skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You wanna see how scammy and nasty YELP is? Look further down and see my criticism of Google and Yelp, and who responds. User [keymone] criticizes my choices at going against Yelp... And here's what I found out.

Usually, Googlers will say "I'm a googler but this is my opinion." Well, we get no such disclaimer. And wouldn't ya know. Yelp engineer. So you wonder whom I consider more scammy? Yeah. Yelp.

Good job, proving my point.

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You've been consistently a bad actor here, regarding Yelp. So, I searched google with "keymone yelp" (keymone is the HN username), and found the following:

https://github.com/keymone

[Name Removed]
Yelp
Hamburg, Germany
http://www.yelp.com

Organizations
@Yelp

Hmm...... Uusally people with direct interests (like yourself), will properly disclaim (I WORK FOR X, BUT NOT THEIR OPINIONS).

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https://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=1zHW3SSTF3RFjHkgHzR...

Same pic as the Github profile. Certainly not a coincidence.

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https://twitter.com/keymone

Again, this says "happy developer" at Yelp.com

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Yeah, I'd suggest if you were to play the devil's advocate, I would properly disclaim that "[You] work at Yelp as a developer" instead of me playing guessing games and finally google your name and see dozens of profiles with the same Skiing pic.

Frankly, you prove more of what I'm saying. So, tell me. How many proxies do you use when you seed bad reviews for companies that don't pay up? Because already, what you're doing is SHADY SHIT.
It would have been better if the slaves were killed after they were freed. So many problems could have been prevented.
With Facebook I scroll down until I see something I've seen before, then I stop. Doesn't seem very hard, and I imagine its what most people do. If I want to revisit older things then I keep scrolling, but that's almost never the case.
No, it's kind of like saying "best kitchen appliance."
Seems like something that Siacoin might be better at.
Yes, the Toronto ones made things worse. Now the cars have less time to use the intersection and turns are still next to impossible because of the pedestrians.

That's one of the main reasons traffic is so bad in he Toronto core. There's always a pedestrian crossing on the green so you're lucky if even one car can make a right and a small miracle if one car can turn left.

Even without the diagonal they should make all intersections have a pedestrian phase and no pedestrians during greens.
Tesla Model 3 Hits Production
This is probably the best and most truthful rebuttal to all the "the internet was better back in my day" posts that I've seen.
I've been on the "sleep on exercise mat with some blankets" train for years, but a few months back, stepped it up by eliminating pillows. I still gravitate towards getting something under my head, but it turns out that I only need another small blanket or cloth. I wake at more consistent hours and no longer experience numbness in my arms when waking. I believe there are many more "details" I can improve too. I got into training fast and slow breathing patterns for different activities, which seems to help both the training and the recovery. A plainer diet seems to help a lot of things, although it's hard to reconcile this against the constant imposition of the world to eat pizza and drink beer.
Seems a bit constricting.
I still use NNTP every day. I've never used Usenet, but it's very useful (through Gmane and Gnus) as a way to follow mailing lists. Also, the internal forums at $DAYJOB support connecting through NNTP, which is extremely convenient.

Likewise I use IRC every day, through Bitlbee, to interact with people on Facebook Messenger and other platforms.

I can do all of this from my client of choice (I choose Emacs) without a problem.

Admittedly this doesn't solve the problem of topicality, but I think things are better than they seem.
As someone who remembers being uber frustrated at having to use trillian to talk to all of my friend, I disagree, there was major fragmentation back then as well. Also for which BBS you were on, which friends were on AOL or other nerfed internet.
I am excited at the proliferation of Mastodon servers. Every cohesive tribe that can afford a $15/month VPS should set one up and ditch Facebook.
I wonder what the tax load is for both? Or at least, for Vienna, I know what it is here in Australia :)
I would suggest that you get better at asking questions before you tackle such a HUGE topic. Start by defining what you mean by flawed.

Then explain what you mean by prevent and lastly define what you mean by "learning on your own".

Finally for a bit of contrast take a look at Sugata Mitra's Hole in the Wall experiment and contrast that with whatever idea you have about online self study.
Thinking Parallel, Part I: Collision Detection on the GPU (2012)
China's Electric Cars Are Actually Pretty Dirty
Consider Hepatitis C. Chronic infection puts the patient at risk for cirrhosis and eventual liver failure, and the treatment for that is a liver transplant.

A couple of years ago Telepravir (Schering/Merck) and Boceprevir (Vertex/J&J) came to market. The price for a course of treatment has nothing to do with the cost of development and everything with the cost of a liver transplant, it's slightly less than that.
You want me to tell you what is western culture ?
You can, but by default you get Chrome, which is about the same thing people were fighting Microsoft over in the Netscape-IE days, but this time on Android.
Best to use a tor/i2p address or use a modern p2p communication protocol.
I'm still using RSS without issue. Funny thing is, i didn't really use it back in the day, I've just gravitated toward the best UX available over the years.
Why do you trust Google a lot more? What did they do to deserve your trust?
No, we use the BSD version of that... bsdm.
At the age of 21 I took four months and an assignment from an outdoor magazine and traveled Minnesota and southern Canadas state and National parks. I backpacked for long periods of time, mostly alone, and photographed for months on end. I was somewhat depressed, but also hopeful... in a way that lead me to believe over the next horizon here would be some place or someone that would make me happy. I met a lot of strangers along the way and almost died twice. I even had the FBI track me down for questioning due to my extensive periods along the border (I later learned they tracked hiking registries fairly regularly).

Ultimately there was no lesson or grand realization I had out there -- just a rich set of experiences and unique people that I draw on from time to time. I learned my limits and probably pushed them at the prime of my life and I'd like to think I'm better off for it. I learned that I liked people, even though I am often uncomfortable around them. And even though I am slightly different, I'll still survive and be ok.

Ebheret seems to be doing the same and there isn't really and need to assign a motivation to it. Sometimes we wander for vague reasons we can't quite explain. Maybe life isn't quite enough or maybe our bodies just want to return to our pre-city state. But ultimately it just ends up being something new that's maybe worth adding to the canon for human experiences, or just you're own story worth making.
Powerlifting is the source of and solution to, all of my aches and pains.

I am not a doctor and this is anecdotal but strength training has been a serious positive for me. As a desk jockey I had developed various posture and functional deficits as a human being. I have been strength training for 8 years now and my mood and physical wellbeing is starkly different.

Pros of strength training over other kinds include: low rep count, no silly ab curls, everything is very pragmatic and logical, no unfounded health fads required. Should there ever be a wild barbell blocking the path of emergency services or exit from a fire, with proper form, you could be the hero of the day.
There's this, there's the post the other day about encouraging 'openness' with MDMA, there was the article proposing 'fairer' jerrymandering reform that just so happens to shift all the votes in a single direction, plus all the hagiographies of our tireless selfless social media censors, I'm beginning to think there's a burgeoning industry working on novel side-channel attack against the electoral system.
This is like the story when Google shut off GMail for people who purchased (or sold?) a Pixel phone through eBay.

At least criminals who encrypt your files let you pay a ransom. Wonder if Google​ should do that too, "We shut off your account for reasons we won't explain. But if you pay us $1200 you can get it back"
In that case Microsoft should have been brought up on charges a long time ago for releasing the world's most insecure OS.
> Google Search for a start.

DuckDuckGo isnt one?
I've asked the question on the Monzo forums - hopefully some people know of good alternatives for business accounts: https://community.monzo.com/t/monzo-like-bank-for-businesses...

There's Tide but to be honest their app currently feels like a cheap knockoff (pretty sure it's PhoneGap/Cordova under the hood as well) so personally I wouldn't recommend it but you can always give it a try and see for yourself.
At one time someone close to me was experiencing back pain, we both saw a lovely episode of the TV series 'Louie'. Here is a quote from that episode:

Dr. Bigelow: What can I do for you?
Louie: Uh, well, I hurt my back today really bad. Uh.
Can you help me with my back? I mean...
Dr. Bigelow: What's wrong with your back?
Louie: It hurts.
Dr. Bigelow: My professional diagnosis is your back hurts.
Louie: Well, what can I do about it?
Dr. Bigelow: Nothing.
Louie: Nothing?
Dr. Bigelow: The problem is you're using it wrong. The back
isn't done evolving yet. You see, the spine is a row of
vertebrae. It was designed to be horizontal. Then people
came along and used it vertical. Wasn't meant for that.
So the disks get all floppy, swollen. Pop out left, pop
out right. It'll take another. I'd say 20,000 years to
get straightened out. Till then, it's going to keep hurting.
Louie: So that's it?
Dr. Bigelow: It's an engineering design problem. It's a
misallocation. We were given a clothesline and we're using
it as a flagpole.
Ha, yes, I've done this too over the past year. Including on isolated networks where transferring things from the Internet is mildly complicated, but I gotta have my PxPlus VGA9.

It is amazing how comforting it is to use that font. It's not the first one I encountered certainly, but it was there for what seems like a long time, and for many formative experiences, I guess.
> It's odd to try to rationalize

Some progress is better than no progress. It was called a "compromise", after all. The Constitution contained both the justification for emancipation, and the legal framework to enact it. The seeds were there, it was only a matter of time. The South saw that inevitability and seceded to try and avoid it.

If you have a theory about how it could have happened otherwise, I'd be interested to hear it.
We must kill our harassers. It's the only way to stop the problem.
Ask HN: What countries (besides France) encourage entrepreneurs to immigrate?
I'm gladly surprised on how well the brazilian TLD registrar works in comparison of some private players in other countries like Godaddy, although lacking some features. It is simple, straightforward, just works.

It is managed by a non-profit with a very diverse board: http://www.nic.br/pagina/for-an-increasingly-better-internet...

I would enjoy to learn about the history of its creation
How's wot?
As far as I have been informed, [1] surviving Europeans/Asians are Neanderthalized (hybrids), and [2] no pure Neanderthals are living today.
I sleep on the hard floor. Never had a back pain. On the time where I need to sleep on soft places, sofa or mat etc, it gets painful afterwards.
... in a small, biased sample.
This quite possibly the best use for blockchain that I have heard to date!
I like Google too. And I like the search engine returning products if it thinks they are relevant. But the issue behind EU commission was that they found Google purposely lower the ranks of relevant competitor's results nearly off the front page without merit.

The typical argument is that Google can do that because it is their search agent. But they did not express it explicitly in their terms of service.
Reddit really 'dug' (see what I did there) its own grave by aggressively catering to casual users, in order to drive signups and grow the user base. I can't remember exactly what happened at which point, but it all follows the general pattern of appealing to the mass market. E.g. the curation of the frontpage via default subs such as /r/AdviceAnimals that don't really contain meaningful discussion. There's no real need to do this if one is concerned with maintaining an existing community, or the standards of it. As a counterexample, private trackers have been rather good at this, generally by having interviews/invitations for new memberships, or even disabling signups entire. Though these are really the most extreme options.

The other main problem is that like Digg, that there is a powerful cabal of moderators in control of most mainstream subreddits, including those concerned with serious topics like news and politics and they do a lot of "curation" of content by removing stuff, rather than letting the users decide on which links and topics are relevant to discussion (by, ya know... upvoting/downvoting) with chilling effects on those respective subs. That this was allowed to continue, without overhauling and maybe even democratising the moderation system of default subs, was Reddit's choice. I can only suspect that this either (a) plays into the hands of advertisers directly via corporate censorship or (b) indirectly, by relegating content from users who fall outside of the "mass-market" demographic to niche subreddits or other websites.
Async friendly transformation middleware for Redux
Going from no Constitution to a Constitution that enshrined the institution of slavery simply isn't progress.
PPIs are pretty difficult to stop taking -- I started taking Prilosec in 2004 for reflux and after a few tries at stopping abruptly resulted in horrid symptoms, I finally manged to tail off by reducing the dose 1/8 at a time every 2 weeks, over a total period of 2 months. From all accounts H2 blockers are easier to quit.

I was pleasantly surprised that I didn't have any heartburn or reflux issues when I was done -- apparently the original cause was gone.
They gave things away for free.
What argument of mine are you attempting to rebut?
What if PPI users are more likely to have some other health issues compared to other patients due to some unobserved variable (e.g. lifestyle, strength of the physiological reaction to stress, genetic factors affecting both the likelihood of becoming a PPI user as well as the likelihood of having other health issues)?

Oh, man... correlational studies... shame they didn't directly link to the article, too.
If I recall correctly kotlin by default compiles to bytecode of Java 1.6. So o be afair comparison you should enable kotlin to compile to 1.8. as it is bytecode anyway I would expect very similar performance. But comparing 1.6 with 1.8 it is obvious 1.6 would be slower.
I agree totally. I have a friend who has a daughter special needs that includes both cognitive and complex physical challenges. During her divorce proceeding her ex's attorney asked her, "isn't it true that your daughter attends XYZ School for Exceptional Children?" She said yes. The attorney followed up the question with, "so then it is your privilege to have a gifted child, correct?" Her response, "well I guess it depends on how you look at the gift but it is certainly a privilege to have her as my daughter."

It appears that a physician who put himself through school because his family was without means to help is lucky because he had the brains and drive to make good grades. After getting his MD he chooses to focus on finding a cure for cancer and discovers protocols that inhibit cancer cell growth. When asked what drives him he says he lost his sister to cancer when he was a child and since that day he has wanted to be a doctor? So was he lucky to have had a sister w cancer?

Sometimes privilege and luck are not mutually exclusive. He certainly was privileged to find his calling at a young age and I would guess there was a fair amount of luck in there as well (getting into the school that nurtured his passion etc) but you cannot discount the power of personal drive either.
As I said above, I would like you to spell out what elements of culture Italians share with Irishmen, but not with Mexicans.
It's true but it's not a rebuttal. It's an explanation.
The salary scale for jobs paid according to tariff in the electronic (IG Metall) or chemical industry in Germany ends at around 100k€. This can be reached if you stay at the same company for a reasonably long time and don't fuck up. This is far from entry level salary though and most people only reach this in their 30ier or 40ies.

Senior technical expert and management positions are usually paid above tariff, starting at around 100k€.

There are plenty of positions in the big tech companies and software that are paid above 100k€. It's just very unlikely to get there if you are straight from school. Also, you won't have much luck finding >100k€ positions in the eastern part of Germany.
I'd recommend his second book too (The Gene) - it's just as good.
Yes, but there have been an increasing trend in "reddit style" comments on news.ycombinator.com . Myself and other users have noticed, called people out, downvoted etc for the lousy comments.

But the realities of the threading style & upvote democracy is that lowest common denominator spreads easily.

Related discussion in same thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14699133
I understand your sentiment. It certainly would have been better to go all the way at the time.
The constitution of the CSA[1] would look pretty familiar to anyone who has read Jefferson's work; I suspect that if both were written by private entities under current copyright laws, the CSA would be found to have infringed on the document it was abridging.

I mean, this is just snark, but it's certainly an example of the words of Thomas Jefferson being used to defend slavery.

This is the biggest problem with an originalist interpretation of the Constitution, and one could argue that the fact that the constitution was so vague as to what, exactly, constitutes a man or a citizen was actually a progressive thing, because if we had frozen what a voting citizen was in 1787, we'd explicitly only have given the right to vote to property owning white males, something that (I hope) almost all of us would disagree with. Because so many important things were not strictly defined, we sort of have a built in bias towards loose constructionism.

[1]http://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/selections/confed/trans.htm...
Glare at its forward camera.
I see Firefox and Chrome and several other browsers in the iOS AppStore.
Getting off of PPIs is a miserable experience. It gave me the worst acid reflux of my life, lasting almost a whole month. Everything is back to normal now (I don't think I should have been taking them in the first place), but I wonder if the crappy withdrawal process contributes to this somehow.
On Linux, there's `espeak`, which is essentially equivalent to `say` on Mac.
My brother had lumbar fusion surgery after he hurt his back on the job. My parents tried to talk him out of it, but the workman's comp lawyer and the doctors convinced him anyway. Three years later, he spent almost all the workman's comp money and his back is worse than before.
awakening
If Google removed my page from its results, or penalizes it, how do I get the same users to see my website again?

I mean, that’s what you’re saying. I can get the same users to see my site when they search for it without having to rely on Google.
Biased, maybe. But the sample sizes are pretty big, whether "bigness" refers either to absolute numbers or to being big enough such that whatever they're estimating will come pretty close to the true value of that variable for similar populations. I mean, the smallest sample is 70k plus.
Now that ICANN has ruined DNS though, there's not much point. Don't need to register endlesshor.se in Sweden when you can just get http://endless.horse.
>Do any of the same people even work there any more, you know?

I do not know. What point are you making here? Regardless of the answer to that question, the provider is still using a specious justification to cancel an account they have provided for twenty years.
The requirement to use SNMP with that always put me off.
I am also interested in etymology. For those who don't know you can type in "define xxx" on Google and get the etymology tree for word/phrase xxx.

It is remarkable how easy it is to find out an English word's etymology, which is very hard if not impossible in most other languages.
I thought nothing in Russia could shock me. Then I went to a TV broadcast
He could change his legal name to Nor Eply if he wanted to stir things up even more...
Thanks for taking the time to give such helpfully feedback.
> Our next big rail project, ST3, will install 62 miles of rail over 20+ years at a cost of over $50 billion.

Good basis for comparison. Because you see, for a typical freeway, a billion per mile is the cost.

And that's just installation.

Add in the cost to maintain the roads, and they lose to tracks hands down. Tracks don't need to be resurfaced. And track beds don't need a resurfacing just to get inspected.

(You're also missing the added cost for the overhead wiring if you're going to compare against electrified rail.
It's an exercise in simplicity. Adding an Arduino is a little against the spirit.
I recognize that work of one sort or another is as essential to survival as protein... I have compassion for those making the most of their commute and their cubicle; I just wish they could be a little less cheerful about it.

In one paragraph work is described as necessary, and then complains that people are happy doing it? How dare we be content with our lives?...
So far it seems like the only major players here are [Tide](https://www.tide.co/) and [Coconut](https://getcoconut.com/).

However I'd also have a look at the TransferWise Borderless account, it may be of interest to you if you deal with currencies other than GBP.
At least on Debian, rsh is just a symlink for ssh, and rcp is just scp.
We need a win-win system.

People adopted schema.org so their search ranking improved. Adding markup for machine consumption doesn't make sense otherwise.

We need to build systems that benefit both parties.
USDCHF Bullish, Retains Upside Pressure
Agreed. And this further reinforces the idea that running my own personal email server is worth it. I get that the vast majority of people aren't going to do this and that most people on HN advise against it. I'll tell you though, there's some satisfaction now that I have everything up and running smoothly, with well-trained spamassassin and 10/10 server scores on mail-tester.com.
It's not about whether a monopoly is fair or "unfair", it's about whether it provides power that they can abuse and is thus worse for the public interest.

Google got their monopoly fairly enough, maintain it through a mix of fair and questionable practices, and definitely uses their monopoly now in ways that are anti-competitive.
My own theory about why our ability to focus on what we want to on the internet is Attention Capitalism. Our attention is the latest resource to be exploited by capitalism, and each company is attempting to control what we focus on for their profit. I've noticed this trend; very little software let's me control what information I see anymore. It's almost all controlled by some algorithm making me see what they claim I want to see.