skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, but this "both-sides-ism" is also a large part of the problem. There is One, and exactly One party doing these things currently, and it is not the Democrats.
Does there even need to be an end at all? I prefer the notion that there's never an end and it's just all one long journey. Death may be the end of a person, but the journey continues for everyone & everything else.
The situation is murkier in this regard.

For the most part, anti-solicitation that covers recruiting people to switch jobs is void in CA.

Non-solicitation that covers customers? I’d clear that with a lawyer first.
As I know Euromaidan (protests in Ukraine's capital in 2013) has started because pro-Russian Ukranian president decided to cancel plans about integrating with EU, not because of some US involvement.

As Ukraine was a part of USSR, there are people sympathising with the West and people sympathising with Russia. And when one part comes to power, other feels disappointed.

Russia uses this distrust in its propaganda to divide the society, spreading ideas like the Ukranian government is going to ban Russian language at public schools and sadly the government doesn't take steps to reassure Russian people in Ukraine. Russian is not an official language in Ukraine or in any of its regions (except the annexed ones).

Your point about annexation of Crimea is similar to what Russian propaganda says: if we didn't take a part of Ukraine then there would be new NATO bases (another excuse: "Crimea has always been our land and people living there are mostly Russian"). But it is nothing more than an excuse - you can justify anything this way. USSR earlier did similar things - in 1939 they annexed a part of Finland [1] using an excuse that the Leningrad city was too close too the border so they needed to push the border further.

It is like US foreign policy - they always have a good excuse to bomb some country and pretend to be the good guy saving people from a dictator.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War
Fun idea: induced lactation as DDT chelation therapy.
> When Romney was so prophetic in his analysis, did he factor that his own party would be actively working with them to undermine American Influence over the world?

I hate to be that guy, but from the perspective of large parts of the world, "American Influence" could well use some undermining.

The USA have played the game of meddling in other countries' internal affairs for over a century, from the very subtle (trade policies, tariffs, etc.) to the rather overt (invading a country and forcefully overthrowing their government). Now it turns out others can play that game, too. It's not as much fun being on the short end of that particular stick, now, is it?

Pardon me if I sound cynical, but that is like somebody who beats up their family on a regular basis decrying domestic violence when the wife begins learning Karate and strikes back for a change.

If the USA started treating other countries as sovereign nations instead of sorting them into the lackey/enemy buckets, the world might start to look a lot less threatening...

/rant
"many people were reporting posts as false simply because they did not agree with the content."

This happens on HN so it's going to happen in userland for sure!
How do I get experts to vet candidates? Where do I find experts, how can I assess them, hire them to do this?
An Open Letter to Elon Musk from Ariana Huffington
FWIW, Uber already crunched the numbers for doing ads in the platform and it turned out it wouldn't really be worth the effort.

I commute with Uber (average of $5-6 w/ express pool, 30-40min rides to/from Outer Richmond/Downtown) around 4 times a week and it costs about $200 (in SF). There's no way you could make up the difference with ads.

Besides, the "All you can ride" service supplemented with ads already exists: public transit monthly passes.
I had them years ago and I found Mingyur Rinpoche's lesson on YT, and listening to his lesson helped me a lot. He made me realize something key. To add to that, just the fact that he also had them made me realize I was not alone. The technique he uses to deal with this issue applied to me wonderfully. It didn't take me years, it took me days, of course everyone's case is different.
So they'll just buy any crap and re-sell it immediately afterwards (for a small loss, if needed). Who does that benefit?
> Not quite sure what the relevance is today of this article from 2012.

This article was cited by "A million-dollar brownstone that no one owned" which was on HN yesterday [1].

> MERS is an entity that was created by the banks but has governmental power. This is both true and hard to believe, so here is a 7,000-word Harper’s piece that both explains it and doesn’t make this article any longer. The piece details MERS’s rise to power and also suggests that it is the single most-guilty party in the whole mortgage crisis.

...

> THE BEHAVIORS THAT RESULTED IN THE $25B 'NATIONAL MORTGAGE SETTLEMENT' IN 2013 HAVE CONTINUED UNABATED TO THIS DAY. IN FACT, THEY'VE GOTTEN WORSE.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17804023
I agree that most of the indictment was about concealing and laundering funds.
I think contributors are going to compile it from source, to contribute ?
That's not classless. It's just class using factory instead of constructor for object instantiation.
$deity forbid, no.

The problem with this is that once you get beneath a certain threshold, you find yourself on a self-reinforcing spiral which it's hard to get yourself out of; a spiral not unlike that of homelessness.

Watch Black Mirror's S03E01 for a glimpse of where this can take us.
"From the outside, it's been glaringly obvious that the US has had a very nasty partisanship problem for quite a while."

I don't recall Pelosi saying that she wanted to make Bush a "one term president". I don't recall Daschle refusing to even hold a hearing on Bush's Judicial nominees.
Can you suggest an alternative theory for the rise of obesity, other than prolonged caloric surplus?
Presumably you’re not just hiring, but hiring for some specific role. I would look on GitHub to find contributors to major open source projects that you either use directly, or which overlap with your stack. Find the experts and reach out to them. As long as you’re not lowballing and have a real, interesting project to offer, they’ll probably at least be open for a chat.
The end is a robust system that minimises corruption and this can only be achieved when the people in power can be held accountable and are easy to replace.
> In the end, we sold the house,

How did the bank lien from the mortgage get handled in the sale?
at what point does an author have so many retractions that their work is taken prima facia as untrustworthy?

IMO that answer should basically be two (maybe even one). And if a paper is not willing to issue a retraction on those grounds (which I would understand), they should at least flag the paper with a "retracted author" notice.

truth is a pendulum. we are living in the extreme end of one swing: a gilded age where "truth isn't truth". It's interesting to see how much synchronization of the pendulum there is in very different aspects of society (such as medicine and politics).
>I invite the reader to search for any serious discourse on problems within "sex work" at Current Affairs or The Intercept, The Guardian

It's always dangerous to make generalisations about feminism, especially across different countries where the various splits evolved quite differently. The sex-positive version of feminism seems pretty dominant in the US but that's really not the case in the UK. The mainstream feminist voices you will hear in the UK media are almost exclusively not the sex-positive type that dominates in the US, other than a few younger writers. It's still very much dominated by what people call SWERF (sex worker exclusionary radical feminists) and TERF (trans exclusionary radical feminist) types of feminist. That's especially true of the liberal media like the Guardian and New Statesman. (Grassroots organisations aren't dominated in the same way as far as I can tell, and neither is academia, although I think you are still going to find far more 2nd wave type voices than in the US).

This stuff has been in the news fairly recently here because of an attempt by some feminist MPs to criminalise prostitution organised over the internet (and there are groups that have been pushing for it, some of them with links to the kind of evangelical US funds that you mention). There has been considerable backlash from sex workers and various grass roots feminist movements against this.

If you want an example a country where the sex industry has been regulated very differently then look at Norway and Sweden (if you start reading about this stuff you will quickly find people referring to the 'Nordic Model'). There's a huge amount of discussion of the topic academically and elsewhere. The results have not been what you are hoping for though (assuming your interest is reducing violence and exploitation).
I'd venture to guess so. Stress has a way of coming out one way or another especially for those people who are very 'distant' from their emotions and feelings. Whatever the biological mechanism (chronic cortisol, inflammatory response, muscle tension, high bp/heartrate), it eventually shows up so you can't ignore it any longer.

Part of the cure I think is figuring out what your body is telling you through emotions and then figuring out what to do with that information (dealing with the stressor or finding an outlet).
Elm handles those things the way Standard ML does, not the way Haskell does.

It's cool if you prefer the way Haskell does it, though! You should check out PureScript, which chose to do it the way Haskell did it.
While it looks great, for a real noob the real problem (at least when I was starting out this was mine) is fast terminal navigation. To learn to do that I always thought the normal progression is sort of like this:

1. Mastering getting around terminal with slight configuration (bash, zsh, random dotfiles, maybe a plugin manager)

2. Getting used to editing files in the terminal (Vim)

3. Managing multiple terminals at once (tmux)

Managing all of those changes at once kind of overloads you where it slows you down to much to really consider this a practical change at one once.

You have just about the same exact set up that I do as well barring a few minor differences, Nord theme included, which is pretty funny that they converged like that.
...or he wants to position his company in a favorable way to the new administration just like every other large mega corporation in America. I don't read any intention other than that. He wasn't the only tech CEO to reach out to the administration shortly after the election.
The search for a more stable cryptocurrency
I think that we still need some explaining to do when it comes to developer friendly website design.

Truth is that, right now, in 2018, we can get rid of the hacks, libraries, polyfills and everything else needed to support old browsers. The old 'block layout' methods need to be forgotten and the new CSS grid method can be adopted by new developer/designers. Then this CSS grid needs to be specified with CSS variables for all the bits that change. Then media queries and vanilla javascript can be used to adapt to viewports and cater for interaction. There is not much too it unless you are writing a replacement for Excel in javascript for the web. But then you are writing an application and not designing a website of content.

Then there is the truth about design. A lot of 'design' has been artistic flourish that does not need to be there. We kind of know where the search box goes and what icon it has, there is no need for that to be 'designed' by someone that can't code. This is particularly the case when the 'design' places the search box in the footer with an eyeglasses icon just because the 'designer' thought that they could add their artistic flourish in such a way. (This did happen circa 2010).

The convention based UX that has won out over 'artistic flourishes' means that there is less to 'design'. Choosing fonts and colours is also a bit of a luxury, an existing brand will already have these things. If you were designing for Ford you have a good idea of what colour blue the headings and buttons will be coloured. Equally, if you are creating a site for just yourself then you can experiment with these things as you build out the content.

Anyway, this 'web design crash course' hinted at some of the CSS goodness we have today, e.g. the use of CSS variables, but I am wanting more, a wholesale forgetting of the hacks and cruft with a simple way to do stuff effectively and in a maintainable way with the new CSS shiny.
or alternatively, thought that the value to be gained from this was lower that the next best use of their time?

10 grands at best, no mentoring - a consulting gig is worth more in money and experience.
I know our own on-prem (IBM Cloud Private) has containerd in testing and looking for a late year release where containerd is the primary engine. I'm not as up to speed on who else is offering on-prem K8s; but I do know minikube is also getting containerd integration as we speak.
Why stop there? More molestations happen in schools.
I believe all the states that currently have recreation cannabis have it because of referendums and ballot initiatives. The legalization process has shown exactly how our legislatures have failed to address this issue. Canada did legalize recreational use with legislation, but they are the only ones so far.

I personally blame gerrymandering.
If a top scientist loses a grant, science loses.
We made a genuine attempt to integrate with the West. We were rebuffed. That seems, just like you say, pretty obvious to me.

Sure, it was all good and dandy for a while, especially in the context of economic cooperation and dismantling communism. But when you look at deeper issues like national security, you can't deny that Russia got completely tuned out by the West. I still don't understand what the US was thinking when they tried to expand NATO into Georgia and Ukraine, two critical security frontiers for Moscow (even as they said they wouldn't do it [1]).

And in case you missed it, we voiced our opposition to NATO expansion loudly, bitterly, and repeatedly over the last two decades. You just chose to ignore it. And now the West collectively acts like the resulting conflict is some kind of unexpected flare-up of Russian paranoia/empire syndrome/general wickedness. John Mearsheimer put it best [2], so I don't want to keep beating a dead horse.

In the end, if you are trying to build a more integrated and safer world, you have to take the interests and sensibilities of all major stakeholders into into account. That's how you build mutual trust. If you don't thread carefully you risk signaling disingenuousness and opportunism. So you get what you get.

PS
As a side note, I do find the cartoonization of this conflict very bizarre. Russian are the orcs, completely alien and wicked, Putin is the omnipotent Sauron, US is the noble and selfless Aragon, Trump is turncoat Saruman, and Europe and the wider world in general are apparently hobbits, plucky but completely clueless on their own. It's like an echo chamber.

[1] https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017...

[2] https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russia-fsu/2014-08-1...
I've been having a stressful week (thus far) at work and this video really puts things into perspective.
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No, it wasn't a non-partisan, even handed post. It was specifically trying to blame everyone, and in doing so, downplay the actions of the group that does justify the blame.
> Democrats were loud about surveillance and foreign wars during the Bush years. Then they got quiet once Obama came in and did the same.

I don't think so. Privacy activists and progressives have been outraged about the Democratic Party passive acquiescence on surveillance from the beginning (with the exception of a few individuals) - when did the party ever object to surveillance? Democrats in Congress supported the Afghan and Iraq wars under Bush Jr. Obama didn't do the same regarding foreign wars, he pulled the U.S. out of Iraq (implementing a deal negotiated by Bush) and reduced involvement in Afghanistan.
Serious question: What harm does microplastics do to human body?
First, the indictment charges them with "money laundering" and "facilitating prostitution". The government won't have to proof that any sex trafficking happened, or that Backpage supported it, or how they collaborated with NCMEC. In fact, the indictment, on the very first page, makes it very clear that the governments claim here is that any website focused on prostitution ads is illegal. And indeed, plenty of other sites have been charged in recent years, from Rentboy to Redbook. The story is always the same: Insinuations of sex trafficking, but no charges.

One important point to make here: People who claim to support these charges on the argument that "it wasn't just prostitution, they did other bad stuff" need to tread carefully: They are being charged with facilitating prostitution. You cannot support this charge, but then also claim you would be ok with a website publishing those kinds of ads.

I've read through a bunch of the indictment.

- The "500 per month" reporting limit is an incomplete, half-sentence quote from an email: "In one email, PADILLA instructed VAUGHT
that "if we don't want to blow past 500 referrals this month, we shouldn't be
doing more than 16 per day". That's all there is on this subject. There is no further information. It's not clear why they would limit them, or indeed if they did - for all we know this never happened. Who selected what is reported, and how? We don't know. Of course it doesn't matter either. It isn't really related to the charges.

What would be more interesting is what NCMEC did with these reports, and how many victims it did identify.

- The whole money laundering charge seems to revolve around the argument that we are talking about "proceeds from illegal activity". The indictment even says: Credit Card companies stopped to work with Backpage. "In response, the BACKPAGE
DEFENDANTS have pursued an array of money laundering strategies." It then proceeds to explain how Backpage tried to get paid. I mean, read the charge:

"On or about the dates set forth below, each instance constituting a separate
count of this Indictment, in the District of Arizona and elsewhere, defendants LACEY, LARKIN, SPEAR, BRUNST, and HYER, and others known and unknown to the grand
jury, knowing that the property involved in a financial transaction represented the proceeds of some form of unlawful activity, conducted and attempted to conduct such a financial transaction which in fact involved the proceeds of specified unlawful activity knowning that the transaction was designed in whole and in part to conceal and disguise the nature, the location, the source, the ownership, and the control of the proceeds of the specied unlawful activity".

They very much are saying: What you did (facilitating prostitution) was illegal, therefore trying to get paid for it, and hiding the fact that this payment is for prostitution ads, that is money laundering. There is no claim that they tried to launder money from outside of their business, or that they didn't pay their taxes.
Thanks for posting this perspective. That is an interesting point.
> > we've made this change to make sure we can improve the Docker for Mac and Windows experience for users moving forward.

> but at the same time, that explanation is clearly bollocks

Whenever a corporation/someone explains their decision is to "improve the experience for our users" as the major reason, without explaining how exactly the decision relates to an improved experience, it's usually disingenuous[0].

I'm actually curious if there's counterexamples against this rule.

[0] bullshit makes the flowers grow
Don't be too quick to call academics pedantic. You're probably missing some key facts of the argument that make the distinction relevant.
> Russia can’t do anything

If I were Putin, I would provoke tensions between China and the U.S. and profit. Yes, China has ambitions to become a greater power, and U.S. has its interest to curb China. Russia, as other emerging economies, has geopolitical fears of an expanding China.
I went a step further a while back and emailed Digikey to see if they had any insight on memristor availability. This is what I got back:

Thank you for contacting Digi-Key with your request about Memristor parts. While none of Digi-Key official supplies have any existing memristor parts available, there a few companies that have made experimental development chips available for sale.

https://knowm.org/product/bs-af-w-memristors

http://www.bioinspired.net/products-1.html

Seems like general availability of a real memristor is still a ways off - if at all.
The current situation is a mess. The FCC derives its power to regulate telecommunications from the Congressional power to regulate interstate commerce.

However, the FCC believes it is limited to interstate telecommunications—when it suits them. They refused to defend their own price caps on intrastate prison calls because it was not a matter of interstate commerce. However, despite this, they purport the reclassification of ISPs preempts state law with regards to net neutrality. I find the logic behind this mind-boggling.
What about the people who should have been rejected? Surely, with so many companies there are companies where rejecting them was a service. Now they are instead getting that validation which might make them go on working on something obviously fruitless. It might not even be their own fault, it might just be that no one in YC is really excited about working with them and you can't offer much else which you should be up front about. It is of course admirable that you want to make things work, but I definitely wouldn't underestimate the challenge of transforming your whole process retroactively.
Freedom of speech is not a meme. It's something people have given their life for, and nations have been founded on this theme.

"I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It" is a cornerstone of democracies - though of course most fall short of the ideal, but it is still an ideal to strive for.

Those who prefer censorship usually prefer it for other people, not themselves.
Discord feels less polished to me. I find push notifications way less reliable, and often if I do get a notification the app won't refresh for a few minutes to show the message. I think there's no offline handling at all for notifications, so if you're offline when a message it sent you're never notified about it. Search is basically unusable if you want context, they only let you see a few messages after your search term. Also they don't have outgoing webhooks which make bots more awkward.

It is nice that it's free and unlimited of course, it's a no brainer compared to free Slack, but for work I'd prefer to use Slack.
It's small point, and doesn't invalidate her overall argument, but Hermann Hesse probably just isn't a very good writer, and as an adult, Ms Wolf realised this.
Yes, I almost certainly have celiac and food allergies. I’m currently at a leading hospital being evaluated by a widely cited expert who has written books about celiac and specializes in people who don’t get better following at GFD, such as me.

I agree that covering up symptoms with any drug can cause problems. It’s very common for swallowing disorders and celiac to exist for years before being diagnosed. I have celiac with the less typical presentation with fewer lower GI symptoms.
Uber finally hires a CFO as it heads for an IPO