skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's inaccurate. The problem is that people's passions about the hot generic things are so strong that they blast them into every remotely related context, obliterating the specifics that make a given post interesting. The term 'flamewar' expresses vividly how these dynamics consume everything in sight if allowed to. On HN we're trying not to let that happen.
Such fines would not collect nearly as much revenue as a tax. Consider the case of fining people for possession of marijuana versus legalizing and taxing it. States that tax collect several orders of magnitude more revenue, which they use to benefit the less fortunate. Fines have another disadvantage: Unlike taxes, fines are regressive and selectively enforced.

When it comes to lakes, mountains, woods, waterfalls, caves, cliffs, and other majestic natural phenomena, we're fine with some being privately-owned and some being public. We have mechanisms in place to ensure that we make the right trade-offs (eg: natural parks, nature preserves, zoning). Plenty of states and countries allow private beaches and they do just fine. I don't see why the coastline is so special that we must ban all private ownership, even if it means sacrificing valuable revenue for social programs.
Symlinkk- As someone who smoked daily at roughly the same age as you, I can understand your concern. I smoked almost daily for about four consecutive years, starting around 21, and ending around 25. Looking back on that period, I had numerous negative side effects, and it's hard for me to know how much that's perpetuated in the last 6 years since I moved towards closer to a once a month usage level, with long stretches of total abstinence mixed in there.

A few things you should consider. First, is it an addiciton? Addicitions typically manifest themselves in situations where you can't quit using your substance, or change your behavior, despite negative consequences. Smoking for two consecutive years definitely makes it a habit, but I obviously can't comment on whether it's a full on addiction for you.

If you don't feel like you can stop, I'd recommend seeking help. There are likely local MA (marijuana anonymous) or NA (narcotics anonymous) meetings near you, and those support networks can be very helpful for a lot of people.

My father died from at 60 due to heavy alcohol consumption, and was more prepared to die than entertain the thought of no longer drinking. Addiction is a remarkably challenging disease, which can warp ones decision making massively, so if you don't believe you can fairly answer the question, you should think about asking those around you how they see it impacting you.

Wishing you all the best as you seek some answers.
Not to be confrontational here (or argue with your primary point), but I'm pretty sure you didn't read the whole post. It says in the post that he's been going attending regular counseling already.
We can't have experts being shocked now, can we?
The accusation sounds frivolous, judging from your side of the story, which is all I have access to. Keep in mind though, that it's not always strictly about what's said. Like if your eyes keep unconsciously drifting to her tits the whole time you're talking, the conversation could be about feeding the hungry and singing in the church choir with your wife of 8 years and it'll still be pretty "uncomfortable" for her -- maybe doubly so!

Anyway I think I recommend the same thing your management does, except take it with you for your whole career: Keep the conversation to business-related things, and save the BS small-talk stuff for your social life outside work. Those are low-value conversations anyway... people's boring-ass weekends? Their stupid commutes? Who cares? I personally could not give a flying you-know-what about what any of my co-workers did this weekend or ever. Kill me with a thousand knives first!

That's just me. Still, you might not believe me when I say, it is truly a privilege to work in a professional, work-focused environment of basically disinterested strangers who happen to work together. It's truly something to behold. There is no drama whatsoever... nobody has time for it! Everybody is happy as a clam and almost as quiet. That's why I stick with my current job even though I'm kind of underpaid.

It's not done out of a sense of discipline. Well I mean it does take a little bit of discipline but it shouldn't take a lot. I'm there to work, I value the work, I enjoy the work. And I like getting it done, preferably as fast as possible and with concise work-related answers to my work-related questions, and a minimum of hearing about people's weekends. All those conversations do is slow down the work and interrupt the work. Sounds fanatical doesn't it. Again I would say it's a privilege to be in a situation where I can say all this honestly.
This is the wrong answer.
Yeah. "Smelly goatfucker" might not be the most political of insults, but the guy certainly made a point (plus he did have actual politics in there, e.g. the one on suppressing minorities).

Also, I'm glad that this §103 will be canned - it's uncomfortably close to the Lèse-majesté laws e.g. in Thailand (that are actually used to suppress political opposition).
Smoking anything is going to cause harm. If subjectively you don't feel it's impacting your life in a negative way, then go for it, but consider other methods like vaping or edibles.
Tim O'Reilly once said "Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy". I discovered and purchased almost every Rosenfeld Media book from OReilly.

After O'Reilly moved to DRM-free books, their 2009 sales went up by 104% http://toc.oreilly.com/2010/01/2009-oreilly-ebook-revenue-up...

In other interviews, he seemed confident that DRM wasn't worth it
https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2011/0411/focus-tim-oreilly-me...

Perhaps some part of the equation has changed since then. I'm looking forward a deeper analysis of the business reasons for this.

I'm also interested to hear what more authors think - I wonder how many agree with Martin Kleppmann (Designing Data Intensive Applications) https://twitter.com/martinkl/status/880336943980085248

This independence day weekend there were a lot of sales, so I purchased:

* "Programming Clojure, Third Edition" from pragprog (30% off sale)

* The entire collection of "Enthusiast's Guide to ..." from rockynook (each for $10)

* "The Quick Python Book 3e", "Serverless Architectures on AWS", "Event Streams in Action", "Get Programming with Haskell" from Manning (50% off)

These sales are the only way I can afford the volume I read. Some of that money would have gone to OReilly authors, but they deleted my full cart with $100 worth of stuff before I could purchase!

EDIT: OReilly catalog seemed large & redundant with publishers (packt) offering the same materials on their sites. Some like Wiley / MKP only offered very few items from their catalogs. Others like Rosenfeld / rockynook / no starch now provide DRM free options directly from their sites. I'm hoping at least OReilly reconsiders selling their Animal books again.
Japàn economy is stagnant because of negative population growth. US births just went below replacement level immigrants are not being allowed in others are leaving I think US is heading in the same direction.
Not really. If I declare that an object has property xyz obj.xyz and obj['xyz'] are both valid ways of addressing it.
Porting a 15 yr old .NET 1.1 Virtual CPU Tiny OS school project to .NET Core 2.0
> when would an actual appropriate time to ask someone on a date might be

If you are in a position of power over another person, I would say there isn't an appropriate time. The number of hours you work isn't really relevant.

Put it this way: when is an appropriate time for a college professor (that works long hours!) to ask a student out on a date?
Drilling down to the state level is a good way to really trash those "predictions" from HuffPo. 538 really did get it right. They constantly noted the high correlation among related states, saying that if the polls are wrong in MI, they'd probably be wrong by the same amount in WI and PA. And that's exactly what happened.
I hope it pays off for them, I can't help but think of how many other developers/studios have done the same, but failed anyway.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14558775
The law still exists, right? Maybe the case won't be dropped next time. So no.
I wasn't asked a question and didn't provide an answer (or even a proposal), but I understand that having a rational discussion on this topic is difficult or impossible for most people, and I'm sorry if I offended you.
I'm just a consumer, but Google Play Books are in fact available for DRM-free download when so-requested by the publisher. Or least that's the reason Google gives when directly providing the book as a DRM-free download.
Because movement patterns of Kangaroos are too different from other animals?
In some ways this might show the steady state of a developed economy. Other developed nations are growing in large part through immigration - if the whole world was developed and there was nowhere for immigrants to come from, it's not implausible that we would see something like this start to happen everywhere.
Angular 4 is a few months old. It's not mature and the ecosystem is immature. Even the official Angular Material2 project is still in beta. You contrast this with React's ecosystem of UI components that have been built up over years...it's no contest. You can build better looking, better performing UIs with much less effort and they work great, even in IE11 and Edge.
Counterpoint: bowing to the collective social shaming buys the individual no "points", as is evidenced by this tread full of vultures questioning his motives.

Instead we've created a culture where the only logical move is to deny deny deny even in the face of overwhelming evidence because the only thing the modern left hates more than "creep" is a loser.
> They are not snide, nor are they "against" anything any more than saying "the sun is yellow" is "against" the color blue.

> Believe what you want; it's clear you aren't interested in opening your eyes. So be it!

You forgot "Calling the Kettle Black". But I'm more than comfortable with my experience with multiple languages in each style enough to be able to identify their strengths and weaknesses and which scenarios each are better suited to, of which I've listed several examples which are better suited to dynamic languages. Likewise there are many that are not.

> if you don't write tests to take the place of static typing

Tests are essential to software quality and static typing does not absolve you from writing tests. Static Typing enforces Type correctness, it does not enforce program correctness.

> And that big list of companies has nothing to do with the discussion.

It has everything to do with which language yields the most benefits and whether Startups have made a mistake in adopting them, I posit they haven't and Empirical evidence suggests that they're a more suitable choice for Startups.

> Of course they use dynamic languages.

Of course.

> Almost everyone does,

Ok.

> because they are popular and because some tasks seem easier in them.

It's because they provide more value than not.

> But there are still quality issues that could have been prevented.

For which they often provide more benefits then they give up, which is entirely the point, that adopting dynamic languages is not a mistake.

My proposition was that dynamic languages offer better velocity which lets you get to market quicker. Static Typing helps with type correctness and maintenance of large code-bases and it's a perfectly fine strategy to rapidly prototype with a dynamic language first then rewrite identified hotspots and problem areas in a more appropriate language. Script execution performance is often not the bottleneck, a good caching strategy can make any language fast, areas which don't benefit from caching, i.e. high writes / high concurrency would benefit from a rewrite and in a growing user-base, scalability is more important than script execution performance.
Caveat, McClure's behavior was bad. But seeing recent public floggings for misbehavior I now wonder if people are feeling a bit hypersensitive/cautious about any workplace conduct that could potentially be perceived as harassment.

Case in point. You work at a technology company. You are attracted to another coworker, who is NOT your subordinate. Is there some manner in which it is acceptable to express your interest? Or is this just not OK at all?
> > Who would be in the charge of enforcing this? The network?

> The exchanges.

Any exchange stupid enough to enact such a policy would go out of business immediately. Their competitors would eat them alive.
How is it different to have revenue going to services retirees need instead of going to new sports cars of big tvs?

An aging population is only a problem if you are broke and have no capital to use to finance your lifestyle. Japan is nothing like that - they are a rich country with divested interests in many industries that all output world class goods and services. Built by the people now entering retirement.

Worry about Japan when their per-capita starts slipping dramatically.
> when is an appropriate time for a college professor (that works long hours!) to ask a student out on a date?

A student generally or one of his students? There is a difference. And not too long ago a professor dating a student that he/she didn't have power over was not that uncommon.
The problem with self-guided learning are knowledge gaps.

When you are learning on your own you will be biased towards things that interest you more. But the boring stuff is as important in the real world.

You can interview a candidate that can impress you with fairly advanced concepts described in depth.

But you may feel disappointed if probing for gaps... Sometimes having gaps in certain concepts come with risks.

A simple example: If someone does not know how floating point numbers work (e.g: default number type in JS) for instance, they may want to use them for finance with disastrous results.
Good catch. I did read that but misplaced it when replying.

I am glad he is seeking help but I hope its for purposes of identifying his desires/behaviors and not only mandated by circumstance.
I suspect they did that in part, but it's also critical to keep the signals distinct precisely because you expect the noise to be uncorrelated between the two signals so you're introducing an additional square root of two gaussian noise factor in the combination.

This sort of thing is much more about statistics and error propagation than one encounters in more traditional signal processing.
But there are no DRM free high quality PDFs ... if you download a PDF from Play Books its a conversion.
But it won't be enough, it won't be seen as positive, and like half the comments in this thread show once you're outed as a PC heretic you're a non-entity.

Read through the smarmy "he doesn't mean it" comments all over this thread to see what I mean.

This culture is toxic in the tech community and needs to stop.
I think the broad market trends are pretty suggestive -- consumers in general don't care about DRM or wouldn't see e.g. Amazon's success in the ebook business. For more specifics I think we'd need hyper-detailed data. For example, how many people consider Google's use of the broken ACS4 DRM "close enough" to DRM-free?
But there's far less urgency to just studying the climate. I suspect a lot of conservatives view it as an alarmist conspiracy designed to give liberals more power.
> You work at a technology company. You are attracted to another coworker, who is NOT your subordinate. Is there some manner in which it is acceptable to express your interest? Or is this just not OK at all?

Yes, there are plenty of manners to express it, just like at any company. That said, there are a lot of ways to express it that are just making someone's work life terrible.
I don't think I personally would deal well with a kangaroo appearing near my car due to my lack of specific experience. They move crazy differently from a dog or deer.
The distance between Chicago and Minneapolis is slightly higher than the distance between Paris and Montpellier.

For those cities in France, the time travel from city center to city center is about 3 hours and half by train, with 2 stops on the way. It beats both car and air travel, since you can just to show up at the station 5 minutes before the train departs, and don't need to go through security.

Also, the cheap tickets cost less than 50 euro, and you can get between 25% and 50% discount if you are less than 25 years old.
Classic self righteous morality police.

"He didn't apologize good enough!"
Alcohol is an "organizational lubricant". It's consumption allows people to express controversial opinions that may be needed to be expressed with less potential for blowback due to the setting.

This same plausible deniability also can enable people to be creeps.
For conditionally loading other blocking assets in JS.

For example, if IP is in China, local fallback for Google CDN as it will fail.
Self righteous? I didn't make any value judgement. Just called it a bullshit apology.
1. It is hard to accept, but imho jurisdiction and law has to deal with things that cannot be defined in a technical way.

2. Although I already implied by 1. that it is not possible to make a clear machine-executable rule for everything, I would not agree that "any speech based on opinions" is a thought crime.
If you constantly bully someone, althought just with words, he might even be more hurt than if you just had smashed his face once leaving him with 2 or 3 scars.

Not trying to say that free speech is not important.
But I wouldn't call everything that is possible by moving your mouth free speech.
Note that I also unfortunately cannot provide a solution for this right now: I also don't like this new ruling because it is somehow based on some kind of definition what exactly this free speech is and with 1. in mind this is not possible easily.

My statement would basically be that I just cannot support the ongoing discussion here that not banning anything is an overall better option.
I live in Canada, and here's how my last couple months with the healthcare system has gone (anecdote and first world problem alert):

About two months ago, it was the beginning of a weekend and there were no clinics open that would see me until the coming Monday. Something was rapidly deteriorating the skin on my hands. So I called an advice line, and the nurse on the line said that I should go to an emergency department.
So I went to an emergency department, waited a few hours and was then seen by a doctor who could not diagnose me. She gave me a prescription for a week course of antibiotics and a topical cream, and said that a dermatology office would call me over the next week. I filled the prescription on my (thankfully exceptionally good) employer drug coverage. I followed the prescription regimen for the week and did not hear from the dermatology office, thankfully the cream was enough to apply according to the directions for up to a month and was seemingly keeping the deterioration of my hands at bay. I waited another two weeks for the dermatologist to call, and they did not. I called the hospital and was connected to a representative which did not speak or understand English very well and ended up being connected to the wrong department; then I called the hospital again and the lady at the hospital connected me with the dermatology office which was to receive my referral. After about 25 minutes I was able to deduce that the ER had not yet faxed the referral to the dermatology office, so I called the ER and thankfully still had my discharge form on hand to reference and help them track down the referral. I made sure they faxed the referral, and confirmed with the dermatology office which told me that I would be scheduled for about Tuesday last week (and would receive a call when it was confirmed). I still haven't heard from the dermatologists and I'll probably have to nag them again. I'm currently attempting to treat the condition by myself by reading random articles and blogs, and medical research on Baidu Wenku (thank god for high IQ) and doing okay, though it's not eliminated.

For critical/emergency care, Canada's system often works quite well (though sometimes fails horribly). If you have anything less than an emergency, or need dental work or drugs, you need your own insurance. That said, the fields which are still private in Canada (lasik, dental, optical) are reasonable to pay for by yourself if you're middle class. The fields which are covered by government insurance are illegal to pay for by yourself.
Given how much denial there is about the problem, yes it is really necessary.
Oryol: System Design Philosophy
No. And it's a fair point. I might be reaching a bit. But I do think Facebook sees real productivity gains from using React Native in production and those gains benefit their velocity as a whole.
What's more horrifying, that people are human and make mistakes, or that if you're "important" what would normally be one-off mistakes forgotten and buried become career-defining events thanks to the collective shaming capacity of the internet.
Pure PR, if he is really sorry, he should resign from all positions with "power" over other human beings...
It's just amazing that you can talk about banning the religious texts and at the same time claim the speech is not under attack. That's some olympic-level mental gymnastics.
Its a bit improper to call Japan stagnant. Effectively all global populations use GDP as a measure of success, but GDP is a pyramid scheme - growth relies on the population getting bigger, often to such a degree that stagnant per-capitas can still look like a "growing" economy just from new bodies taking up space in them.

That isn't the real kind of growth that makes peoples lives better. Look at per-capita instead. Since the 08 recession Japan has had consistent 1-2% per-capita growth, despite their population shrinking. They have problems, but none of the end of the world nonsense economists have been throwing around since the 80s in response to Japan not continuing the global fiction that we can just keep adding more people to fake growth numbers like that is guaranteed to lead to real quality of life improvements, especially in the information age when it is much more important to have the resources to educate and maximize the potential of the people you do have rather than try to spread resources out over more people who can possibly outright lose access to the higher degrees of technical knowledge needed to truly advance society at this point.
> And not too long ago a professor dating a student that he/she didn't have power over was not that uncommon.

There are a lot of things that are not uncommon, but are still totally inappropriate.
I don't believe any of the claims that this article makes.
You could probably use a Javascript Obfuscater ( http://www.danstools.com/javascript-obfuscate/ or https://javascriptobfuscator.com/Javascript-Obfuscator.aspx ) but you'll always want to make backups of your original code. There are some that are able to obfuscate it but may not be able to reverse it. I've used it to mask emails when my contact forms have gotten spam, but haven't used it for massive amounts of code. However, if you are after protecting that code and making sure no one steals it, than why not use it?
Frankly it reads like some fake outward expression of humility than anything else. The typical bs of: "oops I realized I made a 'mistake'. Let's tell everyone about it and gain some sympathy or accolades".