skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> IDK, I've never personally needed chalk for or met anyone that needed chalk for lifting. Perhaps he works out in very humid climates, but I'd think there would be chalk provided at the gyms?

Just as another data point: I've never been to a gym that supplies chalk to members. If you're doing heavy deadlifting or olympic lifting then chalk is nearly a requirement.
"You can publish the same bytes minus the "HEY I A AMP" and get the old behavior".

Yes but then you won't get the AMP icon next to your page when it comes up in the search results. Over time users will become conditioned to prefer clicking on AMP enabled links. With the icon you are basically categorizing the search results into "really fast sites" and "regular speed or slow sites", even though it is perfectly possible to achieve the same AMP speeds without using AMP.
Yup. Basic idea is hormesis: you WANT the bacteria on your skin, and you are doing yourself a disservice by washing it off. Same deal with gut bacteria. Hell, they even have soap with bacteria IN it now...
Would you agree that the completely standards compliant, well-understood-by-users back button already replicates that behavior perfectly? Why does the close button have to have a different icon for the exact same purpose, if not to deceive?
No, I still sort of agree with you. The law did pass after he started to whistleblow. However, he wasn't whistleblowing because they were a sneaky bank doing things like set up tax evasion schemes. He was whistleblowing because they set him up to take the blame for the damages. His next plan was to get immunity for all his crimes while screwing them and keeping his money. Had that document not formed or he seen it, he would've kept helping companies in their crimes (or shady stuff) in exchange for large paycheck at the bank.

So, he's still a piece of shit that doesn't give a damn about tax evasion doing it solely for himself. He got a great reward in the process anyway despite it backfiring a bit. Like you said above, I think it's probably a good trade so long as it didn't screw up his head in there. :)
That was beautifully written. Kudos.
China's Housing Market Isn't in a Bubble After All
Haha good point!
>Anger exists for a reason and it exists for good reasons.

Your initial premise is wrong.
I also find this to be a nicer balance while I'm not traveling.

If I can fit everything I own in a small compact car then I am happy with my amount of belongings.
It's not a very good test, Eich and Thiel are more or less on the same hemisphere of the political globe.
The right to free speech is a limitation of Government powers. A private entity like Include can do whatever they want.

And considering Thiel's "speech" was mostly through money, and their "speech" is mostly through "no longer working with them", it seems they're pretty much doing the same thing.

Firing, in this case, would also be an embodiment of speech. (Although I'd argue there should be more stringent anti-discrimination laws to stop people from firing others for their political opinions (but I'd also argue that he's no employee of YC)).
Not exactly; like I said that can happen once or twice. But if it happens 3 times or more in a row, something else is likely going on. And that's a red flag for me when hiring; I don't want to invest in a person only to have them leave very shortly after. That's just a waste of time.
I am asking myself where these people take the authority to write a press release about excluding someone from their team for not shaming someone, who is supporting someone.

That's just highschool-level bullying to me. If this loose connection would truly hinder them morally to work with YC, they could just stop doing that and be quiet about it.

Even if something is the right thing to do, which I don't think it is in this case, then bragging about it often destroys the whole effort and makes you look like the jerk.
Two incompatible sacred values in American universities [video]
Would it were universally applied sir. PG himself banned reps from companies in support of SOPA from Demo Days five years ago.

I'm not saying that was a bad decision (SOPA, ugh ...), but sometimes who you don't invite says as much about your org as who you do invite. In this case, keeping Thiel involved at all means they don't give a shit about his support for a fear-mongering demagogue who appears to be punking the nation into electing a dictator.
I'm starting to feel a lot like Hacker News's aversion to political topics is not only over-bearing but naive. The fact is, we don't live in a vacuum and the political climate does affect us, even though we'd all like to pretend it doesn't. This article has trended three times and been flagged three times. What's the explanation for this?
Firstly, that's 6 keypresses, because you don't need to lift your finger off Command.

Secondly, that's just using the minimal set of shortcuts that work anywhere. If you're in an actual editor, it almost certainly has a shortcut like Ctrl-Shift-D for duplicate line.

And I think a lot of vim users might be surprised how simple and straightforward things can be in a modern editor.
Around here most universities advertise themselves as vocational training with slogans like " an education for the real world".
Did you even bother to read the article? You say that you think the term is ambiguous and this article is here exactly for the purpose of elucidating the idea of Fascism as it appears in it's obvious and not so obvious forms.

You say people are quick to throw around the term, yet you're equally quick to disregard those who see some very obvious similarities between Trump's style of campaigning and the rise of various fascist leaders.

These clues are not subtle in Trump's case. It's mind boggling to think that people do not see them. It's like watching Blue's Clues with the audience of children yelling "THE CLUE IS RIGHT THERE!" and Steve is completely oblivious for the whole episode. In the end Blue dies because Steve is ignorant. Blue is our Democracy. You are Steve.
This is very similar to the Lysenkov movement against genetics in the Soviet Union in the times of Stalin. It was also based on the cult, rather than science.
Funny (by that I mean not-funny-at-all) thing I've discovered about myself:

It's a hell of a lot easier to let go of my anger when it's directed at someone else, but when it's directed at me, I hold on to that anger with both hands, tooth and nail.
Due to the fact that most of the team of project include is white. Same as any org that describes itself as inclusive.
Why? The whole purpose of a search engine is to bring you to the result site, not to search forever.
He aided tax evasion for U.S. and other companies. IRS threatened to come after me for about $1.20 once. No kidding. This guy helping them disguise tens of millions to billions... who knows amount... in taxes they owed? "Did not deserve prison." Oh no, I think the scumbag did. His bosses deserved a longer sentence, too.

Although, they're doing what their country makes a lot of money on. So maybe heroes of private industry over there. ;)
This happens because Amazon charges whatever people bid. Internal Amazon teams, particularly in India, use spot instances and have the type of people who are so lazy they use the max of all bid prices for all instance types. That's in additional to all the other stuff they do like exposing internal tools to the internet because they can't be bothered to connect to the VPN or starting huge clusters on a different region of another team's AWS account so no one will find it. Amazon doesn't care because it's internal cost and a million dollars to Amazon is like a thousand to everyone else.
As I get older, I care less about arguing on the Internet or organizing boycotts or pressure groups. I feel like the only meaningful act I can make is to vote with my feet or my wallet. So, Project Include: go for it. Don't want to have associations with Thiel and Trump? Walk away from YC. You're in charge of what you do. If others whine about how your exit somehow threatens their freedom of speech, then they clearly don't understand freedom of speech.
How Does a Problem Like the Note 7 Happen?
>This is a hard balance.

Probably because it is not at all a balance.
The Oldest Fencing Club in Paris
I grew up not unsafe, but in a messed up and pretty unpredictable environment. Now I help dysfunctional engineering teams get better :).
Huh? He's the only person out of dozens/hundreds/thousands of employees who pursued. Everyone else is happy to have a comfy job that pays their bills, while burying their heads in the sand and praying that nobody shuts them down so they can keep their cushy salaries performing illegal work.

"Fuck this guy". No, fuck almost everyone else who works for these kinds of companies, pretending like they're not the scum of society.

Word to the wise: if you work for this kind of company, and do not have the gumption to stand and fight, get the hell out and run for the hills. You might just wind up being the scapegoat; better to get out and let the other willing participants take the fall.
For me, the usefulness of these types of posts is to see what gear they get by with. You could compare that list to others and quickly put together a gear list based on what you think would work best for you. It's easier to work based off the experience of others rather than having to reinvent the wheel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Olenicoff#Tax_evasion

Prosecutors were extremely reluctant to prosecute the oligarch and didn't want him in jail. However they were pretty vigorous with his banker!
They are not voting against Thiel but against YC, which itself is not voting against Thiel. So in your analogy you would have to ban the whole Republican party, because Trump is its candidate.
I used to do this, but then I started to get into cooking. Cookware weighs you down quite a bit...

It's nice doing this when travelling, while also having a home base. I have a lightweight setup for short trips, and a bigger one for longer trips (music production gear that all fits in a oversize check-in bag).
Have you had trouble fitting your legs into Climbers if you're lifting heavy enough to need chalk? (I almost exclusively wear SDs)
Yeah, I found that blog post really thought provoking.

I think the core idea was that "it is a virtue to tolerate the outgroup" often means, in American middle-class culture, "if you are on Team Republican, do not stop associating with members of Team Democrat, no matter how much your friends and media tell you all those people are evil idiots" and vice versa.

This is an interesting normative take on what you might call the "filter bubble moral panic" of the 2000s, a growing fear that people who don't agree with each other are experiencing totally separate and disconnected realities.

The thing everyone's afraid of seems to be that in this new world, democracy will effectively become impossible because the ruling majority party will always be ignorant of (or totally unsympathetic to) the interests of the minority. Is the risk overblown? I dunno; how actually bad is a government shutdown, a half-year delay in Zika containment funding, etc.? Hard to say if these times are really worse and if "ignoring the other team" is really to blame.

Some other content in this vein that was interesting reading:

* The Shadow University -- a 1999 nonfiction book of essays about how, at American universities, concepts like "academic freedom" and "the marketplace of ideas" have entered a tension with other concepts (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060977728)

* The Five Geek Social Fallacies -- a 2003 essay influential among some software-as-a-lifestyle people I know, which argues most memorably that is is a popular fallacy to believe "ostracizers are evil", http://www.plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html
In the Philippines, I could add another item to the list. In certain areas, you don't have trash services. When people want to get rid of something, they burn it. Whenever I buy something, I put great thought into how I eventually get rid of it.
In my language, finger wagging is scolding someone, for what they've done (or failed to do). It's not telling them what to do.

You were certainly wagging your finger at a fingerwagger.
The proliferation of software using words with a strong, precise, pre-existing meaning is making some of these headlines difficult to read... My first impression was that there is a space telescope I was unaware of whose copious data was being converted into redshift measurements of galaxies. Sadly, it has nothing to do with space news. Not sure whether to laugh or sigh.
Couldn't agree with you more. I'm dismayed not only at the broader political climate, but at the naivety of my peers in failing to see its roots.
It wouldn't be ban, its more I'm not giving money or working with the Republican party because Trump is your candidate.
(replying to durkie)

I don't know about every buy-write index investments, but BXM specifically is done with essentially ATM (technically the very first strike OTM I believe) calls against the long position, then held to expiration and cash settled. In a long bull market like the present day, this approach will always underperform the market while having reduced volatility. It should overperform the market in down or sideways markets. Also, volatility induces drag so in a compounded return, all else being equal, lower volatility will yield higher returns.

Diversifying amongst uncorrelated products is an important missing feature to this strategy for the purposes of reducing volatility. If only considering writing covered calls/puts, I'd personally prefer to reduce volatility through diversification, and sell further OTM options to reduce basis so I keep more of the directional risk in each individual position and have lower transactional costs.

Also, BMX holds contracts to expiration rather than benefit from cyclicality in price and implied volatility by closing/rolling options early when they move in your favor or scaling into positions during volatility expansions.
While I undersatnd the obvious debate of "free speech" or "tolerance towards intolerance" and such things, why would do this, and why do this now?

I can see the appeal of a publicity stunt, but is this some sort of play we cannot see? Why would Include actually care about this at all. Why wouldnt investors in the INclude group be any happy with this decision.
Can someone please explain to me what the hell is going on here? This article screams butthurt interviewee, but a lot of people are getting on board with this guy, and I have no idea who to believe.
We're talking about a news organization responsible for leaking US secrets, with it's head using the asylum of an embassy to prevent extradition on crimes he says are politically motivated, releasing hacked emails in an attempt to disrupt a presidential candidacy. This was using the official twitter channel for Wikileaks. I'm not sure what part of that lends itself to joking, and even if it did, an anti-semitic one isn't what I would consider appropriate for a organization such as that, and would need to be addressed specifically. Even on twitter.

Also, how it that funny? Using Jewish stereotypes and anti-semitic labeling to imply your critics are Jews trying to climb the social ladder? Is that supposed to pass for humor? Maybe next he'll make some comment about a group of people with no jobs, having great tans, and that just love to eat fried chicken and watermelon. What a comedian, that guy.
Nothing about a general commitment to being inclusive requires one to be uncritically inclusive, or to treat tolerance as some kind of macho posturing where you demonstrate that you're welcoming of the most obnoxious other you can find.

But the make sure that the hidden premise is fleshed out: groups promoting inclusivity are promoting inclusivity for groups considered less powerful, less included, less accepted than is the norm. It's about elevating those who need it. Peter Thiel isn't powerless and doesn't need help getting what he wants.
>My dad always believed that if you're going to do anything, you should try to be the best at it.

My dad would say similar things.

Boy, how wrong he was. (Fortunately, he was not pushy about it.)

In my years, I have learned the value of making mistakes, and not pursuing the path of minimal mistakes.

I have also learned the value of quitting. Always trying to be best in what I pursue would mean I would often pursue the wrong goals.

(Tangentially, "Finish what you start" ranks highly on my list of really bad advice).

I have also learned the value of "good enough". There are things I passionately want to be the best at. There are other things that have no value for me beyond being "good enough". Our dad's advice would ensure we either do not pursue the latter, or we aim for perfection in it to the expense of other endeavours.

Simply put, the advice is good only if you have unlimited time. When you get old enough and can reflect on your past, you'll get a better sense of how much time you have left and what you can accomplish in it. That time is very precious, and it may be in your best interest to be good at many things, as opposed to the best at a few (and poor at the rest).
Huge chunks of modern computer graphics production rendering infrastructure is based on open codebases.

I don't get the snark. The visualization studios (Disney, Sony, etc) work on open source is a fantastic example how open sourcing codebases can be a win-win-win situation.
It's well-known Google prefers academics over experienced programmers. I was also cold called by Google and initially I was going to go through the process for a Javascript position, but I opted out after I realised I would never be able to pass any of the coding tests. I am actually self-taught, so lack academic fundamentals like knowledge of algorithms.

I am quite good at what I do, but I am not academically good to the level Google expects.
That's more of a problem with too many students passing classes they shouldn't IMO.
Apple iMessage preview leaks user device data
TL:DR; RT (and Russia/Kremlin in general) are using 'freedom of speech' to tell utter and blatant lies about proven and accepted history. Not to mention that they will _never_ give a second opinion.

Well you described RT (or probably Russia/Kremlin) well.

They will come to Europe/US and say whatever they want and then when you say "hey Mr. RT/Russia/Kremlin/Putin, that's not true, please do not do this again", they will scream like bloody murder that you are restricting their freedom of speech.

I live in post-Soviet country, just before and during Ukraine conflict russian television (not RT) released "documentaries" which said that gulags have not happened, repressions have not happened, and after USSR collapsed, countries like mine were independent without any oppression.

That tv station got banned for a year if I remember correctly.

It's like Deutsche Welle would release documentaries in Poland/Israel/France/Check republic, that invasion/holocaust/concentration camps have not happened.
Do you have an accent? Most complaints about poor recognition on google now comes from people with accents, it seems to struggle with what are typically considered heavy accents (some very localized accents or English as a second language speakers)

If not, try asking it any questions you can think of. You'll be surprised at how good it is, not counting "population of x" or "whats the weather?" type questions. Some examples: How long do you cook chicken for on the grill? When did the current pope become pope? Why do some people fill their tires with nitrogen? Do LED bulbs contain mercury? What's the loudest sound ever heard on Earth? Is it dangerous to drink distilled water? Why do canon printers have 2 black ink cartridges?

I use it a ton and it reads back an answer about 70% of time. Sometimes it misses easy ones and sometimes it nails really challenging ones. Sometimes it will work when your question is phrased one way but not another. Usually it prefers direct phrasing rather than vaguer phrasing (i.e. how long do you cook chicken on the grill vs how do you cook chicken on the grill). Overall though it is ridiculously powerful compared to other assistants.
Again, how?
Yeah. Free speech is one thing, but actively supporting ridiculous viewpoints is another thing entirely, and can't be defended in the name of supporting free speech.

Specifically, this is how Trump became a major party candidate. He was a media personality who waded into a made-up political controversy (the whole birther thing). There wasn't a shred of evidence for one side of that discussion, yet people insisted on giving that side a "fair" hearing. Then he became a fringe candidate, and nobody wanted to call him out on his idiocy and fascism, because hey, free speech. Then he became a major party candidate, and you can't break your association with supporters of a major party candidate. Then he says Obama was obviously born in the US but he was happy to have caused the conversation. Of course he was happy to have caused the conversation! It gave him a legitimacy he never should have had in the first place, and he just played that game repeatedly.

Peter Thiel will have plenty of millions to donate to Trump whether or not he's a YC partner. His right to speech (verbal, written, or monetary) is in no danger. But the speech question here is whether YC will continue saying that support of Trump is a reasonable position. And if they continue saying so, it will be hypocritical (although one is free to say as many hypocritical things as one wishes) to regret his presidency.
That argument seems to prove too much, namely that you could never stop listening to an advisor after having listened to them once.

I've also found a "hidden" inconsistency in his "philosophy": he claims to be a moral actor, and yet he founded Paypal. And – you know – gives millions to Trump.
Minimalism makes sense for traveling, though otherwise it seems like more work to constantly borrow and rent things.
These stories were beaten to death in the 90's. Back then, I hoped that they would impeach Bill just so I wouldn't have to hear about it any more. I don't think you'll find many people that want to do it all over again.
Yeah, I don't know what was more offensive: extending copyright YET AGAIN or doing so retroactively to save Steamboat Willie.

I vowed to boycott Disney, but Pixar got subsumed into the evil empire and I gave up.
ok, Crypto.Cipher import AES, away we go to 1.8
CUBAN CIGARS JUST GOT MUCH EASIER TO OBTAIN
Oh, "for humans"... It was cool when requests came out and it made sense to the audience (Python people familiar with the standard library). But it gets applied to so many things these days that it's just corny. I suppose most people using it intend to convey a folksy, whimsical, self-conscious style. It's supposed to make the content seem approachable.

The folks behind the "Head First!" series seem to understand the appeal of making content approachable. So did the creators of the "For Dummies" series. Hell, Reagan used jelly beans.

It feels dishonest, somehow. Just call it a vim book, or whatever.
But Mr Thiel is not mr Trump.

Obviously Mr Thiel on balance, agrees with mr Trump or at least one of his platform policies is meaningful enough to override other concerns he may have. Most voters have this same type dilemma.

I'm really concerned that today someone can't openly advocate for their formal candidate from a major party.

It's not all that different from people blackballing bona fide Communists --yes, they were a threat to _our_ society back then, but, it was still wrong to persecute people for their beliefs as repugnant as it may be to us [and communism was repugnant to the majority of contemporary Americans at the time]
I threw out everything I owned. But that is not minimalism. Minimalism is when I can throw out the thoughts in my head.
- James Altucher