skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some people consider forthright language to be a sign of respect.

The problem is that it's like saying "I'm not a pessimist or an optimist, I'm a realist" - everyone says that.

I really value when people are forthright with me. I know some, I respect them, and I really value what they say, even when it's hard. OTOH, the ones most likely to claim they are ("I just tell it like it is") are also the ones most often just using it as a license to not bear any responsibility for their words.

Which doesn't mean there aren't people out there that ARE honest and clear...just that you can't trust someone claiming to be one of them to be accurate.
>He won because Clinton was perhaps the worst candidate in the history of US Presidential elections

This is the most hyperbolic, hand-wavy, and incorrect take. Guess that propaganda worked on you?

I voted for Trump, have never been an FB user, and have trashed FB for close to 10 years on this very site.
I would argue that the people most impacted by the steering committee's decisions would be the core team -- who are the people that voted, and thus the steering committee model represents the will of the core team.

Obviously users will be impacted, but in such a tangential way that I would argue that it'd be more like how other countries are impacted by the decisions of a democratic country's leadership (and you wouldn't argue that Canadians should have the right to vote in American presidential elections). Just like the Linux CoC, I don't understand why people who don't contribute to the project should be involved in how the project's development is run.
8 programming languages to learn in 2019- Agree?
'could ever be' on which measurement?

I don't think that we as a socieity don't have enough energy or mindpower to think about airborn pollution, sugar, smoking and vaping.

Independetly of the risk for the consumer, i'm quite happy that vaping is also banned indoors. Imagine strawberry everywhere brrr
The nicotine in e-cigs are produced using tobacco and I'm pretty sure big tobacco doesn't care if kids are smoking actual cigarettes or e-cigs, only that they are smoking.
Vim cheatsheet and ideology
"The CI suite my company uses sends notifications for a passed/broken build, which is a reasonable use. Mail sites can send new messages."

That would still annoy the hell out of me.
Part of that deal was also that Ukraine would not be part of the OTAN, but a firewall between the OTAN and Russia.
Disagree. Bernie doesn't advocate socializing any industries. Even Medicare for All would leave hospitals and doctors as private employees. He isn't going out there saying we should have nationalized the Big Three car companies instead of giving them a bailout, or trying to nationalize the banks, or anything else. He's a social democrat, he wants a strong public safety net tied with private ownership of capital. That's a perfectly fine political position, but it's not socialism.
Behavioral programming: changing software without having to understand old code
I remember using Jenga blocks as larger, easier to stand up, safer for little kids, dominos. Used to have a couple sets and use them to make long domino paths to knock over. Drew faces on the Jenga blocks to create characters too. Could also use them as construction blocks. A lot of fun, but you probably know if your own child would like that sort of thing.
I wish there was a way to do it with microtransactions though. I am never going to commit to yet-another-sub-that-I-will-forget-to-cancel-for-months, but I’d like to throw a couple of £ towards an individual post that I randomly find on the web.
Most people who use Windows are not paying for Pro. That includes the 'power users'. This is a feature that has to be enabled, having it in Home does 0 damage, yet gives the ability for those who don't have Pro to protect themselves.
Been there, done that. Two years ago Mailchimp deactivated our account without notice, and no explanation at first. This also impacted our transactional mails via Mandrill as the account was linked to the deactivated Mailchimp account.
Even after a lot of pleading they didn't reactivate it, and there responses were generally unhelpful and in hostile language.

In the end it turned out that appart from our paid(!) main account, an intern from the marketing department created another account some time ago which hadn't been in use for a few months already.

So in the end a coworker and me spent the night rewriting our transactional mailing to hook up Sendgrid instead, with no problems since then.

Fuck MailChimp + Mandrill!
Interesting. I know 500 was the standard. But my understanding is that the big Google updates (Panda et al) put paid to that model in favour of the "authority site" model, hence you're supposed to rank better for longer content.

I wonder if it only applies to new blogs though? Perhaps if you have good DA/PA/TTF metrics already then it doesn't actually matter about your content length.
I really am open to listening if you have any tangible ideas on why more than 3 would fix or help deter bipartisanism overriding checks and balances
That's not the whole story. Juuls are ultra high resistance devices due to their size. Generally that means they can't vaporize as much liquid into vapor, which means traditional eliquid (lets say 3-9mg/ml) isn't as effective anymore, especially for someone trying to quit smoking.

Going anywhere above 12mg/ml with traditional eliquid production techniques produces a liquid that is very harsh.

So, here are your business requirements: You've got a device that is high resistance. You want high nicotine content because your primary market is ex-cigarette smokers. You can't use traditional eliquid because it would result in a harsh experience, which reduces the probability of cigarette smokers quitting and using your product. So you invent something new.
Germany: Der Spiegel Says Star Reporter Made Up Material
Or health care. Or education.
Politicians have pretty much always been that way. The press ignored it/didn't report it back then. JFK and LBJ were flagrant womanizers.
The crisis is a manufactured "narrative" when the COO is reported to have yelled "You threw us under the bus!" in reaction to the CSO making an embarrassing disclosure to the board? And when FB is under ongoing investigation by the US/UK/EU governments?
No, because I have like 50 projects in ~/src and suddenly have to keep some of my code in ~/src/go/src/GitHub.com/cgag and that annoys me.
Agreed - and other "news" sites are taking this to another level, adding unjustified speculation
It appears to me, that everyone who advertises heavily on podcasts are crooks.
In the last fifteen years, the Beijing subway went from a laughable toy with only three lines to the largest subway system in the world. Despite this rapid expansion by an order of magnitude, the system remains extremely busy, with rush hour trains so crowded you can barely move, and off-peak trains still full of people. This pattern is repeated all over the place. “Ghost cities,” if real, are the exception and not the norm.
Jack Ma is exactly right.

We put a huge pile of money on the ground and lit it on fire killing a bunch of people in the process.

Maybe someone smarter than me can explain how this was a good idea but I just don't get it.
I disagree. In most of the US the air pollution is less likely to harm you than vaping would. Sugar is a different story but it's one where you can have a healthy relationship to it, whereas you can't with vaping.
Try keyword research tools like https://kwfinder.com and others to get a feeling for the search volume and competition for a specific keyword.
Deepl is really decent, I checked out the English-German translation. I used to send Google's attempts to my (born in Germany) mom for laughs.
I'm all for choice in configuration management. That said, I find this quote on their page amusing:

> The purpose of the Opsmop community is to come together to build the ultimate configuration tool we all want to use.

Kinda reminds me of XCKD: https://xkcd.com/927/
With generics all-but-guaranteed to be incoming, but also not here yet, a lot of what you would do is going to be superceded in the forseeable future

I didn't mean "now" as in right this second. Generics will indeed be key.
News flash: MailChimp just reinstated my account! Thank you, HN community, for your help.
I guess it points to a difference between klennwell's and jetrink's comments above: "The BDFL has the final say" is process in the sense of jetrink's comment (it's an explicit power structure that can avoid some of the worst of the unorganized alternatives, with IMHO unique acceptance), but it's not bureaucracy as in klennwells. I had mentally nested your comment wrong.
It will be good for watching all porn. Hihi
Hi, former BDFL here. It's a crappy job. A crappy, unpaid job. I can't think of a single qualified person in the Python community who'd want the gig. (I can think of several unqualified people who would, and that's part of the problem too.)
Being IN China (should be clear from comment history, don't understand that capitalisation of 'NOT'), I do indeed get the idea a public space is a public space, a Public Security place. And there's lots of observation, indeed, though mainly passive.

Buying a high-rise apartment includes many incentives, not just the colour of the plaster of the wall and compound security, which many of these Shanghai high-rises over on Bund side have, but, for many friends and colleagues that purchase one, that is is indeed a private space that should not have someone's camera pointed at them.

Anecdote is anecdote though. As is assumption.
I've come across a comment almost exactly like this before on HN; was it you who posted it? Zizek does entertain, but most popular writers also entertain, and entertainment is not mutually exclusive with philosophy. He is respected within philosophy (and Chomsky is not a philosopher, as much respect I have for him too) and widely cited. The inversion of common sense things is precisely the aim of critical theory. Granted, Zizek draws from "low culture" too in order to appeal with popular media, but you can't simply say he's not a philosopher. What he does is philosophy or critique of it and you can read as much in his books.

You might say that he lacks rigor or prowess in his arguments, but those admit he's a philosopher. I can't see how you can deny he is a philosopher. Let's rephrase the essence of your argument: anyone who writes to entertain or repeatedly questions notions of common sense cannot possibly be a philosopher (despite large output and several research and teaching positions in and invitations to philosophy departments at universities around the world), if and only if a linguist says so and they have a lisp and some nervous tics.

I'd also suppose that none of the topics which Zizek addresses are philosophical ones: https://www.iep.utm.edu/zizek/
Yes, gonna remove that! Thanks for the feedback :D
I'm an engineer who really wishes engineers understood this better.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/the-relotius-case-answer...
No disrespect to mbostock, but I'd have used S-expressions, which can still be indented for readability without being brittle to indentation mistakes.
I was surprised there isn't a mature open source / hardware design, but maybe everyone thought it wasn't worth the effort with local connectivity to their Logitech Harmony. Maybe now is the time.
With all due respect, one single article ranking #1 in Google hardly constitutes proof, or turns the argument into a myth.

I am genuinely interested in the answer to this though. The idea that the article has to be longer/more detailed than the competition makes total sense.
https://github.com/gonum/gonum is that.
SoftBank's IPO Debut Is One of Japan’s Worst
The deal with Ukraine only requires us to defend them against nuclear attacks, and even then, the only requirement is to seek action in the UN. For conventional attacks, our only obligation is not to attack ourselves.

This is such a common misconception. I wonder where it came from. The Budapest Memorandum is short and understandable. Is this just a game of telephone gone badly wrong, or is there propaganda at work?
There was a season of Startup where the startup attempted this approach. The company was (is?) called Dating Ring.
https://www.gimletmedia.com/startup/origin-story-season-2-1-...
And Stephen Glass: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Glass

A very good film Shattered Glass was made about it.
>Should I not have a line like this in my copy?

Of course not! Don't lie about who has access to your users data and what is possible to do with it. That's not fucking cool. It doesn't matter if there's no way to do it. You don't go making false claims.
Squatters rights.
I think in this instance I get more of his dad's 'flavor' from the hardware though.
Yes, public apathy is the biggest roadblock to most meaningful reform (in all aspects of life and politics, not just FB/big tech).

But looking at it another way, the sheer volume of incidents has got to some how desensitize the vast majority of people out there. Personally, probably half of the companies that I regularly do business with have had some major data breach within the last few years. But nothing ever comes of it - no real punishment, no new meaningful requirements to protect their infrastructure, and no specific harm to me personally. So should I stop interacting with these companies? What about all the other companies out there where it’s just a matter of time before their own data breach? Should I eschew all technology and go back to the barter system? I think the genie has already been let out of the bottle and maybe we need to look at solutions assuming that data breaches will happen and how to protect people after the fact rather than preventing them in the first place.
It wasn't sarcasm, although I don't know if it would become my daily driver either.

Performance is a non-issue for me, generally the browser performance is limited by pages waiting for ad networks to serve up ads. A pi-hole helps (and running in a VM/Sandbox lets you run the filtering DNS server as a local process pretty easily.

Lack of local data persistence is similarly a non-issue as the reason for running this way is to drop tracking cookies etc that fall out of a browsing session like leaves on an autumn day.

If it had some built in way to defeat the dozen other ways in which a browser can be fingerprinted, then it would be perfect.

Just a simple way to avoid the ad trackers and keep my actual stuff safe from the evil doers on the web.
They really don't, at least not in a way where their genomes would mix in equal parts, or be concatenated.

The closest to merging is probably mitochondria, which probably were single-cell creatures ingested by some very early (single-celled) ancestor of us and, instead of being devoured, ended up in a symbiotic relationship within its host. The mitochondria to this day have their own genome and function a lot like a cell-within-a-cell. Same for plants and photosynthesis.
>. In most of the US the air pollution is less likely to harm you than vaping would

We don't know what the affects of vaping are, so how can you say that?
I wrote a blog post about the error handling. Someone put it on /r/golang (note the subreddit name).

There were 22 comments, and the one from the Go developer was (and I quote):

"Tempted to stop reading after the first word in the article. (The language isn't called Golang)"
This long-form article/confession from a self-professed (adult) vaping addict might give you some idea as to just how bad it can be:

https://medium.com/s/love-hate/confessions-of-a-juul-junkie-...
And even if it did, does anyone honestly think that Russia has not been using the US media to try to "influence" elections since at least the end of WWII? Not that it makes it OK, but let's be realistic and understand that this is nothing new.
Milestone Experiment Proves Quantum Communication Really Is Faster
But will he say the same about the country that has the largest standing army?

So many lives wasted in dull duty.
> Store your notes in the default gaia hub or use your own.
> You are always in control of where your data is stored.

What’s Gaia? What‘s a hub? Should I now how to roll my own?

This is getting a little bit too common for projects to just shoot features that are completely opaque to the user.

Or, either, I’m just getting old.

But I tend to believe that’s not the case.
Why We Live in Hyper-Fragmented Digital Worlds (And What We Can Do About It)
It can be very hard in highly niched domains. Very niched products typically have a high price / low number of customers profile, meaning you want to really be sure the product is right for you, but won't find any (or very little) recommendation online.

Imagine a consultant who offers consulting on using cryptocurrencies as a payment method for your online business. The fees are $250 per hour. You're a paypal user and briefly considered using bitcoins for your online business, but are not sure about it.

Or imagine a physiotherapist who offers a treatment for a very rare (but not life-threatening) condition no traditional medicine could cure. It is rather expensive, but the guy says he can help you, yet you won't find any testimonial on the web because of the rarity of the condition.
And yet open source is constantly reinventing the same things over and over again anyway.

That's endemic to programming and the fields around it, even in closed source. I don't think it's a problem of open source, though open source might enable it in a few ways.
Haha, I am sure I can optimize the loading time. A blockstack account is required for reliably managing the auth. It's much better than relying on Google for it or coding one of our own IMHO.
Yep! Doing a monthly backup of my mailchimp newsletter, it's too important.
YouTube's $100M Upload Filter Failures Demonstrate a Disaster Article 13
I have tried several times to fix this problem in the past 5 or 6 years, once with symlinks (which would break quite often -- it's unsurprising that Plan 9 developers wouldn't care too much for handling symlinks correctly :P).

The current way I handle it is that $HOME/.local is my GOPATH, and $HOME/src links to $HOME/.local/src. So you can just have $HOME/src/github.com/bar/foo -- which is less ideal than just $HOME/src/foo, but it's something at least.
Malthusian Reinforcement Learning
Pretty interesting, thanks! Comparing it to the data from 2017 [1] it looks like a ~30% increase in the number of comments (from 900 million to 1.2 billion), while unfortunately the number of votes/upvotes provided for the two periods is not consistent: they mentioned 12 billion upvotes for 2017 and 27 billion votes (which presumably included downvotes) for 2018. All in all not bad, let's see what 2019 will bring to them.

[1] https://redditblog.com/2017/12/19/the-best-of-reddit-in-2017...
Does your tongue know when it's used to lie?
Why would application developers try to straddle 2 and 3?

If they are gonna do the work to support 3, just abandon 2.

Libraries are a different story.
I use nano or micro at times, which don’t, problem doesn’t happen there either.

The benefits are enjoyed every single read of the code while the drawback is a potential issue (being very generous when I say) once every six months. Honestly happens about once every five years to me.
So is the 178 billion china has spent this year which is also growing faster than the US [0] also wasted then?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army#Mil...
Maybe it's just me but I hate this option. Are we really, really trying to optimize the downloading of source code ? All 5 megabytes of it ? Why would you do that ?

I regularly find myself in a position that this system would make impossible: I need a few custom changes in public available libraries. An extra method. A bugfix. What have you. This makes that impossible using the default method.

What we want is consistent builds. That means a build that happens, with the same source, with the same ... every time, always, on everybody's workstation.
"Anyone from the US who has flown overseas to modern, industrialized countries in the past decades will note the aging look of the US"

True. Whenever I get visitors from Germany they always comment on how run down a lot of parts of the US look.
There was a time when I was younger, at the height of Microsoft’s unethical attack on Linux and open standards, when I would not have even considered working for them, and would automatically recommend “no-hire” anyone who had recent experience there (because what kind of depraved moral compass do you have working there?) If your company’s brand gets a black enough mark, it can have real consequences.
Yeah, it's not that black and white.

Despite a pretty spastic and often misguided foreign policy, the US human rights record is much much better than other large political entities (i.e, USSR, China, etc).
If you view USA as heavily influenced by corporate interests - waging wars to further global corporate empires seems like a good deal all of a sudden.

Education? Infrastructure? Corporations don't benefit from that. Ruining countries and installing 'democracy' to ensure billion dollar contracts? Great business.

While most of the world still thinks in nationalistic terms - our country vs theirs, folks who run corporations that span across 100 countries do not and cannot think in those terms.
And in this case, we have iron-clad evidence that MailChimp, as an organization, with 100% certainty, knew that the customer's data was recoverable.
Mark my words. There is going to be an article that grossly misunderstands oauth and tells people that facebook, twitter, etc, are all giving access user information to third party's willy nilly and that there is an entire system widely used across the web for encouraging this sort of behavior.
I find this article meh. I've been blogging for something like 15 years so here's my take:

* If you've been wanting to blog, stop pissing around, open a blog on wordpress.com and start writing. That's my first advice to anyone. Don't waste time on the technicalities, just write. You can move your blog to another platform later.

* Be regular. This is hard. I fail this rule most of the time. But a successful blog is a blog that's been going on for ages. I've posted 461 posts since 2013 on www.cryptologie.net and that's why it is working well.

* Do not look for perfect posts. You are not writing a book. A blog is to share knowledge in a quick way, or to share what's on your mind. No hesitation, once you have something, publish it. People might call you out for saying something wrong, fine, that's free publicity and you'll have learned something new.

* Mix short posts with long posts. It's impossible to keep writing high quality content and long blog posts. So write small ones from times to times to fill in between better blog posts. This is what make people keep going on your blog. It's like a facebook news feed, it needs to have something every time people check it.

* Write on trendy subjects. What did you learn recently that could be helpful to other people? What did you have trouble to learn because there was no good resource on the subject? You could be that resource. What is google trend saying? Are there any trendy topics in your field? What are people talking about recently?
Much of the defense spending has been largely a jobs program that employs thousands of people
> many races and locking bugs have been fixed in ZoL and never made it back to Illumos and thus FreeBSD

Why would that be? Lack of interest on sending them upstream or them being sent but never merged back?
Half a Century in the Making: Tree ‘Crop Circles’ Emerge in Japan
Neither ship by default. If you run a search for libpython you should find one hidden away in a nonstandard location. As far as I’m aware, only core tools necessary for a minimal install rely on it. Other packages in the repos can depend on an actual user space python version.

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