skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I'm sure there is a perfectly valid and rational explananation for why this woman was hit with her own stroller and then a child was physically threatened."

Oh. Okay. Yeah. I bet she was asking for this treatment. Just look at how she was dressed, right? Right!?

While it is cough unfortunate that now you have to see a clearer and less imperfect window into fellow human experience and feel those damnable pangs of empathy ever now and then, this is inevitable.

There are 2 kinds of global surveillance. There is the kind kicked off by the government to quasi-legally spy on anyone at any time for "national security". There is also the kind that is bottom up, the population sharing it's perspectives with itself.

The later has been increasingly influential. It has shown us police brutality. It has debunked ideas that women at the Berkeley riot was armed (and shown Reuters doesn't vet photos very well). It has shown us black citizens trying to stop white antifa activists from starting a riot in their neighborhood. It's shown us Nazis being punched. It reminds us of the lies and about-faces of politicians. It has shown us the poor driving skills of our peers. And that's this month alone.

And on and on.

For all it's flaws, this surveillance led by individuals (who recognize they own their own perspective and have a right to share it) is changing society far more than anything else we've seen in recent memory and it is accelerating.

It's a good thing, on balance
Can a person overcome lack of exercise by eating healthy?

Can a person overcome lack of good nutrition by exercising regularly ?

Exercise goes hand in hand with nutrition IMO. People who exercise tend to eat better and healthier foods.

If someone did not exercise routinely - they could easily improve their health by eating properly!

What is more important? healthy nutrition or regular physical activity or both?!

* And dont forget about about sleep!!!
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I find it interesting that this blimp is called Hover Hammer. I was stationed in Ft Lewis and went to Iraq (OIF II 2003-2004) and as part of a RSTA (reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition) cavalry squadron, our unit had these "Prophet" SIGINT listening devices. They were humvees with telescoping antennas. The antennas would go up maybe 2-3 stories high and they look like this:

https://www.army.mil/article/76623/Soldiers_train_on_upgrade...

The NSA operated a much larger immobile version called the "Prophet Hammer", which there doesn't appear to be much on the internet about:

https://icwatch.wikileaks.org/search?company_facet=Prophet+H...

Given the similarity, I can't help but think that the NSA uses "HAMMER" for their main SIGINT collection hardware. Something to note when reading some of the released documents full of codewords and internal DoD lingo.
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That's in my 1975 copy.
This is an intentionally obtuse position. The quoted commenter is referring to distinct events, not repetition of a single event.
I agree that media has gotten more sensationalist. CNN for example is just horrible. But I would still say that it's not difficult to filter out real facts if you want to. Most people don't want to though.
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This.

There's also a difference between holding your customer's hand and building unsustainable expectations. The only expectation you've built by holding their hand through the onboarding process is that you care about your customers and want them to have a great experience. That's exactly the expectation you want your customers to have. Many startups have been incredibly successful at acquiring customers from incumbent businesses with more features and possibly cheaper products, by simply caring more about people.

At the end of the day there are people using your product (presumably). The more those people feel you care about them and their problems, the more likely they are to give you a little space as your business gets off the ground. Maybe they're willing to tolerate a few minutes of downtime, the occasional bug, or missing feature, because they know that they're always going to be treated well by your team.

Cultivating strong customer relationships is a great element in any business, and it's virtually a requirement in modern B2B.
Hell is "other people".

-- Jean-Paul Sartre
Ask someone who is older than 20, everyone remember the trivia sections on many Wiki pages on Wikipedia.

Search for trivia eg on this page:
http://www.slashdot.org/story/91607

It of course not easy to point to older events with a still working link, when 1) Wikipedia deletes it's own history, 2) Wikipedia and trivia are such common words it's hard to find, 3) even news sites change so much.
As someone who is in his fifties, and just took my first real break from the gym in 40 years (2 months off) I can easily say I don't miss it. I still walk to/from work, which is about a 12km round trip, 5 times a week.

And although I have considered never picking up a weight again, I know the benefits of weight bearing exercise and so, sometime this year, will go back to they gym, but less frequently and for a shorter duration.

And never forget that 50% of your health is nutrition.
True, but it's also worth noting that the existence of a newer version of a lib doesn't completely invalidate the older version. For example, Webpack 2 _is_ out, but a Webpack 1 config and setup will still keep working just fine. Ditto for, say, React-Router v3 vs v4.
I would also say that it is essential. On top of that, a site with ToS and privacy policy is more professional and will instil trust. I have just launched a product myself and it took just a couple of hours to have something decent.
Someone with Down Syndrome is (un)lucky enough in your scenario to have wealthy parents and they're forced to go from a comfortable life to state housing?

Someone's estate is theirs to do with what they see fit, including after their death. It is, after all, their property. If they want to donate it to the state or fund a foundation/non-profit, or give it all to their children, that is their right.

The state should not take ownership of my home, my bank accounts, and my assets simply because I die.
It sounds to me like unequal outcomes carrying on from one generation to the next. Despite that, everyone has the opportunity to improve or worsen their situation in life.
Do they have any patents on this technology? Best to speak with a lawyer.

How much traction do you have with your site?
I believe that's basically how Dolby 3d cinema glasses work. https://www.dolby.com/us/en/professional/cinema/products/dol...

I wonder if wearing those glasses out and about would give you the kind of enhanced vision described in this article.

All the 3D cinemas I've ever been to use RealD, which uses circular polarity, rather than colour to separate the images for the 2 eyes, so I've never experienced the Dolby glasses
Ah, business. Cut free time needed to start and raise a family, and at the same time cry how there aren't enough workers and so immigration should be increased [1].

[1] http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/26/immigration-lobbies-spent-...
From reading his story and looking at his artwork, it seems to me that he went off into a feedback loop of making and appreciating a very specific kind of art, which requires a certain mindset from the viewer. It's a danger to anyone who's trying to express themselves as fully as possible. With enough time, you can teach your mind to find depths of meaning in anything at all, so it's sometimes useful to trust other people's first reactions over your own highly evolved (warped) perspective.
I don't think we disagree. I'm not saying you shouldn't go to a gym if you like it, nor that the equipment there is non-functional. I'm saying, it's not necessary for health benefits.

The context of the discussion was the claim that one needs to go to a gym to maintain a healthy regimen of exercise, which I vehemently oppose.

In this context the main goal of exercise is longevity and staying healthy as possible through senescence.

I don't think there is any conclusive evidence of how much muscle mass is needed for better longevity. My long bet is that regular farmers walks with enough weights are enough for that (combined with some body weight exercises like pull ups).

I don't need the gym for my farmers walks. I have a few rubbery bikes handles strapped to 40 kg weights which I lug around outside my house. I have a pull up bar at home. Done. No need to go to gym.

This is partly a lifestyle choice - I don't enjoy exercise, but I've seen relatives go in a bad way after they forgot to take care of themselves for a couple of decades. I want a regimen that provides sufficient benefits, with as few excuses not to do them as possible.
Make sure you're blocking ads and privacy invasive JS trackers. Those account for most of the bandwidth on most sites.
Sure but not through dividends or stock buybacks
Beware of the Diderot effect once you buy those, though!
I have them now in a graph per quarter (90 days), see https://remoteok.io/remote-work-statistics
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you're right, it's not that profound, which should give us that much more respect for Pirsig for pointing it out because most people completely take for granted that context is the kernel of value.
Punishing Germany almost directly led to massive instability in Europe. Helping Germany recover led to extended peace for the first time (ever?) in western Europe. That narrative is the one the western Europeans thank for their stability.
And these personified emojis go completely against the grain of iconification. Graphical icons become more culturally universal the less detailed they are. The standard example is that the :) emoji is seen by everyone as being of their own race, yet we have to have skin-tone variations on these highly detailed sorts of emojis to have the same level of inclusion of the traditional version.

I've noticed this in app stores recently. The vast majority of games have these highly detailed, action oriented icons. It's impossible to pick one out from the other. They all look like they've been made by the same company.

Just because we have high-resolution displays, doesn't mean we have to use all of those pixels.
>yes, in principle, but there is a 2500 year old tradition of Buddhist monks theorizing about it at length.

Yes but presumably those monks are theorizing about it while practicing it daily.

I was referring to western audiences thinking they get something out of reading about Buddhism without any practice whatsoever.

I suppose you get something out of it, but the bulk of the benefits Buddhism can offer come from the practice,[1] not the theorizing.

[1] Mental exercises meant to train the mind to achieve a balanced state (balancing and strengthening attention and awareness) and then using that trained mind to investigate the nature of one's own mind and personality. It is a type of embodied, introspective psychology.
Community ownership is a big thing here in Scotland - where arguably a lot of land was owned collectively before being taken into private ownership (often by rather dubious means) since the 18th century or so:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/david-cameron/scotl...
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At least here in Holland we tend to use 'Nazi' and 'German' interchangeably some of the time, and most of the time in the context of WW2.

The meaning of 'Germans' is much more context-dependent of course, to the point that I've noticed others and myself disambiguate by saying 'from Germany', because 'German' (Duitser) in itself has connotations (similar to jew/jood, or perhaps negroe/neger I guess).

Of course, being Dutch, many people will intentionally opt for the more rude version to get a rise out of people or 'be edgy'.
I really like the Cookie emoji. Seemingly every vendor agrees on it being a chocolate chip cookie, yet Samsung decides it should be a cracker instead.

http://emojipedia.org/cookie/
You're spot-on. They actually used different working shifts as punishments. Technically we were only open 9-5 with limited support staff 24/7 for our website, but some employees had a hard time working and not socializing, so they were asked to come in at off-hours to disrupt the amount of time they shared with other workers. I imagine they're being asked to work from home now, so they have zero face-to-face interactions as another step towards getting them to quit.

We had some employees with a 1+hr commute one-way, so the policy was probably marketed as being nice to them, but I'll bet you're right and it's being used as a punishment for others.
It depends on the site. Most page weight from the stuff you view on mobile is from unnecessary JS libs and ads.
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Uber is spending VC bucks on their development.

They also spend VC bucks funding operations (so their huge losses aren't just because of investments in technology, they are a direct result of operating at a loss).
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These are almost explicitly positions where the location is marked as Remote. Only a few seep through which might say "Canadians only" for example.
So my side project costs about 2 cents in most developed countries and 1 or 0 cents in developing nations.

Is that good? I wish there was some comparison to say the major internet sites.
IMHO pythonic means that you adhere with the principle "there should be one --and preferably only one -- obvious way to do it". And that one way is set out by the BDFL Guido :).

I have theory that, python was introduced out of frustration with Perl.
As we all know, Perl had the principle of TIMTOWTDI.

Another far more tangential and biased theory here: As Python imposes strict programming principles, it resembles Java in forcing the programmer to abide by the styles set out by the language designers. And maybe that's why schools prefer to teach Python instead of Ruby as a scripting language.

PS: I have nothing against Java and I love Python. My theory is based upon Guido's insistence on not opening the language fully to functional programming. I'd like to see better lambdas, functional programming without itertools etc. But I know Guido has his reasons, pythonic code uses list comprehensions instead of FP.
I thought devops was sysadmins that wrote code to maintain and monitor servers. As well as deploy product "packages" to the test/production environments. Therefore it's death is from cloud providers like AWS build tools into their cloud offering that make this need disappear. Maybe this is just from working with SAS 70 compliant companies where there needs to be a clear divide between product development and operations?
Waste of energy, time, resources.

Disgrace.

Frivolity.

Shameful.

A pustule, a wart, a bubo, a carbuncle.

The people who produced this are oxygen thieves.

The clean water and food that have sustained these people would be better spent harbouring anthrax spores.
We can all agree the Web is a giant mess when it comes to efficient bandwidth usage esp for mobile. TCP protocol will restart over with single packet when a packet gets lost rather than optimising for throughput.

The worst offenders are ads and tracking. A fuck ton of bloat that needs to be loaded. Every little action results in a http call. If you visit a page with disqus comments it loads every ad tracker it can find in the world and shove it in your browser.
Is there really a race to build self-driving cars? It seems that Waymo is eons ahead of everyone else.
They are not as separate as you are implying. Alphabet could easily block Uber from using their self driving cars by preventing remote control and then set up their own competing service. Uber could sell their self driving tech to anyone.

However, the reality is Uber is only looking into self driving cars because otherwise it's going to destroy their business long term and they don't want their stock to tank today.
We can throw all sorts of thoughts into the theory pot but ultimately no one knows for sure. Humans are volatile and unpredictable.
Maybe that where i misremembered the quote from and assumed it was a reviewer.

the fact that he pointed it out himself makes me respect the author even more.
This is not cheap Upwork positions. This is companies payinf $200 to $400 for a single job post. Therefore salary is probably in the $2,000 to $5,000 range at least.

Remember many companies use WordPress as part of their website and it might be "part of" the stack.
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Really surprised to see how high up Meteor is on that list. As an early Meteor fan, it felt like its growth had stagnated over the last year or two.
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Hello from GA! If this sort of stuff is interesting to you, keep an eye out at: http://eos.ga.gov.au

And we've just started an engineering blog which might be of interest to the HN crowd: https://tech.ga.gov.au
Sure, a growing dichotomy between rich and poor could be a sign of a meritocracy or it could be a sign of people who's parents have money have a greater chance of success.

Either way in a country as rich as the United States there should never be hunger, fear of homelessness or other poverty generated afflictions we suffer here.

In addition people are born with different cognitive skills, should those born with average intelligence automatically be doomed to lead lives of poverty compared to others?

I'm not advocating asset seizures but we as a nation can do better.
Beyond a few simple techniques (printing values, writing and examining logs, practicing the scientific method) and defensive strategies (asserts, writing good tests, parameter checking, etc.) debugging gets environment-specific pretty quickly. Gronking through a bug in an embedded system is way different from figuring out why your rack of servers has gone dark, though the root cause might be the same.

I've found the best way to learn debugging is to should-surf someone who is good at debugging. For instance, I'd spent six months at Apple before I watched a resident wizard for an hour in the low-level debugger, and what I learned in that hour improved my skills dramatically. Repeat for two other companies: Encounter a tough problem (for you), find a wizard to help out, and pay attention.

I think the sentiment in schools is that sufficiently challenging coursework will force you to learn debugging techniques on your own, as a natural outcome of you writing code :-)
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Yeah, the omission of Aes was pretty bad.
Having read his book the answer is yes, but not exceedingly so for a man of his time. His chapters on wooing dancing girls is not for someone with especially delicate sensibilities. But remember this is during the 40s, 50s, and 60s. Sexism was the norm, in fact it was considered good for society in upper class circles.

It's unfair to be hard on a man for simply living in a different age.
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It never fully clicked for me until I saw it animated
https://www.jasondavies.com/animated-bezier/
Well if you put me in a plastic bag I would also be able to get out by tearing a hole in the plastic bag. That fact doesn't say anything about my ability to metabolize plastic though. I would never even consider the worms were doing anything else but mechanically chewing the plastic.
For every new customer they can sign up that converts, I credit their account with a few free months. It totally won’t scale, but it helps me grow into markets where I can’t physically travel out and do sales in person.

Why wouldn't it scale? It is a great way to make virality.
My fear is MORE urban sprawl, which is even MORE miles of highways to pave and care for, and MORE pollution in the short term until we get very eco friendly powered electric cars.

Commutes are one of the only things that seem to limit urban sprawl.
Uber is also getting their pants sued off by Google for selling self driving car trade secrets. A suit that Uber is more than likely going to lose.
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The issue is that whenever resellers pop up in metropolitan areas with great prices they get aggressively acquired by the big players and prices stay up.
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Do you know why you see things this way? That's interesting.
If you have overlapping GPS info of Lyft and Uber you know it's the same driver. If not, you could still order a Lyft to get their phone number and make them an offer.
Here's what I did for my Chrome extension [1]:

1. Searched the Chrome Web Store, Twitter and Google for users who had said lukewarm or negative things about another extension which addresses a similar user problem in a different way.

2. Searched the same places for people who were clearly interested in the topic of focus and email productivity.

I spent a day or so manually emailing several hundred people in this way. This initial push - and the events that it lead to (e.g. people I contacted recommending the extension to others) - got me 100 WAU within a couple of weeks (and lots of helpful feedback).

(I tried some other things which were much less effective. Listing sites, in particular, were largely a waste of time, though my Product Hunt submission came good when the extension was featured a few months later.)

[1] https://inboxwhenready.org
> 4) Cross post that very same narrative to discussion forums: Facebook, HN, Reddits, Indie Hackers[forum], wherever.

This seems more effective if your primary market is the startup crowd. It could also be distracting if they're not the target demographic and you overvalue their feedback.
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While this might be good PR the real driver of college costs is the ever increasing number of administrators:

By contrast, a major factor driving increasing costs is the constant expansion of university administration. According to the Department of Education data, administrative positions at colleges and universities grew by 60 percent between 1993 and 2009, which Bloomberg reported was 10 times the rate of growth of tenured faculty positions.

- https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/opinion/sunday/the-real-r...
Wish they deployed this in Mountain View. I see like 20 of these a day going around aimlessly. I'd sign up as a customer!
Somehow I doubt this. You think publishers are just going to sit back and let this happen? Either publishers will lobby against this, or they will force exclusivity contracts with universities so that "open source" books are banned.
In today's world you won't pass the interview process as an introvert. You have to come up strong and confident otherwise interviewers (other dev folks) will eat you alive during technical interviews.

Long story short, it has become the most competitive field in the world. The Zuckerberg era is over. You need to talk a lot, friends, an active network, warm introductions, etc to make it pass the interview process. Otherwise you will hear things like "lack of passion", "not a culture fit", etc.
Actually majority of Jewish people in Germany considered themselves as German and didn't want to move to Palestine prior to the holocaust.
I would describe this as "fact-based" economics. Paul Krugman had a good column yesterday[1] pertaining to the other kind of economics, which tends to exacerbate the problems.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/opinion/zombies-of-voodoo...
They've had declining readership for a long time; run out of money and been sold to a Russian billionaire for £1; laid off a lot of journalists; and gone online-only. Also, looking at their front page I assume their writers are being paid per click judging by their choice of stories.

There's no precise way to measure journalistic credibility - but it's clear they've been hit hard by the trends of technology.
Which I'd argue puts them squarely in the 'only human' bucket, and makes this part of history a warning for every single human rather than something exceptional.

Perhaps you agree with me on this; it's difficult to tell from your comment.