skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A more apt story would be "Who needs democracy when you have economic growth". It's strange how the exceptional economic circumstances of China are glossed over in such social analyses.

China has had average 10% growth rates for 3 decades, it's economy has grown by a factor of 40 since 1988. It's hard to explain just how powerful this positive economic shock has been. The Chinese people have seen, during their recent lifetimes, the country transitioning from abject poverty into a world superpower in the medium income range. Their quality of life and paychecks have grown every year and the political leadership is addicted to this growth, it's how they stay in power and easily quench all discontent.

As soon as this incredible growth cycle is exhausted we will start to see the first chinks in the armor of the Party State, we will see the public demand democracy and official accountability. Look for example to Hong Kong, where the growth has been much slower (they already had a high level of development) and the dissenting voices are multiplying. And that's exactly what will happen in the rest of China in the next 10-20 years; growth becomes much harder once you have picked the low hanging fruits and you get closer to the advanced countries.
Same goes for Twitter, they wont delete your account either. You can deactivate it, but you cant have them delete it.
It's relevant because MERS is still a problem and up to many of the same shenanigans it was 10 years ago.
But ... we currently (in the US) have a direct example of the rulers in power governing the populace in a way which is "not according to the wishes" of roughly half the population. (I think this is a direct result of our 2 party system, as compared to Britain's multiple parties, but I've no idea how to fix it.)

Any time you vote on the losing side of an election (whether it's for who to elect, or approve a tax, or legalize (or ban) certain acts, you end up being governed by _every one else's_ wishes. On the bright side, at least in a democracy I mostly have the trust that such changes CAN happen, over time, if enough people come to believe similarly as I do about things.
IIRC they literally installed a Bing toolbar and agreed to turn on a feature that indexes all the sites that the user visits. To then blame Bing for indexing their decoy page, when Google themselves gave permission to index it, is absolutely laughable.
And giant floating headers, and autoplay, and making me look at it through blinds on mobile.
Interesting to contrast this reaction with what felt like a shrug at MIT in response to allegations in 2006 that a prominent neuroscientist "bullied" a prospective hire -- see http://tech.mit.edu/V126/N52/52tonegawa.html , http://web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/191/tonegawa.html , http://web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/191/to_hockfield.pdf , http://tech.mit.edu/V126/N30/30tonegawa.html , and so on.
US students topple Confederate soldier statue in North Carolina
Where on earth do you work? Everyplace I've ever worked (over the last 15-20 years), people constantly close their doors and read.
Linus Torvalds is, by all accounts, a bully.

Not that again. Some people will defend him because the people he really lets loose on is not newcomers but very experienced contributors from whom he expects better.

It's a cultural issue. Recently I spoke to a US general, who as a young officer served as a liaison officer in Germany. He found the German directness "refreshing".
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If you expect people to stop doing something disagreeable, you better make sure you are not deeply engaged in the same type of behavior. That seems fairly straight-forward.
It's even easier to get legislation wrong.
1) Never Split the Difference

Really, this book changed how I view communication and negotiation forever. It will definitely impact your life positively.

2) The Lean Startup

A classic, but worth re-reading. Everytime I read the book, it leaves a greater imprint on how I think.

3) The Obstacle is the Way

How to turn obstacles into solutions. This book is a great treatise on Stoicism via examples. I read the book at the start of the year which to mentally set the right tone for the months to follow. The book "coaches" the reader in the basic tenets of the Stoic philosophy by drawing examples from history and sports, by the end of the book you are left with a more intuitive and practical understanding of Stoicism than an academic one.
Unfortunately I think that's a little idealistic. Compulsory support and funding by the state for the arts and sciences is necessary for a host of reasons. You could say similar things about about climate change - if you care about it, you pay for it. But we know that the individual cannot solve climate change and that it requires some form of top down movement. Maybe it's not fair comparison, but I'm arguing that continual and consistent support for arts and sciences is basically a requirement for the same reasons and that in practice only governments are able to maintain.

Now on the individual level it might be a dumb decision, though it's a hard argument to make to someone in that position. What an enormous opportunity cost it is to not take the loan if you think you'll succeed. It's a bad situation for everyone involved and there isn't a good answer to the individuals in or about to be in that situation.
What it actually communicates is "I've been communicating over text on the internet for 25+ years and I have a pretty decent idea exactly how someone is going to aggressively misinterpret me."

There is no other way to communicate nuance that I've found. If you claim that "some types of X are Y", you'll get angry replies about how some X aren't Y, angry replies about how terrible it is to claim that all X are Y, and on more than one occasion, angry replies about how some types of X are Y.

If you're insulted, well, then, it's not targeted at you. But abundant experience says it does have non-zero targets. And it's getting worse, not better, as more and more people are convinced(/programmed) to believe that reading people as harshly as possible and then being as angry and offended as possible is a virtue rather than a vice. As these people get more power, it's becoming simply self-defense to make sure you underline your point.
> Mac’d is a build-your-own mac and cheese restaurant that lets customers choose their own adventure from the beginning.

Is this for real? I mean I love a good mac and cheese as much as the next guy but it doesn’t strike me as anywhere near the usual markets targeted by start ups.
"How often does CNN go the other way and say "Trump is right" in an attempt to seem relevant?"

I guess that would depend on how often Trump has been right.
>Too little, too late

And a damn shame, too. One of the major enabling factors for Silicon Valley's success has been the unenforcability of non-compete clauses in CA.

MA has a lot going for it (e.g.: MIT, relative proximity with Europe, ...), but seems hell-bent on being the place where only large government contractors can emerge.
The evidence largely hasn't generally been presented. What has been presented is allegations in the form of a federal indictment, which includes selective, potentially decontextualized even if otherwise accurate, descriptions of some parts of what may be presented as evidence.
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For anyone curious this is typically called an action to "quiet title"
> Out of curiosity though, has anybody ever faced an enforced non-compete?

The U.S. legal system is happy to oblige as the arena in which their lawyers beat you to a penniless pulp.

It doesn't matter whether their case is a crock.
She chose to resign after having a bloody independent investigation started against her.

She might have been a prick, but that's far beyond taking something face to face (i.e. someone above her taking her in to discuss the situation). I would certainly quit any position where an investigation is started against me, regardless of reason.

This is a flat out childish way to deal with the situation.
I think not being able to afford these things is the goal though. The trick is in how you do it.

The simplest example is just phasing in a 'negative externality tax'. First year is x * .1, second year is x * .2, etc.

I think the trade tariffs should be done the same way so that we don't just shock and awe and everyone can reposition in ways that works for all while also ultimately addressing the various parties issues. I don't understand the step function style introduction of change - it seems like a really clumsy approach.
If someone is willing to avoid learning that story for their own emotional state, what are they doing reading the news in the first place?
You could say the same thing about income redistribution in western countries. We spend huge amounts of money in rural communities just providing basic services which are funded by wealthier urban areas. Much of Africa is an extreme example of this where you have subsistence farming communities. You are never going to be able to fund basic services from that tax base.
Your experience is different than mine, but I don't believe externs inference was in last time I built a cljs web app.

I still use Clojure as a backend language (I'll never give up Datomic) and while writing code in Clojure is usually faster, I spend much, much more time in debugging, often because of type errors, and especially after re-factoring. In Elm I spend more time up front, but less time overall.

I've been writing Clojure for six years now, Elm for three. There are definitely usecases where I'd pick Clojure(Script) over Elm, but for those usecases where it doesn't matter which of those you pick, I'd choose Elm any day of the week.

This is not to say Clojure(Script) is bad. In my opinion, Clojure and Elm are the best languages around.
“Cue angry response that could get construed as bullying.”

How about... not making an angry response?
To me they only really make sense for sales people and the accounts they currently are assigned.
I think you're getting downvoted for typin' "hatin' on" rather than something that's grammatically appropriate for written discussion and more specific, such as "Not that I condemn...".
So, you don't really need a law for AT&T to not policy your traffic, but that you need competitors to be able to enter the market and provide services. Something even Facebook and Google has (although they're quite close to a monopoly) but US ISPs don't.

If a service provider starts to do some silly stuff no one wants, there's no reason not to start a competing business, offer service without that silliness and win over the market. Except if entry barriers are too high.
Many "organic" shitstorms are purposely seeded by russian backed groups, with the express intention of creating anger and, well, more shitstorms
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-internet/twenty-two-s...
What caused the line to overheat in the first place, requiring a splice?
Of course it's limited by funding, there are far more proposals than what gets funded.

You may be trying to say that it's very very well funded compared to most science, especially basic sciences, and with that I would agree.
I couldn't help but burst out laughing when the voiceover dude explained, "The pilot and the lineman are both doing an outstanding job despite very high wind conditions." Who on earth decides that very high wind conditions are a good time to hover your helicopter connected to a 230,000-volt power line? Couldn't they postpone the job for a day or two until the winds die down?

The arc when the helicopter finally disconnects from the power line is pretty astounding. To the lineman, it's all in a day's work, I guess.
There was a video a few years ago that explained how this works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_1T2_l43Xo
Indigo  Fair (YC W17) Is Hiring Back End Engineers in Waterloo
You're just re-iterating what I replied to, without addressing what I said.

Sometimes, not playing the game is suicide.
Yes, absolutely. Would you like the cure to cancer if it meant you had to give your email address? One thing has nothing to do with the other.
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I think he was saying that during those 18 months of 0.19 development, everything was stable.

0.19 is very much a breaking change.
> When did they say the latter?

At CES, AMD said that they'd only have Vega 20 coming up and it was only for the datacenter and AI. And that Navi would be for 2019.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12233/amd-tech-day-at-ces-201...

That's like giving a blank check to your competitor, saying "Feel free to set prices anyway you want, you're not going to be bothered by us."
> Not to mention the idiotic idea of a single provider solution.

I'm surprised this isn't being discussed more. With a huge $10bil cloud I would think you would want to select a secondary vendor to distribute redundant workloads and data storage. Even if Azure or GCP couldn't meet some requirements today it's a ten-year project and both are expanding quickly. Azure has recently brought online government-specific locations and Google has already has geographically dispersed zones within regions that meet these requirements.
I think many people here are caught up on the word "bullying" and think that perhaps her actions weren't very serious. The reality is that none of us here know what she did. I'm just going to go ahead and trust that the granting organization knows what they're doing with their money.
I suppose colloquially on this forum in the context of comments, the word does deny something: usually of the possibility of bias.

Disclosure would work just as well, and is in fact more accurate!
That sounds incredibly shitty, though. You have to take a 50% pay cut and not be able to advance in your chosen field?

Most people I know would struggle quite a bit with such a huge pay cut.
Actually a tiny Mac Mini which could plug into an iPad as a screen is an interesting work "machine." That would be pluggable into a real setup at home.
Since there are some Elm users in this thread, I'll ask here: What's currently the best way to integrate an interactive map (i.e. zoom, pan, draw polygons, etc.) into an Elm application (something like leafletjs)?

If I search for it, I find https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/kennib/elm-maps/latest but the examples are not working for me, it feels like some mouse events get missed?

E.g. here: https://kennib.github.io/elm-maps/examples/Fullscreen

[edit]

Ok, it's not working for me on Firefox, but does seem to work better on Chromium (although some tiles are not rendered, but that might also be a server-side issue). Map support is crucial for me and was the reason I didn't dive into Elm so far, but maybe the problem is resolved now?
Yes, that's definitely part of it. But what are the media supposed to do? Russian interference has been so spectacularly effective at dividing America, how can they not report on it? Yet reporting on it fuels the fire.

Putin must be wetting himself laughing.
Haha yeah I was also a bit perplexed on this choice. But hey the team must be strong as getting past the YC partners is no easy task.

My first thought when seeing this was Peter Thiels lecture where he discussed restaurants and why they make bad choices for disruption. Would be really interested to see where/how they go from here.
I understood this vim command.

Oh boy
So “Wellcome Trust“ doesn’t have ebough information (1) but acts based on.. something?

1) “Wellcome bemoans the lack of information available on the affair. “We have been working with the ICR to understand more about their investigation and the allegations that were made against Professor Rahman,” says the statement. “Unfortunately, we do not have the full details of the case because they have not been shared with us.””
> While I have a good conceptual understanding of how cyberspace and the internet work

He forgot to mention his epic escape from the cyber police.
One more point. Writing something like the MiniLatex parser would be somewhere between impossible altogether and nightmarish without an expressive type system. Below is the definition of the type of the abstract syntax tree (AST) for MiniLatex. Just eleven lines of code. Yes, I know. No typeclasses in Elm. But Elm's type system is surprisingly expressive, and with it one can do some rather sophisticated work. I've been very happy with it.

type LatexExpression
= LXString String
| Comment String
| Item LatexExpression
| InlineMath String
| DisplayMath String
| SMacro String (List LatexExpression) (List LatexExpression) LatexExpression
| Macro String (List LatexExpression) (List LatexExpression)
| Environment String (List LatexExpression) LatexExpression
| LatexList (List LatexExpression)
| LXError (List DeadEnd)
Rework can happen in parallel with production, so it won’t necessarily affect your rate.
Good thing that you point this out, it lends more credit to my theory that this entire paper constitutes classical Intel FUD, see my comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17811314

I suspect that the two papers I linked there will likely make you a lot happier than the OP paper. :)
I know, I'm one of the people looking into it.
Ex-fat person here. 14 stone at 14 years of age.

I stopped eating so much and took up regular exercise.

I am no longer fat.
I understand where you are coming from, I shared the same concern in my comment. However, isn't a college degree just another certification as well? And most companies do require it. At the end of the day, both have curriculum and seek to be a validation standard, it's just that you, or at least many employers, prefer one over the other.
Where do you work that has doors?
I remember watching an anime, around 3 or so years ago, called "psychopass". It was about a dystopian country that was governed by technology.

The system would decide what would be the best position for somebody in the government if they desired to go there. It'd also monitor people and evaluate in real time their psyche. People who were predisposed to psychopathic and/or sociopathic behaviour were flagged and monitored. The police would use guns that tranquilized flagged people and disintegrated people deemed public danger.

This article painted China as a predecessor of the country presented in the anime.

As for the ranking / credit system. I don't believe that such an idea is feasible, as it resembles elo. We know from online games such as League of Legends that elo is not an appropriate metric as it's often governed by multiple variables out of the individual player's control. While in the 'long run' it evens out, it often creates the illusion that a player stuck because of their environment and not themselves, which while may be true in a few cases, in most cases is false.
I get the feeling such a system would just be a bonanza for accountants. It's probably a lot harder to define the distinction between financial and non-financial than it seems.

What's to stop someone from trading something like forward agreements? So for instance I can sell you 1M backrubs, which are non-financial, to be delivered in a year? And you then sell those on to someone else? Now you've taken a non-financial thing and turned it into paper, just like we currently do with all sorts of things.
Ah, good point. Grandparent is correct. Carry on!
Ship a Mac client without video. Add video next year once you've proven that people actually use a native Mac client. Some companies call this 'agile' - it's a strange concept.
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There hasn't been much questioning of the narrative in MSM.

This might by one of those rare instances
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=58259

However, outside MSM, there are questions across the political spectrum however. Such as...

https://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/what-really-happen...

https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2018/04/12/idiocy-is-br...

However, Iraq WMD's were all reported by legitimate news sources at the time. Sometimes in the present, it is never clear as to what may or not be ultimately revealed.
Doing it at the state level would only protect the consumers in that state, but not the producers. As a producer, your content could still be throttled in states where there are no neutrality laws.
Considering this had nothing to do with the legal system there is no need to definition these terms legally here.
If you see a nicely designed website, try to replicate it. You can learn by checking the CSS/JS and learning from it. This assuming you have bare html/js/css skills. If not, then try some online tutorials/classes/books.
> That makes you, me, and two other people on this site who've noticed it.

No, there are plenty of people who notice it. We've learned to keep our mouths shut on the topic because the coordinated downvote attacks by FVEY sycophants on this site make attempting discussion pointless.

Find a different site if you want to raise even the merest, slightest questions with CIA talking points.
I thought the article said they were new condos?
"as the building’s developer selling the units for the first time"

It is not unusual for real estate to sell well below list prices. Further, we don't know what other factors may have played into the price, as many real estate deals involve considerations other than price.

I have no idea whether or not fraud was involved, but there is no smoking gun here as you suggest.
> Forge is a laravel only platform

That's incorrect. The page says: "We don’t discriminate: Laravel, Symfony, WordPress, Statamic, Craft and any other PHP application can easily be installed on a Forge server."

> doesn't scale automatically

That's true but I the person to whom I was responding isn't looking for auto-scaling (nor am I presenting it as a GAE competitor). It sounds like he just wants a button to push that'll create a fully operational PHP app server.
The Entities involved:

The coalition of 23 Attorneys General collectively represents over 165 million people – approximately 50 percent of the U.S. population – and includes the

Attorneys General of:

1. New York

2. California

3. Connecticut

4. Delaware

5. Hawaii

6. Illinois

7. Iowa

8. Kentucky

9. Maine

10. Maryland

11. Massachusetts

12. Minnesota

13. Mississippi

14. New Mexico

15. New Jersey

16. North Carolina

17. Oregon

18. Pennsylvania

19. Rhode Island

20. Vermont

21. Virginia

22. Washington

23. District of Columbia
I feel like they're trying to get people to conflate representation of >50% of people with support from >50% of people. The attorneys general of 22 states is 22 people. The percentage support in the general population is high (~80% last year) but they aren't the same thing. Marketing is everything.

I completely agree that it should be decided in the legislature. I hate the idea of legislating from the bench. It was administrative policy when enacted in the Obama administration. Why should that enshrine it?
> I really just wanted to call this BA an idiot and bully the problem away, it would have saved a significant amount of time and frustration for multiple parties.

That's about as effective as solving your problem as disabling the contextual menu was for solving theirs. That ensures they'll be working against you and not with you.
As a European I want to make it vocally known that in my opinion US politics has in recent times almost irrevocably poisoned HackerNews; and that is coming from someone who has been on this site eight years.

One _cannot_ in _any way_ infer a lack of good intentions from a single alleged phone call.

Besides, if I were a titan of industry I would do my best to call whoever the hell got elected president the night of the election regardless of my particular party affiliation. Especially considering most corporations lobby both of the main political parties to hedge their bets.

I imagine hardly any corporation lets ideology trump pragmatism – partisan individuals (we do not need to name names) notwithstanding.

For the love of all that is holy, can we please please focus on tech and policy and put identity politics and tribal politics to one side on HN? Please?