skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not claiming he created anti-semitism or the concept of genocide - both obviously existed before Hitler; but it's my understanding that anti-Jewish bigotry was far worse in eastern Europe than it was in Germany, so I think it's worthwhile to figure out why Germany was the source of the Holocaust and not, say, Poland or the USSR.

> His only explicit statement on the subject in Mein Kampf, for example, is an expression of regret that Jews weren't subject to poison gassing in World War 1

He said "The nationalization of our masses will succeed only when, aside from all the positive struggle for the soul of our people, their international poisoners are exterminated."

Edit: looked at another way - let's say Trump ends up not presiding over a genocide. Are the "Trump is like Hitler" people going to say they were wrong, or are they going to claim credit for preventing a genocide that would have happened without their efforts? I don't know how either side can prove its case; it comes down to who can construct the more persuasive counterfactual. To me the "Trump is not going to preside over a genocide no matter what efforts are or are not taken against him" is more persuasive.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology
No. This would be in direct contravention of the Vienna Protocols [1] that define a diplomatic pouch and its protections. You are not allowed to stuff your personal shit in a diplomatic courier pouch, and any country openly and intentionally allowing the abuse of the Vienna Protocols for these purposes would be in very hot water internationally. Like, international-incident, embassies-expelled hot water.

[1] Article 27 Section 4: "The packages constituting the diplomatic bag must bear visible external marks of their character and may contain only diplomatic documents or articles intended for official use."
lol ok, it is if you're trying to gauge whether a stock's behavior is local to itself, or signifies a trend in all the stocks in the same related sector .
No, my idea is slightly more involved. However I want to use my own data, not other people's, so I spent time setting up a proper DB schema to hold exchange data from various providers. This is not complicated but also not trivial.
To me, I think survival of the US is a much easier sell as being the prime ideology.

Please don't confuse motivations with ideology. Ideology is a philosophical thing. Motivations can be ideological, but they can also be apart from ideology. Fighting "to preserve our way of life" is effectively an ideological call out. It certainly was in the 1930's and 1940's America.

To me, I think survival of the US is a much easier sell as being the prime ideology.

Fighting to protect your home is rather at a more basic level than the ideological basis of the USA, which is that of individual human rights on the English model. American GI's, German Wehrmacht, and Red Army soldiers -- all 3 of them were motivated by patriotic defense of the homeland. However, all 3 groups had widely differing ideologies.

Ideology needs special attention. Especially at times like this.

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"would like to live in a society where government does nothing except provide national defence and police protection, so that people could be left alone to earn whatever they could," -- obviously encapsulates the libertarian philosophy.
I would say that the war is between religion and philosophic materialism (or physicalism, if you prefer).

Materialism is the dominant mental framework among scientists, but it is a philosophical position, not a scientific one. ("The physical universe is all that exists" is not scientifically provable, even in principle.)
I thought Shkreli was a goof off, but smarter than this. Apparently not
Do you have numbers to back this up? The first generation of tech darlings almost exclusively come from upper middle and above backgrounds. I'm genuinely interested if that has changed.
I would love to do what you said but make it AR/VR powered
Author of the study they were writing about here. That is the original expectation I had coming in, but I don't think what we find is totally consistent with that (although some is). We talk about that in the paper. Study here: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/working-papers....
So I was excited to understand what this tool was all about, but I got lost in the text pretty quickly. At first it seemed like a personal organization tool, then it looked like a team management tool, then I wasn't really sure and bailed. If you were giving me an elevator pitch, what would it be?
AdultCMS – A CMS for the adult industry
What I think is interesting, is the licensing model is basically reverse whaling

The bigger the company is, the more likely they are to go with just building Caddy themselves instead of paying for it. So, the only people who need to run the commercial binaries are the situations where the licensing costs actually matter.

Maybe I'm underestimating the size of the demographic they're targeting, but it seems to me that the only market for Caddy is a fairly small niche of people who are unwilling/unable to run NGINX or set up their own build process.
Yeah, companies don't generally want regulations. It's almost always a headache and distraction from the core business. However when regulation is finally foisted upon them, they make sure to take the time to influence what regulation they are subject to so that it benefits them and becomes a barrier to entry for new entrants.
That sign isn't quite famous enough for me to have heard about it. What does it mean?
Will java ever play in the browser again?
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The stereotypical right-wing position is, "This government program is poorly-run; let's get rid of it"

The stereotypical left-wing position is, "This government program should be left alone, even if it's poorly-run"

The stereotypical Gray Tribe position is, "This government program is poorly-run; let's debug it"
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Martin Shkreli jailed after Facebook post about Hillary Clinton
I don't like these categories but while we are playing this game:

Aren't libertarians also globalists?
Interesting, and I just read the abstract from your book, why do you think size of compression code indicates strength of theory?

Regularities in data/predictability of data?
> I believe the Genesis creation story.

Which one? The one (Gen 2:4-) where the order of creation is man, then plants, then animals or the one (Gen 1:1-2:3) where it is plants, then animals then man?
Surprised me at first as well, until I realized that a bartender is basically a waiter.

Some are also people to chat with.

Both are roles more often associated with females.

And they live off of tips, and since most drinkers are male, females do better there as well.
My job pays me units of money in exchange for a finite time per day spent dedicated to advancing their goals. There are more potential things to do for the company than fit into the time they pay me to spend; and I'm not going to work for free past that time just to fit all those things in. Therefore, I have to optimize—to choose which things are most worth the company's time. Compiling and configuring software packages are rather low on that list (which shouldn't be surprising, given that I'm a programmer, not an ops person.)

I read HN on my own time.
It's not just a name change. She was in prison for several years.

When she got out, she tries to fix up her accounts.

If someone walks up to a bank years after no activity and wants a name change (and maybe a gender change) on an account should the bank just do it? Probably not without 3rd party verification that the customer has to initiate by filling out some forms and providing evidence.

I'm just speculating but it could have been reasonable for the bank to have declined the request up front.
More than 50% of Caddy downloads have at least one plugin. 1 and 2 plugins are the most common of those that have at least one.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15236377
I'm running a RHEL 7.3 desktop to type this comment on with 3 30" Dell monitors. I'll have you know that CentOS 7 and RHEL7 make a fantastic desktop.
I'm not arguing that they don't have other thoughts. I'm arguing that those other thoughts shouldn't be correlated with being a "tech boss" unless it has some advantage to being a tech boss, because people are largely different! Like, in a completely random sample, we would expect beliefs representative of the population, but by biasing it to only leaders of tech companies, people who dedicate their lives to giant multinational corporations, we should expect to see their beliefs to correlate with what is good for those corporations. And everything else should match the general population, in aggregate.
I strongly agree with your argument regarding economic-class determinism or whatever it's called. After all, some of the most progressive policies for the poor in this country were passed by the wealthiest presidents (FDR, Kennedy, Johnson).

However, if you're suggesting that Silicon Valley CEOs are in favor of libertarian free trade, I think I agree more with the article and disagree with you. Silicon Valley CEOs loyalty is not to free trade, it's to their globalist lifestyle and outlook on life. Indeed, most of these people seem to be hardcore monopolists, and with no shame for it either.
> Second edit: Accusation of trademark violation within an hour of the fork, classy! https://github.com/WedgeServer/wedge/issues/2

This is just like Red Hat. He's put a lot of work into his product, whether free or not, so don't use trademarked name. CentOS has the same restrictions about not using Red Hat in their distribution. This is just like someone releasing a book for free, and getting mad at someone that decides to sell (or give it away) under the same name when they've trademarked the name. Don't do that. If you're going to copy it, change the name.

Also, keep in mind a trademark is only good as long as you enforce it. If you don't enforce your trademark, it can be seen as (and argued in court as) having become a generic name, and you lose it.[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericize...
It's maybe worth noting that we have a choice of how values are merged on collision. I think it's a monoid only when that choice forms a semigroup.

In the case of configurations, "right bias" (aka Last) is probably a good choice. I don't like that Haskell chose it for the general Map instance.
Interesting, I never tried to drag a YT link from my bookmarks, but it actually works. A link is just a link, and drag and drop does not care, where this link originates. Cool!
That's fair, but the skeptical argument isn't my main concern.

The point is that subjective phenomena are the most basic facts of my existence, so it's not even meaningful for me to explain (or worse, deny) them with respect to (in favor of) things I extrapolated from them.

I think last time you didn't agree that subjective phenomena were the most immediate facts of my experience. If that's still the case, perhaps I can try to be more precise.
> These packages are not part of RHEL proper and each one has to be researched and an appropriate package found

Given that Centos is now owned by Redhat, isn't this really just theatre?
> The stereotypical Gray Tribe position is, "This government program is poorly-run; let's debug it"

Until the Gray-Triber realizes that there's no real feedback loop between policy effectiveness and actual policy and end up as either a resigned left-winger or bitter right-winger
I think that's a stretch (police state definitions of "black hat" non-withstanding)
Except axioms.
And I think the NRA got it from PBS, who have been offering tote bags, Elmo dolls, and the like in exchange fir pledges for decades.
Small improvement, but `reload` should do this while gracefully terminating connections:

https://www.guyrutenberg.com/2017/01/01/lets-encrypt-reload-...

http://nginx.org/en/docs/beginners_guide.html

Basically `reload` should have the external appearance of 0 downtime.
I'd never heard it that far north. Thanks. I'd only heard it in TN area.
Perhaps there are degrees of dystopian-ness (not a real word?), and some people might consider our current degree more acceptable than others.

IMO the only thing that matters at the end is whether people _care_ that something like this is wrong and want to fix it, or if they treat it as as "outliers gonna outlie" so they choose not to care.

Without that level of concern, people who don't easily fit in to the mainstream find their lives increasingly considered less and less important.
Light reflects/diffuses of metals if different way then from non-metallic objects (insulators). This gives metals characteristic shine you can't replicate without metalic particles in real world (metalic paints). PBR Shaders take this into account and this creates so called "metalness workflow" instead of "specular workflow".

With specular workflow you would specify color of diffused light and color of reflected light (specular map, usually white for insulators and in color of the metal for metals).

In metalness workflow you specify albedo map and metalness map. The metalness map is usually 1 or 0 as materials in real world are either metals or not.

See https://www.marmoset.co/posts/physically-based-rendering-and...
> I don't think the average person in their audience has a strong reason to understand the difference.

In my experience as a security consultant, one of the biggest problems (and it's a very big problem) we face is that average users lack training and awareness of good security principles. It's really bad to rely solely on system designers for your security. Even if your system designer is 100% effective, it just takes one unaware user to do something bad such as give their password over to a phishing call and you're screwed. And if for nothing else, training and awareness is necessary because without it, you get users kicking and screaming when they don't understand why you've implemented certain security features, which typically means you end up implementing less security to avoid the kicking and screaming.

And just like in your average security training and awareness session you'll have a lesson on "don't give your password to someone on the phone, even if they claim to be your IT guy", we also have lessons on "fingerprints are not passwords, and you should not use them as such", but this is hard to get through people's heads when Apple's marketing material says otherwise (as shown in my previous comment).
I already said that the windows were already broken. And I explicitly said people who would be otherwise unemployed. It's like you didn't read what I wrote.

And if breaking windows is a thing we value in society, then it wouldn't be a bad thing to go around breaking windows and continuously employ people to fix them up again.

The reason I'm stretching it like this is to make "broken windows fallacy" fit fidget spinners and other fads, because that's what's needed to make the analogy work. (You know, the actual topic.)

You can never stimulate a growth of wealth by destroying wealth

I never said you could. People can, however, increase their wellbeing by consuming wealth, and a cycle of consuming wealth and producing wealth is not a waste of time; if breaking windows was beneficial to wellbeing, then it wouldn't be a waste of time to continuously cycle between breaking and repairing windows.

Don't forget that wealth isn't a terminal value anyone is interested in; wellbeing (aka utility) is.
Once women start doing a job, “It just doesn’t look like it’s as important to the bottom line or requires as much skill,” said Paula England, a sociology professor at New York University. “Gender bias sneaks into those decisions.”

She is a co-author of one of the most comprehensive studies of the phenomenon, using United States census data from 1950 to 2000, when the share of women increased in many jobs. The study, which she conducted with Asaf Levanon, of the University of Haifa in Israel, and Paul Allison of the University of Pennsylvania, found that when women moved into occupations in large numbers, those jobs began paying less even after controlling for education, work experience, skills, race and geography.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/upshot/as-women-take-over...
Your comment edit reveals your bias.
Thanks for the link! I'll have to actually read the study. The article alone did not give me the sense this was incomplete.
Here's one that is being written into South African law currently.

http://rationalstandard.com/hate-speech-bill-road-hell-paved...

Full text of the bill:

http://www.justice.gov.za/legislation/bills/2016-HateCrimes-...

And I'm pretty sure that choosing the wrong pronoun purposefully when referring to a person, in front of them, would then fall under the category of "hate speech" through this bill.
The algo learned about the underlying rules of its environment - the physics - by watching video. Imagine applying this to more complex games, and then to the real world (the ultimate game!). Cool approach; to me it seems to really resemble how people learn in real life.
> Yeah, companies don't generally want regulations

I disagree strongly with this. The leading companies of any given industry sector routinely lobby for more regulations, or at the very least they lobby to retain existing regulations. As a younger man, I used to be perplexed by this until learned about regulatory capture.
I get it now, was not clear earlier because the fees are not present in your case, so the analogy did not seem exact, though I did think about it before asking. Thanks for the detailed answer. Makes good sense. I've had a few cases like that too, as a consultant, and have learned from them.
I think that SV founders fall into a pretty solid category of people who were raised by educated, successful people.

My main concern with this is that people raised by successful, hard-working people don't understand poverty and the culture around it.

Zuckerberg is a perfect example. He's a guy who preaches about tolerance, diversity, and inclusion, but he grew up in an upper middle class suburb that was lily white and had no diversity itself.

As a guy who grew up in a working class family with major cultural dysfunction that was mirrored by people all around me, I recognize that the typical "solutions" tossed out by these people are useless.

I WISH that the only reason minorities were underrepresented in tech was racism. The real reason is the culture of poverty. This spans race. How many white people from trailer parks in West Virginia or Kentucky do you encounter in the tech scene? Probably a similar number to black people from poor inner-city neighborhoods. Almost none.

In fact, when you encounter minorities in SV, they are typically from middle class families with college-educated parents. It's a perfect example of why the "surface" aspects of diversity are not only a bad metric, but one that contributes to the problem by acting as a red herring from true root causes.

Yet the SV CEOs think they know everything because they built a web app that streams music.
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Obligatory link to Richard Stallman on "free vs open":

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
Show HN: Does anyone want to help fix PHP..?
We're trying to build a wrapper to fix inconsistencies in PHP's core functions, but the project has kind of stalled for a month (personally, I've been crazy-busy with work).

Does anyone feels like joining the effort..?

This is the repo: https://github.com/nkkollaw/zubr/
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Are you old enough to remember when you printed your code on a teletype machine that blank spaces were represented by a "b" with a slash through it? I hated that.

Even worse, I remember one shop where the teletypes didn't have question marks, so people used capital P's instead.
I use emacs in an X window 90% of the time, but it almost universally translates over to a tty. Fonts are just easier when it runs as an X window :)
I just always turn my headlights on when I start my car. It doesn't matter if it's day or night, or it'll get dark while I'm driving, or if it starts raining or I go through a tunnel. The lights are just always on.

If everyone's car just did this automatically, the world would be a safer place. Why would you ever want the lights off?
I don't remember what I was at, but I think I'm talking single digits to teens. It also might have migrated through rhel free to FC.

It was a very battered OS when I was done :)

Again, Fedora is great -- but for my use case, I wanted something with a longer life cycle. CentOS7 is great!
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/20/40-of-millen...
I just discovered attrs(http://www.attrs.org/en/stable/). On paper it looks great, seems to reduce boilerplate, has support for immutability and slots too and claims to have no runtime overhead. If anybody here has experience using it, would love to hear from you. Is it as good as it looks on paper? Do you recommend using it?
One thing to note about Ballmer's tenure is that Microsoft's stock tanked. That doesn't seem to be the case with Cook.
That sort of love affair with ISO gospel lands on the rocks as soon as your Lisp stuffs a couple of tag bits into a C pointer.
Cross posted here in the hope of getting an answer and starting a conversation about this.
It's obviously not completely irrelevant, as your argument depends on a causal link between black support for crack sentencing laws and the adoption of those laws. In fact, no such causality is established, and it is indeed unlikely, given that the laws were passed by an overwhelmingly white legislature in the grip of a nationwide (largely unjustified) freakout about crime.

John Pfaff's "Locked In" is a great source for the background on this stuff (Pfaff would be the first to say that drug sentencing laws are not the reason for mass incarceration in the US, but that's not the question at issue in this thread).
> Ahhhh yes. Thanks for the downvotes. Always amazed at the sympathy people have for criminals who needlessly endangered dozens of lives. Great job HN.

It's not sympathy: it's just that most people only have the mental space for a couple bits per issue, so they need to immediately sort everyone into black and white sides. If you don't like some of the sleazier things the govt does, then you consider the leaks a good thing, and saying anything even slightly negative about someone on the "side" of the leaks _must_ be wrong.

For my part, I think the issue is complex enough and I'm not well informed enough on it that I don't really know what to make of Manning personally.
If you are writing Haskell, you document your code this way first¹, and what is missing from this kind of definition you write down with words.

It's incredibly useful, since you can just go into Hoogle or some similar tool and query a function that:

Monoid m => (a -> m) -> [a] -> m

And it will tell you it's called `foldMap`, and is available by default. Not long ago I have made this exact query because I forgot the name.

1 - Well, the autodoc write those comments for you.
namedtuple's startup performance is terrible, because formatting a string class definition and passing it to exec is slow. The controversy (https://lwn.net/Articles/730915/) was about whether startup performance is worth optimizing (the decision was yes and namedtuple is apparently going to be rewritten in C). Instances of namedtuple are plenty fast.