skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or you could say that one has a recent history of imperialism and militarism while the other is relatively peaceful and non interventionist.
> The highly trained of today fear the devaluation of their training.

Also the devaluation of training would create another disincentive that would keep some people from acquiring training in the first place. Don't know if society would benefit from this result, I think it wouldn't.
Integrity and vision are great, but I wouldn't want 14 million people to depend on it.

For example, if someone else feels the potential is underutilized, they could offer to buy it and then bump up rates.

How do you structurally make sure that the motive is different?

Some kind of collective idea might work. The model should be the stock market. Trading costs are getting lower, transparency is going up etc.
I agree. It's just cruft I have to work around or rip out.
> maybe you were more careful with the MacBook Air subconsciously because you knew it couldn't withstand being thrown around

I suspect the opposite, actually. The T42 I paid for myself and cared for like a baby, until I heard from too many people that it was built like a tank, and started treating it as such. The MBA was originally an employer-supplied laptop, and thus was unloved from the start. It fell to the ground many, many times. All the corners are dented in, and I once built a computer ontop of it without realising (which then dented in the lid, and probably resulted in the crack in the screen).

I powered on the T42 recently. Such a beautiful machine. Shame fixing the screen hinges requires so much disassembly. I have very little chance of doing it correctly, and the value of the laptop is so low now it's not worth paying someone to do it for me.

Sadly, I'll probably end up buying a macbook pro when the next refresh comes through. Too much friction changing platforms again.
I had a real life friend die when I was away at college. Apparently everyone else knew even though they were away at college as well. Came back one week too late and found out I had missed the funeral by a few days.

I think the problem isn't whether or not your friendship is online, but whether or not it's advertised sufficiently to the next of kin and other relevant social networks.
Even the sharing buttons at the bottom of the page don't work with it. http://www.ghacklabs.com/#!Doing-things-that-don%E2%80%99t-s... worked for me though.
I felt super sick when trying the Oculus DK2, but had no issues whatsoever with the Oculus CV1/HTC Vive
I see. Thank you for the follow up. This is really helpful. Haskell implements this data type which is why it has come up in this discussion. I need to spend some time with something from the ML family.
I don't think it really is. I've had the oculus for a couple of weeks and the only thing that's come close to making me sick has been a wreck while playing Project Cars. I'm fine even with minecrift and ethan carter without comfort controls. There are a few sorts of movements that make me a tiny bit queasy (like moving backwards and then forwards quickly), but they're pretty easy to avoid doing.
Exactly, to understand the UK you have to understand that you can't be handing brown envelopes stuff. That's so old hat.

You change the laws and you have tacit agreements over several years for payback. That's how "gentlemen" do it.

USA etc think they have it down. These boys have been running this sort of thing for a long time.
That might work. Or something like the NYSE. Lower trading costs, better transparency etc.
The obvious answer is to call this presumptuous, to say that startups are just things made by groups of people and so they can help if people can.

But on a deeper, intuitive level things rings completely true. It's not something I can prove, it's something that can be proved, but I can't shake the feeling that this carries weight.

This is a world where Facebook use averages 50 minutes per day, and we're going to solve the problem with startups? Really? I tried a popular, profitable app that "gamifies" good habits recently, and almost immediately realized that it was just going to make me take another slice of my day to update an app about the stuff I've already done. Great.

At best, startups can grease the wheels. My 'favorite' apps, the ones that improve my life, are the ones that quietly make easier something I was going to do anyway. They help clear out mental clutter and offer simple reminders, making room for the human things that have to emerge from me rather than a product. So yes, better software and better companies can help, but mostly by getting out of the way; by smoothing over the humanity-eroding problems of other systems and products. This is a wicked problem, one that's entrapping whole societies, and change will have to come from equally large alterations.
http://www.akitaonrails.com/2016/05/23/rails-has-won-the-ele...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11757993
There are people you can relate to. You just haven't found them yet.

Working IT, especially for a small IT department, can be isolating. You can find yourself at a company where there's no-one else like you. But that's not because there's no-one else like you in the world; it's because you work IT at a sales firm.
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Sass has not dropped it's namesake syntax. They just recognized that the CSS-like syntax is easier for newcomers to parse and so enabled it by default.
That's true, but at least it shows that people in Japan have enormous amounts of saved capital (if they could finance all that debt).
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For programmers or for users?

As a user - the QuickTime UX sucked like most other Apple software and I'm glad that nobody uses it anymore for things that I need to look at.
I find it misleading that American enterprise can ever be wholly "private", when it depends so much on regulation, subsidies, and public resources. Taxation goes to support the common infrastructure that makes any work possible. Problem?
I think extreme wealth must in some way contribute to insanity. I wonder if he puts tissues down on the floor before he takes a step.
Classic example of what happens when you don't diversify your investments. High volatility will sometimes drop your net worth to 0.
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I was surprised by this also. There's a new option for the thinner font. Under Profiles > Text, set "Use thin strokes for anti-aliased text" to Never.
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Maybe people can FUNDAMENTALLY change that with multiple collective actions, throughout hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years.

Overfunded startups cannot change that.

Overfunded startups can only provide another pill to ignore the problem (making it even worse).
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This! Please!

I work at a place that has been trying to undo the damage of having serialized BLOBs for about 3 years. Granted, these are especially nasty things with a custom serialization layer written in Java.

Software companies consist of two assets produced by it's employees: data and algorithms to make the data useful.

Why would you ever lock your data down and make it harder to make cool algorithms to make the data useful?
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I 100% want engineering to be like poker. I say that as a registered professional engineer with many friends on crews currently standing in holes that I have designed.

Understand what I mean when I say "like poker": the poker mindset is a very analytical, statistically oriented approach. The best players never make a bet/call/fold without some form of logical basis for their plays. They have an internal model that tells them "this play will succeed 50% of the time and I stand to win 3x my risked value and so it is profitable". Similarly in engineering, no decision should be made without an internal model where risk can be evaluated - "this structure will fail 5% of the time and kill somebody but it costs $10,000,000 to get more out of it and so it is not profitable".

Engineering - especially tunneling - is a gamble. You cannot design away every risk. All we can do is show up with our belts and suspenders on and hope our pants don't fall down when we're running out of the hole.
I do agree that there are going to be liability issues with room-scale vr. I think someone's child or pet is going to be severely injured, because chaperone doesn't account for random objects walking into the play space. I don't think it's going to kill VR as a consumer product, though. The technology is so amazing, it's going to succeed despite those kinds of problems.
"The problem with church..."

There are a wide spectrum of beliefs and interpretations across denominations, far beyond Orthodox , liberal, etc. And the quality of the delivery is still up to the people at the pulpit. A bad experience at one church or denomination should not be a generalization of all churches/religions.

If you feel that something is being imposed on you, that particular church may not be the best fit for you. Or you may be hearing something that is at conflict with the ego, or with an area of personal struggle.

Also YMMV depending on if you view church is a consumer good/service, versus a lifelong shared experience of learning and of putting others before self.
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Bandwidth overselling?
Agree, storing binaries in database is generally a bad idea. It would be a really miserable idea if it were being done without a sane persistence API. In the Python world, ZODB - http://www.zodb.org/en/latest/ is tightly coupled with the language but works reasonably well in practice. The storage layer is pluggable and https://pypi.python.org/pypi/RelStorage provides storing pickles in RDBMS.

ZODB is arguable a novel approach to persistence using Python.
And certainly worth taking some time just to play with it -- the barrier of entry low, e.g. `pip install`. But for each positive there are negatives..

"You got it buddy: the large print giveth, and the small print taketh away"
> and dealing with the overhead of a bunch of other filesystem operations and losing referential integrity, etc.

Yeah, better to instead deal with the overhead of the database combined with the overhead of the filesystem! Referential integrity is also very easy to deal with.
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This is the sort of issue that the term 'wicked problem' was coined for. It's a unique issue, with society-wide consequences, no clear boundaries, and no clear solutions. Solving it with a startup is unimaginably glib.

Sure, some could probably help, but I imagine they'll either be palliatives (like 7 Cups of Tea) or enablers for human actions (like Skype). I normally assume that "startups will solve it all!" is more of an exaggeration than an actual opinion, but this thread has me doubting myself.
> There are probably about a dozen major causes of the problems in Syria, of which US/western involvement is only one.

Can we get a few examples?
There's two things that can be done here:

1) We could definitely use better education in this country. Kids should be taught in grade/high school how to handle money, personal finance, etc. They used to have something called "home economics" when I was a kid, but it was only for girls and probably concentrated more on doing dishes or something.

2) We need to stop electing Democrats like Hillary Clinton and DWS who are big backers of the payday-loan industry, and enact legislation which severely clamps down on these practices. Interest rates over some decent number (say, 15%) simply shouldn't be allowed, as they're usurious.

There's really no reason someone on UBI should ever need a large sum of money. They're not in danger of losing it: that's the whole point of UBI. What would they need a lot of money for, beyond what their monthly (or biweekly, or whatever) UBI check gives them? Maybe a deposit for rent, that's the only thing I can think of. There can probably be some kind of laws or programs set up to handle this kind of thing without letting payday-loan vulture exploit these people. If Democrats actually cared about poor people, they'd already be working on ways of helping them with things like this rather than taking "campaign contributions" from the payday-loan vultures.
You can also do this:

docker rmi $(docker images -q -f dangling=true

You might consider doing the same with volumes:

docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -q -f dangling=true)

But be careful with the volume one. I'd read the documentation around volumes first and see if you're deleting what you want to. :)
> Refugees by definition are poor

The "by definition" makes it easy to refute, I just need a single example. Let's take the Jews fleeing Germany in the 40ies, or, for kicks&giggles: the Dalai Lama.

> They end up relying on the government safety-net

While poor people tend to do that, you're generalizing from the usual case to the special. If I burn down all your immobile possessions, will you just throw your hands in the air and say "fuck it, I'll do welfare from here on out"? Not saying that it's to start anew in a different country, but if you take the average person, and then select those marching through the desert for 40 weeks, you'll end up with someone vastly different than your average welfare recipient.

> This congregates the migrants in migrant only areas;

Possibly true in France, not so much in, say, Germany, where all the cool kidz want to move to the inner-city with their start-ups and underground parties.

> Thus there is no real pressure to assimilate

It sounds like there'd be economic pressure, or are immigrants just too happy with a "barely above poverty life-style"?

> and the customs which aren't congruent with western society which are endemic in parts of the Arab world remain(woman's rights, freedom of religion, etc...)

Very much enjoying how everybody-and-their-racist-uncle is discovering women's rights these days. If only they'd be so open-minded when they hear that >90% of sexual assaults are perpetrated by, well, that uncle. Or some other family member.
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Are you unaware of the existence of loan sharks?
You are right, but the same can be done over current Upwork; once I trust a freelancer, I can deal outside the Upwork range, using a normal contract.

However, the most freelancers get short jobs and many clients, as in the original article is specified, so this just simply works.

EDIT: it seems that as currently implemented, even Upwork is bumping in a search the ones with many hours/money earned. So cheating would be a bad decision, since it may drastically affect your visibility on the site
But is it "for Basecamp like apps". Or is it "for the Basecamp app"?

I honestly can't believe a back end framework has minimum supported browser requirements that are basically "use the latest or GTFO".
An amusing thing about this proposal is that it comes only a few weeks after De Blasio’s plan to put a light rail along the Brooklyn/Queens waterfront.

Though it would personally benefit me greatly, I must confess that it would mostly be a convenience for yuppies who can afford to live along the water. This Triboro would benefit people who need better transportation.
I don't think that the same number of people will still feel motivated to acquire a PhD if they know that in any event ditch digging will get you more money to begin with.
squelching any internal dissent, creating islands in the ocean to hold military bases to takeover an entire section of the world, manipulating currency, providing infrastructure to carry out corporate and nation state espionage, etc... - these are what you consider "relatively peaceful and non interventionist"?
I don't think Dave has yet surpassed Bliar and Brown. Especially once you include public private partnerships and the lifetime of debt landed on the schools and hopsitals as a result.
it's always preferable to store a json encoded representation

That's just the format du jour. Ten years ago it would have been "store an XML encoded representation" and ten years before that it would have been some delimited representation. Tomorrow it may be yaml or something even more hideous.

Blobs in the DB can make sense in some situations but they should really be blobs: images, or other binary/raw data. But beyond a certain size it's almost always easier to manage things like these in a filesystem and just store a pointer (filename) in the DB.
Wow. That sounds similar to how I was, but without the suicide.

I moved into a new neighborhood a few months ago (something I've wanted to do for over 2 years). When the weather started getting nice, I bought a bike and started using it. A lot. I eventually started commuting without a car. I'm not sure if it's the exercise or simply being in sunlight more, but I'm feeling better than I have in 10 years, and I'm much happier. It seems that other feelings are up too, since I'm starting to talk to someone I've had a crush on for years.

Mix things up in your life. Change things. I agree with your thoughts on social media. The way people use it is evil: you only see the good things, but not the everyday boredom and tragedy.
Or Photography. My Lightroom catalogue alone is 60GB. My photos several hundred GB.
Here is a link :http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/elizabeth-holmes-net-...

That won't make you turn off your adblocker.
<sheds single patriotic tear>

They should set this to music. Fuck Jerusalem.
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On the topic of non-native palms - I only recently learned that most of the 'palms' that are a surprising sight in the UK - eg in Plockton in the north of Scotland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plockton

... aren't palms at all, but Cabbage Trees, native to New Zealand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordyline_australis) and they're nothing to do with cabbage either. Probably not news to gardeners and botanists but I'd always wondered how they got there.
Do a search for social clubs in your area. They exist and have with a variety of activities to center around that may interest you. Finding a family-based social club may be more difficult, but not impossible. And of course there are the various computer/programming based meet-ups... which are really social clubs as well ;)
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Ask HN: Best Read on HTTP Cookies?
Are there any articles or books that you guys recommend I go through to learn about implementation details of how cookies are done in the real world?

The only meaty material I found is the RFCs
No. The point is being able to do development live without needing to upload a new image every time you want to try something new.
This has become fairly common in Japan, but it seems to be almost exclusively about anomie and depression, not privacy. There are entire companies that exist to clean up after deceased, family-less shut-ins.

I agree that the ability to withdraw and obtain privacy is crucial, but I'd like to see options for privacy and isolation that don't require absolute disconnection.
What do you mean? The model is nothing but rent=demand/supply with an attempt to figure out what weights go on these parameters. What would you do differently?

(Author of blog post here.)
What interested me specifically about this: they call out the preferred participating stock. Is it rare? In my experience, not really - not common per se, but not necessarily rare. And being frank, most common stock holders are at a fair disadvantage through growth phases.

I wonder if they apply this type of thinking for other potential-high-net-worth founders, who are likely to have most of their potential-worth tied up in a single organization. Surely this rule about treating the net value of such stock as being very low unless/until there was some kind of public sale or it had otherwise been crystallized somehow means that this type of founder will never feature in the rich list going forwards?
You need money to provide a reliable service.

You can adopt the Wikipedia style and ask for donations, or just make a company behind it, with decent people ( as opposed to a corporation, with stakeholders, etc).
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Back when it was called elance, I was getting annoyed that it would bill clients automatically but then leave the money sit in my elance account - there was no way to automatically send income to a bank account. So I wrote a bot that logged in on my behalf every day and initiated a bank transfer if there was any money available.

I don't believe this violated the ToS at the time, and Elance never said there was anything wrong with it. But once I posted it to the forums, my account was suspended within a day for a couple of silly things like having a reference to my personal website in one of my example images.

I quit putting much faith in the company after that.
Anandtech's results may be applicable here too: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9702/samsung-950-pro-ssd-revie...
I don't know, njloof. Why don't banks track cash deposits? Should we track cash deposits? Why do we track phone calls and IP traffic? Should we track phone calls and IP traffic?
Google Play Music and Youtube Red aren't unrelated, at least in the US: you buy one you get the other. For all practical purposes for me, they're just different features of the same product and are actually integrated (you can play songs from Youtube in Google Play Music). I'd never have bought Youtube Red, but getting it in a bundle of features is nice.
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If you cut parking spaces without corresponding improvements in transit infrastructure, the city is strictly less livable and living sprawl looks like an even better idea.
> Or having kids is somehow constrained now through other hoops, like a "procreation license."

Possibly, though better educated and better off people tend to have fewer children so there are other ways to limit population beyond strict China or Ender's Game style limits.

Or maybe asteroid mining will finally break and crash the whole materials economy making everything but space, food, and water extremely cheap.
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Most of the outer boroughs, especially Brooklyn and the Bronx, were developed in the pre-automobile era around subways. And many of the suburbs beyond were developed around railroad lines. Moses did indeed emphasize highways at the expense of transit for a generation— but the outer-borough subways nearly all still work as originally planned, and the rail lines to suburbs beyond would be far more effective if modernized to 'regional rail' rather than being operated as 'commuter rail' operated to haul suburbanites from park-and-ride lots to Midtown around a 9-5 schedule. e.g.: http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/07/17/regional-rail-...
I like the way you think. ;)
> I don't think so, I find the Xiaomi products to be very inticing and well built for the price.

Have you ever used actually used a Xiaomi product for some time? Sure they are cheap and look ok but they are so unreliable it gets unbearable after a few months.
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