skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's entirely legitimate that the division of authority between a state gov't and smaller entities be different from that between states and the Federal gov't.

It's plausibly legitimate: I can imagine possible worlds where it works that way for a good reason. I just find it hard to imagine I live in such a world, and it's vastly more plausible that here in real life it's a class-based partisan power grab.

Many of the bag fees and minimum-wage rises haven't even been passed by Party X: they've actually been ballot initiatives. So "partisanship" isn't even an adequate excuse. We really are looking at state legislators directly overriding the will of the voters because they don't like the outcomes.
For our media website, it took us one year before we could move to HTTPS, mainly because of the AdServers which wasn't ready. We had to talk to each ad provider in order to ask them to upgrade to HTTPS. Unfortunately as media companies have most of their revenue from ads you just can't switch like that.

Also, features that are now available once the HTTPS by default on a website, is the AMP, Notifications, HTTP2 (faster loading) and, of course, the little advantage that Google gives to the HTTPS websites.
Developing the skill to evaluate something is different from developing the skill to produce it.

If they were the same, then all the front-end developers and UX experts would both work the same job. Some people can, and it's usually those who have developed skills for both.

Self-awareness of your skill level is the first step to developing it.
Didn't realize that about example.com. TIL!
Djent - (Periphery - The Walk) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfPNEGy5L-w

Thrash - (Stone - Get Stoned) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWHlr3U_s8Q

Melodic - (Children of Bodom - Towards Dead End) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7fbeGWZ5gw Also
(Galaktikon - Dangertits) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVB8lM-oCSk

Black - (Dimmu Borgir - Progenies of the Great Apokalypse) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuIxl0vip6Q

Heavy - (Smashing Pumpkins - Zero) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBkjcvNztKQ

Progressive - (Between the Buried And Me - White Walls) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNdRh2un5eg

Parody - (Austrian Death Machine - Get To The Choppah) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPIO86jTrQQ
I have complex feelings about this. As a libertarian type I say one forces you to use Google (yes, I know they're by far the most effective ad network). I don't feel like their natural monopoly in search has hurt me much. Normally I would not see any reason for the US to get involved in GOOG's business.

On the other hand, I have seen Google do its very best to pervert the free market. Their name appears well over 300 times in the Obama White House guestbook and they support tons of liberal causes while slipping into bed with the three-lettered branches of federal government whenever it suits them. Diversity is every bit as important as Google preaches it. So where are their Filipinos, Samoans, Latinos, African Americans, and other persons of color?

Their contempt for paying customers like Fark is legendary. I have heard many, many stories like Fark's over the years. I personally know people put out of business this way. And I suspect Google puts their political thumb on many search results.

Because of this detestable level of hypocrisy, I say regulate the hell out them. Unlike Lavabit, they welcomed the government with open arms in lobbying efforts, committed gross violations of their customers' privacy, and have chosen to sequester tens of billions of dollars in taxes over three continents in a way that small businesses like mine never could.

Google loves the Feds so much? Throw them to the antitrust wolves.
This is caused by the realigning of university administrative structures along the philosophical lines of neoliberalism [0]. It's hard to find a definition of neoliberalim outside of technical political theory, but I think this source is a good overview and I've seen it cited by academics [1], for example this guy who contextualizes it within academia (some of his writing was accused of being neoliberal ideology) [2]. In short: "Neoliberalism is a philosophy in which the existence and operation of a market are valued in themselves, separately from any previous relationship with the production of goods and services, and without any attempt to justify them in terms of their effect on the production of goods and services; and where the operation of a market or market-like structure is seen as an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action, and substituting for all previously existing ethical beliefs."

Another source that examines the transformation of public education under the program of neoliberalism is Wendy Davis's Undoing the Demos. Here is a review by a mathematician who contextualizes her account in his own field [3]. It is a particularly touchy subject for me because I am starting to see mathematics departments cut down to size because they are not profitable (the latest one here) [4], and to see something so foundational and culturally important (to me, anyway) stripped away because it is not profitable is horrifying.

This is not just the natural course of the world. These transformations of our social institutions are deliberate and engineered. Whether or not you think it's a change for the worse, well, that's up to you. I personally think it will lead to a crisis of capitalist civilization and as a student of history I'm aware of what happened the last time capitalism was in crisis.

[0] http://rohcavamaintenant.free.fr/CLE%20USBAICHE/USB%20KEY%20...

[1] http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/neoliberalism.htm...

[2] https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/neoliberali...

[3] https://mathematicswithoutapologies.wordpress.com/2015/05/08...

[4] https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2016/09/disaster_at_the...
The documentation is now up too:
https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/master/experimental/xla/
I screenshot and save just about every Snapchat between my girlfriend and I. A lot of them are great pictures of our dogs, memories from vacations, a lot of junk but sentimental junk. At least have a feature to save your own waves, then maybe something enabled to allow your friends to save your waves. Maybe your friend tells a great story, you save it, they pass away, what a great memory to have of someone.

Edit: Just downloaded it and see that you can save waves. Nice.
It's a big symptom, not a big cause of additional problems (though, IIRC, breaking a big piece of the glacier off will increase the speed that the remaining glacier -- including the parts upstream still on land -- flows out into the ocean, which will result in sea level rise.)

Also, melting sea ice itself increases absorption of solar energy and accelerates global warming slightly. Its not a huge factor, IIRC, but you never want a positive feedback loop that reinforces and undesirable trend.
it's supposed to be an exclusive club for privileged upper middle class to upper class kids where they spend years 17-21 polishing themselves and expanding their social networks before heading into cities to get jobs as white collar professionals, attending graduate school, or pursuing a 'pure' career in academia if their families are sufficiently wealthy.

that's more or less how it still works at the good private schools, with exceptions at the margin for extremely bright talent from less wealthy family/means.

public schools are supposed to break this pattern, but the best ones basically have turned into the same thing (california, michigan, virginia, north carolina, etc.) with their own hierarchy of elite campuses/locations and in-crowd associations (greek, etc.)

the entire system breaks down if you treat it as something fundamentally different, or have some invented set of expectations for what you get out of it.
Right, absolutely. That has changed now though in California with Prop 64. The situation in California was a bit odd. In some cities like Los Angeles, "dispensaries", the name given to marijuana shops are pretty ubiquitous. Much higher than what the population of legitimate medicinal users could support. Getting a medical marijuana card was something of a running joke.

It will be interesting to see if those states that now have the original California type legislation will move to full legalization for recreational or if they simply liberalize their view on what constitutes an ailment for which marijuana is prescribed - anxiety etc.
Very interesting. That's good to know - thank you.

I was going to get a subscription for the first time starting in February. I'll have to reconsider that.
I notice that many of the "entreprenurial" dreams in here would work better if individuals banded together. Of course there are downsides, such as handling unequal investment of money and time.

But take the dream of a brewpub. At first glance, it takes a lot of capital, and you don't want to run an undercapitalized business - very stressful. You need runway for some beginner mistakes. And if you've never run a bar or restaurant, you'll make lots of mistakes.

But imagine five engineers teaming up to open that brewpub. Now we have 5X the capital and a bigger "brain trust" to bounce ideas off of. It's harder for the staff to steal with 10 eyes watching them. Problems which a single owner might overlook (cleanliness, service, pricing, competition) will get addresssed. The chance of failure seems much lower. Of course the return per person is also much lower - but the partners could open a second pub if successful. You have the luxury of putting a lot of brainpower on each major business problem.
How the heck did you manage to see my tax returns? Does the privacy policy for these features indicate that you can send over the content of these documents, beyond simply the metadata -- in fact, where does it even say the metadata is sent?

How did you see my online spending habits? Surely those were done over an encrypted connection online, and probably not to any of the services my OS manufacturer has partnered with. If anything, that data-in-motion is the most secure data there is.

I'm so confused how this notion is so prevalent on HN.
I think that's a very reasonable stance.

I understand the value of telemetry-- it truly does help improve software. And I'm fine with telemetry being active by default too. If it wasn't active by default its value would plummet as very few people would /choose/ to turn it on.

Windows telemetry should be set to "Basic" by default on every Windows install, and the user can choose to turn it off entirely or set it to "Full".

As a more sophisticated user who values his privacy, all I want is a supported method to opt-out. That's it.

I don't want to be forced to use a third-party program to do it. I don't want Windows updates to frequently reset my clear preferences, so I need to keep running that program on a regular basis. I just want a switch to turn it OFF.
Product Hunt and Designer News
I think the op would like the universities to become ends unto themselves. He specifically complains about university being viewed as a ticket to a career:

> At stake, he believes, is a citizenry that sees college not as a place for in-depth learning and inquiry, but as a means to economic security, forcing colleges to conduct themselves more like a business

FWIW, I agree with the op's sentiment.
the CPU is on display for the precision 5510 in the screenshot.

That's the same CPU used in the high end 15" macbook pro. I'm failing to see how what you said holds true when the original price of the Dell is $1,000 higher than the Macbook. (with a smaller m.2 SSD, even.)
Seconded! LuaJIT is extremely popular in gaming, you'll have no time finding work in that industry; finding people for it is hard when Javascript is so FOTM.

Stay away from EA and Amazon. Don't bother applying to unity shops either, those generally don't use Lua at all.
Anti-religious music seems to invite anti-semitic people, so I'd guess there are more racist bands in black metal than in other genres. But the majority of black metal bands are not racist. There's a small fraction of bands where we know that some members subscribe to right-wing ideology and some of those bands have racist lyrics, but overall it's negligible.
You can already do that. Just block their servers.
Daniel Gross of Apple leaves to become Y Combinator’s newest partner
Sorry, unclear antecedent. Was referring to Darkthrone.
Universities chase the rich because thats where the money is. The middle class doesnt have any real money to spend and governments have lost interest in education. (The anti-university rally crys here at hn are no help.) So they build luxury dorms and invest in prestige signalling because that is good busines. That keeps the ball rolling. Free to play games chase thier whales. Drug companies chase boomers. Real estate agents chase elderly widows. And universities chase the sons and daughters of the rich.
This is handy. I was at an airport and was helping numerous people with android devices get through the wifi portals, and dealing with the same frustrating failure of the captive-portal redirect. Android is supposed to detect that there's a redirect and give you a notification that takes you to the login page, but it's very inconsistent.

I usually use Xkcd for that purpose, one of the few lightweight non-ssl sites I can think of offhand.

Only problem with neverssl is that it's a big jargon-laden for laymen, I mean the name.
can you share how many machines handles gitlab.com currently?
>Also, you tend not to get 'grand coalitions'. Instead, you get a senior member with enough junior members to create a stable voting bloc. Grand coalitions only happen at times of perceived existential threat or national crisis. The closest thing to to a counterexample I can think of is Austria, but even then, those were to put a cordon sanitaire around far right and far left parties. The very fact that grand coalitions are seen as antidemocratic tends to keep their formation to a minimum.

This kind of thing is why my ideal system right now is Mixed Member Proportional representation with an approval-vote. Represent small opinions, but strengthen the moderate blocs at the expense of extremist blocs.
It left a bad taste in my mouth, for sure. Like I said, that was earlier last[1] year; I make no guarantee that it has not changed for the better.

[1] Actually I said "earlier this year", which is incorrect as of Jan 1.
I'll admit my snipe at the end about identity politics was inflammatory, but it's specifically because of my frustrations trying to have any sort of serious discussion about these types of topics. People immediately throwing out the racist card and comparing you to neo-nazis for wanting to discuss the topic is /exactly/ what I mean by "identity politics" although its just one of the more pernicious subsets. My attack on "identity politics" is substantiated by my own experiences and a significant body of philosophical work, but probably this is not the appropriate forum for it.

As a side note, when I started my thread there were more than 60 upvotes on the article and no comments. At least there's a discussion.
He went to Tesla as VP of Autopilot SW. Really interesting!
https://www.tesla.com/blog/welcome-chris-lattner
I use a backpack on an almost daily basis. I currently use the Aer duffel pack. I won't try to sell you on it except to say that I am happy with the bag. Here is the product page.

https://www.aersf.com/duffel-pack-00001
I queried my 2 phone numbers as well as my wife's number - Looking at the reports for my 2 phone numbers and pretty much everything value returned is inaccurate - 99% of the information is for the folks who previously had the number assigned to them, before it was released to me - oddly enough, I'm listed as a "relative" for both numbers.

Any pointers on opting out of such services?
I am seeing this phenomenon as well. People explain to me that this is shorter than typing yet less obtrusive than talking. Strange times!
Exactly.

> We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are.
I'm using FF non-dev edition. Wonder what is causing it.
Real estate people or even most kitchen cabinet vendors don't seem to understand there even is a difference between materials. If it shines on the surface, it must be good.
Ohhh drama
I like Go, but the GOPATH thing gave a very bad first impression.
If your job is to act as a mole for Trump's 2020 reelection campaign, then go ahead and keep doing what you are doing.
Serious question, why does Chrome eat battery like crazy on Macs but has great battery life on Chromebooks?
While I'm pro-legalization of cannabis, this is a fair point. Portugal's drug policy is widely lauded, yet we only decriminalized consumption; even pot is still illegal, and being caught selling is a crime.
Where I work we use several different MySQL replicas in production, where we don't expect them to be in sync.

So long as the source of truth (Master MySQL node) is up to date, it's okay.

For example, if we show a user how much money is in their account on every page, we can run query that on a replica, since it's fine if this is a few seconds delayed. However, immediately after an action changed their balance, on a confirmation screen, we'd want to show the value from Master.

It's entirely possible that any place elasticsearch is being used just don't need consistency.
Obviously he leaves for Tesla.
https://twitter.com/TeslaMotors/status/818941362171158528
Obviously, also related from the home page right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13366542
http://http.rip is another site with this purpose. Pretty easy to remember too.
Behavior experiment: Upload a picture to discover what the last visitor uploaded
I don't know about newer versions, but I know on Android 5 it's generally a roll of the dice.
I had to disable my adblocker for it to not do that.
From what I gather, the crypto in Telegram is unorthodox and smacks of self-made, and crypto circles are extremely suspicious of anything non-standard that hasn't been thoroughly vetted. Didn't help that the website boasted of their 5 math PhDs (IIRC). (Of course, the Signal protocol was new and unusual at one time as well, but my understanding is that the basic primitives it uses and the way they're put together is more orthodox).

https://www.securemessagingapps.com/ gives Telegram "amber" for crypto, and "red" (Don't use) overall.

The only overall greens are Signal, Threema, Wire.
He's joining Tesla as the VP of Autopilot Software: https://www.tesla.com/blog/welcome-chris-lattner.
In current stable Firefox, you have to manually enable `security.insecure_password.ui.enabled` for that.

The change is to set it on by default.
US Army Asks for Biodegradable Ammo That Grows Seeds
For some reason I find this not very appetizing. I would definitely not associate rare meats with it. Set it free, as the other poster suggested.
The numbers you give are generally supported by the 2013 consensus summary linked above by @mewo2 (http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/248038.pdf), although that summary pegs the sea level rise due to ice sheets (worldwide) to be more like 1 mm/year (see also their Table 1), within a total sea level rise of 2-3 mm/yr (all sources):

"The consensus picture emerging: whereas Antarctica as a whole is losing mass slowly (assessed to be contributing 0.2 mm/yr sea-level equivalent by IMBIE2), Greenland, the Antarctic Peninsula and parts of West Antarctica are together losing mass at a moderate (~1 mm/yr sea-level equivalent) rate today (~70% of this mass loss is from Greenland) and rates for each are becoming increasingly negative."

*

That summary is not willing to commit to a + or - sign for mass change in East Antarctica specifically, although some individual studies have shown mass growth there.
So that's three of us. Funny how so many of us come to the same conclusion of using xkcd.
Dutch policy has become regressive, and has been overtaken by other countries. The semi-criminality of soft drugs in Netherlands still keeps the trade partially illegal and therefore of interest to organized crime. Complete legalization with healthy regulation would be a much better idea.
Did not see that coming...
autoremove removes packages that are no longer used and should not affect anything.

However, if you have messed with your system (eg manually copied some software or edited a configuration you should not have touched) then autoremove may remove things the system now needs to boot.

How do I know this? Because I once did exactly that (to be fair, apt-get told me this could happen and asked for a second confirmation)
Maybe someone can recommend a documentary, but I think the thing is that there's a difference between enjoying music and buying into a lifestyle. I can't say how your son sees it, but he may just like the music.

If you look back at the music you enjoyed in your youth, I'm guessing you could find some music you like made by people with a questionable moral compass. However, you don't have to think about such things with music, sometimes it's just about the way it sounds.

If you're concerned about your son, why not see if you can broaden his musical horizons outside of metal, maybe there's something you'll find that you'll both enjoy. If you'd like a starting point, perhaps your son may like some classical composers like Bela Bartok, some of his pieces are easy for metal fans to appreciate:

http://youtu.be/YOcvPaFY9UE
How we code in pairs
I think this is key:

"We needed something that would work for both github.com and GitHub Enterprise, so we decided to lean on our operational experience with MySQL."
Have (or are) you implementing an automated conversational api? You want people to make changes easily and you don't want it to rely on a human on the other end being reliable.

Seems tricky to build whilst optimizing for message number (SMS is expensive if you're poor) and usability (large % of users are poorly educated).
> Train travel can be just as flexible as car travel over long distances, so long as the infrastructure exists and gets investment.

That's debatable. It can be comfortable and convenient, though I've never experienced it since we don't have much in the way of a train system for passenger rail here anymore. But I can see the allure.

However, with a car, you can go anywhere you want on a whim. Want to get off the highway and take a random route up through the mountains to visit a random lake? No problem. Want to pop thru a small town via a connector road to a different freeway? Again not a problem.

With public transportation or rail, you are limited to where the system runs, and if you want to get off somewhere along the way that doesn't have a station (for instance - just to randomly take in a scene) - well, you can't.

Then again, one can't walk the length of a car, or get food and drink brought to your seat, or sleep in a comfortable bed overnight, etc.

Also - most people don't travel super-long distances here by car (some do, many don't) - instead, if they can afford it, they take a plane. Airlines have effectively become our train system, for the good and bad it has to offer.
Yes, I do block it via a third-party program. The problem is that every major Windows update resets those settings, so I need to run that third-party program regularly.

Blocking IPs could work, but then I'd need to stay on top of the current addresses, which they could (and probably do) change inside their CDN.

What I want is for the switch that currently says "Basic, Enhanced, or Full Telemetry" to say "Security, Basic, Enhanced, or Full Telemetry". (Security setting essentially turns it off.)

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/manage/con...
I wish I knew about the Feynman lectures during my undergrad :(