skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look, I know you don't know me as some kind of education expert, but I homeschooled my gifted-learning disabled sons for a lot of years and I was Director of Community Life at TAGFAM for a brief period and I know whereof I speak here. Those peers are almost certainly not just affluent, they are almost certainly also well read, well spoken and well educated.

Money easily grows out of being well educated, assuming there aren't other barriers to accomplishment. You have the cause and effect relationship here backwards.
The story from Netflix seems to be that there is still enormous room to expand in the content side and in fact their business model is to make even more room, by having more niche programming as well as the binge-watching thing.

Also it was interesting to hear Reed Hastings basically say that as a tech company Netflix might not have too long an independent life but if you look at it as a rival to Disney it could be a hugely successful independent company basically forever -- and that he himself likes that idea. IIRC that was in an A16Z interview but I'm not sure.

Anecdotally: I don't watch "regular TV" but I do subscribe to Netflix, and I buy a lot of shows on my Apple TV (quality and reliability beat cost, for me). I recently subscribed to ShowTime just to watch the new Twin Peaks; maybe I'll stay after that, maybe not. I've thought about ditching my Netflix account because where I am it's sloooow, but every so often they have some awesome original content I can't find elsewhere, and I stay.

I'm sure I overspend, but I probably spend $100/mo on "stuff on TV." I'm sure a lot of other people do too. And my commitment to spending it on one thing versus another is really minimal.

I don't know if Snapchat will be good at the TV game, but I do know that just like Valley companies tend to "get" software more than LA companies do, the opposite is true of entertainment; and Snapchat has shown they have at least some clue what "the kids" want, which is a pretty huge deal.

If I were a media exec I would definitely want some kind of deal with Snapchat, if only to hedge my bets against the (to me, as a grownup) unknown.
But the guy was just giving his opinion...
what in the shit is a snapchat show.
Thanks for your feedback. I definitely see the similarity with the check mark, but it wasn't on purpose.
Driverless bus line coming to Helsinki this fall
Animals will eat "rotting" fruit to catch a buzz, there was never a time "before alcohol".
cough hello rust evangelism strike force cough

Rust never sleeps: the idea that nothing is ever "not needing maintenance." In webdev, this means that even if Netflix is "perfect," it may not remain so if, for example, the Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft teams all find critical exploits in their browser code that forces a push to up to date and legacy versions of their browsers that breaks the netflix video viewer, or whatever.

No matter how well you paint a bridge, the rust will find a way in.
I wish to see systemd eradicated from debian. Back to SysVInit!
It would be interesting if social research looked in to /why/ that was the case. Is there some ongoing problem disrupting these people's lives? Other family or social obligations that interfere with the hours the employer desires? Maybe a different shift (working hours during the day/night) would be better aligned with their biorhythms; it might require placement in a different job.

I for one, know that I don't function at all well in the mornings.
I think the same thing. I had a hell of a time trying to move a company from Slack to Discourse though. People really love the UI/UX of Slack, even more than they hate the information overload.
I'd recommend giving a five minute warning, then a two minute warning, then one, and finally a countdown.

Then it's not a surprise, and the loss has time to be adjusted to.

This worked on my youngest.
I doubt you can really just cut-n-paste jQuery in any nontrivial web app...
It's a shame this is getting downvoted because it's not really inflammatory or even untrue. I think it's fair to say that this topic is complex enough that both this comment and the parent comment are true (which is that poverty is a function of both factors that can be controlled and factors that cannot be controlled).
Somewhere buried in the UI (god knows where, but I've seen other successfully navigate to it) are "stories," like you see for your friends, but from not-your-friends. I assume this is where the Time Warner stuff will go.
Also this: "With some self-motivation and a lot of self-help books, I made the decision to stop taking drugs. ..."

That quote made it seem like no big deal for him to stop using drugs, but there are plenty of hard-working and reasonably intelligent people that are unable to do it.

He's definitely an outlier among the homeless population.
Would you like to share your full name and birthday with the world?

I wouldn't. Therefore it is private.
I like other HNers only thought things were possible through the providence of the free-market though?
If I had to pick only one flaw in Java. It would be its horrible and ugly GUI. I mean... it managed to make anything ugly.

I agree with the broader point that web tech is basically playing catchup with years of lag compared to existing technologies. However the one benefit we get from all this is real security and true universal runtime.
Beyond the Little Blue Box: The Biographical Adventure of John Draper
> There's obviously some mistake, CNN, Fox, and Russia Today should be along with "Thrillist", "NowThis News", and "Dodo" and not reputable news like The Onion.
I was strictly talking about the criticism now, not back then (I mean, Apple briefly tried to champion the web-only approach some of those critics now advocate and see Safari as in the way of. We'll see if it has more success this time)
Gender and home situation are two things not conveyed over the internet; I don't think this stigma is legitimately a risk. The fact is you're propagating that information, which is a choice.
Email is also universal. Using Twist or some other app means you have to onboard and train a customer onto a new platform to even start talking with them. There are some cases where you can replace email with Twist (formalized team communications), but there are way more uses for email.

The downside here is an email thread with 5+ people replying daily will quickly become unmanageable. If a single participant forgets to "Reply All" then the conversation can bifurcate again and again.

If I was managing a team of 5+ people I might use Twist. I would more likely onboard everyone onto existing project management software. Where the team can have threaded conversations, but also relate those convos to tasks, milestones, files, and other project info.
The idea for Amsterdam
is to make the bike look unique, not always unnatractive, the more homogenous looking and mechanically sound, the more attractive to thieves.

Amsterdam is a smalll place so having a fluro green bike with a number plate of your name welded to the frame is a good deterrent.
I'm no expert on the subject, so feel free to set me straight. It seem to me, though, that this is a bit like cargo culting. An association between some part of a process and the result that doesn't factor in the big picture. More specifically, wouldn't the presence of such lists have proven a minor and nonessential part of the genocide? If the Nazis didn't have those lists, would they have just thrown up their hands and went away? It seems they'd have just gathered the information by the usual 'everyone accusing his neighbor' witch-hunt means, with people using it to settle grudges or other nefarious reasons. Maybe it would be less accurate, and maybe a little slower, but ultimately, you'd probably have about the same amount of bloodshed, I would expect. The real keys to these situations are a powerful group with ill intent and a population that is at least willing to condone it. If those are in place, the list doesn't really matter, and if they aren't in place, the list doesn't really matter. So why does the list matter?

Note, this is an invitation to enlighten me, not a firm belief on my part.
Broadly, I agree with you. For discussion's sake, I think the counterargument would be to focus on the scale and culture points. Specifically,

1. The scale means we're applying many more judgments in many more places that would've slid by the human judgment radar. This is arguably dangerous in itself because if we hold judgments to generally be unreliable, we're just adding many more points of unreliability.

2. The culture could conceivably develop in the direction of blindly trusting automated judgments, such that the type of scrutiny you encourage will dwindle as a practice. This would put us in a much more vulnerable state with respect to bad judgments.

That said, I still side with you. I think the ultra-dystopian scenario outlined as a possibility by OP is unlikely precisely because power/control are decentralized and very difficult to wield intentionally. And there's massive inherent conflict between various actors that have greater means to try to affect that control.

However, I also don't think it's inconceivable to end in the ultra-dystopian scenario. Technological progress is generally good and generally can't be stopped, but it also continually introduces undesirable possibilities as well.
An important reminder for anyone not in the US.

Student loans are one of the (the only?) forms of debt in the US that cannot be discharged via bankruptcy. I believe that too is a major factor in the rising cost of college and other secondary educations; there's no market pressure to price the services at a rate based on the student's success.
Well you can just as much slip on that oil patch and crack your head open as a pedestrian..
Of course those scenarios are very far removed from what actually causes injuries and death.

The Netherlands has a much much lower incidence of head injuries not because they wear styrofoam hats but they realized it's better to stop the trucks and cars from driving into people than in vain trying to soften the impact. Creating secure bike routes just has a tremendously higher return on investment compared to convincing people to wear helmets that bringing them up just labels you a shill in many peoples eyes, a concern troll distraction.
I think femininity probably has it's own associate brain damage too, yes. Different, but probably less extensive due to the demands of feminine people to understand the other. Although quite debilitating in important ways. Same for non-white folks. I am more reluctant to speculate about those things because of their history as popular notions ("women and blacks are retarded"), and the fact that I have no direct experience of it. I experience my own developmental delays all the time and I'm a white man.

And I agree with you there are many negatives to manhood and masculinity, many positives to womanhood. I don't see that as contradicting my theory.
Still, it seems related to understanding and following others. I think many so-called "leaders" today aren't even serious leaders but actually they have a somewhat unnatural role of imposing on their subordinates arbitrary decisions received from their superiors, cold-blooded analyses, formal processes, etc. In such situations, understanding of the subordinates is unnecessary and any subconscious tendencies to follow their emotional states actively counterproductive, as it is the "leader" whose job is to dictate reality.
I put on a rain cape for bicyclists: https://www.geekalerts.com/u/Red-Cycling-Bicycle-Bike-Rainco...

Unfortunately these things are not common in the netherlands. It seems people just choose to get wet.

China sells many high-quality rain capes. You can probably find webshops that sell them.
"A CEO is responsible for his organization. If you ruin lives, you have to pay the price."

If you break the law, you pay the price of jailtime. If you haven't broken the law, you might pay the price in the marketplace, but that's all.

If a law was broken, then of course whoever broke it should be prosecuted. But I don't think anyone disagrees with that, nor does it need to be explained in a lengthy HN comment. The only reason we need such an explanation is exactly because this isn't the way our society works. We set up the rules of the game and expect people to play within those rules, but we don't go around jailing people because we dislike them or disagree with their choices.

"CEO's bear responsibility for their organizations, or the organization should not exist."

Don't forget that a CEO is an employee, and just one employee. A particularly important and influential (and well-paid) one, but "just" an employee. An organization is not solely defined by its CEO, nor does it make sense to think of them as all-powerful in terms of what the organization does. A CEO who doesn't perform can (and probably will!) be fired at some point.
The key for us is making it more accessible and easy to book. We know that the current space is about to evolve pretty quickly. The current companies and individuals have actually been quite receptive to our approach. They just haven't had access to the tools we're building and the customers we're reaching.

Otherwise, yeah, we want to bring it to more places as we get a better understanding of the demand in places where the service isn't currently offered.
The number of threads doesn't seem to make much of a difference so I'd guess it's a matter of bandwidth? That seems weird though.
>They'll escort you to special fast track lines or simply walk you to the front of the immigrations and customs lines.

Just be careful how you do that. If you are a U.S company the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act may be relevant: https://www.justice.gov/criminal-fraud/foreign-corrupt-pract...

(IANAL)
Yeah. They changed their mind without any explanation.
I made this cookbook specifically to show it doesn't have to be so hard. While designing an industrial-strength data structure library is an advanced skill, there are easier ways to implement the core ideas that should suffice for contest and coursework purposes. Very few people have to build actual libraries.
Turning a startup into a profitable business in a year [lessons learned]
damn, yep. good call.
I found out recently that good chunk of this progress (esp. in their SaaS space) is being fueled by open source projects, for example Power BI uses D3 3.5 and angular 1.5.

I hope they open source at least a part of their stack, for example the Azure Service Fabric.
The phrase is old and refers to needing constant maintenance on anything (because rust and decay never stop), but it was probably most popularized by the Rust Never Sleeps album. Its closing/opening tracks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Hey,_My_My_(Into_the_Black...
Given that I am the highest ranked woman on Hacker News, I think you are clearly in error. Historically, women have not been warmly welcomed here and not taken as seriously as the men. And if you can't admit your gender for fear of discrimination, that closes doors in terms of business. The men are never advised to hide their gender. Yet people seem to think that's an actual solution for a woman. I can't fathom how on earth anyone can say that and not realize they are just reinforcing sexism in an extreme and horrible manner.

Also, it seriously doesn't work to tell me "there is no stigma -- all you have to do is hide those facts about yourself." If there is no stigma, why on earth would I need to hide them? Or to blame me for admitting that I am female and homeless. Hiding information about yourself is another burden to communicating and can complicate the hell out of attempts to accomplish anything when you need to work around certain things but are compelled to not mention them for fear of stigma.
Thanks so much for your feedback! We are seeing a number of clients who simply want a little help getting through the airport, especially on tight connections.
I like this lecture by Andres Duany: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL01072BB79369B705

The most relevant part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1X5uVR5NxY&list=PL01072BB79...
"A huge proportion of poverty stems from bad work ethic" is an extraordinary claim, requiring extraordinary evidence.
Title should read Drivers, not Rivers
It was actually published in this journal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Journal_of_Envir.... The journal charges a fee to have one's paper processed. I'm not sure if that is typical in open access journals, but the analogy to self-publishing fiction makes me slightly uncomfortable.
Stripe's design continually makes me envious. I hope to one day own a product that matches their level of quality.
Well I would say their philosophy first of all relies on strong tools. Intellij with CHelper plugin allows for simpler testing and also has incredibly powerful debugging as I am sure you have seen in their screencasts.

Also I think they sort of show the value of Java's simpler approach with everything being a reference in terms of writing code quickly. The alternative approach that C++ competitors use relies on a very specific style unlike what production code at say Google uses, with pointers used as sparingly as possible. With everything being a reference it is much easier to work with graphs for instance.

To me Rust goes even further into the C++ direction where it becomes more and more difficult to quickly write code that compiles. With Java I have no issue writing 100 lines and having everything compile the first time around, particularly with an editor like Intellij. With C++ even Clion struggles significantly with producing helpful info, simply due to the complexity of C++.

Anyway don’t have enough time to really eloquently think through all aspects of this. Also I was just kidding about CF rating, you are far better than me obviously.
If you exited over that you missed a great bit of analysis.
Does Capital Drive Outcomes? Featuring Eric Paley
Are there people who take the SIM and leave? I always assume everyone stuck around until data was okay on the phone, since sometimes it needs activation, sometimes it needs settings, etc.
iPhone 8 design possibly revealed by a screen protector, no home button
It was also a widely held belief for decades that the internet was nothing more or less than history's most efficient porn-and-bullshit-machine. Anyone who took seriously what they read online (without verification) in 2005 was rightly regarded as an idiot. I think these two things are connected: people now take the internet seriously as a media delivery platform, and no one has yet figured out how to solve the problem of legitimacy.
All those differences can't be good for adoption.
Yes. I think that is exactly what moolcool is saying. And he's right. Instagram's (typical users) daily active users just surpassed 700 Million. And the Stories daily active users just surpassed 375 Million [1]. Now Facebook has a juggernaut of ad targeting for very specific audiences.

Now if you TW, where would you rather spend your $100 Million on original content and shows? A fully-sustained cruise liner ($FB) or a rapidly sinking dingy ($SNAP)?

Sidenote: if any shareholders since the IPO are reading this, sell now. Not only are your shares non-voteable [2], but they are as ephemeral as Snap's users. Get out while you can.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/26/instagram-700-million-user...

[2] https://www.recode.net/2017/2/21/14670314/snap-ipo-stock-vot...
> Finding the motivation/discipline to keep up the conscious effort of improving at anything is the hardest task of all.

Well stated, can't agree more !!!!!
Variation on that was to say something like, "Linux sucks! It won't do x." If the answers weren't sufficiently straight-forward, you could follow up with, "It's so much easier on MS!" Required a thick skin though.
Fellow father of two young ones. It's a constant battle. The only way to win is take them outside for a walk, play ball. Here's a NY Times piece on this-- Technology is a poor substitute for personal interaction. > https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/06/screen-addiction-i...
Not to mention prime-time TV is just that -- timelocked. The 5 minute show is on demand and can be accessed at 4AM if the user so chooses.
Probably the same way SF deals with it: by not dealing with it because it's not an issue. I lived in an apartment building on the same block as at least one club and multiple bars, all open till at least 2am and it was never a problem. Some of the sound will leak into the street, especially with bigger clubs, but it's not loud enough to be a problem inside apartments because air is a terrible conductor of sound. Also, a city is already noisy and that's to be expected 24/7.
Because MBA people?
I guess technically in C everything is passed by value but you can pass a pointer to something and call it, naturally, a pass-by-pointer. Since in C you can typically get the pointer value by providing the reference (I don't remember if it is called the reference in pure C, but we are clearly talking about the same thing here) it can also be called a pass-by-reference, consistent with some other programming languages.
The situation where delidding pays off is pretty frustrating. It costs me more to delid and replace the TIM then it does for Intel to charge more and do it right the first time.

Hopefully competitive pressure will get them to start taking their process more seriously.
it's not monkey see, monkey do - it's monkey see, monkey imagines what it would be like for itself to do the same thing (what it would 'be' like also includes such things as what it would 'look' like)
I commute daily, and I can count the number of times I've put on my rain pants in any year on one hand. A bit of rain just means my jeans get a bit damp; nothing that won't fix itself long before lunchtime. Other than that, what special clothing is there? I have a raincoat, and a winter coat, but I would own them even if I didn't ride a bicycle.

Most modern Dutch commuters bikes are either single speed, or three/seven-speed without a derailleur; instead the gears are housed inside of the rear wheel's nave. This makes them well protected and very durable. My seven year old bicycle is still on its first three-speed gear set.

Come to think of it, all I've replaced thus far is the chain (which will need replacing again in a year or so) one light bulb, the elastic bungee cords for luggage, and a spring for my saddle.
And it bit them in the ass when Sony pushed games, games, and more games onto the PS4 and have enjoyed being on the winning side of a healthy install base gap ever since.
I'm surprised at how well Ryzen is holding up in FP terms despite the relative lack of flops on paper. I guess having a separate floating point cluster is enough of an advantage to make up for that? It really makes me want to see how it works with robot motion planning at work.
I've known banks that don't let you change the PIN on their cards - for "security" reasons. And banks with 5-digit maximum password lengths - "oh, it's strong enough, you need to use a token to get money out anyway" ... but not to login.
>I doubt anyone thinks all failure is a result of bad work ethic. Of course much is due to mental illness, disability, etc.

I'd be interested in more quantified data in this point, as I know many people who hold this as a foundational principle in their life.
The Amazon Tax (2016)
Curious - why are you doing video transcoding on CPUs?

The CPU to GPU speedup is so massive that it's really not worth it. I don't recall the exact numbers, but I got an order of magnitude boost going from HEVC encoding on CPU to GPU with no noticeable quality difference. Works out to several times more efficient too FPS/watt wise.
This is certainly our hope. Thanks!
Alcohols intoxicating effects were almost certainly discovered before its usefulness as a disinfectant.
When we returned ours, Casper coordinated pickup via the nearest Salvation Army who sent a truck to our place. We did not need to pack it up at all.
Your response has given me greater perspective to your situation, bless your heart.