skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest worldview changer for me was probably the work of the late Edward T. Hall.

Hall was an anthropologist attached the the University of New Mexico. He and his research partner, linguist Norman Trager, were doing research in comparative culture. Hall discovered they would need to provide a comprehensive theory of culture to define what they were comparing and make it possible to do meaningful comparisons.

The results of that effort are documented in Hall's books _The Silent Language_, _The Hidden Dimension_, and _Beyond Culture_.

Culture is normally thought of as "Everything we know and do", but Hall demonstrated it was broader and deeperl Like the proverbial iceberg, 90% of culture takes place on an unconscious level, handled by reflex. We aren't aware may things we do are done by reflex, unless we find ourselves in a culture that does things differently.

As an example, you are at a gathering of some sort. (What sort doesn't matter.) It's not crowded, and there's room to spread out comfortably. You are talking to someone you just met. How far apart are you standing? Why that distance instead of nearer or farther away?

If you live in the US, the answer to "how close are you standing?" is "about 3 feet". The dominant culture here derives from northern Europe, where that is the correct social distance to maintain with folks who aren't family or close friends. No one ever explicitly tells you "Thou shalt stand three feet away from strangers and folks you don't know really well!" You absorb it by osmosis beginning in early childhood, by observing and mimicking what you see the adults do. By the time you are old enough to be out on your own, it's embedded reflex you do without thinking.

Now plunk yourself down in a culture with a different notion of correct social distance, like Greece, where the default is about a foot and a half, and watch the fun. Someone from our culture will think the Greeks are "pushy" and "in your face". The Greeks will think we are cold and standoffish. Each side is simply attempting to maintain the social distance correct for their culture.

Many things fell into place when I read Hall, and my notions about why various things occur changed radically. A lot of current international problems can be considered clashes between cultures with differing underlying elements. Religion, political structure, and economic system are overlays on top of underlying cultural patterns, and differences in the overlays may mask the deeper underlying issues.
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They finally added a way to easily get the original URL (click the link button in the AMP header). Not ideal, but better than trying to get it out of the address bar.
That's funny -- I like spicy Kimchi soup for the same purpose. Not as hot as "Thai hot", but it does a much better job than western chicken soup for the same purpose.
The only one that was worth it was a policy from Delta Dental. We went to sign up for it, and you were required to have a health plan through the ACA.

I have a wife and two kids. Three cleanings, a surface filling, and a sealant, was $800. This is our experiment going without dental insurance. We'll see how it goes this year.

Though I'm putting $600/month into the HSA since our health insurance through Honeywell sucks, and they have dropped dental. I'm waiting for them to drop health insurance.
Most links posted on HN are "cynical" content that are "reaping clicks" for ad affiliate "bucks", welcome to the internet, Sir
> This seems to be a fun combo of network latency, smaller than expected bandwidth, and pages using javascript with a series of different load events to display content.

You forgot about the great firewall of China playing merry MITM with your connections.
Localization is hard (updating a not even particularly complex codebase)
this technique is also called pairwise testing[1]. there are some interesting optimization problems around this approach. it can significantly reduce the number of tests while providing good coverage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-pairs_testing
Really? You actually thought the article was about how a lunar spacecraft ported to another dimension based on the title?

The title pedantry is getting to new levels of silly.
"Green" is not a property of an object but of an observer,

But "Green" happens to be a property of other large families of objects -- especially animate objects (foliage, certain insects, birds, and fish) and, more rarely, certain inanimate but nonetheless "special" objects in nature (features in geology; the sky at certain times; and of course, rainbows).

So in that sense -- while "Green" by itself doesn't seem to have intrinsic properties besides an associate to a certain band of the electromagnetic spectrum -- it does have a strong (extrinsic) association to objects which do have interesting intrinsic properties.
Cool. This explains why the better I understood Clojure, the more my Javascript started to look lispy.
This is fortuitous as I'm planning a trip back to the motherland. I'm Tamil by birth, but my mom's side of the family traces their ancestry to Kerala, and a few generations back they were based in Palakkad. Any recommendations for a temple-lite itinerary?
What does HN readers think about this statement?

"Depending on your priorities, a Chromebook can make a particularly good travel laptop when traveling somewhere with decent Internet access. ... Chromebooks minimize the data stored on the device itself and are particularly easy to clear or reset."
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We build all our tools from customer support, CRM, billing, payroll to accounting -> https://erpnext.com. Its also open source, and would love more startups to use it. https://github.com/frappe/erpnext

The benefit of open sources is that you can build deep integration to your processes and also grow it as your company grows. With closed tools, you will end up paying a lot and also lose the opportunity to drive more team productivity by being unable hack and extend your tools.
> I don't think my intense fascination with Aaron's life will ever fade away.

If I were forced read the kind of garbage this grossly-overhyped, precious little snowflake apparently did, I'd kill myself, too.

This guy was in no way significant; and while his sentencing was disproportionate, anybody can do six months of soft Federal time.

I'm sick to death (so to speak) of hearing about him, as he was totally unremarkable, exhibited extremely poor judgment, and was apparently weak-minded, to boot.
I think defining "evolution" and "create" are the real sticking points in this argument. That get's down to splitting hairs. Though I will say that I do believe that everyone in this thread does have sound arguments given their definition of those two words.
Researchers try to teach robots to do what we're thinking
I think he touched on this a little in a follow-up he did: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ricom/2016/01/04/64-bit-vis...

My interpretation of the shift from < 32 bits into 32 bits is: before we had do do crazy things to algorithms we used to fit in those address spaces. When we transitioned to 32 bits, we didn't have to do that anymore.

So the question might be are there any surprising workarounds in the code because you're only dealing with 32 bit code where if you had 64 bits you could write some more elegant solution.
Yep, that's exactly the thing I'm talking about. You'd think they could hire one deaf person at their labs to road test the things, but...

On my hearing aid it's a "feature" that can be turned off. Too bad you're stuck with it.
Speaking about the medicinal values of Chilli -

In the southern states of India especially Kerala, a home remedy for cuts & bruises is to apply a paste made by grinding green chilly (Bird's eye chilli) and salt. Though it will have a painful burning sensation for sometime, this home remedy is found to heal the cut faster without any infection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird's_eye_chili
Why anonymous social nets (Secret, Yik Yak) fail
Yes this. I can't bring myself to upgrade our Windows PCs for fear of having to seek and destroy constant advertising when I'm just trying to get stuff done. I'm happy to pay for MS services but don't shove it in my face when it's inappropriate, and don't give me a sales pitch.
Perfect Week: Visualize your routine
The price depends on different aspects. About them you can read in the article. Also there is option, you can give any questions in the chat.
I would believe this is not political if YC would have done this in the past. Its not that Visa issues to enter US is something brought by Trump administration. In any case, I celebrate the decision.
I spoke at PolyConf in 2015 and had a great time. I'm excited that it's moving to Paris and I'll be putting a proposal in soon!
Additional stats that makes this even more interesting are rankings of economic freedom from places like the Heritage Foundation.[1] Canada and the Nordic countries are on par with the US, and on many important factors ahead.

It doesn't follow that a comprehensive social welfare system requires state ownership of the means of production, arduous regulation on business formation, weak property rights, weak rule of law, or anti-business labor laws. All of these countries do very well when on these factors; the citizens simply choose government services (through voting) in areas of the economy where the government performs well (health care, social insurance). Sweden was capitalistic enough to refuse to bail out SAAB during the financial crisis, you can't say the same for the US and GM.

[1] http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
I've worked for a couple of multinationals as a contractor and I have to say it varies wildly from company to company.

My current employer has a very clearly and unambiguously worded one-page NDA with rules that make sense and don't overreach.

My previous job had a document many, many pages long, that asserted I was liable for up to $10 million if I had violated any of the rules in it, which included things like making a copy of source code or debug binaries onto a USB device (which often happened in practice). It also tried to enforce these rules retroactively for 5 years and until 5 years after my employment ended, and was forced upon me 18 months into the job.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13789379
Suppose you have a type A ('0' in the original description) and a type B ('1' in the original description). Suppose any instance of A < any instance of B, but any given instance of A is not necessarily even comparable to another instance of A. Similarly any instance of B is not necessarily comparable to another instance of B. Now stably sort an array containing instances of A and B.
I don't know what's harder - dealing some days with a teenager and a toddler & their age related issues, running engineering in a startup on a daily basis, counting days that we will run our of business, going through the highs of successful demos and dealing with the lows of almost-there sales calls, wondering if it's time to get the resume in shape, planning to implement crazy ideas in your favorite language and then getting bogged down fixing inane production bugs; oh, it's a constant struggle - believe me.

But you just have to move that stone, an inch every day despite everything else going on. Sounds like such a cliche, but it works if you just keep at it.
You can trivially bypass that with an infinite loop:

while true; do sleep 1; done
Pine – An action adventure game that adapts to you
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13834694
The virus fear by family is worse than you suggest: now, it will be difficult to remotely diagnose whether they have a nasty virus/trojan/infected system or whether it's just Windows. They are emulating behavior from bad actors. I can't imagine how this got approved.
We live in an age where multi million dollar government contract deals are happening publicly on Twitter. Amazing.
Number of connections isn't that relevant with HTTP2
Can't wait for Polyconf Morning Run in Paris! Hope you will not drop this idea...
Personally if I built this I would probably open source it. Then anyone can run it. Although I suspect this is just a marketing ploy for http://aworldforus.com/ or they built it for their own use and decided to release it.
Interesting counter point! I happen to think though that Deals-That-Never-End on the 360 path are more Feudalistic exploitation than a supply-demand-free market kind of thing. I do see where you're coming from and I understand the wrinkle.
>> It is a lot of fun... especially for a developer who usually lives in a web browser... to be able to call a phone number and hear the result of your code.

That really is the key. I've built some stuff with twilio simply because the delivery method of my code is somewhat unique.
Monkey Island (or, How Ron Gilbert Made an Adventure Game That Didn’t Suck)
I think it's worth noting that this is a Media Lab award, not one presented by the regular MIT administration. The Media Lab is given a lot of free reign and tends to do more out-there stuff. You should not construe them as speaking for the same people who betrayed Aaron (if that's how you see it happening).
You get 5GB free, which is more than most people use, and that's in addition to infinite storage for email. OneDrive also compresses Office documents so they take up less space, and it automatically de-duplicates files.

It's a very useful 5GB, given that its part of the OS and you can save to it like an internal drive.

Of course, in the long run, Microsoft wants people o sign up for Office 365, which provides 1TB per person. That way you get 5TB of storage for peanuts, as well as the full desktop Office and integrated smartphone and tablet apps.
Helpful completion features in ViM
OT:

Although I personally would rather visit one of the big national parks in Africa.

But since that seems a bit dangerous right now, could you recommend some interesting national parks in EU-land?
Going along with this sort of fundamentally changed worldview theme - I loved Debt: The First 5,000 Years but for me it was equally important to read a book called The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner. This book summarizes the entirety of major paradigms in the history of economic thought, complete with great little biosketches of the authors and their times, from Adam Smith to Joseph Schumpeter. Highly recommended, especially as a counterpoint if you are already a little much in the David Graeber camp as I was.
Agreement between Pathologists can fall to 48%. Google Research tries to help
I agree. I would flat out say "I won't accept this change".
I think the OP and other posts here have demonstrated that password requirements won't solve anything given a sufficiently incompetent or not caring user. If the platform provider cares more about the security of the account than the account holder there isn't much you can do.
In terms of incomplete projects, "Ship daily" could apply to shipping something that sorta works to your non-tech business partners, pre-launch. If you don't have business partners then use your friends or, heck, even yer mom. Just show daily progress to someone (anyone) else. Doesn't have to be your users (which you may not even have yet).
Content Marketing: What should I write about?
Never seen one.
Yes, because it's only a 2D stereo image and live in only a single focal plane - so no depth.
Same happened to me, I guess there's bug in level generation.
"Protect me from sites with bad UX" is a responsibility i would be surprised to see even 2% of users requested of Google. But let's pretend you are right. There are a number of solutions Google could have used to combat that very issue, such as punishing sites with long load times or exorbitant number of external assets. None of them needed to involve not sending you to a website in the name of altruism.
There's a few...

https://github.com/gizak/termui

https://github.com/gizak/termui

https://github.com/nsf/termbox

But they could all probably be a bit better.
Oh so that's why Windows 10 was "free"
Neither person mentioned in the article are in government.
Talk of robbing and forcing implies a level of coercion that simply isn't there.

For the end user, AMP links are clearly marked, and non-AMP news results are readily available.

For the content producer, Google only publishes their content via AMP if the content producer permits it. Indeed, it is up to the content producer to make the AMP version of their content.
>But that is not (or, rather, it can be in certain circumstances)

If they're 3/3 with dodging it, what makes it unreasonable? Have they just been lucky so far?
A Branching and Releasing Strategy That Fits GitHub Flow
Wait so does this last forever v.s. only the first year like AWS does?

If so, does that mean I can have a personal server running in the cloud, for free, forever? There's a hell of a lot you can do with a tiny server these days.
> If I've got a box with 512GB of ram, it seems I'm supposed to spin up multiple instances to satisfy this, all because the JVM has a hissy fit if you go over ~30GB.

What is the actual technical reason why the JVM cannot (easily?) address more than 32 GiB of RAM?
when you are traveling alone, it can happen that you pay more than hotel, this is normal. without airbnb, there wouldn't be that option on the market anyway.

in my situation - renting flat in alps during tourist seasons, my flat is roughly 50% cheaper than cheapest hotel in the valley - if compared for 4 people. Apartment can have (and has right now) 6 persons easily. It's completely renovated, having full kitchen (dishwasher, oven, wash machine, big fridge) - you don't get most of this even in expensive hotels.

like it or not, these kind of services are here to stay, in one way or another. many, many people use them on vacations, me including.

plus, there are proper horror stories from renters perspective too. had one last week - lying, manipulative guest who trashed the place and tried to blame all on previous guests. it took some time for him to admit his precious little kids did all the damage and pay very small fee for it (< 20% of cost of new items, and most of apartment equipment&furniture is 2-3 month old).
I agree, and not a crazy thought. The reasons for voting of the median adult in both parties -- described as charitably as possible -- are suboptimal. The fact that children might be slightly less informed doesn't excuse the disenfranchisement. If anything, children's relative lack of bias might offset their propensity to be less informed.

Our laws and attitude towards "age discrimination" in this country are bizarre and flagrantly hypocritical. The ADEA forbids age discrimination, but only for those 40 or older. This would be analogous to forbidding racial discrimination, but only against some one particular race. Kind of takes away the moral high ground.
One theory I read is that hot climates tend to produce more hot or pungent plants, as these chemicals are often insect repellents. And the tropics lack winter, which gives plants an annual break from insects. They're under constant attack, so they evolved more potent defenses. So part of it is just that these hotter flavors are just more available in hotter climates.
If you want the AMP "lightning bolt of trust" and want to be eligible for the "Top Stories" carousel, you have to allow Google to cache and re-serve your content from their AMP Cache.

Opting out of caching requires making your page intentionally invalid, and thus you lose all of the presentation and pre-rendering benefits of AMP.
See "median of medians algorithm": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_of_medians

It's hairier than a partial quicksort, but (if you erase the proof and weigh the chalk dust) guaranteed linear time.
> Which is totally fine, as for all intends and purposes the behavior is the same.

Nope :) They're apparently the same, which is not the same as "the same".

> The "movable" context (this) will be a little surprising, but for everything else one can write JS for decades with ES6 classes and "OOP", without having to know how the prototypes, objects and functions they de-sugar to work.

That's just the thing though - there isn't a "movable context", there is only binding. Binding usually happens implicitly, and most of the time things are implicitly bound to what you expect them to be if you're not aware it's happening.

... then comes the moment that you're in an instance's method, and `this` is pointing to an event instead of the object. Oh, boy.

In my experience that moment comes much more often than once every few decades.
Serious question: Shouldn't average users provide or retract traffic based on these preferences, and not Google as user-in-chief?

Personally I'd prefer that Google not play party whip in setting behavior patterns; I'd rather it be as decentralized as possible. To me that's one of the advantages of the web over the app ecosystem: power is more atomized.
It's not as simple as that.

There was power rationing in NSW a couple of weeks ago, and Victoria's largest power station is about to be closed down.

There is plenty of power (especially in SA), but it is at the wrong times. Batteries (or any kind of storage device) are the perfect solution.
Musk wants to capture market. And these days "100 days" is a good term to through around when it comes to meeting expectations and deadlines. But if anyone can do it it is still Elon Musk as of now.
Why our dev team moved from Trello to Clubhouse
Show HN: Cardery – Generate card images from CSV using HTML/CSS/JS
Cardery is my weekend project.

It's a script that uses dom-to-image to render PNG images from card data in CSV and card template in HTML/CSS/JS. Work in your favorite text editor or spreadsheet editor, while refreshing your browser for instant WYSIWYG feedback.

Cardery's main advantage over http://www.nand.it/nandeck/ is that you write templates in HTML/JS/CSS instead of some obscure language.

Cardery's main disadvantage is that, because it relies on your browser and OS to do the heavy lifting, what you write may not be portable between computers. For example, in writing the demo I was in the peculiar situation of needing it to look good everywhere, but not necessarily look the same everywhere. The demo specifies "font-family: sans-serif" and lets the browser choose the exact font. I did try specifying "font-family: Verdana", which is my default font in Chrome, but in Firefox the kerning became hideous when Cardery applied CSS scale(). (Thankfully the issue is font-specific, and it looks fine with my default font Open Sans.) I will try Cardery in a Linux VM and see if the rendering looks reasonable. If so, then that becomes one answer to the portability issue.
It's more like DNS using Twilio. It's analogous to Google Voice.
I've heard that capsicum is not soluble in water, though it is in fat (which milk contains), which is why it's recommended to have milk. I have no idea if this is true or not, but it lines up with anecdotal experience :)
And then what? Like sure, you'll be compromised on that one service and that's bad, but it's not anywhere near as bad as re-using passwords across services. My argument is we should be focusing on stopping password re-use far, far more than we should be nit-picking about password entropy.
Unfortunately back here in the real world only about 10% or so of all websites support HTTP/2 so it is very relevant.
And also your camera to a light field camera by changing the microlens array on top of the image sensor.
The value of his stake would have increased 30x in 6 years had he invested. On a $1m investment that would have more than covered what the founders took off the table. I wonder if he regrets passing.
Oh good point. Can multiple things attack you at once?
Yep! That's the one
Has google disclosed all investments in CA providers?

don't know the answer myself here..
there are good technical reasons, I agree..

but it is a logical fact that if google search was always 100%,
there would be no need for adwords and site ads...