skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm making this account just to respond to the ban:

I didn't actually know I was responding to a moderator until after I made the comment, at which point I thought it better to leave the comment up for consistency sake.

I also didn't think I repeatedly ignored the moderator, as I tried to avoid repeating myself after receiving the warning, which I thought was enough to meet the moderator's standards.

I think it's inappropriate to limit discussion on issues that unavoidably deal with ideology on a central tech hub like this.

When a Google employee is fired for speech running afoul company diversity policy there is a need for discussion relating to ideology. This is not off-topic and is not bleeding into inappropriate stories. Maybe there is an unwritten rule to: "not argue too vehemently about a non-tech-related issue", yet somehow I doubt that rule would be imposed if the issue related to politically incorrect discrimination, and an individual posted a number of comments strongly arguing against the discrimination (and the ideology justifying it).

At the very least you should make your policy on this more transparent, as there are no clear guidelines on what kind of comments are acceptable, and it seems to be largely at whim of moderators and their personal take. Like I said, I was under the impression that I was heeding the warning, and suddenly I find I am banned. Perhaps if the rules and objectionable behavior were more clearly defined, fewer people would get banned. At the moment, it seems REALLY subjective.
Somebody already wrote an emulator: https://github.com/eviltrout/tis-100
So many reasons, but the two big ones are:

1. Cost vs Reward.

2. Regulations.

1) Many concept cars are non-functional or only partially functional. Making them fully functional and production ready, even at prototype levels would be extremely costly.

2) Many features in concept cars are not evaluated against FMVSS (Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards) and other standards, they are not crash tested, they may not meet EPA regulations.

There are a lot of other reasons, but they all basically boil down to cost vs reward.

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There is also the backwards case, where many modern "concept cars" are actually just pre-production teasers with fancy cosmetics.

Disclaimer: I work for GM, but not on concept cars, sadly =(
Yes, I feel that the "Bonus" section (with no explanation even) is rather encouraging beginners to mis-use regular expressions in general, and - more specifically - contains errors.
Making a Hacker – What Motivates a Cyber Criminal
Airbnb Co-Founder: Why Fathers Need Parental Leave Too
Tree Style Tab is the biggest difference for me, if you haven't used it before you are probably slow to browse the web :)
Up on the top of this mountain my water freezes at 31 degrees! You are a liar and propagandist.
Make some noise to Netflix then to make sure their Website works with Firefox.
We are launching three servers in a new country next week, Norway. After that it will take a couple of months before we're ready to expand further. It's time consuming to do research regarding datacenters, find ISPs with satisfactory peering and to ensure that our physical security requirements are met.

Even though it will take some time for the next location to be added, feel free to email us with your suggestion.
All throughout our legals system we have crimes where intention is absolutely instrument in determining the severity of punishment. Ex. Murder vs Manslaughter.

Why does no-one complain about any of those, but seem to be so upset about illegal discrimination having the same distinction?
I think this this is the talking points for the Democrats but its not very convincing.

> The way the swings on the special elections are going, which are all violently swinging away from the Republicans.

The Republicans won all 6 special elections.

> Take Ossoff's challenge in Georgia. He lost by 4 points
> the Republicans were required to spend $25 million

He lost. And it was the Democrats who spent $23 Million (the most ever spent) on the election not the Republicans. The republicans spent like $3 Million dollars.
Opt out adblocking should be the number 1 differentiator as it has the biggest impact on browsing including performance, security and eye sore. It is borderline negligence that moz://a is not pushing it while Google and co are lubing up users with their Acceptable Ads nonsense.
There's nothing unethical about posting an opinion on Facebook. I was literally unfriended by a progressive classmate of mine because I ate Chik-Fil-A nuggets in the wake of that company's CEO's stance on gay marriage. I support gay marriage...but I just wanted some sweet tea and fried chicken. I suppose I was not sufficiently outraged for this progressive. That's how bad some people have gotten.
For an even-more-beginner's guide, see the slides to a session I teach to Econ postgrads once a year[1].

These introduces the metacharacters gradually, using a task-based approach. We start by finding street addresses, per https://xkcd.com/208/.

[1] http://mackerron.com/text/text-slides.pdf (page 19 onwards) with supporting resources at http://mackerron.com/text/
Considering that there is almost zero public shelters anywhere in the western world nowadays, if a nuke goes off nearby I'd say it's a good bet you're dead even if you survive the blast.
> No matter your color, gender, sexual orientation, age, you will be treated equally.

But that is exactly his point: by applying a bias while recruiting you are not treating people equally. Quite the opposite.
That mirrors our experience after the 2013 federal election, the fell hard and fast but changed the leader and still snuck through at the last general election.

We've also seen the trend at state level for the last few years, it seems swings are coming harder and faster.
When I applied, I got a programming task that took me about 4 hours to complete. Never heard from them again after submitting my solution.
"You can say anything you want, unless you're saying something that I choose to define as unacceptable."
No. Plenty of people see what's happening and play along because it's pretty dangerous not to.

This guy was naive enough to try and present a rational and measured suggestion for meaningful improvement.
I think I know what my final year project will be.
I love the added control, I hate the new icon. Still waiting for Opera12-like image properties ( http://puu.sh/x6qDC/45742ccf61.png )

It's nice to watch the browser evolve nicely.
That's a good start nevertheless, a level above the usual "what a sexist pig" pseudo-arguments.
Reading each of these articles I learn something more, I expand my knowledge of things that weren't even in my area of interest, I get more understanding as to what is offending other people these days... I think a discussion based on merits is extremely useful, and I'm sad seeing all these articles quickly flagged.
There is nothing in the GPL that prohibits charging money for your software. You just have to provide the source code and allow users to make modifications & redistribute.
Surprised to find Dutch text at the bottom of an English site about a French car.
Ask HN: How do you feel when you decide to stop a side-project?
I personally feel like something dies but then something else is born soon. Its an emotional life-cycle
Knowing your profile, do you have any (current) recommendations for Chinese users?

Beijing has been cracking down on VPN users a lot recently (even blocking AWS, DO, etc.)
Whether we agree with the memo or not, there was a very good point that guy made and that we should keep in mind, it's the paragraph with the two overlapping distributions.

Even if you admit that all genders, races, any way you want to segment the population, do not have the same distribution, that doesn't mean anything to a person as an individual.

For instance I think it's fair to say that black people are better at athleticism/running than white people (a disproportionate number olympic champions are black), i.e. the tail of the distribution is fatter for black people than white people. It doesn't mean anything to a random individual in that group. I am white, I shouldn't feel offended that another category of the population has a different distribution than my category. And it doesn't mean that no white people can become an olympic athlete either. Just that there will be a natural race imbalance among athletes. And it doesn't mean that a random black man will be better than a random white man at athletism.

So I don't agree with the way you read this memo: In this memo's case, perhaps you're mad at someone for saying you're genetically predisposed to be less capable of individual action. The memo doesn't say that an individual woman will be less capable. What it claims instead is that women have a different distribution for certain skills than men, which you might agree with or not. But it's a very different point.
Birds have the opposite arrangement of sex chromosomes - in birds the sex chromosome is carried by the female. I guess if we were all ostriches it would be the females that would be the CEO's.
OK, what societies have been fundamentally gender neutral?
As a Delphi/FPC/Lazarus veteran (10+ years), comparing one of the quickest compilers with Qt/Boost C++ development cycle looks like a joke. Much faster edit-compile cycle which scales without issues up 1e6+ LOC (yes, modules/incremental compilation done right right from the start)
Fired Google engineer says company is trying to smear him
Speaking as someone who's worked in renewables and utilities, I can tell you that the exact opposite is true. Having a reliable load at night would flatten out the demand curve for electricity, making the grid significantly easier and cheaper to manage.

Those utility poles and power lines you worry about are there to handle peak load, which won't be impacted at all by EVs, which will charge predominantly at night.

A solid mix of renewables -- hydro or geo for base load, with solar for peak load and wind to top off intermittent and nighttime demand -- is most efficient when the demand is relatively stable. No more need to shunt perfectly good electricity into the ground just because it's night.

And boy oh boy does it make the grid economics of distributed solar better. If most of your home's solar production capacity is being soaked up by your car, the grid and utility doesn't need to support big buy/sell cycles on sunny days. Electric cars would stabilize pricing and are probably the only way SmartGrid can realistically work.

Unlike refrigerator compressors or clothes dryers, electric cars have a smooth rate of draw and, as small industries pop up to parasitize the big battery in your EV, we'll increasingly see EVs as a home's store of electricity. This will be good for the system in the same way that per-home cisterns dramatically reduce demand on the water systems here in Southern Europe.
Nice. Would be good to do it with Python.
> He explicitely did not say (nor mean) that a woman can't be a good software engineer.

> Just that on average, more men than women will show the features needed for software engineers.

Read those two sentences you wrote again. You'll be shocked when you see it.
Looks interesting. What are its advantages when compared to Lazarus?
I was at a company that sent a large cohort to Defcon. I wasn’t going but I went to the pre-conference security briefing. The requirements were fairly extensive: no company laptops, only company phones with a long password, no 2G, no 4G, must be locked to a specific carrier, no WiFi, no bluetooth... the list went on. They were pretty concerned.
Or https://github.com/trailofbits/algo or https://github.com/jawj/IKEv2-setup
Okay, umm... Why is he an incredibly bad leader?
The argument is that freedom is often restricted if the end results is harmful.

Proprietary software depend on copyright to prevent owners, which today often mean property owners of physical objects with DRM in them. Property owner is deprived of all rights that personal property is normally given to their owners. That power is instead taken by those that produced the object.

If sale of property actually follow traditional first sale principles and gave the new owner rights which used to be naturally aspect of private property, then practically all freedoms under Richard Stallman definition is given. You don't have to give away the apple (in the classical example), but once sold you can't have copyright or patents preventing the new owner from using the apple to grew a orchard.
"I think the real longterm move for Netflix is to incorporate RottenTomatoes and IMBD into their business."

I understand the sentiment, but I can foresee problems with them getting a major studio brand and an Amazon property into their business ;)
What's interesting about these concept cars, is that they sometimes get built if they generate enough interest. I believe this is how the new VW Beetle came about, and I suspect what nudged BMW to bring out the new mini.

One that is in the process of making that leap right now: http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/volkswagen/98136/volkswagen-bos...

I do wonder if the reason concept 'updated' models are more likely to be made is there is a huge amount of nostalgia at play in the market.

As an aside, having owned a new Mini convertible, I can confirm it was probably the most fun I've had in a car. Felt like driving a go-kart. The suspension is ridiculously hard. Completely horrible car to be a passenger in but so so so much fun to drive. Apparently very close to the original.
Outraged about the leaked manager reactions. Will be hard to attract any talent with such middle management.
Well, there's your problem, starting with "Oh, use VyperVPN". IVPN, for example, has leak-free apps for Windows, OS X and iOS. And are working on Android.
He is obviously brilliant. The interviewer wants to steer him into being a crazy nut corner. Pepsi vs. Coke.

I realize historically there was only low level software that existed. These days we've got much higher level services which really could benefit from free software.

He hits on these ideas. Maybe he'd be open to working on these sorts of things.

Services have gotten to the level where they are taking a piece of people's livelihoods. Uber & Airbnb takes 20-30%. why?

Amazon is a system of warehousing & distribution... could something like that be run in a distributed / cooperative way which provides as much opportunity to 3rd party retailers as it does Amazon? A level playing field.

These are the sorts of things that the free software movement could move towards now.
"I don't have time to learn how to fix it myself! Fix it now, asshole!"

If you have any open-source project, you've probably received a lot of e-mails like that.
Why young children protest bedtime
I see this mentality pop up time after time: How dare you say there are differences in women's capabilities! Except of course, here are some things women are _better_ at.

Sorry, but no. Either we are equally capable by nature and any differences in outcome are due to upbringing ("nurture"), or there are biological differences which means you have to accept there very well may be things women are less capable of as well as the opposite.

I'm firmly in the first camp and think it's mostly if not only upbringing and cultural biases, but you don't get to shun the notion that women are less capable at some things while at the same time claiming there are many things women are actually more capable of. Don't open that door.
How many levels until we're talking about the fair points he made, along with the well-intentioned suggestions he was making?
Can confirm as a programmer in UK. I hit this wall recently when asking for extended leave to deal with a personal crisis. The colluded response from HR/the business was to give me notice.
> On performance, in the past it felt sluggish, but now Firefox is fast and for my usage patterns it uses less memory than Chrome.

/me remembers how fast FF was compared to IE 'back in the days'.
I'm (British) getting the exact same impression for the UK, given the Investigatory Powers Bill[1] that compels your ISP to log all websites you visit. This is why I now tunnel all my browsing over an IKEv2 VPN.

[1] http://www.wired.co.uk/article/ip-bill-law-details-passed
It sounds like you're saying "explicit FSMs are strictly more powerful than promises/coroutines". Which is true. However, they're inherently difficult to program. In my view, the key to simplicity and correctness of programs is reducing the amount of states the program can possibly have. Isolating a piece of code into a blocking sequence seems like a fairly good way of doing it.

Not sure what you mean by "simple examples without error handling". Just like normal synchronous code, promises and coroutines use exceptions, which have the nice property of composability: one catch for several statements/promises. So error handling is the same as in synchronous code.

Now granted, there's a LOT of async/reactive problems where sequential abstractions like promises are irrelevant. GUI programming comes to mind, where you want the view to reflect some reactive state that changes in arbitrary order.
On the contrary - if a single nuclear weapon explodes and you survive the immediate effects not too badly injured I'd say there is a very good chance that you'd survive. Of course, for an attack with thousands of weapons there would be other problems but that's not the scale of the threat to the US from NK.
What happens when you heat moon rocks to 1,400 degrees?
I don’t think that was related to the firing, from what I can tell, however I do agree with you, I thought the name was a bit distasteful and not appropriate for an open source project.
Don't Take Security Advice from SEO Experts or Psychics
Money is the bubble that never pops
Mullvad, what an unexpected word to read on HN. It means mole (as in the animal) in Swedish. Pretty clever name.

They do have an image of it in their website, but the connection might not be obvious still.
> How on earth can you expect to have "nuanced debate" with only 140 characters?

Oh come now, it seems to work fine for Trump! /s
Because they are an ideological advocacy group so they have a revisionist perspective on certain parts of history. What it means is that they don't speak objectively on those periods - so they shouldn't be returned as a search result if neutral terms are used.
The designer, Trevor Fiore, also created another great concept car, the Citroën Xenia, info and pictures here: http://www.citroenet.org.uk/prototypes/xenia/xenia.html
Oh man, voices of reason sound nice. What happened to reason instead of hollow emotion? I am right, you are wrong, and you shouldn't be listened to, because you are a nazi, and nazis are bad, and you deserve bad things happening to you.
so many people posting same thing repeatedly.
Filtering the volunteers should be quite easy as they will be the only people who have prints on more than one ballot. Depending on what happens to ballots after one could grab them once they are no longer under heavy public scrutiny.
"The only thing harder than finding a VPN provider is finding an honest VPN review website."

100% true since the "best VPN" likely has the highest affiliate commission.

In fact, websites that claim honesty and transparency like BestVPN and VPNMentor actually display pop-up alerts advertising their highest rated VPN.

"I built this website because I wanted to finally get to the bottom of the question: which VPN providers are trying to build an honest long-term brand while also delivering an exceptional product experience?"

This is a fair metric. Unfortunately useless for most VPN users but this is another question. And to give him credit: He does not use affiliate links.

I suspect that he knows little about VPNs and why many users have to use them. By the way, I suspect most of these VPNs to fail in China!

Astrill.com is good for China.

vcp.ovpn.to has a good reputation regarding privacy.
Amazon UK halves corporation tax to £7.4m as sales soar to £7bn
Average Number of Failures in a Datacenter Given Just the Mean Time to Failure
> Pascal syntax belongs to C family of language.

It can't possibly, seeing how it predates C.

There are specific differences that set them apart, too. For example, the fact that Pascal has statement separators rather than statement terminators (and using a separator in a terminal position is usually an error, e.g. before "else").

Pascal rather belongs to the Algol family of languages, together with C. Algol-60 is where "begin" and "end" come from.
If a person is engaging in reasonable dissent then why is this true: "If anything, their position will be radicalized."?

The (true) implication is that their reasonable dissent actually is a bland cover for a position that is much more radical once it is reduced to its core propositions.
Employers get what they interview for.

A good team has a mix of talents, from the algorithm wonks to the steady hands to the sticklers for detail to the tweeners to the occasional rogue.
Ok, but agreeing with the infamous memo doesn't make someone a far right extremist. The parent comment suggested it will push them to vote for a harder-line movement but there is a big margin between being opposed to affirmative action and white supremacists.
> Are you referring to how I described it in this post, or how it's described on the GitHub site or the main jerakia.io site?

Both, but README in repository (and front of the homepage) is more important.

> As for Ruby DSL / Ruby - I guess you're maybe right, "DSL" is kind of an improperly used term these days...

Mainly among Ruby crowd.

> although it's debatable IMO

It's like you were arguing that by adding a few new nouns and verbs you
invented whole language. In informal, colloquial speech there is this notion
of e.g. "scientific language", but it doesn't make it a new language.
This discussion is one level higher, it is about the freedom of the creator to choose a license for his software. GPL is not better than BSD or the other way around, it is about the freedom to choose a license. The freedom to say to a buyer: "Ok, we have a deal under these conditions." The buyer has the freedom to reject the deal. This is the scenario with the most freedom imho.

I'm afraid, but correct me if I'm wrong, that if RMS would be dictator of the world, he would rob people of the freedom to offer their products under their conditions. To me, the RMS world is less free.

We could even start to argue things like: In RMS world there would be less software so less ways for people to express themselves freely. Photoshop frees a lot of people from the inability to express themselves in the exact way they want.

What is freedom? To me it is the freedom to make deals with others under your conditions and the freedom to reject deals of others because they don't match the conditions you like. This works even when everybody has said attitude, that is the beauty of it.
The term comes from Ultima Online, one of the first graphical MMORPGs that gained mass-market acceptance. The rationale behind the architecture that Origin used for geographical load balancing was that the independent copy of the game world that resided on each server represented a "shard" of the shattered gem of Mondain the Wizard.

http://www.uoguide.com/Mondain
Wait. Why would a 3D game use Clipper? What for?
You can audit your ballot in some systems. For example https://nvotes.com (open source software here https://github.com/agoravoting/).

You could even create your ballot offline, even by hand.
We don't live in an ideal world. People have their own agendas, obsessions, feelings etc. that obscure their judgement. It will definitely take a long while.
I'm not seeing it. Help me out? It's not a contradiction, if that's what you're implying. Have you ever taken a statistics class?
It's all Indo-European. What's a few vowel shifts between friends.
I've been considering setting up a slightly different VPN service — one that provides each user their own dedicated VPN server (based on my IKEv2 config script, https://github.com/jawj/IKEv2-setup).

100% vapourware web presence here: http://digitalsnorkel.net/

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