skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose I could be more clear.

I don't try to improve my family as a first-order activity. I will offer help if they ask, but not everybody wants every dinner or vacation to be a discussion of the shortcomings and how to mitigate them or of their strengths and how they need to find more opportunities to use them.

I don't try to change the goals of my family. If my daughter wants to go backpack through the wilderness, or my mom wants to move to Vietnam, that's cool. At work, it's important that we all want (e.g.) the company to grow by 75%+ this year and we need to set goals on how to get there. If my coworkers want to get to profitability instead, it's not an incorrect course of action, but I will debate with them until we're all shooting for the same goal.

Families can be quite a bit more live-and-let-live. Teams need to be invested in the same general direction.
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> the spin the OP is putting on his message is that it's not the calories that matter, but rather 'where those calories came from'

you're implying that the rest of the message is "eating 1k calories is not going to make you lose weight" and "eating 5k calories is not going to make you gain weight" which is frankly completely false.

the message begins with "given reasonable amount of calories it matters where they come from and here's how".

> Insulin spikes do not cause your weight to go up. They lead to eating more, which is what makes your weight go up.

well you've basically just agreed with OPs thesis here. eating more makes you fat, but the ultimate reason why you eat more is hormonal disorder.

> what is important about it that does not lead back to eating less

eating less

a) reduces your BMR which cancels out a good amount of mental effort you've put in restricting your calories

b) the weight you are losing is in more muscle mass than fat mass due to body's conservation mechanics

and that's not even mentioning all the nasty consequences of spiking insulin, most of which are putting people on a fast track to diabetes (read - more obesity, more health damage, etc).

on keto you can eat the same volume of food and same caloric intake but have increased BMR, effectively burning fats quicker. fat foods are denser in calories so you have more volume for things like fiber. i'm oversimplifying a lot here, but you told me to not just say "google it".
This is great. Now please solve the head of line blocking for time critical data.
Totally agree — I was recently approached by a guy who wanted me to integrate his feature (idea) into my product. Since I'm normally in the position of asking bigger companies to integrate my technology into theirs, it was eye-opening to see things from the other perspective. I found myself asking him the same questions that others ask me, and I could see how the answers I give might not be sufficiently convincing to my prospects.

Talking to other founders can be very enlightening, if a little depressing.
Because if we're not accounting for hidden costs in product A, a direct approach is to raise the price on product A (through taxes in this case) so the costs aren't hidden anymore. An indirect action would be to regulate product B counting on some chain of events to resolve the issue.
Yes, and unless you're in the mood of arguing over
Theseus's ship paradox, with hundreds of thousands of stakeholders. Essentially this currency would become what Bitcoin is today.
pass has a variety of 3rd party browser plugins and phone apps that work with it. Admittedly, it's not a turnkey solution and so is unsuitable for a non-technical audience.

I recommend website-based password managers to my non-technical friends because they're easiest to use and therefore most likely to actually BE used, and the security vulnerabilities noted in the article are very small compared to not using a password manager at all.
Does the population considered for these graphs include people who are retired? If you are living primarily off of savings, I imagine you would be included in the bottom 20% bracket.
> But then "kwargs" are just that, a dictionary.

Maybe Ruby on Rails is an exception, but while I used to be a fan of default/keyword arguments, especially in combination, seeing how they were used there made me very much not like them any more. It's impossible to tell what's going on.
Yes, anything in place before the fork will be recognized by both chains. You can then make transactions on either chain, and the other will go on as if nothing has changed, still recognizing the coins in their original address.

Realistically, the total value of these coins may change or it may not. One chain will likely dominate and have most of the value. But the total value may increase, decrease, or (unlikely) stay the same.

Total value could decrease if e.g. people feel that the fork demonstrates a weakness in cryptos. It could increase if the disagreeing parties are both satisfied with their forked chains and both have utility.
To me it sounds like all these responses are from people who need a backbone and just tell the person they aren't interested.
The bottom 20% includes a lot of under 25's. That would account for a higher proportion of college grads. It may also account for a good portion of the overspending among this group, since it would capture people in college living on student loans. By that measure, I was spending over 200% of my income every year between tuition and basic living expenses while in grad school.
That's probably a combination of:

1) Going into debt for college makes you poor, and

2) A lot of college degrees are just not worth the cost, if you're expecting them to lead to a good income.
Apparently law enforcement seized Hansa a month earlier and were using it as a honeypot: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/07/after-alphabays-demise-c...
> Facebook beat MySpace because FB is consistent and graphics are subordinate to the white-and-blue color scheme. Wikipedia succeeds in larger part because it's visually consistent. GeoCities is a graveyard because it wasn't.

I'm not a UX person by any margin, but I thought about what you said and I... agree. I wonder if there are any UX studies done on whether customers prefer consistency in UX or not.
unless they can link your computer to entering that address, isn't there some plausible deniability that someone else entered your address. Having drugs delivered to your house isn't illegal if someone else sent them there right? (Asking about in the US, but also interested in hearing if it's different or the same in EU)
This is a fair point, but could 50% of their income really be tips and cash payments? It seems high to me but I have no insight into how those things work in the US.
Given that the homeless overall make up about 0.5% of the population, I doubt it would have much effect on the survey either way.
It seems like you can... but then this could be done implicitly at no loss and lead to less clutter. It's not hard to understand what default parameters or named parameters do.
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Bret Victor also gave a presentation at the Santa Fe Institute but I haven't seen a recording or transcript of it.

https://www.santafe.edu/events/words-are-obsolete-explaining...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14812000 and marked it off-topic.
Gave a presentation to an analyst at DFJ. Showed her an alpha prototype. She said, very interesting, but we really wanted to fund <competition>. That other company was in a similar space, but did not have the product that we demoed. Then they got funded by DFJ and in 6 months, that company released an inferior clone of our demo. In 2-3 years they got acquihired by Google (the founders did not do very well judging from their subsequent LinkedIn jobs), and Google shut the product down. Our product grew bootsrapped and has been feeding us for 10 years, without making anybody rich, just comfortable.
And if you consider retirees that makes perfect sense.

It's hard to draw any meaningful conclusion from these graphs.
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Where in the US can you work 40hr/wk on the minimum wage and not spend basically all of your income staying afloat? And in those places if they exist, what does the employment situation actually look like? Can you find a job? Can you piece together 40 hours?
Im curious, are there serial pitchers? Round after round of "nos"
> PC goals

Not using racist stereotypes is a "PC goal?"
For many, it could be close to all of their income.
Also not quite related but that's hardly the fault of a mindless piece of a mix of chemicals. It's you that lacks discipline. :P
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I bet that the 0.5% of the population that are homeless are found almost entirely in the bottom 20%. This would mean they are about 2.5% of that group.

And it may be higher, depending on the definition of homeless being used. Most people think of street people as The Homeless, but social workers, et al, also consider many other people to be homeless. They are often counted among the hidden homeless. These include people who are couch surfing, living with relatives temporarily to avoid being out in the street, people in temporary shelters and people in substandard housing considered unfit for human habitation.
Yikes. Personal attacks aren't allowed here and we ban accounts that do that, so please don't do that again. Your comment would be just fine if it were just the middle paragraph.
Exactly! Nation-state actors can find hidden services! TOR was not built for this type of activity. Why aren't more people mentioning this?
Are you talking about the quotes the article did? I think the contrast issue was a jab at how other websites use illegible colors.

(#7F7F8F on white = contrast of 3.9)
Please take about 20% off the tone there, it's not going to enhance the discussion.
What are your thoughts on alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical companies that make money from addicted users?
What kind of reading material are you looking for? Formally proven Smart Contracts would be the same as formally proven non-smart contract computer programs.

There is a paper[1] written by some researchers on how using a more powerful language (Such as Idris) could prevent a whole category of errors in smart contracts development, but it doesn't necessary talk about formal verification of smart contracts.

1. https://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/234939...
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/982821/downlo...

It is so sad.

Literally had a paypal with the same hotmail address he sent welcome emails with? WTF?
He seemed to be pretty careless about flaunting his wealth. These forum postings are referenced in the forfeiture complaint (NSFW):

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...

Interestingly, the forum owner posted last week claiming he had suddenly passed away:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...
Then you'd be using your arrest / punishment as a form of martyrdom to draw attention to the issue. Kind of like civil disobedience... but criminal.

You'd get arrested (as expected), fined or imprisoned (as expected), then be outraged that the law exists. But you wouldn't be outraged that you _were_ arrested... you must have expected that.
The whole home page news feed thing is exactly why my father chooses to use Bing and I'm sure he's not the only one in that boat. Looks like Google has realized this.
While you can misuse a feature, you don't have to. My example is extreme and you probably don't run into something like that often depending on what you do. There could be other solutions. There surely are other solutions that are neither more clear nor better in any way. Sometimes you just got to do what you got to do. What surprised me about Rust is that it has all those cool features but lacks a very basic one that most programming languages have.
You can get "DNA" at every barbershop.
Every overtrusted tool will become a weakspot.
Poor poor vendors who provide safety and reputation protection to addicts who would otherwise be in alleys.
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Haskell used to be the introductory language at UT Austin a few years ago IIRC. So it's been done before.

The point of an introductory programming class is not to teach a language for vocational purposes, but to teach the basics of computation. Someone who understands computation can reasonably be expected to pick up most languages.
1: A/B test as fast as you can. Frequency is Key
2: Ensure your reach of A/B testing is enabled. Meaning, across the entire customer journey. Top, Mid, Bottom of funnel.
3: Challenge your team to do advance a/b testing. Example, personalization, Multivariate testing.

Number 1 is key to ensure you understand what YOUR specific end users are responsive to, relative to the category of business you are in. Its different for each vertical.

Growth doesn't have to be complex. Measure some stuff and test some stuff. Go, go, go.

If you don't have enough traffic to A/B test. Then you have bigger problems to solve.
Few historical points that we know for certain:

- Cheops lived in 26th century BC. This is Stone Age territory. A time where humans still didn't master metalworks, and understanding of mathematics and written language was very poor.

- Herodotus traveled to Egypt and later made his claim in 5th century BC.
This is about 2100 years after the rule of Cheops!
To say that his historic account can be deemed as verifiable is a joke.

- Up until 820 AD the pyramid was completely closed off by the granite plates that covered all external walls, and an Arab caliph Al-Mamoun broke most of them and found a way in.

- The architectual complexity of the Great Pyramid is unbelievable. On top of everything that most people know, it also has an underground chambers with an artificial lake (water comes from underground sources) and a really big sarcophagus submerged in the water. The sarcophagus is larger than the walkways leading up to the underground chamber.

- All the consequent pyramids that came after the great pyramid are much smaller and much less sophisticated.
We know that Egyptian empire was growing substantially in wealth and power at that time, so why the pyramids are less sophisticated?
Shouldn't we see technological progression, not regression in a rich developing society?

What I think is that we have a serious case of Cargo Cult where emperors try to emulate the greatness of the pyramid.

- The Arab historians I mentioned refer to the legend of Enoch.
There's a nice analysis of the Colombia Chemicals hoax at [1]. The fake article on Wikipedia was quickly detected and deleted. The fake Facebook page stayed up but Facebook's systems didn't propagate it widely. The Twitter spam got further, but was recognized as spam reasonably quickly.

Here's the Wikipedia history. Fake article: [2] 1 hour 10 minutes later, tagged as "hoax - proposed deletion", which put a warning notice on the article.[3] An hour and a half later, tagged as "hoax - speedy deletion", which put a bigger warning banner at the top of the article.[3]. Within an hour after that, the article had been turned into an article about the hoax, which it remains today.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150309221009/https://medium.co...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Columbian_Chemica...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Columbian_Chemica...
I hope you are mentally prepared for the sheer amount of negative reviews you're going to get on Amazon.
>Wouldn't even the shadiest of dealers want to keep their customers/hosts/victims around to, you know, keep bleeding money?

Not really, no.

For example: spike heroin with fentanyl, user dies, other users flock to that dealer who supposedly has extremely high quality heroin.

This tactic doesn't work as much now that the fentanyl epidemic is widespread and known but it certainly happened in the past.

Also, many dealers are addicts themselves. If they run out of money and need more drugs, what's the chances they will sell some bullshit and claim it's something else? What if they get into some other kind of trouble and need fast cash?
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Oh wow, I didn't know that. I thought a check was a permission to withdraw rather than a guarantee of available money, kind of like a paper form of an ACH withdraw (which is why I thought we had cashier's checks and such).

I did some searching now and it seems that intent to deceive/defraud is required at least in some states. Common sense would say you wouldn't get any company shares or other things until your check clears, so if it bounces, is it actually fraud? Or just being a jerk?
Also, Crockford:

http://javascript.crockford.com/

And be sure to check out WebAssembly which allows you to compile bytecode (wasm) and run in a browser VM:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Concept...

Good luck!
You are doing God's work, my friend. I really appreciate your thoughtfulness about this. Hopefully you have had some influence in getting these other founders to look more closely at their plans.

The same thing can happen with people you know well. Several years ago, my closest friend, an older gentleman retired and living on social security and his wife's income, got into a notorious MLM scam called Photomax.

Their pitch was that for only $50/month, they would store all your photo files in a secure facility, and would even allow you to order prints at extra cost.

But wait! There's more! The $50/month didn't just buy you photo storage, you would have the opportunity to sell this service to all of your friends and start making big money on your downline.

Of course they also provided sales training. One day he invited me to eavesdrop on one of their training calls, where he and his cohort listened on a conference call while their upline cold-called potential suck^H^H^H^Hprospects.

Of course none of these calls went well. But why let reality stop you? My friend decided that to really succeed, he needed their advanced training, which would only cost $10,000.

As gently as I could, I tried to explain that this exact same service was available from multiple providers such as Flickr, SmugMug, 500px, etc. either for free or for a tenth the cost of Photomax, and this smelled very much like a scam to me.

He said, "Mike, you're just being negative!"

We remained friends, but I was sad to see him throw away that $10,000 and all the time he put into this.
I'm surprised to see over 50% of top 40% owns their home outright. Are people paying off their home early or is this baby boomers who have lived in the same home for 30 years? I would like to see the age breakdown of each segment.

As housing costs increase and rent payments continue to flow to the top, inequality will continue to accelerate. Housing policy that promotes affordability needs more attention and effort behind it.
The UI on this is pretty novel for an Android app; a longtime Android dev I usually get pretty pissy about UIs that feel too 'iOS'y but this one does a pretty good job of feeling 'fresh' instead of just like another iOS port. The stabilization stuff is pretty good too.
Another way of saying "recreating the finding of the drugs using his body camera" is "falsifying evidence".

Edit: In the US, people are innocent until proven guilty.
It's a bit unfortunate that there's no history of the title edits on HN, as it makes it hard to understand the context of any complaints about titles.

The post was originally submitted with the same title as the original post, "The mystery of the hanging S3 downloads". That was apparently judged to be clickbait, so the title was changed to something along the lines of "Hanging S3 downloads due to NAT router", and the story was also very heavily penalized at the same time. This title was indeed giving away most of the ending. But luckily it was a bit later edited again, to the current form of "Hanging S3 downloads".
Easily more than 50% for some tipped workers.
Believe me, I understand completely. Part of the motivation for HN was to learn from previous attempts and create an internet forum that wouldn't degrade as rapidly as most tend to. It is a learning process for all of us (and some of what we've learned is a bit counterintuitive, so it takes a certain effort). Anyone willing to do that is welcome here.
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If only English already had a word for "beautiful, yet reprehensible". :)
Nice! Looks similar to Seal [1] (also written in Go). I just added a link to Pick under related work.

[1] https://github.com/davidlazar/seal
had this gotten very far? last I saw there wasn't much progress made.
Part of the issue with this line of reasoning is selective enforcement. If the law is unjust and commonly broken, it is fair to be outraged if they choose to target you for punishment. Drug laws are broken every day, and in some cities LEOs are even working with the dealers. Unjust laws allow them to pick on people they don't like and people that threaten their business. Given these circumstances, I think it's still fair to be outraged at the enforcement of unjust laws.
Modernity changes, and this article is part of a movement to change it. With luck soon modernity will involve text that is a different colour from the background.
> The bottom 40% of earners spend more than they make in a given year.

This stat presumably includes people who are retired, people who are dependents (e.g. on a parent), and people who are on welfare. I don't think you can conclude much without breaking that down further.
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Yes, thanks. We've updated the title from “The bottom 20% of earners outspend income by 2x each year”.
He would have had even harder time designing the pyramid
That seems like a pedantic and pointless distinction. No one thinks that your financial adviser is obliged to deposit embezzled funds into your accounts in order to meet his fiduciary duties to you. Obviously some obligations take priority.

The fiduciary duty of board members to shareholders still seems to be mostly about maximizing shareholder value.
Does his neurologist recommend it?
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The other side of that is reliability. If you need reliable transportation or you're someone who enjoys having the latest and greatest then leasing makes sense.
It did. At that time this was a system that would be deployed within each school on its local network for a lot of other functionality. The pitch around lesson plan management was sharing and exchange internally within the school while also allowing teachers to sell in the marketplace network of other people on the system. The schools themselves would be able to build a library of quality lesson plans that they could use to continuously try to improve each aspect of the classes they taught by experimenting with more effective ways of teaching each lesson within each class.
How is it possible for so many people to overspend their income? Credit cards will only tide you over for so long, and once you carry a large balance, it's hard to get additional unsecured credit.
This is overgeneralizing. A lot of criminals have good OPSEC. But then again many don't, possibly because they're not very technically proficient, or they don't fear getting caught, like many other criminals.

Also, often there are very simple solutions to potential problems from bad OPSEC practice. If they had just bribed the local police they could avoid getting caught, or get out easier. Just ask John McAfee!
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This is a really cool idea, hope this spreads to other languages!