skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I agree 100% that the working class people in America have been screwed over. But just because they've been wronged doesn't mean that their solutions are right.

The problem is that no one is putting forward better solutions. "The left" is now run by educated elites, not the working class, "the right" might not represent the working class, but at least they don't ignore them.
Yelp launches new feature for asking and answering questions about any business
Same for GAE, or now GKE (basically microservices before microservices were a thing) vs. EC2. GAE was pushing a fairly non-traditional architectural model while others were just trying to provide cloud-based VMs.

Discolsure: Also a Google employee, also reconstructing.
This is off-topic flamebait, which predictably resulted in a flamewar.

Please don't post such things to HN and please don't post flamewar comments on HN.
We draw elephants with trunks like trumpets ( https://media.giphy.com/media/Qms9I3pAiN2la/giphy.gif )… why shouldn't they?
VCs swipe left on dating apps
I wonder how much of this particular philanthropy is just giving back money that those countries spent? I.e. Microsoft licences, or balance of trade with the donor countries?

A kind of benevolent taxation?
I want one stable, non temporary, part time job, even though I would be earning less. Many people want too.
> Additionally, when they are saying that they are not censored, can I censor it to my preferences?

Yes. There is no such thing as blocking, but you can mute users, words, phrases, tags, etc. I don't think you can set up user-specific negative keyword filters, though. If you want to filter the grammies, for example, it takes effect site-wide.

There are a lot of missing features because Gab is still young, but it has promise. I'm a little surprised they haven't opened it up to the public yet. I think they wanted to complete the mobile apps first. Apple's giving them a hard time.
Signal allows my (non-technical) friends and family to help raise the bar while providing a chat client that offers basic calling features.

Signal isn't about being perfect (it's already made tons of concessions that make it useless to anyone "serious" about privacy). Instead, it helps raise the bar against bulk collections.
Friday fasting is a remembrance—and to a certain extent, identification—with the cruxifiction. Mild discomfort to commemorate a much stronger act of self-denial. It's documented as early as the 3rd century by Clement of Alexandria (Stromata VI.75) but as you point out it's a logical extension of a practice that was integrat to the Jewish tradition.
Inline images is a must. I usually take screenshots and pictures for ideas that are not easily expressible in text.

Next should be the web clipper equivalent of evernote.
The Boring Secret to Success
It looks to contain a lot of logic about what is shown when it is shared on Twitter, Facebook, etc. I think all the images use this logic.
Occasionally linking to your own stuff in relevant contexts is fine on HN, but you've been doing it excessively. When you do that, the HN hivemind gets upset and uses unkind words like 'spam', so please don't do that.
This actually happened. I wrote the account lower on that page attributed to 't-mikeha' which was my Microsoft username back in 1989. I also made the same comment here when this story originally appeared on HN years ago.

My friend and fellow intern Tad fielded the return call from the guy who had the issue, and while I didn't speak to the customer myself, I believe Tad's account. It makes sense to me that Bill's answer wasn't quite correct, he did just essentially read the customer the first result from querying the error message on the Knowledge Base.
I wonder what you think racism is because the people you're describing don't seem interested in discrimination based on race.
Just one. Please name just one. No, it's not carbon dioxide.

Last time I heard similar bullshit, the guy, when pressed, named "amino acids". Which is not a waste product, it's raw material. If you can't name even one, either you're making stuff up or you've been lied to.
> I wonder how many companies really had to change the source code of git, subversion, mercurial etc.

Even that overstates the matter. Companies could modify the code all they want as long as they don't distribute that code. That would impact Github competitors - maybe 10 or 20 companies in the entire US.
I read the title of this article wrong, thinking it was 'Why I Moved to Angular 2 from Vue.js' before reading it a second time. It's given me a thought though: has anyone ever moved from Vue.js back to the controversial Angular 2?
Just gonna add to what dvt said: the Islamic calendar is based on the lunar calendar. Unlike some other lunar calendars, the Islamic one doesn't add/intercalate days into the calendar to make the lunar months align with the solar months. The lunar year is about 11 days shorter than the solar year, so the month of Ramadan (in which Muslims fast from food, drink, and intercourse during daylight hours for one month) actually moves "back" 11 days each year. Every ~16.5 solar years, the month of Ramadan has effectively moved half a year. All of this translates into much shorter fasts for those of us further north/south when Ramadan falls in the winter.

I live in Seattle; being decently north, the Ramadan fasts are long in the summer (~18 hours) and super short in the winter (~10.5 hours). These days, Ramadan falls around June so the fasts are long but in ~16.5 years they'll be short again. Another factor to take into account: the further north/south you are, the milder the summers tend to be, so fasting is a cakewalk compared to what Muhammad and his followers had to deal with. I'll take an 18-hour fast in mild Seattle weather to a 15-hour fast in the deserts of Arabia any day.

Even today, Muslim farmers work in the baking heat of an equatorial sun while fasting during Ramadan. And these folks aren't sitting in air-conditioned tractors; they're working the fields by hand, far too poor to afford the machinery considered standard by farmers in the developed world. And before you get worried, those who are too old or sick to fast are excused from it.

Anyways, I'm not attacking you. I can understand how impossible it must seem to someone who isn't Muslim. But it really isn't that difficult, especially if your job consists of sitting in a comfy chair in a climate-controlled classroom/office. We have lots of non-Muslims who fast with us from time to time during Ramadan; give it a try and I think you'll be surprised with what you can do when you put your mind to it.
At least Chickenjoy (aka Jollibee) is still going strong:

http://www.jollibee.com.ph/chicken-joy/
There's also research showing that removing safety features, e.g. white lines between opposing lanes, increases safety.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35480736
In a similar vein, there's the Greek version of the same thing:

- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magazine/the-island-where-...

Discussion on HN:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4692598

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9025438
It sounds like the authors' motivation is to create something that doesn't need a central hub to compete, to fight centralization.

I expect their idea of success is also very different from github's.
Their new Ryzen chips look quite impressive. Reminds me of their success with the K6 chip which took the world by storm on budget computers. Hopefully AMD can seriously compete again. Always good for consumers.
> Don't know why comment was downvoted.

Maybe because people who are young and never had anything wrong with them want to (and think) they will live forever? So they don't like your negativity possibly. Just guessing here, but this drive to 'live forever' seems mostly advocated by people young people; once you (or a loved one) had a roll of the dice (something you could not have prevented with your fasting, weight lifting, sports etc), however small, you will change your mind; it is now, not in the future you need to enjoy.

Although living healthy works in ways, shit happens and then growing old indeed sucks. And it is not only your health; my grandparents both died within a year of each other, healthy as oxes with brains fully intact (both their hearts stopped in their sleep), still living together at 95 years old. They were lucky we think but they didn't consider that always; all their friends and relatives were dead. For a long time most of them. Their brothers and sisters; dead. Everything they had done in their lives; forgotten and dead besides their children. Of course that gave them joy together with grandchildren but still, the days were long and lonely for them even while they still had each other.
> It's not hard to hire people part time.

It is hard. There are incentives for employers to only hire full time (more people = more administrative work and less favorable numbers when computing taxes, etc). There are incentives for unemployed people to seek full time jobs and not part time jobs: You lose unemployment benefits when you do any type of job. The so called welfare cliff.
Whether you call it an article or something else, the feed as a whole, if chosen in a biased way, represents the point of view of the selector.

Just as an article made of quotes would.

And if the message in the feed/article is libelous, it's shameful (though perhaps legal) to hide beyond the argument "I was only quoting other people."
You may have misunderstood the idea I wanted to explain. Look at my answers in this sub thread.
If a person was asking for the crazy things I see in contracts, yes, I'd agree with you since it shows intent.

If you treat companies like that, you miss out on opportunities since the crazy stuff in the contract is negotiable and the guy you're negotiating with didn't write the contract and won't mind you crossing out the bad parts that keep both of you from a mutually beneficial deal.

Companies are made of various factions who's goals may only be loosely aligned with the company's goals.

The lawyer drafting the contract is trying to protect the company. If you weren't rewarded for making the company lots of money, only punished if the company gets sued, how would you write a contract?
Great product from Google. I wonder what is the difference between Cloud Spanner and Google CloudSQL
I can second many of the things already posted.

I would also emphasize that unemployment, if available, helps tide things over financially and you should file for it immediately. It takes a few weeks before the first unemployment check arrives, so the sooner that process starts the better.

When the startup I was working for shut down, I mistakenly waited a few weeks before applying in the hopes I would be able to find a replacement job quickly and out of some weird stigma against unemployment as "free money", instead relying on what was in the checking account in the meantime. As a result, finances became very tight while waiting for that unemployment to assist with rent. I learned #1 to apply for unemployment immediately, and #2 unemployment exists to protect you against this very situation, and your former employer has been paying unemployment taxes to cover this - get rid of any stigma against "free money".

Also, if you're looking for an engineering job, I have found the job hiring process to take a minimum of about 6 weeks. Consider it like a pipeline, continuously applying for positions, transitioning those into emails / phone screenings, and transitioning those into interviews, but keep feeding the pipe throughout the whole process. For me, that meant applying to companies for the first 4 weeks, starting to hear back from companies from week 2 through 4, then weeks 5 and 6 are for final interviews / negotiating offers.

For my past two job changes, I applied to 60 and 30 companies, heard back from 10 and 8, and got offers from 2 and 5, respectively. (the second time around I better targeted jobs that fit my experience than the first time around)
You already have one: ≠

That works in the linux command line, and in this text field on linux:

ctrl-shift-u2260enter

Of course now you have to find the code. I've always had luck with wikipedia. Also I'm assuming my locale, etc etc works the same for everyone.

http://fsymbols.com/keyboard/linux/unicode/

Similar methods available for windows and mac, I imagine.
The problem is for people that take out a loan, then decrease their monthly 401k contributions to cover the loan payments. Also, while your money is out on loan, it isn't gaining value from the market (on the other hand, it is at least gaining the percent interest that you are paying back in -- so from the fund's perspective, it isn't too bad).
1 has been true for a very long time, long before the internet existed, it's commonly known as astro turfing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing), the wikipedia articles cites Shakespeare is the first known (albeit fictional) example. The approach was instrumental in preventing action on climate change.
As somebody who has not much to do with statistics, what are the bad consequences of misidentifying a distribution? After skimming the paper it seems that there are several distributions that are similar in the sense that it is hard to tell which one a given dataset actually follows. So naively it seems that it should not really matter which one one picks if they are similar enough that it is hard to tell them apart to begin with. Is picking the wrong distribution bad because it leads to wrong conclusions when trying to explain the mechanism causing the distribution? Because extrapolations may yield significantly different results? Or is it more specifically about log–log charts and that small deviations on a logarithmic scale can correspond to significant differences on a linear scale so that a seemingly good fit is not actually a good fit?
But I want tickets below market value. It's only fair I should have them.
>Their biggest scheduling problem was communication, because many workers relied on prepaid phones.

I don't see what's the problem with prepaid phones. Do you mean feature phones?
> politically abandoned industrial workers in the US Rust Belt were just a bunch of idiot rubes tricked by click bait headlines.

They had to be. Fake news, those sneaky Russians, a white-supremacist deep state conspiracy. It is what happens when people live in a bubble. They can pretend nothing else exists. Facebook posts all come from the same group of friends, those who don't agree are unfriended, and so on. News channel all pump the same reassuring message about an almost certain win and even show a map with all states filled in blue. Until of course the bubble pops then it just becomes too much.

There was certainly a surprise element but I am surprised how surprised some people were and how they overnight went from stoic intellectuals lecturing those Trump rednecks about integrity of our electoral system, and how they better not riot and get angry and agree with the results of the election, to irrational and angry conspiracy theorists.

> most clearly with pro-Trump campaigners and programmers who carefully adjusted the timing of content production during the debates, strategically colonized pro-Clinton hashtags, and then disabled activities after Election Day,”

That was interesting. The most visible example is probably "Fake News" it was a term appropriated and used to label mainstream media like CNN, NBC, NYT and WaPo. It had gotten to a point where Washington Post sent out an explicit request for everyone to please stop using that term because it has been taken over so to speak.

> According to Bloomberg, the Trump campaign sent ads reminding certain selected black voters of Hillary Clinton’s infamous ‘super predator’ line. It targeted Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood with messages about the Clinton Foundation’s troubles in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.’”

One thing I noticed Hillary organized a Jay-Z concert. I guess she heard that Black people like rap and paid Jay-Z to throw the n-word at them a few times. What an awkward way to connect. A while back I managed to find a speech Trump gave to a mostly Black community and he didn't do half bad. It was a very small gathering. It was probably never going to be a community that would vote for him as a block like they did for Obama. But at least he tried to talk about inner cities, inequality, crime, safety, jobs, education.

> Political analysts in the Clinton campaign, who were basing their tactics on traditional polling methods, laughed when Trump scheduled campaign events in the so-called blue wall -- a group of states that includes Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin and has traditionally fallen to Democrats.

I think there is a bit of the oscillation happening. Trump went from an arrogant stupid idiot to this super cunning and smart villain who used those evil AI bots to win. Why didn't Hillary try that same software and those same bots? Guessing by implication is because her campaign was honest and they played by the rules.
Cloudsql is managed MySQL. Spanner is a custom in-house distributed database.
It doesn't directly subsides it, however it keeps the overall volume up. It costs them about the same to deliver 1 letter to you as it does 5. It also costs them even if they deliver nothing to you. So in that regard, the bulk mail does help out.
Dumb ideas like requiring candidates given H-1B visas to be payed well?
I'm guessing you didn't read the article or have a poor understanding of nutritional science.

Also, using an anecdote about what an elite runner eats as a rebuttal is nearly farcical.

Regarding point 2, I guess you don't see many Physics and Maths fields as "Science"?
"Okay, let me see if William is available." The product support engineer brings up the customer's service record and looks at the name of the support engineer who handled the earlier call: billg.

Those details were fictionalized by the author. Everyone who wasn't actively on a call at the time new all about Bill's call, because we were all standing around my cube when it happened. Not long after the call was over our entire team knew all about the call, what the issue was, and how Bill handled it. If I recall it was about an obscure linker error message.
Power distribution would be a problem (well it already is) with the uptake of electric vehicles - although I'd imagine if solar panels get cheap enough everyone could have one at home and just swap a spare battery in over night. Fuel is already quite expensive in India (around the same price as Europe), so it might not be that long a wait.
That's a fair answer in the specific case of voting, but it doesn't help in the other situations I mentioned.
What's very disturbing is the "fat acceptance" movement. People are scared that young woman will become "anorexic" if told to lose weight, and fatness is glorified. The truth is that about 300,000 people/year die each year in the United States from complications from Obesity[1], and about 150/year die from undereating. The Fat Acceptance movement is killing people. And, in fact, being slightly underweight may be very healthy.

[1] https://www.wvdhhr.org/bph/oehp/obesity/mortality.htm
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I went ahead and implemented part of (2): letting the user who posts to rate. I'll work on ranking posts by this score.
A lack of better solutions of on offer (which isn't true by the way, but lets ignore that for a moment) doesn't excuse making terrible choices. The truth is that there are other solutions, but they're seen as troublesome for a number of reasons. Compounding that is the fact that people so dim they'd see value in the "solutions" offered by someone like Trump often aren't aware of the possible solutions that have been considered.

It's possible to be the victim of your own desperation, which is just what such people perpetually have been throughout history. Everyone sees that kind of person as a rube, Left, Right, and Center... it's always just a fight for their hearts and minds.

By the way the Right doesn't ignore the working class, but they actively hurt them. I somehow doubt that the working class wants that kind of attention.
It much closer to the Datastore https://cloud.google.com/datastore/ which also has co-located parent-child tables and GQL instead of SQL, and automatic horizontal scalability
Seems like he's assuming changing one of these changes all: child mortality == poverty == lack of education == large families

High fertility rates, poverty, low education, lack of affordable birth control, child mortality... these and other things cluster together. What's causing what?

If you found a genie and wished for an end to kids dying in Africa, with no intervention in any other parameters, how much do you really think that would change the fertility rate? They're not having lots of kids just to have lots of kids, right? There's some other underlying motivation or cause. Either the kids are accidents, or there's a reason — perhaps an economic motivation — to have lots of kids? What underlying reason for high fertility rates is going to be addressed by stopping kids from dying?
Its in progress: Swachh Bharat (Clean India) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swachh_Bharat_Abhiyan
Fair enough. The context you intended wasn't apparent to me before.
Ahhh that's interesting, especially because to a certain extent, people are already writing content on github organically (like this https://github.com/thewhitetulip/build-app-with-python-antit...) but I always assume these are also hosted elsewhere, even if it is a github pages domain.

What additional features or functionality would you want github to add to make writing/hosting guides better?

Also, DigitalOcean has "contributing to open source" stuff like this https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/contributin... and this https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/maintaining...
AFAICT the codename for the SIM-card-finding operation on drones is "GILGAMESH", here's a few things about it:

See https://theintercept.com/2014/02/10/the-nsas-secret-role/ and https://theintercept.com/surveillance-catalogue/gilgamesh/
Seems like one may be covered:

FTA:
" Jon uses a piece of $10-a-month subscription software called Visual Ping that scans the Amazon page of Makin Bacon’s main third-party seller and alerts him when the “compare with similar items” number ticks up, alerting him that a new fake has been posted. But the fakes are so numerous, he says, he can’t keep up."

Looks like a possible demand for number 2.
Or, the API's plan IDs could correspond to specific plans, and never change. New plans mean new IDs. Like how IDs are supposed to work.
> Public (online) discourse is vulnerable to manipulation by bad-faith actors (and this manipulation is impactful on a geopolitical scale).

This is true, but it's not limited to the right.

Just one example, the Washington Post and other liberal papers reported that a Muslim-American Olympian was detained by customs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2017/02/09...

The fake part? They never mentioned that it happened in December.
The FUPC Network Podcast
Many workers didn't have access to email, or they were wary of providing it to an employer. Without smart phones, they lacked access to apps. So basically, they had no way to register for an account and see their schedule on other applications.

During user studies, we saw that restaurants would still print out their schedules, and managers would take a photo and text it to employees.

This created problems when the workers treated this channel as two-way. For example, workers running late would text the manager, and the manager would not notice the message promptly while working.