skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a difference between leaders and leaders willing to go to any means to achieve their ends.

What I'm doing is sharing info in a more balanced less conspiracy-laden way than many would. And believe me I am--what I'm saying is tame relative to what many others would say and how they would say it. The problem is too many people still believe 911 wasn't manufactured just as the weapons of mass destruction Iraq never had was.

But this is changing. Alternative media networks like hacker news itself are growing in influence. Sharing this info in a balanced way and seeing what people think is what I'm doing. Our media is getting displaced just like every sector of society is fragmenting and decentralizing (think music industry, what Netflix and Amazon are now doing to film, etc). We need to form our own concensus to destroy the grip western media has on people. For example, without sharing a bit of proof and providing a bogus motive-centric report, the DNI told the media that Russia hacked the DNC and the media repeated it without question. That's a problem. It's a problem when we are all just supposed to believe our intelligence agencies without question. It's a bigger problem that the media actually did it. Russia likely didn't hack us, yet we'll never know--yet most people believe it without question!

The real problem is the journalists and politicians have no choice but to believe it in order to not appear anti-establishment. Basically our leaders can't go against a corrupt worsening country because it hurts their careers by making them appear anti-establishment. Some--Trump--have made a political career out of being anti-establishment, but he's an outlier. However as egregious as he is, he might be the impetus to many more taking stronger stances against our hidden government.

The only thing we CAN do my friend is achieve concenus in a grass roots manner amongst the people. That's the only thing that will stop this train. Do you think 911 was likely a false flag attack to spur action or not? That is the question.
Guy copy/pastes from the Wikipedia page of catb into medium, adds his github project at the bottom and submits to HN.
Are you sure it is not like Judge Judgy McJudgerson to simply call this name best?
Survivorship bias may also explain a big part of this.
All we can do is work hard to build academic support:

* In the last three weeks, we've had 80 outreach conversations with various stakeholders for Distill. The majority of these have been academic researchers. The response has been extremely positive.

* A number of ML faculty at Stanford / Berkeley / Toronto / Montreal are very excited and supportive of Distill.

* Distill's steering committee consists of recognized leaders in ML and data visualization.

* We've registered with the library of congres / CrossRef, dotting our "i"s and crossing our "t"s to be a serious journal. In some senses, we're more legitimate than some notable venues.

* The largest industry research groups institutionally support Distill.

My sense is that the academic community really wants to have something like this, if it can be done well. At the end of the day, we need to publish outstanding content and demonstrate that we're a high-quality venue.
Probably for the same reason you're having to travel despite the telephone, FaceTime, secondlife, and email being invented. Telepresence isn't the same as physical presence, and the act of costing you is an important social signal itself. VR won't change that.
Saying "they are not durable" downplays the extent of how non-durable they are. That kind of "non-durability" needs flashing neon signs prominently featuring very large arrows, pointing at the specifics, not four vague words.
>and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure -- One World, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.

As if this is some benevolent plan towards harmony and peace, and not merely a way to build an empire where corporatists and moguls have increased control on an even more defenseless populace without shared historical and cultural resistances (like the role the Constitution, for example plays in the US).

In other words, the exact feudal states and empires that nation states were invented to rid us of.
West Wing vignette on the Gall-Peters projection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVX-PrBRtTY
As the author notes, there is very little real competition in appliance manufacturing, with a few companies making the vast majority of brands out today. If you stop buying a Maytag dishwasher, there is a good chance you'll end up with another brand that happens to be owned by Whirlpool Corporation.
> John D. was a devoted Osteopath for most of his life. If you haven't read Titan, it's a fascinating bio.

That's interesting, I didn't know that.

More than osteopathy, the similar yet different practice of chiropractic is a better example of a legally and politically well-organized "alternative medicine". Through legal ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilk_v._American_Medical_Ass'n ) and political pressure from the 1970s to the 1990s, they got the American Medical Association to dissolve their committee on quackery, rewrite their medical ethics rules and so forth.
Are there any statically typed S-expression languages?
> The fact that animals consume more calories then they give is not a gross oversimplification and is true in every case.

Maybe not oversimplification but deceiving. It makes it sound like we can eat grass.
Boston public schools map switch aims to end 500 ye
It's not self-serving to say PhDs are better than me at predicting the future of their field.

It would be self-serving if I lied in an interview and said I was qualified for a job making robots if I'd never had any experience doing so.
Mao Ze Dong was working with the Yale-China association in the 1920s. So China wasn't as closed as it may seem. And a banker working with all the dictators in the world (and Kissinger!) isn't "most people". [0]

Can you find any other example of someone praising China at the same time? Mass killings had already been a part of life in China since 1911. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale-China_Association
[1] https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/CHINA.CHAP1.HTM
Has Li-battery genius John Goodenough done it again? Colleagues are skeptical
The author starts with a thesis; scrapes around for facts to support it; is soon enough disagreeing with their own numbers, and concludes with an appeal to codependency.
HN users are not typical users of technology.
how do recursive descent parsers compare to parser combinators? so far i've tended to use a combinator library when one of my small projects needs a parser, but now i'm wondering if i should just get good at doing recursive descent parsers instead.
or use Go
> I essentially eat a nice sized lunch and no other real meals. I drink a protein shake with some peanut butter and a banana for breakfast and a soylent drink for dinner.

A breakfast is a meal. And the way you describe it, it can easily be upwards of 600 calories. Peanut butter is one of the most calorie dense foods on the planet and bananas add up very quickly in terms of calories.

Also iirc, a bottle of soylent is 400 calories, which is not insignificant.

So all in all, you still probably consume ~2000 calories, which is enough to lose weight, but also enough not to feel hungry by timing the consumption correctly. Small-framed women, for example would gain weight with the same diet.

> I'm not sure if I'm just now gaining the will power to stick to a diet

I wonder what is HN's obsession with sticking to specific diets? Generally speaking there is an infinite number of possible healthy diets that get you your macros at every calorie level.
I think that, if Doom 2016 wasn't so checklist bound, it'd qualify as sublime art - it's the best answer I've seen to the question "What would Aliens look like if it were a video game?"

LeChuck's Revenge is up there, too, IMO - both versions.
Us-east actually has five zone, but one of them was decommissioned many years ago, so unless your account is very old, you can only see four.

As far as I know, that's the only zone that's ever been fully decommissioned.
Mindful Software Development
> Maybe where Ebert should have been engaged is not on quibbling over the definition of Art, but on his implicit claim that reading books or watching movies is a better use of time than video games.

Ebert did in fact say that in his essay:

> Why are gamers so intensely concerned, anyway, that games be defined as art? Bobby Fischer, Michael Jordan and Dick Butkus never said they thought their games were an art form. Nor did Shi Hua Chen, winner of the $500,000 World Series of Mah Jong in 2009. Why aren't gamers content to play their games and simply enjoy themselves? They have my blessing, not that they care.

The response to Ebert's essay showed the vapidity of much of the "games are art" crowd. He was actually treating games seriously, and had thoughtful things to say about them (whether or not he agreed with them). He wasn't criticizing them, but giving his opinion about whether or not they should be considered art (not entirely different from art vs. design arguments).

But it turns out many weren't really interested in deep conversation; they wanted cheap platitudes. They wanted the validation of their hobby by having someone call it art, more than they wanted someone to take their hobby seriously and approach it critically.
> And it's so hard to really split the difference between "Sublime Art" and "A Really Good Game"

Is it? What makes a "really good game"? Most would agree that a game like SimCity or Half-Life (original) are really good games. Few would argue that either of them are sublime art.
Just think of them as the random mutation in the genetic algorithm. Keeping the progress facing forward is the job of the scientific method, but occasionally you get a big leap as some of the more outlandish claims are finally tested and found to have some merit. It's a fine line, and one we don't always walk all that well.
Distributed IMAP Server Wild Duck
> This has a runtime cost.

As does using a conservative/"very slow" GC. I'm sceptical, but it may be that D's situation means trading a pervasive slowness (if the parent is true, I don't know) for no write barriers is the right choice, differing to the conventional wisdom from other languages, but that's the argument you need to make, not just that write barriers are slow.
This exists for high risk merchants -- there are a number of offerings like: https://www.easypaydirect.com/special-needs/load-balancing/

I'd need to do more research to find the best solution but it looks like payment processor risk is definitely something that can be mitigated.
Hijacking Windows user sessions with built-in command line tools
Google seems to somehow avoid criticism for doing the same crap other companies do. They have had horrible problems with Sexual Harassment, just as bad and toxic as Uber, but the narrative is not there, just stop and think about that for a second.
> Instead we could use that land to grow plants and feed more people then with cows.

Sometimes we can't grow crops on that land. And it's a lot of non-arable land.
What makes code good?
Ad agency business (not adtech). I work for a digital production agency that caters to ad agencies, doing digital campaigns (vr, mobile games/apps, websites, webgl, anything digital really). My time on a project (code, frontend) rarely exceeds 2 months, and after that I get a fresh new project to work on from scratch. I rarely work with legacy code and usually the tech stack for these projects are quite cutting edge, too.

After working in this business I don't think I'll ever be able to return to a "normal" type of business, although stress can be quite high and often there is overtime to meet a deadline.
I have my issues with HN, but this type of comment is one of parts I relish. Thanks!
I'm typing this comment using close to 100% free software that I did not pay for.
The joke I was trying to make is that a lot of startups are doing the same things as always but calling it "AI." A chatbot using NLP technology from the early 2000s is suddenly "AI."

There are plenty of actually innovative products in the AI space.
Be the bankers of dictators, soviets and chinese officials?

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/20/books/review/david-rockefe...
Executing a little slower would be fine. Executing two orders of magnitude slower can be almost as useless as being obstructed.
Rise of Subscriptions and the fall of Advertising
I don't think anyone disagrees with the idealized notion of making the world better. But there's tons of room for disagreement in how to do so.

I've even heard some argue that prosperity is a limited resource, and that "globalists" naively believe there's enough of it to spread around the entire planet. Obviously if you're already well off (U.S.) then there's only one direction for you to go when the spreading happens: down.

FWIW, I don't believe in this line of thinking. But, I think there are some interesting theoretical considerations that I don't fully understand. The idea of prosperity being a limited resource is, at least, interesting to think about.
Not dissimilarly from Kingpin in Daredevil...

The line between good and evil is not defined by intentions.
I had this issue too, and realized you can frame it by setting expectations in the title.

Some posts have needed the 100-200 hours of thinking/visualization, labeled with things like "Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform" (https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to...)

Others are smaller insights, written in a day ("Quick Insight: Easier Arithmetic With Calculus" -https://betterexplained.com/articles/calculus-arithmetic/).

Others are more essays/thought pieces, learning strategies, etc.

Setting the expectation up front that not every post is a big thesis-style conclusion can take away the pressure to only create those. (You can have appetizers, entrees, and desserts on the menu!)

Often your big articles are built after working through ideas in smaller ones. (The Fourier Transform emerged after getting insights on e, imaginary numbers, Euler's Formula, degrees vs. radians, etc.).
From the video and article alone, it's hard to gauge the degree of coercion involved -- by 'them' he seems to mean the clothes. Wonder how he reacts to homeless who interrupt his sermon with "There's something I need to do now, back in an hour"?
Show HN: Sanic(python)-Nginx-Docker Example project
They're talking about net worth. You're talking about income.

Kind of silly either way though - why don't you just come out and say that you think he should have donated more?
I finished "Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller" a few nights ago. It's a mammoth of a book and I believe the undisputed most accurate and comprehensive look at his life.

I think that what you've written here is incredibly misleading when talking about John D. Rockefeller's philanthropy in particular. It is wrong to imply the Rockefeller's secretly controlled strings in order to make profits from their donations. Time and time again he gave away vast sums of money and did everything in his power to separate himself completely from the donation. His largest fear about donating was that the public would label his donation as tainted money. He wanted no influence over, and never visited with most of the receivers of his donations. His only concern was that institutions should not be wholly dependent on his philanthropy, and work to raise money from other sources as well.

The Rockefeller institute for Medical Research is one of the most successful examples of philanthropy ever. And Rockefeller may only be eclipsed by Bill Gates as the greatest philanthropist ever.

You can absolutely (and should) criticize his business practices, but Rockefeller literally created the model of what a successful philanthropist should do.
Y Combinator’s quest for diversity
Artificial Intelligence Slowly Making Managers Obsolete?
When money is equivalent to speech, it's very easy to shout people down.
Deep Learning with PaddlePaddle
I haven't played that version of Doom. But I have to ask, is Aliens sublime art?
It's always easy to retrofit what can essentially be a lucky guess into a smart prediction after the fact. Whether you consider that guess to fit a plausible narrative doesn't always make it any less of a guess.

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2014/09/predicting_bubb....
two bloggers i admire tremendously are james hague [http://prog21.dadgum.com/, now retired from blogging :(] and julia evans [https://jvns.ca/]

while pretty much everything they write is high-quality and worth reading, there are clearly different levels of effort that went into any given post, so there's a good mix of content.
What you describe is nice, but free movement has to be bi-directional, not just into the west. Thus far, the only side that is living up to those ideals are western nations, to their obvious and ongoing harm.

Also, are you aware that globalism eliminates the individual franchise? In other words, there is a very large downside to having an unelected body ruling the world, isn't there? In other words, the end of democracy as we know it.

I was once a libertarian and bought into the typical libertarian political positions. Unfortunately, based on observation, I have to revert to the idea that the only way to preserve the unique (and fading) way of life we have in the US is to righteously enforce our political borders and bolster internal democratic representation as opposed to remove that control to a further higher entity.
OpenBSD developers maintain the portable versions of OpenBSD software. It's simply easier/cleaner for them to maintain the portable bits (compat code, build system) outside of the projects source tree. "Write code according to OpenBSD standards, fix outliers later."
Sure, fans have become more energy optimized. That doesn't support the implication that the lightness was required to get the modern lower energy usage, nor that a better built (heavier) motor wouldn't be more efficient and last longer. That lack of longevity is what the "motor weighers" are lamenting - a major reason this whole topic is important is that we're currently unable to buy new more efficient appliances that will also last long.

> newer ones are brushless DC vs the single phase induction of old. I imagine newer fan design helps too.

Yes, this is the advance in drive circuitry that I referred to - same with the "DC motor" fans. It's still a fact that at the current consumer design point, adding more copper to the windings will increase weight, efficiency, and longevity.
Better online business by using data (video rec from Swedish GH meetup)
Just a heads up for those at work - The embedded video does have some animated footage of a topless woman. (Mildly NSFW)
We know enough about woolly mammoths to know that they behaved and ate in a roughly similar way to elephants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly_mammoth#Palaeobiology
Round the bill up or down to the nearest $1, $5 or $10, depending on your mood. Say $40.

Minimum acceptable service = 10%, shift the decimal point. Done. $4.

Average service, 15%, add half. $6.

Above average, 20%, double. $8.

If the final answer is not an even $, round up or down.

I'm sure it's a great app, I hope it does well, but the above is the upper limit of how much I want to think about a tip, particularly since I minimize the number of apps I put on my phone.
See, the problem is that "message" is only used in this one place.

In another place, I use there a type such as network, and the filters are entirely different ones.

In yet another place, I use even other types.

The types used there have nothing in common, nor do the filters.
Hi Steven, I understand you're putting together the Startup School MOC with Finbarr and Sam.

I'm a London based startup founder who loves the idea behind the course and is interested in getting the most possible from it. My interest lead me to hitting the Startup School Radio podcast where I heard this sentiment from a fellow London founder, YC alumni and ex-YC partner Harj Taggar "Just psychologically it's a big deal to be around a lot of other people going through the same thing you are, and just not feeling like you're crazy". I took Harj's words to heart and went about finding other London founders who were in a similar situation to us, told them about the upcoming MOC and started organising us into a YC inspired network of support. After one week of reaching out and attending non-stop Meetup events for tech startups (7 so far, 4 more to go!), I've collected a brilliant group of 18 founders. It turns out they loved the idea of doing the course together just as much as we did. First YC lesson learnt: build something users love and they will be very happy to engage with you. We're currently organising our first weekly dinner (it's tomorrow and I've never cooked for 18 people - here's hoping everyone likes pasta!), and our attempt at office hours will commence with the first lecture.

Any advice or assistance you'd be able to offer us would be brilliant and most appreciated. Is emailing you guys at startupschool@ycombinator.com the best place for that?

Thanks for your time reading a rather long message! Lots of love from the London YC gang to the MOC team in Mountain View.

Sam Knightsbridge

ComHouse CEO
Damn. And I was gonna quote Twain:

for I knew that a country without a patent office
and good patent laws was just a crab,
and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways
Michael Nielsen: https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/84386992317667328...

(follow the thread)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
The slow GC is only a runtime cost if it ever runs. If no garbage is created in inner loops and stack allocation is preferred there's no reason it _has_ to run.
Airbnb’s CEO Brian Chesky Wants to Revolutionize Flying
Thank you.

Talking to others in the space, I think a number of people share my experience, and often stopped doing this kind of work. While there's extremely positive feedback from some people, it's kind of "you have a cool hobby" and it's kind of iffy how much it helps professionally.

In some cases, I know people who have had well-intentioned senior researchers, or their advisor, encourage them to switch to focusing on traditional papers. In a smaller number of cases, I know people have received explicitly negative feedback. Sort of, "those who can, do research; those who can not, explain research."

My career has worked out really well, but it's unclear how much of that is luck. I think we can support people better.
Not trying to be a dick here, but for all of us that aren't responsible for institutional access control (frequent key changes, master systems) the lock is not the weak link in your physical security and you're wasting effort and money worrying about it.

If you are concerned about physical security, check door frames, windows, and thresholds (especially when lever locks are used). Crime doesn't happen because people pick locks.
Typed Racket is the only one I've come across but I'm sure there are a few more.
Correct, but the NET benefit is the same.

I place a $5k bet that has a $1M payout. I win, and I'm up $995k. I don't take the bet, and I don't make anything. That's a $995k net ($995k - $0).

I buy a $5k insurance policy against my $1M home. It burns down, and I'm only out $5k (the cost of the policy). I don't buy the policy, it still burns down, and now I'm out $1M. My net is still $995k ([-$5k] - [-$1M]).

The "lose your bet" / "buy insurance but your house doesn't burn down" scenarios are the same either way (-$5k).