skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is more a site that advocates for a particular policy point of view than a site that neutrally reviews the latest methodologically careful research.

Mad in America was the title of investigative journalist Robert Whitaker's first book. Whitaker's second book, Anatomy of an Epidemic, proposes that there is not and has never been any evidence that commonly used psychiatric prescriptions actually work over the long-term.

This HN submission was from 2 days ago: Psychiatrists Must Face Possibility That Medications Hurt More Than They Help (scientificamerican.com) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13186201

The Scientific American article says, essentially, that "Maybe Robert Whitaker is right..."

I am not anti-psychiatry, I am opposed to treating symptoms instead of causes. My friend would be doing much better if her psychiatrists would prescribe useful drugs (naltrexone, thyroid, B-vitamins, etc), instead of harmful ones.
Technology in this context isn't an investment. Wires aren't investments. Wires are a cost. Imagine if your kids grow up and never have to buy a single cable for anything. How much money would that save them over their lives? What if these kids grow up in a world where things are connected, seemingly alive, because they just know about the presence of other things and can "talk" to those things and do your bidding?

This is what we're moving to. It sucks that people can't see that.
I will say that having firebug open did cause major performance issues for regular browsing, but the performance of inspect element was quicker.

I am just happy they are really making an effort to improve the tools overall :)
(Data)Weaving Expressions in Java
As someone who had to abruptly come off venlafaxine due to side effects, I can tell you that it was complete hell. I experienced vomiting, the weirdest, most horrible nightmares every night, sleep paralysis with hallucinations and a recurring feeling of "electic shocks" inside my head. This lasted about a month. I think it borders on inhumane not to mention possible withdrawal symptoms before prescribing this awful "anti-"depressant.

My doctor eventually prescribed me trazodone, so I could just sleep the withdrawals off.
>“I haven’t noticed substantial cutbacks in traffic. As a matter of fact, I would say it was the opposite.”

That is the very nature of Induced Demand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand).
Except NVEnergy is still 78% natural gas generation. I think they are just trying say that some portion of the other 22% is allocated to Vegas city government and supposedly none from the gas although I doubt that.
For exactly that reason, we used $$(inline expression) and $$$(block expression) for the KaTeX delimiters in a web-based Markdown editor that I worked on.

Originally we used the "standard" single $ delimiter but would run into problems when someone's content included a string like, "...between $190 and $200...". It wasn't elegant, but saved a lot of complicated parsing to look for whitespace or other implicit indications of what the author was trying to do.
Continuous deployment for your blog
The question is whether Uber is buying anything of durable value with their billions. Dot-com companies were buying warehouse space, laying fiber, creating lock-in. Uber might be running competitors out of business, but it's a business with low barriers to entry, and they're not really locking in customers or drivers.

They may claim to be building a moat, but to me it looks more like they're buying overpriced water.
Hyper: html/js/css terminal
Specifically it is "Double Irish", however:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
They do. Apple claims 8 GB is the max, but mine works fine with 16 GB.
> Taxing a corporation takes operating money away from that corporation

You nailed it. We need a system where "corporate taxes" should be entirely at the shareholder level, and corporations should be allowed to propagate tax liabilities all the way to individual shareholders (so that holding entities aren't taxed). Then we should apply a progressive income tax on any capital gains made by shareholders. That would make our the system fair and economically efficient.
Exceptions should be Exceptional (2016)
What is your definition of hurt? Taxing the profit sure seems to me like it "hurts" the company as they have less resources.
I disagree, if people pay for the privilege of commenting, they will feel entitled and less likely to self-moderate.

It would make more sense to grant commenting privileges to individuals who have engaged with the site previously and are in good standing. Much like the Product Hunt.
Couldn’t you just write your “LaTeX Math” for LaTeX instead?
> and a big "in construction" sign

Those were the days
A 240 year run wasn't so bad, but there's a lot of accumulated baggage that needs to be shed somehow before this system functions as intended.

Cutting loose some of the more disruptive states might help. Telling North Carolina they're cut off from federal funding would get them back in line pretty quick, though as it stands there's no way that's going to happen.

Instead you're likely to see strong states like California and New York ignore the federal government and just do their own thing.
It's a pro-private, anti-democratic push by chicago school, objectivists, and other groups, to essentially slander civic institutions as terrible and "privatize" them with capital extracting robber barons. "Government" is a 4 letter word and some people are insufferable in their hatred for it - thinking that some private selfish interest of people would magically make the world ... look, it's all preposterous ... it's apologetics and denialism wrapped in the religious fervor of a mythical free market.
I can't comment on what might be the best technique(s) for retaining a high level commentary on news sites - I don't have the expertise.

But I do know where I stand on my own digital interactions; if there appears to be the possibility of having a critical, constructive dialogue, I'll try it out.

Everything else just encourages the mob. Walk away, don't let my ego or emotion convince me to reply to non-constructive comments.

Non-constructive comments are, as the old chestnut goes, like love. Tough to define but you know them when you see them.
Doesn't have to be, no. There are other things to tax than corporations, people and transactions being the obvious candidates.
The great thing about anonymous comments is you can use them to justify any behaviour you want.
What law are they breaking and what would be a fair solution that works for all parties?
It depends what you reinvest in; I know that the (hardware) business which I work for gets taxed on the revenue it spends on capital goods (machinery and tooling) as if it were profit (then we sometimes get to write off some taxes in the future).

One of the reasons 'hardware is hard' is because the government makes it hard.
Facebook, Twitter, Google sued by Orlando shooting victims' families
Yes you should get Atom (ugh I know, but it is worth it for this extension), and Markdown Preview Enhanced:

https://github.com/shd101wyy/markdown-preview-enhanced

I have looked into markdown editors a lot, and this is the best by far. It supports Latex, PlantUML, images, Graphviz, and some more stuff.
I've made no arguments about if its right or wrong to collect taxes.
I think the best known example for this is Hollywood Accounting, which is how a $19m movie with $150m worldwide can 'lose money'.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121018/01054720744/holly...

I've also seen this happen in real estate. You can make a ton of profit, but if your on-paper amortizations outweigh your in-real-life profit then you on-paper lose money even though in the real world you're richer than you were before.
Producing non-shitty C++ code with multiple developers is exceptionally hard since all your developers have to be good. Of course that's true for any language.
I suppose it depends what you consider official Java materials, but the presentations about Project Valhalla and the future of the JVM (by the official Java team) do discuss that sort of thing extensively.

However, this discussion is about GC, not generics specialisation. Java has a guidebook explaining the tradeoffs and how to configure your collector:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/vm/gc...
I would have not been able to attend college without Federal assistance in the form of student loans.

I'm a twice degree'd engineer in the workforce for 15 years, and an expectancy to work at least 25 more years.

All loans were paid back with interest.
My earnings are generally far higher than those in my region that do not have a degree, and I pay higher income taxes accordingly.

Do you feel that the reward was worth the risk for the Federal government?
Krugman and all the rest of the neoliberals and neocons seem to be preaching the end of the world.

The republic isnt ending, civil war isnt breaking out, no matter how hard some hysterical people are pushing it.

Also erosion of rights occurred heavily under bush BUT continued with obama. The whole two party system failed there.
Is Silicon Valley Finding Its Civic Voice?
> Pretty much everyone has both tendencies, which are inherently in tension. This is cognitive dissonance. People don't like experiencing this, so they end up choosing to believe both in tribal politics and that their tribe is the rational one, which is the most convenient way to cut that Gordian knot.

And in addition, the more and more fiercely we tribally associate, the less and less we want to do with the other tribes. This has gone to the extent that certain fields of employment, or even fields of science are largely owned on tribal lines.

Conservatives largely outnumber liberals in fields like agriculture, while liberals dominate social sciences. This sounds fine, but peer review demands cultural diversity as well, or our own cognitive bias imparts blind-spots on the work. The only fix for those blind spots is cultural diversity, and the only way people can be happy with that cultural diversity is to re-tie their Gordian knots and learn to accept other people as other people, and not the devil monsters we tend to equate them as today.
You are tempting me to learn a little bit of go !!
I have looked into markdown editors a lot, and the best I found was this plugin for Atom:

https://github.com/shd101wyy/markdown-preview-enhanced

I know Atom kind of sucks, but this plugin is amazing. Mostly because it supports PlantUML which is also amazing.

Highly recommended.
If you want to play the game of "find the worst things corporations have done to prove they are worse than states", then you will surely lose. How does the actions of those corporations compare to say the bombing of Hiroshima, or the Great Leap Forward, or the Holocaust?

It's also worth noting - both of your examples involved the state actually doing the dirty work.

Funny how libertarians never seem to consider dumping millions of lbs of poison into the environment an "initiation of force"

Citation needed - AFAIK there is no such consensus.
Off the top of my head, I feel that using that syntax would increase the chances that you would run into issues trying to differentiate between escaped characters and expressions, though it's an interesting recommendation (and if MathJax has been able to make it work, I'm sure it's feasible).
There's something to the idea that comments are "letters to the editor", as I believe that the biggest incentive for people to comment is when they feel that they have something to contribute. The problem, of course, is that hateful reasoning is usually something to 'novel' to contribute. It is especially easy to contribute something novel when you skim an article and you don't see any indication that the article is going to where your thinking.

I've been playing with this on a small side project (a literary journal, so the worst medium to try it out with), but it would be my dream to see a major publication try this out:
Making commenting only available after correctly answering a quiz question that demonstrates that the reader has read the article. Initial questions have the ability to frame discussions, clarify controversial details, and discourage lines of thought - and on the other side, it requires little effort for an editor to implement.
Ironically, one of Uber's current cost advantages is that they don't own their fleet of cars, and their drivers are bad at estimating depreciation.

Once they go driverless, they won't have to pay drivers anymore, but they will no longer have drivers renting them their car at a discounted rate.
Damn I feel sorry for you. Although I'm an engineer, I know many many doctors around me (admittedly not many in the US). Most of them (especially the new generation in their mid 30s) are curious, innovative, hard working and do the extra mile for their patients. They work long hours because: they love what they do and don't see themselves doing any other thing and because they care about the outcome of their patients.

I agree that not all doctors are like that, but saying that all doctors are what you are describing is false and insulting.
Great info. Definitely have plenty to read over the next couple weeks now.
(2) is good, right? If people stop buying luxury goods then the resources are going to move to other things which is generally what we want.
OpenStack provides an S3 compatible layer, and a few providers have turned that into a service.

I personally use Delimiter's Obj.Space service. I bought a 2tb bundle, with 20tb of monthly bandwidth, for 3 years. It was a one-time fee of $100.

I know OVH has some attractive offers too.

https://www.delimiter.com/objspace-object-storage/
https://www.ovh.com/us/cloud/storage/object-storage.xml
West Virginia allows painkiller addicts to sue prescribing doctors
yes, exactly this. and by having scalable GC algos so you don't need to do "off heap" tricks in java, things are much easier.
I have a lot of Ask HNs that go unanswered. Most are probably pretty dumb ideas I guess. just wish I knew it was lack of interest or lack of exposure.

a lot are project/community ideas that I could never launch on own but could possibly be done as a community.
Who cares? The privacy increase should be worth it. The tracking is the problem, not the ads themselves.

(edit: if it works. someone else has written that these fake clicks simply get filtered)
I feel like I've matured on this question over the years, so to caveat #1:

90% of options are worth nothing if you count by companies granting, but probably 90% of options are worth something if you count by people receiving grants.

How does that work? Because companies which grow and become worth something hire a metric ton of people and give all of them options. If you're of the opinion that most engineers in San Francisco work for a seed stage startup, you're just straight up not correct. It only seems that way because of availability bias.

Thus the reason for this comment: it's very, very dangerous to get people in our industry thinking "options are ipso-facto worthless" when our industry builds packages for substantially all engineers where they're a material portion of one's compensation. You can find all-cash offers out there, particularly from non-tech employers of engineers, but the standard in our industry is cash plus a substantial equity component, and (as someone in the industry) you really, really need to have a deeper understanding of equity than "all equity is worth zero."

Though the capitalist in me says "If one really thinks that all equity is worth zero, you will find many people willing to take yours off your hands at pennies on the dollar once that becomes feasible for your company."
Ask HN: How would you invest $500K?
If you had $500K to invest, which would be your entire equity, cash money, how would you invest it?

It's your equity so a low risk would definitely be considered. Looking for creative advices, not boring banking stuff...
How do I get feedback on my MVP in the community?
Hello, my name is Erick Fernandes and I am from Brazil. I am new to the community and I have questions about it .. We would like to test our startup platform for feedback with people here on the forum. Could someone help me? How could this be done? Would I talk about the platform, and then disclose her link here? Thank you very much. Sorry for my English, Brazilian universities stifle students with subjects and would like to have studied more English in 2016.
I'm pretty sure the dubious value of these improvements is dwarfed by the rise in vehicular violence that comes automatically with the extra traffic and miles driven as demand inevitably grows to fill the extra capacity.

This is of course a perfectly well understood phenomenon. They went ahead anyway.
Why is a job at FB worth more than a ~$10M acquisition?
One unfortunate side-effect of traffic capacity expansion is that usage increases to compensate:

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Economics/Faculty/Matthew_T...
"real-time apps at scale" and socket.io ? I don't think so. If you want to compare socket.io with something that works on scale look at uWebSockets[1] which is around 50 times faster and lightweight than socket.io is.

https://github.com/uWebSockets/uWebSockets
I think you are trending toward "too-old-to-fail", and perhaps that is the answer?
Yeah, NLP. I was thinking of a version of http://newsblaster.cs.columbia.edu/ (now open-source: https://github.com/kedz/newsblaster). That code doesn't use sentiment analysis or word/phrase vectors so there's significant room for improvement by borrowing ideas from other research. Of course, the amount of improvement is uncertain, so I'm not sure if it translates into a startup per se.

It's probably lower-risk to target a specific segment and do in-depth reviews, e.g. https://examine.com/about/ is apparently quite profitable (http://www.solorwell.com/examine-com-is-grown-up-700000-in-t...), and Grokstyle is doing interior design (http://www.ldv.co/blog/2016/5/30/grokstyle-wins-ldv-vision-s... https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~sbell/pdf/siggraph2015-bell-bala...). But that sort of site will never cover everything, or even a significant fraction of products, so there's lots of room for value-added reviews. I envision a site like https://reviewmeta.com/, but with more emphasis on information extraction (& actual reviews) instead of machine learning (ML metrics don't help much when comparing products; to really corner the market the flow needs to be review site -> Amazon rather than the reverse).
Traffic in Los Angeles is in a sad state. I have moved my house and office to within 2.5 miles of eachother so that I never need to see a freeway. I am fortunate to be able to do so. There is heavy traffic all the time, even when you least suspect it. It's no way to live.
The citizenry may have severe differences of opinion with the leader in charge, but they have so far seen fit to endorse the system that brought him into power. So yes, the citizenry is Trump because Trump is a citizen, and he has won the electoral process that the citizenry did not work up the effort to reform or change to make it otherwise.
If it's using the full selection of functions available to KaTeX, here's the list:

https://github.com/Khan/KaTeX/wiki/Function-Support-in-KaTeX

\def isn't included in the core set, from what I can see.
To be more specific, what they are doing is called income shifting, not reinvesting.

Tax agencies typically use the Arm's Length Test to determine if this income shifting is allowed.

The basics of the test come down to:

Would another company agree to the same arrangement if they weren't owned by the same company / person.
Game engines are strongly generational too, you just don't notice because the short lived allocations are all put on the stack by the developer.
I took that quiz. They have some terrible opinions on what should and shouldn't be deleted. They supported side tracking of the conversation, injection of baiting morals (for a comment on gay marriage they said they'd allow someone to preach about their religious views on gay behavior and marriage).

You can have r/the_donald supporters, "Not my President", and apathetic individuals in the same place... but only if you have strong rules to keep the peace.
> wages would be going up and up until supply met demand

Unless increasing wages don't directly cause supply to increase overnight.
I'm out on this.

1. They say it's legally not click fraud. To me it sounds like regular fraud: "deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right". I'm not concerned with breaking the law I just don't want to act in the spirit of it.

2. This could hurt small startups that are very carefully managing an ad budget. They say the market will adjust, but until it does small startups take a hit. People we know.

3. I dislike activism without clear objectives. I see no list of guidelines here or good behavior that companies could adopt to immediately place them on the side of the good guys.
A simple post with the title "Show HN: {Product Name}" and a descriptive blurb as a comment seems to be the standard method. Otherwise you basically nailed it; and no worries on the English you did fine :)
How can you assume that this money would circulate back into the US economy? You imply that it will be used to buy goods and services within the US and thereby serve the "greater good" of increased economic activity of the sort that produces jobs and greater financial well-being for the bulk of the citizenry.

Assuming that it did "circulate back into the economy", it seems most likely this money would be funneled into the already bloated financial sector where it can most readily participate in the variety of internal US tax avoidance schemes.
Thanks. I would rather have money in the hands of people and companies so that they can do stuff with it. I'm not anti-government, but I believe that people and corporations spend money more effectively for themselves than the government can. We obviously need taxes to fund programs that the free market cannot handle efficiently (healthcare, national parks, national defense, and these are just general categories for rhetorical purposes only).
I have my 401k in a "cash option" right now. pretty worried trump gets us into a trade war and huge global market crash. just not sure on timing. of course if he gets a tax decrease through congress it could back fire on me.
I'm not sure I understand the rationale. Automated attacks can't beat real crypto either -- so why even bother rolling your own? (And automated attacks can certainly see non-cryptographic encodings like Base64, Base32, ROT13...)
Thanks! I'm looking forward to reproducing it this year at Latacora. :)
That high-end / low-end thing is mostly a marketing BS invented to maximize manufacturer’s profits. Works OK in the sense their profit is fine, but if you’re a consumer, you better rely on the specs only and ignore the marketing.
Side Projects: Avoiding Failures to Launch
I suggest you talk to some older doctors. If you did you'd discover that these insane schedules of work and training have been standard since before either of your parents were born.
‘MormonWikileaks’ website launched, seeking transparency in LDS Church
You should post these reasons in your gist. As I thought, there are a few reasons one might want to use /dev/random.

Blanket "don't use X" statements are much more useful with context and information about why not to use X (and when using X may be required, useful, or a better choice).
MSFT was one of the big model companies for stock options and sharing the wealth around. I think they got rid of their stock option plan sometime under Blamer when the stock started paying a dividend.
Isn't that already a thing, if you really want it? [1,2,3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroactive_data_structures

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0yzrZL1py0

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqCWghETNDc
In your case, yes. But what he's saying is that with the opportunity came the responsibility to pay the debt back, which you did, which some are not doing. With no consequence for bad behaviour, why stop?