skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll play Devil's advocate here. Suppose you want to consume a drug that is currently criminalized, you need to think past the toll on only your body. You need to consider the toll to society. The retail price you pay includes the salaries of gangsters who commit murders and help perpetuate a culture of violence. It encourages other unrelated crime, because it helps set up infrastructure required by criminals, like easy access to guns. It includes the bribes that are given to law enforcement and other public officials who then subvert some of the rules and laws that are the basis of our society. To a lesser extent, since your transaction won't be taxed, there's a small hit to society compared to if you chose a legal high instead.

None of these points would apply if those hard drugs are legalised and regulated, of course. At that point, I'm less certain about the right thing to do. Should the government sell clean versions of ecstacy, heroin or any of the other million synthetics available? I honestly don't know.
I think it's a fair comment. I would expect everyone who supports the constitution to just as vigorously support the 2nd Amendment.

Or is it a pick and choose document?
Those are intra-city subways not commuter rail systems that are largely discussed above.
Will Listen Later – Save and Play YouTube and SoundCloud Links
Tactic, pfft. I never downvoted you even though you started out with useless sarcasm. You didn't launch with name calling as your peers so often do. But now you're skating on thin ice with this useless negativity. Can't we have a conversation anymore?

Try getting involved by making an argument next time and bolster your philosophy rather than throwing shade on others.
Are you ever too busy to listen to a song you come across right then and there?
Will Listen Later is a Chrome extension which allows you to quickly save songs and videos from Youtube or Soundcloud for later from the right click menu when you are too busy to enjoy them now.

Also features a built-in media player, allowing you to access all the functionality you'd come to expect from Youtube or SoundCloud.

Please let me know what you think so I can improve on it!
AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages)
There are spectrums of how much "business" I do with a coworker. If it's another person that works on the same floor or in the same building as me but whom I don't work with directly, then I don't really see any good reason to exclude them.

IMO being professional is more about how you handle the situation if the relationship goes south or never gets off the ground. PDA in the workplace is also unprofessional, obviously. But asking someone out? Doesn't seem unprofessional tbh.
On Preserving Human Memory: Evernote Founder’s Impossible Mission
That could be because in a typical deal the author gets an advance up front and the royalties are so meagre that that's all the money the author ever gets.

In fact any initial advance is often calculated on this basis. A book has to sell exceptionally and unexpectedly well to start paying extra royalties.

So... authors can make a little extra money by selling their five or ten free copies direct to the public. Even at a knock-down price, it's still money they wouldn't get otherwise.

The piracy argument is nonsense. Most technology book authors either have a brand/platform because they're already notable, or they remain unknown, because it's almost impossible to build a brand solely by writing specialist technology books. (This wasn't always true, but it's become more and more true over time.)

Piracy for "exposure" changes nothing. Given the royalty issue, it doesn't even affect most authors' earnings - although of course it does affect publisher income.
That sounds like pretty dysfunctional hiring process, no matter what gender of candidate.
The good thing being that in this case, you do not need to hold anything. You are being held :)
Aws outage?
Is anyone experiencing an aws outage?
word from a designer i know: many garments produced by American Apparel at the end of Mr. Charney's reign were overpriced; poorly sewn (often with un-hemmed un-finished edges); sometimes little more than a piece of stretch fabric fashioned into a tube or a large rectangle; inconsistently sized and fit to the customer.

also: the advertisements and commercials featured hyper-sexualized, semi-nude models who were often regular employees.

it seemed to be an innovative way to run such a business but doing that sort of thing in LA is quite possibly the wrong model nowadays.

a year or two back, the LA Times ran a story about some LA clothing manufacturers leaving the city and relocating to El Paso, TX: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-me-korean-jobber-market-2...
It's not confusion as other Australians here have said they really do not behave like any other animal and appear out of no where at speed. A actual collision with one normally takes out the car and not just the kangaroo as well.
I wouldn't say perfectionism and sales-orientedness are on the same dimension. However, I have noticed that being given the hard-sell is more often than not associated with the product being sub par. A product or project that is doing very good work often doesn't have to sell quite as hard, because the work speaks for itself. (My experience on this issue mostly deals with internal teams. I don't know how much this applies to external teams.)

This is especially true when two products have teams of about equal size, experience, and expertise. Time spent selling is time not spent making a better product. All other things being equal, every hour spent selling is one less hour spent working on making your product better.
Pixels is a curation of web designs. You can always checkout the original site too big clicking the arrow icon :).
Thought of that too. But since he built the gate, it might still fall under destruction of property or vandalism.

Now what about picking the lock? If the gate or lock is not damaged it might be ok. Since the access is public it wouldn't be breaking in or trespassing?

Even more interesting if the only way out is via the gate, and his minions lock the gate there might be case for kidnapping? Call the police and claim you have been kidnapped by Khosla. Too far fetched probably...
We're talking about the California Constitution, and no one has mentioned guns or the second amendment of the United States Constitution, except for the above nonsequitur. WTF are you talking about?
> (not really sure how software could be political actually)

Marketing. Which is all this page is.
What is going on lately? This has reached bizzaro epic insanity.

Anyone that has a full background in evolutionary biology and sexual dynamics knows what is going on here.

Everyone else is playing a game and taking the usual, presently socially acceptable, positions.

First, a few things to remind people of:

1. The Female sex is the Chooser in the Human species. She decides whether a baby is made, brought to term, and nourished to grow into a human being.

2. Men approach and initiate in vast majority of relationships.

3. Sperm are cheap and plentiful (why we send men, not women, to war)

4. Eggs are relatively rare and few. (Why we don't offer equal employment to women to earn big pay in coal mines)

5. You can repopulate the planet with 3 billion women and 1 man. But you cannot repopulate with 3 billion men and 1 women.

These are facts, not opinions. If you are repulsed by this or downvote me. Then you are ignorant of biological reality.

Now, what is happening lately is the complete domination of society by the Feminist Imperative.

- There is no gender wage gap when controlled for equal life choices. Yet myth is propagated like gospel.

-1/4th women get domestically abused. 1/5th men get domestically abused. 99.99% of shelters are for women only. Only couple men shelters in USA.

- Rape of men is just as prevalent as women (I dare you to look this up and do yout research). Oh... men can't be raped because they need erections? Think again. Women's vagina's also lubricate when being raped. Does not mean consent is given.

- Most men in prison and get harsher sentence for same crimes as women.

-Suicide rate is through the roof for men

- 60% of college enrollments are women

- women under 30 get preferred 2 to 1 over equally qualified males.

These are facts. Don't get upset with me.

The ONLY difference between a creep and a hot stud of a man flirting with you is THIS:

A woman will consider a playful comment, a wink, or asking her on a date to be creepy if she's not into you and if your SMV (Sexual Market Value) is lower than hers.
> He wants to win the principle to control the access to the beach.

Which is much worse than just wanting the beach, because he's fighting a battle to set a precedent that is directly contrary to the public good.
I think it's clear from these comments that all companies, everywhere, are doing a terrible job with their sexual harassment training. When otherwise highly intelligent and educated people haven't even heard of power imbalance or hostile work environments, or "intent is irrelevant", this is a huge problem.

If you're running a company, please make it a priority to start real, meaningful sexual harassment training right now. Good god.
0. Don't tell attractive young women a bit over half your age on facebook and over drinks that they're sexy and you're not sure if you should hire them or hit on them if you are a person in charge in a company in an industry that is underrepresented among women.
My point is, being hired for the wrong reasons for a job you're qualified for is a nothing-burger. It just isn't that big of a deal. But yes, I do take your point about respect and common decency.
I've always found the culture around software patents incredibly toxic. Very rarely are patents used as means to fund future work (which is their entire intention) and far more often they are used as an extortion tactic (even by non-trolls).

And even if they were being used "correctly", software development is still poorer as an industry because of them. As they say, Stallman was right all along. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/software-patents.en.html
Is this just dunning-kruger effect under a different name, maybe? People discover a small portion of someone else's field, learn a bit and consider themselves well on the way to being experts without a clue how shallow their understanding is?
If you two barely know each other and never even really talked, then they are unlikely to be mutual. I mean, they are even unlikely to be one sided.

This story is not about couple where two people were fond of each other and started relationship. This is about sending text messages out of cold to women he barely know, who never shown interest and you have power to hire or not. That has nothing to do with love.
Sure, the Framingham Heart Study is one of the most famous long-lasting observational studies, now on its 3rd generation of participants. But, for one, it's an observational study, not an interventional study. Two, it's in Framingham, a white-predominant Boston suburb. Three, what actionable health advice do you understand from the Framingham that I haven't summarized above?

I would be delighted to learn that there is a trove of actionable, research-backed information about healthy living that we aren't taught in medical school, residency, or cardiology fellowship. My patients would benefit if I could provide them with this information. I don't think it exists, but if it does, who can point me to it?
Ask HN: How Man Made satellites avoid colllisions?
There are so many Man made satellites orbiting around Earth. There is huge space debris created over the time by human space exploration programs.

How these satellites orbiting around the Earth do not collide?
How they coordinate with each other to avoid collisions between each other and that with space debris?
That's because Insys makes fentanyl. Fentanyl is abused, so everyone points to them and says "What are you doing to stop drug abuse?". So they write a fat check to stop "drug abuse". The fact it was marijuana legalization doesn't matter, it served it's purpose.

And that was one company.
You need to get out more. People have different preferences when it comes to sexual interactions.
In the future we won’t have sex to procreate
Saying "20x" return is meaningless without considering time. 1% growth will have a "20x return" if you're willing to wait 300 years. So no, a "20x return" is not necessarily good.

What I've said is that the return from a degree program is less than half of a moderate investment return in the stock market. It's a very simple point I'm making here.

You don't need to get confused with inflation - it applies similarly to both scenarios and drops out of the equation.

Turning $150k into $3m over 45 years could be described as "average market performance." Turning $150k into $1m over 45 years using a degree could be accurately described as "a below average performing investment."
From what I can tell, the Deeneys essentially ran a parking lot and charged people for parking. That's not technically a fee to access the beach. I don't know if they would have tried to bar access to anyone who walked up, or who was dropped off, but if they had I'm sure someone could have taken it to the access commission.

Khosla doesn't have to run a business - he doesn't have to let people park there, and he doesn't have to provide lifeguard services or security. He just has to let people access the beach. Read what I posted elsewhere, 100 years of beach access via this route creates a proscriptive easement which has legal weight.
> Imagine running a program in a VM. You know how you can take a snapshot and then restore to it later? That snapshot is equivalent to a continuation.

More or less, but a continuation really only captures the PC and the stack, not the entire state of the system.

When discussing call/cc with friends, I like to liken it to Tracer's Recall ability from Overwatch, which rewinds Tracer's state -- including location, health, and ammo -- to a point in the past, while leaving everybody else's alone.
The Soviet Union duplicated the A-bomb in record time due to spies on the project. That helped threaten the entire free world and kept hundreds of millions enslaved.

Managers of the Manhattan project had every reason to be concerned about workers who were or might be communist sympathizers. They just didn't find the right ones.
I'm not OP, but my functional teacher (Matthew Flatt) taught continuations using the "holes". I really didn't get it at first; it was just a little too abstract for me.

He had us implementing an interpreter, and step-by-step we were adding more features. Eventually we added continuations (building a CEK machine). It wasn't until I actually used the interpreter and played with it after finishing the homework that continuations started to make sense.

But they really solidified for me a year later when I took a course in operational semantics from him. We walked through the evolution of semantics in various languages through history, and had to write out the evaluations of expressions step-by-step (by hand, on paper). Then continuations really made sense.
TFW you code in Object Pascal and don't have C-trubz
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Solar-Panel Waste: Environmental Threat from Clean Energy
> He also brings up that drinks were involved, but practically every company/vc sponsored event in the valley has alcohol involved

So... he's not lying?

> That doesn't make it okay to proposition an attendee you talked to about an open job position afterwards over FACEBOOK and bring up said job as part of your come-on. I mean this is literally the textbook definition of sexual harassment.

Everyone knows that, including the one who did it (at least, now he does).

> McClure of course doesn't bring up this level of detail about all the other instances where he sexually harassed women, probably because those instances were in even more formal settings and make him look like an even bigger creep.

As evidenced by him calling himself a creep and that being the title of his post.

> What is truly misanthropic are apologists like yourself who give guys like this a pass

Did I give him a pass? No.

Did I say that what he did wasn't horrible? No.

Isn't it misanthropic to immediately assume those things about me when I hadn't given you even the slightest suggestion on what I thought of his behavior before this very reply, where I'm condemning it? Yes, it is misanthropic. You just want to think the worst of everyone, and It. Is. Awful.

> what a good guy he is; and did you know that funded some LGBT initiative!

You know? If I were like you, I could easily point out how this poor phrasing can be construed as homophobic, but I won't resort to that. Please.

> if you're one of them, you should be outraged.

I'm gay, and that I see the failings of the opposing side doesn't mean that I think the harassers aren't appalling.

> Assholes like McClure, and yes he is a total asshole -- that's his whole shtick after all -- poisons the well for us all.

There are many different types of assholes, the ones like McClure aren't the only ones "poisoning the well."

> Apologies, no matter how sincere, don't make up for the years of anxiety, therapy, etc. that stuff like this can cause.

Case in point.

> Other posters agree with my read on his apology.

This was a weird and non-sequitur opener, btw. Were you going for an appeal to popularity or something? For what it's worth, I thoroughly disagree with your read on his apology.

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BTW, none of this answered my question.
Sounds extremely dangerous/volatile, honestly.
Power causes brain damage
Yeah, chain the bolt cutters to the fence...er wait. Hmm.
Well. You're at least half right - the article is based off a recent press release talking about a computer that IBM "will" be building. So no, it does not exist yet.

https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/52657.wss
The biggest thing I wonder about that the description doesn't easily answer:

How is this better than YouTube's "Watch Later" playlist?

One obvious answer is that it supports Soundcloud as well, but for YouTube, what's the advantage? Just the browser integration, or something more?
Moral of the story is: if you are a white male and have money/power in SV be INCREDIBLY careful what you say in irrevocable written communication. Do not even try to joke around. You must be as low key as possible. If you act like a geniune human being and go over the line one time you are done.
Citation:

> The relatively small numbers of women in math-intensive careers result from many factors, one of which seems primary and should be accorded the greatest weight. Sex differences in mathematical and spatial ability, although substantial, appear unable to explain most of the shortage. Nor can the shortage be attributed to current discrimination, although historic discrepancies may be explained in such terms. The primary factor in women's underrepresentation is choices both freely made and constrained by biology and society.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2997703/#!po=37...
Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?
This thread needs a refresh and updates on existing projects. Have business models and offerings evolved since the thread was first started a few years ago?
Previous threads:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8629919
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467603
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567487
I used to teach front-end development at a bootcamp several months ago. What once was a great opportunity to share my 15 years of experience with various startups and fortune 500 tech companies ended up being a nightmare with management.

First and formeost, I liked most of my students. They came from all kinds such as: Background Actors, wives of programmers, students, military veterans, teachers, and a hodgepodge of characters. They were eager to learn a step-by-step procedure of HTML, CSS, and Javascript Fundamentals with a bit of web design elements.

What struck me as odd was the President/Founder of the bootcamp first hired me to do my job and observe the videos of what their past instructor did. So I did and found out he was too aggressive in his approach to teaching his students. He was talking too fast and went off in some awful tangents that wasn't on the itinerary. I told the founder, my boss at the time, about what changes I could do to make it less aggressive and with a flowable and presentable approach to the fundamentals of front-end development and he agreed.

In my first five days, things went well. Then the boss wanted me to stick with the previous itinerary while forcefeeding javascript trends in one week. It wasn't enough to teach them basic syntaxes, array methods, loops, and other things I learned in 1 year of CS studies (I finished my undergrad in Economics). He wanted me to feed AJAX, jQuery, Angular, and APIs with javascript in one week. I hesitated at first, but he insisted as his "board of directors" feel this would give my students a reason to keep buying more advanced courses in the school I don't want to give out.

I find out the real reasons for my services to my students is to not just give them a new career perspective, but to also have the boss read the idea proposals his students have as startup ideas and he would be the bridge to their funding. Except, he's the end of the bridge as an angel investor looking to own a huge chunk of their startup property before he prepares his elevator speeches to real angel investors. An another thing is he's also aiming veterans for their GI bills to be spent at his coding school.

I left after a month. I felt dirty and icky just looking back at it.
Let's say your house abuts a public park, providing access to an area that's hard to reach from the public entrance. You let kids walk down your driveway and through your back yard to the park. You frequently sit on the porch and wave to them as they walk through. On busy days, you sell parking in your front yard to park-goers. One day, after 50 years, you decide you don't like those kids walking though your yard any more and you lock the gate. Or, to tailor the analogy more closely, the Simpsons' Mr. Burns buys your house and locks the gate.

If someone took you (or the new owner) to court to re-open the gate, you'd probably lose.
Institutional genocide was enabled by the Reichstag Fire and by the restrictions on free speech that followed.
I love the manual [1] they've published. I recently used it as part of a presentation at work about the importance of web accessibility.

There's a great chart on page 41 that breaks out disabilities into "permanent", "temporary", and "situational". When I saw this, it opened my eyes up to the reality that everyone can and will experience a sub-optimal, disabled experience when trying to use a product. One example from that chart is that you can suffer a permanent sight disability by losing your sight, a temporary one by dealing with a cataract (pre-surgery), and a situational one when you're in an environment with a lot of distractions or poor lighting conditions.

This all underlines the spirit behind "inclusive design": improving a product's accessibility for one person does more than benefit that one person -- it will provide benefits for everyone. In essence, accessible UX is good UX. If anyone's interested in these ideas, I strongly recommend watching Rob Dodson's fantastic presentation on the topic [2]!

[1] https://download.microsoft.com/download/B/0/D/B0D4BF87-09CE-...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qjgxH384Nc
until you cash in or out... which is a key part of money laundering...
immigrants are not being allowed in

The USA continues to absorb far more immigrants than any other nation on Earth.
i7-7700k is 8 logical cores. Ryzen 7 is 16 logical cores. I used the phrase "logical core" in my comment 5 times because it is unambiguous whether as the unqualified word "core" isn't (it could be referring to physical cores or logical cores).
"space weather problem" ?