skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A case study in how to implement an anti-democratic power grab by decorating it with buzzwords like "helping marginalized people".

The crux of the story is that they no longer want city planning decisions to have any public input, therefore they killed off the neighborhood councils by implying they were racist because they weren't "inclusive" enough. Despite the fact that no replacement mechanism for democratic public input was implemented, the article makes it sound like removing public input is a great thing.

Note that NextCity is staffed and funded by anti-American warmonger outfits like Brookings, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Ford Foundation, etc. etc.

This is how you lose your democracy folks!
I'm working on JQBX, an app that lets you listen to music in sync with friends or strangers on real time.

The app hooks into your Spotify account so you get access to a huge library of high quality music. You can also save things directly to your playlists so you keep all the cool stuff you discover in one place. If you're more hands on you can be a DJ, play your favorite stuff and get real time feedback from the crowd. If you're more of a hand's off kind of person it's great for getting high quality hand picked music for long stretches at a time (eg the 8 hour work day).

https://www.jqbx.fm

It's totally free, I wanted the product so I built it- has been a great learning experience!
It's an issue with climate change deniers specifically, which has nearly total overlap with the set of conservatives.

And sure, this sort of thing is not unique to climate change denial. What is unique is the consequences that denial is having to the planet (and therefore me), and their presence in forums that are otherwise at least vaguely aligned with facts.
I actually wrote a rough version of this for my fiance and I.

I never finished the analyzation but I had saved all the texts we had sent in our 6 year relationship.

I would totally be on board with this. I was freaked when I saw what Google was saving on me without asking them to (Everywhere I ever went with my phone. Imagine what they don't show me)
I agree. The podcast was sold as a murder mystery, and it is not. It is an exploration into the personal life of 1 man who likely suffered from serious mental issues. It trades entirely on his personal tragedies, and also flirts with legitimizing his rantings without exposing them to serious scrutiny.

I have no doubt listeners found it enlightening and engaging. A probe into any of your lives could yield similar "intrigue."

Ethics and standards exist not because salacious personal stories aren't interesting, but because they tend to harm people.
It would be great to sit with the Rstudio-notebooks developers and user and discuss how we could get the two platform to converge and be more interoperable. I guess both team have a lot on their plate, and we would need more manpower, but understanding and collaborating with other project for the good of user is always something the Jupyter team is happy to do.
I got the sense they weren't a native speaker. Otherwise the errors were, frankly, egregious.
I guess when looking at the articles about Uber from this years that made it onto the front page here, we are seeing a pattern of unethical behaviour. Even Uber admitted that something like this exists by letting go one Executive and planning to transform the company into a more benevolent direction.

Why do people repeatedly do things that are bad for others and generally considered unethical, likely even being aware of that? In my opinion this needs no further explanation.
That's fair. Most apps I have worked on have very few bundles of JavaScript that we either served inline or in one request, but I can see how this helps in the case of many requests.
Thunderbird can also do this.
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Did we reach The End of ETL which would enable such a thing and I somehow missed it?
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I agree with everything you said in principle, but I disagree with your conclusion.

I don't have to cherry pick facts to make Kenya look bad, I just picked a bunch of pretty bad ones about Kenya to illustrate my point.

I also find it telling that, instead of cherry picking positive things about Kenya to disprove my point, posters in this thread resorted Whataboutisms with respect to the US.

I really don't like being in this thread, arguing viewpoints that I myself consider borderline bigotry, but the notion that Kenya is somehow on par with the US or even any other developed nation is preposterous.
In the world of chip cards, it's not uncommon to think xor is a secure encryption scheme for some reason, historical maybe or more probably cost related, I don't know.

Though I remember even worse when a chip card encryption was found not cost effective enough to be enable and security on this card was limited encoding[1], too bad it was a government issued healthcare card which lead a minister to argue that using ASCII and binary was efficient in securing the data. While the GIE (Economic Interest Group) in charge of the chip tricked the whistleblower to demonstrate the vulnerability and sued him for having done so. Fun Times !

[1]: http://bigbrotherawards.eu.org/Jerome-Cretaux-et-Patrick-Gue...
Where the overfishing analogy breaks down is that we have the power to provide enough fish. College doesn't have to be expensive. As little as 15 years ago it was quite possible to work your way through college and come out with manageable debt. Something else happened to balloon the cost of education in that time period. Perhaps the increased reliance on loans, cuts in financial aid to students and state assistance to universities, ballooning student services and administration costs, etc. I don't know. But it certainly seems like a problem that can be solved on the supply end.

Which leads me to the other end of the equation, the job market. The distinction between selection and training isn't important to me as an employer. What I as an employer know is that college is a good shorthand for a variety of skills I feel are important. Knowledge testing doesn't cover those skills. It would likely encourage me to disregard entry level candidates in favor of ones with previous work experience or contacts I trust. Right now I'm fairly confident taking a flyer on a young person either in or recently graduated from college that interviews well, but that confidence would decrease without that knowledge and I don't have any shortage of candidates with work experience.

I'm willing to explore new ways of evaluation, but I think over time college became optimized for putting out good white collar employees. And employers have become optimized to working with people that have a certain, homogeneous educational background. Before we cut that wire, we need to have the alternative evaluation pieces in place or the negative externalities, especially on young candidates, would be huge.
I used to do work in this space. As a freelancer, everything comes down to timeliness and money. Adult sites, in my case, always had money, always paid on time, and always had more work. I don't particularly care what you believe in, but I do care that I get paid for my work. For what it's worth, I don't believe adult affiliate networks I worked for were any more shady than the survey/adtech companies I've worked for.
This even uses immutable data structures. Thank you for making this!
I evaluated Europa recently running inside some k8s clusters.

Things I liked:

Very good looking interface

Easy to run a registry inside the app

Things I disliked:

mysql dependency, would be nice to support integrated sqlite

No "insecure by default" option. You have to generate a token and then login which is annoying. Also every image pushed is private by default and there is no api to make it public. The registry runs inside the cluster so the security is not needed for my use-case
I seem to recall that this has been tried and then hordes of people stormed the library, went furiously through the books and basically threw them on the ground, making a huge mess until the bill was found. Not exactly what the librarians had in mind.
I'm really loving the choice of articles, especially since you're just getting started.

Edit: I'm referring to the journal, not the author.
> Your arguments contradict themselves - if the infrastructure is changing then there's little point spending the time automating your response to its failure.
Most attempts I've seen to automate tasks flounder for this reason.

If everything in your infrastructure is deployed with code, then automation is simply the act of making sure the infrastructure matches the deployment described in the code. It's true that automation is just as difficult if deployments are manual. Then remediation becomes changing the deployment code to fix a previously unknown problem, instead of manually fixing a problem. This then gains you the advantage of the problem being fixed in perpetuity.

So they aren't in contradiction if your remediation and deployment are the same process, because then it by definition is always up to date.

I guess I should add the caveat that deployment should be quick enough to solve problems via redeployment.
Nazi, noun -- A person with a opinion "we" do not like/agree with.

See also: libertarian, classical liberal, conservative.

Update: -3 points for mocking the world view of, apparently, a shit ton of people these days? Damn...
Code Corps is intended to be a place to find and volunteer for open source projects you think are worth whatever free time you have. For maintainers, we'd like to make scaling your community trivial: acquire and retain volunteers, onboard newcomers, recommend the right tasks to the right people, and fund your operations.

https://www.codecorps.org

As an aside, I'm kind of curious how others feel they fare on building new projects. Do you feel slow? I worry constantly about how quickly I'm moving relative to peers.
The product wasn't confiscated though, only the service was cancelled, and a refund was offered for returning the product. This is the main point a lot of people are missing here.

As it stands, this is how ANY court of law would see it as well.
The phrase "virtue signaling" is so useless. As if any action that does not have clear and immediate results is just posturing and pandering.

I think change absolutely has to come from governments and thus diplomats. Are corporations going to cooperate at a global scale to fix this with no regard for short term profits? Corporations like Exxon knew about climate change 40 years ago. Personally I think we should be litigating against a corporation that would hide something of global importance like that.

Where is the money to research these technical solutions going to come from? The article you linked showed that there were improvements among the signatories even though without the fall of the USSR it would have been 2.7% vs. 4.7%. Still it was something vs. just saying "this problem is too big to solve, let's hope some smart scientist finds a fix before we all die". Had China and the US been adhering to the Kyoto protocol undoubtedly the impact would have been much greater.
Learning Haskell via implementing a type system and type inference on a simple functional language.

https://github.com/jin/hindley-milner

Typeclasses were surprisingly easy to grasp. Got tripped up for a couple of days trying to implement a way to generate fresh variables ("a", "b", ...) and ultimately grokked the State monad to implement it.
It is the case that you can teach yourself to understand faster and faster speech. The blind often have human interface devices which speak at absurdly high vocal acceleration.
Mostly a Python vs Ruby thing. Both are pretty mature frameworks of roughly the same age, so for the most common use cases it doesn't make a ton of difference.

Personally, as a heavy Python user, I prefer Django's explicitness vs Rails more "magic" style.
> How to make Windows usable, step 1: install Linux.

FTFY
Thats a great way of describing the process of creating an enemy, the question is what you do with that enemy. Natzy Germany took it to the extreme of total extermination. I can't help but notice how this is still a very effective tactic that governments, in particular in the west, continue to use to advance its military agenda - we just haven't got to the point of were we see another full blown extermination in progress. However, and the scariest part of this is that all the machinery to achieve that is in place and has only improved. The media (willingly or unwillingly) is very effective at painting an enemy, dehumanizing him and eventually justifying military action. Can this be changed, is there a way of doing the right thing, without abusing it?
Is there a way to use 2 “mice” on a pc?
Meaning there would be 2 pointers on the screen at once and would move independently.
maybe one should instead push something wacky, like that the great spaghetti monster caused global warming... [insert missing logic] ...and that's why we should shut down coal plants.

How would someone go about it, and would you trust them?
A machine the size of the trashcan Mac Pro would be awesome as an upgradable Mac Mini type device. i7, internal drive bays, RAM slots. I'd love a desktop sculpture like the Trashcan, but not with the useless dual GPUs and thermal design and everything.
We could quibble about the meaning of "irrational", but I do agree that markets can be mistaken for longer than most people can financially back their conviction that it's mistaken.

In the case of Tesla vs Ford, there is probably a sense in which the longer the market is 'irrationally' convinced of the value of Tesla, the less irrational it actually is - it's a bet on Tesla's viability and vision, and the longer it seems like a good bet to most people, the more likely it is that it is a rational bet to have made.
True, but the farther back they want to rewrite history, the more hashpower they need to outrace the rest of the network, since they're starting from further behind.
Depends on what you mean by long-term. It seems to be working well enough for a significant number of businesses at the moment, and has been for some years now.
You do bring up a good point and I've adjusted the wording to reflect that active agency (i.e. a developer) is involved. Nevertheless, as I pointed out in an earlier post, quite a number of developers are not educated in the specifics of open source licenses or IP law or even simply don't care and this can cause problems in codebases that aren't copyleft licensed.
OS X (sorry MacOS) has problems, but dear god as soon as I try to use Windows or something else, I'm reminded how good the Mac is. The last 3 or so major revisions haven't offered much of anything I personally care about, though.
They thought iMacs would be "pro" enough, until the backlash got too much and now they're scrambling to regain developer/professional confidence.

Yet another indication of how out of touch with their customer base they've gotten?
If you run a business, you generally do not want to deal with customers which are assholes, trolls, they cheat, lie, etc. And many companies rate customers and one which are rated low have longer wait time or harder time to get returns/refunds. I do not have proof but I think Amazon has that rating. Lyft has that. Uber has that. AirBnB, etc.

But the BIG issue here is that you must treat customers with respect: if you do not want offer service to certain person, apologize, explain situation on your side (whatever - we are small team, we require dress code, etc.), offer refund, and that is that. Be nice. Be polite.

In short, I do not have problem that they disable his account. Whatever - that is the business. I have problem with their attitude.
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/r/the_donald tried to get their mascot on /r/place many times, only to be destroyed.
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> "Check the logs for service X (they're here <link>) and look for anything related to the issue"

I have a long missive about how logs are useless and shouldn't be kept, but that's for another time. I'll summarize by saying that if you have to look at logs, then your monitoring has failed you.

> If the user impact is high, write an update to the status page detailing the impact and an estimated time to recovery"

I guess technically that would be a step in a runbook, that's fair. Although in my case that was left to PR to do based on updates to the trouble tickets. :)

> The value of a runbook is that it can make use of human intelligence in its steps

I'd rather human intelligence be spent on triage by reading the results of automated diagnosis and coding up remediation software than on repeating steps in a checklist.

Sure, there are uses for checklists of things to check, but even that should be automated through the ticket system at the very least, which I no longer consider a runbook, but I guess some might still consider that a runbook.
From central/Downtown LA, you can take Venice all the way to the beach with a dedicated bike lane. I rarely go on trails, as I only have a road bike. My favorite trip is to take the bus to somewhere north of Malibu and ride along the PCH for about 20 miles.

Off-topic, but LA really does have great public transportation. It covers nearly the entire metro area such that you can get pretty much anywhere and only have to trek a few blocks to catch a connecting metro line (whether that be bus, rail, or subway). The problem is you're not going anywhere fast.
> Other countries (like America) may have their problems, but not at this scale and severity.

You've cherry picked problems, that you have no actual knowledge of, comment on the "scale and severity", and say that those problems disqualify Kenya from having hosting an AWS data center. However, the problems of other countries (the US, China, Brazil) don't disqualify them. Not to mention that there are other data centers in Kenya, which seem to operate just fine.

I assume that you think that Amazon would be clearing parts of the African Serengeti and protecting it's racks from lions, wildebeest and tribesmen.

In reality, they would buy real estate in Nairobi like every other major company.

>>>But keep living in your shell man.
If I'm consuming from an API instead of interacting with Postgres, does it make sense to use Django instead of something without "models" ?
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This will be a big deal. People are a bit conflicted in their use of Sci-hub, so there's definitely an appetite for something that works without requiring you to support copyright infringement.
I'm working on http://chatwoot.com.

Problem: Customer support still depends on age-old channels like email and phone while the world is moving fast ahead. People want instant replies to queries and all the brands have an online/phone presence. But none of them are leveraging these channels for effective customer support.

Solution:
Chatwoot.

It's an app for multi-channel customer support.
You can connect your brand's Facebook Page or your Telegram bot. You will get all the messages on Chatwoot, and from here you can reply, assign conversations to agents and get reports on how your agents are performing.

I will be launching beta soon with Facebook Pages as a channel. Soon to be followed with WeChat, Line, Telegram and possibly Whatsapp as soon as they release their business API.

For the technically inclined: Built on RoR + Vuejs. Completely on AWS.

Would love to know your thoughts.
The truth of fact, the truth of feeling by Ted Chiang https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_o...

This story changed the way I saw writing with the way it portrays it as a tool that can be used or misused just like any other.
> I am really not impressed by any sides efforts to combat global warming.

If you are at all interested in why things are as they are, you might start with the time-honored practice of following the money.
I might look into it in future revisions as large datasets wasn't part of my initial requirement (having a simple grid component that can handle formulas and copy/pasting).

The best option I had when building this was Handsontable. But that doesn't play nicely with react's virtual dom and immutable data.
> This would just be pushing filter bubbles to the extreme and driving resentment underground where nobody would notice it until it bubbled over. Then people would be like "whoa, where'd all the hate speech come from?", when it was there all along but not the dominant voice. And they would be making poor decisions regarding their own political strategy, because they mistakenly believed that they had won a battle that they had not.

Doesn't this describe the recent presidential election?
"Diapers" is just a synecdoche for parenting equipment: diapers, wipes, books, snacks for older kids, extra changes of clothing, etc.

Car seats will be a bigger problem: they are unwieldy, legally mandated, and require careful installation to be effective. Unlike diapers, even the small boosters used for older children can't fit in a shoulder bag.

A young couple expecting to have children in the next few years might balk at these inconveniences, and that could depress adoption of the 'mobility' model. You have to keep prospective purchasers in mind, who are evaluating their needs over the use-life of a car.
Maybe, maybe, maybe ... in the loosest, most hand-wavingly vague, almost, kind of sense, yes, IF - you s/spirit/concept/ then yes, that could be said to be true. But one could use the same argument about God, surely? In that the concept has a measurable effect on the world through the actions of believers, therefore He exists.
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The title was "A Retiree Discovers an Elusive Math Proof–and Nobody Notices". The last three words were unnecessary, very click-bait, and as the first comment observed not even true. Even "Retiree" is strictly worse and more click-bait than the "retired statistician" that we have here. They're hoping to get some people to click through on the idea that the discoverer is a retired plumber or car salesman. A title that terrible should definitely be edited when posted to HN. Actually this post edited the title perfectly. Next time do that, because something so click-bait as the original will get flagged to oblivion more often than not.
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