skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious then - if you're okay with this removal, would you be okay with a registrar removing a site because it violated some Catholic values? Supported abortion or something say?

There are reasonable restrictions but generally such restrictions have a lot more to do with technical or usability issues rather than civil or political issues. I doubt this will be popular around here, but I'm afraid of being on a registrar that would reject my domain for saying something controversial.

EDIT: I can't even reply to some of the children here because HN is rate limiting me because I disagreed with a majority opinion - even only slightly - and got downvoted. Eugh.

To those saying this is false equivalence or a slippery slope, this is directed towards people saying "they're a private company, they can remove whatever they way" - which it certainly fits the parameters of without modification. No slippery slope here, a slippery slope means this would have to lead to another, which I'm certainly not saying here. Merely a hypothetical that I'm curious how people resolve. I'm not really intending it as a formal argument one way or the other, just wanted to hear different perspectives on it.
It's rather like metaphors. A good metaphor can absolutely aid in communicating and understanding concepts. But, inevitably, if you start probing too hard on the details or take the metaphor too literally and it starts to break down.
Dino looks really cool, thanks for the link! Looks like it doesn't yet support MAM[0], but aside from that this may be the closest thing to a Conversations equivalent I've seen for the desktop.

https://github.com/dino/dino/tree/master/xmpp-vala/src/modul...
I have to buy a new phone to get Android updates.

Used to buy new phones to get Series 30, Series 40 and Symbian updates as well.
A single event does not a slippery slope make. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
>> America is indeed one of the wealthiest countries in the world, but that wealth is not spread evenly across the country.

This is the blessing and curse of capitalism.

You have winners and you have losers. In strong economic times, the rising tides will lift all boats and everybody benefits. When the shit hits the fan, those who are prepared, suffer less. Those with no safety net will suffer more, but there's plenty of government assistance to help those people when they hit hard times.

You can cry however much you want to, but the opportunity is out there. You can take online free courses, you can get scholarships and get your college paid for. You can go to a technical college and be employed in a trade in two years if not sooner. The best thing is that ITS UP TO YOU to make it happen. You can sit around and watch everybody and life pass you by, or you can put in the effort, change things up and find a different route than your parents did to be successful.

Success is out there my friend, but nobody is going to just hand it to you.
If you're CPU bound (only reason to care about the GIL anyway), then you want one process per core. So at least the L1 memory cache isn't shared. The separate memory consumption is minimal (3-5MB*N cores).

You don't need to do setup/destroy more then once.
When was the tech industry deliberately excluding people based on race and gender? The 50s? 60s?

I don't believe any specific action needs to be taken to promote diversity. As far as I can tell, people can work wherever they will, as long as they can pass the interview.

>arbitrarily exclusionary practices

Please name these.
Many of the users will change default to google anyways. And I think it might even hurt apple a little to not use google as default search engine.
The pro-Travis side of the board is trying to get Benchmark to sell its shares to them. It seems that they have a good cash-out option in front of them that doesn't not require an IPO!
Interesting that this is the second P!=NP proof from a University of Bonn researcher. Other one, by Mathias Hauptmann, is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.04781

I never did hear the status of Hauptmann's proof (I'm not connected to academia so only know what I've read on the internet), but given it's been over a year without word, presumably there's something flawed.

I might not get too excited over this proof, either, until another member of the TCS community can vouch for it. There have been many serious-looking attempts at PvNP that turn out to have fundamental flaws.
Or in East Anglia.

One thing i've noticed on my walks in the country is that there are a lot of apple trees growing along the Iron-age tracks like the Ridgeway, Icknield Way, etc. I suppose once one traveller has thrown away an apple core, and a tree has grown from a seed, there are plenty more apples with which subsequent travellers can repeat the process. Iterate that over a thousand years and there's quite a collection.
I own 2 of these smartlocks (for my theater and my speakeasy, it's nice to be able to let performers/crew in on set schedules with SMS confirmation). They have both been down since last week. It's been hugely annoying, especially considering we paid over $600 per lock. They overnighted us new circuitboards that we have to manually replace, but the timing was horrible as both me and my partner were out of town all weekend and couldn't do the repair, so it impacted load-in for a show on Sunday.

These locks have some nice advantages but sometimes I feel like they are way too internet-reliant and a bit outside my control. Furthermore the company isn't exactly the picture of professionalism (their IOS app has actually gotten worse during the year+ I have owned the locks) and I wonder if there will be any functionality left in my $600 locks if/when they go out of business someday.
Migrating to JDK9 (PropertyChangeListener)
There was some discussion about JDK9 and PropertyChangeListener a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14748502 - I did some experiments and I think we have a way to be compatible and still run on small JDK9: http://wiki.apidesign.org/wiki/DesignForJDK9
> So you made a fake account just to come here and rant about something unrelated to the main topic?

I don't understand how it's a fake account. Would you mind keeping the discussion on a civil level?

> Plus, you should consider the fact that Greeks and Persians were at war in those times. It's only natural that a historian (like Herodotus) would exaggerate some events, or even write lies about their arch enemy. Unfortunately, many history books were burnt in Persian libraries by the Mongols, so we only get the perspective of the Greeks, not the Persians.

Yes, the Persians and the Greeks were at war and enemies. In fact, that was part of my point. The portrayal you have of Genghis Khan comes from his enemies too.

> Ok, such drama coming from a historian... History isn't a movie man.

I understand how if you're not familiar with Herodotus it can be hard to believe anything he says since he does enjoy to add details to personify stories. That is no reason to discount everything he says though, most of ancient written history is embellished. There's a lot of work on the reliabiliy of his texts if you're interested.

> I don't want to bash you, but do you think your comment below is even remotely civil and suitable for HN?

Uh...absolutely? There is nothing uncivil about in and it's literally on the same topic that your post was about.
Google drops domain hosting for infamous neo-nazi site the Daily Stormer
I think most of us believe Benchmark couldn't give a fuck less about anybody but Benchmark and their personal billions (assuming they get paid 2 and 20, cashing out of Uber really could be worth a billion a partner). Given the behavior that has gone on while Benchmark has been on the board, this comes off as treacle.

(Which is not to say that Benchmark and employees' interests couldn't align in this case...)
Seconded. The flaws in these papers are not hard to find. They usually amount to misunderstanding of definitions or the results they cite.
So these guys are claiming their (hateful) message is about their race. Are they justified in claiming their protected class is not being recognized in this business decision by Godaddy, et alia.
There are many privacy/free-speech oriented registrars and hosts. I hate being in the position to defend these types so often from short-sighted moralizers, but it absolutely won't work.
I can't understand it. You can mail them the guts of your lock, have them fix it, then mail it back to you, all in a week or less. Or they can just send you a new one, and it takes at least two weeks? Do new ones come by courier snail from China, or is this just a scheme to discourage people from opting for a replacement, or what?
Since you seem to have rejoined Hacker News just to post ideological flamebait, I've banned this account. If you don't want to be banned on HN, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
> Not now, but if you can really create AI, it shouldn't be indistinguishable of human Intelligence.

If we really create AI that is "indistinguishable of human Intelligence", then all questions about human jobs or research become moot, no?

If someone was to create AI that is human-equivalent (aka strong AI) then that would be their final project as a human being. There would be no need for human professional or academic effort after that point.
Could be, or maybe something got lost in translation (am not a native English speaker and as such the "the" might not have seemed very obvious to me).
The source code can be found here: https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv-web
>Memory consumption is bloated and the CPU caches thrash. Launching a subprocess is expensive

Statically and dynamically loaded binaries are resident in the kernel's page cache. Which while each process will have different locations within its process address space for each process (b/c ALSR), they _should_ be de-duplicated in RAM, ultimately all these seperate in process images will be pointing at the same physical RAM page(s).

So from a hardware cache standpoint you're mostly okay.
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You realize that you are equating Christians with homophobes here and there are a very large number of Christians that would strongly object to that.

Muslim employee in supermarket that refuses to handle bacon: fine, plenty of others to take their place, and it only affects that person.

Bigot in supermarket refusing to bake cake for homosexual: you serve the company customers at the whim of your employer, wear your bigotry for all to see and give the supermarket a bad name and you're in hot water.

See how easy it is to rephrase that and not have a conflict? The problem is that you chose to phrase your example in such a way that you could - narrowly - infer doublethink but all you really managed to do is expose yourself.
Awesome, thanks for the tips Steve :D
Hopefully we'll have a few other projects coming up that I can use as an excuse to do more Rust!
Are you one of those people who equates any mention whatsoever of Trump as "being needlessly political"?
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In the UK Apple Maps doesn't tell you which lane you should be in before turning. Google Maps does, which makes a huge difference when driving.
How could iOS be contributing half of the mobile search revenue when Google's own OS is on most of the mobile devices in the world?

Because the users who buy things on mobile overwhelmingly use iPhones. All the money to be made is there.

I spoke with Tencent a month ago and they said over half of their users (across wechat/QQ etc...) are on iOS. That was a surprise to me as I thought Android phones completely dominated the Chinese market.
Eh, kind of. We're a structured class with people teaching you full-time.
Fair enough.

As for the suitability of posts about music, generally speaking... I'm fine with HN casting a wide net. SO many random hobbies trend their way to the top of the front page for a few days here and there. In almost all cases, I find them more interesting than the usual "meta-discussion" tangents about which CSS and fonts a submission uses.
Their own site specifically says they use Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex, plus literally hundreds of other specific sources of data.

https://duck.co/help/results/sources
> Yet the government can force private entities to sell a cake to a homosexual couple?

The government equally could adopt a law prohibiting discrimination based on advocacy of race-based violence in public accommodation as several state governments have for gender preference.

> Yet the government can force private entities to sell a cake to a homosexual couple?

Laws reflect human preferences, which are at some level arbitrary. Apparently, many states think that discrimination against gays is a problem that needs to be addressed, whereas discrimination against violent racists is not.
> Only saving the world is a good use of your time and everything else is stupid.

I roll my eyes at this sentiment, which has become an increasingly common criticism of Silicon Valley. If Facebook improves ad targeting, and it helps millions of businesses and individuals reach potential users more effectively at a lower cost that is still good for the world, even if the effort was primarily profit-driven.

Maybe we don't have to applaud it as heroism, but there's no doubt in my mind that ride sharing as a concept is a good thing for many people and a good thing for the world.
this seems off, based on my observed and experienced reality. the incredible lack of empathy for the neuro-diverse is one of the most shocking failures of the diversity movement.
Lately I've found out that multiprocessing will not help you if your program is multithreaded. There is no sane way of forking a multithreaded program. For one, the child process will inherit a copy of all locks in the state they where at forking time, possibly causing random crashes and deadlocks.
You can donate via PayPal off their install page.

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> mediocre fanfiction

I think you might be giving Cline too much credit. I've read much better fanfiction than "Ready Player One". Even the bad fanfiction chock-a-block full of nostalgiac references doesn't stop to explain it's references every other page. I literally hate-read through RPO on a transatlantic flight because the screen for my seat was broken and I had nothing better to do.

ETA another excellent review: http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/ready-player-one-finds-the-...
Popular opinion had the same attitude towards witches. Times change.

We had the same attitude towards communists and communist sympathizers, yet its making a comeback in 'popular culture'.

America came down on the side of 'I don't agree with what you have to say, but I will defend your right to say it.'

That being said, this whole debacle is a slippery slope and that should be the key takeaway here, regardless of which way your political spectrum leans.
Trump signs memo directing probe into China's IP practices
Chargebacks provide some protection but in the final analysis it really depends on how scummy the merchant is. If they really want to cheat you they will find a way:

1. products that never arrive after long shipping delays (NYC camera shops are the masters of this technique),

2. keep delaying shipping the product, then as soon as they ask for a refund say you already shipped it and they will be billed for shipping cost (another classic NYC trick),

3. substituting inferior products (broken 2GB RAM module with a label that says 8GB, how easy is to make an NTFS drive look bigger than it is?),

4. playing games with receipts to make them harder to contest (wrong address, slightly different product),

5. threatening to sue or reveal personal information if you contest,

6. a refund process which involves onerous and never ending paperwork,

7. never send a receipt, cancel the order on the web form "sorry we are out stock" and then bill anyways, stealing money from everyone who doesn't read their credit card bill like a hawk.

etc...

Or they can just use your credit card to buy something for themselves for roughly the price of the product you thought you purchased.
Tough shit
> would you be okay with a registrar removing a site because it violated some Catholic values?

Except, that didn't happen. But if there was a Catholics only registrar (and then, not all Catholics oppose abortion rights) and that website got booted I'm sure that lots of other websites would pack up and leave as well. Somehow I don't think this particular DNS entry not being hosted by Google is going to cost Google any customers.
> A lot of cheap guitars are unplayable

I don't think that's true for a beginner who can't really tell the difference, and I think that's also a discouraging sentence for people who are wondering if they should try learning guitar.
Google isn't discriminating on the basis of race. It's not saying "These people cannot host their domain with our service because of their skin color". That would be illegal, but that's not what they're doing, obviously.
But if they are ousting their CEO publicly it's probably because things are going extremely badly. I don't think ousting the founder is necessarily making it worse and thus the cause for those companies to worsen after the ousting.
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Work and play with others; SoFi is a collaborative environment.
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Certainly a possibility - but stress on mitochondria is almost inevitable whatever the cause, so the question remains as to whether this is upstream or downstream in the chain of causation, or a necessary but not sufficient condition that might not be the cause.
> Before quotas and social justice warriors, were you thinking about fairness and equality when the status quo potentially benefited you and excluded others not on their merit but race and gender?

I was not thinking about that. And when I started being exposed to it, my immediate reaction was like you described: seeing political correctness and reverse-racism/sexism as a greater problem than sexism and racism themselves.

It took a while, but I now realize how silly that reaction was. I felt somewhat attacked by these 'social justice warriors and quotas'. And my reaction was in self defense to this perceived attack. I spent so much time reading about it on the internet. There were so many smart people applying logic and engineering skills to these social problems. I identified with these people and I agreed with most of it. They made it sound like these are all easy problems to solve and if everyone had read the same scientific studies as them and applied the same logical thinking then we would have a solution.

My view wasn't changed until I had much more experience in the real world. All these women that are being talked about as statistics are real people. They're become my friends and coworkers. I've learned to sympathize with them. I've learned that it's not us vs them. We are working together is this. I've learned that political correctness and reverse-racism/sexism are definitely not a greater problem than sexism and racism themselves.

I think the human aspect of all this is sorely missing on HN. At least it was for me.
Bravo! This is overdue.

Back in the early 80's my dad ( a chess teacher from Odessa ) immigrated to NYC ( with just $150 ). My mom worked 3 jobs to put him through Yeshiva Uni where he learned Cobol, JCL, and Fortran.

He ended up getting hired right away by Lehman Bros, and realized he was sitting on a gold-mine. Tons of well-educated immigrants were coming onto the golden-paved shores, with 0 knowledge of computer programming.

So we upgraded our family 1.5 bdrm apt in Jackson Heights, Queens, to a modest 3 bedroom tower apt in Forest Hills, where he proceeded to lecture evening and weekend classes by the droves.. (all on 1 white board!) * my job ( i was 13 at the time ) was to serve everyone instant coffee and bagels.

One day I was curious and asked him “Dad, these folks can barely speak english.. how are they going to even pass their interviews?” — he looked up from his hand-drawn spreadsheet he kept a strict record of students..”Oh that part is easy… I already know all their future managers” — It was the perfect funnel.

best of luck fellas!
Yes, at a 30% discount. Seems like Benchmark is pursuing other options to avoid selling at a lower price (although with a huge return on their investment regardless).
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Some links you might find interesting:

https://www.microsemi.com/products/timing-synchronization-sy...

http://www.oewaves.com/media-events/item/50-oewaves-to-devel...

http://www.gps.gov/governance/advisory/meetings/2016-05/lutw...

https://www.darpa.mil/program/micro-technology-for-positioni...

I haven't seen much (haven't been looking either tho) since the Micro-PNT program which was in 2008. Sometimes that means that things are getting interesting, other times it's a dry hole. I'm interested in any later developments if you know of them.
Is canonical DNS a medium or a convention?

(I'm not aware of anything restricting me from setting up a server that answers DNS queries with quotes from Dune, it's just that, because I'm not following the convention, pretty much everyone would just ignore it)
Agree.

There is an argument I'm not sure I support that diversity has value on its own - that 5 people with different backgrounds is worth more than 5 with the same background.

But that being said - questioning biases, and correcting them at every point you spot them (not just interviewing!) is vital.
Completely agreed. The US needs a robust vocational system a la Germany to fill in the gaps.
The question of whether he is guilty of this particular crime is what this particular trial is about.

Concessions regarding past behavior are usually saved for the sentencing portion of the trial.
I wanted clothing. I had hoped to buy "special series" made in the USA and only sold in the USA. (Converse, Harley, NYC police from their museum, etc). I love Japan for that strategy: usually they have a special serie made in Japan which is better quality (and more expensive).
This doesn't make any sense. It's not how justice works. You can't do one useful thing to excuse a series of grave crimes.
Nope, today they mute the audio.
The US government doesn't have a good track record with security researchers, but in this case the allegation is that he intentionally developed banking malware and knowingly sold it to people who would use it to commit fraud.

This isn't exactly some Orwellian crackdown on anyone who dare play with malware or malicious infrastructure. The allegation is far beyond what any white or even gray hat researcher would ever do. Of course, the allegations may be completely false, but let's at least make sure we're all talking about the same thing.