skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, what a powerful piece, and sharing it might just impact the world for the better so much more so than being the world #1 in tennis. It reminds me a lot of another piece from a year ago: https://stories.expost-news.com/screw-stigma-im-coming-out-6....

I've learned it can be really dangerous to tie so much of your identity up into something that's external and not fully under your control. But maybe that's something that's particularly true for people predisposed to anxiety? It would be interesting to know if, for example, Fish's contemporaries identify at all with what he's going through. Maybe it's a matter of degree.

I've had anxiety issues for most of my life. I'm 31 now, and until I was about 22, I think my anxiety and related issues were one of the defining features of my life experience. I've never really gotten professional help with them because I only realized what was going on with me in retrospect, after managing to wrestle my anxiety under control, with a lot of support from people close to me. It's almost like anxiety cloaks itself so that the sufferer feels like their experience is truly unique and untreatable. I look back and feel silly for having felt that way. But I hope I know enough now to identify anxiety and call for help if it ever rears up again.

What has helped for me is a great deal of meditation to reframe what's important in my life, taking on of tasks that challenge my fears, seeking balance and diversity in my activity and thought patterns, development of self-awareness of my thought patterns and deeply held assumptions, a very intentional focus decoupling of my self-worth with success in tasks I take on, and being lucky enough to friends patient enough to really shepherd me through some difficult times.

What hasn't helped are self-medication, over-reliance on any single source of comfort, value and/or security, and adherence to belief systems that emphasize extremes.
Same on Azure. Their networking stack is ... strange and undocumented. It's the worst IP network I've used in a while. Dealing with IP/TCP-level issues should not be something that's taking up any noticeable amount of time on a modern network. With Azure, it is.
I love HN.

I got up early in the morning, made a nice breakfast (today? roasted turkey legs seasoned with my own personal italian blend, with a carrot and rutabaga mash, and a glass of whatever white wine was open and in my fridge, wasn't bad for a $7 bottle), had a cup of coffee (fresh ground, brewed using the inverted Aeropress method), cleaned the catbox, fed the cat (even though he probably ate as much as I did off the turkey legs, fat bastard he is), did my morning strength training routine, and was just waiting for it to warm up more outside so I could go for my morning walk (September in Maine means it dips into the 40s at night and doesn't warm up into the 60s until 9am), and was otherwise doing work (just because its Saturday doesn't mean I'm off the clock)...

... and then I check HN and find this at the top. Now I know what I'm going to be doing for the next few hours.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10071535
An IDE is not just a text editor. There is a nontrivial amount of configuration that goes in a build system, and the IDE takes care of some of it. Having to ditch the IDE often means having to manually reconfigure a good chunk of the build system, as well as tracking down the exact version of build tools the IDE was shipping with in a particular release.

And this just for IDEs. Intellij also ship a lot of tools (youtrack etc) which may or may not be replaceable without significant data loss.
>Most people who run a company will not behave like this.

No, but companies that are taken over by PE firms are fairly special.

In any case, since the fund is forced to sell the company after a few years, they're still interested in LT value maximization.

Also, high debt levels aren't just a way of taking back some of the money the fund put in. Debt helps to fix the companies. The PE business model essentially focuses on fixing principal-agent issues (i.e. management working against the best interests of shareholders). Improved governance, high equity ownership by management, and high debt loads are how they do it. "Debt disciplines management" because it forces them to eliminate -NPV projects and increase cash flows.
Website Conversion Should Be a Marketing Priority
Welcoming tours for refugees
There is no way they can introduce a breaking change _this big_ into the language. This change effectively breaks almost every big piece of C# code.
Indeed. A better term would be DaaS, "development as a service": you stop paying, they stop developing the tool for you. That would still imply that you can keep the software as-is in perpetuity if you stop paying though; otherwise it's basically ransomware.
Still better than in China but worser than before.

Normally if you get an access to the market, to be really successful and legal there, you will open a local office, pay taxes, bring your own money and 3rd party investments, create jobs and so on.

In Russia it will work like this: "Our forthcoming policy brief on the new Russian amendment estimates the losses from this amendment to -0.27% of GDP, equivalent to a loss of 286 billion roubles (US$ 5.7 billion). Russia’s economy is already in severe recession, and the Russian economy is likely to contract by 2-3% this year. Investments in the Russian economy would drop by -1.4% or 187 billion roubles, with considerable effects on employment. The manufacturing sectors are hardest hit, as they must also absorb cost increases from their suppliers in the service industry."[1]

Also when I mentioned "small companies", it was not only about foreign companies, but about Russian companies as well. Many of them use foreign hosting providers and cloud services because the quality is higher.

Imagine that every county in the World will require the same thing. For monsters like Google and Facebook it will be an issue but still solvable issue. For small and middle size business it will cost a lot.

And if we take a look from the Russian Government point of view, if you have a choice to check that Google follows the law or to check that 100 small companies follow the same law. Of course, they will check 100 companies, because it's easier to find something there than losing a lot of money, time and other resources fighting against Google.

[1] - http://www.ecipe.org/blog/data-localisation-russia/
He "tagged" you?
"I couldn't find modificatory in my dictionary. Remember, you're only allowed to guess words."

Hey - That's straight from /usr/share/dict/words
I imagine a remote-controlled kettle could detect the water level, and simply disengage (or even send back a warning!) if there were insufficient water.
As described in the proposal, it's supposed to be an opt-in feature.
Thanks! Don't hesitate to write me anyway (kpljaskovova@gmail.com), I'm happy to chat. It's about building relationships. ;)
I suppose a camera in a fridge would be handy, so you could have a peek at whether you were out of milk.

I believe there was a similar product, but you had to swipe product barcodes, to maintain a database. But I'm not the kind of person who keeps a database of the contents of my fridge, which might be why I'm the kind of person who forgets to buy milk.

My heuristic for coming up with that idea - when's the last time I called home, and ask someone to perform a simple task. Pet food dispensers might be another one. I guess a remote kill switch for irons, ovens, etc could be useful.
Or as an apt package on debian-based linux.
Your post got killed by a spam filter. Sorry. They are tuned more strictly for new accounts. We've marked your account legit so this won't happen again, and you're welcome to repost your question. The convention is to put "Ask HN" in front of the title.

Plenty of people have no mentors or family members who can advise them about college and career. I didn't. It makes some things harder, but it's definitely possible to find a way, so don't be too sad—you're blazing a path for your family in the future. Don't neglect to appreciate the advantages they have given you—if you look for those, you'll find them.

Also, if you do a good job of phrasing your questions and following community conventions (which you did in this case), you'll get tons of advice from HN, and then you'll have the opposite problem of figuring out which of it to follow.
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Do you have any practical experience of using MSBuild? If you have ever worked on MSBuild and other build tools (e.g. ant, maven, even make for that matter), you would have noticed how difficult it is to write or extend simple build tasks in msbuild. Have you ever tried to use MSBuild to build anything on a machine that doesnt have visual studio installed? If you use any other ide, the separation of IDE and the compiler is very clear. Try figuring out the build parameters that Visual studio uses to compile your code.
You should talk to the creators of the .NET framework.
I completely agree with this proposal, especially since this seems to be opt-in, otherwise a lot of "probably bug free" code would suddenly break.

If this makes it into 7, a lot of code should at least be attempted to be converted to this to cut down on an entire class of bugs.

Seriously, Microsoft is making me happy that they're taking the whole "languages should make the job of the programmer easier, not harder" thought process seriously.
to me they look slightly different, both in animation (because of underlying algorithmic differences) and graphics (space inside rooms is black in dungen, blue in TFA).

But maybe it's just tweaks, I don't know.
A /usr/share/dict/words bisect program?
I have used coinbase for about a year now and am very satisfied with the service, security and new enhancements they have added.
The Problem with Security Conference Training
Node.js v4.0.0 rc1
Show HN: A Go vendoring tool for the GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT
There was a similar article in Vice earlier this year, and it has more pictures for those interested:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/soviet-arcade-museum
Helped myself with some python, I guessed it in 16 tries.

lines = tuple(open('english_words.txt', 'r'))

min = 0;

max = len(lines)

while True :

index = min + (max-min)//2

print lines[index];

before = raw_input("Before? y/n")

if before == "y" :

max = index-1

elif before == "n" :

min = index+1

else :

break

english_words.txt can be downloaded here:
http://www.mieliestronk.com/corncob_lowercase.txt
It would be impossible to _actually_ have a feature like this as opt in since it would effectively create two different versions of C#. What the proposal does is emit warnings (and not errors) which is another shame.

I'd much rather have it opt in at the class declaration level like:

`strong class Foo`

Where strong means references to it act like value type references with regards to nullability.

Alternatively, they can just fork C# and remove all the weird parts they've accumulated over the years and stay with a sub-language that's more powerful and they can add useful features on top of.
catacombs (at least those I have visited) have _really_ tiny living spaces, and connections between rooms are basically holes.

This is somewhat far from the "the adventurers met a group of monsters in the corridor" or "moria's halls".
Support for indexes that use deterministic expressions
Example using the json1 extension:

BEGIN TRANSACTION;

CREATE TABLE json_tbl(id integer primary key, json text collate nocase);
CREATE VIEW json_tbl_view AS
SELECT id, json_extract(json, '$.value') AS val
FROM json_tbl;

CREATE INDEX json_tbl_idx on json_tbl(json_extract(json, '$.value'));

EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN SELECT * FROM json_tbl_view WHERE 'the_value_33' = val;

COMMIT;
The mystery of the fifteen-millisecond breakpoint instruction
It seems all you do is git pull, push and check disk usage!! Do you really check disk usage almost as often as you do git pull and push? You do push and pull more than commits?!! I cant understand what is that you do if you dont use other commands like grep, find, vi, top as often?
Daredevil Brit lifts off in 54-prop quinquaquadcopter
I have not even started using C#6, which introduces the Null-Conditional operator. I expect this to already cleanup a lot of that verbose null-checking code, and avoid null reference exceptions simply because checking for null gets so much easier.

To me, as a C# dev, this proposed change seems rather quick (let C#6 get some use first) and it also seems not consistent with nullable value types: with a reference type you'll get a compiler warning where the same error on a value type will give an error.
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Show HN: Aquarelle, a random profile pictures generator
Ask HN: How much do you love C#?
C# is great language, additionally, core is open source now, so how much do you enjoy programming in C#?

Do you consider porting your Ruby,PHP,Python code running on linux machine into C# in near future?
People used to purely transactional systems where every piece of data they received were important who were not used to think about data as potentially disposable... Nothing they didn't pick up quickly enough, but a bit of a mental adjustment (for my part, my job right before that one was running a billing system; I was very happy not to have to worry about that any more...)
BuildZoom (YC W13, marketplace for contractors) is hiring engineers
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> Most people who run a company will not behave like this. The idea is not to have a company that is constantly on the brink, but to pay out some dividends when it's safe to do so.

Dividend recaps (as they're called in PE jargon) are frequently being used by entrepreneurs and/or owners of stable businesses who don't necessarily want to exit but want extra (personal) liquidity.

Like anything, it's a tool that can generate great rewards when used properly. Waiting for profits to roll in over many years can be inefficient (from a wealth building PoV) when, for example, the stock market is booming now (but won't be in 3-5 years).

It's not because not many people know about this, or use it, that it's a bad idea to use it. PE levels might sometimes be a bit excessive, but it's still a good way to unlock some of your wealth.
Public schools are often filled with petty tyrants. I'm lucky I was not more harmed by the sadist VP that ran my middle school.
It is debatable which is the more unlikely out of the two premises "The entire world puts up their GDP for a year to back the game against a player paying $50" and "The game is played around 2^50 times".
Some times emacs has perf issues, but Eclipse overhead is really too much for me to enjoy. And the UX is miserable, all this OOP, OSGi plugins and frameworks for this leaves me meh.
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Only if the company goes under. Each business has a different level of acceptable debt. Some entrepreneurs are great at controlling a balance sheet, and can run businesses with a ton of debt (e.g. John Malone)

For example: a real estate business needs to use a lot more debt than a software company.
I don't know if it was the dialogue coming from the teachers or glazing over the content of the newsletter, but I am highly skeptical of this article.

I've never heard teachers talk to students or each other how this is written. 1997 also seems very very early for this kind of activity, turns out Geocities has been around since 1994 but I can't recall a single instance of sites being shutdown for this sort of thing in or around 1997. In 1997 many people were still asking "What is the internet exactly?" Also is it being implied the American friend gave up his identity? Why did he even has this information? It is technically feasible for this to have happened, I'm just saying I have my doubts.
I was at 14 tries, with 3 letter accuracy. I just couldn't come up with today's word, even though I know it well..
Note that YouTrack and other tools are not moving to subscription licensing, only the IDEs are.

Pretty much everyone has their project set up to be able to build via an external tool for CI anyway. I'm really not seeing the lock-in argument here, except that moving back to Eclipse would be painful for a lot of people. But I don't see why you would go through that pain now if you're currently happy with what you get from JetBrains for the money that you're paying.
Felix the cat.
Awesome post!
Don’t Worry, Smart Machines Will Take Us with Them
> Lights that dim when the movie starts.

How does it know you want the lights dimmed? What if someone in the room is reading? This would be pretty high level AI.

>A front door that unlocks when you approach.

It has to know if you'll enter the house. What if you don't?

It could lock it again, but then what if someone else left the house assuming it was unlocked. Now they could be locked out.

These are hard problems to solve and more AI related.
And you may have tried to understand the point rather than look for places where you could land a snide comment. Alas, you chose otherwise.
From Kafka to ZeroMQ for real-time log aggregation
Looks like ACID is used by everyone, but banks.
This depends. There are certain types of debt with different risk levels.

The debt with the lowest levels of interest tends to be traditional bank debt. If the company goes under, they are first in line to recover any losses. The more debt involved in a deal, the riskier it gets.

If you fund a $100m deal with $40m in debt, and $60m in equity, that's fine. That's usually low risk if it's a healthy company.

Now imagine the same deal, $80m debt and $20m in equity. Traditional banks might only give you a loan for $50m. The remaining $30m you will need to get from other investors, who will be further in line to recover any losses (meaning they will charge a higher rate of interest).

Why do banks love big deals? Easy: these deals generate a lot of profit. On a $100m loan, they'll be making $4-6m a year.

Usually the risk level is acceptable for them, since they're first in line when the company gets liquidated.
Some sites require JS because they do weird things like rendering stuff clientside.

This site "requires" JS because... The opacity of the article is set to 0? Everything's there, everything's rendered, but they have a CSS rule (".use-motion .post { opacity: 0; }"). Only thing I can think of is that they do a JS fade-in or something and missed the unintended consequences.

(Speaking of which... Doesn't Google penalize sites that have an excessive number of hidden keywords? I wonder if the entire article being hidden qualifies...)
I think it is only a matter of time until MOOCs start eating into high school and even middle school-level education. Considering that many adults do not remember their high school experience fondly it will be a welcome alternative.
You're right, and actually the article says that now I re-read it. Still no sale though !
I looked into Genesis but it's hard to get a feel of what the final product will look like from screenshots. Do you perhaps have some mock-ups?

For me UI is more important than feature-set; the interface that doesn't get in my way increases my creativity. Especially if I'm recording and I have to switch between playing instruments and operating complicated software. The only DAW that I think gets it right is MultitrackStudio[1], with perfect combination of features and effortless interface.

[1] http://multitrackstudio.com/screenshot_standard.png
Does it support MIDI and inter-client synchronization like Jack does? (or better)
I remember doing a lot of research about PE when it was a hot topic during the Romney days. It's hard to put your finger on what makes it feel unsavory. After all, there are a bunch of players who have different interests who all have to agree on the deal for it to go through. Presumably, if it were a rigged game, these deals wouldn't get closed. The whole "fool me twice" thing, and all.

Yet, these big PE firms seem to come out ahead. Certainly their principles do. On the other hand, when big companies falter, there are the bystanders: the working people, clients of the business, the community, and other non-equity-holding stakeholders. None of these people seem to stand to gain much no matter who wins the game of thrones in the boardroom. And it's not as though these people will just frictionlessly proceed on to some alternative in the market.
But wouldn't this quote only be true if said drill self-destructed after a single use?
> would be impossible to _actually_ have a feature like this as opt in since it would effectively create two different versions of C#

You still haven't said what's wrong with the proposal. There are multiple versions of C# already. Emitting warnings seems to be a good compromise, given there is already an option to treat warnings as errors.

>`strong class Foo`

This is a slippery slope. Next time they add another feature for correctness, they'll have to add 'stronger class'. This is akin to "use stricter" proposed by Sound Script (JS).
Note: I believe that the word stays the same each day, so there may be limited replayability. There are two words by "joon" and "mike" to find everyday.

(I got the first in 24 tries and the second in 22 with the help of a dictionary!)
So Linux only?

I guess it would be a pretty unique addition to have a method to grab the main mix on Windows, Linux, and OS X in a common way!
Of course not. I don't think it's politically viable to implement basic income the way I've sketched. Wealth tax of 1% probably wouldn't go over very well either.

If the net worth of the nation doubles twice more, though, it's a different question. It's far from impossible that this, or a similar situation which would benefit greatly from an UBI, occurs over the next 50 years.

We're on the right order of magnitude, which is as close as I feel confident estimating things without detailed knowledge of the tax system and social programs of the US. I could make a better guess for Norway, but even there it's sketchy because a lot of the non-social support programs that would become cheaper with basic income (e.g. student loans, support for artists) aren't part of the official social security numbers. There's also a lot of "number massaging" you can do to greatly increase the number, not least of which being to pay support only for adults.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1205/
Consumer IoT is too expensive, not useless. Everything it can't do is a metric of the fact that computing on that scale actually isn't cheap enough.

Light control for example: people don't want to spend the $thousands it would cost to make it practical (i.e. every light in your house control) when the most common use-case it would solve is leaving your house and going "oh, I left the lights on - but click!". That's worth maybe $10 a light to me, not $70. Which in turn implies the wi-fi, compute and power has to cost cents, not dollars in the product.