skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read it very differently. To me it sounds like the base assumption was that the majority of ideas are worthwhile and not nefarious or damaging, and that he now feels that was wrong.

Anyone who has been a moderator on a public forum, let alone one as big as twitter, can quickly tell you that not all ideas are created equal.

I have said it before on this board of which is moderated, but if every single person spoke their mind the internet would be full of absolute garbage and hate, because those people tend to speak loudest and most often when given the chance.

To be clear I am not for censorship and I want to make sure there is a place for everyones legitimate views. But there is no sense in pretending free speech has to be a free for all. We can dismiss some things as objectively bad. Even a presidential debate has a moderator and there is an expected legitimacy to the discourse.
Ford is losing share – always a scary thing but especially bad in a falling market.

IME, the only way a Board can live with falling market share is if they believe the CEO/company is poised with some "secret weapon" bringing new competitive advantage soon.

Evidently, secret weapons are in short supply in Dearborn.
Interesting, and way more interesting than I first suspected!

I think this is case when you're trying to get new people into your market. Once they're in, they know enough that they do care about the features, but they also care enough to stick around to learn about those features.

It also plays interestingly with the Burning Man ethos. I was expecting an article on lifestyle marketing, which is one of the things the BM ethos is set against: you cannot buy a thing to be a person - but instead the article (to me) points out the sweet spot: Does your product help me be the person I'm trying to be?

The dev-style phrasing is maybe better: Buying products doesn't make me a good developer. Using (good) products clears blockers.

But, is that missing the effect of things that give you new capabilities?
microsoft hardcoded IPs of all its spy^^^value added services. As a matter of a fact DNSCache is one of the services used for uploading telemetry.
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> If you have scripts that read data files, process them, and output more files, consider using a Makefile.

Dear sweet hypnotoad, don't use Makefiles for this. Scripts in a pipeline are perfectly well suited for ETL. They have the advantage of using the same language as the command language (Makefile is not shell, and when it differs it's a significant surprise). Plus, you can drop a script into a dir in your PATH and it will work in any project.

Use make if you have a project which expensively computes assets and reusing partial outputs is possible.

> pushd and popd are useful in shell scripts to temporarily change directories without forgetting where you were.

I would start with

cd - # go back to where I just came from

Which handles most of the pushd/popd use cases (outside of writing a script).

Really, there's a whole separate set of skills for effective interactive shell use & writing great bash scripts (e.g. parameter expansion and history manipulation).
What is the difference between re-publishing the content in some other format which will do formatting well and re-publishing the content using sensible html tags with maybe some embedded minimal stylesheet?

There might be mis-use and abuse, but if you want to avoid that you can always push markdown into the "text" representation.
Yes I presume it was almost surely the last two years (this year or the past two years). The commenter replied and said he read the parent's comments to find the soundcloud account and linked that with the poster of the youtube video.
O_o

Sure, you can technically run C# on a Linux box (eg: Debian), but the last few times I had to (to interface with some point of sale hardware) I literally ended up just rewriting the driver in python. No desire to maintain something so foreign to the rest of the codebase when python can handle serial devices just fine.

Wrt not using a database connector, just why? Your literally locking yourself to the SQL Server licensing model, which blows up when you allow BYOD on every android phone, and they're all connecting back to your SQL server. Postgres and MariaDB meanwhile have no issues. Let alone if you hit the 10GB DB size cap, or need more than 1 cpu core or 1GB of ram to cache your database.
No fan of any news papers and certainly will never understand the slavish devotion to the Guardian as a paragon of truth that exists. I'm also not about to defend the Daily Mail, but what's to say that both weren't independently working on similar articles and the Guardian managed to publish first? Why is the default that they were ripped off? Also, stop reading newspapers! They all lie and pedal fake news, the 'Guardian' included.
>but at the same time, it doesn't explain the popularity of fast food, alcohol, reality tv, and porn.

Alcohol is all about creating a "better version of yourself" (short-term, while under the influence). And in reality tv and porn you watch better looking / more interesting others (porn, reality tv) to lose yourself.
Yes, your parent misrepresented the quote which indeed was about "free exchange of ideas facilitating Trump", but then the co-founder misrepresented what twitter actually is and this is what parent wanted to point out, I think.

As a matter of fact, you can't express any serious idea in 140 characters. Twitter really is a tool for mobilizing and organizing mobs of people who are already somewhat familiar with and supportive of your ideas, which is exactly why all sorts of activists and politicians use it for their campaigns.

What made the presidential campaign on twitter look the way it did was not really deficit of censorship, but fighting a political battle on grounds where there is no space for actual exchange of ideas but only for appeals to emotions and prejudices, personal attacks and name calling.

The conclusion is: if you don't want populism to win, maybe you should be careful building such platforms. And twitter has been known to be conducive to ugly flamewars for years, go read about gamergate. Maybe parent thought that founders regret not the lack of control but the fact they built such a thing, but then it seems you are right that they actually don't.
Since machines can crash, possibly corrupting data, it seems like you still need replication? The network might be the new bottleneck.
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It's difficult to say whether the extended statistics could help with your schema, particularly in Pg10 where we only implemented two simple statistics types - functional dependencies and ndistinct (GROUP BY) coefficients.

Maybe the changes in 9.6 that allow using foreign key constraints during estimation would help, though?
All those trillions of dollars that would need to be spent bettering society instead of .. being spent secretly on who knows what ..
I think you'll also find that some companies don't want to go to your website and pay with Stripe (or anything). They enjoy the good ol' classic "send a check" method.
Primitives themselves to not have methods, maybe you thought about primitive wrapper functions?

Even then implicit conversion to string is special cased for each primitive (you can't call toString on null or undefined, see [0]).

> Why are these new specs getting so error happy?

I believe is called "fail fast, fail loud" principle. Remember Symbols are to be used as unique keys, if you accidentally mixed them with strings you'd lose this uniqueness.

[0]: https://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/6.0/#table-12
People are complex and have multiple mechanisms?

Food might not need any special tricks because we're pretty wired to interpret images into flavors.

For porn - I was going to say: "...when was the last time porn needed ads? - aren't the ads basically a demo?

Alcohol (AFAIK?) advertises on the "mind-share" effect: when you're going to buy something, which is the thing you've heard of the most?

Reality TV is the interesting one - I wonder, what percent of the advertising screen time is spent on audience reactions?
Tooo many ads!

The first thing I see covering the entire screen is not an article heading, but an ad.

Even as I scroll.... another ad covers the article.

As I click the close button.....oh yeah, another ad.

I'd AD-vise you to do something about that.
No, one of the charges is that he started having sex with someone who was asleep.
> There are millions in my country (India) who safely use bicycles, mopeds, and motorbikes.

Every part of that statement is true except for the word "safely". I first got my driver's license in India, drove motorcycles and cars there, and then moved to the US. Based on my experience, as well as publicly available data, I can state as an objective fact that most drivers in India are terrible. You only have to look at the fatalities per million kilometers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r... India is approximately 5x worse than the UK, which is near top of the list. Even taking into account the differences in quality of roads and emergency medical services, that's an _enormous_ difference. To a first approximation, any adult bicyclist in India cycles out of necessity (can't afford anything safer) not choice (again, first approximation; I have a retired uncle who cycles 40km every weekend for exercise). Motorbike and moped-riders are a bit of a mixed bag; some people who can't afford a car, others who prefer it for traffic and parking advantages.

Whenever I visit India, it's astonishing to me the number of risks drivers (of cars, 2-wheelers and trucks alike) take with their own and other people's lives for very little gain. The concept of a lane is alien to most drivers, motorbikes speed like crazy and weave in and out of traffic (even I used to do it when I was younger and didn't know any better), no one ever yields to pedestrians, traffic signals don't work or aren't followed unless there's a cop standing there. I could go on and on.

Lest you think I'm a total wuss, I love cycling in the US and it's my preferred mode of transportation for trips under 10 km. I've done plenty of cycling and motorbike riding in India also. But I would not dare ride a 2-wheeler on public roads in India on a consistent basis anymore. At least not until our driver training, licensing, testing, and enforcement regime becomes much stricter than it currently is.
I wonder if he gets the irony, or he just doesn't get it?

A large part of why people lashed out and voted Trump was their impression places like Twitter censored their point of view.
This should be #1 comment. Nailed it. If "commitment" is holding you back, simply don't commit, but create something without external validation.

I think it also helps to think less in a constant stream of content, but more how TV shows are organized: Seasons and episodes. So you basically start this "show" of 10 videos about X and then you're done with it. No eternal commitment necessary.
Yes, at this point it's manual optimization task - you have to decide which statistics you need (e.g. by looking for poor estimates in query plans) and then create them. Pretty much just like indexes.

The ultimate goal is to allow detecting this automatically, and either create the statistics right away or at least providing some suggestions to the users. That's not in Pg10 though.
I'd call it just another vendor lock-in. Frankly I'm sick of the AWS clone army constantly preaching that spinning up an ECx instance is a better answer than learning "hard stuff" or looking at me like I have a dick growing out of my forehead for not using AWS. Generally it seems to make people lazy and dependent. I don't use it, and will not recommend it because I care about my customers' businesses. Every other 'benevolent' service I can think of which scaled up like that has become a malignant tumor I wish I had never had dealings with. I guess I just won't trust Napoleonic companies again, no matter how nice they may seem. Market share discrimination? lol maybe, but still less fascist than how we rate e-commerce risks, no?
There are many problems with Google's dominance.

1. The Filter Bubble. The idea that you can be shut in your own bubble, not being exposed to new ideas or ideas that contradict your own, is pretty bad

2. The idea that a for profit company becoming the arbiter of truth ( with noble intentions of fighting 'fake news' etc ) is also pretty bad. It can be used for political or economic gain

3. The company has a largely hostage users that they can abuse through predatory pricing etc

The opposition is not towards technology, but towards one company controlling most, if not all, of modern technology
<file-that-doesnt-exist.txt less

You get a blank screen, but if you do:

cat file-that-doesnt-exist.txt | less

You get a nice error message:

cat: 'file-that-doesnt-exist.txt': No such file or directory
I concur. Our initial team was just that. We had an myself (Engineer), A sales/marketing guy, A new Engineer, someone in Ops part-time. The combination made the division of labor so much easier, which directly results in a faster go-to-market.
No news. This is for cloud services. It is not on windows from what I understood.

If it has the side effects of people rolling their own clouds - the better. We really need something better anyway. The last major innovation was bittorrent in 2004...
Isn't it a bit scary to run the auto-insulin code on an android phone?
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> I don't agree that he could have used any other social media to the same effect. Information propagates and decays on Twitter much, much faster than on other mainstream platforms

I certainly agree that Twitter's characteristics are unique, but I think there was also a lot of awareness of Trump going into the election and so I wonder if he could have done the same thing with a simple blog.

My biggest curiosity is that now that he's shown that the attack can work, how many candidates will enter the next election doing it and how unusual will they be...
Regardless of whether that was the primary issue or not, I think the trap most people fall into is to simply work with somebody only because they are comfortable with them. Or perhaps the other person even insisted on it, but the founder didn't have proper experience to realize that was a bad idea. Comfort is an easy trap to fall into.
Not all cities must be made into overpopulated ant colonies.
People love SF as it is, and if you increase density it would be not SF, it would be something else.
If you like dense cities - there are plenty of them - LA, SD, NY...
> where does NATO come from here?

I have heard people say things like "Sweden has co-operated with NATO in [....]". Maybe Sweden does co-operate with NATO, but it's not a member and the UK is.

The UK courts might seem wonderful in merry old England, but just look at what happened in Northern Ireland, and you'll see a different face of the British legal system. Interment without trial, torture, extrajudicial killing, all of UK citizens on UK soil.
But from those 20K-45K you also pay income tax 30% (or 40%?), right?

As for healthcare, at least in Barcelona, if it is not really urgent, you have to wait a month to actually gat that free visit to a doctor. Because of this, people go to paid/private doctor anyway.
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No, a feature of a drill bit are the hard-alloy super-sharp perfectly aligned cutting edges.

The drill bit by itself does not make holes. You can use it (combined with another tool) to make holes.

A feature is something that the product itself does, not what you can do with the product.
"Google for manpages" as it's called... Especially helpful on a system without an internet connection :)
Thanks for sharing this, I really enjoyed reading it and while I was lucky to avoid most of these pitfalls this time around, I definitely fell for a few of them on earlier ventures. I can sympathize.
I'd say this is an Orwellian statement, but at this point i got so used to Twitter silencing voices they disagree with i'm shocked they didn't just ban Trump long ago, since they banned people for pettier reasons multiple times.

Hillary got more support on Twitter than Trump. The reason places like Twitter helped Trump in any signifficant fashion was that they let Trump reach people directly, and not through the media which are still lying, and slandering the president, and trying to paint a false picture of what's going on in the country.
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Indeed, but as I said, the cat complaint tends to be a practice mostly used by those less experienced in the command line so they are probably unaware of `<` let alone that it's placement.
Sure, but even 2014 phones like the Lumia 830, 929, et all got upgraded to W10P, Microsoft has made much more of an effort than Google to support 3 year old hardware.
I don't know what happened here but that's an unnecessary swipe and you've broken HN's civility rules before. Please stop doing so.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14390812 and marked it off-topic.
how's that gonna work, a larger desk with a reclining hydraulic car lift?
There's https://www.freestylelibre.co.uk/libre/ which I believe you can just order online (I'm considering one myself). You have to scan the sensor yourself(it stores the data between scans) so it doesn't trigger alarms like the dexcom but for gathering data about how exercise/diet effects your levels it should do the job nicely I think.

edit: The starter pack costs £159.95, see https://www.freestylelibre.co.uk/libre/products/starter-pack...
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Sure, but you're using _their_ free platform to host _your_ content that _may_ be fair use. They have the right to be as legally cautious as they want on stuff appearing on their platform.

You have the right to put your stuff on your own platform without such oversight if you want and directly deal with the legality.
This is very inspiring! I've written my first bad novel, planning the second, although really loving my engineering job as well :)
I don't understand why nobody came up with a technical solution for this problems yet. It can't be that complicated.
Make a better Twitter. Add reputation management. Enforce strict rules on argumentation. Reduce/forbid redundant arguments. Add better structure for arguments. Arguments should be as short as possible but not shorter. Add ratings to arguments (a la hackernews).
“I thought once everybody could speak freely and exchange information and ideas, the world is automatically going to be a better place”

- Ev Williams

"Really don't want to get in politics. I just want to help invent and develop technologies that improve lives. Feels so bizarre."

- Elon Musk

"For one week, political stories are off-topic. Please flag them. Please also flag political threads on non-political stories. For our part, we'll kill such stories and threads when we see them. Then we'll watch together to see what happens."

- HN Moderation team

It's okay, maybe some day Silicon Valley will realize that technology and politics aren't two concepts that you can neatly disentangle from one another, and that building tech never "automatically" makes the world a better place on its own. If you are touching human lives, you are "in politics".
How valuable is EOD data actually?

I saw that the CBOE also offers 3:45pm data before the spreads widen up (sometimes drastically) when positions get unwound.
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> if you want to legalize government propaganda

Some argue that the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 already did that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization...
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Isn't paying burning man $500+ to go have this experience in the desert, and often hundreds more on costumes so you look the part, the epitome of "buying a thing to be a person"?
say, if I wanted to use it at home, would steam run on it?
> testing more frequently doesn't accomplish anything

totally anecdotal but I test aprox 10 times per day and have reduced an A1C of 8.2 at diagnosis to 5.5 (non diabetic). I'm extremely sceptical that you can optimise your plan sufficiently with a test once per day, it's a akin to having a speedometer on your car that only gives you a speed once during the entire journey.
> What gets you down isn't the injustice of it, if such there be - it isn't fair that some people are better at a given thing than others, but "fair" is something no one ever promised any of us life would be. What gets you down is that you can see how it would be a useful skill to have, but you don't want to invest the effort required to develop it. That's an internal contradiction, and those are uncomfortable to carry around. Either developing the skill, or abandoning the desire to have it, will resolve the contradiction. Just pick one and do it. You'll be fine.

I don't think this is the point originally made. And I'll put it slightly differently:

You have a product team (unnamed scientists in the Nye/Tyson case), and then you have a sales team (Nye/Tyson themselves). What I realize is a fact on the market, and maybe inherently so, is that a good sales team can sell any product, no matter how crap, but a good product can't be sold without at least SOME marketing (and yes, word-of-mouth is natural and comes to good products, but it's no where close to a marketing division).

I believe this was the issue that OP believed was unfair, and at some level I agree. I think your point might still apply in that there's no point in lamenting it if you can't fix the system, because you either have to be better at marketing or stop caring about selling your product.

TLDR; He wasn't saying that it was unfair that some were naturally better at socializing/selling their product/skill, but that the fact that they were (good at selling) was the only relevant factor in getting a raise from the manager/company, and not how well they do the job.

Tyson/Nye aren't on TV/media because they're the best scientists, but because they're the best on TV.
I think it's not like there are tons of qualified people with a great interest in quant-y things whose only barrier to entry is a lack of data. It's sort of a monopoly+monopsony thing (I guess, this is highly likely wrong) where there's no incentive to expanding sales further because you're already hitting almost the entire market, and entry to the market isn't a problem for potential buyers.
And for the most part they still do.
Which xyz-file buried in the code base has that "abc" function I saw last month?

locate /\*xyzGlobPattern |
xargs grep -E '\<abc[(]'
I suspect it's only a matter of time, if it leads to better management of blood sugar levels the long term cost savings will be huge.
It's funny, I live in SD and many say the same thing. "We don't want to increase density, we like that it feels like a small city. It's a privilege to live here, if you can't afford it too bad."

Something's got to give somewhere.
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I don't understand how people aren't screaming about point 10 - I haven't had a linux distro which didn't do that, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Arch - they all had this exact issue.

I close my laptop, it goes into sleep mode, I open the screen and my desktop is just there, I can happily use the browser, open apps, run commands, whatever, and then 10-20 seconds later the lock screen kicks in. It's insane that the architecture of the system even allows it to happen.
The 670G completely controls basal rates; the "suspend on low" functionality arrived in a previous generation. But it won't keep your blood glucose at 5.5 mM -- it targets 6.7 mM, and there doesn't seem to be any way to change this. :-/