skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some reason, comparisons between books and other forms of media always focus on how much less work the book does, how much more it requires imagination. Which I always think is silly: sure, a book requires that you make up the pictures and sounds, but it tells you, directly, what's going on in every scene, pulling out the relevant information, and more often than not going inside characters' heads and revealing their motivations directly.

Compared to a game, a book is doing much more work, and games are often leaving a lot up to the imagination. To me, the article up to the closing argument indicates that No Man's Sky is even less like a book than most games, given its lack of overt plot and characters. All symbols are inert without human attention, but the symbols of a book definitely don't just "specify a world" without "constituting" it, unless it's the Silmarillion; they do constitute the plot, and that's what makes procedurally generated games so unlike books.
TL;DR, we are beholden to a cartel.
Interesting thought on the pay incentive, but what will happen is eventually a cop will get shot in the line of duty without a gun and the media will have a frenzy and that incentive will get canned.
Maybe in a country where half the citizens own a gun. But how is a police officer to respond to a crazed hunter etc? Call in the FBI every time?
The credential API is available for web. It is up to the browsers to implement this API. For the API to pair nice with Open Yolo, browser vendors would need to hook in 3rd party password managers. Where it gets interesting is if Apple decided to integrate Mac/iOS with password managers as well. This would allow me to bring my own password manager and have it plug into the biggest runtimes (web, ios, android)
I generally agree with your two issues 100%, but one thing I've found interesting about these discussions is that no one seriously questions the fundamental hypotheses involved, that typical diet bears any relationship to long-term health.

That is, it's assumed it does, but we just can't pin it down because of poorly done studies.

My guess is that that's true, but the other very real possibility is that our bodies are designed to process a very wide variety of foods in a very robust manner, such that as long as you're not eating something obviously poisonous, it doesn't matter as long as you're not depriving yourself of something important nutritionally (as in scurvy).

Similar arguments can me made with regard to weight and exercise, although there it seems like the effects are clearer in certain ways (e.g., I doubt anyone would argue that being in shape isn't better than being physically deconditioned).
I'm not familiar with your exact distro/installation situation, but at least on Debian/Ubuntu, TeX and friends are split into multiple packages, where many binaries (including latex/lualatex/xelatex) are in one package (texlive-binaries), but the supporting files/packages for non-basic uses are in another package (texlive-luatex and texlive-xetex).
> who sees Jesus story as an alien visit record

Could you elaborate on this? I've never heard or read anybody say anything like this before.
I'm not sure it is very useful to frame the matter in terms of gratitude; I might say rather that, in rightly condemning the actions of those officers who do abuse their office, we must take great care not to overreact at the expense of supporting those who faithfully discharge their oaths to serve the communities we all share.
Habit
You don't want to dismiss his ideas just because he came from a different time period. Is there anything specifically wrong with what he wrote?
When TWC stops providing horrible internet service for astronomical prices then maybe things will change.
Oh, this is HG Wells. I was thinking of Vannevar Bush's Memex from 1945 when I saw the title.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex
I used to complement my MacBook with a hackintosh. I now have a beefy xeon server running esxi. This lets me run windows/mac/and primarily linux.

I'd still consider my MacBook my main machine even though my storage and faster processing is remote.
I'm surprised this article didn't reference Google using HTTPS as a ranking signal [1]. Seems like basic SEO to me at least.

[1] https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2014/08/https-as-ranking-s...
a) Most importantly, I would rather program, browse the web, watch TV or play games than exercise: any of these is a more enjoyable experience than exercising.

b) Even ignoring my preferences, exercise is miserable. It is painful, unpleasant and sweaty. So not only would I rather do something else, I would rather not exercise. I know that some folks disagree, and that's fine. I don't, myself, want to spend an hour panting & sweating like some wild animal instead of engaging my brain like a human being (I'll admit that this is a character flaw, because it is).

c) I must get ready for and clean up after exercise, which is adding insult to injury: when changing & showering I'm getting no benefit from exercising, and yet not engaging in any activity I enjoy. So, in order to exercise I must devote even more time to doing something other than the items in (a).

I do exercise, because I ought to, but I hate, loathe and detest it immeasurably. If medical science would invent a pill which I could take and which would cause my muscles, organs &c. to undergo the proper chemical changes that exercise causes, I would take it religiously.
That's why CO2 poisoning is the humane way that lab specimens are put to sleep.
If you charge a flat rate you risk the someone paying $5 for a $25 commute.

Then you make a loss on that ride. Making a $20 loss occasionally is fine if you're making $1.50 profit on the next 500,000 rides, especially if you'd only get 5,000 rides without the flat fee. This is why you model your market structure properly and use as much data as you can lay your hands on to find a workable price point.

It's trivially easy to dream up reasons why, completely hypothetically without any research at all, something might not work. It's not very helpful though.

For what it's worth, where a friend of mine lives in a city in the North West of the UK, getting an Uber is cheaper than taking the bus.
I don't disagree. It's a great name until you have to start spelling it out to people. :\
Did anyone else find the juxtaposition of "over" and a very precise number in the title a bit strange?
Ask HN: Resources/tools to be a good Product Owner?
I would appreciate anyone pointing to books, blog posts, conference videos and tools, SaaS, whatever that could improve my skills as Product Owner.
Including personal advice and opinions.

thanks!
Skully officially admits it's over
New Research Articles on Use of Twitter and Instagram to Help Predict Depression
In Science there exist certain topics that are minefields.

Differences between human groupings. Race. Class.
The Brain or Mind.
Sexuality.
Future/Past analysis.
Most of economics.

Most interesting subjects contain taboos and dangers that should you cross them, shall ruin your career or life. That is why if we're really as smart as we think we have to use the Dark Arts. I don't know what would happen to a modern day Darwin but I doubt it'd be pretty.

The most controversial debate on science I ever saw was on Intelligence Squared on the subject of Organic Farming. My intuition is that one side felt strongly enough that they rigged the vote, and that the moderator knew it too when he saw the results.
Too poor to afford internet, she still learned to code
Rather than home internet access. I'd create safe study places for these kids to do their homework and even just hang around in.

Children in poverty often suffer from dysfunctional families that disrupt their studying and lack of life mentors to motivate them to pay attention in school.

If you could have supervised after school hours just for these kids to do their homework and maybe engage in a bit of self learning it would be much more useful than having home internet access.
Actually, respiration is burning the food, it's literally the same energy release, and the methods of calculation take into account the portion of the food that's burnable but non-digestable. If you're saying that the corrections for indigestible food are the subject of scrutiny, that's true, but that has nothing to do with the fact that "burning" is a problem for calculating caloric content.

I used to work in aquaculture, where we measured the amount of food going into a fish (via the bomb calorimetry that we're talking about, directly), the amount of energy spent by the fish in respiration (by measuring carefully increases in water temperature in their tank), and then we measured how much energy the fish had at the end (by burning the fish).

And quite simply, calories in was equal to calories out. It was a good relationship within very acceptable experimental error.

Now of course, the fish were growing very rapidly and we could control their food exactly. Humans, growing over a longer period, can be subject to different metabolic pathways, and we can't measure their respiration directly of these pathways [Edit: this is where the gene expression you mention comes in] - this is a far, far bigger source of error than the calorimetry, so calories alone can be less predictive of outcome. But this doesn't take away from the basic definitions of thermodynamics.
Explaining Nationalist Political Views: The Case of Donald Trump
You are accusing a blog of having shallow and trendy ideologies, but you can't even describe them?
It seems a little disingenuous to pass all the blame to the credit card companies, when clearly it's possible for these "shady" businesses (porn sites, get rich quick ebooks, preorder campaigns) to work with a merchant account provider other than stripe, and process the same credit cards. If stripe truly had no problem with these businesses, and it was all the credit card companies tying their hands, then no merchant account would be able to support the businesses. Yet there are many merchant accounts, some catering explicitly to "high risk" businesses (with correspondingly higher fees), that have no problem with these businesses. They work with the same credit card companies and yet are not hamstrung by the same regulations.

I can see why stripe wouldn't want to support these businesses, especially those with higher chargeback rates, but don't tell us it's because of the credit card companies. If other merchant account providers can handle it, so can you. It would require more monitoring and possibly tiered fees to accommodate "high risk business," but you could do it if you wanted to.

Don't open the article with "we'd love to not be gatekeepers" and then talk about how you're doing exactly that.
That will hopefully come soon enough - https://www.charter.com/merger-twc
Stepan Bandera organized killing of soviet consul to stop Holodomor, event known as "shot, which saved millions". It is why Russians hate Bandera so much - he stopped genocide.

> do you really think that it were specifically ethnic Russian policemen that came all the way to enforce "law of Spikelets" and passports laws, not the local communists/activists/police/kolhoz administration?

> "even few hundreds of thousands of Russians" - as i said there huge difference between normal people and Ukranian nationalists.

Do you think only Ukrainians will shoot Russians?
Setting aside illegal businesses, whole segments of the market seem to have been ignored by stripe.

An opportunity to serve these markets exists
I'm torn about this. On the one hand it's clear that access to the Internet is almost as important as other utilies, such as clean water and heating oil.

On the other hand regulation is exactly how broadband rollout has been stifled in the past and present by incumbents, and is at least partly to blame why it's so expensive right now.

I want it deregulated and opened up to very serious competition. I also want our government to build reliable infrastructure (fiber) as much as is possible.
Not sure if you are trolling, but why would Postgres want to support mysqldump? Postgres has pg_dump and MySQL has mysqldump. If you are comparing the capabilities of pg_dump vs mysqldump, that's a different discussion.
>The idea he's describing seems to be a very elite-driven technocratic idea

Right, he imagined a top-down organization that collected and curated information for the benefit of humanity. It seems like the trigger for HG Wells imagination was the "microfilm". Using that technology, he could see how vast quantities of information (old books in worldwide collections) could be photographed, compressed into organizable filing system, and centralized in one place.

The parallel of that to Wikipedia would be cheap hard drives holding terabytes of information.

However, that real radical innovation with Wikipedia was the bottom-up crowdsourced contributions. People thought an encyclopedia authored by anybody without credentials would lead to useless trash. Amazingly, that prediction didn't happen.

Personal anecdote.... I have contributed to several wiki articles and in one entry about a novel, I corrected a paragraph that had incorrect information. I simply rewrote the entire paragraph. At first, I thought a subsequent editor would delete it since my edit came from an anonymous contributor. (I was not logged in and only the ip address is recorded in the revision history which means it might be flagged as "drive by vandalism"). It's been several years and I occasionally revisit that page. Not only has my prominent edit stood, but others have continued working around it. It's a weird accomplishment -- a 21st century version of "Kilroy was here."
I got a ton of signups to Complice yesterday via the IndieHackers HN launch (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12269425) so I thought it would be cool to see if we could coalesce a new little community of people doing pomodoros (25/5 work/break periods) together online.

One of my favorite features of HN is that it lets you limit how much time you spend on it per day. I love systems that work with the users' interests in mind, and I think that this coworking chat does so more than almost any other chat app, because it has clear work periods where people can be productive.
Re: “the Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” That comment was originally made about USENET, in the "alt.humor.funny" episode at Stanford in the early 1980s. Due to some political correctness issue, the newsgroup "alt.humor.funny" was blocked at Stanford's main USENET gateway.

USENET is an eventually-consistent database system. When USENET nodes connect, each has a list of groups it knows about. For each group a node knows, it tells the other end what item sequence numbers it has. The node being asked then provides any items the asking node doesn't have.

This really does route around censorship. Almost all the USENET traffic went through the main Stanford USENET gateway, but a few machines on campus made occasional USENET connections to outside machines. That was all it took to keep the Stanford USENET machines in sync with the outside world. Anything deleted at the main gateway was filled in over other links.

That's where the line came from. From the days when we really had distributed networking.
Doesn't reducing the number of suppliers of a product tend to reduce competition and increase prices?
Symmetrical Cable Broadband Speeds Are Coming
Libraries?
AND is explicit in the groupings.
> usually on projects so trivial (like public transport ticketing systems) that it's hard to not attribute it to malice

Also something to consider in a circumstance like public transport stuff is that the multiple approval levels and meddling happens on the Government side as well. Like a perfect storm of bureaucratic bullshit that ends up making an enormous bloated mess that does everything but what was originally intended.
I agree with the general sentiment, but cases like Trayvon Martin tells that a non-police US citizen can apparently chase a person down for not much more than "he doesn't look like he belong in this street", start an altercation, shoot and kill, and claim self-defense.

If drawing a gun because you think you're threatened is a US citizen's right, then it will remain a US police officer's right. You can have both, or you can have none.
Moonshot sounds a lot better than tax arbitrage-based VC
Hi cookiecaper,
All our operational code (other than pinterest specific bits) is open sourced https://github.com/pinterest/mysql_utils

Both statement and row based replication can be very reliable in modern versions of MySQL. It is my experience the ways data is corrupted are:
1. read_only not being set on slaves, so random users can write to the slave. We set read_only on startup based on service discovery.
2. Bad automation for failovers. See https://github.com/pinterest/mysql_utils/blob/master/mysql_f... for how we do it.
3. Crashes without all the durability settings being on.

If you are having to run slave_skip_errors, you are doing it wrong. You should checkout out our automation for backups and restores. They can be found in mysql_restore.py and mysql_backup.py .

With regard to PG replication, I suggest you watch https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bNeZYVIfskc&t=26m54s
Uber had a 16 hours outage in large part caused by pg replication issues.

Vacuum issues are also no joke.

There are a host of other issues:
MySQL can deal with large numbers of connections, PG needs middleware.
MySQL is more efficient with "web" workloads where most queries only need to pull on row.
etc...

-Rob
> > First, I don't like it. Most of the time, it is awkward stuff, and horribly boring, exercising just to exercise.

> It doesn't have to be this way. The best way to stick with an exercise is to find one that you enjoy.

The mistake you're making is assuming that everyone enjoys at least one form of exercise, much less would prefer to do it other than something else.

My short-term analysis is, 'why would I want to be sweaty, sore and out-of-breath when I can be perfectly happy at home, doing what I want?'

My long-term analysis, of course, is that I should exercise in spite of hating every single minute I spend on it.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12168576
I run almost exactly three things on this MBP: screen (shells), emacs, and Chrome.

- My nested screen sessions with a ton of shells doing things all over the place don't get restored on reboot
- My emacs state doesn't get restored on reboot
- Chrome reloads all the pages from the network instead of just serializing its entire state and restoring it on reboot

(All of the above are true on linux too.)
Sorry, but all of this is simply not true.

I run a business where I regularly do between 50-100k a month. There are many other marketers that I know who are also doing the same.

I was not a good candidate and neither were they. Why? Because we act as middle-men between a product creator and the end user.

To someone like stripe, we are scammers. We supposedly put up sites which lie about products, we mark-up pricing and we take the money and not ship out the products. Yes, that is the brush that is tarred amongst all of us.

This could not be further from the truth, as it if was, then we'd be getting charge-backs up the wazzoo and our current merchant providers wouldnt be working with us.

I have yet to recieve a single charge back and I have many many repeat sales. So much so, that I an creating a brand by selling other manufacturers products under my own white-label brand. Which incidentally is against stripes terms and conditions.

What is laughable, is that stripe had no idea about my business model. In fact what they offered was stripe connect and having the manufacturer owning the stripe account. Which would actually confuse my clients even more.

Here is the deal. A lot of manufacturers don't know how to market. They don't know how to setup a sales funnel, market for clients, generate sales, make products go viral and generate 100k of sales. They have tried themselves spending $10k in marketing stacks and spending $1000s on facebook ads and getting nowhere.

But no, Stripe does not want to work with me or others like me. So guess what. We tell everyone one can, DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH STRIPE.

I don't be doing business with them and I will be telling all my clients and be sure to tell everyone they know as well not to do business with Stripe either. I hope this has a knock on effect that 1000+ individuals who thought about using stripe, use someone else as well.

If only stripe had actual controls where they did reputation testing against IP, actually sided with the seller on charge backs instead of bending over and making the seller the bad guy, or do more fraud analysis.

I choose other vendors who do exactly this and I have had no problems so far.

Here's something. I'm not a scammer. I would rather lose a sale rather than trying to get that money and have someone have buyers remorse and do a charge back or demand refund.

Not all of us want to make a quick buck at all costs. There are other ways of doing this, believe me and STRIPE wouldn't be a way of doing it. That;s just laughable.

TL;DR. SCREW STRIPE.
Interview with Voice of Siri Susan Bennett
Python, the GIL, and Pyston
There are more levels
I have a weird question: How come the kids congregate outside the library for the wifi? Is there a thing that you can't go in just to use the wifi? I used to do that all the time in college, didn't even have a card.
Can I just say how much I love the way public libraries have navigated themselves into the digital age?

They are, as this piece points out, very popular places to access computers and the Internet, and many libraries offer a wealth of digital content. I can check out and instantly download e-books and audiobooks and movies from my library.

It's certainly conceivable that they might have transitioned less well. There is, after all, a healthy amount of government bureaucracy in the public library system, and that tends to stymie innovation. And then there's just the pain of transition. Bookstores have felt those pains hard; it's not that people don't want content, but they want content in different forms, and a lot of bookstores just couldn't move fast enough.

But I'm really glad to see libraries continue to be generally healthy, and important community resources.
> There would be a fall in non-skilled wages, increasing demand for non-skilled labour output.

Er, no.

A fall in non-skilled wages does not lead to an increase in demand for non-skilled labor output. It leads to an increase in supply of non-skilled labor output. This, under usual conditions, leads to some combination of decreased market clearing price and increased market clearing quantity of those goods.

> In 1850, 60%+ of the American labour force were farmers and over the next 100 years their jobs were automated out of existence by range of more efficient 'robots'. This was no-doubt harmful for many specific farm labourers, but didn't 'screw over the economy'.

Since the 1850s, quite a lot of social support mechanisms have been adopted within the US economy, largely to deal with problems encountered during the process of industrialization, including the displacement of traditional labor (including farm labor).

The idea that further disruptions of that kind might need improved corrective measures when the cracks in the compensatory mechanisms are already visible is hardly outrageous.
Personally, I don't know anyone who would hire someone like you, who knows a little bit about lots of things. Most businesses want someone to join their team to provide significant value without that value being overly-difficult to measure.

Saying, "I can do pretty much anything you need but I'm not particularly good at any of it" makes you an undesirable candidate.

Look at that list of skills you wrote down, pick one, and become passable at it - then you can start looking for jobs.

Hope this helps! Good luck!
"We don't want to be the moral police, but won't do business with you if you're a brand risk, such as a sex toy store"

It seems like the opening paragraph directly contradicts their policy