skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I do heroin

If that was a joke, it is in very poor taste.

If that was not a joke, I hope you get help.
When they say node has great ease of asynchronous non blocking IO, they are certainly not talking about vs golang or erlang. As much as the concurrency is fake, as long as _real concurrency_ is not a fundamental business requirement, it's way better than literally no concurrency.
I've heard it referred to as Dev1, which doesn't sound as bad.
I think a variation on this is a key factor of life and culture in engineering - at some point, either what you made works, or it doesn't. You can argue, debate, philosophize and talk, but at the end of the day - there's either a working thing someone else can look at, or there's not.

(I imagine this is true in other places - sales, business, design - it just gets increasingly hard to tell "if it worked")
Is there a gentle way of picking up Emacs?

I've been trying Spacemacs with Evil mode on (I'm a regular Vim user), and I can kind of manage to use it for day-to-day editing and running Make, but it feels like I'm about to be eaten by snakes because I now have to deal with three additional meta key-combos (alt-x, C-c and space-m) in addition to the one I had for i3 (now banished from alt to Win) and I also have to learn escape codes to use my terminal and use them a lot to Vim on remote hosts over SSH.
Taking off my shoes is a key element. Even if I'm not in work, I put my shoes on so I'm ready for the day. I then can take them off and feel relaxed once the kids are in bed. It's a weird little thing I've noticed but it feels awesome in both the morning, putting them on, and taking them off in the evening.
Ha, years ago I was at a girlfriends house while she went out to dinner with an old friend to catch up.

She called me at the end of her dinner on the way back home and said "what are you doing" and I said "Watching cheese making videos on youtube"

She didnt believe me... she came into the room, I was sitting there still watching cheese making videos and she laughed and thought it was super funny.

Yes, I was literally just binging cheese videos on youtube.

great sex ensued.
Why are they poor names? Both Yahoo! and Google are easy to pronounce and easy to remember.
Ask HN: How satisfied are you with the Macbook Pro TB?
I'm in your same age bucket, and when I hear comments like "work smarter rather than just putting in more hours", I wonder if that's not just rationalization for simply not wanting to work longer hours because people in that age group generally have other life obligations, and eventually become overpaid and uncompetitive status.

You can't always work smarter day in day out, and expect to beat someone who is both smarter and willing to put in more hours.
Already subbed! We really might be the same person.
Being result oriented Rustacean, I almost never truly unwind. Only when I panic I let myself unwind.
Read, usually a book (and not on a screen)

Play music

Take a walk
>"others have mentioned that it is a sysadmin's nightmare"

Any examples? If anything I'd expect systemd to make things easier for sysadmins, would be interested in finding out what challenges sysadmins face because of systemd.
I always have a hard time going to sleep at a consistent time; it's much easier for me to stay up a couple of hours later than it is to go to bed even a half hour earlier. The two easiest ways for me to lose track of time and end up amped up at bedtime are programming and gaming, so I set an alarm 2 hours before bedtime to remind myself to stop either of those activities for the night. Then I veg out watching something stupid on Netflix or reading. It works but is definitely frustrating that I have to dedicate such a big chunk of time to winding down.
Well the blocking is a valid concern, since it will end up on the floor in a deacelleration. But her reaction, that's some BS.
Best one in the nordics https://engineering.klarna.com/
I'd normally agree with you, but the top Uranium producers are Canada, Kazakhstan, and Australia. Uranium mining is a first (and second) world problem.
There's another category that fits beautifully with this article. Critical thinking. The article focuses on knowledge domains. It would also benefit from discussing the ability to correlate facts or deduce conclusions based on prior knowledge.

I often talk about domestic violence because it's a fundamental issue of ethics: why all western media outlets only focus on fully grown white women, ignoring government bureaus of statistics that dispel such an obvious fallacy that drives victims to be starved of funding and support based on their sex. What we see is that the ability to critically think, to correlate information, to ascertain truth (even when presented with hard numbers from an authoritative source such as governments) is compromised.

There's a deeper issue beyond knowledge domains. Is this linked to a change of emphasis/importance in our virtual society? Are we becoming encyclopaedias of partial truths (ie. knowing lists of discrete information without aggregation and without deeper understanding)?

The Internet opened up a new world. There are many fewer older people on the Internet. That collective wisdom that comes with age is often lost. I don't know if it's this collective loss of knowledge on the Internet, whether it's Facebook's filters that only tell a person what they want to hear, whether it's information overload, or a combination of factors that appear to have changed our focus from gathering knowledge to gathering information.
My worst united experience was when they wouldn't let me take on my carry on, which had an iPad in it because I had planned to take it out on the flight. They checked it and I watched from the plane as the flight crew picked the thing up and slam it down. The attendants at the gate were totally unsympathetic when I showed them my destroyed iPad, at first denying that it was possible that the flight crew would abuse luggage that way, and then blaming me for not properly packing it. I wasn't even looking for money, just some kind of apology would have been nice.
You are correct. I vaguely recall seeing a study that concluded that rural kids at the top of their class were much less likely than urban kids to go to college and, iirc, a factor was that they were much less likely to know about scholarship opportunities. So, they just did not think it was possible because they did not have the money and never even looked into other options since those other options were essentially unimaginable. They and their entire social network were drastically less likely to think college was a viable option and, so, their education ended at 12th grade.

This is a real problem not only for the rural youth essentially cheated of opportunity, it is also a problem for a nation missing out on untapped talent.
Minecraft, Factorio, and Netflix
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> The only shortcoming of e-reading, in my opinion, is the inability to display the books you've read and the books you want to read somewhere in your home or office. You can tell so much about a person by their library. I've been testing some solutions to this problem.

1. Can't re-sell, 2. tend to be significantly more expensive to begin with (no used market), 3. annotations, footnotes and such tend to be much worse, 4. often have severe formatting/editing issues (see: all the 1-star reviews for many books on Amazon, which are often full of "book's fine, but don't get the kindle version, it's terrible"), 5. lending can be tricky 6. two-pages-at-a-time and page-flipping is a really stellar interface that e-readers don't even come close to beating, 7. relatedly, use of spatial memory help with real books in a way they don't in ebooks, 8. on that line of though, shelved books aren't just for showing off: they can aid memory, and their arrangement can even help with finding related content and with learning (my literature is arranged chronologically for those reasons—I learn and reinforce some information just by existing in the same room as my books, basically), 9. can only have one book active per device. Switching is a PITA.

Ebooks' main selling points AFAIK are 1. space (admittedly a huge advantage!), and 2. full text search (OK, but not that great—there's such a thing as an index in most books for which this is seriously important, which will usually be better than full-text search). They're worse in just about every other way (though, again, the space thing is really nice)
I still think kite based systems have a ton of potential.

I've also designed a super low cost wind power system anyone can just stick in their yard. Basically a flat wide pole you stick in the ground that the wind blows up and down. (Think wind blowing across a grassy field). I need help with engineering to make any more progress though.
OK, how about: I would not like ants crawling my room the same way as I would not like cockroaches crawling my room. But I don't mind using Apache Ant.

Or, for a not-exactly-elegant name: Ubuntu 4.10 Warty Warthog. You are launching a brand-new Linux distribution, why not call it after a warty wild pig. Worked OK for them.
Ask HN: Cheapest ways to do political polling? (For drug policy)
I'd like to run some state by state polls to see where drug decriminalization ballots could pass, if anywhere.

Are there any cheap ways to do this?
They still like freedom it seems
I submitted these links to display early 2000's thinking about race. You'll note that the two articles display diametrically-opposed viewpoints.

One point that is often missed in discussions about genetic relatedness is that the markers most useful for discriminating between racial groups are in so-called 'junk DNA' regions. For genes that relate to protein function (and thus, organismal function), humans vary little,

Here's a quote from the Cooper article:

The success of microsatellite loci in classifying persons according to continental group depends in part on the cumulative effect of minor differences in the frequencies of common alleles and in part on the effect of population-specific alleles. In neither case is it apparent that such differences have relevance for traits that are important to health. Most population-specific microsatellite alleles are unlikely to be functional; rather, like a last name, they merely help to verify the geographic origin of a person's ancestry. Accumulated small differences in common alleles will yield differences in population risk only if a disease is caused primarily by interactions among multiple loci, and this is both mathematically and biologically implausible.
"Worlds first" seems to be exaggerated [1]. Nevertheless this may become very interesting as power2gas becomes commercially feasable with cheap solar power like the 2.4ct/kWh farms in Dubai. Transporting gas from the farm to the user and transporting CO_2 back might be one option, carbon capture another.

[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2091214-first-commercia...
Besides that there is a high level of fraud in small-time property management. Crooked managers have kickback arrangements with their preferred vendors for landscaping, appliance repair, painting, etc. The property owner pays full retail price for the work and then the manager gets cash back under the table. Many managers are 100% honest but it's difficult to know whom to trust and there's no way to really be sure.
Neil Young’s high-quality streaming music service will be called Xstream
"The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” — Bertrand Russell
I finally got into emacs using the prelude distribution - https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

It has sane defaults and contextual tips that help when you're getting started (and can turn off later).
I've always wondered why we don't combine wind and solar on the same land. The shadows from the turbines would be negligible and you could reuse the same electrical hookups and wiring.

In fact you could raise mushrooms under the solar panels and get triple use of the land.
Here is my crazy idea that I want YC to fund: a Sock Printer.

I want to come home and have a brand new pair of socks printed (woven) for me by a bot...

I looked around on the internet for "sock machine" and its derivatives - but the best I could find was one machine that was super industrial.

Nothing feels better than the first time you put on a brand new pair of socks.

SockPrinter.com!
You need to look farther than the sources you are quoting then. I would suggest talking to people who have lived in both countries.
I find that this article, even that it is interesting, it tries to shift blame again.

United wanted four seats for their airline staff who had to cover an unstaffed flight at another location. And then decided to remove some of their customers, that had paid for the fly.

To add Dr. David Dao case to the others is a misclassification of the situation, and it assumes as true the narrative of the company that "they didn't have any other option than to remove this passenger".

The article is interesting anyway, and worth the read.

> Not everyone wants a free drink for the trouble, however, and airlines have typically had little else to offer angry people in the moment.

Sometimes United Airlines is not even able to act after the flight:
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2016/08/what_...
It's amazing that you're being downvoted. Heroin takes many lives daily and for someone to nonchalantly act like it's no bigger deal than having a beer is as naive as I could possibly ever imagine anyone to be.

Edit: I guess as a disclaimer, seeing as I'm being downvoted too, I should mention I was addicted to opiates for many years
Try a drinking a chamomile tea 30mins before bedtime.
The original https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14170041 was much more about how Disqus was awful, not much about how GitHub Issues comments are a great solution. They're not. There are much better solutions than GitHub Issues comments.
KY is definitely behind (being from there). But they have started an initiative to get fiber out to the backwoods areas. The initiative, called "Kentucky Wired", is going to start with outfitting the backbone against major highways, then push out from there.

http://kentuckywired.ky.gov/Pages/index.aspx

Not sure how efficient it is at the moment, seems pretty slow going. I get all the ads for "Fioptics", but the best speed that is offered in my location is 10 MBps :\. But supposedly it is actively underway to connect the state with increased internet speeds.
I know very few people who actually put in lots of hours and who do productive work. It's just that at first, you have to put in more time to find what you're good at. In many non-US cultures, overwork is a symptom of bad time management and incompetence.
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Some players end up being non-transitive though.
Slightly OT, but I've become convinced that the real purpose of airport security checkpoints is to put travellers in a compliant frame of mind.

Everything about the checkpoint screams "WE CONTROL YOU", from the forced removal of clothing (shoes, hats, jackets) to the submission pose in the scanner (hands up over the head).

I have mixed feelings about this: one the one hand it is quite humiliating, but on the other, if it makes a potentially difficult traveller more humble and easier to deal with it's probably worth it.
Bookmarked to research.
That's funny because I work in shorts and flip flops almost daily during spring and summer.

But I agree. Changing clothes or a quick shower helps a lot.
6 reasons why Bitcoin & Blockchain are the next big thing in 2020
"I asked several airlines to enroll me in any deescalation classes they had. None responded, so I signed up for a course in middle English literature at my local community college. Here is what I learned about being a flight attendant from Chaucer."
but with less sun, because we cant be bothered to put on sunscreen
With Libgen being around, i feel like the problem mentioned in the article partially sorted itself out(assuming the higher quality/use books go to libgen). So we've got the data.

But the layer above, the application layer, could use much more work. It won't happen in the legal realm[1], but i wonder what kind of amazing things we could achieve if we found a way to create a wide and deep developer ecosystem around Libgen, dedicated to help make this data useful?

[1]Altough i think the focus of the legal project is a bit all-or-nothing, and if Google had decided to focus only of subset of books(which it can get legal rights), and create the best applications possible, they could create a ton of value.
Auto mod. Headaches for mods don't exist because it's just a website and not a job.
You also can't verify that the CA isn't rogue.

Or that the browser vendors that trust the CA the signed the certificate aren't just puppets for our lizard overlords.
But who and how will you limit the babies? For example, babies from the Middle East will outpace European babies by a large number. Should Europe limit immigrants' ability to conceive? If so, how? Would you force sterilization? Would you trade money for sterilization? This general idea is fraught with moral problems.
No, that is completely wrong, but admittedly it's a fairly uncommon situation so the confusion is understandable. Singapore is quite unique in that it's such a tiny city, the government has very tight control over land use, and as such has historically acted as a gigantic real estate developer. It has seen its mission as providing cost-effective and yes, sometimes subsidized, housing for its population, and the program to manage this is known as the HDB.

Over 80% of the population live in HDB-provided apartment housing. However, the vast majority of those residents own their own apartments, having purchased them from the government (and yes, certain subsidies can apply - up to perhaps 30% the fair value of the property). It's public housing only insofar as it was developed by the government - certainly not free or nearly-free as the phrase might imply in other countries, so it's quite a misleading term to use.
I lived there for ten years. I ran businesses, paid taxes, and even filed taxes for the companies I ran. It is not misinformation. What is misinformation is Americans claiming that they know about what is going on in countries they have never lived in.
I remember that when people started to use GitHub for other things besides code GitHub released a blog post telling it liked the idea, and started to display formatted CSV, YAML front-matter, GeoJSON, PDF and who knows what else.
That's true, Discus is pretty bad. That said, I really enjoy GitHub Issues-like comments. They're simple and get the job done just right.
I found starting from a vanilla Emacs and installing evil mode myself was much more gentle than jumping straight into spaceman.
Keep in mind that from an architectural perspective, Emacs is mostly a LISP interpreter, with a text editor implemented in it. As such, not only did it involve refactoring application code, but the core language as well.
How many birds do coal plants poison and kill? I bet you never thought about that simply because those deaths aren't violent and sudden.
And why did they have to call it "Jessie"? That's the code name Debian used for their 8.0 release in 2015.

Come on... if you're going to fork a distribution, use different release names.
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not sure what is up with the opening picture - a guy with a service dog and supposedly allergic to dogs woman next to him. This is exactly the job of the flight attendant is to arrange another seat for either of them to put a distance between the dog and the allergic woman. Yet it seems that flight attendants aren't doing their job. One can see how such a situation has the potential to develop on its own in the direction when the flight attendants would have to use their "dealing with you" skills.

It is very noticeable trend everywhere - instead of learning the mindset of how to help people they serve, private and public organizations' employees are trained to "deal with" the subjects of their authority.
Try polio.us maybe?
Goddamnit, the truth in this is really depressing.
But you need the commenter to have a GitHub account.

Yeah, that's not too bad anyway. Otherwise you would need them to have an account on your site, or on Disqus.
Uninformed speculation: maybe because the places where it's windy are not necessarily the places where it's sunny (and vice versa).
The author admits "No airline would sign me up" for the class... So it not really what the airlines teach directly.

Anyway, what I don't understand is why dont the airlines simply inform an unruly passenger that (we) Will prevent you from flying our airlines for xxx months, starting after this flight. It is a safety issue. If you comply with our direction then you can continue to fly with us.

So the lady that brought her own drink will be denied future boarding or purchasing.

I work in a craft which I am the final and only decider of my safety. And if some jerk screws with me I refuse service.
The public benefit of searching the books isn't fully realized, alas, until more than just Google can see all of the text. Here's an example of a book discovery tool built using the Internet Archive's scanned book collections:

https://blog.archive.org/2016/02/09/how-will-we-explore-book...

https://books.archivelab.org/dateviz/?q=Gregorian+Calendar&y...
“Millennial savages me on Glassdoor for giving constructive feedback”
Only if you kill all cows. Or most farmed animals. I'd be interested in numbers around emissions created by now trying to produce enough produce for the world.
This is the branch to watch for guile-elisp: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/log/?h=wip-elisp

Last thing I heard was that Guile-Elisp (and by consequence Guile-Emacs) is working, but very slow. That can be fixed but requires work. Also, Emacs internally uses a different string representation from Guile. This makes the transition between languages tough and some more glue is required.

IMHO Guile-Emacs is "nearly there". I.e. with just a little more work it could have enough momentum and attract developers to be on the trajectory of becoming the default elisp implementation in the long term.

Having the new Guile 2.2 VM drive Emacs would definitely improve things. And the C-codebase could become considerably smaller and cleaner.
The gap between those two technologies is larger than you suggest.

Horse carraiges: 1400
Automobiles: 1890
I don't know about the US but here in the UK the windiest places are often not the sunniest. High, windy ground often means mountains pushing up air and moisture and creating clouds and things, and hilly, angled ground means panels may not be able to face the sun for much of the time.
It's hand written WebGL. You can find it on GitHub: https://github.com/egraether/mine3D
The main selling points of e-reading for me are the ones I listed previously:

1. I can get a new book immediately instead of visiting the book store or waiting for Amazon.

2. I can effortlessly take highlights and notes and then access those annotations through the cloud. I can't stand trying to write in the tiny margins of physical books and even if I did, I'd rarely reference my own notes because it's so much more laborious.

3. I can read at night without needing the light on (i.e., while in bed with my sleeping spouse). This is my main reading time. More generally, the form factor is better while lying down (and to the point above, I can still take notes).