skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Illiquid markets, stable equilibria (that are not at global minima), and irrational decision making.

Unless your model accounts for such things, it's too simplified. Particularly when it comes to human factors. And if your model is that deficient, it's not really providing useful insights.

Modeling complex phenomena well is tough. But you need to have enough humility to understand when your toy model might be deceiving you.

If the shoe fits....
Every time you close a ticket reward yourself with 10 push-ups or crunches. I know a guy that got a six-pack doing this. After doing it for a while hormones will start to kick in and you will crave it, meaning you will be more productive!
Because they glibly brush it off, like the way when someone makes an honest point by giving you feedback that "gimp" is an offensive term that inhibits its adoption by "normal users" in professional and educational settings, GIMP team members like yourself actively seek to be offensive and attempt to turn it around, by accusing them of being "people who apparently seek to be offended", instead of acknowledging the well know dictionary definition of the term and addressing the problem.

The purpose of GIMP is to edit images, not fight political correctness or offend disabled people or reclaim offensive words.

Do you understand this definition or not?

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/gimp

The noun gimp is sometimes used to describe a limp or another physical disability, although it's an outdated and offensive word to use.

If you comment on someone's gimp, call the person a gimp, or say, "Look at that guy trying to gimp across the parking lot without his crutches," you've chosen a very objectionable way to talk about a disability. People will know what you mean if you use the word, but they're likely to be offended by it. Gimp was first used in the 1920's, possibly as a combination of limp and gammy, an old slang word for "bad."
They OP's logic makes sense if you don't consider quality of life and energy levels.
I find exercise makes me more energetic in general and improves clarity of mind.

Some other improvements (possibly attributed to placebo?) are really hard to put in words, but it feels like my body and mind just crave for energy release.
I'm not an American and I don't really understand why you say this. Only a small percentage that the machine produces comes out in a form usable by non-rich people? Then what's, for example, Obamacare, which seems to be a system that finally resembles how health insurance works in many European countries? And isn't that same Obamacare under fire by lots of people who think that the machine shouldn't support the people and that everybody needs to support themselves instead of taking a piece of tax money?

I'm more confused than before.
> because the people should not have to lobby their government in a democracy, the democratic leaders should already know what the people want and achieve it on their behalf.

I'd agree that people aren't any less knowledgeable now as they were as the former justice describes 'in his day'. I'd even give that it's not the most pressing issue, however, I think it's a far cry to expect a politician just inherently want to/do good for the people.

Any system left unchecked gets warped. It's just as much the citizen's civic duty to pay attention as it is the politician's to do good for the people.
Thanks for writing this! I'm thinking about using Spark for a little 2M-data-point project that I'm working on, just for the learning experience.

Out of curiosity, what kinks did you find?
If you want an illustration of the problem, here's one sourced by the very scientific method of finding the closest men's restroom:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0iripy6m7fu5f3o/2017-01-19%2016.57...

There are over 20 individual controls on that unit (which is, FWIW, common and reasonably expensive). If you do not read Japanese, good luck at finding flush... and finding it will not help you finding it on the next machine you use.
> Are supporters of someone like that suckers or just being dishonest about their own intentions?

As long as we're drawing comparisons, isn't your question a bit like "Have you quit beating your wife?"
Show HN: Conversion Report – Improve your store with our professional review
A corollary to this... the How-to-GTFO-of-SanFrancisco app, because there's no earthly reason housing should be THAT expensive.
Encona hot pepper sauce.

It has a great kick to it, but also a really deep and unique flavour. At university I went through a bottle a week!
I'm surprised you mention swimming has changed your life. I was always suspicious of the way I had begun thinking of my life in terms of "Before Swimming" and "After Swimming" phases.

Has this been your experience too ? I used to bike an hour a day earlier, but swimming has done something else to my well-being and productivity.
Grumpy is a Python runtime. I don't know why they would call it a transpiler; maybe at some point in its lifetime that was the plan?
>it still deprives the unborn children of their rights

Hmmmmm
So much of tech opinion is shaped at HN, I believe it's worth it to share – and in a way collectively rehearse – personal reactions to some of these hypotheticals.

I hope that if I were to be given a task so clearly violating rights, I would follow through with what my first reaction now is: sabotage it, using means usually considered illegal if necessary, up to and including property damage.

edit: I'm not at USDS, nor anything similar, nor a US citizen. So the above is pretty cheap talk – nobody would ever ask /me/ for their illegal Orwellian IT project. I was just trying to express an attitude that I hope exists where it actually matters.
In case you'd like a service that provides similar functionality via a yaml file, I highly recommend var.ci: https://var.ci/

I've used it on a few OSS projects - the CakePHP/CakePHP project being the big one - as well as some private repos. Pretty powerful, and you can use it to automate away quite a few maintenance tasks on larger projects.
Airbus wants to test autonomous airborne cars by the end of 2017
Released in October 2000... yeah, that's probably around the last time I paid any attention to the implementation details of GC in Python.
yeah, that's a great way to quickly show the set up and OS requirements
ESET Multi‑Device Security 2017 Crack and License Key Full Free
Then the next time you visit reddit, I guess.
> You are insane

Let's not do this here, please. Also, you're discrediting yourself and your arguments before I even get to the substance of your comment.
Better, you can do it without a restart is you can serialise current state. That also enforces discipline in defining such state.

Microservices are only a step ahead.

That said, in many cases the cost of a full restart can be accepted.
Trump will not be a normal President. I'm expecting he will either be really hands off or micromanage depending on the situation. So I could see Trump getting involved with the USDS if they made the news somehow.
https://youtu.be/gdnuOa7tDco?t=12
You can get the EAP (early access program) for free if you want to be a cheapskate.
Isn't TFA an actual marketing post from Slack for their new feature?
> the biggest U.S. arms companies employ ~700.000 people

Which is about one-half of Walmart's employee base, but the USA doesn't base its foreign policy on the whims of the Walton family.

What's more persuasive about the military-industrial-government complex is that most of its leaders emerged from the same universities and think-tanks. Essentially they share the same viewpoints and philosophies and can pull the appropriate levers in the domains that the control and they freely move from one domain to another.
API is not enough, full contract has to be shared.
Alternatively, you can use a standing desk, or switch between a sitting and a standing desk. That way you have an additional litte exercise during the working hours.
Something I learnt from the Martin Shkreli drug price increase story is that if you're going to defend someone who's being abused, first see if they even exist. Even then, see if their culture and laws make this an actual horrible suffering or not. What this isn't is some poor low income native being forced out of his house that he inherited from his family on land that he grew up on.
Reduction in Engineering
They also have to weak tools to automate enforcing contracts. Generally the only available tool is "assert".
Good point, but please keep the conversation polite. It's one of HN's best qualities.
Goroutines are _very_ light (8KB stack size)

2kb, actually.
> They're basically telling these backend engineers to piss off and save the blog post until the mobile site loads faster

That's not really what I'm going for. The way they framed the blogpost just lacks perspective. Perhaps that's due to organizational structure, but maybe there's a lesson in that too.

I am a little disappointed I ended up as the top comment. The technical comments are more interesting. The upvotes on my comment probably just represent frustration.
The ROI:

Spending time with mindless exercise: 1/48 part of a year times 70 years is 1.46 years.

If true that's around 8 more years in return for every 1.5 you put in. Nice ROI. :-)
A simple trick to ace job interviews
Don’t Undermine Legal Protections for Online Platforms That Enable Free Speech
Oh, please. Hard to feel pity for him, when whistleblowers face threat of being murdered here in Russia. And Snowden has the "threat" of due process. How awful.
"we never traditionally had a concept of strong property rights or ownership"

Yes, I completely understand that.

I guess what I was trying to say is that Zucks entire problem might boil down to a function of the 'collision' of those two kinds of cultures, as you put it, and the oddities of 'ownership' as they are transcribed from 'Pacific Islander' terms into 'Western legal terms' ...

In Canada we have similar issues with land management, particularly wherein there is resource extraction: the Aboriginal communities have some legal right to input, but how exactly they go about that as a 'clan' is kind of a grey area.
Except that's not how Obamacare works at all! It involves an expansion to Medicaid and Medicare, which are huge failures, and the forcing of healthy Americans into the health insurance market. In fact it has nothing to do with healthcare at all; it only has to do with health "insurance" as if by forcing more money into the system we'll somehow fix it. Because what the American health insurance industry - of which a very small part is healthcare, since even hospitals are putting most of their effort into getting as much money out of the public and private "insurance" schemes as possible - really needs to be "fixed" is more money! I use scare wires around "fixed" because, from the point of view of those running it, the health insurance industry is better than it's ever been.
Everyone who understands English knows that "gimp" is an offensive term.
About time! http://marklee.typepad.com/this_guy_falls_down/2003/10/where...
I imagine you have to deal with the same ethical issues if you chose to go in to law enforcement (crimes against minorities) or EMT work (you may be called upon to help someone who just committed a crime, say in a DWI wreck or arrest).

I have no statistics, but I imagine the combat duty to total enlistment ratios make it a very calculated risk.
I do want to define equality of opportunity that way. As you originally asked me to consider (before editing your post), the consequence that I believe would follow would be equality of outcome, give or take random sampling variation.

To respond to your newly edited (four times! ack! I am scrambling to keep up) comment: I do not want to argue that all groups of people are the same. You have already challenged me to prove the nonexistence of such difference. I have already refused. Your new phrasing has not made your challenge any more reasonable or relevant to my original post.

I'm honestly not even sure what you want me to say here...? "Yes, there are differences between ethnic/religious/cultural/racial groups. These differences contribute to inequality of opportunity, which... exists." Does that somehow nullify the question that I asked wallace_f?

EDIT: On something like your third or fourth edit, you took out the ad hominem attack at the end of your post. I will leave my response in brackets after this note, if only so that comment-readers don't feel like they are losing their minds. [You seem very touchy about this topic. Why do you feel compelled to say such mean things about my posts? What part of them made you feel accused of being a bigot? I don't understand, but I would like to.]
No, Obamacare only pretends to resemble European-style healthcare. In fact, it merely forces everyone to sign up with private health insurance companies. Which still take their huge profits.
Show HN: Notisha – a Quora for faith-based communities
Give me a break. You are insane if you think auto mechanics, miners, truck drivers, plumbers, construction workers, landscapers, or working on fishing vessels, or other physically demanding, laborious jobs, are not preferred more by men than women. 5 women and 1 court case (and no lawyer ever set up a lawsuit like that, right?) does not change all of those facts. You need to realize that your worldview and own personal politics of 'what it means to be a woman' has nothing to do with this topic. Even if it did, the vast majority of women do not want those jobs as much as men do, and you would need to prove prevalent, institutional bias, not discuss what it means to be a woman, to show that this is not true. That does not mean there is not 1 woman who does not love her job as a truck driver. Or 5 woman who love their jobs as truck driver. Nor does it mean women should be prevented from being truck drivers. That's not what this is about though. This is about political correctness and lawyers, not about human welfare and civil rights.
It doesn't even help people enough apply SOLID principles.

Pure functions help but the principles of generalisation are deeper than this.

Tests verify contracts offline. This will miss real issues.
I contacted the author and those numbers have been fixed.
I don't think I'm being impolite.

Edit: perhaps you caught one of my earlier versions. I did indeed edit for tone. I'm quite happy with it now.
Well said. "Monolith" is a pejorative that prejudices any discussion of said code.
I've contacted the author, and he's changed the numbers to properly reflect the real stars. You're now on top! :+1:
Thankyou for the insights.What are your viewpoints on the current gig economy?I am trying to understand this space for my side project.
Types are just formalised limited contracts. Emphasis on limited. They are not enough.
>I do want to define equality of opportunity that way.

You can't have it both ways.

Either all groups are (statistically) the same in their values, preferences, etc, or the claim "equal opportunity => equal representation" does not hold.

Again, this latent assumption in your reasoning is the object of my criticism.

>You seem very touchy about this topic. Why do you feel compelled to say such mean things about my posts?

I apologize if I came off as mean. I did indeed edit my text to remain as civil as possible. The informational content has not changed significantly (it's mostly formatting and tone).

I am, indeed, touchy because it's all too easy you to insinuate bigotry where there is none. It's perfectly normal to be upset when baseless, unfair and dishonest insinuations are used to attack one's character.

But let's be honest: you know this. Frankly I find it disingenuous to act surprised at such a reaction.

With that, let's return to the matter at hand: can you demonstrate that the aforementioned factors are homogeneously distributed between, say, ethnic groups?
This is going to be a problem. Student debt cannot be discharged in bankruptcy, debtors simply garnish wages.

Terrible things will happen with a young overburdened workforce slaving away for their debt. Politicians are already trying to figure out how to squeeze more social security taxes out of them.

This is bad for the economy, likely to cause extreme class warfare and social upheaval.
I read the same :-D
The Wall Street comments are a bit vague/nebulous, but the amount we've spent on unnecessary war-mongering even after Vietnam is a relatively obvious problem that apparently is no longer obvious, now that we lost our "anti-war" party (the formerly anti-war Democrats).

Our bureaucratic programs at home are enough to dig us into a deep financial hole (war-mongering wasn't the source of Greece's problems), but with the added trillions wasted on building old weapons to perpetually blow up and rebuild bridges (not to mention the magnitude of the atrocities committed by the US), we are truly buried financially.

He probably doesn't even know about the CIA's less publicized warfare in Central/South America and the financial/other consequences of the drug war on our own citizens and especially on our neighbors.
So when you feel great and energized you manage to force yourself? ;-)

Still good that you have the option to be active when you want to.
It was not intended as an ad hominen. It's intended to be reflective of the facts available in the world.
I want to stay for a winter so bad.
Have you considered how conservative this sentiment is? Have you tried applying it to any other controversial decisions?
That's what money is for. So you can buy things you want. To do that you also have to give away your money to the person who used to own those things, so they win too. The reason he got so much money is because he gave a lot of other people things that they wanted and they gave him their money. There's nothing wrong with that - unless you think trade is wrong and we should all be self-sufficient hunter gatherers, or that people who work hard to serve others should not be rewarded for it.
That's why we need to more specifically show where software crosses ethical boundaries. With these NSA programs, I can easily see how you can work on them and never actually realise how bad what you're doing is – especially if your work followed a progressions.

Also, I can't resist, but:

> Worth noting that it was developed without any significant leaks either

...until is wasn't
Generally when you control for the number of hours worked, the pay gap mostly goes away. Women on average take much more time off to bear and raise children. The disagreement is mostly over whether this is an appropriate thing to control for. Some argue that we should take steps to ensure that taking time off for childcare doesn't hurt women's careers. Some argue that women feeling the need to take more time off is exactly the problem and we should change our culture so that childcare responsibilities are more equitably shared. I don't think you'd find anyone who has studied this issue who thinks the main source of the pay gap is still discrimination.
> I have tried to be active, but could not fit it into my mentality. Note that I did not say my lifestyle, I said my mentality. I am unable to be active. I was not an active person a a kid, and I am not one as an adult.

I'm not a physician at all, but this sounds similar to a friend who was finally diagnosed with thyroid hypofunction. She now gets hormone pills and is way more energetic. Do you also have low blood pressure? Can't stay up without two coffees in the morning?
Obama care removed some barriers for those with pre existing conditions and forced young healthy people to sign up to pay for it under threat of tax penalty, it didn't collectively negotiate drug prices with insurance companies or provide universal coverage, the way UK, Canada, etc do.
The Internet Health Report
The expensive and complicated thing about these is deployment and maintenance. But then, you could instead pick sqlite and switch to big one when needed.

Sometimes it is good to get a pickup truck ahead of time, but often a smaller less versatile car will suffice. But not quite a motorbike.
Rather than sophistry, it might be more productive to supply a third explanation for why someone would try and claim Trump hasn't worked hard to give the impression he wants a Muslim registry?

Bonus points if you can explain the massive cognitive dissonance between supporting a man who goes out of his way to muddy the waters where his plans and opinions are concerned, and the gnashing of teeth about Clinton's admittance that it can be useful to have a public and private stance.
FWIW, administrators can turn off Email Display, but it's per-team, not per-member.
I did not use OSX back then so I can't comment on that. But on Windows QT was probably the worst piece of software ever created:

1. it took ages to start

2. the UI was very unresponsive

3. it used a LOT of resources, bringing the system to a crawl

4. it installed a lot of crap along side QT itself

5. it tried to trick users into installing Safari

6. it had a lot of security issues

7. it did not follow any of the Windows UI guidelines

8. just google "quicktime sucks" for many many more issues...
>what was the breaking point for you?

It got exponentially harder to get out of bed and get to work. I just had to quit because I couldn't show up. I didn't give anytime to interview or find an offer. I was also in a weird situation with regards to immigration. So it was reckless but goes to show how much I had to leave.

>How did you approach your recovery?

Joined a big company, got myself on a path to be comfortable financially, took every weekend off. Picked up hobbies, coded for fun. Worked out, visited doctors, changed my eating habits -- got healthy.

>How much time and effort did you put into getting your business off the ground?

Part of 2015 and 2016 I started working and growing on an old side project of mine until got to a point where I knew I could raise money for. I quit in April 2016 and worked like crazy for a month to raise enough money to hire a couple of engineers, get to feature complete, and start selling (which is what we're still working on now). I wrote about it here: https://amasad.me/2016

>How do you manage to combine enjoyable work with delivery (nowadays it is the mantra - everything has to at least help provide value for customer)?

If you're building a startup it's one of the hardest thing you'll ever do so in my opinion you need to align the mission, the product, and the market you're going after with what you care about. Whether that social good, tech, or business. Given that, it's builtin the company that you should enjoy what you're doing. Then hire people that enjoy that too and it all (seems) to fall into place naturally. To sum up, you're in a position to design your ideal work environment -- do it! (You may fail, but that's better than being stuck with something you don't care about).

>How do you handle employee's failures and your own?

I'd be lying if I said I don't push myself and others around me to be the best they can be. You just need to give feedback regularly so that there are never no big surprises (this is something that you can learn by being at one of the good big companies) and always be kind.

Good luck with your workshop.
How to Develop Your SaaS Pricing Model the Right Way – With Patrick Campbell
For someone who is so virulently anti-privacy, he's certainly strangely a very private person isn't he?

There is something I find very odd and unsettling about Zuckerberg. One day I think we will yet rue making him such a success.
I don't think Matt was speaking to his personal decision alone, as much as making a transparent recruiting pitch.
And I feel that it would also reach the front page :D
Pretty common in South Korea.
I looked into getting one for my bathroom but it was going to be £3000 to get a decent model plus a compatible toilet bowl (and IIRC that didn't include getting it plumbed in and an electrician to wire it in).

Edit: List of USA models, the most expensive being $3,300: https://washlet.totousa.com/view-all-products
Another example http://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/07/12/A-Labrador-woman-has-...