skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You claim that having solidarity with your nation, family, corporation, etc. is an enabler of evil. But what you see as evil probably looks a lot like dominance, control and strength to the rest of the world.

Ultimately, national power is extremely valuable on the global stage. Every single industrial nation on Earth has tens of thousands of business leaders and decision makers working to usurp that power from other nations as their own; this must be known and acknowledged! Whether it be exploitative trade agreements or owning parts of a neighbouring country's industry, to have control and dominance over other nations and their diverse varieties of resources is what wars are fought over.

Thus, if Americans do not seek to solidify their dominance at every moment, their dominance will be taken from them at some point; of this we can be sure. We _must_ have solidarity. It is not an enabler of evil - rather, it protects us from the evils that others might inflict upon us. Because that's how the world works. We fight over resources.
What was the name of the documentary? Need to give it to my wife...
Its great to see that other movie markets can be bigger than America's now with those Jackie Chan movies earning 250 million in China alone.

In another country I remember hearing about the number 1 movies having only 30 million in earnings. I think that was a record for Japan at the time. So it never really mattered what the local population thought, changing it for American audiences was always important because a lackluster performance was still a great deal.
I don't know about kids, but I'd prefer to enjoy the precious few moments of sunlight after work, rather than catch a glimpse of it on the way to work and then waste away the sunlight hours in an office.

Also, wake up lights.
The state government is still very conservative because it represent rural Georgia far more than the population would call for

You say that like it's a bad thing. Georgia is 47th in the nation in terms of per-capita debt. It boasts the busiest airport in the world, a thriving economy, a thriving tech community, a robust media culture, arguably the best bargain engineering degree in the world at Georgia Tech, a huge influx of outside influences over the past few decades - yielding a great deal of diversity and cosmopolitan attitudes.

Despite some cultural divides between Atlanta downtown and rural Georgia, the state seems to function really well. The state shows that you can have a mix of cultures without perpetual racial clashes, like you see in Missouri, Maryland, etc.

Why would a former factory worker in south Ga that has seen factories shut down left and right and go overseas and be taken over by automation ever see things the same way as someone in tech in Atlanta who hasn’t been affected?

They don't have to see things the exact same way. They certainly don't need a one-size-fits-all heavy-handed government solution to their diverse problem sets. The rural guy in Georgia whose job disappeared needs to find some new work and think about his future. I've moved multiple times across the country for jobs.... he can too, if necessary. Maybe he needs to further his education. Georgia has a fairly good university system. If his kids need education, there's the lottery-funded Hope Scholarship. With just a modest amount of work to keep your grades up, the Hope Scholarship funds 75% to 100% of your tuition!

Like minded people tend to cluster together and self segregate.

And that's a good thing?

Societies that balkanize rip themselves apart. History is replete with examples. Why would we want the same thing here where we have a success story to tell the world about?
This syntax is horrible. All the elegant lambda calculus associations are gone.

Yes, the original OCaml syntax looks quirky during the first two weeks. But it makes sense after that.
Your experience is not universal, and you are lucky that your work resulted in you becoming considerably richer.
Well only 1 movie needs to be good, and he's had films out for decades so if he negotiates right that is continual income.

Secondly, he can invest just like everybody else but starts off with more.

Being in a high place in society amplifies investment opportunities too.
What are good alternatives?

How can we motivate people to work but still keep them from being poor?

I have some ideas, but no real solution.

For example, I work as a software developer and after I switched to self employment I noticed that I made more money by working less. I started seeing people everywhere making money with stuff that requires far less "hard skills" then software development.

And still people do this, they work for much less than they're worth, so it can't be "just money" that motivates people to work.
You describe the situation as it is. The current system indeed drives US corporations to reincorporate abroad by merging with a foreign companies, because they are able to immediately create huge tax synergies.

It also makes US companies more prone to acquisitions from abroad, because those acquirers can save a ton more in tax than any company could with a US holding company at the top.
Yea it's not as fancy, but I really like reveal.js. I do presentations at Python, Scala and Ruby meetups based on the same project, and I have a reveal.js project set up so I can easily build slides:

https://github.com/bigsense/presentations
He also does a -ton- of promotion. Like a Tiger Woods, 1M for the golf win, 50M for the Nike contract.
Ask HN: Learning Lisp, and I have some questions
So this weekend I am learning some LISP. I thought best way would be to get some basic introduction (which I already did), and then build a project. So for practice project I have decided to make a URL shortner web service. I am setting up SBCL as that seems to be the most popular. I have few questions though:

- What are my package manager options? I can see quicklisp and qi. The quicklisp seems to install everything in a global folder. I am looking something closer to npm or bundler that stays local to my project. Qi seems like it. But I am still confused, what are my options here?

- What web frameworks are recommended. I don't need a full fledged framework, I need something micro, that just get's the job done. What are my options here and what's most recommended?

- For storage database I want to use something embedded and fast. SQLite is one option, what are my other options? Are there any "pure lisp" implementations of Key/Value stores?

- For hosting I know I can get it running on a VPS. Are there any other options I am not aware of out there?

I am total n00b so some questions might sound stupid to full time lispers, so bear with me :)
Yeah, they look like nice friendly things you want to cuddle and pet - unless your first encounter with them is in a swamp while you're in a very inebriated state. (Meaning my state, not the State of Louisiana, though they are often pretty inebriated.)
If some people are still using impress I am dropping this small library I made a few years ago.

http://frantzmiccoli.github.io/Chillin.js
Using stylish is easier and automatic.

.overlay {
display: none;
}
Context is a major part of driving it worries me when you see these videos of self-driving cars slamming on brakes a metre or two from a pedestrian. A human driver would see the person at the side of the road whether it's a marked crosswalk or not. There are visual cues we humans know which mean "I'm going to cross the street now" such as a pedestrian turning their head towards the driver to make eye contact first, holding out one arm while looking both ways. Slamming on the brakes at the very last moment isn't what I'd call a success.

As a Canadian who lives in the very snowy Maritimes I have a lot of experience with driving in the winter. I started driving at age 14 and my job as a teen, 20s and 30s required me to drive in all conditions. Winter driving has to be instinctive there is no time to think and as noted above also depends on context.

If a pedestrian walks out from the side of the road and that road has a curve maybe even a downhill curve what now? Slamming on the brakes even ABS may not help. The inertia and being on an angle may (my guess is will) cause the vehicle to slip towards the outside part of the curve. If the vehicle is in the right lane it would slide into oncoming traffic.

Counter-steering at the very instant your vehicle starts to fishtail is a learned skill that has to be instinctive. And when to use that technique or when not to use it.

Slush is I think one of the most dangerous things a winter driver will face. A driver who drives into a line of slush that may be left on the center line can easily have their vehicle jerk violently to the left. It can be a situation where you have less than half a second to react.

Brakes on a curve has to be one of the most common problems with inexperienced winter drivers. I see it all the time even with drivers who I know have been living here all their lives.

Who will scrape off all the optical sensors in the morning? I've had ice so thick and so hard to get off you'd swear it was concrete glued to your windshield. Not to mention the slush, snow, dirt-salt-water mix constantly splashing up. Anyone with a backup camera knows it's a constant battle to keep it clean or it's useless.

It will be interesting to see the results but I think there is far more to self-driving in the winter than on clear, dry roads in warmer climates.
It seems like you two are actually in profound agreement.
Crystal reminded me of Mirah [1], a Ruby-like programming language which is statically typed but relies heavily on type inference in order to compile efficiently to JVM bytecode, while retaining the appearance of being a dynamically typed language.

(I've got no real point here other than to say I had a strong feeling of deja vu while reading about Crystal.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirah_(programming_language)
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There was a talk about this on this year's debconf

Delivering Software for Memory Driven Computing

https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/206/
Ironically, over the last year or so a lot of journalists have taken to auto-deleting all their tweets after a short period to stop people digging their old tweets up. One presumes the author doesn't intend this archiving to apply to those tweets since that practice got almost universal support from other journalists, only to tweets that let journalists drag others through the mud.
It works fine without JavaScript. Why would you expect websites to work normally if you take random part of JavaScript out?
If they'd like us to start building progressive web apps - they should pull-request webkit with PWA APIs.

Safari doesn't have those because Apple doesn't see them as a priority - but after talking to Apple engineers who work on Safari it turns out that it's mostly because it isn't prioritized and not because they don't want the feature.

It's not _that_ much work either on their end.

If I knew I could get PWA capabilities on an iPhone - I would definitely consider PWAs for replacing native development entirely.
You can't always buy out your competitors. Facebook itself is an example of this, having turned down numerous acquisition offers (including one from its competitor MySpace, and then one from the company that bought MySpace):

http://www.businessinsider.com/all-the-companies-that-ever-t...
Deletion is only an illusion. The people with a multibillion spying program surely keep a "backup" of the "deleted" tweets forever.

This is only enforceable against newspapers and other organizations that have to publicly show the "deleted" tweets.
Yes, we are so convinced it cannot happen anymore that people are claiming he made it up, it is fraud. All the verifiable evidence seems to suggest veracity of the story, but many people simply cannot accept that this is even possible anymore.
Would love to hear your take on the good and bad parts of Crystal. Been toying around with it for a few small things, and been following the blog... would love to hear more input from users. :-)
Organizer of Chrome Dev Summit here.

Please do keep sending feedback and thoughts through on how can keep improving.

In terms of session length, I can see that being an issue. We had strict union regulations, and a lot of content to get through and I took the decision for more but shorter length talks that we can expand with textual content after the event.

We also tried to keep the theme for day 1 to everything we've learnt in the last year, so what is the new minimum bar for web experiences, how to load them quickly and how we've done it in the real world with commerce and media experiences and wordpress and pwa.

On day 2 I wanted us to showcase where we think the web could be heading in the next year, specifically with more of a focus on developer experience (devtools etc, polymer, lit etc)

Not saying we hit all those goals, but I do feel pretty happy with the event as a whole.
SpaceX Delivers Earthly Internet from Outer Space
He’s not subtle at all. It’s pretty obvious he doesn’t like non-whites. Or at least prefers to judge them if you want to wear kid gloves.

He tried to skate by not criticizing the Charlottesville nazis/“protectors” of southern heritage/whatever they want to call themselves when he’s pretty quick to criticize any nonwhite race that commits violence or a crime.

Sources: the passage of time cross referenced with the garbage that tumbles out of his mouth and/or thumbs.
The same reason I owe the government taxes when a non US company pays me directly when I work outside of the US. That’s what I owe the US government for their services I receive as a US citizen regardless of where my business activity took place.

You think it’s stupid and anti competitive. I think that it’s a race to the bottom otherwise and fully support the current model (although 35% is a tad too high; 20-25% is more reasonable IMHO).
>I don't get why it is so dam important for many people to retain huge political unions. What is so great about being big?

Well the political leaders want to have more resources to play with, and financial elites want bigger unified markets. As to the populace they don't tend to be very pro integration. At least not until they've been bribed or convinced with beautiful visions of a prosperous future.
Service Worker and Manifest are in development in Safari. It's quite a significant amount of work to land the APIs

It's not as simple as just forcing it in. SW can require deeper integration with the OS and network stacks that we don't have the ability to change on iOS or macOS.
Agreed. Sunlight before school is only glimpsed through windows, which is not worth sacrificing the opportunity to spend time outside in the evening.
Hey, thanks for taking feedback!

As someone who was invited to attend - I really wished the talks were more low level and technical. I'd really enjoy talks about how things are implemented in Chrome, how the underlying APIs (for PWAs for example) work and so on.
The key word there is that it was well documented before Trump ran. After he did run and the idea that voting machines could be hacked became associated with Trump and his supporters, the media tried to convince people that actually it was basically impossible to do so through articles like https://www.wired.com/2016/10/wireds-totally-legit-guide-rig...

(Also, you might want to think about which party won the 2004 presidential election in which voting machine hacking became seen as a major issue, and why it's the same party whose victory in the 2016 presidential election caused it to again be seen as a major issue.)
I didn't say it was perfect, but at least when it is wrong, it is funny.
It’s called “Bookmarks”, and is a feature present in all web browsers since time immemorial. :-)

And yes, I happen to be interested in good visual explanations of techical issues, so when I see one I bookmark it, so I can find it when I want to use it to explain something.
I wonder if it would be workable to have a half-automated mode for these conditions...the human steers, and the car does all of the rest (accelerating, decelerating, etc). Or the human could have a binary go now/stop now control, with the software handling the details.
After more or less six years of running this demo, a designer (Steve) steps in and makes a couple suggestions that very much improved the experience, suggestions that took only a few seconds to implement in Alan’s own words. Alan seems to poopoo Steves’s visit but it highlights exactly why the computer industry needed Jobs.
This totally makes sense. I think the disadvantage is that this is done at runtime, but assuming you have a test that hits it, it would catch the bug.

My colleagues wrote a library that does something like this. You may want to check it out: https://github.com/thoughtbot/wrapped
The video in the top voted sub comment (now) shows the Tesla unable to navigate a two lane suburban road safely for long with the youtube comments/excuses saying it's an early release of non highway software (2017). I don't know anything about it technically but that is not particularly confidence inspiring.
>Oh dear, these left wing protestors taking a microphone sure is comparable to fascists actually killing people.

Give me a break.
How Floyd Mayweather Helped Two Young Guys from Miami Get Rich (ICOs)
"we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language"

-Oscar Wilde
Execute UI Tests in the Cloud- BrowserStack
Thanks for answering. You are correct that they are under development but they're moving pretty slowly and I got the feeling contribution would be really appreciated.

For example, `fetch` in service workers - caching and request intercepting could really improve the "default" iPhone experience in PWAs.

I realize that getting this request is annoying (Build a feature in another browser) but I really think it could significantly push the web as a whole.

It would also be great to see the Chrome team fix some of the more annoying bugs in the existing APIs (WebRTC has some really annoying ones).
Online Resume Builder for Students
The author is referring to students protesting the mandatory freshman lecture on Western Civilization, which has a history of being protested at Reed.

There's a list of demands as well. http://reediesagainstracism.tumblr.com/demands

Students typically have an incredibly small say in shaping the institutions that shape their future.

If protesting wasn't uncomfortable, it wouldn't be effective.
that big picture website is hardly usable on an iPad.
We are talking about that for next year.

We need to do a better job at audience segmentation because we have ranges from senior dev to student, and CxO's etc and that's roughly why we stay a tad higher level with a lot of case studies.

We might end up with different days or different events for the audiences.
This Week in Numbers: Making Sense of Open Source Projects – The New Stack
That is so annoyingly slow that I closed the tab after "completing" the first 2 slides.
Yep. It’s not annoying in libraries or frameworks, but when you see engineers meta programming business logic it makes me sad.
> But won't you be breadthening the argument by saying the steel was weakened and not melted and then they will ask about how beads of steel were reportedly seen or recorded?

But I didn't say that "The steel didn't melt". All that I said was "Jet Fuel probably can't melt steel beams".

This has two effects:

1. It makes the Conspiracy Theorist more willing to listen to you because you agree to their premise. You have to learn to "pick your battles" so to speak, and "giving your opponent a bone" so that they continue the discussion is rather important.

2. If higher temperatures WERE documented, that doesn't disprove the premise: that the Towers _could_ have collapsed under lower temperatures.
most systems today use highlight.
Plastic bottles and bags recycled to build roads
The Silk Route
Re: web rtc .. yes... And getting the screen share API in would be nice too.

Re: helping. I think we have some engineers supporting our predictablity efforts on WebKit (i.e helping to smooth out edge cases) but I don't think we are working pushing larger features in...
You can just use NFS instead of Virtualbox's integrated folder sharing, it pretty much completely resolves the performance issues.
Polymer's API _is_ the Web Components API, with some helpers added for reacting to property changes, augmenting templating and a few others. Polymer is simply a base class for your elements that sits between HTMLElement and your component class.

But I don't really get the "Web Components APIs are unpleasant" line of criticism. The WC APIs are just the element constructor, connectedCallback, disconnectedCallback, attributeChangedCallback and what methods and properties you define on your component. These lifecycle methods are nearly identical to what you get in React and just about every other framework. If those don't have unpleasant APIs, Web Components don't.
This could be the end of Facebook
I don't trust anyone who is willing to give away money "for free", that's why I'm feared they turn bad once the company is up and running.
Overhead projector + transparencies
Spectacle is pretty nice. Supports 3rd party extensions. Supports markdown. Split presenter and presentation views. Themes.

https://github.com/FormidableLabs/spectacle
trivialisation of such important topics in this manner is really sad to see. if someone cannot understand technical documentation they have no business in looking at the said topic.
I use Marp, quick and dirty. But it allows for Markdown to PDF presentations.
Clojure being a Lisp has the ability to adapt to whatever future throws at it.
Whatever you could do in any other language (in the same domain), Clojure debatably would do it better.
How to Contain Test Tool Sprawl on Agile Teams
Like ad blockers and informed browsing habits?
This is uncharitable and needlessly mean-spirited.

If you disagree with this change, you can say that without ascribing bad intentions to open source maintainers whose contributions you apparently don't want to use anyway.
Do you feel that the value of Steve Jobs is underappreciated? In the mainstream media he has received perhaps more attention and praise than anyone else in the computer industry. He is widely considered to be a genius and given nearly sole credit for a wide range of innovations.

I think it's okay for the guys who invented the GUI to also get a small fist bump.
More than 120 hedge funds focused solely on Bitcoin, digital currencies
Click-bait title, very shallow article
There is an Emacs org-reveal[0] package that shall help you use it like WYSIWYG.

[0] https://github.com/yjwen/org-reveal/
The quote that begins this article is from 1943. That brand of freedom of expression was predicated upon a model of limited resources: That is, in order to get your message to thousands of people, you needed to have a big megaphone. Lots of people had to actively help you, be it printing newspapers or pointing your radio antennas. It required effort.

Much of what is being touted as “in need of protection” is low-effort content or content easily spread, or both. These developments ought to inform how we understand corporatations’ free expression policies.

That quote did not consider free expression in the context of hackers with spam bots. Is that part of free expression?

It did not consider organizations buying bulk user tracking data and creating targeted ads to influence behavior. Is this part of free expression?

Is manipulation of the masses through technology a human right?

Does using an algorithm to filter content for individuals violate free expression? What if the content is universally reviled and never seen? Is this censorship?

Do corporations have a responsibility to give people things they don’t want?
The answer to the 1st question is nothing.

Nothing would make them think that and that's obvious so the real question is "why do they think that?" because the fact is there are a lot of great programmers that never got a degree.

The answer to the 2nd questions is to find someone who can actually do it. If you need a real world example look at Apple Computer.