skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Phelps-Roper

The same was true for Megan Phelps-Roper, a former member of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church. She explained in a TED talk that ultimately after being treated with respect by the people she hated, she could not reconcile her hatred of them with those experiences.

"Sometimes the conversation even bled into real life. People I'd sparred with on Twitter would come out to the picket line to see me when I protested in their city. A man named David was one such person. He ran a blog called "Jewlicious," and after several months of heated but friendly arguments online, he came out to see me at a picket in New Orleans. He brought me a Middle Eastern dessert from Jerusalem, where he lives, and I brought him kosher chocolate and held a "God hates Jews" sign."

"It took time, but eventually these conversations planted seeds of doubt in me. My friends on Twitter took the time to understand Westboro's doctrines, and in doing so, they were able to find inconsistencies I'd missed my entire life. Why did we advocate the death penalty for gays when Jesus said, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone?" How could we claim to love our neighbor while at the same time praying for God to destroy them? The truth is that the care shown to me by these strangers on the internet was itself a contradiction. It was growing evidence that people on the other side were not the demons I'd been led to believe."

https://www.ted.com/talks/megan_phelps_roper_i_grew_up_in_th...

I don't normally like TED talks but hers was pretty interesting.
Ok Hacker News, get ready for Spanish hatred, lies and disinformation on this thread comments.
It's surprising how weak the Spanish government is. The obvious course of action would have been to arrest the entire leadership and charge them with treason and sedition. In Germany the parties promoting this movement would have been declared illegal and dissolved long ago.

It all boils down to a regional government using taxpayer's money to stage a mock election as a means to usurp the functions of the democratically elected national government.

And suddenly those who respect the Rule of Law are the bad guys.

Maybe the Spanish government is just waiting for them to actually declare independence to bring down the hammer.
Meanwhile, how do we help the human beings who are suffering there now?
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I stopped buying the Russia narrative. It's been going on for too long and the proof and substance vis-a-vis the hours and effort and noise and predictions generated from it doesn't add up. It started with "17 intelligence agencies" and then "Trump is getting impeached on Thursday for sure when Comey has his hearing", to some ridiculous "golden showers dossier". Yeah it was a good PR campaign, no doubt, it ran for a while, but then it's time to retire it.

So in this case. First it was FB telling everyone how someone in Russia bought ads on Facebook for election. Reddit's /r/politics happily started a thread how this is finally the evidence that proves all these allegations. So ok, let's wait to see what's there. Expected some alt-right, KKK, white supremacist ads, but ended being pro-Hillary and Black activism instead. But of course, that didn't phase the political analysts so now this is also an evil cunning plan to overthrow democracy here and so on and there are Russians hiding in the bushes pulling strings. Heck, it could have been ads about eating more potatoes and political analysts at these news organization would have found a way to turn that into a conspiracy story just as well.

How much was spent on these adds, how many hundreds of millions? Oh just $100k. Given the importance of US elections, I would expect every country which has money to spare to try to influence the results in some way to benefit itself. Did the Chinese buy ads, the French? I'd say they'd be silly not to.

Without hypotheticals, here is Qatar giving a $1M birthday "gift" to Bill Clinton:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8396

Now that's some interesting foreign influence worth talking about
> Every country on the planet tries to influence elections to some degree or another. Why focus on Russia and not, say, Israel or China?

This is intellectually lazy. There’s a difference between normal, ethical, legal influence and malicious psychological warfare.
The list of 14 'Features' should be all you need as an argument.
It's just one way to do things, used to demonstrate interesting new tech. It's meant as a helpful pointer similar to TodoMVC and not as a demonstration on how to build Hacker News "better".
They've implemented this as a SPA so all the pages are downloading at once not just the home page. Probably could be optimized with some lazy loading. Still, vanilla HN obviously has no framework so no need to download React/Apollo, etc. I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume that they're using this as a learning tool and a teaching tool. Just like no one needs a framework to implement a TO DO list, but that's the go to example app.
Check this out:

https://twitter.com/key_opinions/status/914529367543382016

https://twitter.com/juanmalamet/status/914448261964029957

https://twitter.com/yuyudecai/status/914577981812674566
Sure it can. If it can't then startups shouldn't bother, and revolutionaries, insurgents and freedom fighters should just surrender.

I don't know enough about what happened in this case, but you can't dismiss the entire argument purely on the spend amount.
Do not disinform. Names were NEVER written down. Either you voted because you were on the list, or the system validated you were a voter who didn’t vote yet.
From the linked Wikipedia article:

Where the atmosphere or an extensive ocean is able to convect heat polewards, the poles will be warmer and equatorial regions cooler than their local net radiation balances would predict.*

In the extreme, the planet Venus is thought to have experienced a very large increase in greenhouse effect over its lifetime,[3] so much so that its poles have warmed sufficiently to render its surface temperature effectively isothermal (no difference between poles and equator).

Both palaeoclimate changes and recent global warming changes have exhibited strong polar amplification, as described below.

Both palaeoclimate changes and recent global warming changes have exhibited strong polar amplification, as described below.
I went down the path of learning Relay instead of Apollo. I'm regretting this decision. Relay is too restrictive, and the relay compiler is far too sensitive for most server side endpoints.
Do you have any way to tell if any free users actually entered their AWS keys into your app? There is a much higher level of trust needed for your app over the average mobile app. To actually use it with production data when I'd never heard of you before, I'd probably generate a honey pot set of keys and check if they leaked, and other tests before I could trust it with real keys. Security apps are really tricky to bootstrap.
I hate to tell ya but you are making the mjnority argument here. Nobody in their right mind would support what the Spanish police are doing to people casting votes - legal or not.
> I also think statements like "US is much closer to civil war than most realize" needs some quantification or support

That's why I said "I believe," I don't have any evidence. I just find it incredibly interesting how at the same time we have a growing number of protests and most are experiencing a declining quality of life, food and gas prices are incredibly low. To me it seems like the government is trying to stabilize the population.
I'm on the fence for this one. While I completely agree that the JS community is as you say "fucked." There are so many fast moving framework redesigns that make for huge incompatibilities during these paradigm shifts. Super annoying community.

However, I love the advantage of exchanging the most minimal amount of data between a browser and the server for each additional page load (ie: JSON response).
Agreed, private cloud systems that leverage OS level virtualization like Joyent's solution is completely production ready from a software perspective. IMO, the biggest challenge past getting CTO approval is finding production 24/7 support for the complete stack.

For SMB private clouds, its a no-brainer; I just buy a FreeNAS or TrueNAS box (FreeBSD based) from iXSystems and have them customize the box for extra ram and CPU. You get ZFS, DTrace and a wicked NAS, OS level virtualization with jails and even linux binary support if required. I've done this successfully in production and could not be happier.

Note: I don't work for iXSystems but I do love their products and services.
Good. This further legitimizes crypto currency as a legitimate environment for creating fully-functional markets.
You're thinking of non-cryptographic hashes. A cryptographic hash that could generate collisions in any practical situation would be considered broken. You'd need more files than there are atoms in the galaxy to have even a 1 in a billion chance of collision with a secure 512 bit hash.
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> The data indicates that functional languages are better than procedural languages; it suggests that disallowing implicit type conversion is better than allowing it; that static typing is better than dynamic; and that managed memory usage is better than unmanaged. Further, that the defect proneness of languages in general is not associated with software domains. Additionally, languages are more related to individual bug categories than bugs overall.
MPEG isn’t just a bit stream format. The magic is the encoding techniques. That is very hard to protect without patents, because the techniques are exposed in the bit stream formats. And ideally you want to have a reference implementation with source code so you can get lots of high quality interoperable implementations. Same thing with the algorithms underlying WiFi and LTE. Trade secrets don’t help because you can’t have interoperability without making it public. Copyright doesn’t help. The software is the easy part. It’s capital intensive to develop the algorithms.

Interested parties would develop these technologies, but they wouldn’t make them open. Where are the alternative models for developing something like MPEG? There is the Google/VP9 model, which is to bankroll the R&D it with advertising dollars. Then there is the BBC/Dirac model with public funding paid for by a mandatory tax. To me those models are worse and less sustainable.
What are you doing here with common sense? Get outa here!
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"There are many people working on storage—batteries are a form of storage, and there’s a few others, like compressed air, hot metals. But it’s not at all clear that we will get grid-scale economic storage."

Grid-scale storage is the key. Duke Energy is one of the leaders in this effort, at least among the major utilities [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15307767
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Every skeptic in this thread is getting downvoted to shove them to the bottom. Propaganda at work.
It's called a 'reference architecture'. It's intended to be used as a teaching tool and learning tool for a stack that has tremendous benefits for applications more complex than HN. Since everyone is familiar with HN on HN, they can look at that code and understand how it fits in with the big picture without having to learn a new app PLUS a new architecture.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_architecture
I don't know where you got that impression, but it is not at all accurate: the issue is that ZFS is licensed under the CDDLv1, which some key players (but clearly not all; it is not even clear if it is a majority, but I don't know if the people claiming it isn't are motivated to do so) believe to be incompatible with the GPLv2.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/02/18/zfs-licensing-and-lin...

vs.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/
That seems amazing, thanks for sharing. Do anyone on hn happen to know a similar guide / article explaining how data locality can help a database?

I've been looking for the topic, both spatial and temporal locality, and to my surprise I've found very few discussions about it, most of which led me to believe it wouldn't matter much shaping my indexes to have good locality between them. I believe there would be some optimization but I still hadn't the time to benchmarking.
Yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre is likely to cause people to stampede in panic which can lead to persons being trampled to death.
I'm not sure you understood the article if you think that's what it said. The point is that Spain is a representative democracy, not a direct one and that this is the way every modern democracy works. Democracy is therefore about voicing your opinion on who will govern, not on specific issues. You don't get to unilaterally decide to have a vote on splitting up the country in any nation in the world - devolution has to be negotiated and it takes generations. The alternative is force and armed struggle - the Basque and Northern Ireland approach, which we've hopefully put behind us.
> you'd need 1B cars.

Now there's an investor pitch I'd love to hear.
Wasn't that just the Plains Indians? Bison might be overrepresented in popular culture because Hollywood emphasizes the years we spent subjugating the Plains Indians.
In Washington, D.C. the National Museum of the American Indian serves indigenous food in the cafe. This includes from both North and South American cultures.
Alcohol (including beer) is an acquired taste, but with no good reason to acquire the taste. It is exactly like smoking. If you have not forced yourself to like if when you were young and stupid^H^H^H^H^H^H^H impressionable, then there is no good reason to start later in life.

(The same can be said about coffee and tea, but those have arguably good reasons to acquire the taste; i.e. a cheap way to get caffeine.)
The Day of the Vote: Catalan Referendum Edition
What put the nail in the coffin to Relay for me was watching a talk by the dev team where they said they don't want to create proper documentation because they feel like that's creating a contract with the community to support the API. It's somewhere on YouTube sorry I can't find it now.
Maybe they envy us; Maybe they merely envy themselves in a world without us antagonizing them. Dismissing the latter as if it were the former is disingenuous douchebaggery. "I'm not an asshole; They're just jealous"

As long as we have military bases all over the world I don't see how we can complain about other countries trying to influence our elections. I can't believe it's even a news story... It's just so obviously happening.
The author of this piece was interviewed on All Things Considered about a month ago.

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convince...
Lots of Facebook election posts have been flagged and removed - I hope this one isn’t.
That’s funny because every “engineer” or “analyst” my job employs has that exact attitude. They don’t even have PhDs.
This is something I thought about too. Especially considering communities like /r/The_Donald and 4Chan's /pol/ have been observed creating parody Twitter profiles and the like with Russia based geo-tags. I am nearly positive the image linked by OP is an example of just that. This is not to say that Russia did not purchase Facebook ads, just that a geo-tag is very weak evidence of anything and using images like the above to make accusations makes for a pretty weak argument.
This comment breaks the HN guidelines against name-calling in arguments. Please read and follow them when commenting here. The rules apply whether or not someone else is wrong—indeed that's when they're most important to stick to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
First, congrats on launching!

Second, to give your idea a change to take off, i'd guess that you need to:

- Bring the pricing to realistic level; You are asking for Splunk level monies for beta quality side project. $500 per month for 1m records is just really steep.

- Have clear messaging why your best-effort schema inference + sql queries from flat files would be superior to standard inverted index + full text search approach.
In fairness, there's not a lot to say. It was a horrible time in the country for blacks. I wish I had a time machine to see what it was like.
> It's important to divorce the concepts of operational metrics and product analytics. Confusing how we do things with how we decide which things to do is a fatal mistake.

It sounds like you agree with this quote from the article?
You can manually set your twitter location to whatever you want for any tweet, and the account mentioned above was a parody/troll account.

The idea that this is proof of Russian meddling in the election is laughable.
This method, it was called the "love-in" [1], was used by the Canadian government in 1995. It was illegal as hell as it was a blatant violation of election spending laws.

Some people say it was counterproductive but the proof is in the pudding I guess.

[1] https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/book-r...
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Are you saying that you put your regular hacker news credentials into this system?
In fact there have been several such (successful) votes in the US – albeit on a smaller scale. You don't hear about them because the results just get nullified in court and everyone goes on their way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secession_in_the_United_States...

Even during "the big one", the secession of the CSA from the USA, it was the CSA who started the hostility, several months after declaring secession: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter
Is anyone familiar with eye minus? I once went to two different optometrists, and ended up with completely different prescriptions, and only the one that realized I had a "minus" eye was the one that gave me the best prescription.
Agree. A bit dissatisfactory, but totally useable loading comment pages; especially on posts that have > 200 comments. See example:

http://www.hnclone.win/item?id=15342486
I'd like add evidence to your point that hn has multiple viewpoints. I am pretty close to the communist/socialist side of politics and find many people here who agree with me. I also find people like 'yummyfajitas who are on the opposite side of the political spectrum, and while he makes posts that make my blood boil they are well reasoned enough that I've upvoted him more often than not
From my narrow viewpoint provided by a few news outlets, it seems to me that Spain is handling this wrong at every turn.

Good grief, declare the vote invalid/ineffective or whatever, but let them vote. Censoring the web, apps, arresting political dissenters, blockading polling places, violent altercations with riot police.

All because people want to vote.

Spain is proving themselves to be a country worthy of seceding from.
The latency of clicking on the "comments" link is greater than actual HN (about 0.9s) for an example I tried, of which about half is spent in the POST network request, another half in JavaScript and layout/rendering/painting. For actual HN the whole process is well below 0.5s.

Seems like with more comments it is much slower.
The may be a simpler way yet. If the coordinates are normalized from [0..1) and represented as 16bit integers with all bits fractional, you can simply take the difference x1-x2 and treat the result as signed. The result will be in the range [-0.5 .. 0.5). If you then square that number to get a 32bit result it will be correct for that component of the distance formula with no conditional code at all. Representation can be everything.
Listening to interviews with native Americans on the radio - frybread was an adaption to forced living on reservation land with limited rations provided by the US government in pretty inhospitable locales - instead of the diet they had before they had been defeated. Having this be a main part of their diet has led to an outsize number of cases of diabetes in the population that is susceptible to it and other health issues.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4975889
There's a recent episode on it.
http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/07/20/navajo-nation-fry-...
But it's likely true that it wasn't all their doing if they do exist. They could handy fall guys for whomever did the real work.
Am I crazy to think that the article should contain some evidence for this claim? It doesn't.
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> You don't get to unilaterally decide to have a vote on splitting up the country in any nation in the world

And you think this justifies the repression and violence perpetrated against the Catalonian proletariat?

You're right, we hopefully have put armed struggle behind us, which is an excuse for... an armed struggle? It wouldn't be a struggle if the vote was allowed to go ahead. After that you can basically strangle it through bureaucracy -- which would be the civilized way to do it.

As such, they've effectively forced the catalonians into revolution through armed conflict.
A PhD is literally )as in that’s what the abbreviation stands for ) a license to teach. It’s origins are exactly in training people to pass the torch of knowledge.

Look at the Greats, or even professors until the 50s, they only had at most 6 grad students their entire career.

Many modern professors have as many students a year.
Media coverage has been ... interesting as well. If this was somewhere in Russia or China, I'm pretty sure I would see a lot stronger reactions from the NYT and WaPo crowd.
All this cryptocurrenty craziness doesn't help either.

I don't understand how the HN crowd that is usually so pro-environment, is also happy with the tons of wasted energy from crytptocurrency mining.
I do not like coffee, but I'll drink it with sugar if I need the stimulation (although normally I'll just swallow a spoonful of dried instant coffee instead to get it down quick). I'm neutral toward beer, don't really like it, but don't hate it either.
Yah don't put your credentials into this. Tisk tisk. If you did, change your HN password.
As a northerner who lived in the South I can unequivocally tell you this doesn't work. Southerners who do this come off as saccharine and insincere. It's incredibly transparent and irritating (which I always felt was the point) to people who don't agree with you. You aren't fooling anyone.
This is really cool! I wonder if this will become the new "S3 API" and get everyone to copy^H^H^H^H implement it.

Also a little concerned about writing anything substantial without an onprem version!
Not me. Put anything sour in the food and I won't eat it unless it's balanced with a lot of sugar. For salad I use just oil and salt - never vinegar or lemon juice, because they taste terrible.
More privileges? Madrid has a higher gdp per capita but a lower gpd (fewer people), despite of having a lower gdp they contribute with twice the money: http://m.eldiario.es/politica/Madrid-deficit-fiscal-millones...
(Leftist source)

What makes me think about the real percentage of people that voted is not any newspaper but things like this:
https://twitter.com/key_opinions/status/914529367543382016

https://twitter.com/juanmalamet/status/914448261964029957

https://twitter.com/yuyudecai/status/914577981812674566

And finally, I'm very sorry if I offended you, I'm just saying that the difference between someone from Madrid and someone from Barcelona es less than someone from Madrid and Cadiz or many other cities. There is no special identity nor history compared to other regions. Your claiming the crown of Aragon, which was pretty much half of Spain...
I don't think you could claim independence just because you belonged to something else (as every region before the formation of Spain) in the past...
The only real argument is to say: a lot of people want it.
I stated my points on that in my comment.