skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I up-voted your post because whether or not I disagree, I can't stand people coming by and doing drive-by down votes on posts like this where you've clearly thought about and put work into a response. Thanks for that.

I don't take public transportation, I'm a car-commuter. But I have an issue with something you said and it irked my quite a bit. You called those riding the trains and what not "subsidies" but you don't look at our car culture and have the same view. This befuddles me. Highway construction is every bit the subsidy that public transportation construction is, perhaps more so. Not to mention the other impacts, environmental or otherwise, that cost us dearly. Whether it's the harm to the environment, the higher cost paid to maintain a car and the infrastructure to drive it on, or the fact that car accidents are the leading cause of death for our country's youth, picking on public transportation as a subsidy is not a fair characterization.
Overcome it? It's the secret to my success!
Your comment here is at least as harmful as edw's "man up and face your problems" comment to aaronsw. You need to restrain yourself in this situation.
All you need is a nice quick python wrapper for that and you've got a business :)
Fyi you can return items to IKEA for up to 1 year after purchase. Even built.
You're calling rail a scam (a system that works marvelously in Europe and Japan for example) and saying that the "rail industry" is out for your tax dollars, but.... did you forget about the massive highway construction industry and automotive industry?
Apple patent shows a controller-free way to interact with ARKit
Mark Zuckerberg’s Year of Books: The Full List
And that’s still true today. You can combine git with a file syncing system via FTP, SCP or WebDAV, and you get... SeaFile.
It's already arriving. Look at the Chromebooks for education. They're thicker, ruggedized. A fair number have more durable keyboards. The battery life is excellent. These are machines for doing assignments -
serious work. Likewise a lot of convertibles are sporting a stylus again to pick up the digital art market. And "Mobile Workstation" has become a sizable laptop segment independent of "gaming laptop". The shift is visible, although it'll be some time before the hardware/software packages are polished enough to satisfy pros with an established workflow.
Adding “.com” to company name increased stock prices during dotcom boom
Whoa, what? I don't think this comment meant anything negative to people from blue-collar backgrounds, and I think when it reads "deserve to be there" that--you might be reading that as "don't deserve anything better than that", but I think the context implied that what was meant was "shouldn't feel like you're a fraud at box-lifting and thus don't deserve to be doing the work you're doing". My family's blue-collar AF, but I don't think there's anything offensive about noting that a field that widely requires college degrees (these days) is going to be populated largely by the classes of people who get college degrees (for whatever reasons such class divisions exist). "Wealthier" doesn't even necessarily mean anything above middle class, in context.
Do you have direct links to peer-reviewed sources, not search results for videos? Also I am always skeptical of websites where all the content is produced by one doctor and phrases like "From the physician behind the trusted website NutritionFacts.org, How Not to Die reveals the groundbreaking scientific evidence behind the only diet that can prevent and reverse many of the causes of premature death and disability" are found on it. Most practicing physicians are much more careful with their wording.
Twitter could beat earnings
Interesting background in
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1120033...
The standard kilogram has been losing mass over time (when compared to a collection of copies).
Apparently, we have been getting progressively less banana... (about 50 parts per billion between these comparison exercises)
I personally love the huge trackpads Apple builds. Especially the double tap right-click and all the swipe features. I think the dedicated button ones are super inconvenient, because you’d have to move your finger there instead of clicking/tapping anywhere
Redfin Housing Demand Index Hit a New High in May
Good classification... and point...

It would be interesting to know "If I were to survive 100% only on native (pre-EURO/Colonizers) food-stuffs, what would my diet look like?"
Photo of the Week: A Dizzying View of a Bicycle Graveyard in China
Make your Goals measurable.
Be grateful for the things you have learned/accomplished.
Well said! All these journalists need to read 1) Thinking fast and slow, and 2) Black Swan. The reporting these days is tabloid level garbage.
> One reason it's not OK, at least in tech, is that women are so hugely under-represented.

How are women hugely under-represented? Quick look at data.

Google tech: 80% male, 20% female. [0]

CS bachelor degrees 2014: 77% male, 23% female. [1]

CS bachelor degrees 2014: 82% male, 18% female. [1]

https://www.google.com/diversity/ [0]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2015/01/27/wo... [1]
The secret is there is no secret.

Minimize ego and whining, do more.

Everyone puts pants on one leg at a time.

Set a good example and don't be a d1ck.
> The GOP has become a vicious beast over the past decade.

Only ten years you say? Well Reagan kicked off this crazy "government is the problem" kick which was really veiled racism (I guess you could go back to Nixon's southern strategy for some of that), then Gingrich and his crew were pretty awful power-hungry hypocrites, then we had about a decade of Karl Rove's "permanent majority" BS which thankfully looked like it was going to crash and burn this decade until its smooth, effortless and unfortunate transition into the present day with Trump...

But as those kiddos say, HN is not a place to discuss politics. :-P

Though Gerrymandering, I will note, the map being discussed in this post predates either political party by quite some time.
There were plenty of BBSs in France at the time but mostly used by people who were "into computers". Oh, and Compuserve!
What Milgram and Stanford experiments showed: ordinary people might do something evil if ordered by a person.

What this article is about: rich white men are sexist.

I fail to see the connection.
How to Rip and Convert Blu-Ray to MKV with Blu-Ray to MKV Converter
I've been looking forward to more details about this program emerging seeing that I'm a french-speaking francophile who recently made a transition to a career in programming.

The minimum education requirement being a Master's degree is quite disappointing. I fear they are making the same mistake as Japan when the latter introduced their points-based immigration system that requires you to be fluent in Japanese with a Master's degree and published research, making far above the salary any Japanese worker would make in the same position.

France isn't exactly an easy country to immigrate to. I was toying with the idea of doing a Master's earlier this year; this might be the motivation I need to get it done now.
"Omar walking!"
YC is making a bet on biotech, but it's not an obvious fit
Could this be broadened to say that those who have coping mechanisms for pain have less empathy for the pain of others? As an explanation why the well off seem to have less empathy for the less well off.
>> Pointless unless you’re a data entry clerk.

A lot of heavy Excel users would disagree.

You might make the argument that using Excel is like being a data entry clerk, but having actually having had a job as a data entry clerk in the 80s, I can tell you it is not the same thing.
I'm having trouble understanding what the benefits are of going public for Dropbox. Increased financial reporting and the fiduciary duty to shareholders.

I suspect, as the article implies "there is increasing pressure to go pubic as investors look to cash out.

What features or new products could Dropbox develop with a few hundred million at they couldn't without?

I think the investors just want to cash out. If there was huge throw potential wouldn't they continue to raise VC money?
Dropbox readying IPO but what other companies do you really want to IPO? #uber
i choose uber at 100Bn

pls comment the private company that you would like to see go public and at what valuation
just today cleaning out my desk i found this again

http://www.math.jhu.edu/~smahanta/Teaching/Spring10/Stillwel...

>The aim of this paper is to prove the unsolvability by radicals of the quintic (in fact of the general nth degree equation for n >= 5) using just the fundamentals of
groups, rings and fields from a standard first course in algebra.

essentially all of the fundamentals of galois theory in 5 short (very readable!) pages.
The US has a very similar requirement for their visa (I'm specifically referring to E3, which is the H1B for Australians) which only lets in 'skilled' people, defined by a university degree (or 3 years of work experience for every 1 year of degree, so a total of 9-12 years).

It was pretty disheartening to get a job offer from a big tech firm in New York only to have any chances shot down because of visa...
The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons has also published articles claiming that HIV does not cause AIDS, that global warming is not human-caused and is beneficial anyway, that abortion causes breast cancer, and that vaccines cause autism. It is published by a far-right advocacy group and is neither a credible nor neutral source.
Here's a great little web game that shows the power of multi-member PR: http://polytrope.com/district/
A lot of the show was inspired by real events and real people, including the experiences and true character of some of the actors.

One of the most interesting to me was Melvin Williams who played The Deacon, and in real life was a big-time heroin kingpin who was renowned for his intelligence. There's a decent documentary about him floating around and a (short) Wikipedia page [0].

Another is Felicia Pearson who played Snoop. Listen to an interview with her and hear her backstory, and you know she's the real deal. Stephen King called her character "perhaps the most terrifying female villain to ever appear in a television series". [1]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Williams_(actor)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoop_(The_Wire)
This is the one that best fits my needs as well. I've been using it for a few years. About every year I look around to see if there's anything better, but I keep coming back to it. It's not perfect, but it does the job, most of the time.
I saw an article that said the UK audience required a Rosetta Stone for the Baltimore street talk, both words and accents.
> Insert/Home/End are essential for text editing

I manage to edit text without these buttons so they are demonstrably not essential.
That isn't how insurance works. To do an insurance pool, you have to have a lot of people, knowing that you won't be paying out to most of them. Otherwise, it is not insurance, but some sort of group savings/pay as you go.

That is, the main variable that gets you to lower rates, is higher participation. Anything else doesn't come close.

You have to let it sink in that you can not have a small subset "save up" enough to pay for "their share." It just doesn't work without having large groups lose out and be completely unable to cover the costs in their group. Instead, this would be akin to group gambling where eventually one loser will bankrupt the entire pool.

Now, there is a related concept that you need to diversify your risk pool such that you don't fall prey to the same risk on everyone. This is what hit some major flood insurance providers after Katrina. I could see similar arguments for not wanting to insure a bunch of folks from the same locale. (Oddly, insurance doesn't typically branch out beyond locales...)

There is a concept of trying to get the higher risk pool to pay more through some rough proxies (typically age, for car insurance) to pay higher premiums. Again, though, most young drivers do not have accidents. Nor do the insurance companies typically actually need such high premiums to cover costs. As evidenced by their fairly mediocre savings plans they offer folks for not having an accident.

All of this, though, really just points out that calling this an "insurance" for health is just silly and is ultimately the wrong model.
This is a spam article posted by a throwaway HN account with very little content mainly focused on pushing traffic to a for-pay udemy course.

Edit: looking at every article posted on HN from "pythonprogramminglanguage.com" is the same junk...
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=pythonprogramminglang...

Each account that posted each of the links in the above search was created just to post that link and nothing else. All spam.
I've recently started using Pandas as my main tool for data-cleaning in my Machine Learning projects. The ease of manipulation is unmatched compared to other tools I've used.

Anyone had a similar experience or have a better tool to suggest?
We need to start enforcing the Clayton Act again. It forbids any mergers or acquisitions that might substantially lessen competition in any line of commerce or in any activity affecting commerce in any section of the country. Taken literally that would prevent almost all acquisitions of any large companies that in any way compete with each other.
Took me about 2.5 years, but I wasn't actively trying to get into a tech giant the entire time. I personally know people who went straight from a bootcamp into Google/Amazon/Facebook because their ability to solve algorithms was excellent.

I have a copy of CLRS on my desk, but I actually found Algorithms 4th ed to be the perfect level of difficulty for someone with no math or CS background.
Better to think of imposter syndrome as an engine of improvement. You are signalling yourself that you want to be more like (insert current inspirational figure here)

If you were as good as you'll ever be how would you improve? How would you stay interested in your life?

It's a long journey of small steps...

Being able to deliver with what you know and getting better is fun. If you really feel deficiency in a particular field that you want to improve, crack the books, ask for help, get peer feedback and set simple goals you can achieve.

Build on that and keep going.

It's not intelligence, per se, it's also tenacity, diligence, and practice that combine into satisfying feelings of improvement.
Is it just cost reduction for them? Why can't they continue selling them from their site?
Is it worthwhile to buy Tezos or should I just hold onto my Ethereum?
This is very tricky question, 6 months ago ETH was just $8.4/coin and now it's just about $300/coin at today's price!

Trying to predict the price of altcoin is an effort in futility. Question is what does the Tezos ICO offer ? Is it just another coin or it's a coin that is hoping to solve real life problems?

Until you have clarity on what Tezos is about so what should i do?
The author of the Gplus screed should spend some time looking at Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Twitter history. He might then understand the context of the article Entine wrote. But then, both that piece and the Propagandists article do little more than make guilt by association attacks.
That's a blow to their space program... but I thought Twitter was blocked in China, how come Xinhua gets to use it? And why, it's not like other middle country people can access Twitter.
Mixing "hydrozine" with hydrazine gives a hydrazone.

"bug juice" seems like a better name.
Probably enough to do a 51% attack on the bitcoin network and convert all bitcoins to amazon coins
Unsure if your comment is serious or not...

I'm yet to meet a single person who likes the touch bar after 1 month.
Microsoft is laying off thousands in a major global sales reorganization
The C++ standard defines it like that: "Normative for the current edition of the Standard, but having been identified as a candidate for removal from future revisions. An implementation may declare library names and entities described in this section with the `deprecated` attribute."
When even due diligence can be biased
I would guess the Enterprise side, granted I'm not sure what/how much they have there. Picture this box[1] that's inside the company firewall... But seriously, they could have on prem, active directory integration, more permissions, user edit tracking/audit logs, etc.

My work changed entire email/storage/etc providers almost entirely for the file management system...

[1] https://cdn2.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2016/05...
3. Not for the 15". And the 13" one is gimped (fewer ports, slower WiFi, etc)
Well, I wasn't claiming there was, but not quite sure what to infer from your comment.

I mean, I know (from recent reading) that there's a fairly intensive operation to maintain hives exclusively for almond farming. Are you saying these are not affected by CCD, neonics, or whatever?
Around 1994 my dad bought this huge "Solving the Quintic" poster from Wolfram Research after he had started playing around with Mathematica. Staring at it grew a pretty good fascination in mathematics for me.

I just looked into it and it turns out you can still buy it [1]! Oh, and here's a 1994 announcement about it on sci.math.symbolic [2]!

[1] https://store.wolfram.com/view/misc/popup/solving-tqp.html

[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sci.math.symbolic/-H...
Why is ETH cryptocurrency so volatile, and where is the end of this volatility?
I've had the same idea, but it's difficult to ensure proportional representation this way if there are more than two parties. Party A wins a county of 10,000 people with 40% of the vote, parties B and C get 35% and 25% respectively. So party A's representative wins, fine; but what should their weighting be? How do we account for the relative popularity of B and C?

So it's not as simple as it seems, and that's beside the awkwardness of totalling up fractional votes for each parliamentary debate. You'd need fully electronic voting for that, which may well be a good idea anyway, but it's a big step.

There are already existing methods that get very close to fully proportional representation while keeping local representation, and don't require fractional votes, so we should just use those. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-member_proportional_repr...
I work for a company that has open salaries - and a model by which those salaries are calculated.

Marty gave a talk about it back in 2015:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf5r4yLTc9k

My experience is that it works very, very well - at least in the iteration we now have. I'm happy to answer any questions folks may have.
>alto University researchers show that in a transparent medium each photon is accompanied by an atomic mass density wave. The optical force of the photon sets the medium atoms in motion and makes them carry 92% of the total momentum of light, in the case of silicon.

Wait a min. Can this be used to build optical logic gates?
The question was about “impostor syndrome”. The implication that the OP feels like he doesn’t really “deserve” to be where he is is right there in the name.

Nobody said that he was justified in such a belief. Here’s Wikipedia’s definition: “Impostor syndrome is a concept describing high-achieving individuals who are marked by an inability to internalize their accomplishments and a persistent fear of being exposed as a ‘fraud’.”
Excess heme iron from consuming meat is also associated with heart attacks. So too much iron isn't good either.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140423170903.h...
Irony: Make silicon valley more inclusive by creating blacklist.

There's just so many things wrong with this. But it's a YC blacklist. I'm sure I'll be flag killed just for pointing this out.

Let's start with the term: Blacklist. Everyone knows that's offensive. I can't believe I'm reading about the YC crew still using it. The proper term is block list. Please stop using such racist, offensive terms if you'd like to make everyone feel welcome.

Furthermore, forming a list of people who are not allowed is the opposite of inclusion. It's literally a list of people to exclude, so please stop trying to paint it as inclusion. Be forthright and say you are acting to exclude people who cannot act according to expected social norms.

Finally, make it clear how you can arrive on the block list and how you can have yourself removed. If you can't do that, then add yourselves permanently. See point number one.
I've written similar things before, and it applies here too:

To the extent that anyone on HN knows an active philanthropist looking for potentially highly impactful but severely underfunded causes - send them this article.

I believe there's a case that funding MDMA research has very high dollar/impact returns - or at least that it's likely enough that it's worth a thorough exploration.

It sounds like they still need to raise about $10-15 million, which is shockingly small compared to the ~$1.5bn/yr NIMH budget - and all of it will come from private philanthropists, as governments aren't yet willing to fund the work and for-profit companies don't see much profit yet due to the lack of patentability.

If you're on HN and this is the first you're hearing about this research, some resources:

- A short video excerpt from a documentary on MDMA therapy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9iKx2MKS70

- NY Times article - https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/us/ptsd-mdma-ecstasy.html
Can please try to explain the basics?

How will such a machine to add two numbers look like?
At least it's only a 4-year degree though.
Most crypto is this way because of multiple exchanges and 24 hour trading. Not sure why you think this is something new. It has always been this way. There have been many flash crashes of BTC as well.
Uh, what? Have you been to the United States before? Everything, and I mean everything is incredibly cheap here. I'm just like an average dev in flyover country and I max out my retirement savings, bought a house, and can go buy a BMW and fill it up with <$2.00/gal gasoline, oh and that's just on my income. Doesn't include spouse. And after I fill up with gas I can go to an average grocery store that is far larger than just about anything I've seen in all my European travels and buy like 50 avocados for $0.89/ea, then go buy a bottle of Grey Goose for $30, pour it out, then buy another one and pretend I'm in Europe paying Europe prices for things.
Do you have any figures to back that up? My assumption would be that all of amazon would be a drop in the bucket for bitcoin mining. Their hardware isn't designed for SHA-256 hashing, so unless they had dedicated ASIC's my assumption is that they wouldn't even be close. Be interesting to find out for sure if someone knows though.

Just as an aside, even if you had 100% of mining you couldn't spend peoples coins. You could stop people spending their coins, but miners can't modify existing transactions, just not include new transactions in blocks they mine.
So the Low risk of compromise for most people is more important than the ability to easily maintain a system? If a certificate is going to be compromised it's most likely going to be the most important cert to the system anyway. A hacker isn't going to go after the meaningless ones. But by your logic I should increase the maintainability of the system for no benefit.

Obviously this is highly dependent on the usage of the certs to begin with.
Dropbox Paper is the best implementation of collaborative text editor that I've ever used. I keep going back to it because it's easy to use. I never use Google Docs because Google's account management systems are such a hassle and I hate Material Design.
Try disabling lazy loading. I'm on a consistently slow network and lazy loading sometimes doesn't work at all.
Everything is an event in New York. Even a minor earthquake 300 miles away that shakes your silverware.
You could go either way with just JS also.

http://gojs.net/latest/samples/mindMap.html
Was it a masters in CS?