skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth reading his 2015 article "Why I Still Play Football": https://www.theplayerstribune.com/why-i-play-football/.

Regarding mathematics as a career and his outlook on the financial issue -

"I have a bright career ahead of me in mathematics. Beyond that, I have the means to make a good living and provide for my family, without playing football. I have no desire to try to accumulate $10 million in the bank; I already have more money in my bank account than I know what to do with. I drive a used hatchback Nissan Versa and live on less than $25k a year. It’s not because I’m frugal or trying to save for some big purchase, it’s because the things I love the most in this world (reading math, doing research, playing chess) are very, very inexpensive."
But they don’t.
Or just run the image straight from Docker Hub:

docker run -p 2368:2368 -d --name ghost alexellis2/ghost:1.0
I honestly find it interesting. After all- it depicts how completely alien and far-away the idea of war is to this generation. Everyone in this discussion has lost money due to a contractor or buisness partner not paying, but nobody in the room can imagine the real world atrocities of WW2 or WW1.

Imagine, if LA was besieged and starved for 3 years like St.Petersburg was. This generation cant even imagine how it is to run hungry- for a day. That people can scrap tapestry from the wall, eat there pets, burn there furniture - and finally eat other people, all that, is so far away by now- it does not even appear in war and horror movies.
It would be perfect..... But no copy and paste in termux
I'd either need to start sitting down or be Quicksilver to beat the timer before it gets to my net worth.

Great analogy btw. I might have to borrow it to explain it to other people.
This article interviews Geoffrey Miller.

He wrote an article around the same time here: https://www.edge.org/responses/q2013

Here is a response to that article:
https://eastasiastudent.net/china/edge-org-chinese-eugenics-...

TLDR; The view promoted by this article is probably only supported by a single person(Geoffrey Miller) and is highly speculative.
> Because Java starts treating everything as a String once it has found a string in System.out statement

Uh, no, I suspect this is an example of "magical thinking" by the author.

Far more logical theory: It's working left-to-right, doing int-to-int addition until it hits the first string, which is "=", at which point it is locked into doing string-to-string concatenation for the remainder.

String concatenation is one of the few places Java has overloaded operators, and this quirk (and reader confusion!) is an fair example of why Java does NOT allow users to overload operators for their own classes.
Yes, I understand the example. It's a classic floating point numbers demonstration.

What I am saying is that I have not encountered a real-life case where this would have made my life easier.

Again, it's neat, but not a real reason to move to a new language.
> it's the strategic choice to go after the embedded market that I think was unwise

I think the way they entered the market was unwise, not the decision itself. For example, Intel could have created an independent org within itself that could use Intel's resources but wasn't tied to legacy processes.
Does SEA mean Seattle? My mind is blown that Seattle comes to your mind as the least expensive place in the US...
How is it fair to the people who want to sign up for it that you're making the decision for them? There's no social ill conferred on the greater public by their decision, what's the reason for meddling in their lives?
I was thinking about the same thing for quite sometime now. I moved from India to US last year and was surprised to see how low face to face interaction here is. People are generally on their phone in trains, parks and other public places and don't bother to really interact in-person. I have also noticed that so many people are so lonely here and have only friends on social-media. They feel amazing about their life on Instagram or snapchat but have no one to share feelings personally or spend time with. People here don't marry or get into relationship to save money. That's how economy and technology is changing the society. I was thinking about creating an app where people can meet totally unrelated people outside their facebook network. That can be life saver for some people.
What a strange condition. Why not I want to live in a world where people aren't hungry? What about a world without suffering? A world without conflict and scarcity?

If iPhone manufacturing is your only gripe with this world we find ourselves in, I'd say we've got it pretty good.
Well yeah, it's "if they wanted". Apple has the same incentive to not turn Safari into a viable app platform that Microsoft had with IE in the 90's.
The web app market is even more saturated than any app store, and people do purge their bookmarks as well.
Totally 100% unrelated but on the line "China continues to buy up American debt", the United States could just as easily buy up Chinese debt. For some reason it just doesn't do this.
I can also vouch for the sandisk clip line, they are simple and work perfectly, and support lossless formats out of the box.
You just described my exact feelings and stack.
You can build your UI programmatically and not touch storyboards/xibs. A lot of people do this and I am slowly moving away from IB myself. This library has been recommended for doing autolayout:

https://github.com/nakiostudio/EasyPeasy
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>Oracle does not own the the copyright to all of OpenZFS

True, but I don't think the OpenZFS developers would be against relicensing their code to be GPL compatible,they are offering a Linux version of OpenZFS after all, so if Oracle would re/dual license their part of the code in a GPL compatible manner I'm sure the OpenZFS devs would do the same.
"Just a team sport"

No other sport works you as hard as Football does. Between three-a-days (practicing 8am to 8pm) for weeks, and each practice primarily consisting of basically playing football (running play after play, at 100%, for practice, with tackling), Football works you harder than any other sport.

I'll get told by some this is just my opinion, but the vast majority of other sports are not shear tests of strength the same way Football is. If you're a lineman in football, every play is practically you bench pressing another player your size over the field. And it's the same for every lineman, and anyone on offense has to do the same.

So yes, I believe Football works character differently due to the sheer difficulty of the sport physically.
the FDA approved thalidomide in 1998: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/nda/98/020785...

In refusing to approve thalidomide earlier, many thousands of patients died horribly agonizing deaths. Thalidomide was actually tested quite intensively however the company that did it "lost" the records that showed harm to pregnant women.

The whole story is far more complicated, and involves chiral mixtures, pregnancy tests, and a lot more subtleties that belie the simple narrative.
If he put $1M in a bond fund, he could probably expect to get around $40k a year on the interest alone. He would only pay 10% capital gains tax on that, which would leave him with $36k. Well above his $25k yearly budget. The bachelor lifestyle is cheap.
Is it really that complicated? As I see it, success is achieving your goals. Set goals and achieve them and you've succeeded, whether that's family or money or building a hyperloop or grilling the tastiest grilled cheese known to man... whatever. Given enough time none of it will matter so just pick something and run with it. Don't bother with whether other people are successful by your criteria because they probably don't have the same goals as you (unless your goal is to somehow judge if other people are successful I guess, which sounds silly but I guess by my own rules I can't judge).
Are they still carrying this out? I thought it stopped when the head of BGI bailed.
It's called manual testing and I clearly did my job.
And yet most of us wanted Google not to be held liable for infringing Java copyrights when they implemented the same APIs for Android. Theoretically one could use that reasoning to make an OS that's API-compatible with Linux but under a different license. They could then write a .ko for that other OS under that other license, and yet it would be compatible with Linux and non-infringing.

I'm not sure where the legal line is going to get drawn, but clearly it's still fuzzy.
It doesn't happen just with gcc. But AMD so far didn't comment on the issue, except that they are looking into it.
There's certainly some aspect of that, but there's also the need to create business impact, and in my experience that is the more valuable skill to maintain. It's all connected, though, naturally...
It's no more contradictory than a dictator wanting to promote economic development, increase literacy and education, or a number of other things that often lead to democracy.
I don't feel safe if my passwords data is stored in the US. I prefer to use KeePass (open source) + Cloud storage from Swiss.
For a long time Swiss was out of the EU-US Privacy Shield and was advised as #1 country for storing your personal data. But this January Swiss and US finalized their agreement (http://www.alstonprivacy.com/swiss-u-s-privacy-shield-finali...).
This guy and the Nasa Astronaut Navy Seal Medic need to star in a buddy cop comedy!
Calling it an attack is a bit weird. Attacks are typically meant to things like create double spends. An hard fork is the natural mechanism for a blockchain to update. The Homestead release for example was an update that was done through an HF, the next update Metropolis will also be done through a HF.

For the DAO HF: The DAO contract was replaced by a withdrawal one, that was the only change, No other contract broke because of the fork.
I played with this and got frustrated with Google's implementation of Apache Beam in Cloud Dataflow. I need to try to set up Beam independently.
My understanding is that the problem isn't specifically related to the incidence of concussions, but rather more related to the continuous lower-level trauma to the brain from hits during practices and games. That is why you see a lot of football teams at various levels switching to non-contact practices.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/421009/analyzing-hard-hit...
There are definitely Mesos clusters running in production. My company is one. Mesosphere publishes case studies around it mostly used as part of DC/OS.

https://mesosphere.com/resource/category/case-study/
I went so far as to make my own tool to create my side projects: https://serverjs.io/

It encapsulates everything I used to do with Node.js using Express and middleware plus socket.io for real time.

I am working on making it into the 1.0.0 and then will add React to it.
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Nitpick: A high-end Ferrari (and other high end supercars) is well in the millions. You aren't going to see these at your local showroom because they aren't available. They are only offered to folks that already own Ferraris and are Ferrari enthusiasts.

For example - Bill Gates could not buy a Ferrari LeFerrari (from the factory) because they would not sell it. Obviously there is a healthy second hand market - which Ferrari also tries to limit.

https://www.wired.com/2014/10/herjavec-ferrari-laferrari/

(EDIT: Better article)
Wow, shitty auto-play video without ability to pause. Be warned!
The lightning network works just fine as a daily transaction layer. Increasing the block size would never work as a large scale transaction system because the block size would have to grow to 100s of GB a day to reflect even a small percentage of total transactions. It's a short term hack that creates problems down the road.
I can still hear the Casino Night Zone and Mystic Cave Zone music in my head. My sister and I would try to play through all of Sonic 2 on our genesis in her room waiting for Christmas day. It made us so happy to beat it. Sometimes we'd take a break because the genesis would heat up and start to make sonic run in slow motion. Thanks Sega.
so we should just ban boxing as well? skiing is super bad for your knees I hear, should we ban that as well? motor racing? bricolage?
There were provisions that addressed cost containment (ACOs, Quality-Based reimbursement models for Medicare). In fact, medical cost inflation has come more in line with general inflation since about 2009/2010. But, you're right, the market based reforms like cost and quality transparency were left to fight another day. The ACA focused more on access to coverage than it did cost.

I would not put too much weight on conspiracy theories though. The healthcare system is massively complex. It will take multiple reforms to eat this elephant.
I think finding an RSS reader with a UX that fits your needs is a good way to go. I don't like browser based readers. I am currently using the liferea package and it's not bad. I just posted some of the feeds I follow.

I've been meaning to start a repo for a list like this for a while, will post another reply when I get something running.
PHP + Laravel, maybe Vue.

I'm only 27 and feel like a dinosaur for using PHO, but it's what I've always known and Laravel makes prototyping so easy.
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Why do you say its unrealistic? Eugenics has been seriously considered in the past, and is likely to be seriously considered in the future.

If genetic modification and control becomes 'easy' and relatively safe I don't see why those in power wouldn't try to exercise control over that power. In that future its not hard to imagine lawmakers banning having children who would have inherited known genetic 'defects'.

Now imagine 'defects' are classified as having dark skin, or whats considered a 100 IQ today.
Not perfectly but being talented in one area tends to correlate with being talented in another area.
You forgot the 2 that count the most luck and network.
Not to mention the NFL pension on top of that. Not sure when he can draw it (at retirement, or does he wait until 55/60/62/65?), but even just modest investment returns + pensions puts him above the median US household income.
Love how some misinformed fact like that appears out of thin air, then becomes "truth"
Yes for the merchants, but not for Amazon (I assume). They could do this for FBA items. Maybe even add a logo for items that are verified to be authentic this way.
Google hopes to train 10M people in Africa in online skills, 100k for dev
Your conclusion isn't quite what your reference says. Hormones in the water supply are definitely a problem but the majority of women in the West are not on birth control pills. The 98% and 62% stats include all forms for birth control. The next line makes that explicit: "The two most common methods are the pill (11 million) and sterilization (10 million)."

About 16% of childbearing aged women in the US use the pill [1]. Even if you add all methods that can be hormonal (some IUDs are, not aren't), it's only 27.8%. Almost 40% of childbearing aged women in the US use no birth control at all.

For this discussion it doesn't matter that much. The quantities in the water supply that aren't being removed are a problem. In other contexts it might not be useful to think that nearly every woman who isn't a child or elderly is on the pill.

[1] https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/contraceptive-use-unit...
You're free to quit your job and go empty peoples' trash if you really find it so much more meaningful.
Your comment says nothing. I'm glad you can think around a problem and tell me that you're capable of that, but what the Guardian is positing is "you can't steal our data if we give it to you!"

Way to beat them at their own game. It doesn't make it any less asinine.
I made a response answering this over here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14867607

Basically, Football works you harder physically (strength), which makes the camaraderie that much stronger (you all overcame the same adversity).
Just look at the power consumption metrics in the review. If it used less power, it produced less heat. Nearly all the power that's used is directly converted to heat.

TDP doesn't mean anything about what the CPU will produce under actual loads, it's the budget that the OEM should provide to satisfy the performance target of the CPU.

Simple example of this is the 51W TDP Intel chips consistently used more power (and thus produced more heat) than the 65W TDP Intel chip. The reason is Intel is OK with the 51W TDP chips thermal-throttling more than they are the 65W TDP part, because that's the performance they are selling.

Under full load the Ryzen 3 1200 was power-competitive with the Intel offerings, whereas the Ryzen 3 1300X and Ryzen 5 1500X used 20w more power.

20W is not going to be that noticeable, though.
I agree. I think that the threat posed by weapons was already fully mitigated on the day of 9/11 when the passengers on the last aircraft tackled the hijackers in spite of the box cutters. All this with no marshal, no sealed cabin door, etc.

The airport screening stuff has been a fiasco that is far more political and psychological than based on actual risk reduction, and the additional cost and time it takes to go through security has cost the economy billions in lost productivity.

I think that the big target at present is actually explosives. I think that C4 resembles the contents of a typical LiIon cell when viewed on a scanner, or could be made to appear quite similar if prepared by someone moderately skilled who had access to (or knowledge of) the scanner and the physics behind it.

Your point about a subway is interesting because we've seen no attacks on subways in the US since 9/11 and even a failed, low-budget attack would result in massive subway line closures and military presence in the subway for months, making it an effective fear-creation attack that would cost a city hundreds of millions of dollars, and potentially much more in lost productivity and mental anguish.

I think the reason we haven't seen those attacks is because so few people would actually want to do them. A can of gas brought into a subway car in a backpack and ignited while the door was closed, combined with an armed shooter using a handgun would cost < $500 and would easily result in widespread closures. If two individuals did this same attack on two separate lines on the same morning, the financial damage would multiply substantially, even if nobody was killed. Suddenly there would be TSA scanners in all subway entries and it would take an extra few hours to ride a few stops.

But on a plane, even a small explosive charge can take the aircraft out of the sky, so I think there is still motive for attackers to try this vector, but if the goal is to make airplanes crash it would be far more effective to use a high powered rifle near an airport and actually shoot at the aircraft. Some airports offer geographical features where this attack would be particularly effective.

That we haven't seen anyone do this also suggests strongly that there is virtually nobody who wants to harm American citizens living in the US, or perhaps that all those who do have extremely grandiose ideas for attacks that are very unlikely to succeed.

The 9/11 attacks were a brilliant way to weaponize aircraft, but after that was used once it becomes a lot harder to use it again. My guess is that if there ever is another large attack it will be something completely different. The first WTC bombing failed, but (similar to 9/11) relied on a very open loophole (fertilizer + van + parking garage under skyscraper). So I think authorities should be focusing on identifying the attack vectors that we are still vulnerable to that haven't been tried.
no it does not, because in that film all the slaves were specifically black
Without specifics there's not much to discuss.

E.g. Thunderbird apparently only introduced threaded conversations 7 years after GMail did.
Yeah I can't mention the 98 others I know of :) Thank you for the kind words and the feedback. I'll take it into account!
Southeast Asia.
> There are thousands of tiny details that your web app just won't have. Those details are more important than your familiarity with a tech stack or how long it takes you to deploy something.

How many details does an app that doesn't get written have compared to a website?

> I have yet to find a "web app" that I delight in using, though I love many web sites and native apps.

There are a lot of websites I like using. There are very few apps I like using so much I want to install.
Why would there be personal income tax on the criminal activity? Guy sells drugs but obviously can't record the profits as DrugCo's profits, so he records it as RetailCo's income. If DrugCo was legal, the taxes would be on that company instead. His personal income tax is unchanged: whatever he takes out of RetailCo is still taxed, and RetailCo pays whatever corp taxes are applicable.

The only difference is in the details of the corporate taxation. Selling meth legally might be taxed differently than laundromat services. So an ethical money launderer should look to use front businesses that have an equivalent tax rate and not take advantage of any special tax discounts that wouldn't apply to the original source.
I liked how pragmatic they were in the end.

"What we're doing is going to be a problem if social conservatives in government notice, but they'll go after the Mormons first."

Later: "They went after the Mormons."

"Ok, it was fun but we gotta shut it down now before the government comes knocking. We can still do the silverware thing though."
The thing about benefits (and receiving them) is that the more people that file for them, the more paperwork it creates, and the more time until the people that deserve the benefits receive them. People applying for benefits that "do not deserve them" are partially the cause of the "delay" part of the old VA mantra "delay and deny until they die". I'm not saying it's right, or that it should be one way or another. I'm just explaining how the VA universe works.
- relational language, kanren based probably, first goal would be instantiate all struct from a c codebase

- rust on an esp controller, or as a lisp implementation language

- lua as embedded scripting for dillo

- clojure to try to design a more concurrent lazy reactive graphical system. Totally because it's been since forever that I wanted to have something more lively and that I knew back and forth.
i didn't reduce anything, there is nothing unfounded (i used this because you said canard but then changed it to banality) about applying "drive and intelligence" to bezos, and yegge didn't present any particulars to even throw out. i am sure there are a lot of interesting particulars about bezos, but yegge's article didn't present any. do you have any you'd like to share?
Don't know if you can use it on FreeBSD yet, but tcaputi added it to Linux here: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/5769 Matt Ahrens approved the changes, and hopefully it'll get rolled in ZoL soon.

Full disclosure, I work with Tom at Datto.
Yeah, I remember when StarCraft 1 was newer and playing online was always weird experiment. There was an odd satisfaction to being beaten by something you'd never seen before after a hard fought 2 hours on a map draining all the minerals. Never has a 'GG' been so genuine.
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What feature of native apps do you wish web-GMail had?