skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I truly don't understand why people try so desperately to shove politics into a one-dimensional axis, _even in a comment that's pointing out how inadequate it is!_

Politics is complicated, but the two-axes model is a lot less laughably simplistic: left/right, liberal/authoritarian. To drastically oversimplify:

left-liberal: Bernie Sanders, sort of

left-authoritarian: full communism

right-liberal: libertarian

right-authoritarian: paleocons

This is just off the top of my head, has some issues, and is _still_ oversimplified[1], but you can already see how much less than the one-dimensional model it smushes together fairly-mainstream groups that have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

Anarchists are very much on the left, and big parts of the left (and the right) these days very much dislike liberals.

[1] For example, anarcho-communism doesn't fit very well into this. Ancaps fit (sort of) on the right-liberal side.
Does Apple do it?
I haven't had an issue with my printer in many years. It is an Epson all-in-one ink jet that cost $80. It sits in my office, connected to Wi-Fi. When I want to print or scan something from my iPhone, iPad, or MacBook Pro I just click/tap the button.

I order remanufactured ink cartridges from China via Amazon. For less than $16 bucks I get 4 black cartridges and 2 cyan, yellow, and magenta.

Easy peasy.
I think wanting and having Nakaya is totally legit. Like you, I am happy with my TWSBI's, Lamy's and WingSung's as of late. Pilot does have special place in my heart (vanishing point).

I see fountain pens and notebooks as inexpensive hobby and fascination that I really enjoy. So yeah, go TWSBI you can't go wrong.
Whoa lobsters is really cool. Probably the best/most promising reddit alternative I've seen because it's not taken over by some kind of extreme faction of some form.
Agreed, I have a comment down below expressing frustration at exactly that. I was just speaking on the terms that the parent comment was: liberals aren't very popular these days on the left _or_ the right, and as such aren't very well-represented in hard-left forums.

That being said, I wouldn't really classify Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama as all that leftist. In the two-axis model, they're sort of straight down-the-middle centrist liberals (like me!)
> Anarchism is anti discrimination (pro egalitarianism)

Anarchism is anti-state. That's it. Everything else is anarcho-something.
Programming as If the Domain (and Performance) Mattered
I've never not been hired through networking, and I've never worked for a large company. YMMV.
"The Party-State is secure as long as the economy keeps growing."

Hmm. Interesting. This implies that the government will do everything in its power to ensure that the economy keeps growing.

Would you say that contributes to long term prosperity of its subjects?
It's why confusing the Democrats, a party whose dominant faction is a center-right one with the left is a problem, but its not really a problem with reducing politics to a single axis (that is a problem, in general, though its actually not that inaccurate when it comes to US politics.)
top of my head:

alternativeto.net

ProductHunt

Capterra
> There are only so many junkers and that number is reducing as society standards increase and they have better ways of making a living than hauling bottles to recycling centers.

I think that the parent commenter meant Mining Companies when saying junkers. So large industrial mineral extraction operation from landfills and dumps, as opposed to 3rd world style picking through rubbish.

I'd imagine that a ton of landfill waste would be comparable to relatively rich ore, and that harvesting it is perhaps less destructive/invasive than opening a new mine.
Ah, thanks for clarifying. That makes more sense. It did seem like a misunderstanding. The reporter was never told by her superiors at Forbes that the meeting was under NDA. And she was "wearing two hats" at the time so to speak, which explains why she was invited to the meeting, but it wasn't as a "reporter" it seems:

"In addition to writing and reporting, I helped run social media there, so I got pulled into a meeting with Google salespeople about Google’s then-new social"

I wear multiple hats and sometimes roles have conflicting interests so it can difficult and confusing.
I give you a simple definition: maximize diversity (differentiation) and integration. They are opposites, to a degree - so there is a tradeoff and maximum at the middle in both diversity and integration. This idea comes from the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness (Giulio Tononi, Christoph Koch).

In a neural net we do just that - maximize diversity by splitting the signal over many neurons, each with different weights, computing different things. Integration is maximized by the mixing together of signals from other neurons and training them together with a common loss function.

Even the internet as a medium requires diversity and integration to be successful. For example, net neutrality is related to diversity. Integration is related to national firewalls, copyright barriers, filter bubbling effect (where one sees only content from parts of the internet they agree with), walled gardens (like the app stores), and other things that cut the connection between people.

You can apply diversity and integration to other fields as well, for example, in politics/governance. We can compare a federal system (more diversity) with a centrally planned system (less diversity) and see the effects. With integration - we can compare free trade with regulated trade. The same principles apply to free speech - where diversity and integration are basically promised by the constitution.
Yup, agreed. On my resume I have a list of my jobs and the things I accomplished at those companies, and I don't mention tech stack or language unless it's relevant to the accomplishment. At the bottom I have a "keyword list" of the frameworks and languages I've used and feel competent in, without saying anything about years of experience. (I've found this is useful to get through the recruiters who filter by keyword.)

Just apply to jobs, and talk about what you've done, and how you did it.
They never were TBH, capitalism is inherently hierarchical and a system of entirely private enterprise would resemble corporate feudalism, not an anarchist society.
Dude his comment is like a paragraph and a half long. At least finish reading it before disagreeing with it. Like you, I think he's _wrong_ about Ancaps not being "true" anarchist (or Scotsmen...), but it's not like he didn't address them and isn't aware of the concept (he addresses them in literally the next sentence! Jesus). Smugly linking the Wikipedia article is entirely unhelpful for anything except revealing that you didn't bother reading for more than 6 seconds before rushing to reply.
Google PR confirmed, to a reporter, on record. Not covered by nda.

Once you publicly disclose, the nda makes no sense.
Each time you lose the game the soldering iron tip temperature increases by 10 degrees.

Yikes!
I wonder if these people are aware that they didn't need to write a Reddit clone?

Why would you write a Reddit clone in PHP when Reddit itself is a perfectly fine open source Python project? Is their license not permissive enough?

https://github.com/reddit/reddit
Well, that might depend on the commute. I'm on the train from 8:20-9am, and I've not yet had coffee, so there's no productivity to be heard of there, and at 5:20-6p the productivity tank is definitely empty.

Perhaps the morning side could, if I were awake. Although, on the afternoon commute, I read stuff such as on HN because I am mentally spent. (Though if it's too rigorous, like a deep CS paper, that might get passed over.)
Teaching my 10-year-old daughter to program
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The entire democratic party really isn't leftist, outside of the heavily skewed American ecosystem, they're centre right.
Having worked with MySQL for years these are all legitimate issues but, as other users have said, they can be managed via upgrades and settings.

Personally, I'm less interested in developer-oriented issues (which are well documented) and much more interested in how people feel they compare in terms of performance and scaling.
Why open source projects sadly favor new users, and what you can do about it
Things that happened 6 years ago aren't really considered news...
If I'm being honest it's because the American left really isn't leftist at all, and I think that Americans are becoming aware of it
Isn't Reddit already open source?

https://github.com/reddit/reddit
For contract work I can understand that mindset, but for FTEs that's incredibly short-sighted. I absolutely object to expecting someone new to a stack to spend crazy hours until they're up to speed. I see framework onboarding as equivalent to any other part of the onboarding process where a new employee figures out their new team's source code repo layout, build tooling, deployment process, etc.

Hell, even if you're using a framework that I'm intimately familiar with, most frameworks are flexible enough that it'll take a little while to get used to exactly how you're using it.
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Personally I'm a fan of a workers run syndicalist economy. There are other options, like a workers run market economy, or an outright collectivist gift economy.
They recently States they were no longer going to commit to those repos and were no longer going to be open sources. Those repos you linked are supposed to stay up though
Components are, but no, not any more.

https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/6xfyfg/an_update...
I think his point was that the title indicates it's an open source reddit clone but the content is nothing about the open sourceness of it or how it was created, whereas the articles that you point out are I assume true to their titles.

He wasn't saying it shouldn't be on here because it's not hackery, just it should have it's title renamed
That idea runs into scaling problems quickly. See COBOL-60 and HyperTalk, which are are surprisingly similar.

A useful question: you want to talk to a computer conversationally, and get beyond the Alexa/Siri level of tasks. How would you do that? Fully general natural language requires strong AI. Could you come up with some more restricted form with enough expressive power but understandable by a computer? The computer might have to rephrase your questions and ask "did you mean...?" Come up with a way to converge when the understanding is poor, and you'll have something.
Citation for them hacking the voting machines?
^^^ This ^^^
That's not true at all, anarchism is anti-hierarchy. The state is just one (and the second most prominent) hierarchy that anarchists oppose.
Difference being charity is strictly voluntary and therefore people can give strictly to people they deem deserving.
You've got a very strong point.

The role of environment is severely underrated. Not just in our failures, but in our successes as well.

Motivation runs dry, but environment can be set up to work in your favour.

For example, if you sold your couch and TV, you wouldn't watch TV first thing after getting home or on weekends.

This isn't to say that you'll magically become more productive, but to just illustrate how changing the environment can have a profound effect on your habits and therefore, your life.
A question that constantly reoccurs for me is this: who does the scheduling of threads and/or processes in a unikernel?

I know unikernels are single process, but are they also intended to be single core? If not, without the kernel scheduler, what is providing that function to the unikernel? Is it just an optional module, say in the case of rumprun?
That's a conservative straw man. Skyscrapers have much more impact and no one notices.
>I think he's _wrong_ about Ancaps not being "true" anarchist

I don't believe they aren't "true anarchists", I believe they aren't anarchist at all. They aren't even in the realm of consideration of what constitutes anarchist. Their ideal society would end up corporate feudalism.
Yea, what is this "negotiation" magic?
A malicious DRM operating system running in my browser sounds pretty bad.
The New York Times is on a roll!

Erik Prince editorial on how military contractors are the solution to everything.

This article is just pure unadulterated bullshit. A propaganda piece from the US Government, nothing else.
At Burning Man while your startup burns
> However, what would the starting point be?

The starting place is simulation. We use games (and other kinds of sims) to learn to act intelligently in a virtual environment. In such a place we can define many tasks and a learning curriculum.
PostgreSQL is better in absolutely every area
Very valid point.

The purpose of restricting your diet is to restrict calories, while not being nutritionally deficit.

This is very important to keep in mind in order to prevent long term deficiency diseases.
http://www.lumberjacknews.com/

Looks like no
Sure but there is just no reason at all to copy unbraced blocks. All you do is invite bugs for zero benefit.

Maybe there are bigger issues with C? But that's a different discussion. I want to know why you copied something as simultaneously horrendous and useless as unbraced blocks? If you just didn't think it through and that's the way languages syntactically similar to C have always done it, ok. I'm sure I've made worse mistakes. But please call it one way or the other.
Is no one taking about the actual content of the critical story? Allegedly, Google was penalising sites that did not feature the +1 button?
I think NSA is such a danger and threat, aside from installing backdoors and weakening security, the major reason is that it legitimizes such behavior, so that others like China, Russia, Iran etc, can do the same and not even blush about it.

As someone said, Kaspersky is danger because it is revealing NSA tools.

(and I can't write short sentences :) sorry)
> I don't believe they aren't "true anarchists", I believe they aren't anarchist at all.

Yea, that's what I said. Putting "true" in quote marks was me dismissing the notion that you can redefine words because you don't like their current definitions.
> Nothing. Evolution came about randomly, not by intent, so it has no goal.

Evolution created a goal from nothing, which is self-replication. It works on many levels - self replicating DNA, self replicating cells, self replicating ideas (memes), self replicating ecosystem, even the economy has become a self replicator.
Not rhetorical - how does one design a community for healthy development? I've messed with forum design before and I'm curious how the layout and format influence behavior.
I've never even heard anyone explain how they could prove it in the first place. How do they differentiate an attack launched from Russia with a Russian attack? How do the differentiate state vs private actors? How do they rule out intentionally created back doors?

It always comes down to "it was the Russians, trust us".
Google’s comment-ranking system will be a hit with the alt-right
Google’s doodle on Teachers’ Day, reminds us of classrooms
Treating left as if it has some inherent, context-free meaning is ridiculous. If you're going to define a spectrum, the context matters, and the context we're currently discussing is American politics.

You may as well say that American politics only contains extreme leftists, when compared to the rest of American history.
To escape a bear you don't need to run faster than the bear, you just need to run faster than a friend.

AI doesn't need to be exponentially self-improving to pose a threat to humanity. It needs to improve faster than humanity.
Instead of picking out one food or another, I'd just like to generally highlight that the human body can use two sources of energy, carbs - glucose, or fats - ketones.

For ketosis to occur, you need to be starved of carbs and loaded with good fats. In effect, your body does turn into a fat burning machine since you literally use fat to fuel your activities and life.

The article stating improvements in various aspects of health seem to align with other studies of positive effects on our bodies upon adapting ketosis as a primary source of energy.
I don't really think this goes against what mikekchar said, though. Take your own example (the legacy oracle client):

The code you're using to escape those specific characters should ideally be written in such a way that its intent is obvious even to a novice reading it. For the novice, then, the question shifts from "WTF does this do?" to "why is this here?", which would be a great example what to actually write comments for: context.

Imagine you're writing some very math-heavy library. Ideally, I shouldn't be a language expert to be able to see what your code does. This still doesn't help me if I don't understand the underlying math, however. Even hints like "this operation is called XY and can be used to Z" may be very helpful if someone wants to get a hold of what it does. With that, you can look up literature for this specific part.
Then host your own.
> We all know what he means.

It means he failed.

I don't want failures on my team. There are hundreds of other candidates who didn't use the word pivot I'll gladly interview.
Headless Chrome vs. PhantomJS Benchmark
I remember seeing a documentary about China where a reporter interviewed a judge. When asked about the conflict between the law and the communist party, she said matter-of-factly, as if it were unthinkable for it to be any way else, that the party always comes first and the law second, because she is a judge appointed by the party and so she has to do what the party tells her. It was just so straight-forward; you're a member of the party first and the law is a secondary concern.
Evolution is not random. It requires self replication in order to transmit and evolve genes. Everything else is much more random.
I have a (color) Laser Jet Pro at home. It jams fairly often, and if I don't turn it off it'll wake me in the middle of the night loudly "calibrating." Other than that, it's been quite a good workhorse for several years and continues to meet my needs. I had some issues printing over wifi at first, but wifi printing with it has pretty much just worked for a few years now. It's still a large, heavy, fragile-seeming piece of office equipment.
Why would anyone base their decision off one anecdotal piece of evidence from a rando on HN?

P.S. I sold the 10 bitcoins I mined at $5 (got a $50 amazon gift card). Woulda, coulda, shoulda, e.g., "I should have bought AAPL at $XX".. etc. I don't lose any sleep over those type of situations anymore.
Essentially, selling some amount of your cryptocurrency to your investors before you launch.
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Updated lecture with slides https://db.in.tum.de/teaching/ss17/moderndbs/
Two phases. One system to print, a separate system to submit. A manual recount looks at the printed ballots which are inspected by the voter for correctness.
While a technology inevitably end up favoring either new or existing users, it can still provide a good experience for both by exposing both a "just works" abstraction as well as the layer or two below that. I find that SQLAlchemy[1] does this pretty well.

[1]: https://www.sqlalchemy.org/
I have no doubt they can. There's so much negative cultural conditioning towards mathematics by eliciting negative emotions that it's ridiculous (i.e. math is scary, math is hard, math is for smart people, etc.). I believe kids who excel at math is not due to them being smarter but due to the bypassing of the cultural conditioning. The bypassing can be due to the parents, teachers, some mentor, or their particular fascination for a math subject.
I like the fact that MySQL is so light on features that it forces you to put more of the burden on your application.

With richer RDBMSes like Oracle, MSSQL, and Postgres, people tend to throw too many responsibilities on the DB--which is not so good in the one part of the system that depends on global locks.

That, and the article is kind of a half-truth when it comes to the MySQL warts. A big one he missed is the utf8_unicode vs utf8mb4_unicode fiasco, which is still a thing to the best of my knowledge...
How do you design website to be a healthy community?
I can't think any website/social network with that characteristic, no without moderators.
According to this article, voting machines were targeted, but it seems very unclear as to whether or not those attempts were successful or had any effect on anything at all. Previous reports have all concluded that no votes were actually affected by hacking, and this article strives to imply that votes were affected but has no facts to back that up.

I would assume that attempts to gather information on and hack into voting machines happen all the time, by both state actors and private individuals. They key is whether or not such attempts are successful.
> Because they're not designed for healthy community development.

How so? Would you expand on this? With Twitter, I agree. But how is Reddit not designed for healthy communities? (I agree that they are not always healthy)
Demis Hassabis (Deep Mind) published recently a manifesto about the importance of neuroscience for AI.

Neuroscience-Inspired Artificial Intelligence
http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(17)30509-3
> I don't know how much more explicit you expect his support of white supremacists to be.

Dude, are you kidding me? You're looking at someone who said:

“Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans,”

and you can't think of a way for him to support them less? Are you really that obtuse, or are you just playing dumb?

Here's a really simple, utterly obvious way he could have been closer to "open support" (other than uh, openly expressing support......): _not repudiating them_. I honestly can't believe I just sincerely explained a tautology to someone.
They are pivoting because they don't want to fail. They maybe made a mistake or the market changed, acknowledged it and took action based on this information.

For me this is not something negative at all
Was hoping this was going to be a better performing clone of voat, not an even more restrictive platform.
Actually if you look at the history of anarchism you'll find it was the ancaps who tried to redefine the word, not the other way around. Murray Rothbard, one of the founders of anarchocapitalism literally says this almost verbatim.

‘One gratifying aspect of our rise to some prominence is that, for the first time in my memory, we, “our side,” had captured a crucial word from the enemy . . . “Libertari­ans” . . . had long been simply a polite word for left-wing anarchists, that is for anti-private property anarchists, either of the communist or syndicalist variety. But now we had taken it over. . .’ [The Betrayal of the American Right, p. 83]