skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So... "Family and community" seem not to be working for today's homeless and hungry. Why not?

Are taxes so strangling that families and communities simply cannot afford not to let their neighbour/uncle sleep on the street/eat from the trash? Bear in mind that people spend $20B/year on pay-to-play games on their phones.

Is the overbearing nature of the nanny-state confusing the libertarian "ethos", i. e. by creating the illusion that there are no homeless, or by requiring true libertarians to temporarily redirect their spending to PACs until such time when true freedom is achieved and the ethos can fully unfold?

If "family and community" are your support group, how much (actual) freedom do you have to – for example – come out as gay as a member of a conservative family in a likeminded small community?

Most poor people are concentrated within a few communities, and poverty often runs in families. Conversely, someone living on Cape Cod probably can't find a poor person within 20 miles or in their family. Should the brunt of care for poor people be born by others in or near poverty?

Many homeless have severe mental health problems. Those can make them quite annoying, or hostile, or otherwise unsympathetic. Would people give equally to all needy? And, if not, do you believe homeless people deserve assistance in correlation to their ability garner sympathy?
I don't deny that stylizing text like this can be useful for people who skim. My proposal doesn't prevent that: only present those select bits of information in the big front-and-center style that grabs people's attention, and don't repeat them in the normal flow of text.
Debian 8.7 released
Isn't this essentially the lock icon, today?

What is "trusted"? We get the lock icon if a valid TLS connection is formed; if you want a more secure connection, you can get EV certificates. We could do away with the lock icon and only show a broken lock if not on TLS, and only show something that looks secure on EV certs, (which seems to be where browsers are headed.)

A simple valid TLS connection getting the lock icon is problematic when people are using DNS names that are close-but-not-quite to things like paypal.com. And we want TLS certs to be issued automagically ala Let's Encrypt and such, so it's easy, unfortunately, to get a cert for paypal-not-quite.com. Such is the difference in "secure connection" and "a secure connection to a party you trust."
If it runs Rails and it goes through a test suite at least as quickly as MRI then I'm definitely going to use it. JRuby is just too slow to start.
> Or maybe just corporations, like people, get more conservative when they're richer. Possibly out of cynical self-interest.

In the case of people, this is a popular misconception. Democrats are funded by more billionaires than Republicans, are in control of a majority of the wealthiest congressional districts, and among people earning more than $200,000 the presidential vote was very evenly split.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2014/jun/23/...

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/opinion/how-did-the-democ...

http://ijr.com/2014/02/116056-wall-street-bankers-top-donors...

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/elections/e...
he's being considered for a leadership position at the FDA ( according to Bloomberg)
How is it silly? That's normal, in my experience; the plates transfer with the car. Do you live in a place where one must obtain new plates immediately after purchasing a car?
I'm sorry for the hassle you've had to face in pursuit of a better life (assuming that's why you're on a visa here).

Unfortunately, immigration reform in the eyes of the ruling class isn't how the issue is presented in the press (shocker I know). One must question why an issue that seemingly has both party establishments blessing doesn't make it through congress and to the President's desk? The answer is the fringe of both parties thwart reform. Given they are a minority in the system, the only way they manage to keep the never-ending status-quo is due to the fact both establishments insist on passing all of these items on their laundry list at the same time.

The conservative establishment wants cheap labor (increased visa cap w/restrictive rules) and the liberal establishment wants votes via a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, w/the belief these voters will break overwhelmingly for democratic candidate if they were to participate in the political process.

The downward pressure on the wages of U.S. citizens which the increased visas (w/restrictions) would cause is antithetical to a liberal populist. A visa w/o restrictions would mostly remedy this grievance (with an appropriate cap), but you have a better chance of seeing a human land on Pluto in this century than that passing Congress.

On the other side, republicans who identify with the tea party or freedom caucus (or both) care more about their ideology than corporate profits, and their entrenchment in the political system would be threatened if a sudden influx of undocumented immigrants began participating in the U.S. elections. It's also worth pointing out that some of the backlash towards a pathway to citizenship stems from raw xenophobia; but I'd argue the former reason as the "primary" one.

The upper echelons of SV are no different than any other American industry, being that they will be apolitical with the contributions, and have press releases/tweets which they think will get the most positive receptions, which may or may not be congruent with the aforementioned lobbying. The giant tech cos would love for it to be easy for you to come work for them, on the condition they can pay you below market or at market rates (which they've manipulated substantially) w/limited or no mobility between employers.
How much bandwidth is actually wasted? i.e. if you were to put all data that's currently in OSM, just chunked into tiles, how much bandwidth would be required to serve it?

It would seem to me that, as pipes get thicker and bandwidth keeps growing, we will inevitably hit the point where it's easier to just server raw data and let the client render it soon enough.
> I don't see how vilifying Uber or AirBNB is going to help accomplish any of the above.

These companies are part of a greater force eroding the role and rights of labor. I think it's right to vilify the "sharing" company - especially with the type of "this is great for the world" propaganda that they spew out.

If we accept these conditions as the norm, they will only continue to slide. We have laws and regulations for a reason. Bypassing said laws with billions in 1%, connected money, should rightfully be called out. Conveniences for the noble class aside, this is just part of a larger scheme to transfer capital from the poor/middle class into the pockets of the existing wealthy. It's a bit tone-deaf of you not to see the other side of the picture. Next time you're in an Uber, talk to the driver. You'd be surprised how many are doing this full-time because they can't find employment elsewhere... and even more when you discover how many actually understand the underlying economics of their "side hustle" (aka side-scammed).
What's your solution, then? What form of a left wing would have been any better than Obama in light of the obstruct-at-all-cost policy the Republicans held for the last 6 years?

>I do not agree with lots of things that (old) republicans did... but they get shit done. They wanted to block (stupid) gun control legislation, they did. They wanted to block returning Guantanamo prisoners to the USA, they did.

Blocking legislation (esp legislation brought forth by the opposition party) is, always has been, and always will be 100x easier than putting forth any legislation. Blocking legislation isn't getting anything done. We already see a failure to get things done by the Republicans in their handling of Obamacare-- they have no collective idea as to how to replace it, despite their vigor in denouncing and repealing the bill. They have had 6 years.
What makes Erlang work well when distributed is having one mailbox per process, to persist messages. Any language can add this as a library, yet most don't.
It might just be due to the labor laws that define what a contractor and an employee are, and how taxi drivers and uber drivers are thus classified. You might check into those!
She has lots of fascinating debugging stories; I spent a Saturday years ago reading most of her blog. It was well worth it.
What part of this designed to increase income, in your opinion? It seems to me that revenue remains constant whether they fine the previous owner or the new one.
It's a circular argument. The response will be "their family and the community will look after them". But if there's no family, and even if there is, "community" will be some nebulous concept with no practical example, nor method for which to reliably and practically have any impact.
This is a dupe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13355850
Promotions at many companies are mainly based on political maneuvering. Usually, you have to job hop to get a promotion or raise.

It's a meritocracy in the sense that the Software Engineering community values skill and output more than "years of experience." As far as what's valued by idiot middle management, it's largely the same as everywhere else (though maybe not as bad).
Well put this's what I meant in my other comment
As someone who just bought a bunch of life-or-death climbing gear from Amazon, the idea of counterfeit goods is terrifying.
Yes this solution would solve the KCI vulnerability (assuming the + is a commutative operation or you switch the order in one of the hash functions). I just don't see why you are advising against it's use, would be grateful if you explained why.
Another GIMP developer has been looking for funding at Patreon/Tipee for their dev work mixed with work on an animated film, sidebar of https://girinstud.io/news/2016/09/dont-be-a-stranger-to-gimp... for links to those campaigns, comments below for discussion of such funding attempts.
> It was our understanding from the original report that the vulnerability was mitigated by AppArmor disabling ptrace, by no user process running as pid 1 inside the container, and because in CF buildpack apps, user processes run as unprivileged users. This is the stance communicated in the CVE report.

I'd have to think about this further, but I'm not convinced that would be sufficient protection (accessing /proc/$pid/fd has a different set of access requirements to ptrace -- it's a dumpability check basically). However, since you've already sent patches around it's all good.

Disclosure: I discovered, wrote patches for and helped with coordination of this vuln.
> The issue I have with the biological evidence is the half-assed conclusions people want to draw from them.

I hope you place just as much skeptism on the research done in social sciences. Watch the documentary, not a single social science researcher in the doco had any evidence what so ever. They simply dismissed the any research that ran counter to their views.

> For example, it's pretty well established that women place a higher value on social connections than men. So that explains it, right? That explains why Silicon Valley, golden land of open offices built on software for advertising and chatting with your friends, has such a hard time attracting women!

That makes little sense. Having an open office is not going to make the people on opposite sides of the office get up and talk to each other if they really don't want to. And why would the act of writing social software be more social than writing other types of software?

> And that also explains why medicine and accounting, detail oriented left-brain jobs without much of a social component, attract a high percentage of women?

I am not a doctor or an accountant. I won't make assumptions about those professions. This may simply be the overlap area between men and women where these professions have things that appeal to both men and women almost equally.

I'm not suggesting individuals stick to their gender roles. If you want to go and do something, go do it. But I am suggesting that using employment numbers as a proxy for equality could be very wrong and encouraging one gender to do one thing or another could be a waste of time.

Remember, in the countries where gender equality is the best, gender sterotypes are still prevailant and the numbers remain stable. At the very least you have to question the idea that gender roles are enforced by society or that our ideas of what an equal society looks like is wrong.
Not an expert on the subject, but I recall hearing somewhere that selling blood gives people an incentive to lie about their health history.

"Do you shoot up illicit drugs with shared needles?"

"Um... No. No I do not."
This sounds like the proverbial crabs dragging the other crabs above them trying to get out of the pot back down with them.
limited reposts are allowed on HN, so please only flag and link to previous discussions if they have more than just a few upvotes and/or comments, or if something has been submitted more than a few times already. Otherwise such comments just add noise.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> Are reposts ok?

> If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok.
> Well, vibration of the barge wouldn't have been a problem this time as there was no view from the barge during the landing (only after).

There was a live view from the barge on the technical stream through descent.
>gave all the legal immigrants "Job Mobility" (i.e., their H1B visa was not anymore tied to the employer)

Reference for this? I see that Bush proposed something like this in 2004, but I can't find any reference for it ever having been implemented.
Drchrono hiring Django and Python developers to help fix healthcare
Definitely not. Russian has no aspirated consonants at all, nor would they pronounce them in the Latin alphabet. In fact a Russian would pronounce the roman "T" exactly the same way a Mandarin speaker would pronounce the pinyin "D" so I don't think there's much credence to your instructor's story.
Unbelievable, this is why I love HN! I used to work at IBM and spent a lot of my time automating stuff and doing BI in cognos and db2. There was so much inneficiency, so much manual work.

I remember being quite proud of coming up with a new report or some vba script to automate something.

I felt like I was one of the few actually "thinking"!

Later I realised that most people weren't interested in doing a better job, their sole focus was in protecting their job! The naïveté of youth!
How do you account for the free rider problem? Suppose you live in a small town how do they collectively pay for expensive medical services if one member of the small community gets an illness that requires lots of resources to treat? Isn't it better to distribute the burden over a larger population? Wouldn't there be a massive amount of administrative overlap if all services truly were done at the community level? How do you prevent the race to the bottom mentality if everything is done at the community level?
What was up with the non-sequitur bags of water link?
Socialist Alternative seems like an overall self-defeating org (due to ideological purity) and powerless outside of the Seattle area and a few other metropolitan hubs (speaking as a former member). I find Our Revolution and former Bernie organizers to be the most practical and promising group for affecting change.
Huh, I used HSCSD on an Ericsson R320 (I think it even had GPRS). Slow as balls even at the time, and WAP was total shit haha.
this, I work at Facebook and try out all of the demo devices over at Oculus. I keep hoping that they are going to advance the pixel density, but have gotten so disappointed by it that I've stopped testing their new equipment at all in the last few months. That and the team of folks that work on it are outrageously arrogant. Looking at you Charmaine/pedoguy.
Worth it just for finding out about `stty -ixon`. I never would have guessed from the `stty` man page description that this option would give me back C-s and C-q to bind to something actually useful.
> Paint.net is the same rental model that Photoshop is now using

We're talking about http://www.getpaint.net, right? This is proprietary desktop software, but as far as I can tell, it is gratis. (They do solicit donations, but paying has no bearing on the license.)
There's always a chance, but, again, I think all the prevailing signals are that life will get much worse for immigrants, legal and illegal, over the next few years. Nationalism applies against all foreigners, not just those here illegally. Hopefully I'm wrong.

> I have no idea.

Also, respectfully, I think that you should have an idea how things are likely to effect you before you form a preference for one alternative over another.
> aren't we too entitled to ask for such advanced features, and have them shipped quick as well?

It would be unreasonable to expect from unpaid volunteers if they has no ambition to do such work. Which is why I suggest that if you want to see advanced features and professional quality graphics software with a predictable cycle of development then you support the projects that actually try to create such programs.

Krita has a regular development cycle, a clear set of priorities and goals and funded development efforts that clearly lays out what features and improvement are going to be achieved with your hard earned money.

That has been an ENORMOUSLY successful improvement for both the programmers who can now get paid to work on there projects and the artists that now get quality continuously updated graphics software.

If Gimp or any other project deserve funding they have to step up and show the discipline and commitment to there project that successful projects like Krita have. I do not see that at this time so my recommendation is to support the projects that I listed in the OP.

> edit

As far as performance is concerned OpenCL or Cuda is not going to save you if your cpu bound memory architecture is not carefully thought for performance. This has always been a major problem for gimp for a long time. The higher bit depth and resolutions that are used now only exacerbate the situation. A general use case now could easily have tens of gigabytes worth of data that the user wants to manipulate delete and expand in real time. I have never seen this addressed in a serious proposal.
> Not according to static-typing fundamentalists

Not in production software, no. Because even the shittiest dynamic language software still gets run once or twice before it gets put into production.

Type errors are extremely common during development, and that is where static types shine.

> Exactly, and dynamic languages tend to be highly interactive, whereas most languages with highly evolved static type systems tend to have very slow compilers. So the idea that the compiler for that language gives you useful feedback before your dynamic system gives you feedback from actually running the code is at best dubious.

My extremely slow scala compiler can compile 50k lines from scratch faster than a boilerplate rails project can even start up. And I never compile from scratch during development, because I have incremental compilation. Even as slow as the compiler is, it is never as slow as compiling+running code of similar complexity in a repl, and it's not even close.

> I think you are confusing type errors with modeling errors, but that's very common.

Nope. Type errors. Just because they aren't called type errors in one language doesn't mean they are not type errors in another language with a different type system.
You usually need to show up in person to register a vehicle. If you intend to buy a car and drive it to a different state then you may not be able to register it in the origin state because most state stipulate that you can't register a vehicle if you do not reside there or have an address there (otherwise people in small shitty states would drive a couple hours to an adjacent state to save a few hundred on tax/registration/insurance). Registering it in the destination state would be similarly impossible without the title/bill of sale in hand and some states require an inspection prior to registration. Inspections stations need to be licensed. This means it's in some cases impossible to legally buy and drive a car bought private party because you can't register it where you buy it and you need have the car inspected before registering it where you're bringing it.

Depending on the states in question the fine for invalid registration is usually much less than the cost of having the unregistered vehicle towed from A to B so many people just slap an old plate on the back and cross their fingers.
Just threw out an amp I bought on Amazon, that was really from a third party. It done died young. Not the only loss I've had, so I rarely buy third items (that they don't send out) from them now.
I actually resolved most of that common issues with just bash: :)

Substring history search, so you can use just a substring to look for a argument,command. Binded to ctr+r/s by default. ;)

https://github.com/liloman/asyncBash#use

Changing directories: Last n directories, transparent popd/pushd.

https://github.com/liloman/dirStack

Movements: vim-surround for your cli, so you can do ysiw" o whatever... ;)

https://github.com/liloman/bash-surround

Control-n right: So just type the start and control+n to search for the arguments/commands starting with whatever. And the classical up/down to look up for a complete history line:

https://github.com/liloman/dotfiles/blob/master/bash/.inputr...

https://github.com/liloman/dotfiles/blob/master/bash/.inputr...

There're a ton of hidden functionality and customization behind the classical bash instalation. :)
> Antitrust comes about when a company has a high enough market share AND uses this market share to bludgeon any competitions.

I feel like only a non-elected, inner circle within Govt gets to decide what these condition will return today. Even if the whole country is split 50/50, its only their retval that matters.

In ideal society, a legal debate is nothing to be proud of. People's lives/properties depends on it.
A humorous way to express the same idea is that the non-rich are actually sponging off the rich:

"The average American household of 2.64 people receives almost $13,000 worth of federal benefits, services, and protection per annum. These people would have to have a family income of $53,700 to pay as much in taxes as they get in goodies... Only 4.8 percent of the population -- 12,228,000 people --
file income tax returns showing more than $50,000 in adjusted gross income. Ninety-five percent of Americans are on the mooch." -- P. J. O'Rourke [1]

[1] https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1555847153
About bindings, it would have been better to redirect to:

LESS=+/"DEFAULT KEY BINDINGS" man readline

assuming it exists on mac.

About suspend, what's the benefit of suspending vim using C-z? Shouldn't you use a terminal multiplexer instead, or even terminal tabs if you don't want to learn how to use tmux or screen (which I find weird if you already spent time to learn how to use vim but alright)?

I only ever suspend a program when I want it to stop, for instance because it slows other programs and I realize I would rather resume it when I'm not in front of my computer. Even in that case, I often just renice the program instead. Stopping a program just because you want to run some bash commands looks like an anti-pattern to me, but maybe there are better motives I'm not aware of.