skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you're not thinking clearly; the constitution requires a super majority, and yes, if a super majority of people want to be governed a particular way, then they deserve that right, even if it's stupid; but you'd never get a super majority to agree to such a stupid bigoted rule and it conflicts with other parts of the constitution and would be ruled unconstitutional by the courts. Without the notion that the rules can and do change for each generation, we'd still have slaves, thankfully, we don't live under a set of rules that can never be changed.

The will of the majority, and especially the super majority, is far better a thing to live under than the will of a handful of people from 238 years ago and any suggestion to the contrary is the definition of not thinking clearly.
> Investing in a founding team where the founders have a solid history of starting successful companies isn't relying on pedigree.

If that's what they were doing then there would be a lot of talk about how those who have never founded a company can never get funding.
It seems like the ideal bus to go from Marin to San Francisco or San Jose
The irony of the Washington Post.
Sure, let me dig some up.

[edit, adding a link to a comment]

Here is one (th13's reply was downvoted): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11030447

(This is more tedious than I thought, I'll see if I can dig up some more. Looks like in the future I should make note of these as I see them.)

[edit, adding a second link to a comment]

You may need to follow the 'parent' link to see the telltale gray of the downvote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10775287

(Seriously, this is tedious. I know there are more, but I won't dig up anymore unless I'm pressured to do so.)
If they want, they can use keybase.io for that. All my digital identities are linked up through that, but of course, I'm not a "well known" person in Tech.
Office spaces are a relatively recent historical development.
For example, in the UK (even in London!), there's no limit to how many taxi licenses can be granted, and indeed there is currently a statutory obligation to grant one to any applicant provided they meet the requirements.
You're a code monkey who sits at the keyboard all day? Most people have to get to a desktop, but would rather pull out a mobile device to get the job done.

Of course coders have made progress at using dictation:

http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/using_voice_to_code.html

Like I said, you lack imagination. Also, no one said you need to use speech for every task. It might simply help with RSI so you don't end up like this:

http://www.looknohands.me

Also, most people aren't coders. Designers, for example, might be using Photoshop with a Wacom tablet and would like to not have to use a keyboard. "New layer" "Layer hide" " "move layer up/down". "Text tool. Change text to San Francisco regular 16 point "
If they're running malware with administrator rights, they're already lost by definition.

The kind of people that would leave settings like this at the default generally don't read tips n' tricks guides to tweaking windows. They simply don't care about that sort of thing. Of course _some_ do, as you would no doubt reply, but again it comes down to numbers-- that volume doesn't justify locking it down.

They aren't clueful users so they could be socially engineered to turn off updates, but once you get to that point why wouldn't you just get them to run a RAT as administrator? That is the end goal, after all. And once you own their system you can turn off updates yourself.

Lastly, we're talking about a switch in the GUI here-- it is already possible to completely disable telemetry and automatic updates on Windows 10. You just need to hack through the registry and group policy or use a third party tool to do it. Anyone who takes control of your computer can do it remotely.
I think we could use a "Science News Snopes" service that evaluates the science stories that goes viral while they're still being spread.

We just need a few know-it-all scientists who can write, an office and a bit of funding!
I would not be surprised if there are companies & organizations out there using SNMP monitoring tools to monitor cloud hosted systems in the same on-prem instance they're monitoring their on-prem systems from.

I'm thinking specifically of my old company, which used Nagios to monitor a few hundred VMs on AWS in addition to the several thousand servers & all the networking gear running locally.
Why not just sign in with Gmail? The only reason that I see to not do it would be that someone could think that the other person is you - but that can happen nonetheless.
Make the title "write cleaner HTML Code". Author some point, but the title is totally misleading.
I've had lots of Debian updates breaking my sound system. And twice when they pushed NetworkManager into the KDE dependencies, and when they pushed idmapd into NFSv4, it broke my network shares.

I can't remember anything else breaking on stable. It's been a much experience than updating Windows.
These kids are literally the future of human society. Giving parents time and support is a direct investment in our future.
I was not comparing NYT to any other news outlet. It's an echo chamber regardless of the fact that conservative news sites also have echo chamber comment sections.

The David Brooks article was just an example. When Bernie Sanders was still campaigning every comment on Hillary/Bernie-related articles was about how the New York Times is wrong and that Bernie is the best, people will learn about the political revolution soon enough, etc. I was a huge fan of Bernie and I got bored of those comments instantly.
> LE is still useless for UGC sites with per-user subdomains

Let's Encrypt is a public service, aimed at operators of individual systems who host web content or email in a casual sense, were poorly served by the complexity of getting and maintaining a TLS cert, and who empirically were basically not doing TLS.

Your posited blog host is going to be a professional or semi-professional web admin. Just call up Comodo or whoever. There's a product for that need. Let's Encrypt is not it.

In the vernacular: cry me a river.
David Saxby 8 things to think about (a lot) before you start a company
Thank you for your interest in this project and your relevant remarks.

About {def lis| {lambda {:x} {li :x}}}, I wrote this expression in http://epsilonwiki.free.fr/lambdaway/?view=sandbox and I didn't see any infinite loop. Click on the top-left "+" in the frameview and then on edit to inspect the code.

OK, the error messages are terse, there is no syntax colorization in the textarea. There is a timeout for each keypress but it has to be improved.

It's a work in progres, I'm alone and I need help.
I think the reason that can work is that (the vast bulk of) Walmart is entirely dedicated to executing on a single, very well defined (and easy to measure) task - their supply chain.

Unfortunately, few problems in the world are like that, and that's why large companies (and governments) fail to address them effectively.
I helped make Amazon a billion dollar company. Really. Is that a successful exit even though I wasn't a founder of Amazon?

You don't really know because you don't know if I was a warehouse employee hired for a holiday season or if I was instrumental in something in the early days.

Obviously investors are funding people without prior exits where they were founders, otherwise there would be a chicken and egg problem.

I would like to see stats as to the number of "successful exits" the average founding team that raises an A round has.

But clearly I should emphasize the exits on the pedigree slide of our pitch deck.
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> I was referring to problems with the system as a whole for entire groups of people, not just individual stories.

This person is not an isolated incident. Major medical care in the US is far more expensive than any other nation on the planet and for a large number of people in the US life saving care means financial ruin.

> My children being one of those where the Canadian system fails them horribly.

You can't be serious. Need your child to see their primary care physician in the US because it has a fever? That appointment is probably a week or more out, in Canada, they will see that child that day. And that visit will not cost money.

Simply posting as an American on HN I can make a good guess you are paid far better than the majority of the nation. Do you not know people that are not? When a child gets sick, it is a question on whether or not to call the doctor or go to urgent care because that visit costs money. If it's not the visit that is too expensive, its a question of if whatever treatment can be afforded.

The US system is entirely around how well you can afford to be. There are no benefits to the US healthcare system unless you are rich, a doctor or an insurance company.
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Government is force - nothing more.

People state this as if it's some obvious truth, and it makes no sense to me. My statement would be:

Government is a mechanism which we, as a group, have decided should handle certain functions of society.

It's the logical extension of a group of people in the jungle deciding "you know what, it would be awesome if we got together and built a trail between all our huts so we can visit each other."

Part of that agreement might be "hey, when these barbarians show up we should all protect each other", but to arbitrarily say that the only purpose of government is those kinds of agreements I think speaks to a very warped sense of community.
>which leads to the situation where poor people who desperately >need health care and can't afford it still oppose single-payer >even though they stand to gain the most from it.

I'd think education is the way around this. Start off with a "whats the worst case that could happen" then move to "whats the best that could happen." To me, you can convince people as long as you explain that their not going over a cliff. To me, this argument was never made. All I heard on the news was "it's socialism" or "it's good" but no selling the public on why it was in fact good. In this case, our leaders who were the proponents of single payer failed us. Single payer will happen, it'll just take a bit longer. The commercial healthcare industry is on a path to failure....there is no fixing it for the US. Eventually we'll end up with a system, that likely looks like what Germany/UK have (some mix of public/private).
Meeting Putin would scare me just on the basis that as ex-KGB he could snap my neck if he was so inclined. I'm not sure that's enough to really characterize the man, though, at least it's little more than what the people who project average-Joeness have. At least with e.g. Larry Ellison we have many independent reports from those that worked with / under him that we can safely agree it is a mistake to anthropomorphize him.
Disqus is the comments section for a lot of sites so this one is probably no different.
You can get your dental work done in third world countries for cash for cheap. I got my wisdom tooth out for $30 in Vietnam. Same procedure is $400 in Canada.
Not so (imo). The neutralpolitics subreddit has grown continually for some years now, especially in the last 12 months, and I'd say that the moderators are doing a solid job of maintaining appropriate discussion and keeping things where they were intended at the start: rational, sourced, with a heavy hand on emotional content and personal attacks.

Similarly, I dropped r/gaming years ago, but r/games has been reliable enough and good enough for such a period that it's evolved into my default place I look for gaming news. (The League of Legends subreddit also does pretty well on content and moderation, for something running at the scale of some of the defaults).

The problem I have with reddit, usually, is discovery - its difficult to find subreddits that are popular enough not to be dead, have the content I want, and are managed in good fashion to prevent the usual content/comment trash.
So that sounds pretty much like a function call in a monolithic app. How do you store state? I assume you need to between all those microservices.

>The thing is, you need a massive investment in infrastructure to make it happen.

I thought that one of the selling points of microservice architectures was the minimal infrastructure. I am really struggling to see an advantage in this way of doing things. You are just pushing the complexity to a dev ops layer rather than the application layer - even further form the data.
Well things like the U-2 still exist because they can fly stupid far for a stupid long time at stupid high altitudes and can respond quickly, securely, and quietly to intelligence needs. It's hard to fly a UAV deep into enemy territory because they can be more easily seen, more easily shot out of the sky, and require potentially fragile uplinks to operate.
I thought perhaps it would have superior cargo capacity, but at 10,000kg [1] it's just a bit over half of the lowest capacity listed on Wikipedia's page for cargo aircraft. [2] Currently available aircraft have 5, 10, or even 25 times the mass capacity for cargo.

I can't find data on volumetric cargo capacity, so I'm not sure how that compares.

Maybe the 5 days of continuous flight is a significant feature? Fuel cost savings?

[1] https://www.hybridairvehicles.com/downloads/Airlander-21.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_aircraft
Yes it was! The font "papyrus" is only used in this page. Because Ava Gardner loved it :)
In the absence of killfiles / ignore lists, usernames are important so I know which posts to skip.
Slashdot's moderation system was vaguely effective. Complete crap rarely rose to the top.

A great deal of high-quality commentary was buried, however, often the best and most informative. That's fairliy much par for the course.

Much the early vibe on the site came from the fact that it was simply where intelligent people were commenting online -- especially the early Free Software crowd (well, early in terms of Web 1.0 -- there was the whole 1980s and early 1990s contingent as well).

ESR (before he went fully whackjob mode), Ted T'so, Alan Cox, Bruce Perens, Rasterman, and others.

Much that group seems split amongst HN, LKML, LWN, and Google+ these days, along with some blogs.
I had the opposite reaction, which is that the problem is most definitely not rooted in the media. The problem is with science itself, which is fundamentally broken as a community.

I agree that the media are maybe perpetuating certain problems, or are providing dysfunctional incentives, but the root problem is with the scientific and academic community, not the media.

Scientists run the journals that have gone amok, are in charge of the tenure processes that reward outdated practices, and run the grant systems that are broken. Universities' public relations departments bait media to hype their scientists' findings. Etc. etc. etc.

I was an exchange just now where this played out with a project. I don't want to get into details, but the media were pushing hard for a misleading--and blatantly unethical--way of pushing something to the public. So you could blame the media. But anyone who knows anything about the situation knows that certain PIs groom things, arguably over years, to produce this very type of outcome, in part because they can sit back and reap the benefits while claiming to wash their hands of any responsibility when this happens. They manipulate the situation, and then push the blame onto others, including the media, when it suits their interests.

Obviously not everyone is like this, but it's naive to believe it's not a systemic problem.
If we're dealing in hypotheticals, what if your personal productivity went down, but the overall productivity of the company went up, due to factors such as the ones mentioned in the article?
They can adopt and get the same 12 weeks away from work if they want to.
Ben Goldacre?

http://www.badscience.net/about-dr-ben-goldacre/
Over 100,000 Jobs Gone and More Cuts Coming for Tech Industry
FYI, I keep a big list of links to high-quality tutorials and articles on React, Redux, and related topics, at https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links . Specifically intended to be a great starting point for anyone trying to learn the ecosystem.

One of the closest items to the "React Enlightenment" book might be "Redux Without Profanity", a free e-book posted at https://tonyhb.gitbooks.io/redux-without-profanity/content/ . (Which, oddly enough, I'm suddenly noticing is _not_ already in my list.) The slides at http://slides.com/jenyaterpil/redux-from-twitter-hype-to-pro... are also a great intro and overview of how Redux works.
Right, which just reinforces my initial statements above. Popularity breeds trash. Forums move from a small group of passionate users, to general population. This is where quality deteriorates quickly.
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Calling all Black & Latinx students interested in interning in the Bay Area and joining a large and supportive network of URM and allies.
I didn't actually downvote you, I got here after the fact, but:

1) The post feels patronizing.

2) Even if your post was right, you don't really say why someone should believe it, just that the alternatives are flawed. Why are they flawed? Because you think listening works differently.

3) Maybe this is superfluous, but I don't really believe what you say, and I suspect most people here are in the same boat. There probably is something to the idea that your circumstances affect your ability to listen, and meditating, or getting your life in order will make you better at it. But is it necessarily so absolute? I suspect you can listen well even if you have problems elsewhere in your life, and you can do things to try and pay attention here and now. Now, I haven't provided any reason to believe that, but since you didn't give any reason to believe your story either, I don't see reason much reason to abandon my belief.
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Actually Tesla batteries use the same chemistry as most notebook batteries, the ones that prioritize energy density. The real difference is the usage pattern. Notebooks are usually left for days or weeks with a 100% charge and then drained to 0% when the battery actually gets used. Electric cars are charged to 80-90% at the beginning of each day and then drained no lower than 10-20% barring extreme circumstances. Anyone who flies RC aircraft (which use the same battery chemistry) will tell you that the only thing worse for a lithium battery than storing it at 100% charge is draining it all the way to 0%.
The Element was really an uglier version of Scion xB, in my opinion.

It was, but there was more practicality in the Element. As an original style xB owner, as well as dog owner and outdoorsy type, I kinda wish we'd bought the Element (which was on the possibles list before we bought the Scion) with it's hose-it-down interior, slightly more space, and optional 4wd.

As for aesthetics, no one wins in an argument between the two. Maybe if you threw a Pontiac Aztek into the contest.
The anti-dissent phenomenon is amplified by the greying of comments, which continues to be a bad idea all these years later. The literal message and incentive there is: leave a comment that gets upvotes or it will get progressively harder to read until nobody can actually read it. So now you have to care about what you say, because it will be completely removed from the site by natural voting if you don't toe a certain line, meaning folks cannot objectively review your comment on its merits alone unless they go out of their way to highlight it. The absence of a showgrey even though showdead exists is an interesting thing that somewhat describes intent behind the feature, too.

Greying is one of the key factors in the anti-dissent, party-line mode here, which I've noticed as well. It was weird to pull scores and then implicitly put them back with greying, so you can at least tell if a comment is <= 0. One difference from Reddit is that Reddit explicitly suggests[0] that you not downvote to register disagreement, whereas HN does not take a stand and pg clarified that he's fine with it a long time ago[1]. So that ties together voting and agreement, which then ties together greying and agreement, which helps gives rise to the anti-dissent environment you're observing.

I'd love to see some analysis on whether a grey comment is more likely to be downvoted, as well, because I'm almost positive it is. Once someone hits me with a 0, which is discernible as slightly greyer by itself, that comment is almost guaranteed to end up very negative.

My opinions often diverge from HN and I am rewarded with barely-visible commentary very often, so I've been trained over time to resent voting rather than wish to contribute here, which I don't think is the spirit nor the intent of the greying feature. I don't think HN wants to be an echo chamber, to be clear, it's just that the quirks of the system create incentives that give rise to it. The last thing on planet Earth that I care about is my karma score, but I do care that what I say matters, and I cannot really talk about it because it sounds like complaining about downvoting.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette#wiki_in_regard_to_vo...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
Jury is still out: http://superuser.com/questions/1038050/does-oo-shutup-10-eff...
No, you completely misunderstand. My advice doesn't even apply to you really, because apparently you took my advice years ago, since you said you already left the MS ecosystem. I'm not being defeatist, I'm pushing people to look for alternatives, because MS is not going to turn into a good corporate citizen, nor is the government going to force them to. If people don't like getting screwed over, it's their responsibility to find a vendor that won't. Apparently, you even agree with me, because you've done just that. I'm just pushing for everyone else to do the same. But sitting around waiting for everyone else to follow you isn't going to work; if everyone has that mentality, then nothing will change.
> That those 6 months off are akin to a 6 month vacation? It's a full-time job.

Except I'm sitting in a little room all day staring at a computer, you're spending all day with your family and seeing your new child walk and talk for the first time.

Gee, I wonder who has a more rewarding time.
Seeing more negative news about Win 10 on HN interests me. HN, what I regard, a big developer news site - I wonder if Microsoft cares.

I am sure and probably stating the obvious here. Developers are a group Microsoft does care about - devs eventually drives some of the cogs in their grand scheme. Making noise here will get their attention, more than making noise on some consumer forum.
The reported number from Cisco is 5500 (7%) per http://www.wsj.com/articles/cisco-announces-plans-to-cut-5-5....

The 7% number is more of a norm for Cisco at the end of each fiscal year. I wonder why the big gap between the Reuters source and Cisco's own reports.
So far I have $0 a month in maintenance on a Subaru, with 20k miles.
That isn't a matter of "thought", it's a matter of fact. The constitution defines itself as a living document through its amendment procedures.
Good point. But even buybacks are taking that cash somewhere...it's the market's way of reallocating capital to a place it can be more productive.

It's hard to picture, since that cash is going from one entity (CSCO) to a lot of different entities (the market), but obviously CSCO thinks the market can make better use of that capital than it can.

The only thing that could be worse than what they're doing, in my view, is if they fired all these people and sat on their cash, AAPL-style.
Hey man, thanks for the solid advice.
How could you tell?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12308662

At one point I actually helped design something somewhat better (which was implemented in part). I've had further ideas since.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/28jfk4/content...