skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Repealing Glass-Steagall was not a bad thing. In the recent financial meltdown, diversified financial institutions like JP Morgan survived, and less diversified institutions like AIG, WaMu, Bear Sterns and Lehman did not. Even the i-banks that survived, like Goldmann and Merrill, did so by diversifying. Goldmann became a bank holding company and Merrill merged with B of A.

I don't have the background to address the other points, but the focus on Glass-Steagall annoys me because the counterproof is so obvious.
Good lord. That's a lot of traffic.
My brain accepted 2B but then assumed it was a model of reactor. The idea of it being billions of years old didn't even enter :(
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So is the issue here one of investors wanting to maximise their returns?
"While the death rate for African Americans is still greater than the rate for whites, the turnaround among whites is shocking because of the advantages they enjoy, said David Weir..."

Is this just reversion to the mean? That is, is the death rate for working-class white people simply converging to to the death rate for African Americans?

If so, that's the most horrible way to end white privilege :(
saturated fats are still thought to be associated with poor heart health

When you remove the passive voice from this, you get something like "The people who've been telling you all fats are bad have been wrong for decades, but they still think saturated fats are bad." Why should we trust what these people think? I'll have some whole pastured eggs cooked in grass-fed ghee, thank you very much.
You might find the Wikipedia articles on international economics interesting - e.g. the "impossible trinity": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity
Guaranteed minimum income, reverse taxation, or merely a solid welfare program that provides solid housing, food, and medical care -- basically anything that someone would die or be in pain without...these are all possible solutions.

I'd advocate for an experimental approach with smaller populations with different possible solutions, ratcheting them up as they are shown to be successful and sustainable.
I think static site generation will simply be a feature of a build tool like Webpack or Gulp, maybe as a plugin, and either way there will be an api for developers. Or it will simply be part of a larger build chain / automation system somehow.

Static site generator doesn't mean there's no backend. A website is called 'dynamic' when its operation depends on communicating with a server. The JS logic delivered to the client can range from animation to async http requests.

The distinction between "static site generator" and Webpack / Gulp is very gray. It all depends on what you want to do with your client-side JS logic.
Everybody dies lol
The shitload of people typing in "facebook" in the Google search bar m(
Finding the app (not the source code), finding out what three names mean (as already discussed), finding which app to launch, realising it only works with Apple Mail and the shell are all parts of the current experience.

Another study on a different client, but same thing: http://www.scmagazineuk.com/modern-pgp-is-unusable-according...
I just started on http://survivejs.com/ which does that. Have yet to make a comparison with React for Beginners though.
you are definitely not getting the support you think from those definitions. vigilantism fairly clearly has nothing to do with a commensurate response.
The absolute quality of people's lives is of great importance (and is tracked in such measures as life expectancy and some global poverty stats), but inequality is a serious problem because of power[1]. Gross inequality of wealth directly leads to gross inequality of power, and that is (axiomatically) assumed to be bad because it means that the outcomes of many people's lives are directed by the few who have power over them.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_(social_and_political)
Also discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10495033
Research a little more about NAFTA and then get back to me.
Exactly what I said they should focus on. Way, way too late though. Probably.
"Global quality of life was greatly reduced" -> and that's for the people who survived.

I think we have a handful of examples of Hayek's principles working out. JFK, Reagan, and even Bush 43 demonstrated that reducing taxes increases consumer spending across the entire system and improving the economy - less in the short term, more in the long term - and increasing government revenue at the same time al a the Laffer Curve.
> You can thumb through the DSM V and find countless seemingly well-defined "diseases" described using the language of science, yet for few is any underlying cause known and very often the "symptoms" are vague and useless for differential diagnosis.

To say nothing of the political nature of declaring something as being a disorder or not. Read about the decision to remove homosexuality back in the DSM-III and the decision to remove pedophilia in the DSM-V and realize how highly political these moves were (many professionals aren't even aware of that change in the DSM-V and unless you pay close attention, a reader could easily miss the differences between pedophilia in the DSM-IV-TR and pedophilic disorder in the DSM-V).
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Just curious - can sellers be forced to disclose their buyer list?
Yes. Something like ten million people in Korea play go. It's astonishingly popular there.
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To me, it looks like a partially-unzipped zipper.
I don't use Twitter, but this sounds more confusing now. Stars are used throughout other services or systems for favoriting something such as bookmarks and if I "star it", I can revisit it in the future. But that means only I can see it.

Hearts on Instagram are broadcasted to my followers, Facebook likes as well. Is this also the case on Twitter now?

There's a difference between saving something for personal recollection and also broadcasting it.
Humans had largely remained thin rather than fat for most of human history.

It's not like we wake up one day and suddenly decided we want to be fat and eat a lot more calories.
On a separate topic from the fundraising goal, are there many examples of haskell driven web applications out there? Any big properties?
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> Forgot to say that these numbers are rarely ever mentioned by the mainstream media (MSM)

I see despairing articles about the state of the American middle class in the media all the time.

In fact, this very article is from the mainstream media.
I have the reverse problem at my company. Our Australian cofounder was in charge of picking the logo, so he picked an emu, a bird native to Australia. So now people always ask us why our logo is an ostrich, so I have to point out that emus have three toes and ostriches have two (a fact that I only learned when I asked our cofounder why we had an ostrich in the logo, that should have been my clue).
More importantly, until the past few decades, Japan did the majority of the go outreach in the West. That's changed a bit, and thanks to Korean influence, it's more common to hear people saying "baduk".
It was confusing to me. "Wait... I'm favoriting it? What does that mean? I mean I like it but, why favorite the tweet? Will I want to come back to this tweet later? What's the point? Should I just retweet it? I don't like it that much that I want to RT it, and I don't want to spam my followers."

Maybe I over think things but, it was a bit confusing to me.
Powerful words. I couldn't agree more.
A lot of people use it as a way to get your attention without retweeting the post to their feed. I've started getting an increase in what seems to be automated favoriting (now liking), which is so incredibly annoying that I have to end up muting those users.
There's also Developing Web Applications with Haskell and Yesod by Michael Snoyman which is available from O'Reilly in dead tree format or for free in HTML format: http://www.yesodweb.com/book

It's a pretty good introduction to Haskell web development for people who are already familiar with both web development and Haskell.
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How to prevent accidental or intentional file deletion?
You could previously view people's favorites. Example:

https://twitter.com/gruber/favorites
Hmm? I'm relatively certain Signal removed all support for SMS/MMS and requires all parties to use the Signal app

https://whispersystems.org/blog/goodbye-encrypted-sms/
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Processed food is how we eat food for thousand of years.

Smoked, salted, fermented, whatever you called it, it's processed.

Even cooking rendered the food 'processed'.
Trickle-down economics is a failed theory. The wealthy only spend a small percentage of their income. They re-invest most of it. True, sometimes they invest in businesses (VC, IPOs, Business expansion, etc.), but most investment dollars go to the secondary markets (Stocks, Derivatives, etc.), which does not create any jobs and produces no value.
Favourite was the generic thing for acknowledging a post whether you like it, relate to it, or whatever...so now if someone has bad news (eg. someone dies) what do you do? 'like it'?
What's odd is in the first tweet they show their logo really does look like underpants. But, the logo is different in the next 2 images. It's rotated 180 deg. After it's rotated it really doesn't look like underpants.
Not long before Twitter will blend in with Failbook and Instagram. A pity, but apparently neccessary as Twitter needs fresh cash.

The problem: the money is in the high-active users, not in the noobs using Twitter for an hour and then moving along. And a significant chunk of said high-active users will depart from Twitter because, like FB, the users haven't been consulted in any way...

edit: If Twitter REALLY wanted to improve its experience, it should...

1) fix tab-navigation to work like text->submitbutton, not text->media->navigation->poll->submitbutton

2) only auto-complete with tab when the current word begins with an @. No, if I just type "example"<tab> I DO NOT want a random user with "example" in the name expanded.

3) in the Android app, when I'm scrolling 2h behind and rt'ing a kitten image, I DO NOT want to jump right to the top and have to scroll aaaallll the way down again.
"strong human player." Like 1 Dan strong or like 6 kyu strong? It's a meaningless statement.
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Set up an arduino interfaced via usb that delivers a shock every time you start to meander :D

More seriously - I think it's key to realize that sidetracking to various websites isn't the actual problem - it's more a symptom of not wanting to do the task at hand.

Here's what worked for me: When I started to suspect that this was costing me more time than I realized, I figured to measure it. I just started writing the time down each time I mentally wandered off and started browsing, and then again when I stopped.

It didn't take long to see that this added up to a depressing amount - but the awareness of how frequently and how long was critical for me, and the brief pause where I 'had' to write down something when I was about to start was enough for me to check myself and do one of two things:

1. (more frequently) realize that I wasn't in a mental state to get back on task, and take a quick walk, get a drink, w/e. The time to do this is much less than the time I'd spend on noodling about, still let me get my mind off of it briefly, and often let me become aware of why I was avoiding whatever the task was.

2. just get back on task (this became easier with time, though 1) is still sometimes more beneficial)

Hmm, maybe I should make a plugin for that :D

In any event, this manual tooling to simply track what I was doing was enough for me, and it worked better than throwing artificial obstacles into my path.
And what's worse--why is the libertarian's only recourse to sue people after they've done (possibly permanent) damage?

Who cares about the potential winnings from a lawsuit, in a world with no health inspectors (to pick a common "the free market would sort it out" theme), if a restaurant has poisoned your granny and she's in a coma?
This looks great, I'll buy. +1 for Redux coverage (I'm sure it ridiculously difficult to keep any kind of React learning material up-to-date!)
I don't think wealth inequality is a cause of suicide. It doesn't drive people to suicide seeing that Mark Zuckerberg is worth billions.

Rather, it's stagnating wages and declining economic outlooks which are negatively impacting the 99%.

It's important to separate these things, because the landscape of policy solutions are dramatically different.
Why just non-college considered in study? Seems to be an example of selection bias.
Automation should be like Iron Man, not like Ultron [pdf]
Not for a passenger jet.
Resolve, Nuke, Flame, etc
I think you guys are thinking small when thinking about a static site. Change the content dynamically with Javascript only is still considered a static website, this doesn't make the frontend static at all, it's very dynamic! But no more need for PHP, Perl, etc.

Best Regards
> He's a prominent member of a popular foodie Facebook group in his town, to the point where people stop him in the street and take selfies with him. In his community, that's a much bigger deal ...

You are kinda making my point for me, aren't you?

Notice I included the "your relationships" constraint.

I've yet to experience the "Hey, you were all messed up heroin a few years ago weren't you? Let's selfie..."
Yes, it's called "hair of the dog" and covered in the first video.
Have you had a look at Pollen, by Matthew Butterick?
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Bravery on its own just isn't enough. This complete fool forgets all his confined space training, endangering not only himself but also his men, who now have one more victim to extricate. The rest of the rescue crew are people, too. Submariners have the word "oxygen thief" for this magnitude of idiot.
I'm a Singaporean.

> FYI, many of the companies are foreign ones including Singapore companies and Malaysian companies.

Most of those companies seem to be of Indonesian origin. The Singapore-related ones I know of:

* Sinar Mas and Singapore-listed Golden Agri-Resources are both owned by Indonesian tycoon Eka Tjipta Widjaja.

* APRIL is headquartered in Singapore but owned by RGE, an Indonesian group run by another tycoon.

* Even Wilmar International was cofounded by an Indonesian.

Honestly, if Singaporean landowning companies were really directly causing the haze, I think (hope) they'd be more sensitive to the damage they'd be causing to their homeland.[1] The impact is incredibly obvious to anyone in Singapore, which no doubt includes some of the top management of companies based here.

The chain of responsibility goes all the way back to the people starting the fires and the conditions motivating them to do it. The Indonesian government has to trace that chain and carry out the investigations and arrests. Singapore can only punish downstream companies in order to exert an indirect effect.

> What is sad is that it is the epitome of capitalism, that we can't do much about it. Palm oil is used everywhere and as long as there is a demand, supply will be there too.

No, we can do something about it - simply enforce the laws that are already in place against starting fires. Palm oil isn't the problem - the lack of ability or will to enforce the laws is. If the Indonesian government manages to do that (and even find a alternative way for the farmers to earn a livelihood), palm oil will be fine to use.

[1] The Singapore government and newspapers have been digging into the relationships of these firms: http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesias-biggest-...
My favorite kind of static website generator is lazy, just in time, and supports TTL based regeneration on a per page level.
I have spent tens of thousands of dollars on my mental health and well being. Everything from multi-year therapy to prescription drugs to supplements to expensive exercise classes to self-help retreats. And in the last couple years I've been using testosterone (prescribed) to help me keep up my energy levels.

And they have helped me a lot. On a day-to-day basis I feel better than I did at 25.

Nonetheless I must be constantly vigilant lest my depression and alcoholism return.

I really feel for people who don't have the money for those things. If I ever became super-wealthy I would focus my philanthropy on mental health. If your brain is working at suboptimal level, it's really difficult to improve your life situation.
Another alternative to BEM http://getkickstart.com/amadeus/
Should the future of design tools need to provide the real data?
There's a few things at play here.

Economy of scales is huge of course. A lot of the parts are actually shared between many different cars at different price points. There can be on the order of 50+ micro-controller in that car. Do you want to pay 10$ extra for each of them just because they have cooler specs?

The various parts are designed at various times so that car might have controllers for the anti-lock braking system that were designed 5 years ago.

Hard real-time applications (brakes, ECU, etc.) don't magically need more gigahertz, that engine with direct injection only needs to calculate fuel volume maybe 20000 times per seconds (once per cylinder per 2 rpm) and that would probably be a ridiculous upper bound.

In-car navigation and entertainment packages are completely separate from the hardware actually controlling the car.
I think this Chinese quote can summarize the article:

"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever."

In terms of lean methodology, "Fail fast and fail often."
No, because we have explanations for what's causing it: suicides, drinking, drugs.

It likely includes the large increase in pill overdoses by that white demographic since the mid to late 1990s. It's something that whites in the US seem to abuse more than any other group of people in any other country. Doctors in the US have become drug addiction facilitators.

Further, historically American whites had among the highest life expectancy, between 1800-1970 - right until the obesity explosion left Americans trailing behind. So what reversion to the mean? Reversion would be that American whites drop the obesity, go back to 1970 weight levels, and live five years longer.
I got around 50k hits to my "stupid cert tricks"[0] page from a combination of twitter, reddit and hackernews over a period of 48 hours. My site is static content generated with pelican[1], served by nginx and hosted on a $10/mo VPS. The page has one image, one stylesheet and a favicon. Peak rate was around 1.5 views per second (loads of the actual page - this does not include requests for assets). CPU usage was negligible, I'm sure it could have handled at least 25x that no problem.

0. https://rya.nc/cert-tricks.html

1. http://blog.getpelican.com/
Or more precisely: http://getkickstart.com/amadeus/#selectors
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Says the guy arm-chairing the situation on HN. In contrast to anyone that's actually done such a thing, reads this and thinks, "yeah, but for the grace of $DEITY go I, because a single lapse in judgement is all it takes, and in a stressful situation single lapses in judgement come in boxes of a dozen."
> handing them a jug of meth

But we're remarkably okay with doing this for people who have ADD/ADHD.
There's a lot of scope for this sort of thing with twitter hashtags, one of the best being a hash tag for Susan Boyle's Album Party getting shortened to: #Susanalbumparty
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2012/nov/22/...
I've seen them testing this and the icon style changes for months now, having had three different test screens spread over three different accounts. On mobile.
I don't mean hard as in will power. Rather, there is a huge trend to gain weight as you age. http://stateofobesity.org/obesity-by-age/

PS: The 65+ numbers seem to be better except morbidly obese people tend to die young and weight loss is often a sign of a medical issue.
At my last job we had a message shown when a certain view was empty that said something along the lines of:

"Bummer, you don't appear to have any messages"

We got a very very angry message from a user one day, telling us they didn't appreciate us using the word "bummer" and that it was extremely offensive. Apparently it's a slang term in the UK.

Internationalization is tough :\
How does that compare to the Bombardier C-Series?
> ...more and more people developing an illness script around chronic pain that they see themselves as victims of...

Can you talk about this more? Some family members have routine complaints of chronic pain without a concrete physiological root cause, and I'd like to understand your comment further.
> ...chose to jump out of windows of the Twin Towers, instead of being engulfed by rapidly encroaching flames...

This stopped me in my tracks. Still not sure what I would have done but I would think I would try to find a way down. Now if I knew there was no way out...
...arguments object not being an Array is yet another
JavaScript wart that causes nothing but special cases
and complexity in optimization pipelines...

So, why can't we make `arguments` into an immutable Array for ES7? Is there any compiler advantage to keeping the special case?
No one "gives" drugs or matches to anyone. They choose to try them, usually because someone shows them how. Do you want to outlaw matches?
How do you figure that loading a static file is the same as a DB query? Even if the actual finding of the bits on the hard drive and sending them across the wire is close to the same, you don't need a database running. You get to shut down an entire process, or depending on your architecture, an entire server.

Heck, once CDNs and caching get involved, I wonder how many requests will even hit your HTTP process at all.
That information is outdated. CSS speed optimisation is a complete waste of time for at least 5 years now.
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I haven't got a problem with privatization per se, and recognize that some approach to privatization was called for. I have major problems with the disastrous "shock therapy" approach to privatization that was actually applied where the US economic advice was what created the mafioso oligarchs.