skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that part of the problem - with the article, and with the perception by most of society in general - is that the words "liberal" and "conservative" are now heavily overloaded and may have either positive or negative connotations, depending on the current audience. As a result, I think both words are largely devoid of any real meaning today except as a compliment or an epithet.

My political leanings tend to be pretty moderate. I used to think of "liberal" as someone for changing society faster than a "conservative", but with the two major political parties in the US today using fast legal changes to inflict the most damage on the party not in power my definitions of those two words do not hold, either.

I do not think that either major political party in the US represents my interests, nor I do not expect that to change anytime soon.
> I'm willing to bet in my lifetime Facebook will not become the world's largest company.

PS - There's an easy way to bet on this, just buy some stock :)

EDIT - Well, technically, you want to short the stock.
I think you may be attaching way too much meaning to the definition of self-made, or perhaps haven't actually looked up the definition. It doesn't mean that someone was able to succeed in a vacuum.
The most confusing thing to me is probably the nicknames that some airlines have which are used instead of their actual names. British Airways flights are usually called "Speedbird" and US Airways are called "Cactus".
Thanks, that's an interesting article.

One big question it brings up for me does this just reflect that people don't know what "the internet" is at all? Like would you get a similar result if you asked "did you use Google?" or even "did you use Chrome?".

Also I don't know about everyone else but a quick glance at my face book feed and the vast majority of stuff is people posting articles from various blogs and talking about them. Do those respondents really never click and visit anything outside the facebook eco-system?
> trying to sell candidates "you want to have a beer with"

Yeah and that's nothing but accidental properties of their candidates. It's like how almost all Presidents have good hair(ok after this election I should say 'not bald'). Is being not-bald an essential property of being the President? No, but if the other side keeps putting up candidates who are bald and your guys all have good hair, then you will talk about how your candidate appears more 'trustworthy'.
I hear people "from both sides" clamoring for more logic. For example:

* Logical social conservatives (early childhood education plus libertarianism?)

* Pragmatic environmentalists (renewable power + GMOs to reduce pesticide use)

In short, people who like to think, even if they're on opposite "sides". Tony Blair predicts a vast political realignment of reason vs. populism.

Personally, I think we'll (eventually) see a consensus emerge around evidence-based governance, along with a post-scarcity attitude, but that's probably a century or two off.
"Oh, I finished my book! I should probably take a picture of the cover and post it on Facebook!..."
Facebook will remain an "ads" company for as long as it's profitable. Marketing dollars will always need go somewhere, so I'm not convinced the advertising market will just wither and die in the face of adblockers. As long as Facebook commands an army of eyeballs, its advertising business will be profitable.

Facebook has shown a willingness to diversify its social properties via synergetic integration. See: whatsapp, instagram.

Facebook will likely continue to diversify its business. For example, it could easily repurpose its excess hardware to enter the cloud computing market and compete with AWS/GoogleCloud. I would be surprised if this is not on the roadmap.
A hacker’s review of Dieselgate
There is no purpose or planning behind evolution, so blood types could just be a random genetic mutation that does not reduce the chances for individuals of having offspring that survives long enough to have children. Just like curly vs flat hair or blue vs green eyes.

I'm not a biologist so I might very well be wrong about that, but it seems that one possible explanation is that the question has no meaningful answer.
>If I need to use FB messenger on mobile, which is rare for me

You can also use Trillian.
Setting aside the blatant snide in your first question, he already answered it. In the US, one of the groups that are seemingly deemed inferior by the Republicans is the African-Americans. African-Americans are very well aware of that, and as such prefer the Democrats who rally for racial equality. At least for the most part...
Afaik you just need to alphabetize the properties of every object
Yeah, nature is concerned with our petty lives and freedoms.
I find it amusing that news media outlets are stoking fear and resentment over the government hacking technology to spy on us when the information it gathers is a mere shaving of what corporations like Alphabet and Facebook have access to on the back end.

How is it preferable that a handful of incredibly talented, well-funded, private companies know more about you than your mother or your best friend (or arguably yourself)? Why are people more frightened by a bureaucratic government agency led by Donald J. Trump than the world's leading researcher in artificial intelligence, who owns the index to the entire internet, and creates things like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7xvqQeoA8c? Why is Wikileaks working so hard to protect these companies?
Anton Chekhov: A Post-Post-Modernist Way Ahead of His Time
Niklas Luhmann's indexing method was really advanced and simple. There was article in HN, but I have lost it.
I'm not convinced it's particularly inauthentic. It's an Irish bar made by Irish people in Ireland purporting to be exactly what it is.
> no great writer has not been touched in some way by his stories.

Don't trust people who say things like this, btw.
What are you basing that claim on?

>Meanwhile, the working class remain staunchly conservative.

This flies in the face of the facts surrounding who voted for who in the last election - if you consider Democrats to be liberal. What different priorities do you feel the generally worse-off working class minorities in America have?
> Most times a julialang.org blog post is posted to HN, I wonder whether the choice of content is well chosen to spread awareness of and interest in Julia.

Or you know.. it's Pi day.
In English people used to say 'well-bred' but I can't quite squeeze that into the title above.
I'm going to contend that a "correct" implementation of REST has never existed
Exactly.

In addition, I am thinking of the many television shows starring educated urban people's educated urban problems, or how often the lower classes, when they are represented at all, are treated with either some condescension (Family Guy, etc.) or are "sensitively" portrayed from a removed anthropological perspective (Friday Night Lights).
Constantly valuating at about -30...

Crazy enough, every chess player in the world can see immediately it's a draw from the very beginning, unless white concedes a helpmate, yet stockfish doesn't get it...
> languages that can expose APIs via C ABI

That's what I thought.. another C-based FFI. Better than nothing, I suppose.
Plus, the software has easy existing customer bases in pre-existing cab companies looking to modernize ancient dispatch systems. Uber/Lyft argue that market disintermediation and union breaking are a feature, but in most metropolitans it certainly seems like a bug.
To be honest, I'd never heard of Thomas Sowell. So I looked him up. One of the first things I find is this interview: https://youtu.be/rweblFwt-BM?t=50s

I'm sure he has some very compelling writings. But do you find his take on climate to be logical and reasonable? I do not.
BMW cars running PHP
Continuous delivery: What it is, why it works – and why you need it
Facebook will never be regulated. The regulators love Facebook because they can do anything they want with Zuckerberg. He is their best friend. Hell, they want him to run for president. http://www.salon.com/2017/03/12/we-picked-the-wrong-billiona...
>Redis is often thrown around as an example of an excellent, clean C source code base. Look at server.h. It has 34 include statements. Would you rather that every C file that includes server.h have to include these 34 files before including server.h? Seems insane to me.

Good point. This is exactly why I would want that, yes.
That sense of collective justice only applies to the in-group, within family or tribal units. Your tribe might fight another tribe to the death over some territory, or for some grapes.

Also, collective justice isn't exactly something you want to appeal to in general. The mob might lynch you for being too annoying, for instance.
How do people currently scan their infrastructure to look for vulnerabilities? Do you have a dedicated team that handles this, or is security "everyone's job"?
The content of the post is not inconsistent with Hacker News. Your behavior is because:

1. It is ad hominem.

2. It is non-constructive.

3. It is insulting.
I love that the workers on your landing page are wearing fall protection.
Mathew Butterick also wrote a publishing system so that he could write books:

http://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/
I sometimes suspect that the build tool ecosystem would be very different if only Makefiles allowed soft tabs.
I can't wait for Facebook, or LinkedIn, selling "backchat protection" or equivalent...
With the universities dominantly liberal (at least in the humanities departments), I wonder if the alt-right isn't a form of rebellion, kind of like punks with brightly-colored mohawks were a generation ago. We're going to pick something not just different, but something that you find repulsive.
One of the big wins is being REPL/workbook-focused, rather than REPL/workbook as an afterthought.

When I'm building software, I tend to like things to have very tight interfaces -- box everything up into components, understand how they talk to each other, etc. Define interfaces, implementations, types, etc -- In general, optimizing for long-term maintainability.

When I'm exploring data, my thought process is much more "scatter everything about on the desk" and "let me run these 5 lines of code again within the current context". "What does this thing look like", etc. Having "a table of data" as a first-class citizen in the language, with all the libraries assuming that as input and everything optimized to work around / display / visualize such is incredibly useful.
It seems like that would open up a nice way of using Scala on iOS also.
Servers very frequently benefit from lower memory footprints, as it can also dramatically improve performance by improving cache efficiency.
Ask HN: Which tools do you use to track and assess your startup ideas?
I know you shouldn't spend 5 months building your product before releasing it (been there).
I know you shouldn't rely your own assessment to think your idea is great (been there too).
I spend some time trying to validate my ideas before trying to launch something (and have a nice graveyard of ideas that passed away).
I usually rely on Google searches, Google trends, Google Keyword Planner, namemesh.com, ranktank.org and track everything in a spreadsheet.

Which tools do you use to track and assess your startup ideas ?
This is really good.

What is your sales plan?
The fact that african-americans, who are demographically typically more "working-class" than other groups, voted that way directly contradicts his claim that the working class is "staunchly conservative". Obviously it isn't as simple as that.
To answer the second question: you can run SpreadServe on a Windows desktop OS just as well as Windows Server 2008, 2012 or 2016. The install is designed to have a minimal footprint so it can work with corporate IT packaging systems. So a SpreadServe install doesn't touch the registry, and sets just two env vars. Which means you can zip the directory tree, drop it on another box, set the two env vars, and off you go.
An approximation of Pi I put together just now

var i, a = 1, s = false;
var steps = 10000000000;

for (i = 3; i < steps; i += 2) {
a += s ? 1/i : -1/i;
s = !s;
}

console.log(a * 4);

That loop approximates arctan(1) with a Taylor series, only using basic arithmetic operations.

pi = arctan(1) * 4

Outputs:

3.141592653388201
^-- last correct digit
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I would be intrigued to see a database of, say, the top 10 or 25 languages in the world, and all their potentially offensive phrases. It would be useful to help avoid this sort of thing, and probably have some interesting things to say about linguistics and psychology.
While I don't agree with everything in this article, I have come to the realization recently that our society has has a real lack of compassion almost ingrained in it.

I can only really speak for America, but the pervasive feeling I get is almost 'every man for himself' or 'I've got mine jack'

Any sort of hand out is looked down on, getting anything for free is wrong. These are ideas that are just ingrained in our society it seems for better or worse

We spend a pitiful amount of money on basically every social service and it's easy to get a feeling for how low we value them.

I'm sure everyone feels the health care system does not really care about helping people. Insurance is tough to come by, people go broke paying medical bills. Health care workers are poorly paid. Even R&D investing is super risky and almost guaranteed not to pay off unless your investing in some new hair loss treatment or erection pill.

Education, also a place we entrust to teach our young to be the best is invested in the least. Being a teacher is not a successful or prestigious position. The support you get from the administration and parents is almost non-existent. Burn out rates are high. We value public education so low, we just don't care that anyone is educated except ourselves and our own children.

We see taxes as wasteful. No one really sees them as helping the common good. Or the more we pay the more we help our own society. We just see the potential waste, or if a single dollar is not spent the right way then all taxes are wrong.

This almost black and white thinking of right and wrong is the same attitude we instill on our law enforcement and judicial system. The compassion there is almost non-existent. Prison is not about rehabilitation it is about punishment. We don't care about criminals and they deserve to basically live in hell for their crimes.

Ok.. one more point. I've just had this feeling for a while and want to write it all down... Homelessness... In LA there are tent cities in downtown. It just follows the same line of reasoning as my previous points - as a society we just don't care about the 'collective' everyone else as long as we are good. Doing anything to help or comfort another human being that is not our direct friend or relative is not in our best interest.

The lack of compassion we have turned into a virtue - it makes us stronger, tougher, more resistant, but does it? At least that is the line of thinking. I am so ingrained in this society that when I see any sort of hand out I automatically think that is bad, that people should work for what they have, and anything else for any other reason is just wrong...

It is such an asshole attitude that we are basically a country of assholes. Some more that others of course. And it has now personified itself to the point where we 'a group of assholes' have elected an asshole as president. What is wrong with us?
This is actually a great comparison. FB has > 1 billion users, and it would be great if through gov't regulation those users could chat between whatsapp, snapchat, apple messenger, etc.

In the past this would be deemed "anti-competitive", now it's perfectly reasonable from an "innovation" standpoint.
How are you using containers
> Can you get a similar, and perhaps even better constructed (machines are, after all, more precise than humans) watch from China? Sure. Is it the same watch? No.

As far as I can tell, the manual labor is roughly the same in both cases. Chinese mechanical movements are not assembled entirely by machines--in fact, in many cases the machining may be quite similar. (Many of the popular Seagull calibers are basically clones of ETA or Miyota designs, and I would guess use the same manufacturing process.)

The main price difference is (obviously) some combination of a) quality control and tolerances (do you ship a marginal unit or do you throw it out?), b) conditions from the factory (do you adjust the movement to n positions before shipping it, or just ship it?), and c) brand, as you note.

(a) and (b) have real economic costs. How much of a watch's cost comes down to those versus (c) is hard to say.

I have an unbranded Rolex "homage" from China with a Seagull clone of an ETA 2824. The case is a bit rough around the edges--quite noticeably if you look--and the timekeeping is (from the factory) about +6s/day. (I don't have a timegrapher, so I can't tell you the positional variation.)

So, definitely not a Rolex. But for about 3% the price I'm not complaining. ;)

Edit: To add to this point, I am reminded of the similarity between ETA's different grades of movements (which are sold at different price points depending on precision/adjustment/quality) and the practice of computer chip makers to do similar (i.e. to sell CPUs at a lower clockspeed if they don't pass QC at the higher speed).

This isn't exactly what ETA does; some of the grades use different material for the hairsprings. But Standard and Elabore are apparently the same material just adjusted to different tolerances, which sounds awfully similar.
Thanks! That's a good question. I feel like I've seen analyses like that before a few times but I'm having trouble finding one right now. I would guess that submitting around 8 EST is probably best in terms of getting the most views because you'll catch most of the US audience during the day. The probability of making it to the front page is another question though and it would definitely require looking at the data there.

I can actually think of some other relevant metrics here that I don't think I've seen quantified before. I'll probably play around with this a bit at some point and if the results are interesting then I'll write them up. If I do though then it will most likely be a few months down the line. I've already written twice as many HN meta articles as I was planning on and need to take a little break :-).
It's inverse, so the way to bet is to not buy some stock. Done!
There may also be a bias tied to medicine. Noses are paticular indicators of some diseases (smallpox and syphalis) that may have created an association with luck.
Looks really cool man :o
In the US, there's a chain of Hibachi restaurants that are made of old traditional-style buildings that were shipped over from Japan. It's called Gasho [0].

[0]: http://www.gasho.com/about-us/
Quick rant about websites that continually bug you about cookies, even to the point of having a page that describes how they track you across sites using their cookies, for your benefit of course. I miss the pre-corporate web. Geocities sites and all.
I hadn't seen the phrase "Eurocentric Modernism" before, but reading through the article it seems to me it's just a more complicated way of saying "neoliberalism".

But I wouldn't necessarily take e.g. Trump to be a harbinger of the neoliberal apocalypse; things like TPP, the cruelty of denying people health care and letting them die miserable because "well, that's just the way the market crumbles", yes. An abusive, hateful, nasty demagogue in a position of power? Not necessarily, you will see this as well in the pre-enlightenment 'noble savage' civilizations Kanth idolizes. There are power structures there as well, even if the society is a "compact" based on "nurturing" and "feelings", and just like in neoliberal societies the nastiest people are the ones who seek out power.
Actually with the changing lines, it's more than that. You'll have one hexagram change into another, with the lines providing nuanced details to the "meaning".
> the English "beautiful" often doesn't seem to capture прекрасно

I agree, but I'd say "excellent" is even further away in meaning.
Translating between such distant languages is always an exercise in compromise, unless you're willing to take great liberties at interpretation (when translating poetry, for example).
> How is it preferable that a handful of incredibly talented, well-funded, private companies know more about you than your mother or your best friend (or arguably yourself)?

It's not preferable, but it's less worrying. It's less worrying because companies can't legally throw you in jail or take all your money or kill you.

And scary robotics promo videos aside, they aren't in command of the world's most powerful military and an enormous police force to boot.

If at any time they threaten you in a meaningful way, you can freely leave their services. If things get particularly bad -- like, worst case scenario -- you can even flee to a part of the world where they have less influence. Government does not provide you any of those options.

People are right to be more worried about government intrusion than private intrusion. (They are of course also wrong to be unworried about private intrusion.)

> Why are people more frightened by a bureaucratic government agency led by Donald J. Trump than the world's leading researcher in artificial intelligence

If it comes down to a forced choice, I'd much prefer Page or Brin over Trump. At least the former two are on IMO the correct side of existential issues -- nuclear arms, global warming, and so forth. (Of course, as indicated above, I'd prefer neither.)
Scalable MySQL Master-Slave Replication in Docker Containers
Whoa. Had never heard of that.

Check [0] if you, like me, hadn't.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
The PyPy team will support Python 2 indefinitely: https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2016/08/pypy-gets-funding-from...

We never have to leave Python 2, if we do not want to.
I don't know about fixing it outright, but they could somehow derank hosts in search results if they have weird rejection patterns. Sex/Age/Race/Whatever
From that page, it looks like Scala-C interop is decent, but that's a far cry from C++/Rust interop. For C++ at least, you more or less need to write a pure-C wrapper API to call from Scala, since it doesn't handle C++ types.
0_o

Gary Shteyngart is a quite famous novelist. So, yes. ;)
Wow, not even an efficient data structure, just an almighty string! On one hand, that's pretty disgusting. On another, it's an impressive demonstration of just how fast everything is nowadays; I wonder if the javascript interpreter in my browser does any kind of optimisation on that string in order to perform such gargantuan indexOfs.