skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mentioned the MAUs only to give some importance to the scale. Social networks affect an order or two magnitudes more people than games. Social networks lead to anxiety, depression and have been instrumental in many disastrous cases of mob justice and harassment.

People do get influenced by games and it can lead to problems you have mentioned. However, I do not think that gaming can transform the society as a whole. Social networks have already done it, both in bad and good ways.
Ask HN: Why ethereum/ether is not available in other countries?
I wanted to buy ether/ethereum. But it is only available in limited countries. What is stopping it to get out to other countries unlike Bitcoin?
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Here in France, lots of people don't do the difference between the taxes that go to the government, and the social security deductions. Calling the latter "taxes" is wrong. Most of it pays for your retirement and your health problems.
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That's just a big lie, it's nowhere to 70%. Besides it will vary depending on your salary, your state and your personal situation (i.e. kids, married, age).

Also worth noting that that tax includes full health insurance.

You can easily calculate your take home pay for Germany here: http://www.parmentier.de/steuer/steuer.htm?wagetax.htm
Think of it as a reflection of the statistics involved rather than an absolute.
This is a very recent interpretation. It is legally true, but it goes against the true meaning of the word.

When you work for a charity, do you ask for a raise? Do you get a bonus if you collect more money? How much to you get to keep?

Not even mentioning that sometimes the money goes through a chain of charities, all making a living out of it, but leaving almost nothing for the final beneficiary.
very interesting. I would have thought that any practical kernel written in a language with a GC would either have unpredictable slowdowns or be exceedingly complex.
Who is trying to censor you?
I hate to break it to you but even in that case there is still something like due process to be followed and NO OFFICER HAS THE RIGHT TO EXECUTE THAT PERSON ON THE SPOT.
I was forced to try and fix my parents HP printer on Windows and after 30 minutes I got so frustrated and upset at the dumpster fire that is 3rd party tooling, Windows drivers, and Windows "repair" utilities. People can complain and rage about Apple, but just try going back to Windows. I was able to print from my MacBook Pro within 1 minute.
So, my characterization of the cop might seem like I'm victimizing him. I'm not.

Your characterization of the cop just proves my point. It is not the system wide conspiracy to kill, it's that people who want to kill and are sadistic control freaks love being cops?

So these are all particular instances and not an indication of system wide statistically significant killing spree.
> I am not aware of another nation that historically used skin color to demarcate slaves from free.

The romans did if I recall history class correctly. So did the french for a while and of course pre-WW germany in their colonies (we don't know how the Nazis would have handled it, their black population was so low that they didn't bother to do anything about it other than "if it's a problem, deal with it")

I think you could also count the british since they definitely had skin-color based slaves at times. (Atleast history class told me)
It's not just shootings, it's also utterly horrible incidents like the killing of Keith Vidal [0], civil forfeiture [1] and the generally increasing militarization of US police, not just in equipment but also tactics [2], like running off-the-book black sites [3].

I'm not even from the US, but these worrisome trends have been obvious for quite a while now, in many different ways. Like the mere existence of crowdsourced maps of police killing family pets [4] and something like "swatting people" actually being a thing, which is reserved in its severity pretty much to the US [5].

Note: I'm not trying to paint a super bleak picture of "all US police are evil", I just think there's a very real problem there. A problem that seems to be mostly driven by a culture of "War", like on drugs and on terror.

[0] http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/07/justice/north-carolina-tee...

[1] https://priceonomics.com/how-police-officers-seize-cash-from...

[2] https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-po...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/19/homan-square...

[4] https://puppycidedb.com/

[5] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/robert-mcdaid...
Wow, usually criticism of git is attacking strawmen. This one is actually reasonable and I agree with it.
> just critical thinking

And there is your answer. It's not "design thinking", it's straightforward problem solving that's been used by engineers (and others) since forever. In the best case, re-branding it "design thinking" adds nothing. More typically, it subtracts significantly.
I'm citing my sources. You could at least show me the courtesy of doing the same.
One can enable Kickstarter like stretch goals using this
Octet system
At least historically speaking, this wasn’t true. And the fact that it’s true today for Java and C# is an anomaly, since for most of the history of those languages native compilation was either third party, second-class with missing features, or both. Look at GCJ or Excelsior (commercial).

Or look at Python, which is also compiled. Or Ruby, or JavaScript, TypeScript, Dart…
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You're almost certainly including social security here, health care and retirement. This is not exactly a fair comparison, as in countries with lower tax burden you have to pay for those yourselves.
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List of files is not enough, I always do 'git add -p' to see the actual changes. And sometimes I detect an error, and I want to fix it and then keep going without having to re-evaluate the changes I had already seen.
And it has been for some time (years, I think)
Got a source for the first claim?

Second would've been a red flag if the Russian gvmnt would've been routinely blocking other chat systems.
I made myself a few alias to use this approach. After a few months of use I can say staging is practically unnecessary for me. There were a few edge cases, but maybe I was just falling back to known solutions. I'm in favor of dropping staging.
Outside sponsorship is explicitly prohibited by section 4 of YouTube's TOS.

"YouTube creators can not include promotions, sponsorships or other advertisements for third party sponsors or advertisers in their videos where YouTube offers a comparable ad format"
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3364658?hl=en

(Patreon, as a way to make money as a YouTube creator occupies a gray area but this restriction hampers their potential for growth since YouTube could just shut them down.)
I've always been really skeptical of those language performance comparisons which refer to PHP.

As stated above PHP7 has similar performance when compared to HHVM which was made by Facebook. Additionally PHP has an amazing performance debugger by FB called xhprof.

PHP performance could always be increased hugely by making sure is cache buckets have enough memory (opcode cache, realpath_cache_size).

Secondly with any web framework your app will most likely be limited by IO (database, file lookups, networking) before it becomes limited by actual code execution performance.

If anyone's ever worked on a project where the performance problem was the language and not IO I'd be really interested in hearing about it, but in my career of making websites I've never ran into this problem yet.
> when in fact you need to log in to an account to begin with.

Guest account is enabled by default on Macs.
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I think it is against physical seizure and tampering. A good part of security against that is obscurity, don't you think?
Checkpointing is generally different from commits in more than just not having a commit message (ex: should one allow checkpoints to be pushed? should they be suppressed in the log by default? should they be part of the normal revision graph or a separate hierarchy?).

Yes, you can emulate them because Git is a general versioned, hierarchical key value store. But by the same token, you don't really need Git, you could just store each new version in a separate directory. A version control system is about more than providing raw access to a storage engine; it needs to support appropriate high-level operation and integration with the development process.

The problem here is the Procrustean way in which people try to force everything to fit Git's model rather than to think beyond its limitations (many of which are shared by other VCSes, I don't want to single Git out here) and to address these problems at the user experience level (especially when we're talking about normal users, such as writers and artists, who may not have a deep understanding of the technical details).
That’s only income tax, not the total tax burden.

My total tax burden in Germany (Munich) was around 65%-ish, depending on exactly how aggressively you want to factor corporate taxes into consumer prices.
Australia was a penal colony. They did not choose to go there. They were sent. American colonists chose the hardship of leaving their known world for a harsh and deadly new world, often on the idea that you could not make them deny their true religious beliefs merely to get along with the rest of society.
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> But while I'm slowly hacking away at this commit, I talked with someone else and decided to try an idea which turns out to be a small commit. But I've already got this half-built-up commit that's staged, so I need to commit that to make the new commit, and then somehow reverse the patches and restage the commit (which is something that's well outside my git comfort level).

Git stash

> What hg has is a few different features that make it possible to build up not just a single commit but an entire commit sequence and do operations on that commit sequence (like reorder them). The git staging area is kind of a weak version of that...

The git way is to make a new branch and then use git rebase -i
A service like Cloudflare proxies requests through them, hiding the real servers and their IPs. I expect something like that here.
12 minutes of meditation* before starting work. Keeps me laser-focused for longer periods. (*=sit comfortably, eyes closed, focus on breath, gently resist mind wandering)
All right, we probably agree on more than I originally thought. But the fact is those sadistic control freaks, as if it weren't bad enough they were cops, are often biased against minorites and exist in a system that is biased. So I wouldn't say there's a conspiracy, but I do argue that the system disproportionately affects non-white Americans. And perpetuates itself with all its biases.
Any credible calculation[0] puts the tax burden of all groups at 50% at most (and most middle class is not taxed at that number) – including all taxes, contributions, levies, and VAT. You would have to add the employer's contributions to that number (but they are less than 10%).

A better measure would be the tax quota (gross national product divided by all taxes and contributions) which is about 35%. This is the effective rate the state gets for everything it does.

[0]: Such as the RWI study which really can't be accused of downplaying the numbers http://shop.freiheit.org/download/P2@675/96532/A4_Steuern%20...
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Price dumping to kill the competition is illegal. However, if Samsung can actually make a profit, it's just market economics.

Time for Apple to bolster there competition, micron maybe?
I think that’s great effort, really!

But you seem very focused only in one kind of workplace... which looks quite like deep into the programming/algorithm part of CS...

If you would like to compare to software engineers as we know then in Europe you would need to have also some knowledge of physics (a general overview), mathematics (including statistics, discrete mathematics, algebra, ...) basics of economy (it is very common to have at least a subject or two) and then a fast overview of some domain specific technical areas such as databases (formal SQL92), artificial intelligence (an overview on the common algorithms and story of AI), operating systems (I remember to have read the code from a small Unix, also made a kernel module), the architecture of a computer (von Neumann) and understand the basics of Hardware programming (including some assembly and an overview how the CPU registers work, and so on...) and compilers.

Also do not forget things like classic software engineering, specification modelling and definition of problems in formal languages. And then comes the actual specialisation (web programming, deeper in databases, graphics programming, ...).

I have the feeling I forgot half subject of every area I mentioned... but as you see an software engineer knows a bit of every area, not to deep in the ones he/she did not specialise, and a bit of the surrounding careers; and very often after complete the basic degree is common to specialise deeper in some of those areas or go deeper in them as part of your professional life.

P.S. and for sure the final project of the career... which not many students take it serious but it could be compared to some side projects/per projects which you see from time to time in HN.
That brutality disproportionately affects African Americans. Police brutality and racism are both huge problems, combined they are worse than the sum of said parts.
> Automatic detection of curse words and nudity does work, as far as I know.

I don't know about nudity, but I can assure you that automatic detection of curse words doesn't work. Enable automatic subtitles and watch a few videos... do you think that's working?

Also, youtube is not english-only, and automated processing of anything other than english is even worse!
There's also the compulsory 9% Church Tax in Germany, unless you formally renounce your religion:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/113...

Notably: "The changes include German banks now having to withhold the tax on capital gains of account-holders who are church members."
Where would this fit in?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R5w-PIzlUk

It's a clip-art style "coloring video" drawing a baby with a lot of syringes, which then each empty their colored liquid into the baby. Technically, perfectly innocent. In context of a positive flood of videos with an undertone ranging from brain damaging to abusive targeted at little kids it doesn't seem that innocent to me. The sum isn't larger than the whole, but it's larger than each individual piece seen in a vacuum. However, where to draw the line? I would draw the line at "if it targets little kids, demonetize it", not even because of the content of such videos, simply because I think marketing to little kids is immoral no matter in what context, but I know that's not going to fly. But there could be a category for it, and then people could check out which advertisers advertise to little kids and let that inform their wallet voting.

For me, YT is just totally ruined anyway. Yeah I still watch videos on it, 99% of the video material on the web is on YT, but even using an ad-blocker what used to feel lame now feels positively fucked up considering how horribly bad YT has handled this before it blew up as well as after advertisers started retracting ads. I want to turn my back on it for good, and if we can't find a way to self-host and directly pay what we watch, I'll find a way to live without video on the web.
Funnily enough, I drew the opposite conclusion from grandparent's comment: To me, this is literally why the I'm-beyond-government-control crypto dream cannot work.
I've seen the video and I severely disagree. I'm not trying to say what happened is right but the victim of the shooting was reaching, from the point of the officer, possibly reaching for a gun at this point and especially in the given situation I would suggest that someone who likes "You're fucked" on the gun will still be stressed and pumped on adrenaline, hence the confusing and bad instructions. So they see someone reaching for what might be a gun and fire.

Was it avoidable? Definitely. It's a tragedy and not necessary.

In most other civilized countries the police would have handled this much more maturely and with better training.
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Seems like a reasonable solution. And that YouTube made an effort to think this through.
There's no ideal solution for this problem though. And this sort of things may make you cringe but I think the alternatives are much worse.
You can do small temporary commits on a branch, and once you want to do an actual commit which will then be pushed, you go onto the master branch and `git merge --squash <work-branch>`.
Assuming you're not dogwhistling: My impact on the inner city black youth of Chicago is limited since I am a middle class average white dude. I feel that my time is better spent addressing the police problem since it still is a problem.
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As long as it is compulsory, it is a tax. Whether it goes to your health problems or your street is irrelevant. If you have no control over the money, it is a tax.
This is why i hate gift giving.
What if it's a wreck though? :)
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With a programming language, if you open a new file A in the same repo and try out some stuff, and it doesn't turn out well, you can just delete the file and be reasonably sure that it doesn't fuck up files B, C and D in the same directory.
Because the issuers of the token (management) don't directly benefit from its use. It is the selling and profiting off the token that makes it a security. If it provides utility to the participants and doesn't provide a direct incentive to the issuer, it is not a security.

ICO's certainly bring all of these things into a discussion though, don't they?
The first claim? The "hounded by Russia" one? I'm not familiar with the story, but some quick searching reveals this:

https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/16/telegram-fined-by-russia...

The prime source seems to be founder Durov's social-media posts, retelling his communications to/from regulators.
Workspaces please, now.

That would be so much nicer than the current need to fork.
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You are already using ammend and rebase, you can do plenty of complex and hairy stuff with that, especially as a team. I'm also guessing you use merge and log at times. FWIW this is my philosphy with git too, but have you not experienced the points he brings up? I was nodding my head at all of them; branches are time-consuming, staging is problematic and forks are a bad analogy.

The recent post and hype about the Facebook, Google and Microsoft monorepos should make us ask the question what our systems for source control is supposed to do really.

save changes to a source code
save changes to big binary assets
annotate those changes
annotate the files themselves
tagging versions
signing of code
code review
handle regressions testing
collaborating (ACL, DCVS, official monkey patching etc)
merging
search on the whole code base
refactoring on large code bases

All these things have uses but they are not really supposed to be tied to one VCS, we have very basic needs when working with source code streamlining the UX for that workflow might be more important and in the same time opening up for easy access to the other stuff.
> ok, so he's basically suggesting to get of rid government.

Considering he grew up under the USSR, Yeltsin and then Putin I don't really find that surprising. Perhaps he'd have a different point of view if he came from a society where he wasn't forced to sell his social network.
It's not that simple: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/154235

You can't splice an actual ad into the video (although channels do, and they haven't been banned), but you can have outside sponsorship. I believe stuff like vloggers cooking using a meal kit sponsored by the company is OK.
There are lots of problems. The black sites in particular have been weighing on my conscience a lot recently. I do find the combination of racism and police brutality particularly vile though. Especially given the for-profit prison subsystem and the exemption given to slavery in the amendment which supposedly abolished it.
Years, yes. At least since 2.0, though probably longer.
Operational expenses. Sure. But I am taking the situation into consideration. And I am not denying the fact that Durov needs to make money, eventually, to cover expenses.

The problem is on the word monetize. It seems like the idea might be to sell ads which will eventually require some form of personalization even though it is not explicitly sold. Just like what happened with whatsapp. It is free but we saw what was tried with FB integration.
Great concept promising potentially more in-depth experiences than the cpomtetition. I think that the single point of failure of the site would be failure to build a large enough community of reviewers.