skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just think of this quote :-

> Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Franklin

If the price for living in a free society is that the same freedoms are abused by a vanishingly small minority of people then I'm ok with that, I'm not ok with what those people do but I think the loss of freedom for 60m people is a greater problem than some brainwashed idiots going on a rampage once in a while.
/Cannery Row/ by Steinbeck. It's a short read, but it packs in a lot of insight about the human condition. I re-read it every year or so, and still learn new things.
To note, this legislation covers a wider array that may shock our American commenters here.

If the police pull you over and find a baseball bat without a ball, you are in violation of the offensive weapons act.

Forget about handguns with legislation like that - which are also illegal but under a separate piece of legislation afaik.

We are less liberal in a lot of ways, both socially and economically but not consistently. In some areas, the reverse
Looking at the Twitter evidence[0], it seems to be just a new chapter of social justice in tech saga. I honestly thought people calmed down and got reasonable over the past year, but it seems not.

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[0] - what times we live in...
In as much as we resemble cancer, yes, I struggle to see how the human species works in harmony with the rest of nature, as it exists on Earth. If we want to say we're a part of nature, we should consider modifications that are improvements or at least not wholesale dismantling of planet-wide ecosystems, all in the neurotic hope that science will come in at the last moment or save the day. Or guns will. Or spaceships will. None of them seem likely to. At least not save anything beyond the dregs at the bottom of the barrel.
Very interesting. This makes a lot more sense. Thanks for the context.
> We will be postponing this event until we can deliver a more diverse slate of speakers.

Like until the time only 50% of speakers are homo sapiens?
That is probably the reality over there. But the perception from
Here is definitely different.
Sounds like GP is a contractor. In that world, time and expertise is money - contracting rates aren't perceived as a sunk cost the way salaries are - and an SSD won't cost more than a few hours' billable time would. (Less than one hour, for high-end firms.)
(2011) and previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2450973

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3808194

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11174946
Small incident? This was a coordinated attack by three terrorists. More than 40 injured. Truck and knives used as weapons on Saturday night crowds.

Look at the intended carnage. Police response time has nothing to do with evaluating the seriousness of the crime. Think about the organised networks behind these attacks, and the "routine" nature they are becoming, and then perhaps contribute ideas to help prevent them.
My experince in Europe was different. I actually looked into Wikipedia for a Honda bank, and it exists. I also know Volkswagen bank.
Your virtue signaling feat has apparently failed
Oh heard of worse examples of tech in the wrong hands. Friend worked in infosec for an online casino. Got called in late sunday evening with boss shocked that port 25 was open on the firewall (he'd just played with a chintzy port scanner app). Friend explained how email works, next day he was terminated with no recourse. Management with a little knowledge is dangerous.
I liked Lisp when I played with it, but realized that when it came to things I shouldn't* play with I wouldn't be able to use it for any serious project. Seriously even lacking a socket api is a sad state for a language (if I want to look at multiple someone else's interesting code that actually does something how many low level communication frameworks am I going to need to know).

*as in finical, security, encryption type of problems (that each require a decades worth of training/learning to start to get right) that can ruin life's and companies.
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I second the line of thinking, but please rein in the TSA a bit. That's literally the only thing I'm scared about going to US. All the other things seem like a purely local phenomena that shouldn't be generalized to the whole 300M country. But I am scared I'll get into trouble on the border because of my HN and Facebook posts (e.g. against US drone strikes).
Untrue.

In the UK there are nine protected characteristics, and you've only listed 3 of them.

And assuming that only those 3 are important you've ignored trans men.
It's not just individual conditions like upbringing, poverty or education. There is a problem with segregation. Not any form of mandated segregation, but emergent segregation due to social constructs.

Racism, latent or otherwise, makes minorities feel more comfortable with people of their own ethnicity. Whilst that same racism makes the majority want to move away from the minority.

Obviously, this segregation isn't the only issue. There are more minorities that appear to have self-segregated than just the Arabic/Muslim. In the UK, e.g. Indians, Eastern-Europeans, perhaps black people. Those minorities seem to have a lot fewer terrorists, if any.
At that point you might as well 'just' climb Everest.
There is still no uniform way to insert animation in the slides/paper. Partly it's because a problems of PDF readers, but there are problems in TeX-parts too.
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Why the world needs my product?
You seem to imply that being happy to be surrounded with a more gender/race diverse crowd than the typical 90s IT conference is either racist or sexist. I just don't understand that argument.
> C code compiles fine after decades

Early C code doesn't compile on modern systems at all.

Speaking of early C code, every vendor had their own version. C standardization had to go a long way.

Even today, writing portable C code is hard. Need a portable 128-bit integer? Good luck on Windows. Need a portable 32-bit integer? Better take a C implementation that provides int32_t, because just using "int" bites you when switching from 32-bit to 64-bit platforms.

Oh, and int32_t was introduced in C99, which is not exactly "decades" ago, but admittedly that was 18 years ago. However, I wouldn't bet on portability of any code older than that, unless the authors of that C code were extremely careful and anticipatory. But then, with enough effort (and perhaps code generation), you can create portable code in any language.

Rust skips all that mess, by having a clear experimental phase in the 0.x versions. It became stable with a clear commitment to backwards compatibility since 1.0, which was released in 2015.
This seems to have changed recently. You can now remove the phone as soon as you add authenticator as an option.
Have you tried applying the same logic to Ruby, Python, or Javascript?

All three are widely used.
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Bank are paying for deposits, and create money wjile the deposits are the security. Simplified.
> Keep in mind that a compiler like SBCL will put Lisp performancewise in the range of other statically compiled language/implementations.

Hmm...that claim is made a lot, and it works, in theory (see Jitterdämmerung[1]). However practical reports from non-advocates don't seem to bear out those results. For example, Michael Stonebraker says that they started writing Postgres in LISP. Had to revert that decision as everything was an order of magnitude slower[2].

[1] http://blog.metaobject.com/2015/10/jitterdammerung.html

[2] Michael Stonbraker's Turing Award Lecture: https://youtu.be/sEPTZVGk3WY?t=1791
Very unlikely that they would care. Frankly, they don't have the resources to care about people (including myself) who protest and don't like drone strikes. The TSA is annoying but the worst part is just long lines.
I'm pretty sure you can remove your number after setting up 2FA.
Many of the 0% financing also have a "or $750 cash-back" offer as part of it.

I turned down a 0% offer and took the cash. I then went to a Credit Union and got a loan at 2%. The interest paid over the life of the loan totaled less than the $750 upfront.

The finance person at the dealership wasn't too happy once he realized I can do math.
> I'm not trying to get into a debate about guns. But any list of rights no longer enjoyed by Englishmen wouldn't be complete without mentioning it.

Well, if you're going back that far as to consider carrying guns as a lost right, what about the vote for women? That's been gained. As has welfare. Occupational health and safety. Universal healthcare. The right to be protected by a professional police force (and emergency services in general). The abolition of slavery. Abolition of debtors prisons. Legalisation of homosexuality. Environmental protections. There are a shitload of legal rights gained since the era of English self-arming.

Cherry-picking rights from yesteryear is a crappy way to go about complaining of an issue. Guns aren't a legal mechanism; they don't belong on a list of legal processes.
Well, for doing fancy stuff including complex programming macroses LuaTeX suits much better these days.
I think this project would gain much more traction if it was simple to integrate it within jupyter notebooks. Currently, it is possible, but FreeCAD window pops out outside of browser, or if it is inside the browser the scene is static (no interaction, selecting, zooming etc.) Anybody here knows solution to this?
What do you think of Python, then?
Re: Tony Martin

He used an illegally held weapon to 'defend his property'. He lay in wait for the burglars and shot at them in the dark and again shot at them (killing one) as they attempted to flee.

How in any world is that self-defence? As they were fleeing he was under no threat and therefore such deadly force is completely unreasonable and no longer being used in defence of anything anyway.

Unless you want to live in a world where people are shot dead for accidentally wandering on to another persons land the concept of necessary and reasonable force is a fair one.
Calling something a "white sausage party" is racist and sexist, and if you said something equivalent against women or minorities on-line, you'd end up in a huge shitstorm. This assymetry is a big part of the problem.
Ahh, DUI. I had forgotten about that.
> Having asked the question of "why do they want to kill random strangers", the answer they arrived at is "because they were brainwashed by religious fundamentalism they found on the internet".

To a reasonable person, it should be obvious this is just a proximate cause and not the root cause. Browsing the internet and then being exposed to hateful ideas doesn't automatically turn you into a murderer.

The deeper cause is surely that "jihadi ideology" is effective at appealing to European youth. But nobody is talking about why this is in fact the case or what are the reasons why it is so attractive to some people.

For one thing, the problem of jihadi terrorism isn't going to go away without confronting the ideology head-on. I think we must have a painfully honest discussion about "jihadi ideology" and to debunk it. Radicalization isn't an inevitable outcome of being exposed to these ideas but is rather the result of losing the argument with friends, loved ones, civilization.

Banning this stuff isn't going to make it less appealing to some people or to make it disappear from the internet. But it does give government the power to censor ideas they deem to be dangerous and liable to "brainwash" the youth. And you have to ask whether you trust your politicians to use such powers responsibly.
Your final statement is demonstrably incorrect. The world is full of large software projects not using statically typed FP and actually surprisingly little from the likes of haskell beyond self serving academic noodling.
As we know from history, and as was confirmed during the debacle over "naked scanners", TSA and such institutions will never, ever yield an inch. At best we can hope for a side step.
Because at the same time you're implying that being surrounded by a specific skin color or sex is undesirable. That's racism and sexism. That's like me going to Japan and getting upset because I went to a conference and everybody was Japanese and there wasn't any diversity.
IANAL, but the AGPL only requires that you offer the source when a user interacts with it over a computer network. postcard and radio clearly do not qualify as such. Whether SMS qualifies might require some lawyer reading entrails.

And you could build your SMS service on top of a network interface. Network interaction is not considered conveying the work, so it is not affected by the conveing and combined work clauses of the AGPL. In other words: Linking is viral, the must-present-source part is not if you build services and the like.
I definitely agree with this view, and it's perhaps also why I really can't understand choices like these, to cancel an event, because of the genders of the people speaking? Why does that even matter?

If what another commenter mentioned[0][1], that they did blind-reviews of the papers, then this is actually quite appalling to me and sends the reverse signal that we don't really care about your paper, as long as you fill up our quota.

I also deeply believe that this is inherently the wrong way to fix this kind of problem. It's like treating symptoms instead of actually treating the underlying disease. If the papers accepted were all male, then why not ask "why was it only papers from men that were qualified enough?" or "why did only men submit papers for our event?". If the former is true than we need effort into investigating why more women aren't writing these papers (be it quality or just plain quantity), and if the latter then look into the marketing/awareness on the paper submitting process.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14480918

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14481098

EDIT: Included links to the comments that mentioned the blind-reviews.

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Semi-related: While I haven't seen it, I saw an interview with Jordan Peele about the movie "Get Out". He mentions that he wanted to tackle the fact that while Obama definitely helped the US move to less racist tones, it was never really solved, it is just there hiding under the skin with super-awareness to not be racist, which arguably is not the desired effect - there shouldn't be awareness at all about race period. I feel like this effect is somewhat similar to what is happening here, and the fact that the US is not able to hold any reasonable discussion at all on these topics doesn't make me optimistic on their capability to handle these issues. I feel like PC culture is causing way more harm than good.

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Why do people talk about what banks/platforms/accounts they use to hold their financial values (e.g. Bitcoin)?

Just keep your mouth shut where you store your values and you're most likely less a target these days.

Also, avoid 2FA based on SMS like hell. This method has been broken multiple times in Germany where SS7 (the GSM signaling system) was involved.
I used last year for modeling and later 3dprinting and really liked.
I had some little problems with some crashes and undoes but otherwise its a really nice software.
I'm a bit out of the loop on these sorts of discussions so apologies if this is retreading old ground, but... let's asssume I want to engage in some form of population monitoring or profiling. Based purely on available facts, what actually is the best indicator of propensity to commit terror attacks? Is it being Muslim, spending time on Islamist websites, being a marginalized single man, something else, or is there in fact no pattern distinguishable from random noise?

Surely this must have been studied extensively?
Of note the still visible 'Event Terms' contain:

> This Code of Conduct was forked from the example policy from the Geek Feminism wiki, created by the Ada Initiative and other volunteers.

And their request for speakers at https://cfp.githubapp.com/events/electronconf-2017 contains:

> Selection Process
> Submissions will be initially blind reviewed by a panel of GitHub employees from a range of departments and backgrounds. Speaker information will be used in any final reviews necessary to break ties and bring a balance to the speaking line-up. Final selections should be complete by June 6, 2017.

GitHub has a history of turning pro-minority & pro-women into anti-white-male and even anti-white-female. For journalists to have a pop at them when they fail to meet the set goals of their own politics should be expected.

They are fighting a political battle and the open source community has found itself in the middle.

GitLab and BitBucket are both great places to host your code and neither hate my guts for the way I was born.

http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/56b3d2462e526543008...

http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/56b3d2f12e526555008...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11049067
To play devil's advocate....

Saying that we've 'had terrorism for ages' is like saying that we 'had war for ages' and so firearms didn't change anything.

I have no idea what the 'official' idea is around trying to lock down 'safe spaces' on the internet, but the idea that the reduction of the availability of certain material may reduce the impact of certain material isn't beyond the realms of reason.

We legislate against all sorts of things that should have no effect if everyone were a level-headed rational actor.

In days of old, the only way you could recruit people to your cause was likely in person. Now you can do this in a much more distributed way over the internet.

When a certain (admittedly vanishingly small) proportion of the population is susceptible to certain arguments, for whatever reason, with lethal consequences, then is suggesting that those arguments should be suppressed a bad idea?

(note: this is not the position I hold)
Both the main parties are in many ways authoritarian, and both have gone along with increased powers for the secret services. The UK has rarely had either a libertarian right (the Tory party are historically a party of the land owners and aristocracy and the broader establishment) or a liberal left (the Labour party was founded by trade unions. The liberalisation on social issues has generally come from social pressure (suffragettes, women working, sexual liberation and gay rights in the 1960s) and the judiciary who sometimes (or juries, eg Lady Chatterly) have acquitted people, changing things.
In the Tony Martin case, since he shot them in the back it wasn't ruled self defence.
Limiting cash transfers isn't only about terrorism, it's about limiting possibilities for using your "black money". Governement doesn't want to lose income, are they ;)

Stimulating digital payments is another method
It's an effort to make the programming community more accessible to currently underrepresented groups. Expanding the base is one way to improve a meritocracy.
UKIP have not cancelled campaigning...
I'd say the issue you point out is orthogonal. In an area we need more smarter and skilled people, meritocracy should be the goal. But I'm with you on reducing the real-world consequences of those "lotteries" - in particular the consequences to those who lose in them.
Better interoperability, definitely not. Scala.js already has the best interoperability out there, excluding languages with the same run-time semantics as JS (such as TypeScript). In fact, it is the lack of good interoperability in wasm that currently prevents us from compiling Scala.js to that target.

We could hope for smaller bundles and faster load times, yes. But mostly we should be able to get faster "cruising" execution. Scala.js being statically typed, there is a lot of static guarantees that we lose when compiling to JS. JS engines are very good and can "recover" a lot of it through JIT'ing, but it's still 3x slower than Scala/JVM on average (after warmup of both), so clearly we lose something non-negligible. By compiling to wasm, we would lose the JIT, but keep the static types. It is unclear how fast we would manage to be, but I would hope we can get within 2x of the JVM instead of 3x-ish.

There is a lot of misconception on the Internet that "wasm makes everything faster". For example, a lot of people want to "compile JS down to wasm" to make it faster. That's bullshit, because your language does not have static types to begin with, so you lose the JIT and gain nothing in exchange, which means you'll run much slower. But if you compile a statically typed language down to wasm, you should be able to gain some significant speed.
Exactly, it's fine to make a point with a story, but it should not provide justification only clarity.

To go back to the original point, I've never understood the problem with 'hubris', it's not as if we have evidence for something or someone taking offence and then taking it out on us. There's no reason to believe we wouldn't be able to terraform a planet eventually. Even if we do screwup a couple of times, there's enough resources in the solar system to try again a bunch of times once/if we can get to them.

There's something to be said for a human locust swarm over the milkyway. Just imagine one day in the future having an internet connection between earth and mars. For some reason imagining operating those links is even more exiting to me than the original colonization (which I'd partake in given half the chance). How would be deal with the immense latency? How would facebook or google sync their datacenters? Once a day? A private uplink with 30m lag? What?
Before all the cyanobacteria turned up, earth had a nice inert atmosphere. They start with their newfangled photosynthesis and suddenly the atmosphere is full of this horribly reactive oxygen stuff. Now the planet is crawling with life, irreparably damaging the unspoilt beauty of our natural geology. You can hardly find a piece of rock on the planet that doesn't have algae or lichen all over it. Cyanobacteria ruined this planet for their own selfish ends.
Blind review followed by them selecting for diversity.

They have an agenda and it hasn't got anything to do with code.
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What about a loss of freedom for the 20k or so people on the terrorism watchlist?
Yes, I completely see your point.

The main project I worked on to learn Common Lisp was the back-end of a web application ; I even had to compress data myself.
> I am reluctant in part because Scala.js does not quite have financial support of Lightbend. Or so it seems, it's a bit hard to tell where Lightbend ends and the non-profit Scala Center begins.

As the Scala team lead at Lightbend, I'd love to have a few members of my team focus on scala.js and scala-native. We do financially support their development (most recently, as part of our funding of the Scala Center).

As a business, it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem: our customers usually indicate they are hesitant to switch from JS for their frontend work. It would be great to have more customers provide feedback like yours (via our customer surveys)!
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That would only be useful if you didn't care about historical data. Also, plotting averages like that can be _exceptionally_ misleading because you don't get an insight into the distribution of the data.