skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you've just kicked yourself with your jerking knee.

This is exactly the behaviour you'd expect under a really oppressive system: given a low-risk way to protest the oppression, people take it. Women and those sympathetic to the cause of equality can easily delete their accounts and take alternatives, so they do.

Consider the contra: if this wasn't an oppressive system, if there weren't real causes for complaint, nobody would care-- and so nobody would delete their accounts over the story.
I think you've misread the comment, unless I'm misreading yours.
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I find it strange that Ayn Rand is not mentioned, she seems to be at the birth of this as well. I still believe strongly in her philosophy, her philosophy is pure but it was corrupted by such things as lobbying.

The ruthlessness is the unethical part, not the free market part. Effort and skill have to be rewarded. But when you add lobbying to the mix, you can be rewarded without effort of skill or you can be punished even while you show effort and have skill but lack a strong relation with those currently in power (the deep state, for lack of a better term, I borrowed it from Zeitgeist (or weltschmerz (a dutch podcast)), a documentary worth watching although I think it goes a bit far near the end of part 2 (addendum).)
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The water bottle thing. The sticky bottle.

That's just one thing. I bet there's more.
Show HN: Wonderling - Questions app for connecting with friends, family, and S.O
The future of medicine is ancient, natural, tried and proven; the game of soft killing the population for profit and control is over. Technological evolution has no human coordinates; it doesn't care about anything except more technology for the sake of technology; it's not here to save us.
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That's right and I guess they are all inspired in Pemmican[1], the original energy bar.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pemmican
> Startup's seem to have always argued about price and vendor lock in.

This is not an argument here.

> You can code on Windows, with a free IDE (Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio Community) and deploy to Linux.

You can't. You won't have access to Linux ecosystem and mindshare if you do that You limit yourself to extremely tiny subset of things you can do on both systems. It makes no sense.

> The 'vendor lockin' is now no more locked in than using Ruby or Go or any other language.

Roby or Go has no problem whatsoever with using full power of Linux, .Net does. Ruby and Go communities on Linux are several orders of magnitude larger then amount of people using .Net there. There is plenty of Ruby/Go developers who know how to dive into Ruby or system internals if they need to, this is not common in .Net world.
I'm amazed that "Hailo" doesn't get mentioned on here more. To me it predates Uber, but I don't know the exact timelines.

The premise is similar - you use it to hail cabs and you have a maps screen that shows where cars are, how long they'll take to get you, taxi drivers number etc.

But the business model is crucially different: Instead of trying to eat the whole cake Hailo just acts as a go-between customers and extant independent taxi drivers.

It really is a non-zero sum for everybody involved. Customers get to "Uberify" their existing taxi service; Existing qualified experienced cabbies have a new conduit through which to access customers. Hailo themselves take a commision on each fare the driver books.

To me this is a far better proposition: A technology that improves the lot of everybody involved. Not just - and I use the term hesitantly - "scabbing" existing drivers.

It seems to me that much of Uber's growth and success is not just based on the technology but also on the gaming of employment regulations, bypassing regulations, and a smidgin of exploitation.

Many make the case that regulation is a barrier to improving services and only serves to protect vested interests and this may well be the case in places where Uber has flourished and Uber may in fact provide better employment terms in some cases. I don't know, but in many cases the taxi regulations exist to protect the customer .. to which Hailo is simply a welcome augmentation - rather than a replacement.
Successful people can be successful politicians. It's true that Trump is no expert, but he has a team of experts. He doesn't know about STEM but he assembled a team of advisors which include Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. He thought torture works, but James Mattis (Sec of Defense) told him it was false, and he accepted it.
You wont need post scheduling because nobody will bother to read your blog if you keep up that attitude! Problem solved
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> They solved the Hail A Cab From The Street Problem. [...] The App For Cabs, is useful compared to the previous world where you stood on the corner waiting for a taxi to stop

You could already call taxis by phone (including your mobile), as you say. So you are creating something of a false dichotomy.
At least where I live, there are also public devices (only in particular places, of course) you can use to hail a cab, in case you somehow don't own a mobile.

And apparently mytaxi was founded the same year as Uber, so Uber's idea wasn't quite that unique. I suppose it was just the right time for such services to spring into existence.

Uber appears to be the most successful, probably in no small part due to their ruthlessness.
Perhaps 747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation

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what you don't see in that video is also the piles of rubbish along those trails. Sad!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2572675/Mountain-rub...
I hope Model 3 can beat the Bolt in range. That would be a nice surprise. I wouldn't say it's necessary, but the Bolt has already gotten a lot of press, with some even saying it's what's making EVs "mainstream", even though they're only selling like hundreds of them at a time right now, and that probably won't change anytime soon considering GM loses $9,000 for each unit sold. Plus, I hear all the time how the dealerships try to dissuade people from buying a Bolt and turn them towards buying an ICE car instead.

I also hope Musk reconsiders his strategy of not making much cheaper EVs "because everyone will pay to be driven by an autonomous vehicle soon".

I think he's way overestimating how soon that will happen. I don't think most people, even in the U.S., where a "Tesla Network" may actually be viable, let alone in the rest of the world, will do that by 2025, if not 2030. That leaves a lot of wasted opportunities for Tesla to become a "market leader" in EVs - or rather to maintain its EV leadership in the market.

By 2025, there will definitely be EVs from Renault and others that cost less than $20,000 and have 200-mile ranges. At half the price of a Model 3, those cars are going to gain a lot of market share, fast, even if Tesla's numbers continue to grow as well.

I know Musk has already mentioned that Model Y will be cheaper, but we don't know just how much cheaper. Hopefully, it will be like $25,000. That would be a nice price-point for an EV by 2020. But I think Tesla needs to go down to $15,000 or at least 18,000 by 2025, as well, even if for that price point and by that moment in time, those cars can't be "Level 5" - although if Model 3 will have that hardware, I think so will the $15,000-18,000 car by 2025 (it will probably need to be more like 2023, and announced in 2021, though, as a lot of EVs will start to come out in 2021-2022).
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Depends what measure and definition you use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States
I found the small villages are equally dirty and littered considering the size of the populations. Also it seems that most tourists contribute to this problem by behaving like idiots in this regard as well.
The chance that an asteroid hitting Earth that actually matters is extremely low. It is even lower chance that we can detect it on time. It is much higher chance that politicians will start a nuclear war that wipes out most of humanity from the face of Earth.
you can also use the API for this https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/#change...

for example for precise the kernel ID is 7515 for the "DigitalOcean GrubLoader v0.2 (20160714) Ubuntu" kernel. If you do this be sure to double-check the id by listing the kernels using the API though. You can also do this with libcloud using 'ex_change_kernel' from the 'DigitalOcean_v2_NodeDriver'
Yeah, wow. I turned those off as soon as I installed it.
Hi. I think this comment shows up at the top of your user comment page so I'm adding this here.

I understand that things didn't work out but I'm very curious to find out what direction you went. An update would be hugely appreciated :)
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I agree with you! Pandas is only used in the power analysis code (which also has matplotlib for plotting). The best thing would be to pair this down. We would gladly take contributions - i think the path forward on this feedback is clear but will take a little code =)

Most of the important stuff is just numpy which i feel is pretty fair for most peeps.
Dev here. Wonderling asks you and your friend the same question, and once both have responded, the answers are revealed. Things like "What would you do if you were invisible for a day?" or "Have you ever been caught naked?".

As a bootstrapping entrepreneur, one of the things that really appealed to me about this app was how simple it is. It felt like something I could implement by myself relatively quickly (wife did design, sister did content). Of course it ended up being a ton of work.

Built with react-native + redux, go appengine backend, and SNS.
Use S3, Cloudfront and Cloudformation to redirect a www domain to non-www domain
Alternatively the parent considers the human race to either not have succeeded or to be in the process of changing to take good care of it
In general Nepal and other similar 3rd world countries won't get better until the people over there make it so.

The people will need to want to organize a goverment which has the integrity, capacity and resources to improve the conditions. Work on the education system, social and economic structure and provide basic infrastructure. However most often than not these countries are full of corruption, no matter how much money you'd pour into it it'll just go for the benefit of the few.

It all begins with the local people and tbh, I'm not holding my breath.

And finally a personal anecdote, it's funny how the people in these 3rd world countries fail to organize even the simplistic things such as bus terminals. And one just has to wonder, if they can't organize a bus terminal what chance do they have of ever organizing a properly functioning goverment that could organize their country?
I'm not sure if you're aware, but this has already been done, pretty much literally:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.05869
>AI learns to write its own code by stealing from other programs

I initially took this to mean that the AI learnt how to generate the source code which makes up its own program, a bit like a quine I guess.
> while using photos of the person involved, never uses their full name, so is to some extent not google-able

Wat?

Clearly her name is exposed in the Strava screenshot.
Took me exactly 2mins to find significant details about her in the blog post (also: if not, you can easily reverse-image-search her runner photos).

It's great to have her disqualified from the race, she clearly cheated.

Putting the whole story on the internet without worrying about her identity being exposed. Why? Is this really what you deserve when you cheat at a half-marathon?
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I don't think DeepMind will get into a high-profile competition against human pros unless they're fairly certain of winning. So if we see the equivalent of the AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol match being announced for Starcraft, then my money would be on DeepMind.
John, you are a true wizard. I admire you & will work to incorporate your feedback (gathered offline) into the library =)

Thanks for the feedback!
HN should never dox people.

HN shouldn't approve of articles doxxing.

But I don't think hiding from things happening on the internet is the HN way.

Upvoting an article means it's interesting, not that you agree with the views necessarily.

This is certainly an article from a site that uses mob justice. And like most mob justice about something pretty silly, it's more about getting outraged and getting to pick on someone.
I know plenty who do, having worked in the Antivirus industry and I know people reverse engineering Windows software using Windows as their platform.
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That's an actual food, you know =):

Mamee noodles:

http://www.mamee.com.au/

They're very popular in Australian schools - basically dried ramen noodles with a special seasoning you sprinkle on, and eat them dry.

(The product originally started in Melaka/Malacca, in Malaysia which is my father's hometown).
Sure, but this is banning 101 - if it's trivial to create accounts then banning is ineffective. Similarly, if you don't check IPs then running a mail server becomes impossible as you drown in spam. And this is why so many places ban Tor.

(The extreme end is metafilter, who have maintained a sustained long-term stable friendly community by charging $5 to make an account. They don't ban many people - they don't have to. Difficult to replicate this!)
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Sure, it is bad for business. It will likely be used disproportionately on brown people and minorities, just like "random" screenings at the airport. Yes, bad for tourism, but only consistently bad for a minority of the population and most others just have to take of their shoes etc.
Are you quoting an actual linkedin post about Uber? If so, that's terrible.
> the windows subsystem for linux

Which windows versions are we talking? Do they all have equally good support or are previous (Most people are still using Win7) versions crippled in some way?
Exactly. If the normal channels worked we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Ahh, so you're the one who owns this domain! I worked on prototyping an app with the same name for a while, but ultimately kept it to myself because I saw no promising monetization strategy. There's a lot of competition too, eg coffices.co and thecoffice.biz.

Something I found in my usage was that opening hours were more important to me than WiFi availability, and opening hours often don't match the public data (eg cafes that pack up their chairs an hour before closing). Power outlet availability was also important to me, until I bought an external laptop battery.

Nowadays I tend to use Google searches instead, as Google pays contributors to keep details in their area updated (eg free 1TB Google Drive after a certain number of contributions).

I like that you list actual network speed tests! That seems like a more objective measure than someone's subjective star rating.

Good luck with it!
I've had good success with Grab in Vietnam and Philippines
it's ~65$ per person per year. I am not American but if I were I would gladly give 65 bucks a year for some space related excitement.
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Delete your 'social media' accounts.
I'm talking Facebook, LinkedIn, G+ and so on.

I did that and life goes on perfectly - I don't miss them a bit and I don't think anyone noticed.

My wife and daughter are right here at home, I use Skype, Whatsapp or Slack to talk to my friends and colleagues.

So there is nothing that's missing.

Social networks are brainwashing farms (yes, advertising is a form of brainwashing) so stay away from them.

I don't want to sound too negative, but we all sense it: tough times are coming and these accounts will become a liability, even if you have 'nothing to hide'.
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> If this wasn't written in Rust I'd adopt it in LLVM!

Would it be possible to translate the Rust code into C++ and thus basically get the Rust safety in C++?
The reason some experienced hikers (not talking about noobs here) carry small stoves on the AT and other trails is not because they haven't evaluated what they need. It's because "what you need" is about tradeoffs. Sure, you can consume raw food for the entirety of your hike, and some experienced hikers do this, but food aversion is a real thing. Avoiding it is worth the weight for some hikers.
Are you implying that rockets capable of transporting several hundred kg of tungsten to orbit are -not- tightly controlled? I imagine if you assembled anything close to this size without seeking extensive permissions you would be quite severely punished
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then what to use? provide alternative.
Tsiolkovsky is unforgiving. You'd need an amazing amount of fuel.
Allow me to hijack this thread with a question to a wider audience: Has anyone managed to run a VM with Linux on a Windows host that has acceptable performance?

My previous attempt a while ago to run Linux on a Win7 host via Virtualbox was unsatisfactory because the performance of Linux's GUI was very slow I tried to run PyCharm but it was painfully slow with noticeable lag.
The voyage to Mars will certainly not be a direct source of food for the hungry. However, it will lead to so many new technologies and capabilities that the spin-offs from this project alone will be worth many times the cost of its implementation.

Supposedly he is right and NASA money is well spent, it still not implies it is efficiently spent.
Furthermore, he seems to writes off aids as a net loss in his analogy, without considering the benefits of children not starving (to death). Which is especially weird with the follow up

We need more young men and women who choose science as a career

/devils advocate
How to choose a payment gateway?
That's all very easy for someone like yourself living in an already functioning country to say. What have you done?
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Ask HN: How to Learn Math
I've taken up to Calculus 1 in college but that was a few years ago and haven't touched math since I still remember things but not as good as it was when I was taking classes a while back.

I want to learn and understand math everything from Fractions, ratios to Algebra being able to make sense of the world and understand math the big picture. I wanna know how to use variables to solve for unknowns in word problems any word problem understand the concept of math.

How would you go about this? books, videos or websites much appreciated.
I've maintained technical debt ridden code for most of my career - initially in C#, Javascript, also doing PHP and Java. Python is the only language for which it was remotely bearable.

It has some warts (it is weakly typed in some respects) but the only languages that fix those warts have a pale shadow of Python's ecosystem and you typically cannot prototype as fast in them.

As for tooling, it's probably got the best REPL (IPython) of any language.
> Interesting how it affects the quality of the content (versus books authored by persons with expertise in given topics).

How does it affect the quality? Based on what criteria and examples (ideally specifically related to this book and field)?
So... what's the main point of this?
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> I don't think the Egyptians used magic, perhaps they knew a trick or two we don't know about, i don't think there's any writing left about the construction techniques.

The Egyptians' "trick" was massive amounts of human labor over a long timespan. Nothing you couldn't do a lot faster today if you were willing to spend the money (and manage to get the permits).

The construction of the pyramids is not impressive from a technological point of view, but perhaps from a logistical point of view.
I am not of the few vocal minority here who sympathizes with the person who cheated. Marathons are shared, sacred experiences organized by a community of volunteers. The marathoninvestigation.com author is protecting that which is sacred and shared among the running community. That is a noble cause and worth commending.
According to http://brilliantmaps.com/first-second-third-worlds/ while Nepal is 3rd world, Thailand is not.
One of the classic British walking rations (we don't use the word 'hiking') is Kendal Mint Cake:

http://oakden.co.uk/kendal-mint-cake-recipe/

It's a slab of peppermint-flavoured sugar, doused in glucose syrup, covered in chocolate.

It's one of those things that you cannot possibly imagine yourself eating, until you're actually out on the hills after a long day (or several days) and you're cold and you're tired and then you've never eaten anything quite so delicious.
Ask HN: Why is Google not marketing their Primer app?
Google Primer is really good application but, I've never seen any marketing effort spent by Google on it. I don't want this app to die like Google's other A/B test plans.
>> You can code on Windows, with a free IDE (Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio Community) and deploy to Linux.

> You can't. You won't have access to Linux ecosystem and mindshare if you do that

Though it's no longer vendor lock-in per se, even if Microsoft closes .NET
(Core) back or do something else equally nasty, since it was published as open
source at least once and somebody will just fork it (see what happened to
MySQL).

Though .NET on Linux indeed doesn't seem to be as compelling to the community
of Linux-first developers. It just has tough competitors that have been
present here since forever.
> But apparently individual client libs for each web service that overloads JSON is better.

I mean, there are so many different types of resources and every API I interact with definitely invent their own. How often do you come across an API offering a playlist of music?