skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent a long summer in 1998 researching the life of Mr Pirsig. Here is some little known trivia - some of the years when he disappeared, were spent in Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, India) with Prof Mukherjee (head of the philosophy department) learning about Indian (Hindu) philosophy. I met Prof MUkherjee, who was retired by the time I went looking for him. I tracked him down and asked him if he remembered Mr Robert Pirsig (I took a picture that I had printed from the internet). He told me about a curious "American fellow" who used to "audit" the classes in the philosophy department, hang around the library and the canteen - and would seek him out to have discussions with him. He said that he was very quiet and nice guy.

Interestingly, Prof Mukherjee had no idea that Mr Pirsig has written this cult book or that he was a famous author/philosopher. To him, he was just an odd student (because of his age).

I wrote about this in our campus newspaper - but no one cared. I thought that I was the only fan of Mr Pirsig in this small town in India. Once I found the internet I discovered that I wasn't alone. It was a great feeling.

Anyway, i was very proud that he went to the same university that i went to. It was exciting to learn that in 1998! Also, while i didn't fully get the philosophy-the father and son journey in Zen really meant a lot to me while growing up.

Edit: by the way, Prof Mukherjee is mentioned in his book "Lila", and that is how I found him.

Edit2: "Lila", the name of Mr Pirsig's second book, seems to have been inspired by his stay in Varanasi (India). In Sanskrit, the word Lila is "a way of describing all reality, including the cosmos, as the outcome of creative play by the divine". Someone on Wikipedia also seems to have made this connection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lila:_An_Inquiry_into_Morals

Edit3: I spent the last hour digging into a 15-year-old hard drive (oh, what painful fun). I found a folder with my notes on Robert Pirsig! Most interestingly, my meeting notes with Dr. Mukherjee. I gave him the book and he flipped through the chapter for 20 minutes reading the sections I had underlined (where his name was mentioned). This frail man of seventy, said with a smile on his face: "He must not have been an attentive student. I never taught him this way". Most of the notes are about him reminiscing about the "golden years" of the philosophy department when according to him many great philosophers came to visit and study at the philosophy department at Banaras Hindu University.
A new report reveals Obama misled the public about a quiet giveaway to Iran
I do the same, and in addition the phone sits face down on my desk, to prevent me getting distracted by the notification led.
I'm looking for something more directed, less trial and error. Form of sensing and cohesive testable theories (less statistical)
You don't have to guess, there are plenty of polls. He is historically unpopular.
Why would you downvote it in the first place? That's exactly how John in the book struck me. I'd even argue that it was kind of the point of the section that was quoted.
Exactly, if you want really fresh squeezed juice, there are plenty of options with about the same shelf life as these juice packs. There's zero value-add in this product compared to stocking up on a week's worth of fresh-squeezed juice.

In fact, the nanny-scans of the QR-codes that make the machine occasionally go "NO" is of negative value to the consumer.

Imagine buying a bottle of fresh juice, and on the third day you can't open the bottle any longer because it's past the expiry date. And imagine paying $400 for the "privilege" of this. Complete WTF.
I'm glad you wrote this as it is far more coherent than I was writing in my head while walking to the metro station.

To give an example of the type of competition an Isp upstart would face, just look at what happened with google fiber. That was a legal battle every step of the way for them and the incumbents defended against google's deep pockets. You have to have a heck of a defense to fend of a Google invasion. Yes, local government regulations played a role in this, but they blocked federal attempts to unravel the mess of regulations that allowed entire cities to be Comcast cities or time warner cities, and people argued it was a good thing to stop this.

Look at the few cities that can and do offer municipal broadband - competition thrives and consumers have good choices, and the big three have to play ball to get customers; rolling out new lines, better speeds and prices, no caps. Tacoma, WA has municipal broadband and it's great; you have lots of options, including Comcast and century link if you desire. And it's this way because of the municipal, not in spite of it.
Do we know which "third party app" had the vulnerability?
Wikipedia has pretty much ruined the encyclopedia by driving it down to the lowest common denominator. I look forward to them doing the same for news.
>Did you have to impersonate someone who's supposed to have access to it in order to watch it? That seems more like the question that would decide it.

Is it impersonation if I just don't go in wearing the opposing team's colors? What if I go wearing the playing team's jersey? What if I'm the coach of that other team so I wear a hat and sunglasses? Where's the line of "impersonation"?

This can't be taken as an absolute unless we concede that we must say "OK" just because they say "Please don't", even if they're able to find a way to make this technically legally binding.

Morality does NOT require us to give up as soon as someone tries to block us.

>"Because they don't want you to" is a bad way to phrase it, even if it gets to the core of things. After all, they wrote their license agreement based on what they want you to do, right?

Sure. I'm not disputing that this was almost definitely a technical violation of the CFAA. The CFAA is a disgustingly overbroad and outdated law, and Lyft finagling their process to get under its cover shouldn't be a moral indictment of Uber. [The bright side of this is that if similar lawsuits start coming out against some other big players, the law might finally change.]

Are licensing agreements automatically eval'd into moral absolutes? If we take such a strict position we can never win against any moderately powerful entity.

The path to ascendancy for most companies involves "avoid a lawsuit", because frequently there are laws on the books that could take them down. Google is a great example; their conduct technically violates the CFAA and rampantly violates copyright, even though the courts ended up giving them a pass in Perfect 10 v. Amazon because they're afraid to shut down Google.

>Are you going to argue that Uber's devs could've had that theoretical conversation without being intentionally deceptive?

I'll argue that it doesn't cross the threshold from "deception required to be basically functional in a competitive environment" into "immoral and personally compromising deception".

When you enter business, you know you are entering a competitive market where part of the game is getting an advantage over your competitors, and their attempting to do so over you. Concocting a complex legal apparatus that gives some meat to any potential lawsuit between competitors is routine. It doesn't affect the morality of the process, despite the theatrics of the court.
I generally end up just making one or two simple dishes a week with lots of leftovers.

Old standbys: One jar tomato sauce, one pound ground turkey, some peas, cook it all together and pour over pasta. One large yellow onion, bit more than a pound of chicken, three or four bell peppers, stir-fry and serve on rice.

Each of those makes about half a week of meals (not counting breakfast) using exact multiples of the unit size of the ingredients in the grocery store, so nothing gets a chance to go bad.

I too would be quite interested in how to design a recipe structure for less waste without that sort of restriction, though.
I understand not disclosing the vulnerability itself, but if they won't even disclose the affected library's name then they are being grossly irresponsible or are under an NSL. If they are under an NSL and not just being irresponsible that would mean the vulnerability is part of one of the stolen NSA exploit kits.

If I use the library, and it is non-essential for my business, then I should know what it is so that I can remove it.
"I do experience with React, but none with React Native."

Oh
Why did this need to be leaked? Seems kind of ho-hum to me, but I'm no sort of expert in international relations.
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Interesting.

Carrots/Vitamin A were credited with the RAF shooting down enemy planes in WWII - Apparently a cover story for radar.

http://gizmodo.com/carrots-improve-your-vision-is-a-wwii-lie...
The high cost is due to regulations, laws, permits, and lawsuits. Actually laying cable is not that expensive.
Digital transformation
Hey... I'll soon be 50. I've been an engineer, architect, and a VP. I still write code. And why would I stop? Writing code is fun.

Does a driver stop driving at age 40? Or a Dr. stop being a Dr.?

I can identify bad patterns both in code and designs as well as teams that escape many younger engineers and managers.
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I can relate a lot to what you've described; I've always felt uncomfortable in large social gatherings, especially with people I'm not familiar with. When interning at the company I work full-time at now, I knew of several interns who acted like you described (i.e. getting lunch with random coworkers from different departments), and I never felt comfortable to do the same. In my experience as an intern, it matters more to make connections with your mentors/teammates who you're working with over the course of your internship, since they're the ones who'll be providing the majority of the meaningful feedback that determines whether you get a return offer. That being said, it can be worth going out of your comfort zone sometimes! Meeting new people is something that will happen a lot over the course of your career, so my advice would be to focus on making a good impression when you do happen to meet new people rather than going out of your way to make a bunch of connections. Barring a toxic work environment, you'll do fine as long as you have a good relationship with your teammates and immediate superior and don't actively alienate anyone else.

(For what it's worth, I've seen quite a few threads like this that seem to get responses saying that the OP has such and such psychological condition; it kind of astounds me how so many people a feel that it's prudent to provide a stranger with unsolicited medical diagnoses based on a couple paragraphs they posted on the internet. You're under no obligation to respond to them, so feel free to disregard them if you'd prefer to.)
Wow, Facebook sure has gotten worse with the login nagging over the years. Several layers of prompts are trying to break through my ad blocker. It didn't use to be this bad.
You need to ask on the Google issue tracker, not HN.

This is the outstanding ticket: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35904767
> there are plenty of polls

You mean the same polls that were 100% sure that he wouldn't win? [1]

[1] https://i.imgsafe.org/ed39a859e5.jpg
I went into product management (not people management) because I was tired of being a cog just implementing other people's ideas. Admired the product managers as "deciders" and wanted that creative aspect. Little did I realize it'd simply mean writing requirement documents for other people's ideas. Project management is similar: Executing the schedule for other people's ideas. Unfortunately it's pretty rare in the corporate software world to actually get to create something yourself end-to-end.
And if your internet is down, or their service is down, or Amazon EC2 is down, no juice for you!

Why would anyone want that in their lives?
The key difference between throwing and bowling is that a bowler's elbow must not extend or hyperextend at an angle greater than 15 degrees during the bowling action.[1]

If interested in cricket analytics there are two very nice R packages available to support this.[2][3]

Cricsheet is a good source of data.[4]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_(cricket)

[2] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/cricketr/index.html

[3] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/yorkr/index.html

[4] http://cricsheet.org
There is definitely a possibility DMT takes you to another dimension.
That's about what I thought. That recessed fillet makes me think someone clicked "fillet" in Autodesk Inventor, not realizing what it does to the machining time. The machined parts seem to have machined features on all sides. I wonder how many setups that takes. If they'd designed it out of thick flat plates, the plates could be cut on a water jet or plasma cutter, or machined with one setup on a 3-axis mill.

I haven't done injection molding, but I know that making the molds is the expensive part. Once you've made the molds, making parts is cheap. If there was an overoptimistic market projection, the mold cost per part would seem low.

There's a fairly common arrangement for presses where a motor drives a worm gear which drives a ring gear with a threaded or ball screw hole. Here's a consumer-appliance grade version from China, used in an oil press, pasta extruder, or juicer.[1][2] $2 in quantity 500. The first thing to do in mechanical design is to find out what you can buy.

[1] https://honestmotor.en.alibaba.com/product/1971456634-222573...
[2] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/220v-dc-worm-gear-mot...
What the hell? I'd much rather have a take home assignment than some abstract question on data structures.
I agree that the stress level of C jobs does not compare to the mean. It must be nice not to have to stress about a mortgage, kids college, affordable healthcare and all the other things that ordinary people in western society struggle with.

I think a lot of people would trade stressing about their families financial well being with the needs of the shareholders. I'm not saying it is not a tough job but at the end of the day I don't think CEOs stress compares to regular middle class people just trying to get by.
Right, thanks. In this case I can't tell difference between parody and the actual statements by DPRK News.
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Are you saying that news media aren't doing more than just adding opinion to facts? Opinion does play a role but the main function and purpose of news media is to contextualize facts which would be useless when presented out of context. This process may introduce some bias but it doesn't have to.
> That is, the drug dog who has been right in the past is one we listen to in the future

If we're in a situation where we get good data about what's right, we can just do science and it doesn't really matter what authorities or dogs think.

The place where you need non-scientific epistemologies is when you don't have good feedback data.

And sometimes even when there is data, bad predictors can mutually self reinforce. Racist cops arrest more black kids, more black kids get convicted, that proves racist cops are good predictors of criminality. It's not true, but the data says it's true.

It's equivalent to a scientist doing many studies and only publishing the ones that are positive. The stats only work for independent measures but nothing is independent especially when you are using predictions to make policy.
He mentions a Microsoft Office bug that's been around since the 80s. Is there any more information about this?
Sure, let's do whatever we can to sabotage, because it's just the nature of competition...
It's an important concept but it's not marginal utility. Marginal utility is the degree to which adding one more of something will exceed the cost of doing so.

To stick with the motorcycle analogy, suppose I am designing a motorcycle as a manufacturer and I find that it takes 6 bolts to securely fix the engine to the frame. If I use fewer, accidents are very likely to occur, I will get sued, sales will collapse. As it is, accidents will still occur once a year - but that's the industry average (let's say) so I can pay out compensation for that one accident without seeing any real impact on sales. (I have magic litigation insurance so my liability costs are totally predictable for this example.)

Suppose each bolt costs me $10. If I add 8 bolts, the risk of failure drops to zero. I calculate the cost of accident involving my bike, divide it by the number of bikes I expect to sell, and I find it's about $25 per bike; installing those two extra bolts creates $5 of marginal utility or 2.50 each so I go ahead and do it.

Should I not go ahead and add 1 more bolts? No, because it will cost an additional $10 for no noticeable increase in safety, so the marginal utility is -$10.
Nothing is ever completely bulletproof. The real question is whether this is better than or a useful addition to the more traditional news media. I think there is a good chance that it will be.
I do have a fair bit of business experience, including seeing how destructive anti-competitive behaviour (both others and my own) can be. Successful businesses have lots of customers, and customers like the businesses they patronise to behave fairly.

So although you are right that it's a competitive world, you have to compete fairly - and be seen to compete fairly - or you will drive your customers away. You do need consider what people have been "socialised" to think (which is what morals are, really) because otherwise your competitors will have a significant edge.

Look at it this way. It is beneficial to society for entities (people or companies) to spend their energy improving their own service rather than degrading their competitors', because this results in the best possible service being available to that society. This is what all our anti-competitive laws - and innate sense of fairness - spring from.
> By picking a programmer's problem, you're picking an oversaturated market.

The majority of programmers' ideas on what they'd like to build fall into three categories:

(1) games

(2) tools (a utility, a compiler, etc.)

(3) social version of ______

Yeah, great fortunes have been made in all 3 areas. But every programmer is getting those same ideas, so you're going to have insane competition. In the case of (2), people do those for free. In the case of (3), because of network effect, out of 1000 people that try it, one will be winner-take-all. A good first pass might be to eliminate ideas for games, tools, and social whatnot.

> Make something for parents, old folks, hikers, knitting clubs, etc.

But intersect that list with problems where people are already paying significant money but getting mediocre results.

Eg., old folks pay $3000 for hearing aids, but elderly people often say that the results are awful. For many old folks, it's a speech discrimination problem -- sound amplification is not what's needed. What if you built a system that captures what the senior is listening to, and repeats it back in a slow, smooth, clear voice into his ear in near real-time?

For further refinement, you could eliminate extraneous noises and conversations from the input, use a voice and accent that the old person is accustomed to, and allow for automatic repeating if he tilts his head slightly left.
the tamper window seems to not open half the time leaving after specifying to tamper request headers, leaving chrome waiting for the extension with no way to resume the request
News reports are that six of the nine cars in the train had working cameras.
I managed to make a recurring donation after two attempts.
We weren't allowed to read or do anything but sit in boredom during suspension (school rules)

What kind of fucking school discourages people from reading even if they're in detention. Stories like this make me glad I didn't grow up in the USA.
"Not Java"

Maybe throw in a recursive acronym in there somewhere?
"Trump will never run for President"

"Trump will never make it past the first debate"

"Trump will never win the Republican primary"

"Trump will never win the general election"

(You are here)
There is also the trusty Charles app (https://www.charlesproxy.com/)
But thats the key difference - wikipedia is not the news, and the news is not an encyclopedia.

This is essentially the same sales pitch that gave us bloggers as journalists, which we already know did not create an alternative to the system (well depending on your perspective I guess)

There's many things worth trying, but as I said - this set up solves a problem, just not the problem at the heart of their mission statement
Thanks!! I just bought it a couple months ago and wasn't aware of the matchbook option.
Ok, that's what I thought. Thanks for the reply.