skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's interesting! A good alternative to Pelican and Lektor. I'll consider this since I'm already comfortable with Jinja. Thank you very much :)
Thing is (I'm a native, black, 3rd generation Detroiter, and a serial founder who has lived in the Bay Area) none of that (unless and until it does) has anything to do with starting startups or making startups succeed.
If they’re following at that velocity, then we’re already dead, and “they” are a relativistic bombardment we won’t even see coming.
Your credit card number should not persist in their system when you hand it to them, and it definitely should not be printed on hard copy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Sec...
Picking the large foreign company is always an easy target, it can easily lead to protectionism: enforce laws on the outsiders but not the insiders. China is an extreme case of this: foreign companies must walk on egg shells while domestic companies are able to easily break laws now and ask for forgiveness later if the party decides to crackdown.
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I think he's saying that "races" are a made up category and theres just people. I happen to agree, there is nothing special about some gene pool with an evocative label.
They have to support the lowest common denominator. I worked for a company that did camping reservations. Our system for remote sites involved a ranger getting up at 4am, starting a generator and powering up a fax machine. That was seen as an improvement over travelling 40 miles to get a weekly, guaranteed useless list or the honor system and cash payments.

It's like anything else, companies don't lift a finger unless it costs them money or runs them afoul of regulators.
But Facebook and Google are the biggest and most flagrant offenders. It wouldn't make sense to go after anyone else first, and you want to have a precedent so you can go after other companies (or other companies will stop committing crimes of their own volition because being litigated against is expensive).

As for your belief that American companies are being unfairly targeted, this also doesn't make much sense to me. European companies wouldn't break the laws in the first place, Asian companies don't really compete in the European "web services" market, so the only major source of rights violations is going to be American companies.

If American companies don't want to follow European laws, they shouldn't be doing business in Europe. And why are you complaining about in which order those companies are being punished for breaking the law?
By "ad in the mail" do you mean email or postal mail?
You may have been lucky. One of the worst messes I had to make work was nonsense a senior dev was working on up until he quit. It was a mess of object oriented wankery that soured me to even the term 'object' for years. He needed to implement 6 funtions with a couple of sql statements to do session handling in php, and instead there were factories and visitors and repositories and facades and I couldn't tell you what else this guy was thinking. He was supposed to be done, and it just needed deployment, but it ended up taking me 3 months, and a half dozen late night deployments and rollbacks before I managed to get it working. If I'd been more experienced at the time I would have ripped it all out and just implemented the 6 functions we needed, but I really assumed he'd had a good reason for the nonsense he'd written.
Hugo seems okay to me. Not that complicated so far. Yeah, it's a bit opinionated which kinda irks me sometimes coming from something like Jinja templating.

Do you have your SSG up somewhere on GitHub? I'd like to give it a look. Seems to be a cool idea. Thank you for telling me about neocities. Wasn't aware of that!
From what I've skimmed genes and gene expression seem to play a huge role (e.g. [1] [2]), but it shows the signs of being a multidimensional space where researchers are far from finished even figuring out what the dimensions actually are. Some of the popular press has mutated this into the notion of generic "exercise super-responders" and "exercise non-responders", but as usual they seem to be dumbing it down to the point of saying something almost the opposite of what the research actually supports.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2886694/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2682667/
Concrete (specifically, the cement used to produce it) accounts for 5% of global CO2 emissions:

http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/09/emissions-from-the-c...
> could you make it removing fixed positioning instead?

This is actually what it does. Hackernoon is a resourceful site but I hate reading it. I usually open Chrome Developer Tool and kill the header + bottom engagement bar manually. If I'm too lazy, I just close the tab. I'm so glad I found this extension.
I think the SD cards might be more about discouraging shoplifting of a small easily liquidable good.
It's worth notice that "assault weapons" is a loaded term, that really just means "rifles that are [scary looking | painted black | etc]". It's not a meaningful technical class of weapon distinct from other semiautomatic long guns, or really from handguns. (Handguns can be semiautomatic, can shoot the same caliber ammunition as rifles, and can have the same size magazines.)

In any case, it is reasonable that states have no interest in trying to enact some kind of "assault weapon" ban, because that would be contrary to the United States Constitution: "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed". Just like this "human trafficking" law would be obviously contrary to the Constitution as well. I can't imagine how any lawmaker could seriously consider introducing a bill like is mentioned in the article - I guess it goes to show how corrupt some politicians can be.

No one should expect state legislatures to infringe the rights of the people that are protected by the Constitution. If someone wants to amend the US Constitution to take away either of these safeguards of peoples' rights, then let them propose that honestly instead.
I might. I think the value for me would hinge on how easy it was to contextualise the information.

Like if it was just a big list of "Stuff people have starred in Slack" I would not use it.

If it was a repository of information categorised by project and subject, maybe with a little blurb of info to give me a summary of it, then under all that a link to the source material if I still needed it, that might be compelling.
I suspect the primary use case is talking to fellow passengers with whom you already have a relationship. But maybe not. I've never used it.
It sounds like you've never heard of the AI Box Experiment[0]. I personally don't believe that there is any way to safely do isolation while still maintaining the potential to transmit the message.

[0] http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox/
Turkey's Erdogan restricting the internet
> Besides, casinos will often give you free booze simply because you're sat at a table gambling. You don't have to actually win money to profit! You just need to start sensible, and then keep it going long enough to get drunk.

Yeah, but you have to get drunk with a bunch of random gamblers. I'd sooner go sober.
It's much easier to express what's wrong with design pattern chatter:

Each design pattern represents a failure in the host language to provide facilities sufficient to abstract the pattern as a library component. when you find yourself relying on design patterns, it is a sign that it is long past time to switch to a more expressive language.
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quick question, how well does pre-registration protect against p-hacking?
What sounds satirical about it?
The mid-west might be slashing educational budgets, but it's a hell of a lot easier to find a high quality school than it is in SF.
Scheduling at the Columbus Convention Center really seems to be done without any regard for neighboring events. An Ohio Linuxfest a couple years ago was done right alongside a youth cheerleading competition, which had made some parents seem noticeably uncomfortable. And other weekends have mixed conventions like Wizard's World Comic Con and Origins, where I'd guess there's an overlap of people who'd like to go to both but not pay for a split experience. The expansion which has been under construction for a couple years is finally done, and the "As We Are"[0] art installation was added including a decent chunk of event space.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt6dyWT4Cms
Location based ads are growing? All the singles waiting to meet me in My City, CA will be happy to know that!

I remember working on a feature for an ad network in the early 2000s where advertisers were demanding the ability to include the viewers city name in the copy text.
This has been around for years. Besides messaging, there was a plane-wide chat. Pretty fun to ask people how first class is :)
I believe his complaint isn't about not using MongoDB, but about storing JSON as strings in a database that supports actual JSON(B) data type.

As you said yourself, you migrated to PG JSONB columns, not to PG Text columns for storing JSON. So it seems to me that you agree with the author.
You're right, but that's still sad.
Jesus! Where did you live in the mid-west? I lived in Western Michigan for 4 years and never encountered what you did. If anything, I found the political climate much more balanced and respectful.
What technology visible on the 50 year horizon can compute anything of significance in 1 nanosecond? Right now it's more like the opposite: 1 second of brain activity takes 10 million seconds to simulate, and we're probably doing it completely wrong.
Point of personal privilege: I am so embarrassed that Iowa is on that list.

If your state happens to be listed, please remember to vote in November. There has to be serious electoral consequences for every politician who thought it was a good idea to put their name on such an abhorrent piece of legislation.

Freedom of speech is not an in-app purchase.
> Both sides will extensively lobby

Absolutely, but often one side will not have industrial interests in play. I'm not intimate with the OGM situation, but the mainstream perception was that this is one of those cases where there is a difference in budgets, let's say.

> it appears that the traditional lobbyists (the corporate lobbyists) have actually lost

They had lost, and comprehensively, when the blanket ban was introduced. But they've since won by reversing it. If the situation actually were to be crystallized now, it would be a victory for pro-OGM interests and their lobbyists.
Why?

Humans evolved on the plains of Africa, hunting animals by running them down to exhaustion[1].

I think some of the bare foot running purists become cult-like in their views, but I think Chris Mcdougall's "Born to Run"[2] book is worth reading and thinking about. It's an easy, well written and entertaining read too.

[1] Watch the amazing Attenborough clip of them running an healthy, fully grown male antelope down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o

[2] http://www.chrismcdougall.com/born-to-run/the-barefoot-runni...
Watching the world record marathon in Berlin in person I would agree about form being the decisive factor. There is a huge middle ground between long time runners and people who don't run at all. That said I know multiple successful long time long distance runners who severely damaged themselves.

I prefer cycling. Running has wrecked me multiple times (100m & 200m training). I'm not built for long distance which is a shame because I could hold pace with the best amateurs over middle distances when fit (sub 3 min kms).
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Why would it have to be offline?
It’s a good point to be aware of and to raise from.time to time, but the subject line should be amended to indicate that this article was written in 2014.
tl;dr it talks exclusively about the benefits of ambient awareness and nothing of the cost. No discussion whatsoever of the distraction tax of listening in on all those cross-department threads.

Turns out one of the authors is a paid consultant who has a vested interest in pumping corporate social tools.[1]

[1] “Paul Leonardo is the Duca Family Professor of Technology Management at UC Santa Barbara and consults with companies about how to use social media and other technologies more effectively.”
I saw a woman win 15k last night. On an 88¢ bet on a slot machine.

That’s one reason why people play them: they know people do occasionally win big. Why not them?
You’re right to think that 35 is pretty young. But it’s not too young to get into Product Management. Or any other career change for that matter.

There are many different types of PMs. Some companies want a more technical PM. Maybe a company selling a technical product to a technical audience would find your engineering experience extremely valuable.

My default career advice to everyone is to figure out where your experience is rare. If other PMs have 5-10 years of experience as a PM, you’re the rare gal or guy with years of actual coding and experience. That group will have a ton of depth to help on your PM gaps. But you’ll be the only one who can do what you do.
Not sure why that is, but my understanding is that they are with the exception of the ones that list a location requirement specifically
>> You can't really build a product without talking with the customer or talking to other departments especially sales/marketing/customer service

A friend of mine works at a large enterprise company on a multimillion dollar software project. Their dev team has never spoken to a customer or product manager (there is a PM team, they've just never spoken with the devs). It also takes them a long time to ship software. It's very odd.
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Thanks for clarifying, that makes sense
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Yeah, I found it very disingenuous back then from Google to push against this. It could be a widely accepted standard by now, and it makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, as long as companies like big players as Facebook and Google ignore it, it won't succeed.
Sigh... If the lawmakers want to copy from China, why not copy their gun control laws first and actually save some lives..
Why was the parent flagged?
The Industrial Revolution came about because The Enlightenment required that every argument was judged on its merits.
Apple could take a gamble and cease operations in states that require the changes, thus pissing off constituents and making them back pedal and change the laws.

A lot of Apple users aren't too bright (1000+ Mac Mail TS issues while serving a stint at a major shitty hosting firm owned by EIG), and would be lost without their apple devices.

Device manufacturers could instead sue on grounds that it's not their responsibility that the local govt will need to come up with their OWN apps and force consumers to install them, or local telecoms. There will be lots of court battles for sure...
Bend, Oregon becomes a commuter town for Silicon Valley despite the 10-hr drive
A minimum of googling found this:

http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.2814928

It was 1986, and yes, it would probably be what is now known as Bally's which, at the time, was called MGM Grand.
If Bannister interests you and you haven't read Once a Runner go and do it now[1]. I go back and forth on if Once a Runner or Tim Krabbe's The Rider[2] is the best fictional sports novel ever, but today I think is the day for running.

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2008/12/speed_...

[2] https://cyclingtips.com/2010/11/the-rider/
We could restrict the astronaut to using Morse code, and have literally no other data link back to Earth. The astronaut can be immobilized except for one finger used to key the Morse code. The ship can be little more than a ballistic missile set to run a set number of orbits before burning in the atmosphere. There is no way out of that box, even if we want to let it out.
Usage of content management systems for websites
Ah,the American dream. Go through four years of college and 100k of student loans so you can live in a $2400 dorm room while barely making ends meet.

I'm moving to the Bay area in a few months and these sorts of stories make me question whether it's the right move.
I’m confused. Is this a Microsoft Windows thing?
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Great discussion here! Do you two think a tool like kudos or tacos should be used for evaluating performance?

Is the goal of using something like this to help people show more gratitude or is it for performance feedback?

And can those two things coexist or do they conflict with each other?

Would love to hear your thoughts.
I usually remain logged out of our Corp chat (Sametime) AND keep my phone unplugged. If you want me but can’t be bothered to stop by or send an email, then it’s probably not worth my time.
Do you live without adblock?
This is the native audio subsystem used by OpenBSD, it includes a library (libsndio) and a privsep server (sndiod). There was a massive successful undertaking to write backends for most 3rd party audio software in the ports tree, things like chromium, and it is now included upstream in SDL, OpenAL, Mozilla Firefox, mpd, etc.
Too bad the more narrow minded segment of the HN population appears to have buried this one out of spite.. because this is some super pro badass shit, packaged in a hilarious format by jessfraz. Guess it's not everyone's kind of humor, a real tradgedy if you ask me.

Can you imagine a future where you don't have to install runtimes to run things anymore because they are all distributed with everything you need? It would be amazing and magical in many ways. No more reinstalling the OS because things got weird after X went berserk.

Being forced to pollute my perfect, pristine machines with multiple versions of Python, or having to even commit to a single version of anything seems less good than not having to.

I'd rather burn the extra HDD space to avoid risky installs messing up the system.
You're getting downvoted because it sounds like you're defending the plaintiffs, but you're essentially right. They could have minimized disruption to German users by removing the affected books and committing to remove other books upon request. They instead chose to respond in a very broad way that will draw a lot of attention.

Which, I want to be clear, is a good thing. PG is absolutely in the right here, and this response is well-calculated to raise awareness and put their attackers in the spotlight.
One of the good things about HN is that the engineers working and building these features are likely reading these posts too, I'm curious how one implements these things. Are engineers (some of the brightest ones) not realizing that some of their actions are ethically questionable, or is the big picture not visible to the average engineer in a large company like FB? I assume that many have the exact same reaction and don't think it's okat when discussing this topic - can hardly see anyone defending the current status quo.
Read your own comment again. It seems you already have your answer.
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Blocking malware for the security of the nation is the justification for GCHQ building a Chinese-style firewall around the UK’s Internet.

So in that case, the pitch is security. The pitch can always be varied as long as there are bogeymen.

This is the problem with relying on marketing (or markets) to protect you.
A better way would be to require all browser makers or OS makers add an easy to use child protection filter that can be easily enabled by parents.

That's still a bad idea, unless we want to criminalize a whole lot of existing software. Suppose I have a Python script that parses HTML from a URL and downloads all the images it finds. Would that be illegal to distribute unless I hook into the OS-level filters? For that matter, what about Python itself?
You go to SF to launch your career then GTFO ASAP to a less 'enlightened' part of the US where you don't have to worry about hyper sensitivity and your dollar actually counts for something.
> I think this is an untenable position as it would mean that any website, published from any country, hosted on servers in any country, would have to abide by the laws of the world’s 193 countries.

I disagree. The way we're going, the internet will be just like traditional trade. There will be ports and customs to bring things into your country, and if you want to host a site you'd only assume you're hosting it in your country.

It would be the death of the internet (are national internets still the internet? maybe some countries will remain relatively open), but the process began a long time ago.

It is caused by local interests who can control parliaments and courts, it is caused by national security interests and censorship requirements.

The fracturing of the internet. I wouldn't've guessed it would happen when I first logged in to slashdot many years ago, but I don't see it getting stopped.
The writing and grammar on that site is terrible,

I’m sorry to do this, but I think you mean that the writing and grammar are terrible, not that they is terrible.
Not to make you question it further, but after living in the Bay for a long time, I can't wait to leave. I seriously don't think it's a place worth living.
Namesilo is the best imho -- 8.90 for .com's a great API if you're wanting to resell, they have tons of gTLDs as well, and some of the best prices.

The biggest benefit though is FREE domain privacy (usually an extra $10-14/year). Also 2 factor auth, and other features... I can't say enough good things about them.
Yeah, I have a Firefox extension with around 50k installs, and get emails every so often from people offering to monetize it.

Here's an excerpt from a recent one, from Nick at NJB Brands Sales:

> We offer .50 CTR (per 1,000) traffic and can use each unique IP up to 10 times a day. There is no limitation to what we will purchase other than the cap per unique IP. We offer flexible payment options via PayPal, Bitcoin, WesternUnion or Check. Payment can be done every 1 day, 7 days or 30 days.
On Linux, this is implemented on top of ALSA, which is the native Linux kernel sound API.