skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At some non-tech companies nowadays (like manufacturers, etc.), I.T. senior leadership wants the dynamic sorts of start-up-minded, agile-like people to work in I.T. But, the business users within these companies - at least in the U.S. region - do NOT want that their I.T. to be like that. These business users just want someone local/on-site to help them with basic things like outlook assistance, resolving network (more likely wifi) issues, etc. At least in the U.S (at least for the numerous firms that I've worked for), the business users are totally fine with just giving "app-building" (and other fun, "advanced" types of work) to vendors/suppliers/bigtime consultants. And, then you have the senior leadership on the business side that actually prefers to outsource (get rid of) the local/on-site I.T. people...who suffers? Primarily, the non-senior business users suffer, and then the people who don't want to do the "advanced, agile, app-building" work suffer also.

I think one way to "look for a job"...is to make one...That is, start your own business...where YOU become the respected, hopefully high-paid vendor/supplier/bigtime consultant...And then sell your services to non-tech companies, so you handle their traditional I.T. needs. You will get price pressures to lower your costs, because you'll be competing against the TCS, WiPro firms of the world. But i imagine - at least at some small scale - there must be local markets for small/medium businesses that want a local/on-site presence of IT support. This might be worth a shot! Good luck!
Censorship rarely, if ever, solves anything. These companies are not crime-fighting services and will have no impact on criminal activity.
That's an unusual meaning for word "platform"

Antora is a software package which makes static documentation websites from text source. It is no more a platform than "javac" or "php" is.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/harvard-flaw-review/
I don't see how you went from "some states make legal services generally available, while others make it available to only the poorest" to "in most of the EU you'll probably get legal aid only if you're destitute". I appreciate the reference, but I don't agree with your conclusion.
I'm talking about data since 1870 till the present (courtesy of Robert Shiller). It shows very clearly that dividends > price action over periods of 20yrs or longer.

You have an opinion against data.
Nobody is shutting them down. Cloudflare (a private company) is just choosing to no longer work with them. 8chan is completely free to operate their own servers.
The pace has quickened though. The big corporations are all coordinated now. Hosters, domain registrars, other infrastructure, payment processors, Traditional and Social Media... everyone is locked in and blindly banning everyone who isn't theirs
Ah yes. I should have specified: a high-performance, low resource usage cross-platform UI. Flutter's a nice idea, but I somewhat suspect it will never make it out of its relatively small niche. I have my eye on the Rust UI work. It's a long way out, but it has the potential to be a really solid foundation for a universal UI platform.
PG-Strom is a GPU accelerator extension for PostgreSQL which has been around for a few years now. I have not tried it myself... http://heterodb.github.io/pg-strom/
CHF is a rather unique country, with a unique situation and a very unique central bank.

Do you really think the SNB couldnt print a quadrillion franks tomorrow and drive it into the ground if they wanted to?
It won't work. In the UK there's the same law, after 3 months a temp contractor needs to be given the same rights as a full-time employee, what happens? They get laid off at 11 weeks and replaced.
I would not lump 4chan into this discussion. I'll concede that some boards on the site are more polemical than others and promote alt-right ideologies without a doubt, but there are many other interesting boards and people on 4chan that are not captured by the broad strokes you're outlining. I know people that browse /fit/, /lit/, /mu/ and /out/ just to name some boards that are perfectly reasonable individuals that don't lionize shooters or hold other alienated views.
So we make more laws and rules which we hope we can actually enforce and hope the baddies dissipate into the ether?

Chase them from reddit to 4-chan to 8-chan then have cloudflare ban 8-chan and proclaim "mission accomplished!"?

I'm just saying I think the effective way to fix this is by breaking the echo chamber. With argument and knowledge and guidance and wit and mockery and whatever we have.

Young males of this primate species need guidance and leadership and direction. They need answers. They are a pack dog really. Without someone there personally spanking them verbally when they get out line they apparently devolve into feral internet packs. But nobody (understandably) wants to deal with them nor put up with their abuse and trash, so they coagulate into places they can find direction and meaning. That is what I think needs to be addressed. Not trying to stamp out places, which I doubt will work long term. Nor most especially encouraging them to self filter into these packs.
My personal opinion is that fundamentally, upper management (but people, in general) will make decisions that positively impact the people they see and work with. In a small company (like where I work) where the CEO knows the bottom tier employees by name, they are going to have a very hard time making decisions that harm those people. In a large company, upper management works with middle managers, and therefore, will optimize decisions that work well for those people, and as they do not know people on the bottom tier, have little emotional ties to decisions that will harm them.
The 8ch.net/delicious/ board routinely had extremely realistic animated images and video of prepubescent girls having sex with older men. The images were reported to mods who left them up.
Net neutrality is deeply entangled with freedom of speech issues. In fact one of the ISP's main arguments against it is that it violates their 1st amendment rights.
That is a great question. See the FAQ entry on the README[1] for my thoughts on that.

Q: Why not build this ontop of blockchain?

A: Blockchain could be used to create a similar guarantee. However, using the Certificate Transparency technology extends a number of advantages and was a pragmatic choice to get this project going: the industry momentum of certificate transparency log technology (1), leverage existing web technologies like DNS and TLS (2), and finally most practical applications that want to use blockchain with the web end up using a centralized gateway for speed and reliability (3)(4). Perhaps as the bridge between the web and blockchain matures it will become a more practical option.

[1]: https://github.com/merklecounty/rget/blob/master/README.md#f...
I think "\w+" is regex for "one or more non-specified words," so they're nitpicking that it should be "* supremacy" instead of "white supremacy", in a weirdly obtuse and technical way.
> ... which at retirement can provide a modest income based on 4% yield - without touching the principal.

You're doing yourself a financial disservice if you focus on dividends. Total returns are more important:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpXI_Vd51dA

There is no financial difference between have $1000 in stock and $40 in cash dividends, and having the stock go up to $1040 and you then selling $40 dollars' worth of principal.

Treating the $1000+$40 as "better" than $1040 is a form of mental accounting:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_accounting

Do a search for "dividend myths".
Yeah they just downvote you into oblivion so no one can even read what you wrote. Oh wait...
8chan's /pol/ is much larger than /leftypol/. I believe it's about tied with /v/, and those two are the largest boards. There are many basically innocent parts of 8chan, but /pol/ makes up a significant fraction of the site's activity, maybe as much as a third.

/pol/ is full of people who encourage shootings, and the website's and board's rules allow people to encourage shootings. You're not allowed to encourage shootings anywhere on Facebook, I think. That's a very significant difference between the two.
> how useful is it to go to a lawyer?

If nothing else, an informed, independent perspective should be able to help you better understand your situation, or see/know to ask about factors which you might not.
I think these calls to disregard and/or weaking the principle first enshrined in the founding of this country are a greater danger than 3 mentally ill people with guns.
Stock valuation is not money. You get money if you sell. The stock is a virtual valuation. You need to sell to make it real. You only lost imagined money.
An email provider. Interestingly enough they don't even send anything. They just... sit there. And who knows why. Not really doing anything harmful afaik, but obviously fradulent so our support still kills them in bulk just in case they were a proper threat waiting for the activation.
Today's financial world is sooo complicated, that there is no simple model. Remember that anything remotely predictable will generate arbitrage flows.
>The concept of freedom of speech falls apart if universally reprehensible speech is allowed to be publicaly espoused without being firmly challenged.

There is no such thing as universally reprehensible speech and, frankly, this is a dangerous line of thought. What is and is not acceptable is fundamentally tied to localized social norms.

Further, there is plenty of challenge on these forums, in fact arguably more so than forums like Reddit, because their very nature is antagonistic and contrarian.

>Unchecked extremism compounded by more unchecked extremism inevitably leads to scenarios like the ones we’re witnessing more and more often.

Terrorism of all flavors existed long before the internet and it's frequency has waxed and waned over the years. The drivers of this very recent trend have far more behind them than simple incubation on forums - like the dismissal of legitimate concerns by demonizing, blanket epithets like "racist" and "xenophobic". The recent growth of populism cannot be explained by the tiny minority of posters on the chans.

While the extreme actions of these recent attacks are reprehensible, if you read these manifestos, they highlight genuine problems which are deliberately ignored by "left" leaning politicians and media, although because of today's growing polarization of society, the only discussions of such issues that surface publically are mixed heavily with extreme views and extreme solutions, and the average person begins to equate, say, immigration control, with extremist racism, which is neither rational nor good for society.
They did try to defend it. They were what was meant by the "good people on both sides" remark. They are up against an increasingly consolidated media empire that generally does not like the man who made that comment. It's unfair to put the onus of successful promulgation of a message against a wave of misinformation and misappropriation, and condemn them for failing at that.
It happened to me at Tudor Investment in NYC, which only has about 200 employees. I tried to quit when my daughter was born as I had found a better job anyways.

If I didn't stay an extra 3 months, my manager threatened to fire me 'with cause' so they could enforce my non-compete without paying me in New York.

So there I was working through some of the most incompetent shit from my dismal colleagues while my wife was trying to take care of our newborn baby while she couldn't walk due to delivery complications.

A week before I was supposed to go he mailed me a 25 item list of tasks to do before he would 'allow' me to quit, so I terminated my employment. After which, they claimed my non-compete was in force without pay.

Don't ever work for those fucking vultures at Tudor Investment.
> But it's also definitely not worth switching to Double Cash if already have the Apple card and tap to pay regularly, and that's likely what AAPL/GS are banking on. Walk into an Apple store, buy a thousand dollar iPhone on credit, and the sales Genius helps you set up tap to pay with that new card right there.

The argument being made isn't switch from the Apple Card, it's switch to and strictly speaking 2% all the time is better than 2% some of the time, all else being equal, and it pretty much is. Sure, you buy at the Apple Store and you get 2%, though I think less than half the places I regularly shop at, including 100% of the places I buy things online (like Amazon) offer contactless payments.

People find delayed reward motivating, and having the credit trickle in over time instead of daily is actually going to get you to engage with the card more as you redeem the rewards for things of higher perceived value. While what you're saying sounds right on face, human psychology says otherwise :)

The 2.67% back is 40% more cash back, so yeah, transfer 100K worth of assets to a BAML account that you're holding for the long term (and I believe IRAs count), and enjoy. It's a better product.
> However, think about your own process, at least for me, depending on a feature/the engineer, my code review might be cursory rather than super line by line. The difference? How much I trust that engineers ability in that specific type of code.

The difference is that you can't review your own code, for the same reason that writers work with editors: The reviewer is leveraging their unfamiliarity with the code along with their familiarity with the code's intent and the codebase, as a critical tool.

If it was feasible to get someone else familiar enough with the project that they could review it, I would do that, but at that point, I wouldn't be working on my own.
I think I might have given the impression that I'm advocating for this kind of sprint as a regular occurrence when I'm actually advocating for very spaced out moments (the kind you can count on your hand in your entire career), well chosen and with the proper aftercare.
You do need to have a process and a form for users to submit their own details. Not just adhoc requests like my own.
I should have added "if you want happy users and not a e-fiefdom". I've been a part of many forums that moderate according to your description, and they're almost without exception, miserable places to be that could be so much better if the mods didn't let petty bureaucrat syndrome go to their heads.
> don't appreciate sockpuppeting (unless you're in YC of course)

That's not true. Votes from YC alums get no special treatment, and HN's voting ring detection software works the same on their posts as anyone else's. If you or anyone has concerns about this, I'd be happy to address them, but specific links would be helpful. It's pretty hard to respond to drive-by accusations like this, which have no information in them.

The first thing we tell YC startups is not to solicit upvotes and comments. If they email us complaining that their post didn't get traction, we tell them the same things we tell others.
Medellín ‘dating academy’ draws ire from feminist sphere
I think this can be summed up with a single word: incomprehension. Or in the latter example: ignorance
> The US government, at least, has explicit restrictions on how it can censor speech. They're required to abide by the 1st amendment, and even have requirements for due process and such.

Right, which is why I'm baffled someone worried about free speech would be happy with giving them that power.

> By contrast, none of the corporations that host the sites you use daily have any such restrictions. If Google wants to delist your website, that's too bad for you. If AWS no longer wants to host it, you have no recourse. If Comcast decides to block you, there's nothing you can do.

Sure there is - you go elsewhere. Just like 8chan will, just like the Daily Stormer did.
What's tragic is that they convince cat lovers to post cat pictures on "Caturday", when they should be posting them every day! That needlessly reduces their positive contribution to society to just 14.28% efficiency.
Oh dear - no, strictly speaking, they are not. Nobody is.
I think that it really helped that back in grad school I read https://www.docdroid.net/z8ki/knuth.pdf and thought hard about Knuth's ideas. I even went so far as to make a course outline for a first course in Calculus based on his ideas.

The result is that I was able to break my exposition into one piece at a time, starting with ideas that were already accessible. More specifically I started with the idea that f(x) = approx(x) + error(x) where we want approx simple and error small. This motivates a language for describing what "small error" means, which motivates little-o for polynomials.

That's enough to do tangent lines and answer questions like, "Given the equation for position vs time, how fast is the rock going when it hits the bottom?"

Only after he could calculate tangent lines did I introduce the derivative.

Contrast to the usual approach where limits are an abstract concept with no obvious application, and then the derivative is introduced. It actually combines several ideas jumbled together. That's a big mental knot that almost nobody gets. And explaining it more carefully doesn't help because people keep getting to holding too many unintegrated ideas in their head at once.

And seriously, heuristic arguments that you can reproduce whenever you forget them are good. Take the product rule.

f(x0+h) = f(x0) + f'(x0) h + o(h)
g(x0+h) = g(x0) + g'(x0) h + o(h)

(f*g)(x0+h)
= (f(x0) + f'(x0) h + o(h)) * (g(x0) + g'(x0) h + o(h))
= f(x0) * g(x0) + f(x0) * g'(x0) h + f(x0) * o(h) +
f'(x0) h * g(x0) + f'(x0) h * g'(x0) h + f'(x0) h * o(h) +
o(h) * g(x0) + o(h) * g'(x0) h + o(h) * o(h)
= f(x0) * g(x0) + f(x0) * g'(x0) h + o(h) +
f'(x0) * g(x0) h + o(h) + o(h) +
o(h) + o(h) + o(h)
= f(x0) * g(x0) + (f(x0)*g'(x0) + f'(x0)*g(x0)) h + o(h)

And we recognize the form of the tangent line and so the derivative of f*g is f' g + g f'.

I had him do that calculation with only minimal prompting. And I think that this is a calculation that I'd like every Calculus student to be able to do on demand. If you forget the rule and you know that argument, you can figure it out again.
How much money is SpaceX putting into rocket science vs front-end development?
If we are worried about hateful propaganda the ratio is not really a relevant measure, the chans have a small user base compared to social networks, propaganda in Facebook could have a massive reach, thats a bigger risk than a fringe group in their own circlejerk, people are just irrationally attacking what they dont know about, for fear and/or pushing the agenda.
With even first world governments engaging in significant censorship of harmful incidents, I would respond that anyone seeking to empower governments to limit freedom of speech is in the unethical position, and any trust in a government is naïve. How many more cover ups and incidents of government corruption are needed before we realize that centralizing violence is itself a bad thing and we should seek maximization of individual liberty?
It seems little known, but Matlab has had Python interop since 2015, your code would just be

res = py.numpy.fft.fft(rand(10,1))
That's artful! Your salary request is very reasonable assuming you've got the kinds of skills Amazon wants. Which is obviously the case.

But your housing parameters will freak them out. I'm seeing that the average house within Toronto city limits goes for $1.39 million. Your mortgage-payment cap lets you borrow only $410,000 or so at current Canadian rates.

So they need to pay you a lot more to get you into the house you want. And at that stage, they turn pale and get off the phone.
How are whistleblowers a threat? People like Donald Rumsfeld ought to be tried for war crimes. The "annexation" of Hawaii was both a war crime and a violation of the constitution (read: crime). All of these are common knowledge, well documented, yet there are very few people who are actually doing anything about it.
Curious. Do you have any example of a site using it? I noticed that reCaptcha has become much, much worse recently and I assumed that this must be this v3, but I've never encountered one that would actually have no fallback and prevent me from using the site.
Coming up with the rent.
Except Americans have ALWAYS had extensive access to firearms, but frequent massacres by emotional hotheads are a fairly recent problem. In the 1920s you could buy a fully automatic Thompson sub-machine gun via mail order. People weren't shooting up schools regularly, and the worst massacre in the 1920s was done with explosives. Access to weapons hasn't really changed, so what has changed about the American PEOPLE?
> People are doing the "yada yada not entitled to a platform" thing, but the distinction between free speech and having a platform is meaningless in reality. It's like saying "you can say anything you want, but we won't let you use the atmosphere to propagate the sound waves".

But the size of the platform is commensurate with the tolerability of the speech, right? No one is preventing you from standing in a public place making whatever objectionable claims you want. But reddit/facebook/cloudflare/whoever don't have an obligation to let you use their platform to publish it if they don't like it.

This is certainly not a meaningless distinction.

In the age of print media, some random guy's fringe opinions were not "required to be published" -- you couldn't even buy a classified ad espousing objectionable content in large publications. No "ban" required.

> We now live in a society where it is acceptable for private companies to essentially completely ban individuals from exercising their free speech

We have always lived in such a society. And it's not "private companies" it's people. Some person makes this decision.
>One result set is equivalent to another, and as long as you aren't using unnecessary nested loop joins or such, there are a dozen ways to solve a query.

If they consume similar resources I'd almost always opt for the simplest one to understand.

In cases where the simpler one is less efficient, I might still use it if the task didn't require absolute optimization.
The problem for 8chan wasn't having bad users, every place has those, it was the specific way which it enabled them. Reddit or Facebook make effort to take down extremist threats, which puts them in a different league altogether. I'm fine with taking down places that enable them in that way and it hasn't seemed to have led to the slippery slope you are worried about so far.
I'm interested in how that can be the case. Do you mind sharing some more details of how normal people can go off the deep end through their experiences on the sites?
You've hit the nail on the head
What if one day the government decides it wants to get in the business of offering ‘basic hosting’ for everyone. Would we say, well, no we can’t sensor that, that would be government censorship?

My point is I don’t think evaluating it on government/private business is very helpful in determining whether something should be allowed or not.
1. Snopes is a well known leftist hotbed and anything they print should be taken with a grain of salt as it's not unbiased.

They are caught up in a legal dispute that is still carrying on.

Linking something to them is no better than a fortune cookie.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/12/22/the-dai...
Huh, interesting, thanks for sharing. Maybe they're just using it as an address to open up accounts for other stuff?
True, I'm just saying you can't stop people talking. Nature always balances out one way or another.
Western companies have been happy to hand over IP. It's part of the deal. If they didn't like the deal, they wouldn't have gone to China. It can't be called 'theft' when it was willingly given.
Just look at the absurdity of Qanon. This troll gone long [1] has affected real people and real relationships [2].

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-three-conspiracy-...

[2] https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a22664244/qanon-boyfri...