skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, I was okay to code with larger fonts, frequent breaks, and lots of eye drops (good for healing anyway) after about 7 days. At one month I was 20/15, and no issues.

Omega 3 supplements help healing by helping tears coat better--can knock days off the re-epithelialization period. You should take those religiously.

I'm very happy I got PRK. Allergies, convenience, seeing my dirty shower; all better.
The Curse of the Modern Office
I'm specifically referring to the algorithm, not Steve's database admin rights. If you're talking about my "there's no big conspiracy" - all I know is that Steve claims to be a lone agent, and I believe him. But, hey, I'm not there, dunno.
Given that he's the CEO, it seems like a more reasonable outlet would have been to have the devs fix the notification system, if it's really that trivially prone to abuse.

Or, if he really has to do personal one-offs, fudge things so that he in particular doesn't get notifications as a result of mentions in specific subforums (e.g. /r/the_donald).

Actually going and mucking with the content of other users' posts (as opposed to hiding or deleting them wholesale for TOS violations) seems pretty unsavory, and more importantly it demonstrates that the capability to do so is trivially available. That's going to be a difficult cat to stick back in the bag.
> For example, for some of our projects we collect 50% of payment upfront and 50% upon project completion. The client is "billed immediately" at those times.

That's pretty standard. But that means you don't have any $10k projects?

I'm not following how you never have $5k receivables unless your consultancy exclusively does small projects.
Really getting sick of people unironically regurgitating the "fake news" meme, just because the mainstream media pushed it. https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=fake%20news
"I think the whole issue was created to make him look bad."

...He created the issue.

He spent weeks/months claiming the system was rigged, the election would be rigged, that the only way he could possibly lose was if he was cheated because he was going to win by such a landslide. He kept calling for people to loiter around polling sites with guns to prevent funny business...

That wasn't post-2000 reticence about the preliminary call.
But, to be clear, at the moment Reddit is a moderated cesspool. It's neither embracing free-speech, or quality-control... it's managing to irk both sides and remain unsure of what kind of platform it really wants to be when it grows up.
Banker's Rounding
This guy is the CEO of a company whose discussion boards constantly work as a platform for mass spreading of unfounded accusations and rumors of people being 'racist', 'misoginists', 'rape apologists', 'pedos', 'nazis', 'white supremacists' and so on and so forth, and he uses DB Admin god powers to give it a special fix when it comes to his own name?

Dude, step down, it's time to go home.
So, the current banking system?
What do you mean by Why?

Why did they make a private ethereum?

- Because private blockchains are a solution to a network problem, unless everyone is working on something similar you end up back in the problem space we are in now where everyone is using different technologies

Why did they release it?

- It's a similar approach to what IBM is doing with Hyperledger, but producing and releasing the blockchain they're hoping to position themselves as the consultants that know everything about implementing this private blockchain.
I disagree. Most of my clients pay each milestone upfront (they pay for the first milestone before work begins).

Gigster has also built a pretty sizable business with this payment model.
There is no bastion of free speech online, anywhere. All forums are privately operated.

Free speech ends when it's become harrasment. What happened to spez calls for digitally curb stomping the offenders.

This is no different from Twitter having to cull accounts harassing others.
Too cryptic to be helpful, sorry..
In this case, they are clearly a large group of belligerent morons.
If that's their positive contribution to the world, then consider me unimpressed.

I abhor the notion that it's acceptable to hack the private communications of a political opponent, and publish them wholesale. I hate that people have decided it's somehow normal (or worse, noble) to engage in such chicanery because it was politically expedient. It's entirely different than other forms of leaks.

Wholesale surveillance is a terrible idea no matter who is doing it.

It's really effective propaganda, because most folks aren't clever enough to realize that the lack of countervailing scandal is solely because the other party didn't do any hacking... but it's a terrible precedent, and anybody who participated in it should be deeply ashamed of themselves.

Anybody who praises it should borrow a moral compass.
One of the largest, sure. How are you measuring "most influential"?
Huh, weird, I actually looked into this exact same site (when it was being shared all across FB) and found something else telling -- a reused Google Adsense publisher tag ("ca-pub-1413743582782046") which I then found on a number of other sites: FireBrandLeft.com, NationalReport.net and some articles by this author http://www.liberalamerica.org/author/matt/ -- All were either owned by the same guy or he was a "journalist" at these other sites.

Except these all pointed back to the same individual: Matt Terzi

https://www.facebook.com/Mattterzi

https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-terzi-aa6b4542

terzimatt@gmail.com

But then I lost interest and moved onto something else, guess I should have contacted NPR. I assume this is simply Jestin Coler's fake persona and I should have done some more digging.
I sent it to them so they can fix it.
Lot of that going around these days.
18A is not a problem in itself, because the voltage isn't that high. Your drone likely draws more than 18A.

Your car starter draws 10x that.

High current just needs thick wires. 120V wall power, with a proper power supply, needs 1A or less to generate 18A at 5V.

Switching DC converters are great!

What I'm most worried about is actual capacity. 1F is 1A for 1v second with a drop of 1V. Let's assume we need 3 amp hours at a drop from 5V to 2V. That means 3600 F of capacitance! We're not there yet.
I'm not saying any of those things. I'm also not rushing to dismiss them as fake either though.
It's not all that much crazier than what we know to be true. Pamela Anderson visited Assange to give him a sandwich the day before his internet git cut off and he more or less disappeared off the face of the planet. Truth is stranger than fiction.
CEOs don't get to break the rules just because. These kinds of restrictions exist to protect consumers (and their data) and the business legally from liability, etc.
I can't be the only one that finds this pretty funny, right? Forget about whatever dumb imagined political angle of it. If you go on someone's website and spam "fuck [admin's name]" and call them a pedophile based on ridiculous accusations, it's probably only just because of misplaced mercy that you're not banned for harassment right off the bat. These aren't paying users, and they don't have personal data locked up in their accounts that they may lose access to. Whatever forum they're posting to owes them nothing and they do worse than spit on that. That a wordfilter gets applied to some posts of some users that were basically asking for a ban is pretty funny.

I've helped run a popular forum before. We added silly global wordfilters at times, and on a couple occasions when seriously-rule-breaking users repeatedly evaded bans, we applied customized wordfilters to them to help drive them off. (Dropping all of the vowels that weren't at the start or end of a word from their posts to make it look like lazy teenager txtspeak was a favorite.) It worked and people found it hilarious.
editing user's posts has huge legal repercussions

Keep smoking that good stuff, SV.
If it was just the swearing at /u/spez comments, they've been doing that for literally months now, including some very long threads with little else as content over various other controversies.

The new part is that people started calling him a pedo supporter for banning /r/pizzagate last night, which was an anti-pedophile sub subject to much controversy over allegations of doxing, while allegedly allowing pro-pedophile subs to exist.

So /u/Spez took it out on the admins of /r/The_Donald, which is where most of the discussion was gathered after the /r/pizzagate ban due to a sticky post about it moving to Voat's /v/pizzagate where it quickly became a featured sub.

I don't remember which was the alleged pro-pedo sub nor have I visited that sub myself to see what was there, I just saw many angry comments mentioning some sub (pedochat? something like that) while watching the subreddit drama unfold. So basically this is another bit of mod drama and another influx to Voat.

As for unprofessional vs. nefarious, I think many people are upset that this is something a single rogue admin can do. At better run places, no one person would hold all the keys. And given how someone's reputation could be ruined by a bit of invisible editing, leaving one to get hounded by SRS or whomever, well it's hard not to be uncomfortable that it's apparently something an admin could just do on a lark.

That said, I hope the story is more complicated than that (he likely does have some very special access, etc.), but it really only exacerbates the trust issues they have over there, which is about the last thing they need.
Nope, it's currently a meta-search that owns its own data layer. As to what the future will bring let's see!
Lowercased i titles are / were / have been common and comfortable though. Some of them even before iOS.
> No need to look further, NPR...

If that's meant to imply that NPR publishes fake news, either you're a poorly done troll or you're exactly the sort that those fake news sites are targeted to. Just about everything "news" coming out of NPR can be well sourced, though that may be harder to do for investigative things like this story. Even for this one though I suspect there's enough information in the story to allow a qualified investigator to duplicate or verify their work.
In my eyes reddit quality, especially the frontpage, is declining year over year and it's not really getting better. It might be my age but I'm less and less interested in the content which gets all the upvotes. Also, the bigger subreddits seem to show this decline where quality discussion doesn't happen anymore.

Is there actually a long-term analysis about how reddit content and discussion changed over the years?
So's 4chan...
In fairness to the nutters, it's not like the notion there's a massive pedophile ring operating at the highest levels of government is absurd. We've seen them exposed in several Western countries, and both candidates had ties to Epstein. It's just this particular accusation seems to be bonkers.

I would be more surprised if there wasn't a pedophile ring in DC. But I don't think that case will be blown open by Podesta's emails and squiggles on pizza shop walls and a moon and star which is apparently Baphomet?
Your experience is different from mine, but I've definitely done mid-high six figure single contract deals where my team worked for a month and a half, fully delivered, and then sent off an invoice and "hoped" --- though "hope" didn't really play into it, because in srs bzns, when people get an invoice for a project for which they signed a SOW with a price tag on it, they pay.

I have no doubt there is a class of client for which this isn't true, but: don't work with those clients. Good rule of thumb: if the median HN reader has heard of a company, that company cannot afford to stiff consultants.
Looked into this a little more, and I doubt that Jill Stein could even get a recount in Pennsylvania. According to http://billypenn.com/2016/11/23/a-pennsylvania-recount-for-h...

"
A candidate can’t actually file for a vote recount under Pennsylvania law. Instead, they would have to challenge a county board regarding its vote computations, and a state appeals judge would have to rule that a statewide recount is necessary. That means the Clinton campaign would either have to request a recount by petition in every voting district or present a prima facie case showing voter fraud. (Prima facie is a lower threshold than beyond a reasonable doubt. A judge would just have to rule that fraud probably occurred in order to call for a recount.)
"

While a state judge just possibly might rule for Clinton for a recount, I seriously doubt a judge would do that Jill Stein as she has no realistic chance of winning the state.
> While an abuse of power, I'm not sure I see the outrage.

Hint: try looking at the "abuse of power" part of your comment.
The internal resistance of supercaps is higher than that, they cannot discharge in microseconds.

Think about it: 5V 3F into 10 microseconds would require a resistance of micro-ohms, which is less than the resistance of the connecting wires. That's not even counting the ESR (internal resistance.)
The ingredients of food are nearly free, the US average income per capita buys 700+ kg of wheat per day. The distribution/availability problem is political.
You can get insurance with the current banking system.
No. If you plug a capacitor charged to 1V into a voltage source at 100V, the 99V difference is going to be dropped somewhere and will dissipate 99% of your incoming power as heat. Averaged over a full charge (0-100V) you lose half your energy as heat. In a phone at these power levels, something will melt.

But this is all moot. The phone contains a DC-DC converter that changes the voltage. Capacitors aren't really any different from batteries in this regard except that they have a very different discharge curve.

P.S. 5V is already above your phone's battery voltage.
I am not sure what you are suggesting here. Could you be more specific?
http://i.imgur.com/kU3jB9B.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/OeIRC5U.jpg
Wait did Pamela Anderson give Julian Assange a poisoned Internet sandwich
There is no such thing as an optional feature once middle management gets hold of it.
I always thought it was pretty clear to say "os ecks" myself, but I've heard internally / correctly people say "oh es ten". It's hard to break the habit after 5+ years though.
Frequentists count their chickens after they've hatched. Bayesians bet the chickens that they will.
Great point for point rebuttal. I was annoyed at the original article when it was circulated recently. As eevee points out, most of the original author's points are invalid or unimportant, and to me it seems that he is just mad he has to write another "learn Python" book for Python 3.

I'm a Python beginner and I recently wrote a few small tools in Python 3. They have a few functions, do network I/O, argparsing, connect to PostgreSQL, etc. It took me a few hours and it was fun.
A Deans T connector is rated at 50A long term. For shorter time, it can carry more. (It's a matter of current times resistance minus thermal dissipation.)
It does constitute a valid fact check. It is ridiculous to claim otherwise.

Claim: EdiX is a crazy pedophile

Fact-check: This is just random speculation and there is no evidence.

By your standards an actual fact-check would need to cite testimony from your (ex-)partner(s)/spouse(s), a psychological evaluation, maybe some videos of you not being a pedophile around children. Utterly ridiculous.
Most of everything is crap including user contributed comments, fitness to be shipped as someones product is a bizarrely narrow criterion for fitness, and emotional intelligence is a nebulous term with little meaning and less relevance.
Yep. Mostly the same. Hence the reason I question why FreeBSD might be worth it. The overlap of OSX and FreeBSD at the shell is quite great, but you can't run a lot of OSX apps on FreeBSD. I'd venture to guess you could run a lot more FreeBSD apps on OSX.
Mumble Rap
Reddit used to be a place where intelligent users had a quality discussion. It used to happen. At least in my imagination. What I see now is a machine which produces memes (still going strong there) and propaganda (growing stronger) but the discussion is on a much lower intellectual level.
So if one thing is true then other similar things must be true!!!
We're talking about a conspiracy that runs from a pizza parlor, the credibility of which is bolstered by a first-principles analysis rooted in the dynamics of pizza parlors as the top comment on an HN thread. This is some Tim and Eric stuff here.
Traditionally "Mac OS" -> "[Mac] OS X" -> "macOS"

It was often compacted to MacOS for various reasons, like brevity, keyword searchability and tagging.
The voltage of the interconnect doesn't need to match the voltage at the capacitor. Buck converters for the win!
> Do you mean probably wrong?

Nope.

> Both approaches have pros and cons

What are the pros of the frequentist approach?
Last vestiges of Roman enumeration :). Saw an article the other day that said "Part I of V". I shook my head.
You are right; I should have posted more of an explanation.

I am a longtime Mac user who has grown disenchanted and I suspect I am one of many.

After the back-toback announcements of the new Surface Book and the new Macbook Pro, I felt like maybe Microsoft was the more geek-friendly company and that their product was a higher end product that would meet my needs better.

So, I bought a Surface Book today and I am kind of nervous about the change.

This post happened to be the first thing I saw on HN while I was setting up the new machine.

That still may not be a constructive addition to THIS thread, but at least it isn't just brand religion.
I think when people say "digg" they mean failure not actually the website digg. And alienating your user base because of your feelings is definitely down the path to failure it definable doesn't endear success.
I agree it was not nefarious, but it was a decision that shows unbelievably poor judgement, especially for a CEO. I'd be surprised if he keeps his position. He's undermined his fundamental role as the leader of one of the biggest social media sites by violating the trust that users put into the site's administration.

The context as I understand it involves some ravenous hordes of conspiracy-theory redditors promulgating fake news stories and doxxing innocent people. However, by changing the text of these users comments, whatever their actions, and by admitting to it, Steve has opened the floodgates. Now there is no question -- in the minds of these users -- that the site is truly "against them" and willing to not only censor them but to rewrite history as they see it. They can no longer trust anything they read on the site.

But what is worse is the effect and message this sends to normal users. How can, for instance, any person safely participate in an AMA now? When the real possibility exists to have their words changed out from under them, and no way to prove they aren't in fact the author? And from that, why would anyone post anything potentially personally identifiable, if (in their mind) some disgruntled admin could modify what they said to include false yet humiliating or criminal things (e.g., throw in racial epithets, link to porn, admit adultery / drug use) that might eventually link back to them. And how far does this go? Can admins send PMs under the name of other users? What else? To me at least, the scary thing is that Reddit posts that only obliquely reference personal information have already been used as the basis for surveillance and legal action [1]...

And taking one final step back, from a business side this drama goes beyond just being unprofessional. Reddit posts are now often linked to from news articles. How can the media trust the source they link to? If the content of posts are 'up for grabs' to be edited by admins in the minds of users and the media (even if they aren't in reality), then one of Reddit's functions that is growing in importance -- that is, news-making -- may be stymied.

Harming trust is extremely dangerous for social platforms. And when it is the CEO themselves doing the harm, it could very well border on being suicidal for the site.

[1] https://np.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/58hae4/what_is_a_...
"Simple" Redux TODO example is really complex
Made this comment in the other (flagged) thread. Here goes:

I agree it was not nefarious, but it was a decision that shows unbelievably poor judgement, especially for a CEO. I'd be surprised if he keeps his position. He's undermined his fundamental role as the leader of one of the biggest social media sites by violating the trust that users put into the site's administration.

The context as I understand it involves some ravenous hordes of conspiracy-theory redditors promulgating fake news stories and doxxing innocent people. However, by changing the text of these users comments, whatever their actions, and by admitting to it, Steve has opened the floodgates. Now there is no question -- in the minds of these users -- that the site is truly "against them" and willing to not only censor them but to rewrite history as they see it. They can no longer trust anything they read on the site.

But what is worse is the effect and message this sends to normal users. How can, for instance, any person safely participate in an AMA now? When the real possibility exists to have their words changed out from under them, and no way to prove they aren't in fact the author? And from that, why would anyone post anything potentially personally identifiable, if (in their mind) some disgruntled admin could modify what they said to include false yet humiliating or criminal things (e.g., throw in racial epithets, link to porn, admit adultery / drug use) that might eventually link back to them. And how far does this go? Can admins send PMs under the name of other users? What else? To me at least, the scary thing is that Reddit posts that only obliquely reference personal information have already been used as the basis for surveillance and legal action [1]...

And taking one final step back, from a business side this drama goes beyond just being unprofessional. Reddit posts are now often linked to from news articles. How can the media trust the source they link to? If the content of posts are 'up for grabs' to be edited by admins in the minds of users and the media (even if they aren't in reality), then one of Reddit's functions that is growing in importance -- that is, news-making -- may be stymied.

Harming trust is extremely dangerous for social platforms. And when it is the CEO themselves doing the harm, it could very well border on being suicidal for the site.

[1] https://np.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/58hae4/what_is_a_...
> Continuous deployments, database migrations, automated builds and whatnot do absolutely nothing to help you reason about the simplicity of your codebase

I pretty strongly disagree with this. Simplicity in agile projects is achieve through continuous improvement of the code. All of those things make refactoring cheaper and easier, which means you can keep your code base in good shape as domain and business needs change.

Without those supporting practices, people get scared to change anything. And once they get scared, bit rot sets in.
I would like to explore the frontiers of what you're willing not to dismiss out of hand. Can I interest you in a story about a secret blood cult John Podesta runs? How about the Lizard People?
Is that the first gen or the new one?

It is still a little back-heavy, but I suspect the bigger battery in the new base balances it out a little more.
This is prospective news. How could it be fake?