skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember when Jacob Appelbaum was called "rapist, sociopath, plagiarist" and how pages of pages of comments on HN defended that with the most shoddy intellectual contortions, always complete with an air of moral superiority -- and I remember how the few sane voices were treated.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11844625

But you could surely just describe it differently, like saying there's just "a few instances of college liberals losing their temper on camera", so where are the examples, right?

> I don't actually think anybody really thinks this. I've never heard this ideology espoused by anybody

It is acted on, not espoused, it's probably incompatible with consciously being aware of it. What is said is usually some variation of "look what you made me do". (no, not in those literal words, but in meaning)

Not that I would ever apply that all to "the left", or "progressives". But there's a lot of people calling themselves that, while being anything but. They just smell the power that a cult of victimhood can convey, and they are cruel and have double standards. The proof is in the pudding -- in what they do, how they reason, not in what is written on the flag. And it hurts those who are actually true to the causes which others just espouse, to use as tools to get to peck on others.

> Additionally, the phrase "virtue signalling" is extremely sloppy.

I agree very much with that. But so is "a few instances of college liberals losing their temper on camera". Might as well reply to your comment with "oh, it just seems like you entered a bunch of characters in a textarea and pressed the reply button". Technically true, totally useless for communication.
AFAIU TDD, it's beneficial to have an automated test than can check what I'd check manually if I didn't have automated tests (since automated checking is quicker, and is consistent).
One benefit of writing a test before fixing code is it avoids the problem of writing a test which passes but doesn't actually check the broken thing. ("You have to write the test before or else you're doing it wrong" seems overzealous or cargo-culting to me).

Of course, as with anything, "it depends" and so if you're confident that adding more tests would hinder your development more than benefit it, sure.

Some programming tasks are difficult to get the system setup for test input, or for checking test output.
But it's not like you're not going to check whether the program works,
and so it seems beneficial to make an automated test if you can.
Perhaps you logged into Facebook unconsciously or through an app within that time frame? That is enough to stop the deletion process.
What definition would you use?
You may also be interested in (full disclosure: ours)

https://github.com/amark/gun

The Internet Archive ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17685682 ) runs it, and D.Tube and notabug.io run it in production and have pushed terabyte/daily of P2P traffic.

They both use CRDTs, the CRDT that GUN uses is capable of mutable (and immutable) decentralized cryptographically secure (user accounts and all) data. This is important because indexing data can be done in realtime with P2P updates without having to rediscover the new hash of changed data (which adds extra latency/delay on immutable-only backed stores).
> the subtle and escalating transgression of the humming child

Is humming a "transgression"? Music is typically considered entertainment. Why can't the other child put on head phones, hum a different song, or look out the window?

It's exactly this phenomenon that OP is addressing. A fairly common behavior (humming to oneself) is portrayed as a "transgression" and you go so far as to say it is unjust, just because somebody else happens to not like it.

You've thrown the authors framing, that certain actions are inherently annoying and unacceptable (singing loudly in a small space) while others are generally acceptable (humming softly to oneself) out the window.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00738 is really nice for general context. Plus can implement some of these generalizations from what is already here.
Buzz Aldrin thesis: Line-of-sight guidance for manned orbital rendezvous (1963)
Yup. Who needs that noise?
I deleted it Jan 1 2018 and am trying to decide whether to reactivate Jan 1 2019. No part of me misses News Feed or mindless scrolling, but Events and Groups have become an essential part of discovering and organizing social events for my peers (I’m late 20s, live in Europe, am in grad school). I don’t think I will reactivate, but I find it interesting that those have become the “stickiest” part of Facebook: I have so many other channels for close interaction (email, text) and interaction with strangers (Twitter, Medium) but that mid-range acquaintance circle is most easily accessible (only accessible?) on Facebook
Counter point, I deleted my account (not just deactivated.) I haven't missed any significant events. You can absolutely have an active and fulfilling social life without.
I missed my friend's 50th birthday party because I wasn't on Facebook (haven't been for around 3-4 years), and he assumed that everyone he wanted there was. That stung enough for me to think about it, but whenever I see people scrolling through their feeds there's so much drivel that I immediately go off the idea again.
By using the simple in-game 3D modeller, or by using an external 3D modeller and importing meshes. Plus time writing or adapting scripts in SL's scripting language, if there's any interactivity needed.

It is a similar amount of effort to what goes into making the equivalent object in a 3D game, and if you have the skills and the time, sure, clone other people's stuff, or make your own riffs on them!
Honestly, I wasn't expecting this when I clicked on this story, but for me the next logical step ended up being to promise myself I will not read a single article about or sourced from instagram ever again.

I realized I removed the app to get away from it, and that I'm only reading about it because other people haven't. They're just looking for interesting ways to write about where they spend their time. I don't actually have to read this stuff just because it shows up here. I get that now.

Thank you!
And that's exactly what the Moon was used as in the book, so men outnumbered women 2:1. Another prediction in the book is it's very easy to do heavy bombardment of the Earth from there, using the Earth's gravity well, rail guns on the Moon, and lunar rocks.

Next time I saw the Moon mentioned in a military context was in George Friedman's "The Next 100 Years", where he tries to predict what will happen throughout the rest of this century. The books gets very sci-fi towards the end, but it's a fun read. I wonder if Friedman has read Heinlein.
Sqlite – Most Deployed Database in the World
A more interesting definition is that a server is something that is asymmetric from a client. Things that are peer to peer which are symmetric to each other are something special.
>The author would benefit from some time spent investigating from a humanistic perspective.

They need to grovel in other words.
Context matters.

In a library, humming is a violation of the conventions of the space.

In a music practice room, it is perfectly fine.

In a car, the convention is ambiguous and dependent on the passengers.

This is precisely why it is necessary to come to agreement on what is okay to do in the space.

Again: The humming child was initially singing. So, to view the humming in isolation is to dismiss the fact that this is an iterative negotiation.
> I missed my friend's 50th birthday party because I wasn't on Facebook

Hate to break it to you, but he's not really your friend. You would have known about it directly or through someone else if so. Facebook is for finding out about events / people who aren't close to you, but you're still interested in. That's its value.
Why would you invlove the kernel at all, since you have access to Python's code itself, and can just make your own version of python, that will source files from wherever you want. And your package will be protable to Windows, too.
Public information about ongoing investigations and arrests wouldn't be problematic if our society didn't have such hilariously broken views on criminal investigations and trials.

Get arrested in connection with some well talked-about crime, but were released or found innocent at trial? Doesn't matter, you're still guilty in the eyes of the public. Hell, look at jury boxes in the US - you as a defendant are assumed guilty against the spirit of our constitution, because people suck.

Either we as a society need to fix our fucked up perceptions, or we need to have a serious discussion about the right to privacy up until the point that a verdict is delivered. Unfortunately, there's no evidence that we are going to fix the former in a timely manner.
You can't delete something you never had.
I'm struggling to understand how one would attempt to claim that the racism of today is equally or more pernicious than the racism of first and second wave antiracism movements? Is it your genuine belief that racism today exceeds that during 2nd wave antiracism? That people in 2018 suffer racism of equal magnitude as compared to poll taxes, explicit refusal to hire certain races, de-facto legal lynching, etc. ? Or first wave antiracism (abolitionism)? It seems incredibly difficult to make either of these claims.

No doubt, any amount of racism is more than what is ideal. But to criticize the article for, "implying that the racism of today is less pernicious, and leaving no scope for it to be equally as pernicious" strikes me as non-sensical, since the overwhelming majority of people would agree that it is less pernicious.
I Studied Psychology So I Could Avoid Therapy
But they did come to an agreement. From the article:

> Then the first might start to quietly hum, which we might decide is okay.

You've thrown the agreement on what is okay out the window because somebody is offended.
why, that is a valid question.
It's not. There's no prisoners dilemma and tragedy of the commons have all to do with difficulties in setting property rights, not related to market failure
Another paper on the same topic that got best paper at icfp this fall is http://conal.net/papers/essence-of-ad/

Which shows how to connect forward and reverse mode auto differentiation in a very elegant way
I call this "unit test driven development". I find it pretty horrible unless the code is largely algorithmic.

ATDD works though.
I had to look that up.

> act obsequiously in order to obtain forgiveness or favour.

> obsequious: exhibiting servile complaisance or deference

No. That’s not what I’m saying.

I’m saying that there is a broader context to consider.
We changed the URL from https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181218/16044141262/canad..., which points to that. This is in keeping with the site guidelines, which call for original sources.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I didn’t go to college either, never too late to make the transition if you want it.
I control w'ed twice and got out of it. Maybe I have chrome dialed up to the max?
> Am I being too paranoid?

> I’m not worried about the Chinese government stealing our source code

You're contradicting yourself.

Take security seriously, it's not a game. It is ABSOLUTELY an unacceptable risk. Doesn't matter what your software is, you need to cultivate a security mindset.

That said though, you're already compromised. Your developer has family back in China, the Government there won't hesitate to use them as leverage to get him to hand over everything.
> Why can't the other child put on head phones, hum a different song, or look out the window?

Why can't the humming kid not hum normally, instead of "more loudly and triumphantly"?

> A fairly common behavior (humming to oneself) is portrayed as a "transgression"

No, you portray deliberate annoying of someone else as humming to oneself.

> You've thrown the authors framing, that certain actions are inherently annoying and unacceptable (singing loudly in a small space) while others are generally acceptable (humming softly to oneself) out the window.

Because that's a "general" framing that is used to replace the actual context of the actual situation and the actual meaning of these actions.
Some that doesn't make a Bittorrent client or a Bitcoin node a server.
Go 2 will get better error handling, error types and generics: https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf...
You mean cost contribution should be calculated strictly by area, independent of how many people live in the area? How would that be fair?
then why use tor in the first place, if you got nothing to hide?

logs may incriminate you even your own country protects you. think e.g. panama-leaks or other stuff that an activist or journalist might come across in your research ... also can you trust your own law enforcement not to be corrupt? how about if you know things connected to organized crime, ... in that case if you're based in the same jurisdiction as the mobster and e.g. you stole a couple of gig worth of incriminating material would you go to the police? it's pretty clear that you wouldn't want any logs.

I live in a country where the highest ranking politicians are fully in the hands of the mob. here a speeding ticket can be solved with a small "tip". Word of advise: don't ever trust the state to protect you. Also don't ever talk to cops no matter where in the world you're living (even less so if you're not guilty! this is first advise every lawyer will give you too).
Kong indeed can, it's part of our API gateway for years :)
(edit) How would people travel between those cities then?
The humming child broke the agreement by increasing in volume after the agreement was made. Why did you omit the sentence that followed?

> Then the first might start to quietly hum, which we might decide is okay. Then first might hum more loudly and triumphantly
I didn't get the context, so I had to look it up:

> What fraction of women assaulted by a nominee for Supreme Court in high school would wait to publicly accuse him not just 30 yrs, but after Congress hearings & just before Congress vote?[0]

And then the author claims that the poll is "neutral"? However, there are biased ways of asking questions.[1] A poll about the Kavanaugh hearing could also ask "What fraction of rapists are convicted?" and that would carry a different political meaning.

[0]: https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1041743505507405824?r...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss#/media/File:Stimmzet...
I mean, it’s amazing, don’t get me wrong. I just feel like doing it served no purpose and needlessly put him at risk.

To be honest, I thought this was a guy with a wife and children (there was a story earlier about him doing a free solo), since he’s single I guess his life is his own.
What's the problem with just using it for one or two features, deleting everything else you've posted and using anti-tracking software in your browser?
So if I wrote a Java program that uses OpenCV that program would be a Java-Script?
It's a quote.

I read this quote as "pay attention when someone stops making rational arguments because it means they don't have any rational arguments".

If you aren't paying attention you'll miss the switch between what is reasonable and what is emotionally manipulative.
I found something that let me send an image as a fax. It was a while ago. I really searched for this. I don't think I still have it. I only ever used it for that and that was on an older computer. The script just used a binary to send an image I had prepared with some text asking them to kindly stop emailing me...well...maybe not so kindly and it sent the image as fast as a fax machine would allow. I imagine they ran out of paper fairly quick...or the machine locked up...but it seemed to work.

It was some small project I found on github or something. I had to compile it. Sorry I can't be more helpful. I think I searched for send fax from linux and variatins of that.
After 5 years as a frontend developer I've branched out and now work in an advisory role on browser automation.

- Learned testcafe in great detail while writing a framework atop it

- Learned how to setup a CI pipeline in bamboo

- Became the team expert on jest/enzyme

It's funny as a developer I found writing tests to be my most dreaded part of the job, but now I'm focusing on it entirely it's a nice change.

Also on the side teaching myself Haskell but progress is slow
This actually says nothing, when you get down to it. The key word is “fundamentalism”, and probably any $foo fundamentalism will satisfy the premise. Take away “fundamentalism” and you’ll see how the “abstinence only” comparison is weak, and the rest does not follow. TDD (w/o the fundamentalism) can be practiced in degrees, and on-and-off, and is not nearly as dogmatic as an abstinence-only sex campaign.
I read it as both children acting in bad faith.

The hummer acts in bad faith by following the letter, not the spirit of the law and humming "loudly and triumphantly" in as annoying a manner as possible.

The hummee acts in bad faith by victim-playing — overstating the harm caused by the hummer and making a "dramatic display of suffering"
Mm, I interpreted the second child as writhing already from the soft humming and increasing in writhing intensity as the humming volume increased.
This is WMATA’s stated reason for not suggesting or enforcing “stand right, walk left” on the Washington Metro. They ostensibly want no one walking on either side.
PS: I'd trust hardware based compartmentalization like this any day over the QubesOS nonsense.
That's an amazing story. Congrats!
Raph Koster cites MUDs (including Dartmud) as inspiration for Ultima Online [1]. UO as it existed around the T2A / Renaissance era was, in many ways, a lot closer in design to MUDs than it was to modern MMORPGs.

[1] https://www.raphkoster.com/2006/10/31/emmerts-serious-games-...
Yes, and stepped up usage of Whatsapp and IG. So what was the point of that?
Even if books are common they might not be yours and a destructive way of scanning is unacceptable in that case.
@c-smile - Looks interesting, does sciter offer a systray/menubar api too? Cause thats one thing I would really want in a desktop app SDK.
Dweb related techs.

Initially, I started with ssb (secure scuttlebutt), but ultimately moved to dat/beaker.

I've been having a lot of fun with it, I love how this allows to publish side projects without needing to rent a server.

For next year, I'm interested in exploring the implications it has regarding interoperability of apps, given users host their own data and can give access to it to other apps.
Making public data open by default can arguable be an imporant step towards fostering societal equity.

Define equity here?
I think you learned the most valuable thing about tech that you could possibly learn: that it is not the most important thing in life. Congratulations!
Mark my words - organizations like Amazon, Google, etc will soon start offering a Data Marketplace (intended for both buyers and sellers of all sorts of "alternative" data - everything from small business metrics to enterprise/b2b and anything in-between. The next logical step would be to offer insight/models as a service as a layer built on top of this..

I've been studying their moves carefully and have no doubt this is where they're headed. While I don't work for Amazon I think AWS in particular is uniquely positioned for these next couple of moves to a level that may make it challenging for others to compete. Interesting times...
Throw a mere 1000 scanners at it in a warehouse and you'll be done in 3 months.

ps. amount of information in the world doubles roughly every few years, I wonder how that reflects on the number of books.
A Red Dead Online instance is limited to 30 players and 2 spectators. It's far from massive.
The resource quality and crafting system in SWG was an absolute masterpiece; I’ve yearned for a game with that amount of depth ever since the combat upgrade patch made it irrelevant.
Currently, i only use Facebook to watch streaming gaming, nothing more.
Congrats man..
Yes they are free to offend, and if all goes well we shall remember them the same way we remember racist people that offended black people; as bigots from a worse time.
I'm old and don't know anything about vaping. Is there anyone who can help cut through the noise here - is vaping actually equivalent to/less than/worse than smoking cigarettes? Have any large pieces of epidemiological research been done?
Quite a few out there but the problem is that of fragmentation. There have been too many API changes making following online resources tricky. Having said that, I got great value out of these resources. Make sure you are working on the right version of Spark.

https://jaceklaskowski.gitbooks.io/mastering-apache-spark/
https://pages.databricks.com/definitive-guide-spark.html

Databricks cloud workspace (community edition) offers free interactive spark clusters where you can practice or develop your skills
https://community.cloud.databricks.com/

If you want a bit of flexibility, you can launch your own cluster using flinktrock and a pair of free tier t2.micro EC2 instances
https://github.com/nchammas/flintrock
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” - Charles Bukowski
>if you look at how states are generally organized in the old world, its generally by ethnicity, language or some other very strong form of strong shared identity.

While true, it is important to remember that this is a 19th/20th century type thing. Germany became unified around cultural/ethnic lines in 1871 (in France! so much of world war one was about the fallout from the wars of german unification, just like so much of the wars of german unification were fallout from the Napoleonic wars.) Italy became unified around cultural/ethnic lines in like 1860.

Before this, the individual "german" states were not politically unified in any sort of way; they all belonged to whatever multi-ethnic empire invaded them last, and they were more likely to war with oneanother than, say, with France.

My point here is that ethnic nationalism looks like the old-world default today, but this is a fairly recent thing.
The author spends a huge amount of space validating the new form racism takes and saying that it makes sense.

He says nothing about the tactics not accomplishing his own aims, or that only policies can be challenged.

He simply criticizes the way the attempt to change people’s psychology is being done as resembling a religious structure.

Attempting to change people’s attitudes and psychology is fine.

It’s also obvious that there is more than one approach to doing it, and that it’s likely that many approaches to a problem like this will be self defeating.
A very close childhood friend of mine got killed last April. I didn’t learn the news till August cause I didn’t have a FB account.

There is a price to pay for sticking to your principles.
This is really pretty sad. A standard library is paramount to a stable and easy to develop ecosystem.
No, did it already in 2011. Never missed it since.
Yes, and Instagram.
I never said I never misinterpret ideas or behaviors, but if I assume all my interpretations may be flawed I might as well be death because my range of action would be just as nonexistent.
I think another recession will start next year. Lots more tech IPOs before that happens I expect.

We will see a lot more investment in autonomous delivery. This means smaller scale vehicles that can fit in the bike lane delivering groceries, last-mile Amazon/Walmart packages etc.
Yes, I deleted mine! Deleted my Twitter account too
Yeah, my downloads are FULL of cat images.
It may be, but this is a weird thread to bring that up since Javascript has padStart, and TFA is about building a web server with only the standard library.
That's a re-phrasing of Bertrand Russell's "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
No, but I stopped signing into it back in 2015. I figured deleting it would just give them another datapoint on me.