skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is undeniable that both a certain level of working memory and of basic algebra is necessary to understand mathematics at the next level. Someone who could actually understand an "entire college-level course in linear algebra or calculus or graph theory or even combinatorics perfectly well", yet be unable to remember a basic multiplication table, or figure out how to calculate 11*15, would have a very interesting pathology.
This could be Nominet fault. Years ago as a registar had to send PGP signed emails to some Nominet automated address to make changes or register UK domains, it was clumsy, slow and you had to maintain the state yourside. Nominet then got some independence, a CTO, a sales/business dev department dedicated basically to domain snippers, and Oracle got a ton loads of money (it was one of giant Sun mainframes if I recommend correctly) and it was still a PITA. This was 15 years ago apparently it is still a train wreck. When you start making decisions on the golf course its very difficult to recover
Not to be pedantic but haven't our open-office plans shown us that a lot of non-porous surfaces can be used a whiteboard including glass, formaldehyde(as seen in the article), and even most thin gloss plastics?

I could totally be wrong of course.
Who actually uses these glorified IDEs? No one I've hired.
Who has that left you with?
Well obviously there's far too many instances to go into great detail, but the Democratic strategy for the past few decades is to call most conservatives strategies racist.

That's certainly rarely the case, and next to never the intention.

All i say, and ask is that you think to yourself, is this really racist? or do i just want to vote democrat now?
What I mean is that it's very easy to sent hate to other people and group up due to internet and social media.
I believe you're 200% right.

But, unfortunately, the irony is that the same mechanism that isolates conservatives on SV and liberals on oil companies is working here to isolate your good sense in Hacker News.
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Again though, it is an answer of how to speed up a graph of lots of extremely tiny operations. If every node on the graph was an operation on lots more data, you wouldn't need to solve a problem of under utilization in the first place.
I moved to San Francisco from a small, deeply red town. I'll just say this - I think even that small town would be more tolerant of liberals than I felt when I worked in San Francisco, and I'm not even really that conservative (just economically). The leadership at the company was very reasonable, but the politically active folks terrified me, and didn't just think that those that held conservative viewpoints were misguided, but that they were actively evil. There's a big difference.

I didn't vote for Trump, but I know many, many good people that did. I made the mistake of mentioning that once and somehow that turned me into a pro-Trump spokesperson. I can do that for the sake of a rational conversation, but I somehow ended up being the Trump supporter spokesperson despite the fact that I can't stand the guy.

I think the current level of political discourse is downright dangerous.
"You are aware of what you're doing and the reactions it will incite."

Kind of like the girl who wears a mini-skirt and gets raped?
The position "Your people shouldn't exist", or "Your people shouldn't be in this country" to be specific. Tolerance to all but the intolerant. This is because if we tolerate the intolerant, they'll just eliminate tolerance, and then nobody will get to express their views.
I grew up in small(ish) town Texas with those exact viewpoints. I wouldn't say that my viewpoint was exactly ostracized, but it was definitely "odd" and Other. I never really suffered any physical intimidation for my viewpoints, but that's probably because I'm a giant ogre that people tend not to feel like they can mess with. But I did have my fair share of heated arguments when refusing to pray before a football game or counter-protest the abortion protestors, etc.
> an employee who describes himself as libertarian [...] believes the now infamous memo was relatively well-reasoned and that Silicon Valley's diversity initiatives ignore data that conflict with their ideology. He’s regularly reminded of what he refers to as the company’s “social justice agenda,” like when he gets corporate email touting a donation to a non-profit that supports minorities, or hears an executive talk about hoping to have half of his leadership team be female,which he believes shows the company prioritizes some groups over others.

This makes zero sense to me. A private company having a corporate agenda and goals and using its power in the industry to enact social change sounds like something even Ayn Rand would be okay with. Libertarianism is supposed to champion the values of private property, political liberty and free association. This guy should realize he's working for a company with owners, and that under his own ideology, owners have every right to push whatever political agenda they want, and that if he has a problem with his company taking a stand on social justice, then that's fine, he should work somewhere else.
Is key-value store the most stable scalable architecture? Reddit, I believe, uses the same idea
This looks interesting and potentially really helpful! I have been keeping my eyes open for something along these lines. As the author, how do you see this project's relation to Conda? And if you see it working alongside of, rather than in place of, Conda, what support does it have for recognizing and using Conda envs?
I am a confirmed packrat. When I hear a really interesting podcast, obscure piece of music, etc. I mirror it to local storage... especially if it's political. Storage is cheap.

Doesn't even have to be 'verboten' political. It would be easy for an AI bot trained to curtail e.g. 'hate speech' to delete loads of things that are just unorthodox.
Well.... I hate to tell you, psychologists judge, they just refrain from exposing their jusgement to their clientele. Psychologists, like doctors and police, are still human. Warts and all. But I get the sentiment and, like those same said psychologists, should probably have kept my opinion for me and my drinking friends =)
They really don't tend to be more civil. The only reason it may seem like that in America is that the USA has never really attempted to cut its deficit.

Go look at political conversation in the UK and you'll find large numbers of left wingers / liberals foaming at the mouth about how the government trying to balance its budget is the same thing as hating people, killing them, that austerity is unthinkable evil, that any solution which isn't vast taxes on the rich is evidence of a defective moral compass, etc.
> If you use the same compiler, ABI is a non-issue

And yet... microsoft releases a new compiler every two years or so, and not every library you use is going to update at the same time. This is a huge frustration for a lot of people.

I write c++ professionally and I've seen people waste weeks on these things, and most the libraries we wrote had plain c interfaces because being able to use other languages to call into the code was important and c++ is a nightmare with that.
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Good job torpedoing this discussion, I hope you get a bonus from your "think tank".
None of your points should preclude us from doing something, you'd have us just throw up our hands and say "aw shucks, those rich fella's are just too smart."
That's a rather dated view of what a build system should be. Most developers these days don't want to have to manually install all of a projects dependencies in order to build it. More importantly, there's also been a push towards wherever possible installing dependencies into sandboxes to try to prevent things like DLL hell, which isn't possible if you install dependencies at the OS level. I much rather just check out a project and run its build system to fetch all the dependencies instead of what we used to have to do with C projects, which is go read the docs to find the list of mandatory and optional dependencies, then go look through the distribution package manager to try to match up package names with library names (including a few head scratchers where something is included inside of a differently named package), and finally install the whole mess and hope that the projects config script properly finds them all.
And that's not even a change they wished to see, there was no "I wish dads were more involved in the education of their kids", if anything, there was a "I can't be bothered to drive half an hour to take the kid to the school you want, so you do it".
cool! good luck.
It is applicable if Verizon have a single EU citizen on their books, which they do; if the EU wish to pursue them I'm sure there is some way they could be held accountable.

I am not so sure that american companies can just "hide" from this, they are actually quite exposed. Delta airlines, for example, appear to be quite worried by it internally, and are making changes to suit.
Neat, but I don't quite get it. How do I pass values between Go code and assembly? The format of this site is a little strange: it looks like an example Go snippet, followed by what I assume is the equivalent assembly code--but where is the connection? Or, is the point simply to teach us Go devs assembly?

Also, when is an appropriate time to use assembly in a Go program? After the failed trig experiment blog post that was featured here last week, the benefits aren't very clear to me.

EDIT: ok, I see it now. The empty function declaration. What an odd syntax. I get the tutorial now, but still wondering about the benefits.
But we should probably leave some of the wedge social issues to Hollywood. They are masters at it. (e.g. Will and Grace)

I would like to see the Democratic party focus on issues like workers rights, fighting white and black poverty, healthcare, etc.
I was surprised when I clicked the link that I saw text there. Expected an empty page. :p
Taking away people's healthcare is violence though.
Never heard of it! However there’s keepvid.com, clip-converter and of course youtube-dl.
I use jdownloader, which can also download from many other sites.
What if you make the rules so simple that there are NO loopholes and there is no/little possibility for tax avoidance?
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They lost me at "light grey notification panel"? I spent some time trying to get the dark grey one to black with no luck - and now it's even worse.
I'm conservative, I do not think less of anyone else as a human being (I may well think less of their opinions, actions, or behaviors, but that's not at all the same thing).

Your viewpoint that "thinking less of others" is a "core" conservative value very much implies that you don't really know any conservatives, and are just parroting the party line from within your bubble.
Right or wrong is relative, I agree if you believe its wrong then it should be your duty to correct it, and so does the other people you deemed wrong.

For me its not ignorance, I am aware of both definition, I just prefer one better than other.
Is there any popular CI-testing service providing ReactOS as a build/test/deploy target? It would be interesting if someone like Travis or Appveyor could offer that.
Agreed, but it also makes me a little sad that we could potentially only have some shitty compressed transcode of a transcode copy of some rare album, since YouTube is plagued with those kinds of uploads. Really makes the loss of what.cd hurt even more.
"I think your kind is an abomination that should be hearded into camps and slaughtered", is a political opinion that might well lead to a fight or 'anything in between'. It has little to do with a vote. Some 'conservative' people now believe it's ok to voice those opponions at work. We don't know what was said based on the parent, and we don't know how it escalated... so maybe that's it?

Some people won't be cowed by a publicly aggressive racist... I'd tell my boss that I'm uncomfortable working with them. I'm not a snowflake, if someone else can't handle my speach and the resulting consequences of their own.
That's an interesting perspective.

I know the left/right spectrum has many definitions, and there is little consensus on them, but I think this captures the essential philosophical and ideological distinctions: http://www.pocatelloshops.com/new_blogs/politics/wp-content/...

So by my measure, both Republicans and Democrats are in the middle leaning left - both supporting various forms of rights violations. Libertarians are further right, advocating a lot of good rights-protecting policies, but often for the wrong reasons - so they're not consistent in the policies they promote.

Also, "closed borders, mostly for laissez-faire economic reasons" doesn't really make sense, as that's an explicitly anti-laissez-fare policy (if you understand laissez-fare as "abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market.", as it's most commonly meant).
And Eclipse was similarly named, just to annoy Sun.
> I hear welding is an in-demand industry and I bet they'll find more receptivity to their viewpoints there.

Nice job making sweeping generalizations about an entire industry. If this type of bigotry were based on skin color, we'd call it racism.
I recently got the Jimu MeeBot Kit [1] for my kids which sells via apple.com and costs $130. Two weeks later the Lego Boost launched on Aug 1, priced at $160 [2].

The difference between the two kits is night and day. Lego is leap years ahead in build quality, the app experience, programability and flexibility. It can fire a dart, has vision+color sensor, has a touch sensor and a servo motor. It support 5 different models including a guitar, robot, cat and so forth.

The Jimu MeeBot by contrast comes with 6 servos but no sensors and the build quality is fairly poor compared to the lego. There is little else to build with it.

However, Lego has done a poor job marketing the Boost. No one really knew about the Lego Boost launch, there was no one at the stores on launch day to get one -- it was a complete non-event. The product page for the Boost is a cookie cutter page. This is their biggest category launch in a long time -- electronic, programmable kit for kids with a new app to go with it -- and they failed have a dedicated product page with all the cool stuff it can do.

With all the rage around STEM learning and iOS apps, it's a shame to see the work force suffer for lack of marketing and awareness.

I have been through a couple of stem toys including the OSMO which I really love. Lego could give all of these segments a pretty good run but they just aren't getting their message out there.

[1] https://jimurobots.com/product/meebot-kit/
[2] https://shop.lego.com/en-US/BOOST-Creative-Toolbox-17101
It seems to me that this is he future we are heading, where privacy is only accessible for higher classes, it's a shame we are going in this direction just in the name of profit.
Does "VM it" work? I mean, there is PCI and USB-passthrough in qemu, so this might be an option, especially since VMs are easy to sandbox (easier than physical machines where someone might simply plug a cable in so he can watch YouTube, for example).
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It feels like people don't want to hear your thoughts. They want their thoughts to be validated.
I think most places in the US do pay for trash disposal. I pay ~$17 per month for trash and recycling (recycling sadly isn't free, but I opt to pay extra for it). That is probably less than you are paying, but it is a profitable business for the company that does it.
Tetris is a good start, but someone needs to port Doom to it next.
Yes. Apply to junior roles, even though you were senior in the other stack.

Any fancy wording will not hide the fact that you do not yet have work experience in the new stack. In fact, you should make your situation clear, to save you and employers time and effort. The sooner you find out you are not a match, the better. That's probably what has been happening. The companies you have been applying to are probably looking for specific experience, and you do not qualify. So they do not reply at all. Each non-response brings you one step closer to finding a match. You know another company which is not right for you right now.

Recruiters are paid by the company to bring in people with specific experience. With no work experience in a specific stack, recruiters are probably not the way for you to grab the bottom rung of the ladder.

You have to talk to people. Lots of people. Ask each one, " Do you know one company which is currently hiring junior people with little or no experience in a specific stack?"

Look for a company which WANTS a junior programmer with little or no experience in a specific stack. They are much harder to find, but they are out there. It's not easy, but it's possible.
A reduction in housing and food prices would be a net gain for society, and would in turn reduce crime rates and healthcare costs
The idea is to have everything taxed at the same rate: income, dividends, capital gains, whatever. So every source of 'money coming in' gets treated and taxed the same way.

By having a flat tax it doesn't make sense to shift 'money in' under different categories because all gets taxed the same rate.

So for example, income, capital gains, dividends would all be taxed at 10% or 15% or whatever.
> but have essential goods be tax free?

People/politicians are very creative in what is to be considered essential.
I was assaulted by a ROTC cadet once, around 2005 or 2006 in a conservative town at a conservative college for saying that the Iraq War was a mistake (in several ways, I'm not sure which one was specifically being discussed that day). I wasn't even speaking to the guy, just discussing news with some friends and he happened to be nearby.

I found it amusing that a man who was going to take an oath to defend the Constitution thought it was reasonable to call me un-American and try to beat me into silence. He left when I laughed at him instead of fighting back.

I had friends un-friend me on Facebook after my sister married a woman and I posted pictures and congratulations to them. I had colleagues who stopped talking to me after the same. They talk to me now (2 years later), but only professionally, formally. No more informal or loose friendship happening between us apparently.

This shit definitely happens on both sides.
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Huh. I hadn't considered that 4chan, voat, others were petri dish incubators for the alt-right.

I'd really like someone (sociologists) to update Paradox of Tolerance with what we've learned about the Overton Window, the normalization of hate speech (violent rhetoric).

David Neiwert (Orcinus) has deeply influenced (completely changed) my positions on tolerance, free speech. As I've stated else where, I used to be a Chomsky style ultimatist for free speech. Alas, people aren't nice.

Now I know that how we talk changes how we think, that propaganda works, that most people aren't even aware of when they've changed their mind.

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&tex...
Sure but how many people really share those extreme views? Most of the hate goes to pretty vanilla opinions like "we should lower the amount of immigrants", "education should be free and payed by taxdollars" or similar stuff.
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Neither of the two major presidential candidates last election came anywhere near halfway matching my stances on issues. Yet there was a third party (I guess sort of a fourth) whom I agreed with on quite a few things, as did many others. But those votes got drowned out by the "wasted vote" crowd.

I'm curious if any nation has experimented with a hybrid of direct and representative democracies: people choose their stances on actual issues, and the candidate most matching the spirit of society is elected.
Your elected representatives own your brand. To some extent, it doesn't matter what you believe, for purposes of the label you adopt.
Seems like a lot of people are right on board with Internet-wide censorship by community standards. I'm very disappointed that so many have chosen to cast the problem only in terms of bad people posting bad things. You've missed the whole point.

I've conducted some research in the past into how to solve this simple problem: how to reliably host potentially offensive content, given the content is legal in the US. I concluded it's currently infeasible. All US hosts are responsive to mobs, and all hosts that market themselves as "pro free speech" are in jurisdictions with a variety of "hate speech" or "anti insult" laws.

I've concluded that the only way forward is probably a P2P web.

Given this is Hacker News, I wish that people wanted to talk about that sort of thing, rather than, as has happened here, bikeshedding about what those global community standards should be in our personal opinions.
Wow This slid off the front page fast. It went from #1 to #33 in the time it took me to brush my teeth while I get ready for work.

You can tell an article hits home when people are flagging it to death to hide it.
I don't get it. Shouldn't it be obvious the parent who's not working drive the kids? This is coming from a dad of 2 who gets the kids up, feeds them, dresses them, drives them to school, picks them up after work, feeds them, etc...

I also work full-time. If I wasn't working you can bet your ass I'd be driving the kids to school without complaint. (I don't complain now)
Up to a point, but does it not all grow out of the concept of limits?
How is it knee-jerk and shallow? If you voted for Trump you either directly support Trump's social policies or you don't think they were abhorrent enough to not vote for him.
> I've had to dig through a few projects and it's always refreshingly simple to read and understand. Really wish I could say the same thing about C++.

That's just not a design goal of C++. Different languages have different priorities and appeal to different folks. Personally, while writing C++ can be frustrating at times and the language still has too many arbitrary restrictions for my taste, every time I go through a Go codebase I feel glad I haven't had to write any Go myself. The amount of mindless, repetitive boilerplate one has to write because the language tries to be "simple" at the expense of abstraction, genericity and expressiveness looks intolerable to me.

But, clearly, there are people that enjoy writing Go and that's great. More diversity in language design can only be a good thing.
Personally, I agree! I'd get the government out of marriage entirely, except to recognize whatever union you wanted.

Because again there are real-world consequences, like being considered a family member if your loved one's in a hospital, or getting access to death benefits if your loved one dies in the line of duty, or whatever.

But that's not what one of the two mainstream parties is saying: they're saying, "traditional marriage, and the rest of you can go sit on a fence."

This stuff gets personal for so many people so quickly because, in effect, one political party is telling a lot of folks that their humanity is lesser or less deserving of access to government than the rest of us.

How do you not take that personally (and make social choices based on), if you're in that group that's being told they should have less access to government?
I was going to say. Living as a Red in a Blue state isn't much different than living as a Blue in a Red state.

And I'm sitting here without any official party to call my own because I think both are idiotic with their identity politics. Which can be worse half the time because the Republicans think I'm a liberal, and the Democrats think I'm a conservative.

(this coming from someone living in a red state).