skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles,
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly; who errs,
who comes short again and again,
because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
but who does actually strive to do the deeds;
who knows great enthusiasms,
the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst,
if he fails,
at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_in_a_Republic
Lots of meme subs hold a lot of their value in their CSS.
tl;dr - if you believe in the company future and are willing to make that sacrifice, stay. if you don't, leave.

all startups have risks. i think that's something people overlook and they tend to think about the non-corporate atmosphere. anyways, that being said, i think it boils down to if you believe in the future of the company.

if you believe in the company's plan and you're willing to stick it out, great! imo, you should expect to hear an explanation of a company/product strategy _you_ believe has a chance.

if you don't believe it has a chance, well, i imagine you are sticking around for other personal or professional reasons. that could be because the opportunity you are getting (with specific tech, roles, etc) that you believe will help get you to where you want to be. it doesn't have to be about money.

if genuine promises were broken, that makes it tough to trust the folks that you are likely looking to for said strategy and plan.
The hunt for the next Portland
Agreed. There seems to be this disingenuous memory of the dome from a lot of the population. I remember visiting as a teenager and had a fantastic time. Like you, I've never spoken to anyone that visited who didn't enjoy it. Now it remains an iconic London landmark and is used for events every week - providing somewhat of a legacy.

I wish it had remained as some kind of national science museum. It would have had a longer lasting cultural impact.
How did anyone prove your point? You are just repeating yourself to claim that there are two voices in agreement.
Show HN: Make New Friends, a podcast about friendship
Hey HN. We just launched a new podcast about friendship. Two episodes are up so far, and the next one is coming on Wednesday.

It's a conversational approach to talking about the taboo subject of friendship. Figured some of you might get a kick out of it!

My wife and her friend Mary are hosting, and I'm doing the editing and publishing.

You can find it on our website [1] and on iTunes [2].

[1] https://www.makenewfriendspodcast.com/

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Correcting Russia case.

Its an only state where during my travels on the way out of the country (Russia here) in addition to usual security scan and passport control you have an additional booth maned with rusia official/military personel only judging if they can let you out. Again: this was in addition to passport control due to destination etc.

Source: me at s petersburg airport 2016.

P.s. Overall Russia experience was very good and eyes opening (comparing to what you get from media)
Any paper about the luminiferous aether from before the Michelson Morley experiment?
> Do we really know what a "typical ICO" is at this stage?

Yes, we can look at the ICOs that have happened and draw conclusions.

> And as fast as the sector is changing, how do we know what will be typical by the time new legislation is
(a) passed

This isn't about new legislation. The Howey Test dates from 1946. The fundamental characteristics of ICOs are not new (and have nothing to do with blockchains).

> Many (typical?) ICOs are not companies

I have no idea why you think this changes anything. It doesn't.

> Which explicitly state that it is not an investment

As I already mentioned, fine print doesn't fix the problems being discussed here.
Hmmmm. Without knowing the details of how the image was created it's hard to say whether this is especially interesting or not.

For example - why would a 3D model based on high-quality photogrammetry be any less "real" than a digital photograph.

It's just a few more stages in a processing pipeline that starts with his real face.

If however - there was no photographic source material - either for geometry or textures - then it becomes much more interesting.

I suspect it's actually somewhere between the two and therefore mildly interesting but not incredibly profound.
What difference does Assange's personality make?

If someone revealed Donald Trump's taxes, would you care if that person was a disgruntled, mentally unstable former-employee who had served time in prison for a morally abhorrent offense? Probably not.

But for some reason, when discussing Wikileaks, there is an elaborate and imaginative notion of Assange's personality, his strengths and weaknesses, etc. etc.

I think we should all realize that Assange has shown us outrageous and deeply disturbing revelations about many governments, the US Government in particular. The scale, deceitfulness, and human toll revealed by this information is many orders of magnitude larger than any minor concerns about Assange's personality or personal conduct.

That this isn't obvious to more people is deeply troubling to me. How did we become so compliant, so loyal to a government that would do this? How can we allow this to happen? Must we make the mistake of listening to our leaders as they tell us to vilify another Saddam, another Snowden, another Assange?

I think the unfortunate answer is that Americans do not care that brown-skinned people are being murdered all over the world due to US policies, and that hundreds of thousands of children go to bed every night hearing the buzz of drone aircraft, terrified that their home might be targeted.

Assange has given American democracy the opportunity to have some teeth and to allow the basic decency of a free society to rise up and correct for some of the wrongs that were revealed, but instead we talk about Assange's personality quirks and use the hashtag resist in support of the most establishment politician since Dick Cheney.
What Are Ethereum's ERC-20 Tokens Anyway?
> what motivates researchers to perform and publish studies with low N?

Consider the systemic perspective. There are problems where we have no idea what's going on. (The pool of possibilities is so big, relative to the budget, that it's practically infinite.)

In these cases, lots of low-N studies could be better than a few high-N ones. It's a balance between the odds of your study giving a false result against the odds of picking the wrong hypothesis.
What if you increase efficiency and cheapness in non visible areas that customers don't get to see?
> Sure. But imagine you have destroyed your home by your own carelessness. Do you think it is proper to abandon your old home, for a new one. What guarantee is there that you will not mess this new home just as you did with the old one? The idea is that only if you can fix the mess you have caused in the first place, you can be expected to maintain a new home...

But the problem here is that we are not the only ones that could wreck our home. The next dinosaur asteroid that hits or supervolcano that erupts will take out us and lots of the other higher lifeforms on Earth.

> Now this massive amounts of money, could be allocated to implement real solution to real problems we are having right now..

I agree that this money might be better allocated for project with a shorter time horizon and do also good. Long term, I'm not so sure though.

But I also believe that it probably wouldn't be applied to other projects. Too much money is wasted on senseless stuff, at least in this case, it's going to something that inspires people and has a valuable goal.
Ironically, you have to copy, paste and Google the titles of most of these to find downloadable versions.
RTL MJIT – Register transfer language VM and JIT for Ruby
And the value of the Millennium Dome should be assessed on the basis of anecotal evidence (a personal visit) as against an independent balance sheet of costs and benefits for British citizens as a whole?
The last couple of years I've been doing 2-3 long term projects at once. I try to work project on one project at a time for a few days or week. The sort of problems I work on sometimes don't have obvious answers so thinking about one project exclusively means that sometimes I wake up with the answer.
If the owners explain things clearly, lay out the options and make me a significant shareholder (over 5%), then I would think about it, but otherwise this is a strange idea in my opinion. Why would you suffer if, when there is upside, you 'only' get the salary you were (contractually) entitled to all along? If someone wants me to work for free/less and there is a risk of the company going under before any gain, I would like to see significant compensation in shares (like 10* a market-conform salary minus the salary I get); what is the point otherwise. If you are a (co-)founder or owner then I would say it's something completely different; you believe in it so buckle up. But I know many who do not agree with that either.
> always remember that he was arrested, then freed on bail, in both countries

That's not how I remember it, but given that it has been a long time (2010), I accept that my memory could fail me here, so I tried to google it.

Assange was questioned by the police during the preliminary investigation. He left Sweden about a month after the start of the investigations. The sources are a bit fuzzy then, Wikipedia writes: He left Sweden on 27 September 2010. According to one source his departure was with the permission of the Swedish authorities. Another source claims that the Swedish authorities notified Assange's lawyer of his imminent arrest on that same day.

So he was neither arrested in Sweden nor freed on bail in Sweden.
Where is my comment?
You're correct. Sorry, I misremembered.
This happens in a lot of companies, there are moments like this.

Also, nothing in your contract or offer letter would have said that the company would do a salary review every year.

When such a decision is made, companies are aware that what could happen, the way salary review is important for an employee, in equal measure it is important for the company too.

So if such a decision is made, they weighed in every thing, may be the fact also that, people might leave or they would look for another option.

And the company also knows that people who would have options are the good people, and no one wants to let go the good people and being left with average or above average people later, when the finances are sorted.

If you love what you do, stick with SoundCloud, it's just part of life and could happen anywhere.

PS: I have been through this once.
The facilities in a city that no one lives in? It would be like building facilities in Naypyidaw or Brasilia, capitals built to escape from their people.
The U.S. Is Where the Rich Are the Richest
She was on suicide pills (so-called antidepressants) herself, but they didn't mention this until the last paragraph:

> Earlier in the trial, a psychiatrist testified that Carter was delusional after becoming "involuntarily intoxicated" by antidepressants. She was "unable to form intent" after switching to a new prescription drug months before Roy's suicide, and she even texted his phone for weeks after he died, the psychiatrist testified.

Other sites say that she was switched to celexa. The safest ant-depressants are the MAOIs. Last time I looked at Wikipedia's article, it said this class had been unfairly maligned.
i've followed this Expo indirectly because a professional fighter i follow (Gennady Gennadyvich Golovkin) is from Karaganda, a small mining town in KZ. Golovkin, aka "GGG", is regarded by many (most?) current and former professional boxers and boxing commentators as the best fighter in the world regardless of weight class (P4P). Several months ago, GGG's promoter (K2) said via press release that they were in serious discussions--with an expectation of success--to have GGG's next fight in Astana during the Expo.

the economics of fight promotions is mysterious, at least to me, but i should think getting this fight in Astana during the World Expo would have been a massive economic boost to offset the Expo's staggering cost

more than that though. GGG is not just a professional fighter from Kazakstan; he's the stuff of legends: Olympic silver medalist, World Amateur Champion (2X), amateur record of 352 wins, five losses, and a current professional record of 37-0. For eight years--from 2008 to 2016--he won every one of his fights by knockout. About five years ago when GGG Was just a contender, he called out Sergio Martinez, the current champion in GGG's weight class, SM's trainer said publicly "there's no way i'm putting Sergio in with that animal".

in an interview a couple of years ago (available on youtube), when a reporter asked Manny Pacquiao about GGG's, Pacquiano just shook his head in disbelief.

during a fight with the British Champion, Matthew Macklin, Jim Watts, former LW world champion and ITV commentator said "Matthew Macklin is a terrific fighter, but there's nothing he can do, this fellow [GGG] is just on another level which until tonight i didn't even know existed"

About a minute later, GGG hit MM with a left hand to the ribcage (GGG is a right-handed fighter!) MM went down immediately and remained there for about 20 minutes.

needless to say, he's idolized in his home country and to have him return to fight in KZ (for the first time since becoming a professional) during the World Expo--you couldn't write a better movie script.

and yet the deal somehow fell through on the Expo side. All of the money spent on the Expo and none of it earmarked to underwrite this sporting event--disappointing
On Kazakhstan's GDP it is a huge amount.
I have seen worse than auto-playing videos: auto-stopping videos. I have the habit of starting a video and quickly scrolling through the site while listening. Check that for an example: https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Testing-Mattress... Playback is stopped even when you scroll just one pixel and it does not resume when you return. I find that a very bad ux design.
It's quite pleasant and I can imagine listening to this for pleasure occasionally.

Equate it with a piece for untuned percussion and then maybe it's not quite so unusual. The first sections of Steve Reich's Drumming are pitchless and very listenable. It's composing purely with rhythm.
They are keeping the machine running with "funding". Not actual profit?

so understand they have to be mindful/careful on frivolities.

If you gave a 100 million to the company, would you be annoyed if you found out about people getting small champagne bottles on their birthday? Would you be worried about your investment?

The days of these companies building floor to floor slides, and pampering adult children was never going to last. Whats there to worry about?

Saying all this of course, if the Mgmt are still getting these perks (wasting money), while the employees are not, id leave.

That ship will hit the rocks very soon, and hard. And of course, it wont be the first company to get done under with high budget pay/perks for low budget mgmt.
sci-hub.cc can help with those that don't show a PDF in the Google results.
>> 1. It is not sensible to check more than a small chunk of data

> You could just check the first X bytes. Also, I'm guessing curl doesn't print out to the terminal if the data is more than 2000 bytes anyway?

Why wouldn't it? 2000 bytes is just 25 lines by 80 characters.
Designing Facebook Spaces (Part 1) – Embarking on a New VR Journey
Not that it has any impact on the validity of your statement but it's a funny coincidence that shitty_watercolour retired from reddit only a couple weeks ago.
That's a great list, thanks!
One consideration is that is easier to get another job when you are still employed. So you have to weigh that against the other factors.
How does the react work under the hood?
How does the react work under the hood?

Same as nativescript, does it run on v8?
Now we just need a scare story about how two similar-looking men could get a single passport using an "averaged digital composition".

[To bypass a no-fly list, for example]
Samsung partners with NowThis, BuzzFeed to produce 360-degree videos
I am not surprised by the mathematical development described in the article. Rather, I appreciate that there is yet new evidence for what I believe about human capacity and potential across cultures. I felt a small level vindication and inspiration, not surprise.

I'm not sure why you insist on finding fault with what I understand or not, or what you wrongly imagine my reaction is to this article. It's possible to appreciate stories like that without being shallow or sensationalist. At the same time, it is possible to be unnecessarily dismissive about something when the focus is solely on technical aspects and lose the bigger picture of what a story is about.

I think we agree that truly unique discoveries or inventions are extremely rare. I did not get the sense that the article framed the islander's number system as such. It's okay to disagree if you see the framing differently.
Real users have passwords that are simple mutations from passwords they used elsewhere. They'll change a 1 to a 2 to make it unique and safe, or change an o to a 0 to fulfill the next site's requirements.

I don't buy the idea that being typo tolerant only helps the real account owner if it's also opaquely increasing the amount of password reuse across sites. Not to mention that the code handling the typo comparison is a pretty large new surface area for attack, all in the name of optimizing the experience for typing passwords by hand (a practice we should actively reduce).
Reddit's brand is toxic. It's an echo chamber for Bernie Sanders supporters and people who hate healthy, fit people.

I can't imagine it's a good investment, even though many people use it.
Spending billions to get a small number of people to a place which will likely kill them is not very productive. Cool, yes. Fulfilling dreams, yes.

And whatever happened to having people support their position with logical arguments? Your comment is largely You need to prove why it isn't a good idea.

No, it doesn't work like that. If you're in favor of society spending billions of dollars on something, it's up to you to demonstrate why that spending is better than the alternatives.

Or, if you're a multi-billionare, spend your own money however you see fit, and don't take advice from random people on the net.

And a side note... these comments seem to be unpopular. I'm not being mean or putting people down. I'm just explaining why Mars is expensive and likely not feaasible.

But there are minimal counter-arguments which address my points. It's much easier to down-vote comments which you don't like, than to engage someone in order to understand why they disagree with you.
As Arctic Sea Ice Shows Record Decline, Scientists Prepare to Go Blind
I'm always skeptical whenever someone parades a Scandinavian country as an example of anything. The nature of their economies (Norway's massive oil wealth, for example) and the size of their populations means that lessons from these countries are rarely applicable to the US, China, India or other large countries.
The AP2 feature in the Model S currently alerts the user when vision is obstructed and refuses to go into autopilot mode. If you're in autopilot already it makes noise and flashes warnings to tell the driver to take over. I assume if the driver doesn't it will slow down and come to a stop, but the one time this happened to me I didn't give it a chance to do so!
Visiting virtual beach improves patient experiences during dental procedures
I think he was referring to the fact that you can't use any of llvm pass manager infrastructure which is in C++, even if your language-level optimization could benefit from it.
Peek inside Intercom’s Multi-Million Dollar SaaS Growth Strategy
The small sample size is what most concerns me. Just from personal observation I have no doubt that genetics play a huge part in all of this, part that's hard to believe could be accounted for in a study of 28 people.
>in a lot of ways, at odds with what economists think are the best way to run them

Do you have a source for some of these?

> Being able to experiment is really important for progress, but it's really hard to do within established systems.

Sure, that would be a nice side effect, but not part of something that justify something like this...
WereSync v1.0 pre-release released Help needed testing the program
I'm sorry, but this reason for not having title editing (and post editing on other sites like Twitter and GameFAQs) always bothered me to hell and back.

Yes it could be misused, but go on any forum where you can edit titles or post content and look at how often such a feature actually does get abused.

It pretty much never happens. Most people (like 99.99% of them) either use the functionality how it was intended or don't bother editing at all.

I don't see the point of limiting a feature because about 0.1% of the userbase might theoretically abuse it in a certain situation. It's basically the social media/forum equivalent of the trolley problem and automated cars. Something that's going to happen very rarely at the most but draws a lot of discussion about 'what ifs'.
>that companies, corporations, organisations use it to market and advertise themselves, for free.

Another phenomenon I've been seeing more of is a company that gets in early to a niche gaining control of the subreddit around that niche, tilting the scales in their favor.

Two examples I can think of are /r/nootropics, whose mod team is led by the owner of nootropics supplier Ceretropic, and /r/amazonmerch, whose sole mod is the owner of MerchInformer, a SaaS Amazon Merch research product.

They're each careful to never moderate in an overtly heavy-handed way that would cause a user revolt, but nonetheless, their companies are mentioned in the each subreddit far more often than their competitors. It's an inherent conflict of interest, and one that will only worsen as these niches grow in popularity.
Reddit post contains information on testing the program, and links to more information.
Although AMP has a lot of problems discussed often on this website, it seems adding /amp at the end of the URL fixes the problem.

(Also been trying this regularly on desktop as well to bypass the normal layout full of pop-ups and dark patterns. /amp is becoming a cheat code to get an old school light-weight page!)
They were bought out a few years ago.
where ok, or at least one was in a comment posted 'ages ago'. That's very different.
Yeah, for the second batch of jars take sales data and do A/B testing with a new round of designs!
Isn't Tesla's official recommendation to keep your hands on the wheel at all times?
> This has left me scratching my head - why just 2006 ?

As they said in the post, they're measuring cites 10 years after. It's 2017. I imagine 2006 is their "inaugural year."
> Must we make the mistake of listening to our leaders as they tell us to vilify another Saddam, another Snowden, another Assange?

Saddam was no saint. His atrocities happened years before we entered, and the intel that justified our entrance was bad, but he wasn't a good guy. That's not propaganda.
Oh, wow, walled garden indeed
BigQuery runs on Google Cloud, which has a monthly free tier.
No, it's an exactly accurate name for their feature. For which they have only yet released the 2006 edition.
Vuejs.org is probably the best documentation I have seen
iPad Pro Review Roundup
It's also very beautiful. I've been wanting to go hiking there for a long time.
Why KPIs fail