skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hypothesis:

When people are powerless for a long period of time, all they learn is the "language" of power, and every issue is cast as a life-or-death struggle where you are either with them or against them. When such people are close to attaining power, actually achieving it is the only thing that matters to them. They often become just as dogmatic oppressors as the people they fought against. It takes time to learn higher-level "languages" like empathy, or justice, or reasoned argument, and typically these skills can only be learned in a situation where you have a certain baseline of personal power. And so you get see-saw effects where the groups on top change but nothing is ever more just about the society.

I can see this dynamic with certain Hacker News personalities who've been in powerless positions in the past and hence frame every comment as an us vs. them struggle, and it also explains the political history of numerous countries (eg. Russia, Rwanda, Israel/Palestine) in the modern era. It's a very common theme in arts & literature as well, eg. 1984, The Hunger Games, The Who ("Won't get fooled again"), South Park.
> Sure. But I think that a lot of people hold various opinions because they just haven't thought about it too hard. They've just gone along with whatever they've been taught from childhood, and they're just kind of parroting their indoctrination. That doesn't make them bad.

It's funny you say this because I was discussing the exact same thing with a friend today. There's some views I have where previously I have been incredulous that anyone could support the opposite view -- "How can anyone possibly support something so horrible and wrong?" But then I think, is 50% of the population really be evil? No, of course not. That's ridiculous. I think most people have good intentions with what they believe, and if they have the opposite viewpoint on something that is important to you, it's not the case that they're evil people who just don't care about morality; it's far more likely that they truly think their viewpoint is moral and just.
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I've been looking for something like python's pandas as well, so curious what they say.

Loving Wisp! I've been needing something exactly like it and will definitely be making use of it. So thanks!
I think that's more the fact that any leftists you can get to stay in a room together for five minutes without tearing each others throats out, will by necessity be ideologically consistent with each other.

I'm leftist, but I'm also pro-gun (how else to overthrow the ruling class, after all), and I think there are probably some innate gender differences in humans, much like there are in e.g. Sumatran orangutans. I wouldn't last two minutes in deBoer's class, and while I'm leftist, I could never be an ally of The Left.
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Regretting getting insurance just because nothing happened is pointless. Sounds like a sane choice to me.
> That was 2006...If that's your reference on Microsoft's standards support, it's not the full picture.

The new standard for high capacity SD Cards - SDXC - specifies a filesystem in the standard. That filesystem is exFAT, a proprietary, patent-encumbered filesystem from Microsoft.

Microsoft like to make out that they're an all new and open company, but they were a nasty company in the past, and they're a nasty company now.
I ve given beego a go and although it is closer to a full stack solution to write in golang, I find it lacking still, and I am still looking for someone to share their experience by example moving from NodeJs.
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Actually, I would like to see a case by case comparison why / how go's concurrency primitives are nicer/better than something equivalent in node.js/javascript.
It's still the same argument. I didn't see Steve Jobs offering to pay extra taxes. And I don't see the Occupy crowd complaining about Jobs. Or Soros for that matter (who financed the Occupy movement). OTOH the Koch brothers and any republican 1%ers seem to be fair game. It seems some billionaires are more equal than others.
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The difference between this choice and insurance is that insurance would not have improved or affected my quality of life in that period, whereas the ability to hear on two sides most definitely would have (and would have probably prevented at least three accidents I was involved in).
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As Kristian wrote "Political Correctness is really just a special form of conspicuous consumption, leading to a zero-sum status race. The fact that PC fans are still constantly outraged, despite the fact that PC has never been so pervasive, would then just be a special form of the Easterlin Paradox" http://www.iea.org.uk/blog/the-economics-of-political-correc...
Thanks, much clearer now. :)
It is rendered native (described in js) not in a webview. Otherwise they should call it web components.
That would all be more reassuring if the Census Bureau hadn't assisted in rounding up Japanese Americans during WWII. Whether or not intelligence agencies track minorities now is irrelevant. If Congress ever decides all Arab Americans, or Japanese Americans, or Mexican Americans, or any other hated minority de jour, are a threat to National Security, they'll repeal the laws protecting census data again, and the FBI will have those records within days.
I'm assuming that there's an option to require approval before installing downloaded updates. Yes?
Actually, the answer is right there in the story, and it's one word: iPhone.

> the iPhone accounted for 69 percent of its revenue

Without the iPhone, Apple would still be huge, but they'd just be a luxury computer maker who dabbled in some portables, and there would be no talk at all of having passed Microsoft.
What's important is that they all hate the customer together... Or at least have a healthy disdain thereof.
Until you can make signifcantly more money off the returns of a broad index fund vs. your near future salary, it's not worth the labor to try to beat the most well capitalized and skilled finance firms in the world in the stock market.

So if you can make 250k/yr and you get a %5 net return from an index fund, it's not worth it to play stock investor until you have $5mm in the bank.

So if you have $300k in the bank, the constant hours of life, labor and anxiety might get you +%5 more return than usual (doubtful) and you've spent a huge amount of hours to make an extra $15k that year. It usually ends up less than minimum wage and you were better off just doing contract programming work on the side.

And the reason why the stock market is inflated like crazy is because central governments of the world have been printing money like crazy with QE everywhere, and it has to go somewhere...

Just buy an index fund, your going to have a relatively large amount of apple stock indirectly as a result anyway.
Turtle shell.
My reaction to Gamergate was to continue playing video games and to continue not reading 'Games Journalism' because I already knew it was payola garbage. As for your friends my suggestion would be to discuss other shared interests. It's possible - even common - for both 'sides' of an issue to be way off the mark.
The biggest reason why I still dont use coffeescript is that most compile javascript tooling doesnt work. I cant use types from TypeScript, or use JSX extentions with coffeescript.
Does something like this require DOT approval?

In the case of the Tesla there is no emissions change but are there safety changes that need to be retested?
Nope. I always recommend Windows phones for my not-so-technical friends, especially for entry level prices, because they offer much better out of the box experience than stock Android IMHO. Of course, if friend in question had enough skills to install CM, that's another talk..
I know streamers with over 10 000 subscribers, which alone is $50,000 a month (Twitch takes a big cut of that but still). On top of that they receive donations every few seconds, in the range of $2 to hundreds. It's not unusual to see donations over $1000. Most streamers are completely transparent about their donations since they show up as notifications on the stream and the streamer thanking them.

Also, most streamers make pretty good money from referral programs.
Are you sure? I've never seen Forsen below 15,000 concurrent viewers. I would say 15,000 to 20,000 is his standard.
I absolutely detest the way some people "argue" and attempt to shame their opponent. Shaming doesn't work on me; it just pisses me off. As soon as someone begins attacking me as a person instead of my argument, I lose all patience with them and honestly start to view them as stupid and incapable of rational thought. The conversation on their end normally contains an implicit assumption that their viewpoint is automatically the correct one (no willingness to even hear other perspectives), and personal attack techniques include phrases like, "you are trolling" (even though half the US population shares the "troll" viewpoint), "the flaw in your argument is...", "unless you are a [something genetically immutable], your privileged white male opinion does not matter". Pull up the list of logical fallacies on Wikipedia and they hit almost every single one of them.

I have had calm, rational debates with people who have viewpoints that are completely opposite to mine. Both of us come away from the conversation feeling enlightened, and occasionally one of us changes our mind on an issue because of a persuasive argument. This is what a good debate should be like. But unfortunately, people who can debate like this are few and far between.

Far more often I just end up frustrated and leave the "debate" part way through. So many people get angry and emotional if you criticize their viewpoint, and I don't have the time or energy to deal with it. Although sometimes if I'm in a good mood, I will stir things up for entertainment: if I am listening to a debate between two people I know, and one of them is using shaming tactics and logical fallacies, I will join in on the conversation (if permitted) and automatically take the side against theirs, even if I have the exact same viewpoint that they do. Then I will tear their argument down the best way I know how (it's fun to argue against your own belief). And at the end I will reveal that my viewpoint was actually the same as theirs.
Insane mode is great but an extra gear or something would would also be nice for even more performance.

http://youtu.be/r4CnSS4OG4A
We have ~10.000 selenium- and htmlunit-tests, run on multiple VMs to test against our product.
Writing and maintaining tests is quite good due to a lot of helper classes, but test-execution needs ~24h.
Currently we are trying to decrease the number of ui tests and increase component tests which should run a lot faster.
> This definitely happens, but not as some sort of organized strategy by "the left".

That's not true. It absolutely is an organized strategy by the left.

Anti-oppression activism is founded on social constructionist theories. These claim that bigotry and prejudice are subtly reproduced in society through language. So activists are scrupulous in cleansing their speech of any hint of prejudiced beliefs, no matter how minor, because they believe that if they can accomplish that, prejudice itself will disappear.

But people who aren't activists are also reproducing prejudice through their speech, so the problem becomes how can you get all of them to stop doing that too. The answer is to make it morally unacceptable. Minor phrases like "man up" turn into huge ethical lapses that are worthy of censure and shaming.

Not using those phrases become matters of empathy and not being an asshole towards unknown persons who are offended. But really, no one is offended, it's just a tactic for redefining linguistic norms.
Is your comment directly relevant to the posting or just tangentially?
Well, taking out insurance usually comes with a cost. All I'm saying is that I think I would do the same.
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I've recently launched a wiki based on MediaWiki, which is the first deployment of MediaWiki I've done in about a decade. I have been really impressed. They've got technical debt, sure, but they're doing an excellent job paying it down, and moving forward without ever throwing away the whole project and starting over. I spent a lot of time evaluating wikis before relaunching this one (it was running on TWiki for years, on DokuWiki before that, and was a static site generated from DocBook XML or DocBook SGML before that), and was surprised to find MediaWiki was such a clear winner.

I probably shouldn't have been surprised, given the resources behind it and the size of it's userbase, but I still had notions that it would be like the MediaWiki of old: Slapped together rapidly, always barely ahead of the demands of WikiPedia and never having time to clean up and fix the warts.

I wrote a simple module for it, as well as an importer (using existing libraries to go from TWiki to MediaWiki markup, but we had some complexity coming over from such an old/large wiki), and found it really nice to work with. I don't like that it stores content in the database, rather than on the filesystem, but they provide such a nice import/export tool that I forgave them. And, performance is good; at least as good as the TWiki it replaced (which was also sufficiently fast), and much faster than some of the other similarly busy sites I maintain (this site gets about 60,000 visitors a month and a couple hundred thousand pageviews, and runs on a modest 4GB VM alongside several other sites).

In short, MediaWiki is a great example of an old project aging very gracefully. I'm happy to be working with it again. I'd become frustrated with wikis after several painful upgrades of TWiki that kept breaking things further and further until the site was barely functional Likewise, while DokuWiki and MoinMoin were great tools and I've used them to good effect a number of times, they haven't really seen the kind of advancements MediaWiki has had.
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Witness how difficult and ineffective policies to ensure accountability for teachers and eliminate the bad ones are. Consider the difficulty in reducing dependency programs (e.g., SS, Medicare) - these are political non-starters due to old people voting.

On the cultural front, note how difficult it is even to criticize teachers or government dependents. Consider the media reaction when Romney correctly pointed out that about half the population is at least partly dependent on the government, or how right wing politicians are described as "attacking" teachers when they propose anything the educational establishment dislikes.

Or think for a moment about any policy which might reduce the status of either group - for example, partially replacing teachers with machines, or shaming people on welfare. How do you think such a policy would be received?
But businesses work on an accrual basis: once the contract is closed, and you can reasonably assume that some influx of capital is real, you put it in the accounting system.

And then: if I am a shareholder, and I own part of the company, why can't I have access to the internal not-yet-audited general ledger status? It's my company, right? It should be feasible to give me access to a secure site where I can get the information...

I believe the real reasons, rather than technical infeasibility, are mainly two:

- Extreme "corporate governance": If shareholders can react on every minute transaction that you do, and they effectively micromanage the company, there is still more incentive for short-term thinking (a problem that a lot of listed companies are already very familiar with).

- Strategy: If competitors can buy one of your shares, they would get access to all your information. You can still do the same, though: on public companies, information is either public, or private. But who is going to start? Who is going to rush to be open to the competitor?
For me Twitch has completely replaced watching TV. It's just casual and nice to have on.
Crucifying someone publicly and professionally for their political views when their job has little to do with them just doesn't sit right for me, even if I find his views on gay marriage deplorable.

We used to fire people from their jobs (and worse) because they were gay. What happened to Brendan isn't too different, and the result is the same: removing someone from their job because of something that has little to do with their ability to do it...

Edit: they're not exactly the same, of course. I just find their too close for comfort. Whatever happened to "I disagree with what you're saying, but will defend to death your right to say it"? When did the side of the political spectrum I agree with become okay with thoughtcrime and censorship? Brendan's case is slightly less sympathetic for me than others, but it's an issue I've seen time and time again, and it's what the OP is talking about.
You can turn this argument around too, though.

Imagine that you own a bus company in the South in the 1950s. You personally believe that blacks should have every right that whites have, including the ability to sit up front. However, if you passed that policy on your busses, all your white ridership would refuse to buy tickets. Your bus drivers would quit. Your shareholders would fire you. And it's all for naught anyway, because your customers would go to competing bus lines with bigoted owners who hire all your employees away. So you make blacks go to the back of the bus, just like everyone else.

Does this mean Rosa Parks was incredibly naive?

On a pragmatic level, you're right - companies are under constraints imposed by their stakeholders. But if you're talking moral philosophy or what is right, it's not enough to make arguments based on what everybody else believes. You need to be able to come up with some distinction that holds even if you swap white to black to gay. Are people entitled to their jobs, regardless of their race? Are they entitled to their views? Are they entitled to make political contributions? What are the basic rights that we choose to protect for our citizenry, regardless of the specific form that their expression takes?

Part of what made the Brendan Eich issue so problematic for a lot of people is that upholding his right to hold his own personal and political views is not inherently contradictory with upholding the rights of gay Mozilla employees & community members to have a safe working environment. He had publicly promised to uphold Mozilla's existing non-discriminatory and LGBT-friendly policies, and to prevent his personal views from interfering with his duties at Mozilla.
I'm actually planning on buying one and now you make me worried. What are the bugs you're encountering?
FYI, i asked HN a couple of months ago a similar question:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8349678

My personal impression is that Go slowly tilts over the hype peak and becomes just another tool in the box (that is a good thing, IMHO). The golang-codereview mailing list is very active, so I do not see any indication that Go crawls in a corner and dies any soon.
For non-typical web backend development and network programming I find the included libraries excellent. Probably I would not use it for a straightforward CRUD server. What do you mean by general development?
Reread my post. Eich had to step down precisely because of his inability to do the job.
Does these readymade admin templates actually helps?
i think they are over bloated, though it seems nice (Tutti frutti)

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That sounds like exactly the way to say it. Well, maybe add in "because I love you" as well. ;)
It does. But that's one of the things I loved about small-l liberals, when I was younger this focus on "thoughtcrime" wasn't there. Now we are not that much better in this regard than those we are opposed to. Horseshoe theory I guess.
That video was hilarious, thanks!
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As a user, Cyanogen is a great improvement over stock Android, no question. But there is zero hope of "regain[ing] complete control over the devices we own" without open-source radios and firmware. Just sayin'.
Even granting your premise that a Google employee could leak the gag order undetectably (and I'm not confident about that, since the universe of people to investigate would be relatively small), there would still be serious repercussions to deal with.

At bottom, there's someone at Google in charge of overseeing the gag order. If the gag order leaks and they can't figure out who's responsible, I'm pretty sure they end up going to jail - if only because a court would have a hard time telling the difference between genuinely not being able to find the leaker and stonewalling / implementing a cover-up.
Extremely impressive, have been watching this technology and have seen a number of folks attempt this.
I've never used a typed language at all (only PHP, JS, Python etc). Why is it a big deal? I read the Wikipedia article but didn't understand why.
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The same argument could be mad about Google and search. I don't think Microsoft will ever come out with something as big as Windows. Nor do I believe Apple will top the iPhone. For the next great profit generating product I'd bet on existing companies that aren't bogged down by legacy products. Maybe Facebook with Oculus or Amazon with AWS?
>Question: if it came out that Eich had donated to, say, the KKK, would you feel the same way?

Yep. Although that would be a much higher "this won't affect his job performance" bar than Eich's anti-gay marriage stance, which passed that bar because his was a purely religious stance and pretty clearly didn't imply personal or professional animosity toward homosexuals (amidst all the flak I never read a single anecdote about him mistreating a gay person, and you'd be damn sure that would have surfaced).

The KKK is a hate group, and so he'd have to demonstrate somehow that he was no longer personally or professionally hateful. That would only be possible if someone was truly reformed, a la Edward Norton in American History X.

...seems the opposite of nuanced...

The nuance is that humans are not built to defend the rights of their enemies, but that is precisely what consistency demands, what I did, and am doing now.
As an employee of a company, you are not entitled to take down the company for your views. You are entitled to your views, but not to that job.

In your scenario, Rosa Parks is not naïve. She would be naïve if she assumed she were entitled to run the bus company. By fixing all bus companies from the outside, she was shrewd (or in her telling, simply too tired to comply).
An extra gear would not give more performance, the reason cars with internal combustion engines have gears is because they do not produce their full power at low engine speeds, whereas electric motors do, hence why the Tesla does not have nor would benefit from a gearbox.

You can see why a gearbox is a disadvantage in this video here:

http://youtu.be/0e-jquwHKtI?t=30s

During the first 2 gear changes you can see the lambo fall behind during gear changes.
Because it leads to discontent:
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