skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easy to see government as representative of the people when you live in a small country, or if you're thinking about your local government.

When a government has 300 million+ people to represent, it needs to have very limited responsibilities and powers, because the common interests of so many people are very limited.

That is (cargo culting political attitudes aside) largely why the American relationship with the federal government is "adversarial"- the larger it grows, the easier it is for special, non-representative interests to take advantage of.

There's a similar story played out among union participation here; the larger the union, the less individuals feel that it is working exclusively in their best interests. Likewise: approval for individual congressional representatives is typically high, but Congress itself invariably has very low approval ratings.
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That's a good point
I don't understand this sentiment. And, I am surprised to see it on HN this often too. It's saying - I care about X, till problems with X are all solved, any effort on anything else is snarked upon with judgement of wasting effort.

It used to be only on threads discussing an accomplishment of a space agency of a poorer country, and a popular sentiment was if a fraction of their GDP should be spent on science and technology till poverty is eradicated. Same thing here, why one person should spend time on a personal project until we resolve climate change. I understand prioritizing bigger problems with more time, effort and money. But, ridiculing others for spending time and effort on making/discussing something you think is not the most important is something else.
I work on a lot of projects like this. The non-techies running the project are usually clueless and programmers are out of touch with modern best practices. The funny thing is that it makes me look slow for not finishing tasks. People in charge want to see features banged out. The guys who write hundred-line if-defs or copy/paste code from one file to another, get to go home at 5pm and live their life. Someone else picks up the tab later. When they need some info from the db, they just add an ajax call and some php function to fetch that and use jQuery to change it on page. I don't even try to refactor this stuff, just breaks everything, so I go along. I won't even say anything about cleaning it up, because it will be assigned to me, while the other guys pile on spaghetti code like there is no tomorrow, good luck merging that.
That's what I had to do. My manager told me of this metric (set by the higher ups in a contract with the offshore company) along with "there's nothing we can do." I essentially became the code repository sheriff. Eventually I was spending too much of my time refactoring their code and not enough on my own. Then deadline creep set in for me and I had to just let it go.
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500'ing for me. A lot of websites ending up on HN frontpage aren't dimensioned for the traffic it implies, I won't blame them for it
And what about the cases where there isn't a mountain of evidence supporting one side or the other?

At least from my observation, the general stance of most people is 100% complete belief in any partisan theory, and complete rejection of any opposing ideas, regardless of the amount of evidence supporting each.
I have to use Slack at work, and it is fun.

But when I'm trying to focus on programming, it is like being in an all day long meeting without an agenda.
Just sharing some of my own views on this:

1. systemd got adopted by Arch way before Fedora.

2. Most people who actually use it daily think that it's a good change, yes, it may not be 100 "one thing", but it "does do it well" and the fact is, booting up a modern computer involves more than one thing anyway, I think it's better to have it this way, writing systemd unit files is much saner than crazy shell scripts. Opinions may differ, of course.

The 50+ years old design needs upgrading from time to time.
C is also not perfect etc.

3. systemd is easy to get going on any distro, not just RH, unlike many of Canonical's creations.

4. Unlike Canonical, RH employs many people that benefit the wider community* as a whole, ie GNOME, kernel devs etc.

* ie Arch Linux is independent of RedHat, yet we (its users) greatly benefit from their work, not much from Canonical's.
> a game

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/sometimes-people-jus...

> take the limits of these tests into consideration

Take the limits of cross-language comparisons into consideration ;-)
The distinction is really important. Every banned-from-a-forum troll argues "suppressing my freedom of speech!" Not if it's a soapbox that you don't own and it's not the government.
- watch https://www.collibra.com/landing_page/landing_pagegdpr-how-t...
- read https://www.collibra.com/blog/how-data-governance-drives-gdp...
- study https://university.collibra.com/courses/general-data-protect...

Always happy to help if you have more questions.
Stan@collibra.com

Note: for full transparency I am one of Collibra's cofounders.
> It is so cut and dry as facts vs fiction

No, it isn't. With complete sincerity I think you should make a serious effort to appreciate this possibility.
I use both UO and privacy badger, and the site worked fine for me.
> No, they didn't.

Well, yeah. The point is neither does Germany today.

> In East Germany and Nazi Germany, people were persecuted and killed without being brought to trial and facing justice.

Whereas being arrested, tried and merely jailed for something you say, as happens in Germany (and Austria), is your idea of justice and not being persecuted?

BTW, don't try to make out this is an argument about today's Germany being as unsophisticated and brutal as Nazi Germany or East Germany. Obviously it isn't.

This is solely about the principle of free speech: you either believe in someone's right to say what they want or you don't. You can't just sometimes believe in it.
I was talking about prices of new cars, for 4,000 euros I bought a pretty good 7-year old ICE hatchback which does its job pretty well. I saw that Zoe is priced at around 23,000 euros new, which for a mini-car is really expensive (if you're not a SV engineer, that is)
Shortcut Foo's vim dojos are also a good way to learn all the shortcuts in vim once you have got the basics down (opening and closing files, insert mode etc)

Each dojo trains you on a few related set of vim actions.

Practice one dojo at a time and try to use it during your regular editing. Once you have incorporated it into your existing workflow, move to the next dojo.

https://www.shortcutfoo.com/app/dojos/vim
Your home is your castle and you cannot force someone to fix their house, absent a modification.

If you legally convert your property to a hotel, that use change triggers a need to become code compliant.

Also, accidents are more likely to happen with short term rentals. People tend to take care of their stuff better than someone else's.
Nobody benefits from these kinds of casual, uninformed analyses of major world religions on HN, least of all anyone hoping for thoughtful discussion. The point at which you wrote "I'm not an expert in Islam" probably should have been where you rethought this whole comment.
Norway keeps working so hard at building an eco-friendly image.

In reality the oil they pump up from their territory makes them one of the world's most environmentally unfriendly countries (both in absolute numbers and particularly per capita).
There's no such thing as a self-made man
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Soy. I wrote soy exports. Not "beef production exports".

Brazil (with Argentina) is main soy exporter for most of the worlds livestock.

In the documents below you can find clear numbers of how much hectares is used for pasture, corn, soybean etc. and how much stays forest.

The cause of that deforestation is clear, it is soybean + corn + beef = animal agriculture. Brazil has one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world.

http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/758171468768828889...

https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/1...
Although I mentioned Trump specifically I only use him as a recent target. The MSM's reporting over the course of the election for all candidates was embarrassing from all perspectives. I don't mean to insinuate that the MSM only reports with bias against Trump, far from it. Trump's situation is unfortunate because I both disagree with him on nearly all issues while also finding the media's reporting about him highly disagreeable, it makes objective discussion difficult with partisans.

The word cloud is interesting because it is obvious that everyone was pestered about Trump's scandals incessantly and would be very aware of them but people decided that they weren't important (relative to the issues they thought Trump was solving).
>Leverage is only an advantage if your return is higher than your cost of borrowing.

Which it is for housing, and many other investments. Only the bank won't lend you $500,000, backed by the government, to buy stocks.

My qualm with the OP was the implication that real-estate has outsized returns. Unless you're taking advantage of a home mortgage, there's nothing significant about real-estate returns. Of course most of us here are of the generation that saw nothing but rising house price (except for that one time where they didn't, but that's an anomaly, right?)
So Norwegian government became strong because co-ops showed that they have competence and the government does not? This story does still not sound very logical.

I know that in Finland the radicalization that had lead to a bloodbath in civil war in 1918 was mended during the next two decades by a land reform where the poor tenant farmers were able to buy out their own plots and become independent farmers. The Communist leaders escaped to Russia where they were later mostly purged by Stalin.

The rising fascist rebellion in Finland in early 1930's was suppressed by enforcing rule of law. By the time Soviet Union (in pact with Nazis) attacked in 1939, lots of (formerly) poor people felt they had something to defend, so even the sons of red-hot revolutionaries held their place in the line against attacking Soviets.
Basically the same idea as http://www.duperrin.com/english/2014/06/23/quote-tell-how-yo...
To be fair, there are bodies in charge of competiton and consumer protection that should be fixing the moronic us cellphone market. The FCC is just about the broadcast frequencies themselves.
> the government may encourage new complexes to add plugs by default, etc.

No need. Any semi-premium builder is more than happy to add features to their spec sheet, and 240V outlets are nothing special. Retro-fitting older places is where things get expensive and iffy.
Basic formula is that "controversial" posts get a nudge downward in placement. Climate change posts attract trolls that get downvoted and flagged more frequently that normal stories, and AGW deniers downvote the story and downvote/flag many comments. Has the net effect of pushing those stories off the front page quickly.

That said, credit where credit isdue: this is a nice hack from the submitter. Facefinder looks fun.
Your legal analysis here is substandard, even for a discussion among laypersons. The fact that the administration cannot in fact violate the Establishment Clause at the border, not only because the Constitution forbids it but because there's a statute that specifically bars that kind of discrimination, is known to any of the hundreds of thousands of people who listened to the livestreamed CA9 proceedings.
Are you implying that chefs at fancy restaurants don't love to cook?
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I sympathize with this, but perhaps it is really more economical to write software like this in your company's case (?)
You think it should be legal to discriminate based on race as a landlord or property manager?

Edit: I'm less interested in Kasey_junk's argument and moreso in your unwillingness to acknowledge the vast difference between discriminating against protected classes and regulation of commercial activity in private recidences.
An incorrect prediction is not a falsehood.
Seems like much of the move to electric vehicles in Norway has been driven by tax incentives (vehicle purchase and fuel). Is the strategy to keep ramping up these incentives until the vast majority of cars are electric in 2025 then simply outlaw new ICE sales?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13679292
That's nice, but my jurisdiction doesn't permit me to engage in "unreciprocated money collection" without representing a licensed charitable non-profit organization.

Actually, not even wikipedia is allowed to collect funds in my country.
I'm working on an open source fitness platform. Think Github/Gitlab, but for fitness enthusiasts.

Basically, a training program is kind of like a repository that can be edited and improved by the community. Same with individual exercises.

Now, this ends up being much more difficult to implement than you would think at first glance. I already have the basic application structure laid out in what I believe to be a maintainable and extensible manner.

My mission statement is as follows:

"To create a self-curating community that demystifies physical fitness and makes information on fitness freely available."

One of the use cases I have envisioned is a user being able to declare that they are following a program. The user can then record their numbers for each individual set/session. The user can then view their progress in the form of various graphs and other visualizations. I believe this feature is important because I believe that many fitness beginners have a difficult time taking notice of their progress and become discouraged.

I don't necessarily have any technical questions. I would just like some feedback from fitness beginners and long time fitness enthusiasts. specifically:

- Have you used a fitness tracking app before? What did you like about it? Where could it have been improved?

- Does it matter to you if an app is browser only with a good mobile ui? Do you prefer web apps or native apps for tracking fitness/calories/etc?

- Have you tried to improve your fitness before and failed? If so, what was the reason you became discouraged?

- What kind of search/filtering functionality do you think would be most helpful for you to find a fitness program that suits your needs?

- The application itself is open source. There is no subscription/membership fee. No monthly subscriptions. Do you think an application like this one could subsist off of donations alone?

- Any other feedback?

Thanks for reading this, and if anyone wants to help, you can view the repository here: https://github.com/FFX01/fithub2
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The folks behind Rook at Quantum have put together an operator (custom K8s controller and TPR) for Rook: https://github.com/rook/rook/tree/master/demo/kubernetes
Possibly Fiscal Year, ending in March?
Libertarianism loses its appeal because cell phone manufacturers don't want to waste money and engineering time supporting FM radio, which almost no one listens to anyway?

There's plenty of competition among cell companies, and the market has spoken; people don't really care about FM radio on their cell phones.
Ask HN: Libs between teams or not?
Hi! At my workplace we are currently debating whether shared code (libs) are a good idea or not. We have multiple teams building microservices for the same product. There is certainly opportunity for libs doing things like uniform logging, metrics, helper libs for connecting to some common third party services etc.

We basically have two camps: one camp who haven't done this before and think it's a great idea.

The second camp seem to have more experience and are very wary of the complexity of managing dependencies and creating bottlenecks.

I would like to invite to a discussion on the topic. What are yoyr experiences and what would you recommend?

Many thanks.
I get paid per hour. This isn't a freelance thing either, it's just how my company does things.

So yes, I could absolutely work one more hour and get paid for it at the end of the pay period.
What? According to the article, "44 percent of the 'top-selling smartphones' in the US had activated FM radios". If you want a mainstream smartphone that can listen to FM radio, that is totally a thing you can just buy.
>But what we've found is a tyranny of the grossest: the loudest, most attention grabbing, least useful speech drowns out the quieter and more moderate voices.

You have a point, but this result isn't so much caused by the defending of the freedom of speech, but more so the limited way we disseminate information on a mass scale: news television.

Rational people have a voice, it's just investors won't pay millions to setup a news television show to disseminate it. Loud and obnoxious sells, rational doesn't, as sad as that is.
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Great article, thanks. It's a bit comforting to see there are still some reasonable people in the media.
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I'm not affiliated with Taproot, but am aware of them and that they have been successful with their model.

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I don't see where I ridicule anyone with my comment.
https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/

For anyone who signs this, make sure you throw a report at em as well!
Yep, except again none of these detail the exports of Soy or Beef to the US. You said USA importation was the cause but it appears that Soy beans too are being exported to Asia not the US.

China buys about 60 percent of soybeans traded globally.

In 2011, China accounted for 43% of Brazilian (top destination) and 25% of Argentinean soy exports

http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/footprint/agriculture/soy/fa...

Now would you care to back up your statement

>About 90% of cut Amazon is solely for beef production and soy exports for USA beef production.

Nothing you've supplied comes close to asserting this statement
All you need is cross-party cooperation and an anti-fascist alliance of urban workers and rural farmers.

Yup, we're doomed.
Thought this was really interesting too - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/singapor...

"The Michelin-star stalls do not come with Michelin-star prices (at least not yet). The 51-year-old Chan, who serves 150 portions of his signature chicken rice dish each lunchtime for around £1.40 a go"
The one thing I'd really like to see is a more stable autocomplete. Having a decently working editor should be prioritised above everything else in my opinion.
Right? It's not like they didn't know that people /want/ normal looking cars (ehem, the Model S proved that). Why didn't they adapt a Mini or something else more familiar for their first kick at the market?
Excellent article, thanks.
It appears that way short term, but long term, having a bad codebase can retard a company's growth through lack of scalability and maintainability (read easily add/remove/change features). Companies spend a hell of a lot of money for growth. If they don't know how to manage software development, then the software will nullify all that cost spend on growing, because the system can't handle it.

I am truly amazed at how bad many US businesses are at managing their software systems. It's as if they are considered an afterthought rather than the department on which every other department depends. It's simply old fashioned thinking. CEOs are typically older, and the current crop were trained before computers really proliferated business.
My former workplace maintained a "common code" library that almost every team in the company used. I think the key is to strike a balance between functionality and compactness. If you're gonna impose standards, don't make them hard to follow. Document everything and make sure it's clear when/when not to use it.
You are conflating the legal consequences of the American 1'st amendment with a much broader concept of free speech. There's a lot more to the concept than that.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/12/29/the-spirit-of-the-first...

I actually live (part time) in a country where people who speak against the consensus may be socially ostracized, they are at risk of being fired from their job and blacklisted, and they are at risk of violence from non-government parties. The government often turns a blind eye to such violence. People with views outside the mainstream are afraid to speak up.

The government takes little direct action to hinder speech. Do you believe I really have free speech?
Will it though? That's what worries me about climate change. I think the whole situation is subject to Jevons Paradox:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

Using less CO2 (for a given activity) without reducing well being much just means we are becoming more efficient with it. Which means we could potentially use more CO2, globally.

Don't get me wrong, I think individual action is good. But will it solve it? I think the only things that would solve it are:

1. Making a source of energy superior enough to CO2 that people don't even desire carbon
2. Leaving the carbon in the ground

I think #1 may be a precondition for #2.

Of course, if the small personal decisions help develop the technology in #1, they may help more directly than simply reducing consumption.
It would also be an absolute joy if we could actually refactor with Xcode.