skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without a doubt he was goaded for sure. But unfortunately he took the bait, and lost his cool. He is speaking his mind, but in a debate in a public setting like this you have lost when you start cursing.

The condescension from the left is very evident:

> trying to engage you as civily as we can

> a few of us have given you the courtesy of trying to engage with you

Like you are some kind of "other". The hypocrisy is unbelievable.

I've received similar comments during Trump debates on HN.

I always assumed the HN community and entrepreneurs would stick to logical debate without the need to resort to ad-hominem attacks, but I was deeply wrong.

I think entrepreneurs are very susceptible to thinking with their emotions rather than their brains, as it is necessary to sell a vision to investors and employees, ignore the risks, and take on the seemingly impossible.

Think - Steve Job's reality distortion field.
I find it easy enough to be mindful in general, assuming we're talking about the same concept, but lately it's relationships that have troubled my flow, and more particularly the repeated occurrence of getting attached to and then losing someone. I'm learning to deal with it, though.
I agree that the "free college" issue was not laid out clearly enough. In reality, many countries offer free public education at the college level, it's not a ridiculous proposition. It's a worthy cause as long as the programs being subsidized lead to more capable and, eventually, more affluent American work force that would boost the economy.

Ideally, Bernie's platform would offset the cost of some free higher education by closing corporate tax loopholes, releasing non-violent drug offenders from tax-funded prisons and jails, and significantly reducing military spending.
It's not the quality of the iteration that matters it is the speed of the iterations. This is Donald Trump's modus operandi. Here is Jeff Atwood's explanation of Boyd's Law of Iteration.[0] I doubt Donald Trump is conscious of much but whether he is conscious of it or not he acts with an OODA loop. My guess is that Trump will observe, orient, decide, and act. Then he will do it again in that order.

One thing I'm willing to admit about Donald Trump is that he is a great and successful father. I hope that his paternal instinct motivates him to see all children in the United States with the same care he sees his own children. And, that he cares equally for their futures as his own. If that happens I am confident he will be a decent president.

[0] https://blog.codinghorror.com/boyds-law-of-iteration
I think rubies are much more appealing.
Martin Luther King on “Guaranteed Income” (1967)
Let's extend this sentiment to all gemstones. Reality show enthusiasts have started ripping up high peaks in Colorado for worthless shiny stones like aquamarine.
It's a bit of a stretch to say that only diamond rings are acceptable, but also to say that they're unknown outside the United States.
try to convince her that a different gemstone (ruby, sapphire etc) is better.
I tried and failed, but it might work.
Then give a donation receipt for a charity that you both support for the cost of the diamond instead. At least that way the sacrificed money will support something you both believe in rather than the diamond industry.
Does giving them something of actual value not prove the same? Do divorce laws not guarantee monetary sacrifice already?

My opinion is that this is proof of irrational attachment..
If my girlfriend thought that I loved her less because I didn't give her a diamond ring, I'd reconsider my relationship.
I thought the argument was that you could spend the same amount and get a bigger rock. Maybe I was injecting my own interpretation of things.
On stackexchange the idea of a graviton laser has already been discussed: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/170215/in-theory...
try to make one at home?
"The big difference between moissanite and diamond is that moissanite can be manufactured reliably and efficiently in a laboratory."

Thats not true, diamonds can be manufactured reliably and efficiently in a laboratory as well. And its nearly impossible to tell the difference between natural and artificial ones. Only a very complicated lab test with a machine can tell the difference.
Aren't they worth what people are willing to pay?

Yes, but only as a function of their scarcity. Diamonds aren't actually rare. They're only made rare by diamond companies hoarding them and releasing tiny numbers of stones in order to maintain a high price. You certainly wouldn't buy diamonds as an investment, just in case a diamond company dumped their stockpile on to the market and the price collapsed.
A $2000 ring is cents per day for a long marriage.

66% of marriages survive 10 years. The ring would cost 50c per day.

Buy the ring, and spend less of coffee.
Yeah, the arguments about resale value seem ridiculous. Who's buying a wedding ring as an investment?
GrubHub CEO Attacks Trump, Tells Employees with 'Hateful Attitudes' to Resign
The problem is that Apple imposes restrictions on the use of apps, even if the app developers themselves don't want to. For example, did you know you can't use your iPhone apps for non-personal, commercials purposes? That means that legally, if you use any app for "any fare, fee, rate, charge or other consideration, or directly or indirectly in connection with any business, or other undertaking intended for profit"[1], you're breaking the Store rules and can have your account terminated.

The GPL doesn't allow the users rights to be restricted in this way, hence the incompatibility.

[1] 18 U.S. Code § 31
For me, any creative profession is draining. Creativity takes something out of you, picture it like a well you draw water from. If there is no source filling that well up again, eventually the well will dry up and you will hit rock bottom.

There came a point where I realized that if my work requires me to be drawing from my well of creativity, I have to make a _daily_ habit of replenishing it with inspiration so I have enough left for tomorrow.

Things that inspire me to write CSS are things like listening to new music, cooking a dinner, watching funny things on YouTube, and exploring my city on foot.

Try to make a daily habit if replenishing your well with the things that inspire you and it will really help make sure you have plenty of creativity to draw on as you need it :)
If you are on windows and want nice console, I like Cmder:
http://cmder.net/
To take another example, so long as Silicon Valley doesn't move economic activity to other parts of the country, it is going to "succeed" because 49 1/2 states are redlined, not because it has any understanding of what people in the rest of the country (never mind the world) might want (or be able) to buy.

Unfortunately the #1 problem with the current American "meritocracy" is that it has enough control of the narriative that it can always frame itself as successful and blame its failings on other people. For instance, Marissa Meyer can manufacture "success" by buying worthless companies started by her friends, and now with a record of "success" they can go rip off more investors.
> I don't want to be cheap

Why not get something expensive, yet valuable then?
Apparently couples spend on average $4k on a wedding ring and from moissanite.net I see the most expensive ring costing $2,575. If that's too "low" then keep buying necklaces, ankle bracelets and belly button rings until it adds up to $4k.
Some say their stock value has taken a hit because of this.

http://imgur.com/a/44A3J
The Kepler equation solver is the standard Newton iteration, which is ok until e gets larger. The actual N-body simulator in gravity engine allows for better orbits and the integrator is configurable (Hermite, Leapfrog) and easy to extend. Colwells book has LOTS on this subject too (https://www.willbell.com/MATH/mc12.htm)

There are about 20 GE users so far, so it seems somewhat "niche". Offering an asset forces me to think a lot more about usability and documentation. I have recently added support for any solar system object and real world units - with tunable scaling. Not things I would have done if I was not making it an Asset. It's gratifying to get some uptake and the people who use it seem to like it.

If you like Three Body stuff, checkout my iOS/Android three body app. LOTS of solutions to explore. (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/threebody-lite/id951920756?m... or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nbodyphysi...)
Spend 10% on the ring and the extra 90% add to the honeymoon budget, or buy her something she actually needs.
Ok, so I'm actually gonna have to kinda-sorta agree with pessimizer here.

Black people are 13% of the population. They are not all poor, and only mostly under attack by the police. They certainly don't all agree with BLM, even if I personally do. This means BLM represents, generously, a good deal less than 10% of the population.

As to "Islamic terrorism", well, what Islamic terrorism? The most mature thing we can do is to admit that Islamic terorrism is mostly a European problem rather than an American one, and that homegrown mass shooters are a much larger problem, one which can easily be addressed by ameliorating or solving many of our other absolutely dreadful social problems.

So when you put BLM and Islamic terror together, how much of the population have you got in your coalition? 10%? Let's throw in LGBT for another ten. The most outspokenly neoliberal-feminist women. Uhhhh, maybe another 15? Millenials? How many millenials are there?

Except that your coalition strength in this "movement of movement" strategy is constantly being undermined by your own embrace of neoliberalism. Remember the whole #NotHereForTheBoys debacle? Feminists, LGBT people, black people, and Middle Eastern human-rights activists all need food to eat and a roof over their head, and neoliberalism keeps pushing the Professional Achievement Waterline necessary to have that basic standard of living higher and higher. You can't go around shaming people for supporting Bread and Peace and expect to have a coalition left. "I'm a queer black survivor, and I'm starting at Goldman Sachs next year!" is the most morally dishonest and repulsive platform I've ever seen, but it's exactly what Hillary ran on.

A workers' movement, on the other hand, represents that lovely fabled percentage we heard about in 2011: 99% of the population.

You want to see a Democratic Party that can work? It was called the Rent is Too Damned High Party.
Well, I would guess first and foremost: why change? People that already use putty probably have no desire to switch just to switch. If the alternative isn't SIGNIFICANTLY better, most people aren't going to switch just to switch.

Second: not everyone is on Windows 10 which is a requirement for the Linux subsystem.

I guess last but not least: in both cases they require installing software. Some corporate users have no control over their own laptops. Putty has a portable version that you don't have to install anything to use.
HN needs (maybe has???) markup to break lines without double spacing as distinct paragraphs.
The Latest: New Zealand capital urges workers to stay home
https://voat.co/v/falconsvseagles/1409283
You've never heard of Robert Half or Randstad? They supply a large number of contractors (across multiple segments, not just IT) in most major US metros. As others have said, if you are VP level (or Director level), it's impossible to not know about them since they'll be trying to get your ear on a regular basis.
Ask HN: I'll die about 2068, will most games still be written in C/C++?
USGS is indicating 7.8.
Ha ha, only serious, as they say.
I've used maps new and old my whole life. There is always a pattern. Another one combines thirds with accordion.
Oi... wrong about that it looks like. I could swear I read something a long time ago about this that said it was at least part of an internal investigation, but maybe not. He was a veteran of the USAF and a military policemen at the time, and one of the higher officers asked him to do the drill apparently.
Honestly, why would you want police to have access to "a consumer purchase database"?
I think I fulfilled my end of the doctor patient agreement; I used the medication for years and tailed myself off slowly under supervision.

The SSRI detox is no joke, but it was a relief compared to sleeping much more than necessary.
They are not unknown but diamonds are "just another expensive stone" here. People do think they got a lot of value though, it's just that the symbolism of buying one is not as strong.
it would be great if it counted levels and let you share that on Soc
This makes a lot of sense when you consider more just how small a role your "conscious" mind plays in your cognition. It is really more of a control center, and has direct access to a very limited amount of your computing power. You can't consciously monitor all of your sensory neurons, or make use of the math processing your mind can do to throw a ball, or manually coordinate your muscles.

You can see the effect of this very clearly while talking. You don't plan out each word ahead of time, you go to say something and the words come out. You can choose to take a step back and plan things in more detail, but this isn't your default mode of operation. Also even then in your head the words tend to seem to just come from somewhere in a stream, like a little stimulation of what you were doing talking out loud.

It is not generally helpful to think of this as a different person, it is you and you stand to gain a lot from learning to trust it. Like how you trust it to be able to recall minute details of API documentation despite not being able to reproduce them in full. You can't recall every code problem you have ever solved, but in a way your subconscious has, and it has been refining them into a process to produce those incredible insights.
It's also to display for others, not just for the receiver of the ring.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N5kWu1ifBGU
I guess if it was on Github, the unresponsiveness of the developers or the project would be much, much more visible.
> It's a bit of a stretch to say that only diamond rings are acceptable

"only" is a pretty exclusive word, but I don't think it's a stretch saying that only diamond rings are acceptable in the general case. Especially amongst the reasonably affluent class that you'll find a lot of on HN, not getting a diamond for a spouse would be unusual enough that friends would whisper behind your backs about it.

(And to be clear, I'm of the opinion that this is crazy.)
I get your point from the engineering perspective.

Just as side note. The constraints the soviets had were all self made, as the article also mentions. They had all the elements from the periodic table at their disposal, large reserves of oil and natural gas, endless fields of nutrient rich soil.

Dacia is probably a car you want to investigate as a more car like specimen.

But Smart, or even Renault Elektro is following the spirit of Trabant more closely.
In other words, everyone reaches their conclusions because of reasons that are understandable. This is exactly what gets shut out when people resort to "othering" people they don't understand, out of laziness.
Another alternative is synthetic, lab grown diamonds. They are superior to naturally occuring diamonds, cheaper, aren't tainted by human misery and suffering like conflic/blood diamondst, and arent extracted from ecologically damaging mining techniques like open pit mining.
To me this expectation would be a strong signal to leave that person.
Ask HN: Why is modern webdesign so ugly?
I have noticed that webdesign is becoming more and more ugly. For example, I can not read in Medium.com. The font is too large. Why are not there more websites with similar design to Reddit, Hacker News and Wikipedia?
Building a Better CAPTCHA by Faking Out Robots
Nearly 2/3rds of the casualties from the 2011 earthquake were a single building that contained an ESL school, a nursing school, and a clinic - and the construction supervisor of that building wasn't actually an engineer, but had stolen a retired engineer's identity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTV_Building
And it's a social ranking mechanism. You've attracted a mate that is richer, more capable provider, therefore you are more capable and rank higher in your groups social ranking.
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This is 30% related to the question, at best.
> It's never been clear to me why anyone would want to use a completely opaque and undiscoverable interface such as a commandline over a nice GUI for anything.

The command line gives you both a larger learning curve (base) and greater capabilities (peak). It's not possible to put all the options from the command line into a GUI, because piping allows you to stitch unrelated commands together to form, on the fly, entirely new "programs."

for f in *.gz; do gunzip < "${f}" | tr '(' '\n' | awk -F "'" '{print $2}' | grep -v -e '\.foo$' -e '\.bar$' > "out_${f}.txt"; echo "${f}"; done

The above command is pretty simple (and could possibly be improved, as many awk+grep combos can be), but I can't picture it in a GUI. Additionally, the above command will still work 10 years from now, whereas the GUI will have changed. So from that perspective, a CLI user who has already reached "base camp" will have a lower learning curve than a GUI user, who will continually have to re-learn new interfaces.
Yes http://www.extremetech.com/computing/190946-stop-obsessing-o...

But Intel likes wasting a lot of its R&D money on things that never go anywhere. Such as tablets/smartphone
https://www.google.com/amp/www.fool.com/amp/investing/genera...
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/227720-how-intel-lost-10...
If Intel would have been able to make a good RISC architecture, they probably would have been more successful but, even with all Intel's R&D, they are still a desktop CPU company.
Wow, I had no idea Nebraska only had one legislative house. Very interesting. Now I feel the urge to read the history of why they decided on only one.
I had a discussion with my friends many years ago that your comment reminded me of.

I don't "visualize" things I think about automatically. I'd need to concentrate on trying to visualize pizza to see it and even then it's a vague visualization with no real defining features. When casually thinking about pizza I don't visualize anything.

Some of my friends couldn't not visualize what they were thinking about. If they think of pizza, they "see" pizza in their head, and could even describe what they were visualizing in that instance in surprising (to me) detail.

We found that we were pretty well split 50/50 with no obvious associations.
Trying to load that site is slowing down my browser.
> If you don't have a driver's license, you have to have a "state-issued ID card", which is the same except it doesn't confer the right to drive.

Why? There are alternatives for ID and proof-of-age, such as a passport booklet/card.
It sounds like you've had people rebasing some public commit which has then been branched from. That's asking for trouble.

Rebasing is wonderful, it makes Git a joy to use. But you have to understand the process and, most importantly, train your team so that they also understand it.

As I've said, I've had great experiences working like this; but it took a lot of effort and support of my senior developers to get the team up to speed.
Another alternative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich
Thanks for comment,

Yes many features are missing or extra - I will consider your comment ^^
“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone.

To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.” - Aldous Huxley
Comment said "of American voters".

If you don't vote, you lose it, so why mention this?
The IP stuff is a red herring. Anti-moonlighting agreements are more likely to bite you here.
I quite agree. Facial recognition could have spotted Rosa Parks and simply shut the door to the bus.

Again, how we use the technology is vital. But open and free technologies and data feeds are far far less likely to be abused or if they are are much easier to spot.
Check out this article, http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/how...

It shows how the concept of diamond engagement rings were completely invented by a specific ad campaign; first in America and now expanding to the rest of the world.

They were specifically trying to create social pressure to buy the most expensive ring possible; to reinforce the impression that a diamond ring demonstrated wealth and ability to take care of a spouse; and even set the three months salary purchase price target most people reference.

If there's ever been a greater con so openly and deliberately imposed on society, I can't think of one off the top my head.
> I recently got engaged, and found myself in the market for a suitable engagement ring.

Got engaged prior to purchasing the engagement ring?
I'm the OP - surprised to see this at the top of HN today, but happy to post a quick update:

My wife and I have been happily married for ten years now. She loves her ring, and it has held up extremely well. (She just had the band resized, absolutely no issues with the stones.)

No one has ever thought it was anything other than a diamond ring, which includes several years of daily scrutiny from crazy New York City brides in her role as a bridal gown sales manager in a high-end atelier in Midtown Manhattan. Those who know about the stones think they're beautiful and love that there's a good alternative to diamond.

I stand by everything I said in this essay, and would 100% recommend moissanite to anyone who is (or will soon be) in the jewelry market.
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Another crypto-currency is born
I like to believe that there's a lot of savvy and affluent couples out there who are buying either moissanites instead of diamonds and choosing not to tell their friends or family about it to avoid the social stigma. They then take the $5k to $20k they just saved (what's the rule of thumb, one month's gross salary?) and put it towards bootstrapping their new life.

You can even post close-up pictures of the stone on Facebook and not a single person you know will ever be able to tell because, as noted by the article, the difference is indistinguishable to the human eye.

As long as both members of the couple find this acceptable, it would be silly not to at this point.
There's a classic article from The Atlantic in 1982 that explains the bullshit. The article is astonishingly relevant, nothing has changed in the 35 years since.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you...
Wow, that is a very pretty website. I really like that Windows 95 style grey window.
Around here, it's not primarily space that drives the suburbs, it's that the only decent schools are out in there, and not even the ones near the city, but the ones just before the belt of non-developed land that separates the city from the exurb commuter towns farther out. There are a handful of OK elementary schools closer in, but they all feed to terrible high schools.

The result is that the people who live close to the city are 1) young and childless (-free, whatever), 2) old and retired, 3) too poor to leave, or 4) rich enough to have gardeners and send their kids to private schools and pay a premium for a nice house closer to the city. This leaves out parents with two OK or one good income, who move to the distant 'burbs or commuter towns even if they'd rather live closer, because they can't afford private school.
For a lewd discussion? Show me proof of rape.
How many starving/diamond mining children in Africa can 50c a day feed?
I wish I had known that the key to happiness was just a google search away...
Do you know how a modern ICE works? If so, consider how not having a fuel pump effects the engineering of everything that comes after it.