skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do they really need nearly 4,000 employees and san francisco office space? those two variables could be tweaked for profitability.
I'm a fairly recent quitter. Stopped using Twitter in January, and almost completely stopped using Facebook in February. Deleted my LinkedIn in March.

I sat down and really thought about what I was getting out of each of the services and then decided if that was important. For Twitter it was pushed updates on things going on around me. I realized it was almost 100% noise. That was easy to quit.

Facebook had a bit more value, but was still 90% noise. I first eliminated all the noise I could through unfollowing and unfriending many, many people. Then all that was left was a few family members and FB Messenger.

LinkedIn was nothing to me. I've had this job for ten years now and I have no plans to find anything new anytime soon. That was an easy delete.
It doesn't verify the facts but it helps to verify the source as in making sure you are actually connected to this site.
Title should also include "(2014)"
Me and my friends also go to McDonald's Friends, where we regularly enjoy Big Mac eating contests. Maybe we'll meet there someday.
Second reply to the same comment, because I was curious as to why would you create a throwaway for this debate...

And turns out your other comments are 2 oversimplifying The Guarding and The Independent editorial line / quality and the other two are misleading or a straight lie.

That makes me wonder if you really misunderstood my comment here or are you stirring the pot on purpose? That would explain the need to create a throwaway.
While I generally agree with the gist of your argument, "meat eating cult" seems a bit hyperbolic.
Well well well, more interesting stuff :)
I've seen some well-intentioned foundations spin around in circles, burning through a lot of donor money as they adopt and discard naive models about the nature of teen pregnancy, over-fishing, recidivism, educational success and failure, etc., etc.

Yes. We do need both types of people in the world.
I don't think it is helpful because there is no indication that they tried to pass their 'recommendations' to the people behind this site. It reads like an ad for a competing site.
Still, it's just HTML.
The Case for Hedge Fund Marxism
Exactly so, I try to avoid people who seem to want me to do all of their programming for them.

If I do it all for them, they don't learn, and it's a bit of a waste of my time.

What I like to do is to help people get over a blocking problem on a project by teaching them something they didn't know yet. We usually take their code from a non-working state to a working state. Then I point out other problems with their code, tell them what they need to work on (usually involving reorganization of their code), and then I can (and do) focus on other things.

I don't run into a lot of dependent help-seeking types in real life at office-hour style meetups. They generally understand that I'm going to work on my own stuff, but they can come get me if they run into a roadblock.
Unequal pay for the same work solely based on gender.
The UK contributes quite a bit yet the NHS has price controls.
its a like complete suite for db ops
> What's stopping generics from being "nearly free" in the U.S.? Why do we need to import them from India?

Pay-to-delay is a big one. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/media-resources/mergers-comp...
If the demand for chefs and real estate agents are so high that the costs of paying for visa applications and relocating them from half way round the world are worth it, I'm not worried about the domestics. They are doing fine.
The thing is, if you want to reduce dependence upon animal products and increase sustainability, you can expend 20% of the effort to go 80% of the way, and not spend another 80% of your effort to go the last 20%.

The pareto optimal curve is a real concept, and you don't need to go full vegetarian or vegan for you and the planet to reap the benefits.
Or perhaps they'd be subsidized as it brings them business :P
Bitbucket Pipelines Now Connects to Docker Containers
It's unfortunate that you're being downvoted; that's a very interesting social analysis. I hadn't thought about confession operating as a relief valve for deviations from difficult social rules.
I was also looking for a mention of such a statistic.

I have been vegetarian for 2+ years, occasionally cheat with sea food, but the idea of eating animal flesh grosses me out and i don't think I'll ever turn back.
That's good to know; I was wondering if it would be possible to do something like that. Obviously it requires the cooperation of everyone doing this to ensure that the marks are made correctly, and respected.
The article implied you were more likely to remain a veggie if you lived with other veggies. They also cited not wishing to stand out as a reason for lapsing. I don't think, however, it would help someone remain veggie for long if it was being imposed on them in any way. The important points raised that may help a veggie stay the course would be to educate them on the environmental and moral implications of eating meat. Freedom of choice then rather than the imposition of a culture.
fundraisers can't be Show HN's: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I can't answer that for sure and I'm not sure anyone can which is what makes this problem difficult. We have projections about what CO2 levels need to be by a given year to hopefully avoid a 2 degree increase, but when you are dealing with potential global catastrophe it seems crazy to debate minute details and if we try to just do the bare minimum we might still have catastrophe because our estimates were not on the money.

The earlier we start the less drastic our measures have to be. Unfortunately aside from pure market forces you can just about write off the USA for the next 4 years (in fact, maybe assume that we are a hostile actor as far as climate change is concerned) which means in 4 years we may not even have as many options and measures will get increasingly drastic (ie, potential energy limits on actual consumers).
I used to be vegan, for three plus years. I can't recommend the diet.

It was extremely unhealthy for me, personally. Over a period of time I developed allergies to both soy protein and gluten that I never had in my early twenties, allergies that never went away after I returned to eating meat. YMMV

From an ethical perspective too, I no longer believe the hype that diets should be "more efficient." I believe humans are too efficient already, and what more efficiency provides us, practically speaking, is simply more humans and more over-population, with worse living conditions long-term for most of those new people.

India is often touted as a very vegetarian country, but I can't believe that sort of population density is a good thing. I'd prefer everyone eat a rather "inefficient" diet with lots of open space for animals to graze.
Trump Expected to Bolster ‘Buy American’ and ‘Hire American’ Directives
What you're saying doesn't match the reality of what is actually shown in the graph at http://usafacts.org/metrics/12966

They aren't jumps suddenly correcting a bad estimate with new data. They are gigantic 25% spikes which are then immediately undone. There is no way to explain this chart by just saying that estimates worsen over time.
More generally, black and white thinking is often less effective than thinking in scales.
Can't you do that with Tweetdeck? I have a column for friends, a column for news, a column for tech, and a column for people I follow but are very noisy (ie people that would end up dominating one of the other columns).
Why is there so much fragmentation already?

React VR backed by facebook (who controls oculus):

<View>
<Pano source={asset('chess-world.jpg')}/>
<Text
style={{
fontSize: 0.8,
layoutOrigin: [0.5, 0.5],
transform: [{translate: [0, 0, -3]}],
}}>
hello
</Text>
</View>

A-frame backed by firefox (who controls webvr implementations):

<a-scene>
<a-box color="#6173F4" opacity="0.8" depth="2"></a-box>
<a-sphere radius="2" src="texture.png" position="1 1 0"></a-sphere>
<a-sky color="#ECECEC"></a-sky>
</a-scene>

x3dom (supposedly successor to VRML)

<x3d width='500px' height='400px'>
<scene>
<shape>
<appearance>
<material diffuseColor='1 0 0'></material>
</appearance>
<box></box>
</shape>
</scene>
</x3d>
Video game titles created by a neural network
Great news!

Maybe now I can consider it for my 10tb offline backups.
Functional programming is here already and even in OOP languages. What really matters though - is why we should be using languages like Clojure, Haskell, and Ocaml.
That's what I tell a lot of people. Reduce meat by 90% and you already do a lot of good. 90% reduction is pretty easy to do.
To sum it up: people are weak. Who knew?

> In other words, from the advocacy group’s perspective, health can be an effective “foot in the door” approach to increasing the number of vegetarians and vegans, but often not enough to keep people animal-free for the long-term.

Not even their own health is a big enough factor for them to control their lust.

> “The latest findings once again show that a message focused on reduction instead of elimination of animal products may be more effective to create an overall decline in animal product consumption,” the report says. “Advocates would be well advised to soften their appeals to avoid suggesting the choice is all or nothing.”

I wonder if those vegetarians/vegans that returned to eating animal products returned 100%, or in a reduced manner. That's the really interesting bit unfortunately missing from the article. If people reduce their animal products usage with, say, 50% vs someone going vegan for a few months and then returns to animal products with a 50% reduction, they will ultimately have had a bigger impact than people "only" doing the reduction. Personally, all the vegetarians/vegans I know that have gone back have done it because it was too hard in social settings, but the experience have resulted in them reducing their use of animal products to "rarely" or "at social occasions" or "when it's not hard to skip on it", and that's a pretty big reduction.
> Too many people slip up once and feal that they are carnivores again.

Well, aren't they?

If you have a moral conviction for abstaining from meat, shouldn't that be enough to keep you coming back to your straight and narrow?

Humans have eaten meat for so long that it's engrained into our biochemistry. I imagine that trying to adjust to a diet that isn't based in our evolutionary framework requires some form of personal conviction and a social structure that reinforces it.
Is San Francisco Becoming the New Silicon Valley?
So, their breaking up the monolith? Hold on to your hat!
I find it very useful. It is constructive criticism to help a startup in their related field develop further, and includes helpful links to examples. Anyone can see it is an implicit call for any form of cooperation the two organizations might find mutually beneficial; and it ends with a best of luck wish, showing that there is no animosity. We might be "just happy", but both parties here can be happy and keep working at the same time.
Edit: The whole comment was wrong, so I am removing it
Post from 2014 linking to research that is no longer available.
Weight limits, clearances, weight stations, truck routes, city boundaries (transporting material restricted in a city?)...

There is a whole host of features that are trucker specific. Trying to reconcile the hard copy guide for the possible route and a phone based route planner is something I don't want to imagine.
New Online Data Science Tracks for 2017
It might be temporary as they split the UI (the cli tool docker) and the new moby library.

Seems like a move made in a rush. It would have been better to spin out the dependencies of docker into moby instead of moving the project back and forth.

Agreed that it is very confusing at this stage.
Wait is there actually demand for something that...I guess powerful? Applying ML to Selenium selectors seems like some truly massive overkill.

Not to mention dynamically generated tests at runtime. I'm not really sure how that would solve the problem of a weak locator. If you're given explicit inputs and they're weak enough to break then building a reliable test from that seems a tremendous challenge.

I love that you guys are having a go at this problem. I do this kind of regularly. The claims of being faster to write due to not having to figure out locators doesn't seem to hold water though.
I think I see where you are coming from and I disagree. I don't think that whether or not the memory is "reclaimable" is an important detail.

When going to fix a performance issue or otherwise reduce memory usage the process to fix it is largely the same. Some programmer needs to understand the code in question at least well enough to mentally model its use of resources. Then that programmer needs to find a flaw and either prevent the allocation or clean up after the allocation.

Whether or not it is "reclaimable" doesn't play a major role in the problem solving process. Both can be hard to find and both with bring an application down if left unchecked. Both need cleanup or prevention. There are tools to find both kinds of issues.

Which tool is one of the first differences a programmer might see, but I think it is hard to argue that choosing between valgrind and a memory profiler is a deeply interesting issue that warrants separating these kinds of issues.
If only you had a Linux client ...
The new README[0] is in a pull request[1].

[0]: https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/moby/README.md

[1]: https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/32691
I have a ton of respect for Steve Ballmer. My intent is good fun.

The humor for me hinges on "[Mr Ballmer] thought it made sense to first ... government" implying he sees it as a necessary sequence for him to dig into the data and he wasn't satisfied with the data he had access to. It also humors me that it reads like he doesn't consider the initiative itself being philanthropic. Yes, I do enjoy that it also allows for words to be put in Mr Ballmer's mouth for some darker humor: Mr Ballmer believes it's the role of the government. And Mr Ballmer couldn't find any of the numerous paths paved with objective analysis that he could use to get more involved in philanthropic work.

Of course, none of these interpretations match reality. I do like the intro coming across, at least partially, as normal geek thinking. I like that the About hasn't yet been PR distilled.
You say you mean to go and then 99.99% of the time you don't. When I mean to attend a meetup, I RSVP "Yes". I presume you do too.
If you can't make it, please be courteous and release your "yes" RSVP so that people on the waitlist can get in and so that the organizers can plan more accurately.
If you aren't likely to make it in the first place, please don't RSVP "yes" for the off-chance that you feel like going - please wait until you know you are going for certain to update your RSVP.

A good organizer knows this is statistical. Only a certain percentage of people show up in any given 'open' social meetup event. I've been going to these for years and the organizers tend to account for that. I'm surprised programmer-organizers wouldn't be even more keen on the statistical and probability aspect of organizing headcount.
As a personal anecdote, I was a vegetarian for ~3 years from late in high school to junior year of college. It was definitely a valuable experience that afforded me much perspective into my diet, the diets of others, and food in general.

When I started eating meat again it was under a vague condition to eat "good" meat, that is, either cooked fresh by my mother, or from a higher-end restaurant. This eroded a bit and after a year or so I was back to eating meat relatively unabashedly again.

A few days ago I spent my entire Saturday vomiting bile from food poisoning ($CMG is the top suspect), and now I'm back to my post-vegetarianism habits of being careful about the meat I consume. I'm aware of probability and statistics, so this is somewhat irrational in that sense, but I suppose my point is that I'm grateful for the experience I had of being vegetarian and I think everyone should try it for as long as they can.

EDIT: Oh, perhaps the most shocking part of the experience was how few people knew what the difference between being pescetarian, vegetarian, and vegan is, as well as dealing with all manner of assholes who couldn't fathom why anyone would do such a thing to themselves.

EDIT2: As for health, it bears mentioning that I knew a couple people who are/were vegetarians and had much worse diets than many non-vegetarians. Naively substituting a chicken breast for a block of cheese is _not_ healthy!

EDIT3: I made a point of almost never asking my friends to pick somewhere more vegetarian friendly. Almost anywhere, I could deal with. Notable exceptions were seafood restaurants and anywhere in the South of the USA. There's only so many onion rings one can stand!
Not the sort of meetups people are talking about here, but I'm on a bunch of lists and a number of meetup groups where I have never or only rarely attended an event.
Believing that a secular state de-facto ruled by the military is the best option for Turkey is certainly a viewpoint people have. I mostly object to calling that situation "democracy".
startup, memory use, and cpu use are typically the issues.

Of course, atom is a specific case that lagged behind vscode for a while. I have no idea whether that's still true.
Didn't you mean 'veal'? I don't think catholics call you up if you don't go to mass, or you can justifiably call yourself one if you are on your big spring killing spree although you might say you are a a vegan even if you had a BigMac when you were a kid. I'm not sure why it helps to conflate the two. I don't see many similarities other than eating tiny crackers. FWIW I stopped being a veggie because it was just too hard in Aussie and nearly all the veggie stuff was soya based and not much better for the environment than eating meat and I got really sick of bloody pumpkin soup being literally the only veg soup, that and bacon...
A major issue with a lot of vegetarian / vegan diets is that they try to create vegetarian / vegan versions of what are fundamentally non-veg foods. This always ends up with people finding the veg version of something just an inferior tasting version of the 'actual' thing deprived of its primary component (the meat) and seasoned with some moral righteousness.

Instead of this, people should try to design these dishes ground up, and look at vegetarian cuisines around the world (Indian would be a great place to start) for inspiration.
I'm not certain the source of these shielded transactions but the vast majority of value seems to be in unshielded transactions. Transparent value (unspent TX + unspent block rewards) = 1,070,918 while shielded value = 42,588 or around 4% of all value. That sounds like rarely used for transactions of any value to me.
Quando si effettua la ricarica del condizionatore
There was an additional cost of $1.3M quoted, so I assumed they are making the same and the additions to workforce drove up costs
And... wrong. Historically, and presently, humans are primary omnivorous. We evolved eating meat. Moving away from it is a new thing--so to call your species' history a cult is very... odd.
Mylan has a patent on some minor improvement to Epipens. So it isn't just the FDA, they pushed generics off the market.

Mylan flat out admitted that costs aren't any more than $150 per pen when they launched a generic version of their own branded product. Everything above that is clearly them working to get as much price differentiation as possible.
Yup, exactly - thanks for helping me figure it out (euphemism for 'phew, I'm not stupid for disliking all those meetups').

Alas, to my knowledge, nothing even remotely similar like that exists here (or at the places where I lived in Southeast Asia), simply because there are not enough people who would participate, let alone organize/run such a meeting.

Thinking about it, though, it makes sense: Working 100% remotely/being a digital nomad means moving AWAY from places like NY/SF/Boston/Seattle etc. (where the action happens) because they are crazy expensive; This, however, also means moving away from hubs where Python Project Nights are possible due to the sheer number of Python guys.

To have the cake and eat it too, the digital nomad hubs should have enough x (x=Pythonistas, Rubyists, whatever) to able to organize such meetings/hackathons etc. However, once that would happen, prices would skyrocket, and you would have to move again...

I don't want to derail this discussion to a digital nomad problem, so tl;dr: seems like my global location, rather than my attitude or bad choice of meetings is the culprit; To put it other way: living at tucked away islands might be romantic, but it also means no quality meetings... :(
Hmmm... no support for skinned character models (and looks like a lot of design and implementation work required on many fronts before this could support them). As cool as this is that makes it feel like a toy rather than a real product (even 3D that doesn't require humanoid characters tends to require deforming meshes to meet the visual quality bar customers expect).

I wish instead of trying to make their own renderer they had used their considerable react and coding skills and time to create a React UI for Unity3d and/or Unreal, which are what most serious app developers are using to create VR experiences (and which have pretty terrible/minimal/antiquated UI coding frameworks compared to what React offers)
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Austin is also home to two of the most delicious vegetarian burgers: Arlo's and Hopdoddy. Haven't found any that compare and I try one every time I see it on the menu.
Wait, what? This claims there are 133,564 people currently married in the US, out of a population of 321,418,820. That's 0.04% of the population. Are married.
Automatic Data Collection: Database Files and Logical Drives in MS SQL Server
> King and Smith, who are thirty-two and thirty-one, respectively

My wife and I have lived in an RV for the last 5 years. We have met some amazingly strong single full-timers out on the road. It has got to be tough when something happens and you don't know another soul for hundreds of miles.
The U.S. Constitution and its amendments establishes limits to the power of the Federal Government. The obsession with it is that governments tends to overstep their bounds. It's something the lay person can read and point to, and definitively say when the government is doing something it is not authorized to do.
React is what we did in 2016. This is 2017, we use ReactVR.
> ...probably boring everyone to death with their 'meat is murder' views.

It seems to me that this type of attitude is a big part of why people don't stick with being vegetarian or vegan. There's a lot of direct and indirect pressure to conform and people freely make fun of vegetarians (especially vegans), turning their lives into demoralizing memes.

If only we could "live and let live". Then maybe people would feel free to make (and stick with) the choices that make sense to them.
It's the trend line generation, not the data.

What you just said doesn't make any sense and is a post-hoc rationalization besides.

The start and end points are the same between the two graphs.

Actually they are not. The starting numbers (1980) differ between the two charts by ~500,000 deaths.

To say that this nitpick throws shade on the entire project is a bit overstated.

My very first search on the data came up with this. I suppose I could have kept searching but that puts me personally at a 100% error rate. Maybe I'm just really really unlucky, though.
That etymology seems unlikely since Puerto Rican cuisine has nothing that resembles that style of food.