skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's some pretty sickening white-washing. I'll assume good faith and that it was unintentional.

Their primary purposes were providing protection for Nazi rallies and assemblies, disrupting the meetings of opposing parties, fighting against the paramilitary units of the opposing parties, especially the Red Front Fighters League (Rotfrontkämpferbund) of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), and intimidating Slavic and Romani citizens, unionists, and Jews – for instance, during the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung

Perhaps you point out that "originally formed" and "primary purpose" aren't necessarily the same. Fair enough. So:

Some 70 people attended, and a second such meeting was advertised for 13 November in the Eberlbrau beer hall. Some 130 people attended; there were hecklers, but Hitler's military friends promptly ejected them by force, and the agitators "flew down the stairs with gashed heads."

The next year, on 24 February, he announced the party's Twenty-Five Point program at a mass meeting of some 2000 people at the Hofbräuhaus. Protesters tried to shout Hitler down, but his former army companions, armed with rubber truncheons, ejected the dissenters. The basis for the SA had been formed.

ibid.
> If you define out-of-bounds writes to lead to memory corruption, your compiled code doesn't get any slower.

Yes, it does, because some optimizations now become invalid. For example, a compiler would no longer allowed to delete a provably out-of-bounds write. This happens all the time.

I don't think there's a lot of practical value in changing the definition of some kinds of undefined behavior to "memory corruption" (however defined) in the first place.
People could have said the same about Nazism.

Personally I put the anti-abortionists (who directly cause more abortions) in the same category as the guy who turned up at a pizza parlor with a rifle and many low level Nazis. Confused by propaganda into making the situation worse.
That's wrong. The heart grows proportionally with effort ( hence why pro athletes have troubles later in life.
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The video game industry is… very bad at writing.
Also stress. Or maybe all of it caused by work stress.
Adding 30% body mass I would be a very large increase...almost no one but the most dedicated lifters could do that.
For some value of web developer, probably. Although I think you are overestimating the complexity of Excel for pivot tables for the average non-computer person.

Still the level of web-developer who has little more skill than using Excel for pivot tables is also the web developer who can do little more than make static websites, which is plenty enough to be a webdev in 95 or even in 2005, but unlikely to be enough in 2017. I have just made different orders from two different websites today (cables and clothing) and both websites made decent usage of javascript, search, etc.

Besides that, many factories had thousands of employees; even a modest store may have ten - but watchapp needed just 50 programmers to be sold for a double digit billion dollar sum.
Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell FaaS
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I'm settling into IF as well, seems to be working okay.
It is surprisingly alright to not eat for a considerable number of hours, and extending that period seems to make me less hungry instead of more.
The right amount of configuration is zero.

create-react-app gets it.

This does not.
Look up what sugar does and why diabetics lose nerves and legs.
Is it really? Do we have data for geographic distribution of HN users?
Ask HN: Where to get reliable information on nutrition/health?
Given amount of information on nutrition it is hard to wrap your head around it. On top of that, I constantly question the veracity of claims that are being made [0]

Which sources do you use to learn more about health & nutrition (anything from podcasts to papers will do)?

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-industry-shifted-blame-to-fat.html
Thank you for this.

It was enlightening to go through the do not click link to see what this extreme viewpoint looks like first hand.
Oh come on. That is such a completely different issue. There's a serious problem if you can only look at something as a whole and not commend certain aspects of something.
Sure, it's great to hear that you're doing okay. It's still important not to generalise your own situation to the whole country. As you say, things are different for other people.
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User privacy is literally their business model. You pay Apple up front and they never expose your private information to third parties for any reason whatsoever and try to make sure your devices stay private. The cost of your privacy and future software updates through the life of the device is built in to the sticker price. You get exactly what's on the tin.
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"They help us stay on top."

Sure, with the biggest spy agencys and the biggest military(including ready to strike killer squads) stationed around the world, US are the biggest empire and they need all that to stay the biggest empire. Logic of the powerstruggle of empires. No doubt about it.

But I was talking about the other america, the former "leader of the free world" defender of human rights etc.
Which is a different thing from an empire.
And people all around the world actually did and some still love the former, but an increasing number hates the latter.

So continue to think and act like an empire - and see where that leads to.

Here in germany there are allready many people thinking siding with russia and china could be a better choice, as in their opinion the US is doing more evil stuff. Even though I do not think so, the fact alone should worry you.
Because at some point there will be no more US-Dominance, when the whole world turns away.
Investments in LNG are already sunk, however. Japan and China are already big importers.
I'm not following your suggestion of conflation. The correct way to read my comment is as a criticism of the clear rhetorical support for violence in its parent. I am full of controversial opinions, I know...
Investing in highly insulated buildings is the way to heat with solar.

Modestly more expensive up front, cheaper over the lifetime of the building.
It's going to be great for wind farmers on the Oklahoma coast, however.
For anyone abroad who lacks the perspective of the resurgence of neo- or cryptofascism in the United States, this is interesting material: https://youtu.be/1o6-bi3jlxk

The event and Mr. Spencer were panned, to be sure, but not as unambiguously as one might have expected.

Hate and supremacists — of all stripes — are alive and well in the U.S.: https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map
They still want users to either view the ads or pay the "publisher".
This will never work.

They must start paying users. Only then, will their ads be viewed.
> there's a online course by Simon Thompson from the University of Kent that started 2 days ago, you may be able to join:

First time doing a MOOC - is this considered a good quality one? I find his ordering of course material not always logical, and he omits useful info in places (discovered through Googling)
There is a show called Psycho Pass that directly addresses what you are talking about. It's definitely worth checking out
Hey Jeff, long-term AWS fan and daily user of it here. One thing I see time and time again for new user confusion: the names given to AWS services.

It has always felt that AWS has been too playful with the naming of services, to the point of obfuscation. Sure, you and I know what EC2 and S3 are, and what an instance and a bucket are. But for new companies adopting AWS, I swear that a third of my time is translating AWS service names into industry terminology for them, and often here statements like:

- "Why don't they just call it a virtual machine or cloud storage?"

- "What the heck is an EBS or a Cognito?"

- etc, etc

Also, the first run of the AWS console can be overwhelming when compared to that of Digital Ocean (though I know the two aren't really comparable in terms of breadth of services offered, but look how obvious DO's call to action is).

Just immediate thoughts that pop into my head.

[1] AWS web console: http://imgur.com/GwAeBrC

[2] Digital Ocean console: http://imgur.com/a/cO3Kn
What if you're already eating less? It should say: eat the right amount.
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>generic bad-ass

those two seem to be mutually exclusive

writers/designers like Nazis not because they're generic but because they were horribly weird, they were associated with multiple mystic organizations like the Ahnenerbe and the Thule society, they worked on crazy engineering projects like superweapons, megacities, and rocketry, they did lovecraftian experiments on people in concentration camps

the reason people use Nazi Germany in their media is because they were extremely interesting
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Tell that to Qatar. The UK is one sea blockade away from losing a huge chunk of electricity generation.
One of the key points is buried a few paragraphs in.

> "Uber, though, says Kalanick told Levandowski not to bring any of the Google information with him to Uber... The filing asserts that Levandowski destroyed the disks containing Google's material not long after Kalanick told him that Uber didn't want the information on them."

I have no way of knowing if the above is true, but if so, it paints Kalanick in a far more positive light than the headline suggests.
I wouldn't call it a misunderstanding; at most, it's an over-generalization:

"The bill would require all utilities serving Wyoming by 2019 to obtain their electricity from sources other than commercial-scale wind or solar operations. Utilities would be fined $10 per renewable energy megawatt hour used in a year, the amount of energy it takes to power 82 Wyoming homes."

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2017-01-25/wyoming-p...
http://time.com/money/3394185/tipping-myths-realities-histor...

> Nonetheless, the standard percentage to tip waitstaff has risen over the decades. According to a PayScale study, the median tip is now 19.5%. In recent years, some waiters and restaurants have suggested that 25% or even 30% is the proper gratuity level, and that a 20% tip, once considered generous, is just average today. As recently as 2008, though, an Esquire tipping guide stated "15 percent for good service is still the norm" at American restaurants. An American Demographics study from 2001 found that three-quarters of Americans tipped an average of 17% on restaurant bills, while 22% tipped a flat amount no matter what the bill, and the gratuity left averaged $4.67. Meanwhile, in 1922, Emily Post wrote, "You will not get good service unless you tip generously," and "the rule is ten per cent."

Presumably as a result of most people not wanting to leave a below average tip, which clips the low side of average from the distribution and thereby raises the average over time.
What's the worst case scenario for Levandowski in this situation?
Indeed, the latest Intel microcode published for Ubuntu 16.04 is the ancient 20151106 [1]. Later Ubuntu releases do have more recent microcode packages [2]. I cannot understand why they left out 16.04 there. So much for LTS, it seems.

This recently came to my attention while debugging some increasingly frequent lockups, which took me a solid week of eliminating all seemingly more likely causes (VirtualBox, nVidia driver, faulty RAM, etc). In the end I found the culprit while digging into the Intel Specification updates: my Core i7-5820K (and most other Haswell-E and Broadwell processors) has a bug when leaving package C-states, and the only workaround is to disable C-states above level 1. Timely updated microcode, which applies this workaround, would have saved me my week.

[1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/+source/intel-microcode
[2] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/intel-microcode/+change...
Emacs would regularly panic the kernel on one OS X version when I opened preview to look at a pdf and had TeX recompile.
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Which rare elements do mass produced PV panels need today?
Depends if he winked while saying it. The skeptic in me just sees it as a cover-your-ass move.
What alternatives we have to product hunt?
We recently launched our new platform klasmic and we were looking to get back feedback. The only solution to get some real interactions was product hunt. The paying ads only gave back fake accounts and the other platform like signupfirst doesn't seem to have enough traffic. What options do we have to reach organic visibility and feedback?
Do the changes need to trickle down to the dying towns?

They are forgotten because they no longer have much value to people outside the towns. The town itself exists as a conduit through which people channel their energies together to bring value into their lives. If the conduit collapses, if the factories and the mills go, how can the people survive? The raison d'être of the communities has long passed away, but the community itself hasn't. Put them out of their misery, please!

It is only by some miracle that these towns begin to bring value to the economy again (and not simply by the unsustainable method of spending and consuming), but until that happens they will continue to rot. Their minds can exist in the global hive-mind that is the internet, but their physical bodies need physical maintenance. And yet they exist too far away and too isolated to make it economically viable to do so.

The major cities appear to have monopolized the exercise of human labour for value. Whereas early homo sapiens have loosely organized communities that work to maintain a loosely comfortable life, modern cities have concentrated human effort like a parabolic reflector in order to generate luxuries beyond the reach of mere casual cooperation. These small towns, without the buttress of a major industrial mill or any economic output at all, captures none of the benefits of living in a modern world.

The consolation to the community that hopes to see the itself continue is that these towns are surprisingly hardy, producing generation after generation of brain-addled drug addicts. My sympathies are not with them.
I think I got it now. There is a hierarchy of opinion leaders, and hitting that hierarchy is what brings N dramatically up. And this also brings customer-to-customer referrals up again because, say, most of your friends use the product now.
> But in this case, you are simply throwing your money away since the green producers aren't going to produce more energy because you and other consumers are paying them to. They will produce the same amount regardless.

Yes they will. They get more money, so they can afford to invest in more green energy, and there's clearly more demand for clean energy, so it would be prudent to produce more of it. This is how markets work. You vote with your dollars.
This should have triggered the guys immediate removal, admitting to taking proprietary information from his former employer.

“Hey roommate; I robbed a gas station!”

“Well, just don’t use the money to pay the cable bill.”
How does your technique compare to a typical column store?
I thought really hard and then I bought some AMZN a few years ago.
That reminds me of Sun Tzu. It also reminds me of, I forget who, maybe Jobs, who said not to even compete, just make your competition irrelevant. Ie. Find a way to not even have to fight the battles.
Theft is criminal law.
That's just not true, and I think we both know it. The Confederate flag is literally the battle flag of militant American chattel slavery of black people, and virtually nobody who wears or carries it intends to physically attack you.

(Apropos nothing: I was walking through Munich a week ago and saw someone walking down the street in a Confederate flag shirt. I wondered, should I say something? Maybe they just didn't understand what it meant?)
No, I don't think this "weirdness" is at all why writers and designers like Nazism.
Does your father do any resistance training? He should. Strength training stops muscle loss and improves bone density.
> Part of the concern for renewable energy folks is that you could argue that God is arranging for more coastal property

Not really though, the overall coastline length will shrink so assuming constant coastal property size, the number will go down not up.
When the company is not producing enough energy to meet demand, it's probably required to purchase green energy elsewhere.
I wonder how this relates to what economists call "cost disease?" As the cost goes down in some industries (through automation or other efficiency improvements), this increases wages in those industries, which spills over into other, traditionally lower-wage industries due to competition for workers, not through efficiency improvements.

But despite calling it a "disease," this doesn't necessarily seem like a bad thing. Often they're difficult jobs (high emotional labor), so they maybe they should pay more?
I'm not seeing how you can discount Amazon, although i don't disagree with the gdp of the area dropping also contributing.
I'm the same as you. I don't eat until noon and can't make myself sleep past 6 am.
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All you're saying is that you disagree with them. I do too. What's your point? There are tens of millions of them. To be actively racist is (thank Christ) to marginalize yourself in modern society. But to be pro-life? Sorry, it may not seem that way on a message board, but there's not a lot of stigma to opposing abortion.

Meanwhile, there's no evading it. You simply must stipulate that opponents of abortion believe, in good faith, that abortion is the unjust taking of human life.

If you believe you have the right to punch Nazis, I don't see how you escape conceding that pro-lifers have the right to punch women walking into abortion clinics.

We neatly avoid all of this simply by allowing that while it's important to suppress Nazism (and white supremacy and all that stuff), we're not entitled to use physical violence to do it.

Obviously, I have company in that perspective with the ACLU.
That has not been true for a while, I would actually contend, that US spends more for subsidizing defense of Europe than any Middle Eastern security.

US Shale with Canada and Mexico already made North America energy independent.
> Have you graded proofs? GP's approach is entirely sensible.

GP wrote characterized the mistake as a "significant misunderstanding" of the material. GP use of the word "just" strongly implied that the assessment inside the long, probably unread note was not reflect in the grade. If that is indeed the case then the student's "significant misunderstanding" of this material wasn't reflected in the calculation of their final grade, which is the textbook definition of grade inflation.

Again-- this kind of grade inflation happens often. (If the class size is greater than 75 and fulfills one of the uni's writing requirements, I'd argue it's almost a requirement that it happens.) It's a truth about an impossible situation with only bad choices, not an ad hominem.

> This already happened! University of Phoenix has been around for a while.

By disruption, I mean Uber/AirBnB style disruption. Disruption resulting in customers who leverage the technology saying things like, "Dude, it's changed the way I go out in Atlanta." I seriously doubt the existence of University of Phoenix has ever made an employer say anything close to that. (E.g., "it's changed the way we hire employees.")

I mean an accreditation service that basically tells an employer: look, do you really want to know if that employee is worth hiring?

I doubt this even requires any testing whatsoever-- just require incoming Freshman to get a Chromebook. But the end of their studies there could be a new Google "Fasttrack" app. You could make it almost like a digital scratch ticket-- giving Google the relevant permissions and you can see whether you really graduated with honors.

Edit: added example
I suspect this is one of the reasons he stepped down.
The Age of Decadence is a great example, if you're on a lookout for such games.

It's a non-linear RPG that lets you play a lone, vulnerable person in a brutal, unforgiving world with a rich setting and highly intricate storyline.

One-on-one fights are hard enough, you-against-many usually ends with your dead body on the ground and a snarky commentary about your yet another fatal mistake.
You're only willing to bet 4 or 8 years out, which is itself worrying.

There are certainly people who actively espouse genocidal intentions openly in our body politic, and the connections between them and powerful figures in the administration are not very distant.

In situations like this, its important to step back and ask - under what circumstances would the US actually cross the same line that the Nazis did?

Have you heard about this plan to build a wall and forcibly move millions of people to the other side of it?Somewhere between 1/4 and 1/3 of the population seem heartily in favor of this idea.
I eat a protein & fat heavy breakfast & dinner, & skip "lunch". I find it to be highly effective at keeping me productive through the day (both more time & more steady energy cycle).
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My approach with hiring is to try and find solid JavaScript programmers foremost. People with experience in the tech we use, or people with a lot of experience with other languages are nice to haves.

Anyone who has a solid grasp of (modern) JavaScript will be fine with any front end tech stack.
I guess it depends on what you consider to be the middle classes, but the richest 20% of the people in the US own about 85% of the wealth (the 1% own around 1/3rd of everything), with the remaining 80% of the people owning the remaining 15% of the wealth[1]. Rich people will have to spend more or the economy will collapse eventually. You can't keep a country going if only ~15% of the money is being used.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_in_the_United_States#We...
I found it a while ago and I like the simplicity.

The thing that got me sold on the idea is how simple actions are. You can have them work like thunk by calling an action as a callback in another action or just return a promise. No middlewares to install, all by design of a 1kb lib.

[edit] when using, be careful with the recent API changes - it's not much, just some names, but took me a while to notice I'm reading docs to a newer version than what I've installed.

Looking forward to 1.0
>...There are multiple transmission line projects in progress in the US to drag wind energy to major load centers.

If so, this cost should be considered to be part of the cost of wind energy.

>...Solar can be produced anywhere of course.

Well sunlight does fall everywhere, but in lots of places it wouldn't make sense to depend on solar for much power.

>...Natgas exports may increase, but it appears everyone is getting off of fossil asap.

asap? From the article:

>...By 2040, renewable resources such as wind and solar power will supply just as much of America’s electricity demand as gas, according to a Bloomberg New Energy Finance outlook.

The reality is that without some major advance in grid storage, we will, unfortunately, be very dependent on natural gas for a very long time.

>...You cannot compete against an energy source with no fuel cost.

That is kind of a silly thing to say - there is more to the expense of a power source than that of course.
You keep responding to me as if I were claiming the purpose of the game were to educate people, when I have told you twice that I don't think that to be case.