skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people you can trust. Others you can't. This has no correlation with skin color. To think otherwise is... well... racist.
Interesting. I've worked with Relay almost since its release, more recently on the modern branch, and haven't run into anything that's been too restrictive. You have an element of thinking about things in "Relay" terms (in the sense of how to structure them) but once you've figured that it then things just work (TM).

I'm curious about the second part of your statement, the compiler being too sensitive for your server side endpoints, can you elaborate on that a bit?
My first reaction matched a lot of the comments, of questioning the accuracy based on my knowledge of my local area. But I'm quickly getting over that reaction, realizing it is just an ego driven, "Well, actually..."

The truth is that these maps are trying to make a bigger point -- to remind people that there is a bigger picture to the history of this continent. And no history lesson is going to be perfect, so I am going to resist the temptation to let imperfections distract from this work -- they are pretty cool maps, and a worthwhile project.
One (or two?) CNN employees were caught on hidden cam entirely candidly admitting it was for ratings, orders from the top of CNN. Seems fairly consistent with reality, especially the longer it goes on.
As if Russia wouldn't do the same thing if they were in the position of the U.S. This is simply a game of trying to obtain power, plain and simple.
That is a standard problem you face in all projects and the conflict resolution generally happens on a First Come First Serve basis. Of course, the maintainer could decide it on the basis of priority and then the person merging to master next is responsible to fix the new conflicts.
I'd get dinged for putting an unauthorized computer on the network. with linux in the VM I can masquerade. I'd love to do the reverse though, windows on my laptop is maddening. 7 minute boot times.
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It is also interesting to me to observe how quickly liberals accept that the promotion of their own ideas is divisive - as long as someone else is to blame for it.
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"In this O’Reilly report, Sean Patrick Murphy, Chief Data Scientist at PingThings, describes how data science is helping electric utilities make sense of a stochastic world filled with increasing uncertainty—including fundamental changes to the energy market and random phenomena such as weather and solar activity."
Your comment reads as somewhere between /r/iamverysmart and outright shilling, rather than thoughtful commentary on the situation.

You strip out all the nuance, cite the most extreme claims that most people never heard anything like, and seem to be trying to muddy what's a clear and obviously developing narrative.

The cherry on top of course: ending in whataboutism.
You may find the book Contemporary Logic Design by Katz and Borriello to be interesting. Its what we used in my college digital logic class.

For my computer architecture class (i.e. the class where we learn how to design basic CPUs -- and ultimately implemented one in Verilog), we used Computer Organization and Design by Patterson and Hennessy. That might also be of interest.
>You have the right to silence speech that infringes on your rights.

Most of your examples are covered by other laws. Property rights, defamation or such. However, none of this is forbidden as speech.

>We bestow these rights on each other

This is demonstrated as false because we had these rights before there ever was something we could call government or even a society. When you are born into the world alone as a living being there is nothing to silence you. Freedom did exist before civilization.

>By that logic no free society has ever existed before.

Status of a free society is not a boolean. The degree to which the society is free is strongly correlated to the degree of free speech within the society.
So many skeptical comments.

I had no idea Russia paid so many shills to go on Hacker News.
> the article should contain some evidence for this claim

Nah, they included a question mark in the title, so that makes it alright /s
You mean beyond taking it down after it's reported? Surely they already do that.

Are you suggesting that in order for them to be allowed to turn down Stormfront's business they must take on the legal obligation of actively screening all their content for illegal material?

I don't see the connection or justification.
I can understand why someone like yourself stopped buying into the Russian narrative. It's more than likely you don';t really understand how the Russians operate.

I don't have the desire to educate you on the subject but here is some good reading material from a reddit post about Trump and his Russian mobster friends.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/6grvkp/my_lawyers...

Enjoy...
just flag the whole thread. garbage fire.
But also:

> It is worth noting that these modest effects arising from language design are overwhelmingly dominated by the process factors such as project size, team size, and commit size.
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MUTCD
Manual for Uniform Traffic Control Devices. The US Federal government has its MUTCD and each state has its MUTCD. All of them are generally the same.
Uniformity is critical in driver behavior. The lack of uniformity on traffic controls is and will cause random behavior from drivers which likely will reduce safety.
Streets are not games. The lives of people and children are in the line.
Your interview questions sound like bullshit. What are these interviews for, how did you arrive at those questions, and what leads you to believe they have a strong correlation with success?
That's a naive belief to have in practice. If you are part of a group that has been systematically oppressed by a different group because of your skin color, there is a valid correlation between trust and skin color. To think otherwise is... well... naive.
Completely agree. People complain about the state of web dev but we’ve honestly never had it so good.
You might be interested in Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen. He's a sociologist but he brings up this point when talking about the different possible discovery dates fo the Americas by the Japanese, Africans, Polynesians and others at one point - history books have a tendency to wrongly paint many things as objective truth when there should be more subtlety.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me
Men with Geiger counters.

https://www.wired.com/2011/10/ff_radioactivecargo/
This article is outdated. From 2015.
As if the U.S. wouldn't do the same thing if they were in the position of Russia.

And yet we complain...
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You’re being downvoted for completely missing the point of the project.
OTOH, I kind of like the idea that something like this could lead me to discover a programming language that is better suited to the subjects that I am interested in.
> Why do some societies not encourage casual smiling?

Because smiling is a thing you do (as opposed to something you actively avoid doing), and doing something with no reason is silly.

> Russian women do not have to worry about being instructed by random men to “smile.”

That’s also a very good reason.
Not sure, but since the site is back up, we can turn flags off for now. If any of the users who flagged the post had a different reason, it might be helpful to let us know at hn@ycombinator.com.
You’ve completely missed the point.
There is an interactive display of the Green Book at the
National Museum of African American History and Culture https://nmaahc.si.edu/ (I think on the second or third floor).

Also the New York Public Library has an interactive map fro their public domain collection http://publicdomain.nypl.org/greenbook-map/
Property rights covers damage to people as under property rights you own your self.

The point is that it can be prosecuted, but not on the grounds of speech.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...
whiteboard

email

spreadsheet
Good god look at all these over-engineered todo lists! All you need is a piece of paper and a pencil. Maybe a pen if you’re on the immutability bandwagon.
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I will admit it can be very difficult to get out of the echo chamber, be it on the right or the left. People like Louise Mensch going around shouting "impeachment is coming!" to anyone who will listen isn't helping.

But I think it's highly likely that Russia actively engaged in an influence campaign in the US election, and I think that's an opinion shared by many people with direct Russian foreign policy knowledge. It's a modus-operandi of the Russian intelligence apparatus (there's a great interview on NPR's Fresh Air last month with John Le Carré who talks about this).

> Now that's some interesting foreign influence worth talking about

Why? Bill Clinton's not in power, last time I checked? Whereas the founder of the Donald J. Tump Foundation, another charitable endeavor with even more suspicious looking finances, is. Almost the entire Wikipedia page for the foundation is taken up with "Legal & Ethical Controversies".

I think there's room for a reasoned debate of the effect and impact of Russian influence in this past election. Who knew about it? Was it small-scale, or a massive operation? Did it actually have any impact? Going "but look at the Clintons!" rather undermines the discussion.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Trump_Foundation
Notice I said "web application deployed on your own infrastructure".

While you said "[versions are] what the user sees when he needs to check which software version he's using when talking about the software he's using, and what programmers need to know when they need to work on bugs/features present in previous versions of the software but not on others."

In good SaaS products users don't see version numbers. What version of Gmail are you using? What version of GitHub? They don't have versions. There are also only two versions of your software, what is deployed and what us being deployed (or multiple "being deployed" if you have multiple canaries). Engineers can look up build numbers and changes in the CI system or other internal tracking tools without humans making up version numbers.

Semver is great for libraries and shipping applications, where third parties need to know about breaking changes so they can adjust their applications or configuration.

When deploying your own app to your own infrastructure, Semver wastes people's time. I've worked at a company that switched to Git Flow right before I started. I've seen so much time wasted by people discussing versions and branches. Should I merge to develop or a release branch, or is it a hotfix, should it be 15.1.0 or 15.0.1, or no, someone else claimed 15.0.1 before me, now I'll rename my branch to hotfix-15.0.2, oh 15.0.3 is done being tested before my 15.0.2, so they will rename to 15.0.2 and I'll rename to 15.0.3, oops I forgot to merge their changes into my 15.0.3 so I reverted 15.0.2, now I need to deploy 15.0.4 that has the changes from 15.0.2 and 15.0.3.

Seriously, no joke, this is what happens what you try to use Git Flow for a web app.
Be a black person with a broken-down car in the middle of nowhere in Alabama and say that. Lots of luck.
How can freelance software developers save chasing payment?
I'm trying to decide whether to implement a monthly fee or a % around a new Saas payment product I'm building.

I'm after your opinions as you are the ones I'm trying to help as both founders and freelance developers.
Oops, I forgot to include the link to cloudflare:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/what-its-like-to-launch-at-techc...
> "After vote"

The unsupervised and illegal vote where people has voted 2, 4, and even 17 times confirmed with graphical documents from the press.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DLEw3K9XoAEvI1v.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DLED6-eXcAc7oL_.jpg

Very democratic! Let's remember that the EU and UK via their foreign office has said that the referendum is NOT VALID and stands with the spanish gov.

I agree that the police has acted in a shameful way and with disproportion, but the world is not getting the whole picture and we the spaniards will suffer the consequences (hopefully not another civil war). Disgusting politics from both sides!
Whatever you use, here's the trick we learned from trying to use Msft Dynamics XRM: Do not make the core of your application a bunch of custom functoids. Also plan custom changes very carefully; always use what's out of the box first. Also, don't hesitate to hire pro consultants; they will reinforce what I just stated.

Even given all that, would I use XRM again? No. It just isn't there yet for a large enterprise app.
the hn api could be to blame for the slow i/o:

https://github.com/HackerNews/API#design
It's extremely old strategy to fund internal divisions in a state you want to undermine...

I actually have had trouble finding a first citation of it happening, because every reference I've ever found to it (dating back a few thousand BCE) treats it as an old and established problem to social order.

The newness is in the mechanization of that attack via social networks to amplify your damage-per-cost and impact several groups at once from across the globe, but that's merely the industrialization of an old and established strategy.

This is what warfare between nations looks like. It's what it's always looked like.
Indeed. Every single kid in my kids district has a chromebook. 800ish right there.
I really dislike the tendency to couple graphql queries with components. Is this idiomatic? If you are comfortable with side effects in your presentation layer i’d much rather manage data at a higher level and have a component request the data it needs from that. As opposed to actually making HTTP requests.

What happens when two components used in two totally different areas of a single page need common data? Relying on a cache feels like a hack.

I really love React but really dislike the way I see it being used these days. I think of it as a polyfill for a UI component that should be stateless and free of side effects. Not an end to end controller/fetcher/renderer.
The whole crypto-currency scene is increasingly seeming like a huge Ponzi scheme. I really wonder at what point popular opinion will no longer support wasting electrical power on mining a digital currency.
Because of the spin you put on it.

Presumably, they are playing a good cop bad cop routine with negotiations. If Trump wanted to express disapproval to Tillerson, he could pick up the phone and call him in private and guide Tillersons exact actions, if that is what he wanted
> When you cook with wine you lose all the alcohol, which is the only constant between two bottles of wine. You're just left with the rest from which comes the taste.

This is a myth. Even after 2.5 hours of simmering/baking, 5% remains. Flambeing leaves 75%, and a 15 minute simmer still leaves nearly half.

https://www.oasas.ny.gov/admed/fyi/fyi-cooking.cfm
If the energy comes from a source where gathering and expending it doesn't have any adverse environmental effects then it's hard to say using it is "wasteful" - the only real problem comes if you assume using more power means more coal is burned and the like. Heavy coin mining tends to be done around the cheapest energy sources like hydro, and in the interim before burning fossil fuels is fully phased out I don't think the additional use from coin mining is going to be that big of a deal compared to people using inefficient air conditioner setups, heating their homes with electric too much, leaving all the lights and the TV on when they go out, or a bunch of other things that can add up to the additional power miners use.
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What a strange article speculating on a Lyft IPO without adding any substance to the conversation.

Perhaps lyft is putting out “feeler” articles to gauge public reaction to both an ipo and their relative valuation to Uber?
No, there is no understanding of how Trump operates by his haters. Which may be part of the reason they are haters in the first place.
I don't think it's that bad. Board design is, but if you are working with some standard board, say from Opal Kelly (no affiliation), then you don't have to worry about that.

But what about the DRM with HDMI? I have no idea how it works, but I assumed the signal was encrypted.
I'm not defending the government here. I agree they over reacted.

Just a couple of things: it was the judicial institutions the ones ordering the repression. And the repression wasn't as big as the international press says, 96% of the schools were opened.
I'm astonished anyone is surprised by this. It's pretty clear to anyone studying this that Russian linked accounts promoted anyone except Clinton, and they did it in deliberately provocative ways.

The thing that makes me really upset though is that people on HN doubt this. Get a Twitter API key and spend a couple of hours looking at it yourself. Look at the DailyBeast story before the election about the Turkish airbase, trace the accounts there and see how some of them magically switch to pro-Trump or pro-Stein. It's completely obvious, and just what you'd expect from a troll factory.

This wasn't some deep secret FSB operation. They (the Internet Research Group or whatever the St Petersburg group is named) advertised for people to do it as a college job.
Saying "not being a racist is naive" sounds just as stupid when applied to whites as it does to when applied to blacks, asians, hispanics, jews, etc., etc.

Being racist is stupid, not smart
> All the best flavours are sharp or sour.

That's an extremely subjective statement.
> And you think this justifies the repression and violence perpetrated against the Catalonian proletariats?

Where have I said this? That's a disgraceful accusation. I've said that the Madrid government should resign so I'm in agreement with Ada Colau there.

> if the vote was allowed to go ahead

The article gives sound reasons why it shouldn't and why holding the vote is _antidemocratic_. There may of course be good counterarguments but they aren't being made. I'd like to see them, not childlike miscomprehension of how democracy works.

> they've effectively forced the catalonians into revolution through armed conflict

You do realise that over half of Catalonia is against independence. This is exactly the Northern Ireland problem where Madrid would be forced to defend the interests of those Catalans even if they'd otherwise wanted to say goodbye to Catalonia (presumably with Basque region next). The leadership on both sides have been incredibly irresponsible in driving the country and region towards that situation and of course it's the people who will pay for it.
> and outright shilling,

Yes I am a paid spy from Moscow, hacking democracy right here from my living room. Getting a check signed by Putin every month, which I use to buy vodka and borscht with.

> rather than thoughtful commentary on the situation.

Well so far that's the commentary I have, some of it referencing stuff I read on /r/politics and /r/worldnews. I am sorry it is not deeper, but you can help out reply with deeper insights.

> The cherry on top of course: ending in whataboutism.

And commenting about whataboutism is meta-whataboutism :-) Which is thrown around when hypocrisy is pointed out. Yes, in pure logical argument whataboutism doesn't work and is a fallacy. But it also turns out people don't like hypocrisy. In this case it wasn't just the cherry on top, it was a main ingredient.
Ah, I didn't note the past tense. Sorry for my oversight.
Next company I start is going on pipedrive.
Not to discount your story, but weren't the financial implications of a PhD in the mid 80s and the mid 10s drastically different? If the benefits, the joy of learning and chance of getting a job, are the same but the costs, the massive amounts of debt you need in modern times, are much higher, but the number of PhD students is the same doesn't that mean something had to have changed? Maybe learning is more enjoyable now, which is certainly plausible with the internet, but maybe students are being liked to a higher rate?
I'm a white lady who grew up in the south and yeah, I got absolutely no problems with black people not trusting us white folks. We've treated them like shit for a long-ass time.
Almost every metric can be abused by increasing the frequency, resolution and dimensions in which it is measured.

In terms of some real world examples:

Labour force statistics are almost always reported on an instance level by commentators/media, but its trend that's recommended/meaningful.

Net promoter scores and breakdowns are consistently done and reported too frequently on too small a base to establish a trend, and they're usually cross tabulated and spoke on far too many dimensions.

Customer opinions and employee ratings/surveys.

Generally it's just fundamental statistics: don't reason too much about the general from the specific. And as you get greater resolution and move towards real time events, your specific becomes smaller and smaller, which means that extrapolations onto the general result in greater and greater errors...
https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

I beg to differ - currently just Bitcoin mining uses as much energy as country of Iceland - anything consuming energy on a scale of entire country (even small one yes) is environmentally significant.
There's a weird conceit being displayed here.

Which thing is Structural Engineering? Deterministic or Probabilistic?
Yup. We used both of those too. Learning Karnaugh maps and De Morgan’s laws are also helpful for simpler combinational logic simplification. Sequential logic and state machines are the next step. From there, simple Harvard architecture CPUs can be constructed.
There was a good reason to acquire the taste when we knew how to brew beer/wine but not how to make water safe to drink or store for long trips, many, many years ago.
I get a headache when I drink alcohol but other people have described to me a pleasant feeling from drinking, for which I will just have to take their word for it.
You can almost always substitute 3/4 cup white vermouth (e.g. Martini) for 1 cup white wine. Generally tastes just as good, and you don't have to drink the remainder of the bottle.
I am unsurprised that differences in the palate are influenced by genetics. I'm one of those people where smell is very poignant for me and I notice small differences, and yet when tasting wines it was a fairly narrow group of wines that I liked versus ones I could really care less about.

A friend of mine told me about their personal experience which was that they felt that most wine tasted the same (with broad confines like all reds and all whites) but that after they gave up sugar, wine became a completely different beverage. They related that after two months without sugar in their diet not only did potatoes taste as sweet as candy had before they gave up sugar, wine opened up in astonishing ways.

It's on my list to replicate this experiment to see if an abundance of sugar in the diet masks many interesting flavors in wine.
Note that Catalonia is one of the richer sections of Spain. Would you let the rich section of town succeed in order to avoid paying taxes that benefit the poor? Democracy also requires protecting people from the tyranny of the (in this case, local) majority.
Virtue-signaling.
Is there a wordpress theme which is similar to HN ?
Upvote and others out there have pretty bad UI.

Willing to pay for such a theme.
Fortunately, there's no more systematic oppression. Dwelling on past systematic injustices hampers building trust. Better to just call out instances of racism when we see them.