skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because I didn't want to be 60 years old with a kid in high school?

This type of question represents one of the things that really turns people away from getting into science, or makes people leave. You are expected to give up your ENTIRE PERSONAL LIFE to "the good of society" and make these sacrifices, for...what? To get denied tenure in 5 years (if you're lucky enough to be tenure-track)? This is even more true for women, though this isn't unique to academia. I was thirty years old, had been married for 6 years, just finished my PhD, and thought starting a family sounded like a reasonable thing to. And, my next two kids were born after my postdoc. So, fuck that, and anyone who thinks that waiting until you're 40 to have kids sounds reasonable.
South Korean Adopted at Age 3 Is to Be Deported Nearly 40 Years Later
Flyway author here.

Besides supporting many more databases, Flyway's parser is also much more robust with support for all kinds of database specific things like changing delimiters with MySQL, Oracle PL/SQL, PotsgreSQL COPY FROM STDIN, T-SQL, ...

And you can use truly plain SQL files like the ones generated from your DB's dump tool as a starting point, no special comments required.

(And of course you also have things like repeatable migrations, Java-based migrations (great for complex data transformations), API and build tool integration, ...)
This looks decent
Just because advertising existed before, doesn't mean it has to continue to exist.

Advertising is not a law of nature, it is a human invention and should be replaced by a new invention.

Advertising is a very bad thing. It's a form of brainwashing in which people are manipulated or provoked to consume way beyond their needs.
Its goal is to plant ideas into your head, without you even being aware of it.

Curiously, the law of supply and demand in economics doesn't even mention the concept of advertising, yet it plays a huge role in demand creation.

This 'inflated' demand provokes inflated supply, which creates even more demand (because everyone wants a popular thing), the feedback loop being limited by the speed of extraction of the natural resources and the capacity of the human body, but that can be augmented by increasing human population.

There's too much shit produced in the world, too much waste created, too much useless information on the web and too many shitty websites and ecosystems, which exist solely due to advertising.

I don't mind at all if they disappear or reduce in numbers.

Good content and good products will find ways to survive.

Bill Hicks
https://vimeo.com/36651896

George Carlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtK_YsVInw8
Attacking JavaScript Engines: A Case Study of JavaScriptCore and CVE-2016-4622
Meet the Man Fighting to Protect Your Secrets
Thanks for sharing your story. It sounds you had good self-awareness, and made an important decision to look out for your own well-being and end an unsustainable situation. There are many who could benefit from your example.
Snapchat and Instagram moved too quickly and changed the market. Starting to think that Twitter woes are mismanagement related.
And you are not alone. It has been too much. If not for certain high value programs that run best on a native system, I would not start the old VMWare-virtualized Windows 7 up again.

There are sufficiently good (and cheap) solutions in the Linux community. First Microsoft has to fix what they have been doing wrong for years. And then then have to answer the question what additional value they are providing for the money a company has to pay for their "services".

Hype articles can not undo evil.
"I'm not sure how that plays into account. Where would the DVDs come from? It's not like schools hand those out."

Like I said, I have no idea where they come from. We just have them and we keep getting more.

It kind of makes sense, too - if you have a 4yo it's very easy to show them the physical act of inserting a DVD and having it autoplay (at 6am on a sunday) whereas browsing netflix and choosing (possibly inappropriate) content is not so easy for them.
Yes, yes, yes, it's always the same. Misrepresent well-cited arguments as rants, shoo people away with vague insinuations, and discredit the author from afar. All in the name of the "safety" and "diversity" of a narrow and pampered demographic. It's a tired old playbook.

In the 3 years since I published it, the heads-on-pikes brigade hasn't slowed down, with Crockford being the latest target of a sanctioned witch hunt on the elusive cis white man, based on purely misquoted, imaginary offense. It failed spectacularly with LambdaConf, where people with actual jobs raised a handy $40+k to allow a programming conference to remain politically neutral in the face of a very loud and entitled minority.

So don't worry, you won't see my resume. Outside of the bubble of west coast web tech, there's a whole industry where people with real skills are never out of a job.
How Facebook plans to become one of the most powerful tools in politics (2014)
One has to make a distinction between dialectic situations, where you are trying to get at the truth, vs. rhetorical situations, where the attempt is to convince others (often not the person you are speaking with) of the truth.

For example, trotting out cognitive biases in a rhetorical situation is often very effective, particularly when your opponent is operating in a dialectic mindset.

Know thyself, but also know thy situation.
While union workers often have less salary disparity, their salaries also tend to be higher overall. The only downside to this is if the "best performers" derive value from their "worse performer" peers being paid less than them.
>>> The day that index funds cease to be the optimal investment strategy (for most individuals) is the day that stocks overall have stopped being a viable investment strategy.

Don't worry the day will come. ;) It's called a black swan.

I'm not arrogant, I'm just well educated and a student of the market. If you study the market long enough you will learn it's nothing more than just a big casino run by the federal reserve and the big banks.

Yes, Index strategy was great when it was invented in the 70's and 80's and probably the 90's. But if you have everybody rushing into index funds, well that causes an imbalance in the market. Similar to 2008, the tech bubble and even all the way back to tulip bubble. (google it)

I'm really sorry that disturbed your investment strategy.
Long-Term Administration of NMN Mitigates Age-Associated Decline in Mice
Funny enough my first experience with worrydream was without JS, as with most new websites. And it's much better then.
If these 25 employees would be clever then you'd get 25 massive pay rises in a very short amount of time by everyone quickly realizing that if you all praise yourself endlessly in those discussions then it is difficult for 1 single boss to push back on 25 people's amazingly positive feedback. Not trying to plant an idea though. Just saying.
I did find that most all of my questions were directly addressed in the paper on a slow read. I should have picked up on them in a fast read.

Your second paragraph seems to hit it on the head, though. Since most of my exposure was to scheme and racket, I have not looked deeply at Lisp2s. However, having switched to emacs and written some elisp, I have yet to really be annoyed by the fact that it is a Lisp2.
Wait... Some people can't turn them off? Some people don't have them at all?

I've always been able to think without voices in my head, or deliberately use them to focus my thoughts. I never even considered that others might be stuck in one mode or the other.
Parent-child relations in NoSQL
How Meetup Ditched Its Boys Club
I kind of like the irony of the scientific "class" becoming childless, like a priesthood. It's probably not too far from the truth. Kind of like the two couples in Idiocracy.
This is pretty sad. I'm not a "proper" Vine user -- I don't even have the app installed -- but I've long loved seeing vines via Twitter or Tumblr. I hope a similar product comes along to fill the void and reunite the Vine community (introducing: YouTube Loops??).
The state of freelancing, a guide to 2017
I created https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/173 last weekend in response to my first experience of CoinTent.

At the time, I was mostly offended by the insultingly large (72KB after GZIP) JavaScript file that the system caused me download to facilitate the wrecking of my experience, and felt a little guilty for recommending them for inclusion in uBlock.

Now that I realize their entire business strategy is based on creating a problem – reaction – solution scenario for their own benefit, at the expense of publishers and readers.

The concept is basically, "We don't like ads and you shouldn't either, so here's an ad to tell you that while ruining your web experience. Now give us money."
If you'd ran a similar exercise for the 2015 UK General Election, the outcome would not have been as you desired. Famously the polls were wrong and the Conservatives won by a small majority. In fact, Sir Paddy Ashdown stated on live television that he'd "Eat his hat" if the polls were wrong, an action I think he may have probably regretted.
On a $5/mo 512mb/20gb DO VPS, a single django application deployed with nginx, gunicorn, postgres and redis on the same box started to OOM me (nothing in application logs!) when doing something like generating a thumbnail.

Deployed some swap and once thumbnail caches are warm we're fine, but, adding node as an additional dependency just seems overkill. python-react seems like a good fit.[0]

[0] https://github.com/markfinger/python-react

edit: s/React-python/python-react/g
I suggest you do some more research on PC equivalents. From Lenovo, the X1 Carbon is probably closest to an rMBP in terms of target market and price. It's also a pound lighter, has a user replaceable battery, matte screen, no glass parts, better keyboard, NVMe SSD interface, better wifi reception and a power cable that is robust and won't fray. Yes there are also many points in the MBPs favour. We have both macs and PCs in our household and I get tired of Apple fans that constantly claim the MBP is somehow unmatched in design and quality. It isn't. It makes many tradeoffs.

Apologies for the rant
How one little community helped us raise $8M
America's Biggest Filer of Patent Suits Claims It Invented Shipping Notification
See above. No kidding. My point exactly.
I don't know the answer, but I do remember people saying that Google was making a huge mistake buying the unmonetizable YouTube.
"We build on the solders of giants."

And me thinking it was a peaceful software project, without any soldering or soldiering...
"Relying on previous genetic research and African colonial records, Dr. Pépin showed that H.I.V. was carried from Kinshasa to Haiti in the 1960s — most likely by one of the thousands of Haitian civil servants recruited by the United Nations to work in the former Belgian Congo after colonial rule collapsed."
Data Viz of Every Acquisition by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and Facebook
Rather than getting into dualism or non-intuitive philosophy/metaphysics, it's better to view humans as philosophical zombies from the get-go.

Consciousness is not something we possess from birth, but a self-model that gradually emerges as the organism's cybernetic interactions with the environment increase. It then follows that any process that could disrupt this would lead to people with a not fully-developed sense of self or in other words partial PZombies.
This is just flat out wrong. Microsoft has improved a lot and is doing some cool stuff but they are still doing horrible shady things too.

Windows 10 installs with very invasive default settings, and updates have re-enabled those invasive settings, requiring users to be aware of that and go in and turn them off again.

I applaud the moves to Open Source and standardization. But they have further to go before I would call them a "puppy".
This is the purpose of courts, the purpose of peer review, the purpose of debate.

Ideally. But keep in mind: not for everyone, and it would be in the interests of those primarily concerned with power and manipulation to convince those concerned with truth and the greater good that this is the case.
I don't get it.

Why not make it Twitter's Dedicated Video App as vine already has a strong network which can be built upon.

Very soon Facebook will release their dedicated video app and Twitter will be looking clueless.

I don't get big companies
Thanks everybody for your advice. I've carefully read all of it.

And since no less than three people have privately cautioned me about taking advice from HN, let me just say that one of the things I love/hate about HN is that we here are very good at poking holes in ideas.

As somebody who has been a daily Twitter user for years, and as somebody who worked on anti-abuse stuff in the early days of web community sites, I'm super excited about possibly helping solve Twitter's abuse problem. Twitter is the closest thing we have to a global public square, and I truly believe that dialog is necessary for us to solve our biggest problems. I would love to make Twitter a hospitable place for many more voices.

But I remind myself of the engineer in the classic joke about the guillotine. I worry that my love of solving problems might be causing me to ignore personal risks: http://sethf.com/freespeech/memoirs/humor/guillotine.php

So my goal here was not to take the median HN position as gospel, but just to see what concerns people raised. (I could also have asked on Twitter, but there's a bit of selection bias there.) And indeed, many useful concerns were mentioned. So thanks, all!
Black Swan.
> Are you going to fund the internet archive to handle that workload?

I figured someone would ask that. I don't have an immediate answer but it's a good question (upvote for that). My hopes are just that removal requests are not too frequent. But without current numbers (of number of pages hidden after-the-fact and current removal requests) this is guesswork.

They could charge for it perhaps? A dollar per request. Doesn't seem too unreasonable for something you mistakenly made available to the planet. It doesn't have to be per page, so if you made a million documents available all under example.com/hidden/ then hiding that folder is a simple action and costs just one dollar. You're paying them for their time.

In the Netherlands, if you want your personal information (e.g. phone number; email address) removed from a company's systems, you can request that and they must grant it if they have no reason to keep the data any longer. And you can make requests to see your data, etc. But the law allows for companies to charge for this and I've seen example amounts (I think around 3 euros) somewhere. It's a somewhat similar situation.

So I don't have a single good answer, but I think by-case is a better way to go (and worth thinking about, at least) than just using the current approach.
Maybe you could explain what's appealing about Vine? A lot of people don't understand what it offers over a tube site.
Because then people turn around and complain that it's not being improved.
Seriously, you can't win here.

If you kill it because it costs something and you have no plan to ever keep it going, people complain

If you let it live but just "keep it working", people also complain.

Additionally, killing it brings certain nice guarantees, like, for example, "you can stop worrying about security bugs, privacy bugs, etc at some point" because it's gone.

You can't really just keep stuff working anymore, even in the simple case, new attacks get found that apply to old code, etc.

When those things get busted, or bad things happen, people complain about it.

As for "why not just put one person on it", there's a multitude of reasons. Let's start with "what is the career path for a guy who does nothing but keep a dead product walking?"

So in reality, what people want is "keep focusing on products i care about". But that isn't always a viable model.
More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12806324
> Your browser doesn’t support live streaming of the event.

Can someone share the URL so I can stream via VLC or similar, please?

EDIT: Thank you @alva
Speaking as an ex-insider, Twitter cares very much about abuse. It also cares about free speech. The trick is enabling one without enabling the other.
Because you can not get pregnant at 55yo. For many scientist women is a now or never.
As soon as I see an extension to Ubuntu that works only on a Windows host I'll know that extinguish is on its way. Even Red Hat will suffer because it will mean that at least for somebody there will be some good reason to deploy Linux applications on a Windows host on Azure (or whatever), possibly interfacing other MS products.
I mostly use this because limited data plan, makes it use a lot less data if you already downloaded the area you are currently in before hand while you were still on wifi.
That's fucking stupid. I wasn't crazy about Vine but Twitter was first to market with a brandable property taht quickly became A Thing. It was the one innovative thing to come out of Twitter in the last few years, and now they're shutting it down. If I had any Twitter stock I would dump it all on this news.
In theory if you are a top performer, you can go walk down the street for a raise. and keep going it until you can't get more raises.

Not that all top performers do this. Being good at a job has little relation to being good at getting paid a lot. But you can be both a top performer AND top paid, if you play the right cards.
As the quality of 3rd party Mac software has improved, Apple has stepped back their own software products. To me, that makes good sense.

Back when they were struggling with relevance, they had to supply it all. Who else would? They wanted to be the "digital hub," digital hub software wasn't available, so they had to provide it themselves.

That's not the situation anymore. Adobe stuff is great and it runs on Macs. Microsoft stuff is great and it runs on Macs. Google stuff is great and it runs on Macs. Why should Apple try to compete with all them?

I disagree that Apple is turning away from professional users. They still sell great computers for professionals. They're just stepping back from trying to compete in the space of professional application software. That's not hostility, that's focus.

I know some customers really liked the Apple productivity products, and disappointed that they've been scaled back or killed. But I think it's a good move, and I hope Apple continues to focus more resources on improving their OS, developer tools, security, and services.
I'm not ready to forgive yet. There are very few places I can buy a computer with Linux preinstalled, and too much Linux-unfriendly hardware, and I still wonder when the UEFI hammer will fall.
Hacker PDF
i really wonder why facebook did not build something cross platform .. maybe using something like Electron to build something like Figma.com

It would have been brilliant for Linux desktop users.
The ExoMars spacecraft’s crash landing
http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/16oibfvohbf...
GDS doesn't fund projects, they just provide a gate that IT projects are meant to pass. This also isn't saying that you can't do native apps, just that you need to have a good reason for doing so.
We get research funding from government agencies like the NIH and NSF. You can also get private grants (e.g. I got an NVIDIA grant in 2009 to do GPU research). The funding pool has remained stagnant for years, while we are pumping out more PhDs than ever. Back in the 90's an R01 (the top NIH grant you can get, and which more or less ensured tenure) had a 33% funding rate or so. It is now in the low to mid single digits. Plus, the rules have changed, so that you cannot fund your salary off of a single R01; you now need TWO R01s to pay yourself, which is the goal, at least in a soft money position. After learning this "on the job" as it were, it didn't take long to start looking elsewhere.
This begs the question, what experiment could you do to find out if his exercises work?

Taking away his millions and giving him a lousy boss is one way, but perhaps there is another easier way that I'm just not thinking of right now.
Does it change your mind knowing that it was not imposed from a position of power?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12806739
Perception distorts perception. The problem of media compounds the problem that individuals create their own perceptions out of a combination of incoming stimuli, prior experience and emotion. Science and philosophy (and other metaphysics like religion) all dispute the implied corollary of one objective reality, and as far as I know they also fail to prove any such happenstance.

I don't mean to deny your point, instead try to widen it out with an aim to finding a more useful general solution.
It also has a channel feature that works somewhat like subreddits which spawns pretty nice little communities
Wow, this is up there as one of the best responses I've read on HN.

Abuse is a huge problem at Twitter so being part of the team fixing it is a huge opportunity to "move the needle" as they say, and yet drama is historically a views/comment getter so some factions of the company might actually want to keep it around for its 'metrics'.

This is one of the biggest challenges at modern "web" companies, there is the outward facing position on a "problem" and then there some folks who are extracting value out of the problem so they only pay it lip service rather than work on it. Perhaps the canonical example was Tumblr's "porn" problem. It was a huge "problem" that Tumblr blogs were just image streams of contributed porn, and it was "great" that Tumblr was adding so many new blogs a month and getting so many unique visits Etc. So the metrics on which Tumblr was getting valued were being generated by content that was a problem, see the conflict? As a result any real efforts in engineering (according to stories, I don't know how true they are) at suppressing porn were quietly shelved.

So from an interviewing perspective, for a team that is going to address the "problem", you need to ascertain if the company wants a group which makes a lot of noise but doesn't change the status quo very much, or if the company wants to actually fix the problem. Depending on what kind of person you are, that will tell you if the opportunity is a good fit or not.
Interesting read, at work we spend a lot of time thinking about the "city stack" - this is a really well put together paper on the subject. "In particular, IoT poses major challenges related to the capacity to process continuous flows of sensor data generated by a large number of Smart Objects" - fragmentation in this area is resulting in a huge inability for correlation and insight.
If you are interested in learning how your brain makes decisions, where biases and error come from, and a whole lot more, I highly recommend this book by Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman:
https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp...

Interestingly, he won his nobel prize in the field of economics, but he's a psychologist, not an economist. His research was so influential that it changed business strategies (esp. around how meetings are held) forever.

I can't say enough good things about Thinking Fast and Slow. Go read it.

I posted this article in reply to another comment in this thread, but I think many will find it interesting and useful. It's a good jumping off point into his research and why it's important.

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/frontal-cortex/why-smart-peopl...