skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was new to it as well when a commenter on my YouTube channel recommended the Deep Work book. Listened to the audio book and really, really appreciated it. Deep work is now something I aspire to get better at because I'd been feeling it was something I was missing for a while now.

I think of it like getting in the zone with coding where you get deeply valuable work done without distractions.
The article makes it seem like the US is where people work the most. It is not. The selection of countries make their graph misleading. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time
One idea is moving towards biodegradable plastics so after someone drinks their soda, they could throw it into the soil after use.
Title has now been fixed (it originally read 'run Docker without VMs')
I am as troubled as you are about the uptick in overt racism and sexism on HN. But I know and trust the moderators of the site, and this is a conversation I have had with them too, and I don't have any better ideas on how to deal with it than they do.

The bigger problem is that the (very large) community of reasonable nerds who care about bigotry has largely abandoned Hacker News. In doing so, they've conceded it to the racist fringe. They, too, should reconsider.

It's at least comforting to know that blatant racism and sexism tends to get flagged off of threads.
Modern BGAs will often need that many layers just to break out all the signals.
The fact that you can send drawings to be fabricated and get hard goods in the mail days later has been true for years. You could have been running a global electronics business from home for fifteen years now. So what do these guys add over players like pcbexpress, or the innumerable Chinese shops?
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> Physical products are one thing but informational products are clearly another.
Your answer contradicts this one from numo16: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12734445. Who is right?
As someone who is ignorant of said "clone", I feel compelled to ask:

What would be an accurate characterization?

I'm genuinely curious.
You store Hash2 in your database.
You are not a storyteller
This kind of comparison is dull. It may be worth less for whatever reason, but the Twitter brand is still so much more recognizable at a global scale. When you go to a job fair outside of mainland China and you see, Twitter, Tecent, Sina and Baidu there, which one would you prefer to visit first?
"By creating a center of gravity for the open source JavaScript ecosystem, the JS Foundation aims to drive broad adoption and ongoing development of key JavaScript solutions and related technologies and to facilitate collaboration within the JavaScript development community to ensure those projects maintain the quality and diverse contribution bases that provide for long-term sustainability."

This gave me the impression that they were focusing on standardizing tools (the "drive broad adoption" part especially).

As for "pushing brands on developers", well... You can't standardize and encourage broad adoption of a technology if you cultivate and support multiple technologies. Maybe two or three, but there is a need to champion a particular technology as the tool developers should adopt. And the JS Foundation seems to be specifically promoting tools of its members where it can.

Of course, if the interpretation that their goal is to encourage standardization is incorrect, then the point is moot.
Just use http://messenger.com
Does this vocabulary of calling our personal preferences a "model" and something we dislike a "violation of our model" actually buy us anything?
> I never meant to accuse you of ad hominem against ThomPete. Sorry if I caused confusion there.

Your diplomacy is admirable, but I think there is a deeper issue here. I found your original text to be clear.
It is a political issue but so is sending drones out to kill people without trial.

There are collateral damage to all political decisions you are just more accepting some rather than those the Trump supporters accept.

That doesn't mean they can't have a higher political goal than purely bigotry. In fact I believe both Altman and Thiel shows that you can in fact disagree without shaming.
True, in my company we can't afford to shut in August considered that 90% of our clients are outside Italy. But generally speaking it goes that way. Possibly paid holidays lower the average then.
(BTW: ferragosto is just one day - Aug 15th)
"Working", I'm in and out of offices all day. The amount of dead time spent in those places is insane. This is why I need to start my own business, sitting at a desk pretending to work helps no one and yet is the only way to get ahead.
Google something like "bga escape routing" -- I found one chip that needed 12 layers pretty quickly.
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I doubt they would actually need 80k/year per student preserving their capital.

More broadly though, what's the point of a foundation if you never extract anything. Further they will receive donations and tuition, but they clearly don't need 'help'. In fact not having a long term plan to use their foundation is more irresponsible as they really could just lose all that money in 200 years without using it for anything.
One obvious place to draw the line - indeed, the place where used to be drawn - is the part where Citizens United tried to pay channels to air their film about Hillary. Normal media outlets are businesses, which means that they need to cover their costs somehow. They also have to gain and keep the trust of their audience through their reporting. If you're just paying off existing media outlets to show your propaganda to their audience solely for your political gain, then you're engaged in campaigning. This is why Citizens United's earlier attempts to get Fahrenheit 9/11 and its trailers banned failed; the FEC found that it was bona fide commercial activity.
I don't know... elections might involve needing an elastic supply of network services accessible over low latency links to certain battleground states...
> When President Obama issued procedures and standards for using lethal force against suspected terrorists overseas, agency officials were bound to follow them.

It's a perpetual, boundless war fought on our behalf. It's too bad Congress can't find a way to permit this activity in some limited fashion without just ignoring it (congress please RTFM: Article I, Section 8, Clause 11). This sets a horrible precedent for future presidents. We have ceded enormous discretion to the executive here. It seems prudent to have a ton of oversight and disclosure surrounding programs that allow for execution of individuals, regardless of where they live.

Footnote: Rep. Lincoln (regarding conflict w/Mexico over disputed Texas): "The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress, was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. But your view destroys the whole matter, and places our President where kings have always stood."
My personal definition would be a product assembled, regulated, and QA'd in China. If parts are made in China and sent to the US, the US company has to QA the part, assemble the final product with the part, and is regulated by US law with the final product.
My own analogy is USA and Thailand.

in terms of geopolitical differences, I think the "Protestant work ethic" tradition is a large driver of USA perceptions on work.

Conversely in Thailand, the emphasis on hierarchy and workplace harmony (no critical conversations) disincentives sticking one's head out, including working longer to work on a perceived deadlines.
Ever have to place a obituary lately? Nearly $1k! For a medium size market!
You really think Altman or Graham would work with Trump in the future?

(I won't be surprised if it happens either.)
I had a moment like this when I first played Factorio (an excellent game, by the way) and it started me out on a tiny island. It was a much bigger challenge there, considering that Factorio doesn't have swimming or boats!
Hands across the lab: Will the US and Iran cooperate on science and tech?
Atheist downfall? Since when? And what do you mean by 'downfall'? Like, they all started professing a belief in the hereafter, or like the scene in the movie 'Downfall'?
NASA and Fermilab are also government jobs.
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What, you think someone seeking power is going to stand at a podium and announce "I want a fascist dictatorship"?

He has been relentlessly attacking the legitimacy of democracy, encouraging political violence, stoking racial hatred, and threatening to imprison his opponent. On most days he does all of this before 11am.

How much of a fucking hint do people need?
It doesn't need to double. The market size only needs to increase by [roughly] whatever airbnb revenue increase is.

added the word 'roughly'
Based on reading your comments for several years, I presume you are very much in favor of protecting employees from various kinds of discrimination(as you should!). Advocating firing Thiel seems to be counter to that.

- If YC severed ties w/ Thiel, as people are recommending, should YC also divest itself of companies with founders who support Trump?

- Should YC-invested companies fire employees who support Trump?

- Imagine the shitstorm if a right-leaning YC founder fired an employee for working in the HRC or Stein campaign. The no-discrimination at any cost crowd is going to howl with rage the first time "their" person gets fired by "the other" camp, solely for political affiliation.

- Ok, we could pass some employment law: "firing employees over political beliefs is not OK, unless it's an existential threat". Who gets to decide what is an existential threat?

This is a very dangerous weapon, and your eagerness to use it now makes me think you haven't considered what will happen when it's used against your political tribe.
I believe you've misused the word fallacy. Taking a stand against bigotry absolutely can make you a bigot. Different kinds of bigots engage in mutual opposition on a regular basis.
Oh, I see what you mean, you're talking about freelancing for local companies. That's funny, my mindset is all about working remotely for companies in other countries, especially the US. I'm currently living in Thailand, where freelancing for a local company would mean earning something like $10-15 per hour.

I would like to live and work in Italy as a freelancer, but I can only stay for 90 days at a time. Do you know of any ways to stay longer?

EDIT: Wow, I should have done some more research. Italy has a "long-term visa". But more exciting than that, Germany has an actual “self-employment” visa for freelancers. I might start with Germany then.
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What's your point? I agree with you about drones. You know who doesn't? Donald Trump. Donald Trump doesn't merely support using drones against terrorists. He thinks we should firebomb Raqqa. He thinks that the families of terrorists should be captured and tortured in order to dissuade terrorists. He is in favor of --- he said this publicly --- limited regional tactical nuclear war. He is a staunch advocate of torture, not just to obtain information (itself an odious plan) but as retributive justice to those who oppose him.

Peter Thiel supports this man. He donates millions to his campaign. He's a surrogate for the campaign. He stood on stage and endorsed the campaign even as dozens of senior Republicans refused. He donated just last week, so much that he made the front page of CNN, after Trump pivoted to attacking the election itself.

If drones are a major concern of yours, good on you! You, too, should be working as diligently as possible to prevent Donald Trump from killing millions of people in new military strikes.
This report is pretty pointless, and is at best a puff piece for an American audience. American workers are some of the most productive workers in the world, but working hours are not the sole reason. Working hours really do not tell you that much on their own.

In Europe, Greece works the most hours, and yet they are hardly an economic success story. French people work fewer hours than British people, and yet France has better productivity measures. Italy works the fewest hours, but they are stuck in an economic mire. Industrial Era British factory workers worked many more hours than British factory workers today, and yet I'm certain that today's factory workers are much better value. There isn't a meaningful correlation to be found around working hours independent of other factors.
There's historical evidence of people being elected, in democracies, and turning them into dictatorships. Part of the process looks the same as what Trump is doing. (e.g. saying the election is rigged therefore calling the process illegitimate, saying he'd put his political opponent in jail).

If that doesn't persuade you, what kind of evidence would persuade you?
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is hidden bigotry more acceptable?
The same could probably be said for Norway too. I think it's a good thing, mind. Everyone gets 5 weeks off now, in general. usually 4 weeks in summer (the rest to be used for Easter, Christmas or at employees discretion in agreement with the employer), that matches up with the school holiday. I suppose there'd technically be room to shift those weeks a bit, but then how can you make sure everyone in a household have holidays together, assuming two working parents?
This is pretty standard in the US, especially if you don't work in some MegaCorp cog-in-the-machine type of situation.

I think a good percentage of people working their asses off and working 60 hours a week are people who ARE actually successful. I don't blame them for turning work into a hobby.
Only because he's grumpy. That doesn't have anything to do with age.
> His was a joke campaign. And yet he took the nomination from the party establishment, almost effortlessly. He will do it again. The forces aligned against him in the GOP proved themselves impotent.

IMHO The forces against Trump acted too late. In a field with 17 candidates, one of whom appeals to a significant percentage of the base, the outlier will usually win. I wouldn't be surprised if the RNC forces out weaker candidates earlier in the process next cycle.
My daughter (5) got her laptop when she was 4.
She is now quite proficient with the keyboard and mouse, and is able to start the computer, open minecraft, log into our lan server and build/run around.

But that would not have happened if it was not for minecraft I think. They need to get interested enough.
How do you distinguish true self-awareness from a convincing emulation of self-awareness?
Of course I am, I'm European!
* 25% less efficient
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He uses 'decline in productivity' as evidence. Output per hour is measured in dollars, not %. I think he's giving us productivity growth. This is the wrong stat to use.
They did indeed have an investigative unit, but it was recently poached by CNN: http://www.politico.com/media/story/2016/10/cnn-hires-away-b...

e: I don't recall any of their articles specifically, but I do recall reading a few solid articles via Instapaper and then being surprised to see that they were from BuzzFeed.
I agree that Trump is no Mussolini - however I see why it's tempting to compare them, as they are both slightly comical figures with a great regard for themselves.

The closer parallel would be to another Italian leader: Silvio Berlusconi. He was also a businessman, is also famous for his attitude to women, also authoritarian, etc. Both men are great showmen, and populists who 'speak their minds'.

Of course, any analogy is imperfect - but it seems closer than the whole Mussolini/Stalin/Hitler one.
As I understand, even at the farthest point he was talking about non-citizens of this country. I don't personally believe we need a reason to stop a non-citizen from coming here. I also don't see any reference in the Bill of Rights concerning that - it's certainly a presidential power that has been exercised before.

It is worth noting he has since backed (evolved if you will) that position down to "extreme vetting" to "certain parts of the world" (Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Pakistan, etc.)
That's a really odd list of founding members, period.

And yeah, managing to do this without having ONE of:

* Mozilla
* Google
* Microsoft
* Apple
* Adobe
* Facebook
* eBay

Is just... weird. But they have IBM and Samsung.
A circular economy is an economical economy. The kind which existed prior to mass production in the late 1910s to 1920s.

As such, this idea would have much better traction in underdeveloped economies, the third world as it were, because it's a population used to economizing and recycling.

From there, the bigger economies would catch on to meet this new kind of demand and likely through osmosis bring it back home to developed economies.
Oh, FB/Twitter still dominates, of course. Pretty much everywhere. The FB/Twitter/Instagram handles are what you'll see in print ads, etc. But WeChat and QQ are in no way "have very little reach". Outside the tech-savvy demographics, people are more likely to know what WeChat and QQ are than they are to know about say, Snapchat, or Pinterest, for example.
That is not true. Some tech people go in hoping to be millionaires, but the environment is extremely cut throat, esp with competition like India with billions of people keen on dominating tech, as well as Chinese skill. Many of the tech people end up competing to stay afloat, and to eat the weakest dog in the pack just to stay in that arena.

Silicon Valley and Seattle/Redmond are probably the most cut throat areas you could work in. It gets really nasty there.
I think people are focusing too much on the recycling and not enough on point #2: access over ownership. It doesn't matter if a good is more expensive because it is meant to be repairable/upgradable if it is shared over many people.

Access vs ownership is only going to become more prevalent over time - Uber and Lyft, tool shares and makerspaces, the move from products to services.
No need to assume that I'm ignoring anything. I'm willing to accept globalization and technological progress despite their many imperfections because they have real, tangible benefits to humanity. On the other hand, the only person that stands to gain from authoritarianism is its leader.
Developers can't be trusted to make good decisions about the tools they use either.
I remember my print edition, it was mostly schlock, but every now and then they would do some real investigative local reporting, and that was invaluable. No local source has broken a major, deep, sprawling complex story in years, they're basically just bloggers now, they've got a handful of daily beats they cover, and they don't go much deeper than that. Powerful local organizations operate unchecked.
Yes. In an embedded environment, its not uncommon to:

1. Have a NOR flash part rated for 10,000 or fewer cycles.
2. Have no facility for remapping bad sectors.
3. Have no wear-leveling mechanism.

All of this is reasonable for a product that will only be flashed once during manufacturing (and there are a lot of those products) or a product that will receive a firmware update a single-digit number of times in its lifetime.

In contrast to an SSD, where:

1. NAND flash is used, with 100,000 to 1,000,000 write cycles
2. The drive can transparently remap bad sectors, so flash can start to fail before anybody notices.
3. The drive performs automatic wear leveling - if you try to write a single sector a million times, the drive will do something closer to writing a million sectors once.
My son just turned 4. He doesnt seem to mind using a keyboard occasionally, though searching for the keys leads to losing his interest quickly. He still finds it amusing typing words in a text editor and seeing them appear on the screen.

Touchscreen seems to be easiest be it for playing games or navigating youtube. He uses google voice quite a bit on an Android smart phone, since he found the "mic" button.

I have a 23-inch touch monitor hooked up to an intel nuc with Win10, which he seems to like a lot. Though the educational apps in windows store are very few. I was not able to find a way to hook up an Android variant to the touch monitor.
On the other hand, the incentive to rise above your parents' percentile is much less if that next percentile doesn't feel much better.

At the end of the day, the difficulty with these comparisons is that social mobility measured in percentiles may be the same in a country where it is next to impossible to rise above your parents' social class as in a country where it is completely pointless to even want that.
I feel that the local newspaper, or even the common worldview of the major newspapers were/are quite the bubble themselves. Imagine HN without a comment section!

Content algorithms seem to be putting the occasional annoying thing into my feed to keep it fresh, and I keep finding gems of brilliance out of the scope of traditional journalism.
Huffington Post is a respected poll aggregator. Also, I wasn't showing you unpopularity. I was showing you popularity. Those are different.
"Sam Altman cannot coherently believe this while supporting Peter Thiel [,...]"

Why not?

This is the only part of your comment I have a problem with. People can coherently have two values that they care about, and have to weigh one against the other.

It is totally legitimate to think that Trump is a threat to democracy, to completely oppose Thiel, but to also think that firing someone for their political beliefs is a bad precedent that you don't want to engage in.

It's even totally legitimate to be more OK with what Thiel is doing because the chances of Trump winning are relatively low. It's possible (even likely, IMO) that if Trump were much closer to winning the election, Sam Altman and Paul Graham would do more to prevent it.
There have been studies, but they have conflicting conclusions. Some claim there has been an impact and others claim otherwise.

A quick Google search will give you some examples.
Well, most people don't want to know much about Yarn. Granted, mostly because they don't even know it exists :)
He's a major party candidate, supported (if sometimes disliked) by roughly half the population. That's not a number of people you can fire or silence!

Are you sure? Prop 8 was _passed_ (i.e. it was voted in favor of by more than half of California's population), and yet we still regularly hold witch hunts for people that supported it. I've actually been asked about it on a job application.
The only .NET PDF library on there cost money. If you don't feel like paying for a PDF library, just write yourself a PDF service in Java or Ruby or something, and use one of their free OSS options.
none of this is a breakthrough of 2016, it has been around for quite a few years from multiple manufacturers / service providers
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Digg tried the same thing, back when Digg was a thing. It didn't go over well, but they didn't have nearly the same power that Google does.