skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The border between hilarious and disgusting is sometimes tenuous

Bit of a digression but just because sometimes it causes friction, particularly amongst people who think laughter is an inappropriate response to serious situations:

I don't think they're mutually exclusive. I find the comments themselves distasteful. That the comments exist at all is quite funny to me, because they're essentially non-sequiturs. The idea that someone would read the linked article and decide this was an appropriate context for a tirade about student loans is absurd (and therefore funny) to me.

Sort of like if we were reading Einstein's biography and someone launched into a ten paragraph essay about how all children should be killed, simply because the biography starts with Einstein's childhood.
You want the global conversation to take place on Twitter. Tweets can run on an event, at an event, and when live streaming or restreaming an event.
Yes, the moment your family realizes you are not dead, they need to report that to the insurance company / police. Otherwise, they are committing fraud.
Either make your own with coconut oil, baking soda, and bentonite clay, or buy a premade one like Earthpaste.
An even simpler example would be the fact that it makes no sense to add values expressed in different units (without an appropriate type conversion).
Regarding #3 as a kid, I remember spending hours in QBasic on our family's DOS 5 computer.

Also, nibbles.bas and gorilla.bas were very fun games written with QBasic that came with it on every DOS computer.
I know but I was referring to identity part;

'in order to ensure that deterrent effect, it is necessary to require users to reveal their identity to be prevented from acting anonymously'
In hindsight it's no coincidence, since proofs and programs turned out to be the same thing :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspon...
Well thank Jeebus it was only CARS that burnt to a pile of scrap and not apartments. I'm all turned around on the matter now.
These are all sales numbers, not market share.
R for Data Science is the canonical source for learning R and other real-world R tools such as dplyr/tidyr/ggplot2, and one I've recommended on HN submissions about R tutorials which simply go over primitative data types and out-of-date packages. (It's one of the reasons I've postponed making R tutorials myself, since the book would be better/more accurate in all circumstances.)
> Because missile guidance technology is a little more sensitive than the iPhone 8's screen dimensions.

And what part of "you can send astronauts and modules to be part of the ISS" would expose American missile guidance systems to the Chinese?
There was a programme on R4 about NICE, drug companies and finance in health care a month or two back. I discovered two new (to me) things. First it's common for drug companies to tweak patent protected items suspiciously near end of patent - to find a new use, or reformulate a tablet as a capsule - to buy more patent period.

Second in the case of off patent medicines, some are harder to make or not prescribed widely enough for the generic makers to bother with. These seem to be the things at risk of price gouging. There was an example of something off patent sold by Pfizer to another company who now charge 10x more, as there is no generic alternative. That's now at the competition authorities.

So we mitigate a lot of this, but we apparently don't avoid it entirely.

EDIT: Programme page with mp3: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07j7j6m
I am all for fining bad behaviour. What I do not like the resulting attitude and morale high ground.

The US clearly started the mess in the banking world and took the whole world down by selling it their housing loans. German bankers of the early 90s had no idea about the whole show, but were stupid enough to drink their Kool-Aid.

VW has been building smaller cars with lower mileage than its US counterparts for decades but now somehow is the prominent environmental offender?

"Bribery in Russia" and the German bank is the one that needs to be called out for this? Come one.
Lithium is "mined" by pumping underwater brine to a surface pool and letting it evaporate. The cost effectiveness of this apparently caused most Lithium mines to shut down inthe 90's because they couldn't compete[1]. Lithium is also present in seawater, but they apparently don't have a cost effective way to extract it from that yet. Apparently the evaporation process is 18-24 months per batch though, so there is some lead time, just not 5 years (good), and it doesn't necessarily lesson by all that much if you have the facility already set up (as in you can't necessarily throw more people/machines at it for a short term increase, which is bad).

A commercially viable way to extract it from seawater would likely solve any supply problems indefinitely.

This, of course, doesn't address the need for Cobalt, but I'm not sure how much is required for the process.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium#History
I'm not sure if it's a useful distinction, because when you think you're building a 'monolithic' app you might actually be building a 'polylithic' app. Beyond that, in a lot of instances you have to make very few tradeoffs to go from 'monolith' to 'polylith'.

By your definition, most rails/django apps are probably polyliths.
I acquired a masters degree in research psychology studying it, have a number of friends quite active on it, and I still don't see the value in it.
It was among the least-expected articles I had ever read on LI, especially in light of LI's mission to promote "professional" networking.
> Also the same character said that mammals (excluding humans) instinctively find a balance with their surroundings, which is laughable.

How exactly is this laughable? it is generally true as shown by the predator-prey cycle - a form of balance. The exception to this cycle is usually invasive species that do not have a natural predator, these populations grow until they exhaust their food source and the population collapses.
For those who aren't aware, Scott Adams recently appeared on The Rubin Report and talked about this stuff[0]. It was a really interesting interview, and Dave Rubin's show is awesome.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AMV6SLT9KI
What I really enjoyed with Minecraft was using a plugin which enabled you to connect a Clojure repl to the server [1]. It was great fun being able to write some code to spawn cows and then blow them up all in real time.

With a bit of work, and some better documentation I think a real time environment coupled with something that kids are really into could make for a great educational experience.

[1]https://github.com/SevereOverfl0w/bukkure
Yup.

'Minified', for fun:

let a s=Map.toSeq>>Seq.sortBy s>>Seq.toArray
let m f=Map.map(fun _->f)
printfn"%A"(a(fun(n, _)->Array.findIndex((=)n)o)(m(m(a fst)>>a fst)(JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<_>BIBLE_TEXT)))
Those who can't do, criticize.
Their revenue is over $2 billion/year, so I'd say they're making a decent go of advertising:

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:TWTR&fstype=ii

My Twitter advertising experiences were pretty good. I was using it for hiring, and it provided much better value for dollar than the other things we tried. Its ability to micro-target was great for my use case. I imagine it's not very good for big-brand advertising, but if you're trying to reach niche audiences, I think it's great.
And yet I continue to go untreated thanks to the profit motive...
Sure they can. AAPL issued bonds in 2015.
Twitter is currently worth 3 times Twilio, that would be a dramatic deal.
Consumer-grade routers that support IPv6 out of the box (in the official firmware) normally block incoming IPv6 connections from WAN side by default, so it won't really be different from NAT security-wise.
Reading all the responses to your comment a few things come to mind:

- people on HN have bad jobs with no advancement track for strong technical skills

- people on HN don't want to work their way up, then want it handed to them.
Sam Harris gives the most eloquent take-down of Trump
So I was correct in saying they did something wrong. :)

npm follows semver and expects libraries to do the same, whether they do or not is up to the library author, but npm can't know if the library does or not. Therefor the user didn't pay attention to the library they are using and blindly installed it and set constraints that caused breaking changes to get into their code. Once again, not the ecosystems fault, but the developers fault.
This is exactly how i got my start.

I began by playing go chopper.

Then explored the file system read some computing magazines that my dad subscribed to and found out about qbasic.

I played gorilla and nibbles and then learned how to use the code files to cheat and experimented with the banana parameters in gorilla.bas[0] to make its explosion and throw distance bigger.

Those are fond (and old) memories.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncykt-YJO1M
You are just repeating the claim. I asked for an explanation of how it supposedly does that, not for a repetition of the claim.
Thank you! Hope you'll help us spread the word!
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"You can learn to anticipate and manage them."

Ah... ever think you've stared too long into the abyss, perhaps?
As far as I can tell, that part hasn't changed. But you're free to pass a HOC (Higher-Order-Component), ie.

<BrowserRouter>
<Match pattern="/" component={() => <MyComponent someProp="yep" someOtherProp={myOtherGlobalVar}/>}/>
</BrowserRouter>
> As a manager: If your code blows up in production on a Saturday afternoon, and you don't answer email/skype/phone, you've effectively left me in the shit.

As an IT employee if you are running mission critical software and (as Manager) don't have an after hours call-out rotation and procedures, then you're not doing a very good job, and I'll be looking for another place of employment.
A startup is a temporary organization searching for a repeatable and scalable business model. Speed and agility are your only advantages. Working all the time is practically essential for most startups. Are we seriously saying that startups should be comfortable 9 to 5 jobs? There are hundreds of millions of jobs out there that will give you that lifestyle, why complain about that exception where it is actually sensible? Or have we repurposed the word "startup" to mean small business?
Toronto dev here. How many years qualify you as senior in the city? On average how likely is it to score six-figures (CAD) within let's say 4 years?

Definitely not staying here long term. Gonna try to move down-south where developers are better compensated and cost of living isn't so much.
>>> Anyone technical despises being interrupted when working.

>>> This is why Hipchat/Slack/irc is the best way to communicate, even when sitting right next to eachother.

I probably fall into this category (actually, for a lot of "serious" things I prefer e-mail to Slack/Hipchat/whatever), but I'm not at all sure this applies to "anyone technical": there does seem to be another culture of technical folks who genuinely do thrive on open offices or "team spaces" and lots of discussion.

I don't think there's any environment that will keep everyone happy.

I wonder if we'll eventually see people sorting into distinct introvert-oriented and extrovert-oriented organisations?
IIRC they switched to having judges decide instead of politicians recently.
While the SSA says that they do not reuse SSNs (which is nicely couched in the present tense in the FAQ cited by Wikipedia), there have been historic, mostly accidental, reuses in some of the geographic administration districts (the SSA only really centralized number generation in the 2011 decision to also start randomizing them), and I think far back enough now that the overlaps mostly don't matter operationally...

Off hand I don't have a source I can cite on that, only that in past job (mostly health care claims) I've been involved with some quite hard work to ensure not to build systems that use an SSN as a individual ID as much because there are some very weird edge cases out there, especially if you have old, dirty, and/or large enough datasets, as because it's not a good idea in the first place to rely just on SSNs for anything other than a Tax ID.
A rather skeptical perspective on this article: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8778
Honest question, how is Nexium a scam?
People neglect the cost of off-peak generation because it's much cheaper than the other two parts of the equation.

It's still a cost driven thing. They could be emergency-buying or emergency-relocating gas infrastructure over the next few months.
Can someone really stay anonymous online nowadays?

Recently I have been too paranoid to even use the same throwaway account because doxing has almost become an automated process. For example if you have a reddit account you can summarize your comment history with: http://www.snoopsnoo.com/.

Note I am not even considering the case of people with privileged information. The people who run HN certainly already know who I am since I didn't bother to clean up before switching accounts.

But I think it will be an inevitable certainty for you to be automatically deanonymized with just speech/thought patterns from comments alone. For example if you google for the phrase I just used, "inevitable certainty", they are only ~7000 search results. And now that I think about it, it is a really weird way to say it but it also a phrase I have used before.

If I'd kept using weird phrasings or kept making consistent grammatical errors like that, it will eventually be enough to build a fingerprint based on my vocabulary, understanding of grammatical rules, beliefs, timezone, etc. The more I talk the more information I am giving away for people or just machine learning algorithms to cross reference and link together my anonymous and real accounts. See this post for a real example (but limited to just the bitcoin subreddit instead of across the internet):
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3hf5z7/determining...

If you need to stay anonymous, don't interact with the world...
Following conversation threads is confusing especially when there's multiple response forks.
Extradited for debt? I don't think so - I think it has to be criminal (but IANAL).

There are countries that don't have extradition treaties with the US for anything, though many of them are places you might not want to live...
http://archive.is/IbM9W is the result on the query of the posted URL. Looks to be the same.
Uber's billion-dollar losses expose the fragile state of the on-demand economy
Maddening how incompetent Twitter is at strategic thought. They have arguably the most politically and civically important property on the internet but wish they were Facebook.

Twitter is a Bentley in a market that wrongly thinks it should be Honda. The value of a network is as much the value of its participants as it is size. There is nothing wrong with Twitter, quite the opposite

Twitter's key users are making, reporting and breaking news. The second and third order effects of this are enormous, far surpassing Facebook.

The perceived monetization "problem" is painfully and frustratingly easy to rectify if Twitter would simply embrace their role and stop trying to compete in the social media gutter.

Uuuuugh....
There is a typo in the title that completely fried my neural circuits for a full 5 seconds or so.

> It is too late for the it to become giant people expected

Should obviously be "It is too late for it to become the giant people expected"

(Sidebar: I hope this isn't what it feels like to be dyslexic, it wasn't fun!)
Ask yourself, why is the United States the only country in the world where advertising prescription medicine to consumers is allowed?

Why is it even needed? I know some people say "education", but that's backward.

You have a problem. You go to your physician. He works out a treatment plan for you.

For drugs advertised for specific conditions? To enlighten you to alternatives? You can oftentimes assume that alternatives exist, for most common complaints.

For those that don't? Those ads are such a dragnet of wide ranging and vague conditions that oftentimes, the majority of the population would qualify ("Are you feeling run down? Do you have trouble getting to sleep? Ask your doctor about trying XXX". No. Ask your doctor about your conditions. Let them decide whether to try XXX. Or YYY. Or just to get more sleep).

There's no justifiable need that I can see that prescription medication need be advertised to anyone other than physicians and practitioners.

Oh, and it's not "often" that they spend "more". There is not one of the top ten pharma companies that spends more on R&D than marketing. Every one outspends on marketing. And by "more", the smallest gap is "four times more" leading up to "seventeen times more".

And we wonder why healthcare is so expensive here...
But the public sector unionization rate is more like 36%, and unions have an outsized economic impact. They aren’t the primary cause of our issues, but they have their share.

Whether it’s teacher unions that make sure teachers can’t get promoted for their quality, or construction unions that make sure housing can’t be built without protracted negotiations and significant expense, or transportation unions that make sure automated subways always have an operator, multiple operators in New York, or dockworker unions that oppose new technology on the (correct) assumption that they would lose jobs. Union opposition to technology was one reason why the Port of San Francisco no longer is a major shipping port; rather than some losing their jobs, everybody lost their jobs.

It’s nice if labor can partner with capital. In practice, it’s often more like a squabble for scarce resources. Sometimes you have to accept that a role is no longer necessary, but that idea doesn’t fit the union ideology.
This comment is why you absolutely must test well water every 2-3 years.

Up here in Maine we have a pretty bad fluoride issue in some areas, and a lot of people are not testing their well water, and ending up with fluoride poisoning.
Yep. And the article doesn't even contain any specific allegations, it is just a clickbait term without meaning.

I'll cheer for anyone (Apple, Microsoft, Google, et al) who promote STEM and come up with novel ways to utilise software in education (including interactive games).
The V in MVC was a mistake IMO and it was eventually removed from their site.
I actually think this device would do little good for weather.

* Rain can come at you from many more angles than just straight down

* Wind will rip apart anything remotely a sail, like the top of his device

* How do I put it on as I exit a car?
What did you find out, if not the value?
On the palindrome section:

> I'd like to see one where the entire code is executed, or one done in Brainf*ck, as well.

I might be wrong, but this seems a really bad example for palindromes.
Aren't all palindrome strings made of `+-.,<>` valid brainfuck programs? I know that this subset is not turing-complete, but I also think that any valid brainfuck program with `[]` can't be a palindrome, which again would make this language a bad example.
The new Lifeguard feature looks really neat. False monitoring alarms are a big issue. If they happen a lot you begin to not trust a real alarm and ignore them - the boy who cried wolf as the cliche goes.
At least one is still going strong (I worked there at the time they bought in).
Cute, but absolute numbers are meaningless here. Rewrite with per capita statistics and see what happens to your conclusions.
In Linux, get the embedded key as text by using: cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM
I am not an American, nor have I ever dealt with the American court system. However, extradition is, to the best of my knowledge, only used in serious criminal cases, and not used at all to enforce a civil judgement (which suing would be).

Wikipedia also has a list of countries that the United States doesn't have an extradition treaty with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_law_in_the_United_.... Most of those don't look like great options, but a few of them are quite nice!
>There's something so sad to me about the general tech press attitude (let alone the Wall Street attitude) towards Twitter.

Those institutions are equally responsible for the historical hype Twitter has received.

>This demand for growth is also why Twitter's management took their eye off the ball and failed to recognize and improve the core problems that hurt the product and community.

This isn't the fault of anyone but Twitter management. No one forced them to take outside investment or go public. When you do that, investors want a return. If that isn't in your plan, and you want full creative control, don't take the money.

>by and large they've put together a super interesting product.

I loved it until they started manipulating my timeline, making it difficult to read streams chronologically. I haven't opened the app for months. It's too bad, because I agree, it was a great product and my goto aggregator.
> so many people want to be "on TV" it really is amazing

Being on TV is basically just wanting to be famous. Wanting to be rich and famous is hardly unusual.
For what it is worth, this is how I feel about many philosophical arguments. Personally, I enjoy thinking about and talking about these things but when it comes down to it they are not likely to affect my behaviors at all.
Can we not charge all of the ISPs involved with transporting stolen goods?
But put in another perspective, it's enough to power ~3,6000,000 homes for a minute,or 720,000 homes for 5 minutes. If that can be used to prevent a brownout or blackout, that's a net win in my book.

This of course assumes average use, which isn't really likely in the case you are protecting against the system being unable to cope, but at the same time it's supplemental to the current system, just as an extra few percent of capacity for an area, not meant to power homes directly or without other sources.
The iPhone's new chip should worry Intel
The family members who knew get arrested, the ones who didn't know disown you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Darwin_disappearance_case
Exactly.

Microsoft has always offered educational versions of Visual Studio at discounted/zero cost. I clearly remember getting a student copy of Visual Basic(VS6.0!) for ~$50.

I built all sorts of stupid things with that and while it definitely biased me in favor of Microsoft tools you know what else it did? Helped me into a rich and diverse career in a wide array of technologies and stacks. Anything that helps bridge that gap is a good thing in my mind.

Problem solving, debugging and abstractions are skills that transcend stacks and can be learned in a wide variety of environments. Engagement is they key to this and I think Minecraft is a great avenue.
agreed, its very confusing trying to figure out what its trying to say..
How many GPIO ports?
> I promised myself that when this one was fixed, I'd look into why most readline shells can go nuts when you resize them - somehow they don't always discover that the line width has changed.

Possibly related?

> Use pselect(2), if available, to wait for input before calling read(2), so a SIGWINCH can interrupt it, since it doesn't interrupt read(2).

(from the Readline-7.0 release notes)
Population decelleration is a global crisis. Countries are responding to it in different ways.
Sales numbers are market share. Installed base is probably the term you're looking for.
at core, I think it's because twitter was 'public first', with some notions of private communication grafted on later (DM, etc). But the first and primary purpose of twitter is short form public posting. Many other platforms all try for social/friends/community first (or exclusively) and end having built-in limits.

No one worries if a tweet is seen by the 'wrong' people - it's meant to be seen by everybody. Facebook is the opposite - private/groups/friends first/only, with some notion of 'public' visibility after the fact.