skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Only the Chinese government can get away with something unbelievable like these regulations

Many countries do. To watch certain youtube videos in south korea you need to provide your social security number or something like that.
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The subreddits mentioned above are alt right subs like /r/The_Donald . They are openly protesting the firing of the memo author by using extensions like AdNauseum that interfere with Google's revenue stream.
No, it's a response to recent policy changes at google that suppress right-wing thinking/publishing, as part of the larger-scale online suppression of it marketed as 'fighting the fake news':

http://www.amerika.org/wp-content/uploads/right-wing-censors...

That's a generic list that doesn't mention google, but this is specifically about google:

https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/901545224530530305

In most recent escalation of this, Youtube has 'economically censored' Ron Paul for criticizing U.S. foreign policy on Afghanistan and WikiLeaks.
> You overestimate the amount of impact

I never discussed the level of impact for this type of direct action.

edit: Also, if the impact is negligible, I assume you're fine with more people installing adnauseam.

> Obviously fraud

Good luck making that decision. Are you willing to defraud the people hosting your ads with an overly-sensitive detector? Unlike the user that installs adnauseam that doesn't have any contractual relationship with the advertiser or ad-hosting website, the advertiser would be committing fraud if their false positive is too high.
Tangential question: are the electron "fluid dynamics" of graphene inherently "2D" because it's such a "layered" material and we're talking about such thin slices?

That is, do vortices in the flow behave as if confined to 2 dimensions?

Even if we have to given it a nitrogen bath, it would be incredibly interesting if you could experiment with 2D electron fluid dynamics just by creating graphene structures. (Which I believe can be created via laser circuit printing -- considerably easier than the process for similar things now.)
Do you know if the full 1992 manual ever made it onto the web?
I know a lot of people who were using artist/business names as personal acct names on facebook, and were contacted and told they had to change to their legal names. In many cases, they were asked to submit a drivers license for proof, and lost access to their accounts until this was completed.
All I know is when the UK barks, we come running.

Do you wanna debate that we're in the Coalition, currently destroying the middle east, willingly, for example?

>we're the personal colony of a Queen who suddenly upended hundreds of years of Parliamentary

We're locally sovereign, but not internationally sovereign. Even our own courts have admitted this - but of course, its not for the Australian people to know this, or even have any power to do anything about it. After all, we're all just struggling to be able to afford cool shit.
Bitcoin can also be devaluated by lost of trust. Also the current supply of Bitcoin is through mining only.

If rules are changed by a fork then you will have 2 different coins. We already saw it with bitcoin cash. Another way would be that the current consensus on Bitcoin itself changes. But that's a risk. How can people then predict such a consensus change. How risky is it to have Bitcoin since the day after the rules may change ?
But how does Mithril know that status changes? How does it know you just changed the variable?
That's what they get for censoring people on youtube and google I guess.
Prices are set by what the market is willing to pay, rather than what the service costs to run. Visa, et al, charges what it does because most merchants are willing to pay it, evidenced by the relatively few "cash/check only" businesses out there.

This doesn't mean that merchants wouldn't switch to a lower-cost payment system if it were available and there were enough customers using it, but it does mean that you can't just assume that Visa, et al, would not lower their prices if they felt the competition was serious enough. What their actually cost is, in such a circumstance, is harder to say. Their basic payment processing cost is probably quite low, even accounting for the people who maintain it, but they also provide fraud protection and frequently kickbacks to customers (cash back, airline miles, points); whether they could switch to chip-and-pin exclusively (in the US) and severely curtail kickbacks while still offering a desirable service to customers as well as merchants...

[Their credit services are presumably well-funded through their high interest rates.]
Those were the days man!

Now we have muggles using 4 processors to plant radishes in a virtual farm.
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What do you expect to be able to do with it?

I'd say just publish an academic paper on it under your name.
> We still don't have a type system, static analysis, multi-threading, first-class IDE support

Let me try to address these.

Regarding type system, lot of great languages don't have type systems either. But if there's lot of discussion on type systems, it would be because of Flow vs TypeScript.

As for static analysis, JS has seen evolution of JSHint, JSLint, JSCS, ESLint, and finally, Prettier. Flow is capable of performing type-checks with dynamic analysis.

I am not sure multi-threading is the hallmark of a modern language. Because Go, Elixir etc. are providing great concurrency without exposing threading API to the developer. JavaScript lets you do asynchronous tasks via callback, promises, generators, and latest - async/await. In the browser, you can use web-worker. But in most cases, you won't need it.

JS ecosystem has great code editors. I find VSCode to have good support out of the box, with breakpoint debugging. You can also use Atom, or Sublime Text, or Webstorm. If you're missing certain functionality, you can always add open-source plugins.
https://www.dice.com/jobs?q=software+engineer&l=Texas

-> 1 - 30 of 3,061 positions

doesn't seem to have scared too many away from the title..
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> The resignations followed a single event -- a vote that failed to remove a former director, a longstanding member of the community, from the leadership group.

This post (without taking sides, I haven't even read his post yet) is that individual's defence of himself, which doesn't appear to be linked from this post:

https://medium.com/@rvagg/the-truth-about-rod-vagg-f063f6a53...
Not condoning this, but isn't this true in South Korea as well?
It's not schadenfreude, and this latest uptick in AdNauseam installation&use is not caused by anti-ad attitudes, but
as backlash against what is perceived as thought policing by google, mostly in form of demonetizing and silencing popular YouTube users who lean right in their political expression.
In 97/98 McLaren added the fiddle brake which was quickly outlawed. The fiddle brake was a two brake pedal system so the left side and right side of the car could be controlled separately. This allowed for better braking entering into a corner and a slight traction advantage on exiting. I always thought it was fair play since it completely depended on the driver and should never have been banned.

https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/1ux791/an_old_f1_...
I find the opposite true where services disappear, update, deprecate
So far they're built next to pre-existing ones and using excess power
Sendy, newsletter services are charging thousands of times more where now I pay cents for ses
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Where can I find a list or overview reference for the events that happened? I'm completely out of the loop as I don't use Node.js at all.

Also, are there backup(s) anywhere for the "Many [...] complaints, since removed from the committee's pages"?
Can someone explain what happened? The article did a very poor job at it (or, at least, I didn't understand it), as it seemed to contradict itself or not shed enough light on things.

What did Vagg actually do? Why did other members leave?
In my case, this was only for an internship. I study in Canada where the interns in CS and Computer engineering are rather well paid (easily over 20USD per hour for a first internship). I accepted a much lower salary to work in start-up in Copenhagen (its called pleo.io).
The experience was amazing and the team was awesome, but it is hard to live in such an expansive city with an intern salary of around 1600USD per month. Only renting a room in a shared apartment usually costs more than 800-900USD per month.
One of my workmates open-sourced this: https://github.com/livingsocial/bundler-patch

...which is mostly what we used internally for working with bundler-audit. We ran this scan in CI, on deploy, and also on a cron for apps that might not have deployed in a while. Internally this created PRs automatically, and PRs triggered CI, so eg when a nokogiri CVE was announced (which affects a lot of projects), all apps would have tested PRs ready to merge.

That piece wasn't open-sourced I think...it's fairly trivial but I'll see if I can get it released. We also did scans on clojure projects, again I'm not sure that's made it out into the world, I'll look into it.
This sort of thing doesn't just happen in Hinduism. Behold, the Sagrada Família: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Família
We don't cover !@#$ing with the utilities in ways that are not standard is probably in there somewhere..
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Concorde was fuel-efficient as supersonic aircraft go, but the physics forces weird designs on you and you end up with, well, Concorde. Its cabin was cramped and not particularly comfortable, it cost much more than a regular airliner, and being supersonic didn't save enough time to cover the additional cost and discomfort.

That's why we're still at 0.8-ish mach numbers -- you can build those planes big and comfortable for the people who buy the expensive tickets.
An interesting tidbit, Qantas already set a record flying non-stop from LHR to SYD in 1989 when taking delivery of a 747-400 http://www.airwaysmuseum.com/Qantas%201st%20England-Aust%20n...
>do you people stand around street-musicians for 45min and when they nudge their hat just say "fuck you, your content is not good enough to pay for; now shut up and continue playing"?

I ignore that guy and move along hoping that he would fuck off and that I won't see him again tomorrow.
It's the same conversion rate as direct mail. And that works. How high should a conversion rate be?
> An individual accidentally clicking on an ad, or clicking on an ad without been actually interested in a product is far from suspicious, we've all done it and we'll do it again. But that's not what this is about.

I have to admit that I was hoping that is what this would be about. I suspect that almost all ad clicks on mobile devices are "accidental" in the sense that those pages are optimized to ensure the maximum number of accidental clicks.
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It's not just the memo author, google has started a campaign of indirect censorship by punishing what they call 'controversial content' in doublespeak but mostly boils down to 'right-wing leaning' on YouTube by a) demonetizing channels/users b) disabling commenting and embedding videos for those users too.

Google thinks it's acceptable to wage an economic war against people who don't think the way Google approves, and the users are simply accepting the new rules of the game.
I am aware, my point still stands: the refactorings available in Java IDE's are more powerful, safer and more numerous than the Smalltalk IDE ever offered.

Which shouldn't come as a surprise since Smalltalk is dynamically typed, which means automated refactorings are impossible to achieve without human supervision.
I would guess they meant "Specialization is for insects."
I don't see how his privacy was sacrificed. An OkCupid profile isn't really private. Anyone who logs into the site can look at it.
Maybe a sign that things are too coupled through. Can make the same argument on any project, I.e. wanted to add small feature, ended up changing 27 files.
I fall into this category of people. How should I feel about myself?
So you can't. OK.

E: how is the wikipedia artikel solving the problems we already have and which resulted from the current nuclear waste storage?! I've asked that above. This whole thread results from a quasi "roses and butterflies" comment.
I've heard he refused to use gender neutral pronouns.
The cross-border flows are relatively small compared to domestic production.

Click on any country to see the flows: https://www.electricitymap.org/?wind=false&solar=false&page=...
The tooling ecosystem, the performance, the VM, the GC, the libraries, etc...

Also, Smalltalk is dynamically typed so there are very few refactorings that can be performed safely without the supervision of a human.
The example you edited in makes your point very well. Essentially, you're describing a simple MVC design, with a couple of React-specific details for rendering your view.

In desktop world, we were using this sort of software architecture decades ago. It's only a combination of modular design, separating state from presentation, and an observer, and these are all well-established principles that have stood the test of time. Countless developers have written something like this at the start of countless new projects, and they probably did it in five minutes without a second thought.

The difference In modern JS world is that some people talk as if you need 197 dependencies, a whole build process and a team of 5 just to maintain it. You really don't, and the frameworks and build systems that push in that direction make my head hurt.
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The list of complaints seems to have been removed from the vote issue [1] on his removal 'at the request of several core collaborators who felt that listing the issues was not fair to Rod'.

He lists the issues himself in his response post [2] (see 'Response to the list of complaints'), where he also states 'Please note that I did not ask for this text to be redacted.' (although it's unclear whether he refers to the redaction of certain links in the list as copied in his post, or the whole list on nodejs/TSC#310).

So [1] seems to be the authoritative source on the Node side, [2] the authoritative source on the opposite side.

Disclaimer again, I'm not taking sides, I haven't read everything yet, I'm just gathering links for people to draw their own conclusions.

[1]: https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/310

[2]: https://medium.com/@rvagg/the-truth-about-rod-vagg-f063f6a53...
This article is from 2016. There are some really odd choices there: for example, Lena Dunham or Emma Sulkowicz.
Another project bites the dust. Let the game of thrones commence!
This is misleading - that article refers to ozone emitted from fossil power plants. Not the cars or chargers.
Luckily they are not connected in series and the packs are monitored.
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RTL level is good enough for digital simulation, but the uninitialized S-DSP with Magical Drop sounds like it depends on analog effects. Transistor level would let you simulate this.
No money = no normies on the Internet.
Imagine a world where people actually pay for Internet services without ads again. That would blow social media plankton out of the water.
Are you saying there are people who meditate and can free their mind of any thought? I tried this "exercise" and could not "not think" for the life of me.
It's been known for ages of course, there's always been a bogeyman, I like how there's some older articles out there that have predicted which bogeyman it was going to be today.

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

Wikipedia cites this term being coined in 1988 ;).
This seems like interesting info - but something you'd like to see in a reader? Or do you mean like in your other comment for a specific topic?

I was thinking about a date/time aggregation for the comments.. Not so useful, but I'd be interested to see.
"you can also get IDs and fake passports easily in China if you want"

I've lived in China for 7 years, and your statement surprised me. Care to share more information to support this claim? I'm genuinely curious.
Who profits from this?

I mean this seems like a campaign to crush the node leadership, someone wants to get power over node, but who?
This is pure fun:

"Some time ago I received notification via email that there are complaints against me. No details were provided and I was informed that I would neither receive those details or be involved in the whatever process was to take place. Further, TSC members were not allowed to speak to me directly about these matters, including my work colleagues also on the TSC."
Thanks, I read those after I wrote the comment, and the things he did seem very minor. Of course, I'm only seeing his side of the argument, so I can't form a well-rounded opinion, but I can't see how the original list of complaints is enough justification to vote someone out of a council.
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I know there are some mobile apps, looking for anything popular on the web.
OP specifically mentions this as something he already knows about. Not a very useful suggestion.
Yes, there is a simple puzzle that makes use of this. When carrying coffee back to the office, how do you insure that the coffee will be the hottest, by putting in the cream at Starbucks or back at the office?

A hotter object loses heat faster than a cooler object.

It's actually a fourth power relationship to temperature. See Stefan-Boltzmann Law for the details.
Gameshow-style obstacle courses that have little to do with actual day to day work to be performed once hired. Codility. HackerRank. Theoretical puzzles on whiteboard.
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Sometimes even those are pretty shitty jobs, though. My hobby is art.

Commissions really suck sometimes, as they aren't creative and generally aren't enough to live on. Comic book artists often work long days only to be greeted with pain at the end of the day. Hand cramps are the least of the worries: such artists often develop problems with their dominant arm, commonly carpal tunnel and tennis elbow. And these are usually contract jobs with no benefits whatsoever.

My mother is an excellent seamstress. Most paid work is wedding alterations, tailoring clothing, and sewing patches on military uniforms (decent demand here for quality work, which she does). That work absolutely bores her and she winds up hating her hobby.

Of course, these aren't exactly in demand per se but is illustrative of how things change once you are working for it. It really isn't all that easy.
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I can't recall a time when ads ever provided useful information about products, as opposed to psychologically conditioned brand awareness.
Any sources to this?
Where did you hear this? Is there a source?
Yeah its a politic war. I believe it all started when some people on the left got some companies to pull their ads from some right wing Fox anchor. Unless someone knows of events older than this?
And would she have a chance of receiving such an honor today?
Ah, but if people said the same thing, people were right. The number of repetitive jobs (being a peasant, moving your hand up and down a loom) has indeed decreased.
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SFO's issue is not "weather" so much as it's a combination of the local conditions and the airport itself.

SFO has two sets of parallel runways, and usually likes to use 28L/28R for arrivals. There are plenty of protocols for airports to do simultaneous landings on two runways parallel and next to each other, but (simplifying a bit) SFO has the slight problem of them being too close together to do instrument landings for both runways at the same time.

This leads to compromise protocols which rely on the ability of one plane to maintain visual contact with the other plane when doing simultaneous landings. But of course in foggy/cloudy/rainy weather, visibility goes away and SFO can no longer handle simultaneous landings on those runways, which basically cuts the capacity of the airport in half.
How? If the clicks are random, how does one filter them out and separate them from actual traffic?
Intrinsic to what? Individual molecules don't have consciousness, a group of them forming a brain does. It has to emerge at some point.
No, I had just had a kid and was sleep deprived for the two days leading up to the flight. Once I fall asleep, I can sleep through anything.
Alternatively, the OS could allow you to set your city (or region/state/county perhaps) and just return this as the GPS location for certain apps. i.e. choosing London could return a fixed 51.5073509, -0.1277583 for all users who chose London.
I agree with you, although people should have the choice to be anonymous or not. Users should also be able to make the difference, and have less trust towards anonymous individuals.

I agree that there should be places where anonymity should not be authorized, but it should not be mandatory.

Even if the state need people's identity it doesn't share that data with private companies (in general).

> Additionally, I think anonymity tends to bring the worst in us. Perhaps it is because we feel less pressured by social norms of behavior since we are not held personally responsible for our speech as much as it would've been the case irl.

You're right, but what you are describing is the pressure of the politically correct, which can be toxic. Anonymity let people express their opinion without fear of retaliation.

It's a double edge sword. The best solution is to educate people so that they can make the difference, and let people use platforms with strong identification where it's better.
I'm not sure.

And I donated my copy to a friend some years back.
> "What did Vagg actually do?"

The fact that we can't get any answer on this beyond Vagg's side is frustrating. From reading his side, it all seems incredibly minor stuff that would in no way need to end with a leadership change.

Can someone in the Node.js community enumerate the complaints fully, here or in some public place?
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And my answer to this is the same as above.
I cut my salary in half going back to research after some years in a HFT gig. I'm gaining quality of work (wider breadth of topics), quality of people (world class researchers) and quality of life (office 10 min from home instead of 90, travel to conferences, ...).
Have you tried regulating? Seems to work pretty well for places like China.
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I doubt even a majority of HN has Facebook accounts and Gmail for email.

A lot of us use services like Fastmail, Protonmail for email and simply do not use Facebook. Gmail is so bad it's not even usable for me in comparison to how it was several years ago.

Changing your email account is easier than you think, especially if you already use Password Managers like most of HN will be doing. You can redirect email from Gmail to your new email address, and at your new email provider put a footer into your every sent email which states you've switched to this new email address. I advise backing up your email from Gmail using Thunderbird just in case, but personally I've never had to access the backup, it's really much easier than you imagine.