skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those individuals just don't have the capacity after work, or the connections, to advocate effectively for themselves.

It's not just that, but it's the fact that it takes a huge amount study to even understand how things like the national economy work. Business people and the upper class already have a huge leg up in this because it's their bread and butter. Poor people and shift workers really need to go out of their way to learn the ins and outs.

And what ruins the whole endeavor is the fact that it is much easier to cherry-pick statistics and spin any given policy decision to adhere to a certain message and populist ideology. Republicans have mastered the art of spinning every talking point to appeal to rural and working class voters while maintaining a firm agenda benefitting the special interests they claim to be against. Not that Democrats are objectively any better—the two party system ensures that anyone with deep enough pockets can just donate to both sides and not worry too much about anyone with real principles standing in their way. But considering that Trump has managed to paint himself as somehow being of and for The People despite the most elite and privileged trust-fund roots imaginable really goes to show what an uphill battle it will be to make real progress.

It is sometimes said that truth is powerful, but in an increasingly complex world with cheaper and cheaper information production and distribution, propaganda is gaining power much faster than the populace's capacity to understand it.
They did it to their Google Analytics API. We spent four months building a dashboard off of it then Google fucking deprecated it. Thanks Google.
My mom has benefited from cannabis to help treat chrohns. While nothing has cured, it's been the most effective with no known side effects. Plus it's cheaper than the meds she has been buying for years (spending out of pocket upwards $10k a year with $500 a pill just for flare ups even with medicare in Canada).

She has been in hell for 30 years. They wanted to remove her small intestine ~20 years ago and she didn't want to make that sacrifice and lived with the pain.

Nothing honestly helped long term till I convinced her to try cannabis 3 years ago that so far has been more effective.

She is now on low daily dose with no flare-ups in atleast a year.

From personal experience as a 15 year recreational user and 10 years actual therapy/medicinal use:For chronic pain and intestinal issues it works wonders, but it's not any immediate relief with severe pain.

That may change with higher concentrations and improvements in delivery methods.
I did get that you weren't serious. But I wasn't sure whether it was a joke, or a second-order joke. So I asked ;)

See http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poe's_Law
> This is up against the wall PR BS. But the fact that people believe it explains a lot about how we got where we are with Uber.

Interesting. I'd say your unwillingness to accept someone who says they want help is what led us to having liars as CEOs. You want someone perfect, but, nobody is perfect.
Amazing stuff!!!

This shows that anyone can break into tech! Just takes persistence and hard work!
I see no point in an engagement where two people who are both benefiting from capitalism discuss its merits. My greater point could be that it is our benefiting from this capitalism that we have such privilege to be wasting time on such discussions to begin with. What would be gained from such a conversation, anyway? Even if one of us manages to convince us that capitalism isn't the way to go, or make us think less of it, it's not like we're going to significantly change our lifestyle as a result.

There's a great saying actually that's relevant, but for the life of me I can't remember.
KeePass2Android Offline

Their online version also supports self hosted services
Haskell is used in finance
Turns out Wordpress only runs on .NET because C# was rejiggered to be a superset of PHP.
Don't be an asshole
I had a quick look and decided to try the audio player. The volume control isn't draggable. Also, I was a bit baffled at the framework's decision to inline the page font, which is unlikely to change.

It looks like you're using your own HTTP server solution which doesn't seem to have caching, so all content is being redownloaded each visit. ETags and Last-Modified are very easy to implement, FWIW. (Note: I say that from the standpoint of reassurance, not insult!)

This seems kind of interesting, but my immediate concerns are interoperability with plain JS and how rapidly blocking issues are resolved since this isn't open source.

I'm very curious to see what HN would make of this system; have you ever posted it? Maybe that could be considered after the TreeView component and a TodoMVC example were available.

Note that I'm not dissing this at all. It's clear to me that this has a niche of people that are very happy and productive using this because it lets them reuse knowledge they gained years ago. (I've looked at Pascal a bit, but never really played with it. Lazarus is somewhere on my todo list, just to get a feel for things.)
They missed April 1st by a month.
Nobody can make billions through work. There are no billion-dollar medical doctors or even lawyers. Billions can only come through passive income, through owning shares of a growing company rather than hard graft.
Inflation is useful and is not stealing if the rate of inflation is communicated and stable. If the government decided to suddenly devalue it's currency for the sole purpose of reducing it's debt burden then it could be construed as stealing. If the government communicated that it will devalue its currency at a fixed 2% every year it's not stealing because individuals are able to account for it.

Why is inflation useful as opposed to deflation? If money were to be gaining in value rather than losing value people would be incentivized to do a few things

1. Hold on to money because it would increase in value over time

2. Not make purchases because the object being purchased will require fewer units of money over time.

3. Not invest in starting new businesses because the investor would be losing out on the guaranteed income from holding onto the money along with the fact that whatever the business sells will be worth fewer units of money over time

4. Disincentivize individuals to take out loans to start businesses because the value of the loan will increase in price over time.

However when money loses value over time there are a few nice properties

1. The burden of debt decreases over time

2. People are incentivized to invest their money into business

You seem to believe that secondary markets (namely wall street) are bad things. The secondary market is a good thing because it gives individuals that initially put up capital for new businesses to be created a way to realize the return on their investment without having to wait for dividends. This is good because people that are successful in choosing which businesses should have capital (because their product is valuable) and which businesses don't deserve that capital will be able to take their money and invest it into other businesses which would presumably create products that add value to the world.

Of course there are bad things such as advisors charging excessive fees to ignorant people, corporate raiders, fraudsters, etc.
The opposing forces are not globalism vs. capitalism, but rather globalism vs. sovereign statism. It's more about the form of government than the mode of the economy.
Chevy Volt: charging port is on the driver-side front fender; fueling port on the passenger-side rear fender. I guess I'd prefer the driver side. Seems a bit easier to pull up to the pump and you don't have to walk around to fuel.
There would probably be a lot of people that legitimately would never be able to leave the hospital -- there really are people out there with legitimate chronic pain.

I say this after having had a C6-C7 spine fusion surgery -- prior to that, the pain was incredible. And two or three years ago I couldn't have even imagined what that kind of pain felt like, until I was actually suffering it. Luckily surgery was incredibly effective, and I hated having to take pain pills (made it difficult to work), but the pre-op alternative (living with constant pain) wasn't very great.

I certainly didn't want to sit in a hospital just to be able to move around a bit -- and I couldn't have immediate surgery, though I did have surgery as soon as I was allowed to (primarily due to insurance).

I'm sure there are people out there with far worse pain, and in many cases likely untreatable causes. Putting all of those people in the hospital certainly isn't going to help with insurance prices, nor is it a particularly humane way to treat people in the general sense.
Extensive discussion on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13755673
Like most arguments about "isms" that do not have a single, rigorous definition accepted by everybody, debates about "capitalism" are pretty useless.

Karl Marx means one thing by the word, Ayn Rand means another, most other people in between have other ideas (or vague fuzzy feelings) about it, and yet everybody talks as if their own idea matches someone else's.
I don't see that as a flip side.

In that scenario, he could still deflect. He could have refused, denying to himself and others that he ever made any mistake. He could've retired rich.

I think it's likely someone recommended he get help, either today or sometime earlier. That he agrees to do so now is notable.
That doesn't follow from the article. What it said, explicitly, was they want less crony capitalism.

Globalization itself isn't bad. Globalization where the playing field is rigged so that you need to be a billion-dollar corporation to participate in the spoils is.
Thanks for your comment. I've used multiprocessing/threads/geven/asyncio before. And I will have a full test with these libraries or tools.
This post is just a quick demo to build a distributed crawler with docker. Asyncio and aiohttp is a great combination for this case , using less memory and faster. But aiohttp only support http proxy, perhaps this is the only case not so perfect.

Thanks for your comment again. welcome to discuss more technical details about it.
similarly, those who have only had opioids for acute pain (injuries, post-op, and such) have a hard time appreciating just how much baggage comes with these drugs when they are taken indefinitely.
Creating a lazy loaded treeview in Angular with Redux
If we are going to call every government with a highway system and a free healthcare system socialist the word becomes meaningless.
Sangaku
Or "Corporate personhood confirmed as company develops the ability to want".

Every time some article has a headline in the format "$company wants to $verb_phrase", Paul Graham huffs a kitten.
Yes, the side effects of the opioids were as much of a reason for me to want to switch, if not more so.
You honestly believe that Javascript would have been equally successful if it had shared similar syntax to, say, Brainfuck? Especially given the alternatives that were available at the time? If syntax doesn't matter, I guess so, but I'm not sure I'm convinced.
Great crawler, Thanks for your share.
I checked to see if maybe this is because of confirmation bias, and it looks like it might be. ;)
>For the CEO of Uber to act like a human being.

I'm not sure what humans you're interacting with but the CEO of Uber acted just how I'd expect myself or any of the other people I know to act when confronted by someone being antagonistic while I'm trying to go home after an evening out.

Be unhappy with him if you want but don't try to paint it as human. You either want the CEO of Uber to act like a politician or a saint, not a human.
And accept inequality and luck.
Great time to be a hacker news reader, so many interesting topics to discuss.
Sure, he is a very public figure in his role as Uber CEO, but to say that he is instantly recognisable by Uber drivers is a little much. As someone who follows a lot of tech news etc this is the first time I've even seen what he looks like. What is more likely is the driver overheard the previous conversation between Kalanick and the two ladies he was with and figured it out from there.

Personally, I believe whether you're the janitor or the CEO of a company there are moments in your life which should be considered personal-life rather than "a good time to talk about your company".

And no, it isn't someone hunting him down in the street, but taking advantage of a guy, whether a person is a CEO or not, by blindsiding them with questions while they are with company and then sending the recording to a news company in a very TMZ-ish manner, irregardless of whether permission was given for filming, is as good as sticking a mic in his face and in no way is fair game.
The lack of side effects should be a key part of the decision. Effectiveness of pain relief is in my perhaps inempathetic opinion less important.

People can handle some pain, and that is fine. 100% pain relief through opiates vs 50% pain relief through less detrimental means is probably worth it.
As lovely as it must be to be the target of the tech world's ire, I wouldn't like to be in his shoes. I imagine he's feeling some pressure. He may be alpha, but he is still just one human.
Doing internationalization in Angular 2
I saw that LPT on reddit a few months ago. Lifechanging.
I know it is a wild dream but if they just made a lineup of motherboards it would be so awesome for people in the Workstation/HPC[1] space.
Imagine being able to mount your 4X Teslas onto your shiny new Apple dual-Xeon motherboard.
Oh, and RGB fans ;-)

[1](HPC = high performance computing)
Beware, this link is clicktrapped - view in new tab/window, or below.

I found the full paper here, but it may have been copied without permission:

https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/paperchase-aging/pdf/YmhY...
You can probably read and meaningfully cover CTCI in about 8-12 hours total. Double or treble that if you read slow and do every single question.
FfsssaveUsNrtfloewNgdsu?
I saw th video and it wasn't that disrepectful if you were a normal person, but since he is the CEO of some mega corp, any slight temperament in a bad way will get you this PR
Buying and holding low-cost index funds is one way to beat the "smart money."
Per Federal law.
The biggest change heroku needs to make is support different regions.
I used to work at a place with a Dell contract, and I had a laptop ...with a docking station.

I always pooh-poohed proprietary docking stations before I had one -- all the cables went to it, dock the computer, done. Best of all, it wasn't having plug something in where you need to set the computer down, then navigate something with one hand -- the dock felt nice and intuitive to set the laptop down upon with two hands, as if it was meant to be part of setting your computer down. Even worked flawlessly with my Linux install.

Sadly the E-series dock was not as intuitive -- I found it easier to manually plug in my headphones as the dock was a different sound device.
They also tend to prohibit some smart gc optimisations like moving your shit while you're not looking, and the cache behaviour can be bad because either,

- the data isn't stored next to the count so you get two pointer indirection per access, or

- the data is stored next to the count, and the object gets cached-in when it gets collected.

Piggybacking on the thread because I haven't had much concrete experience with smart pointers: how does the "circular chain" problem seem to manifest? Is it

- "goes wrong quickly," usually picked up and fixed without too much trouble,

- "like any old memory leak" -- maybe a problem if processes run a long time, hard to track down, or

- devs are usually smart enough to see them coming, knowing to keep the "has a pointer to" relation a partial order (either by type or some other natural hierarchy.)

?
New companies don't develop a culture without the founder being a major influencer.

The idea that he has just now realized what was going on at "Boober" and is shocked, shocked! to learn about it and that it was bad, strains credulity well past the point of breaking.

This is him trying to say whatever he thinks will take the heat off for a while. Prediction: a year from now no substantive change whatsoever within Uber.
Do you believe that when we all lived in huts that the feudal lord would send out knights to defend you if your neighbor decided to take your property?
I would rather use the URL() api : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL
Philosophy often revolves around questions of purpose in life, and any non-mathematician might wonder why someone would devote their life to the study of advanced math. The question of purpose becomes even more interesting when a mathematician spends decades solving theoretical math problems that have no immediate practical use in engineering or programming. Any mathematician who's engaged in such problems wouldn't have any trouble understanding his own motives; for him, the philosophy is so obvious that it goes without saying. But an outsider might see his actions as inexplicable - as inexplicable as an ascetic monk spending a week meditating on a frigid mountaintop.

Philosophy functions as an aid in that understanding. The mathematician might read it and recognize truth, if it is written well, and a non-mathematician might be able to learn the rationale for devoting one's life to math. It might have a strong enough effect to make someone gravitate towards that type of life.

Different works in the philosophy of math could deal with different aspects of the mathematical life, such as the inherent beauty of an elegant proof, and it could also go into the larger, more long-term purposes of math, whose effects might not be recognized until long after the mathematician is dead.

I would think that the best philosophy of math would need to be written by a mathematician. An issue with philosophy is that it's quite difficult to write it well. There is a lot of philosophy out there that's poorly-written. It might suffer from a lack of clarity or simply be inaccurate. To have a brilliant philosophy of math, you would need a person who is both a skilled mathematician and a skilled writer. That is a rare thing.
Stop spreading fake news.
There's a URL interface [0] in Web API, but unsupported in IE 11 [1].

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/URL

[1] http://caniuse.com/#search=URL
I think it's remarkable to suggest that the CEO of a company, when speaking in that role in a public place, has an expectation of privacy.
French media tackles fake news head-on before elections
That's a good data point, but not perfect, since the amount Uber charges customers isn't necessarily directly correlated with the amount they pay drivers...
This article is basically a couple paragraphs of wikipedia-level explanation and a bogus graph. I wouldn't call it very deep analysis.
According to work done by the Johns Hopkins group, smoking or vaporising can provide pretty quick relief, whereas ingestion is good for chronic pain.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/what-do-we-know-abou...
Are you sure this is the case in all states? My understanding is that some states are 1-party consent, tho IANAL.

Edit: This seems to back up my understanding that most states are 1-party consent. http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/recording-phone-calls-and-co...
AMD. Server side wants to drive down intel prices.
Lots of updates in the book I wrote with Jason Mendelson titled Venture Deals - http://amzn.to/2mbB6jW
Capitalism at work!
When I bought my Subaru, the salesperson said the filler is on the right so you never have stand in traffic to fill up with a reserve tank.
Please check https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13751727
Sorry Travis; once an asshole, always an asshole; all the leadership training in the world isn't going to change that. You're 40 years old, how long would you have us waiting? Even brother J. was on your tail in noting that bad trees don't give good fruit. Claiming 'profound' for PR-bullshit like this when you're in that kind of mess is just another nail in the coffin.
So, no stepping down yet?
Lessons learned from today's S3 failure
Opioids are dramatically more effective than cannabis at relieving acute pain. Arguably, so are ibuprofen and acetaminophen. What cannabis is useful for is chronic pain, especially pain of inflammation. The use of opiods to treat chronic pain is problematic for many reasons, addiction being a big one, but there are also significant side effects. Cannabis is much safer to use long term.
> the biggest of which is inflation

Inflation is a mechanism to prevent the rich from hoarding cash. The flipside is that people who aren't putting their money to use lose value.

Without inflation, the rich would hoard with impunity.
The World's Best Mittens
All good points. Thanks. I had not considered that way before.

I think 1a and 1f are the strongests points. I do feel 1b is a bit of a stretch. I don't think somebody becomes an employee because they require you to use a hammer and not a rock to push nails into wood when building a house. While that is not the best analogy I think you should be able to expect the contractor to show up to work with the right tools to do the job.

I would really like to see a system that was more like a real time Angie's list. In such when ride request came in drivers made bids, and requesters could pick from the bids. The bids might also have information about distance from pickup location (or expected pickup ETA, along with price). Maybe have a default setting to pick lowest bidder and shortest ETA. But other things like car styles or types could be part of the system too.

In any case thank you for your reply. You have given me some things to think about.
Show HN: Consensus Slides – Empirical live audience engagement
I think most down-voters are quite aware of the parody. It's just that kind of humor is more apt for Reddit, not HN.
re: starting simple and jumping complex... I took a course from Taylor Booth at UConn. He wrote a book on Automata Theory. On the first day of class, after 5 minutes, he said "I'm tired of teaching the easy parts... Let's start with Chapter 7 where it gets interesting"...
Could have been quite a bit better if whoever hadn't had to call everyone idiot.

Now, poking fun at HN culture and feeling of self-importance however that is funny IMO.
The level of help he needs is beyond what he can get while serving as the CEO of Uber, and won't happen fast enough to matter to Uber's practices and culture. I support his desire to get help, after he's stepped down as CEO.
clickbait title.

The bacteria is Burkholderia pseudomallei. A tropical disease with 165k cases each year with 90k deaths. A decently high mortality rate - but this is in 3rd world tropics without proper testing/antibiotic sensitivities. When properly treated the mortality is 1/10.

But I've been drinking pretty heavily tonight, so who knows. Maybe you have it right now.
Nice... Only took them 11 years (http://red66.com/2006/04/google-media/)