skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Contrary to popular opinion, democracy can be detrimental to the liberal values espoused by our founding fathers.

If a democracy wants more prisons and harsh punishment, they'll get it.
You could keep the second form but use a ditto operator instead;

why(theMatter);
why(%);
why(%);
why(%);
why(%);
Ask HN: How to attract best talent
We are opening a new office in India where we don't have brand name yet. How do you attract best talent when opening a new office in a location where no one knows you?
Because they make money and it takes a while to get caught.
The ROV can drop an amplifying transceiver every so many meters?
I agree that banning all these sites would be a bit much, but sites like Forbes that have actually served malware should be treated accordingly.
You can grab a meat, a veg, and a loaf of bread and pay for it with cash in under two minutes, let alone five.
But I wish there was one. It would make our civilization much better.

Against Intellectual Monopoly
http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfi...
When I'm interviewing for a job at VW and they ask this question, I can deflect with my curry skills.
Some people consider that question fairly important.
The Transit of Mercury from Exeter UK
The Five Whys is essentially Toyota's version of Root Cause Analysis.
Thank you for the link.
How to Handle Alerts and Frames in WebDriver
Since you're mentioning OVH, it reminds me of a story I've been told about Octave Klaba, OVH's founder (not sure if it's true or not actually): he is said to have forbidden any meeting "longer than 90 minutes" in his company.

By "longer than 90 minutes", he means that the total time spent by the people participating in the meeting should not be longer that 90 minutes (so 2 participants -> 45 minutes, 3 participants -> 30 minutes, etc.).

This fits your logic perfectly.
Hey Hacker News :waves:

Fred from FoundersKit here. We launched FoundersKit in August last year and it went down really well. Since then we've been working hard on v2 (new site, 40 new deals) and the total value now sits at over $12k, including deals for Intercom, Invision and Zendesk to name a few.

Obviously we know no startup will use all the deals on offer, but we're confident that you'll easily find more value than the $59 membership fee, making it a no brainer.

I'll be about all day, would love to hear your thoughts!
That sounds very meta.
What utter BS. Facebook has spent probably close to twenty million on building its Altoona data center (only one built recently so will assume that is the one in question). It did not take the municipal water supply, in fact this particular data center is one of the greenest in the world. It did get a tax break on its water usage, like most large municipal customers do, and according to news articles had an additional water main run to the site, but it does not have any particular water requirements that would necessitate any magic source. If you want to look for water savings in Altoona start at Adventureland and the amount of water being wasted there on a daily basis.

As for taxes, what taxes do you think were going to be assessed on this property? It was an empty piece of land before FB arrived so it was not like the city was losing much property tax to begin with. In return Facebook is paying salaries for forty or so people on site and the thousand or so who worked for over two years building the site. Oh, and because tech firms like it when others do the research and general site selection you will notice that Microsoft is dumping tens of millions into a data center in West Des Moines as well. You're welcome.

You "allowed" it because it was a good deal for a city like Altoona that otherwise was not much more than an amusement park and the last place to get gas on I-80 before you hit Des Moines.
The problem is that neither me nor most other people know a first thing about quality aspects of materials or manufacturing of clothes/shoes, so we can't tell if the product will last long.
As a HackerNews discussion grows probability of clickbait complaint approaches 1
The base may not even be marked on the map. I came across an example [1] recently, just a blank space on Google maps.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviano_Air_Base
compiler error at line 1. unmatched parenthesis.

... oh don't worry it's a loosely bracketed language.
I was once prescribed 4 tablets of Albandazole (a drug for worms treatment) just before my health insurance was active on file. The drug was costing over 700$ without insurance and my health center asked if I would like to wait for my student health insurance to show up as active. I said, yes (ofcourse) shocked at the price of the drug (being an international student in US from India). Even after my insurance I paid 35$ co-pay. The same drug costs <1$ in India. Even the co-pay is over 35 times the cost of the drug in India. I was trying to contrast some figures:

Salary ratio: ~5:1 (Software engineer, Google based on Glassdoor);
Albendazole drug cost ratio: ~700:1
Actually, India basically refuses to recognise patents for a wide variety of pharmaceutical products. For a long time they refused to recognise patents for drugs that combat AIDS and a thriving market for generics sprung up.

There was a lot of posturing and complaining by pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. and the U.S. Government tried to heavy the Indian Government, but to no
avail.

When it became apparent that the Indians weren't going to budge, and with a growing realisation that other nations would ether do the same thing or import their drugs from India, the companies agreed to drastically reduce their prices on "humanitarian" grounds. Now they still make massive profits, just they are less massive than they once were.

This is now happening with academic research.

Nobody will shed any tears because greedy multinationals make a lower profit to ensure less people die from disease. Nobody will weep over Elsevier's reduced earning if it frees up necessary information and research findings so science can progress for the benefit of all mankind.

The entrenched interests of rich, arrogant corporate executives and business owners in first world nations are finally being disrupted by poorer nations who don't care about this group of people. But that's what happens when you gain an attitude on I weaning entitlement - you eventually overreach so far you come undone, and nobody feels any sympathy when it happens.
Reinventing the timer wheel
I am currently reading Permutation City by Greg Egan and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in ideas how our future might look like regarding AI and virtual reality. So far superb read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City
Literally a captive market.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...

More than one death per 100 million miles gives worse than 1:10 000 odds per 10 000 miles. If you do not want to take 1/10 000 death risks, you would need to limit your lifetime car travels to way less than 10 000 miles.
I wonder if you could sue a website for serving you malware.

Here's my idea for an ad company:

* People who want to post ads have to provide their name, address, verified email, and a security deposit(say $500). Larger volumes of ad purchases require either a long history, insurance, or a bank letter to vouch for you. If you load malware anywhere into the system, you get fined and your information gets turned over to the police.

* People who want to earn money with advertisements have to provide name, address, verified email, and a security deposit. The security deposit could be funded out of earnings(or not). Fraud is countered by randomly sampling websites and fining offenders if the ad isn't visible. Also they get their information turned over to the police if it was intentional fraud.

* Security deposits are returned within 1 month after the advertising relationship is terminated.

* Fines are paid out of the security deposit, and your access is restricted until you refill the account(possible with an even bigger deposit).

* People who are higher risk(from a shady lawless country, no history or background, etc.) have to pay a higher security deposit.

* Ads can be either text or banner ads. Anything Turing-complete needs insurance or a bank letter.

* If someone pushes through a porn ad to get advertised on the NYT by miscategorizing it, they get fined.

Now all the ads are guaranteed to be of high quality, and the websites you're advertising on are probably higher quality too.
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That's an interesting way to make the participants actually plan and think about what they're going to discuss ahead of the meeting.
Anyone have a non Daily Mail source?
Phrack 69/4 has a good summary of Google's hypocritical role in the 0day market
Role reversal: Now, criminals are using CCTV cameras to monitor cops
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DeepOSM – train a neural net with Openstreetmap features and orbital imagery
Neural Networks in JavaScript
Twitter rifiuta accesso dati a intelligence Usa
(As a German) I think lot's of Germans feel global already. But I suspect it's limited to a certain demographic, namely young people with academic background. I don't know about the rest but recently it feels like more people just want to keep to themselves (especially with all the immigrants coming into our country).
Why does it take a while to get caught?
Three weeks on my work machine I disabled the arrow keys and am now forced to use C-, M-, for navigation, the first week was a bit slow I had to keep stopping and thinking, But now just three weeks later my screen movements are much more efficient and faster.
I recommend you give it a try.
> Are we to claim that ovaries and testicles are sex, and the brain and pituitary is gender?

That about sums up the usual definitions, yes.
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Natural selection only works as a driving force of evolution where there is sufficient variety in a population for the reproductively fit individuals to be selected.

Where environmental change is so rapid that none of the individuals are fit, you don;t get evolution, you get extinction.
Does anyone know of a fun and engaging way to learn emacs, like VIM Adventures? I sit and stare at a list of emacs hotkeys any time I want to give it a shot and my eyes glaze over.
News curators also have the power to “deactivate” (or blacklist) a trending topic—a power that those we spoke to exercised on a daily basis.

This could be already describing what you are suggesting.
Descendants of Vikings and Mongolians do not current hold title over the land they have historically conquered.

The allies gave West Germany back to Germans in 1949.

The Soviets lost East Germany back to the Germans in 1990.

Whites being given back their land after losing the war did happen only recently.

South Americans had their land returned by Spanish and Portguese forcefully.

Japan had it's country returned. China had Hong Kong returned.

New Zealand Maori's received financial reparations.

So are you suggesting only everyone else get their land back, and indigenous australian's, well.. water under the bridge kind of thing?
How to present web design to your clients like a pro
This method was invented by https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakichi_Toyoda. He died in 1930.

I'm pretty sure that it predates even the word "startup" as it is currently used :)
I preach this whenever i can in regards to social issues. Whenever one of your friends, or any person, acts in a way that you don't agree with (being rude, sleeping around etc), be patient and try to think about possible underlying causes; it's much more fruitful to engage the underlying unhappiness (carefully) than to react hastily to the immediate situation.
Don't they come that way now, new from the store, all torn up and stuff?
Eclipse, maybe not. But IntellijIDEA, I doubt that it will stay if Jetbrains goes away. They do not fully open source their IDE.
1. Accept remote workers.
2. Interesting and hard problems.
2. Interesting technology.
2. Don't micro manage.
That's only one "why".
There's a crazy theory that human burial, as well as singing and dancing, are an evolutionary defense against large predators.

http://www.meltingasphalt.com/music-in-human-evolution/

That link is a blog length summary of a book, but the ultra-short version is: if local predators get a taste for human flesh from a corpse, they'll come after the living and humans singing and dancing in unision can give the appearance of one large animal to scare off predators.
You tacitly disregarded the points that don't suit your narrative.

1st. It's not the average volatility that matters it's the maximum volatility that you can normally have. This year it only happen once to have 20% it's true. But you have plenty of days where it oscillates more than 5%.

2nd. Bitcoin is much easier to steal than conventional payment systems like reality tells us, not only because of it's lack of security but also because of accountability. It's hacker free reign, you just steal bitcoin and send it anywhere you want and you have no more trouble. In traditional payment systems this doesn't happen like you try to imply, not because it's insured but because we are talking about real money and that money is connected to a name and an address and sooner or later the police will knock on your door or the door of the person that received the goods purchased with the stolen money or card.

3rd. "Firstly, using a hardware wallet (with offline backup) will make your Bitcoin almost invulnerable to 'hackers'": In a site like this dedicated to people that actually understand a bit about computer security. this sentence is just funny.
Eclipses and Transits
How do divers communicate over long distances? If they don't, that's something worth solving in its own right. If they do, couldn't the ROV use the same thing?
Without passing judgement, is this not just measuring the desire not be lumbered with the negative connotations of their respective countries? And possibly also showing a desire and entitlement to be able to move to a better off country?

We have something similar at a different level here. People in Salford (a not well thought of connurbation of Manchester, UK) are 'from Manchester', where as people from Didsbury are 'from Didsbury'.

That said China being on that list does surprise me.
The Australian Federal government has a Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, and U.S. pharmaceutical companies have been trying to undermine it for years.

Sadly for these companies, and fortunate for the vast majority of Australians, it is so popular and successful that any attempt to undermine it puts the government at risk of being turfed out in the next general election.

The Abbott government tried to force through a hair-brained GP co-payment and it was so unpopular that even when it was scrapped they eventually had to replace the Treasurer and Prime Minister for fear of being routed in the next general election.
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Decentralised courts and blockchains
The outcome is perfect from a market perspective. Keep in mind the prisons are the customers not the inmates or the people communicating with them.
Only humans, not computers, can learn or predict
Careful, enough why()'s and you invariably get nil. This is a pointer your employer probably doesn't want you to follow.
In a stack language:

theMatter why why why why why
Then the question: which fonts should they bundle!? etc...
More cynically, the FDA has to be risk-averse because people get much more upset over "this person died because the FDA approved a bad drug" than over "this person died because the FDA didn't approve the drug that would have saved her".
How to price a new product or service
> This article was first published on February 3, 2015

Ah! I thought I had seen it on HN before... :)
No, the manufacturers apply for a new patent for using the drug to treat a different condition, which still keeps generics out of the market.
As I said below, this is not comparable. 1 death in 100M miles means most likely stupid behavior leading to an accident. That's pretty ok. You can mitigate that risk. Don't drink and drive. Don't drive when tired. Don't drive too fast, avoid fast streets/highways (where most of the accidents happen). This is different from a setting where something you can't influence at all can fail and then kill you. The probability of the traffic accident is conditional pretty much on the individual case.

Having said that, I don't own or drive a car ;)
The CESG website has an explanation [1]

[1] https://www.cesg.gov.uk/articles/problems-forcing-regular-pa...
because the emmissions test conditions are predictable
I'm sometimes called to attend meetings to act as a "tech advisor" – in case any technical questions arise they know I'm physically there so they can grill me all they like.

Most of the time, I don't say a word during the whole meeting other than "Hello, my name is so-and-so and I'm a software developer at the company" and then "It was a pleasure meeting you, looking forward to next time!". I just quietly work away in a corner, pretending to take notes. The project managers feel more confident when they know I'm there, so I can be there just as well as anywhere else.

As long as you're not expected to be actively participating, there's no harm in not being actively participating.
I haven't had to java in a long time, but for C++ I find ymcd (based off vim's YouCompleteMe) well worth a little effort to set up. Get the daemon at https://github.com/Valloric/ycmd and emacs package at https://github.com/abingham/emacs-ycmd It gives "intelligent" completion and code navigation, just like you'd expect from IDE's. For the per-project setup, I typically just copy-paste the config file from another project and perhaps tweak some include paths in it.

Apparantly ycmd can do C#, Rust, Go, JS etc. as well now. I like this way of putting such "IDE features" (meaning the programming language-specific features) into editor-agnostic deamons; that way good completion/navigation is available to all editors. The same idea is behind eclim (as you mentioned) for Java and merlin for OCaml.
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The Great Depression of New Computer Workers
Your story sounds amazing. I'm from the UK where every square cm of ground has been mapped, examined and sold to someone.

Some questions.

1) What did you eat and drink?
2) Where did you sleep?
3) What was an average day like?
4) How did you deal with days like christmas day, new years eve, your birthday, the solstice and any other special day to you.
5) Did you see or find anything curious? Something that made you pause and wonder?
6) Is that sort of adventure a man thing? Did you ever hear of a woman doing something similar by choice?

Just some questions that I have, don't answer them if they are impertinent. Just a curious :)
Also see DBD::CSV which been around since 1998! - https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::CSV
Why are they not contributing back? I fail to see any real competitive advantage to gain. Even if you happen to protect against a threat that is not publicly known, you can't really advertise that without a) making it publicly known b) making yourself sound like a jerk.
I usually get "Because BIG BANG".

But good point - you want the why function to write the intermediate answers somewhere as a side effect.
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> way worse than what I read about the American system.

Is it though?

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

- the incarceration rate of the United States of America was the highest in the world, at 716 per 100,000 of the national population.

India is 33/100k. We've got 20 times more of our own American citizens behind bars than the typical 3rd wordl country.
Chinese media speculate that Facebook could get unblocked by 'Great Firewall'
I'm really tired of the trope that "Multitasking is not scientifically possible, and anyone that claims they are more productive doing it is lying to themselves."

It's paternalistic and condescending and always written by those that don't like to multitask already to make themselves feel better about the multitaskers around them.

And it completely ignores those of us with various forms of Attention Deficit (I would venture a much larger component of millennials and software engineers have this compared to previous generations) who know what works for us and what doesn't.

If you give me 3 1-hour-long tasks and tell me I have to work on them sequentially with no switching, I will get bored in the middle of each one, get distracted by something shiny, or stare into space if you try to keep me from doing anything else. I'll need to take a break between each one because my brain is so strained from having to focus on one thing.

In all, I expect each one to take me 1.5-2 hours plus another 30 mins for breaks between, so maybe 5 hours total at a minimum.

On the other hand, if I can alternate and context switch between all 3 as soon as my brain gets bored, I'll be able to keep engaged and work continuously. Sure each one may take me 1.25 hours, but I won't need a break. And the whole thing will get done in 3.75 hours, not 5.

(Numbers completely fabricated, obviously)

The same applies to meetings. I'm not defending coding or working on a challenging problem while listening to a presentation. That will certainly occupy my mind and I won't hear the presenter. But checking some non-complicated emails? Organizing some files or documents? ANYTHING menial is perfect because it allows my brain to stay engaged while also paying attention to the presenter. Without this minor distraction, if I am forced to listen to a boring presentation with my full focus, I will unquestionably lose the focus and find myself drifting off and wondering how much I've missed.
Why do you have the assumption that all behaviour that you don't disagree with has a cause of underlying unhappiness?

Some people enjoy things that other people don't approve of.
Agree: companies will sell what others will buy.
One of the pictures is captioned

> The Plurdalen Valley

Which is funny because the -en in Norwegian means 'the' and 'dal' means valley. So in a way it says 'The the Plura valley valley'
That was the focus, yes. But "ads have been fine" was a far broader claim, and just too wrong to ignore. One bloody ad cost me hours of unbillable time. I even invoiced the site ;)
Why 5x?
You should rather check when you reached the point that it will not happen again.

Probably nobody is assigned to the task of installing filters in new machines and the next one will fail again...
Why is this sufficient for HN but not for Reddit? If opinion is less divided on Reddit I'd also expect it to be less of a problem and thus less likely to require (auto) moderator input.
It seems quite egoistic to take such extreme risks for leisure if you have a wife and possibly kids who love you.
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on top of all mentioned - bodies were blocking the way through. in cold waters it would take years to decompose and all equipment would be still there making passage much more dangerous/impossible.
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AKA "Popping the why stack"
> all the immigrants coming into our country

When sorted by % of population that is composed of immigrants, Germany does not have much immigration (it's country # sixty-something in the list) [0])

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_immigrant...
In my home-made lisp, a macro can be an anonymous first-class value.

e.g. this is early in the stdlib and is what sets up the ability to write 'foo as a shorthand for (quote foo):

(extend-parser "'"
(mac (x) (list (quote quote) x)))

Haven't yet contorted myself into wanting to map a macro value over a list, though!
Very few countries offer free prescription drugs. Not even Canada does that.
Where do you draw the line?
https://twitter.com/philltopia/status/727190980726689792

"New side project: price tags on Google Calendar events based on the inferred hourly rates of participants."