skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LOL! Somebody has just gone through my entire post history and downvoted all of it.

I don't care about internet points jackass.

Many men feel the way I do about this. Making who you fuck the main part of your identity is as pointless as making your race the main part of your identity. This is a valid opinion and I'm sticking to it unless somebody has a good argument for why I'm wrong.
I used to help myself with simply highlighting the text position with click-and-drag with my mouse.

I had to stop doing this after too many sites think it's acceptable to:

1) hijack highlighting in order to display "Tweet this excerpt" or similar stuff (some even did a "Copy this excerpt" - as if the users were too stupid to press Ctrl+C!)

2) replace the highlight color without taking care that it works on all site parts, it's not really nice if text and highlight colors are the same

3) append their own custom text when pressing Ctrl+C (e.g. appending [source: newspaper.com].

Dear (web) devs: don't f...ing mess with behaviour provided by the system. Just don't.
Lots of things don't look good. We can't be captive to appearances all the time.
Absolutely, all kids should be taught to swim. But until they are able to, parents need to be extra mindful.
Right?! Engineers reporting to non-engineers is a bit of an anti pattern. A front line manager needs to manage the work being done and not just the schedule.
That claim is also factually inaccurate.
eBay all the way. eBay bucks and shopping portal cashback are icing on the cake.[1]

eBay Daily Deals are often good. Sometimes for electronics refurbs and last model items are on the Daily Deals but often new current model stuff too. Got a great deal on my current model phone from an eBay Daily Deal. I buy several 10% off gas cards too when they come up.

(New) hard drives are usually cheapest on eBay.

Lots of traditional retailers have eBay stores as well. I've bought from Newegg's eBay store more times than I can count, for example. Manufacturers also have eBay stores.

There's a lot of room for niche products but it seems a lot less overwhelming than Amazon is with all their private label stuff and poor search results.

Lots of good selection of used stuff as well. Do I really need a new Chromecast? Nope, used is half the price and works just as well and is better for the environment.

I also hear it's a good place to get uncommon sized bras.

eBay has its flaws too though, avoid Chinese megasellers like the plague. Its usually a lot easier to spot a fake or shoddy product on eBay than on Amazon. I've found eBay's customer support to be good when you have a problem and an unreasonable seller.

[1] The good thing about eBay cashback portals is they rarely have restrictions other than giftcard restrictions. Target.com may have 2% cash back but excludes Apple products and Bose products. I've never seen brand exclusions on eBay's cash back through shopping portals. There's usually a 1-2% cash back portal for eBay and eBay bucks are a minimum 2% eBay gift card as long as you have over $5.
> Maybe you, y'know, shouldn't engage in so-called "locker room talk" (because let's be really real here, the "locker room talk" going around right now is bragging about committing sexual assault).

No, that's reframing it in the context of the current presidential election.

The sort of thing that I'm talking about is "Hey, what are you doing this weekend? Oh, I'm going out with this Cuban girl I just met. I hear they're supposed to be tigers in the sack".

Notice no sexual assault there, just a conversation females might kick up a big fuss over. "Stop objectifying and stereotyping us."

Or even "What happened to your car? Oh, the transmission guy bent me over and fucked me good for 800 bucks to replace some shitty gears he probably yanked out of a junkyard".

These things should be allowed and have a safe place where you can say them.
Sorry since I know you're exhausted already but can you share why you think not all bits are created equally?

I always thought it was bizarre how companies charge for tethering, especially after data caps were introduced. Aren't they all the same to the carrier?
Thanks for finding that again. All three aspects seem to affect the outcome, additional technological outlets, the make or break cost of a block buster, and the outsized role that social media plays in getting mindshare.

Like the author of the original piece I don't think this situation is very stable.
The Russian calls lots of things differently than the Americans do.

Also, nobody in Denmark says spationaut. We say Astronaut, so not all of Europe and not only English speakers.
Learning How Hackers Hack
Yes most, but not all.
One thing that's nicer is that because Rust is a compiled language, Cargo produces a (statically-linked) binary. Python and your Python environment always needs to be set up on the machine that you're going to run it on.

statically-linked by default except for on Linux where it links to glibc dynamically by default IIRC, but going fully static there is easy, and going fully dynamic is easy too.
It's easy: put a magazine close to your screen (monitor, tablet, phone, whatever) and check what's easier to read. Do that in good light conditions to be fair to paper which can't backlit :-) Almost everytime the magazine wins even with smaller text. Play with the brightness control of the display. Sometimes it gets OK but only if the white background is to bright to watch.
> Maybe you, y'know, shouldn't engage in so-called "locker room talk" (because let's be really real here, the "locker room talk" going around right now is bragging about committing sexual assault).

You're shitting me. The leap you just made from "locker-room talk" equating to "bragging about sexual assault" is holy-fuck-what-the-hell-wrong-with-you absurd.

I just can't.
The formatting of the footnotes was fine for me. Kindle's footnote navigation system wasn't really set up to handle pages long footnotes when I read IJ, but the latest update seems to have brought some improvements to that UI. Overall, IJ's footnotes should be very manageable.
I've worked as a teacher/mentor for an online coding bootcamp, and from my experience, the advantage of these kind of programs is moving very, very fast. Self-teaching takes a lot of time because you often have to figure out what to learn about next, and university programs tend to take of lot of time because they expect you to take a broad range of classes (a little assembly, some webdev, a bit of high level math, etc). These bootcamps on the other hand, take you from your first HTML file to fully working Rails/Django/Node apps in about 6 months.
Microsoft recently dropped support for Onyx (https://onx.ms), a scripting app allowing developers to write Javascript for a simplified Android API.

This doesn't help you; I just wanted to whine about another great service being shut down.
Thanks man! We thought it would be funny if it said $0 no matter what you chose, because we were going to be free during beta.

Also, if you're back in Michigan sometime, let me buy you a beer.
I'm guessing many of them paid the $5k fee for the promise of a $55k job at the end of the course.
If anything, the Nuremburg trials were overly light.

Both the USA and Germany had the death penalty at the end of WW2.

If you actually applied the law as you would in peacetime (as is reasonable because the gas chambers had no military necessity in the way a PoW camp would) then anyone involved in the process, including bringing supplies to the camp, would have been guilty until proven innocent. Evidence of participation is evidence of guilt, and by civilian standards of the time 90% of Germans in uniform and probably 20% of civilians should have been hung.

The Nuremburg trials were like Rwanda's Peace and Reconciliation process. Something that was knowingly far from completist, but just enough to stop the bloodshed and retribution.

> but at least they didn't require heavy equipment just to dig the mass graves

If you support the right of the state to kill (in War, etc) then what's the problem? Pretty much every Nazi was a criminal and had committed and supported war crimes. Pretty much everyone else was a collaborator.

(fwiw, that's the risk of going to war as a democracy. When you have choice, you have culpability.)
"But why can't counterfeit goods match or even exceed the quality of the so-called originals?"

Because they don't care enough about that. They want to pump and dump.

"So they should be capable of at least matching the quality of the original and selling at a discount."

But why do that when you can do what they're doing now, and make even more money? Especially because you know there is no consequence for doing so.
Agreed. If anything, I'm questioning the quote referencing that exact data point: "our close attention to safety has not in fact made a tremendous difference in the number of accidents children have"
Please Fix the Diversity and Inclusion Loop It Feels Broken
Just as Ecuador has no obligation to allow him to peddle that influence from their internet connection.
Can't sign up because they think my email address is fake.

Edit: They are fixing this, thanks!
While you're all waiting for a signal from the lander you may be interested in the aerothermodynamics testing of the the module at a ballistic range - http://i.imgur.com/Xs6NdMC.gifv

Some more reading can be found at ESA's website http://exploration.esa.int/mars/49139-aerothermodynamic-test...

EDL (Entry Descent and Landing) on Mars is such a tricky thing because it has a thin enough atmosphere parachutes don't work well, but enough atmosphere that you have to take it into account when controlling/designing the landing module (hence Schiaparelli's complex aerothermodynamics testing).

This is also why NASA's Curiosity rover had such a complex "sky crane" system and why NASA is willing to provide SpaceX communications support in exchange for the EDL data of SpaceX's landing module (the Red Dragon mission).
I've written some bare-metal stuff on the Pi (somewhere I've got a 90% finished port of Fuzix for it), and oh god yes, that's so true. Being able to do complex stuff like set up a framebuffer by making a simple RPC call to the VC4, passing in a pointer and a descriptor block saying 'this big, please', is so much better than having to do it yourself.

But this firmware doesn't contain code to initialise the GPU, it does contain initialisation code for one rather important peripheral, which is the DRAM. The VC4 has been pretty well reverse engineered for a while (I did one of the early C compiler ports for it), but the big missing piece was figuring out how to initialise the RAM. Without that, everything had to fit in the 128kB of built-in SRAM.

This firmware's a huge step forward.
I think your theory has merit. I have grown kids, 18 and 24. I tried to instill reflection and decision making skills. I cheered the loses and the wins. What doesn't kill u makes us stronger. But as a parent it scares the devil out of us.
I watched the animation and I saw that the lander would land with a hard thud on the surface, with a system to collapse underneath and cushion it's fall. Why didn't they use the sky-crane method that NASA and JPL came up with?
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You could say that, or you could say that the cap is stopping me from actually using the bandwidth I pay for. I pay for 100Mb/sec down, how long would it take me to hit the cap if I used that continuously? So do I really have the 100Mb/sec down that I'm paying for?

And as a side note, I've never hit the cap - I'm not sure it's turned on yet (Comcast customer), but it's coming. But I won't have one soon because I'll be switching to a different ISP as soon as it's available. But if I stayed with Comcast, I would hit it as soon as I get a 4K TV and start watching 4K sources.

EDIT: minor change.
I think my dream scenario here is some big bank or other large financial company (like Fidelity) buying this for the technology and combining with their credit card line.

Not that I wish or think the founders can't make on their own, but CC market is rather commoditized, and I don't think they can compete on technology alone here. 1% + 49/year annual fee is not a superior offer. But a bank that can do 2%+no annual fee attached to it could do wonders with it I think. No financial pro, so maybe I am completely wrong :) but I'd switch to such offer right now.
The NY Times didn't include this gif I saw on Deadspin[1]:

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--unnNrpz...

I think it paints a clearer picture as to why the Surface was singled out among the equipment.

[1] http://deadspin.com/bill-belichick-is-sick-of-those-stupid-m...
> but can you share why you think not all bits are created equally?

Streaming video is different than the tool who decides he's going to torrent tens of GBs over their cellular connection. You're streaming 780p or 1080p content to a device that can't display the additional resolution over 480p? You've just wasted that bandwidth on the local tower (which matters if you're in urban areas).

(Spotify does this right in the sense that it'll cache music locally, even if you have not elected to download your playlists)

> I always thought it was bizarre how companies charge for tethering, especially after data caps were introduced. Aren't they all the same to the carrier?

Non-mobile devices can generate a higher volume of data than a mobile device alone. You can go eat at an all-you-can-eat buffet, but they don't let you bring a wheelbarrow with.

Don't take my word for it though: http://twinprime.com/lte-has-slowed-by-50-in-the-us/

"While the US LTE capacity has remained relatively constant over the last 12 months, the number of users, as well as the bandwidth consumed per user via video and music streaming, video calls, and real-time entertainment like Netflix has resulted in an overall slowdown of LTE across the network.

The reverse effect is observed in new regions like South America, or Eastern Europe. As these areas begin to come online to 4G networks they experience impressive speeds due to the lack of initial subscribers. Eventually, their performance slows as carriers sign up more 4G customers and the LTE resources become more scarce as a result."
I've been hunting for someone that has read IJ without reading the footnotes for a long time. My hypothesis is that the story has a completely different plot without the footnotes. Unfortunately (fortunately?) I read the footnotes, and don't think I can really hold the two plots in my head during a re-read.
‘We Care Deeply About Diversity’: Zuckerberg Defends Thiel’s Ties to Trump
I have a lot of experience automating systems and I would guess the opposite.

There's a lot of money lying on the table such that processes and systems are already going to be running on the border of human comprehension... can I see the signal in this noise?

Meanwhile projects that do something new tend to be successful and profitable, but mere reimplementation digitally tends to result in BS being added to the process as noise until the signal to noise ratio has dropped once again to what was, after all, acceptable before automation. "Well now you got all the time in the world to really stick it to the XYZ department so here's the new requirements" then they fire back causing lower productivity that if nothing were tried to begin with.

You have to realize automation is old, and our ancestors were ignorant not stupid. If you could increase the odds of winning a game by 5% using a million bucks of IBM 7094 mainframes and a million LoC in COBOL then gramps would have done it and made a profit to boot and maybe you can make a couple dimes by modernizing the hardware, but I assure you the algorithms and constraints are baked into the business logic cake and the win/loss percentage won't change.

One way to automate that does succeed is fixing something mgmt didn't realize is broken. I never knew there was a way to do that. I never knew we as a company blew X thousand labor-hours per week on hidden task Y.

IF football never tried statistics and record keeping, then a new system probably using contemporary tablets could really rock. But this isn't the case.

A good, although semi-controversial example, is moving from verbally asking for records over the radio to mobile data terminals to whatever cops use now (probably "cop space app" on their phones or something) has many effects, some even good, but catching criminals isn't one. Fundamentally you've changed who spends five minutes dorking around looking for warrants and dramatically changed how they spend those five minutes, but you haven't really changed anything in terms of end results, although intermediate metrics can be gamed (like dispatcher labor hour minimization).

Tablets make very poor band-aids.
I like the way Scott Alexander frames the effect size. This is from the conclusion the blog post you link:

An important point I want to start the conclusion section
with: no matter what else you believe, antidepressants are
not literally ineffective. Even the most critical study –
Kirsch 2008 – finds antidepressants to outperform placebo
with p < .0001 significance. An equally important point:
everyone except those two Scandinavian guys with the long
names agree that, if you count the placebo effect,
antidepressants are extremely impressive. The difference
between a person who gets an antidepressant and a person
who gets no treatment at all is like night and day. The
debate takes place within the bounds set by those two
statements. Antidepressants give a very modest benefit
over placebo. Whether this benefit is so modest as to not
be worth talking about depends on what level of benefits
you consider so modest as to not be worth talking about.
If you are as depressed as the average person who
participates in studies of antidepressants, you can expect
an antidepressant to have an over-placebo-benefit with an
effect size of 0.3 to 0.5. That's the equivalent of a diet
pill that gives you an average weight loss of 9 to 14
pounds, or a growth hormone that makes you grow on average
0.8 to 1.4 inches.

Note that this is the over-placebo benefit, and placebos already have a large benefit in most depression studies.
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Perhaps the increasing difficulty of parenting is nature's feedback cycle to slow global warming. Theoretically plausible if DNA came from outer space and had already encoded some weird mechanism there. However assuming thus, unlikely given Fermi paradox.
Yeah, this was a crazy story, but the fact that people were paying what amounts to college tuition for learning-via-Slack-from-a-guy was the biggest shock to me. And I am a fan of bootcamps and think that there are bootcamps where you will get far more out of your $10,000 than you would for a year in college.

But those bootcamps are physical places, with hands on instruction from a variety of instructors. I don't keep track of the bootcamp scene but I imagined it to be saturated by now with a bit of the race to the bottom, in terms of quality and pricing. A teacher-via-Slack isn't shocking, the prices he commanded are. But maybe such an arrangement is the only resort for folks who don't live in big cities like New York, or growing hubs like Omaha?
Yes 3,5 years in Montreal (I really miss that city).
I am sure that the experience is very different from Toronto and Vancouver.
To be honest, most people on HN/reddit focus wayyyy too much on titles these days, so much so that the only comments in this thread so far are about whether it is clickbait. Yes clickbait is a problem, but I also think we should make exceptions of the sort for known reputable sites. If every website was forced to use a dry and descriptive title, I'm not sure the reader would be better off. (I always found old-style titles to be peculiar: "A, or a B on C in the D of E for a F of G") I think it's only fair to make accusations of clickbait after reading the article and concluding that the substance doesn't match. "5 best horror movies of all time" tells you exactly what you're going to get, while maybe "you won't expect what happens next!" might not. I understand that titles might not give you all the information necessary for a persn to decide if they should click a link, but the comments help to give some of that context. (though they also lead to people commenting without reading based off other's conclusions, and a hivemind mentality)
Cost is only one side of the equation. You also have to factor in the approximate value of the revenue generated by subscribers who were misled into believing that they had unlimited, unthrottled data, and who might have selected a competitor's service had the secret quota been honestly advertised.
I have a question for all the veteran devs out there.

How do you keep from getting burned out on the mismanagement that plagues our industry?

Is it personal perseverance?
Are you just super selective with what jobs you take?
Is the love of building something stronger than any feelings of frustration with poor management?
Did you miss "going around right now", somehow? "Locker room talk" has emerged as a defense in the last two weeks for Donald Trump bragging to Billy Bush, with a hot mic, that he sexually assaults women.

That phrase wouldn't be being used if it were not at the forefront of the public consciousness, and that it is being used to moderate bragging about sexual assault is telling.
You're saying people should censor and filter themselves at all times, to everyone, about everything? That's fucked up. Everyone needs a place to be themselves regardless of how often they say things that would micro-aggress people. That's why men find places to have locker room banter. Just because they are misguided by your own standards doesn't mean they deserve social solitary confinement. You should be glad they have the sense to only speak their mind in private settings rather than at the workplace or in public.
A successful entrepreneur who had sold businesses could theoretically just self insure. If you have paid off your house, you don't technically need home insurance (though this guy would be silly not to have it).
It's not aged paper, necessarily; look at any well-made book (excluding glossy picture books) and the paper will be stable and opaque but not bright.
Unfortunately, if you look at real usage patterns, they are not completely wrong either. At least from the POV of a mainstream non-technical person not visiting obscure meetups but reading newspapers.
> John Resig seems like a great human being but that's not the main reason for jquery's dominance

But if John Resig released something new that isn't jquery, and does a useful thing, it would immediately be a lot more popular than if Random Joe Programmer releases the same useful thing.

Celebrity does work in the programming world as well.

It's a type of distribution channel. The more eyes are on you, the more audience you can pull, the more successful your projects are going to be. If for no other reason than more people giving them a shot and seeing what's up.