skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An older legendary story with the same premise:

"Wren, Hooke, and Halley had discussed the problem at a coffee house following a meeting of the Royal Society in January of 1684, and Wren had offered a cash prize to whoever could provide a derivation of the shape of planetary orbits under the assumption of an inverse-square central force of attraction toward the (presumed stationary) sun. Hooke had claimed to have a proof that the paths were ellipses, but never provided it. Against this background, Halley paid a visit to Newton, who later told Abraham De Moivre about the fateful meeting. According to De Moivre:

In 1684 Dr Halley came to visit him at Cambridge. After they had been some time together, the Dr asked him what he thought the curve would be that would be described by the planets supposing the force of attraction towards the sun to be reciprocal to the square of their distance from it. Sir Isaac replied immediately that it would be an ellipse. The Doctor, struck with joy and amazement, asked him how he knew it. Why, saith he, I have calculated it. Whereupon Dr Halley asked him for his calculation without any farther delay. Sir Isaac looked among his papers but could not find it, but he promised him to renew it and then to send it him…"

http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath658/kmath658.htm
The Man Who Made the Alton Sterling Video Go Viral Was Arrested
`.d.ts` packages should align on major.minor version numbers, so you'll be able to snap to a version and update appropriately.
But the creation of credit costs nothing therefore rent extraction can scale up to match productivity gains in a heartbeat.
I will never willingly get into a car that's being driven solely by a computer. full stop. That tesla driver was presumably warned to be alert and act accordingly as if he was driving... obviously he didn't and he paid a high price.

I actually would welcome the day we have autonomous "self-driving cars" so I could tell it to go to the shop for service/inspection and drive itself back, but if I'm in the car I will always be the driver.
Hmm, you seem to believe that people who don't fly because they are afraid of plans are afraid of planes because they have a mistaken belief about the statistical safety of planes.

My experience with people who are afraid of planes is that they know planes are safer than cars, but none the less feel a visceral, non-rational fear of the airplane that makes flying deeply uncomfortable for them. Kind of like how you might feel if you were covered in insects, even if you knew that the insects were non-venomous, non-disease carrying, and clean.
Good question! We can look into it if you don't mind emailing hn@ycombinator.com.
Chess? Bowling? Archery? Shooting?
This is true and well documented on the website Truth in Olive Oil, run by Tom Mueller who also wrote a well respected book debunking olive oil production.

There's a great guide to buy olive oil on the site here: http://www.truthinoliveoil.com/great-oil/how-to-buy-great-ol...

Sigona's Market at Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, CA has an olive oil bar. They offer the best, pure varieties harvested from different regions around the world including California. California oils are harvested and pressed in the fall, so I think they become available in spring-summer. In the fall and winter you can get southern hemisphere oils that are fresher. Sigona's keeps the olive oil in barrels and only bottles at the last minute so it's as fresh as possible.

The Olive Press at Jacuzzi Vineyards in Sonoma is the one place I know that is pressing their own oil and you can bottle it right when it's freshest. http://www.jacuzziwines.com/theolivepress

I got these two places from the Truth in Olive Oil, so for others in US you should be able to check on the site to see what places near you have high quality olive oil.
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Haha, looking at your profile page, your comment karma is increasing at about 20 upvotes / min
You can (and do) have GPL apps in the app store, it's just a violation of the license.
I have 117 and can downvote.
Lots of countries manage to have all sorts of regulations and very few killings by police. I don't think the premise of this essay is valid.
All I could hear in my head while the video was playing:
"M M M M M M M M M o n s t e r Kill"
(Anyone who has played Unreal Tournament will know what I mean :-)
This is truly impressive if you only consider the aspect of solving the cube quickly, on top of that you have to admire the dexterity of the solver. Impressive (Quake 3 :-)
The american dream seems to have changed more towards taking from others to give to ones self. I notice a difference in "safety nets" now compared to say end of ww1. Very different times, and it affects many things.
Switzerland runs small freight trains by US standards. Freight cars are usually 2-axle.

Here's Union Pacific's longest container train. 295 freight cars, 9 locomotives. Four axles per car. So that's over 1180 axles. A more typical US train is 100 cars and a few locomotives; over 400 axles isn't uncommon. 256 would be an inadequate axle limit in the US.

(There are longer trains in Australia, but they're usually coal or mineral hauls on dedicated track in flat country. This was a run from Los Angeles to Texas on mainline track.)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdIzRFOaTCY
Actually that's publicly findable information:

USDOT 2724248

Yoshi Inc., Sunnyvale, CA

Types Transported:

- Liquids and Gases

- Haz-mats

[1] http://transportation-services.findthecompany.com/l/3180484/...
I got my first remote position in 2002. That's 14 years ago (time flies, doesn't it?). I wouldn't call that "still very new".

I do agree it requires a certain know-how to make it work. It seems to me there's more of a shortage of knowledgeable managers than there is of able developers.
I love the hiding feature, thank you. I did noticed I can't hide YC company "hiring" posts.

Ex: "GitLab is hiring a security engineer (gitlab.com)"
>People still pay $1000+ for someone to make an Android app of questionable quality for them.

And if that Android App actually makes money, then you now have leverage to charge a high hourly rate to fix the questionably-made app.

Sounds like a win for you.
Try:
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pe/pe/2016/00000029/00...

"During 2013 and 2014, a total of 1479 people from 77 countries contributed 2985 test sessions. Over the same period, 5738 sessions were run as controls by a computer programmed to simulate human participants. The results showed that with human observers the fringe visibility at the center of the interference pattern deviated from a null effect by 5.72 sigma (p = 1.05 × 10−8), with the direction of the deviation conforming to the observers' intentions. The same analysis applied to the control data resulted in an overall deviation of −0.17 sigma."

There are some presentations on Youtube that go into the details of the double-slit line of experiments.
That is probably the best point -- Swiss trains have to be short, so this 2^8 constraint isn't really an issue.
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Website sooo "2016 stock" looking. ("Stock-hip-personalized"). /Really/ personalize a bit.
This topic always comes back, and it attracts a bunch of people from one side of the issue who come out of the "would work" (on real problems only, ha ha) to disclaim puzzle solving as a measure of anything. I think it's because of the natural human tendency to wish to discount any criticism of one's self, and they perceive this type of aptitude used as a metric to be an implied criticism. Also, it's hard to see what you can't see, so it's hard to see the value of it too for people who can't see it.

So, to argue the other side but still make a fresh, pleasing, and palatable comment, I will defend the side that says "puzzle solving is a rare and useful skill" but I will include a criticism of my side so you can all join in and say "see, your side does suck!" and everybody will be happy.

I love solving puzzles, real or artificial, I'm really good at it, and there are plenty of real world problems that use the same skills (in my case I'm particularly "spatial", I conceptual the birthday problem as graphs of the attributes of the numbers), and elements of the same graphs occur in hashing algorithms, joins, simplex method, discrete math digital filters, modular arithmetic, sieves...

The problem with being me is, I'm so attracted to puzzles, I can get distracted from the task at hand if it does not involve a puzzle. I will insert or find puzzles to solve where perhaps none exist. I will procrastinate a lot of the "uninteresting" (to me) but necessary parts of a project in favor of puzzle solving.

Thankfully, projects tend to include a mix of people with different skillsets. But it can be annoying to have one's own skillset discounted as valuable, which is what you do to me when you say "I don't have this tendency and I'm a good worker" and what "they" are doing to you when they say "you don't have this tendency so you don't get the job."
Cities with the highest density of Pokestops in the world
Obviously controllable for. Do you support the program if we kill only people that we believe are statistically likely to save more than 1 life?
I think a few minutes would be fine - but it would be nice to still know how I voted after the fact.
No, many hot-spots have large rentier presence including people "owning" and renting out multiple residencies which causes huge supply pressure.

Credit also typically increases ahead of wages which squeezes people further.

This isn't supply of people vs supply of homes, this is supply of credit. If you neutralise this you will see prices fall and be paying less of your labour to banks.

2008 - the credit taps ran dry => huge crash. Before that near unlimited credit saw land prices increase hugely. Neither on the up or the down did we see wages have such volatility.
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400 or 500 points, I forgot which. Maybe someone with something between those two can tell?
The Joyful Death of the Philly Game Forge
`null` and `undefined` are subtypes of `any`, so you can still gradually convert to typescript.

(according to https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/pull/7140)
"Safety nets" is an unfortunate term. It's pejorative in an American sort of way because it implies that you screwed up. We should instead think of these things as a platform that everyone deserves, and everyone gets.
can we stop and ask what the hell does that tell us about the nature of employment?

The labor force does not consist of perfectly-informed or perfectly-rational actors. The system is incentivized to keep it that way, and to make us think this isn't already an open-secret.

We already know about the nature of employment. The interesting question are: what should change? And which mechanisms that should be used to facilitate that change?
> Really, this is much more vital than just about every feature you've introduced over the last months

That is a highly disputable claim, given the overall user feedback we've seen.

Such things always remind me of Jerry Weinberg's fable about how he couldn't sleep because a dripping faucet was driving him crazy. He gets up to fix it in the middle of the night, finally gets back to bed, and... now he can't sleep because hears a gate creaking. Moral: when you fix your #1 problem, your #2 problem becomes your #1 problem.
That's even more ridiculous than 230. Facebook is obviously not a "knowing collaborator" with a terrorist organization. They have hundreds of millions of users, and some of those users are evil. Policing all of them on an individual basis is impossible. That's why 230 is in place.

The spirit of this is to try to use a hastily written anti-terrorism bill to do a run-around on 230 for profit, and it's not going to work. Even if the lawsuit succeeds, congress will quickly fix the loophole in a mostly unanimous vote. The alternative would be a horrible tech recession as essentially all social networks and ISPs shut down due to unmaintainable legal risk.
This hinges on the premise that any kind of psi-like-effect is impossible. And that comes from a belief rather than from evidence.
32% national, 22% municipal and 8% social security = 62%.

20% payroll tax.

24% VAT.

That it is 'common' does not mean it is fair.

If a company has $100K allocated to pay you, $20K goes to payroll tax. Of $80K remaining, you take home 40% of that, which is $32K.

Suppose 2/3 of your take home goes towards consumer goods meaning that you're paying an additional $5K on VAT ~= $25K direct take home.

So for $100K salary, you get $25K.

And that's before property tax, wealth tax, inheritance taxes, and massive taxation hidden into other things such as fuel etc..

It's too much by any stretch.
Make Browsing Great Again: Improving news sites by hiding distractions
They are saying that more indian developers doing android development will lead to more indian malware apps.
Posts is an interesting alternative. It has the same verb/noun flexibility as comments. But really it is minor, I wondered what 'stories' was but quickly realized it was things that I had submitted. So I think you should keep what ever you feel is best.

Given that you know "when" a thread was collapsed and you know when a given comment was added, there is data available to compute "new since you collapsed it" but I recognize that would an interesting challenge. So you keep the comments in a list, and the list can be internally sorted in date or karma order, then sorting by date you could splice it at the date it was collapsed and compute the length of the two lists (pre-collapse and post-collapse). I have no idea how useful that is, just collapsing huge threads (especially ones that wander off topic) is such a huge win.
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The same in Bulgaria and still few people realise that this exact saying about the boiling tar cauldron is pretty common in many nations across the world.
Some of the most idiotic reasoning I've read in a long time.
I'm sorry, but the negativity on this post is just absurd.

Why would more Indians getting Android training increase malware apps (as one of the posts here seem to have suggested)? Are you telling me that somehow there is a more-than-average percentage of people in India with malicious intent? Another post here seems to suggest this will increase number of crappy apps on Android. Really? How does better training lead to crappy apps?

If there are good quality Android developers in India, I can see it helping the local economy. There's a ton of opportunities to make apps that help in developing economies and not enough quality developers to do it. Not to mention, India is a big potential market for Android phones, once the western markets are saturated.

Suggesting that this is something bad is absurd.

Sorry for the rant. But I am Indian and take great effort to learn things in depth and write quality software no matter what I'm working on. Stereotyping all Indian devs as makers of crappy software is a little sad.
Title isn't exactly accurate - can we edit this to indicate iOS only?
Where there's a security hole, there's an exploit.[1]

[1] https://thestack.com/security/2016/07/11/infected-pokemon-go...
Don't conflate political rhetoric with quality of life.

Quality of life has never been higher for any social class, even with unfortunate income inequality.
I've been something like this for days.. Why are the police pulling people over for busted tailights/etc? Isn't having a yearly car inspection regime enough? How frequently do tail lights burn out, and is it that critical to everyone's safety that it gets fixed as soon as cop sees it or can it wait for a few months until the state inspection. Don't most cars have some kind of indicator that a light is blown? Basically the vast majority interactions most people have with the police are when they are acting like thugs/tax collectors and enforcing fee's for minor infractions of laws that weren't even on the books more than a couple dozen years ago and for the most part haven't done anything to improve safety.

Basically, the police culture seems to focus on over-policing useless things like traffic enforcement while under-policing dangerous parts of town with beat cops.
The interviewer might get a little more than what she bargained for on Reuleaux triangles and statics.

But who has time or interest for pointless show-off-ery like that, even?

It's 2016. The only answer you need to give to a questions of that sort is (with a mildly bemused expression): "You guys are still asking questions like that? ... I'm sorry, but this just isn't the right place for me."
"as poor kids from the ghetto often have no appreciation of this and simply don't work towards great outcomes"

FYI I'm not blaming them, rather indicating that for whatever reason, opportunity is not grasped.
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Opened a ticket with the things I've found so far.

https://github.com/etcet/HNES/issues/117
Can collapse only collapse the replies and not collapse the comment?
Yay. I often find threads where I have an educated guess that there will valuable comments but the thread is very new, not many comments yet, ends up as yet another HN tab that I left open and then go through them all once or twice a week... Although maybe that's not a bad thing - that saves tons of time ;)
I'm at -17 guess not going to downvote ever :D
>I did cringe. ... The descriptions are accurate, but murky.

I agree that the article does not have the precision that biologists expect; however, I think broad accuracy is important when writing for the general public and sadly lacking in most science reporting.

I attended a conference on evolution and medicine last month where Zimmer spoke about how he approaches reporting science and the struggle to cover important, but complex ideas for a general audience. Having heard his side of the story, I may be a bit biased but I would love to hear recommendations for other science journalists that tend to get the story right.
THANKS FOR THE COLLAPSES!!! :')
I fail to see the relevance of any of your questions to the topic at hand, so rather than playing the Socratic method, how about you just lay out your argument.
Why so must fascination about a homogeneous society that has population of City of Houston? I will not take some of these articles of Scandinavian fetish any seriously any more.
Sure, sure - just link which comment you were specifically referring to Alton Sterling and I'll re-read that. Otherwise you're psychologically projecting "reading comprehension issues" again, Micah.

You seem to be confused about what blaming the victim is, or you're intentionally trying to redefine it as "no, I was blaming society". It's interesting, because you're still trying to grasp the assertion that it's the behavior of the victim at fault for the the cops killing them.
You're absolutely right - Niantic's history with Google does not preclude them having crummy security practices that we aren't aware of.

However, "Popular thing possibly has crummy security practices (we just don't know)" isn't HN-worthy, it's just FUD. I think both of us would prefer a HN full of well-researched articles over one full of clickbait FUD.
> Anyone in America can be successful.

As can anyone in Europe, no?

EDIT: must have read too fast, above point stands.
Well ignoring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

United Nations (2014)[6] lists US as 12th, which is not bad. But, has been falling for a while. Norway for example seems to be ahead by ~30% despite a huge safety net.

Of course by PPP we seem to be stuck at ~25: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IMF_ranked_countries_b...
Just curious - why are things like "Gitlab is hiring" not hideable? I don't plan to apply for a job there, so I don't care to see that story anymore today. But I don't see a way to hide it.
It's OK for a copyright holder to dual-license and release their own GPLed code as an app in the App Store. Otherwise, you're correct.

http://www.fsf.org/news/2010-05-app-store-compliance
Police have become the threat that the Founders feared when they talked about the dangers of a standing army. Either they need to be armed with non-lethal weapons only, or they need to stand trial for each killing (severally and collectively), or both.
For #2, on mobile I'm constantly down-voting when I mean to up-vote, and vice-versa. (Before HN officially supported mobile, I sometimes ended up voting when I was just trying to zoom in!)

Taking a chance that people might not "think before voting" seems well worth it to remove a bunch of random noise generated by unintended clicks.
That's not the premise of this essay.
I'm adding gasoline delivery to the list of startups which should absolutely not "move fast and break things" or "beg for forgiveness rather than ask for permission"

> "We haven't talked to them. I don't know about that. It’s news to me"

> "You can never ask for permission because no one will give it"