skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do activist investors serve a valuable function to the market, and their investors? Yes

Do activist investors sometimes pursue strategies that are less than scrupulous, and perhaps values a quick buck over the long term success of a company? Yes

Are management teams sometimes really looking to execute on a long-term strategy that can’t be measured over a couple of quarters? Yes

Are management teams sometimes incompetent, corrupt, and absentee? Yes

If you want to read some scathing activist letters check out Dan Loeb’s, sample below:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1040273/000089914004...
I get it. I hate login-walls too.

The level of toxicity in the github issue's conversation is so astounding that I must say something. People on the internet are people. I hope that we don't talk to people in "real life" the same as we do when we make toxic comments online. Complain, write letters/emails to Docker, make your opinion heard, etc. But remember that you are dealing with a fellow human-being, who has their own life and own emotions. Treat them with the same respect you would like to be shown when people are unhappy with you.

The comments in that github issue reflect very poorly on us as a professional community to the point that I'm embarrassed.
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Correct, the database directive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_Directive

Aka Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament
Out of context from the rest of your post, but about this "below the fold" thing... The page is fugly and horrible, but the links are interesting reads.

http://abovethefold.fyi/
I don't have any sources, but I've lost two people close to me who mixed xanax and methadone. They were in rehab, fell off the wagon and that was it. Blood tests showed just those two drugs in their systems.

> It's almost as if they think of methadone patients as less than human, creatures whose lives are not of value.

This is 100% what one friend who's going through methadone treatment says. They don't even want to get them off of methadone either. He had to fight to even begin going down, and he was on it at 2 years at this point. He'll be in "rehab" for 5 years early next year, and the dose is about 1/3 what it was when he started.
Slack’s Valuation Rises to $7.1B, Raising Fresh $427M
Can you name an area that has legalized cannabis and fallen victim to this flood of dubious health claims that you fear?

Do you see this as worse than our current system of criminalizing it and sending SWAT teams into dispensaries?
Seems to me the wording was chosen to put Facebook as the first word for more clicks.
> Russia can’t do anything, Unless you are Ukraine(invaded), Georgia or Europe (remember that fuel crisis and pipelines) that is.

Yes, Russia would be a concern to me if I lived in Europe.

> Or the United States in our case.

That is neither an argument nor a fact, so I can't really address it.

> Or Syria (Russia is assad’s Primary backer)..

Isn't Russia supporting the legitimate government in Syria? Obviously that isn't supporting US interests, but it is hardly a radical position.

> So yeah, remember when Democrats ridiculed Romney for his Russia statements and Obama and HRC declared it was time for a “reset button” for the bad relationship betweeen the Bush white goose and Russia?

No, don't follow US politics that closely. It would be nice to see the US reset its bad relationship with Russia if I'm reading that right. The world is better if we all try to get along civilly.

> Or how about their efforts to back certain black lives matter groups and pro police group on the other hand to stroke racial tension does that not matter?

Pardon? I don't understand.

> Or their current effort to discredit Republican Who have split from Trump.

Approximately half the political apparatus is constantly trying to discredit the other half, and the other half is usually infighting quietly and jocking for positions. Russian trolls aren't going to be able to get in before the Democrats have started savaging them.

> We still live in that world, And the consequences for people both in the United States and outside of the United States are immense.

Yes.

> At some point this stops looking like normal relationships and start looking like an act of war

No they don't. Acts of war involve material harm at some level. I know Trump isn't that popular, but he has ballpark similar ratings (~1 person in 20 difference) to Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton or even Obama at this point is the presidency [1]. If the Russians are somehow having an impact, it isn't upsetting anyone unduly, let alone an act of war.

[1] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
Mandatory mention of Kenyan Wangari Maathai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangari_Maathai
She started a grassroots movement of planting millions of trees in Kenya.
She received Nobel prize in 2004 for her environmental work in Africa.
It truly is awful. Try to imagine what you think dying is like and then that is what your brain puts every single system into overdrive trying to achieve. It triggers a fight or flight response and also is a feedback loop of awful that will only subside once your adrenal glands are tapped out and tired. You really can’t stop it once it has begun and no telling yourself “it will be ok” will help it even though you intellectually know it will be fine.
The submission is about the compiler which is now shipped as native binaries that have been compiled using ExclesiorJET AOT.

There is also a compiler for Kotlin that builds native binaries instead of JVM bytecode. It is a different project from the same company.
Oh, I thought you were talking about the bit twiddling required to implement constant time lookup and constant time branching.

> Side-channel resistance is largely a matter of reducing the Signal-to-Noise ratio for traces an attacker can leverage to extract secrets.

Who cares about resistance when you can have immunity? Constant time crypto leaks zero signal through timings, who needs any noise to mask that utter absence of signal?

Unless maybe you were thinking about other side channels, such as energy consumption, or electromagnetic emissions? I'd agree those are worth pursuing for smart cards and dongles, but on regular computers (from palmtops to servers), the threat is mostly academic.
For books I'm trying to learn and retain from, like a textbook or a technical book it really helps me to take notes, underline, highlight, write questions, etc in the book itself. I think it both helps me retain it better the first time and then allows me to review the text later and get more out of it.
I'd add the Comey interference, but that too has been well covered.

There's a lot more, but most if it was fair game / water under the bridge. Interesting in a historical context or to internal party strategists, but doesn't deserve attention in the public context of upcoming elections.

So you're right. It does sometimes seem that commentary about Russia dominates, but it probably isn't strangling focus on other important issues.
I'm not caught up with the microplastics problem.

But I suspect the locals had read testimony from scientists studying the problem. People really give a shit about pollution in Hawai'i.

It also seems very unlikely that the quantity would be there without ocean currents bringing it in from the big offenders like China.

Hawai'i has a pretty small population of people who are widely very concientious about polluting the ocean, compared to most other people in the world.
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#attr-input...

> The following extract shows how a messaging client's text entry could be arbitrarily restricted to a fixed number of characters, thus forcing any conversation through this medium to be terse and discouraging intelligent discourse.

<label>What are you doing? <input name=status maxlength=140></label>
O'Reilly used to do this until they ditched their online store
Intensive farming, technology (machines, antibiotics), breeding of extreme animals, cheap food and water and land for animals, subsidies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_subsidy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcA3P6abmjY&t=817

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zctdaxvewng
Doesn't Jenkins use a web interface to create, edit and manage jobs? Is it possible to put jobs in a VCS? Or manage jobs automatically (say with Ansible)?
Proxies are actually shockingly cheap
I think HN has had its eternal September over the summer. A significant portion of comments on a lot of threads are becoming ever more political.

Which is a little annoying as HN was one of the few places that hadn’t been infected by American politics. I’m Scandinavian, I don’t much care about the war between red and blue.
Nobody has mentioned how effective it is to rebreathe when you feel a panic attack coming on.

I've had them for 50 years, and the single most effective thing I can do remains finding a paper bag to breathe into when I feel the hyperventilation begin.

I suspect most other sufferers know this, but just in case this is a new problem for anyone.
You can buy them. Sometimes under branding that doesn't say memrister.

You can learn how they work and the science (see the video on https://knowm.org/memristors/)

Are they a fundamental circuit element or one of the existing fundamental elements? We can let scientists debate that.
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Honestly, try CBD pills. They have done wonders for my anxiety and you can order them online since they are made from Hemp. There is a sub reddit with lots of helpful information on Vendors.
I believe the documentary A Plastic Ocean covers a lot for ocean pollution.

For global warming/climate change- An Inconvenient Truth, which is now probably dated.

I saw a great documentary of the impacts of climate change already being seen in Ladakh firsthand: Jungwa: A Broken Balance. It's pretty depressing to see a village running out of water because of the greed of a society they could never comprehend. Instead they pray for hours, thinking their problems that stem from the environment, are evidence of their own sins. Heartbreaking to see the people that will be impacted the most with the least resources to adapt.
I tend to prefer PDFs for technical books because it has a search feature. Most of the time I'm not reading a 1200 page technical reference cover to cover and of course Indexes aren't always comprehensive.
Yes, but you're missing the bigger point.

Law enforcement will abuse the most vulnerable.
Developers who use those deserve what they get.
I applied almost as a joke because I knew I wouldn't be accepted... I'm a single founder, no traction, and a silly, seamingly pointless product. Also I have a full-time job.

Now I'm excited I get a chance to be in a network, compete, and see how peers are handling things on the forums. It's going to be awesome and an excellent motivator. Thanks YC!
Build a Secure ReST API with Node
I'm a native of Sweden, a secular protestant Christian country. In my understanding of the world, the Christian way of seeing the world stems from the Greek philosophers mainly, among others.

I think it's true that the prosperity of my corner of the world (including the non-European western nations too) is rooted in holding "The Word", logos, in the highest regards, even if I don't hold any metaphysical beliefs.
> Using a throwaway due to subject matter

Exactly due to the subject matter, I choose to use my regular account. Mental health issues are not pretty, just like physical illness can be ugly. But we do not shy away from the people who have terminal cancer, we help them out the best they can.

For mental illness helping can mean admitting that you have issues too. Displaying that they are not alone, that these issues are not as uncommon as everyone makes out to be.
CLJS is awesome too! For what it's worth, Elm 0.19 likely also works with Closure Compiler in Advanced Mode - it did in a quick proof of concept I tried, but obviously that's something you want to be really confident in before suggesting people use it!
Just to make sure, have you tried an E Ink display? They really make the difference for me. They look very much like paper and ink.
How to use BANT successfully to qualify your prospects in 2018
How is this different from censorship ? Obviously it was still person1 convincing person2 on what is essentially a forum to do something. How is that wrong ?

What's next ? Mandatory muzzles that work in real life, and close and shock their wearer when you say something that's not OK according to whatever the current public opinion is ?

People have a right to talk to each other. About whatever, really, really whatever. It is not anyone's, and especially not the state's, or some random mob's business to approve or disapprove.
How to Implement a QA Process in Startups
As a data point, Docker itself - in Swarm mode - doesn't yet do IPv6 to any decent level natively.

It's seems possible to get IPv6 working through alternative orchestration though. eg Theres a guide on getting it working with Kubernetes and Calico.

But if you're looking for something that's production grade IPv6 - eg people can work out WTF is wrong when problems hit - it's probably not there yet. At least, not for small teams that I can tell. ;)
>I'm curious, why do you think there's so much corruption in these countries compared to others globally? Just keen to understand what your take on this is.

According to folks like Dambisa Moyo, aid is part of the reason these regions are corrupt: governments becomes beholden to foreign donors instead of local citizenry.
Amazing! I didn't know about outline. So much nicer than the original. Thank you.
No it doesn't; they are not malicious in their actions just not mindful of the real consequences. At worst it's a case of looking after your own family as they are all that matters.

Trump however takes that to it's logical extreme.
It's really strange because I still maintain a good amount of self-awareness during my panic attacks so I'm like 'yeah gimmie a sec my brain's just being silly' while also in the midst of crying and hyperventilating.
FiftyThree (Paper, Paste) acquired by WeTransfer
The Sims and Roller Coaster Tycoon?
That brings up another interesting tactic that I’ve used. At one job that I was working contract to perm, when it was time for me to be made permanent, there was a hard cap on what they would pay me. I knew I would be leaving in a year anyway, so I asked for a title of “lead software architect”. The entire department of permanent developers was three people. I then used the title to apply for jobs making more.

In other words, even if you can’t get the raise you want, negotiate a title change. Companies generally don’t mind throwing around BS titles to make their employees feel good.
I find the new trend of long form articles infuriating. Just get to the point, without all the rigamarole! Is there an actual benefit? Or is it just something people say?
I've had experience working at both small, medium and large companies and "better" is subjective.

At larger organizations, mostly what you say is accurate with the bureaucracy and the pressure to deliver things impossibly quick.

At small/medium organizations, there was a lack of documentation and proper process. Everything moved quite rapidly but decisions were being made without prior consultation.

Mentorship can work in various forms (formal and informal) in both small and large companies. I've also come to believe that there are no realistic deadlines for anything other than if you set them yourself. With the entire organization moving at rapid pace, it almost requires senior leadership to accept take a step back and breathe a little.

Meetings are mostly useless but I found meetings at large organizations with a proper project manager, someone who is strong and keeps everyone on the ball, enforcing next steps etc. is such a critical component to not wasting time. That and having longer meetings/workshops to really talk through all the details as opposed to 30 minutes catch up everyday that involves multiple context switches.

In both small and large organizations, I've found that the productivity killer is trying to do too much that ends being nothing gets done at all.
> Those cute, cuddly characters

I never really got how a shipping container on a whale makes for a good logo, unless it's just meant to be reflective of the apparent reliability:

> the "whale" your container is riding on may just fucking dive underwater for hours at a time, but hey containers are designed to be in the ocean.. Wait, they're not?
Out of curiosity, I've downloaded the Mithril implementation of Conduit from

https://realworld-mithril.netlify.com/

I have minified and gzipped `main.js` and it end up around 26k.
> You didn't need to rewind them like tapes, because they wound back around!!!

You physically can't because they spool from the center like an 8-track tape. Probably why they didn't catch on rewinding lets you treat it more like a really slow hard drive.
Does Elm rely on node.js and npm? Or is it usable without it?
It us.
If they don't have an audience of two billion to recruit from, and if they don't have an obvious place to virtually gather on one of the most popular sites in the world, their numbers will be smaller. Making it harder for them to recruit and coordinate will reduce their power.
Water ice on the Moon confirmed
Kubernetes if you're a containers first shop, Hashicorp's Nomad if you're not just containers (can run binaries, etc).
Tesla could go to Apple for take-private deal says investor. Does it make sense?
Problem I have with books is that it's much harder to justify the "time" to get lost in books. When I was a kid, I was near the top of the school's reading program and devoured books. But now, when I do have time on vacation or sick, I'd almost much rather read something that's educational-ish. It's hard to justify the X hours falling into a fantasy world, though it's still almost as fun as it used to be.

Practically I think I have more "ties" to the real world, with a job, family, etc, and it's harder for me to stop worrying about those things long enough to slip inside the mind of a character in a book.
russia is one of our geopolitical adversaries. they are a "big threat" in the sense that we play opposite them in the game of global chess.

put differently: all of the international relations theorism that has been dominant in the last 70 years says that for every inch they gain, we must lose an inch, and vice versa. you could substitute in several other parties like china and say the same thing. this is a good situation for everyone to be in.

the thing to remember is that there are many of these inches trading hands at all times. no major player is about to risk trying to grab a mile or inflicting any kind of serious blow that could be overtly attributed to them as an act warranting retribution. remember, for every effort the players make, it opens them up to opportunism by the others who aren't affected by that effort.

so, russia is, almost by definition, a threat. but that's business as usual, not cause for alarm. the threat is not an existential one, at present.

i'm also of the mind that romney's interpretation of russia being a threat was primarily military in nature rather than political. that interpretation -- implying russia could invade europe or something similar -- was ridiculous at the time, and has been proven false given the difficulty that russia has had in ukraine.
You sound like you're asking this question as if it's a brand new question that nobody has ever thought of before, instead of something core to the entire idea of copyright: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work

Yes, it is a hard line to draw. It is advisable that if your business is dependent on being on the right side of copyright issues that you simply stay well away from the line.
Leveraging what is already in Closure Compiler was (and is) such a brilliant maneuver by ClojureScript - over the last few years I've seen various current tools gradually gain optimizations that were already in the box with ClojureScript when I built some things with it "forever ago".

The big surprise though, is how few other new library/framework/platform/languages/whatever have followed this path.
China's censors may target business models, not content
Lifestyle behavior causes cancer risk and its prevention
Editors have gotten indulgent IMHO, especially if the author is famous. For example, I'm sure George R. R. Martin is really interested in medieval royal feasts, but readers tend to get bored with yet another page filled with food items after the 20th time.
I've had a similar experience. Now it only hits about once every two weeks typically, much better than what it used to be.

Honestly I don't mind it as much as I used to, and maybe that was due to the sheer frequency of it earlier in my life, but in a way it makes even the most mundane calm feeling truly special, and I like that, a lot.
I would like to have the kind of society that can accept cannabis has no more dangers than many other legal substances because that is the truth. We shouldn't restrict it simply because you feel like other people are addicts.

You're concerned some people might be addicts, I'm concerned that you're comfortable with the status quo of criminalization.
For anyone wondering what they feel like...imagine that feeling of when you're just about to fall back in your chair...or when you trip and think you'll fall...or when you're surprised by someone walking in on you. That initial 'gasp', sustained. For up to hours. I'd also feel a tightening of the chest, and on occasion the panic would crescendo and my limbs would start going numb and I'd start feeling faint.

The first serious attack I had (it wasn't preceded by any trigger, I was just watching T.V. and eating) sent me to the emergency room, although I knew it was a panic attack and not life-threatening it got so bad that I thought it'd be worth it for my peace of mind (sidenote: it's not, and I got a nice bill). Drinking alcohol can help, but I would recommend to just endure the attack. I don't get panic attacks randomly anymore, but I may after a night of heavy drinking (which, ironically, might begin to stave off general anxiety).

They are terrible. Fight-or-flight gone haywire. I'd know exactly what I was experiencing and could rationalize what was happening, but that made no difference. Thankfully, they are rare for me these days.
This isn't accidental. Despite all the rules about fair awarding of contracts it's mostly ceremony: the government agents who draft it have a contractor or small set of them in mind when they draft the proposal. It's the same thing that happens when a hiring manager wants to bring a friend in: they'll write the job description such that only their friend qualifies, while wording it in such a way as to give some cover.
> Maybe they'll find a way to boot them off Facebook, but then they'll just use vk or another platform I'd assume.

This is true, but having it on Facebook normalizes it, which aids its spread.
Did you read the article? The population has real, historical reasons not to trust the traditional centralized provider of identity. A trustless solution is an option worth considering.

Blockchain-overuse snark is not the solution to every blockchain proposal.... especially if you haven't heard the proposal yet.
...unless you are a big name in art, in which case the same act will suddenly be daring and expressive - viz. piss-filled jars with crosses in 'm and similar works of 'art'.
Not at all, the challenge isn't about digging tunnels, rather operating in an existing subterranean environment.