skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest question, since I don't think I've ever had the opportunity to ask this, but I'm curious where that line sits for you?

To provide context while answering something you asked,
I grew up in philly. I went to a city high school. I have (and most of the other white kids I associated with have) some parts of a philly accent, which I'm very aware I revert to when I, as you say, start partying/relaxing, but in my case it's because I'm relaxing the forced inflection of my speech, and my more natural way of talking comes out. The same thing happens if I talk to someone with a similar east coast manner of speech out of a natural desire to express similarity and establish comfort with the conversation partner. (to answer your, I imagine somewhat rhetorical, question about "do you drop into dialect... white friends", since the above is a thing sans-race)

I can tell you authoritatively, although you may not believe me (or say I should stop anyway, which would beg other questions on my part), that there's no "deep opinion" of black culture or speech in that, in fact, the highschool was unfortunately VERY self segregating and most of the white kids didn't have enough interaction to form deep opinions. (which is part of why I'd be curious to ask now about the accent thing, since I know that ALL of the kids there, race aside, picked it up to some degree but it was never something that was discussed, since we just... didn't really talk.)

I say this largely in the hope, if we ever talk and I accidentally let that show, that you would think better of me for it and not start to hate :) (the world already has plenty of that, as you point out from the insinuations you identify)
As a matter of curiosity, do investors in California take the high chance of an earthquake into account?
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Die in an fire
Is it real?

I'm still not sure.

But I have a great idea for the Farm to BigTable prize...
I was going to try it, but it didn't have a curl|bash install instruction.
> I don't have any recommendations for Linux, unfortunately.

For Linux and any other platform. Emacs' markdown-mode (including its GitHub-flavored gfm-mode) works very well.
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The average person sees maybe 600 ads a day asking them to buy something, and maybe 2 ads telling them to save more (using overpriced financial advisor X).

Not saying people have no responsibility, but the odds are kind of stacked against you - it is an uphill battle to survive.
Give away their apps for free without any agreements, apparently. It's like trying to force Tesla to give everyone their motors, because customers want Tesla motors but can't get them without buying a product from Tesla - therefore Tesla should be forced to let other other companies build cars with their motors /s.
That is amazing. One of the most scientifically sound products I've seen in a while. Guaranteed 30% success rate :)
But that's the thing, it's a little bit questionable for Amazon to be a competitor. They started out as a partner that offered a retail platform for Rain Design, only to turn around and come up with a cheaper product. Even though it's perfectly legal, there's still an expectation of trust, which they've violated.

Would you sell products on a platform knowing that if you were too successful the people operating the platform would turn around and come out with a cheaper product? I wouldn't.
There is no doubt that they have spent money foolishly, but bear in mind you are talking about them spending on a wedding and college. These are not trips to Vegas with hookers and blow, but rather core human experiences, closely tied to the concept of "middle class" themselves, and not financial back-breakers for middle class families in the past.

So, yes, there is some blame to be apportioned for the spending habits. However, there is also the systemic problem of real incomes declining significantly, with major life costs (housing, education, medical, taxation) increasing dramatically:

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/fredgraph.png?wi...

This problem is significantly worse if you use the old CPI, which some people feel is more honest:

http://www.soundmoneyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/...

Either way, the decline in real wages in the face of rising major life costs is a major contributor to the increasingly precarious position of many middle class families.
Please try to keep pointless vague slurs like SJW constrained to Reddit et al where they belong.
Almost anything, to be honest. Matplotlib, R, Matlab, Mathematica etc. are all much nicer. Those will do most things ROOT does and be much less delicate. In a lot of places (especially outside CERN) Matplotlib is taking over where ROOT might have been used, but it's a slow process.

The problem is that ROOT still has a few very specialized features that its users still need and you can't get elsewhere. And there are a ton of legacy analysis tools built on top of it that are difficult to port because of how ROOT is. And a lot of its more extensive users are comfortable with it and have no motive to change (they're busy with being scientists).

I don't know anybody who actually likes ROOT, but it also won't be going away any time soon.
One recourse is seeking a general exclusion order at the ITC if you have patents. You don't get money but you can get customs to prevent importation.

If you don't have parents then they aren't ripping off your IP.
> but a ridiculous attempt to use a legal loophole

Which is funny because my mental default is that publishers try to use legal arguments to fight adblockers. It somehow feels like turning evil to me that one might use the same means to enforce an adblock positive position. It appears to me to be morally wrong in both cases.
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What are the best attributes to hire someone technical? Also, from what perspective: are you a lead, developer, or something else?
Gorbachev's. I am not that old to remember Stalin.
Ooh thanks! I will try this on other apps that might crash in the future.
toptal does 100 million and I was wondering, how did a kid just out of college figure out the magic formula? or did they?

sounds like a sweat shop:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10107448
I'm not smart enough to know whether Google is breaking antitrust rules or not but if they are I don't see how Apple aren't too.
In this case is more like: "I gave it a shot, but no, thanks".
Or as Woody Allen said, "I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."
Thanks so much! I really appreciate that.
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I don't think we should incentivize moving to such places unless we plan to also (somehow) massively increase the opportunities available in such places.
That's one possible benefit. But try to compete with Amazon on price directly; many (now former) sellers reported having their accounts under review shortly after (often leading to permanent selling rights removal - there's always some odd item that you might have in your huge catalog, even if you never sold one, that might be interpreted as not allowed on Amazon) and nowadays many small operations just try to avoid competing on items Amazon sells itself because of fear of getting kicked out. That's not beneficial to customers at all. So basically Amazon might be heading to be in this mode:

- allow 3rd party sellers/manufacturers to sell items
- once items are hot and are easily clonable, start manufacturing them
- let original manufacturers bleed or kick them out if they compete on price with you
- wait for another batch of sellers to identify next hot item
- repeat
Stories like these terrify me, mostly because I am very concerned about what will happen to the retirement savings of people who did the responsible thing and did save, and lived well within their means, and contributed to their 401k (or other retirement savings).

The most active voters are the older groups, and as people like the author reach their elder years with nothing to retire on, they presumably vote in their own best interest.

As it stands now, there are ~$4 trillion dollars[1] in 401k savings. It is currently not being taxed, with the assumption that it will grow during a person's working years, and be taxed when it is withdrawn, as income tax.

However, as people like the author reach a certain age, I am fairly convinced that there will be a significant tax on retirement savings from the responsible folks to pay for those who didn't save appropriately. Politically it's fairly straightforward: we have millionaires who can "afford" to help pay for the less fortunate! This ends up hurting the people who saved so that they could properly afford to send their kids to schools, to be able to go on vacations in their retirement, etc.

As much as the story has been "max out your 401k!", I'm fairly convinced that it's going to end up being a worse deal than people count on. I don't really have a solution other than to "diversify investments", but stories like this do terrify me. I plan for retirement and try to be responsible about how I live my life so that when I choose to retire, I'll be able to enjoy it and spend time with kids/grandkids or golfing/traveling/whatever.

[1] https://www.ici.org/policy/retirement/plan/401k/faqs_401k
If they're relevant to the code change ("Not sure what I did, but the tests are passing now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯", "Removing production usernames and passwords from front-end config files, MIKE ಠ_ಠ"), it's fine.

If I see a commit that's just "¯\_(ツ)_/¯", I will force-push over it, don't you even think about it.
People with some level seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and people with depression react to change differently.

For people suffering from SAD symptoms typically start in the fall and stay during winter months. For people with clinical depression it's the springtime that throws them off.

I live in Finland and I have clear SAD symptoms in the fall and winter (very tired and low energy). Using Philips light therapy lamp completely fixes it for me as does trip to Spain in the winter.
His parents paid for most of the private school, so it isn't like he came up with the 300k himself.
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Rants away (though I agree with some points), it's a nice summary of Internet history.
a load of moralisers...let the masses have their addictions fulfilled, while technology enthusiasts move on and enjoy real life.

Physician, heal thyself!
Yeah. Probably wouldn't work / there would be some weird equilibrium.
Not sure why this leaves such a bad taste in my mouth. Obviously, a lot of major retailers already do this. It just seems like Amazon can do this at a much bigger scale and/or at the same scale as Walmart and end up putting a lot of people out of business.
> I just can't wrap my mind around people making $150k and not being able to "raise $2000" in a month's time.

A person making $150k who has no savings/retirement/etc is a someone with very serious money management problems. In every state in the US, a $150k household income places you above the "middle class."

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/middle-class-in-every-us-stat...
Unfortunately the Land Registry is in the process of being privatized. If that goes through, it seems very unlikely this data will stay open.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Mahatma Gandhi
What truly interests me is the idea that, potentially within our lifetimes, we will be forced to admit that there is no longer enough gainful work for all humans to have traditional jobs.

Self-driving cars have the potential to remove ALL transportation-related jobs from the job-pool. And there are many other fields which could probably be entirely operated by machines when the technology is sufficiently advanced.

Historically the labor saved by technology has been moved to other fields, but I have my doubts that this is sustainable.
> In order to get the Play Store, an OEM has to agree to install all the other ‘required’ Google apps including Google Voice Search, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk (now Hangouts), Google Maps and so on.

>The most important clause states that "Devices may only be distributed if all Google Applications... are pre-installed on the Device." Google apps are an all-or-nothing affair. If you want Google Maps or the Play Store, you must also take things like Google+ and Google's network location provider.
Hah, if only my parents or wifes parents had paid for our wedding. That would have been pure luxury. We saved for three years to pay for our wedding. We were very frugal and it was beautiful. Paid for the entire thing without a cent of debt. It's certainly doable.
I cycled around Iceland in may of last year. Slipping into a hotpool after a day of pedaling against the wind in barely above freezing temperature was simply amazing.
Honest question, what's likely to happen if you mix plastics? I understand how if melting points are different you might get odd results, and I'm guessing maybe very different materials won't bond at all leading to cracks in the final product. But if you doing something like they show in these videos, heating it to <200 degrees and just pressing the result into sheets or blocks that can be cut with hand tools, or doing very simple injection molding, can't you get away with a lot that might not be acceptable in an automated, professional setting?

Note that I'm thinking entirely in terms of what I might do myself in my workshop, not what'd scale to a city-wide or country-wide recycling system.
Cool project. I have tried using instant callback call-to-action in our agency and conversion results was really impressive. Can you just email a request for me without calling?
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This article was much more focused than the "Slack, I'm breaking up with you" artucke posted to HN a few weeks ago: https://medium.com/better-people/slack-i-m-breaking-up-with-...
Six months later: https://twitter.com/internetofshit
There likely were no kings ten thousands years ago.
High percentages of humans carry that one. It studied once in a while whether it influences human behaviour [0].

I haven't found onen that discusses love of cats as a result, sadly.

[0] last section here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii
> I'm black, and when white people call me bro

White people shouldn't call you bro like black people shouldn't call you bro either. I'm black, no one calls me bro or the n word, black or white, it shouldn't be a matter of color but respect. I don't understand why you need to single out whites on that matter.

Likewise it would be stupid to say it's ok for girls to call each other bitch or cunt, but not ok for a man to do that because he is a man.
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Ironically, consumers would probably benefit if Google could force handset manufacturers to do more things (like not replacing sensible bits of Android/Play with shite and to provide updates for the hardware lifetime of the phones) rather than less.

That's assuming ignoring second-order effects on innovation and Google's continued benevolence of course, so probably not a good idea, but still.
Sheesh. Stop being so white. /sarcasm
> Their namespacing and modularity is terrible, writing a complex gui, non-trivial web server, 3d renderer, or any sort of real time system is right out. And they seem dead set against changing that

There are many dozens of open issues discussing namespacing, interfaces, levels of type abstraction and extensibility, garbage collector improvements, i/o latency problems, task-switching performance, and more.

Prioritization of core effort in certain directions does not mean other issues are suppressed or even forgotten. Considerate proposals in other areas are welcome, and pull-requests implementing such proposals will be gratefully reviewed. They may not always be accepted -- immediately or sometimes ever. There is certainly some conservatism about adding features (such as interfaces), because features have costs and are near-impossible to remove once added. But other things just take time to get merged; for example, the generational GC took over a year, and there are other very large proposals that have been pending for longer than that because the implementation is lacking in some way or the implications are not fully worked-out to the point of consensus acceptance. That's ok, and IMHO healthy.
what on earth happened in London in January 2010?

There were stamp duty changes in 2010. So for the right priced house you'd have paid signifcantly less tax on 1/1/2010 than on 31/12/2009.

That graph does seem to have a lot of "jumps" though, I'd be interested to know why. It may just be an artifact of how often different areas report?
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There is a band where people commit more suicides. To depressed and you can't really think or plan. To happy and you don't feel the need. So, oddly enough suicide is worse at the happy end of the depressed spectrum. Especially when someone goes from a deep to a more moderate depression.
(that's 250 per meal, so $1000 a month) ... your daughter's wedding (2000-10,000)

Those numbers struck me as very strange. I've rarely eaten at places that are $62.5/head. But spending just $2000 on a wedding seems low. $10,000 isn't unheard of in the circles I travel in.
Some would have been punished, and some would have gotten away with it. We use humor to cope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_political_jokes

There was an article awhile back, can't recall in detail, about how humor circulated in the Soviet Union.
Too bad DNA doesn't stick around more than a few million years [1]. It'd be interesting to research the possibility of prions wiping out the dinosaurs from Mad Herbivore Disease.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_DNA
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It would probably be more productive to report this issue on their issue tracker. https://github.com/TailorDev/monod/issues
Is there anything different with Costco offering a Kirkland Signature anything after they see that product flying off the shelves? Kirkland signature olive oil, balsamic vinegar, coffee, shirts, shoes, peanut butter. Even newer products like air popped quinoa chips or coconut water. If you see something new in everyone's cart one day, two months later there is a kirkland signature brand.
Lian Li's first standing desk is also a computer
Good point. Weird how inefficient it is when people express themselves. If we had a dictionary where we could look up every idea, no one would have to say anything anymore, it'd all have already been expressed better, and we could all just stfu and not waste readers' time.

n.b.: notwithstanding my unsubtle point, I upvoted RivieraKid, with whom I agree about the value of reading these woefully inefficient thoughts, like Fry's, that I love.
Not kings but chieftains.
If that was true, Iceland's neighbors Norway and Sweden would have similar rates, but they're actually significantly lower and closer to countries like the USA. Iceland also has the highest percentage of people on anti-depressants in Europe. Nearly twice the rate of the EU average to be exact!

I think a lot of these "Isn't Iceland wonderful" articles are poorly sourced pop-science junk designed to get ad impressions. Iceland has a lot of problems and is a much more complex country than many give it credit for. Its not a bunch of elf worshippers living in the forest. They're a complex modern people with all the problems modernity brings. I also believe a lot of people with leftist political beliefs don't want to discuss the downsides of the Scandinavian welfare state as these criticism are, of course, critical of their own personal politics. So narratives that are critical of these politics don't get upvoted on sites like HN and Reddit which are largely left-leaning.

Its also worth mentioning that national happiness is tied very closely with income inequality, not pools. Even then, you can have a high level of general happiness and still have a relatively high suicide rate for reasons not fully understood, but I imagine self reporting of how 'happy' you are isn't granular enough to really tell us very much.

There's an ugly "noble savage" narrative to Icelandic people that I personally find offensive. I wish the media would stop pushing that narrative but I can understand that it gets ad impressions the same way Native American "noble savage" stories were so popular a hundred years ago in the USA. The reality is that both are reductionist and inaccurate and gloss over the very significant negative aspects of both their cultures.

Cites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...

http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/9789264183896-en/03/11/in...

http://healthland.time.com/2011/04/25/why-the-happiest-state...
> The social and medical problems of drug abuse are a matter of increasing global concern.

citation needed

Frankly I don't think people take enough drugs. We could do with a few more open minds instead of the horrific mess the squares have got us into.
My in-laws probably paid for about half of our wedding expenses. So we happily paid the other $600.
Maybe we could model this into a Machine Learning automation process.
Easier hypothesis: material wealth doesn't cause happiness
I think it's because things like Google Maps and Google Search are absolutely dominant in their industry and they try to use default Android apps (forced on manufacturers via the Play Store contract) to try to break into additional industries (like Google+, Photos, etc).

The idea being that forcing these additional apps, just to get Play Store is anti-competitive. I'm not sure I'd agree, but there's an argument to be had at least.

It's possible Apple could be too, but they've not used this to try to break into as many industries as Google has AFAIK.
Apple doesn't have a dominant market position, especially in the EU.
I haven't used Facebook or similar for several years. I still use HN though, but it at least FEELS healthier.
He is not talking about everybody who has had such an experience -- but those who linger on to it for decades and hurt their lives and the lives of others with that.

So, yes, grow up -- or grow over it.

You'd rather they didn't?

Life has not only that, but even worse experiences in store -- like losing a limb, your mobility, your life expectancy, your whole family, your house and homeland, etc just like that.

Much worse stuff has happened to people -- and some live that everyday -- and they still rebound and go forward. Wallowing in self pity is bad for those doing it and bad for those around them. And it can even turn them, themselves to something dark (many rapists were in turn abused when younger).
One is written in Go, the other in Erlang.
It is questionable because no one has been able to do it before. Free markets yada yada. . . I would sell a product until I couldn't sell any more regardless of the risk.

If only copyrights on media properties were this fluid.
As somebody that lives somewhere where SAD is a real thing, I can perhaps offer a glimpse into this. During the winter, it's so dark and cold, you get depressed. You stop going out, and you stop socializing. It's not that bad, at least you don't feel so worthless for not going outside since everything is awful outside.

Then spring comes along and everyone starts going outside. The weather is very good now. Everyone is having fun. Everyone but you. You are still stuck inside, afraid to come out, all depressed. That's the point where suicide start to seem like an option.
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No. If Amazon is willfully allowing clones that violate IP or other rights, then it is 100% in their interest to take action on that.