skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, the dossier was put together by former MI6 agent Christopher Steele and wasn't just some 4chan prank.

How do you suggest the NYT, CNN, WaPo react to actions that seem to come from a place of incompetence or malevolence? When Trump rolls out an unconstitutional EO that seemed barely vetted by the Attorney General's office, how should the NYT paint that in such a way that Trump is depicted as competent?

When Trump and Spicer repeat falsehoods that anyone with a pair of eyes can refute (inauguration crowd size) or that has zero evidence behind it whatsoever (3-5 million illegal votes, Obama wiretapping Trump), how should the WaPo react to these lies?

When the president's campaign is under investigation by the FBI for potential collusion with a foreign government, and Rep. Schiff says there is 'more than circumstantial evidence', how should CNN report this?

It's laughable and a little bit sad that people think that Trump is more honest than the MSM.
This looks truly useful and innovative, well done!

Two things come to mind, apologies if they're already addressed:

The sidebar jumping around in the corner of my eye sounds really distracting, I wonder if there's some way to manually tell it to "update" or some other UX trick to ameliorate that, because the concept is great.

I work in the healthcare sector, and I hope you guys do or will have the reams of datasec declarations and certifications needed for this to be usable in such a regulated context.
There are two valid ways for a disassembler mitigate this:
a) decompile to a language in which the bytecode can be expressed (in a concise / expresive manner, Java would always be a "possible" target because of turing completeness) or b) accommodate for the fact that there could be signature collisions in java, e.g. by prefixing/suffixing the method name
They just own the lines and interconnect
Rendering 10 Million Items with {{vertical-collection}} and Ember.js
>But I think it's a big mistake to even momentarily indulge the idea (even as a hypothetical) that one can get paid "whatever one wants" when that decision is structurally not theirs to make.

I think the key difference here is that you're approaching this as something that needs to be structured, that there should be a structure in place that allows people to select from a list what they're going to make.

The capitalist perspective is that people can make whatever they want, as long as they are able to persuade someone to give it to them (within the confines of the law). So it's not an absurd hypothetical. There are, of course, no guarantees.

But I don't want this thread to veer too far off-topic, if that ship hasn't already sailed.

>Do you have any sympathy for the notion that these stressors are reduced or eliminated when workers and managers cooperatively decide what to make and how?

Sure I do. The concerns you're listing are among everyone's core psychological needs. People need to feel that they are being treated fairly, that their input is taken seriously, and that they have a reasonable degree of autonomy over their time.

When we don't feel these things are happening for us, the appropriate and natural reaction is angst, or psychic pain, and it's intended to drive us to find a way to correct/balance these stress profiles.

After we've been exposed to these and other psychological stresses without resolution for too long, our body gives up and we enter a state of burnout.

You're suggesting that the cure for burnout is an upheaval in the structure of property ownership. I believe that if it helped at all, this would be an indirect effect at best. In any case, such drastic suggestions are out of scope for the immediate question of addressing burnout in the real world.

There are ways to improve current companies (without fundamentally restructuring their core ownership or authority systems) so that they meet these needs better. There are ways to get these needs filled at home, which, while it won't entirely reduce antipathy toward work, may help mitigate the damage.
I'm quite aware but I have a thickness of the cornea issue so it has to be hard lenses.

Mine are fancy and have a soft "skirt" on the edges that make them larger but VERY comfortable.
The Apathetic - The Trauma of Facing Deportation
Such comparisons are in fashion at the moment. One may as well get annoyed over unnecessary flannel or beard wax.
Unions tend to create their own distortions. The first thing they do when they achieve power is go right about manipulating the political environment to ensure that no one is able to work in their field without joining and paying the union.

Empowering the individual is the answer. Not trading one master for another. Even if the new master double-pinky-swears he's gonna be better than the old one.
I recently got a graphic card that stops its fans when not needed. Now I effectively have a passively cooled card that can instantly convert itself into an actively cooled one.
You can criticize the editorialization of news sources without falling to outright blanketing them as "fake news" sources.

Trump has repeatedly claimed facts as true without evidence or just based on a claim by a singular news source sans evidence. It is worrying that Trump has repeatedly done this and then sought to discredit critical news sources by labeling them "fake". I'd wish the president to be above hypocrisy in the realm of "fake news". You shouldn't spew falsehoods and then criticize others for doing the same. Both sides are guilty of this, but I believe the president has a higher burden of responsibility than a newspaper or TV program.

I also believe that Trump has been guilty of generating BS moreso than the "legitimate liberal-leaning" news, but that's just me editorializing, so please leave it out of my argument :)
I took my desire to go carb free to my internal med doctor and cardiologist and backed it up with some limited research data. I was surprised they both said go for it and come back for blood work. My cardiologist is probably 65 and my internal med doctor is probably 40 to 45.

I had Metabolic syndrome (prediabetic) and don't now. Still have slight elevated BP and weigh too much but I lost 50 lbs and my other blood work is amazingly good. I was expecting a battle with both of them.

My cardiologist took me off if several meds as well.
the core feature of their jobs is their own economic exploitation.

Ugh, I know, being "economically exploited" is so rough -- making six figs in a top-tier profession with low single-digit unemployment that provides for a home/apt, family, regular health insurance, a warm bed and heating for the winter, cooling for the summer, multiple cars and a motorcycle (and maybe even a home for those too), an entire closet full of clothes, multiple pairs of shoes, regular healthy meals, spontaneous travel and vacations, hobbies, movies, TV, games, and entertainment nearly to our hearts' desire.

Worse, at work I have to deal with shiny new gadgets, laptops, desktops, servers, giant monitors, a desk and chair to my liking, HVAC, plumbing, and free filtered water. And wait a second, did you say you get paid while taking a bathroom break!? Life really does suck being exploited like this.

What's dead is not God, nor work, and the elephant might just be painted on the mirror on your wall.
It is in fact built on twilio: https://investors.twilio.com/news/all-news/press-release-det...
And coming to linux soon?
Useful HN Discussion from the original 1.0 launch:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11497111
Ask HN: Why mismatch between dates on HN page and search/API?
Take this story for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13969114

At the time of writing, this is listed at "5 hours ago". But when you search for this story over the API or on https://hn.algolia.com/?query=sloppy%20land%20surveyor&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story , it says "a day ago". The API lists the correct date as 1490632191, which also points into the latter direction.

What's up with this? Is this a case of a story being kinda resubmitted by HN staff?
Wouldn't these two lines of code do the same thing?

var addCSS = (css) => { window.document.styleSheets[0].insertRule(css, window.document.styleSheets[0].cssRules.length); };
addCSS('.x { color: red; width: 5px; }');

Test examples (+ another version that can add multiple selectors in the same line): https://jsfiddle.net/xkLnj9st/
That's an interesting argument and it certainly seems right, but I can't say if that's because there's truth to it or because I am as "algorithm averse" as the next guy.

What's nice is it seems to offer a falsifiable prediction. Namely, that there are "super-experts" out there who consistently beat machine learning algorithms. Even if they aren't numerous enough to bring up the mean. Do the current studies show that?
I make it a point of asking a few questions about hours and project management wherever I interview.

I had an interview once where I asked a manager of an established (10+ years old) company about hours. He expected all employees to put in more than 8 hours most days. I then asked about project scheduling. It seemed to me that there was no slack planned into the releases. Everyone was allocated 110% with no room for slippage.
Machine learning, especially deep learning.
Is that true? I've never read the SEC rules or looked into this in detail but my understanding was that information sharing only becomes a problem if you actually trade on that information (ie. insider trading). I didn't know the rules actually tried to limit what was shared. How does that work with employees etc, who will almost certainly have access to a lot of preferential information and many also be investors or significant shareholders? Would love to know more!
Except that my rule makes it easier to sue Google if you have a good case.

The whole point of "Loser Pays" is to filter out the frivolous, weak, and marginal cases. But it also makes it easier to file the strong and meritorious cases, because you know you're going to win (eventually), and they'll pay for it.

Of course because the strong cases get settled out of Court, the overall effect is that a lot fewer cases will go to Court at all and this is generally a good thing (IMO). The Court system is overburdened, which means it can take months or years for meritorious cases to just get a hearing and trial. Prisoners can languish for years in prison without conviction of guilt, just awaiting trial.

Furthermore you have to think about the unseen costs. All those businesses that are never formed in the first place because of these legal tactics. My guess is that small businesses that are put out business by lawsuits are outnumbered 100:1 or more by potential businesses that never get past the planning stages.
It would also screw up interop. You'd basically have the issue everyone has when trying to call C++.
>I presume it's a very convenient method to keep the dirty unemployed masses placid. Free weed and videogames. Yay.

It is better than free internet/facebook/mobile phones and spending time by watching cat videos and reading 'deep stuff' written by fellow plebs in Reddit and Hackernews...
Who says they build spaceships? Maybe they grow spaceships, and evolve various versions until one of them has the desired properties for space travel. You don't even need to be intelligent to achieve that.
Irregular thickness of the cornea.

Literally impossible to correct with soft lenses.

It's hard lenses or a (risky) cornea transplant really (other options like intacs could help but not fix it)
Your answer there is 'damn right I am special', and be able to back it up in some way that relates to them. It's no use to them if you write a novel, but if you're proposing to ally your own abilities to the company on your terms and really flip on the switch for them and crank, you have to act in line with that expectation, which may include setting your own terms.
In short, the world is not deterministic and you're far from insane for thinking "the same action" can lead to a different result.

There's another part of it that's bothersome to me though - it's the "Insanity is..." part. It implies there's no other definition, cause or characteristic of insanity other than the one that's a-comin' later in the sentence. Here it comes everybody, THE definition of insanity: "Insanity is... blablabla." Oh THAT'S what insanity is, huh? Okay yeah, I mistakenly thought it might've been some kind of nuanced complicated thing psychiatry has been trying hard to understand. Good news, psychiatrists! We finally know what "insanity is!"

And now that I write that, I find myself thinking, is "insanity" even a valid concept? And ignoring that question, is insanity really that bad? Sanity doesn't seem to be all it's cracked up to be. I think they just talked me into doing drugs.
An Introduction to Ethereum and Smart Contracts: A Programmable Blockchain
The article is talking about a different thing. If the trip costs me $10, the driver keeps ~$7 and Uber gets $3. If the driver thinks he needs $9 for this to be viable, then Uber should either take $1 or charge the customer $12 and pay the driver $9 is my point. I don't want the additional $2 to be covered by tips, which is determined by an unspoken rule.
We've asked you already to please stop posting unsubstantive comments. We have to ban accounts that won't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yup, as Steve mentions, it's builtin. So in short, it's never even on my radar.

I really like Rust, but compiling OpenSSL was a huge headache for me. One of those growing pains i felt like.
You'd still be working the same amount of hours. Why ask for such a pay cut? If you're willing to take a pay cut, cut the number of hours.
If I'd choose an european country to found my startup, it would be Estonia, they have a system in place, called E-Resident that anyone can apply to, and get "citizenship" so after that you can create your own business along with a bank account there, all online.

If you are European and have a bank account in your homecountry, from what I've read you don't even need to fly over to Estonia to get that bank account, the bank will accept that. If not, that's the only thing you really need to go to Estonia.
This was not a capital raise. Read the filing. Tencent acquired most of the shares on the open market and the remainder in the round that was announced earlier this month.
I agree with you completely, but if you want a bit of insight as to why this quote has become absolutely inescapable: Farcry 3. The antagonist in that game was pretty laughably overwrought, but people loved him, and that was one of his favorite lines.

The truth is that beyond the linguistics of the matter, it's just a wrong definition anyway. Insanity is defined by an inability to distinguish reality from fantasy, but that's too arcane a concept for most people to grasp it seems.
Visual Testing – the pragmatic way to test UIs
One of the big things we've worked on over the past few months is giving users fine grained control of which files are indexed by kite:

- Kite only indexes directories that you have explicitly enabled

- You can create a .kiteignore file (same semantics as .gitignore) to exclude specific files / patterns.
A good book about the British Bomber Command is Bomber Command by Max Hastings.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bomber-Command-Pan-Military-Classic...

https://www.amazon.com/Bomber-Command-Zenith-Military-Classi...

The book talks about the change in tactics. At the beginning of the war targeting civilian areas was clearly a war crime; by the end of the war we had things like Dresden.

> And because it had led the AAF to organize its raids during the day, when its bombers were easy for German fighter pilots to find and shoot down, casualties in the bomber force during 1942 and 1943 were shockingly high; in one raid alone, the October 14, 1943 attack on the ball-bearing plants at Schweinfurt (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Raid_on_Schweinfurt), 26% of the attacking bombers were shot down.

Most people don't understand just how high the casuality rates were. The RAF bomber command lost about 55,000 men of 125,000 total.
Upcall (YC W17) Is Looking for a Customer Success Manager
I could see his comment just fine. What's the evidence of an HN shadowban?
It may be context dependent: today they have many high value uses for capital, better than using it for filling a warehouse, but in the future ,this could be different.
Is it possible to play solo? (I understand that the avow won't count, but...)
I am not a "denier", but I do struggle with the evidence I have read as most of it has too much subjectivity or is based on meta studies where all underlying papers are highly subjective.

What is missing from the debate is 2-3 papers that are agreed on to be the clearest evidence that temperatures are changing due to human inputs.

Calling people 'deniers' is an ad hominen attack that doesn't prove anything, and most importantly doesn't help change people's minds.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13978371 and marked it off-topic.
I, for one, can see what he posts and they aren't hidden in any way.
"67% said that they think their employees have a balanced life, yet about half of employees disagree."

owww, my head!
Sure, but I think the distinction lies in if toll booths (hospitals) are still private, meaning carte blanche payment from government money to private actors.
The funny thing is that if you live in Germany, you grow up thinking that it's completely normal that Deutsche Telekom takes 4 weeks to get your internet connection hooked up when you move houses.

I was actually completely shocked when I moved to California, signed up with an internet provider, and had a technician come to my house the next day. Crazy!
Larry Summers: The robots are coming
I would embrace big-data epidemiological studies (in the U.S.) if society would legally and practically-irreversibly guarantee me that the results would not be used to discriminate, against me nor against others. In health care insurance and health care delivery. In employment. Etc.

As it is, I fear any and every bit of data I provide the system may well be used against me at a future point.

Right now, I'm going through some extensive testing, and I've decided to provide further historical data in my possession for the sake of a better analysis and diagnosis. However, that same data -- or rather, one datum of the data it is comprised of -- a few decades ago, was used as the basis to deny my application to purchase individual health care insurance.

With the ongoing attacks on the Affordable Care Act, I have the distinct feeling of traveling back in time.

If we are going to have cooperative buy-in on big data, we are going to need to ensure that the resulting benefits are shared across the population and are not used to discriminate against subjects having data "on the left side of the bell curve".
I would disagree hugely, as the working people still need to buy food and pay rent.
You mean like Git?
Note that this is not available under a conventional open source license, but one of the "non-commercial use" variety. Don't rush to incorporate it into your products ;-).
It's not astigmatism but it's often misdiagnosed as such first due to similar presentation of symptoms.

I actually have Pellucid which is often mistaken for Kerataconus so I did the whole shebang of diagnosis!
Democracy needs innovation
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13971728
I was in this situation in college as well. I was writing code for minimum wage as part of work-study program to help pay my tuition.

I looked at the larger picture. I was gaining experience. It wasn't costing me gas as I was already at the college each day. I worked with great people that I still communicate with to this day. I was offered a full-time job at the college after I graduated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War

Estimates range from ~100,000 to 700,000.

The Iraq War was a mistake that sixty years from now we will be mocked and judged for, but be careful with words like "millions."
Uber to shut down Denmark operation
Depends on what you mean by "jobs in that sector". If you mean doing cutting edge AI research at Google or Facebook, I'm going to guess the answer is closer to "no". Although, "never say never". But OTOH, if you're talking about doing applied machine learning at Lamardcky Furniture Manufacturing in Skelfootville, WV, then the answer is probably very close to "yes, certainly".

The question many (maybe most) companies are going to ask is simply "can you create value?" If you can create value for a company by helping them reduce costs, or increase revenue, or both, you can probably find a job.

Coming at this from a similar position (did not complete my b.s. degree and have only 3 a.s. degrees as formal credentials), I have come to believe there is a crucial extra bit that factors in. And that is domain knowledge as well as general business understanding. You can understand the math behind back-propagation and gradient descent as well as any Ph.D., but if you don't know how to apply that to solving an actual business problem for a particular organization, you aren't going to be able to create much value for them. So if you really want to find a job, you may find that there's value in taking some business classes as well, and choosing a domain to really dive into. This is, of course, assuming you'd be content to chose a role that's more of "applied ML" as opposed to desiring to do cutting edge research.

If you want to do cutting edge research without formal credentials, I don't have any definite advice for you. I believe it's possible to get there, but I'd be entirely speculating as to the details. Well, besides just setting up shop for yourself of course. Then you can research whatever you want. The issue there might be paying the bills if you can't convert what you do to a revenue stream pretty quickly.
Yeah, MSVC target tends to work much better(although viewing of some more complex types doesn't work yet).
Silicon Valley Startups Favor IPOs Over Deals as M&A Languishe
That's fair, but that wasn't really my point.
I wouldn't even say it's unlikely as long as you're an asset to the company. But keep in mind even a half day off every week at the same rate is approximately the same as a 10% raise. How often to companies give out 10% raises? And negotiating from 4.5 to 4 is certainly going to be even harder.

However if your boss offers you a 5% raise and you counter with a 5% pay cut and you're out the door at noon every on the last work day of every week, you'd be surprised how willing they would be do to that.
Anything we can't guarantee statically we can check at runtime, which is what memory-safe C compilers do. But this is something OS distributions can use on all of the C packages. What you are suggesting is an effort that each and every project has to take and this simply doesn't scale much better than switching languages.
Git isn't generally configured to automatically upload your files as you type or as files are saved.

There are things like GitFS, but I imagine those aren't part of an average developer's workflow.
If anything, I've found that your time and boundaries are MORE respected if you respect them yourself.

Overworking yourself is a sure way not to a promotion but to having even more work dumped on you.
It's official: Amazon to acquire Souq
Sorry about this - it's embarrassing. We've been snowed under getting Kite ready for launch and didn't want to touch the update mechanism right before launch. We _will_ get this fixed ASAP.

In the mean time, check out http://help.kite.com/article/6-how-do-i-uninstall-kite
Yes, but even they can't keep up with the projected demand for batteries which is why Tesla is building out its own factory [1] in partnership with Panasonic [2] to manufacture batteries.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/gigafactory

[2] https://www.tesla.com/blog/panasonic-and-tesla-sign-agreemen...
Law written in English is a huge advantage.
Much better than the hollow cynicism of your post, though...
A set of efficient persistent immutable data structures for Reason and OCaml