skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a difference between empathy as a bonus and empathy as a job requirement. Traditionally, people who didn't fit in (the typical nerd stereotype, or maybe someone on the autistic spectrum) could do well as programmers, even if they lacked the sort of soft skills needed to do well in other positions.

Of course, it always helps. But being able to accommodate people with different levels of social and/or emotional awareness is a good thing.
History is full of people who have been good at talking and presenting, but not as good when it comes to inventing. So I'm not that surprised that they get money, even if the ideas are somewhat pointless. I'd be more surprised if they ended up becoming successful.
It's Vice, I think it's meant to be terrible.
Yes. Seems like the entire west coast is similar. Also, there are few places where women outnumber men. And if you look under 40 the ratio is even more skewed towards many more men than women. I think this impacts men's mental health as they are unable to build a relationship of any sort. Men commit more crime, go to college less, commit suicide more, are heavier drug users, and so on. I wonder how the male/female ratio plays into that.
We don't have to wonder what they think, all we have to do is ask them. [0][1][2]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-the-age-of-trump-...

[1] http://time.com/4717077/holocaust-survivor-trump-immigration...

[2] http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chicagoinc/ct-holocaust-s...
So if you see somebody waving a flag, you punch them?

If they're carrying a battle flag (a specific design you can look up) then they're literally signalling that they're there for purposes of conquest. It's perfectly OK to oppose that.

I don't like the "punch them" rhetoric. It's not compatible with free speech. It's way better to combat "racial purity" ideologies (or any other speech) with more speech, with reason and truth than with violence. The second option makes you look like the Gestapo or the NKVD

But the 'racial purity' ideology is not always expressed in terms of their personal life choices about who they start a family with. Rather, it frequently comes paired with the assertion that the Other must be conquered, driven away, or eliminated.

'More speech' sounds really nice in principle, but I'm guessing you're not a member of any group that is threatened by eliminationist rhetoric, and people who are under threat are not obliged to serve as martyrs for you to use as moral exemplars in polite debate. Thus, the 'unlimited free speech' argument is a very privileged one, because speech is only free if it can be engaged in without existential anxiety.

Consider Jeremy Christian, the guy who killed two people and injured a third in Portland just weeks ago. He was yelling abuse at two female passengers on the train and people intervened to ask him to stop, and he attacked them with a knife. Those people took your 'more speech' approach and they're dead, are they not? No more speech of any kind for them, and no speech of yours can possibly restore them to their families.

Why, exactly, should people have to subject themselves to injury or death at the hands of bad actors before they're allowed to take any other action in your value schema? By feitishizing 'free speech' without regard to the consequences, you're giving extremists a license to engage in criminal threats but insisting that the people who are the subject of such threats do nothing to safeguard their own persons.

If your approach is so great, how does authoritarianism get off the ground anywhere? Why isn't it just talked out of existence by people armed only with reason and truth? What good are reason and truth when confronted with anti-rationalist ideologies that ignore logic and rely on atavistic emotional appeals, and which are demonstrably successful in activating people to commit violence against innocent people and populations?
I think the fear of being watched by hacked IoT devices running closed-source software which is under control of a vendor will go a long way to help many people understand RMS' thesis, if they haven't done so before now. People tend to pay attention when the problem is on their doorstep (or in their living room, car, etc...).
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This thread is all over the place. Did I read a different article, or misread this one?

Here's what I read:

Pop culture has a possibly unfortunate habit of co-opting Nazism as an all-purpose source of villains. Because it assumes everyone understands why Nazism is evil, our culture rarely provides any historical context for its Nazi villains. Worse, to heighten drama, our all-purpose villains must be made continuously more intimidating and powerful.

The problem is that you're now left with a small army of generic bad-ass villains. Without the context of what it truly meant for a world power to be actively genocidal, those bad-ass Nazi villains can end up as figures for emulation or admiration or respect, for the same reason we put bad-ass villains on heavy metal album covers or use them as team mascots.

So the value of a title like Wolfenstein: The New Order is that it actually takes the time to try to break the cycle of "Nazi As Bad-Ass Signifier".

I don't know how important this point is, but it seems valid and worth thinking about; or, at least, I'd never thought about it before.
There's a lot of stuff on Kickstarter that looks a lot like fraud, I think people see this as part of a trend. You don't have to ban it, just give the "investors" more recourse.
There's eating less, and there's eating to obesity.
Hypponen's law: Whenever an appliance is described as being "smart", it's vulnerable

https://twitter.com/mikko/status/808291670072717312
Code is a liability. A light bulb went off when I first heard that.
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Exactly. The first 70 years of a 75-year life is probably more enjoyable than a 70-year old life.
Assuming the BIOS/UEFI has an option for it... my laptop doesn't seem to have one (and there are no updates to fix the bug either...).
Key part of the quote:

> publisher's adblock wall

The publisher is the one responsible for using a mixture of Javascript and server-log analysis to detect ad-blocking users and prevent them from accessing the content. As already happens on a growing number of sites.

The change here is that Chrome will now notice when a publisher has served a user a "please disable your adblock for this site to continue" wall (maybe Google will suggest such pages be sent as HTTP 402 responses?) and do something on the browser-chrome level to give users the additional option: using a Google payments system built into Chrome to send the publisher a one-time [micro?]payment in exchange for unlocking that one article, without having to disable their adblocker.

(Of course, many ad-supported publishers also already have ad-free subscriptions that you could sign up for—but they don't tend to bother with one-off per-article micropayments, because going through the whole giving-out-your-credit-card-to-a-web-form flow isn't worth it to read one article. This would avoid that problem.)

Funny coincidence: I pitched this exact thing in the form of a browser extension to a VC firm a few years ago.
> For example, we'll always need energy and food, but we won't always need cowboys and coal miners.

Cowboys are part of the food sector. Ranching to be specific. Herding cattle, fixing fences, and doing all the other choirs on a ranch will probably be a while down the automation trail. Making some bad decisions like not moving the cattle from the summer grazing area to the winter grazing area quick enough can cost a lot of money.
> people need to take the rise of companies like amazon and really think hard

Consumers don't think, they consume. Much like zombies. If you want consciousness in the system that has to come from gasp government. But that would be against what we all stand for. And it will continue to win until there is some major paradigm change. It has nothing to do with any choices, and everything to do with consumer and corporate behavior.
Had Kalanick never heard the story of the Monkey's paw before he used the thing?
Sweet sixteen for Safari and WebKit
Q: What does the TSA and the nazis have in common? A: Full body searches, book scrutinity and generally inconveniencing ordinary people.
Australia to seek greater powers on encrypted messaging at 'Five eyes' meeting
Nobody's asking for validation of the contents of a persons heart. But people are saying that certain speech acts deserve unyielding opposition because they consist of exhortations to violence. Why conflate two different things?
I usually read by highlighting the paragraph that I'm reading and I find it frustrating when websites break my workflow. Microsoft Azure's docs website does this as well.
You moved the goal posts. Virtually all of us "oppose" Nazism. That doesn't make it OK to physically attack them.

Once again: if it's OK for us to punch Nazis, it must also be OK for anti-abortion activists to violently attack abortion clinics. Their argument that abortion clinics are murder factories --- and argument I vehemently disagree with --- is on firmer ground than our argument that white supremacist speech is somehow intrinsically violent.
Actually, you can learn modern frontend framework quickly from free tutorials, and you are up-to-date again, for example: http://yoember.com
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On the up side: people who are more separate, isolated, lonely, without being to far in to the pathological extremes, tend to buy more things, which is good for The Economy.

I would expect them to buy more functionally useful goods, like televisions, but fewer positional goods, like houses with lawns. Since the price of manufactured goods is constantly being brought down by markets, but positional goods by definition cannot be, I would expect the socially connected to spend more. They have to drink in bars, not at home; they have to buy a car that impresses, not one that drives; they have to buy a home to entertain in, not a shipping container.
There is lots of proof now that obesity is not caused by "more calories in than calories out", it is caused by hormone reactions to what you eat (esp. insulin). Just read the books by Gary Taubs for zillions of details and references to studies.

So the "eat less" claim in this article is again back to the old MD advice, "eat less and move more". Not going to work if you don't look at your macronutrients.
I agree that ear-training is important. I just don't believe struggling through songs while listening to slowed down records is the most effective way to do it.

We don't tell beginning programmers, "Go read the Linux kernel, it's the best way to learn." And, we shouldn't tell beginning musicians, "Go listen to an incredibly complex work recorded on 24+ tracks, with dozens of overdubs, and pitch-correction, and compression, performed by professional musicians with years of experience, and copy them."

I struggled when learning stuff as a kid, for years. I did it, but it wasn't productive practice. If I'd had competent ear-training, interval training, and sight-singing instruction at the beginning of my musical life, I would have found learning from records by ear much easier and much more productive within a year.

Kids today have access to those resources, even if they aren't lucky enough to go to a school for music. Will they do it? I dunno. I did tedious stuff even when more fun stuff was available; I had video games, friends in the neighborhood, a bike and skateboard to ride, etc., but I banged away at my guitar, making slow progress.

Making it less tedious, by making it more productive, seems like it's more likely to work out for more aspiring musicians. Learning by ear, when you don't have a framework of musical knowledge to hang it on, is among the most tedious things I can remember from learning to play guitar...and, it wasn't nearly as productive as it could have been, in terms of learning.
If others haven't heard of it either:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey%27s_Paw
You seem to have missed the half of the article which was about today's political climate
Similar to the bit in "Knocked Up" about how "Munich" is a great movie because the Jewish characters are all bad-asses, not victims.
Not if they don't support factual sex education and easy availability of contraception.

If they don't then they're probably just fascists using emotive subjects to gain power (see the blood libel against the Jews) or suckers falling for the fascist propaganda.

It's great that Godwin can't be applied to this thread.
OK, there's a distinction between the GuixSD free software distribution and Guix package management. I'm surprised you can't build and use a non-linux-libre kernel with GuixSD, though; that presumably excludes even free additions, like Lustre, unless someone has done the forward porting work. (One of the recent HPC-ish presentations on Guix mentioned nvidia stuff -- I don't remember which.)
Good piece. Also Posmodernism and Nihilism create this context in mass making narrative and hysteria be the new source of life meaning (which they never provide). Due to nihilism it really isn't life meaning so the psyche is desperately set to seek political meaning externally i.e. the collective and "fight for social justice". Which is endless and unattainable but the seeking desire fills the gap. Simultaneously, posmodern techniques erode values and logic so reality becomes "maleable" (so the guy more vulnerable to be manipulated into "mass of manouver", "useful idiots", etc). This way people is set in a downward spiral of all kinds of marxist self-victimisms (blaming the 100% of oneself miseries to any external "structure" which is trendy to attack at any given epoch). Is sad to see people falling into this.
> It's not Amazon, its not 'big box' chains, its that the city no longer has a production base and so the fraction of GDP this space used to produce has gone away.

I disagree. In my opinion this development is very much related to Amazon and e-commerce in general.
I'm living in a rural region that saw a lot of retail disappearing, yet I really don't see people cutting back or buying less. They just buy elsewhere. And who could blame them? Researching products online provides way more information than your small store around the corner could offer. Selection is vastly superior on the internet - not just on Amazon and big brand stores, but countless of stores catering to niche interests. Those have never been around here.
However even general goods like clothing, mainstream tech, etc. - very often I know what I want and find myself just as certain that it's not available locally. Just the other day I needed a new vacuum and decided to get a specific Miele model. Before ordering I wanted to see if I could get it immediately in a 30 minute drive radius and contacted several stores that were featured on Miele's list of retailers. Poor websites all over the place. So I sent an e-mail to all of them, asking if could come by later and pick up the specific model if it's available. No store replied within the day, none of the stores had the model which I was looking for, which wasn't very niche either. Didn't matter - later that day I ordered from Amazon and had it delivered the next day via Prime.

I'm sorry, but when it comes to information, selection, availability and convenience there's simply no local competition for e-commerce.
Yes...?

I advocate violent suppression of those who think genocide is appropriate. I don't advocate violent suppression of people talking loudly on cellphones.

Can't you see a difference?
What do you think the article is saying about today's political climate? All I read is that there are American Internet Nazis and that we're not very good at getting rid of them. That seems like a banal observation.
I don't get it, what's your argument? Yes, at the pace we're building them, PV is not sufficient. Guess what, the exact same fact is true of nuclear. All that establishes is that we must invest more, it doesn't say in what we should invest.
The antidote to that is to think about code as a draft. All code is a draft, one attempt among many, to solve a problem. A draft is a step to the future. A prototype of sorts.
Travis Kalanick is clearly an adrenaline junkie. I understand the start-up CEOs need to be bold but he seems to completely lack the ability to evaluate and minimize risk. Good strategy isn't just about winning every battle, it's also about avoiding the battles you don't need to fight. Travis seems like he's never seen a fight he won't jump into. It's wild.
No they're not. People who object to abortion clinics claim to be intervening on behalf of a third party (the fetus) whose legal status is that of a non-person in law and whose moral status is indeterminable by rational means.

Quite a lot of the people who are willing to punch Nazis are, by contrast, people who feel their own persons are threatened, as opposed to being outsiders choosing to insert themselves into a private dispute.
Well you can't discount online shopping either. But yeah the local economy is a system set up like that. You have a main industry which has most of the money which then trickles down into the rest of the local economy via jobs at the big companies with the money. When those big companies disappear then there is little money left in the system. These sorts of towns soon disappear as young kids leave the city when they grow up to other cities with big companies that can give them adequate salaries.
"Imagine how much money a company like Uber would make if it used only robot drivers." Who in an unemployed world would these robots be driving about? The handful of super rich who will prefer to drive their antique sportscar on empty roads?
I'll quote you the opening paragraph, which isnt about internet nazis at all:

"In certain corners of the Western world, Nazi ideology is making a comeback. For years, we’ve taken it as a given that ideas such as racism and ultra-nationalism were poisonous roads to pain, suffering and war. Pop culture, and especially video games, share part of the blame."

This is an example, not holistic
That's some hardcore mental gymnastics.

> gaming public really does want their unrealistic heroes and heroines
> diversity damages immersion

So which is it? You don't like shoehorned diversity because it's unrealistic, but you're fine with unrealistic heroes? When have "gamers" ever raised a fuss about the immersiveness of white characters in exotic countries? And of course, games are "fictional settings in a fictional story" whenever it suits the narrative, but somehow a black assassin in the new Dishonored "damages immersion in the game." It's just interesting to see the obvious bias when the same people who comment "who cares," "it's just a fantasy story," when tilda swinton plays the Ancient One or emma stone plays Hawaiian-Chinese character but turn around and cry "muh immersion" whenever any character in a video game coincidentally isn't white. Diversity isn't some morality piece that you shove in a game to fit some "SJW agenda" (and please, 99% of video games made are not filet mignons by any stretch of the imagination), it's a reflection of a multicultural reality that has been warped for decades - the kneejerk reaction that some "gamers" have to any counterbalancing is honestly just thinly veiled racism.
I am more concerned with the fact that, when you keep depicting the baddies as grotesquely inhumane monsters, people will soon start believing that recognizing them and choosing the right side is an easy task.
In reality, baddies are often not that grotesque, they might actually have a point on a few things, and their arguments might be quite spread in the culture of the time, making them sound more reasonable than they are.

And once people are trained to recognize evil in grotesque caricatures of human beings, then it becomes easy to provide them with such caricatures and send them to war, when the necessity arises. Quietly confident that the baddies are in front of them and not behind them.
Why is this a surprise? Aren't there thousands of developers having access to it?
Nobody is suggesting the current regime is committing genocide. People are suggesting that the racial scapegoating and facist themes of the current administration look a lot like the start of a slide in that direction.

If I had survived a concentration camp, my feelings about the current regime would be "DANGER DANGER DANGER"
What if I want to hire frontend devs for a green-field project—what tech-stack experience do I look for?
Which browsers are compatible?
OK. Serious question: have you, personally, ever been assaulted for your identity or been in a physical fight for your life?
Sorry, but that's an orthogonal argument. Pro-life activists believe abortion is murder. Nothing you can say about contraception refutes that argument.

The fact that I find the pro-life argument so personally repellant is why I think it's a reasonably good example in discussions like these: it's a system of practical beliefs directly contrary to my own that is held by a great many people. Whatever ethics about speech suppression I would apply to others, I have to make work for these as well.
Sort of a TLDR of the piece:

Rural counties and small metropolitan areas account for about 23 percent of traditional American retail employment, but they are home to just 13 percent of e-commerce positions.

Almost all customer fulfillment centers run by the online shopping behemoth Amazon are in metropolitan areas with more than 250,000 people — close to the bulk of its customers

“I’m thinking about what’s next,” he said. “We’re essentially thinking of Johnstown as an economic development laboratory.”
Err... any of the JetBrains IDE's? They have database integration.

It's also available standalone as "DataGrip", though I've never used it:

https://www.jetbrains.com/datagrip/
Right: video games share part of the blame by rendering Nazis not as perpetrators of atrocity but rather as all-purpose generic bad-ass villains.
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All you're saying is that you don't agree that abortion is murder. I don't either. Would that our agreement on this were dispositive of the abortion debate.
Then we can direct the newly available labor and existing now underutilized raw materials to building homes that people can afford, yet that is somehow not possible. The math does not add up.
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Interesting. How much time after wakeup should the breakfast be? I'm usually 1-2 hours after, and I find that I tend to wake up later and later.
If someone is carrying a battle flag, they're manifesting an intention to physically attack you.

I already addressed your abortion point in more detail elsewhere, but briefly, anti-abortion activists are intervening on behalf of a third party, the fetus. Many who support punching Nazis feel directly threatened by Nazism. These are two wildly different situations.
Unless you have a militarized police force to protect the 1%, paid for by the tax dollars of those living in the police state.

EDIT: almost forgot the corporate controlled mass media to tell the population everything is mostly fine and nothing can be done to improve anything.
Do you have any source of proof of any of this? I have no problem waking up at 630am after 7 hours of sleep and not eating anything until after noon.

Thinking to premodern humans, do you think they would frequently have food waiting for them as soon as they awoke? Some days maybe, but then other days probably not.
You're right. It's much easier for people to say "they're wrong" rather than "they have a different approach".

The latter doesn't result in as many clicks.
In spite of correctly identifying a problem in my post, you failed to correct for it and answer the question. Why post at all?