utterances of tribalism are already clearly off-topic on HN, whether they are centered on political ideology or not, so clearly an experiment of the type here must be targeting something broader (though apparently also narrower than the dictionary definition of poltiics.)
I would imagine this might work in cases where the compiler can prove that all addresses are written, but probably this is a limited number of cases. Likely it would do so simply by noticing two successive writes to the same location, instead of doing anything special related to calloc.
You are absolutely correct. Inventory monitoring and LP are where money is to be made (or rather "not lost" :-) ).

I have skin in the game on the loyalty part so I will abstain from speaking on that.

Coming back on your thoughts about inventory, the birth of Embisphere, the RFID company I spoke about earlier (and the reason why Decathlon started to use them), was solely the invention of a "racket" for fast instore inventory

http://www.embisphere.com/en/rfid-products/embiventory-power

Other uses (checkout, LP) were almost an afterthought. The sole gain on speed and accuracy of in-store inventory was enough to decide Decathlon to add RFID chips on all its inventory and Decathlon inventory is massive ! They are in the range of 30-70k active SKUs, with sometimes hundreds of thousands units of stock. Sell that in hundreds of stores worldwide, add the warehouses in every country and the manufacturing facilities in China, and you end up with millions of euros of investment just for that damn inventory ;-)
at school we had a CDC, not sure if it was a 6200 or 6500. Wonder if I still have a deck or two in an old box :)
well, right now, if you go to a bank (in US/CA), you have to choose between a few plans (if you will) based on transactions and usage and you get charged based on those plans.

However...your usage is generally changes and so should your plan. (for example, i personally have a lot of transactions happening in April/May) and then it generally drops to a few every month and to avoid paying those transaction charges I have to always hold around $5000 base balance.

While this might not be an issue for me (I have a comfortable income where the $5k does not affect me as much, and my spending habits are not excessive either), there are a lot of people for whom, 5k (or even the $1k/m min amount is a lot) and these people who need money the most, usually fare the worst. I find that unfair (similar to buying in bulk).