skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The advantage being that their problem set is smaller and more focused, and the bad decisions are generally contained in the business and don't tend to take down the entirety of society like actual communism and socialism.

Capitalism is generally great. There are places where it must be over-ruled, and there are places where many of the problems with it are due to poor attempts to regulate it.

It's been demonstrably good for human progress on the whole.
Well if you take a single instance yes, it's hard to claim. But the effect is born out by thousands upon thousands of instances.
Really, I've always seen that quote associated with "basic bitches," who demand the world, but give nothing in return.
> I'm not turning around and saying "guess what, then, I'm the opposite, let's go be racist".

incidentally, the people who did decide to do this became the alt-right.
Great so people hostile to your research (eg Republicans) can turn your research
political because they can take your notes out of context (try using the word "trick" in your research journal or emails)
and use it against you or your research area.
What happens when you register a domain?
Capitalism is not a system of ideas, nor is it a system that anyone chooses. It is not designed, voted on, decreed, or managed. It has no governing authority, no standards organization. It has no dogma, creed, commandments, or constitution.

Capitalism is the natural order of things within human societies above a certain size and complexity level. It's more like a force of nature than anything else. To establish any system other than capitalism takes great effort.

What we can do is regulate it. It might be impossible to prevent corruption entirely in government. But to criticize capitalism in its contemporary manifestation is to criticize blatant regulatory capture, corruption, and demagoguery. Those phenomena are themselves manifestations of capitalism, and it is telling that they arise in capitalist and non-capitalist societies alike.

We need to develop new and better systems for keeping people honest and for keeping institutions fair. Without this development, human nature, not the distribution of capital ownership, remains the greatest threat to humanity.

Since I've been downvoted, I might as well clarify: this article exemplifies what I'm talking about!

First the author writes:

What is [the slave owner] really after? He’s trying to earn is freedom from labour — not having to do work, hence the slaves. He’s also trying to win freedom from exploitation — he holds the whip, but is above the moral law. And from control, punishment, hierarchy — he has no boss to answer to.

That's perfectly reasonable! Note that capitalism has nothing to do with this. People have always sought this. It might as well be part of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

But then they try to summarize themselves:

"Even the capitalist is really just trying win back his freedom from capitalism"

I guess that's true in this particular case, because for this particular capitalist the cause of their non-freedom is capitalism. But is it true in general? Absolutely not! Freedom from exploitation and the desire for control are universal human desires that extend beyond any particular economic system.

Once the false equivalence is broken, the article kinda stops making sense.
"You start collecting coins, or stamps. Suddenly you're trading your stamps with another guy for his political support for getting a new stoplight."

If there is no ownership there is no concept of 'your collection' or trading for that matter. There are stamps on a shelf in a room in a house you currently locate yourself. As there is no concept of ownership, there is no concept of stealing. The other guy can just 'take' your stamps. As they don't belong to you.

I do agree that capitalism is not something optional. But that is because the fundamental traits of ownership are ingrained in our culture and biology as people. We evolved to where we are now because of this. We didn't decide on capitalism. It is more an explanation and reasoning about our current society. Other societal structures like ant colonies or 'primitive' humans might be different. But you don't see them because they are not part of the global economy bubble and frankly they don't see us or care about the system we use to govern ourselves. They just live.
Drop down menus like it's y2k.
Fraudulent shopping domain certificate issuance outstrips legitimate businesses
Thank you for providing a glimpse into a mind bending gymnastics one might need to engage in to convince himself or herself that it is different somehow: this is actually why work references are absolutely useless - people love to coddle incompetence in order to be perceived as "nice bosses".

If someone's being unable to do a job is management's fault ( in this case yours, since you are the manager of the person that you have fired ), then the person who needs to be fired should be the manager, not the person who cannot do the job.
Can't speak for others, but at my large tech company the push for empathy has demonstrably increased employee happiness.

Naturally, the individuals who argued against these changes were older white male engineers too ingrained in their ways.
Why do you need to fork OpenJDK? You can just contribute there.

I don't see why the uproar about Oracle branded OpenJDK.
We can use normal OpenJDK which is almost the same.
No one should ever - EVER - change because of someone else's opinion of them. If that person doesn't like working with someone, that's their problem and they should work elsewhere.

I'm sick of this SJW stuff.
Very wrong, I’m quite left wing myself, as are most of my friends/family. I’m really not sure why you’re jumping to these conclusions based on my post.

In terms of “real life” vs. internet, people are just a lot more reasonable in person, with minimal outrage. But online, especially on discussion boards, people are constantly flying into outrage.
Mozilla rolls out recovery key option for Firefox accounts
So what? There are also non benevolent lies and polite truth.
It's also that the PR done by NASA is about 100x as good as all the other space agencies in the world.

Really good photos and videos and web pages and TV material. Lenient sharing licenses etc.
Linus had to step away likely because some paid agent gained dirt on him (I wouldn't be surprised if hired by Intel).
Eventually, some woman may have had five minutes alone with him, where nothing happened, but enough time to be able to slander him if she so wishes.
And having a family, he had to step back to avoid damage.

As a reminder, both Linus and his second in-command Tso have rejected numerous backdoor attempts by Intel.
This Code-of-Conduct debacle is a political weapon to expel the original contributors of open-source projects who pose an obstacle to multinational technology corporations.

Linux was developed in a mailing list with complete anonymity.
Race or religion are only brought into play if someone decides to provide personal details.
The more interesting thing is that on Reddit, all discussion about this was censored.

Furthermore, to top it off, the individual responsible for this public witch hunt has been caught tweeting on how glorious it is that developers of Linux will start going out en mass.

https://lulz.com/linux-devs-threaten-killswitch-coc-controve...

EDIT: to the down-voting shills, please do provide constructive commentary on this idea, valid as any other.
Chegg to reset passwords for 40M users after April 2018 hack
You said this stuff “pushes me away from it.” It should push you away from the troublesome people, and nothing more.

When you say most people leave this stuff at home, that seems to imply that the status quo is neutral. It isn’t. Continuing to treat people the way you always have is just as much of a statement as saying you should treat people differently. It’s just easier to find agreement.
True. But was Hitler a People-Person? What about Goebbels?
Did they then sell the Bitcoin Cash after its price declined? I wouldn't say they lost anything until they sell their asset at a loss.
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The current “science as a career” model of science with public grants etc stems entirely from the development of the atomic bomb and World War II resulting in Vanevar Bush proposal of the NSF. I sincerely doubt that science will be practiced anything like it’s current form in 100 years. What it will look like is an interesting question.
The pictures are thrilling! The rock looks stratified - which might imply they were created under gravity? Or is it just the camera angle...
Every company needs to adopt this movement. I wish the HN community weren't so rooted in their toxicity, and just recognized the need for industry-wide change.
Yes they do, at least in a way that's no worse than every other CSS toolkit in widespread use.

And there's nothing "correct" or "incorrect" about it. I suggest reading [1] if you want some real data on the usefulness of functional CSS.

[1] https://hackernoon.com/full-re-write-with-tachyons-and-funct...
Bitmain reports financials in halves instead of quarters, disguising downturn with incredible growth from the beginning of this year

might be a better title, though it is a little long.
For WhatsApp in its initial incarnation I did not mind allowing it access to my contacts since the phone number was the way it identified people and since it was universal.

With these upcoming incarnations I'm not sure I want to use it, and I'll be looking for a simple IM application which just charges a simple fee for service.
Wouldn't larger buildings cost inordinate amount to build in SF to deal with inevitable quakes and fires?
Uber to pay $148M in settlment over 2016 data breach and cover-up
Really good web pages? are you kidding me? lol
It is indeed a two way street.
I don't understand, what forced him to have to change his behavior? As far as i know he has the highest authority of linux kernel. To me he his kind of guy who can say fuck you, my way or highway. Which i admire that.
This year's profits & bonuses are more important than "what may happen to humanity if we open up to...".

Plus they want to set a precedent and show to anyone else that may want to make an Star Trek spin-off/infringe their IP that no mercy means no mercy.
Way to build and maintain a fan base CBS.

I'm assume you were legally within your rights to do this but you guys suck!
> That still wouldn't separate genetics vs. common pre-birth environmental influences (e.g. mother's hormones and nutrition).

Sure it would, if you study enough of them.
> AFAIK, Ubiquiti's products can be run standalone, only requiring management software for initial configuration.

This is correct. I only power on the controller VM when I want to make a change. I do think a few features, like the captive portal require the controller to be online.
Like most things, the best approach lies somewhere in the middle. I’ve had a lot of success with using component driven CSS (BEM, SMACSS, etc style) in combination with utility classes. The components keep everything consistent and make building pages much faster. The utility classes let you do the inevitable little tweaks without a bunch of one off, weird component modifier classes.
Are we still talking about the LKML here? I don't feel "SJW" has much of anything to do with this outside of a few very isolated incidents. Personal attacks and disrespectfulness has been a staple in that community for decades at this point and definitely predates the somewhat modern hatefulness surrounding bias and privilege.
To be fair, it's been just as visible 2 years ago and it is now. Anyone who follows VR has known about this for that long.

Also, to the creators it's really a private project that they shared publicly for people to enjoy. I guarantee you they are still fully working on it internally to enjoy by themselves.

Additionally, they consider this "fan art". It's not a game by any means, it's a VR experience (which they later released non-VR standalone versions as well). All you do is walk around the Enterprise-D and do some basic interactions with objects for some sense of it not being a completely static world.

I think it's a very fair case- how is a 3d rendered environment any different than a picture someone draws and releases?
Yeah, I've done that – and I've not been a dick about it.

Why is it such a prevalent idea that someone has to be an asshole in order to give negative feedback, or to take an action that someone doesn't like?
Creating a vision of a moneyless future of a federation of planets to be ruled over in the actual world by a fracturing money-hungry conglomerate is my vision of all that is wrong in the world.
I see functional css classes as a better primitive than raw css. Using tacyon's + less, all my classes can be composed from functional classes. Best of both worlds.
Its like when you open the screen door in summer and a whole swarm of uninvited guests come flying in
Why do you feel it is "the natural tendency" to make minorities feel less welcome? My natural tendency -- and anecdotally, pretty much everyone I know -- is to treat people well regardless of their race; to treat people the way you'd want to be treated.
Wow, this gets some real hate on HN. I highly recommend reading [0] instead (which is by the way linked in the main article).

If you're writing HTML by hand, then yes, it will be a PITA changing all those "bg-blue" Profile Cards using functional CSS (while it's just a single change when using .profile-card instead). In reality, it's not the functional CSS being the issue, but the markup duplication. If I extract a real reusable ProfileCard component, I can apply functional CSS to it exactly once. If the color changes, it's just a single place I need to look into.

There is no silver bullet. If you design web sites, try some templating language to extract your components. If you develop web apps, take any modern framework like React, which enforces using reusable components. If you still prefer writing HTML by hand, then yes, functional CSS is not for you.

[0] https://adamwathan.me/css-utility-classes-and-separation-of-...
Code is like science. You don't ignore somebody's contribution just because you don't agree with their values. If it's good it's good. Doesn't matter who birthed it.
I'm a different person than the original poster, but hey I'm pushed away too, so let's go with it.

SJWs do not have a monopoly on thought, on how to deal with societal problems, or any of that. This isn't a 'tolerance of intolerance' thing, it's a 'tolerance of those outside your very narrow camp' thing.

Most of the individuals I've encountered couldn't tell you who their congressman is, and they'd never go door to door canvassing voters. But they want to make up an ever-escalating list of things that are offensive and enforce it on me at work.

Are we trying to break down barriers or are we trying to erect them?
I have seen tons of comments like this lately on HN. I believe personally patents should he entirely abolished, but if we are keeping them at this point it is a major disadvantage to have it stolen by the Chinese. I am shocked people on HN are so much more offended by Facebook or Google's minor misdeeds while outright theft by nation states is ongoing. I believe lots of these comments are placed here by PR companies paid by Russia and China.
So... braces? It's cheaper just to pull them. You really have to if you're someone like me whose mouth was too small for them to even come in.

My wisdom tooth extraction was a shit show for that reason, but I've had all my 12 year molars removed since then, the last one a couple of weeks ago, and the recovery is pretty easy. (They wanted to root canal it and crown it... I was like bro just pull it because otherwise we're just gonna have this same conversation again in 10 years.)
While the UN laughed at Trump, hackers chortled at the UN's lousy web security
If it doesn't matter, why is Linus making it an issue?
Green Bay Packers and Microsoft win domain name fight over family
Because me telling you that your code sucks is not being anti-gay if you are gay or anti-trans if you are trans. It is me telling you that your code sucks. You should either make your code not suck, or you can GTFO unless I'm lower on the org chart than you are, then you can do whatever you want, including telling me to shove it or GTFO and based on how I feel about it, I can either forget about it or GTFO. That's equality - we are dealing with code and not our sexual lifestyle(s). Org chart is used to determine who gets to win in the argument if neither of the two sides are willing to budge.

Alternatively, we can spend a year debating if me using a word "suck" is appropriate or triggering because you found out based on the DNA testing of your twice removed uncle that his grandfather was lactose intolerant which caused you to develop an emotional response while your code continues to suck and create problems, causing the company to lose money or a project to lose users.
I love that they opted for color cameras. Not much color to be seen, but the flares, together with the motion blur (while falling and hopping!) make the pictures look really dynamic. :)
maybe not by default, but if you have transaction notifications delivered through SMS, it's possible
Trump's axing of cyber czar role has left gaping holes in US defence
Glyphosate is the main ingredient in "Round up". I imagine residential use probably has a minimal impact, but this seems like a big problem considering the rise of "Round up resistant" crops. When whole fields are being sprayed at scale, seems like that could be very disruptive to a bee population.
see, the problem is that the same thing can be said vis-a-vis the COC toting social justice warriors, making things nasty to everyone just to bring their pet political issues.

Indeed, things such as The End of Meritocracy manifesto... Seems to beg the thought: is the trolls in the underbelly always this nefarious that it needs this amount of unhealthiness, or are they, at the end of the day, swelled by reaction to the unwelcome attack on the functioning internet cultures?

[0] https://postmeritocracy.org/
This is a myth about engineers that I've almost never seen demonstrated in reality.

I suspect we would be better served by just admitting that engineers are people to with all the flaws that come with it.
No, and we'll be fine moving to an OpenJDK build when we move to Java 11 (from 8) in a month or so.

Please don't mistake my comments for complaints - I'm just noting that things have changed in the licensing terms for Oracle-branded JVMs.

There is an easy and simple way forward, to use OpenJDK, it's important to note the change and act accordingly. That's all.
Thousands?

That is incorrect.

The number of identical twins that have been raised separately (and studied) is tiny.

With a sample size that small, it is difficult to get statistically significant results. Obviously. I was just pointing out that one of the issues with which a researcher must grapple is the fact that not only is one shaped by one's environment, but one's environment is shaped -- to some degree -- by one's appearance... a tricky issue when dealing with two subjects who are identical in every outward respect.
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A growing number of people seem to agree with this ([0],[1]). There are a couple of places ([2],[3]) where one can preregister a hypothesis and experiment before collecting data. There are also some journals that are starting to encourage preregistration ([4],[5]). It would be nice if this phenomenon spread beyond the few fields it's started in.

I don't know about needing to see all the intermediate data, that seems extreme if the methodology is properly described and the raw data is available.

0: https://www.bitss.org/2014/06/13/preregistration-controversy...

1: https://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2015/08/pre-registrati...

2: https://aspredicted.org/

3: https://osf.io/

4: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/psychologi...

5: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/cortex/news/registered-rep...
That's like using "List of black Nobel Prize winners before 1950" as evidence that IQ correlates with skin pigment.
For CS publications, it should be the norm to insist on inclusion of all source-code and data-sets used, unless there's a compelling reason they can't be included.

It's absurd that reproducing results be any more of a challenge than simply re-running a freely-available program.
Consider literal competitions--it was similarly appalling to watch recent Olympics in the US. 95% or more of the coverage was of Americans winning. If a particular day had fewer wins, they would replay earlier footage rather than dare show any other country succeeding at non-American dominant areas. One saving grace is that the NBC app had all the footage they didn't deem worthy of broadcasting.
>You'll find that the vast majority of people are vastly less extreme than what twitter and reddit would have you believe.

Yep. The medium itself makes everybody look about 100 times more radical than they actually are.

Look at it this way: if you're busy working on a small technical detail, your conversation will be around that detail, right? You may be an asshole, and it looks like he's working on that, but you're an asshole trying to make something useful. That is, you have a goal that you can be measured against. "I am not able to fix this problem because I cannot talk to people online without pissing them off" is a problem with delivering tech that you can identify and fix.

Sounds like your filter works for a while, as long as everybody agrees on some larger value structure.

Where all of this falls apart is when there's no larger structure that agreed upon. You see this in startups or academic/political discussions. Sometimes you know something's wrong, and you feel strongly about it -- but you're unable to articulate it in a manner that can be easily consumed. That's almost always going to come out wrong. But it needs to come out.

Contrast this with the rest of the internet, where people are not creating a small detail inside an agreed-upon value structure. There's no evaluation criteria except for bike-shedding. They've got nothing to do but to look at whatever your communication is in the abstract. There's no overall gain that might be weighed against bad phrasing. It's all downside. "I don't think that was a very nice thing to say" This can be both a true and non-productive thing to say in certain circumstances. That reality sucks, because people don't want to hear it -- after all, they don't share your value structure -- add to that plenty of time on their hands and an unlimited ability to look back on anything you've written. The system itself has problems.