skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have many questions for you, which I hope you can answer - at least to some extent.

For example, is it easy for you to blend in when you are with new people? Suppose you start a new job, new people.

Were you ever left alone in your job? If yes, how do you deal with it?

Have you ever had fights with colleagues due to those reasons? Did they ever tell you it's hard working with you? And your managers? If so, how did you fix it? Did you fix it?

Why do you do it? I mean, you mentioned it, when you said "to feel stronger", but then, my question is if this is worth it. Do you ever feel you miss good insights about issues? Because in my opinion when you behave that way, you will mostly focus on what you want to shout, your ideas, etc, but not on learning. How do you deal with it?

P.s.: I am not criticizing, I am just curious to know how people behaving this way deal with some of the most common issues in my opinion.
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I'm sorry, but I can't disagree more.

Newspapers are far from being a distribution channel, and to think of them that way is as reductive as thinking of social networks as address books.

Newspapers are organizations that are first and foremost investigative, backed up by quality control, editorial, and research organizations. If you replace this with a smartphone and shift the delivery model out from a newspaper, then the role of being a fact-checker, editor, researcher, and expert falls on the reader. This is a bad idea, not only because it creates more work for the reader, but also because it increase the extent to which personal bias of the readership can increase the incorrect interpretation of facts.

Obviously, no newspaper is a perfect example of this ideal, but they are a great deal further along the curve than almost any individual. As a result, they act as a force against filter bubbles by promoting a whole set of stories and ideas that force people to participate more broadly with real world events and ideas. The mere fact that we worry so much about editorial bias in newspapers is a symptom of the importance that they play in guiding their consumers. The solution is not self-guidance and self-filtering and self research in order to wade through a sea of unqualified, unedited BS.

Furthermore, by being a news seeker, you are admitting that you are still seeking to know what is out there? Is there a particular reason you do not want to consume news through a qualified source? If you want to read the panama papers by yourself then you will likely do that to exclusion of all other reading for a period of days to weeks, and you will need to spend twice that doing research to understand what it means. If you go through a newspaper, they do that work for you.

Newspapers are not broken in any fundamental way. The only reason that this discussion is even happening is that news was traditionally funded by advertising, and that advertising is a shifting business, dragging news along with it. Discussions that center on the decline of newspapers without acknowledging that the shift in advertising revenue is really the problem ignores something very important: that the business of generating news is not at fault, the business of paying for it is. That is the real discussion worth having.
It seems to be mostly back to normal: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/U6RATE
France says fight against messaging encryption needs worldwide initiative
Denial of Petition to Initiate Proceedings to Reschedule Marijuana
Adaptive structures [video]
"Une fois" means "once" in standard French ("il y avait une fois..."). Is there a specific context you're thinking of where it's used in a non-standard way?
Ransomware on course to become a billion dollar industry by the end of the year
Of course, it isn't worth supporting for us, today, but at the times it thrived slavery turned to be the most viable form of labor, for that society.

Perhaps in future our society will evolve enough to make all software (and not only software) free. In particular, we should find a way to overcome tragedy of the commons.
I keep approximately 5 minutes of temp readings (used a TMP36 sensor) at 1 minute intervals using an RTC (Real Time Clock) to more accurately time it. I made a small 'power tester' circuit that basically acts like a normally open button and closes when there's no power coming into the freezer. I may or may not have spliced into the wiring of the freezer for this and lied to my wife about it when she asked if I was going to burn the house down.

Side note: Is it just me or does it seem like you get asked this question frequently?

I have the 'button' circuit wired into an Arduino I/O pin just like you would an old normally open button. When the 'button' circuit closes the Arduino triggers a VERY audible siren I cut out of an old water leak detector. If I have 5 minutes above my temp threshold the siren goes off. I upgraded it over time to use a small LiOn battery and got a circuit to switch to it when incoming power is cut for whatever reason, and basically when in battery mode it's also siren time. I got through 10 minutes of siren battery testing before deciding it was good enough and I was tired of hearing it.

We've talked about doing something similar for the propane fridge and an activity sensor in my friend's cabin in remote central Oregon using a 3G breakout for communications but we've run into the issue that the 3G there is really spotty and we just couldn't reliably get a data connection out there. Also debugging electronics with no internet, running off generator and batteries, and in the dark because we were fishing all day doesn't lend itself to really getting the job done.

Since you have WiFi you may have what you need to do it more simply, although the 3G might be a safety net for the safety net once you get your solution done. My biggest problem at the cabin, besides the lack of cell coverage, is the lack of constant power. There's barely any solar power, and it's used to keep the batteries conditioned, and it's often weeks or months between people getting out there. I would think at your place you could pretty much just use my approach and add WiFi, or just use an ESP8266 instead of an Arduino and do everything else the same. The battery switchover stuff was the biggest pain in my butt, mostly just because I've not got a ton of LiOn experience.

EDIT: On the RTC and temp logging, it's really not necessary. I just did it to do it. You can use the oscillation ticks and a counter to get close enough. Hell, you can just bump the threshold up a little and raise the alarm as soon as you see it without logging anything and get a drastically simpler circuit.
Websockets over SSL is in beta: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/tcp-ssl...
I wonder if we will ever grow out of that, now that cameras are everywhere. The sense we have to capture news.

I grew up wanting to be the next (accidental) Abraham Zapruder.(0) to be the source, the Deep Throat so to speak, of something so important -to be validated by the news.

(0) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kq1PbgeBoQ4
It would be great if there is a comment section, or private Q&A, to ask founders questions.
I came here just to post the same comment. I hate to be negative because this site seems very interesting and I love the content, but what I would say is that I don't think there is any need to embellish the numbers for the audience this content will attract. I would have read the article had it said $300/month or $900/month all the same, except now I trust the overall site less than I would have had it been honest.
Does their website hosting thing support it yet? I currently have a site set up as:

BUCKET.COM.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com

Is there a dual stack version of that?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12269175
The issue isn't as much the rightness of the code - by that standard it was provably pretty not right...

I'm talking about the purported duplicity of the DAO founders. I think that they were naive, but clear in their statements. Their goal for the DAO was X, Y, and Z, but that it was enforced by code - not by their stewardship. And boy was that right.

I don't think they hid the facts from anyone.

Good point about the Nazis though. Many people forget that and fall back to legality as a defense, even still.
There is some controversy about the accuracy of ball tracking in cricket, http://www.news.com.au/sport/cricket/shock-drs-howler-questi...
All the other providers I use already support IPv6 and have for years. Amazon should have supported this years ago, and even now they only have tentative, incomplete support for a few of their services.

It's embarrassing, frankly. I'm impressed they didn't try to charge for it, but then again, when you're marking up bandwidth egress 18x over market rate, I guess you have some room to work with.
> Like most sideways assaults on Trump, it completely misses the point.

I don't follow. Which point?
I love low-tech solutions like this.
Low effort too: I just look at the ice in the bucket rose if it's frozen in a blob - or a pool of frozen water at the bottom. :)
These boards are just low cost "evaluation" bards for whatever chip is on them. If we include larger chips ( say an ARM Cortex A8 on the Beaglebone Black ) , they're great for test fixtures and prototyping systems.
I would be willing to help code FOIAAAS.
Well, Go has a 1.7 release coming up very soon which has a nice performance boost due to the new SSA backend, I assume this test was done using Go 1.6 .
See Python 3.5, ES6 and C# and their await stuff. They generally use a form of future internally to abstract this.
Which is why you should only enable HSTS if you plan on supporting it permanently.
And you haven't explained why I don't have a pony.

You don't get a patch of sovereign land as a birthright. That's never how it worked, anytime in history. You can play by the rules here, you can go someplace with different rules, or you can go someplace with no rules. Plenty of rural areas in the 3rd world with no effective government presence.
Erlang has always used IO lists for I/O, and they can include both strings and "binaries", i.e. byte arrays. IO lists are very similar to ropes, but because they don't even store the length in each node, they're even faster than ropes to concatenate, but linear-time to index into.
6 issues keeping back Arizona's tech community
I think this is a wrong point of view for the entire issue. After all, one of the primary reasons people form societies - and societies as they grow form governments - is to prevent the oppressor scenario you describe. You can say that maybe every generation of adults should decide again if they like this idea, but that seems a bit inefficient.

Consider instead a different question - what authority your parents have over you when you're a child? After all, you haven't agreed on anything. Aren't they an oppressor, that often forces you to do things (like eating broccoli) against your will?
This is a tip EVERYONE should know and I still do this! I use a half filled bottle of water, a small rock, and mark safe/not safe so anyone who's not me knows which way it should be.

Pretty sure it was my great-grandpa who taught me that.
Of the main Pi distributors, only Newark had local operations, and they closed shop last year.

Now the cost is higher due to low volume imports, so you end up paying more for shipping the boards. Also, taxes are higher if an individual is importing stuff, as customs use a simplified 60% tax over the retail price vs using the specific import tax (around 45% for the Pi) over the reseller price.
Added to my to-do list!
Ask HN: Examples of exceptional Git repo wikis?
I'm guilty of rarely checking a project's wiki since it is most often not all that helpful.

The golang wiki recently surprised me: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki

What are some exceptional examples you've noticed?
> An odd coalition of conservative, libertarian, and liberal intellectuals has advocated for Basic Income over the past 60 years.

This, of course, is the (political) downfall of UBI. That coalition will stand together right up until someone has to draft an actual Senate bill implementing the thing.

Then, the liberals want to phase out existing social programs gradually, or implement it as a more-palatable negative income tax. The conservatives want to drug test applicants, and add a "family bonus" to promote two-parent homes. The libertarians want to set a low price-point to encourage work, and tie it to ending student loan programs. And so on.

Basically, UBI has real value, but the current popularity is gained from being all things to all people. WIC and SNAP are concrete enough to hate, but UBI is still so ill-defined that people can 'agree' without having any overlap on what laws they would actually support.
When anyone says that to me, I respond with, "No, because otherwise I would vote for Hillary." That both angers and confuses them, which delights me.

Alternately, to people who consider it the same as voting for Hillary, I blithely say, "No, because otherwise I would vote for Trump." Same lovely effect.
Because it's an associated type (https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/associated-types.html), not a regular generic parameter.
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I'd also consider the whole dynamics over the course of history. Many times people wandered into uninhabited lands. They always eventually ended up forming societies and governments to regulate the commons and avoid infighting. This seems like a feature of human nature.
It would be useful if the post explained what YC Office Hours are. Is this a way to get into YC? A chance to have feedback on my startup? Or just an opportunity to meet a YC person?
USL sued in 91 and it was settled in 93 (was running BSD/386 at home and 4.3 Tahoe at work at the time so I remember the entire affair quite clearly.) Linux at that time wasn't even an option if you wanted a system that actually worked but the period of uncertainty was what allowed it to grow into its current niche. If GNU did not exist there were other options. The fact the GNU tools were the easier path at the time is why were are where we are at now, but let's not pretend that there were not alternatives that would have been equally sufficient if GNU never existed.
This seems kinda pointless. Engine-modified cars represent a tiny, tiny portion of the total population, and probably contribute a rounding error to the pollution. Sure, go after pickups that "roll coal", but going after people that want to install a cold-air intake or larger exhaust is just odd.
So, as an autodidact who never went to college -- I learned how to program initially with Ruby on Rails. And you're right, I hadn't the foggiest idea of what vectors and matrices were, as I'd only ever gotten to pre-calc.

I actually learned all of that much later, not through programming, but by trying to understand physics. I watched all of the Leonard Susskind videos over the course of about 18 months while using stuff like Khan Academy and wikipedia to learn the math that I didn't understand as I was going. Once started digging into symmetry groups, I stumbled onto abstract algebra, discrete math, and so on. I wouldn't say I understand quantum mechanics much better than I did before I started, but I learned a lot of math while failing to understand physics.

It really wasn't until I started playing around with haskell that I even started making the connection between those mathematical structures and programming and discovered category theory. I had sort of thought I was learning two mostly unrelated things and haskell sort of blew my mind.
I know self-taught programmers working in drivers, operating systems, video and audio compression... It's primarily about gaining a deep understanding the system and the problem domain.

A formal education is a starting point towards gaining that understanding, but it's not the only possible entry. (Who would you rather have working on the Linux kernel: someone who has been following development for 10 years and has read most of the source code, or someone fresh out of school with a CS degree?)

Maybe you're selling yourself short by assuming you wouldn't be able to do those things?
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Some other providers support it. Scaleway is a fun new thing, yet their initial offering wasn't developed with IPv6 support and cannot be backed in on their old servers.

DigitalOcean "supports" IPv6. In some regions. And only gives you 16 addresses per VPS to play with instead of a /64.

There are many examples of this, but you see my point. People still don't think IPv6 first, so it's always a separate project to tack it back on. That's a shame because if you support just IPv6, your OS will do IPv4 to IPv6 translation for you, so that you don't have to support two stacks. (I am talking about server-side applications, not places where you need to make connections to IPv4 servers.)
> Almost as if the majority of developers were actively refusing to touch GPL code.

I would say the majority of developers who are writing Open Source code go out of their way to ensure they are not touching GPL code.
Funny, I'm not being "heavily" downvoted (-1) nor did I mention any dichotomy. I work with these guys. I exercise with them (personally, I'm a swimmer). They are in it for the body image, not to compete in regulated sport. With no rules forbidding them, the use of substances legal or otherwise is common. Jocks aren't image people. That term is associated with sport, for those who compete rather than simply exercise for purposes of health/fitness/look.
I think the parent means that the vast majority of published material is disguised native content such as "submarine" PR pieces, product placement, unmodified press releases etc. Since the overall standards have sunk so low, yellow journalism starts to look good by comparison.
I looked at ATS quite some time back and wrote it off due to the syntax. Maybe I'll give ATS a second look.
I wish they'd focus on speed and rebuilding API Gateway to be easier to use, or provided a new proxy option to run Lambda under. This set of changes doesn't seem to improve on any of the practical issues in using Lambda with API Gateway.
I would describe programmers you have described as "tradesmen", similar to electricians, plumbers, pipe fitters, etc. I see nothing condescending about that.

A chemical engineer designs a plant, but plumbers and pipe fitters (and others) are the ones who actually build the plant.
At its core, the problem is that the DEA has a monetary incentive to seize cash, since it can keep the cash for its own use. What if that were no longer possible, and all money confiscated by government agencies are incinerated under external supervision, if cash, or sent to the monetary equivalent of /dev/null (buying 0% Treasury perpetuities, perhaps) if electronic.
Does video latency matter for most game streams? The games I watch on twitch are delayed to offset stream sniping.
> I'd take ballot-box-only democracy and majoritarianism over tyrannical strongman rule or military dictatorships anytime of the day but this is just me, a Middle Eastern native who really cares for the future, prosperity and the welfare of people living there.

The usual overt basis for complaints that elections are insufficient is that they don't end up as ballot-box-only democracy, but that they instead they often end up as one person, one vote, one time -- followed by tyrannical strongman rule.

OTOH, that's clearly not generally worse than just leaving existing tyrannical strongmen in place. I think the real concern is that locally popular strongmen buoyed by such a one-time election, in the short term, are more likely to have the domestic support to cause problems for neighbors and outsiders, while the often-unpopular existing strongmen are frequently hobbled in their ability to cause external problems by the needs to deal -- whether through active repression or ongoing negotiation and mollification -- with unruly internal factions. (Another is that external elites often have connections and established ways of working with the existing strongmen.)

The chance of making progress toward real democracy is often not seen as worth the risk for external parties (especially external elites); locals, of course, may have different calculus.
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I couldn't see myself ever using a nl to regex translator. English especially is incredibly ambiguous and regex are simple and, as you noted, very powerful. Implementing a regex interpreter personally enabled to create even the trickiest regex. I'd highly recommend it! Knowing how to write complex regex also makes sed/grep your best friend. :)
> how great it would be to have a solid NaturalLanguage -> Regex translator

This idea sounds good, but as soon as you start getting slightly more complicated you'll be writing paragraphs:

Try writing this in a natural language format:

<a\s+(?:[^>]*?\s+)?href="([^"]*)"

That's a regex to get the value of an href from anchor links.

"match "<a " then do not match a ">" if it exists, followed by a space, if it exists, then match a "href=", then begin a capturing group, then match anything but a '"' 0 or more times, then close a capturing group, then match a '"'

I'm sure that's not even correct but you can see what I mean. I can see this idea being a good tool for learning though, especially for smaller regex
I remember that my parents' old freezer had something like this built-in (using colored liquid instead of the marble, but the principle is the same). Seemed like such an easy and obvious feature.
Not science. Politics or political philosophy but not science.

PP is as scientific as Pascal's Wager and for the same reasons.
1856 was arguably a success, because it set the stage for a bigger electoral victory the next election cycle. You can't really expect a party to come from nowhere and win in a single election, they have to build up momentum, structure, and supporters.
In my opinion, it is actually in my best interests for any government claiming jurisdiction over my person to have flawed mechanisms for enforcing its will upon me and extracting property from me. I consider that to be an adequate balancing factor for any inefficiencies it may also have in providing services or managing the commons.

Other people may prioritize such things differently.
The main issue here for me is, "who turns it back on", and in what circumstances will they/won't they do it?

People have a right to make their own reproductive choices, but there's a huge human, social, and economic cost when people have children at ill-advised points in their life (either too young, when sick, when poor), and it seems that relying on others to enable your reproductive rights is a hazard where the government or medical profession can remove that right from people.

I don't really consider this strictly eugenics, as it's not done with the same intention of improving the global genepool, but instead it attacks it from a more shortsighted and "pragmatic" (economic/social) point of view, but in any case it would be a horrible future.
Hey, it's not like they got those "uninhabited" lands for free, unless we're talking about the first migrations out of Africa. They had to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and genocide their neighbors before they got any uninhabited lands. Now these anarcho-libertarian kids want to just get lands without any of that hard work butchering people. Sigh.. kids these days. No work ethic or respect for history.
Ah yes, I wasn't thinking of async/await. I suppose there's enough precedence from other languages to warrant that, though this is probably far-future work (I don't even expect futures to land in the stdlib for quite a while, though I would like them to eventually).
API Gateway can't serve binary content, making it useless for anything but JSON toys.
The endpoints are available but traffic silently fails when you are in a VPC.
In C++ lambdas have limited size (about 3 machine words). If it's context is larger than that, the data may be allocated on heap (if compiler can't optimize that allocation out).