skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quoting the quote:

> "My rationale for making this decision was simple: the people behind the Daily Stormer are assholes and I'd had enough," Prince wrote. "Let me be clear: this was an arbitrary decision."

I understand your point that being severely annoyed can lead to arbitrary decision, but nowhere it says in the interview, something like - I'd had enough because they even implied we supported them - here I would have understand. My problem is that it looks like either:

1. Ars removed this from the interview or

2. CloudFlare added this line in the PR blog post even so it was not the case

I cannot tell which one is true or both or none...

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use Mosaic or Netscape 4.0 to browse the web

All the actually useful bits of the web, text, images, etc would still work. I bet you could still shop on Amazon with one of those old browsers.

The power is being sucked to run the 10Mb+ of JS, Flash and other crap that ads add to every page.
It's not just snooping .. that's communication between her and her doctor.

Privacy advocates (and I consider myself one) can often come off as going a bit over-the-top - but communication between my doctor & I, and my lawyer & I, are pretty universally recognized as privileged.

That she was banned because of previous exposure to contraband, doesn't really irk me so much. Canada treats American DUIs similarly, and borders are very much tit-for-tat. But searching bona fides medical correspondence to find this, seems like a genuine problem.
(I totally appreciate any and all references to Coase!)
My comment was intended as a joke mostly, but then I recalled this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salami_tactics

> The term Salami tactics (Hungarian: szalámitaktika) was coined in the late 1940s by the orthodox communist leader Mátyás Rákosi to describe the actions of the Hungarian Communist Party.[1][2] Rakosi claimed he destroyed the non-Communist parties by "cutting them off like slices of salami."[2] By portraying his opponents as fascists (or at the very least fascist sympathizers), he was able to get the opposition to slice off its right wing, then its centrists, then the more courageous left wingers, until only those fellow travelers willing to collaborate with the Communists remained in power.[2][3]
Microsoft didn't promote that idea. Some random people at Microsoft did, a very long time ago. Just forget about it and move on.
Lynx and NetSurf are more usable because they have been maintained. I'm sure 2017 Lynx is much more bloated than 1997 Lynx. Current day Lynx users will probably find 1997 Lynx unusable. All of this despite the fact that preventing bloat is probably one of the core goals of Lynx, which it obviously wasn't for Netscape.
>There's literally nothing radical or leftist in what I said.

"The idea that I'm seeing any of these comments arguing to the contrary means HN is already infiltrated by /pol/ and other Nazi sympathizing groups"

Can be expanded to:

"There are people in the world who disagree with me. It cannot possibly be that there is a rainbow of opinion and some people draw different lines in different places. Nay! My opinion is clearly infallible and indeed no less than the very standard of all educated men, so all who disagree must be members of organized hate groups infiltrating our pristine website."

This clearly implies the follow on sentence:

"And therefore we should gag them all to prevent their hateful agenda".

Expanding it that way makes you sound like a prat, that's my bias shining through. Take a guess on whether I agree with you on whether we're the victim of a sustained nazi infiltration conspiracy or not. That must make me an evil internet-nazi spearheading the covert assault on the hacker news psyche. Stand clear people, I'm dangerous and infectious.
>This is a dangerous thing to say publicly!

It doesn't cost me much, apart from internet points. And really the ideas of sharing, equal laws, global humanism and opposition to the centralization/concentration of capital genuinely seem good to me. And I'm not from the US, having those opinions seems quite mild to me.

But yeah, I've made several political comments on HN these past few years, and the amount of votes (in both directions) seem to vary wildly according to what countries are awake, generally more downvotes when the US are awake.
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That's too vague and soft and not strong enough to generate any controversy.

Everyone assumes for granted that there are limits to that. Your freedom ends where mine begins.
Common Lisp, for it's maturity, stability(decades old code still runs on modern implementation) and remarkably good design considering it's a language designed by a committee. Almost all of it's problems or dusty corners that show their age can be worked around by libraries. Not to mention the quality of the spec is great. I really miss the attention to detail the common lisp hyperspec has when I have to read about some obscure corner of python for example.

I also spend some time with clojure around the time of v1.0-1.2 and quite liked it, but it's maturity level and the JVM made it less attractive in the long run.

I like scheme as well, but because of the spartan(to use a nice word) spec, If I actually want to get stuff done I'd have to chose just one implementation and it's associated libraries, rather than rely on portable code.
Another movie with the same theme is Waking Life. I also found it a lot more thought-provoking than Inception.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243017/
I travel internationally a lot, and the best single indicator of a quality restaurant is a packed house.
I think it depends on perspective. I don't think there's a 10x programmer, but I've worked with plenty of 0.1x programmers. If your organisation is not doing a good job of managing your developer team you may have a very skewed view of what 1x really looks like.
VS Code is now recommended by Microsoft for F# + .NET Core. Get with it, you're behind the times.
>Killing things that are low profit margins, under some misguided Pareto Principle approach. Sometimes these things are loss leaders designed to pull customers for other products.

Related: Focusing on a single product when your customers rely on you for a suite. As I like to put it 'Being able to talk to the whole story'. Particularly relevant for MSPs - I once worked for one that went HARD on 'cloud first' to the point they stopped talking to clients about anything else.

Great, except all those clients lost interest real quick and switched to other providers who would talk to them 'about their whole story'.

The short sightedness of this is astounding - For many of those ex clients today, cloud is no longer 5 or 10% of their story, and we would have been able to continue selling to them all the way to their current adoption rates (50%+), IF we had taken them on the journey instead of refusing to talk to them about anything else.
A legal analysis by First Amendment scholar Eugene Volokh, as well as a (vacuous) response by the ACLU: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
I think management fails when they don't understand that the nerds hired them and not the opposite. We are the technology, we did it in the first place. We hired managers to help us. By default, we know better than them (because we are the one who do the tech), they should listen to us and not the opposite. Now, when everybody knows his place, we can collaborate and do great work.

I got the luck to work with great managers at amazon. From what I've seen, programmers are driving the company there - or at least, they have their word to say, often, and power that comes with it. On my team, decisions relative to product development were clearly strongly driven by us. Seems to work pretty well for amazon.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/FloridaMan/
Just use VS Code + Ionide. That's where the action is for at least for F# + .NET Core
If you add the lives lost in the slave trade, you'll get pretty close to a 100 million: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade#Human_tol...
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This is a intrusive and brazen breach of the right to privacy as is any inspection of personal devices and papers wherever it occurs.

It's time to stop the apologism and accept we are at the bottom of the slippery slope. It's also time to stop the pointless grandstanding about China, Russia etc to feel smug and superior because there is zero moral authority to pull that off.

The bigger problem is inspite of the outrage by many nothing happens. Is democracy working?
Haha, we had the buzzword compliance too.

Once a sales junior came to me and said "this year I will make our product be the center of the Big Data hype" like it was some meaningful concept, besides having much data...
Well yeah, but they made a deal with the devil.

The anarchists in Russia were murdering thousands of people a year from 1904 forward. They killed one of the few liberalish emperors in 1881. Russia could have been a very different place in 1915 without their action.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narodnaya_Volya

Here's a long list of the infamous actions of the anarchists:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_of_the_deed#Notable...

The sailors on Kronstadt who supported Lenin during the July Days and were one of his strongest bases of support ended up getting put down and executed when they rebelled after the revolution.

Guess it suggests that making friends with violent people is a bad idea, regardless of convenience or agreement.
I was looking for such an extension. That was very harassing moment when linux users like me were not able to use website like 'HOTSTAR'. You have done such an appreciable work. A big thumb from my side.
Kafunk is great https://jet.github.io/kafunk/
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They shouldn't have been looking on her phone anyway. What the fuck kind of fascist nation has the US become?
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You've gone back down the wrong branch of the tree. Look at what an Amiga could do with 512k RAM and a 7 Mhz processor.
How do you suggest to make use of higher kinds in Blend?

Immutable records are already possible today in C#, even if a bit more verbose than on F#, plus EF code is anyway mostly generated.
This is amazing. Facebook messenger without the temptation of the notifications icon. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
https://www.dailystormer.com/why-free-speech-and-free-internet-advocates-must-become-nazis/

The site is offline, but if you search for it on Google, you can still find it in the cache

Yes, it's pretty clear.
> The Blogger tab I have open to write this post is currently using over 500MB of RAM in Chrome. How is that even possible?

Mate, you picked /blogger/ as your preferred blogging platform. Blogger can't even deliver a page title without Javascript.

There's a whole world of much higher quality software out there, it may be that you've chosen not to use it.

This dude should try switching his blog to Pelican[1], it might be something of a revelation.

[1] https://blog.getpelican.com/
No violence, or calling for violence is free speech. It would be nice if all sides remembered that.
Because the psychology of doing something for free vs. doing something for 10% of your usual hourly rate.

Plus answering on popular sites for making connections, building personal brand and even SEO.
Words are not violence.

My rights don't end where your feelings begin.
It was if err != nil {return err} rewritten in if err != nil {return err} Go, and if err != nil { return nil } this is way if err != nil {return err} more readable now.
I wouldn't formulate it so smug, but I think you're kinda right.

I met many founders over the years and those with technical background were the best.

The non-technical founders had often bad ideas to start with or were piggy backing on the techies, while putting them down with their big words etc.
"A British Columbia woman was issued a lifetime ban at the US border after officials found an email with her doctor"

A very clear example why it is important to have encryption in the context of email. A private conversation between a patient and their doctor should be sacrosanct, and if government can't keep their hands away then technology need to step in and try to do its best to protect people.
Hadn't heard that one before, interesting observation.
There is a cost to the company for non performant front end code though. If the front end preforms poorly users are less likely to use it.
Why not have sugar for the human and s-expr for macros?
How does draw.io compare to yEd?
What made you switch to mailbox.org? Curious as am a fastmail user.
Nah, they are totally suing (http://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i27/Lawsuits-progress-against...). I think part of the reason they are not shut down yet is because Russia. Also, scihub is a huge threat to their business -- they have close to 100% of Elseviers content stored, and greater than 2/3rds of the overall scientific corpus (http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/sci-hub-s-cache-pirat...).
> And yes, this point was hit roughly around Windows 95. You really couldn't use Windows 95 for more than a day without something crashing.

I still have the same experience with Win10. Hardly a week without a BSOD. On the same machine linux flies and flies.

> Even games have become more stable. ... I haven't seen a Firefox crash in ... months.

Yet Firefox and most AAA games are written in C++.
From the ops side, I would also suggest to take a look at Mesos, DC/OS and Marathon. Kubernetes, like Docker, is more developer-friendly; DC/OS is more ops-friendly. DC/OS can use Kubernetes natively.
> The right to your own ideas is not an absolute. It's a pact you have to respect and it involves respecting other people rights first.

You just defined a thoughtcrime.

Did you never read 1984?
The last point is true, but normal.

All hiring managers want the best of the best, but they won't simply come and knock at your door if you're a no-name.
I achieved this by unfollowing everyone and changing my browser bookmark to my most commonly used group. I never visit the news feed anymore because there's nothing on it besides adverts.
Wish something similar is made for an electric car since it is the future.
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Yet another reminder to never cross borders while carrying anything other than disposable electronic communications and/or storage devices containing zero personal information. If anything leaves your sight, consider it copied and compromised - burn it.
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> the changes in user interface should

Yeah, but that's not a consequence of better software!
Amazon sells shows by the show or season. Here's an example: https://www.amazon.com/Halt-Catch-Fire-Season-3/dp/B01JFWK71...
I'm curious, if you imagine a possible historical situation, let's say a German business owner in the 1930s that took a stance of not offering services to Nazi organizations, does that appear commendable, or bad in the same "slippery slope" way that you apply in the present situation?

It seems to me that such a business owner would seem in hindsight to have been acting virtuously, and it seems that businesses that did in fact offer services to e.g. the Nazi party are now tarnished morally because of that.
Please don't accuse other users on HN of being shills.
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Eg.Axes makes it very easy to create a variety of UIs that respond to user input
Btw. your example is missing the bus factor. But I understand your point and actually I do not think that salaries are meant to depend 100% on performance.

I think it is more like 90% of time the person invests and 10% performance bonus. That way the one with to 50% higher salary would probably be 5 times as performant as the average dev. If that is fair, is a different (and very difficult) question.
Might be ok on btc-e then using those trading tokens I'll maybe get.
I wish I could use it on Linux.
To DBaaS or Not to DBaaS?
Oh oh oh - I've got a whole chapter in my (real soon now honest) book on Coase - I am trying to demonstrate some firm size curve based on ease of organising / planning inside and outside firms - things like blockchain must have an effect on that curve
If you have an interpreter, you can obtain a native executable by attaching the interpreter code to the source file, and then removing all the unnecessary parts (optimizing). This is called the first Futamura projection.

Discovering the nature of second and third Futamura projections is left as an exercise to the reader ;)
smart move for them. belarussian engineers are likely 5 times as cheap as google engineers. they can do this, pay premium because of the aquisition and still be better off than if they had hired a bunch of people.
quite absurd. ill be forgoing my next few donations. (sad that i have to qualify this but i hate nazi's and am not even white)
Yeah, first real job had the customer database as a VB frontend onto an Access file shared over {whatever Win95 was using in 1996-97}. After a few snafus, the CS / Sales people learned that they had to single-task with the database.
LOL This statement really frightens me. But doesn't surprise me. Which frightens me even more.
Drug use is actually not illegal. Only possession is.

The article says that she consumed something that she believed to be cocaine, offered to her by a friend. When taking drugs offered to you by someone else, you never take possession.
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I don't think the difference here is the population size.

I think the biggest difference is the target audience.

Old computer magazines: sophisticated, educated readers that want the truth.

New tech sites: uneducated masses, typically teenagers that just want confirmation bias on their choice.

It's also increasingly complicated today to be a magazine like Byte was back in the day. Even if a team tries really hard, it's no use, the universe is so big that's impossible to report everything, the publication will always be lying by occultation.
Silicon Valley escalates its war on white supremacy despite free speech concerns
This seems like a non-statement. It's obvious that violence isn't protected under freedom of speech. There are no arguments on that point.

> If white supremacists march into our towns armed to the teeth and with the intent to harm people, they are not engaging in activity protected by the United States Constitution.

Why even add "white supremacists" to that statement? It would be true of any group. You could replace "white supremacists" with "Underpants Gnomes" and this would still be true.

Crack some skulls

???

Profit!

> The First Amendment should never be used as a shield or sword to justify violence.

Does "shield" in this case refer to the protesters who were resisting the Unite the Right rally?
>If you think that software hasn't advanced much, simply use the software from 10 or 20 years ago, and see if you can stand the experience.

I still use Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7 whenever I can. It's faster to startup and use than any of the versions that came afterwards based on .NET. The built-in effects are a bit outdated, but it still runs most Photoshop compatible plugins.

And I still run Windows 2000 in an isolated offline VM for some of my work. Even emulated, it's blistering fast on modern day hardware. The entire OS runs great in less RAM than a Blogger tab (assuming the article's numbers about 500MB - 750MB RAM are correct).

There is some excellent and efficient new software being made (Sublime Text and Alfred spring to mind), but please, don't give me another Electron-based 'desktop' app.
Pretty well. Why?
red shirts vs brown shirts =( and the rest of us get shafted
When in her teens, my daughter developed a peanut allergy during her time in drum corps such that it was confirmed with skin patch tests and she had to carry an epi-pen. After about a year it just went away and she's back to "normal".
Principles are tested in hard times.

In half of Europe Nazis were replaced by Stalinists...hope we're not on the same path.

Legally 1st amendment is protection against the government, but principally it should be applied to any entity with national or global power.

Racist, Nazis or anyone can say what they want (minus explicit call for violence), and the opposing side has the equal right to prove them wrong. That's the beauty and intent of the 1st Amendment. How people are cheering this decision, seems rather shortsighted to me.
> It seems to me that such a business owner would seem in hindsight to have been acting virtuously,

No it wouldn't - There is a large percentage of population joining Nazi parties for convenience, for their career or even out of fear. Are you going to deny them the food you sell from your shop? If they are Nazi's, are they still not human beings deserving to access food in the market?

Does someone being a member of the Nazi party mean we can let them starve to death? Shoot them and push them into a trench even?

The moment you dehumanise vast swathes of the population, you've already lost and dropped to the level of "Nazi's". It's not wise to let your enemies turn you into them.
Cloudflare Pulls Support for the Daily Stormer, a White Supremacist Site
Failing to "build great things really well". Even a boring accounts system that has good scaffolding like build and test rigs can be a joy to work on.

Just keep building great stuff really well.
Todays transistors are still generally on a plane. If we could find ways to build IC's stacked thousands or millions of layers thick, we could really start using the third dimension.

("3d" transistors built on their side don't really count)
Careful about assuming opinions I didn't actually express :)
The spectrum of Antifa is very wide, not just Communists. The only thing common about the various groups that make up Antifa is that we hate Nazis and other racist/fascist ideology and their supporters. Some of us promote and use violence to protect society from them, some of us do not.
He addresses this in his email to staff, which quoted in the article:

"The right answer is for us to be consistently content neutral. But we need to have a conversation about who and how the content online is controlled. We couldn’t have that conversation while the Daily Stormer site was using us. Now, hopefully, we can."

If the building is on fire, you put out the fire first, and then decide what the future fire safety policy is.
It took him a while didn't it.

His first response is the most significant.
Why would they be meaningless?

You can use this list in any way. For example when you want to increase your product price. This is fine when it is good for the customer (because they will get a better product). But it is not fine when you do it for the shareholders alone.

They are also goals because the ultimate goal is to please the customer, then the employee and than the shareholder.

I think they are great guidelines.
I recommending watching 'The People vs. Larry Flynt' for a (much-needed) lesson in what Freedom of Speech means in the United States. I am certain Larry Flynt had a hard time finding print houses willing to publish Hustler but the fact he was being arrested and prosecuted – by the government – for distributing Hustler is when/where the line was crossed.

I have doubts that SCOTUS will ever consider 'The Nazis vs. Cloudflare'.
why do you need to "take sides"? life is not binary. If you don't like antifa that's fine, but you don't then need to support nazis for that ...
There is nothing fascist in beating up Nazis.
It used to take many hours to install if you were installing it from a CD, DVD, or spinny HDD onto a spinny HDD. The last time I had to install it, I did it from and to an SSD, and including patches and extensions it took about half an hour.

The main culprit was extracting and copying all of the small source files that come with it.
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I'm fairly certain that most 19th century slavers weren't German national socialists.
That is a fair description of US border controls post 9-11, yes.