skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really see how the example of a product team going from 12 people to 2 supports the case that the world needs fewer workers.

Most products go through a cycle where you need a lot of people to develop them at first, then they stabilize and require fewer people, and the other people move on to different products.

You can't just look at one product or team in isolation -- as long as there are new products to be built, there will be a need for those workers.
>Insulting the king's dog is clearly harmless.

Why do you think that? Insulting the king's dog is just a "dogwhistle" for insulting the king. By insulting the king, you break the social cohesion of a country. The respect for the king is one of the major things that has held Thailand together, and kept Thailand as one of the few Asian countries that was able to avoid European colonization. Breaking this social cohesion makes civil war and the breakup of the country more likely, which is a bad thing.

Here are some other harmful things.

Arguing for anything that raises taxes is arguing that people's money be taken from them by force of law - clearly harmful.

Arguing for reducing taxes is arguing that the government have less resources that can be used to fund social programs - which can hurt people who depend on it - so clearly harmful.

Arguing for tougher prison sentences is clearly harmful to those people convicted of a crime.

Arguing for lighter prison sentences is harmful to the victims of crimes.

Arguing to curtail free speech on the Internet is clearly harmful as can suppress valid criticism of the government.

In addition, the wonderful stuff about this supression of arguments for things you harmful, is that you can also suppress the arguments for why you should be allowed to argue for them.
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I was about to say that the only principle we have the resources to enforce consistently is neutrality, but that ship sailed long ago--far before we decided to cut the Japanese off from oil and scrap metal.
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It's not very hard to deploy. Just use the proper tools to compile and build a release (on a VM emulating the same architecture as your server), rsync the resulting files into the server and strat the app.

Getting hot code reload to work is harder, but for a "normal" basic deployment it's just this. App restarts take less than one second of downtime for my app, and that's a cost I'm willing to pay.

You shouldn't do this by hand of course. Write an Ansible playbook or something else that does this for you
I think we can all agree that ad hominems must be put to bed.
Didn't really expect to hit HN front page with my random rant :)

In any case, glad I was hosted on Google infrastructure but embarrassed by the bloated, default Blogger template.

Interested in suggestions for simple, lightweight alternative.

Medium, Square, WordPress, etc. all seem to suffer from similar insane bloat.
Not thinking about team morale until it becomes a issue. Negative mindsets can spread through a team quickly, and once they take hold they can be hard to root out.
It's a functional language! And it's based off of Erlang, so if you like Erlang, you can use call Erlang directly in Elixir. And if you like piping things / pattern matching (common in F#), I think you'd enjoy it :)
Can't we just fix the damn things to the walls or floor? Maybe sell a separate, universal "base"?
Even the Jedi felt that burn.
I have a six-year-old and started giving him an allowance when he was five.

The goals for the allowance are:

1. Teach him about saving and compound interest
2. Get him off my back for buying things

Therefore, it's not tied to chores. Getting work out of him would be great but I figure the benefit of teaching him the benefits of saving are much more important.

I pay him $5 a week because it's large enough that he can buy something at the toy store but not anything particularly nice so he needs to save.

And here's the crazy part, I pay him interest for saved money, a crazy large amount. For every $10 he has saved I give him another dollar before I dole out his week's allowance. The money grows fast!

He's already seeing the benefit. He reaaaaaaaly wanted a remote control BB8 and was super good about saving for it. Every Saturday morning we laid out his money, we traded in 10 ones for 1 ten dollar bill and then I paid out his interest by placing a one dollar bill on top of each ten dollar bill, and then I paid his normal allowance.

He's already better with money at 6 than I was at 25.

At some point I'm going to have to lower his interest rate or I'll go broke.
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Is nut allergy a rising issue for other parts of the world?
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I really like John's perspective on things, he can take a listener or reader from the most abstract concepts to the nitty-gritty without losing focus. He's a tremendous asset to the programming world.
I think it's time that as a society we agreed: if your "private" service replaces the public square, then you must run it like a public square. That means tolerating communists, fascists, black power, anti-black, anti-white, etc.
Are you making these 20 C++ threading mistakes?
>From what I've read gut bacteria could be a contributor to gluten intolerance.

It wouldn't surprise me, the human microbiome (which includes bacteria) out numbers cells in the human body something like 100:1. They call it the second brain and just reading about some of the studies should be eye opening to many. For example, some mental health issues can be treated through the stomach and alternatively certain gasterointestinal issues can be treated via the brain.

I recall one of the more interesting studies about twins in (equatorial) Africa where obviously both nature/nurture are identical but 1 twin will be malnurished while the other is not, the only measurable difference coming from the bacteria in the gut, which impacts the ability for the body to absorb nutrients.

Truely sorry about you daughter and it seems you are keenly aware of the social impact of food. However, as someone who has self imposed restrictions it may be a blessing in disguise, because there is a very good chance greater than 10% of her peers will develop non alcoholic fatty liver disease during childhood, some childhood type 2 diabetes, and yet a significantly larger number will develop all kinds of health issues (including mental health problems) not even as of yet connected with food/nutrition. Admittedly, I'll sneak in a cheat meal and can eat at restaurants but most the time, just like most the food in grocery stores, I easily avoid because I view the same as poison. And while it may sound extreme, just look around at the people in the grocery or especially restaurants and honestly come to your own conclusion about the percentage of people who just look unhealthy.
> Then again, the Oklahoma City bombing was the deadliest terror attack on US soil in our lifetimes prior to 9/11, and was committed by a right wing extremist.

Timothy McVeigh? Why do you consider him right-wing?
I wholeheartedly agree. With TOS and overly restrictive employee non-competes.
There are two possible conclusion to that : the first is that we suck at programming. The second is that what we think is easier to do (today's programs vs controlling moon mission) is actually not.

Maybe a lot of what those computers were doing were just raw computations, much like a DSP, to control trajectories, and nothing more. Something like a big calculators, with some networking capabilities to receive and send a few sets of instructions.
Hm... a cynical statement, made in a sweeping, generalized manner without any sort of statistical evidence or scientific backing.

Looks like we found the MBA (:
Don't mass investigation would be justified if helped to prevent that number of deaths?

That's a very big 'if'. By all accounts mass surveillance and dragnet investigations don't work to find terrorists. Practically everything I've read on the subject (which admittedly isn't much) terrorists are stopped using information from more traditional investigatory methods like informants.

Giving the government the power to investigate 1.3 million citizens who oppose it is an extremely high price to pay in order save lives that might be taken by terrorists. Whether it's worth it isn't a question I can answer easily.
If gay people could choose not to be gay, would you have a different opinion about the cake shop?
Presumably yes.
48 children were enrolled in the trial. Half of them were given the treatment and half the placebo, leaving 24 children in each group. Statistical significance testing is reported in the article and seems fairly robust, but this is too small a sample size to be fully confident in the results.
>(2) OK, then we are in agreement here. However, the only reason I brought up the arson in the first place was because the original parent specifically characterized the protests as "peaceful".

Often there are peaceful parts and non peaceful parts (blocks?) of a demonstration (including people who just go there to break things).

Police has also been known to instigate violent acts, usually with being overly pushy and provocative, but sometimes also by having fake-protesters lead others to such things.
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."

- Picasso
I do: I apply it to both. And I'm what passes for the new generation of grey beards.

I too am an acolyte for the cult of free speech.

The key difference being I test the ideas and beliefs in the real world. I signed up to mod a subreddit which was in trouble and I saw what worked and what didn't.

I urge you and others to make that time investment.

You are worried about catcher in the rye- we're long past protecting it. What's being fought are memes - mind bombs and channel stuffers.

We are fighting to let thought survive, in the face of people intentionally releasing material designed to hijack human brains via emotion.

Catcher in the rye is not what's being protected.

The foundation for civilization scale thought is what's being defended.

You are using a paragon to defend something unrelated.

You assume a lot of things about the current state of discourse and the motives of the attaxkers.

They aren't debating Marxism or porn. They're trying to drown out other ideas, and to tie Down people who present cogent counter arguments.

Want a non tech example? Take a look at anti vacc or creationism.

Those are ideas designed to be consumed by human brains- polarize them and then herd them away from information which could counter the infection.

That's not the bazaar of ideas. Thats not free speech.

That's what's happening.

And we have nothing to defend against it.
The same is required for many projects that sit in exceedingly cold environments. In these situations, leaded solder is required to ensure that the solder joints don't decay (or crumble away completely) from tin pest [0] in the low temperatures.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_pest
and in Boston, London, etc.
I actually think phoenixframework.org is pretty robust on this at the moment, and using the #elixir chat in Slack is also awesome.
Thailand is not a special case: the Gulf countries are exactly the same in this regard. For example, the UAE operates a dozen or so prisons in Yemen where it performs interrogations on "suspected" terrorists and provides intel to US intelligence agencies.

Also, the prison sentence given to this activist is nothing compared to what is thrown around in the Gulf for similar "crimes".
If you have an I/O bound workload, a reactor or proactor approach are way better. No dealing with locks, race conditions, etc.

I never said it's wrong, it's just pointless. In Python, there's always a better alternative to multithreading which has no shortcomings.
The current concrete counterweights don't take up the full extra volume available in machines so switching to a less dense counterweight doesn't mean they'll have to increase the size of the machine overall.
Facebook is a gigantic company trying to earn their share price. Their moderation is a liability limiting endeavor and in that capacity it's exclusively a cost center.
What is also true for DOOM.
Well, to keep with the example, people can also chose to be happy or sad. Some revile in being sad -- others opt to see the positive side.
What evidence do you offer to support the notion that "the vast majority of [criminal insult investigations in Germany] go nowhere"?

Going by the most common definition of 'clearance rate', around 208k of those 234k investigations led, at minimum, to someone being formally charged with a crime. Frankly, that in itself is horrifying.
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I apologize if my statement was misleading. I do not think the visual problem itself is trivial. I think the choice of input mechanism is tangential to the hard problems actually faced by the AI designers: strategy and tactics.
Thanks :) That's what I was hoping for.

It's a serious problem with no clear solution.
It actually starts here: https://youtu.be/1PhArSujR_A?t=2m7s
My wife has a allergic reaction to shrimp. Interestingly she can eat most wild caught shrimp without issue but has a pretty distinct reaction to the farm raised type (oral swelling, itching, hives). I don't know enough about the difference between the two to know why this is. Maybe farmed are a different species, or it's the diet they are exposed to, or they are treated with something.
A: Around the time that a simple blog post required JS from four separate domains in order to display anything other than a blank page.
> I don't know about the history of "Antifa" violence

I think a lot of people aren't aware; the media hasn't been reporting it much. Someone who wants the full picture of what happened in Charlottesville should learn more about their history of violence, everywhere from Berkeley to Hamburg.

They've been violent against people ranging from neo-Nazis to college speakers to Trump supporters to police officers to the G20.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/the-ris...
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So if you start a private (in the sense of "privately run," not "secret") discussion forum and it gets to some level of size, suddenly your discussion forum can't moderate itself? Doesn't that seem a bit strange?
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Black power groups are not the black equivalents of white power groups.

Their history is consistently about protecting their right to exist, not the right to subjugate people of another skin color.
Please keep the discussion to how this affects Facebook stock prices and IPO or you will be removed by Hacker News' moderators.
With the caveat that they're not quite adults yet (eldest is 16) so there are no actual results to this experiment...

The children get regular money put into their accounts. We don't put many restrictions on what they spend it on. We take the approach (with this as well as internet access etc) that we trust them until they prove us wrong then we will stomp on them from a great height. Touch wood not much stomping so far.

They have assigned chores that are not directly connected to the money. I guess if they didn't do their chores we could pull some money but TBH there are better levers.

Although some of the chores are there just so they participate in the household (taking out bins/recycling etc), we also require them to make lunch/dinner or go shopping for the family periodically. The main reason is so that they're reasonably self sufficient when they eventually fly/get pushed from the coop.

None of them actually earn money yet (as in from outside family and friends) although only the eldest would be technically legal. He does have a regular job in the voluntary sector which gives him most of the discipline skills having a job entails.

I would say that they're all fairly aware of the cost of things. I'm not so convinced that they're sufficiently aware of the value of things. Maybe that's hard to do unless you've either genuinely lived on your earnings or struggled for money.
Why not give Pierce’s “Types and programming languages” a spin?
For me it confirmed that the basic things I'd learned from Car Mechanic Simulator were relatively valid... I've never even changed the oil on a real car, but I could name most of the parts in that video.
> Because when it gets old and stale and the excitement wears off, you will see things in a more "connected sense."

No, reason and logic don't get old or stale, and they prevent me from thinking how I "see things" has anything to do with reality. Nature is what it is, it doesn't care about your beliefs and fears and need for an afterlife. Never mind the humor in the one with an imaginary friend he's trying to push on others calling others arrogant and ignorant, lol, don't project your flaws on me. People are here talking about a dung beetle story and you're prothletising, it's disgusting; keep that shit to yourself.
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The origin of complex life on Earth just got a little less mysterious
> Damore said openly that Google were lowering the bar to let them in and amplified ideas that make it harder for the women (and other 'diversity' hires) already in Google, and you're surprised people got cross. Really? That surprises you?

So you agree it was the content and not the presentation? At any rate, Damore didn't say that Google lowered the bar, he said that diversity policies can devolve into that, but some people are addicted to outrage and will hear what they want.

> Damore did the equivalent of walking into Jerusalem, picking a side, then immediately spouting policy changes he wanted to see... then acting all hurt when he got punched in the face and kicked out of Israel for causing trouble.

No, Damore worked at Google; his everyday life is affected by Google's policies and rhetoric and general ideological-bubble-ness. He didn't "walk in and start espousing policies". It's also worth noting that he posted in response to a request for opinions on a skeptics message board; he didn't shout it from a mountain. Your analogy is completely divorced from reality.

> This isn't about being a world-class communicator, this is about an adequate communicator for the problem he was trying to solve.

This still sounds like victim blaming. Maybe we shouldn't be critiquing the guy who pointed out a few injustices and maybe we should look at the people who feigned outrage to silence him.

> Without that model, leaping to conclusions about how many women to expect in a company like Google is bad science, and making HR policy changes on the back of this would be bad management.

Yes, but he wasn't "doing science", he was posting on a message board. Besides, his point isn't "Here's a model that explains the disparity"; it's "the current model--discrimination hypothesis--has inconsistencies". Finally, being wrong (even about a contentious topic) doesn't merit public damnation, slander, excommunication, etc. That his model is incomplete is a red herring; he wasn't at fault, Google, Gizmodo, and the hoard of slanderous SJWs here and across the Internet are at fault.

> He used inflammatory terms like lowering the "bar", accused Google of bias and fostering extreme views, talking about womens biological interests and abilities, and spoke in absolutist language rather than collaborative language.

Sorry, none of this remotely merits the response he received. In fact, if anyone else spoke in this manner about any other topic, it would be a significant improvement. If the discrimination-theory folks were held to this standard, it would be a massive improvement. I'm not going to punch a guy for being in the 98th percentile of communicators instead of the 99th, especially when his critics and opponents are largely shouting lies and profanity.

> I'm not going to respond to that, but I consider that comment both inaccurate and inappropriate.

That's fine, but that's basically what's happening here. Damore went far above and beyond what was reasonable, and you're blaming him for not doing more. This is inappropriate.
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> You can get a washing machine that might last perhaps 5-10 years for about 200-300 euro... or a Miele one that'll probably last over 20 years for 1000 euro. It's a hard sell for most people.

The other side of the coin is that the Miele will possibly do a better job than the cheaper model.

I used to buy $100 vacuum cleaners and just replace them when they break, which they usually did after a year or two. The last time one died on me I decided that I had had enough and bought a Miele. Not only will it last longer (the 10 year warranty guarantees that it will), it also does a much better job.
They don't make decisions based on data, despite believing themselves to be a data driven company. All decisions flow from the top, and are ego-based, not data driven.
I think you'll find that if you stood in a public square and a hundred people started yelling at you, the _police_ would get involved.

Be careful what you wish for.
In general you really shouldn't be using dado blades. It's an easy and dangerous way to skip setting up a router and a temporary fence. There's a reason dado stacks aren't sold in europe.
The defaults would be set according to some simple statistics. If an app or website wants to use more it must ask for permission, but it can only ask a limited number of times within a given period.

Of course it's easy to imagine an implementation of this idea that is annoying and confusing. But I can imagine this working very well and provide an incentive for developers to not waste resources.
I think of YAGNI as a very important principle, and encourage young developers to practice it rigorously, but as you grow in your arts you should eventually be able to reliably predict some elements of the future, and as you approach the middle of your career you should be able to start successfully heading such things off at the pass.

I think it is important while young to be very aggressive with the YAGNI because otherwise you will have a much harder time developing that prediction skill, as the data set will be much noisier.
This is minor compared to all the major things VS isn't shipping for many years in a row now.
Yes, I'm sure that the radical right marchers shot down the police helicopter with their readily available Strela-3 rocket launchers that they keep on hand, just in case the opportunity to do so arises.

You're trying very hard to make a connection there.

Antifa has been instigating full on riots since the election. We're talking beating people unconscious (captured on video), torching buildings (captured on video), looting businesses (captured on video), destroying property (captured on video), and blocking traffic (captured on video), all without significant media coverage (despite the video footage). This can mostly be attributed to the general populace not being familiar with Antifa or its downright violent tactics/rioting.

It's a miracle Antifa hasn't managed to kill anybody yet. It is the only reason they haven't received significant media coverage; had the nut in the car not driven through a crowd, this whole mess would have flown under the radar, just like every political riot before this.

I'd also like to add that Trump is "sympathetic" to neo-Nazis in the same way Bernie Sanders is; isolationism is popular among white nationalists and supremacists. Adolf Hitler supported gun control, strict conservation efforts, and discouraged smoking; is everybody who supports these ideas a Nazi?
I agree with hiring the four people over the one star. If that one person leaves or is on vacation you have a hole in your team.

There is a chance of the four who are not as capable today, 1-2 might become a stars in the future. He/she will be more loyal because of the opportunity the manager gave them.