skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blue collar Democrat states? Lol.

Democrats looked at the demographics and made an explicit decision to toss out blue collar (and now even white collar a la H1b) workers in favor of immigrants and corporations. The only difference between the Republicans these days is the Republicans don't hide behind their agenda by labeling those who disagree as bigots and uneducated idiots.

You can only call someone a racist, xenophobe, while they are training their own foreign replacement, for so long, before it loses effectiveness.

Do the Russians have organizations tasked with influencing foreign policy in their favor? God damned right they do, just like every major nation state on Earth. The US, btw, dwarfs the rest in this type of work.

Do these types of influence work in a vacuum? Not as well as they do when a demographic is already teetering on the edge.
A tale of two squirrels: The not so simple math on VC portfolio size
Very interesting work. I'm looking forward to when I'll be able to use Rust to write production ARM code (I mostly use NXP Kinetis devices, but it seems most of the tooling is universal).
Luxury Music Festival Turns Out to Be Half-Built Scene of Chaos
It seems like he is describing the literal interpretation as the exceptional case (as opposed to showing indignation, using that phrase as an insult, etc.).
You seem to be using "rounding" to mean "comparing the exact, unmodified results of individual rolls", which is probably the source of the confusion because that doesn't really correspond to any common definition of the word "rounding".
Great, maybe now we can some content that is not funded by a religious lobby, for a change?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Templeton_Foundation#Cont...
I was thinking of the NATM failures: http://www.tunneltalk.com/images/laneCoveCollapse/Ref5-Heath...

(which were during construction, but happened in "finished" sections, I believe. NATM applies a single pass of shotcrete to the cut rock surface)
If they were really interested in reducing condescension and ego-tripping, a great place to start would be "No nannying other adults."
I find that to make remote work, people need to be good at written communication. While people can obviously have as many video chats as they want, even 4 hours of video chat every day is not the same as being in the same room with a person, where you can simply turn to them and say, "Hey, can I ask you something?"

And if you have people in different time zones, then the asynchronous nature of email becomes very useful.

But people don't like to write. This initially surprised me because I love to write. But many people don't. Even people who went through great colleges and who must have written many papers -- they hate to write. I notice it most with salespeople, who are very extroverted. They are good talkers, they feel like they are at their weakest when writing.

In many startups it is crucial that there be good communication between the sales team and the tech team. And if the salespeople feel they are best with verbal communication, then that is a good reason to get everyone into the same room together.

Not every startup needs a sales team, but some do. If you have a product that will be sold to enterprises, then you need a sales team. And most of your feedback, about what the customer really wants, will come through the sales team. So the tech needs good communication with the sales team.

So there are some problems with remote work which I don't think will ever be solved.
Pretty sure it'd be grounds for a sexual harassment lawsuit if someone started littering their code with offenses directed at women.

It's discrimination based on sex and against the law to make the workplace favor one sex.

You may not like that trampling of your free speech rights, but there you have it. We agreed as a society to allow women to enjoy the right to earn their own wages in whatever line of work they choose. Good thing too. There are some super smart women out there who have contributed a lot. Can't believe this needs to be said in 2017 but here we are.
The original point being made was about turnover and being able to correct for bad choices, and no voter (unless they move) gets to vote for the same senate seat every 2 years.
Absolutely right. I actually wrote about this at the time. [1] That CC has commercial/non-commercial variants probably add further to the confusion even if they didn't play into this case. As does the fact that the colloquial meaning of commercial is different from the meaning of commercial that's relevant to publicity rights.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/uk/news/more-commercial-creative-common... (Video autoplay, grr.)
Exactly! I think it is more disrespectful to treat peers as toddlers who need to be shielded from any implied criticism.
I guess they mean "how likely it is that they know something just because you know it".
Do you have any evidence that PayPal's sign-up process 10 years ago included verifying that you were over 18, or are you just making things up?
That is very cool. I am the type of person who enjoys anagrams, and started toying around in Python (http://adamantine.me/index.php/2016/09/02/python-anagram-tut...), but I never thought of rating the anagrams... My next step was to generate a list of names that are anagrams of other names, or take the corpus of The Dark Tower series and see if you can discover any interesting anagrams (as it is a motif in the series).
What about WebAssembly? It's hit 1.0 now, & it's designed so that 1.0 wasm will never become deprecated

My own thoughts have been considering a wasm vm in kernel space. No need to ever exit kernel space; the wasm vm provides sufficient sandboxing. Wasm binaries could run on any architecture. Hopefully come up with a method that browsers can efficiently run wasm in directly in the kernel's sandboxing rather than having wasm-in-wasm. Syscalls could be exposed through wasm's import/export system. Kind of like that Metal idea in "The Birth & Death of JavaScript"
> started Nautilus in 2012 with a two-year, $5 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation

That's very interesting and important. I know the Templeton Foundation as funders of 'research' into creationism. Richard Dawkins, for example, is apparently a critic of theirs and refused to participate in a project of theirs. The Templeton Foundation's Wikipedia page tells some other interesting stories with names you may recognize (with the caveat that it is Wikipedia).

I wonder what influence they have on Nautilus. It's a genuine question; the world isn't black and white, Templeton is not evil, and I don't know their current level of funding for Nautilus - perhaps they could use more Templeton money. OTOH, funders can have subtle influence in many ways, from story selection to self-censorship.

EDIT: Oops, should have kept reading to answer one of my questions: "[The Templeton Foundation] has dialed back funding for Nautilus, although it gave the magazine an additional $1.25 million in 2015, and a little more than $1.2 million last year"
There are many sets of non-transitive dice where the average is not the same though (I should have used one of those examples). Here's one:

A: 4, 4, 4, 4, 0, 0 (avg: 8/3)
B: 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 (avg: 9/3)
C: 6, 6, 2, 2, 2, 2 (avg: 10/3)
D: 5, 5, 5, 1, 1, 1 (avg: 9/3)

There's no reason that the average values need to be the same to have non-transitive dice. To modify the original three to have the same winning properties, but radically different averages, just imagine doing this:

Die A has sides 2, 2, 4, 4, 99, 99.
Die B has sides 1, 1, 6, 6, 8, 8.
Die C has sides 3, 3, 5, 5, 7, 7.

The expected value of an individual die roll doesn't play into it at all.
Also-- I do like the actual content of the written-rule-plus-oral-tradition. I think a lot of the cases where newcomers get flustered comes from genuine enthusiasm of a mentor who fails to reflect on the power imbalance their increased level of knowledge creates. A joke or affectation that would be playful between two knowledgeable insiders can on the other hand easily crush the spirits of an outsider.
As someone who's learned (and forgotten) a few foreign languages, including German, the requirement for a C1 level in German would be pretty damn high, especially since Germans are rather strict on grammar (im not going there... ;)

In other words, someone trying to save money on tuition via a German undergrad would be trading a LOT of time and energy to learn German in exchange for the tuition.

I suppose this is part of the reason for allowing foreigners free education.
When I joined, the ToS explicitly allowed users between 16 and 18.

http://www.screw-paypal.com/tos_exposed_section/tos_june_200...

It looks like their ToS changed in February 2003 to enforce an 18-only model.
Really?

I made a mould out of Lego (to make Lego-shaped gummy candies) and with a thin coating of vaseline on the outside, it was indeed water-tight (and silicone-goop-tight too).
It's so odd to see mentions of Internet memes and casual cyberculture on HN of all places.
The video is a good example of active listening. You don't have to understand what the other person is saying in order to connect with them. It's a very useful skill, removes a lot of stress from interaction.
I agree with the GP. I find myself surprised at something someone didn't know, only to realize upon further reflection that I wasn't actually surprised, I was just asserting superiority, which was unconscious and crappy.

It changed after I saw the XKCD "Ten thousand" comic, which changed my worldview for the better.
There's a recent podcast about this and blockchain + energy sector in general: https://epicenter.tv/episode/174/ Why blockchain? It enables peer-to-peer buying and selling of electricity (no middle man), which becomes more interesting as the grid itself is becoming more decentralized with solar, etc. Imagine being able to buy and sell electricity directly between you and your neighbors. Lots of questions about how this is metered & controlled, but it seems promising.
I said not-the-same-case; the legality is still incredibly complicated.
even more socially savvy than "don't feign surprise" is "don't ask questions that might lead to answers that might lead the asker to feign surprise". In any situation where you're assuming the role of teacher, assume that the answer to any "do you know about ..." question is always no. It's much easier to preface a question with "forgive me if you already know this but ...", than to go through the feigned surprise song and dance.
Are they?

What things are too vile, then?

I think those things that are "too vile" are better tracked than outright banned.
Qubes (https://www.qubes-os.org/) is a good fit for this.
>"for some reason doctors and researchers are viewed as understanding that better than the public"

Because they have no excuse, a jury would agree they should've known better.
Isn't the name "perceptron" going to be a little confusing in this context?
To the extent I can find serivce life specs for MEMS tuning fork gyroscopes, which are driven to oscillate, they say "more than 100,000 hours" - about 10 years of powered-on time, which, for an automotive application like roll-over sensing, is essentially forever, since cars have a low duty cycle.
That's sort of my point. He makes up a situation that is convenient for his essay, a situation that basically doesn't ever happen.
It shouldn't be, it's obvious whenever a story about 4chan or Reddit (or even Voat or 8chan) come up, that there's a significant overlap in the membership. Hacker News doesn't exist in a vacuum.

Yes there are a few erudite intellectuals, brilliant greybeards, and SV millionaires knocking about, but there are plenty of scrubs here as well (present company included.)
I consciously try to be sincere and present my emotions accurately. I think that's generally a good rule of thumb.

This isn't about insincerity, it's simply a basic aspect of social behaviour. You don't sit on the bus crying or singing a happy song if you're sad or happy. We manage the emotions we project as second nature, just as we read and interpret the projected emotions of others. It's the opposite of sociopathic.

The rule should then be "don't berate others"

No, because the rule is about a specific (potentially) reflexive behaviour that can be destructive in the context they're talking about. They are trying to help people address it. "Don't berate others" is a fine sentiment but a little vague.
I wonder how they justify the use of proof of work to maintain consensus. Wouldn't it consume a significant amount of the electricity generated by those solar panels?
Read what was just explained to you:

> that's anti-piracy judgements

Not the same as censorship.
> My open source code is riddled with jokes of all kinds on all kinds of hairless monkeys. Demanding dignity you shall have none, because you got none, disserving dignity because you stumble around naked of any - you shall have.

K. Make those jokes about a protected class in a workplace and you might be looking at a lawsuit and lawyer telling you to cool it.

> Call me animal names. I prefer that much more to that mental-graveyard of smiles and conservation. Insult is preferable to insulation. Always.

I don't see why going to the other extreme is any sort of solution. Obviously you don't want to work in a PC culture so you can just avoid those workplaces. There are different levels in various fields and locations.

> To not joke about this existential absurdity is to not be a selfaware human.

I think we all get the joke now. We just don't find it funny. So, forgive us if we don't laugh while you continue exercising your right to free speech, and we can continue living side-by-side.
Why can't there be some sort of peer-2-peer Wikipedia or in fact any database that keeps people from blocking it?
tl;dr: Rent-seeking

edit: seriously though, read the article... it's not long
In what way?

As it stands (or once stood), Facebook more or less permits free speech on its platform, modulo pornography and gun sales. I'm against algorithmic "censorship" against their definition of "government propaganda." Let the educated reader decide that for herself (indeed, my Facebook friends -- who are also my IRL friends -- aren't agents of government propaganda by participating in our Democracy via discussing their rather-diverse political views over a public forum).

It's a little too transparent that "government propaganda" here means Donald Trump. I hope that Facebook is merely acquiescing to bad PR from the left here with a faux apology.

It's a shame that they were pressured to feel responsible when they are merely a communications medium. I don't recall telegraph operators feeling responsible for antebellum slavery or radio broadcasters feeling responsible for the rise of Adolph Hitler (of which Trump's mainstream democratic election as our President cannot even reasonably be held in comparison to either _actual_ historical atrocity).

By writing this rather dissident post here, I am not "exploiting" Hacker News.
It is 100% the impression they give. For any non-compulsory social event it's usually not true though.

(Ultimately there has to be a reason they are at a social gathering; if it's not because somebody else made them go, then they want to socialize).
> Democrats looked at the demographics and made an explicit decision to toss out blue collar (and now even white collar a la H1b) workers in favor of immigrants and corporations

Bill Clinton and the neoliberal DLC did, and it's been the source of a lasting divide within the Democratic Party (the party-in-government, not just the party-in-the-electorate) since; see, everything from the vote oj NAFTA through the 2016 Presidential primary and the subsequent DLC leadership campaign.

While the neoliberals are still the dominant faction within the Democratic party, they've lost ground to more strongly pro-labor progressives recently (compare 2008, when both leading primary contenders were soldily in the neoliberal faction to 2016) and there's plenty of reasons to think that will continue.
You are a programmer in PayPal. The manager tells you to program "close accounts that are created when under 18". And the programmer cannot complys.

When I say to my manager that this thing won't work etc he imlies that I'm smartsass jerk. Thus I no longer argue with him. I don't suggest anything to him anymore. I do exactly what he says. Probably this is the same case with PayPal too.
It might be too granular.

One of the things I like about print magazines (and newspapers) is the serendipity--you read something that wouldn't normally grab your attention because it's on the next page and...you've already paid for it, after all.

Paying per article seems like it would push people only to read things that they're sure they'll enjoy (based on the author, title, etc).
Avoid food made in factories
I never claimed there are not and they should not. And they can make jokes on men, woman, the elderly and especially me too. Its great.
This is an ugly thread. Just a heads up =)
Even C can do hot swapping using shared libraries, and it has none of those features.
> signaling ingroup membership, belittling others, etc

Good call. I'm certainly not an authority on being well-adjusted, but for me personally, those sound like seeds planted in insincerity leading to a varied bouquet of suffering. In the context of creating a sense of community around us, we are better off if we learn to strive to act thoughtfully and sincerely from a young age, and encourage others who do likewise. I'd much prefer this rule to be a minor counter-example beneath "empower others".

Answering sincerely-yet-appropriately to "How are you?" isn't trivial, but it's worth it. In the past week, I've responded with a wide variety of sighs (to friends), "ok. I'm ok." (to a doctor who I was seeing after being kept awake by excruciating pain), "right now? good, happy to see you!" (to a less frequently seen acquaintance), "oy, don't ask, there's a line. but I'm looking forward to this porkbelly!" (to a grocer).

I imagine I might come off as a brash American if I were to try what I perceive as sincerity in more reserved cultures, but in middle class America it seems to work at-least-OK :-)
Was it a manufacturer warranty or one of the after-market ones that some dealerships sell?
I think this could be extended to the mass media in general. Where do we get our information from? Journalists. What do journalists do? They write news articles. They don't actually do any of the things they write about, they only write. We very seldom (in comparison) get perspective from the people who are doing things - because they are too busy doing them to talk about it.
the plan for ethereum is to switch to proof-of-stake, but that has definitely not been figured out yet. I could also see a more private blockchain supporting stuff like this. Maybe it's not open to anonymous participants, but is still more distributed than a single company.
Seems reasonable given its intended purpose. Why do you particularly want that?
My main concern is that whatever the system, 'normal' people can just ignore all of it, and continue on as usual. There are use cases for it, specifically the JDK itself, but i feel like the grand majority of developers have no need or want of modules. It does seem like you can just ignore all of this, so as long as that is the case, probably ok.
Not in particular. Just a satisfiying name, and relevant enough.
For me, the real value that RT has to offer (and that goes surprisingly unappreciated) is that it acts as a system of checks and balances against more mainstream networks. Whenever those networks make outrageously weak (or simply wrong) claims, RT is quick to point that out. Whenever mainstream media ignore some potentially damaging topics, RT is quick to pick them up. Whenever mainstream media act as vehicles of outright propaganda, RT makes fun of them.

RT's journalist Gayane Chichakyan, for example, has become a kind of a legend among some American podcasters for asking straight and inconvenient, but certainly valid questions at State Department’s press conferences.

And while comedy shows such as The Daily Show or The Late Show with Stephen Colbert are almost indistinguishable from each other in their messages, RT's Redacted Tonight (https://www.rt.com/shows/redacted-tonight-summary/) is radically different and gives the voice to the comedy of the very far left.

I think I understand the concept of lies by omission. Perhaps RT does that. And yet, I am not sure that giving a one-sided account of events is worse than not bringing them up at all. Like that accusation of Wikileaks’ selectively targeting the democrats and being silent about the republicans — I am not convinced that this one-sidedness in any way invalidates what Wikileaks had to say about the democrats. Likewise, if RT does not report on the stories that can be damaging to the Russian side, this should not make their other stories, potentially damaging to the other sides, somehow invalid.
A lot of different concepts got conflated into "containers", but a big value add of systems like Docker over this is the use of immutable FS images with built-in distribution mechanisms. Just like it's nice to have git remotes and porcelain around them vs. the limited utility of git if you couldn't push and pull.
> Ironically, rather than unifying mankind and increasing sympathy and understanding, we are using network technology to maximize comfort by crafting artificial "safe spaces" where patrons never even have to be exposed to thoughts they dislike. That's bad.

This is a bad characterisation; it was much easier to ignore stuff you didn't like before the internet. The internet is also not to blame for politics - while it helped intensify things, it wasn't the 'safe spaces' that gave you Trump, but the hysterical fearmongering that the conservatives had been doing for almost a decade beforehand.

I'm not sure how you think people were 'forced' to see views they didn't like before the internet.
How does a blockchain make that setup easier? You need to a system in place to track who is selling to who so if you have that it's just as easy to have it do bank transfers as it is blockchain ones.

Do you also imagine there would be wires running between each set of properties? If not you still need a third party to manage the centralized distribution network in which case you're not going to sell directly to your neighbors you're going to sell to the grid.
> audio editing software

In the audio space, it is vital to support FFI for a plugin architecture because I can guarantee you your language isn't the-best-thing-since-sliced-bread for somebody who has stuff you really want available to you. Audio software lives and dies on the VST specification. (Audio Units are substitutable for VSTs--but the same problem remains.)

I admire your efforts, but perhaps you should understand the use cases of the things you want to use as examples before you try to employ them. It doesn't instill confidence.
Sometimes (usually?) that proof comes only in the happening of the impossible thing.
The non-transitivity of Rock-Scissors-Paper is easy to understand, partly because it's so simple, but mostly because you're likely never played outside the usual rules, even if adding Lizard-Spock.

Non-transitive dice screw with the 'nature' of dice that most of us expect. To get to the mathematical intuition, one may have to get past a deeply-ingrained feeling that something about these dice just isn't right. That's a big part of the fun.
Proof of stake (PoS) is certainly the future for consensus. Ethereum has a built-in proof-of-work difficulty ramp up already started (a time bomb) and has had plans to move to PoS since the beginning.
Nice that you polished the site