skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So far I have not met anyone who can come up with an objective claim that isn't merely basing that on a frame of reference which can be deconstructed or shown to be based on a set of apriori assumptions itself.

I'm not too familiar with postmodern theory, would you explain this please?

Say I state that you posted the above sentence, and that that is an objective truth.

How would you break that down to assumptions?
>> weapons manufacturer that sells to the regime in Saudi Arabia.

Thats a really long term for "government"
Any feedback welcome.

One question for advanced GO devs: Is it possible to refactor the Call function to accept a struct instead of a pointer for the Aggregate parameter ?

Here I wasn't able because Aggregate is an interface and gorm need a pointer. So you can't Save an interface because it's not a concrete type.
Process heaviness is not a goal. The secret is to be as close to the minimally viable as is safe.

Undocumented code and decisions are just a more slowly accumulating cost, it is no less costly than bad or failing code.

This is a reason I love having outspoken and extroverted devs. The guys who love to talk so much that they will explain in extreme detail and at length.

I was reading through an old bug yesterday, and the guy who had done some work in that area had left a 5 paragraph explanation of what had gone wrong, what he thought may have caused it and some things he was planning on doing. Having that written down was invaluable when I got to the thing a year later.

Process rigour is not the goal. Communicating what is strange and different is. If you have guys who do that naturally, great. If not, you need some process.
Demonstrating evidence and being persuasive are very different things.

Convey evidence by plugging it into a model, usually a visual one, like a matrix, using a socratic, catagorical approach.

Hint: if your visual model lacks clear symmetry, I guarantee it also lacks coherence. Looking at you, class diagram modellers and bad architects. The model requires visual symmetry to determine information completeness.

If you would like to be persuasive, start by being funny, then refine that skill into becoming insightful.
What is the Intel non-fraternization policy? What romantic relationships are banned?
Highlights of Erlang OTP 21
Could you expand on what your experience has been and what's made it great?
When writing, read your work out loud to find phrases that are awkward to speak, and think of ways to be more succinct. Most people process spoken and written language differently, and this technique allows you to use the strengths of language you've obtained for both forms of communication.
All the publicly available evidence (mostly circumstantial) points to a much more mundane source: jealous roommate.
Suppose Emma Watson starts dealing heroin, and the state wants to seize her assets. Does she have the right to hide her assets to protect herself from the violence of the state, or only fans?
We had a flight once where they had assigned my then six year old daughter to a seat on a separate row from the rest of us (me, wife and son) so naturally my wife took that seat and let me sit with the kids.

This was very confusing to the flight attendant. She was like "You need to sit in your seat!" to my wife and as we explained the error by the airline, she scolded us and said "but kids can't sit by themselves!" Uhm, no that's what we fixed... Rest of the flight she looked at us suspiciously as if we were up to something.
What should I do if I can’t login to my Instagram account?
One key difference in the UK is that the elected House can always both initiate legislation and then override objections from the unelected House eventually, if it chooses to do so. While in theory the monarch could also block a law by denying royal assent, if they ever actually did that, we'd probably be a republic the following year. There are plenty of reasonable criticisms of our system of government and democratic processes, but in this respect we're clearly better off than some systems, including the EU.
Also noticed this with Google Flights last week. I dislike the way they position it, as if Firefox for Android is insufficient:

> Time for an upgrade. Looks like your browser needs a boost. To get the best Google Flights experience, upgrade to one of the supported browsers.
I'm in SE Asia at the moment, and the view is different here.

Globalisation doesn't look like the last gasp of a former dominant culture here, it looks like the way out of crushing poverty. People WANT to work in globalcorp garment factories. They get really annoyed if the factories shut down. For all our western idealism about a pastoral lifestyle, everyone who has the choice between growing food for a living and working 90 hours a week in a factory chooses the factory every time. And yes, it is their choice. They can leave whenever they want, there are 4375979 other applicants waiting at the gates.

The interesting thing is that they're skipping steps in the process. Cambodia skipped desktop/wired computing/telecoms and went straight from nothing to mobile (in about 5 years). Mobile access is hugely cheaper and generally faster than it is in either the UK or Australia.

I can see solar power doing the same in the next 5 years. Rather than waiting for the electricity authority to get round to wiring up the rural areas, they're already getting on with rigging up their own solar. In 20 years they'll be self-sufficient and the megaprojects to dam the rivers will be bankrupt.
That hardly helps. For true security devote a device purely to banking. Preferably a diskless device running an updated live CD on a security oriented distro with no rewritable storage attached connecting out over a VPN through an equally dedicated firewalled router. Then you're just left to worry about your bioses getting infected off an unpatched or 0d exploit.
>My English teacher used to say “when you have to write an essay, write a first version. Then throw away everything but your conclusion and use that as the introduction of your real essay”

When you replace "conclusion" with "top level functions", this seems to work equally well, at least for myself, when writing (new) code.
Steven Pinker is helpful: https://youtu.be/OV5J6BfToSw

Also, google the rules Fred Rogers used to talk to children. Those combined are a good foundation for developing an eloquent style.
I regularly have 30+ tabs open without issues.
A more charitable way if putting it might be, is the simulation part of the theory or part of the evidence for it. Both are acceptable, but not at once. Simulation as theory is "safer" in a poperian sense.
Funding on large science projects that I've seen, at least how the NSF does it, "filters up" where the proposal is passed through technically aware committee before being passed up to less technically aware people. And there is also the P5 committee which makes high-level recommendations about general directions and projects that can more holistically drive "important" (or at least what they deem to be so) science goals forward, where their advice tends to guide many levels of the funding process pretty strongly (if your proposal gets a low grade from them, you aren't getting funded, period). At the level of really big science, this "filtering up" process will go all the way to Congress, where of course you then have people with average-zero science knowledge making a final decision. But to get to that point, I'd wager most if not all science proposals will have passed many valid technical hurdles presented by knowledgeable people.
Could you elaborate? What part do you find to be unethical and for what reasons? What alternate ethical studies do you recommend to gain the same information being gained here?
The web didn't used to be able to do much, and we're using browsers that depended on tons of multi-decade old code, so I see how it happened. Agreed on the main point though.
Quite a few workplaces forbid relationships between managers and their subordinates. As CEO, that presumably puts everyone off-limits.
Other article which isn't so sparse on detail (the NYT will probably improve the article linked in the OP later): https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/21/intel-ceo-brian-krzanich-to-...
I don't recall anything about a debug version. He was presenting on azure portal* by the way.

edit: Not business product, azure portal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4rL_Lnt6kA
Since you called yourself an "ex-physicist", would you mind saying why you quit and/or what you are doing now?
Zynga seems tame compared to the predatory bullshit that plagues the App Store these days.
I think they were politely trying to avoid a political discussion.

I personally don't see anything wrong with designing weapons that are later sold and used to kill innocent people. Or with manufacturing firearms that can be used to shoot innocent people. Or with designing cars that can be used to run over innocent people.

It's like wanting to ban guns because they can be used to murder innocent people
Leap Motion's AR headset lets you play ping pong
Hopefully this is the end of experiments on animal intelligence run by a closely involved researcher-caretaker over the course of many years.

There's little evidence published about the research topic, great monetary expense, and there was also the human cost, where the lead researcher on the project likely sexually harassed her subordinates, claiming that the gorilla had demanded to see the subordinates' breasts.

here is the definitive takedown of the enterprise: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...
1. Write frequently.

2. When you hear a word you don't know (or know but don't use often) write it down or at the very least attempt to use it in speech and writing more frequently until it sticks.

3. Get the precise definitions of words from Merriam-Webster or similar.

4. Listen to the Word of the Day Podcast from MW.

5. Read The Economist's style guide.

6. Part of being eloquent in text is mastering punctuation. Read Practical Typography and take the time to choose the right character.

7. When you read something you're not sure you fully understand stop and investigate it.

8. Edit your work with multiple passes.

9. Hire an editor to weed out the words you use as a crutch. I struggle with overusing "do" and "just" (both of which usually just pollute the sentence with either unnecessary sincerity or condescension[1]) but find yours. I have a good recommendation if you're looking.

[1] Compare the below:

When push comes to shove, I really do believe in liberalism over practical realities.

When push comes to shove, I believe in liberalism over practical realities.

He should just put the book down.

He should put the book down.
I enjoyed the WhatsApp-looking box that explained the server/client conversation.
subpoena.
It is a metric in case of many laws because of the huge amount of industry lobbying which prevents laws which benefit the common good and only benefit the short term goal of the industry, like this copyright law.

Copyright came about to support and foster creativity, it was meant as new form of property because creativity has no clear boundaries.

About the intentions of the GDPR, they were clearly to give people more control over their data and give business more restriction. The basic rule of the GDPR that companies should only store the data they really need at that time not more, not less. Overall this is what the GDPR does. My issues are more like, in some cases the burden for SME are too high and too weird for consumers. Like increasing the age limit from 13 to 16 or demanding complex privacy policies which no-one reads

The GDPR should have been the basic privacy policy for everyone, only if you do something different you have to transparent about it. Like transferring data to a third party.
Fair point, though in my creative writing class most of the same points were taught and emphasized.

Especially "show, don't tell".

For example:

- don't say "He's really good at distributed databases."

- say "He pondered over how to handle multi-master write conflicts. The answer came to him in the shower: CRDTs"
Wow, I can "just" use that, thanks. The problem is that JSON is an interchange format, meaning that I need to implement this serialization and deserialization quirk on every producer/consumer of my API (which, you know, avoiding is kind of the point of using a standard interchange format). Furthermore, because everything is a string, I can't unambiguously indicate something is meant to be a string in that format rather than a date.
It was about 20 years ago in my apprenticeship. My monthly salery was about 950 CHF and I had about 7 weeks overtime before my apprenticeship did end. I would like take this time as holiday. My boss paid 5000 CHF for this 7 weeks and I worked and did not take the overtime as holiday.
I bought a new 125cc motorcycle.
> A lot of them have student debt, multiple mortgages, multiple kids, a stay at home wife, and so on.

I don't pride myself of being a highly moral person, but even to me this seems pretty weak. I think I'm less shocked by "I don't care if I get people dead as long as I'm getting paid", than by "ordinarily I'm really concerned about the consequences of my actions, but since I got that extra mortgage I will get people killed if I have to". Somehow it seems the former is just imoral, whereas the latter is imoral and stupid.
Buddhist philosophy reached some of the same conclusions as postmodernism have.

But don't forget that the fact most of our early engineering advanced were done by philosophers who had the time to ponder and tinker.
This particular item has nothing to do with laws about free speech. The ACLU provides legal support to fight government silencing of free speech. But there are always more cases than it can fight. The ACLU has, in the past, supported lots of truly hateful speech on principle. However, as others have pointed out, there's a presumption of good faith. ie, that the hateful speakers really are being silenced, and need legal help. These days, the "pro-free-speech" crowd that gets publicized in the WSJ opinion page and Fox News are completely bad faith actors, seeking to incite hatred and violence, making irresponsible claims, backed by tons of money, and then crying "free speech" when their bad faith is pointed out. The ACLU is, reasonably, calling that crap out as not worth providing legal support to, since those actors are not sincere, they are just troublemakers, sowing discord because it works to their advantage. The ACLU ultimately must stand up for its core principles, and not be sucked into minute parsing of legalistic technicalities, because the bad guys are playing that game to destroy the ACLU and what it stands for, not because they believe in "free speech".
Not sure if you meant to, but you posted the same link.
I think the point is to tax land value, not land. You can buy well over ten thousand acres of land in the highlands for about $5,500,000 (i.e. the price of a really nice house in London) [0]. It's an enormous amount of land, but you can't really do very much with it so the value is relatively low.

[0] https://www.galbraithgroup.com/property/per170030-glenlochay...
Keybase isn't making messages exploding by default. There's a button to opt in to the feature.
> The report also cites Nvidia aggressively buying GDDR5 as evidence that they now have an excess stock of lower-end GPUs that need to be made into boards as well as other insiders/sources citing an inventory buildup.

Weren't lower end Nvidia GPUs not suitable for use in Mining?

Perhaps Nvidia assumed people who typically buy a new GPU annually would just pickup a low end unit instead of waiting so they over produced?
When I was a kid, my parents kept a bookshelf with a vast library of National Geographic issues. I used to read them at random in idle periods, and I specifically remember the Koko's Kitten edition.

I never realised that she was still alive.

Makes me wonder though, in the internet age when people aren't in the habit of giving over large physical spaces to things like Nat Geo or Encyclopedias, how much getting information in this mode is diminished; as opposed to dog-on-surfboard social media snippets.
Qaf, simple state management for React based on context
New York's revenge-porn bill dies after 11th-hour campaign by Google
"First they came for the Nazis"? Really?
It is interesting that soda (i.e. Coke, Pepsi) sales took a huge hit over the past decade as people became more health conscious and looked for healthier options, and yet people will still consume 2-4 times that many calories and sugars in a sweetened coffee drink.
Day trader tries out ‘demo’ platform, ends up with actual $5B position
Sociopaths projecting.
Scala Future Blocks and Futures Methods: What to Useand When
Android training in Chandigarh
Disappearing Frameworks: new web platform features and compile-time frameworks
In Sweden we incinerate[1] the trash in super hot ovens and use the resulting heat to heat our homes. We do recycle as well but as we sometimes even import trash to burn (it's a cold country after all) I don't feel so bad when throwing something in the ordinary bin instead of sorting it proper.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incineration
There is no way you would fire a CEO you actually wanted in place because they had a consensual relationship with a subordinate in the past. Why are US companies always so aggressive about moralising these issues? No one would take issue if he carried a gun at work. Why is it that corporate morals rule?
Breeding Super Coral That Can Survive Climate Change [video]
Wait, there's organizations that let devs spend hours on a prototype in lieu of their normal work?
I'm a Moviepass holder myself, and I love it, but let's face it. It's not going to last. It's losing money and the chains don't like it. Yes, I'd prefer a future with Moviepass, just as I'd like everything to be on Netflix, but neither are going to be the future. Like it or not, multiple streaming services and (likely) multiple movie subscriptions are the future. What this will mean is that people will only have one or two just like they have one or two streaming services.
The 580s, AFAICT, are only really competitive with nVidia's mid range and have been priced higher for some time due to mining.

The Vegas have not been price competitive with nVidia's higher end offerings, have been very power hungry and very hot.

AMD needs to pull something out of the bag, it's being left behind.
Having a job in the first place.
Aristotle wrote "On Rhetoric." It can be a hard slog for the modern reader because it has an unfamiliar structure. Still, it's worth the effort: it is a helpful guide to you when you work to convince people.

Good rhetoric--according to Aristotle--starts with the concepts of ethose, pathos, and logos.

Ethos: who you are and why people should pay attention to you.

Pathos: who your audience is, and how you understand them.

Logos: your message; the facts, your proposal.

Go for excellence in all three when you're speaking or writing formally.

To get the hang of this, watch some TED talks and score the speakers on these three things.
This seems like a very Reddit sorta question to appear here...
Seems odd to apply it after the fact in this case, though. Perhaps there was an ulterior motive for removing him. Otherwise I would expect Intel to just hide the information in order to protect the financial interests of the company.
GitHub: Changes to EU copyright law could derail open source distribution
Technically I think the more correct response here is that the U.S. is one of two countries in the world (Eritrea being the other - and never a good country to be compared with) that have a Citizenship based system of taxation.

Secondly - as you pointed out - U.S. citizens who make more than a certain amount and live in a low/no income tax jurisdiction will end pating U.S. taxes.

Not to mention the dacronian reporting requirements.
This is a good summary. Keybase supports adding new devices to your account at any time, and for that reason people often don't want forward secrecy. (Their message history would be gone on their new phone.) But that isn't a problem with exploding messages.
According to the CNBC article linked elsewhere in the thread:

> Krzanich violated a policy that said he could not have a relationship with either a direct or indirect report
An alternative perspective: If you think you work in an institution that CAN and DOES prevent that (e.g the engineers are NOT in control), then how quickly can you respond to real emergencies?

You can make such actions visible (and hold people accountable after the fact), but blocking engineers from taking action is a no-no!
Atul Gawande's appointment yesterday continues to echo around HN.
At most companies it basically means that a manager should not have a romantic relationship with anyone in their chain of command. In the case of a CEO this would extend to the entire company.

I know it sounds punitive, but it’s really a question of fairness to every other employee working for that manager — nothing improper needs to be done by either party for it to negatively impact the other employees.

It also discourages managers from taking their pick of young staff members, and discourages any lower-level staff who might try to sleep their way to the top.

FWIW, most companies also have a reporting policy where you can report a relationship to HR and request a transfer to another department to avoid violating the policy. But that wouldn’t apply to a CEO — people in that position are simply expected to have better judgment than that.
Prices have been dropping ~$10/week, give it some time https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/video-card/
No offense, this is a cool story but I don't really see what it has to do with the topic at hand?

He's asking for stories about people who believed they had staunch morals or principles but then someone came in with a wad of cash and then they betrayed those principles.

Shady people exist, we all know that.

"Everyone has a price" is typically used when someone rejects an offer due to some claimed reason.
When you approach billionaire money probably ceases to exist in any tangible sense. You could afford literally any apex product of the entire human species to the extent that you could experience it subjectively.

At that point it starts to become about power.

This is probably made all the more true by the fact that we don't live in anything approaching a libertarian/voluntarist world. Getting that rich means you are now a 'player' among other power players whether you like it or not, and other power players don't always play fair.

Basically you probably are forced to become some kind of oligarch or politician or give some of your money away to stay below a certain threshold.

But I've never been up there so I don't really know. I'm only observing from afar.
Yeap.

Back in 2012 the Best Buy founder and the chairman both resigned over an inappropriate relationship the CEO had with a subordinate which went unreported:

http://www.startribune.com/monday-best-buy-founder-quits-ove...
Very few (non-human) apes have ever learned any sign language, and Koko's ability to sign was highly predicated on having a specific interpreter nearby.
There has to be more to this than is being revealed. Either something about the relationship or...they don't really want him in place anyway.
I've heard that theory before, that "you're an alcoholic if you feel the need to drink alcohol periodically". Like, if you drink one beer per day during weekend, you're alcoholic because you feel compelled to do it, periodically/ on external stimulus ("it's weekend").

While this may be a theoretically sound definition of "alcoholism", to me this sounds weak/ not anchored in real human perception. I argue that if it has no significant negative effect on your life, it's not addiction/ disorder.