skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Consider this: Why are Hitler and Mussolini fascists, but not all dictators are fascists? That's the definition of fascism. Now please tell me how that doesn't fit the definition of the government Trump wants?

Here's what I can think of: Hitler and Mussolini wanted to create a "New Man", unlike Hussein, Assad, and... Trump.

Trump isn't even a dictator yet, and may never become one. The biggest charge you can make against him is that he's pro-oligarchy, and empowers nefarious radical grassroots movements on the right. It may get a lot worse, but we're not there yet, not even close. The real problem is in public opinion, i.e. how to convince people on the right to care more about facts, and make better voting decisions. But rejecting Trump wholesale isn't a solution to that problem.

> As far as CEO's collaborating with him being evil... Yeah, I would say working for the Trump administration at this point is basically like working with fascists in the 30s.

We're not talking IBM-participating-in-the-Holocaust. We're talking left-wing businessmen getting the president to listen to them about how to best create manufacturing jobs. There's miles of difference between the two.

Edit: this article, "Nationalism is Rising, Not Fascism" is a great read.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-friedman/nationalism-is...
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Leaving the pros/cons of brexit out: if there was a plebiscite where the electorate voted in favor of something, and if we assume that politicians are supposed to be representing the electorate, shouldn't it have been pretty straightforward that the corresponding bill would pass largely unchallenged?

If it had failed, how would the politicians have justified to their electors voting against their express intentions?
The performance does definitely depend on the complexity of the animation.
Small icons like the hamburger menu, wish list heart, hamburger arrow, etc run at 60fps. Even the main Lottie logo (http://airbnb.design/lottie/) that has pretty complex trim paths renders at ~60fps.

Masks and mattes are the feature that incur the largest performance hit because they require allocating a bitmap (8 bit for mattes and 32 bit for masks), rendering to them, then drawing them back to the canvas.
So, does anyone know whether Ishee could just give his GMO dogs away for free?
These words are coming back to haunt Peter Thiel, Trump’s man in Silicon Valley
I think Ben Thompson had the best take on this. Something was fucked up bad in the product, and they aren't budgeted to make the necessary capital investment so soon to dig out a marginal product that nobody buys anyway.
> The difference is that when NYTimes gets something wrong, it is not out of sheer malice and desire to mislead people

That's right, because when Wikileaks revealed high levels of collusion between media outlets and the DNC/Clinton campaign, placing and pulling articles/stories to present a specific narrative, it wasn't out of desire to mislead, rather it was only a desire to 'correct the record'. /s
This is interesting given Microsoft's move to full windows-on-arm (and not that travesty that was Windows RT). Something I'm certainly looking forward to—if not only for the devices that it creates, but a chance for more open mobile computing.

(Sh|C)ould this be a concern for Intel?
that's not really relevant. those jobs will be wiped out regardless of who makes the software.
I wasn't cherry-picking at all, though I should have said "a lot of misinformation on a regular basis" rather than just "misinformation. I still think that those quotes are considerably less harsh than Trump's, and that the difference is not just that Obama worded it more politely. I also think the second quote that you gave is actually less of an attack than what I quoted from the same article.

> a person's actions are their character.

Agreed, or at least their actions reveal their character. But I think it is also true that, socially, questioning someone's character is a step past questioning their actions. It doesn't make logical sense if character = actions, but I think that it's true socially.
If you're building jars with a classpath on the filesystem, maybe.

If you're building wars, fat-jars or anything else that gets you to that "single jar deployment" which is often mentioned as a pro, you're definitely not immune to duplication. Especially when you get to libraries that have changed their package name over the year like say jackson.
That would also include George W. Bush.

Consider this, written by a prominent geopolitical expert:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-friedman/nationalism-is...
[November 2016]

Clarke wasn't selected.
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1. Make them useful.

2. https://www.cocoacontrols.com

(n.b. I created Cocoa Controls)
"What surprises me is why they would be more popular than ever, after a year with so much bad press."

The fact is, most people are not going on sensationalist tech blogs at all, and those that do are mostly not swayed by articles or nerds on the internet telling them what they can and can't buy. Other people think more independently than people like to believe (there's probably a name for this fallacy), it's just hard for some people to understand that someone else could have different priorities.

Those articles and comments are for and by people who have mostly already made up their mind. Blogs preach to the choir. People read and upvote things that confirm the beliefs they already had. Android fanatics will continue to screech about the lack of a headphone jack on the iPhone or full size USB on the Mac regardless, and weren't ever going to buy one anyway.

Yeah, the headphone jack removal probably put some people off the iPhone 7, even I admit it's an inconvenience and has been annoying. But despite all the bad press, it's just not, overall, the world ending problem that reddit/Hacker News would have you believe.

I won't pretend Apple has never broken the law or acted immorally, but profit and sales reports aren't like anti-poaching agreements. They have to go through so many people who can catch or oppose them, are so regulated, and are so directly and unambiguously illegal, that there's virtually no chance Apple is deliberately and directly falsifying them.
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Meant to mention this earlier: Gitlab self-hosted actually has a built-in importer to import projects from Gitlab.com - including issues.

It's mostly worked reliably in my experience (it's only failed to import one project across the various times I've used it, and I didn't bother debugging because for that import we really only needed the git data).
Sure causality seems like it must be at least some kind of heuristic, that doesn't mean looking for causes is the best, or even a good, use of time

I wonder if you'll recommend your doctor use that bit of wisdom the next time you're sick.
Not sure if being influenced unbeknownst to you is a n entirely new phenomenon though. What was its extent with print or TV media where everything is centrally controlled?

At least one core problem is that no one wants to read primary sources and make decisions themselves. We seem to prefer an illusion of independent thought when we're actually choosing from a set of prepackaged partitions that are neatly presented to us.
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I know how to solve the application challenge, i've just been putting it off since December!
You seem to be so focused on making your point that you have stopped reading the comments you are replying to.

At no point did the parent say that Gigster had to change right now. Rather, the parent made some reasonable points:

A.) Smart developers would not sign shitty contracts.

B.) When a smart developer asked questions about the contract, his questions were flat out ignored.

C.) Now that there is an outcry, the founder claims he will 'review' the contract.

If the founder had gotten involved in the support case, the response would be reasonable. Now, it stinks of a founder doing damage control.
A non-trump example. Millions of people shared a post saying that the police were using facebook check-ins to "track" protesters at Standing Rock, and encouraging people to check in at that location in order to "help". Of course, this makes no sense at all when you think about it and was indeed totally made up.
Stock Android/Kotlin.
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Hey all, this is me. This setup is a new MacBook Pro powering two 55" 4K displays. I bought my first 55" 4K display a few years ago and having so much screen real estate was a game changer for me.

One of my favorite things about having so much screen real estate is eliminating the need for overlapping windows, which is really great when you're developing and have a ton of different things going on.

The idea with this new setup isn't that you would use the desk display for stuff you're actively working on, (I think that would be terrible for your neck,) but instead just as a place to put things you glance at occasionally or receive notifications from.

I only just set this up today so the verdict is still out on this new setup with the desk display, but a few initial observations:

- The texture of the display is similar to an iPhone or iPad, and it's a really great feel for your arms.

- The display gives off a little bit of heat, which is actually nice for resting your arms on.

- Because of the back of this specific display (Samsung 8-series) there is a tiny bit of give (e.g. a little bounciness,) on the part of the display where I'm resting my hands and typing. It's a _huge_ improvement over a hard desk.

The image is obviously not going to be as great as when you're looking at one of these displays head on, but it's not horrible either on the higher end displays. I've set mine up on a bit of an incline, which both helps the viewing angle and actually feels really great for my arms as well, but I'm not sure whether this will come back to bite me at all ergonomically.

Curious if anyone else has done anything similar and how they felt it worked or didn't work.
What's in my redis?
Since targeted ads (and sponsored Facebook posts) are the vectors for influencing people, wouldn't it be a great deal easier if people just blocked ads? No matter how much accurate a profile is built off you (through other companies selling your data), you can't be influenced by ads if you don't see them. Especially since we know that ads are not just trying to persuade you to buy things (which is probably still morally acceptable, at least to me), but also to influence your political affiliations without you realising it.
The author, Bettany Hughes, will be familiar to UK and USA TV viewers as having hosted numerous history programs on the ancient world and British history, such as "The Spartans", "The Minoans", and "Helen of Troy".
"That is: The language doesn't fit the reality in the US, whereas it often does fit the reality of the third world."

Yeah... this is what we keep telling ourselves.
If you ran a game written in C++ that kept running out of memory and crashing, would you say C++ is "heavy"? Solr (and Lucene internally) maintain large in-memory data structures as well as memory map (usually) on-disk segment files. How much memory they use is determined by many, many configuration options within Solr. This has nothing to do with the JVM.

Same thing with Clojure. It basically bootstraps the entire Clojure environment on each process start. The JVM itself starts up in tens of milliseconds.
Legal or not, is happening yet. I had found some of my HN comments on other websites. They weren't neither anonym not even particularly useful or clever comments. Just copy pasted. It seems that some people just like collecting random data. Maybe to generate profiles.
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I did apply to hipmunk last month and awaiting reply. Should I apply again? Thanks!
Would it help to include a CAP per country, just like for green cards? If India could not get more than 10% of the annual H1Bs for example, would it help?

Is there also currently a CAP per company? Or can they submit as many applications as they want?
I fully support people's right to smoke (or to use any drug), but I do find it odd that companies can legally sell such a dangerous and addictive substance. The solution would be to criminalise the sale of tobacco, but make it completely legal to grow your own. Same for pot or any other drug.
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But that's the problem with those labels, isn't it? There is no possible way for anyone to prove they aren't a racist/sexist/whatever. And yet it's very easy to accuse people of them. And the accusations are never about what they actually do or say. They are accusations that they have secret beliefs they don't talk about, as if anyone could possibly know that.
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Work on an enterprise-sized "app", the JVM starts seeming "heavy". It feels super slow (and memory greedy, and you have to make sure it has enough of the right 'type' of memory) in executing on a whole (when it gets going it can do limited, specific things quite fast) and for productivity, as does all the tooling around it. Unless perhaps you're Google and you have server farms constantly compiling crap and so on so devs don't have to notice as much. Most of the negative feelings are probably the fault of having a ginormous app in the first place, I'd likely feel similarly about C++. Still, even when it's just a somewhat-large app (like a database, or an IDE) I've felt it in Java whereas working on a similarly large app in other languages doesn't have the same feeling. I've never really felt it when just writing a REST/SOAP API that's effectively a thin wrapper around some DB calls. Like a blog could be, but there are many other similarly small things. But those sorts of small problems can be done effectively in most any language, and 'heaviness' is probably very low on one's priority list...

I think there's an incentive with more dynamic languages to decompose your software into smaller bits. When the language gives you the ability to "script" that helps even more. You don't need to bundle everything into an uberjar, you can run things independently, and therefore you don't even need all of the sources locally, just what you need to do your particular bit of data processing. It's possible to do this with Java and multiple JVMs, but it's hard, the incentives aren't there. Unfortunately I don't have experience with Clojure in the large to say whether it helps make the JVM feel lighter, from my side projects it seems like it could but I don't know if the community is going that way. Lispy languages have different incentives since they let you build from the bottom up so well.
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maybe hack a project for extreme affordability from hackproject.org? More problem discussion in the slack channel where you can self-register hackprojectorg.herokuapp.com. Even old problems or simple problems that you might have not even looked at with passing eyes could have dramatic effect for extremely rural areas and what the UN calls the frontier worlds.
the answer is neither! It depends on your reference frame

Someone is new to the idea of relativity. This is nonsense. The frame of reference describing the sun rotating around the earth is not inertial (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_frame_of_reference) and thus does not follow the laws of physics we know and love. In short, "Nope, you cannot say the sun orbits the earth."
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Yep. Taking advantage of SHA512's superior performance while still producing a 256 bit result is the raison d'être of SHA-512/256.
A lot of Websockets in Haskell
Another hidden car story from LA:

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Might be worth exploring emerging and frontier markets in areas such as payments etc. What I've come to realize is that in the US market at least, the cost of customer acquisition is high and continues to rise, hence if you are not well capitalized, within a short span you are out of the game
While it's not possible for Uber to have an apolitical stance on collective bargaining rights for independent contractors, it is totally possible for Uber to have an apolitical stance on the composition of the Micronesian parliament. In fact, most SV companies are probably apolitical in this respect.

It's impossible to be completely apolitical, but it is possible for a company to be involved in politics to a greater or lesser degree.
(Of course, he could also have sold the car back in the 1960s or something and enjoyed 50 years of compounding mutual fund or index returns.)
> how would the politicians have justified to their electors voting against their express intentions?

Sometimes the electorate requires protection from itself; the idea is not new (below History Stack Exchange answer references James Madison).

"It is arguably the most famous of The Federalist Papers [1]. Madison argues that society is undone by faction"

defined as

"a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.…"

"A faction can be a minority, but also a majority, and the majority can work against the good of the whole by abusing its power. The majority simply cannot be trusted not to oppress the minority, given the opportunity."

Emphasis mine.

The "Tyranny Of The Majority" [2] also comes to mind.

"American founding father Alexander Hamilton writing to Jefferson from the Constitutional Convention argued the same fears regarding the use of pure direct democracy by the majority to elect a demagogue who, rather than work for the benefit of all citizens, set out to either harm those in the minority or work only for those of the upper echelon. The Electoral College mechanism present in the indirect United States presidential election system, and the phenomenon of faithless electors allowed for within it, was, in part, deliberately created as a safety measure not only to prevent such a scenario, but also to prevent the use of democracy to overthrow democracy for an authoritarian, dictatorial or other system of oppressive government.[3] As articulated by Hamilton, one reason the Electoral College was created was so "that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications."

Some failure scenarios are clearly hard to prepare for.

http://history.stackexchange.com/a/5568

[1] http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa10.htm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
Great! I will take it a look.