skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is false equivalence at it's best. If it was Mitt Romney or John McCain, you might have a point. But this was Trump. Trump openly mocked the disabled. He espoused xenophobic and racist viewpoints. He embraced the KKK's support of him, often retweeting white nationalists. Fuck, he put Steve Bannon, the head of the neo-Nazis as his advisor.
In modern democratic society, this war of ideas is what we've chosen to use instead of wars of violence to control the transition of power in government. It's pretty reasonable that it will evolve over time as traditional war did. That's the entire idea behind Alex Jones' site, and he's been very influential on Trump and his campaign. I see clear information-war analogues to doctrines like guerrilla tactics, total war, etc.
This seems like some weird marketing attempt from Atlassian?
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It is probably the discovery of additional earth-sized extrasolar planets in TRAPPIST-1's Goldilocks Zone[0].

It would be really cool though, if at least one of those planets turns out to have an oxygen atmosphere...

The inclusion of Sarah Seager[1] an exoplanet scientist working on the problem of identifying the signatures of life in exoplanet atmospheres[2], is suggestive.

[0] http://www.trappist.one/

[1] http://www.saraseager.com/

[2] http://www.space.com/28756-alien-life-search-exoplanet-atmos...
I'm pretty happy with it too. For the things that are implemented, it works better than MacOS did as a casual Unix for me. Mostly because I prefer the Ubuntu tools. I'm still using a genuine Linux box for real work though.

The big feature I'm missing is network file systems.
I can see how that's true in MMORPG's, but what about single player games? You could argue they give the temporary feeling of receiving attention, but it goes away when we stop partaking in that activity and we don't receive actual benefits of receiving attention - it was smoke and mirrors.
Not censoring but I remember how it took bringing matter to our goverment before polish Facebook went "you know, page titled pope John Paul 2 was raping little children and filled with highly offensive images may actually be shocking content and against our terms". The right took this for proof of that FB is politically leaning to left and put it together with polish FB's management being left activists.

(on sidenote, I absolutely hate this left-right split. Being anti-authoritarian liberal, I'm finding myself being drilled into from both sides. Its crazy how easy internet makes it for people to radicalise and turn to groupthink.
Plenty of people who disagree on all sorts of things KNOW they are RIGHT about those things.
Calling them undocumented immigrants is part of a world-view that sees free movement of labour as objectively good, and borders are archaically protectionist.

To one with such a world view, 'illegal immigration' is illegal in the same way parking incorrectly, or crossing the street without an intersection is illegal----annoying but not worth arrest.
It will play out poorly.

The coalition on the right is full of cracks that could be exploited to split them up. Trump actually exploited one of those cracks to get himself the Republican nomination. When the left comes in to pour moral superiority all over people, it fills those cracks in like glue. People who would have otherwise split from Trump are sticking to him because the left is chopping at everything.

The smart move here is to wedge. Pick fights that split the Republicans apart from each other, and focus on that stuff instead of piddly small things whether Trump was being racist or merely inarticulate when he asked that reporter to set a meeting up with the Congressional Black Caucus.

I don't think the elected Democrats can do that though. They're under a lot of incentives to not act that way, considering that their donors and voters seem to have chosen "resistance" as what they want.
Because the only metric that matters is engagement, and getting bombarded with opposing arguments to what you believe and deeply care about doesn't improve it. For some people, sure, that'd work, but sadly, not for most.
Show HN: Interactive Image Translation with pix2pix-tensorflow
But once they're pasted in there, they can only be used there. It's barely harder to upload a file to any myriad of file sharing/hosting services and paste a link which most graphical IRC clients can be configured to auto-expand (and users who don't care/don't want a bunch of images can choose to handle links differently)
I don't know the intent, but I think it is 2017 and we need to update our democracy. If voting is essential in democracy, and if people should value voting in democracy, then vote should count, not electoral college's vote. The existence of EC is basically asking employees if they want salary increase, so majority said yes, but the management holds the power to say no. In this case, the EC of each state is the powerholder.

Certainly in other democratic society the leader is elected from within a party after the majority party controls their version of Congress.
I'll be honest; I don't entirely understand it, either.

The general sentiment is that she's a crook and corrupt to a much, much greater degree than other politicians.
This sounds like the definition of socialism.
degree of earth curvature, extent of lizard population in federal government, which party gets to sacrifice infants to baal this month, who controls the weather on tuesdays, etc.
>try to take a scientific view

>People start throwing link after link of facts

You get upset when people present you with links to facts to respond to your proposed ideas?

I can sympathize that it is definitely no fun if you feel like your ideas aren't getting the attention they deserve, but if you have trouble defending the ideas in the face of factual sources, maybe it's possible that one could reconsider those ideas in the face of new evidence?

After all, that's the basis of scientific thinking.
Obama administration set the record in deportation

I read the other day that this is an artifact of a change made under Bush that redefined deportation to include turning anyone away at the border.
As someone who frequently plays devil's advocate, I'll usually argue the opposite viewpoint of the person I'm speaking with just to see how they think, and I've found there are two types of people: those who become emotional and angry, and those who engage in logical debate. This seems to be more of a personality trait than a political thing.
>too many people don't have the required IQ to participate in their own governance, as such maybe it's time to prevent them from doing so

^The mantra of every authoritarian dictatorship. If the people lack the information to manage their own well-being, it is our job to inform them, not subjugate them.
handwave It's a tradeoff.

What you may have atrophy a bit being out of academia for a little while is the jargon and some nuance stuff (i.e. can you still reason formally about big-O notation, do you still know the names and relative behavioral constraints on all the fundamental data structures, even the ones you personally haven't had to touch for a decade because your specific industrial domain hasn't really necessitated them---can't tell you the last time I coded my own hash function over just using whatever the default "map" / "dictionary" / "object" is in the language I'm using).

What you will have an advantage on is the real-world stuff that an undergraduate new-grad may not have ever seen yet, like "How do you actually build a system that can move data from a web-based UI with authentication through to a database or backend-processing infrastructure and then back out to the user (and how do you scale out a system like that when it starts to bottleneck)", "How do you monitor and maintain a system after you've built it," and (probably the biggest gap between graduate-knowledge and real-world knowledge) "Cool algorithm; how do you verify it's right?" A surprising number of undergrad programs still don't teach unit, functional, or integration testing as a significant aspect of software engineering.
What do you hope to gain by being unwelcoming? Does ostricizing someone really help us move forward as a society? In my experience, reaching out to people that aren't like you and trying to understand/relate with them is a far better thing to do. (And exactly what the original post is about)
I worry he will drive us apart as a nation. I believed him when he said that would stop with the campaign, but I haven’t seen signs of it so far.

So he fooled you, just like every other politician has done and will do. Blimey!
I'm pretty liberal and (used to be) a gun owner. I can see supporting those things (I personally would like nationwide reciprocity [0]).

It's just very hard for me to understand how this issue (or others like abortion) would be above all others. You are voting for a government with a tremendous amount of power and responsibility (military and defense, infrastructure, running a huge economy, world trade, healthcare, etc). I just can't imagine voting based on a single issue like the 2nd amendment while ignoring all the others.

I respect your opinion, and I know you are not alone. It's just hard for me to understand it, that's all.

[0] I've always wondered what would happen if democrats adopted this into their platform, maybe in exchange for universal background checks.
I had this impression for a long time as well, because it was true, but it may not be true any more. I can't pull it up right now (at work) but Santa Cruz did a great video comparing the strength of their carbon fiber frames to their aluminum frames, and in all scenarios carbon fiber frames proved the strongest. This included dropping weights on frames and forks, hitting them with hammers, etc... it changed my mind quite a bit about the resilience of carbon fiber.
It feels impossible to have a conversation about this type of stuff with either side. I think the issue is that everyone is trying to pull people to their extreme rather then talk and realize there is middle ground. For every angry person there is a person who is excited. What makes them wrong?
I completely agree with you - if you know all of the services that are mentioned here, you are probably well more experienced developer ("deployer"?) than me or other people that are the main audience for DeployStack.
As for AWS, I mostly mention their LightSail plan, which is quite simple and straightforward (as in the case of Linode and DigitalOcean). GCE and Azure are definitely great tools and I see many people complaining about the lack of them on the website, but they are way more advanced than the scope of the DeployStack, at least for now. Thanks for the feedback, I will keep that in mind and try to add some more advanced sections in the future!
Who wins the three-way cloud battle? Google vs. Azure vs. AWS
Immigration laws were already being enforced vigorously. Obama administration set the record in deportation and was often called the "Deporter in Chief"

These statistics are hopelessly confounded by changes to the definition of "deportation" and are not to be viewed as reliable:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2014/04/2...
Agreed on all points. I would like my tax rate to increase. The marginal utility of dollars is drastically lower past a certain point, and could be better used on public works. I think the biggest boost in life quality would be being surrounded by a happier citizenry.
I don't get this idea that we can't talk about these things. Right now the entire national government is run by people who have no trouble talking about these things, and much worse. Not only can you openly discuss them, but you can successfully get elected President while doing so.

You can't say, "We can't even discuss this stuff. That's why Trump won." The very idea contradicts itself.
> if trump and his supporters act like nazis then call them that

This...

...is why we can't have nice things.

So while you might have a few reasons why the right is full of Nazis, the right has a few too.

My favorite example of this is the recent hell at UC Berkley over Milo, which the right turned into ammunition to discredit the entire left, even mocking the notion that the left dared to call the right Nazis. [0][1]

Keep piling on the jokes and the mud-slung strawmen if you dare. You give them more fuel to burn, and more ways to discredit you and everything you believe, and more ways to "keep winning" perhaps beyond the next four years.

[0]: http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/02/13/tucker-carlson-battles...
[1]: http://www.sfexaminer.com/uc-berkeley-police-release-photos-...
You're comparing mechanical automation to AI which is a false equivalency. AI will be adaptable, creative, artistic and entrepreneurial. THAT is why they will replace humans in the work place. THAT is why this is not the same as the industrial revolution.
Thanks! I'll start with the stick then. I am afraid to spend triple digit sums on more hardware that I don't yet know if I'll end up using much, but I wasn't sure if cheaper options are usable at all.
A bunch of years ago, I was talking on an online forum about the Scott Pilgrim movie. Someone I was talking to said, very rough paraphrase, "Once, I had some questions about whether I would like the Scott Pilgrim comic. I asked on a comics forum, and the fans of the comic there made it very clear that they thought I was uncool and stupid. So fuck them, I'm not watching this movie."

This was a person who broadly speaking in the target audience for this movie (geeky, likes action comedy movies), and who was trying to punish people who almost certainly didn't know he existed in the least effective possible way by doing something that really deprived only him of any benefit.

When I pointed this out to him, he spent ten forum posts working his way around to some kind of clear ex post facto explanation for why he "wouldn't" like the movie.

So the point of the above anecdote is this: If you make someone feel genuinely hurt/offended/like you don't like them, they will do all kinds of things in reaction to that. What I see in Altman's interlocutors is a lot of people who were like, "The liberals alienated me." And they may have voted in someone who on some level is factually worse for them than the alternative, but they'll justify it to themselves.

(I don't think that this is a unique characteristic of Trump voters. I think basically everyone is prone to getting really offended and engaging in the politics or economics of spite.)
I'm not familiar with Buckley's work but what aspects of the parent response are incorrect?

It seems spot-on to me.
> One can no longer openly discuss certain extremely important topics (is there something inherently wrong with Islam as a belief system? Is Black Lives Matter doing good or bad things? Are women really paid less than men for performing the same work?)

Some very prominent and (mostly) beloved liberals talk about these things _constantly_. Bill Maher, Sam Harris, Maajid Nawaz, and Salman Rushdie for example, are very vocal about problems in Islam. They do receive some pushback from some liberals, but they're far from being "no longer [able to] openly discuss" these things. It's almost like liberals aren't a homogenous collection of people!
The OP's point is that in some realms the user is forbidden (not by technical means, of course, but by law) from entering into such contracts or, at least, executing them.

I completely agree that the current state of affairs is gravely deficient :(
They're questions with profound societal significance, and they're even more important now because of how little we've been able to discuss them openly. The dam is bursting, in other words.

I don't understand your second question, but I'd be happy to reply to it if you could clarify a bit.
I see many posts in this thread focused on liberal "intolerance" of conservative views; however, I see absolutely no tolerance of liberal viewpoints on the American right. I'm friends with equal numbers of people on the right and left, and they are equally outraged, intolerant, insulting, and immersed in their confirmation bias.

And you know what? Good for them. I heard a quote from a local Republican representative on the radio recently that really hit me. He was asked, how can we work together when the leader of the Republican party is so incredibly insulting and disrespectful to his opponents?

You know what he said? The American democracy is a combative political system. Don't work together with Trump, fight him. If you find him insulting, then take your outrage and channel it into fighting him. I will fight you and you will fight me. That's how we will resolve our differences.

Reading the history of American politics, it has always been this way. For decades I've watched liberals and conservatives use insults and ridicule, not to convince the other side, but to demoralize it. If you can make your opponents feel bad, they are less likely to vote. The ideal mean moves a little bit left and right over the years as each side has its ups and downs.

It's a terrible system, but that's how it works in real life. I think we should keep this reality in mind whenever we talk about the tone of politics in America.
How should we handle the phenomenon of fake news being virally circulated in social media
Well, I pointed out the factual uses. I'm not responsible for other people misusing the term (as Trump does) or failing to understand it. I'll leave you with Politifact:

QUOTE:

Fake news is made-up stuff, masterfully manipulated to look like credible journalistic reports that are easily spread online to large audiences willing to believe the fictions and spread the word.
In 2016, the prevalence of political fact abuse – promulgated by the words of two polarizing presidential candidates and their passionate supporters – gave rise to a spreading of fake news with unprecedented impunity.
Fake news: Hillary Clinton is running a child sex ring out of a pizza shop.
Fake news: Democrats want to impose Islamic law in Florida.
Fake news: Thousands of people at a Donald Trump rally in Manhattan chanted, "We hate Muslims, we hate blacks, we want our great country back."
None of those stories – and there are so many more like them – is remotely true.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/dec/13/...
OK, so why wouldn't it work in, say, Minnesota? It's population, GDP, geography, etc. is similar.
I think that paragraph perfectly demonstrates why all the commenters on Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13696004) who insist that programmers don't need to know algorithms are wrong. It should be immediately obvious to anyone with a cursory understanding of algorithms that computing all the permutations of every word is much more expensive than necessary, and from there it's not all that hard to figure out that sorting the letters produces the desired effect.
Hmm, went through your website and i like your idea.

What do you use for backhaul? chaiwalas and paanwalas aren't going to have network access in form of fiber or even cable on the street so i guess 4G hotspot? Also, Is there a way people can pay the stall owner some money and get a token from him? People here generally dont prefer online transactions.
>> I'm also conservative so I like that the last time she lived at 1400 Pensilvania Ave the government was running a surplus.

I was scared when Bill Clinton won, but he is now one of my favorite ex-presidents precisely because he didn't make things worse. And yes, the budget was briefly balanced. Too bad that's not actually a core principle of the democratic party - see what happened under Obama, and see how little one of their biggest fiscal mouth pieces (Paul Krugman) cares about debt or deficits. But yes, the late 90's were a good time in the US. I don't credit Hillary with that though.
A nice analysis of one politifact article:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/02/trump-4-politi...

Note that there are many such examples. Another exceedingly silly piece:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jan/...

It's almost like a child wrote it. It "fact-checks" a reasonable guess.
This will greatly increase the recidivism rate.
Sorting by edit distance might be interesting, too.
Being bilingual alters your brain (2016)
I tend to believe that there are fairly deep similarities in the US's situation and Korea's situation four years ago.
And of all the examples of "history repeats itself" to use right now why would you go with "liberals are mean!" and not the whole rising fascism thing that, yes, is actually happening again.
> You might be interested to know that 'roman' is a False Friend

What is the source language?
But there is outrage over it.

Americans have decried the poor state of the rust belt for decades and multiple attempts have been made to save it. Didn't Obama literally inject billions into American car companies to save them?

People on HN are either too young or too forgetful.

In the era before the internet Fox News was an accomplished craftsmen of the echo chamber. Heck Americans taught me and many other countries how hyper polarized and polarizing news should look like, and that was before the internet.

Simply put - liberals could literally repeat a conservative document letter for letter and it would be disowned/ criticized by conservatives.

The fact that people believe that liberals care more for Muslim countries is Unsurprising.

Liberals wonder why conservatives are so worried about bombing middle eastern countries.

People are in their bubbles and keep themselves there
There's still enough GNU there that you could call it that if that amuses you to do so. (Though I bet RMS will happily throw a fit in your direction if you do. ;)
Americans always pull out this excuse. There's a whole world running experiments on how to best do things, but you're unwilling to look at the results because it's not a perfect match.

It's never a perfect match. It doesn't mean you can't adapt lessons learned elsewhere, or that you can afford to ignore what works in other countries.
When a ghostwriter is present, I've found that a book's subtle exposition often arises from them more than the OP. With someone as raw, blustery, and self-promotional as Trump, any suggestion of nuance will inevitably invite circumspection.
> I don't consider it enslavement, any more than I consider a parent's obligation to feed and clothe their child enslavement.

So you think adults should be treated like children? Very telling.

Your thinking is fallacious, though. If you bring children into the world, you are of course responsible for providing for them. But you are also responsible for helping them become self-sufficient. Perhaps you think children should be coddled by their parents for the rest of their lives?

> I understand that the libertarian perspective says it is OK to let your offspring starve to death

Who said anything about libertarianism? A bit of a non sequitur, wouldn't you say. And I don't think you understand libertarianism anyways. If you do, then I sure as hell don't agree with it.

> I think we're all obligated to one another, and slavery is something quite different from that.

I think we should help one another, but I don't think we should be forced to help one another. Big difference.

> I also don't like the libertarian attempt at redefining common words to make ordinary things sound baaaaad, like "taxation is theft!!" (it isn't) or "taking care of others is slavery!!" (it isn't). I think that's a cheap rhetorical trick, and doesn't get us any farther in any kind of discussion.

Again with the libertarianism. I'll indulge you because you seem to want to fight against a perceived ideology. How is taxation not theft exactly? How is forcing people to take care of others not slaver, exactly? It's not a rhetorical trick, these are objective facts.