skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But we are talking about them taking down footage as it pertains to a revolution / civil war / conflict in Syria not the US.

Did I miss something? Is there massive Conflict in the US? Is their an active Violent Revolution happening? Because if you think the clashes that have occurred at protests between Anti-Fa and the Nazi;s equate to "Violent Revolution" then you will be in for a shocking awakening if the unthinkable occurs and the US does find itself in an actual violent revolution or civil war again.

The last US Civil war took the lives of 2% of the population, to put that into context if happening today that would that would be 6.5 Million people killed.

No, the US is not involved in a Violent Revolution Google needs to pick a side over, and you should pray that day never comes
If only it were so. Sadly there are many semantics in many/most current languages that make these optimizations difficult to implement while guaranteeing compliance.

More generally, the history of computing is littered with remains of plans involving "this can work, assuming we build a sufficiently smart compiler..." - you really need a language that is proactively friendly to these concepts to make the implementation straightforward and robust so language users can lean on it.
I have heard these too and that is a misrepresentation of his statements. He does not say Chavez is great. He makes specific and nuanced arguments about value exemplified in some things Chavez did.

This probably didn't need saying, but what an obnoxious generalization to make.
A Tale of Hacking, Before the Internet Existed
> it's possible to get "null" as a string downstream

I don't see the problem with that. Strings that contain formatted variables should be used for display only. Besides, when someone inputs his name, the input is already a string, and I don't see how you would dereference string contents.
The case was about whether or not you can copyright an API.
World-renowned linguist and all people are talking about is his political views (mostly by his own design).

Make no mistake, Chomsky's work was significant to both linguistics proper (X-bar theory, generative grammar, universal grammar) and computer science (Chomsky hierarchy).

In recent years though he more often than not comes across as a grumpy old man who can't seem to accept the fact that linguistic theory has moved on to often simpler, more elegant approaches.
While I agree factually, I do have a vague feeling that we're too focused on details that, in context of this particular argument, aren't really relevant.

Twitter/google/facebook are so central to modern society that being banned from them isn't all that different from being banned by the government, at least from the perspective of said nazis and sympathisers.
As much as Chomsky may have been incorrect, I think it is foolish to call him "depressingly ignorant" without justifying your statement. His international recognition both in his field and in his commentaries did not appear out of nowhere.
I made the same decision about 1-2 months ago for the same reason, and after scaffolding my project from the CLI, creating some components, and adding additional pieces I needed (vue-router, vuex, dev server proxying to my backend, etc.), Vue has been an absolute pleasure to work with.
I can't see how the site you quote shows that the NHS is being defunded at an alarming rate... In fact:

"Looking at the wider UK, the amount spent on health has been rising over the long-term. That’s true whether it’s expressed in cash, cash adjusted for inflation, per person, or as a proportion of the size of the economy."

Regarding the UK/US comparison. The question is why would you want to compare yourself to a global outlier unless you're trying to setup a straw man?

The UK health care system is obviously better than the US, almost every developed country has a healthcare system than is better than the US, it's not even hard.

It's hard to be better than other European countries, or for example... Japan.

For some strange reason British politics tends to frame arguments as "we're better than the US at X"... doesn't matter... there are many things the US is poor at.
Mandatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1357/
None that work with Chrome Android though. :(
https://www.amren.com/commentary/2017/08/unite-the-right-vio...

> Compare that to the response after a Muslim intentionally murders innocent people going about their daily routine. “We have to understand the conditions that lead these young men to do this.” “They lack job opportunities.” “This has nothing to do with Islam.” “Our military interventions are to blame.”

> Similarly, after false reports that a police officer has shot the proverbial “unarmed black man” and violent riots ensue, we are told that socio-economic or educational inequities are the reason. Most everyone sees through this, but the show must go on.

> A consistent theme becomes obvious–when non-whites commit crimes and even murder, the moral, enlightened thing to do is find out what bad thing white people did that caused their behavior. But when white people take to the streets as white people, unmitigated revulsion must be exhibited for all to see.

...

> But what keeps bubbling to the surface and ruining this fantasy is human nature. All people desire to live in communities and countries that reflect their identities, cultures, and histories. That feeling—not particular political or economic systems—is foundational. And so, like trying to keep two opposing magnets in close contact, non-stop effort has to be made in multiracial societies to keep natural forces of repulsion from winning out.

> But the grand diversity experiment in America is not just about seeing whether different racial and cultural groups can successfully coexist in the same country (history suggests they can’t); it is about denigrating white people and denying them a positive racial identity. The scope of this undertaking is striking–academia, media, entertainment, and politics are all saturated with various forms of white guilt and white shaming.

> The resentments engendered by this psychological abuse are made worse when they’re dismissed as paranoia, or when dissenters are diagnosed as being “scared of people who don’t look like them” or “filled with hate.”

> No people will tolerate this for long, and what we are seeing now is the inevitable blowback to decades of a one-sided culture war on white people.
A violent reaction to speech you hate is unnecessary and corrupting. Only countering with persuasion based on reason and facts will stop the abyss from staring back into you.
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Graydon is clearly aware and links to some relevant stuff in that post, I assume this is just an elaboration for other commenters' sake.
Clojure(Script) can do the same.
AI Can Easily Erase Photo Watermarks:  How to Protect Yours
why not provide a tool like google to self-destruct profile if not logged in within a time frame ? Why is facebook taking the pain of resolving conflicts and becoming a mediator and judge etc ? Instead of giving the profile owners with tools to control what should happen in case of death or inactivity for a long period (like google?) ?
All very good points, thank you.
There are several advantages of apps over SMS. Cost and accessing the messages from multiple devices being the two main ones I can think of.
Have you ever been to the Chinese countryside? I have, my wife is Chinese. My wife's sister is disabled and married a man from the countryside, a common arrangement in China, so I have relatives from the country. Trust me, sending all those workers back home really isn't going to do an awful lot to reduce human suffering. They choose to go and take those jobs for good reasons.

Many of the workers in those factories are women. After a few years, they often go back home as the wealthiest members of their families, with enough capital to build homes and start new businesses of their own. It's actually started a distinct demographic trend. People have all sorts of bizarre ideas about china. Sure the conditions in these factories are awful by western standards, but China isn't the west. The same basis for making decisions just don't apply. Hopefully they will one day, but we're not there yet.
Couldn't agree more, from one foamie homie to another! I often go foam when I take coaching, just so I can be sure the board is under my control when working on something new. One of my favourite sessions was one where clean 3-4ft waves just kept rolling in out back (a rarity here) and whilst everyone of us on epoxy/fibreglass got to surf, no one had wave counts higher than a local shop owner on a 9-10ft board. If I could have taken a poll that day it was clear judging by everyone's faces who would have won the vote for happiest person in the water. That to me is what surfing is all about
FatFinger is a JavaScript library expanding JavaScript to allow typos and misspellings
Ask HN: How do it explain Bitcoin to my dad?
Out of the blue, my dad called my yesterday to know more about bitcoins. I did my best but I am pretty sure I fell short of explaining it clearly. I used the standard buzz words: crypto-currency, mining, 21 M coins limit, asset vs currency, etc but fell far short of sustaining his interest after the first 2 mins of my monologue.

How should I explain like I would to a 10-year-old?
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Early stopping problem: dnd
Here's a list of companies using React:

- Microsoft
- Uber
- Yahoo Mail
- Dropbox
- Airbnb
- Netflix
- NY Times

If they're ok with the license, you probably shouldn't worry too much. Basically, if you don't own any patents or if your company is smaller than any of the above, you should be ok.
How far has that gotten? Seriously.

Trying to compromise with a nazi is like agreeing to putting a kitten in the blender at half speed instead of full speed. These aren't folks that reason and persuasion is working for, as they think they are reasonable.
Not sure if comparing Rust's relevance to that of the gopher protocol is really a positive remark. ;)
Exactly. You'll be using the React code under the BSD license but without any patent grants.
Angular does not come with a patent grant at all.
Vue most likely is infringing on FB patents anyway.
So what is the win exactly?
You can generally also deduct charity payments to your own "land conservation" charity, which can then go ahead and buy 50 acres of land around your recently built mansion.

Pretty sure you wouldn't consider that one one that makes sense.

Plenty of deductions exist for a reason, and generating profits isn't always one of them.
You might be surprised about what the big corporations will do for their preferred clients...
The article states, for example, "... even where it feels right to turn over private messages to family members, laws may prevent us from doing so. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act and Stored Communications Act, for instance, prevent us from relying upon family consent to disclose the contents of a person’s communications."

So simply handing over the account isn't a possibility, they'd have to remove the nonpublic communications first.
Ubuntu 16.04. It just works. Upgraded to 17.04-17.10 and had the dreaded issues which made me fall back on the tried and true. I don't recall all of them but they were painful.
On the majority of my servers I am running Red Hat , because of the support , even tough personally I am an unix guy
Thanks, very interesting difference.

Google's grant protects (or tries to protect) specific tech, Facebook's grant protects (or tries to protect) as an umbrella, the organisation.

Well - can't comment on how effective it will be as a disincentive to sue, but I do feel at the same time if it does succeed in that goal it will almost certainly act equally as a negative factor in adoption; because it's my opinion that this is creating a soft-walled garden around Facebook open source tech.
> almost no one with Down's reproduces because it is a physically/socially crippling disorder

People with Down's are almost always infertile.

Regarding how 'crippling' it is, it actually varies dramatically. Down's is associated with a whole host of additional physical and mental issues, such as heart problems, sleep apnea, low muscle tone, behavioural issues, autism and dementia. But not everyone with Down's has all of these issues, and the severity of them varies. IQ levels so vary greatly. Even the degree of facial features typically associated with Down's varies - for some people with Down's(especially children) it would not be immediately obvious to others, if they could tell at all.

How societies deal with people with Down's has also changed greatly over the past few decades. In most Western countries a lot of help is now available (speech and language therapy, occupational therapy etc), and life expectancy, prospects and opportunities for people with Down's have all increased.
Why there is little hole in airplane windows?
I don't mean to spout off in a public forum, don't think I don't understand how much work is involved in putting out something that we're not going to be disappointed with!

But I have been interested in OpenShift, and it is a good sign for me that so many people who obviously are involved in OpenShift are representing on this thread.

I will definitely give Openshift another look soon. We're building a group of experienced devs to help onboarding our new dev employees as they come on, and we're going to have some standard-setting capacity when it comes to showing off the tools we use.

(We are currently well behind in the K8S space imho, but getting better and I think making a more serious push for it is going to come soon. Our institution is large and like all large institutions Byzantine bureaucracy results in some extreme levels of inertia; well we haven't really dove into containers near the level I had at my last position, which was still only about token level – most core infrastructure still not containerized or even touching any containers.)

So, blank canvas!

I'm very much hoping to have an array of tools that I can share with new devs, so they can organically decide what works best for their own selves. I had kind of discounted oc based on not having used it much myself, but I do remember having some joy at reading the documentation that it was more centrally located and easier to "grok" as well as feeling more complete.

Anyway both things that will be super helpful to anyone who is new at Kubernetes or Dev stuff in general. There is just so much to learn and the ecosystem is ofc constantly evolving!

I will keep openshift origin in the toolbox and take another look at pro offering.

Thanks for introducing yourself to me!
Why Go is my favorite programming language
Angular 2 is MIT licensed. Why you need a patent grant anyways?
Does the spec define the minimum amount of space the browser must allocate?
Safari browser to read HN
> We should be able to just use it, because it's open and that's what open means.

You can. What's stopping you?
Effect size in addition to p-value, not instead of...
> Or it could, you know, not be met with force outside the law, because we live in a civil society where people are free to think independently and express themselves, and we have laws against assaulting people.

This is of course the ideal, and works in most situations. That doesn't work though. You can't reason with intolerance.

This is the age old paradox of tolerance: how can you be tolerant and not tolerate intolerance?

The answer is you cannot and must not. You must resist intolerance and those that seek to end the open society

Violence must as always be a last resort of course.
>if you show up enough times and get to know the regulars, you'll be totally fine.

This makes me frown slightly in vague annoyance. Why should I need the permission and tacit approval of "the regulars" to choose to start surfing? It kind of reminds me of those groups, usually of old men, that you see occasionally decide a bar is "their bar" because they've been going there a while, and try to push other patrons out though passive-aggressive behavior.

If that's really how it is, I'd be one of those wave stealers, and I wouldn't apologize for it.
I would add Stack Exchange (and particularly SO), full of invaluable information but you need to kneel before asking a question.

I do not know how the Meta groups are today, this was one of the most toxic groups I have ever seen.
The novelty of NBC's move and the reason it's being talked about on HN is that an old media giant is embracing Snapchat's younger demographic. Once you know that any supporting details are largely irrelevant because they only further describe what is already known.
I think I could justify it... but it'll take some work, and is unlikely to ignite any sort of productive discussion - so I'll just edit that out.
China Tech Talk 17: China's Largest Retailer with Josh Gartner
Their speech is protected as legal (in the US, might vary elsewhere).

What I was getting at is that their platform is not guaranteed. They must be shut down, their speech drowned. Non-violent protest as long as possible, violent only as a last resort. But you don't let nazis speak and shrug and say "it's their right, let's hear them, try to convince them they are wrong".
The fact that I even need to use variables because the language does not have proper string literals.
That's probably the most American-sounding package name I've ever heard
A third alternative is, he just doesn't feel the need to spend all his money? They both could be making the same amount of money, with one blowing it all on random shit, and the other actually not having a need to do that?
Much discussion and the raising (and in most cases answering) or related issues can be found here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9633051
This is not an introductory book at all. From the preface: “Our intention was to maintain a technical level of discussion appropriate to Masters’-level statisticians or first-year PhD students.”
Can anyone explain if the patents license is anything more than "if you use our patents, we can use yours", or if that in itself is the thing that is offensive (and why)?
Violence is never a resort in a discussion.
The "paradox of tolerance": solution draw a limit for what is met with reason and what isn't.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Bill Joy, creator of vi, csh, building better batteries
I agree with you and I think Google is still underestimating the amount of required resources because the framework is still not really "done", a couple examples: universal (SSR) just hit a stable release on angular-cli so it needs time to be widespread and supported in the ecosystem. The are core components like the i18n waiting for a major refactor because they lack basic features: https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/11405
This is an ad written by a PR agency.
> At that point, the patent has given you no advantage in implementation over the simple knowledge that a process for doing X exists at all.

This depends on whether you consider X to be "converting ecommerce sales" or "ordering items with a single click". Just because the implementation is easy to reverse engineer from a one line description of the novelty doesn't diminish the resources spent by Amazon in coming up with this insight and testing how it improved their business.

I'm not strongly in favour of software patents in general, but the argument that this patent is "too easy to copy" misses the point a bit.
Trolls have always dominated discourse once the discourse gets into the public arena. The noticeable difference today is that is tends to be more real time for more people.

The first problem is that the biggest trolls we have are our politicians (of every stripe and level), including any position that requires a public vote to enter.

Critical thinking is not taught today in education system and hence, we see less and less people able to refute or deal with trolls in any significant way.

I notice that Techdirt.com has a very usable means of dealing with trolls by the general reading community.

The second problem is that the label "troll" often gets applied to anyone who has a viewpoint that is different to prevailing group's viewpoint. So, someone who has a relatively left POV will be labelled a troll on a site that is relatively right, whereas someone who is relatively right will be labelled a troll on a site that is relatively left. There are all sorts of opposing viewpoints that have some level of validity which will be labelled as trollish by the opposing camp.

This is where critical thinking comes in handy, to be able to see the level of validity of an opposing viewpoint without heading down the ad hominen path of rebuttal.

Thirdly, there are those who have the goal of simply stirring up the general group by making comments that exist for the sole purpose of causing contention.

This is where critical thinking come in so that one can recognised such and apply the required filters and not get caught up in responding to those comments. In other words, Don't Feed The Trolls.

Finally, the term NAZI applies to a specific viewpoint and when you look into this viewpoint, there is nothing positive about it. Many who have been labelled nazi are no more NAZI than those who have applied that label to them.

It is a particularly pernicious POV and thoroughly debilitating to the well-being of society. Mind you, there are any number of other viewpoints that are just as bad for society both from the left and the right.
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That's how I understand it... the monotonic rate of decay of pulsars' rotation rates allows one to backtrack to when the map was made. The question, therefore, is whether any phenomena can introduce discontinuities in those rates of decay in a manner so unpredictable as to jeopardise the time-keeping properties of the map.
If the author wishes to continue with js/react/redux then he needs to pick up a library like immutable.js to cut down that immutabiilty helper crap.

However, there is a better way ... lein new figwheel my-app, clojurescript+reframe gives you all the benefits of redux with an order of magnitude less boilerplate (also hot reloading and immutability by default without no extra setup or ceremony)
1) You can't easily test it - bugs can lead to semi-working thing and you may need to run thousands of experiments to average

2) Many hyperparameters - it may be critical to get them right

3) No gradual implementation - it doesn't work until you get all the (often gimmicky) parts right. Take A3C for example - its paper version is parallel, may be hard to implement and debug in your language (and hardware) of choice.

4) Task and reward function choice may be hard - take a look on my question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44781401/is-openai-gym-c...

Generally, RL algos performance is underwhelming in my experience, without heavy tuning (and so-called "domain expertise" in reward function), but I'm not an expert and OpenAI guys show that you can make the working thing like Dota2 bot, so they give me hope.
Sure. He was very impressively neutral and rational about Monotone as well.
I haven't tried Antergos yet, but for me, Manjaro just worked out of the box. It's also technically just Arch, and I can't say I've ever experienced being shunned for using it. Sounds to me like you just had the unfortunate experience of running into some pricks on the internet. I can't see how said pricks would react any differently if you told them you were running Antergos... (But if it persists, perhaps you'd find it easier to just say you're running Arch. :)
That's awesome. What are the challenges you've faced as a remote employer?
Stopped reading half-way through, as lots of incorrect stuff off the bat.

> In the react world though you can’t mutate your data

Sure you can.

> If you get 3 people react will end up re-rendering 3 times because of
the code above. Each call to `setState` triggers a re-render.

Nope, calls to setState are batched.