skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you so sure?

How about this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI3R1HAHJBU ?

You don't consider this kind of crap to be one of the reasons why people voted for Brexit?

I voted for Brexit not because of most of the commonly touted but because of the breathtaking arrogance of the EU leaders. If you followed the series of referenda all around Europe regarding the EU's policies, you will see that in almost every instance the popular vote went against the EU, only for member countries politicians to ignore the peoples votes.

Britain is simply a country whose leaders promised to leave the EU if the public voted against it, and as far as we can see they are committed to honouring that promise.

It was the EUs handling of Jorg Haider's party's election victory that decided Brexit for me, ie about 8 or 9 years before the Brexit vote, and FWIW I am not white. Don't assume that all the reasons usually touted were the cause for the vote for Brexit.
Some faves for story development:

* Secrets of Story by Matt Bird

* Anatomy of Story by John Truby

* Breakout Novelist by Donald Maass

* Self Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne and Dave King

Enjoy!
> It only runs the show if you let them.

A few billion in fines for anti competitive behavior would disagree. Google does not want you to have a choice.

> You can still live outside of the Google/Facebook world happily.

Can you? Most restaurants in my area publish their hours and menus using Facebook, others integrate themselves with Google. And how could I fault them? It certainly is cheaper than what they did in the past, paying for a minimal website to do the same. Unless some government comes down on them hard they will continue to infect every aspect of modern live.
Yo mods... can we stop the blog-spam?
I honestly don't think that represents an "appalling mix of the worst traits of humanity". I'll call people male or female based on their preference, but I'm not calling anyone 'xe' or any other pronouns, nor would I accept a biological man in a woman's change room with nothing more than self identification (as proposed in the UK). That's a pretty common view. Likewise, transexuality has only recently been declassified as mental illness by mainstream physchological groups.

Saying people who don't yet adopt the latest progressive outlook are full of hatred is a kind of hyperbole and often has the opposite effect than intended.

That said I appreciate how civil this discussion has been.
The sales process needs both rewards (commission) as well as punishments (commission loss based on unmet delivery). The idea, "As soon as the contract is signed I should get my money." is a broken one as it reinforces the type of behavior that leads to unrealistic promises being made. The 50% at signing and 50% at delivery model is better for this reason. Yes, there would need to be additional language surrounding what an "unmet delivery" would be and how it would be gauged with relation to promises made during the sales process.
I don't think we should confuse lack of willingness to read long form text on the Internet as a lapse in education of those people. A lot of people don't have time or the interest. I'm not sure if I qualify, but I'm a third year university student and all I've learned is that the Internet is tiring, and responding in detail will guarantee people don't read your comment.

The amount of things discussed in philosophy and science journals which people aren't aware of is mind-boggling, to the point where every argument online takes place not taking into account any research and resorting to pure speculation and fans of each speculative hypothesis (stated as fact of course) up/downvoting. This happens on Reddit and HN despite it being more visible on Twitter and such. But even I don't have the time to look up the research on any given topic I want to care about.
Naspers to invest $415M in South African technology startups
To anyone who finds this sort of explanation interesting or helpful, I recommend you check out "A Most Elegant Equation" by David Stipp, who covers Euler's Formula from step 0 for those with zero formal math knowledge. I'm definitely in that camp of people, and I was able to get a lot out of it. It's actually the book that helped several mathematical concepts "click" for me. Plus David Stipp just writes very romantically about math, which I thought was warming, and gave a lot of life to a field that I know nothing about.
The way I thought about it is that the trigonometric, hyperbolic, and exponential functions are all nontrivial solutions of the differential equation y'''' = y. Sharing differential properties is a very powerful kinship, which is also why you can substitute any of them for any of the other: the solution space of a linear differential equation is a vector space, and these three families of functions are just a change of basis in this space.

Well, I don't know, this is what makes sense to me.
Oh, no! You copy-pasted code, with zero knowledge about it structure, and got caught. It's sad.

Next time use throw-away account.
I simply dont like the idea that the government will print more money.

Mainstream 'economics' might not like a deflationary currency, but since the last economic collapse was 10 years ago, I don't exactly trust 'economics'.

There are 21,000,000 BTC ever ever ever.
I agree that there's a very important distinction between private actors and the government, and don't like the contemporaneous trend in online discussion spaces of trying to erase that distinction.

That said, registrars act under contract with ICAAN which is at least quasi-governmental. It makes me a lot less comfortable for them exercise unguided discretion than, say, an ISP or app store.
Ask HN: Going in circle – no traction, no investors
I am the single developer of a note-taking app. I've reached a point where the app needs a team and some funding to move forward. I would like to apply for seed-investment, but given the fact that investors like to see (among other things) traction, some customer base, etc - I know that chances are slim for me to get any investment. Did my homework and I am able to articulate the key differentiators properly.

Right now I cannot get any traction with the current state of the app (not consumer-ready). So I am stuck in this loop... I am reluctant to apply for seed investment as a single developer - as I know that this does not look good to investors. All I have is a website, screenshots, a blog, a demo and a deck.

I know that's not enough, but I also know that this has some potential. How do you break this loop?
Can you get higher system privileges on other editions?
That's true for php-fpm, though many use something like apcu to cache state between requests. FCGI itself doesn't mandate that "thrown away globals" behavior. Golang under FGCI, for example, just spawns a goroutine for each new request.
Having studied philosophy, I can say with some confidence that your comment is the straw man, not mine. My comment may have flaws, but the straw man fallacy isn't one.

Also, it's been my experience that a particular segment of the population loves to use "straw man", "whataboutism", "russian bot", etc attacks.

Pointing out hypocrisy, making an observation or caricaturing one side isn't a straw man.
You're right. I'd say it's an aspect of professionalism to get better at this as a reviewer. One of the things you need to try to do when you read somebody else's pull request is to put aside your ego and focus on the code.
In a gold rush, you get rich by selling shovels. You don't even have to have a strong opinion on whether there really is any gold to be found, in order to see the market opportunity for shovel sales.
Paywalled. If HN had downvotes I would give one.
Is there a "evil" distribution which maximises the waiting time? Or is the Poisson distribution already the theoretical "evil" maximum that a public transport provider can achieve?
"Gab is known for allowing conservative/right-leaning view points and this is one more way for people on the Left to ban them."

Gab is only known for allowing crazy lunatics to spew bullshit. Right-leaning viewpoints would have some basis in reality. The stuff on Gab.ai is brainwashed lalaland for bigots and crazy people.
Yeah, and I didn't mean to imply that your summary was inaccurate or tone-deaf; just trying to explain why Boeing basically says "don't call us, call them".

Your (and Jeselnik's) criticism of the "thoughts and prayers" cliché is apt, though note one big difference: some of those senators and members of the house that offer "thoughts and prayers" after yet another fatal shooting take NRA money and/or actively block anti-gun legislation, while Boeing and Airbus are genuinely doing all they can to avoid plane crashes, I'd think.

So the aircraft manufacturers are much less cynical and hypocritical in offering up that cliché than politicians (faint praise, indeed).

EDIT: NRA, not NPR, lol
The return of open source software
As much as I can't stand hate speech rants on social media. I would much rather have these people in plain sight, where their views can be somewhat challenged, rather than sentencing them to the dark echo-chamber corners of the internet for them to brew up storms. Just my two sense. It's hurtful to hear some extreme views, but ignoring and ostracizing these people is not equivalent to eliminating hate.
These "articles" on that site always leave the taste of frustrated redditors trying to make a name for themselves. They rarely make sense or have any meat to them and, after a few days of following it, I thoroughly ignore everything published there.
They should do like HN: keep the button but remove the counter visibility. I would like to see this generalized to all social networks actually. You still get to do an appreciation gesture but without entering the popularity contest. Maybe the author of the post could still see the total.

YouTube "dislike" button on comments also works like this, you can dislike but it's not counted. In this case it's a bit stupid since the likes are counted, but I feel it's still an improvement.
It's a significant difference whether you can become an infowars listener by watching a video on youtube that has infowars content as the next suggested title, or whether you need to explicitly search it out.
Use of the language creates standards. Not the other way around.

So it's just the question of who is active on the committee.
The senate was never meant to be democratic; the state of US government classes must be atrocious these days, because people never seem to understand this. Senators have only been directly elected at all for 100 years, they were supposed to be a check on populism from the lower house, and a way for smaller states to block large states from ramrodding through nationwide legislation.
I'm lost on their first excerpt (recital 32) and their interpretation about compulsory commercial license and how it kills Creative Commons. Maybe I'm slow but that quoted text implies no such things, so the EFF makes claims without backing them up (without properly doing the work of explain the steps of how they derived those consequences).
>The proper thing to do for Gab.com is to become their own domain registrar

...and payment processor & bank, and hosting provider, and internet access provider. Still could be blocked on DNS resolution level and IP routing level, so better build out alt-Internet while at it.

At some point it becomes more cost-efficient to skip the grind of fighting-or-building every service provider tier, and go lobby the legislators for some protections.

I, and many others, don't like Gab's speech, going by the 2nd hand accounts of it.

Which is exactly why it needs free speech protections from various pressure groups.
This is amazing free publicity for them. But what it really is is Torbas's exit. He'd never get acquired by SV so he's taking his donations and running.

GAB basically deplatformed themselves, they waded into the shooter debate by willingly handing over all their info to the Feds and then shouting about it and made such a stink that every company that deals with them had to distance themselves i.e 'deplatforming' them, there's zero reason for them to be offline now.

It's either publicity or an exit, or both.
I am pretty sure that would be easy to game by professionals...
All of your transactions being public and traceable forever once your wallet is de-anonymized is the least censorship resistant money ever.

If you’re worried about your government, then you can’t beat physical cash.
> It started with the banker that sold a mortgage while knowing the people couldn't afford it

Why wasn't it up to the people to know they couldn't afford it? Have we really absolved personal responsibility this much?
It's too vague to say, but the quote

"In addition, the listing in a search engine should not be considered as fair and proportionate remuneration."

seems to be specifically targeted at search engines. I'm not sure how this is about a "link tax" more than it is about a "search engine tax". I'm fairly certain we will still be able to share our links on Facebook and Twitter, the embedded excerpts might be in jeopardy though.
There are even objective tests for pain based on heart rate response to exertion
So if you want to interact, you have to formulate a thought in an elegant message? Most wont pass the barrier of having to think hard about something. (ie. thinking fast and slow / switching from system 1 to system 2 is _hard_)
They also require a support contract to view their bug tracker.
Could you cite some examples? Dtrace and ZFS were both open sourced during this time period IIRC.
x2go works well for me.
I use the “like” button a lot but mainly because Twitter doesn’t have a read later or save function. I don’t necessarily like because I enjoy the content, I like because I want to digest it at a different time
That’s not true at all. I worked at one of the big pe firms that made lots of money from 2008. Their goal was to move things to profitability asap. Either get a loan to performing (via getting holder to repay or rent), sell the note, or foreclose and sell the property (sometimes to a sister company). Same goes for anyone holding a property. Empty properties are targets for squatting and quickly fall into disrepair. The last thing a savvy investor wants is a nonperforming property.
Because there might not be a heap at all.
Native English speaker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bright
Stack allocation is easier to implement and faster than heap allocation. The former can be implemented in a single instruction (incrementing the stack pointer).
But removing a feature doesn't have the same weight as adding a new one. Most probably the people that got accustomed to it will be very vocal about the removal, while nobody ever cries over a new feature they don't like, they just not use it.
Looks cool, no undo/redo though? Makes it feel harder to use/less forgiving.
Look through this thread, people have already decided that "free speech" is a dog whistle meaning that you are anti-semetic and support murder. It's a shame that people are willing to throw away their personal freedoms in exchange for fake civility.
You could search for a front-end-engineer with some design-experience for hiring. Then get the initial visual/interaction-design from a freelancer. The dev should be able to fill in blanks and continue the initial design-work.
Except it's not as easy as that. Almost half the web is reporting your every click to Google, through Analytics, and plenty are also reporting to Facebook and others. If you use a Mastercard, Google is getting info on your purchases. If you email a Gmail user, they're getting it too. Your friends (maybe not yours, but many's) are backing up photos of you to Google Photos and sharing them on Facebook, Instagram and more. Your Wifi router is tracked and your house is photographed.
Elixir and the power of truly distributed systems
Ask HN: How to handle fairness in multi-tenancy system using AWS SQS?
I want to ensure fairness in the consumers of SQS, the queue will have messages from multiple tenants, without any prior knowledge of the message frequency and message count from producers.

If The messages are processed in the FIFO order, the resources will be blocked my tenant and my new message my a different tenant will need to wait for the queued messages to be consumed.

I guess it should be a common case in any SAAS system, so I was looking for different approaches to solve this scenario.
When you're following artists reetweets can be useful to discover their fellow artists. Not all of twitter is about debating current political events.
But your own government answers to you.

That’s what the Magna Carta was about. Also the US revolution.
People love to rail on twitter, but where's the movement to leave? It's hardly a necessity for life in 99% of use cases, They're a company with arguably questionable morals, and their current resurgence is predicated almost entirely on Trump (make of that what you will).

Just quit it already.
Regulations are not measured by "weight". More regulation might mean less restrictions or more, but at the same time could lead to a more efficient/fair market/environment.

YT warning about regulations means nothing, because the regulations don't force them to be biased against small producers. Though they are, because of business reasons. (But that's their hypocrisy, to show worry about content producers while their real worry is business related.)
Systematic code reviews is really a complete subversion of the agile spirit. Agile was about doing what makes the most sense for the project at any given time, and code reviews don't make sense all of the time, far from it.

I worked on projects with systematic code reviews, and while the reviews hardly caught any issue, they did add significant delays and endless discussions with some very unreasonable people that would systematically question every single line of code for no good reason.

I had to submit reviews and wait a day for them to be approved for things such as 3 lines of CSS changed.

Code reviews should be left for occasions when the code actually needs some review: for example, the developer changed a part of the code that he/she is not familiar with and wants the code to be checked by someone who is experienced in that part of the system.

Code reviews yes, but only when it really makes sense, and not by default.

Some of the things I've seen regarding code reviews are just way too absurd and it just adds to the overall demotivation of the team to have to do something absurd every day just because its the rules.

Most of the time, these procedures are put in place by non-technical managers who have usually not coded themselves a single line of code in their lives.
No big surprise given the past riots against multinational companies in the district [1]. Apparently those responsible knew about that as much as they care about people & culture here. From a local's perspective, these reactions were obvious and even reasonable. Never been in Krzbrg on a 1. of May?

[1] https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/neueroeffnung-mit-steinen...
Allowing these people in plain sight without any pushback normalizes their views. And by allowing them to have a large platform they can freely spread their "free-from-facts" propaganda that will speak to a subset of people who are easily misled. Challenging them in public will not help when they're also convincing people that critics are the enemies that are out to destroy them.

Free speech is being abused, plain and simple.
sure it can. the higher the effort the better. they should remove retweets too. i cant remember how many people i have unfollowed because they keep retweeting their political nonsense.

(in fact they should remove retweets and keep likes for the vanity crowd, as long as those are not interfering with my timeline whatsoever)
It is a number:

> 2018_10_23_121007.class
=> Fixnum
Here's what I'm thinking when companies remove votes or scores or whatever: They're just hiding the problem. Like, people still like the stuff, it's just no longer tracked. They sure as hell won't stop tracking views or whatever. Which are likely (heh) just a factor removed from "likes".

The problem is that you're giving fake news the power to dominate million's of people's twitter feeds if you're just ruthless enough.
> As long as analytics don't produce any personal data of an individual and only aggregate data or even anonymized data, it should be perfectly fine to do without any banner.

Even if they did produce personal data, they very likely wouldn't need a banner. For processing personal data you merely need a lawful basis and documented processes, and asking consent is (intentionally) the least attractive lawful basis for using personal data. Consider for example the "legitimate interest" lawful basis:

> processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child.

If you're using analytics to, say, optimise accessibility/usability of the site, then it should be fairly straight forward that the legitimate interest of both you and user (of improving the site) outweighs the "privacy harm" of processing that personal data. (Of course, using it for anything else will land you in hot water if you argue this).

Even a 3rd party data processor like Google Analytics would be fine, if they're 1) GDPR compliant and 2) you have a data processing agreement with the provider.

90% of websites who don't do shady things with your personal data should never require any banner or opt-in prompt. The fact that most of the web now does is incompetence, ignorance, intentional annoyance to provoke legislation change, or a mix of these.
It's a tweet. How long can it take to read that you have to save it for later?
I think some of the third option, and also it’s fun to go to the trouble of digging out a lesser known word from the depths of your dictionary/brain to show just how much you appreciate something.
It was he French monarchy that helped the Americans, so there really was no ideological affinity.

The revolution in France wasnt until several years after the US war against the British was over.
Amen. There are many studies that show people were radicalized simply by browsing Youtube on autopilot.
After building a full stack app (with limited users), what does the handoff look like?

You leave a comment saying what a variable does?

Also, does a Css/html dev have less prestige than a front end logic dev?

I'm admittedly an outsider, engineer by degree, but casual programmer of 10 years. I can do html/css for fun, logic takes music and caffeine.
1. You need to put context into comments. Code is written once but read multiple times, so you should optimize for later case.

2. "Too late" is when bug hits the client and affects income. If not, then it's not "too late", it's just "a bit late". 2-3% in effort increase to decrease number of bugs (increase customer satisfaction) by 15-20% is huge win. If you will not do that, your competitors will do that instead of you.
I don't think likes are the problem, I think twitter surfacing tweets based on likes is the problem. Replace them with a bookmark button that doesn't effect timelines at all, and imo that's a real improvement right off the bat.