skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There goes taste.
Why would you argue that?
It would appear you are correct that you are breaking google's ToS

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/p...
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I can relate to that and part of it is probably because we don't want to be left out, we don't want to miss the latest technology that will make us obsolete, etc.

1) Reading HN all the time creates a false sense that things are moving much faster than they really are.

2) I'd suggesting reading "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck" and it'll remind you your time is finite

https://www.amazon.com/Subtle-Art-Not-Giving-Counterintuitiv...
I've recently started reading the dead tree version of the newspaper and I've noticed that only do I seem to retain more of what I've read vs. reading the electronic version, for me it's something along the lines of a focus exercise. It really feels like it's clearing out the cobwebs.
I agree, but it's also true that many companies have official (as in HR required training) opinions on certain topics. In that case, there's already a "discussion", but a one-sided one. Maybe it's the right side, but it's not like we really enforce a hard line between philosophy/ethics/politics and work.
I love your thought, and I tend to agree. There's way too much redundant and unnecessary information in typical books.

That's why I think is better to read the best books on the topic more times, than few other average books repeating the same stuff in different words.
If I'm honest, I'm exactly the same: I'm on HN right now to avoid my matlab coursework. While HN doesn't feel like it's designed for distraction in the same way FB and Twitter are, it does seem to have the same effect: there's a reliable, constant stream of content that's vaguely stimulating. I think this is the combination that's so addictive. It feels as though your brain enters a lower energy state where content is being fed into it with minimum effort. Something about the lack of required energy to find and consume content seems to be what makes it powerful.
> Douglas Crockford, uninvited from NodeVember, the general opinion is that he said something that a woman didn't like

Anything to back that up?
The Parting Gifts Convicts Gave Loved Ones Before Being Shipped to Australia
last time I explored my options, setting environment variables (ENV) were hard to secure in Google Cloud, I had to push a config.json file that sits on the server? Whats the point of a cheaper price if I can't even figure out how to secure the app. There might be cost gains in larger apps but for the small app I am working on, I'm a big believer of using tools that make you productive and iterate over parts that makes sense. You shouldn't choose a technology like Go lang because its cheaper to run than Node.js if you don't know how to Go
Rather like alcohol. Universal social lubricant. Popular even in places where it is banned. People complain about it being used noisily in public by young people, especially women, but it may be the lonely older people at home whose use is more problematic. Causes problems for people who don't indulge and feel left out. Associated with long-term health risks including suicidal ideation.

You probably shouldn't indulge at work, but in some careers it may effectively be required.

Most people learn moderation, but some may have to cut themselves off.
Skipping past everything before the 'but', hehe ...

> however if your core beliefs are out of line with a companies beliefs then it just might make you a bad FIT for the company. Not about your opinion, but about you fit with a group of people who's opinion and beliefs are opposite.

So I can veil and justify my prejudice in a company mission statement? This is busybody-ism run amok. This is institutionalized busybody thinking. We really need some collective soul-searching because great people are being destroyed.

How about this, let's stop ruining people for what's going on between their ears. Everyone's got stupid ideas and ugly and complicated thoughts. Get over yourselves, thought police!

Employers: hire people for what they can do for you, pay them fairly, and let them live the rest of their dumb lives in peace. If employees are being assholes in the workplace, discipline and/or fire them. If employees are tarnishing your brand by doing things disagreeable to you

A) publicly, **AND**
B) in your brand's name

Then, by all means, fire them and shame them while you're at it. Put out press releases on how ruthless the firing was!

Of course, the larger problem is the rest of the culture. There are groups who will retaliate against individuals by naming them and trying to link them to the brand of their employer. It puts the employer in an impossible bind. Brendan Eich and Mozilla spring to mind as a particularly memorable example of this.

It's a form of cultural terrorism, where one's private ideas can get them killed. The only solution, as distasteful as it sounds to many, is to not let the terrorists win. Mozilla should have kept Eich on, just to spite the SJW's and prevent them from souring civil discourse.
I agree. there is no way they focus grouped this. I'm sure it was just Jony Ive saying "make it thinner. remove some buttons" and the engineering staff had to figure out how to do it.
VAT is 20% in France, and the biggest source of income for the State. But social security has a separate budget and is not paid by taxes, but by special levees on salaries and income.
Your virtue signaling trivializes a vastly difficult issue. The immensely complex question remains, putting aside the problem of organizing a massive state system, of how you balance non-infinite resources with never-ending demand continually extended by medical advances of which people naturally enough wish to take advantage? Given no financial constraints, you don't have to be a socialist to assent to free health treatment for all comers.
I've had great success with using https://freedom.to/ to block social media from my phone and laptop during periods of time when I want to focus.
Yes, you do. Looks like you don't know what you're talking about.
Show HN: Stop the Bullshit
Your knowledge is all correct (I researched leaving tech to farm seaweed).
This article assumes we are at the whim of social when infact many people have tamed social and, for lack of better phrasing, made social their bitch.

Read The Distraction Addiction: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16131064-the-distraction...
Interested to know how long your twice a week sessions are and how far you go back in the pages? I come twice a day for 10 mins and then once a week going back to article 90. Total time for the week is just under 3 hours, but I feel I've learned something.
> I think it must be the character limit.

I think it's how easy it is to get the last word in and check out of the conversation without any real consequences or feedback.

Everyone gets their smug win in, even the lurkers. No real understanding is promoted.

The character limit is a problem, but that has simple workarounds (blogging, tweet storms, text images) if that was a real issue.
Regarded by who as one of the best? I'd like to see how far down that ranking the NHS is now.
But I found workers, we employ mostly Albanians, some Greeks and one Pakistani who is here for 10 years. It is manual labor in warehouse. But I would expect more interest from "poor refugees who barely escaped the war".

Anyway this discussion is pointless.
I use https://freedom.to/ to block HN on my phone and laptop when I need to.
I used 2 vms with 4gb a piece on a MacBook 12" with 8gb of ram and the system came to a complete halt. It worked, but very slowly. The most amusing part is that the haptic touchpad was affected as well, leading to a 10 second delay between pressing and feeling a click.
The long forgotten irony in this meme is that cars used to be designed like this. There were no seat belts and the steering column was a rigid spear. It was practically designed to kill you.

Historical evidence suggests that there would indeed be fewer accidents but more car drivers would die (because even quite trivial bumps would be fatal), though pedestrians and cyclists would be safer. As someone who chooses not to drive, that sounds pretty good to me.
This person is either reading the lightest self-help type of books, or not really "reading" these books. I'm an academic, and my only job is to read books (and articles, etc), and I do my job at least 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, and I don't even read this many books.

My advice for getting genuinely intelligent about a topic: read hard books, intensively, and leave the buffet-stats-counter stuff to those who just want to impress.
Protons are not fundamental particles, they are made up of quarks and gluons. The exact composition is determined by the nuclear PDF's, it is not nearly as simple as "protons are made of two Up quarks and a Down quark". As a result, the actual energy of each collision varies widely since the amount of energy 'given' to each parton (quark or gluon) is randomly distributed. So even though the beam energy is set to a specific value the energy of each collision is not given and must be measured in each case. Different collision energies lead to different interactions taking place. Contrast this to a lepton collider where electrons and positrons are being collided. They are both fundamental particles so they collide with the full beam energy each time, making it possible to conduct very precise measurements at a specific energy.

Edit: fixed some typos
"Here is Huggies TweetPee, which is exactly what you're most afraid it will be. This moisture sensor clips to your baby's diaper and sends you a tweet when it is wet.

Huggies tried to make a similar sensor to detect when the diaper is full of shit, but it proved impossible to distinguish from normal activity on Twitter.
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That's not really what he said. He said that a Trump victory makes some people fearful, and he wants a workplace that fosters the opposite of that, and that if you cannot foster an inclusive and diverse workplace that you are not welcome.

I don't think what he did say was quite eloquent and it was clearly emotionally heated, but it didn't imply nor state that Trump voters are unwelcome.
Cool! Any chance a 6U could stay up for month with conventional thrusters? Or will it be proven to work or at least be better than other thrusters once and for all?
> Having said that, what I find most interesting about these recent debates is the back and forth about how much people actually need. The argument that "well, it's no problem for me, and I do x, y and z!" is not really a good rebuttal, in my opinion.

I guess what you're saying is just the fact that there is a limit is an issue?

This reminds me of a question I once read in Maxim magazine, about 10 years ago or so. The reader wrote in asking why speedometer on cars go so high while there are few places in the world you can drive that fast. The answer was that if car manufacturers would limit the speedometer, there would be an outrage from the general populace.
Choosing to go with a daily model is definitely a new spin on personal finance apps. I'm intrigued to see where this goes.
If attackers get your database, you lose. Containers don't fix application vulnerability mitigation and leaking data.
Known: social publishing for groups and individuals
Like, you mean the extracts which are used by students and scholars? For Dutch books there are multiple community driven sites.

For English it must be crazy, but I am not aware of a single one.
Somewhere around age 27 I wanted the same thing. I think the answer is no, for two reasons. First, we already have blogs and newspapers.

More importantly, the same material is interpretable in many ways. For example if you ask someone what is the main point of Orwell's 1984, you will usually hear something about surveillance. But to me, reading it as an adult, far more important is the idea that we need war as an outlet for our surpluses. That might be in the Cliffs Notes but it won't be in the first blog post on Google.
> and expresses that view

In my opinion, it hinges upon the expression. If they are pleasant at work then one day you find their Facebook profile has a racial and homophobic slur, I don't think that's interfering with the work environment. If they say the same thing to you at work, then you can talk to HR.

Unfortunately, by drawing the line here I'm allowing the possibility that you have to work with someone you don't like. Sorry about that. I think that's part of a larger problem, and I'm open to hear solutions for not-liking-someone-but-being-part-of-a-society. When a person is engaging in poor behaviour in the work context, you can use the mechanisms in place to correct that behaviour, but keep in mind that the goal is behaviour correction not crucifixion.
I'd have to wonder how medication plus prohibition would work. AA is more than simple prohibition though. It's a program to help people come to grips with the negative impact addiction has had on their lives while helping them to work to clean up the mistakes. I think it's harder to measure the impact vs sheer statistics because people often talk about hitting rock bottom before they go to AA. Rock bottom usually means your life is at a point where it's broken, you are broken, relationships are broken and you feel like you can't ever be forgiven for what you've done.

AA helps you rebuild your life. It's a whole lot more than just coping with addiction.

At some point over the last couple of years AA started coming under attack for some inexplicable reason. There's a lot more to it than just statistics.
Add a default per-cow tax, and deduct from it for purchase of a seaweed feed, and make it bite sufficiently that it becomes substantially cheaper to include seaweed in the feed.

This is how Norway encourages bottle recycling: There's no law mandating recycling of bottles, but there's a substantial tax on beverage containers that you get a reduction of in proportion to your return rate. This has resulted in a return rate of 99%+ of recyclable bottles by making it economically beneficial for retailers and distributors to participate in fairly elaborate and expensive collection and recycling schemes.

It takes some work to get mechanisms like this in place in a way that isn't easy to exploit, but get the incentives right and you can let economic interests do most of the work.
As much as that would be appreciated, its no longer Apple. Those users are typically building their own hardware to hackintosh spec instead - better than nothing but still many (myself included) would rather buy such a solution from Apple themselves as you say.
This technique is only as good as the objective function. In most real world scenarios there is no canonical objective function, nor a comprehensive test suite exercising all branches of the code.
Is "lynch mob" and "getting fired" covered under "social consequences" or under "defend your right to speak"?
I kind of feel like Apple's design philosophy is off. It's not like the Oxo brand of having tools that are easy to use.

- I still can't hold my iPhone 6 without it slipping out of my hand (and I even have a case)
- My Macbook Pro Unibody is very sleek but it just slides off my lap because the bottom surface is so smooth.
- Off-boarding useful connections like USB, HDMI, DisplayPort etc meaning you have to purchase and carry around a bunch of dongles for whatever tiny saving they get from the battery / footprint.
- The new Macbooks are, as always choosing sleekness over just making a laptop that is more powerful than they've made over the last 4 years.
- People are complaining about the trackpad in the new MBP not having space to rest their wrists.

etc etc

They seem to just be optimizing for design's sake and not really considering the use case of what people use the computers for. It's starting to be a great little sleek computer for an executive to put in their carry-on and less like a strong office computer that can do hard work (for me it's software engineering) and be good enough to USE ALL DAY.
> What I'm saying is: This person isn't actually a troll. He's not doing it to mess with you. He really does believe what he's saying, and you cannot convince him otherwise until he relinquishes the core idea that led to it, which in this case is his religion.

That's a really good point. I partially hoped that at least there would be a good counter argument to gain an insight into why the individual has formed such ideas.

I even linked to the BYU paper that was counter to my beliefs, which had interesting points that can create a thoughtful conversation.

However, I didn't realize that regardless of how I said something, I was attacking a core idea of a person, which isn't a good way to start a conversation.
So does this also apply to quitting H/N ?
Eh no. They think there's a long, well documented history of abuses against those people and acknowledge that those abuses didn't just fade away — stopping them has taken and will continue to take conscious directed effort against perpetrators of abuse.

The crux of the problem is what it takes to become a "perpetrator of abuse," and we must all be cautious of expanding that group too aggressively.
More importantly social media is bad for your mental health. It hits the brain in many of the same ways as the 'news' and those intentionally boring phone games. It causes dopamine dysregulation which leads to a dependency. Consider the anxiety you feel if you need to go to the bathroom and cannot find your phone. This dopamine dysregulation destroys your mood and motivation.

Being social is a good thing. However companies have figured out they need addictive properties in order to be successful. I previously worked on optimizing companies for user engagement and the addictive properties naturally fall out of the process. If social media satiates your desires you will actually use them less. Think about it; why are your keys always in the last place you look? Because once you find them you stop looking. If you want to keep people on your site you hide their keys. People love a challenge and will be even happier when they find them.

It's particularly bad with modern (low information) news media. I'm a compulsive news junkie* so I have to avoid the news in order to get anything done. I quit facebook and google over their insistence on pushing 'news'. It's junk food for the brain. It's low information and only gives an illusion of being informed. E.g. the recent election.

* Note: I consider HN to be social 'media' news and I am aware that I'm here 'chipping'. I do so intentionally in effort to avoid fettishising vices. Plus HN is as close as I get to an online group of peers. I only use HN after self-flagellating while repeatedly muttering "the flesh is weak".
If what you say materializes, the outrage would be real..i mean the "Pro" monicker should already denote higher performance...
> 1) Too many young people didn't insure themselves meaning that the relatively low cost of having them as insured couldn't be used to balance out the higher cost needed for later on in life. This was putting the primary burden of the cost on the older generations.

As to one, ObamaCare is still failing, because too many young people are able to do the math and realize that, if they don't have chronic conditions or children, the IRS penalty for not having insurance is significantly cheaper than the premiums on the high-deductible, terrible plans that are available to them at any reasonable price. For anything less than a catastrophic illness or injury, the ObamaCare plans I have seen just don't make any sense.
Australia has exceptional demographics that make this possible - for the moment. It won't last, for the same reason it won't in Europe. But, you get to gloat for quite a while as an Australian, it'll last decades longer than in Europe, where unemployment makes the current situation untenable. To put it bluntly: Australia has a participation rate of 65%, dropping slowly (ie. pretty much perfectly stable for the past, frankly, almost the past century). Europe has a participation rate of 55%. Now you might think that's not a big difference, but it's the difference between 1 worker paying for 50% of a non-worker versus 1 worker paying for 80% of a non-worker. That means the life of close to 2 people needs to be financed from one job in the EU, whereas in Australia it's just slightly over 1.

Keep in mind that there is even more leverage, as people who are only employed to take care of the elderly, the young, ... make up a significant part of the workforce and shouldn't be counted as employed for this purpose (a geriatrician, a teacher, a nurse, ... is paid from taxes to take care of non-workers, that means he doesn't contribute to the economy). Therefore the numbers in Australia, are about 1 for 1 (ie. tax rate of just shy of ~50%), in Europe the numbers are really about 1 for 3 (ie. total tax rate of slightly over ~75%)

But even in Australia it's essentially over. Australians should have started to have way more kids about a decade ago to prevent what's now pretty much inevitable. Although once again Australia gets to sit back and watch what happens in other economies before it's forced to take action itself, like in the financial crisis. It should do well. Doesn't change the outcome though : taxes in Australia will have to rise to halve your post-tax income over the next 2-3 decades. In Europe ... let's not go there, taxing at 100% would not allow for enough economic activity to support the pensions and healthcare at the current level of provided care. Dedicating all economic activity in the EU to just that single purpose is ... not enough. Therefore, elderly care and health care will have to scale down, a LOT (and may God help them if Trump follows through on forcing Europe into defense spending). The basic problem is, the lower the working population gets the more massive the advances in productivity (the economic kind) have to be. There is a slight issue with that:

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/european-union/productivity

(I've had healthcare in both Europe and Australia though. Let me tell you, Europe is better. Though I guess it does greatly vary based on the exact location)
Yes. If somebody would have told us 20 years ago that we would all have a TV-set on our office desks today, we wouldn't have believed them. But the reality is that we indeed have a good equivalent of it, and with highly addictive content.
How can you then refer to the rooms that actually have something where then somebody can take a bath?

I'm serious, not a native speaker.
It's actually more complicated than this.

There's a whole set of fundamental convergence "problems" associated with the perturbative approach that uses Feynman diagrams.
Good Presentations Need to Make People Uncomfortable
In Britain, all the station names are pre-recorded by a professional voice actor, as well as common problems, and many not-so-common ones.

"The nineteen fifty two ... Southern service to ... Brighton ... is delayed by approximately ... twelve ... minutes due to ... trespassers-on-the-railway. Please listen for further announcements. We apologize for the inconvenience."

(Replace with "a passenger taken ill on a train" or "action by the police".)

"The train approaching platform ... two ... is the ... delayed ... nineteen fifty-two ... Southern ... service to ... Brighton ... calling at ... Clapham Junction, East Croydon, Gatwick Airport, Haywards Heath and Brighton. This train has ... twelve ... coaches. Platform ... two ... for the nineteen fifty-two service to ... Brighton."

I much prefer it to a live announcement. The slightly ... odd pauses are distinctive, but mean derivations from the usual announcement stand out, whilst the whole thing is soporific for commuters. For others, there's the much-needed repetition of the most important bits; the destination of the train is spoken three times.

Examples: https://youtu.be/0cg-n-GF38E?t=139 (At 3:20 there's a Welsh one!)

(I don't like the repeated keep-your-luggage announcements, but maybe they're justified since people are still trying to bomb railways with abandoned luggage.)