skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think twitter would be better off embracing lists.

I follow relatively few people because of the firehose effect. My attitude towards the people I follow is that I like seeing their tweets, but I don't really care if I miss them. News would be a good example of this. It's great to get news or sports tweets in the moment, but they're probably not tweets I'm going to go back through later to find out what happened.

On the other hand, I have a number of lists, whose members I do not follow, but whose members tweets I do want to see. I probably spend more time in these lists than I do on my timeline. The lists are for specific types of information ("must reads", "python", "humor"). The more focused (fewer people in) the list, the more I value not missing the tweets.

The twitter app makes lists very inconvenient to get to, which is too bad. I like the moments feature, but wind up using Tweetbot (or another alternative app) because I want easy access to my lists.
To add to this, the trend in corporate America today is to reduce capital on balance sheets. Hoarding cash or assets that can be borrowed against is considered very passe, and many CEOs have been either fired or forced to do stock buybacks by activist investors for not deploying capital or returning it to investors. That is, they're being encouraged to withdraw investments at a time when it's easiest to get investment.

It will be interesting to see what happens when companies that are reliant on capital markets encounter both a draw down in income and vanishing liquidity for their need to borrow (and hint, these things are highly correlated with recessions).
I'd like to see an argument for that.
Apple's in-house CDN efforts spell trouble for Akamai
API Gateway has DDoS protection.
So does the "clear web"...
> Attempt to answer the question, or don’t comment at all. Don’t tell them to RTFM, Google it,

I think the point is that if you're going to tell them to RTFM or google it. you should also attempt to answer it or point them in the right direction. but don't tell them RTFM or Google it and nothing else. That doesn't help. A lot of time people have already tried that and don't know enough to know where to look or what to search. At least tell them to try googling XYZ or tell them check section whatever in the docs.
Absolutely not and that would be an awful idea to boot. It's a regular looking bookstore in a regular looking place (an outdoor mall).
Not really, your punishment should fit the crime and therefore be related exactly to what you did (and the circumstances in which you did it) - and definitely not based on which member of the judiciary you are randomly assigned.

So yes, whilst judges are supposed to have lots of discretion- there should also be oversight to ensure they're somewhat aligned with each other.

Mandatory minimums are a populist solution to headlines about setencing.
Node.js Foundation to Add Express as an Incubator Project
Warning: ARK is not much safe either, I saw on reddit some days ago some guy complaining that he bought a I3 after checking it on ARK, and after the purchase, Intel disabled the feature on all i3 and changed ARK too, silently. (It was related to some feature Intel also tried to implement in the 2 previous generations but seemly is buggy)

EDIT: I hit the post limit... Yes, I do think it was TSX
Different stores offer different terms and have different costs... I shop at lots of stores I know charge more because they have better service.

I love the shopping experience when I don't have to wait in line because they have enough cashiers and don't have people haggling over $5 at the cashier, if you want their prices go to their store...
Server-less is probably nomenclature that needs to be phased out like "Application Service Provider" or "CORBA." It focuses too much upon the implementation rather than the value. The value of not having a "server" in most cases is that you don't have to operationally manage a new host and incur all the cost of ownership of managing more infrastructure that does not directly add value to your business. Perhaps if you're pretty efficient it is better to take this on yourself, but for most companies the trend is accelerating against infrastructure management since most companies are decidedly not experts in managing compute, storage, and networks - I've seen a lot of places in the Fortune 500 and they are inefficient and ineffective at managing their IT as a rule because IT is a cost center normally.

As for a better term, perhaps operationally-opaque or "pure service" are starting points? Service is correlated with stronger federation while p2p is decentralized as a rule. I'd rather avoid SOA which does not say anything about whether you have to manage the operations or dependencies - nobody is calling microservices as "server-less" after all. When people in companies talk about a "services" company they mean that the labor and overhead of management are all outsourced and as a customer you don't really care about how they operate as long as they don't violate certain OLAs and SLAs. AWS can run Lambda on marmot-based computing on Mars for all I care as long as it meets certain specs. Services compete on cost, SLAs (features are part of SLAs), and OLAs, period.
I work for Stack Overflow: it might help to know that the prompt isn't permanent; it will go away in between 4-14 days (as the votes or flags that triggered it age away).

We added that prompt because a huge number of people were asking questions that were either duplicates or were so poorly presented that the nugget of information that made them unique was obscured; either way, the asker wasn't getting an answer. It's been live for just under a year now, and the response has been incredible: more duplicate questions are confirmed by the askers themselves than are closed by voters; meanwhile, the number of people editing their questions has also gone up.

Sorry you had a bad experience with it, but this is part of the work we've been doing to reduce the amount of conflict and frustration on the part of both askers and answerers.
It depends on the crime and where it was committed.

Should having a gun at home get you extra punishment on a speeding ticket? No. But carrying a gun while breaking and entering? Absolutely.
The absolute worst experience is when the top link on Google is on a Closed/Duplicate/Invalid Stack Overflow, where the answers and comments are all on how the question is bad- especially when the question is almost verbatim to the search.

The problem with SO is that there isn't an alternative with a user base large enough to get that critical mass of answers. That means that there are no real alternatives to the very well defined limitations of Stack Overflow.

Without an alternative, it puts contributors in an adversarial position against askers- trying to close as many questions as possible to try and keep the mission statement alive.
Google's Huber to Lead Illumina Cancer-Detecting Startup Grail
From the article, "In 2010, just 1,006 gave up being US citizens, but since then the numbers have risen every year."

Let's think quantitatively to see if there is really a net trend here. In the most recently reported year, there were approximately 680,000 new United States citizens through naturalization.[1] So barely more than 1,000 United States citizens renouncing citizenship is swamped by several hundred thousand new citizens each year. I am an American citizen who has spent two three-year stays working and living abroad during my adult life. I've read about this taxation issue for decades, and filed United States tax forms from my place of foreign residence, but I've never seen a good reason to renounce my United States citizenship, nor has anyone else in my family.

The most common complaint about United States policies around citizenship that I see here on Hacker News is the complaint that it should be much easier to come to the United States to work on an employment-based visa. (It's more difficult than many participants on Hacker News desire, but settling in the United States with an employment-based visa is sufficiently easy that I know people just in my own social circle here in the Midwest who have settled here from Britain, the Netherlands, Norway, Japan, Taiwan, China, India, Pakistan, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Ecuador, Argentina, Korea, and a variety of other countries. Many people would like even more employment-based visas to be available, but they are already available by the tens of thousands.

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/archive/archive-news/naturalization-fa...
Wow, this is really relevant to some experiences I've dealt with, in watching contests that seemingly could only (most easily?) be "won" through dishonest means. I'm specifically thinking about "music contests" where an initial threshold is basically a view-count. Could using dishonest means have down-the line effects on a band or music act?

Here's some sample text from the Vince Gill contest being put on by Guitar Center:

>ROUND ONE:During the Contest Period, the Contest platform will track each Submission’s popularity using a proprietary ranking algorithm ("online activity"). Online activity tracking will be measured weekly throughout the Contest Period. Each week during the Contest Period, the Contest platform will identify the ten (10) Entrants with the highest online activity during that week (the "Top Ten Weekly" and the "Weekly Ranking" respectively). Each Entrant who’s Submission (i) is in the Top Ten Weekly (in the highest Weekly Ranking) as determined
by Administrator and (ii) also meets the Submission Requirements is guaranteed to have at least one (1) Submission be reviewed by the Judging Panel in the
Finalist Round. In the event that an Entrant has a Top Ten Weekly ranking in the Weekly Ranking on more than one occasion, the Judging Panel shall also
review the next highest ranked Entrant so that there are a total of one hundred (100) Entrants that are guaranteed to have their Backing Track video in
their Submission be reviewed by the Judging Panel in the Finalist Round, additional Submission videos, may or may not be reviewed. Any attempt by a
Designated Agent or an Entrant and/or his or her family/friends to use fraudulent mechanisms to unfairly affect the outcome, as determined by Sponsor in
its sole discretion, shall give Sponsor the right to disqualify the Entrant. Entrants will not be notified if they are being judged in the Finalist Round.

I participated in a similar contest earlier using the same platform (Zedd if you're at all curious). There was rampant click fraud being done by numerous contestants, most of it simple click-for-click type stuff, but there were obvious attempts to get way ahead.

Considering how frequently I come across "services" that guarantee listens/likes/clicks through different platforms (Twitter, SoundCloud, DatPiff, YouTube, etc) I'm highly skeptical of how well such contests are policed.

In returning to the OP article, if dishonest means were the method to winning, and it follows that dishonesty will rise again, I wonder how that plays out in the music environment.
Keeping cash under mattress is risky. Why not buy gold(or precious metals)? Movement and hiding it is way easier than $100 bills and transport too is easier. Just wear it as jewellery.
Yes?

The geographic borders would be different, that's about it.

Let's not forget that British trade policy was designed to extract raw material cheap from India, and then dump finished goods at low rates, and remove indigenous industries.

The sub continent is like Europe. If allowed to be on its own, people would have modernized and gotten on with the business of making money.

So why is that hard to imagine?
> In fact, after reading this, it makes me wonder if the real purpose behind these stores isn't simply to force people to install the app.

Oh yea, the Bezos long con where by he knows if he makes a store you will visit it and you WILL install his app... Or maybe he just wants a place for people to use and demo their physical devices?
For Go it uses the slowest webframework that is available.
Oh, for Columbia's crew it could have been far worse than that.

There's reasonable evidence [0] that the director of NASA and ground crews knew the Columbia's wing damage was bad enough to make re-entry impossible. But they had two options, tell the astronauts they were never coming home at the start of their mission, or wait until they discovered it minutes before their vehicle disintegrated.

The director chose the former path, and ended up getting fired as it looked like a cover up. It was really just being compassionate.

No pad abort system would have saved Columbia. But on the flip-side, while everyone is up and arms over the loss, NASA's astronauts are trained to WANT to fly. We can hem and haw and say what a tragedy, but there is a class of people who know the risks, who know the possibility of death always exists and will still pilot or crew the vehicles that we send into space.

0: http://goo.gl/vdagzb
Nim is really the way to go, I don't understand why people still spend time learning slow languages with poor engineering design and concepts. Just learn NIM!

I has been written with so solving so many concepts everyone is trying to solve, but don't solve at ALL.

Just open your eyes the solution is right under your nose.
Those "what are you really trying to do?" responses are infuriating. I feel like responding "What I'm really trying to do is just get an answer to this specific question. I don't need you to re-design my architecture."
But divison is not just about nations.

1) It's also political differences in the same nation. Tribes fragment to smaller tribes, small tribes merge to large tribes etc.

2) There are divisions based on topics of interest, subcultures, etc. that aren't location-based, but thanks to telecommunications, global.
I've always assumed "sales" are purely marketing tools where the price is increased and then lowered, or if the product isn't selling, then you lower the price by calling it "on sale". Either way, as a consumer, one should always just disregard anything other than the number you have to pay for a product when evaluating its value.
The government gets the difference:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-federal-reserve-profit...
A WISP (or any other provider) that provides 25Mbps download+some nominal upload to a area (and reports that on their bi-annual FCC form 477) would cause the area to be marked as "served" and thus ineligible for CAF funding. IIRC the USDA BTOP program which funded a lot of middle mile projects had similar restriction.

From what I've seen this mostly spoils the traditional telcos (e.g. Centurylink & Frontier) because CAF (replacement for USF) won't pay for their upgrades (usually something like adding a VDSL2 DSLAM in a cabinet somewhere and running fiber back to their CO) when a high-performing WISP is in the area. Of course some little telcos that do FTTH are also affected.
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I like to buy specialty books directly from publishers. Art books are often difficult to find elsewhere, and tech books tend to come with nice extras.

I used to prefer FNAC, but they only exist in France.
Thanks for the lengthy response!
Hey guys, I'm the co-founder and CEO of Function of Beauty (a YC company in the current batch). We're trying to disrupt the beauty space beginning with personalized shampoo and conditioner formulations. We use an algorithmic approach to translate a customer's hair type and hair goals into ingredient combinations that work perfectly for them. Customers are able to design almost any aspect of their formulation, from its color to its fragrance. We also print their name on the bottle with a UV printer, which is really cool. Once they receive their set, customers can further tweak their formula until they have the perfect shampoo. To achieve all this, we individually fill each bottle of shampoo and conditioner (rather than produce large batches). While this process is currently done by hand (which takes forever), my co-founder Josh is developing a machine to automatically and precisely fill each bottle. Hien, my third co-founder, is an industry-leading formulation chemist (and an awesome one) who oversees every bottle that is made from the algorithm we developed together. You can check this all out on our site if you'd like! Before placing your order, we show you the precise ingredients that will go into your bottles based on your hair profile so you can see our algorithm in action.
Except people do hold it for different lengths of time.

Yes, there may be many people who hold it for about the same length of time, but an extra beat's worth of time is by no means universal.

It's a fermata.
Most of my physical book copies have come from http://subterraneanpress.com the last few years. Mostly because at this point when I want a physical copy of a book it tends to be a special edition/signed copy.
It's not redundant; if someone sets up a malicious exit node they can view all your traffic, unless it is encrypted e.g. by SSL.

Of course for this kind of site that is not so important, but you shouldn't use any kind of site where you log in or enter sensitive information over Tor without HTTPS.
The software isn't going to say "screw it, just hit the kid." It's going to be more like what I said: brake to a stop, steer to avoid obstacles. If an obstacle must be hit, then default to going straight.

This is already going to be vastly superior to human drivers, who often don't bother to brake, or flinch and steer into oncoming traffic for no particularly good reason.

After we've cut down the 30,000/year death rate from car accidents by a couple of orders of magnitude, if we get start to get desperate about improving safety and have trouble figuring out how, then maybe we can start looking at rare and bizarre occurrences like these, if they ever actually happen.

Trying to work out the precise requirements for ethics in autonomous car crash response, when we don't have more than the vaguest idea of what kind of crashes they'll get into or what kind of responses might be available, is awfully premature.
Is it easy to change the local 'dollars' for true US dollars? Is it 1:1 or are they less valuable?
Right, hyper [inflation, deflation] is bad and usually ends in the governing body losing all power over the economy as people switch over to another country's currency (Zimbabwe) or a new government's currency (Germany). That's a discussion we should have when we get to -2.0% interest on long-term assets.
You can bet that if outright combined arms conflict had suddenly erupted in the city various developed militaries of the world would have provided protection for their citizens to leave. That's visibly demonstrated by every civil war. Give me an example of a developed military that's gone into an armed conflict to rescue citizens. The closest I can think of is the rescuing of hostages. That's not quite the same thing though and very rare.
Google has quietly launched its answer to AWS Lambda
This is true and I definitely love the convenience of Amazon (who was the most guilty of higher prices, by the way). Frankly, it was Sam's Club that really surprised me since I always assumed that they offered everything at a lower price as a perk built in for membership.
For me, I got an inheritance that I didn't really remember from a relative who passed away years ago. It was put into a foreign bank account since this person wasn't a US citizen and passed away in the country of their birth, and since I got it as a minor I basically ignored it, figuring I could just leave it as a bit of an emergency fund.

When I found out about the new rules and then remembered the bank account (10 years later!) I realized I was probably not in compliance. That's one thing that spooks people: $2000 in a bank account you forgot about can lead to disproportionate fines. I had to do a lot of paperwork to get into compliance, and because I had to transfer the money I actually lost a lot in a poor exchange rate (due to various constraints).
You're treating this sample-is-the-population issue as if it's resolved in the statistics literature. It is not. Gelman has written on this [1][2], as the issue comes up in political science data frequently. As Gelman points out, 50 states are not a sample of states—it's the entire population. Similarly, the Correlates of War [3] data is every militarized international dispute between 1816-2007 that fits certain criteria—it too is not a sample but the entire population.

Treating his population as a large sample of a process that's uncertain or noisy and then applying frequentist statistics is not inherently wrong in the way you say it is. It may be that there's a better way to model the uncertainty in the process than treating the population as a sample, but that's a different point than the one you make.

[1]: http://andrewgelman.com/2009/07/03/how_does_statis/

[2]: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/econ... (see finite population section)
I'm not sure I follow. Lowering rates encourage borrowing, is that not the point?
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Air India also played a major role in the 1990 evacuations from Kuwait. Considered to be the largest civilian evacuation, airlifting 170,000 Indians stranded in Kuwait.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_airlift_of_Indians_from_K...
I understand where you're coming from, but it's often the way questions are answered that's the problem, as shown in your example.

If someone's asking to put diesel in their petrol car, they obviously don't know that's a bad thing to do. Just asking 'Why are you trying to do that' makes you seem like you're trying to be difficult. A better answer would be 'I think you're looking at the problem wrong - diesel won't work in your petrol car, what are you trying to achieve by putting diesel in your petrol car?'

Yes it's a bit longer, but it actually helps someone know they are wrong, rather than coming across like 'Pff you idiot, you want to do it my way'.
I thought the only reason that banks had excess reserves was due to the fed paying 50 basis points of interest. This was the fed's way of preventing +/-$2.28 Trillion [1] from being loaned out thus adding $2.28 trillion x (fractional reserve rate...10 if mandatory reserves were 10%) to the money supply through lending. With negative interest rates excess reserves again become an expense, therefore removing banks disincentive to lend.

[1] https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/EXCSRESNS
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking
If there's enough volume to satisfy the demand, the price doesn't necessarily increase. A sale by definition should generate elastic demand.
I think Seattle City Light would be a bit too expensive.
No they have not found such a marker.

They have not found a definitive biological causal mechanism that causes transgendered traits. They have found correlations between certain biological mechanisms and transgendered traits. However these findings lead to only about a 70% correlation at most.

Please note that the 70% correlation cannot be ignored. It indicates high likelihood of a causal connection. It is unwise to dismiss this correlation even if it is below a 95% criteria. My intuition tells me that 70% is only a statistic for a single causative biological agent out of several. Once all biological markers are discovered and correlated together, I believe that the number will be 99%.

Please also note that the correlation between the XX chromosomes and the female gender is above 95%, same with the XY chromosomes and the male gender. These correlations meet your criteria. There is no scientific study that proves this but you will note through common sense that males and females tend to act within their gender role over 95% of the time.
No. http://www.weave.works/weave-fast-datapath/