skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think democracy and underrepresentation are different things and it seems most don't see the difference. Would London be more democratic as a separate state? They voted to stay in the EU but it seems their vote doesn't count much as the UK leaves the EU. Does it make the UK undemocratic? Of course not.
I think the idea behind EU is that united you can accomplish more(at least on long term). It's democratic but like any democratic system it has multiple players. UK left it because it couldn't control it not because it was not democratic. That's not necessary a bad thing for the rest of EU
Yes you can. But are you allowed to?
Make your startup look larger than it is
> ISIS (which is in fact now a state)

No. Absolutely no state in the world recognizes ISIS as a state. State is a circular definition by nature btw.
> Think about how much a car costs to buy and own (purchasing, upkeep, insurance, gas, parking, storage) - then put a price on that in hours you work a year. I bet it's a lot! Maybe weeks out of every year. Now, think of not having to work those days, because you don't have car, and those expenses do not apply to you.

I own a reliable econo-box that I bought years ago. Maintenance is almost nil, parking is less time than it'd take me to use public transit (which is relatively bad where I live), and underground parking comes with my condo.

I am a huge advocate of public transit, but I'll say that cars are pretty nice.
Nearly everyone I know who's over 35.
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I am surprisingly okay with this. If this is indeed all that is being collected, then I am totally okay with that data being collected from time to time. I would like for my architecture and usage style to be represented, so that my workflow isn't made obsolete.
Can you talk more about this? Do you have any resources on dealing with this? OPs description hits a bit too close to home.
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Except that in most cities including New York it's going to be difficult to build something like that in the absence of an existing structure and right of way. The High Line is also in effectively a post-industrial area which is now highly gentrified but wasn't previously exactly prime real estate. And it's still not really located for day to day pedestrian movement as opposed to recreation.
> Free trade benefits both parties equally. Otherwise, they wouldn't trade.

I have to disagree here - free trade benefits both involved parts (not necessarily equally). If I trade you my rice for your steel, I might gain 5% value and you might gain 50% value. That's still mutual benefit but not necessarily equal.
Government is a legal fiction. It has no morale, no shame. People have that. And you know, those who carry morale or shame are biased to have higher mortality rate.
I hope I don't sound conceited here, but this was me and I resolved the issue.

Meditation. 15 minutes a day is all it takes, and I get myself to that place of not giving a care in the world and feeling all the stress just drop away. The only way I can describe it as, is like when you go on a beach holiday and you're lying in the sun, not sure what day it is (Saturday, Wednesday?) and feeling content.

Its now become vital and essential for me to mediate, it feels as important as sleeping and eating. I don't have any aspirations to become enlightened, I just wanted to stop waking up fearful in the morning and content during the day and night.
Sounds like rap music :)
As someone who's mostly moved off of windows, the ability to build/target docker (linux) and dev on osx (already using vs code for node) is pretty compelling.
I stayed off the Urquinaona a couple weeks ago and really enjoyed that area of the city. Yes, there was a pretty high amount of vehicular traffic around that area, but it was full of street life and an easy base to get around the city from.
I agree with all of this. a16z and other VC's are pretty clearly on the side of capital, and don't really believe that labor provides any value. Employee's taking lower salaries and investing years of their lives don't provide any lasting value according to a16z. I just cannot believe that he would try to justify taking back fairly given compensation because an employee did not want to continue doubling down and investing more and more money and labor into a startup.
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The only really valid part of the linked article is the point about how you can't make sweeping generalizations based on a very small sample size and a (relatively) small trend.

Concluding that people probably know what the EU is while searching very specifically using the phrase "What is the EU" is no more accurate or truthful than concluding that they don't know what the EU is.

The author says at one point, "perhaps we can more likely conclude". Perhaps we can. But perhaps we shouldn't make any conclusions and just stick to the thesis that the press should know better when reporting facts?
About 3 months after I started seriously dating someone, Facebook started prompting me to update my relationship status in my profile, despite the fact that we had not interacted on Facebook nor shared photos of one another there. Yet another reminder that Facebook knows way too much about my life.
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Nice! I was considering using the tool you built [0] to do similar analysis of the posts from the leading presidential candidates FB pages.

[0] https://github.com/minimaxir/facebook-page-post-scraper
I'm not sure that the majority of that really qualifies as poetry, at least not in a man vs. machine context.
Quite the contrary. Its a read/write web, and with sufficient permissions simple regular expression can completely rewrite human history. Unless you keep history books in a good order.
here you go

your post doesn't add anything to the conversation

it might technically be a technicality but 10 years is long enough in startup life units that it doesn't matter

you're pointing out definitions when it was clear what the author meant and people don't like that because it's very annoying
Seems to be new, check it out here- upvoted stories and comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id={USERNAME}

https://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id={USERNAME}&comments=...
Neither the WaPo nor Bezos are "liberal" (unless you mean liberal in the economic sense), but the WaPo is very much anti-Brexit. I agree with you that this was a story constructed to fit their editorial line.
> I would have imagined video streaming would cut into broadcast television the same way online publications cut into newspapers.

Newspapers were declining through consolidation, scaling back local newsrooms in favor of wire-service and syndicated content, etc., long (as in, consistently for decades) before online publications stepped in to fill the gaps newspapers were leaving as they contracted and collapsed.
How do they solve the problem without requiring, at minimum, closing all of the user's applications and restarting them, then closing all system services and restarting them? (At which point, you've basically done a de-facto OS restart.)
The only documentation of the anime.path function is the example: anime.path('path')

I think I can guess how to use it -- the argument is a "target" that resolves to an SVG path element (in the example, the only SVG path element on the page), and some processing is performed on the path element to get some sort of path object -- but it might help to clarify.
I wouldn't. The point was more that this mitigation for password entry amounts to saying "if a client infected with malware logs in to the banking site, at least we can be sure that the malware won't be able to determine the user's password - they will only be able to steal all of the user's money".
That's a fair point, and I'm sure Apple didn't integrate DTrace without checking the legal ramifications.
How do markets optimize net social utility ? let's be more concrete , let's talk about a market with modern advertising ?
That's what I found. All the "human" ones were easy, but then you had to play "machine or awful poet?" on the rest.
My last apartment complex offered 100Mbit fiber for $50/month. My current apartment complex offers CenturyLink gigabit fiber. I guess I lucked out.
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You could mess up pretty easily at a local level with missed negations. For example, John Lennon's song "Imagine" invites people to envision a world without various things; if you assign negative sentiment to those things, you might infer that the song overall had very negative affect. Or religious prophecies about a future era in which people wouldn't have to suffer from various afflictions.
Some people thrive in that sort of an environment.

I'd sure as hell would never want to work with them.
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This is not a bad suggestion. Sometimes your sanity requires taking a break. We forget the world/company/team doesn't stop without "us". Being in a different environment really helps. I've done a weekend trip to Disney and a longer trip to Hawaii. Both were done with little planning and really helped me out.
One can never be sure about the distant future, but my money would be on subsistence farmer.
This sounds quite democratic to me. Am I wrong? "A new team of 28 Commissioners (one from each EU Member State) is appointed every five years.
The candidate for President of the Commission is proposed to the European Parliament by the European Council that decides by qualified majority and taking into account the elections to the European Parliament."
Only if you believe type theory and typed programming languages are outdated.

I'm not impressed with NoSQL; they have no answer to the limitations of relational theory beyond simply abandoning formalism entirely.
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I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned the South Korean city of Songdo yet, but it's a good example of a built-from-scratch "smart city". Last I heard, the Korean govt was having trouble getting people to move in. Here's an NPR story on it from 2015: http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/10/01/444749534/a...
You can always walk away. Always. It's just a matter of the consequences being worth it or not. That's up to each individual.

As Jack Sparrow said: "The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can't do."

At least H1B's are transferable. I'm on an O1, which is technically non transferable.
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You haven't said much, because you can say that about anything. "Drinking water from a glass is a hard problem when you have to drink it through this straw that is 1 mm wide and you're blindfolded"

> It's actually quite difficult to parse C++ on a low-memory embedded device without resorting to clever techniques.

Compiling C++ programs on low-memory embedded devices is not a mainstream use-case. Unless you can demonstrate that it is, your point is moot.
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Let's face it, the only reason publications turned to Google Trends to show people Googling "What is the EU?" is because it fit the narrative they had out of the gate. I see the good and bad of Brexit (I'd say "remain" has a stronger case if the EU would reform;) yet the more I read from the media, the more I've leaned pro-Brexit, just out of spite. Every article I've read treats those who were pro-Brexit as if they were complete idiots, as if their concerns aren't legitimate. Even if I disagree with someone's policy position doesn't mean I should completely ignore their concerns and write them off as a bunch of idiots.

Absolutely infuriating to listen to and read. Maybe it's my imagination, but the media as a whole has gotten a lot more preachy within the past 6 months. The new trend seems to be "data journalism" in which most people omit numbers to the contrary of a certain world view (Vox literally has been getting a dataset from Reddit on 'mass shootings.' Even the NYTs and MotherJones called them out, to no avail. Not sure how people are letting them off the hook.)

I honestly can connect more with those that were "Leave" on the E.U. now than in the beginning; simply because the media coverage has come off as so elitist.
If it is technically a technicality, which it is, then all the other fluff pieces and unpunctuated sentences in the world do not matter.

Maybe you could elucidate sama's "clear" meaning? It was lost on me. As far as I can tell, the post adds nothing but confusion to this conversation (you could counter by pointing out something of value contributed by the post).

Annoying is when people continually post contradictory or unclear things and never respond to their rightful critiques, or even change their future actions.
I think conspiring with an ISP in this way would be unlikely.

More likely, "free WiFi" managed by the landlord would be included in your rent, and they'd decline to let an ISP run any cable because "What do you need that for? We're already giving you free WiFi!"
Take a 2 week vacation. I really really doubt you'll get fired for that. If it is such a deal breaker, tell your boss you need 2 weeks, and be okay to go down to 1 week. With the weekend on either side, that is plenty of time to destress. Even if the project is going crazy at the moment, bring this up now so you have relief a month or two away. This also has the benefit of giving you something to look forward to for that time. H1B should not be slavery.
Sounds like a great scapegoat to me! Hope you have all those email threads stored :)

If not -> start producing them.
Rob was a regular at PennApps, the hackathon where I cut my teeth. He was among the most helpful & friendly of any sponsors, helping debug code that didn't involve Twilio at all. He also provided valuable "hackathon strategy" advice like "don't build that feature" to young coders who needed it.

I'm sure Twilio's success is due in no small part to dev evangelists like Rob, I hope he's well rewarded for it.
We're busy rewriting (a part of our Rails app that we are having difficulty scaling) in Elixir

or

We're busy rewriting a part of our Rails app (that we are having difficulty scaling in Elixir)

I assume the former, based on context, but like they say... you can't put too much water in a nuclear reactor.
a16z is a major investor (growth round resulting in a board seat for a16z) in many of the companies that have extended vesting periods, such as Coinbase, Pinterest, and Asana. So I doubt they block companies from doing this.
The CSVs for the from the presidential candidates (over the past 4 months) are already available in the source GitHub repo: https://github.com/minimaxir/interactive-facebook-reactions
Going to throw a visible +1 into the ring here.

The only way over burnout is to put some distance between yourself and work.

Also, it's incredibly hard to self-evaluate your output when you're overworked and stressed. You may think you're making forward progress but you're usually harming the project and yourself more.
That sounds to me like Gary Sabot's ‘Paralation Model’.

https://www.amazon.com/Paralation-Model-Architecture-Indepen...
I know this question might sound silly but can FBI "arrest"/confiscate/disable the robot itself because it's aiding a fugitive? And the person/company that owns the robot, can they by charged with aiding a fugitive?

IANAL but would love to hear what some more informed have to say about this. The law is constantly catching up to technology....
You can have a Web UI in desktop app. Just run the app with embedded kestrel web server and make all UI in HTML. And it will look pretty good an all platforms.

CatLight is one of the apps that do that - https://catlight.io
Plus minus 2 weeks is not going to kill a 5 year old project. Take a little time, recharge and think about exiting sell / quit ect. You only have one life and burning 10 years for a nominal return is enough.
...my easy 9 mile 20 minute drive becomes...

Such a drive is likely not stable. 9 mile 10 minute drives, in rural areas, are stable. But unless your economy is moribund, once that's up to 20 minutes, chances are good that ten years from now that same drive will be 45 minutes.
Here I was, writing a draft response about this personally unprecedented phenomenon of someone who lacked any sense of poetics at all, but I quickly realized that isn't necessarily the case. No one has asked you the right question -- could you tell the poems apart? I bet you could.
>> As for any other product or service.

>So, what was your objection to saying "used" again, if that same justification can be used for both?

My dear amass of eukaryotic cells, you non super-intelligent consumer of oxygen and precious resources, polluter of the environment, when you choose to emphasise in an unusual way some perfectly normal aspects of an object (* ), you do it to provoke an emotional response. And I like rational discourses, not emotional ones.

[* unless this provides an explanatory value, which in this case doesn't, as most of Stallman's points are unrelated to the user/used issue]

>> This is provably wrong: people use Facebook and get a marginal advantage out of it that is arguably on par with what Facebook gets from them.

>Well, you say that that is provably wrong. But where is the proof?

You can just ask people if they like to use Facebook, if they get any value from it. Most of those who use it regularly will say they do. End of the proof.

> Couldn't it be that people aren't aware of possible alternative realities and thus haven't ever thought about how they would value those in comparison to what they currently have, for example?

Of course it is like that. You aren't aware yourself that there are many better things to do than roaming the forums of YCombinator, and yet I bet you find some value in the action, and the (sure) existence of unexplored alternatives is not per se sufficient to negate this value.
Nothing need break the symmetry -- consider the spontaneous symmetry breaking and the "Mexican hat" potential.

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

Any direction is as good as any other, but one will be chosen.

In this case, the ones at the big end of the pear act differently than the ones at the small end because their neighbors are different then the ones at the small end. And the mid ones behave as they do because of who their neighbors are.

The reply of colanderman seems correct, though perhaps not terribly enlightening.
This seems to be a somewhat baseless claim while using 3 open source projects as examples. Jira makes money off commercial licenses, and is a much more feature rich and productive tool for a large organization.

If you can show me atlassian profit loss (hint there isn't any: https://investors.atlassian.com/financials-and-filings/finan...) then I would believe this.
looked at a video posted by an ex-girlfrield on youtube and one of the recommended songs was ex-girlfrield by no doubt.
Looks more like an egg to me.
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It's scary to think that with some minor alterations I could have written your previous two posts.

The worst thing is that deep down I enjoy the pressure even though I know it's slowly destroying my life and everything I love. I just seem to take it and turn to stone.
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Not sure I agree. Sure, there's lot of change-bitching (like people complaining about Facebook timelines), and every change breaks someone's workflow (https://xkcd.com/1172/), but quite a lot of those changes people complain about are really making the applications worse.

You brought up Office's ribbon. Sure, it was a "look&feel benefit", but it also significantly hurt discoverability and reduced the number of features available. Nowadays I can't find the more advanced stuff I know that worked in Excel and Word in the past. Is it just a discoverability problem, or did Microsoft go with that stupid new trend of dumbing down software to the lowest common denominator? I don't know, but the interface doesn't allow me to find out.

People bitched at Chrome because removing "http" was seen as a first step of removing the address bar altogether, dumbing down both the browser and peoples' perception of the Internet. The less you demand from your users, the dumber they get. Sure, it may be good for the quarterly sales report, but it's disastrous for the future of technology.
I've worked for 2 smallish tech companies that had robots like these sitting in corners collecting dust because they invariably turned out to be not very useful.
The savings would be great, but what happens when you want to change jobs, but not cities? I'd be a little weary of renting from my employer.
As others have mentioned, lack of an overall theme is an easy way to distinguish the human from machine poetry.

Keep in mind, the machine poems are those hand selected by humans, twice filtered -- this publication and the original publication. That means these poems have a high degree of coherency that you wouldn't otherwise see.

People are reporting 6/6 ability to distinguish. If you had a person and an algorithm each generate two (or even one) poem without any filtration from a field of poems then it would be even more obvious which was machine and which was human.
That’s the recurring debate with opt-in = better for privacy but skewed stats vs. opt-out = more relevant stats but bad for privacy(?).
Really? Maybe you need a larger company to manage things like this; but at one place where we switched to Jira we wrote integration into our GUI apps for users to create tickets (and automatically log contextual info), and created very simple "create ticket" screens in Jira itself.

The best part was being able have end users open up a ticket wherever they were most comfortable and it could get routed to the appropriate department without losing any history (i.e. open a ticket because of an error message in an app, but get routed to hardware to replace a video card or driver). We went from having 5 separate ticketing systems (a few home built) to Jira.

It always felt like you could abstract the complexity if you needed, but the power was there if necessary. But I have no idea what was involved with setting up and managing Jira.

The last place I worked we co-opted another app and used it for issue tracking. Search and discoverability was so poor that most everyone used their email to find any tickets that weren't assigned to them.

I find it weird that companies can use GitHub exclusively for issue tracking. Not just that it's so bare bones, but many of the things that have tickets aren't for a specific software project. I guess they use different ticketing systems for different departments?
Those systems were impressive for their time indeed, but let's not lose sight of our options today; if you want to do systems programming in a memory safe language you can use Rust, and if you want a live coding environment, with embedded objects and a rich REPL, you can use Racket.
Can you recommend any resources for beginning meditation?