skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe that people "choose" to be poor, and there is an overwhelming societal component at play. But I can't say that the individual and their choices don't matter.

He admits he had problems with drugs, and that his life spiraled out of control. Do I think we should have treatment programs so it doesn't get this bad? Yes, of course. But some people don't think there's a problem, or need help until they hit bottom. It's part of their problem. Many times you can't commit someone to treatment against their will, at least in the US.

In this complicated world, where we view everything through our own subjective lens (consciousness), we have to admit that the individual has a role to play. How do they frame their reality? Are they giving up? Do they just feel "down on their luck"? Do they have that will? Why do some people fail in the face of adversity and others succeed? Are they just having "a good time" (with drugs)? Is there a mental illness at play? Understanding the problem is key to solving it.

If someone has completely given up on making their life better, then they are basically choosing to be poor, because their mind has accepted there is no other choice (no matter how slim the chance of success). They may not have any other choice but to be poor, but to stop improving basically ensures it. Some people lose the will to live, while others do not. (This isn't just people in extreme poverty either, but poor people marginalized by society, or people that become poor after being rich)

Let me just run a parallel to another public health crisis - obesity. I'm fat. Always have been. But the big difference to me is consciously making the choice I'm going to do what it takes to get rid of it. We all know that exercising and eating are in our control, they are choices we make. They might be painful choices, but we have them. But when we convince ourselves it's not possible ("it's genetic", "i'll never be thin", "i lack the strength", etc), we do give up, and that's basically losing the battle before you start. Sure, we could blame everyone who's putting bad things in food, and selling us french fries, but we also know that they wouldn't be selling them if they weren't so good. And that we all have a choice of how many times we eat them. Even if we only made healthy food, some people would still eat too much. There's always personal choice at play. If anything, society is the culmination of people's personal choices on a macro scale.

Do I think we need to help the poor and provide services? Of course. But we also need to give them hope. A lot of people don't know the government services that could help them, because they aren't looking, or have given up. Just getting services to people is a challenge, and relies on people wanting to accept help, and being able to accept those services to help get them back on their feet, and giving them the tools to stay on the up and up.
There's still quite a few places on this earth where people don't even bother to lock their front doors, or don't worry about leaving their bike lying around somewhere unsecured.

What you said is mostly for true for major cities though.
It might sound that way to you. To me "society and ethics" means asking: what are both the positive and negative implications of something, and how do you weigh or mitigate them? What should you do, what shouldn't you do, and why?
What cell service is perfect? Fi is wonderful for a simple pricing structure and having service in 170+ countries as soon as you land. It allows me to use my phone in the few hours it takes from landing in a new country, to getting to my hotel, to getting to a cell provider to get a local SIM.

It is only officially supported on Nexus and Pixel phones, which are great devices. You can get around the limitation by doing some Googling as well if you insist on using a different device.
That, and, I've never consented to release my birthday publicly. I consider it to be private, therefore it is private. It's mine! I expect the government would not release it since they use it as part of an identifier all the time.

There's no perfect identifier. That's why we need security. This is a major lapse.

Pretty sneaky of the comment above yours to try to pass dmv.org as a government website.
someone who has the intelligence and work ethic to do this probably wasn't going to be homeless for long.

And capacity. Many people on the street have serious health problems or other obstacles to productivity. I lack neither intelligence nor a work ethic, but I do have health problems. I have been homeless 5.5 years, though I blog, do freelance work, etc.

Edit: You also need opportunity. Being homeless can be a huge barrier to opportunity, both in practical terms and due to stigma. People don't want to hire homeless people.
You could, but where would all that power come from? Fusion is the only thing I can see that fits the bill, and we're decades from commercialization.
Problem (3) these stories don't scale.
Oh, I know it's not politically feasible and is fairly horrible. It's damning of our current system, though, that it's de facto very nearly the same thing and also incredibly expensive/stressful.
Cycling in Amsterdam is fun in a sort of stressy rollercoastery way. Utrecht is even worse.

If you're in the area though, I can highly recommend taking one of the many bike routes, in particular one that leads to the dunes near Amersfoort. From Amsterdam/Utrecht it's a perfect distance for a day trip and really beautiful.
More likely: This will flop and won't be on any displays
I must say the logo resembles Tomatoes[0] productivity app logo very much.

[0] http://tomato.es
> That's a chicken-and-egg problem too... inner-city schools suck because everyone with money took their taxes to the suburbs (for better schools).

Well, yes, but more to the point inner city schools suck in outcome terms because outcomes are driven more by parental educational attainment and other non-school factors (income is mostly irrelevant except that it correlated with parental education, and tax base is irrelevant as shown by the fact thst the problem is not particularly attenuated in states that equalize per pupil spending statewide, so that taking your tax money elsewhere has only a very weak effect on school funding) than by anything schools do, and no one has found (and most of the efforts of standardizing what schools do in the expectations of consistent outcomes detracts from the search for) interventions that address deficiencies in this area.

To fix inner city (or “poor rural” or other “problem” schools) you have to either first fix or, at least, find interventions that break the cyclical nature of the underlying social inequalities that actually cause the poor outcomes.
T-mobile (Post-paid) has free international data and SMS... works in 100s of countries. No extra cost. This is the sole reason I am a customer.

The data is slow, but definitely good enough. It is good enough to use google hangouts to call phones back in the states.
Earth-Size Planets Among Final Tally of NASA’s Kepler Telescope
I always heard that a small U lock[1] is always better than a larger one and I never understood why. Now i know, that modified carjack is something else.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Kryptonite-Evolution-Mini-Bike-U-Lock...
Frankly I'd trust the government more than I'd trust an HR rep. At least in the government you have people who believe they work for the citizens of the US.

Well perhaps the previous administration anyways...
At what point do you consider it theft? 6+ weeks had to be up there...
FTA: "Imagine a medical student who is training to be a surgeon but who fears that he’ll become distressed if he sees or handles blood. What should his instructors do?"

Tell said student to either find a means to deal with the sight of blood, or find another career? Have the sensitivities of students taken priority over the needs of future clients?

"Instead, though, many students and teachers appear to be absorbing a cultural signal that real and challenging discussion of sexual misconduct is too risky to undertake—and that the risk is of a traumatic injury analogous to sexual assault itself."

Apparently so.
Early beer was much, much weaker than what we have today. In a lot of times and places beer was the primary means of hydration--safer than dirty water--but people weren't staggering around drunk all the time.
How viewing cute animals can help rekindle marital spark
Our CEO IS not on slack. He uses email.

Slack is for small teams which have a lot of shared context
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The newspapers own AP. They share news via AP. AP was/is a scheme to reduce the costs of news gathering by, for example, having the LA Times contribute information on events in LA that the NYTimes can use, and vice versa.
How is De School? I've been meaning to check it out and I heard it's from the people that ran the club in the Trouw building, which I kind of liked by the (relatively) mediocre Amsterdam club standards.
Not necessarily. Lots of people have a car and live more than 5 kilometers from the city center or their work. But a decent amount of people take their bikes when it is under 15 kilometers.

Grocery shopping is often less than 5 kilometers, but me and my neighbours often use the car for that (eventhough often it could be done by bike).

I think the biggest reason is purely cultural. It is normal (almost expected) that kids and teenagers go to school, sport and clubs by bike. You grow up riding a bike and it is your first real "liberation" from depending on your parents for everything.

It kinda represents freedom to go where you want to go before coming of age and being allowed to drive a car. (The minimum age to get your driving license used to be 18, though recently you can get a "starters license" at 17 as long as you drive under adult supervision).

And later on you realise that often taking the car, whilst great, isn't that more practical (and certainly not as economical) as taking the bike now and again.
The Size of iPhone’s Top Apps Has Increased by 1,000% in Four Years
This is a critical point, thanks for making it. The mythology that all failure is a function of bad work ethic, etc., is a huge barrier to meaningful progress on poverty alleviation.

Anyone interested in reading more on this topic, I rec. this book. It's about people who are near-homeless, not fully homeless, but it's one of the best things I've read on the topic. The author lived with the subjects for several years & does a superlative job of telling their story in that sort of explanatory way (not judgmental or absolving) that HN readers seem to appreciate.

https://www.amazon.com/Evicted-Poverty-Profit-American-City/...

(excerpt of the book here: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/08/forced-out)
Aspiring Space-Based Nation to Start with Baby Steps
I can only speak for myself, but there's a deep connection that is made with the physical object that an e-book will never replace.

My favorite books that I own are the ones that are beat up, earmarked, scribbled in, and well loved.

There's also the collectors aspect - filling your home with books adds character to it. It's not like your going to mount your kindle on the wall and have guests flip through it.

Same reason why vinyl is making a comeback. Yes digital files are easier to manage, collect, and search - but the physicality of the object plays a huge role in the experience.

In general I think the trend of "nostalgia" as the article puts it, is a knee-jerk reaction against the ever growing possibility of the digital world. Images, books, music, memories, even experiences are being digitized, consumed, and then forgotten. It's all white noise. Have a physical object grounds it in reality and creates a history that you can't replicate through digital means.

I'd much rather have a family heirloom passed down then a facebook selfie Grandma took at thanksgiving.
I just tested httpd 2.4.25 against nginx 1.10.3 on my workstation using the default configurations and it seems things are much better on the memory consumption area (than a quite a few years ago when we made the switch to nginx)

* httpd 2.45.5, default config (prefork), peaked at 24 processes and ~8MB RSS each (192MB) => 88k req/sec

* nginx 1.10.3, default config, peaked at 8 processed and ~4MB RSS each (32MB) => 199k req/sec

I thought all the default modules could be slowing httpd down so I built the most stripped down version that would allow me to run it and also switched to mpm_event:

* httpd 2.45.5, stripped down mpm_event, peaked at 5 processed 8MB each (40MB) ==> 89k req/sec

Both mpm_prefork and mpm_event had similar numbers. Where should I be looking at if I want to increase the request rate?

EDIT: stripped down mpm_prefork got me 120k req/sec but I saw a few defunct processes which is scary.
I don't understand why anyone would design a website so complex that there is a noticeable benchmark difference between $100 processors and $1000 processors.
https://github.com/tomchristie/apistar

I haven't read it yet but have heard good things.
Dropbox Is Rolling Out a Private Network to Speed Up File Access
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Wonder Kids: How Wonder Woman’s Impact Isn’t About You
I commute about 4.5km by bike(each way) twice a day, in London. It's much quicker than public transport. 12-17minutes by bike, with traffic + stop lights. I'd be looking at 30~ minutes by public transport. Even a taxi/car is likely 20 or more. Cities designed before cars are (imo) - so much nicer.
enzanki_ars and BoiledCabbage cite the publicly accessible preference/views data categories which included the party you vote for
Money spent on education correlates very poorly with educational quality at k-12 level. (This may be different a the college level.) Parental involvement and other factors are much stronger indicators.
yes, seriously. happy for him, but fuck the whole "instead of begging" narrative :(
> I see no mechanism for expediting immigration/customs inbound to the US

Global Entry [0], if you are a US citizen or permanent resident.

It is life changing. Immigration takes under a minute at a kiosk and there is a priority lane at Customs.

[0] https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-...
As far as I'm concerned, both parties are mutually destructive. (Destructive competition.) Two peas in a pod since the 90s.
Doing badass things that don't scale got him attention that could be monetized to further bring himself and others up. Goodwill (the business value kind) is a vital component to rapidly scaling a venture. Things that scale come later.
For those interested in researching past domain sales, namebio.com is a great starting place. It has a searchable DB of public domain sales which can be filtered by extension, length, etc.

Eg. five-letter .com search: https://namebio.com/?s==ITO4gTM5ITM

Also the weekly domain sales report by Ron Jackson is another good place to get a sense of current sales: http://dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm (I believe these are included in namebio's DB, but regardless Ron adds some color commentary to the numbers)
I heard 2 horrible things about O-locks. 1 - Every bike has them in europe, 2 - you can open them by jamming a flathead screw driver through the keyhole and twisting. Any truth to that?
30x is quick! But still it doesn't appear to be sequential parser.

html -> gumbo parse tree -> lxml tree

What makes it efficient even with two tree transformations ?

Is one of the above trees constructed in sequential way and is less-recursive ?
Just to provide context (without justifying it!): in my student days it was completely socially accepted to buy junkie bikes. The justification, to the degree that we bothered having one, was that we all had bikes stolen multiple times.

Most people I know stopped buying junkie bikes once they started making a bit more money though, so it's still generally frowned upon. It's just culturally not quite the same as outright theft (again, I don't approve of this personally but even I once bought a probably-stolen bike once).
Telling tomorrows: Science fiction as an energy futures research tool
Ask HN: Do/did you allow your toddler access to a tablet?
We've been strict regarding TV with our 2.5 year old, none before age 2 and 20 mins per day since then. I recently installed an educational app on my phone to experiment and he went crazy, learning colours, shapes and numbers overnight. The potential for learning seems undeniable especially given the fun factor.

However I'm scared about addiction and us caving in to giving him more time on the device over time. When I tell him its time up after his 20 min limit he has a tantrum, every time. And first thing in the morning before even getting out of bed he asks to play on Daddy's phone. This scares me.

I'm considering buying an iPad and making it clear that its mine and not his and he gets 20 mins only when I'm home and together with me (This prevents him from bugging my wife for it during the day when i'm not home and makes it clear that I am in charge of when it gets used).

I feel buying this iPad is a big step and I'd love to hear thoughts from any other parents in our position or who have already taken this step and can reflect on the decision and what they may have done differently?
Sounds like first cloud in the space?
I think people are missing the big legal liability .... this information has been published to the world, it contains estimates of people's deeply held political beliefs - some of it will be wildly wrong and those people might consider that they have been libeled .... roll on the lawsuits
Too many problems with passwords, oauth and other things. There should be a standard auth protocol that is secure and works with everything out there. Why isn't there a successfully adoptef one yet?

This is my attempt in progress:

https://github.com/Qbix/auth
Speaking of, why is there still no standard protocol for changing passwords? That's 90% of the barrier to managing passwords.
No, it absolves the forward operator of everything and blames the rearward operator for everything.

You often can't pass another motorist without going into the oncoming lane either.

The fundamental question is whether you see the road as a way for all people, or if you see it as primarily a resource for the wealthy, with the poor allowed provisional access based on their degree of disturbance to the flow of money.

You seem to see denying wealthy motorists the right to travel at their preferred speed as a more serious issue than denying the poor the right to safe travel in any form.
I was surprised to see hundreds of unlocked bikes in Japan. Sounds like it's common over there:
https://www.reddit.com/r/bicycling/comments/3loaqx/bikes_par...
I think he's trying to imply that the stereotype exists for a reason, that deep thinking requires isolation from distraction.

For a more concrete example, you can look to what Richard Hamming had to say about the topic. He noticed a similar phenomenon at bell labs, where there was a difference big difference between people who worked with their doors open, and those who worked with them closed.

The door closed people were much more productive than the closed door people. Of course, he noticed there was a tradeoff there, and saw that the closed door people tended to not be as relevant years later as the open door people.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming
What's the difference between that for desktop displays and a handheld display that we frequently reorient without complaint? The smaller range of viewing angle? Different technology?
Context for those who just want the data: : it's currently up ~2% (to $17.88)
Researchers train drones to use Wi-Fi to look through walls
If this was a book I would pick it up and lightly place it in the trashcan.

I don't care what sort of changes they've made under the hood since I used MongoDB at massive scale, all I know is 9 out 10 of my major outages were Mongo related and now that I run PostgreSQL, all my outages have been human error related.
Funny that you didn't even mention RIM's Blackberry which was the dominant device for email on-the-go among busy execs, including, if I'm not mistaken Obama at that time.

Jobs was only looking for 10% of the global mobile phone market in the 2007 keynote announcing the iPhone. The iPhone was so well received it demolished Nokia and RIM's dominance in the space of a few years.
I see he has a potential to be a net celebrity by doing a live streaming show focusing on book reviews with a $100 smart phone.
But what's the alternative to Facebook for media companies?

There's Google and that's about it.

So even though this article might have a lot of merit to what it states, there really isn't any good alternatives to using Facebook (besides maybe Google).
The people who steal a frame somewhere else. Otherwise they can not finish their bike...
This is like complaining Ruby on Rails has a problem because you can't build iOS apps with it.

It's a good story, and it inspires tons of people who are in bad situations, as well as people who are in good situations but are doing nothing with it. What more do you want? Solve global warming?

Don't turn this into "you can't always win just because you work hard" trope. This is a beautiful story that inspires people and that itself is powerful.
Yes, let's stop selling knives while we're at it.
Harvard Rescinds Acceptances for At Least Ten Students for Obscene Memes[1]: "Harvard College rescinded admissions offers to at least ten prospective members of the Class of 2021 after the students traded sexually explicit memes and messages that sometimes targeted minority groups in a private Facebook group chat." (June 5)

A related NYTimes opinion piece [2] encourages "help young social media users realize that their online and real-life experiences are more intertwined than they may think. Parents might, for example, cite current events, like the Harvard episode, to remind them that nothing online is ever completely private". Which is true, good advice, and social cooling.

And the nytimes/reuters version [3] is currently "Page No Longer Available". How does that affect your confidence that "if it was going on, you would know about it"? :)

[1] http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/6/5/2021-offers-resci...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/well/family/the-secret-so...
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2017/06/05/business/05reuter...
I'm just waiting to hear Trump tell Deep Root Analytics, "You're Fired!"

It would be good to see him make this a clear case of responsibility. Also, someone on the RNC side needs to get fired, too. I'm not sure who, but errors this big demand it.
Data Brokers in an Open Society [pdf]
Sniff. I remember when I was young and naive too. Actually, it may have been mostly true thirty years ago, before the workplace became a minefield.
Star Trek: DS9 episode 1x05 Babel. Terrorist device is triggered which causes the replicated to insert a virus that has the effect of causing people to lose their ability to speak - Aphasia.

Actually one of the more interesting episodes.
A company that sells expensive mattresses over the internet raises that much money ? And is doing an IPO ? This is literally internet gone mad. Mattresses are commodity products trying very hard to differentiate themselves.
Yeah it's funny, I always read about why you never accept the counter offer and then you get one and you think about all the comforts of what you currently have just with more money...

But your link is really good and brings up some salient points. Thank you.
Open Textbook Library
I've had a Korean hotel offer this. It wasn't really that useful; I bought a SIM instead.
For purposes of security paranoia, if you can perform a security audit on open source code it is just as good as any other code you've written.

Idk about other people but I find anything I don't find security holes in myself "as good" as anything I've written. I've got the same set of assumptions/blinders/competence either way.
Cold spray and a hammer is faster and much less noisy and does not come with a free pyrotechnics display.
Does + 2 percent really = a surge?