skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anyone ever done an analysis which compares the "social media" in the book "Ender's Game" to our current social media?

I haven't read the book in a few years but if I remember correctly there was some sort of global discussion forum / social media which was used to steer political and social discussion. Ender and his siblings wrote tons of articles under pseudonyms and became quite influential.

15-20 years ago this might have sounded like a viable way to do global communications but looking at the current click-baity social media with all its Fake News it looks like we are very far away from a viable system.
"The campaign was paid for by Progressives for Immigration Reform, a DC-based group designated as “anti-immigrant” by the Southern Poverty Law Center (a civil rights nonprofit) in 2010."

Southern Poverty Law Center is actively demonizing the Left, and the Right, for anyone that dares an Orthodox dogma.
What did I write that you're responding to? It looks like you're agreeing with everything I've said.
Is that inequality though? I believe inequality is when differences are unjust or someone or something is being discriminated against based on other things than merit or quality.
Making sure your company isn't screwing me over by throwing my personal information around willy-nilly isn't "looking for trouble"
Just finished reading "Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix" and I really like it. It gave me a better understanding of GenServer/OTP:

https://pragprog.com/book/lhelph/functional-web-development-...
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Im paid as a developer, but do mindless work that doesnt relate.

Also, Ive been at my job for about a year and a half.
We're entering a neoliberal world of open borders and free trade, like Hillary Clinton wanted.

I, and many others, fully support that. It's best for the US economy going forward, since protectionism is a good way to wreck an economy.

I hope you are ready for it.
Russia invaded Crimea with NATO and the US watching. It's not a stretch at all to imagine that Russia would be much more active if The US didn't spend more than anyone else in the world on their military many times over. You are drastically underestimating just how big the US military presence is. Either European nations would have to spend much more on their military (and lose some of their social democratic nature), or they'd be under constant threat.

Japan, Taiwan, and SK the same. Just look at the numbers.

Here's military expenditures for 2017 if you'd like facts:

1 United States 611.2 billion

2 China	215.7

3 Russia	69.2

4 Saudi Arabia 63.7

5 India 55.9

6 France 55.7

7 United Kingdom 48.3

8 Japan 46.1

9 Germany 41.1

10 South Korea 36.8
I just got started - I started a content website about starting e-commerce businesses https://www.starterstory.com

Right now, it's earning about $1-200 a month. Still have a full-time job.
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Plus it is extremely capital intensive to build refineries and offshore oil rigs, there are some economic returns for scale.
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I think you're going to have to make an argument that there actually is a level playing field. I think most of us here would hotly dispute that.
Yes, and it is considered a different class of income than normal - so different tax rates usually.
:)

The problem with physics is, that it went into the wrong direction in the last 100 years and as a result, everybody which looks beyond pop science papers knows, that it does not fucking fit.
The fine-tuned Universe is a Problem of the model and the requirement of dozens of free chose-able variables required to make the model fit observations should give you a red sign.
And even then it's a bad fit, in very aspect. 10%+ difference in calculations vs observations is a pretty strong hint that your model is far from reality.

The model I'm following does not have dark matter, because it does not require it. I have also expansion of the universe, without abstract higher dimensions etc. But of course, this can not be done without breaking paradigms and this is the problem.

Physicists have shown to be tho most short sighted and ignorant scientists of all:

http://www.pnas.org/content/112/24/7426.full.pdf
Do you know if housing is included? Seems like if you tracked inflation as more of “indexed cost of living” it would be skyrocketing the last 20 years.
There's nothing wrong with being against laws that weaken labor's bargaining power. Productivity and wages decoupled a long time ago. It's about time the working class started fighting back. It's obvious corporations want cheap labor, and claiming there's a "skill shortage" is an easy way to achieve that.
You're obliged to pay taxes on any income. Up to $600, it's an honor system.
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I live in the U.S. I use Whatsapp to connect with family members in another country. I have a Facebook account just for my informal HOA community posts. I have zero fb friends. I hope my HOA finds another means to communicate.
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One distinction I like to draw as well is being anti-immigration doesn't mean you're anti-immigrant. Wanting immigration to be limited or criteria changed or whatever doesn't mean that you don't like the people that come to your country via these means.
I'd be very interested to see an example, as someone working in NYC making much less than $150K.
Can you provide any additional detail about that? I can’t tell if you’re referring to FB mining the contents of the messages, or the app doing unscrupulous things in the background.
The idea that posts made by future politicians when they were young will come back to haunt them is a valid one. The example that because Trump was able to escape using the "locker room talk" excuse will work for other I believe is a falsity. The pendulum in politics will shift back towards more reasonable candidates who will need to explain for any skeletons dug up from their social media or Facebook thumbprint. As an early adopter of Facebook, I knew from the beginning not to post anything too outrageous as it could all be made public at some point despite any privacy conditions. I would expect any future hopeful politicians would have the same common sense. Facebook will live on.
I deleted mine around the same time, but it was easy for me because a) I was pressured into having one in the first place by work colleagues, and 2) I don't actually have much of a social network. The few months I spent with FB was like most human social interaction is to me: vapid, meaningless, and utterly tedious.

My understanding, though, is that others don't have this same experience with real life social interaction, so might not as easily notice how much FB amplifies it.
> One of the biggest lie sold in the West is that if you work hard, give everything you should succeed

I think this used to be true decades ago when you could without much effort get a well-paying manufacturing job with just a high school diploma.

It would be foolish these days to rely on just "working hard". Not everyone "works hard" equally - it is important to work hard in the right direction.

To work as say a Starbucks barista even full-time and expect a house, a car, and a luxurious lifestyle, then after failing to achieve that exclaim "meritocracy doesn't work" is narrow-minded at best.
ASK HN: Why Database migrations aren't handled like Git?
In DB migrations you write SQL statements so database can be modified to a new state. Without having to delete the table and write new CREATE TABLE....

You basically write how to change state.

In Git, you change the file and git internally figures out what has changed and then creates a commit. If you push it and then others download the changes they also reach to new state without having to delete everything. Only difference is..

You made changes to final state and Git automatically detected what changed. Git figures out how to change the state.

What you do in DB migration is equivalent to typing out Git commits manually on what files to change and how to change them.

Ex: Delete lines 22-30 in file abc.js and new lines at 10-15 which are .................. Instead of you just editing the abc.js.

See how stupid that looks. That's how stupid SQL migrations look to me.

Instead of me just updating schema and have some program figure out changes and propagate them to related parties. I've to manually write what change and how it changed in SQL statements.

Benefit:

New Users wont have to run 3000 migrations they can start with final state.

Humans wont have to write migrations by hand and do more productive things with their limited lives.
This is the most terrifying about this Facebook situation. It's scary how easily people can be manipulated.
I own the Gaggia Classic, and as far as I know it uses aluminum or stainless steel (depending on the year) for the boiler. It's a semi-automatic machine, and personally I love it. Barista grade portafilter, makes a very good espresso. I replaced the steam wand with the Rancilio Silvia wand for better steam action; it's a simple five minute job and worth doing if you go with this machine.
I still don't understand how this is relevant. You are not allowed to park in bike lanes, full stop. It doesn't matter why you are going somewhere; it's still illegal regardless of whether you're going to work, or going shopping, or whatever.

Given that most people in Manhattan do not drive, it makes sense to prioritize non-drivers over drivers.
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This looks neat. What is a good use-case for your average techy? What about your average non-techy?
I wasn't aware that there was a simple measure of what is BEST result that we all agreed on. Would you mind sharing it, please?
They did. It was called A9. It was a colossal failure.

Man, I feel old. I forgot that A9 came and went a decade ago.
There's now a business loss of $12M on their books, so they're getting benefits on their next tax filing. That's where the real monetary value comes from.
Or just only highlight whether the response is from the creator, that way you can't correlate between threads.
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I'm not sure if you are joking, but it does seem that more interoperability is usually a good thing.. (especially for something like a jpeg decoder - maybe it's less useful to have a toaster interface smoothly with some coffee beans)
In the UK, the police and prosecutors tend to take a common-sense approach: the "rebel tech savvy teen" would be the one who ended up prosecuted for possession.

(Similarly: possession of an unlicensed gun carries a stiff prison sentence. But if someone chucks a pistol on your lawn and you without delay call the police and ask them to take it away, you're probably safe. Picking it up and taking it inside is another matter, however ...)

The USA is a bit different. District Attorneys being elected means they have an incentive to bring charges against "soft" targets who'll take a plea bargain, i.e. hapless teens and people too poor to afford a decent defense lawyer.
Ask HN: Best Practice in Feature Flag for Micro Services?
Hi All,

I would like to initiate feature flag driven development in my current company. I saw several ideas like what Etsy built https://github.com/etsy/feature but I wonder whether this is good idea or not.

From my perspective, that way will mess up the logic in my code and not scalable in micro services .I can imagine that will be a ton of bugs when I didn't put the logical condition in one of my services.

So anyone has experience in doing feature flag in micro services?
> I can't claim to know Lynn's exact thoughts (Lynn being the person quoted here), but this kind of rhetoric is common among racists/xenophobes.

It is also common with people who are more focused about hiring the most qualified people rather than being politically correct or fulfilling quotas.

> You could have a room full of CS PhDs, and if they all come from similar enough backgrounds then they may all come up with the same solutions to certain problems. "Merit" on its own isn't always enough. Simply having a different background could give someone an edge in such a group when it comes to innovation.

I get what you are trying to say, though I do disagree. If you define diversity as different ethnic, cultural, etc. backgrounds, I think having a group of all-<insert group here> with different educational backgrounds (PhDs in CS, Engineering, Math, Physics, etc) would be more beneficial for innovation than having all CS PhDs but from different cultural backgrounds. I do not have any evidence to back up my claim, but I also haven't seen much evidence to prove that cultural diversity is more important than educational diversity. I would love to read more if you have any articles/studies
There's a problem bigger than Pinterest here: images AND any content that is not where Google expects them or can link to. The "infinite scrolling" fad contributes to this as there is no longer a page to link to. Google and Bing should penalize sites for making it difficult to link to specific images and content.

For example, they can create a "2 page down" rule. If it takes more than two presses of the Page Down button (or equivalent per mouse/finger) to see indexed content, then penalize their rank score.
> It is creating an echo chamber

It’s more likely the author created his own echo chamber.

My Facebook friends span the political spectrum 70% liberal and the rest some degree of conservative.

I would venture to say, 99% of political post come from my liberal friends. Some of which I will comment on, most of the time I get responses that aren’t logical and mostly insinuate I’m not a good person because I disagree.

For those people, I usually just remove from my feed. Not because I don’t care for their politics, but because they only want a one way conversation.

That is how an echo chamber is created and it’s their own doing, not Facebooks.
For example, "links clicked on within the Windows Mail app will open in Microsoft Edge" regardless of any 'default/preferred browser' setting. Sounds like a pretty hostile user experience, to me.
If you decide to implement optimizations beyond imagemagick's ones, you might want to consider other tools than Gifsicle:

- lossygif for small size, based on gifsicle, https://kornel.ski/lossygif

- Gifski for high quality, based on pngquant, (https://gif.ski/)

Both are made by Kornel Lesiński. Lossygif is actually result of a pull request being ignored by gifsicle maintainer(s) for years – more details in a recent HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16573627.
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Looks like Django migrations :-)

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/topics/migrations/
I put my whole history up here: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/indie-hackers. I've got to run, but hopefully will remember to come back and edit this comment to respond to some of your questions!
From BLS, CPI basket is " eight major groups (food and beverages, housing, apparel, transportation, medical care, recreation, education and communication, and other goods and services)." https://www.bls.gov/cpi/questions-and-answers.htm#Question_1
Because it's not. Donald Trump has not worked hard a day in his life; nor have his offspring. Yet they have quite a privileged position.
only the server administrator can do that. (i.e. users with server admin role) as far as I know thats forbidden on aws rds, i.e. to load c functions..
Although I guess coffee roasters are a thing..
I've spent 10 years in the US, getting my college and PhD degrees. These 10 years are the most intellectually formative period of my life, and I wholeheartedly want to contribute to the US.

As much as I abhor the H1B system, there is no other way for me to stay in the US. I'm genuinely curious -- what other options I may have in the US immigration system?

In a sense, you are correct that the US has a "generous immigration policy," e.g. babies born here get citizenship, family can easily sponsor relatives to come. However, for skilled workers, the system is very hostile.

I, too, care a lot about income inequality in the US. However, I think that solving that problem means targeting the low end of the income spectrum, i.e. giving people basic health care so they can think longer term, giving people access to education so they can learn to be productive. Giving tech jobs to Americans will help decrease inequality, but the effect will be so small.
>Then it gets forgotten about.

Then consumers don't want to pay for it and action ceases. You can play those odds for quite a while.
It can be useful anywhere you have sensitive information that you wouldn't want to fall into the wrong hands, or more specifically that you would want to find out if it did.

It could go in backups, in your git repository, bug tracker, internal wiki, etc.

For an average non-techy, I don't know... they might want to put one in their diary?
> I like that Facebook is now a glorified version of OAuth

I don't. One company should not have the power to decide whether I should be recognised as a legitimate individual or not, and they should not act as a gatekeeper between me and my online identity. I don't care how benevolent that one company genuinely is.

If an intermediary is necessary (like an email provider for mere mortals), I should be able to choose a service provider.
Ehh, apologies, that one reference was wrong. I don't think the others or conclusion is?
The only difference of "class" that I can think of might be since it's not from employment then it wouldn't be subjected to FICA. Otherwise, from my understanding it is taxed as regular income tax rates. Is this what you are alluding to?
I’m very down on Facebook nowadays. But because of the way it’s algorithms interfere in my communication with friends: I don’t know who will be shown what message. So they aren’t messages, they are “contributing content”. So it’s not commmunication.

But I don’t get all this obsession with privacy. I’m just not interesting enough for that to be a concern.
Just a quick correction, he was president of the Harvard Law Review - not the school.
>The CPI very conspicuously omits food and energy costs.

a 15s google search says no: https://www.cnbc.com/id/43769766

>The CPI measures costs in these areas, according to the BLS:

> Food and Beverages (breakfast cereal, milk, coffee, chicken, wine, full service meals, snacks)
This is not true. There is no single "CPI": the BLS actually calculates multiple indices. "Core CPI" excludes food and energy, but other indices include them. Some reporting organizations might use "Core CPI" when reporting inflation and not mention this, but that is their fault, not the fault of the index.
We are indeed leveraging open source tools like Prometheus, and not seeking to build our own. We do believe however that the data and insights that Prometheus provides can be much more impactful to an organization if it is provided in the workflow that developers already use, rather than a separate tool/UI.

For example when looking at a CI/CD deploy to an environment, you can easily access important Prometheus metrics and in the future logs, from the same console.

This also allows us to build more intelligence into the platform, as GitLab is more aware of your application and its health. One example is to incorporate Prometheus monitoring to compare the performance of a new release in an incremental deployment, and automatically pausing it if key metrics have degraded.
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This debate is also taking place nearly 100 miles to the west, in Massena, NY.

Town Councilman Samuel Carbone said he wants to see any code changes address people running home mining facilities out of seaboxes, large cargo containers used in shipping.

“I’ve seen some pictures where they have these seaboxes planted out in a field and doing their own mining,” he said. “They put racks in the seaboxes, load them up with computers, put a fan on the end.”

“I think we need to look at codes that deal with seaboxes.”

http://northcountrynow.com/news/massena-delays-cryptocurrenc...

Another dynamic to power costs are the numerous wind farms which popped up all over Franklin County about 7 or 8 years ago: http://www.noblepower.com/our-windparks/north-country-new-yo...

Regardless, having additional economic activity north of the Adirondacks is really important. These communities have suffered for decades, with the main industry in many communities being prisons. There are a dwindling number of family farms (the exception being an influx of Amish) and most industrial operations are scaling down or closing outright, such as GM and Alcoa in Massena.
I thought PetroChina was the first Trillion Dollar Comapny(tm)?
Any idea how they did it? Stenography or just catting things together like this example?
RFC 7710 is only a proposed standard.

It has been implemented on a few captive portal solutions[1] but as far as I know it is not understood by any client software.

[1] https://github.com/coova/coova-chilli/pull/274
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I'd lose more if Wikipedia went away than if Google went away - the 90s/early-2000s substitutes for their products were usable, just required a bit less blind trust and a bit more effort (and remember: google isn't a magic no-effort-requiring box still - it just guesses right more frequently than it used to).

But there was nothing I remember back then like Wikipedia. Encarta? Extremely limited in comparison. (Or anything then that was like Amazon, for that matter.)
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1. Take a long vacation. Spend some time talking to friends.

2. Figure out what you do want in a job. Personally I quite enjoy working, if it's the right work. But I still don't want to work 40 hours a week, so I work less when I can.

3. Try to get whatever it is you realized you want. (If shorter working hours turns out to be your thing, I've written a book about it: https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/).

This is also probably a good time to make sure you have lots of savings, in case you hit the point where you can't work and you have to quit without a plan.
> Well said. Just like how anti-illegal-immigration (an unremarkable position) is now synonymous with anti-Mexican.

Have you considered this is because the some of the loudest voices on the right have wrapped up the immigration debate with some nasty rhetoric based on race, nationality and nationalistic emotion, not policy or fact?

Do any of the statements linked below, which were well reported on, seem like productive ways to discuss immigration?

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/donald-trump-announces-pr...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/9-outrageous-things-don...

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/trump-slams-shithole-countr...
yes. Any gambling win > $600 or a win over some multiple of your initial wager is taxed by the feds (and many states have additional taxes). Professional gamblers can write some portion of their losses off against that tax (I'm not sure of the details, you'd generally need to hire an accountant to handle something like that).

Source: I used to work in the gambling industry and have had a win large enough to be required to pay significant (>$3k) taxes on it.
Not my argument (straw man?). Good citizens must recognize overreach and respond, not as obedient robots.
No silver bullet to my knowledge, although it helps to know that we aren’t the only ones who don’t trust 8 or 10, so Microsoft will either have to support 7 for a while or stabilize their later versions. Either way there’ll be hell to pay if Microsoft ditches 7 without adequately stabilizing later versions.