skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The alternatives I want to see discussed all involve cultural changes. Sometimes when I try to discuss these with people they get fixated on shifting 100% of blame onto the attackers and 0% onto culture/society/foreign policy/poverty/whatever, but assigning blame is a completely pointless activity and the question needs to be what will actually work, not what will feel good to our primitive instincts for vengeance.

Some hypothetical approaches for discussion:

- Convincing violent groups to be less violent; demonstrating that they can get more of what they want by participating in society than by attacking it (a multi-generational issue)

- Finding a place for the "lone wolf" types to feel like their needs and concerns are addressed, including mental health

- Getting first-world powers to stop purposely destabilizing other countries

- Accepting what remains of the problem as if it's a natural disaster (e.g. just as people accept or ignore the 1000x worse problem of traffic deaths)
There's a gap between "we can legally do this" and "we can legally do this but we don't want to spend more money on lawyers."
Then why are new languages constantly overtaking older functional languages?
http://blog.kenkaminesky.com/photography-copyright-and-the-l... in the "Do I need a model or property release to own the copyright in my photograph" section goes into this a bit.

TL;DR: "In general, if property is visible and can be photographed from a public place, you don’t need a property release to use an image that depicts the property and you may use the photo in any manner. Copyright law provides an exclusion for photographing buildings located on property, but not for statues or other items that may have separate copyrights."

and

"Nevertheless, some companies have tried to prevent the use—both commercially and editorially—of photographs of their buildings or objects via trademark protection or contract law. Examples include the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Lone Cypress tree on the 17 Mile Drive at Pebble Beach, CA, the Golden Gate Bridge, and the “Hollywood” sign. While these attempts have been unsuccessful, it can be expensive to litigate them"

In general, I believe copyright always belongs to a photographer unless they're taking the photos in the employ of someone else, in which case the copyright belongs to their employer. However copyright, trademark and publicity rights are all very different things and it's quite possible that even if you own the copyright to a photo, you can't use it commercially (for example if you're taking a photo of someone and using their likeness to endorse something). Buildings don't seem to have issues like this though.
That's pretty.. mundane.
> There has been a significant increase in the frequency and effectiveness of terrorist attacks in Europe. People are growing more worried about it.

This is important to understand.

Also it is important to understand that right now Europeans are losing security for no good reason:

We could help a lot more refugees in surrounding countries than we can integrate here. It is really that simple IMO.

Seens we are allowing this stream of immigrants not because we are good-harted but because we are stupid.

This means we could be more secure and help more refugees if we stopped playing for cheap political correctness points and started to think about how we could help as many as possible.
Right. My point is that immutability doesn't mean anything when the government can simply arrest you and coerce you to reveal your password, it's no different than a gangster stashing cash in a hidden safe.
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It's technically optionally typed, but it has a static type checker which puts it more in the "static" camp in my mind.
https://www.dartlang.org/articles/language/optional-types
Like they said: You can't play the blues in an air-conditioned room https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR8qG2ErTRI
Seems obvious in retrospect. Wonder if the freezing adversely affects anything? Probably not.
Slightly off topic. Are any of y'all going to be playing the next expansion? I am looking to join a very casual guild :)
From the page: The bandwidth is asymmetrical with limited upstream and up to 1 Mbit/s downstream.
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>In hindsight, opposition to innovations such as mechanical farm equipment or recorded music may seem ludicrous.

It's also very possible that these oppositions helped shape and amend the use of these new technologies in ways that made them safer and more palatable.
Hi, this is Daniel (Christina's co-founder). You can specify appliances on the personalization page (though stovetop can't currently be unselected because it is necessary for many dinners). Lunches—with the "pack something quick" option—only use a microwave, so that can serve as a sort of work-around for people who don't have a range / hot-plate.

Complexity is handled by time preferences, which can be specified for each course (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks/dessert). Shorter times are less complex recipes.

Sorry, no "fewest dirty dishes" options, but great idea!
Nobody in a position to make the decision gains anything from lowering your salary. Reducing your pay doesn't solve a problem they have, but explaining how you don't work 10 hours a day like the employees of $BADMANAGER creates a problem they don't have.

Letting your devs goof off/work on the side while keeping the seat warm is easier for everyone.
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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12158929

And several other postings:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=History%20tells%20us%20what%20...
Since it was added in 2015, it was disproven that glyphosate alone causes cancer. The original study used glyphosate with GBFs, the latter of which are likely to cause cancer.
Some of the many reasons:

1) inertia - that's how it's always done;

2) it's easier to make your good employees work harder than it is to recruit more of those difficult to recruit developers;

3) they would rather you work more hours than you already do - not fewer - after all they make money hiring you, they can make more money if you work more (in some twisted linear productivity logic);

4) some people wouldn't be interested, they don't want to work shorter hours and earn less money, and that reduces the opportunity for discussing this / rolling it out;

5) understanding how productive developers are is very difficult - did that bug take a week to fix because it was challenging or because you were slacking;

6) larger teams are less productive than smaller teams.
> and Apple more recently killed the javascript: URL scheme in the address bar

wait, WHAT? This isn't good! This raises the barrier of entry for new programmers to play with Javascript! I had no idea this was done!
Honestly, if you handle your own financing so that doesn't get mixed into the deal, have a hard and fast value in mind for a potential trade-in, and go to a no-haggle dealer, I'm not sure how it's a nightmare. The experience is probably better buying higher-end cars but if you know what you want, what its price is, and get a bank check for what you owe, there are a lot worse experiences.

The reason a lot of people have bad experiences is that they're trying to buy something that they can't really afford, they need financing, and have a trade-in they want to be worth more than it is and the whole transaction becomes this complicated shell game.
Which would be a nice excuse for Facebook so I am surprised that they haven't used it.
We work hard to avoid ever inconveniencing legitimate businesses (and are constantly iterating on our processes to make it less likely that we do so). I suffered at the hands of many of these processes from other companies in the past; part of the point of starting Stripe was to do a better job on this front. However, thousands of new companies launch on Stripe every week and many of them do intentionally breach our terms of service (or commit outright fraud). So, it's a tricky exercise. I pay a lot of attention to individual cases where we ever make mistakes (and make my email address very public) to try to ensure that we rapidly repair any false positives that do occur.

We'd love to investigate any issues you may have had with your card. Feel free to email me and/or mlm@stripe.com (who helps to build our machine learning fraud models that detect our merchants from fraud) and we'll take a look.
HN's startups would be a good group to study for this.

If Gary Kildall been at work when IBM called, we'd all be running CP/M.
And for those of us who use Bookmarklets - it has made Safari a non-choice of browser.
Since we're in a software-driven world, me thinks developers, the uber-type at least, should be getting the type of contracts that CEOs get.
I order pretty much all of the obscure food/ingredients I use from Amazon - looks like Tahini Paste is widely available there. I'm not sure how much notice PlateJoy gives you to shop before you make the recipe, but it has to be less than Amazon's shipping?
Cool idea!

Random Feedback:

- Made it through the survey, was expecting to create a password before you asked for money, so upon closing this window, I just realized that I am not sure if I have an account. On a hunch I re-entered my email and you did save my info so all was not lost, but had a moment of 'oh I'm just going to give up then!' Possibly make it obvious that you can return later, and possibly make it obvious you don't actually want a credit card today.

- The survey feels like more work than just browsing instacart. I get that your trying to really understand me, and I do think thats brilliant. I get that this is an investment into me saving time in the future, but after completing the form the meals that were offered to me do seem quite random. So this leaves me with the feeling that this service is going to take some trial and error and work on my part to get into sync with me.

- Possibly since I am not a picky eater with dietary restrictions, then I am leaving you too much wiggle room to read my mind. Therein, possibly this service would just move my innate ability to be indecisive about what I want to eat to you. If this is the case, then I don't know if I want to pay 10 bucks a month to continue to be indecisive.

- In making it all the way through to the "buy on instacart" page, I end up on instacarts site with an empty shopping basket. Not sure if that is intentional, but if that is a limitation then there is no way I am going to pay because that is where the lions share of time savings for me would come from, easily inputting stuff into instacart.

I will probably try to give your service a proper test and order some of the recommended recipes. I think if it really gets to the place where its with-out-a-doubt saving me time, and ultimately managing the food intake of my entire household, I would spend the 10 bucks for it, and if it does that without me even needing to intervene I would spend 15-20.

The product seems extremely sophisticated for an initial product offering. Wonder if there is a way you can focus on making the initial impression accomplish a smaller task first (like, "plan for perfect date night at home!") where the scope would be reduced to helping someone get 1 meal you design, near effortless, from instacart, surrounding dietary restrictions, rather than overwhelming users with wanting to deep dive into trying to digitize their kitchen 20 minutes into the product.

Keep hacking on it, could see this being powerful for busy people.
So ... does this mean we are going to see yogurt with "B. Infantis"? Or is this a infant-only symbiotic strain? Curious.
There are places (like Quantopian, but also more professionally-oriented) that will not only provide infrastructure but also capital if you come to them with a trading algorithm that does well on back tests.

The next step down are firms that'll give you a platform including hardware and software for the "infrastructure" bits: often called an "algo container", but lots of brokers have an API you can use to avoid needing to write feed handlers, etc. eg. Pico.

Then there are heaps of providers who'll rent you servers, connectivity, rackspace, etc. You do all the software. Lucera is a trading-oriented "cloud" provider. OptionsIT or Fixnetics are infrastructure providers. Or you just go straight to the data centers -- any decent finance-oriented datacenter will have a POP for most of the venues, and you can just cross-connect.

No relationship with any of the firms named -- just examples off the top of my head.
This looks great. I need a time-saving solution to the standard food problem and I don't want to take the Soylent plunge. But I'm filling out the questionnaire right now and I'm finding the list of ingredients to exclude is too limited. So when I type into the 'other' box, I can exclude feta cheese, but not cheddar.
> No income this year, fine, you're off the hook.

Some locals are concerned that a disproportionate amount of the very highest value properties now being purchased are owned by those with no income. Poverty level. Asset rich, and rich in foreign cash. No income.

When such owners (OR, often, their elderly and school-aged family) take up residence in Vancouver then the result is 1) a net loss in income tax to support social services (such as education and health care), plus 2) a net increase in the cost to deliver those services because of our new and impoverished residents.

I'm not arguing for more property tax, but it's complex and very different than in the "good 'ole days". Not long ago, an asset-rich person could be assumed to have paid significant income tax into the public coffers during their life before they and their offspring drew down on public resources. Now, many do not. Food for thought?
That is glorius, consider this advertisement from Feb 1982

Reddy Chirra improves his vision with an Apple. Reddy is an optical engineer who's used to working for big companies and using big mainframes. But when he started his own consulting business, he soon learned how costly mainframe time can be. So he bought himself a 48K Apple II Personal Computer. And, like thousands of other engineers and scientists, quickly learned the pleasures of cutting downon shared time and having his own tamper -proof data
base. His Apple can handle formulas with up to 80 variables and test parameters on 250 different optical glasses. He can even use BASIC, FORTRAN, Pascal and Assembly languages.
And Apple's HI-RES graphics come in handy for design. Reddy looked at other microcomputers, but chose Apple for its in -depth documentation, reliability and expandability. Youcan get up to 64K RAM in an Apple II. Up to 128K RAM in our new Apple III. And there's a whole family of compatible peripherals, including an IEEE -488 bus for laboratory instrument control.

Visit your authorized Apple dealer to find out how
far an Apple can go with scientific/ technical applications. It'll change the way you see things. The personal computer.

Remember that this was competing with the original IBM PC (1981) so something of a pitch. With a machine which was somewhat less powerful computationally to an Arduino but with more RAM and a lot less ROM (or FLASH in the ATMega case).
> I don't buy the idea that there's a special "thinking class"

What he means isn't about genetics but about opportunity. And the opportunity to get even a basic education was severely lacking until the 20th century, while on the other hand the need to work work work starting from a very young age for the working class didn't exactly leave room to study, even if you knew what that is.

> Education is something that's attainable by pretty much everyone

Only in recent times. The original quote starts with "Throughout the centuries...", so this is about a longer period, and throughout most of it that opportunity you speak of did not exist for the majority of the population.

The statement is about a time when productivity was just high enough to free some (few) people from the toils of daily live. It's not like there was no progress at all, that class was getting larger over the millenia, but the explosion (in productivity) happened only in the (late) 19th century.
Here's a web article version of this PDF, which I had converted some time back. There are some minor hyphenation issues, but otherwise I have fixed the formatting so that it shows up good on web and mobile displays.

Obviously, all credit goes to Charlie Munger.
https://t27.github.io/to-read/MungerMisjudgement.html

I'll be glad to take PR's on the github repo for fixes to any errors that may have come up in the conversion of the PDF article
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I can see the title of the book now - How to make out like a bandit after failing as a CEO.
I'd be happy to donate a Raspberry Pi to the OP for the young lady to use. They are an excellent learning tool.
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What does any discourse on a forum prove? We're debating stuff that we mostly have little clue or hard data about. Most of what we have are narratives, quotes, anecdotes, analogies, etc.

In the old days we called it "shooting the breeze".

I'm sure an auto industry exec or engineer might chime in with some insight, but even that doesn't prove anything, just might illuminate the challenge Apple has ahead of them.
Ring itself was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11009182
Having the programmer available for communication (changes, updates, confusion, immediate maintenance) with the people that do work the full day is more productive than having them unavailable and paid less. This is eyeroll territory. When I don't have a set deadline for Problem A as a contractor (this has happened), I work intermittently on the Problem A and bill appropriately.
They say to only keep frozen breast milk for up to 3 months though.
"but can you show me any demo where a FP language outperforms C for parallel tasks?"

That's not a fair comparison. C proponents should ask, "Is there a demo where (alternative) outperforms C for (application domain) when C has (alternative)'s safety-checks enabled, too?" Memory and dataflow safety in C, using checks instead of exotic stuff, easily adds 20-500% overhead depending on application. Whereas, these safer or more functional languages are usually within 200% with some Common LISP's and Schemes matching or outperforming C in a few benchmarks. Concurrent Haskell wouldn't be giving me a performance reduction: I'd be getting more capabilities in development and reliability with a performance sacrifice. One that goes down every year for at least one implementation of each language or style.
I don't understand why HN is so obsessed with gut bacteria.

I don't oppose posting it, I just don't understand the fascination.
Someone from the PlateJoy nutrition team emails new customers during their first week to give tips and to be available as a point of contact. There are also follow-up check-ins if people don't have specific questions right away. Some people really get into it!
Eventually the market will figure out that they don't need
to pay Steam 30% of sales to host files on a server

That's overly negative and pretty disingenuous. App developers for Android can sell their APKs directly and save 30%, but they don't because of the convenience of the market.

Similarly, I rarely buy games outside of Steam (or GOG) except in the cases of very indie developers who provide a steam key when I buy directly from them. The Steam service is a good one. When I build a new computer, I just need to install steam and my entire library is ready to install. Valve have rightfully found a gold mine from a service that they made that is a net value to consumers.

And even if Steam didn't exist, a non-publisher-specific store is still needed. I'd go to GOG (for similar reasons as I use Steam).
Why does it need write access to all of my repositories, when I click on the demo link?
They seemed amazed that I would actually design my own circuits

That shouldn't surprise you, RS employees have never had electronics knowledge. I forget the details, but as one example I remember a conversation while trying to get a replacement battery for a cordless phone for a friend of my girlfriend at the time (who is now my wife, meaning it was well over 20 years ago). Again, forget the details, but employee argued that it couldn't be the battery because "blah blah blah". It holds a charge for 34.6 seconds after charging it overnight and then has about 0.2V, what do you think the problem might be, oh Electronics Wizard?

Back when employees would at least try to pretend to be knowledgable, they'd argue with you if you made the mistake of letting them know what you're building. "You're building a FooBar? No, no, you need a WhatsaHoosit." You mean this article from a guy who forgets more about electronics than you and I will ever know is wrong?

EDIT: that said, when I went to buy some resistors a few weeks ago to fake a display on our headless Mac OS build server, a couple of bucks got me a card of five of them. So I don't know what is missing from supplying the "builders" market.
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Life on the bleeding-edge: front-end architecture
That sounds like a much easier problem than autonomous vehicles.
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You're right, I would primarily like to see them more liquid so that there were more data points to extrapolate moves across different asset classes
Vox/Salon are not a credible sources on anything Republican. That's like using Fox News as a reliable news source for Democrats.
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It's not a "startup tax". It's a tax on investment income.
The capital gains tax break is (supposedly) designed to encourage investment by reducing the tax on income derived from "long term" investments (< 1yr). Currently there is so much investment money available that investors can't find places to invest it all. I'm not sure they need more incentive to invest esp. not at the expense of other taxpayers. When we're awash in cheap oil, does it make sense to give tax breaks to oil companies to "encourage" them to look for more oil?

It's a basic question of fairness: do the Peter Thiels of the world deserve to pay a lower percentage of their income in taxes than the engineers that work for them?
>The majority of drivers on the road are your typical 9-5 commuters.

And a car will automatically be at their house every morning. The car will fill up with people on the same route for cost savings.
If this was the main reason, then surely it would only be a matter of negotiation on salary? Out of experience I can tell you that this is not the case, most companies won't even discuss it. I have asked for half time at a half dozen places, and actually got it at two (those that accepted were not pleased but they really had no choice as people with my skill set are hard to find).

In my experience, the real reasons are (in order of importance):
1. It would hurt morale (or so they fear)
2. It complicates booking meetings and such
3. They suspect that you're doing something creative on your "other time" and thus they don't have your "full attention"
Oh, Prolog. I once wrote a hardware configuration in Prolog. (Dependency resolution - rules like "An A requires a B or a C".) The configuration part was fine. Trying to write a menu system in pure Prolog, though...

Most of the troubles with functional programming come when you actually have to do something. The imperative/functional boundary remains a problem.
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What dietary preference do you have checked? Things like "dairy free" and "paleo" already omit cheese, except for those cheeses for which we have substitutes that match the overall dietary preference. If you type in "cheese", that will give you a list of every cheese used by our recipes that is not already excluded by your dietary preferences.