skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stability of government is a perfectly legitimate defence of a first-past-the-post system, but that carries an inevitable democratic deficit - you're arguing for the benefits of constraining the choices of the electorate.

I'm somewhat sympathetic to that argument, but it places a far greater onus of responsibility on our dominant parties. If our electoral system prevents a diverse range of parties in parliament, then those parties have a duty to represent the diversity of the electorate.

In the case of the EU referendum, they have a duty to represent the interests of both the 52% and the 48%. Totally ignoring almost-but-not-quite half of the electorate is just mob rule dressed up as democracy.
Thanks a lot for the writeup. We've been using react native for a while now at our org and while we aren't native developers, we are getting along really well.

One question that popped up in my while reading the article was would you consider doing the android app in react native if you had to start now ? Or do you still feel it lacks the coherency it has with iOS.
>> It's unfortunate their parents decided to break the laws of the United States and enter the country illegally. Maybe their plight will discourage others from doing the same.

Oh I agree. How about we rip every shred of your family and punish them en masse, fucking nazi scum. Let's see, got any kids? Let's start with them. Who the fuck are you to think America is for whites only. Yeah, we've had enough. It's time to rise against these fascist KKK filth. You will be defeated.
More specifically they are prohibiting on site kitchens. They are not prohibiting free food that is catered.
The criticisms they had seemed backed up by data. They cite wage disparities between the UK and other potential EU members. They cite various events that many Britons (I assume) would find offensive (like the Norwegian whale hunts and spanish bull fights).
Ah got it, according to Amazon it isn't released until August 4th.

https://www.amazon.com/Site-Reliability-Workbook-Practical-I...
> Facebook could open a restaurant in the center.

How would that work for a huge complex like the Googleplex?

They'd have to provide public access to all parts of their complex to comply.

> So for example, it could charge the public that walks in 1 million a meal.

Not a lawyer, but I think that will break the law. Otherwise, "public access" will become completely meaningless: if I don't like you, all items on the menu are no $1m, and of course you cannot stay on premise without ordering...

I'd love to hear a real lawyer analyzing this, but imho, both your suggestions constitute attempts to completely circumvent a law based on technicalities, which is a dangerous game to play when you're a corporation with offices in the jurisdiction of the legislative body you're trying to circumvent.

Your simple solution will also not work for very large businesses (due to the need to open up their entire campus for public access), nor small ones (who can't afford the cost in funds and labor of creating a separate public-access restaurant).

In my estimation, this will make any company think twice about starting a big office in MTV.
are you kidding me? There's already enormous demand for unskilled labor. Every single cafe and restaurant i encounter here in the bay area has positions open in the kitchen, dishwasher and waiters. One restaurant had 9+ positions open!
I think they mean as opposed to buying the right pair of pants that will make you feel awesome in front of your friends. It's not just about covering your lower body - it's about the fit, the style, the fabric, etc.
Yeah... i don't feel like anyone has come up for a super compelling use for a corporate TLD yet. My company has one... we're not doing anything with it.
I wonder if, one day, Discord will get around to fixing the fact that once you have more than 3 channels and get a notification in more than one, your mobile notifications do not go to "newest" they go to the "channel highest on the sidebar".

This is why I really hate tools like react native. They try and create a code symmetry and that's not unreasonable, but then they go too far and create behavioral symmetry and that's pretty much unacceptable for as wide a gulf as browser apps and mobile apps. They have such radically different use cases.
As it turns out, poverty doesn't cause crime. It's relative poverty that causes crime. Basically, if people are low down enough on the dominance hierarchy, they feel like they have no hope of getting anywhere, then why shouldn't they start acting up?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3XYHPAwBzE

(On the other hand, in societies where everyone is poor, there can be peace.)
... much like in the real world
It gets flagged by users, not moderators.

Flagging is kind of like upvoting. No one person gets to say what ends up on the front page. It's an outcome of group consensus, basically.

I don't ever bother to ask "Why is this being flagged?" because the answer is that the exact reason will vary from person to person, my understanding is that multiple people have to flag it (I don't know how many) to have a noticeable effect, I have no means to determine who flagged it, etc. So I consider it to be unanswerable.
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This was covered by the local news [1] and the city council member who was interviewed said:

> “We felt the employees who work there should be able to patronize the businesses—the smaller businesses—in this shopping center”

Employees already have the ability to patronize these businesses. This law is about compelling patronage.

1: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/New-Facebook-Offices-M...
Wkipedia style rhetoric. The „full scope“ is also neglected these days since a small minority firmly denies the severity of the issue and the „consensous“ is just the majority vote (which is not really appropriate in science).

In other words, if the loonies are right, Wikipedia might write the exact same thing about the global warming craze one day.
> The cartel tested their bulbs and fined manufacturers for bulbs that lasted more than 1,000 hours

If their motivations were pure, they would set a standard for efficiency and/or brightness, or a minimum but not maximum of 1,000 hours.
None of this addresses the fact that there's no other realistic explanation for this besides an intentional backdoor.
I agree with all you say, except for one thing.

When I installed the fantastic Cookie Autodelete extension [links below], I had it with the option for allowing notifications on deletion, and I realised that all my live bookmarks were setting cookies.

No big deal, but thought you'd like to know.

[1] https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...

[3] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookie-autodelete/...
> Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss won $65 million from the Facebook lawsuit, and invested $11 million of their payout into Bitcoin in 2013, amassing one of the largest portfolios of Bitcoin in the world — 1 percent of the entire currency’s dollar value equivalent, said the twins at the time. Their slice of the Bitcoin pie is now worth over $1 billion after Bitcoin surged past $10,000 last week to now trade at $11,100

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/4/16732952/winklevoss-twins...

A comment from 2013 on HN saying it's hilarious that savvy investors like the Winklevosses would put money in such an obvious ponzi:

> This is clearly illuminating the Ponzi-like elements of Bitcoin. As in a Ponzi scheme, early arrivals to the system earn easy money, funded by later arrivals. Tales of bitcoin fortunes draw more and more entry to the system, leading to large payoffs for second stage arrivals, attracting more speculators due to the media attention and very real money that has been made by early players. This continues until, oh, wait, bitcoins aren't so easy to mine anymore and there's no new wave of incoming money to pay of the next generation of miners.

> The hilarious thing is that Bitcoin is quite transparent about exactly how it works, while a real Ponzi scheme goes to great lengths to hide this dynamic. Anyone can see this dynamic in the rising price and the increasing CPU time needed to mine a new coin. And yet, brilliant, savvy investors like the Winklevosses are somehow still getting involved...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5570422
It's kind of like Goliath saying to David 'why couldn't we have a fair fight!', conveniently ignoring his massive advantage.

You've lost me entirely with your last comments. Opinion polls showed a narrow Remain victory - that's a matter of fact - and that's the very definition of favourite. To say the result changes the favourite after the fact is frankly bonkers.

And portraying themselves as a victimized minority? I think you got that from the Guardian the other day didn't you? Anyway given that the powers that be keep trying their hardest to subvert the democratic will of the people, it doesn't seem unreasonable.
And regressive state politics and terrible culture and weather. Tech companies hiring in Texas is a negative signal.
More annoyances:

* Some songs also have a looping video instead of album art. No toggle to disable

* They swapped out built-in Musixmatch lyrics with Genius lyrics, but those are only on select songs because they (Spotify) want to mix in needless tidbits of knowledge. End result: only much-listened songs have lyrics, instead of all of them.

* No Apple TV app. This has been on request since at least 2015 with a ginormous amount of community votes. You can AirPlay, but its not nearly as nice (and no Spotify Connect).
When I was a Spotify customer, every 'radio' station I started eventually wound up playing crass, offensive, and angry shout-rap, filled with words your drunk uncle never even heard in the Navy. It was very disturbing, and highlighted one of their biggest flaws - no way to specifiy 'clean' music only.

Say what you will about artistic integrity etc, but if you're listening to music with a 5 year old in the house and someone starts dropping n-bombs, c-bombs, m-f etc and you have no way to prevent that, it's a problem.
One thing I'll add that has happened since the post was made is that the reMarkable team has been pretty good at churning out updates. The last firmware update adds table of contents and text search for PDFs and its incredibly fast.

My two biggest annoyances are currently:

1) No web app, so the only way to export PDFs is via the desktop app which is only available for Windows and Mac. The Android app is also pretty terrible. I think not starting with a web interface was a bad decision.

2) The PDFs exported from the desktop app are huge (a PDF that started out ~400KB ended up >100MB after export). Support tells me they're working on this.
It would be nice if politicians had to disclose conflicts of interest when proposing legislation.

I'm sure this shot to the top of the priority list not out of some moral imperative, but because someone somewhere was losing a buck, or could make a buck if this passed.
how are the existing cafeterias in mountain view not part of the "local low skill labor market"

they pay well, better than restaurants, and they have better hours and benefits
Ask HN: Can companies stop using Google's CAPTCHA?
thanks.
I don't see any compelling reason to adopt Slack. It does nothing that I care about that IRC doesn't do. If IRC completely implodes, I would run my own IRC server.
well, wealth creates a market opportunity. when everyone is poor, there is no market opportunity.
Right click > Save as... in chrome is pretty good.
I agree with all of this, but I'd add that bridging RN to Native is not as scary as it sounds.

Check out the code examples: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/native-modules-...

In practice, most of it is wrapping "RCT_EXPORT_METHOD" around native code and importing it into JS.

Even if you had to write half the app in native code (which you won't), you're still far ahead of having to write it all in native code on both platforms.
But none of any of these discussions involves government, so why would you bring it up?

Plus, you yourself said "the idea of safe spaces doesn't fly with [you]," which indicates that you're against them. If you're only wanting to talk about government enforcement, then you might want to say that.
Yes, but are you going to do anything about it? If you work at one of the big tech companies in the bay area, chances are you either cannot vote or you're only ever going to vote for the incumbent party, so what does it matter to them if they piss you off?
Laughable. Do these politicians think that the food is conjured out of thin air with magic?

These cafeterias are located in the city (just like a restaurant would be), creating jobs in the city (just like a restaurant would), paying good wages and benefits to these people (unlike most restaurants would).
Quit it. It was 32 Gb used (i.e. all of it, maybe 1-2 G left for cache) plus 5-6 G of swap.

I don't know how your OS X works, but mine tends to not go into swap before running out of ram. It does not come out of swap when ram is freed indeed, but when you freshly boot it it will stay at swap used: 0 bytes until someone posts too many cat pictures in Slack or Discord.

Or until i forget how many VMs I opened, but that's work and actually useful.

Edit: I can't reply to your reply because HN doesn't like so many indents. I also don't want to continue a flame war about observed behaviour vs the theory of shared libraries and memory mapped files etc so I'll stop here.
Also, it really depends on what you already know and don't know before you start with a new field. You may be turned off by having to go through too much beginner material to get to what you need.
For one thing, an IRC client doesn't pin a core of my cpu at 100% and consume half a gig of ram...

(But I realise I'm well out on the losing end of this argument, even in groups of old-school hard core technical friends/colleagues, I've been given the "crazy look" when suggesting we just use irc for chat... )
Hi @solatic, Mattermost CEO here. If you have an on-prem HipChat deployment you want to migrate our team would love to discuss the possibilities.

Mail us at info at mattermost.com? // and this is an open invite to any HipChat users who want to keep data under IT control.

Regarding importing from HipChat, while it is tricky as the data is within HipChat's VMs and not documented, we can potentially work with you to move over smoothly.

The good news is if you switch to Mattermost we run as a single Linux binary with MySQL or PostgreSQL, so using us you have 100% access to your data as well as the source code to understand everything we do with the data.
This warms my heart. As a long-time Pythonista, I've been keen on the advancement of my favorite programming language since my own introduction to it in 1999. Watching it become adopted in mainstream use as university CS curriculum (often replacing Java now) and watching my inbox as more and more jobs for Python are readily available instead of having to be painstakingly sought after is a wonderful feeling. With Guido's resignation from being BDFL (BDF a while?) I am very excited to see what comes of the next 10 years for Python.
Willow Garage until very recently.
For anyone else who missed it, scroll down on the page to see the workbook. The first time I checked I only saw the SRE book, which has been available online for several months.
I'm not sure if they are directly related, but either way, given that the twitter tax brakes were supposed to bring new life to mid market yet hardly did anything. Is this a way to reconcile the damage that came from those tax breaks?
We've built a big mud-pie with gaping holes everywhere it seems. Initially getting things working and networked was the goal I guess; security wasn't something people had really worried about (look at earlier network protocols - a lot of trusted stuff just by virtue of being on the same lan/wan). Mitigating timing attacks and branch prediction attacks over a network etc I don't think had even been heard of.

The virus maker/anti-virus vendor self-feeding thing/arms-race is another crackup.
The Silicon Valley is not the Valley. The Valley refers to something in Souther California.
Their only distribution center, at that! They ship everything out of the Thief River Falls warehouse. They also run a great tour, if you're ever in the area.

Fun fact, they can take just about any combination of the 1million+ SKUs they stock from order reception to in a box waiting for a truck in under 15 minutes.
Apple Music has regularly screwed up the playlists in my library, removing most of the songs on them for mysterious reasons in several instances.

If my Mac routinely deleted files from the filesystem Apple would be working overtime to fix it, but with Apple Music data loss seems to be the norm.

I looked into switching to Spotify recently, but one of the first songs I looked for wasn't available which turned me off (the song is available on Apple Music).
This would make demand less elastic, pushing restaurant prices up for the rest of us.
What was the state of memory pressure? It's really the only thing that matters.
This situation sucks.

On one hand, it might lead to higher wages being offered if you can't sell "free food" as a perk of employment. On the other hand, this makes me feel very libertarian and enraged that a local gov is trying to limit where I can get food. Currently I work in IT, and my employer has occasionally made food available with enough regularity that I stay onsite. I don't like having to hike back to my rental car, navigate to the venue, wait to order and pick up food, and suffer in what is usually a dirty public area while eating it. I acknowledge the insulation and welcome it. Often there isn't enough time to eat, so the whole experience is stress away from the stress of customer support. Sometimes I just don't eat if it means going outside. My work has me travelling a lot and it's difficult to r/mealprepsunday from a hotel mini fridge.

There has to be a better way to attract people with access to free food to local restaurants, and it's not this. If local venues are saying they're missing out on patrons that should be available then they should adapt to offering a corporate experience? Starbucks became much more successful when they became a spot for people with Macbooks to vegetate all day in.

You could have the company give an allowance to their employees to go out and spend it on local food, and then give the company a tax break for encouraging investment in said local venues (based on how much was spent). (maybe?)
Right, because everyone knows the second law of business is that the number of competitors in a market can never decrease over time.

Jokes aside, how is this anti-competitive other than trivially reducing the number of total competitors? If 4th place wants to give up in the race, should all of their work be in vain? AFAIK a product like Slack doesn't require tons of up-front legislation preventing new entrants in the race. Competition in this domain is very much alive, regardless of what a few big kahunas decide to do.
> Cool, so start-ups lose a potential hiring perk to the incumbents.

I don't think catering startups that coordinate with local restaurants (e.g ZeroCater and Chewse) will be affected.
I work at a company that doesn’t provide lunch, and we still manage to go out together and “bond”.

Miracles do happen.
Yes but since the food came from hated tech companies, it is tainted and must be banned.
For the SF locals, it's usually democrats vs democrats, so party affiliation doesn't really matter. Because of this, inucumbents are much more easily voted out of office on the supervisor level (which is where this is coming from).

So... vote when you can!
Cryptovoxels – a user owned virtual world
I'd be so tempted to take my $32.5M and retire for life. Pretty gutsy to invest 17% of your wealth in a single early stage technology when they did. I guess retiring on $27M instead wouldn't be so bad either though if it bombs.
Good question. Before I answer, why do you think you need to raise a round? Communities like this one (although I’m much indebted to it) create a presumption that investment is a good thing. And sometimes it ain’t. Think carefully about your personal objectives. They won’t necessarily be satisfied by an investment.

That said, the way to raise capital if you need to is:
1. Work for income and to fund basic build-out
2. Look for grants. In some sectors such as green tech these are widely available. A friend just raised 1m, no loss of equity.
3. Look for opportunities where big raises are not needed. If your main advantage is that you have a shit ton of cash to build your business, that’s going to get competed away pretty quickly, as theirs a lot of cheap money swilling around.

And remember mo’ money, mo’ problems. It sort of burns a hole in your pocket, makes you lazy, allows you to take inefficient decisions.

As an addition: I once went to an accelerator where one of the slick VCs said, “if you want to raise money from me, you’ll need to find me through my business school network”. What a divot. Would you honestly want to work for an investor with attitudes like that?
I admit this is pure speculation. There are mentions in another article[1] that some restaurant associations supported it:

>The measure has the support of Gwyneth Borden, executive director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association and other local merchants.

It seems suspicious that before the legislation is even introduced exceptions have been carved out for the existing big companies.

[1] http://www.sfexaminer.com/supervisors-move-ban-workplace-caf...
Here's a neat puzzle game that got posted several months ago, on the quantum mechanics of photons:

http://play.quantumgame.io/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15905924
Mixing in flexbox would be nice...
> a button to detect them by default

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/awesome-rss/
Don't get caught up and be enraged by clickbait BI headlines. Bay Area cities are not cracking down on anything. There is exactly one passed rule so far. And that is by Mountain View that only applies to a single office development. The SF rule is on proposal stages and is unlikely to pass.