skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's common knowledge that Product Hunt is rigged, and they will not heavily punish startups for soliciting upvotes (blatant example: https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/763156319058616321 ), or even paying for promoted Tweets for their PH submission (https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/786286705263251456 ) Relatedly, there is no disclosure when an investor is closely affiliated with a submitted startup (and often people upvote just because of the submitter; the followers system promotes this)

A year ago, I wrote a rant asking about this, among other claims that that Product Hunt is elitist (https://medium.com/@minimaxir/the-questions-on-transparency-... ) To my knowledge, there were no significant improvements in response since then in PH rules.

I bring this up now because the AngelList vertical integration now makes perfect sense: since AL is now promoting investment syndicates, there is now even more benefit from investor collusion and lack of disclosure!
I didn't say 'big business' - I referred to 'anything that was not a cool startup'.
Amazon Lightsail: The private server killer
I just realized how much of a limited resource the Mars -> Earth internet connection is going to be in the future. It'll need to be limited to only absolutely necessary communications for a long time.

Assuming we get enough people on Mars, they'll have their own internet over there.
With all respect: I completely disagree. I think this looks great as is. Dividing it up, adding a bunch of extra CSS would make it less usable and readable for me. Of course, that tends to be subjective.
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/// Designate this instance as suitable for being released
/// once it is out of scope
fn autorelease(&self) -> Self;

Note, this isn't quite what autorelease means. Often the time between the instance going out of scope and when it's actually released is significant.
My wife's standard approach to any cake or confectionary recipe is to immediately half the listed quantity of sugar. Apparently this is common amongst pastry-chefs in catering and doesn't appear to affect the final result other than being a bit paler after cooking.

We even made half-sugar doughnuts recently which were still delicious ( no topping or filling needed ).

So I reckon Nestle will just produce a slightly less bulky confectionery, for the same price of course.
I wonder if this is just a coincidence of timing between your visits. I went to the link in a normal browser tab, an d it was $699 the first time. Perhaps Amazon just happened to change the price between your visits.
But personal responsibility! You are responsible for the things you aren't actually responsible for, like cancer or genetic diseases.
I've run across 'Dark' chocolate in Ireland that's 40% cocoa solids, and more than that sugar. Highly disappointed.

(I'm more of a 72% dark chocolate person. )
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Who cares, you can get proper 100% chocolate (organic, fair trade, blah...) easily from Zotter, if you want it. It doesn't really matter what Nestle comes up with next, people who eat that stuff don't care about such details.
Ask HN: What would you consider “too short” and “too long” to stay at a job?
So I recently moved to the Bay area and started a position about ten months ago in the area of data science and ML. It's all right, but was always meant to be a stepping stone to something bigger, better, and more aligned with my intellectual interests. In recent weeks, I'm finding those roles and have started getting offers for in person interviews in other parts of the country. Given this back store, I was wondering what many of you thought about what is "too short" and "too long" to stay at a position.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13076478
Not surprisingly, the same year that income tax was added to the Constitution. That was when economics transformed into the system that we consider normal today: perpetual slavery to a debt that can never be paid off.

All of the events that came after (the boom/bust cycle, abolition of the gold standard) were a natural result of that decision.
What made Lisp different
This is a fantastic write-up.

It was back in 2011 that I first started wrapping my head around the complexities of concurrent programming. Even in single-threaded environments, such as a JavaScript processes, concurrency woes can escalate quickly in terms of the non-determinism introduced by asynchronous operations (timers, I/O) and their callbacks.

My trying to understand and deal with those complexities resulted in an exploration of functional-reactive programming concepts, which in turn led me to make a "deeper dive" into computer programming language design and various computer science topics. Concurrency is still the CS topic that makes my ears perk up the most.
Played SlaveHack as a kid. This seems pretty similar. Cool project, will see how it compares.
South Korea to kill the coin in path towards ‘cashless society’
Looks like the U.S's manufacturing output is #2 in the world, only behind China.

http://www.aei.org/publication/charts-of-the-day-world-manuf...
Looks like people are talking about poor laptop choices. Currently, only 2 are actually mobile enough for daily trips, and most of them have the kind of build where you know the thing will start falling apart 3 years into use. ;-)
Love the clean readable style, great job!
Too bad it looks like you literally have a computer mounted to your wrist.

http://www.wareable.com/media/images/2015/04/uber-1428589196...
A new product that won't be shipping until March is Play Impossible Gameball: http://www.playimpossible.com If you sign up for the email list you will be given a discount in the first shipment.

My boys (7, 9, and 11 yrs) have access to an early version and play with it almost daily. It gets them active and has basic math and physics games.
So if tomorrow you got a rare form of cancer that cost millions of dollars to treat, you plan to be euthanized?
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Thank you for your well-formulated points and civil response :)

Re: roads, I agree that not all roads are toll roads. The good news is that roads are relatively inexpensive to build and maintain (for example, the federal transportation budget is only 2.3% of total yearly spending, 28 billion dollars).

So, those who want to use roads, should be charged a fair price, and road companies should compete to lower costs where possible.

The argument that "if we don't pay taxes (which are ever increasing and are going towards services that are decreasing in quality), then everyone will go nuts and modern society will collapse!!!" is actually extortion and a clever diversion.

We all want cheaper, more effective services. We all want the poorest members of society to not be kicked when they are already down.

The issue is that world governments are run by an elite few people who funnel our taxes to their bank accounts through scams and poorly rendered services.

And when we figured out this scam and went public with the info, we were yelled at to keep paying our taxes ;)
Thank you for the comment! I'm always looking to hear opinions of Linux friendly excellently built laptops :)
[Ignoring the dupes since they got no attention. Good reason to resubmit if material is worthwhile.]

The author seems to be doing a good thing. Like he said, most of the write-ups on this subject are either ultra-heavy with theory or basically nothing with code examples. Doing interpreters piece-by-piece like in SICP or The Little Schemer series in an accessible language gradually giving them the code and theory they need is a good idea.

It could also help in my verifiable builds scheme where people show no subversion exist by building from ASM to small language (or interpreter) then to bigger one then whole compiler. I was debating p-code, Oberon, Scheme, MiniML... Biggest problem is that the best stuff, eg Scheme's or ML's, is least likely for imperative programmers to try to understand. Something like this could help if I use an imperative base.
I can't comment on most of this for obvious reasons, but our HQ is in SF. We do have a Boston office, and it's our second largest, but we have two other offices too. Of course everyone is looking to hire more talent, whether it's in SV or elsewhere.
How Anthony Fantano, aka the Needle Drop, Became Most Successful Music Critic
AL users might have a more meaningful way in the future to invest in hot PH products.
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FYI on the project zero link, change issues from open to all.
Unfortunate that academics have reasonable solutions (or at least something reasonable to try) to many of the troubles we are encountering but we are unable to hear and internalize them. This poor guy has been singing this song for a long time.
http://timjackson.org.uk/ecological-economics/pwg/
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Reminds me of the book: Merchants of Deception

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1439247153/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=...
I'll eat pretty much any dark chocolate. The best place to find inexpensive, yet good, dark chocolate in the United States is ALDI. Another great thing about their dark chocolate is that it doesn't contain any dairy. One of my friends was on an extremely limited diet for a while doctors tried to figure out what was causing a mysterious allergic reaction. That meant no dairy. She missed chocolate so much she nearly cried when I gave her the first chocolate she could eat in several months.
Just like with BigQuery, a carefully thought out partitioning scheme is critical, or your queries need to be carefully locked down to prevent excessive table scanning. I burned through my BigQuery trial credit fast, by not using partitions during a quick-and-dirty test.
What if the recipe doubled the required amount of sugar in anticipation of people cutting the amount they add?
This is pretty exciting. Both parties are pretty awesome folk. Not too bad of an exit for an 'experiment.'
This is a good idea, and something I'd use. Curious why Apple is not included in the "all brands" section?
Nestle and Hershey have already turned their products into nothing but shit, so to keep trying to push the envelope sounds exactly like how cable thought they could jam more commercials into the programming and nobody would notice. These stupid MBAs all get their educations from the same few idiots, I guess. Pretty sad that business circa 2016 is just "another pickle from the jar" tricks instead of adding real value into products.
there are many great places to buy the world's chocolates from (my favorite is chocosphere) however for many it is what they will see in the check out lane or quickie mart that matters.

if they can still get their fix without all the excess calories; sugar isn't the worst thing; then please, encourage it more.

now just slip some fiber in there to make people feel full
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I worked in/with AV for 5 years and I'm 110% in agreement with Justin Schuh here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072155
They do that with apple juice in the United States. Apples and apple juice are incredibly cheap here.
Beware of solution problems
Also, (unsweetened) cacao nibs: http://navitasnaturals.com/product/439/Cacao-Nibs.html
Perhaps an artifact of the time period. In the 90's, you likely already did backups to LTO/Ultrium tapes daily. So the time was considered already sunk cost.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13080283
If they remove 40% of the sugar they have to replace it with 40% of something else. Candy is sold by weight.

Removing the sugar only solves part of the problem
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> I didn't say 'big business'

> But the cultural aversion to 'big business'

C'mon dude.
My last project saturated a cluster of computers for days at a time. Not everyone writes crud screens for day to day work, honest.

Parallelism is about performance, and it seems contradictory to do parallelism well on top of a slow language. Yes, Erlang can call out to other languages, but so can shell scripts.
This happened at one of the first startups I worked at also. They were burning through a ridiculous amount of capital on AWS silly charges here and there. I think they were spending somewhere in the range of 5-6x what they really should have been spending just because they were "testing" features and forgetting about them.

It's why all of my projects sit on DO and I only really use Route 53 from AWS.
Possibly: young Swedes on HN talking about young cool startup culture vs. someone who has lived around the world, in many countries (i.e. strong comparative basis), including a fair bit of exposure to Scandinavia, and worked for the European Government (European Investment Bank) towards establishing comparative basis for entrepreneurial and business clusters in USA and EU.

Someone who has not lived outside of Sweden does not know what how their culture compares relative to others.

General attitudes towards business in Sweden are far, far different than they are in North America, and it's a cultural/historical issue - a point by the way, which is not very contentious, despite how it may seem here on HN.
Hey, a friendly reminder. I'm parsing the thread, all job offers added here are also available on the map on

https://whoishiring.io

Please read the below if you are planning to post here and would like to have your offer looking good on the map.

I've been doing this since August last year, both parsing the thread and adding this comment here. But this time I would like to only slightly improve one thing: the format.

First, I would like to say that I really like that this thread is one of the few places where hard format for jobs isn't required. The format change that I'm asking for is minimal and a lot of people already post their posts in similar or exactly the same format.

What I’d like to ask is for the format of the first line to be like this:

1) {company} | {job title} | {locations} | {attrs: REMOTE, INTERNS, VISA, company url}
Google | Software Developer | SF | VISA https://google.com
DuckDuckGo | Software Developer | Paoli PA | REMOTE, VISA

or

2) {company} | {job title} | {locations}
Google | Site Reliability Engineer | London, Zurich, Sydney
Facebook | Web-developer | London, Zurich

I will be using this regex to test the firstline.

\s*(?P<company>[^|]+?)\s*\|\s*(?P<title>[^|]+?)\s*\|\s*(?P<locations>[^|]+?)\s*(?:\|\s*(?P<attrs>.+))?$

You can test it in Python or here https://regex101.com/r/relwQD/3 (for match look right). What if you do not comply? Absolutely nothing. I will continue to do my best to parse your job post as it is.

To HN moderators. Apologies for highjacking the thread. I'm getting really positive feedback about what I'm doing here. I just want to improve this one thing.

Feedback welcome.
> That sounds like forcing a service (that you might not want) down your throat, and accusing you of stealing if you refuse to pay.

You can leave if you do not like it. Or you can vote for a different system.

"hey, I want to sleep in this room, but they say they don't let me until I pay, THEY FORCE ME TO PAY!!!"
The article makes it sound like electric cars are everywhere and manufacturers are still making gas vehicles.
You're talking about the US now right? The US is a special kind of fucked up. No way I'm going to defend that, I'm Swedish. We have safety nets and self-funded public pensions (you can even choose the investment).