skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The info seems a bit out of date - Jim Griffith is no longer mayor and hasn't been so for about a year:

http://sunnyvale.ca.gov/CityGovernment/CityCouncil/Councilme...
For me, Clojure is the most satisfying language to write in. The design of the language feels impeccable most of the time. Working in the repl, with all of your application code loaded into the runtime, sitting in an adjacent terminal or editor tab, is immensely satisfying, much like the experience of a craftsman working with hand tools. Unfortunately, I find Clojure code to suffer in terms of readability, and I think it suffers from the same problem all dynamic languages suffer from, they just don't scale to larger applications and teams as well as static languages do. Proof of this is the fact that pretty much every dynamic language out there eventually looks to graft something like a static type system on after the fact. Basically I think people advocating Clojure outside the context of small, high ability teams are (mistakenly imho) prioritizing write mode over read mode.
made an account to post this b/c I don't normally post on hackernews

but does anyone else get a sense of schadenfreude when reading these comments

There are people doubting that Facebook could monetize or become a blue chip stock

There's a comment of a guy being sure that Instagram would fail and literally says "Bookmark this comment, see you in 2022" (Five years to go boys)

This is why I'm convinced that people should honestly share like 1% of what they are really thinking in comments. Yeah, there might be a 1% chance that Instagram would succeed, but do you really want to look like the idiot doubting it could ever happen, with your comment immortalized on the world wide web five years later when you're proven wrong?
When does someone make RecruiterEmail EnterpriseEdition?
When I was a manager? Nope.

I had people who got in at 7, left at 3. No problem.
Smudge: A lightweight Go implementation of the SWIM epidemic protocol
This post is about 2016. Did you miss the part where he was spending all his time on not-consulting?
Note that this is my first real project in Go, and that this will essentially be the first time that it's been looked at by eyes besides mine. It may have holes; possibly glaring ones. Please be gentle. :)
Should I turn down a Amazon AWS job offer over this?
Are we at the end of an era computing wise or is it just Apple? I wonder if computing technologies great transformation of our society is coming to an end. I also thought this in about 1993 and then again in the mid 2000s, so I'm probably wrong again. Maybe AI will be the new killer app that drives the next wave of upgrades.
This is an extremely reductive description of the drug war, and mass incarceration. You really can't talk about either without talking about race.
Yeah...no. Not even close.

Germany has much, much stricter regulations, and the washing machines, dishwashers etc. work much much better. Not despite, but because.

For example, they don't use the hot tap water, they heat the water themselves. To the precise temperature needed. And because the washing machines actually wash clothes (instead of making them a litte wet and stirring), we can get away with much less and less dangerous chemicals for washing. What a concept.

Most manufacturers in the US are just lazy. When we moved to Michigan in the 80ies, US cars were using technology from the 60ies, in slightly warmed over chassis. etc.

Don't know about the showers, seem fine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
Interesting viewpoint.

The difference is that in the village case, the information distribution was much more symmetric. People knew about you and you knew about them, and you knew about each other's knowledge and presumably acted accordingly. So for instance, if being gay was going to be a problem in your village, you hid it well.

With Facebook, they have all the information about you, and you don't even know what they know about you. So in the best case scenario, you are hoping that they are going to be a "benevolent dictator" with their asymmetric knowledge, and not exploit you.
shameless plug, I've developed an HTTP API (plus a minimal web interface) on top of docker compose: https://github.com/francescou/docker-compose-ui , it shold be fully compatible with the docker-compose CLI.
how fast is within? does it use ray tracing?
overlay economic growth and contraction, and there's your answer.
I believe `If` is Visual Basic syntax. ;)
I think the difference here is between having responsibility vs acting like the guy with the crown. A manager should respect his engineers and shouldn't tell everybody that the engineers are "his guys" like he owns some slaves.

But in the end he's the one who should be allowed to override an engineer's decision on whether to work on task A or task B, when to pull extra hours and when it's okay to slack a little.

And if he's good he will be able to keep all the annoying meetings away from the engineers, which as well gives him more power over them but also allows them the freedom to focus on the code.

In a good relationship between PM and engineer it doesn't feel like one is on top of the other. But that doesn't mean there is no hierarchy in the company decision making perspective.
> I've heard this muslims preserved shill many times

> Kebab? I'm truly interested!

This comment steps over the line from thoughtful discourse into religious flamewar, which is not welcome here. Please don't do that again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13285367 and marked it off-topic.
If you guys have all this information, I would love to see a breakdown by subject, for instance, all the elected positions that have something to do with managing elections, and their next election date (so I know who to donate money to if I want to maximize health of elections nationwide).
Impossible. Your own biases consciously or sub-consciously would ultimately skew the curation.
Facebook ran into this issue a little while ago with trending topics. If they did it manually, it was skewed. If they did in algorithmically, it was skewed based on whoever wrote the algorithm.
The only possible way that I could see this working is if you had 3 columns: Left-wing, right-wing, and relatively unbiased (all news articles are biased simply because editors and news agencies are biased). Within those three columns, you place news articles in the left-wing or right-wing columns, and allow for voting (left, right, unbiased). However, this would also require you to have a large group from both sides voting in order to function properly. Good luck!
If that happened, Google would stop letting you install those.
Human rights are things that are inherent to being human. Freedom, liberty, etc (to the extent that you are not denying the same to another person).

Health care requires someone else to do something to provide it. Therefore it isn't a basic human right.
You would have to assume that all drug offenses were Marijuana related given the numbers. I think hundreds of thousands is more likely.
Let's be honest here. FB bought IG because they were the competition and what was the end result? Those guys at IG got benched for years and haven't done much since. So they won, if money was the goal. But if the goal was winning hearts and minds, and making an impact on the industry, they got sidelined. They lost. IG will never reach it's full potential. So yes, a good purchase on FB's part. But for IG? Debatable.
This article is from earlier this year, but admin @dang mentioned that I should repost it, with a link to the comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13266386

I'm the founder of Pavlok, and we've helped thousands of people quit their bad habits and wake up earlier. Our company has a strict metric of 'habits over money' --- so I'm happy to help anyone with their behavior change goals. Hacker News has been a big part of my life, so I would be honored to help anyone here with their goals in habit change.

What are your goals / New Year's Resolutions?
I am the proud owner of the Brooklyn Bridge. Might you be interested in buying it?

The giant consulting dollar nonsense was always total bullshit.
I agree. Being effective and independent will cost money. There some potential for a company that charges monthly or annually to provide search services to other companies with privacy. There's lots of search, like marketing or competitive intelligence, where companies would prefer that the terms don't go through a surveillance company. Initial results might do as DuckDuckGo is doing now with them incrementally building their own database as funds came in.

Not sure how marketable it is, though. Google is pretty dominant. Most companies already running their stuff through it.
It is amazing to see this on the top of HN right after I get off a call with my mother about sending more emergency remittances to my uncle's family in remote east Ethiopia/Ogaden. The situation there is very dire with all the livestock (all their wealth) perished, no rains from this year's Deyr rainy season that just ended and no working wells for groundwater.

If anyone is reading this and wants to help with the crisis situation there, please donate to The Denan Project[1] which is basically the only aid group on the ground. All the majors (Oxfam, ICRC, etc) have been awol during this year's extreme drought (worst in more than 30 years). 100% of donations go to directly supporting people with food and water aid, medical aid (we built the only clinic for hundreds of miles) and other direct support. All overhead costs are already covered by the very generous, selfless folks behind The Denan Project.

Dick Young, founder of The Denan Project wrote a letter to the editor response to this same article by Alex de Waal in the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/opinion/ethiopia-and-the-e...

[1]: http://www.thedenanproject.org/
WOW genius sneaky news release the day before NYE when all the traders are away from the desks and will be shitfaced drunk tomorrow and forget by monday.
All of your points are born of the flawed assumption that it is ethical to take away people's freedoms because you think you know better. Even if you DO know better and could PROVE it (which is never guaranteed in theory OR in practice -- see: FDA, USDA), I would never support coercive measures. It's about as moral and effective as outlawing suicide. The practical arguments are already lost. There were a lot of well-intentioned common folk and bureaucrats who think JUST LIKE YOU and tried something called Prohibition, and it didn't work. Same with the drug war.
I thought we abandoned Malthusianism a century ago.

Humans need a lot more than food to "reproduce". And there's plenty of proof that as people move up the pyramid of needs having a litany of kids becomes a chore few people want.
No, there is simply more competition today, and market balances things out. Also, Apple grew too comfortable and stopped pushing forward. It was only a matter of time for this to happen.
For me it is the combination of numpy, scipy and matplotlib.
They better recruit him
Deadlines are set for art all the time, and some of the greatest works were commissioned on a deadline.
How has Instagram not won hearts and minds? It's an absolutely massive social platform used by a ton of teenagers / young folks. Tons of people use it as their primary form of social media consumption.
> you are hurting no one but yourself, and it is a stretch to say otherwise. Not that we should be providing government healthcare anyway.

educate me here. but ignoring government healthcare, wouldn't private healthcare companies have higher costs for health conscious members if many of their members are making poor health decisions?

if someone chooses to smoke cigarettes and ends up getting lung cancer, I don't feel great about paying for their lung transplant even with private healthcare.
> I wish Facebook would kill Instagram quickly instead of slowly and painfully over time.

Instagram is not dying slowly, it's actually growing rapidly.
Heckin wow
it's more efficient,

It would need to be to run on the slower processors available to non-Apple companies.

You can just do more with Androids

What more, specifically?
>And yes, I take every opportunity when its relevant to mention a healthy diet.

Potentially healthy diet. I don't mean to be pedantic here, and as someone who has adopted a keto diet I think it's far better than the standard american diet. Clearly it stops obesity, we know the body doesn't synthesize fat if there aren't any carbs. But the same thing can be accomplished with some exercise and portion control. Still from mine and others experience it seems to help with issues like concentration and constant fatigue.

But at the end of the day we don't completely know the effects of keto long-term, the same as we didn't really know the effects of a high carb diet long-term, especially in terms of overconsumption. Overconsumption of carbs will definitely lead to obesity and health problems, but it's possible that long-term overconsumption of fats/proteins may have their own effects (though not obesity). We also largely don't know what effects a keto diet will have on childhood development, perhaps there are parts of the brain or body that don't develop as well without a moderate amount of carbs in the diet.

We do know people have adopted keto long-term without any apparent issues (those who suffer from certain types of seizures), but it hasn't been adopted on a large enough scale over time to see the effects on a population like we have from the large scale adoption of high carb diets.

I think there's too much going on between genetics, gut biomes, and lifestyle to really say keto is a healthy diet for everyone. Those promoting keto should be cognizant of our deficiencies in knowledge while still promoting the benefits.

tl;dr IMO it's too early to flat out say keto is a healthy diet, especially when extrapolating that statement to the entire population (though I don't think you were).
No.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/03/31/north-korea-warns-ne...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/19/north-korea-fe...

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/08/opinion/pyongyangs-hunger...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine
C – How can I use a macro, in a macro, to transform a macro's arguments?
I own a copy and can't help but disagree. It goes over a few things like list comprehensions, types, etc, but I couldn't even stumble through writing a basic Haskell program when finished.I'm looking forward to Manning's Grokking Functional Programming if it ever comes out. The Haskell Book is also popular these days.
I'm not sure that one can derive significant value from reading a research paper per day. Great research is not easily grokked or appreciated upon first read. I think one would derive far more value from reading a single paper for an entire week.
Except that humans aren't cats.
In some cities, the housing construction boom is starting to pay off
> Economic signaling based on opinion of good/bad is the bane of the free market.

Must we worship at the altar of the free market a priori?

The "free market" in the case of food has had disastrous health consequences by optimizing for profits over health. The entire incentive structure is to manufacture foods with an addictive quality out of the cheapest possible ingredients, because the negative health outcomes are too distant and dilute to be factored in in any meaningful way. There is a marketing advantage to claiming some processed food is healthy, and there is ample science available that can be distilled down into an unending cycle of specious claims that fall apart on the mildest inspection, but who really has the time to evaluate those claims anyway?

That's not to say government regulation is a silver bullet, but the government does ostensibly represent the people, and what other organization has the clout to balance out the fundamentally broken incentive structures within the food industry?
You are hurting no one but yourself

Easily debatable.

Not that we should be providing government healthcare anyway.

Also debatable, and if single-payer healthcare does exist it implicitly means that obesity has an effect on others. It's silly to take liberalism to an extreme.

there is only so much land, so much sunlight

Land used for agriculture has actually stayed the same or slightly declined since 1990.

When there are good times, people multiply

Evidence suggests that in developed economies, people do precisely the opposite.

there are good times, people multiply. Poverty is inherent to nature -- some bears are born rich (big and strong), while others scrape by their entire lives, and may or may not reproduce. If they all had as much salmon as they wanted, their population would increase until there was poverty again.

Humans are not bears. A large number of people have essentially unlimited access to food, and yet done reproduce en masse. I expect, though I haven't looked, that birth rates would actually inversely correlated with wealth.

Only workaround is eugenics

You have failed to demonstrate a problem to be worked around.

I would rather have freedom to reproduce and poverty than totalitarianism and the "theoretical promise" of no poverty

A preposterous non sequitur, given that it's quite possible to imagine ways to eliminate poverty without reverting to totalitarianism.
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To describe Ethiopia's economic system as capitalistic is at best naive... but even if you were correct then given the signs of a burgeoning crisis one could just as easily say that said capitalism is largely failing there.

Regardless, the paragraph you quoted merely states that once people were once again free to trade their goods for food without being threatened with death more people got fed. Capitalism has literally nothing to do with that, people have been trading goods for foodstuffs for millennia. When they say "markets" they're not talking about the fever dreams of a U Chicago professor, they mean physical locations where goods are bought and sold which are just as much a condition of feudalism as they are capitalism.
Not to mention "not dying of influenza and tuberculosis"...
2016 Was the Year Torrent Giants Fell
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. The GP should not have been snarkily dismissive but at least was still talking about Vienna specifically.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13284536 and marked it off-topic.
They would be sued so hard and fast that they would travel back in time to register the original googol domain.
For someone who waited nearly a month to get my iphone7 (as an upgrade from a galaxy s3) due to inventory being unavailable I'm going WTF - sluggish sales? then why did i have to wait so long? But then at the same time I compare my iphone 7 to friends iphone 6S models and realize...oh the only difference is the headphone jack if you dont do x,y,z...no wonder they aren't selling too many
> No

Clear and concise. If you believe in climate change, we really could just be entering a new Great Famine Age. Especially since the US sits at the bottom of the food chain for most of the world (grain exports).

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34610205
Divide and conquer pattern searching
It turned into one of the best tech acquisitions ever, even better than YouTube because it actually makes a profit.
I think it's disgusting, it plagues our communities, and its overall a bad thing.

I'd support life sentences for first time offenders tbh. Dopers don't contribute to communities they are a part of, they rely on the state and give it more power to screw the rest of us over even more.
I realize that this is becoming horribly pedantic, but the term "side project" is used a lot [1][2] to mean: "Someone who works full time but also builds a product on the side in the hopes that it will one day generate enough revenue that they can quit their day job."

In the context of this thread (a complaint about negative comments) I thought I'd point out that the title had been changed from the original [3], and that the change could perhaps, for some people, cause them to think that this was about trying to generate income outside of their day job, when in fact it was about just doing some small projects on a timeline.

[1] https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/do-not-en...

[2] https://blog.asmartbear.com/working-startup.html

[3] HN doesn't generally allow for changes to the title. Why it was allowed in this case is unclear to me.
I admire Mark Zuckerberg's confidence to pull the trigger on an acquisition like this, especially doing it without consulting his board. My initial thoughts was that he has a visceral feel for the rate of growth that makes a social network successful, having gone through it himself. He could probably tell just by their publicity of growing to a million users within 2-3 months that they were going to be huge.
I wonder if a kind of pony-express messaging app could be done with something like this. Like pick a friend in another state, write a message, carry it around in memory hoping that you'll be within a quarter mile of someone else running the app, and see how long it would take for the message to get delivered.
It's also harder to proof that you are doing your job if you are in the middle between a few teams. Therefore tracking activity in tools instead of your head is also an advantage. Best is not hand written lists, but official tools that are accepted as serious. E.g. the CRM or the issue tracker.
I just began https://pingtiger.com
Unfortunately, Malthusianism was never abandoned at all. I graduated from high school only ten years ago, and Malthus is accurate, up-to-the-minute doctrine as far as my high school and university courses were concerned.
It would be interesting to see the re-incarceration rate of those set free from charges like that.

I wonder if jail time has the opposite effect of rehabilitation for many, especially considering how much harder life can be with jail time on your record, or even just the black hole in your resume that you have to explain.

Not to mention that you spent the last however many years being told and treated like criminal scum, I imagine that would have a fairly significant impact on your mental health and self image, as well as your relationships with friends and family.
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Static typing (and other static checks) will reduce the round trips between editing and running. Some of your typos that are not syntax errors get caught and reported to you. Of course, you were going to test that code anyway. But you avoided a bit of wasted time. However, this advantage can be eroded by the trade offs.

Interesting experience recently: I added static checks to a Lisp dialect which report warnings for all occurrences of unbound variables and functions. (Not type checking, but a very basic static check). According to static proponents, bugs of this type should exist left and right if we don't have the check.

Only one instance of an unbound variable was found in the dialect's standard library: and that was a function that was added as an afterthought and never tested. The problem reproduced 100% when calling the function in any correct manner whatsoever; the function was completely broken. If it had been called just once after having been written, the problem would have been caught.

I fixed the problem so that the warning went away and caught myself almost starting to think about commit the fix, when I realized: what am I doing? I still haven't called the function. Gee, it now passes the one feeble static check that was added, so it must be correct? Haha.
Something About This Russia Hack Story Stinks
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