skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny conspiracy theory but I have to say that following Occam's razor I would have reach the conclusion that it was indeed Goebbels who was behind it all as the presumably correct historical explanation is quite convoluted.

On the other hand for the Goebbels theory to be plausible I only need to evaluate: Did Goebbels have the power to influence this all across Europe? Yes he definitely had the power to do so.

Actually it wouldn't even be that crazy to believe this as the Nazis believed in all kinds of crazy mystical druid magic nonsense. (That Hitler could have sent people to search for the Ark of the Covenant as depicted in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" isn't that far fetched)
"Residential properties usually have short term leases."

Not true in Germany. Most leases are indefinite. As the contractual rent often increases by less than the market there is some incentive to stay put. Also keep in mind that moving in Germany is an expensive proposition as the kitchen is usually not part of the deal.
We wish Scott Adams.
I don't even... why in the world would it be important for a doctor to differentiate being struck by a dolphin or struck by orca (side note: orcas are dolphins!).
What else the busibess model should be? Ads injected with their fonts from cdn? Some people are never satisfied.
I use Lastpass and I just realized that it prevents phishing since it autocompletes my login info based on the domain.
For realz. And it's at least two notches above Chef Boy-ar-dee.
http://practicaltypography.com/
The second is defined as the time it takes for two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the 133 Ce atom to make 9,192,631,770 transitions. How is that not special?
Would it not make sense for broadband router manufacturers to step up here, especially ISPs who provide routers to customers.

First of all, IoT devices really need to be connected on isolated vlans with very strictly controlled WAN capabilities. Obviously this already exists, but not in the fashion a layman, who wants to put their fridge on the wifi will understand. The average home routers need cleaner interfaces and clearer abstractions rather than the cruft that exists now.

Does your fridge really need to access the internet, and if it does, perhaps you could setup your router to only allow access at certain times, to a single host and with circuit breaker protections in case traffic has a signature that matches that of a DDoS attack. This circuit breaker pattern could be extended to all traffic running through the router, and provide the user with reports of potential infected devices and traffic hungry users.
You should really look at http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/
You cannot just add the components to any case and get the same thing.
Sam's Laser FAQ by far: http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/lasersam.htm

I could read that thing all day. It's been around forever, and it reminds me of what the Internet used to be...lots of useful content, simple layout, "hypertext". LINKS!

He's been maintaining it for years and my go-to source for anything laser related.
Agreed.

I have conversations with a lot of people about politics, even though where I live it puts me sometimes into uncomfortable positions and I'm sure I've lost customers or other business opportunities due to it.

The people supporting clinton fall into two baskets (sorry, couldn't resist).

#1 are people who have reasons (sometimes good, sometimes bad) for supporting clinton. I can have very productive conversations with these people, and, intellectually honest ones.

#2 are the people that simply say that any support for trump whatsoever is tantamount to treason and betrayal (morally/personally or even one time, someone actually said it should be "illegal"). They rarely have any good reasons for supporting clinton and when it is, I generally find it to be an issue where they interpret position as indelible truth. EG: Clinton is better for LGBT people, if you support Trump, you hate LGBT people. Perhaps LGBT people, of which I am one, simply have different priorities? What if I believe trump will do a better job with the economy and I consider that more important than having legislation protecting who will bake a cake at my wedding? Many people I used to consider this friends take that position as a moral and personal treason.

I unfortunately have a lot less friends than a year ago.
According to this website:
http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/small-business-health-in...

"On average, small businesses paid about eight to 18 percent more than large firms for the same health insurance policy"

Not sure how many of those small businesses bought directly, or from the ACA exchanges.
The owner of a publishing platform exercising freedom of press in a way which disfavor Adams' preferred candidate isn't treason.
I see lots of good arguments for a basic income, and I'm somewhat convinced that it could do much good, but these questions keep bothering me:

1. What percent of the population will just take their guaranteed income and do drugs/play video games/party all day, instead of being ambitious?

2. What will be the cultural effects of a large segment of the population living a life devoid of duty and consequences?

3. Will we allow these overgrown children to vote? And what would they possibly vote for except a bigger basic income and more freebies? And if you did restrict the franchise, then what incentive will the franchised class have to rule for the benefit of the disenfranchised?

4. Won't this new underclass reproduce much more rapidly than the productive class? Again, what are the social consequences of this?

5. How do you reconcile a basic income with open immigration, which we seem to be moving towards? A basic income in the US would probably be greater than the yearly income of most working people in the world.
>My US Bank clerk needed a few meetings to convince me that it is good to build go into monthly credits (creditcard) to support my credit score.

Uhmm, can't a bank see your salaries? Because in Turkey they want to see your salaries. You enter to www.turkiye.gov.tr and print out your last 12 months salaries with a validation number and then hand it to your bank. Or you ask from your employer, he ask it from Social Security, travels back to you and you hand it to your bank.

Then they check wheter you had missed to pay back your credit (even to another bank, because they share data). And they check wheter if you were rejected by an another bank (because they share data).

Basically, your score is high if your salary is high.
I'm pretty sure ChickFila established that corporations have just as much right to free speech as we do. This includes and is not limited to choosing what content they would like to share.
Two quick questions: Of the investments Initialized has made, what percentage of them are non-YC alums? Of those, how did they connect with Initialized? Cold email, warm intro, etc?
> I hope you don't also like Orson Scott Card...

Not really, and I already knew about that one.

(But if Neal Stephenson is crazy, I don't want to know about it.)
Siri being complete crap has nothing to do with privacy, in fact the original iteration of Siri sent everything to the cloud for processing. I honestly don't know how the meme got started that privacy, out of all things, is hurting Siri.

Siri cannot even remember the subject of the last question. It cannot answer meaningful questions about anything on the internet. Its knowledge of "places of interest" is terrible because Apple's database is years behind Google's. I've given up on "Hey Siri" because it just doesn't work.

If Siri is almost useless when it comes to publicly accessible information, then how would it help to give it centralised access to private information?

(Or the other way around: If Siri worked well, but was limited to publicly available information, it would still be freaking awesome. But I have my doubts about the current iteration of AI.)
Do you have any reference for the French "cartes de crédit" not being the same as the credit cards elsewhere?
You discover that there is rarely something new under the sun. Even the youngsters who want to show you your flaws to feel superior , they pop up like mushrooms if its the season.
> People are allowed to grow roots, shape and improve a place, and connect with their neighbors all they like.

Well, their landlord may disagree.

That is, if they are renting... what is what this discussion is about.
Woah ! Big catch. He's obviously got some super dope scale experience from Netflix. Can only mean good things for AWS, considering MSFT is snatching some big cos as customers.
Agree, seems bizarre but sounds like sloppy device config.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12765265
Google needs to add some optional intelligence to Chrome so that when it comes across a site with suspiciously similar design as key google urls by on a unrenognized url, it should warn the user.
Just pay for a better product then.

Beggars can't be choosers.
Here's a post on Stackoverflow that can explain it better than I can: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21363295/understanding-ja...
Scott Adams insight has been very interesting. You may not agree with his current endorsement, but his analysis from a persuasion perspective is unique. No one else predicted that Trump would do this well. He started predicting a Trump win in August of 2015 when everyone thought Trump's participation in the Republican primaries was a joke. Take a look at his first posts on Trump. Nobody was even close to picking Trump as a front runner then. http://blog.dilbert.com/tagged/Trump/page/34
I don't slave. It takes me 30 minutes or so to have a complete meal most nights. But only, perhaps, 10 minutes of my time. I start the rice as soon as I get in from the gym. Meats and vegetables get prepared after my shower. If it involves the stove, they're done in approximately ten minutes for most of my recipes. If it involves the oven, I may spend up to ten minutes in total on prep before tossing them in to bake.

I guess I don't make the most involved meals, but they certainly taste good.

EDIT: Besides, why can't the time I spend cooking be with my family or friends? Not like my home is big, if my girlfriend doesn't want to be in the open floor plan kitchen/living room/dining room and would rather hide in the bedroom, I guess she can. Would be awkward. Similarly for when friends are over. It's not like I need intense concentration while I cook, just enough to not burn/cut myself or burn the meal.
Biosensors to monitor U.S. students' attentiveness
Or it could come from an already infected account, which might make the e-mail even less suspicious.
SPA's didn't ruin everything, users ruined everything. Site responsiveness is demonstrably important for almost all user metrics -- conversions, sales, customer experience [1]. Even if a page load is blindingly fast a refresh is still perceived as "slow" from a user perspective. And yet they still expect URLs to maintain some sort of relative functionality. HATEOAS is a great idea for a simple site but not when it's affecting my bottom line.

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-do-page-load-times-affect-e-commer...
oh god... why did I come here? Like I needed to find more rabbit holes.
Ha! I thought you were making that up...
WordPress Plugins, a Cautionary Tale
None of this is true in Germany, so you're arguing a case on faulty premises (like 'x is true under current law, so we shouldn't change the law because x' - ignoring that a side effect, or maybe even a goal, of changing the law would be to make x not true).
pilgrim.are.na looks very nice!
For https://userinput.io (my service that connects you with reviewers on-demand feedback for your website, app or idea), getting on Product Hunt was the biggest thing. I got on Product Hunt nearly three months ago, and I still get traffic from there that converts. I was #3 the day I posted it. And yeah as other people have said in this thread, you need to know someone who can post it for you. I coordinated with an influencer that I kind of know, and he helped me out. My advice with Product Hunt is to post your project at like 1am California time, then start working your mailing list and social networks to try to get upvotes from Europe / Asia / Australia before Americans wake up, so that you have a decent amount of upvotes already, then just keep hustling getting attention to it that day. Be very available on PH to answer questions and respond to comments etc.

Early on, my first customers actually came from Twitter, which I still find surprising, but it worked. I simply did the "copy followers" technique of copying people who follow similar Twitters, and since they're probably interested in the topic of feedback, they would follow me back or check out the site.

Reddit ads also got a few orders, and are pretty cheap and interesting to try out.

Also I built out http://feedbacktools.org as a way to promote my own project and learn about a ton of other similar tools. It's basically just a small curated directory of every tool I could find that was related to feedback, but of course mine is at the top.

Also, a referral plan helps. I give customers a code that they can share with their friends for $10 off their first order, and anyone who refers a new customer gets a $10 credit.
The article mentions Mark Zuckerberg only in passing but it is worth noting that Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are another visionary-CEO + world-class-executor "dynamic duo" in Silicon Valley. Who will replace Mark Zuckerberg after his departure? If it's Sheryl Sandberg, the same Steve Ballmer / Tim Cook scenario will repeat itself and we can look forward to future articles like "Why Sheryl Sandberg is the next Tim Cook and why she still has her job at Facebook".
One of the reasons the article is so bad is that it's setting up a pile of false dichotomies, some of which you're embedding into assumptions here.

Doing stuff to serve business needs is not intrinsically bad, or opposed to craftsmanship. The whole idea of craftwork is that it serves a purpose, right? It must have an actual function, and the goal is to build a thing that serves that function well. So yes, you should absolutely build software that fulfills its purpose well. Just remember that the business is the purpose, not the software in itself.

This isn't just about economics, it's about a larger perspective. Think about the people who use your software, and every time you're thinking about what you're doing, think about how it will impact those users. Will it make their experience better, or will it just make your experience better? (If the latter, don't do it.) Will it make their experience better, but there are other things that they'd really rather have. (Ensure that you're working on the right priorities.)

A lot of the things you list as "real engineering" -- realistic deadlines, risk management -- are things that absolutely do help the users: They want to know realistically when they can expect functionality to be there so they can plan for it; they want to know what things might throw that schedule off and be kept up to date on whether they're happening. So a good workplace will use those things.

(I'd argue that some of the other items you list are actually not that beneficial, like planning for long-term evolution: The reality is that businesses evolve, and they might get a new big customer, or shift into a new line of business, that will necessitate major rewrites in the application anyway, so trying to plan for that from an engineering side is light folly. But it's mostly harmless, and sometimes helpful; and depending on your environment, maybe it would make sense.)

In particular, doing everything as shittily as possible is not beneficial to anyone. Users hate systems that flake out and don't work reliably, right? (At the same time, users might rather have a particular new feature that would save them an hour every day, rather than having you fix that one really thorny bug that's causing the system to need to be rebooted once a month. You'd rather have that, too, if you were them.)

So do stuff well, engage closely with your users and customers, think about their needs and goals, and then do the best you can to meet them, while communicating openly and honestly in a collaborative spirit, and committing as a team to high standards.

It really does work, in a way that a dedication to cynicism never will.
The Potency of Idempotent with RabbitMQ and MongoDB Upsert
I was trying to figure out the roadmap, pricing, and feature sets for their APUs. I gave up. I'm looking for a low-end APU with a fair amount of system ram (not dedicated vram) for use as a graphics coproccessor on a relatively slow bus. I'm finding high end CPUs with integrated graphics, and low-end CPU only chips. The only thing close to what I'm looking for is on an older process.
Sites that publish AMP pages are ceding control over their content to Google
Now we can only hope that we don't forget where we put all that knowledge. I'm still looking for a pair of scissors I kept "someplace safe."
> it wants me to flip some sysctl about user namespaces or something

FWIW, this is no longer needed! Sandstorm has been updated to work without user namespaces and this installer script change will remove the check from the installer (will probably ship this week):

https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/pull/2656

(You will need to let Sandstorm start as root if you don't want to flip the sysctl, though.)
Your username is fitting
The wiki implies it's probably real, and links to two relevant things, but doesn't go further - Enigma is locked down almost as hard as Seeking The Name there.

I hadn't read it until just now, but that's a really good piece. It's a fascinating quest, to the point where I have a second character for it and have seen it discussed in several places. I think StormingTheIvory had a pretty good essay, despite being a source I usually have serious issues with.

It's an utterly bizarre quest. I think there's an important hole in game design literature centered around things like Seeking and I Wanna Be The Guy. It's this whole school of consciously abusive game design that completely contradicts basic principles. Seeking The Name is even weirder than most, because you can't even justify it in terms of skill challenges. The best analogue I have is the self-destruct button in Starship Titanic, which is literally just a big red button you can hit to lose the game.

RPS is the first source I've seen offer a justification for this sort of behavior. If a game can't be genuinely punishing, then what's the point of putting up challenges in the first place?
Yes but this would just mean an even bigger part of the story is missing — how that one got compromised.
The Ill-Fated History of the Jet Pack
Extreme Practices – The Preparation
That's why I love and recommend password managers to all my friends / relatives. Not only does it help prevent phishing but it promotes stronger passwords.
Oh look, this argument again. Adams does publish and promote his content via other means.

But Twitter took on this responsibility themselves. Here's their self-stated mission:

Our mission: To give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.

- https://about.twitter.com/company

Recently their mission is more like, "To give everyone the power to create and share ideas that we agree with and information that furthers our personal beliefs instantly, without barriers."
The way the economy has been for the last decade in the US is that if you're not in a city that is up and coming you're in a town that is rotting, as all the jobs or industry that used to prop up the town are leaving for somewhere cheaper. Because we are being pushed to a new global economy and we have no social safety net, moving places is required just as much as changing jobs is, unless you happen to be in one of the anointed fields that is benefiting from globalization.
while land in Russia, in particular East, is becoming more usable/livable with no population growth :) Through the history empires have risen and fallen in sync with climate changes, and climate change has already initiated redrawing of the maps in the Middle East and North Africa and looks like it is just the beginning of the new round of maps redrawing around the world.
Probably the most interesting thing about Fort Sumter is that so little happened there, in all honesty. That and seeing it on a map to understand why it was valuable.
None were weak, but some may have improved given more time to work on them.

The British way of writing for TV can be quite different from the american one; less concerned about narrative cohesion/logic/dramatic principles and more focused on taking the audience for a crazy ride (see also: Sherlock, Dr. Who).

In Black Mirror s3, the double-twist episode originally only had a single twist according to Charlie. It feels like they tacked on the second twist without adjusting the entire narrative to align with it.
Don't forget this classic parody video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrr7AZ9nCY
This is one of mine. I'm into history, in particular local and western history.

http://www.sptddog.com/sotp/
Poor kids who do things right don't do better than rich kids who do things wrong
Dear Garry - is any VC really "founder friendly"? VCs expect founders to work for zero or minimal salary. Even a below-market salary is incredibly painful in any metro.

My question -- will VC-funded startups ever enter the realm of the non-wealthy and/or beyond bro's willing to bunk up in a studio apt?
The problem is that twitter doesn't display their feed as "twitter opinion," nor does facebook. When I go to the new york times or a similar publication's works I understand that I'm getting a biased to their POV feed of information.

What Adams is saying here is that, as a pure aggregation platform, twitter should not be biasing against a particular political ideology. Keep in mind he's not saying that its an abridgement of free speech. Just that twitter has a moral duty to be fair in their dealings. You can disagree with that, but, twitter should be more honest about that if that's how they want to do things.

If twitter wants to become a platform for purely unchallenging discussion of only democratic candidates (and some subset of that) they can and should make that fact clear.
Sadly, my first job out of college involved these codes after we wrote a rural health grant. The money and pain that went into that thing still wakes me up at night. The codes (and the cost of acquiring the "book" along with filling out the forms) gave me fits and actually made me think heavily about calling in sick for work each morning in the shower.
Directional audio cables are another example of such "making impressions" business.

(Technically nonsense, of course.)
I guess it depends on your definition. In my experience people who can barely support themselves make too much to be granted a subsidy most of the time. Myself when I was a cook included.
I enjoy listening to simulated activations of the EAS (Emergency Alert System) on YouTube. A few interesting ones:

Nuclear Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZIynuYDRVA

Alien Invasion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKre_8rufrw

Russian Invasion:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYOlnuxZzNQ

Clown Sightings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUugY4VfgZc

I always find the EAS activation tone to be kind of bone chilling (which I suppose is its intention). I hear it so infrequently here in Canada that it really grabs my attention immediately.

Listening to the fake ones online probably makes it worse, though. When I heard the emergency alert tone come on the radio while driving from Toronto to Ottawa, I checked the skies for UFOs. Ended up just being a tornado warning. :)
(Finally something I can contribute to, on HN)

My father plays in a baroque orchestra (the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra), and I know that when they play a repertory, e.g. Dieterich Buxtehude, the orchestra tunes to 465 meantone.