skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Classical communism was also aimed at replacing the existing structure.

No it wasn't (and no it isn't), it's aimed at abolishing the class structure.

>There are people who don't like the current structure and aim to replace it. How is this a conspiracy?

GP is referring to "cultural Marxism" being a conspiracy, and it is, not that Communists want to replace the class structure. The "cultural Marxism" conspiracy theory posits that there is a group of people who want to destroy Western society. This is false. It relies on the idea that at some point Marxists changed to thinking in terms of gender or race rather than class - this is also false and lacking in evidence as GP also noted. The Wikipedia section really is a good overview of it.
You must be new here: “self-driving cars”. It’s the answer to every problem you might have. “My commute sucks.” “Won’t matter in a few years. SDCs!”

“I’ve had this rash on my genitals...”

“SDCs!”
Then those people won't use Homebrew.
I saw this and instantly thought of Gibson.. glad I wasn't the only one ;) We need more of this kinda thing..
I don't see it as sad. The most important step in making the world a better place is using our imaginations. I think this is a core part of radical systems of thought. Anarchists would invite even you to imagine what would come next rather than a minority of them dictating a system that is prescribed.

I think it's also a problematic to percieve the system braking down as resulting in chaos. It's the desire of people for peace that preserves peace, not the system.

Also, saying the system isn't choatic now is misleading. The chaos is just both hidden and displaced.
No need, almost every big EU bank has a representation in London (at least, for the time being).
High-value non poaching agreements?
I have a Nationwide credit card and typically have to phone them at least once a month as Verified by Visa blocks my account.

It usually happens for companies I've made countless payments before to, last time it was Three when I tried to top up £10 on my phone.

On the other hand it allows me to go to random countries I have never visited before, and make contactless transactions without issue...
Why is my comment and this thoughtful response being downvoted?

EDIT: and this one too? -3 and counting?
There's `msync`
This is so toxic to developing a healthy han relationship. Aren't these people afraid of being desensitized to emotional connection?
Probably the worst I can think of is taking the Google Android playbook open with closed extensions then deprecate the open. You already see this a little bit with things like JavaFx in the Oracle distribution but not the OpenJDK. Sure you can build it yourself, but how long till we see extensions that are in the Oracle distribution that can't be built for the OpenJDK? Eventually it looks like Android where what is open and what people actually use are two different things.
But how do you make a wealth tax fair if there is no need to prepare a reasonably accurate balance sheet? If it's a yearly tax the loopholes allowed without an accurate balance sheet are so extraordinary that it's reasonable to assume they will cause more problems than the tax fixes.
Yes, I did read the original comment. 95% of the comment was made up numbers with one sentence thrown in for good measure:

> The ability to work uninterrupted is a privilege.

Yes, it is a privilege, but that doesn't negate that the rest of the post is completely false conjecture by one person.

> That's a total of 14 hours that can't be negotiated

If it can't be negotiated, then why do many people do it, especially ones who are more well off financially?

> 10 hours for work. Given the brain will not operate at that stretch you need distraction, so web, tv, books, games, movies - another 2-3 hours. So 7-8 hours seems to the the maximum any human being can work.

I'm not sure why I am even bothering to reply to that, but if you think that's true then honestly we aren't having an intelligent debate and so my time is being wasted.

> So anything beyond 10-12 hours [working] seems physically impossible

Same as above.
Until last year I had been using an SSL certificate purchased from SSLSecurity . However,I switched to AWS provided free SSL certificate for my domain, which is free and usable with my Elasatic Beanstalk applications . I have a static website hosted on AWS S3+ Cloudfront and AWS SSL certificate worked there as well.

edit : I also use letsencrypt certificates on my Linodes.
The same way they stop you from falsifying your taxes records now. Is this a trick question?
the dark lord soros and above him the red shields
In a few years, what we now call "AI" is probably going to be a necessary part of at least most user-facing systems.

Like, we'll go from calling this thing "AI" into just thinking that systems that don't have these basic cognitive functions are really stupid and tedious.

Decades ago, you might have considered spell checking a form of "AI". Now, maybe we would consider an advanced grammar checker "AI". Maybe in five years, we will appreciate "semantics checkers" that check if what we say actually makes sense, or "pragmatics checkers" that make sure we aren't using an inappropriate tone of voice.

In a way "AI" is just a name for the frontier of making computers work for us.

But just like you don't need to be a compiler engineer to use advanced programming languages, you probably won't need to be a machine learning engineer to build user-facing systems.

So a lot of "AI" companies are focusing on building APIs for other systems to utilize. Double buzzword whammo: AI in the cloud!
The Twisted Business of Donating Plasma
I paid off SLC in a lump sum after getting a bonus one year. I think it's quite normal.
That's specifically talking about 17 USC 203, which is a termination right that applies to all copyright licenses in the US, even those that explicitly say they are irrevocable and were backed with consideration.

That a license is eventually revocable under 17 USC 203 does not preclude it being revocable under other circumstances.

The case law holds that a non-exclusive copyright license without consideration that does not say it is irrevocable is revocable at will. That's why nearly every case you can find where someone tried to revoke a non-exclusive copyright license turns into a case about whether or not there was consideration.

Google "non-exclusive copyright license revocation" and you'll find a few articles discussing some of these cases.

See also Rosen's book on open source licensing, available free online [1].

[1] http://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm
One or two days; setup dev environment, database connections(local or remote), checkout code, build, start, debug. Start working tickets, features or bugs. Ask for direction when I need it. I usually don't. The truth is in the code, if you ask you just get people's out dated information. But I've working the same stack for > 10 years (Java enterprise).

Learning the domain takes longer of course, but you don't need domain knowledge to fix bugs or put buttons on a page.
You're a little late to the game :) It's been at least 2 years since people started throwing the word "AI" everywhere. Amazon was intensively using AI in 1999. As someone mentioned, it's been out since the 50s.

Buzz words are essentially generated by investors, used by companies and then consumed by the media. When you hear about something from the media, it's already too late.
Not knowing what is text and what is a link just kills me. We went through lots of this in the webs early days. We had icons for navigation and experimental flash navigation. But it made for mystery meat navigation - and in the end we returned to text. Now it's all gone full circle.
Docs Are Burnt Out and Retiring, Endangering the Population of Cancer Patients
There's been a lot of advice shouted about that everyone should only make the minimum payments as it'll be cheaper when the debt is eventually written off - if you earn less than £X.

That only works if the rules stay the same.

I say it's a fair gamble that they won't and that many will wish they paid them off earlier.
I don't think that Houston is unique; it is my focus because it is the article's. I think there are many places in the US where transit infrastructure is hopeless. I don't say impossible because I have no doubt that we could get Houston to the point of functioning if, for example, we diverted 10% of the military budget to fixing Houston for the next 10 or 20 years. But I would agree that it is functionally impossible, because there exists such a multitude of places in the US where money would be better spent.

I also don't state that you have to drive. Looking back:

>That in turn means that you have fewer riders, because they have to drive (or walk several miles in ditches or dangerous sidewalks along the sides of boring, high speed roads with no shade in Houston climate) to the station.

I portray the walk to would-be transit as really unpleasant. I wholeheartedly believe that it would be. Given the option, I expect a lot of people would choose to drive to transit. You could refuse to build parking around the stop. As a general rule, you should do just that, but in Houston I think you're going to lower your ridership even further by doing so.

To be clear, I don't think all walking to transit is unpleasant. Not even in hot climates. I've spent months happily walking to the subway in Madrid on 90-degree days. I've spent weeks happily walking 20 minutes to work along highways in Dallas on 105-degree days. What's different about those two places?

In Madrid, there were interesting things to look at along the way, trees, and other ways to stay cool.
In Dallas, those 20 minutes were the entirety of my journey, and the heat was dry (as in Madrid). There were sidewalks that felt safe, despite the fact that they were scarcely more than an accessory to keep the bike-ped people happy when the new roads went in. Incredibly unpleasant with the lack of trees or anything to look at, sure. But they felt safe.

Surely there are parts of the Houston area that could go walk-able. Those places could pick up density, and people could choose to move there. But you'll always have the scars on the landscape from these past 70 years where people were unleashed to lay waste to whatever nature surrounded the city, pushed ever forward by cheap oil and subsidized parking and driving. With the options available in America, I don't think you'd ever get enough people interested in Houston to make significant headway on undoing all the bad development.

If you're interested in further explanation, let me know and I'll try to put up a blog post, where I can use pictures to further explain myself.
And that can be stuffed up with prior bottle use, so not so sure if that's even true.
"I don't like the president, so it's time to scrap the whole system."

Ok.
Yep - I remember on vBulletin forums, the native vertical scrollbar often got the same vibrant colouring as the forum's theme.
Other than finding out about that practice in the interview stage and using it as a yellow flag suggesting that it might not be the job you want? Not really.

Either management understands software development or they don't, and it's not something you can really teach them either. I don't need my managers to know our stack or even be capable of developing working software themselves, but it's hard for someone who's never spent 6 months working in the coding trenches to understand the amount of uncertainty inherent in software development.
> every complaint I've ever heard about JIRA could be remedied by a better implementation

Erm... what can't be fixed with better implementation?

My big point of hate on JIRA is how it uses some mutant hybrid of markdown and wiki text, so going between JIRA and Github is a nightmare of context switching. Can that be fixed with a better implementation, of course it could, but the point is Atlassian doesn't seem to think about UX.
Can anyone verify if this is true? I know it was in the past but AFAIK when the App Store took off they removed this restriction allowing you to select 'none' as payment method and still download free apps (otherwise at the time a lot of iPod Touch customers - i.e. kids/teenagers - would not be able to have use their products). The 'none' option still exists so I don't see why you couldn't download free apps with that selected.
How the BST Code Was Broken
> Small government doesn't necessarily mean that there can't be a transfer of wealth between states.

I will remain skeptical until I see a state willing to give resources away to improve living conditions of other states.
To be clear, I am not for more Section 8 housing. I am for market based solutions.

In the 60s and 70s, we tore down around 80% of the SROs we had because the Baby Boomers came from an unprecedentedly well off, large middle class and did not need minimal housing of that sort. Boarding houses used to also be common. Now, most housing is designed with a nuclear family in mind and our default expectation is that single adults should get one or more roommates to make such housing work for them. There is far too little market based housing aimed at singletons and childless couples. Meanwhile, our demographics have changed and we have drastically more singletons, childless couples or single parents, drastically fewer nuclear families.

I want market based solutions, not more government interference of this sort. There are good things done by the government, but most programs to help the poor only entrench poverty and the problems that lead to it.
Don't know if they're the same as yours but yes, we have credit unions. I think they were much more popular a generation or two ago however. I still know some older family members who use them.
This attitude silly, it is not always obvious to non-doctors what is an issue. For instance my 2 year old son got his finger caught in a reclining chair, it looked terrible but there was no real issue.

I am sure the opposite may apply to head injuries.
How not to be biased?
The site you linked to is about frameworks 'playing well with' custom elements. It says nothing to the assertion about React moving to web components.

Also it is not helpful to call standards 'a pile of steaming crap' without backing that up with something substantive, examples/alternatives etc.
Flat UI hit the mainstream when John Ive forced it at Apple. But you noticed the timing, didn't you? The iPhone had beautiful skeuomorphic design, the doing of Steve Jobs. Jobs knew that 3D signals are important visual cues for the interface.

John Ive was only able to introduce flat design after Jobs died. Jobs hated flat design and wouldn't let Ive do it. Only after Job's passing was Ive able to go rogue and introduce the flat UI trend, which then everyone copied. The pendulum will swing again, but the damage has been done.

Obviously flat design looks worse, obviously it's harder to use. People follow Apple's design blindly. Jobs knew better, and Ive was only able to get away with it because he had more authority.
Within the city limits alone, Houston population is 2.3 million people at a density of 3830 people per square mile. NYC is 8.5 million people at a density of 28356 people per square mile (ref [1]).

MTA New York City transit has an operating budget of $10.9 billion, annual ridership 2.4 billion rides, 6407 subway cars, 4451 buses (ref [2], second chart only, although technically I believe one could include other infrastructure).

NYC claims to achieve "four out of five" rush hour commuters on public transit (ref [2], 4th paragraph from the top).

So let me hand wave and suggest the annual cost for equivalent success in Houston can be calculated by scaling NYC costs based on population difference (ratio of overall trips) and density difference (ratio of infrastructure needed for dense enough coverage of routes and stops). I fully expect some debate whether this model is really appropriate but it's what I came up with on a single cup of coffee.

Which means annual cost for Houston transit just within the city limits would be:

C = $10.9 bn * (2.3 / 8.5 millions of people) * (28356 / 3830 people per sq mi)

C = $21.8 bn per year

That's 2x the cost of the NYC system supporting about 1/4 of the population, or roughly 8 times the cost per capita. Per capita cost for Houston residents is $21.8 bn / 2.3 million = $9,478. Impossible for a minimum wage worker.

I'm excluding the cost of establishing the infrastructure in the first place. There would need to be large bond measures to raise the cash to build out the stops, install rails, buy the buses and subway cars, and so forth. Paying back interest on those bonds would be an additional per capita cost whether levied as tax on individuals, on the fares, or on businesses.

Note I ignored the wider metro areas in both cities for the same reasons as given in ref [1]. Presumably the least dense and therefore most problematic costs occur in the outlying regions and are not captured here.

[1] http://www.newgeography.com/content/005538-visualizing-houst...

[2] http://web.mta.info/mta/network.htm
FYI there is an alternative to Github Pages + Cloudflare if you want to use Let's Encrypt using the same features of Github Pages: Gitlab Pages. It allows you to add your own certificates with the only downside that there is no good option to enforce HTTPS (only workarounds, at least for now; there is a discussion on the matter [1]), if this is a problem for you the solution is (Github|Gitlab|Bitbucket)+Netlify, which, personally, I find to be perfect.

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/28857
I also use Google Analytics for tracking usage in my desktop applications (opt out) and it's great. I think most just think about web stats (page views) but I just use the event system. This allows me to identify unused features or possible confusing UX. I also started using it in a project at work and the data has been extremely useful.
It is frustrating how far Ubuntu has diverged from Debian. It used to be easy to set up a remote desktop, I can't even get it to work in Ubuntu 16 now, just tried the other day too.
That's a good question. Russian bots, perhaps?
You might be interested in reading about participatory politics and nested councils. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_politics

I don't think the solution needs to necessarily be a technical one.
And when the (often device-specific) kernel you're checking out has known vulnerabilities that have long since been fixed in mainline?

Yeah, no, I'm glad they're doing this.
One of my mentors, a former Fortune 500 CEO turned business school professor, told me it takes 2 years for an employee to become full trained in a job. I've found that to also be true for technical jobs.

I've also found that it takes about 6 months to start understanding the system without hand holding from a manager or senior developer.

To get up to speed, I'd recommend starting with the smallest projects first: simple bug fixes, pair programming, and doing some support work. That will get you seeing how the software is used and which lines of code correspond to the different pieces of software. You can move on to bigger projects once you get your feet under you.

I wrote more about getting up to speed at a new job on my blog: https://www.climbuptheladder.com/how-to-succeed-in-a-new-job....
> No one really knows what WebComponents are

That is ridiculous. They've come from some impetus, derived by some individuals, and they obviously had a goal in mind. They are in a spec, they're being implemented into browsers, they're emulated or polyfilled by various JS libraries, and they're being used by individuals around the web.

> I know what Polymer is and what it attempts to solve though.

The WebComponents spec is admittedly lacking a full feature set to truly enable "Encapsulated Components" but with really not very much work ( https://bitbucket.org/polylab/polyblocks ) you can get pretty close.

I guess I'm simply not understanding what all the fuss is about. I think those busy building with React and friends might see no point to it, because why not just build it in React right? But not everything needs to be a highly orchestrated complex UI, and in those circumstances I still want to be able to re-use my frontend code.
What a horror story. I also have a business bank account in UK and after reading this article I immediately went and paid myself a hefty dividend just in case something like this happened. I will try to keep balance in the business bank account low, just enough to pay corporation tax, VAT and salary.
Telegram has become more and more popular in my network, and part of what makes it work is that for the most part it doesn't really complicate things too much to use both WhatsApp and Telegram. It's not ideal, but largely frictionless.

The one issue I have with Telegram is that starting at least six months ago there can be a huge delay in message delivery. Sometimes easily half an hour after a message was sent. Does anyone else have this experience?

Only thing I can think of other than Telegram just getting worse in this regard is that perhaps they 'punished' me because I've been experimenting with bots. It's almost enough to make me stop using it though, as push (or near-instant) message delivery is rather important...
Get Off the Couch Baby Boomers, or You May Not Be Able to Later
>We don't have the warm or sunny climate for flavoursome tomatoes

I'd read even as a kid, in English novels, that greenhouses were somewhat common in the UK. Do tomatoes not grow well even in greenhouses there?
Not communism, but at least a democracy where nobody is hungry, uneducated, exploited, sick or living on the streets for lack of money to pay for what should be basic rights, does. It deserves as many tries as it takes to get it right.
Which do you think is better?
If you have questions for the portier side of things for that, send me a mail (in profile). A tutorial like that would be very cool.
The problem is CloudFlare offers zero way for an end user to identify if a site is setup with flexible SSL or not. Therefore I have no way of verifying the full path back to the origin.

I brought this up and was told "This is something we are definitely considering." but heard nothing beyond that.
There's just too much in JIRA to make it easy to use. If I need to ignore 80% of the fields and buttons to work with an application it's overengineered.
I had a cloud of doubt a couple of years ago that secret agencies were already using unknown resources of non technical computer users to get their things running faster or stored better. It has arrived, but late as a service for people in general!
I can personally attest to this point of view. My degree is in protein structure, specifically x-ray crystallography, and there were more than a few professors in our department who would specifically deride any post-doc/senior-fellow who "got lost in the technology". By which they meant focusing on writing software instead of writing publications/grants.

At that level it's a brutal time/return calculation, like allowing a long trained neurosurgeon to do any of their own paper work. Far more profitable to have them constantly in surgery.

So it was: "fix that three lines of FORTRAN to change the output for 'table #17' and get back to the bench!" (egads i saw some horrific code)
Problem: stock booms result in massive fraud and a great deal of economic damage.

Solution: regulate the stock market.

Problem: cannot sell things we want to sell.

Solution: Derivatives.

Problem: CDOs cause massive economic damage.

Solution: don't do that.

Problem: cannot sell what we want to.

Solution: Etherium.

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