skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not so surprising, since most people enjoy the satisfaction of having their plans work out, achieving goals and so on - and consumerism, the dominant 'philosophy' of western liberalism, is all about the accumulation of satisfying experiences.

Of course, this doesn't sound all that great when it's reduced to its bare bones. That's why extremist ideologues often find great political success by promoting a stark message: a life filled with suffering and struggle offers more meaning then one where there's never any danger or anxiety. Hitler told the German people quite frankly that they'd have to go through fire to realize his vision, and that sounded good to enough people that he was able to make good on the promise. Likewise, millions of Slavs were willing to sacrifice themselves against hopeless odds (as it seemed at the time) to repel the Nazi invasion of the USSR. Indeed, once a country goes to war there invariably seems to be a great outpouring of enthusiasm because the inherently pointless quotidian struggles of work, survival, acquisition and consumption are replaced with the much more exciting and arousing struggles for life and death, for which economic competition is only the proxy.

I believe there are two basic reasons for this. One, most people don't enjoy thinking for its own sake all that much, but when you're in a survival situation you can dispense with all that tedious mentation and really live in the moment. For people who have lived a qualitatively meaningless life up to that point, this is tremendously liberating. The other reason is that life is never sweeter than when death is close, and danger is highly correlated with sexual arousal for evolutionary reasons - hence the epidemic of rape during wartime. When time horizons are short, prohibited actions are no longer consequential, and the normal moral calculus is abandoned, then expression triumphs over repression.

In sum, we're not really cut out for long-term thinking and abstract mentation for its own sake appeals to only a tiny minority. There is great value to living in the moment but most people don't know how to do it, and so their frustration builds up, to the detriment of the social body which must eventually express the excess -much as a boil is tolerable until it becomes a cyst and needs to be lanced.

This is the reason that attempts to create a totally safe society are doomed - the safer you make it, the more of a prison it becomes. I'd rather not write an essay about this, but there's a reason that aristocratic societies allowed and created formal rules for dueling.
I don't think so. Thanks to Let's Encrypt, I expect that configuring HTTPS will soon be about as simple as "apt-get install apache". Hosting providers will make it a checkbox (that will soon be on by default.) We're making it easier for individual site owners to provide privacy for their visitors, leading to more decentralization.
Yes, apparently the new administration isn't especially different in approach from covering warlords, post-Soviet dictators and Middle-Eastern autocrats.
beautiful UI you've got there :) would you like to screen share sometime?
I also take issue with the idea that concurrency implies that each unit of work is continuously making progress.
This is a great and oft-forgotten point. I like to think all summary numbers are lossy, you are only free to pick your poison.
So I should have said, a benevolent Gordon Gekko.
That sort of "inline" issue tracking is a thing. I think Bugs Everywhere[1] is one of the more mature systems based on the idea. There are several others too[2], most of them unmaintained. There are also wiki-style systems based on the same idea.

[1] http://www.bugseverywhere.org/
[2] http://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner/blog/posts/git-issue-trackers/
>but if the equilibrium was $1000 per pack I wouldn't consider that unreasonable

Ok, so you still haven't solved the problem, you aren't collecting any revenue, and now you have a pretty serious black market and all the crime, policing costs, jail costs and bribes that go with it. At what point do you realize it's bad policy to tax sin and really only succeeds in getting revenue from predominantly poor people?

1. You will never get all people to stop smoking.
2. Any effort to squeeze down the last 15% or so is the same folly that got us into the drug war.
3. The only thing you can reasonably do as a nation is to keep pushing out the commercials and hope for the best.

Quit taxing the crap out of poor people. Quit acting like smoke is mustard gas.
It's not using homomorphic encryption: it's using garbled circuits and oblivious transfer (order of magnitudes faster).
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There is a lot of legal misinformation in this thread, as is common on HN, both on the substance and practice-in-fact. For readers in a similar contractual pickle, take things read here with a grain of salt. Most assume very specific things about your information and bargaining position which may not apply.

In general, the applicability and effect of broad catch-all employment agreement's clauses will vary between jurisdictions - This is part of why they're drafted in a hyper-defensive manner. No small business is going to shell out for legal to obtain 300+ jurisdiction specific form agreements.

There may be very clear bright-line rules dealing with your issues as raised which put you in the clear, but you won't know unless you consult an expert. Because of the nature of the employment bar, you can get straightforward accurate advice for very little investment - if you approach obtaining advice properly.

Take the time to draft an email to local employment counsel setting out your concerns, attaching the proposed agreement and setting out the scope of review you would like him to perform. Ask for a quote. Repeat until you find a good fit.
HTTP is not the bottleneck of anyone's application. Any interesting business logic will almost certainly cause Python to perform worse than Java, Go, etc. I'm also skeptical of the maintainability claim, because I write Python professionally.
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That VM/container is still essentially a remote system. Do you never ever log in to it? What types of instrumentation are you using to characterize the performance and operation of your app in the dev instance?
To quote the HN Guidelines:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
Ask HN: Why are single \n not allowed on HN?
When I post a message I have 2 choices: inline or new paragraph. Why can't I just do a new line in my posts? Or how can I do a single \n?
Good intuition :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interquartile_range
Skip to the 3:45 mark.
But haven't you heard? Trump did something people don't like so he's a fascist now. Grass roots organisations that are in touch with the common man like Apple, Google, the New York Times and the Washington post are really opposed to this. If we keep this up it's bound to make those dumb working class white people vote correctly next time.
Thick plastic would provide adequate shielding from radiation, and could one day be made from local materials. Or we could just live underground. Fiber optics could be used to channel sunlight deep underground.
This effort is immensely scary to me as an objective observer. There is an inherent bias in the self-righteous "majority" that blinds it to its own flaws, fallacies, and "fake news". It's akin to asking corporations or dictators to regulate themselves. There is a precedent and model on how to provide a structure to combat "fake news" and it's called the American Constitution with it's various means for separating and balancing powers in addition to the breakdown into three branched of government. What is overlooked is that the very nature that we have two distinct parties is a core function of this leveling and balance and regulation of powers.

The effort to combat "fake news", the solution looks ever more like thought police and authoritarian propaganda machine than it looks, let alone would even be able to provide some sort of accurate and precise filter of "fake news".

What a lot of ... basically everyone on the left ... doesn't realize is that CNN was precisely set up after Carter's thumping, with specific and deliberate effort to manipulate people's minds and perceptions for political purposes, i.e., propaganda. Now, will it be accepted that given its history and its rather regular intentional manipulative and false news reporting that CNN will be labeled "fake news"? There is no chance in hell that would happen even if they came out and said "we are fake news". Just let that sink in; this is not a scientific or principled endeavor, it is purely a political one to weed out "fake news" the left disagrees with, while promoting "legitimate news" the left agrees with.

It goes to the very core and purpose of the freedom of speech in the USA, for which many foreign and ever increasingly even American people don't have a deep enough appreciation for. The vulnerabilities one party of people cunningly and in a self-satisfactory manner so slyly put in place so that they can misuse it one day, may very well fall into the "wrong" hands the next. It is precisely what happened with the oh so righteous Weimar Republic and it's emergency measures that were meant to be used for "good". Well, the National Socialists used it for "good" too, just not the "good" their ideologically opposite expected it to be used for.
Wasn't Google Bragging About Their Bad Ad Remediation Lately?
Simple search for amazon.com has an ad that looks very legitimate, but unfortunately goes to a scam (possibly malware site). The same thing was happening a few weeks ago, but it appears to have returned.
Musk is actually very critical of solar power in space. He says it's very inefficient due to the lack of atmosphere to "pre-filter" the energy[1]. He believes nuclear power is the way to go in space.

[1] http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a8101/elon-musk-o...
'I heard a great line about this once, and unfortunately I cannot remember the source:

“Most people want to become wealthy so they can consume social status. Japanese employers believe this is inefficient, and simply award social status directly.”

The best employees aren’t compensated with large option grants or eye popping bonuses — they’re simply anointed as “princes”, given their pick of projects to work on, receive plum assignments, and get their status acknowledged (in ways great and small) by the other employees.'

From http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan/
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We can probably dial that in a little more: Fox News is certainly no better than CNN as far as talking heads goes, but the Trump Administration isn't feuding with them. Trump is feuding with talking heads who don't advance his agenda.
The title makes no claim that he engineered these widgets, so I don't see how this is at all misleading. What he's done is impressive precisely because of how little effort he put in -- he managed to make a ton of money by bringing someone else's idea to market.you could try to claim that it wasn't this guy that brought the widget to market, but rather that it was the people in china -- but then you'd be mistaking the market that is Alibaba for the general marketplace (where normal people buy stuff), which is what's meant here by "brought to market". There's clearly a ton of value in being able to give people what they want -- in this case the Kickstarter people put in a ton of effort just to fail spectacularly.

So, no, this wasn't an incredible feat of engineering -- but, then again, the article never claimed it to be. It is, however, an incredible story of providing consumers with what they want and making a sizable profit in the process. As someone who works to make money (and not the other way around), this is something that appeals to me.

Is my perspective unique here? Because I see a lot of people missing the point entirely.
EBCDIC seems elegant in its own way: http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/cardint.htm (scroll down) -- apparently it's descended from IBM punch card formats. The discontinuity in the alphabet seems inconvenient for sorting, but it looks like it shares some properties (like bit-flip to make lower case) with ASCII.
Ask HN: Should we treat chatbots as real “team members”?
How should we treat conversational bots (chatbots)? Should we treat them as tools, CLI interfaces, and mere apps? Alternatively, should we interact with them as "humans"?
To detect "fake news", all you have to do is solve all problems in the field of epistemology, especially the ill-founded ones.
The Computational Beauty of Nature (1997) by William Flake is the book that cemented my fascination with computation, computability, and computer science as having something fundamental to say about the physical universe in which we live.It probably sounds banal to all of you in this age but for a 16 year old steeped in high school physics and this mysterious ’calculus’ problems with their elegant closed form solutions the idea of the amount of actual calculating required to figure something out being relevant was... amazing.
A probably silly question from someone without any understanding of the relevant laws:
I'm assuming that it is ok to fire employees when a company goes bankrupt, even when that company is fully owned by another company that is still doing well. Would it be possible to create a new subsidiary for each new employee?

The subsidiary's CEO (only employee) would need to generate revenue as dictated by the company's chairman of the board, which would effectively be the employee's direct manager.

I imagine there would be tons of complications, but wonder whether that could work in theory.
Elon has talked about building an electric jet. Maybe something similar to Joby Aviation or Zee Aero but he wants it to be supersonic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx3auTD85Fw
Same here. I worked on one project, that was a trash fire. I took a month away to kinda clear my head. I go back, and there really isn't anything available, except for React gigs.
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This has been reported, yeah: http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/01/30/68577/lax-immigration-ag...

(Also, hi, developer here. Noticed this thread via itch.io's visitor analytics.)
Not yet, sorry :/
A friend of mine has been building a similar tool [1] for a year now.

When I have brainfog at work, I waste all my time on it [2]

[1] http://www.eight-bits.com

[2] http://www.eight-bits.com/images/journey.png
Facebook Has Been Intentionally Crashing Its Android App on Users (2016)
Can't speak to ecigs in particular, but most of the ads I've seen push addiction-combating substitutes like nicotine patches.
From "America Matters" pdf:

"Media Matters has already secured access to raw data from Facebook, Twitter...

Predictive Technology

Bringing this data analysis to scale will also allow Media Matters to identify which individuals and outlets are the most destructive forces driving fake news, misinformation and harrasment.

Cutting-edge advances in cloud computing and machine learning will enable us to identify patterns and connections that would otherwise go under the radar.
...
Media Matters' core budget for 2017 is $13.4 millions which covers a staff of 81. It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

This budget allows us to create a 34 person research deparment engaged in media monitoring, research, deep dive analysis and rapid response...
this budget also alows us to invest in technological innovations like the creation of an early warning system to identify in the profilerationof fake nws more efficiently and to create cutting-edge predictive technology that allows us to identify patterns and connections in order to asses how misinformation will move and how we can neutralise it. "
"Clinton has 90 percent chance of winning: Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation" - Nov 8 - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-poll-idUSKBN1...
Agreed, that part stood out to me a LOT as well.. though I'm not sure if they've had similar issues in the past as I also don't use the feature. Wasn't aware that it was using FB for data, but it does make sense... FB is a pretty nice db option.
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Firebird was experimental in 5.2.x so it's unlikely there are many such files in the wild.
That makes sense. And it resonates with me. When I was young, I was interested in both Japanese and Russian. When I graduated, my first job out of college was with a semiconductor company in Japan. My experience, like your observation, was that I'd never be able to achieve any level of fluency unless I resided in-country and conducted my daily affairs in the language.
Modern companies tend to have people in roles and teams. What I've done in postmortems is to use role names and team names, not person's names. Even if the team is just one person. This helps keep it about the team and the process. We're all professionals doing our best and striving for continuous improvement.
We just switched over to centralized logging two years ago. All hosts are configured to only keep small logfiles and rolling them over every few megabytes. Filling up the centralized logging is nearly impossible when good monitoring is done and used diskspace is never over 50%.

Btw. using an orchestration platform simplifies many of those aspects of "one node is going rough and I've to do accidentally something stupid".
This seems like a page right out of Catbert's book of management tricks.
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I think you highly underestimate the number of mistakes like this on the flight line.

By an order of magnitude it sounds like from your comment. Even if you get 99.99% reliability (good luck with humans involved) think of the number of flight movements per day multiplied by the number of tasks that must be completed.

This is why there are redundant checks and checklists and systems in place. To catch human errors, as absolutely everyone in the business will eventually make a trivial yet critical mistake.

Demanding individual human perfection is great, but you'll find you will end up with no workforce.
please do #sig-onprem on kubernetes.slack.com . We are discussing a lot of stuff to make this easier.

The biggest challenge right now is the ingress/loadbalancer abstraction. Hopefully, that should get resolved over the next few months.
Perhaps I'm nitpicking, but I don't think it's fair to characterise loaning money successfully as "parasitic". Credit is a useful thing to provide, many endeavours valuable to people would not exist without it. Moreover, loans (and trade more generally) aren't necessarily zero-sum; Warren Buffett getting rich doesn't automatically mean somebody somewhere else is losing out.
One's employer is unlikely to be so forthright with their future plans. It should not be misleading to reveal only the minimum information necessary to a potentially hostile actor (speaking culturally, not legally).
I think it's alright to work on something and not launch it. Not everything is worthy of putting out into the world. And there is an opportunity cost.
There are definitely claims that people were coerced to sign I-407 forms (forfeiting their green cards): http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/01/30/68577/lax-immigration-ag...
what's so bad about Office? I just switched from LO to Office and it's felt like taking a huge weight off my shoulders - all the weird little UI quirks and bugs are gone, and everything just works.
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Where did you get the 100,000+ number from? I don't think there were more than a few dozen sites that were created in the Stack Exchange Area 51 process that were closed down. If you count Stack Exchange 1.0 sites when they licensed the software to other communities, there are probably a few hundred more. But I don't see how you could arrive at 100,000.