skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've reduced this problem to one personal choice: Boycott.

There's a bunch of cognitive overload I can now instead devote to something else.

If they ever return from money to sportsmanship -- maybe also just parking the thing back in Greece, permanently -- maybe I'll give it another look.

Sports are for doing. If you're watching, and spending, more than you're doing, you're doing it wrong. You've gone from entertainment, to distraction from and substitution for better things. IMHO.
Not yet, but if you ask, I assure you Archive.org peeps are going to see it in this thread.
I assume you're referencing https://startupnation.com/start-your-business/plan-your-busi..., which I've seen referenced a couple times as an Amazon seller.

There are a couple of problems with his story.

First, Amazon denied it was due to comingling:

"I’m just calling to inform you that there were no other sellers of that item that were in the co-mingling program"

Second, he apparently didn't show up to the lawsuit and had a judgement by default. Never a good sign.

Third, he was moving hundreds of thousands of items, but couldn't afford a lawyer?

Fourth, he cites as evidence that his items were comingled the fact that his returns came from a different warehouse than he sent them to. As someone who regularly sends items to FBA warehouses, this is bullshit. Amazon sends your own inventory between their warehouses, and you can track this in reports. Often I send to warehouse A, and it immediately goes to my reserved inventory, and then it goes to another warehouse a few days later. Anyone who doesn't know this didn't invest enough time to learn about Amazon policies, and you should doubt their story.
Homeland Security's big encryption report wasn't fact-checked
Stephen Wolfram's New Book, Idea Makers
"Yes they are - that why we've got view-source."

So, uhh, I tried to view-source on a gmail tab. A solid wall of code. There's nothing there meaningful, not like the web pages of 1999 used to be.

If you're telling me you can browse the wall of code on a site like gmail.com and learn new tips and tricks from it, well, pull the other one, it's got bells on.
Also, https://github.com/ikreymer/webarchiveplayer
I find Houston to be ever more appealing as a number of my friend move over there and buy giant condos/houses for what would barely get you a box 2 hours south of San Jose.
I doubt Google is just closing accounts without a good reason.
The problem is that we like to take the path of least resistance. So we add a parameter to the function instead of splitting it into two different functions. Saving one hour now, that is much better spent on something else. But might waste thousands of man-hours in the future. From a business side though, you might not afford to the extra man-hour right now, but maybe if the product is successful you will afford the extra thousand man-hours in the future.
Altruism doesn't mean "cooperation" or "getting along with others". It's a specific moral philosophy invented and named by Auguste Comte. The actual philosophy is horrific and has nothing at all to do with benevolence toward anyone.
Hello Hacker News readers, my name is Robert and I'm the founder of Sourcevoid.

If you wonder what this post is all about, I'll tell you. I'm been working on Sourcevoid for years now trying to built a great developer experience from the ground up. A short time ago we released our service into the world and while we do have some visitors and signups we have not gotten much feedback, and especially from Nodejs developers.

So if you are a Nodejs developer, what do you think of Sourcevoid? Does it look like a service you would consider for your next project? If not, please share why your alternative is a better pick for you.

I'm open to answer any questions you might have right here in public or in private if that better suits your needs.

Ps. Of course I'm happy to hear feedback from any developer, not just Nodejs developers. Ds.
You shouldn't need an agent but in the US when the listing is put on market (on the MLS) the seller allocates 5-6 percent for the buyer's and seller's agent to split. If you make an offer without an agent, the seller's agent is entitled to the whole thing (though they may be less likely to take your offer because you won't have an agent pushing along the close). That said, I've heard of people negotiating refunds directly with the seller's agent -- it's just less likely to work in competitive areas where they have the option to work with another agent on the deal.

If you're looking to buy a home without the full concierge agent experience and you want a clear savings, I'd be remiss not to plug Open Listings (YC W15) [0] (disclaimer: I'm a cofounder). We refund half the commission back to the buyer, write, submit, and negotiate all the contracts, and make sure the close is smooth. While all of the contract generation is super efficient and online, we have a superb team of (human) agents who work hard to feel out the seller and get your offer accepted at the best terms. We coordinate showings, inspections, and answer your questions but we won't drive you around in a cadillac telling you what neighborhood is "safe".

[0]: https://www.openlistings.com/
I doubt Google is not regularly making mistakes.

(A paid provider might make them too, but has more incentive to care and fix them. + I suspect they actually have less automatic abuse filtering, because free offerings are more vulnerable to that)
I share your frustration and I'm interested in your work on this, if you do proceed please consider making it easy for others to follow your lead by publishing, anonymously if necessary.

I get that the intention is to make the device more secure but Google's execution on this is disappointing and lazy, and the result is that my devices no longer trust me the owner, which I don't consider acceptable given the lack of liability.

I'm curious what Apple's response will be.
It's a good point thought. I use Gmail as my primary email for quite a few things, and my other email is also a free service. What am I to do if I need support for either of these?

What email provider should I use?
Honestly I think you're right on the money! If you're happy and productive in your current workflow, there's no shame regardless of technology choice. The tendency to bandwagon every latest craze, is what lead to this mess in the first place.
Rihanna – Don't Stop the Music / Hamilton Evans
That pretty much describes where I live in Berkeley. I'm within easy walking distance of some nice short hikes and reasonable driving distance of more intense hikes or rock climbing. It's not literally in the mountains but there are some pretty incredible hills, forests and, of course, ocean beaches.

I also don't see how being "NOT surrounded" by tech events could possibly be a good thing. If you're not interested, you don't have to go. It's not like tech is forced on everyone! But if you suddenly feel like going to an engaging talk—whether it's on a JS framework or on combinatorial game theory—you always have the option. You wouldn't have that choice otherwise.
I agree. I also think it's annoying that the comment now is deleted and can't be replied to. I had just written a reply where I responded to many points, explaining what I think is wrong with them, but I can't post it now...

The only thing I agreed with is that I'd like HN to be for hacker stuff, and not for politics and social commentary.

(Also, why is a commend denoted "flagged", when it in reality is deleted?)
In venture dollar terms, Boston is 3x bigger than Austin:

http://www.inc.com/associated-press/top-20-cities-for-tech-s...

That list excludes biotech, and Boston is one of the top biotech hubs, so I suspect that would boost it even higher.
Alternative explanation: NLP is lagging behind what we expect because it is a very challenging domain. Explanations of NLP concepts are nontrivial because fairly complex computational tools are required to get anywhere— smoothed n-gram models, PCFGs, LDA topic models, etc. Like computer vision, it requires a combination of statistics, computer science (runtimes and data structures), and an understanding of the target domain. To understand the basics may require taking an NLP class, reading Jurafsky and Manning, and looking at quite a few lectures (which, yes, are occasionally distributed as PDFs).
The absolute lack of customer support for Gmail made me switch to Fastmail a couple of years ago. I use my own domain now, so if I ever become unhappy with Fastmail I'm not locked in.

Email is so vital to my personal life and my business that it is worth paying 50 bucks a year.
I am no doctor so I do not. Try consulting yours.
You might think that, but you've taken a few hits: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manicouagan_crater
Good advice IMO. I personally love camping within a few hours drive on the weekends, kiteboarding (SF Bay and the Delta have world-class kiteboarding conditions), sailing, mountain biking, hiking, and some rock climbing. The weather is my idea of perfect with sun almost every day and no snow ever (I grew up with snow about 6 months of the year, and I'd personally find it hard to ever go back to that).

Lake Tahoe is also great for skiing compared to where I grew up, which had almost no hills and no ocean.

SF is great for clubbing and bars etc. I love that the people here are generally very chill and loving. The outdoor music festivals in CA are also fantastic if you're into that sort of thing.

For me at least, the rent is kind of just the cost of having an enjoyable life in the US. San Jose is crazy expensive for a suburb, but it's worth it for me because of all there is to do out here. The Valley is where tech happens, and as long as I'm in it as a career and as an interest, I'm happy to be at the epicenter. That it's in California, the place I grew up dreaming about, is the icing on the cake for me.
Snapchat hasn't changed anything. It's just a currently popular messaging app.
How many timelines are there? Or is there just a single timeline and the act of sending this event back in time has always existed, the timelines conjoined at some quantum level.
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This is a collection of torrent links of copyrighted material? Is that right?

I guess I'm asking, how is this legal?
Flagged comments are visible if you turn "showdead" on in your profile, and can be vouched for and thus resurrected by users. They are not completely gone, just hidden from view.
I can't speak for this other person but there's some interesting research which shows that some people do much, much more poorly when surrounded by other happy people who're experiencing success. For example, high suicide rates in seemingly happy places: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110421082641.h...

People can have very different responses to their environment. It doesn't mean an area is universally terrible if it makes certain kinds of people depressed. Conversely, it doesn't mean an area is universally desirable if it makes certain kinds of people happy.

People are different.
How a sequence of words is feeded to non-recurrent network?
Isn't it usually said that Einstein betrayed his wife? That's pretty horrible to me, no matter how "right" (in your opinion and mine) he was about other things.
Rotating frames of reference are not inertial.
Do we have reason to believe low performance is an enduring property of the instance, or could it just be that instance performance varies over time (i.e. when neighbors are hungrier)?
I really thought the same, if you browse on Gmail forums you'll see a lot of similar histories.
Whatever provider you choose, use your own domain. Then you can always switch.
> whereas Aspies (like Jobs) have more empathy

Let me tell you a little about the ADI-R [0]. The clinician reads your biography, makes small talk, asks you to make up stories, watches for any abnormal behavior, et al. The madeup story of a NeuroTypical will include the emotions of other people. E.g. "My friends and I went to the beach, but we were sad because it rained, and Alice got mad because it was her only day off, etc".

An aspie's story will show ZERO AWARENESS of other people's emotions. Their entire world consists of PvE. Not because they have no sympathy for others' emotions, but because deciphering non-verbal cues is as opaque as deciphering an enigma. It's like the opposite of clairvoyance. Does that sound like empathy to you?

I agree that Jobs must have had empathy. Otherwise he wouldn't have been so successful at manipulation. It's just that he was such an asshole that he abused his knowledge of others' emotional states to gain leverage over them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_Diagnostic_Interview

<digression>

In what world does "social ineptitude" not map to "significant difficulties in social interaction and non-verbal communication"? This feels like one of those bifurcation situations where someone is like "I'm not fat, I just have a BMI of 9000".

> sociopaths (...) appear normal (it's part of the game, in fact).

Psychopaths are the ones who blend in. Sociopaths are pretty conspicuous.

> "restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests"

Also fits OCD. We agree that Jobs was highly neuroatypical. But whatever his quirk, it's not autism.
interesting. I see they have an open-source Push Notification called "opfpush" which supports Google Cloud Messaging:

https://github.com/onepf/OPFPush

But it is not clear to me if sending messages over GCM with OPFPush still requires the proprietary Google Play Services to be installed on the user's phone...
I've found that there is a certain mindset that only considers the last 18-24 months as "recent" in the tech space. It's probably a similar mindset to that which makes you feel that only the latest and greatest frameworks are worth learning, for example.
They load the entire rule dataset into memory.

https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/issues/1775
We are all going to be in top shape tom cruising down cyberspace alley no fatigue. No exaustion in the excell sheet data quary. No mistakes when doing the ctrl alt del dance. We are going to see wonkers paradise in our lifetime
> Can the technology be defeated?

Yes. Tor, and like technologies. There are some mathematical limitations on total surveillance, there is a point at which the technological costs of tracking everyone 24/7 are beyond budgets or even physical possibilities.
The main problem is not assuming those mistakes.

All I got is "read the ToS"
Avoiding the VC Trap (2008)
Are you asking how I would do the referendum? Certainly not with a 16 page manifesto and basically asking "Wanna leave the EU?" It should have included considerations what would happen with Northern Ireland, Scotland and Gibraltar.

How will leaving the EU push immigration down? As I pointed out, a good deal of immigration coming from outside the EU. And the EU part will probably not be affected by Brexit either, because free movement is tied to free trade. Or do you think that the UK will give up free trade with the EU?
Seems like a tool about to be used in the Mozilla Context Graph effort, discussed on HN last week [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12044212
I would say Tesla is on its way to make an iPhone-like impact, along with other self driving car technologies. I would consider the Tesla's Autopilot to be a blockbuster feature.
Well, I can always flaunt some unique flaws.
Thats the easy part. But if there are no good providers, it doesnt matter that you can switch to the next bad one.
"80k left over". Someone's forgetting about taxes
Last time I saw this on HN it was something like an art professor who'd been storing pictures of cherubs or something and it had tripped Google's child-porn detector.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2810946
Yes. For the first six months after you start selling there's a two week reserve (plus the standard settlement wait). Every time you have a significant increase in sales they'll apply a reserve and monitor your metrics before removing it.
> you don't work at a startup like that for money

Then why the hell do you? To make someone else rich? To help VCs get a few extra dollars? Slave away with 60 hours weeks for years only to see an exit that nets you less than what you could have made working for any of the big companies? So that you can experience wanting to move on after a few years but worrying about losing stock options? SO you can sit around wondering when the company is going to IPO and you can actually make some cash? (meanwhile the CEO cashed out years ago, and doesn't want to IPO ever)
The idea makers in the book are:

Richard Feynman
Kurt Gödel
Alan Turing
John von Neumann
George Boole
Ada Lovelace
Gottfried Leibniz
Benoit Mandelbrot
Steve Jobs
Marvin Minsky
Russell Towle
Bertrand Russell and Alfred Whitehead
Richard Crandall
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Solomon Golomb
This is one I particularly liked.
Age of Empires networking inner workings:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131503/1500_archers_on...
You could try FastMail. I've been very happy with their service, and have even had good experiences with their customer support.
More than in the Bay is hard to believe for Texas considering software engineers can get >400k these days if you know where to look. I'm assuming it's an oil company?
Most items aren't expensive enough to be worth it.
What issue are you talking about? Surely not the same as Einstein, right?
I have question about the replicating portfolio analogy that the author makes with respect to getting Facebook to match Twitter's offer. Could he have (successfully) bargained for a replicating portfolio on an after-tax basis? In other words, since Twitter was paying with stock options, which are more tax-efficient than Facebook stock grants, he could have argued that Facebook's overall compensation package needed to be much more to really match Twitter's.
I have nothing to hide
Avalonia – A multi-platform .NET UI framework
At this point, that's a well-known psychological bias.

Gmail is a large-scale impersonal system / organization. In every other walk of life, we see such large organizations making mistakes, for essentially inscrutable reasons.

Why would Gmail / Google be any different? The onus is on you to show that, rather than the OP to prove he's above reproach / faultless.
If anyone wants a quick index of the courses in those 45G webarchive files here is the index of course slugs. Unfortunately it looks like the webarchive slugs don't match the Coursera slugs anymore so I couldn't pair the names with more readable course titles:

https://gist.github.com/marai2/b548ce70b6af4789522c6ef5e54c6...
Almost all the integers I use in 'C' are highly constrained. I try very hard ( and nearly always succeed ) in writing code that manages those constraints properly. This may include oversubscribing integers - using a long long instead of a long, perhaps.

This involves at least doing a depth-first examination of all invocations of that operation, and possibly writing tests for all of them. That encourages keeping things local.

I think the safety-think here is slightly inappropriate. Of course you can do it wrong. But it is in no way an unreasonable expectation that you not do that.

And again- for the general population out there - perhaps 'C' is not for you. I am a 'C' programmer only because of path dependencies in what's happened to me. I would not recommend it to anyone. That's not elitist - it's just how things played out.
I hear nothing but good things about Fastmail.

I'm pretty sure Gmail is the best free provider, but Fastmail is probably the best paid one.
> the phrase "social ineptitude" is nowhere to be found.

then you quote:

> > developmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction

Significant difficulties in social interaction sounds like social ineptitude to me.
Fastmail seems to be getting a lot of love. I like mailbox.org (from Germany, so maybe not the fastest in US). There are many providers of hosted Exchange or other Groupware, at least some of them have to be good.
Not sure I understand the downvoting here but fine. perhaps clarifying my question would help.

Today:

Brand 1 makes product and sells on Amazon. Files IP to try and prevent others from copying their idea.

Brand 2 (Chinese company) makes similar product and sells through amazon - results in headlines like - Amazon has a Chinese problem.

Brand 3 (Amazon Basics) - makes similar products and has Chinese supplier add logo to their generic product. Even though brand 1 has the same problem (arguably worse), because Amazon does it instead of a Chinese company it is seen as less problematic.
Thanks!

I can see it now, but I still can't comment on it. Is that because the author deleted it or something?
This is how I always explain it to people. I pay 4x rent but make 5.5x as much as my previous living + working situation in a different state from 4 years ago. There is a LOT more left over.
Your comment is facile and, though you probably don't intend it that way, mean-spirited. But there's something to it anyways.

Set aside the reciprocal nature of racism and criminality and acknowledge the raw demographic reality of police encounters in major cities. It seems clear to me that yes, police officers are under far too much cognitive strain to accurately judge threats. Basic human cognitive limitations ensure that police will continue to prejudge risk through race.

To me, that, coupled with the fact that police encounters with strangers are far, far less dangerous than police training and culture mythologizes them to be, suggests a straightforward solution: disarm most police officers.

I wrote more about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12057079

(If you feel the need to object, please read that before assuming you know what my recommendation is from its brief summary here).
> The "complete unknown" is not actually unknown. [...] The exact details of a relationship post-Brexit are impossible to know.

I'm confused. Do you agree or disagree with zb that the referendum pitted a well known against a complete unknown?
Context has arrived: Per-request state in Go 1.7
Oh, thanks. Next time I'm on business in SF and I start thinking about which cargo pocket to put my phone in to minimize my chance of being murdered by the police, I'll draw comfort from a bunch of token Negros in show-biz and politics.
This is what has trapped me now. I'm not too keen on living here anymore, but don't want to miss out on ski + climbing + hiking.
I use float/double float values A Lot these days for arithmetic. So that reduces integer use to values read over a comms line or read otherwise from hardware.

Of course, floats have their own quantum of grief.
How about this:

> In 1979, Bill Gates and Christos Papadimitriou[3] gave an upper bound of
(5/3)n. This was improved, thirty years later, to (18/11)n by a team of researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas, led by Founders Professor Hal Sudborough[4] (Chitturi et al., 2009).

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

Not easy to have significant algorithmic-complexity results that have stood as an upper bound for 30 years.
My understanding from a friend that works in the real estate business in US, is that especially in the post-crash world, there are so many complex laws that require a certain amount of specific education, simply to legally engage in a trade. Basically it is a scam.
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