skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need to start sanctioning the people who come up with this stuff. Lock the people associated with the CBP out of flying on any US airline, or purchasing anything from an online merchant.
> your post had a little bit of racism and conspiracy theory in it

Yes, it is quite off-putting.
I completely agree. However, a large chunk of society would take it even if they had never stolen anything before and did not intend to commit a crime that day.

PS: Look up Duty of Care, people can share responsibility even if a third party is commuting a crime. Placing a 10 lb solid gold statue on your roof and advertising this is is not just negligent, but flat out dangerous.
I've only met one transgender person. She was basically a dude wearing lipstick and high heeled boots. She was really nice, and I wanted to use her preferred pronouns, but it's really difficult to do so.

> I take issue with being held to a standard of somehow needing to "know" that ahead of time, and respect it, with no effort on the part of the woman in question.

I'd like to postulate that it's not just ahead of time. It's really hard to change your usage of he to she or him to her, when you are visually presented with a man. The brain doesn't easily change, so don't get mad when it doesn't change as fast as you want.
The pi thing never actually happened. The bill was proposed but did not pass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
If you see it happening again you're welcome to email us a link at hn@ycombinator.com. We're open to being persuaded that an article is not as substantive as it should be to make the HN front page.
Slack is an excellent product with a seemingly top-notch engineering team. But Slack has had multiple published security events the last couple of years. Including a DATABASE BREACH. E.g. someone either left a db open to the public, or didn't have ssh password auth disabled, or any number of no-brainer security practices.

Again, no hate for Slack -- growing as fast as they have is an incredible feat. But heavybit is, um, pushing the definition of "secure" with that title. LOL.

* https://slackhq.com/march-2015-security-incident-and-the-lau...
* https://www.wired.com/2017/03/hack-brief-slack-bug-everyones...
We did exactly this where I'm an expensive consultant. The one who assembled his table the fastest won a prize.
My workplace might be a little different but we also are responsible for moving the dishes in and out of the dishwasher. I'm happy to do it.
Every generation has a successful* fifty plus year old telling the 20 plus year olds how to live.

Mine was The Road Less Traveled, by I Forgot--Actually M. Scott Peck. It was written by a M--edical Dr. so it carried weight at the time. It started off with, "Life is hard." Yes--it is, so why not apply yourself in life/school/career?
How do you argue with that?

It was also filled with stuff that fits perfectly with a upper middle class white family. Oh yea, and God. Can't leave out God when your making obscene amounts of money.

(The first month he received $600, which was enough to help purchase better equipment to film his lectures. But the amount kept growing and, at last count, topped $60,000 per month (Peterson now keeps the amount he’s raising private)

Anyhoo--my advice is get through life without busting a mental gasket. Yes, I had a breakdown in my twenties, and gave never been the same. My only sense that stayed in tack was indentifing charlatans, and filthy greedy Lookers. I don't care what this guy is spouting. It sounds like a rail against the status quo--which will evolve on it's own--in most cases.

Our rights our being stomped on by the wealthy, and we are reading about some old fool who objects to gender pronouns?

Now--that's crazy.
I think Stallman realized that back then.

But yeah, current situation is getting ridiculous. One could always expect malicious actors, but I didn't guess people will be routinely putting in the cloud things that have no business being Internet-dependent. Then again, I remember first reading pg's essays, in which he praised the benefits of running things on your server and delivering them as a webpage, instead of standalone software. I nodded along, and it only occurred to me many years later how incredibly user-hostile that is, too.
Tongue-in-cheek business dashboard
Yes. Which is why there are government regulations saying "Professional Engineers" (a regulated title btw) must know a certain level of physics before they are allowed to build a bridge.
I want you to refer to me using the 'floop' pronoun. Here's an example sentence: `Floop was referring to floopself when floop said floop wanted to go home`.

If you don't use my 'floop' pronoun you're an asshole and a bigot, just apologize to me and I will forgive you.

In all seriousness, I have no issue with people who want to be referred to by traditional pronouns that they choose for themselves. I do have an issue when people make up pronouns and demand that you use them, and if you don't use them then it makes you a bigot and an asshole (as you mention yourself). There are enough difficulties in remembering things as it is, why do I need to remember what made up pronoun you want me to use?
I think you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who considers winning a silver medal to be failing - but yes, failure is subjective. The original premise was about a person who tries being "better than" someone who doesn't try - my argument is simply that the act of trying doesn't automatically make you better.
So...not a big deal?
There's another neat example of this: asking someone with years of car-driving experience to hold their hands out as if gripping a steering wheel and mime the motions necessary to change lanes. [1] The steps are:

1. Turn the steering wheel towards the lane you wish to enter,

2. Re-center the steering wheel,

3. Counter-steer the same amount as in step 1.

Step 3 is what people tend to forget about.

[1] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-37-the-steeri...
There is less competition for talent in smaller markets like Pittsburg, so they get paid less. Also an engineer in Pittsburg, for example, would usually be okay getting paid less, because housing is cheaper by a factor of 5 than Silicon Valley and his or her overall cost of living will be much lower.

It is supply and demand. People in highly competitive labor markets like Silicon Valley or Seattle will get a geographic differential. People in less competitive markets will get paid, but also enjoy a lower cost of living.

If you live in one of those less competitive areas and asked to be paid like someone in Silicon Valley, you better be rock star, nine times out of ten it will not happen.
> Thanks not only for making this, but also describing your process in a blog.

You're welcome. I like giving back to Open Source.

> but it's currently too limiting for my usecases

My personal experience is the opposite: For one project I specifically slapped on an haproxy in front of the nginx after the fact, because I considered it's HTTP "rewriting" abilities way superior.
What I could do with a single ACL + http-response set-header (setting a specific CSP for a single path only) would have resulted in great pain with nginx only.
Ugh, yes. Agree.

Taps? Casks? Kegs? None of these terms map well to anything. It's like if git used a car analogy and called repos "wheels", commits "blinkers", and branches "exhaust pipes".

Maybe it makes sense to people who brew beer, but I doubt it. It's just cutesy for cutesy's sake, and too many projects do this.
I didn't know about those reactors. Interesting.

When writing the answer, I didn't even consider, that those reactors need to be fast reactors. In retrospect it is obvious, but makes controlling the power even harder.
Germany != the World.

Besides, market share of iOS in Germany is ~32% [1], and Firefox ~17% [2], according to stat counter.

And even those numbers are lower/higher(respectively) than those of countries like USA, UK, Australia, Japan etc...

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/germany

[2] http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/germany
It's actually 1.3kB of text. Here's the entire contents of the page, for anyone else who can't read the original. Clicking on each entry brings you to a page with the same text and a Wikipedia quote on the origins of the law and a couple sources for further reading:

1. Fitts's Law: The time to acquire a target is a function of the distance to and size of the target.

2. Hick's Law: The time it takes to make a decision increases with the number and complexity of choices.

3. Jakob's Law: Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know.

4. Law of Prägnanz: People will perceive and interpret ambiguous or complex images as the simplest form possible, because it is the interpretation that requires the least cognitive effort of us.

5. Law of Proximity: Objects that are near, or proximate to each other, tend to be grouped together.

6. Miller's Law: The average person can only keep 7 (plus or minus 2) items in their working memory.

7. Parkinson's Law: Any task will inflate until all of the available time is spent.

8. Serial Position Effect: Users have a propensity to best remember the first and last items in a series.

9. Tesler's Law: Tesler's Law, also known as The Law of Conservation of Complexity, states that for any system there is a certain amount of complexity which cannot be reduced.

10. Von Restorff Effect: The Von Restorff effect, also known as The Isolation Effect, predicts that when multiple similar objects are present, the one that differs from the rest is most likely to be remembered.
There's a few games similar to WoW but with harsher death penalties like losing equipment. This equipment can also be stolen through various cons or whatever. It's against the terms of service, but this gear or the money can be valued in $ as people do trade for it like that.

Should stealing someone's enchanted chain armor +6 defense result in someone going to prison? What makes bitcoin different?
I assumed the same, too. A self-driving car should be able to navigate itself without an Internet connection; any permanent ties to the cloud are just anticonsumer business strategy.
>Sure is a good No True Scotsman you've got there. And I'm not even sure you'd be right ignoring that; recall that sports like boxing and MMA separate people into weight classes that are ten pounds wide. In other words, those sports think that, within the bounds of "professional", there is no amount of innate ability or training that can balance out a 25-pound difference in weight.

That's actually a bad example. UFC got its start with the spectacle of watching comparatively small Royce Gracie beat fighters with significant weight advantages who didn't know how to grapple.

There were some really extreme weight mismatches in 90s MMA: http://www.espn.com/extra/mma/news/story?id=3513974
The problem with this is that people like this then tend to train and go on to do phenomenally well with extreme ease. In the physical domain, Mike Tyson is a good example. He was 'discovered' by a detention counselor when he was 13. 2 years later he would be the junior olympic world champion for two years in a row. Then he went professional and won his first 19 fights by knockout, 12 in the first round. He then went around and won every world championship belt there was - getting his first world championship title 8 months before he was old enough to legally buy a beer.

For the mental realm you have people like Srinivasa Ramanujan [1]. He had next to no formal training in mathematics yet would contribute immensely to a wide array of mathematical fields before the end of his brief life, dying at 32.
I believe the chips that IBM uses in their current Z series mainframes are still big-endian.
also see https://zoepiel.com/chart-business/ for more info
There seems to be a very vocal minority of trans people out there who are demanding a totally friction free experience to their life. These are the people people like Peterson get riled up.

I know two trans individuals, I address them by the correct pronouns probably 80% of the time if I'm being a little kind to myself. The other 20% they've been totally understanding. Anecdotal yes but I feel like this is the vast majority of trans people; they know it's out of the ordinary and respect that, and handle the inevitable slips with social grace.
> abuse the site

You mean like by being a shitty moderator?
Apparently nothing to do with DigitalOcean.
I think the article was pretty fair.

He is controversial and polarizing: many people hate him and many people love him.

https://www.reddit.com/r/JordanPeterson/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/Jordan_Peterson_Memes/ are kind of cultish. It's a very ironic cult, but a bit of a cult nonetheless.
Scrum? Kanban? It doesn’t really matter
A Norwegian plane went from New York to London in 5 hours and 13 minutes
How would you describe the emerging subset of traditional liberals who are beginning to embrace authoritarian stances in the context of authoritarianism being largely incompatible with liberal ideals?

Edit: This is a sincere question. If a more useful description or label exists I would like to know it.
Most likely Mrs. Cringleton knew about the hyperbolic secant and just assumed it was unique up to linear factors.
Some people will just start a standard deviation above others, but when it comes to talents or traits you build careers on, those people are rare.

I think the important point is that most people can move themselves up a standard deviation or more with dedicated practice, even in areas like creativity. While they might not become geniuses, they can certainly develop quite a respectable level of talent.
They can participate, way more than what we usually see (my own upbringing was too lax on this in my opinion). I wonder why parents don't make their kids part of the household.
Nicknames are similar, someone you meet may let you know how they prefer to be called, and then you use it if you can remember.
Many take issue with the minutae of his arguments, like his understanding of postmodernism. Still, if you focus on the problematic symptoms he describes and skip his causal arguments, that is, what he attributes as the cause of those symptoms, he is pointing out real issues that deserve attention.
Per their comments: either issue a resize to an existing droplet or create a new droplet to take advantage of the new tiers.
It wasn't absorbed just because, the company has collapsed.
Denver Metro here, I don't think Amazon have missed a two day window in at least a year. I've only had two misses in over three years of having a Prime sub.
If I remember correctly, Peterson says that the Neo-Marxists followed up on the theories of postmodernism as a way to bring Marxist thought back into the academically-acceptable realm, and that led to where we are today. So, the author is slightly wrong in his description of Peterson's beliefs. He doesn't see Postmodernism as "thinly disguised Marxism". He see Neo-Marxism as having its roots in Postmodernism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5rUPatnXSE

Good video where he discusses these things in terms of political correctness.
Brilliant AF.

One of the hardest things to do is make difficult processes and systems accessible. This article achieves that with a simple discussion of building a staircase (no mean feat, first time) to step up to the springboard for a much larger idea. It's almost as if observing the staircase details renders a scaleable model fractal that gets to measurement of a learning curve.

I wonder if, by observing the details of one's own most difficult task, focusing on the time to learn each detail and assemble one's own model, an overall speed for learning ANY difficult task, done by a particular person could be calculated. That could be a valuable tool for measuring human potential, particularly in apprentice-type learning.

The value of the time and the effort put into the apprenticeship -- to both the apprentice and the master craftsman -- could be assessed before hand. Achievement baselines could be set closer to reality; or it could be decided that the apprenticeship would not be worth the time and effort. But that last decision could be made on firmer ground, data-wise.

Da Vinci, I would suggest, was a great observer of detail; he was also pretty good at math, science, engineering, and architecture. But it all started with drawing -- observing the most minute of detail, in all it's imperfection, then transferring that to paper. As an artist, he also learned to sort of standardize many of the imperfections -- or at least the use of the tool to represent those imperfections on paper or canvas. The painting method he galvanized, sfumato, eschewed hard lines in nature, and worked hard to achieve the soft edge. I wonder if da Vinci saw the irrationality of pi as evidence that a circle has no true "edge," but that a circle was instead equidistant points stretching out in a small infinity, particular to a specif object

The downside of observation might be wrapped up in this last, though. Because the casual observer of a circle, presuming that there is a definite, finite edge to a circle could lose their faith in the dimensional space we've grown up perceiving (four dimensions.) This might be okay for a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist. To a suburban husband with a mortgage and a minivan, it might be terrifying. The observation might completely unmoor him, and send him drifting off.

Nature is like that. The infinite diversity of nature, at say, the class, order, genus, species, or individual level can be maddening to try to take in. Looking above, at "animal, mineral, vegetable" compounds that exponentially. How those pieces work together to build a staircase, or a giraffe, or a seam of granite, or the savanna of Africa, is the heart of scientific -- and artistic -- inquiry.

Thanks, John Salvatier, for a provocative and insightful article.
And to further the argument, the fact that one decided to put his blood son as emperor (Marcus Aurelius) is often seen has one of the early cause of roman decline. https://www.realclearhistory.com/2017/03/16/commodus_and_the...
I've gladly paid for Little Snitch twice. OS X attempts so many random connections now I don't know what I'd do without it.
I would place myself in the conservative corner, but I find Peterson quite problematic.

1. It just feels too good to hear him talk in those maps of meaning lectures. But if you don’t „follow“ and instead analyze what he is saying and how he forms an argument, then you realize that he is not arguing but just putting metaphors together and interpreting them as he sees fit in the moment. That’s why it’s so appealing. But quite often it’s not logic and even less conclusive.

2. His often repeated „life is suffering“ is in the presented totallity not a useful nor true worldview. Life is suffering and joy. (I say this as a pessimist.)

3. If you then check out his reading list you find mostly very disturbing titles and no silver lining.

2. and 3. put his followers in a depressed state where he can uplift them with 1.
No wonder he has a sect like following.

His conservative debates are more to the point but I‘m not sure if it is not just advertising for his „religious lectures“.

That’s what I find dangerous about him.
Entirely subjective - I will walk 20 minutes to avoid 5 minutes of driving and parking.
If you think about it in left-to-right languages reading numbers requires backtracking because you have to see how many digits there are to know if you're reading units, thousands, millions, billions...

Take 12,345,567 for instance, if you want to read it aloud you first have to go all the way to the end to figure out that there are three groups of numbers, so the first one is million, then thousands, then units. If you were only given a truncated version of the number it's impossible to read it aloud. So in a way the arabic represents number actually makes some sense and it could be argue that we write them backwards.

Furthermore IIRC from a discussion with an arabic friend (from the middle east, not sure if it's different in NA) the most formal way of reading numbers aloud is actually backwards (or little endian I guess) compared to the way we do in english. So if I understood correctly for 1,234 you'd say "four and thirty and two hundred and a thousand" or something similar. Don't quote me on that though because I know almost nothing about the arabic language and this is from a discussion I've had many years ago.
This is different! A mistake in common courtesy could cause one of these oppressed people to commit suicide. It has everything to do with pronouns and absolutely nothing to do with mental illness.
It's slightly unclear to me what will happen for the php formula's, we have several people working very happily with it, easy to switch between major versions and include extensions.

> By 31st March 2018 we will deprecate and archive the Homebrew/php tap. Unfortunately we have been unable to maintain an acceptable, consistent user or contributor experience and CI workload through non-core formula taps in the Homebrew organisation so we are continuing to migrate widely used formulae into Homebrew/core and encourage more niche formulae and options to be supported outside the Homebrew organisation.
Thanks, this is what I meant in my original comment. I said "named" when I really meant "long-form," as you said.
I've seriously considered making a cryptocurrency backed by something.

The problem is when it changes value and fees are taken. The math can get pretty insane when taxes between the crypto organization are taken and users realize their gains.

I did some math, looked alright. But I'm worried about the unknowns, unexpected fees that MUST be taken by the users, and mostly taxes.
Well, I too jump into threads where I think I know some part of what's being discussed.

But I'll often bookend a comment like that with points about what I don't know. And here, there are points I think someone might know - frame those as questions. But also there are point I doubt either myself or the person I'm replying to knows, frame those as problems of knowledge, statistics and so-forth.

Obviously, I think I know a general framework, that our beliefs are areas of semi-certainty bordered by heuristics, myth, ignorance and lack of awareness. But this is a belief that will often about what I or we, don't know.
Unfortunately, this still has the key flaw that has plagued outbound firewalls since their invention:

"Currently, LuLu only supports rules at the 'process level', meaning a process (or application) is either allowed to connect to the network or not. As is the case with other firewalls, this also means that if a legitimate (allowed) process is abused by malicious code to perform network actions, this will be allowed."

In other words, it won't stop malicious Javascript running in your browser from making an outbound connection, which is the most common way for malware to do that.

It does say "currently", but I'm not sure how you would get around this flaw; at any rate, nobody has yet figured out how.
Yeah, I though so too. I even tried a complete reinstall, but that didn't improve the situation.

It's probably due to the absurd amounts of logging it does (every single connection tracked on a world map), which I didn't find a way to disable... I probably have an abnormal number of connections too due to torrenting (only Linux distros obviously). The Macbook CPU isn't high performance either.