skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heard the NRA is a a racist, sexist bigot with rapidly mounting allegations of multiple sexual assaults! I don't know who this ceterun_censeo guy is, however, I reckon he obviously is supporting people who support Trump. Light the pitchforks! Shame him on twitbook!*

* I feel like I have to explicitly mark this post as sarcasm for fear of peoples stupidity. I listed some other things (like find out where he works) and it just made me sick, I couldn't do it, even in sarcasm and jest. I hope after the dust settles people remember how to be decent again.
I see you wrote words here but they're not really saying anything.. what is your point then? What really is at stake here? If racism and sexism aren't* just that, what are they? Who is this excluded group you're talking about?

> he has some very important points which needs to be addressed and discussed

What are those points then? Please, let's discuss them

*Edit
Let me rebuke both parts of your statement.

I both got a google internship with a well sub 3.5 GPA; and have since then gotten both accepted and rejected at equivilent tier bigCos with that (and other "prestigious" establishments) on my resume and nonetheless saw a good mix of clean and chaotic hiring processes.

What I'm trying to say is there is NO silver bullet; as other sister comments say, it's a crapshoot even with your cards all in order. I believe the aspects you list of the "normal" level of chaos are quite accurate, my tailoring to your statement is merely one that the leg up helps less than you seem to imply. (from both my and peers in similar situations's anecdotes.) I make this statement not to be pessimistic but to be optimistic. Someone without G on their resume shouldn't feel helpless, they are not alone, and they are not in an impossible or insurmountable situation. The only "real" path I've found, regardless of who or what background you have, is to just keep bullheadedly driving towards your goals and building the skills required to do this more effectively. Everything else for me has been ephemeral and less impactful. (I would note, you're right re: network, but I bucket that more under a skill you can build than something implicit, since for better or worse, networking is a skill one must practice in modern professional life as one mechanism to support ones stability)
I've been saying from day one of the "debacle" (release day) that it would likely lead to AWESOME mods if the engine was opened to the community for tweaking and the integration with more rich game mechanics with a good chance of something big like counter strike (originally a half-life mod) emerging...
A universe builder builder so to say. I'd love that!
"Chinese clone" makes a catchy headline but is pretty far from an accurate characterization.
I used to do contracting in the UK in large part because salaries were pitiful compared to contracting rates and when contracting you ended up paying way less tax so got to keep much more of your already higher income.

But 600 pounds is now like $750. Assume 4 weeks vacation, public holidays, time between contracts and you should probably assume 200 paid days per year. That's 120k pounds/year or $150k/year. Not great.

Not sure what contracting rates are like now. It's been awhile. When I was doing it (more than 10 years ago), banking contract was often north of 500/day.

Thing is, those contracting in banking jobs can be hard to get. Typically you need experience in banking. If demand exceeds supply (as it did in the late 90s) then that's not a problem. When supply is relatively high (as it was in the early 2000s) then that's a huge barrier to entry.

If you're locked out of that field your rates are typically much lower (at the time more like ~300-350 a day).
And mocha
You're literally contradicting yourself.

"It's not there" i.e its a stinking pile of shit.
I wouldn't use it for everything, but whenever I encounter a problem where applications crash or behave weirdly - the problem is with the app, not the container technology. It's not because the problem only manifests itself in a container that the problem is suddenly "docker".

And as with every technology, you have to understand it's strength and weaknesses. I use Docker internally and in production with very few issues other than it advancing way too fast at the moment, but am always amazed how many people dive in head-first into a Docker adventure without understanding what it is and how it actually works and it's limitations.

This is from the perspective of a relatively small development company with applications where scaling is a non-issue. Our problem is that we have a ton of active projects. To give you an idea, our internal CI now still has over 500 active build jobs after a recent cleanup.

This CI is the first thing where Docker shines, it was an absolute god-send. I got rid of tons of frankenstein build slaves with unpredictable configurations, and replaced them with one huge VM running docker, with build images per project. This made this massive mess suddenly perfectly manageable, documented and version controlled. Need to build something in a build configuration from 1 year ago? Not something I want to do every day, but not completely impossible either, since I still have the exact same docker image in our internal registry.

Other than that, upgrading internal tools became a lot easier. Everything used internally (redmine, jenkins, ...) is containerized, which means it can easily be tested, migrated, cloned, ... It enforces data separation, which means it's clearer and easier to backup/restore and test these things. It means that now whenever a new version is released I can easily test this with our real data to see if there would be any problems in our configuration, and if not, quickly deploy a new version.
According to Sam Altman, if Peter Thiel said some of what Trump said, they'd stop endorsing him. I could not be more baffled by this stance: someone who speaks like Donald Trump is too toxic to affiliate with YC, but someone who diligently works to make Donald Trump President of the United States is not.
Seemed like a little bit of a puff piece. Would have liked to hear questions like "Is Quora a competitor?" or about the recent claims that Stack Overflow was going downhill.
> think at worst you can say that Clinton made some bad choices

The Director of the FBI said exactly that, but that there was no malicious intent and thus no crime. Why an investigative body is making a recommendation about charges notwithstanding, when it comes to national secrets, nobody else gets the benefit of the doubt re: mens rea, it's generally interpreted as strict liability. Why did former Secretary Clinton get a seemingly free pass on this one, while members of the rank-and-file military do not? I suspect it's because they're in the rank-and-file.

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/292064-troops-using-clinto...
If you won't defend it, don't parrot it.
Can we stop with the straw man of people getting fired for their views! That is so over the top as to be ridiculous.
I used to read PopMech in the bathroom, but years ago it fell far below even that modest standard. Today, I wouldn't wipe myself with it.

"By using common materials..." Which ones? In what arrangement? How would it scale to the level of atmospheric scrubbing?

They mention copper and carbon later, but fail to mention if that carbon is in the form of nanotubes, or some more easily mass-manufactured form. If you read this article and come out of it with fewer questions than you did going in, you're doing it wrong.
The co2 released by a dead tree is captured again by the next tree. So don't look at single trees but at whole forests.
The workdays in Europe are your pretty typical 8 hour days, the difference I think comes from the 15-30 annual vacation days per year, plus all the public holidays.
Employer provided health insurance is generally not worth your time, especially if you change jobs a lot. I pay for my insurance out of pocket even though my employer offers it, because I can't afford 20% copays.
I believe the point was undoing the US-normative "we", rather than questioning the location of the speaker.
I am not even living in US, but wanted to give you some data to show that you are wrong.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/04/death...

Also, last I checked women had plenty of voice in the last 40 years... beside being the majority of the voters (and thus always pandered to by default), US have no-fault divorce (something that usually only women want, most no-fault divorce are initiated by women), abortion is legal (Brazil for example where I live, abortion is still mostly illegal), Title IX exists, VAWA exists, more women than men finish college, female labour participation is higher than male, and so on...
Shame on us for making this post to the front page.
It's important to make this distinction between how you feel and what is actually occurring.

Supposing I made a robot baby that behaved exactly like a real one but with no AI would you feel differently? Would you feel differently if you knew.. versus didn't know?

My opinion on shows like Westworld is they are a form of mental-masturbation, designed to question our own morality. Unfortunately sometimes people get confused and project their own mortality on inanimate objects like robots.
When I was in my late 20s and early 30s I worked all the time - I loved it! At some point though I became disillusioned with work. There was always more of it, and it was primarily for someone else's benefit. If you're working for yourself I can see a stronger case for putting in those hours, but you still risk seeing those years go by in a haze of largely undifferentiated time sitting behind the keyboard, or what have you, with likely little reward at the end. It's possible to have a work-life balance, still enjoy your job and be productive, take vacation, etc. Work can become a soulless endeavor, just as pursuing wealth for its own sake.
Right. The articles aren't suggesting that Americans choose to work themselves to death, only that it's culturally acceptable. In most salaried office jobs you could set a hard stop at 5pm and refuse to answer calls on weekends, but you'd find yourself quickly replaced by someone who would. So you "choose" to put in the extra hours so you don't find yourself unemployed.
> But we are all very much entitled to criticize what Altman is doing, and we would be doing Altman no favors by withholding that criticism.

Perhaps, but it's a slippery slope to a loosely-defined moral litmus test that is in the eye of the beholder, a fashionable "in group" set of beliefs which are not actually subject to rational scrutiny but are instead tenets of a creed of allegiance. They are hyperbolic and intended mainly as a signal to others, like a patch stitched onto a sleeve or a badge worn on one's clothing, which side the person is on.

For example, consider this creed of statements largely unsupported by fact (caveat: I do not support either candidate and actively oppose both):

I consider Donald Trump a threat to American democracy and prosperity. I believe the 40% of the American people supporting his candidacy are deeply disturbed, damaged human beings who are animated by Trump's racism and hatred.

I am certain that Donald Trump has sexually assaulted many women, and his criminal sexual acts are on par with the worst sexual predators of history. I am certain that Donald Trump's campaign is in collusion with the Russian government simply to get Donald in office so that he can do business in Russia and extract personal profit for himself (unlike HRC who is motivated by altruism and service, not personal ambition or greed).

I believe that in spite of being nominated by major American political parties, Donald Trump and HRC are vastly different human beings with vastly different ambitions and quality of judgment.

I believe it is our duty to our daughters and future generations to do everything possible to stop Donald Trump from gaining power, including socially castigating and penalizing his supporters in any way possible, including "unfriending" on social media. I believe that focusing on the outrageous allegations of Trump's kissing and groping behavior are far more important than comparing the two candidates stances on issues and comparing the practicalities of their stated policy aims.

I am certain that Donald Trump intends to challenge the election results if he loses, and that he's planning to incite violence in an attempt to gain office.

These statements pull the dialogue away from facts, logic, debate, falsifiability, etc., and make it about raw power, which is coercive and not rational or meritocratic.
Have anything beyond hyperbole?

The highest healthcare costs per capita:

US $8,713
Switzerland $6,325
Norway $5,862
Netherlands $5,131
Sweden $4,904

Expensive yes, but not extreme compared to some of the other richest European countries.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2015/11/14/24-7...
I'm still loving my Sony Xperia Z5 compact. The phones are getting too big.
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They can agree with that and still continue working with Thiel. You can be against fascism and but still be against creating a society where everyone must get in line politically or else be shunned.
>Donald Trump is a monster.

Such thoughtful discussion backed by so many supporting arguments.
I think its the anonymizing nature of the internet. We're not evolved to communicate digitally. Its going to be a rough road here on out for the human race.
The problem is the software is free, but if every user of their service sent $2.50/month then you could run it on their computer instead of your own computer. Seeing as I have perfectly good computers, why do I need to pay to use someone elses computer and insert all the middleman inefficiencies?

Last bubble there was a stereotypical internet gnomes underpants model of becoming tech billionaires. Its the same thing today:

"I want you to pay me to be your middleman"

"OK then what will the UX be?"

"It'll be like I'm not even here... well, best case anyway"

....

"Profit!"

Its getting to be a hard sell in the market. Nobody ever woke up and said "My HVAC system is too simple and too predictable, I need to get Google into the flowchart somehow".

Edited to add another way to look at the problem is at high cost its now possible for people without "the knack" to use an IDE. Now... why would people without "the knack" need an IDE? "A soldering iron so simple my mom could use it" "Cool but my mom doesn't want to use a soldering iron" "... crickets ..."
I'm a young guy, and I get multiple newspapers, and a few news magazines delivered. I don't like new media like reddit and "social news aggregators", because you're replacing professional editors w/ unpaid volunteers and "votes".
Stop looking at hotels chains. This is just wrong.

First, huge hotel chains are an American thing, the rest of the world (Europe in particular) is managed by many smaller players for which you cannot have numbers.

Second, the American chains are a fairly stable and fixed business limited by physical buildings, AirBnb is worldwide and extending to 100 countries as we speak. The current hotels vs airbnb state in America is already determined BUT only valid for America. What will be the market shares per country and cities... this has yet to be determined. Meanwhile AirBnB starting from 0% everywhere else is enough to justify growing income and revenues.

Third, there could be 10 (or 100?) times money stuck in the black market. (People who pay hand-to-hand, rent to a friend of a friend, gumtree, newspapers listings and the likes). AirBnb can tap into this black market and make it emerge, whereas this space is irrelevant for hotels.

You wanna talk business. Please compare numbers from hotels.com and booking.com and airbnb.com
But he's not storing/sending classified email.
(My data point is it's not a problem if your boss is hands off and your peers are hands on online)
No one has the influence to convert the US to anything overnight. However, I do think that normalizing the language of authoritarianism can have long-term negative effects on our democratic process.
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Not a movie, but Stranger Things. Can't believe it hasn't been mentioned yet.
Logic suggests that you aren't, in fact, likely to risk any of those things just to express your opinion in an online argument. So you don't think this is a real danger or you wouldn't be saying it here.
Again: I actually appreciate the comments here strenuously suggesting that Trump is no real threat to democracy. This is the sentiment Altman is making room for by continuing to endorse Thiel. Their relationship works to normalize Donald Trump.

If Sam Altman is comfortable with that, he should remain affiliated with Thiel.
But you would like to punish people who are publicly backing a candidate. Not very consistent.
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Maybe YC is worried that if they boot Thiel, and Trump wins, he'll be vindictive enough and powerful enough to crush YC. Like, it would be a real shame if the Attorney General started looking into Fair Housing violations by AirBnB, or if Dropbox suddenly lost the government connections it's been cultivating by putting Condi Rice on their board.
Because they are both the same, right? Just opposite, right?
FTC says it may be unable to regulate Comcast, Google, and Verizon
Microservices are a smart way for apps to scale, but aren’t quite smart enough
My friends were bracing for an all out race war if Obama won in 2008. Others were expecting Obama to go full Hugo Chavez on America.

Does anyone else remember that time?
> I don't know if you followed what happened to the Atheist community in the US, but its downfall was essentially the kind of witch hunt you're trying to incite.

Personally I must have missed this. How did the downfall of the Atheist community in the US happen and who was hunting witches?
>In what might be one of the more delicious cases of irony to ever grace a presidential election, a researcher has found that a number of email servers linked to Donald Trump’s hotel and others businesses are running horribly out of date software which receive no security patches, and are lacking other precautions for keeping hackers out.

That kind of reads like a wink and a nod, and a "Hey guys... fresh meat!" Don't get me wrong, it couldn't happen to a nicer person, but beyond that I'm not sure that I see the point of the article. They claim to be amazed, but surely if we've learned anything over this election cycle, it's that the worst systems you'll ever find are systems in use by people in government. AOL email (if you're lucky), and other issues have loomed large. Surely we still remember the state of the VA records system?
Does that actually apply to every field? I've only worked briefly as a software developer in Germany and not full time, but I never got the impression that unions would realistically stop anyone in that field from working till midnight. If you are working as a factory worker for example that's of course a totally different story. However, I doubt that people in that kind of job regularly decide to put in a few extra hours on some days and are usually on the clock.
Not knowing this fact is making your company bleed money
your sentences fit in that blog post about a conversation with someone who wanted to build a simple web app in jquery
Go watch it again. It ages well.

I'll throw another one in there for you as well: Starship Troopers.
> doesn't deserve his spot at the table?

No one gets to decide who gets a spot at the table. It doesn't really matter if you think Trump is "dangerous", the idea that if you think the "right" way you're entitled to shape the dialogue by censorship if needed is exactly what people who are anti-anti-Trump are trying to fight.
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I understand that different things are different, but you seem to be appealing to the law of averages.
You'll have to do a better job of connecting those dots for me, because I do not see the connection between criticizing someone for endorsing a member of the Trump campaign and working to eliminate the anonymous vote.

Incidentally? Elimination of the anonymous vote? That's something Peter Thiel probably actually believes in. He believes democracy is a failed experiment, and the extension of the franchise to women harmed society. He believes, in general, that more voting worsens outcomes.
Seems specious; this thread isn't about the data at all. In this case, Panoramio's only decision about the data was to keep the service running for years just to give users a chance to export & keep any data they want, and also offer a migration path to other services that can still work with the data.

I'm not sure what I'd do with data from Panoramio. I certainly don't have a local application on my computer that can read or edit that data.

In general, most cloud services I've seen shut down do the same, often on tighter deadlines. While it may have happened at some point, I've never seen happen what you suggest. I've never seen a cloud service makes a judgement call about how valuable someone's data is, and not allow it out when the service is EOLd.
We cannot deny the overwhelming amount of value P. Thiel and M. Arment has brought to this world.
Politics is ugly and divides people instead of bringing them together. The Hacker News community is all about technological progress, which is based on science, and as such, do not let your subjectivity cloud your judgment.

Do you think the world would be a better place by removing Thiel because of his political position?
Asking to fire Thiel is as insane as asking to fire the 40% of Americans backing Trump
(based on latest poll results: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/latest-polls-show-tr...)

I wish you guys would put all your vigorous efforts on revamping the political system than pointing fingers at invaluable people.
> I find it astonishing how positive Bloomberg tries to spin this

Reminds me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNzXze5Yza8
> My girlfriend used to love visiting Paris, now it’s basically a no-go zone even in daytime.

What are you talking about. I've lived in Paris for 40+ years, there is no special problems. We had terrorists attacks, we may have more, but basically nobody cares much about it or talks about it, and life is the same as it's always been (lots of traffic, lots of people in the subway, weather not great).
Instead of crowd-sourcing what gets published/visible, trust some anonymous individuals at a newspaper? Who has only one agenda instead of a mixture of many voices and ideals? That's got its downside too. The bubble is created there by what tiny number of voices are included in the subscription list.
Higher earning workers in the US work more hours than lower earning workers.

"Between 1979 and 2002, the frequency of long work hours increased by 14.4 percentage points among the top quintile of wage earners, but fell by 6.7 percentage points in the lowest quintile."

There are insinuations in this thread that the reason Americans work more hours is because the working poor have to work long hours to make ends meet. However, "There was no increase at all in work hours among high-school dropouts," from 1979 to 2002.

Americans working long hours is increasingly a higher income phenomenon. Which means those workers have more disposable income they could trade for shorter hours if they chose to.

http://www.nber.org/digest/jul06/w11895.html
> In practice, many of the cities with the highest housing costs are strongly anti-infrastructure and anti-transport. (What good is a self-driving car if it's getting stuck in the same-or-larger traffic jam everyday?).

These cities would still be better off with SAE Level 4/5 and inter-communicating cars, which should reduce the frequency of traffic jams significantly. Traffic jams are almost ALWAYS caused by human error at some point in the chain.