skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great discussion here, amazingly for politics on the Internet. Thank you all.

I understand the value of using labels to mean something specific, but it's also clear that it holds libertarianism back. Like Catholics or Yankees fans, I suspect there are degrees, but the majority are not extreme in their beliefs.

The two big parties at least have the benefit of established social groups that make you feel like you're swimming with the tide. Libertarians don't yet have a central narrative that can withstand the marginalization by the media and polite society, and specifically, viable libertarians run under the name of a major party, compromising or muddying that message.

I like the call here to talking about ideas rather than teams. And I like the point that no one's calling for change overnight. I call myself a (civil) libertarian, but that's an inclination, not a manifesto. I'm not extreme in most of those beliefs. Yet third parties get pinned to the most extreme conclusions of their tenets, while the fringes of R and D are understood to be fringes. We have to overcome that institutional inertia with an occasional bout of critical thinking. Take party affiliations off the ballot.
iPhone 6 models in my workplace (sample size 2000/12000) are about 4x more likely to break than 5/5s models.
Very often the real return in writing an (e)book is personal branding. It's a pretty effective SEO technique. I don't see why this isn't obvious to you. I literally know more than a handful of people whose primary motivation for writing an ebook was that it would raise their profile. That's half the reason why so many ebooks are free, kind of similar to how and why (partly) people contribute to OSS projects without pay.
A knife and a bullet are very different beasts in terms of how they penetrate tissue like Kevlar, so your comparison is pointless, and something that resists a bullet need not be stab-proof, simply because they apply very different kinds of pressures and kinetic forces.[1]

Also, I have never heard the term "anti civil liberty agenda" before, especially not as an antonym of "pro federal agenda", so thank you for another facet of what I presume to be American patriotic/conservative/right-wing lingo.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletproof_vest#Stab_armor_an...
It may also be beneficial to move some processing to a different core (perhaps even different socket) to avoid execution resource contention (e.g. d/i-cache, execution ports, etc).
It looks so terrifying. How powerful were these bombs?

The dots are very dense near london brigde region . London recovered well.
Hong Kong children learn to code after school
see https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/textfiles/the-jason-sco... for the detail of each.

you will find them on his site, once they are ready.
> Once you start to "vet the workers", then you have the problem of "how are the workers vetted"?

It's a problem but solvable. How does any employer vet applicants? It's a matter of additional process/time/cost, ideally more than covered by the higher earnings and strong demand for services.

>You get what you pay for. If you get a bargain on price, then you get lower quality or have to spend more time checking their work.

This can and cant be true. I moonlight offering marketing freelancing services. 80%+ of clients that come to me have have been sold overpriced snake-oil from boiler room marketing agencies. A big part of initial meetings is to re-establish trust in marketing. Typically I'll increase ROMI by 30%-60%, and I'm not paying myself peanuts. In the extreme I had a client last year paying ~$10k/mth to have a company list them across a handful of free directories. These business owners are experts in other areas and just don't know they are being screwed until someone more knowledgeable sees it. I'd be the same with much IT work. And if I could have a freelance service that set a quality benchmark, then I'm happy to compete on price from there. With Elance I don't know if I'm paying more for less, or less for less.

I guess this is why word of mouth and relationships are so valuable.
I've seen this depicted in movies also (I think the imitation game (2014) had a scene with it). wikipedia has this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuations_of_civilians_in_Br...
It might be simple, but it's certainly not simplistic :)
I think "To each to their own" is exactly the OPs point -- Go worked for them, but that doesn't say much about whether or not it will work for you (and vice versa). So you're probably not missing anything :)
The history scrubber (scroll back through time and see all the decision ideas that were tried out and abandoned) is genius.
`gomobile install` to build an APK and install it on a device. Cool.
If you have a sample of 10 people, 1 person represents 10% of the sample. The opinion of one person can swing your results by 10%.

For a sample of 100, it's 1%. For 1000, its 0.1%. The more opinions you can collect, the less they individually mean.
On the front page of HN today funny enough. I'm not sure Hitler liked Britain that much actually.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9608528
Actually, some still are:

http://www.namcoamerica.com/game.php?gameid=32

Point is: what qualifies you to decide how those old assets should be used? Because you love the game more than the original publisher allegedly does?

So by that logic, why does anyone care at all what the original MAME contributors think of their code being switched into an open-source license? Why are their requests any more or less important than the publishers?

The point of this hand-grenade was merely to point this out, unpopular an opinion as it is. This whole thinking of "I'm a fan therefore I decide" took us over the cliff a long time ago and there's no going back.
I have done my fair share of over-engineering. =) Its not over-engineering if you need it, but turns out, most of the time, you aint gonna.

A team that just hacks and does YAGNI by accident, or a team that does YAGNI but doesn't plan, they often have a choice of how to build the feature right now. With a little bit of planning, we can see past the first few meters and choose the first step to be in the direction of the bigger plan. Without planning, the first step might be in the wrong direction. The hard part for my teams is to plan, and then still only implement the first step. They're getting better =)

Its war because if you're doing something worthwhile, there's someone else trying to get your customers. I'm not suggesting your stuff should break. The opposite. Combine YAGNI with TDD and push working, tested features to production ASAP.
Let's say the break is 20 miles away. There is no way all that air would reach you instantly. It would take some time. Several minutes even?
They certainly tend to stick around longer than bus routes. Streetcars represent significant infrastructure spending, while a bus route can be changed by a bureaucrat.
I really like the slide software. Does anyone know where I can find it?
That makes more sense; I didn't think Perl was as slow as he claimed.

You can even get a similarly-structured program in C with macro abuse and C99's compound literals:

#include <stdio.h>

#define NUMARGS(...) (sizeof((int[]){__VA_ARGS__}) / sizeof(int))
#define FOR_EACH_DIGIT(v) for (int v = 0; v < 10; v++)
#define EXCEPT(v, ...) if (in(v, (int[]){__VA_ARGS__}, NUMARGS(__VA_ARGS__))) continue
#define FOR_EACH_DIGIT_EXCEPT(v, ...) FOR_EACH_DIGIT(v) { EXCEPT(v, __VA_ARGS__);
#define TEN(...) ten((int[]){__VA_ARGS__}, NUMARGS(__VA_ARGS__))

int in(int v, int a[], int n) {
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) if (a[i] == v) return 1;
return 0;
}

int ten(int a[], int n) {
int v = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) v = v * 10 + a[i];
return v;
}

int main() {
FOR_EACH_DIGIT_EXCEPT(s, 0)
FOR_EACH_DIGIT_EXCEPT(e, s)
FOR_EACH_DIGIT_EXCEPT(n, s, e)
FOR_EACH_DIGIT_EXCEPT(d, s, e, n)
FOR_EACH_DIGIT_EXCEPT(m, 0, s, e, n, d)
FOR_EACH_DIGIT_EXCEPT(o, s, e, n, d, m)
FOR_EACH_DIGIT_EXCEPT(r, s, e, n, d, m, o)
FOR_EACH_DIGIT_EXCEPT(y, s, e, n, d, m, o, r)
int send = TEN(s, e, n, d), more = TEN(m, o, r, e), money = TEN(m, o, n, e, y);
if (send + more == money) printf("%d + %d = %d\n", send, more, money);
}}}}}}}}
return 0;
}

Definitely not idiomatic C, but at least it's fast (0.07 seconds).
Ah, but when every publisher has their own system, going from place to place can make for some pretty rough transitions. The question comes down to whether you work for the system or if the system works for you.
I'm puzzled about the asymmetry of the syntax. What's the reason behind

map[Point]string

as opposed to something more symmetrical?
Libertarians should be fishing to win back the conservative wing of the republican party.

Libertarian vs Liberal is reasonable debate to have in society and government.
Just because this beta software doesn't support your browser doesn't mean the open web is dead.
Lead-free ammo is much more expensive, and gun regulation is a politically charged topic. Any attempt to ban lead ammunition will, rightly or wrongly, be perceived as an attempt to discourage recreational shooting by making ammunition less available. Much like California's handgun drop-safety requirement is currently perceived as an attempt to discourage handgun ownership, by making them less available, or Texas' recent abortion regulations are perceived as an attempt to make abortions less available. They're ostensibly regulations enacted for health and safety, but nobody affected by them believes that story.
I understand how Compete works. I'm just showing you one immediate example of how comically wrong their data often is, both in absolute value and in misreporting trends. This has always been my experience with their data on both small and large sites, unless you use their paid product that allows you to self-report. Kind of reminiscent of BBB/DUNs/Yelp type protection rackets actually.
Hi, while we're in beta we've been keeping things to Chrome only, as it lets us progress the product faster at this early stage. We're also big believers in the open web and will be looking to offer wider browser support down the track, so stay tuned!
Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center Certifies SpaceX for Space Missions
Radically different in a lot of ways. This is not one of them.
Libertarians should acknowledge the terrain and spend tbis generation on a fight for a decentralization of power from the Federal govt to a coalition of States. The way to make progress is incremental.
This script is included at the top of the page source: http://talks.golang.org/static/slides.js
Have any of your teams experimented with machine learning navigation?
Ask HN: How do you consume news?
How much time do you spend consuming news on current events ( tech and non/tech related) ? What news aggregators or apps do you primarily use?
https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/present
Cyber Insurance: Triumph of the Accountants?
Call Tech companies in SF and ask for the marketing department. Then when you get somebody, tell them your story (Make it short, Elevator Pitch) and then ask them to give you at least $100 bucks and you will wear (Printed on a T-Shirt?) their logo for a day during WWDC. More days more money or bigger more Money. Most companies have a big budget for marketing and if they can file it under that, it should not be hard to do this.

You don't have to tattoo your face, same idea though. :) http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/man-face-tattoo...
You can't be pro poor-people's education without being pro taxation to spend on education.
I am no fan of church, for the record.

It would be more convincing if you backed that claim up with evidence.

http://thefederalist.com/2015/04/27/in-2013-the-clinton-foun...

I honestly have no idea of their affiliation, I can only assume this website is right-wing because of the story, but there are at least links to a W2, which seems impartial enough.

I lost faith in non-pro's a while ago because of stories like the above. The idea is sound, the reality seems shaky at best.
I have found the opposite. Building things you don't need yet it's just increasing the mass of code that needs to change when the real requirements hit. It pays off to build software as simple as possible, and modify / generalize later, as opposed to designing an up-front "architecture" that is bound to become obsolete and a hindrance in 6 months.
The dots are dense in just about the whole city core. I've never been to London, but I'm surprised it's still standing. This map blew me away.
Shared library support, thanks!
Thanks for the reply. The reason I ask is because I would be solving the clients problems regardless of other stipulations. The reason for my uncertainty of what to ask for is because I've never really done freelance and I am not sure what would be considered normal.
Fun with Fourier Transforms (2013) [pdf]
A (limited liability corp, the most common kind of) corporation is a legal fiction created by government to shield individuals from accountability. What non hypocritical justification could a libertarian put forth for limited liability corporations?
Agnès Varda: Palme d’honneur pour la réalisatrice au Festival de Cannes 2015
Really interesting analysis. I always wondered if the general quality of online relationships is less than those formed elsewhere. I mean, if you found your partner on a dating site I wonder if you are more likely to break up because you know there is a whole pool of singles just waiting to message. If you don't have a buffet of potential partners to choose from you may be happier?? I am reminded of Dan Gilbert's research - seems it may apply.

I know that online dating was a horrible experience for me. I felt I was becoming way too picky and judgemental trying to pick people to go on dates with. I also knew I couldn't judge chemistry and compatibility through someone's profile so the whole thing was pretty frustrating. I ended up meeting the person I married totally randomly one day when I wasn't looking.

Obviously I am not saying all relationships that were formed online are terrible or anything - I'm talking generally.
That would be awesome, because it would mean we've moved past social conservatism.

I am specifically not tying libertarians to conservatism because plenty of us weight the social side of things heavier, where there's more in common with liberals.
Not to my knowledge. Flight controllers will undoubtedly get to the point where a completely autonomous quadcopter can beat any human pilot, even through an unfamiliar course. At that point we'll need to impose regulations on the level of autonomy that people can use in races. I've got no idea when we'll reach that point though.
Wow, they run an entire web server just for slides?
Special case?
Here's a tineye project that does that with flickr photos: http://labs.tineye.com/multicolr/
In my opinion, Peak Verge was December 2013, culminating in their "Wow this is doge" piece (http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/31/5248762/doge-meme-rescue-...). It was the perfect expression of what The Verge aspired to be: an exclusive, well-researched mid-long-form on a pop-culture phenomenon. It was interesting, insightful, fun, and something probably only Vox Media could have done – I can't quite imagine another organization with both the desire and the resources to realize a story like that.

Alas, that was something of a perfect storm for The Verge, and these days most of their content that isn't aggregation seems to consist of fairly vapid, Gawker-esque "thinkpieces" and "hot takes" designed only to drive readers to the comment section.
Prosecution recommends sentencing Ross Ulbricht to life in imprisonment [pdf]
Oh, I was hoping for some go (aka baduk or weiqi) playing program written in go. These are a bit tricky to google ;)
Discussion from 6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9577581
They're not just slides. Some of the slides have code that you can click to run: http://talks.golang.org/2012/concurrency.slide
We do TDD. The cut-off line is "this test". Anything more than fixing "this test" is waste. We fix "this test" and write another test. Fix it. Maybe refactor. Repeat.

So not next month, next week. More like "next 30 seconds".

Even if we are scheduled to do the next feature right after this feature, we still wouldn't start writing a unified solution. We'd write a test for A, then fix it, then write another test for A, and then fix that, and keep going until A was done and now we're writing a test for B.

That said, if we really don't know what we're doing then we spike. Then we throw it away and rewrite it with TDD. Sounds mental, right?
Wow. You have to use a whole web browser just to view slides ?
Book on “Learning Raspberry Pi”
These new Go presentations (this one and http://talks.golang.org/2015/state-of-go-may.slide#1) are great. Very insightful and well explained.
Looks nice. I'd also be curious to know the main differences between this and proto.io...
What they are getting at is that the Go designers are stubborn and the Rust designers are open-minded... but they don't want to just come out and say that.

For instance both had green threads. Rust designers ran into all the problems with them like interop with anything else and interrupts and fairness, so like everybody else that did M:N threading they threw up their hands and said "well it looked like a good idea at first" and removed it. Go designers literally called it a "rabbit hole" and followed it down to whatever crazy lands it lead to, because they promised people green threads so they had to keep it.
Rust is a systems-level programming language. Go isn't: it's garbage-collected.
You say that, but really why does President want control? Once you are elected president, you are set for life with millions of dollars of "speakers fees" and free favors forever. Some people have plans to conquer the world like Hitler or Stalin, but Obama is just sort of plodding along. Why does he care about getting all this power? What will he do with it?
This is very useful feedback. Much appreciated!
I don't think any libertarians want true anarchy and unregulated capitalism... so much as a more even playing field that ensures competition. IP protections have been expanded to the point of insanity in favor of corporations... this expansion has been voted up by both Republicans and Democrats alike...

Removing corporate taxes, and in the same vein reducing both the rights of corporations to that of "non-living entities" (no freedom of speech, etc), as well as driving out tax shelters and loopholes in favor of encouraging either reinvestment/growth or paying dividends which are taxed...

Most libertarians I've known are not in favor of crony corporatism, which is very different from allowing or encouraging free markets to work.
Joezy, I am concerned you might not be working towards an offer of code contribution.
https://auth0.com/ provides some pretty incredible documentation (they also provide a great product; we use it to support authentication for our suite of corporate/enterprise-facing apps)
How many bombs were dropped in the United States during World War 2?
Is it a Poisson Distribution?
I like the article content but analogy is completely off putting. Maxwell's Equations weren't exactly known for its compactness. When he published them, they were huge in number and size. The major achievement of Maxwell's equation was to calculate speed of light with previously known completely unrelated constants. This opened up door that light was perhaps electromagnetic waves. The code described in this article is cool for its compactness but otherwise from computer science perspective its not breaking any new grounds.
Which effectively confirmed what we already knew which is that the Anthem breach was made more damaging by the ease by which criminals can file a fake return for you.
Go gets compared to Rust because go was originally labeled a "systems" language. But the designers had a different older view of what "systems" meant than what is commonly used to day. People heard systems and thought they meant low level/operating system/embedded systems. That is not what Go is good for because it's garbage collected.

They also planned to attract C++ programmers, but they've basically been attracting dynamic language programmers instead. Why that was a surprise is beyond me--I can't imagine that anyone currently using C++ would be OK switching to a garbage collected language.

Rust on the other hand, is shaping up to be a C++ replacement.
You should always tell them that you are using a quantum computer :)
Of course you can pick out nonprofits that don't do much social good. High-profile ones like the Clinton foundation seem like sitting ducks for "hur hur nonprofits are no good", and lots of foundations exist to house rich people's money and not do much else.

But look around your city, look at the housing or domestic violence nonprofits, look at the ones that retrain ex-felons or offer services to help them integrate, and on and on and on.

Find churches that do a tenth of that kind of work. In my city, a medium-sized American city, I can think of a very few church-run social benefit organizations, but the city is thick with nonprofits that help the worst-off in society in a variety of ways.
Gather more information

well next is to track you from cradle to grave: say paper cash is gonna go away, no more physical shop - everything convenient, paperless online.
That first article is poor and you're giving it as if it's a valid reference.

I have an older Nexus 4 that I keep around, with CyanogenMod installed on it and without Google's services, which is pretty much AOSP. Despite what seems to be popular opinion, it's quite usable. The big thing that is missing and the reason for why Google affords to keep mobile phone makers by their balls are of course Google Play, Gmail and Google Maps. You do have F-Droid and Amazon's app store. It's quite an interesting experience - if you have an Android lying around, try it out.
> I've had my identity stolen and I can tell you,it is truly awful.

You and half of America. You know how many people are in Anthem's system?
> In Firefox, back up your profile.

that's hardly the same as having a file i can copy and use anywhere.

> If you clear it intentionally then why should it persist?

In Safari at least, "local storage" is cleared when clearing other data like cookies etc. I would imagine that's not unique to Safari.

You also failed to cover the concept of "the OS is re-installed" or "a new device is purchased".

"Backup your firefox profile" is an unbelievably short-sighted suggestion - am I supposed to keep transporting a Firefox profile around forever? What if I want to use a different browser? What if I want to use my data on a device that doesn't expose the raw filesystem to the user, and thus I can't copy my profile to the correct location (assuming it was even binary compatible)?

I can't believe I have to explain the benefits of a regular file with data in it, to a directory containing a mix of browsing history, cookies, crash dumps, plugin information, and somewhere, an SQLite database containing my data.
In addition to the other options, if your country has an investor visa treaty with the US, you can qualify for an E-2 visa: http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/fees/treaty.ht...

There is no explicit minimum investment required, I've heard of people getting in with five figure sums.
Ignoring problems until they went away?
Sounds like my IT department...
Because it's basically tied to that specific install of that specific browser on that specific device.
Wow, super cool. My first thought went to back in the day there were all those addons for SimCity like SimCar or SimHelicopter. Where you got to drive/fly around, respectively in your actual SimCity loaded in from a save file.