skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What shared heritage do the Irish and Italians have that the Irish don't also share with the (overwhelmingly Catholic) Mexicans? They don't eat the same food. They don't speak the same language (in a linguistic sense, Mexicans have more kinship with most of Europe than the Irish, who preserve a Gaelic tradition as well). They don't listen to the same music. They don't live in the same places. They don't grow up hearing the same stories --- outside of the biblical stories that they share with the Mexicans. They don't have the same kinds of governments.

Apart from a shared complexion --- a complexion, by the way, that we used to dispute was "white" in the case of Italians --- what ties a Irishman to an Italian?
>Criminal charges for not fixing known vulnerabilities?

Why not? Incompetent vehicle operators regularly face criminal charges too.
Wow, what a childish attitude.
Access control (login).
> I found that Yelp's reviews very unreliable.

followed by hearsay about your friends who told you about what a Yelp sales rep said.

How is this an argument for Google's business practices?
> Hamilton seems a little more power-hungry and less moral

Hamilton was power hungry, but not for the typical reasons. For instance, he did not make a fortune for himself, while Jefferson lived an extremely lavish lifestyle, while on large debts. Hamilton was incredibly ambitious, but it seems he genuinely did want to improve the lot of all Americans.

Hamilton seems less moral? How so? Hamilton did not have slaves, for instance. Both men had affairs, with Hamilton's dirty laundry aired as the first national scandal, while Jefferson took his secret to his grave.

> It seems like modern media and scholarship has thought more highly of Jefferson than Hamilton

It seems the tide may turn on this, and maybe it already has. At the very least, Hamilton's modern ideas certainly won the day.
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I think that we might really underestimate old branches of humans regarding how they developed.

Things like very simple trade, slavery and religious systems could exist in some primitive, chaotic way - that would explain a lot. We are walking into the dark and we will need probably decades before proper picture of ancient people will emerge. Hopefully, there will be enough funding to continue this.
Blocking Google via robots.txt isn't an option because Google has a monopoly. You're amputating the whole leg because of an infected toe. Instead of free samples at Costco you're giving away entire boxes and users love you for it because it's free. It's the producer who loses the revenue.

At what point do you draw the line? Is it OK if Google steals 1 line? How about a whole list of steps for how to do something? How about when Google takes an image from your page and puts it in its hero search result "answer box" but with a link to another site?

As a publisher, I feel the right solution is that the publisher decides the title and meta description -- which are the 2 things Google needs to show in their SERPs. If my title and description snippet are clickbaity or not good enough, other publishers can win. That's fine because publishers are competing on a level playing field.
Steam et al is only half of the equation. Hardware is vastly cheaper also.

It used to be that a decent gaming PC would cost over $1500. Now you can get one (or an equivalent console, thanks to the proliferation of the x86-64 architecture) for around $500.
Wait, the process of thinking through the book's contents itself healed the pain?
I'd never realized this, even after a year of living as a pedestrian in the UK, but this finally answers my question of why the pedestrian lights take so freaking LONG to turn green here. It may be intended as a pedestrian-friendly measure, but it FEELS like an intense annoyance, and the natural result is that everyone just crosses on red.
The one in Venice at Windward seems to work pretty well. I haven’t seen the SM ones yet. I wonder if it’s just poor implementation - signage, control system timing, and sensors could maybe help.
I think most people who work in offices aren't stressed about making it to payday, but just that they'd be in serious trouble if they didn't have their job.
Just because it's critical of a large group of people doesn't mean it's wrong.
In the US the pedestrian does have the right of way in that situation. But with heavy pedestrian traffic, there is no way to clear vehicle traffic and there is a snowball effect. This solution attempts to alleviate that issue more than assist pedestrians.
I just avoid driving on 4th and 2nd now, which I have come to decide is the only real advantage to these scrambles: locals learn to avoid them (when walking or driving), resulting in slightly less traffic?

They do seem to only get installed in heavily touristy areas.
Just curious: What did you learn from that book? I read through it halfways and gave up because I couldn't make sense of it.
I've found that my lower back aches after I've walked very long distances, actually. Long being 4-5 miles.
The core is so important. Core + breathing exercises will improve any other activity.
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This Amazon review is too perfect:

After months of intense low back pain, I was recommended this book. I read it and thought it made sense. I know our mind is powerful and stress can cause dis-ease. I completely jumped into his program spite the intense pain I endured. After 6 weeks
I did not experience any shift in my pain. And, the pain intensified to the point that sometimes I couldn't even stand. I decided
to seek medical help. What I found out was that my L5-S1 disc was collapsed and the (almost) bone on bone rubbing was
why I was experiencing so much pain.

I wonder why it's at 4.5 stars.
Not when it is being given as a gift
Nice thanks for the rec
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“Growth for growth’s sake is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

— Edward Abbey
If you want to support a company that pays employees $12.50/hour in sf, that's your choice. However, I don't support that, and the thing about employment at will is we can use how a potential employer treats employees to evaluate the employer.

> Neither are they responsible for paying you what you think is necessary for a comfortable life.

However, kindly don't misrepresent the contents of Talia's article and shift the goalposts from "comfortable life" to "remain housed and eat (and even see a doctor when necessary)." Because she's asking for the bare minimums, not a comfortable life.
OP's Italian, go easy.
It will be "secure"
This argument has always seemed pretty silly to me. Why, if this is how the market for medical services worked, would medical services cure any problem, when they could find ways to milk those problems for recurring revenue? Why aren't malaria or stomach ulcers "chronic manageable illnesses", rather than curable ones?
I do half an hour of yoga postures almost every morning. When I don't do them for a few days I get pretty bad back pain and migraines. when I am doing them, no problems at all.

Before doing that doctors would give me injections and muscle relaxers all the time. I am pretty sure I either would already had had surgery or would get it at some point if I had followed doctors' advice.

The trick is that you have to adjust your exercise routine to your specific problem and adapt constantly. This is not easy.
FastMail has been great for me, too. They'll host your DNS as well if you want.
I'd refine that just a little. The users of Google are the advertisers. The people who search with Google are the product.
Planting a seed takes time. We really wanted to make this all as easy as possible. And raise awareness about how absurd ICOs are getting and how awful NY's BitLicense law is. But mostly make it easy for people to send us Ether.
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Even when publishers have a good brand, it doesn't change user behavior. How often do users directly go to Wikipedia to look something up? Google search is integrated into Chrome, Android, Google Home. Google is a monopoly.

Yes, publishers should find non-advertising revenue models. Yes, they should find non-Google sources of traffic. But that's blaming the victim. The fact is that Google has started stealing more and more content from large and small publishers in order to keep the user from leaving Google. And it's not OK for a monopoly to do that.
Perhaps it could move them to packages as compiler plugins? That could be more or less tricky depending on the piece though.
FreeBSD deprecates all r-cmds (rcp, rlogin, etc.)
Anyone who has endured back pain knows it is an erratic dictator. It takes hold of your psyche, demanding your attention and devotion before all else—before you can plan a hike, return to a work routine, pick up your child for a hug. So when someone offers to make that dictator disappear, it’s hard to resist—no matter what the price.

Although there are many people who do manual labor for whom the inability to move properly threatens livelihood, which is a very serious situation, lower back pain does not rank with late stage cancer, COPD, crippling mental illness, or any of the other health impairments that let the sufferer see the grim reaper unsheathing his scythe or turn every waking second of life into a mythological torture.

Back pain can be tough, but can be adapted to. You move more slowly, carefully, and adjust yourself when you plan to rest or sit for a while. This rush for invasive treatment is embarrassing to see in my fellow Americans when we've had a reputation for toughness and independence.

- Speaking as someone who's had acute episodes of lower back pain so bad that I've involuntarily collapsed, and could not walk freely for days at a time.
> What do you have in written? Will you get more equity if you go?

The incorporation has vesting options, requiring me to work for 3 more years to acquire the 10%.

>Will you get a market rate salary?

Probably I would have a salary bellow US market rate, but higher than the Brazilian one. That would be the same for my partner seeing that we are at a pre-seed stage.

>Can you work remote?

This is not an option for my partner.

> When did you start the doctorate? How many years do you need to complete it? Do you have a grant or something?

There is no guarantee, I am working with a Professor from my University in a project with prospects to became a doctorate theme
It's not that these points aren't valid; they are, and I know some people who've been rightfully hammering the exact same points for, well, decades, at this point.

But we arrived here neither out of pure accident or grand overarching malice, but simply out of the necessity of the now-commercial web and its lack of good business models, and perverse incentives.

Back when most of the traffic on the Internet was academic, institutional, government, or hobbyist, the incentives were to get the content out there and interoperate with others, because the dissemination of the information was seen as having intrinsic value, and the expenses were covered by out-of-band means (i.e. not monetized through the content or the consumers).

On today's particular flavor of a commercial web, especially when your next funding round depends on showing user numbers, easy out-migration is a liability, easy in-migration is a feature, so even the use of APIs frequently helps the product and the company more so than it helps the user.

When commercial entities started appearing on the Internet, particularly on the World Wide Web, some sites were pure billboards containing only an about page and contact information, e-commerce sites funded the operation through selling actual wares, but news/media/entertainment sites brought with them their previously trailblazed business model of giving away content and trying to recoup some of the cost with advertising. Later, VC-funded content silos took a page from early hobbyist web forums (that were mediocre reimagining of BBSes) and created login-walled playgrounds that funnel the content inward, making it easier to track, analyze, and monetize. It's no surprise that today's four largest display ad servers are Google, Facebook, Verizon/Yahoo/AOL, and Twitter.

Other business models only work for specialized players who can command some brand awareness and attract a discriminating customer willing to pay for quality (e.g. big-name or niche newspapers, streaming media sites, data brokers); and, as the HN meme goes, micropayments get much more interest from those who want to collect them than those who want to pay for them, so the everyman's market is full of me-too sites vying for limited attention, or captive content silos that re-create everything on the inside. The battle is largely lost, unless realistic progress is made in the web monetization space.

Luckily, there are no technical barriers to people banding together and making interoperable services like the way things used to be -- and keeping up the protocols that make that a reality. It's just that they will have to contend with the realities of playing in that space and competing with similar offerings that don't. Havens on the old web, or the old Internet for that matter still exist, just like amateur radio still exists along with public access television. It's just not where the mainstream attention-hours go.
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traditional view is that before agriculture and animal husbandry slavery wasn't feasible - slaves would eat as much food as they would be able to collect, so why bother. Egyptian "living dead" term etymology as an example. But trade and religion, why not.
> "We mostly can't hope to buy a good house in a mortgage for the salary we get, because the prices are now sky high and to buy a usable house you need enormous sacrifice AND be in the top 5% income."

This varies hugely by region in the US. Here in the Southeast, I know plenty of single earner, bottom of middle class families with houses. $150,000 will get you a decent house in decent neighborhood. $250,000 to $350,000 is McMansion territory.
I'm a programmer, always at the desk. Back problems came on in my mid/late thirties, as I let my physique go. Once I started squatting in early 40s, back pain has largely subsided. Only reoccurred when I got too optimistic regarding my training, after a break.

Have now fixed that by learning to train in moderation / be more consistent - as I get older, there really is no excuse good enough for not going.

So yes: Learning to squat (deep / a2g) as well as perform deadlifts, done properly and with respect is the best thing I ever did for my health (now in my mid 40s). I must emphasize _properly_ - learning technique from good PTs, youtube videos, books like Starting Strength, is highly recommended.

A side benefit is all the mental health positives the training gives, as well as making you more competitive in the somewhat / sometimes age biased work force.
I haven't posted in a while but had to jump in on this.

I had very bad back pain before my first daughter was born. I wanted to be able to carry my daughter when she was born so I decided to try everything, whether I believed it would work or not.

I had massages, shots injected directly in the back, manipulation, and basically lots of different doctors and specialists. Nothing worked.

Since I said I'd try everything, I made an appointment for accupuncture as a kind of last resort. I had zero faith that this would work but carrying on with the theme that I'd try everything, I tried it.

The session was extremely painful. Note that subsequent sessions afterwards have not been. I think this was a function of my muscles being locked in spasm during that first session or something. Anways, immediately after the session, there was a marked improvement. It was the only thing that worked. It only took a few more times before it was back to normal.

If you haven't tried it, even if you don't believe, please give it a try.

I think one clarification to make is that acupuncture directly into the problem points to release a spasm muscle is more mainstream. Acupuncture where you poke your foot to fix your liver is perhaps more controversial.

I'm sure I'm trivializing or getting some of this wrong but just wanted to share my experience with solving my back pain. I hope it will help others.
Ramin can debunk chiropractic all she wants; adjustments have worked too well for me too many times over the years for me to abandon them. (The supplements some chiropractors sell have never done anything for me, though.)

It's clear that some amount of realignment of the spine happens naturally; I feel a small pop here or there almost daily. The spine is a complex structure with many forces acting on it. Getting it adjusted as needed doesn't strike me as any more "woo woo" than getting my car's wheels aligned.

ETA this amusing tidbit: the worst back injury I ever had was from playing pinball.
Ping me. I'm really excited about this.
I'm guessing it will download a runtime that will include the garbage collector. Soon you can look forward to every page including a runtime, or maybe several depending on which advertising engines they're using.
I'll vouch for the effectiveness of losing 30+kg (65+lb).

Which only reduces the back pain problem for overweight people to a known-intractable weight loss problem... :-/
So you'd like to have agencies set up to fine every company that gets hacked through 'known vulnerabilities'? Enforcing this arbitrarily after big hacks is hardly an equivalent analogy to enforcing traffic violations. It'd have to be consistent, well defined, and widely enforced to be at all effective.

To me this is an emotional reaction that has no regard for cause/effect.
You can run POP3 without deleting mail from the server. The POP3 commands for "download message" and "delete message" are completely independent; I typically have my mail client set to delete messages from the server 14 days after downloading them, so that I'll always have recent email in two places.
this was true for my Mon in her 70s. Her back problem got a lot better when she started doing exercise and gained more muscle mass around her back.
I think that the premise is that it is possible for some people to reduce pain symptoms by reducing inflammation caused by stress. I can't imagine this advice would solve everyone's pain issues, but it might help people who would otherwise become dependent on pain medication or endure unnecessary surgery.
How's about we regulate / mandate that children are only allowed x minutes of game play per day across all devices.

This would be enforced at the device OS level.

Some categories of games would be excluded.

Bit of a nanny-state thing to do, so Australia would probably be the first to implement it.

I don't necessarily think this would be a good idea, but... Thoughts?
Fakespot's score is a decent indicator of the quality of product reviews over at Amazon: http://fakespot.com/product/healing-back-pain-the-mind-body-...
You can call it American civic norms, but much of what I'm talking about is shared across Western European societies. E.g. Bangladeshis have very different views than Americans about what crosses the line into unacceptable nepotism. To be clear: I'm talking about norms that happened to develop in particular European societies and happened to be carried to America by migration. Anyone can adopt them.

My concern is that unfocused derision directed at "white people" can (purposefully or inadvertently) become an attack on those norms. When we attack "old white guys" you're not just stacking Mike Pence, you're attacking John Locke. Attacking the majority ethnicity and culture is in tension with the goal of assimilation and integration.
Yeah I remember doc telling me spinal fusion being an option. Refused because of the long term ailments it may give me. I have a herniated disc L5-S1. It's been 6 years since then. Did physical therapy and exercise. Last 2 years been lazy but I know having a strong core is key along with cardio and strength exercise. However I been saving to have a stem cell procedure done where they extract it from my bone marrow and inject it into the problem disk. I think cost is $7K and it's not covered by insurance. But it's better than the surgical alternatives at have now.
Any IBs or hedge funds you'd recommend?
So Slack then?
There's looking to be a lot of value in visual languages - this isn't the first one to hit the FP in the last few weeks. We're probably beginning to appreciate the limits of text-based programming, and hopefully enough work goes into something different to create a tool with real productivity using visual code. The only trouble I can see is that there isn't a lot of speed at the moment in dragging and dropping to create graphs.
"The eternal September"...
How to turn a kid off programming for life - choose Java as the teaching language. This kid had already started with Python, which is the natural choice for a first language, so why not just:

import typing
Your muscles are locked in spasm because they’re insufficient to carry the load. The long term solution to that is not acupuncture, it’s building up those muscles through exercise, and in particular through training with free weights.
Heh, I've used it with Docker to generate config files at build time using build arguments and environment variables. Worked surprisingly well!
I work on the C# compiler and the answer over in that world is "no"; everything needs to be supported.
The popularity of cats on the internet is at odds with your premise. They've clearly infected many humans with thought changing microbes and yet ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H...what were we talking about?
I'm not sure how this is relevant. As I said in the comment you are replying to, there are alternatives for both searching and advertising.
It's a very cynical argument, I'll give you that, and I'm certainly biased by wasting a bunch of time & money on x-rays and drugs and acupuncture. A slight more realistic explanation may involve liability - twisting and stretching someone who complains of back pain may be hard to teach / accredit at scale in a way that doesn't sometimes end disastrously, and MDs prescribing meds eliminates those cases of extreme liability.

Not sure about Malaria or stomach ulcers, but likely because those who developed the drugs were not acting to maximize their economic interests? Malaria seems like a relatively well understood parasite, whereas "back pain" could really be a symptom of nobody-really-knows-what.
That's a very interesting expectation! What makes you confident in that?
In the knowledge economy, we need a Netflix of education
I'm not pushing back on American norms, which, especially having read your comments for so many years, I'm inclined to agree are superior in many ways to those of Bangladesh.

But it's also the case that the Italians have very different ideas about corruption than the Germans do. We don't talk about our shared Germanic thrift and work ethic, or our shared English political tradition; we talk about a "European" culture, because it's politically convenient for us to fold the Spanish and Polish into a cultural bloc with the English and Germans, lest they otherwise side against us with the blacks and Latinos.

That's the problem with "white people" as a rhetorical concept. A lot of what we claim are "white European values" are nothing of the sort, and what we're really doing is ratifying the idea that those values --- all laudable! --- are somehow alien to Mexicans. Which is, of course, horseshit.

... belatedly: to put it simply, I think the notion that mainstream liberalism is rejecting Locke is far-fetched, but the notion that "white" concerns about demography are evidence of virulent and systemic racism are... not.
> why would anyone ever fix it in a for-profit system?

For the same reason any other problem gets solved in a for-profit system; the best solver of problems will be the best getter of dollars. See for instance Apple, Honda, Nike, Harvard, etc.