skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The government just made it easier for workers to own a piece of their employer
>> Some judges have appointments for life, and those that aren't often aren't recalled.

> Judges can be recalled, though it is rare.

I believe that's exactly what the parent was trying to point out...
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> What the hell happened where everyone's trying to bite each other's heads off all the time?

Here is the issue: while the left is saying "we need better healthcare, immigrants are a part of this country's foundations, and student debt will cripple the nation", the right firmly supports a POTUS that says "Mexicans are rapists, peaceful protesters are a disgrace, and the media is the enemy of the people."

And the reason people are biting each other's heads off is because the right firmly believes their bigoted racism is just an "opinion" that's as open to discussion as the left's progressive agenda.

Karl Popper intelligently realized this is unsustainable[1], and that the only solution to prevent a complete collapse of a tolerant society is the crushing of the intolerant.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
It feels dangerously unsafe to even ride a motorcycle with a helmet and skid gear in car-heavy, “share the road” areas. Biking with a 20lbs road bike and just a helmet when 3000+lbs pickups are zooming past you feels like Russian roulette.
Let's say someone doesn't want to hand-wave other's hardships away. Out of multiple possible venues, such as

(a) political action (voting, city council meetings, writing to a congressman)

(b) civil action (rallies, protests, community organizing, civil disobedience)

(c) work action (send an email, post on internal slack channel)

(d) public relations (letter to an editor, an op/ed in local paper, getting a local news station to cover the issue)

is (c) the most effective for achieving the desired results?
*caught fire 13 times

(river is the Cuyahoga)
I think it is now a question of whether the US should follow what the rest of the world follows or not. In the interest of avoiding miscommunication it better for US to change.
Apparently a bunch of people considering how mad everyone seems to be about this.
Beliefs are one of things you absolutely can judge people on. You aren't born with beliefs, you form them over time (yes influences matter).
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Your understanding of conservatism is profoundly stereotypical and incorrect.
The price of peace with these people was a world war. I’m not eager to see the price paid again, and I want to live where they want me dead. You can feel morally superior and hug a Nazi, I’ll stick with the more practical “Hetzjagd and Nazis.” I’m not interested in principle where people with no conscience or principles of their own are concerned, and I’m an adult who has standards in a world of standards. They’re not perfect, but they tend to get better with time and freedom to discuss them. “Kill the Jews/Blacks/Gays/etc” has been discussed extensively, then a war was fought. It’s over, the standard around Nazism is established as zero tolerance, and I for one am in favor of that. I’ll leave it to the paralytically anarchist/libertarian moral relativists to die on the hill of defending Nazis on principle.

In other words, my grandfather already paid the price for this peace in WWII, I’ll do my best to uphold it even in the face of the ideology which started that war.
Thinking that a racist just shuts it off at work is ridiculous.
1. No one's saying that companies ought to only advocate for gay rights and leave behind every other issue.

2. I am tolerant towards everyone. It's actually not that difficult.

3. You seem to be a little confused on what gay rights are. Here's a summary: Gay people want to be treated fairly. We want our partner/spouse to be treated equally. We want our children to be treated equally. We want to not be fired for being gay. We don't want to be called names for being gay. We don't want people to hate us for being gay. These things are not special considerations. These things are basic rights.

4. The right thing to do is to be in favor of gay rights.
Sure. Pew Research, a widely-respected nonpartisan fact tank, has conducted several studies in this area. They found that roughly 70% of Muslims worldwide support Sharia as the law of the land, coming out to just over 1.2 billion people.

I don't have to tell you that for women, gay people, and ex-Muslims, this isn't great news. Sometimes facts like these can be uncomfortable, but if we ignore them, things don't improve and real people suffer.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/08/09/muslims-and-...
Not at all. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
Why can't someone develop a sandbox app that feeds in network connectivity while faking inputs?

Twitch just needs to display video and a button that autoprints the Donger.
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I do choose to be intolerant of certain beliefs.
An analogy I like is a person in a primitive culture planning an expedition to determine the curvature of their planet. How far do they have to go until it is detectable? Well, it depends on the curvature, which is what they're trying to find out in the first place.
More from the authoritative DNS servers than the registrar but with DNSSEC enabled, DANE[0] is a pretty good system.

Google deemed the failure rate of ~2% too high but I hold out hope that banks and other high value targets will use DANE in tandem with the traditional HTTPs CAs and use something like HSTS except instead of requiring HTTPS for a particular domain, will require DANE. Maybe something like viewing your account will accpet a CA signed cert, but an actual money transfer goes through a subdomain that required DANE.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Na...
FWIW, I understand what you’re getting at and think you have a point. I don’t think you’re getting much traction here though.
Lesson learned:
Last step of ci/cd, verify binary artifact on virus total api before shipping.
Hover over the slats on the table and you will get a pop-up menu that allows you to modify them. Then the total price shows at the bottom. The one I put together came to 447 GBP or $576. It doesn't look like they ship to the US but if they did I expect there would be a considerable increase in the cost.

It would probably be possible to have something similar built for less, especially if you had some woodworking capability and were able to build the slats yourself. This thing would probably have a lot more strength and flexibility than something that comes from Ikea.
That may be a good prescription for dealing with tragedies personally, but if everyone did that then those doing the abusing would never suffer any consequences, and society would never change.
According to the article the problem is not that the owners are doing what they want like Rand espouses, but hypocrisy, namely that they claim to be tolerant and are in fact acting intolerantly: “We claim to welcome all perspectives, but are quick to attack — often in mobs — anyone who presents a view that appears to be in opposition to left-leaning ideology.” (But I'm guessing Mr. Amerige wouldn't be much happier if were authentic and open about not tolerating dissenting views, so you have a good point there.)

I don't see the need to debate political ideas at work, either, but if work claims to offer an all-ideas-welcome forum, then it should actually be that. My observation is that liberals tend to talk loudly about "tolerance" but are pretty intolerant of ideas they don't like. Not that conservatives are necessarily less intolerant, they just don't go around claiming to be tolerant. Authentic intolerance, if you will.
Hanlon's razor, anybody? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor. This could just be a mistake.
Quite the name. Pretty sure that Rudolf Nureyev already cornered that market tho.
Is the oppression system the bit that keeps the lights on? The alternative tends to be the system where everyone starves.
a.k.a. : "dont defecate where you eat"
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Actually, specifically singling out Islam is only logical because it is the largest group of people with whom these issues are associated.
> Why did OSX make that design decision?

Principle of least surprise. Decision predated OSX.

What non-engineer thinks “name” and “Name” are different names?

I recall this, and just Googled, found a Lisa era engineer says the same:

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-OS-X-choose-to-have-a-case-in...
Redesigning the Python package index
What justification is offered for reducing people’s quality of life like this?
The politics that's happening to you, if you're in a western republic or democracy, is one that created and maintains unprecedented safety and freedom otherwise alien to human existence.
Its important for developer adoption but I expect at least at least 10 years of iterations of the tech getting better and cheaper.
> If the majority of the country holds a philosophy that favors the majority of the country, that doesn't automatically make it ethical.

Congratulations, you've discovered why democracy is stupid.
Unless there’s a sandbox escape, the worst it could do is use some extra CPU cycles and RAM. It’s not good at doing stuff like bitcoin mining because it’s event driven (much more like a page than a web worker). All the browsers are also very aggressive at killing them unless a page is open or you get a push notification.
Is that supposed to convince me of something / change my mind about something?
vis. Google's open source offerings.
It's baltic birch plywood, not particle board. It's extremely stable stuff and not going to fall apart even with a lot of rubbing.
How was the human rights record in Malaysia before Islam? How do the countries you listed compare in terms of women’s rights with their non-Islamic neighbors? Pakistan is a rough part of town for women, but isn’t India dealing with their own women’s rights issues around rape, and honor killing? How much of what you’ve described is a religious issue, versus cultural or socioeconomic?

Disclaimer: I’m not Muslim, or from the regions described.
I'm building a kids playhouse at the moment and I feel the exact same way. I'm in here working at the computer just enough that I can bail to the backyard for the day and cut timber.
People forget how much of entertainment is unionized. Like, Lebron James and Aaron Rodgers are members of their unions. Tom Cruise is a member of a union. Steven Spielberg is in a union.
That's fine to believe this, but don't pretend like the person you are responding to is "privileged".

That is what the person was arguing against. Yes, a company can fire you for basically any reason, even of it is because you wore a blue shirt or voted for the wrong person.

But don't pretend that workers are "privileged" or the people in power in this situation.
Exactly. I've also been involved with read-heavy Rails sites serving well in excess of 1000reqs/sec, and I know that others sites (Shopify et al) do way more. As you point out, it's all about having an intelligent caching strategy and extensive use of CDNs.

Most scaling issues I've seen on well-designed Rails sites have been to do with the DB, not the framework!
> Tree farms use a good deal of water and fertilizer

Really? In my country trees are planted and then nature does most of the rest (apart from thinning). After 25 years, trees are chopped down, and the process repeated.
So now they only mine it for things that are good for the user experience?
I use DDG on a daily basis. Out of ignorance, I haven’t used the bang switches, but I think I have been satisfied with the quality of the search results to the point where I very rarely go to google anymore.

I am happy to have an alternative to google search even if the effect is too small to be measured.
Why does Facebook think it has the right to remove years of their users' contributions?

Huh? We're talking about Facebook refusing to keep reposting stuff from another site. That seems like exactly the opposite of the stuff Facebook might have some responsibility for, if it did have responsibility for stuff.

I mean, obviously, it's ambiguous whether Facebook is a repository, a gate-keeper, a community, a blogging-site or what. But the situation of stuff being reposted from other sites seems to be the least repository like. Deleting years of stuff that might not exist in other places would certainly be much more draconian.
thanks, super cool - I feel like this should be part of the peer review process, especially for high impact journals with novel findings
I recently wanted to pour some slabs for a sidewalk on part of my house. A 16 sqft slab (4' x 4'), to my surprise, ended up taking 750 pounds of concrete/cement and hours of effort to mix by hand. Building concrete walls is much harder and requires a complex form unless you are just laying bricks. Choose your battles wisely!
I'd be very happy if someone could present a counter argument to this: this is something expressly against the spirit of the MIT license and Lerna should not continue claiming that the software is MIT licensed. https://opensource.org/osd
In particular, this seems like a pretty explicit violation of the "no discrimination against field of endeavor" clause.

Here is the text of the MIT license:

"
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
"
Fatal heart attacks could be predicted years in advance
nice post. also in the 'financial modeling for startups' space: https://foresight.is/
Also depends on how much money you saved. A bad job for $200 is not as big of a deal as a mediocre job for $2k.
Yes that's how it plays out. A lot of Muslims (and ex-Muslims) desperately want to reform that religion. They often emigrate to the US to get away from that crap. Go on youtube and search for "ex muslim"
All the other reasons you shouldn’t use a “free” email service.

You can be locked out of your account for arbitrary-reason-of-the-day and good luck finding a contact number or email address for support.

If email is important to you, you probably shouldn’t be using a “free” service.
What would you consider the minimum percentage of deaths for something to be a concern worth protesting? Historians estimate that fewer than 4,000 black people were lynched in the years between 1877 and 1950 [0] -- e.g. about 55 per year, which makes being lynched as an African-American not "statistically relevant" by your standards. Were the protests by African-Americans in that period unnecessary?

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/02/1...
I'm all in favor of restricting what companies do with our data, but mandating that they continue to host everything we post ad infinitum? That doesn't seem reasonable to me.
Sure, I was thinking about authentication for certificate issuance purposes (where Let's Encrypt already enforces DNSSEC validation for all issuance-related DNS lookups where DNSSEC is present on a zone—in fact, invalid DNSSEC signatures aren't an uncommon reason for issuance problems).

But DANE enforced by clients would also be quite valuable for preventing problems due to CA misissuance, or for the problem recently highlighted by security researchers that someone might deliberately allow a domain to expire while still possessing long-lived certificates for names under that domain.
I thought it was weird for 2 months. Hasn't bothered me in the 4 years since. Except [de]serialization at first, and then I got over it when I realized it's worth the verbosity just to be able to flexibly rename things internally while the external interface remains stable.
Are there any write-ups on how your error handling proposal interacts with higher-order functions and generic wrappers? That has always been a problem with "explicit everything" approach to error handling, in my experience - like, if you map() over a collection that does disk I/O as part of its implementation, then map() needs to be able to flow I/O errors through - but it can't be aware of them specifically, because it's a generic algorithm. In Java, it pretty much meant that you had to use the RuntimeException escape hatch, defeating the purpose of checked exceptions. For another example, generic collection interfaces don't reflect the fact that e.g. fetching an item can fail, making them that much less generic.

And to work around that problem, you need some kind of generics that lets you define error signatures in terms of other signatures - e.g. for map(), you want to say that it can return an error if and only if the function it maps can return an error (and ditto for error types).
> This new DNS system makes everybody use a single DNS endpoint, the same one across the world located in the US.

This was only the case in this experiment. From the article:

> We’re also working on privacy preserving ways of dividing the DNS transactions between a set of providers, and/or partnering with servers geographically.

That is still less different providers than can currently be used, so it is something that we should be concerned with long-term, but I don't think, it makes sense to throw the technology away. Just be concerned that there are the right kind of providers used for this.

I figure, this is become like the CA infrastructure, for better or for worse.
> And how do you make your static blog social?

You can't really. That's the price you pay for running your own stuff.

You can fake it a bit with widgets or injected comments, but ultimately that's a pretty pale imitation of the social experience.

The upside, though, is that you get to keep all of your content forever, and you get to display it the way you want.
It's bad faith to ask for evidence, then when provided with bad evidence, to say that it's bad?

I've read a good amount of the literature on this subject, and haven't found any compelling evidence that diversity training does anything but shield companies from lawsuits to some extent.
The vast majority of my searches are resolved by:
1) Wikipedia
2) Maps
3) Stack Overflow.

I don’t see why I should sacrifice my privacy for google to provide me with a single interface for these few sites, especially when DDG does it without mining all my info.
It’s less than a top of the line UHD TV.
Facebook is about to have a James Damore moment.
That's a clever re-framing, let me try: how many users would Facebook have if they charged $0.01 to sign up?
These types of tweets always appear spammy and disingenuous so I can understand why they'd want to remove them.
Yeah, I think there’s something to this. In the US, the news talks about climate change using Celsius, presumably because that’s how scientists measure it. But from a messaging/persuasion perspective, it’s bad. The average American thinks that “2 degrees” isn’t so bad. And in Fahrenheit that’s (kinda) true. I think climate change should be discussed using the units that the public has intuition for.
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And exactly as much as Facebook asked them to.
Um, no.

When you are legally barred from say, having power of attorney when your loved one of decades is on their deathbed, or, say, unable to find a landlord that will rent to you, because some asshole politicians fought on behalf of their asshole constituents against your right to do so simply because you do not conform to the idea they project onto their god as holding as to what constitutes a "proper" family unit, politics very much happens to you.
The people who put politics aside may have had politics from both leading sides happen to them. I'm utterly disillusioned with both parties and have leanings that go in all directions. Many people just don't care enough to understand the failings of their side because it's safe in their community of equally deluded people.
Diversity practices in hiring, for example. In the case of Facebook, things like moderation/curation of the various news feeds and arguments around "suppression" of certain topics.
> We're talking about Facebook refusing to keep reposting stuff from another site.

We're talking about how Facebook not only turned off the API that enabled reposting, but removed all past posts that were made via that API. Which, at that point, was exactly the kind of user data that they had responsibility for.
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Clothing isn't the only option to stay cooler in a warm environment. Drinking water is quite effective. Just plain tap water is cool enough, but if you want to drink smaller amounts, there's always chilled water in the fridge or ice in the freezer.

I usually drink 4-6 litres of tap water while at work, and I have to use a personal heater at my desk to keep warm in winter (my co-workers complain if I set the thermostat higher). When it's summer, especially when it's 35+ degrees (95 F), I'm in heaven.

In fact, the coldest I've ever felt in my life (and I've lived in cold places like Moscow) was the one time as a silly freshman in college, when I drank just under a gallon of water (couldn't quite finish it) in under a minute on a dare. So very cold, and nothing could warm me up. Just had to wait it out.
They paid with their attention.
Naive how? Other than the 3rd, which I consider overly broad to pass judgement and the 4th which I lack the appropriate context, I do consider these points morally bad. That doesn't give me license - or anyone else - to fire someone over these views. Sure it may be legal, but I'd be aghast if it is has become socially acceptable to do so. Seriously, how is explicitly firing people over their choice of candidate a remotely defensible position?
I mean we're in a forum of people who would absolutely use one social network and automate mirroring to others. Doubt very few normal people even knew the feature existed. This change pretty much affects spammers, social media managers, and powerusers -- exactly the kind of people you probably don't want to interact with anyway on social media.
On a conventional laptop I can run the entire stack locally.

This can be anything from "run XAMPP" to "fire up a stack of virtual machines and containers allowing you to mock up an entire data centre all on one physical box."

In contrast, an iPad is little more than an editor and/or terminal that relies on a lot of outside infrastructure to do something meaningful with what you're typing.
That's a strawman argument. Pigs and cattle having the same rights as people is not why it is unethical to torture and eat them. Instead, it is because their behavior and nervous systems strongly suggest that they experience pain in the way that we understand it. Claiming that their non-humanness makes their suffering irrelevant, like some people do, is narrow-minded.