skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "It would require more monitoring and possibly tiered fees to accommodate "high risk business," but you could do it if you wanted to."

Is it really that simple? Personally, I have no idea, I don't work in finance. But it's worth a follow-up, preferably from someone at Stripe.
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1.2 cubic kilometres is definitely more intuitively visualized, but I'd prefer it taken even further.

"Enough CO2 to blanket a 35km by 35km area at 1 metre deep."
or
"Enough CO2 that, settled at 1 metre deep, it would blanket the land to nearly 20km away."

I think either really paints a more easily understood picture of what a colossal amount of gas this actually is.
The blanket octopus uses the Portuguese man o' war's tentacles as weapons [pdf]
Natural instinct is to run away.

It's like how the smart thing to do is run to the side of a tree that's starting to fall over (perpendicular to it's projected fall).

A good way of describing it to the locals might be that 'bad gasses come from the lake and cling to the ground, like a leaden miasma from hell'.
Paul Allen wrote a post today about an elephant census his company (Vulcan) conducted in Africa: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/every-elephant-counts-paul-g-...
I did it for 3 years or so right after college and had similar experiences to the folks on this thread. I surf so a huge motivation behind wanting to "live anywhere" was to chase epic surf. I look back on these times and feel like I really learned a lot about what's important to me in my life. During those times I was earning great money, developing my career, had very little living expenses, and got to surf whenever I pleased. All of those things are awesome and look great on paper but I also know that I have never felt so isolated and disconnected.

Others have mentioned this but building more than superficial relationships with people is hard. Finding a mate who can and is willing to live the lifestyle is challenging. Staying connected with friends and family is very difficult. All of those issues can be remedied and I know many folks who do so successfully but for me it makes more sense to have a home base and travel 3 months or so of the year. Knowing where "home" is helps keep me sane.

I do, however, think that this lifestyle is probably more feasible and easily attainable now. My experience comes in 2008-2011 when working on the internet was a very different task. Nowadays I see new co-living places pop up all over the globe that cater to the people trying to make nomad life work.
It was while I was stuck up on my little perch that my focus slipped, and I became indecisive. I gave myself too much time to think and became panicky and irrational. Like, fear management is the name of the game, and it's all about blocking out extraneous thoughts and sticking to practical, immediate concerns. I had cultivated the ability to do as much while climbing, and had plenty of experience, but on that day my mind slipped, and thoughts of what my parents would think if I died and shit like that started running through my head, which was a first for me.

I did pull myself together, obviously, and when I finally committed to going back down, I was in control and systematic about it, but the experience left me rattled, and for a couple years after that I stuck to nice, safe single pitch sport climbing routes. That's why I'm me and not Alex Honnold I guess, he goes and does it again the next day.
author has chip on shoulder and no valid argument.
If I were to someday[0] use this for lyrics, would that be cool? Anything recorded would have full credit to you of course. PM if you want.

[0] My life is full of half-started projects...
hey there, co-founder of Saleswhale here -- will be happy to answer any questions! :D
Seconding SL 5x5. It starts you light to work on form, and ramps you gently but steadily. I'm lifting weights with good form now that I didn't think I was capable of 3 months ago.

I also really recommend Alan Thrall's form videos on Youtube. Incredibly instructive and thorough.
How does one sale white label products? How to get access to inventory? Let's say I want to sale shavers under my own brand and marketing rules? How to start, do I need to have 100k to start? Please sane basic advice or tips.. What is your product?
> "So we wanted to make that clear and describe where we're falling short of our aspirations today."

Just a PR tip - it's probably best to solve those issues first, then publish a post about how you solved it. Apologizing for not solving the problem doesn't seem worth it unless you've made promise to fix it and then failed. In which case, a "Post Mortem" is perfectly defensible, IMHO
"I mean, have you ever heard of a building project going 3x over budget and then not actually delivering a building at all?"

Construction projects go over budget and are late all the time. Remember the big dig?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig

The Sydney Opera house was 10 years late and 1475% over budget:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Opera_House#Completion_...

Anyone who's had renovations done to their house can also probably sympathize.
Right, which is why it can be forgiven before he explains himself, and why he starts every public appearance with the same spiel.
Which Investors Have the Most Acquisitions and IPOs in Their Portfolios?
That just means you need to take it to the next level. How about a crowdfunded alcoholic dildo drop-shipping pyramid scheme?
Can you elaborate on this "usual bro split"?
Stop Trying to Make the 'Zipper Merge' Happen
We're never going to definitively solve them; it'll always be a process. But we did try to lay out some examples in the post of cases where we've been able to make progress.
Don't worry about making Pearson sound vaguely evil. The level of hate for Pearson, Wiley, and the like on my campus would make Hitler blush.

I do not use the word "hate" lightly. It is a strong word.
From my habits, I've found you really don't get the full picture using one platform. Google Users will review a restaurant in a completely different way than Yelp users. Zomato users are looking for different things than say a facebook user. That's why they all have different average scores.

1. I have a friend cloning the app right now for android. Many of the things brought up in this post (like requiring facebook ) will be changed

2. Copying review results does not violate the terms of services. https://www.quora.com/Is-it-legal-to-use-review-information-...

"In the US, so long as you have the legal right to access the data to begin with (i.e., you didn't crack into someone's system to get it), yes. Simple facts, and things like mathematical analysis of those facts, cannot be copyrighted."
I got rid of my car something like 9 years ago. I have no choice but to do a lot of walking. Problem solved.
No argument on that, but the expense of a good power rack and barbell set, and the space required is far higher than a small bench and a set of adjustable dumbbells. My version costs less than $200 and takes up about 3 sq ft and can be tucked behind or under other furniture when not in use. It's an 80/20 thing.
Not sure if Johnny Bravo and Cow and Chicken were good influences, but Dexter's Laboratory and Powerpuff Girls, while very visually busy, definitely did make an impact on me.
> The entire post, and John, basically indicated that they do want to take a more progressive moral stance. Their stance being that they want to fight for servicing certain businesses on Stripe.

Yes, we're going to remove the first sentence from the post -- you're right that it's, strictly speaking, inaccurate in the sense that we do want to take a stance in favor of certain kinds of businesses.
Show HN: Extending Markdown with Pandoc+Panflute
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It would seem more likely to me that you are feeling better/worse because you lost/gained weight, not because of exercise. Weight gain is pretty well studied and is connected to a lot of bad things, and, from everything I've seen, has a much bigger effect than lack of exercise on the average person. I've never been overweight and exercise is not really related to weight control for me.

Most people don't exercise in the first place, I don't know if we can say how much it helps most people vs us selecting for people it helps.
I think it's pretty good :D. I know the apprehension of releasing creative works on the internet as you never know how they will be received. Thanks for putting yourself out there.
Are you asking for our current payment provider? (Adyen)

or are you asking for our website? That I'd rather not associate to "shady", and sadly we're blocked to operate in the USA [and most countries in the world] so that wouldn't help you anyway. Sorry.
True, but I would have to setup the profiling. Setting up a load generation pattern and a load tool would do the job on a local environment, but this is an obviously involved process that requires looking at the generated profile, response times and such. But, does not tell me an in-lined function is missing the cache a lot and slowing things down?
Niantic is now permanently banning Pokémon Go cheaters
Correct; the brand risk being referred to is card network brand risk. (Which they're very sensitive to.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5kWu1ifBGU
Communism is the ultimate future of human beings ;-)
P is Perl PHP Python. The other letters have various incarnations. Point being horizontal scale is known, and not difficult solution for many, many domains. Starting a long time ago.
I lived nomadishly for about a year in Europe, and while I didn't not like it exactly, the way I did it wasn't as fulfilling as I had hoped:

* I spent a lot of time moving from city to city. Eventually, I learned that staying put in the same place for a month or more was the best strategy — but this was hard to do with Schengen travel limitations (as an American citizen).

* Finding housing was sometimes a pain (and expensive). Hostels were definitely a no-go: too loud, no personal space, impossible to get work done. Hotels were too pricy. Owner-listed rooms on Airbnb worked pretty well overall, but finding ones that weren't exorbitantly expensive ($35 or less a day) and that were rented out by people in the ballpark of my age required hustle. Longer house shares (often students living in a large house with a spare room) were the best bet, but finding them involved a lot of last-minute e-mails, phone calls, and even in-person interviews. (All this would have been much easier with a traveling companion.)

* Speaking of getting work done, I basically couldn't figure out a way to be productive. Towards the second half of my travels, I discovered that I worked best if the room I was renting already had a desk, chair, and window, and sticking to that requirement helped quite a bit. But even then, the temptation to go out and explore was often too great. Before then, I tried cafes, libraries, and co-working spaces, all without much success. I think I really need a stable place to call "home" to be productive.

* As a life-long loner, travel made my social life a whole lot worse. I barely talked to anyone during my travels, and neither hostels nor bars were of much use. I didn't really mind most of the time, but the fact that my only fulfilling interactions were over the phone did start to weigh on me after a while. (I felt the most social when I was living in house-shares with students, but those were only conversations in passing.)

I'd definitely travel again — it was a fascinating experience in the end! — but this time I would probably commit to staying in a single city for several months. I'd also try to find a large house (10-50 people) inhabited by people who share my age and interests.
> "This is what I do".

Kelly Slater and I'm sure many other athletes have expressed a similar sentiment.

I suspect there are other professionals, mathematicians, physicians, playwrights, who have a similar sentiment. I wonder if a rather simple model of this is that their neural nets are highly optimized for the task. And if that's the case, is that a tell for a task that can or can't be automated?

Can a machine drop into a triple-overhead wave and throw improv tricks with grace? What does grace mean to the machine? Dignity?
For other gem materials, the synthetics are so good and cheap it's embarrassing that expensive jewelry is made from them. You can buy cheap sapphire bar stock[1] or ruby rod[2] on Alibaba. Synthetic emerald gems come in bulk in plastic bags.[3]

[1] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Custom-square-sapphir...
[2] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Ruby-crystal-Rod_6033...
[3] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Synethic-Emerald-Oval...
I agree. It seems that Lamb advertising that he's installing equipment to look for ~3-5kcarat diamonds is signaling 'just wait, this 1100 carat diamond is gonna be yesterday's news soon.' The expectation that supply will grow ought to drop the price of this super large stone for anyone willing to wait a few years for the next massive one.

However, I do think there will always be a market for large diamonds extracted from cold hard Earth. Yes, synthetics will likely eventually surpass these stones. Owning one of the largest natural stones ever found will probably always seem sexier in many (read: likely non-high-tech) circles of ridiculous wealth.
Ah, nice, that's elegant.
Too poor for a NYT subscription :(
... actually just checked their prices, quite reasonable.
I'm generally a fan of Phin Barnes, but two points here really bother me:

1. This claim is a brash overgeneralization: "Unlike a junior person, they won’t be open to feedback, guidance, or coaching required for improvement."

Devil's advocate — there are junior people who are comfortable where they're at and who don't seem interested in becoming senior. Not everyone becomes advanced and/or a manager... especially with the proliferation of dev bootcamps these days.

2. Not all senior engineers are full of unqualified arrogance.

> There are lots of people with the title but not the skills. They are hard to spot because they’re definitely not junior but they’re not really senior either. They’re mid-level engineers who have been convinced they’re senior by the ecosystem.

He should know better than anyone that we're hardly "convinced they’re senior by the ecosystem". Startup title inflation is often there from day one, not added later on. Also, look at how rampant impostor syndrome is in this industry.
Yep, rubbish.

Even spells his name wrong at one point: "Ochkam"
I left Seattle in 2009 and spent about two years in Brazil, two years in Thailand, then eventually ended up in Belize for somewhat random reasons and have stayed here for 4 years (if you are doing the arithmetic, there were a few long trips back to the states in between). It was very lonely for the first few months in Brazil, but fortunately I had an acquaintance there that made some introductions for me, and I still have a few great friends that I keep in touch with on skype. The entire time I was in Thailand was extremely isolating, and I had a really hard time getting work done for my US clients given the time difference. It was a very challenging time personally and socially, but definitely a formative experience that I wouldn't give up. By the time I left Thailand all I really wanted was a place to settle down. Belize has been great; lots of expats in the 20-40 age range, no language barrier, beautiful nature, close to the US (2 hour flight to Houston, ~$200 on southwest airlines). I ended up meeting my girlfriend here, who is from Houston and owns a hostel here. To be honest, if I had to move back to the states, I wouldn't be too upset about it. Lately I've really been wanting access to a maker space, networking with other technologists and tinkerers, and easy access to electronics, which are extremely expensive here because of import duties. In the end, it really comes down to "wherever you go, there you are." It's wonderful to broaden your horizons, but you won't leave your bad habits or mood disorders at home. And wherever you are, your experience will differ greatly based on the company you keep. I was miserably lonely the whole time I was traveling, and I've only really been happy since I met my girlfriend and we got an apartment together. I don't know if there's a point to the story, but that's life I guess. :)

I think there are only really two ways to be happy in this lifestyle unless you are one of those people that really doesn't need any social interaction: have a travel partner, or have a home base that you spend 6 months or so out of the year in.
We know that there is no or very little anti matter in the universe because things are not blowing up, we also know that matter and anti matter have been created in equal amounts, hence were looking into what the frak happened to all the anti matter.

Also anti matter reacts to the fundamental forces just like any other matter.

It doesn't produce anti mass, anti gravity or anti anything.

It does have an opposite charge and spin off its normal matter counterparts but other than that its pretty boring.

weve made anti hydrogen, oxygen is pretty big so it would take a while before we can make anti water but it will be done also most likely.
This was an extremely carbonated lake. Seltzer water is about 4 volumes (4:1 CO2 to water measured in volume). The article places the lake at 5 volumes.
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Just a suggestion that goes along (slightly) with your theme. Pick up hiking and hit all the trails you couldn't with your bike?
This was posted yesterday but looks so good, and spent so little time on the front page, that we've put it into the second-chance pool (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and the links back from there). We wouldn't normally do that for a day-old post with 28 comments, but I think the HN software penalized this submission by mistake, which was bad. Plus also, it's the gopher protocol.
Huh? No realistic use cases? A half-closed socket is how you emulate EOF.

It's like saying that EOF has no realistic use case; that _every_ protocol should implement a custom channeling and signaling mechanism at the application layer in order to get bidirectional streams, even though they're using TCP sockets.

Now, many of the most popular protocols do that, but they do that because they're intended to be universally deployed and must deal with all the random pathological cases out in the wild. But if you don't have to worry about broken software, such as when you know there won't be broken proxies or routers in your path, then you can dramatically simplify many purpose-built protocols.

As a practical matter most people can safely make that assumption. Most of the time it's cheaper and easier (in the grand scheme of things) to make the broken software shoulder the burden. Not everybody is writing software for Cloudflare or Chrome; and fortunately _most_ responsible vendors do a decent job at implementing standards correctly.

I hope there's some confusion on your part or my part, and that you just didn't admit that WinRT was completely broken by design. That should be a hanging offense for anybody designing or implementing core infrastructure software. Decisions like that impose millions, if not billions of dollars in unnecessary costs on the world.
I indeed have hired people that approached me this way. Some other sources land directly into my inbox (such as StackOverflow or some niche job sites), but generally it's best to take as short a route as possible. Not many people do that, so it's not something I would hold against a candidate.
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I'm sure humans in several hundred years will be able to take a similarly hindsighted stance on the things that we don't have explanations for today.

"I mean, you don't have to know about quantum mechanics, but honestly thinking that there's some magic invisible energy causing the universe to expand? I mean seriously, I think I probably could have come up with some kind of explanation better than 'Dark Energy.'"
I think the resume filtering practices end up filtering out way too high a percentage of people who are actually good at the job and just bad at writing resumes.

A better hoop to force applicants through would be one that demonstrates some aptitude for the job which, upon successful completion, gives them access to the job submission portal/email address.

For example in a customer service role have the applicant play a game that follows through a sample phone call where they have to choose the response they would give to a customers problem.
Which lock that you buy that a locksmith can't unlock?
A license covers copying and distribution. You can reject the FreeRTOS license and publish benchmarks. You will lose your ability to distribute FreeRTOS under their variant of the GPL.

They could alternatively add a clause that forces you to extract an agreement from anyone you distribute the source code to. That would require at least some sort of click through license agreement to be binding.
Err,

I'm pretty sure that anti hydrogen has been created and stored, and I'm pretty sure this included detecting it without it annihilating .
It is a wonderful, particular type of schadenfreude to watch old, corrupt monopolies collapse.
Given that Kafka is a message router, what don't you like about Fluentd (Ruby) or Heka (Go)?
\D is a subset of \S, so the \S accomplishes nothing (said another way, there is no character that matches \D that doesn't also match \S).

Secondly, there are very few intersecting character classes (sets) that I'm aware of, and in all cases, you could achieve the desired result more clearly in other ways.

Said another way: "AND" would just make regexes even harder to understand/approach, and that is almost always undesirable.
Heidelberg. This works in many cities around, best if there are students and established people with stuff to get rid of. My friend in an immigrant quarter in Mannheim finds the best stuff on the street though.
> the case is light
MBP are great machines, but being light is not one of their quality.
Do we know for a fact that they want to solve this problem?

I'm sure they'd love to change user behavior in a way that would produce more interesting interactions. But I doubt they truly want to go after the random fluff and outright delete it. They'd be penalized for it in the short term (less engagement etc).

What really needs to happen is the general public getting fed up with it.
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"You will never lose betting on human stupidity." Natural diamond gemstones are valuable, mostly, because of human stupidity. Chances are, that will continue for the simple reason that it's persisted for so long already.
Still better than MikeUnderscore2004@yahoo.com:

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/e-mail-addresses-it-woul...
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Why not just get rid of the amygdala? Looks like it doesn't reduce brain function. If you can live with the 3% mortality rate, maybe a lifetime free of anxiety?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18590383
I've been an extensive Pandoc user and wrote my thesis, website, etc. on Markdown. However, extending it was hard, as you either had to a) learn haskell, or b) learn the Pandoc internals in order to use pandocfilters [1].

To solve this, I wrote Panflute, a Python package that allows anyone to extend Pandoc's Markdown with a bit of Python code.

You can use it for simple stuff such as creating tables of contents, or more advanced stuff like CSV tables [2], output from external programs [3] (so you can fetch online data), and many things.

It's Pythonic, open source [4], and hopefully useful if you like Markdown :)

[1] https://github.com/jgm/pandocfilters

[2] http://scorreia.com/software/panflute/guide.html#yaml-code-b...

[3] http://scorreia.com/software/panflute/guide.html#calling-ext...

[4] https://github.com/sergiocorreia/panflute