skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what you mean "have gained control...to a shocking degree" -- Christians are the ones that founded the country.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights"...

Show some gratitude for the religion from which grew the very concept of human rights you now take for granted in the West and for the faithful who overthrew monarchs to enshrine those rights, which they believed were given to them by God.
This is slick!What a great way to impress your girlfriend.I hope you succeeded in your mission:-)
I'm disrespectful of many things, that doesn't mean I want to ban them. Even if they're as dangerous as Christianity.
If we are doing short stories I think She Unames Them is another good work at a single page. https://www.bowdoin.edu/faculty/s/smcmahon/courses/hist249/r...
yep, and you presented it in a factual non biased way. it's just not convenient for the HN narrative that censorship=BAD.
Christians have been persecuted by polytheists, atheists, Muslims, and many others. Ancient Rome sent many Christians to the lions. The USSR had official state atheism, for example, and persecuted Christians. Certainly Christians have persecuted other Christians, but I think there's little evidence that Christians have been the dominant ones. Much more info is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians

On the other hand, clearly many atheists allow others to have different beliefs, including Christian beliefs, and to allow religious texts to be distributed (such as the Bible).

This seems to be much more about power and control over the Chinese people.
Everyone is a newcomer. What it comes down to is if you add to the zeitgeist or detract from it.
This is not new - China has been destroying churches, bulldozing them whenever they believed they could.

Any identity or belief system other then that which the state provides is a threat to totalitarian states. You see this clearly over the last two hundred years with the criminalization of Christianity not only in China and Russia, but Nazi Germany (which alternatively tried to co-opt and then destroy churches), the middle east (which has had a open war between various Muslim sects and states for the last 75 years), South East asia, etc. Hell, even the french revolution attempted to suppress religion - with the Martyrs of Compiègne and the cult of the supreme being, and the cult of reason.

States which promise Utopia cannot accept any alternative to the state vision of how to reach Utopia.

The difference now is that the amount of power that a modern state has far outstrips the power the Hitler and Stalin's Gestapo and NKVD.

How much you want to bet that your Chinese "credit score" goes down if you read the Bible? Or 1984. Or Sanzijing.
Get rich or die trying?
> the question you have to answer is: from the pool of available options, who's best?

This question is misleading, as the goal is never to pick the nicest tyrant and is certainly not to backstop their power. While USG is a stabilizing force in the world with regards to its peers that also have significant armaments, it also acts as a destabilizing force towards those it can assimilate with impunity.

It's not that designing or building weapons is wrong by itself. The problem is further advancing the offensive capabilities of the already-uncontested leader of the race - a leader which continually opts for routine use of those capabilities when it is easy. The infrastructure for remotely piloting drones halfway around the world isn't going to help defend in a mortal war against China, but it does make nicer day jobs for those roflstomping the latest economically-deviant backwater.

Coupled with the domestic political fuckery from the military-industrial-surveillance complex, the current answer is to just say no. If you want to build weapons, do so in the privacy of your own shed - you'll be better prepared to defend yourself when this overstretched empire collapses.
People shouldn't be responsible for knowing how to fix every piece of technology in their life. I doubt Linus could rebuild his car engine. I mean, everyone should know how to fix their ever increasingly complex car right? We have industrialized farming, so we're not spending our entire lives growing our own food, and hunting our own animals. This is how the world works. Should they know the basics of computer usage? Sure. Maybe if reinstalling a computer was one click of a button they should. But NixOS is so far beyond that, I wouldn't touch it either. I've got plenty of other things to work on, rather than fighting with an OS.
Less than you think.

Film is 24fps, not 25. You generally shoot everything “on twos”, which is to say that you expose a single drawing twice, for an effective frame rate of 12fps.

There are places you go on ones. Fast motions, motions that need to be ultra-smooth. Ideally you also shoot pans on ones, and the walk cycles you use on top of pans are drawn to match. But you can get away with doing them on twos.

If you watch the sequence you can also see several places where Mickey is performing the same action over and over. When he’s walking to the side it’s the same eight or sixteen drawings shot in a loop. When he’s standing there’s twirling his tail, that’s its own set of repeated drawings. The part where Mickey turns and walks off into the distance might be another couple of 8-drawing cycles that were photomechanically scaled up and down, then manually inked and painted.

It is also quite possible that only part of this sequence was done to match up with Walt’s narration; easy enough to start with parts made for a short. Even without that there’s realistically only about 10s of unique drawings here, if you shot them one after another on twos.

You can get by with less drawings, too. My experience is that 10fps is as low as you can go and still have the capability of smoothish motion. You can go lower; Asian animation typically uses a LOT fewer drawings for most of a show than the high-frame-rate work of a 50s Disney piece. And then you get one sequence where they blow the budget, with complex characters (who require like 4x the work to draw a single frame compared to Mickey) moving around.

(I used to work in animation.)
This is admittedly a naive question— but wouldn't something between the two work well? (A-Frame is arguably akin to that already)

A 3d markup language that can be compiled? At least for prototyping, it might be useful, no?

Does that exist? Or is it a problem that's already been tossed around and buried?
these people should read the link. Its a fascinating piece of history. If one had that native history one could understand a little more why they might persecute Christianity a bit more strongly than other religions.

None of that in any, shape or form ever seeks to justify it. Just understand it.
Exactly, and we see similar currents in the United States over the past 50 years as well.

Crisis and Leviathan by Robert Higgs is an essential read on this.
The video in this article shows an animated face and body, unless you mean something else. Jon Olick did some work with deformation/animation of voxels, IIRC. But agreed, it is still a challenging and not very well solved problem.
> That's not to say blockchain is the be all and end all, but constantly hunting for arguments why something will never work , is not only terribly boring, but IMO the most counterproductive way to look at anything.

I don't believe this is the same as discrediting solutions looking for problems. Blockchain proponents desire a technical fix to people problems. That is untenable, as people will always override software, whether that's through a courtroom, a government/regulatory body, or a fork based on majority consensus.
This happened in 2000. 1999 was a heck of a year for amateur daytraders.
tl;dr Depressed wages are better explained by employers' ever more powerful bargaining position
I now wonder whether it's worth it to join Facebook just to delete my personal data and just quit afterwards?

I wouldnt even ashamed to admit this in future interviews.
That makes NO sense at all and I continue to be surprised at the fundamental misunderstanding of the US tax system by techies (it's really not that complicated for individuals).

You pay tax on the GAINS, not on the value of the trade. If he owes the IRS $50k, it means he has a realized gain of ~$333,000. Where did that money go?

The only possibility here is that he took $330,000 and reinvested ALL of it into 'altcoins' just before the end of the year and is still holding them.

Sorry, but that has bullshit written all over it (throwaway account, too)
What is your argument? All you are doing is starting an ad hominem attack against the author hy trying to position him as a defender of the pasr.
if it's effectively a duplicate then it's helpful to consolidate the answers in 'one place'

To do this, they've already got the tech to identify similar questions. They should just leave all the variations of the question open, and have a prominent "Similar Questions" list displayed for all of them. That would encourage question titles that express what makes them distinct from similar questions, and give people the option of finding the most appropriate variant and getting an answer for that specific variant.
"contrarian"
Not really... That is a symptom, not the cause of the Chinese civil war(s). The arrival and the dominance of the Western powers eroded the strength and faith people had in the Qing Dynasty. The Taiping rebellion was a reaction to that but just one event in a long series of the fracturing of China as the Qing declined.

Christianity isn't being singled out. Islam is also a target. They oppress the hell out of the Uighurs too. (Although they do tolerate the Hui but the Hui have been in China for centuries and are generally assimilated)

They also targeted the Falun Gong.

As a rule of thumb, anything that represents an alternate source of authority in China will be targeted and oppressed.
It is hard to find good CS teachers, because they can make more in industry than they do teaching. It makes sense that a good quality CS teacher with a solid course should cost more than another subject.
Yes, my bad I should have written 'Northern Ireland'.
The religious people of all monotheisic religions don’t believe in almost all the same gods as the atheists. The atheists just don’t believe in one more.
In modern German, all nouns (but not pronouns, except for formal pronouns) are capitalized.
> Ireland is very much a part of the UK and the church has a lot of power there.

Only 27% of Irish people hold a favorable view of the Church. The population are very much cultural Christians, most recently voting in favor of gay marriage and likely to rewrite the constitution to allow for limited abortion.

The power of the Church is very limited and waning. Although just a few decades ago they did have considerable power, it's kind of incredible in retrospect.
I think the idea is more that the regulation will stop private U.S. companies from acting militarily against other countries. E.g., the U.S. has a treaty with Israel that forbids publishing high-resolution satellite imagery of Israel, and one of the functions of the licensing system is to implement that treaty.
It seems like some are forgetting the near 6000 word 'manifesto' where this was all outlined by Mark.

"In times like these, the most important thing we at Facebook can do is develop the social infrastructure... "

"For the past decade, Facebook has focused on connecting friends and families. With that foundation, our next focus will be developing the social infrastructure for community -- for supporting us, for keeping us safe, for informing us, for civic engagement,"

" I have long expected more organizations and startups to build health and safety tools using technology, and I have been surprised by how little of what must be built has even been attempted. There is a real opportunity to build global safety infrastructure, and I have directed Facebook to invest more and more resources into serving this need."

This is barely a year old. Did he not lay out a vision where FB powered our civic, social & community services?

link: https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/building-glob...
For the nation, yes, but not for Nicolae Ceausescu or Xi Jinping.
Lisk, Nxt, Bitshares and dozens of others.
That's exactly how a lot of commercial aircraft systems work, they have three, if two agree and one disagree then that one is ignored.

But it is more complicated than that when you're talking about algorithms and complex systems. If you had three of the same exact system, they'd likely all make the same mistake and thus you'd gain no safety improvement (except actual malfunctions, not logical limitations).

I would like to see auto-braking taken out of autopilot completely, so if autopilot drives you into a wall at least the brakes slow you.
The internet was consistently useful year after year, and more so over time. Bitcoin has been around for almost a decade and has pivoted from being a decentralized currency to being a quasi-decentralized store of value amidst a classic speculative investment bubble. It has actually gotten increasingly less useful over time.
Show HN: Decision Jam – make better decisions quickly with your team
u "Should be able to do all this for about $2,500"

dem "really? You must be joking"

u "hehe, yea I have a funny sense of humor. I meant $25 thousand, not 25 hundred, har har"

dem "oh ok, heres your money"

u "thank you"
To be pragmatic, it sounds like she needs a relational database more than a filesystem. (Whether or not filesystems should be more like relational databases is a hypothetical at present.)

If she actually manages that sort of data outside of an RDBMS I do suffer with her.
If you are a native English speaker trying to lean a Germainic foreign language, then retraining yourself that the vowels are pronounced

"ah, ay, e, oh, ooh"

instead of

"ay, e, eye, oh, you"

helps your pronunciation tremendously.
That's easy to say if you have nothing to lose. Most people investing (time and/or money) in crypto have a lot to lose.

What you're saying is also just plainly logically unsound. If we tried to explore every possibility, irrespective of its potential, humanity would be nowhere. "Hunting for arguments why something will never work" is one of the finest anti-insanity protocols we have at our disposal.
Other alternatives to create Java objects
This is inspired by the GV Design Sprint - Jake Knapp https://twitter.com/jakek & Decision Jam - AJ&Smart https://www.youtube.com/ajsmart and is a simple tool designed to help teams crowdsource ideas and make better decisions.

Feedback and feature requests are welcome.
Even when they build spec houses (sometimes crap), they are paid first / at milestones by a bank or investor group. They don't hesitate to take on the job because they are confident in their capacities, which is my main point.
I agree. It's suspect because the numbers don't add up. From the article:

" [...]Tom Lee notes that U.S. households owe an estimated twenty five billion dollars in capital gains taxes due to crypto gains."

Total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies, as of 12:18PM EST on April 6, 2018 is $248,821,531,204.

According to Mr. Lee, each $1 taken from the market will result in a $22.50 decrease in aggregated market value (avg. of his estimated range, "$20 - $25").

25B * $22.50 = $562.5B

He's suggesting that the price impact on cryptocurrencies required to pay for capital gains is going to be double the current market capitalization? Am I misinterpreting the statement he made?

The alternative explanation I can come up with is if the statement was poorly formed and what he was really talking about was $25B in investment income will need to be reported and the appropriate short-term or long-term tax rates would need to be applied.

Rough, back of napkin estimation, assuming an even distribution between short-term and long-term capital gains tax rates--which isn't going to be accurate, but I don't have a better way to estimate for this analysis--would be:

Short-term: $12.5B * 28%[1] = $3.5B
Long-term: $12.5B * 15%[2] = $1.875B
Total Estimated Taxes Due: $5.375B

Estimated impact on total market capitalization:
5.375B * $22.50 = $121B

That would leave $127B in the market, or if evenly distributed over all tokens, all prices would be half of their current values after April 15 (e.g. today's $6.6k BTC would be $3.3k BTC).

That doesn't sound right, either. Am I totally off-base for both interpretations?

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[1] Making an educated guess about the "typical" cryptocurrency investors' income bracket, but without actual numbers I'm open to this estimate being higher than reality.

[2] https://www.fool.com/retirement/2016/12/11/long-term-capital...
This is a very clear articulation of my professional experience as well. I feel like I have to drop out of "aesthetic perfection" mode in order to just do what I can to help someone else; and and that is what they will actually pay for, since they don't care about the perfection of fine details.
Once you add another factor you can remove SMS from your Google account. I’ve done it with all of mine.

Edit: Oh, you said that.
> They are still allowed to purchase the Bible from official church bookstores.

Official churches in China (even those notionally identified with other global denominations) are significantly state controlled, monitored, and censored.

> This is probably more about finding out exactly how many Bibles are being sold

And to whom.
The drawbridge mentality is increasingly common in major cities. A place was perfect when you moved there and fell in love. Any changes since then are but a fall from grace, an unwelcome change that destroys everything you love and insults your wonderful memories.

It's a deeply human and very understandable response. Of course, that isn't the same as making good policy.
Was the web interface there from the start?

If it is the case, you did not even have to install it.

Dropbox did not only solve 'local file system'-mirroring, but (legal) file sharing in general.
We signed up for Stripe account on February 9, but are yet to start processing paymens, will our account be grandfathered in as well? I sent you email yesterday asking about it too. We did not receive Stripe email about changes. Could you please clarify it? Thank you!
WTF kind of Agile process is that? I've never heard of anyone having daily demos. The processes I've seen schedule them for every 2-3 weeks. If you're referring stand-up meetings, the people involved in those aren't supposed to be managers, they are supposed to be the people who you are directly working with.
FB's response to this whole thing is been terrible. Zuckerberg and Sandbberg weren't seen for days. And now Sandberg comes out with the defense that "Cambridge Analytica told us so we believed them. We are doing audits to ensure everything is fine now."

And on top of this she even talks about how a privacy focused FB would be a paid product.

I can't help but ask - Seriously? FB doesn't seem even remotely sorry for what happened. Data Breach? Don't blame us, we had legal assurance. Privacy? Don't blame us that will be a paid product.
...or as one another which can’t be named, as it would be “racist.”
China sperm bank demands Communist Party loyalty from donors
Just do a factory reset on it

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201252

You'll lose all the data, but you'll be able to use the iPod.
Stripe has become masters at patronizing customers. We all know it is about the bottom line and the act is getting old at this point. The company was built on developer referrals and now that they are at critical mass - all of the "little guys" get drown out.
A couple related observations:

1) With the dramatic rise and then fall of the Nasdaq back in 2001, with similar timing (peak right around New Years Day [0]), and a similar amount of new and uninformed market participants (online day trading just beginning to become a thing), could some of the early 2001 market performance be due to a similar dynamic? Noob traders make bank in 2000, log in to H&R block, start doing their taxes, and then have an oh shit moment when they come to the question about "have you bought or sold any stocks this year?"

2) Stock trading happened through United States institutions. Much of crypto trading does not. Many people may have started with $1k in Binance or Bitfinex, and seen that go up by more than a multiple of 10. Many of those people, I feel, are likely to accidentally commit a felony this year by failing to report their foreign account holdings because they are similarly unaware of the consequences of having money outside their down the street bank. FBAR is a real thing, people face serious fines (at least up to 10k for any infringement, 10k plus half your offshore assets and potential jail time if willfully [1]).

[0]http://futures.tradingcharts.com/historical/ND/2001/0/contin...
[1]https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
More minimum wage studies are certainly welcome, but the fact that supply and demand models are remarkably poor matches for the labor market is certainly not new. Anyone with more familiarity with Labor Economics than your typical news show talking head should be aware of this.
I wonder if there have been any explicitly Athiest regimes? That is, governments based on an ideology that explicitly denies the existence of God and devalues all religions?

If only we had historical examples of such regimes, perhaps we could see if they were benign or murderous.

Oh what a pity we don't have such examples.
That page simply ignores the Christian-on-Christian violence. Where's the Thirty Years' War, "one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in human history"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War
> remember that every religion teaches intolerance to other beliefs.

Every religion teaches disagreement with other beliefs, not every one teaches intolerance of them.
I am in this same frame of mind. When I started out in development I quickly found how unwelcome my questions were. The thing these mods and many other higher rep users are forgetting about is that to the new person these not a dumb duplicate questions. If a clearly new dev(and if you are not new yourself you can tell a new dev from a mid or senior level) asks a question that is truly a duplicate in every way, a little good faith that they do not know what they do not know to the level that they did not realize I think is not to much to ask. Apparently for some of these higher rep people it is.

Further if it is actually a duplicate what harm is there to leaving it open with a link to another question that has an answer? How many times have you looked at multiple SO questions and answers to piece together something that fits your very specific use case? For me it happens that way more often then not.
What kind of person is facebook interested in hiring who can't become financially secure and comfortable working elsewhere?
I assume it's because the Chinese government is officially atheist. (You could also add 20th century Communism to your list of significant persecutors -- not the same as the modern Chinese Communist party, but surely atheist.)
Off the top of my head, most romance languages. You could argue some German dialects as well, Japanese, etc.

Maybe even Chinese depending on your definition of 'vowel'. Are you talking phonemes or actual phones?

English has ~17 vowels, which isn't the most a language has, but that's quite a few
Lol this misunderstanding is exactly why everyone will suddenly realize they need liquidity before tax day.