skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, though there are many other western countries that have much stronger democracies than the US. Most of them in fact.

In the US, third parties aren't given equal placement on ballots (you need to get "ballot rights"). Large parties get money from the government for advertising, which small parties don't. The people don't actually vote for who is in power (and votes aren't equal between people).

Doesn't seem like political opposition is a workable right in the US to me. Not to mention everyone has guns, and guns are seen as an "break glass in case of tyranny" tool -- meaning that culturally people are primed to see violence as being a reasonable retort for political disagreements (obviously this is an oversimplification -- but political rallies in the US are far more violent than in many other western countries, despite many western countries having their own problems).
It's already here. People in Xinjiang need to scan their ID to enter a supermarket.
"pareto "

There is no such thing as 80/20 rule in science. Its a common "internet folklore" myth repeated over and over in internet, books and "experts" - without any scientific basis whatsoever.
How often do you optimise your work for less than 1% of the population?
It doesn't suggest those things for me - did they fix it or is this a case of personalisation?
I have known many people with back pain, and many people who treat back pain. I have studied many techniques for many years myself.

Across all my friends I have seen the results of tai chi (several types), yoga (several types), traditional chinese bone setting, acupuncture, many types of massage, alexander technique, qi gong routines, weigh training, osteopathy, surgery and lots more. I think there's a lot of evidence people should try to avoid surgery.

Two people I respect who had tried everything else rave about "Pain Free" by Pete Egoscue.

The reason for my comment is that in my experience, back pain is treatable much more often than people think. But no one thing seems to work for everybody. And the level of talent and expertise of the instructor/healer is usually more important than the label someone gives to their modality.

So if you are in pain, keep investigating! Keep trying different things! And don't fall in to the "x didn't work." fallacy. A different practitioner might do the job even if they say they are doing the same treatment.

And if something works, it will work fairly quickly and shouldn't need ongoing expensive treatment by the same person indefinitely. This stuff is usually solvable.
Yes, for now. I know I'm rather pessimistic, but I don't think it will stop there.

The credit card part is probably a dream scenario for banks though, to only let people into shops that have an active credit line and not accept cash.

And then you have the problem of bias towards groups of people in the credit scoring regressions.
> Most people would probably agree with this.

I think you might be overestimating how common your opinion is. In many (maybe most) countries, children are considered capable of consent even before they are granted all privileges of adulthood. Sometimes it's only if the partner is underage as well, but then one will be an adult sooner than the other, so there are exceptions for cases where the age difference is small.

Because of the various exceptions in traditional consent law in contrast to bright-line rules against child pornography (below 18 is illegal, no exceptions), it's possible for legal sex to become illegal as soon as there's a camera between the participants.

The best-known cases are probably of teens being prosecuted for child pornography when they take nude selfies.
Any tips on how to learn this? Seems easier said than done. Sort of like, “just change your personality”.
Netherlands, a high density country without the added costs of delivering healthcare to remote places, spends 30% more per head on healthcare than the UK.

That has a far higher outcome on healthcare than taking doctors away from patients to run hospitals.
I hate that with a passion.
Slurm: Highly Scalable Linux Job Scheduler Used by 60% of TOP500 Supercomputers
I will definitely open an issue.
> Basically in China human manufacturing rules over all. Many westerners have misconceptions about automation in factories.

Many westerners are unhappy because globalization has caused a loss of manufacturing jobs. People elsewhere in the thread say that the Chinese government encourages using a lot of human labor in order to foster social order. Maybe so, or maybe they don't need to, because labor is so cheap anyway. Certainly the Japanese government does it, since labor is not cheap there.

But Western governments are more efficient. They don't have to make sure people have jobs: they can just tell people that those jobs went away because of automation, not globalization. People won't complain too much, they know they can't fight technology.

And that's where the misconception comes from. Basically in the West labor arbitrage rules over all.
A 'White Paper' on white papers
> Once it is a suggestion (even at the end of the list) it will get clicks, and move up till it dominates.

So why isn't every article that has ever been suggested moving up until it dominates?
I think it would be useful to take an example that nobody likes like ISIS.

Should ISIS be taken off the internet? What the heck does that even mean? Do people wear badges saying "I'm a member of ISIS, don't listen to me?"

I should hope not. The labels we put on people are probably not the same labels they put on themselves. Sticking people in boxes and beating the hell out of the boxes may feel good from the outside...but it sure sucks if you get stuck in the box and didn't want to be there.

So instead of this simplistic labeling of folks, how about we act based on behavior? That is, you're welcome to blow off steam all you want. Let's say I hate clowns (I do not. I love clowns.) I might get online and say something like "Those damned clowns! We should shoot every one of them!"

Now even if I were a clown-hater (I am not), this is not a call for violence. It's an angry person making poor word choices. If, however, I got online and started asking people to take action "Meet me down next to the circus in an hour...bring your water guns!" then I am no longer just talking.

America is fine with people just talking, and in the most hateful way imaginable. We are not fine with people encouraging or planning out violence. No matter what some idiot will tell you on the internet, we assuredly did not fight the Nazis in WWII. We fought Nazi Germany. Many of those same Nazis we fought stayed in power (after being vetted as being non-violent). Many of those same men who fought Nazi Germany came home to be policemen, protecting American Nazis while they marched in the streets saying all sorts of vile and hateful things. We're like that.

We're like that because we watched country after country go down the other route, where the government decided what was okay or not to say. It never ends well. In fact, it usually results in even more violence. You don't get rid of sick people by putting a muzzle on them. Get them out in the public square where they can engage with the rest of us. Who knows? Maybe some can be helped. That would be the best outcome, wouldn't it? To create a path for people who are angry and prone to violence (but haven't done anything wrong yet) to get better and become a productive member of society?
Oh for sure, there’s no way I wouldn’t report them for all the hurdles they threw at me trying to not accept my GDPR request. I only received the account deletion confirmation email on Friday though so I still have to write that all up and I don’t even know yet where I’m supposed to send my complaint to. But I’ll figure that out.
Higher-Kinded Types (Scala)
Employment also gives him purpose and dignity.
Scooters = making money

Homeless drug addicts = Losing money

Hence why San Francisco did something about the scooters.

So sad that it’s now becoming known globally as poop city.
> Political distrust only goes so far, because winning elections tends to give you more control over the government, which in turn allows you to manipulate elections

In banana republics, sure, in civilized countries, not so much.

> On the local level, the opposition party

Again, I'm sorry the US has the incredibly shitty first-past-the-post election shit, because that is the cause of the inevitable two-party system shit.

If the US had a better representative democracy, this wouldn't be a problem.

However, even with the situation you describe, it should be possible to guess which districts will be the closest in margin, and make sure you put more eyes on those districts, in favor of districts that are sure to go either way. That's good enough to secure the election result.
You seem more knowledgeable on this than I am. Is it cyclical, but the change has been heavily increased by human activity?

If it's just cyclical, then why are we blaming our activity?
> it's like everyone is just learning this shit for the first time.

Because they are. The field is full of amateurs and under-trained developers who are positively allergic to history and learning.
Some people are willing to pay less because they don't care where they are sat. But now it's assumed everyone should pay less but still have a choice of seating.
What exactly is the "poop in the cereal" here? Mentioning race? Do you think race has absolutely nothing to do with anything here?
> consider which term is closer to the truth

Also, some of them catch on and are very generally used.

DRM is actually intended to mean "Digital Rights Management"
Housing and transportation are the same
(England, not UK)

Not sure why you got downvoted. The Lansley Reforms - where Primary Care Trusts were abolished and replaced by Clinical Commissioning Groups which are run by GPs and are responsible for commissioning most of the NHS services (about 2/3 of the budget) - are known to have caused severe disruption to English NHS services.
Borderline but legal child pornography would still be classified as "adult", no? To me, the second sentence makes perfect sense.
The other day I had a pretty tough exam. It was 3 hours / 20 questions long and was proof heavy, so I was stressed. Well, in one of the simpler questions, I somehow manager to derive with respect to the wrong variable. The questions was "minimize mu" and I minimized theta. Not that the minimization of mu was hard, it was just as easy ! I did get some of the harder stuff right. And this was just an exam, not rocket science !

In the end, I think that when your schedule is highly stressful and time sensitive, people make stupid errors on easy stuff because they'll prioritize their time on the harder stuff - which they will probably get right !
Hawking Radiation, in its original form, did not allow anyone to learn the quantum information about what went into the black hole — if it was made entirely of photons; or entirely of antimatter; or made of any mix of photons, normal matter, and antimatter… all would be indistinguishable.

What’s news is that it isn’t all lost, that the starting state has any influence at all on what comes out. I am only an enthusiastic amateur at this, but I get the impression this is as surprising as the discovery of Hawking Radiation in the first place.
Hey, great stuff here.

Well stated, kindly argued.

I really look forward to what you build now, 6months, 2 years+ from now. :)
The Air might be outdated, but it's still the only Apple notebook left with a non-glare screen and a usable keyboard.
Yeah, but we all expect that sort of thing of China. The concern is mostly over it coming to the US. (I was going to say "and the UK and other places", but honestly, I would kind of expect this of the UK, too.)
Electric cars are more impressive to the average person, especially the quiet smooth acceleration compared to ICE cars. And of course they have AC and comfy seats and all that, which appeals to people's comfortable laziness.

But the real transport revolution is a combination of public transit and bikes/scooters for the so-called last mile.
I know that mentioning other language on a thread about A language is contentious, but if you haven’t played with Nim, I seriously recommend you check it out.
> I don’t even know yet where I’m supposed to send my complaint to.

Start here? ;-)

>> mentioning some personal contacts I have to some federal law enforcement officer who works privacy cases
India’s Rickshaw Revolution Leaves China in the Dust
>As long as this is andrew_'s personal experience, I don't see why I'd call him a racist regardless of the race he profiled the most. He even goes on to explain that there's a good reason for targeting white teenagers: they were the most likely to steal something, so they weren't targeted because they're white, they were targeted because they proved to be the highest risk.

Let's say that Arab men between the age of 20 and 35 were most likely to steal something when they entered the store. (Not anecdotally: let's say the location computed the demographics of thieves going back 20 years, and found a consistent trend. Let's assume it's an objective fact.) Would it be okay to target them because they proved to be the highest risk?

I think the answer is no, and I think the answer is no also in the case of white teenagers. Sometimes doing what is most effective or efficient isn't the right thing or the fair thing.
1990-?
Why would it be needed? If someone enters with a credit card on file you can charge anything broken or taken out.
Vim for JavaScript and React
Lots of properly designed and practically useful languages have no comprehensive type system.
Pick one of the niches you are knowledgeable about, create an online course and go out and sell it.

An online course is a very versatile type of product, much easier to create than an ebook (or an app for that matter), much easier to promote, easier for people to consume, and much easier to monetize. Online courses are a booming trend. And you don't need any infrastucture to sell it, just a stripe account and a platform like https://www.learnworlds.com (disclosure, I am a co-founder there).

You would probably need a couple of hours to create some nice screencasts with the top linux commands. Make this a free course and share it across social media. Much easier than building an MVP app or site. If you see traction then double down and go for the paid "premium" course
For one example of JS-dumbfuckery, the Patreon embed button is served as a React app, with all of React bundled in dev-mode, weighing in at just over 2mb.

All of that for a red rectangle with the word "Patreon" in the middle.
Compound interest
> Racial profiling is being criticized despite being effective.

You got anything to back up this blanket statement?
Sounds like you had a tightness you weren't managing or your form was incorrect. I'd hedge your elbow position was off or your hands were too close.
A study in Portland? Good luck making conclusions from that data.
ISIS is Islamic, and right-wing extremists tend to be anti-Muslim, so such groups will defend their allies and ignore attacks against their enemies.

Also "right-wing extremism" has deep cultural resonance in the US, with roots in the militia movement, white supremacy and Christian dominionism, all of which play into a romantic ideal of the lone American cowboy revolutionary "watering the tree of Liberty with the blood of tyrants." It's easier to garner sympathy for such people as patriots than others who might commit violence in the name of another religion or who aren't "domestic."

Bear in mind that, in the mainstream of the US, most people object to ISIS and the "right wing nut-jobs." What you see on the internet is not the mainstream but a self-selected fringe.
I like RMS however the sad thing is that most people don't care.

We can call those people sheeple or whatever, but at the end of the day they are just users who don't have the time/knowledge to care about free software.

It took me a few times before I could grasp free software Vs open source and I'm knee deep in the code most days.

Another issue this ideology faces is it's main proponent; RMS. He's not charismatic and as another user pointed out, does not present well on videos or talks.
If he wants free software to continue, then he should pick new champions and take a step back.
My friend whose work requires unofficial access to places has a collection of outfits for most cleaning companies that operate in the area.
Isn't it simpler (and more efficient) to build a interpolating polynomial approximation for sin(x) for the range [0,pi/8) (using Chebichev iso Lagrange interpolation fe)
[Ted Talk Video] How we need to remake the internet
Yes, I understand how JS works. My company markets and sells a web development IDE that includes an Object Pascal->JS compiler.

Re: your definition of "internal": I suspected that this was what you meant. I also disagree with this particular version of "correctness". If the developer intended that a particular function accept an integer, then accepting anything else is essentially a bug, and the fact that it works at all is down to pure coincidence.

As for writing tests in OP: you write tests in the same manner that you do with Java, C++, C#, etc.
John Cleese on the Five Factors to Make Your Life More Creative (2012)
Well, you can have shared belongings, as with things you own with your family members (usually spouse). So my personal belongings is a valid distinction, not a pleonasm.
Yes Paypal denied service for no reason, or more explicitly, no stated reason.

Do you see a reason stated in the termination notice?
I've hardly run into any bugs in Elixir. It feels almost like Haskell to me. Pure magic.

On the contrary I struggle to get even the most basic Rust program to compile, wasting hours before anything is done.
Makes me wonder how Microsoft ranks search results. Surely if they were counting links to a page from other pages (like Google does), Google would've come out on top? Or does noone link to Google anymore since people tend to find their way there anyway?
> Scooters and electric bicycles are the sensible form of electric mobility, but everybody talks about electric cars.

Yes, because cars make sense when you've got more than your own arse to haul. Or when you don't want to end up in your destination dripping wet. Or when you want to sit in a warm cabin instead of fighting frostburns on a bicycle. Or when you don't want to be slipping on ice or getting stuck in snow..
This philosophy is similar to Python 3's hard separation of bytes and strings. Bytes are raw data you get off the wire and which are encoded in a certain way. Once decoded into a string, you have a clean, consistent internal representation that behaves as you expect a string would. If you're juggling (or even thinking about) byte encodings past the parsing stage and before the output stage, you've done something wrong.
If you agree that the government should be a universal payment processor, then you must agree that the government should set itself as a universal payment processor "first", before granting the oligopolies they have licensed the right to deny service for no legal reason.
English Wikipedia contains some warnings (with references) about the Feldenkrais Method [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldenkrais_Method
"aboid" -> "avoid"

Not nit-picking... ;)
My preferred outfit these days is a pair of 8-Cal overalls, construction helmet, steel caps and a sack barrow. I had to step my attire up now everyone rocks the hi-vis in post-quake Christchurch :(
From the article:

> Note: this article was edited on the 21/12/16 because Sean's mate was going to get fired and we really like that guy.

I remember reading that a previous Vice story about Naomi Watts published off-the-record details that put her at risk from the Chinese government.

Fucking over sources for no particular reason looks like a trend with Vice reporters.
What kind of work does your friend do?
Very informative and eloquently presented.
> It would not be an overstatement to say walking towards the ticket booth felt like getting off a boat on Normandy.

Why do people write things like this. Aside from being crass, that is literally the definition of an overstatement.
Shwacked
Product Blast: Get blasted to exciting products you don't know
How to Win by Daniel Gross (StartUp School – Best Talk Imho)
Rust sucks especially for the problems that Elixir is good at. Maybe when writing some system tools I'd consider Rust but so far it has been an absolute pain to use. Can't even get the code to compile for hours while in Elixir I've gone and done it in a flash and there have been almost 0 errors. Almost like Haskell's "if it compiles, it works". No need to attack Elixir with Rust everywhere.
What usually happens with profiling is that catch rate is out of proportion with the base rate.

For example, if blue people are twice as likely to do bad things as red people, you end up catching more than twice as many blue people when you profile based on blueness. And that's unfair discrimination. It's unfair on all the honest blue people made to feel like criminals.

And of course it's self-perpetuating. The lopsided catch rates justify profiling in the minds of people doing the catching.

In the real world, I dont know the underlying actual differences in offending rates, but I do know that correlation with life circumstances would probably be much higher than skin colour.
Private investigator.
Yeah that may be true, see the comment from
amluto.
not an option, unless you own an AMD or nouveau supported card.
You’re not crazy.

I created and maintain VueJS’s other Server Side Rendered library. Express-vue

I’ve spoken on it at a few talks, and every time I do, the eyes of the audience just go blank when I talk about SSR. It’s like I’m talking in some strange language they don’t seem to understand, where the only thing they get is client side everything.

I get the stupidest questions like “so how do I add in <insert unnecessary bloat for a SPA here>” most of these are about state management on the client. Aka redux, or vuex etc. Which I reply. “You don’t need that. State lives on the server. It’s simple”.

Since having this library and it getting as big as it has, having to defend it and defend SSR. I’ve fully burnt out of JavaScript and frontend all together.

We use my library in production at work, and have started talking about migrating to Nuxt. I’m planning on changing teams before that happen.

Javascript is just hype driven development, of the worst kind.
> who don't have the time/knowledge to care about free software

Or... they have the time and knowledge to carefully consider it and just haven’t concluded that it has any benefit for some reason.

Not everyone who disagrees with you is doing so because they just haven’t thought about it hard enough yet.
As the article states, Microsoft took note of it and started correcting some of the suggestions.
from my experience it's the other way around, 5 nested blocks might be a regular thing to see in an enterprise code base rather than at a startup.
Yeah, there's nothing wrong with a query like that, and I think autocomplete is fine once you typed "muslims are vege...".

But I don't see why you'd autocomplete a sentence that could go anywhere. Just because many people type that isn't a good reason.