skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's an idea: build a website that collects reliability statistics about home appliances by maker and model. Let users report when exactly they bought a specific appliance, and how long it lasted without repairs (or following repairs).
Such statistics could help users make an informed choice, and also put some pressure on manufacturers to improve the reliability of their products. Or maybe they'll just sue the site out of existence...
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Hmm, I work for Google now, and they are the first company I have worked for with either baristas[1] or ping-pong tables. These are definitely luxurious perks and not "basic niceties".

But Google is not a frugal startup. It's a giant company offering a big complicated benefits package.

[1] Free ones that is. Not counting big plants with cafes that charge market prices and seem to break even.
> and also put some pressure on manufacturers to improve the reliability of their products.

You mean put pressure on them to wait for the site to get traction and then flood it with fake reviews.
Two questions:

1. Each passphrase would presumably have to contain at least one word with a racial or sexual connotation. Does that overly restrict the passphrase space, or introduce a large enough non-random element to make such a phrase unacceptably vulnerable?

2. If you're ever compelled by the authorities to reveal your passphrase, e.g. under the UK's Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, could having an offensive one be detrimental to your interests? Suppose you're accused of being behind a pseudonymous online campaign of racial or sexual harassment: even if the authorities fail to find anything incriminating with it, could having a racist or misogynistic passphrase itself form part of a case against you?
There seem to be a rather large number of those people in London too. Though in their cases, it's often more playing at 'running a company' in general rather than a startup.
Just to clarify: do you think that this is being put through intentionally by people who're organized together with hidden evil plan?
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Dietary cholesterol does not directly affect blood serum cholesterol. This has been known for years. You are just spouting bullshit nutritional advice that has contributed to the obesity epidemic since the 1950s. Enjoy your "healthy" low fat foods, I will enjoy my "unhealthy" fats. I just hope no one listens to your advice without doing some research.
"The proportion of foreign-born people is higher in the San Francisco area than anywhere else in the United States"

Doesn't really change anything. The point is that like most of us Europeans will point out. Americans are rather insular in general. Doesn't matter if you live in SF or not. Americans don't pay much attention to what is going on outside of their bubble. Also they tend to lack curiosity about the world outside.

Even foreign born Americans seem to end up like that. I've met Americans originally born and raised in Sweden but where utterly clueless about what Sweden is like in general or is like today.

At least in northern Europe which I know best, discussing politics and world affairs at the lunch table is rather common. When bought by an American company it was obvious things were different when one of the instruction was "don't talk politics or religion at work!"
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Ember is still way behind AngularJs and React in popularity.
https://cl.ly/1k0e1Y1F2524
Check out stats: https://jobsquery.it/stats/frontend-frameworks/group
In case the name doesn't ring a bell, Brian was one of the creators of what became Google Earth and spent over 10 years at Google before jumping ship to Uber in 2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_McClendon
> That being said, liberal me still feel somewhat less lenient towards paedophiles; I guess any parent does.

It's a sickness. And we have (mental) hospitals for sick people. Problem solved, no leniency required.
Yeah. That's the idea, all right. The reality, not so much. Anyway, if you disclose the idea, all anyone has to do is come to an agreement with you to use it. And if you keep it a secret ... it's exactly the same! All anyone has to do is come to an agreement with you to use it.
> generally accepted version of the truth

Does it exist?
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Interesting undertaking. A simpler git with a integrated web server.

I do wonder about the choice of Rust:

Was it that the syntax was higher level at times?

Or the safety net?

If it's the latter, I hope that they don't forget that truly safe parsing in Rust is still a difficult task, and won't prevent you from doing something stupid.
> Most Europeans I know speak 3+ languages, have studied and lived abroad, and have traveled extensively.

This is very much specific to what country in Europe you're talking about and what field of work you're in. Over here in the UK, there are a lot fewer people that speak multiple languages than in say the Nordic countries or Germany.
And I'll add: strive to never create such code yourself. You are 100% correct that everyone says old code is badly written and has zero documentation. So is the code we're writing today. Once you realize that you'll have become enlightened and will be a better programmer for the rest of your years.
I didn't get it. Thanks for explaining it!
A lot of things fall under the "fake news" definition nowadays, from alternative points of view all the way to state-sponsored disinformation and propaganda.

However, the term being loosely defined should not make us lose sight of the fact that there is an specific kind of "fake news" that is 100% a consequence of the priorities and incentives that Facebook has put in place: making outrageous headlines and stories out of thin air, for no other reason than making money from advertising.
Made me chuckle. Your view of current affairs must be so confused by now! :-)
Is this related to fact that there are people who profit over correction services in United States ? After digging around VICE article[0], lack of rehab in US made bit sense at least.

[0] - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/whos-getting-rich-off-the...
Thanks! Thanks, thanks, thanks a ton for what you are doing. As someone without a strong math background, it is kinda hard to enter the field, so I'm going to take 7 weeks now and hope I can understand deep learning better than I do now.
Here is a guess: the fridge that lasted 50 years cost a months salary, while the fridge that lasts 10 years costs 1/5 a months salary. So you get exactly what you pay for, and you pay exactly as much for "having a fridge" today as you did when they lasted 50 years.

But here is the kicker: a) People don't want to pay big money for something they don't know will last 50 years,.
b) People want new things. While it's convenient to not have to replace something for decades, they also want to remodel their kitchen efter 10-15 years, at which time thet fridge needs replacement anyway (in 2000 it was chrome, in 2010 it needs to be black, etc).

That said, it would be good if the people who want new things could sell their old ones, instead of throwing them away.
You're living in a bubble. Almost all civilised countries have some form of single payer healthcare with for example required minimal insurance. It's the US that has hyperinflated healthcare simply because you do not regulate.
Insurance is pooling the risk, such that incidents become cheaper but more common (here being insurance cost).
There doesn't necessarily need to be a literal conspiracy in order for the intended effects of laws to be completely bogus. For example, I think we can all agree that poll taxes were intended to keep southern black Americans from voting, even though I doubt there was ever a "Jim Crow Caucus" of lawmakers from Southern states to decide on the best policy objectives to further their racist agenda.
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Scales and nursery rhymes?

If you want to play songs learn chords. Learn A, D and E, play wild thing. Takes like 20 minutes play badly, a couple of days to play ok.

Scales are for soloing rather than rhythm guitar.
I'm going to assume it's got to do with the multiple layers of clothing they no doubt have to wear in that climate.
I'm not sure punishment vs rehabilitation is the cause for support of such a cruel system. I myself am in favour of punishment in addition to rehabilitation, up to an eye for an eye (as it was originaly used - to limit retaliation) for serious crimes. But even to me the US law system seems way too harsh on the accused, in both establishing guilt and assigning punishment, so I don't really know what drives others to support it.

Perhaps they hear of a few over-lenient sentences, or of someone getting away with it without a conviction, and in response vote to raise the severity for everyone?
> but I'd argue this is a better argument against the whole industry and an argument for more public funding of drug research.

Ok so the US publicly funds the development of a new drug. It costs US tax payers $1bn. 3 months after the drug is approved, factories in a BRIC start manufacturing it for peanuts and selling it all over the world. How do US tax payers recoup their costs? You've just pushed the freeloading issue away from 'other companies' and over towards 'other nations'.
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This article is perfect in showing the irony of Verizon's acquisition of Yahoo, Inc.
You mean the priorities and incentives that advertisers have put in place? Because while Facebook and other social media sites are often associated with it, I'd say things like Google search and ad networks have encouraged it just as much.
San Francisco's climate is way better. But looks like theare are more programming jobs in London ( ~ 250 ) vs San Francisco ( ~ 140 )
https://jobsquery.it/jobs;page=1;tags=;sortBy=PUBLISHED_AT_D...

VS

https://jobsquery.it/jobs;page=1;tags=;sortBy=PUBLISHED_AT_D...
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Then drug dealers shouldn't be stopped? People should get unlimited dose of heroin ?

I don't understand your point. Of course we are addictive beings, that's why we invented laws and rules in the first place : so that we can live in order and not chaos. If we let people have access to everything they want (including killing half the planet, eating your children, murdering your parents), do you realise how chaotic the world would be ?
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I agree, but VM security and exploits also get orders of magnitude more attention. Besides, physical separation does not just apply to the data-center. Consider EM radiation from phones and laptops.
I didn't downvote you but I see zero people using Perl in DevOps and no job posting I've seen lately asks for it.

I've worked with Perl in the past and it's as capable as any programming language out there, but the ecosystem isn't there anymore. At least not for DevOps.
A while ago I read the biography of Anton Philips. He described a board meeting where they decided to make the lifetime of a light bulb 1000 hours instead of 5000. So they actually decided to make their product less good, only to get more (short term?) profit.

(some) people are never satisfied, always want more more more...
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You had me at Pixar. I think Bay Area is where the best of hippie and techie cultures mesh together. I know it's changed a lot in the last decade but there is always life left in that little group of rebels that keeps humanity moving forward.
Doesn't this approach incur a lot of cache misses?
All tax is organized theft, backed by irresistible force. You are welcome not to face that fact, but it doesn't change the truth.

The only real opportunity for disagreement is whether that theft is justified. And, I suppose, we can play games with substituting another term for "theft". Perhaps "confiscation" or "seizure".
> the priorities and incentives that Facebook has put in place: making outrageous headlines and stories out of thin air

Because we don't see outrageous headlines anywhere else ! That's why !
That's true, thanks for noticing this mistake!
I've now corrected the post to say only DV & OV certificates are available as wildcard and EV allows multi domain but not full Wildcard.
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Wouldn't the free market solve this automatically?
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I'm not sure that they should take responsibility for it, but I do believe they should make tools available for people to fight it, although I don't think even that is an easy task. Facebook enables fake news by offering a platform where fake news can spread, but it spreads because a lot of people really do believe what is being reported, not because they necessarily want to spread fake news.

Fake news, or lies as we should really be calling them, is very much a social problem. We've had "fake news" in the form of parody websites like the Onion for a long time, and whilst a large number of people fell for their stories, they often didn't make the same mistake twice. People are looking for new sources of news, and the combination of this with easily shareable and difficult to verify stories means that the lies spread quickly.

Part of this has been caused by the attack on mainstream media (MSM) - people no longer trust the MSM because they're being told not to by politicians, and the fact that they're often caught misreporting stories doesn't help this. So, people turn to smaller more focused sources - often ones which they've never heard of before, and which they haven't been told not to trust. How does Facebook solve this? I'm not sure. Flagging stories as "this hasn't been reported elsewhere", or by filtering new sources of news might be a start, but it wouldn't be a solution. I'm not sure people would trust Facebook to manually moderate content, and it would simply give fake news and politicians the ammunition they needed to target Facebook as being against them. The very nature of news is that its unexpected and mostly unpredictable, so training algorithms to detect fake news reliably, without hiding real news, is a very difficult task.

Facebook can't take responsibility for fake news, society needs to do that.
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Your analogy doesn't make sense. The site shows animations which work on mobile, but won't let people on phones view the animations. That puts up a barrier to adoption: even if there are a ton of fiddly UI widgets to control the animation, the mobile site could show a default animation & say, "click here to customize this animation (desktop recommended, lots of controls that don't work well with touch)".
Sorry, less than.

100 > 32.
It is bigger and deeper than just that.

I've even seen comments on here regarding immigration that simply said if someone has ever been arrested then they shouldn't be allowed into the USA. (No qualifying statements on recency or severity, or even acquittal.)

With regards to crime (including the mere accusation of sexual things) the sentiment of the USA runs counter to the aspiration and promise of social mobility of the USA.

Yes others profit from maintaining the status quo, but worse is that people are judged for life, based on a single incident in their past. And as the article points out, the zero tolerance amplifies the destructive nature of a society that judges.
You should definitely go for the training and start slow. I have seen mountain guides that were passionate even after decades while others couldn't stand the jungle any longer. I'd approach it as any other career change and get my feet wet first. Even if you end up not liking it, that training is still very useful.
A good rule is just to buy Miele or high-end Bosch. Make sure it's made in Germany and sold in the German market. They have higher standards. I don't know if this is true for ovens, but with other appliances it's a good rule to follow.

I can see an opening for Trump here. If he wants the US to be known for high quality, long-lasting products, he could differentiate US products from cheap and crappy Far East stuff. There is clearly a demand.
I fail to see how switching from meat to plants will decrease the usage of land and water.
Also, planet could not care less what we eat or what we do.
You can purchase an additional warranty for decent money. Handling repairs is still a huge mess and burden - even if you're not paying for them. I read a couple of "four weeks without refrigerator" horror stories. That they happend on the warranty time did not make them any better.

I don't want a good warranty, I want a well working equipment.
Thank you very much for posting this --- this is exactly the information which was missing from the Twitter thread!

(My concern was that the twitter basically contained nothing of any content: no technical details, no link to a blog post, nothing which can be checked or verified... which makes it indistinguishable from insinuation; and so I have to dismiss what you said out of hand.)

(Regarding provocative language: I don't think publicly calling someone out as a liar, in so many words, particularly on a medium like Twitter which doesn't really allow for an effective response, is particularly effective in producing a useful result...)

Anyway:

Re the manifest issue: to paraphrase, to check I'm understanding you correctly: because each manifest refers to its predecessor, and not vice versa, adding any blob which looks like a manifest implicitly adds that manifest to the tree. Normally Fossil trusts authenticated users to add blobs to the tree, because they're authenticated, but ticket attachments can be added by anyone, which effectively means that you can bypass the authentication and commits can be done by anyone. Is that correct?

In which case, yeah, I agree; that's very bad. I can't spot any holes in your reasoning. It is possible to positively identify attachments by looking at their parent manifest, as each one should be pointed at by an A record, so I suppose you could disallow manifests if they're referenced like this, but my gut tells me that's going to be horribly fragile... you're right, adding a type prefix is obviously the right way to go.

If you create a manifest and check it in as a normal file, so it's referenced by an F record, is it still treated as a manifest? If not, could this machinery be extended to attachments as well?

You did bring this up on the mailing list, right?
Partially this, plus the monopoly position the post described: Three companies "won" the market and have no pressure to produce anything else then lemons anymore. And since a bad dishwasher is still better than no dishwasher, consumers will buy them even if they know it's crap as long as there is no alternative.
My Whirlpool dryer and washing machine lasted 10 and 12 years respectively. Few fixes in the last few years, but still in pretty strong condition. What made me switch was the realisation that just the energy savings going from energy label A to A+++ (that's a EU-label) would make them pay themselves back in about 4 years. So Total Cost of Ownership is what matters, not service duration.

I totally agree that 'cradle to cradle' shouldn't just be some hipster word. In the EU we pay to have any appliance recycled. Hopefully that is done ambitiously.
Mail.app. I haven't found anything else I like as much for handling inboxes from multiple accounts.
Ask HN: Why can't I raise funding?
I'm developing a Venmo-like solution in Europe. With disrupting regulation coming in 2018 (PSD2), fintech is quite a hot space in Europe at the moment. However, I can't seem to be able to raise funding for my project. We've raised 250k so far to develop the product and harvest the first user data. Investors tell us that the market is too competitive and too capital intensive to get involved in. They tell us explicitly that they like the team. I don't believe a capital intensive market is a reason not to invest.

We're in a market with strong network effects, so naturally being a first mover is one of the biggest advantages right now.

Some key metrics:
28d Retention: 25-30%
Doubling userbase every quarter.
No marketing, have an inherent viral product.
Current userbase: 3.6k

What would be the reason people don't want to invest? Is my retention too low, userbase too low or am I naive or ignorant about something obvious about consumer fintech?

Curious as to what the HN community thinks.
It's funny because Gall-Peters is one of the worst projections in terms of distortion. It doesn't preserve shapes anywhere.
Perhaps it would be better if people buy refrigeration as a service. Then the service provider can worry about such things as lifetime, maintenance, replacement, and selling old refrigerators.

And there would be no incentive for "planned obsolescence".
But many things that "were known for decades" turn out to be not known at all. Fat was root of all evil for decades, but now—maybe not? Salt was bad for decades, but now—maybe not?
And growing life expectancy while we are literally killing ourselves does not compute.
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We must protect children from having their lives ruined!

We shall do that by ruining their lives!
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How could Trump do anything about that?
Signatures were introduced in git as part of the response to the kernel.org hack in 2011.
There are certain tennis strokes that adults can't learn. For instance, adults can't learn to hit a "kick" serve that has a lot of topspin. I think part of the problem is that the kick serve requires counterintuitively hitting the ball to the sky and letting gravity and spin pull it down to earth. Adults can't handle the idea of hitting up, it just seems wrong. I learned kick serves as a kid and it's like riding a bicycle, I never forgot though I stopped playing tennis for ten years. Also, some strokes decline with age. Federer's backhand is now much better than when he was in his physical peak at 26, though his forehand is probably not as good; the same is true of nearly all players, the backhand improves but the forehand declines. The more instinctive a shot is, the harder it is to maintain and learn as you get older.
My LG front loader has a small hose behind a panel on the lower front where the drain pump filter is. When I am finished washing I take the plug out of the hose, drain all the water, then remove the drain pump filter and leave the door open until I next need to use the washer. Otherwise, there would be ~500 mL stagnant water in the plumbing of the washer, keeping the humidity inside the washer comfortable for mold.

Also, use warm water and half the suggested amount of washing powder.
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> Enjoy your "healthy" low fat foods

Where was I advocating "low fat" foods?

> You are just spouting bullshit nutritional advice that has contributed to the obesity epidemic since the 1950s.

Yes I advocate for "whole food plant based" diet. After doing my research. But please tell me how WFPB has "has contributed to the obesity epidemic since the 1950s", because I do not get it.

> Dietary cholesterol does not directly affect blood serum cholesterol.

You say so. But do you think that replacing 5 eggs per week with whole plant foods is not going to lower someones blood serum cholesterol? Because I think it does.