skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like I said already: Zunger isn't blaming anyone. He's making a statement of fact. The fact, which is true, is that damore wrote a memo. The fact, which is true, is that having read this memo, many of Damore's coworkers would not be willing to work with him. These are facts. They're not attempts to assign blame or fault, they are objective statements about the state of the world.

As soon as you say the word "justified" or "understandable", you're not responding to Zunger, you're responding to a strawperson. There is no excusing, justification, or blame in the article. There are statements of fact.

You're conflating causality and blame. Zunger only discusses the former, and there is a huge difference between them. You're transforming his statements on causality into ones on blame when they clearly aren't. Damore wrote a thing. That thing hurt people. Cause, effect. No blame. Hawaiian government employee pressed button. A million people were alerted of an impending missile by accident. Cause, effect. No blame. (To be clear, with Hawaii, the blame, imo, falls onto the design of the system, and not the guy who happened to misclick).

In another post you claim that Zunger uses the phrase "it's your fault" (an assignment of blame), But the word "fault" doesn't appear in the essay. Zunger specifically says that Damore's action "has caused a significant harm" to his colleagues. But that, too, is a statement of causality, and is not assigning blame. (I think this is telling by the way: to justify, to yourself, your disagreement with Zunger, you managed to invent things the essay didn't actually say, without even realizing it!)

To be very clear on this, I think that violence is potentially expected in all three cases you mentioned, and justified in none of them. The exact argument Zunger is making works in the reverse, by the way. "You came out as trans to the office, all of whom are staunchly on the religious right and as a result now refuse to work with you. This is...problematic for your employer, and makes you decidedly less valuable from the perspective of your employer. This is problematic.". Am I blaming the trans individual? I certainly don't think so.

Zunger's argument is almost entirely a utilitarian one: You have made yourself less valuable to the organization, and either we get rid of you, or we get rid of a lot of other people. The choice is, unfortunately for you, obvious. And that's the case irrespective of who is "at fault".
Local news is a tough problem. I mean this is kind of handy for things anyone can see, but you need someone to go sit through massive city council meetings each week, and write it up. What they decide is often more important to your day to day life than something in Washington DC.
And the coast of Nigeria has some odd lights as well.

edit: and in the middle of their national forest o_O
Is teaching 'software development methodologies' teaching lessons of failure?
You must be demented.
IIRC the brand is owned and licensed by a Dutch organization – legally a charity – created by the founder for tax avoidance purposes.
>I feel like this post is more of a self justification on why he wants to work for Grab.

This post is a hiring piece for Grab.
Found the shill.
You're asking for a deep knowledge and understanding of bigotry but making a mistake by applying a shallow definition to race in the first place, and isolating that as a direct cause of behavior rather than taking the time to understand the intersectionality of race, class, gender identity and cultural history, among other things.

I'm really tired of having to explain to people that claim to have studied this exact thing why it's not as simple as white people vs everyone else. When you boil it down like that you don't get solutions.
Russia’s Proton rocket falls on hard times
I am tired of always failing my new years resolutions.

So this year, 2018, I made only one new year's resolution: I will not make any new years resolutions for 2018.

Oh, wait. I think I just made a self-breaking new years resolutions.
>I don't think it does allow bigotry against whites. I'm not worried much about bigotry against whites. Maybe I will be after white bigotry is reigned in a bit, but for now eyes on the ball.

Ahh, this I think is where I find issue. You say that you think all people should be treated equally and I see the statement I quoted as clashing with that ideal. Specifically saying "I'm not worried much about bigotry against whites." I am trying to be charitable but as a white person I would get roasted if I said "I'm not worried much about bigotry against blacks."

This mismatch is what causes me to make me question your commitment to the ideal that all people should be treated equally. Because to me, if you really were committed to ending bigotry and promoting inclusion and diversity you would be equally enraged by bigotry by whites and bigotry against whites. Yet, that isn't the case.

This puts me in a really hard spot because I want to believe you mean well but now I have to decide, are you lieing about your commitment to equality or do you have a valid reason to disregard bigotry against whites? I have yet to see a good argument for disregarding bigotry against whites so I am stuck with you are lieing. But I don't think you are...
In no particular order:

Ecclesiastes

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

The Prince

How To Win Friends and Influence People
> so I don't know how to feel about this

How about honestly evaluating the situation? People will often criticize Google, Facebook, etc, until they work for them, after which they rationalize.

It really isn't relevant whether you worked for Soros or not. What matters is what's true. If what he's saying is true, then you have to deal with it.
I don't do spam filtering on my server, but I use Thunderbird and it's filter takes care of 99% of the spam.
I'm perfectly happy for Stanford to only be allowed to educate poor students with a racial population proportional to the US at large.
How to Be an Adult– Kegan’s Theory of Adult Development
Reminds me of the APL interpreter in Julia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVv1GipR5yU). The APL code gets translated to Julia data structures, which is then mapped to Julia code, which is then compiled to machine code via Julia's JIT. I thought it was a pretty neat way to run APL.
I still use this service very regularly, including yesterday. Works well and instantly.
The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz

The War of Art - Steven Pressfield

Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
Because shielded transactions take a lot of CPU power many ZCash clients (especially exchanges) are refusing to send to private addresses. It really reduces the private pool and reduces the anonymity.
To piggyback off this how does their corporate structure work? Mozilla Foundation, 501(c)(3) owns a for-profit wholly? What is the purpose or advantage of this organization?
https://youtu.be/tCl2xN4D3xs
> It must be one of the richest charities in the world with the billions of dollars of commission it earns from search from Google et al.

It's not even in the top 20 of U.S.-based charities:

Mozilla’s consolidated reported revenue (Mozilla Foundation, Mozilla Corporation and all subsidiaries) for CY 2016 was $520M (US), as compared to $421M in 2015.[0]

The Largest U.S. Charities For 2016[1]

1. United Way Worldwide, $3.708 billion.

2. Task Force for Global Health, $3.154 billion.

3. Feeding America, $2.150 billion.

...

20. American Heart Association, $634 million.

[0] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2016/

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/williampbarrett/2016/12/14/the-...
And when you say "US" you mean "world", right? :)
Ethically earned money and positive popularity among peers would be my main driver. I'd defintely like to create a few inventions here and there related in my niche for the betterment of society.
I mean Google Wallet also xfers for free too with basically no strings attached. Might as well take advantage of loss-leaders while they're around.
Something more realistic then. Drive far enough behind the vehicle in front of you so that you can stop before falling down the same sinkhole/broken bridge/earthquake damaged overpass they just fell into.
Ico: decentralized social news platform
Modern alternatives to BIND that I have had good (though limited) experience with:

- unbound (recursive resolver) https://www.unbound.net

- nsd (authoritative server) https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/nsd
Do you have any links or citations for a number even close to that? It’s live viewership numbers are lower than current HBO shows like Westworld that don’t overall get 30M viewers per episode.

Or did you have a different meaning for 30M than per episode? Usually that’s what people mean for tv so I am assuming that.
If you think something is a bad post, you can flag it and/or mail the mods. It shouldn't be too confusing that making your own bad post isn't the optimal response.

For what it's worth, I agree with you this thing is a bad post - it's just a job ad. You can try to divine what Mozilla's Thunderbird plans are from it but that's true for lots of job ads, they're still job ads. An article about Mozilla's actual Thunderbird plans could be a good article, even if it had links to job ads.
Here's how a Corporation like Ericsson fixes Thunderbird to make ends meet:
https://github.com/Ericsson/exchangecalendar
That's true. But that still doesn't justify driving one without insurance.
> But they are not actual terms and are not even conventions, just some things somebody used somewhere that you choose to stand behind. And I choose not to and prefer to use more common understanding of them.

Yes, they are actual terms. You are choosing to be wrong and spread misinformation.

> It really adds nothing if we call two slightly different variations of passing references by different names instead of more common and intuitive "pass-by-reference".

Yes, it really does. The "slightly different variation" has a huge impact on how you write code. PHP, for example, does pass-reference-by-value by default (same behavior as Javascript) but it can also do pass-by-reference if you specify that in the function definition.
see: https://www.tehplayground.com/nzi7SxTxXrrlqTZf

You used to be able to specify pass-by-reference when calling a function, but that was deprecated in 5.3 and removed in 5.4. It was removed precisely because it is important the the person writing a function knows if the variables he is using are pass-by-reference or pass-reference-by-value.

Since it is all about usability and helping users understand things, please stop trying to remove important meaning from the established term "pass-by-reference".
Okay, so what if the "bigots[0]" are not intolerant just a little loose with their language? How do we differentiate the two?

[0] a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions. source: https://www.google.com/search?q=bigot
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan. It helped me be have more cohesion in my thinking in regards to my love for science and my very religious upbringing.
I switched to Kmail around the time Mozilla said they stopped actively developing Thunderbird. Is it a change in their attitude?
How to test KDE Plasma Mobile – part 1
This kind of news is the reason why people should seriously consider buying a hardware crypto wallet if they plan to put significant sums at risk.

I've started trading in this space with a modest amount, but as I plan to increase some of my investments I am definitely considering purchasing a wallet.

I would sleep better if I knew my coins were not held within the exchange.
I think this is fantastic news. I really enjoyed reading old alchemy texts over at

http://levity.com/alchemy/

and like some others mentioned, just getting into mindset of people writing this and their view of the world, really opens you up about different perspectives.
The Mozilla foundation is also a registered 501(c)(3). Is Mailpile? I don't see anything about that on your page?
Do you actually have that many domain names or are you counting subdomains? Because Route53’s 50 cent charge is per zone, so you can go nuts with subdomains for no extra charge.
The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck - great insight into the human condition

One Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson - concise and pithy while containing lots of useful pointers

The Divine Center by Steven Covey - the spiritual grounding that informs his later more secular books and much more interesting if you don't mind religious thought mixed in with your motivation

The Foundation trilogy by Issac Asimov - Caused a huge detour in my life. Immersed myself in speculative fiction for decades due to the brain-quake caused by this material.

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein - A detour of a different sort. Great introduction to alternative modes of thought to my uncultured religious teen mind.

LDS/Christian Scriptures - regardless of your belief level, the ideas/thoughts/stories/literature encompassed in scripture is enriching to the mind
I use this site frequently. Whenever I travel on assignment, I look up what the seeing will be like in that area. This sight quickly lets me know what kind of imagery will be possible. I then use other sites to get an actual seeing forecast that includes info like temperature, expected cloud coverage, wind speeds, moon phase, etc.

I recently visited Australia and New Zealand, and using this site I knew I was in for a treat at night.

Here's an example from NZ from a location that is represented by the first blue color after green:
https://vimeo.com/246328898

Here's an example from Australia also in the same blue color on the map. However, this one starts while the moon is below horizon, and continues until the almost full moon gets pretty high in the sky to the point it looks like day light:
https://vimeo.com/241600503

By comparison, here's a video where all of the footage was taken from a totally dark sky area of the map:
https://vimeo.com/157779663
The difference from blue to black on the map is pretty significant.

I am quite the fan of this site. I'm not sure on the status of the site currently, but when I first started to use it, I believe the data was many years old at the time. Based on that, you can pretty much assume that if it is old data, then it will only have gotten brighter in any given area. Very few places take light pollution into consideration with new development.
flips through excuse-of-the-day calendar
Ha, that was the word I was looking for, thanks :)

Ok, I'll have to read this version too then (only know a german one so far). And probably learn russian.
I don't know if there is a lot of useful information to glean from this post, but I did enjoy guessing about a few things that were (domain) name-related.

Under "What would you do differently?"

> I would definitely not put a lot of emphasis on domain name or invest a lot of money without researching the potential of the name.

I was tickled by this, because at the outset I was actually interested in reading an article about the failure of a highly-marketed blood thinner of the (almost exact) same name. I guess this guy probably learned it's hard to win mindshare & SEO points when you're up against Pfizer, who owns Eliquis.com.
That's Not a Tank: An Explainer
Spreading on the 'soft side' wasn't in the requirements.
This title is inaccurate. Mozilla is _not_ hiring a developer to work on Thunderbird full-time. See below:

From the post:

"
The Thunderbird Project is hiring for a software engineer!

...

Please note that while the Thunderbird project is a group of individuals separate from the Mozilla Foundation that works to further the Thunderbird email client, the Mozilla Foundation is the Project’s fiscal home. The Thunderbird Council, separate from Mozilla, manages the Project and will direct the software engineer’s work."
Jordan Peterson's rhetoric is just another round of reactionary sophistry, perhaps slightly better than the "A is A" bullshit of Objectivism or the flimflam of Praxeology. There's not enough hours in the day to devote to deprogramming a true believer who in the long run is severely mangled as an intellectual being by internalizing his garbage. There are thousands of such believers.

David Brooks will forever be David Brooks.
Correct. If you donate money it goes directly to the Mozilla Foundation, whereas it is the Mozilla Corporation who hires developers to work on Firefox, etc.
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
> For civil liberties groups, the implications go far beyond immigration. “There are people circulating in our society who are undocumented,” says senior policy analyst Jay Stanley, who studies license plate readers with the ACLU. “Are we as a society, out of our desire to find those people, willing to let our government create an infrastructure that will track all of us?”

It seems we are hurtling towards a scary state of affairs faster than I would have ever guessed. I remember hearing an outcry about police cars using these type of scanners a few years ago, but I guess by now the outcry has died down.
Working remotely is a skill. I negotiate my compensation based on all of the skills that I bring to the table. So should any prospective client/employer.
Tales from Binary Formats [pdf]
I wonder what the "plan for reading the disks with a cart of exotic gear" actually entailed...
Is it a sure thing that you’re protected if a bank gets robbed? Like here?
Into every generation, a slayer is born...
Oh wow great, I can pay 25 cents to banks and a startup to do something that was free and instant with cash and free and only mildly less instant with paper checks.

Venmo, PayPal et al are great examples of how the big barriers to convenience in our society are often fundamentally social and political, not technical. The technology to enable two people with smartphones to exchange money is trivial. Even the authentication bits can be made pretty trivial. But try and hook this up to where people are obligated to keep their money (banks) and to whom they must report their activities (governments, merchants, etc) and greed and other externalities conspire to ELIMINATE any savings or other benefits from the tech and actually make the situation MORE costly, less private, less safe, etc.

Venmo can give me money instantly for 25 cents is about as exciting as Facebook being able to replace my rolodex at the cost of lost privacy and contentment which is about as exciting as ugly, hard-to-navigate, and unlendable Kindle e-books being able to replace actual books from real publishers.
In a complicated React SPA, and in two webextensions, one of which has a decent amount of dependencies and plugins. Yes. Never had a problem.
The Hardcore History podcast's coverage of Genghis Khan/the Mongols is additionally a wonderful resource.
It does detect static objects on the same path, but >99% of the environment is static objects. From the article:

>Radar knows the speed of any object it sees, and is also simple, cheap, robust, and easy to build into a front bumper. But it also detects lots of things a car rolling down the highway needn't worry about, like overhead highway signs, loose hubcaps, or speed limit signs. So engineers make a choice, telling the car to ignore these things and keep its eyes on the other cars on the road: They program the system to focus on the stuff that's moving.
Sure, everything is best-effort on the web but <10s delivery is pretty much the norm now.
Gnome: Introducing the CSD Initiative
If your existing large app is a React app, the naive thing to try would be migrating the src/ folder into a new CRA app and see what happens.

If you get a lot off runtime errors you have an easier time migrating to CRA, if you eject a new CRA app and gently/iteratively adjust the webpack config on your existing project to match CRAs.
How many repairable electronics are being made now a days though? Seems like a function of the market, to me.
So you date shorter men ?
Ah yes so we removed the page but is all still under our WIKI on webpack/webpack. Mind submitting an issue and we could surface a little note on our README?
No apology needed, it was a subtle joke. It looks we both got flagged for it.
Came here to say this.

The squel "Lila" is also quite profound.
about:mozilla still works.
Because bigotry against whites is a sideshow, a minor issue. It is a joke to elevate it to same problem level as bigotry by whites. Now, to your point, any SPECIFIC incident may be treated equally and should be, but taken on the whole, it's ridiculous to treat them equally and to expect people to use language that treats them equally.
In a 2008 speech, Mr. Miller summed up with uncharacteristic seriousness what had led him - as well as ski bums and heads of state and corporations - to head for the mountains.

"It's our search for freedom," he said. "It's what it's all about - man's instinctive search for freedom."
Actually one fun way of doing it is to run your own email setup using one of the big ESPs as a "proxy". You can do it for both inbound and outbound.

You can have a domain registered with Gmail or Rackspace Mail or whatever, and use the SMTP credentials they give you for outbound, while keeping MX records point to your own SMTP for inbound. Or you can let them process the inbound as well (fighting spam for you) and you just forward everything (or sweep via IMAP) and put it into your own Dovecot.

This way you control what's important to you (email storage/backups/etc) but outsource delivery and spam filtering.
What is that big bright area, with some very bright spots, in Russia? North of Kazakhstan.
I don't read very much, but:
1984
2001
Of course not, like most things email is best-effort. But it's hard to blame users when for the last 10 years we've been able to send/receive email in <10s.
Counterpoint: I've lost all of the coins I held in local wallets (a variety of stupid reasons, but still gone nonetheless). I still had the coins that I'd been holding in Coinbase for years until I recently sold nearly all of them because I'm reasonably confident the Tether scam is going to trigger a massive price collapse across the board once folks notice they're just printing money over there and gobbling up about half of all miner output with funny money (it's really an astonishingly bold con).
It's not that XUL was bad, exactly. But priorities have changed to security, battery life, and multi-threaded performance. The weight of XUL cruft that has built up over time was holding the project back.
Why not just carry gold coins back and forth to a casino in a strongbox? At least you know what the odds are when you gamble.
Hunting for the ancient lost farms of North America
The Bible for sure is #1
Thanks, we've updated the link from http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ai-deciphers-mysterious-15th-centur....
> Our brand name was a disaster and most of the traffic that we got, for free, was looking for an alternate name called “Eliquis” a drug from Bayer. There was no way we would win the SEO game. We had no SEO strategy or any other ecosystem strategy to piggyback our marketing on.

First thought was definitely to the blood thinner... Which is an interesting commentary on the state of direct to consumer pharmaceutical marketing in the United States...
> to do something that was free and instant with cash and free and only mildly less instant with paper checks.

Running down to the bank to cash a check is pretty damn far away from "free and instant."
No, but it doesn't imply that you also want to remove biting rabbits.
The Asian Saga by James Clavell, reading as a kid on how to rule your life, business and create a dynasty...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asian_Saga

As grown up, on now to rule the world:

More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Money_Than_God
I pay my townhouse rent via Google Wallet. I assure you it's alive and well.
Regarding supervised learning, what data do you use? Would it make sense to use endgame tablebases[1]?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame_tablebase
How LinkedIn Detects Browser Extensions