skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a Christian (Latter-Day Saint) and also adhere to Buddhist precepts. I meditate two hours a day. I don't eat animals and regularly pick up litter in my neighborhood.

I do these things because I decided to be a good person. That's the kind of man I want to be and my actions make it reality. No matter what happens in the world around me, with God's help I'll always be a good person.

It's like the Zen saying about the mountain and the cloud. The blue mountain and the white cloud depend on each other, but the white cloud will always be the white cloud and the blue mountain will always be the blue mountain.

TL;DR: Don't let the world tell you who you are and how to act. Ask God for wisdom and let that be an anchor for you.
That example is extreme. Most of the USA pays less, and usually one home or apartment is shared by just one family/couple, or a few friends.
I read a good deal more than my peer group; my current reading queue is more measured in feet at this pages, and I expect to get through it.

I'm radically uninterested in 'social' or 'web' as it pertains to reading. A command line tool that interacts with org-mode to take notes and serve as a memex UI would be useful to manage sourcing and linkage of ideas.
Yes, this is exactly the article that I had in mind earlier. Thanks for digging it up.
Thank you, exactly what I was looking for in the comments. I don't want to subscribe for a single article, but I might do it in the future if more articles pop up that sound as interesting as this one.
I'm skimming through the study, thanks to Sci-Hub. The researchers did account for the impact of grooming and harassement on the immune system.

We next investigated the behavioral mechanisms that give rise to social status effects on
gene expression, focusing on NK and helper T
cells where the observed effects were strongest.
Mediation analysis revealed that rates of received
harassment—a measure of the agonistic, competitive element of social status inequality—
contributed to these effects for 17.3% (helper T)
and 7.8% (NK) of rank-responsive genes, respectively. However, in rhesus macaques, dominance
rank also influences affiliative social interactions
(15). Grooming rates mediated rank effects on
gene expression levels for 17.6% of genes in helper
T cells, comparable to the results for agonistic
interactions. In contrast, grooming behavior
was more important than harassment for rankresponsive NK genes (n = 560 genes, 33.4% of all
rank-responsivegenes; chi-squared test P = 1.33 × 10e−74)(Fig.
2, D and E). A lack of positive social interactions
may therefore be equally or more important than
social subordination per se in shaping social status
effects on gene expression, consistent with the known
effects of social integration on health and mortality in both humans and other primates (16–18).
如何使一个纸弩令人惊叹 – Make Crossbow Archer Queen
And yet we DO have the historical record. I am no climate-change-denier (far from it), but the current concentration of CO2 is far from the historical maximum. We can say with some confidence that the new equilibrium point is not likely to be Venus. Reaching it _is_ going to cause mass extinctions and _will_ have very negative effects for humanity, but the planet has been through this before and is probably going to be okay in timeframes measurably longer than our existence as a species.

In geologic time frames, we are likely to be entering a domain where glaciation entirely disappears, including in Antarctica. The world was last here ~34M years ago, and sea levels were 200ft (60m) higher. I'm sure anyone reading this understands that this will have huge impacts on our day to day, including the drowning of most of the today's population centers.

(If anyone is curious, research the Eocene, the era that likely has the best predictive power for what will be happening to our climate over the next few thousand years). Just imagine it running in reverse, at a greatly accelerated rate.

And if you're wondering how we might avoid this fate, from an engineering perspective we need to recreate something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event
The best and worst of each state
Since I do remote work, I would say somewhere within 5 to 10% of US jobs.
Okay, that's definitely something that I agree with. :)
The suggestion is more high status -> more exposure to any parasite whose transmission isn't environmentally mediated.
After watching the gameplay video, it seems like Unity would have been a performance-friendly way to achieve the goal.
I don't understand this statement. How can a conference decide not to raise global temperature over 2.8 degrees? For that matter, is there any scientific evidence that humans can actually take collective action to slow or stop global temperature increases?

It's all well and good to say that if I personally generate less CO2 then I personally will have less impact on temperature rise, but collectively, the impact depends on lots of other people's decisions, on population growth, on animal populations particularly cows. And of course if we are already on a trajectory that will increasingly release methane from clathrates, then what if that dwarfs changes in human activity?

There does seem to be some evidence that things like carbon taxes are mainly a bureaucratic boondoggle to enrich some people and to hide CO2 production by shifting it to some place that people don't look at too closely. We must never forget that bureaucracy drives corruption no matter what the underlying political system is. So if people are truly serious about collective human action to slow CO2 production or reverse it, we must be even more serious about cleaning out corruption at all levels in all countries.
> To do your own math, it's mAh * voltage / 1000

The 1 / 1000 is a millisecond? Otherwise the units work out to power and not potential energy?
I don't know about Sim City, but it's very _very_ common for games to write everything in C++/OpenGL and just use a thin layer to bind against the underlying platform where needed.

In fact, other than using a premade engine like Unity, I'd say that's the only sane way to do mobile development.
Probably because it is still a special case. I have exactly 0 USB-C devices and none of my stuff is old.
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Do you mean something like Datomic? It has been intriguing me for a while...
Some species survived and adapted, some didn't. Hey, evolution! The available evidence on the onset/offset for major climatic swings over the last 1 million years does suggest between a 10 - 100 year switching time, probably linked to the global conveyor belt currents switching between different states.

We have a fairly good understanding of the onset of the current inter-glacial. We don't, because ice cores and other information gets progressively harder to read, the further you go back, know all that much about the onset of a glacial period, but it does appear to be fairly quick. (Not Day after Tomorrow quick, but definitely within a lifetime quick.)

We're coming to what would normally be the end of the current inter-glacial, we have record C02 levels, and the gulf stream has been slowing down for the last 20 years. Nobody really knows whats going to happen next - but the UK Met office was apparently sufficiently alarmed to issue a blog post saying absolutely nothing if you read it carefully.

Interesting times.
Phenylalanine is one of the 20 amino acids required for life as we know it. You are exposed to many times more phenylalanine when you eat high-protein foods compared to an entire 12 pack of diet soda.

Phenylketonurics have to track their phenylalanine consumption, so there are several easy-to-use look-up tables for the amount of phenylalanine in various foods (1).

Diet soda (2) is a rounding error compared to soy, legumes, and meats. Show me a healthy diet without soy, cheese, whole grains, eggs, or legumes and I'll show you someone who's trying too hard to show me something.

(1) https://www.healthaliciousness.com/articles/high-phenylalani...

(2) http://static.diabetesselfmanagement.com/pdfs/DSM0310_012.pd...
Some awesome drawings that make common OS and Linux topics easy to understand
The writer complains about the tech industry and anticipates any replies. Her tone is feisty. She cites general scenarios as proof, and by the end she is inconsolable. After years of experience, I think she is the kind of person who somehow attracts you to help her but who will stab you in the chest when you try.

It sounds like she has had a few experiences that wounded her deeply, and she has decided to protect herself by closing up. But I think her experience is limited. There are places you can work that let you craft great code. They typically are not in the tech industry as she defines it, "companies and professionals who view code as a core part of their business and their self-understanding, both internally and externally." And I'm not sure she will find a company that actually encourages good code, only one that gives her space to code how she wants --- not because they appreciate good code but because they don't understand it. Their programming team is a black box, and whatever estimate you give they have to just have to accept, like when your mechanic or your doctor tells you it will take such-and-such.

I would advise her to look for a job where tech is an ancillary part of the business, perhaps a programmer at a hospital, college, or niche-but-profitable industry. Or, as others here have suggested, working more on back end than web front end. No matter where, she still should ask lots and lots of questions of the company, preferably of the employees themselves if she can get a hold of them. There are pockets of good, but like anything in the world they are diamonds in the rough, and you have to do some digging to discover them.
Ask HN: How do you make use of traffic surges from sites like HN and Reddit?
Last week one of my projects made it to #12 on reddit.com (from /r/InternetIsBeautiful), and I’ve had sites or blogposts do well on ProductHunt, Reddit, and here on HN in the past.

What are the best ways to make use of surges of traffic like this?

Getting 250,000+ hits helps with search ranking, but I don’t run ads, so it doesn’t translate directly into revenue. It’d make sense to use it to grow a mailing list for future projects, but traffic from link aggregators converts 90% worse than normal referral / search traffic. So I have two questions:

1. What do you do when one of your sites does well on HN / Reddit / Producthunt?

2. Is there any way to improve the abysmal optin rate that usually goes along with link aggregator traffic?

Thanks!
VTT creates the world's first hyperspectral Iphone camera
Your visualization of using momentum with gradient descent in that post is really great - nice work!
I would say that easy access to loaned capital has perversed the connection between wages and house prices a bit.
Guide: Compound Interest with Monthly Contributions for Python
Init_Amt = input("Enter initial amount")

Interest_rate = input("Enter the interst rate")

Num_years = input("Number of years")

Monthly_Amount = input("Monthly Amount")

Init_Amt = float(Init_Amt)

Interest_rate = float(Interest_rate)

Num_years = int(Num_years)

Monthly_Amount = float(Monthly_Amount)

PV = Init_Amt

IR = Interest_rate

N = Num_years

N_m = N12 #in terms of months

M = Monthly_Amount

def compound(PV, N, M, IR):

for i in range(N):

PV += (M * 12)

FV = (PV*(1+IR)**N)

print(i + FV)

if __name__ == "__main__":

compound(PV, N, M, IR)
I have no idea how we got to the USB C connector mess. I thought one of the hard fought battles of the tech ecosystem was "if it fits, it will work". What is the rationale for using the same connector for incompatible use cases?
Investopedia is quite a good resource http://www.investopedia.com/ as are just news organizations like http://moringstar.com and The Motley Fool.

Also, this isn't quite what you're looking for, but I've been listening to the Marketplace podcast recently from NPR and really enjoy the accessible coverage of complex financial topics. Kai Ryssdal's voice is very soothing as well. I highly recommend it.
You have to understand that little things make a difference. You don't have to be the next Julian Assange.

For example, who was the guy who convinced the WhatsApp folk to implement E2E encryption?

Small actions can have large, positive consequences.
1000 mAh * 1 V / 1000 = 1 Ah * 1 V = 1 Wh

Wh is energy, dividing through time would be power.
Not released yet :). I have my old one out for iOS only, built ontop of CocoonJS
... Until Apple adopts it at which point it becomes a standard feature.

Apple is the driver for innovation in the PC industry. Not just their own, but industry standards as well.
Wages are a factor of demand (and hence help to drive rent prices), but they're far from being the only factor. Supply is also a key factor though: there is far from being a perfect correlation between wages and rent.
Any plans to do short stories as well?
Thank you for the reply.

1. Part of the reason I found the Members Loan Fund confusing was the terminology in the FAQ wasn’t clear it’s a deposit which could be withdrawn if the borrower no longer has an outstanding loan.

2. I understand depositing the difference of first loan into the MLF helps facilitate future larger loans at a higher credit limit. Though how it works seems to involve a borrower receiving a ~$10 loan, but then being asked to “repay” the lender a very different loan amount in some cases hundreds of dollars – over the course of only a few weeks...These entrepreneurs able to turn $10 into $100s in profits so quickly would be very impressive. Maybe repayments come from another source.

3. There may be more behind this part but it looks like when good borrowers pay back their loans in full and they eventually move on from Zidisha they would take their MLF deposit with them as they leave. At the same time there are the borrowers who take out loans and default on repayment and don’t come back; they end up creating a loss as their MLF deposit doesn’t cover the full loan value.

Basically this sounds like a system exposed to some moral hazard and adverse selection but without a mechanism for good actors to help offset any losses from bad actors. ie people leaving Zidisha are either ~neutral to the fund or they created a loss, no one ever moves through leaving a net positive. It's comparable to insurance company model and doesn't sound sustainable if this is what's happening - and made more difficult if the biz model involves spending the principal and keeping the interest instead of spending interest and keeping the principal.

With that said, I do want to mention I read the huffpo link. It’s awesome the way you guys are iterating based on observations and innovating as you build this - making it more efficient. It's really exciting to see this happening on this level in the non-profit space.

I realize you have a challenging two sided market to grow that requires balancing info and experience for many people across many countries. It seems really complicated too how to handle the different messaging that lenders and borrowers need here respectively and then also keeping things consistent as one platform. And it's P2P lending which brings with it all kinds of hurdles and biases. And it's also non-profit work! Which nobody seems to get is real work and too many crazy people love to complain about (PS I hope you are not underpaying yourself for this role, I see way too many underpaid non-profit workers). Basically what you are building looks darn hard to do, and it's super impressive what's been built so far, a ton of respect from me. Best of luck.
Shipping without understand is no virtue, and as far as I can tell, there's no hard conflict between the two.

The entire official story of "lean" is "build, measure, learn", which is fundamentally about developing a process for shipping while deepening an understanding.

The hermeneutic circle (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutic_circle) cited by Dave Herman of Mozilla Research and Brendan Eich (about JavaScript) is a process of iteration that prizes a deepening understanding interleaved with lessons learned from shipping.

I didn't interpret the OP to be saying that she wanted to gain a perfect understanding before shipping, but rather that she preferred a style that focused more than the tech community average on deepening understanding.

And I don't think she needs to go to a different branch of technology to get that. Maybe app development needs more of it.

Steve Jobs famously talked about the interplay between understanding and building: https://wycats.svbtle.com/theres-a-tremendous-amount-of-craf....

I think we could do worse than to think about this topic more.
There's also the terraforming possibility, even though that's still a long, long way away. It may turn out to be easier to create a habitable atmosphere from scratch than to make even relatively small changes to our own, since the Earth already has all these complex feedback loops. There's also not as much margin for error here because, as The Tick would say, this is where we keep all our stuff.
Yep, totally agree. The exploiting potential far outweighs the usefulness.
"In some neighborhoods of the Bronx and in Harlem, fully a third of the housing stock was literally abandoned by its owners: it was easier to just walk away and let the building rot than to take any action to repair it and continue to collect rent-controlled rents."

It's absolutely scandolous that landlords would be allowed to get away with doing that.

They should be taxed severely if they don't rent out the property within a certain amount of time, or perhaps just have the government take over ownership in that case.
> It's not straightforward.

But it's no less straightforward than being your own CA in your dev environment and issuing a cert to any other name. There's no need to go through the hassle of getting a public cert for this use case.
This is a false dilemma. Higher wages cause rent to increase (as you mentioned), but new housing causes rent to decrease (as OP mentioned). If high wages are making housing unaffordable for people, you can increase the housing supply.

I think with the existing situation in SF where you have a lot of young people with high wages who will live in a run-down place in the mission and pay $2-5k, if you build a bunch of luxury condos and need people to fill them, those people will move out of the mission and into a luxury condo. As buying pressure for lower quality housing e.g. off Mission St. is released into the luxury market, prices come down and schoolteachers can once again afford the Mission, or Lower Haight, or wherever.

One valid point I see coming from the anti-development camp is that the new surge in tech jobs is caused by a credit bubble, and once that crashes, you'd have all this excess supply, and it will tank the SF housing market, making the NIMBYs worse off than if expansion happened gradually.

I guess it comes down to whether you "believe in" the sustainability of bay area tech.
For the HN definition of hackers, maybe.
Ah, the deep questions are pestering you. Rest assured that this period is normal, in time it will work out by itself. In this state it seems that we need just one more tidbit of wisdom to resolve our doubts, the thing is: this wisdom must come from within, not from the outside.

I too, come from a corrupt country with similar problems (Mexico), and having experienced living in more developed countries I observe that the range of "wickedness" to "goodness" is much wider in our developing nations. It is true indeed that one can feel like a sucker when it's the cheaters, the liars, and the corrupt who apparently come out ahead in life. But it's all bullshit! How can a liar, a cheater, and a corrupt person find true love, his true passion, his true meaning?

These people do what they do because they are primates trying to impress other primates to get laid more. They do so not out of evil, but out of ignorance. The path of righteousness is one of truth, integrity and authenticity. The key to not feeling like a sucker is to accept everything life puts forward, and to seek justice only for others, not for yourself.

The sage is kind to the kind.
The wise sage is also kind to the unkind.
Because the nature of the sage's being Is kindness.

Lao Tse
I don't disagree with anything you just said, but many people take "history" to be distinct from "prehistory" (the latter ends and the former begins at the point in time when humans began to keep records of their affairs). So I caution you not to assume people are necessarily being disingenuous when they say something is at a historical high or whatever.
> the much more likely case is not a Mad Max scenario

I'd say Mad Max is the worst case. Possible, but certainly not inevitable. How likely it is depends on what we choose to do (or not do). But we have to stop talking about turning Earth into Venus or destroying all life or even humans going extinct. None of those are going to happen.

> The worst case scenario is we see innocent people needlessly die due to the actions of other people

The worst case scenario is the collapse of modern technological civilization with the resulting deaths of billions of innocent people. The worst case is really, really bad. So arguments like this:

> we simply don't know what we're doing when it comes to global climate science

don't carry a lot of weight with me. It's true that there is a lot of uncertainty. But that uncertainty cuts both ways. We might be erring in either direction, and the consequences of getting this wrong are very, very serious. So we ought to err on the conservative side. Because the only way to know for sure whether the worst case is possible is to actually make it happen.

> While of course anything is possible, can you link me to scientific evidence that this will happen.

No, of course not. But I can probably find some papers that show that it's possible.
The last time I visited Wall St., in 2015, I noticed a giant inflatable rat, directly in front of the Deutsche bank building. I figured someone was pissed off about something.
As he points out in the article, Safari works better.

It occurs to me that games like this could be collected into a portal that could run in Safari, could be added as an icon on the home screen, and could even be cross-platform.

But, people are so used to using the app store for discovery, so it seems important to package up games so they can be dropped in there and downloaded.

Is anyone creating a useful portal for html-only games?
Well, it's been a few years since I worked at Intel, but I'm guessing it's just a misalignment of incentives. It's not that some people inside Intel don't realize who their friends are, it's just that those who do realize who their friends are do not get measured on treating their friends well. Nor does their boss, nor their boss's boss. Until their boss's boss does get measured on how well they treat Intel's friends. Then the friends get smothered in a bunch of distracting attention.

You get what you measure for. Intel measures a lot. Intel fails to measure some important things.

The same is probably true of any company with hyper-focused management. Maybe even your startup.
If Secret Hitler is a ripoff of anything, it's Avalon, which is similar to Mafia/Werewolf, but is much deeper and lacks the issue of player elimination.
Hell yeah! I sincerely regard those 2 ports on the cheaper model simply as hardware crippling. Much like AV manufacturers punish you by giving you less audio/hdmi ports if you go for their entry models.
I've been slowly converting my older C/C++ code still in use into D. Next up is the dmd back end!
directly related:

Stress, Portrait of a Killer - Full Documentary (2008)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYG0ZuTv5rs

It studies this in humans and other primates.
For personal finance, I find The Automatic Millionaire gives usful and pragmatic advice: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/621.The_Automatic_Million...