skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The barrier between us strapping a gun onto one of these, and hooking the trigger to some AI seems to be not one of technology, but politics. I really think we need a Geneva Convention of robots, and I hope we actually follow it (including clandestine operations).
You are shifting the goalposts. The original commenter just stated that they didn't feel enthusiastic about using a language without a debugger. Not that they couldn't solve a problem without a debugger.

The type of argument you are making has been used throughout the history of computing as a reason to avoid using computers to solve problems. For literally any problem that is solvable by computers, you can make an argument about how using a computer to do it means you lose the ability to solve it by hand. From accounting to engineering to programming to administration to physics to writing, in all these areas (and more) older practitioners have bemoaned the use of computers to quickly and accurately solve problems that they have spent a lifetime mastering how to solve by hand. The reason for their opposition is pretty clear.

I don't know why this type of attitude is so prevalent among some sections of the programmer community. Programmers are the people who should most of all appreciate the ability of computers to automate tedious and error prone tasks. Yet for a certain class of easily automatable programming problems there is a group of programmers who resist very strongly the use of computers to automate. Maybe it's just the same old issue of not wanting to admit that something they spent a long time mastering isn't very useful anymore and that they are getting outcompeted in the marketplace. I think there is a bit of unpleasant machismo about it as well though; the idea that you aren't a 'real' programmer unless you eschew a certain level of automation (be that high level languages or compilers or version control or automated build systems or syntax highlighting or tools to refactor code etc).
>Most people are feminists in some sense.

..using the completely contrived (and incorrect) definition of "feminism" that asserts anyone who believes in equality is a feminist.

That is not how groups work.

I believe that black people should have the same rights as everyone else too, but that does not make me a member of the "black power" movement. I believe in meditation and stilling of the mind, but that does not make me a Buddhist.

Why is feminism the only group that tries to claim dominion over otherwise unaffiliated people? As far as I know, it is unique in that respect. I can't think of any other ideology, good or bad, that operates in this way.

Given the behavior of prominent/famous feminists (say, campaigning for the abolition of due process, which is the single most fucked up thing I think I've read this year), that is not a label I want to be anywhere near. It is anti-intellectual, it is toxic, and I want nothing to do with it.
PG's answer to my silly self-doubt question:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5220936
They are doing the world a favor by showing that nothing is safe.
It is a valid Unicode letter so should be acceptable in EcmaScript 5.
You don't want to hold up the author as intellectually honest. He sneaks in a propaganda organ on par with the Party from 1984 as one of his sources without admitting that is what they are. :/

http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/aboutus/ runs some of what he is using as "evidence". They are pretty clearly a political organization with an agenda. If the author wasn't in the same vein, he'd have disclosed that or used someone else.

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EDIT:

For example this guy:

> Your post feels eerily reminiscent of pro-industry conservatives pointing at snow and saying,"Global Climate Shift is a fallacy!" Maybe he used a poor source (though i think you'd have a hard time finding any data aggregator that does not have some political lean), but amongst how many credible ones? In my industry, the last day on the job is all that matters. On a 50 day job, 49 perfects mean nothing if the one bad one is on the last day. I always hated this; IMO it has no place in logical debate/discussion.

Since I'm rate limited and people are making various claims I'm going to point this out:

It isn't a "data aggregator with a political leaning", it is literally owned by an institution founded exclusively to further a single political party.

http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/campus/activism.cfm?Idea=...

> Over 30,000 scientists have signed a petition, publicly voicing their dissent over the consensus regarding climate change. - See more at: http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/campus/activism.cfm?Idea=...

If you actually look at the list you find a bunch of people like these folks:

> Donald R. Buechel, MD, Walter R. Buerger, MD

They strongly imply its "climate scientists" when in reality its anyone they can claim has a Phd.

These are trained liars who lie through omission regularly. That isn't anywhere near "the same" as a newspaper with a political leaning.

To hold them up as a source when you claim you are being intellectually honest [and not disclosing what they are] really is dishonest.
Someone should make a Godwin's Law for Millennials, because I've never seen any sort of good come out of an argument involving the word "Millenials".
Like the others, net/http with gorilla packages pulled in as needed. Nginx for static files and a reverse proxy for go. Upstart, and that's about it!
The Evolution of the Employee
Sorry, I don't know what planet you're living on but here in the real world of professional software development much of the world's software has to compile in Visual Studio -- which did not support C99 for years and still only partially supports it.
If you have a late 2012 or early 2013 MBP you will know that your MBP will restart every time you played a video from youtube because they had a faulty GPU and refused to acknowledge it. There are problems with everything including the chromebooks but Apple's focus on quality is making Microsoft think twice and as a result is lifting all boats.
The WaPo author explicitly says, "This is not a legal argument about what standards we should use in the courts; it’s a moral one, about what happens outside the legal system."

The Medium piece conflates social justice and legal justice. Slavery was legal, so forcibly returning slaves to their owners was legally just. However, we came to recognize it as a moral wrong, something socially unjust. Eventually, we changed the laws, but the cultural change had to happen first.
I appreciate the elegance of the Robertson screw.
Wolfram Alpha didn't recognise "Eye of Sauron":

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=graph+looks+like+Sauro...
I am going to take a slightly different position. I am very new to all of this, and i learn more from the arguments that occur than the back slapping. This is because i am nearly ignorant of all the things i am interested in [crypto, mesh nets, managing Devs] and i personally learn more when verbal sabers are crossed. Obviously, i am talking fact +opinion v. fact + opinion, not troll v. snipe. i completely believe that positive comments have a larger net positive splash and i think the positivity push here on HN is great.

Edit: Spelling
"It's hip to be square"

- Huey Lewis
I would agree in general that the left has appropriated and advocates the kind of extreme, life-changing response to perceived enemies that it has accused the right of using. I do think that ultimately there will be backlash against this. The left mentions routinely that it has demographics on its side, but I could just as easily envision them being perceived as having gone too far and being the 'establishment' that people will eventually work to rebel against - though at that point, it may be too late.
This only happened because he wrote his resume in Emacs or vi. A real programmer would have used MS-Word and it would have autocorrected.
>when did this become a Millennial phenomenon?

If I had to guess I would attribute it to the fact that the internet allows radical viewpoints to not only be heard more easily, but it also enables congregation point to exist. I'm not implying that this type of radicalism is new millennial-exclusive thinking, just that it's more noticeable now.
You're not really refuting any of his points, you only compared it to "MRA literature" to deflect from having to actually form a counter argument. It's the same as when the "MRAs" compare feminism to nazism.

>There's no discussion to be had

That's the problem. SJWs don't want to discuss anything, just point fingers while sitting atop their high-horse.

>a refusal to listen to reason and instead substitute your own perception of how the world works.

It sounds to me like you're using the same exact rhetoric that the "MRAs" use against the SJWs.

Personally I think the article is very well thought out and I've seen first hand how self described "social justice warriors" can be completely authoritarian, racist, and bigoted.
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"I'm pretty stoked... it isn't every day that a guy like me gets to find an honest-to-god hardware bug in a major cpu!"

I find Matt Dillon's enthusiasm and humbleness admirable. He's been active for donkey's years, pumping out stuff since the days of comp.os.amiga (if memory serves), and created his own filesystem and BSD distro, AFAIK not out of vanity but to do and share research.

People like him should get more public recognition.
If you find this confusing--especially the pricing and the minimal functionality--consider that ThoughtBot is a contract shop that also happens to package up some of their client work into side products and educational materials. They probably developed this as functionality for a client.

That's probably also the pattern with: "FormKeep is a form backend for your static sites. No need for iframes, JS embeds, and CSS overrides." https://formkeep.com/

Take the example of Pivotal Labs developing Pivotal Tracker for their in-house work and starting to sell it on the side over time.
Thanks for the feedback. Will look into the font chooser. EDIT: Font chooser should be working now.

Yes, to have us process the form you need to POST to our server and add the formden.js to the page. The JavaScript is there to repopulate the form and show validation errors if the POST is rejected.
I feel like these are special cased, searching for:
graph looks like <object>
with any random object turns up junk.

Edit: then again it does work with Obama but not with Richard Nixon.
Both sides can learn something from history.
Hahaha, this made. my. day.
The moderate majority doesn’t make for a good article, it’s true, however it is worthwhile to call out the bullies nonetheless.

I have experienced this from those older than millenials, too. But as someone in their mid-20s, I’m kind of in the thick of the part of the internet where the bullies reside, and it’s certainly not just on Tumblr.
> Yeah, there's a handful of misguided activists who read
> malice into everything. But they're the minority
> (albeit a loud one).

And there's the problem. It's not that the represent them majority, it's that, by sheer volume, they've managed to set the terms of the the debate to suit their own viewpoint, biases, and beliefs. Even movement has its fruitcakes and its lunatics, but when they're the ones setting the agenda, it becomes a real problem and actively undermines the otherwise noble, sensible aims.
Sounds like something that could be used to generate endless but still decent elevator music with some Markov chains.
They also list microservices as a goal instead of a solution to a problem.

This is all just tech hipsterism.
I deploy the old version to new virtual machines and reconfigure the loadbalancer to direct traffic to those instances. Or I do a rolling downgrade, one machine at a time and excludes machines being downgraded in the LB. This takes a minute or so (everything is automated) and there is no downtime.
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Yes, of course, but why isn't the first chord in the progression labeled in the diagram? All the others are. There's just a big wall labeled "Start".

Things like this make me feel like I am disconnected from the rest of the world. How can anyone look at that diagram for one second and not see this glaring and confusing omission?
I really liked this comment from graycat, who was advocating for being a solo founder (which is what I'd like to do):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8640126
Fair enough. I (largely) agree with the article as written and know nothing about the author or their views beyond this.
A 'ballet of drones' for non-military use:

http://www.dw.de/drohnen-ballett-am-nachthimmel/av-18203468 (German dubbing)
Well every feminist I've ever gotten into a debate with eventually links to the "geek feminism wiki" as some kind of irrefutable source of proof of misogyny when in reality anyone and everyone can edit it.

This article isn't nearly as bad as the "pro-feminist" stuff I see all the time.
Agree 100% with that sentiment, but I think the problem is actually lower in the political food chain. The Department of Transportation is very pro-active about adding bike lanes (in contrast to previous generations at the DOT), but they are often blocked by old stodgy community boards in the city. The minority of people that own cars are heavily involved in that level of government, and bikers/pedestrians are not coming out and supporting bike lanes. If people focus on those meetings, the DOT will get more done.
> no-one in the real world gives two hoots about #1

I was reasonably glad I could swap more RAM and an SSD (twice) into my current machine.
I vastly prefer the compose key method on Linux. You almost never have to worry about how to type a character. Type compose, hit something that vaguely looks like the accent you want, and then the letter.

Compose, ", e => ë

Compose, ', e => é

Compose, ^, e => ê

I so wish this system was available more universally.
If anyone has interest in harmonic theory and why I/IV/V progressions are so pervasive, I highly recommend "The Harmonic Experience" by W.A. Mathieu.

He really gets into the harmonic series, and how intervals are really low prime ratios.

I read this book after being a professional musician for 15 years and it was an ear opening experience. there are lots of great singing exercises for really hearing the overtone series.

it's pretty much the "art of computer programming" for music.
Yeah, but they've been doing that for years. Remember all the people burning themselves with Macbooks?
Hah, I always liked the rubber-band-over-the-screw trick, had a couple inky experiences with bics.

The one way screws were pretty easy to beat with a bit of superglue!
There is a lot of assumption going on (that a human messed up). Even if that was the case I've never known it to be a place that would have knee jerk reactions like that. The company is more interested in saying "failures will happen, how do we prevent them from becoming major issues?".
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Why Should Cancer Make Me Want to Knit?
Damn, this will definitely hurt the recruitment efforts of the dark side.
Is This the Coolest Technology Ever?
There was a discussion about the age of startup founders:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9086670

I found this uplifting because being constantly barraged with the success of people 2/3rds your age can be depressing.
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Okay great! I was reading up on customs declaration forms and have seen that there is a fair amount of red tape I'd have to get through before domestically operating an I/X company.
if he hadn't of looked at them then he wouldn't be able to know if his statement was true or just blatant speculation. Would you advocate a stance of ignorance based public policy creation too? "The NSA is totally not spying on US citizens or violating anyone's privacy." ... "Oh ok. no need to address that." You've got to verify your claims about other people's actions before you go around proclaiming how bad they are.
This is great work. What I really want now is a version where you can listen to the chords in the chart individually and in progression!
I just swapped the two and it feels more natural! I prefer having the cmd key next to the spacebar.
"+100. I can tell the guy writing this essay is young. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I'd love to be young again too. But when I look back over my twenties I don't find myself wishing I had worked more hours on my startup." [1]

Perhaps not "uplifting" on the surface of it, but it had a rather profound impact on me nonetheless when I stumbled across it about three years ago. (See my reply[2] and the rest of the thread for a bit more context.) However indirectly, drumdance (among others) made me realize that I still had a chance to make my own path through my twenties.

A couple months later, I decided to pick up and move to Berlin. Today, my life is full of the things that I decided would make up my personal definition of happiness:

"I want to take advantage of my youth to discover more things that make me happy. I want to travel—a lot. I want to learn new languages. I want to meet amazing people. I also want to design and build things, but I don't think that it has to take over my life." [2]

(Forgive me for quoting myself!)

So thank you drumdance, mrooney, simonsarris, neilk, and michaelochurch. I'm fairly sure I wouldn't be where I am today if I hadn't read your critical yet encouraging words.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4341926

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4342680
Nothing is a panacea. There will always be those who have trouble with whatever your approach is. The reason for expulsion is generally violence. We bent over backwards with one kid, but he was violent and neither he nor his parents showed any understanding that violence was a bad thing.

Often the issue is actually with the parents. There are parents who simply think that violence and lying are okay for kids. And their influence will always dominate.

The model for us seems to fit 95% of kids that come in.
I'm a US fan myself - I love the culture - but its people are being misled continously by the powers that be (military industrial complex tag-teaming with a handful of media moguls).

As so often the case it's about money and power (e.g. oil). Where was the police during the Rwanda and Dafur genocides? Even the UN kept relatively silent in contrast to how horrible those were.
See Docker 1.6, Compose 1.2, and Machine 0.2 in action at https://realpython.com/blog/python/dockerizing-flask-with-co...

Cheers!
Third comment, but I wanted to share this too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9086475

It was the discussion asking founders what their lifestyle is like. I found it to be a really good glance inside their lives and it helps motivate me to continue working.
wow this is fantastic. captivating. I can't wait to go home and play now!
What weird conspiracy theory are you flogging? I can't even make sense of the accusation here.
The reason it seems this way is that the handful of misguided activists work to silence the large proportion of moderates.

Tumblr, as an example, is not a place where you can admit moderate views about feminism or identity politics without getting shouted down. This results in moderates self-censoring and refusing to talk about their views publicly online, resulting in a hateful echo chamber completely lacking in subtlety.
Say nothing, do as your conscience tells you.
I'd argue that this is not an instance of dishonesty. The ideologies of groups like the one you linked to, despite being radical, are quickly becoming mainstream.

You've got an author in a mainstream newspaper who can write that due process shouldn't exist, and this is taken seriously in the current political climate.

You've got an ideology that asserts your identity is more important than the content of your character, and this is taken seriously.

You've got an ideology that states literally any dissent is at least bad, at most hateful, and this is taken seriously.

The example you link to is not dishonest because it is not meant to be an example of "everyday" thoughts by everyday people, it is meant to be an example of radicalism becoming mainstream.
I have a backlit keyboard in my MacBook Pro Retina, but even in the dark I am able to touch type without needing to look at my keyboard.

Once you learn to touch type you no longer care about what is printed on the keys or that there is a light to light up the keyboard because it is no longer important.
> Y'all gotta get off tumblr. Yeah, there's a handful of misguided activists who read malice into everything. But they're the minority

But isn't the problem the fact that if nobody speaks out against them that they'll eventually continue to grow? I mean, a minority opinion graduating into the opinion of a majority isn't exactly improbable or unprecedented.

And if that doesn't happen, you'll possibly have something even worse; you'll end up with what's been going on with Muslims where people think all muslims are extremist terrorists who hold radical views (because of a minority). Obviously that's not the case but many people really do think like that. Not helping matters is their most prominent leaders remain silent on those extremist views. Sure, you'll have a few leaders here and there putting in PR time while speaking out against extremism, but there's no conviction and it's not backed up by actual actions. The moderates and their leaders should be the fiercest fighters of that extremism and that's just simply not the case.
Why doesn't my browser offer the ability to comment on any site?
Eh, I don't think so. The bit he used is designed to be a wrench bit, it's not designed for the oval screw used by the nspresso, it just works coincidentally.
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Unfortunately common outcome in Merger&Acquisition stories.
Nobody ever said due process shouldn't exist except the author. Again, another scarecrow the author sets up to dehumanize the opposition. The point raised was about listening to rape victims, taking their accusations seriously, and not blaming the victim, but somehow this is against due process? This isn't about the accused but the accuser.

Due process is a legal situation, and it matters after an arrest and during the investigation of a crime. Listening to rape victims at face value is not a violation of due process.
I wish we could do counterfactual analysis. I would love to see if it was traditional education that led people to requiring a class to learn or if it is intrinsic.

As a species, we certainly have strong mentoring needs for learning mastery. But that is quite different from requiring a class.
You make an excellent point. It will be heretofore known as "Lancey's Law". There you go.
The page seems to be down, but the images are still loading. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3...
> Other than that, 8GB RAM and a 120GB SSD gave it the much needed boost (5 years ago...).

Which actually proves the GP point that making devices not easily repairable and upgradable does generate more e-waste
Most languages have similar capabilities. E.g. in Java you can define a method called ★★★ if you want (edit: this specific example doesn't seem to work, but certainly non-ascii method names are possible). The difference is cultural; Java libraries generally wouldn't define such a method, while certain Scala libraries might.
I don't know this is exclusive to Millenials, so I'll be generic:

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of decrying someone's argument due to race or gender approaches 1.

Really, this is just a precursor for Godwin's Law, because this will be inevitably followed by the argument that Hitler or the Nazis also utilized zealous discrimination.